The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-19 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN KING'S FAUX PAS_ The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, M.P.—The song of the Polish Scythe, &c. &c., in FUN THIS WEEK. One Penny. T HEATEE-Ri) I AL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 28th time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE; or, Spy and Counter -Slay : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followe'l by (gth time), a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Messrs Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. 'lo conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO. HuN_DREf` .h,AI) THIRTY-FIRST NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- tinder the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. T HIS EVENING, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Prilo , ue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougnarn, H. iddimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Sophy Benrade, Kate Terry, E. f..avenue, and Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. IL Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining. THIS EVENING, will be presented (21st time), COURT AND CAMP: Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, 11. Marston, G. Belmore, G. Murray. Warde; M'ss Amy Sedgwlek, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To be preceded by (10th time) a new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI,-- tote Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. THE WILLOW COPSE. Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Stephenson; Miss Woolgar, and Miss H. Simms Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROvATORE. Me ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, It Phillips, Ithrtrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sari, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. T" 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 Weather—Sun Office, June 19, 1863. TIIERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 69 Barometer-2 9 . 55 . Wind—S.-W. ; light. Heavy rain during the night and morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 3h. 59 m. —Afternoon, 4h. 16-1. To-mointow.-Morning , 4h. 3 )m.—Afternoon, 4h. 50m. •!r , Zit • • LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1863. The power of the Press is a recognised fact in this nineteenth century. Captain PEN holds at the present moment a more unlimited and a more omni potent sovereignty than any royal monarch of ancient or modern days. Apart from the political influence of the Public Journals so conspicuous in this country—" a country," as the late Lord STRANGFORD happily called it, " which is governed by its journals, though the names of its journalists are unknown"—apart from the political power wielded by the journalist, how great is the influence continuously, perhaps unconsciously, but not the less powerfully, exercised over the tone and morals of society by the Literature of the day ! How many abuses have been tolerated until the finger of Genius pointed them out to universal scorn ! How many gigantic hypocrisies have crumbled away at a single touch from the same master hand ! It was not a figurative thrashing that NICHOLASNICKLEBY administered to the Yorkshire Schoolmaster, After the revelation of the iniquities of Dotheboys Hall, the days of that despotic Pedagogue were num bered. According to the definition of the School master himself, " the coat of arms of the SQuEERsEs was torn, and their sun bad gone down in the ocean wave." We might particularise many kindred instances—the plaintive appeal of little OLIVER "asking for more," the portentous incapability of Mr. BUMBLE, the east wind raised by JARNDYCE and JARND7CE, which blew so cuttingly through the purlieus of the Court of Chancery—but the enumeration is unnecessary. The many social reforms which have been suggested by the most popular of our novelists are recognised by all. Others, in like manner, have done the State good service by their fictitious representations of its real grievances, by their imaginary exhibition of its actual cffences. And it is only right that so it should be. High in tellectual gifts entail upon their possessor a weighty responsibility. It is a lesson impressed upon every manly nature, from boyhood upwards, that the pos session of physical strength entails upon its owner the exercise of great restraint and forbearance. He is rightly dubbed "coward' who dares to assail any one inferior in size or power to himself. The na tural chivalry of human nature has raised up this potent barrier of defence, to protect the weak and the helpless from the physical power of the strong. How much more is this law required in the moral than in the material world ? How far more cowardly and despicable is his conduct who, gifted with intellect and genius above his fellows, employs those potent weapons to injure the unwary —whose eloquent tongue allures to destruction all who in their blindness listen to the voice of the charmer —whose craven hand deals the dastardly blow which destroys not the body but the soul. Happily it is far otherwise with the majority of the authors and authoresses of our day : some pain ful exceptions there are ; but the most gifted and the most popular are exerting their talents for the noble purpose of social regeneration. On this theme the writer of a recent romance, which has been the subject of much admiration and of much censure, has addressed a long letter to a contem porary. Mrs. NORTON, in alluding to some com ments upon her new novel, " Lost and Saved/ de clares that her object in its publication has been not only to point a moral, but to arouse the attention and startle the conscience of society. If she has laid bare secret offences, it is with a view to effect their remedy. When reminded that a single hand can do nothing against au universal evil, the authoress dauntlessly repliee , 4 So far from individual pro tests being worthless, they are the small hinges on which the great doors of change for ever turn ;" and iu this bold assertion sh e is ce rtainl y justified by the experience of the past, as among many other s the examples we h ave alluded to above may testify. It is assuredly Me mission of the novelist, w hi le depicting hum an nature as it is, to exhibit in the strongest light that Imagination can sugg est or Eic quence enforce, the errors and the faults and t h e follies ishich constitute the vast difference between what is and what ought to be. In so doing the fiction-writer is only following the teaching of that best of models for every artist—Truth. The Lesson of Life that might be summed up by every death bed is the same, and compared with such a revela tion, the romances of the most imaginative would be tame and commonplace. The man (or the woman) of genius could not possibly have a higher ambition than that laid claim to by Mrs. NORTON—we say advisedly laid claim to, because we do not think that her work has justified her intentions. " To put a tongue in every wound, And raise the very stones to mutiny," indeed, a task worthy of the highest intellect and the noblest aspirations. Every author and authoress (and their number in this day is legion) who reads Mrs. NORTON'S protest and ponders over her opinion as to the power of am individual voice, " the small hinge" on which so much may be made to turn, will do well to take the lesson to heart. " And I, too, am a Painter ! (edio anche son patore) was the ambitious exclamation of the Italian student, enraptured by the work of some great master. Would that a kindred spirit might animate oar " sensation" writers, and, looking at the reforms brought about ere now by their brethren of the pen, they might emulate their ambition, even if de void of their great gifts. Inasmuch as such was her desire, we honour Mrs. NORTON'S undertaking; but, as we have said, we cannot consider that she has been successful in her attempt. The motion of Sir J. HAY, on Wednesday last, attempted to introduce a very necessary and long called for reform in the distribution of our naval prize money. At present the grievance is of a very serious character, and one likely to receive very little attention at the hands of the Admiralty, who seem to consider abuses of the kind as venerable from their antiquity. The hon. baronet, in moving the second reading of his bill, said that its main object was to enable the captors to appoint an agent to protect their interests and to secure their rights, and to provide that he should be paid at the rate of 22 per cent. out of the money he received. It would seem that little objection could be taken to such a measure; but, however, we are told that the Admiralty intend bringing in a bill of their own on the subject, probably next session, and therefore Sir J. HAY was advised by Lord CLARENCE PAGET to withdraw his own measure, and to lend his energies to the support of the Admiralty bill. But the facts which were adduced did not exactly tend to show the readiness of the Admiralty to mend matters. The Kertch prize money, due for s ix years, has only recently been tendered, while the amount due for the agent's services is not allowed. Colonel DUNNE remarked that a similar delay had taken place in the army, and mentioned the case of a man who was now in a state bordering on starvation, though money had been due to him by the Govern ment ever since the Kertch and Yenikala expe dition. Sir JOHN ELPHINSTONE referred to a similar incident. A midshipman of the James Watt brought home a prize and found himself and his crew of 15 without any means of livelihood. He applied to the Admiralty, and received the gratifying intelligence that he and his party would receive the necessary means when the proceeds of the prize had been realized. An exactly similar case, he added, had occurred to an officer and crew belonging to the Euryalus. Under the old law the officer in charge would have been consigned to an agent who would have made the necessary advances. This is certainly not the way to incite our seamen to extra exertion, or to reward them for acts of bravery. It is more likely to disgust them with the service than to stimulate their efforts, and really it would seem as if such were the object of our Admiralty, who deserve the severe rebuke of Sir JOHN ELPHINSTONE, who declared that our naval administration had done more harm to the English navy than had ever been done by the French. Sir JOHN ELPHINSTONE pointed out further differences between the new act and the old one, showing the inferiority of the former. He said that Lord BROUGHAM had expressed apprehensions at the time of the change as to its possible result, and those fears had been only too well founded. It is a shameful fact, that the system cf distributing, or rather of not distributing, our prize money is alike disereditable to the nation and irritating and inju rious to the men. Every obstacle and delay possible is put in the way, until, perhaps, the brave men who have justly earned their reward, die off one by one, and considerably reduce the number of appli cants. Such a result may be satisfactory to the Admiralty, but it is certainly most unsatisfactory to the public, as Col. DUNNE indignantly said in reference to the military side of the grievance. " Burmah, Lucknow, Delhi, the Deccan—not one of these names can be mentioned without recalling scandals of the worst kind." Befor© the decided tone adopted by the numerous and influential sup porters of the bill the Government opposition was compelled to withdraw—Lord CLARENCE PAGET giving the House a solemn warning that it was assuming a responsibility properly belonging to the Government. The First Lord did not apparently see that his reproach was in reality directed against himself, or rather against his office—that it is the incapacity or unwillingness of our naval adminis tration to fulfil its responsibilities that has trans ferred the duty to independent members. It is time that some one undertook to fight the cause of the men who have been so long kept out of their rights ; and we trust that hon. members will not relax their efforts until a thorough change is made in the system of distributing both naval and mili tary prize money, and the cruel injustice that has so long disappointed and disheartened our best men shall be rendered a future impossibility. The arrival of the explorers of the Nile is a very interesting event. It is always gratifying to wel come home the successful explorer, and the wonder ful discoverer, but it is rendered doubly so by the fact that so many valuable lives have been lost in the cause of these arduous undertakings in distant lands. As soon as it was known that the Pera had arrived at Southampton, the Mayor, accompanied by the town clerk and several gentlemen, waited on the two Captains, and presented them with an address. In the course of that brief address, a very apt allusion was made to the great achievements of the tra vellers, and the object of their presentation could cot have been more forcibly explained than as fol lows:—" It would ill beseem the representatives of an ancient seaport, whose history is connected more or less with every period of the annals of Eng land, to neglect an opportunity of most respectfully greeting travellers whose recent discoveries have solved the perplexing problem of all ages, by ascer taining the true source of one of the most wonder ful rivers on the face of the earth." It must be a source cf satisfaction to the inhabitants of South ampton that they should have been the first to hail the presence of these illustrious men, who have earned a place in history side by side with those who in all ages have striven to improve the knowledge and extend the experience of their fel low men. There is no royal road to such attain ments; it must be won by individual exertion, and gained by personal sacrifice. As the services are arduous, so should their recognition be com plete; and it is therefore a step in th e r i g ht direction that the officials or local authorities should have hastened to do them h onour upon the Mayor thr e:tie 011:id grat o u f l a their t h e n m a o v t l b a a n t d tection Which carrie i h n e e n ptrhoe unharmed through re gionsd them many nobl e votaries of science in which so have either fallen victims to pestif erous climates or have perished by the h ands of their savage in habitants," they must have f e l t deeply grateful that they had been permitted to return to their country, and there to enjoy the fruit of their labours in the ap preciation of their fellow-countrymen. After a short time there is no doubt that these xplorers will P nlish an account of their wanderings, which will certain to prove most attractive b be and interesting. It is said that they have already testified to the fertility of the regions through which they have passed. Cotton and every tropical product was seen by them grow ing in lavish abundance, and vast accumulations of ivory strewed their route for many leagues. This will be deeply interesting inform wien for those who study such subjects, in reference to their social advantages and political importance. The ex plorers appear to have met with great difficulties and dangers in the course of their wanderings. They went on undaunted, however, and made their way where even their guides shrank from proceeding ; on their journey to Lake Ws-anza being, however, robbed of everything by the barbarous tribes they encountered. Only a portion of their followers remained with them to the end. Nevertheless, they have brought home with them many trophies of their expedition. The skull and bones of a gigantic buffalo, which was shot near the Equator, and the photographs of some huge savages of various tribes, are among the collection. It seems almost impossible to over-estimate the importance of the services that have been rendered to science by the successful result of this arduous expedition ; and it is to be trusted that the ever , getic explorers will long be spared to witness the satisfactory consequences that ensue from their toil. Their exertions and endurance have not been thrown away. They have triumphed in the good and great cause they had undertaken ; but beeause they have met with no serious casualties, and not fallen by the wayside, in their arduous pilgrimage, their perils on the road to fame must not be for gotten, nor their services thought less of. Tilley have a right to that eminent position and distin guished consideration which England has ever awarded to those enterprising sons who have carried her fame to the uttermost ends of the world, and rendered the name of Englishmen as celebrated for discoveries and as renowned for explorations as they have ever been for gallant and glorious services in the field. The Yelverton Marriage Case. There are some curious movements going on in this case by Major Yelverton and his friends. In our last number it was stated that the House of Lords had ordered the respondent peremptorily to answer in a week ; and so late as the 2d of this month the Major's agents applied for a further ex tension of time to lodge their case, and obtained leave till the 2d day of July next. They had thus been, by repeated requests for delay, granted six months to prepare a case which, considering all that has occurred, ordinary mortals might have imagined could have been prepared in one. This, it is true, is their matter, with probably good reasons for de lay ; but what is the meaning of the obtaining this additional time, of this peremptory order of the court that the respondent should answer in a week ? We confess it is difficult to comprehend the object aimed at. Mrs. Yelverton was in London last month with her agents preparing for the hearing; she is now, and has been for borne time, at her lodgings in Crawford's, where, it may readily be supposed, this sudden change has surprised her. Of course her agents will apply for time to put in whatever an swers may be necessary; meanwhile she is trying to get here reparation for that shamelessly slander ous letter which Mrs. Forbes published against her in the Examiner immediately after the Judges of the Court of Session had declared her to be, what she has all through asserted herself to be, the law ful married wife of Major Yelverton.—Caledonian Mercury, LORD PALMERSTON AND THE HERBERT ME MORIAL STATUE.—The Salisbury Town Council have resolved to entertain the Premier at luncheon after the ceremony. Accommodation will only be provided for a small party, numbering between 100 and 200. The Mayor and Corporation, with the committee, will receive Lord Palmerston at the railway station, and accompany him to the Council House, where an address will be presented, and the inauguration of the statue will take place immedi ately afterwards. Some of the blocks of granite which are to form the base of the pedestal arrived on Monday.— TF Mirror. Yesterday morning, at a meeting of the Liver pool Local Marine Board, Captain Sproule, the chairman, presented, on behalf of the Emperor Napoleon, a gold medal and diploma to Captain Joseph Michel, of the brig Mary Waugh, of Liverpool, for service rendered by Captain Michel to the French navy in Mexico. THE CROPS IN CANADA.—The T oronto Globe says :—" The weather of the past week has been of the most favourable character, and the progress made by the corps has been remarkable. From every quarter of the province the reports concur in speaking in the most promis ing terms of the full spring grains. We learn from a party who has just completed an extensive tour through Bruce and Grey that spring wheat never exceeded its present promise, and that peas and oats are even more advanced than in more cultivated sections. Unless some great calamity overtake us, the country bids fair to be blessed with a most abundant harvest." SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION FROM GOVERNOR WALL.--My name is Joseph Wall. I was Lieute nant-Governor of Goree, acting as Chief in July, 1782. I caused a man to be flogged without a trial. I ordered Ser geant Armstrong to receive 800 lashes. He died in five days afterwards. The &aid of Admiralty offered a reward for my apprehension. I absconded, and went to live on the COntinent, mostly in France and Italy. In 1797 I re turned to England. I was taken up in 1802, 20 years after I had flogged Armstrong to death. I was tried, convicted, and hanged. Colonel Crawley is accused of having hastened the death of Sergeant-Major Lilley, if not of having killed him, by illegally confining him in a Black Hole. I won't say that Colonel Crawley murdered Sergeant-Major Lilley. I don't know that he did. Spirits never know anything of the kind. We cannot tell who did the Road murder. We only know what the papers tell you. They say that Crawley committed a crime that amounts to murder. What they say is corroborated by the Duke of Cambridge. If it is true, Colonel Crawley ought to be tried for it. Should it be proved against him he would deserve hanging more than I did. The man I caused to be flogged was a mutineer among mutineers. He was not a respectable non- commissioned officer. Mrs. Brownrigg tells me to give you her compliments. Good night.—. Punch. EGYPTIAN GROUSE.—A covey of 19 of the "pin tail," " sand grouse," or "Egyptian grouse," was found last week near Scarborough. The birds are rare visitants to these lands, although of late they have been met with in various places on the coast. On Tuesday Mr. J. Wilson, of Flotinanby, shot two brace and a half out of the covey above named, a brace of which has been presented to the Mayor of Scarborough, for his museum. DAMAGES AGAIN ST RAILWAY FURNACES.—A case was tried in the Jury Court, Edinburgh, before Lord Barcaple, on Friday, Sa urday, and Monday last, in which Messrs. Cooper and Wood, bottle manufacturers, Portobello, claimed £l,OOO damages against the North British Railway Company for injury sustained by the house and grounc,s of Baileyfield, Portobello (of which the pursuers are proprie tors), from smokf., dust, and gases discharged from the defenders' works for converting and hardening iron rails. A large number of scientific witnesses, including chemists, medical practitioners, architects, and horticulturists, were examined on both sides. The evidence was to a great extent conflicting, but it seemed to be proved that the vegetation had, since the erection of the furnaces, been con siderably injured, and that the comfort of the occupation had been interfered with. The jury were divided in opinion, but by a majority of nine to three they found for the pur suers, with £2OO damages. A soldier, named Pierre Valin, has just died in one of the charitable asylums in Paris, after being subject to a singular mental aberration ever since the battle of Solferino, where he was wounded in the head by a musket shot. The wound soon healed, but the man, though apparently in guod health, fancied himself dead from the time he received the injury. When asked how he was, he invariably replied—" Ah 1 you are asking about Pierre Valin? Poor fellow! He was killed at Solferino by a musket shot in the head. What you see here is not Valin, but a machine made in his semblance, and so badly put together that you ought to get another in its stead." In speaking of himself he never said " I," or " me," but always " it." He would sometimes remain for days in a state of complete immobility, and so insensible to pain that neither mustard poultices, blisters, pricking, nor punching was felt by him. He would often refuse to eat, saying— " It does not want anything, it has no stomach." li th L ecisTr O ew FF:RlNG.—While the shin Ad a _ niofaAtuhteG,fuiillof:LBEoo:ndon, was recently on her homeward ' sub scription amounted t v coi l Y ipp a t. g asi e : f fa r Lod o e m eraw Cii ert l k era th , e i t m w i li t ry de o c ffi id c e e d rs by on he b r os co rd m , commander, Captain the Royal Naval Institution, Re o se l rr 4s. e :, to make a penny subscription in aid tit,nal Lifeboat Institution. The sub sewnhtic y h e s s u te m rd C ay ap t t o ain the Brown,Lifebeoatf LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TRLEQRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 19. The Prince of Orange has gone to Fontainebleau where his Royal Highness will pass a few days. PARIS, JUNE 18, EVENING. The Notes upon the Polish question addressed to Russia by the three Powers were despatched to St. Petersburg this morning. The King of Sweden has congratulated the Empe ror upon the victory of the French at Puebla. The rumour that M. de Sartiges, the French Am bassador at Turin, and M. de Talleyrand, Ambassa dor of France at Brussels, are about to request leave of absence from their diplomatic posts is unfounded. The Emperor has arrived in Paris, and has pre sided at a Cabinet Council. The Patric of this evening publishes an article, signed by M. Delamarre, reviewing the atrocities committed by the Russians in Poland, and declaring that no hopes can be entertained of any benefit arising from diplomacy. The writer calls upon France, in conjunction with other friendly nations, to intervene actively for the re-establishment of an independent Poland. La France asserts that, upon learning the capitu lation of Puebla, President Juarez decreed the transference of the seat of Government to San Luiz Potosi. This decision is presumed to indicate an intention of not defending the city of Mexico. The Bordeaux papers contain the particulars of a conflict which took place in that city on Tuesday, between the military and a number of carriers. The latter attempted to prevent the running of the trains which the Southern Railway Company had established to connect the harbour with the railway station, the carriers affirming that these trains were prejudicial to their interests. One soldier was wounded, and about a dozen persons were arrested. Judgment has been delivered in the lawsuit be tween M. de Villemessent, the editor of the Figaro, and M. Didier. The latter has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 500 f. BOURSE, June 18.—The English funds have ar rived with a rise of 8, but the only effect on this market has been to give a check to the downward movement. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 69f 50c. Railway Share Market without ani mation. The following are the closing quotations : 4t per Cents .. 97 20 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 68 6.5 Credit M0bi1ier....1217 50 Do, end ni0nth....1220 Bank Shares Credit k oncier , 1375 BAIL' Italian Loan 73 Do. end month 73 _ New ditto Do. end month 74 05 Russian Austrian .. — Spanish Threes — Home Debt 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 998 75 .. 997 50 Northern New, ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 60 .. 1042 50 Geneva Southern .. 732 50 .. 733 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian .... 502 50 505 425 -- 423 75 _ _ Austrian Lombard 466 25 .. 466 25 577 50 .. 578 75 North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 565 - 566 25 722 50 .. 722 50 372 50 .. 377 50 SPAIN, DON JUAN DE BOURBON. MADRID, JUNE 18. The Infanta Don Juan de Bourbon has addressed a letter to the Queen of Spain, tendering his sub• MiSiioll. The Marquis Alirnflores has declined to consider the subject until after the repeal of the law under which the Infants, was exiled. ITALY. TURIN, JUNE 18. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Signor Min ghetti, the President of the Council, continued his speech upon the policy of the Ministry. He believed that the military convention between France and England would be effectual for the re pressio❑ of brigandage. He admitted that France had made every effort to prevent this source of uneasiness. The Government had done all in its power with regard to Italy to protect the national rights; with regard to Rome, to offer guarantees of spiritual independence; and with regard to France, had shown its readiness to enter upon negotiations on the basis of non-intervention. France was at Rome in spite of herself, in presence of three contradictions,—viz., against the principles of 1789, the system of non-intervention, and the accomplishment of that united Italy which she had assisted to create. He expressed his confi dence in the Emperor, who understood the spirit of the time. As regarded the foreign policy of the Ministry generally, Signor Minghetti pointed cut how, amid the complications of European politics, Italy might bring about the solution of the questions at issue. Respecting home policy, the relations of the States of the Church to Italy were incompatible with the spirit of justice and liberty. Italy would always preserve moderation against the attacks of Rome. Signor Minghetti concluded :—" I rely upon your confidence for the re-establishment of the former majority of the Government." (Applause.) After some personal explanations between Sig nori Minghetti, ltattazzi, and others, the general debate was brought to a close. " The Italian Government," says the Esprit Public, "has decided on sending an extraordinary embassy to China. The professed object of the mission is to choose places for establishing new Italian consulates, but we are able to assert that its real object is the conclusion of a treaty of commerce with the Emperor of China. The gentleman selected as the head of the embassy is Commander Negri, formerly secretary-general to Gioberti at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and at present direc tor-general of the consular service. He is a man of great talent, and has chosen as his secretary M. Ressmann, a native of Trieste, who has devoted his life to the union of Istria with Italy. M. Negri was at Paris two days since, and had an interview with M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who promised him the support of the French consuls in China. He has since left for London, with a view to obtaining the same from Earl Russell. A COLD HEADER!—.« But it must be SO cold," said Sylvia, shuddering and giving a small poke to the fire to warm her f ancy. " Cold I " sa i d h er f a th er , " what do ye stay-at-homes know about cold, a should like to know. If ye'd bee n w h ere a were once, nort h l at i tu d e 81, in such a trost as ye' ha' never known, no, not i' deep winter, and it were June i' them seas, and a whale i' sight, and a were off in a boat after her ; an' t' ill-mannered brute as soon as aho were harpooned, ups wi' her big awkward tail, and struck t' boat in her stern, and chucks me out int' t' water. That were cold, a can tell the' I First, I smarted all ower me, as if my &kin were suddenly stript off me; and nest every bone i' my body had getten t' tooth-ache, and there were a great roar i ' my ears an ' a grew' dizziness i' my eye s; an ' t ' boat's crew kept throwing out their oars, an' a k e pt c l utching at 'era, but a could no make out where they Was , my eyes dazzled so w i' t ' an' I thought I were b oun d for 'kingdom come, ' an ' a tried to remembe' t' Creed as a might die a Christian. But all a could think on was, 'What is your name, M or N 1" an' just as a were giving both words and life, they heerd me aboard. But, bless ye, they had but one oar ; for they'd thrown a' t' others after ;so yo' may reckon, it were some time afore we could reach t' ship ; an', a've heerd tell, a were a precious sight to look on, for my clothes was just hard yon iceberg he was a-telling us on ; they rubbed me as misses there t rubbed b e e , d a my Bair a' mos t as bi g a l um p o' ice t' hams yesterday, and gay' me brandy ; an' a ha' ne'er getten t' frost out o' my bones for a' their rubbin', and a deal o'brandy as I 'ave ta'en sin'. Talk o' cold I it's little yo' women know o' cold I"—Sylvia's Lovers, by Nre, Trani HER MAJESTY WINDSOR CASTLE, June 18. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Helena, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four. Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood attended on horseback. Sir G. Grey arrived at the Castle, and had an audience of the Queen. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected at the Castle to-day. Arrival of the Queen of Prussia. WINDSOR, June 18. Her Majesty the Queen of Prussia, attended by the Countess Schulenbourg, the Countess Louise Schwerin, the Count de Boos Waldeck, and Dr. Brandis, arrived at the Castle ten minutes before two to-day. Lord Methuen and Lieutenant- Colonel Hon. D. de Ros also attended her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who had pro ceeded to Dover attended by Major Cowell, accom panied her Majesty to Windsor. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Prin cess Louise, and Prince Leopold, drove down to the railway station in Windsor to meet the Queen. A guard of honour was in attendance at the station. Her Majesty Queen Victoria, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, met the Queen of Prussia at the bottom of the staircase, and con duced her Majesty to her apartments. The Prussian Ambassador and Countess Bern storff were at Dover to receive the Queen of Prussia, and attended her Majesty as far as Red Hill, from whence they returned to London. ----o--- Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary honoured Viscount and Viscountess Sydney by their company at dinner last evening, at their residence in Cleveland-square, St. James's. There were present to meet their Royal Highnesses, their Serene High.. nesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Earl Cowper, the Earl of Brecknock, Lord and Lady Rokeby, Dowager Lady Truro, Lady Florence Paget, and Dr, Quin. Baron and Baroness Brunnow returned to town yesterday from Dover, where they had received the Queen of Prussia at the landing of her Majesty. Tee Duke of Northumberland is recovering from his recent attack of gout, His Grace was pronounced to be much better yesterday. The Duke of Newcastle returned to London yes terday from Oxford. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath received a select circle at dinner on Wednesday, at their mansion on Carlton House-terrace. The Marchioness of Townshend's ball, which had been fixed for Tuesday last, the 16th, and was unavoidably postponed, will take place this evening, at 35, Belgrave square. The Earl and Countess of Derby returned I o town yesterday from visiting the Vice-Chancellor of the Univer sity of Oxford during the Commemoration. The Earl and Countess of Camperdown had a dinner party last evening at their residence in Hill-street. The Countess of Antrim gave birth to a daughter at Glenarm Castle, county Antrim, on the loth inst. Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at their residence in Berkeley-square. Sir Henry and Lady Fletcher have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Bath. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday from Oxford. ALMACK'S.—The first ball of the subscription took place last night at Willis's Rooms, when about 300 persons were present, and participated in the delights of the dance till an early hour this morning. The Guards' Ball to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Some progress has now been made with the pre parations for the ball to be given by the officers of the Guards in honour of the Prince and Princess of Wa less, which, as our readers know, will take place on the 26th inst., in that portion of the Exhibition building formerly devoted to the display of the col lection of English pictures. The ball-room will be the largest dancing room in England, and is the only existing place in which so much space can be obtained. Messrs. Kelk and Lucas have undertaken to lay down a new floor for dancing, which they promise shell be well suited to the purpose in view, and there is no doubt they will keep their word. The decorations, which will be chiefly of a military cha racter, have been hitherto principally superintended and directed by the committee of officers appointed by the general body, and sufficient progress has been made to show that if of a less elaborate charac ter than those by which the Guildhall was so won derfully transformed, the effect will be entirely satisfactory. The spacious apartment will be illu minated by two rows of clusters of gas jets, of a star-like shape, which will shed an ample flood of light. At the end of the ball-room, which is 200 feet in length, with, a breadth of 50 feet, there will be a spacious orchestra, for the use of the musi cians, who will be selected from the best men of the string bands belonging to the three brigades of Guards. The supper-room will be also decorated in a very handsome manner, and here there will be a large collection of arms of all kinds, ancient and modern, arranged in groups by experienced hands. Invitations have been issued to a great number of distinguished persons, and it is anticipated that the number present will amount to between 1,400 and 1,500. The arrangements for the supper have been confided to Messrs. Gunter, of Berkeley-square, and the wines will be supplied by Messrs. Tod, Heatly, and Co. The entrance will be in the Cromwell-road. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Madamo Lemmens Sher rington, Mdlle. Artot, and Madame Alboni, will sing at the concert to-morrow (Saturday). M. J. Lotto, the Polish violinist, who made his first appearbnce last Satur day, will also perform. THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has intimated to the commanding officer of the London Brigade that his other engagements will prevent his carrying out the intention he had originally 'entertained of inspecting the brigade in Richmond Park on Saturday next. His Royal Highness, however, will hold his inspection of the regiment in Hyde-park on that day, at 5.30 p.m. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY now con tains 160 pictures, 47 of which, we learn from No. L of the Fine Arts Quarterly, were presentations. Among the latest additions may be noticed a very youthful Henry picture of Charles the Second in a black wig and armour, about the time of the Restoration—a younger por trait than usual of the Earl of Chesterfield—a likeness of Sir Richard Steele, the Essayist—a sleek, self-complacent semblance of Samuel Richardson the Novelist—a grim effigy of Bishop Burnet the Historian—and a portrait of Charles Churchill, the Poet and Satirist, after he had doffed the clerical habit, the picture representing him in a coloured coat and satin waistcoat, with an animated ruddy coun tenance. Wincil IS THE GUILTY ONE ?—A thief in l;sop's fable having stolen some property, hands it to an associate, and when the owner taxes them with the theft, the first swears that he has not got the article, and the second that he did not take it. But there it is between them. And so it was with poor Lilley's sufferings and death. The blame of the protracted close confinement Sir Wm. Mansfield throws on General Farrell. In contraven tion and defiance of the Articles of War, Sir William had ordered the imprisonment to - he continued till the termina tion of the Court-Martial, hut as the Court was adjourned, Sir Wm. Mansfield contends that General. Farrell should, either in the exercise of his own discretion, have released the sergeants, or have applied to him, Sir William, for fresh instructions. • STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE. - -BUSiIIeSS is well maintained in the Clyde shipbuilding yards. Messrs. Henderson, Coulborn, and Co., of Renfew, have launched a screw named the Alerta, intended for the Spanish trade. She is about 850 tons burden, and is now being fitted with diagonal engines of 150- horse power. 'I he owners of the Montreal Ocean steamship line recently con tracted with Messrs Steele and Co., of Greenock, for two large steamers of 2,500 tons burden. The cylinders of the engines, which are to be of 400-horse-power, will be sup plied by Messrs. Macnab and Co., Shaw's Water Foundry, and will be 6ft. 3in, in diameter. Messrs. Steele have on hand a screw of 400 tons and several iron sailing vessels, LITERATURE. Montalembert's Life of Lacordaire. lemozr of the Abbe Lacordaire. By the Count de Montalembert, one of the Forty of the French Academy. One vol., pp. 311. Richard Bentley. Among the few real men in this age of medio crities, after times will without any doubt whatever rank the Great Orator who is the subject of this beautiful and touching Biography. Frenchman though he' was to his heart's care in the ardour of his patriotism—Priest, Monk though he was—his name and fame are familiar, are admired and hon oured here in this Protestant England, And this for the very reason that what Henri Lacordaire was in name he was in reality, he was with the whole intensity of his ardent nature, he was with all the might of his pure and noble soul. Into his character as Orator, as Priest, as Monk, he cast the whole fire of his genius. Ills motto—it it was any man's of his time—was that of our own Clarendon : Thorough ! Beginning life as a law student, called eventually to the Bar of France, practising first of all as an Advocate, Lacor daire—suddenly—from a free thinker, from,. if not an infidel, certainly a Deist, a Voltairian, at any rate, an Unbeliever in everything but Morality— became, body and spirit, heart and soul, a Christian. Never doing anything throughout his life by halves, he determined to become, from that ever-memor aba3 moment (for him and for so many of his fellow creatures) from that moment of his conversion, not only a Christian, but an ecclesiastic. He resolved not merely to enter the Church, but to enter it lite rally—to advance from the Porch at once and to pass within the Sanctuary. He quitted his profession as a Barrister. He eagerly entered himself once more as a scholar at a seminary—this time, however, it was at an ecclesiastical seminary. Taking holy orders, within a year or two after his entrance, he had advanced to the priesthood—retaining still, as he retained to the last moment, through the whole course of his virtuous at d labo rious life, that same fervent and passionate love for political freedom which he had cherished from the dawn of his reason, and which was already the one consolation of his soul before the birth in his soul of his burning love for Christ. Before one other syllable is here uttered, or, rather, written, about the Pere Lacordaire, or about the biography of him, penned by . the most intimate and the most beloved of all his friends, the Count de Montalem bert—we would here comment upon the fact of that burning love for the Redeemer, that from the hour of his awakening to the sight of Belief from the blindness of Infidelity, be came the paramount, and dominant, and all absorbing joy of the life of Lacordaire. " When all the events of this generous life shall be known," says his biographer, "the orator will disappear before the monk, and the prestige of that eloquence which has moved, enlightened, and converted so many souls, will seem a less marvel than the formidable austerity of his life, the severity with which he chastised his flesh, and his passionate lore for Jesus Christ." Lacordaire has repeatedly evi denced the intensity of this love of his fcr the Divine Founder of Christianity, by passages of the rarest eloquence : among the noblest attestations that ever emanated from his lips, at once of his power as an Orator and of his devotion as a Christian. " Lord Jesus," he cried from the pulpit of Notre Dame in 1846, in the course of his First Conference, "during the ten years that I have been preaching to this audience, Thou wert ever at the bottom of my dis courses ; but to-day at last I come more directly to Thyself ; to that divine face which is daily the ob ject of my contemplation ; to those sacred feet which I have so often kissed ; to those loving hands which have so often blessed me; to that life whose fragrance I have inhaled from my cradle, which my boyhood denied, which my youth again learned to love, and which my manhood adores and preaches to every creature. 0 Father ! 0 Master! 0 Lover ! 0 Jesus ! help me more than ever, since being nearer to Thee, my audience must feel it, and I must draw from my heart accents indicative of Thy ad mirable proximity." Again as the very crown ing and concluding words of those first wonderful Conferences : " Ah !" he exclaims "I have already often named Him ! It is He who is here before you. It is He whose name, sooner or later, will cause every knee to bend in Heaven, on earth, and in hell. I pronounce, once more in concluding, that name which of all names is the most dear to me. I name with faith, hope, love, adoration, the Lord Jesus Christ." ghat was the secret of the fervour, of the purity, of the consistency for which this noble life was throughout so remarkable. In itself, in its in cidents, in its general character it was a very simple life indeed. After the one grand turning point already, here, more than once alluded to, after the courts of law had been forsaken for the haunts of religion, the events of his life may be easily enough summed up in a very few sentences. The editing for three months of a Paris newspaper, L'Avenir, conjointly with the Abbe de Lamennais and the Count de Montalembert. A journey to Rome at the close of those three months—made almost as a pilgrimage by the then editor of L'Avenir. A separation, first of one of the younger of the three, and then of the other, from the elder of both of them, the gifted but arrogant-minded de Lamennais. Sermons in abundance. The writing of one or two books, among them the "Life of St. Dominic," the founder of the Order whose ranks the young priest had entered—return ing to France, returning to Paris, returning to the pulpit of Notre Dame, his head shaven, himself arrayed in the white robe of the Dominican. His elec tion in 1848 as representative of the People, and his entering the republican assembly, as such, in his garb as a monk. His election a dozen years afterwards as one of the Forty of the French Academy, and his appearance there also in the white robe of the Dominican Monk, to receive that singular homage at once to his genius and to his character. Re viewing the general aspect of this notable and noble career, the Count de Montalembert himself ob- serves: -- "Nothing could be more simple or ordinary than the life of this young priest. Those who seek romances or stormy passages in the lives Gf historical personages, or at least in their youth, must find them elsewhere. No adventure, no stroke of fate or of passion, troubled the course of his early years, The son of a village doctor, educated by a pious mother, he had, like almost all the young men of the time, lost his faith at college, and dia not regain it either in the school of law or at the bar, where he ranked for two years among the advocates. In appearance nothing distinguished him from his contemporaries. He was a Deist, like all the youth of the time ; he was, above all, liberal, like all France, but wi.hout excess. He shared the convictions and the generous delusions which we all breathed in the air which had been purified by the downfall of imperial despotism, but he desired only a liberty strong and legitimate; and without having yet been enlightened by the lights of faith, he already foresaw the supremo danger of modern society, for at twenty he wrote Impiety lead to depravity,' Corrupt morals produce corrupt laws,' and Licence car ries the nations on to slavery.' He himself remained always virtuous and regular in his morals, without any other passion than for glory. Even before he became a Christian he respected himself." Among the most interesting incidents recorded in the whole biography of his friend, by Montalembert, is that in which the Count relates the circumstance of their first meeting : " It was in November, 1830, that I saw him for the first time in tho cabinet of the Abte de Lamennais," he writes, "four months after a revolution which seemed for a moment to confound in a common ruin the throne and the altar, and one month after the beginning of the journal L'Avenir.' The motto of the journal was—Lieu et le liberte ! It was intended by its founders to regenerate Catholic opinion in Fiance, and to seal its union with the • progress of liberalism. I hastened to take part in this work, with the ardour of my 20 years, from Ireland, where I had just seen O'Connell at the head of a people whose invincible fidelity to the Catholic fe.ith had worn cut three centuries of per secution, and whose religious emancipation had just been won by the free press and freedom of speech. A very small number of laymen shared the convictions of M. de Lanaen nais, with a still more limited number of priests. Among the latter, the Abbe Lacordaire, whom as yet no one knew, was named to me. Not only was he not of those who had made themselves a name by reproducing the doctrines of the celebrated author of ' L'Essai sur l'lndiffe reuce; but ha could not even be called his pupil. • • • • There needed nothing less than the Revolution felt fort el e f of July and L'Avenir' to engage in a common work two natures so profoundly distinct. first time ; dazzled and swayed by saw t h e t o h n e e 7 I both myself y th e first mere sweetly and more naturally drawn towards the other. If 1 could but paint him such as he appeared then, in all the radiance and the charm of youth I He was 28. He was dressed as a layman, the state of Paris not then permitting priests to wear their proper costume. His graceful figure, his fine and regular features, his sculpturesque forehead, the commanding carriage of his head, his dark and spark ling eye, an indescribable something of pride and elegance, as well as of modesty, in all his person—all his was but the cover of a soul which seemed ready to pour itself fo: h, not only in the free encounters of public speaking, but in the overflowing of affectionate intercourse. The flash of his eye disclosed gleams at once warlike and tender; it sought not only enemy's to combat and to overthrow, but hearts to fascinate and conquer, His voice, already so nervous and energetic, frequently assumed accents of an infinite sweet ness. Born to fight and to love, he already bore the seal of the double royalty of the soul and talent. He appeared to me charming and terrible, as a type of the enthusiasm for good—virtue armed for the support of truth. I saw in him one of the elect, predestined to all that youth adores and desires the most—genius and glory." As illustrative of the simplicity of character and the tenderness of affectio❑ for which Lacordairo was so distinguished among his contemporaries, hero is a mast characteristic passage from one of those letters of his which his Biographer asierts, will, when published, elicit far more admiration for the man than any discourse his lips ever gave utterance to— "I would bury myself in the depths of the country," he writes, with an effusion of visionary yet profound sadness. " I would live only for a little flock, and find all my joy in God and in the fields It should be manifest that lam a simple man and without ambition. Adieu, great works I adieu, fame and great name ! I have known their vanity, and I desire nothing more than to live obscur and good. Some day when Montalembert shall have grow grey in the midst of ingratitude and celebrity, he w come to see upon my forehead the remains of our common youth. We shall weep together at the hearth of the presbyterie —he will do me justice Lefore we die. I shall bless his children For me, a poor Catholic priest, I shall neither have chil dren growing up under my eyes to survive me, nor domes tic hearth, nor Church brilliant with knowledge and sanc tity. Born in degenerate times, I shall pass from the earth among things unworthy of the memory of man. I shall endeavour to be good, simple, pious—hoping disinterestedly in the future, since I shall not see it—working for those who perhaps will see it—and not accusing Providence, which might weigh down with heavier evils a life which deserves so little." The Biography from which have been taken the fore going fragmentary passages, as well as some passing quotations from the Discourses and Epistles of the remarkable man whose life it relates, commends itself to the interest of all educated and enlightened readers in England, no less than throughout all Christendom. And it does this in a twofold manner, by reason of the profound interest attaching to the names—here of the man whose life is related, here of the man whose hand has penned that relation— the Abbe de Lacordaire and the Count de Montalem bert, Both of them among the greatest of modern orators : both of them associated with the revival of religious fervour in France: both of them pure and noble and earnest in character. Both of them, as such, standing forth conspicuously before Europe among the whole mass of their contemporaries as illustrious Champions of Civil and Religious Li berty—the one as a Preacher, the other as a Patrician : both in the full glare of the light of this nineteenth century, this age of advanced and advancing civilisation. INDIA. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived advices from Bombay to May 23, and from Calcutta to May 15. The present mail left Bombay five days before the usual date, in consequence of the near approach of the monsoon. Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India has, it is said, sent out telegraphic orders to the Go vernment of Bombay to fortify Bombay harbour without delay, and put it in a complete state of defence. The Bombay Gazette thus refers to this intelligence—" No doubt the orders have been issued in consequence of the serious apprehensions pre vailing in England, at the date of our latest tele grams, of a disruption of friendly relations with America. In the event of a war between the two countries, the Americans would doubtless direct the best efforts of their navy for the injury of the British-Indian commerce, more especially of the cot ton trade. And, moreover, the injury that Ame rican clipper-built steamers, privateering in the Indian ocean and Arabian sea, might do to our shipping may be learned from the destruction that has been wrought by the Alabama alone. Our Bombay harbour and our Indian waters are at pre sent far from a state of security against the men d- war and privateers of a belligerent power." The Sindian states that the aspect of affairs with Persia is threatening. Much important official correspondence of a political nature is going on. Advices from Cabool, under date 29th April, state that there has been some fighting before Herat. The Ameer has changed his counsels, and it is likely that a treaty will be ratified between him and Sultan Ahmed Jan. The prizes offered by the Bombay Government in November, 1862, with the view of stimulating and improving the cultivation of cotton, have been without any effect; and Government now states that the realisation of good prices on the spot ap pears the best and most acceptable reward to the producer. The experiment made with Peruvian cotton seed at Coimbatore in November last has proved a failure. The plants appeared for a time healthy and promising, but were entirely destroyed by worms. The port of Knrrachee is rapidly rising in im portance, in consequence of the impetus given to the Indian cotton trade since the outbreak of the American war. During the month of January, 1863, 400,000 maunds of cotton, the market value of which was 11,70,887 rs. were exported; while! in February the quantity exported amounted to 621,270 maunds, valued at 21,89,358 rupees. A medical association is to be established in Cal cutta, to be designated the Bengal Branch of the British Medical Association, with a view to watch over the growing interests of the medical profession in India. It is expected that in January next it will be pos sible to travel both from Calcutta and from Bombay to Meerut by rail. Street railways are to be almost immediately in troduced into Madras. The China Merchant Steam Navigation Com pany's screw steamer Bombay Castle capsized in the graving dock in the Bombay dockyard, on the 21st inst. She had just undergone thorough repairs, including new boilers and spars, and was being moved into the harbour when the accident occurred. From 20 to 30 men were injured. The Times of India estimates the loss to the company of £5,000. The same paper says :—" We are glad to learn that the sentence on Lieuten.lnt Jackson is one of four years' penal servitude, and not of penal servitude for life, as stated by the La hore Chronicle. The sentence in its present shape approves itself to our judgment, for we find it im possible to believe that Lieut. Jackson intended to kill his servant. That a most severe and cruel beating was administered no man can doubt, and the offence is rightly, and we think adequately, punished by the sentence of the court-martial. Lieut. Jackson is to be sent to Bombay." Liverpool Cotton Market--This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) No change. Sales of the day, about 4,000 bales, Sales of the week, 47,660 bales ; 5,590 on specu lation, 13,330 for export ; actual export, 17,257. Quotations—Fair Orleans, 242; Mobile, 24; Up land, 132 ; estimated middling, 22, 211, 201 ; esti mated fair Egyptian, 22. Stock, 260,000 bales ; week's import, 20,811; Surats, 7 to 193. SHIPPING —This Day. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Juno 18 —Pride, from Lisbon ; Johanna, from Stralsund; Amelia and Emma, from Sautr ; Vold geur, from Memel ; Johanna Petronella, from Petersburg ; Euttord, from 'Mutton; Rebecca, from Narva ; Mai and Ann, from H avre; from Struer ; Fanny from •Arocea ; Laura, from Stockholm ; Jessie, f rom Dantsic; Vesper, f rom C ronstadt ; Wopkea, from Emden. .Arrived, June 19—Baltic, from Libau ; Diamond, from Stockholm. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—Warlike, from the Mauritius, for London Ellen Rose, flora London, for Bathurst. Sailed—All the outward bound. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1863.