The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. GENTLMEN, — I have on several occasions been requested by influential Citizens o whene ver to allow myself to be nominated as a Candidate a vacancy should occur in the represen tation of the City. The letter which has appeared this morning in the " Times" from our respected representative, Sir James Duke, an pouncing his intention of retiring from Parliment, renders it necessary that some response should be given by me to the kind express.ons of those who have th.,ught th I should not prove an unworthy representative ot the great interests entrusted to a Member of Parliament for the City of London. I beg to assure you th I should esteem it an honour to be one ot the representatives in the House of Commons fo g r the an d largely interested in its City of London , having fo r many years been actively enaged in the public affairs of the City, trade and comrnere. My attachment to the Liberal cause is well known to li he t El e ctors. I have always advo cated and supported those be ral principles which have tended so materially to promot e the prosperity of all classes in this country, and at the saute time have added strength road • ecur.ty to the Constitution. The position of Chiet Magistrate, in which the favour of my fellowizens has placed me, encourages me to hope that I f.iity be honoured with the confidence ot the E!ectors, who may feel assured ttiat in entrusting to me the onerous re sponsibilities and duties of their representative in Parlia bament, those responsibilities will ever be kept in view, and those auties ea:nestly and faithfully diseharg - ed. I am, Gentlemen, yours very taithiully, WILL AM L.A.WILE'NCE. Mansion House, July 25, 1561, I LOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. Last Night but Five. Mdile. Adeline Patti, Madame Didiee ; Signor Graziani, and Sigma. Mario. Extra Night. THIS EVENING (Monday', July 25, will b, in four acts, e performed, for the first time this season , Flotow's opera MARTHA. Lady Enrichetta, Mdlie. Adelina Patti ; Nancy, Madame Didiee ; Plumket, signor Grt aziani ; Trietano, Signor Tagiliafieo ; Sceriffo di _Richmond, Signor Fallar ; and Lla nelli), Signor Mario. The incidental divertissement ills be supported by Mille. 31alle. Car ine, a C o duc tor, Mr. Costa. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amph i t h e atre stalls, 10s. 6c1., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 29. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the boxothce under the portico of the theair , which is open from ten till five, and at the principal music e sellers' and librarians'. A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE._ Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Ting E VENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'ltaff er ty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new pray by John Oxenford, Esq., THE M ONASTERY OF SP. JUS : Messrs. Vining, 11. Mars ton, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, C. Seyton, C hapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and Mdlle. Stella colas. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— Sole Pronriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Stephen son, Homer; Miss liToolgar, Miss K. Kelly. and Mrs. Bil lington. At ID, ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Penholder, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Constance, Miss 11. Simms. Followed by 'DIE AREA BELLE, with a horrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, r. Bedford, It. itonler, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Last three weeks of the present season. Crowded with rank and fashion. Rc•engagement of those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr. an Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new original Travestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnaro, Esq., entitled FAUST A.SD MARGUERITE. in which Mr. and Mrs Charles Mathews will appear. The new scenery by the celebrated artists, Messrs. Danson and Sons ; the incidental Ba.let by _ ()sear Byrne. 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; Miss Herbert, - Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miso Wentworth,;Mrs. Stirling, anti Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MARGUERITE : Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague. Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberlaine, and Mrs. C. Mathews. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEIUNS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matnews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. GOODWOOD.—RACE GLASSES, the best at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent to Voigtlantrer, Vienna. OPERA and RACE GLASSES, Field and Yacht Glasses, in every varies y of size, form, and mounting, matchless for their great magnifying power and sharpness ot definition. Price, from 30s. each, at CALLAGJIAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. Sole agent for the celebrated race and field glasses and photo graphic lenses made Dy Veigtlander, Vienna. Field glasses made expressly for India. warranted to withstand the gi eatest tropical heat. The new alumintun mounted glasses (as re cently made for 11.11.11. the Prince tf Wales', though ot the largest size, weigh but a few ounces. COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stcck a variety of WASHING tIILK. 1)11.E•38.11:S, suitatle for the tountry and seaside, and at the c.earing-out price of only £1 11s. ed. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 231, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-center e. Messrs. JAY, therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will natur illy b„, more co stly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 239. per ton. I Double .. 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep ....215. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, Sou th Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent T" THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Cut be had Every Evening of G. R. GLk,NIE, NEws AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 25, 1864. THEItIiONS BTEIt. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.84. WIND —S.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 6a. Min.—Afternoon, 6'a. ZOrn. To-stoltao - vr.-Morning, 7h. 12m.—Afternoon, 401 n. tO j ig -4 W 7 ' 'kW' SUIT LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1864. Diplomatically—Everything is gain .ed (in the way of all the advantages resulting from the preserva tion of Peace) —fors l'honneur ! We have been threatening—and all our threat s have c ome to nought. We have been promising assistance—and that assistance, even at the direst, extremity, has never once been forthcoming. There was always a putting off, upon some paltry ex cuse or another. Holstein was invaded. Yes— but it was n o t Schleswig ! Schleswig was entered by the German troops, was entered and formally occupied. Ah—it was not Jutland ! Jutland was penetrated. True—but there was the Island of Funen Nay—it was actually intimated at last by the Prime Minister of England, in the presence of the House of Commons, amidst ironical jeers of indignation that in certain still more dire contingencies—lf Copenhagen were bombarded and taken, for example, if King CHRISTIAN IX., the father of our young Princess of WALES, were seized by the Prussian Victors in his palace, and were carried away thence as a prisoner of war—England, even then, might—not "could,'' but " might"—interfere ? Nothing of the kind! England, even then, might —it was a mere hypothesis—might—just within the limits of possibility—reconsider her policy ! Might—take into her ccnsideration the advisability of acting, somehow or another, differently ! No—the preservation of peace in Europe is in itself, of course, a matter for profound congratulation. But—it is certainly no subject for self gratulation to Eugland the ignoble manner in which it has been brought about! It becomes even matter for serious doubt among patriotic Englishmen whether so absolute a sactifico of honour, of dignity, of good faith, of • self-respect (in the dealing about us, that . is, of so many utterly valueless fair promises, and of so many utterly contemptible, because empty and idle threats) is not a price too dear for us to have paid even for the preservation of peace in i Christendom. The speech of Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE on Friday was very appropriate, and it is satisfac tory to know that there are some few remaining politicians who will broach these awkward subjects, and thus compel Ministers to make some attempt at a reply. It is notorious that our Government shirk all inquiries, and turn a deaf ear alike to the voice et reason and the language of warning. That is no excuse for those idle or indifferent members who will not interfere, because they say it is of no use to make any disturbance, since no result will ensue. It is their duty to do their utmost, and if they fail it is not their fault. At any rate all that relates to this matter of which Lord STRATFORD DR REDCLIFFE treated is so very unsatisfactory, and the intelligence itself so unwelcome to English ears that we cannot but hail every opportunity that occurs for watching the progress and marking the workings of the affair. His lordship put the ques tion very fairly before the House, and the tenor of his remarks must have produced an impression upon many of his hearers. In the first place, it is im possible for the most sceptical to deny that there is great truth in his observation that such a thing as the revival of the Holy Alliance must be deemed far from improbable, and also that if such an event actually occurred the combination of the three military Powers, Austria, Russia, and Prussia would be a great evil. They would inter fere with the freedom and the independence of all the smaller States. This is strictly true, and, in deed, proofs are not wanting of the lamentable effects which have been produced by the union of these Powers. Las: year Poland was made almost a complete wreck through the rapacity of Russia, and every imaginable assistance was ren dered by Austria and Prussia. The latter kingdom more especially conspicuously distinguished itself for its zeal and energy in the cause, and now this zeal many calamities have arisen through the joint working of Prussia and Austria; while Russia has not only openly lent her aid, but done a good deal in the way of secret service to those whose greed and covetousness sent them forth to despoil and appropriate the possessions of others. It is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact that these three Powers, flushed with victory, intent on plunder, and incensed at the idea of the spread of liberty, will not be,content to re main stationary. Rest and be thankful does not enter into the policy of their Cabinets; they are always on the alert, and woe betide the small State, the independent little kingdom, or the revolutionary country that stands in their way, and incites them to exterminate and crush. There can be no greater mistake than to ignore the workings of a system until it is too late to do anything to check its course, or arrest its mischievous tendency. With Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE we agree in declaring that this combination puts us in great danger, It is one of thosteunpropitioes developments of power and those disastrous exhibitions of strong passions without a curb that are fatal to the interests of communities, and totally subversive of the best laws of humanity. Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE very `forcibly expressed his opinions relative to the mis taken views entertained by some respecting the atti tude that England ought to assume. The interests of commerce are held to supersede all other consi derations. "If we wish to be safe and to escape that which has been the almost proverbial fate of all commercial countries, we must preserve that high spirit of nationality, and that nobility of heart which tells us that our best interests are not based on mere sordid calculations of profit and loss." These are sentiments which are worthy of a great country, and it would be well if they were more in vogue in high places just now, but on the contrary our Ministers appear to put profit before every thing, and the dread of war before the claim's of justice or the interests of the oppressed. Earl RUSSELL'S reply to the queries put to him was as tame and unsuitable as usual on such occasions. 'li e either did not or would not see the drift of of the noble l or d, as to his dr • e authenticity of the rumour referre: she t hre marks to. lord appears himself to e4llTih of e noble p e e rehend that at some future time there will - ;irtually be a combine;:o a that will possess dtl the attrib u t es o f t h e H oly Alliance. The Powers in qu es ti on are alwa y s expressing a hope that th e E uropean Soverrjjgas may unite in order to put down reaction a7.s movements. We shall only drift into further perplexities, however, and meet with more diffi- The imminent probabilities of a general European war have happily drifted out of view within the last few weeks. Peace among the Great Powers, it is satisfactory to know, is not only still preserved intact, but is likely to b© preserved for some time to come. Whatever sinister hints to the contrary may be thrown out by isolated Parisian organs like Le Pays, the general impression, nowadays, both here amongst ourselves, and beyond the Channel in all parts of the Continent, is pretty much what we have here intimated it to b e . Regarding the mere fact itself—that peace has not merely to this moment been preserved, but that it appears to yield every reasonable promise of being yet awhile maintained intact, for a period of indefinite duration —we cannot but look to the aetual result, of course, with a sense, so far, of profound satisfaction. But, while doing so, in the interests of humanity, it is impossible to do so in " r Own selfish national interests. It is i 7 l4lsi ble, at least, to look at t he manner in which this reti n a, L has been secured, with any degree of, so to Speak , And for a national self-complacency. reason, u h n—s PPily, only too apparent, not only here, but far and wide, all over the world, in both hemi spheres. Peace has been preserved—but at what a sacrifice ! At the Sacrifice of the prestige, rif the name, and fa me, and influence, end heroic repute of England. It is undenii;o l ,e, Ali Europe knows it to be so. It is rnP,iter for pro found exultation through the length and breadth of the Continent. It is not so with France—but it is su with En g land. Fra nce never indulged d ur i ng the late diplomat ic c o r r e spondence and negotiati ons --in the matter of Schleswig an d .. u ..oAtein in th e matter of dispute between Denmark and y—Fra cce never indulged in Gaman those false promises on the one side, and in those bragga dociose threats upon the other, that England, thankE to Elri Rus3ELL'S policy, certainly did indulge in, and indniged in apparently with a sort of insensate perversity, prepense, upon system, and with a kind of crass stupidity of deliberation. Reversing that old heroic cry o f anguish that thrills to us through history, we mfght say now, in regard to the :Defeat recently badura by England el:titles if Earl RUSSELL intends to act upon what he hes said, namely, that he does not see that the revival of the Holy' Alliance can give U 3 a just cause for apprehension. Ile cannot believe that those Sovereigns can mean more than to protect their own dominions, and secure them from the effects of democratic invasions. If he is going to guide the course of his policy by this idea, he %ill fail most completely in representing the best irate.. rests of our country, and only add to the imbrog lios now distracting the nations of Europe. It is a singula r thing that whenever there is a presage of any great chan say that the ge occurring, our Ministers always rumour is false, or else, if it turns out true, that there is no cause for disquietude. Ile must be very ignorant or very credulous who is any longer satisfied with this answer to the in quiries made under the influence of astonishment, intligration, sad dismay, The eonclusiou we grrive at is still the same, but a sad rehearsal of the past, LATEST IN'TELLIGENCE. and the people of England, who are the ruling power of the world, have to look on while tyranny LREITTER'S TELEGRAMS.] runs riot, and oppression holds Sovereign sway. The next Session of Parliament will doubtless witness some of the effects produced by the work• ings of this Holy Alliance, which it is now convem nient to laugh at, and to deny zn toto. Oar Go• vernment cannot possibly lay claim to foresight. CHINA AND JAPAN. (By Telegraph from Suez.) SHANGHAI, JUNE 6. Major Gordon's force Las been disbanded. Sir Frederick Bruce is returning home. Advices received fron Japan state that Sir Rutherford Alcock has arranged quarters for the British troops at Jeddo. This country has always been prompt to recog nise the dangers of monopoly. The evils are indeed sufficiently great, and apparently readily perceptible to a people much less acute and much less versed in commercial dealings. Bat early expe rience, as well as the natural tendency of the Eng lish temper, has inspired us with an especial dread of anything approaching to monopoly. Year by year the old remnants of it still at work in our system are dying out, year by year the principles of Free Trade are becoming more widely developed, more generally adopted. The very foundation of our time-honoured Constitution is the even balance of power—restraining alike the monopoly of authoe rity by the Crown, by the Parliament, and by the people. Everything that has a tendency to cen tralisation is looked upon with much suspicion, and this feeling is the protection of many cumbrous establishments which might be better worked by one central authority, but which are justly che rished by the people as safeguards against that social despotism of which they are so jealous. Our municipal institutions, our county magistracy, our Poor-law system, have all in turn been abused and criticised, as in truth they very often lay them selves open to be; but, after all that can be said against them, they rest upon a firm foundation—the conviction of the country that, with all their faults, they are part of those barriers which our fathers erected round their hardly- won freedom, and so long as they last they afford substantial guarantees that England shall continue to be governed by Englishmen after their own fashion. It was this strong feeling against anything approaching to monopoly, or centralisation, added to the jealousy and disfavour with which the House naturally regards official accounts and official workmanship, that gave Mr. COBDEN so many supporters in his his attack upon the Government Manufacturing Establishments on Friday night. The censure which he passed on the originators, the enlargers, and the superintendents of those establishments, was wholesale and uncompromising. According to his showing, we are lavishieg unheard of sums on articles that are comparatively worthless ; we are empleying large numbers of men and damaging private business, in providing the country with inferior articles at a high price; we are putting an affront on the manufacturing interest of the country, without deriving any benefit from our offensive conduct; we are undertaking to do publicly what could be much better and more cheaply done pri vately ; our stores are bad, our contracts vexatious, our accounts altogether unreliable, and the result of all is likely to he that our supply will entirely fall short in time of need, and we shall reap the consequence of persisting in maintaining these costly and inefficient establishments in a great de mocratic revolution. The answers to all these charges, general and particular, are not long in making their appearance. Mr Cobden's sweeping accusations were met in many instances with a com plete refutation. Any quantity of arms, of ammu nition, or of clothing, could, he said, be obtained from our great manufactories at the briefest possible notice. Bat official experience proves this assertion to I be incorrect. Mr. MONSELL cited a few instances from our Crimean experience which serve to indicate the necessity of the public service not being altogether dependent on private establishments. In 1854-5 200 tons of shot and shell was given to be delivered within two weeks, but the full amount was not forthcoming till January, 1856. Another firm which entered into a similar agreement was a little quicker in its proceedings, making its first delivery of the required articles in June, 1855. A third firm undertook to deliver 150 tons of shot and 150 tons of shell by the 7th of January, 1855, and the same quantity weekly afterwards. The way the con• tract was fulfilled was by making the first delivery in June, 1855, and this was in a time of war, when the welfare of the public service depended so largely upon a faithful per formance of contracts, and there is no reason, as Mr. MONSELL said, why we should suppose that things are much altered now. Bat, thanks to the much abused establishment at Woolwich, a quan tity of shot and shell equivalent to the who' d , of that expended at Sebastopol might be pro:ruced in six weeks, and the number of cartridges con sumed during the siege might IA forthcoming in half that time. So much for the advantage gained in point of promptness and certainty. When we come to the consideration of the qualityof the articles supplied, the importance of Government establish ments becomes still more perceptible, Unhappily, it is not safe to trust men's lives and health altogether to the honesty of contractors. The revelations of the Crimea might convince even Mr COBDEN, but they were not officially quoted on Friday evening. The public, however, have not forgotten the boots that were destined for some- distant and unthought-of locality, whence the report of their quality would scarcely reach England, and not be critically examined with a view to the exigencies of war. They have not forgotten the tools which proved so unfitted for their purpose, nor the still sadder and darker memory of the inferior preserved meat which so grievously disappointed the poor frost-bound wanderers in the Arctic regions. All these thing* have taught us that it is not well to trust exclusively to the private establishments. Mr COBDEN admits that in earlier days Government establishments were useful as a check upon contractors, but now he say.s ~, uthe great shipbuilders, the great gue- amkers, she large tailoring establishments, a .....d better cheeks upon each other through tb ''., force of competition. But unhappily the co petition tends rather to keep I: i down the pri r ::e than to improve the quality. "it is the ' f oposition of contractors," says the Marquis THE PRINCIPALITIES. EUCHAREST, JULY 24. The .Romanta has beer suppressed in consequence of the publication of fu:ther violent attacks upon the Government. The Moniteur will putlish to.morrow a report on the state of the finances )f the Principalities. FRiNCE BOURSE, July 23.—Tte market still continues in the same feverish and inanimate state, and the limited transactions up .o the present hour show a slight further decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 10c. Aradlier, after receding to 972 f. 50c., have since recovered to 980 f. So little has been done in Railway Shares that the prices are as it were nominal at abut yesterday's quotations. The market continued heavy to the close, and left off as follows : of HARTINGTON, " to supply samples cheap rather than good; and as even the lives of our soldiers and sailors may depend upon the quality of articles furs niched to the Government, I cannot see how the men of cur navy and army can be protected without a minute inspection of the articles contracted for." Several of the establishments objected to are used for the purpose of testing the goods provided, and, in spite of Mr. COBDEN, this is an unavoidable neces. sity. The fact is, that special wants must have a special supply, and general provision will not do. When the hon. gentleman was busy with his corn law agitation, the regular press could not serve his purpose, but he must start a journal of his own : and so, in times of sudden pressure or alarm, it will not do for the Government cf this country to depend wholly upon commercial enterprise, how ever great. Of course the official establishments should be kept within bounds, and a close super vision of the accounts should be kept by the House, and so far Mr. COBDEN'S motion may do good eel-. vice. It is certainly desirable, too, that more hear ing should be given to suggestions from without, and that a fair share of encouragement should be given to th e general i ndustry of the country, b ut it is un wort h y of a country like En2land to be at the mercy o f any trade in time of war or emergency, and experi e n ce has proved it to be also meat unwise. 4t per Cents 94 51 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 1( Credit Mobilier 977 5( Do. end month 977 51 Bank Shares Credit Foncier 1217 50 Roman Els IL , Italian Loan 6B 10 Do. end month OS 05 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 56 50 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — 1-lome Debt Deferred Cash. Orleans , 872 AO • • Northern .... 978 75 .. ditto Southern 637 50 .. 637 50 d Mediterranean 898 75 .. 897 50 515 .. 613 75 Eastern Sardinian...... Austrian New L Westerny o n s 413 75 .. 412 50 Loirbard North of Spain Saragossa 528 75 .. 527 50 Ditto to Barcelona -- Account. LITERATURE, will rest on theunexciuded particles, as if :Gating on quick silver. With similar devotion to accuracy, Mr Whitworth, in the search for a means of determining dimensions with precision, constructed a machine, so accurately and deli cately made as to measure objects which differ even by the millionth part of an inch—a division so minute as to be per ceptible only by touch after it ceased to be discernible by the eye. So nice is the adjustment that in using it an inch of steel can be held to be an inch, only so long as the ther mometer stands at 62 deg, the slightest excess of tempera ture; and the stanaard yard, a square bar of steel, when placed in the machine is so expanded by the slightest touch of the finger as to show an appreciable lengthening even under the influence of the infinitesimal amount of heat thus imparted." The Story of the Guns. By Sir James Emerson Tennent, K.C.S., F.E.S., (Cc. Longman and Co. Had not the fame of Sir E. Tennent been long ago established in the literary world, his Story of the Guns would certainly have brought his name prominently before the public, not so much on account of the intrinsic worth of the production, which is in reality only a careful compilation of statistics, as from the acri mony with which he has been assailed in many quarters for having simply told the truth. He states in his preface that having held a commission as an officer of artillery in a foreign service during a time of war, he naturally takes a great interest in the controversy vel's'.en has been going on for the last few years relative ',O the guns of rival inventors. It has been his object . .,n the compilation of this work to give a succinct ss o d impertial history of the controversy since its comoeencrment ; and as far as facts are concerned his boldest critic may be silent, for throughout the volulile the author has fortified his assertions by continual teferenee to blue books and other available sources of infor mation. IVhen it is the object of an author to give his reader a clear insight into a subject so little understood ex cept by professional men, it is necessary to enter consider ably into detail. This must, to a certain extent, render a work of this kind tedious, but Sir J. E. Tennent has endea voured as far as puska() to obviate this by describing the gradual progress made in the improvement of firearms and artillery since an early period, and also by furnishing inte resting histories of the careers of the two great artillery engineers whose rival claims to supremacy form the subject of the present investigation. It is not our intention to dilate upon the particular forms and constructions of the various guns which from time to time have been brought forward. The Armstrong breechloader, which, from the accuracy of its fire, and the destructive nature of its pro jectiles, was without a rival in 1858, was selected by the committee on rifled cannon, who recommended the imme diate introduction of Mr Armstrong's rifled guns for special service in the field. At this period Mr Whitworth had not taken any steps to construct a gun on any special plan of his own. He had simply yielded to the solicitations of the Government in rifling some brass guns on the hexa gonal principle, which had pro - eed so successful with small arms. At the close of 1858 some cast iron guns which had been rifled by him burst, when he addressed a communica lion to Lord Panwure, at that time Secretary of War, ex plaining the causes of the accident, and deprecating the further use of cast iron metal for rifled cannon, and received in answer a letter from the War-office informing him of the determination of the Secretary of State to discontinue further experiments with ordnance rifled on his principle. He then resolved to construct a gun capable of resisting the extra pressure to which rifled cannon are subjected. From that time to the present Mr Whitworth has been diligently engaged in carrying out this determination. Sir W ihiara George Armstrong, his great rival, is a descendant of one of the old border families, and was educated for the law. Unlike many other gifted men who have been forced I from circumstances into uncongenial positions, he applied himself with industry and success to the legal profession, and was for many years a member of one of the principle legal firms of Newcastle. Still he never abandoned the tastes which Nature had so unmistakably bestowed, and which had showed themselves even in his childish games. When only five or six years old he used to employ himself in setting a number of spinning wheels in motion by means of weights descending on strings from the top to the bottom of his lather's house, and in making t' aess w h ee l s i m i tate the grinding of corn, the puropt,g of water, &c But how ever uncongenial the sphr,,,, or unapt the profession, where there is so strong P.. sent of the natural genius it is certain to find a vent , and, accordingly, in spite of his living among briefs ann - :, parchments until his 37th year, the name of Wm. Arreistrong became associated with one of the most remark able mechanical inventions of cur time, while he was still practising as a solicitor. He was making an excursion in a mountainous part of Yorkshire about the year 1535, when his attention was drawn to the waste of power in a stream, which after descending from a considerable height in suc cessive cascades, spent its last remaining strength in turn ing a mill wheel at the foot of a hill. Although the force required was dependent on the height from which the water came, Mr Armstrong remarked that the portion in use was taken from a level which was only a fraction of the full de scent. He perceived the practicability of realising the full power of the fall by conducting the water in an iron pipe, and causing it to act upon suitable machinery below, and applied himself to devising an engine to be worked by water pressure. He pursued the idea first given by the force of mountain streams to the construction of artificial towers in towns, into which water was raised by the steam engine to give it the requisite " head." The result of his casual visit to Yorkshire has been known to the world by the construc tion of the hydraulic crane, whose silent agency produces such marvellous effects. Its immense power has been hsppiiy defined by a " Quarterly Reviewer" in these terms—" At the foot of every crane, under the pis'on of every hoist, at every dockgate, unseen and noiseless, the power lies dor -1 want, but a woman's h an d, a p p li e d t o a smal l h andle, w i ll set in motion a force sufficient to raise a mass weighing 50 or 100 tons, and either to place it in the hold of a ship, or deposit it in any other spot within reach e f the arms of the crane, With equal case the gates of docks 100 feet in width :.re opened or shut, and the works of the dockyard done without a stranger being able to perceive what it is that sets everything in motion." Attempts to realise the power of water had indeed been previously made in Hungary as well as in the mines of Cornwall and Saxony, but not only were these efforts unknown to Mr Armstrong, but they were so different from his own method that he retains the unquestionable distinction of this important in vention. So successful did it prove that he was induced to abandon his profession, and to devote himself exclusively to that line of life for which nature has especially fitted him. In conjunction with some friends he established the Elswiek Engine Works, and some years alter obtained further die. tinotion by the construction of his hydro-electric machine, themost powerful means devised,of producing frictional elec tricity. At an unusually early age he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. After the battle of Inkermann, in which two 18 pounder guns, brought up with great diffi culty, turned the fortune of the day, Mr Armstrong per ceived the importance of giving to field guns the accuracy and range of the rifle, and removing the impediment of weight by substituting forged for cast iron guns, He re ceived froru the MeV() of Newcastle a degree of encourage ment not e f ten accorded to inventors, and put together his first wrought gun in the spring of 1855, but; he had still to go through much arduous labour and many tedious experi ments before he considered that he had attained success. He used to make his first trials at dawn on the sea shore, and afterwards occupied a lonely hut amidst the moors, his targets being placed on the side of a valley, across which he fired by night as well as by day, through the assist• ante of an ingenious invention of his own. His first groat success was his three pounder breech loader, and afterwards his 12 pounder, which, for accuracy of range at that time (1858), astonished every one. Although he has succeeded well on the same principle up to 18 and e 2 pounders, it is generally admitted that it is in his light guns that the working of his breechloading prin ciple excells all others, Sir William Armstrong has freely admitted recently that for heavy ordnance the breech loading system is a failure, and he has therefore, in the construction of his Ri inch 300 pounders, ad opted the muzzle loading principle, cutting the grooves of the rifling in such a manner that the shot enters the gun easily but fits the bore tight in leaving it. This is what is denctrainated the shunt Principle, and whenever the 300-pounder has been tried against armour placed targets at short range, the shot has penetrated. That guns of an enormous size can be constructed upon Sir W. Armstrong's coil principle cannot now be doubted, when the results of the late trials of his 6 00-pounders at Shoeburyness are taken into consideration. Sir William Armstrong, as we have seen, was not brought up to the profession of an engineer, but his natural bias led him to follow that pursuit. Mr Whit • worth, on the contrary, is a man of high professional celebrity, in fact he may be reckoned one of the first, if not the first among the mechanical engineers of this coun try. Sir E. Tennent observes that "For this eminence in his profeesion Mr Whitworth is indebted to a natural aptitude for its cultivation, but mainly to an exhaustive knowledge of its principles and processes, acquired by un conquerable perseverance. Endowed with a taste for me chanics, and with something like an instinct for overcoming difficulties, he developed and disciplined his powers by serving in early life under the ablest masters, Maudslay, Clement, Holteappfel, and others of the class whose genius and ability have raised mechanical art to its pre sent high rank in England, especially by the improvement of those wonderful self-acting engines which under the name of engine tools aro now so extensively used for working in metals, as well as for the production of other machines dependent on accuracy and precision. Mr Whitworth does not belong to the ordinary type of in ventors, quick, versatile, and ingenious, acting from im pulse on apparent inspiration; his productions, on the contrary, are the results of slow and deliberate thought, bringing former observation to bear upon tentative expe riment, and accepting nothing as established till it has undergone proof. Proceeding with a logical severity to rest further operations only on ascertained facts, his pro cess is so strictly inductive, that he might justly be desig nated the Bacon of mechanics. For the attainment of perfection it is the belief of Mr Whitworth that the superiority of all machinery is dependent on two ele.nents —the power of measuring with unerring precision, and associated with it the faculty of producing a true plane surface that is, one so absolutely level, that when it is opposed to another of equal truth their contact must be in all parts complete. The Astronomer Royal, Mr Airey, in his evidence before a committee of the House of Lords, in 1855, stated that the . degree to which Mr Whitworth had succeefdpaelcalteomfofmanbamoektfelhontreaagi perfect the planing of surfaces was entirely unknown his time.' To such a pitch of excellence has he brought it by a process peculiar to himself, that prepared by him when opposed to the face similarly treated, exhibits a contact so intimate . co enable the operator to lift the under one with i , -, as if by its actual a dh es ion to the upper, o r if lees closely applied, so that:the thinnest ..possible layer of atmostplaeric air may still remain ktweetir the upper pla te It was after England and the continental nations gene rally had awakened to the consciousness of the deficiencies of the old regulation musket, the Minie rifle, the invention of a French non-commissioned officer, attracted universal attention, and Lord Hardinge, after having consulted with MrWestley Richards, Mr Purddey and other celebrated gun maker:, introduced the Enfield rifle. After various experi ments it was discovered that although the guns were made upon the same pattern and in all • resp .e:s alike, no two were alike in their performance or properties. In this strait Lord Hardinge had recourse to Mr Whitworth h., 1853, reqUesting him to construct machinery which would enable the workmen to produce guns which should be practically as well as theoretically similar. From this date Mr Whitworth commenced to study the science of gunnery, with what results his success with the rifle musket, and his armour piercing projectile can bear wit ness. It is a curious fact that the three greatest construc• tors of artillery in this country, none of them belong pro fessionally to the business. It is true that Mr Whitworth, as a mechanical engineer, when devoting himself to the construction of wrought iron artillery, was, to a certain extent, in his element, but as regards Sir William Arm strong and Captain Blakely, they were unquestionably amateurs. It is not our intention to follow Sir E. Tennent through his protracted review of the details of each step in the progress of the inventions and experiments of the last five years. To those who are really interested in the sub ject, we would rather recommend the perusal of the work itself. The impartial observer cannot fail, wh©n he exa mines the question carefully, to agree with the author, that much valuable time has been lost, and a vast sum of money recklessly expended, through the prejudice and prof;ssional etiquette of the Ordnance Select Committee. It is no fault of Sir William Armstrong that the committee rejected the chime of all other competitors, because they were desirous of experimenting upon his guns alone. Although SirW.Armstrong was placed in a situation of great delicacy, not to say embarrassment, as a member ef the committee when the productions of other inventors were 'being considered, not a breath of suspicion has ever fallen upon him of using his position to the detriment of other inventors. Sir W. Armstrong, on the contrary, no sooner saw the position in which ho stood. than ho disarmed censure by cancelling his engagement with the Govern ment, and throwing up his appointment in the Ordnance Departmeat. Independently of all higher considerations we believe that his confidence in the excellence of his own gun led him rather to court than to shun competition. With the other members of the committee it was however far different. Captain Scot says in his evidence before the committee of the House of Commons in 1863, that it is his opinion that the determination to make some plan of Sir William Armstrong's succeed, caused the Ordnance Select Committee to reject or delay all the plans of other inven tore. Again, the Duke of Somerset, in his evidence before the same committee, reluctantly attesta the distrust enter tained by inventors generally of the decision of the select committee, and says that " many of the inventors used to come to him at the Admiralty, because they did not like the Ordnance Committee at the War-office. And as an illus tration of the difficulties interposed by the system, his grace goes on to state that after witnessing the performance of the Whitworth gun, when it penetrated the armour plates of the Trusty, and " could hale sunk her," he says, " with one or two shots," he felt desirous to have some of these guns manufactured, and obtained the concurrence of Lord Herbert, who was then Secretary for War; but the Ordnance Select Committee not having tried or approved of Mr Whitworth's mode of rifling, his attempt was defeated." Five years have passed since the firs committee was ap peinted to investigate the relative claims of inventors for the production of suitable artillery for our army and navy. In 1858 Sir W. Armstrong produced a serviceable light field piece. In 186.1 a Select Ordnance Committee have commenced in earnest to test the relative merits of heavy guns rifled upon the system adopted in the French canon rage, and those advocated by Mr Lancaster and Comman der Scot—while another committee is still engaged in a protracted series of trials of the Whitworth and Armstrong 70-pounders. We trust that the energy thus at last dis played may be carried on until a satisfactory result be at tained. But, why have these long years ,been allowed to pass by and no progress made, when as yet we are unpro veled with efficient guns for the navy. The answer is simply, because the Ordnance Select Cornmitteee, like all other Government institutions must do every thing en regle, and it requires public opinion and Parliamentary pressure to move them from the beaten track—and if Sir E. Tennent has in any way promoted the investigation of this matter by the publication of " The Story of the Guns" his labours have not been in vain. Macaulap Hisiory of England. People's Edition, Part IX. Langman and Co. The most ambitious of the literary achievements of Lord Macaulay, though by no means to our thinking his masterpiece, is still being most effectu ally popularized by means of this excellent cheap edition of it in a periodical form. Five more of these shilling monthly parts will complete it. And the work will then take its place upon the bookshelves of the multitude at large, side by side with the companion edition of those Critical and Historical Essays of Lord Macaulay's by which his great reputation is most secure of being perpetuated. A supplementary volume, if not even two supplementary volumes, might then extend the round half dozen, made up by those two volumes of the " Essays" and by these four of the "History" to a seventh, perhaps even an eighth, volume, comprising the Mis•• cellaneous" writings, the "Lays," and the Speeches." Already, indeed, the Messrs. Longman have done nobly by the reputation of the greatest of all English Frose Writers, and by that vaet multitude of his educated fellow countrymen by whom his resplendent genius is so fully appreciated—the Messrs. Longman have done nobly, we say, both by the great Author and his numerous readers, by the variety of editions in which his work.: have already, thanks to them, been is3ued from the press eajtions, cheap and costly, 16m0,, Bvo,, 4t0., cloth, calf and morocco. Le Correspondent. No. 105. Charles DouniGl. As usual, there is apparent in the contents of this always able and often brilliant periodical an espe cial regard on the part of the presiding redac teur, the one entrusted by the management, that is, with the responsibility of selection, there is still here apparent on his part, an especial regard alike to the indivi• dual interest of the themes descanted upon and to their diversity when grouped together. The present livraison, for example, setting forth with a comprehensive and lumi nous chapter, by Francois Lenormant, upon Prince Couza and the Dsnubian Principalities, comprises within it besides articles as various as—one by L, Villerme on Rural Economy— a masterly contribution by Louis Joubert on Ireland—a very curious,an exceptionally curious,critioal am - vey of the Classical Poets of China—Sauveur Jacquemond's nouvelle of Menichino, and the Abbe Blampignon's sympa thetic review of the Count eta Falloux charming gathering together of the exquisite correspondence between Madame Swetchine and the Pere Lacordaire, There are several other papers in the number, not here particularised--papers entitled respectively Jean Reboul, Les E venements de Tunis, Les Vierges de Verdun with Melanges Souvenirs du Govern ment Parliamentaire—this last mentioned by the Count de Mentalivet—to say nothing of four minor literary criti cisms of a miscellaneous character, and the customary monthly record of contemporary events. As the penulti mate contribution of the livraison, there is, moreover, it should be here especially mentioned, a rapid but compre hensive glance at the probable attractions of the fortheom lug Second Congress at Mechlin, otherwise Malines. ECCENTRIC MONUMENT IN THE SAVOY CHURCH, as described by "K." in the Athenceum.—lt is to be feared that there has perished in this church a monu ment, with an epitaph that has often amused me. The monument, which was rather sumptuous, was erected about 1716, in honour of a merchant, whose name I forget. The sole statement of the epitaph was, that he had bequeathed £5 to the poor of the Savoy Precinct, and a like sum to the poor of the parish of St. AI ary-le-Strand, while at the side, and occupying a b o ut half the breadth of th e mar bl e , t h e m oney was expressed in figures, just as in a page of a ledger with lines single and double, perpendicular and, at the bot tom, horizontal ; the whole being summed up, and in each line two cyphers for shillings and one for pence. The epitaph concluded, " which sum was duly paid by his exe cutors," Though there was nothing hero intentionally ludicrous, yet there was much to make a reader, even in time of service, inwardly smile. The contrast between the po mp of the monument and the smallness of the bequest which, and nothing else, it commemorated, and which it must far have exceeded in cost ; the mercantile accuracy of the figured statement, with its eight lines and thirteen figures, and the express addition of what is usually loft to be understood,that the bequest was paid, formed altogether an example of simple quaintness, which it were a p it y to allow to pass int o comp l ete o b livion. PROGRESS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The public revenue of South Australia in the year ending the 31st of March : 1865, amounted to £694,515, an increase of £133,615 over the previous year, but £35,000 of the increas, appears to be due to a change in the mode of making up the alcounts. The expenditure of the year was £675,465, an in crease of £36,312 , t h e c hi e f i n crease being in immigration charges. The exports of colonial pro duce from South Aug. tralia in th a first qttarter of 1864 reached the unprecedented amount of more than £1,000,000, nearly halt of it being i n cereals, EVi wr , - 41' --- lajinlar HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, July 23. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise walked and drove in the grounds. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Loiningen, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Brun:, Major-General Seymour, and Captain von Westerweller, visited the prison for females at Parkhurst. J u ly 24. The Queen accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louis or Hesse, drove out yesterday. Major-General Seymour was in attendance. His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse and his Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia went in the Fairy, attended by Baroness Dobeneck, Baroness de Granny, and Capt. von Westerweller. The Earl of Clarendon arrived on a visit, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal family. Divine service was performed to-day at Osborne by the Rev. G. Prothero. The Queen and royal family attended by the household, were present. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena is CO" valescent. The Right Hon, Sir E. B. Lytton is now staying at the York Hotel, Margate. The Profits of Blockade-running. The West India and Pacific Company's steamer Saladin, arrived at Liverpool, has, by a casual call at Hamilton, brought much later information from Bermuda than that previously received. The Br` rivals from blockaded ports have been large, being steamers Index (Marshall), from Wilmington, with 803 bales of cotton and 203 boxes of tobacco; AO' lanta (Horner), from Wilmington, with 536 bales cotton, 155 half tierces and 527 boxes tobacco; Mary Celeste (Ursina), also from Wilmington, with 594 bales cotton and four barrels turpentine; and City of Petersburg (Fuller), also from Wil mington, with 810 bales of cotton and 32 boxes of tobacco. The " fleet" had been augmented by the arrival of the new steamers Little Hattie, from Glasgow, and Virgin, from Cardiff. Th e steamers Lynx and Virgin had sailed from Nassa u en route for Wilmington. The steamer Fannie bad arrived with a full cargo from Nassau, and reported that yellow fever had broken out at Nassau, an d stringent sanitary regulations were in force. Blockade runners from Nassau were compelled 10 ride quarantine at Wilmington. Anxiety was fe lt at Bermuda as to its reaching there, but up to the 15th June no cases had come to light. The Papul e had been the only arrival from Nassau. Perhaps 3 would be interesting to our readers, and apropos under this heading, to glance at the following dis, bursement account as an example of the profits 0 ' blockade running. It is guaranteed as the cog 0f a bona IWe account:— One captain per month 5,000 do l6 ' ' First officer second officer Third officer One boatswain One carpenter One purser 1,000 One steward Three assistants One cook Two assistants - 150 180 150 120 One engineer and three assistants 3,500 Twelve firemen and coalheavers 2,400 240 tons of coal Rations for crew Oil, tallow, and packing Stevedores Pilotage out and in Insurance .. 3,500 Wear and tear Incidental expenses Interest.... Risks (25 per cent) 37,5 00 Provisions for passengers.. 30,265 dots. Against this enormous expenditure we have on the credit side the following as the earnings :-- 800 baits of cotton for Government .. 40,000 dole' 800 bales of cotton for owners Return freight for Government Return freight for owners Q . 40,000 Passengers 172,000 dala• Which will leave a monthly profit of 21,735 dols.; and successful will, in five trips, clear the cost of the atean3ol Liverpool Courier. GREAT FIRE AT WRIGHT'S DISTILLERY.--AboOt six o clock this (Monday) morning the i n habita n t of Aldersgate-street were thrown into a frig htfu state of excitement owing to the sudden outbreak of an er, tensive conflagration in the well-known distillery 13° 1°9 ing 11 to Messrs. John had Wright and Co., carrylllg business at No. 26, in the before-named thoroughat,-; The building, or rather buildings, forming the pr e°ll .% cover an immense space of ground, and formed three a sideof a square, the counting-houses being on the north si d e of the yard, The flames commenced in the still-hous e r `— the north side of the buildings, in the following ulall uer . ,:f 'Whilst the men were at work they dropped a quantity of spirits on the floor, and whilst mopping the same , IV , t- b - e trod " upon a Inciter match or fusee, which, igniting, 50t,n.. , spirits in a blaze. The men tried all they could t o eX-„ guish the fire but without success, and owing to the ii lllllta ep able nature of the stock the flames speedily tcok a 8976„g round the distillery, so that at ono time it was feared tP; tie whole plant would have been destroyed. The,land et a by engiies by Shand and Mason, the Princess Royal. Roberts, and nearly a dozen manual power engines ° I t t he London brigade under the prsonal superintende nce of COP Shaw and foreman Bridges, J. Gerrard, and other 01101, attended in the course of a few minutes. FortunatelYo Weston the turncook, was on the beat at the time, and 0 36 , Mr. Sheppard, the foreman to the New..ai ve r ConapanY2 0 , sequently not a moment was lost 'in obtaining enouglles; water from the mains to supply the whole of the one and it soon became manifest that the f iremen would able to save many thousand pounds worth of prope rt y' which at first was greatly endangered. By noon the flart:f were entirely extinguished , but the root of the distll'ei was burned off, a great portion of the spirits destroyed, r o f the machinery damaged. The storehouses and seve il r'' ' the vats were saved, so that the business of till firm sews be retarded to a serious extent. The counting -11°u° - much damaged, but the books were all saved. An Englishman named Harper, aged 23, wag °l l Saturday tried by the Tribunal of Correctioll4 Police on a charge of picking a lady's pocket of her P ur t se ; containing 105 francs. A police agent stated tLat t ii i 25th April last he was on duty at the Northern i1 1i ,,,, t station, when he perceived the prisoner wall another P`"; tishman trying the pockets of several persons, bait to committed no act glaring enough for him to take then : ii custody, and he saw them afterwards leave by the tfri b; as he supposed, for England. Three days aftevie eCl in ° i.• was surprised at seeing the prisoner near 030 61-11 1 r• bus station of the Tour Saint Jacques, a ncl :ll° served him carrying on the same manoeuvres atO r ` P i ni crowd assembled there. The prisoner atterwAr" d if i s to the Palais Royal station, where he recomniel ic , e- 0 13.0 operations, and at that place the policeman cattgll '''' h lO fiagrantc delicto, and arrested him. The prisoner,' h a d en stated that he did not understand a word of French, 1:111 DO interpreter assigned him, and in his defence said t ill' s - 8 .0 object in moving a b o ut among the crowd at the To o r - to Jacques and the Palais Royal was to find an 0 05 ib b lis for° take him to the Madeline. He admitted that whe r "',.:ll oa the Commissary of Police he had confessed that .P" t o made attempts to pick the pockets of some persons, ititlf, declared that nothing was then said about the robbellft-to which he was now charged. He said that when he . h .- DiS Northern Station he only went as far as Chantilly W s ''' x , le companion, and returned to Paris the next day. The ' e ,:ri' who had lost the purse having positively identified tb 0 tio i soner, he was condemned to five years' imprisonti : 1 to afterwards remain under the surveillance of the P Aof ice' WITTY SAYING (Authorship Uokg°1 ° ille Most of the shadows that cross our pat h through - (reused by standing in our own light. T i Ori A CAPITAL ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON 1A .. ; 0 0 THE LATE LORD ELGIN.—" Alter all," said Loin an arlenh , Emperor of the French, to Lord Elgi °l ti li co I 1 Viceroy Elect, " I think I have done sornetlail'g.cived, saw you in London, Russia defeated, Its l 9 ... re :beell Paris rebuilt, the Revolution bridled, something Ps ' o tch' accomplished." "Your Majesty,"—said the polite Se s to o man,—we tell the story (says the Spectator) as it Vr s g OO to us, the scene was dinner at St. Cloud,--" forgot,,..tho greatest of your achievements." "Eh I what is tb a ',l e greatest?" "Your Majesty has made o f the glit' Ip a ril e military nation," GAME C ERT I F ICATES.--Ia the year en- A - opted to ;list March, the duty en game certif ica t e s 0111 £135,462, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1864, GREECE. " We believe," says the Memorial Diplomalique, we have anthority for announcing that the re cognition of Greece by the Austrian Government has been decided on in principle, and will shortly take place. It is:now only a question of time, which be3ides diminishes in importance daily, but of which the Vienna Cabinet, considering the family ties which Unite the House of Hapsburg to that of Bavaria, was obliged to take into account from motives of delicacy. Ths adhesion given by Austria to the cession of the lonian Islands was already a first pledge of a good feeling towards the young sovereign of Greea, and showed that the Austrian Government was far from wishing to create for him the slightest embarrassment." TURKEY. Constantinople journals to the 13th have arrived. Two days before, a grand review bad taken place at the new training camp of Levent.Chifiik on the heights above the Sweet Waters of Europe, the Sultan appearing in great pomp. The evolutions consisted of a sham fight, the number of troops pre sent being about 10,000. Everything was conducted most satisfactorily, and the Sultan expressed him self much gratified. In the evening the following order of the day was issued by the Grand Vizier : "Soldiers, --The arrangement of your camp, and the ad mirable manner in which you have executed to day's manoeuvres—steadily and faultlessly--have afforded satis faction to our august Sovereign. It would be difficult to find finer troops than you have shown yourselves to be, and all—both officers and soldiers—have performed their respec' tive parts in the most distinguished manner, His Majesty is proud of you," The reading of this order elicited loud and repeated cheers for " Our glorious and revered Sultan I" and the " Grand Vizier, Fuad Pasha, the beloved father of the army !" The Murder of Mr Briggs. INQUEST THIS DAY. The coroner and jury re-aEsembled this morning at the Hackney Vestry Room shortly after ten o'clock, The coroner said he might mention that at the last meeting witnesses were present who would have been able to give valuab:e information, bat that he considered the ends of justice would be best served by withholding for the present. Mr. Moojen, who appeared for the prosecution, would apply for an adjournment, and he (the coroner) did not believe that the ends of justice would be defeated by such an adjournment. lie therefore enquiry should be adjourned unt:,', M on d a y, the Bth of August, at 10 o'clock.. Pror.:osed that the The Foreman of t , - de jury suggested that Mr Lea should be exarcined, as his evidence would be short. Mr Lee„ who described himself as of Parkfield road, Hackney, gentleman, gave evidence similar to that taken at Bow -st ree t. H e repea t e d th a t tw o persons were in the carr i age with Mr Br i ggs on t h e night of the murder. H e ( w i tnees) went into a 1 second close in an a dj o i n i ng carr i age . 1 1 e not have made “" now made to the police. was possible for e i t h er of the persons t o have left the carriag e a f ter h e got i nto t h e t ra i n , but he saw no intenti on on t h e i r part to d o so . H e was present at the l ast i nquiry, and had ma d e th e By the Jury—lie had k nown :Ai r Briggs three or communication four yea rs, a n d could mistake about him. The inquiry Was then adjourned till the 8:h of August. Inspector IVillianascii, of the detective force, wa ited u pon .......__ Mr Henry, at Bow-street, on Saturday, and reported that, by the direction of Si r R. Mayne, he had b een to Stafford with the prisoner, to see the man in custody there, ani suspected to be con corned in the murd er of Mr Briggs. After an interview were no grounds t o j ustify him in taking hi m i n t o hi s cus tody- lie did not answer the descript i on g i ve n of Mull er , he had come t o the con clusion that there nor of the second person said to have been sea t e d w ith M r Briggs i n th e ra il way carriage at the time of the murder . It was tru e that tats Lame Muller appeared among some his pocket-book, written In F rench, an d the Prieflner admitted that he knew a man named Muller, but as — 8 0 :-; name was as common in Germany as Smith is 1 .1 England, li — 0 was not disposed to attach muc h im portance to the circu ms t ance. A pawnbro k er ' s d u plicate was fo un d upon him, rel a ti ng to a watch pledged at Shoreditch in June last---a date f ar an t er i or to the murder on the North London Rail way. The inspec t or exhibited a photog ra ph of the Staff or d prisoner, w hi c h was taken there on Friday, but the face was unknown to the friends of Muller. Mr Henry considered that the inspector had exercised a wise discretion in declining to interfere with the Stafford prisoner at present. From what he had read in the Tones, it appeared tolerably certain tha tthe man would be in safe custody, on a charge of felony, for some time to come. ing to conn ec t t h e man e i t h er as a principal or accompli ce with the mu r d er of Mr Br i gg s, Meanwhile the I ns p ec t or could pursue his inquiries into the matter, and if an y new i n f or mation could be obtained tend• the proper course could be taken to have the prisoner broug ht u p to London, Inspector Kerrisey, of the M e tropolitan Pulice, a rr i ve d in Liverpool on F rida evening, and sailed on Saturd a y i n the City o f Cork for New York, in pursuit of Muller, who is suspected of having murdered Mr Briggs. Some pe eons, while walking through the park of St. Cloud the evening before last, discovered a young man hanging by the the neck from a tree. Some of them ran o ff i n searc h o f the gendarmes while the others cut him down, an d , a ft er a while, restored him to life. When the gendarmes arrived they took him to their bar racks, where he was soon perfectly recovered. When in terrogated, he replied that about three months before he was forced into a marriage, and that having been ever since most unhappy ha had determined to take away his life rather than live with his wife. He was afterwards put to bed and told to compose himself, but when the gendarmes retured in the morning they found that he had again hanged himself by his braces to an upper bar of the window, and was quite dead. The body was conveyed to the Morgue. The deceased is supposed from his language to be a German, MR. BARNES, THE MEMBER FOR BOLTON, has laid out a park of 11 acres in a complete and beautiful man ner, and made a present of it to the local board at Fern worth, near Bolton, "for the free use and recreative en joyment of the inhabitants of the di9trict.7 The value 0 ( this present is Otipahteci at £13,000.