The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-06 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. There will in this week be five opera nig,hts, viz.• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Extra Night. THIS EVENING (Monday), June 6, will be prodnced, for the second time on the Italian stage in England, Flotow's opera, STRADELLA. Leonora, Mdlle. Marie Battu; Bar berino, Signor Ronconi ; 3lalvolio, Signor Ciampi : Bassi, Signor Capponi ; and Stradella, Signor Naudin, h s first ap pearance in tha; character in England. After which, the new Ballet Divertissement, by M. Despla ces, entitled L'lle Enchantee. Supported by 3ldlle. Salvioni, Mdlle. Carmine, Mille. Navarre, MkLle. Assunta, M. ')espla,- ces, and Mr. 'W. ii. Payne. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. rlt tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., ard ss. ; Inphithe;..tre. 2s. 6d. boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-of f ice under the portico of the thea , re, which is spen from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. tfHEATRE ROYAL HA Y ARKET.- Sole Lance and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Ai :gel. After which, DAVID C,ARRICK. Messrs. Sothern; Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weadhersby, S,c. ; Mesdames Snowden, iNelly Moore, Fitzwillism. After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farrell, Coe. itc.; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Sm.,wden, INellyi'olver, Hill, Wright, Rovers, etc. To cone' ode with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Commence at 7. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. XS) Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE P THIS EVENING (MONDAY). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden h.ff; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. W. M'lntyrc, F. Morton, Raymond, .3lorcland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Dlos Remade ; and Gertrude, Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half-past 7, and 31 com nences at 8. H amlet Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING will be performed a new and orizinal Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. "Nelson, &e. ; Miss tafford and ass Caroline Carson. Atter which, TUE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei Franclii, Mr. Vining; Chateau Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. EW THE ATE E-RO AL, AI ELPHI: sole Propriutor and Nanazer. 217. B. Webster. LLast Six Nights of the Groat Tra"ediene, Miss Bateman in the character of LEAK. THIS EVENING ,au apropos Sicetch.STIAfiEiPEA.RE'S MOUSE : Messrs. J. L. Took, E. I'hillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at S, LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, B. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Mrs. Bidington. To conclude with TfiE AREA BELLE: Messrs. J. L. Too:c P. Bedford, H. Homer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. IL Lewis. Commence at 7. MISS BA'FEMAN as LEAH.—LAST hIY NIGHTS of the Great Trag,edier:ne in her original chtracter of the Jewish Maiden, in which she has appeared b fore crowded, iashionable, and delighted audiences every evening for the past e ght months. The great attractiveness cf this closing series of representstions render it necessary to secure seats at once, as the box book is being rapidly fi led. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. rowded with rank and fashion.— The hic. - ,hly successful new OmMy, by Dion Boncicault ,lisq., every Evening. Re-engagementof those ceebrazei and popular artistes, Mr, an Mrs. Charles Alathim:, Amongst the artists engaged will be found the ropular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Trunk Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Paul Medford, Mr. F. rtobinson. Mr. Asoley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, I-Lrbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 11. t-imms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentwortn, and Mrs. Stiriing. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comedy. In 5 acts, by Dion Boucicaulr, entitled THE FOX CHACE haracters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cham,er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and 3liss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At IR, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. Mr. Charles Mathew.3Lnd Mr. Frank xiatthews. To con dude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke ; Miss Fanny J osephs. . _ Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborouzli. THIS EVENING, THE SILENT SYSTEM. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada kiwanborongli. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, Ac. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, Ac. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. 1. Thorne. Commence at'. NOV - EL STYLE in FRENCH BONNETS..— French fash'on has produced Bonnets for this month of a lic2it go samer texture. which accimmodate the present style of wearing ant he lady's h ir. They are of the most exquisite variety, and, though still adhering to the favourite colours of black. white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. Spe tally imported from Paris for The London General ,ournin2; Warehouse, 217„4!, and 211, Regent-street. rfillE ASCOT.- RA CE GLASSES (the best) at CAT,L,IGHAN'. I4 . 23,t, New Bond-street. W., corner of Conduit-htreet. N.B.—zole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL Direct from their own Collier:es. Marquis'.......24s. per ton. Double.. 204. per ton. Top 235. „ Nuts... Deep 2ls. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent 'HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' it. Containing the Latest SrOILTI'NG INTELLIGENCE, lan be had Every ravening of G. Et. GLMNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 6, 1861. -♦ THERMOMETER, This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.98. Wind—Sautth-West ; moderate breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA - Y.—Morning, 3h. 10m.—Afternoon, 3'a. 30m. o - bun.Low.-Morning, 3a. 50m.—Afternoon, 4h. 10. m. 4;111g 3' Ic-. 1 o „ mo_ SUIT, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1864. Another six days and the armistice will come to an end in the north of Europe. The Lo n d on Con ference, in consideration of that armistice, being virtually powerful for good during the interval—if it can contrive somehow or other to be so, that is ! On the 12th of this month, we shall know whether the armistice is to be prolonged or not. If pro. longed, the session may yet be tided over by Minis ters—supposing, that is, that the Conference can manage thereby to potter on successfully so far as to contrive the further consumption of time. So long as the Conference continues to sit during the period of an armistice among the belligerents —the lips of the Opposition are closed effectually within the Lords and Commons. Let the Conference but prove inope rative of any satisfactory patch up—let the armis tice even close on the 12th without a prospect of its renewal or prolongation—the close of it being announced by the resumption of hostilities —and the whole of this complex question must at length be thoroughly ventilated within the walls of Perlis meat. Then at last will come the tug of war be tween Parties, both in the Lords and in the Com mons, but especially in the Commons. The position so far is imminent. So imminent in one contin gency, we believe that it might almost be expressed thus without ezaggeretion—That at the firing of the first gun again in anger in Schleswig, the s i gne i• will have been given for the pulling down of our shaken and, so far as its foreign pelicy is concerned, most unpopular Govern ment. Other teise—hy simply whiling away the i eeg th e nieg ou t this Conference— time—by re( rely by extending the armistice adroitly —this wretched de -idling d g. o-nothin sess:an max yet be d o il y tided over, leaving E irl ra'e'SSELL still at theF ere i gn OEica until next year, to the delight of the great eggrersiee pcwers of Europe, and to the mingled shame and chagrin of the great mass of the Earl's own fellow.countrymen. Five years ago this very month, the second PALMERSTON ministry began— with what Sir HUGH CAIRNS aptly termed at the MC, in the :lune of 1859, a dodge ! flat dodge v 0.3 Etrl BUSS.ELL ' S — consiE,ting, as will be 'er'Y Nit ell rememtered, in his ingenious d ev i ce of those now notorious " abstract resolutions" of his about reform. It began with a dodge, this great Reform-burking and Foreign-policy meddling-and muddling Administration. It is being preserved and continued in power by a wonderfully clever succession of other dodges ! " See, my son !" the old Scandinavian statesman might have said to his heir, now-a-days—not " with how little wisdom " but with how small a modicum of sly contrivance " men may be governed !" The famous words of AXEL OXENSTIERNA run thus, according to the original utterance—" Nescis, ml fili, quantilla prudentia honzines regantur." But they certainly admit now—those words—of the modification at which we have hinted. 1 Further rumours about General LEE having re• treated are now brought to Europe by the last mail from North America. Probably to be followed—. these rumours—by new announcements that General lEEE has, again, not retreated at all. From New Zealand comes the agreeable intelli gence that, at one place, the British troops have been worsted by the insurgent aborigines. Another tes timony of the good reason the old Duke had in avowing his peculiar and especial antipathy to a " little war." Implying absolutely, and with some shew of reason, a positive preference by him for a great war, in comparison ! And with some show of reason, as we have just said, for these " little wars,"— wars such as we are now experiencing, the protracted anguish and worry of at our antipodes, such as we haNe again arid again in past times experienced at the Cape—really according, to use a familiar phrase in London slang, as it were, do nothing else than establish a raw. It is the opening of a seton at one of the extremities of the body politic in every instance of a little war. A seton that, once opened, we know not when it will ever again be thoroughly closed and healed up. Tidings from the seat of war in China again come to us of successes won over the Taeping revolutionists by the Imperial troops, led, shall we say, by British mercenaries, or Condottieri I And this too, as an effect of our Foreign Policy, when Non-Interven tion is ostensibly our guiding Principle! So con• sistent are we, or rather is our Government ! And all the remonstrance that can be made with the clevelcpment thus of a flag rant inconsistency of this kind, far away there at the oppcsite extremity of the eastern hemisphere on the remotest borders of the Empire of China —all that can be adventured upon by way of re• monstrance, with our Governmental inconsis tency in thus interfering in China, at the very mo• ment when no considerations will induce England to interfere in Denmark, in Poland, or in North America, is—what ? The introduction of a motion into the House of Commons by Mr. COBDEN, in a noble speech, merely to the end that, after a little useless discassion of that motion, the motion itself should, after all, be quietly withdrawn without any division whatever ! It is very desirable from time to time to institute nquiries and to ascertain in what state the laws re- lating to certain departments of society are in. Thus only can we expect to remedy deficiencies and to con form to the growing requirements of the day, No one could imagine, until they had looked minutely into the subject, how many discrepancies exist, and how faulty are the workings of some of those measures which were considered at the time of their intro- duction to be almost perfect, or at all events, most efficacious in their designs. Foremost among those enactments which call for a remedy is the statutory law affecting masters and workmen. This regula- tion is wrong in its fundamental principle, which consists in this, that the breakers of contracts that occur on elther side are treated very differently, those of the masters being dealt with according to the civil law, and those of the workmen under the criminal law. Such a distinction bears on the face of it a fatal discrepancy, which necessari:y militates against the right adjustment of the difficulties to be dealt with, and creates a want cf uniformity which is destructive of all chance of success in the execution of the plans proposed. What could have induced the framer of the law to devise such a system it is really difficult to determine ; it is quite contrary to the spirit which actuates the generality of our statutes and makes justice the birthright of all classes, not the heritage of wealth or the appanage of rank. Exclusiveness is always greatly to be deprecated, but if one case more than another seems to demand its banishment, it may be said to be this one in point, for masters and workmen are not so dissimilar in some respects, or eo totally divided by the influence of rank or position as may sometimes occur in other matters where the upper seem to have the advantage over the lower classes. There is always more jealousy between those nearly alike, or, at all events, not far dissimilar, and it is of great importance to obviate all provocation to irritated feeling es much as pos sible, and certainly that mode of management is to be deplored which fosters angry sentiments, and gives rise to bitterness and sullen feelings. The inequality and injustice of the system cannot be better exemplified than by stating that, while the workmen can only obtain redress for their griev ances by summoning the offending principal in the county court, or by proceeding in the common law, the master, on the occasion of a breach of con tract on the part of his workmen, can take proceedings in a criminal court, where if a conviction is obtained, it is not possible to inflect a fine, but the delinquent must be sent to gaol for a certain time with hard labour. This is a gross inconsistency, and deals out most unfair measure to men who are consenting parties to an agreement. It is not at all the way to make things work smoothly or pleasantly in the complicated details of business for both sides to be at variance, to feel that no common bond of equity unites them, but that a one-sided bargain has been struck, w h er ein one Party may count his gains and th e h so e rlament losses, When it is borne in mi n d that t the workings his g fthe existin g statute are press ing very heavily on the Working part of the com munity, it is high time that some remedial attempt be made to rectify the evil and put an end to the anomalous state of affairs which at present confuses our notion of right, and makes the administration of the law a source of complaint and an occasion for comment and cavil. The peculiar ideas which actuated the framers of these obnoxious regulations in our statutes are greatly to be censured; but, surely, there can be no need to perpetuate their mistake, and to hand down their badly devised and faulty schemes to another generation. There ought to be brains enough among the legislators of our own time for the diMcuity to be got over, and until it is there will be always something rotten in the system relating to employers and employed. Considering this present unfortunate aspect of affairs, and the great number who suffer from the evils of the unequal pressure of the agency now at work, co many as 6,000 committals to prison having taken place in one year through the working of these laws, it i s not a matter o f sur p r i s e that an attempt has been set on foot for the purpose of obtaining So me remedy for their inconveniences. The trades ec e'sles throughout the United King dom have at last resolved to do something in the right direction, and tt Comb ined MO T.nlent has been made which bears a promise of success. The un dertaking was first set on foot in Glasgow, and from thence communications were made to all parts of the kingdom. Finally, a conference of trade delegates met last week for the purpose of consider ing this important subject. There is no reason to doubt that they will proceed in their task with more promptitude, and eventually ' achieve more than the dignified assembly at the West-end, but here they will have put some heart into their work, and be really anxious to reach a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. The delegates represented as many as 300,000 members of trades' societies. The result of their deliberations was that they drew up a series of resolutions, which appear to set forth their difficulties in a concise form, and to explain the urgent nec:ssity that exists for a change being introduced without delay into the contracts of service between masters and workmen, The chief bearing of these suggested alterations is to the effect that all the provisions of the law should be of a civil character, anethat no favour should be shown to either side, and " what ever remedies are open to masters against their workmen should be equally to workmen against their masters, so that both may be equally dealt with as to all questions arising under their mutual contrast." This last passage contains the gist of the affair, and it certainly represents a principle which is characteristic of the old English love of fair play, and must meet with approval from all who have the welfare of the subject at heart, and cherish an honest conviction of the rights of labour. An interview took place between the delegates, and some members of Parliament in a committee-room of the House of Commons. The result was, that it was agreed upon to introduce a bill into Parliament, so that in a select committee the subject could be duly investigated. It is also very satisfactory to find that Mr. MILNER GIBSON has promised a deputation of the London trades that he would give the subject his earnest consideration. There is thus every reason to hope that before long a better arrangement will be come to regarding this ques tion, so important in itself and so intimately con nected with the interests of the community. The inequality of the present system has been fruitful in the production of strife and disagreements, and it is a social wrong to allow things to remain in their present most unfair and unequal standing. All that tends to create bitterness of feeling, or a sense of injury between employers and employed is a grievous evil, and no wise statesman or learned political economist but would censure the practice, and condemn the theory, that occasions such direful consequences, and has framed such a mistaken and mischievous code as this Statutory Law. The Admiralty has been seized with a fit of economy. 'What will happen next ? What social revolution of the most unlocked ter nature may we reasonably anticipate after such a beginning. Will Lord RUSSELL grow pugnacious and Sir CHARLES WOOD progressive since the House of Commons has been roundly reproved for urging the Admi ralty to uncalled-for expenditure. Cynics might hint that such urging was unnecessary, but wonders will never cease; and in defiance of SOLOMON we have something new at last, for, upon an appeal on behalf of the masters in the Royal Navy, here is Lord C. 73 AGET declaring that it is " due to the public" to resist any demands for increased pay, and Mr. GLADSTONE supporting him with a fiery denunciation of the wicked extravagance of this present House of Commons, chiefly with regard to branches of the public service. Englishmen gene rally labour under a serious misapprehension. They are in the.habit of thinking that pounds, shillings, and pence are not looked at very closely in Admiralty dockyards. They have an impression that sometimes a little more than need be is spent in those quarters, and it appears to their deluded minds to be somewhat singular that vessels built at enormous cost and comparatively new are always requiring docking for repairs and alterations. They do not quite understand why, if the Admiralty prefer a ship in a certain form, they do not have her built originally to their liking instead of adding a deck, apparently for the purpose of its being taken off again. But all this misapprehension is now clearly shown to be nothing more than vile suspicion and absurd hypercriticism. Henceforward the public will know that the sole object of the Admiralty is the protection of the public interests, and that Mr. GLADSTONE'S first considera tion in life is the pocket of the tax-payer. But giving our naval authorities credit for all those virtues, whose opposite vices they have been hitherto supposed officially to possess, it is not quite clear on what grounds the right of masters to promotion in the service is objected to. Neither of the oppo nents of their claims found it convenient to dwell much on this point. They found it more conve nient to turn off to those declamations about pubic interests and official duty which come so glibly to the official tongue. It is probable, however, that the House scarcely needed the information. They could find the explanation of the mystery too readily in the professicnal jealousy and the old routine pre judices which have barred the way of so many promising officers. Sir L. PALK, who took up the case on Friday evening, observed that a master began with a sense of inferiority which clung to him through life and marred his hopes of fame and rank. Why this extraordinary odium is attached to the post is not easy to see, for a master's duties are onerous and important, and he starts from a rank held by the highest officers in the service. A midshipman, when he has passed his examination for a lieutenant's commission, can be appointed a master's mate; and after passing a further exami nation he may become a master when his duties include the navigation of the ship. The captain is ex officio responsible for the course steered, as was decided in the loss of the Conqueror in the West Indies, when the Board of Admiralty reversed the judgment of the Bermuda Court-martial, mid held the captain responsible for the loss of the ship. Yet practically the master has the entire direction. Thus, as Sir LAWRENCE PALK pointed out to the House, the duties of a master in the Royal Navy are only second to that of the captain or comman der of the vessel in which he acts. Bat notwith standing their responsible position, masters cannot rise any higher in the service; even although of late years masters have been entrusted with the com mand of sloops and other swell craft, their rank in the service is still the same. Men with any pro spect of advancement through influence, or other means, decline to become masters, and this onerous offic e is generally held by hardworking men, who from lack of interest have little hopes of promotion. If a master held the same position as a lieutenant, and had in consequence the chance of rising to the higher grades of the service, the office would become popular, and our naval officers would have a much better idea of navigation, and consequently keep their vessels out of some of the difficulties they oc casionally get into. The b o tt oms of her MAJESTY ' S ships would not probably ma k e acquaintance with quite so many shoals were this reform carried into effect. But, in truth, this may be one of the ob stz:cles to the scheme. Young lieutenants might not like to be put into awkward comparison with able and experienced men, who have a thorough practical knowledge of their business, If talent and efficiency were made the test of promotion what would become of the " Dowbe," who by no means restrict their efforts to serve the state to one profession P It is worth noticing that all the speakers on Friday evening paid tribute to the general merit of the masters as a class, and as we have said the only arguments brought against them were the anxiety of the Admiralty to keep down the expanses, and the assertion first that the masters had no grievances, and, secondly, that they had no more to . complain of than the Custom-house officers and other public servants. Lord C. PAGET, who as a naval officer of long-standing shares in the prejudices of the old school, admitted that it was a sore point with the masters that on the quarter deck they ranked below the junior lieutenants, but he con tended that this was not the sort of question to be settled in Parliament. Oae hon. member indeed oLjected to the interference of. the House, saying that it was their duty to check expenditure, not to increase it. But Mr. HANKEy seemed to forget that the House has higher duties than those of a mere comptroller of accounts. It is the business of its members to regulate the affairs of the country, and most especially to secure just and equal govern ment to all classes of the community, and to serve as a court of appeal to all who have wrongs of a public nature to redress. That the injustice of the treatment of the masters is very apparent is shown by a few of the statements. When a master has . served twenty-five years be o b ta i ns the nominal rank of staff-commander and £1 per diem ; when a lieutenant has served nine years he gets his promotion as commander, and is in receipt of £1 per diem. la five years more the lieutenant is a post captain with from £4OO to £BOO a year, but the master can never rise above his £365 per annum. Neither is he permitted to share in rewards for dis tinguished service, although such rewards have been often earned by them. Mr. GLASTONE's pero • ration in favour of cffiaial economy received an awkward comment in Mr HENNESSY'S reminder of the proposed outlay of £50,000 for the Exhibition building, besides other little official indiscretions , but the House failed to support Sir LAWRENCE POLK'S temperate and sensibly motion. The matter must, therefore, be left in the hands of the public, who are certainly closely concerned in obtaining able and efficient men for the navy—an end not very likely to be attained by the present method of administrating affairs in the service. ADELPIII TIIEATRE.—At the end of the present week one of the greatest attractions of the metro• polis during the last twelve months will most certainly be withdrawn, viz , the representation of " Leah " by Miss Bateman. The success of the lady has been extraordinary; from upwards of 200 nights, with but a very short break, she has drawn overflowing audiences at this theatre, and during the same period she has rendered her name famous amongst the dramatic stars of the present time. It is much to be regretted that arrangements cannot be made so as to enable Miss Bateman to remain with us for longer period, but we believe such a circumstance is altogether hopeless, and on Saturday, therefore, we shall have to take farewell of one of the most powerful and pathetic actresses that has for many years appeared on the board of a metropolitan theatre. THE SOUTH PREPARED FOR A LONG WAR —We are a hundre d times better prepared for war than three years ago. You might not send us another pinch of powder from Europe, and we should not miss it, We have nitre bureaux, nitre beds, and powder mills—iu Augusta, Georgia, the largest powder mill in America. You in Europe can form no conception of the progress we have been driven by necessity to make in the arts. We weave our soldiers' cloth, make the leather for his shoes, our own artillery, waggons and caissons, our own harness and saddle and other equipments, We cast our big guns and the most beautiful brass field-pieces you ever laid your eyes on. I can take you to Columbus, Georgia, and show you a Colt's pistol factory, for which every machine for every part was designed and fashioned on the spot. In the same building is a bayonet factory. Swords, spurs, military bridle bi s, and the like are made in every town and village. We have besides our foundries, military arsenals, and navy yards, in which you would be surprised to see what the mother of invention has done for ua. Our ordnance yards and depots contain all that is required for modern warfare. Former►y, you know, we had to depend upon Yankees for so sirup:o a thing as a lucifer match; the Confederate article supplies its place now. In the printing business Southern mills furnish our printing paper, and ink is made at home. There is in a newspaper office in one town a machine invented by the 'oremen for making letter envelopes. It turns out several thousands a day, and of course pays very handsomely. Soon after the blockade many thought that we should "go up" on the salt question—couldn't salt our meat, and should be starved into subjection—it has turned out like the panic about powder. The salt mines of Virginia, the saline springs of Alabama, and the exhaustless ocean and gulf washing our coast have invited labour and ingenuity, and there is no longer scarcity of salt. Ihe Index. THE LAST DAYS OF A MAN OF GENIUS.—After leaving Osnaburg-street our sculptor was no longer sustained by that vivacity which had in a great measure upheld Lim in his severest trials. In his pour abode in Charlotte-street he surrounded himself with a meagre sal vage from the dispersion of his works. He maintained the appearance of occupation ; there was always a wet clay bust ! in the room, but his sitters were few, and they now paid in differently. He was much concerted about his dog, which was complained of by the landlady, but he said with deep feeling that, after a warm attachment on both sides for so many years, he could not poison him. A fortnight before his death he complained of tingling and twitching at his finger ends, and some short time afterwards ho fell suddenly in the street. The same thing occurred a second time, after which he was conveyed to Middlesex Hospital, where he received every attention. He was not aware that death was so near at hand, although ho felt he had not long to live. He was visited by his deaf and dumb assistant, with whom he comnaunfcated freely by means of the manual alphabet and signs. Behnes threw his head back, and placed his fingers on his eyelids, as if closing thena. His companion nodded. The sculptor's next act was convey his wish that a cast of his features should be taken after death, which he did by running his fingers round his face from the forehead to beneath the chin. His deaf and dumb friend again nodded. He instantly understood a sign, but the dying sculptor, for such was his condition, was precise in his instructions. Having assured himself that Gawn perfectly understood him, he wished to express "not yet," for his own impres sion was, that he had some time t o li ve ; a nd this he did, it is reported, by applying his thumb t o hi s nose, so making,The a sign that in street slang is c a ll e d " t a ki n g a sight.' poor deaf and dumb sculptor, wh o h a d been m any years faithful to him, carried ou t hi s i ns t ruc tions — a cast was taken, from which it is propos e d t o exe cute a bust for pie sentation to the Royal P or t ra it Gallery,—Cornhill Maga- _ une, for June. THE DURHAM OTTER HOUNDS.—Thisp ack,under the care of Mr. Taylor, has been having a week's hunting in the Ncrth Riding rivers. The Black Beck, the Old Derwent, the Rye, the Riccal, the Teven, and the Costa have all been tried, with v ar i e d success, and with g rand sport on Tuesday and on Thu rs day. Alth ou g h the meets were generally about d a yb rea k, a very large number of gentlemen, anglers, and sportsmen have been in re g ular soyso the some time t r te o attendance. On Tuesday a l ar ge otter wa s scented in th e Cost, and after running th e d rag the morning's spo r t was stoppedabruptlyitlfinele forg to m t win bolting up a large pipe d ra i n t o escape the hounds, only to be smothered. O n Th urs d a y, b e fore dayl i g ht, a ver y l arge meet took place a t B u tt erw i c k-bridr e et on the R y e, w here the veteran hound W rang l er a lmost at o nce g ave notice of game—a very large and s t ron g otter. B y 4 o ' clock the y were in full scent, and the dr a g was run in fine style. After four hours' hunting up th e Rye and ab out the Riccal a nd Dove river mouth s scen t was lost, but s oon re g ained, and an attempt to kill th e o tt er by spearing was ineffectually made. Subsequently a most exciting scene occurred. The otter took to mid-stream, and was swimming directly up with the full pack sw i mm i ng after him , the j o y ful cr y of the hounds being re s p on d e d to by h undreds of huma n voices. The otter tried d o dging 00 00 ag ain, and took to a bill, but the terriers very soon dislodged him, and he was compelled to take once more to deep water. Eventually he showed signs of distress, and some of the most venturesome sportsmen tailed him and got him on shore, where a game tight• with the hounds was held for some time before he finally yielded. His weight was about 201 b. and certainly the drag of a gamer otter was never run. It was midday before many of the sportsmen turned homewards. SWIMMING RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.-- A swimming match for the two-mile champion cup and £2OO will take place this evening in the Thames, from Harameramith to Putney, between Professor Beckwith (the present champion), and Mr. E. B. Mather, of Manchester. The trophy for which they are to contend is offered for , public competition by the London Swimming Club, and has to be held three consecutive years before its winner becomes finally entitled to it. Beckwith, who won the last champion contest, is the favourite ; but as Mather has since his defeat increased in skill, and ha s also y outh and stren gth on hie side, he is not without hope of success. For the accom modation of gentlemen desirous of witnessing the race two steamboats will leave London - b rid ge at half - past four, oglin at all Luton:indigo piers up to Aagioaerszaitla. !LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND, The following telegram has been received from her Majesty's Consul at Alexandria, dated 4th of June, at the Foreign office, from General Cameron : "PUKERIMU, APRIL 5, 3 P.M. "In making a reconnaissance of the Mangatanian position, from the right bank of the Weikaso, this morning, Lieut.-General Cameron found that the rebels had just abandoned it, and retreated up the right bank of the river. General Cameron sent a detachment to occupy i':. ca COL QUHOUN." THE INSURRECTION IN ALGIERS, PARIS, JUNE 6 (Morning) The Illoniteur of this morning says :—" A portion of the tribes of Dzebel Amour have been compelled to ask quarter of General Jusuf, which, thanks to the humanity of our officers, was granted. " A fresh defeat has been sustained by the insur gents of the province of Oram. French columns are advancing from all sides against the principal centres of resistance. " The enemy will shortly be vigorously attacked.' FRANCE. BOURSE, June 4.—The market has been firm, but without any improvement in prices. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 671. 10c. Mobilier ilss slightly advanced, being now at 1,1551. Rail way Market also well maintained, but without much doing. The market closed as follows :- 41, per Cents Do. end month.... Do. end month 7O 50 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 10 New Mexican Credit Mobilier.... 1141 25 Russian 1)0, end mon-a1....1146 25 Austrian Bank Shares 3355 Spanish Threes.... Credit louder 1240 Rome Debt .. Roman RAIL Vv AYB. Orleans O *** Northern .... Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Cush. Account. 873 75 .. 875 995 995 868 75 6.50 - - - 500 - .. 505 - 461 25 .. 467 50 867 50 ~ 370 - 402 50 .. 405 535 - .. 538 75 447 50 .. 445 - 575 - .. 580 - 257 50 .. - LATESr FROM INDIA, The Overland Express mail has brought letters and papers from Bombay to the 14th ult. inclusive. The following is the summary of the Bombay Gazette of that date : 'roe Secretary of State for India, in confirming the arrangement for the removal of the Council with the Governor-General from Calcutta to Simla, as proposed by the late Lord Elgin, directs that the Council must not be absent more than six months at one t►me from the presidency town. It is rumoured that the Viceroy has determined apon sending a military force against the Blaootiss to chastise them for the outrage they recently comi witted upon the mission under the Hon. Ashley Eden. Sir Hugh Rose has published a general order to the army on the favourable results of the system of regimental workshops established in 1861. The system has been established in five regiments of European cavalry and 32 battalione of European infantry. The Thull Ghaut Incline, another important work of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, situated between Kassarah snd Egutpoora, on the North-Eastern line, will be opened for public traffic by the month of January next. It has been ascertained that there is a great deal of slave-dealing going on at Meywar, it having been proved that one man alone had within a very short period sold no fewer than 53 young girls for purposes of prostitution. A searching inquiry is being made into this matter. In consequence of the frequent occurrence of fires at Calcutta of late it has been determined to or. ganise a fire brigade in that city o❑ the London model. As a set-off to the unfounded charges of parsi mony and niggardliness which have been brought against Sir John Lawrence by a portion of the Calcutta Press, a list of his benefactions since he assumed the cfLe of Viceroy and Governor- Gene ral has been published, which places the benevo lence of his disposition in its true light. From the facts now stated it is clearly established that no meritorious claim for assistance has been sent in to Government House without receiving a boost liberal response; although it is quite true that for reasons which his Excellency did nut hesitate to make fully known at the time, he refused to patronise the Calcutta Turk Club when requested to do so. Mr. Edward I. Howard, the Director of Public Instruction at Bombay, has filed an action of libel against the proprietors of the Times of India, for a series of scandalous and defamatory libels upon him in his official character, which have recently been published in that journal. Mr. James Scott, of the Bengal Civil Service, has been appointed to officiate as a judge of the High Court at Calcutta. The contract of the Great Indian Peninsular Rail. way extension from Sholapore to Hyderabad in the Decd has been let to Mr. Clowser, one of the agents of Mrs. Solomon Tredwell, who was engaged on the covatruction of the Bhore Ghaut Sir Bartle Frere, accompanied by Lady Frere and suite, left Bombay for Mahabuleshwur on the 2d inst., and will thence proceed to Poona early in next month, where he will reside during the ensuing rainy season. The Bombay Legislative Council will assemble at Poona, for the despatch of business about the middle of July next. The Bombay Government has called for a report from the Judges of the High Court on the late extraordinary proceedings of Mr. A. St. John Richardson, the Judge of Ahmednuggur, in the matter of the persecution of his Brahmin Sheristedar. A special meeting of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce wa3 held on the 3d instaat, to take into consideration the present unsatisfactory state of the railway arrangements in relation to traffic require ments in this presidency, when it was determined to address Government, through the chairman of the Chamber, on the subject of the inefficient working of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, which, in the opinion of the Chamber, calls for the immediate and energetic influence and interposition of Government. A petition has been prepared in Bombay, which, after being circulated for signature, will be for warded to the Local, the Supreme, and the Home Governments, protesting against the present ag gressive attitude of the missionarie3 in India in the matter of secular education. A severe shcck of earthquake, which appeared to conic from the north-west, was felt at Ahmedabad, and in other parts of Guzeret, on the 29th of April- It is rumoured that the Government of India has for some time past entertained the project of obtain ing a footing in Lhassa, for the purpose of facilitat.. ing communication with and through Thibet. The Nepaulese Durbar, however, strongly protest against the measure. Sir Hugh Rose is now on a hunting tour through the snowy tracts of Cashmere. Ho was received with great pomp and much apparent kindness by the Maharajih on his arrival within his territory. Sir Matthew R. Salim, Kt., Chief Justice of Bombay, proceeds to England on six months' leave of absence on urgent private affairs by the mail steamer which leaves to-morrow morning. Sir Joseph Arnold will officiate as Chief Justice during Sir Matthew's absence. Thei4 has been a battle between the rebellions subjects and the troops of the Nawab of Bnawnl- pore, on th e f ront i er of Sc i nde, i n w hi c h the Nawab , troops were defeated. A proclamation has been issued warni ng a ll B r i t i s h su bj ec t s against joining the ingtargents. THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. (THIS DAY.) On Saturday we had the gratification (according to annual custom) of attending the Private Nr,ew of the Exhibition opened season after season at the British Institution—the exhibition for the present season being opened there to public view this at% et-- noon—the charming yearly exhibition there, in that popular gallery of the British Institution, of the of Ancient Masters and Deceased British Atris7 , all the m ore attractive art- Artists, London this one i n . ear , after year exhibitions here in particular takes high rank, among our especial favourites, 0: itself it annually justifies the design of the whole laatiLl tion unier whose auspices it flourishes year after year with undiminished excellence—it justifis the design, and partially fulfils it, the whole purpose, we mean, for which the British Institution was originally founded, namely, " for promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom." It does so pre cisely, by chastening the taste of the lovers of art, early summer after early summer, by display ing to their view fresh collections of the old masters and of deceased British artists—here, at 52, Pall Mall, gathered together from various col lections throughout the country, from the Royal collections and from private collections. Nearly 200 paintings (exactly 184 according to the cata logue) have this year bee❑ ranged thus along the walls of the three specious and lofty apartments, constituting the gallery of the British Institution. Immortal artists, masters of all the schools, are there represented by more or less important specimens of their own works, and this for the most part by being very heterogeneous grouped together. Hare, a faded Velssquez (111) representing the Infanta Margaretta, daughter of Philip IV., surrounded by her ladies and d warts, posed for her portrait in the studio of the painter. This painting, in point of fact, being a sketch for the picture at Madrid called " Las Meninas." Here is a brilliant Carl Dolce (52) A" Madonna and Child," the child the love liest little baby profile —the lap of the Blessed Virgin littered with flowers almost givieg one the sense of fragrance. There era several ex quisite Hobbimas this year in the gallery, full of delicious verdure, lit up with sunny atmospheres of diaphonous beauty. There is a noble Canaletto (50) the property of the Duke of Buccleugh, with lofty exemplars of those wonderously heaped-up Stones of Venice, dear to the eyes and to the heart of Mr. Ruskin, stones reflected, from the trefoils of the parapet to the wave washed line of thebase. , ment, in the blue waters of the Grand Canal. Seve ral old familiar favourites, favourites familiar to the world at large for years and years past by means of celebrated engravings, greet one's delighted gaze here in the Loan of the veritable originals. Here, for example is (in 77) that rem nowned Vandyke, displaying on a single canvass Three Portraits of Charles L's handsome face, in half view, in full front, and in profile (of the three we know not which is the handsomest), the gift of the unhappy King to the Earl of Stafford, the pic ture now belonging to the Marquis of Lothian. Here, again, high up (19) is the same nobleman's Holbein portrait of the great and good Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord High Chancellor. Here, too 34) is Holbein's preposterous limning of Henry VIII,, clad in purple-red velvet, jewels and gold, showing us a grotesque caricature of the " human face divine," in the outlines of a bloated blubber visaged voluptuary. As a refreshing contrast to which, turn we to (164) Romney'e lovely portrait of that exquisite siren of a woman, " Lady Hamilton." Gazing at it you might almost say—lf so she looked—her pretty heed aside, her rosy, dewy lips riant (laughing from velvet-red to a gleam of pearl), one can comprehend at least, it one cannot excuse the fall of Nelson under the spell of her witching fascinations. It is the one face of all, it is the one picture of all that haunts us in the remembrance as we quit the gallery. 2/Ir, S, C, liall's Reminiscences of Distill tinguished Authors, A numerous and fashionable audience assembled on Saturday afternoon, at the Vestry-hall, High street, Kensington, to hear Mr. S. C. Halt, F.S.A., relate his reminiscences of literary celebrities with whom ho had been personally acquainted. The lecture was given for the benefit of the Kensington Industrial School, and though its delivery occupied upwards of two hours, it wis listened to through out with the deepest attention, and the audience frequently showed by hearty bursts of applause their appreciation of the intellectual treat which had been provided for them. In the course of his long literary career Mr. Hall has had the good fortune to be brought into personal contact with most of the distinguished literary men and women of our epoch; Hannah More, Samuel Rogers, James Montgomery, Ebenezer Elliot Moors, Miss Landon, Mrs. Opie, Lamb, Coleridge: Allan Cunningham, Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd, Sydney Smith, Professor Wilson, Miss Mitford, Wordsworth, Southey, Miss Edgeworth, Mac e Hemans, Campbell, Theodore Heck, and Thomas Hood. Of all these famous men and women Mr, Hall gave brief, yet discriminative " word portraits," interspersed with characteristic anecdotes. His listeners were carried in imagination far back into the last century when he spoke of his acquaintance with Hannah More, whose familiar talk was of Bishop Porteus, Dr. Johnson, and Edmund Burke; and Samuel Rogers, whose first volume of poems wan published in 1786, who had worn a cocked hat when a boy, and seen Garrick play. Ebenezer Elliot, the corn-law rhymer, was quaintly described as a man of iron in frame and understanding, and also in trade, for he was an ironmonger at She flield. While speaking of the ill-starred Letitia E. Landon, Mr. Hall was greatly affected. Her brief career (he said) was beset with privations, disappointments, and embarrassments, and she was ever struggling against poverty. When in the zenith of her fame, and towards the terrible close of her life, her personal appearance was highly attractive; for though small in stature, her form was remark-' ably graceful, and she paid that attention to dress which literary women too frequently neglect. In society she was brilliant, without, being that dangerous thing, a female wit—playful with the young, sedate with the old, and reflective with the middle-aged. The circumstances of her death were enveloped in mystery, for her husband had since died, and made no sign. As to the various rumours about her death, he (Mr. Hall) would not allude to them. He was sure she did not commit suicide, although he knew that she was most wretched in her mournful banishment, and most miserable i❑ her changed condition of life, and if her past career had been gloomy, her future was very dark. He did believe, however, that poison was administered by the African woman, who it was known had been her predecessor. Here is an amusing trait of Mrs. ()pie's; character—Mr. Hall having asked her to furnish a story to a work which he was conducting, she replied that was opposed to her principles to write a story, but she would send an anecdote, and accordingly she nar rated an anecdote in such a manner, as rendered it in effect a very pathetic tale. To follow Mr. Hall in all his pleasant memories of the illustrious dead would far exceed our limits; we must therefore content ourselves with observing that the intrinsic merits of the lecture were greatly enhanced by th e admirably clear and emphatic manner in which it was delivered. At its conclusion a vote of thanks to Mr. Han was proposed by the Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair, and carrier? by acclamation. ACCIDENT TO A JOCKEY..--A serious accident occurred two days back at Chantilly to M. Schicklees jockey, Mortimer. He was exercising Villafranca - iu the Atlee des Lions, when the mare fell and rolled over her rider, who received injuries internally. He was lying yesterday in an almost hopeless state.—Galignani A case of hydrophobia terminating fatally has just occurred at Joigny (Yonne). A man named Ramond, the keeper of a wineshop, was bitten on Easter Monday by a strange dog, which he was driving from under a table in his house. He at once applied to a medical man, who, not thinking that th e d og was ma d , i nstea d o f c a uterising the wound, ordered some other treatment. A week ago symp toms of madness manifested themselves in Ramond, which gradually increased in intensity until Thursday night, when he expired in dreadful agony. al - 4 - - -r , -7-3kr-. - , ,•-, 1 , 77-' , - `'‘)Ak: ,A \ - 41 c 1 . A. 01.0 z, , iko , lo an, HER MAJZ3 TY, .1•..,......y ~., , . .................4 ........ BALMORAL, JUNE 2. The Queen went out driving in the morning with the Princess Louise, and went out in the afternoon with the Princess Helena, Prince Leopold went to Invercauld to fish. JCNE 3. The Qa.:ken went out is the morning \ vith the Princess Leiningen Princ?ss Loaiso, and drew , is the afternoon with the Princt. , 4 Helens and Princess Leiningen to Alt na tritiihusach. - The Prince a Lcl Princess off Wales. The Prince and Princes .7 of Wales re turned to Marl boreagn-houso from Cambridge at 5 o'cl,lck on Saturday afternoon. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with ti to Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and the Ladie3 and gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine service at the Chaptl Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Su b. Dean, the Rev. R. C. Packman, and the Verj Rev. the Dean of Chichester. The Very Rev, the Dean of Chichester preachod the Ser mon, from St. Luke, c, 14, verses 16 and 17. Anthem, "Sing 0 heavens," Kent, sung by .2 . .esers Rs Barnby, Benson, and Lewis Thcmas. Mr Cooper presided ut the crgan. The Archbishop of Armagh, the Duke of St. Albans, the Marquis of Bath, Earl St. Germans, Viscount Sy dneY Lord Crewe, and Lord Llanover, were present during' the service. Tile Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by' the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove to Kew in. the afternoon, RETURN OF lIER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.--The Queen and the royal family are expected to return to Windsor from Balmoral on Wednesday. The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, it is understood, will reach Windsor• to-day. Extensive preparations have been made at Frog. more Lodge for the reception of their Royal Highnesses the Priztce and Princess of Wales, who will arrive there ea Tuesday next. The Piinee and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess of Hesse, and all the Princesses, will proceed to Buckingham Palace on Friday, atter luncheon, to be present at the State Ball which takes place in the evening• —Court Journal. His Excellency Senor Don Manilla and famili have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. Prince Edouard de ha Tour o'Auvergue lett the French Embassy on Saturday for Brussels. The Duchess of Sutherland will return to town to-day from Lilleshall, Salop, in order to attend to-morro w the wedding of Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Hon• Luey Lyttleton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricard e entertained his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam• bridge at dinner on Saturday, at ther residence in Stratton" street. There were present to meet the royal duke their' Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Sale" Weimar, Emily Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford, the Earl and Countess of Bess" borough, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, Lady Moles" worth, the Right Eon. tha Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison, Dr. Quin, Mr. Calthorpe, Mr. Grant, and Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, in waiting on his royal highness. Me Earl and Countess de Grey had a dinner party on Situ:day at their house in Carlton' gardens. The Archbishop of York and Mrs Thompson , the Earl and Countess Fitzwillianr, General Sir Richa rd and Hon. Lady Airey and Miss Airey, Hon Alfred Stourtont Mr It, Vyner, M.P., Mr Ingilby, &c., were among the guests. Cuvers were laid for 20. Viscount and Viscountess Strathallan and Ha' Miss Drummond have left 11, Dover-street, for their seat in Scotland for the season. Lady Abinger has left iLo St. George's Hotel. The Right lion. StrEdw,arn BulWer Lytton re' turned on Saturday to his town mansion, Breadalbane House, Park•lane, from his visit to Cambridge. The Baroness do Bunsen, widow of the Baron de Bunsen, who for so many years represented the Court of Berlin in this country, arrived in England recently, and has since left town on a visit to her sister, Lady Llanover, in South Wales. Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Bannerman entertained a Select party at diviner on Saturday evening at /heir residence in Grosvenor. pla cc. DEATH OF MR. W. J. Fox.--Oar readers Will ahem cur regret in learning the c'eat h, on Friday Friday afternoon, cf Mr Williom Johnson F ox , f or man y . _ years M.P. for Oldham, He died in his 78th year, after a very short illness. Air. Fox was born in Suffolk in the year 1786. His father, who was, in the first instance, a small farmer, afterwards became a Weaver at Norwich. In early lite the lamented deceased entered the Congregational ministry, but afterwards became a Unitarian, which body he left, and for many years attracted enormous congrega tions to the chapel in South-place, Finsbury. Ile Was one of the ablest and most eloquent of the lecturers of the Anti- Corn-Law League, a writer in the Westminster Review and various other publications. He was elected M.P. for Old ham in 1817, and this position he occupied, with the ex ception of two brief intervals, until the period of his retire- ment from public life.—Dispatch, SIR EDMUND BACON, BART.—The death of the above baronet is announced as having occurred on the 3th ult., at Raveninghem Park, Norfolk, The deceased was the premier baronet or - Er:gland, being in possession of two baronetcies--being representative of the 0.11 baronet of Redgrave (creat e d i n 1611) an d 10 t h b arone t o f Mildenhal t • The late baronet was eldest son of Sr Eamund Bacon, by Anne, eldest daughter of the late Sir Win. BeauchamP Procter, Bart., and was born in 1770. He married in 180 1 his cousin, Mary Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Mr Daell" wood Bacon, of Ottery St. Mary, Dever: (who died in 1820 and in 1820 succeeded to the baronetcy. The venerable baronet is succeeded in the family honours and estates by the nepkew, Henry Hinckman, eldest son of the late Air Nicholas Bacon, who died last year. The present baronet, who was formerly in the 2d Dragoon Guards, was born il l , 1820, and married in 1853 Mis s B ec k e tt, thi r d daughter of Sir Thomas Beckett, Bart. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—We tinde" stand that an exhibition of all kinds of botaquet-hol derS, aecient and modern, is to take place in tho Royal Plorticn i ' lurid Gardens on the 13th of July, to which the possessors of jewelled and other bouquet-holders ere invited to cell tribute such objects as they may be possessed of. OFFICIAL APP OEN TM EN TS.—Tlle hon. W. Swart, Secretary of Legation at Washington, is appoi nted Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople—Mr Adams' Second Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, is appointed Secretary of Legation at Washington, in the room of gr Stuart—Lieut.-Col. Sir Robert Anstruther, Bart., M.P./ is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Fife, vice Mr Erskine Wemyss, M.P., deceased—Mr John Crawitg a Kerr, writer, Glasgow, is appointed Keeper of the Recor d of Sasines of Dumbartonshire—Mr Cuthbert Edward Ear son, of the Inner Temple, now stipendiary magistrate at Manchester, is to be the new metropolitan police magi° - trate, vice Mr Leigh, who retires. iMP,, COBDE N ON TUE LORD CHANCELLOR' 5 COUNTY COURTS BILL —ln rep:N . to a letterfroto th e Secretary of the Rochdale Tradesman's Association Pre'? i l for a distinct explanation of his opinions upon th e l' o d Chancellor's County Courts Act Amendment Bill, and asking whether they might expect his support to the obit: tions against the measure, Mr. C o bd en h as written following letter :—" House of Commons, June 3.—S ir,' In reply to your letter asking for a m ore s p ec ific express - t of my views respecting the County Courts Act Arnendol Bill, which bas been introduced into the House of Lords, beg to say I approve the principle of the measure, but P re ' for to postpone my judgment on irs d e t a il s unt il it is WT . duced into the Commons. In this view I think the / I°o ' il i dale Tradesmen's Association will agree with me, wh en a remind them that until a bill reac h es t h e L ower House "- remain in ignorance of its provisions, as it is liable t° alteration at every stage. Already the measure in question has undergone amendments, which are now being P rinte ee a cia To-day a deputation of the Trades Protection Society 07; had an interview with the Lord Chancellor to express til e ' concurrence in the principle of his bill, but to ask for sc' ele . amendments. He agrees, upon certain conditions, to tend the limitati on t o w hi c h y our b o d y i s oppose d front ° n year to three, and ho promises to take other sueegestiorm into consideration. I may add that on the subject of prisonment the deputation requested that it might be re, stiicted to one commitment. If you will allow me to Ine' 4 ° the suggestion, I recommend your association to lose nu' time in petitioning the Lords for such amendments as 37°0 wish to have introduced into the bill, and to postpone alt action with the. Commons until we know in what Imo! 1 _ comes down to us, I can guarant e e you ample time d urin g the passage of the measure through the Commons for gir i e l e i : full expression to your vi e ws by petition. I shall 11, obliged by your allowing this letter to be published in fa and 1 remain very truly y ours , R ICHAR D ConneN.-- -3°113 ; Fletcher, Esq., Secretary, Rochdale Tradesmen's M l ° l3 tion." • THE LATE FRENCH PLoT.—lMp era tori and gee, g:ioni, who were sentenced to imprisonment for "" years for having conspired io assassinate the Emperor o i f o th a : Frence, are about to be removed from the prison of e at. to a fortress where they are to undergo their pun ish Greco and Trabucco, who were sentenced to transports or, are shortly to be removed from Paris to the place of t destination, which is not yet announced. ~.