The Sun. — London, England, 1854-06-19 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES. NEWCASTLE AND HAMPTON. Metropolitan turfites and speculators will scarcely care undergoing the fatigue and expense of a long journey to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to assist at the celebrat ion of sport, lewever interesting and attractive, when they have so merry a little meeting prepared for them as that which Will take place at Llempton on We hiesday and Thurs day. Still, I shall not attempt to institute odious com parisons between the two programmes ; for indeed each gathering possesses peculiar and distinct characteristics, a nd presents special titles to the support of owners and trainers of horses. The meeting at Newcastle will com mence to-morrow with a supply of sport which, if it be not above the average, is certainly not below it. 4 1 :_i've events are appointed for decision. Of these "e Trial Stakes closed on Saturday, and the ,'L elling Stakes remain open until to-night. The. , e .' 41 erth Derby is the first item on paper that eeinands c emsider a ti on . Scott's " lot" looks formidable enough " i:, but it is doubtful which animal belonging to Iris °table will represent it. Notwithstanding the potency Of the " WIZARD OF THE NORTH, I shall select Neville , 48 my champion. Aribbas figures among the nomina 6icts but the probabilities are at present in favour of his being reserved to do bottle fur the Northumberland Plate. Of the 213 horses handicapped for the Membets' Pate, I,,,ugh - flaw , The Genera!, and St. Clare are, in 111 1 opinion, eteitled to the priority of con ideratiou. Amon g the nornillALP na for the "l'yr: Stakes is Saraband, `youngster" with whose merit reputt is already busy. " h e has be en , to o , repeatedly backed for next year's rril'• Whether, however, he is intended to give us a P'oe of hi s q u a lity to-morrow, I am not in a position to de termine. Come what may, therefore, I shall record 14 3' fancy" for Lord Alfred, despite his 21b. penalty. The No r th um b er land Plate is of course the leaning item on Wednesday's list. Since his running at Bath, bbas hes been steadily supported for this event ; but ' 143 possibility is rumoured of his having his nose put °tit of joint by his stable companion, Grapeshot. The Performance of the latter, indeed, for the Ascot Stakes s calculated to excite some expectations of his chance, b ut these are somewhat counteracted by the report which b , l3t ateli that he was tried with Aribbas before the Bath - ? , mg, and tat the result was unmistakeably in favour °, the young °tie. That Kingston is entitled to the 14 1 3 Port which he at present receives for this race argu e are scarcely required to prove. Still, the fact of his • a ving to meet Grapeshot on worse terms, so far as weight ;,cenc erne d, t h an h e did a t A sco t, mus t no t b e overlooked. The running of Aribbas with Rataplan at Bath, and the Performance of Grapeshot at Ascot have certainly fur- Ill 'hed Joh n O s b orne with no ordinary "line" by which to h measur e Kingston's chance, and it has doubtless given 1131 sound reasons for his confidence. Whichever is the trusted representative of his stable will doubt eBB he a mong th e f is t th ree at the finish of the race. 441 1 thes e cons id era ti ons h ave n ot d e stroyed myy 4erl ee in Kingston, who is too sound and game a horse t me, under any circumstances, to think slightingly of ; chance. A vague rumour is afloat respecting Indian '.arrior, w h o, it i s hi n t e d, ma y y e t d o battle for the fsingston party. He is certainly weighted favourably, s ad should this report be founded on truth, I shall be eiranelled to transfer my good liking from Kingston to i l dfan Warrior. Of all the light weights, however, albec appears to me to present the fairest title to 9 3 Port. Hi s a bility t o ge t a distance, however, yet re main s to be satisfactorily proved. To extend my re tiarks to the other animate would merely oecupy space ti t i l ecessarily. The which I shall select against 0 6 . field comprises KINGSTON, BAALBEG, and the BEST -0 11 N OSBORNE'S—either Aribbas or Grapeshot. til • or the Grand Stand Stakes Lord Alfred and Eva are h er e Most noteworthy names. The Free Handicap num biaa, 37 acceptances. Miss Agnes, Candlewick, Roe -48e4, and Nelly Hill seeming on paper as " well in" stLhYthing. Midsummer may carry off the Lottery a l ' e s, but could I calculate with certainty upon a start, i i B i nuuld be " sweet" on Jujube. By the way so de ,Pted was the facetious owner of Jujube with the 1 Pretty creature's" victory at Ascot on Thursday, that Pol ice liberally distributed " largesse" among the on duty on the course ! The 'Gold Cup may be L it trophy for Kingston. Vindex, Lerrywheut, s il t , e Jack, Maid of Team Valley, Peggy, and Nelly the I select at a ven ture out of the 81 handicapped for i k jorporation Plate. go lY hints a bout Hampton will be regulated by the 4 t1 2 of wit—brevity. For the Stand Plate, my fancies 14 7, Noi se tt e, B ans t ea d, an d C a bl e ; f or the Surrey and ; l alesex Stakes, Nutpecker and Veteran ; for the i t ," l ethont Stakes, Bessie and Eliza; for the Corinthian Stamford Speed the Plough ; for the Richmond Handicap, S and Jessamine ; and for the Visitors' Plate, °l) gster, Strutaway, and Eliza. ° one la. A FRESH MAN. 44 1'1' INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY). COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Site ' i nto after term at Westminster before Mr. Justice Crowder and a common Jury.) 4,,,,CeitENTALLY SHOOTING A BOY.—WHITE V. AUSTIN. 1 0 „, 44 , is was an action to recover damages under the f01"7,41g " 7 , 41 g e reumstances. pl a 7„ t :, Hugh Hill and Mr. Field were counsel for the th — ""ff; and Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Malcolm for d efendant. e , h 4 he plaintiff is a lad occupied as a farm labourer, living 'o'4l/11erly Walth a m, in Essex, and the defendant was at „an engineer in the emp!oyment of Government a h 'ue Waltham Powder-mills, but now retired upon th',.. ens ien- In September last he went out shooting in 4,; 4 4 eighbourhood of Waltham, and took the plaintiff C 4 , ll other lad to beat the bushes and start the birds. ti l l "t so employed, the boy (as alleged upon the part of kt s" ." Plaintiff's case), whilst in full view of the defendant, f o 4 , 4 tt ecl some birds , and defendant firing had the m is- C tL l ine to fi re so near the boy that some few of the shots i l : i rcl, and besides doing him some trifling bo dil y i' l l` hu4 7 deprived him of the sight of one of his eyes. de ' fendant had it appeared, done all that humanity 11 11 ,, r id td Buggest for the lad after the accident had oc tilor the d e f ence it was set up that the affair was th e lY accide n t a l a nd not caused by any negligence, a' hi d e ) 4 c l was at the time by the side of a brook and 1 1 ,en from defendant by some bushes, and also that lie disobeyed the order of defendant, who was his by getting where he was at the time of the in- The lad had been kept in the service of the de ill`Nant f rom t h e t i me o f th e i n j ur y, and treated with De 51413 05 t kindness until December, when defendant ha s,„ Obliged t o di sm iss him from his service in conse ,ence of his having robbed him. ' t he jury found for the plaintiff.—Damages, 100/. ref COURT OF EXCHEQUER. °re Lord Chief Justce Pollock and Common Jury, LEVY V. NICHOLSON. 1/2 11 . i8 Was also an action to recover compensation from '7, r ries received through the defendant's negligence. tiC l • r • E.lwin James and Mr. Chas. Pollock were for e Plaintiff, and Mr. W Itson for the defendant. tio it appea re d that the plaintiff, a lad, had been thrown 4 .4 in consequence of the alleged negligence of the Pe ndant, who is a contractor for the New River Com e4,4Y, in having left some pipes and stones about in i tt " ll- nourt in December last. The lad having a bottle h n 'ts band at the time he fell, was very con rt and cut by the bottle breaking. T he case was likely to last all day. COURT CIRCULAR. t o T h ile state apartments at Windsor Castle will be shown a t ,:: Public as usual on and after Thursday, the 22 d of \ \r The Ki ng o f P or t uga l an d the Duke of Oporto left l edhor Castle at a quarter before 8 o'clock on Saturday f:_ rh ing for Oxford, for the purpo e of visiting the dif jut C o ll eges an d Halls of the University. His M a- G t Y and his Royal Highness quitted the station of the - V .ea ' t Western hallway at eight o'clock, attended by ly i l e s ,e o unt de Carreira, Baron de SArmento, Chevalier de 1 , 1 , 10 , Lord de Tabley, and Colonel Wylde. 1' 1 .." Queen and Prince ' Albert, accompanied by the !nee of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Pri ncesses 4 4, Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, o , s u Prince Leopold, left Windsor Castle at three o'clock „," Saturday afternoon for London. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were the Countess of Mount-Edg,- Z ll be, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Eleanor 4 0 4111 eY, Hon. Beatrice Byng, Lord Camoys, Col. the C ll . C. B. Phipps, the Master of the Household, the „ a. - n• Morti mer Sackville West, Major-General Buckley, I, 3 l taiu the Hon. Dudley de Ros, and Mr. Gibbs. St The Royal party went to the Great W estern Railway atiou (where a guard of honour of the 46th Regiment di: eu duty), and travelled by a special train to Pad 4tgtoe. Her Majesty, the Prince, the Royal Family, the 'ante, proceeded from the railway terminus in six of t Queen's carriages, escorted by a p art y of Carbineers i ti (l l r :uuekingham Palace. where they a rrived at five of - b lit es past four o'clock. Earl Spe ncer, the Marquis ' - 'readalbane, and Lord George Lennox received the 4 en and Prince on their arrival. tho h eXing of Portugal, the Duke of Oporto, and 1 , ; 1 Gentlemen-in-Wasting arrive d at Buckin g ham a - ",.. a ee from Oxford, at 20 minutes past six o'clock, on irleY afternoon. It.,,i; er Majesty and Prince Albert , a ccom p anied b y the t6l of Portugal, and the Duke of O p orto, honoured iyal Italian Opera with their p resence in the even 0. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount geunibe the Hun. Beatrice Byng, Lord Camoys, ).!.ier-General Buckley, Captain the Hon. Dudley de ;7 8 , the B aron d e S armen t o , the Chevalier de M ello, ed Lord de Tabley. yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the a nnee of Wales the Princess Royal, the P rincess Alice, P r . til e Duches . ; of Kent, attended divine service in the qegeedellrate Chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Rev. o iddell, head master of Westminste r, elat.lL L MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of wheat on sale in most of the country markets held on Saturday were very moderate. The de mand ruled steady, and in some instances, prices advauced from ls. to 2s. per qr. In barley and malt very little bu siness was transacted, but oats had an upward tendency. Beans, peas, and flour, sold at full quotations. Most of the Continental markets have been very firm. In France, both wheat and flour have been on the advance, and a steady rise has taken place in the quotations at New York. Up to our market last week the receipts of English grain were moderate. From abroad we received 17,244 quarters of wheat, I,BSO barley, 10,289 oats, 117 beans, 39 peas, 112 tares, 5,752 linseed, 11 rapeseed, 688 sundry seeds, 6,037 sacks and 10,787 barrels of flour. The quantities of English wheat received fresh up to our market to-day coastwise from Essex and _Bent was very limited. By land carriage the arrivals were trifling; however, the show of samples of both red and white was smaller than for some time past. However, the demand for all descriptions, owing to the steady imports of foreign wheat and flour, and the prevailing tine weather for the growing crops, was in a sluggish state. In the quotations, scarcely any change took place from Monday last. There were very few inquiries for forward delivery parcels. With foreign wheat we were well supplied. Good heavy Balti.; parcels sold to a fair extent, at full prices. Most other kinds met a dull inquiry, but we have no actual change to notice in the currencies. The few floating cargoes of the coast were held for more money, hut the business doing in them was trifling. About 30 vessels laden with grain have been reported off Falmouth during the past week. Barley, the supply Of which was but moderate, moved off slowly, at last week's currency. There was a slight improvement in the inquiry for malt, at full prices. Oats, the show of which was moderately good, were in fair request, and the turn higher than on this day sen'night. Beans were in short supply, and heavy request, on former terms. The demand for peas was heavy, at late lates. We had a moderate inquiry for flour, the prices of which were well supported. Malt—Chevalier •• • • 75s to 76 'Oats Yorkshire and CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red •• .• new 71s to 833 Ditto.. • . •....... old 74s 85, mu), White new 75s 86s Ditt0...... .. old 77s 88s Norfolk And r,in coin, Red,: old 71 s 81s Ditto new •••• •• 70• 80s .• • • • • 51s 52s New ............ 503 sls Ba. ley —Grinding 32s 383 Malting . . . •• —s —s Chevalier.... • —s —s Halt and Nor folk ... • ...... 66s 71s 3rown . •• • • ........ 603 3i2s Kingston and Ware 73s 75s Linrolusk., Feed 29s 33s Potato Youghal and Cork 81ack....... 29s 32. Cork, White .. 2 4 s 34s Scotch, Food. •• •• !leans—Tick . • • • • . • •. Pigeons ...... •• .. Peas—Grey • • •• •• •• •" Maple... •• •... •• Whne... .. •• ••. 33i 35s 43s 52s 47 , 60s 44s 48s 46s 51s 54s 60s Boilers • ..•..... see GOs Flour—Town-made.— 66s 70s Suffolk .......... 58s G2s Atockta & Norfolk 58s 64s SMITHFIELD. The total imports of foreign stock last week amounted to :;,782 head. In the corresponding week in 1853 we re ceived 5,303 ; in 1852, 3,830 ; in 1851, 5,053 ; in 1850, 4,410 ; in 1849, 2,979 ; in 1848, 2,731; and in 1847, 2,696 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Elamburgh 135 ... 1,050 ... . Rotterdaui 213 ... 570 ... 92 ... 122 Harlingen 265 ... 893 ... 3 ... 250 ... 17 Dordt... ..... 23 ... 5 Bromvershven 15 ... Calais Ostend Bremen Calves. pigs. 1 ::: 80 Total— 1 ... - 10 ... - .--- ••• 3 ... 661 ... 2,511 ... 202 ... 2SS ... 17 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1853 619 3,352 459 823 ... 47 1852 302 2,156 ... 346 644 82 1851 602 3,229 418 480 ... 296 1850 521 3,178 160 452 99 1849 333 2,173 ... 132 ... 329 12 The supply of foreign stock in to-day's market was moderate, and in somewhat improved condition. All breeds were dull and lower. The receipts of bensts from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were seasonably good, but their general weight and condition showed a slight falling off compared with Monday last. Although the attendance of both town and country buyers was rather extensive, the beef trade was in a sluggish state, at Friday's decline in the quota tions of 2d per Sibs. A very few superior Scots realised 4s 10d, but the general top figure for beef was 4s 8d per 81bs. The receipts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire amounted to 2,300 Scots and short-horns ; from other parts of England, 600 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 500 horped and polled Scots. There was a decided increase in the supply of sheep. The mutton trade was therefore inactive, at the depression in vain: submitted to on Friday—viz., 2d per Blbs. The best old Downs realised 4s 10,1 per Blbs. We were well supplied with lambs, all breeds of which met a dull inquiry, at 2d per 81bs beneath the prices cur rent on Monday last. The supply of calves being large, the veal trade was heavy, at 4d per 81bs beneath the currencies obtained on this day se'nnight. We had a slow sale for p gs, on former terms. The supply was moderate. Per Sibs to sh s. d. s. d.l Inferior Beasts—.. 3 2to 3 6, Second quality.... 3 8 4 0, Prim:: large oxen 4 2 4 41 Prime Scots, 44:c. 4 6 4 8i Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 Second quality ...3 8 4 01 Prime crse.-wlled. 4 2 4 41 ilt the offals. s. d. s. d. PrimeSouthdown 4 6 410 Lugo crse. calves 3 8 4 4 Prime small d 0... 4 6 410 Large hogs '3 0 4 2 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Sueklingealvcs ..22 0 29 0 quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 46 8d to bs 10c1. lambs TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts . .......... 3,905 Sheep . • •• .. • • • ....• •• —30,590 Piga .. •• • • ........ 325 FOItEIGIN SUPPLY. Beasts.... .. . . • 775 Sheep ..•• •• •• ........2,540 Calves.. .. Pig 5.............• .. ...... A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, June 20, 1853, and this day, Monday, June 19, 1854. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. June 20, 1853. 1June19,1854 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. (1 Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 2to 3 4 3 2to 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 6 3 8 3 5 4 0 Prime large oxen ... 310 4 2,4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c 4 4 4 6!4 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... 3 4 3 8:3 4 3 6 Second quality ditto ... 310 4 03 8 ' Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 2 4 6 4 2 Prime Southdown ditto ... .. 4 8 4 10,4 6 Lambs ... 5 0 6 4;4 8 Large coarse calves ... ... 4 0 4 6.3 8 Prime small ditto ... 4 8 5 94 6 Largo hogs 3 4 3 83 0 Neat small porkers 310 4 4 1 4 4 Beasts.. 4,161 Sheep ... 24,710 Calves... ... 406 SUPPLIES ON Sets, June 21, 1852.—Beasts, 3,639 ; sheep and lambs, 29,690 ; calves, 385 ; pigs, 310. June 23, 1851.—Roasts, 3,518 ; sheep and lambs, 33,080 ; calves, 441; pigs, 385. 4 10 5 10 4 4 4 10 4 2 4 8 3,905 30,590 505 325 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since Monday last the supplies of each kind of meat on sale in these markets have been on the increase. A good business has been doing, yet prices have had a downward tendency. Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2' Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 4 3 8 I Do., middling 3 6 4 2 Do., prime largo .3 10 4 0 Do., prime 4 4 4 6 Do., do. small .... 4 0 4 2 V eal 3 8 4 8 Pork, largo 344 0, Pork, small 42 4 8 Lamb ls 6d to 5s 81. BOROUGH HOP. Owing to the unfavourable accounts from the plantations the duty has bien done as low as 100,0001. The demand is active, and prices are on the advance. Last week's imports were 26 bales from Rotterdam, and 40 ditto from Hamburgh. Mid and East Kent pockets, 7/. is to 101. Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 71. lOs to 91 . 53 ; Sussex ditto, 61. 15s to Si. 15s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The quantity of old potatoes on sale here is small ; yet the demand for them is heavy, and prices are uncertain — viz., from 100 s to 180 per ton. New qualities are coining freely to hand, and good clearances have been effected, as follows : English, 12s to 24s ; foreign, 7s 6d to 12s per per cwt. Last week's imports were 3,252 baskets and 681 bags from Rotterdam, and 203 sacks from Dublin. WOOL. Last week's imports of wool into London wore 61 bales from Santander, 250 from Kirtch, 34 from Hamburgh, 2,70) from Sydney, 79 from Gibraltar, 1,500 from Geelong, 1,044 from Port Fairy, and 109 from Mogadore. Our mar ket is exceedingly heavy, and prices are almost nominal. English wool is quoted as follows :—South-down hoggets, is to is ld ; half-bred hoggets, 114 to is ; ewes, clothing, lld to is; Kent fleeces, ls to is 1d; combing skins, Wild to ls ; flannel wool, 10d to is ld ; blanket wool, 7d to ls ; and Leicester fleeces, 10d to Is per lb. SEEDS. We have a fair demand for canary seed, at full prices ; but all other seeds are dull, on former terms. The sale for cakes is inactive, at late currencies. T Arnip,White, per bush. 14. u, 20 , Swede .. •• .... • • 24.5 383 +4 anal% Brown.. .• 0, 13 4 White, new•. 103 14, r tres,Winter, new.... Os 0(1 0, Od Old •• • • ••.. •• Os 0 , 105 Od Canary, per quarter . 445 48$ Rye oass . • .. • • •• • 243 283 Clover, Red En,c,. (cwt.) —3 - g White •• • • .... • • —s Foreign Red.. • • • • —s White • ... —s —5 Trefoil, new........ •. —s 42- 48s Coriander •• • • 10, 18 3 Rempseed, per quarter 4( P 443 Linseed, Eng.iowing • • 741 76s Crushing •• •• 6 s 689 Rattle .......... 66s 70s Odessa .• ...... 66. 7(1 Lin , eed Cake, pr. ton — English . 101 Os 12 Os Foreign, per ton 9 . 5 s 111 5s Rape Cakes, pr ton 6 1 15 s 7 5s Rapeseed,New,prist 38,0 e 40. CS 11 TALLOW. Our market is steady, and prices are on the advance P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 645, and for forward delivery 65s per cwt. Town tallow is 62s 9d net c as h ; rough fat, 3s 5d per 8113 s. 1850. ' 1851. i 1851. 1853. 1554. 6 0 4 0 3 , 0, 0 1 d t0 , Ta t A . - I_ te 36 3 8 7 12L 37 3, 3 75 6d 44 *.0 t 3 0 8 0 1(ki0 t0 17 4 5 7- 6 ; t d ester ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.— Stock this day , 24,730 37,69 i ) 40.807 21,110 34,498 lurj. It has was the LnniverBAry ef the Battle of Water- Price of Y. C. .... i oa the has hitherto reen the custom to troop the Guards Delivery last week •• 946 959 1, , ,27 1.292 1,070 and parade - in St. James's Park—the soldiers, horse Ditto from June t k 31 , 1 0 1 ,1a.. 2 5 . 2 3,T , 3,109 0 9,453 t he foot, wearing laurel on their hehnets and caps, and Arrivals ltt o f r om i lu vf ne e f ' 2,593 4,100 ' 3',703 3:89 1 4 7 95 37 1 ff no w colours were also decorated with laurel. As we are D Price of Town 334 Od 383 Oa 393 64 49s 31 64s 9d ~,,,Zi l l, alliance with France, the whole of the custom ........,..........___.._. eo,r ,, at , pen p se e ct rso w n it s h . , to the di , appointment of a large con- urs, i o f 1 THE CAPTURE OF PIRATES.—It appears from a return whi TRINITY HOUSE BANQUET.—The grand banquet, to the House of Commons, published on Saturday, that, i e ; 11 generally takes place on Trinity 111ond,y, at the under the act 13th and 14th Vict., c. 26, 6001. was d a : lt Y I LY- 1,, , Tower-ilii, but wa,s po,tponi:diast Moo- awarded in the capture of prates near Hong-Kong. The ti o ' t ' F n .' °'', .cluence Of his Royal highness Princi Albert number of pirates killed. cni-tured, or escaped was 220. eve ' , lig a,ble. to attend. will take place on Wednesday The capture w , ,s in Ju;:6, 18:1: the award of tt ,, Ad -1,14_1r.g next, Lis Ituyili Hlghness having im,timatvd his 'Dimity Court was in Wtober, 1851. •; and la julia i0...6 O . tlon to preside on the occasion, as Naster of the the reward became payable for distribution among the "•&irttty Corporation. t officers and grew of her Nlajeety'a chip Cleopatra. 5 5 4 20 :5 0 11 ch and, made much 514 islied 0 the are, firs; )03 , r a Tend . 3IT 1• I tiro ,f the . 0 vvhicb ,neap• co de Pa tea r es iyates' C 4 into ions anal L th(9 111k 0 go or uara . 3ited , date; nus, , rs to. the re X. e at . 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Saturday. Business done j S' this day. 'Paid. .00 !Aberdeen.. 81 A.mbg Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Junet... all Belfast & Ballymena. all Birming, Wolverh. Stour Va11ey......... 28 Birkenhd. Ltlneh. Cheshire Junet all Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 184 Do., £2O 30 Rlyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) LOO Bristol and Exeter LOO Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon... all Cork, Black, & Pass 14 Cornwall Orloff Junction 4f5 Dablin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth &Aber (teen Junction all Do. New all East all Do., (£l.B E & H)... all Eastern Counties all Eastern Union, A Stock ......... . 100 Do., B. Stock 8?. Do., New A. ..• 00 East Lancashire 00 Edinburgh&Glasgue Edinb. and Peebles [OO Edin.Prtn &Dundee 1 i'orth & Clyde June. .00 Glasgow& S. Western 00 Great Northern Stk. .00 Do., A. Stock .00 Do., B. Stock [OO Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) 100 Great Western 12 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 11 Do., Thirds 2 Do. New Thirds 100 Laueash. andYorksli 186 Do., Fifths 11 j D). , Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Bhtekwal 8 Loud. Til b. & Stli en: I. [OO Lond. l3ri g! & S.Cst. [OO Loud. and N. West!' . 12 Do. Fifths 1 DO.lO/.Sh.,ll&B_t 2. Do. Eighths 100 London and S. Westu 424 Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Llidnclrrydr Col eraine all Ludmirry. & Ennisk. 100 Nlanch.Shef.& Linein 44 Do., Mau. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 t) o. Birmng. & Derby Nfidlcl. G. West. (Ire.) 17, Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & 100 Newmarket 5 Do., Bury Extension 1.9 N wpt. Aberg. & Hrftl 7A Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk Northn.Counties Un 100 North British 16 North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., 2 1 A Deferred 8 Do., B Guaranteed all North London 5A Do. New £lO ll is N .&S.Wstrn.,llamp stead, and City Jn 17? North Staffordshire all - North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. June. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester .00 Oxford, Worcester,& ...,„ Wolverhampton 2/ 2s Portsmouth 100 Scottish Central __ 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury &Biimg 1.00 Do. L. &N. Western Guar ante e d St tt,k 10 Shrewsby. & Herefi all Shrewsby. & C/..estel (N. W. Min ;.„ all Do. flalveso. (.. all Do. Oswestry 6,1 31iropshire Union _ Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 2/ 2s Staincs,Wok &Wok all Stockton & Darling ' jg Stockton & Hartlopl. 'lOO . Taff Vale 8 Do. £lO shares. 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny ill ~ Vaterford&Limerick 16 West Cornwall I West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London 51s. Wimbledn &Croydou 100 YorkNewctl.&Berw.l 20 Do. Extensions 13 Do. G.N. E. Purchase 100 York 22 N.Midland ,0 9 5 3 10 8 10 2s. 0 all .76 all ;CI 14 9 I all 5 1 all 5 74 10 40 23 - 24 5i - 51 8 - 9 12 -11 (lifi 17 - 18 7i - N,I 96 - 98 60 - 60 14i - 15 7 - 8 16' -- ii 12i - 124 32 - 36 24 - 26 1 60 - 62 58 - 60 2~ - 25r~i 58 62 901 9141 70 71 23 - 125 78 leq 87 - 89 11 - 13 - 13 63 -63 i 711 -- 7i -1 . - ... a - 15 8 i 4 4 P W 3 104 99A - 100-i d 4dl $d - A 1 (I 82 83 9 8 :11 8 7ci i 9 - 204 6ii 631 36 -- 38 id — i d 6i 2i 3 6 8 47 49 34 31 33 ... 34 52 55 I par p Rd 30 1 7 74 id —iPl 32 - 34 86 88 51 t 6 60 - 70 60 70 2 2i 16 18 8 9 12 14 3i c 14 16 6 s 64 34 35 4 21 4 30 - 32 3i - 311 18 al9 4 - 5 20 22 6 ,. ... - - 7 7 0 i g 3 71 8 -- 7d 4i -- 50i -- 514 FOREIGN. Antwerp &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graisseseac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy Charleroi & Erquelin Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Grd. Trunk of Canada Do. Debentures Do. do Gt. 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York, Newcastlo,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref ' Do York&N. Midland H Ind S. Prirelt I 5 15 10 102 - 101 9i - 10, 15i -- 16} 9i -- 10 11 —l3 is -- P 23 -23 i 99 -- 101 15 -- 20 fa 90 - 93 3 - - 13 117 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, June 19.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; light pleasant breeze, and cloudy at times. PORTSMOUTH, June 18.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Joshua, from London, for Geelong, and sailed for Southampton ; Flying Dutchman, do., and sailed for New York; Peston jee Bomanjee, Southampton, and left for Geelong. OFF SOUTH FORELAND, June 18.—Tone, from Sunder. land, for Ceylon ; Sappho, Demerara; Pandora, Tobago. SOUTHAMPTON, June 18.—Arrived—Colombo (a), from Alexandria. Sailed—Tamar, for the West Indies ; Madrid (a), Gibraltar. FALMOUTH, June 18.—Wind, W. Arrived—Estrella, from Aavannah ; Ceres, Sierra Leone ; Teed° 111., Ma ranham ; Hebron, Matanzas ; Normen, Salonica. Sailed —Amelia, Pillau. PLYMOUTH, June 18.—Wind, W.S.W. .Arrived—St. Benard, from Matanzas; Walter, Corunna ; Thilde, do. ; Incumparavel, Rio Janeiro; Roslin Castle, Quebec; Moderato, Eupatorio. BRISTOL, June 17.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Fanny, from Barbadoes ; Maria, do. ; Milton, Havannah ; Del phins, New Yolk. GLOUCESTER, June 17.—Sailed—Lune, for Quebec. MILFORD, June 18.—Wind, W. Arrived—Hebe, from Maulmain ; Francis, Cadiz, for Glasgow. YARMOUTH, June 17.—Sailed—Aristide, for Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE.—Era, from St. Kitt's ;' Queen Esther, Antigua, with sails split ; Delores, Leghorn, for Amster dam ; Alice, Alicante. SWANSEA, June 17.—Wind, W. Sailed—Brilliant, for Alexandria. "LIVERPOOL, June 18.—The wreck of a vessel, painted black, apparently about 250 tons, was passed May 26, in let. 37 N, by the Express, arrived here from New Orleans. QuEENsTowN, June 17.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived— Kong E. Augusta, from New York; Elizabeth Nicholson, Fatzah ; Prince Albert, Galatz ; Mecka Flik, Alicata ; Wanderer, Liverpool for Montreal ; Kelzic Wood, do. for Shedim—both leaky. Off Port—Julia, from Callao; Bella Portena, do.; Henry Curwen Maier, Porto Rico for Lon don. ST. DAVID'S, June 17.—The Daphne (schooner), of New Quay, from Barrow to Newport, laden with iron ore, struck yesterday morning on Gwhamgareey Rocks, at the north entrance of Ramsay Sound, and shortly afterwards sunk in deep water ; nothing can be saved either of cargo or materials ; crew saved. BRISTOL, June 17.—The Oakley . (American ship), from Liverpool to St. John's, has put in here leaky, and it is thought must go into dock. PILLAU, June 14.—The Hanoverian Jjalk Thre Brubder, which was on shore on the Nehring, near Polksy, April 10, has been got off and is in the harbo English schooner, cargo, - slates, from Wales to the Eider, got aground on the outer rock of Sand Island, but came off and proceeded. A board painted black, with carved ornaments, and marked "Go - thenburg" in golden letters, has been washed on shore here. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.30 a.m. Wind W.S.W., moderate, and fine. Arrived.—Mexican Packet, from Rio Grande ; Mel bourne, Quebec ; John P.I-Aisking, Charleston; Cromarto, Savannah ; Sir G. Owens, Charleston. Sailed.—Queen of the Seas, for Melbourne. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.25 a.m. Wind, W.S.W. ; tide, one hour and a-half 's ebb. Weather fine. Arrived, June 18.—Agenivia, from Caen ; Jorclenson, Gergenti ; Vesuvius, Naples ; Hurrah, Calania ; William and Francis, Caen ; John and William, Savannah ; Ida, Oporto ; Equivalent, Gergenti ; Cornlinda, Cherbourg • Padre Menbetta, Marseilles; Moselle (s.) Hamburg. 10th.—William Joliffe, (s.), from Calais ; Fyenoord, (s.), Rotterdam ; Candidate, (s.), Hamburg ; Ravensbou rne (s.), Antwerp ; Catharina Knelsina , Amsterdam ; Jong; Antio, Workum ; Fare Muncie, Cadiz ; Colzium, Seville Sailed, 18th.—William Stewart, for Sydney. DEAL, Monday, 9.40 a.m. Wind, W.S.W., light, and fine. Passed.—No. 1,678, second pendant,Thomas King, from westward, for London; William Allen, from westward, for London. Vessels spoken with by the brig Pandora, 80 days from Tobago, arrived in the Downs last night :—May 10, spoke the brig Maria Hardy, from Tobago, for Loudon, lat. 26.'25 N., long. 5S W. ; May 26, long. 51. 5 0 NV., lat. 40.50 N., Dutch brig Governor, L 6 days from Curacoa, for Roasnoes ; June 16, off the Start, British barque Sarah Lucy, from Lo4clou, for Lloog-kong• LITERATURE. Bokinga. A Novel. By Morton Rae. With Illustrations. Second Edition. Hookham and Sons. Whoever Morton Rae, the author of " Bokinga," may be—he or she has manifestly the merit of a very curious originality. Young or old, male or female, girl or stripling, the writer of this eccentric fiction has the advantage, at any rate, of being altogether unhackneyed in authorcraft. The nar rative possesses, indeed, a veritable claim to its title being Novel, beyond all doubt, in the majority of particulars. Morton Rae we recognise at once as a nom de plume. " Bokinga" we accept at once as a volume penned in undisguised defiance of all the root-laws of what certain critics de- light in - designating the resthetics of literature. It has already secured to itself the glory of a " second edition," and would for that reason, if for no other, be entitled to, at least, some cur sory examination. Turning over the twenty-eight chapters in which the story is told, it would be difficult for even the most desultory reader not to perceive through whatever faults of style may be apparent to the more discerning or the more fasti dious, that the writer evinces considerable inge nuity in the arrangement of the plot, or, to speak differently, in the entanglement or involution of the incidents therein described in rapid succession : and with this, moreover, no inconsiderable or incommendable skill in the delineation of the va rious characters introduced. Whatever may per chance be theother peculiarities in the phreno logical development of the author of " Bo kinga," it might be readily conjectured that conspicuous among the intellectual organs of Mor ton Rae would be found on inquiry those exceed ingly useful organs to the romancist, the organs of Constructiveness. However this may be, the tale here told has the double merit already mentioned, the twofold advantage of novelty in plot and in character. Together with these twin attractions, however, it has the pervading blemish of exaggera tion. Its style is distorted by over-intensity. Beyond which, moreover, the language in which the book is written is in a great part matter of uncertainty. It cannot be doubted for a moment that it was in French Beckford originally wrote his oriental romance of " Vathek," any more than that it was in English Goldsmith wrote his domestic story of the " Vicar of Wakefield." But here and there it is difficult to discover, from these pages, to which language the reader is most indebted for the charm of Mor• ton Rae's descriptions. Throughout the book the different illustrations scattered among the letter press are accompanied by a word or two in the graceful tongue of our Gallic neighbours by way, we presume, of more elegant explanation. As thus—"L'ame s'envole," or again " Le Priutemps," or yet again " Les Confidences." While repeatedly, in the text itself, the ear is soothed by the melody of the same mellifluous accents, as where we are told that the children had only " tea and tar tines," that some gentleman was "a fainéant of sixty," or that some lady was the " belle of the craze de la creme," or that the votaries of fashion were candidates for " admission into its vie de delices." However, turning to the story itself, and not to the mere manner .of its narration. Bokinga is the name not of a person, but of an estate—the estate of one Sir Anthony Fielding. The scene opens, at the first, chapter, in the boudoir of the Countess of Wolverton. The master of Bokinga is there received with the cordiality due to the rich old cousin of the Earl and Countess. Especially due to him, seeing that Sir Anthony is not merely aged and wealthy, but also childless— being actually, at the time when the novel com mences, in search (San heir to his enormous posses sions. Leigh Hunt years ago described George IV. as " an Adonis of sixty," on a memorable occasion in the columns of the Examiner. Morton Rae significantly depicts Lady Wolverton as a " Venus of forty-five." She is worse, wonderfully worse, than an ordinary lady of fashion, or woman of the world, or managing mamma, being vain, heartless, selfish, and hating her children beyond all known precedent, and, let us hope, beyond all discoverable experience. Her children are four—Lord Calder, heir to the earldom ' Julian, his younger brother, the beautiful Lady Marion, and the plain, or rather (her mother thinks) ugly Lady Christina. Chris tina, by reason of her uncomely features, becomes despised and neglected—her mother greeting her with the exclamation, " Oh, mon Dieu qu'elle est laide, cette affreuse Christine." Julian for the same reason is either contemned or over looked. Lord Calder, on the contrary, leads " a life of perfect dolcc far niente"—a favourite because of his handsome countenance. Lady Marion, like wise, being distinguished for her loveliness, is petted to an extravagance. The Earl, the father of these four incongruous personages, from first to last appears a mere nonentity—introduced but as a dull specimen of the aristocracy. - Around the for tunes of his children are grouped the other charac ters of the narrative. Scarcely anything is seen of Lord Calder—that is to say, at least, comparatively. Julian is sent abroad as an attaché, and whilb still abroad dies, having previously married the Countess of Chaumont. Marion elopes with Captain Evelyn Staunton, and, dying some years after wards, leaves him a widower not altogether inconsolable. Christina, plain, reserved, and re pulsive, .is adopted by Sir Anthony Fielding as heiress to his estates, and on his demise 'succeeds to them at once, and immediately takes possession. Christina continues to live throughout the story at Bokinga, in sad and unbroken spinsterhood. Here is the description of Bokinga as it appeared when its master was Sir Anthony : " The avenue leading to this deserted mansion was grown over with grass, in the flower garden roses and chickweed, jasmine and nightshade grew together in happy confusion, the placid lake which was once the glory of the park was now &Joked up with dirt and filth, and emitted stagnant odours. All was devastation, all was desolate. It seemed as though years must have elapsed since the foot of man had trodden this wilderness." Here is the mention made of it afterwards when its mistress was the Lady Christina : " The grounds were laid out anew, flowers bloomed in rich profusion in the gardens, the hot houses teemed with the rarest exotics, the pellucid lake again became the pride of Bokinga. Beauty and happiness seemed once more about to reign over that desolate spot, yet he who had been its inmate had lived alone ; she who was to be its inmate was alone. But how different had been the nature of those two beings. He cared not so that he trod life's dull round un-noticed—forgotten. She, haughty and ambitious, paused as she wandered through the grounds, musing how she should array her name in glory, chiefly regretting that—weak woman as she was, there were but few paths open to her high ambition." As the principal figure on the canvas, the owner of the estate the name of which has given its title to the narrative, commands the chief attention of the reader, and at the very outset of the novel is thus curiously depicted " Christina Calder was plain—no that is scarcely the word for her. Plain savours too much of insignificance ; the most soulless features are plain, but there never yet was an ugly face on which might not be traced a passion. Separately, each of Christina's features were well formed, her finely chiselled nose a sculptor might have taken for a model, her flashing, speaking eyes were brilliant, the haughty curl of her lip alone showed the impetuosity of her character, but there was a repelling, harsh je ne . . sais quoi about her whole countenance that was un pleasing. Pride—determination of purpose—was the prominent expression there. As she shook back her dark raven hair she was a fit subject for a painter's 're presentation of midnight, not as it softly smiles in the sunny lands of the sweet south, but in the murky Bceotian atmosphere of northern climes, when l,lack ponderous clouds announce the coming storm. There was no melody in her voice; it was marked with autho rity as that of Hecate when summoning her subjects to attend her nocturnal court." On taking possession of her noble park and her fine old mansion, the mistress of Bokinga is described as (somewhat consoled by her abun dant wealth for her lack of beauty) gazing on the deserted grounds and rambling buildings, and, as she does so, murmuring to herself mein ern—adds the footnote, " the memorable words engraved on the goblet of Charlemagne." During the progress of the narrative, considerable uncertainty is created in the mind of the reader by the coincidence that both Marion Calder and Julian Calder, before dying, leave behind them—each—two children. Christina suddenly introduces to the notice of the wondering gossips near Bokinga—the babblers and scaudalmongers of the village of Thornton—a little girl and a little boy, whom she has brought back with her after a brief and hurried journey to the continent. For a long while it almost appears that these mysterious orphans are the offspring of the Lady of Bokinga's sister—the wife of Evelyn Staunton. Ultimately it proves, however, that they are the children of Julian, the favourite brother of Christina. Their names, Shaftoe and Mildred Calder—the latter variously mentioned as the story goes onward, as " Little Millie," or as "La Princesse." Under the sobriquet of "La Princesse," the picture of Mildred Calder appears in the volume as its frontispiece. Follow ing up the main thread of the plot through all its sinuous windings and bewildering entanglements, we come at length to the information of the where abouts and identity of the children of Marion and Evelyn Staunton—only, however, in time enough to see the boy expire, and to find his sister, Marie Dubois, taken to Paris under one Allen Willmott's protection. Without continuing to trace out still further the course of the tale, and the sequence of the incidents subsequently described, it must here be especially mentioned that in connection with the two marriages already particularised, the marriage of Marion with Cap tain Staunton and the marriage of Juliau with the Countess of Chaumont, there are passages in this nove l o f ig Bokinga" which demand from us our ;OA all )0 . all !,0 5 5 all ;$3 15 ,0 10 5 2 5 3 [0 5 ;0 12 !CI 13 6Ai 33 .0 all !O I all 0 I all .6 all NI all 1.0 all tO 10 10 all LO all zo all zo all 20 10 104 10 . :0 12 5 2 !O all to 1 8 si all AD all !O 10 [0 7 ?.0 2 10 15 5 all .',5 17 XI 14 10 8 10 4 5 1 1 15 20 15 all 1 1 L 5 14 !O 18 Ki ?,0 10 1 all 10 3 2 1 63 2i 3j 151 i 138121 1 81 Si 25 6 I S 91i 72 93 79A 80i S' 15a 16 8i 10i 105 a 4 102 3 2a 3/ 1 81 5i I 11 I 21 20i 64i 5i 4i 5 35 S per cent. 641 5i 4i 196 19 3 - 3i ,zd .16 118 108 - 110 gi - 108 ri 8 .. ad 6 0 96 98 87 89 91 9 3 Id par 133 135 •• • ''. 0* 2i - 3pl 64 8 9 id par 35 - 137 1 - most severe and unqualified reprehension. These, we , cannot but think most reprehensible passages, relat e to incidents associated —the one with the Cour ttess of Chaumont, the other with the Countess 'of olverton. A couple of very noble Countesses truly ! Without entering into the horrid details of th e criminality here imagined and delineated— a pas sing word may be tolerated as sufficiently ex plane tory to justify the sternness of our recent phraE les of condemnation. The Countess of Chau mont to whom Julian Calder imagines himself to have been married, is depicted in the amiable guise of a bigamist, perfectly aware of the existence of her :first husband—so that her two children by Julian are, as a natural consequence, illega tinaai e. The other incident referred to is of a in .ture still more deplorable —it describes the , Countess of Wolverton running away with C:tptain Evelyn Staunton, at the very time she rug tk!,s her adulterous elopement with him, know incl.' _him to be the husband of her own daughter, an A. •the father of her two grandchildren. Now: im aganary occurrences like these, we regard as ab: whitely revolting—and as such we speak of them here ;for greater emphasis let us repeat what we h a -re observed already) in language of the most v seere and unqualified reprehensi on . It is dis til: ssing also to find in an earlier chapter of " 80. g kir tga" the following harsh, and ev en ( cons i der i n the delicate and dependent con diti on of the class) cry eel caricature of THE GOVERNESS. ":7A-3,eader close your eyes and picture to yourself a gu y t riess. Miss Aughton was an average specimen of the genus, cringing, obsequious, even servile to her sun !rtors of her own sex ; they never dreamt that she had a, thought beyond her duty as a teacher, nor that she entertained a wish not bounded by the school-room walls--a feeling to which the well-thumbed grammars did not warmly respond. . . . Was there ever yet indoed a house that sheltered a governess beneath its roof, That was not a scene of endless bickerings and stria, of mischief-making and of punishments incessant and innumerable r TleFie scornful strictures are penned, by the way, in reference to one Miss Selina Aughton, the govern ess of Mildred "La Princesse." Besides the characters already enumerated, there are several others not unworthy of mention as among the more conspicuous of the fictitious personages introduced —stp.cb, for example, as the aspiring Florence Fox land, or as the gentle Ilda Lohmann. Enough is visilDle , however, through all the blurrs, and flaws, and blemishes of "Bokinga," to assure the candid reader that Morton Rae possesses ability as a deli neator of original character, and, with this capa city, no ordinary gift of constructiveness. TEE BAMBERG BUBBLE. T.) the Austrian Note, which left Vienna on the 4th inst., no answer has as yet been received, and as that note must have reached St. Petersburg on the 10th, we might have learnt by telegraph, at latest, on the 15th or 16th, the news of its rejec tion,, bad Russia peremptorily refused to comply with the intimation to evacuate the Principalities forwarded from the Austrian Cabinet. It was not probable, however, as we stated, that the Czar would act hastily in this mattcr. On the contrary, he would naturally avail himself of every delay which might improve either his military or diplomatic position, by giving further time for the operations of his arms against the Turks, or of his intrigues in Central Europe. Of the activity of these intrigues the conferences of Bamberg have furnished a notable example. There Russian influence has reigned paramount, and the lesser States of Germany have been in duced to adopt a line of policy perilous, if not sui cidal. The se sma ll potentates, who in 1848 barely escaped annihil a ti on h ave so far forgotten the ex cessive terror with which they regarded the events of that period as to d are t o act indirect opposition to the will of their people. If there be among the population of Germany one feeling more predominant than another, it is hatred of, Russian patronage, and of Russian encroach me:at. Notwithstanding this, M. Von der Pford ten, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bavaria, a stat.esman of more ambition than discretion, ori gin; tted the proposal for these conferences of Bam berg, which was warmly supported by M. do Beust, the Minister for the Foreign Affairs of Saxony. As our readers are aware, these conferences met to do ter mine on the course to be pursued at the Diet when the two great Powers should submit the Austro-Prussian convention to the approval of the Germanic Confederation, of which these small states, collectively, form an important part. The result was that a memorandum, drawn up osten sibV by M. Von der Pfordten, but, as we believe, rerlly by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, was adopted by the Conference of Bamberg, which took upon itself to judge of the whole Eastern question, and to decide upon it in detail. Of the dogmatical, absurd, and Russian deci , sio4is of the Conference the three most mischievous arts—First that is the duty of the States of Chris te,3d.om collectively to force the Sultan to give gua rantees for the due government of his Christian subjects, and for the maintenance of their pri vileges ; that is, that all Europe should join Rus sia. in the mischief she attempts, and, instead of resisting her, should aid in the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire. Secondly, that in the event of the evacuation of the Danubian Principalities by tie Russian armies, the combined fleets should at ' once quit the Euxine—thus virtually acknowledg ing that that important and open sea is a Russian lake, which the rest of Europe has no right to pe netrate. And, thirdly, that when peace shall happily be brought about, the old treaties between Russia and the Porte shall be renewed. This is beyond everything out of the question. The Western Powers would be as little disposed to listen for an instant to such a proposal as the Turkish Government itself. This memorandum, though it appears an act of mere foolishness, would, if acted upon in the Ger man Diet, be productive of the greatest mischief. That this, however, will not be brought about, we believe we may safely assure our readers, for, un less we are much mistaken, A us t r i a an d Prussia will submit their convention individually and in succession to the States of Germany, soliciting their adhesion one by one, and they will refuse to sub mit the matter to the Diet, as they' do not choose to consider it a matter for federal action. The ill-advised enterprise on behalf of Russia has thus already failed, and several States, we have reason to know, have, since the Conference, with drawn from its connection and its consequences ; whilst such energetic remonstrances have been addressed to the courts of Saxony and Bivaria, that the acts of the authors of the memorandum of Bamberg will be effectually disavowed ; and wo shall not be surprised to see M. Von der Pfordten shortly quit the responsibilities and temptations of office. Of the absurd points of the memorandum of the Conference of Bamberg, the most ridiculous, without exception, was that which—inserted, no doubt, to hide the Russian origin of the other proposals—pro vided for the maintenance not merely of the Greek kingdom, but of the Bavarian dynasty, under the guarantee of Germany. The wise men of Bamberg, without a fleet or even a bowl to go to sea in, dreamt of guaranteeing the Crown of a maritime State, even, we suppose, from the attacks of the combined. ' navies of England and France, to which powers un grateful Bavaria should have remembered that, but eighteen months ago, her royal family was indebted for the confirmation of their succession in Greece. So short a time ago, Russia, at the Conference of London, used every effort to procure the settlement of the Greek Crown on the house of Oldenburg, and Bavaria owed the defeat of this project solely to the united resolution of the Western Powers whom. she has ventured to outrage. Such tricks as these are not to be played with impunity. These small States cannot afford to lose the protection of the great Powers. Whilst they try the forbearance of their subjects to the utmost, they are provoking revolution on the one hand, su ppression on the other ; and bet ween those dan gers the little Crowns and Coronets of Germany will certainly arrive at speedy destruction if they do not completely change their plans, and act in unison with their greater neighbours, pursuing the course pointed out by reason and justice, and indicated by the loud and resolved voice of Public Opinion.—Moriting Post. MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.—The President, the Earl Manvers, and the council of this institution paid their first visit of inspection of the college building at Epsom, on Fri-lay last, and were highly gratified with the character of the work done, also with the great pro gress made by the contractor towards the completion of the entire building. The next official visit of the council is to be on the Ist of August next, by which time the building will be roofed and tho dining-hall in a state of forwardness, to enable the council to partake of refresh ments in it. It is confidently expected that this valuable • institution will be opened under royal patronage, on the TER FICOM ADMIRAL DIINDAS.—Mr. Bennior, of 25th June, 1855, for the reception of those who may be LETTER Ferry has received (says the Cheater Chronicle) considered by the governors deserving of the benefits it Que en • ~ the following letter 'from Admiral Dundas_, relative to is intended to confer. CROSBY HALL, BISHOPSGATB.— Mr. Henry Abbott, noojam e ß r e t k te s ra ett o , f m lo a c y al n b t e h n , e l fi B e s e 4 n . c_e D :— ea `; H Sir. ht . . I S . Iv ß ti tan. ___ . g • as very one of the class teachers of the evenin classes, has pleased to hear from you, and that all in the parish of been delivering the I.st two Wednesdaye v ening s Hawarden is prosperous. I hope, when there is aB. tures on the English humourists of the nineteanth e c on l o e n c: tury. He has attracted a very respectable audiienc each occasion, the chair being filled successive ), Rev. C. Mackenzie, and the Rev. H. to the Common Sergeant of London. He has brary, that there will be a good room attached to it. 00 by 4 the . that subscribers can meet and benefit by lectures. Mr. !bether Houghton will be instructed by me to pay Si., and more Bulloc- deli delighted if necessary. I have been giving the Russians a little taste of our shot and shell ; but we did not, I hope, da ular writers. the company by his illustrations I The last lecture included Hook, Hood, Sidney Smith, ma. ge private property, or even neutral ships, as our . ' and Douglass Jerrold. The last lectur , e of this series le n s - good Queen recommended such should not. be molested. I shall be very glad to see Queen's - Ferry again, and , will be delivered on Wednesday next, and chide Charles Dickens. Mr.. Abbott _ is likely to rank shake bands with all my friends in your neighbourhood.' Youro very sincerely (signed) J. W. D. DUMAS. am ng the first-Wass lecturere of the day, _ THE WAR. NAVAL AND. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Vulcan, the Tonning, and the Kangaroo steam troop-ships are ordered to embark infantry and cavalry, the latter. to supply the loss of those who went out in the Europa, on or about Saturday next, at Portsmouth, for the seat of war in the East. The Medina steam-packet left Portsmouth on Sature day afternoon for the Black Sea, with mails for the fleet, and entered Plymouth Sound yesterday morning. Her Majesty' s brig Mariner, Captain Johnson, went from Hanioaze into Plymouth Sound, and was paid ad vance of wages there on Saturday. She will probably sail to-day for the white Sea. The Calcutta, 84, Captain Stopford, having b een rigged, w as warped to the hulk Vigo, at Plymouth, on Saturday, to receive her crew. The crew of the frigate Indefatigable, 50, Captain Hope, at Plymouth, got tops and lower rigging over the mast-heads on Friday. The Hornet, screw steam-sloop, Commander Frederick A. Campbell, has completed her crew in every respect, and more men offered their services for her, owing to the popularity of her commander, than were required for her full complement. She will be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities on Thursday, the 29th inst., and is expected to join the fleet in the Baltic. The slip from which the Royal Albert, 131, screw steam-ship, was recently launched at Woolwich Dock yard, having been completely cleared out, an order has been received to commence immediately the laying d own of another screw steam-vessel, to be named the Scout, and to b.) about 1,500 tons burden, on similar lines, a n d to carry the same number of guns of large calibre as the Pearl, 20, screw steam-corvette, building on the ad joining slip. An inquiry has been instituted by an Admiralty order into the complaint made by the crew of the Star, 16, Commander C. W. Warren. Vice-Admiral the lon. Jocelyn Percy, Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, bas been engaged for two days past in this case. The re sult is, that Commander Warren has been reprimanded, and the ship's company likewise, by the Admiral. On the ship's company being informed that their old com mander was to proceed to sea after she was refitted, some of the seamen declared they would rather lose their wages for the last commission than subject themselves to the treatment they have before experienced at his hands, and they complain that they have not been paid any wages since their return home, as in the case of the Waterwitch. Three of th e crew have already .managed to run away. The undermentioned officers passed the quarterly examination in steam at the Royal Naval College, Ports mouth, and received certificates on Saturday : Commanders D. Miller and F. H. Shortt ; Messrs. W. H. Liddell, H. B. Phillimore, J. A. Poland, a n d W. F. Lee (mates, R.N.), and Second Lieutenant R. Woollcombe, Royal Marines. The following appointments have been made : Lieutenant Lawrence Dennehy (1824), serving in a contract steam-vessel, to be agent for transports. Master James Bowler (1842), recently serving in the Hercules Government emigrant-ship, to the Colossus, 80, screw steam-ship at Portsmouth. Second Master Martin Roberts (1844), from the Coast guard, to the Volcano, now converted into a floating factory at Woolwich, for service with the fleet under the command of Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic. Captain-Superintendent Christopher Wyvill left Sheer ness for Chatham-yard, on service, yesterday morning in the Wildfire, immediately on the information being tele graphed of the fire having taken place there. Captain-Superintendent John J. Fricker arrived at Sheerness on Saturday, and commenced his duties as Captain-Superintendent. He also went to Chatham yesterday morning in the Wildfire. The damage which theTynemouth screw transport sus tained by being in collision with the Galeed, of Salcombe, has been made good, and her losses replaced by the Sheer ness dockyard authorities. At 7 30 p.m. on Saturday, the Aeider steam-vessel was sent alongside to assist her to sea, when an order was sent from Captain Lord Frede rick A. Kerr, in command of the flag-ship Waterloo, directing her commander not to proceed to sea until fur ther orders, as a messenger had arrived from Dept ford with orders for her to await the arrival of the steam vessel Widgeon, with the victualling lighter Wight, both laden with oats, in puncheons weighing about 6001b5., for troop forage for Constantinople, The Widgeon and Wight arrived at Sheerness at 1 a.m. yesterday from Deptford, and transhipped on board the Tynemouth 50 puncheons of oats. At 1 p.m. she was taken in tow by them for the Downs. The Adder left her at the Mouse at 330 p.m. The Widgeon would assist her through the Downs. This ship during her short stay at Sheer ness has been an object of great interest to naval and military officers, to the former for her superior and most efficient build as a troop transport, to the latter for the unprecedented accommodation for troops. She is calcu lated to carry with every convenience 1,000 men, with their provisions, camp equipage, &c., and in addition thereto 1,000 tons of cargo under the troop-deck. She has an auxiliary steam power of two engines of 40-horse power each (nominal), the two being capable of working up to from 80 to 200-horse power, and thereby pro pelling the ship, should she get becalmed, at the rate of seven knots per hour. Her engines were constructed and set up by Hawthorn, Brothers, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the ship was built by Messrs. Couls and Parkinson, of the same place. The following officers go out in her in charge of the ambulance corps :—Captain John James Grant, in com mand; Captain John P. Pig ot, Adjutant William Henry, Staff-assistant-surgeon Peter Nevin Jackson, and Mr. R. B. Nicklin, Photographer to her Majesty's army in the East. The Tynemouth set on her steam power at the Nore, and passed the Mouse lighvessel at 3.30 p.m. Her screw has 11 feet dip and 14 feet pitch, the average revolutions being 65 to 70 per minute. The Rhadamanthus, paddlewheel steam storeship, Master-Commander John Belem, left Woolwich at half past 5 o'clock p.m. on Saturday for Portsmouth, with the engines of the Harrier, screw steam-sloop, fitting at that port. The Kate, hired for the purpose of conveying the guns of large calibre cast by Messrs. Walker and Co., of the Lowinoor Company, for the Sultan, having com pleted taking on board the number of tons she had con tracted for, has left Woolwich with the guns for Con-. stantinople. Sergeant-Major John Gilles, of the Repository De partment at Woolwich, who had his services verified on Friday by a board of field officers, previous to his being pensioned on being discharged from the service, is the last of those who served in the ranks of the Royal Artillery at the battle of Waterloo. John Gilles enlisted in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1308, and conse quently has been on active service for the long period of 46 years. Captain Irving's company, 12th battalion, arrived in Woolwich garrison at 5 p,m. on Saturday from Shoe. buryness, and are expected to embark, with a number of siege guns and about 100 horses, in a few days for the seat of war in the East. The arrangements for the e mbarkation of horses at Woolwich for the seat of war in the East have been so satisfactorily made that the horses reached their desti nation, according to the returns up to the present time, with a loss of only 4 per cent. Upwards of 1,000 trusses of hay were inspected on Friday at Deptford previ ous to being put on board store steam-vessels for convey. ante to Malta and Turkey. 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 20 privates, for the Colose sus, 80, screw steam-ship, and 20 privates, volunteers. from the Woolwich division of Royal Marines for the Royal Marine Artillery, are to leave Woolwich this morning for Portsmouth, in charge of Captain Harrison, who is posted to the Imperieuse, 50, screw steam-frigate, serving with the Baltic fleet, in the room of Brevet. Major Stransham, promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Harrison will take a passage to the Bahia in one of the vessels under orders for that sea after deliver ing his charge of non-commissioned officers and men to . their respective destinations. The first division of the 27th (Enniskillen) Regiment left the Royal barracks, Dublin, on Friday, for Cork, where they are to embark for Calcutta on the 29th and 3Oth c i a n p s t t ai inst. The l e ie ig l i e t ta s tu i e t n e t n c is o , n t s w ist o ed st o . ff f , n 2 o 9 fi s e e l d rg o e ffi si c i t er : five 25 corporals, two drummers , and 352 privates, who 9 we re conveyed to their destination by a special train, which started from the Kine.'sbridge terminus at 9 a.m. Previous to marching off, the arms, accoutrements, and ammunition were, as usual, inspected by the officer commanding the division, and ascertained to be in corn plete order ; each soldier was in possession of 60 rounds of service ammunition and 72 percussion caps. Tho re maining division left on Saturday morning at the same hour. The regiment will be conveyed to India by the troop-ships Barham, Soubetar, Southampton, and Char lotte. This regiment is greatly under its establishment, in consequence of the number of volunteers given by it Turkseyd. officers, o v, e , r i 7 t t o strong,the reg i includingts now servingnon in commission mers, andrank and fil e . g d o rti o ol u ! On Saturday afternoon the 3d division of the 8 0 th Regiment arrived at Chatham garrison from India, consisting of 6 sergeants and 145 rank and file, with 7 women and 8 children, under the command of Cap. tain C. Duperier, with Lieutenant George Sullivan,s Lieutenant C raw f or d , Li eutenant M or timer, and A . sistant-S urgeon La i ne. The troops disembarked the Caine day at G ravesen d f rom the ship TLord leftordDalhousie, 912 tons burd en , Captain Ferris. of May the on the 17th o f February, and on theke 24 t h water, and sailed ship put i n a t St. Helena, an Corporal Blackall, Pri for the Thames on the 2 5 th. rp o o f r t a h l e 's wife, regito d eo ie t, d vate Lamb, and Mrs. on the passage. The e l Hutchinson are on board the under command of Coloneood division is on board the ship and the s hCe°i°-qiluYa'ratecros under . command of Major L. I e expected daily. The Aontgoniery. Prince of been in India for the last 18 years. Many regiment has have come home rich, having as much Both ships are 5001. to 1,0001. each. as from of the soldiers the ived tart )eell Tee' bele an- g of y the • the dud f her ,lock ight, rigi' )orts ,then (hag • the 65 4t 71 2 12i 2 52 1i 6 4 ? 4i 5