The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

41Ga WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tar DAY—Morn. 11 min. aft. 2—Ever., 31 min. aft. 2 To volnow—liorn. 48 min. aft. 2 —Even. 4 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—Sint °mom, JUNE 7. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 78 —highest sinse noon yesterday. 62 —lowest this morning and during the night. 73 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.85. WIND, S.E. to S. in the morning, now S.W. ; light eere was gentle rain during the night, with sultry w eather, till noon. It is now fine and cool, with sunshine and heavy clouds. Evening fine ; wind fresh. Jura 8. 73 - highest einee noon yesterday. 56 -lowest this morning and during the night. 68 —this day at no on . Banoarraa, 29.78. WIND. and fine wea ther ; fresh a n d squally, with plenty of scud, ff - fil 14 $ k .,, , , ) ,y ‘ , ..,„7:7.;_iz.-- ,, ;•4:: , ...- z , ; , 1 / 4 , , JUNE 8, 185 7. LONDON, MONDAY, It is deeply to be regretted that L ord BROUGHAM was prevented by accidental causes from being in attendance on the 25th ult., W h en the Archbishop of Canterbury, carried, by a m a _ jority of 6, a quasi amendment to the Divorce Bill, which prohibited the guilty parties from marrying again. We cannot conceive that thoir Lordships could possibly have sanctioned suoh a proviso had they had the advantage of hearing the convincing arguments which the Noble and Leirned Lord addressed, on Thursday, in oppo sition thereto. His Lordship justly denounced it Z=am THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAIY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1857 TIER MAJESTY'S THEAT R E. as " the invention of a new species of divorce, be- TUESDAY EVENING. ALBONI, BOTTARDI, VIALETTI, BELLETTI, and BENEVENTANO. TO-MORROW EVENING, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, IL BARBIERE DI SEVIGLIA. Basins, Madame Alboni. After which will be produced an entirely New Ballet, in Two Tableaux, composed expressly for her Majesty's Theatre by M. Maasot, entitled ACA LISTA. FIRST TABLEAls—Terpsichore, Madlle. Rolla ; Acalista Madame Perea Nena; Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, Mdlle Michelet, Mdlle. Karliski, and Mdlle. Brunetti ; Amyntas Y. Daratti. SECOND TABLEAU—(Tho Vision Realised).—Seville.— Acalista, Madame Perea Nena; Conchitti and Carmen, Mdls. pasquali and Morlacchi; Pepe, M. Gambardelli ; Manolo, Massot. Spaniards. For particulars, see bills. A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica tion at the Box-office. at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each. The Second Morning Performance on Monday, June 29, with all the principal Artistes of the Establishment. Full particulars will be duly announced. LES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the FRENCH PLAYS. - - - THIS EVENING (MONDAY), Juise 8, the entertain ments will commence at half-past 8 o'clock precisely, by the production of (for the sixth time in this country), the new Operette-Militaire, en un Acte, DR \GONE fTE. M. Gnyot, M. Tajau, M. Leonce, and Mdlle. Corally Guffroy. After which (for the fourth time), Chinoiserie Musicale, in tin Acte, BA-TA-CLAN. Musique do Offenbach. Princi pal Characters by M. Pradeau, M. Mesmacre, M. Guyot, and lidlle. Delmont. To conclude with Buffonneris Musicale, en an Act, LES DEUX AVEUGLES. M. Pradean and Mesmacer. The Orchestra of the Theatre des Bouffes will accom pany these Representations, under the direction of the composer, M. Offenbach. This Engagement being limited to one month, Performances will be given EVERY EVENING. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's /Loyal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. T HEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prfces—Pit and Promenade, ls ; Boxes, 2s. 6d., 25., and Is. 6d. ; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. First Equestrian Artistes in the World : —Madame Schap lain, Madame Newsome, La Petite Wells, Signora Delavanti, and Miss Ella ; Miss E. J.Wells, Mdlles. Flora, Fabia, and and Marie, Misses Newsome, Moffatt, Delavanti, Potter, Jen nings ; the Manchester Boy, Masters J. Wells, A. Wells, E. Moffatt, Henrico and Carlo Delavanti, Sig. Felix Delavanti, Mons. Becq. Mons. Ferdinand, Mons. Eugene, Mr. Tom Swann, Mr. B. Fuller, Mr. W. Fuller, and the great Shaks pz•ian Clown, Wallett, will appear each evening in a series of Performances, original and unapproachable. Director—Mr. Stakes, Acting Manager—Mr. E. Stirling. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's tragedy of KING RICHARD THE SECOND. King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by a new Farce, in one act, called AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOUSE IS HIS CASTLE. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with a new drama, in two periods, entitled TILE HUSBAND OF AN HOUR. Mr. Buckstone, &c. _ Followed by A PRETFY PIECE OF BUSINESS. After which ' the muccessfu' Classical Love Story. un der the Apple-lation of ATAL 4.NTA : or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. In future the prices will be: — Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery • . 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of GEORGE DA RVILLE, in which Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Redford, and Madame Celeste will perform. After which, THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG, in which Mr Webster will app-ar. To eonclude with A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL. Mr. Wright, Ste. 11) OYAL SURREY THEATRE, L . Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Cresvriek. THIS EVENING will be performed LA TRAVIATA. Ilfr. Haigh arid Lucy Eacott. To conclude with DEEDS, NOT WORDS. Messrs. Shep herd, Widdicomb, and Miss Eburne. STRAND THEATRE.-BOSCO will APPEAR THIS EVENING, in his Fairy Temple of the Magi, in his wondrous Entertainment of Natural Magic, Music, and Ventriloquism, illustrated by gorgeous paraphernalia and superb display of vertu. Stalls, 3s ; boxes, 28 ; pit, is ; gallery, 6d. A Morning Performance on Saturdays, at 2. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will be performed A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. After which, a new drama, called DADDY HARDACRE, )fr. Robson, &c. To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. r. I The encomiums of the press and the approbation of de lighted audiences justify Mr. William Cooke in announcing "Il Trovatore," with Equestrian Illustrations, every Even ing, until further notice. THIS EVENING (Monday, June 8), Verdi's far-famed Opera of 'IL TROVATORE ; or, The Gipsy's Vengeance. The whole of the Music as performed at the Italian Opera, and Equestrian Illustrations. Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. Augustus Brabam, Miss M. Somers, Mr. Brookhouse Bowler, and Mr. Francis Kirby, and Miss Fanny Haddart. Mr. Borrani. Conductor and Composer—Herr Meyer Lutz. With a powerful Band and Chorus. Manager and Director of the Opera Company—Mr. Augustus Brahaw. After which, Mr. Wm. Cooke's Inimitable SCENES in the ARENA, supported by the Unequalled Troupe of Eques trians. T. conclude with the musical farce of THE WATER MAN. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, l.s. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Notice—During the Opera Season Half-price will take place at 9 o'clock. Box-office open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr. W. W.st. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing comptny of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of 42 elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, H. ;Grover, T. Farrant, S. .Tones. J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ;harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence r.t Seven o'clock •precisely, Suppers, &a., until twelve o'clock. ing neither separation a,„gleipa et thoro, nor divorce a vinculo matrimonii, but partly one and partly the other, taking the defects and imperfec tions of both. It was partial and imperfect, like the divorce a mensa et thoro, and irrevocable like divorce a vinculo 1" * * Substantially treated the invention left the husband free, but with the usual imperfection of all unnatural productions it left the wife not altogether free, nor altogether fettered. Part of her chain was removed, but some links were left clanking round the rags to which they were pleased to reduce her. She was not to marry again—she was re d uced to the alternative of prostitution or want— of sinning or starving—of the streets or the workhouse." What answer can be given to this plain and straightforward statement ? How is it consistent with the charity of Him who told the offender "to go and sin no more." Surely, as we recently stated, it is " a refinement of Mezen tian cruelty to chain a helpless woman to one who is nominally, but not really a husband," and still worse is it to bind her irrevocably to one who may become the husband of another wife ! Besides, there is no reciprocity I It is solely directed against the weaker sex, who in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred will be the parties subjected to the unnatural and impolitic prohibition —a pro hibition which renders repentance impossible, and permits nulls vestigia retrorsum. The woman who has once sinned, under the strongest temptation, —who has given such fearful proof of the violence of her passion, will not abandon herself to the dreary seclusion of the cloister, but will enter into open and unblushing crime when the hope of amendment is taken away. But the proviso is as strongly opposed to expe diency as it is to morality. So far from discou raging the chief offenders, it will, as we declared when the amendment was carried by an Episcopal majority, directly stimulate them to the Commis ! I sion of the social outrage. The man was in the vast majority of instances the principal offender, and this removed almost the only check that has hitherto existed by " giving him an Act of Parliament guarantee against having to take to his home the accomplice of his guilt." There are many considerations affecting the female —that must induce her, at least, to pause before she abandons herself to sin and shame. She will be driven from society—for ever forfeit her status. Her children will be for ever separated from her, no trifling loss to a mother. Everything dear to the female heart must b 3 surrendered, and those sacrifices afford much better security than the pro visions so "unjustly, uncharitably, and inexpedi ently," added to the bill. We trust, then, that the opportunity of recon sideration which still remains may not be neg lected or misapplied—that their Lordships may yet exclude the clause, before the bill is trans mitted to the other House. We have not the slightest doubt that it will be expunged in the Commons, but we should regret to see a con flict on such a point, between the hereditary and representative branches of the Legislature —a conflict which must operate so unfavourably to their lordships, and R hich may revive the ques tion—should bishops be permitted to have seats in Parliament I We are glad to find that the Times has come round to the views which wo put forward on Sa turday, respecting the effect of the payment of . the 1,125,0001. to Denmark for the redemption of the Sound Dues, on the monetary condition of the country. On that day the Leviathan rejoiced that the Chancellor of the Exchequer " re. quired no borrowing powers "—that he was enabled, in consequence of his own miscalcula tions, to pay off the entire sum at once. It was totally oblivious of the fiscal injustice to the over burdened taxpayers. The more that could be got of poor JOHN BULL'S pocket, the greater the impediments to any remission of the national burdens, the better. All was couleur de rose, and Sir G. C. LEWIS was entitled to credit for his " tarnation sharpness" in obtaining, by something almost amounting to false pretences, the imposi tion of• unnecessary duties on tea, coffee, and sugar, and thereby the means of paying off a sum that might more properly have been spread over a succession of years. But now " a change has come o'er the spirit of its dream." When its attention has been directed to the point it perceives that the time is rapidly approaching when " the last straw " may be heaped on the patient animal. It was some time since unwillingly obliged to confess " that a return to cheap money cannot be an ticipated for some years." Every effort that could be made was inadequate to meet the wants and exigencies of the nation, occasioned by the unjust and impolitic act of 1844. It has at length discovered that " the fact that the 1,125,0001. to be paid t o D anmar k in redemp tion of the Sound Dues will have to be paid in specie, or ita equivalent, within three or four months, must constitute a new element of distur bance in the monei•market." Why of course it must, that was what we explained, and the Times ignored, on Saturday. There can be but little doubt that Danmark will avail itself of the favourable opportunity to retain so valuable a deposit. It is but a specious fallacy to suppose that the money thus recklessly parted with can. find its way back " through the ordinary channels of trade." No ; we may learn wisdom in time, but unfortunately it will be too lute. It will be another illustration of the folly of" shutting the stable door after the steed has been stolen." Large sums are to be paid by other States, but (as the Times sagaciously remarks) they " will doubtless avail themselves of the privilege of making the payments in half-yearly instal ments, Spread over 20 years, with interest at 4 per cent. Of course they will. They can not boast of such brilliant financiers as Sir G. C. LEwl3 ! They have ministers who look before them, and do not leave the interests of the. country, which they represent to mere chance. The " disturbance of th e M oney Market " was an obvious result of the operation which every man of ordinary capacity must have foreseen. Well, we suppose that we must submit to the evil with the beat grace possible. The day o f reckoning must come earlier or later, and the sooner the crisis is encountered the better. Not all the Australian and Californian discoveries have sufficed to bolster up the system. We must then at last take the bull by the horns, and strike at the root of the grievance. We may well endure an addition to the evil, in the hope that it may lead to a speedy and permanent re lease from its exciting cause, the iniquitous monetary code under which the nation has so long been oppressed, and un d er w hi c h th e we lf are , bappiness, and prosperity of its people, as well as its commercial and manufactuting supremacy, are gradually but steadily passing away. A curiously timely and startling illustration of the necessity for the Sale of Poisons Bill• to which we directed attention in our Saturday evening;e impression has just transpired. The child •of a Liverpool merchant having fallen a victim to Os, e carelessness of a chemist's assistant in making up a dodoes prescription. Interrupted in the pre paration: of this prescription by the entrance of another customer into his employer's shop, the as sistant, it appears, on returning to complete the very simple task he had already commenced, in stead.of mingling sugar with the medicine, mixed morphia with its ingredients, by a fatal inadver tence—the result being the poor child's death upon the following morning. Now, this is just precisely a case in point, as evidencing the neces sity of the humane measure now rapidly passing through its last stages in the Imperial Parliament. It was a case that occurred, not last month or last year, but only the other day. It was no further back than on Friday that the lamentable casualty was under an investigation before the Coroner's Jury at Liverpool—the case being adjourned for analysis--so that it can scarcely be said even now to have actually terminated. That we regard it as anything but an exceptional case, may be seen at once upon reference to our remarks upon Satur day on the need of the Sale of Poisons Bill now being rapidly transformed into a legislative enact ment. We then spoke of the accidental admi nistration of poison, as of an evil the frequency of which it has long been absolutely appalling to contemplate. We observed of the fatal conse quences resulting from this evil that they might only too readily be counted up, so to speak, by wholesale. And now, scarcely have we so re marked, when another melancholy testimony of the fact comes to our knowledge ! According to the regulations to be hereafter enforced under the new enactment regulating the sale of poisons throughout the United Kingdom —no poison whatever will be sold except to an adult, and that, moreover, in the presence of wit nesses. Had any one been looking over the shoulder of this chemist's assistant down at Liverpool at the time he was making up the fatally bungled prescription, it would have been impossible for him to have mixed up morphia, instead of sugar, with the medicine. Another security will be ensured to the public through the Bill new hastening to its completion ; it being enacted thereby-that no poison shall in future be procurable except upon the certificate of a cler gyman, of a justice of the peace, of two house holders, or of a medical practitioner. An ex emption, of course, being always made in the case of a medical prescription—that of itself consti tuting in a manner the formally authen ticated certificate of a physician. Moreover— beyond all these precautionary arrangements prior to all future sales of poisons after the new statute shall have come into actual operation—the ven dors of all deadly drugs of this description will be required by law to keep a precise and minutely accurate account of the date, of the person, and of the quantity, in regard to each separate sale of these poisonous commodities—the date of the sale, the person who was the purchaser, and the quan tity sold to him across the counter. An admirably judicious provision—one that will render Secrecy henceforth almost impossible to all would-be Poisoners ! Besides the preventive arrangements already here enumerated—there are others, how ever, the necessity for which may be presumed at once to be still more glaringly apparent. It must be perfectly plain to every one that access to poi sonous drugs ought, in reason, to be rendered in the chemist's shop itself a matter of some little difficulty. It might even be advisable to require that no poisons should in any instance be com prised among the stores in the outer room of an apothecary—that they ought invariably to be kept as a matter of form in the inner room, in the room behind the shop I And that, wherever kept, they sho'uld always be kept under lock and key. A few simple regulations like these might be the means of saving many lives in the course of a single twelvemonth. Hot, many those may con jecture for themselves, who will muse for a few passing moments over the frightful statistics men tioned by Lord GRANYILLS, and to which we referred in our remarks on this subject in our impression of Saturday !evening. It must be satisfactory to everyone to note the emphatic commendation pronounced upon this new mea sure for the regulation of the sale of Poisons by Lord CAMPBELL, who observes that he is strongly inclined to think that the Bill will do much to prevent the sale of poisons for improper purposes, and that, indeed, as far as he can see, it accom plishes all' that legislation can do in the matter. That, however, we do not pin our faith to. But we accept the measure for such as it is, and we accept it gratefully. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty will this even. Log honour the performances at this fashionable theatre with her presence. Tun DOVER MAIL PACKET COMPANY.—The vessels at present employed in the mail contract service from Dover are the Queen, the Ondine, the Vivid, the Al liance, the Imperatrice, and the Garland. Th e i r power varies from 80 to 120 horses, and their tonnage ranges from 250 to 308. They are only partly manned by British seamen, except the Vivid. DEALH of JOHN HAMPDEN NoRTHHOUSE.—On Sa turday we had the melancholy task of recording the death of Mr. J. H. Stevens, the architect. The same day ex pired the chief associate of Mr. Stevens in framing the details of the grand plan, attributed to Mr. 8..8. Cab bell, for enabling the working classes to sustain them selves when temporarily out of employment, without undergoing separation from their wives and little ones, through the " tender m erc i es " o f th e N ew Poor Law. Young Mr. Northhouse possessed rare qualities of head and heart. His intellectual grandeur as a writer and speaker had few equals. His success is attributed to his adoption of the maxim of Vie,esiinus Knox—" Never even in jest support that which you believe to be wrong." Hence his firm earnestness went right home to the con viction of those he addressed, and he never was de feated. Called John Hampden from his birth, on the night of the illumination for the passing of the Reform Bill, after his father had rescued the borough of Stam ford from lordly domination, he felt the significancy of the name, and his mind being stored with the lora of an cient Greece and Rome, be luxuriated over the charac ters of Leonidas and Miltiades of the one, and of Cato and Regulus of the other. With a burning hatred of despotism and oppression he united the gentlest sympa thies. All who admired him, and they were all who knew him, loved hi m . His ad words, after having heard the 14th chapter of John read to him, and awaking from a transient delirium, were, "What beautiful things I have been reading. I shall read more in the morning when it is light." The morning broke—it was light, and he did read, in another world, his " title to the skiee.--Correspondent of the ,Morning Advertiser. TUE GREAT EASTERN.—During the banquet given by the Institution of Civil Engineers on the occasion of presenting a very handsome testimonial, valued at 2,0001., to Charles Manby, Esq., their retiring secretary, Mr. Glyno, having proposed "Success to the Great Eastern steam-ship,' coupling with the toast the name of "dr. Scott Russell, Mr. Scott Russ sell said he was undoubtedly proud of being the builder of the great ship, and should feel still prouder if she achieved .the su•Joess he ventured to anticipate. The most remarkable feature connected with it was that body of men should be found who would subscribr 700,000/., for an undertaking the success of_which was deolared to be very problematical ; that feeling would, however, be diminished when it was known that three fourths of the shares in the undertaking were held •by members and associates of the Institution of Civil Engineers. That fact alone spoke volumes for the safety of the structure. Mr. Brunel, who must be called the father of the project, had desired to have the smallest ship capable of carrying its own "fuel to Auatralia and back, and conveying such a cargo of goods and passengers as should be remunerative. Calculation showed the actual dimensions to be neces sary, and the system of cellular construction adopted at the Britannia-bridge afforded the strength for these vastly increased proportions which had at first surprised even English engineers, with their habit of , regarding everything as possible. The site did not now, however, astonish even the merchants, who contemplated finding cargoes for her without tiotible. • It would be a proud day, both for Mr. Brunel (whose absence he regretted) and fur him, when the Greit Eastern was committed to her proper element. The ship was a specimen of what the combined qualities of men could produce, and it im pressed upon all beholders the advantages of such union as the institution afforded the means of encouraging. United, they could do almost anything, and their efforts. must benefit their country, and be conducive to their own good. LATEST NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAT 28. The Sultan, owing to the exhaustion of the Treasury,has imposed a t ax o f 3 2 p i astres on Jews and Christians of all ages , w h o may be exempted from military service. He will further require the tax to be paid two years in advance. Diplomatic conferences were about to take plac shortly between the Grand Vizier and the Repre sentatives of the Powers who were parties to the Treaty of Paris, in order to agree on the interpre tation of the Firman for convoking the Divans in the Principalities. The Russians have opened the campaign against Schamyl. Prince Baryatinski commands the expedition. M. Finck, Consul for France, at Tiflis, accom panies the Prince. A telegraphic despatch has been received at Marseilles, announcing the death of Gen. Outram, the British Commander-in-Chief, in Persia. From news already received this intelligence is looked upon . as very doubtful. The Spanish squadron is off the coast of Bar bary, and is expected to act against the Riff pi rates and the Moors, who have attacked the Spa nish posts on that coast. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moniteur has a despatch addressed to the Minister of War by Marshal Randon, dated Souk el-Arba, May 31, in which are given details, to the effect that since the submission of the Beni-Raten and Arb-Douela had been made, on the 28th General Macmahon's division marched at an early hour from its position, four miles in advance, as far as Aboudt. Heavy fogs and rain prevented fur ther movements. The troops were in excellent health ; and on the 28th. 29th, and 30th, various tribes—the Beni-Fraoucen, Beni-Bou-Chaib, Beni- Khellili, came in successively to ask aman (pardon), and accept the conditions imposed on them. Fur ther, the Beni-Malunoud, who were last year im practicable, have sent hostages to the French camp. Roads have been established or restored, and the position of the French division is excellent. The Siecle contains the following very suggestive Paragraph concerning the elections :—" Are we to consider the department of the Maine-et-Loire as placed beyond the common law ? This might be believed, for the Independant de l'Ouest, in its number of the oth inst., affirms that it has been prohibited from writing about electoral bulletins ; that it has been officially invited to abstain from any observation that might resemble a censure, a blame, or even a praise of the functionaries of the Empire ; finally, that it cannot interfere in the elections, as silence had been imposed on it. After the circular of the Minister of the Interior, and when similar prohibitions, dictated by excess of zeal, have been everywhere withdrawn, the posi tion to which the Independant de l'Ouest has been reduced is an anomaly which cannot last, and to which we now direct the attention of govern ment." HERAT. Mohammed Yussouf, a man who some short time back played a considerable political part, and who, it may be remembered, assassinated the Prince of Herat, has, in his turn, fallen by the hands of the sons of the murdered man. A letter from Teheran, in the Presse d'9rient, gives the following account of the affair : "Our readers must remember that Mohammed Yussouf, after assassinating Seid Ali Khan, the Prince of Herat, took possession of that place in concert with Isa Khan, and maintained a siege against the Persian army. Being closely pressed by the besiegers, and justly alarmed at the fate which would :wait him if he fell into the hands of the Persians, blohammed fled from Herat. He was, however, seized and carr i e d t o T e h eran, where, not withstanding hiscriutes, he was pardoned by Nass-reddin-Shah. The children of Seid Ali Khan had not,, however, renounced the idea of avenging the death of theirfather ; they arrived at Te heran, and demanded justice on the murderer. The Shah, not wishing that the pardon he had granted to Mohammed should be a vain work, en deavoured to calm the resentment of the sons of Seid Ali Khan, but all his efforts were In vain, the murderer was handed over to justice, tried and found guilty, and delivered up to the sons. The Government being still desirous of saving the life of Mohammed, offered a very considerable sum by way' of ransom, but the offer was refused, and on the Bth the sons of SeldAli Khan themselves put the murderer of their father to death. The event has produced a great sensation. The Persian charac ter rarely presents examples of such violent ani mosity and thirst for vengeance. The guilty person is claimed, and the terror of punishment is allowed to hang over him for a time, but blood is rarely shed. The vengeance of families is generally confined to taking the murderer to the spot where the murdered man has been buried, where he is ordered to demand pardon from the dead and to pray for him. This philosophical vengeance did not, however, satisfy the sons of Seid Ali Khan. DENMARK AND GERMANY. The following note has been addressed to Herr von Steffens, Prussian Charge d'Affaires at Copen hagen : "BERLIN, MAY 20. "The Courts of Berlin and Vienna had, as you are aware, on several occasions pointed out to the Cabinet of Copenhagen how necessary it was, in the settlement of the su bj ect connecte d with the constitution of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauen , burg, first and foremost to hear' the representa tions of the Estates with regard to those altera tions of their former constitutions that have been octroy6 to them, and in this way afford them the possibility and an opportunity of bringing forward their grievances and their proposals. " To this end the proposal was made towards the close of last March that the Estates should be con voked as early as possible for an extraordinary Diet. In reply to this proposal a despatch (copy of which is appended hereto) was communicated to us by Baron von Brockdorf, dated Copenhagen, 13th inst. " From this despatch we have learnt with satis faction that the Government of his Majesty the King of Denmark, after having accomplished its reconstitution, has resolved to follow the course re commended to it, and we sincerely congratulate it on having adopted a measure that was called for equally by its own interests and by the duties it owes to the Duchies and the German Confederation. " The Danish despatch contains the promise that the provincial estates of Holstein shall be convoked at the latest in August of this year, and a revised draught of a constitution for the special affairs' of the Duchy be submitted to them for due delibera tion according to the forms of their coastitution. It contains also the further promise that this draft to be submitted to them shall also contain those provisions which shall define the scope of the spe cial affairs' of the Duchy of Holstein. Finally, there was specially the express assurance given in it, and to this we attach especial weight, that the Assembly of the Estates should have ample oppor tunity afforded them of expressing themselves freely and unhindered on the limits to be put to the competence of the Estates. _ _ "In all this, however, there is nothing said as to how far the Danish Government will be prepared to meet the claims to which thejpromises of 1851 and 1852 entitle the Duchies and the Confederation. On this point we must wait for the results of the ap proaching deliberations of the Estate', and although in respect to it we confidently reckon on the wis dom and justice of his Majesty the King of Den mark, all the rights must of course be reserved and vindicated which flow out from the constitution of the Duchies, and from the undertaking entered into by the Crown of Denmark with Prussia and Austria in the years 1851 and 1852. "If, however, the opportunity be afforded to the Estates, conformably to the promise made, of speaking out their sentiments as to their rights and claims, and duly to bring forward their grievances and requirements , an appropriate basis will thereby beobtai ne d f or th e further treatment of the matter, and in this way a suitable advance will have been made towards the settlement of the constitution question, on which the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna have felt themselves compelled to insist. " Under these circumstances we, in common with the Court of Vienna, find ourselves at the present moment under no call to bring the matter before the German Diet. " It must be observed, however, that the Copen hagen despatch holds out an expectation of a draught to be submitted to the Estates of Holstein only in respect of the special affairs' of the Ducby ;of the constitution for the common affairs' of the Danish Monarchy there is no special mention made. We neverthelesaconsider ourselves justified in assuming , that the Estates will be left at lib er t y , i n a ddi t i on to the prat tised per m i ss i on to deliberate on the limitS to be assigned to the competence of the Estates, also to bring forward their objections and proposals with reference to the position oc cupied the Duchies or their representatives in the ' entire monarchy constitution,' and to vindicate the rights that accrue to them from the promises made to them in 1852, not only with reference to the reconstruction of the special constitutions, but also to the manner in which the Duchies are fitted into the constitution of the entire monarchy.' For, on the one hand, it is beyond all doubt, as we have frequently adduced, that it is the constitution of the common affairs of the monarchy' which most vitally affects the former constitution of the Duchy, and that, there fore, according to the terms of the constitution, and according to the assurances which have been given them, the Estates have a claim to be heard on the subject of these changes. On the other hand, it follows from this reciprocal relation between the constitution of the entire monarchy and the former constitution of the Duchies, and the alteration in troduced by the entire monarchy constitution in the competence of the Estates, that any discussion as to the limits of the competence of the Estates must necessarily involve the question of their relation to the entire monarchy constitution. "Finally, the despatch of the 13th inst. does not make any special mention of the Duchy of Lauen burg ; we presume this to have arisen from the cir cumstance that, as is currently understood, negotia tions have been opened with the Estates of Lauen burg, for we believe we may look on it as beyond all question that the Government of his Majesty the King of Denmark is prepared to recognise a no less amount of rights as resident in the Estates of Lauenburg than in those of Holstein. " You are empowered to communicate the con tents of this despatch to the Danish Government. Should our way of viewing the late overtures of the Danish Cabinet, contrary to our hopes and expecta tions, not be in conformity with its views and in tentions, we should in that case venture to reckon on a further communication on the subject, and on the tenour of that it would depend how far we should, under those circumstances, feel ourselves in duty bound to submit the matter to the German Confederation. "From your last reports I observe that, in con sequence of the change that had taken place in Ministerial arrangements in Copenhagen, you had not communicated to the Danish Cabinet my last despatch of the 10th inst., in which I informed you of the intention of the Courts of Berlin and Vienna to make a communication to the German Diet on this subject ; you will, therefore, take an oppor tunity of bringing it confidentially to the know ledge of M. Michelsen, in order that he may learn from it how firmly we abide by our hopes and ex pectations that the government of his Majesty the King of Denmark wiil not close its ears to our friendly counsel. 66 MANTEUFFEL." THE OVERLAND MAIL. Advices in anticipation of the Overland Mail have been received. The dates are :—Bombay, May 11 ; Calcutta, May 2 ; Hong Kong, April 27. INDIA AND PERSIA. The most important news from India is contained in the following telegraphic despatch, printed on a small slip of paper as a supplement to the Bombay Times : "MUTINY AT MEERUT.—WO have just received the following serious intelligence by electric tele graph from Agra. The 3d Cavalry are in open mutiny. They have burnt down the lines and offi cers' bungalows. Several officers and men killed and wounded." An interval of nine days only having elapsed since the departure of the previous mail, the ordi nary summary of general news is but brief. The English mail which arrived out on the evening of the 4th, brought the results of the general election. " The political obliteration of the Manchester and Peelite party (says the Bombay Times) has neither surprised nor offended the Indian public on this side ; for, although Bombay constitutes the head quarters of the cotton interest, there was no sym pathy whatever between us and the peace-at-any price party, and as little with the obstructive and impracticable remnant of the so-called followers of Peel. " The weather continues favourable upon th• whole—the nights being cool and pleasant. The governors of the Presidencies are at the respective seats of their administration. The transaction of business in the import market has been very limited ; there is no change to report in our money market, and freights have declined. In pursuance of orders received by General Outram, the Persiau Expeditionary Force is to remain in the Persian Gulf for three months after the ratification of the treaty, which is appointed to take place at Bagdad, on the 4th of Juue, under the authority of the Honourable Mr. Murray. The head-quarters, staff, and the first division will remain at Bushire ; the second division at Mohamra. Under this arrangement it is not likely that the troops will reach India much be fore the close of the year. We (Bombay Times) have received numerous letters from correspondents in the Gulf, and they all express extreme dissatis faction with the terms of the peace, and extreme anxiety to get back to India." Respecting the disturbances at Umballah, of which some report reached us by the last mail, the Madras Athenceton of May 8, says :—" The dis affection occasioned by the order to issue the greasy cartridges, or whatever other cause may have led to the feeling, has extended to Umballah. The native troops stationed in that place have burnt down the empty European barracks, the native infantry hospital, the officers' quarters. and Sepoys' houses. Our authority—the Delhi Gazette—adds that in consequence of these acts the order to use the greased cartridges has been countermanded pending a reference to the Commander-in-Chief, and that dragoons are pa trolling the place in order to prevent further out. trages ; the above occurred on the 15th March. No further news up to the time of writing has been received. While upon the subject of mutinous sepoys it may be mentioned that the 34th B. N. I. —a regiment which has apparently had more to do with creating disaffection than the bullock's grease and hog's fat—is about to be disbanded. Such at least is the statement of well-informed Bengal papers, and it is added that its commander Lieut.- Colonel Wheeler, is to be deprived of a command in future." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, MAY 10. We have no change to report in our money market during the past ten days. Rates of discount at the Banks remain the same, and money is abundant in the Bazaar. Government Securities have improved slightly, and we quote 4 per cent. paper 85i to 86, and fives par to I premium. Local Joint Stock shares remain at about former quotations. IMPORTS. CorroN Ppm Goons.—The amount of business tran sacted during the period has been limited. Grey shirt lugs are in weak inquiry ; grey T cloths are very scarce. Grey jacconets are no? in good demand ; grey domestics have been in fair inquiry. Grey twills have improved in prices during the running fair season. BLEACHED AND FANCY Gans.—Bleached Madapol lams are very dull of sale ; shirtings in very limited de mand. Book muslins have been enquired for, and lap pets have sparingly changed hands. YARNB.—In both mule and water, prices have im proved generally, and a large amount of business has been done during the week. METALS.—Iron is in less demand at the date of last report ; Spelter has also declined. The value of tia plates continue firm ; pig and sheet leal are both scarce. CoOEIINEAL.—No change worth noticing. MARINE STORM—Twine is scarce, cordage remains firm, and canvas is in little inquiry. EXPORTS. COTTON WOOL.—The rates of this article have fluctu ated much during the period under notice. The prices advanced temporarily, but have again settled down at the rates last reported. OIL SEEDS.—The prices have declined, in consequence of fresh arrivals of linseed. OPlUM.—Prices have considerably advanced, and our present quotations are Rs. 1120 for Indore, and Rs. 1130 for Mundlesir. TONNAGE.—lmmediately after the news of the nego tiation of peace with Persia, the rate of freights de clined, and now vary from 2/. 15s. to 2/. 178. 6d. per ton for Liverpool and London. EXCHANGE—Has been chiefly at 2 1 13-16th for Cot ton bills, but the business for this steamer has not been extensive. China drawn have not been obtainable up to the moment of waiting. On C a l cutta sight Rs. 99i ; on China 60 days' eight Re. 223 ; on Madras 60 days' sight Re. 99k. _ _ - FREIGHTS.—Cotton.—TO London, 2/. ss. to 21. 15s. per ton; to Liverpool, 24 10e. to 3/, per ton; to Cal cotta, 385 to 400 Rs. per rays ; to China, nominal, per cdy. CALCUTTA, MAY 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alma, bringing the London mail of the 26th of March last, arrived here on the 29th tilt., and her packets were distributed the same evening. During the interval that has elapsed since our report of the 22d tilt., our produce market has shown no signs of•activity ; on the contrary, it has taken a more unfa ♦ourable turn. The high prices of produce in general, small stocks, and enhanced rates in freights, have com bined to render operations almost impossible. Even raw silk, which before the receipt by telegraph of last ad vices from home, was a general favourite, has been negl , -?eted, and is actually unsaleable at the present moment. Corahs have been moderately dealt in at slightly higher prices. Sugar continues in very limited request.. Saltpetre dull and drooping. Jute in active demand at extreme figures. All other articles in much the same position as reported last. Our import market as regards British cotton piece goods and twist, has assmed a more favourable position, consequent on the receipt of advices of an encouraging nature from the upcountry marts, and though we have experienced an increased demand for some descriptions of cloth, there has scarcely been any material improve ment in value, supplies latterley having proved more than sufficient to meet our requirements. In grey shirt. ings, low and medium kinds have slightly declined, whilst others are higher. White rather neglected. Grey jacconets in better request. White have continued unaltered. Grey madapollams have improved a little. A. further advance has taken place in the value of Mule twist caused by reduced stocks. In the mettle market very little has been done, and sheathing copper and tiles have declined. Spelter is also quoted slightly lower. EXCHANGL—The rate for the present mail opened at 23. lid., then declined to 23. lid., at which it held for a few days, and then again advanced to 2s. lid. for first class credits at six months' sight, and 2s. lid. for docu ments. Best Bank bills may be quoted at 23. ld., six months' sight. Bank post bills have sold at 2s. per rupee. On China.—Nothing doing, bills being greatly in demand, but none offering. Last transactions at 219 rupees per 100 dole. CHINA. HONG KONG, APRIL 27. The steamer Cadiz, with the bi-monthly mail to Europe has been detained to receivethe largo cargo of silk from Shanghai per steamer Formosa. Every attempt to get off Commodore Keppel's ship has failed ; the greater part of her guns, and all her standing and running rigging, spars, A:c., have been saved, but asevereloss—th most serious —is the large am o u n t' of new and peculiar shell on board, which it will take months to replace. Arrangements have been made by Commodore Keppel with the Chinese to raise the Raleigh, and hopes are entertained of getting her to some place of repair ; but the hope is a distant one ; and if unsuccessful the wreck will be blown up. Com modore Keppel and his officers y)ssess the affection and esteem of all, and the casualty to his ship is a matter of universal regret. The murderer of Mr. Marwick, Government auctioneer at Hongkong, after much shuffling di plomacy on the part of the Chinese authorities, has been surrendered and will undergo his trial ; the prisoner has made disclosures which proves that he had a number of confederates ; that the murder of Europeans was projected on a large scale, and that rewards were offered for success by the Chinese authorities. The rock the Raleigh struck on is said not to have been marked on the English charts. In trade little has been done the last 10 days. The long drought is said to have affected the first crop of Canton silk, which will be a short one. Cotton is quoted 91 dols. to 11 dols. for Benda; and Bombay. Cotton Yarn.—Nos. 28 to 32, 34 dole. to 35 dole. ; Nos. 38 to 42, 42 dole, to 44 dots. Longcloths.—Grays, 6i catties, 2 dols. Sc. to 2 dole. 10c. ; whites, 54 reed, 2 dols. ; 64 reed, 2 dole. 40c. ; no sales. Nail rod iron, 4 dole. ; tin plates, 10 dOls. ; lead, 8 dole. nominal. Rice declined to 2 dols. 66c. to 2 dole. 90c., but is again quoted at 3 dols. to 3 dols. 10c. Prices are expected to rule high for some time. Exchange on England, ss. Oid. to ss. od. ; on India, 233 r. to 233 r. ; sycee silver, 10 per cent. premium ; gold, 22 dols. per tael ; clean Mexican dollars, A to 1 per cent. premium. Freights have improved, and vessels are wanted to load sugar to Great Britain at 41. to 4/. Sc., and 10 . s. extra to the continent. Ships are also still re quired for emigrants and to load rice. The total export of tea to Great Britain from the Jet of July, 1856, to the end of April, 1857, it is estimated will be about 58,000,0001 b. against 80,000,0001 b. to the same time the previous year, being a deficiency of 22,000,0001 b. Silk arrived, 87,000 bales. On the market, 2,000 bales. Quotations were—Tsatlee, No. 3, 405 dole. ; No. 4, 390 dole. ; inferior , 360 to 380 dols. Tay seams, good, 360 t o 380 dole. ; middling to fair, 315 to 345 dols. ; inferior to middling, 275 to 310 dols. Throwns, 400 to 410 dole. Exchange on England, 7s. 4d. to 7s. sd. ; for Mexican dollars, ss. 4d. ; and on India, 335 rs, to 338 rs. AUSTRALIA. We take the following summary of Australian news from the lliebourne Argus of 14th April : "Our last summary was despatched by the European, Royal mail steam ship, on the 15th March. The depar ture of the Columbian affords an excellent opportunity for the transmission to Europe of another chaptor in the history of the progress of the colony. " THE GOLDFIELDS. " The yield of the goldfields continues to be subject to the fluctuations with which the current year com menced. The mildness of the weather and the scarcity of water have been protracted over a longer season than usual, and the escort returns have not been maintained up to the average of the year 1856. It is, however, satisfactory to know that they have been considerably above the average of the years 1854-55. The re ,ipts by escort and the shipments for the first three quarters of the following years, were : FIRST THREE MONTHS. 1854 1855 1856 1857 oz. oz. oz. oz. Receipts by escort 382,901 407,394 748,303 527,154 Shipments "The greatest falling off this year, as compared with 1856, is, it will be observed, in the escort returns. The shipments, under ail disadvantages, still keep up to the average of 10 tons troy per month, or 120 tons per year, a sum total not to be despised from a colony so sparsely popullted. The decline'in the escorts is to be attributed to the fact that the improved state of the roads enables coaches to run through to Melbourne in a day, quite as much as to the undoubted temporary flucteation in the yield. "When tha wet weather has set in sufficiently to flood the creeks and the old water holes, the escort re turns will show a decided improvement. At present comparatively few puddling machines are at work, and large boards of rich ' washing stuff' are in the hands of the miners. Some fine nuggets were brought into town last week from Korong and from Dunolly. The departures of gold ships since last summer have been— " March 3, JosephTarratt, for Bombay, 1,576 ounces ; 7th, Sussex, for London, 47,844; 80, I'. A. Cole, for Hongkong, 7,260 ; Bth, Persia, for Bombay, 1,445 : Bth, Lancaster, for Calcutta, 2,669 ; Bth, Monarch, for Syd ney, 45 ; Bth, Stebonheath. for London, 5,254 ; 14th, Walmer Castle, for London, 38,123; 14th, European, for Suez, 10,704 ; 20th, Francis Henty, for London, 24,732 ; 21st, Tudor, for Liverpool, 14,502 ; 21st, Royal Shepherd, for Launceston, 20 ; 23d, Jeannette, for Hongkong, 2,831; 25th, Kent, for London, 69,221 ; 29th, Day Dream, for Calcutta, 2,311; April 3, Challenge, for Hongkong, 675 ; 6th, Champion, for Liverpool, 32,831; 7th, Roxburgh Castle, for London, 30,267; 9th, Cornwall, for Hong Kong, 596. " The population of the colony on the let of January was, according to official returns, 351,000 souls. To this, if we add the balance of arrivals over departures since, and the increase of births over deaths, we shall arrive at the following calculation : Population Ist of January, 1857 351,000 Balance of arrivals, January • 5,214 Ditto, February. 7OO Ditto, March Increase by births over deaths for three months 1,400 Total 362,152 "A census was taken on the 29th of March last, from which, when completed, valuable statistics can be drawn. Hitherto it is admitted the information on the subject of population has not been very accurate. " All our politicians are looking forward with strong interest to the events of the next tew days. Parliament reassembles to•worrow, and the Parliamentary verdict upon the O'Shanassy Ministry will then be given. Hitherto, since the sudden and unexpected overthrow of the Haines' Administration, which we chronicled in our last summary, almost all political topics have been purely prospective. Speculations have been rife as to the reception that Mr. O'Shanassy will meet with, and indications have been abundant that the country has no faith in him as the head of the present Cabinet, but whether he will be tolerated for the present still remains to be decided, and round that question the political feeling of the time accumulates. "The most engrossing topic of the past month—one before which ev en th e i n t eres t o f th e Ministerial crisis grew dim—has been of a very melancholy kind. On the 26th ult., the Inspector-General of the penal depart. ment, Mr. Price, was brutally murdered by a number of convicts at Williamstown, who set upon him and mal treated him with such ferocity that he never fairly re covered his senses, and died the day after the onslaught. " The excitement among the convicts both in the stockades and on board the hulks became exceedingly great after Mr. Price's murder. The greatest insubordi nation prevailed, and on board the SUCC,B3 this reached to such a height that the warders were unable to go among the prisoners, who maintained a continual uproar for several hours. It was deemed necessary to place the Victoria war steamer with shotted guns alongside of the Success, and there can be no doubt that had the mutiny among the convicts gene much further, orders would have been given to fire into the hulk, Since then quiet has been restored without recourse to such extreele measures. " A numerou-ly attended public meeting was held ill the Protestant Hall, Melbourne, on the 9th insteet when the artisans and mechanics of this city 1 131 1 s• tered in gr ea t f orce , f or t h e purpose of discussing tee . immigration s c h eme o f th e Government, which be ' received the sanction of the Legislative Assembly' and awaits that of the council. Resolutions w e° passed co n d emna t ory o f the scheme as unjust Pr 111• ciple, bad in practice, and injurious in its results. It ire g urged by some of the speakers that there was plee t i f of labour in the colony ; that there were numbers 0. men upon the go ld-fi e ld s w h o were a bl e an d willing to undertake the work of constructing railways if the G o ' Y vernment would g i ve t h em emp l oyment, an d that it w e unjust to the working classes of Victoria to relieve let pressure upon the lab our mar k e t i n E ng l an d, and The our own, at the expense of the colonial revenue. e , whole of the proceedings of the meeting were very cr e r ditable to the temperate feeling and intelligence those who took part in it." AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNI NG ' The British and North Am er i can r oyal 211 , 8 is steamship Asia, Command er L o tt, arr ived nr ,tu h morning with advices from New Y or k t o the ult., 180 passengers, 1,427,220 dols., and 20) .4 " sterling on freight. On the 28th the Asia exchanged night sigl i o with the royal mail steamship Arabia, hal ° New York. The new steamship Columbia, Captain Berrit for intended to leave New York with the mail' Liverpool in the Collins line on the 6th inst. r A new Governor wa s t o b e sen t t o th e Utah le o ritory, and a Western man i s sa id t o have 'to elected for the post. Strong measures were t ° , l l adopted against the Mormo ns , an d a l arge eidP te d force is' t' be despatched against them. It is e t 1 40 3. on reliable authority that they are about ' fo r mencing a settlement near Council Bluffsto an outpost or receiving s t a t ion . The Peet men of the new s e ttl emen t are t o be 9' 3 4 men, who have not been initiated into the mysteries of Mo rmon i sm , an d w h o w ill, tfl o g fore, be better fitted for takin g c h arge of Y °.- t be disciples, and giving them their first lessons is t he new faith. It is more than probable that„.g , founding of this settlem en t i s th e rea l cause of P'" ham Young's secret expeiition to the north. Lord Napier had called the attention of our of t vernment to the fact, that the steamer Michig a f id e the Canadian lakes was larger than th e size Toe ed by a treaty between Great Britain an°, t he United States When his lordship directed t he ' attention of the United States Government t ° o6 mat er orders were given to discontinue it. bee o attention of the Canadian Parliament has 00 called to the matter, as the Canadians are a 0 to retain her services, and express no fear. d ere Dred Scott and his wife and t wo daughters " emancipated at St. Louis on the 26th ult. fi lio Mr. Morse, late Commissioner to Bogotal is ol had arrived in Washington, expres s es no don s ea to the eventual settlement of th e diffi c ulty he a d New Granada and the United States in - a 111 satisfactory to both parties. 0 Kansas advices to May 21, s t a t e th a t Secretion Stanton had issued a proclamation for the er;0 0 of delegates to the C ons tit u ti ona l Conventl°,oo the third Monday i n J une ; re t urns f rom 19" 1/ 26 counties were in, giving 9,251 legal votert o ia was said that many of the Republicans were !111 0 over to the Free State National Democraei n ' e , that an attempt was making by N or th ern Den'orfie to send Free State men of that party to the vent ion. h t Monetary papers of the Bth ult. report t• - , Administration of Vidaurri continued popule`; li the State politically at p e ac e . Th e G o vern° - left on the 7th for the Federacy capital. 1 .0 The dates from Havanna are to the 19th — ro tO New Orleans. Sugar was fir m a t previous of de and molasses so high that speculators could e any business. 0 0) The United States steam frigate Minnesota, Tor guns and 800-horse power, was fitting out At for folk, for China. Cabins were being prePa re jted , the accommodation of the Hon. W. 13 . United Sates Minister. esi de .tr ° Dates from Mexico are to the sth ult. ov; Comonfort had returned to the capital froto baya. There was an active canvass going 011 ,40, 11/ ing the candidates for th e P res id en cy and sc ot er Congress and on the Bench of the Supreree f ete General Comonfort and S e nor Lerdo Seis e the most popular candidates for the , Chair. The Archbishop was dangere ll . s rest; Santa Anna's friends were intriguing for 1 11g rtt goe b , ration to power. The new Ministers to Mints and Berlin were about to l eave . Th e Mil' ply' I come left on the sth ult. It was thought reconciliation with the Pop e w ou ld be effee'lity, $2,900,000 in speci e h a d b een s hi ppe d f r o o f Co!' Cruz for England. The reported execution : 0 e Crabbe and his party o f Filib us t ers i s 0 0 %01 Another conspiracy to re vo l u ti on i s e the c°Dee ll had been detected. The president was to hal f ' assassinated and the city attacked. The New York Herald and the other - oe .: r iety journals anticipate a fi nanc i a l an d co mmerel in the States. In Mi?hipn and other places the P e lgorr - OPP starving for Tack of bread. The gold of -- o vec ir and Australia, the l an d, ra il roa d s , and othe r lations are assigned as the cause. 00; There have been terribl e s t orms o f raina rfjoaid in North Alabama, W es t T ennessee , and-bma p ol, and the valley of the Mississippi. The e re done to all de scr ipti ons o f crop h as be . _,en Crops in Texas ate th rea t ene d w i t h totx• from the absence of rain. co' The Canadians had e x hibit e d th e i r l o yellY lebrating the birthday of her Majesty. t' In the New York money market there 4 cePb creased ease, and a s u p era b un d ant supplY,i'flimif ing for strictly pri me commerc i a l paper s ) °the Vd; the supply was limit e d, an d wan t e d at ; clik!; count houses at 7to 9 per cent. for tbil, to six months' maturities. I n exchange a f 4i s csr ce g i ness had been done; sterling a n d F renc h wl e g ia„, and bankers bad rais e d th e i r p r i ces t o 9g f , - 0 0°" per cent. for the former ; the rates on flB were 91 to 9l per cent. premium ; Francet,u, to sf. 174 c. ; Antwerp, sf. 171 c. to of li t A The stock market on the whol e wa s dull. 0 , flour market the stock of St a t e an d 'ffeeted ri reduced to a comparativ e ly l ow fi gure , a° W i g had advanced 10c. to 20 c ., w ith an i nc rease doe s ness, partly speculative. Littl e or nothiob for export. 4 °5 0 Canadian flour continued in moderate, no tte l d and had advanced 10c. to 20c. higher ; P" e had also further advanced 10c. to 20c. Pl o oll,t scarce, and advanced 10c., with a good 'l e ; Corn meal a limited supply, an d the e tt,'," stronger. The market for p or k d ec id e dly cs ,t'T; mess advanced 25c. ; and p r i me 10 c., w ith Boa e mand at the improvement, and moderate t' o cl t,„P : Beef continued buoy an t , an d stoc k s li g ht, stock less reduced, at a comparatively le lf prime mess conti nue d fi rm, at the nominal; tion of $2B to $3O. Beef hams scarce, and 1„ at full prices. C u t mea t s i n li m i te d su pP shoulders c. higher. Bacon scarce and,. Lard Ic. better, and in more r e qu es t. But ,„u ' c let ir t to 24c. for New Western. Chee s e d u ll. Cr ii jos,"•to pentine very firm, at 3.75 d o l s . p er 280 lb. p, ply very small, and money coming forward.„ e p .r e of turpentine less firm, and lower rates e 0 but the stocks are light, and for e ign aci sl .. waited for. Tar in moderate request fet o 1 8 4 barrels. Common rosin firm, with receil i o and nearly all sold. All kinds of iron very d tl it he ri ,a brands Scotch pigg less34dols. six m on ths, W e lt small sales ; English bars quiet. In mani l CO t , ' s' iron no change, and but little doing ; toret,lll market continued buoyant, with a rather Or 00. tensive business ; the crop accounts are e , o p favourable, but there was no desire to feri ‘ t o, Freights unchanged, and the business ligh,cl ton to Liverpool, 2s. 6d. to 3s. p er b a le '"" ee per lb. ; rosin and flour, 9d. to London ; b 9' ) I° LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This P A 0 f r e sh LONDON, June B.—Wind this day at noon, 5., e V and fine, though cloudy at times. ci Y rll PORTSMOUTH, June7.—Wind W. to W.o. , ‘ Tv. --- oil / Australian (s.), from Gibraltar. DARTMOUTH, June 7.—Wind a—Sailed—l 118113 c (s.s.), for Cape and India. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 310113illiP LIVERPOOL, Monday eer' Wind W. f the sh Arrived—Daniel, from C a pe T own ; Spirit Oro' Singapore; Elida, Callemb o rg; Trit o n, Wismar' Bombay. rer 9 Sailed—Harmana, for St. Petersburg ; 6. Sultan, Hamerfest. SO ° WATERFOR-t Wind S.S.W. 0 11/Is° Arrived--Margarot, from Hamburg; -Alb ert Stralsund. O. g tit ° DUBLIN) Wind W.S.W. Arrived—Jabez, from Barbadoes. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGBI`r?, 101'00 itir ° / ; l ' it' Arrived, June 7th- -Hannah, and Furet, Gravelines. - _G H R a A n V n E a h S E , N f i D o , na l s° nPort a a yr, DEAL, MOridAY, 9 . 4° A'ta• Wind W.S. W., fresh. Passed—Henbury, from Colombo for Loudon• TIKOOP .- d THE NORFOLK TESTIMONIAL TO SIR JAS. „ r po. ,t3 The subscription commenced in Norfolk, for theroolget of forming the nucleus of a library for Sir JO. ~,,,v o r r p eof, to supply the loss of that recently destroyed in '7 O O e b amounted on Saturday to 811. lls. 6d. Post' books and photographs have also been received & ftmo far TI Stat 285, ant( hay 6p ( 108 4 ]