Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-30 00:00:00

ROBERT MULLINER, (successor to GOZST k CO.), (Late with Wm. erne, London), CARRIA.G3 AND HARNESS NIANUFACTURRII, .A 9 and 41. GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL, 3f ANUFACTUBER OF RVIIRY DESCRIPTION OP FASHIONABF,E CARRIAGES. ale Agent for the Patent nioraples, for which a Prize Medal was awarded at the Great Exhibition. A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on view, which are ready for ramediate use. Estimates given for repairs. CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Good Standing on moderate terms. mission. Carriages sold by Corn Merchants supplle I with Carriages for exportation on liberal em'. ilitrzfit 111,i( 4 3.—Yrbiq Jan At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 610 bags Yellow Ma-tardseed.—J. H. Ilayner and Co. At h elf--put twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Corn Exchange buildings, Brunswick-street, 60 bushels Sea-damaged Wheat. — Golding and Nash. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office. 2, Dale street, 2,142 bundles Coir Yarn, and 85 cwt. fine Bombay Hemp.—Browne, Hunter and Co. ra — For particulars see aivertisementq. CTSE.tIESTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, Scc. THIS PAT. &ow. AMPIIITHEATRE—Dramatie Performance-7 p.m, MENGLEs's GRAND CIRQUE VARIETE, Dale-street-7 p.m. FRXEMASON'i FlALL—Gallery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p.m. CoLosszum—General Entertiinme it-6.30 p.m. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—Grand and Varied Entertainments. Or For particulars see advertisements. tr4c Rgrioen TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1837 THE DAY'S NEWS Liverpool refuses to have anything more to do with the Committee of the House of Commons on the Mersey Conservancy Bill. On the meeting of the Committee yesterday, Mr. Alexander, Q.C., intimated that the Dock Trustees have thought it their duty to keep themselves altogether free and unfettered, in order that they may be at liberty to pursue such a course as they may deem most advisable, in reference to the future stages of the bill in Parliament. They deem that it would be inconsistent if they were to attend further, or take any part in the proceedings of the committee. Mr. Hope Scott, on the part of the Liverpool Cor- poration, made a similar statement. Sir James Graham was evidently chagrined at this in timation, for his reply was extremely curt : Very well, the committee will now proceed to go through the clauses, seriatim." The two counsellors, and the other gentleman on behalf of Liverpool, then left the committee room in a body. Sir James Graham had the counsel on behalf of Liverpool recalled, and inti mated to them that on Friday, in his hurry, he. had omitted to mention that the committee were desirous of leaving out clause 35. The committee then proceeded to go through the clauses. It was agreed that the cost of the observatory should be transfer e d to the dock estate. On the clause relating to the town dues being transferred from the Corporation to the conservancy of the Mersey, Mr. Phillips objected, but ultimately the committee agreed to the clause by 4 to 1. Clauses 29 and 10, for the transfer of the sum of £600,000 from the Town Council to the Dock estate, were post poned. Clause 35 was amended, at the suggestion of the chairman, as follows :—" The Board shall, if they think fit, immediately after the commencement of the act, proceed with the construction of outer works referred to in Birkenhead Docks Act 1853, with a view to the completion of the same in accotlance with the plans which have been sanc tioned by parliament.' In the House of Lords, last night, the attention of the House was drawn to the state of affairs in India Lord Ellenborough asked what measures the government had taken to restore tranquility and punish the delinquents. He considered the outbreak in the army as a most serious affair, and urged upon the government the expediency of preparing for the worst emergency. Earl Granville did not consider that there were any grounds for alarm, and the Earl of Donoughmore drew attention to a libel published in a London weekly paper upon the Bishop of Mann, and moved that the printer should be called to the bar of the House. Earl Granville ridiculed the idea, and the motion was withdrawn. In the House of Commons, Mr. Disraeli drew attention to the present state of our Indian Em pire. He asked the Government what steps had been taken, and what it was proposed to take in connection with this disastrous state of affairs. He asked for full and frank answers to the questions—what was the origin of the disaster? what steps had been taken in conse quence ? and whether or not it was true that the Governor General had resigned his office. Mr. V. Smith replied that the facts of the case were truly stated in the public papers, and he was proud of the manner in which the govern meat of India had acted. Steps 'had bpi taken to send out 14,000 troops by the end of duly, and Lord Canning had not resigned the governorship— nor was he likely to do in the present state of affairs. There was a meeting of the promoters of the intended new Recreative Society, at the Concert Hall, last evening. The proceedings, which were of an interesting character, we have reported at length, and will well repay perusal. A very serious accident happened on the North Sent Railroad on Sunday night, by which upwards of 12 lives were lost and some 40 or 50 persons wounded. It appears that the ordinary train that leaves Strood at 9.15 on Sunday evening, started as usual at its proper hour, and proceeded without interruption to Lewisham, where it was brought to a stand-still, in order to allow the train from Beckenham—a line recently opened—to pass on its way to London Whether the Beckenham train was late, or the Strood train in advance of its time, we are not able to state, but there appears no doubt the first train was delayed about twenty minutes, it having arrived at Lewisham about twenty minutes to eleven o'clock. The hour of eleven had just struck when another train was heard coming up at rapid speed from the direction of Blackheath- Some of the passengers, on hear ing the approach of this train, naturally felt some slight alarm, and a few left their seats in the car riages and stood on the bank. In about two minutes afterwards the last-named train—which it appears was the ordinary 9.30 Strood train, dashed into the standing one with most fearful violence, spreading death and destruction in all directions. To attempt anything like a description of the fearful scene which followed the collision would be a matter of impossibility, and heart-rending shrieks pierced the air. Men ran about almost frantic looking for their wives, while mothers equally excited sought their children ; and to add to the horror of the hour, the groans of the wounded, who were unable to extricate themselves from their excruciating posi tions, were frightful in the extreme. Those who were not wounded, to their credit be it said, exerted themselves to their utmost, as did also the f e w persons who we re e i t h er on t h e spot, or, b e i ng in the neighbourhood, had hastened on to the line. The exact number of persons more or less seriously injured has not been accurately ascertained. Thirty persons had their wounds dressed at St. Thomas's Hospital, and afterwards proceeded to their homes. About a dozen are still in that institution. Four of the sufferers are so dangerously wounded th a t their lives are despaired of, and they remain at the Plough Inn, Lewisham. A London coteinporary of last night, in speaking of this calamity, say s i t will no doubt be termed an accident :—" But it is simply an insult to common sense, and an out rage on ordinary prudence, to pretend that arrange ments which wo u ld e ff e ctually prevent one train from running into and smashing another are beyond the reach o f ra il way manage rs. In this ease—the heartrending particulars of which we give elsewhere—there appears as yet no reason - why it should not be set down as the result of sheer negligence. A " searching" inquiry will, of . course, be made. An engine -driver, or a points man, or a signal-man, will, perhaps, be punished with a few months' imprisonment, and the share holders of the company will suffer in their pecuniary interest by, we hope, heavy damages being exacted in every case of death or injury. But will all that lead to the adoption of greater care and caution in the working of railways ? Ex perience bids us doubt it. The real want is an adequate feeling of responsibility in those appointing the officers who actually work the traffic. These officers, it is true, are criminally liable for the consequences of their own neglect ; but who is criminally liable for the appointment of officers deficient in the essential qualities of pru dence and carefulness ? A mere pecuniary respon sibility which scarcely reaches the directors, furnishes a quite inadequate motive for that extreme caution necessary in the choic a of men who have every day the lives of thousands of peo ple in their hands. In the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, before Lord Campbell and a special jury, an action. Feather v. Maitland came on for trial. The plaintiff was a wine merchant, carrying on business at Liver pool, who in 1851 had a quantity of light sherry to dispose of. A friend of the plaintiff's, Mr. Douglas, a shipowner in London, mentioned the fact to the defendant, who was a partner in a firm at Montreal, and produced a sample of the wine. The defendant tasted it, said it would bring about £l4 a pipe in Montreal, and that his firm would be prepared to receive the consignment of it. This con versation was communicated to the plain tiff in June, 1851, and he had the wine bottled and packed in thirty-nine cases. which be shipped for Montreal in July, 1852. They arrived there in September, and on the 6th of December the defendant wrote a letter, saying that the wine was unmarketable in that city. The plaintiff then requested him to return it, but he neglected to do so uutil June, 1856, when it had completely lost its virtue, and was wholly worthless. The plaintiff now claimed to be re-imbursed for the damages which he had sustained by reason of the neglect of the defendant. The jury were of opinion that there was merely a consignment, and no undertaking on the part of the defendant, that he could sell the wines, and that the defendant was not liable for not having returned the wines before 1856, and the verdict was accordingly for the defendant. The reports received from the agricultural dis tricts of the state of the weather and the crops would lead us to the conclusion that if matters continue as now the harvest will be most abundant. The details of the Indian news, though not so gloomy as the telegraphic summary, are very dis couraging. The mutiny which began at Barrack pore was continued at Meerut. There were three native regiments quartered at that station—the 3rd Light Cavalry, and the 11th and 20th Infantry Regiments. We were already informed that the 3rd Light Cavalry had refused to receive the cartridges which have given such general offence, and that a number of men of this regiment were punished by imprisonment for their in subordination. But it now appears that the Infantry shared the feelings of the Cavalry, and that the disaffection was more widely spread than it seemed to be at first. For the day after the sentence of the troopers was read on parade, the 11th and 20th suddenly rushed to arms, and shot down all the officers who essayed to bring them back to obedience. Having become masters of the lines, they slew and burned in all directions. Night had fallen; the mutineers were well on the road to Delhi before the infantry came up with their rear. The cantonments were in flames; the mutineers had fled ; and when the moon rose nothing remained at Meerut but the European troops, the blazing camp, and the bodies of the victims. The muti neers must have made a forced march to Delhi, if, as reported, they arrived there on the 11th, for the distance is forty miles. On reaching the ancient capital of the Mogul Empire they, it is said, immediately called upon the three native regiments there to join them "in resisting the design of the Government to convert them to Christianity." The appeal was unhappily answer ed. The three regiments instantly fell in with those who had fled from Meerut. They began by murdering all the officers they could lay their hands on. Then they seized the city, palace, and civil station, and continued to butcher every Eng lishman, woman, and child, who fell into their power. Some, happily, escaped and fled; but the rest, un less concealed, have fallen a sacrifice to the ferocity of the mutineers. One gallant aetion was per- formed at Delhi which should immortalize the actor's name ; Lieutenant Willoughby, of the Ar tillery, blew up the arsenal and powder magazine, and himself therewith, to prevent their falling into the hands of the rebels. The next step of these misguided meu was to proclaim a King, and they selected a puppet for this purpose from the family of the Mov,ul. So far as we are informed the dis affection was confined to Meerut arid Delhi. There were, indeed, some symptoms of mutiny at Feroze pore and Lucknow, but they were quickly suppressed. At Agra, as early as the 14th, Mr. Colvin delivered an address to the troops on the station, and confirmed their loyality. At Etawah some of the 3d Cavalry were cut to pieces by the 9th Native Infantry and police. At Allyghur a mutinous agent was arrested by the native soldiery. In the Punjaub Sir John Lawrekce had made excellent preparations for the suppression of the slightest symptom of disaffection. Mr. Colvin had placed the Delhi and Meerut districts under mar• tial law. The most important intelligence from the Con tinent, if it be true, is the adherence of Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia, to a project of Lord Cla rendon, for effecting an administrative union of the t‘l o Danubian Principalities, without establish ing a common sovereignty. _This project has been discussed for some time at Vienna, between Eng land and Austria, and we have already had to record that France refused to support it. Louis Napoleon's Government demands that the initia- tive in every question concerning the Principali ties should he allowed to proceed from the national divans themselves. Th Emperor and Empress of Russia have ar rivedvn German soil, and were on Saturday al Hamburg. The United States Mail steam packet Washing ton, Captain Cavendy, has arrived at Cowes • from New York, on her way to Bremen, trinaing a num ber of passengers for England ; and specie for England, 240,000 dollars; and for France, 300,000 She passed a steamer, supposed to be the Persia, on the 19th inst. ON Thursday last, two matters connected with the expedition to the Crimea took place in Liver pool. They were exceedingly Aingular for the contrariety of treatment which they manifested towards the respective parties concerned. The first of these was the distribution of the Medals of the Order of Valour to certain soldiers, on the Exchange flags, by Col. BELL, one of the Crimean heroes ; and the second was that portion of the proceedings at the Health Committee, which related to the " unjust treatment of the "Liverpeol Sanitory officers by the government." Both of these occurrences deserve some notice at our hands ; and as Her Majesty was engaged in the same praiseworthy task on Friday, which Col. BELL performed with less ostentation on the previous day, we shall first notice the distribution of the medals for the " Order of Valour." Hitherto it has been cause for loud and general complaint, that the heroism of the British army, although generally acknowledged. has been rewarded :only in the persons of its high and influential officers. Deeds of daring, steadfast- THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 80. 1857 ness to duty, the most willing, patient and self denying, indifference to danger, boldness of conception, wisdom of execution, may have marked the conduct of non-commissioned officers and privates ; but such was the order of military etiquette that no insignia of distinction should mark the breasts of those peculiarly gallant, save the medal common to all. France has long since had its Legion of Honour, whereby the humblest private in the ranks, if he merited the proud distinction, was equally rewarded with the field marshal, who commanded the very army of which the said private formed a part. England has at length taken example, and not only in Liverpool on Thursday, but in London on Friday, the dis tribution of the much coveted " Victoria Cross " was handed to certain officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, whose conduct in the trenches before Sebastopol, on the heights of Alma, and Inkermann, and the plains of Balak lava, rendered themselves conspicuous for devo tion to their Queen and country, and a fixed determination to conquer or perish in the attempt to resist Russian aggression. A perusal of the proceedings connected with the distribution of the " Victoria Cross," by Her Majesty on Friday, were fraught with interest, and brings back to recollection the sad carnage of the Crimea. The selection of persons worthy of this distinguished honour—the British Legion of Honour—when compared with the whole army engaged, were but few, showing that the deeds of bravery required to command and ensure possession of the Order of Valour must be so special, palpably clear, and distinguished, that only a small portion of the " Bravest of the Brave " can be found worthy to wear it. On this principle was the order insti tuted—on this principle has it been distributed. Looking over the list of the recipients in Lon don, we observe there the Highlander who com posed the heroic band of that " thin red line tipped with steel " at Balaklava—the Guardsman, who, with his clubbed musket fought on the heights of Inkermann, against a foe numbering seven to one,--the hero of the trenches who rushed across the " open," the galling fire, to rescue a disabled comrade, or to route a Russian soldier in ambuscade,—the cool and collected sergeant, who with his bayonet dug a cover for a wounded comrade who fell beside him,—the officer who threw a live shell over the parapet with the same sang froid as if he were casting a pebble into a brook,—the daring infantryman, who, amid a storm of shells and bullets, planted the British:ensign on the summit of a fortification —the noble trooper who, as one of the fated 600, rode into the jaws of death without a question as to the why, but knowing simply it was for him to do or die; such were the class of men to receive from the royal hands the national token of a nation's appreciation of their courage, military order, and devotion to the safety and honour of Britain's flag. We would write much in favour of the institu- tion of the " Order of Valour." One of its greatest merits lies in the fact that it levels all distinctions of rank in the army. The field marshal or the plumed and gold laced general will wear the same badge as the humblest private. The regulations of the Order abolish rank and titles, honours, position, and influence, so that henceforth the general or the colonel, the captain or the lieutenant, cannot, if undistinguished by valour, bedeck their breast with the coveted badge which falls to the lot of the sergeant of grena diers, the corporal of dragoons, or the private of an infantry regiment. Thus, at last, the barriers of caste are removed, nepotism is discounte nanced, interest discarded. and the cold shade of aristocracy has given place to a genial sunshine of a generous and unpartial recognition. But let us turn to the other matter to which we have referred, namely, the unjust treatment which our sanitary officers who went out to the Crimea have sustained at the hands of the British Government. Our readers will recollect, when disease and death were committing far greater havoc upon the British army than Russian guns or sabres, that the War-office applied to our then mayor, Mr. TOBIN, for the services of a portion of the officers connected with the Health Committee. Like true patriots, the Health Committee responded to the call, and immediately volunteers went forth, and arrangements were made, and a bargain signed, sealed, and delivered, as regards pay, expenses, and outfit. The parties who went from London to the Crimea were Mr. NEWLANDS, the Borough Engineer, Mr. ANEYSLEY, and Mr. FREENY. The first complaint of these gentlemen is, that on agreeing as to terms, they only got four hours' notice to start upon their mission, whereas, if Lord PANMIIRE had been as active and as vigilant as he ought, they should have had twelve. This short notice of preparation subjected them to inconvenience and positive loss, as their outfit was not only incomplete, but, for want of time, had to be procured at enor mously high rates. Notwithstanding all these disadvantages, the Liverpool sanitary officials proceeded on their journey, and entered upon their duties, which, all who know any thing of what passed in the earlier stages of the campaign, must admit was to " expose 'themselves to risks in some respects more formidable thin those encountered by the army; while, unlike the case of the soldier, they had no hope of advancement, and no allowance was made for the contingen cies. of injuries or death." Men ..avho so patriotically and benevolently volunteered from their homes, their families, and their friends, to arrest the progress of pestilence and 'death in the ranks of the British army; to encounter at every step they took in discharging their duties as sanitary officials, contaminated atmospheres charged with all kinds of disease ; to forsake their comfortable abodes, and risk the chance of being numbered with the thousands of brave fellows who perished on Russian soil in vindica tion of England's honour, and detestation of Russian usurpation, deserved well of their coun try, and should not only be paid the uttermost farthing of their contract, but must, aye, and should receive an honorary medal for their really useful exertions. Instead of this, however, Lord PANMITRE cavils with the charges of travelling and hotel expenses, and lops off from the bill of Mr. NEWLANDS 2791. 7s. Bd. ; also 291. 12s. 9d. from Mr. ANEYSLEY ; 241. ls. 2d. from Mr. FREENY ; and 14/. 19s. from Mr. WILSON, making a total deduction and positive loss to the gentlemen named of no less than 348/. 2s. 6d. Such conduct is monstrous, and we trust that steps will be taken to bring the matter before Parliament, for it cannot be that what is nothing more nor less than robbery, can be permitted. We have not done with the matter. CHARITY.—" I have committed," said a celebrated living Prelate, "many sins in my life ; but one I never did com mit—give a farthing to a begger in the street I" Of course, the eminent man who ventured on such an assertion is considered by most people as rather an extraordinary person; and the more sentimental sex would feel infinitely horrified at hearing what they are in the habit of calling so wicked a confession. But the Archbishop of DUBLIN is quite right. There is nothing so mischievous as promiscuous charity. It demoralises the person who indulges in it—it demoralises the person who receives it. Every man, woman, and child has the passion of pity ; it is gratifying to indulge a passion, end to many people if it can be indulged at a small expense, with little trouble, and in the face of the public, the gratification is rather increased than diminished. It is pleasant, too, for the spectators as well as for the actors. It is so nice to think that people are good and charitable. It is so comfortable to think that it is easy to acquire a character for benevo - fence, and to practise in public the precepts of religion. Like many other things, it looks well at a distance. But there is another side to the picture, which we may just as well investigate. That lean, cringing, sallow-faced, filthy, half-clothed Chinaman, who comes crawling along unde r the magnificent club-porticos of Pall-mall, seems wretched enough. His chattering importunity or silent eloquence irresistibly appeal to the passers-by, for he is a stranger in a foreign land, perhaps a shipwrecked mariner. Why should he not be relieved ? Why are charitable men and women to deny themselves this luxury ? The answer is not difficult. Let those who like truth better than senti ment, and shrink from the notion of thoughtlessly supplying vice with the means of indulgences - follow some of these apparent children of misery through the heart of the City, to the filth and seething abomination of Shadwell. In that horrid den of humanity they will find their Chinese friend in his real character, amid the companions of his choice. He has put off the cringing subservience of the begger, and has assumed the abandoned ease of the debauches and the libertine. In this quarter, it seems, there is established a colony of 50 or 60 Chinamen, who herd together for the purpose of indulging in the most horrid vices to which human nature cau addict itself, The evening is the time for their brutal orgies. The morning is the time for obtaining the means of indulgence. Their plan is admirably simple. From this dark corner of the City they sally forth together in the forenoon, and spread themselves over the West-end. Their object is that of all mendicants—to obtain money without labour. For that purpose they take the name of poverty in vain— and prey upon the feelings of the weak-minded and the wealthy. Skilled in every dramatic art, they assume every pose plustique or misery which their experience and ingenuity can suggest, and manage. we are told, to levy a mail on passers-by which amounts to:an average of 2s. or 3s. a-day for each of them. Supplied by these ample funds, the sallow crowd make their way back in the evening from every quarter to their reeking cabins by the banks of the Thames—where they spend their evenings in the most loathsome debauchery. It would be of course impossible to dwell in detail on these revolting scenes. The address of Mr. YARDLEY, the police magistrate, may have sufficed on this point to enlighten the curious. That address was made by the worthy magistrate, in the case of one Aroo—one of these Chinese colonists—who seems to have committed a brutal assault upon a fellow-country man by half-murdering him with a hammer. The public have gool reason to thank Mr. Yattnr,Ey ifor speaking out as he did upon the subject. For we quite agree with him that, looking to the filth and abomination in which these Chinese creatures live, or rather herd together, we may well apprehend the spread not only of a moral, but of a physical pestilence from this sink of depravity. We trust that the authorities will look to this.= We have selected the Chinese colony simply as the most recent and picturesque discovery in the realms of beggardom, not because Chinese beggars are worse than their neighbours. The professors of the " Indian dodge" are every way equal to them; and we have a multitude of indigenous rascals who, at a prize beggar show at the Crystal Palace, would no doubt carry off all the first medals. One thing is clear—these offscourings :of the earth only subsist by the pernicious and thoughtless charity of the West-end. If money were not collected there during the day the vices of the night would become impossible. The weak sentimentalists of the West-end ought surely to con sider the purposes to which their alms are applied. There might, perhaps, be some excuse for them so long as they were ignorant of the facts which are now ascertained. We have endeavoured to deprive them of that excuse. If they still persist in supplying these plausible scoundrels with money, they do so with the knowledge that, instead of relieving want and succouring the distressed, they are only encouraging the coarsest kinds of excess and the vilest forms of vice.—Express. PAPER AND PAPER _DUTIES IN GIRMANY.-A curious battle is just now raging all over Germany between the producers and consumers of paper. The paper manufac turers have formed a coalition, which, though interdicted to working men, seems to be permitted in Germany to master manufacturers, and, in meetings they have held, have passed resolutions, binding them all to raise consi derably the price of that useful article. But they have roused a hornet's nest, for newspaper proprietors, pub lishers, manufacturers of stationery, and even the public and private offices, who are in the habit of consuming a great deal of paper, have become alive to the danger, and encourage each other to resist ; to abstain:for a time from all consumption, for which the necessity is not urgent ; and to form a great counter league. There is one promising element in this agitation, that it will most probably lead to the total'repeal of the Customs duties on foreign paper, which are of a protectionist nature ; and though they do not raise the price of paper so exorbitantly as the English paper excise, still do so to some extent, and cause the additional injury of turning away a certain amount of capital and labour from the natural channels. Already the most influential organs among the daily press of Ger many have sounded the cote of attack on these protective customs duties. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. The benefit of Mdlle. Piccolomini is fixed for Monday evening, July 6. The performance for the evening will consist of the second act of the Figlia, the last act of the Trovatore, the last act of the Traviata, and the last act of I Martini, in three of which operas Mdlle. Piccolomini will perform. Mr. Buckstone announces his annual benefit at the Haymarket Theatre on Wednesday, July Bth, the 1,124 th night of the season. Mr. Buckstone is too old a favourite with the public to require any special attraction for his benefit, but he announces the production of a new and original three-act comedy, by Mr. Tam Taylor, and a new farce. Both pieces bear promdsing names. Victims is the title of the comedy i Thy First and Second Floor that of the farce. A propectua has been issued of a subscription Comic Italian Opera, projected to be given at the St. James's Theatre, to enliven "persons of quality" who may pass the winter in London. This is to commence on the 16th of November :—to give six performances a week, with a double company of artists during three months. The company announced as already engaged consists of Mes dames Fumagalli, Vaschetti, Luigia Tamburini; MM. Daniele, Serazzi, Bartolacci, Fumagalli, Casaciello, Ciampi, Castelli. In addition to these we are promised in print, a " comprimaries, a second tenor comprimario, a second bass, a seconda donna of distinguished merit." An amateur concert will take place this evening at the Public Library, Great Smith•street, Westminster. The object of the ladies and gentlemen who volunteer their services on the occasion is to aid the funds for the sup_ port of the church and school of St. Mary, Vincent_ square. Mr. Barry (son to Sir Charles) has recently paid a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon, in order to aid the trustees of the house in which Shakepeare was born with his advice as to the best mode of upholding and preserving it. M. Meyerbeer, the composer, is at present at Spa. Letters from Switzerland announce that the great Annual Musical Festival of the Confederation is to take place next year in Zurich, and that preparations are already being made for the accommodation of 3,000 singers. The second great Rhenish musical festival, which took place at Mannheim on the 14th and 15th of June, was thoroughly successful, and attended by a vast number of visitors from the neighbouring towns. There was 700 vocal and 160 instrumental performers. The nieces per formed were Mendelssohn's Elias, Beethoven's Ninth Sym phony with chorus, Durante's Magnificat, besides several minor compositions. Capelmeister Lachner, who was to have conducted, was prevented unfortunately by illness, but his place was most ably filled by Hiller, of Cologne. CONCERTS FOR TEE PRESENT WEES.—This eveving (Tuesday), the London Harmonic Union gives a grand concert at Sussex Hall.--On Wednesday, the Vocal Union gives its second morning concert at the Hanover-square Rooms ; and on the same morning, at Willis's Rooms, the directors of the Musical Union give their grand matinee.— On Thursday, Mr. Ellis Roberts (harpist to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales), has his annual concert at the Music Hall, Store-street.—Mrs. Ellen Day announces her matinee musicale for Saturday, at Willis's Rooms. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.—The seventh Royal Italian Opera concert took place yesterday morning, The principal performers were Mesdames Grisi, Bosio. Didiee, Parepa, and Rosa Devries ; Messrs. Mario, Neri- Baraldi, Tagliafico, Zelger, Polonini, Graziana, Ronconi, and Herr Formes. The band was conducted by M. SAin ton. Notwithstanding the enormous attraction of the recent Handel festival, Mr. Gye's magnificent array of musical celebrities again brought together a vast assem blage. We believe, indeed, that not one of the numerous Royal Italian Opera concerts here has been more fully attended. '_;The programme, as on previous occasions, was made up almost', of extracts from the most familiar and popular operas belonging to the Lyceum repertoire. THE LATE Ma. JERROLD.—Mr. J. W. Anderson, lessee of the Standard Theatre, writes to a cotemporary ; " The captains of the pen are exerting themselves on the stage and in the lecture-room to honour the memory of their friend. But the stage itself has not come forward in the same cause to a like extent. Yet the stage owes more to Jerrold than does the library. His dramas have kept many a house' open, filled many a treasury,' and fed many an actor. 7 2Their author dies, and his widow is unprovided for. ,What should .the :stage: do ? I would suggest that every theatrical manager; throughout the country should give a benefit, and every actor contribute his services to aid her whose husband wrote Black Eyed Susan: If it could be carried out. I would have the benefit take place at every theatre, broad England through, on the same night ; and, on the Jerrold night,' let none but Jerrold's dramas be played. Let each man ager charitably cast aside all remembrance of what he has paid to the Dramatic Authors' Society, and address himself to a work of charity with good feeling and with energy. The result would unfailingly be an annuity for Mrs. Jerrold. My own services, if practicable, I would most cordially give." THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. The Zoological Society have a meeting on Thursday next, and the Asiatic Society a meeting on Saturday. The next meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will be held at Dublin, cs►mmenc ing on August 26, under the presidency of the Rev. H. Lloyd, D-D., D.C.L., V.P.R.I.A. The last exhibition this season of plants, flowers, and fruit, at the Royal Botanic Society, will take place on Wednesday next. At the next meeting of the Horticultural Society in Regent-street, on the 7th of July, the Chamaacyparis thurifera, for which there are so many applicants, will be drawn for. The chances will be about two blanks to one prize. The library of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, removed from Alton Towers, was on sale during last week by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson. The country meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of Englaid will be held at Salisbury in the week com mencing Monday, the 20th of July, the Thursday in that week being the principal day of the show• The annual congress of the Archaeological Association will take place in August next at Norwich, assembling in that city on the 24th. Excursions are in course of arrangement for Caistor Castle, Burgh Castle, and Yar mouth; Lynn, Castle Rising Castle, Binham Priory, and Walsingham ; Barshani Hall ; Thetford and Ely Cathedral, &c. Norwich and Ely Cathedrals are to be lectured upon by H. H. Burnall, Esq., and C. E. Davis, Esq. ; Mr. Planche superintends the sculptures and monumental effigies; Mr. W. H. Black the charters, deeds, and muni cipal documents; whilst the description of the Castle of Norwich and the remains of ancient buildings will be under the direction of W. C. Ewing, Esq., and R. Fitch, Esq., of Norwich. Mr. Palmer conducts the Association over the antiquities of Great Yarmouth. The Earl of Albemarle presides over the whole The sessional meetings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, held this year at Manchester, were brought to a close oa Thursday. In the afternoon the members and their friends dined together in the large coffee-tent ad joining the Art Treasures building. The chair was taken by Mr. William Fairbairrt, in the absence of Mr. Whit worth, the president. About 200 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Among the company were Mr. Scott Russell, Professor Rankin, Colonel Kennedy, Mr. M'Connell, Mr. Craig, Mr. Bellhouse, Mr. Fay, Mr. Benjamin Fother gill, Mr. Ramsbottom, and a number of gentlemen win nected with mechanical science. In the course oc the evening addresses were delivered with reference to the growth and development of scientific knowledge, in con nexion with engineering, and a general opinion was ex pressed that it was absolutely necessary to pay greater attention to the education of our workwn, if we were to retain oar supremacy as the greatest engineering country in the world. Mr. Fairbairn and Mr. M'Connell referred to the rapid strides which engineering science was making in France, Belgium, and Germany, and attributed it to the superior education which the artisans of those countries were enabled to 'receive before they entered the work shops, THE COURT. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, went on Saturday afternoon to Richmond, and visited the Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, and after wards paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, at Twickenham. The Prince Consort went to preside at the annual meeting of the Windsor Royal Association in the Home-park, and after distributiag the prizes, went to Richmond, and returned with the Queen to Buckingham Palace. Prince Arthur, with the Princesses Helena and Louisa, visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's park. The Queen, the Prince Consort, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia visited the Royal Italian Opera, Lyceum, in the evening. On Sunday, the Queen, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princesses Alice and Helena, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia attended divine service in the privat's chapel of the Palace. The Dean of Canterbury preached the sermon. THE KING or THE BELGIANS.—The place of the Austrian visitor at our Court will be quiekly supplied by his Majesty King Leopold, who is expected to arrive from Belgium about Thursday next, and who, of course, will be the guest of his niece, the queen, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. ROME. The Pope has granted numerous pardons. The political prisoners of Fort Palliatee are to be set at liberty. It is apparent that his Holiness prefers the liberation of individuals to a general amnesty. FRANCE. The Three per Cents had another serious fall yesterday (Wednesday), olosing at 67f. 70e. FRANCE, PARIS, SUNDAY ETZIC/NO. The Courrier ale Paris, after several day's silence, now adopts the candidates of the Presse and Siecis f'or Paris, MM. Olivier and Darimon. General Cavaignac, it will be remembered, was supported both by this journal and the Estafette from the first. There is a probability of M. Delemarre, the pro prietor of the Patric and the government candidate in one of the circumscriptions of the Somme, being thrown out at the present election. M. de Croy de Saint Amour, the second opposition candidate, has retired, leaving M. de Morgan, who polled very nearly as many votes as M. Delemarre, alone in the opposition field. The ultra-democrats have definitively given in their adhesion to the candidateship of General Cavaignac, M Darirnon, and M. 011ivier. The Courrier de Paris and the Estafette, organs of that party, announce this fact at the head of their columns. The greatest stagnation reigns in the continental and political world at present, and the diplomatic bout created by the plans for the re-organisation of the Danubian Principalities promise to draw to a speedy conclusion. The party favouring the union has exhusted all its energies, and, in spite of the firm support of France, is obliged to succumb: Telegraphic intelligence from Berlin states that the New Prussian Gazette a journal often contain ing sound diplomatic information, announces the complete success of the project for the organisation of the Danubian Principalities, drawn up by Lord Clarendon. Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Turkey have accepted this project; and France will un doubtedly adhere to the same before long. The views of Lord Clarendon offer, in fact, a practical solution of the difficulties attending an emancipation of the two Provinces without weakening Turkey, or laying open to her the hazards of future disturbance. The British Government advocates a union of the mili tary, judicial, and postal administration of the two Principalities, which would possess also a common tariff; but it maintains a distinct political adminis tration for Wallachia and for Moldavia. By this policy the Principalities would possess a national existence and a national army, and would enjoy all the advantages to be derived from a community of laws and customs. At the same time the Porte would not be endangered and distracted by the intrigues of a petty Sovereign, alternately obedient to the influence of Russia, Austria,,and France. TURKEY. News from Constantinople to the 19th has been received. Reschid Pacha had informed M. Blondeel van Ceulenbrock, the Belgian Minister, whose recal the Porte had demanded on the ground of his in terfering with the political movements in the Principalities, that the relations with the Belgian legation would be resumed on the part of the Porte as soon as the ambassador himself should have left Constantinople. The close of the electoral lists, or rather, the primary elections, in Moldavia, is confirmed. In Wallachia the European Commissioners, deliberat ing in secret sittings, had not yet given in their consent to the regulations drawn up by the Kaima 'kam for the elections, and consequently the pri mary elections stood still adjourned. PRUSSIA. A despatch from Berlin says that it is affirmed there that Prussia, Russia, and Sardinia have given their adhesion to the compromise on the question of the union of the Principalities, drawn up by the Earl of Clarendon, which is, therefore, now opposed by France alone. GREECE. ATaENs, JUNE 20.—The session of the Greek Chambers has been closed. They separated on good terms with the Ministry. Queen Amelia was to leave on the 9th for Germany. The crop of grain was very fine. ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AT HAMBURG. HAMBURG, SATURDAY, JuNic 27. At nine o'clock this morning, signals were made by the look-out people at Buick, the outer head land of the harbour of Kiel, indicating the approach of the Imperial flotilla, which entered the inner harhour at eleven o'clock, the steam frigate with the Emperor and Empress on board mooring alongside the landing jetty. Prince Ferdinand of Denmark, the King's uncle, an immediate successor to the throne, having been commissioned by the King to receive and welcome the Emperor, arrived at Kiel last evening from Co penhagen, and slept at the palace usually inhabited by the Duke of Glucksburg. It may be men tioned as a significant fact that the Danish prince selected to welcome the Emperor is the last living scion of the direct line of the Dukes of Holstein- Gottorp, from which also the Emperor is descen.l ed. After a short interview between the Emperor and the Danish prince, during which the Russian im perial flag was saluted with a royal salute from the Danish frigate Heimdal, at anchor in the harbour of Kiel, the distinguished travellers entered the special train, and at about half -past one the im perial cortege arrived at Altona. Here the car riages sent out from Hamburg were in waiting to convey the travellers to this city. The proces sion consisted of about forty carriages. At a quarter-past two this afternoon, the eortege entered the city, and drove to the Hotel de l'Europe, on the Jungfernstieg, where they sleep to-night. The Chevalier de Kudriaffsky preceded the proces sion, and by a short cut arrived at the hotel in time to receive the imperial party. In the first carriage, driven by Herr Lauen stein himself, and preceded by outriders in the Russian court livery,sat the Emperor and Empress,with their eldest son and daughter, the Grand Duke Nicholas (born September 20, 1843), and the Grand Duchess Alexandra, together with the Emperor's youngest brother, the Grand Duke at l M i t ch he a g e a l t ( e b s o o r fn the O c t c ob it y e r t 2 h s e , y lB w 3 e 2 r ) e . r e o c e n i v t e h d e i a r n a d r v we a l cowed by senator Godeffroy and Syndicus Merck on the part of the Senate. The Emperor having intimated his wish to retain his incognito and de cline all formalities and festivities, the only p u blic demonstration to be made is a serenade and illmni" nation, with a brilliant display of fireworks, to take place this evening on the beautifril basin of the Inner Mater, under the windows of the Hotel de l'Europe. As the arrangements stand at present the impe rial party cross th e Elb e t o - morrow morn i ng at nine o'clock, on board the Hamburg steamer Heli goland, which the owner (?d. Senator GodetTroY) has placed at the Emperor's disposal. On their arrival at Harburg they proceed to Hanover by special train, dine with the court of Hanover at the summer residence of Herrenhausen, and then go on by special train to the University of Got tingen, where they sleep that night, and proceed the next day to Kissingen. There they join the, that Dow a fa g s e h r io E p m l es ) s a , u w ii h n o g r is la d co, drinking the waters 01