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on Monday by Mr. DISRAELI, means—War. Mr.
KINGLAKE affects, in other words, to look upon the
"situation" as this—that, Whereas the Government
are for Peace, the Opposition are for War ! When
the " situation," in reality, is nothing whatever of
the kind. The Voting of Mr. DIESRAELI'S pro-
posal for an Address to the Crown would, in
no imaginable way, jeopardise the pacific future
of Eagland. On the contrary, the very
objection raised by the words for which Mr.
KINGLAKE now proposes to substitute his Amend-
ment—the very objection raised by those words, at
the close of Mr. DISRAELI'S suggested Address to
the Crown, is to the effect that the course pursued
by the Government tends to the jeopardising of
peace, renders the probability of war later on more
and more inevitable ! Saving only of course
if those increased temptations to war should
not again be evaded by mc.re of these mean
and despicable concessions made, in the
haughty name of England, by a faltering and a
paltering Government ! Mr. ~.-h-INGLAKE, however,
affects not to see anything of all this—affects, in fact,
to see exactly the reverse. Hence his amendment.
We shall be curious to observe how Mr. DISRAELI
will deal with that Amendment under the circum-
stances. One way of dealing with it, one
is almost tempted to suggest this, might be
the incorporation of toe purport of the
Amendment parenthetically lee the Address to the
Crown to be proposed on Monday in the House of
Commons by the Leader of the Opposition.
Namely, byin terpolating, among the closing words of
the Address, something to the effect that "although
we have learnt with satisfaction," et cetera.' Thereby
taking the little sidelong puff of wind out of that
cleverly =feed Amendment of Mr. KINGLAKE's,
designed by that ingenious as well as honourable
and learned gentleman to carry her MAJESTY'S Goe
yernment safely into port, even v;'hen at their very
direst extremity. Clever, wonderfully clever, though
the amendment unquestionably is, it nevertheless
admits of being rendered perfectly nugatory and
inefficacious if adroitly dealt with by a far cleverer
man and a far abler tactician than even -err. KlNG-
LAKE—meaning, of course, the right hon. gentleman
the Leader of the Opposition. It is just precisely
the opportunity for Diamond cutting Diamond.

There aro some men whose names are so identified
, with a particular cause that they are regarded as
in some measure authorities upon the subject, and
whatever may fall from them respecting it commands
attention. Lord BROUGHAM has long cccupied this
position with regard-to the Slave Trade, and con-
sequently the brief address which he made on our
relations with the Brazilian Government on Tuesday
evening aro not altogether to be overlooked, even
amid the many exciting topics now pressing upon
public attention. To whatever subject the noble
lord addressed himself he was not, indeed, likely
to be heard with anything but deference ; but on
this question he has expended BO much time and
energy, he has laboured so strenuously for the good
cause, and hes been such an unfitaching advocate
of the rights of man against the oppression of his
fellows, that his speech will be read with interest
by a more comprehensive circle. Despite the ana-
themas of Federal partisans, Lord BROUGHAM is
one of the recognised leaders of anti-slavery princi-
ples in this country, and the public is inclined to
receive with favour any proposition which he may
make respecting it. His object on Tuesday evening
was, singularly enough, not to increase the severity
or efficiency of the acts now in force, but to obtain
the repeal of one which he considered to be iejurioua
in its operation. The measure to which he referred
was the Aberdeen Act of 1845, whose present
agency he believed to be rather deleterious to the
cause than favourable. It is highly satisfactory to
find from so competent an authority that the slave
trade in the Brazils may be considered as actually
terminated. Twenty years ago from forty to sixty
thousand slaves were annually imported into Brazil ;
it is, therefore, no light matter to have succeeded
in putting an Effectual stoppage to so large and
flourishing a trade. Much of the credit due for this
suppression Lord BROUGHAM attribates unreservedly
to the Brazilian EMPEROR, who has not only shown
soma anxiety for the total stoppage cf the trade,
but has also wished to preclude the possibility of its
revival. In these views he has been powerfully
supported by his own people, and, in fact, he could
not on such a matter have effected much without
their aid. Public opinion is happily enlisted on the
right side of the question, and some half dozen years
back the Brazilian legislature passed an act render-
ing the slave trade piracy. There is, therefore, little
ground for uneasiness respecting the future prospects
of a trade which appears to have been virtually
annihilated. Lord BROUGHAM contended that the
wording of the Act gave great offence to the Bra-
zilians, both people and Government, especially as
regarded the very large indemnity which it gave to
British cfficess for acts done in the suppression of
the slave trade. Lord ABERDEEN himself said that
when the trade was abolished, the Act should be
repealed, but the Aet has now survived the trade
for nine or ten years without any modification ; and
although it may not be fully carried out at present
it remains in existence, occasioning causeless irri-
tation. The Brazilian Government appears to have
acted with good faith throughout, although we need
not inquire too closely how far its honourable ful-
filment of its obligations has been encouraged by
tha change in the views of its citizens. The result
is at a 0 rate a matter for congratulation, and it is
only to a, lamented that while Brazil has sincerely
endeavoured to discourage and suppress the slave
trade, N'thich has accepted large subsidies for
the came
pamSepin urp
'4E3, has treated her engagetnnts with
the most open di'regard. The real cause of this
dishonourable breach of contract is Cuba, and Lord
BROUGHAM was PerfectlY correct in his assertion
that Spain would never do anything to injure the
slave trade so long as Cuba remained in Spanish
hands. The Government is too easily influenced
d accordingly
by the wealthy capitalists of Cuba, an
they encourage rather than repress the trade. Lord
RUSSELL consoles himself for this 'unsatisfactory
state of things by anticipations of the total extinc-
tion of slavery by the American Civil Vier, In
waiting, however, for so doubtful and distant a
prospect, it would be well to see whether some.
thing cannot be done to secure a better observance
of the Treaty, and to check a great and appalling
evil, which it rests with us in a great measure to
countenance or to cure.

There have beeti so many defeats of the Govern-
meat this year that the occupants of the Treasury
benches must be rather more surprised when they
obtain a success then when they sustain a reveree.
At any rate the majority which voted for Mr.
Dourerox's resolution on Tuesday did good service
to the community, and more especially to the
humbler ranks, to whom the preservation of open
°Paces is most important. It is difficult to explain
why the 'Government are always against these
proposals, Suited ao they are to the requirements of
the people. Perhaps it is from a dislike to any in-
terference in their departments, or from their in-
nate love of arbitrary power, and the wish to usurp
ail rights of judgment to themselves. Be this as it
may, it is very certain that no one brings forward
the claims or the wishes of the community in any
respect that some cfac:ial does not start up gnu

attempt to explain away what has been said.
Either this suggestion is not practical, or that ar-
gument is not solved, or it will not be expedient to
do anything just now, but the Government will
bear the question in mind for a future occasion.
Mr. DOULTON made out a very good case in support
of his proposal; he stated facts, which should have
been sufficient to convince even official impractica-
bility ; but it is tray said that there are none so
deaf as those who will not hear. Nu one can deny
the great importance of preserving then open
specs, and yet it is equally true that while more
demands exist for their maintenance it becomes
more difficult to preserve them. London is fast
losing the great advantages it once enjoyed of
being surrounded by open places, they are ra-
pidly becoming absorbed for building purposes.
Under these circumstances, Mr, DOULTON proposed
that the Government should introduce a bill for the
purpose of affording the necessary protection, the
Board of Works not having the power to do so.
There can be no reason why more active inter-
ference is not used in this case, for it is surely
a bounden duty on the part of the Government
to undertake the responsibility themselves, and
not to be continually shifting it from their own
shoulders to those of others who cannot perform
the task if they have the willingness to do so. The
usual absurd excuses were given by the Government
speakers, which amounted in reality to declaring
that the subject was important, but that reasons
prevented it being properly attended to. Surely if
one thing more than another imperatively calls for
action, it is the preservation of the health of the
metropolis, P^cl yet this is constantly neglected by
those who ai2s, ready to go to any expense for mere
matters of business or objects of interest. In no
better way could the Government spend the funds
at their disposal than by first clearing those open
spaces over which private individuals have a right,
and thus prevent their being built upon. Had they
actedwith promptitude and proper publicfeeling there
would not have been all the outcry raised concerning
Hampstead Heath, which has given so much annoy-
ance and caused so much odium. It is always very
disgraceful for public functionaries to display
meanness in their dealings or inaptitude for their
tasks, but when these qualities are shown in affairs
of moment as regards public heelth, the consequences
are disastrous and deplorable in the extreme. Mr.
TORRENS made a few very forcible observations,
and said that persons were in the habit of laying
claim to considerable portions of Epping Forest,
ucder the plea of being lords of the manor, and
that the Government were so supine that they
did not protect the rig,uts of the Crown. He
truly said that the Attorney-General ought to be
instructed by the Treesury to interfere and prevent
such spoliation taking place. It is very easy to
make glib speeches on the Treasury benches and its
immediate vicinity, and the exaggeration of this
and that statement, the incorrectness of those de-
tails, and the utter impossibility of that proposal
being carried out ; but the end always is the same,
that the worst fears of the complainants are ful-
filled, and the general interests of the public are
sacrificed. Mr. P. PEEL made a most ridiculous
observation when he said that he could not admit
it was the duty of the Government to pay for the
compensation out of the public purse,and that there
" ought to be no difference in that respect between
the metropolis and other large towns." Nor can
anything be more extraordinary than this states
ment, when the population of the metropolis is so
numerous, and is so much more precluded from the
means of obtaining fresh air. The end is the same,
whatever means are adopted to encompass it, and
the Government mean to do nothieg. The large ma
jority against them is a great satisfaction to con.
template, as they will now be forced to do some-
thing, felons roleas , if they remain in office; and

they do not, their successors will be able to take
advantage of this warning, and exert themselves to
perform their duties more faithfully in this impor.
tant respect. All that relates to the health and
comfort of the working classes should receive a
double share of attention.

The annual meeting of the Manchester Cotton
Supply Association took place on Tuesday, at the
Manchester Town Hall, and its members could not
fail to contrast the present cheering aspect of the
cotton trade with the glcomy state of things when
the Association was first formed. Teen all seemed
dark and hopeless, so hopeless, indeed, that many
able and experienced men seriously recommended
that the great masses of the cotton spinning popu-
lation should turn their attention to some other
mode of gaining a living, since there was little or
no chance that the cotton industry would ever
again support them. Others advised a wholesale
deportation of the people, and every suggestion
commanded some degree of attention when the re-
cipients of public relief were reckoned by tens of
thousands. But while this perplexity and anxiety
were filling most minds, a few more sanguine or
energetic considered what could be done to revive
the cotton trade. It was plain that that trade
supplied countless necessities, that it met the wants
of all grades of the community, that it was able to
give employment to all these starving thousands,
while its stoppage was occasioned by no inevitable
calamity, no national misfortune which human
power could either foresee nor control, but from
purely secondary causes. The earth did not refuse
to nurture the precious seed, the seed itself showed
no malign influences, but the fault lay in the human
agent for its supply, and men refused to profit by
what the great Mother would willingly have
given them. Why, then, since the soil and the
climate which favoured its development was
confined to one part of the globe, why
could not the seed be sown elsewhere, and
the energies of other nations be enlisted
on behalf of the cotton cultivation. Had this
reasoning been acted upon earlier it would have
spared Lancashire the cotton famine. Had the
gloomy portents which wise men could see in the
political horizon been earlier heeded—had the pos•
sibility of an American War been calculated on
instead of being thrust into the background as a
catastrophe quite out of the question, how much
loss and misery might have been saved. But a
reckless spirit of speculation possessed the mill-
owners, and they went on adding store to store,
regardless of the future. Happily now the sky is
brightening again, and while every month the
pauper returns show a considerable diminution, the
statistics collected by associations encourage us to
hope for a gradually increasing supply of the pre-
cious material. The concluding words of the report
should be borne in mind by all concerned in the
revival of the trade. The writer says, after sum.
ming up the rapid progress of the cultivation in
many widely removed lands, " the review of the
past supplies hope for the future; and whether we
look to Icdia, or Egypt, or Turkey, or Italy, or
Australia, to Central or South America, the West
quarter, it is manifest that Indies, or any other
there must be no faltering policy pursued if we
would reap the harvest for which we have sown."

EXETER HALL.—llandera oratotio, " Jude e
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son on Wednesday next, the eth July, by the National
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Principal singers—Madame Parapa, Mies Palmer, Ni,
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FINE ARTS.

Washington Irving and his Literary Friends.
Designed by F. 0. C. Dariey. Engraved by T.
0. Barlow. Published by Moore, Macqueen,

and Co.

Everyone knows, of course, those two delightful
pictures called respectively, " Shakepere end his
Contemporaries," and " Scott and his Contempora-
ries." Here, in this profoundly interesting en-
graving of " Washington Irving and his Literary
Friends," is an American ditto, revealing to view,
in Geoffrey *Crayon's charming houce-room at
Sunnyside (just the name for Irving's Home!) the
Author of the Sketchbook and his Contemporaries.
Fifteen celebrated American men of haters are
here, in this most interesting work of art, grouped
together, and revealed each in propria persona, each
a vivid and wouderfuliy resemblance. In
the mitre of the picture, of course, is the host—
`
literally a host in himself Geoffrey Crayon,
Diedrich Knickerbock: r, L tuucelot Longsteff,
Jonathan Oicista le, ail rolled into see— otherwise
Washington Irving, N)velist, Eisayisa Historian,
Biographer, honinie-cle-leteres, and Ambassador!
Rather a lackadansycal pose is given to the
head of this delighttul writer, as he is here reprea
sented, with that warns head of his turned senti-
mentallyon one side, while the blandest of smiles, a
smile almost amounting to a simper, is expressed on
the features. Seated near hitn,with his features shown
in profile, is the author among them all with the
noblest head—a sort of Napoleonic head—and the
finest thoughtfullest countenance—William Henry
Prescott, the luminous historian of "Ferdinand and
Isabella." The glasses ho is fingering, suspended
round his neck by a ribbon, remind us of that ter.
rible affliction of his, embittering his life—an
affliction almost amounting to blindness. Leaning
on the back of the chair in which Prescott is seated,
is that_noblest of all the American poets, Professor
Longfellow. Behind him is the the mystical face
of the authcr of the " Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel
Hawthorne, recently deceased. In the background,
between Prescott and Longfellow, appears the
lugubrious, ringletted visage of Mr. N. P. Willis,
looking like that of a handsome rote thoroughly
used up. Yonder on the other side of the picture
is the manly, vigorous, sailor-like face of Fenni-
more Cooper, the see-novelist, par excellence.
Next to him is the historian of America, George
Barncroft. And, further back, Ralph Waldo
Emerson's shrewd, close-shaver, old-fashioned
looking Yankee visage peers at us incongruously
over a sort of a Byronic turned edown collar Near
him, grim and ungainly as a Polar bear showing
his teeth through a shock of white hair, is William
Cullen Bryant, Poet, and Editor of an Evening
Newspaper. Besides one other celebrity not yet
mentioned, to wit, Oliver Wendell Holmes, there
are five writers., well known probably in their own
country, but little thought of in the old hemisphere
—namely, Halleck, Limrns, Paulding, Kennedy,
and Tuckerman. Toe cli:ficulties in the way of
" arrangiug," such a picture as this transatlantic
companion to the two famous English prints
already mentioned, viz., " Shakspers and his
Contemporaries," and "Scott and leis Con-
temporaries," have been admirably well over-
come by the Eminent American artist from whose
hand the original design emanated. And, in
transferring the general effect of that design of Mr.
Darley'e to steel, in a style of (the engraver'.) art
known as mixed line and stipple, Mr. Barlow, of
London, has done his part, we should conjecture,
to the painter's complete satisfaction. Published
by the Messrs. Moore, McQueen and Co , of Ber-
ners-street, this engraving of Washington Irving
and his Literary Friends it, likely to vie in p
larity—as affording the public a welcome peep
into Sunnyside— with the celrbratcd pictures,
already yielding that publ c peeps, respectively,
into the Mermaid and into Abbotsford.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 30.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen,
from New York on the 18th inst., arrived off the
Needles at 12.5 p.m. to-day.
(Per the Virginia, via Roche's Point, June 30,
:9.55 am.)

NEW YORK, JUNE 18, Evening.
Nothing later from Grant.
Gold 1951. Cotton Ibo cents.

MEXICO.
MEXICO, MAY 28.

On the 22d inst. Commandant Courcy defeated
the united bands of Sr•ndaval and Cadanena at.
Volparaiso, 30 mites from St. Zicatecos.
The enemy had 120 kllltd and lost, in addition
to 300 prisoners, 5 guns, an entire park of artillery,
and 200 horses.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
SUEZ, JUNE 30.
The Jeddo, from Bombay, June 9, anchored at 7
a.m. this day.
The Sultan, from Mauritius, June 6, arrived at 2
p.m., on the 25th.
The Behar, with the outward mails of 12th-18th
June, left Suez, for Bombay, on the 27th inst.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, SUNS 30.

The royal mail steamship Parana has arrived
here, and will sail for Southampton this morning
at 7 o'clock, with 106 passengers, £2,813 in specie,
403 bags of coffee, 300 barrels of tapioca, 794 rolls
of tobacco, 22 packages of ipecacuhana, and 324
packages of sundries.
The Magdalena left St. Vincent, for the Brazils,
&c., at 7 p.m., on the 21st inst.

PRUSSIA AND GERMANY,

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 30.

The semi-official Deutsche Peterburger Zeitung
of to-day, in a leading article favourable to Ger-
many, says :—" It would be inconsistent, on the
part of England, to wage war against Germany, as
she took no active steps when the German Powers
rejected the Treaty of London of 1852, and subsea
qaently occupied Schleswig and Jutland. England
ought logically to advise Denmark to yield to Ger-
many."

ITALY.
TURIN, JUNE 29 (Evening),

In the Chamber of Deputies today the Minister
of Finance stated that he had been able partly to
carry out his financial programme, although he
had been in part unsuccessful.
Respecting the deficits for 1864 and 1865, he
would be able to provide for them by the sale of
Crown lands to the value of 200 million lire, and
by the s4le of the State railways, without having
recourse to a loan.

The Minister showed that he has effteted
reductions in the budget of expenditure to the
amount of forty million lire, and that after the
vote upon the new constitutional laws had beet,
taken the reduction would reach 100 millions.
The revenue derived from the income-tax was
regularly increasing.
The Government and the nation could not accept

the policy proposed by Signor Sarraco—viz., die.
armament. The Ministerial programme was still that
announced by the Cabinet on coming into office—viz„
to bold themselves ready to take advantage of poli-
tical events in Europe, in order to bring about the
realisation of the destinies of Italy. (Applause.)
Signor Sarraco protested against the interpreta-

Lion given by the Minister to his political pro
gramme, and declared that he had no intention of
proposing a policy of disarmament.
FRANCE.

We aro assured, says the Lion, that towards

the latter part of last week a very animated con•
versation took place betwcen Drouyn de Lhuys
and Count de Goltz, the Prussian ambassador.
The intercourse between the Tuileries and the
Cabinet of Berlin are said to be growing more and
more cold, whilst it is quite the reverse between
Vienna and Paris.

Abd-el-Kader, actually residing at Cairo, has
just forwarded to the Emperor Napoleon 111, a
long memorial with reference to the present rising
in Algiers. This document, which is written i❑
Arabic, will be translated and published. At the
same time the Marquis de Moustier, French am•
bassador at Constantinople, has transmitted to the
chiefs of some Circassian tithes an offer to emigrate
to Algeria, where some lands will be granted to
them.

The Journal des Villes et des Canzpagnes notices
es follows a book which is at the present moment
creating a' great deal of sensation throughout
France :—"‘ The Frontiers of France,' such is the

title of a large volume in 18mo which has just come
out or the pen of M, Theophile Lovelies., one of the
professors at the Imperial Military School of Saint-
Cyr, and well known in the literary world for his
historical works. The present book sketches briciiy
the victgrious as well as the unsuccessful campaigns
which have enlarged and diminished our territories
in the course of the last two centuries, and also the
treaties which have sanctioned our victories and

our revues."

M. Laysl,e7, in his preface, protests against any
intention on tits part of eluding to the engrossing
epics of the day. He hqs only wished to write to,
hfd pu its a book intended to complete the lessons
of history in a manner specially adapted to their
military vocations. In spite of this declaration,
which is after all supported by the long studies of
which this book presents a resume, certain news-
papers have insisted on seeing in M. Lea aLee's
work a sort of experiment—an attempt at reviving
in the hearts of the French people their grievances
against the treaties of 1815 ; and this preoccupation
has given to the new book a temporary vogue
far beyond its real merit and the object
which the author had in view. More-
over, the conclusion of the book is not
calculated to dissipate completely the suppositions
of the papers, in spite of their little foundation.
"France," sue the author, "has recovered her
natural frontier in the south (Nice), shall she re•
cover her natural boundary to the north (the banks
of the Rhine and of the Skeldt) ? Undoubtedly. She
must have the limits which the hand of God has
traced to her; those which she possessed in the
Celtic and Roman times, those which she conquered
again during her regeneration in 1789. She must
graap within her territory the field of Tolbiac and
the tomb of Charlemagne ; she must have,
as Vauban said to Louis XIV, her square
field ! The natural frontiers of France have become
since the last twelve years a part of the public right
of Europe; they are a primordial necessity of the
modern times ; they are a pledge of the world's
peace." But if you ask from the author when this
restoration is to take place, ho will answer :—" It
is a work o; time, of patience, of conciliation ;
will be done without struggle, peacefully, it
Europe is wise and has confidence; it she will re-
pudiate her old prejudices and accept that which
nature, history, reason, and justice have rendered
necessary." This prospect alone will only hal!
please the pupils of St. Cyr; but the end of the
paragraph is, perhaps, of a nature to bring back a
smile upon their lips :—" But- from this day, ant;
whatever Europe may wish or eo, the treaties of
1815 have ceased to exist."

We have heard those words already uttered on
several solemn eircumetanees. Whatever may liap.