The Sun. — London, England, 1861-06-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE' 20, 1861. VOCAL ASS against TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR, and of Mr. SPEAKER, thinking it therefore best for him to give the House an opportunity of trying its hand at the work again, by giving his vote to the NOES. The hon. gentleman, carefully explain ing that he did not say no, to the bill, but to the responsibility of a final decision. But when we have all had our pleasant laugh, we can but begin to ask what does it all mean ? But a year or two ago we had a majority of seventy or more for the same bill. What is become of it ? Is it the Tory reaction—the CECIL and MONTAGU reaction ? Not exactly ; rather the DERBY-DISRAELI Parliament, and the CECIL and MONTAGU whip. The truth is that the last election gave us a Parliament much more favourable to the Ministers who called it; and that the OEMS and MONTAGUS first whipped Mr. DISRAELI back to uncompromising Toryism, and then whipped up the county members and the clergy : The majority of seventy has hardly suffered at all by defection, but it has been met by activity on the otner side. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S army is as large as ever, but his opponents have brought up their reserves. Till the recent clerical effort began, a large number of the better Tory members could not be got to vote or even to pair. But the Church-rate question is now made a party one, it is even re garded as lying in the road to office, and therefore clerical importunity, combined with party zeal, have enabled th e Tories to bring up th e i r per functory ones, and to balance the scales. But what is the battle now really for? Gl anc i ng over the debate it strikes us, as it must every man with his eyes open, that the real victory is gained. May we not say that not a single opposition vote last night was a cote for Church-rates — as they are, not a vote for Church-rates for Church Rates such as have been at tacked so vigorously for the last quarter of a century. When the battle has brought things to this that every enemy wants to make terms, the final triumph cannot be long delayed. The struggle was really last night, first and chiefly a party one; next, so far as the subject itself was concerned, a struggle not to keep the old position, but to be allowed to retire from it with the honours of war. The discreditable pretence that the Church of Eng land really needed the penny and twopenny rates was hardly even mentioned on one side ; while Mr. BRIGHT and Sir G. C. LEWIS on the other equally denied that the pence were the cause of the Anti-Church - bate agitation. But what was said was, that the Church of England could not descend ti the level of a sect, which she would do if she gave up compulsory po wers o f parish taxation ; and in reply, that Nonconformists were galled, not with the weight of the pecuniary yoke, but with its being a Church yoke. There can he no doubt that this is the pith of the whole case. It would be sheer hypocrisy for any member of the Church of England to pretend that every parish in the kingdom could not, either itself, or by the aid of wealthy neighbours,meet the expenses of its own worship; but we fear it would be equal hypocrisy to deny an -uncenfessed, or hardly con fessed, pleasure in imposing a tax on Dissenter!, such as the Turkish Mahomedans used to impose on Christiaes. The Church-rate is a kind ( f Ifaratch—a tiibutepalpably showing the inferiority of those who pay it. Ever since the times of CHARLES 11., of pious memory, the Puritan dogs The Bankruptcy Bill we have all of us been look. ing forward to eagerly this Session as to our one legislative consolation. If in nothing else, we have thought, the Session of 1861 would, at any rate, be productive of good to the entire community, more particularly to the mercantile community, by' securing the readjust ment of the hitherto confused and unsatisfactory laws relating to Bankruptcy and Insolvency. In the scanty programme for the session vouchsafed, at its opening, by her MAJESTY'S Ministers, the Bankruptcy Bill was visible there, from the first at a glance, conspicuously and encouragingly. Hearten ing us to count, at the very least, upon the all but certainty of securing that boon during this year's sitting of Parliament, the Attorney. General intro duced his measure very speedily after the first as sembling of the Lords and Commons down a West minster. Not only thus, however, did Sir RICHARD BETIIELL lead us to calculate confidently upon securing the effectual reconsideration and recon struction upon an entirely new basis of the jumbled laws of Bankruptcy and Insolvency—the First Law Officer of the Crown appeared in a measure to make " assurance doubly sure," in that particular, by moderating in that direction his energetic efforts at legislative improvement. Attempting far less than he had attempted in the Session of 1860, he seemed all the more likely, of course, to be able to carry his point, so far as he attempted to carry it. There were, consequently, these three considerations dis tinetly in his favour—first of all, the considera tion that there was really so little to do otherwise this year in the Legislature—secondly, that the Bill itself was i ntroduced betimes—and thirdly, and finally, that it was cha rac t er i se d i n i tse lf b y th e evidences of gre a t moderation. The future not unnaturally, therefore, looked Propitious enough for the Bankruptcy Bill at the moment of its original introduction. And the Comm ons • welcomed the new bill accordingly. Without anything at all like precipitation or carelessness, on'the e au trary, with evidence of careful scrutiny and deliberate: premeditation , glibly the Bill was passed on premeditation , through its several stages, here and there amended and modified while going, clause by clause, through C om mittee—until, stamped w ith the approbation of *e, it was sen on the popular branch of the Le g' slatarwas hop t ed for for further consideration , and it further approbation to the Upper (louse of Parlia ment. Bill The reception awarded to the Bankruptcy in the Lords has long since been matter at once of anxiety and notoriety. Scarcely had it appeared there when it began to be very seriously threatened. It was eventually referred, as we all know, to a Select Committee. Having been brought 1 up again (together with a report) from that Select Committee, the Bill, " ticked" with suggested ha provements, or at least we will say with suggested alterations, has at length passed through its remaining stages in the House of Lords, and is now referred back by the Lords to the Commons in its altered. condition, as emended in compliance with the suggestions of the Lords' Select Committee. Naturally, very naturally, Sir RICHARD BETHEL'' , has already avowed his excessive annoyance at the wholesale character of the alterations thus made by the Lords in his projected consolidation of the have paid tribute to the State Ulemahs, and the Laws of Bankruptcy and Insolvency. The surrender of that tribute, not its paltry amount, is Attorney-General expressed this vexation of his, what pro-rate Churchmen really feel. How long in point of fact, so eagerly and precipitately the and hardly feudalism fought for the privilege of other evening that he was ouse called of to " order" was for freedom from taxation — for the honour of it, not so doing—seeing that the H Commons for the money. Different only in form is the present not supposed at the time to be aware of the contest on the part of Churchmen. They all want a decision arrived at, in tis matter of the Bankruptcy com promise, foreseeing that the settlement must Bill, by the other branch of the Imperial Legisla come, but they want one which sha ll not diminish tore. Since then the Bill has been read a third compromise , their prestige. They must have the name of rate— time by the Lords, and passed. This occurred, the parochial forms of levying and collecting it—and in fact, during the sitting of Tuesday evening. compulsory powers against somebody, even if it be And it is worthy of particular notice at this against Churchmen Churchmen themselves ; they cannot con- cal period, both in the progress of the Bill and in sent to be placed on . a level with ignored outsiders,. the advancement of the Session, that the all but to make collections and contributions amongst unan imous feeling of the great legal luminaries who spoke u on thisquestion in the Lords on Tues . themselves only, like Dissenters, M et h o di s ts, and p q " Foams." They so love the name of rate that they day evenin, is to the effect that the Bill, as Forams." e me would rather pay the same a mount under that name, emended in s he Lords at the instance of the Select than as a freewill offering—just as there are tens of Committee, ought to be accepted in its new form thousands of liberal and well off Dissenters who, by the Attorney-General and perfected into an while they resent a Church Bate would readily enactment before the close of the session, with the give double the sum out of th e same neighbourly concurrent support of her MAJESTY'S Government. feeling which leads different sects of dissenters to Lord BROUGHAM, whose opinion to this effect is a help each other. Tower of Strength to the amenders of Sir RICHARD But if the desire to maintain the forms of supe. BETHELL'S measure, Lord BROUGHAM led off the riority is so strong on the part of chart hmen, discussion by avowing it as his opinion "that equally strong i s the feeling of diss e n ters against thou g h the bill might not contain all that some their continuance: Hence the soul of the resistance people might wish to find, still it would be a most to many of the compromises. The exemptions for valuable measure." The noble and learned lord Dissenters, which the opposition is willing to con- further expressing "his earnest hope, and, indeed, cede, are all so contrived as to affirm his confident expectations, that, whatever differ superiority on the part of the Church, and ences of opinion might exist on the subject, the and to affix a stigma on dis sen t. The Church amendments which ha d been made n That, r the B el i s presumed to have a natural or a national right would be accepted by the other House. i to tax; the nonconformist is to be exempt just as a collect—from Lord BROUGHAM ! The noble earl blind, a lame, an under-aged, or over-aged person the leader of Her MAJESTY'S Opposition imme might be exempt from serving in the militia. diately afterwards explained, that although the Dissenters resent being put in a list of persons let modifications adventured upon by the Lords, at the off from what th e laws deal with as a national duty. instance of the Select Committee, were many of If the State, they say, holds it the duty of all per- them, undoubtedly, most important, the leading sons to support one particular mode of worship, we principles of the measure were still left in their full do not want to shirk any State duty ; but we hold integrity untouched. sacrifice of the mass, or the silent worship of the In point of fact , t he three cons p icuous les comprised within this remarkable the Quaker, or the psalm-singing of the Meeting princip House, to be worthy of equal honour from the State measure remain, beyond a doubt, unaltered with the Liturgy of the Prayer-Book ; and, as you by the Lords, uninterfered with in any way by the will not give a compulsory rate for all, we demand Lords' Select Committee. First of all—the that the the last should not be honour ed above the rest gamation of Bankruptcy and Insolvency ! Secondly —the obliteration henceforth of all distinctions of us. Is is not, however, a great weakness for the hitherto subsisting between traders and non- Church of England to be in such terror of the word traders ! Thirdly—the extension to the already —sect 1' It is useless to ignore the fact:that she is hard-worked County Courts of bankruptcy jurisdic but one sect among many. She is a sect in general tion. Objections there were to these last two prin- Christendom, for the Roman Catholic Church and ciples, objections recognised and articulated both in the Greek Church each out-number her. She is a the Lords and in the Select Committee. But in spite very modern sect even in these kingdoms. She is, of that—they have been left thus in this Bill, as we indeed, but one of several State Churches. In Eng- have said, unaltered in any way whatever. The land itself she is but the largest sect ; and principal changes adventured uponin the Lords being were she not held together by law and statute, the on the other hand—FiChie rstly, the rejection Cour of the present divisions of High Church and Low Church, appointment of the f Judge of the tof Broad Church, Essayists and Puseyites, would soon Bankruptcy ! Secondly, the Committee, first of all, show that the Church itself—that which bears the and the Lords afterwards, struck out certain provi general name—is but anumber of sects held together sions relative to the duties of the official assignees by the golden chain of emolument, and the more and the creditors' assignees ! Thirdly, they swept sentimental ties of aristocratic position. aside, among other provisions deemed by them to Our conclusion from the whole is that like the be injudicious, those necessitating the employment Paper Duties, be it reasonable or unreasonable, the of t short-han writers ! Besides which a uced into clause of Rate must go at last. It may be fou g ht off fora co iderable d i m portance has time ; the hope of a comprom ise ma y be g uile many the Bill in its altered form, preventing the retro worthy folk till it is seen that every one which can spective operation of the law upon non-traders—a be proposed does not affect the kernel of the agita- class, it should be remembered, now, for the first tion. But Religious equality is the demand at the time, Made subject to the law of bankruptcy. bottom, and it must succeed. In England at the Altogether therefore the changes suggested by present age nothing can resist it. Men in the Lords' Select Committee, and adventured upon daily life, laugh now at the once dreaded by the Lords themselves, though various and un words heretic, excommunication, dissenter! No man doubtedly important, are not by any means of that can leek another in the face and tell him, because root and branch kind that the Attorney-General I accept the thirty-nine articles and you do not, I apparently deems them to be. Lord GRANVILLE as have therefore a right to the policeman's services to Leader of the House, and the Lord Chancellor in his extort money for my worship, while your's must capacity as Chairman of the House of Lords, and in get on how it can. We regard, therefore , t he pre. his supreme character as the first of al l our j udicial sent display of votes for Church-rates as one having authorities, were the only dissentients who uttered no basis in the intelligence of the day—as a meteor one syllable on Tuesday evening in depreciation of generated in the stagnant and decaying notions of the amendments introduced into the Bill o not could f the At a past age, destined only to flash for a moment , and torney-General. The Earl of GRANVI soon to vanish for ever. allow them to be Amendments. The Lord Chan cellor was especially angry at the striking out of the Bill, contrary to his advice in Committee of the suggested new Chief Judgeship in the re constructed Court of Bankruptcy. But besides Lord BROUGHAM'S authoritative voice, there were raised loudly and earnestly in favour of the acceptance of the Bankruptcy Bill, as amended, the voices of Lord OVERSTONE, who pro nounced a panegyric upon the Select Committee — of Lord LYVEDEN, who pronounced the changes made as all of them very beneficial—of Lord WENS LEYDALE, who enforced the claims of the Select Committee for commendation rather than for blame! And prior to the last mentioned noble and learned lord, the voice also of Lord CRANWORTII was heard on Tuesday, insisting that really and truly, after all that had been said about it, the only substantial alteration in principle that had been adventured upon by the Lords, at the suggestion of the Select Committee, was this—that the management and collection of the funds of the creditors are made to remain still, as they have remained now for thirty years past (thanks to Lord BROUGHAM), in the hands of the official assignees : thus entrusting " the administration of the estate to a person who has no interest in concealing anything, and who will expose alike the delinquencies of the creditor and of the debtor." Everything considered, then, we do earnestly hope that upon mature reflection the Attorney-General will decide not to throw overboard the Bankruptcy Bill—in dudgeon at the Lords' Emendations. Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, has been invited to distribute the prizes on Saturday next to the suc cessful pupils of the school frigate Conway, in connection with the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool. --- FATAL ACCIDENT WHILE BATHING IN THE THAMES.—A fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon, between the 'hours of one and two, to a lad named John Emms, residing at 2, Lovelace-court, Strand, while bathing in the river Thames near the Adelphi steamboat-pier. It appears that be got out of his depth, and being unable to swim he was drowned before his companions could reach him. - • --- The Italie of Turin gives the following descrip tion of the seal of the Bourbonist committee at Rome. It is circular, and its surface is divided into three pacts b y two concentric circles. In the outer ring formed by the latter, bonito). In the we readthe;o7ds•. Associazione religiosa—Direz - Generale C. (meaning ring lone Generale d C.B. (which stands for Comitato Dot.. for the County the figure of the Pope crowning there are the words : Segretario of T ti r g e Clary)—Presidento A. (which stands In the central circle there is Tuesd o a LuNTEER.—HARIVIC 11, To n A in v g the es-Bing of Naples. FATAL ACCIDENT M Garland, the a m bl e silver cup for an accident of a He had Wednesday, Noon.—On most lamentable nature happened lord of the manor, bad offered a hanedvso he was competition among the members of the and a preliminary meeting fir ball practicenwteietrh Artillery, ordi nary carbine took place upon the shore off Do t v h e : rocnmorf t, Mr. Henry Cox, a young man of 19, and the only highly esteemed roun dsanNsd' idhoaldv ni l lady, was severalwas ef rthoeinptsa,rt3. when ordered again to advance in his proper turn. The mom en t e, he stepped from the ran ks his carbine went off fell at the feet of one of his comrades. It is needless to say that the greatest alarm was occasioned. When he was raised it was discovered that the ball had entered the neck immedi ately behind the right ear, and escape d through the back part of the skul l, w h ich was dre adfull y shattered. Death had been instantaneous. The body was immediately re moved to a farmhouse close by. The cause of ibis melan choly occurrence has not been definitively ascertained, but it is conjectured that the young man,who was firing for the first time, had imprudently brought his firelock up to full cock before the proper time, and touched the trigger with , his trousers. The last concert for the season of this association took place last evening, and concluded a series of entertainments which have given great satisfaction to crowded audiences. The first concert of the series probably presented rather too heavy and monotonous a programme, but M. Benedict promptly perceived the mistake, and arranged all that have followed with acute taste and discrimination. A variety of first class artistes—both vocal and instrumental, choice old madrigals and part songs, rounds, classical music, and a light sprinkling of the popular melodies of the day, drew large and delighted audiences. The performances of last evening presented rather more than usual to elicit applause and admiration. Bach's fine chorale, " God is Our Refuge in Dis ken," was sung by the choir, and most perfectly and effectively given, though executed for the first time. A rapturous encore was bestowed on the duet from " II Barbiere," " All idea di quel rnetallo," which received great justice from Signor Belart and Signor Belletti. Miss Mangold'• per formance on the pianoforte was of a character to call forth unbounded applause. Her touch and expression indicate the possession of great natural talent, well cultivated, and give her a place among our leading pianists. The trio " Papataci" from " L'ltaliana in Algeri" was perhaps never better sung than by Signori Belart, Garcia, and Belletti. The audience thoroughly ap preciated and enjoyed it, bestowing a:warm encore. The favourite aria ." Non piu mesta," sung by Madlle. Anna Whitty, was enthusiastically re-de manded, and we may warmly congratulate this charming singer on the purity of her voice and the spirit of her execution. A French air, "La Mallon," with words by Lamar tine, sung by Signor Giuglini, elicited great applause, most deservedly; and Miss Stabbach was quite at home in Haydn's canzonet, "My Mother bids me bind my hair." The harp per formance of Mr. Aptommas was something truly exquisite. We have never heard this instrument yield more entrancing melody than it did beneath his magic power, and the delight expressed by the listeners bore ample testimony to the skill of the gifted player, The numerous " Part Songs" and " Chorales" given by the choir were, as usual, well and equally sustained, reflecting the greatest credit on the conductor. The Hall was very crowded with a brilliant and fashionable audience, whose approbation gave full assurance that the Vocal Association Concerts will maintain a lasting and high character among our musical entertainments. We see that M. Benedict's Concert takes place on Monday morning, June 24, and the rich treat promised in the programme will doubtless secure him the warm patronage which his genius and abours so greatly merit. AMENITIES OF LITE.RATUBB. Athenceum Office, June 19, 186 Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon presents his compli ments to the Editor of The Sun, and would be much obliged by his publishing the enclosed cor• respondence in to•morrow's impression : "To W. HEPWORTH DIXON, Esq., Editor of the Athenceum. " Sir,—l am aware that you wrote the critique on my book in last Saturday's Atheneum, which I consider per sonally offensive. As two-thirds of the London press have already recorded opinions in the highest degree flattering, 1 could well have afforded to treat with contempt the ill-con ditioned snarliugs of a single literary Gorilla ;' but when a Reviewer indulges in flippant impertinences upon the cha racter and feelings' of an author, instead of confining him self to the merits of the work before him, he sometimes lays himself open to unpleasant consequences. I, therefore, give you fair warning that unless you take the opportunity now afforded by the issue of a second edition to make the amende,l shall do myself the pleasure of horsewhipping you the first time that I meet you in public, and then hand you over to the tender mercies of Mr. Alfred Austin, whose attentions are likely to be equally unpleasant. I shall con sider this note private until the 22d ; and remain, sir, your most obedient humble servant, "THE AUTHOR OF PUCK ON PEGASUS. " Conservative Club, June 18." "Atheneum Office, June 19. " Sir, —I have received your disgraceful letter, to which I shall of course immediately give the publicity it deserves. In the meantime I have communicated with the police authorities, who will take effectual measures to prevent your committing the outrage threatened.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "W. HEPWORTH DIXON. "To H. CholmondeleY Pennell, Esq., Conservative Club." DUII 7 PAID BY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. A Parliamentary return has just been issued showing the amount of duty paid by the fire insurance companies of the United Kingdom. From this document it appears that the sums paid by the London offices stand as follows, when arranged in the order of their respective totals : DUTY PAID BY TILE LONDON OFFICES DURING THE General £17,013 Unity Royal Farmers 12,302 Hand-in-Hand Law Union State 5,697 Church of England 5,370 Equitable United Kingdom Provident 1,398 Emperor Preserver . 24 YEAR 1860. Sun £216,275 Phoenix 138,578 Royal Exchange 86,682 County 70,473 Imperial Alliance Globe Atlas.. 245 727 _ __ Law Guardian 34,172 London Assurance 33,620 Westminster Union DUTY PAID BY THE COUNTRY OFFICES, INCLUDING SCOTCH AND IRISH, DURING THE YEAR 1860. Norwich Union £82,300 Liverpool and Lon don ... 60,952 West of England ... 59,856 Royal Manchester Leeds and Yorkshire 27,5 88 Lancashire Yorkshire 22,870 Birmingham ..... 15,925 Kent 15,601 Birmingham District 8,998 Essex and Suffolk Provincial 6,594 Queen Midland Counties Nottingham and National .. 6,948 Derbyshire From the above it appears that the London offices have contributed £964,970 ; the country offices, £469,756; Scotch, £110,647 ; and Irish, £13,212, making in the ag gregate the sum of £1,558,585. The same return shows that the total sum insured in the year 1860 on farming stock (which is exempt from duty) in England and Wales was £63,963,073 ; in Scotland, £6,300,772 ; and in Ireland, £1,046,053 —making a total of £73,302,898. Salop £4,088 Newcastle-up.-Tyne 3,782 Sheffield ... 3,635 Norwich Equitable Hants, Sussex, and Dorset Shropshire and North Wales .. 2,061 SCOTCH Scottish Union 32,001 North British Northern Caledonian Scottish Provincial lO,OBl National .. IRISH. THE RECENT ANTI-SLAVE TRADE CONFERENCE. I —We are requested to state that the Anti-Slave Trade Con ference, held at Lord Brougham's on Saturday last, did not adopt a resolution recommending the suspension of diplo matic intercourse with Spain. The resolution was discussed in committee, but not proposed to the conference. BRITISH WOOL —Yesterday Mr. Caird, M.P., read at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England a very interesting paper upon British wool. He remarked that, although there had been an im mense increase in the importation from foreign countries and the colonies during the last 20 years, the rearing of sheep for the production of British wool continued to be one of the most profitable branches of our industry. Within the period referred to there had been, no doubt, in the imports from Spain and Germany a diminution of about 4,000,0001 b., but at the same time, to compensate for this, there had been an increase from Russia, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Portugal of no less than 20,000,0001 b. There had been an increase within this period, in round numbers, from Australia of from 13,000,0001 b. to 54,000,0001 b., from South Africa of from 1,000,0001 b. to 14,000,0001 b., from the East Indies of from 4,000,0001 b. to 14,000,0001 b. At home the increase in the amount of wool produced was equally remarkable. In 1342 the home-grown wool did not exceed 100,000,0001 b. It now amounted tl 120,000,0001 b. There had been, in short, an augmented supply of wool to the ex tent of nearly 7.5 cent. It had not been followed by any diminution of price to the home producer. Now, the countries in which the production of wool is likely to in crease most rapidly—viz., Australia, the East Indies, South SouthA on f p r ti i oni ca co , on a m nd eattitt ihoneßritish he 01 America, are all uns uitable to the pro duction of the lustrous long wools for which there is a great demand. Th e B r iti s h i s lands supply this wool in the greatest quantity. They may be almost said to have a monopoly of it, an d th ere ar c to countries which can enter i production weosuto ol cross r, a L h s s o that t d could muchc easd e Leicester rsa bepossible, with t w m o .:T ro n w e e r ai s r h d ou i l s d therefore aeveiop e of its e ,ssible, and he thinks the supply may be increased by g oo d f ar ming and liberal feeding. The o b obtainedai t n w present hiehb yb the o using sadoptedi desirable g the o n q suu qualities ltiatbi elimproved Lincoln es of length, lustre, strength, and fineness of wool seemed to bo best combined, T. JAMES'S LATEST NEWS. .4)- FRANCE AND SARDINIA. The rumour that the annexation of the Island of Sardinia to France, in return for France's recog nition of the Italian kingdom of Victor Emmanuel, is decided on, is current in the French Ministerial departments. PARIS, JUNE 20: Judgment was given yesterday evening in the affair of the Montle newspaper. The charges of insult and libel brought against he proprietors were admitted by the tribunal. M. Taconet was fined 500 f., and M. Crampon was sentenced to 15 days' imprisonmeLt and a fine of 500 f. VIENNA, TuNz 20. The Vienna papers of today assert that in the last Ministerial Council it was resolved that the address of the Hungarian Diet should not be ac cepted, and that the Municipality of Pesth should be dissolved. PARIS, JUNE 19 (Evening.) The Pattie of this evening says :—" We are enabled to guarantee the incorrectness of the state ment that the priest who administered the last sacraments to Count Cavour either obtained or demanded a retraction of his acts and opinions." TURIN, JUNE 19. The Turin papers of to•day publish despatches from Florence, dated the 18th inst., stating that on the previous day some journeymen bakers at tempted to get up a manifestation, with the object of obtaining an increase of wages, The coalition did not, however, succeed. VIENNA, JUNE 19, In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Council of the Empire, the Minister of State announced that he was authorised by the Emperor to declare the bill proposed in the Provincial Diet of the Tyrol against the emancipation of the Pro testants to be inadmissible. THORN, JUNE 19, ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 19, The statutes of the future Council of State for Poland were published yesterday at Warsaw. The military have been withdrawn from the streets and public squares. The Ressource Club was reopened yesterday, and the theatre on Saturday. The Northern Bee of to-day says :—" Up to the end of May last insurrections of peasants had taken place in 141 villages of Podolia, containing altogether a population of 71,000. These disturb ances arose from a wrong interpretation of the imperial ordinances. Order has now been re established." BERLIN, JUNE 19. There is not the least foundation for the report of a resignation of the Prussian Cabinet. FRANCE. The report of the Commission on the Bill for re cruiting the army next year has been communicated to the Legislative Body by Baron Jerome David. It states that 100,000 men are to be drawn for, who attained the ag e of 21 during the present year. This number, which is called the normal contingent for a peace establishment, is represented to be about as onerous a charge upon the population as was the eon tingent of 80,000 men under the Government of Louis Philippe. In 1832 France contained 32,000,000 of inhabitants. The contingent of 80,000 therefore took one man for every 400 inhabitants. In 1861 France contains upwards of 38,000,000 of inhabitsnts ; consequently one man out of every 400 inhabitants will give a contingent of 95,000. A contingent of 100,000 men will keep the army effective at 600,000, which is equalled or exceeded by the great Powers. Baron David says, " But I apprehend the gentleman must be very much mis taken, for although Austria may equal and Russia surpass, perhaps, this number on paper, in cluding frontier sedentary forces and military colonies, neither of them has anything like the effective army of France." The pretext for aug menting the annual levy by 20,000 men during peace is sufficiently original to merit notice. From the 100,000 men obtained annually by conscription, 5,000 are to be transferred to the navy, to serve during the whole of the seven years ; 5,000 are dispensed with as belonging to public services (maritime inscription, public instruction, theological seminaries, ite.) ; 18,100 are allowed to purchase exemption at £lOO each, and who are therefore replaced on the ranks by the substitutes, who receive a portion of the " smart" money ; 1000 are exempted from service as being necessary to support their families ; and 2,500 are presumed to die, to be found incapable, or to desert. There will then remain 64,100 men available from the contingent for the annual recruitment of the army. The Donawerth screw liner has also arrived from Beyrout, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chopart, and with troops on board. The Rodeur has arrived at Toulon, after having deposited 200,000 young oysters along the coast. She is under orders for Corsica, where the same operation will be repeated. BOURSE, June 19. Business continues in the same inanimate state, but prices without any mate rial change. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f. 85c. Railway shares also quiet. The follow ing are the last quotations :- 41, per per Cents ... 96 70; Credit Fonder lOOO Do. end month.... 96 80 j Belgian 41 99 75 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 801 Roman Bank Shares 2905 —1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 697 30 Spanish Threes — Do. Account .. 7OO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1360 .. 1361 25 Northern New ditto B9O .. 890 Lyons and Mediterranean 940 .. 942 50 Geneva 4OO .. 398 75 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard . 493 75 .. 495 CARELESS NURSES.—A most deplorable scene took place on Monday evening in front of the parade at Eastbourne. A nursemaid had been sent out by Mr. Cook, of Cavendish-place, in charge of her little twins, a boy and a girl, aged about a year and a half. One of these was carried in arms, and the other wheeled in a perambulator. Express instructions were given that the children's walk should be confined to a shady neighbouring lane, which order the girl directly disobeyed by proceeding to the sea wall parade. It was high water, and a strong east wind was bringing in a heavy swell. At the narrowest part of the walk the girl let go her hold of the perambulator, in which was the little boy, and probably impelled by the wind, it ran headlong over the edge of the wall, and was swept out by a retiring wave. All within hearing immediately gathered at the spot, and many efforts to catch the carriage with the poor child, as it was tossed to and fro, were earnestly made. Especially a soldier, named Cannon, of the Met Regiment, manfully plunged into the waves, and nearly succeeded in grasping the infant, who was now de tached from the perambulator. The brave fellow was, however, too exhausted to accomplish his humane pixpose, and ultimately struggled alone to the shore. The child was at last caught by the vigorous exertion of Mr, Brown, a n ei g hbour, and a good swimmer. No injury appeared to have been caused by the mere fall, and the poor little thing was heard to scream when in the water, but all the con tinued efforts that were made by medical skill to revive it were unavailing. It was drowned. The distraction of the poor mother, who rushed to the scene, was heartrending : and, indeed, there were few who did not share her extreme distress, for the sight of the poor infant and its tiny car riage tossed to and fro by the powerful waves, alternately appearing and disappearing, was most harrowing. Great sympathy is felt for the family, T HEATR tY.w-ROYAL, H AYMARKET. e e, Mr. J. B. Bv.ekstone. Tins EV - E NING. the performances will oommence with the Comedy of THE OVERLA.ND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. M a thews, Bueksto ne, E. Villiers, Rogers, &c. ; Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. And THE GALICIAN FETE. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris. Followed by THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Messrs. Phelps, Vezin, Widdicombe, &c. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. - Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Reproduction of "The Colleen Bawn." The Adelphi "Census" every Evening. THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford. After which (211th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boueicault, D. fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, 'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS. Messrs. J. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Chorne, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half past B—Commence at 1. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS CERT S AND FINE ARTS GALLE RY. EVERY EVENING, Two Grand Selections from ce l e brated Operas. including Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced In England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled?at any:other Concerts. Miss Russell, Miss Ernst Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); c ontinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The Comic Department comprises the following, favourites : —Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence. Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. THE NERVES, a Comic Duet, by Messrs. Harvey and French, EVERY EVENING. T H E 0 XFOR D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. Mr. LEvy, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (o n the most complete scale) from Dinorah, Martha , Strad ella, Aze., and other and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart, and Miss Ernst, Messrs. C%arles Greville, Fornarir , Kimber ley, Bernard, Beaumont Bervon, finish, Signo Tivoli,and Mr. Henry Herbert, with full ban d and powerful and selected chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonc,,;hmßlanchard, ans.—TheW. 11 foll 'me. owing Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. . land, .Hollingsworth, E. Marshall. Harvey, and French, and the Brothers Conrad in their latest and be net ;st entertainment, every evening. Admission, Hall , mxPe Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY. —Morning, 11h. 36m.—Afternoon, 12. M, TO-1&011B.OW.-110111111g, 12h. 13m.—Afternoon, 12h. 38m, TUB WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 20, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday.. 58—lowest this morning and during the night. - 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.98 ; falling. WlND—Easterly—light ; with dull rainy weather, and occasional glimpses of sunshine. HALF -PAST ONE.—Wind, S.E., with very sultry weather and hot sunshine. Thermometer, 72 in the shade. Heavy white clouds, portending a thunderstorm. QUARTER TO Two.—Very heavy rain and a thunder storm, with vivid sheets of lightning. 2.10.—1 t is all sunshine again. The wind has gone to S.W., and the heavy torrents of rain have washed the streets of London E o thoroughly that they look as clean as a man-of-war's quarter-deck. erp• , • ' THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1881. PALEY tells us that one use of our House of Commons is to furnish the people with amusement, —he would have been willing to pay all his share of the public taxes for the pleasure which Le re ceived from the public discussion of political mat ters. The House certainly performed that part of its duty well last night. The debate, for a topic so well worn, was far from an uninteresting one, and we can hardly imagine a man of any party, not even of that which may be regarded as the losing _me, who was so sour by nature as not to laugh when he read of TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN TT-FOUR 'OCIA7 lON, THE CAL CUT: 'TA, CHINA AND AUS. TRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy por• tion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 193 passengers, 1,164 packages cargo, two boxes speoie, jewellery (70,000), precious stones value 3,500 rupees, rubies 350 rupees, musk 4,236 rupees, and a diamond value £9,053 rupees. Her Majesty's ships Liffey, Scourge, Terrible, London, and Medina were at Malta; at Gibraltar the Racoon and St. Jean d'Acre. Her Majesty's ship Argus left Gibraltar for Eng and on the 12th inst. Intelligence from Tan gier states that the difficulty between Spain and Morocco had not been arranged. The Moorish Alcaid of Tetuan, who lately went to Madrid, has been appointed Spanish Vice-Consul at Tetuan, not only as a recompense for his ser vices, but also to protect him against the resent ment of his country men on the evacuation of that city by the Spaniards. The British ships—brig Diana, 16 days from Swansea; steamer Meander, 5 days from Liver pool ; steamer Newburn, 17 days from London ; schooner Mischief, 10 days from Swansea ; barque Julia,l9 days from Liverpool ; brigantine Catherine, 13 days from Cardiff; schooner Nancy, 13 days from Swansea ; schooner Margaret, 18 days from Newcastle ; schooner Valga, 11 days from Tyne mouth ; schooner Laxey Mines, 15 days from Swan sea ; schooner Sarah, 8 days from Liverpool ; schooner Margaret, 10 days from Cardiff; schooner Zephyr, 11 days from Liverpool; steamer Bceotia, 51 days from Liverpool ; steamer Manly Hill, 8 days from Newport ; schooner William Henry, 12 days from Liverpool; and steamers Syrian and Orontes, 6 days from Liverpool—had severally arrived out at Gibraltar. Gibraltar exchanges and freight, on the 14th inst., remained without alteration. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. 131TERIA.L WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 53s 9d, barley, 348 3d ; oats, 25s 2d ; rye, 41s 2d ; beans, 44s 3d ; and peas, 41s h. THE SIIC. WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 54s 8d ; barley, 34s 9d ; oats, 25s 4d ; rye, 34s ld ; beaus, 44s 6d ; peas, 40s sd, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST EEK.—Wheat, 65,560 ; barley, 2,955 ; oats, 5 , 674 ; rye W , 6; beans, 2,828 ; peas, 74 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Although only a moderate supply of beasts were on offer here to-day, all kinds moved off somewhat heavily at Mon day's currency. With sheep we were fairly supplied. The best Downs and half-breds were steady, otherwise the mut ton trade was very inactive at late rates. We have to re port a dull inquiry for lambs at about stationary prices, viz., from ss. 6d, to 6s. 4d. per 81b. The supply of calves being extensive, the veal trade ruled heavy atfa further decline in the:quotations of 4d. per 81b. The top price was 4s. Bd. per Blbs. Pigs and milch cows moved off slowly at 1 barely late rates. Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d. Crse. &inf.beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 4 4 1G Second quality do. 3 10 4 2 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 0 5 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Large orse. calves 3 6 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small d 0... 4 2 4 8 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 8 Large hogs 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 3 10 4 0 Small porkers .... 4 8 4 10 Lambs, 5s 6d to 6s 4d. Suckling calves, 20s to 30s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 22s to 29a. TOTAL SUPPLY Beasts Sheep and lambs.. .. 9,540 Calves Pigs 440 Japan, the Amoor, and the Pacific. By Henry A. Tilley. With eight illustrations. Smith and Elder. This is a lively and pleasant volume of travels which by no means restricts itself to a description of the Japanese Empire. The author was on board a Russian ship of war which was bound on a voyage of circumnavigation, and accordingly he transports us from Rio Janeiro to Cape Town, from Singapore to Manilla, and, after quitting Japan, to the Russian settlements at the mouth of the Amoor, where he was the first Englishman who had landed. After wards we visit in his company California, the Sandwich Islands, and Tahiti, from whence he brings us once more by South America to the shores of Europe. Of course his account of many of these places is only slight and superficial, but the volume has something of the effect of a panorama, showing us in rapid succession the manners and customs of very different races in very different localities. The large uncultivated tracts of fertile land in Brazil with its scanty and lazy population, form a striking contrast to the over crowded districts of China, where every inch of ground is carefully made the most of. Of Cape Town we have an agreeable description. The feeling towards the English does not seem to be very friendly, most of the Dutch inhabitants obsti nately refusing to speak a word of the language. The traveller describes the old Dutch landowners as possessing more than the usual amount of na tional stolidity. While he was there, however, they made up their minds to have a railway, after much exertion on the part of the more energetic in beating the idea into the heads of their neighbours. A comparatively short time will therefore see Cape Town in direct communication with the interior, a fact which will, as the writer justly observes, from an epoch in the history of the colony. Of Japan and its people he gives much the same account as other recent travellers, adding a succinct outline of what is known of its history and connec tion with Europe. Of its internal government he speaks as follows :—" A description of what is known of the political state of Japan can be given in a few words. It is about the most absolute des potism that exists or has ever existed, yet tempered by ancient customs having all the force of laws. The policy which has ruled this nation surpasses all that Machiavelli, Metternich, or Talleyrand ever dreamed of ; Fouche would have been a demigod could he have had such a police and such spies." At present, he remarks, little is really known of the internal policy of the empire, and he advises that all communications professing confident explanations should be received with caution. The people, he describes as intelligent and eager for information. During the residence of the Dutch in Desima he considers that the Japanese were the chief gainers 1 1 by the intercourse. They obtained information from Europe on politics, science, and litetature, and translated many books, especially those on Medi cine. In the study of this art they are peculiarly interested, and very skilful. The European doctor who accompanied our author, visited a patient whose severe wounds had been dressed by a Japanese sur geon,and declared that he could not have been better treated in any European hospital. The Japanese seem also to have possessed notions of science for many ages, and are now giving great attention to European machinery, railroads, and fire-arms. They are very painstaking in their study of lan guage—" Some of the officials whom I met in Japan had acquired one or two European languages merely from visiting English, American, or other ships, learning a few words at a time in their intercourse with officers and men, and carefully writ ing down such words in Japanese for future use. In Kanagawa and Hakodadi many of the shop keepers had learned so much Russian as to make themselves intelligible to the Russian sailors." In industrial arts and manufactures, they equal, if not excel the Chinese, while in painting and drawing they are much more advanced. They are remarkable for the neatness and finish of all their manufactures, and possess, as a nation, both taste and skill. Their mirrors are of bronze, the reflecting surface being silvered and polished, and the back ornamented with various devices. Mr. Tilley informs us that, since his return, he has seen some Etruscan mirrors precisely similar to those in use in Japan. The old adage, which tells us that cleanliness is next to godliness, is not verified in Japan, where the continual ablutions of the people, often performed in public, secure thei r scrupulous cleanliness, but the national religion is at a very low ebb. The writer expresses an earnest hope that if auy attempt is made to establish mis sions among them, only one denomination of Christians will engage in it. The establishment of rival missions has alivays proved a great drawback to the successful propagation Of Christianity but in Japan " where all classes except the lowest may be said to have no religion at all, and where all are educated, sceptical, and sarcastic, any rivalry between those who attempt to introduce a new religion will at once preclude whatever chance there possibly might be of conversion." The Japanese are quick witted and full of curiosity. They have large public libraries, and books are as widely circulated as in Germany, and much cheaper. The author considers them a much finer people than the Chinese, although both be long to the Mongolian race. Of course, in his long voyage, Mr. Tilley met with many adventures, and encountered some of the sudden and terrific statul o of tropical latitudes. One melancholy event east a gloom over his visit to Japan. A young Russian officer and a sailor, belonging to the ship he sailed in, were murdered by some Japanese , without, as it seemed, any provocation. Various causes were suggested, many of them political, and as the criminals were never discovered official collusion appears probable. He gives us a lively description of San Francisco and Californian ways , which do not seem to have impressed him very' favourably. Of the Sandwich Isands, which are rising in importance, we have a n animated account, and also of Tahiti, w hich occasioned so much discussion some years ago: His narrative of his visit to the Russian colonies of the Amoor will also attract the reader from its novelty. Altogether it is a pleasant and unaffected record of extended travel in which the author wisely makes the narrative of what he ha; seen more prominent than his own opinions and reflections. These are a little tinged with Russian views, but are, on the whole, straight forward and moderate. We commend his work to the attention of the general reader who seeks information, cool' bined with entertainment. --- Household Medicine. By John Gardner, M.D. Smith and Elder. This is a very useful volume for any family .to possess. It contains a vast and varied store of in formation on the topics to which it refers. A correct the follidea will be gathered of its nature from ow ing summary of contents :—" A familiar description of diseases, their nature, causes, and symptoms ; the most approved methods of treatment, and t he properties and uses of remedies, including many adapted for family use." new and valuable medicines, with directions for preparing them, and rules for the management of thil l = the sick room, expressly The author remarks, very truly, and particularly so to those who in the position, g a e s chapter that some 1 ' e in ct ar i l e hed t a in nce with medicine is attainab le O h n ead of a family? essential to all, are s:, c. , i n acquaintance a l leading a n led goes a ver y considerable extent by any to say :' " An ordinary abilities with a moderate a a m n o y un p t e o rs f o r n e S doratttehnetiootnh,erirprehsypseicetailvescoifentchees.leavrneerdy fetioogan lan guages,person with any education are entirely destitute of some small amount of information on the sub ject ; and nothing is easier than so much as may be hi bl useful f land luable. treatises designed to impart a kn t o h w e l a ed cq g u e i Objections have been gra7 d se u va a __, Ise and urged ag 1 7 : : tines to the public. These have mainly and gen e ' rally arisen from professional prejudices or jenloult and have consequently little not osiftivioneuo: weight. We can e° o if we would arrest the diffusion of information. Those who p er use this volume will find th at it is one eminently calculated to be of general service, and that it conveys in a concise and conde nsed fornl some most important knowledge on matters that f must engage the attention of all at some period o their lives, whether as regards themselves or the mem bers of their own immediate circle.lt is bythe ignorant that we invariably find those gross. mistakes era committed that have so often caused serious c asual' ties, and in som e cases death, to result. The more the general public becomes enlightened in its views , and extended in its knowledge on medical subjects the less probability exists of neglecting symptoms of importan ce, or of resortin g to simple persons to procure a remedy. A publication like the present one is sure to be valued, and besides it has the fur; ther advantage of being the work of an experienced practiiioner. It is therefore to be expected tha t this new work will be as successful as some o figs predecessors on the same subject have been, prove a valuable addition to the library of wall homes, FOREIGN SUPPLY, Beasts_____ 250 Sheep Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. ----- NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat are only moderate, and the trade is heavy, as follows : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 5s Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 8d per 81bs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, June 19. There was a fair supply of fat stock in to-day's market, and trade was in a sluggish state, as follows : Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ; lamb, 5s 6d t 5 6s 2d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 4s Od to 45 8d per 81bs to sink the offal. ROMFORD June 19.—Trade somewhat heavy, at drooping prices. 13esf, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 4s Od to 58 2d ; lamb, 5s 84 to 6s 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 48 8d ; and pork, 4s Od to 4s d e 8lb; suckling calves, 15s to 20s ; quarter old store B pig p s, r 21s s to 28s each; and milch cows, V. 5 Os to £lB 10s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to a 18s ; and straw, £1 lOs to £2 Os per load. Trade slow, CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, 14s to £2 Os per load. Trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Oa Od ; clover, £3 10s to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 108 to £2 Os per load. Trade heavy. ET—JUNE 19. the close of the marke' Walls End. COAL MAR (Prices of Coal per Ton al s. d. Bell's Primrose l3 0 Holywell 16 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting 24 0 Do. Anthracite 21 6 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ..15 6 Walker Primrose 12 6 Hartlepool West Hart 15 0 ley Tanfield Moor 13 0 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 0 Howard's West Hart ley .. 15 6 West Hartley 15 6 Craghead Hartley .14 9 Lambert' s West Hart -15 3 ley Hastings Hartley l5 6 Ships at market, s, d. Hartlepool.... • 18 0 Byron .....17 0 Haswell Tunstall Harton 15 9 Heugh Hall 16 3 Brrddyll's Hetton 17 0 Kelloe South Hart1ep0e1......17 0 Cassop ..... 17 6 Keiper Grange.... ..17 0 Hetton .. • ..... 18 6 8e11............. _l5 6 Woodhouse C105e..... l 5 9 Gosforth ............. 15 9 Shincliffe 16 6 Thorpe .. ..17 6 ;, 98; sold, 75. _THIS DAY'S ShIPPINEI. LONDON, June 20. L-Wind this day at noon, South- Westerly ; light breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy, with some rain in the morning. CLYDE, June 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Micmac, from Trinidad. CORK, June 18.—Wind &E.—Sailed—Hydra, for St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, June 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Jonge lan, from Belize. PALMOUTH, June 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Apollo , from Akyab ; John Herman, from Singapore for Bremen ; Genova, from Buenos Ayres. NEWPORT, June 19.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Otto Yenius, from Bristol for Monte Video. Sailed—Fordman, for Quebec. CARDIFF, June 19.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—Reyal Bride, for New York. DEAL, June 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrivod -Pursey Daw son, from the River, and sailed for Calcutta. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Ilavre; Ceylon, steamer, from Alexandria ; Dispatch, steamer, from Jersey ; Argyll, steamer, from Carentan, (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, June 19—Radcliffe, Benessa, and Lancaster, from Riga ; British Trident, from Sydney; Ilma, from Bjornborg • Vanguard, from Macao; Ernest , from Kon gelf ; Elizabeth Ann, from Guernsey ; Southampton, from New York. Arrived, June 20—Queen, from Lisbon; Nora, from Rotterdam. DEAL, Thursday Morning.. Passed—Henry Miller, for Shanghae ; British Tar, Tay, Wizard King, and Mary C. Fox, for Portland ; United States, for Quebec; Pruth, for Victoria—all from London. MR. FREDERIC PENNA'S ENTERTAINMENT. — The entertainment at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, by Mr. Frederic Penna, is maintaining its position as ono of the most refined o f its class. " Old Friends" now consti tutes its first part, and in this Mr. Penna gives some of, England's old songs, including Purcell's "Mad Tor:anit, w hich, owing to his rich and flexible baritone voice, u effeed t o co nsiderable musical talent, produces a g reat t. Indeed all the other songs in this part are rendered with exce llent taste and artistic skill. The second part of the entertainment is a portion of " The Highways and Byways o f Song," and is rich in beautiful ballads, and in racy and characteristic anecdotes told by Mr. Penna with very great humour. The most attractiv e of the songs in this part is without doubt Loder's beautiful gem," The Three Ag es o f Love," which Mr. Penna s in g s with immense effect. This song is peculiarly adapted to Mr. Penna's style, which is not only highly finished, but replete with grea t f ee li ng. Madame Penna accompanies all the songs with that grace and ability which, one would naturally expect from a lady who had been a pupil of Mrs. Anderson. Mr. Penna's entertainment is well worthy of a visit. STEAM TO NEW YORK.—SOUTH AMPTON' Wed nesday. The Hambur g - American Company's screw steamer, liammonia, Captain H. P. S c h wensen, sailed to day for New Volk , with the Ge rman French , and Eng lish mails. She takes out 413 passengers, £5,000 in specie from England, 5131 . from Havre, and a fair cargo. The Harnmonia arrived here on Monday night from Hamburg, after a very rapid run of 35 hours from her moorings at Cuxhaven to the docks at this port. The North German. Lloyd screw steamer New York, Captain Wenke, is due on Thursday with wails fronA NOW York of Ow tith inst.