The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-19 00:00:00

Commence a - 7 NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 110th Night of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with (30th' time) THE PRETTY HORSE BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K. Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley, On Wednesday next, Aug. 21, the Annual Benefit of Mr. Wm. Smith, Acting Manager. " The Flowers of the Forest," " The Woman Hater," and "Perfection." Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING will be produced a new aid orisfinal comedy, entitled WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, .1. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, :Ind Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thomson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. C ANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. —SAM COWELL, the Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on THURSDAY, the 29th August. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls• CANTERBURY HALL 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," "Seli na Sly," and " In the Park." First anpearance of Miss HARRIET COVENEY on MONDAY Evening. Admission—Hall, ad.; Stalls and Balcony, is. O X FORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme Is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra "lrn Ballo in Maschera," (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant on the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling'. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. T H E HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. s m. —Afternoon, Ih. 30m. To-moßaow.-Morning, Ih. 48 m. —Afternoon, 2h. 10m. THE WEATHER...-SIIN OFFICE, AUGUST 18, llit3 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER -30.03. WIND--South - Westerly—fresh ; with very fine harve3l weather. AUGUST 19. THERMOMF.TER, IN THE SHADB. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night.] 70—this day at noon. BAnomETER-29.99. WlND—South-Westerly; fresh and squally, with fine sunshiny weather. HALF -PAST ONE.—Wind, W.-N.-W.—Overcast, with heavy clouds and squally—with a sprinkling of rain. 114"1 V4l,' f‘34fri • A I 14S, ~.. ~,'f: (lj'1~ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 18ftl. Lord STRATIIEDEN'S protest against the third reading of the Appropriation of Seats Bill appears opportunely enough with the result of the election in South Lancashire. The triumphant return of the Tory Candidate is a perfect justification of that protest of Lord STATHEDEN. It is more than that. It is a glaring evidence of the folly of that wretched, little, peddling, bit-by-bit reform system in favour of which the Liberal party, as represented in the present Coalition, appear to have abandoned their endeavours to carry through any measure of a really comprehensive character. There, in effect, is proof positive of that folly—there, in the return at the head of the poll of Mr. CHARLES TURNER, the Conservative Candidate, now M.P. for South Lan cashire. Our contemporary, the Observer, as the Liberal Sunday organ of the Government, ap pears somehow to have been startled by 'the news of Mr. TURNER'S success. Insomuch as to cry out in a sudden paroxysm of dismay—" It is no use mincing the matter; political power is gradually Passing away from the Liberal party, and, unless some event calculated to wake the country to ac tion i mmediat e l y takes pl ace th e narrow ma j or i ty now - wield ed by the Government will soon dwindle clown to nothing." Adding, moreover, "The only 'event of the kind that can effect the object is a prompt dissolution of the present Parliament; because, by bringing the danger home to the business and bosoms' of all men, there would be more likelihood of a decisive reaction, which is the only effectual remedy for the present atrophy of the Liberal pa r ty." N a y, even goi ng 80 far as to exclaim in a series of almost hysterical ejaculations —" The circumstance is critical ; the issue is vital; the time is rapidly speeding; and in a little longe r it will be too late." Winding everything up with that exaggerated apostrophe so often—and we will endea vonx to believe always so inappropriately quoted— the Miltonic words addressed by SATAN to the le gions of the damned! Besides —even, in the present instance, waiving the origin of the apostrophe— i't must surely have been regardel, at the worst, in its present application, as a very monstrous exag grration. Supposing, that is to say, that what is now popularly spoken of as the Conservative Reaction to be as far spread throughout the constituencies Lord I)Ennv's most infatuated supporters could Wish the world to believe—even then surely it were somewhat preposterous to address the Libe ral. Reformers all over the country in these de sictiring word; of his Satanic Majesty's : " Awake, arise ; or befit). ever fallen !" It ither hard, that, upon the Liberal Party —to sup r Is e it can be so very easily swept aside ! Why, according to this view . of the political situation, t h . e cause referred to must indeed be in a most t ! e kettY co n di t i on. The South Lancashire Elec 'lowed thus luna t bri oul dy, is in truth b u t the last d ropthe h to o • t Coalition, rim over the cup of bitterne ss f or e last s t raw . to b reak the camel's back o f the grand olla podri da Government. Re garding the a c t ual position of things between oppos ing parties, it i s c era..t . of it. That, w e t a k e . iat p ro v oking, to say the least ore. It comes inopportunes ' unanswerable b y an y close of the last session fni. Y for Mi n i sters at the sv a reasons. Firstly— It follows hard upon the hats o f r SO many other seats, the chief amongst which e particularised only a few evenings situ- :e. " Another and another" [of these Conse] :wive candidates] ORM AL P.i.LACE.-' ki FORESTERS' GREAT DAY.—The GREAT AN NUAL FETE OF THE FORESTERS wVI take place TO MORROW (Tuesday), when the Palace wall Grounds will be open from half-past eight o'clock in the morning till ten o'clock hi the evening for the admission of visitors. Last year 67,925 persons attended this most ropnlar Festival. All the special attractions .of , former „fetes will be provided on this occasion, including a full display of the GREAT FOUNTAINS and ENTIRE SERIES of WATERWORKS at Three o'clock, and a second display at Six o'clock , Military Bands, Quadrille Band s for Dancing on the Green, and on the Great North Wing Platform. Grand Processions in the Grounds of mem bers in their regalia and decorations, with flags and banners, and preceded by bands of musie, &c. Extra Entrances and Exits will be provided for visitors by road and by rail. Special Trains will run from all parts in England on This Day, and from London-bridge, Pimlico, and intermediate Stations, as fast as required. To afford time for visitors leaviag, by degrees, gas standards will be erected in the naves and transepts. Admission, ONE SHILLING. THEATRF,ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. PATS EvEwrvG, the performances will oommense with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy, entitl e d MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr Andrews Mr, Bnckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with a Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. THE CHRISTENING. Miss Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, dtc. " gtill succeeds." Another and yet another my gets returned inhead of a Liberal supporter of Lord PALMERSTON. South Lancashire, in fact, being merely an additional instance to be supple mented to the long list already known. Secondly, as a reason why this preference of the South Lan cashire constituents for Mr. TURNER, in lieu of the Liberal candidate, Mr. CHEETHAM, is so very lamentable a baulk for the Government and its supporters—it ought to be borne in mind that this is the first fruit of the only bill affecting the popular representation introduced during the late session by one of the Cabinet Ministers in the name and on behalf of the present Govern ment. It was in the absence of any new Reform Bill whatever, good, bad, or indifferent, that the Appropriation of Seats Bill was regarded with any (even the smallest) degree of com placency when originally laid upon the table of the House of Commons by the Right Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary, now the Secre tary for War. The four seats, which had been so long left vacant by reason of the disfranchisement of St. Albans and Sudbury, were at length to be filled up. Before they could be filled up, however, it was necessary to create new constituencies for them. They had to be appropriated. It was a Liberal Government that had at length determined upon securing their appropriation. The bill was introduced. We all remember with what results, in the shape of debates and divisions. The bill brought before the House of Commons in one form—went up to the House of Lords in another, The formidable Opposition had moulded it by that time to their own liking. There had been—at any rate, for one of the four seats—a somewhat unseemly scramble. The upshot of the whole discussion being that the Four vacant seats were appropriated thus —One to South Lancashire —One to Birkenhead—the Two others to the West Riding of Yorkshire—that mammoth constituency henceforth being halved into the North and South Divisions. With half an eye—it was manifest that the Conservative Opposition, in so manag ing matters, had looked after their own interests right well. The Government had manifestly got little enough out of their measure In fact the absurdity of still hastening the bill in its new shape through Parliament appeared so manifest to the common sense of a dispassionate observer like Lord STRATHEDEN—heart and soul liberal as he is—that he protested against the third reading of the bill through the document given else where in our impression of this evening. A glance at Lord STRATHEDEN'S protest will show how, for no less than fourteen cogent reasons, he felt himself constrained thus formally to inscribe hih name on the journals of the Lords as a dissentient. Without entering into a detailed re-examination of those fourteen good and sound reasons—it will be enough, while we publish the protest in its entirety, to point (as to Lord STRATHEDEN'S perfect justification in writing it) to the result of this very significant election in South Lancashire. The Conservatives having gained the day in South Lancashire—how The privateers and the inefficiency of the blockade threaten to become a serious affair. Be sides those at New York, there are thirty captured privateers' men in prison in Philadelphia. Can they be dealt with as pirates ? General BEAURE•• GARD has informed the PRESIDENT that he shall treat his captives as the privateers' crews are treated, which will cool the contemptuous wrath of many a Northerner. The plea of their being pirates was successfully used by the Crusader, Fede ral gun-boat, in Cuba. The Sumpter privateer took six prize vessels into the port of Cienfuegos, and, leaving them there, sailed away. The captain of the Crusader saw the Governor, told him he regarded the Sumpter as a pirate, and should treat her as such if he found her, and then went off with the six vessels. France or England would not have harboured the prizes at all. If Spanish law enabled the Governor to do so, it was a neat little Yankee trick on the part of Captain CRAVEN. The Secession privateers are reported to be very active in the Gulf of Mexico ; and the coast of North Carolina, we are told, swarms with them. It appears too, that from Wilmington, North Caro lina, a Confederate privateer with two guns, the Mariner, had put to sea, and that British vessels came in daily and took out ship's stores without interference. From all these facts it appears that the watch kept on the coast is of the most inefficient kind. Indeed, it will be difficult for the American Courts to condemn any vessel for breaking such a blockade. By the last accounts M'CLELLAN was taking the proper step of requesting the newspapers not to publish any of his movements and pro ceedings which would give the South information of what he was doing. It is, however, a fact that the North has many more traitors in its ranks than the South, and that General BEAU REGARD has known the position and mo-ie ments of his rivals much better than they have known his. We are now told that the South suffered much more than the North in the late encounter, that their losses are heavier, and the officers who fell of a superior class. It was this which caused their inaction ; and M'CLELLAN has improved the delay to put all things on a better footing on his side. It was time. Men are coming in fast. The examination of the civilian officers before they are admitted to com mand, has stopped the creation of fancy regiments, but the men are fully aware that the rout at Bull's Run was chiefly due to the incompetence of the officers, and they are nowproportionally ready to serve. The lesson will not, we trust, be lost on our volunteers at home. We fear that our fancy ama teur officers are our weak point. An officer's duty now is a science ; and men must be able to trust their leader for knowing what he is doing, and what he ought to do. will the struggle end in Birkenhead ? And how, eventually, will matters go whenever the double contest can take place upon the halving of the West Riding of Yorkshire ? Those are really becoming very serious subjects for con sideration. For jibe though some may, as at an empty phrase, at what is called the Conservative reaction, it is at any rate absolutely undeniable that seat after seat is being lost to the Liberal side of the House, and secured one by ono to the Con servative Opposition. That Opposition is so for midable already, while the majority with which the Government entered office was originally so very small, and has since then so dreadfully dwindled away that the future certainly looks dark enough before the Coalition. It is (amusing to observe that the chief organ of the Government affects this morning to be utterly bewildered as to the meaning- of the Conservative Reaction. Can the Times really and seriously be in doubt about it ? Can ther a be any uncertainty in this way in the conscience of the Coalition, sup posing it be blessed or troubled with anything of the kind ? If so the elucidation of the mystery is The Princess Kotschouby has arrived at Cla ridge's Hotel, from Paris. The Due de Maille has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street. The Earl and Countess of Devon and Lady Agnes Courtenay are passing the autumn at Newcastle, his lordship's residence in Ireland. Lord Courtenay left town some days since, to join the family circle. At the invitation of the Right Hon. F. Peel, M.P., about one thousand of the working classes of Bury will pay a 'visit to-day to the hon, gentleman at his seat, Hampton-in-Arden, near Coventry. EARL FORTESCUE.—The Western Times says : " We regret to have heard some rumours of an unsatisfac tory nature respecting the health of our noble lord-lieu tenant ; but, as usual, rumour outruns the fact, we are glad to say. His lordship, it is true, has had a slight re lapse, but so far from there being anything serious in the symptoms, we have authoriiy to state that the noble earl, the countess, and family, are expected at Castle Hill by the close of this present week." r_..........,.............._...,.....,,,,,,, w The Queen Dowager of Spain and their Royal We shall before long see whether the North is highnessesand suite,visited e and Duch the Crystal essof PalaceMontpensier, with several friends really in earnest. W e h ave h ad volunteering S atur d a y, an d a ft erwar d s had a banquet ala Russe in the the n enough, and enlisting enough, and talk and writing new rooms, south wing. enough in all conscience, but now it will become a FUN o E f R t A h L e B O is F he l'llE f B BI h SEIOP t O I F I DUR t ITAM.— att The top question of payi ng . Th e poc k et test, and the test funerall2 on Friday morning-, at Bisho m p A o u n ck l l ' and. The i c l offin was direct too, is t o be applied to all the States north borne by the Bishop's workmen. The pall bearers were of the Potomac, the Ohio, and the Missouri, with 0 thef Carlisle, and he Archbishop of York, the . B t ishop i of . theLot.ndon,cs . Thservice Bishop e some tags and f r i nges per h aps o f sem i -loyal States was read by the rector of the parish. The chief mourners south of those rivers. Not only are tea, coffee, were the late bishop's sons, the Rev. Mr. Cheese, the Hon. sugar, spirits, and a host of other things to be Lewis, h • P. Villiers,rother Ain.l...Pla.wto the deceased . , brother to the bishop, the service and Sir G. C. er taxed which were no t t axe d b e f ore; not on l y the b o d y was removed to a corne r in the chapel, w h ere a are the M ORRILL d ut i es to be raised, not vault had been made to receive it. only is a man to pay for carrying his PRINCE ALFRED IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday timekeeper in his po c k e t, accor di ng to i ts va l ue as afternoon a Highness Frince Alfred l fromA d Queenstow nwasßoyone of f the nno passengersunced that on his silver or gold, b u t h e i s to pay also a 3 per cent. board the Royal Mail steamship Arabia, which would arrive income tax. The customs and excise taxes might in Liverpool inthecou e rse of thateveningThisintelli be paid w ith ou t k now i ng it, as our own are, and the tgheennAe was l immediatelyayor ; and, as the oprecisey d by hour Arabia's arrival Ai evening. a of the mu to needy man might, if he liked, economise a little by could not be calculated, his worship ordered apartments to be abstinence. Not so, however, a.s Jonathan will soon pre ared for the Prince at the Adelphi Hotel. Expectation find, b with the income tax. Whether he be a t o a f i r t i e h d e arrival lof saloonth e Prince carriage havin g was forwarded been prev previously sly Liverpool ente enter bachelor achelor or a man with a dozen young hopefuls, to await his arrival. The fact that the Arabia had passed the eldest hardly yet out of school, he will find that Holyhead at 10 minutes past 4in the afternoon having been ascertained, and Mr. M'lver having kindly placed . the he cannot escap e the same income tax, His £5OO steam tender Satellite at the disposal of the Mayor, his wor or his £l,OOO must pay the same tax towards ship, accompanied by Mr. David Wlver and Capt. Luck ' redintegration of the 1.1 - mon, -whether one mouth or craft, R.N., left St. George's Pier about 8 o'clock, and pro twenty has to be fed by it. We shall see how ceeded seaward in search of the Arabia, which they the farmers of the North-west, and all the immediatelyfell inwit h a we li n i t tle en be h y o o a n rd d t te b s a a r te . lli H te :s au ß d oy a a e l ee ti p gh an n i e e s d s other agriculturists of the North, like this. by the gentlemen already named, proceeded up the river to They, as well as the Whole South, are St. George's Pier, where they arrived abou f t l 2s di minu d tes be severely taxed by the Morrill tariff, in the t fo ie r m e l en l o w ' c e . lroeck. assembled Here at to welcome lay g e l e e o c o m n e c o h u i ni r s e and On his n lanl e n n g ." interest of Massachusetts cotton-spinners and cheered him with great enthusiasm. His Royal Highness Pennsylvania iron-masters. We shall see whether immediately n landing t. enteredtt station theM of heen Mayor's state carriage, donnac they will be content to pay an income ta x t o save North-Western Railway, where he entered the saloon car the Union, and a cotton and iron tax at the same riage which was waiting for him, and started for London time, to put money in the pockets of their Leven at num a b q er u s rearwteerpaalssassembledo t 11 o'clock. to meet h At the station andm witnessconsiderabletation his manufacturers, at the cost of the Federal Revenale- departure. They cheered him loudly and with great en- One' arran g ement in the tax is reasonable, but has th usiasm, an i mmense amount of disappointment being felt been urg e d w i t h out success at h ome. I t ecnir that h e di d not remain a day or two in Liverpool. His h.oyal Highness, it is understood, is on a three months' mences at incomes of £l6O. That is held to be a- leave of absence, and w as naturally desirous of meeting his moderate livelih oo d. Th e tax w ill , t h ere f ore , b e 1 ' p a r n e g s u se s d t ro•elrealtvseastiastfateltrieoneawrliitehstresasirbrlaenmgeomentt.s made ex r - paid only on the excess above that sum. In this wa y t hi s reception, and also with th e accommodation he had ex- great numb ers o f t h e worst grumblers may escape ' per ienced on bo l a i r ß d s theArabi a . GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAIN- The sovereign mob will at all events go unscathed. M i r. I A h ND e last evening representatio n this season, at the Congress has passed one Act, it is said, with i T i ,:).; a . 1 . Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, will tike the reluctant assent of the President, which, were place, on Friday, August, 30, astateuighaty Augusto'clock, 3andl, a t the its principl e carr i e d out at all constructively, 1 last mo i rn i ing n perform a nc e i rs German Reed and Mr. John Parry, on r. Saturday, would emancipate a l mos t t h e whole slave popu- i three.owing to the great success of the present entertainment, Wien. Th e A ct referred to is one for confiscating will not visit the provinces this autumn, r but continental willresuure rebel prop er t y , an d i t contains a clause, t h at 1 `heir London seaso x n, on it r . e s tu o r f n e in n g in a te o r m short esting character, in "whenever, d ur i ng t h e present insurrection, any tc'urclea ing ooh erl e a original ballads, will be introduced into person held t o serv i ce or labour shall be employed e Our Card Basket, and " The Two Rival Composers." in military or naval service, entrenchments, &c., ' WHEAT FOR FRANCE.—Several vessels have been the person t o whom such labour or service is due - loa . dingwith thwheateforreFporratns received cedu riwith the past regard to the wk in the shall forfeit hi s claim to the same. " The limita- Fr vl'ii h inch River, harvest inducing the conclusion that our neighbours tion is, of course, intended to be strictly adhered:to, will .titi° )Tar have to resort to large importations of grain, 1 easy enough. The Conservative Reaction, or what is so called for want of a better name, meaning in a very few words—a Reaction, not so much For the Opposition as Against the Government—a reaction of sheer disgust against a qt asi Reform Coalition that, so far as the interests of Reform have been affected by it since it assumed power, has proved itself to be " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare" —as monstrous a sham, as flagrant an imposture as ever Mr. CARLYLE put lancet in rest, took pen in hand, to destroy. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY 1 1 .; VENING, JUDGES' SALARIES.—The " Finance accounts " show that there was paid last year from the Consolidated Fund £323,000 for salaries of judges, and £65,000 for pen sions to retired judges. In view of these figures the tax payer will be content that it was fully determined by Par liament not to add another £5,000 a-year to the account until it is seen whether the changes in the Bankruptcy Court will really require it. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND BELGIUM.—The following is a copy of a letter received by the Hull Chamber of Commerce—" Office of Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade.—Whitehall, August 14, 1861.—Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 16th ultimo, I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to request that you will inform the council of the Chamber of Commerce of Kingston-upon-Hull that her Majesty's Government are in communication with the Belgian Government on.the sub ject of the commercial relations between this country and Belgium. I am, sir, your obedient servant, T. H. FARRAR. —The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Kingston upon-Hull." AMENDMENT OF THE CRIMINAL LAWS.—The several acts passed in the late session to consolidate and amend the criminal laws have just been printed. The acts will come into operation on the Ist of November. With regard to " accessories," it is provided that accessories before the fact may be tried and punished as principals, and they may be indicted as accessories, or as substantive felons. As to abettors in misdemeanours, they are to be tried, indicted, and punished as principal offenders. There are several new laws as to felonies; and one as to coinage, in which it is declared an offence to mark coin with letters, and also an offence to utter the same. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. -- PENMON, ANGLESEY, AUG. 16.—0 n Wednesday, about 7 p.m., a smack was ob served riding at anchor with a signal of distress flying, about a mile from this station. The wind was blowing strong at the time, with heavy rain. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at this place, very soon arrived alongside the smack, she was found to have carried away her main -boom, and to have only one cable out, which the captain said he feared would give way every moment, and his vessel be driven on Puffin Island. At his request the lifeboat remained alongside until 11 o'clock p.m., when the weather having moderated the vessel for tunately got out of danger. She proved to be the smack Pink, of Chester, bound from that place to Dales, with a cargo of coals. YORKSHIRE COAL ;MINES.—Mr. Morten, inspec tor of coal mines, reports that above 8,500,000 tons of coals were drawn in Yorkshire last year, and happily the number of persons killed at the collieries was but 50, or one death for every 170,000 tons raised. This is the smallest actual number of deaths in any one of the last 10 years, although in that period the number of collieries has increased from 260 to about:4oo. Yorkshire contrasts very favourably with the average of the whole kingdom in regard to these accidents, but still the inspector has to report that nearly all the 14 deaths ascribed to explosive gas might have been prevented by locked safety lamps properly and fairly used, and that many of the other deaths were preventible and might have been avoided by the exercise of reasonable vigilance, com mon prudence, and ordinary skill. A GOOD INVESTMENT.—Among the payments made by the Hull corporation is an annuity of £76 to one Henry Saxoni, a foreigner, and of which annuity that in dividual has been in receipt for 56 years past. It appears that in the early part of this century the Hull corporation, in order to raise money, resorted to the system now in vogue in some public and Government offices, of granting annui • ties. Saxoni, who is now about 96 years of age, was a tight rope dancer, who came to this town and advanced to the corporation the sum of £800; the consideration being that he was to receive for the rest of his life an annuity of £76— being nearly 10 per cent. on the amount. Mr. Saxoni's longevity has enabled him to receive, by way of annuity, about five times the amount of principal advanced by him. —Hull Packet. THE CATTLE TRADE.—DONCASTER, Aug. 17. Our market to. day was but scantily supplied with stock, farmers being too busy with harvest to show. We had a modei ate inquiry for milch cows at the rates of last Satur day. Other descriptions of stock were scarcely inquired for. Sheep met a fair sale; lambs ranging from 21s to 30s per head. Pigs sustained a reduction of 6d per head on small ones, strong ones and stores made about the same prices as were obtained this day sen'night. NORWICH, Aug. 17.—There was a pretty good show of store cattle at to-day's market, but, the attendance from the country being again limited in consequence of the pressure of harvest, business was dull ; still former rates were about supported and an average clean nee was effected. Fat beasts, 8s to Ss 6d per 141 b. The sheep trade was in much the same state as that for beasts ; fat sheep, 8s to 8s 6d, and prime lots, 9s per 141 b. and only those slaves declared free who have been used against the Federal Government. If, how ever, the slaves can be informed of the Act, they will no doubt find out in great numbers that they have been employed in military service, and present themselves to the unwilling North as those to whose services, under the Act, their old masters have no claim. Were the principle, however, carried out, the greater part of the slaves indi rectly contribute to maintain the war, besides being the primary cause of it. Mr. LINCOLN, how ever, is not an abolitionist. He is encumbered with half-loyal border States. Kentucky has just voted to be loyal ; Maryland is divided as well as Missouri. He has doubtless an awkward play ; but it would be thec game heapest to thing he could do to purchase emancipation at a fair rate per head in the border States, and to confiscate, that is, declare the slaves free in all the rebel States. They have forfeited all claim that he should respect an institution for which they are up in arms against their Chief Magistrate. AURIFEROUS STEEL.—The excitement which has been created by Mr. William Lengmaid's process of manufacturing auriferous and platinised steel will naturally cause the details of the invention to be read with interest; we are glad, therefore, to be enabled to publish the com• plete specification of the patent. Although the proposal to alloy iron and steel with gold and platinum is not claimed by Mr. Longmaid as new, his discovery is one which, upon its advantages being satisfactorily demonstrated, will secure him an enviable reputation both in the chemical and manu facturing worlds : it has been found that the addition of several pounds weight of gold or platinum to the ton of steel " failed in producing any beneficial results," but Mr. Longmaid has discovered that by adding instead of several pounds only a few ounces, or even a few dwts., of the pre cious metal to the ton of steel, the effect is marvellous, and a very excellent quality of metal is produced. Mr. Long maid is well known as an inventor, and it is to be hoped that in the production of good steel he will be as successful as he has been in his other discoveries.—Mining Jonrnal. AN ACTOR'S CLAIM FOR SALARY.—In the Sal ford County Court, last week, the case Rogerson v. Egan was heard. The plaintiff, who is en actor, sought to recover from the manager of the Queen's Theatre a week's salary, on the ground that he had not received a month's notice of dismissal, according to the rules of the theatre. The plaintiff put in his letter of engagement, by which it ap peared that he was engaged to play " first old men," but not to object to other parts. It was proved that in June the plaintiff was " cast" for Tapwell in " A New Way to Pay Old Debts," which part he refused to play. The judge asked whether, in this case, he claimed Sir Giles Overreach as "first old man;" to which the plaintiff replied that Marall was by right his part. His Honour said the case did not rest upon a question of parts. For the defendant it was proved that the plaintiff received a month's notice, and that his salary had been paid during that time. Judgment was given for the defendant, the judge holding that a verbal notice before a witness was good in law. STRANGE QUARTERS AT MARGATE.—The town of Margate has been so densely packed with visitors during the last week or two that many who made no provision for obtaining accommodation before getting to the place have had to make the most curious shifts with regard to lodgings. Saturday nights pour in visitors by boat and railway by hundreds, and, almost every house being crammed with lodgers, the greatest difficulty is found in getting shelter. Many who would willingly pay any amount of money for accommodation of any sort are obliged to sleep in stables, in bathing machines, under shop-counters, and not unfre quently in the cornfields. A single room in the least eligible neighbourhood, whenever such a thing is to be let, cannot be obtained for less than from 255. to 30s. a week, while the amount demanded for accommodating a family in anything like a decent part of the tcwn, or commanding a view of the sea, is enough to drive an economical Paterfamilias out of his senses. Such a season as the present has not been known for many years in Margate, and those who are de pendent upon the annual summer visitors are turning their chances to the best possible account. HORRIBLE CRUELTY BY A SCHOOLMASTER.—At the Tunstall Police-court, a few days ago, William Bain bridge, an elderly man of respectable appearance, and the master of the Wesleyan day school, at Chesterton, was charged with committing a very serious and cowardly as sault on a little boy, under seven years of age, named Wm. Dutton, by beating him unmercifully with a cane. The appearance of the child's shoulders and back bore ample evidence of the severe treatment he had received from the defendant, being covered with livid bruises, as though the injuries had been inflicted with a poker instead of a cane. The child attended the school of which defendant was master, and on Monday morning went as usual, but when he came home at noon his back and shoulders were covered with great wheals and bruises, which showed even more then than when exhibited in court. Defendant, with an effrontery which was rather astonishing under the circumstances, said he had " personally no indictment against the child," and that he had corrected him as he had done at the request of his mother. (This the mother emphatically denied.) The de fendant also stated that he had been a schoolmaster since the year ISI9, and for 30 years had been a schoolmaster at Cheddleton, coming to Chesterton only in February last. Mr. Rose said this was one of the worst cases he had ever dealt with. The defendant had as nearly murdered tho child as he dared, and if he (Mr. Rose) were sitting alone, he should certainly have sent him to six months' ha r d labour. As, h owever, his brother magistrates were of opinion that a lighter punishment would meet tile case, he should commit him to prison with hard labour for two months. —B inning Lam _Post. OLD IZAAC IVALToN's theory that fisherman are generally harmless, hon es t men, applies to these times as well as to his own days. I have mixed often with them at fishing inns, and my experience has been that a fast man would be much out of hi s element in their soc i ety. The evening talk runs mostly oN. gorge hooks, paternosters, hair lines, gut lines, and the like. Many a fish is killed, over again, pending the enjoyment of solemn pipes, and occasionally in winter time a rubber at long whist for penny poinT s, " with snuffed candles, a well swept hearth, and the rigour of the game" (as Charles Lamb says), varies the evening's amusement. Then there are good old stories of wonderful fish which have been caught in days gone by, and we never t _link of doubting the assertion of steady going, old-fashioned frequenters of the house, "that fifty years ago the water was the finest in England ," nor do we question the w eig—quoted from memo r y— o f a pike which was taken i n the Waterloo year by the narrator of the incident, who d ep l ores the removal of an old weir where lit be lauded his prize.—Onee a ece/c, AUGUST 19, 1861, PARIS, AUG. 19, NAPLES, Auo. 18, One brigand was killed, and five taken prisoners. The rest fled into Italian territory. NAPLES, AUG. 17. News from the province of Aveilino states that the Reactionists had been everywhere beaten or were in flight. Twenty-nine priests and three monks have arrested at Castellamare. At Sorrento, Riano, and Amalfi several reaction ary preachers have been arrested, among whom is the Vicar-General of Sorrento. AUG. 18 , The Royal troops have surrounded and made pri soners the reactionary bands on the mountains near Cancello. The town of Cipriano was taken after a short resistance. TURIN, AUG. 16, The Opinione of to-day says:— " General Cialdini is said to have reminded the Government that he had only provisionally accepted the Lieutenancy of Naples, that he would preserve the military command, and would accomplish his mission of purging the country of brigands, but that he could no longer occupy himself with the civil administration. " He now demands, therefore," adds the report " that a Lieutenant should be appointed in his stead. Another motive for this resolution is stated to be the disagreement which arose between General Cialdini and Signor Lanselli on the occasion of the demonstrations recently made against the Deputies. " General Cialdini will continue to exercise the functions of the Lieutenancy until a new Lieute nant shall have been provided by the Ministry." EVENING The Official Gazette of to-day announces the rupture of the railway contract with M. Talabot, and says,— "The works will be proceeded with on accoun of the Government." The Millister of Public Works will go to Naples ;o-morrow. AUG. 18 The rumour of General Cialdini's resignation is unfounded. He will remain at his post , until the accomplishment of his mission. Signori Cantelli and Blasio have resigned, bu will remain in office until the Government has pro. vided substitutes. EVENING. It is believed that Garibaldi will go to Naples on the 7th of September, the anniversary of the day on which he entered that city. The Government is preparing grand fetes for he occasion. ROME (via MARSEILLES), AUG. 14. The subscription to the Cavour monument con tinues, notwithstanding the efforts of the police to prevent it. CONSTANTINOPLE, AuG. 17, EVENING. Mehemet Kiprisli Pasha will be appointed either Governor of Bagdad or Commissioner of Anatolia: Fuad Pasha will be promoted to a rank equi valent to that of Grand Vizier. Mehemed Djemil Pasha will be Minister for Foreign Affairs. Active French intrigues are being carried on to effect the return of Riza Pasha to the Seraskieriat. The Sultan continues to effect reforms. According to news received here to-day, the Russians have sustained another defeat from the Circassians. His Excellency Sir W. Codrington is expected here today. FRANCE. ' I The portion of the railway from the city of Lux embourg to Treves, which forms part of the series of lines undertaken by the William-Luxembourg Com pany, intended to connect the hitherto isolated Grand Duchy with France, Prussia, Belgium, and Holland, was opened amid great public rejoicings on Wednesday. Prince Henry of the Netherlands presided, the Prussian authorities sending deputies to receive and reciprocate courtesies with him. The heat of the weather yesterday was intense. A kind of sirocco wind, laden with fine dust, and feeling like the blast from a furnace, blew through out the day, and parched everything with which it came in contact. After sunset it subsided into a pleasant breeze, and the temperature grew percep tibly cooler. At 2 p.m. the glass marked 25 . 6 Centigrade (781 Fahrenheit). The heat from which Paris has suffered during the last few days has been general throughout Europe. At Lyons, on Wednesday, the thermo meter marked 38 deg. Centigrade in the shade (100 4-10ths Fahrenheit). From Marseilles fatal eases of coup de soleil are reported. In Catalonia the wheat and other crops have been burnt up. At Malaga and Seville the heat has become insupport able, and no one can leave his house between 9 in the morning and 9 at night without danger. BOURSE, August 17.—The market has been in the same inactive state as yesterday, but with out any change in prices. for the Account Threes are now at 68f 45c. Railway Shares quiet, but pretty firm. The following are the last quota tions : 41 per per Cents ... 97 80, Credit Foncier 1295 Do end month.... 97 90 , Belgian 4/ — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 45 1 Roman Bank Shares 2900 i Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 731 25 Spanish Threes 4B/ Do. Account 732 50 Hume Debt La rl T N E b) The Noniteur of this morning publishes the text of the convention between France and England for regulating the immigration of Indian labourers. News has been received here that a band of brigands were surprised by some French troops in a house on the Pontifical frontier. RAILWA.YB. Cash. Account. Orleans 1406 25 .. 1407 b 0 Northern 9BO .. 982 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1021 25 .. 1022 60 Geneva 358 75 .. 360 Southern 627 50 .. 630 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 365 .. 3 65 Austrian .. 502 50 Lombard RUSSIA. The following letter from St. Petersburg, of the 10th inst., gives some interesting particulars respect ing the proposed journey of the Imperial family to the southern provinces of the empire :—" The de parture of the fnembers of the Imperial family has commenced. The Grand Duke Constantine quitted us the day before yesterday. He has gone to Nico laiev, and thence he wi:l proceed to the Crimea to receive the Emperor and Empress. Her Majesty leaves on Wednesday next. The Emperor will leave four days later for Moscow, and thence proceed to the southern provinces, where he will review the troops and particularly the cavalry of reserve. The troops are to be assembled for the review at Tchu guiev on the 22d inst. Thence the Emperor will proceed to Nicolaiev to take a look at the naval establishment there, and thence he will go to Odessa. After a stay of two days in the capital of new Russia, the Emperor will embark for the Crimea. He is expected at Sebastopol on Sept. 1. The Court is to be installed again at the Palace of Tsarskoe-Selo on Nov. 1. The 20th is the anniversary of the death of the Empress Mother, and an office for the dead accor di ng t o t h e rites of the Russi an __- Church will be performed over her tomb on that day. The Grand Duke Constantine, after having received the Emperor and Empress in the Crimea, will proceed to Stuttgard to meet the Duchess and take her to the islands of the Hyeres. Although the appointment of General Lambert to the go vernorship of the kingdom of Poland is not officially announced, it is nevertheless irrevocably decided. General Soukhozenett has asked for leave of absence for a year. General Militune, who enjoys great favour at Court, is definitively appointed Minister of War. The appointment is very favourably ie ceived by the public. It is expected that Colonel Anitchkov, who has written a treatise on military stores, will be appointed to the superintendence of the Commissariat Department. It is further said that an inspector -general over the economical part of the War Department is to be named with very extensive powers. DEPARTURE (LP THE RING 01 SWEDEN. DOVER, SUNDAY. The King of Sweden and his brother, Prince Oscar, left this country on their return home yesterday. The distinguished personages did not travel by the same route. The King, accompa nied by his suite, and by Lord Harris, one of her Majesty's Lords in Waiting, came direct from London by the South-Eastern Railway; but Prince Oscar, who holds the highest office in the Swedish marine, travelled by the London, Chatham, and Dover line, in order to make a short stay at Sheer ness for the purpose of inspecting its dockyard and the national laboratories it contains. His Majesty left till Bricklayers' Arms station by a special train of the South-Eastern Railway at a quarter past 4 o'clock, and arrived at Dover about a quarter past 6, being received at the railway termi nus by Brigadier General Garvock, the commandant of the garrison, and guards of honour of the 3d Buffs and 64th Regiment, Mr. S. M. Latham, the Swedish Vice-consul; Captain Triscott, the naval naval superintendent of the port; the lion. Captain Chetwynd, aide-de-camp to the commandant, &c. The platform was covered with crimson cloth, and his Majesty travelled in the state carriage of the company. The railway station was thronged with fashionables, but, thanks to the excellent arrange ments of the superintendent, Mr. E. T. Way, there was no crowding or inconvenience. Mr. C. W. Eborall, the general manager, Mr. S. Teulon, one of the directors, and Mr. J. P. Knight, the superin tendent of the line, travelled in the Royal train. Prince Oscar left the Victoria Station,Pirnlico, by the oedinary 10 a.m. express-train, by which his Royal Highness was conveyed to Sheerness. After satisfying the object of his visit, the Prince pro ceeded on his journey at 2 40 p.m. by special train, under the charge of Mr. Browne, the superinten dent of the London, Chatham, and Dover line, and after a short stay at Canterbury, where his Royal Highness ascended the mound of the Dane John, to view the magnificent stretch of scenery it com mends, reached Dover at half-past four. Here car riages had been provided, and his Royal Highness on alighting from the train was driven to the Royal Ship Hotel, where he made a brief stay, and then walked on board the John Penn, Captain Mat thews, His Royal Highness was shortly after wards joined by the King, and immediately his Majesty and suite were on board the steamer cast off and made for Calais. A Royal salute from the Castle batteries was fired on the arrival and departure of the Royal visitors. THE Q UEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND, The London and North-Western Railway Com pany, with that liberality for which it is proverbial, have determined that so important an event as the visit of her Majesty the Queen to Ireland shall not be without some memento to mark so interesting an occasion, more especially as this company are to have the honour not only of conveying the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family to Ire land, but also throughout their subsequent journey this season to Scotland. The directors, therefore, determined to construct, for the accommodation of her Majesty and Royal Consort, an entirely new State carriage, of chaste and elaborate design, the cost of which will be over £3,000. The design for this magnificent specimen of railway carriage archi tecture has been in the main prepared by and carried out under the direction of Mr. Cawkwell, the gene ral manager, and Mr. H. P. Bruyeres, the general superintendent of the London and North-Western Railway. Externally, the State carriage, with the exception of its very tasteful and elaborate carving and decoration, does not much differ in shape from the newly-designed first-class carriages now in use on the line ; it is, however, larger in every way. Tee framework upon which the body of the carriage rests is constructed of solid oak, handsomely carved and highly polished, resting upon wheels of Mansell's patent; the centres are also composed of the strongest solid oak, the tires of which have been put on cold and hammered, as affording a greater amount of security than those manufactured under the ordinary process. The carriage-body has three floors, first that of the usual material, secondly a flooring of oak, and thirdly a flooring of cork, which has the effect of reducing vibration and of destroying or deadening to a great extent the noise of the wheels while travelling. At each corner of the solid oak frame or buffer plank are projecting shoulders, consisting of elaborately carved and gilded leaves. The body of the carriage has its.panels painted of the beau tiful dark or Royal claret colour, bearing in the centre the Royal arms, and on the side panels the orders of the Garter, the Bath, and the Thistle, exquisitely painted, the upper portions of the body round the windows being delicately picked out in white and gold. The roofs, for there are two, are divided by a cornice composed of festoons of flowers carved and picked out upon a white ground, the projections of the roof, the upper one of which is circular, having their projecting edges elaborately gilt. The interval between the two roofs is also perforated for ventilation. The interior of the Royal saloon presents a coup d'ceil combining the most refined taste and elegance. The lining is of silver gray moire antique of the richest description, festooned and fluted, the same material covering the roof, divided into panels marked out by a rich cord of the same colour. From the apex of the roof descends a beautifully -constructed lamp of very elegant design,:encircled by a carving of satin wood, in which material the whole of the cavings are executed. At one end of the saloon is a sofa, covered with tl e same material as the lining of the carriage, and two easy chairs are fixed on a revolv ing axis, so that, while they cannot be epset, they can be moved in any direction at the Will of the party occupying them with the greatest ease. Above the cork floor already described in the first instance has been placed a thick drugget, and this is covered over by a rich velvet-pile carpet, the ground colour of the Royal purple, with a handsomely figured border, manufactured expressly for the saloon. At the other end is the retiring room, fitted with a cabinet, washhand-stand, and all the appliances of a boudoir, the carvings of the furniture being in unison with those of the carriage, and executed in satinwood, inlaid with tulipwood. An e , egant axed table, of the same material, stands in the centre of the saloon, which, with the mirror, gives the interior the appearance of a very elegant little room. The necessary pockets for the deposit of books, papers, &c., are appropriately arranged ; but, in addition to this, there are appliances for converting this magnificent sitting-room into a sleeping apartment by means of a very clever con trivance. Beds are introduced, which can be re moved with the greatest facility, and it is under stood they will be used by her Majesty and the Prince Consort during the journey on their return from Ireland to Scotland, thus avoiding the neces sity of staying a night at any hotel on the route. The whole carriage is believed to be the most elegant and complete that has ever been constructed, and, on tee designs being submitted to her Majesty, it is understood that she expressed her most cor dial approval of them. There will be two other Royal saloon carriages in the train, one for the Princesses, and the other for the younger male branches of the Royal family and their respective suites; and we understand that it is intended to have a trial trip of the train to morrow (Mon day). The arrangements are that on Tuesday the Royal train will be sent down from Euston-square to Gosport via the South-W e stern Railway, there to await her Majesty and the Royal family, on their arrival at O s b orne on th e morning of Wednesday, the 21st; th a t th e R o yal party will then be brought up on to the No r th-Western line, and thence proceed to Holyhead, from w hich plac y e ae her i Majesty .victoria a 1 Rill d then embark on board the Royal Albert, and cross the St: Ge or ge's Channel to carriagesDub lin.reeed to Lond on , a nd remain till about the 26th or 27th, when they The Royal vvi railway will r again a p will c to Holyhead,thn return arid take her Majesty and the R o y a l f amily and suite to Scotland. M. Du Chaillu, the distinguished African tra veller, is (says the Glasgow _Herald) now sk i v i ng the hos pitalities of Lord Delhave4 at Wiehaw H 911,90, VIE APPROPRIATION OF SEATS (SO BURY AIVD ST ALBANS) ACT. The following is the protest against the th ird reading of the bill for appropriating the vacant seats of Sudbury and St. Albans, entered on the journals of the House of Lords, by Lord Str sith ' eden, who had before moved to refer the bill to select committee : Dissentient. First. Because the third reading took place out °f at time order i n w hi c h the bill stood upon the notice pap time when p u bli c b usiness was not expected to com e ° g ; and not upon the motion of the Minister in whose ti ej:a the bill stood, th us making it impossible for Peers who wished to do so to take any part in this final stage. , Second. Becau se a f ormer stage, viz., the secon d re ad ing, had b een v i r t ua l ly annulled, and moved pro form a „°13 It at an hour wh en b y general admission it was not pos sible to go into debate; all consideration of the bill being t e reduced to the si ng l e s t age of going into committee 0 ° 29th of July. Third. Becau se a reso l ution of the house has frequen t l y declared that at th a t per i o d i mportant measures canO tll6ve the fall deliberation which they merit. formed for Fourth. Because a precedent has been thus f°" -- h And without to the statute-book a measure of organic °--all : fic l without the effective sanction of the House of Lords. if such organic change as the public interest recitli res iv now to be developed in a series of measures, and eluded in a single scheme, the danger of such a pre nt being often followed is apparent. Fifth Because whil e th e bill h as not had the e— ff A e ct tic° st sanction of the Ho use o f L or d s, so neither has it be- htile of either party i n th e C ommons; the Opposition an d Government in that H ouse o f P ar l iament having bo th d to dared in the c ourse o f t h e session that the vacan t se' ought to be oth erw i se di stributed than by this bill tile' , are. Sixth. Because so long as those seats were vacal lt b s e notorious defect in the Reform Act might eventually o f remedied without increasing the members of the 11 ° 11 : e s g Commons ; the def ec t, i n consequence of which, s i nc e i s distinguished p u bli c men, against the wishes of the cono4o have been excluded from the Legislature ; and which t o from the want of corrective power in the State to re ,:d those whom th e un it e d b ody of the nation would Jape chosen, but who, f rom l oca l circumstances, have not been ; chosen by any of th e sec ti ons i nto which the country general election is divided. Seventh. Beause the existence of such a vice in the Reform Act is con v i nc i ng l y established by the fact that' since 1832, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Macaulay, 11 : fr Carlisle, Sir Ed war d L ytton, Mr. Bright,:Mr. Cobden , Milner Gibson, and the late Mr. Bernal, amongst dirge; have, after general elections, been kept out of Parliatne li t t while the public cou ld not b e said in any of these cas es o have either caused or sanctioned the exclusion. Eighth. Because to form any system by which the cast le ' deficiencies of a general election might be afterwards re. moved, according to the interest or voice of the commul e the four vacant sea t s, if not essential, were desirable, as space to build on ; while they are now appropriated it t ,, manner which no necessity dictated, which meets 110 PO I' d lar demand, which takes away no public inconvenience , 911 bestows no kind of new advantage on the empire. Ninth. Because the defect to some remedy of which thel seats might h ave b een d evoted leads to serious results beY,,°ll, a palpable a noma l y. An anomaly of this kind occurs W hen a State, howe ver fi rm in its opinion that given individuals ought to serve it in its representative assembly, It s ;1 0 power to return the m if th ey have been outvoted by a cu'' local body at a general election. Tenth. Because before 1832 the States bad the pocet c : question through a meth o d it i s not now desirable to A again into existence, the Opposition and the Governt ° l 7,, possessing at that time the means of bringing into rt`rmd`i ment, by the boroughs which each had at its disP ° 7; distinguished men whom the general election ha d [ n ' t eluded. It is only, therefore, necessary that an in 2 l 9°r ` s ,,i e end which was gained for many years by objections% means should be now seemed by means which are leg it ' mate. Eleventh. Because whatever means are now resorted to invest the State with this necessary power, the val e seats having b een appropr i ated, such means can only og applied by incre as i ng th e num b er of the House of Cornal % beyond a poi n t w hi c h i s generally felt to he excessive. , rder, therefore, to remove one evil in our representa tem arrangements, it becomes essential in some degree to egg i l, vete another, a dilemma into which States may be forced by various events, but which it is against the rules of poll/ 10 choose and to create by doubtful legislation. i Twelfth. Because a mong th e results of the evil which has thus become more difficult to remedy, the State may '1; and has been, i n thi s manner deprived of official ta l en t it requires, but which can only be exercised in conjunctiola with a seat in Parliament. Beyond this, until the cotter/ has the power, after a general election, of calling to its re' presentative assembly these whom it deems erroneously el' eluded, public life must always be embraced with the risl‘ of an unauthorised and arbitrary exile such as no other career involved ; it cannot, therefore, be embraced by marl whom the State would moat desire to draw into its service. In effect it is confined to the few whose property or family insure a permanent connection with a county or a borough+ and at every change in the Reform Act these few are likely to become fewer. Thirteenth. Because, apart from the public wrong, 011 i e vacant seats might h ave b een devoted to removing a which increases the number of the county members by r e ' ducing the number of the borough members, and forms or stituencies open to n one b u t persons locally connecte d w ith them, in place of constituencies at which all public we ° might equally be candidates, appears retrograde in charac ter, and ought no t t o h ave b een passed without a greater show of argument to vindicate it. Fourteenth. B ecause t h e g if t of two seats to the W e st Riding of Yorkshire, not to come into use until a disco' lution, is an uncalled for sacrifice of the deliberative fr ee : dom which might h ave ot h erw i se employed them, and i s 0" present gain to the locality it favours. The right of Iv,: " 'lament to deal with th ose t wo seats is without benefit ' any interest abandoned ; and neither precedent nor Pol l/ imposed upon the Legislature the duty of appropriati ng the four seats in one measure, becoming vacant, as th e y did, at different times and under different acts of Parlia ment. STRATHEDEN and CAMPBELL• THE IRISH HA.RVEST—GENERAL P.ROSPiaIS (From the Dublin _Evening Post.) Hitherto our reports have been favourable, and still le° indulge strong hopes of a good harvest, no t w ith s t a nding the changeable w ea th er an d t h e vast quantity of rain fall inn at this critical period in the month of August. The telegraphic reports yesterday announced rain in every Par. of Ireland but one—the fortunate exception being Portrue l f a watering place on the northern coast near the Glad e Causeway, which has been rendered somewhat celebrate d by a railway erected by Mr. Dargan, by his own private enterprise, between that town and the thriving m a nufav turing town of Ballymena. Everywhere else, all day yes' terday, there was a steady down-pour of rain, saturating lands before quite moist enough. But it is still more re' markable that the telegraphic reports from Great Britaittr with a single exception, men' ioned the prevalence of fine summer weather throughout England and Scotland. The continuance of heavy rain yesterday had a depress" ing effect upon all classes of people in this city, especial' , mercantile men, who have had experience of the serious injury that has resulted from short crops in 1859, a nd very deficient harvest in 1860. Many farmers have sinc e , been living and payi ng ren t s part l y out of the profits of previous years. Traders and shopkeepers have suffered from a decrease of business and a falling off in profits ; an d many of them are now cautious about laying in stocks for autumn or winter, until they ascertain the fate of the har vest, upon which so much depends for the recovery of trade and the restoration of confidence. We are assured that there is a flue and even an abundant harvest in America, from whence the United Kingdom ha° obtained considerable quantities of bread-stuffs in defi cient years ; but those supplies had to be paid for, and thns the exhausting process that takes away much of the wealth of the country has been continued. In some parts of Europe —certainly in France, which has often sent us supplies—there will be a somewhat deficient harvest; and for some weeks there has been an active demand in the English market on French account. It is an encouraging feature that French purchasers ceased to press so m uc h at Mark-lane this week; and that the "brilliant weather" yesterday, whilst there was a deluge here, caused ct a tie dine in old English wheat left over from Monday of 2s. ta 3s. per qr. upon the prices of last week." THE IRON TRADE.—The shipments of Scotch pig iron during the present year as compared with the corre' sponding period of 1860 exhibit the following results 1861. - 1860. Month Tons. T on s. ending J an. 26 31,519 32,454 Feb. 23 29,738 25,278 M 30 .. 42,551 9) April 27 .. 62,622 46,923 50,585 )1 May 25 .. 65,637 54,488 Juue 29 .. 7 3,600 .. 52,925 ), July 27 .. 48,304 47,846 ending Aug. 3 .. 11,971 10,949 ), Aug. 10 .. 10,237 12,871 These figures show a total export of 376,182 tons in the las' 32 weeks, as against 334,324 tons in 1860, being an increase of 41,558 tons. The totals do not, of course, include the. quantities which have gone i n t o consump ti on i n S co tland and through inland communications. The production la ° been reduced during the last six months, the number of far' naces in blast in Scotland having been only 119 in July s e compared with 131 in January. The same dulness is ob.' servable in other parts of the country, the number of fur" naces in blast in England having been 256 in July a s cora" pareed with 276 in Januai y, and in W a l es 12 9 as compa red with 145 in January. Altogether 48 furnaces are thu s shown to have been blown out ; and, assuming that a spee d y improvement does not take place, this year's make of P i a . iron will probably be from 300,000 to 400,000 tons less th o in 1860, Week I retu Osb. duk. to r( side