The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN KING'S FAUX PAS- The Bight Hon. Spencer Hoz atlo Wal,,ole, M.P.—The Swig of the Polish Scythe, &c. &c., in FUN THIS WEEK. One Penny. Y MARKET. riEAT.RE-F,' - 1 A HA Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 32d time, a new and ~r iginal comedy. entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angeh Followed by (12th time, a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Messrs Compton, W. Gurdon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Commence at 7. T" DUKE'S MOTTO. IILNDRaiI .1.:.1) THIRTY-FIFTH NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE,- Under the Sole Management of Mr. 'PECHTER. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Ortrin”.l sketch, entitled A SCiDDI N ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3lo2ue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. .1. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Broug , • am, H. iddi ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, E. `.avenue, and Elsworthy. Dcors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting:Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining. - THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Walter Montgomery; Mercutio, Mr. G. Vining; Friar Lawrence, Mr. H. Marston Apothecary, Mr. Belmore ; The Nurse, Mrs. H. Marston ; Juliet, Mdlle. Stella Colas. To lao preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. NEW TH E ATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-• Brie Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRI , II TIGER. After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN ; oR, T E GHOST'S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pe , per's adaptaVon of the Great spectral Illusion. Messrs. j. L. Toole, R. Phi lips, Stsart, Billington. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Allred Mellon and Miss 11. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, ent'fled ILL-TREATED IL TROvATORE. 3ff ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R Phillips, rithrirne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and 31iss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Messrs. Parsell, Belford, Turner, Mesdames Button, Hughes, and Thorne. After which. the Great Burlesque, ALI BABA ; OR, THE THIRTY-NINE THIEVES. Messrs. Honey, Turner, Danvers, Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Saunders, White, Button, ann Huothes. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. Mr. Honey and Miss Josephs. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN.' Containing the Latest SPORTLNG INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 24, 1863. TNEB.MOMETER. This morninc , This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.24. Wind—N.-E, ; moderate, and very fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. tins DA.7.—Morning, 711. Om—Afternoon, 7h. 25m, To-isoußaw.-Morning, 7h. 52m.—Afternoon, Bh. 20m, I,lb I-1 11,) SUIT, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1863. A change has at length come over the spirit of the dream of the French—Ministry. Not of the French EMPEROR. His Imperial Majesty remain ing, as ever, impassive and inscrutable. Through all the fluctuations of opinion, of administrators, of representatives—the Ruler of France continuing to the last profoundly silent and absolutely impel-. turbabie. The Cabinet at Paris, it appears, has at length been quietlybut comprehensively transformed' M. WALEWSKI disappears from the select group as Minister of State without Portfolio. His place at the council board in that capacity being occupied now by M. BILLAULT. Another, and a still more noticeable change in the Imperial Go vernment is—that particular one that almost every observer of late events has been confidently look ing forward to, ever since the Opposition candidates were returned en masse for the city of Paris at the late elections—that involved in the apparent dis appearance also from thepolitical scene of almost the foremost of the imperial administrators, or rather maladministrators, that is to say of M. DE PERSIGN Y ! The Ministry of the Interior having now, as the telegram of this afternoon informs us. been confided to M. BOUDET, instead of, as heretofore, to M. DE PERSIGNY. What may become of the latter remains doubtful. Rumour, meanwhile, however, ac cords to M. WALEWSKI a return to his old post of honour and trust, the Embassy to the Court of St. James's, in succession to the present ambassador the Baron GRos. No changes whatever are announced in regard to the Ministry either of Finance or of Foreign Affairs so that M. FOULD, we may presume, still retains the portfolio of the former, and M. DROUYN DE L'ITUYS of the latter, vitally important department, of the administration. Together, however, with the nomi nation of M. BILLAULT as Minister of State in lien of M. WALEWSKI, and with that of M. BOUDET as Minister of the Interior in place of M. DE PERSIGNY, we receive tidings, now, of other new appointments in regard to three other departments of Adminis• tration. M. BAROCHE being named Minister of Justice, M. DURNY Minister of Education, and M. BEHIC Minister of the triple department of Public Works, Commerce, and Agriculture. Supple mentary announcements appearing also as to the nomination of M. ROUSER as Ministerial Presi dent of the Council of State, and of the Duo DE MORNY as President of the Corps Legislatif. Altogether these last Ministerial changes at Paris imply much more than the shaking up into a new combination of the same vari ously coloured bits of glass in the Imperial kaleidoscope. It is a transformation far more than a mere transposition. The excellent Foreign Minister and the inestimable Finance Minister are still retained, :wisely enough, in the Imperial Go vernment. The Emperor still confides those all important departments of his Administration to the skill, re a p eet: weiy, of M. F OULD and M. DROUYN DE L'Huvs. But, other' Ise, the Cabinet is root and branch transformed. The sum when worked out, whether from faulty calculations, or from whatever other cause, it matters little enough, now, appeared to be yielding of late e very unsatisfactory quotient. The wet sponge has been applied. The tw o topfi.ures upon the slate have been alone l e f t untouched— others have been entered beneath, and a new and a be looked f or at the bands of happier reiult may that subtle political arithmetician, who combi nes in himself the readiness of the famous Calculating Boy with the impassability of BABBAGE'S Calculating Machine. It is significant in regard to the situa tion just now of the Polish Question, that while these Ministerial chango,s are transpiring at Paris, there is this talk of the ex-Minister of State, M. WALEWSKI (by birth a Pole, though by lifelong asso ciation a Frenchman) returning to London as, again, his Excellency the Ambassador. And more signifi cant still, in reference to the situation just now of the Mexican Question, to read the particulars given elsewhere, on this same page of our impression of this evening, of the remarkable interview which took place the other day between Mr. ROEBUCK and the Emperor NAPOLEON, in the Palace at Fon tainbleau. Remembering the scurrility of the remarks 'which not so very long since fell from the not over nice lips of Mr. ROEBUCK, in the British House of Commons, in reference personally (very personally) to the French EMPEROR, this courteous reception of His Imperial MAJESTY'S reviler by the Emperor NAPOLEON hi nself, is another and a very signal proof of his (the EMPEROR'S) dignified and truly wonderful magnanimity. The anticipated debate on Poland came to an abrupt termination on Monday evening by the un looked for interference of Mr. BEAUMONT, supported by Mr. KTNGLAKE and Lord ENFIELD. Whether or no the assertion that such interference was the result of private arrangement be correct, Mr. HENNESSY did not support his rights. Perhaps he thought, with the objectors, that the opportu nity was not a gocd one, that the discussion he lately wished to provoke might embarrass instead of furthering the cause he had at heart. Whatever the reason, he did not answer the objections raised by a few hon. members, but suffered the mo tion for the postponement of the orders of the day to proceed to a division, when it was negatived by a majority of 165 to 110. This result appeared to take the minority by surprise, for a considerable amount of indignation was expressed, a good share of it being directed against the imperturbable Premier. The onslaught, however, did not prove sufficient to ruffle the com posure or disturb the complacency of Lord PALMER STON. He declared that he had been taken com pletely by surprise (a rare occurrence!) and after indulging in a few aphorisms on the impossibility of Government's controlling the House or foreseeing the result of its decisions, he proceeded to console the friends of Poland for their disappointment by unfolding the contents of the diplomatic note of which we have heard so much. The substance of the propositions which, according to Lord PALMER STON, England, France, and Austria have united in recommending to Russia, include six points. These s ix points are veritably the six points of the Polish charter; but however desirable or even indispen sable they may be, we agree with the right hon. gentleman the member for Bucks that he must be a very sanguine politican who can suppose that they will be accepted by Russia. They are as follows A general and complete amnesty ; a national repre sentation ; the appointment of Poles exclusively to public offices ; full toleration of the national faith ; the employment of the Polish language in pub lic transactions; and a regular system of recruiting. As a necessary supplement, or rather preliminary to these propositions, it was further recommended that there should be a suspension of hostilities. The recommendations are fair and temperate, and if either Europe or Poland could put the slightest faith in Russian promises, there might be some hope of settlement. But, in the first place, it re mains to be seen whether Russia will give even nominal assent to these suggestions; secondly, whether the outraged Poles will be more disposed to ;;rust Cossack promises than they were to accept the lately proffered amnesty, which a long and bitter experience had taught them to suspect was but hiding the sword in olives. If these sugges tions were folly and fairly agreed to, and carried out in letter and spirit, they would doubtless open the way to a better state of things, though it might even then be questioned whether the strife were finally hushed. The partial nationality and inde pendence granted to the remnants of an ancient people might but serve to awaken in them more strongly the memories of the past and the hopes of the future. The truth probably lies in the em phatic words of Mr. DISRAELT—onIy two final solutions of the question are possible, and these are the unity of the Russian Government and indepen dence of Poland. The first of these possibilities means, of course, the complete subjection of Poland to her tyrants and the consequent annihilation of an old heroic race ; the other alternative no diplomatist could propose to the autocrat of the Russias. It is hard, therefore, to blame cur Government for the course they have pursued in what is undoubtedly a very difficult and delicate pcsiticn. If we cannot be too sanguine as to the results of their interfer ence, it is at least a satisfaction to know that three of the great Powers have united in condemning the barbarism of the Russian soldiery, and in de manding, on behalf of the Polish nation, the accor dance of those rights of national religion, national representation, and national language, which the ruthless Cossack has so long withheld from .the countrymen of KOSCIITSKO. Whatever be the conse quence, we can but wait and hope. It is impossible to decide upon the direction of our future course until we see the result of our present efforts. The possible complications of European politics which may arise from the present conjuncture are too grave for the oldest statesman to foresee the issues. But one thing is certain. If the tragedy of an earlier date be repeated, if the 'Western Powers contem plate with apathetic philosophy, the savage subju gaiion of a people struggling for the last remnants of its national existence, if diplomatic expediency induce them to listen with courteous acquiescence to the smooth professions of the Cabinet of the CzAR, and to turn a deaf ear to the despairing cry of Poland, a stain will rest on the civilisation of the nineteenth century, which no necessity can palliate and no repentance remove. On Monday a meeting was held by the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital for the purpose of deciding upon the desirability of removing the institution to a more healthy and suitable locality than it at present occupies, and also of considering the letter of Sir G. GREY which enclosed one from the Com missioners of Lunacy on the subject. Some satis factory solution may at last be come to, since it was resolved that the President, Treasurer, and five of the Governors of Bethlehem and St. Thomas's Hospitals should meet for a preliminary discussion. It is evident that all the excitement that has been created on this subject has produced some good effect, since the meeting was the largest that has been held for years. It was satisfactory that the meeting did not agree to the proposition of the Treasurer of Bethlehem Hospital, which was a most unsuitable one. He prefaced his motion by stating that he considered the "letter of the Commissioners of Lunacy was not consistent with the respect which the Governors had a right to expect from them." This sort of argument may suit the dignity of the parties concerned, but they seemed to forget that the Commissioners had a higher duty to per form than to conform to their fancies. It was incumbent upon them to protect the interests of the afflicted beings concerned in the affair, and such claims were paramount to all other considerations. Beside such vital questions, the objections urged were trivial and superficial. Mr. JOHNSON'S proposals were that the removal should be on a principle mutually advantageous to both hospitals, and that " the total east of the removal of that of Bethlehem should be borne by the governors of St. Thomas's." This was going back to the old argument which had y t which proved so fallacious, an d reiterating the a had b een refused, and the refusal request e l already bad threatened to break up the pl an altogether. He moved the adoption of the letter as the reply to the Home Secretary. Mr. HAMILTON showed much real discernment and discretion in his remarks. He contended that it was not advisable to come s o to a decision on so important a matter, and that ck t i hey were bound to pay respect to the letter from the Home Secitary, reiatiLg to the manage ment of this great hospital. He moved as an amendment that the Treasurer's letter, with the accompanying ones, be printed and circulated among the members, and an early day be appointed for their consideration. Alderman PHILLIPS truly declared that the question was one of money; the public press and the Commissioners in Lunacy had declared that Bethlehem Hospital wes unfit for the treatment of the insane. Alderman SIDNEY went still further, and declared that they must consider whether they were prepared to " wage a war of opinion with the public at large." He assured them that the Legislature had decided the question that country air and recreation were more instru mental towards the recovery of the insane, and pro phesied that Parliament would sanction by a large majority the removal of the Hospital to a distance from the metropolis. He concluded by giving the Governors this salutary advice that " they had now en opportunity, such as might never occur again, of doing a great public service in the interest of the sick poor and the insane of the metropolis, and he counselled them to avail themselves of it while the chance remained." This was true wisdom, and it is to be hoped that those referred to will avail them selves of the excellent advice offered in these forcible remarks. It is an opportunity that may not occur again of doing a great benefit to those who are afflicted in many ways, and who is har dened enough and presumptuous enough to say that he will undertake the responsibility of throw ing the chance away ? It is not often that such an opportunity occurs of bestowing benefits on the unfortunate as this proposal for removing the site of Bethlehem Hospital for that of St. Thomas's has offered. If it is lust or thrown aw ay, those who are responsible will not have an enviable position when they face the tribunal of public opinion. It is to be trusted that when the proposed meeting of the several Governors takes place that both sides will agree to meet half way, to sink personal feel ings and party prejudices, and to make the great object of their discussion the one absorbing object of interest. If they do so the result will be of incal culable advantage to all concerned, and if not the astute and intelligent observers among the pubic will see where the fault lies, and deduce their opinion accordingly. It is all very well for those concerned to argue like Mr. HARWOOD, that " if the Governors cf St. Thomas's bear them harmless in the matter of expense they should have their hospital," but what becomes of the duties of the Governors of Bethlehem. How can their funds be better laid out than in the arrangements and alterations which will so materially conduce to the benefit of those entrusted to their care. Why should others bear all the ex pense of a removal that will further so greatly the objects of their institution, and the purposes of their establishment. The medical staff of St. Thomas's Hospital have given their opinion in favour of two sites, which they consider of first-rate excellence— one the site now occupied by Bethlehem, the other the site at Standgate. Of the two the preference is given to Standgate, a circumstance which of itself is sufficient to urge upon those concerned the im portance of not throwing the chance away. While some have urged objections of one sort, and some another, a third party has appeared that may carry off the prize. At this meeting that is to be convened let not the statement of the medical staff of St. Thomas's Hospital be neglected ; let it be as the handwriting on the wall to warn them of dangers ahead, and let them speedily come to a mutual un• derstanding, or else some other plan may be adopted that will frustrate the endeavours of the well wishers of both sides, a - ad militate against the ad vantages that will accrue from the first pro posal of settling the question. If the origami plan of mutually benefitting the community by placing St. Thomas's Hospital on the site of Bethlehem, and removing that institution to a more suitable locality, be not carried out, blame will rest with those who interposed vexatious delays and made unsuitable demands. The issues of life and death, the decision for sense or sanity, rest not in mortal hands; but an awfal responsibi lity falls on those who take upon themselves the responsibility of checking the means devised for the most safe and speedy cure of such direful ailments, and who to their societies " give up what was meant for mankind." It is with great regret that the public will hear of another naval disaster, although in the present instance the results cannot, happily, be compared to the terrible tragedies which have so lately aroused all our sympathies. The Norwegian, sister ship to the unfortunate Anglo Saxon, left Liverpool for Montreal on the sth inst. She was a steamer of 1,800 tons, and belonged to the Ocean and Montreal Steam Company. She was lost, it appears, on the night of the 14th, on St. Paul's Island, in the St. Lawrence, having crossed the Atlantic in safety, to perish so near the end of her journey. The catastrophe is, however, divested of its terrors by the safety of the passengers, crew, and mails. We have no particulars of the wreck, and must therefore reserve judgment upon the ma nagement of those in authority, since we know not what unforeseen accident rendered their skill or knowledge fruitless. The noticeable part of the story is that it adds another to those wrecks of large vessels which have lately been of no rare occurrence, It is time that we should look into the causes of these disasters, and consider what can be the reason of their increasing frequency. With the present high state of workmanship, with all the advantages of applied scientific knowledge, how is it that shipwrecks of vessels such as these are not few and far between ? In most cases un fortunately, the disaster can be traced to some de degree of carelessness or foolhardiness. In one instance the absence of a proper fog signal led to the destruction of a noble vessel and consequent loss of life, but the rapidity with which the steamer advanced to her ruin no doubt heightened the disaster. Another time the captain, though an experienced commander, showed considerable want of prudence in attempting to cross a peculiarly dangerous bar without due precautions. Both these vessels might have been wrecked in any case, but it would be some consolation to the sufferers to know that human care and prudence had fully done their part. What has led to this fresh disaster it is impossible to say. The safety of the men and mails is probably due to the fact of its having taken place in the river instead of in the open ocean. Peesibly the proverbial reck- Aessness of American steamers had had something to do with it, by collision or otherwise. It is to be hoped that our countrymen do not mean to imitate that recklessness, and consider life and safety nothing in comparison to " going a-head," but it certainly appears as if the cardinal virtue of prudence were sometimes held to be more honoured iu the breach than the observance. While we are supporting charitable societies for the assistance of distressed mariners, and rejoicing over a life saved by the lifeboats on our coasts, hundreds of our countrymen and women go down in distant waters, thanks to the neglect of some precaution, or the rash desire to make a speedy voyage at all risks. We, cannot of course, com mand the winds and waters, nor can any human Prudence always avert such calamities, but it can do much to lessen the chance of their occurrence- Let us go back to the old times when safety was THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1863. the first thought on such voyages—neither fine sailing nor short voyages, bat the safety of the vessel and her freight. In the meantime we must be thankful that we have not now to deplore the loss of any human lives along with the good ship which has gone down in the mighty St. Lawrence. Casts of People Dead 1,800 Years Ago, NEWLY TAKEN FROM THE RUINS OF POMPEII. The correspondent of our chief morning contemporary has recently given the following graphic picture of the horrors of that fearful 24th of August, seventeen hundred and forty years ago, when a fearful eruption swallowed up Herculaneum and Pompeii, the latter within 16 years of its rebuilding—" There are now boulevards around Pompeii, and a road is being made for the carts to convey rubbish in the direction of the amphitheatre. From the top of those boulevards the visitor has a view of the whole city, and can form a tolerably correct idea of the interior of the houses uncovered. Excavations are now going on on two eminences near the Temple of Isis, and the house called Abondonza. Our inspection was closely confined to the former site, where in a house situated in a narrow street recently opened, we saw several bodies, or rather forms of bodies, which now attract universal attention. The unfortunate inhabitants of this house fell, not on the bare ground, but on heaps of pumice stones, and were covered to a great depth by torrents of ashes and scoria, under which they have lain for nearly 2,000 years. One day, inside a house, amid fallen roofs and ashes, the outline of a human body was perceived, and M. Fiorelli, the chief of the works for excavation, soon ascertained that there was a hollow under the surface. He accordingly made a small hole through its covering, and filled it up with liquid plaster of Paris, as if it were a mould. The result was that he obtained a complete plaster statue of a Romanlady of the first century of the Christian era. Close by were found the remains of a man, another woman, and a girl, with 91 pieces of silver money; four earrings and a finger-ring, all gold; two iron keys, and evident remains of a linen bag or purse. The whole of those bodies have been carefully moulded in plaster. The first body dis covered was a woman lying on her right side, with her limbs contracted, as if she had died in convulsions. The form of the head-dress and the hair are quite distinct. On the bone of the little finger were two silver rings; and with this body were the remains of the purse above men tioned with the money and keys, The girl was found in an adjoining room, and the plaster mould taken of the cavity clearly shows the tissue of her dress. By her side lay an elderly woman, who had an iron ring on her little finger. The last personage I shall describe was a tall, well-made man, lying full length. The plas ter distinctly shows his form, the folds of his gar ment, his torn sandals, his beard and hair. I contemplated these human forms with an interest which defies expres sion. It is evident that all these unfortunates had made great efforts to escape destruction. The man appears to have perished in a vain attempt to rescue the terrified women, who thought they could be nowhere so safe as in their own home, and hoped that the fiery tempest would soon cease. From the money and keys found with the body of the first woman, she was probably the mistress of the house and the mother o f the girl. The slender bones of her arms and legs and the richness of her head dress seemed to indicate a woman of noble race. From the manner in which her hands were clenched she evidently died in great pain. The girl does not appear to have suffered much. From the appearance of the plaster mould it would seem that she fell from terror as she was running with her skirts pulled over her head. The other woman, from the largeness of her ear, which is well shown by the plaster, and the iron ring on her finger, evi dently belonged to a lower class, and was probably a ser vant of the family. The man appears to have been struck by lightning, for his straightened limbs show no signs of a death-struggle. It is impossible to imagine a more affecting scene than the one suggested by these silent figures; nor have I ever heard of a drama so heart-rending as the story of this family of the last days of Pompeii." THE EXHIBITION BUILDING. Mr. Hunt's report, explanatory of the estimate of the cost of completing the Exhibition building at Kensington gore, has just been published. It is dated 19th June, 1863, and gives a general outline of the nature of the works com prised in his estimates and specifications. After mention ing the substantiality of the picture gallery, and the plan to make it fire-proof by Fox and Barrett's principle, he states : "The remainder of the buildings are partly permanent and partly temporary in their construction. The iron columns and girders and the iron trusses of the roofs will remain permanently, with some adjustments and modifica tions. The timbers of the roofs, as well as the skylights, are, with the exception of the roofs over the nave and transepts, of a temporary character, and it is proposed to remove them, substituting new timbers with a cover ing of slate of marine metal The skylights will be entirely new, and the glass in them will be of the quality known as the 21-ounce sheet. The roofs over the nave and transept will be slated. All the gutters throughout will be lined with lead ; and the skylights, frames, /Ages, and hips will be covered with lead. The joists and floorboards of the galleries will be removed, and substantial new floors will be substituted. The whole of the ground floors throughout the entire building will be removed. A layer of concrete 12 inches thick will then be laid over the whole surface, and a new floor constructed with new materials. The joists will be of the best fir timber; the sleepers will be of oak, on pioper brick walls, built on the concrete platform before de scribed, and the floor boards will be 1 inch thick, planed, and put together with iron tongues. All the ceilings throughout, except the nave and transept, will be plastered, as will also all the brick walls within the building. A com plete system of drainage:was constructed when the buildings were erected. They will, however, require to be repaired, and in parts relaid. "With regard to the den es it is proposed to build piers of brickwork, upon solid concrete foundations, and to con struct brick arches, springing from these piers. The lower portion of the domes will then be filled in with brickwork, oovered externally with lead, and the upper portion will be glazed with thick glass. '1 he interior parts of the brick work, including the piers and arches, will be plastered. It is not proposed to remove the ironwork, but to build it in with the brickwork." Regarding the exterior of the building on its three sides, he proposes that the existing outlines should be preserved, with such an amount of decoration introduced as may be consistent with the purposes to which the building is to be applied. The material to be employed to be Portland cement. These, he says, are the most important works, but there are others of a minor description, the cost of all which, however, is covered by his estimate, and he has a confident belief that the estimate for the warming and ven tilating apparatus, which is only approximate, will not be exceeded. Mr, Roebuck's Interview with the Emperor. The Paris correspondent of the Times writes : " Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Roebuck came over to Paris on Monday morning. They proceeded forthwith to Fontainbleau. Mr. Lindsay asked for an audience for himself and Mr. Roebuck. It was instantly granted, and both gentlemen were received by his Majesty most graciously. The conversation lasted some time, and the Emperor declared in the most formal manner that he entertained the same views as before with respect to the civil war in America; that he was desirous again to inter pose his good offices, and equally desirous that England should join him ; that he believed the joint intervention of France and England would be attended with good results; and that, in again pro posing to England to act with him, he was moved by no unfriendly feeling towards the North—quite the contrary. His only motive was to put a stop to the horrible carnage in America, the more so as it was productive of no results; and the more to be deplored as there was no chance of restoring the Union. " A statement made many months ago to the effect that the Emperor had proposed to England to join him in mediation between the belligerents was con tradicted, and, if I am not mistaken, in Parliament. I may now mention that the Emperor, in his con versation with the two gentlemen yesterday, com pletely corroborated that statement. He declared that he did propo_e mediation at the time specified; and, perhaps, I am not going too far in saying that Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Roebuck have authority for declaring in Parliament that what was then stated, respecting the offer of mediation, was perfectly correct, and that be felt much regret it was not acted upon. Such is, I have reason to believe, the substance of the conversation that took place yes terday at Fontainbleau." THE MARRIAGE OF THE Due DE CIIARTRES.— The annexed letter, in reply to an address of con gratulation, to her Majesty Queen Marie Amelie, from the inhabitants of Esher, on the occasion of the marriage of her grandchildren, the Dec de Chartres and the Princess Fran coise d'Orleans, has b een rece i ved:— " Edinburgh, June 15, 1853.—Sir,—Words can hardly express deep emotions. Let me nevertheless send you these few lines of broken English, and try to tell you the gratitude of my wife and myself for the kind feeling evinced in so many ways by the inhabitants of Esher on the occasion of our marriage. The citizens of a free countrywill never understand what exile is, You cannot, therefore, know how truly such demonstrations of cordial regards have g . no io our hearts. I beg you will accept for yourself and those around you th i s impression of our grati tude, and believe me, sir, ever truly yours, ROBERT D'OELEAIsTS, Duc de Chartres,—To W. G. Brett, Esq., Sandown-house, Esher," LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY. PARIS, JUNE 24. M. Billault has been appointed Minister of State in place of M. Waleswki, whose resignation has been accepted by the Emperor. The decree nomi nating M. Billault to this post places among his functions those exercised by the Ministers without Portfolio. Part of the functions appertaining to the Ministry of State are transferred to the Ministry of the Emperor's Household, and acother part to the Ministry of Education. Public Worship is assigned to the Ministry of Justice. The direction of the Monzteur will enter among the duties of the Minister of the Interior. The following are the remaining appointments which have been made:— M Baroche....Minister of Justice. M. Boudet ....Minister of the Interior. M. Durny Minister of Education. M. Behic Minister of Agriculture, Commerce. and Public Works. M. Rouher ....Minister President of the Counc of State. M. De Morny..President of the Corps Legislatif. The Moniteur of this morning says:— " The Plebiscite of 1852 establishing that the Ministers were responsible to the Emperor alone, had the object of terminating those parliamentary rivalries and ambitions which were the constant causes of agitatiQn and weakuess for past govern ments. " Without lessening the strength and liberty of action necessary to his power, the Emperor, was desirous of giving to the great bodits of the State a more direct participation in the general policy of his government. " This decree, however, did not modify the fun damental principles of the Plebiscite of 1852, which a fresh Plebiscite could alon3 change. " The ample and complete discussion of public affairs was the motive for the creation of Ministers without portfolio, having in the matters under de bate no personal part. " The Emperor by the decree of to-day substi tutes a Minister, entrusted with the mission of representing the relations of the Government with the great bodies of State, with the object of more solidly organising the representation of the govern mental idea before.the Chambers, without departing from the spirit of the Constitution. " The Minister of State who is freed from admi nistrative functions, and the Minister President of the Council of State, with the assistance of tho members of this Council, are henceforth deputed to explain and defend questions placed before the Senate and Corps Legislatif. The bulleti❑ of the illoniteur of today quotes the following from the Independance Beige:— " Although the details of the award pronounced by the King of the Belgians on the 20th inst., in reference to the Anglo-Brazilian difficulty are not yet known, it is believed that the principal question has been decided in favour of the Brazilian Government. "It is said that his Majesty decided that not withstanding certain irregularites on the part of the Brazilian authorities—which he points out and censures—the treatment of which the English officers complained did not constitute an insult to the British Navy. A Paris letter, in the France Centrale, contains the following -- "For a long time past the Empress has enter tained the idea of going to Jerusalem. That excur sion is now decided on, and will take place towards the end of the autumn. The Empress will be ac companied by three of her ladies of honour, the Countesses de Rayneval, de Lourmel, and de la Poeze. Her Majesty, it is said, will take with hfr a supply of objects for presents valued at 2,000,000 fr." BOURSE, June 23.—The market has been firm, with a slight improvement on the quotations, Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f. 65c. Little doing in Railway Shares. The market closed as follows: It per Cents .. 97 10 Do : end month.... Italian Loan 73 15 Do. end month 7d New ditto 74 Do. end month 74 5 Russian Austrian Spanith Threes 53 Home Debt 3 per Cents - 6 B 6B 40 Do. end month.... 68 60 Creditblobilier...:l26i Do, end nw0rah....1205 Bank Shares 3490 Credit Foncier ....1290 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 997 50 .. 996 2:5 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1030 .. 1030 Geneva 455 .. 457 50 Southern 722 50 .. 725 Western - Eastern .. .. Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 721 25 .. 722 50 Ditto to Barcelona WAR PREPARATIONS IN RUSSIA. The movements of troops in Russia are daily be coming more important. This is especially the case in the government of St. Petersburg, which is in cessantly traversed by trcope on their way to the Baltic provinces and to the western part of the empire. The Russian army in Poland is raised to 150,000 regular soldiers, and is daily augmented. The greatest activity prevails in the fortresses, the arsenals, and the depots. All the Baltic forts are armed and placed in a state of defence. Cronstadt and the naval dockyards present a very animated spectacle. The officers and soldiers on leave are rejoining their respective regiments. The city of St. Petersburg is surrounded with a cordon tali taire ; the examinations of the passports of the per sons arriving is very scrupulous, and the luggage of persons leaving is subjected to a severe examina tion, as the export of lead, sulphur, and scythes is absolutely forbidden. The engineer had decided some time ago to raze the fortifications of Narwa, and the works had already commenced, but on the Bth the order arrived to stop the demolition, and to rebuild what had been destroyed. It has been ob served for some time that the insurgents frequently attack the Russians in the neighbourhood of rail way lines, and that they impede communication upon the line from Berlin to St. Petersburg, espe cially upon the section between Kowno and Wilna, WRECK OF THE CANADIAN STEAMER NORWEGIAN. —lntelligence was received at Liverpool yesterday that a serious disaster had befallen another of the line of steamers belonging to the Montreal and Ocean Steamship Company. On the morning of the 14th inst., the Norwe gian, screw steamer, 1,800 tons, bound from Liverpool to Montreal, ran on shore at St. Paul's, Newfoundland, in a fog. The Jura, which brings the information, reports that when off Cape Race she was boarded by the crew of the news boat, who communicated the loss of the vessel, stating that the mails, passengers, and crew, were all saved. Hopes were entertained of getting the vessel off. The opinion at Liverpool, however, amongst those who know the nature of the coast, which only too recently proved so disastrous to the Anglo-Saxon, was that the salvage of the ship is very doubtful. _ Advices from Prague, in the Wanderer of Vienna, state that Madlle. Ponstowmtoff has disappeared from that town. She had asked for a passport to go to Vienna, but when it was brought she had left the hotel where she was staying. A friend of Langiewicz has arrived in Vienna to solicit permission for the ex. Dictator to go to a watering place in Bohemia, but the request has not been granted. Twelve colliers in one of the pits on the Wear had a narrow eecape from a horrible death last week. Whilst they were descending the shaft in the iron cage, the crank-pin of the engine broke, and the cage was thus released from all controlling influence. Fortunately, it was only a short distance from the bottom, and the men were much shaken, but not injured. • (din al •A : Cralbro HER MAJESTY WINDSOR. CASTLE, June 23. The Queen, accompanied by the Queen of Prussia. their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena ana Prince Leopold, drove out in a carriage srd four yesterday afternoon, attended by Lieut. Colonel Hon. D. De Ros on horseback. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess. Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Countess of Gainsborough has succeeded the Countess of flesart as Lady in Waiting, The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of `Ya tes rode on horse bqck yesterday morning, attended by Lieut. Colonel Keppel. His Royal Highness the Duke de Montpensier visited their Royai Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. The Prince and Princess of Wales took a drive in an open carriage in the afternoon. The Prince of Wales, attended by the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, the Hon. Robert Meade, and Lieut. Colonel Keppel, visited the Royal Institu tion, Albemarle-street, last evening. The Queen of Prussia. The Queen of Prussia, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, waked through some of the principal streets of Windsor on Monday last, and afterwards proceeded on Foot to Eton College, unrecognised by the public. Yesterday the Queen of Prussia attended morn ing service in St. George's Chapel, occupying the Royal closet. The service v, as intoned by the Rev. Henry Butterfield, and the lessons for the day were read by the Rev. Frederick Anson, canon in resi deuce. The anthem was " Sleepers awake." Hem Majesty was attended by t►.e ladies and gentle men of her suite, and by the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, wife of the Dean of Windsor. Mier the service the Queen inspected the chapel and monuments of in terest in the chapel. Mr. Wise was in attendance. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner pariy last evening at her Royal High ness's residence at St. James's Palace. There were present among the guests, Baron Bentinck, Count Vitzhun, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl St. Germans, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Wilton, Count Wimpffen, Viscount Canterbury, Lord and Lady Rokeby, Lord and Lady Forester, Lord and Lady Ebury, Lord and Lady Foley, Lady Marian Alford, &c. The Duke of Marlborough, as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, left town yesterday to be present at the great volunteer review. The Duchess of Grafton is still in Paris, and it is stated that the health of her grace is improved. The duke is daily expected home from Paris. The Duke of Buccleuch left town last evening for Edinburgh, to take command of the Queen's Light Infantry Militia Regiment, of which his grace is colonel, The Duchess of Buccleuch will remain in town. The Earl and Countess of Ayleaford have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Packington Hall, Coventry. Lady Otho Fitzgerald bad an assembly last even ing at her ladyship's residence on Carlton-house-terrace. A large party were present. Ouorato Caetant Prince di Tune, and the Mar quis Francesco Nobili Vitetteschi, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Rome. Sir Henry and Lady de Hoginton, Bart., have left 2tiaurigy's Hotel for NV alton.on-Thames. The marriage of Mr. Welby, M.P., with the Hon. Victoria Stuart-Wortley, is fixed to take place on Saturday, July 4. Mr. Jaa.es Robert Walker, M.P. for Beverley, was married yesterday to Miss Louisa Marlborough Heron, third daughter of Sir John Heron Maxwell, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. Queen Maria Theresa of Naples has arrived at Vienna, and was received at the railway station by nearly all the Imperial family. THE GRAND CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.—The committee of management met yesterday, at the offices 01 the National Conservative Registration Association, for the allotment of places at the banquet next Friday. In conse quence of the large attendance it was resolved that tht noblemen and gentlemen attending the banquet should bring their servants with them. POOR LAW IN QUIRY.—• , /sr Monday an officiw Poor-law investigation took place in the board room of Marylebone Workhouse, before Mr. li. B. Cane, assistant poor-law commissioner, as to curtain charges preferred by Viscount B.aynhatn, M.P., against Mr. G. E. Douglas, the master, and the porter of that esta blishment, and as to the administration of relief to the casual poor. Viscount Rayaham and nearly the whole of the board of directors and guardians were present, whilst Mr. Lewis attended professionally on behalf of the master. The inquiry was a protracted one, and at the close the in spector said he would report the evidence to the Poor-law Board. RUSSIA AND THE POLISH QUESTION.—Accord ing to the Presse of Vienna, the Russian Govern ment has decided upon the policy it intends to adopt on the Polish question, Prince GOrtschakoft is said to have de clared he is quite willing to discuss the Austrian proposi tions, with which, from the publicity given to them, he is already familiar. He altogether rejects, however, the idea of a conference properly so called, aid proposes in its stead mere diplomatic negotiations to take place at St. Peters burg between the Russian Cabinet and the representatives of the three great Powers. "To accept, while the question is pending, a conference held in Paris, London, or Vienna," Prince Gortschakoff is reported to have sad, "would be to recognise aforeign tribunal for a home question. The Polish insurrection is a domestic qu stion, to be settled between Russia and its Polish subjects; and Russia, as an indepen dent power, could never recognise foreign intervention on that question without abandoning her sovereign rights." The Vienna journal stat, s that Prince Gortschakoff gave expression to these views a fews days since in a confidential interview with an ambassador. BUDGET OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The Governor of South Australia has presented to the House of Assembly the estimates of revenue and expenditure for that colony for the year ending the 30th of June, 1861. The estimated revenue of all sources except sale of land is £165,135, while an additional sum of £145,000 is estimated as the produce of land sales in the year. This latter sum is divisible into two parts, of which one• third goes towards immigration, and two-thirds to public works. The depart mental expenditure is on a higher scale than in some of the other Australian colonies. Chief clerks in the various offices appear to receive £4OO a-year, and £l2O is the lowest salary granted to a clerk. Constables are paid 7s. a day, office messengers Bs. a day for 313 days in the year. The sheriff is also returning officer, and has no under sheriff; his salary is £5OO a-year. One hundred convicts are esti mated to cost £3,745 for supervision and maintenance, and their labour is supposed to produce £1,500 of that amount, The letter carriers have 7s. 6d. a day and their uniform. Their are two inspectors of schools at £450 and £350, with forage allowance; and the amount voted in aid of school masterst stipends is £12,000. The destitute poor are under departmental care, end they are estimated to cost £5,091, The Government printing office costs £1,355. The eccle • siastical vote is centered in one chaplain at £3OO, and a re ligious instructor to convicts at £l5O, State aid otherwise being unknown in South Australia. The Volunteer force costs £7,142, and her Majesty's troops in the colony receive £1,139 as colonial pay. Under the head of law officers ap pears a Parliamentary draughtsman at £5OO, in addition to the Attorney General and Crown Solicitor. The colony has three judges and an insolvency commissioner. The Lands Titles Departments costs South Australia £6,489 a year. The Customs, estimated at £200,000, are collected at an expense of 16,585. The Marine Boards are Govern ment departments, costing with the lighthouses £lO,BOl, while the revenue derivable from them is £4,250 The total receipts to meet this expenditure of £465,578 are £465,1:15, and £145,000 from laud sales,which will leave the Treasury for the financial year the sum of £89,963 to pay interest and capital on the bonded debt for public works, amounting to £867,500, and still leave a considerable balance in the Treasury. A MILITARY OFFICER HORSEWHIPPED AT THE NEW CLUB.—Within the last few weeks a scandal, involving the character of a military officer of rank in this city, and that of a young unmarried lady of lYghly respect able connections, has been matter of public comment. It appears that the wife of the military officer concerned was suspicious as to her husband's fidelity as to herself and conduct towards the young lady in question ; and that a watch having been set, certain proofs were obtainea. The matter, however, did riot rest here. The brother-in-law of the young lady, who holds an official position in the Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, having got possession of a letter in which certain arrangements were proposed in the event of the officer being divorced from his present wife, came in contact with him in the New Club on Saturday last, and on his acknowledging the authenticity of the document, produced a horsewhip, and sounC.ly casti gated him. The matter has come to the ears of the Com mander-in-Chief of the Forces for Scotland ; and it is s uc whentn rumoured that yesterday morning, the horsewhipped- o ffi cer was placed u n d e r arrest.—Caledohutn. Mercury. Blood,oth a Waggish Beefeater, ou ( h aven'toi i g " off" with the R e galia—" Y as a Crown about you ?"—Fun, LITERATURE. Chesterford and Some of Its People. By the Author of " A Bld Beginning." Thireo Vols. Smith and Elder. Mr. John Parkholm, a barrister by profcssion, but possessed of a small independence, who has reached the shady side of thirty, with a strong pre' judice in favour of bachelorhood, accepts an invitail lion to visit Mr. Rivers, the rector of Chesterford. To that delightful little town we also repair, not in Mr. Parkho;re's company, but in the society of Miss Harriet Thompson, the apparently cold and scheming daughter of a would• be first-rate fashion able mamma. Ash Cottage is our destination, the happy home of the very charming, but somewhat espiegle and capricious, Katharine Lyndon and her very delightful mother. Miss Harriet 'Thompson, anxious to meet with some saper-excellent parti, and looking down upon her country cousin, K.athe rice, with supreme contempt, discovers, after a very short residence at Chesterford, that she, the cold and calculating Harriet, has lost her heart to one far below her ambitious expectations, and that the fortunate possessor of this treasure does not covet the honour thrust upon him, but is desperately in love with her despised cousin, the insignificant Katherine. The sequel to such cross purposes we shall not reveal. Some portions of the denouement are very tenderly and beautifully described, espe cially the scene where Katherine goes to the par sonage and meets her lover, towards the close of the story. But we cannot refrain from uttering a passing protest against the pas sionate vehemence displayed by Harriet Thompson. The emotions of any one of ordinarily calm and col lected exterior are, generally speaking, when allowed to break forth more violent and irrepres sible than all others—the very force of the previous restraint gives added violence to the outpouring, but we do not thick, even with these allowances, that the conduct of Harriet is true tonature. It is, altogether, too unwomanly. Apart from this blemish the diff'erent characters of the two cousins are well contrasted and welt developed as the mighty passion affects the hearts and influences the actions of each. Katherine is far from perfect. Her archness and playfulness almost amount, in appearance at least, to coquetry and caprice, at all events they pass for such in the severe eyes of the immaculate Mrs. riaompson and her equally censorious daughter, the jealous Harriet. Interwoven with Katherine's story is the very interesting and melancholy episode of the loves of Ned Alston, a fine, high-spirited, generous-hearted, young farmer of the neighbour hood, and Polly Peacock, the pretty daughter of The Pompous Grocer of Chesterford, High-street. This Titus Peacock is quite a character, and is in deed overwhelming. We must confess that, unless, like Mies Bobble, we expressly went "forth to battle," we should ourselves prefer passing on the other side of the High-street. Even bene volent Severn Sparke, the chemist, the next-door neighbour of the dreadful Peacock would not at tract us to the vicinity of that shop. Very high are Mr. Peacock's ideas of the privileges of trade. Let a customer presume to purchase a single article elsewhere, and never more may they darken Mr. Peacock's door. Never more will their money be taken across his counter; never more may their palates be feasted with the best bacon and butter of all Chesterford. Poor Mrs. Draper, who has unwit tingly erred, is nearly annihilated by the magnifi cent wrath of the offended grocer. Polly Pea cock, the golden-haired daughter of this imperious potentate, is the beauty of the town, but is, alas! also vain, aspiring, and coquet tish. Possessing the questionable advantages of a genteel breeding, school education—a little French, and a little pianoforte playing—the grocer's daugh ter aspires to be a lady, and listens to the compli ments of the flippant Mrs. Charles Chatterley, even while her heart responds to honest Ned Alston's true affection. The end of Polly's story is more praiseworthy than at the commencement, and that end is very naturally and forcibly told. Many a home lesson is eloquently enforced by this essentially dramatic novel. The married history of Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlayne is a study worthy of ataentive observation by many mistaken wives and fo rgett ul mothers. We quote from another chapter tae following beautiful and truthful remarks on THE USE OF SUNSHINE. "'There are some people (why is it ? I do not know that they are better than others—not so really good and self denying perhaps as some whose Crave faces and stiff man ners make them unwelcome visitants in a sick chamber) who literally bear sunshine about with them ; they are human sunbeams; in their pre , •ence the whole being ex panda, the heart opens itself like a flower unfolding its petals in the warm noon glow. We have no fear of a check of a cloud-like frown, of a gloomy shower or nipping frost. We seem to dispel ourselves in free, perfect happiness, with these bright beings in the atmosphere that surrounds them. If it is a part of our duty here to make each other's exist ence happier—and surely it is—we might find this a far easier task, if, when we are not naturally gifted with their sunshine, for it is more a natural gift than an acquired one, we thought more about our atmosphere and its social influ ence." Advice, this, which many of those " good and disa greeable" people with whom the world ever abounds would do well to take to heart ! From our own experience of Chesterford Society, we can cordially advise our readers to follow our example and make speedy acquaintance with Chesterford and its People. Songs of Evening. By Cecilia Elizabeth Meet kerke. 12m0., pp. 132. L. Booth. Altering but a very little the famous depreciatory compliment addressed to Pope shortly after the publication of his Homer, we may say to our thoress,and quite as truthfully—Very pretty verse, indeed, but not poetry. Fortunately there is not over much of it, even such as it is, as the mere number of the pages (given above) will testify. There are barely fitty pieces, in all, making up the little volume, and those most of them of the shortest. The titles of some among these, moreover, will sufficiently indicate their generic character. " Resignation " is one, " Absence" another, a third is " Betrayed," a fourth "Penitence." From the which headings it will not be difficult to see that that generic character before alluded to is unmistakeably, and strictly, and most drearily of the school of Namby Pamby. We read on, trying to be pleased, but, for all that, fail, to the very last, to be so. Stanford's Map of the Nile Outfall. True to time, Mr. Stanford, of Charing-cross, has just now issued a capital coloured map of the route explored by those adventurous discoverers of the Source of the Nile, Captain Speke and Captain Grant; It defines, with admirable exactitude, the trak followed by these travellers between Zanzibar and Egypt. It shows at a glance the relative positions of the outfall of the Nile from Lake Victoria Nyanza, as well as of the various negro territories traversed by the discoverers. THE lONIAN ISLANDS.—It will have been per ceived, in a telegram which we published yester day, that the Lord High Commissioner has personally . an nounced to the lonians the proposal of Great Britain for their annexation to Greece. This formality is an e ssential preliminary; but it must not be confounded with the an nexation itself—an act which must emanate from, and be determined by, the population of the Seven Islands. W e have already said that the next step is the dissolution of the present lonian Parliament, and after this must follow a •certain interval before the next Parliament can be sum • mooed. The question of the annexation wiil then be dis cussed in the new lonian Parliament.—. Post. MURDER, IN DUNDEE.—On Sunday morning, about tour o'clock, tome of the residents in Gibb's Land, Small's-wynd, Dundee, were alarmed by William 5 Grant, a clerk in the employment of Mr. Alexander Stephen , s hipbuilder, Dundee, k noc ki ng at their door an d i n f o rming them that his wife was lyi ng d ea d i n t h e h ous e. On proceeding with him she was found lying on her back ceross the threshold of the bedroom door, s tiff and stark, and on a post mor t enz examination it was found that she had been most foully murdered, every rib in It r body being broken, and her lungs and bowels much contused. Th e unfortunate woman had been, it is • said, a confirmed d run k ard for some years, and her husband was raidered miserable by h er . O n Saturday evening Grant himself arrived home the worse of liquor, and about 7 o'clock the neighbours heard a loud noise in the house, and It is supposed that at that time the murder was committed: Mrs. Grant, according to the neighbours' statement, was sober when last seen ou Saturday night. Her husband, who has hitherto borne a very respectable character, was apprehended on the charge of wilful murder.—Dundee Advertiser.