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MORNING PERFORMANCE, WEDNESDAY NEXT, JUNE 10TH, Mozart's Opera. IL DON GIOVANNI. Titiens. Christine Nilsson, Clara Louise Kellogg. Signori Bettini, Santlev, Scalese. Zoboli, Foli. Conductor, Signor Arditi. Doors open at half-past One, commence at Two o'clock pre cisely. Boxes, Stalls, and places at the Box-office of Her Majesty's Opera, at Her Majesty's Theatre, and Theatre-Royal Drury lane. HER MAJESTY'S OPERA. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Solo Lessee, Mr. Buekstone. THIS EVENING. THE LADIES' CHAMPION. Mr. Ken dal, Mr. W. Gordon, Miss Lone Burke, and Miss F. Wright. To be followed by A HERO OF ROMANCE. Characters by Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, &c.; Mesdames Robertson, Fitzwilliam, Chippendale, Dalton, Laws, and Danhigny. Concluding with A CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. Messrs. Compton and Koala' ; Mesdames Chippendale, Dalton, Lewin, Commence at Seven. ITEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. 'Alfred Mellon. 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The performances of the fair artiste excited the genuine enthusiasm of the house at their various stag, s, and terminated amid defeaning applause. She was honoured with a quadruple recall, and even compelled to appear a fifth time to receive the homage of her admirers."— Standard, March 11. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYSND THE HORSE SHOW WEEK. Special Novelties. Incomparable attractions. First appearance of the renowned FRITZ TROUPE, the Lightning Acrobats : M Ma.jelton, avec ses Chapeaux Diabolique ; and M. S extilian l'Homme Elastique. Great success of the celebrated lady artistes Mdlles. Kenebel, Gaertner, and Ethair, with their wonderfu performing horses ; Le Petit Eugene, the most original and ac complished artiste extant; M. Agouste, le Jongleur ; Caselli on the Invisible Wire; M. Tournaire and Harry Welby Cooke in their dashing and daring Equestrian feats; the Pereira family, &c., EVERY EVENING. Doors open at half-past Seven; commence at Eight. 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Camden Stores," 7S, Park-street, Camden to hold 1,669, which is the lowest number deemed gic LONDON, _FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1868. Those who hoped that the brief period of rest caused by the Whitsuntide holidays would have calmed down the angry feelings of the members of the House of Commons have been doomed to disap pointment, for no sooner did the house reassemble than a very angry personal discussion took place ou the " old, old story" of the Irish Church. Mr. GLADSTONE'S letter on the subject of the East Worcestershire election gave rise to the comments, and considerable amusement was caused by Mr. DISRAELI'S declaring that the production could not be that of the right hon. gentleman, that it was a gross " caricature" of Mr. GLADSTONE'S severe style, and that nothing but an election excitement could have justified the assertions made in it. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, took an early opportunity of saying that Sir T. BATESON had fallen into no trap, for he was the writer of the letter re ferred to. Whereupon be entered into an elaborate explanation of the letter, which he read to the llouse. Perhaps the easiest way of considering the matter would be to say that the letter had better not have been written at all ; it had one object, that he who runs may read, to damage the Govern ment, and to influence the election in favour of their opponents. It is thought, whether right or not, by the friends and supporters of rival candidates, that everything is fair in election times, but the sooner they resort to just means, and give up thus interfering in the matter the better. It is quite beneath the dignity of a man in Mr. GLADSTONE'S position to be aiding and abetting the struggles of electioneering agents, and what remarks he had to pass on the policy of the Government had better be reserved for the House of Commons ; at any rate no new light was thrown on the affair by all the efforts of the Opposition Leader, and the whole thing fur nished another proof of the way the time of the House is wasted by the persistency of the Oppo sition to make political capital out of the veriest trifle. The primary part of this letter was to charge the Government with an attempt to endow a Roman Catholic University in Ireland. Mr. DISRAELI, in alluding to the matter, said that he would not " cloud his meaning in so many phrases" as others had done, and proceeded to give a brief but satisfactory explanation of the matter. Reference was made to a letter by Lord DERBY on the subject of the Regiunz Donum ; but, as the Premier showed, he was in no way responsible for the letter of the noble earl, and had stated this year that no increase could be made in it ; concluding by declaring that these were " frivo lous charges, the worth of which is properly ap preciated by the country." \Ve cannot say that the affair of this letter reflects much credit on the writer of it, but he has done so much this year alrea ly to show his eager desire to oust the pr,3- sent Ministryltbat perhaps no one his a right to be surprised now at fresh instances appearing of his settled purpose. Mr. CHILDERS asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer some questions relating to the impending dissolution. Ile wished to know for how many months the estimates were to be taken, which yet remained to be told. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER complained with justice that he ought to have had " due notice " of such a question. It is impossible to form an opinion as yet of the precise period at which the Dissolution can take place, with the Scotch and Irish Reform Bills in their present state, and the Boundary Bill not settled. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER protested against the constant pressure put upon the Government about the Dissolution, declaring that it was perfectly unnecessary, since uo one was more anxious than they were to bring it about. However, nothing can satisfy some peoplee, and Mr. CAVE asked when the Orders of Supply would be taken ; to which the appropriate answer was returned, there being no resolutions passed as yet, it was impossible to say when they would be reported. Mr. CHILDERS again made some remarks, and desired to know if on Monday the number of months could be stated. It is really quite preposterous to go on after this fashion, and it is quite certain that if the Ministry wore not hampered by so many questions they would be able to push on the business of the House much more expeditiously than they possibly can at present ; and, after all, what does a month's delay s:gnify in an affair like a dissolution ? But it suits party purposes to make much ado about nothing, and to keep up a guerilla warfare on the slightest matter. The discussion on the Education Vote last night was not without interest. Several matters of de tail were brought up and discussed, and some points of importance considered. Lord ROBERT MON TAGU, in explaining the reduction of the vote for the purposes of public education in Great Britain, showed that the estimates had originally been based on the supposition that the Education Bill in the Upper House would become law, whereas, as we know, the force of circumstances has compelled the Government to withdraw it. A diminution of £B,OOO is doe to the refusal of the Congrega tionalists to receive State aid when the question of religious teaching was involved. They admit the necessity of giving religious instruction, but object to the State attaching any conditions to their grant. For a similar reason the vote of £1,200 for the Ilomerton College is struck off, and there is a reduction of £15,000 allowed for building purposes —a wise alteration, by which small schools having less than 65 attendants, are exempted from the necessity of having a certificated teacher. By this clause between £14,000 and £15,000 will be very wisely saved. Other savings reduce the estimate from £136,689 to £75,459, though, of course, much of this reduction is due not to alterations in the ex isting method of administration, but to the with drawal of the Government Bill, and the consequent delay in carrying out certain changes. Some items show an increase upon the estimate. Thus it is proposed to give the managers of every school who send up teachers to the tr.tining colleges an allowance of £2O instead of £lO, which will cause an addition of £6,000. The object of this 1 7 iIIE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN " at J. SMITHS, n, Bow-street, Covent-garden. ~~ nece3;ary in order to keep the schools well sup plied with pupil teachers, but they contain only 920 students. The inspectors state that there is a great reluctance on the part of the managers of many good schools to bring them under inspec tion, because thdy think that the expense to which they will be put will not meet an adequate return. Mr. BARRY affirms that of 300 scholars in his district only 107 came under inspection. 'While on this point, it is worth considering whether some means may no', be de vised for inspecting the lower order of boarding schools in the country. Every one remembers Mr. SQUEERS and Dotheboys Hall, but there is some reason to fear that the species is not altogether extinct. In Yorkshire and other counties, where boys are liberally fed, kindly treated, and thoroughly educated for £2O a year, there is room for an ("oc casional visitor from the State inspector. Probably there is little direct ill-usage, but the low order of instruction does not certainly tend to raise the standard of education throughout the county. If every schoolmaster were bound to have a cerCifi cate up to a certain standard, a check might be put upon a system which degrades education, and really retards, instead of advancing, the pupils. If our educational endowment funds were more equitably administered, boys, whose parents could only afford fifteen or twenty pounds a year for their education, and who do not like to send them to a national school, might have a chance of getting solid Eng lish instruction at one of the public institutions. The lower middle class are, in reality, worse off than the poor, since these, if they choose, can get a thoroughly good rudimental education at the National Schools for a few pence a week. We are glad to find that the number of night schools under inspection has increased 13,438 during the year, and that in 1867 they reached 45,837. In the day schools, too, there has been a large increase in the attendance, though much re mains to be done. Lord R. MONTAGU, after a careful examination of the returns under the several heath, arrived at the conclusion that at least 46 per cent. of the children between 3 and 6 years of age who ought to be at school were not there. It is true, as Mr. FORSTER said, though in a different sense, that there is little dependence to be placed on figures, still there is no doubt that there are large numbers of children whose education is al most entirely neglected. The real difficulty is not to be found in the rules of the Council, the addition or exclusion of the conscience clause, or any other theoretical trouble. It is to be found, as Lord R. MONTAGU observed, in the apathy of the parents. Alderman LUSK, and one or two others, advocated the adoption of a compulsory system, but Lord R. MONTAGU justly remarked that " Where education was valued compulsion would be unnecessary, and where it was not valued compulsion would be use less." We agree with the noble lord that an educa tional rate, so far from making the ratepayers take a greater interest in the education of the poor,would be likely to have a contrary effect, judging from experience and from the tendency to !parsimony, expenditure, and grudging of cost which exists in those appointed to keep down the rates. The education of the people is not a matter to be mea sured by £ s. d., though prudence in the national expenditure may be wise and necessary. Our object in a matter of this kind must be first to obtain a good, cheap, and effi cient means of popular education, and then we may think of the manner of regulating the expense. It is sure to be a slow business to undo the neglect of former years, especially as owing to that neglect a generation of parents has grown up, who, ignorant themselves, are indifferent to the ignorance of their children. So long as we are in the I right way, and are making steady progress, we may be satisfied, the thing is to be sure that we are making progress. A little less stringency in the regulations, a more liberal and tolerant spirit in the whole system, would tend to en courage rather than to deter the managers of schools in seeking governmental assistance. Our Education department is governed a little too much in a doctrinaire spirit, which is more anxious to force every one to conform to its particular theories and regulations than to keep in view the great end of forwarding national education. The battle between ignorance and education is, broadly speaking, the battle between vice and virtue, for the great majority of our depraved and criminal classes are recruited from the utterly ignorant and untaught. Let the State do its duty in a large and enlightened spirit, and we shall soon see the population of our prisons and workhouses diminish as the educational estimates increase. Under the impression that you cannot have too much of a good thing, Mr. BRIGHT has again ad dressed the good people of Liverpool. A resolu tion was passed at the Philharmonic Hall, expressing confidence in Mr. BRIGHT and approval of his con duct for the last twenty-five years; whereupon Mr. BRIGHT went over that ground, and showed how he had always been right and how others bad been in variably wrong, pointing out that if the Corn-laws had not been abolished during thelast ten years, the consequence would have been the " overthrow of everything else in the country which the people are accustomed to value—the Church, the Peerage, the Monarchy itself." It is really extraordinary to notice how completely Mr. BRIGHT overlooks the injustice he is doing the people of this country by his inflated remarks. It is paying them a very poor compli ment indeed to say, that however hard the laws in existence may be, that they would proceed to acts of violence such as he shadows forth. The real friends and well-wishers to the people never speak in this strain, and they better appreciate the spirit of forbearance and the love of order which are so characteristic of this nation. Mr. BRIGHT glories in the cheap Press and the Treaty with France, and other changes that have occurred, but where would be the good of all these if we have not advanced further than to fall back on charges worthy of the barbarous ages, and quite incompat ible with enlightened Christianity. We may ob serve that the greater part of the speech is occupied in the description of the beneficent schemes that the last quarter of a century has wit nessed ; and yet what was the first reso lution passed at this meeting yesterday why, that general satisfaction was felt at the extension of the franchise secured by the recent Act for Amending the Representation of the People. Who, we may well ask, effected this great work but the very party that Mr. BRIGHT so pertina ciously vilifies ? The fact is, he feels naturally awkward at meeting those whom he has so often told that the Conservatives were against all Reform, now that these very statesmen have passed the mea • sure in question, and one of a far mare comprehen sive character than any proposed by the other side, Mr. BRIGHT'S pet scheme itself included. The last charge which he brings against Mr. DISRAELI is that he thinks as they do on most subjects, but chooses to act otherwise, which a very extraordinary retention of the affair, to say the least of it. All this is not very edifying to those who regard the good of the country as of more importance than the election of this statesman to office or the displacement of tliat minister can be. Ur, BEIGE' is -very indignant that Mr. GLADSTONE is kept in opposition, and is using all his power to restore him to..his rightful sphere of action, which may be taken as. the text of his discourse. LATEST INTELLEGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, June 5. The Royal Mail steamship Russia, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived here at 5.30 a.m. to-day, with 173 cabin passengers and $1,010,000 in specie. She landed 100 sacks of mails and 28 passengers, and proceeded at 5.45 a.m. for Liver pool. All well. SOUTHAMPTON, June 5. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria, from New York, passed the Needles at 10.5 a.m. to-day. BAVARIA. MUNICH, June 5. Prince : Napoleon left here this morning for Vienna. He dined yesterday evening with the French Minister, but during his stay neither paid or received any visits. 'CELE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1868. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. PARIS, THURSDAY, June 4. The Emperor has Peen out of sorts the last day or two, and it was perhaps to this cause that his "moroseness" at Rouen was due. It is the inevitable concomitant of per sonal government that the sovereign should be overworked. While Victoria can in the very height of a political battle bury herself in the Highlands, GOO miles from her capital, Napoleon is compelled to spend long hours every day with his Ministers, determining what they shall say in the Chambers, how they shall answer this and that Opposition orator, how they shall overcome the obstinacy of an economical commission, how they shall reply to this foreign despatch and deal with that Foreign Minister, and, above all, how they shall carry on the great work of preparing for war. Is it wonderful if the man with all this responsibility upon his shoulders, with all this wear and tear of brain, should sometimes look ab stracted and " morose " in the midst of a shouting crowd, or if he should sometimes suffer from une indisposition legere? This year, it is said, the Emperor w ill no t even allow himself his usual visit to Vichy. Even at Fontaine bleau, where he goes in a few days, he will work at the new volumes of his " Vie de C6sar." His only real holiday will he at Biarritz some time in the autumn. In addition to all his other labours, there is little doubt but that the Emperor is preparing for the elections. It is now held almost certain that they will take place this year after the meeting of the Conseils G6n6raux. In all dis tricts where the Government has fixed upon candidates the lrefets have been instructed to make them known to the maires and the notables of each commune. Where no selection has been made, the prefets have been told to study the disposition of the electors, and to ascertain what chance a Government candidate would have. Already it is contemplated to oppose the re-election of M. Maurice Richard, M. Thiers, and other members of the Third party. Incessant telegrams continue to announce Prince Napoleon's progress from city to city, with the invariable appendix that the Prince is travelling incognito and has no particular mission. It is now stated that he will spend several days at Bucharest—without any particular object, of course. Still, it is a little singular that the father of Prince Charles of Roumania should just now be at Vienna, with the object of pacifying the irritation of the Austrian Government, aroused by the maltreatment of the Jews in his son's principality. The visit of the Emperor and the Empress of Austria to Paris, which it was always said would take place after the Empress's recovery from her confinement, is again postponed sine die, nominally on account of her Majesty's health, which, however, seems to be excellent. A good deal of criticism has been excited by the enor mous supplies of war mati•riel which are being stored up by our Government at Civita Vecchia. It is said that already there are sufficient supplies for 100,000 men. This, probably, is an exaggeration. But there is no doubt that Napoleon means to turn the occupation of Pontifical terri tory to good account in the event of a war, and will endeavour to counterbalance the Italo-Prussian alliance by directing hostilities against Italy from the States of the Church. Meanwhile, it is stated that the relations between Paris and Florence are growing more "strained" every day, though I hear this evening that an arrangement has been made between the two Courts for the payment of arrears due to the Pontifical Government by the Italian. All the world, at least all Paris, has heard of Sophie, the famous Dr. Veron's cook. She is now in the service of M. Sainte-Beuve. The other day Prince Napoleon went to call upon the prince of critics. M. Sainte &nye was not quite in tenue to receive so distin guished a guest. He was obliged to keep the Prince waiting, and so he proceeded to chat w:t'l Sophie. " I hope," he said, " that monsieur was satisfied with the ovation which the students gave him on account of his speech " (in the Senate). " Oh, yes, monsieur," replied Sophie, meaning to compliment the Prince, "they all cried Vivent les Imp6rialistes !' " " You are mistaken," said the Prince ; " they cried, Vivent les Materialistes !'" Poor Sophie was shut up ; though, bearing in mind the Prince's theological opinions, I suspect that he liked "4 second cry quite as well as the first. M. Arned6e Pichot, who is said to know England as well as any Englishman, being very desirous to bring out the life of Mr. Charles Dickens, wrote to your illustrious compatriot to know if he would furnish any materials. The following is Mr. Dickens's reply :—" I was born at Portsmouth, in the county of Hampshire, February 7, 1812. It would be a pleasure to me to give you some details of my life if I had not formed the inten tion, a long time ago, of writing it myself. It will amuse you perhaps to know that I have read my biography many times, and I have found on each occasion strange and new incidents which revealed to me facts about myself that I had no idea of.—Pour M. Am6d6e Pichot." All that he gets is a date and an intimation not to trust any of the materials which, no doubt, he has been industriously collecting. Even hero-worship must subside after such a rebuff as this. The Pads journals publish in full the report presented by M. Ferdinand de Lesseps to the shareholders of the Canal. As this doctunent and the subsequent speeches occupy nine columns, you will not expect me to present even an analysis of them. Your readers may, however, like to know that M. de Lesseps quotes with great satisfaction the letter from the Duke of St. Albans which the Times published a short time ago, a leading article in the Daily News of March 28, and the speeches delivered at Newcastle on March 20 by Sir William Armstrong and •Mr. Eustace Smith, all pro claiming belief in the success of the canal; an announce ment the more gratifying to the shareholders, as it has until lately been a part of the Englishman's creed not to believe in the canal. I hear that the Emperor is really a good deal grieved by the death of his favourite dog Ndron. The Empress dislikes dogs, and rarely saw this one. So he attached him self particularly to the Emperor. He was a very fine English setter, brown, without a single spot, and 71 years old. He figures in the statue of the Prince Imperial, by Carpaux, and he hid the honour of hunting up the first pheasant that the Prince ever shot at. Neron is buried in a corner of the Tuileries garden. A Vienna correspondent of the Morning Herald states that since the promulgation of the "confessional" laws the clerical party are sheaving a spirit of resignation to a change which they are beginning to admit was inevitable. The present Ministry has firmly established itself, and if here and there (especially abroad) there are some lingering suspicions that constitutional reorganisation in Austria will meet with the fate it formerly experienced in Prussia, it is because the fact is overlooked that the elements for a reaction are entirely wanting in Austria. The nobility, high and low, with the exception of a very small party, h as quietly and without opposition yielded. Between the upper and the lower houses there has not been a shade of dispute or jealousy in regard to the making of the laws. A Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige says that the relations between Vienna and Rome are much better than is generally supposed. The Hungarian Arch bishop, Louis Haynald, has been charged by the Emperor with a mission to the Pope, and has written a letter, in which he has drawn a moving picture of the difficulties by which Francis Joseph was surrounded. He has assured hii Holiness that there was no alternative for Francis Joseph but to sign the confessional laws or to abdicate. Had he chosen the latter step it would have been neces sary to establish a regency, and in that case the Emperor's son would have been in the bands of the Pro testant Baron von Beust. The Pope, it is said, has been much impressed by this letter ; has acknowledged the difficulty of the Emperor's position, and the undesirable ness of such a regency as that described. He has also been greatly touched by the filial submission of the Emperor, and has told him that he is not responsible before God for an act forced upon him by the pressure of events ; but that he must seize the first favourable opportunity to re establish the former engagements between Austria and the Holy See, since those engagements are superior to any that he has made with men. The Correspondence ltalienne denies the assertion of the Avenir National that France has engaged with Italy not to increase the French garrison in Papal territory. The only engagements existing between the two countries are those specified in diplomatic arrangements already pub lished. The same paper denies the report that Signor Nigra, now Italian Ambassador at Paris, is to be removed to London. • The Rome correspondent of the Liberte says that the tension between the Courts of Paris and Florence becomes greater every day, partly on account of the Italo-Prussian alliance, partly because of the slowness with which the Italian Government carries out the financial convention with the Pope. It is stated that the French Government has resolved to consider Italy in arrears for two millions sterling of the Pontifical debt, upon which France has already made large advances to the Holy See.- The same writer mentions that the armaments in Rome and Civita Vecchia are going on with great vigour, and that the sentries at the gates of the latter place have been doubled. The health of the Pope is excellent, and " driv'm to despair those who covet his heritage." The Emperor has determined to continue in the path of progress, and has given permission to his subjects to esta blish a bull ring a. l'Espagne at Havre, where the Interna tional Maritime Exhibition is now open. This, in Napoleon's opinion, is one of the ingenuous arts which " soften men's nusuntra, and do not suffer them to be - - tierce.'_'_; • RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, June 4. The Minister of Finance bas approved the plan for converting the shares of the Dunaburg-Wit tepks Railway Company into fully paid-up shares to bearer, as proposed by the directors, subject to the approval of the shareholders. SUEZ, June 5. The Mongolia from Calcutta 10th May, and the Salsette from Bombay 19th May, arrived at 7 p.m. yesterday, and 9 a.m. to-day respectively. INDIA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, June 5. The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, with the above mails, has arrived here with 186 passengers, £1,315 in specie, and a general cargo, including raw silk to the value of £90,000. She experienced fine weather during her passage. On the 24th ult. the Pera spoke the steamer Isis, bound for Alexandria. GIBRALTAR, May 31. Exchange on London, 90 days, 49} ; on Paris, 5.22 ; Madrid, 8 days, par to discount. The gunboats Redpole and Skylark were in the harbour. BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, June 4. The Bangalore arrived at 11 p.m. to-day. The mails leave by the 11.30 train to-morrow. GIBRALTAR, June 4. The Ripon arrived to-day at 8 a.m., and leaves at noon for Alexandria. All well. She experienced fine weather. FRANCE. PARIS, June 5. The Moniteur of this morning says in its bulletin that the Bey of Tunis, in the letter which was re mitted to the French Consul, expresses his regret at the temporary suspension of diplomatic relations between the two countries. lie expresses the wish to see them re-established on the former footing of friendship. The Bey notifies his adhesion to the formation of a financial commission charged with the settlement of reciprocal interests. BoURSE, June 4.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month... --- Its Van Loan — 3 per Cent End of mouth ,70 65 Mexican Loan ... 22 Credit Mobilier End of month... 290 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier ...1532 50 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred 35 25 RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ... 8811 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5911 Western Eastern • • — Sardinian Austrian Lombard 3781 North of Spain 7O Saragossa Roman 45 BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, June 4. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. May 28. June 4. fr. c . fr. c. Capital of tha 182,500,000 182,500,000 Praiits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,014,776 02 Reserve of the Bank _ _ and its branches ^ 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur rent creditor 69,520,070 36 70,063,813 53 Current account; Paris 408,159,595 98 401,731,867 68 Do. branch banks 53,035,478 -- 53,489,966 Dividends payable 667,842 75 645,653 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last 34,556,270 24 34,569,708 38 six months — 930,376 76 930,376 76 Surplus of recoipts not dfstributod Sundrios 7,668,273 19 9,188,227 07 Total CREDITOR. May 28. June 4, (AA in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over- 58,404 24 271,778 20 due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 239,037,614 38 228,864,057 80 Do. branch banks 186,109,929 189,579,736 Advances on deposit of 39,533,800 - 9;600;477 - bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities 11,829,600 Do. by branch banks 6,685,700 Do. on railway shares and debentures - Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 40,055,900 - 8,995,777 - 11,799,800 - 6,506,900 - 34,810,800 - 24,422,800 - 923,200 -- 774,700 - 913,600 -- 796,800 -- 60,000,000 - 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 40,651,419 66 40,651,419 66 serve Do. disposable Rentes Immobalis6es (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed r property branches Expenses of manage— 8,342,161 - 8,272,093 - went Sundries 2,000,563 45 2,015,611 05 18,170,231 15 19,395,738 73 Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed ROULAND. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Tuesday night an acci dent, which might have bad more serious consequences, happened to the Earl and Countess of Dunmore. It ap pears that, while returning from dining with the Earl and Countess Cadogan, a cab ran into the brougham, breaking the shafts and sending the horse at a furious gallop down Grosvenor-place on the foot pavement. The carriage came into collision with a lamp-post, and throw the foot man and coachman off the box, the legs of the latter getting entangled in one of the wheels. The horse fell and the brougham was smashed, but, fortunately, neither the Earl nor Countess was injured in the least. The coachman was conveyed to the hospital. The footman's injuries were slight. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, BARE, AND VALUABLE ara the properties of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the wore,t hoad.sclaes, sickne:s, skill, or binary affectiouc. Pleasent, Pa1at4b1 0 , 3, 44 alTigoro,tiug. Bold by all cbomists.—Actvt.l PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. An English committee, consisting almost wholly of gentlemen interested in the Australian colony, has been formed for the erection of a memorial in Sydney to com memorate the gratitude of the inhabitants of New South Wales for the preservation of the Duke of Edinburgh from the hand of the assassin who attempted to take his life. They held a meeting on Thursday, at the Bank of New South Wales, in Old Broad-street, with Sir John Young, Bart., K.C.8., in the chair. It was held in pursuance of a request forwarded from, Sydney that colonists now in England should join with the inhabitants of New South Wales for the attainment of the object in view. Sir William Denison moved the first resolution, expressive of full sympathy with the views of the colo nists in their thankfulness for the escape of the Duke of Edinburgh, and of their accordance with the judg ment of the colonists in proposing a hospital as a suit able monument. The resolution was seconded by Cap tain Towns, and was agreed to. Mr. Wentworth proposed, and Mr. M. Josephs seconded, a motion re solving that a subscription list should be opened. Mr. Adolphus Young recommended that the subscription should not be confined to colonists, but should be open to all England. Sir Wm. Denison thought the inhabitants of the colony would object to the extension of the resolu tion. It was, however, adopted without alteration. Sir Charles Nicholson, in moving that a copy of the pro ceedings of the meeting be sent to those referred to in the last resolution, confessed that he rather sympathised with Mr. Young in asking for the support of people connected with the colony generally, as well as those associated with New South Wales. The result of some conversation was to extend the resolution to the colonists of Australia and those connected therewith, inviting their co-operation. Captain Mayne was requested to send letters accordingly, and with him were joined, as a sub committee, Mr. M. Joseph, and Mr. Mort. Tho meeting, on concluding the business, gave a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE NEW PUBLIC OFFICES. The report of the commission appointed by Treasury minute to inquire into the accommodation to be provided for the public departments has been published. The com missioners recommend that the War Department shOuld occupy the site now appropriated to Dover House, and the offices which lie between it and Downing-Street. Being convinced that the proximity of the naval and military departments is highly desirable, the commissioners are of opinion that the Admiralty shoUld remain on its present site, augmented by the addition of the present Pay Office. The total requirements of these departments would be 140.400 feet, and the available space 147,000, leaving a surplus of 6,600 for future growth. Should this recc mmendation be adopted, it would seem to follow, as a most convenient, if not necessary, consequence, that the civil departments should be all concentrated in a line with the military and naval departments, on the area bounded by Downing-street on the north, Great George-street on the south, Parliament-street widened by the incorporation of King-street, on the east, and St. James's Park on the west. The commissioners also think that it is desirable to con centrate in the neighbourhood of Whitehall, the Treasury, Office of Works, Office of Woods, the Audit Office, the Paymaster-General's Office, the Council Office, Board of Trade and Education Department, the Poor-law Board, Civil Service Commission, and temporary commissions. The total cost involved in the purchase of property necessary for the carrying ont of this plan is estimated at £1,443,920, exclusive of the cost of that already acquired. The total building space required would in round num bers be 313,000 square feet, and the cost of buildings and fixtures would be £1,878,000, making, together with the price of the ground, a total first cost of £3,321,020. As a set-off to this expenditure, the commissioners estimate as the produce of the sale of the Board of Control, £50,000, and they think that the sum represented by the capitali sation of the annual value of premises now occupied by public departments, but which would hereafter be accom modated in the proposed new buildings, cannot well be estimated at less than £475,000, making a total set-off of £525,000, to be placed against the total first cost of £3,321,020, leaving a net cost of £2,796,920. To complete this improvement the commissioners urge the removal of St. Margaret's Church to a convenient site now being acquired by the Government on the west side of the Victoria Tower, and for which object £25,000 would probably suffice. When a magnificent street, 150 feet wide, has been opened from Whitehall to Westminster Abbey and the new Palace, it would become more than ever necessary to remove what will then be the only obstacle to the Abbey forming the termination of a vista which will probably be unsurpassed in any European capi tal. The method by which this scheme should be carried out is also suggested by the commissioners. They point out that, whatever may be the expense, " the work is intended for the convenience and the ornament of all future generations. Heretofore little has been done towards this object, and now it has to be done once for all. The charge ought, therefore, to be spread over a long period, like that for the new fortifications. Otherwise the present tax payers would defray the whole expense, and a work which ought to be vigorously prosecuted at several different points, in order to avoid serious delay and inconvenience, would be subjected to the uncertain contingencies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget." ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. CHELSEA.—There are three candidates fairly in the field for the representation of this new borough, and it is said that two or three more will be announced before the general election takes place. Those at present before the new constituency are Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., and Mr. C. IV.lke, in the Liberal interest, and Viscount Ranelagh, Conservative. It is said that the Conserva tives are anxious to secure the services of Alderman Sir W. Rose to fight their battle in conjunction with Lord Ranelagh. HACKNEY.—AII the candidates at present in the field are Liberals ; and, although no Conservative has been publicly announced, it is confidently stated that, if all the Liberal candidates persist in going to the poll, one will make his appearance, and will probably be successful. At present the favourite Liberals appear to be Mr. Deputy Reed, Mr. J. J. Homer, and Mr. J. Holm. The proposed arrange ment is that one of these should retire, in which case it is thought that the return of the other two may be regarded as a certainty. BERKSITTRE.—The Hon. Anberon Herbert, who was in vited to contest the county in the Liberal interest, has written a letter to one of his friends, in which he suggests that the Liberal party should fight for two seats. He continues : " Should you decide (as you probably will do) to fight for the two seats, I feel I am disqualified from circumstances for coming forward as one of your candi dates. The expense of my share in a contest would be far beyond the means at my disposal. Perhaps I ought further to remind you that my Church views are not such as arc likely. to recommend me to a portion of your consti• tuency." NORTH WILTS.-Mr. R. P. Long, the Conservative member for this division, who has represented North Wilts since 1865, has announced his intention not to offer himself for re-election. The Marquis of Worcester, eldest son of the Duke of Beaufort, will be a candidate for the seat vacated by Mr. Long. Sir George Jenkinson has also announced his intention of coming forward as a Con servative. The Liberals have not yet made any sign, but there is little doubt that Lord Charles Bruce will again solicit the suffrages of the electors. KIDDERMINSTER.- An address from Mr. George Griffin to the electors of this borough has been issued. Mr. Griffin's principles are those of the broadest Liberalism, and great importance is attached to economy and retrench. ment. The sitting member is Mr. Albert Grant, a Con servative, who in 1865 defeated Colonel Luke White by fifteen votes. CHELTENHAM.-Mr. H. Samuelson, son of the member for Banbury, is canvassing this borough in the Liberal interest. The present member is Mr. Schreiber, a Con servative, who in 1865 was returned by a small majority over Colonel the Hon. W. H. Berkeley, now Lord Fitz hardinge. DUNDEE.— Three candidate' have already issued ad dresses.for the new second seat to be given to Dundee-- Mr. Arniitstead, a Dundee merchant, who contested the borough in 1857 with Sir John Ogilvy, and ran him close; Mr. H. W. Scott, a son of Sir William Scott ; and Mr. J. A. Guthrie, director of the Bank of England. All three are strong Liberals, and a fourth Liberal candidate is ex pected in the person of the Provost of Dundee. WORCESTER. —A working man, named Airey, proposes to offer himself as the working man's candidate for Worcester at the general election. This makes the fourth candidate. Of the two sitting members, Mr. Padmore and Mr. Sherriff, the former retires, and the latter offers Idmself for re-election. Two other Liberal candidates are also in the field—viz.. Mr. P. Lycett, Sheriff of London, and Mr. T. R. Hill, alderman of Worcester. WEST WORCESTERSHIRE.—It is said that the Liberals intend to fight this division, now represented by Mr. Knight and Mr. Dowdeswell, both Conservatives. CONVOCATION OP YORK.—The Convocation of the Province of York was on Wednesday prorogued to Wecing346v, the Ist of July next, nibr . , 1 a 4 ' ) . HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL CASTLE, June 2. The Q►leen drove out in the morning, with the Duchess of A , hole in attendance, and visited the Lochnagar female school ; and in the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove to the Linn of Dee. llis Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales rode out yeverday, attended by Lieut.-Col. Keppel. The Princess of \Vales drove out yesterday, ac" corm :lied by the Crown Prince of ll,,nulark. NA FAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE The subjoined notification issued by the Admi ralty-, Whitehall :—" Her Majesty's ship Helicon will leave Queenstown on the evening of the 11th inst., to join Rear-Admiral Warden, and will con vey letters for the Minotaur, the Warrior, 60 Black Prince, the Royal Oak, the Prince Consort, the Defence, the Achilles, the Bellerophon, and the Pallas." The Racer, 11, screw, unarmoured wooden sloop, 579 tons, 150-horse power, Commander LindesaY Brine, arrived and anchored at Spithead last even ing, from the Mediterranean. On entering the roadstead she exchanged the usual salutes with the flagship of the Admiral commanding in Portsmouth harbour. The Racer awaits at Spithead her orders naming the port she will be dismantled and paid out of commission in. She has been in commission since June, 1864. The Pallas, 6, screw (armoured, wooden) corvette, 600-horse power, Capt. E. IL C. Lambert, has been pla3ed in dock at Portsmouth to cleanse her hull below the water line preparatory to making her ordered experimental trials at sea. Fifty tons of coals will be taken out of her coal bunkers and 5 0 tons of ballast fixed on her upper deck, the purpose in this change iu the disposition of her weights being to raise, so far as these means will effect it, the centre of gravity of the hull, and ascertain 10 tile forthcoming trials its effect upon her tendency to roll at sea. About six weeks ago we noticed in The Sun 3 description of an ironclad rain and two monitors, fitted with one turret each on Capt. Coles's prin ciple, building by Messrs. Laird, Brothers, of Birken head, for the Dutch Government, since which time the first of the monitors has been completed, and oil Saturday last made her official trip. The dimen sions of the monitor are :—Length, 180 ft. ; beam, 44ft. ; depth, lift. bin. ; armour-plated with 5F' inch plates from 3ft. below the water-line to gun wale, reduced at extreme ends to 4iin., resting on teak 10in. thick ; the inner skin of iron lin. thick , strengthened by longitudinal iron girders ; the tur ret protected by plates Bin. thick, increased to llin• at the ports, carrying two 300-pounder 12i -ton rifled guns, which can be fired in line of keel for ward and within 4 degrees aft. The turret is fitted with a complete set of gear for working by stenm power, as well as the usual hand gear, and the gene' ral fittings of the turret, including slides, shot" lifting apparatus, &c., are most complete. Twi n screw engines of 140-horse power nominal collective (not fitted with surface condensers). The accorn modation for officers and craw is very roomy, an d particularly well ventilated, and there is ample space for storing coals and ammunition. On the trial trip the monitor was complete in every respect! and had ou board her guns and ammunition, 7 0 officers and men and their effects, stores and provi sions for six weeks, and coal for five days; and her mean draught of water was about Bft. llin. T he fol lowing is the result of the full boiler power runs at the measured mile :—First run, 10.583 knots; second run, 7.659 knots; third run, 10.345 knots; fourth runt 7.912 knots; fifth run, 10.027 knots; sixth run, 8.333 knots—giving a true mean of 9.062 knots- Revolutions of engines, 114 ; indicated power, 643 horse-power. The starboard boiler was then shut off altogether, and two runs were made with half" boiler power, with the following results:—First run, 7.287 knots ; second run, 7.982 knots, giving a true mean of 7.634 knots. Revolutions of engines, 8 9 ; indicated power, 312 horse-power. During both full and half power runs the engines worked veil smoothly and without any heated bearings, potty' ings, or drawbacks of any kind. The vessel, afte r completing her trials 'at the measured mile, 103 taken outside the harbour, where there was a con siderable swell on, and was found particular l y steady, free from vibration, and steered and turned well and quickly under all circumstances. Experi ments were also made in a seaway by revolving the turret by means of the steam gear. The operation was performed easily and quickly. The vessel re' turned to the Mersey by way of the Rock Channe after having been under way eight or nine hou r° We believe this monitor to be the first vessel of the low freeboard type completed and tried in 018 country, and her trial trip has been looked to with much interest. The officers on board officially re presenting the Dutch Government were Mr. Ja i. " sal and Captain Hugenholtz, in addition to Capt. Van Rappard and the officers and crew of the still)* ,SIR ROBERT NAPIER, G.C.8., G.C.S.J• Sir Robert Napier, G.C.8., G.C.5.1., is the o ° ll of Major C. F. Napier, of the Royal Artillery, by Catherine, daughter of Codrington Carringte o t Esq., of Blackmans, Barbadoes. Born 1810. l ie was educated at Addiscombe Military Colleg e, and entered the Bengal Engineers 1827, becam e captain 1841, served throughout the Sutlej cam paign of 1845-6, was chief engineer at Moodke e (horse killed) and at Perez shah, where he was se verely wounded (horse kill e d) ; brigade-major of Engineers at Sobraon, and in the subsequent ad vance on Lahore, for which he received a medal sod clasps, with the rank of brevet-major, 1846 ; was alr pointed Chief Engineer to conduct the siege of th e hill fort of Kangra the same year, and received th e special thanks of Government for his services in t he , transport of the siege-train to that place. Was C hief Engineer during part of the siege of Mooltan, 1 849 ' and was seriously wounded. Commanding En g,ine et of the right wing of the army of the Punjab at th e battle of Goojerat, and in Sir W. Gilbert's pureul of the Sikh army, for which he received a Lod e ' anti clasp, with the rank of brevet lieutertau t i : colonel. As Chief Civil Engineer of the POP" organised and initiated an extensive series of pub lic works, which were honourably acknowledged by th: late Lord Dalhousie. Commanded a column wh ie " defeated the HuAsunzie tribe on the Black 11fouty tain Hazara, 1852; was present with the expedition. against the Boree Afredees, 1852-3, and received._ the special thanks of Government. Chief a 6 1r -James Outram's staff, 1857, and was present .s the several actions leading to the first relief of Las' now, Mungulwar, Alumbagh, and Charbagh ; com manded the troops in the rescue of the siege Oat°, which bad been surrounded and cut off ill the suburbs ; the sortie for the capture of Phi v , lip's Garden Battery, and other separate opel:_r tions ; was present as chief of the staff in the late, operations of the Alumbagh, and brigad ier sa ; chief engineer at the siege of Luckuovv 1858, which year he was made a C.B. ; commandedci brigade at the capture of Gwalior ; de Ca t : a 'Panda Topee at Joura Alipoor, and ea P te twenty-five guns ; when in command of the f ort ll lior division, bombarded and reduced the .5e of Powrie • after five days' close pursuit surprio and defeated, with a squadron of the 14th Drag . o e T,' 2 l Ferozeshah's force at Ranode. Commanded li t a l to division of the China Expeditionary ArmY. T . l 4 . ll l ii s action of Sicho ; was present at Tank°. Iv 'oe division and the whole of the Artillery, in con) caa tioa with the French division of General Collituit _ff directed the operations ending in the storlti:a the North Taku Fort, a d va nce on and °cell ftent; of Pekin ; twice received the thanks of Parliarrdi, was a member of the Supreme Cou ncil of -Ijear, 1864-5, and was made a K.C. B. in the latter ?t ote d a G.C.S.I. 1867, a G.C.B. 1868. Was to the chief command of the Abyssinian ExPu sue wsatratcd e 1 e B B 6 s 7 f u , iwi issue. he has Createdso recentlylBsB. Peerage and Knightage. Decienbdreutett'sedlliu Ito perio fullox Th d WI; Tb rnent Mon( Di: bills t Egyp ditto . Kt t I❑ are A Sit ha but a to u to 76 Great Th Th Poun th e A the on t and 30th Th Insui Paid 3 0 u Th Ure a the 1 Th Corn The Lli i 3 p r , Di a p , New Now A In EX‘;' DJ - , Ar ..). 4 , : 11 4 art,, 8. 4 Ow, ►n are, Irto( Ne‘ 11.1, 1