The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S TTIE A.TRE. FARE W ELL PERFORMANCES REDUCED PRICES, THIS EVENING, MONDAY, July 27 , LA CENERENTOLA. Angelina, Alboni; D on Ramiro, Eclo.rt ; Don Mag nifico, Rossi ; and Dandini, Between the Acts a Divertissement --LE ROSES. Grand Pas do Denx—Mdic. Boschetti and M. Baratti. The Last Act of LA FAVORITA. Leonora, Spezia ; Baldassarre, Dsillon ; Fernando, Giuglini. To conclude with the new Ballet Divertiss.ment of MARCO SPADA. Madame Rosati, Mdlle. Katrine, f. M soot, Signori Boretti, Cecchetti, and Ronnni. PRICES : Pit Tier, Grand Tier, and One Pair.. `2. 12 6 1 Two Pair • 111 6 .. Half Circle ll 0 I Pit Stalls , 0 12 6 Gallery Boxes 0 12 6 Gallery Stalls 0 3 6 Gallery Side Stalls 0 3 0 Pit Gallery L , 2 0 No free Usk—Applications to be made at the BOx-office of the Theatre. Doors open at 7, opera to commence at half past 7. --. _---- HER MAJESTY'S TFIEATR.S• Farewell Performances at Reduced Price 4. THIS EVENING, July 27—LA CENERENTOLA. Last Act of LA FAVORILA. TUESDAY, July 28—DON GIOVANNI. WEDNESDAY, July 2 9— LA SONNAMBULA. Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMERVIOOII. THURSDAY, July 30—Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO. FRIDAY, July 31--IL TROVATORE. The entertainments in the Ballet will combine the talents Madame Rosati, M.a.dlles. Katrine, Boschetti, and Mario TaglionL Prices as above. TREAT RE-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUESTRIAN C AMP NY AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL Pricegt—Pit and Promenade, is;. Bose;, 2s. 6 , 1., 25., and Is. fid.; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. JACK THE GIANT KILLER, with novel effects. OPAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. It , THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. T HEATRE ROYAL, ErAYMA.RKET Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Se ven o'clock, with the new and greatly successful original Comedy, entitled VICTIMS, in which Mr. Suckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William Farren, Miss Reynolds, &e.. will appear. After which, by general desire, she late Douglas Jerrold's comedy of THE HOUSEKEEPER. To conclude with a new Ballet, THE GLEXNERS. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the eve ning), 6s. each. (No cha r g e for booking.) First Price. s. (1. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes ................ 3 0 Upper Boxes ........... , Pit......... .. .......... L owe r Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 t , No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee--Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of GEORGE DARVILLE, in which Mr. BonjaminWel)ster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford. and Madame Celeste will perform. After which, " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS." To conclude with the sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, Ste. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. MS EVENING, will he revived \VIVI:4 AS THEY WERE AND MAID ;AS THEY ARE Mr. Addison, Mr. Mr. F. Vining, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Swanboraugh, &c. To conclude with the o iginal Extravaganza, by R)bert B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall, ilzighes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. ROYAL SURREY TIIEA TR E. Lemmas, Messrs. Shepherd an'l Creswick. Success of the great English Tenor, Mr, Henry Squires. THIS EVENING, (MONDAY), will be performed IL TROVA.TORE. Mr, H. Squires, Lney Escott, and Miss Lan .a,. To conclude with TILE DAUGHTEIt OF THE P.EGI. MENT. Mr. Manvers and Miss Dyer. GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. John Douglas. Professor ANDERSON in a round of Dramatic Characters, supported by Mr. Hamilton Brahma, Mrs. Vickery, &e. THIS EVENING, will be performed . _ ROB ROY. Rob Roy, Professor Anderson ; Major Galbraith, Mr. H. Brabam ; Helen Macgrapr, Mrs. Vickery. Between the pieces Mr. J. G. FoAle, the King of Comic Vocalists, will open his P-reel of Fun. To conclude with THE LOSE CHATEAU. STLEY'S ROYAL AMP RIT Ft EATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her MAjesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Last Nights of the Splendid Spectacle of MAZEPPA. The gre it Parisian Equestrienne, Madlle. Mililos, continues to be received with unb.mnded approbat'on. $ THIS EVENING (MONAY), and every evening during the week, the entertainments will c ommence with Lord Byron's grand spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE. • Mazeppa, Mr. James Holloway. Concluding with a Brilliant Series of Mr. William Cooke's Novel and Inimitable SCF.NES in the ARENA, in which Madlle. Mililos will appear. CommaLce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 218., no charge for booking; Pit, 2e . ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. H df-price at half-past Eight. Bor-oftice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, VV. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow , !nz company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, lees, Duets, dze., viz.: Miss E . Pe arce, Mrs. Pa:myre, Miss eott, Ki9l3 Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr St. I;byn, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Far rant, S. io,es. J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An tunic) M. .le Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Master Corri ; Messrs. Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil Wicks; harmonium, Master Milli :ms ; Dlrcetor, Herr F. Jenghtusus. Commence at Seven o'clock preasely„ 5.12- pars, dm.. until twelve o'clock HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T.IIB DAY—Morn. 47 min. aft. 5 —Even., 5 min. aft. 6 To 1402ROW—Xtorn., 22 min. aft. G—Even. 42 min aft. 6 THE WEATHER—Sum Oincz. JULY 26. TaRRYOIIZTICR, IN THZ SHADE. 75 -highest since noon yesterday. 56 -lowest this morning and during the night. 72 -this day at BaßOnoon. NZTIB, 3101 WiNTI, Westerly light, with fine weather, but dull. Maim o'oLoax—W. N. W., fresh and squally. JULY 27. 74 highest since noon yesterday. 60 - owest this morning and during the night. 75 -this day at noon. BaBOMETZA. 30.00. WIND, W.S.W. ; rather fresh, with sultry cloudy wea ther, cm, a 4 ' 4 " - Ne 4 t.„, c" '" / ' ° . LONDON, MONDAY,. JULY 27, 1857• Three of the parties accused of participation in the plot against the life of the French EMPELOR have formally protested against the charge. M. CAMPANELL♦ first came forward, declaring innocence, and stating his address, at which he may at any time:be found. M. MASSARENTE fol lowed in a similar tone ; and this day M. LEDIV7 Boum has written a lon g letter, moat positively asserting the total falsehood of the accusation I M. MAZZINI will also, doubtless, act in like man ner whenever a favourable opportunity arises for the purpose. So the matter stands for the time, and so we should permit it to remain, were it not for certain significant rumours to the effect that communications had been voluntarily made from the English to the French Government to the effect that, in the event of a conviction a the accused parties, par contumace, they would be forthwith expelled from the British dominions --rumours that derive additional weight from the fact that the Times had intimated on Thursday last that if they were convicted, even in their absence, and without the opportunity of being heard in their own defence, they will, "as convicted assassins, be no longer able to show themn.l.an in +bin rytnntry_ acid will have to find LATE well, in endeavouring to promulgate the facts ing enfor pr c inc d b ipleall s of which have nine respected and ey sncceeeing gove uts, and which contained in this pamp hlet, which at a time at this moment regu'ate the school. when it was believed that our Indian " Himself educated at the military school of army, at all events, was under safe Brienue, military education ever engaged the at tention of Napoleon., He never took his hand off command, and on a sure footing, showed by those the schools. Consular and imperial decrees esta same facts, given on independent testimony, from Wished and regulated the Prytanee Frangais, now the camps of the Angle-Indian itself, that that ! the junior military school at La Fleche ; l'eco eilo , special . e militeire, n ow at St. Cyr ; l'ecole ape isle army was in the state of ins ecurit y p roved b y re militaire de cavalrie, now at Seumur ; the military cent events, and by such particulars as leaving school at Chalons ; the engineer school at Metz. our military magazines and fortresses wholly under : In fact, every existing military school, except that of the staff, owes its origin to Napoleon ; and the the charge of native troops, who to properly in-'same system of competition, where applicable, per formed persons are well known to be prepared for ivad.es them all. After the peace of Tilsit, Napo mutiny. The most melancholy c orroboration of leon lent the Empero r Alexander ten p rofessors, for the pnrpose of establishing a polytechnic in Russia. the state of the patronage appointme nts, and ad- To the last he insisted on military educa ministration displayed by those facts has been re- lion. He Brough dictated to M t outholorancn, at St. Helena, ce ntly ce ntly presented by the instances of suic ides of, these words i-----‘ to Fe when Louis entered on the life of a man at the siege of officers, following those in the army during th© Toulon, on hearing me say to him, in the midst of Persian expedition, arising from compunction on the corpses of 200 grenadiers slain through the ignorance of their commander, at the assault of an the part of the victims of the sy stem, at the false impregnable side of Fort Pharou—lf 1 lied com positions in which they found .. themselves placed, mantled here, all these brave men would be stal with the stern necessities of which they have . alive : learn, ouis, from is example, ho abso- lutely necessar L y instrucion.th is to those wh w o aspire found themselves unqualified to contend. The to command °there.'" facts put forth in the pamphlet to which we Under a reformed administration, every regiment ' advert were chiefly derived from the narrative of would be a school, of which t the commanding officer would be the mister, imparing, wi instruction, Mrs. COLIN MACKENZIE, the wife of Captain COLIN qualifications and habits which would be useful in M AC KENZIE, an officer in the Indian army, peace, and to the men and officers in civil life. displaying the disasters of battles and The proof that many of the evils of army malad ministration made manifest during the campaign mismanagement passed over, or disguised in the Crimea, are common to the army in India, in despatches, but which wee© notorious in where there is " no long peace," but incessant wa r, the camp, and a state of command which readers show t e ha ep t seat thoseed evandils are chron not ic, accidde mandi ental or transienstitunt, but dng i not the occurrence, but the absence, of the most t . onal reforms. • dangerous commotions a matter of surprise. We The main allegations in respect to that maladmin mey depend 'upon it, that when the causes of the istration are beset' on the testimony of professional authorities of the highestnlass. wide-spread mutinies are exam ined, it will be found For the prevention, then, of the repetition of vast disasters and losses of life and m alley, and of that the affair of the greased c artrid g es is only one , grievous and enneceisary augmentations of per of a series of gross impr udencies affecting the nianent public bur, hens;—for the abeternent of the condition of the native troops, and arising out of horrible interests the state of the commands, and an ignorant or an selves time in peace hangs so heavily on them and others ; te ensure higher social as well as insolent disregard of the feelings of half civilised professional qualifications to men in influential and morbidly sensitive men. We give from the I rco • itious, who most be maintained as military ofti pamphlet the following, as small incidents, but l eers ;—to purify the House of Commons from prac indicative of the character of minds which have ruled in the military administration of lndie : tlce of . b . ribery for party support, by the gifts of commissioi is and promotions—it is submitted to ad ministrative reformers, that it should now he de- The disp'ay in the commencement of the Russian mauded that the concession obtained in re•pect to war, in sending soldiers tightly stocked to the one b ra nch of the military service shall be extended eastern climates, has its reflex in the following es- to the whole line, and commissions he no longer perience in India : sold, but g:ven to merit, tested by competitive Her Majesty's 32d have been marched from i examinations." Amballa to Ferozpur, and have suffered very I Th e question to be put before the House of Com severely on their march. It is said from 200 to 300 are on the sick list, and .ix or seven, iuclu ling mons by Sir DE LA CY EVANS admits of a v er y one officer, have died from a coup de soleil. It is simple issue, "Do you, the opposers, mean to supposed that they have b -en unnecessarily exposed say that for command in the tine of the English ao the son. Queen's officers are often obstinate on thia:point (I suppose from ignorance of the cliate), army, unhke other a rmies, no special qualifica mand seem to think it manly to run every possible lions or no qualifications whatsoever are • re ui q risk. A staff officer in China, who was present on th e occasion, told my husband that two of he r Ma jesty's regiments were landed under a scorching are necessary, why do you object to the applica sun, and went into action. One was comm and e d Lion of the like tests of those qualificat ions that ou have alread and that are proved to by an old Indian, who allowed his men to t ake off their stocks ; they suffered very little from the yy adopted, heat. The other regiment was commanded by a work so well in res missions to the pect to ad stiff European martinet, who could perm tno such Artillery and t 3 the Engineers ?" The conduct irregularitioe and lost ten men on the field from apoplexy ; sure'y, in the case of the 32d, it would of particular Members and of the Hou se should have been better to expose the troops to this heat be watched with great suspicion, and the names for some purpose. be noted of those who do, or who do not divest The shmftlessuess of the officers and their want of power of new adaptation to new habits , is dis- themselves of future participation in the pre sent played in the following passage : patronage system, for the resolution of Sir DE Moreover, they (the oilchs, who were newly en- LACY EVANS is of vast importance as well for the listed) all wear their hair at full length, which disqualifications which it will be the means of lengni, I am assured, commonly extends from three feet to six feet, and sometimes even to eleven feet ; excluding, as •for the good qualifications which it —four feet of hair is frequent. The whole is formed may be made the means of preparing, admitting, into a knot on the tip of the head. Now, "here's and securing. It is, in truth, in part a measure a ccii" which effectually prevents a man from wear ing a very shallow forage cap ; and as Lord Hard- of Parliamentary Reform also, for it goes to this— ing gives them leave to keep their hair and beards, that the House of Commons shall divest itself of neither of which they ever cut, and at the same the military patronage by which Members pay time insists on their wearing this obnoxious topi ; the veerans positively refuse to have anything to their supporters, or themselves, at the expense of do with a service which makes a saucer-cap a sine the country. Tea non. -- - --- Some of the finest recruits draw back, and will not enlist when the topi is shown to them ; and truly the effect of it is most absurd. C. has risked the sefety of his Glengarry bonnet, by sending it to head-quarter 4, with a request to be ill owe i to give similar ones to his men. Major Mackeson and the Commander of the 3d Rudiment of Frontier aiseade are b th anxious for its adoption, as the Sikli tresses could be stowed away most conve nieetly under it, but no answer has yet arrived, although the abhorred tooi may prove as fatal as Gesier's. some other part of the earth more congenial to the indulgence of their sanguinary dreams." It would seam, then, as if there were to be a new and organised attempt to get rid of that which has always been the bugbear of continental despots—the extension of hospitality to political refugees of all ranks, and of every grade and Tariety7of political opinion. A trial par contu mace could easily be got up, and a verdict adverse to the defendants, under the circurnstances, would be certain. It is , however, an axiom of the English law, that no man can be declared guilty without the opportunity of being beard in his own defence. Shall we obandon that glorious principle in deference to the commands of others ? Shall England no longer be the san ctuary for those who have sought protection on her shores, an d availed themselves of that hospitality w hich she u nhesitatingly extends to all without excep tion, and by which the Emperor has himself profited in his hour of trial? It will not, it can not be done. No true-hearted Englishman would fcr a moment listen to such an appplication, no mat ter what Might be the consequences of a re fusal. To deliver up persons thus accused, would be to sue-render them to certain death. " Extra dition for political offences " would, as M. LEDRU Rowder justiy declares, be " a stain upon civilisa tion—a scourse to humanity I " The nation capable of gran,+ , ing it, for the sake of whatever earthly considerati-ons or momentary expediency,, would infallibly lower itself to the lowest- stage of ignominy. And yet the principle asserted by the i Times would go to tha,4, extent. A little compli - I cated machinery should i , e put in motion, but that would not be wanting wherever the quarry might be deemed worthy of sufficient ammunition. A plausible pretext might easily be got up, but the infamy of yielding would be the same, and thenceforth the name of Britain would stink in the nostrils of Europe. She would, indeed, merit the title " perfidious Albion," so freely accorded on less conclusive grounds. The letter of M. LEDRU ROLLlN—which will be found in another part of our impression—although a little stronger, in some parts, than we should desire, so fairly grapples with the great points at issue, that we have not hesitated to give it inser tion. He deals with the assertion that "itis no question of politics but one of murder," by asking where is the overt act?—where the proof of the conspiracy? There has been no attempt to carry the design into execution. If the project ever had existence, it might have been repented of, —and, therefore, no conviction could follow, ac cording to the English law, and we could not consent to the extradition on any ground. It is truly said that the exiles received in this country mtht, so long as they are sheltered here, abstain from all acts calculated to overturn or in jure a Government recognised by England. It is the price they pay for protection—the moderate return for our liberal hospitality. They are not to embroil us with others because we accord them a place of refuge. Mot assuredly not. But the English law is powerful to punish any wrongful acts committed within her MAJESTY'S dominions, and to that law M. LEDRU ROLLIN fearlessly ap peals. He declares himself in duty bound openly to meet justice, and to enlighten it respecting his conduct. He challenges investigation before an English tribunal and an English jury, where he would at least be assured of a fair and unbiassed and impartial trial. This meets the question boldly and independently, and the justice of the demand cannot be im peached. Should it be denied or evaded we should only cover ourselves with opprobrium. As M. LEDRU ROLLIN truly declares " The ques tion is one of political extradition, the bearing of which is not confined within the narrow bounds of individual or even national interests, lofty though they be, but a question which involves the highest principles of liberty, justice, morality, and human conscience." We cannot, then, under such circumstances, believe that tho English Government would yield on such a point—that they would, iu obedience to foreign dictation, or the prevalence of the Ger manic element in the National Council, abandon a principle which our ancestors would never have controverted or denied. -And this is our belief, notwithstanding the significant rumours above alluded to, and the still more significant feeler put forward by the Jupiter Tonans of Printing brains out. SIR COLIN. CAMPBELL. Our correspondent at Malta, in a letter dated the 9th, announcing the arrival of Sir Cohn at that place, says : "Sir C)lin CAropbell pags.ld through Malta on the 1 ith, 19oking very well and hearty. He was not long doing his little shopping, and went off with his purchases uader hig arm. He came in the Veotis o❑ the 16th and left in Vie same vessel next morning for Ale xandria." The proposed resolution of Sir DE LACY ETANs fur the general adoption of opsn competitive exa minations, as a means of testing the qualifications for commissions in the army, will go to the root of the evil. We entirely agree with the writer of the pamphlet that "The first step in reform would be to ensure spe cial education, tested by proper examinations fur admission, and new securities for promotion by merit. All who are acquainted with the subject, treat with contsmpt the doctrine put forth by Lord Seymour and others in the House of Com mons, in defence of the system of purchase, that it is practically impossible to discriminate merit in commands ; and, therefore, that the rule of pro motion fair merit would soon become practically promotion for favour. Under a proper system of " intendance," as in France, it is practicable to show, from particular facts, and from the state of the troops commauded, the state o f a command ; and it is practicable to make those evidentiiry facts matter of record, independently of favour, with the certainty and almost the exactitude of a money account In respect to special tra:ninge, and examinations to test them for commissions, proximate evidence is afforded by the English army itself. The officers of the engineerslihd the artillery, form the only branches of the service for which any special training is required, and they are generally, socially as well as profesioually, distinguished from the rest of the army. The artillery was Vie only branch of the English service, which, in the Crimea, is acknowleiged to have proved itself superior. The exemivations for the engineers, as well as for the artillery, have been, however, merely pass exa minetions, end the promotions ill conducted, and the engineers have displayed the insecurity of that mode of examina.ion. Of the engineering of the several armies in the field, competent impartial testimony gives the first rank t ) the military works of the Rusian engineers, the next to the French, the next to them the Sardinians (and even the Turks have been generally more handy), and to the English military engineers the last. The officers of the engineers, however, and of the artillery, are not found mixed up in the low pur suits, or in opprobioua scenes with the officers of the line ; and they are met in scientific associa tions and intellectual societies, and are frequently proved to be well fitted for civil administrative offieer* . The civil service commissioners have just declared the fact, as the result of their first year's trials, that the candidates obtained by competitive examina tions were of considerably higher attainments than those who had undergone simply pass examinations, or who had gained appointment or simple nomina tion. The Duke of Wellington, who had himself obtained a military education in a French school, favoured scientific officers wheresoever he could get them. The writer of the article on Military Education, in the last number of the " Westminster Review," after speaking of the French system of military education for the higher commands, says : " The principle of competition pervades the whole, it opens the door of the profession, it intro duces to the higher rooms and upper seats. We regard competition as the salt of the system, purifying and preserving it, as the goveruor of the engine, adjusting its propelling force to the resist ance it has overcome." " But the question has passel from the region of discussion into that of fact. What was an experiment is a proved success. Napoleon, with a marvellous prescience into France, applied to Vie army the system eve propose. If we are wrong in putting up commissions to literary competition," (i.e., to competition in the literature of the practical sciences applicable to war,) —" Napoleon was wrong, Evince, faithfully fol lowing his plans for the last half century, has been in error, and the reputation of her arms a mistake. The law which reorganised the Polytechnic .iis preseat basis is remarkable as being the first indi cation of the great designsof the First Consul. The law promulgated thirty-seven days after the 18th of Brumaire, declares that the purpose of the new institution is to train pupils for all the public ser vices, and particularly for the more scientific branches of the army : the mode of admission by ipea literary competition among all young French men of the required age ; their appointment to cer tain branches of tho public service also by compe tition ; the object, manner, and duration of the instruction ; the different boards for teaching, were all laid down by this remarkable decree, the lead- A C.tbinet Council was hFld on Saturday afernoon at the odis:ial residence of the Fast Lord of the Treasury, in Do wniug-atreet ; all the Ministers were present. Her R.).) . 3 1 mghness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Cooper, arrived in town on Saturday afternoon. The royal duchess vi,ited the Duchess of Cambridge at her residence in St. James's Palace, and afterwards returned to Frogroore. Ilia Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny have left the French Embassy for Nuneham Park, Oxon, on a visit to Frances Countess Waidegrave and Mr. G. G. Hareoutt. His Excellency Baron Bentinek will have the honour to receive the Q ueen of the Netherlands to dinner o n at the Netherlands Legation. the Peruvian Minister (Domi n g o E N V Heias) e a s En d d xYc s e u nil i e t ei e ntcy h ' ave left the Brunswick Hotel, Jero3yn street, for the United States. Tue Duke of Devonshire has abandoned his intended visit to Liemore Castle, Ireland, for this autumn, and will reside at Chatsworth, after his visit to Bulton Abbey next month. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford left Stafford House on Saturday for Trentham, on their way to Scot- house-Nuare. Attention hAs just been properly directed to some predictions, in the recently published me moirs of Sir WILLIAM NAPIER, that we should be brought to sorrow by placing the Native Indian army, composed of men of deep seated casts preju dices, requiring the exercise of the highest dis cretion and mental influence, under the command of mere boys, who are respected by men nowhere. But what sort of boys has it been the practice to place, by patronage, in positions of command, in the remote districts of India ? The " North British Review, for August, 1857, actually made it a matter of merit, that land. The Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley have returned to Carlton Houee-terrace from Houghton Hall, Rougham, Norfolk. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley leave town to-day on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood Park, during the The syst:m of purchase, and even to some ex tent, the possible oper aion of favouritism, attract to the army precisely those young men who, if they did not do that would do nothing, and are far tuo numerous and too remnant a class to remain unem pl .yid with impuni`y. The young nobleman who can find no occupation to fill up the years which must elapse between leaving college and succeeding to the family honours au estate, and whose desouvre cmdition now, if they are not in Parliament, makes them ,almost objects of compassion ; the younger sons - of the aristocracy, who shrink from the laborious professions, and have means sufficient to save them from the necessity of toil, who have not talent enough for the bar, nor steadiness for the Church, nor capital enough for commerce, nor taste or -vocation enough for any of these careers ; (and for India chiefly) the children of wealthy citizens and bankers, who have time to waste, and money to spend, and who have no great objects to arouse them, and no res angusta to stimulate them to exertion, —those who would otherwise be men about town, mischievous dawdlers and hungers, a burden to themselves, and a plague to all around them, now eagerly press into a profession in which wealth and connexion secure advancement. - - races. Lord and Lady Holland gave a Pie chanspe4re on Sa turday afternoon, at their fine old mansion at Kensing ton, on which occasion the noble host and hostesa were of France, the Duchess of Cambridge, honoured by the presence of the Queen of the Nether lands, the Duchess d'Orleans, and several members of ffatmheilymembere of the fashionable world. andthe e a x - h r o o s y t a o l Harvesting commenced at her Majesty's farm near Osborne, last week. DrraitTunE Or THE 2D DRAGOON GUARDS TOR INDIA. —The 2d Dragoon Guards, ordered for India, embarked on Saturday at Gravesend, on board the frigate built ships Monarch and Blenheim. The men appeared in good spirits. EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR INDIA.—On Saturday the let battalion of the Ist Roysle embarked at King* town on board the Caledonia, transport, for India. The troop ship Robert Lowe, now in Kingstown harbour, will receive sew her battalion to-day; the remainder of the let Royals will be embarked in the course of the pre , ent week. EXECUTION Or A MURDERER. —On Saturdaylast John Lewis, who was convicted of murdering his wife, Gwen ban Lewis, on the 4th of J a nulry last, was executed in front of the gaol at Cardiff, in the presence of a very large concourse of opectatore. Finch, for the murder at Rivenhall will be executed on Wedcesday next. The Rev. G. B. Hamilton, the chaplain, is in daily attendance upon him, and though wretchedly ignorant, the culprit evinces contrition and religious feeling.—Chelmsford Chronicle. COMMUTATION OP SENTENCE. —In accordance with the recommendation of the learned judge who tried the case, Elizabeth Jamieson, convicted at York Assizes fur the murder of her chil 1, has had her sentence of death com muted to penal servitude for life. —observer. THE LATE MURDER AT WOODFOUD.—Great exertions have been toads Ly the police during the past week for the apprehension of Jonathan Goydon, the perpetrator of the late brutal murder at Woodford, who is supposed to be concealed in Epping Forest, and it is believed that a clue to his biding place has been obtained, and that he will be captured in a day or two. A reward of 2001. 110 been offered for his apprehension by the Go. vernment. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.— Toe British and North American Royal Mail steam ship Persia, Captain C. H. E. Judkins, sailed from the Mersey at noon to-day for New York, with the usual mails for the United States and British North American provinces, 190 passengers, and a full cargo of merchan dise on freight, The Royal Mail steamship Niaeara, Captain J. G. Wickman, with a dvices from'New York to the 14th ; Boston, 1 5 th ; and flalt,ar to the 17th inst , may be exeecte,d to morrow -morning. THR AUSTRALIAN MAILS.— MALTA, July 19.—The Scasnander, belonging to James Moss and Co., e t' Liverpool, brought the Australian mail, which ought to have lift Australia en the 15th May, but which left on the 30th May. The admiral has no steamer to ge on with the malts, which are in charge of Mr. Green, the consul's son, of Alexandria. This is a bad arrangement for tee Australian mails. Eight boxes go via Mar seill.3s, the other 150 go on by the Searnander. There was no news from India when the Siinla passed Ceylon. Tile Simla has 12,000 ouucee of gold on board, and 30 passengers. Toe Great Britain had left Australia with 3G,000 owes of gold on board. The quality of the men appointed in India, is shown by the results of some preliminary siftings with very wide-meshed sieves,—the partial exam nations recently appointed. Of 437 sons of gen- tlemen, and men of high social position, examined during the years 1851 to 1856, both inclusive, one hundred and thirty failed in reading and spelling, and two hundred and thirty-four failed to do the common rules of arithmetic ; an extent of failures to be found in no decent English charity schools ! The Indian army has been sur charged with mere " wastrels," the worst edu cated, the worst prepared, those for whom no places could be found at home—men often lower than the class of commissioned officers in Eng land, of whom the late Duke of WELLINGTON said, that how ever b rave t h ey were inthe field, in the management of men in the camp, quarters, or cantonments, they were but " poor creatures." Reform : and the Aris- A pamphlet on " Army toeratie Standard of the Army Expenditure and its Besults," was published a year ago, at the instance of Mr. INGRAM TRAVERS, Mr. GASSIOT, and Mr. MORLEY, containing very important facts on this subject ; and whatever may have been the failures of those gentlemen in respect to the Administrative reforms which they endeavoured to promote—and much excuse must be made for tion—they certainly aimed men of Lame occuPal T TILE SUS, VONBON, MONDAY EVENING. JATLY 27, 1857. A E W. MARSEILLES, JULY 26. The Indian mail is expected here to-morrow. Advices from Naples have been received to the 23d inst. The trial continues. None of the pri soners have as yet been shot. Nicotera has re vealed the whole plot. He has justified the conduct of the crew of the Cagliari. Some of the papers found on Pisacane are in cipher, and have not been made out. Foichini, the refugee, who escaped from Lon don, after committing a double assassination, is among the wounded. Padula, has blown his A conflict has taken place between some of the inhabitants of Torre del Greco and the crew of the French ship Metoore. The sailors were occupied in making hy drog rap h i cal observations, when they were attacked by the Neapolitans, who thought they intended to effect a landing for revolutionary purposes. The King has ordered apologies to be made to the officers of the Meteore. The King of Naples has gone to reside at Caste: mare, with his three SOll3. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The ships sent out to reinforce the French and English naval divisions in China will assemble on the Ist of August at Hong Kong, which is their point of rendezvous. The Moniteux has little beyond nominations to the magistracy and of justices of th 3 peace, except another letter from Jassy, of the '7th July, abusing all the employes of the Porte, and writing up the, Russian view of the union of the Principalities. The Dcbats contains a curious document, the political testament of Pisacaue, recently slain at Sapri. It is dated Genoa, June 7, 1857, and is said to have been received from London. Despite the fact that the Debuts has received a " warning" for i s publication, th3re are reasons to suspect it is a polic,t-manufactured forgery. M. Ledru Rollin has addressed a long letter to the Juge d'lnstruction of Paris, who is charged with preparing the evidence in the case of the Italian conspirators, with a view of clearing him self of any connexion with them. Private letters from Toulon of the 25th announce that the English squadron of evolutOns under the orders of Admiral Lyons bad put to sea, and was on the way to Algie s. It was afterwards to visit Tunis and Tripoli. Accounts from Algiers mention that General Al`Malion lual arrived there on the 20th. During his absence General Bambaki had taken the command of his division. General M'Alahon was chirged with a mission of inspection in Algeria, af'er completing which it was believed he wool I return to France. Joseph Napoleon Ney, Prince of Moskowa, and eldest son of Marshal Ney, died yesterday morn ing, at S'. Germain-en-Laye, near Paris. BOURSE, July N.—The following were the last quota'ions : Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents - —fr. 3 per Cents 66 90 C 6 90 Bank Shares 2,890 Credit Foucier 560 Credit Mobilier 941 Roman Do. Account — Austrian Belgian 41 Piedmoutese (5) BB ; 5 Home Debt - RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. tr. c. 'f r c. Orleans 1,440 -- Western - Northern Lyons — -- New Ditto - Mediterranean — Grand Central ...... 605 -- Geneva Midi MALTA, JULY 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's fleet steampacket the Simla, E. Cooper, commander, and Commander Keatley, R.N., mail agent, de spatched from Sydney on the 25th of May, reached Suez on the 12th July with 35 passengers, and gold on freight to the value of 40,5801. She brought a mail of 178 boxes and bags, of which 159 are for Southampton and London, 17 for the overland route (including those for France and the Continent), and,two for Malta. The next homeward mail is advertised to leave Sydney on the 15th June by the European, to be followed on the 15th July by the Columbian, and on the 15th Aug. by the Australasian. The Great Britain left Melbourne on May 21st with 101,600 ounces of gold and 34,000 letters from Victoria. We take the following summary of news from the Melbourne Argus of May 29 : " Since the publication of our last overland sum mat yr a steady supply of gold has been received from the mining districts, but the average weekly yield has been below that of the past year. The employ ment of larger numbers than at any former period of the mining population in deep sinking and quartz mining, their consequent withdrawal horn the im mediate production of gold, and the protracted dry ness of the season account for the falling off in the escort returns. When the labourof the deep sinkers has been consummated and the hoards of the shal low sinkers have passed through the process of washing, the average of the returns of the current year will be brought up to that of last. " The steadiness with which the quartz reefs are being opened up at a heavy cost of labour and of money, and the large sums expended in machinery for extracting the metal, are sure indications of the faith entertained by practical men in the hidden riches of our gold mines. We have stated that at no former period have such numbers been employed in sinking. Tbis remark applies especially to the dis tricts surrounding Ballarat and Bendigo. At Bal larat shafts are being catried down at the Durham and Delter leads, at the Gravel-pits and Specimen gully, and all these localities proiniQe to yield hand somely for the labour that has been expended on them. The quartz reefs at Bendigo are yielding fabulous quantities from the small extent opened up. At Dunolly, water, which has hitherto been scarce is now plentiful, and large quantities of th , ., by comparison, poor " washing-stuff" wilt now be passed through the mill. A new lead is reported in this district, about one mile and a half from the Post-office, in which gold has been struck at a depth of 50 feet. At Maryboro ugh gre Ater activity prevails. At the Avoca another powerful engine, the third on the Avoca lead, is nearly complete, and will in a short time be at work in keeping the water under command. At M'lvor the paddling-machines are again at work. The favourable accounts from the Ovens are fully borne out by facts. The weekly escort returns have averaged 6,540 ounces for the 12 months past, while large quantities have been sent down from this district by private hand. " Trio followine , comparative statement of the receipts by escort, and the shipments during the first three months of the past four years, shows that the year 1857 is second only to its predecessor :- 1854. 1855. 1853. 1857. Ounces. Ounces. Ounces. Ounces. Roccipts by escort 482,991 407,394 748,209 527,154 Shipments " POLITICAL. " When our last summary was transmitted to England we were in one respect in a position pre cisely similar to that which we now occupy. That is to say, we were at the latter end of a month's Parliamentary recess consequent upon a change of Ministry then, and we are iu a similar position with respect to a second change of Mtnistly now. But here the similarity ends. As we predicted some what more than a month since, Mr. O'Shanassy'a Ministry was one that had no reasonable kips of a permanent existence. There were then already sufficient signs of the times to show that an over whelming majority, both in Parliament and throughout the country, had no confidence in the new Admin'stration, and that it was doomed to early destruction. So it proved. " The sittings of Parliament were resumed after the last recess on the 15th of April, only four out of the seven Ministers having secured seats, the Attorney-General (Mr. Chapman), the Solicitor- General (Mr. Wo-id), and the Commiss'oner of Trade and Customs (Mr. Greaves) having been rejected by the constituencies to which they severally appealed, although Mr. Woad subsequently sue- `seeded in securing his election fur the Ovens dis trict. " Oa the first day of the 'woofing of the Assem bly Mr. Fellows, who had held for a brief period the office of Attorney-General under Mr. Haines, gave notice for the following day of a vote of want of confidence in the O'Shauassy Government. Mr. Fellows moved the resolution of which he had given notice, declaring the then Executive t 3 be without the confidence of the house, and their con tinuance in office under these circumstances to be unconstitutional. " The debate commences by Mr. Fellows was adjourned at midnight till the following Tuesday, but was not actually iesumel till the day after, the much-lamented death of Lady Barkly, which had occurred in the meantime, and the fiat that her funeral took place on the day appointed for the re sumption of the debate, having caused a tempo rary suspension of Parliamentary business. On the Wednesday, however, the Asssembly, after adopt ing an address of condolence to his Excellency, re• sumed the debate on Mr. Fellows's minion. The debate was prolonged till seven the following morn ing, when a division occurred, and the Ministry were defeated by 34 votes to 19. Mr. O'Shanassy tendered the resignation of himself and his col leagues. " On the next day of meeting ,of Parliament, the following Tuesday, the announcement of the names of the new Ministry was made on their be half by Mr. S4rgood :—Mr. Haines, Chief Secre tary ; Mr. M'Culloch, Commis3iener of Trade and Customs ; Mr. Ebden, Treasurer ; Mr. Michie, Attorney-General ; Mr. Moore, President of the Board of Land and Works ; and Mr. Fellows, S o licisor-General. " The only new measure of any importance that has yet been brought before Parliament is one for the imposition of duty of 10s. per lb. on opium— a tax which may .be regarded at a sort of supple ment to the capitation-tax on the Chinesro. Mr. Miehie (the Attorney-General) has given notice of a motion for abolishing State aid to religion. cc AGRICI7LTURE. " The question whether agriculture will pay here is still raised by a few of those who adhere to the old system, and whose farms, being near the coast, are open to competition from the neighbouring colo nies. In the interior, near the goldfields the ques tion is never asked at present. The higher paces obtained for their produce enable the cultivators of farms in these new districts to pay the current wage 3 without difficulty. The statistical returns not being yet complete, we do not know exactly how much additional land has been brought into cultivation during the past season, but there is little doubt of tie quantity being large. Complete returns have been received from five districts and counties, and in all these except ono there has been a large increase. In the district of Bendigo there were 5,052 acres under crop last season, to 1,439 in the previous year ; in the Ovens district 4,045 acres in 1856, to 2,211 in 1855 ' • in the county of Nor manby 2,730 acres in 1856. to 1,329 acres in 1855 ; in the county of Dundas 9iB acres in 1856, to 480 acres in 1855. In the county of Follet there has been little change, as there is nothing grown there except what the squatters raise for their own use. The numbers are 128 acres in 1856, to 123 acres in 1855. These five dis tricts are in different parts of the colony, the Ovens being at the extreme north-east, and the county of Norinanby at the south-west extremity , and will afford a fair idea of the average produce. In 1855 the average yield of wheat for the whole colony was 28 bushels to the acre ; the average of these five districts in 1856 is 26 bushels , and w e may expect this to be about the general average for in the year. " The best criterion of the prospects of the agri cultural interest here is to be f o und the constant demand for more free access to land. A Land League has been established with the object of ob taining greater facilities fur settlement on land fit for agriculture, and the farmers are petition in g Par liament for the opportunity of obtaining the use of a portion of the grazing lands. A petition is also being extensively signed through the country districts for the establishment of a Board of Agriculture. The want of a recognized head through which information of all kinds might be obtained is much felt, as also the want of a good museum, containing specimens of the nu st modern implements and machinery, and a library of the best and latest agricultural works. There are now many local societies springing up i n differ ent parts of the country, and something like orga nisation and union is wanted among them. This it chemists, members emsts is proposed to bring about by having meetings sive a-year, or oftener, of delegates from the several t -gather with certain ii e e x uh o ur jfi a ci i o to sciences affecting this societies, of the Government, the Professor of Natural e v v e at rsi e t c p , Sciences s o c t e h s e persons pursuit. It is to be hoped that something will be d on e this session towards the formation of this • de partment, and it is impossible to foresee all the ad vantages we may derive from it. The climate of Australia is suited to the growth £ 0 many valuable ITALY. A letter from Florence, of the 20th inst., states that on Thursday afternoon, the 16th instant, the Hereditary Prince, who was driving in his caniage outside the town, was stinted with cries of " Long live the Constitutional Prince ! " His Royal High ness took no notice, and continued his drive. It was then determined by the Constitutional party to make a gi eat " demonstration " on the 18th, and to I call for the Prince and the National Guard. the Government, being apprised of their intension, issued a proclamation forbidding any demonstra tion whatever. The IRn consequently passed over quietly, and the town has not since been disturbed, but commercial transactions are suspended. According to telegraphic advices received at Ber lin from Copenhlgen, the Danish Goverment has convol:ed the Lldstein Estates to meet in an Ex traordinary Diet on the 15th of next month ; this is the first step towards the fulfilment of the pro mises recently made by the present Danish Cabinet with a view to sttving off the evil day, which nevertheLss will, sooner or later, invitably come, and br ng with it a collision between Denmark and Germany. The Austrian Government, is said to have signed a convention with various Italian States, the ob ject of which is to re,tist in future any revolutionary attacks. Private letters from Athens of the 17th inst., sp:ak of the "splendid reception" given by the Russian Minister to the Queen en her Majesty's embarkation on board the Russian frigate. The names of Mdlle. Piccolomini and Signior Baletti are added to the list of singers engaged at the Norwich festival. Miss Wyndham leaves the Adelphi to join the com pany at the Olympic, under the new management. Mr. Charles Mathews visits America this autumn. Previous to his departure he will give a few farewell performances at the Haymarket Theatre, commencing on the 10th August. Miss Cushman leaves England next month for New York, with the intention, as we learn, of playing short farewell engagements through the principal theatres of the Union. Mr. Webster and Madame Celeste wit make their re appearance at the Adelphi to-night, after an absence of some weeks, during which the former has been playing a succes-ful engagement at Liverpool, and the letter re cruiting her health in her native France. Mr. Wright and Mr. Paul Bedford, who accompanied Mr. Webster in his provincial tour, will also reappear, with Mr. Webster and Madame Celeste, in the dramas of "George Danville" and "The Pretty Girls of Stillyrg." LYOEUlL—Professor Anderson, the famous Wizard of the North, returns to this theatre on Monday, the 17th August, on his way to China. We understand that the Lyceum Theatre has been taken by Mr. Harrison and Miss Pyne, who will give English operatic performances there until Christmas, when Mr. Charles Dillon will re-commence his dramatic seasca. Master John Lee (son of John Lee, lessee of the City Theatre), of the City of London School, belonging to ti2as Latin class, has obtained the second prize for French, also a prize in the second division for drawing, pre.seated to him by the Right Hor. the Lord Mayor, in the presence of a numerous assembly. NATIONAL STANDARD.—Mr. Douglas, the lessee of this establishment, has engaged Mr. Sims Reeves, the celebrated vocalist, for eighteen nights, commencing on the 7th September. Mr. Reeves receives from Mr. Douglas the large sum of nine hundred pounds for his services for the time named. Miss ANNA MARIA QUINN.—This juvenile actress, who has obtained an extraordinary celebrity in Aus tralia, appears on Wednesday next, at the Haymarket Theatre, in the personation piece of " The Actress of all Work." It is to be understood that it is only as ap pearance granted to Miss Quinn, in (vier to afford her an opportunity of playing before an English audience, and submitting her histrionic pretensions to the ordeal of public opinion. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRIL—There were present at the performances at her Majesty's Theatre on Friday evening and on Saturday evening last—The Duchess of Wellington and Lady Julia Hay, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Wellington, the Marchioness of Sligo a nd party, the Countess of rkney and the Viscount Kirk wall, the Countess of Mountoharles, the Countess of Abingdon, the Countess Talbot, the Countess of Coven try, the Countess of Munster, the Countess Dowager of Harrington, Caroline Countess Bel'ew and party, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Wilton and Lady C. Grey Egerton, the Chancellor of the Exchequer an d Lad y Theresa Lewis, the Viscount Grey de Wilton, the Vis count and Viscountess Galway, his Excellency the Count de Vitahurn d'Echstadt (the Minister Plenipotentiary of Saxony), the Viscount Miravelles, the Count Lewis Corti, Lord Rob er t Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Kin sale Lord Charles Hay, Lady and Miss M ac g re g or, Lady Elizabeth de Roe, the Ladies Isabella, and Lady Fitzmaurice, Lady Hay, Lady Lawley, Lady Louisa Bruce, Lady Molesworth and the Dowager Lady Moles worth, Lady Webster and party, Lady Abercomby, Lady East, General the Hon. Edward P. Lygon, C. 8., the Hon. Miss Smith, Sir William Fraser, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir Ralph Howard, Bart, Lady Howard and party, General Charritie, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart., Col. Meyrick, Miss Meyrick and party, Col. Wilkinson, Col. Woodford, Col. W. L . Freestun, M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Col. Han bury, Col. Yorke, Major Pole, Mr. Sergeant Wranghain, Mr. Alderman Challis, Mrs. Hattori, Mr. Morley, Mr. A. Selwyn, Mr. W. Cox, M.P., and Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Selwyn Tuyll, Mr. and Mrs. Thietlethwayte, Mr. and Mrs. H. Watson, Mr. Morgan and party, Mr. L'zardi and party, Mrs. Agar, Mrs. Auldjo, Mr. and Mrs. Chap lin and party, Mr. a nd Mrs. Abercrombie, &c. A Punic PARA FOR BIRAIINGRAM.—A strenuous effort is now making to secure Aston Hall and its park for the permanent use and enjoyment of tha people of Birmingham. plants and the rearing of many animals not yet in troduced, and systematic action in this direAion alone will greatly increase our means of developing the natural resources of the colony. " The scarcity and dearness of horse -- corn have led to the trying of all sorts of expedients to supply the deficiency. Oats are enormously high. - Barley is scarcely to be had in k uffi cient quantity for seed. Maize is scarce and dear, so there is a demand for oatmeal, gram, and split peas. The only grain we have in abundance is wheat, and this, being so much the cheapest, is coming largely into use for feeding draught horses. "LAZOVR. "During the past month there has not been much change in the state of this market. .Gcod mechanics have little difficulty in obtaining work, but there are stilt too many labourers and unskilled workmen unemployed, and the wages of this class have been gradually falling. As wages' fall the demand increases, and the number of men unem ployed is not so great as it was. The late rains also have enabled many of the employers of labour on the goldfields to resume operations, and we now bear little of a want of employment in the interior. Most of the men seeking work congregate in town, and their ranks are constantly increased by the new arrivals. Of these . there have been some within the last few days, and we have seen instances of their being engaged _on the first , day of their seeking employment ; but these must be looked on as exceptional cases. Many of them have to seek it in vain for many days. For a short time female servants were more numerous than is usual with us, and their wages fell about one - sixth—instead of 301. a year, ordi naiy general servants had to accept 25/. ; but the number of those unengaged is again decreasing. As far as the working classes are concerned, our politicians have chosen an unfortunate season for their Ministerial changes. These changes, and the strong opposition to the Government measures which preceded them, have caused a delay of three months in the ccmmencement of public works at a period of the year when many of the labouring classes have nothing else to look to. After the conclusion of harvest most of the men thrown on the • market have no otber resources until there is water enough on the goldfields to allow of the dirt' being washed up, and the precious metal obtained. This channel is now open, and is absorbing most of the unemployed men of the country, and the inconvenience and difficulty arising from the suspension and delay in the com mencing of public works cannot continue much longer. All classes seem to be strongly opposed to any further waste of time, and the first work that will be expected from Parliament on the re sumption of business will be the passing of the . estimates and a definite settlement of the railway question, so that the works may be commenced forthwith. "From the English papers lately received there appears to be a strong feeling among this unem.. pioyed in favour of emigration to Australia ; and the stoppage of our grand schttme for the formation of a large department, with plenty of money to spend in forwarding labour to the colony will cause much disappointment. This project is not likely to be carried out as was originally intended. Be fore the arrangeMents were completed, our states men were startled to find that, from some cause unforeseen by them, we could not employ the work ing men already in the country. This circumstance was taken advantage of by the so-called popular can didatesin attemptingtosecuretheirre-election. They pointed out the impropriety of send ng money away for the introduct.on of more l*bourers when there were so many idle men among us for whom we could find nothing to do. But they either did not see or were not honest enough to acknowledge that the dearth of employment arose solely from a want of foresight on the part of those entrusted with the expenditure of the public fund. 4, them selves among the number. The Parliament, and by their authority the Executive Government, very much influence the state of the labour market, and the unskilful use of this power may lead to serious results. It was expected that the railways and other works would draw so many men from the regular branches of productive indu•try as 100 cause quite a derangement of the business of the country ; but while measures were being taken to guard against the anticipated evil an unexpected one arose. This again is likely to drive us into the other extreme, and to prevent any means being taken for the introduction of labour." " MINING. " It appears from our provincial contemporaries that fortune still flings gigantic nuggets at the feet of some of her favourites. A.t the Whipstick, on the 30th ult., a nugget weighing 26 ounces was taken up in the Scotchman's Gully, a short dis tance from the claim where the 370 ounce nu gget was found, and on the day previous (Tuesday) an other nugget was taken up out of a different elainl in the same ground weighing 19 ounces. At Wltityre's a pers )n named M'Evoy has a claim on a quartz reef lately opened, and on Tuesday week he took out from it two specimens, one weigh in g 1291 b. and the other 81b., 1371 b. in all. It is snP posed that about 401 b. of quartz will be the out side, the remainder pure gold. On the following day he and his mate, a young boy, took out an other specimen weighing 1071 b., of which the he ter half is pure gold. The claim is very little worked, -.1 the deepest part is only 18 inches. The finder of the present lot is the same party who found the nugget weighing 129 ounces 18 dwts. in No. 3 gully at M'lntyre's, which was the occasion of th e last rush. Of course these are the prizes in the lottery of gold-digging, and there are plenty 0f blanks, of which we hear nothing. The qua" reefs in various districts are yielding almost fabu lous return.. " DEATH OF LADY BARFLY. " We sincerely regret to have to record the deat h of Lady Barkly, wile of his Excellency the Gayer; nor. Her ladyship gave birth to a son on the Bth of April, and from that time until her decease, which occurred on the 17th ult., she suffered from anervoug excitement, producing , depression of spirits, fits of hysteria, and length a complete nervous exhalls" tion terminating in de ith This melancholy eventlo s called forth one general feeling of regret for th e loss of a lady who had thus early succeeded in co l ; • c.liating the respect and esteem of all classes, an ' has also excited as wide-spread a sentiment of spy pathy for her bereaved husband. The unpopulail acquired by previous governors had induced th, ' pe)ple of Victoria to scrutinise with a watchful suspicious eye the ch meter and conduct of S' Henry and Lady Barkly, and it redounds, ther; fore, all the more to the honour of the decease' lady to have won, as she did in so short tb ,,, time the confidence and respect of the people a mong whom she came as a perfect stranger This she a e ; complished by the blended dignity and affabilitY her manner, her active and unostentatious farthe r ' ante of the objects of our charitable institutioll , and the cordial and intelligent interest she in° ll :, - , fested in whatever promis e d t o b e o f a d v antage u' the colony and its inhabita n t s . And the excellen t " 4 , qualities which were th us ear ly developed ill too brief career of the deceased lady deepen and 3 . 13 ; tensify the grief we experience at her loss. k e "t infant son only survived his mother for a forthig; and his remains were deposited in the same gro with those of Lady Barkly. GOLD CIRCULAR. From the Sydney Morning Herald, May 23. Memo... per oz. £3 15 6 Adelong Of 314 6 Tamb3.roora Stoney Creek Sofala and Turon 79 313 0 Braidwood // 312 6 , Hanging Rock , f ° 3 12 Rockey River (clean) Omeo 3 5 6 English sovereigns i per cent. premium. American coins at a premium. Chilian ditto at a discount. French gold and silver ditto ditto. The rains which prevailed during the suraul e i t . season have increased as the winter has advan ced " It was expected that the moisture of the seaso n, when dry weather usually prevails, would b d counterbalanced by the dryness of the s-sece l ' which -is usually characterised by moisture' Such, however, has not been the case. Frefa nearly all parts of the country, the informatZ is that a superabundanc e of m o istu r e is " universal experience. Rains falling, rivers risiv% and creeks overflowing their banks, o tend to dell vast tracts of the country, and saturate the soil ,0 an extent rarely experienced in Australia. lu i , result of this state of things is, that all - those nor ot cultural product 4, to which an excess of rain is e A positively detrimental, have ex h ibited a fruitfu lue l which is rarely e qualled and never surpassed ; an the announcements of extraord !nary yields are sal; Among other, one of the local papers gives t o s ame of a farmer who succeeded in obtaining fr° o , one acre of land upwards of eight tons of a lc duet which is quoted in Sydney at 81. to 101. 1 3 : ton. The cattle, too, throughout the country hibit the improving influence which the rains 1 0 :, had upon the pasture lands. " Mobs" of c attle sent to any bredto in market, th ewhich same districts at e describe fo l r aascsounpseidi considers period. In some localiti es th e c , n ti nue d ra ins Ila y o had. the effect whi c h m i g ht b e ant i c i pa t e d in ing au increased demand for land agricultural P -t 1 ( poses. The Netherlands Land Euclosure Company loth' is.ued a report preparatory to their meeting on the ou r' The operations of the past 12 months have beenl„„a able, not only as regards the amonnt of additions' p oi' redeemed, but also as to the crop obtained fr om tb tion3 sown with colza last year. ~ „ y . ~~ ev~+ yl slit! COIVIr Letters 1 Market on deleripi ion: rency. Th were taker The Rajiv steady, but The advi ascertained Paining ; tl Braaller Una for by the are being labour. I VIM be ull method of continued mails by Nearly 01 1Saturct th e contin The arm India Con from the 9 On Be On M: On Bo There c count ace( end of th , creased p' have oce prospects satisfacto: gold was large anu it is ye Tbreadne as specie contint ni the mon tunately, supply c Antipode wards o advanecc increaser casionall be antic but cor specie r that the ascend to tell NV upon or felt for i tow boi Last Were ab The I 'Which I demand Banks' loans at This North 1 the pre! the Lit Ther, lug co read ar. The 'Preakm by the ape culE turner prices pla,rke W e