The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-28 00:00:00

Denmark. Their reply is decisive. It declines the Prussian proposal, which is supported by the Pleni potentiary of the Germanic Confederation alone. The result of this deliberation prows that the manner of solution indicated by the Court of Pruse sia has not secured the united suffrages of the Conference." The Conference assembled on Jane 22 to hear the decisions which the belligerent Powers had taken upon the proposal made by the Government of her B r itannic Majesty with the view of calling on a friendly Power to settle the question of boundary, which was now the principle dlfi2ulty that delayed the pe&fic solution of the dispute. The reply of the belligerent Powers did not re spond to she wishes of the Government of her Britannic Majesty. Austrie and Prussia, " while showing themselves disposed to accept the media tion of a neutral Power not represented in the Con ference, were willing to engage beforehand to con eider themselves definitively bound by the opinion which might be expressed by the mediating Power, as circumstances did not allow them to accept an arbitrative decision. The Danish Government expressed a refusal even more decided. They declared that, to their great regret, it was impossible for them to give their consent to the proposal of the English Cabinet. The Plenipotentiary of Denmark explained this refusal by the necessity which obliged him to re gard the boundary proposed on the 28th of May as final, so as not to allow him to agree to an arbi trary decision which might modify that line. Lord Clarendon combated the opinion. While representing facts in their real light, he showed that the lino indicated on the 28th of May had been proposed in the interest of Denmark and of peace, and not with the intention of laying down a prin ciple from which there could be no departure. The Plenipotentiary of Russia concurred in the opinion of Lord Clarendon. He affirmed that Lord Russell never i n tended to propose that as an ulti matum., n or to impose it as such on the belligerent Conductor, Mr. Costa. After which the Divertissement, L'lle Enchant6e. Sup ported by Mdlle. Salvioni, Mdile. Carmine, 3(111e. Navarro, Assunta, M. - )esplaces, and Mr. W. 11. Payne. Commence at half past Eight. !'it tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre ,•tals, 103. 6d., 75., and ss. ; omphitheatre.",2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had tt the box-offic - under the portico of the theatre, which is ,pen from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and ,lbrartans'. THEATRE ROYAL HAYM ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Air. Howe and Miss L. Angel. Alter which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weatheriby, ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, IC. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, B.:c. ; Miss Stafford and .51iss Caroline Carson. After which, the new pray by John Oxenford, Eel., THE MONASTERY OF SP. JUST : Messrs. Vining, H. Mare ton, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, li. Mellon, W. Robins, Seyton, Chapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and 3ldlle. Stella olas. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-. Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, SIIAKSPERE'.S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. Followed by THE DEAD HEART : Robert Landry (his original character), Mr. Benjamin Webster, supported by Messrs. A. ::•tirling, .1. L. Toole, T. Stuart, Paul Bedford, 13.11ington ; Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Mies Kelly, Afterwhich, THE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, H. Boraerltiss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commeuee at 7. rowers. The Ambas=sador of France and the Minister of Sweden expressed themselves in the same sense. All the. combinations brought forward to arrive at an agreement on the line of the frontier having unfortunately been rejected, the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne thought fit to lay before the Conference a new proposal. He said— " When the Government of the Emperor gave R OYAL ST, JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. Re• engagement of those ce'ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. an 1 Mrs. Charles Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr.:F. Robinson. Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Mies Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Chas. Mathews. their adhesion to the plan of arrangement proposed by her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, in the sitting of the 28th of May, they i'oped that the united efforts of the Plenipotentiaries of the neutral Powers, seconded by the conciliatory disposition of the Plenipotentiaries of the bellige rent Powers, would succeed in bringing about between the interested psrties an understanding as to the tracing of the line of frontier. EVERY EVENING: at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Rcbinson. At 8, the Comic Drama of USED UP. Messrs. C. Mathews, Ashley, J. Johnstone, 3lontague, W Chamberlaine ; Miss Patti Josephs, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Charles Mathews Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. In Rehearsal, FAUST AND MARGUERITE. An Im morality, by F. C. Burnand, Esq., in which Mr. and M:s. Charles .lathews will appear. "These hopes have unfortunately not been realised. All the arrangements propcsed have been rejected, and no compromise seems as yet to have any chance of being ackApted. In this position of affairs, the Government of the Emperor consider it their duty to make in the interests of peace a final suggestion. It is in virtue of their nationality that the northern districts of Schleswig are to be as,igned to Denmark, and those of the south to Germany. It bas not been thought expedient to make an appeal to the wishes of the population where those wishes seem to be manifes:. ; but they might be consulted where they are doubtful, and where no other means exist for establishing an agreement. While admitting the impossibility of taking nation ality as an absolute rule in the division of the mixed districts of Schleswig, the Government of the Em peror are, however, of opinion that it would be right to obtain, by means of a vote of the com munes, the elements of appreciation on which it should be agreed to base a decision. This vote by communes would allow the most exact account to be taken of each nationality in the definitive tree ing of the frontier. " In order that it might offir in other respects the guarantees desired, it would be well to stipulate that all military forces should previously be with drawn, and that the votes should be given free from all pressure. Each Power might, moreover, send delegates to the spot in order to insure the perfect impartiality of the scrutiny." Lord Russell, in asking the opinion of the Danish plenipotentiaries, said that as regarded the Eng lish plenipotentiaries, they would be disposed to concur if the Danish Government thought proper to give their adhesion. M. do Quaade replied that he was, of course, without instructions cn the subject, and that he could not even conssnt to accept it ad referendum. He alluded to his declaration of the 2d of June, in which he said his Government would make great sacrifices in order to obtain the restoration of peace, but that there were limits beyond which they could not go, and his instructions forbade him to consent to any other line than that proposed by the English plenipotentiaries in the sitting of the 28th of May, and accepted by Denmark. MOSES AND SON r• respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. 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List of Prices with Rules for Self-measurement, Fashion Card, and our new pamphlet, "The Tercentenary; or, The Three Hundredth Birthday of William Shalfspeare," gratis and post free. NEW PATENT CURTAIN HOOK that requires no sewing, , , and, if reversed, can be used for many purposes. 'co be had of all shops in town or country. Patentees, W. TENT and Co., 23, Birchin-lane, London, E.C. COALS.—Tiao LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......23g. per ton. I Double ... 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ De , .p Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Weatbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Beat Coke Terms cash. The Engagement between the Alabama and the Kearsage, SOUTHAMPTON, June 28. The following is a correct list of the killed, drowned, and wounded belonging to the Alabama in her engagement with the Kearsarge : Killed.—John Roberts, John Adams, James Hart, and James King, seamen ; Christian Past, Peter Duncan, and James Weir, fi remen . Drowned.— F. M. Johns, purser's steward ; A. Norhook, ship's coo k ; P. Mayers, earpc ter'a mate; A. G. Bartell', captain's steward; Henry Fisher, George Appleby , Wal ter Vaindes, John Williams, Jahn Wilham, John Buckl ey , C harles Colson, Thomas White, and David Henry, seamen ; Andrew Shilling, fireman ; D. H. Llewellyn, assistant surgeon ; William Robinson, carpenter ; William Robertson, third assistant engineer: Wounded—Robert Wright, captains main top ; Peter Hughes, boatswain's mate; William M`Gin ley, captain's coxswain ; John Neil, seamen; John Carew, Robert Divine, Jacob Verbor, David Williams, seamen ; Thomas Winter, Samuel Wil liams, Martin King, firemen; William Morgan, captain fore-top. Threatened Arrest of " Manhattan." NEW YORK, June 14. My last letter informed you of an appointment at eleven o'clock with Major-General Dix, the com mander on this station. He was punctual to the appointment. He is a fine, gentlemanly old man of 70 and odd years. He remembered me as Mr. Calhoun's old private secretary. I cannot narrate all that took place ; but the general laboured under the impression that I was the incarnation of all that was bad in the Southern Confederacy. It was of no use my telling him that I was f or th e U n i on. He did not seem to believe it. H© honoured ma by saying that both ambassadors (Dayton and Adams) thought I did more injury to the cause of America than any other man could do. He said he was in favour of arbitrary arrest in my case—that he would stop these letters in future —that the past ho would leave to the Preaident—that he would sand those papers (file of Standards) t o th e Presi dent, and await his decision—whether to send me to Fort Lafayette or Richmond. We shall know the President' s decisi on by -Wed nesday, June 15. If he agrees with General Dix, this is the leat letter you will gat from me, unless I am sent to Richmond. It will probably mak e both Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell laugh at the idea of sending me to Richmond. If the President does this, I will continue my letters. I believe at Fort Lafayette there is no writing paper. THE MIIEDER AT PENGE.—At the Lambe! , Police court yesterday, Edward Turner, aged 19, and Johu William Clark, 23, were again placed at the bar before Mr Elliott, for further examination, for the wilful murder of Louisa Dyer, at Penge. Soma further evidence, not very conclusive in ito nature, was taken, and the Pri" toners were naiia remanded, JOHN bCOTT, Sole Agent FIRE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," A. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, an be had Every Evening of G. Et GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. fins DAY.—Morning, Bh. 43m.—Afternoon, 95. 18m. to-moußow.-losing, 91. 51m.—Afternoon, 10h. 28u, it , 111617 j, rgiut, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1864. The collapse of the Poreign Policy of Ministers is nothing less than a catast rop h e. All the i r delays have ended in failure. All their s o l emn mystifi cation has closed with a ridicul ous f i asco. " Wait —and you shall see ! Wait—and youear shall what i n everything ! Wait—and fox a interval of we have been about during this long reiterated procrastinations ! Have Patience—only have patience !" That has been their one incessant response to all inquiries a response acting like the most Effectual of Parliamentary gags upon oven the most eager of independent Liberals below the gangway—nay, upon even the most restive among the rank and file of the Oppo sition. Well—the house has waited, the Opposi tion has preserved silence, in compliance with these demands from a In Treasury bench for patience and taciturnity. The sif-command exercised by the House generally as well as by the Opposition in pal ■ titular, has from first to last—who shall gainsay it ? —been exemplary. Ministers have no reason whatsver to complain of the House as a body, or of he Opposition as a party. For whatever has come of it all, they (Ministers) have only to thank them ,elves. And, what has come of it—we know now at last and perfectly. What has come of it—is failure the most complete and comprehensive. The ,sritten negotiations have resulted only in the printing of a blue book. In nothing more ! The Conference Las risen, after all its preposterous sit. tinge, leaving matters exactly where they were bthrehand. The Plenipotentiaries have meal. RUY A L ITAL I A N OPEIt A, Ned 'here in London only for the express Covent-garden. p Irpo se of wrangling over a big table The n'tility, , entry, subscribers, and the public are respect . fuly informed that the Season will ciose on Saturday, in Da toning-street, and then (after the July 30. There will in this reek be five opera nights, viz. Monday, lap se of a certain number of weeks) of going ( I bock Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and ..-, aturday. A..- of marching down the hill of diffi 1 after THIS EVENING (Tuesday), June 2.9, will be performed,. ag' lip it like th® deliberate Scotchman in the jest for the third time on the Italian stage in Eng land, Flotow s bo , opera, STRADELLA. Leonora , Mdlle. Marie Batter; Bar berino, ell ty th ey had marched up it so ceremoniously and even Signor Ronconi ; Malvolio, Signor Ciampi ; Bassi, Signor Capponi ; and Stradella, Signor Naudin, his 2d ap pearance in that character in England. 05 to ntatiously like the King of FRANCE with his 40,( )00 men in the ludicrous couplet. Beholding the exact fulfilment of one's often•expressed antici pa' lions as to what that result must be, with Earl RUSSELL at the Fortip-office—ono is almost tempted for once to emulate poor simpleminded Mrs. NICKLaBY, with her self-complacent anticipation of the realisation of her little prophecies—'And when I say I said so—don't yon say I didn't !" That a melancholy failure such as this of the foreign policy of Ministers, should have befallen that policy of the Government, under the Secretaryship at the Foreign-office of Earl RUSSELL, frightful though it is for the nation to realise, thus painfully, under the gaze of all Christendom, cannot in reason be matter for very much astonishment. Tne marvel is, simply, that it should have been allowed by the Prime Minister to wind out its whole tangled reel of ignominy, uninterruptedly— that Prime Minister being no other than Lord PALMERSTON! It is when we come to realise it ell—that is, the whole of this lamentable and really ignoble situation of England as she stands now, isolated and derided, among the nations of Europe—it is when we come to realise all this, through our undimmed remembrance of Lord PAL. MERSTON'a long-protracted and resplendent career, that we regard the position of his Ministry at this moment with a pang of profound grief. Otherwise than for our wondering (almost incredulous) recognition of the fact that it is no other than Lord PALMERSTON, who is the Chief of the Administration that hes come thus deplorably to grief under the scorn. flu' gaze of Europe, our feeling in the matter must have been purely, and simply, and solely one of intense and unmitigated indignation. But— remembering the extended and illustrious career of this great statesman— " Who would not mourn if such a men there be I."— such a one, so pre-eminently distinguished, fallen thus at the close of his career into a plight so de. plorable— " Who would not weep if Atticus were he ?" If among all the great statesmen of this country now living there was one identified more conspi cuously than any other with all that is proudest, haughtiest, most chivalric in the typical character of Englishmen, as a race, that man was this last de scendant of a great Saxon Earl who flourished anterior to the Conquest—that man was HENRY JOHN TEMPLE,third Viscount PAL3IERSTON. He who, as about the knightliest chief among the knightly chiefs of his age, was described so finely but a very few years since by one of the most eminent leaders in the formidable array of the Conservative Opposi tion now confronting him, as "Riding to War no vizor to his helm !" Riding to War, forsooth! We can but think now with a pang, while watching the strange and wholly unwonted course thus taken by him—Riding to War ! Say rather, with a pang almost of vicarious shame while saying it—say rather than " Riding to War"—Sneaking to Peace ! "No vizor to his helm?' Instead of that with the golden spur half shorn how his heel, with the hitherto unemirched plume upon his battle-dinted hel met broken and draggled ! Yet this is the same world-famous English Statesman before the terror of whose name remote enemies of our country and of our Government hesitated when they were merely meditating a slight to the name or the honour of England ! It is the same great English Statesman of whom the late Sir HOBBIT PEEL —the great Sir ROBERT PEEL —once, upon a me• morahk nrcasinn, er.cifimerl in vi Commons, in the midst of a general sense of exul tation among those who actually heard the words uttered, as afterwards among those who read them as reported in the public newspapers—" We are all proud of him !" Our one only consolation, in his regard, new is to think of what he has been for more than half a century ! One of those statesmen the nation has been proud of! And this during more than half a century ! For, it was in 1809, during the height of the mighty power of NAPOLEON, when that last and greatest of the World's Conquerors was not so much Emperor of France merely, and King of Italy, and Mediator of Switzerland, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, as he was Master and Lord Paramount of Continental Europe—it was at a period so remote as that from this present hour, it was as far back as in 1809 that Lord PALVERSTON first assumed a distinguished position in the House of Commons, and in England, as an Administrator. Then— five-and•fifty years ap:i—he was appointed Seca retary at War upon the resignation of Viscount CASTLEREAGH. Previoualy, in the y ear immediately preceding it, namely, in 1808, he had made his first notable speech in Parliament, when opposing Mr. PON SONBI'S motion for the production of papers relative to Lord CATHCART'S expedition to— Copenhagen ! During the previous twelvemonth, that is, in 1807, he had already been, although at the time but in his twenty-fifth year, as one of the Junior Lords of the Treasury, a member of the Tory administration of the Duke of PORTLAND and Mr. PONSONBY. It was in 1809, however—as many as fifty-five years ago—that he assumed, as we have said, a conspicuous position among the statesmen and administrators of England by becoming Secretary of War in the room of Lord CASTLE REAGH, during the height of the Great Na. poleonian wars. Since then he has been, as the world full well knows, almost continually in office, now as Secretary at - War, now as Foreign Secretary, finally twice as Prime Minister of England—to end his great historical career at last with an anticlimax as deplorably incomprehensible and humiliating as that now revealed to the bewil dered apprehension of the country (hitherto so " proud of him,") through his astounding Ministerial statement last evening in the House of Commons. As frightfully demon strative of the depth of humiliation to which his proud spirit has at length con. descended, under the guidance apparently of Earl RUSSELL'S saturnine and sinister influence as a Foreign Minister, it will be sufficient to excerpt but one single passage from the close of Lord PALMERSTON'S speech last evening, when making this perfectly astonishing, and still to this moment utterly incomprehensible statement—the passage, namely, in which the Veteran Prime Minis. ter last evening remarked :—" I do not mean to say— and I think it right to put in that reservation—l do not mean to say that ! . .f the war should assume a different character, and mark as s a t a n k e i n — d p e d n o d e n n o t t Power if the existence of Den I ,: should be e t i o n s E ay ti" th i)e at s had at reason to c:pect we should see at Co penhagen the horrors of a town taken by assault— the destruction of property, the sacrifice of the lives not only of its defenders but of its peaceful in habitants, the confiscation which would arise, the capture of the Sovereign as a prisoner of war, OR EVEN TS OF TEAT BIND--(> oh, oh')—l do not mean to say that if any of these events were likely to happen, the position of this country in'i://4 not pooaibly in a fit tubj4t for to conoidera. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1864, tion—(' oh, oh')—or that other counsel might not properly be taken." IF this, that, and the other should occur I And what are those hypothetical de velopments of the war now (through the blundering of our Ministe,rs) allowed to recommence in the north of Europe—what are those hypothetical develop• meats of the war thus hinted at by Lord PALMER STON ? " The horrors of a town taken by assault —the destruction of property—the sacrifice of the lives not only of its defenders but of its peaceful in habitants—the confiscation which would arise—the capture of the Sovereign as a prisoner of war, or EVENTS OF THAT KIND !" Well—Yes, if all these " kind" of events should come to pass—what, then, would be the course pursued by Her MAJESTY'S present Ministers ? Why—even then—all that Lord PAL MERSTON can venture to predicate is this, that if any of these events should chance to happen, the position of the country, might—possibly-- be a subject—for reconsideration! Whatever may be the name of the political party entrusted with power—Whig, Tory, Liberal, Conservative— this, at least, we are quite certain of, that a policy such as Lord PALMERSTON yesterday thus explained and set forth deliberately in the House of Commons, while the like was being done in the House of Peers by Earl RUSSELL as Foreign Secretary, is not a policy in any way befitting the fair fame, the honour, or the integrity of the British Government. It would really appear at the present moment as it the civilised countries were attempting to go back to the days of barbarism in many of their acts and in the spirit of their policy. A letter in the Times of yesterday is enough to rouse the indignae tion of all who reverence honour and justice. It concerns the doom of Count STAN BLAU'S TAR NOWSKI, who has been sentenced to a cruel fate by the Austrian Government. It is from ono who knows him well, and wishes his numerous friends in Englaad to be informed of his fearful fate. " Twelve years' confinement in chains in a solitary cell" is a sentence which must appear almost in comprehensible to English readers. It recalls the old feudal times of oppression —it awakens thoughts of distant lands where tyrants hold ruthless sway ; but it certainly does not seem to bear affinity to the progression of this enlightened age, and to be a thing likely to take place in a country of Europe. It may be very well for the heartless men who de vise such atrocities and inflict such barbarities to attempt to call their deeds by official names, and to explain their conduct by declaring that it cs neces sitated by the pressure of circumstances. This is a false view of the matter; it rests on the broad principle of right and wrong, and all efforts at palliation only make the matter ten times worse. It is said that this rigorous sentence was given in accordance with the requirements of the state of siege introduced into Gallicia last February. It seems almost incomprehensible that Ministers and Statesmen should demean themselves by such conduct, It would have been a far more merciful dcom to have executed him at once, and not have devised torments un. worthy of men to perpetrate,, and impossible for human beings to endure. The absurdity of the affair is that it is for treason against the Prussian Government that the unfortunate Count is thus doomed to this imprisonment—as if they had not enough to do with their own country they must take up the quarrels of others, and fling themselves into the melee of the despotism and tyranny of the North. The only charge against the Count was " patriotism ;" he had endeavoured to serve his unhappy land, and has thus received this barbarous treatment. How such a sentence can be carried out in a country that calls itself a Christian oue may well puzzle anyone to make out. Really the conduct of the States in the question of Poland is a lasting disgrace to them. In their attempts t' pat dorr_n ty ut, pny zi..b (Ley may be successful, but the victory has cost them dear; it has sullied their reputation, injured their good faith, and darkened the annals of their history. No nation, however prosperous and powerful, can escape a day of retribution when it sanctions such atrocities, and no one can regret the doom that has been provoked by the perpetration of base and cruel acts. It is to be trusted that shame will induce his captors to mitigate this sentence, or that death may bring him a merciful release from the torments of his enemies, who seem to forget that there is a day of judgment to come. Mr. CARDWELL showed great discrimination in his remarks the other day to the deputation which came before him on the subject of "Transportation This is one of those diffi te Western Australia." cult matters to deal with that especially call for consideration and the exercise of tact in no ordi nary degree, but at the same time reason must be borne in mind, and while no thinking statesman would willingly offend prejudices, he cannot alto.. gather subscribe to the mistaken notions that gain grcund. The gentlemen who composed the depu tation were very earnest on the question of the transmission of convicts, and wished to have a period fixed for the cessation of the practice. Mr. CARDWELL very properly declined to accord to this proposition, and pointedly alleged that " after what the Government had done they ought not to be threatened with agitation," It is astonishing how unreasonable people may become if they work them selves up to imagine evils and exaggerate difficul ties. Many have been disappointed that the Go vernment has gone so far as it has in deference to the claims of the colonists, but it is pushing things to an extremity to demand that a cessation shall take place altogether in the practice. It shows a great want of consideration, to say the least of it, for these colonists to make such objections when they must know that the departure of these un happy outcasts is a great relief to our community, while landing them on the shores of a new world affords them a good opportunity for bettering their lives and changing their habits. Notwithstanding the assertions ot the members of the deputation they did not make out a good case; and it is to be trusted that their arguments will not deter the powers that be from their previous determination to carry on the practice on a minor scale. It stands to reason that in every community there must be some who outrage the laws, but that is no excuse why an effort should not be made to take advantage of opportunities to lessen temptation and ameliorate the condition of misguided members of society. A selfish policy is the last which will render any State flourishing, and those w ho adopt it so stren uously ate doing themselves no credit, and confer . ring no benefit on their country RENAN has a pamphlet in hand entitled " Ma Situation," in which, it is said, he will offer himself as a candidate for the Opposition at the next election. PELISSIER'S memoirs will, after being officially cleansed from all disagreeable matter, appear under the title " 'Memoires et Souvenirs par un Marechal de France." The Duchess is said to receive a pension of 25,000 francs. REMINISCENCES OF TnE O:CERA. By Benjamin Lumley, 20 years director of Her Majesty's Theatre.—" In this interesting volume Mr Lumley reveals the secret of his prison house. He takes his readers thoroughly behind the scenes. There was never more attractive apocalypse. The season has produced no book equal to Mr Lumley's in point of interest. He brings back the days when Jenny Lind and Piccolomini sang, when Tag-lioni and Elleler danced, when the long Thursday was an institution, and the ballet a triumph of art. His 'Reminiscences ' will be found thoroughly readable. The truth is, that the volume is fall of pleasant points, and the best thing we can do is to zecogagamci QUI readers to rod it,"—Vo krvs, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] RECOMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES, BOMBARDMENT OF ALSEN, COPENHAGEN, JUNE 26, 11.32 p.m. Hostilities were recommenced at six o'clock this morning. The enemy opened fire on the Island of Alsen from Ravenskobbel and several other batteries. EXPECTED NAVAL ENGAGEMENT BE TWEEN THE GERMAN AND DANISH FLEETS. HELIGOLAND, JUNE 27 (Evening). According to intelligence received here an en gagement between the German and Danish fleets will probably take place in these waters within a few days. The English frigate Wolverine and some deopateh boats are stationed here. FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 28. The following nominations have been announced : —Count Comminga Guitant is appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of France at the Court of the King of the Belgians; Count Reonlot at the Court of the King of Portugal; Viscount Meloizes-Fresnoy to the Court of Munich ; and the Marquis of Cadore at the Court of the Grand Duke of Baden. BOURSE, June 27.—The market had rather a downward tendency at first, but rallied a little on the arrival of the English funds with a slight im provement. Threes, for the Account, after having reeptipd to 65fr 60c. are now at 65fr 70c. Mobilier, after having been done at 1,0171 r 50c, advanced to 1,030 fr. Railway Shares quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents . . 93 75 Italian Loan 69 65 Do. end month.... Do. end month 69 80 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 65 80 New Mexican .... 55 25 Jredit Mobilier.... 1047 50 Russian ........ Do. end m0nth...J.045 Austrian Bank Shares 326 J Spanish Threes.... 51} Credit I oncier 1225 Home Debt Roman GAIL WAYS. Orleanri •, Northern Cash. Account. 865 —• 4 . 862 50 982 50 .. 990 876 25 .. 880 Lyons and Ifieditorranean New ditto Southern ' 645 .. 645 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain . ... 426 25 .. 425 Saragossa 562 50 .. 662 50 Ditto to Barcelona The Defences of Richmond, A correspondent of the Neu; York Tribune, Who states that he has derived his information from an es-Confederate officer, gives the following account of the defences of Richmond There are hun dreds and even thousands of people who suppose that General Grant intends to carry the defences around Richmond by a grand assault, and that in a few days the city will be captured. But these parties will be disappointed. The day for carrying the defences and reaching the city by storm is past. In the latter part of June, and the fore part of July, 1862, when M'Clellan Was frightened to his gunboats for protection, the defences of the city were in the nature of common field fortifications, which any skilful or even fighting general with his army could have carried with little difficulty and loss. The Union army then outnumbered the rebel host by one third, and I believe one half. Since then, however, the rebels have placed under arms every citizen capable of military duty, so that to day Lee's army is numerically nearly equal to Grant's. The rebel authorities have not only placed every man capable of bearing arms in the Eeld, but they have done everything that military skill and engineering could do to render their city impreg nable. Richmond is to-day as well fortified, per haps, es any city on the globe. It is as complete la fortress (so the rebels boast) as the city of Posen in Prussia, which is said by military writers and engineers to be the most skilfully fortified inland city in Europe, not excepting even Paris. The public must, therefore, await the operations of our Lieutenant-General with patience. The defences of Richmond consist of a large number of forts of various dimensions, so situated that mutual protection exists between them, while an interior circumscribing system of defence has been adopted as an additional security, should a single outwork fall. To name and describe all the fort 3 would be quite a tedious task, and I shall therefore only refer to a few of the most im portant ones. Looking to the south-east, we find Fort Jackson, near Fair Oaks, about 3k miles from the city, between the New Bridge-road and York River Railroad. Then comes Fort Johnson, just below the Chickahominy, in the neighbourhood of a mile from the Mechanicsville Pike. This fort commands the Mechanicsville-bridge , and, in fact, all the bridges and fords between it and New Bridge. Two miles and a half from the city, and about midway between the Virginia Cen tral Railroad and Mechanicsville Pike, is the " Ma. lakoff," bearing on the Mechanicsville Bridge and Wilkinson's or Railroad Bridge, and will, i n f ac t, sweep that part of the Chickahominy between the points named. About two and three quarter miles from the city, nearly midway of the Meadow Bridge Road and Brook Run Pike. situate on a high hill, is Fort Beauregard, commanding the Brook Pike and Meadow Bridge Road. A mile and a half in advance of it is a great redoubt, bearing on the Meadow Bridge and the bridge over Brook Run and all inter mediate points on the stream. Three and a half miles from the city, between the Brook Run Pike and the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad, on an eminence stands Fort Lee, commanding both those thoroughfares for a long distance, and coma mending as well Brook Run Bridge and two fords on the Deep Run. Within and without and be tween these forts are others on a smaller scale; and in addition to this, the intervals are enclosed by heavy curtains and ramparts from 80 to 9U feet in thickness. In front of the forts and ramparts are ditches 28 feet in width and 22 feet deep, in which are concructed Carnot walls of the most ingenious character. A NEW ALABAMA.—The Paris correspondent of the Daily News saye:—" It is not true, as reported by the Temps, that Captain Semmes is in Paris, but it is said that he has sent for most of his officers to give them instructions for the armament of a now Alabama, of which he proposes shortly to take the command. The France, which seems to have received special information about this new ship, says that she is a small beautifully formed corvette, iron-plated inside, and provided with powerful artillery. Captain Semmes has ordered three pivot guns capable of throwing hollow projectiles of 170, and solid projectiles of 220 English pounds. Her crew, which in the old Alabama consisted of 142 men, is to be augmented to 172.. The France says that these details are positive.' It does not know in what port the new ship will be armed, but it believes that no surveillance can prevent it from putting to sea." --- TIIE LATE MR. GEORGE LANCE.--This celebrated flower and fruit painter, whose death is just an nounced as having occurred at New Brighton, Cheshire, was born at Little Easton, Essex, in 1802. In 1828 he first began to exhibit his productions at the Royal Academy, but it is only since 1835 that he has regularly been a con tributor. Every one who is in the habit of visiting the Royal Academy must be familiar with Mr Lance's beautiful imitations of fruit and flowers. He has three pictures in the Vernon Gallery, the moat celebrated of which per haps ie " Redcap." Mr Lance, however, has gained some reputation in other departments of art. " Melancthon" gained the prize at Liverpool. Much controversy has taken place about M r L ance ' s s h are i n res t or i ng V e l a sques . " Boar Hunt,' in the National Gallery, some 20 years ago, Mr Lance insisting that whole groups of figures are in reality his work. Mr. Lance never was a Royal Academi cian, great as was his popularity in his own line ; but those who are familiar with the " laws of thought" which govern the august 40 will be at no loss to understand the reason. EFATAL BARGE ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER Yesterday morning, off Chelsea, a young man named Christopher Price, a bargeman, fell from the gunwale of his barge, and was drowned before assistance could reach kiinu SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, LONDON ; Tune 23.—Wind this day at noon—North- West; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. COWES, June 27.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Cassia, From Callao—Annie, from Bahia. FALMOUTH, Juno 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Linder. fame, from Bahia for Bremen. isizwr 011 T, June 26.—Wind W.—Arrived—Florence, frota Waterford for Ascension. Sailed—Tre Brodreg, for Buenos Ayres. CLYDE, Juno 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Canada, from Quebec. DUNDEB, Juno 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Summer Cloud, from Calcutta. Orr MA.GNETIO TELSGILAPX,) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning: Arrived, June 27—Crrwinde Karen Wedel Jasborg, from Dram—Morning Star, from Jamaica—Olaf Karre , fro m Havannah—Malabar, from Calcutta. Arrived, Juno 28—llebe from Holmstadt—Ferciens Kiold, from Havannah—Rifleman and Waltar Hood, fm ro Sydney.—Minniger, from Quebec—Anna, from Holber— Counttss from Dantsic. DEAL, Tuesday Morning, Arrived and Passed, June 27—Rifleman, irona Sydney, for London. Passed, in tow—Virginia Dare, from Calcutta, for L on d on —S ar ah Scott, from Su nderland, for Alexandria— Jessie, from London, f o r Demerara—Victoria, f rom Sunder land, for Alexandria—biaggle Lauder, from Sunderland, for Calcutta —Jane Harman, from the north, f or the Best —Dione, from Londos, for Algoa Bay. THE ALLEGED CRUELTY TO SEAMEN ON BOARD THE AMERICAN SHIP ALEATROSS.—A paragraph appeared in the Times of the 14th inst. in reference to pro ceedings before the Newport magistrates against the two mates of the American ship Albatross for several acts of alleged cruelty to the seamen on board. The charges against the mates were then dismissed, the alleged offences having been committed on the Atlantic, and, consequently the cases did not come within the jurisdiction of the magis trates. The latter, however, expressed a hope that the American Consul would inquire into the matter. In com pliance with this request, an investigation has since been held beforo Mr Knapp, the Consul. After hearing the witnesses on both sides, the Consul reports that the charges were entirely unfounded, and that the crew were induced by designing parsons to make complaints of cruelty in Order, if possible, to extort money. _ Tar eirtn urt HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, June 27. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High nem the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin• cess of Waits, Princess Helena, and Princess Louis of Hesse, rode on horseback, attended by the Hon. Horatia Stop ford. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Victoria of Hesse, have taken their usual carriage airing this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Prince Albert Victor, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Lieut.-Colone l Rappel, left the Castle this afternoon for Marlborogh House. The Weather—Sun Office, June 28, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 69 Barometer-30.20. ; light breeze and cloudy. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. A STnAsan DE LUSlON.—Elizabeth Williamson, an old Scotchwoman, described as a monthly nurse, and who has been charged at this and other courts with drunkenness, SO., about 200 times, was brought before Mr Tyrwhitt, charged with disorderly conduct and drunkenness. Police constable 81 C having proved the case against the defendant, Inspector Walker said the defendant was labour ing under the delusion that she was being kept out of an annuity of £l5O by the Prince of Wales. The defendant said she had been appointed to the situa tion of laundrymaid to his Royal Highness, the salary being £l2O a year. Last night she went to see his Royal Highness's Secretary,when the police came up and took her into custody. Mr Tyrwhitt—Drunk, mad, and bad. Long drinking and bad habits have brought you to your present condition, The defendant has an annuity, I believe. Inspector Walker said that was the case, The defendant said she had a piece of paper showing that the Prince of Wales had given her £3O. Mr Tyrwhitt said he would send the defendant to prison for a week, and her mind could then be inquired into. THROWING A WIPE DOWN A FLIGHT OP 'STAIRS.— Joseph Cooper, a shoemaker, living in Smith's-court, Windmill-street, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting his wife, Eliza Cooper. The complainant, whose head was bandaged, said about 6 o'clock this morning—her husband having come home about half-past one, drunk—she called him to breakfast, when he struck her with a piece of wood he used in his busi ness. She, however, did net wish to press the charge, as he was not quite sober. She afterwards went to the Charing-cross Hospital and had her head dressed. Mr Tyrwhitt said it was very kind of the complainant not to press the charge, but women must be protected. The complainant said it was for her children's sake she did not wish to press the charge. A female said that hearing screams she went to the prisoner's room, and found that he had thrown a looking glass at his wife, and there were handfuls of hair lying about the place. The prisoner then threw his wife down a flight of stairs, and beat her with a piece of wood. Police - constable Reeves, 44 C, said that hearing cries from a female he went up to the prisoner's room, and having persuaded the prisoner to keep quiet, left, Shortly after he again heard screams, and on returning to the place found the complainant lying in the passage bleeding from a wound on the head, and she said that her huabaud had thrown her down stairs, Mr TyrWhitt inquired the height of the stairs, and the constable said about 20 feet, and that on taking the pri soner to the station he admitted striking his wife with the piece of wood spoken of. He took the complainant to the hospital, and she had a scalp wound an inch in length. The prisoner said his wife was a drunken woman, and that she fell down stairs. Mr Tyrwhitt said he could not tell what might be the consequence of the injury the complainant had received, as erysipelas might take place. He should therefore remand the prisoaer for a week, but would take two sureties of £lO each for his then appearing. THAMES. GROSS OUTRAGE—Mathew Campbell, a ballast getter, in the employ of the Trinity House Corporation, was brought before Mr Partridge, charged with assaulting Mrs Under wood, the landlady of the White Bear public-house, Hat cliff. cross. The prisoner, a rough blackguard, had been in the orao tics of going into the White Bear, making disturbances there, and drinking beer which he did not pay for. On Saturday week the prisoner and another man succeeded in passing a counterfeit half crown on Mrs Underwood. Yesterday evening the prisoner and another man entered the White Bear and called for a pot of porter. The prisoner's companion put down a shilling and took it up again. The beer was drunk by the two fellows and not paid for. The prisoner made a disturbance and grossly insulted Mrs Underwood. He then had the impudence to go behind the counter and draw some beer from the engine into a pewter pot, and on Mrs Underwood remonstrating with him he threw the beer he had drawn over her and ran out of the house. A policeman was called, and he soon found the prisoner. Mr Partridge said the prisoner had committed a gross and oowardly outrage on a respectable woman, and fined him 40s. The penalty was paid, Extraordinary Suicide Mania in Cheltenham, The extraordinary mania for committing suicide, which has prevailed in Cheltenham for some weeks was last illustrated o❑ Thursday by a young man named Charles Taylor, 19 years of age, on whose body an inquest was held on Saturday. From the evidence it appears that on the former day he called several times at the residence of a young woman named Elizabeth Hobbs, to whom ho had for some years been paying his addresses, and seemed an noyed to find she was at the Circus with some friends. He called again in the evening, rather the worse for liquor, and found her in; but he con ducted himself in such a rough manner that she had to request him to leave, which he refused to do. Subsequently, while she was in the act of drinking some water, he tipped up the glass, and spilled the water over her, which so enraged her that she threw the residue over him, and slapped his face. After a time he went into the backyard, and as he did not return she went in search of him, and found him in a sitting position on the ground, his neck resting on a cord clothes line which hung across the yard. She lifted the cord from under his chin, and with the other hand raised hie head, and placed him backwards upon a box close by. She spoke to him, but he made no answer. His eyes rolled about for a moment, and then all appeared over. It was conjectured that he might have fallen with his neck on the line while in a fit, or in consequence of being intoxicated, and thus been suffocated; but the medical testimony showed that it was quite possib:e for him to have designedly deprived himself of life by pressing his neck on the line, and taking this in connection with several threats he had uttered during the evening, the coroner summed up in favour of fel° de se. The jury, how ever, returned a verdict of'' Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.' While the jury were de liberating some consternation was caused by a re port that a young man named Elliott, a companion of the deceased, had stabbed himself in the breast, and was dying. On this coming to the coroner's ears in the jury room he remarked, "I shall not be surprised if half Cheltenham com mits suicide, particularly while juries returns ver dicts which the evidence does not support." It is right, however, to state that Elliott was seized with a fit, and that a wound on his breast, which he strenuously refuses to account for, had been opened in the fall. The whole affair has produced consi derable consternation in Cheltenham, this being the eighth case of suicide which has occurred there within the past seven weeks. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Frinco Albert Victor of Wales, returned to Marlborough House yesterday afternoon from visiting the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen, took a carriage drive. The Prince and Princess of Wales went to the Philharmonic Concert at the Hanover-square Rooms in the evening, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lord Harris, and Lieu t.. Colonel Kell" pei. The Prince and Princess of Leioingen have arrived on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. His Royal Highness the Duke de Montpensier is much better, and according to the telegram received in tow. ycoprday from the Dukfi d'Aumale's seat in Iv, °raw tershire, is now in a fair way of recovery. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Miss Longlei had an evening party yesterday at Lambeth Palace. The Dowager Duchess of 13( aufort and Lady Geraldine Somerset's name appeared by mistake in the list of company at the Duke of Devonshire's on Friday night. They were prevented by a family affliction from attending. The Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley Mane Carlton-house-terrace to-day for Cholmondeleyeastle, Cheshire, for the season. The Earl of Denbigh and the Ladies Mary and Ida Feilding have just returned to Newnham Paddox, after a long absence in Italy. The Earl and Countess of Breadalbane and family arrived at Auchmore House, Killin, by Callander and Loch Earn Head, a few days since, from Glasgow and London. On their arrival at Killin they were received by the Breadalbane Volunteers, and a large body of tho tenantry from all quarters of the property, with the warmest congratulations and rejoicings. A triumphal arch was erected at the entrance to the Auchmore grounds► and at night immense bonfires blazed on the surrounding hills. Many flowing bumpers were pledged in celebration of the arrival of the noble lord and lady at Auchmore House, an old residence of the Breadalbane family. Field Marshal Viscount and Viscountess COI` bermere have &fared their departure from town until Tuesday next. HEALTH OF MR. SPOONER, M.P.—From inqui ries made last night we learn that Mr Spooner continues in a very weak and precarious condition.—Birmingharn Post. THE PROTOCOLS OF CONFERENCES—heId in London relative to the affairs of Denmark—that i®, the papers, so entitled, which were laid on the tables of the Lords and Commons last evening' respectively by Viscount Palmerston and Earl Rug' sell—have come to hand immediately before ourgoing to press. They extend to the number of 156 pages, altogether. Thirteen Protocols in all, with four Annexes. Thirteen, that is, counting as one of them the preliminary Protocol of Conference held April 20th, 1864—signed G. Quaade, Bill,, Krieger, La Tour d'Auvergne, Russell, Clarendon, Brunnowf and Le Comte Wschtmeister. The signatures of others of the plenipotentiaries drop in later such as those of Apponyi, Biegeleben, Beust, Bernstorff, and Balm]. The closing annex, with which this batch of parliamentary papers is brought to an end, consists of a very lucid, but for that precise reason a very pitiable And humiliating summary of the deliberations of the Conference of London, from the 25th of Apri to the 22d of June, when the said Conference collapsed. At an extraordinary general meeting of share. holders of the Indian Tramway Company, held today, the report recommended that the proposi. tion of the chairman be received, who had had per sonal consultations with the Governors of the several Presidencies in India, for constructing the Base° line of 20 miles to Bomb iy, an important feeder to the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and the Hajeepore, Lalgunge, and Moz3fferpore line of 3 5 miles in Bengal, a tributary of the East Indian Railway, both of which offer very greet advantages, and will, no doubt, prove highly remunerative. To enable the board to avail themselves of the additional concessions above mentioned, and to complete the two short lines in the Bengal and Bombay Presidencies, it now becomes necessary to issue the remaining 33,000 shares which make up the sum of X 250,000. This addi tional capital will be received upon the same terms as the previous capital, under which authority has been given by special resolution, constituting one of the regulations of the company, to pay interest during construction at 5 per cent. until the lines are opened for public traffic. ACCORDING to La France, Prince Napoleon is preparing an account of the lives and writings of the ma' hers of the family of Bonaparte. LOLD BROUGHAM'S NEW BILL ON BRIBERY. — Lord Brougham's new bill for the more effectual prevention of bribery has just been issued. It is to be made a mis demeanour, after the Ist of August, to commit bribery in respect to the election of members of Parliament, and the punishment to be one year's imprisonment, with or without hard labour. A trial is not to take place at quarter or general sessions. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR WASHINGTON WILR'S. —Yesterday evening at a public meeting, on the subject of reform, was held at the St. Pancras Vestry Room, when the borough members, Lord Fermoy, M.P., and lir Harvey Lewis, M.P,, as well as several well-known speakers and advocates of reform, were present. In the course of this proceedings, after the first two resolutions had been carried, Mr "Washington Wilks rose to second the third motion for the appointment of a committee to carry forward the pro posals of the meeting. During his observations Mr Was, to the consternation of those present, suddenly fell back in a fit and was removed from the platform to a chamber near, where several medical gentlemen attended him. In tho meantime the business of the meeting went forward, an/ Lord Fermoy having concluded an address, Mr Harvey Lewis was proceeding to speak, when the chairman an nounced that Mr Wilks, who had but just addressed the meeting, was dead. The i n telligence created an extraordi nary and painful excitement, and the meeting was at once dissolved. Every effort to restore i the unfo r t una t e gentle man had failed, and he expired n about fifteen minuted from the time ho was removed from the platform. Twin —The shape of the bulb is of i m portance. Spherical bulb s are b est a d ap t e d to res ist the varyingipressure of the atmosphere; while cylin drical bulbs expose larger surfaces of mercury, and are therefore preferred for more delicate instruments. Various plans have been suggested in order to obtain thermometers of extreme sensitiveness for delicate experiments. Some have been made with very small thin bulbs to contain it Very small quantity of mercury; but in these the indicating column is generally so fine, that it can only be read by tits aid of a powerful lens. Instruments have been contrived with spiral or coiled tubular bulbs ; but the thickness of glass required to keep these in shape nullifies the effect sought to be obtained—namely, instantaneous action. Messrs. Negretti and Zambra, the well-known meteoro logical instrument makers, have recently succeeded IA constructing a thermometer which combines sensitive. ness and quickness of action, and which presents a good visible column. The bulb of this thermometer is of a grid iron form. The reservoir is made of glass, so thin that it cannot be blown ; it can only be formed by means of spirit-lamp; yet its shape gives it such rigidity that ill' indications are not affected by altering its position or by standing it on its bulb. The reservoirs of the most delicate of there instruments contain about nine inches of excessively thin cylindrical glass, the outer diameter of which is not more than the twentieth. of an inch, and, owing to the large surface thus presented to the air, the indications are positively instanta neous. This form of thermometer was constructed expressly to meet the requirements of scientific balloon ascents, to enable the observer to take thermometric readings at precise elevations. It was contemplated to procure a metallic ther mometer; but on the production of this perfect instrument , the idea was abandoned,—Minkris Journal, .liL MOSES AND SON'S `4 • ouTri FS. for all classes, all ages, and all climates.