The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING, at Eight. KOYAL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. TUE FAUST SELECTION EVERY EVENING. Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. W. Winter bottom, and Mr. Carrodus. Orchestra of One Hundred Per formers. Band of the Coldstream Guards, ae. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One Shlllina ; Dress Circle, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes, LI Is. and. ',Os. ed. The Box Office is open from 10 till 5. O u Thursday next, the Second Mendelssohn Night. The Beethoven Night will be repeated on Thursday, Sep tembe.r S. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE bTREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forre.ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Maiston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPIII.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Billington, and Mr•. After which, MASKS AND FACES. Messrs. B. Webster, F. Bedford, R. Phillips , Billington , S tuart ; Mrs. tiding, p. Billington. and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Philliks, and Miss WOOlgdr. Commence at 7. MOS xJ• respectfully call ES attention 'i to NtheiDria rge S and o wel Nl- assorted stock of JUVENILE cLoTHING. The newest taurics are combined with the latest and most fashionable resigns, axid the best workinansliiP. E. MOSEb and SON give particular attention to this important branch of their business, and they can with c onfidence affirm that the prices j oost economical. Tnis deart e- such as ust saisfy the went is in au m istinct t part of the premises, which will be fo p und a great convenience for ladies and children, MOSES A, N D SON E• resnectfully invi!e.public attention to their large and - swell-assorted SUALnIi IL STOCK. MOSES AND SON'S "SANDRINGHAM" WRAPPER J utroduced by them) is the newest and most fashionible style of Overcoats for the season. MOSES AND SON'S JII_A • READY-MADE and BESPOKE CLOTEUNLI for all classes and all ages. 10 MOSES AND SON'S CELEBRATED "INDISPENSABLE" SUIT, from 30s. V MOSES AND SON'S LA. HOSIERY and DRIPERY, for all classes and all ages. EMOSES AND SON'S • HATS AND CAPS, for all c asses and all ages. JMOSES AND SON'S • BOOTS and 3110 ES, for all classes and all ages. E MOSES AND SON'S 0 lETTFI for all classes, all ages, and all climates. MOSES AND SON'S • LONDON HOUSES, XJ 151, 155, 15?, 157, Minories; 83, 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, Aldgate ; 506, 507, 508, New Oxtord--street ; 1,2, 3, Hart-street; 137, 138, Tottenham-court-road ; 288, Euston-road EMOSES AND SON'S • COUNTRY ESTABLISHMENT, Bridge-street, Bradford, Yorkshire. WI MOSES AND SON'S • Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset until Saturday evening at sunset, when business is re sumed until li o'clock. A.l articles are marked the lowest prices in plain figures. Any article not appnved of will be exchanged, or the money re' urned. List of Prices with Rules for Self-measurement, Fashion Card, and our new pamphlet, "The Tercentenary; or, The Three Hundredth Birthday of William Shakepeare," gratis rk,d post free. COALS. —The LILL Co 'SHALL COMPANY'S LS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 235. per ton. I Double 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ Det p .2ls. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, IV., and 17, south Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole 2:zent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Evening by RENILY 131tOOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendisti street, NV. iilGli WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tina DA :.—Morning, 12h. 58m.—Afternoon, lh. 2Orn. o.if ORR° w.-Morning, ld. 42m.—Afi;ernoon, lh. 58m. *l 4 l 4 I M ft • j er nali ""lr surto LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1864. It is a very difficult thing to compel people to perform their domestic duties by act of Parlia ment ; and so little are we in this country accus tomed to official interference with individual rights that any scheme professing so Quixotic and at the some time so meddlesome a purpose, is little likely to obtain favour on the first hearing. There are, however, exceptions to the general rule of non intervention, which are very wisely practised at home as well as abroad in these days. There are cases in which the tyranny of the employer over the employed must be restrained, in which the anxiety of some to gain additional wages must not be allowed to influence the whole trade by making long hours the custom. It is necessary, too, to guard against the avarice or ignorance of parents who may subject children of tender years to labour so exhaustingly and unremittingly as to leave in delible traces on the little unformed frame. Masters are glad to employ women and children, because their labour is cheap and plentiful. The men are naturally glad to have their own scanty earnings increased, and the women think it well to provide something additional for their families. At first sight there seems no reason to object pro vided the work is of a suitable character, but a closer investigation of the results of such practice leads to a very different conclusion. The medical officers of the Privy Council have just issued two reports, which treat of questions of great importance with regard to the physical as well as moral welfare of the people. The registration system, which is use ful in so many ways, does great practical ser vice, in showing the influence which different trades have over the health of those who work at them. The extremely high death-rate among factory chil dren led some years since to that benevolent inter vention on their behalf which has produced such good results, and there is now another aspect of the same question to which Mr. SMITH'S Report calls attention, which remains to be brought before the public. The rate of mortality among children whose mothers are employed in mills or in the fields is fearfully high. Neglect and want of their natural food does the work of destruction slowly but surely. The infant frets ana wails, and then the mother or the deputy gives it GODFREY'S cordial or some other drug to quiet it. Before long it pines away, and troubles no one with its crying, and so many poor little ones are year by year thus hurried into their graves that little is thought of it. The ordinary course of the decline is so common that it assumes the appearance of an established infantile disease. Very often the mothers are quite ignorant of the mischief they are doing. It is for their children they are 'working, and they do not con sider, or reflect that they are sacrificing the life of one in order to obtain more food or clothes for the rest. In some instances, no d oubt, tho mothers are designedly careless and , culpably indifferent, but as a general rule they would indignantl y disclaim any such int en ti on . It is a very striking fact th a t, not withstanding the distress and extrem e Poverty lately felt inL encashire, the rate of mortality a mong infants has been considerably lower than it was in prosperous times, owing to the mothers being obliged to stay at home from the stoppage of the mills. , This is a st ar tli ng f ac t a nd we should hope will teach its own moral to the working classes themselves, who are no more willing to sacrifice their children's health and lives than the ranks above them, however much they may be compelled by force of circumstances to send them out into the world. We may wonder, indeed, at the mother voluntarily abandoning those duties which should be her chief pleasure, but she is in most cases ignorant of the risk she is running, and the temptation is great. In the manufacturing dis tricts almost every girl is brought up to some kind of work, and there are many:of the li g ht e r ki n d s for which women are peculiarly fitted, and at which they can earn a good deal of money. The wife and mother who finds the house hold expenses increase with her increasing without any corresponding rise in her hus. band's wages, very naturally thinks of her old trade and resolves to bring in something herself. So many round her do so that she sees no harm in leaving her children to take care of themselves, and very often to take care of the baby also. The same thing with the same result occurs in most of the agricultural districts, where women are em ployed at light work in the fields, The medical officer of the Privy Council has brought forward an array of facts and figures which might convince the most incredulous of the manifold evils pro , ceeding from so false a system. The ques. tion is how far the Legislature can step in without unduly interfering with personal liberty, and without pressing hardly on the industrious poor. It is manifestly impossible to decree that no mothers of families shall be allowed to work for their living ; but something might be done to remedy the evil without putting obstacles in the way of those wives and mothers who are compelled to labour for their families. It is possible to regu late the hours of labour on the principle of the Factory Acts, which descend so much into detail as to limit the ages at which children may be employed in factories, and the number of hours they may work. Something of this kind it is proposed to do with regard to married women, and there is no reason why the experiment should not answer equally well: The women themselves have much to coneider—tbo displeasure of their employers, the needs of their other children, the fear of losing work, &c. The Legislature has but one thing to do—to care for the lives and welfare of the popu lation, and to guard them from those evils from which, through ignorance or necessity, they cannot guard themselves. The letter to the limes of yesterday concerning the imprisonment of an English gentleman in Cuba, details a case of great hardship, and it is to be hoped that this affair will not be passed over in the same indifferent manner which has so often before characterised the proceedings of our Government, It is quite evident that the chief party to blame in the transaction was the com mandant of the Ulorro. This individual—doubt-• less for want of some excitement, or eager to prove his zeal in the discharge of his duties—made him self very unnecessarily and disagreeably officious, by meddling with two innocent and harmless tree. yellers. It does not seem that there existed the slightest ground of suspicion against the two gen tlemen who were wandering about in the vicinity of the Ulorro. The slightest pretext that could exist of permission being required to visit the environs is done away with by the fact that the friends met the Commandant at the commence ment of their expedition, and asked him where they could procure some water. If it were contrary to regulations thus to visit the place, why did he not inquire whether they had the necessary privi leges T instead of doing so, he only allowed them to get fsirly into the trap, and then clutched his prey in the most unceremonious fashion. The inci dents related by the brother of the English gentle• man so unjustly detained are calculated to arouse the strongest indignation, for it seems as if the authorities in the town, and the troops at the for tress vied with each other in brutality and harsh ness of treatment. This strange conduct was the more remarkable, since one of the travellers was well known in the place, his brother-in-law being the physician to the garrison at Santiago. This circumstance was well known at Santiago, and yet no attention was paid to the fact. It was not until Dr. BERTRAM went to the English Consul that they were discharged from custody. This is too great an affront to be passed over in silence, and those who would counsel each a course are greatly mistaken ; it is by allowing ins sults offered to our countrymen abroad to be suf fered with impunity that our prestige among foreign nations has been lowered. Surely the troops were capable of keeping these gentlemen in honourable detention until a messenger had been sent to the city to report what had passed, or they might have been taken to Santiago at once. The fact was that they were accused of taking plans of the fortifica tions, whereas they had not taken any materials for such a purpose with them. If the commandant acted under a mistaken notion, at least he might have apologised for the error he had fallen into, and also have shown more care in the confine ment of his prisoners. Nothing whatever was proved against the accuser, and therefore there was something very inconsistent in the whole affair; there is not the excuse given that they were trespassing that can be relied on, for it is not usual among the inhabitants of the place to obtain permission previously to visiting the for tress, and if an exception is to be made in the case of foreigners, it ought to be announced in such a place and manner that no mistake can be made by ignorant newcomers. They were given no food whatever during the nineteen hours they were in charge of their gaolers, and it was not until they reached Santiago the next morning that their friends sent them some refreshment. This circume stance alone proves the enormity of the conduct of the authorities, because it was a shame, if the pri soners had friends or acquaintances in the place, and it is to be presumed, according to evidence,that had they been so situated they would have been left to starve, or at all events to suffer great priva tions and injury to their health: They were marched through the town on Sunday morning like common prisoners under charge of a heavy crime, and thus made a disgraceful spectacle. It is surely too much to say that this is in conformity with the rules and regulations of foreign countries, and must, therefore be submitted to without a murmur. It is not thus that reason speaks or justice should decide upon a case. Without the shadow of a charge that could be proved against him, an Eng lishman has been subjected to insults and hardships. The Consul appears to have done his duty in insist. ing upon his instant release, but something more j remains to be done by those in authority at home. They must demand an apology to be made for this outrage, so that the world may see that our sub jects are net to be tamely insulted a n d wantonly ill-treated to suit the fancies of testy commandants of fortresses and tyran nous governors of cities. The brother of Mr. GOODMAN, concludes his letter very properly in these words—" I am sure that your readers will join with me in the hope that the matter may be duly attended to by her MAJESTY'S Government, and that they will at least demand an explanation and apolog y from the Spanish authorities for this disgraceful outrage on the person of one of her THE SUN, LONDON', TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1864. MAJESTY'S subjects." This is no more than is rea sonable to expect, and all who rightly comprehend the importance of such a question in an abstract form, apart from its personal and individual consi. derations, will acknowledge that it must not be allowed to drag into obscurity. It may suit the whims of the Foreign Office to take no notice of the affair, but it comes to this, why have we Ministers at all if it is too much trouble for them to be on the alert when the interests of the subject are at stake. Of what avail are all the hosts of officials if amidst them no care can be taken of English rights. Ac cording to the advice generally tendered now-a days, it would seem as if the best thing every one can do is to stay at home. But this is not in accord. ance with the love of enterprise and the roving spirit always displayed by Englishmen, and it seems a disgrace to the administration of our day if it is no longer possible for our countrymen to be pro tected. If the arbitrary regulations of other States permit them to put their own subjects into prisons not fit for human beings to enter, and keep them an immense time without food or drink, on visionary charges of impracticable offences, it is not too much to demand that an exception be made in favour of her MAJESTY'S subjects, and that a little more respect be shown to this country. Also, when the charge cannot be substantiated, and it has been proved that all the indignity has been suffered for nothing, ample apology should be made to the party who has sustained the gratuitous insult. It is all very fine to argue in a circle, but this is the only correct form of viewing the matter, and it remains to be seen whether proper notice will be taken of it, It is time for some attention to be paid to these things, or the people of this country will find that so many injurious precedents have been established that they will have a hard struggle to I maintain their rights abroad. Mr Alfred Mellon is engaged in the preparation of a Quadrille, certain to become popular, to be called the " Toole and Bedford Quadrille," introducing various well known Adelphi airs, including that of the " NorriLle Tale.' —The Conza. " GOOD NEWS" FROM " OLD DRITItY."—A sound as of that of the old, pleasant, and peculiarly play going time, reaches us from Drury-lane. There, Shakspere is about to run a new and splendid course. Old Drury will indeed open its approaching campaign with the "Henry the Fourth" which was one of the great features of last season; but this will only be by way of introduction, as it were, to the Second Part of the same chronicle play, which is to follow. In October, " Cymbaline" will be restored, with great magnificence, to the stage—Miss Helen Faucit returning to it to enact Imosen. Mr Phelps will play his old part of Posthumus, and Mr Creswick is happily cast for lachimo. Still tree to Shakspere, Messrs. Falconer and Chatterton will next produce "Macbeth," in a style of great scenic gra - adeur, and with all the appliances of Lock's music and the choruses. Miss Faucit and Mr Phelps will sustain the principal characters. This speaks of bustling times in Shaksperian revivals; added to which, there will be a new romantic play, by Mr Theodore Martin, the heroine of which will be acted by Miss Faucit. For the after part of the season, the prospect is equally brilliant. A DISH OF STEWED PIG Two THOUSAND YEARS OLD !—(Allusion being here made to the age of the dish, not of the pig I)—Among the relics of a hotve (re cently discovered at Pompeii) preserved in the local museum, says a Neapolitan correspondent of the Athenceuni, is one which throws a curious light on the domestic arrangements of the Pompeian baker, being no other than one of the dishes which were actually in process of preparation for dinner on the very day of the catastrophe I Upon the cook ing -stove in the kitchen was found a stew-pan, half filled with ashes, and in the bottom appeared an indurated mass, which Signor Fiorelli rightly conjectured to have been produced by some of the viands which lay within the pan, and which, although long since decomposed, had left their impress on the now consolidated ashes. Acting upon this happy thought, he applied in this instance the same ingenious process which was so successfully adopted in reproducing that painfully life-like group of human figures, described with such terrible fidelity in one of your former numbers ; and the result has fully justified his anti cipations, being an exact fac-simile in bronze of a young pig, which was being stewed for the family dinner at the very moment when they were surprised by the stroke of doom. GREAT FIRE.—DARTFORD, Tuesday Morning.— A fire of a very alarming and destructive character, and nearly attended with fatal results to a whole family, happened in the wed known old hostelrie, the Eight Bells, High-street, in this town. The discovery was made by one of the local constabulary shunt two o'clock in the morn ing, et which time Mr Woodyear, the landlord, his wife, and six children, were in their beds asleep. By repeated knccking at the door the inmates were made aware of their impending danger, but they were unable, owing to violence of the flames, to effect a retreat by the stP:ecase, and it was fe;,red that the whole family would have, perished. Fortunately a ladder was procured, and tka endangered persons were saved. The flames rose so Ugh through the roof as to ignite the adjoining premises of Mr W. H. Smith, oil, colour, and Italian warehouseren, when the destruc tion of every building near appe-ared certain. The engines of the parish, the Royal Exctunge. and the Kent fire-offices quickly attended, as well r 4 Mr Superintendent White with a powerful engine belon.ging to the corporation of Gravesend. No time was lost PI getting this force into full play; but, in spite of the ‘;, , ater thrown upon the flames, they con tinued their r4vages, and the mastery could not be accom plished ur:,,il the entire building, except three rooms, was destroy'., , and the roof burned off. The premises of Mr Smil'A have the roof burned off, the back rooms, first floor, ar a d attics, used as warehouses, partially destroyed. The property belonging to Mr J. Kerr, linendraper, is also much damaged by water, &a., and part of the roof is de stroyed. The total loss, which is considerable, will fall upon the Phoenix, Kent, and Sun fire offices. The fire, it is sup posed, was caused by some partially smoked tobacco falling between the flooring boards in the parlour. THE LATE JOSEPH LOCKE, M.P.—On Friday last Baron Marochetti visited Barnsley for the put. pose of arranging the site on which to place his bronze statue of the late Mr. Locke, the engineer. The place selected is the Locke-park, some little time since presented to the inhabitants by Mrs. Locke, in remembrance of her husband's early connexion with the town, and the deep in terest he took in all that related to its progress and pros perity. It is expected that this statue, which will be on a granite pedestal, will be permanently fixed in about a month, THE STEITEI OF GRANTING PUBLIC.HOUSE Ll CENCES. — i r esterday, the annual licensing sessions for the boro ug h o f Liverpool was opened before a full bench of mar,istrates, and, before the applic a ti ons were h ear d, sever a l of the magistrates gave expressions to their views upon the subject of granting new licenses. It having been stated by the clerk to the justices, in answer to a question put by Mr Robertson Gladstone, that of the 64 new licenses granted in 1861, none of the holders of these had been fined, and only six fined who had licenses granted in 1862 and 1863. It was stated by Mr Stitt that, in former years, it had been the habit of the court to take into consideration the wants of the neighbourhood, but the Act of Parliament only required them to inquire into the fitness of the person applying, and the accommodation which the applicant's house afforded. It was an ascertained fact, that beer-houses were productive of much more evil in the shape of drunken tees than the regularly licensed public-houses that were under the control of the magistrates ; and the records of the court showed that the offences against the law, whether for Sunday trading or permitting drunkenness, were eleven sixteenths by beer-houses as compared with five-eixteenths by public-houses. He (Nlr Stitt) would grant licenses to all ,men that applied whose premises were sufficient, Mr Robertson Gladstone said the people who were now enjoy ing a license were enjoying a monopoly, and although there were people who held conscientiously that to increase the number of public-houses increased facilities were given for people to get drink, he could not see, unless persons holding licenses were willing to give a !And to the bench that they would not sell more than at present, that drunkenness would not increase. But supposing such a guarantee could be given that no publican would extend his business, he wished to know who would undertake to say how the quantity already offered for sale, and sold daily, was to be distributed amongst the community. They had for years been endeavouring to put down monopolies, and if men of good character were refused licenses for fit houses, he could not think that it was not giving publicans a monopoly. This opinion appeared to be concurred in generally, and the bench proceeded to hear applications. Throughout the day the magistrates granted applications to beer-house keepers who had not been fined, and to people of good character. A MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE AT QUEENSTOWN.— Within the past few days an instance occurred at Queenstown of extraordinary promptitude and decision in the fulfilment of a matrimonial engagement. At the last regatta ball, a captain in her Majesty's land forces became the conquest of Miss J---, a young lady who has been spoken of as " one of the nicest girls in Queenstown ;" and, immediately after, the nuptials were arranged to come off two or three months hence. The gallant officer received on Monday last an unexpected order to join his corps in Hali • fax, and as that altogether destroyed the previous arrange • meat as to time of their marriage, the affianced pair quietly wended their way to the church on Wednesday morning, had the ceremony performed without any bother or display, and the Ifecla that evening bore this most exemplary of lovers and his pretty wife towards the shores of the New World s — Cork iieraid. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GREECE. ATHENS, AUG. 29 An insulting letter addressed to the King by a member of the Opposition, gave rise to an excited sitting of the Assembly on the 26th inst. Exasperation prevailed in the capital, and pro tests were signed by large numbers of persons. On Friday the Assembly expressed its hdlg.- nation at the letter by a majority of 193 to 27, 28 members abstained from voting. LISBON, AUG. 29 The Royal Mail Steampacket Company's ship Oneida has arrived here from Brazil, &c., and will leave this evening for Southampton with 61 passengers, 547 rolls of tobacco, 250 bags of coffee, and 147 barrels of tapioca. The Parana left St. Vincent for Brazil on the evening of the 20th August. THE CONGRESS AT MALINES. Yesterday, Monday, the 29th instant, the pro ceedings of this the Sccand Congress at Malines were formally inaugurated; when—according to L' Opinion Nationale, not only did M. Leopold de Gaillard fail to make his appearance, but other personages of far snore importance were looked for in vain—among these latter M. le Comte de Mon talembert, AL de liroglie, M. Cochin, and Monsignor l'Eveque d' Orly auth PRANCE. The 7oulonnais says—" The steamer Dix• De',embre is preparing to leave this port at the beginning of September to lay down the submarine tlectric cable between Oran and Carthagena in Spain. This submersion will be superintended by M. Ploix, naval engineer. The steam despatch boat Eclaireur, which is at present on the coast of Algeria, will mist in the operation." The Akhbar of Algiers records a lamentable accident which caused the death of M. Purchet a master well-sinker, who has been successfully en gaged for :some time past in making Artesian wells in the colony. He was on the day of the Emperor's fete, at Maison-Blauche, superintend ing the boring of a well, when he ascended a scaf folding about 30 feet high, in the hope of being able to catch a sight of the fireworks at Algiers. From some cause unknown, he became giddy and fell from the platform, and was so severely injured that he died a day or two afterwards. " Baron Ayme d'Acquin, recently appointed Minister of France in Morocco," says the Moniteur, " arrived at Tangier on the 21st, on board the steamer Jura, of the Imperial navy. After anchor ing, she fired a salute of 20 guns, which was imme diately returned by the fortress of the town. On leaving the vessel the Hon. Minister was saluted, according to established usage, with 17 guns, and the cannon of the towel fired a similar salute when he reached the shore. On landing the baron was re ceived by Siddi-Mohamed-Bargache, the Sultan's Minister for Foreign Affairs, and by all the mem bers of the French Legation. At the gate of the town, the Pacha governing the province awaited tho baron's arrival, and accompanied him, with an escort of honour, to the hotel of the Legation." The Slide has the following :—"The secondary States of the Germanic Canfederation appear still to wish to strive with the two German Sovereigns, Rho are prepared to sot themselves up as Suzerains of the small kingdoms or principalities. By what expedient will the small Powers be able to neutra lise the absorbing action of Prussia and Austria, which countries are united in the same feeling of ambition ? This question is asked with uneasiness. The abandonment of Denmark by the Western Powers has released William I. and Francis. Joseph from the danger of a European war. They are masters at home ; they may exercise a sovereign empire over Germany, and in any European question that may arise, they moreover count on tho support of the Emperor of Russia, who is quite decided, notwithstanding the deplorable state of his finances, to march in case of need to the aid of absolutism. The _Russian Correspondence of St. Petersburg contains the most precise details of the financial situation of tie Russian empire. There is no difficulty at arriving at the conclusion that the situation, instead of improving, is becoming more and more critical. A few days back the rate of exchange was thought to have reached its lowest term ; the last price list, however, proves the con trary, and the .Russian Correspondence makes no secret of the fact that the Treasury is now in a des perate state." In consequence of orders sent from Paris, says the Journal du Havre, " to the maritime authorities of the different ports to hasten the departure of the ves sels selected to bring back from Mexico the troops which are to return to France in October, three transports sailed in the middle of last week, and two others, the Eure Meuse, left Brest on Friday, Four more are destined for the same service. All these vessels are to rendezvous at Martinique. They will arrive together at Vera Cruz, and begin to embark the troops withcut delay." The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes terday—" The fail in the barometer has made fresh progress on the coasts of Portugal and on the western coasts of France. The wind is strong from the S.W. at Corunna, although it has remained from the N.E. on the coasts of the Atlantic. The probability is that the squall which has already been felt at Corunna will soon reach the shores of the Atlantic and the Channel. The sky is generally fine, or only slightly cloudy."—Since Saturday the barometer at Paris has slightly fallen ; it has again reached 763, without any tendency either up or down., BOURSE, Aug. 29.--The market has been rather more animated, and prices have slightly improved. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66fr. 40c., and Mobilier at 1,012 fr, 50c. Railway Market quiet, but with previous quotations up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market again became heavy towards the close, and left off as follows : 4 1 per Cents .. 94 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Co. end month 66 35 Credit Mobilier 1008 75 80. end month 1008 7a Bank Shares 3395 Credit Fonder ....1220 Roman Italian Loan 67 60 Do. end month 67 70 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — .... H.ome Debt . . — _ Deferred 'Ate. Cash. Account, Orleans BBB 75 .. 890 Northern .... 986 25 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 916 25 .. 915 Southern 635 .. 636 25 Western Eastern .... 495 .. 495 Sardinian Austrian Lorpbard North of Spain Saragossa .... 500 .. 497 50 Ditto to Barcelona .... 215 .. 210 RAIL ALGIERS. The Akhbar of Algiers has the subjoined intel. ligence :—" The insurrection movement in the south of the subdivision of Medeah has not made any fresh progress. The rebel tribes are in the neighs bourhood of Bel Kheitar, suffering much from want of Water and pasturage. They send by night goums who endeavour to take in their silos the corn which they have left there. On the 19th a rather consi derable number of horsemen from Zenakra Mahon. cha advanced so close to Boghar that a part of the garrison was obliged to march against them. After having exchanged shots with the goums attached to the French service, the horsemen retired, before the arrival of the French troops. Those marauderswho thus return towards the abandoned encampments of their tribes render communications between Boghar and Djelfa impossible. They have among them MM. Mollard and d'Esquilles, as well as the men who despoiled and ill-treated some earmen and pillaged their waggons. Those murders, rob beries, and acts of brigandage are the object of judicial investigations which, when tranquillity shall have been re-established, will throw all the responsibility on the really guilty persons. They will be treated as the Kabyles were in 1860, who pillaged the establishment of 11M. Bock and Dela croix after having murdered one of them and several workmen; they will in fact be brought before the military tribunals without prejudice to civil action.' DENMARK AND GERMANY. (From the Times' Correspondent.) VIENNA, Aug, 27. At 8 o'clock in the morning of Thursday, the 25th instant, the King of Prussiq left this city for Ischl and Salzburg, and in the course of the after noon the so long interrupted negotiations for peace were resumed. The plenipotentiaries held another sitting yesterday, and they are to meet again to day, but the question at issue is so very compli cated that many weeks are likely to elapse before the negotiations are brought to a close. Two com mittees—the one military, the other financial---have been formed, and they have already commenced operations. The military committee, which is com posed of Colonel Kauffmann for Denmark, Lieut.- Colonel von Schonfeldt for Austria, and an officer of engineers, whose name is not yet known to me, for Prussia, is now poring over Danish ordnance maps, and trying to hit on an eligible boundary line be tween the Danish province of Jutland and the Ger• man Duchy of Schleswig. The Financial Committee is said to be composed of M. von Quaade, for Den mark; Baron von Werther, Prussia; Baron von Bie geleben, Austria; and Baron von Scheel-Plessen and a M. Reincke, a North German banker, the Duchies. Some time ago I informed you that the inhabitants of Schleswig and Holstein would have to pay a high price for their independence, and it now appears that the claims made on them by Austria and Prussia on the one side and Denmark on the other amount to 65,000,000 dcliars, or thereabouts. Baron von Scheel-Plessen has drawn up a memorial on the subject, in which he claims for the Duchies, as a set-off against the quota of the National Debt which will fall to their share, a part of the State property of Denmark. It is even said that the non-official representative of the Duchies, who is a persona grata at Berlin, claims for them a part of the Danish fleet. Schleswig has from time imme morial belonged to Denmark, and it is therefore almost impossible to say what part of the State property belongs to the kingdom, and what part of its ancient dependency. M. von Quaade leads a very retired life here, and has little or no communication with the members of the diplo matic corps, but by some means or other it has come to their knowledge that he is trying to persuade the representatives of Austria and Prussia to recog nize the validity of certain treaties, one of which is said to give to Denmark the right to join tha Ger man Confederation, The Duke of Grammont is said to have declared that his Government would object to the conclusion of a Federal alliance between the German Powers and Denmark, and there is no reason to doubt that the report is in substance correct. M. von Bismark is still one of the representatives of Prussia in the Conference, bat he is very impatient to get away, and has already informed his colleagues that he must be in Berlin again on the 7th of September. The King of Prussia, who purposes staying at Baden Baden until the 9th of the next month, is said to have obtained from the Emperor of Austria a promise to attend certain grand military ma noeuvres which are to come off in the autumn in the neighbourhood of Berlin. It is not unlikely that the Emperor of Russia will meet the Emperor Francis Joseph in the Prussian capital; and, if such. should be the case, there will not fail to be another loud outcry that the great Northern Powers are plotting mischief. The relations between the Austrian and Prussian monarchs and their respective Ministers are ex tremely intimate, but it is doubtful whether a regular treaty of alliance has been concluded here. Men in office say that the two Governments have agreed strictly to uphold the principle of legitimacy, and no one who knows anything of Messrs. von Rechberg and von Bismark, will be disposed to question the correctness of the statement. A well informed friend tells me that the French Govern ment is ill-pleased with the rapprochement between Austria and Prussia, and I am at no loss to conceive that such is the case. It stands to reason, that neither the Emperor nor the King can wish to give offence to France, but certain it is that they tacitly avow that a good understanding between them is necessary to their well-bring end safety. As a matter of course there are still many subjects on which the Austrian and Prussian Governments are at variance, and one of them is about to be brought to an issue. The Imperial Government being re solved, if possible, to get into the German Zollve rein, has put the following categorical questions to the Prussian Cabinet-1. Does the Berlin Govern ment recognise the right of Austria to join the German Customs-Union ? And 2. Will the Berlin Government come to a preliminary understanding with the Austrian Cabinet before it ratifies the Franco-Prussian Treaty of Commerce ? In order to keep Count Rechberg in a good humour 1L von Bismark said that some concessions might perhaps be made, but it is my firm conviction that Austria will be entirely isolated if she does not at once modify her tariff. M. von Blumfeld, who is the managing man in the Department of Commerce, holds firmly to the system of high duties, and he is said recently to have declared, that if Prussia should remain obdurate such a vast coun try as Austria can manage to get on without a commercial treaty with her or any other foreign Power. To use the language of a German financier of high reputation, " the Aulic Councillor von Blumfeld has about as much knowledge of commer cial matters as had Louvoia, the ill-famed Minister of Louis XIV. of France." A few days hence the commercial negotiations between Austria and Prus sia will be renewed in Leipsic or Breslau. It is un derstood that Baron Hock, who is one of the few employes in Austria who have rational ideas on coma mercial matters, will represent this Government. Great importance is here attached to the resolution taken by the Schleswig-Holstein Deputies at Neu munster on Wednesday last. There were 51 market tons and boroughs in Schleswig and Holstein, and on the day abovementioned 41 of them, which were re presented by 81 deputies, solemnly declared that the Duchies only wished for such a union (anschluss) with Prussia as was in the interest of Germany. It was . added that the inhabitants of Schleswig- Holstein objected to a Provisional Government, and wished to be placed under the rule of. Duke Fre deric of Augustenburg without any further delay, The Government does not now meddle with the question relative to the succession, and doubtless it will remain passive until it clearly sees its way in the Customs-Union question. Should Prussia make concessions Austria will play the game of that Power in the Duchies, but if she should persist in refusing to do so, this Government will hardly fail to urge the Bund to declare in favour of the Duke of Augustenburg, the validity of whose claims to the succession has never been seriously questioned. The Emperor and the Xing of Prussia were much together while the latter was here, and when they separated at the railway terminus they shook hands three several times, and as often embraced each other in foreign fashion. A few days since M. von Bismark received a telegram from Berlin, in which it was said that there was likely to be a large sur plus in the revenue during the current year. "You see the results," said the reactionary statesman, turn ing to one of his German colleagues, "of our being without a Diet." Many persona have been arrested in the Southern Tyrol on a charge of having conspired against the State, but I am not disposed to attach much im portance to the circumstance, as the Austrian police is in the habit of lighting on mares' nests. The last conspiracy in Hungary turned cut to be a phan tasm, and it is probable that the plot recently dis covered in Venetia is nothing more. Baron Bacb,the Austrian Ambassador at Rome, who is now here, is to represent this Government at the Court of his Majesty, the ei.King of Naples. Great severity is now displayed towards the Poles who are confined in Moravia and Bohemia, and Count Rechberg per emptorily refuses to set iii. Langiewiez at liberty, although the Swiss Government, whose subject he has become, offers to guarantee his good behaviour. There must be a vary bad feeiing in Dalmatia towards the Imperial Government, for M. Bja monti, on whose account the Provincial Diet was dissolved, has been re-elected by the Chamber of Commerce in Spalate, and also by the inhabitants of that city. Mani train HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, Aug. 29. Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal Higilnesses Princess Helena, Princess. Louise, Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, with their Royal Highnesses , the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, left the Castle at ten minutes before seven o'clock this even ing for Balmoral. The suite consisted of the Marchioness of El y , the Hon. Mrs Bruce, Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. C.Grey, Major-Gen. the Hon. A. Hood, Col. the Hon. Sir C. B. Puipps, M. de Schleini!z, Mr Buff, and Dr. Jenner. His Royal Highness the Duke of S2xe-Coburg honoured Mr Frith with a sitting to -day for his picture of the Prince of 'Wales's marriage. The Rev. John G. H. Hill had the honour of having an interview with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg to-day. Departure of Her Majesty for Scotland.. Yesterday evening, shortly before seven o'clock' her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal 1 1 1 11- nesses the Princesses Helena, Louise, Beatrice , . Prince Leopold, and the Duke and Duchess a Coburg, and attended by the Marchioness of E l y , the Hon. Mrs Bruce, Col. the Hon. Sir C. B. Phip ps' Gen. the Hon. C. Grey, Major-Gen. the Ha , Hood, Dr Jenner, Messrs Buff and Bahl, and th e suite of the Duke and Duchess of Coburg,leftWl a " 4 sor Castle for Balmoral. Her Majesty, on q u itti ng th e C as tle with th e various members of the royal f am ily an d suite,drove down to the station of th e G rea t W es t ern hallway' the royal cortege consisting of several carriages' The royal train was provided by the London and North Western Railway CoMpany, over which 11/3 ! the greater portion of the journ e y w ill be performed' The royal party on alighting were received by several representatives of th e G rea t Western a nd North Western Companies, by whom they were to the train. Her Majesty and th e flit ° ferent members of the royal family very graciously returned the loyal greetings of the bystanders. , The special train was co m p ose d of the roy al saloon, in which were seated h er Majesty a nd ` Princess Helena. This carriage was beautifully lined with lavender-coloured moire antique silk, and was fitted with every accommodation for the long journey to the North. Three double saloons wer e occupied respectively by their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and governess, the Marchiones s ° Ely and Mrs. Bruce, the Duke and Duchess of , Coburg and attendants ; Prince Leopold, Dr. en ; ner, and Messrs. Buff and Sahl ; Sir C. Wood, General Grey, Sir C. B. Phipps, and General Ho o d ' A single saloon was occupied by Princess Beatrice,' her governess, and maid. Other carriages contav ea the Queen's dressers, the railway officials, pa ges' upper servants, &c. There were also two Gaul!ge trucks, and two break vans, in all 16 carriages, With engine. The train left the station at seven o'clock exac tl y The route has already been described. The train was to travel at express speed throughout the night , stopping only at Leamington at 9.18 for refresh: ment. At 9.33 the journey was to be resumed, and at 10.45, at the Bushbury Junction, 127 miles from Windsor, the London and North Western syste m would be entered upon. Here, as also at Whitmore (1554 miles), Boar's Head (2022 miles), Ken dal Junction (24562 mites), Carlisle (307 miles), Sum' mit (3561 miles), and Greenhill (4131 miles)► a stoppage of five minutes was to be made, and the arrival at Perth (458 miles) was arranged to take place at 8.45 this morning. Here her Majesty Wi ll be present at the inauguration of a memorial to the Prince Consort, and in about two hours the journal will be resumed for Aboyne, which will be retichedi if the time.bill should be adhered to at 2,37, after a railway journey of 5801 miles, accomplished in about 20 hours, including the stoppage at Perth• From Aboyne the journey to Balmoral will be continued by post-horses. It is expected that her Majesty will remain itt Scotland for six weeks, and will then return to Windsor. By telegraph we learn that the royal train kep t admirable time. It passed Stafford (1141 miles) at 11.15; Crewe (1651 miles) at 12.4; Warringto n (190 miles) at 12.40 ; Preston (1261 miles) at 1. 39 ; and Lancaster (2371 miles) at 2,11—a few min u tefi after time. August 30, Mornin g. The Royal train, containing her Majesty the young members of the Royal Family, and the IN" and Duchess of Coburg, passed through Car lisl e , punctually at 4.7 a.m. The train was in char; ; C 1:' Mr Neele, out-door superintendent; Mr teo" bottom, locomotive superintendent ; Mr telegraph superintendent ; and other prat tico officers of the London and North-Western tom " pant. Ma rtini The Prince and Princess of Wales ins the Highlands. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Pet ncess of Wales continue to make the most of their time in the Highlands, notwithstanding that the we athe r is not of a very favourable character eitiarr for sport or quiet drives end picnics. As on the prev i4 ous Sunday their Royal Highnesses , wt t h the Princess Mary of Cambridge and suite , ai:f Ode' divine service in the parish church of Crat hie °II the 21st inst. Large congregations were p l restmt on both occasions. The Rev. Mr Anderson prrta ched• On Monday the Royal party rode to t he top ° Dark Lochnagar, and apparently enjoys te st splendid scene, and the healthy exercise nec to gain it, greatly. On Tuesday, while the I 'ripC e went out with his gun, the Princess, accom . p aale d by the PI lams Mary, drove round by Bei lat er , : taking Craig Yourie by the way. The par tea among the hills, and then rode home to A berA geldie Castle. Oa Wednesday a Royal picn'i. a sc ae held in the woods of Balmoral, the day's a 0 :1 0 ' merit being wound up by a ball given by the I 'rin e° at the Castle to the tenantry and servants. Tedee afternoon of Thursday was occupied by a g rau o picnic given by tiro Countess of Fife at the rot Out! falls of Moich above Braemar. Very general rue grlibgra te fication is felt in Aberdeen and along the 1) o, te ' d the current rumour that the Prince has lost tle Mr Wm. Smith, the architect of Balmoral 10°- to prepare plans for a palace at Abergeldie. _ o ________ Queen s : f f i‘ t i h o e n F tp r e e n ri si o e h r ,annedeoomthperieu --. f , by the Ivo , b e ns 0 D th u s Tk O eh r ea le ne a dx n D s . Royal family, arrived at Tunbridge 84/ ' 3: 2 l n is d Y h e e sa r terday evening from Claremont. Her Majesty august relatives travelled from Esher to Guildford Ca i t° South-Western Railway, and from Guildfor d to Tuf ibridg Wells by the South Eastern line. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam bridge and Princess Mary arrived in town on Saturday frofa 1 a tour of vi at ',#s in Scotland. Princess e an a a n d u iled by the II Abergele2o Castle, where she bad been staying w i :z h their aren o , i y o, a hn l ea ff i\ ,t t iogau l , rr n eob e f s i s vo e in s;: i 1 : Prince I in : s ea s :e t o lva direct les f l ro: Duke of Canh7ridge, accocuP , on. Colonel Curzon, left the Earl of DalnJusie s seat on Tuesday, and until be met the Princess Nary on her had been visiting Pu t of Lothian and Lady Alice 1.- . e rr way south. The Earl of Leices,'er and a select circle have el' rived at Powerscourt CaAle, county Wicklow, on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess fowerscourt, The Earl and Countess l'itzwilliam and the Ledi' s Fii%w iiiiaio will l eave t h e i r oe ct in Ireland neat Week for- Wentworth Hou se , Y or k s hi re , ill order to receive a dibba guished party during the Donee st r races. The Earl Co w p e r, with the . Jon. Hen Cow per Rankes Cowper, will remain for a ruoLlth at t he u oble earl's shooting-box in Inverness-shire. for Viscount Palmerston left town yesterilel Llanarth. Lady Brougham intends shortly to go to Baia for the benefit of her health. Lord Ronald LevesonaGower arrived is town yesterday from visiting the Duchess (Dowagor) greatly land at Vichy. The duchess is in the ovjoYratl Jlt 0f improved health. ( f The marriage of Lieutenant-Colonel Bu of vo the Grenadier Guards), only son of Mr Burnall.• of Bas , d a t. ghter of grave, Leicestershire, with Miss Dixie, o f Sather the late Sir Wollarton Dixie, Bart of Bosworth k'ark, in .) the same county, was solemnised yesterday follow; aot S. a Paul's Church, Knightsbridge. a te ,,.-. ITALY. The Vorarlberg Gazette furnishes the following further information relative to the intended Geri baldian rising in the Tyrol : "The movement was to have broken out on the 27th inst. No one knows who are the auxiliaries expected by the conspirators, for the people of the country are not at all disposed to make fresh experi ments; they do not like the Piedmontese, and, moreover, the country is sufficiently protected, the forts aro armed and provisioned, and Verona is close at hand. Any insurrectional attempt would, there fore, have been a senseless undertaking. Unfor tunately, it appears that the arrests have only com promised the soldiers and not the chiefs of the re• volutionary army. The Government has certainly been vigilant, but in the persons arrested we seek in vain for the names of those who have for many years been considered as the directing men." PRUSSIA. Subjoined are the terms in which the Gazette of Northern Germany, of Berlin, again speaks of the visit of the King of Prussia to Vienna :—" We have already had occasion to contradict those journals which connect combinations of great political im portance with the visit of the King of Prussia to the Court of Vienna. At present the accounts which reach us from the Austrian capital not only confirm what we then said, but inform us that conferences between Count de Bismark and Count de Rechberg have taken place on a ground much more real than that of a policy of the future—namely, that of com mercial affairs. En fact, there is nothing better calcu. lated to put an end to all the adventurous suppositions with which the world has been filled, and to throw suspicion on the policy of the three Eastern Powers, than to see those Ministers deliberate on the manner in which the States under their direction may best participate in the fruits which are only secured by peace and the durable development of what now exists. Conformably to those views, the reply sent from this city to the Austrian note of July 28, rela tive to the commercial question, expresses a wish that the Vienna Cabinet would set forth exactly and in detail all that is thought desirable in Austria. There is every disposition on the part of Prussia to examine all these points, and to accede to them as far as shall be possible." Canterbury Hall. The Optical Illusions at this establishment seem to have lost none of their attractions—indeed the audiences appear to be as much delighted as ever. When we paid it a visit on Saturday last, we witnessed a very cleverly written sketch, by Mr Vandervell, entitled " The Tercentenary; or, a Night with Shakspere," in which Mr Randall per• senates a Mr Mulberry Muggs, beadle of St. Anthony the Good, and informs us that his parishioners do not intend to erect a statue in honour of England's immortal bard, but will have private theatricals instead—and have appointed him to perform the part of Romeo, whilst a sweetheart of his, one Miss Jemima Waggs, will undertake the part of the love-sick Juliet. Muggs then begins to study his part, and between learning and liquor falls asleep, and dreams— and a very capital dream it is—and which is produced by Professor Pepper's well-known Ghost illusion. At first he beholds Juliet leaning over her balcony (enacted by Miss Hayes) who gives a very fair imitation of the inimi table Stella Colas. Shakspere then appears, and after des canting on the decline of the drama, commands his chil dren to appear. Ariel (Miss Townley) obeys the summons and sings " Where the bee sucks" very sweetly. We then see Othello (Mr Wm. Morton) who gives a sort of stump speech, in a style worthy of the renowned Tinsworth. King Lear then appears, and gives' a very clever representation of the celebrated mad scene. Hamlet entreats the weird sisters to let him know the ultimate fate of Denmark, and the dream is brought to a close by the sudden appearance of Richard and Richmond, mounted on real basket horses, who fight a terrific combat, which ends with the death of the Hump-backed Tyrant. These two characters were personated by the Messrs. Morton, whose excellent fencing and burlesque acting kept the audience in one continued roar of laughter, which so disgusted Shakspere that he vanishes, and Mulberry Muggs awakes. This sketch, which was first produced on the 23d of April, bids fair to rival the celebrated Prince Blossom, by the same author, which has now reached its 200th night, The admirable manner in which these illusions are produced rcfloots great credit on Mr Charles Morton. who seems to have spared neither trouble nor expense in getting up this class of en tertainment. Mr Hilton, the ventriloquist, appeared in a new sketch entitled the " Anthropophaginian." There was also a sensation performance by Messrs Talliot and Burnetti, besides a grand selection from " Ernani," in which the prima donna, Miss Russell, made her first ap pearance atter her late indisposition, and was received with a tremendous ovation. She sang charmingly, and proved herself to be one of the best vocalists of the present day. SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY, --An alarming accident took place yesterday morn ing on the main line of the Midland Railway at Stavely Station, near Chesterfield, which it is feared will be attended with fatal results to the Post-office guard who had charge of the mails. The train leaving Leeds in the morning at 3 a.m. had proceeded to Stavely without anything unusual having occurred. The mail trains do not stv at this sta tion, and as the driver saw the signal indicating that the line was clear he went on at full speed, and the engine dashed into the goods train from Derby, which, by an error on the part of the pointsman, had been shunted across the main line instead of into a siding to await the passage of the mail, An awful crash was the consequence. The engine completely cut the goods train in two, and several carriages were shattered. Tho Post-office van was turned completely over, and the officer in charge of the mails re ceived such injuries that his life is despaired of. The line was completely blocked, causing the stoppage of the whole of the trains about two hours beyond the usual time. THE EXTRAORDINARY BANK NOTE ROBBERY AT FLEBTWOOD.—At the Preston intermediate sessions on Saturday, Mr Pope, on behalf of Joshua Bond, who is charged with stealing two £5O Bank of England notes, the property of the New Fyldo Timber Company, at Fleetwood, applied for a postpontunent of the trial, and also that the prisoner might be set at liberty on giving bail. The court agreed to take bail for £4OO, the prisoner , in £2OO and two sureties of £lOO each. A large number of Fyldo were in the court. SALE OF ESTATES IN THE LAKE DISTRICT.—The valuable estates of Wasdale Hall and Stang End, situated near Wastwater, Cumberland, were brought to the hammer last week. Wasdale Hall sold for the sum of £15,000, and Stang End for £10,500. Both estates were purchased by Mr Musgrave, of Whitehaven. TIRED OF HIS BOARDING-HOUSE.—A prisoner of war advertises from Johnson's Island in a New York journal for a substitute to take his place in the military prison there :—" Wanted—" A substitute to stay here in my place. He must be 30 years old, have a good moral character, A 1 digestive powers, and not addicted to writing poetry. To such an one all the advantages of a strict re tirement, army rations, and unmitigated watchfulness to prevent them from getting lost, are offered for an indefinite period. Address we at Block 1, Room 12, Johnson's Island Military Prison, at any time for the next three years, en closing half a doa~n postage stamps.—As♦ HARTZ." THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND:6IOCE) the Earl of Carlisle has been at Castle Howard his general health has improved. His lordship is reported somewhat better, and seems to benefit by the drives in the country. His lordsbip was able to attend Divine service on Sunday. EXTRAORDINARY LON GETITY.—Thero are at present residing in the same mansion in Cardiganshire three sisters, whose united ages fall bit 17 years short of three centuries. The sisters have reached the respective ages of 92, 94, and 97 years, and are one and all in the enjoyment of good health and unimpaired faculties. Even the oldest of the three is able at present to dispense with the use of spectacles in reading--a circumstance almost unprecedented at such a ripe age. PROFESSOR FAWCETT.— Report says that a marriage has been arranged between the Hon. Miss Eden, daughter of Lord Auckland, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Mr Henry Fawcett, who was not long since an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of Brighton. Professor Fawcett, as is well known, is blind, but, notwith standing this severe eaction, he possesses many of the highest attainments as a scholar, and seems determined, at any cost, to obtain Parliamentary honours. Bliss Eden is by no means unknown as an author, several works, the pro duct of her pen, having issued from the press within the last three or four years,—.Bath Chronicle. ANTICIPATED VISIT OF A PORTION OF THE F RENCH FLEET.—lnformation has been received by the mayor of Sunderland that a portion of the French fleet, now cruising in the North Sea, may shortly be expected to visit that port. The visit will not be made by the whole of the fleet now raising, but by a frigate and some gunboats, the first of which is expected to arrive in a few days. The commander of the frigate when here will examine the ac commodation of the port; and if he ie satisfied that it is such as will accommodate the whole fleet, there is every probability that Sunderland may next summer be honoured with a visit from the entire squadron, the summer being now too far advanced to admit of the visit this year,— eiftheati pbsercer.