The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-19 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and ALUMINIIIIi BRONZE. 2,000 S c io (OrnamentallNlillustratingENS a d f h appli cation in teresting () 0 021 VIEW MAPPIN BROTHERS' NEW ROOMS, 222, REGENT STREET. AdmissionbyCard. IGHBURY BARN, ISLINGTON. Sole Proprietor, EDWARD GIOVANNELLI. Finish your day at the GRAND SPECIAL DERBY GALA To-morrow Evening, on which occasion there will be a host of extra attractions. Gardens brilliantly Illumi nated. DANCLNG AL FRESCO. MARRIOTT'S GRAND BAND of 60, &c. &c. Open at Seven. Admission, One Shilling. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, FISH OUT OF WATER. After which, 3d time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of IN ales in the East. To conclude with MRS. WHiTE. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S M OTTO, THE HUNDREDTH AND FOURTH NIGHT. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orip,inal Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Mles Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Eigh t , entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul 14 eval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, su pported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brou g ham, n: bV i d di, o mbe, F. Char les, Garden, Ea7mond, Dawson; M i sses Carlotta Lec lerc % Kate Terry, lb. Lavenue, and .Elsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the Second and Third Acta of THE GREEN BUSHES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Bil lington, and Miss Avonia Jones. After which (6th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled TUE WOODEN SPOON AKER. Messrs. B. Webster, Stuart, Stephenson, Seftcn MMiss H. Simms, and Mrs. Bil lington. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. L. Toole, (416. Commence at 7. IHE THIRD EDITION OF 4, THE SUN," 1 Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, Nz - vre AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather —Sun Office, May 19, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning ... . .. This day at Two o'clock 62 Barometer-29.80. Wind—E. ; strong breeze, and cloudy weather. }UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tine DA.7.—Morning, 3h. 3m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m. To-woß2ow.-Morning, 312. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56w. Zjjg SAUL LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1863. It must really have been quite refreshing to Her MAJESTY'S Government late last night, or rather very early this morning—finding themselves, all of a sudden, for the first time this session, in the small hours, in a small majority. It comes to them so surprisingly—(particularly seeing what it is they have triumphed upon)—that the result can hardly fail to win for these latterly forlorn Ministers con gratulations from friends and foes alike. The suc cess obtained, it will be seen, was one achieved in Committee of Supply. It had reference to the set ting aside of an amendment moved by the Conser vative Chancellor of the Exchequer that is to be, to wit Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, upon Mr. PEEL'S moving a vote on account of £956,878 for packet service for the current financial year. In moving this vote Mr. PEEL had minutely, and it must be confessed rather wearily (as is his wont) explained the nature of the several contracts that have from time to time been entered into. Thereupon, incidentally giving a very copious narrative, moreover, of the rise, progress, and development of the particular contract entered into by the well-known Mr. J. G. CHURCHWARD. This, it will be understood at once, was done in order simply that Mr. F. PEEL might be enabled to state the reasons for including in the vote pro vision fJr payments to Mr. CHURCHWARD for the conveyance of mails between Dover and Calais and Dover and Ostend from the Ist of April, 1863, to the 20th of June, 1863. Excluding, however, any payment in respect of the period subsequent to the latter date, to Mr. CHURCHWARD, or to any per son claiming through him by virtue of a contract dated the 26th of April, 1859, between him and the Board of Admiralty. The significance of all which may be instantly appreciated by those who (how ever ignorant they may be of the details of the transaction referred to) merely " take note," like Captain CUTTLE, of the peculiarity discernible at a glance in the single date last particularised. That date being the 26th of April, 1859—almost, as it might be termed, the penultimate month of the last, or second, DERBY Administration. Lord DEBBY'S Government was defeated, be it re membered, on the 10th day of June following. The then revised, and now repudiated, contract entered into with Mr. CHURCHWARD, bore date, it will be perceived by those who can read while running, the 26th of the previous April. The successors of the DERBY Government, therefore, proposed, through the lips of Mr. PEEL, in this last sitting of the "louse of Commons, that payments should be duly made to Mr. CHURCHWARD in regard to the earlier contracts with him in respect to the packet service, but that there should be no payment whatever provided for him under the exceptional contract just now specified. Disgusted with the invidious exception thus taken to one of the latest sdcainistrative acts of his party when last i n power, Sir S. NoRTUCoT E moved simply and sweepingly that, in order to raise the question as to th e contract of 18 59 , all the words re lating to Mr. C HURC HWARD should be omitted f ro m the vote. That to put it plainly was the amendment upon which the House of Commons, last night in Com mittee, after a rather lengthened discussion of the matter, divided. The House in Committee divid ing upon the original motion, perhaps it shou d be said, and dividing ebre (as the result proved) in favour of it, thyof course effectually ne gatived and quashed the amendment. For the motion—thus the numbers appeared upon the voting paper when handed t o t h e Mini -For the motion 176, A ga i nst it 168— s terial tellers Majority for the Government, Eight! Neettettvery l a rge majority in a House of 34 4, i u . of tellers, Speaker, and Chairman of Com mittee. But still a very Godsend, as it hap pened under the circumstances, to her MA. j:ESTY'S Government. A majority o f 8 For the first time this session—a majority o f 8 ! defeat upo n defeat in February, and March, After and Apri- L—a majority of 8 (in a house of 344) won at last in the sitting of the Commons of Monday, the 18th of May., No wonder the amend ment was received with cheers from the Ministerial benches ! The result of the division m ust have come to the occupa nts of those benches with a sense of grateful exhilaration. Th a t self- sa me sitting had shown, 7..owever, prav i ous ly that a very little —in its present pli g ht —is needed in order to call forth a c h ee r from the thick and thin supporters, the supporters through good report and through One evil report, of the present Administration. would think that really the least said—particularly in the way of bounce, in regard to the violent sou• slalom', and, still worse, the flagrant insinuations ..... thrown out by Mr. LAYARD and by Lord PALMER STON against two foreign Powers, one of which is our near ally and neighbour—the better! So thinks not, however, the Under -Secretary for Foreign Affairs. So thinks not the Prime Minister of England. So think not those who de• light in the airy swagger of the latter, a swagger never more airy or more vivacious than in the pre sent instance. Lord PALMERSTON is proved to be monstrously in the wrong. There is no despatch, after all, he himself tells the House, upon which his own memorable statements, accusations, and insinuations but a night or two back, were founded. There is no such despatch in existerce from Mr. ODO RUSSELL ! Consequently, says the Prime Minister, No such despatch can be produced and laid upon the table—as Lord JOHN MANNERS had requested, and as Mr. HENNESSY bad requested. Of course not. The thing is quite obvious. It re- quires not one syllable of explanatian in order to demonstrate—that what is not in existence cannot possibly be produced. But—this being the case, there being No Despatch of the kind referred to — why, in Heaven's name, did Mr. LAYARD why did Lord PALMERSTON himself speak again and again in the manner in which they have both spoken ? Why those positive statements—those distinct accusations —those flagrant insinuations to which the noble lord and the hon. gentleman both undeniably gave utterance ? Why, it is asked ? Mr. LAYARD—as the originator of this whole revival of the subject —steps forward at length, last evening, to tell ua in a few words, "The Reason Why !" This won derful despatch from Mr. ODO RUSSELL (recant ing, we were told, his recantations), was declared yesterday from the Treasury benches to be purely hypothetical, or in other words, non existent. Mr. LAYARD'S explanation runs, in effect, as follows— says, " What I said and repeat now is, that there was a moral conviction on my m . nd and upon Mr, ODO RUSSELL'S mind that the facts he had stated were true!' Thereupon the hon. and learned baronet. the mem- ber for Dundalk, in reference to that same pretty phrase of a moral conviction, ven tures quite naturally to observe, " I wish the hon. gentleman would inform the House what were the grounds of the moral conviction of which he has spoken ?" Quite as naturally— the suggestion made being in itself so distinctly a home-thrust—the House, for the life of it, can't help laughing! The which laughter, however, is more than can be tolerated by Lord PALMERSTON— who loves a laugh, but, like all jokers, cannot endure himself to be laughed at. What does the gay old Premier do under the cir circumstance ?He rises with an air of hauteur. He wont let Mr. LAYARD commit himself by an- swering. He, the Prime Minister, will answer for him. And so answering, he may be said, in a single sentence, to ride off on a very high horse, in (for Lord PALMERSTON) a most unusual state of virtuous indignation. " I must be allowed," he says, " to answer the question of the hon. baronet, and to state that her Majesty's Go vernment entirely decline to furnish him or any body else with any materials out of which a quarrel can be got up and perpetuated between Mr. ODO RUSSELL and either the French or the Papal autho rities." Altogether, this puts the matter in the oddest new light imaginable. Why, the " getting up" and :the " perpetuating" of anything like a quarrel in this matter, if attributable to anyone, is attributable to Mr. LATARD and to Lord PALMER STON. The singularly ingenious, not to say shufiling, device by which the Premier thus contrives to slip out of the difficulty, however, succeeds to a miracle, Insomuch that at the close of this most exemplary little episode, the admirers of this kind of cleverness —amongst them, we presume, Mr, WHALLEY—are left last night cheering lustily ! In the House of Lords, last evening, the question which is paralysing an important branch of British commerce was again brought under discussion. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, who has done good ser vice in bringing to light those proceedings which Earl RUSSELL would very gladly leave in undis turbed :obsecurity, moved for copies:of the reports of our consular or diplomatic agents in North Ame rica respecting the proceedings of the United States Prize Courts. After expressing his sense of the gravity and delicate nature of the subject, he pro ceeded to comment upon the actual state of the case' The whole of our trade with the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies was now, he said, arrested by the a3tionlof a Government professing peace and amity. He had been told on good authority that it was impossible to effect insurances of any value upon vessels trading to the West Indies. He cited a pas sage from a letter written by a gentleman whose ship had been seized, in which is shown so forcibly the hardship suffered by the mercantile classes that it deserves quotation The loser asks—" What was Itodo ? Here is a ship trading in a legitimate way ; her papers are perfectly regular, her con duct unimpeached and unimpeachable, and yet she has been seized and carried off, my cargo has been taken ashore and damaged, about £40,000 of my capital is locked up, and I lose my market. I make an appeal to the Government, and I am told that the matter has been referred to Lord LYONS to make a representation on the subject." Earl RUSSELL is inclined to turn a deaf ear to remon strances of this kind, declaring the shipowners to be interested parties. "We must be somewhat cautious," says his lordship, " in believing all th e reports which are made to the Foreign Office by the owners of ships." No one can accuse the noble Earl of having neglected sach caution, of lending but too willing an ear to the grievances of his own countrymen. But would it net be as well to remember that the American Government is also an interested party, and to receive their disclaimers and self-justifications with the same reserve. Lord CLANRICARDE gave several il lustrations of the illegal seizures made by the Fede ral Government, beginning with the Labuan, which Mr. SEWARD acknowledged was held illegally, but w hich was nevertheless sent to a Priz e Court. This remedy, according to Mr. S EWARD Earl RUSSELL, was to cure all evils ; and t he and noble marquis very justly s aid that he considered he had a right to ask what w ere the rules and de cisions followed in those Courts. No one who has watched the course of Lord RUSSELL'S recent Policy can feel surprised at the answer to this very plain and just demand. We will give it verbatim : —"1 do not think it would be right, in compliance with the request of the noble marquis, to give such loose reports as we have from newspapers of the ) proceedings of the American Prize Courts. If we _ - ---- are to give anything to Parliament at all—and, for my own part, I confess I think it extremely doubt ful whether we should publish the proceedings of foreign courts—we should at all events take care that the reports arc f u ll an d authentic. When we get authentic reports th ere may, perhaps, b e no objection to their production, should your lordships desire to see them ; but, in the meantime, we have no papers to lay on the table." So then English mer chants are to be content to trust their property in the hands of an irresponsible foreign tribunal, con cerning whose system of procedure they can get no information; which refuses their evidence, as in the case of Captain I ..ARMAN and the Peterhof; which, on the confession of their warm advocate, Lord RUSSELL, looks upon their trade with suspi. cion, and from whose decision there is no appeal save to the cold and doubtful support of the British Government, which in its anxiety to respect the difficulties of the Northern States is very apt to forget the rights and interests of its own subjects. Lord RUSSELL'S answers to the illustrations brought forward by the noble marquis are ingeniously evasive. Of the film ships mentioned by his oppo nent, he only refers to on*, the Labuan, passing over in convenient silence the Adela and the Peter hoff. Yet it is rather curious that, in spite of his protestations of confidence in Mr. SEWARD'S good faith, and the honourable intentions of the Federal Government, Earl RUSSELL consiiers there has been a decided improvement since he directed that a ship of war should be sent to the Mexican waters. His attempt to escape from Lord CLANRICARDE'S account of the outrageous proceedings of a United States captain was so desperate that it utterly failed. The idle boasts of such a person, says the noble earl indignantly, should not be held to bind the United States Govern ment, adding that the inference:drawn from it of their determination to interrupt British commerce is unjustifiable. This lofty protest was quietly stopped by Lord CLANRICARDE'S reminder that he had quoted, not from idle threats or empty boasts, bat from the captain's official report, of what he HAD done. What says our Foreign Secretary to this ? " Well, that was his report of what he had done, and his justification of it." There is no denial, no attempt to contradict the report. Detected in his attempt to shuffle out of the awkward allusion, he professes indifference and unconcern, as if the proceedings of an active agent in no way implicated a Government, however grave or mischievous the consequences might prove. It is to be hoped that this novel and extraordinary doctrine reads the other way as well, and that a nation is not bound by the acts and opinions of its Minis ters, for certainly the tone and tenour of Earl RUSSELL'S words and deeds but feebly repre sent the temper of the English people. It is very well to indulge in high-sounding platitudes about the legally-constituted tribunals of a great country. We suspect very few of the United States own sub jects would care to trust their liberties in the hands of those same tribunals, provided they had fallen under the suspicion of Mr. SEWARD. The accounts of sudden seizure and lengthened 'imprisonment. without specified reason, which we have read in the words of American citizens, would seem to show, in fact, the contrary. It is time that Lord RUSSELL adopted a different tone, if he wishes our vast commercial and mercantile interests to be any longer entrusted to his hands. The Prison Ministers Bill was last night read a third time, but even at this stage it met with oppo sition. There are some people who never will allow that certain subjects can be settled. Again and again they bring them forward for discussion. Mr. BLACK, moving that the bill be read a third time that day six months, went on to show how wide spread would be the consequences of such a measure if once adopted. He concluded by saying that, according to his notions of propriety, the chaplains of gaols should be of the religion of the majority of the prisoners. It may occur to some people that Mr. BLACK would have been more con sistent if he had before this stated his strong objec tions and made his decided stand against the measure. On several occasions has this subject en grossed the attention of the house, and the principle has always come out victorious from the controversy. It has survived the transforming agency of a com mittee, and escaped the crushing influence of an angry debate. Now at the eleventh hour, however a new obstacle was interposed, but fortunately it proved futile in its efforts at subversion. Ultimately, in this matter, a satisfactory result has been obtained, and it will be long, we should hope, before the Parliament of England will sanction any attempt at a re trograde policy in the cause of civil and religions liberty. This principle, rightly expressed and un derstood, forms the bulwark of our defence and the stronghold of our security. Its heroes have perished in the battle-fields, its martyrs have been sacrificed on the scaffold—but through the centu ries that divide us from them, they speak to their descendants to emulate their worthy endeavours, and not to lose the advantages they gained at the cost of so much suffering, nor disown the prin ciples for which they offered up their lives. All far-seeing judges will acknowledge the import• ante of maintaining inviolate this trust which has been been handed down to us from our forefathers and the duty plainly before us of adding to its influence by every means in our power. The American Government and ;the Ewan. cipation Society. The Chairman of the Emancipation Society has this day received, through the American Ambas sador, the following reply on behalf of President Lincoln to an address which was adapt€d at a crowded meeting held in London, on January 29 : " Department of State, Washington, April 25, 1863. " To the citizens of London who were convened in Exeter. hall on the 29th January last. " The proceedings of a meeting of British subjects, citi zens of London, in Exeter -hall, on the 29th of January last, which were transmitted to the undersigned have, in compliance with a request contained therein, been laid be fore the President of the United States. " It would have been most gratifying to the President if the insurrection which is existing in the United States could have been confined within such bounds as to prevent it from disturbing the prosperity or otherwise engaging the attention of friendly nations. Fully convinced that any State which suffers itself to become dependent on the aid, or even the sympathy of a foreign power, is equally unable and unfit to live, the President has been especially careful to refrain from making any appeal to friendly States, and even from seeming to attempt to influence their opinions upon the merits of the present conflict farther than has appeared to be necessary to avert ill-considered and wrong ful intervention. At the same time the President has neither questioned the right of other nations and com munities to form and express their opinions concerning the results of the questions raised by the insurrection, and the policy which the Government has adopted in suppressing it, nor has he complained of the manner in which that right has been exercised. On the contrary, he believes that the ultimate and impartial judgment of mankind upon all such questions is entitled to universal respect and acquiescence. "Circumstances which neither this Government nor that of Great Britain created or could control, have rendered it unavoidable that the causes, character, tendency, and objects of the insurrection should be discussed in that country with scarcely less freedom and earnestness than t side tnlearnslt i r in our o wn . Th e resu l ts o f th a t di scuss i on , if i t s h a ll con tinue to be co n d uc t e d i n a j us t an d i mpart i a l sp i r i t, may b e taken as foreshadowing from sometherefore,a the with sinceredegree t he proceedings ult imatenow der n o ment c of e mankind, thatp h consideration, that a large, respectable, and intelligent por tion of the British people have on unprompted investigation arrived at the conclusion that the existing rebellion violates the principles of political justice, and that they protest against it as a wrong to the human race because it seeks to displace a government which is based on the rights of man, to make room for the establishment of another which is to rest upon human bondage as its corner stone. " The President would not do justice to his habitual sen timents, if he were to omit to express also the satisfaction with which he has found that in all cases those who are most just in their sentiments towards the United States, are also the most earnest in their desire for the preserva• Lion of international peace and friendship. This circum stance supplies to this Government a new motive for adher ing to its determined policy of peace, justice, and friend shiinp,_torhradvseatlhl the nations,honour and be de,spyeocuiralylyertyowobaerddisenTAseilearptvl;rit: ta (Signed) " WILLIAM Szw THE LATE MA. W ES TERN WOOD, M.P.—One of the last n o ti ces of motion given b y this lamented gentleman at a c ourt of the Fishmongers ' Company was that it should g i ve the cost of a lifeboat to the National Lifeboat Institution. The subject is to be considered at the next meeting of the company, w h en no d ou bt the motion Will be unanimously agreed t o by the court. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) POLAND. CRACOW, MAY 15. The insurrection in the old Polish Provinces is Gaily assuming a more serious character. It is well known that the movement in the Governments of Kowne and Wilna has already assumed the cha racter of a general rising, and, according to reliable information; the insurrection is established on a firmer basis in the Governments of Minsk, Grodnow, and Mohilew, the most distant provinces of ancient Poland. It is impossible, however, to ascertain any particulars of the state of effAirs in those provinces, owing to the difficulty of communication. The greatest efforts are being made to cause a general outbreak in Volhynia. Podolia, Ukrania, and even in Little Russia proper (situate between the Lower Dneiper and the Don). In Volynia these efforts have to a great extent been successful, particularly at Lubar, Pod woloezyski, and Swiece, and that the movement is daily acquiring greater magnitude is now confirmed. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MAY 17. Out of respect for the Danish Government and for the Ministers of the protecting Powers, the Greek deputation at Copenhagen has delayed its departure. The affair is considered as terminated. It is only a question of time. PRUSSIA. PARIS, MAY 19. The Prussian Ambassador at Paris has written to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, declaring entirely devoid of foundation the letter published in the Czas, and attributed to the Prussian com mandant at Ironoclau, arranging with a Russian General the movements of troops upon the fron tiers. The instructions given to Prussian officers rendered the existence of such a letter impossible. Count Goltz is not awaro whet her the arrest of the President of the Duchy of Posen, recently an nounced, is equally an invention , but points out its improbability, adding—" It is impossible to avoid perceiving in reports of this character a new proof of unhappy persistence in calumniating the Prussian Government." MEXICO. CADIZ, MAY 18. Intelligence received here from Puebla to the 12th ult. states that the French Lad ejected the Mexicans from the suburbs of San Josef, Guada lupe, and Loretto. CHINA• (By Telegraph from Suez.)' SHANGHAI, APRIL 9. Pekin is quiet. The rebel bands have been driven away from the vicinity of the settlement at Tien-fain. Reinforcements are supposed to have been sent to the relief of Fooshan. Saigon and Japan are both reported quiet. PORTUGAL. (Per steamer Tartar via Southampton.) LISBON, May 14. The King has returned from Cintra, and is now residing at the Ajuda. The Duke de Brabant has arrived in Lisbon ; he was received at the Royal Arsenal, where he dis embarked, by the Ministers and other high func tionaries. The frigate Don Fernando has arrived at Lisbon, after a voyage of three months. A portion of the Crown diamonds are about to be sold to realise the value of £60,000. Several foreign dealers have appeared as bidders, but it is probable that the sale will be made in London. The premiums awarded to Portuguese exhibitors at the London Exhibition have been presented. The King presided at the ceremony. A disastrous fire has taken pl'tce in the Rua das Cappelistas. No lives were lost, but much property was destroyed. It is thought the fire first broke out in the offices of Messrs. Carruthers and Com pany, The tone of the Portuguese press is highly sym athetic towards Poland. The Cortes have been occupied with the dispute respecting the election of Senator Latino Coelho. The two projected banks—Acglo-Portuguese and Anglo Brazilian—have, it is said, concluded to amalgamate. _ _ The weather still continues dry, and rain is much wanted. Business is dull and money very Boerne. The long continuance of the high price of cotton goods has caused a great stagnation in this trade, which is the most important between England and Por tugal. Exchange on London, 90 days, is 541 ; Rentes, 481 ; Coupons, 48; Bank of Portugal shares, 553 dole. to 555 dols. ; Bank of Oporto shares, 256 dole. FRANCE, BOURSE, May 18.—The market continues in the same quiescent state, and Threes, for the Account, remain unvaried at 69f. 55c. Railway Sharei have been rather offered, and quotations, in some cases, are somewhat lower lower, The market became weak towards the close, and left off as follows : 4t per Cent 5....... 9 7 Italian Lo an 72 15 Do. end month.... Do. end month 72 15 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 45 Do. end month 72 30 Credit Mobilier.... 1423 75 Russian Do. end m0nth....1422 50 Austrian Bank Shares — Spanieh Threes.... 53 Credit Ponder 1440 Rome Debt .. RAILWAYS. - Cash. Account. Orleans Northern .......... 1035 —.. 1035 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1057 50 .. 1063 75 Geneva.... Southern 756 25 .. 758 75 Western Eastern .... ..... ~., 5ll 25 .. 515 Sardinian 450 .. 450 Austrian Low bard North of Spain Saragossa 7; 2 50 .. 752 60 Ditto to Barcelona - GUIDE TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—Messrp. Routledge and Co. announce for immediate publication, a " Comic Guide to the Royal Academy," by the brothers Gilbert and Arthur a'Beckett. The Akhbar of Algiers states that although the natives in general have contributed but little to the fund for the relief of the cotton operatives in France, the Arab tribes of the military territories in the province of Oran have answered the appeal made to them by a sub scription amounting to 42,944 f., which has been forwarded to the Minister of the Interior. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—A very extraordinary circumstance took place in Regent street yesterday afternoon. A groom was exercising a horse in a gig be longing to a livery-stable keeper, when the animal bolted from the Haymarket along jermyn-street, and arrived in R gent street juet as the driver of a cab was " crawling" down the street. The horse in the gig had too much way on to be stopped, and the cabman could not wake up his animal in time to avoid a collision, the effect of which was most extraordinary. The gig horse, a showy grey, went completely through the cab, dashing in the near side and thrusting his head and shoulders out at the other, in which position it remained firmly fixed. The cab was, of course, upset by the impetus, and the hin d axle was snapped in two. The gig was as much a wreck as the other vehicle, but both drivers, though pitched out into the road, sustained no injury. The crash of the collision was so loud that a crowd was drawn together from the sur eminai rounding neighb our hood in a moment, an d amon g st those who r an t o h e l p was a car p e nter with a saw , who, in a short tim e , b y cut ti ng i n t wo these portions of the wreck which held th e g i g h orse con fined, succee ded in rel easing it, to in ln which ap it hadarancebubt elietntleththee chief f e p fo er r fo th rm e pantomimic Fortu nately there was no "fare" in the cab , for had an y p er s o n been in it d ea th wou ld i n a ll p r obability have ensued. A van was awn brought, the wreck of th e cab was remo ve d, and nothing now remains but to settle who was in fault by a good round 1114 rd swearing can in X county court. i t. ctl; Clint HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 17. The Queen, acccmpanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince Alfred, and Prince Leopold, at tended by the Duchess of Athole, Lady Augusta Bruce, Gen. the Hon. Charles and Mrs. and Miss Grey, Major Cowell, Mr. Ruland, Mr. Buff, and Lord Charles Fitzßoy, arrived at Balmoral yester day afternoon, at four o'clock, from Windsor Castle. The Duke of Newcastle arrived at the Castle as ,he Minister in attendance upon her Majesty. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prince Arthur, at tended by M jor Teesdale and Capt. I% esterweller, visited the Zoological Gardens, Regent's-park, yesterday morning. Captain Sinclair had the honour of an interview with the Princess of Wales, and presented a carpet worked by the Duchess of Gordon and some mem bets of her family. The Duchess of Beaufort and the Mayoress of Bristol had an interview with the Princess of Wales, and presented a diamond and sapphire Holbein to her Royal Highness from the ladies of Bristol. The Prince and Princess of - Wales, and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. Baroness von Schenck, Baroness von Granc3, Major Teesdale, and Captain Westerweller, honoured the Philharmonic Concert with their presence last evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have accepted an invi , ation to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at Northumberland House, on Friday, June 12. The Duchess of Inverness will be honoured with the company of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, at dinner, on Monday nest, at Kensington Palace. Their R ,yal Hignnessts the, Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary will honour the Duchess with their company on this occasion. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has arrived at Claridge's Hotel frcm Hatherop Castle. Tae Marchioness of Westminster will have an afternoon party on Wednesday, May 27. - . The E•iri . of Giasgow - has - arrived at the St. George's Hotel. _ The Dowager Countess of Newburgh received at dinner on Saturday evening Lord and Lady Rivers, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord and Lady Cremorne, Lord Frede• rick Cavendish, Comte Pahlen, Mrs. H. Baring, and Mr. Charles Cfreville. Lady D►norben's first ball will take place on Friday, June 5. Lord and Lady Huntingfield have arrived at the family mansion in St. James's-square. Lady Egerton of Tatton gave a ball last night at the family mansion in St. James's-square. Lady King and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Locke King and family have arrived at Dover-street, their town residence, for the season. Lady iVlolesworth entertained at dinner last even ►ng, a* her residence in Eaton-place, the Earl Gren ville, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Coun tess of Cork, the Earl and Countess Somers, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Viscount Torrington, the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, M.P., General Eber, Mr. Henry Greville, Dr. Quin, and Mr. Delane. The King of Holland has returned to the Hague from his visit to Amsterdam, and is again to leave in a few days for his residence at Loo. The Queen has taken her departure for Stuttgardt. The Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt has re eeived the Order of the Golden Fleece from the Queen of Spain. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria is charged to deliver the insignia. Tne Vienna Journals announce the death in that city of the Princess Gabrielle d'Auersperg, nee Princess Lobkowitz, Duchess of Raudnitz, Lady of Honour to the Empress of Austria. Mr. Charles Dickens' Readings. The series of delightful readings announced by Mr. Charles Dickens, at the Hanover-square Rooms, is rapidly drawing to a close. The 'amous Christmas Carol will form the next evening's entertainment; and to those who have not yet paid Mr. Dickens a visit, a pleasure is in store of no ordinary description. The selections already given from "David Copperfield" and "Dombey and Son" are of the most telling and tasteful nature; but we must candidly confess our best liking has always been with the first great creation of the master-mind, viz , the world-renowed " Christmas Carol." There is something so inexpret sibly delightful about the work that one is never tired of taking up the little book and perusing it again and again ; but to hear it read by its author is a treat that ought never to be lost. It is to be regretted that the demands on the time of the talented author will not permit him to make his " readings" one of the permanent entertainments of tho metropolis, as writers who possess the rare combination of author and reader are by no mean common with us. Alhambra Palace. Mr. Wilde, of the Alhambra, last night introduced to his patrons three of the most wonderful gymnasts that have yet appeared in London. Leotard at one time was looked upon as the greatest wonder in the world, but he was eclipsed by Olmar, and on the termination of the engagement of that artist Mr. Wilde secured the services of Verrecke, the brothers Conrade, and Mdle. Elise Adams, all of whom created especial wonder. The last novelty, however, is by tar the greatest, and we fearlessly pronounce the three Spa nish gymnasts—viz., the brothers Risarelis and Senor Balager—as the most wonderful performers that have yet appeared in the metropolis. 'I he brothers Risarelis perform upon a ladder hung from the roof of the building, but to give a detailed description of it would occupy too much epace ; suffice it, therefore, to say that the culminating wonder is the suspension of the younger brother by the elder, by means of a cord held in his mouth, whilst he himself is hanging head downwards from the last rail in the ladder. The " tricks" are performed in the neatest manner, and all disagreeable fears are deadened by the ease and confidence of the performers. Belager is a jumping wonder. He actually takes a flying leap through a hoop that, when placed on his shoulders, in a standing position, will not pass over them This important fact, by some oversight, was not made known to the public, so the daring act appeared to be merely jumping through a very small hoop. He also perf,rms one of the most wonderful double somersaults ever witnessed. The audience were en 'husiastic in the r applause, and th re seemed, at one time, to be no end to the ' calls" the artists experienced, An other feature in the performance is that, it is to be com pletely varied every week of their engagement. MR. WOODIN'S " CABINET OF CURIOSITIES.”-- Mr. W. S. Woodin opened his very amusing " Cabinet of Curiosities" to an Aberdeen audience onThurs day night. There are few entertainments which have so extensive a range as those of Mr. Woodin. Every phase and variety of life—the life of the drawing. room, the race course, the road, the seaside, the city, the country—the old and young, gentle and simple, elderly maiden ladies solici tous about their faded charms, and portly squires pompous and patronizing, the frippery and snobbishness of the "swell" world, and the jibe* and rough humour of the gamin—all find a lively mirror in Mr. Woodia'e portrai tures.—Aberdeen Herald. EXETER HALL,—Handel's " Judas Maccibceus' will be performed by the National Choral Society on Thursday, the 28th inst. The principal singers will be Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, who will sing " Sound an Alarm," &c., and Mr. Lewis Thomas. "See the Conquering Hero Comes," by a band and chorus of 700, under the direction of Mr. G. NIT. Martin. This will be the last performance of this oratorio this season. FRENCH GRAVES IN THE CRIMEA.—Wo have already mentioned the return to France of Colonel Colson, who had heen sent to the Crimea to rectify the state of the French cemetery at Sebastopol According to the report of the colonel be found the place in the most d-plorable state; the tombs had been profaned and the burying ground had been treater in the most disgraceful manner. A decision has been, therefore, come to, that all the remains of the French soldiers shall be collected toge ther into one spot, over which a commemorative monument will be erected. The whole will be surrounded by a strong wall, and a person placed in charge of it. The town of Sebastopol is not, it is said, in a better condition than the French cemetery ; everything is in ruins, and scarcely any houses have been rebuilt. FATAL CASE OF STABBING IN GLASGOW--Late on Stturday evening Robert Brookmyers, hammer man, was fatally stabbed by Patrick Wood, in Main street, Maryhill, near Glasgow. The deceased was attacked by a party of men, including the prisoner. He drew a knife in self-defence, but the krife was v.res+ed, from him, and he was stabbed twice in the thigh. He died a few minutes afterwards. Th. prisoner was apprehended soon after with blood on his right hand and clotnes. A grudge of long standing between both parties is understood to have been the ow le 9f the fatal affair. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 18. PRISON MIN ISTERS BILL. Order for third reading read. Motion made and question proposed, " That the bill be now read the third time." Amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this day six months." Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 196 ; Noes, 167. AYES-196. Acton, Sir J. Forster, W. E. Osborne, Bernal Adam,W. P. Fortescue, Hon. F. Paget, C. Angerstein, W. Fortescue, C. 8, Paget, Lord A. Antrobus, E. French, Col. Pakington, Sir J. S. Atherton, Sir W. Gallwey, Sir W. P. Palmer, Sir R. Bagwell, J. Gavin, Major Palmerston, Visct. Baines, E. Glyn, G. C. Patten, Col. W. Barbour, J. D. Glyn, G. G. Peel, Sir R. Baring, H. B. Gower, F. L. Peel, P. Baring, Sir F. Greene, J. Pilkington, James Baring, Thomas Greenwood, J. Pinney, Col. Baring, Thos. Geo. Gregory, W. H. Pollard Urquhart W Barnes, T. Gregson, S. Portman, W. H. B. Beamish, F. B. Grenfell, H. R. Potter, E. Beaumont, W. B. Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Powell, J. Beaumont,Somerset Grosvenor, Earl Price, R. G. Beecroft, G. S. Gurdon, B. Pryse, Capt. E. L. Bellew, R. M. Hadfield, Geo. Puller, C. W. Berest ord, Denis Handley, John Redmond, J. E. Berkeley, Col. Ilankey, Thomson Ricardo, 0. Bet keley, C. Hanmer, Sir J. Robartes, T. J. A. Blake, J. A. Hartopp, E. B. Is obertson, H. Blencowe, J. G. Hassard, M. D. Roebuck, J. A. Bonham-Carter, J. Hay, Sir J Russell, Hastings Bouverie, P. P. Headlam, Thos. E. Russell, A. J. E. Bowyer, Sir G. Henley, J. St. Aubyn, J. Bright, J. Henley, Lord Salomona,Aiderman Browne, Lord J. T. Hennessy, J. P. Scholefie,d, W. Bruce, Lord E. A. Herbert, H. A. Scott, Lord H. Bruce, H. A. liesketh, air T. Shafto, R. D. Buchanan, W. Holland, E. Sidney, Thomas Buxton, C. Howard, lion. C. Smith, J. B. Calthorpe, F. H. Howard, Lord E. G. Smith, M. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Hubbard, J. G. Smith, J. A. Castlerosse, Vist. Ingham, R. Somerville, Sir W. Cavendish, Lord G. Jervoise, Sir J. Stacpoole, W. Clifford, C. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Stanley, Lord Cobden, R. Jolliffe, Sir W. Steel, John Cochrane, A. D. Kinglake, A. W. Stuart, Col. Coke, Col. Kingscote, Col. Sullivan, M. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Knight, F. Talbot, C. R. M. Collins, T. Lacon, Sir E. Taylor, P. A. Conolly, T. Layard, A. H. Thompson, 11. S. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Lanigan, J. Thornhill, W. P. Cox, W. Lawson, W. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Crawford, R. W. Leatham, E. Vandeleur, Col. Dalglish, Robert Legh, W. Vane, Lord H. G. Davey, K. Lennox, Lord G. G. Verney, Si 'Harry Davie, col, F. Lennox, Lord H. G. Vernon, H. Dawson, R. P. Lennox, C. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Denman, G. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Vivian, H. H. Dickson, Col. Locke, John Vyner, Reginald Dillwyn, Lewis L. Longfield, Robert Walter, John Disraeli, Benjamin Lygon, Hon. F. Watkins, Col. L. Douglas, Sir C. Mackinnon, W.(Ly.)Weg,uelin, T. Duff, M. E. Maguire, J. F. Western, S. Dundas, Sir David Mainwaring, T. Williams, W. Dunkcllin, Lord Manners, Lord J. Winnington, Sir T. Egerton, A. F. Marjoribanks, D. C. Wood, Rt Hn. Sir C. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Marshall, W. Woods, Henry Ennis, J ohn Massey, W. N. Wrightson, W. Esmonde, J. Monsell, Rt. Hn. W. Wyvill, M. Evans, T. W. North, F. Ewart, J. C. Northcote, Sir S. H. Fergusson, Sir J. O'Conor Don, The Fitz! oy, J. F. O'Donoghue, The Brand, 11. B, Forster, Charles D. O'Reilly, M. White, L. TELLERS. NOES -167. Adderley, C. B. Gray, Capt Peacocke, G. M. Agnew, Sir A. Grey deWilton,Lord Pennant, Col. Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Grogan, Sir E. Peto, Sir M. Astell, J. H. Hamilton, Major Pevensey, Viscount Aytoun, H. S. Banbury, R. Phillips, G. L. Barrow, W. H. Hardy, Gathorne Pigott, Sergeant Bar ttelot, Col. Hardy, J. Repton, G. W. J. Bathurst, F. H. Heygate. Sir F. Ridley, Sir M. W. Baxter, W. E. Holmesdale, Lord Rogers, John J. Beach, W. W. Howes, E. Rose, W. A. Beutinck, G. W. P. Humberstone, P. S. Rowley, Hon. R. T. Benyon, R. Ingestre, Viscount Sclater-Booth, G, Beresford, W. Jolliffe, H. a colt, Sit W. Blackburn, P. Kekewich, S. Scourflekl, J. H. Booth, Sir R. G. Kelly, Sir F. Selwyn, C. J. Bovill, Wm. Kennard, R. Seymer, H. K. Bramley-Moore, J. King, J. K. Shelley, Sir J. V. Bridges, Sir B. Kinglake, Serj. J. Shirley, E. P. Brooks, R. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Smith, Augustus Bruce, C. L. C. Knatchbull, W. Smith, Abel Butler, C. S. Knightley, R. Smith, S. G. Caird, James Langton, W. G. Smyth, Col. Cairns, Sir H. Langton, W. H. G. Smollett, P. Cartwright, Col. Lefroy, A. Somerset, Col. E. Cave, S. Legh, G. C. Somes, Joseph Cecil, Lord R. Leighton, Sir B. Spooner, It. Churchill, Lord A. Lever, John O. Stanhope, J. B. Clifton, Sir R. Long, R. P. Stewart, Sir M. H. Cole, Hon. H. Long, W. Stuart, Col. W. Cole, J. L: Lovaine, Lord Sturt, Col. Couingham, Wm. Lowther, Col. H. C. Sykes, Col. W. H. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lowther, Captain Tempest, LordA.V. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lysley, w. Thynne, Lord H. Du Cane, C. Mackie, J. Tollemache, J. H. Duncombe, A. Malcolm, J. W. Tomline, G. Dunlop, A. Malins, It. Torrens, R. Du Pre, C. Martin, P. W. Traill, G. Edwards, Col. Matheson, A. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Egerton, Sir P. Matheson, Sir J. Trevor, Lord A. Egerton, E. C. Miller, William Turner, J. A., Egerton, W. Mordaunt, Sir C. Vance, John Ellice, E., jun. Morgan, C. 0. S. Vansittart, Wm. Enfield, Viscount Morgan, Major Verner, Sir Wm. Ewart, Willi am Morris, D. Walker, J. R. B. Ewing, H. E, C. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Walpole, S. H. Fane,-Col. Nicol, William Warner, Edward Farquhar, Sir M. Norris, J. T. Wemyss, J. Fellowes, Edward North, Col. White, Jas. Finlay, A. S. Ogilvy, Sir J. Woodd, B. T. Foley, Hon. H. W. O'Neill, E. Wyndham, Hon. P. Forester, Gen, Onslow, Guildford Wynn, C. W. W. Gard, It. S. Owen, Sir H. Wynne, W. W. N. Gilpin, Colonel Packe, C. Yorke, Hon. E. Greaves,Gowei, G. Gore, J. R. 0, Pakenham, Col. E . d W w . a L r . cI . P I TELLERS. ' a a l rter ir M L ajor, W. Black, Adam Greenall, G. Pauli, H. Newdegate, C. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RINGWOOD, CHRISTCHURCH, AND BOURNE- MOUTH. A special geniral meeting of thin company was held yes terday at the offices, Leadenhall-street, Mr. R. R. Notman in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to empower the com pany to extend their railway to Bournemouth, and for other vurposes. . _ The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution approving the bill, which was carried unanimously. The Solicitor then read the heads of a bill for authoris ing the amalgamation of the undertakings of divers rail way companies with the undertaking of the London and South -Western Company, and divers arrangements between that company and other companies and bogies, and tor other purposes. A formal resolution approving the bill was also unani mously adopted. _ _ _ The Solicitor then r ead the beads of the agreements, bear ing date respectively the sth January, 1860, and the 12th November, 1862, made between the Ringwood, Christ church, and Bournemouth Railway Company and the Lon don and South-Western Railway Company for leasing and working the line from Ringwood to Bournemouth. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN a formal resolution ap proving and confirming the agreements was carried, and the proceedings terminated. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, in Earl Donoughmore's Committee, the case of the West Hartlepool Company underwent further scru tiny. Mi . Rowley and others were examined at considerable length relative to the objects of the company's bill, which seeks to extinguish existing powers of raising money, to cot vert the sum of £2,669,162, being the aggregate amount of their debenture stock and debt not made primary charges on their undertaking by the Act of 1852, into a like sum of first preferential sfrck ; and the existing sums of X143,600(51 per cent.), £34,662 (4 per amt.), and £56,485 (4i per cent.) preference stocks in the company's capital into like sums of second preferential stock having the like fixed dividends re spectively. The bill also seeks powers to borrow £726,000 on mortgage, to pay off . urns amounting to £726,054,which were by the Act of 1852 made primary charges on the un dertaking, and to borrow on mortgage the further sum of £1,400,000, to pay off certain arrears of interest, and £292,220 of debts and liabilities, to pay for uncompleted works, and to creato a debenture stock at 5 per cont,, to be substituted for mortgage debt. The total amount of com pany's debenture debt and stock and capital is declared to be £4,252,967. Mr. BURKE, Q C., addressed the committee on behalf of the debenture and bondholders. The committee had all the facts before them, disclosing considerable financial delinquency. The company claimed cot donation, on the ground that these acts were committed by their predeces sors in office; but the company, qua company, he contend ed, were liable. The debenture holders relied upon their I , gal rights, and he submitted that the Court of Chancery, and not Parliament, was the proper tribunal, although the bill had been passed in committee of the Commons, to ad judicate on questions of bankrupt corporations If the ommittee were to pass the bill it would not only be an in justice to the debenture holders, but an assumption of judi cial functions no Parliament had ever undertaken, and it would invalidate the security of the investments of railway bondholders, who had invested their money on the smithy of Acts of Parliament. Tne room having been cleared, the committee, after a blief deliberation, decided:— " That in the opinion of the committee the preamble of the bill is not proved . that the committee think it their duty to lay before the House a statement of the facts dis closed in the evidence, and that they will further draw the attention of the House to the necessity of providing some sufficient safeguard for persona lending their money to rail way companies either on mortgage or bond." In the Duke of Richmond's committee, on the proposed extension of the Midland Railway into London, Messrs. Cubitt and Brydone, engineers, and Sir. Denison, chairman of the Great Northern Railway, were examined in opposi tion to the undertaking. In the Commons, the committee of which Mr. Adair is chairman passed the Metley branch of the Bradford, Wake field, and Leeds Railway, but threw out the Low Moor Extension. The case for the promoters of the proposed Lew Brighton line was closed, and Mr. Atkinson having addressed the committee for landowners, Mr. Slight, the secretary of the Brighton Railway, was examined at length by Mr. Merewether, Q C., with a view to show that the proposed line was unnecessary. The Noniteur de l'Algerie of the 11th says : " The steam-frigate Cacique has left Algiers with 947 native riflemen, of whom 21 are officers; the Mogador has taken on board 996 soldiers of the same arm, forming the contin gent which is to keep garrisoz! in Paris." The illumination of coal mines surely might be accom plished by the magnet. The development of its power is oaily increasing, one instance is Herring's Magnetic Brushes, &c. Dr. Hassall remarks, " I regard them as the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as respects thei- mecha nical construction, and their magnetical action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatitru, &e. N.B. Counterfeits are being wade,-01Hoes, 32, Basinghall- Ntrogt; 16%41;4 MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON: AND CHINA. The fifth annual meeting of the shareholders ol this bank took place to-day—Mr. G. G. Nicol . 0 the chair. The report submitted stated that, afte r providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and de' fraying expense of management at all points, the net profit amounted to £94,228 14s. ld., to which bad to be added a sum of £4O 15s. ld. undivided profit brought forward from the preceding Yea r ' making a total of £94,269 9s. 2d. Out of this total' £50,000 had been paid in two half-yearly dividendsl making together 10 per cent. on the psid-up capital of the bank. A further sum of £40,000 had been added to the reserve fund. The unappropriated balance of £4,269 9s. 2d. was carried fon/card to the profit and loss account of the current year. The reserve fund now amounted to £lOO,OOO, of which £60,000 was invested in Indian Government Seel" rities, as intimated in the last report, and it was the intention of the court to invest the balance, £40,0001 in public securities as opportunities offer. Arrange' meats have been made with Mr. Charles Pearsall chartered accountant, Edinburgh, to act as agent for the bank there, for the receipt of deposit iron* and the conduct of such other business as required' The reserve fund being now completed to 20 per cent. on the paid-up capital of the bank, as required by the deed of settlement, and the business of the bank being largely extended, the shareholders were invited to revise clause 113, with a view to increase the remuneration at present fixed for the directors. The Chairman moved the adoption of the reporti and referred to the balance sheet, which, he said, indicated that a considerable increase had been made in the revenue of the past year. The deposits had ben augmented by £600,000, and all the debts made during the past 12 months 1 101 been written off, including the sum of £13,00 ( lost through the frauds at Hong Kong. The direr' tors did not attribute any fault to their manager if China respecting that loss; on the contrary, thel considered he had shown great promptitude one discretion in the matter. The reserve fund noi4 amounted to £IOO,COO, the minimum required 1 )3 the Bank's Charter, but having regard to the la portance their establishment would derive frog possessing at its command a larger reserve fund the directors would still continue to augment thl amount year by year. An agency had been opene 4 in Japan, and the reports from the various branch e were highly encouraging. The report was the carried nem. con., and the directors' remunerati on increased from £l,BOO to £3,000 per annum. To the Editor of The Sun. have been desired by my legal advisers to resers l any public reply I might have to the calumnies in cireula tion concerning me until Mr. Jordan's case reappeared b e fore the tribunals ; but I cannot endure any further deli: in publishing the following statement. I have n..) wish conceal or disguise any imprudence I may have committed but I deny most indignantly the guilty imputations en disgraceful acts laid to my charge. In July, 1861, Mr. an Mrs. Jordan arrived in London from New Orleans, and fro' that time until the summer of 1862 they were received 01 tht most intimate footing in my family. It soon bee° apparent that they lived very unhappily, in consequen e4 as Mrs. Jordan told my wife, of a connexion which 114 , husband had formed with another lady, a matter wh it/ subsequently became notorious. In May, 1862, Mrs. Jot dan left her home, and sought refuge in the house of friend. I was the means of inducing her to return, tin' of effecting a reconciliation. In June 1 opened Drud lane Theatre, and by Mr. J or d an ' s d es i re I gave his WP a an engagement; I did so at the suggestion also of bl ° Boucicault, who entertained sympathy for her position, e l3l r quested me to pay her every attention in my pout ° This engagement, Mr. Jordan stated at the trial, l ye without his consent, and against his wish—that he s l e opposed to it and to any intimacy with me at D time. This is wholly untrue. During the season . ; came almost nightly behind the scenes, and sat with' and my friends in my room, dined at my house, and Lt hibited every evidence of intimacy and confidence. A': the performances I usually gave them seats in my earriW and left them at their door in passing. When he did come I invariably escorted her in my carriage to her di This continued until the end of July, when I heard tha t i had expressed some suspicions respecting my relations W 1 the lady. I immediately begged her to resign her engef ment, and she consented to do so. O n th e f o ll o wing tie , she informed me that Mr. Jordan refused to allow her leave the theatre, allegi ng th a t h e was at t h e t i me svith e, ; any permanent enga gemen t, an d s h e mus t s t a y w here was. Subsequently to this Mr, Jordan continued to v i ' j the theatre as usual, sought my society, dined at my W ee I took them home in my carriage as before, Mr. Jorge generally preferring to ride on the box; and in his abseil I escorted her, as it had been my custom to do. I regret say I did not tell Mrs. Boucicault of these suspicions specting me, as I did not wish to give her an xiety or ton° at the time, and I did not think th em s e r i ous ly entertai n& A few weeks after this I was informed by the lady tr . , after a dispute, unhappily n o t un f requen t, h er husband " ordered her to leave his lod g i ngs , as h e f e lt convinc ed her guilty relations with me. She begged him not to to that opprobrium upon her, or to give her the means t° ,g ° o l America, where her parents reside. He refused it, an d , her to seek what assistance she wanted from me. On l ent ing this I wrote to Mr. Jordan, remonstrating with h ire • his conduct, but assuring him that if he persists it I neither could nor would allow his wife to be r educe" want ; that he left me no alternative but to retain he r : the theatre, but if she preferred to return to her parents tt : I would give her the means to do so. I added that I a . this aftee consulting with my wife, and had written, to e fot m him of my intentions lest my motives might be represented or misconstrued. To this letter I received I answer. By my advice Mrs. Jordan, on leaving her lan band, went to a p ar t men t s i n Pall-mall, where he and el had previously lodged. She wrote to her husband toinfo r him where she was to be Rani. I continued, as before , escort her to her door nightly after the performance o .l did so without secrecy, in my own carriage, and as p ill/10 as could. This was my first imprudence. Mr. 3- °,7 ,, 1 had, it seems, been watching night after night in th e tl te ° of seeing me enter the house, but had been disapP °ll2 „, On the night in question she had begged me to lend ; some books, so after leaving her door, I drove round to chambers in King-street, St. James's, and returned lint,. diately with the works. I had scarcely entered the 01 when I heard a knock at the door. Presuming it vin e a E of the lodgers in the house, and fearing my presenc e 1 in the hall might cause some r emar k, I withdrew tong them pass. Mr. Jordan enter e d. H e s h owe d neither anal nor excitement, and exhibited no violence whatever; h e ot done so I should h ave f o ll owe d hi m i n t o hi s wife's r Apo il towards which h e wen t. Hi s remar k was , "I only " - c o to see Mr. Boucicault that he may be identified," o r °I . ft to that effect. I was unaware o f th e c i rcums t a nces the bet lowed, and that Colonel Gibbon or any one else be d 0 0 mixed up in the affair until Mr. Jordan had been retie col I am quite aware how injudicious and imprudent r 01 ,4 duct was under the circumstances, and in my desire to so n the lady's reputation and avoid, if possible, a public c on my own account I contrived to make matters .I.'lo worse than they need have appeared. Mrs. Boucicatned been ill for some weeks previously, bat on her reno v o told her candidly what had occurred, and by her o° bib towards Mrs. Jordan subsequently she desired to e s , fl i her disbelief in the scandal which then became only tu:01 torious. Shortly after this Mrs. Jordan returned to P . ti rice, and I afforded her the means to do so. These ' l io facts for which I have been so severely reprehended. ord, Jordan brought an action against Colonel Gibbon i n 00 that a scandalous story might go forth to the nlt h . i oj r yt has done, without investigation or defence. This t ri de fat not, nor was it intended to be, against the nomina l bt ea dant; it was against me, and so contrived that In i g f re pt ter all the odium without even the opportunity I !, p lot If Mr. Jordan were injured at all it was by met a nd was the proper defendant against whom an ac ti° , ll „ g ain have been brought. I deny the charges broug ht me, and I defy Mr. Jordan to prove them. I am, Sir yours, &c., DI" BOUGICOIIS. Westminster Theatre, May 18. d REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY. The ° l a c ; late a L nc o y rd m m the representation of the city of 14 011c1°11 Loolrl vacancy of kr. Western Wood, M.P., has crefl-e T] Mr. im C it u i b s it n t o , of as a candi a d y a o te r , tber e -- T] quit the substance for the shadow, althoug h public man of his principles so likely to be returned- I present Lord Mayor is also mentioned • but he, it is alt g will not willingly relinquish his'newly-acquired ile°ft] the representation of Southampton. - tMpr.Pob.afbolreAtlandat°vheer' y 111.0451 The ca son (ti Liberal interest are Mr. Sa m u e l M or ley, Mr. godg errai chairman of the Bank of England), and /sir , Ai d f Humphery, who represented S ou thwark for a period ePs years, and was the fi rs t Lib era l me mber returned to liament after the passing of the Reform Bill. Ma A fatal collision occurred. two days since off 0 &:ilies between the steamers Alpties an cT i ftr e ' both belonging to Simian and Co., of that port. The named sunk almost immediately, the crew bad time get on board the other, which, though much damage"' 's s teame rs. towed into port by one of Fraissent and Co. a frel The Emperor of Austria has just given ,-,c proof of his sympathy for his Hungarian anyuir`ii in according a sum of 52,500 florins (130,2500 re' c , ° _ _ a g e( so d for '_' sl year's deficit of the national theatre at Pesth, H i s g a jestY •1t . 5 0 ing repairs required in the building. ar"t4:4 4 Mineutia of MON florin), for tho Pao"' '