The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-11 00:00:00

, '7,4 1 $ 4 " b A `" , t , eiroc.44C- SIR SAMUEL MORTON PETO, Bart., M.P.— Ar. TruerfalJuzrle—W - Igranis c. &c , In rrN Tfl Li WLZK. One .I.'znny• INTERNATIONAL EX H 11 - 31110 N BC ILDING, sniTTTI K 1 SP. GTON. A GRAND MILITARY CONCERT. in AID of H.R.11. the PRINCESS MARY'S FUND for Providing Nurses for the Inmstes of the CAMBRIDGE ASYb UM, will be g von in tte INTERNATIONAL MM. ITION BUILDING, South Kensington (by spec al permission), On SATURDAY next, the 13:h of JUNE. Doors open at Two, the Concert to commence at Three precisely. Under the Immediate Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. Per Royal Highness the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and Her Royal Highness Princess MARY A, ELAIDE. The BANDS of the HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE, consisting Of— The First Life Guards, The S cond Life Guards, Royal Horse Guares ( que), The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, and The Scots Fusilier uards, w,ll perform on this occasion. 63T See the full P , cgramme, now ready. Admission, 55. ; reserved seats, 7s. 6d. ' - stalls, numbered and strict'y reserved. 10s. 6d.—Tickets to be obtaine I at Mr. Sams' Royal Library, 1, St. James's street, S.W.; Mr. Mitchell's Royal L , b: - ary, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Westerton's Library, St. Geore-e's-place. Knightsbridge ; Messrs. Keith, Prowse, and Co., 48, Cheaps de ; and at Mr. Austin's Ticket-office, St. James's Hall, 2S, Piccadlly. TtiEATI - tE-RG'; HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 22d time, a new and original comedy. entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter -Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by (Ist time), a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Mess's Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. T HE DUKE'S MOTTO,HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOI7STH NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE,— Under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3locrue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, imported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brongnam, H. ,t iddi ombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, X. t.avenne, and Elsworthy. Doors 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, will be presented (14th time), COURT AND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, B. Marston, G. Belmore, G. Murray. Ward e ; M‘fis Amy Sedgwick, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To bP preceded by (4th time) a new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TO.II. And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. NEw THEATRE-R0 fAL, ADELPHL soIe proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING. THE WILLOW COPSE Mr. Benj. Webster. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Billinon, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Stephenson ; Miss W oo l gar , an d Miss H. Simms Followed by a new Burlesque, ent'fled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. Mrssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips, ;.borne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sari, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. TTHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Lgtest SPORTING DITELLIGENCE can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 11, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning .. This day at Two o'clock 7O Barometer-29.99. Wind—E. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy, with occa aional showers. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. true DAY.—Morning, 9h. 59m.—Afternoon, 10h. 30m. To-woußow.-Morning, 11h. 2m.—Afternoon. 11h. 36m. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1863. A scurrilous poster used to be industriously placarded about the streets of London, some five or six years ago, asking, in very large type—the writer of it, perhaps, thought most pertinently, though hundreds of thousands of other people could not but think, on the other hand, most im pertinently—ls LORD CARDIGAN A HERO? Well, after so long an interval has elapsed an authorita tive, it should even be said official, answer has been vouchsafed at last to that flagrant, nay, insolent inquiry. The answer has been vouchsafed at last, and it comes to us from the lips of the Lord Chief Justice. " Is Lord CARDIGAN a Hero ?" sneeringly have asked his traducers, sneeringly above all, has asked his arch-traducer, the Hon. Colonel CALTHORPE. YES I HE IS A HERO ! That is the reply given yesterday in the Court. of Queen's Bench, in the midst of the earnest applause of the people who heard the judgment— that is the reply given at length to Colonel CAL THORPE, and to those congenially hearkening to his baseless aspersions—that is the reply given yesterday in the Court of Queen's 'Bench by the Lord Chief Justice of England ! And nobly did Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN preface his unaffected tribute of admiration to the Leader of the famous Light Cavalry Charge at Balaklava, by say ing, with a fine and scornful irony, " Those who criticise the conduct of men placed in such trying circumstances would do well to ask themselves how they would have acted in a similar state of things. (Subdued expression of applause.) And when we think what was the state of things in the scene of action on that memorable day—when we make allowance for the confusion which must have existed—when we reflect that the line which the earl led so gallantly up to that battery was all but struck down and annihilated by that awful fire, and that a mere handful of men remained, who were at that dreadful moment in immi nent peril of utter destruction—and when we consider that their only chance of saving them selves, and of avoiding a mere idle sacrifice of brave and valuable lives was to get away (as every man there seems to have done as quickly as possible) from a spot where it was idle and hopeless to remain,— when all these circumstances are taken into consi deration, and we reflect further on the confusion which must have existed in the midst of such appalling danger, and appears to have existed even among those who have now come forward censures upon the conduct of Lordto suPCP:ratt the raoaaa cannot but think that though no doubt is open to cr i t i cism Itsl _conduct as a general not one which seeks be a generous and liberal critici sm , on his courage, or hi s honour ll seeks to fix a stigma as an officer. (Re newed expressions of appl ause)- I o a use)- I repeat I cannot help rejoicing — as the reputation on ur ofevery one who took part in that great scene ought to be clear to us all—(repeated applause) —I rel • • otee that this opportunity has been afforded of settin g the noble earl right in the estimation, not only of —7, is own profession, but of his countrymen in general." And How—is it now sneeringly asked by Colonel CAL THORPE and congenial spirits, say men like Mr. ALEXANDER KINGLAKE, the member for Bridge water, men who are so fond of flinging idly about them these detestable imp utations upon the physical courage of individuals whose person al valour one would think has been pl aced by events far beyond the reach of even one momentary doubt, individuals like the Earl of CARDIGAN and the Emperor NAPOLEON lll,—How, it may now be sneeringly asked by Colonel CALTHORPE and his friends, How has the noble Earl's character la; en really " put right," es the Lord Chief-Justice ex presses it, in the estimatlon of his brother sol diers and of his fellow countrymen generally P LPt the simple words of our chief morning contem nothing better could possibly be writt,et upo- , the subject tilln those words we are now about to quote—Let the simple, manly words of our chief morning contemporary, answer this just possible last sneer of the traducers of Lord CARDIGAN. "It is now placed beyond dispute," says our contemporary, "by the testimony of many eye-witnesses and the admission of his most persistent detractor [i. e., Colonel CALTHORPE] that he DID charge at the head of his troops up to the .Russian battery, through the battery, and beyond the battery! When credible persons declared on oath that they saw him in the rear of the guns, defending himself against the Cossacks, and that they themselves went to his rescue, the doubt, if any existed, was at an ' end." The fact thus proved is perfectly conclusive. " Against such evidence," it is well argued, " the statement of one man that he saw Lord CARDI GAN'S horse swerve and apparently turn round, or of another that he observed him afterwards riding the wrong way, is simply worthless." And further on it admirably and most logically put that—" In deciding this question with so much confidence, Colonel CALTHORPE seems to have forgotten, that what A has seen can not be disproved, or even shaken, by the fact that B, C, and D did not see it. He is now obliged to admit, through his counsel, that his nega tive data have misled hem, that his informants have been in error, and that Lord CARDIGAN DID remain till the batteries were passed, in the post of danger which he had represented him to have quitted through cowardice !" Honour to the brave—shame to their traducers. It is perhaps only in perfect keeping with the whole transaction from beginning to end, that the man wh o fli ngs out the imputation of cowardice against the leader of one of the most splendidly audacious acts of heroism upon record, should now, when his asser tions are proved to have been erroneous, decline to make any apology. An apology, however, from Colonel CALTHORPE, can be very readily dispensed with by the Earl of CARDIGAN, now that his character for bravery has been vindi cated so conspicuously in the face of day before the whole mass of his fellow-countrymen. It is gratifying to notice that nothing occurred o mar the effect of yesterday's undertaking. There was something very melancholy in the whole affair, yet it was not without cheering prospects. Foremost among the brighter auguries was the fact that her MAJESTY had come to town expressly to view the monument, and might on that occasion be said to have returned to public life, after her long and sad seclusion. From surveying that touch ing record of her lamented Consort, the QUEEN drove to Marlborough House to visit the Prince and Princess of WALES. These two visits are not without their significance. It was as if the com pletion of the memorial to Prince ALBERT'S memory was the signal for the termination of her long ab sence from anything approaching to an intercourse with the busy world of work and pleasure. It will have been with great gratification that all will have heard of the QUEEN thus reappearing among us. The sudden and startling change from an active career of usefulness, and a happy home of domes. ticity, to the sad stillness of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, is sufficient to overcome anyone for a considerable period. When also the loss sus tained is such as the bereavement here alluded to, the want is felt at every new undertaking of an adviser or assistant. Still, the more deeply trouble is dwelt upon, the worse it is to endure, and the longer seclusion is indulged in, the more difficult it is to come out of it. The best promise of the marriage of .the Prince of WALES was that which foretold the new interest it would give to his Royal Mother, and it must be the greatest plea sure he can feel in the attractions of his bright career that his entrance on life is bringing back again to the cares and happiness of existence one who has been so sadly missed from among us. So far as regards the memory of the late PRINCE also, this undertaking has been all that could be wished. It was a fitting spot to choose for the erection of a memento to future generations of the fame of one who did so much in his comparatively short career to improve the tastes, to elevate the understanding, and to enlarge the experience of all classes of the community. The scene of yesterday was solemn in its retrospection, telling of him who had been cut down in the prime of life and the pride of power, and laid low in the grave, while his incomplete work remained unfinished as far as regarded mortal views. But who shall say how far our work is finished or unfinished as concerns its influence. The PRINCE CONSORT has rested from his labours too soon, we sadly think, when we muse over the palaces where a widowed Queen and orphan Princes and Princesses mourn his loss, but it would be difficult upon reflection to say what he has left undone that is of moment. So much had been planned and executed during his lifetime that the remaining portion of his career would have been more probably the filling up of the outlines he had so boldly sketched with a master hand. In this state we cannot always see the end of our toil. One sows that another may reap, and the harvest scene of rejoicing must often be reserved foi the world where no blight can enter. As for the young Prince, who stood by the chief actor in the scene, he must surely have been impressed with the thoughts of-the past, and of the future. With the completion of this great work before him the " dead past has buried its dead" as it were. It now remains for him to " act in the living present," 80 that when the future shall place his name in the annals of history he may be counted worthy of those who went before him. His father has left him a bright example, so far as regards the duties he had to perform. The Prince of WALES has all these to undertake in addition to a more prominent place even now in the public affairs of the king dom. It is to be trusted that the chief individual concerned in this pageant will be satisfied with the result of the ceremony, and that the QUEEN will now return among her subjects gratified in their tribute to his honour, whose memory will henceforth be the chief thought of her life, not, however, to the exclusion of other ideas. No one can regard her grief as exces sive, but it has bright alleviations, and the prayers of her people will be fulfilled if she can now return " cheerily to her work again," and find in the de votion of her family. and in the attachment of her subjects,her s till, a thes the poet has beautifully expressed it, " Gon's love sets her at his side again." drawal. At present great facilities are offered to unscrupulous prties who do not hesitate to avail themselves of them, and many abuses result. There are two special evils which this bill is designed to prevent—first, the presentation of sham petitions got up for the purpose of inflicting annoyance, or of extorting money ; and, secondly, what Mr. HUNT called corrupt bargains, that is the system of withdrawing a well-grounded petition on coming to an agreement with the accused party. A mem ber, or his agents who had bribed his way into Par liament, would certainly not hesitate to smooth away the difficulties of an adverse petition by the same easy means. Sir F. SLADE, a gentleman of great experience in elec tion matters, stated before the select committee appointed to inquire into the Corrupt Practices Act 1854, that he had often known sham petitions got up against members for the purpose of extorting from them £l,OOO. Mr. Cox, the member for Fins bury, confirmed this statement by a passage from his own experience. He said that a petition was presented against him in the year 1857, which charged him and his agents with every crime which could invalidate an election, But within 24 hours of striking that petition, a man of respectable position had called upon him, and told him that if he would pay him £5OO the petition should be withdrawn. The effecting of compromises in the case of well founded petitions, is also a disgraceful system, and, as Mr. HUNT truly observed, such petitions de serve no mercy. In many cases there is no doubt that, as Mr. PHINN said before the Committee, agents present petitions as people deal cards—as fast as one side brought forward a petition the other brought one to match it, quite regardless of the real merits of the case. Mr. Cox divided the election petitions into three classes, bona fide petitions, frivolous and vexatious petitions, and extortionate petitions. Mr. HUNT'S measure pro poses to deal with these several cases. He sug gests that at the beginning of each session a small standing committee shall be appointed by the general committee of elections, and that when any person wishes to withdraw a petition that standing committee should inquire into the circumstances and make a report to the House. if the committee report that the petition is vexatious, the petitioner is to be liable to pay the costs incurred by the sitting member and other costs in addition, at the discretion of the committee• If the petition is discovered to be withdrawn in consequence of a corrupt compromise, the petitioner shall forfeit his recognisances of £l,OOO which he has necessarily previously entered into. The general tone of the House was decided in favour of the Bill, although exception was naturally taken to some points of it. It was read a second time, and was admitted on all sides to be " a step in the right direction," although, as the Solicitor-General ob served, it will be necessary to guard carefully against any undue interference with the right of petitioning. Still, in case of withdrawal, the peti tioners refuse to exercise that right, and it is cer tainly most unfair that a member should be put to expense and annoyance merely to gratify a vexatious spirit. The evils attending compromise and extor tion are of a worse degree, and the dignity of the Legislature can hardly submit to be so trifled with. With all this professed eagerness for purity of election and an immaculate Parliament, it is strange how members still manifest the same extraordi nary reluctance to try the radical cure for all these discrepancies in our representative system, which is to be found in the Ballot. The International Exhibition Building. A parliamentary paper hae been issued contain ing a copy of the correspondence respecting the purchase by Government of " land and buildings used for the purposes of the late International Ex hibition." It appears that on the 20th January last negotia, tions, which took place last year, were recommenced at the instance of the Exhibition Commissioners. On the 18th May Sir M. Peto accepted, on behalf of the contractors, the sum of £BO,OOO for the re movable portion of the building, stating that they could have realised a larger sum, but, identified, as they were with the Exhibition, they prefer taking a course more in harmony with their feelings, than making it a mere question of money. Mr. Gladstone, in acknowledging this letter, does not doubt Messrs. Kelk and Lucas's statement, but the estimates relied on by them must have differed from those of the Government, who had offered the full value. Mr. Gladstone agrees to pay the money immediately after Parliament should have agreed to the esti mate. On 21st May the EAhibition Commissioners, re ferring to the willingness of the Treasury, ex pressed on 20th January, to reopen negotiations, write to the Secretary of the Treasury that they are "prepared to sell to her Majesty's Government the freehold of the site of the building, amounting to about 161 acres, and to include in such sale the whole of the permanent structure, considerably exceeding 1,000 feet in length, used as refresh ment rooms on the occasion of the Exhi bition, and situated between the build ing and the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, with the exception of the central portion, 300 feet in length; those refreshment rooms, to gether with the ground on which they stand, being the sole property of the commissioners, who under stand them to be the appendages referred to in your letter." As to the price they make the following observations : "As respects the value of the site occupied by the Exhibition building, the commissioners' sur veyor has reported to them that it cannot be esti. mated at less than £5OO per acre, or £8,250 per annum for the whole plot of 169 acres. This amount, capitalised at the low rate of 30 years' purchase, represents a total value of £247,500, or at 31 years' purchase (the price already ob tained for some of the commissioners' other land), £255,750. As respects the value of the refreshment rooms above spoken of, I am to observe that the commissioners have expended a sum exceeding £lO,OOO in the erection of the ar cades in and upon which they have been con structed, and that an additional sum of about £30,000 was expended in the erection of the re freshment rooms themselves. The land on which they stand is also worth a very considerable sum, and the sale of the greater part of them to her Majesty's Government would deprive the commis sioners of most of the large annual incomes which they hitherto anticipated receiving from letting stalls, &c., in them, in connection with the Horticultural Gardens. The Lords of the Trea sury will also be aware that the estate is subject to certain mortgages, two of which, amounting together to nearly £70,000, apply especially to the site of the Exhibition build ing and of the refreshment rooms." • , Under all the circumstances the price they put upon the property is £l2o,ooo—Government to defray all expenses connected . ith the sale and the cost of maintaining the moiety of the roads adjoin ing the building, to be payable equally by the Treasury end the commissioners until the roads are taken by the parish. The commissioners stipulate that the building " shall be permanently used ' for purposes connected with science or the arts,' those being the words employed in the act under which the Department of Science and Art hold the portion of the estate now occupied by them." By a Treasury minute of the 25th May this offer, with the conditions, was accepted. A. very sensible and much needed measure was brought before the House of Commons.last night by Mr. HUNT. The hon. gentleman in moving the second reading of the Election Petitions Bill, said he had no doubt that the details of the measure would require many amendments, but that he hoped the House would approve of the general principle. The purport of the Bill is to prevent any petition against the return of a m em b er from being with drawn without an inquiry into the circumstances under which such a withdrawal is proposed. M r . e 11.1 Sb T , A7lti th C a L l U a ß r g e O c E i r c i l a e o N o fDtOhNe their friends,T he b SIIPPLEM To 'd not wish to force any HUNT explained that he di will dine at the Crystal Palace, South Wing, on Thursday, D . petitioner to proceed with a petition against his the 25th June Net. Tear:em members including o of ladies, t h this TUE INTERNATIONAL . on our international relations with wi.'l, but if the ease were bona fide there couid c suow._ no objection to a disclosure of the resvcns for with Ameri04.4210,04, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) CATHOLIC JUBILEE IN POSEN, BERLIN, JUNE 11. Upon the repeated requests of the Archbishops of Posen and Gresen, the Pope has ordered a grand jubilee to take place in the diocese of Posen, commencing upon the 20th inst. The jubilee is intended to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of the introduction of Christianity into Poland by Cyrillus and Methodius. RUSSIA. GREAT ROBBERY AT THE BANK OF WARSAW. WARSAW, JUNE 10. The Bank of Warsaw has been robbed of three and a half million roubles, consisting mostly of bonds. FRANCE. SURRENDER OF PUEBLA TO THE FRENCH. The Moniteur, of this morning says : " M. Drogyn de Lhuys has received the following dispatch, dated Ist June, from the Consul-General of France at New York. " News received from Havana and Vera Cruz announces that Puebla is ours. Ortega has sur rendered unconditionally with 18,000 men''' BOURSE, June 10.—The arrival of the English funds with a decline of has added to the heavi ness which before prevailed in this market, and prices have slightly receded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f. 25c. The Railway Share Market quiet, but prices have been, up to the present time, pretty well maintained. The market continued heavy to the close, and left off as follows: It per Cents 97 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 20 Credit Mobilier.... 1215 Do. end month 1202 50 Bank Shares 3450 Credit F Fonder l4OO -- RAIL` Italian Loan 72 95 Do. end month 72 90 New ditto ...... Do. end month 73 90 Russian Austrian .. — Spanish Threes 53 75 Home Debt .. ^ 'AYI3. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New. ditto .. ;. • . Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1043 75 Geneva 440 .. 445 Southern .. 730 .. 735 Western Eastern .. ......... -, Sardinian .._ .. Austrian Lombard . 575 .. 576 25 North of Spain Saragossa 717 50 .. 717 50 Ditto to Barcelona PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated June 9, says—lt ap pears that the district Government, the local Regie rung as it is called, which has its seat at Potsdam, has taken the Berlin municipal executive body (111agistrat) to task for taking part in the project of sending a deputation with an address to the King. As soon as the .Regierung became acquainted with the resolution come to by the city delegates on the 4th instant it warned the Overburgomaster of Ber lin against associating with it the body of which he is the chief. Before the warning was received that association had taken place. Thereupon the .Regie rung, on the ground that this was in contravention of the civic regulations, forbade the carrying out of the resolution, and threatened further pro ceedings, but I hear that Overburgomaster Seydel sent a spirited answer, and that he and his col leagues are not likely to allow themselves to be intimidated. The Government pretends to restrict them from discussions and demonstrations having reference to political aff,irs, on the ground that they are competent only for those of a strictly communal nature ; but the magistrates reply that the late acts of the Government are •of a nature very seriously to affect the interests of the city of Berlin; and this is undoubtedly the case, for I need hardly say that the trade of Berlin and of Prussia is most seriously affected by the want of confidence that exists, and by the apprehension that the present rulers of the country will run it into a war. From Carlsruhe we learn that M. von Rozzen bach is ill of inflammation of the lungs, but it is hoped that there is no danger. Germany could ill spare one of her few able and patriotic statesmen. A Swabian paper states that the intercourse be tween the Berlin and Carlsruhe Governments has become very cool, which can hardly be thought surprising. Several more provincial papers have adhered to the protest of their Berlin contemporaries. The Berlin Evening Journal, which I yesterday men tioned as having done the same has received its warning in due course. A small humorous paper published here has also been warned, on account of some verses it contained. A letter from Coburg, in the South German Journal (friendly to Prussia, but excluded from it by the Bismark Ministry) says that the Duke of Saxe Coburg, who, with the Duchess, has gone to visit some estates he possesses in Austria, contem plates a visit to the Imperial Court at Vienna. This statement, should it prove well founded, is one of the very strongest proofs that could be given how completely the King of Prussia is alienating all his friends. The Duke's attachment to Prussia is well known ; he has proved it in many ways, amongst others, recently, by the military convention in virtue of which his little contingent of troops became de facto part of the Prussian army. His views with regard to the German question have kept him aloof from the Austrian Court and from all the Sovereigns belonging to the Wurzburg coalition. At Coburg, says the letter referred to, it is perfectly well known that it is the present policy of the Prussian Govern. ment which has decided him to place himself on a more friendly footing with those Princes. In February he visited the Court of Dresden—a visit he for many years had avoided, and that was the first step on the new path into which M. von Bismark may claim a considerable share of the credit of having driven him. A letter from Brussels mentions the return of the Duke of Brabant from his travels abroad ; also that the duel between Counts Branicki and Wielopolaki took place near Spa on the 4th inst. After one shot had been fired on each side without effect, further hostilities were put an end to by the appearance of gendarmes, who arrested principal and seconds. The distinguished Belgian painter, Gallait, who resides in Paris, but whom King Leopold has long desired to see established in 'Belgium, has under taken the decoration of the Senate-house at Brus sels. It is to consist of a series of portraits of illustrious Belgians, such as Charlemagne, Godfrey de Bouillion, &c., and is to be executed, under his superintendence, entirely by Belgian artists. To•night's papers announce the departure of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe•Coburg for their estates in Austria as having taken place. They were accompanied by the Prince end Princess William of Baden. TOBACCO SMOKING,—AS a habit it is most injuri ous both to the physical and mental Organism in the early periods of life. Whatever may be said far or against tobacco, this is ignite certain, that it should never be indulged in until the body is fully developed. During the early periods of life, when the youth is approaching to his manhood, all the physical and mental energies are at their full stretch to attain a certain maximum of growth and power. To throw obstacles, therefore, in the way of this development is necessarily to inflict on it a penalty which is life-enduring, and is never made up; an d I do not think the anti tobacconists are saying a word too much when they urge that the increasing indulgence by our children and youths in the use of tobacco is stunting the national growth, de forming the national life, degrading the national intellect, and establishing a race which must necessarily possess a limited force, and transmit its own degradation to the next and the next general iGn. If, indeed, there is one point upon which parental authority should be exercised, it is, I think, in forbidding the use of tobacco until the child has become a full-grown man and is capable of exercising his own hide. pendent and manly judgment,—Social Sow, BMW, AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (By Telegraph to Cape Race.) NEW YORK, June L Advices from Vicksburg ere to May 27. The Federals had been repulsed in three assaults. The last assault was made by Gen. Sherman, with 20,000 men, and he lost 600 killed and a large number wounded. The Federal outer lines were within 100 yards of the Confederate works. The Confederate fortifications consist of a chain of forts 800 yards apart, connected by deep entrenchments and ex tending several miles. It is supposed that regular siege operations will be necessary to capture the city. Apprehensions are entertained of an attack in Gen. Grant's rear. Gen. Johnstone was reported to be in the neigh• bourhood of Jackson, with 15,000 men, short of pro. visions. Southern journals assert that two gunboats had been sunk at Vicksburg, and that Gen. Banks had crossed the Mississippi at Bayou Sara, seven miles above Port Hudson. Commodore Porter officially reports that he has destroyed the navy yards at Yazoo city, together with three powerful steamers, a formidable ram, all kinds of machinery, and property valued at two millions of dols. Despatches from Murfreesboro state that the Con federate Gen. Marmaduke was reported to have cap tured Helena, Arkansas, and many negro soldiers, all of whom, together with their officers, he had hung. The public await further advices before crediting this report. Gen. Burnside has informed Gen. Bragg that he should hang ten Confederate officers if the Confede rates retaliated for the two whom Gen. Burnside asserts were spies, tried and condemned in accord ance with the usages of war. The movement in Gen. Lee's army on the Rappa hannock continues, but it is still matter of conjecture against what point it is directed. (Per the North American.) NEW YORK, MAY 30 (Evening). (By Telegraph to Father Point.) Nothing decisive has been yet received from Vicksburg. The New York Democratic Committee has passed resolutions protesting against any negotiations for peace by the Administration, except upon the basis of the preservation of the union and of thb con stitution. The Jura has been intercepted off Cape Race. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MAY 30, EVENING. Money easy. Gold, 45 per cent. premium; Ex change on London Bankers' Bills, 1584; Stocks improving—New York Centrals, 1234 ; Illinois, 1092 ; Erie, 952 ; 6 per cent. United States Bonds, 108. Cotton quiet. Middling Up. thud, 51c. Flour very firm. Wheat in good de mand for export, and lc. higher. Corn improving. Provisions, eLftee, sugar, and petroleum dull. Mo lasses quiet. The North American takes out 59,000 dollars in specie. (REITTER'S EXPRESS.) (Per the City of Baltimore.) NEW YORK, May 30. The following is the " Situation," from the New York Herald of May 30 : Dtspatches from Gen. Grant were received at the War Department yesterday, which are more satis factory because of an official and reliable character relative to the condition of affairs at Vicksburg. Gen. Grant's despatches are dated Monday, the 25th inst., three days later than the previous despatches received by the Government, and they represent the siege as progressing satisfactorily up to that time, and that Gen. Grant was quite able to maintain the investment of the city and repel any attack in his rear. This is the latest news we have from that quarter. The intelligence to Friday last, the 22d inst., telegraphed from the field on Saturday, Was that Grant's army had been repulsed in all parts of its lines—that the repulse was complete, but the troops were then intrenching themselves and build- ing rifle pits. The final success of the Union army was, however, fully assured. Gen. Grant is reported by despatches from Memphis as having captured all the redoubts, taking some of them by means of scaling ladders. Frightful havoc was done by the enemy's shells during the storming. A telegram from Murfreesboro yesterday says that General Grant had made something like a general attack upon the rebel works at Vicksburg since Sunday and failed to carry them ; that he had thereupon con . eluded that the place was too strong to be taken by assault, and had opened a terrible and sustained fire upon it with his artillery. General Johnston had not then attacked General Grant, but was still col lecting forces in his rear. He had managed to send word to the garrison that if they should hold out for 15 days he would raise the siege with an army of 100,000 men. He also said he would do this if he abandoned every other point in his department. The most interesting news from Gen. Hooker's army is that a balloon reconnoissance yesterday failed to discover any indication of a move un the part of the enemy, although their camps and the whole country were clearly visible. It was believed, however, that a portion of the rebel forces had passed up the Rappahannock. Our marine brigade in the West has been distin guishing itself. An official despatch to the War Department yesterday from General Etlet, com manding the ram fleet, dated Helena, Arkansas, May 25, says that as his command was descending the river from Memphis, May 23, the Commissary and Quartermaster's boat was fired into from the Missis sippi side by the enemy, with two pieces of artillery, about six miles above Austria. He returned next day and landed his troops, when the cavalry under Major Hubbard, 200 strong, came up with the enemy, 1,000 strong, all mounted, and eight miles out. The fight lasted nearly two hours. The Major was compelled to take shelter in a favourable po-i -tion, where he succeeded in repulsing the enemy, and finally drove them off before the infantry could come to his relief. General Ellet burned the town of Austria, having first searched every building, As the fire progressed the discharge of loaded firearms was like volleys of musketry as the fire reached their hiding places, and two heavy el-plosions of powder also occurred. The loss of our troops was only two killed and 19 wounded. The enemy lost five killed and three prisoners. Our army correspondence from different sources, which we give to-day, presents an excellent history, in detail, of all the minor incidents and movements, which combine to make up the picture of camp life in all its curious vicissitudes, from Virginia to the Far West—the courtesies between corps and corps, the interesting ceremonies of flag presentations, the distribution of medals and crosses to the brave, and the dangerous irregular conflicts with guerillas and hostile pickets. Mr. Vallandigham appears by the latest reports to be in a very uncomfortable position. He is at pre sent reported to be at General Bragg's headquar ters at Shelbyville, Tenn., awaiting the fiat of Mr. Davis. It is said that the latter gentleman, in reply to a question of General Bragg as to the dis position of Mr. V., stated that if he took the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy he might remain within its jurisdiction, but if he refused he must be sent back within the Federal lines. As Mr. Vallandigham has always professed to be an uncom promising Union man, and as he is not regarded with a very friendly feeling at the Smith, it is not likely that ho will conform to Mr. Jefferson Davis's demand, so that we may see him back again before long, to be once more adjudicated upon and disposed of by the United States Government. The recent raids of the privateer Alabama on the coast of Brazil have provoked the authorities of that country to remove the commander at Fernando de Noronha, for permitting her to commit depreda tions in Brazilian waters, and her presence in that region was forbidden by his successor, The Navy ELparnierit t , Olll the Vanderbilt down there to look after the Alabama, with a view especially to Fer nando de Noronha; but as soon as she got to the West Indies Admiral Wilkes took possession of hex as his flagship, and she was cruising under his direction at last accounts. SOUTHERN ACCOUNTS FROM VICKSBURG. The following despatches from General Pember ton, the commander at Vicksburg, were sant to Jackson, Mississippi, and from thence telegraphed to President Davis : VICKSBURG, May 20, 1863. The enemy assaulted our entrenchments yester day on our centre and left. They were repulsed with heavy loss, Our loss is small. The enemy's force is at least 60,000. VICKSBURG, May 21, 1863. The enemy kept up a heavy artillery fire yester• day. Two of our guns were dismounted in the centre. Our works, however, were uninjured. Their sharpshooters picked off officers and men all day. Our works were repaired and our guns re placed last night. Our men are encouraged by a report that General Johnstone is near with a large army, and are in good spirits. May 21, 2 pan. We have had brisk artillery and musketry firing today; also heavy mortar firing from gunboats. Eight o'clock, p.m. During the past two days transports with troops have gone up the river. Their destination is unknown. (Telegrams to the _Richmond Examiner.) MOBILE, May 23, 1863. A special despatch to the Advertiser and .Register, dated to-day, says :—The latest from Vicksburg is to Thursday night. The enemy had been foiled in all his efforts. His dead strew the ground in front of our works. According to one estimate his loss is 10,000. The following are the latest despatches from Vicksburg in full : MOBILE, May 25. The Jackson Mississipian, of Saturday, says : The enemy have attacked the works at Vlcks burg six times—three times yesterday, and each time were repulsed with immense loss. General Stevenson says he can hold Vicksburg indefinitely. (From the Richmond Examiner, May 27.) The only news we have of affairs about Vicksburg is contained in the telegraphic despatches pub lished in another column. Up to the time of the closing of the War-office last night nothing addi tional had been received. It was reported yesterday morning that at a late hour on the previous night the President had re ceived official intelligence that General Johnstone had attacked and routed Grant, ond captured 17,000 prisoners. The report was without foundation in fact. HALIFAX, N.S,, May 29. The election yesterday resulted in the serious de feat of the Government party. " John Jones" Howe is defeated. [This means " the Hon. Joseph Howe."] The Opposition will have at least 40 members in the next Legislature. In the last Legislature the Opposition had 24 members and the Government 28. BOSTON, May 29. Major• General Butler dined at Young's Hotel to-day. He left for L melt in the afternoon train, and will deliver an address in that city to-night in furtherance of aid to the suffering poor of Ireland. ATLANTA, May 23. Gen. Grant entered the State of Mississippi by crossing the river five miles below Grand Gulf with from 60,000 to 100,000 men, including a heavy force of cavalry. He has received no reinforcements from Louisana, but receives accessions constantly from the west bank of the river. His transporta tion is all on the river, and must cling to the river banks. Telgrams to the Bzchmond Whig. MOBILE, May 25. A special despatch, dated Jackson, May 24 (Sun day), says firing was heard till nine o'clock this morning. No report of artillery has been heard since that hour. This morning the 20th Mississippi Regiment (mounted) dashed into Raymond, cap turing 400 prisoners. Fourteen have been brought . to this city ; the rest, being sick or wounded, were paroled. JACKSON, May 25. An officer, who left Vicksburg on Tuesday morn ing at ten o'clock, says the enemy attacked our left and centre four times. The first attack lasted 30, the second 20, the third 15, and the fourth nine minutes, and they were repulsed each time. Our loss was 80 men. When the column of assault was brought up on Wednesday the officers leading the troops broke, and the column disappeared. On Thursday the enemy were engaged in shelling our entrenchments. Our works towards Warrenton have not been menaced. The Federal line of in vestments is imperfect. Some of the prisoners taken report that Gen. Steele was killed. WASHINGTON, May 29. Despatches from General Grant, dated near Vicksburg, May 25, have been received at the War Department to-day. They represent the siege of Vicksburg as progress ing satisfactorily, and that General Grant is abun dantly able to maintain his investment of the town and repel any attack upon his rear. Forty-five hundred rebel prisoners, captured by General Grant, arrived at Memphis to-day. IN THE FIELD, NEAR VICKSBURG, May 23. 9 p.m. There has been no fighting to-day. The troops are resting from yesterday's assault. Our repulse was complete in all parts of the line. No discouragement need be entertained of our final success. We are intrenching ourselves and building rifle pits. Cavalry have been sent out towards Canton to ascertain the whereabouts of General Johnston's forces. Oar loss yesterday was not far from one thou sand. MEMPHIS, May 27. On Friday the Federal forces were rep•ilsed at Vicksburg. The steamer City of Memphis, which left the vicinity of Vicksburg on Monday last, arrived here to-day, and reports General Grant as having cap tured every rebei redoubt. At one place it was necessary, owing to the steepness of the hill, to scale it with ladders. General Hovey led the assault. The rebels rolled their shells down the hill at the Unionists which exploded among them, making fearful havoc. The fighting was going on furiously 'when the City of Memphis left. The Union losses are said to be very heavy. The steamer Sultana, from Young's Point, is re ported lost. CAIRO, May 29. Advices from Vicksburg are to the afternoon of he 26th. No fighting had taken place since Monday. The position of the army is said to be changed, M'Pherson's corps holding the extreme left and M'Clernand the centre, while Sherman still holds the right. Five or six thousand prisoners are expected to arrive at Memphis to-day. General Johnston is reported to be at Jackson with 16,000 men. The rebels also hold Big Black river bridge, Adjutant-General Thomas passed through Cairo to-day, en route to Louisville. He is very sick—so much co, that it is thought that be will have to abandon his labours in the West for tl.e present. ST. Louis, May 29. A special despatch from Memphis, dated the 28th inst., says that the first lot of wounded from Gen. Grant's army had arrived there. Among them are Colonel iklasvendy, Lieutenant Colonel M'Auley, and Captain Seeher, of the 11th Indiana, and Lieu tenant-Colonel Barton, of the 24th Indiana Regi ment. The 11th and 12th Indiana Regiments lost about 250 men each. General Joe Jackson is rapidly receiving rein forcements iri the vicinity of Jackson, with the in tention of attacking General Grant in the rear. General Johnston is reported to have said that Vicksburg should hold out for 15 days he wcuid throw 100,000 troops into it, if it required the re linqnishment of every foot of territory in his de partment to effect it, CINCINNATI, May 29, 1863. General Banks is reported as coming up the Mississippi river. The rebels report that General Cheatham and Featherstone were wounded in the Mississippi fight, and that Gen. Johnston is massing a large force at the Black river bridge. MURFREESBORO, TENN,, May 28. Reports from highly respectable sources repre sent that General Grant, since Sunday, had mad° something like a general attack upon the rebel works at Vicksburg, and failed to carry them ; that he had thereupon concluded that the place Was too strong to be taken by assault, and had opened a terrible and sustained fire upon it with his artillery. General Johnston bad not yet attacked General Grant, but was still collecting forces in his rear. He had managed to send word to the garrison that if they should hold out for 15 days he would raise the siege with an army of 10,000 men. He also said he would do this if he abandoned every other point in his department. It was not supposed the city could possibly hold out longer than to-day. Parties who entered our lines to-day from the South report that Breckinridge and Crother's divl sions.of Brag g ' s arm y were on th e i r way south. Al, is quiet a t thi s p o i n t, Th e rumour s o f a for midable rebel demonstration on our right are hardly confirmed. Some portion of the enemy's vidette tine has been retired. . Brigadier Getieral Harding has tendered his re signation on account of disability. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 11. The North German Lloyds' steamship Bremen, Captain Meyer sailed hence last evening, with 358 passengers, the German, French, and English mails, jewellry from France, value 69,420 francs, and 956 tons of general merchandize on freight. The Hansa, belonging to the same company, arrived at New York at 3 p,m. on the 25th ult. all well, and is expected off Cowes on the 17th inst., with the mails from New York of the 6th, MEXICO. REPORTED CAPTURE OF PUEBLA. NEW YORK, June 1. The Mario, of Havannah, announces the arrival of the French steamer Daria, with despatches from Gen. Forey to the Emperor Napoleon, announcing the capture of Puebla on May 17, and the uncondi tional surrender of Gen. Ortega and the garrison. Gen. Forey is said to have captured the Mexican Commander-in-Chief, 23 generals, 900 officers, and 7,000 privates. One division of the French army had started for Mexico. ANTHROPOLOGICAT. SOCIETY. At the ordinary meeting of this society on Tuesday evening—Dr. Hunt, the president, in the chair—it was an nounced that Mr. Reid had presented to the society a num ber of objects from the Gamboon, in equatorial Africa, and that among them was the most perfect skin of a gorilla that ha. yet been received in this country. Mr. Pendyche also presented to the society some human bones and ft diminutive skull, found near Cambridge, in digging for coprolites. A large collection of human skeletons has been discovered in that neighbourhood, the jawbones of which present the same peculiarity of construction as that of the celebrated jawbone found at Abbeville, and it is conjectured that the bodies were interred after some battle between the Romans and ancient Britons. A paper was then read by Mr. Charnock " On the Science of Language." Mr. Charnock, in a very elab rate and able paper, disputed the opinions of Professor Max Muller re specting the origin of languages, and he contended that the Aryan theory, which supposes that all languages were de rived from a single one, is inconsistent with the period usually assigned to the existence of man, as there could not have been time, between the date of the assumed origin of man and known historical records, to have produced the changes of language then existing. Mr. Charnock noticed the absurd notions that have been entertained by various nations respecting the origin of language, and the various sources to which languages are attributed. He inclined to the opinion that the languages now spoken must have originated from many sources, and the statistics of lan guage tend to confirm that view, for they show that the number of words in each widely differ, some of them—and those of the less civilised nations—being five and six times more numerous than others Dr. HUNT, though generally agreeing with the author of the paper, thought there was ample time to have effected any change of language. Geologists, he said, had recently proved that man had been living on the earth at a far more distant period than had been previously assumed. There was, indeed, an unlimited supply f time, and philologists might help themselves to as mu. h of it as they required. He differed from Professor Max Miiller's opinion that language is the distinctive mark of separation between mall and brutes, for he contended that the lower animal possess the power of communicating their ideas to each other by articulate sounds. The Duc de RouslLLox considered that languflge serves to indicate similarity of races, and that by the names of places the course of the migration of different tribes may be traced. In this manner, he said, he could trace that the Catalans of the Pyrenees, who speak what is called the Romanesque language, migrated from the Himalayan mountains, in Upper India. The roots of 500 words are the same in both languages, and 1,000 other wards bear a close resemblance ; and he asserted that the names given to many places indi cated the route by which the migration was effected. The Luc de Rousillon, who is engaged in brining out a volu minous philological work, entered into a consideration of the composition of languages from various dialects, and contended that all known languages have been constructed by a combination of different dialects spoken, in the same countries. The discussion was continued by Mr. Bouverie Pusey, Mr. Prideaux, Mr. Carter Blake, and other gentlemen, several of whom agreed with the president's opinion, that all animals have the power of speech. The meeting then adjourned till the 7th of July. A race of 100 yards for £25 came off on Friday last at the Ash encampment between Capt. Herbert, Coldstream Guards, and a private named Kent, of the Fus Hers, the officers of the latter regiment having made the challenge. At first the captain's backers were rather doubtful of their favourite, it being well known amongst them that his opponent had appeared frequently in public on similar occasions. As the time for the race approached, and when the two rivals came on the ground, the con fidence of the captain's supporters was greatly strength ened by his muscular and well-knit fie we, in praise of which too much could scarcely be said, considering that he had not been in training. Hoe ever, when the preliminary canters were taking place, hopes again decidedly felt by the undoubted professional appearance, both in figure and style oc running, of his opponent, who certainly justified the good opinion of his backers. The result of this was that Kent became a greater favourite than before, and was backed at 3 to 2, the betting having previously been even. Atter six or seven false starts they got away well together, and remained so for about 50 yards, when the captain came to the front, and won easily by three yards, amidst the cheers of the offi cers and men of his regiment. _ _ GOOD FORTUNE.—A poor woman presented her self at the savings bank in Thomas-street, on Satur day evening last, for the purpose of depositing therein the sum of £3. Twenty shillings she paid down in silver, together with two notes—one a local 20s. note, and the other as she supposed, of equal value. The managers of the bank, on seeing the latter, rightly imagined there was some mistake on the woman's part, and asked her how much she thought she was about to deposit. She replied £3. The reader may judge of her astonishment on being told that one of the notes was an Australian bank bill for £5OO, and. not a 20s. Manx note. The woman, it is needless to say, left the bank overjoyed with the intelligence.—Manx Sun. NATIONAL METROPOLITAN MONUMENT TO SHAKESPEARE.—On Tuesday evening, June 30, we see by our advertising columns that a grand 111dlange Dra matique will be given at the Theatre Royal, Drur) -lane, for tree purpose of aiding a fund, now being raised, to erect a metropolitan monument to Shakespeare. This perform ance is under the immediate patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and will be assisted at by some 60 of the most eminent and popular London artists ; altogether forming a galaxy of talent, rarely if ever before congregated in one night's entertain ment. All honour to the worthy president of this band of brothers, William Charles Macready, Esq., and to the poor players who thus come for% ard to evince their gratitude to the great master of the passions, who was not only the founder of their art, but whose works are the fountation or the English tongue. We feel certain the public gene rally need but have their attention drawn to this event to flock by thousands to the standard which is graced by the name of the noblest subject of the Crown—the Prince of Wales. Mr. Adolphus Francis, of 43, Cumberland-street , Hyde Park, is the persevering honorary secretary to the movement, and will be glad of any co-operation that the enthusiastic lovers of the Bard of Avon may feel it incum bent on them to show. We may just add, the box-office at the theatre will be open on the 20th inst., but in the mean time tickets 'lay be obtained on applying by letter to the hon. secretary. Private boxes from two to fourteen guineas; stalls, 10s. 6d. ; dress circle, 6s. ; first circle, 4s. ; second circle, 3s. ; pit, 3s, ; being most judiciously kept at a mode rate figure. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, TJUNE 11, 1863.