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

a ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a good inquiry for money in the dis count market, the preparations for the settlements at the Stock Exchange exerting some influence, and 3 1 Z- to 4 per cent. are the rates for the last three Months' bills. About £148,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yeaters'ay. The amount of specie to be taken out by the Ellora, which leaves on the 27th inst. for Bombay, is only £18,350. The weekly return issued from the Bank of Eng land yesterday exhibits some satisfactory changes. The bullion has been materially increased through the late arrivals of Australian gold, while large ad ditions have been made to the reserve of notes. here has been no large augmentation in the other ieeurities, although the demand for discount busi ness has been rather active. Annexed is our usual itualysis A ctive Circulation .. •• Decrease .. •• • • Bullion .. •• •• •• Increase .. • • • • Rest .. • • • . Increase .. • . •• Public Deposits •• • • Increase .. •• • • Other Deposits.. .. Decrease .. • • Seven Day and other Bills Increase .. .. • • Government Securities • • .. L 19,983,990 • • 147,060 • . 15,026,118 . • 175,962 . • 3,167,863 8,868 • . 10,279,053 .. 396,918 .. 13,809,996 94,510 638,675 1. 17,252 ▪ 11,251,395 No alteration. .. 21,408,064 5,506 .. 8,789,500 • 311,345 Other Securities .. Increase .. Notes Unemployed .. Increase .. During the last few days there has been rather tore activity in ti e markets for foreign and colo nial A rather large business has been lone in sugar at fully previous rates. Coffee, how. rver, held at slightly reduced prices, while mode rate dealings have been recorded in tea and rice, Without e.ny material change as regards values. Saltpetre is held for higher rates, while a more fictive demand has been experienced for tallow in 111 positions. Two O'CLOCK. At a special general meeting of the shareholders )f the London and Brazilian Bank to-day, Mr. 1 . W. Cater in the chair, the resolutions passed It the previous meeting rflative to the distribution 4 new shares, among the proprietors of the Anglo- Portuguese Bank, were confirmed. At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's :elegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were Very flat, at 68f. 32c. 68c. 30f. The English Stock market, while presenting no !hange in quotations, exhibits a dull and heavy ap ?earance. The Funds remain,' at the prices at Which they closed last evening, but a depressing tendency is nevertheless apparent in the desire nanifested both by the members of the house and Vee public to effect sales rather than purchases. the anxiety thus shown is no doubt greatly attri butable to the incertitude regarding continental tffairs. Consols are 916 for money, and 918 92 or the account. Very few dealings have taken place the New Threes and Redaced Annuities, which tri3 about 918 d ; India Stocks firmly support their Normer values, the 5 per Cent. Loan is 108 / ; and the 5 per Cents. Enfaced Paper 107/ ; Exchequer Bills are steady at 4s. die. to par. A further downward movement has taken place in most of the Foreign Securities, and business is rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70,1 ; ditto Consolides, 491 4 ; Mexican, 351 361 ; Glreek, 34*-1 ; ditto, Coupons, 151 161 ; Spanish Passive, 334 ; ditto Certificates, 114 12; Italian, 724 2 ; Egyptian, 104 101; Portuguese, 491, 4 ; the New Venezuelan Loan, 11 to 4 dis. ; and the Confederate Loan, 2to 1 dis. _ _ . In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been extremely limited, and the few bargains en tered into have been at slightly reduced rates. Great Eastern, Great Western, and North Western have each declined about ss. ; while North Eastern (Berwick) have improved ss. For the Foreign and Colonial lines previous prices are barely sustained. _ _ - . The operations in Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been to an average extent. Bank of Austral asia have improved to 761, and Union of Australia to 56i. Imperial Ottoman Bank have declined to 171, Bank of Egypt to 271, and Union of London to 361; Peninsular and Oriental Steam have im proved to 771. International Financial Shares are quoted 41 to 5 prem. ; London Financial ditto, 18 to 2k prem. ; General Credit Company, 11 to 1} Prem.; and Egyptian Trading Co. 11 to 11 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. % per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9l# i 3 per Cent. Console Annuities 9ll New 3 p er C en t. A nnu ities 9ll I India Stock — Ditto 5 per Cent lOBl 8 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent . . . . . Ditto 5 per Cent ... 1071 Consols for Account, July 9........... June 91 1 2 ..... .. ICachequer Bills, ;£l,OOO 21 per Cent... 1 die 4 dis Ditto £5OO — par 3 die Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. :Brazilian 5 per Cent ........ Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Iquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l6f Egyptian 7 pee Cent lOOl 1 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account .. 35 41 5/ 4 Ditto Coupons l6 15/ Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 36/ 6 1 5/ New Granada Ditto Deferred 9l Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account .. .......... Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 l ier Cent., 1862 Sardinia 5 per Cent .... — Ditto Account .. 89 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred — Dirco Account - -- !Di.tto Passive Tjitto Account SrAnish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7Ol 691 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 25 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account 72a 1 4 TWO O'CLOCK. Console, Money .1 A tto Account 9ll, Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Sales of the week, 32,260 bales, including 1,740 on speculation, and 10,460 for exportation. Quo tations of fair Orleans, 24 ;* Mobile, 231 ; Upland, 23 ; Estimated Middling Orleans 211 ; Mobile, 21 ; Upland, 201 ; Estimated fair Egyptian, 21. Stock 362,4000 bales.. Actual export, 9,436 bales. Surats, 11 to 191. Imports of the week, 32,869 bales. SHIPPING —This Day. LONDON . , June 26 —Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, June 25.—Sailed ---Her Majesty's ship Racoon, for Dundee. PLYMOUTH, June 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Berk. shire, from Liverpool for St. Thomas. leaky; Adamant, from London for Adelaide. KINGROAD, June 23.—Arrived—Ostrich, from Bar badoes ; Elizabeth, from Trinidad. CARDIFF, June 25.—Sailed--Bear, for Rio Janeiro; Deoi s, for Newport. FALMOUTH, June 25.—Wind N.—Sailed—Paccodilly, for Table Bay. MUMBLES, June 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chilian Packet, from Coquimbo. NEWPORT, June 25.—Arrived—City of Montreal, from London for New York. CLYDE, June 25.—Wind S.W. — Arrived—Mathilda from Trinidad de Cuba. OFF QUEENSTOWN, June 25,—Arrived—Jolly, from Monte Video. Rival companies of Americans and Italians have settled on Farralone Island, in the Pacific, 30 miles west of San Francisco, for the purpose of collecting valuable bird's eggs there. A desperate fight recently took place between the rival companies, in which many individuals were mor tally wounded. SHARE MARKETS---This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh.S. Sharel Railways. 3.14. Bir„ Wol., and Str. Val. 1111-yllie and Tyne. Bagt„Sleat.,andnid. l / 4 .;0 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon iCorn”,Tll 'Do A(A Lets 110 div 'Do. B S till6pc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin & Beltast June. I Dun.,Perth,&,Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Vrlasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk j Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st 'Great Scotland Northern Do A stock Do fi Gt. S. and W. of Ireland ;Great Western ....... Do Str Val gua. stock ILancashiee & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., sad Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Sce.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot 5hare5........ ,, Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent 3.4.0 Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London NDo New orth Staffordshire IN. and S. W. Junction ' Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,an d Wok. Stockton & Darlington 19.16.4 ! Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford ez Kilkenny West Cornwall . Hartlepool Har.&it West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford Paid. Closing I rice. 8 8i 81 85 i 87 114 1183 6 6i 40 0 14i .5i 93 94 109 111 52i 63i 49 51 2411 25 121 128' 129 PO • 134 136 101 103 651 (6 Lill 1112 74, 751 118 120 43 41 101 i 102 105 106 45i 4c! ill 12 1271. i2Bl. 14 11p 97 99 51} 52a 24i 25 1021 104 584 59i 891. 901 116 118 lei 16i 11/ 12* 120 122 15i 16i 99 101 117} i 50 52 32 33 91+ 42 69 71 100 102 7+ 8 :-.B+ 39 + 10 11 t, 8 8+ f , 153 156 5i 51 3 3 p 52i t 50k 1111 i 1022 78 82 156 160 BRITISH R Business done. 28 30 46 47 39 41 103 105 S>LSSI ONE. Closing h arc Eailways Paid. Price. Businesa don.. 100 vt iantic &St Lawrene, all 59 61 stk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 1K 109 110 10 Gu. 5 per cent 20 Do. New . ...... 20 Do. E. Shares.. 005 Buffalo and Laxelluron all 51 61 10 Do. Preference 100 BulTalo,Brant&Godrich io,. 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 18;4 100 at Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(Ln, ) 100 108 109 at Cape Town & Dock Scril 100 1095 1104 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 111 1,2 stock East Indian. gu. sp. C. 10f , 1094 1104 110 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 14 14p 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada tut, 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 75 100 Do. do. deferred.— all 57 60 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonds.; all 61 65 100 Do. do. deferred— all 50 63 SO 100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred— all 35 87 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 26 30 27 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 25 stock GtlndiaPenui.gua. s p.c lOO 1101 1101 1101 10 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0 l2 1 2 20 Do. January, 1862 stock Gt. South.of India(Lim: guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1085 1095 204 Gt. W. ofCanada Shares all 111 ill 111 205 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt all 97 100 100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 89 C 2 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 ; P stock Madras guar.. sp. c. 100 1075 1084 1084 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 100 103 1021 5 stock Dc. 4o d 0........ 100 69 101 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100 - 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 51 100 Do. 7p. c. ilortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswiok & Cando Class A and B .. all 3 5 N.lll.C'da6 pc lst pt bds 100 84 86 stock 3cinde (100 111 112 at Do. Delhi.. 1 100 108 1 1 09 Do. do „9 2 p 20 Do. Punjaub e .. 15 11 15p . at Do. Do. ...... , , 100 1075 1084 • ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 00' 105 107 C;OLO.NIAL GOVERN M ENI SSCliltl'l'lb:o. 6 p.c.J a ,1,,J di: - 1877-81 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 1(5 .07 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 105 (07 1051 Do. Sp. c. Jan.&.July. 100 08 09 971 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 06 93 Cape G. Hope, 6 p 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114 Do. 189( 100 113 115 - !Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 115 117 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 115 'Mau.itius 6 per cent .. 100 110 112 1104 , 'Natal Gut. 6 per cent.. 100 109 111 1N.8.G0v.6 a.&Jul) 100 108 109 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 18.. 100 1025 103 1 - Do. sp. c.,18 /1 to 1- 100 103 104' I Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 10E 165 1041 1 - , New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 112 114 iNova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO 108 109 —Queensland Go , . 6p. c lOO 1:3 115 I b.Aus G6p.c.1678.& up lOO 113 115 - Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 110 110 I Do. io Sp.°. Au.&Oot. 100 1111 1111 1114 1 131t1T18 . 1.1. 311 - N ES. 2 ICambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 Id - k:htiord Amalgamated.. 23 25 Devon G. Con.. (Taoist.; 1 535 645 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 774 825 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. id Ip East Caradon ".14.e 264 274 28 71 East Cara Brea.. • . E. WlRussel (Tavistk ) 8.1.6 21 24 31 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 57i S 11 relit South Tolgus l7a 45 5 IU. Wheal Vor (11elsten 40 04 7 Grenville . Herud's-Foot 8.12 41 43 flingston Downs 4.17.0 2 4 3 'Lady Bertha - Margaret (tiny Lelact 94 34 36 iMarke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim.) I 6 New Setun , 191 110 120 North Downs 1 24 14 2 N.Wh'i 13aseet (Illo4an 2.17.0 35 4 North Wheal Crotty —12.4.9 4 44 Par Consols (Et. Blazey)i 11 4 5 20 :I'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.); 10.6.7 12 44 SouthCaradon(StCleer)l 11 405 415 IS. Cara Brea (Illogan) 5.1 5 . 61 24 3 f:.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1 , .9 75 80 Stray Park h Camas Silv.& Lead Min. 45 1 1 !fin Croft w 20 21 !West Basset (Illogan) l4 12 13 ' W radon (Liskeard). 5 24 26 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 675 725 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 50 60 - Wheal Kitty (li.Lelant)i 2.0.6 - WhealLudt ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 11 16 Wheal Seton .l 584 230 240 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.)l 7 14 16 Wheal Union I 3.17 35 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 141 South Eastern (Reading Arms., £1.0.6), Ditto, 4 per cent., 104 South Eastern fixed 4} per cent., 103} PREFEMENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 10i LINES LEASED Al` FIXED RENTALS. Midland, Bradford pref. stock, 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Sk Great Luxembourg, 14} 14 amur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, 9 FOREIGN MINES. Alamillos, limited, 1 1 Cobre Copper, 281 8 Fortuna (lim.), 44 Mont. Aureos 13raz. Gold Min. Co. (lim.), 21 Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lim.), St. John del Rey (lion.), 56 United Mexican (liar.), 6i 7 Yudanariautana of S. Australia 31 t Alliance Bank of Anglo Portuguese (lim.), 71 Australasia, 761 JOINT-STOCKLo n d London a Ditto, new, 31 Bank of Egypt, 271 Bank of London, 127 Bank of Queensland (lim), S Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 281 Engiish, Sco.ch, and Australian Chartered, 234 Imperial Ottoman, 18/ 172 lc/ 171 London and Brazilian film.), 411 London Joint Stock, 07/ London and South African, 25 6 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 181 Provincial of Ireland, Ditto, new, 36 Union of Australia, 5 Union of London, 361 MISCELLANEOUS, Australian Agricultural, 22 Berlin Water Works, lim., 8f Electric Telegraph, 105 International - Financial Society, lhn., 71 1 1 Joint stock Discount, 4 Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 5 Peninsula and O. iental Steam, ni Ditto, new, 471 8 S. African Irrigation Investment (lim.),-41 RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA MENT,—Yesterday the committee of the Commons threw out the bill for the Blackburn, Chorley, and Wigan Rail way, which had been previously passed by the committee of the Lords. In the Lords the case of the Bradford, Wake field, and Leeds was opened by Mr. Phinn ; and the bill of the London, Brighton, and South Coast was passed without opposition. The following bills were passed in Lord Redes dale's committee :—Leominster and Kington Railway ; Mid Kent Railway ; West Shropshire Mineral ; Hemel Hemp sted and London and North-Western; London and Brighton new line at Crcydon) ; and Ogmore Railways. In Mr. Massey's committee the following were passed :—Watford and Rickrnansworth • Dulas;Valley Railway; Okehampton and Lidford ; and Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway. 1011 1 1 1051 14 Wf i li p THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1861 LAW INTELLIGENCE —This Day, COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) RIDGWAY V. ABINGDON AND OTHERS. Mr. M. Chambers resumed his address on the part of Mr. Ridgway, and contended that the evi dence that had been adduced bore out, in every par ticular, the statement he had made, that for two months previous to his death, Mr. Mayer was in a state totally incompetent to make a will. Not one independent person had bean produced who could give any evidence of the state of Mr. Mayer for a short time previous to his death, and under all the circumstances they (the jury) would be of opinion that the codicil to the will of Mr. Mayer had not been proved. The jury had not returned their verdict when we went to press. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. :Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.) DICKSON V. LORD COMBERMERE AND EARL OF WILTON. The further hearing of this protracted case was resumed this morning by the examination of Colonel North ; but the evidence of the gallant officar was merely a repetition of the observations of the learned gentlemen who appeared for the noble defendants. At the conclusion of the examination of witnesses, Mr. Bovill, Q,C., for the defence, replied upon the evi dence produced, and was addressing the court when we went to press. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Gou , .burn.) IN RE SPRINGBETT. This case was set down for a release from custody, but it transpired that the bankrupt had not filed the accounts required by the Act within three days after the filing of the petition, which was, therefore, dismissed. An application was now made for costs on behalf of the opposing creditors. His Honour said he could not perceive how he could make any order for costs. To whom were they to be paid, the petition being dismissed. The bankrupt had paid the costs. The solicitor submitted that a creditor coming to oppose should be entitled to claim costs. His Honour said that he had no power to award costs. LORD MAYOR'S COURT. (Before the Recorder and a Jury.) CURIOUS PHASE IN THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP.-VA.N- DE WALL V, ANNEVELD. This was an action to recover £2O upon an Mr. Henry James (instructed by Mr. Pearce, of Giltspur street) appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Joyce (instructed by Mr. Peallham) represented defendant. The plaintiff lent the defendant £2O, and received an 1.0. U. for it. Subsequently the plaintiff and defendant entered into partnership and traded for a short time. A dissolution followed, and then plaintiff applied for his £2O. It was alleged by defendant that he had purchased goods with the £2O and brought them into the business, but plaintiff denied that he money had been considered as coming into the accounts of the firm. Mr. James said that, as a rule, partnership disputes were settled by the Court of Chancery, but here the money was lent prior to the partnership, and although subsequent joint dealing had gone on it was competent for plaintiff to sue. His Lordship having summed up, the jury found for plaintiff. THE LATE " IRON TINES."-FOLLET V. BOLT. This was an action against the late editor of the late Iron Times, and Mr. Daley, for the plaintiff, said that if the plaintiff got his judgment it would be the only satisfaction that he, in all proLability, would receive. (Laughter.) The jury found for the plaintiff. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Day. The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PUBLIC WORKS MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS (ADVANCES) BILL. Mr. VILLIERS brought up the report on this bill. Mr. BENTICK expressed a hope that the security the right hon. gentleman proposed to offer was of a valid and substantial character, and that there was a reasonable pros pect of the money finding its way back in due time into the public purse. He did not consider that emigration was the only remedy for the present distress, but he hoped it was not true that the manufacturers were opposed to it on the selfish g round that they might require the labour. He trusted that the right hon. gentleman would explain the views of the Government on the point. Mr. ASPINAL TURNER denied the common rumour that the millowners had made large fortunes out of the pre. sent crisis. Many persons, clergymen as well as others, foreseeing the failure in the supply of cotton, had treasured it up, and thus made considerable sums of money. Mr. FE RRAND denounced the bill as a miserable one, and one which would never meet the exigencies of the case, It was in very truth a manufacturer's bill, a bill drawn up by the manufacturers of Lancashire, while the interests of the working people had never been consulted. He recom mended arrangements for sending ICO,OOO of our unctu ployed factory operatives to the colonies. Such a course must be taken, it was a question of time. He be. lieved the operatives would not be quiet another winter. The 400,000 unemployed people were tired of being paupers, and looked confidently, and, indeed, as they had an un doubted right, to the House of Commons for relief—a mill:on or so out of the many which they had been instru mental in adding to the many millions of the wealth of the country, and of which the Chancellor of the Exchequer boasted the other night, in order to place them in compara tive comfort in the colonies. The peat advocate of free trade, the honourable member for Wolverhampton, (Mr. Villiers) and the hon. member for Rochdale (Mr. Cobden) contended before its advent that its adoption would enable the people of this country to meet successfully every contingency that might happen; but it had fallen to pieces like a pack of cards for it had proved of no avail in the present emergency. It was said that this was an excep tional case, that being so exceptional elle viating remedies were required. What guarantee had t hey that it' peace were made between the North and South that it would last. Was not the war in Italy an exceptional state of things, though he could name many others. The fact was, the manufacturers wanted to keep the unemployed workpeople hanging about the mills in case they should happen to need them, The opinion of the best informed was to the effect that it was utterly impossible to restore the cotton trade, even in the most favourable circumstances, for two or three years. He implored the house to accede to the prayers of the opera tives, and would give them the means of emigrating. [LEFT SITTING.] Bank of England. Return—Yesterday. -4,---- An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 24th day cf . June, 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. otes issued .......X28,776,490, Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634,1 , 00 G old Coin & Bullion 14,126,400 Silver Bullion 428,776,490 £28,776,490 , EPARTMENT. G overnment Seen- rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £11,251,325 Other Securities 21,408,064 Notes Gold and Silver 899,628 Coin £42,348,587 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. AQUATICS. HENLEY•ON-THAMES ROYAL REGATTA. The regatta at Henley-on-Thames commenced yesterday. The entry list was the largest ever known since the first establishment of the regatta in 1849, and the attendance of spectators very great, the Great Western Railway autho rities having put on a number of special trains to meet the public convenience. The weather was delightfully fine, and the usual arrangements had been made by the regatta com mittee to accommodate visitors, the rank and fashion of the neighbourhood taking their places on the grand stand and in carriages on the bridge. The sport commenced precisely at half-past 12, and the following ale the principal races : STEWARDS' CHALLENGE CUP-FIRST HEAT. Cambridge, Third Trinity Cambridge, First irinity. 0 _ . . After the first few strokes 'I hird Trinity, who were on the Oxon side, began to come away, and gradually improving their advantage went in front of their adversaries and won easily, SECOND HEAT. Oxford University Boat Club 1 London Rowing Club Both crews started at the same moment, and the London crew immediately came away with a slight lead, but only retained it a few yards, when the Oxonians began to go ahead, and off Remenham began to go away from them, and came into the straight water leading to the bridge a clear length ahead, increasing the advantage by above another half length at the finish. GRAND CHALLENGE CUP-FIRST HEAT Oxford, Brasenose College Cambridge, Trinity Hall 0 Kingston, Kingston Rowing Club . . 0 This was one of the finest and fastest races ever seen at Henley, and the losers deserve as much credit as the winners. Tho Oxford crew were on the Berks side, Kingston on the Oxon, and Cambridge in the middle. It was a very fine and even start, and they continued level for about 50 yards, when Brasenose began to show the bow of their boat in front, the others still remaining oar and oar, rowing in fine form and at a clipping pace. So finely were the three crews matched that although Brasenose continued to increase their lead it was only inch by inch. At the end of about 400 yards the Brasenose were about a quarter of a length only ahead. The race was continued with unabated vigour, Brasenose now going more in front, and being a length ahead at the Poplars, where they began to ease slightly. The contest between Cambridge and Kingston was still admirable. Cambridge had made some fine bursts to get away from their adversaries; but they were not to be shaken off, and the gallant effort of the one crew was met by a no less gal lant effort on the part of the other. The Cambridge crew began to show in front as they neared Itemenham, and a most determined race was continued to the end. Brasenose won by a length clear, and the Cambridge boat was not clear of the Kingston, only having got about three-quarters of their length ahead. SECOND HEAT. Oxford—University College Cambridge—Third Trinity Cambridge—First Trinity This was another very fine race. The First Trinity had the Berks side, the Third Trinity the Oxon, and the Uni versity were in the centre. They made a capital start, directly after which the First Trinity showed a trifling ad vantage, but were unable to retain it. The University crew then took a slight lead, and were challenged to a fine race by the Third Trinity, which was continued to Remenham without any very marked advantage. There the winners began to go well in front, and at the Poplars began to ease, and won by a couple of lengths ; the third boat was more astern of the second. VISITORS' CHALLENGE CUP. Oxford University Boat Club Cambridge Third Trinity Cambridge First Trinity They started all together, but the winnors shortly after came away from the others, followed by the Third Trinity, the First Trinity gradually falling astern from the begin ning. After passsing Remenhain the winners had a nice lead, which they kept, winning by above a boat's length with apparent case towards the finish. THE GOLD CHALLENGE OUP--TRIAL HEAT. Kingcton Rowing Club 1 Cambridge Third Trinity The race admits of no detail ; the Kingston men came right away from them, and won easily by three or four lengths. DIAMOND CHALLENGE SCULLS-FINAL HEAT. Cambridge—Mr. C. B. Lawes 1 Oxford—Mr. W. B. Woodgate The race was gallantly contested half the distance. Mr. Lawes came away at a fine pace, with a slight lead, pressed hard to Remenham by Mr. Woodgate, but after that Mr. Lawes left him, and won by three or four lengths. LADIES' CHALLENGE ELITE-FIRST HEAT. Eton—Eton College Boat Club Cambridge—Trinity-hall 0 Radley—St. Peter's College _ It will be seen by the above that the Radley was as light a crew as could be t r any chance of success. The Etonians, after rowing a couple of hundred yards, began to come away, but the Cambridge men pressed them close, and put on a fine spurt at a quarter of a mile, which brought them up to them ; but it was only momentary, as the Etonians then dashed right away, and won with comparative ease. Radley worked hard to no effect. LADIES' CHALLENGE PLATE-SECOND HEAT. Oxford—Brasenose College Cambridge—Third Trinity They were off at the same moment, and a fine dashing race ensued, oar to oar for nearly hllf a mile at a fine pace. Brasenose then showing superior power, went away in front and won by nearly two lengths clear. Mr. Lloyd, of the University, Cambridge, was the umpire, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. IMPUDENT CASE OF SHOPLIFTING --AHn Gill, a re spectably dressed man, but who gave a false address, was charged before Mr. Knox as follows : Mr. Alfred Thomas Waterfield, of No. 1, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, dealer in clothes, &c., said that yes terday evening the prisoner and a man, whom she repre sented as her husband, came to his shop. The man looked at about a dozen pairs of trousers, and tried on about 20 coats, but none would suit his taste. While he had gone to get a tape measure, the parties both left his shop, and so had a pair of trousers too. He then went off to the neighbouring pawnbroker's, and shortly after was sent for by a pawnbroker named Smith, who had detained the pri soner on her offering the trousers in pledge. The prisoner then asked him if he meant to prosecute her, and on his teller her that he did, she said, " Then, old jelly-belly, I hope you will be found dead in your bed to-morrow morn ing." (Mr. Waterfield is a rather portly man.) Prisoner pleaded guilty, and wished the case dealt with by the magistrate, Mr. Knox said it was a very impudent case of shoplift ing, and he believed that ehe was an old hand, Committed for six months, with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. CHARGE OF STEALING A GOLD WATCH AT CREMORNE• —Harriet Hydemony, a French woman, at 9, Bell-lane, Spitalfields, dressmaker, and Elizabeth Cautmar, of Mid dlesex-street, Whitechapel, were placed at the bar before Mr. Selfe on a charge of stealing a gold watch and chain, the property of Mr. Phillip, 10, John-street, Berkeley square. The prosecutor stated that about 11 o'clock last night he and another gentleman, were at Cremorne Gardens, in a box drinking coffae, when the prisoners came into it and forced themselves into their company. Prosecutor wished them to leave the box ; they did not do so, when in a few minutes prosecutor and his friend left the box. When near the circus is the garden, he put his hand in his watch pocket in order to know what time it was, when he found his chain hanging down. He immediately suspected that the prisoners had stolen the watch, when ho gave informa tion to the police. Mr. Selfe—ls the watch found ? Prosecutor—lt is not. It is worth, with the part of chain lost, about £l7. By Mr. Selfe—l had no conversation with the prisoners except to tell them to go away. I offered them a shilling if they would leave the box. One of the prisoners stated that the prosecutor offered them a sovereign if they would give the watch back. The prosecutor remarked that the watch was valued by him, and he knew he had done wrong by making the offer while she was in custody. Sergeant Ager, 37 B, who took in custody the prisoner Hydemony, said that he found upon her a purse, in which was a shillins. Another constable found a go . .d watch and chain on the other prisoner. They were both remanded. THAMES. DARING ROBBERY IN THE LONDON DOCK.---A well known and active thief, named M`Carthy, was brought be fore Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a silver watch and chain, valued at £5, from the ship Emmelina, in the London Dock. Yesterday afternoon, a day watchman named Davis saw the prisoner looking over the quarter of a ship called the Emmelina, in the London Dock, and soon afterwards ob served another man on board hand a watch to the prisoner, who put it in his pocket. Soon afterwards the two thieves advanced towards the gate where Davis was stationed, and he stopped both, and asked the prisoner if he had got any thing about him which did not belong to him. The prisoner said he had not, on which the watchman said, " Yes, you have; there is a chain hanging out of your pocket." Davis then seized the prisoner, who made a violent resistance, and threw the watchman on some casks. He then ran away and jumped down a loop hole leading to a wine vault, where he threw away a watch. It was recovered by a cooper and delivered to the watchman. Mr. Alexander Brown, chief officer of the Emmeline, identified the watch. It was stolen from a chest on the top of some linen. Cox, a police- sergeant, No. 45 K, said the prisoner was the most notorious thief in the district, and had been re peatedly in custody. Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial. ALHAMBRA PALACE. With a view no doubt to vary the entertainments at this attractive place of amusement, Mr. Wilde has made a beautiful addition by introducing a very splendid semi scientfiic exhibition, called " The Fairy Fountain." Som years ago we recollect seeing something of the same kind at this very place, when it was called the Panopticon of Science and Art, and the wonder is that it has never been re-introduced, as it was one of the most effective and splendid experiments ever presented to the public. To Mr. Wilde, however, belongs the praise, and we trust the profit of resuscitating the Prismatic Fountain, as it was then called, and he . is thus enabled to vary his entertainment in a most agreeable manner. The building previous to the exhibition of the fountain is darkened, and then from a crystal basin, in the (mitre of the stage, springs a beautiful fountain, assuming, alternately, every colour of the rain bow. At ot}e time it has the appearance of liquid silver then a bright emerald green, next a delicately-tinted mauve colour follows, a brilliant blue succeeds ; but the most gorgeous of all is the transformation to a splendid ruby tint. The effect is produced by the water reflecting the light thrown upon it by a kind of magic lanthorn, the colours being produced by glasses of the hues we have men tioned being placed between the light and the foun tain. The applause of the audience was something extraordinary, and the success of the new experiment will doubtless encourage Mr. Wilde to seek for further novelties of a scientific description. As soon as the beauties of the Fairy Fountain become generally known, all London will flock to witness the truly splendid exhi bition, Canada is just now convulsed by the Elections for members to the new Parliament. The different parties aie classified as reformers, liberals, conservatives, clear grits, a4d cortuptionists.—Canadian paper. BANKING D; oprietors' Capi tal £14.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in eluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, COMMib missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 10,279.053 Other Deposits 13,809,996 Seven Day and other Bills 538,675 £42,318,5 7 M. 3 June 25, 1863. The Empress Eugenie has just given to a new variety of rose exhibited at Fontainebleau flower show tb distinction of " Rose de Puebla." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111. A MAN OF LAST NG FRIENDSHIPS.—Whether M. de Persigny lives in Paris or enjoys an agreeable exile as Ambassador to London or St. Petersburg, says the 9 Imes of this morning, he will always be the friend of a man whose friendships are as deep and energetic as his other feelings. NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH AT CHATIIAM.—A new Catholic Church was opened for divine service yesterday, by the Right Rev, Dr. Grant, Catholic bishop. The church stands near the station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and though its external ap pearance is plain, being almost all brick, the interior is handsome. The nave is 100 feet long by 50 feet wide — there are a centre . and two side aisles and two lofty arcades of five arches each. The architect is Mr. Clutton. The mass sung yesterday was that of Mozart, No. 12, with Zinga rell's " Lautiate." There was full orchestral accompani ment. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Man ning, who stated in his discourse that the Catholics of Chatham had only one very humble place of worship, but that there was reason to expect (now that so important a step had been taken) that there would be another opened before long, for the Catholics of the three towns numbered more than 3,000. PRIVY COUNCIL—The Rev. W. Long v. the Bishop of Cape Town.— Lord Kingsdown gave judgment in this case yesterday, on appeal from the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope, by whose deci sion Mr. Long had been suspended from the functions of his office as minister of Mowbray. In 1856 the Bishop of Cape Town held a synod, by which it was enacted that no clergyman should be admitted to a living except sub mission to the laws of the synod. Mr. Long protested against such a pr ceeding, and in 1861 a second synod was held, and as ho still refused to obey its orders a court of assessors was held, and he was deprived of his office. Ho applied to the Supreme Court, but the decision was affirmed, and from this declaration he appealed to the Privy Council. Their lordships yesterday considered the whole of the proceedings of the Bishop's Court illegal. The appeal was allowed with costs against the bishop. CRIME IN FRANCE.—The Court of Assize of the Lozere has just tried a young woman named Marie Vidal on a charge of having attempted to murder another young person named Rose Beaufils, residing at 8, St. Sauveur-de-Peyre, by firing a loaded pistol at her head. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who is far ad vanced in pregnancy, was seduced during the course of last year by a young man named Brassac, who soon after de serted her, and made offers of marriage to Rose Beaufils, which were accepted, and the contract of marriage was signed on the 25th of January last. As soon as the pri soner saw herself deserted by Brassac she began to meditate projects of vengeance on her rival, and four times attempted to poison her by putting phosphorus, obtained from matches, in her food. As the poison did not take effect, the prisoner determined to have recourse to firearms. She accordingly took a pistol belonging to her brother, loaded it with a mix ture of large and small shot, went to her rival's residence disguised in a carter's cloak, and the moment Rose Beaufils opened the door she discharged the pistol in her face, in flicting wounds which placed the poor girl's life in danger for some days, and entirely destroyed the sight of one eye. Notwithstanding her disguise, the prisoner was recognised and arrested immediately afterwards. • On searching her the pistol was found, as well as a bag of mixed shot, corre sponding with those extracted from the wounds of Rose Beaufils, and also a Prayer-book, from which a leaf had been torn as wadding for the pistol. Brassac, who has since refused to carry out the projected marriage, was examined as a witness, and excited the disgust of the audience by his heartless demeanour, fore hich he was severely reprimanded by the President and Public Prosecutor. Tho jury found the prisoner guilty of wilfully wounding, and the Court condemned her to eight years imprisonment. RUSSIAN SPECULATIONS ON WAR WITH ENGLAND. —We read in the Moscow Gazette:—" All the com merce of England is on the sea. Thirty thousand mer chant vessels convey t•n tho ocean English property which Mr. Cobden estimates 100 to 120 millions sterling. The course which these ships follow in the Atlantic, as well as on the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, is so well defined, thanks to the indications of Capt. Maury, that it is like a high road. That power which, traversing these parts, should seize English vessels appearing there would deal a terrrible blow at British commerce, and this is what our sailors and vessels of war would bo perfectly able to do in case of war with England. A vast field for their activity would then be open to our vessels without presenting any great dangers. The spaco is such that the pursuit of an enterprising cruiser would be very difficult, and a good captain could destroy scores of cargoes without having to engage in combat. During the war in the East, after the affair of Petropaulowski, tin American merchant ship, on its arrival at Shanghai, announced that it had been stopped at sea by a Russian frigate, and that it was only released ip consequence of its American nationality being proved by the papers on board. The rumour of this affair spread in the commer cial world, and the merchants in the Chinese ports would only entrust their merchandise to American vessels. Hong Kong at once expected an attack from the Russian fleet. Admiral Sir J. Stirling, commanding the English nava force in those regions, was unable to comply with all the demands for escort which were addressed to him. The rumour was, however, false; there was not then a single Russian ship at sea. If a false report led to such a panic, what would be the effect produced by twenty or thirty of our cruisers ?" LONDON SCOTTISH RIFLE VOLUNTEEES.- - This regiment will be inspected by the Inspector-General; of Volunteers, Colonel I‘l'Murdo, C. 8,, to-morrow afternoon, at 6 o'clock, in Regent's-park. ELECTION OF A COMMON COUNCILM&N.—Yester" clay Mr. Figgins was elected a Common Councilman in the room of Mr. Charles Edward, There was no appo sition. PUGILISM. THE CHAMPIONSHIP. RYALL, or BIRMINGHAM, AND J. MACE,—At length a match has been made, and the necessary articles duly en tered into, for these men to fight for £2OO a side and the champion's belt, which after the memorable contest between Tom King and Jem Mace, when King proved victorious, was returned by King to the keeping of the stakeholder, owing to his not being in a position to defend his title to the same. Since then Mace has repeatedly intimated that he (the affair with the Unknown having ended in smoke), was ready to meet any one who might be ambitious of en tering the lists with him to contend for the highest of pugi listic honours. W. Ryall, the old opponent of Joe Goss, has now come into the field, Mace havieg also a match pending for £6OO to £4OO with Joe Goss. This event is to come off at the end of September next, and for the purpose of mak ing matters smooth for J 3133, the match between himself and Ryall for the championship is made to take place in three months from the day on which Mace meets Goss of Wol verhampton. From this arrangement it will be seen Ryall has a good six months to wait before the arrival of the great day. A deposit of £l5 a side has been staked. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. CHASING BLOCKADE RUNNERS.—The following is from the pen of an officer on board one of her Majesty's ships of war on the North American and West India station :—" After a passage of little interest from Matamoras to Havana, which we reached on Tuesday afternoon, we found at anchor in the harbour there a host of merchant vessels as usual, and among thorn several blockade runners, two of which, the Ruby and Neptune, beihg ready for sea, were closely watched by the Federal gunboat Sanoma, which was anxious to make a prize of one or both if she could ; but instead of lying out side the harbour, where no one could see her, and where she could pounce down on a vessel just as she came out, she lay up right in the middle of the harbour amongst the shipping. The Sanoma is more of a sloop than a gunboat, very heavily armed, and carries a great num ber of men. She is a paddle, ,black painted, with two very small masts, schooner rigged. The blockade run ners are small steamers, rather low, and very long, bows like a knife, with one or two lookout posts about 30ft to 40ft high. They average on a passage 13 knots, and in an emergency can be worked up to 16 or 17. I believe they are painted a dirty stone colour, very difficult to distin guish at sea. It was arranged that the Ruby and Nep tune should both go out together, so as to humbug the Yankee as much as possible. On the same night we got into harbour, just a little before sunset, the Nep tune let slip her cable, and before the Yankee knew where lie was, the little Neptune was clear of the harbour and puffing away like old boots outside. The Sanoma by this time had slipped her moorings; but she is a long craft, and having but small head sails with little wind, and among a crowd of shipping, she took a long time to get her head clewed round to the entrance of the harbour. This done, she clapped on full speed and came thundering down the harbour; but all this time the Ruby had not been asleep. she slipped her cable, and, to tease the Yankee, hoisted English colours and ran under her stern, dipping her colours three times to her. She then came under our stern and dipped her colours three times to us ; her crew took off their hats and cheered us. She then ran down across the Ya nkees bows, got into the passage of the harbour, and stopped there on som paltry excuse, and just at this moment a Spanish brigantine under sail got right between the two—so the &florae had to go full speed astern to stop her way and pre vent her running down the brigantine, and by the time she got past the Ruby the N e ptune was about five miles off the land. When the Sanoma got clear of the entrance she again clapped on full speed after the Neptune. Thincreßasie üby s t e amed out half a mile to w atch the Neptuneincreasing the distance between her stern and the bows of the Yankee, and just as it was getting dark I could barely make out a speck on the horizon from the masthead, while the Sanoma was vainly puffing after her. After dark the Ruby steam ed quietly away to the northward. On Thursday morning, as we were steaming out of theharbour, we passed the Sanoma coming in, accompanied by a corvette looking vory crest-fallen, returning from the chase without her prize," THE RUSSIANS IN POLAND. The following letter, addressed by a Polish noble• man to an English friend, has been placed in our hands for publication. It gives a terrible picture of the sufferings of the Poles in Volhynia : " Volhynia, June 15. "My dear sieze the occasion which has just offered of sending a letter across the fron tier (by post it would be impossible to send one telling of the real state of things here). I write to you probably for the last time, as landed pro prietors who have remained at home with their wives and children are in daily expectation of death. You may have heard, though it is difficult to believe, to what inhuman means tne Russian Go vernment resorts to get rid of all that is Polish or Catholic. They have gl ally seized the occasion of fered them by this insurrection to accomplish their long.meditated plan of annihilating ail that is not Russia❑ in these provinces. Several mouths since we were deprived of all arms or weapous of defence ; ❑ow, by a Government order, we are informed that we are no longer to expect any kind of protection from them, and that they are not answerable either for cur properties or lives. Mean while,the Govern ment officials and the Greek priests do all in their power to put the Greeks against the Catholics ; and Russian soldiers, disguised as peasants, with all the ruffians, who have been let loose from the prisons for this purpose, scour the country, attacking all the country seats on their road where there is a chance of plunder, pillaging, burning, and putting to death all they contain, and destroying whatever comes in their way. The cruelties perpetrated by these bands are incredible; not content with simply putting to death, they invent new tortures every day. They screw their victims with iron screws to the wall, knock their teeth down their throats, tear out their eyes and tongue, and saw living men into pieces; the woman they outrage and then murder, as well as their children. My pen cannot describe to what a fearful death we are every day exposed ; and yet we must not complain, for the committees of inquiry which are sent to ascertain the truth of these atrocities always end by rewarding the perpetrators of them, finding that they had good reason for acting in that way. After the engagements which took place in this neigh bourhood, at Slawzita, Miropol, and other places, the Russians forbade any assistance to be given to the wounded Poles, and the more effectually to prevent it, ordered the wounded to be buried with the dead. Our priests are murdered at the feet of our altars while in the act of offi ciating. With all this we have not the right to leave our estates, but are obliged to wait pa tiently the cruel death which will certainly fall tc our lot ; for the peasants, in their simplicity, tell us that the Government has informed them that on a certain given day all Catholics, rich and poor alike, are to be exterminated—this being the expectation we now live in. One day, perhaps, those civilised Governments who are now spectators of this bloody tragedy will reproach themselves with not having interfered more energetically; but we are resigned to offer the sacrifice of our lives, if, by the effusion of so much innocent blood, our unhappy country may one day be delivered from the hands of its barbarous oppressors.—Yours till death, * * *" The CORSALETTO DI MEDICI.—In order to ex plain adequately whet the Corsaletto di Medici is, we must follow Clodius a pardonably short distance into the sacred mysteries which he invaded. We know not how it happens that the civilised part of the human race seems always to be in some ridiculous and unaccountable hobble about costume. But, however it may be explained, the weakness is a fact which cannot be denied ; and it is cer tainly incident more to the female, than to the male, section of humanity. The difficulty is now about crinoline, now about a becoming head-dress, and now—with reverence be it spoken:—about stays. That the female frame must neces sarily be tightly supported by steel and whalebone, is a maxim which has obtained among English matrons, more or less, for several centuries. Of recent years, the medi cal faculty, seconded by a whole army of sanitary re formers, has begun to lift its voice in earnest against the practice. It appears that stays produce every result that is bad, without any balance of advantage whatever. They limit the movements of the trunk, and degrade the condition of the muscles from a firm to a soft and unhealthy state. They further check the circulation of blood through the muscles, by pressing them between their own bard sub. stance and the bones of the chest; and the muscles accord ingly become wasted, or, in technical language, atrophied. The heads of the profession cannot be reasonably charged with not having spoken out. One eminent surgeon, heart lessly indifferent to the feelings of his fair, and still impri soned, patients, grimly points to the "wasted leg of the mendicant" as an instance of the effect of pressure, assur ing them that that leg, " through tight bandaging alone, can be reduced to the condition which excites our commis aeration." Cruveilhier will only allow a small percentage of the sex to be "free from some deformity of the liver, con sequent on the use of tight and unyielding corsets." And Erasmus Wilson asks the point-blank question concerning the same article of dress—" If we wished to produce curved spine, could we adopt a more scientific or certain plan ?" Words like these were certainly calculated to produce, not only a flutter within the artificial robur et as triplex of the female breast, but also a crisis in the history of certain por tions of female costume. It was a great occasion; and, in justice to Mesdames Marion and Maitland, of Oxford-street, sole manufacturers and patentees of the Corsaletto di Medici, we must admit that they have been equal to it. They pro ceeded to invent a substitute for the obnoxious article of dress, " so truly in harmony with the highest type of beauty, that the Corsaletto di Medici is so designated as suggestive of the Venus de Medici,' the statuesque ideal of beauty of form and womanly grace."—Saturday Review. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CREIIORNE GARDENS. —Last night an accident of a frightful character occurred to Valerie, the wire-walker, at Cremorne Gardens, For the last two months this acrobat has been successfully performing on a wire cable measuring 600 feet; and last night he had advanced nearly to the point from which he usually returned backwards when the wire rope suddenly gave way, and he fell heavily to the ground. a distance of upwards of 60 feet, He was immediately taken up in a state of insensibility, and attended to by two medical men who happened to be in the gardens. It was found that he had sustained a fracture of the skull, a broken collar-bone, and other injuries. He was conveyed in an insensible state to the Chelsea Hospital, where he now lies, the house sur geon holding out little hopes of his recovery. It was be lieved that the lightning playing upon the wire rope on Wednesday night was the cause of the accident. HARD WORK.—After a journey from London, artificially lengthened for the purpose of exhibiting her more completely, she was pitilessly dragged from her carriage to a review, from the review to the theatre, from the theatre to the bazaar, from the bazaar to the great din ner, from the dinner to the ball. When the ancient Teu tons admitted a young man to rank among their warriors, it was their custom to try his endurance by recondite con trivances for inflicting suffering and hardship. The autho rities at Oxford, in the performance of their office as educa tors of youth, appear to have been acting upon this ancient precedent in training their future Queen for the duties of her toilsome career. ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOR LUNATICS.—" More than a hundred years ago," says the Social Science .Review, with a grandiose flourish—leading to a rather pre posterous anti-climax, " when poor Noll Goldsmith, a raw student, was ' reading up his bones,' Johnson struggling for the dinner he could not every day afford, Garrick strutting on Old Drury's boards, making its inmates laugh and cry by turn ; when Sterne, the sentimental, was fidd'.ing and preaching in the North, and li ttle purky George the Second, haunted by visions of Prince Charlie coming "over the sea" with his too faithful followers, sleeplessly turned and twisted, and kicked the clothes from off his regal bed, six good citizens of London banded themselves together to start a hospital for lunatics." THE LONDON CABBY A PARIAH." Let a cab man," says one of the fraternity, whose opinions are quoted in the London Review, "go to a book stall—those eyes peeping from behind that books shelf o erf books meet his, and he has a perfect stare ; the ell immediately takes his stand at his elbow, and he is con scions of being an unwelcome guest, and unless he becomes a purchaser—if you may judge from the bookseller's ex pression—he is glad when you are gone." So, too, it is when a man seeks for lodgings. If he is known to be a cab driver, the landlady tosses her head, with a Nu 1 of proud disdain. All t his is hard to bear. The "contractor," wh, is an owner of c abs, com p els his drivers to si g n an agree ment to pay a certain sum p er diem, varying from twelv e they themselves s hillings to a pound, and he can then exercise the tyranni cal power of putting the defaulter in prison for any defi ciency. 0 . ' Itof have heardtreble cabmen avow e, justifyingthat have bullied b by people their fare, r saying, My master won't trust m e a shilling—there is a chance of them (the fare) not summoning.' " SECRET IMPURITY OF MORMONISM.--Joseph Smith (says the Sp ec t a t or )— than w h om a more abandoned debauchee and astonishing liar and hypocrite has never ap peared: even among his own followers—held and practised certain doctrines, such as that of the expediency of syste matic seduction, which his disciples have since been com pelled to disavow in public, however closely they may ad here to them in secret. A Chinese ambassador is to be sent to Paris in a few months, who will doubtless prove one of the chief fea tures in the next Faris season, THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) BRODY, June 20. It will, perhaps, astonish diplomatists to find how little importance is attached by the Poles to the presentation of the three Notes on behalf of Poland. As far as I can judge, it is generally feared, that in order to get rid of the troublesome representations of the Western Powers, the Russian Government will consent to all the propositions, with the in tention of not carrying them out, and with the knowledge that they will be rejected by the Poles, who prefer the very hazardous chances of war with view to the independence of their country to an arrangement which would have the appearance of a final solution, and yet woulc: not satisfy any of their wants. What they are fighting for at the present moment is the independence of Russian Poland, or, if they cannot obtaii that, the union of all the Polish provinces belonging to Russia into one constitutional kingdom under the Russian Crown. That also, unaided, they will not obtain. Theßussians will never willingly reintroduce aPo ish administration into the Ruthenian provinces, which the Russians of the present day have been taught to regard as almost entirely Russian, though they are distinctly recognised as Polish in the Treaty of Vienna, and are promised " national and represen tative institutions" in common with all other por tions of " the Poland of 1772." They were even treated as Polish by the Emperor Nicholas until the insurrection of 1830 broke out, and had a Polish administration, and Polish law courts and schools when Lord Palmerston wrotehis celebrated despatch, calling the attention of the Russian Government to the fact that it bad not yet granted the inhabitants of these provinces a system of national representa tion. It would be considered a great concession now to allow them to teach the peasants to read out of Polish primers. Indeed, so far from admitting that the educated classes in these provinces have any right to the main tenance of their language, the Russian Government has often declared the contrary, and it has lately re ceived a memnir from M. Pogodin, ex-Professor of History at the Universityof Moscow, in which it is seriously proposed to do away with " the detestable Polish element" altogether in Volhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine, Le Nord picked a quarrel with a French paper which, by an error in transcription, had stated that M. Pogodin wished not to " extir pate," but to " exterminate" the Polish element. The word the amiable professor really used is, lite rally translated, " annihilate." M. Pogodin, however, explains that he does not want to murder the Poles or drive them away by force (he will hear of " no bloody means such as the Poles themselves employ") ; he would have the Govtroment buy the proprietors out and send them to the kingdom or wherever thu like to go. In the event of some hundred thousand families not con senting to leave a country where many of them have been established ever since it has borne a name, and where the so-called Polish " immigrants" have been settled for five centuries—in such an improbable event as this it is just possible that " bloody means such as the Poles themselves employ" would be re sorted to. • I fancy all the Poles have ever hoped from diplo matic intervention is that it might lead to entangle ments which it would be necessary to cut with the sword. In their national hymns and litanies they pray for war as regularly as in their Church litanies they pray, in common with other Christian nations, for peace; and they have ; for the most part, said frankly enough from the beginning, that if the Western Powers really wished to assist them, mili tary support was the only support they cared for. In any case it is perfectly certain that the propositions made to Russia by Austria, France, and England, even if Russia accedes to them, will not be accepted, though they may ultimately have to be submitted to by the Poles. Diplomatists may console themselves for this result by reflecting that even if they had asked for and obtained a great deal more—if, for in stance, they had asked for and obtained the full execution of the Treaty of Vienna in reference to the ancient provinces as well as the kingdom—the Poles would still not have acquiesced in such an arrangement. Kosciuszko made the same reply to Alexander 1., when consulted as to the wants of Poland, that Count Andrew Zarsoyski made the other day, under similar circumstances, to the Grand Duke Constantine, and afterwards to Alexan der 11. ; and the Poles, when (with the exception of liosciuszko and a few other men not to be deceived by vain promies) they accepted and recognised the sovereignty of Russia in 1815, did so only on the understanding that the constitution of the kingdom would be gradually extended to the other provinces. It is well known that the proposed carrying out of this plan was looked upon with great disfavour by the Russian subjects of Alexander 1., while the Russian subjects of Alexander 11. would be indig nant if any thought were entertained of annexing to Poland territory which they have been taught to consider as much Rwsias, as Calais and Dunkirk, when freed from the English, were French. The Polish question, however skilfully diploma tists may handle it, is quite insoluble if the inten tion iu solving it be to satisfy both Russians and Poles. lam assured on goud authority that even if Russia consented to an armistice, and agreed to discuss the affairs of Poland in a Congress, the Poles would still not acquiesce unless a representative of the National Government of Poland were admitted to the sittings. No one need be told that, even if Russia would consent to meet a representative chosen by some constituted body in Poland (which to begin with, is more than improbable,) a delegate from an unknown Power, unable even to show his credentials, could not possibly be received. Iu the absence, then, of an intervention by arms, it will to seen that, whatever Russia me.y reply to the Western Powers, the Polish insurrection will continue—to the injury, the Poles should remember, of no one except Russia in a moral, and Poland in a material point of view. Poland will be devastated, and at last, no doubt the Poles will be obliged to put up with whatever position may have been made for them. The insurrection, which was begun, will also be ended in despair ; but the Poles will not have resigned their right to rise again in arms at the first opportunity, when Russia may be weaker even than she is now, or when Europe may be nvolved in a general war. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Auslralia and Blauriti;;,via Soualathdam_;.tilo_ne•iena.. jjjj.jui!yee3:223::. (361har Cape of Ch i na, 0 1 , farnedn GoodaC- - - n a g i! On V pned e , r t d i s ier bi i ß i or l i t i :x t a . i viv r s ai s i h aa e 1 \ I p s l i‘i l a io e a c a s ur k rats e hee t ia . iiili tlliesps.t .0. .1: ... jj uuu July yy_ 2 . Falkland 151and 5...... Gibraltar, via Southampton I n dia (Calcutta), au via d I,. C i e ar y s lo e n ii , le v s i ... Southampton.. ..................... . j . .l j u l l i l l y y y 2 s . . pton 2 10. ......July july 10. 2. Bombay: d vi A a d S e o n u , t v h i am a ............July 5. Southampton P m o ai rt ta, uga E l gy ... p_ . t, India ( via Marseilles June 27. Newfoundland Ouposr.toananddßVritigisoh . .. N. America, by B r it. p ac ket......J j u u l l y y 8 `2 . . W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tll3)YeynCUearin.ffSaed.pi.ana.e.kP.eac.t...k....fllullyyY 16 Bahamas, via New York ' . All parts of West 'lndies including Chili, Peru, Mexico... j June 29. .. • • , June 29. California, and British Columbia.. .......... The Madrid journals of the 21st state that a service to commemorate the anniversary of the elevation of Pius IX. to the Pontifical throne was celebrated the day before at the Italian Church, in presence of their Majesties, the Papal Nuncio, a great portion of the diplo matic body, and many persons of distinction. A Madrid letter says :—" Marshal O'Donnell, Duke de 'retinal, has returned from his estate of Somos-Aguas. He will leave again in a few days on a tour in France, Belgium, and Germany, and will not return to Madrid until the opening of the Legislative Chambers." By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.5 i per £1 sterlin.7. tandard gold at the English Milit price is, therefore, rattier more than 1-10th per cent, dearer in London than in Haul burg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills p t 60 days' siAlit is 155,1 to 156 i per cent., and the premium or. gold is about 421 per cent. At these rates there is a Profit on the importation of fold from the United hates.