The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

R. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING, at Fight. 1101 AL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING (Monday), Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. G. Collins, Mr. Patey, and Ali Ben Sou-alle, Operatic selection, Don Giovanni, Asc. BAND OF ONE HUNDRED PERFOR3IERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 31ELLON. On Thursday next, Ang. 25, a BEETHOVEN NIGHT. Due node.: will be given of the repetition of the 3lende's- Sohn Night. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One Shilling ; Dress Circle, 2s. Cd. ; Private Boxes, £1 18. and 10s. Cd. The Box Office is open from 10 till 5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE h T REETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Maiston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F .nny Gwynne. NN " THEA fitE-R() YAL, ADELPE.I.-- 6 rDrk,tor And Mans es. Mr:. B. ~ %rebster. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MAID. 'Messrs. J . , L. Tonic, P. Bedford, It. Phillips, and Mr . Alfred Mellon. After wnich, MASKS AN D FACES. Messrs. B. Webster,. P. B ol tord, R. Phillips, Billington , S tuart ; Mrs. btirling, Mrs. Billington. and miss H. Simms. To conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Tome, P. Bed:ord, R. Phillii a, and Miss Woolgo. Commence at 7. NEW BOWER OPERE TA HOUSE- Senora Georgi Cardinal, the eminent Spanish Come dienne, in Smyth Lee's new and eminently successful Come dietta, HER ONLY FAILING ; whieb, together with CYAION AND IPHIGENIA. ICED CHAMPAGNE, and THE KISS AND THE ROsE, will be repeated EVERY EVENING. SIDESEA and DRESSES. NJ Messrs. JAY, of Ilegent - street,have now in stock a 'variety of WASHING bi-/ 3 C- DRE , SES, suttatle for the country and seaside, and at the maring-out pike of only fI ils. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BL ACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already risen 15 Messrs., and it will soon reach a tar greater per-centage. JAY, therefore, Invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally be more to,tly as the price if silk fluctuates to a higher average - - JAY'S, 217, 219, and 251, Regent-street. C OALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 235. per ton. I Double 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep ....215. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, south Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Lzent. T" THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, gam be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Evening by HENRY BROOKS, ewspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. HIGH, WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rats DA:T.—Morning, 51. 15m.—Afternoon, sh. 40m. lu•yeosaow.-lio:ning, 6h. 2m.—Afternoon, 6h. 24m. 4 r1160 T L 1 -4 ,r elag . Mat LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1861. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY has commenced in good time to address his constituents, and divulge his ♦iews on various subjects connected with the great political questions of the day. He soon began his strictures, for he commented on Lord PALMER STON'S remarks at Bradford. " The noble lord spoke in very flattering terms of the energy, ability, and capacity of the working classes of England." Now, from thi3, Sir JOINT not inaptly deduces that he need not be so reluctant to extend the franchise. This was quite a home thrust, but it is well known that the Premier can be all things to all men just as it suits his tarn, and no one who has attained much experience can-be taken is by the specious remarks which the members of our Cabinet choose to make concerning important matters relating to home and foreign policy. But the member for Tavis tock did not confine himself to these inuendces— he went much further, and spoke of that most awkward subject of all, the question of Reform. Although some years have now passed since the great claptrap was made by Earl RUSSELL and his friends, it is as much to their disgrace now as then that they should have taken office under false pretences, and stooped to an unworthy subterfuge in order to oust their political opponents from office. Sir JOHN TRELAWNY uttered the exact words which the working classes might have said to the Administration as to their conduct of trickery and deceit—" You took office with the understanding that you were going to bring in a better reform bill than that introduced by Mr DISRAELI, and we supported you in the belief that we were going to receive that instalment of justice for which we have so long waited." It seems strange that such dupli city should cot excite more indignation than it has done, but in the pages of history none of these arch-deceivers will escape the criticism they deserve. Ia this discourse we find a good humoured hint thrown out to the Government that they must be a little more zealous in the discharge of their duties. It is indeed not likely that this Cabinet will much longer survive the shocks it is continually receiving, but at the same time the Liberal supporters have a right to complain in no measured terms upon the faineant policy which has been pursued for so long a period. It is given out that the Ministers are most t apable men, eminent in ability, skilled in legislation, experienced in parliamentary tactics, and well versed in administrative affairs, and yet the result is ever the same. Such lame and impo. tent conclusions, after so much unseemly self lau dAtion and boastful pararle of power, may well call forth the comment of vox et pretera nihzl. Sir J OIIN TRELAWNY rather overpraised Lord PALKERsToN, but still the Premier is so great a favourite among many classes, that perhaps it was not to be wondered at, and doubtless many political adversaries might concur with the member for Tavistock, when he said that the noble lord was the first working man in office. "He has worked as hard as any hundred men—l was going to say, in the various offices he has held during fifty years or *so, atd he will probably remain in office till the end of his life." Such may be all very well, but it ig too much for paticnco when we pass on to (Alio. giatus upon Earl RUSSELL. To praise him for his management of our relations with America is indeed intolerable. 'Who has seen any evidence of that tact, courage, coolness, and calmness, which are here spoken of, and as to the conciliation when proper, and the firmness when necessary, it must be imagined that the former refers to the lenity invariably shown to the Federals, and the latter to the constant enmity displayed to the eJnfederate cause. Neither does the Danish question appear satisfactorily treated in this sp.ech ; we hear the old rigmarole of the Conservative party not explaining their policy. T h . s 1. 18 a very convenient subterfuge, b u t a s the Minister, and not the Opposition are re sponsible to the Rouse and the country it would be bet! e to scan their cause a little mere scrutinisingly, and touc h on their commissions rather than specn commissions o f others. Sir JOHN late upon the proved the badness of his cause by hi s feeble advo cacy, and the space that be appropriated in his long discourse to this ail absorbing topic. Church Rites, the Bello., & r., e ra very well in th e i r place, but their consid er ation may well be postpon e d to a m )re couvenient period when a question is mooted which, concerns the honour of the country. N est year or the year after might do for home reforms, but fore:A:7n matters wilt not wait. TLe great world meanwhile spins for ever dc..vn the rirgiog grooves of change, and the opportunity once lost cannot be recalled. Perhaps we may dis cover the secret of the shortcomings of men in office in the fact that their misdeeds are slurred over, and their measures supported at a pinch by the very men who should stand aloof if they sought to be true to the policy they advocate, and the cone stitnents they represent. It is too bad to hear a member of Parliament declare to his constituents that if we had gone to war we should have been beaten, " a war with all Germany on behalf of the Danes would almost certainly have been a ffsilure.'' This is an imputation on the English nation that is write uncalled for. "All Germany" would have foolish if the att em pt h a d b een wa d e , l a o n o d k e v it is especially specially rid;cnlous to put forward such a statement when it is a fsct patent to the world that it was the love and not the fear of Germv.ny that actuated cur policy. Those in high places were too frightened of the harm we should inflict on that country,and consequently the Danea were sacrificed. What, if in the pe ace-offering our national honour had to be immolated, the sacrifice was not deemed too great considering the occasion that called it forth. This is not the season that we usually associate with the sufferings of the poor. Want and suffer ing there must be, we know, all the year round in more or less degree, especially when a sickly season or slackness of work increase the ordinary hard ships of the lower classes. But winter is the time which poor folks dread, and in which their wants press moat heavily. It is then that cold adds its numbing influence to hunger, that the system needs more food, more clothing, more warmth, just as the necessaries of life rise in price and be.. come consequently more unattainable. It is in winter time that our workhouses fill, that our re lieving societies are in active operation, and that charitable associations of every kind appeal for increased help. During the gloomy winter menthe we are pained but not surprised to hear sad tales of want and poverty even if they reach to the tragic point of absolute starvation, the frequency of whose recurrence in sue wealthy metropolis has set wise and conscientious men to work to devise some remedy. That such is needed is clearly proved by the fact that while the bright summer days are yet with us, while the reapers are busy, and before the harvest is fully gathered, in comes another mournful story of death from starvation in the midst of our London streets and squares. We may well feel surprised that such should be the case, even though the scene of its occurrence should be Bethnal-green. The circumstances of the case were, too, of a particularly painful nature. The victim was a child of tender years, who naturally claims our pity more then an adult, whose own folly or imprudence may be supposed to have had some share in his or her destitution. The father was a hardworking, labouring man, who had been laid aside from his work by illness, and therefore pre vented, by unavoidable causes, from properly sup porting his family. He and his wife both appeared in court, where their emaciated and miserable looks excited deep commiseration. Indeed, they were still so weak from recent ill ness that the medical man who gave his evidence, said he thought they could hardly under stand what was going on. The sad story was soon told. The father, a labourer, earned half-a-crown a day, but for the last fortnight had been unable to work from illness, typhus fever having attacked the whole family one by one, and reduced them to a state of the greatest weakness. The mother, who came into court with an infant in her arms, could hardly speak from weakness. The poor child who died was eight years old, and wes like the others recovering from the fever, when, of course, instead of diminished food, or rather no food at all, he required all the nourishment he could take. The doctor who made the post nzortem examination said the child had died from convaisons brought on by want of food, only half an ounce of gruel being found in his stomach. It will be naturally asked why application was not made to the parish au thorities, and the question is answered in the usual fashion. Two or three years ago the father, when in distress, applied to the workhouse for help, and was given a shilling a week and a loaf; but after some time he was told that he and family must come into the house, or they should have nothing more. The man who, as we see, can earn, when in good health, half-a-crown a day, and has been able to maintain his family in the inter vening years, very naturally refused, and, therefore when this illness came on he would not ask again, expecting to be refused. Very probably, notwithe standing their former experience, the father and mother would have made some effort on behalf of their starving child had they themselves been in a condition to understand the state of the case, but prostrated by illness of the most terrible character they were unfit or unable to exert themselves. We have no reason to doubt that bad the parish autho rities known of this instance they would have granted some relief, but the question remains whether there is not something very wrong in our social arrangements. The case before us is just one of those which parochial relief_ should be extended to ; it is one which has an especial claim on the well• to-doeclasees of the community. The richest and wisest is liable at any time to be laid aside from his work, his profession, his ordinary pursuits of what ever kind. Illness is one of the ordinary visitations of humanity, and while it excites our feelings of sympathy and pity on behalf of the suff,rer, it unquestionably exonerates him from any blame for inaction. The political economist may, indeed, contend that those who wholly depend upon their health and strength for maintenance should lay by some provision for a rainy day,bnt we have yet to find the theory whose practical applicationwill enable a Lendonllabonrer with half a crown a day to keep himself, his wife, and six children, to put by enough to maintain eight persons during a fortnight's corn pelled inaction. Threepence a day is not so large a sum for the support of a human being of whatever age at the present rate of prices that the most rigid of censors need blame, because rent and cloth ing is all that can be saved out of it. It is in fami lies living like this that typhus finds so ready a prey. Their customary rate of living is only just enough to keep body and soul together, and then when a bad season comes fever sweeps them off, or an unusually cold winter mows them down by the hundred. Mendicancy is forbidden by law, small trades that had no capital, such ss trucks and barrow selling, are discouraged by the police, the workhouse saddles their relief with the condition of going into the house—What are the in digent to do ? Oar practice has for too long been entirely negative. We tell the Pe o pl e w h at t h ey ought net to dO, but no one can find out what course they ought to take except putting themselves under ground with the least possible delay. It is absurd as well as unjust to suppose that a man possessing all his limbs and faculties will voluntarily abandon himself to a pauper's life. That life entails total separation from his family, the sacrifice of all the little comforts of home, the surren der of his freedom of action for a very prison -like existence, where every one re gards him as a burden. The strineenoy of the rules for admission is exeuaed on the ground that it is desirable to keep people off' the rates and to discourage pauperism ea much as p €eible. How does this consist with the condition so often attached to succouring a poor family out of doors ? The real meaning is plain enough. As little as possible is to be done, and the poor are not to be encouraged to be troublesome. But we cannot so get rid of our social duties and obli gations, and so long as deaths from starvation recur in London, a heavy responsibility rests upon its citizens. A little temporary relief would have caved this child's life. Might not the neighbours have applied for it had they thought there was a chance of success ? The fact is that our whole system of levying rates must be altered, if we wish to avoid this reproach ; for so long as each parish is compelled to bear its own burden, so long we shall reap the fruits of that unreasonable in• equality in death and distress among our labour.. ing classes, PUBLIC HONOURS, THE SUN, LONDON, f MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1864. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. Si;—The remarkable man who now rules in France follows the good example of his illustrious uncle in the con ferring of decorations upon persons who have done good service to the State, whether their acts be military, social, or of an artistic character. But in Britain the martialists certainly have an advantage with respect to pecuniary and social benefits. A peerage was once talked of for the late Sir B. Brodie, but I believe that the idea was not favour ably received ; at any rate, he did not receive peerage; nor am I aware of any medical man, however eminent he may have been, who has been raised to the peerage, although soldiers, sailors, and lawyers, as well as divines, have been received favourably in the Upper Chamber. There, also, we may look in vain for the elevation of our eminent authors and artists. I observed, recently, in The Sun, a printed statement respecting large sums of public money still paid out of the Exchequer to sineourists, to the extent of many thousands a year, while eminent literati and artists can obtain with difficulty a small pension from Government —the amount of money for this purpose being about £1,200 per annum I A fair sum of money was awarded during the last session by the House of Commons to some eminent painter, which act, I hope, augurs well for the future, for certainly an improvement is desirable. In my opinion, so far as concerns secular honour, the appointment of a new decoration for civilians only—the ALBERT Cross—as sug Bested in The Sun a few months since, would be attended with public advantage, and this new decoration would place civilians upon a par with military men with respect to pub lic position. I am, Sir, yours obediently, CHRISER. COOK, Aug. 20. Reaping Machines. On Saturday an extensive trial of reaping ma chines took place under the auspices of the United Agricultural Society of East Lothian. The com petition took place on the farm of Athelstaneford, near Drem, where Douglas, the famed breeder of farm stock, had provided a field of 65 acres of bar ley, divided off into lots of about I, acres, and a field of oats of 40 acres, divided into lots of nearly an acre each. The weather was extremely favourable for the competition, and the crop wes cut in capital condition. The barley was on a nearly level field, and was a full averega crop; the oats, which were in a field with a gentle slope, were light in the straw, but fully up to the average oat crop of the season. Upwards of 30 machines were en. tered for the competition, but several were with drawn; Several more were not brought forward, some of them, owing to the machines having been missent or delayed by the railway company. There were complaints on the ground as to the con duct of the railway in the mattes, and the com petition was delayed fully an hour later than the time announced for its beginning. Eighteen machines in all took part in the competition, dis playing fully the different principles of construc tion and working of those now in the market. Four were on the self - delivering principle—namely, Samuelson and Co.'s two-horse machine, Brigham and Bickerton's two-horse and one-horse reapers ; and IVl`Cormick's sheaf-delivering machine, the latter exhibited by Mr Todd, of Cestlemain. The manual delivery reapers were—two by Mr Halli day, of Haddington ; two by Mr Wallace, Alexan dria, Dumbartonshire ; two by Pixley, Sims, and Co. ; one Pixley machine exhibited by Mr Hume. Coldstream; a two-horse band-delivery reaper, by Mr Gray, of Brownrigg; a two-horse reaper, by Brigham and Bickerton ; a " 13uekeye" combined reaper and mower, by the same firm ; a Gardner and Ainslie machine, shown by Mr Reid ; and a new two-horse reaper, by Messrs. G. and W. Per. teous, of Haddington. There were also one of the " Eclipse" one-horse machines of Samuelson, and a one-horse "Excelsior" of Brigham and Bickerton, The extent of the competition brought together a large number of the leading agriculturists of Scot land, and the beauty of the weather brought out a considerable number of ladies and gentlemen to witness the interesting sight. Among those on the ground were the Marquis of Tweeddale, the Earl of Wemyss, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Chelms ford, Lord Elcho, M.P. for the county, Lord Walden, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir George Grant Suttie, &c. The judges were the Marquis of Tweeddale, Mr Henderson, Byres ; Mr Smith, Stevenston Mains; Mr Wyllie, Bolton; and Mr Russell, Coaistonemains. The reaping be gan on the firing of a gun shortly aften eleven, and concluded about five in the afternoon, an interval raking place between the cutting of the barley and the oats, during which time a large party of gentle men dined in the tent, when the chair was taken by the Marquis of Tweeddale. After the allotted spaces iu the two fields had been cut the judges went mi nutely over the work, and also inspected the mechanism of most of the machines. They then selected a few for a further trial under their own immediate view, and after consideration gave the following awards—For manual delivery machines —Fret prize, Halliday, Haddington ; second ditto, Brigham and Bickerston's " Buckeye ;" third ditto, Halliday,Haddington ; fourth ditto, W a ll ace , Dum bartonshire; fifth ditto, Humes, Pixley; sixth ditto, Wallace, Dumbartonshire. For self-delivering ma chines--first prize, Samuelson and Co. ; second ditto Brigham and Bickerston's two horse. For the best reaper in the field, Mr Halliday, Had dington. The machine placed first is the same as that with which Mr Halliday took the first pain at Yester in the same district in 1861, but with con siderable improvement. It differs from the machine placed third in having a compound acting guiding wheel, by which the machine is easily turned, and which has the merit of considerable importance on a grass bottom—of not cutting up the soil however sharply it may be turned. Bath Halliday's ma chines are provided with a very simple arrangement by which one lever throws the machine out of gear and at the same time lifts the knives out of the ground. This is by many deemed an advantage, though it has been objected that, as the knives can not be lifted without stopping the cutting, there is not the same facility for clearing obstructions, such as atones, as is given in reapers where the actions are not conjoined. The beautiful balance arrange ment for lifting the knives in Samuelson and Co.'s one-horse machine was very much admired. There were, however, no prizes given for one-horse reapers. Brigham and Bickerton's ma chines, of which 5 were in the ground, took both the second prizes. The "Buckeye" is a strong and rapid working machine, and gave great satisfac tion. Mr Wallace's reapers, which stood fourth and sixth, differed from each other in the arrangement of the wheels-0116 of them having two large wheels, while the other was constructed with only one. The Pixley machine, shown by Mr Hume, started very late, curing to its detention on the railway, but suc ceeded in taking its place in the prize list. The easy draught and excellent working of Samuelson's self-delivery machine won it the first place in that class. Its light draught is materially assisted by 'he action of the teeth, which pass through two fingers at each revolution, thus lessening the num ber of revolutions necessary to give speed to the cutters. The same arrangement is used in the Eclipse machine. The hand delivery machine of elr Gray excited considerable attention by its novelty. In it a girl follows the machine, placing a " whippie," or binding stray on the tilt board after each sheaf is delivered. The band is thts round lying beneath each sheaf on the ground. In every respect the competition went off well, and the work done was throughout good. So much was this the case that the opinion was freely expressed that with any of the machines on the ground a far mer would be well served, THE EMPIRE OF MEXICO. (From the Times' Corresponient.) MEloco, July 10, On the 28th ult. General Bazaine gave a magnifi cent ball in hooour of the Emperor and Empress ; 1,200 people, the elite of Mexico, comprising every political name, were present. It has been said " that more is sometimes gained by a ball than a battle," and such was certainly the case on the present occasion ; the unostentatious and effable manner in which their Majesties walked about the room, entering into conversation with every one, formed such a marvellous contrast to anything that had ever been witnessed in the days of a free re public, when dusty-coloured Presidents never moved without being surrounded by a body guard of still more dusty-coloured aide-de,camps, that on the following morning the whole ci t y of Mexico re sounded with their praises. " The Emperor spoke to me," said enca he did with me," said another, which was heard repeated at the corner of almost every street, showed the value attached to every word which issued from the Imperial lips ; and I will venture to assert that of the fifties or hundreds who Lad the honour of being noticed by the Emperor or Empress on that eventful evening there i 4 tot one, be he reactionist or be he republi can) 'who has not treasured up in his memory and who cannot repeat with the most perfect accuracy every word that was addressed to him. Whether all this is consistent with the opinion so industri ously circulated, _both here and elsewhere, that Mexicans were essentially republicans and abhorred a monarchy, may well be doubted; all I can say is that never in the same short space of time have I seen any two individuals attain the same amount of popularity. The Emperor, for the present, has taken up his abode in the castle of Chapultepec, about three miles from the city ; he drives in every morning in an open carriage attended by a single outrider, and returns in the afternoon, after having devoted the whole of the day to the business of the country. All the Ministerial departments are confided to sub secretaries. His Majesty having very wisely deter mined to reserve to himself the direct supervision until he can find fit persons to fill the various posts, All the appointments be has yet made seem to meet with unqualified approbatiou, and it is fair to pre sume that, with a little time and patience, he will succeed in raising up a moderate party that will more than counterbalance the two extremes which by turns have ruled and ruined the country. The commission to report upon the finances of the country is to meet on the Ist of next month; it is to be composed of persons inhabitants of the city of Mexico (foreigners as well as Mexicans, to be named by the Emperor), auei of delegates from the depart ments representieig the differentclasses of the popu lation. The commission is to be sub divided into sections fer sub-commissions, to report on the diffe rent Aatters submitted to their consideration. The re' uties on imports and exports, the value of public lands, and the best mode of rendering them profit able to the State, colonisation, the debts and indeme nities due to citizens of foreign countries, railroads, public works, the currency, taxation, weights and measures, and, in fact, everything having the slightest reference to the finances of the country, are all to form subjects of discussion. TheEtnperor, of course, reserves to himself the right of adopting or modifying the reports made by the various sec. tions. The field is a wide one, and it may fairly be doubted whether there are men competent to arrive at just conclusions upon subjects s) various and important; still, much valuable information must necessarily be elicited, which will servo to form the groundwork for future legislation. Hitherto there has been no regular system of tax■ ation in this country, and this is scarcely to be wondered at, changes of Government having fol lowed one another in such rapid succession that any President who might have been willing or able to form one would certainly not have had time to carry it out. The coast quence has been that the revenues of the ports have generally been seized by the Governors of the States in which those ports were situated, and tho Central Government has been obliged to live as best it could by forced loans and cintributions levied upon the inhabitants of those cities which for the time being acknowledged its sway. Santa Anna (I think it was in the year 1844) proposed a system of taxation which, far from being excessive, would still have produced about 30,000,000 dols. annually. Such a revenue would be more than sufficient to meet all the requirements of the present Government, and I certainly see no rea son why, if such a sum could have been raised then, it should not be raised now. An honest collection at the ports will at once double, if not treble, the receipts; from this source of revenue alone the Itia perial Government may rely upon 16,000,000 dols. to 18,000,000 dols. annually, leaving only 12,000,000 dole. or 14,000,000 dole., as the case may be, to be collected by other means. As a remarkable instance of what an honest collection will effect I may men tion that the duties levied in the Customeheuse of this city alone have during the last six months rea lised the enormous sum of 5,000,000 dole.; in ordi nery times they produced at the very outside 4,000,000 dole. annually. Of course, the same sys tem of robbery and plunder has been going on at Guadalajara, Guanaxuato, San Luis, and all other cities of the empire, and it can no longer be a mat ter for surprise that each succeeding President, however short his time of office might have been, always retired with a princely fortune. Another commission will shortly bs named to re vise the le.we and provide for the proper adminis tration of justico. This will be a Herculean task, for of all the countries in the world there is none in which justice has been so scandalously administered as in Mexico. The first thing to be considered now upon the institution of a suit is, not whether you have justice on your side, but whether you can afford to outbid yOur opponent. Venality among the judges has been universal, and I could give ycu Instances, and will do so upon some future occasion, which will make the hair of English lawyers stand on end. The remedy is clear enough,---pay the judges well, do away with written pleadings (at present there is nothing else), examine the witnesses viva voce, open all courts to the public, have all the cases accurately reported, end punish most severely any judge who, from interested or other motives, it. caught tripping. The military commission will commence its la bours in the course of a few days, and a plan of campaign for the interior has been decided upon; in fact, everything is going on as well as the moat sanguine monarchist could desire, and it would really seem as if a great end glorious future were about to dawn upon this hitherto unfortunate country. From the interior there is nothing of importance. The most perfect tranquillity:reigns in all towns occupied by the French. The arrival of their Imperial Majesties has been bailed in San Luis Guanazuato, and other towns with the utmost de. monstration of joy. Gonzales Ortega is said to be closely pursued by the French, who are not very likely to catch him; and Uraga is still disposed tc join the intervention as soon as he can do so with perfect safety to himself. DEATII *OF LORD RoDNEY. 7 Oa Friday Lord Rodney expired at his seat at Berrington, near Leominster. Lord Roduey, who was in his 46th year, was the great grandson of the famous Rodney. He leaves three children, one of whom succeeds to the title. THE POPUL 4R STREET " MOT" IN PARIS-" As to vu Lambert ?"—Spaaking of this sudden and all but universal eccentricity of the streets of the French capital, the spectator of Saturday remarks that during the Rte Napoleon the Parisians appeared to have invented a new amusement, which consisted in asking their friends, and the passengers, and everybody at all conspicuous, " As tu vu Lambert ?" The word was repeated everywhere, the Emperor himself being saluted with "viva Lambert, viva Madame Lambert, viva le petit Lambert 1" the popu lace applying the name with a pertinacity which proved that they saw a joke somewhere. The police were begin ning to think of Cayenne or the necessity for calling out the military, when it was discovered that a farmer's wife losing he husband, had been going about asking for "Lambert." The Parisians: struck with the idea of a woman imagining that everybody must know her particular lord, took up the cry, and as the Emperor is the only man known to everybody applied the name to him with appre ciative unanimity. The minds of the police gradually calmed down, and in consideration of the Me , nobody was so muon as arrested. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S ETLEGRAMS.) THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, PLYMOUTH, August 22. The screw steamer Indiana put in here this morning to land passengers and to coal. She left Calcutta May 19, Madras June 2, Cape of Good Hope July 13, and crossed the Equator July 28. The Indiana has 100 passengers, and 30 military invalids and time-expired men from India, with 10 passengers and a mail from the Cape. She had also a full general cargo, principally saltpetre, seeds, cotton, silk, and sugar. Her news from the Cape is three weeks later than that brought by the last mail stermer arrived. Trade at the C ipe was dull. The alarm raised on the frontier of an intention on the part of the Krelis to cross tha Bashee was proved to have been groundless. Efforts were being made to discover the author of the rumour. Traders and travellers passing through the Canda country represented the country along the whole coast line to be in a disturbed state. The tribes are said to be more insolent than usual, and several councils had been held amongst the chiefs. A war amongst the natives in that locality was expected. Sir Walter Currie had returned to Grahamstown from the Transkei. The embodiment of , the irregular horse had been abandoned, and the conditions upon which grants of Transkeian territory were to be made were found to be too high, and were to be modified if the scheme was continued ; but it was considered doubt ful whether the territory would be given out for occupation. Parliament was to be prorogued the day the Indiana sailed, Its removal to Graham's Town was considered unnecessary, and it waa doubted that the experiment would be repeated. 'The pro posal of the Diamond Company to esteblish mail steam communication with Port Elizabeth was agreed to without a division, but only on its con taining a condition to call at Table or Simon's Bay also. The proposal of the Union Company to extend mail commuuication to the Mauritius was rejected. Her Majesty's steamer Hornet left on the 11th July for Portsmouth. The Indiana's mail has been landed and for warded from here by to-day's mail train. LISBON, AuG,l5. Don Eusebius Page, and Don Innocencio Roldan have arrived in Li.bon to treat on the part of ;,he Spanish Government respecting the frontier points where junctions should be made between the Por tuguese and Spanish Rtilways. The Marquis da Tagliacarne has presented his credentials as representative of the King of Italy. The present charge d'affaire, the Count de la Tour, will soon quit this capital. The Federal frigate Niagara is in the Tagus. It said her mission is to intercept a steamer, bought at Liverpool, ostensibly for the navigation between Lisbon and the Portuguese possessions, but in reality for a Confederate cruiser. The Portuguese papers further assert that the steamer will not sail as the intentions of the Fedorals have transpired. The reclamation of the Spanish Government respecting the capture of the ship Virgen del Re fugio is not likely to cause any serious difficulty (since announced by telegraph to have been set tled). It appears that this vessel was a slaver, and the proofs of her delinquencies were overwhelming, and she was e3ptnred within the Portuguese waters, a point on which no doubt exists. VOLUNTEERS. THE GRAND VOLUNTEER REVIEW AND SHAM FIGHT AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, Saturday. Liverpool has to-day presented an unusual scene of animation and gaiety consequent on a splendid volunteer review and sham fight on the race course at Aintree ; his worship the mayor having invited all the volunteer corps in Liverpool to take part in the interesting proceedings. From the moment his worship announced his liberal intention, the idea was taken up by all classes of the inhabitants, and to-day the town is marked by a holiday almost general, the offices, shops, and other general places of business having been closed at one o'clock this afternoon. The various corps, which consisted of the Ist Administrative Brigade of Lancashire Artil lery Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Richmond Brown, Bart.; the 4th Bri gade of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, Major Melly; Bth Brigade of Lancashire Artillery Volun teers, Lieut.-Col. Clay; 11th Lancashire Volunteers, 2d Administrative Brigade ditto, Ist Battalion of Lancashire Engineer Volunteers, 2d ditto, and Ist, 13th, 54th, sth, 421 15. h, 51st, 64th, and 80th Battalions of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, began moving through the town, headed by their bands, to the Exchange station of the Lancashire and York shire Railway, from 'whence they were all conveyed to the Aintree Racecourse, where the review and sham fight were to take place, at the sole expense of his worship the mayor. About four o'clock all the men had assembled on the ground, to the num ber of between 4000 and 4500, and were.distributed into three brigades, the first being under the com mand of Li( ut.-Col. Sir W. R. Brown, Bart.; the the second brigade under the command of Lieut.• Col. Waver; apd the third brigade under the com mand of Lieut.-Col. Tinley.. The day being delightfully fine the attendance was very numerous, Liverpool pouring out its thousands cf all classes. The approaches to the railway station were most inconveniently crowded, whilst every style of vehicle appeared to have been brought into requisition to convey the multitude who chose to travel by the ordinary high way. About four o'clock the course at Aintree presented a most brilliant appearance. The Grand Stand was densely crowded with a most fashionable attendance of ladies and gentlemen, whilst the mis cellaneous company in different parts of the course could be counted by thousands. Sir Charles Wetherell and Col. M'Murdo, th e reviewing officers, attended by their staff, on com ing on to the grcuod were met by the usual military salute. The review then commenced, followed by the sham fight, which was of an exceedingly inte resting character. At the close of the proceedings the various corps marched off the course to Liver pool, accocepanied by their bands.—Observer. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug, 20.—The market was heavy at the commencement of business, but has since improved. Threes, fer the account, after standing for a time at 66fr. 35c., are now quoted at 66r. 45c. Mobilier show a slight advan3e, the present price being 1,020 fr. Railway Market quiet, bat in general firm. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents .. 94 75 Do. end month •• • 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 25 Credit Mobilier 1918 75 Do. end month 1017 50 Bank Shares 3370 Credit loncier 1220 Roman Italian Loan 6B 10 Do. end month CS 10 l)itto Threes .. Naw Mexican .... 56 25 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 49 25 Home Debt Deferrel - RAIL' 'AYB. Casb. Account. Orleans 1••• • BB7 50 .. 891 2:5 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 93J .. 930 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain 2aragossa .. 607 50 .. 505 Ditto to Barcelona ..t. -- ~ 332 50 LITERATURE. Tales and Traits of Sporting Life. By Henry Corbet. One Vol. Pp. 202. Rogerson and Tuxford, 246, Strand. Since Charles Apperley, the famous Ninzrod, and Charles Bindley, the hilarious Harry Hieover, we have had no such sporting writer as Henry Corbet, the writer of this most exhilarating book of Turf Sketches. " Tales and Traits of Sporting Life" as he calls them, these sketches have been collected together from the pages of Bells Life in London, of the sporting magazines generally, and of Dickens's All the Year Bound in particular. Let ui premise, at once, while drawing attention thus pointedly to what we have found to be so really delightful a volume of Sporting Sketches, that the writer of it—Mr Corbet—is to 119 a mere name upon a title-page. And, what is yet more to the point, let us add, to this acknowledgment of ours, that, until now, we were wholely unacquainted with him, with his mere name, that is, as a sport ing writer, although among these " Tales and Traits" of his, we have, to our exceeding satisfac tion, recognised one or two papers read by us when they were first published (anonymously) in one or other of the periodicals already mentioned— in Bell's Life, if we remember rightly, or it may have ,been in All the Year Bound. We have now recognised, we say, one or two papers so read by us, without any knowledge then on our part as to their authorship—papers so delightful in their Way, so entirely to our own liking, at least, that we possess to this day clippings from them, clippings carefully preserved among our collection of News paper paragraphs. To be plain, we find that we have thus, for example, already set apart, now, two or three years ago, for pleasant reference to after wards, whenever we might so list to refer them— fragmentary extracts from Henry Corbet's wonder fully graphic description of the late Fulwar Craven, one dubbed by the writer of it " A Bit of a Cha racter !" A description that we had no notion (until now) was Henry Corbet's when it chanced to be first read by us—was it not in Bells Life in Lon don P Again we say of this sketch in particular —now, upon our reperusal of it—a wonderfully graphic description ! As graphic even as E. Core bet's marvellous little coloured vignette portraiture of "Fulwar Craven" himself—out upon the Downs (with Fly-by-night, we may suppose, or Long waist, visible in the distance)—talking with a red cloaked gipsy-woman. Nay, to our " mind's eye" —having often seen the man himself, and that, too, in the days of his glory,when he was, intleed, in every sense of the phrase, " A Bit of a Character"—H. Corbet's pen-and-ink sketch of Fulwar Craven is more vividly realistic as a life-like sketch than E. Corbet's coloured vignette sketch of him, but just now mentioned. Never were Lord Byron's words, from the famous slang stanza in "Don Juan," so aptly quoted as they are here by our author, as directly applying to Fulwar Craven— ', So prime, so flash, so nutty, and so knowing I" Yonder is the very man before us, with, as Mr Corbet expresses it, that " slang defiant yet some how thoroughly sportsman's air about him!'' "Character"—as our Younger Nimrod has it —even, as it were, "in the careless cock of his (Fulwar Craven's) battered white hat—in the wisp -tie of his crimson bandana, in the half-open striped waistcoat, and the loose cut of his brass-buttoned brown coat, with another fogle flying from the pocket of it l'' Almost equally decisive, it is added, were his drab breeches and gaiters—" emphasised," as the latter were, "by being carefully pulled down at the back to show some inches of pink silk stocking !" And so, too —in this wonderfully lifeslike sketch—in regard to the mention made of the big brooch in the shirt, the purple jacket in the hand (together with the orange cap, Fulwar Craven's jockey-colours on the race-course), the roving glance—" a deal of devil in the eye, a life's story in his very walk and bearing"--et voila ! the owner of Deception ! the swell ex• Captain Craven! the Game Evergreen ! as ready, says Mr Corbet—i❑ this inimitable portraiture of his. of Fulwar Craven when in his prime—" as ready still as any of you for a bout, a lark, or a drink I" liere,already—even while quoting thus fragmentarily from these "Tales and Traits of Sporting Life"—we rest assured that we have given our readers a flevourous taste of our au thor's quality ! And equally satisfied are we, that even brief extracts like the foregoing will be recog nized by the more discerning, es affording the amplest justification of the commendatory words already pros nuanced by us upon the radiant, animated, capital style in which Henry COrbet handles the pen as a Sporting Writer. If he handles the ribbons only but one half as well, he must be a splendid Whip ! How ever that may be, it appears to us perfectly manifest —estimating our author's capabilities from the mere manner of the man—that he is, to the backbone, a thorough sportsman ! Oae ready alike—according to the mere chance of the opportunity—to throw a fly, to wing a partridge, or to clear a five-barred gate —equally at home, as he must surely be, in the saddle, among the stubble, or by the weedy margin of the trout-stream. Those who turn to his pages for arnuiement, will find ample store of that same, closely compacted into this exhilarating little half-crown volume, in which he sketches off, besides Fulwar Craven, divers other• dead and gone glories of the turf, man as well known in their time as " John Gully," Pugilist and Member of Parlia ment—as " Old John Day," of his kind A 1 among jockeys and trainers or as that other wearer of the peaked skull cap and the silk jacket, " The Last of the Chifneys I" Commend us, too—for capital bits of fun—to our author's record, here, of `The Love Bird" and "The H ird-up,"of "A Second Fox" add "The Belles of Swindon." Such capital Tales and Traits they are— these Sketches of Sport ing Life by Henry Corbet—that all sporting readers who know them not already, will have reason to thank us, after a perusal of them, for having thus heartily commended these same Sketches to their consideration. BROTHER OF GENERAL LEE.—Rumour has it that Captain Lee, a brother of the great Confederate gene • ral of that name, is presently enjoying the fishing at Glen elg, in the West Highlands. He will find the prosecution of the piscatorial art in a quiet Higland glen far more plea sant work than that in which his illustrious brother is engaged at Petersburg.—Dg Courant. A RIGMAROLE A POLOGUE l--related (apparently by the Ghost of Mr Roundabout) in the Saturday Review,—A lawyer with a taste for casuistical speculations was one day walking over a common. He heard a noise by the roadside, which appeared on examination to proceed from a battle between a rabbit and a weasel. The wease had the rabbit by the throat, axed it was drumming furiously on the weasel's back with its forepaws. The lawyer began to doubt whether he should interfere or not. By interfering he would save the rabbit's life; but he would also deprive the weasel of his dinner, which he was earning in the natural way of his business: By not interfering, he would neglect to save the life of the rabbit, which, as compared with de priving the weasel of his dinner, would produce a balance of pain. It appeared to the lawyer, who was a practical man as well as a casuist, that under these circumstance the rabbit ought to have the benefit of the doubt ; and in stead of following the advice of ono of his own profession who, when a notorious rogue was defended by an ingenious quibble, proposed to "hang the man and save the point," he saved the rabbit's life from his antagonist, and als o saved the point whether he had done right for further con sideration. Upon !affection, he arrived at the satisfactory conclusion that he had done right, on tho ground that the individual act produced more pleasure than pain, and that it did not, and from the nature of the case could not, tend to establish an injurious precedent. It', in order to save the life of the individual rabbit, it had been necessary to lay down the general principle that all rabbits ought to have their lives protected against all weasels, he would have been wrong ; for to affirm such a principle would have been to interfere with the established order of nature whereby it is ordained that rabbits should be the prey of weasels. Bu t the particular act had no such meaning. rho lawyer had not the remoteet intention of becoming a knight-errant ou the part of rabbits in general against weasels, nor did he even intend to set up a company for that purpose' His connexion will the subjeci:oegan and ended with that par ticular interference, the plain result of which was life to the rabbit, and a countermand of dinner to the weasel ; and it was hundreds, perhaps thousands to would never see suc h a s i g h t aga i n as long one that he as b e lived. WIIALES.—WhiIa the Bar wick clipper the Tweed was lying becalmed off the Porno Islands on Sunday end Monday, it was surrounded during these days by as large a shoal of whales as has been seen off our shores at this season for many years. Tho sailors deplore they had no harpoon on board, as they might possibly have bagged some of these monsters of the deep. The presence of whales is generally a sign of great eboals of herrings,—Beeweek Advertiser, oti,s (11" r E intik HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 20. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon. AUGUST 21. Tile Queen and Princess Louis of Hesse drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Port man and Lieut.-Colonel Du P;at. The Lord Chancellor arrived at Osborne and had the honcur of dining with the Queen and royal family. Divine service was performed at Osborne this morning by the Rev. G. Prothero before her Ma jesty, their Rayal Highnesses Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Lcuse, end Prince Leopold. The Prince and Princess of Wales in Scotland. On Monday the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Hamilton, Col. Curzon, and pia' jor Teesdale went to the moors, and made good bags. The Prince shot 25 brace, the Duke of Col' bridge 33, and Lord Hamilton and Colonel Curzon, who shot in company, bagged 68 brace, 2 snipes' and 1 hare. On Tuesday morning the Duke of Cambridge and Col. Carzon left for Brechin Castle, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princes s Mary of Cambridge, and the other ladies and gee" tlemen of the suite went to Lochmuich to the fishing, returning in the evening by Birkall. The. Princess enjoy s h er u3ua l wa lk s an d drives. grand ball was to be given by their Royal EDP' nesses at the Castle on Friday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin cess Louis of Hesse will cake leave of her Majesty on Satur day afternoon on their return to G er m an y. Their royal laigh nesses will embark either at Woolwich or Gravesend . The Maharajah Dauleep Singh and the M Aha " ranee are expected to arrive at his highness's estate, Elveden, near Thetford, Norfolk, in the course o f next month. His Excellency Count Von Bernstoiff i s r esiding at Carlsbad, where he will remain some weeks for the bene• fit of the waters. During his excellency's absence from London the business cf the embassy will be conducted 11 Katte, the first secretary. His Excellency Prince de Latour d'Auvergne is still res Ping at Vichy, where ho will remain until the Bth Sept., when he will prcceed to the department of Vie nne ' and preside at the council general. Toe Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch left their residence in Belgrave-square on Saturday last for Dalh e , ith Palace, near Edinburgh, on their way to Drumlanrig• loft Ladies Victoria and Margaret Scott had previously town for Scotland. The Duchess of Hamilton is residing at Baden . weiler, a small watering-place on the Upper Rhino. Her Grace was honoured by a visit from the Queen of Prussia on Wednesday last. It is stated that the Earl of Coventry is a bout to be married to Lady Blanche Craven, third daughter of the Earl and Countess Craven. Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn have left town for the Continent. Count and Cou n t ess G uro wski de W'tzele have left Eaton-square for Scotland. Lord Aveiand and the Hon. Miss Heathco:e have arrived at the Portland Hotel, Southaoa, from Beigrave tquhro. Germany and the Duchies. A Prussian commission sent to examine the con dition and capabilities of the harbour of Dantzic has reported that its situation is ineligible, end that, on account of the shallowness of water and want of space, is not adapted for the Prussian navY• The fleet" will consequently be stationed at Swine' muude for the present, Meetings in favour of the candidature of the Prince of Augustenburg have been held in several towns in the duchies, and resolutions have been passed to the effect that no other claimant shall have the support of the inhabitants. The following to our d er all legitimate circumstances prince, w Dukee remain true resolutions were passed at Husum in Schleswig --- t t innate e and convict', n steadfast vie ti n, under Constrained by our manly word voluntarily given, and by will cur most Frederic VIII. Every other pretension to the throne of SchleswigeHol stein, come from whatever side it May, we will reject with indignation. We will oppose it with all possible means $ and expect that the whole of the German people will d ° likewise. Each interim Government we look upon as dangerous to the cause of our country. We hereby express to the Governments of Austria and Prussia our warmest and most deeply felt thanks for the liberation frcm our hereditary foes, the Danes, and are ready and willing to approve of any concession which the interest of Germany may require, but we confidently ex pect from the exalted sense of justice of the Sovereigns of Austria and Prussia, that now, without delay, Schleswig- Holstein will be reconstituted as an independent State under our legitimate ruler Frederic VIII. Only when this i s don° . when a legally-constitu t e d assemb y legislates for us, when a Schleswig-Holstein army is formed, can we consider our liberation to be an accompllished fact." Similar resolutions have been passed at other places. A Frankfort letter of the 18:11 says: — At Berlin, as well as at Vienna, public opinion is declar ing itself more and more against the Austro-Prussian alli ance. Prussia finds it an impediment to the establishmen t of her supremacy in Germany, to the accomplishment of Federal reform, and, above all. to the realisation of her personal views. The Duchies are, in fact, looked upon in Prussia as a territory conq uered b y the army of ,that Prussia country, and by that army alone. Besides, the question asked, what is to be done with t h e Duchies ? I f they are to form a new State of the Confederation, the result would. only be to increase the evil dreated in 1815, and It a situation which by turns the Nationalverein, the Parlia-f ment, the Assembly of Delegates, and the Congress o Princes, have each desired to modify or put an end to. The Duchies were not conquered by the old Germany of the Diet ; those provinces ought therefore to belong to the new Germany which is now con sulting itself. The' Duchies without an army and fleet, and exposed at every moment to attacks from Denmark, could not form an inde pendent state. They therefore require protection, and they cannot expect it from one of the secondary States of Ger many, which themselves only exist (i n consequen ce of the. present state of the Confederation) by the support of tho two great Powers, Prussia is therefore alone called on to exercise that protection over the Duchies which. have', identical military and commercial interests. The principal object of these observations which are spread among the docile public is to show the necessity of giving an organi sation to the Duchies before settling the question of the succession. Consequently there is an increased desire to establish a Provisional Government in the Du . chi, to con yoke the Chambers (of ccurse in presence ot the s a e r m u a b y of li occupation), and to obtain the adoption by those as d laws which would overthrow the Consti of measures an ion which at 'on of 1848, and establish that friendly un tu ti Berlin is represented as indispensable to the welfare of Schleswig-Holstein. The Krcutz Zcitung , referrin g to the fall of I (10 g Otho when speaking of the dismemberment of Dana ma rk, sees the finge r of God in the misfortunes which have befallen Christian IX., and says: — There are still persons at Copenhagen who hope for au , intervention of Europe in favour of Denmark ; they unnot resign themselves to such great losses. They say that King Christian is convinced that sooner or later the Duchies will r et rn to him, in conformity with the treaty of London . And King Otho, will be recover Greoce sooner or later in vittue of serve treaty P Was not Greece more solemnly guaranteed to that That that the German Duchies to King Christian ? And what right had King George to the throne of Greece. Have not the victories of Duppel' and Alser l given the answer of the living God to the Cavourist of King Christian at Athens ? He yielded to the counsels and power of England to commit a bad action in Greece, and was abandoned by the counsels and power of Englan d a t home• e are, of course, not at all inclines to rejoice at at the m isfortunes of others ; bat we seek the fi ng er of God h i s t o ry that we may be guided thereby. 'THE EXPRESSION OF DRESS.—Viromen are raor° like flowers th an w e think. In their dreeo alict adornment they express their nature, as the flowers odede° 11. their petal s an d co l ours . S ome women are like the " w daisies and vi o let s —they never look or feel cet ter than when dressed in a morning wrapper. Others are not themeel°e.. unless they can flame out in gorgeous dyes, like e "I" or bush rose. 'Who has not seen women Just lika v im ?: lilies? We know several double marigolds and P o ri ; 'Lefe are women fit only for velvets, like the dahlWen others are graceful and airy, like EzAlens. Nov i °ld then you see hollyhocks and sunflowers. When women are ---c A to dress as the like, uncontrolled by others, and not livatteu_ by their circumstances, they do not fail to express their true characters, and dress becomes a form of expression ver y genuine cud Unful.—aeorge Neredities 01.9-