The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-25 00:00:00

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE . Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanboroug,h. THIS EVENING, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Messrs. Parsell, Belford, Turner, Mesdames Bufton, Hughes, and Thorne. After which. the Great Burlesque, ALI BABA ; OR, IRE THIRTY-NINE THIEVES. Messrs. Honey, Turner, Danvers, Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Saunders, White, Button, and Hughes. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. Mr. Honey and Miss Josephs. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. Et. GLRNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-part The Weather—Sun Office, June 25, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 72 7 Barometer-30.11. Wind—S.-Westerly; moderate, and fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. FRIS D►Y.—Morning, 7h. 52m.—Afternoon, Bh. 20m. To-monitow.-Morning, Bh. 52m.—Afternoon, 9h. 23m. Z 111 3 • .t.riij t • s 7 4 ,«., 1 - Mb, ' - it ' ,C'‘,' ' ' -'''. l l' I ' A k s , i I ~...., ... c 1 0. A . AIIIIII -,....;\ ' - 7 , . ~ . ~ -•.;I. , , P - - - ..,, .W i r OTONIUIT J LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1863. At the moment when the new French Ministry is settling down to the labours of administration, it may be as well to recapitulate what these recent changes precisely are that have been effected by a few strokes from the pen of the Emperor NAPOLEON. The Foreign Policy and the Financial Policy of the Imperial Government, we may regard, at once, as we intimated yesterday, as unchanged. M. FOULD still happily remaining in office as the responsible financier, and M. DROTTYN DE L'Huvs as head of the Foreign Department. Otherwise the trans formation of the Cabinet has been complete and radical throughout. M. BILLAULT replacing the Count WaLewsiii as the Minister of State without Portfolio. M. BAROCIIE, hitherto President of the Council of State, replacing M. DELANGLE as Minister of Justice. M. BOUDET, until now Pre sident of Section to the Council of State, replacing the Count DE PERSIGNY as Minister of the Interior. M. DURUM, heretofore Inspector-General of Public Instruction, replacing M. ROULAND as Minister of Public Instruction. M. BEIIIC, yesterday but simply Councillor of State, replacing as Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, M. ROUSER, who has now been neminated by the EM PEROR to M.BAROCHE'S j ust vacated post as President of the Council of State. Simultaneously with which sweeping transformation of things in the general construction of the Cabinet, the Imperial decree ap pears appointing the Duke DE MORNY to the Pre sidency of the newly elected, but as yet not inau gurated, Corps Legislatif. We have purposely re capitulated here at length the actual changes that have so recently and so suddenly taken place at Paris by mandate of the EMPEROR, because having merely had the opportunity of glancing hurriedly at them in our impression of yesterday, but a few moments, as it were, after the earliest announce ment of their occurrence by telegram—we regard them as of such vital importance to European interests generally, that we are solicitous, without one instant's unnecessary delay, to indicate as we have just now actually done by a simple juxta position of names the precise difference between the Imperial Cabinet as it was and as it is. An animated portraiture of the new Minister of State, M. BILLAULT, pencilled with singular grace and delicacy by his sometime secretary, M. NORBERT BILLIART, appears this morning in Le Constitu tionnel. After describing the new Minister of State as one whose bearing and general deportment are in no way characterised by an air of pretension, the writer observes that, in oratory, M. BILLAULT is endowed with qualities very rarely united, his speaking being at once easy, and yet marked by gravity, rapid and yet most clearly accentuated. Ria sympathetic voice," says the Minister's former Secretary, " a little softened or modulated in the nigher notes, has about it much nervous force and even a nimation, being in effect the supple and exact medium f or the expression . of his thoughts." A little later on in this minutely careful limning of the Minister of State, M. BILLIART observes some what characteristically that, by his Excellency, GiCERO is by no moans regarded as an oracle, M. BILLAULT being rather of the same opinion with HORACE, who had a mortal antipathy for the seequipedalia verba. M . BILLAULT, he adds, is by far the readiest extem pore speaker n ow connected with the Go ver nment, ( The sa • .ilin g even, with the utmost confidence, the aid of any notes - even when about to deliver a discourse from the Tribune. It is precisely this gift o f improvisation, it is this certainty, it is this rapidi ty of coup d'ceil that makes him unrivalled as an advo. eate in reply. So much for M. BILLAULT, regarded individually through this well-timed sketch of him given in the columns of Le Constitutionnel. "It would be difficult," says L'Opinion Nationale of this evening, "just at prese nt to form any precise idea as to the significance of this Ministerial reorganisation, for W 6 know not enough of Messieurs BOUDET , BEHIC, and DURUM to be able to appreciate seriously their tendencies." The retention of some of the Ministers in the Cabinet and the removal of others from it to be replaced by new men, fairly tends to the bewilderment of Le Siecle. " If," says that Organ, " the reason of the retreat of M. DE PER BIGNY is very evident, one is inclined to ask, what possible motive there could be for the replacement of Messieurs ROULAND, DELANGLE, and WALEW SKI." Le Siecle might at least have added that TdEATEE-IWIAL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 33d 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 (13th time', a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Mess , s Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO. HUNDRED A. ;D THIRTY-SIXTH NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER. 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 Pnlogue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by 'Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Brougnam, H. iddimmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson Kisses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, IC. Cayenne, 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, the grand new Drama, entitled COURT AND CAMP : Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, H. Marston, G. Belmore, G. Murray. and Warde; M ss Amy Sedgwick, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Tnompson. To be preceded by the new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. _ _ - - And tollowed by A CHARMING PAIR. Mr. Roxby, Mrs Marston, and Miss Jones. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRI"H After which, at Eight o'cloek, a new drama, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN; OR, T E GHOST'S I3ARGAIN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptat!on of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. I:. Toole, R. Phi lips, Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, ent , lled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. Mt ssrs. Toole. P. Bedtord, Phillips, lanrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. it was very evident why the EMPEROR, guided in this by his better judgment, not only accepted the resignation of a bungling Minister like the Count DE. PERSIGNY, but retained the services of a master of Finance like M. FOIJLD, and of a master of Diplomacy like M. DRODYN DE L'HuYs. Surveying the whole result of the Mi nisterial changes that have just now taken place at Paris, Le Pays contents itself with enumerating —evidently with an air not expressive of one mo mentary regret in the past, but of satisfaction in the present, and of confidence in the future—the actual list of the French Ministry as it now stands, viz., as follows : M. BILLAULT, Minister of State. M. DRoUYN DE L'HuYs, Foreign Affairs. M. BAROCHE, Justice. M. BOUDET, Interior. M. ACHILLE FOULD, Finances. M. DIIRIIY, Instruction. M. BEHIC, Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works Count CHASSELOUP• LAUBAT, Marine. Marshal RANDON, War. M. ROUHER, President of the Council of State. Marshal VAILLANT, Imperial Household. It may be vexatious for the time being to know little or nothing about M. BOUDET, for example, but at any rate it must be matter of general gratulatien among the Parisian electors, and among the members of our own profession through. out France, that M. DE PEnSIGNY is no longer in stalled at the Ministry of the Interior, there to pen anymore dictatorial circulars to the Constituencies, or any more warnings (in the name of the Liberty of the Press !) to the Journalists. There are some people who can never be taught, however solemn and serious may be the lesson, they cannot, or will not, profit by it. Of this class ap pears to be Mr. ISAACSON, the husband of Madame ELISE. He has written a letter, which purports to explain everything satisfactorily, and do away with the painful impression that has been created ; but he has ended by making that darker which is dark enough already. It is a pity that he had no friend or adviser to caution him to be more moderate in his tone, since it never furthers the cause taken up for its advocate to be violent ; but when the attempt is made to prove that a manifest wrong is right, it is too much for any one to endure patiently that the writer should be so vehement and abusive. It is very noticeable that he carefully avoids touch ing upon awkward topics, while he volunteers in formation which was not wanted, and which did not bear upon the case in point. For instance, what is the use of reasseverating about the quality or quan tity of the food, since that has nothing at all to do with the long hours, the close workroom, or the unhealthy bedroom. It is also indisputable that Mr. ISAACSON contradicts nothing that has been said or written concerning the material wrongs of this case. Neither the length of time which the poor girl was employed, nor the crowded apartments she occupied day and night are com mented upon but to heap abuse upon all who have mentioned the affair without contradicting in a decided manner an important item in the sad catas trophe. In the first place, the very temperate letter which was written on the subject last Wednesday is styled "scurrilous" and " a gross flagrant libel." Mr. ISAACSON feels it to be his duty to humanity to correct this statement. This is a very odd and original expression, since he means that be intends ' to clear himself and his establishment from the im putations that rest upon them. What humanity has to do with such a task does not appear to be very clearly illustrated or fully evidenced. If the subject were not so sad it would be almost Judi crous to notice the explanation given. We are told that the milliners voluntarily help the dressmakers, and then hare the day to themselves; adding, as a crowning act of kindness, that when young ladies sit up all night they are not expected to work the next day. There are limits to everything, even to the work of a dressmaker's apprentice, so no espe cial mercy is proved by this exemption. And what a bitter mockery to talk of their having the next day to themselves. Let any me imagine these poor creatures working from half-past six on Friday morning till nine on the Saturday morning, and then picture what sort of a day to themselves they must enjoy. Wasted with toil, weary with watching, and faint from exhaustion, can theirs be a holiday ? It is the height of effrontery to boast of not exacting a day's labour from those who have been engaged in arduous duties for twenty-six hours at a stretch. Then, again, Mr. ISAACSON asks, why do the young ladies stay ? That is no proof of the comfort or the convenience of the establishment; because the fact is well known that there are many who would endure any suffering rather than lose their chance of employment. They who are free to go away know full well that starvation is before them, if they refuse to obey orders ; but even that plea cannot be urged in this instance, for MARY ANNE WALRLEY was an apprentice, and had, therefore, no option in the matter. It is an insult to com mon sense, good taste, and right feeling for Mr. ISAACSON to employ such language as this in the face of the evidence that has appeared against him, and been corroborated by his own silence in all vital matters. "If more is expected from us, we should like certainly to know how that can be accomplished." Should they wish to have an inquest every week, they certainly cannot allow their apprentices and workwomen to do more than work for three months at a time, at the rate of six teen hours and a half a day, occasionally longer, and sometimes to sit up all night. But to cite such a mode of procedure, and then to make a stand upon it, and defy censure and repudiate criticism,is effrontery and assurance that the English public will not pa- tiently endure. Allusion was made to this cruel case in both houses on Tuesday. Lord SHAFTESBURY in the House of Lords adverted to its melancholy de tails, end a,ked the President of the Council if there was any intention on the part of the Government to introduce any measures that will provide for the comfort and protection of these sempstresses. The noble earl said that the case of these work women, and that of the bakers, was strictly analogous. It would be well indeed if the same provisions were made in the case of the needlewomen. The medical officer and the district inspector of nuisances are em- Powered from ti me t o t i me to i nspect the con di t i on o f the rooms in which the men work, and to see that they are properly ventilated and ' whitervsshed. Lord SITAFTEgglaty truly regulations had been already do much to Prevent the ~ a had heard so much of, a ELISE'S establishment hadnlatolf a specimen. Lord rz said that if these sanitary f adopted they would w and of abominations" they ....RANITILLETS furnished which Madame so sad unsatisfactory ; the noble lord did n e o p t ly t was most ' es w aid that He out . any definite hope of anything being done. the bill before introduced on this subject c arried into effect because of the extreme difficulty not of putting it into pr actical execution. Thi s ought not to be a valid reason for Ministers to do nothing in a case of signal distress, and an instance of great cruelty and irjustice. What 's the use of having responsible persons in authority if they cannot meet difficulties and overcome them with spirit and decision. Why should be possible to THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, „JUNE 25, 1863. protect the men employed in bakehouses, and yet should there exist an insuperable difficulty against protecting the young females who work in dress makers' establishments. It is strange that reason ing persons should adduce such arguments and well-meaning individuals readily agree to their force and cogency. Lord SHAFTESBURY did not ask for the hours of labour to be shortened ; he pro bably knew that to do this would entail a great loss of time, but the sanitary regulations might be adopted at once. It is to be trusted that at least next session some arrangement may be made to put a check on these heavy duties imposed on young girls to such a frightful extent as we have lately been contemplating. It is generally the custom when social improvements are suggested for some wise and learned authorities to declare that it is all very well to talk, but it is a manifest impossibility to carry out such suggestions. In this instance, however, no such scruples can be regarded. It is not a matter of convenience, it is not a point of prejudice, but it is a question of right and wrong. Are our legislators to sanction by non-interference, and is the community at large to rest satisfied while such cruel injuries are inflicted, and such crushing labours exacted from a helpless class, who are surrounded by difficulties and dangers, while they toil for their maintenance or the support of their families. Their wrongs cry aloud for re dress, their position is a scandal and a reproach to our vaunted philanthropy and our boasted civilisa tion. In the sight of GOD and man it is a cruel thing to " crush the life from out young hearts" by such a wanton infliction of toil and such attendant circumstances of discomfort and inconvenience. The evil exists, and it remains for those who have the power to come forward to check its spread and atop its influence. Of what avail is it to have laws it they are powerless to prevent the poor from being oppressed, and the crafty from taking advantage of of the weak and helpless? The long-pending case of the Alexandra has at length been fully argued before a court of law. The highest legal ability on both sides has fought the battle, and judge and jury have given a patient and attentive hearing to the evidence. The verdict will, we apprehend, be generally approved by the pub lic, being clearly in accordance with one of the first principles of English justice as well as with right and reason. The words of the Solicitor-General on another occasion, so happily quoted by Sir HUGH CAIRNS yesterday in his address, are unanswerable in their argument. " The United States," said the learned gentleman, "have no right to complain if the Act in question is enforced in the way in which English laws are usually enforced against English subjects—on evidence and not on suspicion; on facts and not on presumption ; on satisfactory testimony, and not on' the mere accusations of a Foreign Mini ster or his agents." The strong point in favour of the Alexandra was, however, the fact of her not being armed or equipped in any of our ports. The learned judge, whose summing up virtually decided the case, for it would have been impossible for the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty after such a clear and forcible statement, showed that the Foreign Enlist ment Act on which the indictment was founded was not intended as a protection to belligerent powers, but for the peace of our own dominions, and that it did not forbid the supply of arms, ammunition, and other warlike stores. Why then, asked the Lord Chief Baron, should ships be an exception P He quoted the opinions of some eminent American lawyers which went to show that a neutral power may, without breach of international law or an in fringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act, supply everything that can be used for the destruction of human beings. If Birmingham may supply arms unchallenged, why should Liverpool be restrained from building ships. As the learned judge very pertinently said, if a man may legally build a vessel for sale and offer it to either of the belligerents it is a matter of course that he may accept an order to build one without impropriety. There was no ille gality, says the Lord Chief Baron, about the Alabama herself, seeing that she sailed away unarmed, and was equipped in a foreign part. The mistake seems to be that many persons, her MAJESTY'S Ministers included, appear to think the Foreign Enlistment Act is intended for the benefit of foreigners, and that we are answerable to a foreign Government for any supposed infraction of it. The Attorney-General tendered a bill of eAceptions to the Lord Chief Baron's ruling, but we apprehend that the learned Judge will have the sense of the country with him, and we cannot but hope that another tribunal will only confirm his decision, which accords alike with the principles of law and of justice, which are not always synonymous. The question remains, how ever, whether the Federal Government have any right to exact from us such anxious care for their interests; whether, supposing the treatment we receive at their hands to be a fair illustration of the duties of a friendly Power, our Ministers are bound to display such unwonted energy in inter fering with the commercial transactions of the country. Is the evidence of Federal spies to be considered sufficient proof of the culpability of Englishmen of high standing and long-established probity ? If so, we may any of us be called to account for our most ordinary actions, and arraigned for having, in the course of our daily avocations, given occasion for displeasure to the mighty Federal authorities. The fact of fobnd jog a Government case on the information furnished by spies and informers is something new, and not very creditable in our day, How does the law officer of the Crown attempt to prove his case ? By the evidence of a man formerly employed by the Confederates, who reports part of a conversation which he overheard between Mr. MILLER, sen., and another gentleman. Whose business was it to em ploy such agents as these ? Whose interest is it to place spies in our private dockyards to watch for indications of danger, to listen, with open ears, to every casual word, and report faithfully to their employers the number and character of the ships in progress. Federals being totahy unable to meet the Confederates on their own ground, or to relieve themselves from the presence of the Alabama and her fellows by open measures, are obliged to fall back on the complaisant friendship of the English Government, and to seek by underhand and ques tionable means to guard against the issue of such another phantom ship from the dockyards of the " Britishers." It might possibly appear to the in telligent foreigner so often referred to for an ima ginary decision, if he should happen to come amongst us at this particular juncture, that the case is not so very hard as the Northerners wish to make out. True, the Alabama, and possibly some other vessels, were built in British docks ; but who or what prevents the Federals from giving a similar order, and starting phantom-ships still more ter rible and effective. The British Government would assuredly then discover that it had no right to in terfere with commercial transactions. The only obstacle in the way is that President LINCOLN would find a slight degree of difficulty in the man• 1 ning of such vessels when built, and we fear that Captain SEMMES c.ind his crew would still have the best of it. When the Federals have accomplished their lofty boast of " sweeping British commerce from the seas," they will of course have more leisure to dispose of those impertinent Confederate vessels which somehow or other have contrived to elude the sagacity and valour of the North for such an unconscionable period. But the intelligent foreigner being of course unacquainted with the refinements of diplomatic courtesy or the wholesome dread which timid JOHN , Buzz entertains for the terrible Yankee, might happen to suggest that both sides should be treated alike in a case of strict neutrality. He might say that if we could not build ships for the South, neither should the North be allowed to obtain arms and ammunition; that if the existence of the one party were not even cffi cially recognised, spies and informers should not be tolerated on behalf of the other. He might even go so far as to say that before our Government granted the extraordinary requests of the North, they might demand fair treatment for our own merchant vessels trading to neutral ports ; they might exact from the American Government the observance of those laws of nations which they themselves laid down when their own in terests were concerned. They might suggest that the watching and dogging of our merchant vessels is insulting to the nation, injurious to trade, and opposed to all prin ciples of common sense or justice. If a vessel is bound with a neutral cargo to Matamoras or Nassau, what right has a Federal Commander to arrest her progress, on the supposition that she is afterwards going to a Southern poi t ? As for the complaints of the frequent running of the blockade by English ships, that is only what any man of common sense might have expected from the attempt to stop a large and flourishing trade by a totally inefficient force. The effort was worthy of Northern bravado —the result is worthy of Federal " strategic" ability. But it is not our affair if the Americans choose to call their blunders, misfortunes, and to abuse us for the consequences of their own incapacity. What does concern us is their arrogant assumption of a right to direct and conduct. Let them be thankful that we have stood aside in the contest, and not decided the fate of their cherished Union by open interference. Let them be grateful for any soil of impartiality, and not question the character of our neutrality too closely. Who are they that their tale-bearers should be recognised agents, and their intelligence tolerated by any English Minister. Let them first account for the Adela and the Peter hoff, for Mr. ADAMS'S guarantee, and the increased rate of insurance on our American merchantmen. If this system of organised impertinence and reck less disregard of justice be pursued much further, it will rouse England into doing an act of greater kindness to America than she has yet shown, by stepping forward in the breach and declaring that she will no longer be a party to the conflict by tolerating this fratricidal strife between the two great people 3 who once formed the United States. We are glad to see that the House of Commons has declined to reverse its previous decisions on the subject of Hampstead Heath. The Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amendment Bill came on for the second reading last night, but was rejected by a majority of more than three to one. It professed, indeed, to protect the interests of the public, and to secure them the enjoyment of Hampstead Heath ; but hon. members saw reason to suspect the disin terestedness of the arrangement, and decided ac cordingly. The bill had, it was said, two objects; first, to give Sir THOMAS MARYON WILSON, and other persons similarly situated, a right to apply to the Chancery Court for powers to lease and sell portions of their estates, of which right they wore deprived by the general Act of 1856; and, secondly, the preservation of public rights over Hampstead Heath and other open grounds. We do not wonder that the House found it difficult to reconcile these two objects, which certainly appear to neutralise one another. If it be true, as Sir MORTON PETO and some other members asserted, that Sir THOMAS WILSON has been unfairly treated with respect to his other property, there are probably some means of repairing the special injustice without granting such a dangerous permission as that given by this bill. It was significantly remarked by Mr. DoUL TON, that the Metropolitan Board, which might be regarded as the advocate of the public wishes and interests, bad petitioned against this bill, the prac tical effect of which in their estimation would be to destroy Hampstead Heath. If the grounds in the neighbourhood now open were enclosed the general enjoyment would be very much interfered with, and the precedent would, undoubtedly, be a dan gerous one. Are there no means by which all these vexed questions can be finally disposed of ; which can ensure the undisturbed freedom of Hampstead Heath, Tooting Common, and all such places, to the toil-worn bees of our busy hive ? It is time that some such scheme were devised, that either by Act of Parliament, or public grant, or general subscription, these fidgetty owners were bought out, and requested to transfer their territorial rights to some of the many districts where they may build as far and wide as they please without trenching on a popular privilege of long standing and unquestionable benefit. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTERS. M. PAUL BOUDET—the new French Minister of the Interior, began parliamentary life in 1834. From that year until 1'449 he sat for the electors of Laval as their representative. He is a distinguished advocate of the bar of Paris. He has been a labo rious deputy. He has been a member of most of the important commissions. is a Protestant. M. ARMAND BEHlC—the new Minister of Agri culture, Commerce, and Public Works—has been Inspector of Finances. He has been conspicuous among the Directors of the great company of navi gation—the Messageries Inzperiales. M. VICTOR DURUY—the new Minister of Public Instruction, was educated in the Normal School. He edited, under th e re i gn o f Louis Philippe, a publication, in which he had as colaborateurs Burette and Janoski, the editor of the .11 , ational. He edited the Illatoire Universelle, published by the house of Hachette. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The great rose show of the season will be held on Saturday next, 27th. From the unusually fine weather the entries are far more nume rous than on any former occasion. Up to last night consi derably above 5,000 trusses of this favourite flower, with above 200 plants in pots and vases, were entered by the largest growers in the country. As in addition to the show there will be a dramatic entertainment, under the manage ment of Mr. Bucketone, in the large concert room, Satur day may be considered a day of special attraction. One Shilling Day, Wednesday, June 24—Admissions on pay ment, 3,329; ditto by season tickets, 1,163 —total visitors, 4,592. A MORMON " MIRACLE."—The Spectator says that at Cardiff a husband urged his wife, who was not a Mormon, to go to a meeting, and promised her that she should see there " the angels of the Lora." She went, and during the service the lights were turned out, and she saw figures in white moving about. Close by her feet she discerned strange small figures moving slowly, but rustling as they moved, She was probably expected to faint hero ; but she seized one of the figures at her feet instead, and put it in her pocket. When she got home she found that it consisted of a few frogs in a white paper bag. The elders declared that these were miracles, and their dupes believed them. The Charivarz publishes a woodcut representing the French army entering the city of Mexico, whilst a zouave is wiping his brow as if after a great exertion, and exclaims, " Ouff ! I have at last reached the wished•for spot I I now shall be able to attend to something else I" The grand rifle match at Turin will, it is ex pected, attract all the crack shots from every part of and also from Switzerland. The match will last for a week and the prizes, which amount to 100,000 fr, will be distri buted on the 28th. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. MADLLE. STELLA COLLAS. At last we have seen a Juliet. This Most en chanting and immortal type of all that is purest as well as strongest, because most self- iilnot ing, in the heart of woman, is to be regarded as not only the loveliest, but, in some respects, the most difficult of all Shakspeare's creations. Juliet is a being of sixteen. It is her extreme youth that gives her passion all its attraction and distinctness. Her charm lies in her presenting the very dawn of a fervid existence—that has no cloud in its spreading heavens—the first outburst of a spring of affection that divests itself of all impurity in the ardour in which it passes into the being of another. She combines the woman's soul with almost the look and manners of a chili. Her embodiment therefore requires not merely the art and gifts that are re quisite to present a true picture of her emotions— but a form and bearing that should give reality to their fervour and their freshness. It is the rare union of these conditions that makes her true assumption so difficult. Its perception led to the old remark that when an actress could look the character she could not play it, and when she was able to play she could no longer look it. In the entire course of the past century Mrs. Cibber was the only instance of a satisfaction of this difficulty. In our own time—with perhaps the solitary excep tion of Fanny Kemble, all the Juliets that have been seen have been stately and mature women. Miss F. H. Kelly, Miss Phillips, Mrs. C. Kean, and Miss Helen Faucit have all imaged the soul of this pas sionate being with force and beauty, but not one of them was able to give us any notion of her pre sence. The ideal power was common to all, and, as " conspicuous by its absence,' was the equally important element of reality. It is no ordinary event, therefore, we have to chronicle, when it becomes our pleasing duty to announce a Juliet who fulfils its required and rare conditions to an extent that, we can safely say, is entirely new in modern experience. Madlle. Stella Collas, from the Theatre Franeaise,and the Imperial Theatre, St. Petersburg, who made her debut on our stage last night, in the fair maid of Verona—com mences with the distinction of being its most per fect personal embodiment that has probably been ever seen. If her age be as much as twenty, her appearance does not suggest an hour beyond seventeen—owing to her petite and delicate person, and he► charming blonde complexion. This illusion she sustains by an expression the most artless and engaging—by a manner that has something childlike even in its raptures and its sufferings. Thus, the girl is brought before us in her bearing as well as look. This will be allowed to be a rare merit; and yet this is, after all, but one-half of her great excellence. Madlle. Stella Collas has the soul of a woman as well as the look of a girl. She has the inestimable gift of passion ; and thts of so true and deep a kind that it gives as much delicacy to her transports as it does vigour to her agonies. It does something more than this. It com municates an indescribaole refinement to her action, giving to every turn and movement a most vivid and attractive grace. It is so genuine that at times it almost makes her meaning independaht of her 'peach. Aided by her expressive and eager features, it illuminates her thoughts and feelings, as the flash precedes the report, so that her words in many passages come rather as the complement than as the substance of their purport. To this great sum of her merits two abatements may be made. It may be thought by some she wants repose—but we should hold that such a charge arose more from the colder temperaments on our side than a defect of art on hers. Her ardour is in fact her truth. She presents a passionate Southern girl—wholly absorbed and self-forgotten in the delirium of her first love—to whom it presents not the thrill of an hour but the substance of an exist ence. For the brief span therefore of its duration, it can only consist of an unbroken fervour. A true' charge lies against her accent, which is not so good as Mr. Fechter's, and which in some of her rapid utterances it must be owned was scarcely intelligible. Yet here, as we have already noted she was wonderfully assisted by her expres sion, which lit up her meaning constantly, whilst this defect was so soon forgotten in the sense of all she enabled the audience to realise—that, as in the case of Mr, Fechter, its barrier must be regarded as an important measure of her power. We need not go into a minute analysis of a most striking and delightful performance when she enables us to say that its most triumphant efforts were dis played in the two greatest scenes of the play—those of the balcony and bedroom. This is an epitome that renders any detailed account superfluous. Never in our experience were those two scenes played with more consummate power. In the one the grace and delicacy that struggled with the new emotion, but as it strengthened, gave it birth in the most artless sense of its rapture, filled the entire scene with a series of expressions that were all as true as they were delightful. Perfectly charming was the manner en which, when the feeling had once possessed her, she gave way to the little artifices that endeavoured to diguise it, and deeply affecting the unrestrained fer vour of her farewell to her lover when no longer able to delay it, her whole being seemed to pour out in her parting gaze and words. Quite as striking, on the other hand, was her scene on taking the potion—in the vigorous delivery of the picture of its probable fatal issue, and of her vision of the dead Tybalt rising to urge her brain to madness. The culmination of this effort was a burst of genuine energy, startling and impres sive in the extreme. We might refer also to her scene with the Nurse, and her admirable delivery of the vindication of her lover on receiving the news of the death of Ty bah; and to the scene in the graveyard, which was full of the deepest pathos. We think we have said enough to justify our conviction that the Juliet of Madlle. Codas le the nearest approach to Shakspeare's intention, both in person and in mind, that has been witnessed in our time. Mademoiselle Collas, who was received with a most encouraging welcome on her fist appearance, elicited the loudest demon strations on all the occasions that we have referred to, and at the close of the bedroom scene was warmly summoned before the curtain, as well as at the close of every act. Her success, therefore, was as marked as it was in very respect deserved. She was ably sup ported by Mr. Walter Montgomery in Romeo, who played with great earnestness, and feeling,--and Mr. George Vining in Mercutio, who gives to the light-hearted wit of Shakespear a very jovial and comic rendering. Mr. H. Marston was also very impressive in the Friar—and the entire play was placed with great care upon the stage. The house was crowded in every part. OUR ENGLISH LAWN. —None of the ancients seem to have appreciated the luxury of a lawn. Homer praises the fabulous gardens of Alcinous, but they were more what we should call orchards. The Grecian idea of a garden was a sacred grove planted with flowers to supply garlands for the deities, while the Romans thought less of lawns than of fountains and rows of stately trees shading terraced walks. It was only in the Elizabethan era with ourselves that grass began to be considered a component part of a garden. The tilt yard passing insensibly into the bowling green, as the days of chivalry die 3 out, left us the lawn ; the word as well as the thing being thus compara tively modern. Even Milton knows lawns or level downs only as sheep commons ; and Lord Bacon, when laying out his prince-like garden, out of 30 acres, assigns four to the green at the entrance.—Once a Week. The Prince deli' indischgraetz, who has just been murdered in his bed by his servant, was quite a young man. His father was killed at Solferino, and he came to Paris after the peace. About flue weeks he was at Batna, in Algeria, with Chassaing, the lion hunter, whom he ac companied on one of his Expeditions. Chassaing was then obliged to return to France, but engaged to meet the Prince next year. The great annual wool markets of Breslau, Leip sick, and Dresden took place list week. Contrary to general expectation that article which had been greatly neglected during the previous month, recovered favour. and prices rose above those of the previous year. Wools Of good quality were pail from four to seven francs the quintal more than at the fair in 1862. Upwards of 70,000 quintals (7,000,0001b5. were sold at the Breslau fair alone. Several important lots were purchased by English, French, and Belgium houisee. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) RUSSIA. BERLIN, JUNE 95. Private letters received here from Sc. Petersburg state that an Imperial ukase authorises the issue of notes to the amount of 10 millions of roubles, in order to cover the deficit and additional expenditure which have been caused by the insurrection in Poland. PORTUGAL, LISBON, JUNE 18. In the Chamber of Peers the Minister of Finance has replied to a question respecting the determina tion of the Government as regards the tobacco contract. The Minister said that at present he did not consider the contract would be again put on the market, but that in January next a decided step would be taken. The Government has ratified the contract with M. Debrousse for the construction of a rail say to Cintra, and docks for the port of Lisbon. The railway from Lisbon to Badajoz is finished, and the entire line will be opened for traffic. The Portuguese press continue to animadvert largely on the Anglo-Brazilian question, and without a single exception the tone is entirely against the attitude England has taken throughout the affair. The news from the Azores notices that sugar is being largely planted in the Island of Terceira. The American corvette St. Louis is in port. Senhor Thomas Maria Bessone, who has for many years held rank as one of the chief Lisbon merchants, has failed, The liabilities are said to be very heavy, the Bank of Portugal being the largest creditors, its debt being some £90,000 unsecured, most of the other creditors are said to hold securities. It appears that Senhor Bessone some time ago became surety for the agent of the Bank of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, who was besides his own agent, and the bankruptcy of this party making Senhor Bessone liable for a very large amount has caused him to surrender to creditors. Business dull and the transactions in exchanges are limited. London, 90 days, 53k; Hamburg, 48; Genoa, 535 ; Paris, 530 ; Rentes, 481 ; Coupons, 481; Bank of Portugal shares, 555 ; Oporto, 256. THE AMERICAN MAILS. SOU I'HAMPTON, JUNE 25 The North German Lloyds steamship New York' Capt. Wenke, sailed hence yesterday for New York direct, taking the United States maiis, 68 pas sengers, and a general cargo, including jewellery from Havre, value 62 450 f. On her passage from Bremen the New York spoke off North Foreland the Hamburg brig No. 310, bound west. Toe North German Lloyds new steamer America at New York, all weal, at 6 a.m. on the 7th, after a run of little over 10 days from Southampton. She sailed from New York on the 20th, and may be expected off Cowes on July 1. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 25. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Hammonia, from New York on the 13!h inst., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 141 passengers for Hamburg, Havre, and this port, and 150,000 dole. in specie for England. On the 16th she spoke the English bark Rubens, bound west, and on the 24th the Dutch bark Peking. Her news has been anticipated. FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 25. A private telegram from Constantinople, dated the 24th inst., received here to-day, announces that by order of the Emperor of Russia, M. de Novi koff, Councillor of State, has communicated his Majesty's thanks to the Sultan for having sent the Governors of Trebizond to congratulate the Grand Duke Michael on his journey to the Caucasus. A letter from Paris says : We have at present in Paris several agents of Governments who are travelling round the money marketsof Europe, in a sort of semi official manner, to ascertain where money can be had cheapest for national loans. Russia, Prussia, " the National Government of Poland," Austria, the Danubian Principalities, and Greece, alt want money ; and as an opinion prevails that the American war has thrown many unemployed millions into the market, now is the time for raising new loans. The Polish insurrection, however, keeps up that uncertainty and hesitation throughout the Continent which is felt in every branch of commerce. Russia appears to be in the most immediate need of financial aid. The cost of the Polish insurrection begir s, it seems, to be felt severely at the treasury. The superior officers find it difficult to get money from St. Petersburg. Russia does not contemplate any early relief from this heavy drain. Poland, we learn, is to pay the expenses of the war; but for a long time to come the taxes must be collected by dragoons. So that Russia must have money for immediate use. Will it be found here or at Frankfort ? learn that the latter city is most likely to come to the aid of the Czar. At all events a journal of that town publishes a statement of that town publishes a statement of the national finances of Russia, whicti is as follows:—" In Russia the public debt beant g interest amounted, on the Ist January, 1863, to 975,734,691 roubles. The interest, sinking fund. agio, and banking expenses will, during the current year, absorb 57,487,218 roubles against 54,296,188 in 1862, The Russian debt bearing interest is as follows:-95,577,000 Dutch florins, 30,590,00(1 pounds sterling, and 751,700,000 roubles. This tatter amount includes 138,000 000 of Treasury Bonds, bearing interest at 4 32.100 per cent., 38,640,000 roubles from the Bank at 4 per cent., and 149,431,822 roubles from the Bank at 5 per cent. interest. The remainder consists of different loans. To the 975,734,691 roubles bearing interest must be added a floating debt of 699,600,822 paper roubles, a sort of assignat, circulating without in terest." Perhaps these statements are supposed to invite later new subscriptions for the sup pert of military despotism in the North of Europe, Austria must go on borrowing money from the Rothschilds so long as Hungary and Venetia are only held by the sword. No one knows the real state of Austrian finance; but it is a patent fact to all that taxation in that country is already at that point which kills the goose for the golden egg. I get a statement from Venice which is drawn up from official returns. That ancient centre of the world's commerce is now completely reduced to beggary by the weight of taxation. According to returns made to Vienna, the trade of Venice has gone from bad to worse in the following propor tions 1850 Venico imported to the amount (in Austrian florins) of 48,864,500 ; in 1861, 39,143,189 ; which in 1862 was reduced to 33,359,943. The reductions in exports run as fol. low :—ln 1860, 31,233,220 ; in 1861, 16,932,508 ; and in 1862, 12,945,225. In a report sent to the Minister of Finance by the Chamber of Commerce of Venice on the working of the new taxes, the Minister is told plainly that this extreme taxation, and the vexatious and arbitrary manner in whileh the income tax is levied on the mercantile class, is giving a finishing brow to the commerce of the place, and that many of the principal firma are reducing their establishments with a view either of liquidating their affairs or of transferring them selves to Ancona or other thriving l ocali t i es. The printed figures of imports and exp or t s require no c)mment. Venetia is to A ustria wha t Poland ie. to Russia, a financial rui n, and a cr use of politic a l weakness. As for Prussia, no one here will have anything to do with that country unlebs Parlia ment votes the loan ; and that the Berlin Parlia ment it is supposed will not do. Greece, I learn, goes direct to London for money. Turn which way you may, nearly all continental States want money, and London and Paris are to be il.vited to supply it. La France makes the fallowing comments upon the Ministerial changes which have taken place in Paris :—" The change of Ministry which was an nounced as likely to take place has been accom plished, Various of the Ministers who KA in the Council Chamber of the Emperor have retired. They are CAint Walewski, MM. Delangle, Rouland, and Count de Peraigny. The new Ministers are—MM. Boudet, Behic, and Duruy. As we foresaw, the management of the Foreign-office remains in the hands of M. Drouyn de Lhuys. M. Biilault is ap pJinted Minister of State, and in this position will he the mouthpiece of the Government in the Cham ber, with M. Rouher, who is appointed President of the Council of State_ "MM. Bil,ault and Rouher are two politicians of the highest order or tallest. M. Bii maalt will be entrusted with the relations of the Government with the great political bodies. M. Rouher, in directing the labours of the Council of State, will be in immediate connection with all mutters brought before the Chambers. He will be the real Minister as regards all legislative enact ments. The transitory institution of Ministers with out a portfolio has thus been abolished. Two bona fide Ministers will henceforth represent the Govern ment in the Senate and in the Legislative Assembly. We look upon this as a happy change. To quote the words of the Moniteur, 'The object in view is to organize on a more solid basis the representation of the views of the Government in the Chambers with out deviating from the spirit of the Constitution.'" The writer in La France concludes as follows : "In our opinion these Ministerial changes have hut one signification. They mean :—Maintenance of the liberal concessions made with so much foresight by the Empire. They also mean, calm for the public mind after the somewhat lively emotions caused by the recent elections, and an appeal to conciliation in the name of the tutelary guarantees of right and respect for the law." BOURSE, June 24.—The announcement of the Ministerial modifications has produced but little effect on the market either as regards the amount of business done or in prices, Threes, for the Account, shoVving an improvement of only 20 cen times, being now at 68f. 70c. Railway Shares have been in general firm. The market closed as follows : If per Cents .. 97 end month 3 per Cents Italian Loan 73 10 Do. end month 73 05 New ditto 74 Do. end month 74 10 Russian Austrian Spanih Threes 53 -- Rome D.bt .. 62 D. end month.... 68 60 Credit Mobilier m . 1210 Do, end month 1210 Bank Shares 3495 Credit 1 oncier ....1230 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 995 .. 997 50 Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1027 50 1032 25 G.nava, 45.5 457 50 Southern 722 50 .. 723 75 Western ... .. Eastern ..... Sardinian Austrian t .tvn. hard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barevinna 500 - .. 500 - 465 - .. 461 25 670 - .. 570 - 565 - .. 565 - 715 - .. 717 50 342 50 .. 360 - THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. WARSAW, June 17. The Town-Captain, in the name of the Revolu tionary Committee, issued yesterday the following order of the day : " In accordance with the decree of the National Govern ment, interdicting the payment of taxes imposed by the Muscovites, the Town-Captain having learnt that several citizens, probably for fear of consequence•, dare to continue paying taxes, to the Muscovite officials, feels himself in duty bound to warn all neglecting to obey this decree that payers, as well as receivers, will be strictly called to account. It is confidently expected that the small number of inhabitants of the city committing this offence will be guided by the orders of the Government, and the example of the well affected majority, the more as every non-compliance with. the commands of the authorities can only injure the na tional cause, and postpone the desired end. Owners and managers of property, with all who employ workmen and servants, are also reminded that they are not permitted to deduct from their tenants, workpeople, or servants, the so called class-tax, or any other impost which the Muscovite police are accustomed to require upon a change of service. Whoever perpetrates the offence of collecting this tax in jures the poor classes, and will be subject to the severest punishment for such acts. " Notwithstanding the published decree of the National Government, prohibiting purveyors from furnishing any kind of supplies to the Muscovites, as well as participation in forced sales advertised by the Muscovite authorities, numerous speculators continue to request permission to provide such individuals with various descriptions of goods. It is therefore once more publicly announced that the pro vision of the Muscovites with supplies, together with parti cipation in any of the forced sales advertised by them, are strictly and without any exception whatever forbidden to all loyal patriots. Requests of special permits for these purposes, no matter what may be the reason alleged, will be in future entirely disregarded. " The Town-Captain has been informed that several of the patriots serving in the ranks of the National arniY, by alleging pressing business, have received permission to repair to Warsaw. By incautious acts and conversation. these persons have attracted the notice of the Muscovites► and have been subsequently incorporated with the Russian. army as participators in the insurrection. Men visiting the capital upon leave are warned of this danger, and re minded that it is unworthy of a brave soldier to quit the field in the hour of combat for the independence of the country without urgent cause. The Town-Captain there fore desires that all such persons will immediately return to their posts, upon pain in the contrary case of being brought to the severest account. " Finally, it is hertby announced that with the present day the city of Warsaw is divided into five departments. Each of these departments will be administered by a chief, but the general orders will continue to be furnished with the common seal of the Supreme Committee." MARKETS--This Day. MARK LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 468 9d ; barley, 30s 7d ; oats, 238 Od ; rye, 335 3d ; beans, 408 4d; and peas, 37s 10d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 46s 9d; barley, 32s 10d ; oats, 22s 8d ; rye, 34s 8d ; beans, 39s 3cl; peas, 36s 6d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 77,64 9 ; barley, 841; oats, 4,605 ; rye, 58 ; beans, 3,1)73 ; peas, 295 qrs. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on offer in to-day's market being rather extensive, the demand for all breeds was very irate' tive at a decline in the qu3tations, compared with blonds)", of 2d per Blbs, The highest figure was 58 per Blbs. Sheep —the show of wLich was seasonably good—moved off lowly. •In prices, however, no change took place. The be..t Downs realised 5s 2d per 81bs, We have to report a dull inquiry for lambs on rather easier terms. The top figure was 6s 6d per Blbs. There was a large number Of calves on sale, and the veal trade was heavy at a decline of from 4d to 6d per 81bs. Pigs and mulch cows were vet/ dull at barely late rates. Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 2 Second quality _4do 4 4 _8 s. d. a. cl. Primecra-wool d 0.4 10 5 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 0 5 2 Largo orse. calves 3 8 4 2 Prime small do 4 4 4 6 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 4 6 Lambs, 5s 4d to 6's 6d. Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 208 to 265. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Cows 390 Beasts 1 ' 3 12 10 0 ' Sheep and lambs .... 2,402 Calves Sheep and lambs 550 ; Pigs ...... Pigs 380 / MEAT MARKETS. Beasts supplies of meat are only mod erate , ~ N ENV G A ND n L d E u A Ie D E d N e mß}AuaLdLis—i inactive, Beef, from 3 s Od to 4s 6d , mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; lamb, 58 4d to 5s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 4 8 6d ; and pork, 3s 4 d to 4i 10d per Sib s, by the carcase. as lollop s SOUTHALL, June 24.—The supplies of stock are mode rate. Prime beasts and sheep are the turn dearer. Other wise, the trade is heavy, as follows :—Beef, from 38 6d to 5 5 ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; l amb, 58 4d to 64 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, June 24.—Each kind of stock was i n fair request, as follow s from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; mutton! .38 .0(1 to 5s 2d ; lamb 5s 6d to 68 4d • veal, 4s Od to 48 8d pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d Per 81bs ' • suckling calves,l2s to 200 .! quarter-old s t ore p i gs, 1 8 s to 265; andmilch cows, £l4 to £lB 108 each. HAY MARKETS SMI TIIFIELD. — Meadow hay, £3 Os . to £4 lOs ; claire £3 lOs to £5 lOs ; and straw, £1 Ss to £1 16s per load' A. slow trade. MeIVIOW tak‘y, £3 Os to £4 10e ; clover £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw. IS. £1 Oa Per 1 " 1 • 1. rade dull. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 8 s ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 12s; and straw, £lBs to £1 ]6s per Jos - Supply moderate.