The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN,— been requested by influential 1 have on several occasions Clazens of London to allow m yself to be nom i n ated as a Cand.date w h en ever a vazancy should occur in thorepresen tation of the City. The letter which has appeared this morning in the " Times" from our respected representative, Sir James Duke, an nouncing his intention of retiring from Parliment, renders it necessary that some i•sponse should be g iven by me to. the kind expressions of those who have theu:zht th At at I shoutsn n ot prove au unworthy re p resentative of the m entrusted a Member of Prliament for the City of Lo ur ndon. I beg to to assure youth ,t I a shou ld esteem it an hono to be one of the representatives in the flose of Commons for thea City of London, having for many years been eng in the public affairs of the City, and largely interested in its trade and commerc... My attachment to the Liberal cause is well known to the Nlectors. I have always advocated and supported those libe ral principles which have tended so materially to promote the prosperity of all classes in this country, and at the same time have added strengtia end - ezur ty to the Constitution. The pos iti o n of Chief Magistrate, in which the favour of my tell4w-citize ns has placed me, encourages me to hope that I iiiay be honoured with the confidence of the E.ectors, who May reel assurea tint in entrusting' to me the onerous re isponsibilities and duties of their representative in Yarlia liament, those responsibilities wi l l ever be kept i n view, and t h ose nuties earnestly and faithfully discha r g d. I am, Gentlemen, yours very. faithtuilsr, WILL,AO LAW.E.ENCE. Mansion Hove, July 25, 1F,64. OYAL .ITALIA.N OPERA, Covent-garde n. Last Night but Five. 3ldlle. Adelina Patti, Madame Didice ; Signor Graziani, and Signor Mario. Extra N fight. THIS EVENING (Monday-, July 25, will be performed, for the first time this season, Flotow's opera. in four acts, MARTHA. Lady Enrichetta, 31dlle. Adelina Patti ; Nancy, Madame Didiee ; riumket, Signor Graziani ; Tristano, Signor 'Aq'agliafico ; Seeriffo Itichmond, Signor Fallar ; and Lia ntilo, Signor Mario. The incidental divertissement will be supported by Mane. Sals,:oni, Millie. Carmine, and 31. Desplaces. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Pit tickets , 7s. ; am phitheatre sta.ls, 103. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphithea tre, 29. 6cl. Boxes stalls, and tickets may be had the boX-oince, under the portico of the theatre, which is ten till five, and at the principal musicsellers' and at op en trona liorarians'. 01AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. 411 717111 S EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK". Paddy o.;tafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new play by John Osenford, Esq., THE )lONASTERY OF Sl. JLS r : Messrs. Vining, H. Mars tou, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, 11. Mellon, W. Robins, C. Seyton, hapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and Mdlle. Stella Colas. EW THEATRE-RO AL, ADELPHI.- ...‘ Sole Proorictor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, TIIE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Stuart, Stephen son, Romer; Miss Wool gar, Miss K.. Kelly. and Mrs. Bil lington. - At 10, ONE TOUCH OP NATURE. Penholder, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Constance, Miss H. Simms. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a Ncrrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Toole, I'. Bedford, Lt. Homer, Miss Wooigar, and Kra. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Last three weeks of the present season. Crowded with rank and fashion. Re-engagement of those ce ebrazed and popular artistes, Mr. an t Mrs. Charles Mathews. FroductiGn of an entirely new original Travestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnan , i, Esq., entiiled FAUST 312.R.A.TERITE. in which Mr. and M, s Charles biatnews will appear. The new scenery b) the celebrated artists,.lessrs. Danson and bons ; the incidental Ba: let by Oscar'Byrne. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the copular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. 'F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 11. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, - ,Mrs. Stirring, ana Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Llarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past S, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST All) MARGUERITE : Mr. c has. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague, Mr. W. H. Ebarne, Mr. W. Chamberlame, and Mrs, C. Mathews. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL AMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Dl Wentworth. GOODWOOD.—RACE GLASSES, the best at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner or Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent 'o Voigtlander, Vienna- OPERA and RACE GLASSES, Field and Yacht Glasses, in every varie y of size, form, and mounting, matchless for their great magnifying power and sharpness of definition. Price, from 30s. each, at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W.. corner of Conduit-street. Sole agent for the celebrated race and field glasses and photo graphic lenses made by Veigtlander, Vienna. Field glasses wade expressly for India. warranted to withstand the gr eatest tropical heat. The new aluminium mounted glasses (as re cently made for H.R. H. the Prince of Wales', though of the largest size, weigh but a low ounce). COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a v,,riety of WASHING Sli,li DREiSES, suttatle for the country and seaside, and at the clearing-out pace of only Ils. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILT:S.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r•sen 15 per cent, and it will soon . re a ch a far u-rcater per-centaee. Messrs. JAY. therefove , Ivite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturAlly b.; more Co tly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 219, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL S. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 23s. per ton. I Double.. ....... 20s . per ton. Top 22g. „ Deep ...... .....21s. „ Well screened and delivered within rive miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, 'Addington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Beat Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. ryi HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," A. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Ev,ery Evening of G. EL. GLENIE, News AcztT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 25, 1861. --.>--- THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 75 Barometer-29.84. WIND—S.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 24m,—Afternoon, 60en Taatoincow.-Moming t 7h. 12m.—Aitarnooa, 7a. 40m. .... t.',F.:•:"4 , :i_ 4 : ...i,. 4 ... ..„:„...,„*„.„,„...,. j, g. --..04....„...„,„.„4,...,...., LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1864. The imminent probabilities of a general European war have happily drifted out of view within the last few weeks. Peace among the Great Powers, it is satisfactory to know, is not only still preserved intec% but is liktly to be preserved for some time to come. Whatever sinister hints to the contrary may be thrown out by isolated Parisian organs like is Pays, the general impression, nowadays, both here amongst ourselves, and beyond the Channel in all parts of the Continent, is pretty much w h a t we have here intimated it to be. it?garding the mere fact itself—that peace has not merely to this moment been preserved, but that it appears to yield every reasonable promise of beina , yet awhile maintained intact, for a period of irldcfiaite duration —we cannot but look to the actual reallt, of course, w ith a sense, so far, of profound satisfaction. But, while doing so, is the interests Of humanity, it is impossible to do so in our own selfish national interests. It is impossible, at least, to look at the manner in which this result hag oeen secured, with any degree of, so to speak, national self-complacency, And for a reason, unhappily, only too apparent,"not only here, but far and wide, all Over the world, in both hemi spheres. Peace has been preserved—but at what a sacrifice ! At the sacrifice of the presti,g3, of the name, and fame, and influence, and heroic repute of England. It is undeniable, AL Europe knows it to be so. It is ra atter for pro found. exultation through the length and breadth o f the Continent. It is not so with F :ance _ but it is so w ith England. France never indulged darin g the late diplomatic correspondence and negotiati on ,. —in the matter of Schleswig and Holst e i n —i n the matter of &spate between ammark and Germany—France never indulged in those false promises on the one side, and in those bragga docioee threats upon the other, that England, thank, to Earl RUSSELL'S policy, certainly did indulge in, and indulged in apparently with a sort of insensate perversity, prepense, upon system, and with a kind of crass stupidity of deliberation. Reversing that old heroic cry or anguish that thrills to us through history, we m i g ht say now, in regard to the Defeat recently endured by Elql4o ------ Dipl o matically—Everything is gained (in the way of all the advantages resulting from the presurva. tion of Peace)—fors Thonneur ! We have ~e, e n threatening—and all our t hreats have come to nought. We have been promising assistance...and that assistance, even at the direst extremity, has never once been forthcoming. There was a l wa ys a putting off, upon some pal'cy ex.. cuse or another. Holstein was invaded, YEs but it was net Schleswig ! Schleswig was entered by the German troops, was entered and formally occupied. Ah—it was not Jutland ! Jutland W°,B penetrated. True—but there was the Island of Funen ! Nay—it was actually intimated at last by the Prime Minister cf England, in the presence of the House of Commons, amidst ironical jeers of indignation that in certain still more dire contingencies—lf Copenhagen were bombarded and taken, for example, if King , CHRISTIAN IX., the father of our young Princess of WALES, were seized by the Prussian Victors in his palace, and were carried away thence as a prisoner of war—England, even then, might —not "could," but " might"—interfere ? Nothing of the kind! England, even then, might —it was a mere hypothesis—might—just within the limits of possibility—reconsider her policy!! Might—take into her consideration the advisability of acting, somehow or another, differently ! No—the preservation of peace in Europe is in itself, of course, a matter for profound congratulation. Bat—it is certainly no subject for self gratulation to England the ignoble manner in which it has been brought about! It become 3 even matter for serious doubt among patriotic Englishmen whether so absolute a sncliiice of honour, of dignity, of good faith, of self-respect (in the dealing about us, that ie, of so many utterly valueless fair promises, and of so many utterly contemptible, because empty and idle threats) is not a price too dear for us to have paid even for the preservation of peace in Christendom. The speech of Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE on Friday was very appropriate, and it is satisfac tory to know that there are some few remaining politicians who will broach these awkward subjects, and thus compel. Ministers to make some attempt at a reply. It is notorious that our Government shirk ail inquiries, and turn a deaf ear alike to the voice et reason and the language of warning. That is no excuse for those idle or indifferent members who will not interfere, because they say it is of no use to make any disturbance, since no result will ensue. It is their duty to do their utmost, and if they fail it is not their fault. At any rate all that relates to this matter of which Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFB treated is so very unsatisfactory, and the intelligence itself so unwelcome to English ears that we cannot but hail every opportunity that occurs for watching the progress and marking the workings of the affair. His lordship put the ques tion very fairly before the House, and the tenor of his remarks must have produced an impression upon many of his hearers. In the first place, it is im possible for the most sceptical to deny that there is great truth in his observation that such a thing as the revival of the Holy Alliance must be deemed far from improbable, and also that if such an event actually occurred the combination of the three military Powers, Austria, Russia, and Prussia would be a great evil. They would inter fere with the freedom and the independence of all the smaller States. This is strictly true, and, in deed, proofs are not wanting of the lamentable effects which have been producod by the union of these Powers. Last year Poland was made almost a complete wreck through the rapacity of Russia, and every imaginable assistance was ren dered by Austria and Prussia. The latter kingdom more especially conspicuously distinguished itself for its zeal and energy in the cause, and now this zeal many calamities have arisen through the joint working of Prussia and Austria; while Russia has not only openly lent her aid, but done a good deal in the way of secret service to those whose greed and covetousness sent them forth to despoil and appropriate the possessions of others. It is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact that these three Powers, flushed with victory, intent en plunder, and incensed at the idea cf the spread of liberty, will not be_content to re main stationary. Rest and be thankful does not enter into the policy of their Cabinets ; they are always on the alert, and woe betide the small State, the independent little kingdom, or the revolutionary country that stands in their way, and incites them to exterminate and crush. There can be no greater mistake than to ignore the workings of a system until it is too late to do anything to check its course, or arrest its mischievous tendency. With Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE we agree in declaring that this combination puts us in great d anger , I t is one of thoseaunpropitions developments of power and those disastrous exhibitions of strong passions without a curb that aro fatal to the interests of communities, and totally subversive of the best laws of humanity. Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE very forcibly expreased his opinions relative to the mis taken views entertained by some respecting the atti tude that England ought to assume. The interests of commerce are held to supersede all other COIIE3i. aerations. " If we wish to be safe and to escape that which has been the almost proverbial fate of all commercial countries, we must preserve that high spirit of nationality, and that nobility of heart which tells us that our best interests are not based on mere sordid calculations of profit and loss." These are sentiments which are worthy of a great country, and it would be well if they were more in vogue in high places just now, but on the contrary our Ministers appear to put profit before every thing, and the dread of war before the claims of justice or the interests of the oppressed. Earl RUSSELL'S reply to the queries put to him was as tame and unsuitable as usual on such occasions. He either did not or would not see the drift of the res marks of the noble lord, as to his denial of the authenticity of the rumour referred to. The noble I lord appears himself to apprehend that at some future time there will virtually be a combination , that will possess all th© attributes of the Holy Alliance. The Powers in question are always , expressing a hope that the European Sovereigns may unite in order to put down reaction. ary movements. We shall only drift into further perplexities, however, and meet with more diffi culties if Earl Reosaaaa intends to act upon what he has said, namely, that he does not see that the revival of the Holy Alliance can give us a just cause for apprehension. He cannot believe that those Sovereigns can mean more than to protect their own dominions, and secure them from the effects of democratic invasions. If he is going to guide the co urse of his policy by this idea, h e w ill fraeisttsmoosftocuormepoulentterlyy, and only the beat int o . to thedistractinglies no w distracting the nations of Europe. It is a representing ads singular thing that whenever there is a presage of any great change occurring, our Ministers always say that the rumour is false, or else, if it turns out true, that the re is no cause for disquietude. He must be very ignorant or very credulous who is any longer satisfied with this answer to the in quiries made under the let' - uence of astonishment, indignation, and dismay, The conclusion we arrive at is the same, but a sad rehearsal of the past, and. the people of England, who are the ruling power of the world, have to look on while tyranny runs riot, and oppression holds Sovereign sway. The next Session of Parliament will doubtless witness some of the effects produced by the work ings of this Holy Alliance, which it is now conve4 nient to laugh at, and to deny in toto. Our Go vernment cannot possibly lay claim to foresight. This country has always been prompt to recog nise the dangers of monopoly. The evils are indeed sufficiently great, and apparently readily perceptible to a people much less acute and much less versed in commercial dealings. But early expe rience, as well as the natural tendency of the Eng lish temper, has inspired us with an especial dread of anything approaching to monopoly. Year by year the old remnants of it still at work in our system are dying out, year by year the principles of Free Trade are becoming more widely developed, more generally adopted. The very foundation of our time-honoured Constitution is the even balance of power—restraining alike the monopoly of authoe rity by the Crown, by the Parliament, and by the people. Everything that has a tendency to cen tralisation is looked upon with much suspicion, and this feeling is the protection of many cumbrous establishihents which might be better worked by ono central authority, but which are justly che rished by the people as safeguards against that social despotism of which they are so jealous. Our municipal institutions, our county magistracy, our Poor-law system, have all in turn been abused and criticised, as in truth they very often lay them selves open to be ; but, atter all that can be said against them, they rest upon a firm foundation—the conviction of the country that, with all their faults, they are part of those barriers which our fathers erected round their hardly-won freedom, and so long as they last they afford substantial guarantees that England shall eontinue to be governed by Englishmen after their own fashion. It was this strong feeling against anything approaching to monopoly, or centralisation, added to the jealousy and disfavour with which the House naturally regards official accounts and official workmanship, that gave Mr. COBDEN so many supporters in his his attack upon the Government Manufacturing Establishments on Friday night. The censure which he passed on the originators, the enlargers, and the superintendents of those establishments, was wholesale and uncompromising. According to his showing, we are lavishing unheard of sums on articles that are comparatively worthless ; we are employing large numbers of men and damaging private business, in providing the country with inferior articles at a high price; we are putting an affront on the manufacturing interest of the country, without deriving any benefit from our offensive conduct ; we are undertaking to do publicly what could be much better and more cheaply done pri vately; our stores are bad, our contracts vexatious, cur accounts altogether unreliable, and the result of all is likely to be that our supply will entirely fall short in time of need, and we shall reap the consequence of persisting in maintaining these costly and inefficient establishments in a great de mocratic revolution. The answers to all these charges, general and particular, are not long in making their appearance. Mr Cobden's sweeping accusations were met in many instances with a com plete refutation. Any quantity of arms, of enemies ninon, or of clothing, could, he said, b 3 obtained from our great manufactories at the briefest possible notice. But official experience proves this assertion to be incorrect. Mr. MONSELL cited a few instances from our Crimean experience which serve to indicate the necessity of the public service not being altogether dependent on private establishments. In 1854-5 200 tons of shot and shell was given to be delivered within two weeks, but the full amount was not forthcoming till January, 1856. Another firm which entered into a similar agreement was a little quicker in its proceedings, making its first dclivecy of the required articles in June, 1855. A third firm undertook to deliver 150 tons of shot and 150 tons of shell by the 7th of January, 1855, nnd the same quantity weekly afterwards. The way the con tract was fulfilled was by making the first delivery in June, 1855, and this was in a time of war, when the welfare of the public service depended so largely upon a faithful per formance of contracts, and there is no reason, as Mr. MONSELL said, why we should suppose that things are much altered now. But, thanks to the much abused establishment at Woolwich, a Tian tity of shot and shell equivalent to the whole of that expended at Sebastopol might be produced in six weeks, and the number of cartridges cone seined during the siege might ba forthcoming in half that time. So much for the advantage gained in point of promptness and certainty. When we come to the consideration of the pal Ity of the articles supplied, the importance of Government establish ments becomes still more perceptible. Unhappily, it is not safe to trust men's lives and health altogether to the honesty of contractors. The revelations of the Crimea might convince even Mr COBDEN, but they were not officially quoted on Friday evening. The public, however, have not forgotten the boots that were destined for some distant and unthought-of locality, whence the report of their quality would scarcely reach England, and not be critically examined with a view to the exigencies of war. They have not forgotten the tools which proved so unfitted for their purpose, nor the still sadder and darker memory of the inferior preserved meat which so grievously disappointed the poor frost-bound wanderers in the Arctic regions. All these things have taught us that it is not well to trust exclusively to the private establishments. Mr COBDEN admits that in earlier days Government establishments were useful as a check upon contractors, but now he says the great shipbuilders, the great gunmukers, the large tailoring establishments, are better checks upon each other through the force of competition. But unhappily the competition tends rather to keep down the price than to improve the quality. "it is the disposition of contractors," says the Marquis of HARTINGTON, "to supply samples cheap rather than good ; and as even the lives of our soldiers and sailors may depend upon the quality of articles fur• nished to the Government, I cannot see how the men of cur navy and army can be protected without a minute inspection of the articles contracted for." Several of the establishments objected to are used for the purpose of testing the goods provided, and, in spite of Mr. COBDEN, this is an unavoidlble neees. sity. The fact is, that special wants must have a special supply, and general provision will not do. When the hon. gentleman was busy with his corn law agitation, the regular press could not servo his purpose, but he must start a journal of his own : and so, in times of sudden pressure or alarm, it will not do for the Government of this country io depend wholly upon commercial enterprise, how ever great. Of course the official establishments should be kept within bounds, and a close super vision of the accounts should be kept by the House, and so far M r . C OBDEN ' S motion may do good hear ingser- and should a fairbe given ahare to nf suggestionsencouragement from without, and should ith be given vice. It i s certa i nly desirable, too, that more given to the g enera l i ndustry of the country, b ut iit s unworthy o f a country like England to be at w the mercy,of any trade in time of war or emergency, and experience has prov e d it to b e a l so most unwise. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LRELTTER'S TELEGRAMS.] CHINA AND JAPAN. (By Telegraph from Suez.) SHANGHAI, JUNE 6. Major Gordon's force has been disbanded. Sir Frederick Bruce is returning home. Advices received from Japan state that Sir Rutherford Alcock has arranged quarters for the Britieh troops at Jeddo. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, JULY 24. The _Romanul has been supresecd in coneequence of the publication of further violent attacks upon dim Government. The Moniteur will publish tomorrow a report on the state of the finances of the Principalities. FIANCE. BOURSE, July 23.—The market still continues in the same feverish and inanimate state, and the limited transactions up to the present hour show a slight further decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 10c. Mobilier, after receding to 972 f. 50c., have since recovered to 980 f. So little has been done in Railway Shares that the prices aro as it were nominal at about yesterday's quotations, The market continued heavy to the close, and left off as follows : 4t per Cents. 5O Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 10 Credit Mailier 077 50 Do. end month 977 50 Bank Shares — Credit Fonder 1217 50 Roman, RAIL' Italian Loan GS 10 Do. end month CS 05 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican 56 50 Russian Austrian Spanish. Homo Debt Deferred ..... 4 ;;i (SYS. Cash. Orleans Northern Lyon 3 and kleditarranean 898 75 .. 897 50 New ditto Southern 'Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard ....... forth of Spain Slngopa Ditto to Barcelona .... Account. 637 50 637 50 515 - .. 613 75 477 50 .. 477 5U 351 25 .. -- 413 75 .. 412 50 523 75 .. 528 75 431 25 .. 432 50 523 75 .. 527 50 GREECE. "We believe," says the IlEnzorial Diplomatique, " we htve authority for announcing that the re cognitbn of Greece by the Austrian Government has ben decided cn in principle, and will shortly take plwe. It is:now only a question of time, besides diminishes in importance daily, b ut of which th) Vienna Cabinet, considerir the family ties which unite th e House of HaP: ourg to that of Bavaria, ras oblig e d to take into account f rom motives of delicacy. The af' . : ries i on to the cession of the T . given by Austria Joian Islands was already a first pledge o! a gl , o d fee li ng towards the young sovereign of Greece, and showed that the Austrian Government was far from wishing to create for him the slightest embarrassment." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 18G4, TURKEY. Constantinople journals to the 13th have arrived. Two days before, a grana review had taken place at the new training• camp of Levent•Chiflik on the heights above the Sweet Waters of Earope, the Sr. tan appearing in great pomp. The evolutions consisted of a sham fight, the number of troops pre sent being about 10,000. Everything was conducted most satisfactorily, and the Sultan expressed him self much gratified. In the evening the following order of the day was issued by the Grand Vizier : " Soldiers,—The arrangement of your camp, and the ad mirable manner in which you have executed to day's manceuvres—steadily and faultlessly—have afforded satis faction to our august Sovereign. It would be difficult to find finer troops than you have shown yourselves to be, and all—both officers and soldiers—have performed their respec tive parts in the most distinguished manner. His Mojesty is proud of you." The reading of this order elicited loud and repeated cheers for " Our glorious and revered Sultan I" and the "Grand Vizier, Fad Pasha, the belcved father of the army 1' The Murder of Mr Briggs, I: , QUEST THIS DAY. The coroner and jury re-assembled this morning at the Hackney Vestry Room shortly after ten o'clock. The coroner said he might mention that at the last meeting witnesses were present who would have been able to give valuable information, but that he considered the ends of justice would be best served by withholding for ae present. Mr. Moojen, who appeared for the prosecution, would apply for an adjournment, and he (the coroner) did not believe that the ends of justice would be (Ideated by such an adjournment. He therefore proposed that the of August, at 10 o'clock. enquiry should be adjourned until Monday, the 81h The Foreman of the jury suggested that Mr Lee es his evidence would be short. sho A u ir ld L b e e e, ex w a h minodescribed himself as of Parkfield road, Hackney, gentleman, gave evidenca similar to that taken at Bovir•street. He repeated that two persons were in the carriage with Mr Briggs on the night of the murder, He (witness) went into a second class in an adjoining carriage. I! was possible for either of the persons to have left the carriage after he got into the train, bat he saw no intenti on was present at the l ast i nqu i ry, an d h a d made the com munication he on their part to do so. He new made to the police. By the Jury—He had known Mr Briggs three or four years, and could not have made any mistake about him. The inquiry wa B then adjourned till the Bth of August. Mem .•••••• Inspector Williamson, of the detective force, waited upon Mr Henry, at Bow-street, on Saturday, and reported that, by the direction of Sir It. Mayne, he had been to Stafford corned in the murder of Mr Briggs. After an inter view to see the man in c ustody there, and suspec t e d to be con. with the prisoner, he had come to the conclu s io n that the re were no grounds to j ustify him in taking him into his cus tody. Be did not answer the descr i pt i on g i v en of Mulle r , nor of the second person said to have been seated with Mr pencil entries in his Briggs in the railway carriage at the time of the murder. It was true that the name Muller appeared among some to the circunista the prisoner admitted that he knew a man named Muller, but as this name was as common in Germany as Smith is in England,. he pocket-book, written in French, and was not disposed to attach much importance upon him, relating to a watch pledged at Shoreditch in ellisstlordyH,enorny, a con e s h i a d r e g re e d o t il f hat ie t i l o : 3 June last —a date far anterior to the murder on the North nee. A pawnbroker's duplicate was found London Railw ay. The nspector exhibited a photograph of the Stafford prisoner, w hi c h was taken there on Friday, but the face was unknown to the friends of Muller. inspector had exercised a wise. discretion in declining to interfere with the Stafford prisoner at present. From he had read in the Tones, matter,it ap p e re d t ifo lerably certain tha tthe man would be in safe the murder of Mr Brigg°, for some time to come. Meanwhile the Inspector could pursue his inquiries into the th e proper course could be and any new information could be obtained tend ing to connect the man either as a principal or accomplice with taken to have the prisoner brought up to London, Inspector X errisev of the M e tropolitan Police, arrived in Liverpool on Friday evening, and sailed on Saturday in the City of Cork for New York, in pursuit of Muller, who is suspected of havinc , murdered Mr Briggs. of St. Clo u d th o evening of them ran off in search o cut him do wn, Some pe son s , w hil e walking through the park b e fore last, discovered a y oun g ma n hanging by the the neck from a tree. Some f t h e gendarmes while the others and after a wh ile, restored him t o li fe. When the gendarm esh arr i v ed theY took him to their bar racks, whe re —e was soon perfec tl y recovered. Whenin terrogated'he replied was forced int o a marriae a nd that having been ever since most unhappy ho a that abou t three months befmarriagehad bdetermined to take away his life retured in th o morning rather than live with his wife. lie was afterwards put to bed and told t o compose himse lf ' but when the gendarmes t h e y found that ho had again hanged himself by his braces to an upp er bar of the wi ndow, and was quit © d ead. The bo d y w as conveyed to th y Morgue. The deceased is supposed from his language to be a German. MR. BARNES, THE MEMBER FOR BOLTON, has laid out a park of 11 acres in a complete and beautiful man ner, and made a present of it to the local board at Faro worth, near Bolton, "for the free use and recreative en joyment of the inhabitants of the diltrict." The value of this present ie estimated at £13,000, LITERATURE, The Story of the Gune. By Sir James Emerson Tennent, K,C.S., F.R.S., &e, Longman and Co. Had not the fame of Sir E. Tennent been long ago established in the literary world, his Story of the Guns would certainly have brought his name prominently before the public, not so much on account of the intrinsic worth of the production, which is in reality only a careful compilation of statistics, as from the acri mony with which he has been assailed in many quarters for having simply told the truth. He states in his preface that having held a commission as an officer of artillery i n a foreign service during a time of war, he net 7 .l - eally takes a great interest in the controversy whie, nas been going on for the last few years relative to the guns of rival inventors. It has been his object int the compilation of this work to give a succinct els' impartial history of the controversy since its correeeencement ; and as far as facts are concerned his bold,est critic may be silent, for throughout the voleane the author has fortified his assertions by continual reference to blue books and other available sources of infor mation. When it is the object of an author to give his reader a clear insight into a subject so little understood ex cept by professional men, it is necessary to enter consider ably into detail. This must, to a certain extent, render a work of this kind tedious, but Sir J. E. Tennent has endea voured as far as possible to obviate this by describing the gradual progress made in the improvement of firearms and artillery since an early period, and also by furnishing inte resting histories of the careers of the two great artillery engineers whose rival claims to supremacy form the subject el the present investigation. It is not our intention to dilate upon the particular forms and constructions of the various guns which from time to time have been brought forward. The Armstrong breechloader, which, from the accuracy of its fire, and the destructive nature of its pro jectiles, was without a rival in 1858, was selected by the committee on rifled cannon, who recommended the imme diate introduction of Mr Armstrong's rifled guns for special service in the field. At this period Mr Whitworth had not taken any steps to construct a gun on any special plan of his own. He had simply yielded to the solicitations of the Government in rifling some brass guns on the hexa gonal principle, which had proved so successful with small arms. At the close of 1858 some cast iron guns which had been rifled by him burst, when he addressed a communicas tion to Lord Panrnure, at that time Secretary of War, ex plaining the causes of the accident, and deprecating the further use of cast iron metal for rifled cannon, and received in answer a letter from the War-office informing him of the determination of the Secretary of State to discontinue further experiments with ordnance rifled on his principle. He then resolved to construct a gun capable of resisting the extra pressure to which rifled cannon are subjected. From that time to the present Mr Whitworth has been diligently engaged in carrying out this determination. Sir William George Armstrong, his crest rival, is a descendant of one of the old border far:di es , and was educated for the law. Unlike many oth:ar gifted men who have been forced from circumstanc P . ' d into uncongenial positions, he applied himself with '.nclustry and success to the legal profession, and was ;or many years a member of one of the principle le g e :. firms of Newcastle. Still he never abandoned the castes which Nature had so unmistakably bestowed, and which had showed themselves even in his childish games. When only five or six years old he used to employ himself in setting a number of spinning wheels in motion by means of weights descending on strings from the top to the bottom of his lather's house, and in making these wheels imitate the grinding of corn, the pumping of water, &c But how ever uncongenial the sphere, or unapt the profession, where there is so strong a bent of the natural genius it is certain to find a vent, and, accordingly, in spite of his living among briefs and parchments until his 37th year, the name of Wm. Armstrong became associated with one of the most remark able mechanical inventions of our time, while he was still practising as a solicitor. He was making an excursion in a mountainous part of Yorkshire about the year 1835, when his attention was drawn to th© waste of power in a stream, which after descending from a considerable height in suc cessive cascades, spent its last remaining strength in turn ing a mill wheel at the foot of a hill, Although the force required was dependent on the height from which the water came, Mr Armstrong remarked that the portion in use was taken from a level which was only a fraction of the full de scent. He perceived the practicability of realising the full power of the fall by conducting the water in an iron pipe, and causing it to act upon suitable machinery below, and applied himself to devising an engine to be worked by water pressure. He pursued the idea first given by the force of mountain streams to the construction of artificial towers in towns, into which water was raised by the steam engine to give it the requisite "head," The result of his casual visit to Yorkshire has been known to the world by the construc tion of the hydraulic crane, whose silent agency produces such marvellous effects. Its immense power has been happily defined by a "Quarterly Reviewer" in these terms—" At the foot of every crane, under the piston of every hoist, at every dockgate, unseen and noiseless, the power lies dor mant, but a woman's hand, applied to a small handle, will set in motion a force sufficient to raise a mass weighing 50 1 or 100 tons, and either to place it in the hold of a ship, or deposit it in any other spot within reach of, the arms of the crane. With equal ease the gates of docks 100 feet in width are opened or shut, and the works of the dockyard done without a stranger being ab:e to perceive what it is that sets everything in motion." Attempts to realise the power of water had indeed been previously made in Hungary as well as in the mines of Cornwall and Saxony, but not only were these efforts unknown to Mr Armstrong, but they were so different from his own method that he retains the unquestionable distinction of this important in vention. So successful did it prove that ho was induced to abandon his profession, and to devote himself exclusively to that line of life for which nature has especially fitted him. In conjunction with some friends he established the Elswick Engine Works, and some years after obtained further dis tinction by the construction of his hydro-electric machine, themost powerful means devised:of producing frictional elec tricity. At an unusually early age he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. After the battle of Inkermann, in which two 18 pounder guns, brought up with great diffi culty, turned the fortune of the day, Mr Armstrong per ceived the importance of giving to field guns th e accuracy and range of the rifle, and removing the impediment of weight by substituting forged for cast iron guns, He re ceived from the Duke of Newcastle a degree of encourage ment not cf ten accorded to inventors, and put together his first wrought gun in the spring of 1855, but ho had still to go through much arduous labour and many tedious experi ments before he considered that ho had attained success. Ho used to make his .first trials at dawn on the sea shore, and afterwards occupied a lonely hut amidst the moors, his targets being placed on the side of a valley, across which he fir©d by night as well as by day, through the assist• ance of en ingenious invention of his own. His first great success was his three pounder breech loader, and afterwards his 12 pounder, which, for accuracy of range at that time (1858), astonished every one. Although ho has succeeded well on the same principle up to 18 and 32 pounders, it is generally admitted that it is in his light guns that the working of his breechloading prin ciple excella all others. Sir William Armstrong has freely admitted recently that for heavy ordnance the breech loading system is a failure, and he has therefore, in the construction, of his RI inch 300 pounders, adopted the muzzle loading principle, cutting the grooves of the rifling in such a manner that the shot enters the gun easily but fits the bore tight in leaving it. This is what is denominated the shunt principle, and whenever the 300-pounder has been tried against armour plated targets at short range, the shot has penetrated. That guns of an enormous size can be constructed upon Sir W. Armstrong's coil principle cannot now be doubted, whoa the results of the late trials of his 600-pounders at Shoeburyness are taken into consideration. Sir William Armstrong, as we have seen, was not brought up to the profession of an engineer, but his natural bias led him to follow that pursuit. Mr Whit worth, on the contrary, is a man of high professional celebrity, in fact he may be reckoned one of the first, if not the first among the mechanical engineers of this court. try. Sir E. Tennent observes that "For this eminence in his profession Mr Whitworth is indebted to a natural aptitude for its cultivation, but mainly to an exhaustive knowledge of its principles and processes, acquired by un conquerable perseverance. Endowed with a taste for me chanics, and with something like an instinct for overcoming difficulties, he developed and disciplined his powers by serving in early life under the ablest masters, Maudslay, Clement, Holtzappfel, and others of the class whose genius and ability have raised mechanical art to its pre sent high rank in England, especially by the improvement of those wonderful self-acting engines which under the name of engine tools are now so extensively used for working in metals, as well as for the production of other machines dependent on accuracy and precision. Mr Whitworth does not belong to the ordinary type of in ventors, quick, versatile, and ingenious, acting from im pulse on apparent inspiration; his productions, on the contrary, are the results of slow and deliberate thought, bringing former observation to bear upon tentative expe riment, and accepting nothing as established till it has undergone proof. Proceeding with a logical severity to rest further operations only on ascertained facts, his pro cess is so strictly inductive, that ho might justly bo desig nated the Bacon of mechanics. For the attainment of perfection it is the belief of Mr Whitworth that the superiority of all machinery is dependent on two eleenents —the power of measuring with unerring precision, and associated with it the faculty of producing a true plane surface that is, ono so absolutely level, that when it is opposed to another of equal truth their contact must be in all parts complete. The Astronomer Royal, Mr Airey, in his evidence before a committee of the House of Lords, in 1855, stated that the degree to which Mr Whitworth had succeeded in making perfect the planing of surfaces was entirely unknown before his time.' To such a pitch of excellence has he brought it by a process peculiar to himself, that a plate of metal prepared by hint when opposed to the face of another similarly treated, exhibits a contact so intimate as Ito enable the operator to lift the under one with it, as if by its actual adhesion to the upper, or if less closely applied, so that:the thinnest possible layer Of atmospheric air may still remain between, the upper plate will rest on theunexcluded particles, as if floating on quick silver. With similar devotion to accuracy, Mr Whitworth, in the search for a means of determining dimensions with precision, oonstructel a machine, so accurately and deli cately made as to measure objects which differ even by the millionth part of an inch—a division so minute as to be per ceptible only by touch after it ceased to be discernible by the eye. So nice is the adjustment that in using it an inch of steel can be held to be an inch, only so long as the ther mometer stands at 62 deg, the slightest excess of tempera ture; and the stanaard yard, a square bar of steel, when placed in the machine is so expanded by the slightest touch of the finger as to show an appreciable lengthening even under the iefiluetlce of the infinitesimal amount of heat thlis imparted." It was after England and the continental nations gene rally had awakened to the censciousness of the deficiencies of the old regulation musket, the Minie rifle, the invention of a French noncommissioned officer, attracted universal attention, and Lord Harding°, after has ing consulted with MrWestley Richards, Mr Pure dey and other celebrated gun makers, introduced the Enfield rifle. After various experi ments it was diecovered that although the guns were made upon the same pattern and in all respects alike, no two were alike in their performance or properties. In this strait Lord Liardinge had recourse to Mr 'Whitworth in 1853, requesting him to construct machinery which would enable the workmen to produce guns which should be practically as well as theoretically similar. From this date Mr Whitworth commenced to study the science of gunnery, with what results his success with the rifle musket, and his armour piercing projectile can bear wit ness. It is a curious fact that the three greatest construc tors of artillery in this country, none of them belong pro fessionally to the business. It is true that Mr Whitworth, as a mechanical engineer, when devoting himself to the construction of wrought iron artillery, was, to a certain extent, in his element, but as regards Sir William Arm strong and Captain Blakely, they were unquestionably amateurs. It is not our intention to follow Sir E. Tennent through his protracted review of the details of each step in the progress of the inventions and experiments of the last five years. To those who are really interested in the sub ject, we would rather recommend the perusal of the work itself, The impartial observer cannot fail, when he exa mines the question carefully, to agree with the author, that much valuable time has been lost, and a vast sum of money recklessly expended, through the prejudice and profsssional etiquette of the Ordnance Select Committee. It is no fault of Sir William Armstrong that the committee rejected the claims of all other competitors, because they were desirous of experimenting upon his guns alone. Although SirW, Armstrong was placed in a situation of great delicacy, not to say embarrassment, as a member of the committee when the productions of other inventors were being considered, not a breath of suspicion has ever fallen upon him of using his position to the detriment of other inventors. Sir W. Armstrong, on the contrary, no sooner saw the position in which he stood. then he disarmed censure by cancelling his engagement with the Govern ment, and throwing up his appointment in the Ordnance Department. Independently of all higher considerations we believe that his confidence in the excellence of his own gun led him rather to court than to shun competition. With the other members of the committee it was however far different. Captain Scot says in his evidence before the committee of the House of Commons in 1863, that it is his opinion that the determination to make some plan of Sir William Armstrong's succeed, caused the Ordnance Select Committee to reject or delay all the plans of other inven tors. Again, the Duke of Somerset, in his evidence before the same committee, reluctantly attests the distrust enter tained by inventors generally of the decision of the select ' committee, and says that " many of the inventors used to come to him at the Admiralty, because they did not like the Ordnance Committee at the War-office. And as an illus tration of the difficulties interposed by the system, his grace goes on to state that after witnessing the performance of the Whitworth gun, when it penetrated the armour plates of the Trusty, and " could have sunk her," he says, " with one or two shots," he felt desirous to have some of these guns manufactured, and obtained the concurrence of Lord Herbert, who was then Secretary for War; but the Ordnance Select Committee not having tried or approved of Mr Whitworth's mode of rifling, his attempt was defeated." Five years have passed since the first committee was ap pointed to investigate the relative claims of inventors for the production of suitable artillery for our army and navy. In 1858 Sir W. Armstrong produced a serviceable light field piece. In 1864 a Select Ordnance Committee have commenced in earnest to test the relative merits of heavy guns rifled upon the system adopted in the French canon rays, and those advocated by Mr Lancaster and Comman der Scot—while another committee is still engaged in a protracted series of trials of the 'Whitworth and Armstrong 70-pounders. We trust that the energy thus at last dis played may be carried on until a satisfactory result be at tained. But, why have these long years ,been allowed to pass by and no progress made, when as yet we are unpro vided with efficient guns for the navy. The answer is simply, because the Ordnance Select Committees, like all other Government institutions must do every thing en regle, and it requires public opinion and Parliamentary pressure to move them from the beaten track—and if Sir B. Tennent has in any way promoted the investigation of this matter by the publication of " The Story of the Guns" his labours have not been in vain. Illacaulay'a History of England. People's Edition. Part IX, Longman and Co. The most ambitious of the literary achievements of Lord Macitulay, though by no means to our thinking his masterpiece, is still being most effectu ally popularized by means of this excellent cheap edition of it in a periodical form. Five more of these shilling monthly parts Will complete it. And the work will then take its place upon the bookshelves of the multitude at large, side by side with the companion edition of those Critical and Historical Essays of Lord Macaulay's by which his great reputation is most secure of being perpetuated. A supplementary volume, if not even two supplementary volumes, might then extend the round half dozen, made up by those two volumes of the "Essays" and by these four of the "History" to a seTenth, perhaps even an eighth, volume, comprising the cellaueous" writings the "Lays," and the " Speeches." Already, indeed, the Messrs. Longman have done nobly by the reputation of the greatest of all English Frose Writers, and by that vast multitude of his educated fellow countrymen by whom his resplendent genius is so fully appreciated—the Messrs. Longman have done nobly, we say, both by the great Author and his numerous readers, by the variety of editions in which his works have already, thanks to them, been issued from the press editions, cheap and costly, 16mo„ 8vo„ 4t0., cloth, calf and morocco. Le Correspondent. No. 105. Charles Douniol. As usual, there is apparent in the contents of this always able and often brilliant periodical an espe cial regard on the part of the presiding redacteur, the one entrusted by the management, that is, with the responsibility of selection, there is still here apparent on his part, an especial regard alike to the indivi• dual interest of the themes descanted upon and to their diversity when grouped together. The present livraison, for example, netting forth with a comprehensive and lumi nous chapter, by Francois Lenormant, upon Prince Couza and the Danubian Principalities, comprises within it besides articles as various as—one by L. Villerme on Rural Economy— a masterly contribution by Louis Joubert on Ireland—a very curious,anexceptionally curious, critical sut - voy of the Classical Poets of China—Sauveur Jacquemond's nouvelle of Menichino, and the Abbe Blampignon's sympa thetic review of the Count da Falloux charming gathering together of the exquisite correspondence between Madame Swetchine and the Pere Lacordaire, There are several other papers in the number, not here particularised—papers entitled respectively Jean Reboul, Lea Evenements de Tunis, Lea Vierges do Verdun with Melanges Souvenirs du Govern ment Parliamentaire—this last mentioned by the Count de Menialivet—to say nothing of four minor literary criti cisms of a miscellaneous character, and the customary monthly record of contemporary events. As the penulti mate contribution of the livraison, there is, moreover, it should be here especially mentioned, a rapid bat compre hensive glance at the probable attractions of the forthcom ing Second Congress at Mechlin, otherwise Malines. ECCENTRIC MONUMENT IN THE SAVOY CHURCH, as described by "K.' in the Atheneum.—lt is to be feared that there has perished in this church a monu ment, with an epitaph that has often amused me. The monument, which was rather sumptuous, was erected about 1716, in honour of a merchant, whose name I forget. The sole statement et the epitaph was, that ho had bequeathed £5 to the poor of the Savoy Precinct, and a like sum to the poor of the parish of St. Mary.le-Strand, w hil e a t the side, an d o ccupying about half the breadth of the m ar bl e , th e money was expressed in figures, just as in a page of a ledger with lines single and double, perpendicular and, at the bot tom, horizontal ; the whole being summed up, and in each line two cyphers for shillings and one for pence. The epitaph concluded, " which sum was duly paid by his exe cutors," Though there was nothing hero intentionally ludicrous, yet there yvas much to wake a reader, even in time of service, inwardly smile, The contrast between the pomp of the monument and the smallness of the bequest which, and nothing else, it commemorated, and which it must far have exceeded in cost; the mercantile accuracy of the figured statement, with its eight lines and thirteen figures, and the express addition of what is usually left to be understood,that the bequest was paid, formed altogethet an example of simple quaintness, which it were a pity to allow to pass into complete oblivion. PROGRESS OP SOUTH AUSTRALIA. —The public revenue of South Australia in the year ending the 31st of March, 1865, amounted to £694,545, an increase of £133,515 over the previous year, but £35,000 of the increase appears to be due to a change in the mode of making up the accounts. The exponditure of the year was £675,465, an in crease of £36,312, the chief increase being in immigration charges. The exports of colonial produ ce from South Ans • tralia in th e fi rs t auar t er o f 1864 reached the unprecedented amount of more than £1,000,000, nearly hall of it being in cereal-3, ,Av„ & ni t evrafigr, HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, July 23. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High* news Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Loupe walked and drove in the grounds. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Leiningen, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Brace, Major• General Seymour, and Captain von Westorweller, visited the prison for females at Parkhurst. July 24. The Queen accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday. Major-General Saymour was in attendance. His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse and his Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia went in the Fairy, attended by Baroness Dobeneas Baroness de Granny, and Capt. von %Vesterweller• The Earl of Clarendon arrived on a visit, and bad the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal Divine service was performed to-day at Osborn° by the Rev. G. Prothero. The Queen and royal family attended by th e household, were present. Her Royal H?ghness Princess Helena is on' valesccnt. The Right Hon, Sir E. B. Lytton is now staying at the York Hotel, Margate. The Profits of Blockade-running, The West India and Pacific Company's steamer Saladin, arrived at Liverpool, has, by a casual call at Hamilton, brought much later information from Bermuda than that previously received. The sr' rivals from blockaded ports have been large, being steamers Index (Marshall), from Wilmington, with 803 bales of cotton and 203 boxes of tobacco; Av.. lanta (Horner), from Wilmington, with 536 bales cotton, 155 half tierces and 527 boxes tobacco; Mary Celeste (Ursine), also from Wilmington, with 594 bales cotton and four barrels turpentine' and City of Petersburg (Fuller), also from mingbn, with 810 bales of cotton and 32 hoses of tobacco. The " fleet" had been augmented by the arrival of the new steamers Little Hattie§ from Glasgow, and Virgin, from Cardiff. Th e steamers Lynx and Virgin had sailed from Nassa u en route for Wilmington. The steamer Fannie had arrived with a full cargo from Nassau, and reporte d that yellow fever had broken out at Nassau, an d stringent sanitary regulations were in force. Blockade runners from Nassau were compelled to ride quarantine at Wilmington. Anxiety was fell at Bermuda as to its reaching there, but up to the 15th June no cases had come to light. The Fannie had been the only arrival from Nassau. Perhaps it would be interesting to our readers, and aproP es under this heading, to glance at the following di e : bursement account as an example of the profits of blonkade running. It is guaranteed as the copy 4)f a bona fide account: — One captain per month 5,000 (1 015 ' First officer Second officer Third officer l6O One boatswain l6O One carpenter One purser One steward l5O Three assistants .. 180 One cook Two assistants One engineer and three assistants 3,500 Twelve firemen and coalheavers 2,400 240 tons of coal Rations for crew Oil, tallow, and packing .. Stevedores Pilotage out and in insurance 3,500 Wear and tear Incidental expenses Interest 875 Risks (25 per cent) 37,500 Provisions for passengers 3,000 80,26 a dols. Against this enormous expenditure we have on the cred it side the following as the earnings :- 800 bake of cotton for Government 40,000 do ts ' 800 bales of cotton for owners Return freight for Government Return freight for owners Passengers d°' 172,0 00 114 . f Which will leave a monthly profit of 21,735 dole.; an d successful will, in five trips, clear the cost of the stcsoler Liverpool Courier, GREAT FIRE AT - WRIGHT'S DISTILLERY. --AbO nt six o clock this (Monday) morning the inhabita n t° , of Aldersgate-street were thrown into a frigh tfi ! state of excitement owing to the sudden outbreak of at e " ' tensive conflagration in the well-known distillery belo ar ing to Messrs. John Reid Wright and Co., carrying' en business at No. 26, in the before-named theroughl' ar , The building, or rather buildings, forming the prow cover an immense space of ground, and form e d three ei ci A e : of a square, the counting-houses being on the north A l `"" of the yard, The flames commenced in the still-house , '— the north side of the buildings, in the following manner''' f Whilst the men were at work they dropped a quantit y 0 spirits on the floor, and whilst mopping the same up , tile ? trod upon a lucifer match or fusee, which, igniting, s et t—° spirits in a blaze. The men tried all they could to e%tin° guish the fire but without success, and owing to the 1 0° ' 111 / 9 * able nature of the stock the flames speedily took a eW t s round the distillery, so that at one time it was feared 1,1 ' 02 the whole plant would have been destroyed. Theilaud ta co b engines by Shand and Mason, the Princess 110Yal hio Roberts, and nearly a dozen manual power engines of London brigade under the prsonal superintendence of C " 0 Shaw and foreman Bridges, J. Gerrard, and other officier attended in the course of a few minutes. ForMna t Weston the turncook, was on the beat at the time, and s 36 " Mr. Sheppard, the foreman to the New:River Company,c ons: sequently not a moment was lost in obtaining en ooP _water from the mains to supply the whole of the e ogi 13e :: and it soon became manifest that the firemen would. able to save many thousand pounds worth of pt 0 13°1 tue ; which at first was greatly endangered. By noon the flu were entirely extinguished, but the roof of the di stillel was burned off, a great portion of the spirits d esttoy 0) 47 4 the machinery damaged. The storehouses and se ver al v ot the vats were saved, so that the business of the grin be retarded to a serious extent. The counting '4 lo u se 11. much damaged, but the books were all saved. Un An Englishman named Harper, aged 2:3, Vias Saturday tried by the Tribunal of Cor r tectioll e ,' Police on a charge of picking a lady's pocket of he r Pilf:,, containing 105 francs. A police agent stated the t on t'''' 25th April last he was on duty at the Northern It ' , li i , lvit4 , l station, when ho perceived the prisoner with another P h il e '; lishman trying the pockets of several persons, bu t committed no act glaring enough for him to take th 0 112 iji -t , custody, and he saw them afterwards leave by th 0 t r- h e as he supposed, for England. Three days attewe ids .- was was surprised at seeing the prisoner near the c l ' o b l e bus station of the Tour Saint Jacques, an 1 t he served him carrying on the same manoeuvres anew iei lg . , e t crowd assembled there. The prisoner afterwards %%1., to the Palais Royal station, where he recommence $ (1 '- operations, and at that place the policeman. caug ht Llir ° ilo flagranic delicto, and arrested him. The , prieonert Asfee stated that he did not understand a word of French, h 0 hie interpreter assigned him, and in his defend 3 said that 70 object in moving about among the crowd at the Tour 31 tr , Jacques and the Palais Royal was to find ain omnibus, re take him to the Madeline. He admitted tea t when 1 0 ,' ° 4 1 the Commissary of Police he had confuse d that 1 10 4 - 0 made attempts to pick the pockets of some e tersonsf b ti . :o. declared that nothing was then said about that rubbery "4-1,0 which he was now charged. He said that wl to aho lef t hie Northern Station he only went as far as Chan t; Ily wi tb "1 1 0 companion, and returned to Paris the next day... .I h ° e /e1:11 , 0 %- who had lost the purse having positively identi fled t l ' fi r e d saner, he was condemned to five years' impriso , sEa cil ,l,. to afterwards remai n un d er th e sur veillance of th 0 P' n 1 ' .... A WITTY SAYING (authorship Unkil oWn ' i r e Most of the shadow s th a t cross our path through lifo caused by standinz in our own light. n i 0 9 A CAPITAL ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON A' - T, ' is THE LATE LORD ELGIN.—" After all," said " -° .,, ti ot Napoleon, Emperor of the French, to Lord Elgin , s . c 0 and Viceroy Elect, " I think I have done something 6 . ; d , 1 saw you in London. Russia defeated, 'tall been Paris rebuilt, the Revolution bridlked, something l' at3 -tech accomplished ." "Your Majesty,"—said the polite so tal a man,—we tell the story (says the ,spectator) as it W.° 00 to uc, the scene was dinner at St. Cloud,—“ e er gete tua greatest of your aehievements." "Eh! w hat is that; a greatest?" "Your Majesty has mad e of the 13g11.5 military nation, R na c ti , o E n,; IFICtiTES. In the year entl oa A tb t e o 31st March, the duty cn game certis c atci amounts ,. 2130,102,