The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

ICH A RD MON CKTAZILNES, ALP.— silo': .1d be " preliminary Ministerial conf erences ,and the Congress postponed till Octob er . It 'yea. One r II is stated by the Correspond e n z that this Penny.Jo e n—Tb.oughts in a Crowd —In. FUN this poor lette r was sent previously to the CROWN PRE NCE being summoned. It was doubtless deemed prudent by the Minister to determine on the line of policy to be pursued before the PRINCE arrived, as he knew that there would be no concur rence on his part to so unwise a proceeding. It is not likely under these circumstances that the CROWN PRINCE will be enabled to effect much good by 'his visit to Gastein. He can protest against the ruinous course of action that is now being followed, Teat it is not likely to avail much, as King WILLIAM appears to give ear only to one counsellor, and that Herr VON BISMARK. This statesman must be deeply mortified at the proposed Congress, since it is in direct opposition to all his views and inten tions, and subverts the plans he has been forming for some time past. It has been his object ever since he has ruled Prussia according to Divine right to increase the ascendancy it had acquiredting up in the Build. He was to gain this end by taking a high position, and then bring g Sove reigns under the influence and o f a Power.party h All this hhtise mortificationhascomplete of witnessing lyfailed,andheand his their sway of supre macy,hated rival assume as t it were h e ground from under their and cutting s has si u a s t en fe t re a ig c n ir c c e u a la r r te, the representatives representatives of it ;ru feet. M. Bisme sa ys therein that th e doin g s of Austria will not con duce to the unity of th e German Powers. This is, of course, the language of a disappointed man, who sees everything en noir just now that relates to this conference. A sensible remark was made by a Prussian on the subject of Austria taking the lead in so decided a manner. He said that this would never have occurred "had not M. VON BIS MARK violated the Prussian Constitution, and by so doing deprived his Sovereign of the sympathy of his subjects, and made him appear despicable in the eyes of the surrounding nations." This assertion is perfectly correct ; and, it may be inquired, with what bitterness of spirit it was u tt ere d . N oth i ng could have been more irritating to the more ad vanced and enlightened among the Prussians than to see their country set aside, as it were, in an im portant crisis like the present. The nations that she was once in advance of are now preceding her on the march of progress, and retrogression appears to be the order of the day, where only very recently it was hoped and believed that we should witness striking improve ments and advances made in the cause of con stitutional privileges and popular rights. The CROWN PRINCE is very much to be pitied in his painful position, but at the same time it must be some consolation to the people over whom he is one day to reign that he is not of the clique that, under M. BISMARK, has attained such unenviable notoriety, and done so much damage to the nation both at home and abroad. The approaching visit of the CROWN PRINCE and PRINCESS to her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, will doubtless be pro ductive of great service so far as regards the policy pursued by the PRINCE. Of course the views entertained by our SOVEREIGN on the questions of government will be totally at variance with those of M. BISMARK, and although the QUEEN is sure to counsel caution and moderation, still the influence of her opinion must have great weight. It is to be hoped that this great undertaking being carried out without the sanction, and indeed almost against the expressed wishes, of the King of PRUSSIA, and his Minister, will eventually produce some perma nent impression on their minds. If they do not attend to the signs and tokens all around them they may hereafter be unpleasaWly recalled to a true sense of their actions, as they affect the prosperity and bear on the interests of the country they are ruling with divine right, and Heaven-imparted authority. The people of Prussia are already quite tired of all this assumption of peculiar privileges, which result in their liberties being suppressed and their rights shorn of all due exercise. It will not increase their respect far the policy of the Minister, or improve their allegiance to the KING, to witness that their last move was to draw back at an important crisis, and so deprive their country of its just place in the councils of the surrounding States. In all future arrangements that take place relating to this . congress there will be no par ticipation with Prussia, and this isolated position must be keenly felt by all well-wishers to her in terests, while her most intelligent citizens will rue the day when so adverse a policy obtained the mastery in the Cabinet of their KING. M. BIS MIRK may felicitate himself on having persuaded the KING not to accept the invitation to Frank fort ; but he may yet have great cause to question the wisdom of the decision, and to regret that he had ever counselled his rerusal. N ENV THE ATRE-R0 Y AL, ADELPHI.- r a nd AISII R Zer, Mr. B. Webste r . Sole Proprieto • THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; OR, T ,E GHOST'S B ARGAIN, in w hi c h will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of . he Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, elton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROV.ATORE. Messrs. 'Poole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips, islbnrine, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Oara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. TO-NIGHT WHLE TERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOP. Yessrs. W. H. Swa l nboroug H h. Parselle, Voltaire, G. Honey E ; 'Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, 3landers, and E. Button. Followed by (24th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THEttE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clitton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, ana Jenny White. To conclude with KEEP YOUR TEMPER. Commence at 7. MIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing. the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, itan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AG E NT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 2h. 59m. To-xortßaw.-Morning, 3h. 15m.—Afternoon, 3h. 30m. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 15, 1863. -13 4•111:+- 4„a .4 • ,• - • " 11 - -• LOC i , • 7,1 r. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1863. A gallant soldier has bean lost to England by the death of Lord CLYDE. Yet can that death be scarce l y mourned ove r as a calamity under the eir here, as a relief cums t an ces. Death cam e at last, after two months' of severe suffering. It came after the allotted age of man had been reached. It came when the distinguished invalid had long been covered with honours, by a cou.ntry:disposed—as it appeared to us during his lifetime, as it does still most certainly appear to us now that he is actually dead and gone a country disposed rather . to exaggerate his merits than in any way to underrate them. A public Funeral in Westminster Abbey a National Monument erec"2d somewhere in the metropolis—will be mere ealatter-of-course evidences of consideration already Jav ished with an unstinting hand upon Comic CAMPBELL. He died a Field Marshal. He died a Peer of the Realm. When a far greater soldier than he—CHARLES NAPIER, conqueror of Scinde, victor of Meannee and Hyderabad—died Neither a Field Marshal, nor a Peer!—merely a General and a G.C.B. Thinking of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S career, of his heroic life, and of his death coming to him in his old age, when he was yet almost wholly unrewarded by his ungrateful country —we confess to it that the con trast presented to view by that career, by that life, by that death, when considered side by side with the career, the life and death of Field- Marshal Lord CLYDE, we do confess to it frankly that the contrast strikes us, there, as rather a pain ful subject for contemplation. The remains of the greatest soldier of England, after the Duke of WELLINGTON, lie mouldering in their honoured but lowly resting place in the soldier's graveyard near Portsmouth. Upon the unostentatious tomb above them are in scribed the names and titles of the buried Conqueror —General Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C.8., and so forth. That heroic soldier, dead, and gone, and buried away there in that obscure graveyard, having added to the vast possessions of E agland one of the noblest provinces of her Empire—having not only conquered that great province of Scinde with his sword, but having brought its people into subjec tion after its conquest by the combined vigour and clemency of his rule over them as a Proconsul. Had Sir CHARLES NAPIER had his desserts, he, too, would have died a Peer of the Realm and a Field Marshal of England. The baton that no doughtier hand could have grasped, would have laid upon his coffin lid, side by side with, at least, a baron's coronet. A Funeral procession befitting the friend and brother-in-arms:of WELLINGTON , would have fol lowed that coffin to its last resting place under the gothic roof of the old Abbey at Westminster. A Public Monument to CHARLES NAPIER (such as it is) London has, it is true, to show in one of its most conspicuous sites (such as that is also) but it is a monument erected to his memory, not by his coun • try (still even thus pertinaciously ungrateful to the last), but by that one particular class among his countrymen the most capable of appreciating his great and heroic qualities, that of the Pri vate Soldiers of the British army. It is not that we grudge one of his many honours (nobly won as they were upon so many battlefields), to Field Marshal Lord CLYDE. It is simply that the remembrance of him a s Field Marshal and Baron of England—is embittered by the instant reflection that a far greater soldier than CoLIN CAMPBELL died neither a Field Marshal nor a Baron ! That England never had the thought even when he was snatched away from the chance of being at last the tardy recipient of the evi dences of her gratitude, that England never h ad the thought even then, even out of her sense of a remorseful homage, to bury among her in a strums dead, in Westminster Abbey, the rem • jlll ' , 4 of one wh o w a s as grea t a so ldi er as an y wafts Imo d uet reposes under that venerable pile. eon / . to CLYDE! . Ltt the memory of Field-Marshal Lord i nanimate fall and unstinting, still Let his animate corpse to its grave ! For he was a noble and chivalrous soldier, and one worthy of land is ur burying amiratio n . B u t, w hil e E ng t o ken of regr e t a n a l , him' away, with every hom age down at Westminister Abbey, let her have some remorseful sense the while of her consistent in g r atitude d ur i n lifetime to one who W as g a long a far ) far greate than he, one who died N ot a Leer afr soldier Not a Field Marshal of En g l and, and the Realm, who aft er death was Not Buried at Westeeinste:7 The regulation of national finances is generally considered to be a somewhat invidious task. The most elastic exchequer will not stretch to meet the requirements of taxpayers; the most ingenious and amiable financier cannot help imposing taxes. There is no department of Government more closely and anxiously watched. Deputations represent the feeling of various classes of the community before the oracle has spoken ; when it has, ready critics hasten to point out what taxes might have been remitted with ease and profit, while generally the complaints and lamentations exceed the measure of applause granted to the propounder of a budget. It is a matter which affects everyone's personal interest, which comes to each with a reality and an earnestness not often felt for reform bills and foreigns questions. It is a novel and curious cir cumstance, therefore, when we find a Government wilfully making the worst of things in the matter a most profitable s ource o f of finance by neglecting revenue, and withholding from the public the startling changes which a few years have produced in particular districts; imposing an arbitrary and most unpopular tax on a necessary of life, while a little trouble would enable them to dispense with it altogether. Yet it is confidently stated by those well qualified to judge that were the water regula tion in India fully carried out the Government might with ease dispense both with salt tax and income tax. It appears from the statistics fur nished by Sir ARTHUR COTTON* that in the only districts in which the works have been carried out to any great extent the increase of the revenue is startling. The total average revenue of ItE.ja humundry, asui I yielded a patani, and Guntoor, from 1841 Iv to 181 5, e.s 47 lass ; t h e same tract now divided into G odavery and Kisuta has iu the year 1862.3 revenue of 821 lacs. An increase of more than thirty-five lacs per annum is surely oning in worth noti ce , yet condescends to notine°9i't,lember of the Government is not worth menti "Is it the only thing that andi thirty COTTO N , ; districts of e the act ual revenue is thirty-seven millions ? " s ' is " it, h e asks, that no statesman inquires into the cau se of this wonderful result with a view to applyin— g the The Conference at Frankfort is the e ,,, r0 topic in foreign jou rnals, whic h is only flat a 2sln g sidering its novelty and also its importance. The King of DENMARK* has declined to be present at the Conference of the Sovereign members of the Ger man Confederacy. This is not to be wondered at, considering the unpleasant disputes and discussion s that have taken place regarding Schleswig-Holstein. The King of PRUSSIA, the CROWN PRINCE, and Herr VON BISMARK have h a d ver y " animated confer ences" at Gasteiu. It is, of course, very annoying for the Prince to find his father so determined to pursue the policy laid down by the Minister who has already done so much damage to his own rep• tation, and injured the popularity of his monarch, while occasioning so much disquietude to the coun try. The semi-official journal, Corresponden z, states that when the EMPEROR was at Gastein, the KING promised to attend the Conference, but that subsequently Herr BISMARK persuaded him to give up the idea. He therefore wrote to the EMPEROR declining to attend, and suggesting that there D.lajor• Gem Sir A. Cotton " On Irrig,ii ion and Navi gation. in Connection with the Finances of )hciia." Ling, Yarlianaezt-btreet, THERMOMETER. This morning -- 70 This day at Two o'clock .. 79 Barometer-29.83. Wind—S.; light, and very fine weather. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 186 g. same means to other districts. It is important in every country to know what are the chief sources of revenue, and it has long been evident that in India we have been making serious blunders in the mat ter of finance. We are taxing salt, which is, with the rice diet of the natives, almost a necessary of life, and by so doing we are pressing heavily on the p a o c o h r e a r c n g l e a s of f e s , dietfor e w e r e t u a l i d n l l y i n e o p r o i n n e e i w p y c o u ul p d o n afford e. The tax is unpopular and irr itatin g , and de p rives an article they greatly the people of the free use of need. Yet the salt tax only yields 540 lacs, or four lacs per district. The land tax again, Sir CHARLES WOOD'S cherished source of supply, indirectly damages the revenue far more than it benefits it. Yet these obnoxious imposts are cherished, while a scheme of great national benefit, popular and practicable, is left scarcely begun, although it has been proved that it would add largely to the national income, besides conferring the greatest blessings on the people. Sir ARTHUR COTTON complains IrJudly of the system of confound ing the accounts of the Public Works Department with the general revenue. The water rate is, he says, a return frir money invested ; the land tax is altogether different. Why, then, should all be mixed togetb.e': in such a manner that it is impos sible for the, public to understand from what quar ter the gre;fet increase of revenue in certain districts comes, or, what amount of profit is realised by this branch of Public Works. In consequence of this mistakrin system, most of the great works taken in hand. have been left unfinished. The heavy funda mental expenses have been incurred, but the final al.rangements, which will develope the scheme, are left incomplete from motives of economy. The Godavery Delta Works have been fifteen years in hand, but the water is not yet distributed to half the landt commanded by the weir. So with other works. " Imagine," exclaims the indignant engi neer, " a merchant or a company building a steamer at a cost of £20,000, and then economising by not buying fuel to work it !" Sir C. WOOD once said to him that it was easy to talk about executing such works, but that he had to provide the money. The ready answer was that if only a part of the net increase of revenue from the Godavery Works were handed over to the engineers, they would speedily complete the works and hand over to the Minister a large balance." At this moment, if he would allow them to spend only ten lacs a year in completing the Godavery and Kistnah works, at least a surplus of twenty would remain provided by the engineers to assist him out of these two districts only. I can most confidently assert that if Lord CANNING had taken in hand the system of works I sketched out for him at his request, at the rate of four or five millions a year, they might by this time have been returning six or eight millions a year, much more than sufficient to obviate the necessity of our in come-tax and a salt tax." These words must not be taken as the sanguine expression of the views of an enthusiastic theorist. They speak the con victions of one who has devoted long years to the practical study of the subject, whose plans have been hampered and restricted by the perverse in difference of officials, but who can bring in evidence the most astonishing results from even partial and incomplete experiments. It seems that theGodavery Navigation Works are about at a standstill for want of money, and that the Chief Commissioner has re commended that the closing link which is to com plete the communication between Nagpore and the sea is to be left undone, notwithstanding the public assurances of Sir CHARLES WOOD that the works should at once be carried to completion. The cure for all this is probably to be found in the' suggestion that India should have Public Works Commissioners who shall have full and unchecked authority over the funds raised for such purposes, and who shall account to the public in a clear and straightforward manner for every outlay incurred and profit receiv e d. "I d o earnest l y i ns i st, " says Sir A. COTTON, theeon " n t t h ry "that with etaxises to no pay y or f k o s r burthening which will much more than pay for themselves. The effects on trade, on th e i mpor t an d export re turns ducedby mi g h a t s b y e st e e x m pe o e f ted watteyr any ny tion one con versant o n are versant with the subject. The imports of Godavery before 1846 were 3 l acs , o f w hi c h two lacs were for food ; they are now 10 lace, with a large export of food. Such facts seem to fall powerless on the ruling minds of the India-cffice, but public attention is beginning to be turned to the matter both in Eng land and India ; and we trust, before very long, they will be called to account for their wilful neglect of the vast resources of the nation they govern. ANOTHER " INFANT PHENOMENON."—Tho cor respondent of a French paper, writing from Naples, states that a boy not more than ten years of age, named Giovanni Gargano, son of an it nerant dealer in lemonade, has just exhibited before the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts at Naples, a group executed in clay, repre senting the subject of a painting, the "Descent from the Cross," preserved in the church of San Francesco di Piola, and much admired by artists. As the members of the so ciety refused to believe the boy to be the author of this group, Gargano quietly asked for some clay, and imme diately modelled, before the company, a copy of a statue which was in the room. The artists present, astonished at this prococity, immediately took measures for affording the child the means of cultivating his wonderful talent. FLORAL NAMES ! And others of Pretty Signi ficance.—Barbara is derived from barberis (the bar berry tree), Rosa from the rose, Laura from the laurel, Lucy from lucus (a grove), Rosamond from rosa mundi (the flower of the world, Agnes from agnus (a lamb), Melissa from a Greek word signifying a bee, Dorcas a rose, Phillis a leaf, Rachael a sheep, Jacintha a hyacinth. Galatea is milk, Cynthia the moon, Jesse an engraft of a tree. Aurelia means a cotton wood, Margaret a pearl and a daisy, Cecil a heartwort, and Chloe a green herb. ENGLAND JEAL OUS AS TO THE ORIGINALITY OF HER SCEPTICISM !—Of all the odd manifestations of Patriotism ever yet witnessed, certainly one of the strongest wo can at this moment recall to mind is that evidenced by our chief contemporary, the Times, in its able criticism yesterday on Mr. Phillimore's "History of En r land." I n answer to that historian ' s, or rather satirist s, sneering remark, that even the scepticism of England has been sec on d-h and, the reviewer asks indignantly, as if this were too cruel an imputation to be borne in silence—Wa s the scepticism of Hume second-hand ; and is not Hume the father of modern scepticism, the father also by his scept icism of all the modern philosophy? If Mr. Phillimore refers not to philosophical but to religious scepticism, pray what is the source of the current doubts concerning the Chris tian faith ? We shall be told that these doubts came from Germany. We have no objection to grant it if Mr. Philli more will grant that the Germans learned them from the Engli-h Deists of the last century. Our modern religious scepticism is but a revival in a new form of the old deistical controversy with which we are quite familiar. THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT.—The report circu lated by some of the London and provincial news papers to the effect that Travers had died from injuries received in the late prize fight with Dillon is incorrect, lie returned to London in the course of yesterday (Friday) afternoon, and, although much punished, is rapidly re covering from the effects of the conflict. THE ATTEMPT-12,D MURDER AND SUICIDE AT PORTSMOUTH.—Ou Thursday evening an inquest was held on the body of Robert Gourd, a writer in her Majesty's dockyard, Poi tsmeuth, who attemp ted to murder his wife, and then committed self -destruction. From the facts adduced there could be no doubt that deceased was insane when ha committed the act, and the jury returned verdict to that effect. THE HARVEST IN EGYPT.—A letter from Alex andria says :—" The corn harvest has terminated in considerable Egypt, apburaoitymi: ayt an aettioy d t 1 eh, it 2saot tiora i 08:It estimated last n saat e rt r yd a ,ce l ,ba l s y sro..o s ,o a To ti ho s e f a a ry c d t iee o b rl oco a olf n Bo ; superior in e development 1 , " ; 0 13 0 m , O e o n ' a t ; maize, oulak __ , -- „ sy . ptleads to the ho g p ai 4,750,000; lentils, Tho cotton in mcI PP 111 September , abundaAt," ev n e d l o ta t ot h etthrheep ucnowullesolih:ttiretlearasltOitecib.oi(47)e,ncojanhOan;OPl, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ACCEPTANCE OF THE THRONE OF MEXICO BY THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN. , . 15. The M emor i a l Diplomatique of PARIS to-day AUG says : " We are happy to be able to announce that his Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand- Maximilian accepts, with the consent of his august brother, the Emperor of Austria, the crown of the new Mexican empire. " The first overtures made to the Court of Vienna touching the candidature of the Archduke Maximilian to the throne of Mexico date from the month of October, 1861. The Emperor Francis Joseph then replied that although appreciating at its just value the preference accorded to his dynasty, he left his brother sole arbiter to decide when the moment should come to take a definite resolution. But, as it was important to know if, and to what point, the Court of Vienna would be willing to realise the wishes of the Mexican nation, his Apostolic Majesty sent Count Rechberg, immediately after the first confidential overtures with the Court of the Tuileries to the chateau possessed by the Archduke Maximilian at Trieste, where his Imperial High ness habitually resides. " The Minister of Foreign Affairs was instructed to represent to the Prince the high destiny to which the Mexican people and the personal sympathies o Napoleon 111. would all him on the successful issue of the French expedition. As we have said, Count Rechberg was authorised to declare to his Imperial Highness that the Emperor Francis Joseph, as chief of the Imperial family, left him full and entire liberty to take the part which suited him best. " The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was strongly moved to find that at the moment when he had built the retreat of 3.lisamor in order to re main henceforth a stranger to politics, the Emperor of the French should have indicated him to the choice of the Mexican people to fulfil so great. and elevated a mission as the pacification and regeneration of the ancient empire of Montezuma "But at the same time, the Archduke made the acceptance of this mission, beset with so many diffi culties, dependent upon certain conditions, which, to be well understood and estimated, merit ulte- rior explanation. `` We shall at present confine ourselves to stating that the essential condition, viz. :--‘ That the re establishment o f the monarc hy in Mexico, as well as the ele c ti on of the Pr i nce a s future Sovereign, shall emanate from the spontaneous move m en t o f the country,' has a l rea dy been accomplished. " The oth er conditions w hi c h are more within th e domain of diplomacy are no less assured. From the month of October, 1831, the Archduke Maximilian has received the most unequivocal proofs that his arrival in M ex i co wou ld b e looked upon by a ll ag o the venerable Arch partiesMexicopros- perity.A as the dawn of an era of peace and pros ta h u e d h o o f; yt and tiedin person to the pala ce o f Misamor to urge the Pr i nce in the name of reli g i on ew went whole glorious Mexican episcopate to accept vidence h a d predestine d hi m . The worthy prelat e had the con so l at i on on l eav ing Misamor of knowing that the Ar c hd u k e wou ld no longer hesitate, in the event of the M ex i can throne being re - established mission which Divine Pro under the conditions specified by his Imperial Highness at the opening of the negotiations. " The Archduke had therefore already entered into more than a moral engagement towards the the Mexican episcopate and the notables of the country, w ho, before proclaiming his election, were anxious to have a certainty of his acceptance. "At the taking of Paebla the Archduke ad dressed his congratulations to his : Majesty th e e French in an autograph lett er . Emperor of the The bearer o f this letter was the Baron d e Pont, Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Vi e nna, who, from the origin of Affairs atthe of the Archduke to the Mexican throne, can didature to his Imperial Highness a s pr i vate was attached secretary. The tenor of this letter, whi c h was at Fontainebleau to the l a t e ly delivered Empero r by prince Metternich, was itself Napoleon the pre lude to a d e finitive acceptance by the Archduk e at time and place. the proper . letter in question ,c The having been presented in m anner to Napoleon 111. an official . by the Aaibas cis Joseph, implied sador of Fran also the antici ent of the august chi e f of dy nastY• It map b e seen from th e l preceding that in an nouncing the definitive acceptance of the Archduke Ferdinand- m(0=1111in, we do not put forward a simple conjecture) but a res o l ut i on, based on authen- ,ic facts." TSB FOLISHIISURRECTION. DEFE AT OF THE RUSSI ANS AT ZARZYN. CRACOW, AUG. 15. The insur gents attack e d and dispersed three com panies of Russian infantry and a souadron of cavalry the Bth inst., at Zarzyn, in the Palatinate of Lti lin on. Two hundred R uss i ans were killed and 110 taken prisoners ; th e latter, however, were sent back. The insurgents captured 200,000 roubles in b this engag ement. This newsis confi rme d b y the Warsaw Dziennik an d the Powszeszechny. CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT, FRA NXFORT-ON-MAINE, AUG. 14. Up to the present the Grand Dukes of Weimar and Baden, the Dukes of Saxe•Coburg-Gotha, B raunschweig, and Saxe-Meiningen, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, the Prince of Rudolstadt, and the representatives of the free cities of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bremen, have arrived here. PRANCE. THE NAPOLEON FETE DAY. PARIS, AUG. 15. No speech Was made by the Emperor at the re ception at the Tuileries to-day. His Majesty heard a Te Deum after the reception, and subsequently returned to St. Cloud. It is asserted that Earl Cowley has returned to Paris, and will be present at the dinner to be given at the hotel of M. Drouyn de Lhuys. BOURSE, Aug. 14.—The arrival of Consols with a fall of has had a slight deprssing effect, Threes being again at 67f. 40c., with very little doing. Railway Share Market also dull, but variations up to the present time insignificant. The market Closed as follows It per Cents. .. 96 •50 Do; cud month.... 3 per Cents .. 67 45 Do. end month.... 67 35 Credit M0bi1ier...,1076 25 ()o. end rn0nth....1078 75 Bank Uhnres 3370 Credit F oncier „„1200 Italian Loan 72 25 Do. end month 72 10 New ditto Do. end month 72 25 Russian Austrian .. Bl 50 Spanish Threes, Home Debt - FLAILWANi. Cash. Account. Orloans lO2O .. 1016 25 Northern New ditto -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1023 75 .. 1020 Geneva 493 75 .. 491 25 Southern .. 7OO .. 697 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lou bard North of Spain Saragossa .. 635 .. 685 pit.,) to BaNaoua ~, r; Z)': 1 O - '"" , " " INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. By the arrival of the Calcutta mail, we have re ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta, to the 9th July; Madras, 14th July ; Hong Kong, June 29th; Melbourne, 25th June; and Sydney, 20th June. INDIA. We take the following from the Calcutta lishman, of July 9 :—By the unfortunate breaking down of the screw steamer Bengal while proceed ing out to sea in a heavy gale, the outward mails of the 22d June were detained in the river till the 3d inst., when they were transhipped to the Mooltan, about the lowest boat belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company on this side of We have no important changes to report in our markets. We have received a telegraphic message from Lahore, which has been four days reaching us, to the effect that the Government have receiN ed authen tic intelligence of the death of Dost Mahomed. CHINA. HONGKONG, June 29. From Japan the latest intelligence is decidedly more pacific, though in what manner the demands of the British representative have been met does not appear. It was believed in Yokohama, on the 14th instant, that the pecuniary indemnity had been settled, but that the question of the trial and punishment of Mr. Richardson's murderer would be allowed to lie over. So strong was the impression of an amicable arrangement, that trade was reviv ing; but, at the same time, everything was enve loped in mystery. The Tycoon said to be friendly to foreigners, was still detained at Miaco ; there was even a rumour of his having been decapitated ; and the Prince of Mito, known to be hostile to foreigners, but described as an adherent of the Tycoon, rules at Jeddo as the latter's locum tenens,—perhaps successor. The policy attributed to Colonel Neale, of avoiding war with the Tycoon, and of coalescing with him in humbling the haughty and hostile Daimios, may account for his apparent acceptance of very inadequate compensation for in juries inflicted, as any show of such a policy would hasten the Tycoon's fate, even if he be not already disposed of. The American Minister has been obliged to quit Jeddo, having been officially informed by a high functionary, who chose the hour of mid night for the communication, that a plot existed to murder all the members of the Legation. Under such circumstances, it is as incredible that a really satisfactory solution of difficulties can have been arrived at as that future troubles can be averted by half measures. The outskirts of Yokohama had been taken possession of by the Tycoon's guards, apparently as a protection against the numerous bodies of Loonens moving about with murderous intent. These ruffians had been attacked in their haunts at Jeddo, by order of the acting Tycoon, and had got the worst of it, though with considerable loss of life on both sides. The .Municipal Council of Shanghai has come to terms with the Chinese authorities on the subject of the rent-tax levied by the latter on Chinese resi dents within the settlement, The assessment of the rentals is to be joint, but the collection of the tax remains with the Council, and disputes are to be settled by the Taontar, in concert with the Eng lish and American consuls. The tax is fixed defi nitely, at 20 per cent. per annum, one-half to go to the Taontar for military expenditure, the other half to be retained for municipal purposes, and no addition to existing taxes is to be made, nor is a poll tax, or similar impost, to be levied; but, as a crowning consolation, the tax on rent is to cease as soon as peace is restored. There had been a destructive explosion of gunpowder at Shanghai, on the premises of Messrs. Junet and Co., by which the buildings were greatly damaged and M. Junet so burnt and injured that he died shortly after. The bodies of three murdered Europeans had also been brought into the French settlement, or " concession," as it is called. They had been de spatched under regular passes into the silk districts with treasure for the purchase of silk, but the cir cumstances of the murders were not known. Oa rebel matters there is not much to say, as it is very difficult to ascertain what is really going on, but a well known foreign missionary just returned from Nankin, in writing to one of the local daily journals, says that the Taepings were anxious to know why England is so hostile to them, and that Kan-Wang expressed the following sentiments : "If they (England and France), force us to the conclusion that we are to be treated as outlaws then the day of retribution will come. We are fighting in our own country and to rid ourselves of a foreign Power ; and woe to the stranger who falls into our power after the first shot has been fired against Nankin. We need not, then, take cities, or hold them, or allow foreigners to assist the Impe rial imps in surrounding us. We shall then move in one compact body, ravaging the country and destroying trade," &c. A case of cruelty to prisoners, in the instance of seven reheis taken at Taitsan, has been fairly brought hurne to the mandarins, for there seems no reason to doubt the truth of the positive published statements of the barbarous and revolting tortures inflicted on these unhappy men before being put to a lingering death. The matter requires strictin vestigation on account of the concomitant circum stances. Strange doings continue at Ningpo. Trade is all but stopped by the attempted illeg al exactions of the mandarins, and General d'Acquebebe follows up his assumption of arbitrary power by outrageous acts. A correspondent in one of the Shanghai papers states that a " European named Smith was taken up as a pirate, was tried by a court martial of offi cers of the Franco-Chinese Contingent, was by them ordered to be sent to his Consul ; was sent to D'Acquebebe instead, and was by him shot at dead of night outside the walls of Shaon-Sbing." Other accounts givo two foreigners as having been so dis posed• of. If true, this Frenchman is guilty of mur der ; for it is evident that he had no jurisdiction in the case of Smith, and it is to be hoped that the matter will not be lightly passed over. From the other ports there is nothing of particulhr interest to notice. AUSTRALIA. 'We take the following from the Melbourne Argus of the 25th of July :—" We are again in a Minis. terial crisis. On Friday lest, after a short debate, in which only three members spoke, Ministers were defeated in the Legislative Assembly by 42 to 26, on a resolution submitted by Mr. Puffy, preliminary to the introduction of his bill to Amend the Land Act of 1862. On Monday last Mr. O'Shanassy tendered to his Excellency his own resignation and that of his colleagues. On the some day Mr. M'Culloch (Treasurer in Mr. Nicholson's Ministry), the head of the firm of M'Cullock, Sellar, and Co., was sent for, and ac cepted a commission to form an Administration. On Tuesday both House of Parliament adjourned for a week, to enable the hon. member to make his arrangements ;,and he is now negotiating with mem bers on both hides, supporters as well as opponents of the late Government. He has stated to the house that he believes he will succeed, and that he will be able to announce on Tuesday next the names of the members of the new Ministry. THE GOLDFIELDS. " For a long time past there has not been so much life and activity among the miners as during the last few veers. One rash after another has quite dispelled the dulness so long prevalent on the gold fields, and w© have now several in progress to gether; so that, instead of not having any new ground to go to, the miners are at present puzzled to know which of the new places offers the most attraction. THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. " The lust mail conveyed to liogland the parti culars of the massacre ot Lieut. Tragett, Dr. Hope, and six soldiers of the 57th Regiment, by a party of tiao ngisu of Tightiiiki, I:thly 4, his event was followed by more open warlike demonstrations on the part of the natives, and within the last few days intelligence has been received of a short but bloody conflict between the Queen's troops and the natives, in which the latter were completely defeated, with great loss of life. Immediately after the murder of Lieutenant Hope and his com panions, the natives of Taranaki determined to commence hostilities, and the warlike attitude they assumed created great consternation among the En g lish settlers, most of whom left their homes and fled to Auckland. The natives procured all the fire arms and other weapons of war which they possibly could, and took up a strong position, south of Tata raime.ka, on the Katikara stream, where they built three pahs. It is also said that they were rein forced by 200 of 300 armed Waikatos, the most powerful and warlike tribe in the islands. In the meantime the 57th Regiment was supplemented by 290 soldiers of the 40th and 50 of the 70th Regiments, who were conveyed from Auckland and Otabuhu by her Majesty's steam sloop Eclipse. On the 4th of June—exactly a month after the murder of Lieutenant Hope and party a successful attack was made on the enemy's posi tion. Everything had been very properly kept secret, and nothing was known of any intended movement until a late hour of the previous night, when the forces,numbering about 450 men, silently marched from town, leaving it in care of the militia and volunteer forces, under Major Niould, R.E. The Archduke Maximilian and Mexico, (REUTERS EXPRESS.) VIENNA, AL G. 11. The Press of to-day publishes the following article, headed " A new Imperial Crown for Haps burg : " We wish to speak to-day not of a German empire but, as we hasten to add, in order to tran quillise the minor German States, of the Imperial Crown of Mexico which, according to a despatch from that country, is now really destined for an Austrian archduke. We have long been opposed to the idea of a member of the Imperial House of Austria being brought into connection with the Mexican expedition of the Emperor of the French. Unfortunately the statement has appeared recently in so decided a forth, that we are compelled to ex amine the question seriously. " A few days after the entry of the French into the old Mexican capital, General Forey, the com mander of the expedition, instituted by a decree a supreme Government Junta of 36 members, which was charged among other things to form an Assembly of Notables, and with this object to bring together 215 Mexican citizens of all classes.' This assembly was to discuss the future form of go vernment for Mexico, and a majority of two-thirds would be necessary to give their decisions the cha racter of law. It can easily be imagined what sort of persons this assembly is composed of when Almonte stands at the head of the committee to which Gen. Forey provisionally gave executive authority. In all States there have been found at all times traitors, who, in the event of a foreign inva sion, have gone over to the enemy of their country's independence. What is looked upon in Europe as the greatest political crime cannot possibly be a praiseworthy action in Mexico. The 215 fellows who, called together by a Forey, have proclaimed i‘lexico an empire and offered the Crown to an Austrian prince, are entirely, irrespective of their belonging to the ultra-clerical party, no more de serving respect than Liborio Romano and his com panions in Naples, who betrayed their country to Piedmont. "But the event is not on that account less worthy of remark. The Mexican Assembly, in its vote on Mexico's future form of government, and in its de cision to offer the Imperial Crown to the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, followed, not in its own promptings, but those of Almonte and Forey, who, in inspiring them in this manner, cer tainly acted in accordance with instructions from the Tuileries. But the Emperor Napoleon does not give such instructions without being tolerably sure of his object. " The Mexican Crown could not, therefore, have been declined at the commencement in a sufficiently decided and categorical manner by those for whom Napoleon 111. destined. it, if this incredible affair :low turns out to be a fact. " The Paris papers of to-day already announce that the Emperor and Empress have congratulated the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian upon the Im perial Crown which he has been offered. They may possibly consider it a subject for congratulation to obtain possession of a Crown in a country like Mexico in such a manner. But we believe ourselves express ing the opinion of the Austrian people when we frankly declare that every man in this country will think the acceptance of the Crown by the archduke rather a fatality than good fortune. A fatality, we say, for it would be nothing else if an Austrian prince should ever think in earnest of accepting a crown at the hands of one of the Napoleons. No thing similar occurred at the time of Germany' s deepest humiliation through Napoleon I. ; and shall constitutional Austria of to-day condescend to what absolutism would not stoop? And what a crown The French invaded Mexico without plausible ground, treading under foot the independence of the people of which they are constantly talking; and, after shedding streams of blood, have occupied the Mexican capital, followed by the curses of a nation hitherto proud of its self-dependence. Should a prince of constitutional Austria take his seat upon a throne thus forcibly erected upon blood and tears ? As compensation, perhaps, for the pearl broken out of the Austrian Crown in 1859 ? Or as a present, to hold us harmless for future eventualities of a similar sort ? The more we occupy ourselves with these reflections the more incredible, adventurous, unacceptable, and monstrous appears to us this latest attention offered to Austria by the Court of Napoleon." The article concludes in tte following terms : " Although the idea of ruling the ancient realm of the Aztecs may not be without a poetical charm for romantic temperaments, we believe the times are past when fancies of this character suffice to com promise the policy of great States, and plunge it into immeasurable intricacies. We hope, therefore, that this time the reply of Austria to the offer, through Paris, of the Mexican notables will be a decisive refusal. Once for all, we trust an end will ❑ow be put to an intrigue having no further object than to remove the disgrace of the Mexican expedi tion—that crime against an independent nation— from the shoulders of France to 'chose of Austria, and to cover the abyss of the dirty speculations of the banker Jecker and his precious associates in France and Mexico with the glorious name of an Austrian prince." BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the account for month ending Thursday, Aug. 13 : ASSETS. r. C, Cash and ingots • • .. .. 64,935,672 71 Cash at the branch-banks 237,742,511 Bills due to be paid to -day.. • • 683,654 99 Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 68,629,5,53 f. 59e. are from the branch banks • • • • • • • . 316,781,985 1 Bills in the branch -banks 263,758,688 Advances on coin and ingots .. 21,205,500 Do in the branch banks • . .. 3,340,900 Do on French securities .. 53,651,700 Do in the branch-banks 22,534,350 Do on railway shares and bonds .. 52,064,500 Do in the branch-banks 35,754,950 Do on Credit Foncier Bonds .. 680,300 Do in the branch-banks • • 651 800 • • Do to State by treaty, 1848 .. 60,000,000 Rcntes of the reserve-fund .. 12,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable fund s .. . 31,52.5,625 16 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 18577).. 100,000, 000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. 5,823,672 Expenses of administration • • 656,034 55 Sundries 4,574,570 20 1,296,35766,163 LIABILITIES. .. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 . Reserve-fund .• • • •. 12 980 750 14 New Reserve .. 9,125,000 Reserve-innnobiliere • • .. .. 4 , 000 , 000 Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9, 1857) . .. .. 2,316,503 57 Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks .. .. .. 801,261,025 Do. to order (Post -bills) • • .. 4,477,961 50 Bills payable at sight • • • • • • 4,984,788 Ace, cur. of Treasury Creditor .. .. 66,997,012 98 Various accounts current .. .. .. 154,9a2,066 '2B Do. branch - ba nks • • • • .. 2 2 9 :289456: 6 87 1 8 1 — 75 ArrearsDividen Dividends t v o a b lu e e p s a d id eposited • • .... . . .. 3,122,538 11 Discount, interest, and expenses .. .. 4,510,684 13 Re-discounts of the last half-year .. 1,554,317 16 Surplus of profit not disturbed .. .. • 1,016,709 23 Sundries • • • • I • • • .• 16,414,314 82 1,296X6,163 76 HER MAJESTY. COLOGNE, August 15. Her bisjeS+•y Queen Victoria passed through this town at a quurter past seven last night direct by the Junction Railway, en route to Rolandseck. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left Trentham Park, Staffordshire, for Scotland, the Marquis of Stafford and the youthful members of the family having preceded them on Monday. The duke and duchess intend to make a short stay at Tarbot before going to Dunrobin Castle. The Earl of Dudley left Dudley Housn, Park lane, on Thursday last, for Forrest Lodge, Argyleshire, in order to commence grouse shooting. The Countess of Malmesbury has left Heron Court, near Christchurch, Hants, for Scotland, where her ladyship will meet the noble earl. The Earl of Sefton has left Croxteth Park for Scotland for the shooting season. The Countess Craven and Ladies Craven left Drakelaw, Derbyshire, after they had been visiting Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Ywux, for Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are enter taining a small family party at Haddo House, Aberdeen shire. The earl's health is satisfactory, Lord Iladdo has distinguished himself as an excellent shot during the volun teer rifle contests in Scotland. The Earl and Countess Grey left Howick Hall, Northumberland, on Tueday, for a tour of visits in Scot land. Visccunt and Viscountess Grey de Wilton leave town to-day to visit the Earl and Countess Craven ttt Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, Bare., M.P., and Lady Mary Wood and family left town yesterday for Hickleton Park, Yorkshire. The Hon. Beatrice Byng, Maid pf Honour to her Majesty, and youngest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral the Hon. H. D. Byng, was married yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square, to Mr. H. Blundell, eldest son. of the late Mr. R. B. Blundell, of Deysbrook, West Derby. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. Hopwood, cousin to the bride. Don Jose do Fontayud Gargollo and Don Nusolas de Ojesta have arrived from Madrid at Edward's Royal Cambridge Hotel, George-street, Hanover-square. Field-Marshal Lord Clyde, G.C.8., died shortly after noon yesterday at General Eyre's residence at Chat ham. Lord Clyde was born in 1792, and was consequently in his 71st year. It is understood that the remains of the gallant field-marshal will be removed to London for inter ment in the course of a day or two. ANECDOTES OF THE EMPEROR.—Long before the hour fixed for his Majesty's departure from Vichy all the approaches to the railway station were crowded. His Majesty was received at the terminus by the authorities of the town and the department, and on his entering his car riage he said, " A l' annee prochainc." As the imperial train, which was to take the Emperor to Le Pin, arrived at the gate of the Park of St. Cloud at half-past eleven on Saturday morning, his Ma jesty, accompanied by the Empress and the Prince Impe rial, drove up in an open cariage. Before getting into the train the Emperor kissed her Majesty and the young prince. Mlle. Mina Ruthardt and the Brothers Satire, two children, were admitted to give a concert at the imperial chalet. The manner in which those artists suc ceeded in getting heard by his Majesty is worthy of men' tion. On Thursday last, at the moment when the pupils of the School Chevalier (of Moulins) were at the imperial chalet, Mlle. Ruthardt was looking at the Emperor review ing the young scholars who were organised militarily- Pushed by the crowd she was obliged to advance farther than was permitted, and the guards, in obedience to their orders, wanted to remove her as well as her mother. The Emperor, however, approached those ladies, and directed the men to leave them unmolested, when Mlle.Ruthardt thanked his Majesty. Her slight German accent struck the atten tion of the Emperor, who immediately spoke to her in that language. The young lady then reminded his Majesty that her father, celebrated as hautbois player, had had the honour of playing several times at Arenberg before Queen Hortense and her son. As to the brothers Sauret, the youngest said to his father, •' Write a letter, and I will de liver it to the Emperor." No sooner said than done. When the child presented the request, saying Sire, deign to accept this," his Majesty caressed him, and the concert was decided on. Mdlle. Mina Ruthardt executed several /nor ceaux on the cythare. The Emperor, in applauding her, exclaimed, " One would almost think it was the human voice," and the romance of the "lrouvere" was encored. The brothers Sauret executed a duo from ' Guillaume Tell," after which the violinist gave "Le Carnaval de Venise" of Paganini with wonderful effect. The Emperor warmly applauded these charming children. New Legal Appointments.--Actual and Prospective. (From the Law Times of to .day, just published.) Sir James Wilde is appointed to the vacant judgeship in the Divorce Court. It was, perhaps' the best selection that could be made, for there was, in truth, no range of choice. Neither on the bench nor at the bar was there a man to whom all fingers could have pointed as the right man for the place. The new Judge possesses at least one quali fication, he is a gentleman, and that is the first requirement. In the performance of his delicate duties he will, undoubtedly, be guided by right feeling and good taste. The court will not, under his presidency, suffer in the reputation which it acquired under the controlling hand of his predecessor. Uncertain health is not such an objection as the limes asserts, for the work is no t so severe as it appears to be. The court sits 011 1 1 five days in the week, not until 11 o'cloek, rising at 5 and often at 4, and on Saturday at 3; and there are vacations also. The work is really lighter than that of the common law judges ; and there 18 less of labour and difficulty in the performance of it, for it is a very limited branch of law after all, re' quiring no researca and little other than the appli cation of good sense and knowledge of human nature. Sir James Wilde really obtains a desirable relief bi the change, and perhaps the lightened labour will improve the health that could not endure the toil of the common law courts. As for the law he is to administer, it is already made for him, and little re mains to complete the scheme. The changes consequent upon his removal are so yet only in rumour. The Attorney-General might have the vacant judgeship if he pleased. But wil l he accept it ? He aspires to a chiefship of course , and he will probably be content to take the chance of a prize which cannot be very long beyond hie grasp. Should he prefer, however, the present cer: tainty, Sir R, Palmer will succeed him, and Lord Palmerston will have to choose a Solicitor-Genera The claimants upon the Government are Mr. Collier, Q.C., Sergeant Pigott, and Sergeant Shee. Of th ese Mr. Collier has the foremost place, earned by long and faithful political services, and unquestione d capacity. Should the Attorney-General prefer to bide his time, a judge must be chosen by the Lord Chancellor. Political claims are not deemed to weigh so much in this appointment, which, indeed , is confided to the Lord Chancellor that he may give to the country the ablest lawyer and not the most active partisan. This is a part of hie patronage with which the Lord Chancellor pe t ' ; mitts no interference. E ven the premier bims ol ; would not expres s an opinion or a wish. L ori- Westbury has not exhibited any strong party be ar : inge in the di s t r ib ution of his judicial joatronog; hitherto, and Perh aps he will not do so now. Sholll— look for th e b est man, with the highest profe! , sional claim s , he would probably prefer Mr. l'u f/ ;; and we should not b e surprised if that gention s should b e se l ected for the honour. In addition th ere i , are the th ree competitors for the Solicitor-Genera 6 ship, and of th ese, for several reasons, M r. berge° ll Slice is lik e ly to b e preferred, espec i ally as he ha s already t w i ce occupigl the place of the new jucig7 of the Di vorce Court, when illness prevented . attendanc e on hi s c i rcuit. But e i t h er o f th o se W have nam e d would be approved by the P ro f es siir ; There are r umours also o f pro j ec t e d c hanges the .Equity Courts. It is said that L. J. Knig u . , Bruce will ret i re, that V,C. Kindersley is to woe:: him in the Appeal C ou rt, and that Mr. James zgill be the new Vice -Chancellor. MEYERBEER h as presented a grand chor , " Hymn to Jupit er, " to t h e c i ty o f Fl or ence, As token of his grat e f u l recollection of the manner w ith which vg his early works were recognised by the Florzntines. CHARMING SIMPLICITY !—Hay don, the historical painter, and his son Frank were in a churchyard, watching: a sexton digging a gr ave . issaid Hayden, "Fr ank ro that will be yours as well as nay last hone, But )* ()il first, papa,' y id Frank, un r mil'