The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

tlitiftlttA,Voi Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, JULY 21. Wl:the performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, Lord Byr,n's Tragedy of SARDANAPALUS. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To bo followed by CHESTERFIELD THINSKIN. Characters by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. TEIS EVENING, JULY 21, Will be performed GENEVIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Ben. Webster, A. Wigan, Leigh Murray, Keeley, Partelle, Paul Bedford ' Cullenford, Wagger, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith; Madame Celeste and Airs. Keeley. After which, will be presented SAE DANAPALUS. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CILOBRAM, To conclude with JOHN JONES. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farrell. First Week of a New Drama. THIS EVENING, JULY 21, Will be performed a New Drama entitled THE TIMES, Charac ters by Messrs. Farren, T. Mead, 11. Marston, William Farren, G. Cooke, and Shaiders ; Mesdames Andcrtou, H. Gordon, E. It ur ner, and Bartlett. Alter which, an entirely New Burlesque, by Francis Talfourd, Esq., entitled SHYLOCK, or, THE MERCHANT OF " VENICE PRESERVED." Shylock, Mr. F. Robson. To conclude with (by desire) TILE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags, Mr. F. Robson. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRE. Now under the Direction and Management of Mr. W. Cooke, The tide of success flows into this popular Establishment, to witness the present attractive entertainments. The Battle of Waterloo continues its triumphant career. 61st NIGHT OF THE CHASE. NOTlCE.—Parties desirous of witnessing the World's Wonder, Miss Emily Cooke, in her astounding Leaps, are requested to em brace the present opportunity as her engagement will shortly termi nate, when she immediately departs for the Continent. New Intro duction in the Circle—The Turin Perrots, Masters Alfred and Harry Cooke on One Horse. First Night of the Grand Cabalistic Pyramids. THIS EVENING, JULY 21, And dining the week. the National Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in the "CIRCLE," by artistes of celebrity, introducing Miss Emily Cooke, the Star of the Arena, who Leaps Forwards and Backwards through 16 balloons. Also, the Twin Perrots, whose Whimsical Feats must be seen to be appreciated. To conclude with the successful Hippo Drama of THE CHASE ; or, LIFE ON THE TURF, in which a real Fox Chase will take place. Doors open at Half-past Six. Pox-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Nv est. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Engagement of Mr. Distin and Sons (the original Sax-horn players, and Mrs. Theodore Distill for One Week Only. To-day, Panoramic View of CHUSAN, Splendid and interesting MENAGERIE, GODFREY'S unrivalled MILITARY BAND. VOCal and Instrumental Concert. Two favourite Songs by Miss Cicely Nott. A selection of c ncerted pieces. Glens and Madrigals, by the celebrated Distin Family. Various amusing novelties, concluding with the extraordinary spectacle of THE FEAST OF LANTERNS, with grand display of Fireworks, and Explosion of Chinese Fire Rafts. Admission Is. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following Maces at nine o'clock on yesterday morning. The stations a e arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON— N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. FOLKESTONE—S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKE—W., calm—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD—W., calm—partially cloudy. SWINDON —W. fresh breeze—pa r ti a lly cloudy. YARMOUTH—S.W., calm—cloudless. Tho returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock :- LIMERICK—W. calm—partially cloudy. MULLINGAR-14., calm—partially cloudy. LEIGHTON—W., calm—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD—W., gentle breeze—fine. WHITBY—N., gentle breeze—foggy. DARLINGTON—S.S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. SHAT—N., calm—overcast. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY —Morning 4 min. after 2 Evening 31 min.aft. 2 To-Monaow—Morning 56 min. after 2 I Evening 20 rain.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.—Sint OFFICH, JULY 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. "2—highest since noon yesterday. CO—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'93. WIND, W.S.W.—Fair, but cloudy. THE PUBLICATION OF " T HE SUN" COMMENCES EVERT AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THN LATE OR . THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other ; News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. c . Atn, ~~~ LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1853. Well ! the Advertisement Duty is to be given up after all. The obnoxious impost is to be totally abolished--cut off root and branch. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has virtually yielded. Not with a very good grace certainly, but as he has conceded the matter, we shall not too closely criticise the manner of the boon. It is sufficient to say that the inequitable and impolitic burden, which the Right Honourable Gentleman himself admitted to be " a tax on labour and industry," is to be rem)ved—that a fiscal impediment to the full and free intercommunication of wants and 'wishes will no longer be maintained. Hence forward the overtoiled and underpaid sempstress may make known her desire to obtain employment without paying, what in her miserable condition is a prohibitory price, for the notification. The tradesman may announce the nature and quality of the goods he has for sale, without having his profits absorbed by the additional cost of the advertisement, rendered necessary by the Govern ment duty. All persons having any wants un 'satisfied may obtain the necessary publicity, so as to achieve their objects on the most satisfactory terms, without being conscious of the presence of the tax-collector. Unrestricted publicity is, iu fact, a supplement to the " unrestricted competi tion " which has been so highly lauded both in and out of Parliament, but which Lever could be carried into practical execution so long as incidents so essential were wanting. As Mr. COB DEN justly remarked—cc it was a tax that, in a commercial community, struck at the root of all transactions." It opposed an obstacle between vendors and purchasers, masters and servants employers and labourers, that operated ver juriously in the d a ily t ransact i ons of life—jkino. consumption, because pe rsons did not knows whe; they could obtain th e requ i re d goods on the beste and cheapest terms—and inducing them to abstain altogether when a very slight temptation would have induced them to become customers. Thus the Customs or Excise Duty on the article would be lost, the profit of the tradesman which, if it arose, would be directly charged under the Income Tax, and a great portion of that which would probably be expended in exciseable commodities would be forfeited. It may be said " that good wine needs no bush ;" that the trades man who supplies a fair article- at a fair price will never want customers ; but we deliberately assert that the sale of the pure vintage would be materially increased if the landlord were enabled to extend the knowledge of its excellence beyond the convivial circle of topers by whom he was habitually patronised. The fair-dealing tradesman would also be enabled to enlarge his premises, and add to his business, by the general appreciation of his mode of deali ng , and the advantages offered to the community. But why multiply argu ments in a matter so universally acknowledged as the advantage to be derived from a judicious system of Advertisements. The ve The and thoroughly appreciated by y are well known, of business ; and if hitherto so 3 ry . practical man ly resorted to, the deficiency may be ascribPeadrintog the duty which, on brief notifications, added 50 Per cent to the cost price for insertion. To the sticklers ' for antiquity, who laud the old-fashioned styl e doing business, we may mere l y notice the negle of cted stone which had for age s b een merely used as a seat for runaway convicts or solitary herdsmen, but which WAS eyelitually found to contain several I pounds of sterling gold, sufficient to purchase many gorgeous lounges for princely saloons. Its value consisted in the knowledge of what it would afford on close investigation ; and such may be the case with many establishments now comparatively un known to the general community. It will be seen from our Parliament.try Report that the gratifying announcement was made dur ing the Debate on the Attorneys' and Solicitors' Certificate Duty Bill—which yesterday stood among the orders for a second reading. The Financial Minister was wise in his generation, for by deferring the statement of his intentions he succeeded in throwing out the Bill for the Exemp tion of legal practitioners from any annual duty for this session at least. The Right Hon. Gen tleman, who at this period of the session could prevent either measure from being earned, plainly intimated that he could not afford to give up the two sources of revenue—to surrender 80,0001. to legal practitioners in the shape of a total repeal of the annual tax, and 80,0001. to the general public in the shape of Advertisement Duties. An option as to which would be taken was all that he could offer. Under such circumstances, there could be no doubt as to which side the scale would incline. The repeal of the Certificate Duty would only benefit a class—a numerous and influential, and, despite the calumnies that have been from time to time uttered, we will add, meritorious and honourable class. The abolition of the tax on publicity will benefit the community at large. Every man who desires to make known his wants of any description will par ticipate in the saving. Not a single bill of costs would be abated a farthing in consequence of the repeal of the Certificate Duty. The attendance would still be 6s. Bd. to 13s. 4d., or 1/., accord ing to the time occupied ; but ninety advertisers out of a hundred will receive the full amount, and in some instances even more than the Is. 6d. now surrendered. There would be no compensation worth speaking of for the abolition of the Certi ficate Duties; the business would not be stimulated thereby, nor perhaps would it be very desirable to increase litigation, even if practicable. All that would flow into the Treasury would be the Income Tax, or 80,0001., or some 24,0001., and possibly a very trifling addition to the consump tion of taxable articles. We say a very trifling addition, because attorneys would be seldom de barred from any of the luxuries or comforts of life in consequence of the payment of 81. or 61., as the case may be. Whereas there would be an ample equivalent for the Ad vertisement Duties, not merely in increased con sumption of duty-paying articles, and in trades men's income tax, but more directly in the increased returns from the paper duties and the newspaper and supplement stamp duties. There could not then have been a moment's hesitation as to which of these taxes was the greatest evil, and which should be selected for repeal. We con gratulate, then, the community at large, more especially public journalists, on this auspicious ter mination of the vexata questio. We congratulate Mr. MILNER GIBSON and his able and energetic associates on the triumphant issue of their incessant and efficient exertions ; and, above all, we con gratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the removal of a rock ahead, on which, had he reck lessly steered, he might have materially damaged the vessel of which he had undertaken the pilot age, and prevented its safe arrival at the desired port. ciples of Lord GREY'S Government were adhered to, become now incapable of refutation. The result is certain, and it is fatal to the attempted union of sects. If Roman Catholics are to monopolise the public funds in tended for all, a special and separate grant must be made for the benefit of Protestants. Thus sectarianism resumes its sway ; and the sacerdotal caste will, as before, have in its hands the form ing of the national mind. How that power will be used, experience sufficiently tells us ; and all this is done because Lord ABERDEEN and Sir JAMES GRAHAM cannot think themselves safe in their seats without the purchased support of the Bri gade. Yet we are said to live under a Ministry of progress COURT CIRCULAR. JAMES CLARK, M.D Lord SHAFTESBURY and free voting do not ap pear to have any natural connection, but Lord SHAFTESBURY and suppression of vice hang well together, As might, therefore, be expected in his Polling at Elections Bill, his Lordship is obvi ously far more concerned to put down drunken ness, demoralising bribery and violence, than to secure the political liberty of the voter. Hence, though we always welcome Lord SHAFTESBURY as a legislator for juvenile mendicants, lodging houses, and the like, we must beg to decline his aid in a province where his sympathies, we fear, are all on the wrong side. The Tory Lieutenant- General for heading the Lords' deadly opposition to Jewish Emancipation, is hardly the fitting leader in emancipating the voters of Great Britain from the millionaire and the landlord. Lord SHAFTESBURY'S Bill is, indeed, withdrawn ; it has shared the fate of almost all reforming proposals, having died in a tolerably happy hope of entering into the clauses of the great Reform Bill of 1854, much as Hindoos placidly surrender their indivi dual existence, in expectation of that consumma tion of bliss, absorption into the essence of the DEITY. Still, from us, every serious proposition of the kind claims attention, the more so as the Noble Lords thought, that, in bringing his pro positions into public discussion, Lord SHAFTES BURY had obtained all he could just now particu larly desire. On his proposal to limit all the legal expenses to such only as sh ou ld b e i ncurre d by a p u bli c officer authorised to conduct the election, we will not at present dilate. It would, of course, be impossible to do away with Committees, and with persons who should be the candidates' agents in dealing with the electors as to everything but mere pecuniary expenses. But if it be practicable, and we hope it is so, to elect a Member without putting him to any expenses but such as are really necessary, and which need not, therefore, shrink from publicity, any plan which would effect that should have our most hearty support. Lord SHAFTESBURY'S adoption of the Edinburgh Review scheme of house-voting by papers left and called for, as in the election of Poor-law Guardians, is the chief point of interest. Now, we have no ob jection whatever to a fair trial of this plan in a few of the next places which offer, just as we demanded the same trial for the Ballot ; but, look ing at its probable working previous to any trial, or with no better trial than it has already had in electing guardians, we do not hail it as the desired ultimatum. It will still leave an annual battle to be fought for the Ballot by all the honest Reform ers. We will not deny that it is an improvement upon the present mode of taking votes—miserable praise that—nor that it will at least annihilate one particular kind of bribery—waiting till after two o'clock to make the best market of the votes. It will also put an end to a system which has become quite a costly nuisance in boroughs—that of employing a large number of cabs to bring , voters to the polling-booths, till expenses of con veyance amount to something like those of a county election. It will, however, even facilitate the commoner forms of bribery. The voting-papers are, of course, delivered some reasonable time before the day of collection. The voter knows that he must bag his bribe before the day ; the agent knows it also. The ss. or Si., therefore, will be paid with admirable convenience at the voter's house, the paper will be marked and signed in the presence of the briber, and after that the latter will be as sure as he need be of the man's vote. It cannot, indeed, be given against him. It may be withheld, certainly ; but as all the voter's interest lies the other way, that is an improbable supposition. We have no doubt the old Freemen of Liverpool, Hull, Yarmouth, and Canterbury will thank Lord SHAFTESBURY for his plan. The voting-paper and the colour-ticket will be as regu larly exchanged as money and Mr. GLADSTONE'S new receipt stamps. Indeed, the voting-papers might be not inaptly designated the SHAFTESBURY bribe receipts. Let them also be stamped, for they will no doubt be regularly given for " value received." Earl GREY—hiS genuine Whig faith being confident of the immor tality of small constituencies—pointed out how easy it would be in small boroughs to purchase a seat to a certainty, since it would be only needful to buy the requisite number of voting-papers signed in blank. It would b 3 unfair of us, how ever, to avail ourselves of cases which we main tain that any decent proposition of Reform ought to banish from our representation. Of course Earl GREY is perfectly right, if pocket boroughs are to survive the Coalition Reform Bill. He might have added, however, that the bribable portion of even very large constituencies could be manoeuvred with almost equal ease. There would be no small difficulty also in dis pensing with the delivery of the voting-paper by the voter himself, on the one hand, or in re quiring him to stay at home until the collector called on the other. We are pleased to see that Lord REDESDALE took notice of this objection, for it has always struck us as a very serious prac tical one. Not only, as Lord REDESDALE pointed out, might the person in whose charge the paper was left withhold it for a bribe, but, we may add, the facilities for personation would be largely increased. It would become quite a settled practice to look out as early as possible for all the dead and many of the absent voters, and to secure, perhaps by a bribe, the ser vices of their families. The great, the glaring defect of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S plan, how ever, is, that it leaves Lord SHAFTESBURY master of his tenants' votes. We call it a defect. Pro bably in the eyes of the Premier, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, and the Earl of HARDWICKE, it was a chief merit. It will render pocket-borough elections a little more decent, without delivering the dependent voter from his old masters ; and when applied to counties, which of course it would soon be, if only for consist ency's sake (as indeed Earl GREY seemed to take for granted), it would leave the tenants-at-will as We have in former articles explained the origin and commented on the working of the Irish National System. We have indicated the dan gers to which that system is exposed, between the bitter hostility of one sect and the lukewarm sup port of its rival. We have pointed out the appa rent inclination of the present Government to tamper with its rules, if not to subvert its fun damental principle. It remains only to see how this inclination has been evinced, and what are the circumstances which have led to the retire ment of Archbishop WHATELEY from the Board. It is well understood that among the friends of so-called " secular" education (a term, by the way, whose use has gone far to create prejudices against the mode of teaching which it professes to describe) there exists a considerable diversity of opinion as to the ex tent to which the religious element should be introduced. One party—the bond fide secularists— content themselves with ignoring it altogether. These, however, are few in number, and their theory is generally repudiated. Others, again, are satisfied with the reservation of certain days and hours for combined moral and literary instruc tion, allowing religious teachers of all denomina tions to have free access to the schools at fixed periods, as, for instance, on one day of the week, and before and after school hours on other days ; and stipulating only that, in such teaching, the schoolmaster himself shall not be required to take part, and that attendance thereupon shall in no case be made compulsory. A third section go still farther, and desire to see introduced into the general teaching of the school such religious lessons as can be given to all with out objection being raised by any sect. Between these two last plans the National Board has at various times oscillated. On its first institution, a variety of works, partly of a religious character, were prepared and issued with the sanction of the highest authorities in both the Protestant and Roman Catholic Church. These, intended not as substitutes for, but as supplementary to, other religious instruction, we— generally received into the schools, and read, with the consent of the Roman Catholic Archbishop, in school hours. But, objection being taken in some quarters to a portion of these works, the Board, anxious to guard against even the semblance of an en croachment on conscientious scruples, laid down a rule to the effect that " where the parents of any child objected to that child using a particular book, its use in the case of that child should not be insisted upon." Considering that so far as the practical operation of the rule was concerned, the word " priest" might have been substituted for " parent"—and also that the concession here made, if largely taken advantage of, must have materially disturbed the discipline and uniformity of the schools, it may, perhaps, be thought that the Commissioners went too far in their efforts at universal conciliation. But the fault, if such it were, was on the right side. They might be taxed with imprudence --at least they could not be taxed with illiberality. Will it be credited that this concession is now complained of as inadequate ? and not only complained of, but actually done away, a rule being substituted which, de facto, allows the priest to make an index expurgatorius of every work which he may choose to disallow ? Yet such, unless our authorities misinform us, is the fact. By the regulation of 1853, if any parent object, on behalf of his child, to the reading of any book whatever, moral, literary, or scientific, that book is thenceforth to be discontinued in the school where such complaint is made ! We p r esume aieeionere th ; at an appeal is left open to the Com tends to give the the working of this rule the parish priest an absolute veto on all such teaching and th ere bas he may disapp rove , y virtually to h an d over to h i m the entire mana , g,ernent of the school. Small wonder that Archbishop WHATETacy— friend to bigots—should. haverefused this innovation by continuing the Board. There is n o policy be not speedily reversed tional System will become merely no bigot, nor a to sanction histh the attendance so-called N a a_t disguisingthis sectarian, and assume the form of an exclusive grant in favour of Roman Catholic schools. And mark the • • injus tice thus perpetrated. A public and p owerful society, composed of Irish Protestants who dislike the administration of' the Board, has for y ears past been organising an educational system of its much as ever without a will of their own. All the " influence" boroughs would be as amenable as ever to their respective nabobs, while every voter in fear of the screw, of the good customer, of the employer, of the landlord, of everything in a word but the mob, would be as unprotected as before. Indeed, the Earl of DONOUGHMORE de.. dared that in Ireland it would be no security from the mob itself, not for the collectors at least; but that these officials must perform their duty in helmets, or be escorted by the military, if they were to be safe ; and he instanced a late election of Poor-law Guardians. We are continually driven bo the old conclusion that intimidation ad• =its of but one cure, and bribery of but one grand check, and that is the adhesive envelope en. closing the anonymous voting-ticket deposited by the elector himself in the returning officer's ballot box. BRITISH FISHERIES.—Tho report of the complis ( sioners for 1852 has just been published. The combined accounts bring out a gross catch for the year of 602,6601 barrels, being a result undoubtedly below a general aver age, and no less than 122,755 k barrels below the gross catch of the previous year. THE OFFICE of S PEAKER.—S i r Robert Inglis, on 'Tuesday evening, g ave not i ce of his intention on Friday A emt to bring under the consideration of the House of Commons the report of the select committee, and to r love that, "whenever the house shall be informed of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman o f the Committee of Ways and Means do take the chair fc )r that day only ; and, in the event of Mr. Speaker's a bsence continuing for more than one day, do, if the house shall think fit and shall so order it, take the chair in like manner on _any subsequent day during such absence." own on purely Protestant principles. This society is excluded from the benefit of Government assis- tance, on the ground that it is essentially sec- tarian, and thus does not fall within the scope of he Act of 1832. Nothing can be fairer, so long as this Act remains in force. But where is the justice of continuing the exclusion, now that the National Schools are made by recent legislation to assume an equally one-sided character ? The arguments of Messrs. HAMILTON, NAPIER, and. IL ITEBIDE, easily answered so long as the prin- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, EJLY 21, 18 58 OSBORNE, JULY 20, 0 P.M. The Queen has an ttack of measles, The eruption appeared slightly yesterday afternoon, and is now well out. Her Majesty had much cough during the night, but is relieved this morning. _ - PIPE RTAL PAIMIA E NT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.) PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Edinburgh and Glas gow Railway, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway, Lands Improvement Company (No. 2), and St. Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway Bills were con sidered and agreed to. The Dean Forest, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Tralee and Killarney Railway, and Upper India Railway Bills, were read a second time. OSBORNE, JULY 20, 6 P.M. The Queen has less cough, and the eruption is more fully out this afternoon. Her Majesty has no symptom beyond those which usually accompany the disorder. HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. JAMES CLARK, M.D. _ _ _ His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. PETITIONS. Mr. OLIVEIRA, and several other hon. members, presented petitions praying for the postponement of the Savings Banks Bill until next session. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales walked out in the grounds yesterday. The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded Viscountess Jocelyn as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from a dissent ing body against the Education Bill. Captain SCOBELL presented a petition from the medical profession of Bath against certain clauses in the Vaccination Bill. SAVINGS BANK BILL. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence•house, St. James's. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Government had, considering the late period of the session, and the numerous points of detail included in the bill, which could be better settled during the recess by communications between the Government and the parties interested, wished to postpone it. The two chief points of the bill were giving a Government guaran tee and an effective, control over the accounts of receipt and payment of money. Two other points of great importance were the rate of interest and the responsi bility to be imposed upon the trustees in regard to the accounts. There was no question between the Govern ment and the trustees, but between the trustees and the depositors ; for it was obvious that the Government would not undertake responsibility for deposits which were not accounted for in the lists sent in to the Go vernment by the trustees • and the question wa s , whether or not the trustees shouldl be responsible for all deposits not included, whether from neglect or fraud, in the fists sent in to the Government. With regard to the rate of interest, that was a question which could very properly be considered in that house. There were, however, a number of smaller points which would take up much time in discussion, but with regard to which the Government would be able to save much time to the house by communicating with the parties in the country. For these reasons, therefore, ho should move that the bill be committed this day three months. Mr. H. HERBERT hoped the Government would introduce the bill at an early period of the next session. Sir B. HALL trusted that some provision would be introduced into the bill to regulate the expenses of the management of these banks. The hon. baronet quoted the case of a savings bank in the metropolis, which cost 2,2801. a-year, and in which the trustees had expended time sum of 6,0001. on the repairs of a house for the spe cial benefit of the managers. The result of this was that, out of the 31. ss. per cent. allowed by Government as interest, the depositors of 301. had H. ss. taken from them for expenses, while those of 10/, and upwards had 7e. 7id. A deputation from the Manchester School of Art, consisting of Mr. Bazley, the Rev. C. Richardson, Dr. C. Bell, and Mr. Atherton, had an interview with the right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley yester day, at the Board of Trade. The Greek Minister transacted business at the Foreign office yesterday. A deputation from the Liverpool Chamber of Com merce, consisting of Mr. Hubbuck. and Mr. Forward, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation was accompanied by the Hon. H. T. Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Horsfall, M.P. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Faulkner, Mr. Alder man Neild, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Cheetham, M.P., and Mr. Heywood, M.P., had an interview with Earl Gran wile (Lord President) yesterday, at the Council-office. Sir James Graham gave a cabinet dinner yesterday, at his residence at the Admiralty. The Lord Chamberlain has given directions that the funeral car of the late Duke of Wellington, being now placed in a temporary building in the court-yard of Marl borough-horse, be exhibited to the public under the fol lowing regulations : On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, the public to be admitted free. On Tuesdays and Saturdays admission to be granted by tickets, obtainable on application at the office of Messrs. Banting, in St. James's-street. On Frichys the doors to be closed. The first day of admission will he Monday next, the 25th inst., and until the Ist of October next the hours of admission will be from eleven to six o'clock. Sir H, WILLOUGHBY said that there was a per fectly good answer to the case cited by the hon. baronet when the proper time arrived. If this bill were carried, he could assure the Government that the trustees of many banks would immediately resign. After a short conversation, in which 1!r. Napier, Mr. J. Young, Mr. Maguire, Mr. Barron, and Sir J. Shelley took part, the bill was ordered to be committed this day three months. LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill, at clause 74. [LEFT SITTING.] NOTTINGHAM RACES, (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ORDER OF RUNNING. 2.3o—Scarborough Stakes. 3. o—Robin Hood Stakes. 3.4s—Sherwood Handicap. 4.4s—Nottingham Handicap. 6. o—Castle Handicap. ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS. Audubon, Brown Brandy, Bridesmaid, St. neon, Mountain Maid, Evadne, lanthe, Constancy, Candle wick, Ludwig, Twinkle, c. by Ratan out of Mi s s M ar ti n , Vestige, Antonia, Chi e f Justice, Pearl, Village Lass, Puritan, Sharavogue, Cariboo, Deformed, Miss Mary, Nancy Martinson, Red Lion, Margaret of Anjou, Angelo, Lerrywheut, F r i en dless, Incense, Cogniac, Horatio, Ann Eliza, Hungerford, Indian Warrior, Caliph, Ethelwolf, Italian, Calot, Luxurious, Meteora, Florist, Thirkleby, Sir Rowland Trenchard. The ground is in good order. BETTING ON THE COURSE-12.50 P.M. NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP. 5 to 1 agst Audubon (taken). 6 to 1 agst Florist (taken). 6 to 1 agst Contentment (taken). 8 to 1 agst Galvanism (taken). 9 to 1 agst Placid (taken). GOODWOOD RACES.-The following horses have left Malton for Goodwood :—Daniel O'Rourke, Greyleg, Prince Arthur, Sycthian, Dervish, El Dorado, and Beauty. KNUTSFORD RACES-YESTERDAY. NORBURY STAKES. Remunerator Tumbler INNKEEPERS' PLATE. The Admiral Cripple Kate CAVALRY CUP. Dunhaw .. Knutsford 1 2 SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. W. Burchell.) ALLEGED FORGERY OF A JUDGE'S ORDER.-BLACKBURN V. DUMMER. This was an action to recover the sum of 2/. 18s. 6d., the balance of an account for goods sold, defendant having paid 30s. into court. Mr. Clarke (Bedford-row), who appeared for the de fendant, said that before the case was opened he had to make an objection. The plaintiff had sued in person, but last night he (Mr. Clarke) was served with a judge's order that he (plaintiff) should be allowed to appear by attorney, and he was now represented by counsel (Mr. Horne). The copy of the order was dated the 7th January last, which was before the action was com menced, and on inquiry it was ascertained that no such order had been issued. Mr. Horne said that no doubt it was a mistake in the copy, and that it ought to have been the 7th July. Mr. Clarke said that inquiry had been made at Judges' Chambers, and it was ascertained that the order could not have been signed on that day by Mr. Justice Maule, as it purported, for his lordship was on circuit, and the clerks knew nothing of the order. He therefore applied to the Under• Sheriff to impound the original order. The Under-Sheriff said he did not think he had any power to try the question. All he could do was to hear the case. Mr. Clarke then submitted that as plaintiff had issued the writ in person, declared in person, and appeared in person on the record, he was not entitled to appear by attorney and counsel, and asked Mr. Horne whether he had been instructed by him. Mr. Home said he had been instructed in the usual way by Mr. Hare, an attorney. Mr. Clarke—Then I call upon Mr. Hare to produce the original order. Mr. Hare's clerk declined to do so. Mr. Clarke said his object was to prevent frauds at Judges' Chambers. The Under-Sheriff repeated that he had no power in the case, and if there was any irregularity the trial would go for nothing. He never heard of such a case before. Mr. Clarke then objected to counsel being heard, and requested that a note of his objection should be taken. Mr. Horne said that there was no occasion to take a note—the case was too extraordinary for them to for get it. The Under-Sheriff' took a note, and the case pro. ceeded, but was of no public interest. MAEKET .iVEWS--(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVER A.GE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended July 21, 1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the differ ent Cities and Towns in England and Wale: , per imperial Quarter. WHEAT. IBARLEY. I OATS. EYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. 49s as 28s 11.1 I 1 'Os 11 d 3is 10d 494 5d 36s 8d THE S 1 X WEEK'S AVERAGE. WHEAT. TIMMY. I I )ATS. RYE. BEANS. 1 PEAR. 4 s 9d 29s 4d 1!)s lid I 3:.ts 7d I 39 s 7d 35s 3d ____ MITIE S ON FOREIGN CORN. WIIEAT. I RAREFY. I . MTS. RTE. BEANS. I PEAS. IS 0(1 is Od IsOdlisOd I is Od is Oil QUANTITIES CIF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 66,293 ; lis”ley, 2,285. Oats, 10,951; Rye, 159 ; Beans 2,819 . ; Yeas, 274 quarters. Hi I.Y MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Mead. ow hay, 3/ 15s to 5l Os ; clover, ditto, 4/ 15 s t o 6/ O s ; an d s t raw , 1/ 7 s t o 11 14 s per load. Trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Mea slow hay, 4/ Os to Si Os; clover ditto, 5/ Os to 61 Os ; ai id straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 15 s per, load. A moderato supply, an, I a brisk trade. • WHITECHAPEL.—Me adow hay, 3/ 15s to 5/ Os; clover,* ditto, 5/ to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 15s per load. Supply limited, and tra ,de firm. MEA .T MAIZICETS NEWGATR AND LEA' )ENHALL.—Each kind of meat was in steady request to-c ilay, at very full prices. Aped, from 3s Od to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5 s Od ; Lamb, 5s Od to 68 4d ; Ve a l, 3 8 10d to 4s 10d ; P or k, 3 s 2d to 4s 2d per 81bs, by the ea cease. SOUTHALL, JULY 20.. —Our market was very active, and prices were on the 9.dvance. Tho following are the quotations :—Beef, 3s Gd. to 4s Gd ; Mutton 3s 10d to 5s Od Lamb, 5s Od t o 6 s 2d ; Veal, 3s 8d -toy 48 10d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, JULY 20. -The general demand at this market to-day ruled brisk, at the foll ow i ng quo t a ti o ns : Beef, from 3 s 6d t o 4s 8 d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 5s 2d t o 6 s 6d ; Veal, 48 cod. to Os Od ; Pork, 3s Od to 4s 2d per 81bs. Sc tckling calves; 208 to 27s each ; and quarter old stem pigs, 1,9 s to 25s each. THE QUEEN'S HEALTH. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) OSBORNE, THURSDAY MORNING. July 21, 9 o'clock. The Queen has had a good night ; all the symp toms of the disease are abating, and her Majesty's state is altogether very satisfactory. JAMES CLARK, M.D. HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. .DRU.RY-LANE THEATRE. The friends of Mr. Sims Reeves rallied round him in great numbers last night, when he took his annual benefit at Drury-lane Theatre. The house was filled. Upon this occasion the popular tenor revived the Fra Diavolo of Auber, in which he appeared several times during the last evanescent reign of Mr. Bunn. He played the part of the fascinating brigand with great vocal ability, suggesting the regret that such manifest talent as he possesses should have no national field for its exercise, but be continually wasted either upon occa sional operatic translations, or upon the trivial plati tudes of the concert-room. The audience was in a high state of delight daring the time we were present, and the most enthusiastic applause followed his exertions. The part of Zerlina was sustained by Mrs. Sims Reeves, whose embodiment of this pleasant personage is as well known as that of her husband's Fra Diavolo. She sang the popular song "On yonder rock reclisting,"with much ag,reeeble naivete. The opera, which was further sup ported by Miss Julia Harland, Mr. We'nss, and Mr. Manvers, went off with great spirit. The remaining entertainments consisted of a solo on the flute by Herr Reichart, and the old musical farce of the Waterman, in which Mr. Sims Reeves played Braham's once-famous character of Tom Tug. ADELPHI THEATIZE. Sardanapalus, the " fast" King of Assyria, a bur lesque of the first water, was performed here for the first time last evening, and met with the most complete suc cess. Like most of the A delphi's extravagan zag, it is one act, yet, in that one act, every telling point in the magnificent original is very cleverly compressed. The curtain rises and discovers the breakfast-room in the palace of Sardanapalus, the housemaids of the palace being in a state of revolt at the tyranny exercised over them by Salamenes (Mr. Keeley), "the king's private mother-in-law," and who is by them voted to be a "public nuisance. " Sardanapalus (Miss Woolgar) enters, suffering from the effects of a " lark" at Green wich, and, after trying soda water and brandy, prepares to receive his five hundredth wife, Myrrha (Miss Collins), in this case a fair Patlander. A pie-nic to the Vale of Palms is proposed, and Salamenes and her daughter Zarina, the four hundred and ninety-ninth wife, are not included in the invitation. The king's mother-in-law, overhearing the arrangement, determines to follow the royal barge in a wager-boat, and arrives only to find the place deserted, and all the " nic-nacs" any thing but agreeable, Sardanapahis having, on hear ing of her approach, emptied the pepper-box into the apple pie, the vinegar into the sherry, and the salt into a trifle. Determined not to be baulked in his pleasure-trip, he visits his military encampment at Can vass-town, and here a "night surprise" is effected, the military evolutions consisting of a " waltz march" and a " polka square." During the time the king is "idling his time," the usurping Mede, Arbaces (Paul Bedford), has succeeded in gaining over the "affections" of the army, and at a night orgie, at the Assyrian palace, vanquishes the king, who had previously ordered all his goods and chattels to be made into a bonfire, well knowing that they were allinsured. However,with the general con sent of all, things take a favourable turn, and the curtain falls amid blue fire and a chorus. The engrossing topics of the day all come in for their share of hits and puns, most of them being greatly relished by the audience. The acting of Miss Woolgar, Miss Collins, Keeley, and Paul Bedford was capital. The musical portion of the burlesque consist of parodies on the newest ballads— Mario's delicious morceaux in the last scene of Verdi's opera .Rigoletto, not escaping the appropriating hand of the adaptor. The scenery and dresses were inh,gnificeut in the extreme—the Adelphi burlesque rivalling in splen dour the Princess's Spectacle. Like Mr. C. Kean, Mr. Webster has taken Layard as his authority, and winged bulls, &c., &c., are found in abundance. The burlesque was announced by Miss Woolgar for repetition every evening, amidst the applause of a house crowded to the ceiling. ST. JAMES'S TREATRE.—The performances of the German company this week take a decidedly Shaks perean turn. Last] night Hamlet, which achieved such a success last year, was produced with Herr Devrient as the Prince of Denmark, and Othello, with Herr Des soir as the Moor, is announced for to-morrow. A Ger man version of this latter tragedy will be a novelty to the London public. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Cooke, the proprietor of this establishment, is upon the eve of returning from Paris. A new equestrian act of a peculiar character is in preparation for Mr. Alfred Cooke, the premier rider of the establishment. Mr. Cooke, during his continental trip, made several very important engagements for Miss Emily Cooke, who will shortly make her debut in the presence of the Imperial Court of France. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, REGENT STREET.—This successful diorama, illustrating the route of the Ocean Mail, has been visited during the past week by the following distinguished and fashionable personages :—The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Somerset cane, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and party, Earl de Grey, Earl of Rosso and family, the Bishop of Worcester and family, the Countess of Strath more and party, Lord Viscount Barrington and party, Lord Viscount Ranelagh and party, Lord Ashburton and party, Lord and Lady Overstone and party, Sir John and Lady Harrington, General Sir Richard Doherty and party, Sir Richard King, Sir Thomas Dyke and Lady Acland, Lady Joddrell and party, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Colonel Boyd and party, Major Gore, Mr. Scholefield, M.P., and party, &c. &c. RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday another advance took place amongst tne second-class bakers throughout the metropolis of id. in the 41b. loaf, which is now increased from 6d. to 7d., a very large increase to a poor man with a numerous family, where bread is the staple article of food ; animal food, cheese, bacon, and similar commodities, from the increase of price, are scarcely within their reach, there being no corresponding increase of wages and employment. WEntOIITII—STEAM SEA TRIPS.—The "Prince " pro ceeded on an excursion from this town on Thursday last, July 14, and called at the following places ; viz., leaving Weymouth at 10 a.m., for Bridport ; 12.30 p.m., for Lyme ; 1.30 for Sidniouth ; 3 for Torquay (to remain that night). July 15.--Left Torquay at 10 a.m. for Dartmouth, and proceeded up the River Dart to Totnes, leaving homewards, at 1 p.m., and arriving at Torquay at 3.30; Sidmouth, at 5; Lyine, at 6.30; Bridgport, at 7.30 The scenery of the Dart has justly been at this season of the year considered as equal to that of the river Rhine. Amongst the numerous objects of interest presented to the excursionist in his progress up this de lightful river, may be enumerated—the Castle of Kings wear, Gomereck Castle, Mount ,Boone, Old Mill Bay, Maypool, Anchor Stone, Village of Dittisham, Wadde ton Court, Sanbridge, Stoke Gabriel, the Ruins of Dun cannon, the celebrated Echo, and Wind Whistle Cot tage. The "Contractor" left here July 14th, at 7,30 a.m., for Portsmouth and Spithead, calling at Cowes; and Nit Portsmouth at 4 p.m., for Cowes and Wey mouth, to view the grand fleet, which are daily ma w:waning there, LATEST FOREIGN NEWS, FRANCE. The original columns of the Paris journals are almost destitute of interest. Tho Ministerial jour nals have said all that could be said in favour of the pacific policy of the Government, and what are called the independent journals find it difficult in the present state of uncertainty, as regards the proposition which has been made to the Emperor of Russia, to continue their commentaries. The Minister of War went on Monday to in spect the military school of St. Cyr. On his ar rival he found the pupils in the refectory, and allowing them time to finish their repast, he went over the different parts of the establishment to judge by himself of the manner in which every thing was conducted. The pupils were then called out under arms, and a considerable time was occu pied in their going through the manoeuvres of the several branches of the service. In the gymnatic school, at firing at a mark, and in the fencing room the pupils also displayed to the Minister their acquirements, and he expressed his perfect appro bation of all he witnessed. On leaving the estab lishment, the Marshal addressed General Alexandre, the head of the school, and declared himself to be much pleased with the state of the establishment and with the efficiency of the pupils. The Minister of Marine arrived at Rochefort from Nantes on the afternoon of the 18th in the Roland. and was received at his landing by the principal civil and naval authorities. The troops drawn up to receive him shouted " Vive l'Ern pereur !" The Gazette du Languedoc of Toulouse has re ceived a second warning for publishing an address to the Count de Chambord. The Moutteur contains the following decree "The prohibitions imposed by the ordonnance of the Bth February, 1826, will cease provisionally as to corn and flour imported from the possessions of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain in Europe." A General advance in Government Securities took place yesterday, at the Bourse, with a ten dency towards still further improvement at the ter mination of business. The final quotations were : —For cash—Three per Cents., 78f. 65c. ; Four and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 103 f. For the ac count—Three per Cents., 78f. 65c. ; Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 103 f. ; Bank Stock, 2,705 f. An improve of 15f. occurred in Mortgage Bank Shares, which closed at 725 f. • Societe Mobiliere Shares were last quoted at 830 f., being an advance of 35f. on Tuesday's final quotation. A considerable amount of business was transacted yesterday in the Railway Share Market, and a general improve ment in the value of that description of public security took place. Closing prices :—Northern, 885 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 147 f.: Paris and Stras bourg, 933 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 937 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,120 f. ; Lyons to the editerranean, 760 f.; Western of France, 745 f.; Rouen and Havre, 505 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 640 f. 50c. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. The British steamer Caradoc arrived at Constan tinople on the 7th of July. It is said that she has brought the last proposals which France and England have transmitted to St. Petersburgh. The news of the invasion of the Danubian Princi palities had produced some excitement. The Seraskier, Mahomet Ali Pasha, votes for war. He would, at any price, resist the encroach ments of Russia. His opinions and sentiments are shared by some of his colleagues. The reconstruction of the Cabinet is considered as inevitable. A Ministerial crisis is thought to be impending. The Franks have thought it advisable to take measures for their own safety. They fear a hostile demonstration. The foreign vessels of war have placed themselves under the orders of the commander of the French steamer Magellan, the senior officer in the port. On the 6th the American Ambassador was sere naded by the political refugees. Count Guilay has arrived at St. Petersburgh, charged with a mission from the Emperor of Austria. The forces assembled in the camp at Krasnoje Selo amount to 100,000 men. The Russian forces entered Oltonitza on the 7th instant, an important position on the Danube, which was crossed there in 1828 by an army of 40,000 men under the command of General Roth. Some of the inhabitants of the Danubian Princi palities have sought refuge on the Austrian terri tory. They wore expelled by the Russians, who did not like their presence in theii native country. The Russians are fortifying Jassy and Bucharest. Russian agents are active in Service and Bosnia. They cause masses to be said in honour of the Czar, and for the success of the holy cause. The Assemblee Nationale says :—" We learn by a private letter, which merits absolute confidence, that at the date of the sth of July, the representa tives of the four great powers at Constantinople, France, England, Austria, and Prussia, were com pletely in accord to the terms of the arrangement to propose to the Porte and Russia. This arrange ment could not be submitted to the sanction of the Sultan on account of the Ramazan, during which official relations with the Porte remained sus pended ; but there was little time to wait to solicit and obtain the sanction, since the Ramazan ended on the 7th. In considering, as it is permitted to hope, that the Sultan has given his sanction, it might have been sent off to St. Petersburgh, so as to arrive by the 15th of this month • and the de cision of the Russi an C a bi ne t ma y be known about the 25th." The Cologne Gazette states that the protest of the Divan against the occupation of the Danubian Prin cipalities by Russia, reached Vienna on the 15th, having been conveyed there by Mehemet Saftaluge. According to the Press of Vienna, the Divan replies in the most energetic manner to the arguments put forward by the Czar in his manifesto, whilst the Sultan, on his part, protests solemnly against the reproach of having violated his word, and calls on all the Christian communities to testify that he has never knowingly and wantonly oppressed them, and that wherever inferior authorities have at tacked their rights and privileges they have been punished. The document enters into details on the persecution of the Jews at Damascus, and declares, with respect to the invasion of the principalities, that the Porte protests in the most solemn manner against it, as an act of violence which nothing can justify. - The Nuremberg Correspondent has the following from Vienna :—" The Baron de Meyendorff made on the 13th a communication to the Austrian Mi nister for Foreign Affairs explanatory of the circu lar despatch of Count Nesselrode. M. de Meyen dorff is said to have declared among other things that the Emperor of Russia was ready to accept a mediation provided that it shall recognise the Jus tice of his demands." The Wanderer of Vienna asserts that the Rus sians have been favourably received by the inhabi tants of the Danubian provinces. Their outposts are near the banks of the Danube. A letter from Varna of the 30th ult. states that the Turks were displaying great activity in repair ing the fortifications of that place. In addition to the men already employed 3,000 had arrived from Adrianople for this purpose. The works ar© under the direction of Mussa Pacha and a Prussian colo nel named Kutschowski. It appears by a letter from Constantinople of the Bth, in a German journal, that a rumour was still current there of its being the intention of the 13ri. tish Government to recal Lord Stratford de Red. cliffe. A letter from Constantinople of the 7th says : " The Turks celebrated the Bairam this morning with all the customary pomp and ceremony. A great number of Europeans and foreigners of all classes were present at the passage of the cortege, and at the Sultan's reception of kissing hands. The members of the Embassy of France, who went from Therapia, had places reserved for them in a part of the building of the Ministry of Finance, situated in the first court of the Palace of Top Kapou. Everything passed off with perfect order, and in such a way as to dissipate the fears which so me persons might hav e conce i ve d as to the dispos itions of the Mu ssu l man populations towards the Chris tians." SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 15th inst. It appears that the President of the Council was very anxious that the question of the concession of the Northern Railway should be settled at the Cabinet Council which was to be held on that day. M. Moyano ' the Minister of Public W o rks , de manded a further delay of eight days, in order that the investigation of the matter which he had con fided to a Commission, composed of Messrs. Caveda, Isidro, Arguelles, and Ybarrola, should be termi nated. The Three per Cents. were done at 43 ; the N ew Three per Cents., at : the Debt of the first class, at 108 ; and that of the second, at 5,1. ITALY. The Rand, of Bale, announces officially that th e Austrian authorities are allowing certain citizens of the canton of Ticino to proceed to Lombardy to look to the preservation of their property there. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 16th, s t a tes that the i mperial commissary of the district of St. Fedele (Lombardy) has invited the landed proprietors of the village of Erbonne, who are all Ticinese, and live at Muggio, to return to their estates and perform the usual agricultural opera tions there. The Press of Vienna states that the differences between Austria and Piedmont, on tho nubjootof the refugees o f L om b ar d y , are still very fax from having reached a solution. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Sardinia left La Spezia on the 15th, in the GOvernolo steaanery for Masßa, there to meet her august relation, the ex : Empress of Austria. The German Journal of Frankfort states that 3 pontifical bull rendering mixed marriages more difficult than they are now will shortly be published at Vienna. We stated some time ago that Col. Calandrelli had been pardoned by the Pope at the intercession_ of the French Gov ernmen t. Th e O p i n i one of Turin subsequently contradicted the news of his liberation ; but we now find by a letter from Yin Giovanni Calandrelli, his father, in the Spener Gazette of Berlin, that his liberation has taken place. M. G. Calandrelli, however, corrects the statement of the Indepenclance Beige, which had attributed his liberation to the good offices of the French Government, and declares that it is solely owing to the efforts of the King of P russ i a . The committee for the withdrawal of paper money from circulation at Rome has issued a noti fication, announcing that since the last month a sum of 390,449 scudi (2,169,182 fr.) of paper money has been withdrawn, and replaced by an equal surd of coin. DENMARK. The Copenhagen journals of the 12th publish 3 circular of the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents of Denmark, dated so far back as the 9th May. This document enters into an elaborate review of the motives on which the opposition in the Diet voted against the Royal message of the Bth October last, definitively fixing the succession to the throne, in accordance with' the treaty of London— a vote which it will he remembered led to the dissolution of the Diet; According to the Minister, the opposition as well as the government and all the Danish nation, approved highly of the selection of the Prince Chris tian of Glucksburg and his male descendants by his wife the Princess of Hesse, as successors to the throne; but that it thought that the messsage went beyond the treaty of London in enacting that the sane order of succession should be observed in all the States submitted to the sceptre of his Majesty e° well as to Denmark Proper—and that the order of succession for these States established in 16 65 should be abrogated. But the Minister announces the intention of the Government of persisting in all the clauses of the Royal message, because, b° says, it is convinced that they will not only be ad' vantageous to the country, b u t th a t they are, necessary for the full execution of the treaty 0' London. He directs his agents to explain t° foreign governments the views of the opposition, and to inform them of the determination of the Government ; and he concludes by stating that the governments will see, from th em , th e cause 0' the delay, which, to the great regret of the Danish, Government, has taken place in ° the execution 0 the said treaty. ENTIRE ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON ADVERTISEMENT& (From the Morning Advertiser.) It will be seen from our Parliamentary report, that the information was correct which we exclusively gav e in our paper o f y es t er d ay, relative to the intention ° f Mr. Gladstone to agree t o t h e entire repeal of the 34' vertisement duty, provided the house would enable hil n to throw out the bill of Lord Robert Grosvenor f° t abolishing the duty on attorneys' certificates. Before the house divided on the second reading of that bill, the right hon. gentleman stated, in terms as explicit e 6 could be desired, that, in the event of the house rejecting the measure, he would, seeing the strong f ee li ng which existed in th e coun t ry on the subject, acquiesce in to, entire remission of the advertisement duty. We 0,1; therefore consider that remission as a fact virtuaKT accomplished. (Front the Daily News.) Mr. Gladstone, like a wise tactician, is no longer ie; clined t o f orce d own the throats of an unwilling publit and an adverse House of Commons his opinion 0,10 1 the advertise men t t ax. He has a hundred and O' 4 4 il thousand pounds sur pl us, at any rate,. in hand ; 01 . though he would ra th er k eep it all, he declares hiinow not unwilling to surrender the beggarly 80,0001. he posed to get by taxing the advertiser, or, in P P ' terms, by checking publicity an d preventing the ex tee; sion of trade. He admits that th e H ouse of Cornwell "has expre3s3d a strong desire for the repeal of the a u. vertisement duty "—a very modest way of charaeterisl the divisions in f avour o f re p ea li ng th at duty ,• • t ° , l . declares that th e G overnmen t , h av i ng to choose whel, they shall give up th e t ax on a tt orneys or the tax on po„. licity, they pref e r re li ev i pg th e press to g i ving 80,00v0." a-year to the lawyers. This decision will be pOpti l throughout th e coun t ry. The agitation of Mr. Milner i Gibson on the s u bj ec t o f t h e press has contributed larg; to the growth of p u bli c opinion respecting the 11",,,g laws ; and the great injustice of the treble tax on ner papers is now very generally condemned. Men Be dthat to ke e p three taxes one one article is unfair ;no when that one article ha ens to be a newspaper—th B chief e ng i ne of modern popular enlightenment—the jar pression that some change should be made takes very deep root. The Newspaper Stamp the Paper Duty'and the.-t lvertisement T ax, are now very -generall, regarded. in their true light, and the removal of ° _,... 11° of these three i m p os t s — the striking off of one clog from the Press will be hailed by the country at larg e as an equitable, wise, and proper step taken by th ,: Ministry. The reduction o f th e tax from is. 6d. on each advertisement was advocated upon the principle that by suc h re d uc ti on no l oss o f revenue won, arise. The in crease o f advertisements, the incroo; consumption of newsp a p er s t amps and f excise poY il ',, paper, wo u ld, it was s h own, h ave made up the deficleol created by the r e d uc ti on o f th e di rect advertisenl et duty. But, as Mr. Gladstone now points out clearly , enough, he has at an y ra t e some 150,000/. to dispose o f and as the real question left for the House of C om nioll: i and the Cabin e t t o se t t l e —b etween contending all. powerful claimants—was whether the pressure of tu:, Attorneys' licence should b e l essened, or the tax c'" publicity be wholly removed—there could be no Nolo for doubt which should be done. All trade licences ar e bad in principle. As means of raising money, they 10 " long to a mischievous and theoretically exploded system of finance. But until all of them can be removed, t 0 reduce the tax on one class of licences would only be t ° render still more irksome and unjust all those left W I. touched. Mr. Gladstone's decision to abolish the advertisemen t tax is therefore exactly the one to be expected from.; wise and judi c i ous m i n i ster, and the hearty spirit v+3, which the house accept e d hi s reso l ve was shown by W 0 very significant division that foll owe d soon a f ter he had made his statement. It now only remains for the House of Commons to pass the needful bill repealing the adver' tisement tax, and all parties concerned will find amPl 6 materials for satisfaction in the results that must display themselves. Trade will obtain new powers of extension through greater facilities of publicity, whilst the neva" paper press will have to thank a free -trade Ministry fn t the removal of a shackle put upon it i n th ose gloomy days when tyrannical governments were fertile in scheme for checking the growth of a free newspaper press. _ SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday, July 20,—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, Captain J - • K. Joy, which left this port on Monday with the c on' tract mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib raltar, ret urne d this morning about 5 o'clock, in eo ns& quence of having sustained a damage to one of the engines, which rendered it impossible to use more than one of them in propelling the vessel. The accident occurred on Tuesday, when about 50 miles to the west ward of Land's End, and Captain Joy judged it expedient to retrace his course to Southampton in order to get the necessary repairs properly effected. Captain Engledue, the superintendent of the Company, on the arrival o f the Tagus at Southampton, ordered the City of L on don, Captain Cargill, to be immediately dispatched, an d the mails, passengers, and cargo were at once transferred to that ship. So great was the expedition used in performing this operation that the City of London was ready for sea at 11 a.m., and started for her destination shortly after that time, to prosecute the voyage unsue cessfully undertaken by the Tagus. The latter vessel, it is expected, will take the place of the City of London on the Constantinople line, and the adjustment of the ma" chinery will probably be ac complished in time to enable the vessel to start within a day or twa of the ar pointed time—viz., the 27th i nst. The Peninsular, Oriental Company's steam -ship Indus, Captain John Soy, took her departur e at 3 p.m. to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the usual semi-monthly mails for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, India, China, and the Eastern Archipelago. The Indus had about 50 passengers, a full general cargo, and the followingspecie on freight :—For Malta, 2,0801. in gold ; Alexandria, 15,0001: in gold; Bombay, 23,0001. in silver ; Madras, 3001. in silver; Calcutta, 5,000/. in silver; P enang , 2,0001. • in silver ;.Singapore, 30,000/. in silver and 3001. in gold; Hong Kong, 15,200/, in silver and 10,0001. i n gold; Canton, 6 ,500/. in silver • Shanghai, 5501. in silver ;--; the tot a l b e i ng 109,93 6 /. The United States wail steam-ship W as hi ngton, Capt. E. M. Fitch, also sane , . this afternoon for New York, with the British, French, and German mails, upwards of 150 passengers, and n very full and valuable cargo of continental merchandise shipped from Bremen and Havre. The General Serer Steam-shipping Company's ship Queen of the South, Captain Norman, which left Calcutta for Plymouth and Southampton on the 14th of May, and would call at Madras, Ceylon, Mauritius, the Cape, and St. Vincent , is shortly expected at Plymouth and Southampton. The Queen of the South has a full cargo, the chief items of which are 83 bales and 63 cases of raw silks, 4 L 49 chests of i n di go, 2,237 packages of saltpetre, &c. Tue Mauritius, belonging to the same company, is now over due, in con sequence of her machinery being out ° order, but is daily expected. BREAK DOWN OF THE TAGUS.—The Peninsular an d Oriental C ompany ' s steamer Tag - us, which left South' ampton at 3 p.m. on Monday with the Peninsular broke down near the Start, and returned to SouthanT: ton at 5 a.m. yesterday. By 11 a.m. the mails, passe" gers, and c argo were transhipped on board the above named named c ompany ' s chartered steamer the City of L on don' and the latt er h a d s t eamed out of the port. The G-113:43. tar portion of th e ma il f rom t h e steamer Tagus was on board the Indus which left Southampton yesterday with the Indian mail. Milftag