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

R OYAL PRINCSS'S perf THEAT ßEormed . THIS EVEN Eill ING wbe Shakespere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. CRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—St. JAMES'S THE ATRE.—It is reTectfully announced that the renowned CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, whose success for upwards of 3,000 consecutive nights in New York has been without parallel, will ;ice their celebrated ENTER ' TAINMENT THIS EVENING, commencing at half-past 8. Boxes and stalls at 'Nil% Mitchell's Royal library, and the box office of the theatre. THE A THE-R 0Y A C., DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENIN:I. GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERIC. S LN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY. The greatest Contortionist in the world, Mr. W. Baker. The King of Clowns, Mr. Arthur Nelson. Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; Boxes, 2s. 6d,, 25., and ls. 11 -1-; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. -IL Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TflIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with the new and greatly successful original Comedy, entitled VICTIMS, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. How.), Mr. WlMoan Farrell, Miss Reynolds, &e., will appc.tr. After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BUCK-EYED SUSAN. Willi un, Mr. T. P. Cooke. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) Fir3t Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ILOYA.L, Lesee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENTNG, will be performed the new drama of GEORGE DARVILLE, in which Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Madame Celeste 11 perform. After which, Ole late Mr. Douglas Jerrold's drama of THE RENT D.Y. Messrs. B. We aster, Wright, Paul Bedford, and Madame Celeste. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. 'nits EVENING, Saturday, Aug. 8, will be performed the new drama, called DADDY lIARDACRE, Mr. Rob son, &e. To conclude with the o: iginal Extravaganza, by Ribert B. Brough, Esq., called MASANEELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &e. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hcgl.es, Bromley, anti Mrs. Melfont, Commence at ha'f-past Seven. OYAL SURREY THEATRE. 1 , Lesge€B, Mesirs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will he performed the gran'l opera of LITtA DI LAMMEP.MOOR. Lucy Eicott, Mr. Haigh, Mr. Squires, Mr. Durand, Mr. A. Cooke, and Mr Manvers. After which, A GRAND CONT;ERT. To conclude with THE QUAKER. GREA.T NATIONAL STANDARD T [LE A.TRE. Prop , ictor . Mr. John Douglas. THIS EVENING will be performed THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. The nuchess, Ws; Giyu. Between the pieces Mr. J. G. Forde, the Kin; of Comic Vocalists, will open his P .1-eel of Fun. Followed by a BALLET. To conclude with LOVE ; or, 201,1 Shoreditch. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPETITREA.TRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Unler the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Positively the List ;slight of - the Splendid Spectacle of MAZEPPA, which must be withdrawn for the production of a Grand E ino,trian and Orieatal Spectacle, which will be produced on Monday, Augast 10, ,greit Parisian Equestrienne, Madllo, Minas, every night. THIS EVENING, Saturday, Anemst 5, will be performed Byron's grand spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, Ali tzeppa, Mr. James Holloway. After which, Mr.Willarn Cooke's SCENES in the CIRCLE, introducin ao trained Zebras, and the Wonder of the Day, DSa~ili e. 1111ilos. Concluding avit'o a Farce. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1 s., no charge for booking; Pit, fi,s Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Half-price at half-past Eight. B,k office open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. itY IT .LL, West mi niter-road.- OPE N EVEP.Y EVENING.—The fo?low -1a-.1 c,.)-71;,any of Voc,lists are en-gagcd for the performance of SdtcLions from all t , io poptilsr Operas, Matirigais, Choruses, G c.,s, &e., via.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. Patinyre, Miss Waleott, S_ T ics Prnncil, Miss Srmmers, atilt Madams Marietta; Mr St. Allyn, Herr F. longlimans, E. Grover, T. Far rant, S. To J. fitrker, W. :ife!iing, P. Corti, Senor An. tonio M. le Sohli, aol E. L. lime; .Ifaster Corri; gessys, S^an Ci iins, s.til E. '!../331;rn•y. Pit . :.a.)rort.), Yin CAI Hicks; harm.inium, Mast,T Wi.li ims Ti rosor, Hen F, Jon;*!ini Ili Colirly;acc at S3von 4.)'.;10ck praik)iy. peva, Ace., ttntil tiv'Jlve o'c!ock 131(.41 WA2 - 2/1 AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIIIB DAl—Morn. 33 min. aft. 3 —Even., 53 mlu. aft 3 To .!::) - 4. - Pm• — , forn„ 9 min. aft. 4—Ever., 23 m!n aft. WEATIltit-SUN OFFICE, AUGCI3T S. Titk.2IIO3IZTER, IN 'NIX SHADE. 70 , 11g116:3t. since no.,m vestorclay. CO lowest this morning and (lariag the night. Cti -this day at nom. BAROVIETZS, 29.72. Nr, S.W. ; light, with dull cool weather. ?Pr. tSnA:llr, LONDON, SATURDAY . , AUGUST 8, In 7 Another Eastern difficulty is homing in the future—an ominous cloud is gathering on the It( litical horizon. The flags of Russia, Prussia, France, and Sardinia have been lowered at Consan tinop'e. >matic relations are suspended with the Sublime Porte by these Powers, and that for a matter in which the Turkish Cabinet is sustained and supported by England and Austria. We regret that Sardinia should have joined the malcontents. We entertain a high respect for VicTor£. EMMANUEL, and should always desire to hive the only other free monarchy in Europe svrayed on our side and struggling under the same standard. We suspect, however, that the course pursued by the Government of Turin is in fluenced rather by its very natural animosity to Austria than by the real merits of the CASO. It has sided with France rather than with Russia or Prussia. It might perhaps wish to support the Ottoman Government, but the oppor tunity of snubbing Austria affords a temptation too strong to be resisted, and the weight of Sar dinia has consequently been cast into the op- posing scale. As to the conduct of Russia we cannot feel the slightest surprise ; we never expected anything at her hands. All her professions of moderation were, to use a familiar phrase, mere " bosh." The snake was scatcheJ, not killed. Wo had the Power in our own hands, and foolishly relin quished it. We might have exacted valid secu rities, but were contented to bind her over in her own recognisances. The n atural result has followed, perhaps a lit le sooner than might have ;been anti cipated, b u t, sooner or l a t er , fresh complications Were inevitable in conse quence of the lame and i mpotent conclusion of the contest in which We uselessly sacrified 50,000 English lives, and 10 0,000,000/. of English treasure. The co-operation cf Prussia with our e eanuitsi,_ indicates the true value of those dynastic anew, on which so much stress is laid by th e ad vocates of Germanism, The ink is scarcely dry in which the act, granting the Princess R , )yal's dowry is written, before we find the representa tive of Cliquot striving to diminish the prestige of Great Britain, and already acting with a degree of hauteur and insolence that might more fittingly be displayed towards a third-rate Power. W" witnessed s) witch of Prussian duplicity vacillation during the la . e war, that perhaps tau most favourable eyinptom that e3uld be displayed, is her unequivc,cal demonstration against us in the first instwnce. But,FranoJ's conduct is more perplexing. We h ad hoped that the ties 'of amiiy and mutual good will had been cemented by the blood of the gallant soldiers who had perished side by side in the Crimea—that we should no longer hear of "Perfidious Albion," or of the unrelenting hatred to English institutions and the English people. We regret to say that our faith is greatly shaken by recent events. As long as we submit to be patronised and led by the nose—as long as we weakly consent to play second fiddle, and `se accept with bated breath and deep humility the orders of the EMPEROR, so long shall we be graciously suffered to go on, but should differences arise, we mist be prepared to " eat humble pie," or submit to the consequences. We fear that matters cannot proceed much longer in the same manner, and that sooner or later we shall have to struggle, not for our superiority, for that we do not seek, but for that full and perfect equality which no true-hearted Englishman will surrenderf should it cost the shedding of the last drop of his blood, and the expenditure of his last shilling. There is a Congress now sitting at Osborne House in which important decisions may be L • arrived at. It would be absurd to suppose that the visit of LOUIS NAPOLEON was one of mere ceremony, or that attempts are not being made to induce England to yield on points in which her Ministers have hitherto stood firm. The main point at present is, probably, that relating to the un ion of the Danubian Principalities, which France, in conjunction with its new friends, Russia and Prussia, seems resolved to accomplish at any cost, per fees ant nefas. This is the first step towards the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire—the creation of an opponent devoted to Russia, and prepared to do all its dirty work at the very threshold. It was to preserve these provinces to Turkey—to avert that Muscovite in fluence, that we entered into the war, and our saciffices would, indeed, be made in vain, if we should now tamely yield to the pen what the sword could not subdue. The people of Moldavia have, so far as the Lite elections can be received in evidence, testified an invincible repugnance to the Union. But their wishes are to be set at nought, and everything carried with a high hand. It was not sufficient that the SULTAN changed his Government to please the overbearing representa tives of France and her coadjutors---that the new Cabinet offered to institute a strict in quiry into all matters connected with the Elections. No, because there was not immediate submission, because these elections were not instantly annulled, the flip wore hauled down, and the peace and tranquillity of Europe I seriously endangered. The annoyance and inso lence of such conduct sufficiently proves that the parties are influenced by no considerations of equity or justice—that their chief anxiety is to injure the Porte and humiliate Great Britain and Austria. Will LOUIS NAPOLEON induce the Osborne Conference to connive at such a course ? We hope not ;we believe not. We have still confidenee in Lord PALMERSTON and Lord CLAR ENDON ; and until we are convinced to the con trary, on the most unquestionable evidence, can not believe that they will strike their colours in a matter where the honour and interests of England are so deeply concerned. There are other matters that may also be touched on. The coercion of the Press—the dismissal of political refugees. These will, doubtless, form topics of conversation, and we confess that it is not without considerable anxiety that we await the results of the pealing Conferences, which time alone can fully and completely develope. I A. few days will now bring fresh intelligence I from India. We shall know whether Delhi has rea'ly fallen—whether the sanguinary rnicreants who have murdered and insulted our countrymen and countrywomen have ex - diated their inha!nan atrocities, or whether the mutiny has spread fur ther and assumed even more formidable dimen sions. We shill then know whether the people have joined the military ruffians, and whether we have again to reconquer India, or merely to disband and punish a number of insurgent sepcys, and those by whom their discontent has been €cited or fomented, and who can be convicted on unequivocal evidence of complicity in the vile c- nspiracy. Hitherto the people, with few and. rare excep tions, have remained true to their allegiance, and we hope and believe that they will still be found faithful. Much will depend on the manner in which the mutineers are dealt with, and the stringency of the examples that may be made. As yet, it has been merely the military element that has occasioned the disturbance, and those others Ni ho have joined have been merely the miscreants who would not permit any oppor tunity for plunder or murder to pass away with out taking full advantage of the chances. The question then naturally arises, what can have oc casioned or led to t'lis deplorable feeling on the part of men who have " partaken of °III salt," —who have been petted to the utmost extent, have had all their prejudices respected, and their interests carefully attended to ? The man who CALL lift the veil and dispel the mists in which the matter is involved will render valua ble service to the nation. And there are many who are prepared to give the benefit of their Indian experiences. Amongst these the Hon. Member for Weymouth a , stmies a prominent position. Ho has already published a very able and well-timed pamphlet* ou the causes of, and remedies for, the 1111.1tii,y. Mr. CAMPBELL seems to have studied the Indian character with assiduity and effect., and to have possessed him self of a large fund of available information, pe culiarly valualle at the present crisis. And we earnestly hope that the Government may avail itself of the well-considered sugges tions which he tenders for their acceptance. Mr: CAMPBELL has, iu an appendix, given a remarkably clear and graphic historical sketch of the Bengal army. Ho has pointed out the various mutinies that have broken out, and even of the discontents that have existed among the Sepoy troops. From the data thus supplied he has arrived at the conclusions which he has sub mitted to the Premier. Every one of these con clusions—eleven in number—seem to be fully warranted by the premises, and to lead naturally towards the proposed remedies by which, having suppressed the revolt, we may obtain security for the future. Oue of the chief causes of the insubordination his been the deficiency of European officers, and the consequent influence attained by the native Commissioned officers—" Men who have invari ably risen from the ranks, grown old and imbecile, and either become the tools of the soldiete, with whom they formerly associated on Equal terms, or the listless spectators of all that passes around them." Their conduct seems t') have been oue amongst " the primary causes of the dilapidated discipline of the Bengal Infantry." The Sepoy has also found that every manifestation of pay - and allowances. di scon tent has led to Extra * "The Indian Mutiny : Its CaUSCR and its Remedies.'' A Letter to th e Ri g ht Hon. Lord Viscount Pal mers t K.G. and G.C. 8., First Lord of the Treasury, &,., By R. J. R. Campball, Esq., M.P. for Weymouth. Lon_ don: Charles Evans, United Service Gazette office, 6, lington-street South, Strand. His religious prejudices could always be assuaged by a few rupees, his wounded conscience healed by the application of a silver plaistor. Any pretext that afforded a favourable oppor tunity for extortion was anxiously sought after, and worked to the utmost. The more yielding were his employers, the more avaricious he became, until at last he severed every tie, and rushed into open rebellion. We commend Mr. CAMPBELL'S brochure to the attention of our readers. It will be found well worthy of attntive perusal. and may, when the first impedimenta have been overcome, provide a clue towards an extraction from the labyrinth in which we are at present involved. The clergy are making a vigorous effort for . liberty of conscience—a rather new thing this in 1 English history. All of a sudden they have found ' out that for time out of mind they have sinned by law ; several times in each session the law has required them to marry divorced persons, should these persons present themselves for marriage. They could not help themselves, and they gave no indication that they wished to help themselves. The thing they could help doing, taking the fees, they did as readily as in other cases. They mar ried, if they did, not give in marriage, all the violaters of the great principle of the indissolu bility of marriage who might demand to be united by them in the bonds of holy matrimony. Never, that we ever heard of, did any clergyman, while appealing to others to declare any "just cause or impediment" with which they were acquainted, himself proclaim that divorce was a just cause or impediment in the case before him. He made the matrimony as holy as priest could make if, and declared the parties joined together by God, and not to be put asunder by man. All at once, however, they have gained new light. It is proposed to simplify the process of lave, not to alter its powers. It is proposed, also, to make it more easily accessible to all who live under it, and to abolish entirely the parts of the process most offensive to decency and most ieju rious to public morals. A considerable number, some thousands, of the clergy, have on this occa• sion discovered that marriage is absolutely indis soluble, and that therefore it is sinful for a clergyman to re-marry persons whom a court of law has separated. Why this change ? They used, in the years of their innocence, to re-marry the separated man and woman, "and were not as h ame d." " Who told them that they were naked ?" The answer is not far to seek. Rome was the serpent. She told them that matrimony was a sacrament, whatever that word of ecclesias tical conjuration meant ; and as Papal magic has been at an advancing premium of late years at Oxford, the c:ergy have tried to believe that the words they read at the altar create some myste rious tie, or lay the united parties under some spell, which no State enchanter, nor even an ec clesiastical one, can ever break. The married patties may violate any matrimonial pledge, one or both of them—the physical, the religious, the sentimental relations of matrimony may all be annihilated—the whole thing, body, soul, and spirit, may be gone, hopelessly gone ; but no one may pronounce it gone. It remains by a kind of matrimonial transubstantiation. To the senses no holy matrimony, but rather an unholy contrast, is there ; but He of Oxford, and his dapper or demure Puseyites, tell us that the mystic thing is certainly there, for the priest once put it there. We may not, indeed, perceive it—nay, we per t.ceive the reverse—but faith must tell us that a miracle exists ; that an unholy adulterer or adul teress, or a pair equally guilty, are living in a mystic and holy bond! So, toe', thieks that emi nent fir:ancier, Peelite, th , .ologian, casuist, sophiA, and we know not what besides, Mr. GLADSTONE. These gentLicnen, accordingly, now demand liberty of conscience for their newly discovered creed. They want liberty not to marry those whom the law of the lend allows to marry. All fair and right if they were not the servants of the Stite ; but under what pretext they first " eat the salt." of the State, and then mutiny when called on to fulfil the duties it requires, we can not conceive. These Clerical Sepoys, like the Brahmin Sepoys of India, have in truth been also petted till they do not know what they want. Like the latter they have been long secretly dis• affected to the Supremacy of the Civil Power, and now the Bill before Parliament is like the greased cart ridges to their ill-suppressed discontent. The pretext, however, is not so good for the Clerical as for the Brahmin mutineers ; since the firmer are merely required to keep up their old drill, while the latter had, presumably at least, to incur a new pollution. To us the case seems very char. No servant of the State should have any option as to fulfilling the duties which the Stato at - aches to his office. The principle i 3 so vicious that no honest servant could wish it. A clergy man is not permitted to refuse the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist to any man not legally debarred from it, however bad his life may be ; nor to de cline to read the Burial Service over the grave of the worst parishioner he may have had ; why should he be allowed an option to marry or not parsons who may legally intermarry ? We see Mr. GILPIN, "the Friend," in his cre• ditable zeal for liberty of conscience, will support an amendment giving liberty to Puseyita State clergymen to refuse doing the work of the State. But is Le consistent or wise ? The practice of his sect is to dispense entirely with State pay, indeed, almost to dispense with a clergy. It would, there fore, be the height of oppression to require a Quaker minister, in that capacity, to de anything for the State. The Puseyites can follow the Friends in declining St tte emolument - 3, if they please. They can have, like the Catholics, a hierarchy and priesthood independent of the State, and may then properly refuse a religious service in connection with marriage if they like. The alternative is simple—State emo luments and State Services, or voluntary suppert and voluntary service. To us it appears inexcus ably ignoble and sordid to want liberty without being willing to pay its price. Dissenters, Catho lics, and Free Churchmen set them an example at which they ought to blush. Adverting to Dissenters, we would remind these matrimonial mutineers that there are such things as Church-rates. That Dissenters have always. complained of them as unjust, and that that they have often alleged, too, that it went against their consciecces to ply tiern. Any fair-minded man will own that there is something in the latter plea. A man who seriously makes a conscience of his particular creed, who thinks it at least worth while to pay considerably, in order to maintain worship in accordance with it—such a man may be excused, surely, in feeling it rather galling to his conscience to pay a shilling towards the creed and worship he repudiates, and, perhaps, deems superstitious. He may be an enthusiast, a fanatic, or what you will, but that does not excuse ourgrieviug his conscience. He can hardly be more superstitious than these matrimonial mystics or matrimonial transubstantionists. Yet what was the answer cf every one of these mutineers against State law when Dissenters have talked of consci entious objections to paying Church-rates ? One and all they have always exclaimed, not only THE SU 04, LONDON, SAM D_AY EVENING AuG.usr 8, lpti 7. that the 11w must take its course, but that they could not understand a conscientious objection to obeying the law of the land I We hope that Dissenters will not forget the Paseyite plea of conscience against law. They may well ibank the Bishop of OXFORD and his followers for teaching them that word. For ourselves we must think the Dissenters have the best of it. We can more easily conceive of conscientious objections to a payment for propagating what we hold to be error ; than to marrying persons whom the laws of society allow to marry; and to whom marriage is at least a preservative from temptation. Lord PALMERSTON and the Commons ought not, in any case, to give in t.) the clerical mutineers. SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander in -Chief, attended by Colonel Tyr whitt, embarked from the docks this after noon, at hal'-past five o'clock, on board the Royal yacht Elfin, Captain Crispin, for Oiborne, on a visit to her Maj9sty, and to meet the Emperor and Empress of the Frciach. Viscount Palmerston embarked at the same time, and returns on Monday next, in company with his Royal Highness. - - Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon, for Osborne, on a visit to the Pen. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE —The marriage of Lady Susan Harriet Inr•es Pier, eldest daughter of the Duke of Roxburghe, and Janes Grant Suttie, el lest son of Sir George Grant Sutt i ie, of Preston Grange, was so lemnised on Wednesday a , t, at St. Andrew's Epi. , conal Chapel, Kelso, N.B. The Rev. Wm. Kell, RD., Rector of Corseuside, assisted by the Rev. F. M. Rob berth', M.A., the incumbent, performed the religious ceremony, in the prosenco of a numerous circle of the relatives of both fa:nilies. REPRESENTATION OF BIRMINGHAII.—BIRMINGHAIf, Friday Night.— Mr. Bright has declared in favour of a suppression of the Indian revolt, and his success by his friends is deemed certain. MISS LECLERCQ'S BENEFIT.—This favourite actress of the Princess's Theatre takes her benefit on Tuesday next, and will doubtless receive on the occasion the cordial support of her admirers and friends. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors of this company have determined to recommend to the pro- Frietors the declaration of a dividend for the half-year ending the 30 b June, 1857, at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum, carrying forward a balance for the current half-sear of about 10,0001 AUSTRALIAN MAILS —There i 3 no word yet of the screw steamer Great Briraiu, belonging to Gibbs, Bright, aid Co., from Melbourne, with the mails and a 'arge amount of gold. She was to leave Melbourne on the 20th of May, and she is now in her 80th day, but is expected in the Mersey every tide. AMERICA.- SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.—The Europe al a I American Conipaey'e steam ship gaeen of tee South, Caotain Beal, arrived off Cowes this moraine, from New \refit., with 200 pasengers wed a full cargo of sugar, &c. The advices are anticipated. She left Cowes for the Victoria Decks, London, to discharge her cargo. From thence she will proceed to Bremen. THE NEWFOUNDLAND STEAMERS —The steam ship Khersonese which was to have left Liverpool to-day for Newfoundland, has been chartered by Government for the conveyance of troops to India. The mails in tended for the Khersoneee are consequently detained. We understand that the owners of the vessel intend placing the steam ship Crimean on the Newfoundland line in place of the Khersonese, a nd it is expected that she will take her departure some t ime next week. NOTTINGHAM WEEKLY TRADE REPORT, August 6. Very few buyers have visited the lace warehouses during the past week. The present 'ti me is what is te r m e d " between seasons;" and the quietness characteristic of the period eoetinues to prevail. A leaden dullness reigns throughout the hosiery m anufacture, surpassing, per haps, an thing of the kind for a long „ time past. Not withstand tea there is " nothin ! to do, the prices of raw material maintain the it lofty range. LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.—In the South wark County Court yesterd i ay, nan action to recover possession of a house in .Nelsen-place, Old Kent-road, his Honour said, if a tenant entered in the piddle of a quarter, and paid rent for a fractional period, from the end of which quarter he paid half pearly, his tenancy commenced from the quartet -day to which he had paid up, and,'not from the gum ter-day prior to the time when he entered. DESTROYING CHURCH DOOR REGISTRIES. —Yesterday morning, in consequence of the partial destruction of the liets ew rtling persons to he placed on the registry, notices have been issued to the police for the attendance of cons . a.bles next Sunday and following ones to prevent a repo ition of such disgraceful conduct. In ono instance alone, that of St. John's, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, nearly one-eighth of the list has been cut away. A reward is offered f o- the detection of the on ilty party. THE PERTHSHIRE MOORS.—The Pertlislcire Constitu tional says : — The accounts relative to the grouse Lin e n the Perthshire hills are somewhat conffcting. Aceor,l;eg to several of our correspondents, from di,ease and over shooting last year, god sport by the 12th is \tot to he expected. Others report, however, that up - n the moors in the western district of the county, the birds are nurser ui strong on the wing, and no de td ones Are Iseen. Taey state that upon the whole the shooting will I to at least equal to the season of 1850 . THE CoNVICP BACON.—The Li fiCo l 2lBltlie Chronicle is yesterday, James requested te state that nothing official has as yet trail epired as to the carrsiog cut of the sentence passed on Bac m at the late assizes, nor is it likely that any order respecting him will he made until the meeting of the jedges, when, as is usual when sentence of death is re cerded against any prisoner, his case will be duly cen- J p a eau m las e i, s tyw F bhe r i e icn e h m g sidered by their lordships. We are informed that Bacon is at present engaged in writing. to the Secretary of State respectine the result of his trial. PURCHASE OF CRIMEAN MEDALS,—At Woolwich thean treble p a r P s the o n n t ; I I value the Cstach and Horses Tavern, Win lwich, was fined 51 a i t i e s ms tr e a o te, observed that he was de termineddf the Royal Marines. Mr. a P n e l lte 6 s ; e 7 o , u . r 6 t, d y ., to inflict a heavy penalty for al such offence's. of Tp ur ar scilhi purchased s eh i de l v esf sitting e rn r privates In default of paying the fine the prisoner was committed fi r three months. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE —On Saturday last a sergeant of the 11th Hussars committed suicide by cutting first his throat, and af,erwarde the arteries of his arms, in his room, at the barracks at Hounslow. It appears that he bad lost some money, about 80/ , through the defalcation of a person whom he had trusted in the Crimea, and that the loss preyed upon his mind. He had been upwards 20 years in the service, and was much respected in the regiment. An.inquest was held on the body by the coroner fs , tr the county, when a verdict of "Temporary insanity ' was returned. FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquest was held on view of the body of Daniel Clarke, aged 5t5, a drayman. The deceased was proceeding up the Cale s'onian-road, Holloway, and was sitting on the near shaft of the dray, when an obstruction by several vehicles took place in the road, by a coal wazgon, which was unload ing on the near side of the road. The dray in passing came so close to it, that his leg and thigh was crushed. The unfortunate man was conveyed to the University C•illege Hospital, where he expired shortly afterwards. Verdict, Accidental De.a , h. The deceased has left a widow and family, and the firm have humanely subscribed a sum for their becefit. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORRS.—The ordinary meeting of the Mstropolitan Board of Works was held yestercley in the Council Chamber, Gui'dhall—Mr. J. Tn waiter in the chair. The board sat with closed doors till half-past three o'clock in investigating certain parti culars in the return of fees made to this board by one of the district surveyors of the metropolis, but which was of no interest whatever. Several notices of motion were given, among which was one by Colonel Kennedy, to instruct Mr. Beza gette, the engineer, to furnish the beard with an alternative plan, estimate, and report upon that portion of the general report to which ho refers under the head of the " Thames Embankment " in his rep , rt of the 221 May, 1856 The rest of the day was occupied in considering the reports of the su perintending architect and engineer, but they were all of a routine character, and unworthy of a report, and the board adjourn=ed soon after five o clock. THE MORAL SENSE. —Truly, the moral sense as to the nature of propetty, and the rights, may be, as it has been found, wanting in the higher, or the middle, as in the " lower classes.' Otte man will rob a hen-roost, another will adulterate his goods, and train up his children in the virtue of getting only rich, by any twang ; a third makes away with securities entrusted to him, or swindles under the cloak of a company ; a fourth steals openly the property of your brain. Where is the dis tinction,—except that made by the obliquity of vision which serves each of the appropriators when he chooses ? Tnere can be no real nicety of difference between that which is punishable as felony, and the appropriation of intellectual property,—none in the conscience, except where that by custom has teen blunted. If it must be left to the causcieeee of an individual to settle in many cases, where appropriation cannot rightly he made,— the moral obligation to right is surely as etrong on him as if all society were witnesses. The "vice and crime amongst the poor" are punished with a rekntless bard. —Vac Builder. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.—Ou the ere of a new Reform Bill some de spatches r meived by the C los:ill-office on the subject of the establishment of a R e presentative Assembly in Vancouvtr's Island will be read with interest-. Mr. Labouchere in February, 1856, ordered that such an assembly should be convoked without loss of time, and inJune following the Council of the Island, preshied over by the Governor, unanimously agreed that the owner ship of 3001. of freehold property or immovable estate should constitute the qualification of a member of the Assembly, that absentee proprietors should be permitted to vote by proxy, and that the qualification of voters should be the ownership of 20 acres of freehold land, or upwards. The settlements were to be divided into four electoral districts. The House of Assembly was opened on the 12th of August last, and the affair passed off very quietly. A Mr. Helinaker was el.cted " Speaker," and several " election petitions" were forth with present-d, one or two of them, as in England, bein g evidently of a very "frivolous a nd vexatious" character, merely got up for party purposes. The House of A s . sembly consists of seven members only, and of these three wire petitiened against, leavieg the Speaker and three members at liberty to act. Oue of the members pet . .. tioned against was unseated by a committee for want of a legal qualification. A report is given of the business (principally financial) hitherto transacted by the As t embly, LATEST NEWS.. TRIAL OF THE FRENCH CON SPIRATO RS. The trial of the three ltlliau conspirators, Tibaldi, Bartolotti, and Grili, was resumed yoAerlay morn ing at TO o'clock, before the Court of Assize of Paris. The court was more crowded yesterday than the day before. Tibaldi was more pale and restless, and addressed several questions to the gendarme at his side. Grilli, who entered next, appeared much dejected. Bartolotti appeared to be perfectly at his ease, and gazed earnestly at the strangers in the galleries. The President having - Liken his seat, the Attorney-General rose - 0 speak to evidence ; his speech was in a great measure a recapitulation of the Wit of indictment. "Thank God," saidthe Attorney- General in conclusion, " the part those conspira tors had to fill is concluded. Our duty is accom plished. It is for you, gentlemen of the jury, to perform yours with tile independence and firm ness which belong to honourable and free men.' M. Desmarets then pleaded for Tihalli, and en deavoured to convince the jury that there was no evidence to convict his client but the unsupported declaration of his fellow-priSoners. M. Floquet, second counsel for Tibaldi, submitted to the Court that it should be proposed to the jury that, even supposing the facts charged in the indictment against Tibaldi to be proved, as his fellow-con spirators did not consent to execute the crime, he must he acquitted. M. Lacan spoke in defence of Grilli. He demanded the acquittal of his client on the ground that he had never intended to assassinate the Emperor. He had never even seen his Majesty, nor had he go le out armed. M. Lecanu folloived for Bartolotti, and pursued the same line of argument. The Att .rney-General shortly replied, and the President having read his note=, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with extenuating circumstances in favour of Bartolotti and Grilli. The Procureur-Ganeral demanded the application of Article 89 of the Penal Code to the three accused, modified by Article 460 as regarded the two latter. The Court, after deliberating in the Council chamber, sentenced Tihalli to transportation for life, and girt()lotti and to fifteen years im prisonment. A private letter from Vienna of the 4th mentions that the visit of the Emperor Napoleon to Osborne seems to produce a certain degree of dissatisfaction at the Imperial Court. It is regarded as an indica tion that not only has the Anglo-French alliance undergone no sensible diminution, whatever differ ences may have arisen on points which are now settled, but that it is intimate as ever, and, if any thing, will be drawn still closer. It is anticipated that concessions on other questions which still divide the two Cabinets will be mutually thade, and that the English Government, in proof of its desire to remain ou the same friendly terms with her powerful ally, may not refuse to withdraw her opposition to the union of the Danubian Pi incipali ties, and which, all things considered, is one of se condary interest to her. The Absolute Sovereigns of Europe, we are told, regard with distrust and jea lousy this alliance ; it is useless for Austria to try to cultivate the goo 1 graces of England, and the party that always showed its hostility to the policy of the Western Powers now suggests the necessity of a re conciliation with Russis, who after all, is Austria's natural ally. The question of the Principalit es is insidered as'a good opportunity for that purpose. Russia is believed to desire the union under the sovereignty of a native Prince, for the simple reason that a native Prince would he easily attached to her interest., and that before long the provinces would be really governed as they have bean so long, under Russian influence. In the event of union, which Austria has always considered hurtful to herself, she would try to neutralise the danger by the nomination of a German Prince, which might be accepted as a pis alter by Russia. Both Powers, however, are hostile to the no mination of a French Prince of the Imperial family, and France, in pushing forth the union, they think is actuated by no other motive. The nomination would fall on Prince Napoleon, who is known for his more than favourable disposition towards England, and for his dislike to everything Russian, as proved in the most unmistakeable man ner during the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to France, and his little partiality to German Princes or German politics. It would appear that the Archduke, during his sojourn in England, endeavoured to ascertain whether a visit from his Imperial brother, the Em peror of Austria, would be viewed with 'pleasure by the English Court or the English people. That visit would be considered to show to Europe the good understanding that existed between Austria and England, and would be'the precursor of a still closer friendship. It would seem that the Arch duke's advances were not received so warmly as ho anticipated in the quarter to which they were addressed. The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second edition) in referring to the telegraphic despatch from Vienna, announcing that the French ambas sador at Constantinople had pulled down his flag in consequence of his demands not being granted by the Porte, says :—"I am assured that the French Government gives a positive contradiction to this statement, and has, moreover, desired that the Paris papers should not repeat it on the ground of its inaccuracy." CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 6. The Porte having refused to aunul the late elec tions in Moldavia, the Ministers of France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia have broken off their diplo matic relationi with that power. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. After the departure of the Emperor and Empress from Havre, the mayor publishs:d the following address to the population : " D ear fellow-townsinen—Their Majesties were highly sitisfied wish the reception which you have given them ; the Emperor told us so, and gave us the assurance that be is actively occupied with the great questions which interest the future prosperity of our port. In le tying us, his Majesty announce 1 his intention of again passing through Havre in a few days. I thank all the population for their zealous co-operation in this fete, and particularly the various corps whose presence' so much contri buted to give a special character to the fete ; also, the members of the Horticultural Society, who improvised the charming decoration of the town hall which, however, their Majesties were pre vented by fatigue from visiting. I also thank the central commissary, the commissaries of police, and their agents, through whose arrangements the most perfect Corder prevailed, in spite of an immense crowd." During the absence of the Emperor, Prince Jerome w►ll preside at the sittings of the council of ministe►s. A private telegraphic despatch from London states that a " conference" is to be held this even ing at Osb rae, at which Lord Palmerstqn, Lord Clarendon, M. de Persigny, and M. Walewski will assist. The King of I.Vurteinbura, the Bayonne journals announce, has arrived at Biarritz. BOURSE, Aug. 7.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4. per Cants .. 93 —93 fr. 101. 3 per Cents 66 90 67 15 Bank Shares 2,800 Credit Foncier _ Credit Mobilior 957 50 Roman Do. Account 957 50 Austrian Belgian 44 - Piedmontese (5) B9 -- Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOB CABS• tr. c. tr c. Orleans 1,445 Western Northern Lyons and Med 926 i New Ditto New Ditto 905 Grand Central 4 — Geneva Midi THE DANUBE. The Siecle of yesterday contains tho followin.; reflections on the opposition, said to 'be manifested by Austria and the o her German States bathed by the Danube, to the fre3 navigation of that river We had thought that the treaty of Paris had thrown open the Danube to the world, not only for the benefit of Austrian comme ce, but also for the commerce of the world. The Danube, which is the chief artery of Central Europe, was not only thrown open by the treaty of Pads, but it was, in oar opinion, in ended by nature to Le a free river. The German newspapers will not edmit this they can understand a certain amount of freedom hut not a universal or European freedom. They would only throw open the river to the countries it washes. We would fin regard this as an opi nion of isolated pol ici-tns ; but when we reflect on the nature of German journals, we must not allow the said opinion to pass without a protest. in the prPs ,, nce of the very clear wording of the treaty of Paris, which says, 'the flags of all nazi .us Will be placed o❑ an equal footing,' it is difficult to understand how the German journals can suppose that the nations of Europe gave themselves the trouble to throw open the mouths of the Danube under any other understanding than that they were all to profit by it. Thole is something cynical and odious in the pretensions of the German journals. At a moment when nations are co-mingling, by means of steam and rail, the efforts of old poli tical ideas are directe i to oppose the progress cf civilisation and the general tendency of na tions. Moreover, Germany would gain more from the free navigation of the Danube than from the monopoly of Austria. It is not at the time when budges over the Rhine are about to uni e the railroads of France and Germany, that the latter country should adopt an exclusive policy. Austria is alone interested in the closing of •he Danube. She has excited all the pre sent diffi culties in the hope of maintaining her monopoly. But her plans for the enslavement of the great com mercial artery of Western Europe, will be exposed and overthrown, in the same manner that her in trigues in -the Principalities have been baffled." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. Rumours of changes in the ministry were again current - , but they are decia , ecl by the minis tt=rial organs to be quite unfounded. M. Cortina had terminated the pAmphl, , t for the defence of Queen Christinn, which he was -some time ago c' argel to draw up, and the belief is that it will be published. Wheat had again under gone a heavy decline in the market of Madrid. The departure of M. Lafragua, the Mexican envoy, was considered a proof that his neg tiations had ptodu-ed no result. The go vernment had r ceived information that some inhabitants of Cuba had formed the project of assisting the filibustsis in a coup-de-main, but from the good spirit of the poptil,tion it re4arded any such movement as without the slightest chance of SUCCORS. The Count , ss de Montijo, mother of the Empress, had given a grand tete to the aristocracy of the capital, and the Caprice of Alfred de Musset was performed at it by the Duchess de Alba, her Majesty's Sister, and other personages of distinction. The duchess and her husband were about to leave for Paris. Prince Wladimir, first aiti-de-camp to the EMperor of Russia, had arrived in Madrid. Accounts from Vienna state that the permanent commission of the Elates bordering on the Danube will resume its sittings very shortly, as the commis sioners of Bavaria and Wurtemburg have received their instructions. "We learn from good authority," says a letter from Vienna in the Cologne Gazette, " that the Empress is again in an interesting situation, and th , t that circumstance is the only reason why she will not accompany the Emperor in his visit to Hungary." M. Magne, Minister of Ynance, is charged With the ad interim direction of the department of G,m merce and Public Works, during the absence of M. Rouher. M. Thouvenel, the French Ambassador at Cim stantinople, who had obtain leave of al sence io return to France on family bu&ness, nit quit his post until after the new elections in Moldavia. THE HARVEST 1N FRANCE. The Gazette de Lyon publishes a letter from a lauded proprietor of the neighbourhood of that city giving some interesting details relative to the pre-• sent harvest. It says As my corn has now t;een thrashed, I am able to say something ab nit this yew's produce. My crop, which consists prin c pally of wheat, gives me an augmentation over 1856 of 75 per cent. The intelligence which Ire receive from different quarters leaves no doubt in my mini that, in many-placee, the yield is double what it was last year ; Litt in order to be fee from a 1 exaggeration, I will e3titnate the harvest of 1857, as only 50 per cent. above that of 1856. According to pot goal economi.ts, France nerds every Year for the bread of all her inhabitants 110 millions of hectolitres of corn of all kinds, or about 3 hectolitres per head. In the year 1856 there wal a deficiency of 7 millions of hectolitre.., which was made up by the introduction of foreign corn.- France consequently produced 104 millions of bee t litres of brealstuffs, and by the aid of private en terpr:se, and of railway commun.cation, what for merly would have amounted almost to a famine was no•hing move than a very marked scarciiy. In order to be more safe in my calculations, I will esteem only at. 100 millions the yield f 1856; and as th a of 1857 gives 50 per cent. of au , lmentation, its produce will tie 150 millions of hec olitre4, or 40 millions more than France require., that excess will without , doubt find ifs way to Switza , land and England, and part will be used up for distilla tion. But 40 millions of hectolitres is a vcry con siderable surplus and will leave a, large margin to prepare for any future deficiency. The wheat of 1857 is much finer and heavier than that of the preceding year ; and my own gives to the hec tolitre 700 grammes (near 41120.) more than in 1856. • But that aid tion mnftiplie f by 150 mil lions furnishes a quantity which, when considered closely, is really immense. And I look on the in crease which I mention as below the average, for this reason, that my land being of the first quality yields comparatively less this year than second and third rate farms, where the Feld is uncommonly fine ' • so much so, indeed, th4t the argAo-3ilicious land of the Bresse has produc d. as flue corn this year as the argelo-calcareous distriA; ou the tanks of the Saone. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, I do not fear to announce that the harvest will turn out oven better than was at fir:A hoped for. POOR-RATES ,AND PAUPERISM —A comparison be tween the years 1857 and 1356 of the number of paupers relieved in Eegland and Wales in each week exhibits decrease in favour of this year in every instance, vary ing from 2.4 to 3.1 per cent The decrease is equally applicable 'et in and out-door relief. The NEW WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—The committee upon this matter, after beariug the evidence of Mr. Stephenson, M.P., and Mr. Page, the Government engineer, agreed to report as folio:vs Having been informed by the First Commissioner of Works that, after considering the report of the judges appointed to report on the designs for the new public offices on the block plan, and taking into account the great ex pense that would be incurred if the sits of Wes! minstsr br:dge wart changed, it is not his intention to recom 'tend that the site of the bridge be altered. The committee proceeded to consider the present site of tbe i exieting bridge, and the alterations proposed to ba made in the new bridge to meet the objections which have been taken to the mode of construction s originay pro pesed. The committee learn Oat the precautions taken for securing the old bridge have been complete ; they recommercl that the new bridge be proceeded wAh in conformity with the alterations in the mode of construction as set forth in Mr. Page's let ter addressed to the Chief Commissioner, July 23, 1857. The committee have also carefully considered the important question of the headway of the bridge, and in connexion therewith the subject of the gradient of the roadway as nos proposed, and the gradient which would be consequent upon raising tt e bridge. • The committee find that, eerier ling to the plan n,w proposed, the roadway on the Surrey side would be 1 in 45, and if the bridge was raised from 20 to 22 feet the,gradient would be 1 in 27 ; that on the Midrl:- a , x side the gralient, as at present designed, would be 1 in 57, and, if raised, 1 in 45. The ceinmitt,e ale therefore of opinien that it would not be expedient t increase the height of the bri , lge." EAST INDIA (:AREA, POPULATION, &c.).—Yesterday morning a return, from the stati-tlcal office of the East India Howse, of the area and population of each divi , ion Of each presidency of India, comprising, the area and estimated population of native states, was publi,he , l. It appears there is in theßritish states, under the govern meet of the Governor-General of India in c until, a population of 23,255,972 within an area of 246,050 square miles ; under the lieutenant governor of Bengal, 40,852,327, within an area of 221,969 miles ; under the lieutenant governor cf the north- western provinces, 33,655,123, within an area of 107.759 miles ; under the Madras government, 22,437,227, within an area of '132.090 miles ; and wider the Bombay government, 11,790,042, within an area of 131,544 miles—making a a population of 38 702,206 , in the presid ency of area, ; total population in the British st ates of 131.990,901 with an area of 837,412 miles. In t he native states the re is in the presidency of Benga l, Madras, 5,213,671, 2 7n 573,06f7, milesslls,33an 51,802 m il es ; of an nnd areain tohfe 60,575pre miles ; makirgidency 'of Bombay, 4,460 , 3 70, in a total moo, t of population in those states in the t'tree pre-i -dencies of 48,376,247 within an area of 627 910 miles. In the f oreien states the r e is a French popnla en within an area- o f 188 tulles ; and a population of 313,262 i n an area of 1,066 tom Portuguese of 20 3 , miles ; making a total population in tbose states of 517,149 in an area of 1,254 miles. The grand total popu lation in all the states is 180,834,297 within an area of 1,466,576 square miles. • THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH AT OSBO.RN E. (FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY. In sp:to of the greedy anxiety which is mani fested on all sides to ascertain the least clue to the movements of the Court and their Imperial guests, nothing is allowed to transpire. The secret is kept, like, the secret of Freemasonry, because there is really nothing to tell, for, as we statel yesterday, the visit is most strictly private, and, with the exception of short trips in the royal yacht, neither the Emperor nor Empress is likely to quie, the island at all. The wea her, unfortu nately, has turned we', cold, and unfavourable, SO that the Llatund inducemen-s to remain quietly at Osborne are materially augmented. We have already informed our readers that it was just pro bable that the Emperor would run out in the royal yacht to Spithead acrd inspect the James Baines, with all her troop on boa+ d, before that vessel started for India. This prohab Ity receives con firmation from the fact of Sir James Scar- Itt hewing received instruetioni to telegraph this afternoon to the Emperor at Osborne when the James Baines ani Champion of the Seas, with the troops on board, were at Spithead and ready for sailing. Should the weather, therefore, become more favourable and the Imperial visit take place at all, it will either be this evening or early to-mor row (Sa'urday) morning. As it is genet ally anti ciirated that her Majes.y will take a trip in the royal yacht to witue , s the sttrt of the yachts fcr the Queen'br Cup this afternoon, the inspection may take place this evening, in order that the ships may sail at daybreak, but the weather now seems much against a visit. • One of our cont.-mporarie3, which professes to give an account of the incidents connected with the arrival of the Emperor and Empress, states that— "As the Prince Consort approached the Imperial yscht, the Emperor, in his anxiety to greet his Rdyal Highness, ascended the paddle-box, ard on stepping down hastily to meet the Prince, the Emperor rnisserl his footing and fell violently on the deck. His Majesty was much shaken, and gravid his face sightly, but, in stantly recovering himself, warmly embraced the Prince Consort." There is not the least foundation for this state ment, and our fashionable contemporary, we fear, has fallen a victim to some heartless joker. No matter what the anxiety cf his Imperial Majesty to welcome Prince Alliert, he would have found a difficulty in manifesting it by " ascending the paddle-box" of the Reine Hortense, since that ves sel happens to be a.screw. When the Prince Con sort came alongside the Emperor 'waited at the gangway and sh. ok hands with him most cordially, while little Pi ince Alfred was embraced and affec tionately kissed by the Empress. A few moments were occupiA in presenting the various members •of his Majesty's suite t-) the Prince Consort, dur ing which (probably owing to the fatigue of the voyage) none of the illustrious personages indulged in " graz:ng their faces" or " violent falls on the deck." The same authority, among numerous other misstatements, adds that " a guard of honour, com posed of 50 picked men of the Coldstream Guards, everymari's breast glistening with Crimean medals, received the Emperor and Empress on landing at the pier-head.': The reception at the pier-head was of such a strictly private nature that even ,he guard of honour was dispensed. with, and none but her Majesty, the Royal Princesses, Countess Per signy, and the lady in waiting were on the pier. These statements would be unworthy of notice but that they may naturally create doubts as to the a - curacy of our reporter, whose account of the very few incidents connected with the reception of their Imperial Majesties, as coming from the only repre sentative of the press who had an opportunity of witnessing them, can be implicitly dependel on. FRIDAY EVENING. The Emperor and Empress, with her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and other members of the Royal family, emlarked on board the Royal yacht at 6 o'clock, to proceed to Cowes, to witness the return of the yachts from the Regatta, and the ter mination of the race fur the Cup. The Royal party returned shortly before 8 o'clo,:k to Osborne. The weather was cold and squally, with heavy .rain, and the sea at Spithead ran too high to permit 3 visit to the Liverpool clippers. Should the wind go down there is no doub. now that the vessels Ina ba inspected before sailing to-morrow. A STORM AT SPA. For some -time past the weather here has been extremely hot. Yesterd ty (Aug. 4) the air was more than usually sultry, thermometer 90 deg. Fahrenheit in the shape. About 10 o'clock a.m. a cloud of smoke was seen rising in a southerly direction, and it was imine" diately presumed that a house WAS on fire in the hamlet of Creppe, situate 11 a icing ground about a mile from the town: The town fi re engine 105 ) instantly despatc! - ed, but upon . ifs arrival it WO f and to.be petfec.ly uselt ss, ma, in consequence of the long drought, the plate was almost absoluteli deprived of water. " By one o'clock 28 farm-houses and cottages, with hay ricks, ATe., had fallen a prey to the flames. The 'church was ent;rely destroyed. About 7 in the evening I drove out with a felt friends to the heights; i.ear th- old race -course, ell the road to Sart, to get a little of the fresh air ( 3 the hills. Halting for a w min ut-s, we were an mir n 4 the d.!stant scenery through a most trap" sparent atmosphere, and a fe w thi n c.lumns smoke still emerging from the ruins of the cievo'ol hamlet, when, look.ng westwards, we obserVea coming over from the din c• ion of La Reid a dense black clo rid, which came on spreading over Desigult Wirianplanchl, Alarteau,. Grippe, Spa, and th e place where we had pulled up ; it was a whirlwit; o of impalpable dust and norons exhalition ; title passed over in th direction of Sart, having lasts" in its course about a quarter of an hour. Tl l3 atmosphere again becalhe bright, but the air re" mained still sultry. This morning the intense heat continued, th e sun shining brightly nut 1 about 4 o'clock, when Suddenly the same Idact.-!ooking cloud came ovei . Sp a from the same direction, and in a few mirote ° , there fell, amid a roar of ,hander like th e bootni o 6 of artillery, acc:omvanied by uninterrupted shta platoon firim.r, such a shower of hailstones as 11° , one present in this place remembers ever to hav e seen. Toe shower lasted about t9n minutes ; tGe first hailstones that fell were of the size of graPei shot, then lake marbles, mixed with myriadi others of all shapes and sizes, - many of Ahern 0 the weight of several ounces, the grewer numbe: , being spherical, nodu'ated, of a quartz-like aspoc'' and watsuriog uniformly an inch and a h a lf 1 „ : diameter. The windows were riddled, as from discharge of grapeshot ; slated and tiled roofs vfe,f! pecforwed as if traversed by s h e ll s . F ortunat ely'' the crowds of visitors who are usually in the afcer noon riding, driving, or saun t er i ng a b out th e ne igl: bourhood, were just q ui e ty 'seated "at their tab le d'hote. At the H o t e l d e • l'O range th e h a il bill s , " through the wi n d ows an d b ro k e a cons id e rable quautiiy of g l ass u p on th e tabl e , indenti ng by tl'el t violence the silveraish covers; at the Hotel deFlar t dre, a friend of mine standing in his bedroom, uPc ) ! a travelling, trunk, to reach out of the windo; and close the persiennes, was struck by a larg r hailstone on the head and knocked over. O ti t lovely walks, such as the Promenade de Sep o Helms,. the Place Royale, and the Avenue '` A Martltu are ankle-deep in twigs and branches. 1, the English Club, the skylights over the hilliaru a room were broken in, and t'.e cloth of the billita table cut up c impletely. It would be impossi b ' o in a letter of ths sori; to d.esctibe all the ravag e committed by this truly memorable storm are, many of us, busy in ge' ring up subscripti° ° o f for the victims of the disa ter at Crippe, most whom are uninsured. —Correspondent of the 'Lilo'. nerf THE CASE OF Mss. Horrc.—Mr. and Alm tutor after numerous legal proceedings relative to their div ot 'o and to the possession of their children, before the co ur ,o both of England and France, came in March, 1855, e an arran t : that their youngest child, John Bev i l g should remain with M!3. Hope, and that the otherg , in number, should go to their father, Mrs. Hope reSer g ing to herself t he p rivile ge of seeing and corxespondi ll to with her children. Mrs. Hope besides consented co abandon an application for divorce which she had 1 0 t o in Eogland, and rtook not on ly no t t o o pp os e buLe promote the dernalnd f r div orce ma d e b y hi m again st " 4 - 0 ie t count s t hay. Oil W e d nes d ay M r . H ope app li e d to p Civil Tribunal at Paris t o or d er th a t th e c hild in oto sti :e should be given u p t o hi m, and h e b ase d h is d ema nd - , ( 1 the ground th a t t h e C ourt o f Ch ancery i n Engli'd-,t had decided that all the children should be placed 0 0 56, his care, and th at as t h e arrangement o f M arc h, 1 je was net legal he was not bound by it. Mrs. Hope' y reply, insisted that the infer , sts of the child, who is l e ten years cf age, required that he should be left tie 10 her care ; and she represented that as her husband to t an En g lishman, and as she by her marriage to bin , 1) 0 0 e censidered English also, a French tribunal ho• )r e jurisdiction over them in such a matter. She also rel o rented that if the arrangement of March, 1855, wa s v e binding in law, there was noshing to prevent the triLueoci from declaring that it was equitabie, and that it el g ht be acted on. Lastly, she urged that as Mr. Hope tbf ut ieo • fit to live apart from her, and refuse to fulfil th e u tice e o of husband towards her, though no separation be t w ar them had been pronounced France, he vvas ovi er ranted in insisting on ex-rcixing alone paternal P at OO over all their children. Tne tribunal decide d ttl ive the parties are English, as Mr. Hope refused to r f:ted his wife into his house, though not legally 4er' ld from her, and as besides the interests of the ob.', t oe • quired that he sh•iuld remain with his inothe/ t • ! a t! k yr , tribunal) had no jurisdiction in the matter , and b l ' • Hope's application must be dimiasi.d viitb costa. . .........--. F The firmly withei eatinaa Mark( auce, Ano on 'CI Messtl and of not ve 30,00( Th) Week E as WaE impor consec to o k I ever, thlt a AuAr, The there Wara Which the pA 1119Ut reason next v they p Acti Bull Pub O th• Bev( Gov Otht Not Th , : the 1 ) day r, piLcs receiv, at 5,3. A. g the St that h back at the lbg U. 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