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THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1861. The " Essays and Reviews" seem not likely to be soon forgotten. Almost every week, printed matter appears to keep them before the public, and that printed matter is usually in the shape of wholesale clerical protest and denunciation, or the narrow and bigoted opinion of prejudiced laymen. Now, temperate discussions on both sides of the vital subjects in question are not only fair bat desirable, and however hostile, if not rancorous and vitupe rative, are doubtless what the highly liberal writers of the Essays desired. We judge, indeed, from the character of these Essays, that their object was to stimulate earnest inquiry and sound reasoning rather than to teach any " new doc trines," or advance any " dangerous scepticism." As might be expected, almost all the Reviews of the Reviewers have been on one side ; and on that side the public have seen so many, that we have trans ferred to our columns several very able lectures which have appeared in the Brighton Observer, and which were delivered by the Rev. ROBERT AINSLIE, at Christ Church, New Road—in that town. Perhaps the most masterly treatment and the most unbiassed reception which this decried ♦olume has experienced, may be found to have been afforded by this gentleman. lie appears to have given the closest application of his powerful talent and extensive learning to the thorough analization of each separate Essay,—not carelessly asserting an opinion, nor pronouncing a belief in dividually his own, in connection with them ; not indulging in the license of free thought and rash utterance which may sometimes offend and shock, rather than convince a doubting or dissentient hearer ; but calmly and dispassionately he has tested the truth, intelligence, and intention of each distinctive author, not sparing their incidental errors nor propitiating their occasional prejudices ; and has proved himself competent in every degree to exercise the onerous duty of a critic who pre sumes to sit in judgment on such a volume. The moderation and ability displayed in the Lectures must have been recognised by all our readers who perused them, and candid thinkers must admit they contain the fairest representa tion of the contents and character of the book yet given. The lecture on the Rev. B. JOWETT'S Essay " On the Intrepretation of the Scriptures,"* which we transferred from our Brighton contemporary, is one of much interest to us, for we read the long Essay of which it treats, with deeper attention than any of the others. Reading for information, and with literary views, we failed to d we ll espec i ally on the p assages singled out by a jeal ous ort h o d oxy as " objectionable ;" but, taking the Whole teneur of the Essay, so completely did it exalt the Scriptures, as well as point out the correct mode of interpret ing them, that we arose from the perusal with increased reverence for their superlative value. 'Who can read the beautiful passages quoted in Mr. AINSLIE'S lecture, now alluded to, and not feel that he had probably never before seen the vast superiority of the Sacred Scriptures to all other writings placed in so powerful a light. They would indeed form an admirable circular for the Bible Society if it wanted one, in seeking contributions. It is, obviously, mere scandal or malice to speak of such a writer as atheis tical in his tendencies. Lest our readers should have overlooked them we quete again these passages : Speaking of Christ and his revelation, the Essayist says : " In contrast with wild fanaticism, as well as with the proud Pharisee, came One, most unlike all that had been before, as the kings or rulers of mankind. In an age which was the vi c ti m o f it s own pass i ons, the crea t ure o f its own circumstances, the slave of its own degenerate religion, our Saviour taught a l esson a b so l ute l y f r e e from a ll th e In fluences of a surrounding world ; he made the last perfect revelation of God to man—a revelation not indeed imme diately applicable to the state of society, or the world, bat ERRATUM.—By a singular mistake of the printer, Saturday was inserted, instead of Sunday, at the head of Mr. Ainslie's Discourse which we inserted in Monday's Paper, copied from the Brighton Observer. The errqr lyaa tlif , coverod to late for correction. F RENCH PLAYS.-ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. -Under the Direction of Mons. Lambert Dennery.—THlS EVENING, LE SERMENT D'HORACE, Mons. A. Maugard and Mdlle. Alice Theric. To conclude with LE VOYAGE DE MO S . PERRICHON : Messrs. Geoffroy, Gravier , Leduc, Fabrien ; Madame Leduc and Delphini.—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATItg-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lames, ?ifs. J. a Backstair. THIS EVENING, the periormanoes will oommense with a new and original Comedy, entitled BLACK SHEEP. Mr. Suckstone. Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, ts. ; Mrs. Wilkins , Mrs. Charles Young, Miss Lovell, &c. -- - Atter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery and effbcts, and all the origi nal music by the late Sir Henry Bishop, the melodrama of HE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Commence at 7, ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore, Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leciereq. Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet. Mr. Feehter. Sup ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, ,to. ; Misses Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi "Census" every Evenin?. _ _ THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BAT H. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. Atter which - (lPBth time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boncioault. D. risher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward . • Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billinztotr, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. M e ssrs. J. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Vhorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE . — THIS EVENING, Grand Equestrian performance by M. Boorne's Troupe—Davis Richards, Mr. and am a i n /ie.—Three Clowns—Three Original Rocky Mo Won ders, comprising their wonderful performance on the Flying Trapez and Ladder Feat—M. Lauri's New Ballet Troupe.— Reduced Prices.—Commence at half-past 7. Box-office open daily. Private Boxes from 10s. 6d. Day Performance on ,Saturday at 2 o'clock. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera, ITN BALLO IN MASCHERA, (First produced in England at this Vstablishment), With a Chorus of Forty Voices. Also, Verdi's IL CORSARO, never performed at any other Concerts. Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. Levy. The Comic Department comprises the Brothers Conrad (in their new and inimitable entertainments), Mr. Wood and his talented little Son, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Hol lingsworth, and Miss Rose Howard. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. T H E F 0 R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, &c., and other vocal and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIN DA.Y.—Morning, Ih. 20m.—Afternoon, lh. 48m. To-monnow.-Morning, 2h. 14m.—Afternoon, 2h. 38m. THE WEATHER.—SVN OFFICE, MAT 24, INI. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAWL 7S—highest since noon yesterday. il—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BARoarETER-30.08. WlND—North-Westerly—light and-yariable; with fine weather. • 4 1 , CIAP 4-ev • 11110,-;) ." 7 • A_ in its truth and purity inexhaustible by the after genera tions of men." The following is his estimate of the value of the Scriptures : " There is no such treasury of instruments, and materials as Scripture. The loss of Homer, or the loss of Shaks peare would have affected the whole series of Greek or English authors who follow. But the disappearance of the Bible from the books which the world contains, would pro duce results far greater. We can scarcely conceive the degree in which it would alter literature and language — the ideas of the educated and philosophical, as well as the feelings and habits of mind of the poor. It has been said, with an allowed hyperbole, that Homer is Greece; with much more truth may it be said that the Bible is Cbxisten dom." Once more, he says— " Every part of Scripture tends to raise use above our selves—to give us a deeper sense of the feebleness of man, and of the wisdom and power of God. It has a sort of kindred, as Plato would say, with religious truth every where in the world. It agrees also with the imperfect stages of knowledge and faith in human nature, and answers to its inarticulate cries. The universal truth easily breaks through the accidents of time and place in which it is in volved. Although we cannot apply Jewish institutions to the Christian world, or venture in reliance on some text to resist the tide of civilisation on which we are borne, yet it remains nevertheless to us, as well as to the Jews and first Christians, that Righteousness exalteth a nation," and that Love is the fulfilling not of Jewish law only, but of all law.' " Referring to the Old Testament, he says : "The beginnings of human history are themselves a lesson, having the freshness of early dawn. There are forms of evil against which prophets and the prophetical spirit of the law carry on a warfare in terms almost too bold for the way of life of modern times. There, more plainly than in any other portion of the Scripture, is expressed the antagonism of outward and inward—of ceremonial and moral—of mercy and sacrifice. There, all the masks of hypocrisy are rudely torn asunder, in which an unthinking world allows itself to be disguised. There, the relations of rich and poor in the sight of God and their duties, towards one another are most clearly enun ciated. There, the religion of suffering first appears,— ' adversity the blessing' of the Old Testament as well as the New. There, the sorrows and aspirations of the soul find their deepest expression, and also their consolation. The feeble person has an image of himself as the bruised reed.' The suffering servant of God passes into the be loved one, in whom my soul delighteth.' Even the latest and most desolate phases of the human mind are reflected in Job and Ecclesiastes; yet not without the coleus asser tion, that ' to fear God and keep his commandments is the beginning and the end of all things." Now, we must contend that it is utterly unfair and mean to select passages in which the grossly erroneous practices of ordinary interpreters of Scrip-. 1 ture are dealt with as they deserve, and by appeal ing to conventional and ignorant prejudice to re present the writer as an infidel, without giving also the statements which convey his full and free meaning, and which thoroughly qualify the invidiously chosen paragraphs. Mr. JoWETT's main principles of Scripture interpre tation must commend themselves to every scholar, and to every man and woman of common sense, who reads the Essay. They are those which every boy is taught from childhood, to apply to every classical writer he studies; they resolve themselves into this, that we are to understand a writer's lan guage not by the ideas and habits of our own age, but by carefully endeavouring to understand and appreciate those of the age in which the writer lived. Indeed, Mr. JOWETT'S Essay is less an ap peal to theologians than to educated and reflective persons generally; and we are much mistaken if it does not produce a considerable impression on the great mass of the intelligent laity ; for in that ap peal they will find that the Scriptures "properly" interpreted contain the most beautiful and earnest truths extant—such that Faith, Hope, Philosophy, and Poetry will ever cling to with instinctive and pure devotion. It is somewhat curious to observe the psycholo gical obtuseness and conscientious toleration which have occasionally distinguished our " spiritual pas tors and masters," and then set in contrast the vio lent and sensitive outcry from the clergy, high and low, against these " Essays and Reviews." Not to mention the Romish rites and. ceremonies—which are as contrary to the Thirty-nine Articles, and as abhorent to the English mind as any doctrines in the Essays can be, and which Bishops either encourage or view with passive in difference—our readers should know that it was High Churchmen who first proclaimed in this land the insufficiency of the Scriptures. We will give two extracts, and let the reader judge : (1.) "It is vain that you look into the Scriptures for a full, clear, and succinct statement of the faith and practice required of those for whose use they were written. The articles of doctrine are scattered here and there without any attention to order ; their meaning is frequently hidden under the obscurity of the language : the advance of the sincere inquirer is repeatedly arrested by apparent contradictions : and it seldom happens that any two readers, after a patient and impartial investigation, agree in the same decision. Of all the possible forms under which a rule of faith could have been published to mankind, the New Testament is, as such, the most incongruous and confused. It is what no sensible man would ever have adopted : and certainly we ought not to attribute to the wisdom of God that which we judge unworthy the wisdom of man." (2.) " Scripture is not one book—it is as if you were to seize the papers or correspondence of leading men in any school of philosophy or science, which were never designed for publication, and bring them out in one volume. You would find, probably, in the collection so resulting many papers begun and not finished—some papers systematic and didactic, but the greatest part made up of hints or of notices which assumed first principles instead of asserting them— or of discassions on particular points, which happened to require his attention. I say the doctrines, the first princi ples, the rules, the objects, of the school would be taken for granted, alluded to, implied, not stated. You would have some trouble to get at them ; you would have many repe • tions, many hiatuses, many thing which looked like con tradictions ; you would have to work your way through heterogeneous materials ; and, after your best efforts, there would be much hopelessly obscure ; or, on the other hand, you might look in vain, in such a casual col lection, for some particular opinions which the writers were known to have held, nay, to have insisted on. Sucb, I conceive, with limitations presently to be noticed, is the structure of the Bible." Let the reader look carefully at these two quotations—what does he suppose is their parent age. The first is from Dr. LINGARD, the Catholic historian ; the second is from Tract 85 of another celebrated series of Oxford Essays, published in 1839, by a too well-known set of Ox ford clergymen. We ask is there anything in the Essays more calculated to shake faith in the Scriptures than what we have just quoted—nor have we quoted unfairly, for the whole drift and object of the writers is to depreciate the Scriptures, that they may exalt the Church. They tell their readers, what may be true f.ar ought we know, that Scripture authority is not to be demanded for articles of faith, " that a broad, comprehensive view of Holy Scripture would most avowedly be fatal to Church Doctrines ;" they instance infant Baptism and Establishments of the Church amongst other things. In fact, " Down with Script ure , up with the Church" is the grand object of their argument. But we will not enlarge. The proof is abundant to all who choose to seek it _we only state two facts and ask one question 1. In 1839, when the Scriptures were depreciated to exalt the Church, bishops and clergy looked on and were silent or favourable. 2. When, in 1860, the Scriptures are critically discussed, and the result is depreciating traditional interpretation and the hierarchy, that whole hierarchy is up in arms. Query--Is it zeal fcr the hierarchy or for the Bible which calls forth these denunciations ? The extravagant waste of time, labour, and money consequent upon the mismanagement of our naval affairs at the Admiralty, and especially in her MA JESTY'S Dockyards, monopolised the attention of the House of Commons upon the first night of its sitting (that is yesterday) after Whitsuntide. But little good has come of these discussions, however, beyond the advantages that may possibly result THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENINq : MAY _24, lB6l. from their continual re-ventilation. If the public - realizes thoroughly the necessity for some speedy and comprehensive change for the better in any of the great public departments—it assuredly does so in regard to the maritime department. It is in the recollectionof the complete exposure during this pre sent session beyond all other sessions of imperial Par • liament, it is in the remembrance of the comprehen sive revelations of evil at the Admiralty, and more particularly in the Admiralty Dockyards during the course of the last three or four months, that we find our one consolation in regard to our Legislative doings in 1861. If nothing else of any importance has been done, that, at least, has been accomplished —the demonstration, beyond the chance of further denial, of the absolute and imperative necessity there is for a bold and almost, we might say, audacious series of innovations in the conduct of our maritime department. Anxiety is beginning to be felt in regard to other results of our Parliamentary labours this year—for example, in respect to the fate of the Attorney-General's Bill for the rearrangement and readjustment, generally, of the laws relating to Bankruptcy and Insolvency. While we, of course, believe the Earl of DERBY to have been perfectly sincere in his disavowal of any intention whatever to obstruct the progress of that measure by any un necessary delays with a view to its more careful consideration, we cannot but regard it as, at this moment, rather seriously threatened with post ponement, after all, another year, to the session of 1862—ominous as the rumours are in regard to the doings of that committee of inquiry, appointed by the Lords, that select committee appointed by their lordships, to examine into the details of the measure, with a more rigid scrutiny than the Bill has certainly hitherto been subjected to in either Ho use of Parliament. According to these whispered hints . of evil omen to Sir RICHARD BETHELL'S latest undertaking as a law reformer, his pet measure would appear to have a prospect of being so tampered with ? of being so divided and subdivided, and emended and emasculated that the Author of its Existence will hardly be able to recog nise it when it comes back to the Commons from the Lords in due course, to enable the farmer to take into consideration the various improvements (?) suggested by the latter. The mere knowledge that the Bankruptcy Bill is -really just now before a Select Committee of the House of Lords—whatever truth or falsehood there may be in the measures we have been here refer ring to—the simple knowledge that it is before that Select Committee renders us dubious as to the happy completion this year of the proposed reform in the laws of Bankruptcy and Insolvency. No drawback, however, of this character have we, in reference to what we may again designate as our one genuine solace of the session—meaning the thorough and conclusive demonstration of the need there is for a sweeping change in the general organisation of affairs at the Admiralty and in the Admiralty Dockyards. There is no possibility any longer of blinking the evil that is now so vividly and universally recog nised. The Board of Admiralty is pledged to assist in furthering whatever improvements may be eventually decided upon. All the former First Lords and Secretaries of the Admiralty are vieing with each other in enforcing the urgent need there is for promptly and energetically carrying out the beneficial changes now either meditated or in actual preparation. Yet—wonderful to tell—in spite of all this—there is the same apparent apathy on the part of the House of Commons , in regard to matters of this vital importance, to the well-being, to the safety, and to the absolute existence of the country—the same amazing appearance of indifference in respect to the votes taken annually in Committee of Supply during the consideration, item by item, of the naval estimates. As a matter of course, therefore, the House of Commons was last evening but thinly attended. As a matter of course, the resolution proposed by the house before going into Committee of Supply with a view to the consideration of 'the naval estimates —as a matter of course, we say, that resolution pre pared by Sir FREDERIC SMITH went for nothing, the resolution insisting upon the expediency of such reforms being made in the control and man agement of the Dockyards as would tend to promote greater efficiency, and consequently, to ensure greater economy in those establishments. Equally, as a matter of course, the hon. gentleman the member for Sunderland got nothing whatever from the thin House that just tolerated Mr. LINDSAY'S explanation of his suggestions of thrift —got nothing whatever from that thin and apathetic House, save the rejection, one after another, of his variou3 economic amend ments. It was thus when he proposed an amendment reducing by £300,000 the sum of £919,371 set down for timber—a proposal nega tived by sixty-two to thirty ! It was thus when he moved to reduce by £71,757 the sum of £271,757 demanded for metals et cetera—a " penny wise" economy rejected by seventy-six to thirty two ! It was thus also that Mr. LINDSAY'S last suggestion yesterday, to the effect that the sum of £lOO,OOO for iron for an iron , cased ship to be built at Chatham, should be summarily struck out of the estimates, was in its turn also rejected by sixty-six to thirty-one! Null and void though every effort thus made by the member for Sunderland, and those who sympa thise with him, in a desire to put a stop as soon as possible to the old careless habit we have got into both at the Admiralty and at the Admiralty Dock yards, that old dreadful habit of extravagant ex penditure—the reiteration of those adverse divisions we cannot but recognise, after all, as having about it, in reality, a very happy signifi cance. The course pursued by the House of Com mons last evening in Committee of Supply indicates as plainly as possible that the country begrudges no reasonable sum that may be set down by our responsible administrators as essential for the well being of our Navy—that its one sole solicitude is that whatever amount of money may be voted for the expenses of our maritime service shall be pro perly applied, and judiciously disbursed—not, as hitherto, extravagantly squandered—by the Board of Admiralty and its subordinate delegates at the Admiralty Dockyards. Brief though the reply given last evening by the Foreign Secretary in answer to the inquiries of Mr. GRIFFITHS, in regard to the doings of the Austrian Government and the hopes of Hungary—that terse reply of Lord JOHN'S was not unimportant. True that the noble lord—as is so often the case with Ministers when thus pointedly interrogated— had no information to give upon the parti cular matter referred to relating, as it happened, in the present instance to the rumoured removal of the tro )ps of ex-Duke of Modena from the territory of Venetia, and their transference to Hungary for the purpose of employ ment there in gathering taxes from the Hun garians ! True, Lord JOHN RUSSELL last evening had nothing whatever to say upon that point, good, bad, or indifferent ; but, ap ipended to his non-explanation, cause these words, words not without their significance ;—" He might," he said, " take the opportunity of stating that he had given no opinion in favour of tke former as against the latter, and had, when speaking on the subject on a previous occasion, simply expressed a wish that Hungary might be able to enjoy her liberty according to her ancient Constitution, and that that liberty might be found to be compatible with the maintenance of the pre sent dynasty." We may have occasion, a little later on, to remind Lord JOHN of the remarkable words we have here italicized. . ~ 1~„Y. , 0-1 L A. r i j il INEWS. THE AMERICAN WAR. PER ADRIATIC, VIA ST. JOHN'S AND GALWAY.) NEW YORK, MAY 14. The blockade of the Virginia Waters is complete. A precautionary notice has been issued for all vessels to leave these waters within 15 days. Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans will be blockaded within a week. The Maryland Legislature has adopted a resolu tion condemning the war, and discountenancing the interference of the Federal troops. Fort M'Henry, Baltimore, has been reinforced. General Butler, with 2,000 troops and a section of artillery, has taken possession of Baltimore with out resistance. Martial law has been proclaimed in the city. 31,000 Federal troops are now at Washington. Virginia has been admitted by the Confederate Congress into the Southern Confederacy. The Union movement is, however, spreading in Virginia. The number of Secession troops at Harper Ferry is only 6,000. The Secretary of the Federal Treasury invites offers at current rates for the Treasury loan of 9,000,000 dols. The Kangaroo and the Parana have arrived out. The Nova Scotian has not yet arrived. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, M,Y . 13, EVENING. Exchange on London-1061 to 1061. Stocks steady, except Missouri Bonds, which have fallen to 351. Cotton dull. Middling upland 13:c. to 14c. Breadstuffs heavy. NEW ORLEANS, MAY 11. Cotton sales to-day 4,500 bales; middling, 11c. to 111 c. (BY TELEGRAPH TO ST. JOHN'S.) NEW YORK, MAY 16. Stocks are tending upwards, and more confidence is shown. Erie, 22 3 1 ; Illinois Bonds, 96 ; New York Central, 72 ; Federal Securities are steady. ST. JOHN'S, MAY 18. Great election riots have taken place here. Three people have been shot, The telegraph wires were cut, but have been repaired. GALWAY, MAY 24. The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Adriatic, which arrived here this morning, left New York on the 14th inst., And St. John's on the 18th, thus having made the passage from the latter place to Galway in five days and 12 hours. She brings 363 passengers and the mails. BELGRADE, MAY 23. Omer Pasha arrived here to-day, accompanied only by his suite. THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, MAY 24. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta, Captain Field, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 139 passengers, four packages of specie vaiue not stated, two (?) bales of silk, and a general cargo. She passed the ship Saunders south of Finisterre, and also the steamers Derwent and Ceylon. Advices from Gibraltar contain nothing of im portance. Exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 50 to 504 ; Paris, 529 ; Marseilles and Genoa, 530 ; Madrid, Cadiz, and Seville, par ; Malaga, dis count ; Valencia, a premium ; Barcelona, I pre mium. The steamers Stella and Stanley, from London, and the Hecla and Albanian, from Liverpool, had arrived at Gibraltar. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING. The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at Mar seilles at 9 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Valetta, from Marseilles 20th inst., arrived at Malta at 7 p.m. on the 22d, and was to leave for Alexandria at 11 p.m. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. A telegraphic despatch from Toulon, received yesterday, says :—" The experimental squadron has left for the coast of Syria. It is composed of the screw liner Bretagne, bearing the flag of Vice- Admiral Lebarbier de Tinan, the commandant in chief ; the Algesiras, steamer, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Paris ; the Donawerth, bearing that of Rear-Admiral Chopart, and the steam liners Eylau, Saint Louis, Fontenoy, and Redoubtable, and the steam corvette Caton. The screw transports Aube, Finistere, and Amazone accompany the squadron. The steam frigates Vauban and Cacique left, as is known, on the 16th ; the Moselle on the 18th, with a cargo of coal on board for the supply of the fleet; and the Descartes steam frigate and the steam tran sport Ariege on the 19th, all for the same destina tion, as has been already mentioned. The embar kation of the troops and stores will commence on the 30th, and the vessels with the troops on board will leave on the 4th for Toulon with the whole of the expeditionary corps. The squadron, it is known, will remain on the coast of Syria for the protection of the Christians." BOURSE, May 23.—There has been but a very limited business doing, the attention of moneyed men being principally directed to the subscription now open at the Bank of France for Railway Bonds. Prices, however, have been pretty well maintained—Threes, for the Account, being now 69f 40c. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The following were the last quotations :- 0., per per Cents ... 96 25 Credit Fancier Do cad month.... 96 501 Belgian 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 45 1 Roman Bank Shares 2890 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 706 25 , Spanish Threes 5O 75 Do. Account 707 50; Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1357 50 .. 1356 25 Northern Now ditto 9OO .. 900 Lyons and Mediterranean 930 .. 930 Geneva 25 . 423 75 S ou th ern ...... 572 50 . . 575 Western Eastern Sardinian 382 60 .. 380 Austrian Lombard 5Ol 25 .. seo THE BUILDING TRADE.—The firms in this trade in which the dispute respecting the mode of payment, whether by the hour or by the day, is now existing, have rejected the compromise offered by the masons and brick layers, viz., to work 10 hours per day for the first five days of the week at 63. per day, and 3s. on Saturday, leaving work at 12 o'clock. The dispute therefore still remains open. To ascertain what course the men are willing to take now that their offer has been rejected, the central committee have called a public meeting of the men in all the branches of the building trade for Tuesday next at the Surrey Theatre. ACCIDENT TO TOM SAYERS.—This champion of the ring visited Galashiels on Saturday with Howes and Cushing's Circus. While proceeding on horseback to the place of exhibition in the evening, the horse shied at the flapping of the canvas of the circus, and he was thrown to the ground and pretty severely injured. Medical aid was promptly given, and when he had recovered from his faint, he stated that he felt weaker and more out of o rder than he did after his encounter with Heenan. No bones were, we and on Sunday he was confined to understand, broken, nevertheless the pugili st su s tained several severe bruises, his bed, -- - - RAI MARKET THEATRE. Notwithstanding that the last new three-act comedy of " Black Sheep" is in the height of a most successful " run," the previous arrangements of Mr. Buckstone compels its withdrawal at the end of the week for a short time. Amongst the many high class pieces that have been produced at this theatre during the present year none seem so thoroughly to suit the taste of the audience as " Black Sheep." It is written in a neat, close, and telling style, and the whole of the parts are represented in the most perfect manner. Mrs. Charles Young's Ethel Maynard is in all respects a most chaste performance, and one that goes immediately to the heart. All the phases of the poor struggling governess were depicted in a manner totally devoid of artificiality, and when, in the pride of *hes, Ethel is enabled to show her pure self, Mrs. Young's acting rose to absolute perfection. Buckstone's Mr. Bunry is one of those original efforts peculiar to the talented lessee, and Compton's Tom Shorter is another sketch wonderfully true to nature. The audiences, throughout the week, have been very great. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Shakespere's tragedy of " King Lear" was per formed here last evening for the purpose of enabling Mr. Phelps to make his first appearance this season. Mr. Phelps's conception of the fine and difficult part of Lear is a thoroughly sound and intelligent one ; and if his execution of it does not reach the highest point of imaginative delineation, that is almost the only fault that can be found with it. The irritability, the ycarning for affection, and also in the higher development of the love, inter mittent as it is, for the truthful Cordelia, are de picted with great feeling and a thorough apprecia tion of the poetical beauties of the character. The two curses of the datghters, the growing madness, the odd combination of worldly shrewdness with the maniacal weaknesses, the mixture of dignity and folly, are all presented with the utmost care. Mr. Ryder is well suited to the rough and warm hearted Kent, and Hiss Heath is a satisfactory Cordelia, and contrasted efficiently with the Regan and Gonereil of Meidames Murray and Atkinson. Mr. Phelps, jun., is an actor of promise, but has neither force nor iramatic power enough for the extremely difficult part of Edgar. Mr. Phelps was I called for at the end of the second and fourth acts, and at the close of the tragedy. i 3 REAT HEAT. TO HIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Yesterday was hotter than any day during the year 1860, as the following brief record will show : . _ Degrees. Mean temperature in wade Greatest heat in shade 79.8 In 1860 the mean temperature of the two warmest days was 63.4 deg. on the 22d of May and 63.5 deg. on the 15th of July. The greatest heat occurred on the same day last year—viz., the 21st of May, and the temperature reached was the same in both pars —viz., 79.8 deg. In former years a much higher temperature has been reached, the greatest heat in shade being for May, 1846, 81.4 deg. ; 1847, 84.5 deg. ; 1848, 83.0 deg. ; 1853, 82.0 deg.; 1855, 81.9 deg. ; and 1858, 84.0 deg. In contrast to this, the greatest heat in May, 1842 and 1843, only reached 67.0 deg., and in 1845 only 69.0 deg. During the past 50 years the coldest May was in 1856, when the mean temperature was only 48.5 deg., the hottest May being 1848, when the mean temperature reached 60.0 deg.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, E. J. LOWE. Observatory, Beeston, May 22. THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY AND " ESSAYS AND REVIEWS." The following important letter, addressed by the Bishop of Salisbury to the Archdeacon of Dorset, appears in this day's _Dorset County Chronicle : " The Palace, Salisbury, Whit• Monday, 1861. " Dear Mr. Archdeacon,—Last week I informed Dr. Rowland Williams, whose name is prefixed to one of the essays in the book entitled Essays and Reviews, that I have determined to institute legal proceedings against him in the Court of Arches. " I have come to this decision moat reluctantly, and only after the most anxious consideration of the consequences which may arise out of the course which I have now adopted. But my duty seems to me clear. As I still agree with the opinion ex pressed in the letter addressed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, on February 12th, to one of my rural deans, the Rev. H. B. Williams, with regard to this and the other essays, and as I believe (on the very best advice) that the writer of this essay has brought himself within the reach of the ecclesiastical law, I cannot escape from the con clusion that I am bound to endeavour to show that the Church of England does protect her members against such false teaching as is contained in diffe rent parts of Dr. Rowlana Williams's essay. " I will only further say that the feeling of my clergy, as expressed to me both privately and in public addresses, with regard to this essay, has quickened my own sense of responsibility about it, and that I am now acting in full reliance on their prayers that the issue of these proceedings may be such as to vindicate the truth of God, and that we may be all kept from mixing up with the pure feel ing of loyalty to the Church of England any leaven of bitterness and want of charity. " I shall send a copy of this letter to the two other Archdeacons of my diocess. " I remain, dear Mr. Archdeacon, "Your affectionate friend and brother, " W. K. SARUM. " The Ven. Archdeacon Buckle." THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, and was received at the King's Stairs by Vice-Admiral Henry William Bruce, the Rear-Admiral Superintendent, the Hon. George Grey, &c. His Royal Highness, on alight ing from the Queen's carriage, most kindly shook hands . with the gallant Commander-in-Chief. The Prince then embarked in the Admiral's galley to go on beard the Fairy, which was made fast to a buoy in Portsmouth harbour. Master Commander David N. Welch had the honour of being his Royal Highness's coxswain on the occasion. In a few minutes the Fairy cast off her warps, and proceeded to Osborne. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured Lord and Lady Clarence Paget by his company at dinner on Wednesday evening, at their residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall. A select party was invited to meet his Royal Highness. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary will return to their residence at St. James's Palace on the Ist proximo, from Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the season. Lord Ashburton, as president of the Royal Geo graphical Society, will give his next conversazionne on the sth proximo at Bath House, Piccadilly. Lord and Lady Monteagle have returned to their residence in Park-lane, from a visit for the Whitsun holi days, at Oakhamyark, the seat of the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone left Downing street last evening for Flintahire. RUMOURED MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF NEW CASTLE.-It is rumoured that an alliance is likely to take place between the Duke of Newcastle and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and that, too, with the concurrence of the Sovereign.—Doneaster Gazette. HEALTH OF RECORDER HILL.—We regret to hear that the health of the Recorder of Birmingham is in such a precarious state as to nesessitite his leaving England far Germany for a time. The passage of the Great Eastern to New York occupied 9i days. _ MISS ANNA WrarrY.—This young lady, daughter of the proprietor of the Liverpool Daily Post, who has been pursuing a most successful musical career at the principal opera housos of Italy during the last six years, made her debut in her native town, Liverpool, on the even ing of Tuesday, at a subscription concert given in the Phil harmonic Hall. As might have been expected from her antecedents, the fair debutante was enthusiastically received by one of the largest audiences ever assembled in the town. She sang both in Italian and English, and succeeded in satisfying the audience that her powers had not been over rated in the Italian journals. THE NAT/ Y, The Highflyer, 21, screw, Capt. Heath, arrived at Spithead from China on Wednesday evening, was officially inspected yesterday, and ordered into Portsmouth Harbour to dismantle and be put out of commission. She brought home as passengers Count Waldersee, of the Prussian navy, Lieutenant Maresceaux, R.N., and Lieut. Broughton, R.M.L.L, Messrs. Payne, Algar, and Gair, assist-engineers, and 94 supernumeraries, Naval and Royal Marines, consisting of the crew of her Majesty's gunboat Opossum and men from the Royal Marine battalion lately on service in China. The Adelaide, No. 18, screw transport, Captain Bird, sailed yesterday morning from Portsmouth to Woolwich, with invalids and stores, after landing a division of the 2d Queen's, to join head-quarters in that garrison, and a detachment of the 87th Regiment, who were forwarded to head-quarters at Dublin by steamer. ''"'A court-martial assembled yesterday on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour. Stephen Dillon, a quartermaster belonging to her Majesty's ship Edgar, was charged with having de frauded her Majesty of various sums. The Court, in consideration of the prisoner's previous good conduct and long services, only adjudged him to be dismissed from her Majesty's ship Edgar, to be deprived of his good conduct badges, and to be dis rated to the rank of able seaman. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Commander G. Blane, to the Illustrious, vice Commander Harston, whose period of service has expired; Lieut. J. P. Cheyne, to the Asia; Lieut. W. Spratt, to the Royal Ade laide ; Lieut. W. F. Gregory, to the Blenheim ; J. Knight, third-class assist.-engineer, to the Hero ; Alexander Brown, third-class assist-engineer, to the Indus, as supernumerary for hospital treat ment; and John Fawcett, acting third-class assist.- engineer, to the Indus, for service in the Princess Royal. • TBE ARMY. Capt. Gordon, C. 13., Principal Military Store keeper, of Woolwich Arsenal, yesterday received instructions from the War Department to prepare a large number of 100 and 80-pounder Armstrong guns for transport to the Mediterranean fleet. A code of rules, prepared with the concur rence of the Duke of Cambridge and the Lords of the Admiralty, laying down certain definite and very necessary regulations for the prevention of accidents by the firing of cast-iron guns, has been received at Chatham garrison. The rules, which are directed to be carried out in a very stringent manner, require a return to be rendered by the commanding officers of artillery at home and on foreign stations of the condition of all iron guns at the respective military stations. This return is to be drawn up in a prescribed form, and to be made to the Secretary of State for War on the Ist of June in each year. Similar reports are to be made by the officers commanding vessels of war. At stations where there is an inspector of warlike stores, all new guns are to be examined by him after every hundred rounds have been fired with either shot or shell :and guns that have been revented are to be examined after every 50 rounds. Officers command ing vessels of war are, whenever the exigencies of the service permit, to call upon the military store keepers, who will make requi si t ions on the inspec tor of warlike stores to perform this duty. At stations where there are no inspectors of warlike stores or master-searchers the duty is to be per formed under the direction of the officer command ing artillery in the district, who will depute a competent person for the purpose. Whenever guns are either issued out of or returned to store the receipt and delivery vouchers are to show the num ber of rounds fired by each. As no accurate register has hitherto been kept of the number of rounds fired, all guns are to be assumed to have fired a number corresponding to the size of the vent. Should the gun have been revented such will in future always be noted, and in these cases it is to be assumed to have fired 500 rounds, in addition to the number which the size of the vent indicates. The assumed number in all returns, &c., is to be ' inserted in red ink. By a careful attention to the above code of rules on the part of the officers com manding it is confidently anticipated that no more deplorable accidents will occur from the over-firing of cast iron guns. Considerable progress has been made by Mr. Stump, the Government contractor at Chatham, in the erection of the handsome range of buildings for the Soldiers' Institute at that garrison. The building will contain reading-room, two coffee rooms, class-rooms, and a lecture-room and theatre capable of holding 800 men. It is also intended to add a gymnasium, school of arms, shooting-gallery, and a covered skittle alley, all of which will be for the exclusive use of the soldiers of the garrison. Miss Florence Nightingale, who has always taken the most lively interest in every movement for the welfare of the troops, heads the list of subscribers with a donation of £25. A royal warrant regulating the number of black male servants, for the hire and maintenance of whom officers in certain stations within the tropics are entitled to allowances, has just been issued. The following is a summary :—General Garrison and Departmental Staff : General, and officers ranking as such, 7 ; lieutenant-general, 6 ; major-general, ; brigadier-general, 4 ; colonel, 4 ; lieutenant colonel, 2 ; major, 2 ; captain, 2; lieutenant, 1 ; en sign, 1. Regimental Officers : Field officer, 2 ; cap tain, 1 ; subaltern, 1 ; instructor of musketry, 2 ; paymaster, 1 ; adjutant, 2 ; sergeant-major or sur geon, 2 ; assist.-surgeon, 1 ; quartermaster, 2. The rate of allowance for each black male servant in the Windward and Leeward Island command, in Jamaica, and at Honduras, will be ls. 6d., and at the stations on the Western Coast of Africa, ls. a day. The object of this allowance being to prevent the employment of European soldiers in hot climates upon any duties not strictly military, officers commanding corps will be held responsible that European soldiers be not employed in any way as servants; and every officer drawing the said allowance for personal servants and no grooms will sign a declaration in su pp ort of his claim. Rations of provisions a re not to be issued from the public stores to the black male servants of officers unless their masters be employed in the against an enemy ; and while rations are so issued the value thereof, as fix ed b y the officer commanding on the station, shall be deducted from; the allow ance granted by th is regulation. The allowance will not be granted to officers of corps co m p ose d w holly of black soldiers, or partly of black soldiers and partly of Europeans, whether the officers be employed on the staff or not, provided any black soldiers of their corps be present on the same sta tion ; and no officer in a corps composed wholly or in part of black soldiers will be permitted to employ an European soldier as a servant. AN AERIAL INVASION OF SOUTH CAROLINA. — A descent has been made upon South Carolina. Professor T. S. C. Lowe, aeronaut, conducted the expedition, or rather, was unwillingly conducted by it. He is represented as stating that he ascended from Cincinnati on the 20th ult., and, after traversing the Cumberland mountains in the upper air, and a corner of Virginia, was carried by un controllable currents to the northern border of South Carolina, where his appearance excited the utmost con sternation. Some took him for the devil, some for old Abe himself, while the more superstitious made sure of the judgment day. The more courageous brought a field piece to bear on him, while he grappled a tree, the balloon swaying about in the manner peculiar to that contrivance when it is held and wants to go. Although he effected a parley by dint of vociferation, the story that he left Cincinnati nine hours before was by no means believed; he was not allowed to land, and hostilities were waived only on condition that he should take himself aloft. So he let go, and, slowly rising, threw out a sand bag, which the bystanders captured, firmly believing it to be his " baggage." As he went up and was wafted along various musket shots were fired at him, but without prick ing his silk. When he descended again, it was upon a comparatively unpopulated region—at least he was informed by " a stalwart-looking young woman, six feet high and well proportioned," that nearly all the men had gone to the war. This slender damse l was the only person who dared to approach and help hi m , as, on his grappling a scrub oak, the entire force on the plantation, consisting of "two boys, three old ladies, and three negroes," took to their heels and extemporised an immediate pray( r meeting in a log hut near by, under an unchangc able impression that the apparition was nothing less than the destroying angel. Lowe, however, with the assistance of his buxom ally, let out his gas, coaxed the frightened group out of the log house, and was getting hinge into compact shape, when a band of armed me n rushed up, who had been following him for several miles, and popping at his balloon as they went. These valiant fellows took him prisoner, and conducted him to the nearest jail ; but the jailer frantically refused to allow Lowe or his machine to come near the walls. A hotel was reached, however, where the publican was less scrupulous, and some persons of intelligence hearing of the matter, the aeronaut found bail. At Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, he was stopped again, and searched for de spatches, which it was shrewdly suspected he was con veying to somebody somewhere. But a sanhedrim of the literati, convoked at his request, were convinced of the harmles:ness of his errand, and a passport was finally fur • nished him. The story is a very good one —for the times; and if Professor Lowe was not a sort of Barnum in his way, and if we were not indebted to him for these par ticulars, we might believe as much of it as pleased us, — ,Are Zyrk TrOTO. I LITERATURE. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Long fellow. Including his translations and notes, illustrated with twenty-four engravings on wood from designs by Birket Foster, John Gilbert, G. H. Thomas, John Absolon, &c., &c. Henry G. Bohn, York-street, Covent-garden. This is an elegant edition of one of the most de lightful poets of our generation, whose works are ever potent, to charm, to influence, and to impress, who makes no pretensions to display, and affects no mystical grandeur of diction, but who has caught somewhat of the heaven-born spirit that is the vital breath, the native air of Poetry. Evangeline is the first subject met with, and it is a well-known legend by many a hearth, where it is a source of mingled interest and sadness, and leaves behind it in the memory a lingering echo as " Lengthened sweetness long drawn out." The " Voices of the Night" contain some of the choicest of the author's lyrics. Here we meet with the inimitable "Psalm of Life," that contains an epitome of the just man's existence, of the path he treads, that like the shining light is bright and brighter to the perfect day. Here, too, we find the beautiful poem, " The Reaper and the Flowers," that if words can ever avail to soothe or soften grief, may be cited as one of the best of poetic illustra trations of the happy fate of the innocents who are taken away. "It was for the Lord of Paradise, He bound them in his sheaves." No better explanation could be given of their gain to the parents who mourn their loss. "Flowers" is another charming piece t and the "Footsteps of Angels" is a truly poetic imagining, when the dreamer sees at twi light hour the spirits of the departed,— " He the young and strong who cherished, Noble longings for the strife By the wayside fell and perished Weary with the march of life, And with them, the being beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me And is now a Saint in Heaven." Some verses peculiarly appropriate at the present time is that entitled " The Warning" in the " Poems on Slavery." It is powerfully expressed and replete with solemn truths that should speak to the bigoted and benighted rulers of slaves in words of fire, and show them as the handwriting on the wall, the danger of their desperate course and its ultimate doom. THE WARNING. Beware I The Israelite of old who tore The lion in his path,—when, poor and blind, He saw the blessed light of heaven no more, Shorn of his noble strength and forced to grind In prison, and at last led forth to be A pander to Philistine revelry,— Upon the pillars of the temple laid His desperate hands, and in its overthrow Destroyed himself, and with him those who made A cruel mockery of his sightless woe ; The poor blind Slave, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall I There is a poor blind Samson in this land, Shorn of his strength and bound in bonds of steel, Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand, And shake the pillars of this Commonweal, Till the vast Temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. The New Examen ; or, An Inquiry into the Evidence Relating to Certain Passages in Lord Jilacaulay's _History. By John Paget, Barrister• at-law. William Blackwood and Sons, Edin burgh. These essays are five in number, and they are as follows—" The Duke of Marlborough," " The Massacre of Glencoe," " The Highlands of Scot land," "Viscount Dundee," and "William Penn." It is desirable to extract the following passage from the dedication :—" The following essays were, with the exception of the one on Viscount Dundee, published during the lifetime of the eminent historian to whose writings they refer." Having noticed most of these papers as they appeared in the pages of Blackwood': Magazine, it is not necessary to comment upon them now, and it will suffice to mention that they , are all written with great ability and display con siderable research. Many readers may be gratified at having an opportunity of perusing these essays in a collected form, and therefore this little volume will doubtless be well received, and considered as an advantageous addition to the critical works of the day. The author pays a just tribute to the merits of the late Lord Macaulay, which is satisfactory to meet with, as it proves that these strictures are not penned by one who is actuated by prejudice, nor unmindful of the high reputation of the subject of his criticisms, who was unsurpassed in many of his attempts and unequalled in others, while his name is indelibly stamped on the page that chronicles those who belong to all time. His errors may deserve the censure of critics in some cases, but his many excellences will far out weigh them in the judgment of the discerning intellects who now peruse his works, and this opinion will doubtless be ratified by their descen• (Islas to the range of a remote posterity. Sylvan Holt's Daughter, By Holme Lee, author of " Kathie Brande," etc., etc. A New Edition. Smith and Elder. This is another of the cheap editions of works of merit that is being brought out by Smith and Elder. It is written by an author whose produc tions have ever been favourably received by the public. Though not perhaps equal to Holme Lee's earlier works " Sylvan Holt's Daughter" has much to attract and interest the reader, and the character of the warm-hearted and unsophisticated heroine is fresh and original. We commend it to the notice of all who prefer simple domestic narratives to high-flown romance and extravagant tragedy. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Notwithstanding that the supply of English wheat on sale here to-day was on the usual limited scale, the trade, generally, was in a very sluggish state. Fine parcels realised Monday's quotations ; but inferior qualities sold at Irregular currencies. We were well supplied with foreign wheat, and the trade ruled heavy for all descriptions, at barely late rates. Floating cargoes of grain were dealt in to a limited ex tent, at about previous quotations. Malting barley was tolerably firm in value ; but grinding qualities were rather cheaper. The malt trade was firm, and prices were fairly sup ported. Oats, however, owing to the large importation, were a dull inquiry, and 6d. to is. per quarter cheaper than on Monday last. BeanEVmaintain previoes rates; but peas were a slow in.' quiry, on former terms. All kinds of flour moved off heavily, and prices had a downward tendency. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Eng1i5h........ 770 i 40 1 2,410 5O I 1,190 Irish F0reign........ 33,11 0 4 , 790 , --47, , 740 1 270 sacks 40,780 brie. NEWGATE - AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale here are large, and, owing to the unfavourable weather, the trade is in a sluggish state at barely late rates. Per Slb. by the carcase. sdsdl a d s d Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 4 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 41 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Prime large do. 3 6 3 8 Veal 4 0 4 8 Do. small do. .. 3 10 4 0 Small pork .... 4 6 4 10 Large pork .... 4 0 4 4 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 8 BOROUGH HOP . Fine hops continue firm at full prices, but all inferior parcels are a heavy sale, and in some instances the quota tions are with difficulty su pp or ted. The duty has been done at i‘s L iui 1 8.1 5 o x , °Cl° and East Kent pocket s 80 s to 200 s per cwt. Weald s 6os 168 s • 60s 126 s Yearlings ....... COLONIAL. TEA.—At public sale Assam qualities were in demand at full rates, but other descriptions barely sustained former prices. SEGAII.—For good grocery descriptions there has been a fair inquiry on the part of the trade; other qualities, however, were rather cheaper. In the refined market fully late rates have been supported. COFFEE.—The demand for good and fine qualities of plantation Ceylon has been active, and prices have been well sustained ; other qualities, however, have slightly given way in prices. RICE.—The market has been dull, and holders having pressed sales prices have slightly given way. SALTPETRE. —Only limited dealings have been reported, and prices have shown no change of importance. TALLaw.—A steady business has been done, chiefly for home consumption. 1".Y.C., on the spot, 58s, and last three months 54s 6d to 55s per cwt. PROCLAMATION REGARDING THE AMERICAN WAR.—On Wednesday the proclamation issued by her Majesty warning British subjects against any complicity in the civil war in America, was declared at the Cross of Edin burgh. The heralds were accompanied by an escort of the 26th Regiment, and the reading of the proclamation, which occupied nearly half an hour, was witnessed by a large as semblage of people. THE LATE ELOPEMENT.--A correspondent of the Hereford Journal writes :—" I think you have been a little mis-informed in your account of an elopment in the West of England. The gay Lothario is not the son of a noblil earl connected with Yorkshire, but of the lord lieutenant of a county not very far from where the affair took place. Nor was there any ' elopement ;' but in consequence of certain discoveries, the injured husband refused to receive the lady into his house, and the gallant admirer has been under the disagreeable necessity of escorting her to her friends in ire land."