The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

......................................••_ RC/ YAL ITALIAN 011 ERA, C OT ent - garden. Last Night but Three. Mr. A. HARRIS'S BENEFIT, THIS EVENING ( W e dnesday), July 27. Mad. ame Grisi, Mdlle. Artot, Madame Didiee, Mdlle. Adelina ; Signor A.ttri, Signor Graziani, Signor Naudin, Signor Mario. Mr. A.. H ARRIS has the honour most resp ec tfully to an nounce to the nobility, gentry, sub cribers to the opera. and t h e public, that the performances THIS EVEN ING- (Wed neaday July 27, will be for his BENEFIT. Mr. Harris will on this occasion be favoured by the co-operation of the dis tinguished artistes of the Royal Italian Opera. and, more over, through the obliging kindness of Madame Grisi, is per mitted to announce, for this occasion only, the appearance on prestage ot that great artiste. Mr. Harris is thus ent the following mos t attrac t i ve entertainment. enabled to 'Vie performances will commence with the First Act ot NO R.3IA. Norma, Madame Gris , , on this occasion only ; Adalgisa, 141d113. Artot, her first appearance in that charac ter ; Oroveso , S i g nor Attri ; and roll o , r Si g nor Naudin. Atter which, in accordance with a wish expressed by many pa' Mr. Harris's patrons, the Second and Third Acts of Gcanod's opera, FAUST E MARGHERITA. Mar4herita, Adeline Patti ; Siebe , Madame Didiee ; 3lefisto'e C. 'SUL-or Attri, his second appearance in that character in Eng land ; Valeatino, Signor Gr,ziani ; Wagner, signor Tao land ; and Faust, Signor Mario. Commence at half-past S o'clock. pit tletets, 7s. ; amphitheatre ita ls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre, 2s. dd. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten till five, and at the principal musicsellers' and ER lET MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL REPRESETIONS. NTA CHEAP PRICES. 'lheVlghts of Performances are gondays, Tuesdays, Thurs days, and Saturdays er TO-II OR ROW EVENING- (ThursdayG\Juolciy,scebi a l t b ed e 2S, w per formed, for the last t ime but one, oun Opera, FAUST. Valentin, Mr. Santley ; Mephi- Faust, Signor Ginglini ; stophiles, Signor Gassier ; Wgner, Sip;flor Bossi ; S ebel, Madame frebelli ; Marta, Madame Taccani ; and ilarg,herita, Titiena. Ch o rus of So ldiers, Citizens , Students , Women, .tc. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. seturday next, July 30, by general desire, the admired Opera, IL TROVATORE, will be repeated with the same unrivalled cast which pro duced s() Lna rked a sensation on Thursday last. The following is the distribution of the parts : Leonora, Macllle. Titiens ; Azucena , Madl le. Grassi, her Sec appearance in that character in Encr,land ;Ii Comte di lin% 31r. Santley ; Ferrando, Signor Bossi ; and Manrico, signor Giuglini. Conductor, Signor A.E.DITI. Commence at Eight precisely - ; terminating in time for the nig.ht trains to the environs. Prices : —Gallery, 2 s. ; Pit , ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s. ; Cpper Circle, ss. ; Orchestra Stalls, 12s. td. Notle , .—The usual restrictions to Evening Dress will not be entorc d. Box Office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 7, where places may be secured. Tickets also procurable, on the evenings of performance, at the Special uffices, open at the entrances of the Bit and Boxes ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Last Four Nights of Mdlle. Stella Colas. For the Benefit of Mis 3 M. Hirris. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new play by John Oxenford, Esq., THE MONASTEItY OF ST. JUSI: : Messrs. Vining, H. Mars ton, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, U. Seyton, C hapman ; Mrs. 11. Manton, and Mdlle. Stella colas. To corclude with THE FIRST EIGHT : Mr. A. Harris an d Miss M. Harris. E .to A r T a ß n E d m - L Webster. Ig s \ e ? T ro l l THEATRE-ROYAL, le A r 1 Mr. B. E THIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF TIIE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedforc, Billing.ton, Stuart, Stephe B n son, Roma; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly. and Mrs. il- Jington. At 11, ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Penholder, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Constance, Mies H. Simms. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, I'. Bedford, is. Romer, JLiss Wooigar, and Airs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Manazement of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Last three weeks of the present season. Crowded with rank and fashion. Ec•engagement of those ce:ebrai - ed and popular artistes, Mr. an Mrs. Charles Mathews. Production of an entirely new origin .1 Travestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnand, Esq., and enti;led FA Ch UST AiNi 1) MARGUERITE, in which Mr. Mrs arles matnews will appear. The new scenery de the celebrated artists, Messrs. Danson and Sons ; the incintal Badet by Oscar Byrne. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular n Imes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul _fledlord, Mr. y. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Weutworth,:Mrs. Stirling, ana Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. F. Robinson, Miss llerbert. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MARGUERITE : Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiaine, and Mrs. C. Mathews. At le, LITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. GOODWOOD —RACE GLASSES, the best at CALLAGLIAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. OP ERA and RACE GLASSES, Field and Yacht Glasses, in every varie y of size, form, and mounting, matchless for their great magnifying power and sharpness of definition. Price, from 305. each, at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. Sole agent for the celebrated race and field glasses and photo graphic lenses made Dy Veig - tlander, Vienna. Field glasses mace expressly for India, warranted to withstand the greatest tropical heat. The new aluminium mounted glasses (as m r,- centlymade for the Prince . a' Wales, though of the largett size, weigh but a Sew ounce, COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING SILK DRMSES, suitatle for she country and seaside, and at the c:earing-out price of only £1 ed. the dress. JAY'S, 247,20, and 231, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r' sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, therefme, iavite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they c in now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally be more costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217,249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 239. per ton. I Double.. 20s. per ton. 'lop 2 2 s. „ Deep Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, south Wharf, 'addington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke ........ • . l3s. per clalldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent riliiE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,'' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of U. E. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, NO. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 27, 1864. TFIERMOMETER. This day at Two o'c , ozk 7S Barometer-29.90. WIND-S. ; light breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 3h. 10m,—Afternoon, Eh. 45m To-Nonnow.-Morning, 9h. 22m.—Afternoon, 9h. 58m 4 1IX' 1C 4 *;,::1 67 , • LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1861 'lhe invasion of Maryland has realised the result 1 i n t en ded by the Confederate C omman d er- i n- Chi e f . The Southern army, it is true, has recroesed the Potomac, but it has dons so, as the telegram in formsimmense plunde r 1 " us, " with So that General LEE has, by Effecting this temporary inva sion of Maryland, accomplished two very desirable objects—two objects very desirable, indeed, to M r . DAVIS'S Government. He has—while audaciously carrying the war, so to speak, to the very gates o f the Federal Capital of Washington — sontrived yet once more to replenish his resources at the expense of the foe. In order to realise the extra ordinary importance of the former of these two achievements—no matter how fleeting it may have been in its duration—it will be sufficient to imagine the reversal of the situations." Conceive for one moment the hubbub of jubilation which would inevitably have arisen chorally from the whole of the Northeri p ress--in New York and elsewhere — suPlNThin,r; that General GRANT had despatched. an army of Federals to within a distance of six miles from Richmond ! Dur• ing the progress of this l a t est movement of the Confederates, beyond the Potomac, into Maryland, towards Washington , the soun d of the Southern guns could be distinctly heard by M r LINCOLN from his Presidential residence at the White H ouse. Lnagine anything like that to have been related as truthfully just upon the opposite side —to the cfn-ct, namely, th a t M r . Thvis had heard the reverberations of the Federal artillery hard by Richmond ! Yet the events have been precisely as we have here had them related to us. General LEE did, only the other day, Cause to be successfully undertaken a nd carried throu g h, that latest and almost we might 'say, that most daring achievement of the Confederates—the crossing of the Potomac, the advance into Mary• land, the approach to within six miles of Washing , ton ! Until the Southern artillery became audible from the White House—of course to the intense satisfaction of Mr. LINCOLN, the Federal President, the President calling himself still ' k w absurdly) the President of the United States. True that the invading force has withdrawn from the immediate neighbourhood of Washington, has retired from Maryland, has recrossed the Potomac. But—it has done so with flying colours! Unpur. Isurd 1 " With immense plunder !" Adeitional evidence having thereby been afforded that, wherts soever he lists, General LEE can do p'.:e cisely whatsoever he lists ! He can send his troops clean round to the other side of Washington. He can cause them to cross and recross the frontiers of the Federal territory. He can despatch them, as one may say, to fire an ironical feu de joie within hearing-distance from the White House of Mr. PRESIDENT. He can do all this while Petersburg is still threatened with bombard. ment. While GRANT'S army still appears bent upon striving, even now, to vanquish the main army of the Confederates. While the Northern commander still looks—doesn't go, but contents himself with looking—in the direction of Richmond. But—what is more than all this—Gen. LEE has again shown that whenever he wants additional supplies. instead of troubling the Eouthern President or the Southern Ministers about it, he has only to send his troops and gather in as much as he wants from the Federals themselves. In effect LEE has within the last few weeks shown himself once more to be very much, indeed, like that Good Centurion in the Gospel, who",has but to say to his follower go and he goeth, come and he cometh, do this and he doth it. In spite of the severe criticisms which have been passed upon it in some quarters, there will be no dissatisfaction felt that the New Zealand Guarantee of Loan Bill has passed through the second reading in the Upper House. It did not reach that stage without opposition, although the noble lords who opposed it ccntented themselves with mere verbal - - censure. Some of them found fault with the origin of the war, and some with the principle of giving assistance to our colonies. Others objected to the moral guarantee which such a measure would give ,o all the acts of the colonists; and again it was suggested that it would b© wise to employ Sikhs and — other Indian regiments rather than English troops in such a campaign. When all has been said however, little doubt can remain that the course adopted is the best and wisest possible in the presen state of things. Whatever the origin of the war, whether disputes about land or money, or the natural antagonism of the races, whether treachery on the one hand or tyranny on the other were the most to blame, or whether, as some suggest, the too evident desire to conciliate the natives produced the very evil which our authorities sought to avoid—it is now certain that it must be carried out and brought to the speediest possible conclusion. It will never do to lay down our arms and allow the natives the victory. If we suffer them to defeat us in a war in which we have really put forth our power, we may as well give up all hopes of colonise ing and civilising New Zmiand. It may, un- doubtediy, be wise and fitting to lend a willing ear to the first whisper of peace, to pity the misguided but bravo and skilful men who are thus wasting their lives and land in a fruitless struFgle, and such conciliation and mercy Sir GEORGE GREY evinces evert inclination to show. " I should instantly," he says, in writing co the subject to the Home Government, " listen to any reasonable overtures that the natives in arms may make, and I should avail myself of any opportunity that offers of ob. taming permanent peace for this colony." But the New Zealand Governor goes on to say that mercy itself requires that future contests between the two races should be as far as possible prevented, an a nothing can be more likely to lead to a total dee.rue. tion of the native race than a series of sued wars. There are many tribes who have taken no part whatever in the present struggle, so that it must not be supposed that we are engaged in a strife with the whole nation, but it is imperatively neces sary that those lockers-on should see the hopeless ness and folly of such a struggle as their associates have now entered upon. The murder of Englishmen could scarcely pass without reprisals ; if it had been suffered to do so no life in the colony would have been safe. When we come to the objection raised in some quarters to the employment of our _ . troops in the colonies at all, it is still more untenable than any grounds for opposition to the war ,itself. The much vaunted principle of non. intervention, which has been already carried to an extent damaging to our honour and injurious to our best interests in Europe, would by some among us be now acted upon with reference to our own colonies. Our sympathies appear to be narrowing, until they can hardly extend to those of cur own kin if they are aoross the seas, Our politicians of the present day appear to be inclined to rush into the opposite extreme from the mistakes of their forefathers, who considered the colonies so much a part of the mother country that they were bound to contribute to her expenses. A wiser and more liberal policy now shrinks from impsing any obligation upon them, but we can scarcely acquit ourselves of all obligations. It is granted, of course, that the colonies are bound to contribute in men and money to the protection of their coma• try, and the dwellers in any of our settlements must certainly have lost some of the most promi. neat characteristics of their race if they shrink from taking their fair share either of expense or of danger. We have not had to complain of any backwardness or want of zeal on the part of our New Zealraid colonists, v, ho have mustered strongly in their own defence. Ten thousand volunteers, who have served with credit and even distinction, have been raised among them, while a large part of the expenses of tho war have been cheerfully borne by them. With regard to the Imperial troops engaged there, the colony has undertaken to pay £45 a man from the Ist of January next year. We have certainly, therefore, no right to assert that the colonists are making exorbitant or unreasonable demands upon us. If the lives of the English soldiers are being risked, so also are the lives of the colonists, It is their property which is endangered, their homes which are i m perilled, their wayfa rers and stragglers who run the risk of secret murder. We can fancy, b es id es , the injury which such a state of things is inflicting on the trade and business of the colony, and have, therefore, no right or reason to suppos e that our settlers would lightly or wantonly engage in such a disastrous strife. It would be an ungra cious thing to refuse the assistance of men to our colonists when they are willing to pay the expenses of the War, and es p ec i a lly to a settlement like New Zealand, whi c h, t h ough t h r i v i n g and prosperous in times of peace, is as yet but in its youth. Unlike the youth of its sister settlements in Australia, its progress has been slow and gradual, and it can hardly be regarded as sufficiently strong er populou3 I to meet the whole brunt of a struggle for life. It must, besides, be borne in mind that the present 4 THE SUN, - LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 2/, 1864. measure is not a subsidy, but a guarantee for a loan, and that it is to be rer.aid out of the colonial resources. Under these circumstances it is, cer tainly, the least we 411 do to give our colonists this temporary assiAance, which, we trust, for their own sakes, will be the last they will require at our hands. It is unquestionably a great advantage that some thing should be done to alleviate, so far as possible, the fearful amount of misery that is endured by the poorer classes during the winter months. Last year the 'season was very inclement, it is true, but the det ails that constantly met the eye ware frightful, an d it seemed a disgrace to our management that cr,e should suffer such a state of things /o continue. The difficulties twat always attend any attempt to succour the needy in an cfficie I form, are almost ins superable, and this, therefore, must bj taken as some excuse for thp length of time that elapses be fore anything decisive is ever:done. Mr. VILLIERS deserves credit for the energy he exhibited in push. ing forward the Poor Relief Metropolis Bill on Monday. It is satisfactory that he succeeded in his attempts to get it passed through committee, for although doubtless there may be many defects in its structure, still it is a step in the right direction, and until some decisive steps are taken and scme experiments made, it is impossible to come to a con clusion as to how and in what form relief may be speedily and effectually administered. It must ap. pear to those who look at this subject in an abstrac' form that the chief mistake that occurs in our tree ment of the affair is, that too much discussion is raised on the point. No one can allow the proposal of another to be carried out without patting in some proviso of his own. The result is retort and argu. ment, and too often the eager and excited theorists lose sight of the practical part of their dispute alto gether in their determined opposition to each other's plans. The result is a sad and serious one. It may seem nothing to those who are at case to put off this bill or that measure till a new session, but long be fore that period arrives the dark, long nights of winter have done their work, and cold, hunger, and exposure have carried off many to untimely graves. It is always a pity to put off the decision on any question, and, if possible, to avoid delay, but in a case that relates to the welfare of the houseless, the distressed, and the outcast, it is most deplorable that nothing should be done fer so long a time as must elapse before the opportunity for legislation again presents itself. Mr. VILLIERS explained that this bill did not deserve the reproach that had been cast upon it—that it was introducing a new principle into legislation—because it happens that there is an Act now in existence which enforced that " the property of the metropolis ought to bear the ex pense of the support of these poor people." This measure now introduced is a modification of tha scheme, and therefore offered great advantages to their view. Certainly something must be done, and it seems advisable to make trial of any suggestion rather than adopt the very mischievous plan cf doing nothing at all. It will be far batter that scores of those whom the new measure offends are displeased and put to inconvenience than that one houseless wanderer shall perish in our streets for want of aid and assistance. If the broad principles of humanity came more into play in these matters, instead of always falling back upon the narrow doc trines of routine and the hard, cold measures of selfish views and interested motives, how much better it would be, and how much more good might be effected. Lord R. CECIL's proposal to limit the duration of the Bill to next spring was a very wise one, and met the objections of many. The noble lord said he was unwilling to incur the responsibility of doing nothing to alleviate the distressed cases which every winter so abundantly presented, and yet that many did not yet rightly understand and fully approve of the bill. lc is always wise to adopt some half way course of this kind when the Case is of an urgent nr.Ature, and all sides deserve credit for thus compr",aing:an affair which involved such vital interest in its issues. Those who look upon the cone. - ition of their poor and afflicted fellow•creatures Pith concern, and lament the bitter sufferings that they are so often compelled to endure, will rejoice that this measure will now be carried out. This session has been worse than profitless, for much harm has been done to the cause of justice, and the influence which the English Parliament ought to exercise has been thrown away, but it is satisfactory to think that some praiseworthy attempts have been made to remedy defects in the working of our home machinery. The passing of Mr. iiinnias' bill last night is a good thing, and the intelligence must be very gratifying to all who last year deplored the want of a similar provision being made for the homeless, It is a step in the right direction, and nothing can be easier than to remedy any deficiencies that may be found to mar the efficacy of its workings or to interfere with th© advantages it ought to impact. Another point gained is that, after this decisive step having been taken, it will not be likely that the subject Iv ill be again so much ignored as it has been. It is always more easy to go on in an undertaking than to begin a new one, and_this system of poor relief for the winter may be considered as fairly in working order. The hundred objections that are constantly being raised to these proposals will vanish when once it is seen that the originators of the scheme are really in earnest, and that heir prejudices are treated with the indifference that they deserve. The voice of the starving seemed to cry from the ground for succour during the last winter's long lapse of cold and inclement weather, and every death from want was a reproach on the system of a State that with with so wealthy a community, could not provide a shelter for those who were driven forth to perish. In some degree this scandal has been removed from our Legislature, and it is to be hoped that success will attend this endeavour. Lord Palmerston has signified to the directors of the East and West Junction Railway Company that he will bo present at the ceremony of cutting the first sod of the railway by Lady Palmerston on Wednesday, Aug. 3:at Towcester, five miles from the Blisworth station of the Lon don and North 'Western Railway. The inhabitants of the district are preparing to give his lordship a hearty welcome. MEYEREEER'S AFRICAINE'' AT LAST!—The " Africaine," it is said, will be performed in January neat at the Grand Opera. F6tis the elder, of Brussels, has been asked, in accordance with the late composer's own wish, to direct the rehearsals and performances. A CHINESE EXECUTlON.—Yesterday morning, May 17, A. King met his fate for the murder of Mr Dore. The number of Europeans, English as well as others, who were present showed that the circumstances attending this murder were not forgotten ; but there was not the vast multitude which at home usually characterise a " public hanging." In the centre of a wide plat of land a tent was standing, covered with red serge. This was set apart for the official magistrate. Punctual to a minute, the mandarins, prison officials, and others in authority arrived. The prisoner was marched, heavily ironed, between the police constables, and placed before the inspecting magis trate. His appearance excited shouts of ironical applause from the natives; joined in, we regret to add, by many of the Europeans present, As soon as all was ready, and en address spoken to the prisoner by one of the acting manda rins, he at once went on his knees. The head representa tive of the execution guild then rode up, and raising his sword as the signal, the executioner's knife fell, and all was over. The headsman at one cut severed the head from the b ody. It fell forward many feet. The blood spurted out, the muscles of the once animate body quivered and col. lapsed, and A niing lay headless and a corpse. The blow was clean, and before many of the spectators were aware the man's head was off. There was a general question, " When will it begin ?" Tho time was kept to a minute, At 10 precisely the man's head was off, and after duly looking at the body, and seeing the manacles knocked Off the feet, the Officials departed,—, , ,s7mgliql kcyNert LATEST INTELLIGENCE ton, 13 days from Newport ; schooner John Bell, 17 days from Liverpool ; schooner King, 14 days LIIETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.] from Swansea ; steamer Crimean, 6 days from Liverpool ; schooner Magdalene, 17 days from Car. difi ; barque Erromanga, 23 days from Newcastle; and schooner Florence, 14 days from Cardiff. Exchange on London, 90 days date, 50,1- ; Paris, sf. 28c. to 293. ; Marseilles, sf. 30c. ; Genoa, sf. 31c. ; Madrid, 8 days sight, par ; Cadiz, 1 11 dis. ; Barcelona, prem.; Seville,.Malaga, Almeria, Va encia, and Alicant, par. Freights unaltered. ADIERICA. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, from New York on the 16th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 9.20 a.m. this day. She brings the mails, 127 pas sengers, and 226,524 dole. in specie. She landed 17 passengers, and proceeded at 9.30 a.m. NEW YORK, JULY 16 (Morning). The illusion is at an end, the Confederates having retired from Maryland and from before Washington. On Tuesday night they recrossed the Potomac with immense plunder. Tele g raphic communication with Washing-ton has been re3tored. Unofficial despatches report Sherman to have crossed the Chattahoochie, and to have arrived within six miles of Atalanta. Death of Mr Sergeant Merewethe; After the battle on the Macacy the Confederates marched straight to Washington and burnt Mr. Francis Blair's residence near the City. On Monday and Tnefday they made a demonstra. This gentleman, 'who v;as for many years town clerk of the corpora Lion of the city of London, died a few days ago at his residence at Castle• field, near Caine, in 'Wiltshire, at the advanced age of 84. He was (diected to the office of town clerk on the 23d of Sue, 1842, on the death of Mr Henry Woodthorpe, the father of the present town clerk, who had held it for 17 years. On.that occasion he stood a contest with Mr William Pritchard, the then High Bailiff of Southwark, and was returned by the Common Council, in whom the right of appointment vests, by a majority of 26. The salary was £2,000 a year, with an official residence, and many incidental emo luments besides. At the age of 62 he entered on the duties of the office, relinquishing with that view the whole of his professional practice, which had become very lucrative from the extent to which he was re• tained as counsel before Parliamentary committees. He was called to the bar on the sth May, 1809, and was for many years previous to his death a sergeant at-law, with a patent of precedence. He was also Attorney-General to the late Queen Dowager, Doc tor of Civil Law, Recorder of Reading, and went the Western Circuit. He is said to have owed his appoint ment as town clerk to a pamphlet which he wrote in defence of the alleged right of the corporation of Lon• don to the foreshore of the. Thames, that of protracted litigation with 'die Crown, and his last appearance as an adve, - , ja t e was i n the Court of Chancery, where h'e spoke for a whole day with his accustomed al - ,:aity on the side of the corporation. He was af'Lerwards examined as a witness before the Roy - el Commission, of which Lord Taunton (then Labouchere) was chairman, and threw much light on the constitution. customs, and affairs of the corporation, giving his evidence in the spirit of a Conservative, which he always was in politics. On the 10i,h of February, 1859, when verging on 80 years of age, Mr Merewether resigned the office of town clerk on a pension of £l,OOO a year, which now reverts by his death to the civic purse. He was a man of fine presence, with much suavity of manner and a dignified bearing, and it is generally acknowledged by the civic authorities at Guildhall that the office was never more worthily sustained than by him within living memory. Mr Merewe ther had a large family, five of whom survive, Lis eldest son being Mr Henry Merewether, Q.C., and Recorder of Devizes. It is a remarkable circum stance that his death was preceded by a few hours by that of his brother, the Rev. Francis Merewe• ther, rector of Cole•orton, Leicestershire, at the age of 80. tion against Fort Stevens. On Tuesday afternom two divisions of the Sixth Corps, which had arrind from Grant's army, drove the Confederates one toile beyond Fort Stevens. On Tuesday night all the Confederates retired from before Washington, and recrossed the Potomac at Poolcsville and Edwaid Ferry with enormous stores and a large number o! horses. It is reported that the Federals have crossed the Potomac in pursuit. The accounts concerning the strength of the invading force vary from 12,000 to 30,000 men. General Franklin has made his escape. Ths Confederates have made a demonstration against Grant's left to ;et into his rear. General Price is reported moving into Missouri. The American Consul at St. John's has tele graphed to the Governor of Maine that a small party of Confederates had left to depredate on the Maine frontier. Mr Fessenden is unable to arrange with the Banks for the loan cf 50,000,000 dols. The Confederates are using the Orange and Alex andria Railway, as well as waggons, to transport their spoils to Richmond. Six steamboats were burnt at St. Lewis yester day by incendiaries; the loss is estimated at half a million of dollars. The Militia recently called out for the defence of Washington were yesterday mustered out of ser. vice, by order of tle President, their aid being 110 longer needed. P. ll General Hunter's supplies collected at Mar. ticsburg, valued at 3,000,000 dole., were captured by the Codederatts when Sigel evacuated that place. COMMERCIAL. Money tight. Gold, 252. Exchange on London —Bankers Bills, 27,1 to 275. Stocks steady—New York Centrals, 133; Illinois Shares, 1281; Erie, 1121 ; 6 per cent. Uaited States five-twenty Bonds, 163 Z-. Cotton dull—Middling Upland, 161 to 161 Flour, wheat, and corn declining. A heavy fall has taken place in pork, as well as in produce of every description. Provisions falling. Coffee steady and sugar heavy. Molasses inactive. Petroleum crude, Mc, to 52e, ; refined, 60c. to 82c. MEXICO. According to news received at New York from Mexico to the 2d inst., it was reported that Uraga and Doblado had given their adhesion to the French. The steamer Little Ada has been captured off Charleston, The Caledonia has been intercepted at Cape Race, THE CONFERENCE. BERLIN, JULY 27, A telegram from Vienna received here States that the Danish Plenipotentiary, M. de Quaade, had declared, at the preliminary meeting of the Confer• enc.?, that he was fully empowered to conduct the negotiations, reserving only to his Gosternment the right of ulterior ratification, SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 26. It is stated that a Credit Foneier for Spain is being organised in London with a capital of 300,000,000 reals, and that no privileges will be required from the Government. PRANCE. PARIS, JULY 27. The Government candidates in the department of Ardeche and Dordogne have been elected by a large majority. BOURSE, July 26.--The market continues firm, notwithstanding the intelligence of a fall of -,--, in the English Consols. Threes, for the Account, have fluctuated between 66f. 7ic. and 66f. 121 f. Mobiar has been done at 903 f. 75c., and is now demanded at 991 f. 25c. Railway Shares firm, and prices stationary. The tuaricet closed as follows : 4± per Cents 94 20 Italian L0an...... 6S 15 Do. end month Do. end month.... 68 15 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 10 New Mexican .... 561 Credit Mobilior..., 995 Russian ........ •-- Do. end month 990 Austrian ........ Bank Shares 3385 Spanish Threes.... Credit Foncior .• • l2lO home Debt ...... Roman RAILWAYS. cash. Account. Orleans , - 873 7 5 .. 872 50 Northern .... Lyous and Mediterranean 893 75 .. 895 New ditto Southern 638 75 .. 610 Western 5 .. 476 25 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain .... 4-10 —.. 435 -- Saragossa .. 523 75 .. 526 25 Ditto to Barcelona .... - - .• - .... THE BOIYIBAY IAILS. SUEZ, JULY 26. The Bemires, from Bombay, reached Suez at .5 p.m. this day, The Norma, from Mauritius, arrived at 7 a , m . yesterday. steam -49 passengers, has ar r i ve d. SOU THAMPTON, JULY 27. shi T p hePen with the heavy p or ti on of the above mails and Delta,incsauplta.r lavnedekos,ri e ntal Company's The Delta brings on freight-3 packages specie, Tattle £541 9s 2cl ; one box bullion, £145; two boxes bloodstones, 17 cases Indian shawls, 3 cases lace, 1 case jewellery, and 185 packages sun d r i es , The Delta left Alexandria on the 14th, and, ex perienced fine weather throughout the passage. On the 16th ahe passed the company's steamer Delhi, and on the 19th the Massilia—the former steering S.E., and the latter E. Her Majesty's ships of war Revenge, Boxer, Royal Oak, Growler, Weser, Hibernia, Marlbo rough, Liffey, Meanee, and Magicienno were at Malta; and at Gibraltar, the Procris and Itedpole GIBRALTAR, July 223.—? 11 he Spanish frigate Berenguela, left Cadiz on the 19th for the Pacific Seas, to reinforce the squadron of Admiral Pinzoa. The brigs John Bradsha g (of Liverpool), Eliza beth Henderson (of Shields), and AV.G.D.B. cCom menial code of signals), and ship Riga, passed through tL Straits to the Eastward on the 16th I instant. The following British vessels have arrived here since the sailing of the last mail for Southampton— brigantine Jenny Jones, 15 days from Liverpool ; schooner Hash, 14 days from Liverpool ; steamer Massilia, 41 days from Southampton ; schooner, Betty Russell, 16 days from Newport ; steamer Dal housie, 71 days from Glasgow ; steamer, Kelpie, 12 days from Southampton ; schooner Lard Harring. Dockyard Accommodation, The second and final report from the select com mittee upon dockyard accommodation was made on the 15th inst., and has been printed as a Palle. mentary paper. As to Devonport and Reyham, the committee are of opinion that a third basin at Devonport equal in extent to the present north basin, and at least two additional first-class docks are among the works which are required; and that it is desirable that the entrance to the basin and docks be so constructed as to admit ships at all times of the tide. As to Cork the committee advise the immediate construction of a first-class dock in some convenient site in the harbour ; and also an arrangement, if practicable, to deepen one of the existing private docks for occasional naval requirements. As to Malta the committee are decidedly in favour cf a dock at French Creek, and hope that the difficulties, owing to the interpretation placed by the Imperial and Colonial Governments as to the agreement for a dock at Mersa, will be overcome. In the event of French Creek being placed at the disposal of Government, the committee recommend that this country should offer to construct a deck at Marsa for the use of merchant ships. In regard to foreign stations, the committee are of opinion that a G3vernment dock at Bermuda, suitable for the accommodation of first-class ships, is required. They have also taken evidence as to the accommodation required at various colonial sta tions, and think that the plan adopted at Hong Kong might be followed• with advantage, viz., ad vancing a reasonable sum to private parties con• strutting a dock, provided it be constructed of suf ficient dimensions otherwise, and be at all times at the disposal of her Majesty's ships when required; the sum advanced being in proportion to every foot of depth attained bey and 20 feet up to 24 feet. The committee are also of opinion that similar arrangements could be made with private firms in this country for the construction of first•class graving docks, or the enlargement and deepening of existing docks ; it is desirable this should be done. The committee, although not recommending ex tensive alterations beyond what is immediately pressing, consider the whole question of foreign dock accommodation as of great importance, and that much expenditure will be required to preserve the naval position of this country. Steam vessels must have their bottoms cleaned frequently, and great loss is caused by their absence from their sta tions, and the wear and tear of sending them home and bringing them back. The committee, in re commending large expenditure, suggest as worthy of consideration whether Deptford, Woolwich, and Pembroke Dockyards might not be suppressed altogether and disposed of, and the business now carried on in them transferred to the yards to which such important and costly additions are in progress or in prospect. In all probability the money realised by the sale of these valuable sites would provide a considerable sum towards meeting the capital expenditure which must be incurred in improving the larger dockyards of the United Kingdom and the colonies. The committee also direct attention to the evi- deuce of Mr M'Lean and Mr Coode, two eminent civil engineers, who think that the saving by con vict labour is counterbalanced by the loss caused by the increased length of time the works are in pro gress, and they recommend the completion, as speedily as possible, of every work undertaken. MISS MARGARET ADDIE'S CASE.—A correspon dent of the Daily News writes :—During the present session a bill was brought into the House of Lords proposing that the punishment of flogging should be added to im prisonment in cases where a man had outraged a woman, and the bill was carried in that house. In the House of Commons it was lost by a small majority. One of the ob jeetions made was that it would degrade the man. Query— Can a man guilty of this horrible crime be degraded ? and if he can, why should not he who has degraded a virtuous woman be degraded himself ? Surely this is only the barest justice. Had the wife or daughter of one of the majority in the House of Commons met with the same fate as that unfor • tunate Miss Addie, would the bill have been lost ? I think not. Indifferent as Englishmen appear to be to the honour and safety of their women, such an outrage on the daugh ter of one of the members would have aroused a different and a better feeling. The injury inflicted on this unhappy girl is worse than death, and the best hopo her parents can have is that she may die. Dishonoured, deprived of all hope of happiness during her life, what can she pray for but death ? And what punishment will be thought mf l. dent for this monstrous criminal ? A few years' impri sonment with hard labour, and then, in all probability, turned out upon society to repeat his crimes. Our laws are merciful indeed to criminals, but how unmerciful to the innocent I . TII E OUTRAGE IN GOVAN.—We regret to state that on Sunday night the unfortunate victim of this atro cious assault was considered by her medical attendants to be in a dangerous condition.—Glasgow Eerald. SIGNOR VERDI AND M. DUMAS.—Two new operas have been ordered by the Grand Opera in Paris of Verdi, to one of which Dumas the elder is to write the libretto. MADAME TUSSAUD . S.—One of the best executed figures recently udded to Madame Tussaud's Exhibition is a 'ife-sizs portrait model, in the costume of the period, of the youthful Edward v., who with his infant brother, the Duke of York, was foully murdered, by order of his uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard 111., in the Tower of Loud,rn. LITERATURE. Atherstone Priory. By L. N. Comyn, Author of "Ellice, a Tale." Two volumes. Longman and Company. A Domestic Novel, this is, of the most charming character, Perhaps altogether it is rather too diffuse in style, too "spun out" in some of its incidents and descriptions. But—in this, like that " dimpled, sur prised-looking capital face" of Scrooge's nephew's wife, with all its shortcomings, whatever they may be--"satisfactory, oh, perfectly satisfactory !" As in one sense a mere material objection, and yet as in another sense a wholly ins. material objection to the book as a book, we would say at once that it seems to us rather a pity that it should have been published precisely in the form in which it has been published ! In other words, that it should have appeared as two rather unwieldy volumes, instead of, in the old orthodox novel-form, as three volumes of reasonable dimensions. For although Miss or Mrs. Comyn's book—(which it ought to be, we know not, but the sex of the work, as we may say, is altogether un mistakeable !)—although this newly published fiction by the author of " Ellice, a tale," comes fcrth merely as a domestic story in two volumes, the two volumes within which it is comprised have been ex tended to the length of no less than 1,102 pages. Yet bulky though the book is, the reader of it will hardly find it a bit too long. Homely though the incidents it relates, it will securely hold the atten tion of the lovers of a purely domestic narrative — through it's upwards of One Thousand and One hundred pages of thoroughly English Entertain ment. It might be objected to it by the more cap tious, that the title is somewhat of a misnomer — seeing that the larger of theseavvo volumes—that is to say the second one—refers hardly at all, except towards the close of it, to that scene of all the varied incident recour.tea t. wit, I , Atherstone Priory." Still, even in regard to that at once specious and captious objection, we conceive that the au thcress might reply, and with good show of reason enough, that "the cottage by the sea," where the more sor rowful incidents of the plot are described as having occurred, solely acquire an interest for us during the chief part of the second volume by reason of its being inhabited for a while by people we, still, to the last, mainly associate with Atheretono Priory. Once, and once only, does the writer forsake the even tenour of her way in order, we presume, to afford her admirers come notion of her capabilities—if she pleased—as a Sensationalist. Whatever her motive in doing so, we would earnestly recommend her never again to adventure into those regions of extravagantly romantic and impassioned sentimentality which may be said to hnvo dictated the chapter in which—(this is the one flaw in the narrative, even, we would say, in the writing of it' certainly in the conception of it)—the chapter in which Percy is described as waiting, in a sort of ambush, with murder in his heart, by the moonlit " pool among the hills," for his supposed enemy, Arthur Darrell. The authoresS may take our word for this, at least, that she can never hope to compete,with Miss Braddon as a sensationalist, though she may, if she lists, count very confidently upon proving a for midable rival to Miss Yonge, that most charming among all our living domestic novelists. And we are very much mistaken, indeed, in our estimate at once of the powers and of the predilections of L. N. Comp], if the latter would not herself immeasurably prefer entering the lists with the authoress of a "Daisy Chain," instead of with the authoress of " Aurora Floyd." There is some thing kindred, indeed, in the genius which wove the "linked sweetness" of the " Daisy Chain," and that which has here built up the homely architecture of " Atherst one Priory" peopling it afterwards with the numerous Family of good Dr. Ten cant of Atherstone. A manufacturing town is that said town of Athere stone. A place dingy and smoky enough in itself. But with a green oasis in the midst of it, in the shape of that large scrambling old garden, full of flowers, and fruit, and vegetation of all kinds, grassy-lawn and shadowing lime trees, rose bushes and orchard boughs, embowering three sides of that old Priory Mansion, which presents its fourth side to the main street of the beforementioned manufactur ing borough-town of Atherstone! It is surprising now that we have come to the end of the story, as it its told to us in these two bulky volumes, it is surprising to UE—h eck n eye d, and, as we had fancied, somewhat used-up novel-readers—how profound an interest the writer has here contrived to awaken within us in regard to the various members of this home groupe ! Doctor Tennant himself, although the very embodi ment of good-nature, appears tco slightly and casually in the course of the narrative, to secure from us, we must confess, very much of our sympathy. His second wife again is such a cross grained cantankerous old harridan that even when she relents at the very end of the book we don't care for her the snap of a finger and thumb ! Doctor Tennant, it should be here mentioned at once, has two children by his first wife—dead, this latter, long before the story opens, dead so long indeed by that time that the Doctor has been married again for a good many years, having by Mrs. Tennent No. 2 as many as seven children. Captain, afterwards Major, eventually Col. Percy Tennant, is the good doctor's first-born by his first wife—and this Percy it is who is the hero of the book. His sister Mary might be described as the good angel of it. Not the heroine of course, however, —as will have been manifest in the mere fact of its being her brother who is the hero. The heroine's part is allotted, almost avowedly, as one may say, at the outset to the adopted child of the house, an orphan cousin, wilful, charming, lovely, loveable, litt'e Lisa! The child wife. as she becomes (just midway in the story) of Percy Tennant. As to the seven children brought to Dr. Tennant by his second wife, the cold-eyed, cold hearted matron already mentioned by us in terms strongly expressive of our repugnance, they partake, most of them, we suspect, rather too much of her nature, and too little of the kindlier nature of her husband, to win our regard very cordially. Isabel, until towards the end of the book, is simply odious, with her jealousy and her slanders—her jealousy the meanest her slanders at once the most detestable in their nature and the most disastrous in their consequences. Her sister Elinor, again, is barely tolerable all through the work—a s;:, silent, secretive valetudi narian lover, not in the ;Cast worthy of Arthur Darrell, who, while in the ear:.ier chapters one of the most delightful of all the charam:ers introduced to our notice, lighting up, as he &me ; the old fashioned sitting rooms and the green terchard garden at Atherstone Priory, with his wild fun and frolic, becomes really and truly quite spoilt ft ,r us directly he falls into that fatal attachment of his for Elinor. Fatal, that is, not to him, but to one upon whom the mystery of it throws for a while such very lamentable suspicions, Charming little Lisa, that is—the child wife of poor, deceived, purblind Percy Tennant. The tangled skein of the plot of the novel, however, we will not precisely attempt here to unravel. The gordian knot of it may be found by those who list, unwound most deftly and skilfully by the authoress—unwound by her in all its intricate involutions save one—the which central core of the knot of the plot, as one may sa y, is severed only by the grimly sheers of Atropos ! Compensation, however, of some kind is given to us at the very last, where compensation has seemed at first a thing impossible—namely, after the grief caused by our loss of poor Lisa! Tho young wife and mother leaving in solace to her husband and to the reader Little Lisa's own alter ego Tiny May ! An enthralling home story — very real of its kind—is this new domestic talc by L. N. Comyn : a fiction in which the fair promise given by the writer through the gracious outlines and delicate colouring of her " Ellice" (so far as we know, her maiden work), are not simply fulfided, but are, we would rather say, realised so very happily, that we have every confidence in the still further rise, advance, and development of her reputation. g o Whittington has ---- EATING LIVE R A TS.—Geor been tin e d £5, w ith the alterna tivo ot 30 days' imprisonment,by the Glasgow magistrates, for having an exhibition of a man an d a woman eating live rats in his show booth in Gaol-square. Calor . HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, July 26. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse, aad her Royal Highness Princess Louise, walked and drove about the grounds yesterday. The Countess of CaMon has been succeeded by Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe as Lad)" In Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. On Monday evening the Prince and Princess, attended by Lieut.-General Knollys, Capt. Grey' Col. Kingscote, and Mrs Stonor, left Frogmore House about file o'clock, the Prince and Prince Es each driving a pair of ponies, and proceeded through the Long Walk to Virginia Water. °°. reaching the lake their royal highnesses a mused themselves with boating and fishing, and after' wards dined with their suite in the Fishing Temple on the banks of the lake. The royal party returned to Frogmore late in the evening. Yesterday afternoon the Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. G. H. Grey, drove from Frogmore Noll° in a pony carriage to the banks of the Thames, at a point between the Albert and Victoria Bridge' Windsor Home Park, for the purpose of inspecting a steam-ship propeller, invented and patented by the Messrs Germann Brothers, of Old Windso r ' The propeller, which has been applied to an iron experimental boat, 45ft. long, 3ft. Gin. deep, and sft. beam, drawing 2ft. tin. at the stern and 12i0• forward, consists of a small flat blade, 6in. by 1O 10 " fixed to an axle and crank placed at the side of the keel near the stern, and is driven with great 04 4 day with a very peculiar motion, reeenahlivg, in some respects the paddling of the foot °' the swan while swimming. His Royal Highn ess and Captain Grey having gone on board the boat' made a trip down the 6tream to the Old Wind sor Lock, running about seven miles an hour, th ough this speed is said to be nothing like what con 11) attained with the 'proper amount of horse-paw er ; While proceeding down the river a small model l' the propeller was exhibited to the Prince, the wort` ing of which was thoroughly explained by M r. Germann. His Royal Highness appeared rou eh. pleased with the simple and effective manner of its working, and remarked that the motion was ma cil preferable to that of the screw. On reaching tbe locks the craft's head was turned up stream, Blld the Prince's party steamed back to the B°Y s grounds in the lime Park, from whence they bad started, and having landed, the Prince drove We to Frogmore House. e el In the evening the Prince and Princes s luau another trip to Virginia Water in pony c arriag es accompanied by a distinguished party of vi sitors and their suite. The Royal party were to dine /- i , the Fishing Temple, covers being laid for fourteen' Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambriee arrived at the Windsor station of the South Western Railway at 1.52 yesterday. On leavi l l the train the Duchess drove to Frogmore in one ° the Royal carriages to visit the Prince and Pr incess of Wales. Her Royal Highness returned fr° s3 Frogmore at ten o'clock, by special train. The Prince and Princess will leave Frogni° l° early this morning, and travel, via the Sae" Western and the South Coastlines, to Chichester , which they will reach about a quarter bef ore tWo to Their Royal Highnesses will proceed a t once Good wood House, and thence to the course, is tlm to see the Stakes run for. The Duke and Duchess Montpensier, with the ir i suite, left Tunbridge Wells yesterday for St arke y 's gote ► • St. Leonard's, for sea bathing. Th ey r e t u rn to their telly' porary residence at Tunbridge Wells in a few days. , Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Mar:o of Russia and suite loft Claridge's Hotel yesterday for Tor: quay, where her Imperial Highness will r e main for absill two months. ' The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn svd family will leave Chesterfield House in a few days for Beer desert, Staffordshire. The Marqui k e and Marchioness of Downshire ava Lady Alice Hill left town yesterday for East Hampste ad Park for a few dus. The Earl of Derby continues to improve iv health. The noble earl and countess will leave St. Jarn es4l4 square the latter end of the week, for Knowsley Palk' The Earl and Countess Amherst have left to g " for their seat, Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent. The Earl and Countess Bective will leave Ovilj early next week for their seat, Underley Hall, Westraorlat'a ALARMING CARRIAGE ACCIDENT .—A very s er 1°• tILS road accident occurred at Oichard Mains, ill parish of Traquair, Innerleithen, on Friday aftereoe.4 under the following circumstances : — Mr. Sohn. 111; butler, and Miss Langlois, housekeeper to Lady 1-'°o Stuart, Traquair House, with Mrs Addison an d her 01'3, little boy from Edinburgh, were on a visit to the glens {tee yelling in the Traquair house phaeton. Immediately 6%9 leaving the glen gate on their return, the horse, Nyllicl4cia. somewhat spirited animal, started off at full SPeedl cis. tinned to run at this rate till it passed Orchard Itlains, a l Lance of a mile, Mr Hope, who was driving, being °II- ; to draw it up. Here the road makes a bend before e°713„.01.Pd to a bridge, and in taking this turn the 'lactose ° f from the middle of the road and run up against P the I -d one of the parapets of the bridge. The inmates of ° r , -o et Mains, who saw the accident, were immediately Oa les -' hurt: when they found the whole of the party more or e It . and all,with the exception of the little boy, unable 5113,3t0 Mr Hope an .d Mrs Addison were lying in the Qh 9i i r s ' f r onl which they had been pitched over the bridge, which -- et . tD° 12 to 14 feet high. The boy also had been thrown oy-eaal. bridge, and was lying on the bank by the side of the stone f ' Miss Langlois was lying between the carriag e and ° to the walls of the bridge. They were all soon cenvel._eo Orchard Mains, and a messenger despatched t o Insane. of for The Dr Cox, who was promptly at the scene of th e a th e e boy, who escaped with least injury, much stunes,7o face a and slightly bruised. Mrs Addison was nd bruised, but is not seriously hurt. Mr kloPel Wh lt I to insensible for some time after being taken out of the "" e pf. must have been drowned had not assistance bee n l' t h e et After being taken to Orchard Mains he fainted two or ti Te r .eB times. He was much stunned, and received severa l 13 , 1 ' i ' ; i$ on the back and other parts of the body. Miss Lalig'°.i ape are .fly the most seriously hurt. Besides being 13rn la she received a long deep cut on one of her legs, wh ic : eie e c l is' cut about qt ire to be sowed, Fortunately, none o f th e e uffet er " e d to tny pones broken. The three first were able to P rb i3 O er Tra pair-house shortly after the accident, and M iss h 10le Ares conveyed home later in the evening . Thoug7lolls' ing hil t injuries a good deal, they were all g oing oh 3 01° atny on Saturday. The phaeton was destroy 0-9 y fro.- horse escaped uninjured, the trams h a v in g come itsvt' the body of the machine and set it free.—Scoesinto' t beg A NORFOLK MANSLAUGUTER.—An ingiles,h been held at Scottow, Norfolk , this week, Wri,'h"o„,ao ference to the death of a young labourer named $10; Morter. The chief witness was Charles Wodehonset o f al' ley, who stated that he had known the deceased l'el;tra his life. He was a labourer about 25 years 0f age' employed on lelr Everett's farm at Sloley„ On t ile , t et': elub feast was heid at the Horse Shoes publichonae'dosa" tow. About 7 p,m. witness went to the house end 11 : 1 , o' 4 beer in the parlour. The deceased, Thomas 1 1°1 ', e ,;ea present. He had had soma beer, but was not tla° sc-eotoOP drink. There were a great many people in the ro° 3 'dicl e ° : them a young man nesmed Robert Bond. 10 5 :whe, 11 , her any altercation be tween Bond and 'Morter, h tt- t ,t 05'; ht dire , o left ti2e public house he ;owed they were tatting ing each other. They e.wreeti. to fight and fough t to dl four rouncis in their shirt sleeves. It was a fla t : A l i er ° o fight. They also wrestled tigether and twice fell t° o- 0 5 o ti the road in the struggle. the last round th ere , a d 14 % wrestling, but Bond hit Mon'er on the side of the d 'too; Mortar fell down. Witness ueent to lift him 111 ) him to the side of the road, but h o never heard hielviaeleoP or breathe afterwards — he was d , e ul, The roediealio 4 vain; s h o wed that the deceased died froae , concussion of Th ofow . w hi c h might have arisen either froul a fall or t jury returned a verdict of manslaugleter again- efoltS s ' e A MAN KILLED BY A VI(VOUS c ote- Monday afternoon, as Thomas Lilly, age d 45 ' ;;clo °l3 ,, a °° e ' l the employ of Mr Frank }libber; of t green, 1113,'-o was putting a bit in the mouth of a thehorse ra3",„- reared suddenly, and with its forefeet etra cs. /j iff ";.. the chest and stretched him on the Voll hd ' A i t l at /731 lifted up and carried into the house, whore he "" night in great agony. A 0 011 via° VOLUNTEER SHAM e -n e va 0 named Garland, belonging to the 60 1 wo o Corps, met with a serious accident the otho . t: e" iileg eoa re , engaged in a sham fight. The corps marchee _niet of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Bar-niDel er e ° P e f a sham fight with blank cartridge took P lu e ce t ' he of the Volunteers was getting over a hedg ia to his full-cocked rifle was in consequence discheet6 _ tac eeee. land's face. The unfortunate man was at onsv....turegaite the infirmary, eyesight. and it is not expected that he itt _