The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

S U. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1863. Thera can be felt now but very little doubt that Puebla has fallen. The intelligence, it is true, still requires apparently another word of crowning con firmation. But that is all. The pasquinaders of the Second Empire in France, of course, continue to the very last to cling to the merest shadow of a shade of a hope that the news may even yet be falsified. Their spitefully reiterated predictions of a disastrous failure, as the one inevitable result of this same Mexican expedition, have been altogether too loudly enunciated, and have been throughout top frequently and too flagrantly brought under public attention, to admit of their being so very readily swept aside by the tidings (the still not quite confirmed tidings) of the fall of Puebla. Nevertheless that Puebla has fal len we ourselves feel perfectly convinced. Not so much 13cause of the confident manner in which the statement of the fact is put forward by the French Government in the columns of the Moniteur. But necessarily, if not entirely, we are convinced that the event has actually taken place as described— because of the very manifest probability that it is so! Besides, the announcement comes to us so very circumstantially. Twenty-five generals, 900 officers, and about 16,000 rank and file have surrendered says—not Rumour—but a despatch from Queenstown, dated 12th June, and received by the Imperial Minister of Marine. From that despatch we learn, moreover, the very date of the fall or capture of Puebla by the troops of the Emperor NAPOLEON. The seventeenth day of May is in the despatch declared to have been that thenceforth memorable date—a date thence forth memorable alike in the annals of France and Mexico. General FOREY—possibly a little while hence to be Due de PUEBLA—was, moreover, stated by this very explicit and most satisfactory cfficial despatch to have thereupon already begun, or was about very shortly to begin, his march directly onwards, upon the capital of the invaded State, upon the ancient City of Mexico, midway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Con queror having been encouraged, doubtless, to perse vere promptly and without any further pause in this onward movement, by the all-important circumstance that the surrender of Puebla, on the 17th ult., was —unconditional ! Remembering the mere opportuneness of the time at which this surrender of Puebla comes to light, we can hardly wonder, in reality we don't in the least wonder, at the exultation manifested by our contemporary, the Constitutionnel, imme diately upon receivit g the announcement. " The nations know," exclaims that organ, " that our honour once satisfied, and reparation ob tained, our triumph changes into benefaction. We are not enemies but liberators of the Mexican people, who were deceived by an iniquitous Govern ment. They will learn that, under NAPOLEON 111., the French soldier is more than ever the soldier of civilisation and humanity." Let the sequel justify those rejoicing, and at the same time magnanimous, predictions, and we too upon this side of the Channel, as merely dispassionate spectators, will participate, a little later on, in the intense satisfac tion articulated through the earnest words of Le Constitutionnel. AS we write—comes to us complete confirmation of the truth of the entire success, so far as it has yet gone, of the French Expedition into Mexico. The Fall of Puebla, as our foregoing remarks—(the ink of which is hardly yet dry when these later tele grams come to hand)—will have shewn that we at once credited. The Fall of Puebla on the 17th ultimo i s an event now assured. General FOREY's report, written on the follow.. g day, and giving the full particulars of the occurrence, shows only a certain discrepancy in the estimated number of the prisoners taken at the time of the city's surrender. It will be set from the telegram that while there were less of the rink and file who laid down their aria on the 17th nit. at Puebla, there were more of the native offices—from 1,000 to 1,200 officers, and about 12,000 privates. Together with these all the materials et vi'er came into the possession of the French Commander-in-Chief. The first sentence° the report, breathes eloquently enough in a fevrsimple words the excitement of exultation in which it was penned by General FOREY—within whose grasp the pen he was then wielding felt doubtless almost as though it were growing into the baton of an im- Pefial utiarech,l! " The army''--thee were General 7° B;Zirs words on the 18th ult., at Puebla--" the army is at the height of its joy, and will march in a few days upon Mexico." Im mediately appended to General FOREY'S report, among our telegrams of this forenoon will be found the epitome of a heartstirring and noble letter addressed by the Emperor NAPOLEON to his suc cessful General. " Our aim," says his MAJESTY in this letter, " is not to impose upon the Mexicans a Government against their will, not to make our suc cess serve to the triumph of any party what ever. I desire," he adds, " that Mexico may be born to a new life, and that shortly, regenerated by a Government founded upon the national will, the principles of order and progress, and respect for international law, she may, by establishing friendly relations with France, acknowledge that it is to France that she owes her peace and prosperity." Once let the EMPEROR make good this programme, and " golden opinions from all sorts of men" are there at Mexico also to be gathered at his own goodwill and pleasure. As it is, the capture of Puebla comes to his Imperial Majesty as more than a counterpoise to his late Parisian disappointments. The King of PRUSSIA cannot show any modera tion at all. It is now reported that he has refused to receive the deputation from the Town-council of Breslau, or to accept the address which they adopted. This shows a most unconciliatory spirit, and can only lead to further irritation. The mere fact of receiving an address cannot compromise any one ; but it is a want of common courtesy to refuse to do so. Indeed, it is a sort of tacit avowal that the KING has the worst of the argument, since he will not even bear what the other side has to say. It is said that the address was illegally voted, but such arguments are really quite absurd. It is the last resource of despotism to declare that anything I done to frustrate its purpose or check its assumption is in contravention of the law. During the last few months the laws of Prussia have undergone a strange perversion to suit various purposes, and now they are to prevent any allusion being made to the acts that are convulsing the whole system of legislation, and threatening finally to involve the country in a revolution, or else to subvert the freedom of the land. One of the papers states that " the addresses and petitions of some meetings and Town-councils, even without taking into consideration that they have transgressed their privileges, are partly of a nature to tender their publication objectionable in view of the law of the press. It does not appear superfluous to state this in the interests of the press." It will be seen from this how the strin gency of the new regime prevents an attempt to make public the doings or sayings of those who have spirit or energy to resist the innovations recently made. What they say must not be re peated ;it is seditious. What they propose doing must not be whispered of, for it is illegal. Surely a people who have made so much progress in free dom and who have hitherto made it their boast that they enjoy a constitutional form of government cannot submit tamely to this pressure. Without any just cause cr valid reason being adduced, why should their career as a free and independent nation be extinguished, and their position awaken at once the contempt and the pity of Europe. It has been truly said that " when nations fall it is because a degenerate race intervened between the class that created and the class that is doomed." Let not the present race of Prussians, then, bequeath this sad doom to their posterity. Lord DERBY, at the banquet at Merchant Taylors' Hall, in describing the past services of the civic institutions, observed that now happily there existed no longer such emergen cies to call them forward." The time is past when there was occasion far the guilds of London to re sist the encroachments of the Crown. Yet we now, living in far-off times, are reaping the inestimable advantages of the efforts they made and the changes in the constitution that they so stedfastly resisted. It will be sad if Prussia in her hour of trial does not find in her sons the spirit and the quiet determina tion which made our citizens in days of yore the champions of the cause of freedom. There is no need of revolution to gain the point. Ira these days kings have learned a wise lesson, and a stedfast re solution is generally sufficient to show the irate monarch how far he may go and how much he may attempt. It will be a mistaken policy if the influen tial members of the community now keep quiet, and use their influence over others to induce them to follow their example. We know the futility of crying peace where there is no peace, and the like results attend the efforts of those who submit tamely to injustice, and sanction oppression for the time. It is hoping against hops to expect that such conduct can be of any avail against a man who, like King WILLIAM, will not scruple to cite this grievance as establishing a pre cedent, and on some future occasion of litigation to quote their own actions as witnesses against them. There is much to depress and alarm the philoso phising politician in the atmosphere of many States at present. The Amer:can War is a dreadful cala mity, and the insurrection in Poland is a cruel wrong; but it is to be questioned if the state of affairs in Prussia is not the most irritating of all the mis chances that are now so rife, because it is at once BO uncalled for and so Eetrimental, It was generally supposed that improvements were to take place in the country in several ways, and the alliance with England seemed to promise great things, when sud denly the scene was changed and a general trans formation has taken place. All who feel any interest in the cause of constitutional liberty will deeply deplore the existing state of things, and trust that there is yet extant sufficient national spirit to resist these innovations which, if unchecked, will militate so greatly against the welfare of the State, and retard its progress for many generations to come. A new and interesting experiment has been made in London on behalf of a large and generally friendless class. The claims of young pauper girls on our sympathy and assistance, when they reach the dangerous age— "Where the brook and river meet," are most pressing and urgent. From no fault of their own, often from that double loss which is so terrible a deprivation to the helpless child, they have been brought up in the workhouse school, which is at best a dreary substitute for evea the poorest " home." When they reach the age to feel their position more keenly, when they are most sus• ceptible to all surrounding influences, whether good and kindly or evil and degrading, they are suddenly thrown into close companionship with som e of the most vicious and worthless of their sex h f o a r r e d e tnheed magistrates f h o o r s whose refractoryfrequent c a o p n p d e u a c r t a h n a c e s be becom e too common an event to attr ac t muc h no ti ce . The result of the "evilco mmunications" is the same as it ev er are sbpeeeed manners" il a v ca and ever will be ; th e " goo d schoolgirl si n k s to the l o e r v r l of the h ar d ene d re pted, a n d a prom i s i ng probate's around h er. Even if she is before much mischi e f i s done, she ha sent to se rv i ce she loses her place but t o return to the sam e choice if ward of the parish workhouse. miss 17e fatal whose name is so well known and honoured for the services she has rendered to those who cannot help themselves, speaks very strongly on this point. She Sa ys that the fact has never been disputed that it is a u impossibility under any circumstances to render the adult wards of workhouses fit plar:is for the re ception of young women and girls. With a view to mitigate in some degree the extent of the evil against which no effort was made, some members of the Workhouse Visiting Society have instituted an Industrial Home for Girls in New Or mond-street, whose object is "to save and receive the still decent and respectable girls from the adult wards of the London work houses in the first place, and, until full from this source, from the country unions as well. It is not even attempted to provide a suitable refuge in workhouses fur this class of persons, who are indis criminately thrown amongst the worst and con demned to a degrading occupation. It is satisfac tory to find that boards of guardians are increasingly impressed with this evil, and fourteen have now gladly availed themselves of this home for ail their respectable' girls." We are quoting from the recently published report of the Industrial Home, which tells of its efforts and successes during the second year of its existence. The number of girls that have passed through the institution since its opening is no less than a hundred and fifty-two, and of these very fair accounts are given. Most of them have been provided with places, generally with satisfactory results; some have been sent to the colonies as household servants, through the kind agency of Miss Bt RDETT COUTTS. The sudden alteration in the prcspects of these girls is singular enough. One, whose last London situation was in Seven Dials, was, immediately after she landed at Halifax, taken into the service of the Attorney-General of Nova Scotia. The number who have been absolute failures is happily very small—especially when we consider for how brief a time the beneficial influ ences of the Home are brought to bear upon them. A gentleman who had on the opening of the insti tution anticipated an equal proportion of good, bad, and indifferent cases, expressed himself as agreeably surprised when the existing facts were made known. It appears to us, however, that the time of their residence in the Home might be judi ciously lengthened at least six months. The longer stay would be little increased expense to the guardians, since, after more efficient training, the girls would get better places, and be more likely to keep them. The report describes them as being of the average character of their class, with no spe cially distinctive feature. They are frequently the children of respectable parents, and have been thrown on the world through orphanage. The fathers of some had been clerks, of others book sellers, shipwrights, and bailiff's. The tone of the report must strike the most prejudiced reader as being particularly moderate and sensible. There is no exaggeration or enthusiasm about the scheme. It is simple and rational in its objects, and is con ducted in most regular and businesslike fashion. " It is but little change," says the report, " that we can hope to effect in so short a time, but what we propose to do, and what we have succeeded in doing is to lift these girls out of the workhouse, and to give them some other point of attraction and centre for their thoughts and their affections. When we find that out of one hundred and fifty-two girls only thirteen have gone back to the workhouse, we think it cannot be said that we have failed in this object.' The best proof of the great need that exists of similar institutions is found in the number of appli cations. Two hundred applications in the year, excluding those that were unsuitable, show that the want of a respects ble resting-place is deeply felt by all connected with these poor and friendless young girls. Their position is mournful enough in any case, but at least it has some ameliorating influences, if they can think of one door where they will be received with a word of kindly welcome in the hour of sickness or sorrow, one circle to whom their suc cess or failure in life is not a matter of total indif ference. We wish the institution all the success it merits, and heartily commend it to the attention of all those social reformers and philanthropists who believe in the old adage, "Prevention is better than cure." . SIR SAMUEL MORTON PETO, Bart., M.P.— An Imperial Jungle—Wigrarns Wiggins, Sta cte., in FUN THIS WEEK- One Penny. THEATRE-W,CIA.L, HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS E . VENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. After which, 24th time, a new and original comedy, entitled FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Miss Louisa Angel. Followed by (4th time ) , a new Farce, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Fanny Wright. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. THE DUKE'S MOTTO HUNDRED AM.) TWENTY-SEN ENTH NIGHT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R. THIS EVENING, to commence with an Original ?ketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, garden, B. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G Jordan, J. Brougham, H. iddbombe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson; Misses Sophy Henrade, Kate Terry, E. [Avenue, and Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRF. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. G. Vining,. THIS EVENING, will be presented (17th time), COURT AND CAMP: Messrs. G. Vining, C. Verner, H. Marston, G. Belmore, G. IVY urray. Warde; Mss Amy Sedgwick, Miss L. Laidlaw, and Miss Lydia Thompson. To be preceded by (6th time) a new Comedietta, entitled COUSIN TOM. And followed by A CHARMING PAIR. IT.ZIV T/; EATRE-RO ITAL, ADELPHI.—. Proprietor and Manazer, B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WILLOW COPSE. Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Blinn°ton Mr. Stuart, Mr. Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, and Miss H. Simms ----- Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORE. Messrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and Sara, and Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 15, 1863. TIiEItMOMETER. _ _ This morning --- 62 This day at Two o'clock 66 Barometer -30.00. Wind—W. ; calm, and cloudy. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rHis DA.y.—Morning, lh. 22 m. —Afternoon, lh. 45m. To-sloußow.-Morning , 2h. Bal.—Afternoon, 2a. 24m, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1863. HALFPENNY TIME TABLES, At last—Englishmen, when travelling by rail• way, need no longer groan under the appalling in cubus of BRADSHAW ! There have been many attempts made before now, to rid us, if possible, of that stupendous affliction, and all but maddening bewilderment. There have been A B C Guides, and other Guides of all imaginable shapes, sizes, prices, and schemes of arrangement. But here, at last, and we do really think, for the first time since England came to be covered over with an iron net work of railroads—here at last comes to us, in no " questionable shape" at all, but quite plainly and distinctly, a solution of the:whole difficulty. Half penny Time Tables, they are—those dear little brochures, now lying before us in a most welcome cluster. Thirteen of them—a whole baker's dozen —blue, green, pink, yellow, and lilac ; beautifully printed upon capital paper, by Messrs. Clayton and Co., of Bouverie-street, published by the Pro prietors (to whom, say we, nothing less than gratefully, all imaginable success and prosperity in their enterprise) at 265, Strand ! What more pos sibly could be wanted in the shape of a eompact guidebook—" Single" and "Simple"—for Railway, Steamboat, and Canal ? From London—to South- ampton, to Rugby, to Dover, to the Isle of Wight, to Winchester, to Brighton, to Worcester, to Bristol, to the Channel Islands, to Bath, to Yarmouth, to Lowestoft—and back again of course—these ere the thirteen. There is an end, consequently, at last (thank Heaven !) to the maddening influence of our old foe Bradshaw ! THE KENSINGTON JOB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have not yet seen any public reference to the low swampy level of the main floor of the Exhibition shed. For economy it was placed many feet below the adjoining Cromwelbroad. Those who had the misfortune to be compelled to be in attendance at the Exhibition last September, October, and No vember, can testify to the state of dismal fog and damp in which every part was enveloped. Surely, to talk even of placing the natural history department of the British Museum in such a situa tion is an act of folly without parallel. How long will it be before stuffed birds and beasts, skins and feathers, rot and fall to pieces in such a position ? TAXIDERMIST. M. Assolant, whose description of English life and manners so amused the British public during the In ternational Exhibition, was one of M. Havin's opponents for the suffrages of the Ist Paris circumscription. He ob• tained one vote, proving that if he inspired no confidence anywhere else he lacked none himself. Victor Hugo, stimulated by the success of his "Miserables," and the half-million of francs (£20,000) it produced, is rapidly progressing with his next work, " 1793," which will c - ntain a grand sketch of the French Revolution. Madame Hugo has also written a biography of her husband, of which public expectation thinks highly. An idiotic book just published in America (the author being a certain Rev. M. Baxter), is entitled, " Louis Napoleon the Destined Monarch of the World, and Personal Antichrist foreshown in Prophecy, to confirm a Seven Years' Covenant with the Jews about, or soon after, 1863, and then (after the Resurrection and the Translation of the Wise Virgins has taken place two years and from four to six weeks after the Covenant) subsequently to g -house in Germany,. be come completely supreme over England and most of Ame rica,at and all Christendom, and fiercely to persecute Chris sellin about tt or soon Descent of Christ at the battle of Armagge tpieriBshaeusring the latter half of the seven years, until he finally don, soon after 1870," In the course of the current year 1863, one book it is said, attains the 200th year of its existence and t anniversary, our others may celebrate their 100th LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE REPORTED RELIEF OF VICKSBURG. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY AFTERNOON. A despatch from Cork, published here states that letters received by a respectable firm in that city confirms the report that Vicksburg has been relieved, and General Grant's army sur rounded. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, JUNE 13. The insurgent leader Broniewski has met with considerable success at Nagezew, in the palatinate of Plock. In Lithuania an engagement favourable to the insurgents has taken place at Olkieniki, tear Kowno. Governor Mouravieff has committed fresh atro• cieties, having caused the Abbe Zumecki and the landowner Leskowizc to be shot, and the Polish chief Colysko to be hung. JUNE 14. On the 10th inst. Czachowski gained a brilliant victory over the Russians at lionskie, in the go vernment of Sandom!r. Two Russian companies were completely destroyed. On the same day the Poles defeated the Russians at Ignacew and lialskie. Oksinski has crossed the river Pilica, near Klue zysko, and occupied Oleszno. Lelewel is at Lubartow. The insurgent chief Abicht and the Capucin priest Konarski were hung on Friday last, in front of the citadel. It is reported that the Archbishop of Warsaw, having protested against this sentence, has been arrested and transported to St. Petersburg. ROCHES POINT, JUNE 15. The extra Inman steamer Kangaroo from New York on the 3d inst., arrived here at 5 a.m. to-day. Her news has been anticipated by the China. FRANCE. GENERAL FOREY'S REPORT. PARIS, JUNE 15. General Forey's report, dated May 18, has arrived here. It agrees with the intelligence published by the Courrier des Etats bas. General Forey states that on his refusing to per mit the retreat of the Mexican troops from Puebla, Ortega decided on dissolving his army. Hs also caused all arms to be broken, cannons to be spiked, and the magazines to be blown up. General Ortega then sent a flag of truce to General Forey, announc. ing that the garrison had terminated its defence, and placed itself at General Forey's discretion. "Then," continues Gen. Fcrey's report, " 1,200 men, the greater part without uniforms, arms, or equipment, the whole of the two latter having been broken and thrown into the streets, consti tuted themselves prisoners. "All the materials of war remain in our pos session. It only appears to have been partly spoiled, and even that portion incompletely." The report says in conclusion—" The army is at the height of its joy, and will march in a few days upon Mexico." LETTER OF THE EMPEROR TO GENERAL FOREY. PARIS, JUNE 15. The Emperor has addressed a letter to General Forey testifying the strong satisfaction which the taking of Puebla had given him. The Emperor also expresses his appreciation of the perseverance and courage of the army, " which," he says, "in a distant expedition fought cgainst the climate and an enemy so much more obstinate because deceived respecting my intentions." His Majesty continues :—" I bitterly deplore the loss of so many brave men, but I have the consola tory thought that it has not been useless for the in terests and honour of France, and for civilization." " Our aim is not to impose upon the Mexicans a Government against their will, nor to make our success serve to the triumph of any party whatever. I desire that Mexico may be born to a new life, and that, shortly regenerated by a Government founded upon the national will, the principles of order and progress and respect for international law, she may, by establishing friendly relations with France, ac know'edge that it is to France that she owes her peace and prosperity. " I await the official reports to give to the army and its chief their merited recompense. " For the present, General, receive my earnest and sincere congratulations. (Signed) "NAPOLEON." BOURSE, June 13.—TUe market has been heavy, but prices have been maintained at about yesterday's closing rates, Threes, for the Account, being uow at 69f. 40c. Railway Shares also heavy, but up to the present time with but slight variations in quotations. The market became more buoyant towards the close, and left off as follows: It per Cents. 96 60 Italian Loan 73 35 Do, end month.... Do. end month 73 20 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 69 GO Do. end month, 74 20 Credit M0bi1ier....1240 Russian Do, end m0nth....1240 -- Austrian Bank Shares 3450 Spanish Threes.... Credit Fancier l4lO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lOOO .. 1000 Northern 1037 50 .. 1037 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1045 .. 1046 25 Geneva 453 75 .. 457 50 Southern - Western ..., .. Eastern Sardinian .. 421 25 .. 420 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. 720 .. 722 25 Ditto to Barcelona PRUSSIA. - - A letter from Berlin, dated June 13, says :—lt being highly important to know the effect pro duced by the Crown Prince's recent speech, I have taken particular pains to satisfy myself upon that head, and to be able to speak upon it with com plete confidence, and I now fully confirm what I wrote to you early in the week. As before re marked, there are Pessimists everywhere—captious persona hard to content ; and, doubtless, there is here a coterie which declines to admit the value of the words spoken at Dantzic. and effects to consider them insufficient and of trifling worth. Person s fielding that opinion are, you may depend upon it, very few in number. Of course the Govvernment party, although its jour nals have not been able to conceal its annoyance and vexation does all in its power to foster an im pression, at home and abroad, that the Priuces words failed of effect, and that the intended demon stration made a fiasco. The contrary is the case It is not at a moment of depression like the present that the nation is likely loudly to testify its joy even at a declaration which gave it sidcere satisfac tion. As Winter said at Dantsic, the circum stances of the time are unfavourable to such mani festations. But it is not the lees generally felt that Prince Frederick-Willian, in that short speech, cleared away the mist of doubt which hung araund him and dimmed his popularity, that he greatly im proved his position before the country, and gave for the future an implied pledge precious to the people and most important to his dynasty. That this is the general feeling of the reflecting and impartially judging men of all shades of the Constitutional party, of the whole Liberal body, including even a large majority of the most Radical, and of the great bulk of the bourgeoise, I am convinced by my own personal investigations, by the tone of the Prussian papers so far as they have dared to speak, end by the correspondence from Berlin that appears in numerous foreign papers—not taken indiscrimi nately and as if all were of equal value, but having regard to those whose sources of information are approved as trustworthy. Persons acquainted with the opinion of the well-informed portion of the diplomatic body in Berlin will there also find con firmation of this view. The opinion of the principal leaders of the extreme Left is known to be favour able to the Prince. If there be a few men of views so ultra that they even, in certain matters go beyond Waldeck, it is quite certain that such have but a scanty following, and enjoy bat trifling in fluence in the country. Many persons seem to feel a sort of relief at finding themselves enabled to transfer to the heir to the Crown those sentiments of confidence and respect which its present wearer un happily has done so much to alienate. The Crown Prince has replied to the letter his father wrote to him in consequence of his Dantsic speech. Various reports are current respecting the tenour of the answer. It is improbable that any of them are based upon actual knowledge of the con tents of so private a communication. The favourite version is that the reply was firm, as well as be coming and respectful. It is not very important. The effect has been produced by the speech, and in spite of the saying that litera scripta manent, in this case they will not succeed in weakening the impression of those spoken. People are not much edified by the haste shown by the King to address congratulations to the French Emperor on the fall of Puebla. Such eagerness cor roborates what you were lately told with respect to this Government being particularly obsequious just now towards that of France. A letter from Vienna says that the Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha was received with most particular distinction by the Emperor Francis Joseph. Here the Duke's visit to Vienna is considered extremely significant. The King is expected to leave on the 18th for Carlsbad, and the Queen on the evening of the 15th for England. There has just been an election of a deputy to the Chamber for the district of Pless-Rybnicker. Count Edward Reichenbach, a most decided Liberal, was returned by 173 votes against 63 given for General Von Roon. We hear of a terse but significant recent corre spondence between Gortschakoff and General de Berg. The former wrote the latter:—" My dear General—Make haste and suppress the insurrec tion, in order to facilitate the success of diplomatic action." To which De Berg replied—" My dear Prince—Make haste and bring your diplomatic action to an end, and I promise you I will soon put an end to the insurrection." There cannot be much doubt which of the two it is—diplomacy or arms—that just now is keeping the insurrection alive. ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM. The 46th anniversary dinner of the Royal Caledonian Asylum, founded for the purpose of clothing, educating, and supporting the children of Scottish soldiers who have died or been disabled in their country's service, and also the children of indigent Scotchmen resident in London, took place on Friday night at Willis's Rooms, and by the exer tions of Mr. Daniels, the secretary, one of the most distin guished assemblies that has ever graced these festivals was gathered together. Some 250 gentlemen sat down under the presidency of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge. _ _ The stairs leading to the dinner-hall were lined with the stout healthy-looking children of the school. The hall itself was tastefully decorated with clan banL ers and de vices. Before and during dinner the piper of the Highland Society and the piper of Lord Dunmore, by turns, played pibrochs, reels, and strathspeys, on the bagpipes, alternat ing with band and pipers of the asylum, Many of the gentlemen present wore the Highland costume ; these inter spersed with various uniforms of the army and navy, and the volunteers, and the dresses of numerous ladies, who provided with seats, gave the room a more than usually gay appearance. On the removal of the cloth, the CHAIRMAN briefly pro posed the health of " The Queen," which was enthusias. tically responded to, many of the guests drinking it with Highland honours. Before giving the next toast, " The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," his Royal Highness made the gra tifying announcement that the Prince of Wales had con sented to become the patron of the Royal Caledonian Asylum, a statement which, as may be safely guessed, in no wise dimini,hed the warmth with which the toast was received. The toast of " The Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers," was responded to on the part of the army by Colonel Clarke, for the navy by Admiral Sir Hope Johnston, who recommended the society to induce some of their boys to enter the navy, and for the volunteers Sir Alexander Gordon Cumming. At this period of the proceedings, the children of the schools filed into the room, headed by their pipers. In proposing the toast of the evening, his Royal High ness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE said it became his duty to draw attention more immediately to the subject which had brought them together. He need not remind them that he was going to propose prosperity to the asylum which had brought under their notice so many interesting objects of charitat•le compassion. The Royal Caledonian Asylum was founded in the year 1818 by the Highland Society, after a long war, to take care of the orphan children of soldiers, sailors, and marines who had at that time fallen in the defence of their country. The object, therefore, was very interesting, and more particularly to one who, like himself, had the honour of being connected with one of those important services. It was doubly inte resting to him, because though it was well known from his tory that the Scotch and Highland regiments had especially distinguished themselves upon every occasion, he had had the honour of having three of those distinguished regiments —indeed, including the Scotch Fusiliers, four—under his more immediate command. He had seen the gallantry and distinction of those corps—three of which were under the immediate command of Lord Clyde—and from his experience he could say that there were no regi ments in her Majesty's service more entitled to receive the esteem and admiration of their country. With regard to the Caledonian Asylum, it had at present within its walls 62 boys and . so girls. It would hold 140 or 160, but from a praiseworthy desire on tha part of the society not to go beyond their means, they had wisely determined to limit the number receiving support to 112. Though that, no doubt, was wise and prudent, it did not appear to him to be satisfactory to those who desired to support this noble institution, and, therefore, they ought to endeavour to find funds to 'maintain the whole number of children that the institution was calculated to contain. The number of applications for admission were very numerous, so that there would be no difficulty on that score. It was, therefore, simply a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence, and he hoped to be as successful in extracting what was necessary from the large and influ ential body of gentlemen he saw around him as the managers had been in collecting them at their hospitable board. What the society wanted was annual subscrip tions. No doubt it was very desirable to augment the funded property of such institutions. In the present instance the asylum had £19,000 in the funds, but that, at the ordinary rate of interest on Government securities, produced but a small part of what was required for the ordinary expenditure. Thanks, however, to the liberality displayed on such occasions as the present, the institution was not in debt, but prosperous and flourishing so far as its means would admit. Though intended mainly for the orphans of soldiers and sailors, its benefits had been extended to the children of poor Scottish civilians, who could make out a good claim. Under those circumstances, he had a right to claim their interest in an institution which was managed in such a way that the children, when they left, turned out most creditable and respectable in the various walks of life. (Cheers.) The toast was received with the utmost warmth. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of the Duke of Buccleuch, the president of the asylum, which was drunk with three times three, again repeated on the suggestion of Si: C. Forbes. Lord HENRY SCOTT, in the absence of the duke, his father, acknowledged the toast. The Duke of RICHMOND then in eulogistic terms proposed the health of the chairman, which was drunk enthusiasti cally, with Highland honours. His ROYAL HIGHNESS replied in suitable terms, and then proposed the " Church of Scotland, and all other Christian churches," coupled with the name of the Rev. Dr. Cumming, who responded. The remaining toasts were "The Highland Society of London—parent of the Caledonian Asylum," " The Cale donian Asylum of London and the Scottish Hospital," "The Medical Officers of the Asylum," who give their services gratuitously, and "The Ladies," During the course of the evening subscriptions to the amount of upwards of £l,OOO were announced. Mr. Harker officiated as toastmaster. The new street from Blacktriars•bridge to the Mansion-house is to be calla Southwark-street. IN 1- 7 4, 411 Tit • elttular HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 13. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and, four, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Lieut. Colonel the Hon. D. De Roe. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Roya; High nesses Princess Helena and Prince Leopald, visited the Queen Marie Amelie, at Claremont this after noon, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Mbjor General the Hon. A. N, Hood, and Lieut. Colonel the Hon. D. De Ros. SUNDAY. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house hold, attended divine service in the private chapel. The Rev. W. Jolly officiated. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, returned from London last evening. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterday from Greenwich Park. His Excellency Count de Lavradio also arrived at the Castle. Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen to-day. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred, attended by Lieut. Colonel Keppel, rode on horseback on Saturday. The New Zealand Chiefs had an interview with his Royai Highness the Prince of Wales at Marl borough House. They were introduced by Mr. W. Jenkins, interpreter, New Zealand Government, and Mr. D. Puseley. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess De Grey and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, honoured with their presence in the afternoon the Military Concert at the International Exhibition Building, in aid of the Princess Mary's Fund. Madame Jerichau has had the honour of several sittings of the Princess of Wales for the portrait she is painting of her Royal Highness. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess De Grey and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. Yesterday morning their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke of Cam bridge attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Communion Service was read by the Rev. (3, Packman and the Rev. T. Helmore. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Packman, from the Epistle of St. John, chap. iii. v. 14. The anthem was "Thou, 0 God, art praised in Zion" (Greene). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The Archbishop of Armagh, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of St. Germans, and Viscount Sydney, were present at the service. The Prince and Princess of V ales were attended by Countess De Grey and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel. The Queen of Prussia. The Queen of Prussia is expected to arrive at Windsor Castle during the present month, on a visit to her Majesty. Presentation to the Princess of Wales from the Principality. A deputation representing the ladies of North Wales had an interview with the Princess of Wales at Marlborough House on Saturday, and presented to her Royal Highness the jewels subscribed for by the ladies of the northern counties. Each lady of the deputation represented one of the counties of North Wales. There were present—the Countess of Powes, Lady Lucy Herbert, Lady Louisa Pen nant, Lady Williams Wynn, the Hon. Mrs. Stan ley, Mrs. Wynne, and Mrs. William Gladstone. The Countess of Vane, who was also deputed from one of the Welsh counties, was unavoidably pre vented from attending. The present was composed of a leek formed of emeralds and diamonds, earrings to correspond, and a brooch also formed of emeralds and diamonds. On the leek was a motto in Welch signifying, " To our own Princess." The Princess of Wales was attended by the Countess De Grey, Lady in Waiting, and Lord Harris, Chamberlain. The Prince of Wales , a% as present at the reception. Her Majesty will leave Windsor for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on Saturday, the 4th proximo. The Queen will remain at Osborne until the 28th, and then return to Windsor Castle, and on the 31st will take her departure for Germany. Her Majesty pays constant visits to the Mauso leum, which is beginning to assume an appearance of solemn grandeur. Their Ito) al Highnesses the Princess and Prin cess of Wales give a dinner party this evening at Marl borough House. Their Royal Highnesses leave town to morrow for Oxford for the Commemoration, and will not return until Friday. Their Royal Highnesses have ac cepted an invitation to dine with the Duchess of Cambridge on the let proximo. The Queen has given Prince Alfred tho Order of the Garter. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will be among the distinguished visitors at the Oxford Com memoration this week. His Royal Highness will leave town to-morrow for the University city. • Prince and Princess Napoleon have given up their proposed trip to Upper Egypt, it is rumoured, in con sequence of the Princess Clotilde being enciente, and feeling the heat a good deal. The Duke and Duchess of Bucclench entertained a distinguished party at dinner at their mansion in Bel grave-square on Saturday evening. Later in the evening her grace received a select circle of the aristocracy. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington left town on Saturday for Strathfieldsaye, from whence they will re turn to-day to Apsley House. The Duke of Hamilton arrived in town at the end of last week from Paris. The Duchess and Lady Mary Hamilton are not expected to come to London for the present. The Duchess of Manchester's second assembly will take place on Friday, the 19th inst. The Marquis of Bowmont left town on Saturday on a fishing excursion in Norway. The Earl and Countess of Derby leave town to, morrow for Oxford, the noble earl, as Chancellor of the University, intending to be present during the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Commemoration, The noble earl and countess will be the guests of the Vice-Chancellor during their sojourn at Oxford, . The Earl of Dudley will give a ball to-night to a large party at Dudley Honse. The Earl Grey and Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey returned to town on Saturday from attend ing the funeral of the Hon. George Ponsonby, brother of the late Countess (Dowager) Grey, who died on the sth inst., at the advanced age of 90 years. The Earl Cowley, Ambassador at the Tuileries, is expected to arrive in town at the end of the present month, on a short leave of absence from Paris, The Earl and Countess of Wemyss and March, who have been visiting the Earl and Countess of Warwick in the Stable Yard, left town on Saturday for Gosford Park, near Edinburgh. The Earl Craven left town on Saturday for Ash down Park. The Countess and Ladies Craven remain in London. „ Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for an assemLly on Saturday next. Lord and Lady Egerton of Talton have issued cards for a grand entertainment, on Friday next, to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cam bridge, in St. James's-square. M. Thiers is about to leave Paris for a tour in Austria and Bavaria. He will visit the northern provinces of France on his return, which will be delayed until the meeting of Parliament. It is reported that the Marble Arch is undergoing a purification preparatory to there being placed on its sum mit a group to commemorate the arrival of the Princess of Wales in England, when her Royal Highness passed through the arch in company with the Prince of Wales. MUNIFICENT GIFT.—The cost, amounting to £6OO, of the Bude Haven, Cornwall, new lifeboat establishment, has been presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by the surviving children of the late R. T. Garden, Esq., 0 1 Rivers Lyoni., Ireland, as a memorial of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Garden. An inscription recording the gilt has been carved in stone and placed over the doorway,' of the lifeboat house. LITERATURE. The Chronicles of Carlingford. The Rector and the Doctor's Famzly. 1 vol. Blackwood. The readers of Blackwood's Magazine will be rej )iced at this reprint of that very charming series, the " Chronicles of Carlingford." It is a work that all who know it will be glad to place on their book-shelves, to turn to again and again, like a familiar friend ratherthan a pleasant acquaintance? which is the only light in which we can esteem the majority of the works of fiction introduced to us. They entertain us for the moment, but when we part with them we care little if we never meet with them again. A select few only can we admit to closer companionship, and among those are assu redly the works of the accomplished Mrs. Oliphant• In the " Chronicles of Carlingford" she has sur passed her previous reputation, and has surprised many of her former admirers. So vivid are her de scriptions, and so true to nature are her characters, that we fully realise the scenes into which she con ducts us, and we feel quite at home at Carlingford even as we do in " OurVillage"—and Miss Mitford's. The two tales contained in this volume concern the Rector and the Doctor's family. The Rector, it will be remembered, is a scholar and fellow of All Soul's, Oxford, who has been appointed in ma ture life to his first living, and who, as he stands bewildered by the dying-bed of a parishioner, pain fully recognised that his antecedents have unfitted him for the duties of parish priest. " His treatise on the Greek verb and his new edition of Sophocles were highly creditable to the Fellow of All Souls, but how about the Rector of Carlingford ? What was he doing here among that little world of human creatures who were dying, being born, perishing, suffering, falling into misfortune and anguish, and all manner of human vicissitudes every day ?" Poor honest Morley Proctor is fairly puzzled by the anomaly of hia position. The "Doctor's Family" possesses greater interest as a story. We gladly renew our acquaintance with the matter-of-fact Dr. Rider and the wayward and wilful, but charming and high-spirited, Nettie. Other volumes of the " Chronicles" will, of course, appear in due time. Narrative of the Late War in New Zealand. By Lieutenant-Colonel Carey, GB., Deputy Adja tant-General. One vol. Pp. 199. Bentley. Colonel Carey has given a very complete and comprehensive narrative of the war in New Zealand in 1860.61. The military operations under Major- General Pratt are more particularly described. This book is one of the best we have met with on the subject, and is likely to be regarded as an autho rity by all who may in future treat upon the war. Fish Hatching. By Frank T. Buckland. 1 vol. Pp. 221. Tinsley. All persons concerned in the care and develop ment of the finny tribes will uo well to consult this little book. Mr. Buckland is evidently a master of his subject, and it will not be his fault if his readers are not the same. How to prepare eggs of fish, the development and difficulties of young fishes, the pe culiarities of salmon and their spawn, and a multi tude of other matters of a similar character. are detailed in a vigorous, elaborate, and interesting manner. Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 1 vol. Bentley. " Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles," one of the most charming and domestic of Mrs. Wood's popular tales, is now republished in one volume. It will be right welcome to the novel reader, as are all the productions of that facile pen. The tone of the whole composition is of a more wholesome character than is that of " East Lynne," and as a story it is not inferior in interest. The Indoor Gardener. By Miss Maling, author of " indoor Plants." Longman. A delightful little volume that will prove highly acceptable to all ladies who, like Miss Tim, take a pleasure in superintending their floral treasures. Flowers are indeed among those " things of beauty'' which are " joys for ever," and no house should be without them. By Miss Maling's judicious advice we learn how to cultivate hyacinths and camelias, and roses and ferns, and fuichias and geraniums, and many others; how to make cuttings, how to winter plants, how to arrange the flower casement and the indoor plant cases and window boxes, and how to superintend greenhouses and conservatorie s, together with a multitude of other equally pleasant instruction and advice. ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND, The fifty-fourth anniversary of this excellent institution was celebrated on Saturday by a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, under the presidency of Mr. W. B. Beech, M.P., who was supported by Mr. David Roberts, R.A., Mr. George T. Doo, R.A., Mr. John H. Foley, R.A., and other artists and friends of the society. The Artists' Fund was established in 1810, and received a charter of incorporation from George IV. in 1827. It consists of two separate and distinct branches—the Artists' Annuity Fund, which is raised and wholly supported by the contributions of its members, and the Artists' Benevolent Fund, for the relief of the widows and orphans of the members of the annuity fund, which is supported by the donations of the patrons of the fine arts and artists, as well as by the annual contributions of the members of the other funds. Since the for mation of the benevolent fund a sum of £24,721 had been distributed in relieving widows and orphans of British artists, and during the past year 53 widow s received annuities amounting to £765, and 15 or phans th© sum of £6l ss. After the " Health of the Queen," and other loyal and constitutional toasts had been drunk. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the even ing, " Prosperity to the Artists' Benevolent Fund," said that among the many societies which existed for the relief of the distressed, and reflected so much credit upon the country, there was none more emi nently characteristic, or more deserving the aid and encouragement of every charitable person, than this invaluable institution. The great good done by the association was sufficiently vouched for by the fact that during the year no less than. 53 widows of artists had received benefit from its funds. Apart from the interest which the public should feel in such an institution, it must be a. matter of satisfaction to those who owed their sup port to the creations of their own hands to know that those near and dear to them whom they left behind would be provided for and secured against want. Artists of eminence might think that they were far removed from casualties that would plunge themselves and families in distress, and the young members of the profession might think that sickness was off; but man had not at disposal his own des tiny, and it was surely better that in the hour of health and prosperity they should make some pro vision against the dark days of adversity. He also thought that those who were in the zenith of their greatness should lend a helping hand to brother artists less fortunate than themselves, or who were struggling in their profession, by giving aid to this society, whose funds, he could assure them, were administered in a most economical and satisfactory manner. The toast was enthusiastically responded to. The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, " The Royal Academy," expressed his great regret that the president, Sir Charles Eastlake, was unable to be present, in consequence of the delicate state of his health. Mr. DAVID ROBERTS returned thanks, and pro posed " Posterity 4o the Artists' Annuity Fund," which was acknowledged by Mr. Georgo T. D. Duo. Several other toasts, including " The Ladies," were afterwards drunk. The subscriptions an nounced during the evening, including her Majesty's customary donation cf 100 guineas, amounted to nearly £6OO. After dinner the proceedings were enlivened by a good selection of popular music, ably performed by Miss Emily Spiller, Miss Poole, Mr. Montem Smith, and Mr. Sydney Naylor, under tho direction of Mr. Lawler. Miss Spiller, a young debutante with an excellent voice, especially dis tinguished herself, and was rewarded with several encores.