The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN KING'S FAUX PAS- The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Wal4ole, M.P.—The Song of the Polish Scythe, &C. ,t e.. in .FIIN THIS WEEK. One Penny. T rIEATEE-BA, , HAY MARKEL Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 29th time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alf re d Wi gan, an d Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by (9th time), a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with 3IY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. T" DUKE'S MOTTO HLNDRED ALND THIRTY-SECOND NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Original ~ keteh, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, B. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3loo - 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. Brougnam, H. vi iddbombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, E. Cayenne, and Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting:Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole Lee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining. THIS EVENING, the grand new Drama, entitled COURT AND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, H. Marston, G. Belmore, G. Murray, and Warde ; Mss Murray, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. - - And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. Mr. Roxby, Mrs Marston, and Miss Jones. NEW THEATRE-DLO SEAL, ADELP4L-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, HOW TO PAY THE RENT. Mr. C. Stephenson, Miss K. Kelly. After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Philips, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. 51( ssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING DTTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4 , Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 20, 1863. nevertheless; and the scandal of the whole of this miserable transaction is, that, no less than Eng land, all Europe knows it to be so. Better late than never, is a well-known adage, land it seems likely to be realised in respect to Beth lehem Hospital. Sir G. GREY has addressed a letter to the President of Bethlehem Hospital. In this letter Sir G. GREY alludes to a document received from the Commissioners in Lunacy, in which they make mention of the question of removing the hos pital to a more suitable locality. Sir G. GREY re qnested that the same might be submitted to the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, with this impor tant addenda, that he freely concurs in the opinions expressed by the Commissioners. He also expresses a hope that this excellent opportunity will not be thrown away, and that the Governors will most carefully consider how unfit is the present institu tion for its purpose. This communication is a very desirable one, and reflects great credit on Sir G. GREY. It was certainly high time that some influential person should exercise authority. The Home Secretary could not have done a wiser thing than thus interfere in this awkward dilemma that has arisen in consequence of too much being expected on both sides, and too little conceded by either. The Commissioners in Lunacy forwarded a commu nication to the Home-office, which is most appro priately timed, and is sure to produce good results. After expressing the hope that they had entertained that a satisfactory arrangement would be come to by the governors of the two hospitals, they remark that they think it incumbent upon them now to address Sir G. GREY on the subject before it is too late to confer the inestimable benefit of fresh air to those afflicted beings who are in so much need of it. The following paragraph is a direct explanation of the whole affair, and certainly conveys to those referred to a tacit reproval which is only too well merited :—" It has for many years been the opinion of the Board that the site of Bethlehem Hospital, as respects its limited extent and situation, in the centre of a dense and rapidly increasing population, is most unsuited to the due medical care and treat ment of the insane, for whose sole benefit the administration of its ample property and income is intrusted to the governors. Outdoor exercise and recreation, and freedom from disturbance and obser vation, so indispensable to the proper treatment of insanity, especially in its earlier stages, require an ample extent of grounds and gardens within the boundaries of the institution." No excuses can be urged regarding previous igno rance of the immense importance of making this change, for the Commissioners state that so far back as 1858, they embodied these views in a communica tion to Mr. WALPOLE, and suggested the removal of Bethlehem Hospital into the country. Further on it is stated that not only is the site objectionable, but the construction of the building renders it most unfit for being the domicile of the insane, and that no new hospital built upon the same principle could ever be sanctioned. The new one must be in accord ance with the " improvements of modern experi ence." Finally the Commissioners urge this im portant argument, that the Governors have large sums at their disposal, that they have extraordinary means of improving the condition of the insane, and that this power imposes upon them the duty of employing those Large sums to the best advantage, which it is well known cannot be done while the present arrangements are persevered in ; and that on Monday there will be a General Court of the Royal Hospitals of Bethlehem and Bridewell, at which these documents will be especially con sidered. It seems hardly possible that they can fail to produce a due effect upon those present ; and indeed the justice and good sense of their remarks are so apparent that if a deaf ear is turned to their suggestions, the public will get tired of such con tumacious conduct. These Governors are invested with a solemn responsibility, and endued with a sacred trust. Be it theirs to fulfil worthily their lofty duties, so that the reproach may not fall upon them of neglecting those unfortunate'sufferers upon whom has fallen the heaviest curse that can befall humanity. It seems scarcely credible that anyone who has the power should lack the will to employ it when places are desired for the benefit of those for whom sa little can even be done in the way of alleviation. It is astonishing how much mischief is effected by men persisting in obstinate opinions of their own, in advocating their own peculiar views and original tenets, instead of adapting or conforming themselves to public good and genera advantage. A further movement has taken place in regard to this important question. A de putation waited upon Lord SHAFTESBURY, in reference to the site of St. Thomas's Hospital. Mr. KENDLE, who introduced the depu tation, stated that they represented eight parishes of the South of London, with a population of more than 500,000 people. Lord SHAFTESBURY remarked that with the funds now at the command of the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, and a suitable position, they might accommodate double the num ber of patients. The deputation lamented the un satisfactory state of affairs as at present carried on. Bethlehem was a public institution, supported by public money, which would be greatly improved by removal, while St. Thomas's would be benefitted by occupying that site. It appeared that these two institutions were refusing proposals that were for the public advantage, and also for their own benefit. Lord SHAFTESBURY replied that the Lunacy Com missioners were quite decided as to the importance of removing the Lunacy Hospital. His lordship adverted to the difficulty of a settlement, for only 30 or 40 of the Governors attended, out of 200 or 250. He truly said that it was " monstrous," since they held not a private but a public trust. Also there was no doubt as to the desirability of that site being ap plicable for St. Thomas's Hospital. The idea of sending persons with broken limbs, or with severe diseases, by railway, was quite out of the question. He observed, however, that it was not his duty nor that of the Lunacy Commissioners to interest them selves concerning St. Thomas's Hospital, but that they would use every endeavour to effect the re moval of Bethlehem to a more suitable locality, Hi s lordship advised that petitions be forwarded to the Houses of Parliament, and furthermore added that he would present one to the House of Lords and speak upon it. It must be a source of great satis faction to all well-wishers of distressed and afflicted humanity that Lord SHAFTESBURY has undertaken to lend his aid to the good cause. There is no public man who has done more essential service to the poor, the sick, and the oppressed than the noble earl. For many years he has ever been toiling in the service of his fellow•creatures, and it will not be the least achievement to rank among his social successes that he huehapsrolepoeesend.in.qrumental in gaining the end There i s so much selfishness in the world, and are rife in so many pre j udices and jealousies every society that it is necessar to y lelea some w i t h large aims and exalted vi ews to the syst em. Such eha rinacfutesres aarehirgahreerttooneinto meet 'With, and should be accord ingly appreciated. The public in general. will look with interest for the result of the meeting on Monday, and it is not expecting too much to hope that a favourable termination will be given to this vexed question. If each side will forego the claims of self assertion, and lose themselves in their desire to benefit others, there can be but one result, and that a happy one. if this desirable issue is not arrived at there will be more heard of this complicated affair. Matters have gone too far to recede now, and those who wilfully throw away the opportunity now afforded them of re trieving their reputation will find it difficult here after to render up a satisfactory account of the conduct that will most assuredly be called in question. The debate, which took place on Thursday even ing, on the second reading of the Public Works Manufacturing Districts Bill, tended in some re spects to confirm the opinion of Mr. FARNALL as to the opposition it was likely to encounter. Al though every member was professedly anxious for the good of Lancashire, several voices were raised against the bill both in regard to its general prin ciple and to its particular clauses. Mr. FERRAND mere especially was decidedly opposed to it, declar ing that the cotton labourers, who were accustomed to work under cover, in a high t empera t ure, wou ld be unfit and unable to assist in the proposed works. For his own part he recommended a wholesale scheme of Government emigration, which should transport a large number of the unoccupied " hands" to our colonies. He complained that larger sums would be required before the session closed, and was altogether averse to the Government mea , sure. Other members took other exceptions to diffe rent parts of the bill, and the recent meeting in Lancashire, instead of convincing dissentients of the taking some immediate steps to mitigate the evil, seems rather to have had a contrary effect. Whole sale emigration is the easiest and readiest remedy, since it removes the sufferers from sight and makes them no longer a burden on the country. The question remains whether such a cure is the wisest, the kindest, and in the end the most advantageous policy. In the first place, as Mr. HIBBERD justly observed, in answer to Mr. FERRAND'S assertion that the factory opera tives would die by thousands if put to hard outdoor work—men who are not physically capable of en during exposure and hardship are certainly not fit to emigrate. A colonial life, such as would be pro posed for the factory hands, wou'd be rough and laborious, for it would scarcely be intended to send them to the towns or cities of America or Australia. Such a career demands robust health and strength, and fresh unchilled energies. A man and his family who have been accustomed to a high state of comfort for the greater part of their lives, and have suddenly passed through a period of unex ampled misfortune, depressing alike to health and spirits, will be ill fitted for so sudden and compre hensive a charge. As Sir G. GREY very properly said, it would be wrong and injudicious for the Government or any other persons to place obstacles in the way of emigration; but it was necessary for a wholesome and useful emigration that you should have persons not only willing, but fit, by age and capacity, for the purpose, and also colonies which are willing to receive them, and capable of affording them employment. The right honour able baronet added that, although the colonies might be glad to obtain such labourers as they stood in need of, they would not be very well disposed to receive those whom we sent to them merely because we could not provide for them at home. The speech of the hon. member for Rochdale showed the fullest appreciation of the difficult:es of the question, and dealt conclusively with the whole sale emigration scheme recommended by Mr. FER RAND. In answer to Sir B. LEIGHTON, who con sidered that more was given to a man in Lancashire for doing nothing, than to labourers in fall pay in other districts, Mr. COBDEN observed that the high rate of wages in the manufacturing districts was a question of very wide bearing. "It is," said the ten. gentleman, " a difficuJty which meets us in the question of emigration, of relief, and of migra tion." He went on to show, with his usual clear sense, the great difference between transporting an agricultural labourer, who has to keep a family on 10s. a week here, to the wilds of Australia or Ame rica, where his own occupation is needed and better paid, and removing cotton spinners and weavers to a country where there are no cotton mills or power-loom factories to need them, w hile their un fitness for agricultural work renders them help. less and miserable. " A man may lxnefit, by transferring his labour from one field to another," said Mr. COBDEN very truly, " but few ever benefit by changing their business after they have arrived at years of maturity." 'lbis is th© great difficulty attending tt.e emigration of large bodies of working men. If we could ensure theta constant employment in their own kind of work when they had crossed the seas, there would be good reason to insist upon their going, even though we might subsequently miss them here. But until we have some more assured prospect of their obtaining remunerative employment, we can hardly wish to see them eeptirt in any great num bers. We fully agree with Sir G. GREY that no obstacles should be put in the way of intending emigrants, and, indeed, that every facility should be given them; but we cannot depend on this hon. ourable transportation as the only means of meeting the difficulty. Mr. VILLIERS'S Bill, though not professing to settle the question, at least provides - _ help for the time. It will take many thousands off the parish, and consequently diminish considerably the demands on the ratepayers. It gives the oppor- ,unity to the towns of having greatly needed public works carried out at a very suitable time, and we can hardly look upon it as an unprofitable expendi ture of money when we are told that the town o. 7.laslingden, cited as a fair sample of the newly grown and populous neighbourhood, has a popu- ation of 10,000 and a rateable value of more than 20,000, but that the houses are nodrained, the roads unrepaired, and many of the streets unpaved. There is no system of sewerage, and as a natural conse quence, fever and other zymotic diseases prevail it seems, therefore, that the proposed works are o: a character urgently needed, and that the design of turning the requirements of the district to such good account is a sagacious and happy one. We trust that the bill will be passed without further opposition, giving, as it does, at least, a temporary relief, and thereby affording us more leisure and opportunity to watch the progress of events and decide upon the wisest course to pursue in face o, the coming winter. KISSENGEN, BAVARIA, Juue 16.—The Emperor and Empress of Austria arrived here this afternoon from Nuremberg, which place they left this afternoon. The Emperor will continue at Kissengen for about a week er ten days, when he will return to Vienna. The Empress will remain to take the waters and baths. The following distinguished visitors have also arrived at Kissingen : His Royal Highness the Prince Augustus of Norway and Sweden, travelling under the name of Baron Dahlskiold ; his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz and suite ; Prince Callimaki, Turkish Ambassador at Vienna; her Serene Highness the Pr:ncess of Salm Reifferscheid, with her daughter the Countess Clara Mar tinicz, have also arrived from Vienna. COLLISION AND WRECK IN THE RIVER.—AbnUt two o'clock yesterday morning a serious collision took place in the river, immediately opposite Blackwell Pier. It appears that a powerful screw steamer, kelonging to the Carron Company, was proceeding down the river, when, by w ti toe: ;ie.tta mean sl :i Icie itboripfese.nt unexplained, she came into collision heav ilyl , a ,. d u e o n w w l i y th in c g orn, which was being towed s oc if : et irt cutting;e bv hc o eu f ri the mwsteamertheir h e ra ons water's c in ap to e ttoehdetgheme, opposite n pdo p st o iht r ee t a complete wreck on the the river. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.7.5. Wind—N.-E.; moderate and fine, but cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. - CH's DAY.—Morning, 411. 3)m.—Afternoon, 4h. 50m. To-MORROW.-Morning, sh. 311:L.—Afternoon, on. 22w. 4 Pig Lot Tarialk 4T")v 444 LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1863, Last evening, in the House of Lords, the Brazilian Difficulty was—as the phrase is—ventilated. No thing more than that—simply ventilated. There was a discussion about it in all its bearings, thanks to the determination of the Earl of MALMESBURY to arrive, with as little additional delay as possible, at the facts involved in the mazes of this wretched little diplomatic complication. For some time past we have had dropping in upon us piecemeal from the Foreign-office, now one fragment, now another of the correspondence that was taken place between various officials, of more or less importance, here in connection with the British, here in connection with the Brazilian Government. Lord MAL MESBURY'S motion, duly announced beforehand, and duly brought forward yesterday, in the House of Peers, amounted simply to a request for the pro duction of this correspondence in its entirety, or at any rate for the production of any additional por tions of it that could by possibility throw new light upon the transactions to which it refarred. There was no division taken at the close of the debate. The Earl of MALMESBURY put the whole case as he himself regarded it ; that is to say, from the Opposition point of view. The Earl RUSSELL, as in duty bound, in his high capacity as Her MAJESTY'S principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, re sponded at some length, though—we are grieved to regard his speech thus in a matter of so much delicacy —we cannot think altogether satisfactorily. Lord CHELMSFORD added a few running commen taries upon the whole transaction, contemplating it in some of its bearings, exclusively as a lawyer ; and, a few additional remarks having been uttered by Lord LYTTLETON, there, after all this parliamen tary pother, the matter under discussion was quietly allowed, without more ado, to drop. The motion, as we have said, being agreed to ; no division, as we have also said, being taken ; the spirit of party being in no hostile shape aroused—the question at issue being simply ventilated, and no more than ventilated, in discussion. As a diplomatic difficulty, the whole of this Brazilian scandal, with its (in consequence)volumin ous and, as it has occasionally threatened to be, all but interminable correspondence, comes really as a twofold illustration here of a quotation, there of an anecdote. The quotation being simply the second line of POPE'S "Rape of the Lock"— " What mighty contexts rise from trivial things." The anecdote being simply that very ludicrous one of the gamester against whom ill luck has been running so persistently all one night at the gambling house, that, on his at last emerging in a half-distracted state from the portal, to find some inoffensive stranger, adjusting his shoetye at the top of the staircase, he vents his long pent-up wrath by kicking the said stranger down the whole flight with a " D--- you ! you're always tying your shoe !" So is it, precisely in this instance of diplo• matic petulance on the part of Lord RUSSELL, and the head and front of the offending, on the part of the unhappy Brazilian Government. Lord RUSSELL has been goaded and irritated so long in one direc tion or another, now by this country, now by that, n" upon suc h a pretext, now upon such another, th the perpetrator of the last annoyance sudden' y awazens to find the whole vial of his lordship's indignation emptied out in a di p lo matic douche of vituperation upon his, the ere cipient's, d evoted head, and th e " trive'a Out of the casua l ty o f a clr i 7 lr umstance of an after dinner row betw een three naval officers, a Brazilian sentry and t h e local police or gensd'armes —out "trivial thi ngs " like these have emelge d what Parliaments are usually disposed t o regar d as the " mighty contexts" of a ruptio u of the diploma tic The Brazilian relations between two Governm ents , h Brazilian sboe-Iying has been altogether too intolerable to the irritated n erves of the British Foreign Se(...retary. And in consequence of this the astounded Brazilian offender has gone clean down the whole flight. Lord RUSSELL— rather naively, it must be allowed—owns to the fact in one of his very last despatches that he hud many an old score to clear off when he resolved upon clearing off these new ones., His lordship acknowledges this, of course, not in quite those very plain terms, but with the usual amount of olicial circumlocution. The noble earl night have added, what he does not even, as a matter of course, faintly hint at, namely, that the old scores he had such an irresistible inclinatina to clear off, at this most tempting opportunity, were mach as had been chalked up by other Governments besides the Brazilian Government. The fact is so, N, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, '1363, (REUTER'S TRLEGRAI4IS.) AMERICA. them efficient and faithful, and to replace them by better men—that no military officer was empowered to suppress the circulation of any paper printed at any distance from the seat of war, and that any editor who committed or abetted treason was amen able to the civil laws alone. President Davis has revoked the exequatur of Mr. George Moore, the British Consul at Rich mond, for disregarding the authority of the Con federate Government, in assuming to act as consul for a place other than the city of Richmond, and a State other than the State of Virginia. Blair's division of General Grant's army has made a reconnaissance of 45 miles to the northward, but without finding any enemy. The country was very rich and fertile, and the Federals destroyed quanti ties of cotton and stores. Memphis telegrams assert that all negroes in Federal uniforms captured by the Confederates are hung. The Governor of Georgia, in view of the immi nence of an early invasion of that State, has called upon the people to organise for defence. Since his assault of the 27th, General Banks has made no fresh assault on Port Hudson, but has commenced mining and siege operations. The Con federates fought with unusual fierceness against the negro troops, and Come accounts state that no wounded negroes were taken prisoners, all were slaughtered. The Confederates have reoccupied the Bayou Teche country. The negro expedition from Port Royal has made a raid up the Combrabee river, capturing a number of negroes and destroyirg property. They also burnt Bluffton. The Federal expedition from Yorktown Cestroyed he Confederate foundry and stores on the Matta. pony river. General Welellan has reviewed two returned regiments from the balcony of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Tremendous enthusiasm was displayed for him by the soldiers and people. The nomination of Mr. Vallandigham as a candi date for the governorship of Ohio by the Demo cracy of that State is considered certain. A democratic meeting has been called in Brook. Eyn to denounce the usurpation of the Administra ion. In the case of the Dolphin it has been de cided that a vessel bound to Nassau with the intention of sailing from there to a blockaded port was equally liable to capture, as if she was bound direct to a blockaded port. Sixty six cases of rifles and swords were found on board the Dolphin, entered on the freight list as hardware. A letter from the owner was also found, requesting the agents not to discharge the cargo at Nassau, but to obtain additional freight from there. In the case of the steamer Pearl time was allowed .0 the claimants to produce further testimony, but it was decided that vessels bound to convenient ports, with the intention of making voyages from there to blockaded ports, are subject ,to capture before their arrival at the ports from which they intend to sail for blockaded ports. Eight schooners are reported to have been cap tured in the Gulf. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 9 (Evening.) Money easy. Gold 421 per cent. prem. Ex change on London bankers' bills 156 k. Stocks lower. New York Centrals, 1178; Illi nois, 1021; Erie, 92:: ; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 1041, NEW YORK, JUNE 11 (Morning). (By Telegragh to Halifax.) General Banks officially reports that the conduct of the negro troops has been heroic, and that there is no longer any doubt that the Government will find in the negroes effectual supporters. General Banks' loss from the 23d to the 30th ult. was 1,000 men, including many of his ablest officers. General Sherman has died at New Orleans. Admiral Porter officially reports that ho sent another expedition up the Yazoo, which destroyed nine Confederate transports. Admiral Porter adds that, with the exception of a few steamers beyond Fort Pemberton, the port nothing on th e Y azoo. Confederates can now trans- It is reported] that Mr. Vallandigham has been mprisoned by the Confederates. The Philidelphia Enquirer says that the 2d South Carolina negro re g i ment defeated the Confederates on the 3d inec, at Focotoglio, and was holding the LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (PER THE ASIA.) NEW YORK, JUNE 8 (Evening). The report received on Saturday last, that Gene ral Lee had evacuated Fredericksburg and that Hooker had occupied the city, was untrue. It ap pears that in consequence of the withdrawal of a Confederate Brigade from Fredericksburg, General Hooker, on Friday afternoon, sent a division across the Rapphannock at Deep Run to reconnoitre. This division crossed in the face of a heavy fire from the Confederate rifle pits on the opposite shore, and after capturing one hundred Confede rates in the rifle pits, and ascertaining that Long street was there in force, they crossed the river with the loss of forty men. It is supposed that General Lee maintains his position at Fredericksburg, and that his late move. ments were made to place his army in a more healthy situation. General Stuart received from 12,000 to 15,000 Confederate cavalry at Culpepper on Saturday last. Advices from Vicksburg are to the 3d inst. The siege operations continued. One division of General Grant's army was on the west side of Black River bridge, watching Gen. Johnstone, who appeared there on the let and 2d inst. with 5,000 troops, but afterwards retired. General Johnstone is reported to have altogether 18,000 men, but no artillery. Communication between Generals Grant and Banks is kept up along the Louisiana shore. Southern journals assert that General Kirby Smith has defeated General Banks at Port Hudson. The steamers America and Hammonia have arrived out. Richmond papers of the 6th publish the follow ing speech of General Pemberton to his army, denying the imputations of treason and incompe tency recently made against him :- 1 " You have heard that I was incompetent, a traitor, and that it was Loy intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg, when the last pound of beef, bacon, and flour, the last grain of corn, the last cow and hog, and horse and dog, shall have been consumed, and the last man shall have perished in the trenches. Then, and only then, will I sell Vicksburg." At the Convention of New York editors, held yesterday, the organs of all the different political parties were represented. It was unanimously re soled that every journalist had the right to criti- cise, censure, or condemn the acts of those officials entrusted with power, with the view to render NEW YORK, JUNE 12 (Evening (By Telegraph to Cape Race.) MEXICO. NEW YORK, JUNE PARIS, JUNE 20, With the view of facilitating commercial opera tions in Mexico, General Forey has decided that merchandise consigned to ports occupied by the French, and destined for portions of the country in French occupation, shall only pay half of the im port duty to which they are liable by the regular tariff. HAMBURG, JUNE 17 News received here from Copenhagen states tha' the taking of Puebla by the French produced im. mense excitement. The King has instructed Mr. Hall, the President of the Council, to offer his sincere congratulations on that happy event to the French Ministers in Copenhagen. The King of Sweden left on the 11th inst. for Seania, where his Majesty will inspect the troops. It is asserted that the Kings of Sweden and Denmark will have an interview in the course of the present month. THE EXECUTION OF FRANKOWSKI. THORN JUNE 20, Frankowski one of the insurgent leaders was hung at Lublin on the 16th inst., by sentence of a court-martial. It is rumoured that Archbishop Felinski has been exiled to the Government of Vologda. THE POLISH QUESTION. PARIS, JUNE 20, The Courser du Dimanche of to-day in an article upon the despatch of the notes of the Western Powers to St. Petersburgh says—" The French note is marked by the same sentiments of modera tion which characterized the first French communi cation. As regards the proposal of an armistice it is said to have been dropped at least in the form it was originally put forward." i If our information is correct, the despatch of M. Drouyn de Lhuys confines itself to expressing the hope that Russia, in the event of her deferring to the wishes of the Powers, would take the most pro per measures to arrest the effusion of blood during the pending negotiations. It is asserted that M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in draw ing up the six points already known as having been proposed by the Powers to Russia, endeavours, in order not to establish any sensible divergence be• tween the attitude of France and that of Austria, not to lay too much stress on the 2d and 3d points. POLAND. WARSAW, JUNE 15. A few days ago a lady of the name of Baldicka, of this city, was murdered in her own house. It was then said, and generally believed, that the murder had been committed in consequence of her having acted as a spy. This statement, however, was incorrect, as the unfortunate lady found her death at the hands of thieves who were detected in the act of robbing. The relations of the murdered lady, desirous of maintaining the honour of the family, forwarded a petition to the National tiecret Committee, pray ing that an official statement might be made, de claring all reports current to be false. This peti- tion was duly attended to by the National Govern ment, and the required official statement, N 0.1148, declaring that no suspicio❑ had ever been enter tained of Madame Baldicka, was published in the Prazoola of to-day. Three revolutionary journals have been published to-day. A glance through their columns will show what a vast and varied number of cases the National Secret Committee have to dispose of ; and one cannot but feel surprised thftt, notwithstanding the many difficulties to contend with, and the strict secrecy to be constantly observed, they are still beyond the reach of the Russian authorities. To-day all telegraphic communication to this city has again been interrupted. All the telegraph offices are closed in consequence. Within the last few days several unimportant skirmishes have taken place in the vicinity of Warsaw between the Russian troops and the in- surgents. Much excitement was caused yesterday evening by the arrival of a Russian patrol in charge of two insurgent prisoners, who were fully armed and equipped as Polish Mllans. At Rawa, on the occasion of the procession of Corp! Christi, composed exclusively of Russian Catholics, it was joined by several fullyequipped but unarmed Polish inns, who at the termination of the ceremonies returned unhindered to join their comrades in the woods. From time to time the insurgents surround War saw and tear down the Russian eagle. Detach ments of Russian troops are despatched daily from this city, with orders to scour the surrounding country, while others return harassed, after days of long and wearisome marches. railroad bridge between Savannah and Charleston Reinforcements are being forwarded to them. Three brigades of Federal cavalry and two thou sand infantry crossed the Rappahannock on Tuesday last, at Beverley Ford, and had a severe engage ment with General Stuart's cavalry, lasting all day, when the Confederates received heavy infanty re inforcements, and the Federals recrossed the river, bringing away their dead and wounded. The object of the expedition was to frustrate the plans of General Lee, who had assembled a force of cavalry at Culpepper Court-house, with the view of making a raid into Maryland. The expedition is said to have succeeeded in its object. General Lee has received reinforcements, and the impression still prevails that he will shortly assume the offensive. Great preparations for defence are being made in Pennsylvania. News from Vicksburg is to the Bth inst. The seige was progressing, but the situation had not changed. The enrolment is being resisted in Indiana. The Provost-Marshal and his assistant have been shot. Considerable excitement prevails, and a military force has been sent to the scene of disorder. Mr. Vallandigham has been unanimously nomi nated candidate for the Governorship of Ohio by the Democratic State Convention. President Davis has revoked the exequatur of the British Consul at Richmond for disregarding the legal authority of the Confederate Government, in assuming to act as Consul for other cities than Richmond, and other States than Virginia. Advices received here from Puebla to the 18th May, via San Francisco, state that the French were at Cholula, six miles beyond Puebla, on the way to Mexico. The Mexicans asserted that the approaches to ;he City of Mexico would be vigorously defended. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 19.—The market has lost the little firmness it acquired yesterday, and Stock having been again offered, prices have receded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 08f. 50c. Italian Loan has receded to 721. 70c. Up to the present time there has been absolutely nothing doing in Railway Shares. The market closed as follows : Italian Loan 72 95 Do. end month..., 73 New ditto Do, end month 74 05 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 53 50 flume Debt - MAYS. 41 per Cent 5....... 97 20 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... GS 50 Do. end month.... 68 55 Credit Mobiher....l2lo Do. end m0nth....1208 75 Bank Shares ......3470 Credit Foncier ....1365 lain Cash. Ac coun t. Orleans 992 --50 .. 995 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1038 75 .. 1041 25 Geneva 452 50 .. 460 Southern .. 727 50 .. 732 50 Western Eastern .• • , ..... ~,, Fardinian .. 425 Austrian Lombard North of Spain .. 565 Saragossa 725 -- .. 722 50 Ditto to Barcelona AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 20, The ship Tiptree, from Sydney, April 1, has passed this port. Eight of her passen,ers landed here to-day, and they report sighting, on Thursday last, at the entrance of the Channel, one of Messrs. Green's ships, supposed to be the Dover Castle, that left Melbourne on the 20th March, with 19,000 ounces of gold. She brings in all 34 cabin and 32 steerage passen gers, among whom are Mrs. Lockhart, Mrs. Rae, Mrs, Brett, and Mesdames Cruickshank, Oliver, and Bowton, Miss Creasy, Miss Mahony, Mr. and Mrs. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Baines, Rev. Father Murphy, Mr. Provan, and Mr. Weir. Her cargo includes about 3,000 bales of woo', some hides, and a quantity of bark, copper ore, &c. After departure the Tiptree experienced strong southerly and south-west gales, which drove her so far east as to prevent her from going seuth of New Zealand. She went through Cook's Straits, April 12, 68 days, passed Chatham Island on the 14th, and had strong westerly gales, during which, on the 17th, in 55 S., three large icebergs were ob served, and the Tiptree rounded Cape Horn May 1, entered the Southern Tropics on the 17th, crossed the Line on the 25th, and at 9 p.m. yesterday was off the Start under all sail, wind N. by E., fine. She spoke, May 18, in long. 20.0 S., lat. 26.46 the French bark Hamburg, 43 days from Mar seilles, for Mauritius; 21st, in lat. 10.29 S., long 29.5 W., the British ship Atala, from London, bound south ; 23d, in lat. 55 S., leng. 28.55 W., the bark Ann and Lucy, bound south; and June 12, in lat. 44.49, long. 37.34 W., the French ship Malabar, from Havannah, for Havre. Her Majesty's screw steam gun-vessel Renard, from China, arrived in Plymouth Sound last night. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. MADAME RISTORI AS QUEEN ELIZABETH, If the Medea may be said to embody the passion and grace of Madame Ristori—not less distinctive is the Elizabeth of her extraordinary art and variety. These two characters which contrast so strongly in almost every point of view—which one might call the respective types of ancient and modern civilisation —of the free vehement child of nature—who re strains and conceals nothing, but loves or hates, guards or destroys, as her passions chance to impell her—and of the refined woman, the child of society, who masks and plays with her emotions—who desires with doubt and sophistry, and indulges to endure remorse—are not more striking in the varying aspects which they present of a common nature, than in the fact of their adaptation to the gifts and genius of Made. Ristori. Whilst a type, however, the renowned Queen is even more an indivi dual—that history presents to us as distinguished by her own variety of traits, and to an extent that seems to exhaust the most opposite qualities of her sex. Brave, cultured, thoughtful, generous, vain, capricious, and revengeful—a lioness in respect to her country—too often a serpent in respect to her self, she seems to epitomise all the power and the weakness of a woman. Obvioasly, therefore, she is a subject that only an artist of the greatest range as well as depth could hope to embody ; and if Signor Giacometti, in his desire to identify that artist with his illustrious compatriot, somewhat exaggerates the original in order to give more scope to the transcriber, we must not be blind to the merits which he offers as an offset. To the oppos ing traits of Elizabeth he gives a unity and sequence by means of her passion for Essex, which prompts or colours her whole conduct—whilst he imparts an interest to her story, that is both dramatic and historical in her gradual transition from strength to infirmity, and from her playful to her tragic aspects. Thus every act is made to present a distinct phase of her career, whilst each deepens as it advances both in its lesson and its attraction. There is something more than this, however. Whilst giving the needed prominence to all her lower qualities, her vanity, personal and mental—her jealousy and ambition —the author tempers them as faithfully with her courage and decision, and in deepening her sensibilities, both as respects love and remorse, he makes their larger trial serve to purify and re deem her, and thus subjects the known realities of her character and history to an ideal aim and in fluence, that are essentially artistic. Thus she un folds before us gradually her gayer features first— her heroic and tragic ultimately, and this by no means mechanically—an aspect to an act, but certain qualities being assumed as the cohering principle of her nature—such as her love, will, and ambi tion ; and these being kept in view—the woman pro gresses with the action, and is completed at its close. Accordingly the play opens about 1587, when Elizabeth was past fifty, and terminates with her death, which was some sixteen years ensuing; and the first act presents her in a literary and diploma tic light, surrounded by a bevy of learned doctors and grave damsels, with whom she discusses the claims of authors, and shows her acquaintance with the classics. Here a letter arrives from Leicester, then her envoy to the Netherlands, which Stating that he hss been fired the crown, rouses her regal jealousy—which is as great as her personal or mental—and she rc3olves to crush her aspir ing favourite—whilst Sir Francis Bacon pre sents a petition from Shakespear, who is represented as very poor, praying that his Henry the VIII. may be played be fore the Court at Windsor. The read- ing of its concluding lines which are a pro phecy of her own fortunes—restores her ruffled composure, and leads to her dictating a letter, alternately to tha Chief Justice, ordering him to pay the puet's debts, and another to the unlucky Leices- ter bidding him resign his command to Raleigh. The news arriving of the Commons being engaged upon what she considers a question of prerogativ e the spirit of the Queen is aroused again, and, aban doning her gaieties, she rushes off to crush their insolence. With the second act commences the central interest of the play—her love for her new favourite Esse x , and its daring but doubtful reeipro- cation. Ho has displaced — his rival Leicester, but hardly dares congratulate himself on a triumph so full of risk, for he reads the Queen's caprice and jealousy of power. A scene ensues between them, in which, struggling between pride and pasairhu, she at last reveals her feeling, and gives him the ring (according to tradition) which he was to send her when in danger, as an unfailing means of deliverance, even trcm herself. No sooner is she alone than she shows that her love for him is not so much as for her prized authority, which he never can consent to share, and then, as if in punishment, her ambition tempts her into crime. There comes the death warrant of 'Mary, which she hesitates to sign till handed a letter from the latter, in which she is so unfortunate as to s a y she bestows her crown on Pallip the Second, ,~ beth's great rival. This defiance rouses her fury and serves to justify her vengeance. She signs the warrant and leaves the room, bending a look on her secretary, who fully comprehends it, and de parts to fulfil her wishes. Here a little liberty is taken with history in the introduction of James the Sixth, on a secret visit to the Queen to implore compassion for his mother, and obtain, if possible, her release. At the height of his entrea ties arrives the news of Mary's death, and the young King giving vent to a burst of horror and indigna. tion, lays his malediction on the murderess, and rushes from her presence. From this critical post tion, in which the Queen's dissimulation only in tensifies her guilt, she is rescued by fresh news — only permissible by stage license, the approach of the Armada, and then stet personal feeling vanishing in her undoubted love of country, her heroism re stores her to her true dignity and altitude. She gives orders to call out her troops, vows she will lead them to the field in person, and grasping the sword of her father, calls on her assembled nobles to pledge their lives upon its blade, On this exciting picture closes the second act. The third, which opens at Greenwich, in the midst of the festivities caused by the defeat of the Armada, is the weakest in the play, and yet fulfils an important end in pre paring for its climax. Its action scarcely extends beyonds the disgrace of Essex, who, having et ceeded his instructions by his foray upon Cadiz, has provoked the Queen's displeasure—her ambi tious jealousy imagining that she detects in her new favourite a certain symptom of the old one. Essex's indignation at his treatment, and irreverent expressions, inflaming the Queen in turn, she deals him a hearty cuff—his hand flies to his sword ; he is instantly arrested, and quits her presence tor the Tower, pouring out a flood of invectives which leave her amazed and choked with fury. With the fourth act unfolds the tragic aspects of the story. Essex has been condemned to death, not only for the present treason but for his complicity with another, and his danger having aroused the full measure of her love for him she awaits the arrival of the ring by which his danger is to be escaped. Her pride will not allow her to pardon him without it, for its sending would imply submission as well as prove affection; but the ring comes not and she begins to fear that his pride is equal to her own. He may die even in defying her and thus involve her in a murder even blacker than that of Mary—the murder of the man she loves. Her struggles are at their height when the warrant is brought her to sign, and she—shrinking front it and turning to it as love and pride alternately* sway her--at length believing that at the approach of death, his courage must give way, and he will send the needed mission, signs the warrant with terrible fears, and again watches a nd asks eagerly if any message has come from the Towe r length Lady Howard flies into her presence. She has been entrusted with the ring but deprived of it by her husband, who is the enemy of Essex, and no sooner is this told, and the Queen with a s hriek of terror has ordered the execution to he stayed than a distant gun proclaims its work Essex has fallen, and she aghast at the measure of her guilt, waves every one away from her, and falls to the ground with a never-dying remorse, When the curtail rises again, Elizabeth, worn with years and suffer ing, for she is now on the verge of seventy, is seen to be trembling on the brick of the grave. All that sustains her is a will that has defeated every enemy, and seems strong enough at last to wrestle even with death. She had been prostrate for several days when she had heard that the Ccm• raons were discussing the question of her successor , and as this was an invasion of her prerogative , her strength had rallied for a last victory, and she had ordered herself to be carried in a litter to the house where she had once more subdued its haughty patriots to silence. She enters, leaning on the arm of Burleigh, elate with this achieve ment ; and, deceived by its excitement into the belief that it has endowed her with a new life, she orders a festivity at Windsor, and laughingly tells Burleigh he shall have the honour of her hand. She even goes so far as to com passionate her old Minister—to remind him of his infirmities, and beg him to be pru dent, When at length the dream dis solves—a pang seizes her, and she is warned that in a few hours she must be dust. She commands her court to leave her; and, stretched upon her couch, is forced to contemplate her fate. The thought of Essex has come back to wring from her a wail of mingled penitence and passion, and enforce her dying estimate of all her delusions and posses sions. She has outlived everything—youth, beauty, and personal homage—and now she finds herself alone with the spectres of Essex and Mar y . In her terrors sh e becomes senseless, but is restored to a last consciousness by the entrance of the young king. She bids him kneel, and crowns him. His dignity is proclaimed to the people beneath her window, and their hapPY shouts assail her ears just as her senses are depart ing. Love and vanity are gone, but pride is still unconquered. She rises with a wild effort—plucks the crown from the king's brow, and planting it on her own, falls back a monarch, even in death. Such, in as few words as we can describe it, i 8 the stirring action of this play ; and, if it possesses no other merit, it will be seen it is no narrow plat form for the powers of a great actresss. Here are character and incident worthy even of a Ristori, whatever may be the limitations imposed by the meagre writing. How she grasps them is a matter which it is not so easy to describe. That her Elizabeth, on the whole, must be regarded as her greatest triumph, we are entirely convinced ; but we arc aware this assertion conveys but a very vague idea of what this triumph really invoices. The Medea revealed to us her grace and passion, but we required the Elizabeth to shin us the sin g ular pl as ticity as well as vigour, w hi c h could pass in such quick successi on t o emot i ons t h e roost opposite, and by certain abiding qualities, forming the media of the transit, make tiaem as truthful as they are vivid —gay ono moment with the lightest vanity—flaming the next with the fiercest rage—trembling now with the tenderest feeling— maddened anon with the deepest hate. There Was no emeess in there transitions, her great art or sense of truth enabling her to grasp the central ideas of Queen and Lover, availed her easily to modify and harmonise their expressions. As a Pie" Euro of the agonies cif a proud but Pas" sionate heart, her struggles in the fourth act , whilst awaiting the ring from Essex, and yet compelled to sign the warrant, we have never seen excelled. And yet her fifth act was unquestionably the triumph of the night. The bent and withered being that then tottered in before us, fo fearfully contrasting with the regal bloom of her frst EtP" pearance—the strong will that even could control and keep death in abeyance, supplying to this shrivelled tenement a power almost superhu man a bearing still majestic, or, if failing, only broken by remorse, and not by time--- What a picture stood before us and yet, if possible, more marvellous, as it was un doubtedly more terrible—when, stretched upon her couch, she surveyed the approach of death, and teied to chase away its phantoms by lingering self deceptions—when hoping against hope her vanity revived, and, straining her fainting limbs to catch a last look at her g l as s, she gazed upon a faco scarcely less spectral than her faucies.—What a picture was again there, as truthful in its present ment as it was pro Found in its instruction. It is but a trifling note to wake that Maclaine Ristori throughout fhe play, as the Queen both in her bloom and her decrepitude, is perhaps the most strik ing stage resemblance that has been given in our time. Her praise is something higher. She is an embodi ment of the woman which either a painter or a poet could study with advantage. It is scarcely necessary to add that her performance raised the audience to the highest state of excitement,their applause throughout its course rising to an enthusiastic summons at the close of every act, which became, and very properly, a double one at the conclusion. Madame Ristori was ably supported by Signor Pezzaua, in the cha racter of Essex, whose indignant denunciations at the close of the third act were very deservedly ap plauded. Madlie. Glech, also, was very effective in i.he character of Lady Howard.