The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-25 00:00:00

NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the BRI. TISH NATION LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION will be held at the Chief Offices, No. 316, Regent-street, Lon don, on T UEsDAY, the 2d day of June next, at Twelve o'Clock at noon precisely. Dated this 22d Day of May, 1863. By Order, HENRY LAKE, Manager. British Nation Life Assurance Association, Chief Offices, 316, Regent-Street, London. THE ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE COM PANY (Limited), Leicester-square, London. To be incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, whereby the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of *hares subscribed for. Capital, £lOO,OOO, in 20,000 shares of £5 each. First isslle, 10,000 shares. A deposit of 10s. per share to be paid to the Bankers on application, and £1 10s. per share upon allotment. No call will be made on the shares without two months' notice. DIRECTORS. G. A. Macfarren, Esq., Alpha-road, St. John's Wood. Adolphus Edgar Church, Esq., Colchester. A. Dalton, Esq., Glover's Lodge, Red Hill. Captain Durant, Conservative Club, St. James's. Lieut.-Col. T. Ffrench, Junior United Service Club, St. James's. W. H. P. Gore, Esq., Palace Gardens-terrace, Kensington Robert Phillips Noah, Esq., (I. Brandon and Co., Ab church-lane), Albert Club, Hanover-square. P. E. Van Nooden, Esq., Great Russell-street, Bedford. square. Capt, Richard Morgan, Sussex-road, Holloway. Charles Janes Richardson, Esq., Kensington-square. W. Wilde, Esq. (Coroner of Norwich), Norwich an, _ London, BANKERS—London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury (and Branches.) BROKERS—Messrs. Scott and Silves ter, 7, Lothhnry (corner of Tokenhouse-yard). SOLICITORS—Messrs. Howard, Dollman, and Lowther, 141, Fenchurch-street. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. G. A. MACFARREN, Esq. (Chairman.) William Wilde, jun., Esq, (With power to add.) ARCHITECT. H. IL Collins, Esq., M.I 8.A., 61, Torrington-square. SECRETARY—R. Chauncy, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES —44, Poultry, corner of Old Jewry, London. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is formed for purchasing, on advanta geous terms, the magnificent Music Hall, well known to the public as the Royal Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square, London, capable of holding upwards of 6,000 persons. The present proprietor, who will take a large proportion of the purchase-money in shares, will in future divide the man agement with the Executive Committee; thus there can be little doubt of increasing even the present great success of the institution. Mr. G. A. Mactarren, of the Roy al Aca demy of Music (one of the directors), has undertaken to write periodically for the Alhambra Concerts. An engage ment is pending with Mr. A. Manns, of the Crystal Palace, to be conductor of th 9 orchestral concerts. Various improvements are contemplated, contributing to the comfort of visitors and adding to the sources of profit. The acoustic properties of the hall will be rendered almost perfect. Each registered owner of thirty shares and upwards will be supplied with a free pass ticket. Allotments according to priority of application, and if no allotment is made, the deposits will be returned in full. Prospectuses, &c., may be obtained at the temporary , offices ; of the brokers and solicitors ; or at the Royal Al hambra Palace, Leicester-square. The directors have much pleasure in submitting the fol lowing statement for intending shareholders : APPROXIMATE EXPENDITURE and MINIMUM REVENUE for One Year of 310 Nights, when only 2,000 Persons are in the Hall nightly, although by the Improvements con templated it will hold upwards of 6,000 Visitors. ANNUAL OUTLAY. Ground rent Taxes, including income tax .. 1,500 0 0 Gas ..... 1,200 0 0 Breakages and renovations Fire insurance 3OO 0 0 Artists and Company, £3OO per week 15,600 0 0 Advertising Salaries to cheque takers and cellarmen, &c. 1,000 0 0 Cost of refreshments, &c., supplied to the audience Cost of supplies to supper-rooms Towards a reserve fund to replace capital of £50,000 Cost of stationery, printing, &c 5OO 0 0 Bill posting, &c 5OO 0 0 Contingencies of any other kind l,OOO 0 0 Total expenditure ANNUAL INCOME, From Admissions. 25 Private boxes, at ss. each (but Per Night. Per Annum. 10s. would be charged) £ 6 5 0 £1,937 10 0 Stalls, 300 at 2s 3O 0 0 9,300 0 0 Ditto, 300 at Is. 6d. Promenade&balcony,l,ooo at ls 5O 0 0 15,500 0 0 Area &galleries, say 400 only at 6d 10 0 0 3,100 0 0 Prom pictu.re gallery in day time 1,550 0 0 From S applies. If only 2,000 visitors are in the hall nightly, and 6d. only ex pended iper head (but Is. is about the average) To 25 private boxes, at say 2s per box From supper rooms From sale of wines, &c., during the day .time .. l,OOO 0 0 Commission on pictures sold • . 400 0 0 From music and programmes 2 0 0 620 0 0 From subletting property be longing to the hall From cellarage, which can be let at 350 0 0 sco 0 0 Total incomQ £59,057 10 0 Income Outlay Net annual income 523,057 10 0 Season Tickets will be issued, but are not calculated in the annual income-table. The above statement shows more than £45 per cent. in terest on the paid-up capital of £.50,000, and with the anti cipated improvements in the general arrangement and high class of attraction which will be offered to the public, the directors leave intending subscribers to form their own opinion of what sort of dividends they are likely to obtain. THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and ALUMINIUM BRONZE. 2,000 SPECIMENS, illustrating the appli cation (Ornamental and Useful) of these in teresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW at MAPPIN BROTHERS' NEW ROOMS, 222, REGENT STREET. Admission by Card. IN FUN, THIS WEEK, One Penny , Charle Du Cane, 'M.P.—Eng:and on Chinese Plates—Wander ings in London, &c. " SATURDAY NIGHT JOURNAL." Every Week. One Penny. Forensic Reminiscences. The Thames Embankment and its Approaches. America and the Giants ; &c. &c. 80, Feet-street. THE ATRE -R 0 E -R0 / 1„ HA Y M ARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pa mela, Miss Maria Harris. After which, Bth time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. BuAstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigaa, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of VV ales in the East. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO• THE HUNDREDTH AND NINTH NIGHT. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orizinal 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 Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)logne, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham, H. %% iddhombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Lad, Dawson and Elsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, 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 (I , th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster, Stuart, Stephenson, Sefton; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. 8i11in,9,-ton. lin,9,-ton. Followed by a new Burlesque, ent'iled ILL-TREATED IL TRO VATORE. ssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. J. L. Toole, &c Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, May 25, 1863, M. DE LAMARTINE. M. de Lamartine's unfathomable pecuniary affairs have from time to time been brought before the public. The sympathy felt for him on the occasion of the death of his wife has again provoked the idea of a national subscription. A curious statement is made in the Presse to-day. M. de Girardin says that, presuming on his thirty years' friendship with the Messrs. Pereira, he wrote to them, and received in return a contribution of 10,000 fr. On the strength of this example he wrote ether letters to rich people, and was about to write more, when he was stopped by the following letter from M. de Lamartine himself : "My dear Girardin,—Your heart is always on a level with your talent. I can only thank you for your kind in tentions, but, in the name of heaven and our old friendship, stay your hand and say no more about it. LAMARTINE." Hereupon M. de Girardin's leading article says : " The friends to whom I yesterday wrote must now consider my letters and my article in the Presse as null and void. But in a postscript he announces that M. G. Delahaute, the banker, has subscribed the truly munificent sum of 50,000 f. (£2,000), and has at the same time expressed an opinion that M. Lamartine's affairs are not nearly so bad as is sup posed, and that if he (M. de Girardin) would interest himself in the liquidation of his debts, everything might be paid without the necessity of selling his paternal estate of St. Point. If so slight an effort as M. Delahaute, a com petent man of business, seems to think neces sary, would suffice to enable M. de Lamartine to pass the remainder of his days in peace, it would be a pity if his sensitive note to M. de Girardin should check the impulse of gratitude towards a man to whom France owes much. Besides it is impossible thetao man of 73, so ill, moreover, as not to be able t ee his beloved wife on her death-bed, can hop? to liquidate any considerable amount of debt by periodical writing His dignity would certainly not suffer by the frank acceptance of a tribute which admirers are ready t o offer to his genius, political honesty, and courageous public services in most difficult times. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, nat a orth, Bart,, I has left town for Drayton Ma nor , near Tamworth , fo I. P rt h . e Parliamentary recess. PETROLEUM ACCIDENT.—PLYmoTuu, Sand ay,_. Last evening, about 9 o'clock, Mr. E ar l e, a a-;--- neigh bour, applied to Mr. Emmett, a grocer an d general dealer h- , Marlborough-street, Devonport, for a gallon of petroleume oil. The latter lighted a candle and went into the cellar underneath the shop. Shortly after a terrific explosion took place, and the premises took fire. Mrs. Emmett was in the shop with an infant, which she gave to a neighbour, and ran upstairs for her other children, with whom she had barely time to escape through the bedroom windows into the street. Mr. Emmett's shop and those adjoining formed formerly one large school-room, and, In adapting the space for shops, vary slight divisions were made. The fire soon progressed down the street, Emmett's premises, and those of Mr. Paige, pork dealer, ne t door, were gutted. The roofs of No. 2, Mr. Trebilc ;ck, boot and shoemaker, and Nos. 3 and 4, Mr. Barons, china merchant, are destroyed. The stock and furniture of all five are either burnt or ren dered worthless, and the neighbours were so much alarmed that the contents of many of the houses adjoining in Fore street, and on the western side of Marlborough- street, were - removed so hastily as to be seriously damaged. It is said Mr. Emmett had only one cask of petroleum in store. His body, in a very disfigured condition, was recovered this morning about 11 o'clock. He was one of the town (s °Tur 3 il. The five houses are insured in the West of Eng 1. a ani—the stock in the London and Liverpool, and other rice companies. Owing to a deficiency in the supply o f water at first it was some time before the fire could be ch, Wked. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 56 Barometer-29.84. Wind—N.E. ; moderate breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h.som.—Afternoon, 7h. 14m ro-Hottßow.-I' , lorning, 7h. 36m.—Afternoon, Bh. 503 ^a7 , o.4tArC,lo,_, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1863. It will be with nothing less than profound and, cer tainly with most unaffected grief that almost every one who glances down our telegrams this after noon, will learn from them the tidings of the death of General STONEWALL JACKSON. Among the few great men evoked from this lamentable war in America, he was about the very first and fore most. Beyond any doubt of it, he made one of the Triumvirate of Great Men called to view by the war—every one of the three being among the chiefs of the Confederates. President JEFFERSON DAVIS occupying the post of honour. General LEE as Commander-in-Chief—coming next. General STONEWALL JACKSON occupying the next rank, coming third upon the list, merely out of regard to the official order of precedence. Otherwise, view ing the General of Division solely in reference to his individual evidences of greatness of character, JACKSON stood quite upon a level with LEE and DAVIS, his political and military chieftains. Assuredly, the South, if it could hardly, in HAMLET'S phrase, have "better spared a better man"—and, according to popular belief in reference to the dead Hero, it could scarcely have done that, STONEWALL JACKSON enjoying a reputation for excellence quite upon a par with his reputation for heroism and good generalship—the cause of the Confederates could have spared almost any one better than the very man snatched away from them by their last calamitous victory. General JACKSON'S death, in point of fact, is equivalent to the loss of a whole division. It nearly turns the recent triumphs of the Confederates into a disadvantage, It certainly follows up those recent successes with a disaster that almost counterbalances the events of which they are the untoward sequel. The most enterprising of the Lieutenants of LEE is thus lost to the Confederate Commander-in-Chief, at the very mo- went when his co-operation would have proved, in evitably, of the greatest service. The demise of JACKSON appears to have been the result of the amputation rendered necessary by the severe wound in his left arm. Within a brief interval after that shattered limb had been removed, under the skilled hands of the surgical operator, the Great Captain had breathed his last. Aware before hand of this lamentable occurrence, one looks back now with a pang to the immediately preceding telegram to the effect that " General LEE claims a glorious victory, and laments the temporary absence of one to whose bravery they are so much indebted for their success." Hardly has the magnetic needle clicked that message from New York, on the thir teenth instant, to the homeward-boand Europa, then upon the eve of her departure from Halifax, when towards nightfall on that same date comes the intimation that the absence is no longer temporary but permanent. " General LEE," says the telegram with eloquent brevity, "officially announces with great grief the death of General STONEWALL JACK SON." That death is the worst calamity that has yet befallen the Confederates. Turning, from the victorious but sorrowing Southerners, to the North, the salient points of the news now coming to us through the agency of the uropa, may be here rapidly epitomised. General HALLECK is reported to be about H to o t o a K k E e ß t ,s hefleld in person to super intend General opera tions in the next campaign ! It is, for all the world, like DIGGORY, in GOLDSMITH'S comedy, helping his fellow servant to do —Nothing. For the very first telegram flashed from New York to Halifax, the nest morning, runs to the effect that General HOOKER has not made a forward move ment, for the simple reason that, though himself desirous of doing so, the plan for an advance had been disapproved by General HALL ECK! Mean while the indications of a projected advance move ment on the part of Genera.' LEE, seem to be quite unmistakeable. The Southern commander, when the last accounts left, evidently purposed crossing the river, almost immediately, and attack. ing General HOOKER. Elsewhere among the tele grams will be found the last Order of the Day ad dressed to his troops by the latter —one of the most fligitious and mendacious documents tkat com manding officer ever had the hardihood to address to his defeated troops, and the still greater hardi hood afterwards in cold blood deliberately to publish to the world. Reading it—one might almost suppose that General HOOKER had been recently winning some astounding series of vie tories, instead of having been, as he has been worsted ignominiously at every turn, subjected to fearful loss by his victorious opponents, and driven back by them at every point, two of his divisions in actual route. Yet the brazen audacity (upon paper!) of the Federal Commander-in-Chief—setting facts at defiance—impels him to address his defeated army in language that will render him the scorn of all the military critics of Christendom. Reverting for a moment to the lamentable news of General STONEWALL JACKSON'S death, we read with a sort of dismay (fearing lest there may be some atom of truth in the supposition) the following hint thrown out by the Richmond _Examiner, which, if well informed upon the matter, would show that the fatal wound was the result of a wofal accident. Speaking of that wound of JACKSON'S, before it had turned out to be fatal in its conse quences, the Richmond paper says—[and the words we italicize below come as an echo, through this latter fragment of intelligence, as a distinct echo to words already written by ourselves above]—" We could better spare a brigade or a division, and our base foe will exult in the disaster to General JACKSON; yet the accursed bullet that brought him down was never moulded by a Yankee. Through a cruel mistake, in the confusion, the hero received two balls from his own men, who would all have died for him." Should this turn out actually to have been the case, the " accursed bullet" that laid him low will indeed be recognized as the fatallest shot—the shot fired by the cruellest mis take—yet sent to its appointed billet, since this miserable war commenced, from the ranks of the viciorious but afflicted Confederates. The various telegrams that reach us from day to day, while they throw no fresh light on Polish affairs, still seem significant enough to attract atten tion, as well from their relative importance as from their immediate interest. It must now be obvious to the most sceptical that this insurrection or revolt in Poland is not the mere nine days' wonder that they were pleased to call it. It has now assumed an im portance in itself, and extended over so long a period, that it must inevitably be ranked henceforth among those events that materially affect the welfare of a people, and rule the destinies of nations. There is one thing certain, that we live in an epoch when it is no longer possible even for the most despotic to ignore completely the rights of man, and trample on the liberties of a people, without hearing of it after wards. No might, no majesty, can gloss over such outrages, nor will the present age tolerate, much less sanction, the prolongation of such anomalous occurrences as are now taking place in Poland. It is impossible to study thi s question at all deeply wf;hout coming to the conclu sion that the act of oppressing that unhappy people does not lie at the door of any one nation, but must be divided among many. There can be no valid reason adduced for the necessity .of maintaining the strict fulfilment of the treaty to which such constant reference is made. The motives which led to its formation were not very praise worthy at the time, and it is the height of absurdity, as well as cruelly unjust, to attempt to carry them out now according to the strict letter of the .law. Austria would gain in the end by giving up Gallich' she would consolidate her sway over her undisputed territory, and would, besides, exert an influence by such wise concession as must tend materially to her advantage. Prussia, for her part, must give up Posen. The sooner her administrators make up their minds to this the better, for as affairs are now pro gressing her rulers are in imminent danger of losing more than they will ever afterwards regain. If this high-pressure system be continued much longer some small thing in itself will act like fuel on the flame, and evils will be increased till a general war must be the result. If once France takes up arms in the cause of Poland, it will be a sad day for Prussia. And when the provinces on the Rhine are lost, these wise legislators who now tempt their fate will rue the time when they acted so inconsi derately. It is by no means certain that, as it is, the French may not espouse the cause of the insur gents, and, if so, of course the whole state o things will be altered. Tne present partial lu should be turned to the best advantage. This seems a golden opportunity affurded to the interested nations to retrieve their errors before they are involved in the horrors of a general war. In that alternative France is sure to come off successfully, and Poland must be benefited, but Austria and Prussia will be the sufferers. Let them despise the dictates of common sense and jus tice, but conform to the demands of right, or a heavy day o f rec k on i ng w ill s h ow th em their fatal error. A sm a ll concess i on, grace f u lly made in time, will do wonders ; but once let the day of grace ' slip by, and n one can f oresee the consequences that may ensue. Th e wrongs of Poland may yet be redressed, and h er cause v i nd i cate d, E uro p e that now surveys the struggle with apparent quiescence may suddenly be stirred up, and the various coun tries forced into collision with each other. To avoid such a calamity is now the question, and that can only be done by salutary and permanent arrangements, No half measures will alter what is radically wrong, but a decisive step may ensue now, and be the herald and harbinger of brighter times for the future. It is high time for the credit of an age that wars of oppression and extermina tion should cease altogether from among us, and hat the blessings of Constitutional Governmen should be enjoyed by those nations who now [ook on with envy and regret at the advantages ,hey seem never destined to obtain. The care of the public health is a task of no slight degree of responsibility and anxiety. The ignorance and indifference of the great body of the people are formidable obstacles in the way of sanitary reform; and until we adopt the continental system of strict surveillance, and carry it considerably further than has ever been done, we cannot ensure due attention to the laws of health and cleanliness. A degree of indifference, too, is apt to spring up in the official mind with the monotonous routine of their duties ; and, generally speaking, all parties are content to go on quietly in the old way without troubling theme selves too much about sweeping reforms. Several circumstances, however, have of late combined to direct a little more attention to this subject. The coronership of Middlesex is held by a vary able and efficient man, who is apparently resolved that his new office shall be no sinecure. Dr. LANKESTER was already well known to the general public before he was elected coroner, by his clear exposition of some of the main principles of health in his lectures at the South Kensington Museum, and by other worke, showing talent and knowledge. Since his a c c c e u/ e p) t ie a s nee he ct has therespo w nsibla post h e no o distinguished himself by his anxiety to arrive at the causes of the e fo v r il e s b orie ro g u , g o h r, t a b t el l 'o e r a e st, h o i f m tn , e a e nd tioo to devise them. means Hhas been especially instrumental in bringing before the Public the startling increase of a crime which is fearfully Common among us, the crime of infanti cide. Notwithstanding the number of deaths from this cause continually brought before th. coroners a n n o d m m he a r gi o a f t r azs , tiras is f the r ei s a little g r e d s o t u e r. T doubt thatno thesecrecyreal than nich foris maolrareosetasily anyh obtainedoter,i s ay for this e s r i mae 'eowerful incentive to its commission ; but in these cases, above all, it adds a terrible force to the temptations of the unhappy mother. If detection were as likely to follow infanticide as any other murder, the one great motive for the crime would be removed, and, indeed, would be turned into a powerful agent for its prevention. Dr. LANKESTER advocates some improvements in the Registration Act, which his experience should comment to the notice of the authorities. One of these is that a certificate of death should only be given to the medical man who has attended the deceased. He holds that the present law, which allows any one who declares that he or she was present at the death, to obtain the Registrar's cer tificate, affords great facilities for unfair treatment. With regard to preventible diseases, and espe cially in reference to that increase of smallpox which has lately been startlingly apparent, Dr. LANKESTER proposes a novel and singular cure. He advises that coroner's inquests should be held on all persons dying from this class of disease, which is mainly attributable to defective sanitary arrange ments. In cases of smallpox the object of inquiry would be whether the sufferer had been vaccinated or no, and in case of proved neglect on the part of the parents, the law should be enforced. Although this plan might have advantages, it would also have many drawbacks, There would be a general feeling against holding an inquest on persons who had con fessedly died a natural death, while the death of the child, as has been truly said, would be held to be sufficient punishment for the culpable neglect of the pareats. It would be far better, if possible, to detect the evasion of the law while the child was in good health; and if this could be done, an important step would be gained, as every fresh case of dis ease tends to spread the evil further. With regard to other diseases of the preventible class, the fault in the sanitary arrangements frequently does not lie at the door of the sufferers, but at that of the owners of their wretched dwellings. The terrible drain made by rent on the fluctuating resources of the very poor is one great cause of overcrowding. There was recently a case of a poor old woman who died from want of the common neeeeearies of life. It was proved that she was in receipt of twa shillings and ninepence and a quartern loaf weekly, and of this she had to pay one shilling and ninepence for her miserable room. There are many evils which hinge one upon the other, and thus present a formidable front to the social reformer. Still, publicity and open dis cussion are the best weapons with which to attack any enemy of the kind, however strongly entrenched or venerable. Dr. LANKESTER is doing good service in this way, and the public are indebted to him for the energy and spirit with which he carries out his duties. In the report at the meeting of the Mendicily Society it is curious to notice the department con cerning begging letters. During last year 3,726 were received. The most searching inquiries were made to ascertain the truth or falsity of these appli cations, and some of the revelations are strange enough to peruse. In the first place two persons have made it their business to go from house to house among the poor and suggest that they should apply for aid for them; then they touch up the facts of the case, in order more vividly to impress the public. It is feared that nearly all the proceeds of this plan, if successful, go to these designing men. One man assumes various names in his melancholy epistles. He is sometimes " a lady's maid obliged to leave her situation owing to a bad ancle," and again, " a young man in great difficulty through being out of a situation, and hoping to regain one if he can get a few pounds to obtain clothes." He was absurd enough to give as a reference a clergy. man in the city, who, however, on being applied to, anew nothing of his name. Another applicant pretends to be connected with a " Society for pro moting National Edacation." He uses the names of some distinguished persons as patrons, but nearly all withdrew their sanction. This man has before been detected, and the managers of the society have warned the public against him, but still he continues to obtain large sums in places where he is not known. I. G. persuaded his cor respondents that he was an unfortunate man of a respectable class, whereas he had deserted his wife and daughter, and left them on the brink of starva tion, while he mixed up with the worst of charac ters. Hie wife obtained a divorce, and afterwards went to Australia, while his daughter died, her health failing from the privations to which she had been subjected. This man was a PROTEUS in the various characters he assumed. He was formerly an officer in the army, then he took to literature, afterwards obtained a good situation in a public establishment that he lost by immoral coe duct. Subsequently he had a commission as captain in the Turkish contingent in the Crimean war, then be came editor of a religions periodical. This is certainly a strange kind of existence, and hardly merits that persons of affluence should come to his relief when his long career of sin fails in producing sufficient means for devising new schemes of deceit, and sup porting him in a career of infamy. The following extract shows yet another mode of proceeding:—“-- was brought up a solicitor. He cohabits with a woman who for twenty years has been known to this society as a writer of beg ging letters. The man has also adopted this pur suit for the last six years. They have shown some ingenuity in swindling, first taking expensive houses, and then ordering the goods, by which means they have defrauded an upholsterer out of £l5O, and an industrious sempstress on another oc- casion out of £3OO, which had been left her as a legacy. This poor women had an aged mother wholly dependent on her, end now with her thus reduced to poverty. This man's appeals are at pre sent written in the Quce.n's Bench Prison, where he has been imprisoned for the last two years, and of which his reputed wife h as also been for some time an inmate. Their appeals are dated from Trinity square." These instances sufficiently testify to the base schemes that continually are set afloat by designing characters in order to extract money Yet in the face of all these warnings people wil give large sums to these petitioners. Nothing can be more unwise, in a social sense, than to encourage swindlers ff this class; while, in a practical point of view, it is hard upon the deserving, who are suff:ring perhaps in silence some of the worst ills that flesh is heir to. The sums that can be sparci ought to be their portion ; and it must add tenfold to the burden of their miser able lives to learn that the amount that would re- store them to health, that would enable them to re- sume their employment, or that would relieve them from the overwhelming pressure of petty debts, has been squandered upon sharpers and thrown away upon swindlers. The remedy against this great evil of begging letters is to be careful to institute inquiries as to the reality of the st)ries brought forward, or if it be not possible to do this, to insist at least ou some suitable reference being given, before bestowing any considerable sum upon strangers. It is a duty we all owe to society to prevent the success of this nefarious system by every means in our power, and the triumph of such characters as these impostors is a scandal in every community, the discovery of their pilfering system tending to discourage people from besto wing sums on the really deserving and necessitous. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the Europa.) NEW YORK, MAY 12 (Morning The Federals, under Generals Keyes and Peck ; estimated 12,000 strong, have occupied West Point on York River, and destroyed the bridges in the neighbourhood of White House. Considerable excitement was caused here on Sa turday and Sunday last by false reports that this force had captured Richmond. Reports, lacking authenticity, have been carrent since Saturday, that General Hooker had recrossed to the south side of the Rappahannock. General Lee has issued further official reports, dated the sth inst., saying—" At the close of the battle at Chancellorsville, on Sunday, the enemy was reported advancing from Fredericksburg upon our rear. General Mac Laws was sent to arrest the enemy's progress, and repulsed him handsomely. Learning that the enemy's forces consisted of two corps, under General Sedgwick, I determined to attack him, and marching back united with General Mac Laws, and drove the enemy across the river, We have reoccupied Fredericksburg. No enemy remains upon the south of the Rappahannock, or in the vicinity." The _Richmond Enquirer considers Chancellors ville the most desperate battle yet fought, and esti mates the Confederate loss at 8,000 to 10,000, and that of the Federals at 25,000 to 30,000, including 8,000 prisoners. Southern journals assert that the Confederates have captured 39 pieces of artillery. General " Stonewall" Jackson's left arm has been amputated below the shoulder, and a bullet was passed through his right hand. Gen. Grant is reported to have invested Jackson, Mississippi, and that the Confederates have no means of getting out of Vicksburg except by cut ting their way through the Federal troops. The Southern journals, however, contain a de spatch, dated Jackson, the sthl inst., saying that the Federals were repulsed on the 4th upon Big B lack River, after four hours' severe fighting. Gen. Bragg officially reports that Gen. Forrest has captured Col. Straight's Federal cavalry, num bering 1,600, at Rome, Georgia. Col. Straight was making a destructive raid through Alabama and Georgia. Gen. Bragg's infantry still confront Gen. Rose cranz at Murfreesboro. Upon the Bth Rosecranz issued an order that the season for active operations had arrived. The death of Gen. Van Dorn is officially reported to Richmond. He was shot during a private alter- cation. The Federal General Beaufort has made a raid Along the Alleghany ridge of Western Virginia, de stroying the supplies intended for the Confederates in the south-west. Heavy Federal reinforcements have been sent into Western Virginia, and the Confederates are reported to be moving from the line of the Western Virginia railroai towards the south-west mountains. The Confederate movement appears to have been made principally to capture horses, drugs, and stores. During Mr. Vallandigham's trial at Cincinnati he protested against the legality of the military commission. He also demanded that Fernando Wood should be compelled to produce before the Court the letter he received from Richmond relat ing to the terms offered for the return of the Southern senators to Congress, and President Sin clair's letter declining to entertain the proposition. Mr. Vallandigham declared himself a constitutional unionist. After the trial the Court submitted its decision to Goneral Burnside, but the purport of the decision has not yet been made public. Au attempt was made to procure Mr. Vallandig bam's release by habeas corpus. Military were sent to Cincinnati, fears of an outbreak being enter tained. The New York Democratic Association has held a special meeting, denouncing Vallandigham's arrest. The New York llerald thinks the arrest a gross wrong to individual rights. The Congressional Committee of the Confederate Congress has issued a report declaring that the Federal war is a war against the public and private property of both sexes, and all classes of society ; against w'aat has ever been deemed sacred and in offensive, and exempt from hostility by all civilised nations. Its full purpose is to subjugate the bodies and souls of the people, or to exasperate and exter minate them. In the case of the prize vesse: Springbok, the judge of the New York District Court has decided that where a vessel is suspected of carrying contra band goods, even if she had not attempted to run the blockade, her cargo may be examined to deter mine whether it is contraband or not. NEW YORK, MAY 9 (Evening) General Grant officially reports he met the enemy 11,000 strong four miles south of Port Gibson on the Ist inst., and engaged him all day, entirely routieg him, with a loss of many killed and 500 prisoners. The Federal loss was 100 killed and 500 wounded. The Confederates retreated towards Vicksburg, destroying the bridges behind them. General Grant repaired the bridges and went in pursuit. Four field pieces were captured, besides heavy artillery, The victory was complete, and the Confederates thoroughly demoralised. General Grant also reports that General Grierson has destroyed numerous railroad bridges, locomo tives, and stores throughout northern Mississippi, creating great excitement throughout the State. (By telegraph latest to Halifax.) DEATH OF GENERAL "STONEWALL" JACKSON. NEW YORK, MAY 13 (Evening). The Richmond papers of the 11th inst. announce the death of General " Stonewall" Jackson from the effects of amputation and pneumonia. Twelve hundred wounded, who were left on the southern side of the Rappah innock, have been sent across. Some of the Federal wounded were burnt in the woods around Chancellorsville, the woods having been fired by the shells of both armies. NEW YORK, MAY 13. On the 6th inst. General Hooker issued the fol- lowing extraordinary document : HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC MAY 6. VIE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY EVI-47,NING, MAY 25, 1863. " [GENERAL ORDER, No. 49.] " The Major-General Commanding tenders to this army his congratulations on its achievements of the last seven days. If it has not accomplished all that was expected, the reasons are well known to the army. It is sufficient to say, they were of a character not to be foreseen or prevented by human sagacity or resources. " Iu withdrawing from the south bank of the Rappahannock, before delivering a general battle to our adversaries, the army has given renewed evidence of its confidence in itself and its fidelity to the principles it represents. "By fighting at a disadvantage, we would have been recreant to our trust, to ourselves, to our cause, and to our country. Profoundly loyal and conscious of its strength, the Army of the Potomac will give or decline battle whenever its interest or honour may command it. "By the celerity and secresy of our movements, our advance and passage of the river were undis puted ; and on our withdrawal not a rebel dared to follow us. The events of the last week may well cause the heart of every officer and soldier to swell with pride. "We have added new laurels to our former re nown. We have made long marches, crossed rivers, surprised the enemy in his intrenchments, and whenever we have fought we have inflicted heavier blows than those we have received. " We have taken from the enemy 5,000 prisoners and 15 colours, captured seven pieces of artillery, and placed hors de combat 18,000 of our foe's chosen troops. "'We have destroyed his depots filled with vast amounts of stores, damaged his communications, captured prisoners within the fortifications of his capital, and filled his country with fear and con sternation. "We have no other regret than that caused by the loss of our brave companions, and iu this we are consoled by the conviction that they have fallen in the holiest cause ever submitted to the arbitra tion of battle. " By command of Major-General HOOKER, "S. WILLIAMS, Assist. Adjutant-General," General Lee and President Jefferson Davis have also issued congratulatory orders. General Lee claims a glorious victory and laments the temporary absence of one to whose bravery they are so much indebted for their success. President Davis offers his thanks for this addition to the great victories of Lee's army. The TVorld, of this morning, in comparing the modest order of General Lee with that of General Hooker, says that it is the fate of many a brave and capable army and nation to be defeated ; but to be untruthful, boastful, and false, when occasion demands honesty, resignation, and a loyal hopeful ness in adversity, will turn against us every civilized nation on earth. No honest and fair minded man can read these two orders without grief, pain, and shame. The incapables rvho are ruling and ruining us cannot save our honour. NEW YORK, MAY 12 (Evening). It is reported that General Halleck will take the field in person and superintend General Hooker's operations in the approaching campaign. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 491 per cent. premium. Ex change on London bankers Sills, 165. Stocks very firm. New York Centrals 1191. Illinois 991. Erie 90. Six per Cent. United States Bonds 108. General Lee officially announces, with great grief, the death of General Stonewall Jackson. General M'Clellan has tendered bis resignation, unless he could have active service. President Lincoln refused his resignation, informing him that he should have active service very soon. (By Telegraph to Halifax.) NEW YORK, MAY 14 (Evening). General Hooker has not made a forward move ment as reported. He desired to do so, but General Halleck disapproved the plan. It is denied that General Halleek will take the field. There are indications that General tee purposes crossing the river and attacking General Hooker, and it is reported that the planks of the bridge have been removed, and a battery stationed at Aqueduct Bridge, Washington. Rumours are current that General Longstreet has fought a battle, and defeated General Keyes, at West Point, but this requires confirmation. Gen. Grant has fought a battle ten miles from Jackson, defeating the Confederates, and driving them towards that city. It is reported from the South that heavy .ain forcoments had been sent from Charleston and Mo bile to prevent the capture of Vicksburg and Jack son. In consequence of this Gen. Grant has fallen back to await reinforcements. The Federal ironclads have completed their re pairs, and left Port Royal for North Edisto. Mr. Vallandigham, it is said, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Dry Tortugas, but Pre sident Lincoln commuted the sentence to his being sent beyond the Federal lines. The New York Democratic Association has called a meeting to denounce the military tyranny in the West. The trial of the Peterhoff has been postponed. The Prize Court has decided to receive Mr. Red• gate's testimony. The British steamer Cherokee has been captured off Charleston, and the schooner Wanderer off Wil- mington. The prize steamer Nicholas Las been con demned. The Europa takes out 80 passengers and 45,16 dols. in specie. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, MA' 14, EVENING. Money abundant. Gold 498 prem. Exchange on London, 1658. Stocks very firm. New York Central, 120; Illinois, 109; Erie, 94; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 107. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 60c. Flour and wheat heavy. Corn declining. Provisions dull. Coffee steady. Sugar dull. Molasses good inquiry. Crude Petroleum, 25. MEXICO. NEW YORK, MAY 14. Ad vices have been received from Puebla, by way of Havannah, to the 19th ult. The reports are conflicting. Some state that General Comonfort had received a reinforcement of 7,000 men, and that the French had been com pelled to abandon Fort San X icier, and fall back to Amalucad. Others aver that the French had cap tured the Church of Carmen. It is also reported that Butsoro had been defeated and Marquez cap tured. CANADA. MONTREAL, MAY 14. The dissolution of the Canadian Parliament and a general election are to take place immediately. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACO W, MAY 25. The Czas of to-day says : " The Russian Government endeavoured to sup press the insurrection in the Polish provinces in corporated with Russia by means of massacres and a social revolution. The plan, however, has failed, except in some portions of the districts Wasilkow and Zylomiet a, where assassinations have been com mitted. The peasants everywhere fght against the Rus- sians." Orsza, on the Dneiper, in the Government of Mo hilevr, has been occupied by the insurgents. In Samogitia the insurgents have gained a Tic. ;ory at Birze. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 23.—The market has slightly im proved in firmness, and a fair amount of business has been done at a trifling advance, TAreed, for the Account, are now at 69f. Market shows but little 45c. The Railway Share animation, but prices up to terially varied. The mar to the close, and left off as the present have not mat ket continued to improve follows :- 1 per Cents. 96 95 Do, end month.... Italian Loan 72 60 Do. end month 72 5 5 New ditto Do. end month 73 50 Russian .. — Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 60 Credit Mobilier..., 1435 Do. end month 1438 75 Bank Shares 3450 Credit Foncier 1415 RA ILNVAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lOO3 75 .. 1003 75 Northern .... 1035 .. 1035 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1063 75 .. 1065 Geneva.. 455 .. 445 Southern 772 50 .. 775 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. 720 .. 713 75. Ditto to Barcelona r vAv t , K; 1 11 .6V ( Ord tit In Tat HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 22. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Duchess of Athole, drove out yesterday. Princess Helena, attended by Lady A. Bruce, went out riding, MAY 23. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, drove out yesterday afternoon. Princess Louise and Prince Alfred went out riding. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of St. Ger mans, and Viscount Sydney were present at t':e service. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge at her residence at Kew in the afternoon. A Scotch journal states that their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will n . o _ bably pay a visit to Balmoral in the sum , - ary riving in July. Prince Henry XIV. of Reuss e ` rived i n t own last a week. The Prin ce o f W a l es Teesdale, visited th e prince onttended by M a j or Holloway's Hotel, Dover -street. Saturday le g ; a Departure of the Prin ce !.. - nd Pri ncess L ouis of riesse. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis, with the Princess Victoria of Hesse, left Marlborough House at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock on Saturday, on their return to the Con tinent. Their royal highnesses were attended by Baroness von Schenck, Baroness von Grancy, Capt. Wester weller, and M. Becker. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, accompanied the Prince and Princess Louis to the Bricklayers' Arms Station, and travelled with them by a special railway train to Gravesend, where the royal party went on board the Victoria and Albert royal steam yacht, commanded by his Serene High ness the Prince of Leiningen. The Prince and Princess of Wales, after partak ing of a dejeuner with the Prince and Princess Louis, landed at half•past three o'clock, when the royal yacht departed for Belgium. The Prince and Princess of Wales returned by a special train to the Bricklayers' Arms Station. The Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to the Princess Louis of Hesse on Saturday morning at Marlborough House, and took leave of her royal highness and Prince Louis. Prince Arthur in the Lake District. Paince Arthur, attended by Major Elphin stone, passed through Kendal early on Wednes day morning by rail on his way to the lakes, arriv ing at Rigg's Windermere Hotel about three o'clock. They were accompanied by one servant, who acted as avant courier in this flying excursion. Notwithstanding their having travelled all night, the party were abroad betimes, and were' noticed scaling the heights of Elleray and enjoying the magnificent scenery of the district, with which they expressed themselves much delighted. The royal party, conducted by Mr. Titterington, visited Elle ray, the lake home of Christopher North, and the grand points of view on Mr. Eastted's new drive. The ruddy youngsters of the village, under the super intendence of James Newby, the professor's old gar dener, strewed the prince's path with a tribute of flowers while he wended his way up the hill. When the summit was reached the magnificent panorama was pronounced to be the finest ever seen after the same amount of climbing, Windermere Lake from end to end, with the adjacent mountains, being stretched out below. His royal highness was also much pleased with accounts of the monster bonfire here on the occasion of the Prince of Wales' mar riage. 0 f course the whole village was astir after the news of the prince's arrival was known, union jacks were hoisted, white handkerchiefs waved, hats were lifted, and his royal highness gracefully returned the personal salutations. The front of Rigg's Win dermere Hotel was brilliantly lighted up with gas. The party left Windermere about 12 o'clock, but not without a hearty cheer from the college bop , who had assembled to meet them. GRASMERE.—His royal highness arrived at the Prince of Wales' Lake Hotel about 1 o'clock p.m•► and after partaking of luncheon at the hotel, be, with Major Elphinstone and Mr. Brown, enj o yed pull round the lake, the prince himself handling all oar with no little skill. In the course of the trip 1 3 1 1 ' i royal highness landed on the island to inspect the two memorial oaks planted on the memorable lOt h March, both of which are in a flourishing condition• He then visited Mr. Brown's battery, from whln h repeated volleys had been fired during the morning' and himself discharged the cannon. The visit was concluded by a visit to Words worth's and Cole ridge's graves in the churchyard. KESWICK.—His royal highness, on leaving Gr iu3 ; mere, travelled thro ug h t h e vale of St. John, °Ji— had evidently loitered on the road, admiring t b : scenery of the dist r i ct, as the party did not arrive a t the Derwentwater Hetel until 7 o'clock ; here, a tter a late dinner, they sojourned for the night. Early on Thursday morning they were again on the wi n o and on their way to Lodore to breakfast, wh ebc : they proceeded by B urrowdale Haws to Butterm er and Crummock. The party was joined by the Be v ' Mr. Jolli e , o f Cockermouth, who had volunte ered his service s t o act as their guide. From Butterreet: the pri nce re t urned byNewlands to the hotel, wbe!... dinner was prep are d at 7 o ' clock. His roya l high . ness soon afterwards left on his way to Balinoral. , KendaLliercury. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur and tbell °l3. Major Elphinstone arrived at the Ullawater Hotel, Putter" dale, on Friday, on their way to Balmoral. The Duke of Devonshire and Ladv Louisa Caven dish have left Devonshire House for Chatsworth, Derby' shire, to pass the Whitsuntide recess. The Duehess (Dowager) of Sutherland left he r villa at Chiswick on S atur d ay , t o v i s it L or d and La d / Taunton, at their seat in, Somersetshire. On Saturday evening the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with their presence. Yesterday morning the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge attended divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The com munion service was read by the snb-dean, the Rev. T. Helmore, and the Rev. J. Anti.Dbus. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Jelf, from the Gospel of St. Jghn, chap. xvi., verses 6 and 7. The anthem was " Come, Holy Ghost" (Attwood). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. Their royal highnesses were attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale.