The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

TN FUN, TIIIS WEEK, One Penny, Charles TN Du Can ,, , M.P.—England on Chinese Plates—Wander ings in London, &o. "SATURDAY NIGHT JOURNAL." Every Week. One Penny, Forensic Reminiscences. The Thames Embankment and its Approaches. America and the Giants ; &c 80, F eet-street. f 1 RAND FLOWER SHOW, TO-MORROW.- Ijr The Offices at the CRYSTAL PALACE and at EXETER HALL will be kept open for the sale of FIVE SHILLING DAY ADMISSION TICKETS, and the GUINEA SEASON TICKETS (which admit free To-mor row) up to Nine o'clock This Evening. By Order. GEORGE GROVE, Secretary. Crystal Palace, May 22, 18E3. F ir dEAT RE-RO Y AL, H AY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa mela, Miss Maria Harris. After which, 6th time, a new and , rlginal comedy, entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Bu;:kstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wig a- 3, a nd Miss Louisa Ange'. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Commence at 7. TE DUKE'S AT OTT o. THE HUNDREDTH AND SEVENTH NIGHT. On Whit Monday, and during- the Summer Season at the doors will open at 7 o'clock; performance commence half past 7. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management. of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Driving] Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic g entitled T Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3lo DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval an ue d , John Brough H a E m The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter . suppor ted by Messis.J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Broug , .arn, B. iddi ombe , F. Charles, Garden, Elymond, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, . Lavenue, and Elaworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, a petite Drama, THE ANGEL OR DEVIL. Miss A. Jones, Mr. Took, and Mr. Billington. After which (9th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. eb stel - Stuart, Stephenson, Seftn ; Miss H. Simms, and M W rs. B 1 lington. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. B 1( ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, It Phillips, }bnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Bar], and Miss K. Kelly. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. J. L. Toole, &c. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SuN , I , i. containing the Luteat SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening . of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, May 22, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 5B Barometer-30.05. Wind—N.E. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 4h. 51m.—Afternoon; sh. 6m. To-movatow.-Morning, sh. 25m.—Afternoon, sh. 45m. - Zi jt >. tut LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1863. Although the news brought from America by the Glasgow is but a single day later than that which came to hand on Saturday last, immedi ately on the arrival of the Persia that one additional day's intelligence will bo found, upon examination, to be of very considerable import ance. And it is so, for the very simple reason, that it fully confirms the first hurried announce ment, brought over by the Persia, descriptive of the utter defeat, rout, and all but annihilation, of General SEDGWICICS division at Fredericksburg. A mer 3 remnant of that division, it now turns out, having contrived to effect its escape from the Con fede rates by rapidly crossing the Itippabannoeld Even then, when the flying remnant of that more than decimated division had succeeded in putting the long-named river between them and their Southern pursuers, the dilemma in which SEDOWICK'S men found themselves must have tended in no very material way to hearten them on in regard to their future proceedings For how, in fact, were they situated when they had thus (nominally speaking) escaped ? They were so situated that they were in reality more than ever in a perillous state of isola tion. They were, in the strictest meaning of the phrase, on the wrong side of the hedge, when they had recrossed to that, certainly for them, wrong side of the Rappahannock, So conscious was General SEDGWICK of the fact of their being so, of their; being in this most untoward predi cament, that immediately after crossing he directed his steps forthwith along the northern bank in the direction of the United States Ford, as it is called, in order, as speedily as possible, to recross the river at that point, if he should happily for him find it in any way practicable —so as to reach once more the head-quarters of General HOOKER, the Federal Commander-in-Chief. As to that same unfortunate Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, he appears, by this one day's later intelligence, to have been in as sorry a plight as well could be—short of his total discomfiture. As the sequel to his disastrous struggle with the Confederates, on the morning of Sunday, the 31 instant, he now turns out to have wisely availed himself of the excuse furnished by the bad weather for not renewing the battle with his antagonists. With his lines contracted—hard lines truly for him! lines certainly not cast just vow in pleasant places ! —.HOOKER had, until the moment of these last advices leaving the seat of war, persistently and prudently remained strictly upon the defensive. Satisfied with having stunned the Federal Gammen der-in-Chief into this complete and profound state of quiescence, the attention of the Confederate Com• manger-ic-Chief, General LEE, and of his Generals of Division, foremost amongst them the redoubt able" STONEWALL" JACKSON, seems to have been directed to the more caniplete crushing out, from a ll further hope, of General SEDGWICK'S iil•starred division. So serioas was til position of things even i n the estimation of the , headed obtuseand dawdling Exe cutive of Washingt on ~b y that greatest lione Failure of the Age, President 4 d his coadjutors, in Am LINCOLN, th a t the latter an the Federal Government, really at len gth would appear to have been startledartled into something k an energetic course. It is a course which, supposing the fl y in g tumours a s to its having been taken, to be correct —is a rather precipitate course at best, a course indicative very nearly of a sense of absolute desperation! The accuracy of the rumour, h o wever, yet remains to be demonstrated —this ex traordinary / am - lour now brought over, as it were breathlessly, across the Atlantic by the Glasgow, to the effect that the reserve set os;de for o f t h e capital, a reserve of tits in olection :39,000 men, had been has' fly despatched from Washington, to the support of Gz.neral HOOKER and his lieute nants. Should this prove to have been actually done—should it turn out that these 30,000 men of the rtserve have really been despatched thus summarily to the assistance of General HOOKER—President LINCOLN may then be said ' to have fairly staked all u p on a single cast of the t . die, to have risked his whole available resources upon the salvation, at the last gasp (the mere rumour of this act would seem to say this), of the Army of the Potomac! Supposing the course here particularised, we repeat, to have been taken, . ,l it must be allowed certainly to be a bold course enough ; but it is also, no less, surely, a very ha zlreous one. _ _ While ugly rumours of this kind were flying about, moreover, thick and fast, at Washing ton, an ominous silence was still preserved as to the actual condition of General HOOKER'S entrenched army. True, there were wild, vague statements whispered about, exultantly, at the Federal hotel-bars in New York and Washington, telling how the Federal General had taken multi. tudes of prisoners from the victorious foe, observe ! But then, rather interfering with our readiness to accept statements of this kind with anything like confidence, they variously put the aggregate of these reported prisoners at any total that might be selected from five to fifteen thousand! Thousands on General HOOKER'S own side having notoriously fallen upon that fatal Sunday's battlefield ! Driven to bay, once more, as the army of the Potomac undoubtedly is, will not President LINCOLN at length listen to reason, will he not modify somewhat the dogged policy to which he has hitherto so per tinaciously adhered ? Heaven grant it! For the restoration of the Union, as it was ! intact I—we have long come to regard as utterly hopeless. Nor are we in any way exceptional, in so thinking, on this side of the Atlantic. What sane man amongst us can seriously maintain for one moment the feasi bility of the realisation of the old Federal daydream? Even that cherisher of Federal hallucinations, the hon. member for Birmingham, would hesitate now, we should presume, from adventuring upon any such display of flagrant hardihood as the main taining of a thesis so utterly extravagant. Affairs in Prussia still seem to be complicated ; the last accounts informing us that Herr BISMARK appeared at the Chamber of Deputies and read a message from the KING, which apprised that House that as it had indirectly approved of the conduct of its President, it had acted in violation of the con stitutional rights of the Ministry. " Such a posi tion for the Ministry," the message add, " does not correspond w ith the dignity of the Crown. The KING can only advise the Chamber to terminate such a state of things, in order that the business of the House may be continued." Nothing could be more ill-timed or ill-judged than this communication, and unwisely as the King of PRUSSIA has already acted, this last step is still worse than any previous one. He seems resolved to irritate, by every available means, the temper of the Chamber of Deputies. There can be but one end to this contretemps between the Go vernment and the House, and that is a dissolution. The whole aspect of affairs in Prussia at the pre sent moment is most unsatisfactory, 'whether we regard foreign questions or turn to home matters It was only the other night that reference was made in the House of Commons to the part taken against the Poles by the Prussian Go vernment, and now we have this latest confirmation of the unhappy state of things existing between the Sovereign and his subjects. It is, at all events, satisfactory to note that the members in the Cham ber of Deputies have resolved at once upon offering a determined resistence to the arbitrary missive sent to them. Herr VIRCHON moved that the Royal Message be referred to the Committee on the Ad dress, as the Ministers had misinformed the KING. His proposal .was unanimously adopted by the Chamber. If their existence is soon to be abruptly terminated, these representatives will at least have the gratification of remembering that they did their utmost to uphold the dignity and to maintain the rights of their position, thereby leaving behind them an example worthy of imitation by the race that may succeed them. The present crisis is a most painful one ; and it seems useless to expect any amelioration in the prospects of the future, while the KING and the Ministers persist in supporting and encouraging each other in the unwise course and the dangerous policy that have of late so perplexed and startled their own country and the neighbour ing States of Europe. Experiments in legislation are usually fascinating if they are dangerous, although in no other science does theory so ill stand the test of practice. It is easy to discourse on political rights and duties, the responsibilities of statesmen, and the privileges due to taxpayers, but the melancholy fact remains that men, whether in office or in opposition, as candidates or electers, seldom act up to the expectations of Utopian philosophers. Nevertheless, it is always interesting to watch the application of new princi ples, and to subject to the sharp test of daily prac tice by ordinary men those measures and projects which elcquent theorists have formed from excep tional experience. Such experiments are most e asily and suitably tried in young and unformed states, where no overthrow of existing institutions, no violent convulsion of the social system, is needed to make way for the trial of new constitutional laws. Oar colonies are especially fitted to be the theatre of such essays, possessing as they do the experience, steadiness, and political intelligence of the old country, along with the fresher energies and wider scope of their new life. The self government which has been of late years accorded to them enables them to put their Chartism to the very wholesome and moderating test of expe r i men t, un d er whose disenchanting influence universal su f • frage, payment of members and other "points" l ose somewhat of their charms. The aspect of political affairs in Victoria affords a good illustration of the drawbacks attending some of those measures which Democrats so earnestly enforce. Under the aus pices of Mr. REALER, the late Premier, whose opinions were essentially Democratic, the payment of the popular representativf s was determined upon. Three hundred a-year, besides the privilege of med dling in the affairs of the country, proved an attrac tion that brought into the field a host of competi tors of questionable character, many of them being professional men whose ill luck or want of ability had rendered their respective professions unremune rative, and men of the lower orders, ambitious to display their political abilities while gaining a com fortable income. The necessary votes were not difficult toobtain, for universal sufft age rendered mob- oratory a fair passport to success, and a throng of grandi loquent declaimers on the rights of m an and the duties of property were carried in triumph t o the desired goal. The dangers of an assem bl y com posed exclusively so t el c za di f d o of such re p resen t a ti ves w ere, however, more rparent, that an association was forme d b y th e of a bettepreeca la b s s l e of a a r t e p s r , promoting ot ing paying the their election ex penses. The result of these after the timeeffo r t s was that i n a short meeting of the Tr Assembl th • were defeated, an d M r. minrity found y l ° l ' e is democratic tfflrts rewarded with a seat on the Opposition benches. Mr. CrSIIANNESSY, one of the most able men in the colony, supplied his place ; but the d , ffinilties attending the working of the Victorian Constitution are 60 great, that it - is m ore t h an hinted that the Assembly is kept in k . wor ing order by the use of means not altogether immacu:ate. The perplexity seems to be much the same as that which was felt in the United States before the crisis. The aspirant to power has many supporters and advisers, but few rewards to give when success is won. The disappointed partisan easily discovers some flaw in his policy. Some inconsistency in his proceedings gives him an excuse for transferring his support and his services to a more hopeful , patron. In America this scheming is constantly at Work with regard to the chief office in the State. In Victoria, happily, it is confined to the more constitutional limit of Ministerial changes. The fact is, that uni versal suffrage over there does not work well, as Victorian statesmen are beginning to find. The new Electoral Act neutralises it in a great ale asure by disqualifying all who have not been resident in the Electoral district for three months, and in sisting on the signature of each would-be constituent to the roll of voters. But these proposed amend ments have serious defects. In the first places gthoeldrudlieggrsaest, h o w re o forma sidence presses very badly on the numerous and influential class of the population. Again, the regulation as to signature, although at first sight good as secur ing educated voters, shuts out a large number of quick-witted and intelligent men, long resident in the colony, whose shrewdness and experience would be worth having in . the legislature. Reading and writing is a fair test of the capabilities and associa tions of the adult emigrant. It is by no means infallible evid ence o f th e powers o f th e na ti ve colo nist, who was probably brought up in a home and district where "schooling" was a thing unknown. The worst of it is that in all this political rivalry and democratic experimentalising the interests of the colony are but ill represented, while measures of real value and importance are delayed or neglected owing to adverse influences. What can be done, when the Government acts freely and promptly, is shown by the rapid development of the cotton cul tivation in Queensland. Every facility has been given to speculators, and every encouragement afforded to successful cultivators. Free grants of land up to 1,280 acres are conceded on easy condi tions, and bonuses are offered of £lO for every bale of cotton weighing 3001 b. of the growth of the seasons 1862-3.4, and of £5 for the two next seasons. The result of this liberal and enlightened policy is so satisfactory [that an enlightened Australian contemporary thinks it not unlikely that the cultivation of cotton will shortly assume in Queensland an equal importance to the growth of wool. if this policy had been earlier adopted in all our colonies suitable to the growth of cotton, how much suffering and loss might there not have been spared ! Instead of which, every obstacle has been put in the way of enterprise, and every discouragement given both by the home and colonial governments to any attempt at experiment or speculation. Pri vate enterprise, in the person of a German tobacco nist, has recently developed another source of wealth and prosperity to our Australian colonies. He has established a tobacco plantation near Melbourne with such astonishing success as to produce many imitators, a new and thriving branch of trade thus opening to colonial industry. It is dsser ted by the cultivators and manufacturers concerned in it, that in a few years Victoria cigars will rival Havannahs, but whether or no such megnificent visions be realised, the successful experiment is a matter of congratulation. If our colonists would suspend their political disputes for a while and turn their attention to the development of their internal resources, they would find it a more profitable wey of employing their political energies. The Egyptia ns , from time immemorial, have been more or less in a state of serfdom, notwithstanding that before their conquest by CAMBYSES, they pos sessed privileges of which in later times they were deprived. A curse seems to have fallen upon the land many centuries ago, and up to the present day the vast buildings and statues which were produced in past ages by their forefathers, have no more in terest in the eyes of the Egyptians than as a source of profit to be derived from guiding the curious strangers to the ruins of the works of the Phareahs and their predecessors. The cause of this inertness does not spring from any want of intelli gence in the individual Egyptian, but rather from the thraldom to which he has become accus tomed, and to a total want of interest in a country in which he has no material concern. Is it to be expected that, when at any moment, at the call of the government of his district, he may be ordered to leave his home, and labour under the rod of the Turkish taskmaster, the _Egyp tian can possess any national sentiments. Up to the late visit to Egypt by the new Turkish Sultan, ABDUL AZIZ, such has really been the state of this extraordinary country. But a new vista has been at length opened up by the appear ance of this grand reformer in the country which had been so long neglected by so many of his pre decessors, being left by them to the care of tribu tary, not independent, Viceroys. ABDUL Aztz feels the responsibility of his position, and his duty to all his subjects, Turks or Egyptians, Catholics, Pro testants, Greek Church, or Mahommedans. At his interview with ISMAIL PASIIA, with the concur rence of the French authorities, it was determined that in future forced labour shall be abolished in Egypt. This is as it should be, and we trust that a new era is now opening in the East. Let us hope that good government and free institutions will mitigate religious animosities, and so strengthen the Ottoman Empire that, in case of a threatened invasion from the North, the assistance of the Western Powers may not again be required. To the Editor of the Sun. Tavistock Hotel, Covent-garden, lir.C., May 21, 1863. SIR,—In your Marlborough -street police report of this day there is a person named " Edward Douglas " charged with being drunk and disorderly in Coventry-street at four o'clock this morning. He states he is of the Tavisteck Hotel, Covent-garden. We beg to say no one of that name is known here.--We arc, Sir, yours obediently, TlABitrso s and Co. LORD LYNDIIuRsT.—" The Nestor of the House of Lords," as he has been most properly denomi nated, completed his 91st year yesterday. It affords us, as well as the whole of his aide circle of friends, great pleasure to say that the venerable Lord is in the enjoyment of excel lent health, both mental and physical, but his intellectual faculties surpass his physical. Yesterday being his birth day, a family circle assembled to the number of 18. Not only from Royalty, but from a large circle of admiring iends, his Lordship received many testimonials of regard. We understand that the marriage of the Hon. Gt orgiana Copley, Lord Lyndhurst's youngest daughtei, with Mr Du Cane, M.P., will take place at the close of the ensuing month. A fi re h o u :r t esu a l t te ß d e i n ti k f t ohred, destruction near or Tewkesbury, seious on Tuesday, d am age of several buildings. The fire spread to a large r pigsty, and as soon as it was possible to approa c h the sty several "navvies" made a rush, and seizing the pigs, which were almost cooked, commenced cutting them up and with the greatest nonchalance commenced eating the meat. Ono of these fellows, finding the meat not sufficiently cooked to his taste, held it oa a fork over the burning embers. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.-00 Monday last Mr Nottinghamshire, sent his ter vant Brown,in charge niiin ' e g faherse and cart from the field to the homestead, On his way tome ha had to cross the railway, and opened the gate to lit the horse and cart cross over wi hout looking if there were any trains in sight. The horse and cart had no socner entered the crossing than a luggage train came up, The buffer of ihe engine struck the body of the cart, separating it f ro m the shafts, without in the least injuring the animal. Unfortunately, Mr. Brown's son, a years tittle boy th ree ye of age, was riding in the cart when the collisi on took t th e rown engine . ov e hedge The child remnants of the shattered The poor child, together with the e r the the h i t at i tered vehicle, was tossed into the air about 20ft. hi g h, e boy' s ca p a li g hti n g on the top of h fell cl ose b y t h e s id e o f th e ra ils senseless to th e ground, l ge into the r adjoining field. The father, while the re ma i ns o f th e car t were who was left in th e field, heard the c o lli s i on, an d hasten i ng to the spot found th e b oy Senseless. After the lapse of some hours the child showed signa of life, a n d h opes are entertained that Ile will recover, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 18(3. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTEIt'S TELEGRAMS.) GREECE. ATHENS, MAY 17 (via Trieste). A ohange of Ministry has taken place. names of the new Ministers are as follows : President of the Council .... M. Rufos. .... M. Komundurus. •• • • M. Lendidis. A M I i i n n i i s s t t e e r r o o f f t F h i a n l a n n t c e e r . i o . r Minister of Justice ...... M. Platis. Minister for Foreign Affairs M. Delganni. Minister for War M. Botzaris. Minister of the Marine .... M. Canaria. The Minister of Public Worship . M. Califrinos. The National Assembly has voted an address, conveying its thanks to the three protecting Powers for the benefits they have hitherto conferred upon Greece. FRANCE, THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, MAY 22. M. de Persigny has addressed a letter to the Prefect of the Seine, of which the following is a summary : " M. de Persigny categorically denies the report the election of M. Thiers, would abandon its sup porthesitating to oppose that the Government , while of M. Devinck. M. Thiers, by his presence at the meetings of old political parties uniformly com posed of avowed enemies of the Emperor and the Empire, had rendered it impossible for the Govern ment to give him that reception which it would otherwise been disposed to extend to the illustrious historian of the Consulate and the Empire. M. Thiers henceforth remains the representative of a regime which France has condemned, and it is, therefore, the duty of the Government to oppose him. What M. Thiers wishes is the re-establishment of a regime which bas been fatal to France and to himself, displacing authority from its natural foundation, casting it forth to be devoured by the passions of the t ribune, replacing the fertile movement of action by the barren agitation of words—a regime 18 years, prod uce d i m p o ten ce a t hom which, during and weakne sse abroad, which both commenced and ended in a riot. Aggrandized France, France which has become so prosperous and so glorious, and which, since M. Thiers and those who think with lira are no longer in power, possesses universal suffrage, will not oppose that Government which has extricated the country from the abyss into which those men had permitted her to fall." The state of M. Baroche's health is m uch im- proved. Madame de Lamartine, the wife of the poet, is dead. M. Baroche continues in the same state as previ ously announced. No symptoms have appeared giving cause to apprehend an a ggravation of his malady, . Intelligence from Constantinople states that the Secretary of his Highness Ismail Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt, is expected there to obtain the sanction of the Sultan to the fulfilment of the engagements entered into by M. de Lesseps. The Cireassians are stated to be preparing a me morial to the foreign Powers, protesting against the capture of their ships by Russian cruisers. BOURSE, May 21.—The market continues in the same feverish state, but prices show only a very slight decline, Tnreea, for the Account, being now at 69f. 50c. The Railway Share Market has been quiet, but with quotations up to the present time generally well maintained. The market closed as follows : It per Cents 97 Do. end month..., -- 3 per Cents Do. end month..., GO 45 Credit Mobilier 1432 50 Do, end month 1 , 127 50 Bank Shares 3450 Credit I oneier 1450 RAIL' - Italian Loan 72 35 • Do. end month 72 40 i New ditto i Do, end month.... 73 40 Russian Austrian .. • Spanish Threes 5l 25 • Home Debt MAIM Cash. Account. Orleans lOO5 .• 1002 50 Northern New. ditto • ...... —.— Lyous and Mediterranean 1062 50 .. 1065 Geneva 455 4 - 5 Southern .. 763 75 • • 765 Western Eastern ... . Sardinian ............. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona .• • AMERICA. (RET.ITER ' S TELEGRAMS.) Per the Glasgow. NEW YORK, May 7. The New York herald of to 'day says :—" Intel ligence received from General Hooker's army is to the morning of the sth inst. " The battle had not been renewed, owing to two days' heavy rain rendering any aggressive movements on either side impracticable. "General Sedg wick's division has succeeded in crossing (P re-crossing) the river, and has joined Hooker's Column. " Generals Stonewall' Jackson and Hill are dangerously wounded. General Ransom is reported killed." Washington despatches state that Gen. Heitnzelo inann's division, 30,000 strong, had left Washing ton to reinforce Gen. Hooker. The second attack of Gen, Sheiman's expedition on Haines' Bluff was repulsed with a loss of 80 killed and wounded. The expedition had left for Young's Point, The Federal Government intends to commence the reinforcement of the Conscription Act at once. The list of Provost-Marshals at present appointed for the different districts is published. No further definite news received from General Hooker's army. General Hooker is reported to have captured 6,000 to 15,0b0 piLoneis, and to have lost 6,000 men. Up to Tue s d ay even ing there was nothing definite known, fil et pt the fact that many thou sands were killEd, and that the battle was not decided. • The Federals are reported to have cut the Con federate railroad communication between Vicks burg and Richmond Charleston, and T ullahoma. Military were s ent f rom Cincinnati and Colum bus to quell the r i ot at D a yton consequent upon Mr. Vallandighara's arrest. Telegraphic commu • nication to Dayton was interrupted. The G'asgow takes out a general cargo of pro visions, and 7 ,6C0 dole. in specie. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK - , iklay 6, Evening. Money easy. Gold 52 per cent. pm• St.)cks— Prices lower. New York Centrals, 1181; Illinois, 92; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 106'4. happy to see th a t ROYAL COLOSSET.3I, REGENT'S PARK.—We are beautiful auxiliary attractions having been restored is to paintings of "London thbyisDlP:e'riadni(cli reopen for the season on Whit Monday, under an entirely new management , ' when various novelties are promised, , h , u r i a ld ri i s eg by vi N it i h gl i t, t , s , among others a corni,lete orchestra; the world-renowned and the ingenious mechanical working picture of " The City of Lisbon, and -- its destruction by Earthquake" are to be exhibited for the last time. The fact that this will be the last opportunity of viewing the beautiful works of art combined with the other attractions of this instructive place of elegant amusem ent, will no doubt comman d a lull share of public patronage, YANKEE NOTABILITIES. —A Peabody becomes a 1.4 . )nd0n banker in the avocation of distributing and also of aggregating wealth. A Colt makes revclvers a prac tical fact, and no longer the curiosities of a museum; and a Hobbs, after picking all th e l oc k s in the Union , becomes Col burn, leaving for a time th e practice o f mec h a nical engineer ing, takes a position of e m i nence i n me chanical literature. a manufacturer of lo c k s in London ; w hile a Zerah —Spectator, (tgurt 4 HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 20, The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds yesterday. Princess Louise went out riding. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the cffice of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham gate, St. Stunts's-park. There were present Sir William Dunbar, Keeper of the Privy Seal; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney-General ; Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, Receiver-General; Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness; and Lord Portman. Mr. Bateman, the secretary, attended. The Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse visited the Royal Institu tion, Albemarle-street, yesterday morning. 'Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, Baroness von Schenck, Major Teesdale, and Captain esterweller. The Princess of Wales and the Princess Louis of Hesse honoured Mr. 'need's studio in Henrietta street, Cavendish-square, with a visit, to inspect his historical group of the Queen and the Prince Con sort, for Windsor Castle. Prince Louis of Hesse honoured Mr. Frith with a visit at his studio. The Prince of Wales and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Major Teesdale, rode on horseback. The Princess of Wales and the Princess Louis of Hesse took a drive in an open carriage. The Prince and Princess de joinville visited the Princess of \Vales at Marlborough-house. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the Coun tess of Macclesfield, Major Teesdale, the Lady in Waiting to the Princess Louis, and Captain Wester weller, honoured the Royal Italian Opera, Covent garden, last evening with their presence. The Preparations at Guildhall for the Royal Visit to the City, The Royal Entertainment Committee of the Cor poration hold their meetings daily at Guildhall, to watch the progre&s of the extensive works for the adornment of the Guildhall, and generally to super intend the manifold arrangements preparatory to the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to the City, on the occasion of the grand ball fixed by his Royal Highness the Prince for the Bth of June next. Numbers of artifi cers and decorators are daily employed in decorat ing the Guildhall, which will be converted for the occasion into a magnificent baronial heal. Its archi tectural details and E cu!ptured ornaments are being rapidly brought more prominently forward, instead of as hitherto being concealed beneath coarsely finished paintings, executed for scenic effect. The roof will be of Gothic design, supported by dark coloured oaken arches, springing from clustered columns built up against the walls. Including the eastern and western ends, there will be nine of these arches, ornamented with shields and arms of the Corporation, and banners of various colours. The carved tracery of the walls is being trebly gilt, and in the panels will be hung portraits of several of the Lord Mayors of London. The bosses will be picked out in blue, crimson, and gold, and so far as the work has at present progressed it already begins to assume a most elegant appearance. The statues are to be draped in dark velvet, and Gog and Magog were yesterday well washed, preparatory to receiv ing new coats of paint in honour of the auspicious event. A superb raised dais is being prepared, on which will be placed a canopied throne for the Prince and Princess. Several magnificent chande liers will be suspended from the roof, and various other decorations introduced quite of a novel cha racter. The invitations have been limited to 1,500 ladies and gentlemen. The Earl and Countess of Suffolk and Lady Victoria Howard have left Farrance's Hotel for Chariton Park, near Malmesbury. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for their seat, High Clere, near Newbury. The Dowager Countess of Carnwath, who ex pired at her residence, 39, Gloucester-place, Portman• square : on the 14th inst., deeply lamented by her family and a large circle of friends, was interred yesterday, at the new cemetery, Ealing. THE PRUSSIAN EMBASSY.--Last night intelli gence was received of the death of the father of the Countess Bernstorff. The deceased diplomatist, at an earlier period of his career, filled the post of Saxon Minister at Paris, and had enjoyed his appointment of Great Cham berlain to the King of Saxony up to his death. In conse quence of the lamented demise of the countess's father all prospective festivities are abandoned for the present season. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DERBY.—A sporting writer in a contemporary says that his Roya Highness backed the winner, and that the Prince of Orange was not so fortunate, as he backed The Gillie for £lOO. l Another sporting writer says that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales got the wrong " tip" and took £lOO to £5 about The Gillie, and lost his money. We give the two statements for what they are worth. MADAME LIND GOLDSCIIMIDT. — HandeI ' s Can tato L'Allegro and Il Penseroso is to be repeated at Saint James's Hall early in July. Alas. FANNY KEMBLF,'S READINGS OF SHAKES PEARE. DUDLEY GALLERY. Crowded and fashionable audiences have attended the Readings during the past week, amongst whom we have observed the Marquis of Lansdowne Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Countess of Essex, Earl and Countess Home, Countess Lyveden, Countess Galway, Lord Dunglasse, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, the Baroness de Rothschild and family, the Baroness Hambro', Viscount Enfield, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Monteagle, Lady Stanley, Lady H. Sinclair, Lord Strafford, Lady Clarges, Lord Delamere, Lady Charlotte Denison, Honourable Mr, Villiers, Sir J. Simeon, &c, HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.—We are requested to state that the concert of church music, which was acciden tally repotted as having occurred on Wednesday last, is to take place on Wednesday next, the 27th inst. The mistake arose from a grand rehearsal of this concert having been held in the Hanover square Rooms on Wednesday morning, with a view to the concert of Wednesday afternoon next. We understand that the effect of the opening of Handel's Magnificat (a double chorus) was truly sublime, and that, as was stated yesterday, the distinguished artistes acquitted themselves with perfect success. SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE FINE ARTS.—Last evening Mr. Hurlstone, presi dent of the Society of British Artis's, delivered an interest ing lecture " On Spanish Art," before a numerous audience. A discussion f Mowed. The fifth conversazione of the sea son will take place at the Egyptian Hall, Mansfon on Wednesday next, by permission of the Lord Mayor, who will preside on the occasion. RAGGED ScllooLs.---The number of evening schools is now 1,800, with scholars and attendance averaging 23,360. The number of Sunday schools was 199, and the number of scholars 17,970. Ihe week-day schools numbered 205, and scholars 8,320, giving 9. total of 51,650 scholars; but, as many week-day scholars attended on Sundays, the probable number who et joyed the benefit of the schools is about 26,000. The indu,lrial scholars num bered 2,850; voluntary teachers, 2,700; paid teachers, 360 ; paid monitors, 460. There are now 26 bands of hope, with 4,200 members, and the number of school libraries has increased to 66, with above 10,000 volumes. The shoe black societies are Bin number, and comprise 372 lads, whose united earnings for the year amount to £6,222. The central society (the red) has been for some time self-sup porting. The rag brigade goes on well. 34 boys and 7 trucks are at work ; and since Luly-day, 1862, 82 tons of various kinds of stiff bad been collected. The clothit, g clubs number 63. 172 schools and refuges report an aggregate income for the past year of £29,636. GENERAL HOOKER AND THE NEWSPAPERS— General Ilooker, has issued an order requiring newspaper correspondents in his army to sign the communications they transmit to the papers for publication, and accordingly their letters now appear with th , ir names, or at all ev , nts their initial e, appot dcii. The general threatens, if communica tions aro published without the correspondent's signature, that' "such correspondent will be excluded from and the journal suppressed within the lines of the general's army." CUNARD CARGO STEAMERS TO NEW YORK.—"'The Sidon, the first of the Cunard line of cargo screw steamers, carrying also steerage passengers, sailed from Liverpool for New York on Tuesday. By this line, which is auxiliary to the mail steamers, it is intended to have a steamer de spatched from Liverpool every alternate Tuesday. ADELPHI THEATRE. A new and original burlesque extravaganza, entitled "11l Treated 11 Trovatore," was produced here last night, and met with a highly favour able reception. Of course, it will be at once per ceived that the opera of "Il Trovatore" is the foundation of the whimsical affair, and very well has the clever author adopted the somewhat mys terious plot of the original to bis purpose. As all the incidents of ~ .11 Trovatore" are pretty well known, it is only necessary to say that the gems of the opera are mixed up with street airs in a manner that must have taxed the ingenuity of Mr. Byron; and this will readily be perceived when we say that, while one of the performers is singing, " Ah, the la morte," another is delight ing the upper regions with "The Perfect Cure." The opening solo and chorus is sung by Ferrando and the guards to the tune of the " Cork L g," and the lovely Leonora and her dashing lover-trouba dour, give vent to the mutual aff.ction in the most popular and telling negro melodies. The sisters Carry and Sarah Nelson made their first appearance respectively as Manrico and Leonora, with the greatest success, whilst Mr. Toole, as the Gipsy Queen Azucena, produced an extraordinary impres• sion by his burlesque-tragic acting. In order that Paul Bedford might not be out of the fun Mr. Byron introduced him as the Kinchin, from the "Flowers of the Forest," and the position he assigned him was chief clerk to her Gipsy Majesty. The performance of the two kept the house in a continued state of laughter, and Mr. R. Phillips, by his comical ren dering of the Count di Luna, contributed greatly to the hilarty of the evening. All the principal songs were enthusiastically encored; the scenery and dresses were exceedingly beautiful and hppro priate. At the fall of the curtain all the performers, and the witty author, had to acknowledge the ap. plauses showered upon them by a very crowded and fashionable audience. Crystal Palace Flower Show. Very extensive preparations are being made for the great show of flowers and fruit to-morrow, the arrangements for which present several novel fea tures. Large tent-like awnings are suspended over the plants the whole length of the Palace, whi c h, while protecting the flowers from the glare of the sun, do not interfere with the light and airy effect of the general view in the centre transept and naves. The music for the day will be given on the great orchestra, the band of the Coldstream Guards being specially engaged for the occasion, in addition to the band of the company. The exhibition itself, both for variety and extent, is expected to sur pass all others of a like kind. Stove and green house plants are well represented; some very good collections of fine foliaged and variegated leaved plants will also be shown. The orchids are nume rous, and comprise many exceedingly rare varieties. In azaleas the show will be unusually brilliant, this class exceeding in number and dimen sions the entries on any previous occasions,, Several fine collections of those delicate and beautiful plants the Cape Heaths will be shown. Some of the chief exhibitors and growers of the rose have sent their best specimens both in pots and cut flowers—of these there will be a remarkably fine display. The entries for pelargoniums include the choicest kinds, comprising many specimens of un usually large dimensions. New and rare plants_ calceolat ias, tall cacti, ferns, cut flowers, and a large miscellaneous class, will cumplete this charming ex hibition. The entries for fruit include a large col lection of pines, grapes, melons, and various others from the principal growers, in greater number and finer condition than is usual at this period of the year. A special announcement has been issued by the directors that the doors of the Palace 'will not be opened to the season ticket holders and the public until one o'clock, in place of twelve as previously advertised. DEATH OF SIR CULLING EARDLEY.—We regret to learn that Sir Culling Eardley died yesterday morning at his seat, Bedwell Park, in the 58th year of his age. He had been in a declining state of health for some time past, and the melancholy resul ' we believe was not unexpected by his friends. Sir Culling was married in 1832 to lliss Carr, the daughter of a Northumberland squire; and he is succeeded by his son, now Sir Eardley Gideon Culling Eardley. THE LATE LORD HATHERTON.—We understand that a meeting of the magistracy of Staffordshire will shortly be convened, to take into consideration the most suitable mode of recognising the public worth and long services of the late respected Lord Lieutenant of the county, and of perpetuating the memory of him with the inhabitants of the county which he so long and faithfully represented in Parliament. RECRUITING IN IRELAND FOR THE FEDERAL ARMY.—The Cork Examiner of Wednesday con tains correspondence from :various parts of that county, which leaves scarcely any doubt that recruiting for the Northern army is attempted to be carried on on an extensive scale in the country. It appears that Mitchelatown and Charleville were visited on Saturday, and Fermoy at the end of last week, by several Americ to gentlemen of military aspect, who publicly, from the hotel doors and elsewhere, offered to give a passage to any number of young men willing to accept it to New York, for 3d. each, with the certainty of continuous and remunerative work when they arrived there. The police were present on several of these occasions, which obviously discommoded the strangers; but as there was nothing illegal in the proposition made, no proceedings could be taken in the matter. Several hundred young men await the sailing of the early Inman and other steamers, who, beyond a doubt, have engaged to go to Ame rica on the terms offered by the American agents. A DINNER IN AN OLD MANOR -HOUSE, AS DE SCRIBED BY MR. LONGMAN IN BIS LECTURES ON TILE HISTORY OF ENGLAND.—" Let us imagine ourselves in one of them, as lookers on, and that we see a lord sitting down to dinner with his guests and his vassals. All are ga • thered together in the hall. At the upper end, on the dais, where the ground is somewhat raised and boarded over, sit the lord and his chief guests. They are protected by a covering, which, as our host is a great man, is made of silk. Below, in ' the marsh,' sit the vassals, farm servants, and others. The door, which has lately been widened to let in carts' more easily, is closed, to keep out the wind, a dim light is let in through the canvas windows, and the marsh' is made tolerably dry and clean by litter and rushes. Fish in plenty is served up; eels and pike, and even whale, grampus, porpoise, and sea wolves,' may be had. There is plenty of beef, and plenty of mutton, but it is nearly all salted; and the bread is rather black, Vege tables are plentiful enough; there are no potatoes, but there are peas, beans, onions, garlic, and leeks, pot herbs and sweet herbs. There is fruit enough, though not equal to what we now have, There are pears, and particularly one sort, grown by the monks of Warden in Bedfordshire, which are made into Wardon pies. There are apples, particularly of the sort called " costard." These cost is. per 100, or about 12s. of our money. Peaches and cherries, and mulberries too, are not wanting. If we sup pose the entertainment to bo given in London, the garden of the Earl of Lincoln, in Holborn, would be ready to fur nish a good supply, for the fruit out of it was sold for above £lOO of our money in one year alone. There is plenty of claret, or clairets—so called because the wine was sweetened with honey, and afterwards strained till it became clear— from our possessions in Gascony, and some sort of sherry Isom Spain, for those who sit on the dais, and beer and cider enough for those who sit in the marsh.' Bat the beer is made of a mixture of barley, wheat, and oats, without hops, which have not yet been found out.' The insipidity of the beer is taken off by spices. There is wine too made from English vineyards, but it must be sour stuff and fit only for the marsh.' Nobody but the King has glass to drink out of, and he has none to spare for h s friends; but he has cups made of cocoanuts, of gourds, of buffalo horns, and of beautiful agates for his principal guests. The wooden bowl, the earthern jug, and the 1, athern jack serve well are prettyenough arm, orthegreat bulk of the assemblage. The tables for their legs are well stuck into the mud flow. Now that the guests are seated, and ready for their repast, up comes the meat on a spit, served round by the servants, and each man cues off a Lit with his knife, and pips into his wooden bowl or on his trencher. Most of the people have wooden sppoons, but nobody has a fork. The pitchers and jugs are made of earthenware, but the plates or dishes are all of wood." EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—The obituary of the Times of the 20th inst. contains some rare in stances of very advanced age, as among others the deaths of five gentlemen and three ladies arc recorded whose united ages amounted to 686 years, giving an average of 83 years and nine mon Es to each, the youngest being a male aged 79 years, and the eldest, of the opposite sex, being 95 years of age. AUNT SALLY ON THE WAR.—One of the New York Herald correspondents has discovered, n ear Rapidan, a veritable Aunt Sally, a slave woman 9O years old, who has lived all those }ears on the same plantation, and remembers the war of the Revolution. He asked her which was the worse war, and her response was, "This be worse war, I reckon, masse, for everybody is killing every body," MR. KINGLAKE. An invitation was recently given to this dist in guibhed writer, by the directors of the Athenum, to deliver one or more lectures in Glasgow under their auspices. We have been favoured with the following copy of his reply : " House of Commons, May 18. Sir,—Your letter was addressed to me at one of my clubs, and that is the reason why it remained many days without an answer. I assure you lam much flattered and gratified by the invitation which you have had the goodness to convey to me on be half of the Glasgow Athenaeum. lam so circum stanced at present that I cannot command the time necessary for appearing in public in Glasgow, but I hope you will assure the members of the Athenaeum that I am highly sensible of the honour which they kindly proposed to confer upon me. As a small and humble proof of the feeling with which I re ceived your letter, I have taken the liberty of re questing my publishers to send to the Glasgow Athetmum, in my name, a copy of the third edition of the 'lnvasion of the Crimea.'—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, " A. W. KINGLAKE. " John James Muirheael, Esq., Chairman, &c." The kindness which prompted this gift will be duly appreciated not only by the members of the Athenaeum, but also by the citizens at large. Let us hope that Mr. Kinglake may find it convenient on some future occasion to visit our city, where we are sure he would meet with a cordial reception.— North British .llail. The Plan for Supplying the Confederate Armies. The following is the plan of the Confederate Secretary of War for supplying the Confederate armies with food :—" 1. Let the people in each county, parish, or ward, select at a public meeting, as early as convenient, a committee of three or more discreet citizens, charged with the duties hereinafter mentioned. 2. Let it be the duty of the committee to ascertain from each citizen in the county or parish what amount of surplus corn and meat, whether bacon, pork, or beef, he can spare for the use of the army, after reserving a supply for his family and those dependent on him for food. Let this committee fix a price which is deemed by them a just compensation for the articles furnished, and inform the citizens what this price is, so that each may know, before delivery, what price is to be paid for the articles furnished. Let this committee make arrangements for the transportation of the supplies to soma convenient depot, after consultation with the officer who is to receive them. Let the committee make delivery of the supplies on receiving payment of the price, and assume the duty of paying it over to the citizens who have furnished the supplies. 3. Where the duty of the committee is performed in any town or city at which there may be a quarter master or commissary no further duty need be required of them than to deliver to the officer a list of the names of the citizens and of the supplies which each is ready to furnish, and the price is fixed ; whereupon the officer will, him self, gather the supplies and make payment. 4. Where the supplies are furnished in the country the cost of transportation to the depot will be paid by the Government, in addition to the price fixed by the committee. 5. As this appeal is made to the people for the benefit of our brave defenders now in the army, the department relies with confidence on the patriotism of the people that no mole than just compensation would be fixed by the committee, nor accepted by those whose chief motive will be to aid their country, and not to make undue gains out of the needs of our noble soldiers." LORD CLYDE.—It affords us much pleasure to learn that Field-Marshal Lord Clyde is much improved in health, and not the remotest danger is anticipated, His illness has been greatly exaggerated. WRECK OF A FRENCH SCHOONER AND A STEAMTUG NEAR CARDIFF.—On Tuesday the French schooner Marie Rosa, of Vannes, bound from Car diff to Alicante, NI ith coals, was driven ashore on the Penarth Head, near Cardiff, during the violent gale from the N.E. The steamtug Spirit of the Times went to her assistance, and, after an ineffectual attempt to get the ship off, was also stranded. Both became wrecks, but the crew were saved by the Coastguard. The gale continued blow ing until about midnight, when it gradually abated. Seve ral other vessels wera slightly damaged. BOAT ACCIDENT IN PENARTII RoADs.--Three lives have been lost by an accident near the Holmes, in Penarth-roads. The captain of a vessel lying in the roads and four of his crew were returning in a boat to their vessel on Wednesday evening, the wind blowing fresh, when the boat was swamped by coming in contact with a mooring shackle, and the five men were seen struggling in the water. The captain and one man had a hairbreadth escape, succeeding in catching a rope thrown to them from the ship, and were hauled on board in an exhausted state. The ship's boat was instantly manned, and sent to rescue the three others, but the poor fellows had all sunk. The bodies have not yE t been recovered. GAROTTE ROBBERY.—John Wilson was charged at the Manchester police•court on Wednesday with robbing Mr. Walter Chapell, coach painter, of a purse con taining 2s. and some pence. About 11 o'clock on Sunday night the prosecutor stopped to strike a match in Bale street, Mosley-street, when he was seized round the neck by the prisoner with two other men, and thrown down and robbed. He followed them into Oxford •street, where the prisoner was captured by a policeman, but the other two escaped. Mr. Ellison, the presiding magistrate, said that the prisoner was not known to the police, and as he did not think a jury could be convinced of his identity he would be discharged. ANOTHER OVERFLOW OF THE THAMES.—Yes terdey another high tide overflowed the banks of the Thames ; several of the low lying wharfs in Lambeth, Southwark, and Shadwell were laid under water, and the basements of water-aide premises were inundated. The afternoon's tide was also unusually high, but not suffi ciently so to occasion much damage. It was, however,con sidered prudent to construct dams and take other precau tions to prevent damage, should another overflow occur. This extraordinary rise in the tide at new moon springs is to be attributed to the north-easterly gales, which have driven immense bodies of water from the North Sea into the estuary of the Thames. COST OF LIVING IN ENGLAND.—The following account of the value of labour and the prices of the necessaries and luxuries of life in the early pal t of the 16th century is from papers in the Record-office :—" The Chan cellor's salary was £2OO per annum. Speaker of the House • of Commons, £lOO. The king's chief carver had £5 ; his chief surgeon 40 marks per annum ; librarian, £lO ; cup bearer, £2O . , . . Minstrels were paid 6d a day and he marshal of the minstrels, 4id a day, and 10 marks per annum. . . . Superior workmen, or freemasons, brick layers, plumbers, joiners, had in the long months 6d a day in the short, 6d ; if on board wages, 4d and 3d. The ordi nary agricultural labourer was paid from Easter to Michael mas 4d without meat mad drink, and 2d with, and the other part of the year lid with his board. . . The yearly clr , thing of a chief shepherd is valued at 55., of a woman servant, 4s, and the same for a woman or child. . . The price of gunpowder was 31e1 or 4d per lb; saltpetre, 4d. A hand gun cost 9s ; a great copper gun with two chambers, j:35 ; two iron guns, £26 6s Bd. . . The price of provi sions for the navy was estimated as follows : biscuits, 5s the 100; beer, 6s 8d the pipe; dried cod, 38s 4d the 124 ; salt, 5d a bushel ; oatmeal, 10d and some 14d a bushel; oil, 10d a gallon. In the navy the admiral had 108 a day; captains and treasurer, 3s 6d ; under captains, Is 6d; clerks, Bd, and some ls ; master and pilot, 30s a month; master surgeon, 13s 4d a month; quartermaster, 7s 6d ; quartermaster gunner, Os 8d ; soldiers and marines, ss. Coats for the navy, 4s; jackets, 20d. SILK.—It is an interesting historical fact that although the rearing of silkworms and the unravel ling of the thread from them to be manufactured into arti cles of dress, was first practised by the Chinese, the intro duction of this branch of industry into Europe was die to Justinian, who in the year 550 first succeeded in having the eggs brought to Constantinople. Mulberry trees were planted and every attention bestowed OR the tearing of the insects. In a subsequent reign, we arc informed by Giboon that such was the progress made, that China silk was suc cessfully co mpeted with by th e new industry. Spreading into Greece, it did not extend further till the 12th century, when, on the sacking of Corinth and Athens by the King of Sicily, it was introduced into Italy, and from thence, in the latter part of the 15th century, the rearing of silkworms was first prosecuted in the south of France. There it was deemed of such imp ,rtance by Henry IV, that he rewarded v-rsons who had been engaged in the manfacture of silk for 12 years with patents of nobility, The value of silk at Rome in Julius l're ear's time was that of gold—a pound of silk being w, rth the same weight of the precious metal. Jus tiniaa's labour was not in vain, as Europe has since realised its advantages, and it is now a remarkable, but for Turkish, economists a gratifying, fact that at the present day the district of Brousa occupies the foremost rank for the pro duction of this valuable fllament.—Levant HeMl d. In the United Kingdom it is believed that gig+ many as 30,000 persons are bliud,