The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-18 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.-FLOWER SHOW, SATURDAY NEXT, MAY 23.—THE GREAT FLOWER SHOW OF THE SEASON.—Doors Open at Twelve. Admission, is. 6d. Tickets taken before the day, ss. GUINEA SEASON TICKETS FREE. lickets at the Crystal Palace ; at 2, Exe ter Hall and of the usual Agents. NOTE.—The varied Floral and Musical Attractions of the Cr ye , al Palace Flower Shows are too well known to need comment. The unusual fineness of the fleaoli gives pro mice of the forthcoming Show surpassing even all previous shows. LOWER SHOW. - FIVE SHILLING TICKETS NOW ON SALE, T EAT itE-R0 I AL, HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, FISH OUT OF WATER. After which, 2d time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE; or, Spy ancrCounter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Commence at 7. H E DUKE'S MOTTO. JL THE HUNDREDTH AND THIRD NIGHT. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. FECIITER. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Orldnal ?ketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, arden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lce. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Time Acts, and Pr)logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. fhe principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham, H. t, iddi:ombe, P. Charles, Garden, Raymond. Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, E. Layenne, and Llsworthy. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. TIiEcITRE-R0 PAL, ADELPHI.— 141 e Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. TILTS EVI - ,.71NG, the Second and Third Acta of THE GREEN 1313, , 11E5. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Bil lington, and Miss Avonia Jones. After Ivirich (sth time), a new Drama, in cne act, entitled THE WOODEN SPOON MAKER. Messrs. B. Webster, Stuart, Stephenson, Seam ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Bil lingtou. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. L. 'Toole, &c. Commence at 7. rimiE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing - the Latest SPORTLNG INTELLIGEN€E, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, May 18, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 5B .. Barometer-29.70. Wind—N.E. ; light breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rals DAY. —Morning, 2h. 25m.—Afternoon, 2h. 45m. To-itoaßow.-Morning, 3h. 3m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m. M,F IO utzgi . 44 wit_ 14# THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1363, THE HAVAN SILVER-LEAD MINES COMPANY (Limited), Cardiganshire. £.).5,G0'), in ! , ,r)(0 Shares of £5 each. Deposit, 106. per Share on Application, and As. on Allot ment. DIRECTORS. M. C. Seto 7, Esq., Maida-hill, and Wheal Seat and Treskerby, Cornwell; Dirca - x of the Silver Mountain Mines Comi..any (Limited), Cardiganshire, &c. R. Hesketh, Esq. (late British Consul at Rio Janeiro), Director of the Don Pedro North Del Rey Gold Mining Company (Limited), Brazil. A. Alison, Esq., 72, Sloane-street, Cadogan-gardens. General R. Shortrele, Blackheath, Director of the Silver Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardingshire. E. Edwards, Esq., C.E., Adelphi. Director of the Silver Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardiganshire, the Don Pedro North del Rey Gold Mining Company (Limited), &c. Lieut.-Colonel F. Wemyss, Kensington, Director of the Silver Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardigan- shire, BANKERS—EngIish and Fish Bank, 25, Poultry, E.C. SECRETARY—Mr. Holland Dell. Temporary Offices- 1 8, Greshara•howe, IM Broad , street, and 1, York-buildings, Adelphi. The oltjecfs of this Company are the purchase and work ing of the celebrated Haven and Henfwich Silver-Lead Mines, situate in the perish of Telybont, Cardiganshire, aad surrounded by s;me of the greatest Mines of the day, eluding the Welsh Potosi, East Doren , and the Cwmsy mlog United Mines, as well as the Silver Mountain Mines,which, after being worked for a few months li under nearly the Di rec tors, already bid fair to b ec ome as prctable =.,.e any in the country The sett (which has been developed sufficiently to make its success a matter of certainty) is held at a royalty of one. fourteenth from Pryse Lo - veson. RA;, at very extensive (r_pwardsof 700 acres), and includes seve ral ver y st:otg arid celebrated lodge. TWJ 1-.Jng a dk,levels have been driven parallel with the main vein for till: purpose of developing it; but as far aA can be ascertained the lode size, averaging from •::0 to 50 feet wida) has cut in two places, two rich courses of ore beitig tr. , J A number a similar crcas.cuts will e coucmmeed almost immedi-ttely in th 7 different levels; a b nd should the trials be attended with equal results, of which there at ma Er: ry certainty, a !dine of enormous wealth will be at once eats - (which iy of ins remit blisheo. Four shafts are sunk from the surface to the Hit levels, thus thoroughly ventilating the whoie of the works; good direct roads from Aberystwith and unfailing streams of Wa ter pass through the sett, whist offices, workslif pe, &c., being already erected, the works can at once be prosecuted great economy and regularity. The whole of the shafts, &c., are timbered in a most su'a stantial manner; a tramway is being laid in the I..U:.iwich ad-t level for conveying the ore tJ the dr...saing Biwerful crushing, drrwing and pumping i machinery s being delivered on the mine, and will be e rected complee and at work (dressing ore for market) in less than three months from this time. The mires have been inspected by many captsins and engineers (come of whose reports are annemed) who no.urn rmously ag:ee as to their great value, and recoinn va. :and of th that o t e:a•:ons be carried on with vigcur, he u? e mines is further c -I:ifii-med by the fact that Lit. Sha;den, of Aberystwith, who worked only a small portion of the Bevan Mine Pt la other than surface diggings) sc kl before his de Mina upwaids of X'2O,CLU worth of and made a hat ' orrie fortup so Ta!ttella m'nes, keluding nt, ore , crust ne whole cf diseove,,red and raiee;... pumping aL have trans fer Br 3:, in c'sh, X 1 Z"' • d for L 3,000 paid-up sharc2, and a other machinery rea4 farted sum of £3,000, to be raid three menths after the shareholders have received dividends to the extint ICO per cent. on the subscribed capital, which will probably be wiaiin three years. A t plicatims for shares, accmpanied with t'eposit, which will oefetutned in inn, if no allotment be made to tie appli cant, may he made to the )3ml:ere, or to the Secr,tary, at the ffices of the Company-, where specimens of the Ore, and e Mines map be inspcG:.ed. taro M. Fran.eis, Cardigan Extract from Report from Ca shire. The driving under Sheidea's ere ground may be taken at £1,000; so that, leaving cut the value of the pie- Bent machinery and workings, a sum of about £3,000 would bring the mine into a far work ing state without tiling credit for the returns, the value of which, h owever, are indicated in the ab,,Te mica. lations ; and which, in all probability, would begin to come it six months atter the works were seri into effect in at ously st, chaff c.s a ccs o - 1 Ll5O per m lasion of ih Lo te, aor,eor to be v o h _ye be, brought in— The whole range ct side lodes seems neve seen or thcugtt ot; besides which there is ti of tb.c trans, which is in effect the main feature ot all mines situate in so deeply a productive rock as the Clay Slate; and the trial by cxcecsion East and west oY. toe loch of the present mine, mere especially to the westward, v.here the chances of successful mining would be ccnsidered by any miner to be highly satisfactory. From all that can be ju 4 ged of these great mines in their present state it is difficult to predict Lr a judicious system of working any other than a most cuccEssful termi nating in the establiehm(nt of Mines immense in F produc-, and once established upon a profitabla footing, likely to last for many generations; and whoevLr will take tho trouble to lock into the Eilstory of the Carc.i2anshire Mines" will find this to be the case in a:mAt every in stance. One strong woof in favour of this assertion re is in the fact that one of the Carcigan,hire Mines rue.nioned bi name by Piny, the . Ron,an historian, as working in his da; ( C wm ystwith), continues in ft healtiy and a ve-y profit giving state at this very moment. e deep minin nt 811 l Extract from Report from Cal - Cbarles 'Williams, Ma nager of the S Ivor Mountain, East Broad ,yd, and Cwmsymlog United Mines As far as situation goes, the Haven Mines can scarcely be equalled. Tae sett is very extensive, having a range cf two miles on the course of Ihe lode, with an equal width. Water power is plentiful in all seasors of the year, and can be made avail able for wor,ing the machinery at a ti . ffteg cost. A good course of ore is discovered d laid oven 15 fathoms in length, worth on an average full one ton per fathom. This course of ore is whole to surface, but the length and full value of it is not yet ascertained. The lode at this pint is very strong, being upwards of 20 feet wide, and by every appearance is making a very great mass of ore below and above the level. In the mean Time, the backs can be stored away at a great profit, and regular sales of ore rent to market monthly. In this edit there is another good course of ore discovered, but the level being full of ore stuff I could not get in to ex amine it. The Haven adit level has been driven into the hill by the side of the lode for a considerable distance, leaving the productive ore-bearing part standi -g whole to the north, and is ventilated by two shafts. The back of the lode shows an excellent gozzan with large lumps of ore through it. This adi; should be properly opened out, and the lode cross-cut in several places, and I have no doubt it will lead to grand discoveries. This level will inter sect the course of ore discovered in No. 1 and 2 shafts 50 fathoms deeper than the Heniwich adit, and thus lay open an immense amount of ore ground to :stope away. These Nines are of a very great extent, and from merely surface scratching have produced enormous wealth. The main lode on which are the works is one of the great champion veins of Wales, and parallel to Cwmsymlog, East Daren, Cwmystwith, Dyliffe, Silver Mountain, Goginan, dec. An enormous amount of heavy and expensive work has been done in the most substantial manner; splendid new crush ing, drawing, and pumping machinery is now being deli vered on the Mines, and will be at work within three months, and the dressing doors will be ready in less time; consequently, with a further moderate outlay, you will make this Mine one of the greatest in Wales. The Marchioness Townehend's dance, announced for June 10, is unavoidably postponed until Monday, June 16. The Marquis Drogheda is expected to arrive in town to-morrow from Ireland. The Earl and Countess de Grey entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at their resi dence in Carlton Gardens. - The Pope is erroneously reported to ser i o usly ill with erysipelas in his leg. The affection is but be a g ain s light, the health of his Holiness being otherwise excellent. disposal The Pugin Memorial Committee having raised a f u nd of £l,O OO , have resolved to place it at the the Institute o f British Architects, in trust, for the of estab lishment of a Student's Travelling Fund, under certai n con ditions. . The result of the concert given by Madame Lind- Goldschmidt at St. James's Hall last week, for the benefit of the Roy al Hospital f or Incurables at Putney, is a con tribution of £526 to the funds of that charity. Pedestrians in London have been much interested this week in a rather perilous -looking attempt to re-gild the ball and cross of St. Paul's Cathedral. Happily the workmen have succeeded in placing scaffolding all round the summit of Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, and people now amuse themselves by watching th rcu gh tele s'e PAR the operations of the men at the giddy w height at mistakes h.ethey are compelled to work. As there are so many made about thi s ball and cross, it may be state d that the b a il is 56er: from the outer gallery immediate l y below it, thatit is at feet in diameter, and that it weighs 5,6001 b. ; and that the bo ttom of the cross is 30 feet far ther, weighing 1,3601 b. Mr. Cope, says the Atheneum, has just completed , pictures the fifth of his serie s of in the Peers' Cor ridor, Houses of Parliament. T whole is intended to ill us trate the history of the Civil War, at . , thus :-1. Charles the First erecting the Standard atN V ottingh ara ; 2. Basing House defended by the Cavaliers Common wealth troops ; 3. Expulsion of the against the Common' Oxford for refusing to sign the Covenant;waof a College at Charles the First ; 5. The Speaker Lenthall 4* Burial of privileges of the Commons against Charles's asserting the seize the Five Members; 6. The setting outoattempt to Lon don Train Bands to raise the Siege of G loucest er; th; Em barkationLon- of a Puritan Family for New E ing of Lord and Lady Russell. 6 ' Carious, now, ain't it, Brown," observes a police sergeant in the Hon. Mrs. Norton's new novel, "Lost and Saved," "how like females are one to t'other ? This one's a real marchioness, with a real sort of marquis, dining with the queen and all that ; and here she's been a -behaving for all the world like Betsy Blane, the fish woman as I had in the lock-up last night. She's as like her—as like as one oyster ,shell is to another." THE DRAWING ROOM _The Court Journal of this day (Monday) contains by far the most complete and detailed account of the drawing-room of Sa.turchiy, the pre sentations, debutantes, descriptions of costumes, and an especial and exclusive article on that event. Price sd. ; s tamped, 6d. W. Thomas , 26, Brydges-street, - garden, and all newsagents. FIRE AT THE WEST-END — At abo ut two o'clock on Saturday morning a fire happened in the pre mises belonging to Mr. Cole, a carver and gilder, Rupert street, Haymarket. The fire could not be extinguished until the workshops and contents were destroyed atd the front house dame ed t o Mole and C0.;55 , ~ Princes - street , Mr. Haye, pork hatcher; 6 4 ditto . and , Mr, Davies ; and 53, Mr. Salter, the and water ; sot were damaged, principally by brealcap LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1863. Additional particulars have only tended to con firm us in the impression instantly produced upon our mind by the first telegraphic intimation received on Saturday afternoon, and thereupon expressed by us very distinctly in our columns of that same evening—in reference to the magnitude of the disaster which had befallen the Federals on Satur day the 2d and Sunday tha 3d of May at Char.- cellorsville ! The triumph there achieved upon those two successive days by the Confederates turns out—the more we learn of the facts—to have been quite unmistakeable. And it appears to have been a success obtained by the good generalship of General LEE, the Confederate Commander-in-Chief, a success confirmed and carried to the climax of victory by the vigorous dash and the unflinching determination of General " STONEWALL" JACKSON, the most distinguished among that Commander's many able and gifted Lieutenants. Not one jot less than the notorious skedaddle of Bull's Run, the flight of the Federals from the battle-ground on the 2d inst. proves to have been a veritable :aura qui peat. Although we have yet to learn the number of the killed and wounded upon these two terrible days of conflict, for once the anticipative mention of a " carnage " awful, threatens to be in no way ex aggerated. For three hours and a half on Satur day, the 2d, for four hours, immediately after day break on the following (Sunday) morning, the work of butchery seems to have gone on. A butchery mostly on one side, upon the Saturday, in consequence of the ignominious flight of the Federals before the victorious Confederates. A butchery somewhat more equally shared by the belligerents on Sunday, seeing that then at last the Federal forces appear to have turned at bay, and to have met with a sort of desperation of resistance the fierce onslaught of the foe. Remembering all the while how nearly identical these opposing armies are in blood, in birth, in religion, in language—it cannot be without a shudder that the " News of Battle" from the American seat of war, of that most miserable and deplorable of all wars, Civil War, is brought to us, at uncertain intervals, thus, across the Atlantic. Jocular references have been made before now to the extravagant state ments put forth (principally by the Federals) since the commencement of the war, the extravagant and preposterous statements put forth as to the number of the killed and wounded upon the different battlefields, since then, contended for by the belligerents. If we remember rightly, it was Punch who facetiously estimated that if thus massed together into one simple aggregate, the total number would amount to something like a few odd millions. The dreadful truth, however, is beyond the reach of contradiction, that the carnage, though exaggerated at the time of its occurrence, piecemeal, is, never theless, in woeful reality, something truly lament able in its actual magnitude when it comes to be looked back at. It has grown, at length, this ag gregate of slaughter, to proportions so huge that Europe cannot but yearn, more earnestly than ever, to witness, prove witnes in anys,tobeeome the cause of, if that may but way possible, a reconciliation of some kind between these infuriated antagonists. The French EMPEROR has twice essayed to interfere be t weep them with his diplomacy. T w i ce h e h as str i ven to secure to himself, there, in the.interests of our Common humanity, the benignant glory of a peace maker. Upon each occasion the generous effort was ins akr. t a e n tly recognised, by all but the over zealous counsels of the Tuileries, to have been hopelessly premature. It was so recognised — reluctantly, but unavoidably so recognized—by our own Admini strators. In arriving at that conviction, in point of fact, our Ministers had no choice whatever before them. The negotiation of a peace between North and South, then and thcre, upon each of those occasions, however desirable it was in itself, was all the while, in the s T t h an at ce i s o o t u o r say, Government ac tual situation of hgs simply impracticable. All that a rea sonable Go vernment could under these circum without a did moment'san ddi u d n i n n e s e t e a s n sa tl ry y. delay they expressed their regret that this was im• possible— waiting them elves watchfully the French imperial Government to w ai t, in n rg i ike manner, always eagerly on the alert for (what sooner or later m us t come ) the fitting opportunity. * ly Whenever a more th an ordinari ly of any kind happens upo n either side, wh et h er upon great disaster the side of the Federals or upon the side of the Confederates, one is naturally driven to the inquiry —ls this the opportunity ? The hope comes to us almost inevitably now, as it has come to us time and again before now—it comes to us now, for the moment, at least, more forcibly than ever —when General HOOKER'S army (a sort of a grand forlorn hope in its way after the Federal failures of the past) is actually understood to have been believed by very many both at New York and at Washington to have been all but cut to pieces by the victorious Confederates at Chancellorsville. As we could not but take occasion to remark on Satur day—a remark echoed, we are glad to observe, to day by every one of our morning concemporaries— the silence, the reticence, the euppressio reri notice able on the part of the Federal Government, as to the result of the Sunday's fighting, as to the events of the day following, looks ominous of evil for the North, admits but of one very melan choly construction for the Federal population. Contrary to the principle of the old familiar adage— "No news is ill news" under any such a combina tion of circumstances. A Government similarly situated, when it suppresses the announce ment of facts eagerly looked for by the people, virtually acknowledges, and, by so doing, that it has no news of a satisfactory character to give—nay, on the contrary, that the news it is known to be hiding is too disastrous of its kind to be whispered about. Never before have we had greater reason to look forward with eager solicitude for the sequel of the blood-stained narrative of yet another frag mentary incident of this direful civil war in America. Eagerly looking forward to this sequel, more eagerly, we say, looking forward to it than ever, because upon the nature of that sequel may, in truth, more probably than ever now depend the chances of a close being at length put to a carnage so very frightful, and threatening at times almost, one might say, to be interminable. The once Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Forces, General WCLELLAN, is still, as we all know, popularly spoken of by his admirers as The Young NAPOLEON. For what reason no rational European who has watched his career hitherto can in any way, for the life of him, con- jecture. If only General LEE, the Confederate Commander-in-Chief, or General JACKSON the first of his Lieutenants, knows in any partial degree even, what the Great NAPOLEON knew to perfection, how to follow up a victory, our next advices from America may tend to strengthen the vague and fitful hopes that have been awakened in us by the news brought to us on Saturday by the Persia—the hopes, encouraged by these later tidings now of the route on Monday of General SEDGWICK'S division—the hopes, namely, that, in regard to this deplorable war in America, there are becoming at last momentarily visible the glimmering indications of a beginning of the end. The chief subject of interest in Paris just now is the attack made by M. DE PERSIGNY on the free discussion of the press. His last action has been to attack the France, which, curiously enough, is one of the most zealous supporters of the Govern ment. The charge brought against the journal in question is that of " in affecting to express the secret thoughts of the Government daily, but spe cially in the article incriminated, it distorts and disguises its policy in the elections so as to mislead public opinion." Apparently, Count PERsIGNY is inclined to echo the words of CANNING—" Save me from the candid friend." It has been rumoured that he is personally mortified at something insin uated against himself oonoerning the mistake of putting down the• anciens partis. Be this as it may, the very harsh proceeding referred to is a most unwise and very inconsistent one. The sentence which is said to have given such dire offence is simple and harmless enough to the eyes of the English public, and it would puzzle anyone here to say in what capacity it has deserved a visit from a commissary of police :—" M. le Ministre of the In terior labours under the delusion that the anciens partis require to be put down, at the very time when all the world acknowledges that they are utterly powerless. He has fought them ardently as though they were present in the flesh, and has not perceived that he was merely contending against shadows." TALLEYRAND, in alluding to the act of some im portant personage that had caused great confusion observed that "it was worse than a crime, it was a blunder ;" and surely this remark might with true force be applied to the Count de PERSIGNY at the present juncture, Nothing could be more impolitic than to offend, by an overt act of harshness, just when it is so important and essential to be on good terms with every one, and to maintain a fair cha racter before the eyes of the nation. In a private atd personal sense also it is nearly as great an error as in a public view of the matter it seems a mis take. It is always a false move to allow any pri vate motive to actuate a public action, and the com bination in this instance of an affront that is too trivial to take up at all with the recognition of a political wrong in a mere form of expression, con duces to place the Minister of the Interior in a false position before the country as a statesman. He has been too ready to rush into extremes, and has shown himself incapable of that restraint and endurance which are such essential qualities in any man who has to come prominently forward and brave the attacks of various opinions, and offend the prejudices of several classes. The system of surveillance that has long been ex ercised over the press of France has been often lamented by the impartial lookers-on in the neigh bouring States. When the EMPEROR made his famous speech some months ago, exhorting the French to emulate the English in the glory and success of their free institutions, it was hoped that this eterated expression of liberal sentiments would inaugurate a better and brighter deriod for the Press,- since, in nothing could our continental brethren so wisely or so happily tread in their foot steps. Those who indulged in such expectations will be doomed to disappointment, if this event is to be the precursor of the Government policy in the eventful time of the elections. All well-wishers to the Napoleonic rule will deplore this unwise pro ceeding, which must damp the expectations of friends, and give a handle to the enemy, through its abruptness and severity. There is one satisfac tion, however, that the EMPEROR can do just as he pleases, and therefore we must hope that, with his usual foresight and discrimination, he will scent this danger from afar, and revoke these arbitrary r n u i s l e e s o , vaenrd and res c t indthese ran ple d regulations, w nto weak e a k a w n h d i which t powerless y ran - to who,do h i fa not m , e w x h a i e l t e l y they str o i n n g c e : s e e n an mnay i y n fur som i a o t a d o a t h y e r b s e , dangerous to the welfare, if not inimical, to the ex istence of a dynasty. It is not likely, if perfect freedom were allowed to the press in France, that the privilege would be abused, and, at all events, it would be worth while to settle the vexed question, once and for all, by making the expariment. The coal could easily be put on again if it were the c m a e s n e, t and ou l t d h Go b e e entitled srem rn Government t t h h e a t m best a d t e h a t n h li e s e o x f p e t ri h e community, while it would gain the applause and admiration of Europe for its noble endLavour to raise the standard rather d n a d rd do o n f freedom in the heart of i t s d d o i m sc i t n is i s o i n on s. s It is the same with nations as w i t h individuals, th ose are a l ways t h e s t ronges t who have criticism, u shrink n o o t urt uofnrvoimneaedny s that from if theirnay if their acti ons are mistaken, thi s i s t h e w i ses t way of proving them. The judgm en t o f one genera ti o n t, if is valid, they will stand the tet tai does not differ on essential points from that of another, and no great qualities that are wrongly app ied cannot gain the esteem of tke present, will obtain that of the future. Sir RODERICK MURCHISON'S letter will be perused with great interest and satisfaction by a large class of readers. In the first place, we must all 1-ejoies in learning the safety of the brave and enterprising Englishman, who was reported a short time since to have fallen a victim to his labours in the cause of discovery. Consul PETHERICK is already familiar with the peculiarities and dangers of the African climate, and the interesting work on the country' which we owe to his pen, bears witness to his know ledge and ability. It will also be a great satisfac tion to those who are interested, as all intelligent and cultivated minds must be, in the progress of geographical science, to find that the great question as to the source of the White Nile is believed on good authority to be satisfactorily settled. Curi ously enough, it is the great lake Victoria Nyanza whose discovery obtained for Captain SPEKE the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, that he now concludes to be— " The cradle of that mighty birth, So long a hidden thing to earth." "The Victoria Nyanza," writes Capt. SPEKE, is the great reservoir of the sacred Bahr el Abiad, or White Nile and his discovery has thus proved to be of eeen greater importance than was first supposed . Another Englishman,whose popular work on "The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon" has made his exploits familiar to the English reader, has resolved to pro secute his researches still further, and has gone to the south-west to extend his explorations, hoping to find another great internel lake, or branch of the White Nile. He intends to be absent one year, but the chances and changes of African travel forbid an exact calculation. He was the first Englishman who encountered the returning party, and supplied their wants with a liberal hand. Captains SPEKE and GRANT effected their proposed junction with Mr. PETHERICK at Gondokoro, on the White Nile, on the 23d of February, and Captain SPEKE, writ ing a month later, reports that he left Mr. PETHERICK, his wife and party, all well. The spirited lady who shared her husband's perilous exploits has, therefore, happily not suffered from the consequent hardships. Thanks to the energy and daring of our country. men, combined with the love of science and dis covery which has always been a prominent feature in the national character, the interior of that vast continent, once a complete terra incognita, is now becoming gradually opened to European enterprise. It is not many years since the tide of discovery first turned in the direction of Southern Central Africa. It would seem as though, having exhausted the secrets of the Northern seas, whose dreary winter and terribae army of icebergs,rendered the achieve ments of invasion a fruitless triumph, English ad venturers had naturally turned their inquiries to districts where the task was more hopeful, and offered, when accomplished, more substantial bene fits to mankind. The love of spoil has drawn ttither some adventurers who, have done good service by exploring untracked paths and opening communication with the tribes of the interior. Captain SPEKE has long been known as one of the pioneers of African discovery. In conjunction with Mr. BUR TON he accomplished an expedition of fatigue and danger. His subsequent explorations in Zanzibar and its vicinity will be fresh in the re collection of the readers of Blackwood's Magazine, from the interesting account of his adventures which he forwarded to its pages from time to time. His long course of labours has now met a fitting reward in this triumphant discovery, which Sir RODERICK MURCHISON—no incompetent judge—styles " the most remarkable geographical feat of our age." It adds another to the many noble testimonies to the labour and sagacity °Cour countrymen : while the rapid progress made in the path of African discovery affords us ground for hoping that the dawn may be breaking over that benighted country, and that we may yet see in our own day the first steps taken towards its civilisation and development. It is evi dent there is a large supply of water in the interior, which, when the appliances of science are brought to bear, will be of inestimable value. The proposed cultivation of cotton in Southern Africa is another step in the right way, for if the thoughts of the natives are once turned from the plunder to be obtained by war to the profit made by peaceful traffic, from the gain derived from the sale of wretched cap tives to the sums to be won by horaest trade and barter, a very important point will have been gained. The travels of D r. LIVINGSTONE, have already done good service in the direction of the Zambesi, and savage and uncouth as the interior tribes may be, they have yet learned in many quarters to respect the white man's justice, to trust his honour, and to fear his skilful band and deadly weapon. It is too much to hope that all subsequent travellers and emigrants will keep up the high standard main tained by these gentlemen in their dealings with the natives, but if such a thing were possible it would be the most valuable ally we could have in our dealings with the natives. We are glad to find that Captain SPEKE and his party are now on their road homewards, to receive, we doubt not, those tokens of admiration and cordial welcome which their countrymen will readily accord them. On Friday the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association was held at Willis's Rooms, the Duke of CAMBRIDGE presiding. There was a con siderable assemblage present. The Duke of CAM BRIDGE made a brief speech, in the course of which he alluded to several interesting facts. First of all, his Royal Highness mentioned one circumstance that was rather unpropi:ious, and that was the annual subscriptions were not so considerable as the committee required. This was, he said, an invidious task to perform, but it was also :a highly essential one, since unless the subscriptions were very consi derable it was difficult for the council to perform their functions at all. " I hope," said his Royal Highness, " that the council have met the feeling of the volunteers in the country, as we all know that the arm in use by the volunteers should be brought more forward, and arrangements have been made with that view." It is to be hoped that this defect will be remedied before another meeting is held ; and it is of essential importance that sufficient means are afforded for the working of this excel lent association. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE simply stated the facts, and left his hearers to point a moral for themselves. It too often happens that these plans are set on foot with great enthusiasm at first, but after a short time they are suffered to fall into decadence, until at last they are given up in de spair. It would be a great pity if such an under taking as this was to fail, and therefore it behoves all interested in its sucuss to bestir themselves, and to make great E fforts to carry out its original inten tions with spi r i t and energ y. The committee have taken great p a i ns to meet t h e requ irements of the case, by est a bli s hi ng prizes f or the next competi tion ; in particular there are the sixty new p rizes for all corners, ran k and file, rifle. Toousing the Government much attention can hardly be paid to this subject; and alth o ugh some persons may con sider it overrated and r uined to many other public concerns, it is not so in reality, and the Duke of CAMBRIDGE is entitled to the thanks of those whom it immediately concerns for coming forward so spontaneously and doing his best to advocate the claims and uphold the importance of this associa tion. A timely wantirg is often of great service, and it is to be trusted that it will prove so in this instance, and that the meeting of July will record more satisfactory details of flourishing finances. HAYMARKET THEATRE. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ANOTHER DEFEAT OF THE FEDERALS. TOTAL ROUTE OF GEN. SEDGWICK'S DIVISION. LIVERPOOL, MAY 18. An extra edition of the New York Herald of the 6th inst., published just at the departure of the Persia, has hem received here. It contains the turther intelligence. Advices from Hooker's main army to the night of Monday, 4th inst., announce that General Hooker maintained his new line without important change. Monday was a quiet day. No fighting what eTer took place until late in the afternoon, when G,neral Hooker advanced a division to &el the enemy. A brisk action ensued, lasting half an hour. The Federals afterwards retired to their main line and rested. General Hooker is busily entrenching. Advises from General Sedgwick's foras are to two o'clock on Tuesday morning (sth must). General Sedgwick's division, 15,000 strong, was hotly en gaged throughout Monday. It was terribly cut up, gave way, and finally recrossed the river during the night. The slaughter was frightful on both sides. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 18. The Ministers did not make their appearance in the Chamber of Deputies to-day. The President read a letter from the Ministry, of to-day's date, relative to the late resolution of the Chamber. This let ter concludes as follows: " The Ministry have not asked that the Presi• dent should relinquish his right of interrupting their speeches, but only that he should declare that he has no disciplinary privilege, especially that of calling the Ministers to order. The Ministry repeat that unless etch a declara tion be made they will not be present at the sittings of the Chamber. POLAND. BRESLAU, MAY 17. Private letters from Poland state that the Russian Government has ordered the officers and civil func tionaries in Poland to send their wives without delay into the interior of Russia. THE NEW COMEDY. An original comedy from the pen of a grand daughter of Sheridan is an event in theatrical annals of more than ordinary importance. The theory that genius runs in the blood—however materialistic in respect to mind, and however rarely supported by any distinctive and decisive instances —has nevertheless an attraction for us which is pretty generally diffused, and which leads to expec tations that are more easily indulged than they can be accounted for. Little wonder, there fore, that a name so illustrious as that of Sheridan should excite such expectations in a more than ordinary degree, and bestow on the event in question an infinitely higher interest than has been raised in dramatic circles for very many years. Another circumstance must be referred to as greatly strengthening such impressions. The writing of elegant comedy has become so rare in recent times, that we were beginning to include it in the list of the lost arts, and accordingly its as sumption, by Lady Gifford, seemed such a coming to the rescue that we welcomed the effort for its opportuneness, quite as much as its superior promise. A moo important branch of our drama seems in the last stage of decline—and here was the promise of resuscitation held out to us from the highest chan nel—the removal of the greatest want in the comic literature of our day was connected, however re motely, with the greatest name in its especial pro vince that has enlarged the honour of our country. We wish it had been in our power to say these hopes had been fulfilled. The new comedy by Lady Gifford, produced at the above theatre on Saturday evening, under the title of " Finesse," is, in the first place, not a picture of existing English manners. Its scene is laid in the Mediterranean half a century ago; and its aim is mainly to illustrate one of the many chequered phases of the old Napoleonic war. Its action takes place at Messina in 1811, — when Sicily was under the protection of England— and was the asylum of Ferdinand the 4th, chohad been driven from Naples by Murat, and its story turns chiefly on the intrigues of the French party on the Island headed by an escaped English convict named St. Clair, and a certain Count Filipo—who seek to subvert the English authority, and whose toils are frustrated by the skill and fidelity of a Dr. Bertrand, a French Emigre, and his son, Jules D ir tigney, the latter of whom is in the English service and volunteers as a sp3 to obtain a knowledge of the enemy's plans and direct evidence against their leaders. With this leading historical interest, which is by no means cleariy made oat, two minor ones are combined—the story, in the first place, of the Emigre, wha believes he has lost his son in France, and unconsciously employs him as the spy, in utter indifference to his fate—his son purposely withholding his secret from his father, and volun teering for his dangerous task in order that he may secure the latter's safety—and, secondly, the story of Lucy Brandon, who is beloved by an English naval officer, but is destined by her aunt, the wife of a visionary German, to become the bride, or rather the victim, of one of the French conspirators. With this foundation is interwove! , some broadly comic situations, consisting of the ad ventures of a Mr. Poppleton, a young Englishman who disports him at Messina as a specimen of a British sailor, abounding in his distinctions of a love of hornpipes, grog, and fisticuffs; and also of a German baron, who believes he has discovered the elixir vitao, and proposes to try it on a mummy with which he is to be furnished by Dr. Bertrand, with the view of restoring the dead to life. Such a melange as this, even though it referred to our own day, could scarcely be classed with comedy, and especially that of Sheridan, nor is the divergence narrowed by the writing, which, though agreeable enough throughout, mikes no pretension to the wit and satire of the great exemplar we have just named. This comedy is, in fact, a comic drama in three acts, which, on the interest of the Emigre and his son, threads some capital broad farce of the German Baron and the amateur Sailor, which also presents a lively picture of the motley He that diversified the time and place that it pour trays, and which, on the other hand, has the defect of an historic portion that is almost unintelligible as it is detailed, and which is wholly uninteresting. We shall not attempt to follow the complication 3 of the plot that remind us of nothing so much es the si nuosities of a Bauyou stream in Louisiana—but sim plycontent ourselves with saying that the youngspy having succeeded in penetrating to the councils of the French leaders and obtaining evidence against them, is enabled to return to the English lines by being conveyer as a dead body in a mummy chest to the German Baron, who proposes to restore him to life by means of his elixir vitae—from whence he makes his way to his ship, and at length returns from it with a torte in time to arrest the French conspirators just as they are on the point of making a capture of Lucy Brandon and her friends. The success of this drama, which was very great, was undeniably owing to its acting. Mr. Wigan RS Dr. Bertrand—who is another version of hie \lons. Tourbillon, changing the lost daughter For a son—played with all his usual truth and feeling ; and in the last scene, where he believes his son is about to be arrested, 'aid he seizes a sword to defend him, exhi aited a force that was so masterly it contributed much to the result of the night. Scarcely less im oortant, however, was the exuberant humour of Mr. Buckstone in the English tar, after the fashion of our old minor theatres, with his perpetual jig and fisticuffs, or the dreamy characterisation of Mr. Chippendale as the German Baron—the scene of the two especially, when Poppleton takes the place of the escaped spy, and is supposed by the Baron to be the dead body that his elixir vitro has rescuscitated, causing an uproar of laughter such as that we have never heard exceeded. The notion of restoring a mummy to life by means of an elixir vitae, is taken from the old Lyceum farce which John Reeve was once so famous in ; but the result of the resuscitation as given in this scene, where the Baron fancies he has saddled himself with a great scoundrel for the rest of his days, was an original conception, that was very humorously worked out. Miss Angel, in the slight sketch of Lucy Brandon, was very engaging ; and Mrs. Wilkins, as the Baron's wife, who is jealous of him, and believes he has resuscitated a natural son, was very spirited and comic. Mrs. Wigan, iu the servant Bobbin, a girl who detests foreigners and is full of horrid tales about them, was very natural, but so weak, that half the effect of the part was lost, especially when contrasted with what it would have been in the hands of Miss Louise Keeley. Mr. Howe, as the Eng lish officer, was manly and pleasant as usual ; and Mr. Walter Gordon and Mr. Brsid, as the two con spirators, played with character and purpose. We must not forget also the very earnest sketch of the young spy by Mr. W.Farren. The house, it is needless to add, was filled to over flowing, and the audience at the fall of the curtain, after calling with great heartiness for the leading actors and the authoress, received the announce ment of the drama for every evening with a loud burst of approbation. THE DERBY AND OAKS.--TRE " COURT JOUR NAL."—The sporting at ticle in the Court Journal is gene rally acknowledged to be the best that api ears in any Eng lish newspaper, as bring addressed to the practical ques tion, and founded upon exclusive and, to others, inacces sible information. The number for Saturday, May 16th, is especially worth c onsu l ting, as the review of the Derby and Oaks is not only much longer and more detailed, but far more accurate, than that appearing in any ;of the pro fessed sporting papers. Price sd. ; stamped 6d. W. Thomas, 29, Brydges -street, Covent-garden, and all newsagerkto i • THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, MAY 18. The Valetta, with the above, arrived at Mar seilles at 8 a.m. this day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. FRANCE. BOURSE, May 16.—The market remains inani mate, but without any further material decline in prices, Threes, for the Account, being now at. 69f. 50c. The Railway Share Market has been quiet. with yesterday's prices up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows : -It per Cents .. 97 Italian Loan 72 10 Do end month.... Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 55 Do. end month.... -- Credit Mobilier.... 1435 Russian Do, end month.... 1437 50 Austrian Bank Shares 3400 Spanieh Threes.... Credit koncier 1470 Home Debt — t V - 4, , r7l; = " . Ilitt Re ILWAYS. Cash. Acne ont. Orleans lOO5 .. 1010 Northern New ditto .. 101.5 Lyons and Mediterranean 1067 50 .. 1072 50 Geneva.. — .. 460 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian t.ospbara North of Spain •••• • • • • 577 50 • • 580 Saragossa 760 .. 751 25 Ditto to Barcelona BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the account for month ending Thursday, May 15 : ASSETS. F. C. Cash and ingots .. .. .. .. 117,089,328 49 Cash at the branch-banks .. .. .. 277,060,217 Bills due to be paid to-day.. .. 491,548 66 Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 60,204,418 f. 77c. are from the branch banks 272,777 , 27 2 3 Bills in the branch-banks .. .. . 225,6 ,- 4,576 . Advances on coin and i ngo t s .. • • 9,268,900 Do in the branch banks .. • • 2,344,600 Do un French securities Do in the br anc h-b an k s .. .. 69,761,200 .. • • 17,825,600 Do on railway shares and bonds .. 57,227,600 Do in the branch-banks 32,890,650 Do on Credit Foncier Bonds . • • • 402,300 1)o in the branch-banks 351,450 Do to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 60,000,000 Rentes of the reserve-fund .. .. 12,980,750 14 Rentes, disposable funds .. .. .. 30,545.726 86 Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. .. 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks .. .. 6,042,5 3 Expenses of administration .. .. 1,555,758 56 Sundries .. • • .. .. .. 7,6.55,353 71 1,305,958,381 35 LIABILITIES, Capital .. • . . • • • .. 182,500,000 Reserve-fund .. 12,980,750 14 New Reserve 9,125,000 Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000 Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of law June 9 1857) •• •• •• 2,316,503 57 Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and the branch-banks 773,448,075 Do. to order (Post-bills) .. 3,800,037 11 Bills payable at sight .. 5,814,438 Ace. cur. of Treasury Creditor .. 94,866,954 62 Various accounts current .. 163,707,447 76 Do. branch-banks 30,866,626 Dividends to be paid .. .. .. 893,613 75 Arrears of values deposited .. 4,312,143 21 Discount, interest, and expenses 12,612,819 71 Re-discounts of the last half-year .. 1,850,877 89 Sundries •• ~ .. .. 2 873,097 59 1,305,958,384 35 Death of Mr. Western Wood, M. P. We record with deep regret the death of Western Wood, Esq., member of Parliament for the City of London. This melancholy event took place at half past nine o'clock yesterday morning, at North Cray Place, Kent, the residence of the lamented gentle man. Early in the past week Mr. Wood was at tacked by intl tmmation of the lungs, and his illness being accompanied by pleurisy, soon presented such a complication of symptoms as bbffled the skill of Ills medical attendants, end rendered his case hope less. The deceased was the youngest son of the late Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., who re presented the City in Parliament for twenty-eight years. The brothers of Mr. Wood aro the Rev. Sir J. Page Wood, the present baronet, and Sir W. Page WJod, the Vice-Chancellor. Mr. Wood was a magistrate of the county of Kent. He was re turned for the City in 1861, his opponent being Mr. Cuhitt, who was started in the Tory interest. The contest will be long remembered as one of the most exciting that ever took place in the City. The politics of Mr. Wood were decidedly Liberal, as may be gathered from his electioneering pledge to sup port any measures calculated to secure an improve ment in the representation of the people, an in3reased diffusion of education, and an equitable adjustment of the vexed question of church rates. Mr. Wood was born in London on the 4th of January, 1804, and was, consequently, in his sixtieth year. He was educated at Winchester College, and in 1829 married a daughter of John Morris, Esq., a director of the East India Company. The issue of this union, still living, is two sons and three daughters. By Mr. Wood's death a vacancy occurs in the re prepentation of the City. HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 16. The Queen, with the members of the Royal Family acccmpanying her Majesty, arrived safely et a quarter to four this afternoon. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Princess of Wales and the Princess Louis of Hesse took a drive in an open carriage on Saturday. The Prince of Wales honoured Mr. Frith with 6 sitting for his picture of the Royal Wedding, at bis studio, on Saturday. Mr. Theodore Jensen has had the honour of a second sitting from the Princess of Wales, for the purpose of taking a life-sized portrait of her Royal Highnesses. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, honoured the performance at the Lycem Theatre with their presence in the evening. Yesterday morning the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse attended Divine service in the Chapel Royal, St' James's. The Communion Service was read by the Bishop of London, the Rev. T. Randolph, and the Rev. J. Antrobus. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London from Genesis, chapter i., v. 27' - The anthem was, " God is gone up"—Croft. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. Their Royal High' times were attended by the Countess of Maccles field, Baroness von Schenck, Baroness von Gran* Major Teesdale, and Captain Westerweller. The Archbishop of Armagh, the Earl of St. GermanSi and Viscount Sydney also attended the service. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse visited the Whit° Lodge in Richmond-park. Her Majesty's Drawing-Room, By command of the Queen, a Drawing-room WO held on Saturday in St. James's Palace by her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales on behalf of her Majesty. The Court was attended by about 2,000 of the nobility and gentry. The presentation s of ladies upon this occasion exceeded 600, and, by the Queen's pleasure, were considered equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended bi the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and escorted by a party of Life Guards, arrived soon after two o'clock at St. James's Palace, and were received bi the Mistress of the Robes and the Great Officers of State of the Queen's Household. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse arrived from Marlborough House' attended by Baroness von Schenck, Baroness ill° Grancy, Captain Westerweller, and Mr. Becker. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange iv°l attended by his Gentlemen in Waiting. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Wal attended by the Hon. James Macdonald. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cool' bridge was attended by Lady G. Somerset and CO;1 Home Purvis, Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Frederic of Holstein also attended th e Driwing-room. The Royal Body Guard of her Majesty's 11° , " /1 : Corps of Gentlemen at Arms wa s on d uty in 0 State Saloons, under the comm an d o f th e lieete ° pant. Captain Philips, the sub officer, was on del with the corps. The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty, 0111 : manded by Captain Parkes Rickford, the Evil 1 ° Waiting. The Princess of Wales took her station in fron t of the throne, accompanied by the Prince °f Wales and the other members of the royal famill Her Royal Highness wore a train of rich w hite silk, having a deep trimming of white crape, an' wreaths of white lilac and Honiton lace ; the petty coat richly trimmed to match the train. The headdress of the Princess was formed of $ diamond tiara, feathers, and tulle veil. The ornaments were diamonds and opals. The Prince of Wales wore the uniform of th e 10th Hussars, of which regiment his Royal WO' ness is colonel. • of The Princess Louise of Hesse wore a train s silver moire, richly trimmed with pale violet velvet and silver bullion ; the petticoat of white crys tal; line with bouillonnes of white tulle, covered with Irish point, looped with velvet and silver to pla t° the train. eil The headdress a diamond tiara, a tulle / ornamented with pearls and feathers. Diamond necklace, brooch, and ear-rings. 4 . The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a P et `', l l ; coat of white satin, trimmed with tulle and Wm. of lilac velvet, covered witha tunic of Honitonil the train of lilac silver moire an ti que , trimm ed round with Honiton lace. „ged Her Royal Highness's headd ress was corrifhm, of a diadem of diamond s mounte d on lil a c vell e w l feathers, and silver tulle veil. Necklace, stomacher, and ear-rings of pearls and diamonds. In attendance on the Princess of Wales were the. Duchess o f W e lli ngton , Mi stress o f th e Robes 0 0 0 Queen ; the Countess of Gainsborough, Viscount° Jocelyn, Countess of Desert, Marchioness of Elf; and Lady Churchhiil, Ladies of the Bedchamb er the Queen; the Countess of Macclesfield, Lady i t Waiting to h er R o y a l Hi g h ness; H on . Lucy 1 .. .. e1. 0 , 1 Hon. Victo r i a St uar t W or tl e y, H on . Flora I" fi la , donald, Hon. Horatia Stopford, H on . Emily ° lt o cart, and Hon. Beatrice Byng, Maids of H o nour it the Queen ; Lady Charlotte Copley, Lady S erf' Lindsay, Viscountess Chewton, Hon. Mrs. Ca. n t l: bell, and Viscountess Forbes, Women of the P e at chamber to the Queen ; Hon. Mrs. Cooke, W 0 .,., 131 : r 1 of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness ; the ' F4 ' l 4 of St. Germans, G.C.8., Lord Steward ; In ic , cll- 1 Sydney, G.C.8., .Lord Chamberlain; Marqui s 4 , 4 ° . Ailesbury, Master of the Horse to the all ee- o i Lord Harris, K. 5.1., Chamberlain to her 1 44 0 , Highness; Viscount Bury, Treasurer of the 1 01/ ! 0; hold; Viscount Castlerosse, Vic e -Ch a mberia l e 0 , Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to the Q°° i 4 Deut..Gen. Sir Henry Bentinck, K.C.8., Waiting; Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshali; Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Equerry Waiting ; and the Pages of Honour in Waiting the Queen. oa The Prince of Wales was attended by Lord A lfr Hervey, Lord in Waiting ; Lieut.-Gen. ICo°l'fi Comptroller and Treasu rer; M r. Ch ar l es L. 11°,, J-1 . Groom in Waiti ng; M a j or T ees d a l e , Equerry ,•0 Waiting. We are enabled to state that th e ir Rope- ° n ot l nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will 1 113 4 , f4 11 - e if with their presence Epsom Rac e s on th e D er by pg . ' 'DO Royal Highnesses will also visit Ascot on the CI e , and Eton festival on the followin g d a y, th e sth of 'S t e Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess O f lo go bridge and the Princess Mary honoured Sir li n ,' ander and Lady Arabella Bannerman with their ee ni `Ths at dinner on Friday evening, in Grosvenor-plac e : 4V following guests had th e h onour o f meet i ng hi s royal - oi l nesses :—The Au s t r i an A m b assa d or an d C oun t e ss AP b u rls the Duke of Newcastle, Maria Marchioness of 0 4 , the Earl and Countess Delawarr, Mr. George Rties. c e r i et Lady Charlotte R usse ll, th e E ar l o f S e ft o n, the ' T O Listowel, Viscount Ha m ilt on , Vi scoun t Chelsea. "; Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home Parvea W et waiting en their highnesses. a II The Duchess of Inv erness w ill be honou rs wo e the company of their Royal Highnesses the r t io r and Princess of Wales at dinner on Monday twi t ' i l t a ke 1)1 sington Palace. Th e i r R oya l Hi g h nes ses the '`:, - " inc eo° Cambridge, th e D uc h ess o f C am b r id ge , an d the Kr Mary have been invited to join the royal circle. nefi The Duchess o f M ar lb oroug h' s party, an netl y for the 22d, is unavoidably postponed. tfotel° The Duke of Newcastle has .left Thornd° Bakeley.square, for Mansfield. A a ug o4 The Duke of Cleveland and Lady 1- ';: ; :ara° 6 Paulett have arrived at B ou l ogne f r om Paris. . 1- ' ' ..o d„y or is in imp rove d h ea lth, an d i s expec t e d home on Tuv Wednesday next. • betW eett 'A matrimonial alliance is on the tap is _ d gio the Hon. R. Cavendi s h, son of Gen. Cavendisl2,4:kboo Cockburn, daughter o f th e Right Hon. Sir ft. ana Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Both bridet groom have embraced ttiy ;lona= Catholics fio &ft-IW, 1