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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1864.

community. It is highly satisfactory that the reso-
lution was carried as a precedent for future times,
since we have littlo hopes of seeing it embodied in
a practical measure by our present supine adminis-
tration,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LEEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

RUSSIA.

Termination of the War in the Caucasus,
ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 8.

A despatch from the Grand Duke Michael
announces that the war in the Caucasus is now
terminated, and that no more tribes remain to be

conquered.

The Moscow and Sebastopol Railway,

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 8,

It is asserted that a contract has been definitively
concluded by Mr. Hope, the manager of the Inter-
national Financial Company of London, with the
Russian Government for the construction of the
Moscow and Sebastopol Railway.
The works ere to be commenced in the course of
this year.

AMERICA.

been anticipated.

Mr. PARNESS seconded the resolution, and said if
they did not stop the Metropolitan Board it would
go on clipping their wings till they should have
nothing to do but find the money.
Mr. Ross did not oppoie Mr. Taylor's motion,
but thought it would be more effective in the

first place to confine it to the fire brigade. The
centralisation of the Metropolitan Board was be-

coming intolerable, and the parishes could manage
their local fire brigades far better than the Metro-

politer' Board. He should move to call upon the
borough members to oppose the Fire Brigade Bill.
(Hear, hear.)

The resolution was put and carried unanimously,

The Right of Meeting in the Parks.

Yesterday afternoon the committee of the metro

politan electors appointed to confer with the mem

hers for the metropoiitan boroughs as to the right
of the Government to prohibit peaceable public
meetings in the parks, assembled in the Tea-room
of the House of Commons, for the purpose of receiv-
ing a report drawn up by the legal gentlemen con-
nected with the committee.

Mr EDMOND BEALES, M.A., was called to the
chair, and after a few introductory remarks, read a
_ _ _

long and elaborate report treating of the rights
formerly and now possessed by the Crown over
what were called the Royal Parks. The report
stated that all personal rights over the parks pos-
, sessed by the Crown, and all revenues arising
therefrom, had been given up in 1701, and the
parks dedicated to the use of the people, with
certain restrictione, none of which related to public
meetings, in return for a fixed payment from the
Consolidated Fund, now forming part of the Royal
civil list. The management of the parks was then
vested in a commission, the Chief Commissioner
being paid out of the public moneys, and all ex-
penses of the parks being also paid from the same
source. The report recited various Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to these transactions, and then went
on to say that no Act could be found upon the
statute book conferring either upon the Home Se-
cretary, the Chief Commissioner Qf Works, or the
Commissioner of Police the power of preventing
peaceable public meetings in these parks. As to the
right of the people to meet in what were called
the Parliamentary parks, such as the Regent's
Park, Primrose Hill, Victoria Park, &a., it stood on
a foundation beyond dispute.
Considerable discussion followed the reading of
the report, in which Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Whaley,
M.P., -Major Richards, Capt. Rogers, Mr. Nicholay,
Mr. Westerton, Mr. Sheen, and other gentlemen
took part, and ultimately it was resolved, on the
motion of Major Richards, seconded by Mr. Wes-
tenon, "That the report read by Mr. Beales be
printed, and proofs supplied to every member of
the committee previous to its final adoption, and
before the metropolitan members are asked to take
action upon the subject."
A vote of thanks to the chairman having been
passed, the committee adjourned.

i I EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD.—Near EtithWitite
Lake, on the 19th May, the heat in the shade reached 89
degrees, and on the 31st the cold was down to three
degrees
below freezing. Snow was three inches deep on the top of
Hellvellyn yesterday week.
YANKEE BRASS.—The editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, lately arrested for hoaxing the New York
papers, by a pretended proclamation of President Lincoln,
has addressed the following letter to the Eagle, from the
walls of Lafayette :—" Dear Eagle,—In the language of
the ' magnificent' Vestiali, 'I am here.' I think I shall
stay here, at least till I get out. Perhaps you are surprised
at my sudden departure; so was I. But I received a pres-
sing invitation from General Dix to come down here, which
I did not feel at liberty to decline, so I didn't. Bob Murray
brought the invitation. Bob Murray is United States mar-
shal, and he marshalled me the way I should go ; so I
thought it best to go it. Bob is a nice man; he has a very
taking way with him; but I wouldn't recommend you to
cultivate his acquaintance."
MACKEREL.—The Cornish fishery for the week
ending on Monday last was again very productive,
and mackerel, large in size and excellent in quality, continue
to be in plentiful supply in the county. Large quantities
were sent by sail to London and elsewhere, and the curing
process was carried on somewhat extensively. Employment
was thus given to a considerable number of poor people, of
both sexes, who are by no means illiberally paid for their
work, The St. Ives boats for the week were, as has been
the case for some time past, the most fortunate, the catches
of the Mount's Bay and other fleets being comparatively
small. In the early part of the week the catches off St.
Ives averaged 2,000 per boat; price 10a to 19s per six score.
On Wednesday the largest catch was about 1,600 ; price
163. On Thursday the average was again 2,000; price 16s
to 183. Good luck did not desert the fishermen en Friday,
the average being 2,000. The supply of fish had now be-
come very large, and prices consequently gave way, the
quotations being Ile to 15s. Some difficulty was experi-
enced in getting rid of the fish in reasonable time. On
Saturday the local markets were all well stocked, and
mackerel was retailed, in good condition, at 8, 10, and 11 1
for a shilling. OA Monday the catches Were not large, '

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Jr;NE 9.
The Hamburg American Company's steamship
Germania, with the English, French, and Gelman
mails, has arrived. She brings 13 passengers for
Havre, 38 for Southampton, and 122 for Hamburg.
The Germania left New York at 4 a,m. on the
29th, having been detained in getting over the
bar of the harbour. On the sth inst., in lat.
48 57 N., long. 26'46 W., she spoke the British
barque Liverpool Packet; on the 6th inst., in lat.
49 N,, long. 20.13 W., the British barque Parsee ;
and on the Bth, off the Liz ird, the Datch ship Pre•
sident van Rickevorsa.

The Germania brings no specie. Her news hes

Increased Taxation by the Metropolitan
Board of WorKs.

Yesterday the Representative Vestry of St. Pan-
cras assembled at the Vestry Hall, Camden Town
(Mr Churchwarden Robson in the chair), for the
purpose of electing a member to represent Sr. Pan-
' eras at the Metropolitan Board, in the room of Mr
Francis Healey, J.P., who ceased to be so by
of iuxion of time.
Mr I. R. Collins moved, and Mr H. Farrer
seconded, the re-election of Mr Healey, which was
carried unanimously in a very full board.
Mr HEALEY, in thanking the vestry for this
renewal of their confidence, referred to the
various measures before the Metropolitan
Board, tending to increase the taxation of
the metropolitan ratepayers, but also the many
others which he said were "looming in the dis-
tance." A bill had passed through Parliament
for the establishment of a park for Bermondsey.
Then there was the Fire Brigade and Fire Escape
Bill. Again, there was the scheme of Alderman
Salomons for throwing open Southwark and Water-
loo bridges, as well as schemes for various other
improvements, the whole of which would involve a
large amount of additional taxation if they were
carried out. He and his colleagues had done their
best to check this onward increase, and would con-
tinue to do so, but they required support. (Hear.)
Mr. SILAS TAYLOR, the other member for St.
Pancras at the Metropotitan Board, said the mem-
bers of that board, who desired to carry out eco-
❑omy and check the onward march of taxation,
could do nothing unless they were firmly backed
up by the vestries and district boards. He moved a
resolution expressive of the alarm with which that
vestry viewed the proposed increase of the rates of
the metropolis, not only with reference to public
improvements, and especially for Southwark, Park

lane, the fire brigade, and the bill for purchasing
Southwark and Waterloo•bridges, and calling upon
Parliament to place the horse and carriage duties
levied on the metropolis at the disposal of the Me-
tropolitan Board for such purposes, and not farther
tax the ratepayers. The resolution further called
upon other vestry and district boards to co-operate
in aiding the Metropolitan Board to sustain this
concession. Mr. Taylor added that there had been
a pressure attempted to be put on the Metropolitan
Board to expend £lBO,OOO on improvements in
Park-lane, which would cost St. Pancras about
£14,000; and if the purchase of the bridges scheme
were carried out, it would in the 20 years tax them
£70,000 or £BO,OOO.