The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

The Land Mortgage Bank of India, Limited.

An extraordinary general meeting of the pro-
prietors was held yesterday at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street--S. Laing, Esq., in the chair.
The Secretary read the advertisement convening
the meeting, which showed the object of the meeting
to be to hear resolutions to be proposed, "in the
nature of special resolutions, for the purpose of
authorising the company to exercise the powers
given by the act to joint stock companies to make
and use one or more seals, to be used in such place
or places as may be thought desirable in India, and
for the purpose of determining the mode and manner
in which, and the p -.rties by whom, such power
shall be exercised ; and for the purpose of altering
the articles of association of the company so far as
may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid."
The CHAIRMAN explained that the object of the
meeting was of a formal character. In taking mort-
gages there was a great difficulty experienced in plac•
in; in thenasaes of trustees in India, where the succes-
sions were very rapid, and where possibly if a mort-
gage were vested in the names of agents, there might
be changes necessary by reason of death or from
those parties returning to this country. The diffi-
cultyenable the company to use corporate seal in India
would be removed by a provision which would
as well as in England. It was thought by the legis-
lature that such a power should be given in all
companies' general acts, and accordingly an act was
passed having that object in view. it would be
then lawfdl to have a corporate seal both in India
and in the colonies, and a second meeting would
be held in seven clear days to confirm that resolu-
tion, which it was important should be passed
without delay, because they
would then be able
to commence business in India. The scale would
be placed under the custody of the agents and
solicitors, and the same caution would be used
as in the case of the one seal. He might state
that the last advices from India were very
satisfactory. Mr Fitzwilliam had returned from
India, and the accounts which he brought were
very satisfactory. In a business of this descrip-
tion great care was necessary to avoid making bad
debts. Some delay had arisen from the extraordi-
nary state of the money market in India. Remit-
tances in silver, however, had been made, and the
whole of the paid-up capital in India was invested
partly in mortgages and partly on temporary loans
on Government securities, from which they received
interest approaching 8 and 9 per cent. He would
now put the resolutions, which were four in num-
ber. The first resolved that the company and the
authorised and
ebtanaprodweorfeddirteocteoxrserwcieseretheexpproewsseirys
given them by
the act of 1864, subject to resolutions to be passed.
h
The second resolution declared that official seals
should
presidencies, be
empowered to see that such seals were prepared
prepared
and
fdo r t
kat Bengal,te direetors should be Madras, and Bom-
bayaccordingly. The third and fourth resolutions re-
ferred to details connected with the affixing of the
seals, &c. A fifth resolution was that the articles of
agreement, so far as they might be opposed to these
resolutions, were repealed, vtaied, and modified.
All the resolutions were carried unanimously ; and
the chairman stated that another meeting must be
held on Monday week, which would leave seven
clear dap,' notice as required by the act.
The meeting then separated.

Metropolitan Board of Works.

The weekly meeting of the board was held yes-
terday,—Mr Thwaites in the chair.
The report of the Streets Committee was brought
up, and stated that, in their opinion, the best course
to be pursued for relieving Park-lane would be the
opening up of Hamilton-place, and that having re-
gard to the fact that the improvement exclusively
affects property belonging to the Crown, it is one
which should be carried out by the Government,
and rscommending that a communication to that
effect he addressed to the First Commissioner of her
Majesty's Works.
Mr. DALTON moved the adoption of the report,
after which conslderable discussion ensued as to
whether they had the power to make the street
without an act of Parliament.

Several amendments were proposed and nega-
tived, ved ultimately the original motion was put
and carried.

Mr. BOODLE moved " That the Building Act
and General Purposes Committee be instructed to
report fortwith on the letter addressed by Mr, Par-
sons, district surveyor of Lambeth, to certain
builders and other persons in reference to a state-
ment made by Mr. Robert Taylor, member of this
board, as to the manner in which Mr. Parsons per-
formed his duties."

It was also resolved that the board take into con-
sideration the desirability of petitioning Parlia-
ment to grant to this board the horse and carriage
duties levied i❑ the metropolis for the purposes of
public improvements.
A letter received from the Hampstead and Char-
ing-cross Junction Railway Company was read,
agreeing to make a new street from Tottenham-
court-road, 60 feet wide, and to make a station on
the south side of Oxford-street, at the corner of
Crown-street.

The subject was referred to the Thames Embank-
ment Committee, with power to make the neces-
sary arrangements with the company.

Mr. E, T. SMITH'S BENEFIT.—Mr. E. T. Smith
takes his benefit at Astley's Theatre on Monday. An at-
tractive bill of fare has been issued.

MADAME GRISI is to sing this season, as she did
last year, at the concert of Signor Ciabatta on June 25.

GEORGE ELIOT will commence a new story of
country life in the July number of the Cornhill Magazine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S PRINTING PRESS.—Mr.
Wyman, of the firm of Cox aad Wyman, has presented to
the South Kensiagton Museum of Patents the printing
press at which Benjamin Franklin worked in London as a
journeyman printer.

DEATH OF MRS. HENLEY.—The family of the
Right lien. J. W. Henley, m.r., has just suffered a great
affliction in the death of Mrs. Henley. The deceased lacy
was the daughter of Mr. John cane, of Wormsley, Oxford-
shire, and was married to Mr. Henley in 1817, One of
their daughters is tho wife of the Venerable Aechdeacon
Denison.

WATERLOO DAY.—This being the anniversary
day of the battle of Waterloo, after a lapse of 49 years, 137
gallant officers above the rank of Lieutenant survive. The
rank of these officers may be summarised as follows :-21
generals, 19 lieutenant•generals, 28 major-generals, 25
colonels, 25 lieutenant-colonels, 15 majors, and 4 captains,
MADAME DE .LAMARTINE —A brief sketch of her
has just been published in Paris, which tells the
world something of her domestic life. It appears that she
copied with her own hand all of M. de Lamartine's works,
except "Les Girondins." All of the " copy" supplied to
the printer is in her hand ; she kept the poet's own manu-
script as a precious treasure, which she knew posterity would
value as highly as she did. He wrote the poem " Jocelyn"
in a large album which he used for an account book, The
obverse face of the leaves contained the accounts of the la-
bourers in his vineyards, the reverse was covered with
poetry. After the poem was completed, and negotiations
with a publisher were carried to a successful issue, Lamar-
tine, pointing to the album as he mounted his horse to make
one of his usual long excursions, asked his wife to send it
to the printer. She opened it, and, seeing at first
nothing but the accounts of the labourers in the vineyard,
thought there must be some mistake. She examined farther,
and found the reverse face of every leaf contaired
" Jocelyn." She laughed, took the album to her secretary,
and resolutely set to work to copy the poem. 111, de
Lawartine thought his work in the publisher's hands, until
a week afterwards, when, as they were sitting down to
breakfast, she gave him the album and the unblotted manu-
script of" Jocelyn." The poet was so deeply touched that
he took a pen and wrote the three dedicatory strophes to
Maria ALna Eliza, which are to be found on the first page
of that work. Who has not read them ? She copied 511 of
M. da Lamartine's correspondence. She leaves a great
many letters scattered in the hands of friends, which I\l.
Dargaud, it is said, is col ecting with a view to publication.
They are represented as written with great talent.
POTATOES.—Thus far this is the hest year for
potatoes that has been known in Cornwall for a
long time, and it is stated that there has never before been
anything like such a large importation to the London and
other great marke's at so early a period of the season. For
the past fortnight the average quantity da ly transmitted
from the western part of the country was from 115 to 120
tons. Several thousand baskets have been shipped from
the Scilly Islands to Falmouth, and thence forward per
rail. The labour in transferring from the narrow gauge
of the West Cornwall line to the broad gauge of the Corn-
wall line at the Truro station, has been very heavy, On
Wednesday above 150 tons of potatoes were sent per rail,
and on Thursday a train of 25 trucks and two engines con-
veyed an immense quantity to London and elsewhere.
Prices are unusually low. The local markets are well sup-
plied, and potatoes of last year's growth, although in
excellent condition, are by no means readily disposed of.
This year's crop is turning out remarkably well, and as yet
there is all but an entire absence of disease.

THE LATE PROFESSOR FERRIER.—On Thursday
the grave closed over the most eminent and original
metaphysician whom not only Scotland but Great Britain
has of late years known. In the early death of Professor
Ferrier, Scotland has to mourn a worthy representative of
that great line of original thinkers, which, beginning early
in the last century, was carried on by David Hume, Adam
Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, and Sir William
Hamilton. Unlike, even opposed as he was to these in
many respects, in this he was one of them, that to the
highest and abstrusest problems of philosophy, heights too
rare for common men to breathe in—he devoted, with the
ardour of an ancient Greek, the best years and ripened
strength of his fine and penetrating genius. He has been
stricken down in the midst of his powers, when, as seemed
to us, but half his work was dons, and while his mind was
preparing itself for a higher flight, and wider achievements.
Enough, however, he has left behind to be an enduring
monument of his genius, which England has already re-
ceived•with ampler acknowledgment than his own country
has yet accorded.—Scotsman.
" WHAT'S LIFE TO You IS DEATH TO US !"--It is
said that a species of Toucan lives upon the fruit which
produces strychnia, but an equally strange announcement
has just been made by Dr. Fraser with regard to one of the
Lepidoptera. It has been found by this well-known Scotch
physician that the larva of a species of moth lives upon the
Calabar bean, a drug now much in vogue among ophthal-
mic surgeons, and whose action on the eye causes rapid
diminution in the size of the pupil.
THE INEQUALITIES OF THE FRANCHISE.--A
correspondent, signing himself " Epsilon," writes
to us upon this subject, as follows :—I have submitted the
following facts to Mr. Gladstone, and have received an
official acknowledgment. I served 7 years' apprenticeship
and became a journeyman. I am now in business on my
own account, but am not an elector. How is it, ? Thus.
A year ago I had business premises in the suburbs, and was
then an elector of Finsbury. As a matter of policy, however,
I took part of extensive premisesin the Strand,and thus have
become a lodger. Although Ido not reside at my place of
business, I am still a lodger, for it suits my present family
circumstances and tastes to prefer a suite of apartments in
a large house than to rent a small one. I pay a joint rental
of 36s 6d weekly, and also pay income tax. I have writ-
ten and reported for the press, often delivered public lec-
tures,written and extempore, on various subjects. I could
produce written certificates of character and suitable
ability from ministers and masters extending from the
denies
me, year of my age, Nevertheless my country
me, and tens of thousands as good as I am, the great right
of citizenship. Is it generous—is it just to oblige us to
stand by, see others vote, and feel that we are but halt
Englishmen ? I write this, respected Sir, calling
to mind several in my private acquaintance among working
men who would as conscientiously vote as any men among
the upper or middle classes. We hail, then, your recent
suffrage speech as the dawn of better times. Depend upon
it, sir, that the absence of agitation is no proof of apathy,
but of advancing intelligence in the lower classes. Clamour
was once the order of the day; but in proportion as society
advances from its boyhood will noise be distasteful. Never-
theless, if the Commons wish it, I hope they will have it.
LEFT ON THE FIELD.—On the person of one of
the Yankees killed in the fight at the Yellow
Tavern was found a bit of paper twisted in the buttonhole
of his jacket. It was a wretched pencil scrawl, evidently
written after his fall, and while death was putting film in
his eyes. It commenced :—" I, John Wilheimer, 2d New
York Cavalry. lam shot and dying. Whoever finds me,
send this to Sarah Wilhehuar, Brooklyn Yost-office, New
York. She is my sister, and only relative in the country,
Oh, my poor sister I do not break your heart, but I am shot
through the breast and dying, and they have gone and left
me here." . . What follows in this paragraph is ob-
literated by blood. The next sentence reads—" Write to
Conrad Vitmare of our company—he owes me 50 dollars
which he will pay you. Oh, my dear sister, farewell."
The paper was taken from the body, and has been forwarded
„ north by flag of truce.—Richmond Despatch.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, June H.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West; fresh breeze and fine weather.
CLYDE, June 17.—Wind S.—Arrived—Jamaica, from
Jamaica—Renfrew, from St John's, N,l3.—Clydesdale,
from Montreal.

Orr FALMOUTH, June 17.—Arrived--Sedulous, from
Porto Rico for Hull.

PLYMOUTH, June 17,—Wind IV,—Arrived—Jane Boyd,
from Quebec.

CARDIFF, June 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Star Queen,
for Shanghai--Alra2, for the Cape of Good Hope—Hannah
White, for Gibraltar.
NEwrouT, June 17.—Wind S.—Sailed—A. Barker, for
JklnlB i ca.

aSAA-ANsE4., June 17.—Wind S.— SAlled—Violet, for
Newfoundland.

OFF TTIE EDDYSTONE, June 17,—Arrived—Harkaway,
oni Sydney.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGR.iYII.)
GuAvEsEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived. June 17.—C~.roline, and Catherina Agatho, from
orkoping ; Apperud, from Galloway ; Accra, from Lagc;s
Zmobia, from Danfzie ; Mamie, from Aarhuus ; Ellida,
from Dram; Helena, from Jamaica; Haabet, Skerld, and
Kristine Maria, fr,ma Thisted ; Carl Eleventh, from Gotten-
burg; Costa Rica, from Jamaica; Oak, from Riga; Eliza-
beth Wright, from Rostock.

Arrived, June 18.—Julia and Sophia, from Aalborg ;
Amant, from Nestved.

Sailed.—Fingal, steamer, for Danfzic; Stadt Dordrecht,
steamer, for 13ord'•

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored.—Salvador, for St. Michael's ; British Mer-
chant, for Cape of Good Hope ; Belize Packet for Beliz
Elino, for Colombo ; Alphington, for Algoa Bay; El zabeth
Helena, for Buenos Ayres—all from London,
Sailed.—H.M.S, Assurance, for River.

A call of 1:4 10s. per share has been made upon
the new shares issued to the English and Irish Bank
proprietors by tho directors of the European Bank,
for completing the amalgamation of the two under.
takings, nd equalising the amount paid on all
shares. The call is not required before the 31st of
August next, but no transfer of shares will be re-
gistered until after the call is paid.
The fourth ordinary general meeting of the
Alliance Bank will be held at the Loudon Tavern
on the 22n July next to receive the report of the
directors and to declare a dividend.

" Several journals," says the France, " have
announced that the steam transport Ariege had
touched on a bank on the coast of Africa, and was
in a dangerous situation. That statement is in-
correct. The vessel, when between Auzew and
Oran, sprang a leak, but it was soon stopped, and
she has since arrived at Toulon in company with
the Gomer steam-frigate."
A subscription has been opened for the erection
of a statue to the painter Greuze at Tournus (Saone-
et-Loire), his birthplace. This artist, who died in
1805, reckons among his best known works the
" Accordee de Village," the " Jeune Fille pleurant
son Oiseau," the " Cruche Cassee," and the " Male-
diction Paternelle." The whole of these have ben
frequently reproduced by engraving.

The extensive flour-mills of M. de Chabrillant
at St. Vallier (Drome) were burnt to the ground
three nights since. The firemen were only able to
save the dwelling-house. The loss, estimated at
180,000 fr., is covered by insurance.
The Journal de la Savoie mentious as a proof of
the solicitude of the Governmer.t for the annexed
country, that the Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce has granted a credit of 15,000 fr. fer the re•
partition of the roads destroyed by the inundation
of the 11th iLst.

Count Pepoli, the Italian Minister at St.
Petersburgh, arrived in Paris yesterday and pro-
ceeded immediately to Fontainebleau.
M. Marinovitch, President of the Servian Senate,
who has been for a short time in Paris, left last
evening for Belgrade.

The steam corvette, Talisman, left Toulon the
evening before last, having on board M. de Tadenay,
French Consul• General Charge d'Affaires at Tangier, who
returns to his post.

A widow named Leroy has just died at Marbais,
in the province of Namur, at the age of 105. She had
never suffered any illness, and retained her faculties to the
last.

Meyerbeer leaves to each of his daughters an in-
come of 15,000 thalers (56,000 f.) a-year, and one of 25,000
thalers (93,000 f.) to his widow.

The marriage of M. Worms, of the Theatre-
Frar cols, with Mdlle. Bremond, of the Vaudeville, took
place yesterday at the mairio of the 2d arrondissement.
An Imperial decree in the Moniteur approves of
a provisional convention entered into on the 14th
inst. between M. Behic, Minister of Public Works, and
MM. Daniell, Daniell, jun., de Boudard, Mangles, Fletcher,
and Turck, for the concession, without subvention or gua-
rantee of interest, of a branch line running from the Orleans
railway to Chalons•sur.Marne, where it will join that from
Paris to Strasburg.

By an Imperial decision, General Cassaignolles
is appointed to the command of the cavalry division at the
Camp of Chalons, in the place of General Prince de la
Moskowa, prevented by illness.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION.—WO are in-
formed that a requisition is in course of signature, headed
by the names of Lord Robert Cecil and Mr Seymour Fitz-
gerald, requesting Mr Gathorne Hardy to allow himself
to be put in nomination at the general election for the
University of Oxtord. A correspondent further informs
us that at a meeting yesterday a committee was formed and
a secretary appointed. Mr Hardy has not, we believe,
received any formal notice of the movement, and the diffi-
culty in his position no doubt is that he would not like to
stand in the way of Sir Stafford Northcote, if Mr. Glad-
stone should retire, as is now confidently expected.—John
Bull, Second Edition.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM A PRISON VAN.—
On Thursday night, on the arrival of the prison van
at Newgate which conveyed there the prisoners who were
committed for trial at Bow-street Police-court, having been
charged with post-office robberies, it was found that an at-
tempt had been made by the prisoner,: to make their escape.
The sergeant of the van, upon taking the prisoners out of
it, saw that Richard Walker had his c tat unbuttoned, and
there was an appearance about the other prisoners—Henry
Parker and Henry Robert Rixon, the post-office carrier—
which excited his suspicions. After he got the prisoners
into the gaol he looked into the van, and found that a
panel near where Walker had been sitting had a large bole
at the bottom of it. The prisoners were then searched, but
nothing was found upon either of them by which the
orifice could have been made; and it was suggested that
it had been passed through the opening into the street. But
upon the prison van reaching the stableyard of the B divi-
sion, King-street, Westminster, an iron bar was found at
the bottom of the van. The supposition then arose that the•
bar had been placed on the ridge of the van and bad escaped
from that place, and that it bad been removed from the
cell in which Walker was locked up at Bow-street. This
he had concealed under his coat when he entered the van.
DESPATCH OF THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC
MAILS —The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato,
Capt. Woolley, sailed yesterday with the fortnightly mails
for the British and Foreign West Indies, the Pacific,
California, Central America, &c. She took out 65 passen-
gers, and on freight, English gold, £30,000 ; English silver
£300; jewellery, £1,352; and French jewellery, £1,442 ;
also a full cargo of French and English merchandise.

THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT AND THE
CHESAPEAKE AFFAIR.--We stated some time past that the
Confederate Government had sent a commissioner to
Halifax for the purpose of investigating the facts in the
ease of the seizure of the United States merchant steamer
Chesapeake, and we gave at some length the principles
of international law upon which the Government was
prepared to assume the responsibility of the act and base
a claim for the restitution of the vessel. We are now
able to add that, upon the report of its commissioner, the
Confederate Government, placed in full possession of the
facts, has decided that these principles are not applicable
to the Chesapeake, and so far from forming the basis of
a future demand against the British Government, the act
of the captors is distinctly and formally disavowed. The
judicial authorities of the colony have, we believe, been
unofficially informed of this conclusion. The position
assumed by the Confederate Gwernment we understand
to be this. While it maintains, and will continue to main-
tain the right and the duty of every citizen of the Con-
federate States, and every foreigner enlisted in their
service, to wage warefare openly or by stratagem upon the
vessels of the enemy on their high seas, whether armed
or not, it will afford no countenance or encn ourthe f agement,
whether direct or indirect, to any
neutral subjects, or within mutual jurisdictions!? organise
o part o
expeditions for the purpose of carrying on hostilities against
the United States.— Iniex.
THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK is annoance(l from
a Brussels house :—" Bibliographie des CEavrages
relatifs a l'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage ; contentant
les titres detailles de ces ouvrages, les noms des auteurs,
un apercu de leur sujet, leur valour, et lear prim dana les
ventes, l'indicatiou de ceux qui out ete poursuivis ou qui
out subi des condemnations par M. le C. de L * b." It
is a stout volume of more than 400 pages, and only a very
toy copies have been printed for the use of those professed
bibliomaniaca who collect literary curiosities. The pub-
lisher, Gay, only a short time since was driven from Paris
on account of a catalogue of the private library of Marie
Antoinette, which he had issued oontrary to the wishes of
the Emperor,

POLAND.

BRESLAU, JUNE 17.

The Gazette says—" General Zabolockoi and
General Brannochweig, es-Governor of Podolia,
have just been named members of the Council of
State of the kingdom of Poland."

LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening.

FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 10.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Sackville Sackvillo West, now Secretary to her
Majesty's Legation at Turin, to be Secretary to her Majes-
ty's Legation at Mac'rid.
The Queen hr.s also been gracirn2ly pleased to appoint
Edward Ile:Tics, E,44 , now Secretary to her Majesty's Le-
gation at Lisbon, to ou Secretary to her Majesty's Legatioa
at Tull%

- -
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
the Hon. Wm. Gordon Cornwallis Eliot, Secretary to her
Majesty's late Legation at Rio de Janeiro, to be Secretaryto her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon.
.I'IINE 14.

The Qaeen has been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph
Hume Burnley, Beg., now Secretary to her Majesty's Le-
gation at Copenhagen, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Washington..
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Alexander Bower St. Clair, Esq., now a Second Secretary
in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, to be her Majesty's
Consul at Varna,
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr William
Scholey as Consul in London for the Republic of Bolivia.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 17.
COMMISSARIAT DEPA.untENT.—Assistant Commissary-
General Henry
William Woodford° Plant to be Deputy
Commissary-General, vice Seiwey, retired Dep4ty-
Assistant Commissary-General George Rennie to be Assis-
vice
taut Commissary-General, Plant.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial
portance in the ciazette:—
Roland Griffiths, gunmaker, Birmingham
William Davies, warehouseman, Bristol
Henry Derry, builder, Birkenhead
Caleb Evans, surgeon, Birkenhead
Robert Owen, cattle dealer, Wilson-street, Gray's-inn-
road
Charles J. Hughes, builder, Greenwich
John Morcombe B. Baker, stlne carver, Penge
Samuel N. Burton, farmer, West Berghott, Essex
Thomas Mannings, wheelwright, Sandwich, Kent
Thomas Parry, beerhouse-keeper, Kent-road
John Powell, linen draper, Downham Market, Norfolk
George Ruddle Jones, lodging- house keeper, Milton.
street, Middlesex
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

John Sturla West and H. Hughes, brush manufacturers,
Welbeck-street
James Robinson, cattle dealer, Stanwix
Pierce Morris, coal merchant, Birmingham
John Stiles, corn factor, Bristol
Bennett Barnett, picture dealer, Old Bond-street

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Gilbert Hazel, auctioneer, Ayr
Georgia Swan, tobacco pipe maker, Edinburgh
Benjamin Denoon, merchant, Portmahomack
Thomas Mitchell, merchant, Glasgow
Wm. Smith and Co., distillers, Boarinnes, Banffshire
James Porter, painter, Perth

Course of the Exchange.---Yesterday.

Air-

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 12 01 12

Antwerp — 25 624 25 674
Brussels — 25 575 25 67*
Hamburgh — 13 85 13 9
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 120

Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh

Berlin ~....
Madrid

Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
N aples
Palermo
Messina

120

11 80 11 )0
11 85 11 90
31i 32;

48 481
25 65 25 70
25 67t 25 72i
25 65 25 70
- 25 70 25 75
.. '25 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
—51 a

Lisbon

Oporto...-

•
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z,... £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. June 18.
via Marseilles
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. July 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. June 29
china, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18.
via Marseilles ...June 27.

Falkland Islands •
Gibraltar, via Southampton June 18.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton JunelB

via Marseilles June 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton June 25.
via Marseilles Jane 20.
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 18.
via Marseilles July 5.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo ..
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 21.
by U.S, packet....

by Canadian paCiet..Tjuunnee
2284..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,
California, and British Columbia.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

E GOOWOOD CUP.

.0 June 14.)

Age et lb
Claremont .. 3 7 7
Bel Demonic) 4 7 0
Bacchus 3 7 7
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Molly Carew 3 7 3
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York August ...... 2:i
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MPERIAL PARLIAZEN

HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening.

The LORD CRAXCELLOR took his seatton the woolsack
at five o'clock.
COUNTY COURTS AMENDMENT ACT.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was with much
regret that he stated he had been induced to withhold from
proceeding with this bill during the present session. It
would be impossible, he was assured, that the bill could be
passed through the other house this session. It was a
matter of very great importance, and had met with much
opposition in many quarters. It was desirable that the
question should be carefully and deliberately considered.
Lord BROUGHAM was glad that his noble and learned
friend had withdrawn the bill. Not only was there great
doubt about its passing through the other house this ses-
sion, but it was most questionable if it would pass through
their lordships' house.
THE DANO-GERMAN WAR.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH called attention to the
fact that in sine days' time the armistice between the
Danes and the Germans would end. Their lordships had
no doubt read with much pleasure the declaration of the
view of Denmark on the subject, published a few days ago.
What did she say in that declaration ? She consented to
the proposal of cession of territory, but she did it subject to
the condition that her future position should be one in which
she should preserve her independence and her autonomy.
In respect to the relation France held towards the Danes
he could not think that she would desert her ancient ally
when she was being trampled upon. To the question,
what right the German Powers had ? he answered the right

of conquest. A conqueror had no rights in an unjust
war. Had a housebreaker rights in a house he entered
the night ? He did not ask, under the present cir-
cumstances, what her Majesty's Government in-
tended to do. He inferred from what had been said
that at least they would not permit the junction of the
Austrian and Prussian naval forces in the Baltic—that is,
that they would endeavour to protect Denmark in the pos-
session of her island. That, he thought was little, and he
asked, what greater claims had the inhabitants of the
islands upon England above the claims of the inhabitants
of Jutland. In conclusion, the noble earl asked whether
measures had been taken for putting the fleet in such a state
as to make it equal to the blockade of the German ports and
to defend Denmark ?
Earl RUSSELL, in replying, referred to the points in
the noble earl's speech not more immediately referring to
the question at issue; and concluded by saying that he
must reply to the noble earl's question in a manner which
would not in any way hamper the negotiations at present
being carried on. The conference was still sitting. He
would therefore state that her Majesty's fleet was fully
prepared for any service it might be called upon to perform.
[lt may here be remarked that the greatest sensation
was produced, in a very full house, by the emphatic manner
in which the noble Earl delivered the following remarks :]
The Earl of DERBY—My lord, concurring as I do in a
great portion of the observations which have been made by
my noble friend (Lord Ellenborough), made with his usual
force and eloquence, I cannot but say, with great respect
to him, that I certainly dissent in some degree from a pro-
position which he laid down in the early part of his speech,
which appeared to me to involve a considerable amount of
constitutional error. My noble friend stated that his object
was—and there could be no doubt about it—rather to pre-
vent evil from being done and assist in promoting beneficial
results than to allow matters to take their own course, and
then censure those who are responsible. Now if we could
be perfectly certain that the interference of Parliament
upon all occasions dining the progress of negotiations, and
during the communications which are passing between
various countries, would have the effect of preventing evil

and promoting good, and of giving to her Majesty's Go-
vernment the support which they may need under the cir-
cumstances of the case, I should say that such intervention
by Parliament, although exceptional, might at the same time
be justifiable; but as a general rule I lay down a doctrine
entirely different from that propounded by my noble friend.
I conceive that the principle is, that while matters aro in
progress, while the Government are engaged in negotiations,
it is nc t the duty of Parliament, with imperfect information,
to interfere by advice or vote. I am of opinion that her
Majesty's Government must be leit, in all matters of this
kind, with the exclusive responsibility for the course and
issue of that negotiation. (Hear, hear.) And I hope I may
take this opportunity of expressing my earnest anxiety that
if I have refrained during the whole of this session—as I
have refrained—from passing any opinion, from putting any
question, from raising any partial discussion, which I think
was greatly to be deprecated, that abstinence on my part
will not be supposed to have proceeded from indifference,
and still less from approval of the course pursued by the
Government. (Hear, hear) Whatever temptations I may
have felt to enter upon a partial discussion of that state of
Europe, and more especially as connected with the Danish
question, which keeps this country in a state of feverish
anxiety from day to day, I have laid down myself a rule
from wh;ch I have not shrunk, and will not shrink, namely,
that while matters are in their present state I will not
aff)rd the slightest excuse for any man to say that by any-
thing I have said or done I have is the slightest degree
embarrassed or impeded the action of the Government.
(Hear, hear.) I will leave to them, as I apprehend it is the
constitutional duty of Parliament to do, the whole and un-
divided responsibilty of the course which they have pursued,
and the condition into which they have brought the honour
of the country. (Cheers.) At the same time I will say that
it appears to me the time must be approaching when this
transition state must be brought to a close. It cannot be
long. A few days must decide whether the Conference will
succeed in promoting peace, and, above all, an honourable
peace for this country—for, dearly as I love peace, I love
honour more—(cheers)—but the time, I say, must soon
come when we shall see that which I hope will be the effect
of the negociations of Her Majesty's Government, peace
re-established, or the hopes of Europe dashed to the ground,
and war recommenced. Should that be the case I think it
is not only the right but the duty of Parliament, without
an hcur's delay, to call upon Her Majesty's Government
for a distinct and specific statement of the policy which
they have pursued, and the course which they mean to
pursue. Nay more. I say it will be the right and the
duty of Parliament, upon such a statement, to pronounce
their judgment, aye err no, with respect to the policy pur-
sued by the Government and as to the position into which
they have brought the country. (Hear, hear.) 1 will add,
however, that, as we are now advanced to a very late period
of the session, I think it is of the utmost importance that
Parliament should not separate before the congress comes
to its determination as to the course which it will adopt, be
that course peace or war. And, not eithstanding what 1
have said as to ray wieh not to interfere with the action of
the Government, while negotiations are in progress, I
must say that I think Parliament ought not to sit patiently
by and watch negotiations protracted by delays and ad-
journments from day to day until such a time of year has
been arrived at that Parliament cannot pronounce effee-
tually any opinion in its judicial character upon the con-
duct of the Ministers of the c,ovni.
While faerefore I
earnestly hope that by a speedy settlement of this question
one way or other the lips of Parliament may be opened,
and that Parliament may be thereby enabled to express its
definite
same
opinion upon this matter, I think it my data' at th
time to say that if, contrary to my hope and belief, the
negotiations now going forward do not lead to a
issue, then I shall consider the circumstances CO entirely
changed that it will be competent and justifiable--nay,
necessary—that Parliament should take some course to
prevent its voice being stifled in the arrangement of the
affairs of Europe. (Cheers.)
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE protested against
Parliament interfering with pending negotiations.
Earl RUSSELL replied that in the course of a few days
negotiations would come to an end, and it would then be
known whether there would be peace or war.
The subject then dropped.
THE BURIAL SERVICE.

In reply to a question from Lord EBURY,
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said that a great
majority of the clergy were averse from change in the burial
service, and he therefore did not feel authorised to propose
any legislation on the subject.

The Church Services (Apocrypha) Eill (the object of
which was to allow clergymen of the Church of England
to substitute other portions of the Scriptures for the lessons
taken out of the Apocrypha) was, after a she •t discussion,
withdrawn.

Oa the report of the Penal Servitude Acts Amendment
8111,

The Earl of ALULIE complained that it would prevent
ticket of leave men from emigrating.
Some debate ensued, which, however, involved no points
of novelty, and ultimately tho report was received,
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OP COMIONS--Yesterday,
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock,
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
no Railway—Bourton on the Water Railway
Tooting, Merton, and Wimbledon Extension Railway—
Blyth and Ty
Carmarthenshire Railway—Dublin, Rathraines, Rath-
gar, &a., Railways—East Gloucesterstiire Pa . ;1
---"waY —Great
Western Railway_Kingsbridge Railway—xington and
Eardisley Railway—Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway—
Lancashire Union Railways—Lynn and Sutton Bridge
R,kilway (Cross Keys Bridge)—Macclesfield, Bollington
and Marple Railway—Peterborough, Wisbeach, and Sutton
Railway—Rickmansworth, Amersham, and Cheshato Rail-
way—and South Eastern Railway No. 4).
FACTORY ACTS EXTENSION BILL.

On the motion for going into commitee on this bill,
Mr BAGWELL drew attention to the condition of
the tailors and needlewomen of London, and contended
that the legislation in regard to other classes could be
applied with benefit to these bodies. He moved that it
be an instruction to the committee to take into considera-
tion the condition of the two classes to which ho referred.
Sir G. GREY thought it would be inexpedient to legis-
late with respect to diffirout classes of the lebouring popu-
lation without the report of a commission. The Govern.