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London, England, 1864-06-16 00:00:00

severest lesson the Maories have ever learnt," and
as there is no reason to suspect an English General
of Yankee manoeuvring, we may safely accept the
latter version as the true one, There is no doubt,
however, that the engagement was a severe
one, and not altogether profitable in its results,
since, although the natives were much discomfited
by it, their discomfiture induced them to abandon
the position which General CAMERON was prepared
to attack, and to retreat into the interior, where it
is not at present possible to follow them. General
CAMERON left part of his troops under his second
in command at Orakau, in the Waikato district,
where the natives had constructed works blocking
up their main road to the south, and he himself
proceeded to the spat where the main body of the
enemy wore entrenched. During his absence, how-
ever, the officer in command, with more gallantry
than prudence, attempted to storm the position of
the Maories at Orakau. He was unable to carry
it, owing to the want of scaling-ladders, and with-
out further assistance, and accordingly General
CAMERON returned from his expedition to sup.
port the attack. It proves the daring and resolu-
tion of the native tribes, that when outnumbered
five to one they refused to surrender, and by a bold
and unexpected movement dashed through the
opposing forces, and fled for their lives through the
neighbouring swamp. They were pursued by the
English troops and many of them killed, wounded,
and captured. There is no doubt, according to
Mr. CARDWELL'S information, of the district of the
Upper Waikato being now in our possession, and
accordingly the prospects of the colony are bright-
ening, however tedious and inconclusive the course
of the war may at times appear to be, There has
never been any room for doubting the ultimate
establishment of British supremacy and the event-
ful triumph of the colonists, provided they are
assisted by the mother country during the time of
severe trial. The loan proposed by Mr. CARDWELL
to be made to the Colonial Government is fair and
reasonable. There is no great risk incurred, since
there is every prospect of a loan of £1,000,000
being repaid out of an average surplus of £200,000.
The financial prospects of the colony are most re-
assuring and quite sufficient to warrant a loan of
the amount specified, since in the year ending June
30th, 1863, there was a surplus of receipts over the
expenditure of £260,000, while even for the pre-
sent year the estimated surplus of £200,000 is
likely to be exceeded. The minor arrangements
explained by Mr. CARDWELL are fair and straight-
forward, neither putting an undue burden on the
mother country, nor taxing too heavily the resources
of the colonists. It was proposed that after
this year the colonial Government shall make the
same payment as the Australian colonies for any
military aid it may receive from the Imperial Go-
vernment, with the exception of one regiment,
which, in consideration of the native tribes, is to
be sent free. This indulgence can hardly be be-
grudged to them, since their position is one of some
risk and considerable difficulty, and they have corm
manfully forward to fight their own battles in this

nations in trade and commerce we are sapping our
foundations, and poisoning the root of our strength
by cutting off future supplies. A diseased and de•
crepid generation of labourers will militate against
any eminence that we may hope to reach, and mar
the effect of any effort male by posterity to carry
on successfully the arduous endeavours of the pre-
sent community. Besides, the wrong thus perpe-
trated is positively frightful to contemplate.
Nothing can excuse or justify the fact that young
children of a tender ago aro put to trades which
inflict vital injuries on their unformed constitutions
and wither their undeveloped strength. The
provisions of this Bill seem to be very
admirable, and to have taken under notice
many matters that will materially affect the
welfare and comfort of these distressed operatives.
Between seventeen and eighteen thousand children
are employed in dangerous trades, such as lucifer
match making, manufacture of percussion caps, &c.,
and rules have been given for the proper cleansing
of the places where they work. The children are
not to take their meals in the place of manufacture,
and no child under eleven years of age is to be em-
ployed in any trade above mentioned. This is a
vary excellent arrangement, and will prevent much
suffering to those of tender years. Some parents
are so heartless that they sacrifice everything to
money, and are glad to get their children out of
the way. Besides, there are thousands of these
little ones who are without a proper guardian, and
for these it is right and fitting that the law should
provide some protection. In the potteries, many
children work for thirteen and fourteen hours a
day. In one portion of the work, the " dippers"
seldom remained many years without paralysis
supervening. It is greatly to the credit of those
concerned that they have sent a memorial to the
Government, signed by the manufacturers at the
potteries, which prays for the adoption of this
bill. In the lucifer trade, children are often em

ployed from six in the morning until ten at Light.
This bill will prove of great service to these
children in many ways. It limits their hours,

secures ventilation, and obviates the necessity
of their taking their meals in the factory.
The paper staining trade is not injurious
in itself, but the poor little workers were
kept so many hours at their labour that
they sometimes " fell from sheer exhaustion,
while ell their limbs became sore from long stand-
ing at the machinery." Such pictures are frightful
to contemplate, end the critic, the cynic, and the
caviller may well smile at the zeal which sends mis-
sions to the uttermost ends of the earth, and under-
takes to remedy so miry evils abroad, while the
children of England, the sons of the soil, are
crushed and trampled upon like this. It is greatly
to be rejoiced at that so efficient and comprehensive 1

a system should have been organised, and the
labours of the Cunanai.F.sion appointed to inquire into
this cprnplicated case Eef M to have been crowned

with success. IL will be a ecurce of unmitigated
satisfaction to every one who appreciates the im-

emergency. In the province of Auckland the whole
population, from sixteen to fifty-five, have been

porto.nce of the question, that there seems every
reason to hope these propositions will soon become
the law of the land. Lord JOHN MANNERS ez.

under arms at once, and the colonists are certainly
entitled, as Mr. ADDERLEY remarked, to "great
credit and great consideration for the spirit with
which they have met their difficulties, and the ex-

pressed a hope that " before many weeks were over

they would see this measure unmutiluuted reeef.ve

the royal assent." That such may be the e3se a

ample which they have set to other colonies."
Surely when our settlers show such readiness to

right-minded individuals will concur in hoping, for
it is an undisputable fact that it does not do to trust

fight for themselves, and are so ready to meet us on
fair and moderate grounds with respect to financial

these important matters to the good sense, the good
faith, and the good feeling of employers or the
friends of the young employed. The law must be
the universal referee, and there must be a distinct

matters, it is the least that can be eicineted by the
mother country to afford soma temporary assist-
ance without waiting for actual payment to be
made. If the colonists sat in their homes and asked

and decisive regulation laid down from whicb.there

is no appeal. It is certain that all thsse changes
will give rise to opposition at first, prejudices will

England to send her troops to fight for then gratis,

arise, and partiality be displayed, but there eanno'

some opposition might justly be made, but_ when
the whole population of a province is under arms,

be a better came for which the reformer may brave
the difficulties of improvement than this, which

no charge of selfish inactivity can justly be made.

As to those logicians who contend that we have no

seeks protection for those who cannot protec'
themselves.

more interest in our distant colonies than in foreign
lands, their arguments, even on the low ground of

Mr. Holman Hunt's Pictures,

self-interest, are quite untenable. Should England
abandon her protectorate of the islands of New
Zealand, what is to hinder them from putting them-
selves under the protection of some other Power,
say France or the United States? Au American
Governor may yet order British vessels out of the

There is now on exhibition at the new gallery,
16, Hanover-street, Regent street, three pictures by
Mr Holman Hunt, of the greatest merit. The first
and most important is "The After Glow in Egypt,"
which represents an Egyptian girl standing in the
after-glow of evening on the banks of the Nile.
The girl, a native of Ghiv.h, near the Pyramids,
has been gleaning in the rich fields of bearded
Egyptian wheat, and now approaches us bearing on
her heed a sheaf bound with straw and entwined
with poppies. Even the graceful, gliding mo
tion of this child of the desert is not gentle
enough to hinder the shedding of the ripe
grain, and therefore she is attended by a flock
of Barbary pigeons, one of which has alighted,
half hovering on the wing, half clinging to the
sheaf, looking eagerly amongst the cern in search
of grain. In this painting Mr. Hunt has wonder-
fully depicted the glories of an Oriental atmos-
phere, and the manner in which the figure of the
girl is dealt out is worthy the highest praise. The
flesh tints have about them all the native warmth,
and there is a brilliancy in the eyes that make them
positively life-like. The, picturesque costume of
the girl falls most gracefully, and the masterly
manner in which the artist has treated this portion

ports, and profit by the trade of our rejected colo-
nies without our having the right to object. Bat
the ties between the mother country and her chil-
dren are too strong to be so easily sundered. Eng-
land is as proud of her widely extended dominions
as the settlers are of their connection with the
Mistress of the Seas, and the mutual strength de-
rived from the union is essential to the prosperity
of both. England has no cause to question the
loyalty of her colonies. In every time of national
distress or trial they have come gallantly forward,
and it would ill become us, after the munificent

contributions of Australia to the relief of Lance-
shire, to begrudge a temporary outlay on her

younger and less flourishing neighbour. It is a
very nn-English quality to forsake a friend in diffi-

culties; and in the present caso principle and profit,
interest and feeling, all combine in advocating the
same policy.

the painting, whether in respect to colour or
'orm, will not escape notice. "London-bridge on
he night of the marriage of the Prince and
Princess of Wales" is
a p,,inting of a totally different
description; but the saine wonderful management
of atmospheric effect is here exhibited. The appear-
! ance of the bridge on the memorable occasion is
vividly portrayed, and the intense blue of the firma-
ment gives space and profound solemnity to the sky,
which deepens as the eye looks into it. Through
the arches of the bridge runs the dark river, only
to be silvered and become iridescent as it glides
into the moonlight, and the high riding masses of
ofe lamps
mpeeeeteoenhle us
thehotreizeoene, soieftser
tahse glowing and
firery vista
dim-coloured atmosphere of the distant end of the
bridge. The fire-bearing tripods, waiving banners
of Denmark, the crush, confusion, and excitemen
of the crowd, altogether produces one of the most
vivid pictures ever placed on canvass. "The Last Day
in the Old Home," illustrating the ruin of a noble
property by
the spendthrift heir, who has brought
about the sale of the old home by auction from his
love of gaming. The painting is finished, like its
two companions, with the
greatest care, and
although it illustrates a most lamentable event, it
will be treasured by its possessor as a work of rare
merit and of the highest art.

There is no particular in which improvements
have been made of late years that has resulted
in more substantial benefits than the efforts made
for the amelioration of those employed in fac-
tories. It is now some years since the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY made his praiseworthy efforts in
the cause of justice for the overtaeked operatives.
Amid the bustle of more stirring events, and the
general hurry-skurry of existence, these struggles,
so momentous at the time, may be perchance for-
gotten ; but the skilful disciple of progress will
acknowledge that we then entered upon a new
and blessed era of oar country's manufacturing
industry, when protection was afforded to the
weak, the helpless, and the young. Many had
cause to bless the day when the Ten Howe' Bill
was introduced; and, when more exciting end
brilliant epochs are forgotten, the still small Voice
of truth will bear witness to the lasting effects
of that effort, and the beneficent results of that
struggle. Much has since been found to do in
following in the wake of that enterprise, and the
subject is one which attracts the attention of all
who can comprehend the vast importance of the
question, whether we regard it from a social,
mercantile, or moral point of view. It is satisfac-
tory to find that the second reading of the "Fac-
tory Act Extension Bill" took place on Tuesday.
This excellent measure proposes to extend the
restrictions
of the Factory Act to those trades
which are specially injurious to children
.persons. Mr. BRUCE made some
vaenrdy young
gestmg remarks on this subject, and
it must be a source of great pain to all who atten-
tively study the details of the case that the little
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its seems surprising that something decisive was not
done before in order to check those serious evils
which accrue from the misdirected and uncon-
trolled pursuit of business and trade. It is against
the interest of the country that the juvenile race
should be injured and deteriorated. In making
haste to be rich, end striving to mil all other

M. BENEDICT'S MORNING CONCERT.—The pro-
gramme is now fully completed, and the concert
announced by M. Benedict for the 20th instant will be
one of the most extraordinary over presented to a music
loving public. It is quite impossible to quote even the names
of the artists anxious to testify their appreciation
of the abilities of M. Benedict by appearing
at bis benefit, we therefore refer our readers to the
programme itself, which, we have no doubt, astonished
and delighted them. It would be absolutely absurd to L
more than mention the bare fact that M. Benedict's ccn-
cert taxes place next Monday morning at the St. James's
Hall. The result of such an announcement will most
surely be a crowded, fashionable, and delighted audience.
HOME FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC FEMALE CONVICTS.

—An association has recently been formed for the
purpose of establishing a home for female convicts of the
Roman Catholic religion, to afford them a shelter on leaving
prison, to subject them to moral and religious training in
the tenets of their own religion, and eventually to enable
them to start in a new and honest career in cur colonial
dependencies. A concert on behalf of this highly praise •
worthy object is to take place at the Hanover-tqaare Rooms,
airier the patronage of the Duchess d'Aumale and the leading
members of the Roman Catholic nobility. The musical
treat provided for the occasion is worthy of the object and
of the patrons.

ME SUN, LOMJON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1864.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

SPAIN.

RUSSIA.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, JUNE 15, 11.22 A.M.

FRANCE.
THE DANISH QUESTION.

PARIS, JUNE 16.

The writer continues--"If Europe bps not to
fear the Ecou g e of a general war, it is to the
far-seeing wisdom and moderation of the Imperial
Government that it will be due."

The famous Polish General Dembinski, who has
resided in Paris for nearly 15 years, died yesterday
at the age of 73. He was till lately extremely
vigorous. I met him not many years ago in the
Champs Elysees, dressed in the braided blue frock
coat which he habitually wove, rolling his eagle
eye, and with little of the old man about him except
his white beard.

BOURSE, June 15.—The market has been firm,
but with little improvement either in tho amount
of businc4 doing or i❑ quotations. Threes, for the
Account are now at Of. 95c., Mobilier at 1,0821.
60c. Railway Market quiet, but up to the present
time former quotations pretty well maintained.
Sales for realisation previous to the close produced
a little retrograde movement, and the market left
off as follows :

4 perSents
Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 85
Credit Mobilier.... 1075
De, end m0nth....1075
Bank Shares 3365
Credit F ander 1237 60
Roman

Italian Loan 69 50
Do. end month 69 80
Ditto Threes .. 42 75
New Mexican .... 57a
Russian
Austrian .. B2
Spanish Threes 563
Home Debt
Deferred . 45 75

BA IL WAYS.

Orleans
Northern ....
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern . ...
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
870 .. 867 50
990 .. 990
862 50 .. 865

-- ..
648 75 .. 647 50
498 75 .. 501 25
463 75 .. 465
365 ~. 367 60
405 ~, 407 50
528 75 .. 528 75
941 50 a . 442 50
665 .. 567 50
257 50 .. 257 CO

Mr,. John Bright and the Licensing System,

- -
In some of the reports of the late debate on Mr Lawson's
bill it did not clearly appear whether Mr Bright, whilst
objecting te' give power to the ratepayers to suppress all
licensing, was not in favour of investing town councils
with permission to do so; but fr,,m the following letter it
is clear that he only proposed to giva town councils the
power to veto the granting of any additional licenses, and
of withdrawing them where there were just grounds of
complaint :

"London, June 13.
"Dear Sir,—lf it is desired to put the licensing power
into the hands of the residents of any town or district, I
think the municipal corporations are the proper channels
for exercising that power, and they would give licenses
freely or not, as puclic opinion directed them. I did not
propose to give the power to shut up all the public-houses
and beer-shops, but only for the future to restrict the
granting of licenses ; they would also have power to suspend
or withdraw licenses in cases where there were just grounds
of complaint against those to whom they have already been
granted. Ido not urge this proposition with much con&
dence—there is something to be said against it , but I think
it better than the scheme of the friends of the Permissive
Bill. I cannot consent to the "rough and ready" way of
dealing with the question which rimy friends of tempe-
rance in their zeal seem disposed to advocate. I think they
would inflict a great injustice in many cases, and might
create a strong reactionary feeling against their own prin-
ciples. The case is full of difficulty, and I speak with
hesitation upon am, very respectfully, yours,
"Mr Robert Martin, Warrington."

"JOHN BRIGHT.

A letter from Constantinople, in the Augsburg
Gazette, says :—" Prince Mourad, eldest son of the late
Abdul Medjid, and heir presumptive to the throne, is kept
under close surveillance at Top. Kapou, and the other
princes, who were at their villas on the banks of the Bos-
phorus, have been recalled to Constantinople. The young
brothers of Mourad have been sent to the Dolma-Baktche
Palace. Rumours of all kinds are in circulation. A
conspiracy against the life of the Sultan is even
spoken of, and of a mine filled with gunpowder
having been discovered in the Summer Palace of Fhanar.
What is most probable is that the prodigality of the heir
to the throne led to violent explanations between him and
the Sultan, and that the nephew made use of not very
respectful language towards his uncle."
AGES OF AMERICAN GENERALS.—The fallowing
list goes to prove that the best of our military
leaders are by no means young men, but mostly men of
middle life, or beyond it :---" General Rosencranz is 44, and
General Grant 42; Stonewall Jackson died at 37. General
Banks is 48—General Hooker 45—General Beauregard 46
—General Bragg 49—General Burnside 40—General Gil-
more 39—General Franklin 41—General Magruler 53
General Meade 48—General Schulyer Hamilton 42—Gene-
ral Charles S. Hamilton 40—and General Foster 40,
General Lander, a man of great promise, died in his 40th
year. General Kearney was killed at 47, and General
Stevens at 45, General Sickles was in his 41st year when
he was wounded at Gettysburg, and General Reno was 37
when he died so bravely at South Mountain. General
Pemberton lost Vicksburg at 45. General T. W. Sherman
is 49, and General W. T. Sherman 44. General M'Clellan
was in his 35th year when he assumed command at Wash-
ington in 1861. General Lyon had not completed his first
month of his 43d year when he fell at Wilson's Creek.
General IVl'Dowell was in his 43d year when he failed at
Bull Run, in consequence of the coming up of General
Joe Johnston, who was 51. General Keyes is 53—General
Kelley 57—General King 40—and General Pope 41. Ge-
neral A. S. Johnson was 49 when he was killed at Sh.loh.
General Halleck is 48—General Longatreot is 40. The best
of the Southern cavalry leaders was General Ashby, a ho
was killed at 38—General Stuart 39. On our side Gene-
ral Stanley is 30—General Pleasanton 40—and General
Averill about 40. General Phelps is 51—General Polk
—General S. Cooper CS—General J. Cooper 54—and Gene-
ral Blunt 38,—American Paper,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MADRID, Juice 15 (Evening).
The Council of Ministers was occupied yesterday
with the Peruvian question.
It is f.sscrted that the Cortes will be closed on
Saturday next.

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 16.

The Deulsehe Petersburger Zeitung publishes a
semi-efficial article pointing out the absurdity of
the assertions of the Augsburger Allgenzeine Zei-
lung, namely, that a personal union of the Duchies
with Denmark under the rule of a Prince of the
Oldenburg branch, was aimed at by Russia; and
this, it was stated, would be rendered possible by
the abdication of King Christian IX., and by pay-
ment of indemnity to the Duke of Augustenburg,

Dagbladet of to-day oaths upon the Government,
at the resumption of hostilities, should assistance
from England and Sweden then be withheld, to
seek support from the revolutionary elements of
Europe instead of from legally constituted Govern-
ments, which have forsaken the cause of Denmark.
It also urges the raising of a foreign legion and
the acceptance of Garibaldi's offer.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 16.
The EUora, with the above mail, arrived here at

1 a.m. this day.
The mai! travels for London at 11.30 a.m.
The Baroda, with the Southampton portion of the
mail, left Malta at midnight on the 14:h inst.

The Constitutionnel of today, in an article
signed by M. Limayrac, states, that in case hostili-
ties be recommenced, England will be compelled
to participate in the Dane-German conflict by her
maritime interests in the Baltic, as well as by the
fact that a family question is involved, and also
by a state of things which the English Cabinet
has created for itself, and which, already belong-
ing to history, it is useless to dissemble. None
of these necessities exist for France, and we may
therefore congratulate ourselves, because, if even
with the intervention of England the war should
remain limited, it would become general should
France take part in it.