The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-26 00:00:00

NONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a good inquiry for money in the dis- count market, the preparations for the settlements at the Stock Exchange exerting some influence, and 3i to 4 per cent, are the rates for the last three months' bills. About £148,000 in gold. was taken into the Bank yesterday. The amount of specie to be taken ont by the Eilora, which leaves on the 27th inst. for Bombay, is only £18,350. The weekly return issued from the Bank of Eng land yesterday exhibits same satisfactory changes. The bullion has been materially increased through the late arrivals of Australian gold, while large ad ditions have been made to the reserve of notes. There has been no large augmentation in the other securities, although the demand for discount busi ness has been rather active. Annexed is our usual analysis : Active Circulation .. Decrease .. Bullion Increase .. Rest .. • • Increase .. • . Public Deposits .. Increase .. Other Deposits.. .. Decrease Seven Day and other Bills Increase Government Securities Other Securities Increase .. Notes Unemployed .. Increase .. •• £19,985,990 • • 147,060 .. 15,026,118 • • 175,962 3,167,863 8,868 ▪ 10,279.053 .. 396,918 .. 13,809,996 Os 94,510 • 538,675 17,252 .. 11,251,395 No alteration. .. 21,408,064 5,506 • 8,789,500 SO 311,345 During the last few days there has been rather 'tore activity in tl.e markets for foreign and colo nial produce. A rather large business has been done in sugar at fully previous rates. Coffee, how- ever, held at slightly reduced prices, while mode rate dealings have been recorded in tea and rice, Without any material change as regards values. Saltpetre is held for higher rates, while a more active demand has been experienced for tallow in all positions. Two o'CLocK. At a special general meeting of the shareholders of the London and Brazilian Bank to-day, Mr. J. W. Cater in the chair, the resolutions passed at the previous meeting relative to the distribution of new shares, among the proprietors of the Anglo- Portuguese Bank, were confirmed. At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were very flat, at 68f. 32c. 68c. 30f. The English Stock market, while presenting no change in quotations, exhibits a dull and heavy ap pearance. The Funds remain,' at the prices at Which they closed last evening, but a depressing ltrindency is nevertheless apparent in the desire :manifested both by the members of the house and the public to effect sales rather than purchases. The anxiety thus shown is no doubt greatly attri butable to the incertitude regarding continental affairs. Consols are 911- for money, and 918 92 for the account. Very few dealings have taken place in the New Threes and Redaced Annuities, which are about 918 1; India Stocks firmly support their former values, the 5 per Cent. Loan is 108 I ; and the 5 per Cents. Enfaced Paper 1071 ; Exchequer Bills are steady at 45. dis. to par. A further downward movement has taken place in most of the Foreign Securities, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents. , 1862 , are 70 a ; ditto Consolides, 491 a ; Mexican, 368 3 3 ; Greek, 341 a ; ditto, Coupons, 151 161 ; Spanish Passive, 331 ; ditto Certificates, 114 12; Italian, 724 2 ; Egyptian, 100 k 101; Portuguese, 494 4 ; the New Venezuelan Loan, 14 to 4 dis. ; and the Confederate Loan, 2 to 1 dis. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been extremely limited, and the few bargains en tered into have been at slightly reduced rates. Great Eastern, Great Western, and North Western have each declined about ss. ; while North Eastern (Berwick) have improved 55., For the Foreign and Colonial lines previous prices are barely sustained. _ _ The operations in Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been to an average extent. Bank of Austral asia have improved to 74, and Union of Australia to 564. Imperial Ottoman Bank have declined to 171, Bank of Egypt to 271, and Union of London to 362; Peninsular and Oriental Steam have im proved to 771. International Financial Shares are quoted 4-I to 5 prem. ; London Financial ditto, 11 to 2* prem. ; General Credit Company, 11 to 11 Prem.; and Egyptian Trading Co. 11 to 18 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. 2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll & 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll i New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll I India Stock — Ditto 5 per Cent lOBl 8 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. Ditto 5 per Cent lO7l Consols for Account, July 9 9li 2 Maren I June P. achequer Bills, :tl,OOO 21 per Cent 1 dis 4 dis Ditto X5OO Ditto Small par 3 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK, Brazilian 5 per Cent • Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 squador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l6l Egyptian 7 per Cent lOOl 1 Ditto, Second Issue Griaek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account Ditto Coupons l6 151 Xexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 36k 6 i 61 IsTew Granada l5l Ditto Deferred 9l Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 'itto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Aocounx... .. 49i i Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sardinian. 5 per Cent .. Ditto Account .. 89 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred .. Ditto Account 1 7D'Itto Passive riitto Account 33A i I 1 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account l2 k 111 `Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7oi 691 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Litto Account 7Ol 1 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 26 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account 721 A A TWO O'CLOCK. Censols t Money _Ditto Account 9ll 2 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Sales of the week, 32,260 bales, including 1,740 on speculation, and 10,460 for exportation. Quo tations of fair Orleans, 24 ; Mobile, 231 ; Upland, 23 ; Estimated Middling Orleans 211; Mobile, 21 ; Upland, 201-, ; Estimated fair Egyptian, 21. Stock 362,4000 bales. Actual export, 9,436 bales. Surats, 11 to 191. Imports of .the week, 32,869 bales, SHIPPING —This Day. LONDON, June 26.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather. PORTSMODTH, June 25.—Sailed —Her Majesty's ship Racoon, for Dundee. PLYMOUTH, June 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Berk shire, from Liverpool for St. Thomas, leaky ; Adamant, from, London for Adelaide. KINGROAD, June 23.—Arrived—Ostrich, from Bar badoes ; Elizabeth, from Trinidad. CARDIFF, June 2 5.—Sailed—Bear, for Rio Janeiro; Leoit z, for Newport. FALMOUTH, June 25,—Wind for Table 13,..y. MUMBLES, June 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chilian Packet, from Coquimbo. NzwroßF, June 25.—Arrived — City of Montreal, from London for New York. CLYDE, June 25.—Wind S.W. — Arrived—Mathilda from Trinidad de Cuba. OFF QUEENSTOWN, June 25.—Arrived—Jolly, from Alonte Video. Rival companies of Americans and Italians have settled on Farralone Island, in the Pacific, 30 miles west of San Francisco, for the purpose of collecting valuable bird's eggs there, A desperate fight recently took place between the rival companies, in which many individuals were mor tally wounded. SHARE MAR KET S---This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh3. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val, Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall if ll tip c.p an.l) as Do A Lrets diN Do. B Ft been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Ittun ~Perth,& A b. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. l l Glasg. and S. Western.l Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern.. Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland Great Western ...• • • • • I LaDnocaSsthri€ e Val Caa- erg rk London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast o Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western M Do I shares... ...... . a a r n y"p S o i rt ie f a . Lincoln Carli M Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birening. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line 'North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. .Eastern—Berwich Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E. Aber. stock Do Scot 'Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. Stockton 44 Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.itit West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH I SSESSIONS. Closing ;hart Railways Paid. Price. liminess don, 100 %.t1 antic X. t Lawrencr all 19 61 itk 5 13om.,Baroda&.Cent Inc (tor 109 110 109 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares. 204 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 51 61 10 Do. Preference 100 / Butralo,Brant,&Godriell p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 • iOu Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 18:4 100 st Clcutta.& Eastn. (Lip ) 100 108 109 st Cape Town Jz Dock Scril 100 1095 1105 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. 6p, c 100 111 1 2 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 10 0 1095 1105 110 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 15 15p 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada: iuo 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds ^.ll 73 75 100 Do. co. deferred all 57 60 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 61 65 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 63 60 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 35 37 100 Do. 4th Pref. sio . k all 26 30 27 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 25 stock Gt.lnchaPenin.gua.sp.c lOO 1105 1101 1101 10 2 0 Do. New gua. sp. 0 l2 1 2 20 Do. January, 1862.. 8 1 14t stock Gt. South.of India(Lim, guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1085 1095 205 Gt. W. ot Canada Shares all 114 01 111 4 205 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt all 9? 100 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 4 p stock Madras guar., sp. o. stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 102 103 1024 stock De. 4s do lOO 09 101 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stock Melb.Corp. np. o. Buds 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 51 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. alt 20 Newßr unswick Cand, Class A and B .. all 3 N. Itl.C'dao pc Ist pt hds 100 84 86 stock Scinde (100 111 112 st 5 Do. Delhi . ;4l 100 108 109 / Do. do t 2 20 Do. Punjaub 15 15 15 (, st Do. Du. f i g, 100 1107 s 10 84 ock Do. lndus.St. Flo.) 00',. 1105 107 COLONIAL GOVERNMENiI SECU TI Es. p.c.Ja. 3;.11113 1877-84 Do. ap. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 its 07 I Do. p. o. Mar. & Sept. 100 105 107 1055 Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 100 98 99 974 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 96 98 ICape G.Hope, 6 p 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114 Do. 189, 100 113 115 , Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 115 117 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 0p c 10u 113 115 Mau , itius 6 per cent .. 100 110 112 1105 ,Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 169 111 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.d a.3tJ uly lOU 108 109 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oco. 100 - 'N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 18 , 100 1025 103 I Do. 5 p.c.,18/. to 1 ~t 100 103 104' - , Do. d0.,1888 ckupwdti 100 100 105 1045 4 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 112 114 ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 108 109 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1;3 115 'S. Aus G6p.c.1673.& up.. 100 113 115 -vie. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 110 112 Do. to 6 p.c. A.n.&00t.. 100 1115 1111 1111 ISIAITI Sll MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 id (I,lfilord Amalgamated.. 23 25 Devon G. Con.. ,"Tavist., 1 635 645 East Bassett (1 llogan).. 30 775 625 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd., 51. 4d ip East Caradon 11.14.0 264 275 28 71 East Carn Brea. 1 3.4.0 71 - , WlRussel (Tavistk ,1 8./.6 Of 35 35 iGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen )1 57# 8 1.1 mat South Tolgus 1 17s 45 5 ~J . Wheal Voralelston 40 6s 7 'Grenville .. I 0.16. t 6,/ licrod's-Foot 8.12 41 03 tiingston Downs 4.17.0 25 3 , Lady Bertha —.Margaret (Cny Lelact 95 34 36 I Nlarke Valley.. 4 'llyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 21 (1 New Setun l9l 110 120 North Downs 2f 14 2 N.WII I I Basset (111o4an 2.17.0 35 4 North Wheal Crotty ( Par Consols (Zit. Blaney' 15 4 s 20 litovidence(UnyLelnt.; 10.6.7 s 2 44 ;South Caradon(St.Cleer, 15 405 415 IS. Cann Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 24 3 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 13.1t-.9 75 80 (Stray Park 1 famar Silv.& Lead Min. 45 1 ;fin Croft 2O 2t West Basset (Mogan)" 15 12 13 ' W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 24 26 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan ) 55 675 724 heal Buller(Redruth) 5 50 t(0 ( Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - WhealLulott - IWheal Mary Ann (11en )1 8 14 10 (Wheal Seton .l 585 230 24 0 _ v,'heal Tretawney (Lis.)l 7 14 16 IWheal Union I 3.17 I 35 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 141 South Eastern ((-wading Anns., 41.0.0), Ditto, 4• per cent., 04 South Eastern fixed 44 per cent., 1014 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, tc., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 10/ LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. Midland, Bradford pref. stock, 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Great Luxembourg, 141 14 A amur and Liege gua. 141. per annum, 9 FOREIGN MINES. Alamillos, limited, 1 1 Cobre Copper, 281 8 Fortuna (lim.), 46 Mont. Aureoc , liraz. Gold Min. Co. ( um.), 21 Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lim.), St. John del Rey (lim.), 56 United Mexican (Hui.), 6. 7 Yudananiuta,na of S. Australia (lim.), 371 I Alliance Bank of Anglo Portuguese aim.), 71 JLOoInNdoTn-SaTndOCLlCive7pAoNolK(Su.m.), 34i Australasia, 761 Ditto, new, 31 Bank of Egypt, 271 Bank of London, 127 t Bank ol Queensland (lim), S Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 281 English, Sco ch, and Australian Chartered, 231 Imperial Ottoman, 18/ 171 161 171 London and Brazilian 'Jim.), 116 London Joint Stock, 371 London and South African, 25 6 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 181 Provincial of Ireland, Ditto, new, 36 Union of Australia, V/ Union of London, 361 MISCELLANEOUS, Australian Agricultural, 22 Berlin Water Works, lim., Electric Telegraph, 105 International Financial Society, lim., 71 1 1 1 Joint stock Discount, 4 Oriental Inland Steam, Rm., 5 Peninsula and 0 , iental Steam, 77/ Ditto, new, 471 8 S. African Irrigation Investment (lim.); 41 RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA MENT,—Yesterday the committee of the Commons threw out the bill for the Blackburn, Chorley, and Wigan Rail way, which had been previously passed by the committee of the Lords. In the Lords the case of the Bradford, Wake field, and Leeds was opened by Mr. Phinn ; and the bill of the London, Brighton, and South Coast was passed without opposition. The following bills were passed in Lord Redes dale's committee :—Leominster and Kington Railway ; Mid Kent Railway ; West Shropshire Mineral ; Hemel Hemp sted and London and North-Western; London and Brighton new line at Crucial) ; and Ogmore Railways. In Mr. Massey's committee the following were passed :—Watford and Rickmansworth • DulasValley Railway; Okehampton and Lidford ; and Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenuy Railway. LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day, COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the J nip Ordinary.) RIDGWAY V. ABINGDON AND OTHERS. Mr. M. Chambers resumed his address on the part of Mr. Ridgway, and contended that the evi. deuce that had been adduced bore out, in every par ticular, the statement he had made, that for two months previous to his death, Mr. Mayer was in a state totally incompetent to make a will. Not one independent person had been produced who could give any evidence of the state of Mr. Mayer for a short time previous to his death, and under all the circumstances they (the jury) would be of opinion that the codicil to the will of Mr. ➢layer had not been proved. The jur3 had not returned their verdict when we went to press. 8 8i 8i 81 85 87 1171 1181 6 6i 40 41 14i .5i 93 94 109 111 521. S 3& 49 51 241 25 1271 1:_8;, 120 1%0 ' 131 13(1 101 103 65; (6 1114 1111 744 754 118 120 43 44 1016 102 105 IQ6 454 464 111 1? 1271 1281 14 Itp 07 99 511 521 241 25 1021 10311 ssi 50i 89f 001 116 118 1i 111 , 16 164 11/ 12i 120 122 95 f 64 99 101 50 52 32 33 911 tl2 69 71 100 102 7 8 .'!81 39/ 10 11 0, 8 81 153 156 51 51 3 31 78 82 150 160 28 30 46 47 39 41 103 105 1111 1011 1 1 1051 11; Iz7; ; 14 ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1863. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) DICKSON V. LORD COMBERMERE AND EARL OF WILTON. The further hearing of this protracted case was resumed this morning by the examination of Colonel North ; but the evidence of the gallant officer was merely a repetition of the observations of the learned gentlemen who appeared lor the noble defendants. At the conclusion of tho examination of witnesses, Mr. Bovill, Q,C., for the defence, replied upon the evi dence produced, and was addressing the court when we went to press. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn•) IN RE SPRINGBETT. This case was set down for a release from custody, but it transpired that the bankrupt had not filed the accounts required by the Act within three days after the filing of the petition, which was, therefore, dismissed. An application was now made for costs on behalf of the opposing creditors. His Honour said he could not perceive how he could make any order for costs. To whom were they to be paid, the petition being dismissed. The bankrupt had paid the costs. The solicitor submitted that a creditor coming to oppose should be entitled to claim costs. His Honour said that he had no power to award costs. LORD MAYOR'S COURT. (Before the Recorder and a Jury.) CURIOUS FHASR IN THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP.-VAN- DE WALL V, ANNEVELD. This was an action to recover £2O upon an 1.0. U. Mr. Henry James (instructed by Mr. Pearce, of Giltapur street) appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Joyce (instructed by Mr. Peckham) represented defendant. The plain tiff lent the defendant £2O, and received ah 1.0. U. for it. Subsequently the plaintiff and defendant entered into partnership and traded fur a short time. A dissolution followed, and then plaintiff applied for his £2O. It was alleged by defendant that he had purchased goods with the £2O and brought them into the business, but plaintiff denied that he money had been considered as coming into the accounts of the firm. Mr. James said that, as a rule, partnership disputes were settled by the Court of Chancery, but here the money was lent prior to the partnership, and although subsequent joint dealing had gone on it was competent for plaintiff to sue. His Lordship having summed up, the jury found for plaintiff. THE LATE "IRON TIMES."-FOLLET V. BOLT. This was an action against the late editor of the late Iron Times, and Mr, Daley, for the plaintiff, said that it the plaintiff got his judgment it would be the only satisfaction that he, in all probability, would receive. (Laughter.) The jury found for the plaintiff. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. IMPERIAL P HOUSE OF COMMONS.---This Day. The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. FUBLIC WORKS MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS (ADVANCES) BILL. Mr. VILLIERS brought up the report on this bill. Mr. BENTICK expressed a hope that the security the right hon. gentleman proposed to offer was of a valid and substantial character, and that there was a reasonable pros pect of the money finding its way back in due time into the public purse. He did not consider that emigration was the only remedy for the present distress, but he hoped it was not true that the manufacturers were opposed to it on the selfish g round that they might require the labour. He trusted that the right hon, gentleman would explain the views of the Government on the point. Mr. ASPINAL TURNER denied the common rumour that the mihowners had made large fortunes out of the pre. sent crisis. Many persons, clergymen as well as others, foreseeing the failure in the supply of cotton, had treasured it up, and thus made considerable sums of money. Mr. FE RRAND denounced the bill as a miserable one, and one which would never meet the exigencies of the case, It was in very truth a manufacturer's bill, a bill drawn up by the manufacturers of Lancashire, while the interests of the working people had never been consulted. He recom mended arrangements for sending 100,000 of our unem ployed factory operatives to the colonies. Such a course must be taken, it was a question of time. He be. lieved the operatives would not be quiet another winter. The 400,000 unemployed people were tired of being paupers, and looked confidently, and, indeed, as they had an un doubted right, to the Reuse of Commons for relief—a million or so out of the many which they had been instru mental in adding to the many millions of the wealth of the country, and of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer boasted the other night, in order to place them in compara tive comfort in the colonies. The great advocate of free trade, the honourable member for Wolverhampton, (Mr. Villiers) and the hon. member for Rochdale (Mr. Cobden) contended before its advent that its adoption would enable the people of this country to meet successfully every contingency that might happen ; but it had fallen to pieces like a pack of cards for it had proved of no avail in the present emergency. It was said that this was au excep tional case, that being so exceptional alleviating remedies were required. What guarantee had they that it' peace were made between the North and South that it wculd last. Was not the war in Italy an exceptional state of things, though he could name many others. The fact was, the manufacturers wanted to keep the unemployed workpeople hanging about the mills in case they should happen to need them, The cpinion of the best informed was to the effect that it was utterly impossible to restore the cotton trade, even in the most favourable circumstances, for two or three Sears. Ho implored the house to accede to the prayers of the opera tives, and would give them the means of emigrating. [LEFT SITTING.] MARLBOROUGH-STREET. IHPUDENT CASE OF SHOPLIFTING --Ann Gill, a re spectably dressed man, but who gave a false address, was charged before Mr. Knox as follows :-- Mr. Alfred Thomas Waterfield, of No. 1, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, dealer in clothes, &c., said that yes terday evening the prisoner and a man, whom she repre sented as her husband, came to his shop. The man looked at about a dozen pairs of trousers, and tried on about 20 coats, but none would suit his taste. While he had gone to get a tape measure, the parties both left his shop, and so had a pair of trousers too. He then went off to the neighbouring pawnbroker's, and shortly after was sent for by a pawnbroker named Smith, who had detained the pri soner on her offering the trousers in pledge. The prisoner then asked him if he meant to prosecute her, and on his teller her that he did, she said, " Then, old jelly-belly, I hope you will be found dead in your bed to-morrow morn ing." (Mr. Waterfield is a rather portly man.) Prisoner pleaded guilty, and wished the case dealt with by the magistrate, Mr. Knox said it was a very impudent case of shoplift ing, and he believed that she was an old hand. Committed for six months, with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. CHARGE OF STEALING A GOLD WATCH AT CREMORNE. —Harriet Hydemony, a French woman, at 9, Bell-lane, Spitalfields, dressmaker, and Elizabeth Cautmar, of Mid dlesex-street, Whitechapel, were placed at the bar before Mr. Selfe on a charge of stealing a gold watch and chain, the property of Mr. Phillip, 10, John-street, Berkeley square. The prosecutor stated that about 11 o'clock last night he and another gentleman, were at Cremorne Gardens, in a box drinking coffee, when the prisoners came into it and forced themselves into their company. Prosecutor wished them to leave the box ; they did not do so, when in a few minutes prosecutor and his friend left the box. When near the circus in the garden, he put his hand in his watch pocket in order to know what time it was, when he found his chain hanging down. He immediately suspected that the prisoners had stolen the watch, when he gave informa tion to the police. Mr. Selfe—ls the watch found ? Prosecutor—lt is not. It is worth, with the part of chain lost, about £l7. By Mr. Selfe—l had no conversation with the prisoners except to tell them to go away. I offered them a shilling if they would leave the box. One of the prisoners stated that the prosecutor offered them a sovereign if they would give the watch back. The prosecutor remarked that the watch was valued by him, and he knew he had done wrong by making the offer while she was in custody. Sergeant Ager, 37 B, who took in custody the prisoner Hydemony, said that he found upon her a purse, in which was a shilling. Another constable found a go . .d watch and chain on the other prisoner. They were both remanded. THAMES. DARING ROBBERY IN THE LONDON DOGS,—A well known and active thief, named M'Carthy, was brought be fore Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a silver watch and chain, valued at X 5, from the ship Emmelina, in the Londoß Dock. Yesterday afternoon, a day watchman named Davis saw the prisoner looking over the quarter of a ship called the Emmelina, in the London Dock, and soon afterwards ob served another man on board hand a watch to the prisoner, who put it in his pocket. Soon afterwards the two thieves advanced towards the gate where Davis was stationed, and he stopped both, and asked the prisoner if he had got any thing about him which did not belong to him. The prisoner said he had not, on which, the watchman said, " Yes, you have ; there is a chain hanging out of your pocket." Davis then seized the prisoner, who made a violent resistance, and threw the watchman on some casks. He then ran away and jumped down a loop hole leading to a wine vault, where he threw away a watch. It was recovered by a cooper and delivered to the watchman. Mr. Alexander Brown, chief officer of the Emmelina, identified the watch. It was stolen from a chest on the top of some linen. Cox, a police. sergeant, No. 45 K, said the prisoner was the most notorious thief in the district, and had been re peatedly in cuatody. Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial. ALHAMBRA PALACE. With a view no doubt to vary the entertainments at this attractive place of amusement, Mr. Wilde has made a beautiful addition by introducing a very splendid semi scientific exhibition, called " The Fairy Fountain." Som years ago we recollect seeing something of the same kind at this very place, when it was called the Panopticon of Science and Art, and the wonder is that it has never been re-introduced, as it was one of the most effective and splendid experiments ever presented to the public. To Mr. Wilde, however, belongs the praise, and we trust the profit of resuscitating the Prismatic Fountain, as it was then called, and he is thus enabled to vary his entertainment in a most agreeable manner. The building previous to the exhibition of the fountain is darkened, and then from a crystal basin, in the centre of the stage, springs a beautiful fountain, assuming, alternately, every colour of the rain bow. At one time it has the appearance of liquid silver then a bright emerald green, next a delicately-tinted mauve colour follows, a brilliant blue succeeds ; but the most gorgeous of all is the transformation to a splendid ruby tint. The effect is produced by the water reflecting the light thrown upon it by a kind of magic lanthorn, the colours being produced by glasses of the hues we have men tioned being placed between the light and the foun tain, The applause of the audience was something extraordinary, and the success of the new experiment will doubtless encourage Mr. Wilde to seek for further novelties of a scientific description. As soon as the beauties of the Fairy Fountain become generally known, all London will flock to witness the truly splendid exhi bition. Canada is just now convulsed by the Elections for members to the new Parliament. The different parties are classified as reformers, liberals, conservatives, clear grits, and corruptionif3no.—Canadian paper. Bank of England Return---Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 24th day of, June, 1863 : /SRITF. DE , Notcs issued ----EMMA%) Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3,634J , 00 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,126,490 Silver Bullion .... £28,776,4901 ARTMENT. BANKING D oprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis mi ssioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- £28,776,490 counts) 10,279.053 Other Deposits 13,809,996 Seven Day and other Bills 538,675 £42,318,5,7 M. EPARTLIENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead WeightAn nuii)9 £11,251,35 Other Securities 21,408,064 Notes Gold and Silver 899,628 Coin June 25, 1863. £42,348,587 :ARSHALL, Chief Cashier. The Empress Eugenie has just given to a new variety of rose exhibited at Fontainebleau flower show tb distinction of " Rose de Puebla." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111. A MAN OF LAST•- ING FRIENDSHIPS.—Whether M. de Persigny lives in Paris or enjoys an agreeable exile as Ambassador to London or St. Petersburg, says the limes of this morning, he will always be the friend of a man whose friendships are as deep and energetic as his other feelings. NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH AT CHATHAM.-A new Catholic Church was opened for divine service yesterday, by the Right Rev. Dr. Grant, Catholic bishop. The church stands near the station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and though its external ap pearance is plain, being almost all brick, the interior is handsome. The nave is 100 feet long by 50 feet wide— there are a centre and two side aisles and two lofty arcades of five arches each. The architect is Mr. Clutton. The mass sung yeaterday was that of Mexart, No. 12, with Zinga rell's " Lauiiate." There was full orchestral accompani ment. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Man ning, who stated in his discourse that the Catholics of Chatham had only one very humble place of worship, but that there was reason to expect (now that so important a step had been taken) that there would be another opened before long, for the Catholics of the three towns numbered more than 3,000. PRIVY COUNCIL.—The Rev. W. Long v. the Bishop of Cape Town.— Lord Kingadown gave judgment in this case yesterday, on appeal from the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope, by whose deci sion Mr. Long had been suspended from the functions of his office as minister of Mowbray. In 1856 the Bishop of Cape Town held a synod, by which it was enacted that no clergyman should be admitted to a living except sub mission to the laws of the synod. Mr. Long protested against such a pr• ceeding, and in 1861 a second synod was held, and as he still refused to obey its orders a court of assessors was held, and he was deprived of his office. He applied to the Supreme Court, but the decision was affirmed, and from this declaration he appealed to the Privy Council. Their lordships yesterday considered the whole of the proceedings of the Bishop's Court illegal. The appeal was allowed with costs against the bishop. CRIME IN ,FRANCE.—The Court of Assize of the Lozere has just tried a young woman named Marie Vidal on a charge of having attempted to murder another young person named Rose Beaufils, residing at 8, St. Sauveur-de-Peyre, by firing a loaded pistol at her head. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who is far ad vanced in pregnancy, was seduced during the course of last year by a young man named Brassac, who soon after de serted her, and made offers of marriage to Rose Beaufils, which were accepted, and the contract of marriage was signed on the 25th of January last. As soon as the pri soner saw herself deserted by Brassac she began to meditate projects of vengeance on her rival, and four times attempted to poison her by putting phosphorus, obtained from matches, in her food. As the poison did not take effect, the prisoner determined to have recourse to firearms. She accordingly took a pistol belonging to her brother, loaded it with a mix ture of large and small shot, went to her rival's residence disguised in a carter's cloak, and the moment Rose Beaufils opened the door she discharged the pistol in her face, in flicting wounds which placed the poor girl's life in danger for some days, and entirely destroyed the sight of one eye. Notwithstanding her disguise, the prisoner was recognised and arrested immediately afterwards. On searching her the pistol was found, as well as a bag of mixed shot, corre sponding with those extracted from the wounds of Rose Beaufils, and also a Prayer-book, from which a leaf had been torn as wadding for the pistol. Brassac, who has since refused to carry out the projected marriage, was examined as a witness, and excited the disgust of the audience by his heartless demeanour, for s hich he was severely reprimanded by the President and Public Prosecutor. The jury found the prisoner guilty of wilfully wounding, and the Court condemned her to eight years imprisonment. RUSSIAN SPECULATIONS ON WAR WITH ENGLAND. —We read in the Moscow Gazette:—" All the com merce of England is on the sea. Thirty thousand mer chant vessels convey on the ocean English property which Mr. Cobden estimates 100 to 120 millions sterling. The course which these ships follow in the Atlantic, as well, as on the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, is so well defined, thanks to the indications of Capt. Maury, that it is like a high road. That power which, traversing these parts, should seize English vessels appearing there would deal a terrrible blow at British commerce, and this is what our sailors and vessels of war would be perfectly able to do in case of war with England. A vast field for their activity would then be open to our vessels without presenting any great dangers. The space is such that the pursuit of an enterprising cruiser would be very difficult, and a good captain could destroy scores of cargoes - without having to engage in combat. During the war in the East, after the affair of Petropaulowaki, an American merchant ship, on its arrival at Shanghai, announced that it had been stopped at sea by a Russian frigate, and that it was only released in consequence of its American nationality being proved by the papers on board. The rumour of this affair spread in the commer cial world, and the merchants in the Chinese ports would only entrust their merchandise to American vessels. Hong Kong at once expected an attack from the Russian fleet. Admiral Sir J. Stirling, commanding the English nava force in those regions, was unable to comply with all the demands for escort which were addressed to him. The rumour was, however, false; there was not then a single Russian ship at sea. If a false report led to such a panic, what would be the effect produced by twenty or thirty of our cruisers 'e" LONDON SCOTTISH RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—This regiment will be inspected by the Inspector-General: of Volunteers, Colonel IN.l'Murdo, C. 8,, to-morrow afternoon, at 6 o'clock, in Regent's-park. ELECTION OF A COMMON COUNCILMAN.—Yester day Mr. Figgins wag elected a Common Councilman in the room of Mr. Charles Edward. There was no oppo sition. AQUATICS. HENLEY• ON-THAMES ROYAL REGATTA. The regatta at Henley-on-Thames commenced yesterday. The entry list was the largest ever known since the first establishment of the regatta in 1849, and the attendance of spectators very great, the Great Western Railway autho rities having put on a number of special trains to meet the public convenience. The weather was delightfully fine, and the usual arrangements had been made by the regatta com mittee to accommodate visitors, the rank and fashion of the neighbourhood taking their places on the grand stand and in carriages on the bridge. The sport commenced precisely at half-past 12, and the following are the principal races:— STEWARDS' CHALLENGE CUP-FIRST HEAT. Cambridge, Third Trinity - Cambridge, First 'I rinity . 0 After the first few strokes Third Trinity, who were on the Oxon side, began to come away, and gradually improving their advantage went in front of their adversaries and won easily, SECOND HEAT. Oxford University Boar Club 1 London Rowing Club Both crews started at the same moment, and the London crew immediately came away with a slight lead, but only retained it a few yards, when the Oxonians began to go ahead, and off Remenham began to go away from them, and came into the straight water leading to the bridge a clear length ahead, increasing the advantage by above another half length at the finish. GRAND CHALLENGE CUP-FIRST HEAT Oxford, Brasenose College Cambridge, Trinity Hall K'ngston, Kingston Rowing Club .. 0 This was one of the finest and fastest races ever seen at Henley, and the losers deserve as much credit as the winners. The Oxford crew were on the Berks side, Kingston on the Oxon, and Cambridge in the middle. It was a very fine and even start, and they continued level for about 50 yards, when Brasenose began to show the bow of their boat in front, the others still remaining oar and oar, rowing in fine form and at a clipping pace. So finely were the three crews matched that although Brasenose continued to increase their lead it was only inch by inch. At the end of about 400 yards the Brasenose were about a quarter of a length only ahead. The race was continued with unabated vigour, Brasenose now going more in front, and being a length ahead at the Poplars, where they began to ease slightly. The contest between Cambridge and Kingston was still admirable. Cambridge had made some fine bursts to get away from their adversaries; but they were not to be shaken off, and the gallant effort of the one crew was met by a no less gal lant effort on the part of the other. The Cambridge crew began to show in front as they neared Remenham, and a most determined race was continued to the end. Brasenose won by a length clear, and the Cambridge boat was not clear of the Kingston, only having got about three-quarters of their length ahead. SECOND HEAT. Oxford—University College Cambridge—Third Trinity Cambridge—First Trinity This was another very fine race. The First Trinity had the Berks side, the Third Trinity the Oxon, and the Uni versity were in the centre. They made a capital start, directly after which the First Trinity showed a trifling ad vantage, but were unable to retain it. The University crew then took a slight lead, and were challenged to a fine race by the Third Trinity, which was continued to Remenham without any very marked advantage. There the winners began to go well in front, end at the Poplars began to ease, and won by a couple of lengths ; the third beat was more astern of the second. VISITORS' CHALLENGE CUP. Oxford University Boat Club Cambridge Third Trinity Cambridge First Trinity They started all together, but the winnors shortly after came away from the others, followed by the Third Trinity, the First Trinity gradually falling astern from the begin ning. After passsing Remenham the winners had a nice lead, which they kept, winning by above a boat's length with apparent case towards the finish. THE GOLD CHALLENGE CUP-TRIAL HEAT. Kingston Rowing Club 1 Cambridge Third Trinity .... 0 The race admits of no detail ; the Kingston men came right away from them, and won easily by three or four lengths. DIAMOND CHALLENGE SCULLS-FINAL HEAT. Cambridge—Mr. C. B. Lawes .. 1 Oxford—Mr. W. B. Woodgate The race was, gallantly contested half the distance. Mr. Lawes carne away at a fine pace, with a slight lead, pressed hard to Remenham by Mr. Woodgate, but after that Mr. Lawes left him, and won by three or four lengths. LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE-FIRST HEAT. Eton—Eton College Boat Club Cambridge—Trinity-hall 0 Radley—St, Peter's College It will be seen by the above that the Radley was as light a crew as could be fc r any chance of success. The Etonians, after rowing a couple of hundred yards, began to come away, but the Cambridge men pressed them close, and put on a fine spurt at a quarter of a mile, which brought them up to theta ; but it was only momentary, as the Etonians then dashed right away, and won with comparative ease. Radley worked hard to no effect. LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE-SECOND HEAT. Oxford—Brasenose College Cambridge—Third Trinity They were off at the same moment, and a fine dashing race ensued, oar to oar for nearly half a mile at a fine pace. Brasenose then showing superior power, went away in front and won by nearly two lengths clear. Mr. Lloyd, of the University, Cambridge, was the umpire. PIIGMISK THE CHAMPIONSHIP. RYALL, Or BIRMINGHAM, AND J. MACE,—At length a match has been made, and the necessary articles duly en tered into, for these men to fight for £2OO a side and the champion's belt, which after the memorable contest between Tom King and Jem Mace, when King proved victorious, was returned by King to the keeping of the stakeholder, owing to his not being in a position to defend his title to the same. Since then Mace has repeatedly intimated that he (the affair with the Unknown having ended in smoke), was ready to meet any one who might be ambitious of en tering the lists with him to contend for the highest of pugi listic honours. W. Ryall, the old opponent of Joe Goss, has now come into the field, Mace having also a match pending for £6OO to £4OO with Joe Goss. This event is to come off at the end of September next, and for the purpose of mak ing matters smooth for Jam, the match between himself and Ryall for the championship is made to take place in three months from the day on which Mace meets Goss of Wol verhampton. From this arrangement it will be seen Ryall has a good six months to wait before the arrival of the great day. A deposit of £l5 a side has been staked. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. CHASING BLOCKADZ RIINNERS.—The following is from the pen of an officer on board one of tier Majesty's ships of war on the North American and West India station :—" After a passage of little interest from Matamoras to Havana, which we reached on Tuesday afternoon, we found at anchor in the harbour there a host of merchant vessels as usual, and among them several blockade runners, two of which, the Ruby and Neptune, being ready for sea, were closely watched by the Federal gunboat Sanoma, which was anxious to make a prize of one or both if she could ; but instead of lying out side the harbour, where no one could see her, and where she could pounce down on a vessel just as she came out, she lay up right in the middle of the harbour amongst the shipping. The Sanoma is more of a sloop than a gunboat, very heavily armed, and carries a great num ber of men. She is a paddle, black painted, with two very small masts, schooner rigged. The blockade run ners are small steamers, rather low, and very long, bows like a knife, with one or two lookout posts about 30ft to 4Oft high. They average on a passage 13 knots, and in an emergency can be worked up to 16 or 17. I believe they are painted a dirty stone colour, very difficult to distin guish at sea. It was arranged that the Ruby and Nep tune should both go out together, so as to humbug the Yankee as much as possible. On the same night we got into harbour, just a little before Sunset, the Nep tune let slip her cable, and before the Yankee knew where he was, the little Neptune was clear of the harbour and puffing away like old boots outside. The Sanoma by this time had slipped her moorings ; but she is a long craft, and having but small head sails with little wind, and among a crowd of shipping, she took a long time to get her head slowed round to the entrance of the harbour. This done, she clapped on full speed and came thundering down the harbour; but all this time the Ruby had not been asleep, she slipped her cable, and, to tease the Yankee, hoisted English colours and ran under her stern, dipping her colours three times to her. She then came under our stern and dipped her colours three times to us ; her crew took off their hats and cheered us. She then ran down across the Yankees bows, got into the passage of the harbour, and stopped there on some paltry excuse, and just at this moment a Spanish brigantine under sail got right between the two—so the Sanoma had to go full speed astern to stop her way and pre vent her running down the brigantine , a nd b y the time she got past the Ruby the Neptune was about five miles off the land. When the Sanoma got clear of the entrance she again clapped on full speed after the Neptune. The Ruby steamed out half a mile to watch the Neptune increasing the distance between her stern and the bows of the Yankee, and just as it was getting dark I could barely make out a speck on the horizon from the masthead, while the Sanoma was vainly puffing after her. After dark the Ruby steamed quietly away to the northward. On Thursday morning, as we were steaming out of theharbour, we passed the Sanoma coming in, accompanied by a corvette looking very crest-fallen, returning from the chase without her prize." THE RUSSIANS IN POLAND. The following letter, addressed by a Polish noble. man to an English friend, has been placed in our hands for publication. It gives a terrible picture of the sufferings of the Poles in Volhynia : __ " Volhynia, June 15. "My dear C—,—l sieze the occasion which has just offered of sending a letter across the fron tier (by* post it would be impossible to send one telling of the real state of things here). I write to you probably for the last time, as landed pro prietors who have remained at home with their wives and children are in daily expectation of death. You nay have heard, though it is difficult to believe, to what inhuman means the Russian Go vernment resorts to get rid of all that is Polish or Catholic. They have gladly seized the occasion of fered them by this insurrection to accomplish their long•mcditated plan of .annihilating ail that is not Russian in these provinces. Several months since we were deprived of all arms or weapons of defence ; now, by a Government order, we are informed that we are no longer to expect any kind of protection from them, and that they are not answerable either for our properties or lives. Mean whil e,t he Govern ment officials and the Greek priests do all in their power to put the Greeks against the Catholics ; and Russian soldiers, disguised as peasants, with all the ruffians, who have been let loose from the prisons for this purpose, scour the country, attacking all the country seats on their road where there is a chance of plunder, pillaging, burning, and putting to death all they contain, and destroying whatever comes in their way. The cruelties perpetrated by these bands are incredible; not content with simply putting to death, they invent new tortures every day. They screw their victims with iron screws to the wall, knock their teeth down their throats, tear out their eyes and tongue, and saw living men into pieces; the woman they outrage and then murder, as well as their children. My pen cannot describe to what a fearful death we are every day exposed ; and yet we must not complain, for the committees of inquiry which are sent to ascertain the truth of these atrocities always end by rewarding the perpetrators of them, finding that they had good reason for acting in that way. After the engagements which took place in this neigh bourhood, at Slawzita, Miropol, and other places, the Russians forbade any assistance to be given to the wounded roles, and the more effectually to prevent it, ordered the wounded to be buried with the dead. Our priests are murdered at the feet of our altars while in the act of offi ciating. With all this we have not the right to leave our estates, but are obliged to wait pa tiently the cruel death which will certainly fall to our lot ; for the peasants, in their simplicity, tell us that the Government has informed them that on a certain given day all Catholics, rich and poor alike, are to be exterminated—this being the expectation we now live in. One day, perhaps, those civilised Governments who are now spectators of this bloody tragedy will reproach themselves with not having interfered more energetically; but we are resigned to offer the sacrifice of our lives, if, by the Effusion of so much innocent blood, our unhappy country may one day be delivered from the hands of its barbarous oppressors.—Yours till death, ' " The CORSALETTO DI MEDICI.—In order to ex plain adequately whet the Corsaletto di Medici is, we must follow Clodius a pardonably short distance into the sacred mysteries which he invaded. We know not how it happens that the civilised part of the human race seems always to be in some ridiculous and unaccountable hobble about costume. But, however it may be explained, the weakness is a fact which cannot be denied ; and it is cer tainly incident more to the female, than to the male, section of humanity. The difficulty is now about crinoline, now about a becoming head-dress, and now—with reverence be it spoken—about stays. That the female frame must neces sarily be tightly supported by steel and whalebone, is a maxim which has obtained among English matrons, more or less, for several centuries. Of recent years, the medi cal faculty, seconded by a whole army of sanitary re formers, has begun to lift its voice in earnest azainst the practice. It appears that stays produce every result that is bad, without any balance of advantage whatever. They limit the movements of the trunk, and degrade the condition of the muscles from a firm to a soft and unhealthy state. They further check the circulation of blood through the muscles, by pressing them between their own hard sub stance and the bones of the chest; and the muscles accord ingly become wasted, or, in technical language, atrophied. The heads of the profession cannot be reasonably charged with not having spoken out. One eminent surgeon, heart lessly indifferent to the feelings of his fair, and still impri soned, patients, grimly points to the "wasted leg of the mendicant" as an instance of the effect of pressure, assur ing them that that leg, "through tight bandaging alone, can be reduced to the condition which excites our commis seration." Cruveilhier will only allow a small percentage of the sex to be " free from some deformity of the liver, con sequent on the use of tight and unyielding corsets." And Erasmus Wilson asks the point-blank question concerning the same article of dress—" If we wished to produce curved spine, could we adopt a more scientific or certain plan?" Words like these were certainly calculated to produce, not only a flutter within the artificial robur et as triplex of the female breast, but also a crisis in the history of certain por tions of female costume. It was a great occasion; and, in justice to Mesdames Marion and Maitland, of Oxford-street, sole manufacturers and patentees of the Corsaletto di Medici, we must admit that they have been equal to it. They pro ceeded to invent a substitute for the obnoxious article of dress, " so truly in harmony with the highest type of beauty, that the Corsaletto di Medici is so designated as suggestive of the Venus de Medici,' the statuesque ideal of beauty of form and womanly grace."—Saturday Review. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CREMORNE GARDENS. —Last night an accident of a frightful character occurred to Valerio, the wire-walker, at Cremorne Gardens. For the last two months this acrobat has been successfully performing on a wire cable measuring 600 feet; and last night he had advanced nearly to the point from which he usually returned backwards when the wire rope suddenly gave way, and he fell heavily to the ground. a distance of upwards of 60 feet, He was immediately taken up in a state of insensibility, and attended to by two medical men who happened to be in the gardens. It was found that he had sustained a fracture of the skull, a broken collar-bone, and other injuries. He was conveyed in an insensible state to the Chelsea Hospital, where he now lies, the house sur geon holding out little hopes of his recovery. It was be lieved that the lightning playing upon the wire rope on Wednesday night was the cause of the accident. HARD WORK.—After a journey from London, artificially lengthened for the purpose of exhibiting her more completely, she was pitilessly dragged from her carriage to a review, from the review to the theatre, from the theatre to the bazaar, from the bazaar to the great din ner, from the dinner to the ball. When the ancient Teu tons admitted a young man to rank among their warriors, it was their custom to try his endurance by recondite con trivances for inflicting suffering and hardship. The autho rities at Oxford, in the performance of their office as educa tors of youth, appear to have been acting upon this ancient precedent in training their future Queen for the duties of her toilsome career. ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS.—" More than a hundred years ago," says the Soctal Science Review, with a grandiose flourish—leading to a rather pre posterous anti-climax, " when poor Noll Goldsmith, a raw student, was reading up his bones,' Johnson struggling for the dinner he could not every day afford, Garrick strutting on Old Drury's boards, making its inmates laugh and cry by turn ; when Sterne, the sentimental, was field:big and preaching in the North, and little purky George the Second, haunted by visions of Prince Charlie coning "over the sea" with his too faithful followers, sleeplessly turned and twisted, and kicked the clothes from off his regal bed, six good citimens of London banded themselves together to start a hospital fer lunatics." THE LONDON CABBY A PARIAH.—` Let a cab are quoted in the Lond on Review, man," says one of the fraternity, w,,hgoosetoopainbiooonks. stall—those eyes peeping from behind that shelf of ler t b m o o m k e s d m ta e t e e t l y h t i s a , k a a n s i h s e s h t a a n s d a a p t e r f c s t b t a o r w e a t n h d e n b a o o i k s s n e o l gue h st, and unless he becomes fromaa gone." thebookseller's s o,too, e t x i - s a BCi pU u r g c ho of s b e e in — g f a n g you l u n a d w w e way l h e e o n j mn ed y g o e u wrheesnsi°ant-n-ahneseiesks for lodgings. If he isknown to be acab- driver, the landl ad y tosses her head, with aNo i of proud disdain. All this is hard to bear. The "contractor,'' wh o i s an owner of cabs, compels his drivers e the to r sign agree ment to pay a certain sum per diem, varying from t we l ve i cep aipeople n s hillings ppe y. news, ‘r I out t o ofh e o have puttingo t i trebleu heard e d a , and ra t he tchhaeotimr efenaarna e then defaulterow ti that justifying exercise they prisonehi sy themselves have anyt Y bullied ra diaen b fi y : saying, My master won't t rust me a shilling—t h ere i s a chance of them (the f are ) not summoning. ' " SECRET IMPURITY OF M ORMONIS M.--Joseph Smith (says th e S pectator) —than whom a more a b an d one d debauchee and a s t on i s hi ng li ar an d hypocrite has never ap peared, even among hi s own f o ll o wers—held and practised certain doctrines, such as that of the expediency of syste matic seduction, which his disciples have s i nce be en com pelled to disavow in public, ho w e ver clos ely they ralsY e an fo r ad here to them in secret. A Chinese ambassador is to be sent to Paris in a few months, who will doubtless prove ono of the chief fca urea in the next Perla season. • THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND, f -- (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) BRODY, June 20. It will, perhaps, astonish diplomatists to find how little importance is attached by the Poles to tree presentation of the three Notes on behalf of Poland. As far as I can judge, it is generally feared, that in order to get rid of the troublesome representations of the 'Western Powers, the Russian Government will consent to all the propositions, with the in tention of not carrying them out, and with the knowledge that they will be rejected by The Poles, who prefer the very hazardous chances of war with a view to the independence of their country to an arrangement which would have the appearance of a final solution, and yet would not satisfy any of their wants. What they are fighting for at the present moment is the independence of Russian Poland, or, if they cannot obten that, the union of all the Polish provinces belonging to Russia into one constitutional kingdom under the Russian Crown. That also, unaided, they will not obtain. Theßussians will never willingly reintroduce aPo ish administration into the Ruthenian provinces, which the Russians of the present day have been taught to regard as almost entirely Russian, though they are distinctly recognised as Polish in the Treaty of Vienna, and are promised " national and represen tative institutions" in common with all other por tions of " the Poland of 1772." They were even treated as Polish by the Emperor Nicholas until the insurrection of 1830 broke out, and had a Polish administration, and Polish law courts and schools when Lord Palmerston wrote his celebrated despatch, calling the attention of the Russian Government to the fact that it had not yet granted the inhabitants of these provinces a system of national representa tion. It would be considered a great concession not to allow them to teach the peasants to read out of Polish primers. Indeed, so far from admitting that the educated classes in these provinces have any right tothe main tenance of their language, the Russian Government hes often declared the contrary, and it has lately re ceived a memoir from M. Pogodin, ex-Professor of History at the University of Moscow, in which it is seriously proposed to do away with " the detestable Polish element" altogether in Vollaynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine. Le Nord picked a quarrel with a French paper which, by an error in transcription, had stated that M. Pogodin wished not to "extir pate," but to " exterminate" the Polish element. The word the amiable professor really used is, lite rally translated, " annihilate." M. Pogodin, however, explains that he does not want to murder the Poles or drive them away by force (be will hear of " no bloody means such as the Poles themselves employ"); he would have the Government buy the proprietors out and send them to the kingdom or wherever they like to go. In the event of some hundred thousand families not con senting to leave a country where many of them have been established ever since it has borne a name, and where the so-called Polish " immigrants" have been settled for five centuries—in such an improbable event as this it is just possible that " bloody means such as the Poles themselves employ" would be re sorted to. I fancy all the Poles have ever hoped from diplo matic intervention is that it might lead to entangle ments which it would be necessary to cut with the sword. In their national hymns and litanies they pray for . war as regularly as in their Church litanies they pray, in common with other Christian nations, for peace; and they have, for the most part, said frankly enough from the beginning, that if the Western Powers really wished to assist them, mili- tary support was the only support they cared for. In. any case it is perfectly certain that the propositions made to Russia by Austria, France, and England, even if Russia accedes to them, will not be accepted, though they may ultimately have to be submitted to by the Poles. Diplomatists may console themselves for this result by reflecting that even if they had asked for and obtained a great deal more—if, for in stance, they had asked for and obtained the full execution of the Treaty of Vienna in reference to the ancient provinces as well as the kingdom—the Poles would still not have acquiesced in such an arrangement. Kosciuszko made the same reply to Alexander 1., when consulted as to the wants of Poland, that Count Andrew Zamoyski made the other day, under similar circumstances, to the Grand Duke Constantine, and afterwards to Alexan der II.; and the Poles, when (with the exception of liosciuszko and a few other men not to be deceived by vain prosnies) they accepted and recognised the sovereignty of Russia in 1815, did so only on the understanding that the constitution of the kingdom would be gradually extended to the other provinces. It is well known that the proposed carrying out of this plan was looked upon with great disfavour by the Russian subjects of Alexander 1., while the Russian subjects of Alexander 11. would be indig nant if any thought were entertained of annexing to Poland territory which they have been taught to consider as much Russian, as Calais and Dunkirk, when freed from the English, were French. The Polish question, however skilfully diploma tists may handle it, is quite insoluble if the inten tion in solving it be to satisf y both Russians and Poles. lam assured on g ood authority that even if Russia consented to an armistice, and agreed to discuss the affairs of Poland in a Congress, the Poles would still not acquiesce unless a representative o f the National Government of Poland were admitted to the sittings. No one need be told that, e ven i f Russia would consent to meet a representative c h o sen by some constituted body in Poland ( w hi c h is more than improbable, ) ed a . delegate wn Power, unabl e even to show his c ftro r o e mb d e e g n ain t n ia u l wn s, kit c nh ild not possibly be recei v ed. In the absence, then, of an intervention by arms, it will be seen that, whatever Russia may reply to the Western Powers, continue—to the injury th of no one except R uss i the P o li s h i nsurrect i on w ill 1 e Poles should remember, a in a moral, and Poland in a material point of view. Poland will be devastated, and at last, no doubt the Poles will be obliged to put up with 'whatever position may ha ve been ma de for them, The insurrection, which was begun, will also be ended in despair; but the Poles will not have resigned their right to rise again in arms at the first opportunity, when Russia may be weaker • even than she is now, or when Europe may be 1 involved in a general war. 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