The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

1 .9 OYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. There will both in this week and in next Treek bP Ave opera nights, viz., Monday, Tuesday. Thursday, }riday, and atarday. _ Extra Night Mdlle. Feed, Madame Didiee ; M. }:allre, Siznor Ciampi, Signor Roneuni, Herr Schmid, and Signor Tamberlik. THIS EVENING (THIJItSDAYr, June the 23d, will be performed, for the last time but one this season, Mozart's opera, iu two acts, DON GIOVANNI, with the follow ng p,,werful ea;it :—Donna Anna, 3ldlle. Fried ; Zerlina, Mdme. Didtee ; Elvira, Madame Ruderadorff; Dun Giovanni, M. Faure ; Leporello, Signor Ciampi ; Masetto, Signor Rovooni; 11 Commeudatore, Herr Schmid; and Don Ottavio, ,tignor tramberlik, The minuet will be danced by Mdlle. Salvioni and M. Despileel. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre t , tals, 10s. &L, 75., and ss. ; mphitheatre.72s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-offic; under the portico of the tnealre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal Musicsellers' and librarians'. THEA TRE ROYAL HAYNI AR KET.- Sole Lcszee and Manazer, Mr. Iluckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BA LANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and 3liss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GAURICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, WeAthersby, &e.; Mesdisnes Snowden, .N elly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To conclude with TURNLiG THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, Mr. Rowe, ez.l. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Last 3 Nights of Hamlet and the present Season. Mr. FECHTER will perform FIA3ILET THIS EVENING (Thursday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham ; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden hsft ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger. Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. W M'lntyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry Actress, AlisS Hcnrade ; and Gertrude, Miss Eisi.vorthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open athalf-past 7, and nainht Com liences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock, till Five. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING - will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Sloes, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. 111 r. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, &c.; Miss Stafford and Caroline Carsen. After which', THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei Francti, Mr. Vining; Chateau _Renaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. _ NEW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPIII. soie Proprietor and Managor. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. Followed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his original character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, cuppo;ted by Messrs. A. ,Stirling, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, eaul Bedford. Rilington; Miss IN oolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly, arc. lifter which, TaE AREA BELLE, with s Horrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Too!e, I. Bedford, r.. itomeraliss liroolga.r, and Mrs. El. Lewis. Commence at 7. ) OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the AA/ Management of 3Er. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dion Boueicault ,Esq., every Evening. Rc , euga,gereent of those ce ebrazed and popular artistes, Mr. ani Mrs. Charles Alathiilv's Amongst the artists engaged will be found the copular It Imes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr..'. Clarke, Mr. Paul :Bedford, Mr. F. Itobinson. Mr. Asnley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. ziimms, Altss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Szirling. EVERY E VEXING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WE DDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comedy, In 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. Clarke, Hr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash . ey, Mr. W. Chanver lathe ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Mlss Henrietta:Simms. At 10, by panieuiar desire, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with ::AHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Mies Fanny Josephs. Commerce at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne. Followed by THE MAID OF 110 SOUR. Miss Ada Swanborough. After which, 3IAZOTTRICA. Messrs. Honey! James, Fenton, Turner, ,te. ; Misses Marie 'Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. Thorns Commence at 7. MOSES AND SON 4• respectfully till attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest taorics are combined with the latest and most fashionable esigns, and the best workmanship. E. 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Top 224. „ f Det p ...... • • Well screened and delivered withiu five miles of their De. pots. 15'estbottme Park-road, W., and .17, ,south Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke .20i. per ton. .21s. ~ Teens cash. , JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. FEIHE THIRD EDITIO:n. , T OF " THE SUN," Containing : the Ltaest SPORTING INTELLIGEN }, an be had Every I. 4 .;timing ot G. R.. GLhNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace. Ilydc-park. The Weather—Sun Office, June 23, 1864. TIIERMON2TZ U. This day at Two o'clock 6l l3arometcr-30.C5. WIND —S.W. ; light bran, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Mrs DlT.—Moraing, 41. 17m.—Afternoon, 4h.:40m. K o-Itc anow.-/vtor-ing, sa. In.—Afternoon, 6h. 30m. "Iti4^t 611 m g SUIT LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1864. Mr, lIENNEssT to be a meat energet has at ail times shown himself c politiciin. He is not one of those laissez alLr sort ok indivi nuts ivho rest Bali& feed with anything so long cs they themselves are left . in peace. Whether he discourses ripen tho wrongs or injuries of Poland, or seeks other topi cs of interest and importance, he is always energetic and enthusiastic. Oa Tuesday last he had a very congenial subjfet on which to descant, and it was a question also which is closely connected with the most vital interests of his own country, and should, therefore, engage the attention of all who are con cerned in the leg:slation of the British Empire. The state and condition of Ireland have for a long period been sources of anxiety and apprehension to the Cabinet, the Parliament, and the country gene rally. Sir ROBERT PEEL emphatically declared j that s, Ireland wag his diamlty." Succeeding THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MINE 23, 1864 statesmen have felt the same embarrassment, if they Utopia of Bribery and Treating. The act at present _hsve Lot had the candour awl courage to own it, existing to secure the purity of elections is a mer e The present Ministry ha ve no t b een a t a ll h appy i n dead letter. It cornpe's the candidate to appoint their attempts in this locality, nor did they deserve recognised agents, and any act of bribery, intimida tion, or corruption proved against them or aga i ns t to be successful where so many w i ser an d gre at er himself made the election void. B u t he m us t b e a men had failed before them, for th e y seem to have gone cut of their way an many occa s i ons t o i rr it a te Nary simple mortal who d oes no t see w ith ou t t h e and annoy the Irish, and that, too, without any telling, that while one or two immaculate agents special cause for interference which could justify keep strictly within the letter and spirit of the law, a dez:n unre cogn i se d and unofficial emissaries the risk of offendin,g prejudices and provoking ill will. The Irish members have often alluded to the may be promising, treating, and feasting to their heart's con t ent . N o one can prevent the want of courtesy which has been shown to them, and still the same tactics are displayed, their griev- candidate's friends from working on his behalf, ances are treated with derision, and their indigos-. no one but the friends themselves can prove when tion meets nothing but contempt. In some cases, the little sum given in recognition of their services indeed, the authorities have gone so fir that they is handed over to them, and if we ere to wait until have had to draw back from their decisions, as in they are sufficiently frank and disinterested to come the instance of the Galway contract, which was forward with that information, we fear that purity so abruptly terminated, and in a manner of elections is yet a long way off. The strongest that gave so much offence. They appear, however, opponents of the Ballot do not pretend to say that to have gained wisdom from experience is some our elections are what they should be. Lord PAL degree, for the tone of the debate the other night was conspicuous for the a b sence o f that :Ise b't Cr i questiens are on the tap's. Mr. HENNESSY ca ll e d y MERSTON himself di s c ree tly l e f t th a t po i nt out o f his very inconclusi ve argumen t s . M r . B ERKELLY and exaggeration so apt t o b e apparent when Iris h said that that all he as k e d f or th e B a ll ot was a fa i r trial, and he might have retorted the favourite particular attention to the condition of Ireland at accusation of his adversaries, and have added that the present time, and especially to the serious evils that aria() from the agricultural p o p u l a ti on l eav i ng it was " nn-E cg li s h" t o re f use i t. B ut i n fact, as the hoe. gentleman observ e d, " assert i on i s no argu the country. It is unfortun a t e th a t th e di v i s i on on ment." It is very easy to d ec l are th a t t h e B a ll ot the point was a d verse t o th e proposa l o f M r , would entirely fail to do wh a t it h as d one i n every HENNESSY; but it does not by any means f o ll ow country where it has been fairly tried ; to declare that no result will ensue therefrom, for the discus- that it would have no cff:ct in stopping sion which was raised upon it has drawn attention bribery and protecting against intitnida to the subject, and at a future period we may mark tion, but if so why not settle the the good effects that it has produced. At all events, matter by giving practical proof. Why not let the no one denied the truth of the hon. member's pre- supporters of the Ballot be convinced by practice? raises, if they did not exactly accord with th e con - No very great harm cou ld eneuo if t h e experiment elusions he drew from them. The f ac t i s th a t th e proved a signal f a il ure; it cou ld scarcely make mat un willingness which is univers a lly f e lt t o ma ki ng tars worse than they are now . H ow many of the any changes or alteration in a system is so over- members of this very high.minded and honourable . house whelming in its influence, and th a t un l ess any spea would like to look t oo c l ose l y i nto the full cial event or untoward incid en t ca ll s f or steps to b e details of the i r e l e cti oneer i ng agents, pa i d and un- taken without delay, little or no h ee d i s pa id to t h e paid, allele' and unreco gn i se d ? B ut t h e very fact arguments, entreaties, and expostulations of pros- of the Ballot being so much needed is the greatest I cient observers or earnest reformers. A private member can eeldon manage to induce the Treasury benches to listen to him when he proclaims the wrongs or animadverts upon the injustice which he has seen, and which imperatively call for a remedy. If only a port on of Mr. HENNESSY'S recital were true there would still exist ample grounds for the enforcement of some remedial change. The emigre , tion now taking place is greater than at any period for ten years, and this in itself is a very telling fact against the efficacy of existing legislation. It must produce most disastrous effsets, and exercise a dete riorating influence on the welfare of the country, for it to be subjected to this constant drain upon its resources. It has been said— " 11l fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay." If the former allusion does not apply to the prospects of Ireland, it h e s th e a dditi ona l d raw b ac k of ha': ing to encounter the evil, unmitigated by adventitious circumstances. The suggestions made by Mr. HEN. MESSY seem to b 3 worthy of notice. Men will not stay at home if they see others rushing abroad, unless some inducements are offered to them. For this the proposal to reclaim waste lands is an afleairable ore. Sir R. PEEL affirmed that immense quantities had been appropriated, but there is no reason why all should not. Another good idea was that public works should be organised, but this did not seem to be much thought of. When it is considered, however, that by this means employment wou'd be given to vast numbers, and that many restless and dissati,fied persons would become settled and satis fied in their own country, it secure a pity that nothing should be done. Lord PALMERSTON did not address himself to the subject with so much cordiality as Sir ROBERT PEEL. He seemed rather impatient with the whole thing, and glad to fall back on the resources of his strength to put down the attempt at interference with legisla tion, Lord J. MANNERS very properly said that he thought the " hon. member for Eing's County had met with rather hard measures from the Govern ment." The conclusion to be drawn from the speeches of the Government members who took part in the debate seems to be that great evils undoubtedly exist in Irelend, and that it would be well if they obstacle to its introduction.. Members and chiefs , of parties are afraid to trust to unisflaenced voting, , and Lord PALMERSTON, its opon and recognised , enemy, does not attempt to deny that our elections need reform, but contents himself with assertions that it would be useless. First, the noble lord says that it would be necessary to make it penal for a man to say how he was going to vote ; next, he declares it would be no good to have ballot boxes, because "it is next to impossible that a mcjarity of electors should vote by ballot without their votes being known. He further argued that it would be ho protection against bribery and intimidation, be cause the landlord or customer might go to a man before or after the election and ask about his vote, when, if he refused to answer, the landlord or cuss tomer would know the worst, and that "you &light go to an elector and say, Hare is £5 or £lO. I trust to your honour—you shall have tht money if you promise to vote for so and so, but not others wise." Lard PALMERSTON is of opinion that the electors would keep their promise, and thus the merit of the Ballot is at an end. It is somewhat surprising that instead of " Hear, hear" following this declaration we do not read "Laughter." DOES the noble Premier, after his long experience of the world and its ways, really believe business, espe cially dishonest business, to be carried on in this Quixotic fashion ? Certainly there is en old adage about " honour among thieves" which COMC3 to mind, but still it must be a somewhat credulous candidate who would trust co magnanimously to the good faith of a bribed elector when he could not even reproach the man for his diehenesty. If candidates and agents like . to waste their money let them do so, and these very "English" electors who keep their word so strictly in law breaking may prefat by another old adage about some people and their money being soon pared, but the Ballot has a right to a trial for all that. The man who takes bribes will neither stop for falsehoods nor for broken pledges, and so the world at large very well knows. But since Lord PALMERSTON stands forward!as the logical annihilator of the Ballot, le him answer us one question—Why is it mita sively adopted in the clubs? coald be rectified, but they also ECCM to imply that they are not at present prepared to do anything to . improve the state of affe.irs, and also do not intend to assist others in the task of reform. Such a course of action is hardly in unison with the reauirenaents of men in their responsible position, and it i 8 not thus that they will gain th© confidence of Ireland nor the rkspeet of England. They make the grave mistake of looking upon the su bj ec t as an irksome task they ore glad to shirk, and not as a solemn duty which they are called upon to pertorm with the utmost ability and earnestnesp. Amid all the changes and chances which dis tinguish one Parliamentary session from another, some events recur with unvarying pertinacity. Year by year some subjects are brought up fcr the mere sake of reminding the world of their existence. Year by year they pcss through the customary forms and quietly sink into oblivion for another twelvemonth. We all know how long this pro gramme was followed by Mr. I :ILLIERS and his Atiti-Corn Law resolutions, and now 111 r. BERKE LEY in his advocacy of the Ballot seems to be the champion of as apparently hopeless a cause. Perhaps indeed the case of the Ballot is even more desperate than the principles of Free Trade ever wore, since thelatter was more of a national question on which men differed as much f r om p r i nc ipl e an d conv i ct i on as from anything else. The Ballot is a personal matters an d t he oljection to it, in too many in stances) arises from a well-founded misgiving as to its ef f ect upo n futu re elections. Of course we are not charging every m em b er who opposes Mr. BERKELEY'S motion With b e i ng a friend to bribery and corruption, but there is .e v er often an undefined idea that matters are best left as they are, and that any interference with the e xi sting system is need lees and undesirable. Yet DO c ue pret en d s t h a ' by our present course we can boast of securing th e purity of election. No ono is sargniue or simple enough to believe that the whole exPetee o f an election lies in the regular tees. No one supposes that no more money changes bands than is absee lately necessary, or that interest and influence, that patrons,employers, and landlords have no share in the matter. Pocket boroughs were not ell dis franchised in 1832, although one of the great leaders of that day now tells his followers " to rest and be thankful." But a general who desires his forces to sit down when the battle is half won, does not inspire much confidence in hie own troops, nor does he strike much terror into the hearts of his enemies, especially when a very important part of the work remained to be done. Mr. BERKELEY, who, in consideration of the approaching election broke through his usual rule and addressed the House, referred to this famous aphorism. He said the noble lord had a right to call upon them to be thankful for his exertions, but when he told all other reformers to sit still the advice savoured of absurdity. Were there, then, asked the hon. mem ber, no abuses to redress, no evils to get rid of ? had England become Utopian ? According to the acv count given by Mr. BEBE:ELL; which there is no reason to think exaggerated, it is ve r y lil ac th e i men. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. IBEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ALGERIA. PARIS, JUNE 23. Official despatches from Algetia represent the news as daily becoming more decisive. General Deligny has penetrated to the centre of the rebellion in the South of the province of, Oran, and similar SUCCCESE3 have been achieved in the Tell. It is thought that military operations will terminate in the bcginnirg of July. ---- SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE 22. In to-day's sitting of the Congresr, S2nor Pacheco, in reply to a question from Senor Moline, said-- "The squadron in the Pacific will be reinforced. The Chincha Islands will be occupied until the assassins of Taiambo are punished, and it is proved that the Peruvian Government was foreign to the attempt on the life cf F.C307 Mezzaredo, recently Spanish Minister in Peru." CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 22. The Delta and Syria, with the above mails, will leave here at 10 B.M. to morrow. burned, thereby causing great suffering among the population. Advices from the blockading fleet announce the capture of the U.S. steamer Water Witch by a force of Confederates from Fort M'Allister, Georgia, who boarded the vessel with launches during the night. The Water Witch was a regular navy. built vessel carrying five guns, and very fast. An expeaition was fitting out at Port Royal to endea► Your to recapture or destroy her. The former may be expEottd at Marseilles on the 29th instant, and the latter at Southampton on the 6th July. , FRANCE. BOURSE, Jane 22.—The market continues dull, but little change in prices, Threes, for the Account, being at Mr. sc. Mollifier has receded to 1,045 f. Railway s quiet, and some of the lines rather lower, The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 0 3 10 Do. end 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 8:5 Credit Mobilier 1047 50 Do. end month 1043 75 Bank Shares 3190 Credit Ponder 1240 Roman BAIL Italian Loan 69 90 Do. end month 69 75 Ditto Threes .. 42 75 New Mexican .... 56 Russian A.ustrian Spanish Threes — 1-lorne Debt Deferred - VATS. Cash. Account. Orleans 865 870 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 880 .. 882 50 New ditt0...,,..... Southern ........ Western Eastern .... Sarlinian ...... Austrian ...... Lombard North of Spain Saragossa .. Ditto to Barcelona 615 - 648 75 550 - - 462 50 .. 463 75 363 75 .. 365 - 403 75 .. 408 75 53 75 .. 525 - 435 - 4:35 - 555 - .. 567 50 AXERICA. NEUTER'S EXPRESS ] Per the Etna. NEW YORK, JUNE 11. Secretary Stanton announces having received despatches from G2ncral Grant up to 9 p.m. on the 9th inst. There had been no lighting eh:co the night of the 6th, when the Confederates attacked Burnside's corps, meeting with a decided repulse. They also made a dash at a working party of Han. cock's corps, with the same results. It is reported that a portion of the 5:11 corps had arrived at a point on the Chickahominy, near Bottom's Bridge. An unca:ial despatch states that a portion of this force has cccupied the south bank of the river, near Despatch Station. The following resolution was adopted on the 31 inst. in the Confederate Senate :—" Resolved, that the President be requested to make an exposition, through our commiesioners abroad, to the various European Powers, to which they may be accredited of the violations of the rules of civilised warfare and cutrlges committed by the armies and Govern•. ment of the United States in the prosecution of hostilities against the Confederate States." Richmond journals claim that the battle on the 3d inst. resulted is a decided victory for the Con. federates. The Sentinehtates that fourteen assaults were made by she rederais on the right of the line held by Brickenridg,s_•, Hoke, and .Kershaw, all of which were repuietAl with gront slanstator of tsic assailants. The Federal loss is placed at from 10,000 to 12,000 men, while the Confederate loss is asserted In the Federal S Ito Mr. Powell moved to take up the VII prohibiting military interference with elections. The bill was defeated. to have been quite small, The Sentinel states that Grant's object was to gain the strong positions around Gaines's Mill, upon the road to Bottom's Bridge, and connect with Batter, and th a t hi s o bj ect had been °i signally and disa s t rous l y d e f eated. " The In short, y es t er d ay was a happy Sen t in el day fo o r n c u de s :—" dark one for Grant. W e cl s u a nd have lost no ground on our right and have gained largely on niar left. We have taken nearly two thousand prisoners. We have put hors de combat some 10,000 Yankee soldiers. slight loss, thank God." W Richmond ff paperser e d very of the 7th regard General Grant's movement as indicating a retreat to the James River, with a view of attacking Richmond on the south of that stream. The town of Bowling Green, the county seat of Caroline county, Virginia, h as b een laid in ashes by Federal troops in retaliation for the citizens firing a Fz,:lcral train. from their houses upon Advices from Butler's army report all quiet on ,he 7th inst. Mr. Lam, of Kansas, offered a resolution recog nising the legitimacy of the loyal State and Govern ment of Arkansas. Official despatches announce that the Federal forces under General Hunter, on t'ho sth of Sune , defeated the Confederates under General IV. E Jones, who was himself kited, 12 miles beyond Staunton, in the Upper Shenandoah valley. The Confederates retreated to . 4Voyncsboro, and now hold the mountains between Staunton, which place is occupied by Hunter, and Charlottesville. Gen. Hunter captured no supplies, according to official accounts. o,,her accounts, however, represent that he captured six guns and a large amount of stores. Deserters report that the Confederates lost 20 guns. The Baltimore Convention on June Bth nomi nated Mr. Lincoln and Andrew Johnston, of Ten nessee, for the Presidency and Vice - Presidency. The Platform adopted a series of resolutions de claring that the rebellion shall be suppressed, and no terms from the South listened to other than un conditional surrender, and a return to their allo• giance to the constitution of laws of the United States. Other resolutions embraced an enforce ment of the Monroe Doctride, and the abolition of slavery by conatitutional Amendment. Another resolution endorsed the course of the present administration. Latest advices from General S'nerman's army in dicate that Johnston has at last made a determined stand, and that a desperate battle was daily ex pected. On the 7th of June the Confederates had signals posted at Elenesaw and Lost Mountain. Sherman's forces had occupied Ackworth. Despatches from li. , :ntucky announce the inva sion of that State by a Confederate force under General John Morgan, They entered the eastern portion of the State and captured Mount Stirling. They then proceeded to destroy the railrcad and bridges between Cynthiana and Paris, both of which pieces they occupied on June 8. They next captured Georgetown and Virilliarn stown , and had, at latest accounts, a force within thirty miles of Cincinnati. Communication with Lexington is suspended, and it is feared that that town also has fallen into their hands, They are moving in three columns. One of these bodies, said to be about 700 strong, has been rcpulaed by the Faderais under Gee. Burridge. The estimates of Morgan's force are various—some as high as ten, and some less than three, thousand Advices from Mississippi state the Confederates under Marmaduke have planted heavy batteries at Greenville, Mississippi, and CJlumbis, Arkansas, thereby effectually blockading the navigation of the Mississippi river at that point. Southern ac counts state that Martnatiuke had already crippled three Federal gunboats and destroyed three trans ports, securing two of their cargce2. Southern pap:rs state that the entire number of Federal prisoners captured during the recent cam• paign in Louisiana and Arkansas was 16,000, and that Col. Alexandria, on the 7th ult., captured two Federal gunboats and three transports in th e Calasim river, in South-Western Louisiana. The same journals allege that the Federals destroyed all property in the Red River from Natchilochy to some distance above Alexandria. D welling-houses, augar-houses,cotton-gins, Bz , J.,Were indigeriminately At a meeting of a M'Clellan Democratic club of New Jersey, Mr. W. Cornell Jewett, well known for his.exertions to secure European intervention, offered a series of resolutions, which were adopted, nominating for the Presidency andVice-Presidency General George B. M'Cleilan and Milliard Fillmore, and declaring that the war, if it must be continued, shall only be prosecuted with a view to preserve the constitution and union, independent of slavery ; that the liberty of speech and the press shall be maintained; that all slave confiscations and other proclamations, and Congressional acts connected therewith shall be rendered null and void ; that the people of the United States shall vote upon the re. cognition of Maximilian's Government in Mexico; that coloured troops shall be withdrawn from the field, and that a cessation of hostilities should be proclaimed, during which commissioners from the different States, North and South, can meet to de. tertian° upon a just mode of settling the existing difficulties by arbitration or otherwise ; the final result to be submitted to the voice of the people by ballot. TEE AUSTRALIAN MAILS, r. , OUTIIAMPTON, June 23. The reninzular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, wich the heavy portion of the Calcutta, China, and Australian mails, has arrived. The Ceylon brings 196 passengers, among whom are Sir R. and Lady Walpole and family ; Lieut. Moorson, A.D.C. to th© General; Col. Wingfield, Capt. and Mrs. Douglas, Capt. Mackenzie, Mr. H. Arnould, Capt. Duncan, Cant. Ferguson, Major- General Ai'Duff, Ensign Morley, and Dr. Aiken. Her cargo comprises 13 cases of valuables, 2 packages of specie, value not stated, 625 packages of sundries, and 1,035 bales of raw silk, value £90,000 sterling. The Ceylon spoke the following ships during her pe.FEnge J une 10th—Exchanged colours with the British harpe Thorwalden. June 12th Ezchanged colours with the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Delta. June 16th—Exchanged colours with the brig Cisgar, the bark Escort and the barque Acacb, and exchanged night signals with the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Delhi off Tarafa ; on the 20th passed the steamship Corinthian and the steam ship Arabian ; on the 21st exchanged signals with the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Poonfal, bound for Gibraltar ; and on the 22d exchanged colours with the barque August of Hamburg. Her Majesty's ships Orlando, Trident, Liffey, Magicienne, M m :nee, Dromedary, Cossack, Orontes, Marlborough, and Foxhound were at Malta on the 10th inst. The Ottoman line of battle ship Peyki Musret, and frigates Etowul and Rephen Monet, under the command of Vice Admiral Ehrem. Pasha, were at Gibraltar on the 16th on their way to England to be fitted with screw machinery. Her .111Ejesty'a screw frigate Galatea left Gib raltar for England on the 12th. Her Majesty's ships Redpole and Prc, , cris were at Gibraltar when the Ceylon left. GIBRALTAR) June 16. Commercial letters received from Mazagan and Casabianca by the Amazon, state that the prices of wool continued the same, and the supply was short at both places. The crop of Ittaz 3 and garbarzos ore very abundant this year, but the bean crop is lost in consequence of tha late rains. An officer of the Sultan arrived at Tetuan on the 6th, and it is inferred that be was the bearer of peremptory orders for the departure of the Governor Hash- Hash, who is disgraced for want of proper activity in the pursuit of the assassins of the French sub ject at Tetuan. Hash - Hash set out for the Sul tan's Court the day after the arrival of this last Imessenger. Tire edvices from Tangier confirm the report that the Sultan had given full satisfaction to the demands of the French Government, and state that all differences had been finally arranged, The following British vessels have arrived out at Gibraltar. Steamer Cadiz, 7 days from Loudon ; schooner Shamrock, 11 days from Cardiff; brigan tine William and Jane, 27 days from Swanoea sahooner Perseverance, 14 days from Cardiff; brig Elizabeth Young, 11 days from Swansea; brig Marmion, 12 days from Liverpool ; steamer Fortuna, 6 days from London; brigantine Arnytas, 20 days from Liverpool; schooner William Keith, 12 days f rom Newport ; schooner Margaret and Jane, 14 days from Newport; and steamer Geneva, 9 days from Glasgow. Exchange on London, 90 days' date, 501 ; on Paris, 90 days, 5f 32c; on Marseilles, 90 days, 5f 33c; on Genoa, 90 days. 5f 34c to 35c ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, par; Cadiz, 8 days' sight, 2 dis. ; Seville, 8 days' sight, dis. ; Malaga, do., 4 prem.; Barce lona, do., 1 prem.; Almeria, do., par; Valencia, do., par ; Alicante, do., par. Premium on 5 franc pieces, to s per cent. premium. CHINA. REPULSE OF GORDON FROM CHANG. CHOW-FOO. SHANGHAE, MAY 7. (By telegraph from Suez.) Major Gordon and the Eitel° have thrice as , saulted Chang-Chow-Foo, and have been each time repulsed with great loss. The city still holds out. GREAT EASTERN.—This vessel has just taken 3,000 tons of coal on board, and will shortly leave Liverpool for Sheerness or D2Ttford, where she will be itfed w;th water tanks, in wh'ch the Atlantic cable now being made by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co. will be stowed away as it is made. lIOROLOGICAL SCIENCE.---" Here aro arranged a fine selection of watches manufactured by him en the latest and most. approved principles of horological scienc !."—Daily News, July 1, 1852. Caronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters, centre second, keyless, split seconds, and every description of watch, adapted to all climates. Benson's illustrated pamphlet, free by post for t o stamps, contains a short history of horology, and enables those who live in any part of the world to select a watch or clock. Pr ze medal aucl honourable mention, classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, Ludgate•hill, watch and clock maker by special warrant of appointment to H.l .H. the Princs of Wales. Established 1719, Marshal Pelissier on Russian Barbarism, Tee late Marshal Peliesier had a great regard for Colonel Sigismund Sierakowski, who, it will be remembered, was one of the first victims of Moura vieff during the Polish insurrection last year. The marshal made the acquaintance of the gallant Polish officer in Algiers, whither Sierakowelei had been sent by the Russian Minister for War, Milutyn, for the purpose of studying the criminal code of the French army. When he first presented himself to the marshal the latter received him coldly, thiuking he was a Russian, but on learning he Was a Pole he immediately changed his manner, and conceived such a liking for him that the next day he offered him apartments in his palace, where they frequently passed the evening together in conversation on the Crimean war, the state of the Russian array, and the reforms which Sierakowski was about to in troduce into it. - On terminating his mission Se rakowski returned home. • The insurrection broke out a few weeks after, and his heroic achieve ments in the insurgent army, so suddenly put a stop to by his dreadful death, are well known. " I shall never forget," said one of the late marshal's aide-de cimp in Paris the other day, " that evening on which a bundle of the last Paris papers, which had just arrived from Mar seilles by the mail boat, was brought to the marshal. There were several of us assembled in the drawin3- room, and each taking a paper eagerly devoured the news of the Polish insurrection. 'Suddenly the marshal, who was reading / the Patric, struck the table a tremendous blew with his fist, and broke the silence with his stentorian voice, exclaiming, Mais c'est une horreur, o'est une infamie !' Being as yet ignorant of what had occurred, we all turned round with surprise, and observed an cepression of ex treme indignation and anger on the marshal's face. 'Eh. biers,' he continued after s pause, sous avez tour connu et ainee, comet mei, ca bravo officier Sierakowski, qui a 6 . 6 ici ante: passé—le mal heureux jeune Loname, it n'existe plus! Mouravieff l'a fait assaseiner avec une ceraute digae d'un can nibale.' Ho then throw the paper on the ground, betraying the most violent indignation in every movement. Finally, after exclaiming several times, Qae pause l'Empereur, comment peut-il rester indifferent en face do toutes era barbaries ?' he went into his bed-room, where he remained, refusing to see any one, the whole evening." lik o l rgcTe A:l H AG an E c O vel ...F2:l".. HENRY .IIII.BANKE AND LADY St sAN OSBORNE. —Oa few occasions has St. quarc, been attended by a more nu merous company than that which assembled yesterday morning on the occasion of the marriage of Mr Henry Mil • banke to Lady Sasan Georgiana Godolphin Osborne, eldest daughter of the Duke of Leeds. The church was in fact almost filled before eleven o'clock. The bridegroom arrived soon after eleven, attended by his "best man," Mr Sykes, and in a ehort time afterwards the bride was conducted into the church by her noble father the Duke of Leeds, and by 12 bridesmaids, namely :—Ladies Emma, Charlotte, and Blanche Osborne, her sisters; Hon. Blanche Pitt, daughter of Lord and Lady Rivers; Miss Osborne, daughter of Lord Harvey, four Mi sses b a l n il l ba L n a k d e y , F an ra d ne t i w s oCis2bliosrsnees; Coores, nieces of the bride groom. The ceremony was performed by the Hon, and acv. S. a Osborne, and at its conclusion the register was attested in the vestry by the Duke of Leeds, the Marquis of Carmarthen, and Mr Milbanke, sen, About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the newly-married pair left town for New- Abbey, f t e a c d l e A v e b l b a e rt y, a, Nt the e t t s D . u T c h h e bride's e ss .f and Lady a D e Duchess hes Au gusta Milbanke, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Alvanley, the Marqu.is and Marchioness of Carmarthen, and Frances Ann Marchioness of LNaci•QUderrY we • =e'l ll o st beautiful and costly. LITERATURE. Becollections and Wanderings of Paul Bec One Vol:, pp. IGO. Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. A capital book of its odd kind is this anecdotal chit-chat about himself and his belongings given to us (as just a taste or flavour of his autobiography) • by the biggest and jovialist among our popular Low Comedians. As about the best word we could say for it—we immediately on getting it read through the whole of the thin gilt-edged volume in which Paul relates his "Recollections and Wanderings," we read through the whole of it from cover to cover, if not literally at a single sit ting (seeing that we began the reading of it in the street), at any rate, right off, at one innings, on end, or however we may like to put the fact idiomatically, a fact that Sam Slick would express in Ysrilree lingo by the term—at a single streak. C 5 ueleling not infrequently as he turns the leaves, anyone else who has a keen relish for, we won't say exactly Tilt, but we will una hesitatingly say for a capital bit of fun, may do the like, with great profit to his dirgestion. From cover to cover, that is, the reader of Paul Bedford's souvenirs may skim lightly.and pleasantly through his amusing recollections from the lifelike frontispiece representing Paul Bedford in propria persona (of course with an open overcoat, of course with his hat on, the said hat having just the faintest perceptible cock over the left ear) from the frontispiece, we say, down to the last words of the book ending so very characteristically ! We may fancy we hear the words trolled out in a deep bass voice, rather guttural in its intona tions, " And no w, my fostering friends and patrons [meaning the' kyind public'] allow me to subscribe myself —your devoted boy—PAUL." It is just for alt the world the,very kind of a book that we should have looked for at the hands of our devoted boy Paul, in the happy event (now realized) of fats jotting down his professional souvenirs. The only fault is—there is not by any means enough of it. Like Friar Bacon's brazen head in the old pantomime, new that we have tasted so much, we are clarnorcus for " more And, no matter at what uncertain intervals, just as Gri maldi used to feed the Brazen Head with " moro" —we shall really hope to taste a few supplementary tidbits of the same relishing, kind, vouchsafed to us (to devour just precisely in the same way, off hand, and with an almost audible smack of the lips), vouchsafed to us benignantly by a sort of an after-thought, by our exhilarating friend Paul—Paul with the stalwart form, and the purple face, and the deep voice, and the irreaistibly winking eyelids ! At any rate, for as much of his recollections as he here obliges us with spontane ously, he merits at once our thanks and our congra tulations. Who, indeed, shall venture to say that he is not entitled to our congratulations, seeing that the book reveals himself (the writer of it) as the per sonal associate (among a crowd of other celebrities) of men of mark as illustrious and as varied in their genius e 4 Edmund Lean, as the Emperor Napoleon 111. when Prince Louis Napoleon, GS Lord Byron, as Madame Malibran, as Sir Walter Scott, and Madame Catalain, and Daniel O'Connell ! Yes—be it now known and henceforth borne honourably in remem brance, not only th t Paul B dfor.l asso ciated with these and a great number of other famous and gifted people, but that some among them he knew intimately,. with some amongst them he enjoyed the high and enviable privilege of an earnest and cordial friendship. For one thing, by the way, we can't fancy any man befog—seriously —an enemy of Paul Bedford's. We don't know him in the least personally. But, at any rate, we can say that. The word Enmity and the name of Paul Bedford somehow or another seem incompatibi', incapable of any association whatever ! Tne coupling of tho two gives one upon the instant a notion of the ludicrous ! However here, in honest black and white, are proofs positive of his friendships. About the earliest recorded among these being his intimacy with one of the greatest actors that ever breathed (of whom Paul Bedford tells many a pleasant anecdote), meaning that world famous Genius of Tragedy, Edmund Kean, Paul's first Betting eyes upon Edmund Lean, as the former relates, occurred on the stage of the Bath Theatre in "Richard lll."—Paut Bedford as the Duke of Norfolk, Kean as Richard—the scene Bosworth's Battlefield! There it is that the King asks— • "Has any careful friend Discovered yet the nurob2r of the rebels ?" Norfolk.—My lord, as I from Epics am well informed, Six or seven thousand is their utmost power. Richard.—Why our battalia trebles that account; Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the adverse faction want. Norfolk.—Their wants are greater yet, my lord, those e'en Of motion, life, and spirit—TOid you but know How wretchedly their men disgrace the field; Oh, such a tattered host of mounted scare-crows So poor, so famished ; their executors, The greedy jack dales, fly hovering o'er their heads, Impatient for their lean inheritance. . Now, for my misfortune. When I uttered the words, "Jack Daws," the audience were convulsed with laughter, in which mirth the wondrous "Richard" joined. I could not imagine what caused this merriment, but was very soon illuminated on the point, for on quitting the stage my patron manager came to me in terror, saying, " My dear, you com mitted a great error." Why so, sir ?" said I. " Why, my dear, you mistook the name of the bird, It should have been 'the greedy crows.'" "Oh, pray, sir, forgive me," sail I, for my alarm was so great at the moment, I knew not what I said. " But, my dear," said my manager, "what will the great Mr Kean say to it ?'' I said, " I am sure I don't know. I suppose I shall have my marching ticket signed." When the tragedy ended anaids, a hurricane of applause, I rushed to my dressing-room, and commenced changing my gar ments, hoping :to escape from the theatre unnoticed; but before I had completed ray toilet, a knock was hoard at the door. " Who is there ?" said my attendant. A voice from without replied, by saying "Mr. Kean requested Mr Bed ford would come to his dressing-room before ha leaves the theatre." At that summons I became nervously excited. I approached the dreaded chamber, under the impression of instant dismissal. But not so ; for on entering the room and imploring forgiveness for the mistake I had committed, the kind and wondrous tragedian said, "Make no apology, my young friend, for you made me laugh more heartily than I have done for years." Ha concluded by in viting me to dine with him the following day, which event commenced a friemlship that ceased not during the lifetime of that inspired dramatic genius. Thenceforth 13Aford, obtaining among his other well known sobriquets, that of "Jack 11.3,77 Paul." Conspicuous among the revelations here mAle by this " unbuzzaming" of Paul'a, as he might call it himself-- pre-eminent among them all in its importance—should stand the remarkable dis c;o.,.4ure made by cur comic hero of the fact that the phrase of phrases that he has most signally immortalised by his mere manner of uttering it, was interpolated by Mr, Buckstone in the original manuscript of Green Bushes, at the suggestion of the late Mr. T. P. Cooke ! That paragon among theatrical sailors, inimitable not only in his vast heaving and his hornpipe, but in the very hitch of his trousers, in the very turn of the qu id in his cheek ! And--the phrase hinted at ? W h y every ono will surely recognise the allusion as pointing to no other Bedfordian or Paulo-post, past, present, and, we had almost bop !, said b, future ni,ho phrase than—" I believe you, n 3 origin of it being this. according to Peui'3 own account of it, in the manner following ! Saith P au l Bedford The world. wide and domestic phrase. of "I believe you, my boy," was indicated to the talented author by that Tar of all nations, the late T. P. Cooke, who said, that when ha was l a d, a t, the naval engagement of the taking of Cape Si. Vincent, they had on boarda fanny and f acet i ous mesemate, who, amid to m battle's roar, would make them laugh ; when a shot had just cleared his figurehead, his nunl an " Hollo, J oe , th at was too near to be p my boy," sung out Joe. pl e asant." ma t t . e , believe you, u, Not another plum or bit of candied peel in the way or anecdote Will we venture unfairly to pick thus, Jack dorner-t,vise, out of this very rich slice of autobiographical cake. To the slice itself in Its integrity, es hero served up far those who list, we commend the attention of all iovers of such goad things as theatri.. oat small-talk and green-room facetiousness. Again. we say it—the book is just precisely What, from its title, we should have expected it to be : which is certainly saying a good deal, as books g o ! It is, in other words, exactly what it assumes to be-- namely, a tteroughly good-hurnuured,.merry, wink ing, 6g-in-the-ribs be.ft of buttotrh'Jilalog Gosk"iP of Paul Bedford's, giving us (with parenthetical roars of laughter, from us, every now and then, as we stand listening to him, so to speak, at the street corner) giving us all kinds of amusing recollections of his, in the shape of memoranda illustrative of his professional wanderings. THE YELVEETON CORRESPONDENCE, oppor tunely collected and edited by the respondent in the great case now before the House of Lords, has been published in form of a pink volumetto of 2 08 pages, by Thomas Laurie, of Edinburgh. The publication is wonderfully complete in itself, and throws a flood of light over this extraordinary romance founded on reality. The little book is embellished "with portraits from drawings by Altjar and Mrs. Yelverton," so says at leas the title-page—thereby, rather embiguousil giving us to understand, as we take it, that the portraits are drawn each one of, or by tile other! Altogether the book containing thi s wonderfully clever and interesting correspondence is as enthralling, in its way, as many a novel ' alt. ' ten (after the manner of famous works like "'de m : phrey Clinker," "Evelina," "The D o dd Far:44l ' and "Guy Mannering") in the form of letters. It is singularly readable and—though about love, an d often intensely about it—readable throughout' A POPULAR GUIDE TO THE GREAT I‘. , TORTIT ERN RAILWAY, in 87 p ages , h as recent ly been issu ed from the press by Messrs. Smith and Son, of 155 ' Strand—the compilation (as with one or two sltnlsar guide books, each of them very well know) ° George Rash Emerson. As evidence of the CO piler's quality as a cicerone along the north line, take the following : Once more the eye ranges over the fields and undulat ing hills, and rests on the round tower of Knebworth, abov9, the trees of the wooded park—Knabworth, the residence °I Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, the accomplished and popular Pee t, .0,01;.t, dramatist, and orator, of whom it may be truly said, '• He has touched nothing w hi c h h e has no t a dorned? The mansion at Knebworth is worthy of a man of letters and taste. There are pictures, antiquities, treasures of art, and objects of historic interest, and charming grounds, where the author of the "Disowned" may enjoy tions of delightful sylvan scenery, a nd g l a d es som bre enoug h for even the teller of the "Stran ge Story." The chu rch ' dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is i n th e cen t re o f the par ks and contains several monuments o f th e L y tt on f a mily The work is just the very one to wile away t u° tedium of a solitary journey f rom Ki ng ' s •crosg 1 ° Nottingham. t h e attrac tions Little Johnny's Catechism, (From The Owl.) Britannia—Can you tell me, child, what you are • Little Johnny-1 am a very small member of a very weak Cabinet, in a very great country. Britannia—How do you account for Lavi n g bnome this member ? Little Johnny—By reason of the name which inherited from my fathers and my grandfathers a " my birth; Britannia--Did they give you anything else at your birth which should fit you for your prese n t post ? Little Johnny—Yes ; the talent of sacrificing everything to keep it, and of providing for All 111 relations and friends. Britannia—Have you any other higher duties? Little Johnny—No. Britannia—oh, poor Johnny 1 how sadly Y oil have been neglected. Tell me, child, how did Y Oll expect to keep in cite P Little Johnny—By preserving Denmark and keeping the peace. Britannia—And what hive you done ? Little Johnny— Dlamembered Denmark, and in" volved this country in war. Britannia—Andwill this keep you in rifiee P Little Johnny—No ; bou-hou—it will turn me out' Britannia—Who hates you more than the Ger" mans I) Little Johnny—The Danes. Britannia—Who laughs at you more than Bis 4 mark ? Little Johnny—The Emperor of the French. Britannia•—lf you go to war without him, what w:11 happen ? Little Johnny—We shall blockade all the German ports, and krep out our own commerce, and every thing will go into Germany through Franco, and American cruisers under the German flag will destroy our commerce, and the Frencn wilt carry the trade of the world and get the Rain° provinces, and we shall probably go to war with the United States, and we shall not be able to send enough troops to turn the Germans out of Denmark --0° that the war cannot be a success, and if it is, success will be worse than failure. Britannia—Naughty boy; did you sea all this at the beginning Little Johnny--No; I never could see very fa r ahead. Britannia—Well, you have got matters into a great mess; but pay attention. You w ant t° revenge your&-If on Prussia ? Little Johnny—Oh, yes. Britannia—And y ou think you can do it by V illg to war against Germany ? Little Johnny—Yes. Britannia—Silly child. Do you know that the Emperpr will not go with you unless you eeP ara . te Federal Germany from despotic Prussia; that Bi s 4 oaarek wants to see Hamburg blockaded b 7 English ships; that to fight against the principle of nationality in Holst e i n ma k es th e co -operati on of the Enper o r i m p oss ibl e ? B u t you can suPP ° , e rt independent H o l s t e i n an d G ermany aga inst t' tyranny of Prussi a , an d ge t th e E m p er or to ass ist you against Prussia, and got a better line for th ° Dines, besides humiliating Prussia. My dear b °l ' I know German politics are rather difficult to unde r ; stand, but, bef ore go i ng t o war , y ou re ally Itu gs have a clear idea of who is your enemy, and 12°W you can best damage him. If you go t o war with Germany, :on fight against your best ally. If Y °4 go to war foe Germany, you will destroy Pi: l ' sl l , 3 ' and got far better terms in th e en d f or Deurnl r ': If you had ony asked smx,ebody who knew s b "" it at the beginning, you mi g ht h ave sa v e d yourself this lesson, which will make everybody laugh at you. , I L ORD the ABTNGEII, AND HIS BUTLER.' — At t he . I ilimmerstnith police-court yesterday, Samuel Han" son, a tall yenng man, butler to the Dowager Lady Abinger, of 33, Queen's Gate-terrace, Kensington, was placed in the dock before Mr Ingham, charged with being drunk and assaulting Lord Abinger. William Harris said he was a servant to Lord Abinger. On Tuesday night his lordship went out to a party, and prisoner had to wait up for his return. The prisoner asked witness sodake his place for a short time as he wanted tO O O ouf, he complied with his request. He d ozed for a few minutes, a nd he was awoke by hearing a noise. He ran u p sta irs and found his lordship a nd the prisoner fighting together in th e entrance hall. Wi tnes s tried to part them, an d a f ter some t i me be succeeded, and the prisoner went down stairs. His lord ship requested witness to fetch a policeman. The prisoner then ran upstairs into his lordship's dressing-room . Witness followed after him and saw him strike his lord ship, and they fought again. They both struck one another. The prisoner struck the first blow, but witness did not know which struck first in the hull. Witness held the prisoner while his lordship ran out and fetched two constables. They came and took the prisoner in charge. Police•constable .2!:6 T said, at half-past eleven o'cleck on Tuesday night he was on duty in Queen's Gate-terrac e, when he was called by his lordship to take the prisoner into custody. The prisoner had been drinking. He was under the influence of liquor. Mr Ingham—Partly drunk. WO Lord Abinger sober ? Constable—Yes, your worship; th e prisoner said his lordship struck him first. tie Ingham—Did yousce any marks of violence upon his lordship? Constablc-- Yes, sir; his nose was cut and there was blood upon his shirt. Mr Ingham (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to say nor thing ? The Prisoner—l am very sorry it happened. I was not the instigator of it. As to being under the influence of liquor, I was as sober as I am now. His lordship came home from a dinner party, but I do not know' whether he was sober or not. Mr Ingham (to Harris)—What do you say ; were they sober or not ? Witness—My opinion is that they were both sober. The prisouer wcs very excited. Mr Ingham (to the constable) —How do you know that the prisoner had been drinking Constable—He appeared so. He smelt of liquor. 1 4 r Ingham—l find that Lord Abinger is obliged to go to the House of Lords to-day. I shall remand the prisoner for his attendance. The prisoner was soon afterwards bailed to appear. North of the Alabama (says the Cow rier Havre)) th e THE ALABAMA..—At the news of the destruction American vessels in this port dressed themselves out with thigs as a token of rejoicing.