The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-19 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION of ALUMINIUM and ALUMINIUM BRONZE. 2,000 SPECIMENS, illustrating the appli cation (Ornamental and Useful) of these In -1 eresting Metals, ARE NOW ON VIEW MAPPIN BROTHERS NEW ROOMS, 222, REGENT STREET. Admission by Card. HI GHBURY BARN, ISLINGTON. Sole Proprietor, EDWARD GIOVANYELLI. Finish your day at the GRAND SPECIAL DERBY GALA To-morrow Evening, on which occasion there will be a host of extra attractions. Gardena brilliantly Illumi nated. DANCING AL FRESCO. lIIARRIOTT'S GRAND BAND of 60, &c. &c. Open at Seven. Admission, One Shilling. riEATRE-RG HAY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, FISH OUT OF WATER. After which, 3d time, a new and c riginal comedy. entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Bit, kstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of W ales in the East. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S NI OTT O. THE HUNDREDTH AND FOURTH NIGHT. TEIEATRE ROYAL 'LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECHTER- T HIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee After which, at a Quarter to Eiht, a New Romantic Drama. in Three Acts, and Prologue, 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. r 1 iddi x,mbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson Misses Carlotta Leclerc% Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Acting-Manager. Mr. H. Barnett. NEw Tli EATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the Second and Third Acts of THE GREEN BUSHES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Bil lington, and Miss Avonia Jones. After which (6th time), a new Drama, in one act, entitled THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster, Stuart, Stephenson, Seitt , n ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Bit lington. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. L. Toole, &c. Commence at 7. THE THUD 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 19, 1863. THEIMOMETER. This morning 62 This day at Two o'clock _ Barometer-29.80. Wind—E. ; strong breeze, and cloudy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 3m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20n2. To-moßnow.-Morning, 3h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56m. 3 iJI t 0,441-'-'-‘-ar. .eN:Ip-i.i6.. e,ii it a :Ala . 1 ~..0.1"*.2314 ,V 11„ li r " 41) 403"10,,, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1863. It must really have been quite refreshing to Her MAJESTY'S Government late last night, or rather very early this morning—finding themselves, all of a sudden, for the first time this session, in the small hours, in a small majority. It comes to them so surprisingly—(particularly seein what it is they have triumphed upon) — that theiir esult can hardly fail to win for these latterly forlorn Ministers con gratulations from friends and foes'alike. The suc cess obtained, it will be seen, wafeone achieved in Committee of Supply. It had reference to the set ting aside of an amendment moved by the Conser vative Chancellor of the Exchequer that is to be, to wit Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, upon Mr. PEEL'S moving a vote on account of £956,878 for packet service for the current financial year. In moving this vote Mr. PEEL had minutely, and it mast be confessed rather wearily (as is his wont) explained the nature of the several contracts that have from time to time been entered intoe Thereupon, incidentally giving a very copious narrative, moreover, of the rise, pregress, and development of the particular contract entered into by the well-known Mr. J. G. CHURCHWARD. This, it will be understood at once, was done in order simply that Mr. F. PEEL might be enabled to state the reasons for including in the vote pro vision fJr payments to Mr. CHURCHWARD for the conveyance of mails between Dover and Calais and Dover and Ostend from the Ist of April, 1863, to the 20th of June, 1863. Excluding, however, any payment in respect of the period subsequent to the latter date, to Mr. CHURCHWARD, or to any per son claiming through him by virtue of a contract dated the 26th of April, 1859, between him and the Board of Admiralty. The significance of all which may be instantly appreciated by those who (how ever ignorant they may be of the details of the transaction referred to) merely " take note," like Captain CUTTLE, of the peculiarity discernible at a glance in the single date last particularised. That date being the 26th of April, 1859—almost, as it might be termed, the penultimate month of the last, or second, DERBY Administration. Lord DERBY'S Government was defeated, be it re membered, on the 10th day of June entered th e n revised, and now repudiated, contract into with Mr. CHURCHWARD, bore date, it will be perceived by those who can read while running, the 26th of the previous April. The successors of the D E RBY Government, therefore, proposed, through the lips of Mr. PEEL, in this last sitting of the House of Commons, that payments should be duly made to Mr. CHURCHWARD in regard to the earlier contracts with him in respect to the packet service, but that there should be no payment whatever provided for him under the excepti wi onal Disgusted th contract just now spec ified. the invidious exception thus taken to one of the latest administrative acts of his party when last in power, Sir S. NORTHCOTE moved simply and sweepingly that, in order to raise the question as to the contract of 1859, all the words relating to Mr. CHURCHWARD should be omitted from the vote. That to put it plainly was the amendment upon which the House of Commons, last night in Com mittee, after a rather lengthened discussion of the matter, divided. The Rouse in Committee divid ing upon the original mo tion,perh r a es p u s lt it proved) shou'd b e said, and dividing (as the in favour of it, thereby of course effectually negatived and quashed the amendment. For the motion —thus the numbers appeared up o n t h e voting paper when handed to the Mini sterial s t e rial tellers—For the motion 176, Against it 168-- Majority for the Government, Eight ! Not a very l arg e majority in a House of 344, exclusive of tellers, Speaker, and Chairman of Com mittee. But still a very G odsend, a s it hap pened under the circumstances, to her MA JESTY'S Government. A majority of 8 ! For the first time this session—a majority of 8 ! After defeat upon defeat in February, and March, of 8 (in a house of 344 ) a nd April—a majority won at last in the sitting of the Commons of M-mday, the 18th of May., No wonder the emend m rut was received with cheers from the Ministerial benches! The result of the division must have come to the occupants of tho se benches with a sens e of grateful exhilaration. That self-same sitting had shown, however, vevionsly that a very little—in its present plight—is needed in order to call forth a cheer from the thick and thin supporters, the supporters through good report and through *evil report, of the present Administration. One -would think that really the least said—particularly in the way of bounce, in regard to the violent accu and, still worse, the flagrant insinuations . lons, thrown out by Mr. LAYARD and by Lord PALMER STON against two foreign Powers, one of which is our near ally and neighbour—the better ! So thinks not, however, the Under -Secretary for Foreign Affairs. So thinks not the Prime Minister of England. So think not those who de light in the airy swagger of the latter, a swagger never more airy or more vivacious than in the pre sent instance. Lord PALMERSTON is proved to be monstrously in the wrong. There is no despatch, after all, he himself tells the House, upon which his own memorable statements, accusations, and insinuations but a night or two back, were founded. There is no such despatch in existence from Mr. ODO RUSSELL ! Consequently, says the Prime Minister, No such despatch can be produced and laid upon the table—as Lord JOHN MANNERS had requested, and as Mr. HENNESSY bad requested. Of course not. The thing is quite obvious. It re- quires not one syllable of explanation in order to demonstrate—that what is not in existence cannot possibly be produced. But—this being the case, there being No Despatch of the kind referred to — why, in Heaven's name, did Mr. LAYARD why did Lord PALMERSTON himself speak again and again in the manner in which they have bath spoken ? Why those positive statements —those distinct accusations —those flagrant insinuations to which the noble lord and the hon. gentleman both undeniably gave utterance ? Why, it is asked ? Mr. LAYARD—as the originator of this whole revival of the subject —steps forward at length, last evening, to tell us in a few words, " The Reason Why !" Thiz won derful despatch from Mr. ODo RUSSELL (recant ing, we wero told, his recantations), was. declared yesterday from the Treasury benches to be purely hypothetical, or in other words, non existent. Mr. LAYARD's explanation runs, in effect, as follows— says, " What I said and repeat now is, that there was a moral conviction on my mind and upon Mr, ODO RUSSELL'S mind that the facts he had stated were true!' Thereupon the hon. and learned baronet. the mem ber for Dundalk, in reference to that same pretty phrase of a moral conviction, ven tures quite naturally to observe, " I wish the hon. gentleman would inform the House what were the grounds of the moral conviction of which he has spoken ?" Quite as naturally— the suggestion made being in itself so distinctly a home-thrust—the House, for the life of it, can't help laughing ! The which laughter, however, is more than can be tolerated by Lord PALMERSTON— who loves a laugh, but, like all jokers, cannot endure himself to be laughed at. What does the gay old Premier do under the cir- circumstance ? He rises with an air of hauteur. He wont let Mr. LAYARD commit himself by an- swering. He, the Prime Minister, will answer for him. And so answering, he may be said, in a single sentence, to ride off on a very high horse, in (for Lord PALMERSTON) a most unusual state of virtuous indignation. " I must be allowed," he says, " to answer the question of the hon. baronet, and to state that her Majesty's Go vernment entirely decline to furnish him or any body else with any materials out of which a quarrel can be got up and perpetuated between Mr. ODO RUSSELL and either the French or the Papal autho rities." Altogether, this puts the matter in the oddest new light imaginable. Why, the " getting up" and :the " perpetuating" of anything like a quarrel in this matter, if attributable to anyone, is attributable to Mr. LAYARD and to Lord PALMER STON. The singularly ingenious, not to say shuffling, device by which the Premier thus contrives to slip out of the difficulty, however, succeeds to a miracle, Insomuch that at the close of this most exemplary little episode, the admirers of this kind of cleverness —amongst them, we presume, Mr. IVEIALLLY—are left last night cheering lustily ! In the House of Lords, last evening, the question which is paralysing an important braneh of British commerce was again brought under discussion. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, who has done good ser vice in bringing to light those proceedings which Earl RUSSELL would very gladly leave in undis turbed:obsectirity, moved for copies:of the reports of our consular or diplomatic agents in North Ame rica respecting the proceedings of the United States Prize Courts. After expressing his sense of the gravity and delicate nature of the subject, he pro ceeded to comment upon the actual state of the case. The whole of our trade with the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies was now, he said, arrested by the action(of a Government professing peace and amity. He had been told on good authority that it was impossible to effect insurance's of any value upon vessels trading to the West Indies. He cited a pas sage from a letter written by a gentleman whose ship had been seized, in which is shown so forcibly the hardship suffered by the mercantile classes that it deserves quotation. The loser asks—" What was Itoel - Item is a ship trading in a legitimate may ; her papers are perfectly regular, her con duct nnimpeached and unimpeachable, and yet she has been seized and carried off, my cargo has been taken ashore and damaged, about £40,000 of my capital is locked up, and I lose my market. I make an appeal to the Government, and I am told that the matter has been referred to Lord LYONS to make a representation on the subject." Earl RUSSELL is inclined to turn a deaf ear to remon strances of this kind, declaring the shipowners to be interested parties. "We must be somewhat cautious," says his lordship, " in believing all the reports which are made to the Foreign Office by the owners of ships." No one can accuse the noble Earl of having neglected each caution, of lending but too willing an ear to the grievances of his own countrymen. But would it net be as well to remember that the American Government is an interested party , and to receive their alo disclaimers an d self-justifications w i t h the same s reserve. Lad CLANRICARDE gave several il lustrations tehn, etillegal seizures made by the Fede ralm Govern of beginning with the LAuan. which Mr. SEWARD ac knowledged was held illegally, but which was nevertheless s ent tostwAitD a Prize Court. This remedy, according to Mr. and Earl RUSSELL, was to cure all evils;andthe noble m arqu i s ve ry j us tly said that he considered he had a right to ask what were the rules and de cisions followed in those Courts. No one who has watched the course of Lord RUSSELL'S recent policy can feel surprised at the answer to this very plain and just demand. We will give it verbatim : —"I do not think it would be right, in compliance with the request of the noble to loose reports a s we have from the proceedings of the American Prize Courts. If we are to give anything to Parliament at all---and, for my own part, I confess I think it extremely- doubt ful whether we should publish the proceedin gs of foreign courts—we should at all events take care that the reports are full and authentic. When we get authentic reports there may, perhaps, be no objection to their production, should your lordships desire to see them ; but, in the meantime, g e have no papers to lay on the table." So then English mer chants are to be content to trust their property in the hands of an irresponsible foreign tribunal, con earning whose system of procedure they can get no information; which refuses their evidence, as in the case of Captain JARMAN and the Peterhof'; which, on the confession of their warm advocate, Lora RUSSELL, looks upon their trade with suspi. don, and from whose decision there is no appeal , save to the cold and doubtful support of the British Government, which in its anxiety to respect the difficulties of the Northern States is very apt to forget the rights and interests of its own snbjscts. LordRUSSELL'S answers to the illustrations brought forward by the noble marquis are ingeniously evasive. Of the five ships mentioned by his oppo nent, he only refers to one, the Labnan, passing over in convenient silence the Adele and the Peter hoff. Yet it is rather curious that, in spite of his protestations of confidence in Mr. SEWARD'S good faith, and the honourable intentions of the Federal Government, Earl RUSSELL considers there has been a decided improvement since he directed that a ship of war should be sent to the Mexican waters. His attempt to escape from Lord CLANRICARDE'S account of the outrageous proceedings of a United States captain was so desperate that it utterly failed. The idle boasts of such a person, says the noble earl indignantly, should not be held to bind the United States Govern ment, adding that the inference:drawn from it of their determination to interrupt British commerce is unjustifiable. This lofty protest was quietly stopped by Lord CLANRICARDE'S reminder that he had quoted, not from idle threats or empty boasts, bat from the captain's official report, of what he HAD done. What says our Foreign Secretary to this ? " Well, that was his report of what he had done, and his justification of it." There is no denial, no attempt to contradict the report. Detected in his attempt to shuffle) out of the awkward allusion, he professes indifference and unconcern, as if the proceedings of an active agent in no way implicated a Government, however grave or mischievous the consequences might prove. It is to be hoped that this novel and extraordinary doctrine reads the other way as well, and that a nation is not bound by the acts and opinions of its Minis ters, for certainly the . tone and tenour of Earl RUSSELL'S words and deeds but feebly repre sent the temper of the English people. It is very well to indulge in high-sounding platitudes about the legally-constituted tribunals of a great country. We suspect very few of the United States own sub jects would care to trust their liberties in the hands of those same tribunals, provided they had fallen under the suspicion of Mr. SEWARD. The accounts of sudden seizure and lengthened 'imprisonment, without specified reason, which we have read in the words of American citizens, would seem to show, in fact, the contrary. It is time that Lord RUSSELL adopted a different tone, if he wishes our vast commercial and mercantile interests to be any longer entrusted to his hands. The Prison Ministers Bill was last night read a third time, but even at this stage it met with oppo sition. There are some people who never will allow that certain subjects can be settled. Again and again they bring them forward for discussion. Mr. BLACK, moving that the bill be read a third time that day six months went on to show how wide spread would be the consequences of such a measure if once adopted. He concluded by saying that, according to his notions of propriety, the chaplains of gaols should be of the religion of the majority of the prisoners. It may occur to some people that Mr. BLACK would have been more con sistent if he had before this stated his strong objec tions and made his decided stand against the measure. On several occasions has this subject en grossed the attention of the house, and the principle has always come out victorious from the controversy. It has survived the transforming agency of a com mittee, and escaped the crushing influence of an angry debate. Now at the eleventh hour, however a new obstacle was interposed, but fortunately it proved futile in its efforts at subversion. Ultimately, in this matter, a satisfactory result has been obtained, and it will be long, we should hope, before the Parliament of England will sanction any atcempt at a re trograde policy in the cause of civil and religious liberty. This principle, rightly expressed and un derstood, forms the bulwark of our defence and the stronghold of our security. Its heroes have perished in the battle-fields, its martyrs hava been sacrificed on the sceffold—but through the centu ries that divide us from them, they speak to their descendants to emulate their worthy endeavours, and not to lose the advantages they gained at the cost of so much suffering, nor disown the prin ciples for which they offered up their lives. All far-seeing judges will acknowledge the import ance of maintaining inviolate this trust which has been been hand e d d own to us f rom ou r forefathers and the duty plai n ly before us of adding to its influence by every means in our power. The American Government and the Eman• cipation Society. The Chairman of the Emancipation Society has this day received, through the American Ambas sador, the following reply on behalf of President Lincoln to an address which was adapted at a crowded meeting held in London, on January 29 : " Department of State, Washington, April 25, 1863. " To the citizens of London who were convened in Exeter- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1863. hall on the 29th January last. " The proceedings of a meeting of British subjects, citi zens of London, in Exeter-hall, on the 29th of January last, which were transmitted to the undersigned have, in compliance with a request contained therein, been laid be fore the President of the United States. " It would have been most gratifying to the President if the insurrection which is existing in the United States could have been confined within such bounds as to prevent it from disturbing the prosperity or otherwise engaging the attention of friendly nations. Fully convinced that any State which suffers itself to become dependent on the aid, or even the sympathy of a foreign power, is equally unable and unfit to live, the President has been especially careful to refrain from making any appeal to friendly States, and even from seeming to attempt to influence their opinions upon the merits of the present conflict farther than has appeared to be necessary to avert ill-considered and wrong ful intervention. At the same time the President has neither questioned the right of other nations and com munities to form and express their opinions concerning the results of the questions raised by the insurrection, and the policy which the Government has adopted in suppressing it, nor has he complained of the manner in which that right has been exercised. On the contrary, he believes that the ultimate and impartial judgment of mankind upon all such questions is entitled to universal respect and acquiescence. " Circumstances which neither this Government nor that o f Great Britain created or could control, have r en d ere d it unavoidable that the causes, character, tendency, and objects of the insurrection should be discussed in that country . with sc arce l y l ess freedom and earnestness than in our own. Th e resu l ts of that discussion, if it shall con tinue to be conducted in a just and impartial spirit, may be taken as foreshadowing i n some degree the ultimate judg ment of mankind. It is, therefore, with sincere satisfaction that the President learns from the proceedings now under consideration, that a large, respectable, and intelligent por tion of the British people have on unprompted invele igation arrived at the conclusion that the existing rebellion violates the pi inciples of political justice, and that they protest against it as a wrong to the human race because it seeks to displace a government which is based on the rights of is man, to r t e o s t m u a p k o e n r h o o u m m a f n o r b t o h n e d e a s g t e a b a l s i s i h t s m c e o n r n t e o r f a s t n o o n t e h : e r which not it to d e o x j p u r s e ti s c s e a t i o s o h i t s h h e a s b a i t t i u , t e .a l e s , c i o n i - 3 t i tn " e 'r n "Tents, he i P f r h e e s i d w e e n r t o w t ro l m d with which to has found that in all cases those who are most just in their sentiments towards the United States, are also the most earnest in their desire for the preserva • tion of int erna ti ona l peace and friendship. This circum stance supplies to this Government a new mltive for adher ing t o i ts determined policy of peace, just i ce, an d friend ship towards all nations, and especially towards Great Bri tain,—l ha ve t h e honour' to be, your very obedient servant, (Signed) " WILMA'''. H. SEWARD." THE LATE MR. WESTERN WOOD, XP.- 0 " of the last notices of motion given by this lamented gentleman at a court of the Fishmongers' Company was that it shi - uid give the cost of a lifeboat to the National Lifeboat Institution. The subject is to be considered at the next meeting of the company, when no doubt the motion Will be unanimously agreed to by the court. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) POLAND. CRACOW, MAY 15. The insurrection in the old Polish Provinces is daily assuming a more serious character. It is wel, known that the movement in the Governments of Kowne and Wilna has already assumed the cha racter of a general rising, and, according to reliable information, the insurrection is established on a firmer basis in the Governments of Minsk, Grodnow. and Mohilew, the most distant provinces of ancient Poland. It is impossible, however, to ascertain any particulars of the state of affAirs in those provinces, owing to the difficulty of communication. The greatest efforts are being made to cause a general outbreak in Volhynia, Podolia, Ukrania, and even in Little Russia proper (situate between the Lower Dneiper and the Don). In Vohynia these efforts have to a great extent been successful, particularly at Lubar, Pod woloezyski, and Swiece, and that the movement is daily acquiring greater magnitude is now confirmed. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MAY 17. Out of respect for the Danish Government and for the Ministers of the protecting Powers, the Greek deputation at Copenhagen has delayed its departure. The affair is considered as terminated. It is only a question of time. PRUSSIA. PARIS, MAY 19. The Prussian Ambassador at Paris has written to the Minister for Foreign Afflirs, declaring entirely devoid of foundation the letter published in the Czas, and attributed to the Prussian com mandant at Itonoclau, arranging with a Russian General the movements of troops upon the fron tiers. The instructions given to Prussian officers rendered the existence of such a letter impossible. Count Goltz is not aware whether the arrest of the President of the Duchy of Posen, recently an nounced, is equally an invention, but points out its improbability, adding—" It is impossible to avoid perceiving in reports of this character a new proof of unhappy persistence in calumniating the Prussian Government." MEXICO. CADIZ, MAY 18. Intelligence received here from Puebla to the 12th ult. states that the French Lad ejected the Mexicans from the suburbs of San Josef, Guada lupe, and Loretto. CHINA. (By Telegraph from Sucz SHANGHAI, APRIL 9. Pekin is quiet. The rebel bands have been driven assay from the vicinity of the settlement at Tien-tsin. Reinforcements are supposed to have been sent to the relief of Fooshan. Saigon and Japan are both reported quiet. PORTUGAL. (Per steamer Tartar via Southampton.) LISBON, May 14. The King has returned from Cintra, and is now residing at the Ajuda. The Duke de Brabant has arrived in Lisbon ; he was received at the Royal Arsenal, where he dis embarked, by the Ministers and other high fanc tionaries. The frigate Don Fernando has arrived at Lisbon, after a voyage of three min ths. A portion of the Crown diamonds are about to be sold to realise the value of £60,000. Several foreign dealers have appeared as bidders, but it is probable that the sale will be made in London. The premiums awarded to Portuguese exhibitors at the London Exhibition have been presented. The King presided at the ceremony. A disastrous fire has taken place in the Rua das Cappelistas. No lives were lost, but much property was destroyed. It is thought the fire first broke out in the offices of Messrs. Carruthers and Com pany, The tone of the Portuguese press is highly sym athetic towards Poland. The Cortes have been occupied with the dispute respecting the election of Senator Latino Coelho. The two projected banks—Arglo-Portuguese and Anglo Brazilian—have, it is Laid, concluded to amalgamate. The weather still continues dry, and rain is much wanted. Business is dull and money very scarce. The long continuance of the high price of cotton goods has caused a great stagnation in this trade, which is the most important between England and Por tugil. Exchange on Lindon, 90 days, is 541 ; Rentes. 481 ; Coupons, 48; Bank of Portugal shares, 553 dole. to 555 dols. ; Bank of Oporto shares, 256 dole. FRANCE, BOURSE, May 18.—The market continues in the same quiescent state, and Threes, for the Account, remain unvaried at 69f. 55c. Railway Shares have been rather offered, and quotations, in some cases, are somewhat lower lower. The market became weak towards the close, and left off as follows: it per Cent s .. 97 Italian Loan 72 15 Do end month.... Do. end month 72 16 3 per Cents Nev ditto Do. end month.... 69 45 ' Do. end month 72 30 Credit Mobilier.... 1423 75 Russian Do. end m0nth....1422 50 Austrian .. — Bank Shares — Spanish Threes.... 53 Credit 1 wader 1440 Home Debt .. — RA ILN%'A.YB. Cash. Account. Orleans lOO7 50 .. 1007 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1057 50 .. 1063 75 Geneva.. Southern 756 758 75 Western Eastern ... , Sardinian Austrian 495 .. 497 50 Lon•hard North of Spain Saragossa 7 :2 50 .. 752 50 Ditto to Barcelona - ' • 385 GUTDE TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY. —Messrs. Routledge and Co. announce for immediate publication, a " Comic Guide to the Royal Academy," by the brothers Gilbert and Arthur a'Beckett. The Akhbar of Algiers states that although the natives in general have contributed but little to the fund for the relief of the cotton operatives in France, the Arab tribes of the military territories in the province of Oran have answered the appeal made to them by a sub scription amounting to 42,944 f., which has been forwarded to the Minister of the Interior. SINGULAR ACCIDEN T.—A very extraordinary circumstance took place in Regent-street yesterday afternoon. A groom was exercising a horse in a gig be longing to a livery-stable keeper, when the animal bolted from the Haymarket along Jermyn-street, and arrived in It gent street just as the driver of a cab was " crawling" down the street. The horse in the gig had too much uay on to be stopped, and the cabman could not wake up his animal in time to avoid a collision, the effect of which was in two. The gig most extraordinary. Th e g i g horse, a sho w y g re y , went completely th roug h t h e ca b , d as hi ng in the near side and thrusting his head arid shoulders out at the other, in which la positi, it remained fi rn ly fi xe d. The cab was , of course, upset by the impetus, and the hind a xle was snapped vehicle, but b ot h d rivers, thoug h pitched out the into t er he road, sustai ne d no i njury. The cras h o f the collision was was as much a wre ck as oth so load that a crowd was drawn toge ther from the sur rounding neighbourhood in a moment, an d amongst those who ran to h e l p was a carpenter with a saw, who, in a short time, by cutt i ng in two those p o rtions of the wreck which held the g i g h orse confined, suc ceeded in releasing it, to all appearanc e b ut li tt l e t h e wors e for the pantomimic trick in which it had been the chief performer. Fortu nately there was no "fare" in the cab, for had any person been in it death would in all probability have ensued. A van was soon brought, the wreck of the cab was removed, and nothing now remains but to settle who was in fault by a good round hard swearing case in a county court, 4, 44, • tt s tAy / fir* 61111 kll,llllllltr. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 17. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince Alfred, and Prince Leopold, at tended by the Duchess of Athole, Lady Augusta Bruce, Gen. the Hon. Charles and Mrs. and Miss Grey, Mjor Cowell, Mr. Ruland, Mr. Buff, and Lord Charles Ft;zßoy, arrived at Balmoral yester day afternoon, at four o'clock, from W►ndsor Castle The Duke of Newcastle arrived at the Castle as ,he Minister in attendance upon her Mdjesty. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Pribce and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prince Arthur, at tended by M jar Teesdale and Capt. IN ester, weller, visited the Z )ological Gardens, Regent's-park, yesterday morning. Captai❑ Sinclair had the honour of an interview with the Princess of Wales, and presented a carpet worked by the Duchess of Gordon and some mem bers of her family. The Duchess of Beaufort and the Mayoress of Bristol had an interview with the Princess of Wales, and presented a diamond and sapphire Holbein to her Royal Highness from the ladies of Bristol. The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. Baroness von Schenck, Baroness von Gra.nc3, Major Teesdale, and Captain Westerweller, honoured the Philharmonie Concert with their presence last evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales have accepted an invitation to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at Northumberland House, on Friday, June 12. The Duchess of Inverness will be honoured with the company of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, at dinner, on Monday next, at Kensington Palace. Their R )yal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary will honour the Duchess with their company on this occasion. His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh bas arrived at Claridge's Hotel frcm Hatherop Castle. Tae Marchioness of Westminster will have an afternoon party on Wednesday, May 27. _ _ The E4rl of Glasgow has arrived at the St. George's Hotel. The Dowager Countess of Newburgh received at dinner on Saturday evening Lord and Lady Rivers, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord and Lady Cremorne, Lord Frede rick Cavendish, Comte Pahlen, Mrs. H. Baring, and. Mr. Charles Greville. Lady Dinorben's first ball will take place on Friday, June 5. Lord and Lady Huntingfield have arrived at the family mansion in St. James's-square. Lady Egerton of Tatton gave a ball last night at the family mansion in St. James's-square. Lidy King and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Lock.- King and family have arrived at Dover-street, their town residence, for the season. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner last even irig, a' her residence in Eaton-place, the Earl Gr..n ville, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Coun tess of Cork, the Earl and Countess Somers, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Viscount Torrington, the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. M.P., General Eber, Mr. Henry Greville, Dr. Quin, and Mr. Delane. The King of Holland has returned to the Hagmr from his visit to Amsterdam, and is again to leave in a few days for his residence at Loo. The Queen has taken her departure for Scuttgardt. The Grand Duke of Hesse D,rmstadt has re ceived the Order of the Golden Fleece from the Queen of Spain. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria is charged to deliver the insignia. Toe Vienna Journals announce the death in that city of the Princess Gabrielle d'Auersperg, ne3 Princess Lobkowitz, Duchess of Raudnitz, Lady of Honour to the Empress of Austria. Mr. Charles Dickens' Readings. The series of delightful readings announced by Mr. Charles Dickens, at the Hanover-square Rooms, is rapidly drawing to a close. The tamous Christmas Carol will form the next evening's entertainment ; and to those who have not yet paid Mr. Dickens a visit, a pleasure is in store of no ordinary description. The selections already given from "David Copperfiela" and "Dumbey and Son" are of the most telling and tasteful nature; but we must cmdidly confess our best liking lags always been with the first greet creation of the master-mind, viz , the world-renowed " Christmas Carol." There is somethiaa so inexprefsibly delightful about the work that one is never tired of taking up the little book and perusing it again and again ; but to hear it read by its author is a treat that ought never to be lost. It is to be regretted that the demands on the time of the talented author will not permit him to make his "readings" one of the permanent entertainments of the rustropolis, as writers who possess the rare combination of author and reader are by no mean common with us. Alhambra Palace. Mr. Wilde, of the Alhambra, last night introduced to his patrons three of the most wonderful gymnasts that have yet appeared in London. Leotard at ne time was looked upon ae the greatest wonder in the world, but he was eclipsed by Ulmer, and on the termination of the engagement of that artist Mr. Wilde secured the services of Verrecke, the brothers Conrade, and Mdle. Elise Adams, all of whom created especial wonder. The last novelty, however, is by tar the greatest, and we fearlessly pronounce the three Spa nish gymnasts—viz., the brothers Risarelis and Senor Balager—as the most wonderful perform.-rs that have yet appeared in the metropolis. The brothers Risarelis perform upon a ladder hung from the roof of the building, but to give a detailed description of it would occupy too much space; suffice it, theretore, to say that the culminating wonder is the suspension of the younger brother by the elder, by means of a cord held in his mouth, whilst he himself is hanging head downwards from the last rail in the ladder. The " tricks" are performed in the neatest manner, and all disagreeable fears are deadened by the ease and confidence of the performers. Belager is a jumping wonder. He actually takes a flying leap through a hoop that, when placed on his shoulders, iu a sanding position, will not pass over them This important fact, by some oversight, was not made known to the public, so the daring act appeared to be merely jumping through a very small hoop. He also perf ,rms one of the most wonderful double somersaults ever witnessed. The audience were en 'hu,iastic in the r applause, and th re seemed, at one time, to be no end to the'` calls'' the artists experienced, An other feature in the performance is tha , it is to be com pletely varied every week of their engagement. MR. WOODIN'S " CABINET OF CURIOSITIES."— Mr. W. S. Woudin opened his very amusing " Cabinet of Curiosities" to an Aberdeen audience onThurs day night. There are few entertainments which have so extensive a range as these of Mr. Woodin. Every phase and variety of life—tbe life of the drawing• room, the race course, the road, the seaside, the city, the country—the old and young, gentle and simple, elderly maiden ladies solici tous about their faded charms, and portly squires pompous and patronizing, the frippery and snobbishness of the swell" world, and the jibes and rough humour of the pmzn—all find a lively mirror in Mr. Woodin',, portrai tures.—.Aberaeen Herald. EXETER IlALL,—Handel's " Judas Maceabwus' will be Ferformed by the National Choral Satiety on Thursday, the 28th inst. The principal singers will be Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Mies Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, who will sing " Sound an Alarm," &c., and Mr. Lewis Thomas. "See the Conquering Hero Comes," by a band and chorus of 700, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin, This will be the last performance of this ora'orio this season. FRENCH GRAVES IN THE CRIMEA.—W,3 have already mentioned the return to France of Colonel Colson, who had heen sent to the Crimea to rectify the state of the French cemetery at Sebastopol According to the report of the colonel he found the place in the most d-plorable state; the tombs had been profaned and the burying ground bad been trPateci in the most disgraceful manner. A decision has been, thereforP, come to, that all the reraains of the French soldiers shall be cullec'ed toge ther into one spot, over wbicb a commemorative munumoat will be erected. Tne whole will be surrounded by a strong wall, and a person placed in charge of it, The town of Sebastopol is not, it is said, in a better condition than the French cemetery ; everything is in ruins, and scarcely any houses have been rebuilt. FATAL CASE OF STABBING IN GLASGOW--Late on Saturday evening Robert Brookmyers, hammer man, was fatally stabbed by Patrick Wood, in Main .street, Maryhill, near Glasgow. The deceased was attacked by a party of men, including the prisoner. He drew a knife in self-defence, but the knife was N‘res'ed from him, road he was stabbed twice in the thigh. He died a few minutes afterwards. Th- prisoner was apprehended soon after with blood on his right hand and clothes. A grudge of long standing between both parties is understood to have }2,en the cauee of the fatal affair, PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION, HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 18, PRISON MENISTERS BILL. Order for third reading read. Motion made and question proposed, " That the bill be now read the third time." Amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the qwestion to add the words "upon this day six months." Question put, "That the word ' now' stand part of the question," The house divided--Ayes, 196 ; Noes, 167. AYES-196. Acton, Sir J. Forster, W. E. Osborne, Bernal Adam, W. P. Fortescue, Hon. F. Paget, C. Angerstein, W. Fortescue, C. S, Paget, Lord A. Antrobus, E. French, Col. Pakington, Sir J. S. Atherton, Sir W. Galiwey, Sir W. P. Palmer, Sir R. Bagwell, J. Gavin, Major Palmerston, Visot. Baines, E. Glyn, G. C. Patten, Col. W. Barbour, J. D. Glyn, G. G. Peel, Sir R. Baring, H. B. Gower, F. L. Peel, F. Baring, Sir F. Greene, J. Pilkington, James Baring, Thomas Greenwood, J. Pinney, Col. Baring, Thos. Geo. Gregory, W. H. Pollard Urquhart W Barnes, T. Gregson, S. Portman, W. H. B. Beamish, F. B. Grenfell, H. R. Potter, E. Beaumont, W. B. Grey, lit. Hn. Sir G. Powell, J. Beaumont,Somerset Grosvenor, Earl Price, R. G. Beecroft, G. S. Gurdon, B. Pryse, Capt. E. L. Bellew, R. 31. II adfield, Geo. Puller, C. W. Berestord, Denis Handley, John Redmond, J. E. Berkeley, ( 01. Hankey, ThomsJn Ricardo, 0. Be , keley, C. Hanmer, Sir J. Robartes, T. J. A. Blake, J. A. Hartopp, E. B. liobertson, H. Blencowe, J. G. Hassard, 31. D. Roebuck, J. A. Bonham-Carter, J. Bay, Sir J Russell, Hastings Bouverie, P. P. Headlam, Thos. E. Russell, A. J. E. Bowyer, Sir G. Henley, J. St. Aubyn, J. Bright, J. Henley, Lord Salomong,Alderman Browne, Lord J. T. Hennessy, J. P. Scholefieil:l, W. Bruce, Lord E. A. Herbert, H. A. Scott, Lord H. Bruce, H. A. liesketh, sir T. Shafto, R. D. Buchanan, W. Holland, E. Sidney, Thomas Buxton, C. Howard, Hon. C. Smith, J. B. Calthorpe, F. H. Howard, Lord E. G. Smith, 31. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Hubbard, J. G. Smith, J. A. Castlerosse, Viet. Ingham, R. Somerville, Sir W. Caventlish, Lord G. Jervoise, Sir J. Stacpoole, W. Clifford, C. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Stanley, Lord Cobden, R. Jolliffe, Sir W. Steel, John Cochrane, A. D. Kinglake, A. W. Stuart, Col. Coke, Col. Kingscote, Col. Sullivan, M. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Knight, F. Talbot, C. R. 3L Collins, T. Lacon, Sir E. Taylor, P. A. Conolly, T. Layard, A. H. Thompson, H. S. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Lanigan, J. Thornhill, W. P. Cox, W. Lawson, W. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Crawford, R. W. Leatham, E. Vandeleur, Col. Dalglish, Robert Legh, W. Vane, Lord H. G. Davey, it. Lennox, Lord G. G. Verney, SI 1 Harry Davie, Col. F. Lennox, Lord H. G. Vernon, H. Dawson. R. P. Lennox, C. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Denman, G. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Vivian, H. H. Dickson, Col. Locke, John Vyner, Reginald Dillwyn, Lewis L. Longtield, Robert Walter, John Disraeli, Benjamin Lygon, lion. F. Watkins, Col. L. Douglas, Sir C. Mackinnon, W.(Ly.)Weguelin, T. Duff, 31. E. 31a(r, p re, ui J. F. Western, S. Dundas, Sir David 31amwaring, T. Williams, W. Dunkellin, Lord Manners, Lord J. Winnington, Sir T. Egerton, A. F. 31arjoribanks, D. C. Wood, Rt lin. SirC. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Marshall, W. Woods, Henry Ennis, John Massey, W. N. Wrightson, W. Esmonde, J. Monsell, Rt. Hn. W. Wyvill, 31. Evans, T. W. North, F. Ewart, J. C. Northcote, Sir S. H. TELLERS. Fergusson, Sir 3. O'Conor Don, The Fitz' oy ,J. F. O'Donoghue, The Brand, H. B. Forster, Charles D. O'Reilly, 31. White, L. NOES -167. --- Adderley, C. B. Gray, Capt Peacocke, G. H. Agnew, Sir A. Grey deWilton,Lord Pennant, Col. Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Grogan, Sir E. Peto, Sir M. Astell, J. H. Hamilton, Major Pevensey, V iscount Aytoun, ti. S. Hanbury, R. Phiilips, Barrow, W. H. Hardy, Gathorne Pigott, Sergeant Barttelot, Col. Hardy, J. Repton, G. W. J. Bathurst, F. H. Heygate, Sir F. Ridley, Sir M. W. Baxter, W. E. Ilolmesdale, Lord Rogers, John J. Beach, W. W. Howes, E. Rose, W. A. Beutinck, G. W. P. Humberstone, P. S. Rowley, Hon. R. T. Benyon, R. Ingestre, Viscount Sclater-Booth, G, Beresford, W. Jolliffe, H. k•!cott, Sit W. Blackburn, P. Kekewich, S. Scourfleld, J. H. Booth, Sir R. G. Kelly, Sir F. Selwyn, C. J. Bovill, Wm. Kennard, R. Seymer, H. K. Bramley-Moore, J. King, J. K. Shelley, Sir J. V. Bridges, Sir B. Kinglake, Serj. J. Shirley, E. P. Brooks, R. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Smith, Augustus Bruce, C. L. C. Knatchbull, W. Smith, Abel Butler, C. S. Knightley, R. Smith , S . G. Caird, James Langton, W. G. Smyth, Col. Cairns, Sir H. Langton, W. H. G. Smollett, P. Cartwright, Col. Lefroy, A. Somerset, Col. E. Cave, S. Leg - h, G. C. Somes, Joseph Cecil, Lord R. Leighton, Sir B. Spooner, R. Churchill, Lord A. Lever, John 0. Stanhope, J. B. Clifton, Sir It. Long, R. P. Stewart, Sir M. R. Cole, Hon. H. Long, W. Stuart, Col. W. Cole, J. L. Lovaine, Lord Sturt, Col. Coningham, Wm. Lowther, Col. H. C. Sykes, Col. W. H. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lowther, Captain Tempest, Lord A.V. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Lysley, W. Thynne, Lord H. Du Cane, C. Mackie, J. Tollemache , J. H. Duncombe A. Malcolm, J. W. Tomline, G. Dunlop, A. Dianne, R. Torrens, R. Du Pie, C. Martin, P. W. Traill, G. Edwards, Col. Matheson, A. Trelusis, Hon. C. H. Egerton, Sir P. Matheson, Sir J. Trevor, Lord A. Egerton, E. C. Miller, William Turner, J. A. Egerton, W. Mordaunt, Sir C. Vance, John Ellice, E., jun. Morgan, C. 0. S. Vansittart, Wm. Enfield, Viscount Morgan, Major Verner, Sir Wm. Ewart, William Morris, D. Walker, J. R. B. Ewing, 11. E. C. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Walpole, S. H. Fane, Col. Nicol, William Warner, Edward Farquhar, Sir M. Norris, J. T. Wemyss, J. Fellowes, Edward North, Col. White, Jas. Finlay, A. S. Ogilvy, Sir J. Woodd, B. T. Foley, Hon, H. W. O'Neill, E. Wyndham, Hon. P. Forester, Gen. Onslow, Guildford Wynn, C. W. W. Gard, R. S. Owen, Sir H. Wynne, W. W. E. Gilpin, Colonel Packe, C. Yorke, Hon. E. Gore, J. R. 0. Pakenham, Col. Gowet, G. W. L. Palk, Sir L. TELLER S. Greaves, Edward Parker, Major W. Black, Adam Greenall, G. Paull, H. Newdegate, C. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RINGWOOD, CHRISTCHURCH, AND BOURNE MOUTH. A special general meeting of this company was held yes terday at the offices, Leadenhall-street, Mr. R. R. Notman in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to empower the com pany to extend their railway to Bournemouth, and for other purposes. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution approving the bill, which was carried unanimously. Tha Solicitor then read the heads of a bill for authoris ing the amalgamation of the undertakings of aivers rail way companies with the undertaking of the London and South • Western Company,and divers arrangements between that company and other companies and bodies, and for other purposes. A formal resolution approving the bill was also unani mously adopted. The Solicitor then r Aad the beads of the agreements, bear ing date respectively the sth January, 1860, and the 12th November, 1862, made between th.. Ringwood, Christ church, and Bournemouth Railway Company and toe Lon don and South-Western Railway Company for leasing and working the line from Ringwood to Bournemouth. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN a formal resolution ap proving and confirming the agreements was carried, and the proceedings terminated. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, in Earl Donoughtnore's Committee, the case of the West Hartlepool Company underwent further scru tiny. Mi. Rowley and others were examined at considerable length relative to the objects of the company's bill, which seeks to extinguish existing powers of raising money, to co, vert the sum of £2,669,162, being the aggregate amount of their deb, nture stuck and debt not made primary charges on their undertaking by the Act of 1852, into a like sum of first preferential ck ; and the existing sums of X 143,600 (5i per cent.), £34,662 (4 per cent ), and £36,485 (4i per cent.) preference stocks in the company's capital into like sums of second preferential stock having the like fixed dividends re spectively. The bill also seeks powers to burrow £726,000 on mon gage, to pay off urns amounting to £726,054,which were by the Act of 1852 made primary charges on the un dertaking, and to borrow on mortgage the further sum of £1,400,000, to pay off certain arrears of interest, and £292,220 of debts and liabilities, to pay for uncompleted works, and to create a debenture stock at 5 per cent., to be substituted for mortgage debt. The total amount of com pany's debenture debt and stock and capital is declared to be £4.252,967. Mr. BURKE, Q C., addressed the committee on behalf of the debenture and bondholders. The committee had all the facts before them, disclosing considerable financial delinquency. The company claimed condonation, on the ground that these acts were committed by their predeces sors in office ; but the company, qua company, he contend ed, were liable The debenture holders relied upon their 1 , gal rights, and he submitted that the Court of Chancery, and not Parliament, was the proper tribunal, although the bill had been passed in committee of the Commons, to ad judicate on questions of bankrupt corporations If the ommittee were to pass the bill it would not only be an in justice to the debenture holders, but an assumption of judi cial functions no Parliament had ever undertaken, and it would invalidate the security of the investments of railway bondholders, who had invested their money on the security of Acts of Parliament. Tne room having been cleared, the committee, after a brief deliberation, decided : " That in the opinion of the committee the preamble of the bill is not proved, that the committee think it their duty to lay before the House a statement of the facts dis closed•in the evidence, and that they will further draw the attention of the House to the necessity of providing some sufficient safeguard for persona lending their money to rail way companies either on mortgage or bond." In the Duke of Richmond's committee, on the proposed extension of the Midland Railway into London, Messrs. Cubitt and Brydone, engineers, and 'lr. Denison, chairman of th.. Great Northern Railway, were examined in opposi tion to the undertaking. In the Commons, the committee of which Mr. Adair is chairman passed the Motley branch of the Gradford, Wake field, and Leeds Railway, but threw out the Low Moor Extension. The case for the promoters of the proposed .:ew Brighton true was closed, and Mr. Ateinson having addres.ed the committee for landowners, Mr. Slight, the secretary of the Brigh , ort Railway, was examined at length br Mr. Merewether, Q C , with a view to show that the proposed line was unnecessary. The Moniteur de 1 Algerie of the 11th says : " The steam-frigate Cacique has left Algiers with 947 native riflemen, of whom 21 are officers ; the Mogador has taken on board 996 soldiers of the same arm, forming the contin gent which is to keep garrison in Paris. , ' The illumination of coal mines surely might be accom plished by the magnet. The development of its power is artily increasing, one instance is Herring's Magnetic Brushes, &c. Dr. Hassell remarks, "I regard them as the must perfect brushes hitherto made, as respects the tnecha meal construction, and their man etical action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, &c. N.B. Counterfeits are being nitide.-oWces, 32, gasinghall street, London. MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA. The fifth annual meeting of the shareholders of this bank rook place to-day—Mr. G. G. NICOL in the chair. The report submitted stated that, after providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and de fraying expense of mandgement at all points, the net profit amounted to £94,228 143. ld., to which had to be added a sum of £4O 15s. ld. undivided profit brought forward from the preceding year, making a total of £94,269 9s. 2d. Out of this total, £50,000 had been paid in two half-yearly dividends, making together 10 per cent. on the pc- id-upcapital of the bank. A further sum of £40,000 had been added to the reserve fund. The unappropriated balance of £4,269 9s. 2d. was carried for Nerd to the profit and loss account of the current year. The reserve fund now amounted to £lOO,OOO, of which £60,000 was invested in Indian Government Secu rities, as intimated in the last report, and it was the intention of the court to invest the balance, £40,000, in public securities as opportunities offer. Arrange ments have been made with Mr. Charles Pearson, chartered accountant, Edinburgh, to act as agent for the bank there, for the receipt of deposit money, and the conduct of such other business as required. The reserve fund being now completed to 20 per cent. on the paid-up capital of the bank, as required by the deed of settlement, and the business of the bank being largely extended, the shareholders were invited to revise clause 113, with a view to increase the remuneration at present fixed for the directors. The Chairman moved the adoption of the report, and referred to the balance sheet, which, be said, indicated that a considerable increase had been made in the revenue of the past year. The deposits had bee❑ augmented by £600,000, and all the debts made during the past 12 months had been written off, including the sum of £13,000 lost through the frauds at Hong Kong. The direc tors did not attribute any fault to their manager in China respecting that loss; on the contrary, they considered he had shown great promptitude and discretion in the matter. The reserve fund novr amounted to £lOO,OOO, the minimum required by the Bank's Charter, but having regard to the im portance their establishment would derive from possessing at its command a larger reserve fund, the directors would still continue to augment the amount year by year. An agency had been opened in Japan, and the reports from the various branches were highly encouraging. The report was then carried nem. con., and the directors' remuneration increased from £l,BOO to £3,000 per annum. To the Editor of The Sun. Sin,—l have been desired by my legal advisers to reserve any public reply I might have to the calumnies in circula tion concerning me until Mr. Jordan's case reappeared be fore the tribunals ; but I cannot endure any further delay in publishing the following statement. I have no wish to conceal or disguise any imprudence I may have committed, but I deny most indignantly the guilty imputations and disgraceful acts laid to my charge. In July, 1861, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan arrived in London from New Orleans, and from that time until the summer of 1862 they were received on tho most intimate footing in my family. It soon becinfe apparent that they lived very unhappily, in consequence, as Mrs. Jordan told my wife, of a connexion which her husband had formed with another lady, a matter which subsequently became notorious. In May, 1862, Mrs. Jor dan left her home, and sought refuge in the house of a friend. I was the means of inducing her to return. and of effecting a reconciliation. In June 1 opened Dear lane Theatre, and by Mr. Jordan's desire I gave his wif e an engagement ; I did so at the suggestion also of Mrs. Boucicault, who entertained sympathy for her position, and r quested me to pay her every attention in my power. This engagement, Mr. Jordan stated at the trial, vine without his consent, and against his wish—that he wa s opposed to it and to any intimacy with me at this time. This is wholly untrue. During the season he came almost nightly behind the scenes, and sat with ins and my friends in my room, dined at my house, and e' hibited every evidence of intimacy and confidence. Aft er the performances I usually gave them seats in my carriage, and left them at their door in passing. When he did not come I invariably escorted her in my carriage to her do n This continued until the end of July, when I heard that h had expressed some suspicions respecting my relations will the lady. I immediately begged her to resign her engage ment, and sbe consented to do so. On the following day she informed me that Mr. Jordan refused to allow her to leave the theatre, alleging that he was at the time without any permanent engagement, and she must stay where she was. Subsequently to this Mr, Jardan continued to visit the theatre as usual, sought my society, dined at my house. I took them home in my carriage as before, Mr. Jordan generally preferring to ride on the box; and in his absence I escorted her, as it had been my custom to do. I regret to say I did not tell Mrs. Boucicault of these suspicions re specting me, as I did not wish to give her anxiety or trouble at the time, end I did not think them seriously entertained' A few weeks after this I was informed by the lady that, after a dispute, unhappily not unfrequent, her husband had, ordered her to leave his lodgings, as he felt convinced of her guilty relations with me. She begged him not to eas t that opprobrium upon her, or to give her the means to g o to America, where her parents reside. He refused it, and told her to seek what assistance she wanted from me. On learn" ing this I wrote to Mr. Jordan, remonstrating with him on his conduct. but assuring him that if he persisted in it I neither could nor would allow his wife to be reduced to want ; that he left me no alternative but to retain her in the theatre, but if she preferred to return to her parents that I would give her the means to do so. I added that I did this afte consulting with my wife, and had written to in foe m him of my intentions lest my motives might be mis • represented or misconstrued. To this letter I received no an.twer. By thy advice Mrs. Jordan, on leaving her hus band, went to apartments in Pall-mall, where he and she had previously lodged. She wrote to her husband toinforta him where she was to be found. I continued, as before, to escort her to her door nightly of er the performances. I did so without secrecy, in my own carriage, and as publicly as I could. This was my first imprudence. Mr. Jordan had, it seems, been watching night after night in the WV of seeing me enter the house, but had been disappoin ted ' On the night in question she had kegged me to lend he r some books, so after leaving her door, I drove round to 13 3 1 chambers in King-street, St. James's, and returned hu l l; diately with the works. I had scarcely entered the h a '"" when I heard a knock at the door. Presuming it was one of the lodgers in the house, and fearing my presence O rel ! in the hall might cau se some remar k, I w ithd r ew to l e " them pass. Mr. Jordan entered. He showed neither ang er nor excitement, and exhibited no violence whatever; hadg e done so I should have followed him into his wife's roe"' t towards which he went. His remark was, "I only de eir : to see Mr. Boucicault that he may be identified," or w ord , to that effect. I was unaware of the circumstances that f 0 lowed, and that Colonel Gibbon or any one else had WI mixed up in the affair until Mr. Jordan had been remo ve( ' I am quite aware how injudicious and imprudent ml 6° 5 duct was under the circumstances, and in my desire to shi e 4 the lady's reputation and avoid, if possible, a public soa rlu i , on my own account I contrived to make matters 132 , c _ A worse than they need have appeared. Mrs. Boucicault 067 been ill for some weeks previously, but on her recoverY't told her candidly what had occurred, and by her cond o l e towards Mrs. Jordan subsequently she desired to exhi bl her disbelief in the scandal which then became only too no, torious. Shortly after this Mrs. Jordan returned to AO rice, and I afforded her the means to do so. These are Ames facts for which I have been so severely reprehended. iVir ; Jordan brought an action against Colonel Gibbon in ordeit that a scandalous story might go forth to the public es , has done, without investigation or defence. This trial is; not, nor was it intended to be, against the nominal de 4{, dant; it was against me, and so contrived that I migh t s • ter all the odium without even the opportunity of reP o ' e It Mr. Jordan were injured at all it was by me, and ra e l° h t was the proper defendant against whom an action i.get have been brought. I deny the charges brought a g ate me, and I defy Mr. Jordan to prove them. I am, Sir yours, &c., DION BOUCICATThir. Westminster Theatre, May 18. REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY.—The sudaeu decease of kr. Western Wood, M.P., has crestelum vacancy in the representation of the city of London. 00 late Lord Mayor, Mr. Cubitt, M.P. for Andover, is eP°o,,itt of as a candidate, but it is not probable that he w ill ab- p o quit the substance for the shadow, although there / oft public man of his principles so likely to be returned. 014 present Lord Mayor is also inntioned but he, it is the u ° will not willingly relinquish his newly-acquired 11011°.nrtile the re i _re,ent,tic.n of Southampton. The candidaLes ,be Liberal interest are M r . S amue l Mo r l e y, Mr. Iludgson ('rraw_. chairman of the Bank of E ng land), and Mr. Ad Pte„ years, -20 Ilumphery, who represented S o uthwark for a period F years, and was the first Liberal member returned to liament after the passing of the Reform Bil l. Ni g" A fatal collision occurrei two days sinc".a if sie ne t Elegies between the steamers Alphe e and The first both belonging to Simian and Co., of that port. a tiro to named sunk almosl, immediately, but th e crew ha m eat A y° get on board the other, which, though m uch -a- erS• towed into port by one of Fraissent and Co.'s steamers. fresh Tile Emperor of Austria has just g.ivens co u v u e j r iaist in according o rdn fihg a sum of 2,5 o i s sympathy Hu o,o o 2 ga o r f ir o f d for effect' year's deficit of the nationa l theatre at Pesth, 1,11 sty as a lso • lufwe ing repairs required in the b uildin g . grautcd aabveutioa of 60,000 itoriLl 4 til " ° Pgeglclit r °4ll