The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-26 00:00:00

Es tablished 1837. RITANNIALIF E ASSURANCE COMPAN Y B 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Empowered by ,Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet. cap. 9. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. ti JOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. From this time until the end of the season there wi ll beur fo O D era nights in each week, viz., every aThsy, Thursday, and Saturday. Extra Night. Mdlle. Lucca; Madame Didiee. M. Faure ; Signor Graziani ; Signor Mario. THIS EVENING (Thursday), May 26, will be per formed. for the second time this season, Gounod's Opera, FAUST E 3IARGHERITA. Mar herita, Italie. Pauline Lucca, her second appearance in that character in England ; Siehe , Madame Didiee ; Marta, Mdlle. Anese ; Mefisto e e, H. Faure ; Vale.,tino, Si g nor Greziani ; Wagner, Signor Taglifico ; and Faust, Signor Mario, his second appearance in tilt character. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre .ta is, 103. rd., 75., ar.d ss. had ; m phitheatre. 2s. rd. Boxes, stalls , and tickets may be a t the box-olac under the portico .)f the tilea re, which is open from ten to live, and at the principal musicselkrs' and librarians'. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA. NIGHT. FIRST TIME OF LES HUGUENOTS. T O-MORROW EVENING (Thu rsday , 3 , 1 ay 26, will be per formed, first time this season, Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, LES HUGUENOTS. Signori Givaltni, 31arcel o Junes, S,ntley, Gassier, Bassi, Casaboni, Manfredi, 3lariotti, and Tavella; Mdlie. Louise Ltebhardt, 3ldlle. Trebelli, and 2dcille. Miens. Conductor, Signor AR DI ri. In the Incidental Ballet, Grand Pas de Deux, lildlle. Cata dna ,Ber_tta and Sig. Anamaturo. --- Saturday 'Next, FAUST. Grand 3.loraiug Performance, Wednesday, June lst.- FAUsT. Notice. —In active . preparatio - , Beethoven's FIDELIO. Leon ora, by Male. Ti (her first appearance in that cha racter;. Commence at Half-past Eight o'clock. Pit Tickets, 7s. ; Reserved Box Seats, 10s 6d. ; Amphi theatre Stalls, ss. and 7s. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, in th , Upper Circle, 21s. Box Office of the Theatre open daily, where places may be secured ; also at Mitchell's, Bulb's, Lacon and Oilier's, Bond street ; Leader's, Opera Colonnade ; Sam's, St. James's street, Cramer, Wood, and Co.'s, and Nammond's, egent street ; Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s, Cheapside ; and at Chappell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond-street. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, ONE GRAND MORNING PERFORM.A.NCE. WEDNESDAY, June 1. Gounod's celebrated Opera, FAUST. Ti. lens, Trebelli ; Sant!ey, Gassier, Giuglini. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Doors open at Half-past One. Commence at Two o'clock. firHEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARIIICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &a ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. Arc. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nellyi'ower, Hill, Wright, Ito4ers, &c. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Mr. Compton. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHT ER will perform HAMLET THIS EVENING 'THURSDAY). Claudius, Mr. Emery; Polonius, Mr. John. Brouham ; Ghost Mr. G. Jorn : Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden hbff ; g Ho. atio, Mr. , J. G Shore; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb • Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. W W M'lntyre, F. Merton, Raymond, Morela nd, Clifford, Edmonds, all bank, Collett; Ophelia , M iss Rate Terry ; Actress, Miss 31. llemade ; and Gertrude, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open a t half-past 7, and Hamlet com mences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS' EVENING, THE COMED OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. Y Alter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien del Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. To conclude with BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy 0 ' affer y, Mr. Dominick Murray. Nem THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, M:. B. Webster. Last Week but two of the Great Tragediene, Miss Bateman, in the character of LEA a. THIS EV ENIN G,an apropos „Sketch, SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, it. Phillips, Biiiington, Stuar t, Eburne, S te phenson ; aars. Bidington. 4i - mclude with T AREA. r. BELLE slid Messrs. J. L. Too:e, Bedford, it. I,omer, Mi ss Woolgar, d Mrs. 11. Lewis. Commence at 7. ISS BATEMA N.—L E A H._THIt, EVENING and EVE EY EVENING —Miss Bateman will appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma den further notice In urder o give due effect to t:.is most remarkable success of the se son, ea ire y new scenery by the celebratPu artists Messrs. 1 , anson and ons, Thouipscn. New dr, ss,s and appo ntments have be, n prepare'l for its productio.l.—N. is. In consequence of the iiressing and numerous applications at the Box-offl_R, ar migement,, have now been made by which Seats m , y be ob tained a Fortnight in Auvan, e. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dim Boucicault, Esq., every Evening. Be-engagement of those ce ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. ani Mrs. Charles Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the copular namesßDiaMill Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews e , Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. a. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 11. Simms, Mtss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comely in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled M TFHE rank M FOX atthews CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, r. . Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cham,er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and 3liss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At 10, OUT OF SWEET OUT OF MIND. Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Frank viatthews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke ; Miss Fanny Josephs. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. IV. A. Swanboroug,h. THIS EVENING, TURN HIM our• Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. miss Ada Bwanborough. Atter which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey , James , Fenton, Turner, dzc. ; Marie Wilton, bimpson, &c. 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Wind—N.W.; moderate breeze, and cicudy. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. rHis DAT.—Morning, sh. 11m.—Afternoon, sh. 28m. ro „. a „,.... mora in g , 6h. 3al.—Afternoon, 6h. 30m. , WO' - - SUIT, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1864. If report be true, her MAJESTY'S Ministers have hou;ht discretion to be the better part of valour, and have prudently avoided the risk of another legal defeat. Their '! meddling and muddling" brought them so little credit or profit in the case of he Alexandra that it has been considered advisable o hush up the matter of the rams by effecting a !onvenient compromise. There is accordingly to be no further question as to the ownership of the El Tonssin and El Monassir, since they are added to the national possessions, and certainly if the publ;c are to pay in either event, it is more satin. factory to give a larger sum and obtain two first. class steam rams than to fritter away some thou. sands in carrying a case from court to court. It cannot be denied, however, that this movement is a manifest confession of weakness on the part of the Government, since, if the rams were really illegally constructed, they bad a right to seize them without payment. Why give a large Eum for that which was already forfeited to the Crown ? We hope some explanation will be demanded from the Ministerial benches of the conduct of this affair. The truth is that, as in the world-famed Schleswig-Holstein dispute, our Government have suffered themselves to be drawn into a maze of perplexities and troubles by their vacillation and one-sidedness. The wan of an open, straightforward, and decisive policy, which threatens to embroil us with half the Powers of Europe, will probably end by alienating us from both the contending parties in the Western Hemi- sphere. Inconsistency is never respected, and the very Federals, whose cause has been so much favoured, now load us with abuse for neglecting their interests. Had the English Governmen recognised the South from the first, the terrible slaughter now desolating the fair and fertile States of the or ca prosperous Union might have been stayed, while our northern manufacturers would not have stood idle for so many weary months. The question of personal interest should not of course ou.Aveigh the consideration of what is due to others, but it must be evident to the most superficial observer that to refuse to recognise the South was virtually to side with the North by treat- ing their opponents as rebels and not as belligeren Oar professions of neutrality were consequently insincere from the very first, and almost every subsequent act has confirmed the impression. The correspondence between Mr. BARING and Lord It CECIL respecting some observations let fall in the heat of debate in reference to our commercial dealings with America has been published oppor tunely enough, together with the news about the ' rams. The one affords the best commentary on the other, but the correspondence is especially interesting, not only from the high position of both parties, but from the curiosity naturally felt to see what can be said by a gentleman who does not attempt to deny having had a large share in the transport of munitions of war. It will be felt by most readers that Mr. BARING would have done more wisely to remember the old adage about the ierpoliay of throwing stones when your resi dence is peculiarly brittle, and Lad better have let the matter alone. Certairily, as Lord ROBERT CECIL admits, the public and the Government have coincided in regar;:iing the transmission of goods to the American states as justifiable, but public opinion goof, a little further than the Cabi• net, and canno'c see the immense difference be. tween sending out an unarmed ship to one party and " properly forwarding" arms and ammunition to the other ; except, perhaps, that the ship may possibly be put to peaceful use, while rifles and per cussion caps are not generally available for any pur poses but those of war. It is true that the vessel may be armed on her way, but with that, strictly speaking, the law has nothing to do. The order is to build a ship of a certain kind, and English judges and juries are not bound to know whet is to be done by a third party, after the contract is completed. If it be contended that the building of such ships as the steam rams is of itself a virtual infraction of the proclamation, it cannot possibly be denied that the manufacture of arms and aremu. nition—articles whose transmission to the contend ing parties is expressly forbidden by the same document—is decidedly a contradiction, not only of the spirit but the letter. Mr. BARING'S defence that his firm took no part in giving t 1 :.,0 orders for the munitions of war, or in the e xecntion of them, is certainly begging the ciae',":ion, since he must, be perfectly aware that the ``, giving effect to the credit lodged in favour of the parties furnishing those supplies," r.ud the " seeing them pro perly far warded to their destination," were no less important parts of the transaction. No one blames Mr. BARING for the part he has taken in these matters ; but it is a little too much for English common sense and love of fair play for a gentleman whose firm has been so openly con cerned in assisting one party to appeal to the House of Commons against the infraction of neutrality c ommitted by those who have been engaged in help ing the other side. If the South could not pillage Northern commerce Without ships, neither could the North fight without arms and ammunition, and the American war owes more to Messrs. BARING than to Messrs. LAIRD. The fact is, a strict neu trality is the very last thing desi re d b y the friends of the North in this country. It is so easy to de nounce piracy, slavery, and every other evil in round terms—so easy to declaim about our duties as a great nation, our interest as a commerce -loving neutral ; but it is both difficult and unsatisfacto r y to descend from eloquence to argument. If the judg. ment of the people so entirely supports the Mini sterial policy, if, es a Cabinet Minister observed, our Foreign Enlistment Act is so faultily worded that a fleet of ships can sail through it, why does not this wise and popular Government 'ake some steps towards reforming so great an evil ? Why does not some member of the Government bring forward a measure for amending this inefficient and ill-constructed Act ? Is it that a neutrality strictly defined and rigidly enforced would prove a more startling customer to Mr. ADAMS than the Alabama, the Georgia, and all their kindred combined ? is it that if a new act were laid before Parliament and subjected to its rigid scrutiny it might leave no convenient looplaelis whereby what is'` fraudulent" on the part of the South become "properly forward ing" on the part of the North ? Or is the reluctance to introduce so pressing a reform due to an uneasy misgiving that perhaps, after all, the conduct of the Government has not been altogether that which THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY Eir.ENING, MAY 26, 1864, the free outspoken English people would have chosen in their representatives P—a doubt how far the pauperised thousands of Lancashire, and the ghastly heaps of dead and dying but lately cum bering the green plains of Virginia, may have been increased by a course of policy which irritates but never overawes, which yields but never conciliates. Herr TON BIsMARK has again come forward to vindicate his cause. It will certainly be a pity if he is not saddled with the responsibility of this untoward war, for he takes pretty good care to tell us plainly what era his views, and what motives impel and actuate him in his course. The only way to take this aff.ir is to be surprised at nothing, and to expect the most encroaching demands to be made by the allied armies, especially the Prussians. The despatch in question is addressed to the agents of Prussia at foreign courts, and of course, under cover of this ingenious device, the most arrogant assumptions are put forward, and the most ex traordinary demands made, Herr TON BISMARK goes over the old ground again, and takes great pains to inform us that the Government of Berlin wished to "liberate the duchy of Schleswig from Danish oppression." This might serve for an ar- gument, if the sad events that have recently taken place did not assure us that there are many other places besides Schleswig, which is here so inge- niously specified, that it is deemed desirable to remove from the protection of the Danish authority, and to put it under the sway of the German rule. The purport of this letter is to explain the particu lars relating to the island of Femarn, which it has been the desire of the allied forces to place under the occupation of the Federal Diet. It would be very difficult to define what limits are likely to be put to these extravagant demands, and when we shall see a little consistency and a slight portion of justice in the language held by these innovators of the rights of a country. Why this island should be occupied is hard to make out, and it needs one to follow Harr BISMARK'S perplexing theories to the utmost, and then to bestow implicit credence upon them, before any solution of the mystery is disco verable, and then it is ambiguous at the best. Herr BJsMARK and his friends behold with " lively regret" that the Federal Diet did not participate in their undertaking, but, on the contrary, left them to undertake the wide responsibility of the undertaking. Can anything be more absurd than this, when every one at all versed in politics is aware that Prussia desired nothing better than to take the law into her own hands, and to plan, carry out, and consolidate matters, as it seemed most ezpedient to the wishes of her rulers, and the in terests of her community. Thcre is a very emphatic passage which tells the Germanic Confederation in a roundabout fashion, that they have failed in all that was required of them. M. BISMARK congra• tulates himself on the dexterous propositions of the Austro-Prussian allies, which removed the obstacles that had unfortunately arisen in many particulars, and also . which obviated the danger of exhibiting to the world the spectacle of " German want of humanity at so decisive a moment." There may be more disastrous spectacles than that presented to the public gcz before the tactics of the Berlin diplomatists are worked out. It would be amusing if the subject were not so serious a one, and if its results were not likely to contain such grave con sequences for other States, to notice the inconsis tencies which characterise this grandiloquent despatch. Among the many gratulatory reflections which swell its contents, we perceive that great credit is taken for the universal deference that was paid to the wishes of the Federal Diet by the Prus sians and Vie Austrians. After enumerating man, instanced of consideration and other matter; o f t h e sort, it is thus declared in regard to the maintenance of the "unity of the military ch'.sf command," that it was of such especial importance that it could not possibly be relinquish'ed. It is always the end of these complaisant nations that they look after their own interests coute qui coute, and take very good care that the fruits of the conquest and the glory of the gain shall rest with themselves. M. BISMARK is not altogether satisfied, or, at all events, he deems it politic to appear not to be so, for one thing is explained, another is apologised for, as it were; and many events are recapitulated in order to give a favourable tuna to their relation, or a flattering colour to their recital. Perhaps the hardihood of effrontery has reached its climax, even for Berlin assurance, and it is deemed requisite and essential to glory over a few of the most striking anomalies of the transactions which have recently taken place. It must occur to every one that it would be better if the Governmait of Prussia would allow the Conference to go on, or rather to begin, in good earnest to enter upon its business, and not to adopt the novel but inadequate method of telling the Cabinets of Europe its meaning through the agency of these despatches. It is also very inconsistent that a Minister, who has all this knowledge at his fingers' ends, should fail so egregiously in teaching his pl' 4 nipotentiaries what it is necessary that they 'faould know before they appear at the Council that sits in debate as to the issues of this weighty matter. The extraorainary inaction of England is the worst possible service that her statesmen can render to Prussia, for that ill-starred nation is being thus fatuitonsly urged on to ruin by the extrava gant demands and the reckless course into which the mistaken friendship of our country has plunged it. It is en insult to the common sense of the country in which the Conference meets—it is an affront to all the other Powers that are assembled in conclave ; and it is a cruel wrong and a positive i n jury to the country most concerned, that so many unpardonable delays should take place, and such little progress be made in the transaction of the matters that engage the notice of the whole world. The only satisfactory part of this despatch is that in which M. BISMARK regrets so bitterly that the points to which so much importance has been attached by the Allies have not been properly appreciated by the other States, and that a majority has not often been obtained in the Diet for the propositions laid before them. Unanimity can never prevail in a collection of such divers in. terests and different objects as those which prevail in the several States of Germany ; but the greatest drawback to all concord is the intense selfishness that prevails. This is the chief enemy, the pro pelling power of disunion. Unfortunately, either of the two Powers that do hold together is too strong for the undeniably little State that by common consent has been singled out as the victim of all this Federal combination, and deep laid strategy. It is of no use for M. BISMARK to go on with these fulminating epistles of his, because they answer no purpose, and cannot serve his turn. There are acme infatuated individuals who will f p t e s r s sis tin es and his fraccordingfriends credence tt ds pu t forward s th the s e h secret po r ot r of - their intentions. There are, however, many more who cannot be convinced against their convictions, and who will not fail to recognise in all these tirades and expositions the attempt to veil an un worthy policy with specious pretences, and the desira to disguse a destructive intention with dex terous excuses. All this can come to no good end, and the tortuous line now pursued by the Govern ment of Berlin, under the able but misguided rule of M. BISMARK, will sooner or later cause more harm to the prosperity of Prussia than the violent course she is pursuing can bring injuries on the kingdom of Denmark. There will be this difference, that with few exceptions the sympathy for the one is universal, and the desire to serve her most sin cere and earnest; but will there be the same sen timent extant for the other when the evil days come on, and the trial of her fortitude is put to the proof. It will add poignancy to the blow to know that all Europe looks span the certainty as in some degree the measure of retributive justice. The Speech of tLe King of Prussia, BED.LIN, Tuesday. The following is the full text of the speech of the King of Prussia in reply to the address of the party headed by Count Arnim-I3oytzenburg. A summary of the speech has already been transmitted by telegraph : I have received with pleasure the address in which you assure me of the willingness of the Prussian people to assist in solving the Schleswig-Holstein question, thereby granting me a worthy return for the beloved blood of so many chil• dren of the country. This return will be mine should I attain the end for which, together with the Emperor of Austria, I have taken up arms. In conjunction with my illustrious ally I will take measures, so tar as God has placed it in our power, that full security be obtained against a return of the oppression of our countrymen in the Duchies by Danish rule, and that effectual and lasting guarantees be secured to prevent further disturbances on the northern frontier of Germany. _ _ To gain this object the allies have fought, and for this they are now striving at the Conference, reserving the entire freedom of action to which they are entitled both by the conduct of the Danes and the course of events. During the pending negotiations I cannot, of course, be expected to give any explanations as to the nature of the solution. But even as you may rest assured that under all circumstances the honour of Prussia will be preserved, so also you may be assured that the sacrifices we have offered for the cause of Germany will also conduce to the interests of our own more immediate fatherland. In this confidence I am strengthened by the words you have addressed to me, for which I thank you from my heart, since:in them I see a new proof of the warm and unanimous devotion of the Prussian people, on which, in all cases concerning the greatness and wellbeing of our common fatherland, I may rely. DEATH OF DR. NORMANDY.—The scientific world has sustained a great loss In the death of Dr. Not mandy, long familiarly known as a practical chemist of reputation and en unexperimental phi'osopher who had contributed to the progress of modern science. Dr. Nor mandy, a Frenchman by birth, adopted England as his home. Originally educated for a surgeon, he passed the necessary examinations ; but having in tae course of his studies been led into chemical experiments, he found a greater attraction in their pursuit. While so occupied he formed an intimate friendship with the lice Dr Ure, with whom he was subsequently associated in many important chemical analyses, Dr. Normandy coon attained a high position amongst practical chemists, and become well known for his acquirements in the application of their science. In his examination before the committee of thellouse of Com mons on the adulteration of food his evidence was of the most startling character, as showing the numerous frauds practised on the public by dishonest tradesmen. Dr. Nor mandy was the author of several works which stand high in the estimation of chemists. Amongst these we may particularise "An Introduction to Rose's Chemistry" (he also edited an English translation of that work) ; " The Handbook of Chemistry ;" "A Treaties cn Agricultural Chemistry;"'" Guide to the Alkalimetrical Chest;" " The ChemicAl Atlas," a work of great value to students of chemical analysis " The Dictionary of the Chemical Atlas His latest literary labour was devoted to several contribu• tions to the new edition of Dr. Ure's "Dictionary of the Arts and Manufactures." Dr. Normandy died on the 10th inst., in the kith year of his age,—The Lancet. Captain Edwin Pentreath, of the barque Jessy, of Bristol, has just been presented with a very valu able gold chronometer watch and chain, sent to England by _ _ the President of the United States, and forwarded to Earl Russell by his Excellency C. F. Adams, the American Minister in this country, It would appear that on the 13th of February, 18'33, after a tremendous gale of wind off Cape Horn, the Jessy fell in with the American ship Ole ron, dismasted and on her beam end, The ship was from London bound to Callao. Qaptain Pentreath laid by the ship a considerable tine, as Captain Percy of the Oleron hoped that he 7,0u1d be enabled to wear and eventually to save he_;, but atter the most strenuous efforts bad been "ld.de, and all proved unavailing, it was de'crmined to roan don the wreck, The captain, three cfficers, and 14 of. the crew were taken off, four having been drowned the pre , vious night. The survivors were on board the Jessy 50 days, during very stormy aad disagreeable weather, and finally landed at Valparaiso. On a representation of the case being made to the American Government by their con sul at that purt, Captain Pentreath's conduct, with refer ence to the American crew, was viewed so favourably that letters were forwarded tc our Foreign Secretary, and the American Minister, expressing the high sense entertained of his humane and generous behaviour, accompanied by a handsome gold watch and chain, with an appropriate in scription. On Captain Pentreath's return to London a few days ago, this valuable testimonial was handed to him in a most graceful and complimentary manner by the chairman of the local marine board. MR. EDWIN JAMES.—A paragraph has gone the round of the papers to the effect that Mr. Edwin James was in destitute circumstances in New York, and that a Belfast friend had remitted him £3O, " of course as a loan, but in reality as a gift." A letter received in Col chester this week gives an emphatic denial to this state ment. The writer says :—." I have known Mr. James for the last 30 years, and heard from him by letter not more than three days since, in which he states that he was busily engaged in several heavy causes in the Supreme Court at New York, and that he had lately been employed by the Government in framing suggestions for a new bill on bank ruptcy, which had given great satisfaction to the New York bar. I also know that he cannot be in such great pecuniary distress, because I have within the last fe w months re ceived and remitted to him at various times m an y hundred pounds on account of professional earnings i n America for b us i ne ss done for British merchants in this coun tr y ; nor do I believe that he can be so borne down as to be a miserable ou tcast, when I read that a performance was given at the Winter Garden Theatre for the Shskspere St atue Fund, in and was the great w hich he took part, attrac ti o n of the e v e ning. I also know that a few months since he was waited upon by a deputation to make a n oration on the anniversary of American independence; and on that occa sion he addressed upwards of 20,000 people ; and that more recently he has been waited upon by great numbers to be allowed by them to be put forward as a candidate for Con gress, which he has for the present refused." The writer winds up by stating that the great object of Mr. Edwin James's future life is " to endeavour to realise sufficient to discharge his honourable debts and liabilities." THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—On Sunday morn ing a splendid-looking steamer, named the Reso. lution, of 93 tons, sailed from the Clyde for Nassau, for the blockade-running trade. She was once the well known pleasure schooner-yacht belonging to the Duke of Suther land, which was lately sold to some London party, who have had her fitted out in G-lasgow f o r trading purposes, having been dismantled of her handsome fittings. She goes out under command of Captain Webber, well known in this trade, and takes with her a valuable cargo, consisting of about 250 casks of spirits , £3,000 worth of woollen blan kets, £B5O worth of leather boots, £450 worth of felt hats, &o. During the last fortnight three Lew paddle steamers have sailed from the Clyde for Nassau —the Ivanhoe, 240 tons register; Virgin, `290; and Little Hatti, 260. The y are all lightly built, and hors g reat speed. The steamer Stag, long in the Belfast and ~.lyde mail services, has been sold, and is fitting out for Nassau. Four other new steamers are fitting out, and about a dozen building for the same trade.—Scotsman. WALES PORTS.—Darin the month of April th e exports foreign from Newport TRADE OF THE SOIIT II g were 23,709 tons coal and 11,355 tons iron, against 12,263 tons coal and 7,000 tons iron in the corresponding month of last year, and the shipments coastwise were 47,774 tons. 566 v w e e s r s e e l e a n , g w a i g t h e d a aggregate i n nthe tfilcie r of egistered a tonnagebeing e a f n 6 i 6 n , l c r 3 e B a t s o e n o s f , 55 ships, and nearly 10 , 000 tons tonnage as compared with April, 1863. Tne shipping r ates received reached £1,626, against £1,301 in the corresponding month; 47,636 tons of coal were exported foreign, and 24,251 tons coastwise, being a large increase on both the previous and corresponding months, Llanelly exported foreign 13,927 tons coal against 15,618 tons in the corresponding month, and coastwise 26,691 tons against 24,741 tons in the month of March. A large trade was done at Neath and Briton Ferry during the month. ACCIDENT TO PRINCE ARTHUR'S CARRIAGE... NARROW L' SC. Arthur and suite passed through Blairgowrie on Monday, en route to Balmoral. A carriage had been sent down from the north to convey him, an' two powerful horses were attached to it in front of the Royal Hotel. The carriage had not proceeded many yards when the horses became restive, the " brake" of the om riage appearing to have no power to check the down-hill progress. At the Well Meadow the fore wheel came into violent contact with a stone wall, the wheel fortunately flying to pieces, and thus making the horses more easily held in. They were brought up in front of the Advertiser office, and the Prince and his friend leaped out smartly, and stood, considerably agitated, but smiling, while the horses were being detached. The Prince walked away in the direction of Balmoral, followed in a few minutes by another carriage. The first carriage is a complete wreck, and the only wonder is how the Prince was not thrown out of it when the collision cccurred. The stone has already been named "Arthur s Stone,"—Scotsman, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. CONTINUED ADVANCE OF GRANT. (Per the Belgian, via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, MAY 14, EVENING. News received from General Grant np till noon o-day states that he was yesterday still pushing in Lee's rear. Reliable reports from Cincinnati reiterate that General Sherman has captured Dalton, with 5,000 prisoners and 10 guns, The Governor of Kentucky has issued a call for 10,000 troops, to serve for six months, to come to the rescue of the country, finish the war, and save the Government. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Money easy. Gold, 74. Stocks improving. New York Central, 1321 ; linois, 126,1; Erie, 11011. Six per Cent. United States' Bonds, 1141. DENMARK, COPENHAGEN, MAY 24, 11.19, a.m. After the arrival of a Danish Government Com missioner at the Prussian headquarters in Horsens, the commander of that place retired from Jutland, leaving nobody behind with whom negociations could be carried on. The Prussian officers in command at the differen places act everywhere arbitrarily. _ _ The Chief of the Police in Randers has been arrested by the Prussians. In Aarhuas they arrested the superintendent of the Custom-house for demanding the duty from Prussian contractors. The recruits called in before the armistice on the I2th May were arrested on the route to join the Danish army, and threatened with deportation southwards. HAMBURG, MAY 26. Advises received here from Copenhagen state that public opinion in that capital has lately taken a more warlike tone. Perseverance in a persistent policy is approved. It is asserted that the Danish Government has determined to recall its Plenipotentiaries should the German Powers not modify their demands. MADRID, MAY 25 (Evening). The new Ministerial Bill on the press will be discussed on Saturday next. In to-day's sitting of the Congress an energetic speech was made by Senor Pastor against the ad ministration of the finances, which the Minister defended successfully. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 26. The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen, advertised to sail hence for New York to-day, having been detained, will not sail until ear'y on Friday morning. All despatches per this steamer for the United States will be received on board till midnight cf the 26:h. FRANCE. The Japanese Ambassadors were present the evening before last at the Grand Opera, the per formance consisting of the ballet of " Giselle." The Grand Chamberlain of the Imperial Court has informed the personages usually invited, that the series of private balls given by the Empress has terminated for the present season. General do Martim prey has provisionally assumed the chief command in Algeria. The news of the death of the Marshal was brought to Carthagena by the Tilan, corvette, and transmitted to Paris by telegraph, The mortal remains of the Duke wili be brought to France by the Christophe Colomb. The Vienna journals are beginning to attack the policy of Count de Rechburg in the affair of the Duchies, and to point out its inconsistencies. " The Emperor," says the Spore, "‘ has accorded the title of Duke do Montmorency to Count Adalbert de Perigord." BOURSE, May 25.—The market has been rather firmer, with, however, but little change in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 70c. Mobilier unvaried at 1,146 f. 25c. Railway Market heavy. The market improved towards the close both as regards the amount of business and prices, and left off as follows : 41 per Cents .. 93 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 80 Credit Mobilier 1155 Do. end month 1156 25 Bank Shares 3380 Credit F onoier 12 35 Roman Italian Loan 69 10 Do. end month 69 05 Ditto Threes .. 42 50 New Mexican .... 60} Russian Austrian Spanieh Threes 42 50 Home Debt Deferred fAT I 3. Cash . Account. RA IL Orleans 0000000 3 •••0•••• Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 875 - .. 877 50 99 3 75 .. 990 - 875 - .. 877 50 _Kew ditto Southern 648 75 .. 647 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon.bard Varth of Spain Saragossa. Ditto to Barcelona -•— .. 265 MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEILLY AVERAGES.—Wheat, 398 8d; barley,l93 Od ; oats, 20s Od ; rye, 31e sd; beans, 34s 2d; and peas, 32s 9d. THE SIX WEEKS' ATERA.GEg.—Wheat, 39s 5d ; barley, 30s 4d ; oats, 19s 7d ; rye, 29a 7d ; beans, 333 8d ; peas, 32s 4d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 98,272; barley, 9,512; oats, 7,047; rye, 11; beans, 4,459; peas, 149 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. To-day's market was fairly supplied with beasts as to number, but their general quality was very middling. All breeds moved off slowly, yet Monday's prices were sup• ported. The general top figure was 4s 10d per 81b. The show of sheep was only moderate. Sales progressed slowly at late rates. The best old Downs realised 5s 4d per 81b. Lambs were less active than on Monday. Prices, however, were firm—the current rates being 68 4d to 7s 6d per 81b. The veal trade was in a sluggish state on former terms — namely, from 4s 2d to 58 2d par 81b. The demand for pigs and milch cows was heavy at late currencies. Per Blbs.to sink the offal, 5. d. s. d. 5, d. s. d Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 5 0 Second quality do. 3 10 4 2 Pme.Sqhdown do. 5 2 6 4 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Largo orse. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime Scots, otc. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 6 2 Urse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 Small porkers... , 4 2 4 6 Lambs... ,6s 4d to 75 6d, _ Suckling calves, los to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs ; 20s to 24s each. TOTAL BTJITLY. FOREIGN sirrrLY. Beasts .... Cows l5O Sheep and lambs .... 843 Sheep and lambs 5,700 Calves Calves sss ... 370 Pigs site. , ssss ••• Pigs 2lO MEAT MARKETS. NEIVOATE AND LBADBNHALL.—These markets are fairly supplied with meat, and the demand is steady, as follows :—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 6d to 48 8d; lamb, 65 Od to 7e Od ; veal, 3a 8d to 4s 8 d ; and pork, 30 d to 4s 6d per Bibs by the carcase, SOUTHALL, May 26.—The supply of stock was moderate, and the trade ruled steady, as follows :—Beet, from 3s 6d 9 to 4s 8d • mutton, 3s 8d to 53 2d ,• lame, 65 6d to 7s 41 veal, 4s 4d to 6s Od; and pork, 3s 61 to 4e 4d per Bibs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, May 25.—Beasts and sheep were rather dearer with a good demand, otherwise the trade was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to d',l 8d ; lamb, 6s 4d to 7s 4d ; veal, 40 4d to 5e Od; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per albs; suckling calves, 15s to 225; quarter-old store pigs, 20e to 245; and nailch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARK.ZT S. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 108 to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 104 Od; and straw, 5s to £1 lOs per load, A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.—Mettiow hay, £2 15s to £4 10s; clover, 154 to £5 103 Od ; and straw, £1 5s to 12s per load. Trade dull. WHITECIIA.PEL,—Meadow hay, £2los to £4 1.04 ; clover, £4 Os to £5 103 Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load, Trade inactive. LITERATURE, Remarkable Pamphlets, A CHAPTER ON STREET NUISANCES, by Charles Babbage, the eminent mathematician, has just now been published, by Mr. Murray, in the form of a pamphlet of twenty pages octavo. It is, in point of fact, a chapter extracted, thus, for separate publica- • cation, from the forthcoming work of Mr, Babbage, entitled " Passages in the Life of a Philoso pher," a work prominently among Mr. Mur ray's announcements. Nothing could be more opportune than the issue of this particular chapter, just at the moment when the street nuisances com plained of, arc at length being directly, and, let us hope, vigorously dealt with by Mr. Bass's Bill, now going through Parliament. fa no living man, per haps, can the gradual ripening of that bill into an enactment be more intensely gratifying, we should conjecture, than to the author of this eccentric pamphlet—a pamphlet, the like of which we don't remember ever to have encoun tered. Illustrious, years ego, by right of his marvellous scientific contrivance, popularly known as the Calculating Machine, Mr, Babbago has for several years past been cruelly subjected to a species of petty martyrdom, or rather, it should be said, to a sort of ignoble tormenting, driving .him at times (according to his own showing, here) very nearly to the verge of distraction. For ten years he has been thus tormented, we may say, systematically. By whom ? By Italians, Germans, and Indians, by English men and women and chili dren! The instruments of torture employed by these, he thus enumerates : Organs, brass bands, fiddles, harps, harpsichords, hurdy gurdies, flageolets, drums, bagpipes, accordions, halfpenny whistles, tom-toms, and trumpets. The human voice in various forms-6houting out objects for sale, religious canting, and psalm-singing. Those who are mainly responsible for perpetuating these street nuisances from yet.r to year, Mr. Bab. bage also catalogues, in the manner hollowing : ENCOURAGERS OF STREET Music.—Tavern-keepers, public-houses, gin-shops, beer- shocs,coffee-shops, servants, children, visitors from the country, and ladies of doubtful virtue ; occasionally titled ladies, but these are almost in variably of recent elevatijn, and deficient in that taste which their sex usually possess. In trying to suppress the system of annoyance—a system that has seriously militated against the development of his own philosophic investigations, Mr. Babbage appears to have been subjected to all imaginable kinds of indignities, insults, and even injuries, alike to his person and property. He has had his windows smashed—he has been pelted with stones—mobbed--placarded, one might even pro nounce it blackguarded—he has actually been serenaded by a brass band for hours at a stretch, when himself barely recovering from a most painful surgical operation ! We will content our selves with making one extract alone from his pamphlet in illustration of this disgraceful persecu tion, a persecution directed against ono of the most eminent of living philosophers : At an early period, when I was putting the law in force, as far as I could, for the prever.tion of this destruction of my time, I received constantly anonymous letters, advising, and even threatening me with all sorts of evils, such as destruction of my property, burning my house, injury to myself. I was very often addressed in the streets with similar threats. On one occasion, when I was returning home from an affair with a mob whom the police had just dispersed, I met, close to my own door, a man who, ad dressing me, said, " You deserve to have your house burnt, and yourself in it, an I I will do it for you, you old villain," I asked him if he had any objection to give me his address. Of ccurse he refaced. I then followed him at a short dis tance, looking out for a policeman, Whenever he saw one at a distance he turned rapidly up the next street ; this chase continued above half-an-hour; he was then joined by a companion, an ill-looking fellow. They still continued to turn off into another street whenever a constable became visible in the distance. At last we saw a great crowd, into which they both rushed, and further pursuit became im possib'e. The whole record here given of the bodily and mental suffering endured by reason of these maddening strict musicians we would refer our readers to—as to (such is human nature!) a something frightfully entertaining. The whole chapter, as penned by Mr. Charles Babbage, is, in its strange way, a sort of literary companion sketch to that pictorial record of similar inflictions endured more than a hundred years ago, also in the streets of London, according to Hogarth's im immortal picture of " The Enraged Musician." THE PROSPECTS OF GOOD ARCHITECTURE IN LONDON, having been lectured upon by His Emi nence Cardinal Wiseman only a few weeks since, namely, on the 12th of last month, in the Theatre of the South Kensington Museum—that distin guished dignitary's Discourse has since been pub lished verbatim in a goodly pamphlet of forty-one pages octavo, and so published, like Mr. Babbage's pamphlet (just now mentioned), by Mr. Murray, of Albemarle-street. At the time when his Emi nence delivered this very charming and luminous dissertation upon the probable prospects of good architecture in our metropolis we gave an unavoid ably abbreviated report of it in the columns of Vie Sun —unavoidably, that is, bearing in mind the fact of the lecture being delivered during the sittings of Parliament. Here, however, are the Cardinal's ipsissima verha as nearly as possible as they fell from his lips. And they are peculiarly worthy of having been thus preserved for us by the aid of the stenographer. For, while they are profoundly interesting and valuable, when regarded arch w ()- logically in regard to the past, they possess for English people, for Londoners especially, a very peculiar interest and value, indeed, because of their opening up to view the probabilities, and still more the possibilities of London architecture in regard to the future. From the stand point of the Present, the Cardinal first looks back, in this lecture of his, for instruction, for example, for hints, for suggestions to be drawn from antiquity, especially from classical antiquity. Having collected together much of which— namely of instruction, of example, of hints, of suggestions calculated to be especially valuable to everyone in any the smallest degree interested in or connected with the prospects of London archi tecture, his Eminence applies these hints, and sug. gestions, adapts those examples and instructions, derived from the past, to the present and future condition of our own metropolis, considered archi tecturally. It is very strikingly remarked by him at the outset that almost everything that is known of the architecture of past ages, peoples, countries —is known exclusively from the " public" edifices in the various capitals. The one only ex ception (proving the rule) being referred to by his Eminence in the sentence here immediately fol. lowing : " Submerged in a deluge of bland, insinuating ashes, which penetrated into the most remote corners and crevices of every building—, mbalmed, instead of being petrified like its twin city Herculaneum, Pompeii has given us the only practical and sensible illustrations of what writers had let us know about their domestic arrangements." Here, again, as in the instance of that pamphlet of Mr. Babbage'e but just now noticed, the publica tion of the Cardinal's Lecture in a separate form is wonderfully opportune. In proof of which, hear what he has to say about the threatened interference of Railway Schemes with the actual condition of London and Westminster - • '‘ You will all have heard of the extent, reported by the City engineer, to which new railway schemes carry their competing designs, in that venerable portion of our metro polis. it may be summed up in one sentence. The require about 160 acres only, which is about one fourth of the entire city;' the total length of railways proposed is about 20 miles; and 'the various public ways of all descriptions which are interfered with are about 300.' The requirement of one-fourth of the area of a city for the conveyance of the inhabitants of the remaining three-fourths, does indeed seem disproportoned. But lam not disposed nor entitled to dis cuss this great statistical point. The question is, could not the ravages which necessity imposes be repaired, and more deference be paid to that natural piety, under which the ancients classed reverence for religion and respect for the departed ?" Yet, while he puts the query thus—he has already had occasion to remark with terrible significance— " There is a natural reverence for whatever is monu mental or historical, and this feeling grows and ripens to religious reverence. Neither of these feelings seems to be much cultivated amongst us. Take the following evidence from the ' City Engineer's Report on Public Companies applying for Bills in the present Session of Parliament.' — The monument at Fish-street Hifi, and Temple-b^.r, Draper's-gardens, Finsbury-Circus, Apothecaries' Halt, and portions of the Times office are scheduled, as are vari ous of the City halls and the Admiralty at Whitehall,' And again, 'public parks and gardens are to be cut or tun nelled through.' These extracts sufficiently justify us in saying that there is a reckless disregard of public and monu mental property in the exactions of projects for material changes, on this vexed soil of ours, into something new and strange. As to more religious objects, my own experience may warrant somewhat. I have myself received this year seven or eight notices of the intended destruction of churches, schools, orphanages, or other charitable institu tions, to be ruthlessly demolished or treacherously bur rowed under. And my portion in the danger must be but a small item in the general fate." Altogether the Londoners have reason to feel not only gratified, but rejoiced at the circumstance that one so rarely gifted and so eminently well qualified to afford us an invaluable word of advice in regard to the future prospects of our metropolitan architecture, should have spoken out, at once as frankly, as elequently, and as pezeussively as Car dinal Wiseman Ims certainly done in this, in marl respects, masterly lecture upon the architectural prospects of London and Westminster. A COLLECTION OF OCCASIONAL ODES, by John Francis Waller, LLD., better known cn this side of the Irish Channel as the " Jonathan Freke Slingsby" of the Dublin University Magazine, has lately appeared as a pamphlet of 23 pages octavo.- - across the counter of the Messrs. Hodges, Smith, and Co., of Grafton-street, the publishers to the Dublin University. One of these Occasional Odes has reference to the opening of the Exhibition at Cork. Another to the installation of the Earl of Rosso as the University Chancellor. Another to the opening of the Dublin Royal Society's Exhibition. It is at all times a gratification to read anything of Dr. Wallen's, whether in prose or in verse, whether grave or gay, whether relating to matters of perma nent interest, or, as in these instances, to subjects of the most fugitive character. But the Occasional Odes which have just now reached us are pecu• liarly welcome, coming as they do simultaneously with an entirely new Ode from from the same ready and gifted hand in celebration of the Dublin Exhibition, the Exhibition, comparatively speaking, but a few hours since inaugurated. Sufficient for us if we add that this latest of the Occasional Odes of Dr. Wailer is one of his most graceful and felicitous improvisations. THE CHEVALIER DE CHATELAIN'S 'poetics' apostrophe, through the columns of the Courier (1$ L'Europe, to M. Victor Hugo, as the author of (that last work of the great French Poet-Nnvelist - Dramatist-Critic's I) the book entitled "Willis Shakespeare"—would certainly tempt us to descant upon the merits both of Victor Hugo's book and of the Chevalier de Chatelain's panegyric in respect to it, but that we are really repelled, almost as by a sense of shame, from enlarging upon whatsoever relates either directly or indirectly to the late unfortunate Tercentenary Celebration. Vi r e ca❑ therefore only find the heart at this moment to offer our felicitations to the accomplished Chevalier de Chatelain for his brilliant and apropos tribute to his illustrious contemporary. SHAKSPERE, AN ODE FOR THE TERCENTENARY OF SHAKSPERE'S BIRTHDAY, written by Mr. J. Carpenter, and published by the Messrs. Routledge , Warne, and Routledge. Bvo. pp. 16,—we are, for the self same reason that repels us from descanting upon the effusion last mentioned, constrained to pas by, with a mere look askance, coming to us, as It does, now, upon the morrow, as it were, of the date of the Tercentenary Celebration. Here at any rate are the closing lines of Mr. Carpenter's Ode— What I are there none to fill the mimic scene— To catch the mantle of the generous Sean ? Are all the actors of the .fremble school Lost to the Theatre they once could rule ? The boards where Foote and David Garrick played, Unmeaning spectacle alone pervade ? No I not while .1 3 11•Ips will his ripe powers engage, To grace and elevate the British stage ; While Helen Faueit, now toe seldom seen, Still lives, her well-earned laurels fresh and green; While Stirling acts, and Compton keeps the boards, And Webster glimpses of the past affords; While _Henry Marston, artist good and true, Still keeps the Drama's polar star in view ; SEIAKSPERE, again enthroned, may crown the stage,. The noblest, greatest bard of EVERY AGE ! The liv:ug names of the well-known actors of our own times—names hero very agreeably, and soll ° , of them at least not at all extravagantly intro duce' thus in an ode in celebration of the Immortal Bard thus lend a present interest of some kind at least t° the always harmonious verses of 7. E. Carpenter. THE ROYAL WEDDING, au Ode, extendia through 28 pages, penned by J. R. W. LotO ir : and recently published by Messrs. Dlur ra9 and Co., of 13, Paternoster-row, .would O c : been more valuable, had it appeared ab °ll o a twelvemonth earlier. As it is—coming into 111 3 world later even than the Royal Baby it selVi o can be pronounced extremely pretty, and A/30 passed by. As an artistic production, it comintL c .7,. from us no more lengthened scrutiny than Mr.O'Nol'., Court picture in this year's Academy Es Lion—a picture all scarlet cloaks and pretty girls and spring flowers, "all" that is, r, ceps the youthful Royal Pair theinsell; —then, at the Arrival, as a week afterwards at fh4e Wedding, the cynosure of neighbouring 11601 k c i observed of all observers. Mr. Lomax, in a Nyc s4 i ; is after-date. He surely cannot have been all tli while writing it--meaning his Ode. The Metropolitan Association for Promoting l; Education of Adults being desirous o f g ici3 o encouragement to physical exercises and games of streve lle and skill among the working classes, and also to affor cl do ° members of the Literary and Mechanic s ' Institu7o Working Men's Clubs, Young Men's Societies, (k c '',Jel union with the association an oppor t u nit y for a 6°- ae l re-union, have arranged for a gathering at the er,:,00 Palace on Monday, June 27. In addition t o the vs6;ee attractions at the Palace, arrangem ents have 1)"00 made for a series of athletic spores, for which Val ° oo money prizes Fill be given; an open air concert of o e voices, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Mart in ; a bal°, of ascent; a grand organ performance; and a pr ize coniea. d cadet bands. The band of the Crystal Palace Co will play during the day within the pa , ace, and the th e the Greville House Working Alen's Institute, eel Kingsland sub-division of Metropolitan Police, di vi 14 !: is the palace grounds. Excursions are being organic, : to o nc o f institutions in union, all expenses, apart from the pure,' of tickets, being bore() by the aesociation. INTERNATIONAL STEAM PLOUGH COMPETIT- et, This contest, which took p lace at tiie regional O fo r ing of Roanne (Loire), has proved a great aueicess boi l ' ot e t h e inventors and manufactu rers of such impievie re and. also for the proprietors of the heavy an .d eta b eo lands of that and the neighbouring departmteni s ' of great, indeed, has been this success, that the quectifid- of the general use of agricultural instruments woll ° ; e f ed' steam in such of the soils of France as have hitherto °.-woi the greatest resistance to the ordinary means of ti:Jegavoll now be considered as set at rest. The trials of the led competing machines were made between the 29th Ai r :,, the e the Bth May, at about three miles from Retinue, th presence of the Sub-prefect, the Mayor of Roaa a l t4 c 'eti' members of the Committee of the Agricultural 5 ' sq and before a special jury composed of the 0 14 ,01 French gentlemen :—Count Benoist d'Azy, .5 114. c' Lehalleur, Charles Jobez, Tiersonnier , Piuchet, lijeto unuernamed English gentlemen; Messrs. Fisher, 010' T. J. Thackeray, and Jacob Wilson. Thre e French gaol' men=the Marquis de Poncins, M. de Baulay, sa d t rya neron, and two English parties—Mr. Fowler az/t-irero' Messrs. Howard—had sent in their names as coraP e e c ola' Mr. Fowler, however, w as unable to g et his inanhi a- to tV 3 plated in't time, and so aid not compete, much Go er regret of tiee Committee. The machine of g' wool ron operated as a " digger," and was worked by a bed oP 3r five steam engine conn ected with it, and which p O , O pea' the land operated on. T he machine of the le larquialverci eine' operated as a sub soil• plough. The mac Li ne a u t it iee cf o ; Howard operated — let , as a p lou g h ; 2d, as a c d. `e l ` 3d, as a sub. Boiler ; and is well known in En g l / seecl machines both of the Marquis Poncins stud Toe o e Howard were operated on by stationary steam cag i eleec t° o ' in adjoining ground. The jury awarded to tb c i ;to f li t Howard the first prize of £lOO and the gold ole th ' th e eil s „; Mat quis de Poncins the second prize of £BO arid e an d ia e medal ; and to AI. Ganneron, the third prize of ity pil ee bronze medal. The prizes were distributed by t h Bersiguy.— Galtgnani. A ubio . A mason named Lieurei, residing at is t o o t . h o r e :: du-Thernay (Eure), while proceeding to h evenings ago, from a wine shop where he bad on o Jo 0; ing, met a woman Lamed Desdoights, to wh onl e, o leo "a r ,. e use of some insulting expression. Iler husband' plti; with her, resented such conduct, and a struggl% jeciliflo between them. At that moment a man nap" a lea u e ___ - F e v er „ee came up and put an end to the fight, el no' e — is e ilo use of:a heavy iron hook which he held in is f e et.. 0 with a blow on the head Levillain de be at Do i n then returned to his first antagonist and i , e e s dreadful manner. Lieurey was e 002% after arre tv-• I I