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THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.- Me BATTERSEA ESTATE, No. 2, Plough-lane, Surrey.—Battersea is 44 miles from the General Post office. The Plougu. lane Estate is in the vicinity of the picturesque park. Pion4ll-lane a continuation of the Battersea-park N ew-ro id and the York-road. Plans on ap plication to the offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C. Prospectuses free of charge as to the share, deposit, land, and borrowing departments. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo.yining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forre.ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL doIe Proprietor and Manseer, Mr. R. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. 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Top 225. „ I De,p Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De. pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and e 7, south Wharf Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Cok" Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, e4u be had Every Evening of G. R. GLINIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATES r EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening*, by ILESRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 6, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 79 Barometer-30.03. WIND —S.W. ; moderate breeze and fine, HIGI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tai DAY.—Morning, 4h. 15n.—Afternoon, 4h. 32m. ro-scositow.-Morning, 4h. 50m.—Afternoon, sh. sm. . - ?tt it • 9-410 - Y*o UIT LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1864. Mr. KNIGHTLEY, the other day, at Towcester, just hit it—when he virtually defined Lord PALMER. STON'S popularity as very much indeed the result of an extraordinary run of luck. It was hardly cour teous, perhaps, to say as much as the hon. member did say upon the matter in the presence and hear ing of the noble lord himself; But—regarded at its worst—Mr. KNIGHTLEY'S explanation of that same perennialphenomenon, Lord PALMERSTON'S Popu larity—amounted, after all, to no more than one of those left-handed compliments called among our neighbours a gaucherie. It was meant, of course, by the hon. member, when so speaking, purely and simply, as a bit of fun poked across the dessert table beside which he was speaking, and before 'which t;As veteran Premier was seated, quietly ob servant and listening—a hit of fun poked by Mr. KNIORTLEY at Lord PALMERSTON. Bat, for all that, as it seems to us, it was so very near, indeed, to the truth that it amounted to nothing less than Es gaucherie. For these bantering remarks uttered by the co un t y member at a sort of careless slapdash —lust as he himself, as a thoroughgoing foxhunter, might fly across country in the whirl of one of the best runs of the season—all these helter skelter observations of a laumorou,3 character uttered by Mr. KNIGIITLEY, the other day, at Towcester, 'wer e a s outspok en as good plain truths, could well b e I They were to the effect among other things—That scmcho a- or another the public appeared to draw a certain mystical line of demar kation between the noble Premier end his colleagues in the Ad ministration ! That becan. , 3 of this--when ever the adrninistrasive kettle cf fish was nc4 to the popular liking, the fault of its being 50 Was cep , r by any chance set down to the chef, but to one of the scullions I That—if the little g arne of Minis. ters might be defined as having recently been some thing very much like a game of 6inektN,rthing --whenever in this little game it chanced to come up h ea d s, that went to the credit of the Prime Minister—whenever tails, that on th e contrary went to the dis-credit of the noble viscount's; colleagues in the Government. According to Mr. KNIGHTLEY'S whimsical way of putting it, the public at largo seemegA to be always bent upon giving Lord PALMERSTON all the half pence, and his unfortunate colleagues all the kicks. Never, in truth—there can be little doubt of this at least in the matter—never, in simplest truth, has England had installed in power such a happy-go-lucky Prime Minister as Lord PALMERSTON. What would be death, political death, to another, is simply fun to him. If his Mi nistry fails utterly, egregiously, notoriously, say in ita projects of reform, or say again and yet again in its diplomatic negotiations—What's the odds (say a good many of the people out of doors and the majority of the Commons in- doors)—What's the odds so long as he (Lord PALMERSTON) is happy ? Re prehend Lord RUSSELL if you like, bat—Lord PAL. MERSTON ! Three cheers—for him! Any number of groans you please for his colleagues, but three times three cheers for Lord PALMERSTON ! The Veteran Premier's still vital Popularity outweighing, in fact, the whole notorious unpopularity of all his colleagues put together. Insomuch that—failure, bungling, meddling and muddling, bounce and meanness to the contrary notwithstanding—it has been deliberately decided that Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues sh all hold office untrammelled and untroubled for a good half year to come—all this, purely and solely, thanks;to Lord PALMERSTON'S run of luck. Yet, while the veteran Premier is going just now the round of the provinces, receiv ing ovation after ovation—once in a way, there does become audible through the popular acclamations, certain sinister mutterings, as it were, as of the voice of a coming NEMESIS ! Instance this—the Resolutions passed on Monday evening by four hundred of the working men of Bradford, in the Temperance-hall of that town.. Elsewhere, in our impression of this evening, those same most significant Resolutions may be turned to—and they are worth turning to—and examining very carefully—by reason of their significance! As the autumn advances, the prospects of the harvest become the first consideration, and agricul tural meetings rise into some importance. At this time of the year we generally hear a good deal of eloquence on rural subjects, since we have already entered upon those ideas which noble lords and honourable gentlemen usually devote to the con ciliation and instruction of their constituents and county neighbours. The speech of Lord JOHN MANNERS at Market Harborough, on Wednesday, was something more than a mere routine address, since it contained a very im portant and practical suggestion. The meeting over which the noble lord presided was the annual assembly of the Leicestershire and Waltham Agricultural Society, and was very largely attended. The show was above the average, and of course re ceived the usual compliments from the chairman, who proceeded to remark that the agriculturists had not had much to complain of during the last year except the very low price of wheat. Farmers are proverbial for grumbling, and consequently do not generally obtain much pity, and certainly they are not likely to get much sympathy in a trouble which is of so profitable a nature to other classes of the community. Lord JOHN MANNERS, however, took advantage of the circumstance to suggest to his audience whether it would not be wise for the future to depend less exclusively on wheat. He was not long in showing them where such a crop could be found, and pointed oat how manufacturing and agricultural interests were both concerned in the cultivation of flax. The state of the cotton market daring the last few years has naturally given rise to a considerable increase in the demand for wool and flax. No Leicestershire farmer, remarked Lord JOHN MANNERS, need be reminded of the increased profit he has been receiving on his wool. But flax has been little heeded,and the cultivation languishes, although there is no reason to doubt that it would thrive in this country, and although the demand for it is constantly on the increase. An official report has lately been issued on this subject, and the gentleman who drew it up expresses a hope that for the future every English farmer will grow at least five acres of flax. We can hardly expect so rapid an extension of the cultivation ; but the facts brought forward by the noble lord at the Leicestershire meeting are not easily to be set aside. In the first place, with regard to the demand, it appears from the Government report that there is a great demand for flax linen goods not only in the United Kingdom, but throughout 'Europe. "At the present moment the flax manufacturers in France are working day and night; the Irish linen manu facturers are crying out for more flax; upwards of 250,000 new spindles for flax machinery have been ordered at Leeds and Bradford during the last few months ; and there is amongst those who are con versant with the subject an apprehension of a flax famine." So that there is, at all events, no ground to fear that the demand is likely to decrease, and since it is by no means confined to one locality it does not follow that even the complete resuscitation of the cotton trade would altogether supersede it. So far as the present supply is concerned more than one half of the raw material consumed in the United Kingdom comes from abroad, and that half repre■ seats no less than six millions of money which might, as Lord JOHN MANNERS very justly said, be better employed in encouraging the industry of our own people. The farmers of Ireland, stimulated to increased exertion by the increased demand, have within the last year added 61,000 acres to those already under flax cultivation. And supposing the demand to go on even in a moderate proportion, the stimulus thus given to Irish industry will be great. It is by opening up profitable channels for labour at home that we shall best check that excessive tide of emigration which is gradually depopulating the sister country, and vie wed in this aspect the flax cultivation assumes the highest importance. With regard to the pro fit the statistics leave nothing to be desired. Mr. CIIORLEY, a practical farmer, who has for many ye ars been trying the experiment (in England), has p z,blished the results, and states that the lowest ci.ear profit was £3 per acre, the highest £l5 10s., a ad the mean profit £9, so that there is, according t) this gent!eman's practical experience, no reason ti) doubt that the cultivation of flax would prove a 3 efficiently remunerative experiment to justify its b eing made on a considerable scale. As we have s aid, the experiment is one which ,unites the two i nterests not usually supposed to be harmonious, and vhile the agrioulturist finds his reward in a profit ,. ble Employment of his land the manufacturer will r o lonpr b© restrictel in his operations for lack o f the raw material. But, in fact, much of that o:d ntagonism has died out. It was impossible for b oth town and country not to perceive that their i; iterests were really identical when increased k r.:owledge and general cultivation cleared away sc ru Le obsDlete prejudices. Both are alike interested in the material welfare of the country, and while Liv.: 3 most ingenious and enterprising manufacturer cvol:id assuredly come to a standstill without the ?hysit:al support supplied by the former, the latter ra his tin n would soon feel the difference were he t o he deprived of the thousand comforts and even esvaries of civilised life provided for him by the M ufacturer. " I believe," said Lord JOHN MA,24 NERS, in concluding his very sensible and pra (t ta ical address, " that there is not at the present moDvi n t a manufacturing township in the north in which the transcendant importance of a good har vest and of agricultural improvement is not fully and cheerfully recognised.' It is well for all that the agriculturists themselves are fully sensible of the value of progress, and, although much remains to be done, we may well feel gratified at the results which have been attained within the last few years. Lord STANLEY'S remarks on commercial affairs the other day at Liverpool are well worthy of at tention, since his observations include a wide range of topics, which are of paramount interest and grave importance. Oa India, in especial, he is an excellent authority, and it has been a matter of deep regret to those who studied the affairs of that country that he was removed from a position which he occupied with so much credit to himself and so much benefit to others. The disappointment was enhanced tenfold by the circumstance of his suc cessor being in every way so incompetent and un fitted for the onerous task assigned to him, Still, though no longer in a responsible place, Lord STANLEY has not ceased to occupy himself with all that relates to the welfare and interest of our Eastern possessions, and he speaks on such sub jects with a readiness and completeness that pro claim his competence to form an opinion. The question of the Customs duties was considered, because in the report a mention had been made con cerning them, and regret expressed that an increase had taken place in them. Lord STANLEY remarked that it was a difficult thing to decide upon ; but his explanations as to the advisability of continuing them for_the present seem unanswerable. It is always very easy to find fault with any impost, and to animadvert upon its unequal pressure and its injurious effects, but it is by no means so easy to say what will be a better impost, or even to suggest a practical substitution for the burden complained of. Those who are so eager to put a Period to these taxes, do not seem to reflect that something of the sort must be put in force for the purpose Pf maintaining the government of the place and supporting the revenue. As Lord STAN. LEY truly observed " The millennium of no custom houses, and 20 per cent. off the property tax, was so distant as not to be with i n the reach of political prophecy," It is as well now azd then to contem• plate the full scope of the demands and desires of would-be reformers and political economists, be cause we can thus better estimate the improbability of their schemes coming to pass, and the impracti cability of many of their projects which at first sight seemed feasible enough. Lord STANLEY ex plained that one objection 'against the imposition of these Customs duties was, that they gave more protection to the native than to the English manu facturer. This, though true in theory, is not exactly so in practice; becauss the greater advantages which we possess, both in capital and skilled labour, do away with the chief impediments in the way of competition. His lordship declared it to be his opinion that, prior to the abolition of these duties, something should be done to remove the Indian income tax. This notion is shared by a good many competent to form an opinion on the subject. When this tax was first introduced, it was said that it was only imposed for a short time, and though it is true that the same was ori ginally declared at the re-introduction in this coun try of the Income Tax, still it must be borne in mind that it is very dangerous to make such experiments in India as may be done here in all confidence and security. It would be very unpropitious to do such a thing as disappoint the expectations of those who are looking forward with eagerness to the cessation of an inconvenient and irksome tax, and certainly, from every point of view this subject has prior claims on our reg.rd, and ought most assuredly to receive due attention in the proper quarter, when ever the fitting time shall come for its consideration. The difficulty of dealing with the native merchants and traders is very great, and that is another in. ducement which may be added to those which urge its cessation, no less for convenience than for prudence. Lord STANLEY exactly explained the hearings of the question when he informed his hearers that these matters of discussion really de pended upon the maintenance of peace. This is, indeed, the secret of success, and unless this deside ratum be achieved, it is vain to expect any advan tages to accrue, and idle to speculate upon the pro priety and expediency of this or that change taking place. Lord STANLEY approves of the proposal for reforming the courts of justice at Rangoon, and with the extended views of one who looks beyond the material demands of the immediate present, he declares that he believes it to be a country for which there is a very great future, and further added that he "had long looked further to the time when all that large territory, lying east of Calcutta, should be constituted into a more independent Go vernment, and separate Lieutenant-Governor." There is no doubt that if such a change were to be effected the best results would follow, and many non-disaffected and querulously-inclined would be come more amenable to authority, and more in clined to take a happier view of their position. Too much cannot be done to conciliate and encourage the inhabitants of a land who are often placed in trying circumstances ; and it is certain that the more elevated the aims, and the more extended the objects of the rulers, the more successful will be their policy and the more beneficial its results. Ships of War Building for the Royal Navy. There are at the present titn - e 36 vessels under construc tion at the various royal and private dockyards for the British navy, many of which are in a very forward state for launching. They consist of 4 iron screw-ships, 2 iron cased screw-ships, 1 screw iron corvette, 1 double-screw iron gun-boat, 1 double-screw iron and wood gun-boat, 6 screw frigates, 3 screw ships, 2 screw corvettes, 4 screw sloops, 1 /addle despatch vessel, 5 screw gun vessels, and 6 screw gun-boats. The names of these ships, together with the number of guns, horse-power, and tonnage, and the place where building are as follow : • IRON SIRE 11 Ships, Guns, H.-p. Tons. Port. Agincourt Bellerophon 14 .. 4,246 Chatham, Lord Clyde 24 1,000 .. 4,067 .. Pembroke. Northumberland 26 ..1,350 .. 6,621 .. htilißall. IRON CASED SCREW-SHIPS. Lord Warden,. 21 ..1,000 4,067 .. Chatham. Royal Alfred ~ 35 .. 800 .. 4,045 .. Portsmouth. IRON SCREW. CORVETTE. Pallas DOUBLE-SCREW IRON GUN•EOAT. Viper . 2 .. 167 .. 737 .. Poplar. ruE4 SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, At - GUST 6, 1864. LATEST INTELLIGENCE DIMMER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN. The royal mail steamship Australasian, from New York, on the 27th ult., Errived at Queensto wn at 9 a.m. to-day. She brings 54 passengers, and 111,608 dole. in specie. She landed 119 sacks of mails and 11 passengers, aad proceeded at 9.15 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, AUG. 24 (Morning). A desperate engagement as fought at Atlanta on the 22d inst. The result was indecisive. The Confederates lost 7,000, and the Federals 2,000 men. The railroad communication between Atlanta and Montgomery has been destroyed. Gen. Sherman maintained a position to the left of the city within a portion of the fortification. General Hunter's forces have been defeated, and compelled to retreat to Harper's Ferry. A fresh invasion of Maryland is expected. Gold, 2561; exchange on London, 28 ; money easy. Nothing doing in United States Sixes. Cotton dull, and unchanged, Breadstuffs generally steady. NEW YORK, JULY 26 (Evening). In the engagement on the 22d inst. General Sherman repulsed all the Confederate attacks; General Macpherson was killed. On the following day both belligerents buried 'their dead under a flag of truce. General Rousseau is said to have occupied Monte gommery. Alabama, and cut all the railroads lead ing to Atlanta from the west and south west. The roads east of Atlanta are destroyed. Early defeated a portion of Hunter's troops, com manded by Crook and Avenel, on the 23d and 24th, near Winchester. The Federals retreated to Harper's Ferry. The Confederates have occupied Martinsburg and commenced destroying the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Preparations are being made to resist any further Confederate invasion in Maryland. Avail!, Kelley, and Mulligan are rumoured to have been killed. Smith's expedition has returned to Memphis for supplies, after defeating Forrest in five engage- ments. The situation before Petersburg is unchanged. Grant has appointed Ord to the command of the 18th Army Corps, and Birney to the 10th Army Corps. Secretary Fessenden has appealed to the people for subscriptions to a loan of 200,000,000 dols., seven three-tenths Treasury notes, redeemable in three years, and with interest payable in currency. The notes are to be convertible at maturity into bonds, bearing interest payable in gold. The Belgian, Marathon, Scotia, and Borussia have arrived out. DARTMOUTH, AUG. 6. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert arrived off here this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and party came into the harbour and rowed round the training ship Britannia. The yacht then left for the eastward. FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 6. Advicee received here from Lisbon state that yesterday being the anniversary of the establish ment of the constitution, the King received the municipal authorities. His Majesty said that he would always maintain those institutions which contribute to the prosperity of his people. The Constitutionne/ of to-day, in an article cor recting the journals which accuse the French Go vernment of having allowed an opportunity for territorial aggrandisement to pass by, says;— " The only thing true is, that England, with the object of preserving the possessions of Kittg Chris tian would willingly have passed from diplomatic action to military action. But in a war with Ger many France would have had to bear the full brunt and expense, England would have swept the sea, capturing the vessels belonging to the belligerents, and taking a glorious part, almost costless and con venient," The Constitutionnel, in conclusion, declares that France never had the promise nor the prospect of territorial aggrandisement. " England offered no thing—France asked for nothing. Neither Earl Clarendon during his journey to Paris, nor the Bri tish Cabinet in its diplomatic despatches ever hint ed at France taking the Rhine frontier." BOURSE, August s. —The market has been firm, but the announcement of a further decline in Con sols has had a depressing effect. Threes, for the Account, opened at 66f 40c, and are now 66f 35c. Mobilier have been done at 995 f and 997 f 50c. Railway shares rather heavy, but the fluctuations in prices are trifling, The market closed as fellows : 4i per Cents .. 94 60 Italian L0an...... 68 20 Do. end month.... Do. end month.... 68 3 per Cents 55 75 Do. end month 66 30 New Mexican .... Credit Mobilier 998 75 Russian .... Do. end month.... 998 75 Austrian ........ Bank Shares - 48 3400 Credit Fowler 1 2 30 Rome Debt ...... Spanish Threes.... Roman ------ -- - 7 6 I Deferred ........ RAIL WAYS. Cash. Acco unt. 881 25 .. 881 25 980 •• 985 900 .. 907 50 Orleans 3 ... a: . ••• Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto -- • . 642 50 ••• Southern ........ 640 -- Western .•• • • --. 615 -- •• 490 Eastern ..........487 60 .. — Sardinian 347 50 • • 346 25 418 75 Austrian Low lard - .. 533 75 North of Spain - .. 442 50 Saragossa• ....... 610 50 .. 512 50 Ditto to ilareelona .... 245 -- • • '245 INDIA, Grey shirt ing s an d muleetAwLisettjimT (By Tel egrap h from Suez.) JULY 16. CHINA, AND AUST RALIA, p f r A o ' ving ; cotton quiet. Exchange on London, 2s, Id. ; Government securities, 4 per cent. 951, 5 per cent. 1041, 51 per cent. 113,1 ; freights improving. BOUBAY, JULY 15. Cotton, Oomrawuttec, 665 rupees. Exchange on London, 2s. ld. ; Government securities, 4 per cent. 95, 5 per cent. 105, 6!- per cent. 115; freight dull and declining. CANTON, JUNE 30. The markets here as Well as at Shanghai are unchanged. MELBOURNE, JUNE 26, The gold whipped since the departure of the last mail amounts to 637,750 ouncl.:s. Trade is un altered. SOU rHAMPTON, AUG. 6. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Delhi, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 107 passengers, including Sir Robert Schomburgh, Her Majesty's Consul at Siam ; also £1,106 in specie, 643 packages of silk, and 194 packages of general merchandize• The British schooner Edwards, from Maz3gan, had arrived at Gibraltar with 187 passengers. Several Hebrew families emigrating from Bar bary to Palestine were taken on to Alexandria by the steamer Arasces. At Gibraltar, exchange on London, 90 days', was quoted 507, ; on Paris, sf. 3 0c,; 01404, 51. 31c. Freights increased. DOUBLE-SCREW IRON AND WOOD GUNBOAT. Vixen 754 .. Deptford. SCREW SHIES, CORVETTES, FRIGATES, &C. Amazon . 4 .. 300 .. 1,081 .. Pembroke. Belvidera .. 39 .. 600 3,027 .. Chatham. Bittern 4 .. 150 .. 669 .. Devonport. Bruiser 2 .. 60 270 .. Portsmouth. Bulwark Cherub 2 .. 60 .. 236 .. Portsmouth. Cromer 2 .. 60 .. 236 .. Portsmouth. Dartmouth Dryad . 39 .. 600 3,027 .. Portsmouth. Endymiou 22 500 .. 2,478 .. Deptford. Harlequin 200 .. 950 Portsmouth. Helicon .. 1 .. 250 .. 835 Portsmouth. Ister Monai . 22 400 .. 1,857 .. Chatham. Minstrel Myrmidon 4 ~ 200 €95 .. Chatham. Nassau Net.ley 2 60 .. 233 Portsmouth. Newport North Star 22 400 .. 1,857 Sheerness. Orwell . Reindeer ..... 6 200 .. 950 Chatham. Repulse . Bl .. 800 .. 3,716 Woolwich. R0bu5t,....,, Bl .. 800 .. 3,716 Devonport. Syevia Tartarus Tweed 39 .. 600 .. 3,027 .. Pembroke. The London and North Western Directors will probably recommend a dividend for the past halt•year at the rate of £5 15s per cent per aUnum. Lord Palmerston and the Working Men of Bradford. Some 400 working men of Bradford assembled in the Temperance Hall of the town on Monday evening, " for the purpose of reviewing Lord Palmerston's representative policy, of considering in what manner the unenfranchised working classes of this great manufacturing community ought to receive him on his approaching visit, and to deter mine what steps should .be taken by them to undeceive him as to the supposed apathy and carelessness of the people on the important question of Parliamentary reform." After some discussion, and the proposal of an amendment which fell through,:the following resolutions were carried : " That this meeting believes that Lord Palmerston, although formally pledged to a considerable extension of the frahchise, not only at Willis's-rooms in London, in the spring of 1850, but on other occasions, in the House of Commons has, nevertheless, been the greatest obstruction to every means of reform, no matter by whom introduced. "That this meeting—although told that Lo rd Palmerston has no direct political object in view in his forthcoming visit to lay the foundation stone of the New Exchange— denies that he can, on such an occasion as that even, divest himself of his political character and influence ; and there fcro we, the working men of Bradford, deem it a most fitting and legitimate opportunity for exhibiting to his lordship our disapprobation and disappointment at his breaking faith with the people in not fulfilling those pledges, and protesting against his assumption that they are apa thetic and careless about reform, and content with the ex travagance at home, and jealousies abroad, promoted by his lordship's policy, " That we, the unonfranchisea mon of Bradford, as a method of showing our disapprobation of such political im morality and injustice, do hereby pledge ourselves, on the occasion of his lordship's visit, to observe a dignified but significant abstinence from all enthusiastic cheering. " That an address, couched in a respectful but firm tone, embodying the spirit of the foregoing resolutions, be pre sented to Lord Palmerston; and that tie address now read he presented." Mr RosE, the gentleman who proposed the amendment for the rejection of the address mentioned in the last reso lution, gave his reasons for adopting that course. He said it was of no use being troubled so much about the errors and shortcomings of the past. The proper way would be to take care to retrieve the errors of the past at the hust. jugs. Working men ought not to look so much to Lord Palmerston or to any Prime Minister, but they ought to look to a better Parliament. Their redress could only be obtained from a better House of Commons than they had at the present time. They must send to the House of Commons men who would not betray their trust as many had done. (Hear, hear.) THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE CMTRUE,— The Church of England has had to endure many humiliations of late, and the last and not the least is the speech of the Lord Chancellor on the "Synodical Con demnation" of the "Essays and Reviews." It must have been galling enough to Convocation to know that it was impotent to give effect to its declared views; but to be told that, while they were powerless to punish, they had them selves run the risk of punishment—to be reminded of the disagreeable fact that " the statutes have carefully said that if Convocation shall attempt to pass any sentence, any ordinance, or any constitution without the pre vious licence and authority of the Crown, they shall incur the penalties of a pramunire" —to be further reminded, in a strain or malicious wag gery, what those awful penalties are, and to be told that the prelates have escaped them only because " what is called a synodical judgment is simply a series of well lubti cated terms—a sentence so oily and so saponaceous that no one could grasp it. Like an eel it slips through your fingers—it is simply nothing, and it is literally no sentence at all "—all this must be as gravel to the teeth of any Churchman with a grain of self-respect. That the episcopal bench should have been thus mhde sport of in the House of Lords, and that no lay peer should have come to the rescue, indicates clearly enough that the Church has lost mach of the political influence which it formerly possessed. The contempt of politicians will be even mere dangerous than the assaults of " Liberators."—Liberator. OUR MINERAL WEALTH.--Through the courtesy of our esteemed correspondent, Mr Robert Hunt, F.R.S., the Keeper of Alining Records at the Royal School of Mines, we have been favoured with the statistics of our mineral production for 1863, which will be issued to the public in a week or ten days from this time. The value of the minerals produced was £29,151,976, from which metals of the value of £36,364,327 were extracted. Of gold quartz we produced 385 tons, worth X 1,550 ; of tin ore, 15,157 tons worth £963,935 ; of copper ore, 212,947 tons, worth £'.,100,652; of lead ore, 91,283 tons, worth £1,193,530; of silver ore, 118 tons, worth £5,703 ; and nine ore, 12,941 tons, worth £29,963. During the year in question there were sold 95,376 tons of pyrites, for £62,035 ; and the rarer mi nerals—wolfram, uranium, gossans, arsenic, and earthy minerals—raised were of the value of £1,930,866. These items, with the value of 9,101,552 tons of ore, £3,240,890, and 86,292,21 b tons of coal, 2.),572,645, raises the total to £29,151,976 which was manufactured into nearly £10,000,000 worth of merchantable produce, To produce these results direct employment has been given to at least 500,000 men, so that our mineral industries may be considered as alone supporting a population of nearly 3,000,000, in addition to adding much to the general wealth of the kingdom, and especially to the wealth of those whose capital has been employed in mining operations.—Xliting Journal. RECLAMATION OF THE WASH.—An important meeting of the 'magistrates of the counties of Nor folk and Lincolnshire was held at the Globe Hotel, King's Lynn, yesterday, for the purpose of defining the boundaries of the counties of Norfolk and Lincolnshire in the l arge tract of land called Wingland. It appeared that the re claimed land proposed to be divided consisted of about 5,000 acres actually brought under cultivation, and above 1,000 acres as yet only partiall3 reclaimed. This work of reclama- tion is part of the original scheme of making a new county, Nhicla was to be called Victoria county, and the district which now presents the aspect of highly-cultivated and richly productive fields, was but a few years ago a dreary waste of alluvial mud, ov'r which each tide passed, but the immediate rause of the reclamation has been the ope ration of the New Outfall Act. The magistrates having agreed to the boundary line, which gives nearly an equal amount to either county, gave directions fof the line to be marked out. This is to be dont, by stone posts or landmarks. It should be mentioned that this is but one portion of a very large tract of land that is being, through engineering skill, taken from what has been known as the Wash, but which would seem to have been ages back dry land, as the immense submarine forest stretching cross the mouth of the Wash off Hunstanton indicates. Alan/ thousands of acres have also been already reclaimed through the operations of the Norfolk Estuary scheme. A SUBMARINE FLEET.—The Ironmonger and Metal Trades Advertiser, in speaking of the trade of Birmingham, has the following statement :—" The Messrs Russell are now engaged in the manufacture of an extensive and very novel order for the Russian Government. A. fleet of war vessels to sail under the surface are now being constructed in Russia. To afford some idea of the magni tude of the Russian enterprise, it may be stated that the cost of the tubes alone for a single vessel of this submarine fleet will be nearly £9,000. It will contain no less than 38 lengths of wrought iron tubes of 60 feet each, having a 13. inch bore, and a thickness of of an inch. The specifies tions demand that they shall be capable of bearing a pres sure ot 2,000 lb. to the square inch, and Messrs. Russell test every tube up to 2,5001 b. The submarine boat which these tubes are destined for is of such dimensions that it is estimated.that 200 tons of iron and steel will be used in its construction. The cost will, it is calculated, reach 275,000 silver rubles, or £27,000, and the expediture of this amount has been authorised by the Emperor, Each vessel is to have engines worked by compressed air, and to have a very strong break, with provisions for attaching large cylinders charged with powder to the bottom of vessels, to be fired by electri city. The parties navigating the vessel will see what they are doing by means of bulls' eyes,' and they will be able to regulate the depth at which they swim, generally keep ing quite close to the surface." ARGYLL, MONTROSE, AND THE HOUSE OP AIRLIE.—At the dinner of the Highland and Agri cultural Society of Scotland, on Tuesday, the Duke of Argyll, the chairman, proposed the health of the Duke of Montrose, who presided at the other end of (he hall. He said—l cannot help remembering that my noble friend and my ancestors have not always lived in such perfect har mony together, and I have discovered by mere accident within the last few days that the ancestors of my noble friend and my own encestors were connected some 200 years ago more nearly than I any notion of in what may be called agricultural pursuits. 7 dare say you may all know that in the good bravo days of old we in the Highlands had a peculiar method of improving our stock of cattle. It re • ceived a very ugly name, but it really was a very useful and profitable business—it was cattle lifting. Now, gentle men, it; does so happen that I have seen en original letter of the Marefeis of Argyll directing a famous raid into some country neighbenring to his own for this purpose, and it ran somewhat i n thi s f as hi on , a dd resse d to one of his vas sals of that time. The letter began—" D,ugal, you will go with so many hundred men into the country ot ray Lord Ogilvy, and will lift his cattle, and you will drive them to the Straan Mohr." Now, very few of you have seen the Straan Mohr, but I can tell you it is a narrow glen, into which if cattle are once driven it is very difficult to get them out. The letter proceeds thus And ye will go forward to the hoose of my Lord Ogilvy, and ye will de stroy the said hoese, and ye will pull doen the yetts and the , windows, and gin it be langsome ye will fire the hoosadei, ~ Now, gentlemen, this is the history of a famo us which is the subject of a song well known to many 0., raid, which —" The Burning of the Bonny House of Airlie. ' Now, what I was about to tell you is this, that discoveredl' within the last few days, by mere accident, tha the cele brated raid into the country of the Earls of Airlie, then Lords Ogilvie, which was one of the great formed pact against the Marquis of Argyll, and I supposed m of the accusation on which he lost his head, was a raid actively supported and befriended by the greilt MarclUi§ of Montrose. The Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Rolt, M. P„ on the Late Vote of No Confidence, At the annual dinner of the Gloucestershire So ciety, which was held on Thursday night at the White Lion Hotel, Bristol, the Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Rolt, M.P. for West Gloucestershire, seized the opportunity of coming out strongly against the Government. The Duke of BEAUFORT, in returning thanks for the manner in which his name had been received, said that was a very ancient society, and he was sorry it was not more supported by the landed pro prietors of that cone ty. (Cheers.) One thing had militated against it, and that was it was hardly un derstood whether it was a political society or whether it was not a political society. It was este. blished, decidedly, as a political society, originating in a number of gentlemen who wished to bring about the restoration of the king; and for many years, until it was thought fit, in the wisdom of Parliament, to do away with the colours, it was a true blue society. (Cheers,) He did not know how it had gone on of late years, but charity had always gone hand in hand with true blue politics; and he might say in the city of Bristol that the yellow had also done much, perhaps as much as the others. (Cheers.) However, theirs had always been a true blue society. (Cheers.) That was the first opportu nity, as their high steward, he had had of coming into the city of Bristol since very important politi cal events had taken place, and he might therefore be pardoned for saying a few words upon the state of affairs at present. There was hardly a man in that room but read the Times, and that paper had represented the position of the Conservative party at this time in the most unfair manner. (Cheers,) He would make a broad assertion that whatever the limee sought to prove, it did not hesitate to lie to prove. (Loud cheers.) A great deal of abuse had been lavished upon the Conservatives of both Houses of Parliament for their conduct during the present session, and they were told that, having done nothing until the last moment almost of the Conference held in London, they came forward, and without proposing a policy of their own, tried to displace her Majesty's Government. He would tell them what the real truth of the mat ter was. (Cheers.) When, in the beginning of the spring —they might also say the end of the winter —the allied armies of Germany invaded the then possessions of the King of Denmark, their friends in both Houses of Parliament were prepared to take the sense of the house and the sense of the country upon the conduct of the Foreign Minister. But it was said to them, " You must not say a word ; ne gotiations are going on, and if you say anything you will upset all the negotiations." The hands of the leaders of their party were tied; but he thought if they had been in office the hands of the Whigs would not have been tied—(cries of " Shame")—but for the sake of upsetting their party, they (the Whigs) would, without hesitation, have ,pat em barrassing questions, and made motions in both Honees of Parliament. (Hear.) But the Conservative leaders in both Houses of Parliament declined to put the present Government in that embarrassing position. A few private individuals got up and asked questions, but they were always put down with the same answer. (Laughter.) Matters went on till the middle of summer, and then came the Conference, and almost every day some one asked, " What is going on in the Conference ?" but the answer was, "We do not know anything." The foreign news papers had the details first, but her Majesty's Ministers could not tell anything. (A laugh.) It was thought proper to show the feelings of the Conser vative party as to the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers. If the Foreign Minister had said at once to Denmark " You must take your own line; we wish you success; that is all the good we can do for yon ; we cannot fight for you ; we cannot say that 40,000 men shall be landed in the Baltic if the Prussians cross the Schlei"—that would have been what they ought to have done. — (Cheers.) Bue Lord Russell contented him self with checking both parties--(hear and laugh ter)—and they treated him with contempt. Whenit came to the end of the Conference their (the Con. liervative) party were obliged to take the sense of the country and both houses as to the conduct of Lord Russell; but it was useless their going and enuncia ting a policy, and saying, "We will help Denmark with material aid; we will send a fleet and an army, if we come into power." It was useless their saying that because the war would be over before they could come into office. (Hear, hear.) It was evi dent to thinking men that before the Ccnservatives could take office the whole mutter would be over. It was not as if the Prussians had taken the Danne werke and the island of Alsen, and passed the Schlei. (Hear, hear.) After those events the war was really over, What they read in the limes was not all gospel truth. They had not a majority in the House of Commons in consequence of the defection of some of their people—in consequence of various combina tions. Until there was a general election there was no chance of their having a majority. Now, for the last two or three years, three out of four vacancies had been filled by Conservatives. Even that very day the city of Exeter had returned another Con servative. (Hear, hear, and load cheers.) And though one was sorry to see the manner in which every bishopric and lord-lieutenancy, every office of state, was filled by the present Uovernment, if per sons would stick together the great Conservative party must come into power. Having said that much he must et the same time make one observation— though he was an uncompromising Conservative— (hear, hear)—yet many of his most intimate friends with whom he associated were men on entirely the opposite side of politics. He thought his sentiments were as exactly as possible the sentiments of the Gloucestershire Society. (Cheers.) Though he was an uncompromising Conservative—by which he meant that if his brother was a candidate for a seat, and he was of the opposite politics, he (his grace) would vote against him if he had a vote—he did not allow private friendship to be interfered with by his political sentiments. (Cheers.) It would afford him great pleasure to take the chair at their next yearly meeting ; and before he sat down hew po o r ul sp d e p r r i o ty po t s o e to them the toast of the evening —,, , that ancient and very excellent society. The healths of the members for the county having been drunk, Mr. J. BOLT, Q,C,, responded, and said that they had not done much in Parliament that session, and it was wise that the institutions of the country should be interfered with as little as possible. They had not meddled much that year—(laughter) — they had passed some measures of minor import ance. With regard to the question of Denmark, the hon. member said that he had looked through all the papers on the subject up to Easter, and any thing more humiliating than the disclosures re specting this country could not be imagined. Our boasting braggadocio, leaving Denmark at the last alone was one of the most humiliating things this country had suffered. (Hear, hear.) SOUTHERN NOTIONS OF THE NORTH,--The pri. sonars taken by us (the Federals) in the late ad vance upon Baltimore look healthy, arc well clothed, and say that they have had plenty to eat for the last year. They seem to be in good spirits, and confident of final success, and were a good deal interested to know if Old Abe or Fre mcnt was to be the next President. They have a very poor opinion of Grant as a military commander, but entertain considerable respect for Meade and Hancock. If it had not been for those two Generals they are confident that they would have demolished Grant's army before he crossed the James River. They represent the slaughter of Grant's forces at Spottsylvania and the Wilderness as being most dreadful, and say that he time and again threw large masses of men against works that were almost impreg nable, and only desisted when remonstrated with by his subordinate offic rs. They seem to entertain considera ble respect for the Western troops, but declare that the regiments fzom tho New England States and the large cities will not fight when they have the slightest show for running.—. New York IVoral. THE POISONING OF SEAMEN.—Another telegram from Spain, which has arrived in Sunderland, an nounces that the cook of the ship Ouse, who was charged with wilfully causing the death of three of the crew of that vessel by putting poison into their rations, has been ac quitted by the authorities of San Roque, as the men had been accidentally poisoned. The message did not mention how the poison got into their food, but there is no doubt that very bad meat is often put on board ship in the northern ports for the use of the crew. The inspector of meat at Sunderland has recently died at that place, of fever, pro duced by the effluvium from casks of provisions which he seized before they could be got on board a vessel, E7,P5754,7i!,, ~,,, CDllll . ' ' . ki* S 4 t 1 ark 1 14 4- - HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, Aug• 5. Her Arajesty ana her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold yesterd a Y laid the first stone of the Roytil Albert Infirmary at Bishop's Waltham. His Royal Highness crossed to Southampton la the Fairy, accompanied by Prince Louis of HeEt3el and attended by Lieutenant General the Hon. C. Grey and Mr. Buff. Captain von Westerweller was in attendance on Prince Louis. Earl Granville also accompanied the Princes. Their Royal Highnesses were received at t he Bishop's Waltham Station by the chairman, the provisional committee, the treasurer, en d the ba' secretary of the Royal Albert Infirmary, tbe . stewards of th e F est i va l C omm i ttee, the Bishop of the Diocese, the D ean o f Wi nc h ester , the Rector of t Bishop's Waltham, and the Mayors of Winchester, Portsmouth, and Southampton, and passed directly to the place appointed for the laying of the founda tion-stene. _ After the ceremony the Princes drove to the C lBl , Works, and then ce th roug h t h e town to 'the te n t erected in the ground s o f th e ru i ne d palace of t he Bishop of Winchester, where luncheon was pe e " pared for 500 persons. After luncheon their Royal Highnesses returned by special train to Southampton. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Louis of Hesse, and Pr ince William of Prussia embarked in the Elfin, and were present at Cowes regatta. Prince Leopold and Prince Louis of Ile s° al6a went on board th e Elfi n on the i r ret urn fro m Bishop's Waltham. The ladies and gentlemen in attendance Were,. the Hon M rs Stonor, Baroness Dobeneck,Ba rones' G re y s de Grancey, Li eutenant G eneral the H on . C. G i Lieutenant Colo ne l D u Pl at, M a j or T ees dale, cap von Westerweller, and Mr. Buff. The Duke Duke and Duchess of Northumberland iry tend to remain at Sion House, Isleworth, till the 29th ins is t ; and then go to Al nw i c k C astle, Northumber l an d, for to winter. - - The Duke of L e i ns t er l e f t town yesterdaY for Dover, on a visit to Lord and Lady Gerald FitzgerT before his grace go es t o hi s seat in Irelan d , w hich wi ll e after the 12th inst. Toe Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gweu doline St. Maur h ave l e f t t h e Admiralty for B 1 trods-Parl‘' Backs, u s The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian ba" arrived at Newbattle Abbey, from Monteviot, near Jed burgh. The Marqui s an d M arc hi oness of Clanricarde left town last evening to pass a few weeks at Homburg. The Marquis and Marchioness of entertained a select p ar t y at di nner yester d a y eveniElg their mansio n i n P a ll- ma ll . n t a The Earl and C oun t ess o f Li nco l n are expec t ed to return to town ear l y i n t h e ensuing w eek from l3righton• The Earl of St. G ermans and Lord Ellio t WI" left the noble e ar l' s sea t , P ort El iot, in Cornwa ll. The Earl Spen cer , as co l one l o f t h e Northern!. tonshire Rifl e V o l un t eers, i s now enterta i n i ng that corps 7 . Althorp. The men are encampe d i n t h e park in tents , eacg affording acc ommo d at i on f or fi ve men. Th e y are to b e "under canv as " f or a wee k . Ailesbul Count de Biome has arrived at the Claread°9 Hotel from Paris. Lord Schomberg Kerr left town yesterday fir Scotland, to visit the Marquis and Marchioness of. Lothian , previous to resuming his official antics at Frankfort. Baron and Baroness Lion e l R o thschild and A7m o Rothschild are expected to leave town next for a tour i n G ermany . t h e week after Miss Longworth or Mrs. Yelverton ? (From the Law Times of To-day.) ' A majority of one has pronounced Miss Longworth ne t to be lawfully married to Major Yefvertort according to the law of Scotland. Both sides have assigned their r easons for their strangely opposite c onc l us i ons . Th e question o.`‘ fact will doubtless divide the judgment of the public as it has divided the Law Lords ; but, although looking for , diversity where meanin gs were to b e g i ven to equ ivoca l passages in a long correspondence, we were not prepared for the very wide severance between the views of the Judge s as to what constitutes a S cotc h marr i age. I n com mon wit h the greater portion of the profession, we had always under stood that in Scotland a public acknowledgment th at woman was a wife, accompanied with cohabitation, WB' evidence of an intention to marry which it was not permitted to impugn. According to the r e ; cent decision of the ma j or ity o f the House a Lords, the intent could not be presumed from the cohabi tation and acknowledgement; or, rather, the presuroPtiall_ thence arising is open to question. Whether in the facts were sufficient to rebut the presumption, is a P°l on which there are, and will continue to be great differences of opinion, and in the absence of the evidence of the Par", themselves it is almost impossible to arrive at a satisisotei:s verdict. But this may be taken now as settled laver t hat to to perfect a Scotch marriage something more is than for a man to call a woman his wife. So far the re cision is to be welcomed with pleasure, for it partially not likelyto a stricts within very much narrower limits than forattelifilc:ejn2nuut t liberty of marriage which the Scotch so much boast of, e 0. in the face of the frauds which it promotes by e ncoulg for meat to and the misery it makes by the facility of fer the foolish or the cunning. The Lord Chancellor certainly appears to v , e the bes t of the argument, and the force of his reasoning is to be lost upon the Court of Session, when the aPPl iat is made to them to order that judicial examination ot e th parties which ought to have preceded the *Peal to the Lords. Our readers are not aware, perhaps, th at t question lately decided was not raised on a final jadgfnea. ' but on an interlocutory proceeding. It is still open to Lite Scotch court to go on with the case, taking the law fro g the House of Lords ; but it may require further p roofs for the satisfaction of its own conscience before pronouncing final judgment, and these proofs may lead them to decide that the case is not within the law as now determined; then, from this decision also it might go again to the Lords , to be reviewed by them with the added light afforded by the evidence of the parties, the importance of which will be at once recognised by all who read the extracts front Major Yelverton's evidence at the trial in Ireland, which we published a fortnight ago. Altogether the procedure . is extremely clumsy, and if no other lesson is learned by it the public mind will be strongly impressed with the folly, the criminality, of maintaining in so small a territory as that of the United Kingdom three different forms of mar riage, and one of them so ill-defined that the Supreme Tribunal of the land cannot agree as to what are the ne cessary ingredients of such a marriage. The Times coup" eels Miss Longworth to withdraw from the contest. W e cannot think she would wisely d - o so, if there is open to her such a means of pursuing it as she alleges. Believing herself to be a lawful wife, womanly spirit would counsel her to maintain her right to the title by every means 01 011 to her. Acquiescence in the degradation would be almost an admission that it was deselved. SALMON FISHERY CONVICTIONS,—The salmon fishing season is now drawing to a close. The P re : sent season is one of the best ever experienced recollection on the Severn, as i s s h own by the reduction 11' the price of salmon, w hi c h h as b een se lli n g at 10d. to 15 ; per lb. The st r i c t es t wa t c h i s b e i ng kept to Pr ec t illegal fishing, an d t o en f orce th e observance of t 0 weekly fence time. The United Association for Protection of the Fisheries of the Severn an d n l o t tributaries have just obtained two convictions egal;o, fishermen at Glocester fur infraction , of the law. ° lle was Henry Spiers, of lmore, near Oloceater, was charged before the Glocestershire magistra tes, at tei; Shire-hall, Glocester, with attempting to take 0 81 °'° 11 1 1y the Severn with a drift net in such manner as to p restica diminish the meshes of the nets used to less dia l% sions than those authorised by law and against the 1 00 section of the Salmon Fisheries Act of 1861. w e bo was proved by the acting conservator, John Griffin' tof found the defendant fishing on the 18th ult. w ith a uettlio from 30ft. to 40ft. long. There were three portions 0 13 0 2 no!, and they wera all used together, the effect of w f th e w as practically to diminish the size of the mes hes ° centre net. The magistrates said there could h —ofir6t doubt this was an evasion of the Act, but, as it was thed.o case that had been brought before them, they should r d e find the fine to X 2, th e ne t t o b e f or f e it e d. John DforEfiel at William Morefield, of Sandhurst, near Glocester, wertioe the same time charged with breaking the weekly cl° se _, o o by fishing in the Severn with a net between Saturday. juiv. It appeared that the conservator, Griffin, and Monday morning—to wit, on Sunday, the =7th et, en in company with Policeman Bradley at Sandhutrobto:sn William Morefied passed them. Bradley spokohoo a ddle which he ran away to a boat and struck it wit t _ see , three times, immediately whereupon another boa re,el ; an d to emerge from the river bank with John ra a l ' d the y another man in it. They were drawing in a ne.rLfr. had been w t w. The magistrates fined John Morefield 2,2, and Youth' crossed the river and pulled the net on to the wLo p . e; erej ,a e ldi who Wee a mere boy, 78 only, on account of y