The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

SCINDE RAILWAY COMPANY. rilA , »; DIN ARY GFINERAL MEETING OF SHARE BOLD,' K. —NortcE Is HEREBY OrtiEv, That an I xtraordiwtry General Meeting of the :iharth ildersiof the above Company yid be held within the Company's office. , , in Gresham Boas°, B oad- Street, in the City of London, on FRU) A.Y, the 24th day of July. 1857, at I o'clock in the aftcrtiocn precisely, for the pur pose of con sidering and approving &Bill now pending in Parliament, entitled, " A Bill for authorising the Selnde a y Company to Extend their Operations, and for Regulating the Capital of the Com pany, and for other purposes." By which Bill it is intended to enable the Company to negotiate with the Honowable the east India Company for the purp:ise of constructing a railway In the Punjaub territory, front Mooltan to Lithore awl illmritsir, and also for establishing on the r iver Indus, between Hyderabad and Alooltan, a steam flotilla, in connection with the railways, and by which Bill it is also intended to annul the Deed of Settlement of the Comp my, and to repeal" The Scinde Railway Act, it ;5," and to re-enact the same, or parts thereof, with amendrwnti, and to con fer additional powers on, and to make further provisions with respect to, the Company, and by which Bill provision Is made for keeping separate ae,ounts of the capital, and of the receipts, cre dits, payments, and liabilities of the several undertakings of the Company W: P. ANDREW, Chairman. TllO2l. BUR .ELL, Secretary. Gresham house, Old Broad-streA, 11th July, 1837. ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— Signor MOUNT -hag the honour to an nounce that his BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING MONDAY, July 13, on which occasion he will have the henou to appear in Five of his principal Characters. The Fourth Act of Verdi's IL TROVATORE. Leoitora, Mdlle. Spezia ; Azucena. Madame Alboui ; I 1 Conte di Lan,, Signor Beueventano ; and Maurico, Signor Guiglini. The Last Act of LUCIA DI LASPSERMOOR. Lucia, Piceo'c - nini ; Betlebent, Signor V aletti Entice, Signor Bellttti ; and Edgardo, Signor Giuglini. Selections from the Ballet of LES ROSES. For the First Time, the Last Act of Bell:ni's IL PIRATA. Including the celebrated "In Vedrai." Imogene, Macllle Ortclanl ; Gualtero, Signor Giuglini. The Last Scene of I MAP.TIRI, Mdlle. Piccolomini. ...Signor Giuglini. Pauline PoAuto • The Last Act of LA FAVORITA. Leonora, Spezia ; Fernando, Giuglini. To conclude with the admired MARCO SPADA. Por 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. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, L'ELISIR D'AMORE. The Last Night but One of the Subscription. Picco'oinini, Rosati.—First appearance of Marie Taglioni and M. Charles. TO-MORROW EVENING, Tuesday, July 14, will be pro duced (2d time these six years) Donizetti's Opera of L'ELHIR D'AMORE. Mina, Mdlle. Piecolomioi (2d time); Nemorino, Signor ; BAcore, Sig. Relletti ; and Dr. Dulcamara, Signor Rossi (2d appearance this season). A:tee wkich, will be produced an entirely New Ballet Divertissement, entitled MARCO SPADA. !or particularg.see bills. 'A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have been specially reserved for tue public, and may be had on ap plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, flay market. Price One Guinea and Ono Guinea and a Half each. HER MAJESTY'S TITE..N.TRE IL DONT GIOVANNI. EXTRA. NIGHT. On THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, will be repeated Mozart's chef-d'oeuvre, IL DON GIOVANNI. The entertainments in the Ballet Deparment will be sup por'..e 1 by Madame Rosati, Mewllies. Katrine and Boschetti, M. M ssot, Signori Boretti and Ronz.ini. For particulars see bills. NES BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S J THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the FRENCH PLAYS. . Positively the Last Night but One of the Season. TIIIS EVENING, MONDAY, July 13, the entertain meats will commence, at eight preci-ely, with Operette, en un Aete, LE DUEL DE BENJAMIN. M. Guyot, M. Jean Paul, Mallle. Mace. weVollowed by the new Operette-Militaire, en un Acte. DRAGONENE. M. Gnyot, M. Tayau, M. Leonce, Madlle. C. Guffroy. After which, will be repeat , : 1 Oparette, LA ROSE DE ST. FLOUR. M. Pradcau, M. Chas. Petit, and Mlle. Dal- To conclude with Opera-Pouffe, moyen age, en un acte, CR )QUEPER ; ou, Le Dernier des Paladins. The Orchestra of the Theitra des Bouffes will accom pany these Representations, under the direction of the composer, M. Offenbach. . , Boxes stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr, Mitche Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. T IiEA T R E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE. 1 Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella. Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; Boxes, 2s. Gil., 25., and Is. 6d.; Galleries,.6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. JACK THE GIANT KILLER, with novel effe Miss ELLA in Two unapproachable Acts. ROY AL r I ESS'S THEATRE THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's Play of VIE TEMPEST. P.oceilod by LIVING TOO FAST. TriIIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET _IL Lessee—Mr. J. B. Pinkstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with A COMICAL COUNTESS. After which, the new and original •Comedy, entitled VIuTIMS, in which Mr. Buckstono, Mr. Howe, Mr. William Farren, Miss Reynolds, dv., will appeAr. Followed by THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR. To conclude with a new Ballet, THE GLEANERS. In future the prices will be : Orchestr.t. Stalls (which may be retained the whole of th , evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d IDl.ass Boxes 5 0 press Boxes 3 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper 80xe5.... 2 ( Pt . . . . Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 LT;,per Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery TFIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lesriee—Mr, Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE CUSTOMS OF TIIE COUNTRY. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. ' fter which, a new drama, THE FAIRY CIR . :LE; or, Con O'Carolan's Dream. Mr. a. , d Mrs. B. Williams. Followed by a new farce, LATEST FRO:vf NEW YORK. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. 110 YAL OLYMPIC THEA 6 TRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, will he revived WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAID AS ITI KY ARE Mr. Addison, Mr. Mr. F. Vining, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Swanborough, &c. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robed B. Brough, Esq., calltyl 3IAS:IN lELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &e. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melina. Commence at half-past Seven. L'l TRANI) THE A.T —Leiee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING will he performed Douglas Jerrold's drama of THE PRISONER OF WAR. MOSII.A. Stuart, Kinloell, die., Miss Craven and Mrs. Weston. Followed by LOVE IN LIVERY. To c.nclude with the late Douglas Jerrold's farce of the SMOKED MISER. Commence at half-past Seven. Stalls, 33. ; Boxes, 2s. Pit, Is, ; ;tyllery, 6d, _ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. - Shepherd and Crsswick. THIS EVENING will he performed the granl opera of NORMA. Lucy Escott, Miss Lanza, Miss Dyer, Mr. Haigh, Mr. Durand; Mr. Manvers, and Mr. A. Cooke. After which, EXTREMELY PECULIAR. Mr. Shepherd and Miss M. Elmtne. To conclude with THE EMPEROR AND THE EXILE. Messrs. Yarnold, Shore, &e. A.ST LEY'S ROYAL AMP HIT El EA TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. The renowned Parisian Equestrienne, Madlle. Mililos, nightly hailed with enthusiastic approbat;on. THIS EVENING (MONDAY), the entertainments will commence with the superb spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD MORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. James Holloway. e• nmenee with Shakspere's tragedy of RICHARD 111., with Equestrian Illustrations. The entertainments concluding with an incomparable rou tine of Mr. W. Cooke's SCENES in the ARENA, introduc je4 Madlle. Mililos and other Artistes of celebrity. Commer.co at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, fro m 21 5., no charge for booking; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 18. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Half-price at ball.past Eight. 13Jx•office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. Tho Third Grand Morning Performauco will be g i ven on Saturday, July IS, at Two o'clock. GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. John Douglas. Last Week of whirlwinds of gesticulated extacy; THIS. EVENING, Profes.ior AN,DERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in his entirely New Magical Drama, A NIGHT IN WONDER-WORLD ; or, Magic, Mirth, and Mystery. Extraordinary novelties every night, and three new tricks each - night for the concluding week of wonders. At , action i ncreasing every n i g ht . Great success of Mr. G. Fo t rd e, who is the King of Comic Vocalists. CANTERIMRY HALL, Westminster-roacl. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow, ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the per f orm ance of Selections from all the pop u l ar Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, dm., viz. . Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and —une Marietta; Mr. J. aul tiold, Herr F. Jonghmans, It. Grover T, Farrant, S. Joie.:, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Celli, Senor Antonio M. . de Solla, and E. L. Rime ; Masters Bennett and Corri; Messrs. Son Collins, and E. Mackncy. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks harmonium, J Caulfield, jun.; iirector, I. : k ilt J. Caaltiold. Commence at Seven o'clock p rez i se l y, So2pers, die., nail twelve o'clock gy.TN, ONDON, MONDAY EV_ERFNO, LY ig,b7 al(3 WATER AT LONDON'BRIDGE. T ii 3 f;/:---;horn. 51 min. aft. 5 —Even., 13 min. sit. G To 1.1311;014—M0rn., 33 min. aft. 6 —Even., 1 m!tv Aft. 7 A. theists, Freethinkers, and Moi mons, it was ad- mitced, might take the oaths, and others, whom we shall not insult by naming, along with these parties. It is, however, against the Jews that i the holy enthusiasm now prevails. Even HAMAN himself was not more fiercely indignant against MORDECAI, more bent on removing him from the King's presence, than were the majority against the admission of even a single Hebrew to a seat in Parliament. True it is that the gentlemen thus aspersed maintain an honourable and unimpeachable character in every relation of life—that they have made excellent magistrates, independent electors, and good and loyal subjects—that they have always been prompt to come forward with their wealth and credit in every national emergency. Still an insurmountable bar is to be raised against them, and they are to be daily insulted by a petty, and, we may almost add, a malicious exclusion from a place to which they are as well entitled to admi. aion as any other loyal subject of her MAJESTY. The facts of the case " lay in a nutshell." I was universally acknowledged that it was a mere accidental disqualification, never intended at the time when the words •` on the true faith of a Christian," were added to the jurat or form which gave validity to the promissory part of the under taking, but which constituted no portion of the pledge. In declaring that ho accepted that pledge and waswilling to swear to it " iu the manner most binding on his conscience," Baron ROTHSCHILD did all that could reasonably be required at his hands. The whole current of legal decisions from the leading case of "Oniechund v. Barker," to the pre sent time has gone in that direction. The great mistake was, when the House of Commons at the suggestion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, refused to allow the chosen representative of the City of London to be sworn at the bar, and required a bill to be passed for that purpose. It was the then Premier " who raised the giant first," in order that he might subsequently hare the plea• sure of killing it. That was the grievous error, which it has taken so many years to repair. Had that course been adopted the excitement would speedily have subsided and matters moved in their ordinary course. Lord JOHN wanted to make a little political capital, and he contrived to raise a demon, which he has never since had sufficient power to exorcise. We do not think that Lord DERBY or his fol lowers will have much cause for rejoicing at the triumph they ha - ft obtained. They have gone in direct opposition to the three most eminent mem bers of their party. What would the Tory Oppo sition now be without the aid of Lord LYNDHURST, of Mr. DISRAELI, and of Sir J. PAKINGTON ? " The RUPERT of Debate" would be left alone in his glory without their countenance and advice. He would indeed be " left alone with his glory," with scarcely a counsellor or coadjutor on whom he could rely. It is strange how far men will be hurried by the rancour of religious hate ; how every feeling of propriety, every consideration .of consequences, will be banished from their minds. There is the victim, and whether it be to torture and destroy, or merely to insult and injure, au affecta tion of religion will always be put forward as an rxcuse for the painful duty. The modern FRONT DE BCEUF can't openly despoil ISAIC of York. He can't threaten to broil him over the glowing embers unless a heavy ransom be counted down on the dungeon floor ; but he can insult acid injure, can deny the enjoyment of unquestionable tights and privileges, and display the odium thee iogicltm in all its bitter intensity. They have done their worst, and we should far rather be in the position of the victims whose just claims have been postponed for a time, than of those, "dressed in a little brief authority," who refused to act in a liberal and conciliatory spirit towards those to whose "prudence, ability, and moderation," they were compelled to pay an unwilling tribute. Marlborough was but a case of disputed quali fication, the qualification being one granted for the occasion ; but while on this side the Tweed, only the choice of a constituency is not qualification suffi cient, it would of course be the height of absur dity to be over particular on the score of property qualification. The committee, however, decided fairly in not allowing unfortunate constructive liabi:ities in connection with the Royal British Bank to damage an otherwise sufficient qualification. At Rochdale and Wareham the decisions, were, as we observed at the time, by Tory committees, and in favour of Tory members. At Pontefract, Hotel. cursion. At length one member has been unseated, Mr. NEATE for Oxford ; some small consolation this to Mr. CARDWELL and his now defunct party, though he has still to win the prize of a seat for himself. Less lucky here than at Clitheroe in 1841, he only enjoys the pleasant satisfaction of the dog in the manger, but that is some satisfaction to an irate politician, of taking from another what he cannct enjoy himself. PerhapS, however, Mr. CARDWELL means to try his chance once more at Oxford. The city must have a kindly feeling for him. It took him in, a homeless wanderer, in l i 1853, after rejection by two large constituencies, Liverpool and Ayrshire, in 1852 ; and, seeing the Peelites in danger of political starvation, it may, as before, if he be prepared to apply again, show kindness to the needy. A useful, though some_ what overrated man, is Mr. CARDWELL in his line; and after the recent birching he may do his task better. As Mr. NEATE does not complain of his judges, perhaps we ought not ; we certainly think, however, that if he was unfairly unseated, other members are only more Itick,y in the tribunals be fore which they were brought. His Chairman was a Conservative, and only one of the committee was prepared, like himself, to vote for the Ballot. Somehow, with but one clear exception, the decisions of the Committee are very much in ac cordance with their political character. We do not mean to insinuate judicial partisanship, but unconscious bias is quite possible. At Cambridge, a Liberal Committee has retained a Tory member in his seat, and has inclined to the most lenient interpotration of paying messengers and travel liog Expenses. At Tewkesbury, a pretty Libe ral Committee fixes a Liberal member, Mr. MARTIN, 1n his seat ; but the evidence against him was certainly of the feeblest kind. At Burp, a Liberal Committee also refuses to eject Mr. Pamirs, although there can be little doubt that the non-electors endeavoured to intimidate the shopkeepers to vote for him, and probably secured him the victory : quite equitable this as I things go ; and, it may be, legal. At Maidstone, on the other hand, a Tory Committee retains twe good Tories in their seats, notwithstanding a dis ' graceful system of promising to pay, and appa • I rently a deliberate arrangement for paying, as soon as the lapse of time rendered it legally safe. " The Constitutional Society" —one founded, we presume, under the auspices of Lard JOHN RUSSELL, is the dominant power. And Mr. BERESFORD HOPE had in perfect innocence paid 3,5001. in 1847 at a proper time after the election, although the election was not contested! but of course, according to the usual estimate of political gratitude that could have no weight now. "I promise to pay," was probably the only thing which could influence a " Constitutional" man. a Liberal committee had to choose between two Liberals—Mr. Woos the sitting member, and the late member Mr. OLIVEIRA, who had paid the small consideration of 6,2501. for the seat in 1852, and who therefore fairly presumed that Pontefract could not have been carried against him in 1857 without a very liberal expenditure. He was promised, too, it seems, that " next time" he should be returned cheap—it woull'appear, however, that his well-paid friends deserted him, and that Mr. `Noon's carpet factory had more influence on the present election than 6,0001. paid five years' ago. Of course, that was all gone and spent. The amusing part of the story was the coolness with which Mr. OLIVEIRA, and Mrs. OLIVEIRA, who was chief actor, gave evidence of their own gross bribery at the former election. Nothing material was proved against Mr. WooD, but it Ras cert Aiuly proved on the strongest of all evidence, that Mr. and Mrs. OLIVEIRA would stick at nothing. It is obvious that in this Parliament the fashion is to keep the sitting Member in his seat. Bribery and intimidation are conspicuous enough ; they must, of course, have abounded in constituencies, where there is no petition; and landlord influence must have been the, silent and irresistible law of the counties. The remedy is apparent enough ; but the new House has no wish for it. Her Majesty and the Prince Cinsort leave town on Thursday for Aldershot, where they intend to remain— sleeping at the Royal Pavilion—until Saturday, when her Majesty will go to Osborne. Her Majesty the Queen (Mother) of Holland will arrive in London to-morrow with several members o her family. We understand her Majesty's sojourn in this country will be limited to five days. During her sojourn here the Queen will stay at Claridea's (bEvart's) Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Bruce, and. Colonel Stephens, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleane , , accom panied by the Count de Paris, honoured the establish ment of Mr. F. West, in St. James's-street, with a visit on Saturday. The Ea►l and Countess of Scarborough have left Claridge'd Hotel for Southampton, on a yachting ex. The Hon. Rev. Archer Clive and Mrs. Clive have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the Continent. The Rate Sir H. Thompson has arrived at the same establishment, from Tunbridge Wells. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA (LYCEUM). —The Queen and the Prince Consort honoured the performance of the opera of " Fra Dtavolo " at this theatre with their pre sence on Saturday evening. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by his Majesv the King of the Bslgiane and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the Princess Royal, and his Royal Highness the Count of F.andere. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Dunizstti's pretty little pastoral opera, entitled " d'Ainore," was per formed at the above theatre on Satnrelay evening, with Madlle. Piccolomini for the first time in the character of Adina. We need scarcely say that the heroine of so many dramatic triumphs succeeded in doing ample jus tice to a part which, compared with those she has already performed with the most brilliant success, is small and easy. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The season of the Bouffes Parisiennes terminates to-morroN evening on which oc casion four o f the most attractive pieces are to be per formed. It is much to be regretted that the season has been so brief, but it was impossible to procure for them a longer cove. Their next season we trust will be one of longer duration, for, thanks to the talent and enter prise of Mr. Mitchell, "the French Plays" have become au actual necessity to " the London season." Mr. Locke, M.P. for Southwark, has resigned the office of Common Pleader for the city of London. The European and American C3mpany's steamer Indiana, now on her way to England from New York, has 1,000 tons of sugar on board. MR. J. B. GORGH.—Mr. Gough, the teetotal orator, will leave America on the 15th of this mouth, by the Niagara, for England. The two French architect., Crepinet and Hazeville, who carried away prize., in the " plans for public ofEcls," are both.eery young men, and are at present employed as inspect.,r4 of the buildings in the Louvre. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD. —The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending July 11, 1857, was 2,935, of which 805 were new cases. GENERAL ANSON.—The colonelcy of the 55th Regi meat of Foot, to which the late General Anson suc ceeded on the death of Lieut.-General the Hon. Henry E. Butler only in December last, becomes vacant by his demise. Toe unfavourable season of the Paris theatres has commenced, and tells its own tale in the following figures :—ln May the receipts amounted to 45,2491., and Li the last month to only 34,3411. The falling off is con sequently 10,9081. EXPENSES OF THE CHINESE WAIL—The sum re quired to be voted by Parliament this session towards defraying the expense of the naval and military opera tions in China beyond the ordinary grants for navy and army is estimated at 500,0001. SUICIDE FROM BLACKFRIARS BRlDGE.—Yesterday morning, a man of respectable appear sr ce precipitated himself int the river from this bridge. On the tide re ceding the body was found, and taken to Christ Church dead-house. It is that of a man about 60, clad in black clothes. Loss or LIFE BY FIRE.-0a Saturday morning a flue little boy, named George Burrell, aged four years, residing at Liniebouse, while standing on the fender ignited his pinafore, and before ae&stance reached him he was most shockingly burned over the face, arms, and body. He shortly after wards expire 1. It has been arranged that instead of the punishment of seven years' transportation, as originally proposed in the Fraudulent Trustees Bill now before Parliament, the term of three years shall be adopted, and that this may be modified to fine or imprisonment for not more than two years, with or without hard labour. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.—The Master of the Rolls in Ireland has refused t r make an order to wind up this company's affairs on the ground that the petition fJr thet purpose was presented by a person under no ob:igation to pay his deLt., and also on the ground that the only substantial debt was one in which th.re was only an interlocutory judgment. A meeting of the members of the Army and Navy Club has been called for the 27th instant, to take into consideration a communication from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the instittriore It appears, says the United Service Gazette, that his Royal Highness has eecorce aware that gambling has been for some time carried on the Club to a fearful extent. THE COMING HARVEST. —It is stated that in the more forward districts in the south of England wheat cutting is expected to commence about next Monday week, should the weather continue propitious. It is noticed as a favourable sign that little has been heard of the potato blight, which was recently reported to have made its ap pearance in the south of Ireland. T Northern h e i p l r a b a m y o t t e e d throw by t t h h e e e d e i e r t e e c f t o R r s e i o p f the a th,s fraudsG re t on the preference shareholders, passed the committee of the House of Lords on Friday afternoon, to the astonish ment of ite opponents. It will, therefore, be forthwith brought up for its third reading. RETIRED OFFICERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. There are 14 persons in receipt of retired al owances and compensations for loss of office, formerly connected with the House of Commons, viz.—A clerk assistant at the table, 1,958/. ; a Fri icipal of the Publ.: Bill office and clerk of the fees, 1,900/. ; three committee clerks, one, 1,1001.; another 3381., and a third 1001.; a clerk of elections, 8001.; chief clerk of the Engrossing-office (an abolished office), 6091. ; a principal doorkeeper, 500/.; a deputy-housekeeper, 360/. ; a vote office clerk, 3001. ; a messenger, 332/. • and some others of smaller amounts. The total sum pai ' d for retired allowances and compen sations to officers of the House...A Commonslis 8,5241. — aril Service Gazette. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—On Saturday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Hale, picture-frame maker, Naylor'e-court, High-street, Whitechapel, whereby two persons were injured, and property to a considerable extent was destroyed. Another fire occurred on Saturday morning at the shop of Mr. Sanger, a Geruian fancy stationer and jeweller, of 198, Whitechapel-road. A young man, named Smith, to save himself from being suff oc ated, leaped out of one of the upper windows, by which he sustained such serious injaries that he was removed to the hospital. IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD.—TiIe amateur performance by Mr. Charles Dickens and his friend and Wilkie Collins's "Frozen Deep," in aid of the fund now being raised "in re membrance of Douglas Jerrold," took place at the Gallery of Illustration on Saturday evening. Not withstanding the utmost economy of space was ob served by the committee in placing the audience, and not a single place was unappropriated, so numerous had been the applications for tickets that a second perform ance for Saturday next bad been resolved upon for the gratification of the many who must other wise have been disappointed ; but the second perform. ance was no sooner announced than all the places for that also were taken up, and applications continued to come in ; so another repetition, the final one, for Satur day, the 25th inst., is to take place. The second per formance gave the utmost delight, and the audience, al though many of theta were suffering from inevitable dis comfort from the crowded state of the room, listened with breathless attention. Mr. Buckstone's capital farce of " Uncle John" followed, and the inimitable acting of Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Mark Lemon, who sus tained the parts of Uncle John and Friend Thomas, kept the audience in a genial state of merriment to the close. LATEST NE S. THE INDIAN MUTINIES. We have received the following telegraphic message from Trieste : TRIESTE, SUNDAY. The steamer Bombay arrived on the 11th of July (yesterday), at half-past 3 o'clock p.m., in 123 hours from Alexandria. The India mails leave this morning with intel ligence from Bombay to June 15 ; Calcutta, June 7 ; Madras, June 11 ; Ceylon, June 15 ; and Hong Kong, May 25. The mutiny had spread to several other regi ments of the Bengal army in the North-Western Provinces, but the crisis was looked upon as past. Reinforcements of European troops were on their way towards Upper India from the Bombay and Madras presidencies, and from Ceylon. The Bombay and Madras armies continued firmly loyal. General Anson had died of cholera at Kurnaul on May 27. Intelligence from Delhi to the Bth of June had been received at Madras and Bombay. The heights around the town were in possession of the Government troops. The rebels have bean attacked and driven dis pirited within the walls. They had lost 26 guns. News of the capture of Delhi was hourly ex pected. The native troops had been disarmed at most of the stations in the Punjab. The loss to the Bengal army through mu tiny and other causes is estimated at 26,000 men. The disaffection is eutirtly confined to the army. Sir Patrick Grant had been appointed to suc ceed General Anson, and universal confidence was felt in the efficacy of the vigorous measures adopted by the Governor-General. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Erin has been lost near Galle. At Bombay the tightness in the money-market had increasel, and the banks had raised their rate of interest. Exchange was 2s. 2d. to id. Both the Bombay and Calcutta import-markets wer© dull. Exchange.—Calcutta, 2g. ld. to id. Money was plentiful. All the most influential communities of Cal cutta, including the Mahommedans, had presented addresses to the Government, containing assur ances of their loyalty. Taß WEATIIEit—SuN Of PIO% JULY 12. THEBMOMETER, IN VIA SHADE. 73 est eines noon yesterday. 18 -lowest this morning and during the night. 80 -this day at noon. BAsOMETER, 30.35. WEND, S.W. ; light and fine. JULY 13. 81 - hthest since noon yesterday. 58 —lowest this morning and during the night. 77 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.39. WIND, S.W. ; fresh and squally, with fine weather. ....Jaw') 7 ... - Q.l)- ---- LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1867. Sir COLIN CAMPBELL this morning took his de parture for Hindostan, there to crush out with a heel of iron the flames of Revolt lately kindled by the Delhi insurgents. We give this glorious intelligence first, because we believe the important fact here announced will be accepted as glad tidings indeed by the whole mass of our home population. With Sir COLIN CAMPBELL as COM mander-in-Chief of " our Anglo-Indian army, we need have no solicitude for the ulterior .._ _ consequences of the terrible struggle which we cannot but regard as only just now corn rnencing—a life-and-death struggle for the main tenance of our vast Asiatic Empire—a vital or a deadly strife for the allegiance of 100,000,000 of the subjects of our Constitutional Sovereign. The latest intelligence from the far East—re ceived, so to speak, but a few hours since, yet pu'Aished in our columns on Saturday evening—this atest intelligence, we say, was in truth sufficiently darming to• necessitate some bold and resolute neasure like this (viz., the instant appointment ,f Sir COLIN CAMPBELL to the chief command of ,ur forces in Hindostan) on the part of our Home Government. It reached Ministers—that disas trous news—late on Friday evening ; and was formally taken into consideration by them at the Cabinet Council on Saturday. So seriously taken nto consideration, that already we see the result Le this wise and instantaneous nomination of Sir :OLIN CAMPBELL—one of the most heroic and ilustrious of living soldiers—to the imminently t )erilous and responsible post of Commander-in :illief of the whole of our military force s Ai the Indian peninsula. No wonder the tdvisers of her MAJESTY have acted for once thus resolutely, without temporising or procrastination. the situation is altogether too full of danger and sterna to admit of one moment's unnecessary lelay. Ministers have seen this, and have acted accordingly. It would have been incomprehensible, wholly and astoundingly incomprehensible, had they acted otherwise. For what is this Sudden Peril which they are called upon to grasp—at once—and with a glove of steel ? What ? It is the Revolt )f the whole Bengal Army ! The Desertion or the Rising in Arms of 26,000 men in the aggregate. ft is true, no doubt, that not by any means the whole of these 26,000 men are actually in the field against our authority—considerable bodies )f the rebels having fled from their colours in all lirections, hastening either to their own homes, x into yet more secluded retirement. It is also consolatory in another way to remember that even at the principal stronghold of the Itebellon, the Ancient Capital of the MOGUL Empire—at Delhi—the insurgents having tempted battle out side the walls with the troops still faithful to the British Government had been signally defeated vith a loss of twenty-six guns—their routed and diminished ranks being driven bask ignominiously nto the town, and the town itself threatened with an immediate assault and bombardment ! By a singular casualty, General ANsoN died of cholera on the 27th of May at Kurnaul—le lying vacant, at a crisis of great peril, the post of Com mander-in-Chief, in which post he was thus strangely and mysteriously deprived of that coveted prize of the Soldier, the oppeitunity of earning distinction I The appointment, however, of General PATRICK GRANT as Commander-in- Chief had—although by necessity only a tempo rary appointment—already done very much more than simply relieve the general anxiety spreading far and wide throughout Hindostan. It had re vived the hopes of the civilians, and reanimated anew the resolve and energy of the soldiery. It ppears, under the circumstances of the case, to have been perhaps the wisest course upon which the Indian Government could possibly have adventured—this temporary nomination of one of the most popular of all the Sepoy Generals until the situation could be resolutely dealt with by the Imperial Government at home. Let it be re• membered that General GRANT is in the Com pany's Service—that he was recently appointed (the first instance of the kind—absolutely the first instance of the kind—with reference to any but a QUEEN'S Officer) Commander of the Forces at Madras—and that he was Viscount (then Sir HUGH) GouPa's Quartermaster -General throughout the two memorable campaigns of the Punjaub. As a " temporary " appointment, no thing in truth, we conceive, could have been better judged than this one of General PATRICK GRANT as Commander-in-Chief pro tem, namely, until the Governor-General and the Councils at Calcutta could communicate with the magnates of Leadenhall-street and the Horse Guards, and, above all, of course, of the Imperial Government. Now—having communicated with them—the In dian Governor and Government are relieved from all this heavy weight of responsibility. Already, as we have seen, the crisis has been effec malty dealt with by the Advisers of the Crown. And the danger threatening the stability of our Indian Empire may, under GOD'S protection, be already looked upon as vir tually dissipated and scattered to the winds of heaven Eagland, we do confidently believe, reposes implicit reliance upon the wisdom and the valour of Sir COLIN CAMPBELL—and events will soon prove, with GOD'S blessing, that she is not in any way mistaken in her elevated estimate of the warlike genius of that heroic Highlander 1 The Lords have OEIOO more rejected the Oaths Bill. The second reading was on Friday refused by a majority of 34 in an unusually full house, there being 139 for and 173 against the Govern ment. The numbers present who heard the debate were 91 for and 109 against, and proxies 48 for and 64 against. For the sake of retain ing one of the last vestiges of bigotry and into lerance, they retained useless and almost blas phemous adjurations that might, without any extraordinary stretch of argument, bo described as " taking the LORD'S name in vain." For this, too, they have entered into collision with the other branch of the Legislature, which, by a 1 de cisive and overwh e l m i ng ma j or i ty, decided for the removal of the c i v il an d religious dis abilities. They have certainly " p a id d ear l y for their whistle," in which, as might have b een an ticipated, the members of the Episcopal Bench took A very decided and prominent part, there being no less than fifteen votes (seven present and eight proxies) recorded against the bill. The old stock fallacy of unchristianising the Legislature was of course largely resorted to CHINA. From China we learn that the gunboats have gone up the Canton river to attack the Mandarin junks. General Garrett and his staff had arrived. Tea was going down freely to Foo-chow-foo, where all was quiet. A battle had been fought between the Impe rialists and the rebels above Foo-ehow-foo, and it was believed that the Imperialists had been victo- TIOUS. Canton was suffering from famine. The price of rice at Hong Kong, 4 dollars per picul. Sir John Bowring had intimated that compen sation for loss sustained by British subjects will be demanded from the Chinese Government. RYchange at Hong Kong, 4s. Hid. Shanghai, May 15.--Exchange, 2d. to 7s. aid. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Empress is expected to return from Plom bieres to St. Cloud to-morrow. It is again announced that the Duke de Gram mont, French Minister at Turin, is to be appointed Ambassador to St. Petersburg, in the place of the Count de Morny. A chest of arms of various descriptions was sent to-day to the Imperial Attorney-General by the Minister fur Foreign Affairs, which will serve as important evidence in the forthcoming prosecution of the Italian conspirators arrested in Pari-. These arms will prone the connexion existing between the insurgents in Italy and the conspirators in Pa r i s , as they are part of those discovered in Italy, and are of the same manufacture as those seized in Paris. The following private telegraphic despatches have been received "TURIN, JULY 11 "The Minister of the Interior has declared to the Senate that there had been seized in Genoa► only 300 muskets, 20 pistols, and 240 poniards. What had been said of the plans of the insurgents which had been known beforehand, and likewise that the public establishments had been under mined, is not true. No mine had been dis covered under these establishments nor in the town. The squadron under the command of Ad miral Lord Lyons, which is at La Spezzia, consists of three ships of the line, two corvettes, and three steamers. Lord Lyons arrived at Genoa on the 10th." " MAD RID, JULY 11. "The Senate approved yesterday the bill on the Press. The Congress granted to-day the au hority demanded by the Government to collect the taxes." " The Congress has been prorogued." The French Government has received the follow ing telegraphic despatches from Marshal Randon, Governor-General of Algeria : " SIDI-HASSEN, JULY 4. " The Beni-Mengnillet, the Beni-Attaff, and the Akbile made their submission this morning. "Of all the great couferation the Zouaona, there remain to make their submission only the Ben i- Aoucef and the Beni-Ben-Akache, who are ex pected every moment, asd of whom several frac tions have already arrived at my camp." " SIDI-EL-HASS EN, JULY 3. " The submissions succeed each other, and my camp is full of Kabyle Chiefs, who come to demand the aman for their tribes. " This morning it was the turn of the Beni- Boudiar. To-morrow that of the Beni-Ouassif. I expect the Beni-Menguillet during the day." ITALY. TURIN, JULY 7. With the advancement of the Judicial investiga tion of the late affair at Genoa, fresh discoveries of the malicious intentions of the conspiratorsare con tinually brought to light, and each newly-revealed fact proves the plot to have been more diabolic in its character than had previously been conceived possible. The following is from a copy of one of the insurrectionary orders. " Courage ? The first house and family that should be sacked in - street will be the family of --, being the richest, the most wealthy, and being spies and cruel euemies of liberty. Pillage and fire ! Courage t" As the investigation proceeds fresh arrests have been made, and the number of persons now in confinement is altogether about 100. Great quan tities of arms have been confiscated daily since the discovery of the plot, showing the vast scale upon which the arrangements were made, and the Cattolico, which i s nu t generally a goo d authority, but which may, perhaps, have peculiar means of information in this instance, asserts that a vessel with 30,000 stand of arms was in the °thing when the plut was disclosed, and that, having become aware of the fact, she passed down the coast and landed her cargo elsewhere. A royal sturgeon was caught in Southampton Water, near Calvhot Castle, on Friday night. It was five feet long, and weighed about 50 pounds. A stur geon was caught in Southampton Waterncar Redbridge, a short time s i nce , which weighed 200 pounds. The sturgeon is often found swimming in company with salmon. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The Royal mail steam hip Europa, Capt. Leitch, has arrived with advices from New York to tha 30th ult. and Boston the Ist inst., and $455,086 in specie on freight. On the 7th inst. the Europa exchanged signals with the ship William Stetson, of Thomaston. On the 10th, in lat. 55.14, long. 10.56, she exchanged signals wlth the screw steamship Glasgow. On the 11th she signalled the ship Maria, and the Royal mailship Asia, all bound west. The screw steamship City of Baltimore, hence ; the steamship North Star, from Bremen and South ampton ; and the screw steamship Edinburgh from Glasgow, had arrived at New York. The Royal mailship Niagara, hence, had arrived at Bouton. The West Indian mail steamer Dee arrived at Havannah on the 23d ult. t.; The Royal mail steanyArip Indian, htnea, arrived at Quebec on the 27th ult. The United States Minister to Bogota, Judge Bowlin, had arrived at Washington, having failed in amicable negotia 4 ions with the President Os- pina. • The Mormon missionaries who left Salt Lake city by about the Ist of May reached Nebraska with their hand carts on the 15th of June. The Illinois had arrived at New York with the Californian mails of the sth of June and $1,852,867 on freight. There was a repot tof a defalcation to the amount of $50,000 in the Mint Department. The melter was charged with the embezzlement, but he explained the deficit as attributable to the de fective flues carrying off the gold. dust. The mining accounts are favourable. 139 of Walker's Filibusters had reached New York in the Wabash frigate from Aspinwall. The New York and Philadelphia Chambers of Commerce had resolved of er the Ist instant to abandon the system of giving advance wages to seamen. The President had recognized Mr. E. W. Mark as British Consul for Maryland. Accounts from New Mexico state that the United States' troops and the Mt'xica❑ garrison of Chihua hua were about to co-operate against the Indians, who were very troublesome. Advices from Havannah report the arrival there on the 25th of June of the Spanish fleet, consist ing of five sailing vessels aril two steamers, and having on board 2,000 men. From Honduras we learn of the arrival at Oman, on the Gth of May, of the deputy agent of the Honduras Railway Company and a staff of engi neers. In Costa Rica great rejoicings occurred on the return of a portion of the troops from Nicaragua. The others, under General Canas, remained to assist in reorganizing the Government. They showed a determination to retain permanent pos session of Punta Arenas and the fortification on the San Juan. At New York on the 29th ult. the Bank state meet showed a decline of nearly two millions in specie, a decline in loans of one hundred and four thousand dollars, and in deposit of over a million and a half dollars. In the stock-market there was no strength whatever. Foreign exchange was ex tremely dull. First-class commercial bills on Eng land were offtred at 10K- to 1091 ; Bankers reluc tantly yielded even at the reduced rates, no large amount being saleable for cash. We quote Bankers' Bills 60 days' sight on London, 1098. to 1.091 ; Paris, 5.] 71. ' Money continued active, but merchants found no difficulty in obtaining what they required at moderate rates. The demand for the payment of duties on the Ist instant. was the only pressing want. The cotton-market was firm, extreme rates being obtained. Middling uplands were quoted at 14gc. to 14,1-c. ; Mobiles, 14ic. ; New Orleans, 1420. In State flour there was a slight improvement ; other descriptions were firm and steady. Wheat was without change, the offering's being small. Mess pork was inactive, and prices were firmly sup ported by the holders. Hams were lower, and freely offered at 101 c. to 11c. Beef was firm, but moderately active. Spirits of turpentine were held with incrEasing firmness, and sales had been made ou private terms at 45c. to 48i. Tar was active at unchanged rate. Freights were without improvement. To Liverpool—for cotton, 2s. 61. to 3s. per bale; flour, 6d. per barrel ; grain, 21. to 41. per bush 1. To Lond' is. to ls. 31. per barrel. To Havre—cotton, ie. On the evening of the 30th, at New York, cot ton had advanced Ac. Orleans middling was quoted at 14. Flour closed very heavy for lower grades., Wheat was unsettled. Corn closed quietly. Beef, lard, and. but'er were heavy. iron was dull ; Scotch pig at $3O to $3l. Tobacco was dull. Freights were firmer to Liverpool—Cotton, 3s. per bale; flour, 6d., nominal-; grain, 21d. and 211. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The following is the latest by telegraph, via Halifax, dated New York, July 2 : " Our latest dates from New Orleans are to the Ist inst., on which day the sales of cotton were about 3,500 bales, at an advance of ic. under the influence of the Niagara's advices. Middling quoted at I4c. "The ship William Willett, from Liverpool for this port, went ashore at Squaw on he Jer sey coast, and will prove a total loss. Tile pas sengers and crew were all saved. " The New York Stock-market on the 2d was dull. Wheat and corn had an advancing ten dency." AUSTRALIA. [A. portion of the following appeared in our impression of Saturday LIVERPOOL, JULY 12. The Black Ball clipper ship James Baines, Cap tain Macdonald, arrived this afternoon with ad vices from sielbourne to the 26th April, being ten days later than those received overland. She Las brought 60,314 ounces of gold on freight, 163 pas sengers, and a quantity of woo), tallow, Arc. The James Baines made the run from Melbourne to the Equator in 44 days, and then experienced light trifling winds to Cape Clear. The over'and mail of the 24th February had not arrived out, the latest dates from England being per Great Britain. The auxiliary screw steamship Great Britain ar rived at Melbourne on the 19th April, after a pas sage of 62 days. The Black Ball clipper Lightning', hence, made the run out in 71 days; the Hebe, from London, the Sea Lark, from Cardiff, and the Dunstand, from Liverpool, in 111 days, had ar rived at Melbourne. Lady Barkley, wife of Governor-General Bark ley, died on Vie 17th of Aptil at Soorak from ner vous exhaustion, resulting from a recent accouehe meat. Great sympathy was felt by all classes. The O'Shanassy Ministry had fallen by a vote of want of confidence moved by Mr. Fellowes. The majority was 34 to 19. The Governor sent for Mr. Haines to form a Ministry, but he declined, and Mr. M'Culloch undertook it, and immediately put himself in communication with Mr. Michie and others. Business generally was improving, though there was no particular advance in pries. Sugar gene rally was maintaining fair prices. No bonds of bottled beer but Bass's saleable. Ruin in rather better demand. Port wine very dull of sale. Flour dull at from 161. to 171. . . The Melbourne Herald of the 25th states that there was very little doing in the market. Good samples of wheat sold at 6s. 6d. to Gs. 9d. Brandy continued firm. The quantity of gold by escort for the week ending the 24th was 37,307 ounces (cash 37,8141.) The value of imports into Melbourne for the week ending the 18th of April was 252,3381. ; exports, 85,592 1 . The prices of wool were fully maintained. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING. The Roxburgh Castle, Captain Adams, 94 days from Melbourne, was off the port yesterday, and landed passengers here. She has a cargo of copper ore and wool, 90 passengers, and, it is said, half a tou of gold dust. The Roxburgh Castle has had a very boisterous passage. She left Port Phillip April 7tb, cleared the Head on the 10th, carried away topgallant mast before sighting Cape Horn, which she rounded May 10th ; lo,t bulwarks off the coast of Brazil, crossed the line June Bth, and shortly after experienced contrary wind or calms for nine conse cutive days. Near the Lizard, at 11 a.m., on Fri day, spoke the Blackwall, from Plymouth, under all canvass for Melbourne. The Francis Henty, Capt. Caincross, from Mel bourne March the 24th, landed passe ngers at two o'clock this morni ng . Sh e h as nine passengers and 24,000 ounces of gold. After expending 10 days in attempting to make the passage home by Cape Horn, the Francis Henty put about off Van Die men's Land, and rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 60 days. She is 26 days from the line. The Copenhagen, Capt. Godfrey, is outside the harbour, coming in and bound to Melbourne. The Queen and the Prince of Wales, from the Bast ladies, for London, are in the Channel. THE LATE DOUBLE RETURN FOR HUNTINGDONSHIRE. —The inquiry into the late election fur Huntingdoi. shire, which resulted in an equality of votes for Mr. J. M. Heathcote and Mr. E. Fellowes will commence dur rg the week. As about 60 votes are objected to of ach side the inquiry wi 11 pi obAbly be an extremely dioue one. LITERATURE. -.OP- Tha Franks. By Walter C. Perry. Longman. This volume is on a subject of considerable histori cal importance, though the knowledge of it is neither correct nor general. The Franks, though a mighty and warlike people, the founders of some of the chief European nations, have left but few traces in tha annals of the past. lbeies was an age of strife and struggle, when historians and minstrels were few, and little to be trusted from the vehemence of opposing parties, and the pre judices which were then unsoftened by extended knowledge and tolerant principle?. They lived for the present, not the future ; but the countrymen of Carl Martel, the predecessors of Charlemagne, deserve some consideration even. in our day. The author of this work is Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Gottingen, and has consequently had ac .ess to the chief sources of Frankish his. tory. He has evidently devoted much care and labour to the prosecution of his task, has com pared opposing accounts, has allowed for con flicting prejudices, and has formed a tho rough acquaintance with the subject. He com mences with describing the Frankish race, their peculiarities, the traditions of their early settlement in G, rmany and Gaul, and the division of their lands. The two great divisions of Austrasia and Neustria were of the most important?, and these are clearly explained for the assistance of the students. Austrasia being the name of the original seat of the Franks on the right bank of the Rhine, and Neustria being the title of their settlements in Gaul. It is scarcely necos ary to remind the reader that they were divided into the kingdoms of Ger many and France by the treaty of Verdun. The distinction between them was always great, the Frankish elehient maintaining is pre-eminence in Austrasia►, while in Neustria it became absorbed in the old Roman characteristics. This d.fference be tween the different races of the Franks themselves renders the task of chronicling their peculiarities, laws and customs, one of no ordinary difficulty. That the writer has succeeded in his task and at the same time in producing an interesting volume, out of comparatively unattractive materials, will, we think, be readily admitted. Trio opening in deed has little interest, the early struggles of the rival kings and chiefs differing little from one ano ther. The long line of the Merovingian rois funeans, whose indolence and incapacity have be come a proverb, furnish but a tedious catalogue. The reader who will persevere, however, through this necessary introduction, will find his reward in arriving at the histories of their great successors. Tire remarkable contrast between the Merovin gian and Carlovingian dynasties was proved by the fact, that the successors of Clovis became gradually weaker, and wore incapable of governing, while the successors of the first Pepin increased in power and skill. The fifth generation saw the descendant of Pepin of Lauder' ruling an empire which embraced Fr ance, Germany, and Italy. It is true that the glory of the race paused at that epoch, and the son of Charlemagne had few of his ancestor's qualities, but the succession of the three Pepins and Carl artel in one family was sufficient to secure the supremacy of the Carlovingian race. The following extract gives a picture of the charac ter of Carl Martel, the son of one eminent Pepin, the father of another, and the grandfather of Charlemagne : " cad Martel may be reckoned in the number of those great men who have been deprived of more than half the glory due to them, because they want the sacred poet.' Deeds which, in the full light of history, would have ap peared sufficient to make a dozen warriors immortal, are despatches by the Frankish chroniclers in a few dry words. His greatness, indeed, shines forth even from their meagre notices ; but we feel, as we read them, that had a Caaiar or a Livy unfolded his character and de scribed his exploits,—instead of a poor pedantic monk like Fredegar,—a rival might be found for the Camaro, the Scipios, and the Hannibals. "We have seen that he inherited little from his father but the hereditary vigour of his race. He began life as the prisoner of an envious stepmother. When he escaped from his prison at Cologne, he was surrounded by powerful enemies ; nor could he consider himelf safe until, with a force which voluntarily joined his standard, he had defeated three armies larger than his owu. His subsequent career was in accordance with the deeds of his early life. Every step in his onward progress was the result of a contest. He fought his way to the seat of his mighty father. He defeated the Neustriane, and compelled them to receive a sovereign at his hands. He attacked and defeated, in rapid succession, the warlike nations of the Frisiens ' and the Saxons ; he re fced the Frankish yoke more firmly upon the necks of the Swabians, the Bavarians, the Aquitanians, and Garcons ; and, above all, tie stemmed the mighty tide of Moilemism which threatened to engulf the world. " Nor was it with external enemies alone that he bad to contend. To the last days of his ac ive life he was engaged in quelling the enless seditious of the great seigniors who were as impatient of control from above as of opposition from below. 4 " The great and important results of his activity were the predominance of the German element in the Frankish empire, the preservation of Europe from Mohammeda nism, and the union of the principal German tribes into one powerful State. And all these mighty objects he effected, as far as we are able to judge, chiefly, though not entirely by the sword. He beat down everything which barred his course ; he crushed all those who dared to oppose him ; he coerced the stubborness of the hide pendent German tribes, and welded them together by terrific and repeated blows. Our prevailing idea of him, therefore, is that of force—irresistible energy ; and his popular surname of Martel, or the Hammer, appears a particularly happy one. "His lot was cast in the battle-field, but the part which he there performed was useful as well as brilliant. Though evidently a warrior of the highest class—great in the council as in the field—he was not that degraded being, a mere warrior. He never seems to heve sought war for its own sake, or to have deUlited in bloodshed. He was willing to negotiate with an enemy, even when he fat himself the stronger; and was placable and generous to his bitterest foes. The aid he afforded to Boniface and others in their efforts to convert the heathen, and the sympathy he showed iu their success, sufficiently prove that he was not indifferent to religion ; and that he could appreciate, not only the brava exploits of the gal ant soldier, but the self-sacrificing labours of the zsalous missionary. Pepin the Short, the son of Carl Martel, was an other eminent ruler. It was he who first assumed the crown instead of leaving the nominal authority in the hands of the Merovingian faineans. The last of the dynasty of Clovis was shorn of his royal locks aged sent into a monastery. Pepin's elder t , rother, Cartnnan, had previously retired into one, le.tving the cares of State to his brother. Mr. Perry says of him : " With such high qualities, important transactions, and glorious deeds, connected with his name, we might wonder that the fame of Pepin is not greater, we not know the diminishing force of unfavourable contrast. Unfortunately, for his renown at least, he had a father and a son still greater than himself. Such a man would have risen like an alp from the level plain of ordinary kings : as it is, he forms but a link in a long chain of eminences, of which he is not the highest; and thus it has come to pass that the tomb of One who ruled a mighty empire for twenty-five years with invariable success, who founded a new dynasty of kings, and estab lished the Popes on their temporal throne, is inscribed with the name of his still more glorious successor ; and all his high qualities and glorious deeds appear to be forgotten in the fact that he was 'Pater Caroli Magni:" With Pepin the Short, the present history ends, though the author gives us a conditional promise of a work on the life of Charlemagne, to which this volume will form a useful introduction. The concluding chapters are devoted to the state of the laws, religion, &c., and show a careful study of those confused and stormy times. We trust the author will fulfil his promise of another work, and in the meantime commend the present careful and interesting record to all who would form an ac quaintance with the early Frankish history . , an acquaintance indispensable to the knowledge of the foundation of the European monarchies. THE NEW RICSSIAN TARIFF. BERLIN, JULY 9.—The Journal of the Senate has interfered very materially with the speculation of printing the new Russian tariff and publishing it separately for 80 copecs, for with its number of June 39, it reprints tne whole document, bulky as it is ; it compriss nearly 400 different articles, and together with the various appendices and addenda fills 40 printed sheets. The entire tariff is di v ided into three main divisions ; the first contains a list of the goods that henceforth ar,e to be imported free of all duty, Nos. 1 to 55 ; the 2d, goods that are in future to pay an uniform duty of 20 copecs per poud, Nos. 56 to 83 ; and the 3d, goods which are to pay various duties, or the import of which is to be prohibited altogether, Nos. 84 to 367 ; and this thi r d di v i s i on i s aga i n further subdivided. The old principle is re tained of making a difference of Customs' duty be imeen goods imported by water or by land in favour of the latter ; and a new principle is introduced of levying on various goods imported into the Trans caucas'an ports of the Black Sea lower duties than if they were imported into Russia or Poland ; this advantage in favour of Transcaucasian trade ex tends even to a total freedom from duty for certain articles which are taxed more or less heavily in the rest of the Russian dominions. One of the items in the list of goods to be imported duty free gives unusual satisfaction—viz., printed books ; u p to the promulgation of this new tariff the duty on books had amounted to 30 copecs per lb. This rate, and the method of applying it, viz., according to weight, was particularly onerous as regarded books, the intel!ectual worth of which by no means in creases the heavier they are. IVI Let, MArkE prices Fridai which; transa Moder iicula l The trad e of E n partic inonel hav e 1 tion. C ertal] to awo and B of im distri ( Navin States into c that c Th E 11 1 the th e si Apart of th th e t th a t a order easine Abc this n stid 9 Euro/ On taken Th( in the th e cr certai the di have Pla ce Th i Viet° A.usti t. ep thei The tile 904 Sto 22i SG ; per Six diti