The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AGGUSIV-2:14, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
CRACOW, AUG. 14.
Gn the 6th inst., the insurgents under Eminoricz,
Crik, and Rucki gained an important advantage
over the Russians at Chelm, in the Palatinate of
Lublin. Three Russian companies were dispersed.
It is asserted that the Russians, under cover of
their artillery, locked up their killed and wounded
in a barn and burned them, in order to conceal their
lose.

The invalide Russe mentions four enagements in
Lithuania, near Reza, Morzany, Leuinty, and DAsk,
respectivel. There was also one at Mninsk, in the
Government of Kowno.

FRANCE.

PARIS, AUG. 14.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the
usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows the following results as compared with July

account:--

DECREASE.

Cash in hand
Bills discounted not yet

due........
Treasury Balance ......23 „
Current Accounts ...... 19/ „
Advances ........ •••• • . 25 „

INCREASE.

Bank Notes ..... • . 3 Millions.

BOURSE, Aug. 13.--The market has been more
buoyant, and the business done shows a slight im •
provement, Threes, for the Account being now at
67f. 50c. The Railway share Market has been
firm, and some of the lines are rather higher. The
market closed as follows

4t per Cents .. 96 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 50
Credit Mobilier 1085
Do. end month 1083 75
Bank Shares
Credit k oncier 1265 -
BAIL'

Italian Loan 72 25
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 53
Home Debt —
PAYS. - .

- -
Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O .. 1021 25
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1027 50 .. 1026 25
Geneva • 490 .. 492 50
Southern 697 50 .. 700
Western -
Eastern
Sardinian •• 4lO .. 410
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona .. 355 • • 355

The Polish League and Lord Russell,

-
Some time ago a meeting in favour of Poland was
held at St. James's Hall, Sir J. Shelley presiding.
At it a deputation was appointed to wait upon Earl
Russell, to lay before him the resolutions of the
meeting, and urge an armed intervention on behalf
of Poland. In answer to an
application on the
subject, the Foreign Secretary wrote, saying he was
sorry he could not receive the deputation. As the
committee thought this refusal unconstitutional,
they again applied to his lordship, and told him so,
and reptated their request that a time should be
fixed for receiving the deputation. That was on
the Bth July.
second letter, and on the 'lth August the committee
sent a memorial No answer was returned to the
__

-- --.
s loyal _ To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty,—At a numerously attended
and enthusiastic meeting of your Majesty Majesty subjects
, y
held at St. James's Hall, Westminster, on the 22d July
last, on the subject of Poland—Sir John Villiers Shelley,
Bart., M.P., in the chair—a deputation was appointed to
wait upon Earl Russell our Majesty's
purpose Principal
of
laying
Secretary
of S:ate for Foreign Affairs, for the be-
fore him, on behalf of your Majesty's Government, the
resolutions adopted at such meeting, and urging upon him
an armed intervention if necessary on the part of England
for the restoration of the independence of Poland.
In answer to a letter from the committee who convened
that meeting to Earl Russell, respectfully requesting the
favour of his lordship appointing a day and hour to receive
the deputation thus appointed to wait upon him, his lordship
sent a reply stating that he was sorry he could not receive the
deputation, but not assigning any reason for this unusual,
and, as the committee respectfully submit, unconstitutional
course of proceeding-
The committee thereupon directed a further application to
be made to his lordship, respectfully requesting him to recon.
eider his decision, it being their conviction that it is the duty
of a Minister of the British Crown holding the high and re-
sponsible office of his lordship to receive and hear the state..
ime
se
tnyt
,ss ofG oav deputationernrn enthe
upon such conduct, I am directed
important question, of so large a body of your Majesty's sub-
jects as were assembled at St. James's Hall on the occasion
referred to.
ies c notrn Majesty.msiitt
committee
ei sitting, gh,
abvuetevtoeryadrderaessosnthfreomm-
elinosgt respectfully and loyally to submit
To this last application his lordship has not even vouch-
safed the courtesy of a reply.
Without comm
by the committee to dutifully submit to your Majesty that
at the meeting referred to ; resolu-
tions the circumstances, they
choapvieesnoof alttheernarteisvoel,uetsiopnes:
cially as Parliament
selves directl to ya:urth
adoptedt
o Iybe eu gr therefore,Majestyaniwo utisl;
stOtor esp believe,ectf li
tions expressing,
real and earnest sentiments of the great majority of the
ltlhy
that meeting and numerous other mfueretthinerg
The committee also consider it their duty, as represent-
ing a large mass of public opinion,
British nation on the subject of Poland.
and loyally submit to your s
Majest.,_
/ cons'd •
i eration the fol-
lowing points :--
1. That as Prince Gortschakoff in his last reply to Earl
Russell declared that the throwing down
by
the insurgents
of their arms and their surrendering themselves to the cle-
mency of the Eeror is the onl-
ymp arrangement compatible
with the dignity of his august roaster, and with the senti-
ments of the Russian nation, this
direct refusal to abate the
present war wag much atrocity by
for the renewed subjugation of Poland,
a century of the roost iniquitous misrule, in addition to halt
to make any further attempts to
obtaine,renders it hopeless
reparatkia of the past Wrongs which hby negotiation any
upon Poland, or any guarantee again have been inflicted
2. That as _Russia has notorious' against their repetition.
the conditions upon which her
sovereignty violated every one of
Poland was sanctioned by the Treaty over any part of
Britain, as a party to that tremy, 0 of Vienna, Great
tice to withdraw, as regards herself,
in honour and jus-
tice
to declare that she can no longer, the sanction so given,
claim of Russia to such soverei recognise any title or
with the Emperor of Russia as Kinggnty, or continue to treat
of Poland.
3, That the restoration of the
every part of ancient
Poland from entire independence of
claimed by the present National m Russian dominion, as
arrangement compatible with the dGovernment, is the only
the Polish nation, and is at theignity and sentiments of
to the preservation (:).
the
balance same time vitally essential
estab-
lishment of permen,fritpeacein of power and the
de-
manded by every principle of Europe, besides being
the honour to be, on behalf justice and humanity.—I have
Ma-
jesty's most loyal and obediento the committee, your Ma-
f
~
JoßNßsubject,
i. 13, Brownlow-street, _ed OBERT TAYLOR, Hon. Sec.
ford-row,W.C.,
August 7, 'id
1663."
I,this Five days after letter
was sent to her Ma-
jesty," says the commit
tee in a paper forwarded to
us, "and in consequesame having been nee, it is presumed, of the
communicated by her Ma-
jesty's directions to Earl
Russell—name 4, by
the last post on the 12th August instant. —the sec-
retary received the following reply to his letter of
the 28th July, re
~
lordship : fourteen days previous, from his

"Foreign Office. August 11.
" Sir,—l am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter Of the `,:Bth ult. , and 1 am in reply
to express his lordship's regret that he cannot change his
former decision as to the rece )lion of a deputation on the
affairs of Poland.—l alp, sir,iyour obedient humble ser-
vant,

'`J. R. Taylor, Esq,, A. H. LATABA.
Bedford-row,
13, Brownlow-street,

Banss's steam printino? works,
SERIOUS ACCIDENT BY A PAINTING' MACHINE.
Yesterday afternoon an accident occurred to a man
named Samuel Richards a workman employed at Messrs
He was standing at the feeding end of a lug° printing
machine, and got his hand in the bracket; the rack of the
where he was attended by Idr. Lawrence, Ely-court, Holborn-hill.
machine passing at the time nearly severed the hand from
the body. He was quickly placed
the senior surgeon.
in a cab by Mr. Banks,
i?en., and conveyed by him to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
It i$ feared that the hand gill hays to be tak= off,

Our Trade with the Confederate States,

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

"Manhattan," that humorous writer in the Herald, says
that independence would give to London the great trade of
the South, while re-union would again enrich New York
with it, and that to become the factors of the South is one
of the richest comrnorsial prizes. England as well as New
York may lose, and Paris, with Havre, may gain what we
ought to have had, and which was freely and frankly
offered by the South, which the cowardice of Earl Russell
refused, but the statesmanship of the Emperor of the
French is likely to obtain.
The Northcrns exclude our manufactures by a tariff of 40
to 50 per cent., endeavouring to starve and keep idle our
operatives, though Messrs. Cobden and Bright tell these
men they are their frien Is. The Northerns exclude our
shipping, though Mr. Bancroft, their Minister, promised
reciprocity when our Navigation Laws were repealed,
opening our coasting, colonial, and inter-colonial ti tide to
them. The Southerns, on the contrary, offered us free
ports, free coasts, free rivers, and free trade; but as we
have unjustly repelled them, refusing recognition their due,
we cannot wonder if they favour the first of living states-
men—the Emperor of the French.

Why should Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, and others
of the Cabinet, yield to the " Cowering of Earl Russell to
the North, and his pandering to the Brights and Cobdens,"
as stated by a correspondent of yours ? Looking on the
Emperor of the French, Lord Palmerston, and Jeff. Davis
a• the greatest Statesmen of the day, the English people
wish to see them and their peoples allies and friends. How
Messrs. Bright and Cobden, as free traders, can support the
North is strange

MERCA.TOR.

Farming in the Prairie States and England.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Duke of Argyll having referred in glowing terms to
the description of the Prairies by Mr. Trollope, showing
it 17 as the El Dorado of farmers, before endorsing it his
grace should have read the practical remarks of Professor
Johnston and Mr. W. Chambers, on their tour through
British America and tha States, the latter gentleman pre-
ferring New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for capitalist
farmers.

To farmers desirous of changing a certainty for an
uncertainty, we would merely state as facts that all the
farmers or landowners of Illinois, lowa, Indiana, and the
prairie States are poorer in 1863 than they were in 1856
that most of their farms or estates are mortgaged; and that
the price they obtain at their doors for their produce pays
little more than the labour, as proved by the rates current
in 1861, 1862, and this year, viz,, 4s. to Ss, per quarter for
Indian corn, 15s. to 17s. for wheat, 11d. per lb. for beef, and
2d. per lb. for pork, with wages at ss. to 6s, per day. Any
farmer will know that such prices will not pay a man
who farms his own land here, and tnatit would be better
to pay rent and get 20s. per quarter for oats, 355. to 40s.
for wheat, sd. to 6d. for beef, and 55. for pork. Hitherto
western farmers paid no Federal though they did ;State
taxes ; hereafter they will have to pay heavier Federal
taxes than we pay. The prairies in Illinois are also very
subject to fever and ague, their produce great, but that
will cease es the land becomes worn out, as the lands on
the Atlantic coast have already been from overcropping
without manure.
We would advise our farmers to read Professor Johnston
and W. Chambers' (see his "American Tour" in Cham-
bers's Journal) as well as Trollope, before deciding.

TRAVELLER.

TIM lONIAN ISLANDS.

The following proclamation and documents con-
nected with the cession of the lonian Islands have
been published in the Official Gazette at Corfu
" Henry Knight Storks—On the part of his Excellency
Sir Henry Kuight Storks, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a
Major-General in her M, jesty's army, and her Majesty's
Lord High Commissioner in and for the United States of
the lonian Islands, &c.
" His Excellency the Lord High Commissioner is pleased
to polish for general information the following proclama-
tion by her Majesty in Council dissolving the present Par-
liament of these States, which is consequently dissolved
from the present date.
" Tee Lord High Commissioner has received her Ma-
JesTY's commands to call the solemn attention of the lonian
people to the reasons which have induced her Majesty to
dissolve the twelfth Parliament of the lonian States. Her
Majesty, the protecting Sovereign, has declared her readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands with
Greece, and it is with a view to consult in the most formal
and authentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny that her Majesty
is pleased to dissolve the present Parliament.
" The lonian people will fully appreciate the responsibi-
lity which rests on them in choosing their representatives.
They are called upon to decide by this choice on the
momentous question now submitted to them, and the only
wish of her Majesty is that they may be guided to a wise
decision, by which their happiness and prosperity may be
secured on a solid foundation.

" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St George,
Corfu, this day of August, 1863.
" By his Excellency's command,
" 11. DRUMMOND WOLFF, Secretary to the
" Lord High Commissioner."

" At the Court of Windsor, the 11th day of
June, 1863.
" Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty ; Lord
President, Earl Russell; Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Milner
Gibson.

" Whereas, by the constitutional chart of the United
States of the lonian Islands, it is among other things pro-
vided that the power of dissolving the Parliament of the
said United States on any special emergency shall be solely
vested in her Majesty by an Order in Council; and whereas
there hath this day been laid before her Majesty in Coun-
cil, the draught of a Proclamation to be promulgated in the
said States for the dissolution of the said Parliament (a
copy whereof is hereunder written)—her Majesty is there-
fore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council,
to approve the said Proclamation, and to order, and in pur-
suance, and in the exercise of the authority so reserved to
her Majesty as aforesaid, it is hereby ordered, that the said
Proclamation shall be promulgated by his Excellency Sir
Henry Knight Storks, Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St.
George, her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and for
those islands, and that upon and from and after such pro-
mulgation thereof the said Parliament shall be dissolved
accordingly.
"And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, onethofe
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give
necessary directions herein accordingly.
,ATHult, HELPS."

PROCLAMATION.
"Whereas, we have thought fit, by and with the advice
of our Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the
power in us in that behalf vested by the constitutional
chart of the United States of the lonian Islands, to dissolve
the present Parliament of the said islands ; we do for that
end publish this our Royal proclamation, and do hereby
dissolve the said Parliament accordingly.
Given at our Court at Windsor, the 11th day of June)
1863, in the 27th year of our reign.
" God save the Queen."

" NOTI FI CATION.
"The Lord High Commissioner publi-hes for general in-
formation the following instruetions addressed to the resi-
dents of his Excellency.
" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St. George,
Corfu, this 6th day of August, 1863.
" By his Excellency's command,
" H. DRITICkiOND WOLFF,
"Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner."

" Palace, Corfu, Aug. 6.
" Sir,—You will receive by this mail a copy of the pro-
clamation, publishing an order by her Majesty in Council,
dissolving the 12th Parliament.
" The Lord High Commissioner desires me on this occa-
sion to call your earnest attention to the instructions con-
tained in my circular letter of Dec. 7, 1861.
44 you are carefully to abstain from any interference,
direct or indirect, in favour of or against any candidates,
either before or during the forthcoming general election,
and you will also give strict orders in the same sense to the
employes in the different departments placed by the Consti'
tution under the special control of the Lord High Commis-
sioner, further informing them that any infringement of
his Excellency's injunctions on this point will be attended
with instant dismissal from the public service. _ . .

4‘ The foregoing instructions are not intended to restrict
any public employe from the free exercise of the elective
franchise ; but the Lord High Commissioner on this occa-
sion is determined to uphold the principle on which he has
hitherto acted, of securing the choice of the people from all
coercion on the pact of the Executive.—l have the honour
to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

" H. DILUMMOND WOLFF,
" Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner."

GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER OF ROYAL ARCH
MASONS FOR SCOTLAND AND THE COLONIES.—A special
meeting of this body was held in Sr. Mark's Hall on Wed-
nesday afternoon, when Companion Sir Arch. Alison, Bart,,
Brother Grand Master of Glasgow, was installed First
Grand Principal Z. The oath de jideli and ceremonial were
impressively administered, and as he took his seat upon the
throne the plaudits of the Companions were loud and en-
thusiastic.—A orth, .British Mai!.
STREET MtisiC.—We have received a letter from
G. E., ceimplalning of the annoyance caused by street
musicians, in which the writer rather faceLigu3ly describes
the miseries he has to endure from their performances, and
Which he considers aggravated at present in consequence
of the absence of the pest hAnde ih the cquatry,

The late Confederate Mission to Washington.

The New York Tribune publishes a letter which
purports to be written at Richmond, and ti e object
of which is to explain away the various guesses
made by the Northern press as to the mission of
Mr. Stephens, the Vice President of the Confede-
racy, by stating what was its real nature. The
writer does so as follows :

" The Vice President of the Confederate States
was sent to ask the President of the United States
to cooperate with the former government in mea-
sures conducive to the cause of humanity, to the
cultivation of the most Christian shapes of warfare,
such measures, in the first place, as might be agreed
upon between them to lighten the troubles of
prisoners and alleviate the pains of the wounded.
And had Mr. Stephens been so fortunate
as to procure the audience he so frankly
and simply sought J, for one, believe that
the mercy of his errand would have met with
proper recognition. This, however, secondarily.
The primary object of the Vice President's mission
was to protest,in the name of his Government and
people, against the mustering and arming of the
blacks, which now constitutes almost the only clear
feature of your policy. He came to implore you, in
the name of a people whose ability you have frankly
acknowledged, of soldiers whose resources must
have surprised you, of a government whose courage
and devotion and endurance you have felt, to this
consummation not to come at last. He came to
assure you on the good faith of his government, on
the simple truth of his fellow countrymen, that not
one single regiment or corps of negroes has ever
been brought into the Confederate service, to be
turned armed against you. He came to remind you
that such negroes as have from time to time been
found on breastworks and in trenches have been
caught with spades only or picks in their hands;
that such as have been found in regiments—an in-
significant number—have been in all cases body
servants, sometimes of officers, sometimes of
privates, who of their own will, out of
the love which you know they bear us,
have chosen to follow their masters to the
death, And these you have found among your
prisoners. Ho could have told you, if diplo-
macy permitted sentiment (God save the mark!) of
many such chattels,' some of them white haired,
begging, stealing, fighting their way home again,
to the ole missus,' and the old place, with all that
was left of the young masse.'—a lock of hair, or
a trinket. But no matter for that. He came to
talk to you of eelf•preservation, of retaliation, and
all that is shocking in the meaning of that word.
He came to tell you of the native devil that has
slept so long, to be awoke at last, in the bosoms
of a simple, dependent, affectionate race. He
came to implore you in the name of God not to
do this abominable thing. Else he would have to
fall back upon statistics and the grim phraseologies
of war, and remind you that the 4,000,000 negroes
that appear in the tablets of your census for 1860
are the working hands of both sexes only. Thar
number does not include the superannuated or the
infants. Out of these 4,000,000, at least 750,000
able-bodied fellows, loving and trusting their
masters, and ready to follow them up to the mouths
of your cannon (ah ! do not continue to befool your-
drilled, in three months. They can be officered
self on that question of ties), can be enrolled, armed,
in every grade by their own masters—those
who have seen most service and won most
honour. They can be segregated, regiment
by regiment, with the white troops. In all
the departments the quartermasters, the commis-
sariat, and the medical white officers can admi-
nister for them. Superior commands in the black
regiments can be made the meed of gallant service
in the white. In fine, the entire system as it operates
in the Sepoy service in India, and as it has been
modifies by distinguished British officers at the re-
quest of our government to meet the peculiarities of
our people— peculierities which constitute incalcul-
able advantages, presenting as they do love and con
fidence, in place of hate and jealousy and suspicion
—can be put in working order at once. This is what
I tell you can be done. This is what the Vice-Pre-
sident of the Confederate States came to tell you
will certainly be done forthwith. Will you tell
your people this ? It is not for me to speculate upon
the consequences of these new and dreadful ele-
ments, whirled into new forms of conflict and com-
plication, to prolong and intensify the war. My
mind, in striving to grasp the subject, lets go
its bold, and shrinks as from something at once
terrible and loathsome. I cannot speak of things
which seem to cry aloud out of the future with the
tongues of women and of babes, with the contention
of angels and of friends, mixed of pity and fury.
But I do see in all this a hidden mine of power in
the South which your policy may in one fatal
moment spring upon the country, to bury all we
once loved and were proud of in an undistinguish-
able monstrosity of disgust and death."

English Words and Phrases borrowed from
Iceland,

Many of our English country horse-calls may be
recognised in this Ultima Thule. The " Pok-a-ooff !"
of Nottingham,Riding,
are
forms " Bok'n-waay !" of Yorkshire,
East Rrms of the Scandinavian Bug-al.
bend-aside ; the same verb, ath buga, to curve, is
preserved in our word bucket, literally a curved
receptacle. So, also, the common shout, " Gee !
Gee uup ! "'zeta!" are forms of Gi-walk ; mad the
Northumbrian Heck! its the Icelandic Hoegr ! (pro-
nounced Haikir). . . . I wish that I had Brace
to give the origin of some of our popular super-
stitions and nursery tales, and to show what
assistance is afforded by Icelandic literature in the
clearing up the difficulties with which they are
surrounded. I can only instance one:—

"Jack and Jill went up a hill
To fetch a pail of water ;
Jack fell down, and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after."

These two children are mentioned in the Younger
Edda, under the names of lijitki and Bil (which
have become in course of time, Jack and Jill), as
fetching water from the well Byrgit in the bucket
Slog, on the pole Simul. These children were
taken up into heaven to fellow the moon. Iljukt
signifies " the quickening ;" Bil, " the failings;'
and their attendance on the moon simply means
that the moon becomes fall and wanes. By the
bucket of water I presume is signified the effect of
the orb on the weather. . . . . " Gaman,',
fun, is cognate with our slang expression, " gam-
mon !" Other of our vulgar terms are closely allied
to the Icelandic ; thus, " Baby," a fool, is related to
the verb " ath gaba," to make a fool of.
Brag (to boast), Icel. brag& rumour, renown.
Chap, Icel. kuppi, a fighting man, a hero.
Dandy, Icel. Thindi, anything good; ddndis
maar, a worthy fellow. The word has certainly
changed its signification considerably.
DuFer (a stupid fellow), Ical. dofi, laziness, from
the verb dofna, to be dull and stupid.
Fluke (a chance), Icel. flux, of. a sudden, used
similarly, derived from the verbAuga, to fly.
Fellow, Icel. 'dug, a comrade, literally one who
goes shares in money.
7o go the whole hog. This I believe to be, to do
all in une stroke—hog to be the Icel. hogg. The
Icelanders similarly speak of doing something
"ma haggi," all at once.

Lagged (outlawed), a contraction for /Wag,
outlaw.

—Baring-Gould's Iceland.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The adjourned
special general meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the Paddington Station, for the final declara-
tion of the poll upon Mr. Adams's motion for the electhin
of directors. The Hon. Spencer Walpole in the chair.
Captain Bulkeley (one of the scrutineers) read the report,
amidst interruption from Mr. Adams, who protested
against its being received. The following is an abstract of
the report referred to :—For the directors as proposed by
2es
onr9o.r6e;
seating 11,214,738 ;
the board—proxies 23,550, representing £3,980,645 stock;
personal votes 1,569, representing £257,176 stock; total,
25,119 votes, representing £4,237,821 stock. For the direr
ors proposed by M3r7.7Ap
eurasmonsaTvPro‘texstp9;97£
t in votes,g6 ep
stock; total, 9,574 votes, representing £1,283,902. 852
proxies in favour of the directors were objected to by Mr.
Adams, reuresenting x 731,911 stock; 254 proxies in favour
of Mr. It dams were objected to by the-directors, represent-
ing £118,359 otock, od 1,160 votes.

6 . 1111 c., OLE_
V*, Orinlat

HER MAJESTY.

BRUSSELS, August 14.
The English and Belgian royal families drove out
yesterday at. Brussels.
A grand dinner was given yesterday at Lseken.
Both the royal families, with the exception of the
King and her Majesty Queen Victoria, were present
with a part of their suite at the St. Hubert Theatre
yesterday evening.

Foreign Courts,

PARIS, Aug. 14.

To-morrow the Emperor and Empress will come
from St. Cloud to the Tuileries, where at 11 o'clock
they will receive the ministers and grand function-
aries, but not the corps diploniatique. After their
reception there will be a le Deunt in the Tuileries
chapel.
M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who has quite recovered
from his recent illness, will give a diplomatic dinner
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to-morrow
evening.
BERLIN, Aug. 11.

The King was to leave Gastein to-day for Salz-
burg, in order to confer with the Minister of War,
M. von Roan, who now lives there.
The King of Prussia and the Crown Prince rode
into Gastein together on the recent visit of the lat-
ter, the King having proceeded to the suburbs of
the village in his carriage to meet the prince.

MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS.
THE MOZART NIGHT.
A selection from the most dramatic and universal
of all composers formed the attraction of the bill last
night, and sufficed to crowd the theatre at a very
early period. The vocal specimens consisted of the
"Deh vieni," from the " Nuzzo di Figaro," charm-
ingly sung by Madlle. Florence Lancia ; and the
" Gli angui d'lnferno," from the " Zauberflote,'
delivered with surprising force by Madlle. Carlotta
Patti. The instrumental portions were the " Con-
certo in D minor," for the piano, ably performed by
Mr. George Russell, the overture to " Idomeneo,"
and the unrivalled " Jupiter " symphony, compris-
ing its four movements—" Allegro Vivace, Andante
Cantabile, Minuetto Allegretto, and Finale Allegro
Motto," the execution of which alone was a suffi-
cient feature of the night, and served to place the
powers of the band, as well as of its skilful con-
ductor, in a light of the highest eminence.

The Marquis of Exeter is improving in health.
The noble marquis and marchioness remain at present in
town.

The Marchioness of Kildare and her infant son
are both progressing favourably, according to the accounts
received in town yesterday from Carton House, May-
nooth.

The Countess Cowley and Lady Feodorowna
Wellesley left town yesterday for Paris.

. .
The Earl of Wilton left town yesterday afternoon
to meet his yacht, the Zara, in the Southampton Water,
in order to proceed to Cowes for the close of the yachting
season.

The Earl Cawdor and a select party have arrived
at Cawdor Castle, Nairnshire, for the shooting season in the
north.

Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden arrived on
Tuesday last at Dublin, en route to Dundruin Park, Tip-
perary.

Lord and Lady De Saumarez have gone to Dover
for a few weeks.

Lord and Lady Lyndhurst have taken up their
residence at Tunbridge-wells. The noble and learned lord
is in excellent health, and intends to remain at that
favourite watering-place until October.

Mr. Evan and Lady Georgiana Baillie have
arrived at Dochfour, N. 8,, where they will receive a suc-
cession of guests during the shooting season in Scotland.

Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont are enter-
taining a small party of friends at Allenheads, near Carlisle.
Amongst the visitors are Lord and Lady Suffield, Sir John
Shelley, .P., Mr. Bonham Carter, M.P., &c.

Mr. and Lady Emily Walsh have arrived within
the last few days at Finnich, N. 8., to pass the shooting
season.

Yesterday the marriage of Lady A lice Magdalen%
Grey Egerton, youngest daughter of the Earl of
Wilton, and Mr. Henry Dalrymple Des Vo3us took place
at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The wedding
was considered a private one, and only the immediate and
most intimate relatives and friends assembled at the cere-
mony. The Hon. and Rev. Francis E. Cecil Byng, son of
the Earl of Strafford, officiated, the bride being given away
')y her father, the Earl of Wilton. The bridesmaids were
the Hon. Albertina Grosvenor, cousin of the bride; the
Hon. Miss Montague, daughter of Lord and Lady Rokeby ;
Miss Mary de Ros, daughter of Colonel the Hon and Lady
Elizabeth de Ros ; and Miss Lestrange. Among the com-
pany connected with the family who assembled at the
church were Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton,
Hon. Lady Grey, Hon. Misses Grosvenor (2), Hon. Cap-
lain and Hon. Norman Grosvenor, Hon. Seymour Coke,
Colonel the lion. Dudley and Lady Elizab th de Ros,
Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Mrs. William Russell, Colonel and
Mrs. Des Vmux, Misses Des Vieux, Mr. and Mrs. Le-
strange, Mr. Edward Des Vasux, &c. The bride and bride-
groom, after the ceremony, retired to the Earl of Wilton's
house in Grosvenor-square, where luncheon was served for
a select party. Shortly after three o'clock the newly mar-
ried couple started for the Continent to pass the honey-
moon.

DEATH OF THE VEN. ARCHDEACON FREER, D.D.
—The Venerable Richard Lane Freer, D.D., Archdeacon
of Hereford, Prebendary of the Cathedral Church, and
Rector of Bishopsione, in the environs of the city, died on
Tuesday at his rector house, after a long illness. He
married, in 1848, Harriet, daughter of the Rev. J. Clutton,
D.D., canon of Hereford.

THE CONGRESS AT FRANRFORT.—His Majesty
the Emperor of Austria will be received in this city on Sa-
turday by both the Burgomasters and the assembled Senate .
The other princes summoned will be received by single
senators. The banquet to be given on Monday in tho
Kaisersaal will consist of 27 courses. After the banquet a
grand procession will take place, followed by a State visit
of the princes to the theatre. A brilliant display of fire-
works will conclude the evening.—Reuter's Express.
A CHARMING FAMILY.—The last of the Valois
kings, three brothers, pass in history as—the stupid Fran-
cis the Second, the brutal Charles the Ninth, and the de-
bauched Henry the Third.

THE GUILD OF LITERATURE AND ART has just
published its balance-sheet of receipts and disbursements
since its formation in 1851. From every source it has re
ceived a clear £5,355; but it has reauced that sum already
by £1,600.

Tce Gazet!e of Bankruptcy, recently dead, had as
is single hope for thriving the anticipated monopoly of
the baukruptcy advertisements.

THE PARIS PERIODICALS mentioned by us the
other evening as numbering in all no less than 690
—show under the head " Literary Journals " 76
—" De modes, de Dames, et do la Jeunesse," 66
Technology, Industry, &c., 54—Fine Arts, Theatre,
Archaaology, 63—Catholic Religion, 51—Medical Sciences,
48—Political Economy, Administration, &c., 43—Juris-
prudence and Legislation, 40—Architecture, Bridges,
and Roads, 28—Agriculture, Rural Economy, &c., 28_
Natural Science, 24—Politics, 21—Protestant Religion, 18
—B bliography, 18—Instruction, 17—Finance and Ex-
change, 15—History and Geography, 12--Sport, 10—
Military Art, 10—Marine and Colonies, 10—Horticulturet
s—Jewish Religion, 3.

—A LARGE FRESCO, by Monitor, of Munich, has
• t arrived ira London, and has been placed in the Jesuit
ins
Church in Farm-street, Berkeley-square. The subject is
the mystical one of " The Devotion of the Bleeding Heart
of Jesus."

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touches in the whole range of Mar. Tenn son'spoetry, saga
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TUE OF THE EMPRESS FAUSTINA re-
Signor Guidi in the grounds of the Villa
by
were being made for the new
disposition of his Holiness. The Holy Father having
was at once placed by him at the
graciously accepted this very valuable work of art, says a
correspondent of the Register, has since presented it to the
Capitoline Museum, where it at present stands in the hall
of the Dying Gladiator. The statue is de-cribed as of
heroic size, and, as in the case of the recently discovered
statue of the Emperor Augustus, represents her as deified,
surrounded by several mythological attributes of the Apo-
theosiF.
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.—The director'
yesterday resolved to recommend the propr;etors to
declare a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 41
per cent, per annum, carrying forward a balance £16,581.
The dividend for the corresponding half-year 1562 was at
the rata of 31 per cent. per annum, with a balatro of
54,058,