The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1863.

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1863.

Mr. ROEBUCK, so far, in a Parliamentary sense,
is Master ot the Situation: To him the House of
Commons looks at this moment with a glance of
eager curiosity. The enigma of the house is—
What the course may be that he, the member for
Sheffield, will adopt at this period of supreme
emergency. In the very height of the dog days—
the alarm suddenly is that TEAR'EM, unmuzzled, in
a high state of excitement, and agitated by an
excess of wrath caused by two or three most irritat-
ing circumstanees met►ns mischief ! Miching
malecho, more completely, it is to be conjectured,
than any other sententious motto that could be
selected, expresses his feelings at this juncture the
most aptly. The motion submitted to the house by
Mr. ROEBUCK, the motion now lying before the
house for its adoption or its rejection, is
explicit enough in its way in all conscience.
About its meaning there cannot, of course,
be one instant's misapprehension. It is
in less than half•a-dozen blunt words—as plain as
a pikestaff. And viewing it, as we may, from any
point of view it is brought forward, as things fall
out, at a time the most peculiarly critical that well
could be, At the very tail of the session ! At the
very crisis of the war! While Mr. SPEAKER, is
beginning, probably, to indulge in pleasant antici-
pations of autumnal leisure in his sylvan retreat at
Ossington Hall down in Nottinghamshire. While
General LEE, at the head of his victorious army, is
knocking, as one may say, at the very gates of
Washington. Precisely at this moment it is, and
at none less deeply interesting, that Mr. ROEBUCK
throws the apple of discoid, or the bone of conten-
tion, op however else we may typify it, between
the confronting ranks of the Government and
the Opposition in the British House of Com-
mons. The juncture is so imminent—the query
now put to the House is intrinsically of such
vital importance that it might be considered as only
comparable in its way—in its importance, and in its
imminence to the momentous question sung of by the
Rev. GEORGE CRABBE in one of the most famous
of his homely tragic poems—a picturesque incident
with which the hand of a female artist a few years
back familiarized even the non-reading public who
perhaps never vet handled a volume of CRABBE.
Here immediately prior to the death of the session,
comes Mr. ROEBUCK with his Momentous Ques-
tion addressed to the bewildered, and it may even be,
could we but know their hearts, the somewhat
remorseful Government.
Shall the independence of the Confederate
States at length be recognised ? that is
the Question! As yet Mr. ROEBUCK has be-
trayed no faltering whatever in his way
of putting it. Supposing he were to hesi-
tate now in driving it to a division be would stultify
himself, as even he, the member for Sheffield, the
amateur diplomatist to Schoennbrun, and more re-
cently, to Fontainebleau, has never stultified
himself previously. Supposing any con-
sideration—it matters just absolutely nothing,
'what! supposing any consideration in the
wide world were to induce hip now, in deference

to the wishes of Lord PALMERSTON, of the Emperor
NAPOLEON, of the North, of the South, of the
Opposition, or of the Government to withdraw his
motion without requiring a division—the position
in which he would stand would be nothing less than
simply ridiculous. It would be ridiculous, and yet
it would have about it, too, infallibly a spice of crimi-
nality. For, having once put the Question to the
House of Commons, as he has, Mr. ROEBUCK, as the
propounder of it, has at this moment devolving upon
him a heavy weight of responsibility. So far from
the altered position of the belligerents out there,
westwerds, at the seat of war, so far from their al-
tered position, relatively to each other, having ren-
dered the putting of this vital and momentous
Question to the British House of Commons in any
way inopportune, it is precisely the very reverse.
Never yet has there come a moment, since
the commencement of the war, when an
independent member of the English House of Com-
mons could more opportunely, could so opportunely
put it to that House, Whether or not the Indeper-
deuce of the Confederate States shall be recognised
By the answer accorded to that inquiry the
Gordian Knot may be cloven asunder. Its involu-
tions defy unravelling. Sooner or later it must
needs be severed. Whether shall this be by the
blood-dripping blade of one or other of the two in-
furiated belligerents, or by the keen stroke of policy
(it matters little at whose instance) causing
at the same moment of time a remark-
able division of the House of Commons
and the virtual settlement, upon the opposite
shores of the Atlantic, of an otherwise inextricable
Difficulty ? Upon Mr. ROEBUCK'S firmness,
probably, there devolves at this moment the
solemn and weighty responsibility of pronouncing
the decision in this alternative. Will he pronounce
it— or, rather, by insisting upon carrying his
motion to a division, will he enable the Howe of
Commons itself to pronounce it ?

The state of our relations with Japan have, as
might have been expected, been brought under the
consideration of Parliament. The tragic events
which have lately occurred in that country must be
fresh in the recollection of our readers. It is not
very long since the ports of that peculiar and isolated
people were opened to English commerce, and our
merchants were congratulated on the important
extension of their Eastern trade. It is true that
the terms of the treaty which conferred these privi-
leges on the European trader were limited and
partial ; but it must be remembered that the very
sight of a foreigner was new to Japan, and we had
no right to be unreasonable in'our expectations. For
a time we felicitated ourselves on having conferred
a mutual benefit on the English merchant and the
Japanese trader as well, in having opened the way
to progress and civilisation in that long-benighted
country. Oar gratification proved, however, some-
what short-lived. The first thing that disturbed it
was an attack on the British Legation, evidently with
the object of taking the life of the Consul. In this
attempt the assassins were fortunately unsuccess
ful, but they were only repulsed by fire-arms. Not
long after two marines en guard near the Legation
were fatally wounded, and in the month of
September, last year, occurred that limper •
donable outrage for which the English Go-
vernment have, very properly, demanded
reparation. An English lady and some gentlemen,
residents in Japan, were riding along a high road,
which is one of those which it is expressly stipu-
lated in the treaty shall be free for the use of Eng-
lish subjects. They were unfortunate enough to
meet with a procession accompanying a Daimio or
great Japanese official from Yeddo to Miako. They
got on the side of the road to allow it to pass, but
the opportunity for injuring the hated foreigner
was not to be lost. They were surrounded and
attacked by the retainers of a Japanese bearing the
dignity of Prince of SATSUMA. Unarmed and
defenceless as they were, their only
alternative was flight. Mr. RICHARDSON
fell covered with wounds, his companions
escaped with difficulty, and the lady reached the
nearest town, terror-stricken and covered with
blood, to tell how the pleasant morning's ride had
been converted into a tragedy. Earl RUSSELL,
in defending the course pursued by the Government,
said very truly that no doubt many of the Japanese
objected to the permission accorded to foreigners to
take up their residence in Japan, and considered
that no such intruders should be suffered to remain
on the road during one of their grand official pro-
cessions. But the noble lord added that it was
impossible that we should accept such sentiments,
or even religious motives, as sufficient reason
or excuse for the murder .of unoffending
British subjects. Reparation was very justly
demanded in each of these three cases. With regard
to the attack on the Legation the punishment of the
offenders was asked for ; a pecuniary compensation
was demanded on behalf of the families of the mur-
dered marines ; while in the case of Mr. RICHARD-
SON, our Admiral has been directed to obtain from
the Prince of SATsume. the punishment of the
assassins. We do not see how less could have been
done. It would have been most unwise as well es
highly unjust to have suffered such offences
to pass without notice, unless we wished to see
English
the lives of every man and woman
in Japan fall a sacrifice to the frantic
fanaticism of the semi-barbarous population.
armed force will
It by no means follows that the enforcement of our
peoplethe
demands by thleoprdeesaelniocegovf annh
a
oc-
casion war.
Japanese, we must remember that anything like
hesitation or uncertainty is at once attributed by
them to fear. If they can be brought to realise the
stupendous strength of their despised ally, they
will not only be more careful of the lives of the
British subjects, but considerably less likely to pro-
voke a war. It is mistaken lenity which for fear
of incurring hostilities between this country and any
other would adopt a timid and vacillating policy,
in cases-of real urgency. It has been truly observed
that weak persons do as much harm in the world
as wicked ones, and though England can hardly be
called weak in resources, yet her foreign policy has
too often been of that character.. Fais ce que
dolt, advienne que pourra" should be the motto
for nations as well as individuals : otherwise
Fiat justitia rust ccelum. If it be true, as
Lord CARNARYON and Lord GREY asserted, that
the English merchants, traders, and residents in
Japan have been greatly to blame in irritating,
overreaching, and insulting the people, such
conduct should be inquired into and punished
with the same severity as we should
exact from the Japanese in similar cases. Inquiry
should especially he made into the story of the Eng-
lishman N% ho trespassed on a portion of the Tycoon's
dominions to shoot wild fowl, which were esteemed
sacred, and who shot the official who endeavoured
to stop him. In a case like this a severe penalty
should be inflicted on the offender, and the Japanese
should be made to feel that we will not tolerate
injustice or aggression on either side on any ground
whatever. But it is not the way to secure peace or
respect for property to overlook such dire offences
as the attack on the Legation and the
assassination of Mr. RICHARDSON because Eng-
lishmen have in certain cases disregarded the law.
On the contrary, it will induce the residents to

take the law into their own hands, and produce a
state of which things will infallibly lead to the
war which we so much deprecate. It will, in
fact, be a blessing to the Japanese themselves if
a check is put on the irresponsible power of the
great Daimios who from their old feudal position
are quite independent of the limited power of the
Tycoon. The Daimio in question, the Prince of
SATSUMA, has a castle on the coast in which
he is sheltering the assassins, and boasting of the
crime. We have yet to see whether he will re-
peat the boast to an English Admiral. The latest
news intimated a hope that reparation would be
made. In any case, the Government have only
done their duty, unless we intend to abrog- te
one of the first rights of civilised powers—the
protection of our countrymen in every quarter of
the habitable globe, from tyranny, injustice, and
oppression.

The note on the Polish question sent by Earl
RUSSELL to Russia at the same time as these
from Austria and France, has been published. It
appears to be one of his happy efforts, and there
seems little to cavil at in its tone or tenour. In the
course of this courteous epistle, Lord RUSSELL has
contrived to impart solemn truths, and these are
words of import which convey a warning and offer
advice. It is to be trusted that some attention may
be paid tc this excellent exhortation. Of course we
cannot expect that all, or indeed any, of the sug-
gestions therein made will be immediately adopted;
but if consideration is given to them in time, some
good may accrue to the persecuted nation
whose sad fate now occupies so many
minds with reflection, and fills so many
hearts with dismay. The six points of the note
comprise all that the exigency of the case demands
for the Poles, and they are well worthy of notice :

" 1. Complete and general amnesty.
" 2 National representation, with powers similar to
those which are fixed by the charter of the 15-27th No-
vember, 1815.
" 3. Poles to be named to public offices in such a manner
as to form a distinct national Administration, having the
confidence of the country.
"4. Full and entire liberty of conscience; repeal of the
restrictions imposed on Catholic worship.
" 5. The Polish language recognised in the kingdom as
the official language, and used as such in the administra-
tion of the law and in education.

"6. The establishment of a regular and legal system of

recruiting."

After enumerating these, Lord RUSSELL truly adds
that they will serve as indications of measures to
be adopted after full and calm deliberation. This
will be the right way of considering the matter ;
only to carry out the intentions of the proposal in
anything like a fair spirit, there should be a truce to
hostilities, even if it is only of a temporary cha
racter. While long months are going by in wait-
ing for a suitable adjustment of difficulties,
cruel havoc is rampant, and devastation is
reaping a fearful harvest of death. So much strife,
angry hatred, and oppression are springing up that
it will take very long for these excited elements to
subside into calm. The sad truth of this passage is
recognised by all. It is no easy task to restore the
confidence which has been lost, or to regain the
peace which is now everywhere broken. Lord
RUSSELL c;tes two 'Racing principles which should
Animate all who are concerned in the conduct of
the State. First of all, then, is mentioned
the establishment of confidence in the Government
on the part of the governed. This is indeed the
basis of ail strong Governments, and without it
there can be no success of a striking kind,
and no existence of a prolonged date for
any authority. The next principle is " the supre-
macy of law over arbitrary law." Commenting on
the felicitous results of such a state of affairs, it, is
observed that " where such supremacy exists the
subject or citizen may enjoy his property or exer-
cise his industry with peace, and the security he
feels as an individual will be felt in its turn by the
Government under which he lives. Partial tumults,
secret conspiracies, and the interference of cosmo-
polite strangers will not shake the firm edifice of
such a Government." The Russians are not at all
an impressible nation, but even they ought to be
struck with the firm and dignified tone of our
Foreign Secretary. It must be long before such a
sketch as Lord RUSSELL has given in his despatch
can be carried out, but that is no reason why
the promise should never be realised. Perhaps
when all other plans have failed, in sheer despera-
tion the Russians may resort to the essay of a scheme
that the first principles of justice should long ago
have rendered imperative. Finally Lord Rus
SELL dilates upon the importance of establishing a
suspension of hostilities. He states that this case
is not similar to that of a war raging between two
hostile nations who are divided in interests from
each other. The object now sought for is to ob-
tain civil peace, and therefore the desired suspen-
sion "might he done in the name of the Emperor
of RUSsIA without any abnegation of his dignity."
Whatever efftct this may have on the Russian
Autocrat and his subordinates, Earl RUSSELL has
acquitted himself in a style and a spirit worthy of
a Minister of England. Atrocities and barbarities
cannot now be perpetrated in a form that would
become the dark ages, and suit the annals of savages
more than the records of even demi.civiLised lands,
and their upholders declare that no State has inter-
fered to stay the sacrifice or at least protest against
its enactment. The reply of Russia to the three
Powers wi I be eagerly looked for, and thereon hang
many hopes and rest many expectations. If
from motives of expediency and policy any
abatement is made in the arbitrary course
that is now established in Poland, they
who have so eagerly and strenuously taken
up the desperate cause will not regret the pains
they have been at, nor the caution they have exer-
cised in pleading the cause of the oppressed. Cer-
tainly no offence could be taken from any part of
Earl RUSSELL'S despatch ; but, at the same time,
without resorting to hard or harsh terms, no lan•
guage could more forcibly have expressed the pre-
valent opinion entertained in this country concern-
ing the cruel war now devastating Poland. Neither
could any expressions have been better cb3sen to
testify to the unwarrantable license assumed by the
Russians to tyrannise over and wantonly destroy a
brave people and a noble country. Whether this
attempt at mediation gain success or not, it deserves
to do so most unquestionably on many grounds.

A seal ring of silver, in excellent preservation,
weighing three-quarters of an ounce, and baring
the effigy of Macrinus, with the inscription, " Imp. C. M.
Sev Macrinus. Aug.," has just been found by a brickmaker
at Saint.Riquier-sur-liyore (Seine Inferieure). A Roman
road from Beauvais to the sea formerly passed by the spot,
and Gallo-Roman ruins still exist in the neighbourhood .
The Emperor Macrinus was born at Algiers of an obscure
family, and after being successively glaaiator, intendant,
and prostorial prefect, caused Caracalla to be assassinated,
and succeeded to the Empire A,D, 217. He was killed at
Cappadocia in the following year by his solaiers during a
revolt.

M. de Romeuf, who lost his life in the accident
at Saint-Cloud, is nephew of M. de Romeuf, Ques
tor of the Legislative Body. M, Coste, the other gentle-
man who escaped with only a dislocated shoulder, is one of
the composers of the music of the comic opera of "
une foie un Roi," of Mlle. Brohan, lately performed with suc-
cess at the Union Artistique. They had dined with Mlle.
Brohan, and were taking her to ber Paris apartment when
the accident mimed.
AN AGED ROPE DANCER.--The Gazette des
Drovers states that Mme. Saqui has again
authorisation to resume her public exercises as a rope
dancer, but that it has been refused in consequence of her
age-86, applied for

EER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mr. Mapleson brought his subscription season to
an end on Saturday- night. The opera was Gounod's
" Faust." In the evening the National Anthem was
sung. The following was circulated in the
theatre :

" Having reached the closing night of the Opera
season of 1863, Mr. Mapleson begs to tender his
most grateful acknowledgments to his patrons, and
to the public, for the support which they have
afforded him in his exertions to revive and even
surpass the early renown of the establishment over
which he has the honour to preside. The encour-
agement which has thus rewarded the pains and
anxieties of his arduous enterprise enable him now,
at the termination of the regular season, to look
back upon it with the utmost self-congratulation,
as one of the most successful on record. On two
principal features of the season now concluding Mr.
Mapleson has especial reason to pride himself.
These are the production, for the first time on anv
stage, of Signor Scnira's opera, "Nicol() de Lapi ;"
thus taking the initiative in the introduction of new
works to the lyrical stage of Europe, which has
hitherto been exclusively left to the great operatic
establishments of the Continent; and, secondly, the
production, for the first time in this country, of M.
Gounod's universally-admired opera,'' Faust." The
latter work, presented with a miss en scene in every
way worthy of its importance and with a cast which
it would be diffieult to approach, has achieved a suc-
cess the character of which may be judged by the
fact that it was performed ten consecutive nights to
crowded audiences. Mr. Mapleson now begs to
announce his intention to extend, by aseries of eight
popular performances, at reduced prices, to a wider
range of the public, the advantages of the complete
and unprecedented organisation to which he has
brought his operatic establishment. It may be
truly said to comprise an orchestra and chorus un-
surpassed for completeness and perfection of disci-
pline, and a corps of vocalists not equalled in any
other establishment in Europe, which facts the lists
of the principal artists will prove."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

CRAI,O W, JULY 13.

The announcement that the funds of the National
Government had been seized by the Russians is
entirely false.
Wierzbicki, by a measure whereby he deceived
the Russians, has succeeded in penetrating into the
interior of the government of Lublin, and has
effected a junction with Rucki's insurgent corps.
Czengery has left Kielce, whither considerable
forces had been despatched against him.
Fiquette is operating with a flying column of
gendarmerie i❑ fiandomir, Bogusz, and Stabnick.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 13.

The Queen of Spain, the King of Prussia, and
the King of Holland, have sent their congratula-
tions to the Emperor, on the taking of Mexico.

An Imperial decree has been published to-day
concerning the measures to be taken before any
educational professor of superior or secretary rank
can be dismissed his functions by the Minister.
The decree is preceded by a statement of motives in
which the necessity is pointed out for the members
of the body of teachers to have every guarantee
that justice will be done them.
The ltioniteur of to-day publishes the notes ad-
dressed to Russia by England, France, and Austria
respectively.
BOURSE, July 11.—The announcement of the cap-
ture of Mexico has nut imparted any buoyancy
to the market, which remains dull, but with yes-
terday's prices maintained. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now unvaried at 68f. 55c. B,ailway
Shares also inanimate. The market closed as fol-
lows:

t per Cents. 97
Do end month
per Cente
Do. end month 6B 60
Credit Mobilier..., 1175
no. end month 1175
Bank Shares 3410
Credit k oncier l3OO

BAIL

Italian Loan 7l 95
Do. end month 7l 90
New ditto
Do. end month.... 72 20
Russian
Austrian .. B4
Spanieh Threes.,, 54
Home Debt

'A S.

Orlear
017 50 .. 1012 50
Northern 992 50 .. 992 50
New ditto ............ •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1025 1027 5O
Geneva..
Southern
Western
Eastern
500
Sardinian
Austrian
t.... .........
North of Spain ........ 543 75 .. 545,,
Saragossa ............ 700 636920 —5O
Ditto to Barcelona .... 362 75 • •

POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

CRACOW, July 9.
At length the Invalide Busse has acknowledged
a Russian defeat. The following is the paragraph
in question ;—" Colonel Danilow, at the head of two
companies of rifles of the Imperial Guard and two
companies of the Esthonian Regiment, discovered
on the 22d June, in t'e vicinity of the village of
Popelian, in the woods near the village of Draginia,
a very large band of insurgents, and atter attacking
it repeatedly without success, was forced to retire,
The following of our troops were killed :—Captain
Neihardt, of the battalion of Imperial Rifles, Capt.
Nekrasow, and Sub-Lieutenant Vestipcins of the
Esthonian Regiment, and 23 soldiers. Capt. Rosen
bach, Lieut. Gogel, Sub Lieut. Zandar, Ensign
Stachowiez, and 46 soldiers of the battalion of Im-
perial Rifles, were wounded. Steps have been taken
to destroy this band." Letters from Wilna describe
this battle as a very important one, and pat the
losses of the Russians as very much greater than
they are acknowledged to have been by the Invalide.
It must be confessed that all the probabilities are in
favour of this view of the question. When a news-
paper persists for five months in assertitg that the
Polish insurrection is crushed, and that the Rus-
sians are always victorious, and never lose more
than one Cossack in a battle, although every one
knows that during that time the insurrection has
been kept up solely by the fact of the Poles being
victorious in almost every engagement, the acknow-
ledgment by such a paper of a Russian defeat, with
a loss of 26 killed and 50 wounded, can only be un-
derstood as a complete and sanguinary check to
Russia.

Another desperate battle has taken place in the
district of Przasnysz. The Russians, having re-
ceived news that 200 Poles, under Trombezynski,
were organising themselves into an insurgent band
on an island in the rivet Orzyc, between Dronzdzen
and Krasnocielce, advanced to' :he spot in great
force. The Poles, finding they were surrounded,
entrenched themselves as best they could, and for
three days resisted the attacks of the Russians.
The latter b:gan a regular siege; they brought up
four guns against the Poles, and seized 50 peasants,
whom they compelled to dig trenches for them
The peasants, however, after working a few hours,
contrived to escape; and on the fourth day the Poles
received the welcome intelligence that a body of
1,000 peasants was advancing to their assistance.
These peasants, led by Jasinski, crossed the Naren,
and attacked the Russians. The battle lasted four
hours, and the Russians, after losing a large body
of men and one gun, which was swallowed up by a
quicksand, retreated in great precipitation.
Mouravieff is rapidly proceeding with his task—
the exterminati9n of the educated population of
Lithuania. He has invented several new species of
torture, which, it is said, exceed anything of the
kind hitherto known. Ono of them is to strap a
man down to a board, and place a large bock of ice
on his chest. Numbers are dying of starvation in
the prisons, and the Cossacks have been sent into
the fields to stop all agricultural labour, and pro-
duce a famine. In Warsaw things are almost as
bad. The citadel is crowded with prisonerprisoners,a cer-
tain number of whom are thrown with their hands
tied into the Vistula every night.

The Queen of Prussia arrived the day before
yesterday at Laeken from England. Her Majesty, who
was received at the railway station by the Duke de Brabant,
at once went to visit King Leopold, and, dined wi h the
Royal family. Her Majesty afterwards lett by railway for
Germany.
THE PROROGATION. —The progress made iu
Supply at the morning sitting on Friday leaves little more
to be voted of the Estimates for the year. Should the
House of Commons get through the few remaining votes, as
expected, by Thursday, it will be possible to carry through
the Appropriation clause, so as to prorogue Parliament on
Thursday, the 28th of July.

Verdi is engaged in transforming Flaubert's
Carthaginian novel, " Salambo," into an opera.
Mr. Home's Book has been translated into French
under the title "Revelations sur ma vie surnaturelle."
CHOPS AND TOMATO SAUCE!—The Atheneum
gravely obliges us with the following matter-of-fact expla-
natory remarks apropos to Sergeant Buzfuz's exclamation :
Poor Pickwick had giveL directions for dinner in a note to
his landlady ; and the Sergeant was to prove that the din-
ner-order was nothing but a phrase of en( earment. So he
put a lady into the box who proved that her husband called
her duck, being himself very fond of duck; and who fur-
ther testified that if he Lad been fond of chops or tomato
sauce, perhaps he would have applied those names.
THE CAT STANE stands;,in the parish of
Kirklie-
ton, on the farm of Briggs, in a field, and on the
north side of the rood to Linlithgow, and between the 6th
and 7th milestone from Edinburgh. It is placed witnin
100 yards of the south bank of the Almond, nearly half a
mile below the boathouse bridge, and about three miles
above the entrance of the stream into the Frith of Forth,
at the old Roman station of Cramond, or Caer Amond. The
monument is located in nearly the middle of the base of a
triangular fork of ground formed by the meeting of the
Gogar Water with the River Almond. The Gogar flows
into the Almond about sin or seven hundred yards below
the Cat Steno. The ground on which the Cat Stane stands
is the beginning of a ridge slightly elevated above the gene-
ral level of the neighbouring fields. The stone itself con-
sists of a massive unhewn block of the secondary green-
stone-trap of the district, many large boulders of which lie
in the bed of the neighbouring river. In form it is some-
what prismatic or irregularly triangular, with its angles
very rounded. This large monolith is nearly twelve feet
in circumference, about lour feet fi, e incliet in width, and
3ft. 3mn, in thickness. Its height above groued is about 4ft,
and a half,—.Dr. A'impson's Treatise on the Cat stane.

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 11.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Lein-
ingen, drove out yesterday.
The Bon. Mrs. Bruce and Lord Alfred Paget
were in attendance.

SUNDAY.

The Queen, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise
attended Divine service at Whippingham Church
this morning.
The Rev. George Prot hero performed the service.

The King of Prussia and the Crown Prince

The Sud Deutsche Zettung publishes the following
letter from the crown Prince of Prussia to the King.
It was written on the 31st of May, before the
Prince set out for the military tour, during which
he expressed to the Nlunicipality of Dantzic his dis-
approval of the course taken by the Ministry

'• Expressions you lately made use of in my presence, re-
garding the possibility of forcing your measures upon the
country, oblige me to speak out on the subject. On dismiss-
ing the Auerswald Cabinet you told me that, being more
liberal than yourself, I bad now got an opportunity for.
enacting the usual part of a Crown Prince, and throwing
difficulties in the way of your Government. At that time
I promised you to keep back and maintain silence, and offer
no opposition. Intending to keep my promise, as I do, I
yet feel it my duty to speak to you in private. I beseech
you, my dearest father,not to invade the law in the way you
hinted. Nobody is more fully aware than myself that to
you an oath is a sacred thing, and not to be trifled
with. But the position of a Sovereign in regard to his
Ministers is sometimes very difficult. Skilled as they are
in the lawyers' art, and expert at interpretation, they know
how to represent a measure as fair and necessary, and by
degrees to force a sovereign into a path very different to
that he intended to tread. The concern, however, I, feel
tor your happiness, and the conviction that it is seriously
imperilled, ind co me," &c.
Next follows the answer of the King, conceived
in a mild spirit :
" You say you do not intend to offer any opposition,
You must not have been cautious then. Opposition speeches
of yours have got abroad and found their way to me.
You have now an occasion for making amends by express-
ing yourself in a different way, by slighting the Pro-
gressists and courting the Conservatives. The decree of
June, besides being in consonance with the charter, and
more particularly with Clause 63, will be laid before the
Landtag. The decree, so far from being the enormity you
say, ought to have been introduced in the shape of a bill,
even under the late Liberal Cabinet ; for it was on this con-
dition only I sanctioned the law protecting printing-offices
against the supervision and interference of the police.
. _

On the 3d of June the Crown Prince lodged a
formal protest against the decree on the press. It
was addressed to Herr von Bismark, accompanied
by a request to communicate it to the Cabinet.
In this protest, written in proud and haughty
language, the Prince expressed himself in the fol-
lowing style :
" I deem the proceedings of the Cabinet to be both illegal
and injurious to the State and the dynasty. I declare the
measure to have been taken without my wishing and know-
ing it ; and I protest against any inferences and ascriptions
to be possibly based upon my relation to the Council of
State."

On the 4th of June the Prince wrote again to the
King, stating in vigorous language that the Charter
had been evaded and set aside in the case of the
decree on the press. The words of the Charter
might be made to agree perhaps with the measure,
but to be really constitutional it ought to have been
submitted to Parliamentary assent. On the sth he
delivered the well-known address at Dantzic. Then
followed a letter of the King, censuring the Crown
Prince in no measured terms, and commanding an
immediate disavowal of anything falsely reported in
the papers. The letter also enjoins the Prince to
abstain from venturing any similar statements. If,
however, it should occur again, he would be recalled
to Berlin, and, perhaps, deposed from office and de-
prived of his command.

The King had been originally inclined to have
recourse to measures of restraint, but the Cabinet,
though similarly disposed at first, ultimately ad-
vised the King to bear with his son. From the
reply the Crown Prince sent to the King we ex-
tract the following sentiments :
" The address I delivered at Dantsic is the result of calm
refldction. I long owed it to my conscience and my posi-
tion to profess, in the face of the world, an opinion the
truth of which has forced itself upon me more fully from
day to day. The hope only of being able atter all to avoid
placing myself in opposition to you stifled the monitions of
my internal voice. But now, ignoring my different views,
the Ministry have taken a step imperilling my future and
that of my children. I shall make as courageous a stand
for my future as you, my dear father, are making for your
own. I cannot retract anything I have said. Alt I can do
is to keep quiet. Should you wisn me to do so, I hereby
lay at your feet my commission in the army and my seat in
the Council of State. I beg you to appoint me a place of
residence, or to permit me to select one myself, either in
Prussia or abroad. If lam not allowed to speak my mind,
I must naturally wish to dissever myself entirely from the
sphere of politics."

This letter seems to have produced a powerful
impression upon the King; but lately he had for-
bidden Herr von Bismark to lay the protest of his
son before the Ministry; now he endeavoured, as
the first and sole object of his policy, to restrain the
Prince in the course he had entered upon. He
wrote him a friendly letter, saying he was welcome
to open his mind to his father; but he was to main-
tain the strictest secrecy with regard to all others,
unless, indeed, be wished to incur the punishment
suspended over his head. Ha, too (the King), had
a conscience.

The reply of Herr von Bismark to the Crown
Prince was long in making its appearance. The
Premier wrote :

" Your Royal Highness is in a position to render our
task easy or difficult. The Ministers, however, will perse-

vere in pursuing the grand object they have identified
themselves with. They are but the loyal and obedient
servants of the King. They, too, had got a conscience," &c.
This letter closes the correspondence for the
piesent.

IMPOSSIBLE!—The Court Journal actually asserts
that the Duke of Sutherland, at the late ball to the Prince
and Princess of "W ales, not being able to find his hat, coolly
walked off to the fire•engine station at Wating-street, and
borrowed a fireman's helmet, arrayed in which he chartered
a Hansom cab, and drove in tridmph to Stafford House,
A fresh competitor for fame as a lion-hunter has
recently appeared in Algeria in the person of M.
Lucotte, a native of Lyons. A magnificent lion, which had
been sent by that gentleman, was exhibited a few days back
at Algiers. Unfortunately the rifle-shot which brought the
animal down had not sufficiently disabled it, and M.
Lucotte was obliged to fire his pistols at it almost point-
blank, by which the head was disfigured. This is the third
that M, Lucotte has killed within the last two months.

'IIIE TERCENTENARY OF SHAIOESPERE.—A meet-
ing of gentlemen interested In the tercentenary of
Shakespere's birth was held at Birmingham on Friday, for
the purpose of considering a proposal to celebrate that event
by the formation of a Shakesperian library. The Rev
Charles Evans, head master of King Edward's School, pre-
Acied. The following resolution moved by Mr. George
Dawson, and seconded by the Rev, S Bache, was adopted :
—" That it is desirable to celebrate the tercentenary of the
birth of Shakespere by the formation of a Shakesperian
library, comprising the various editions of the poet's works,
ant the literature and works of art connected therewith,
and to associate such library with the Borough Central Re-
ference Library, in order that it may be permanently pre-
served." A subscription was opened, and a sum of £lOO
subscribed.

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FEET BELOW.—
A curious circumstance occurred at the quiet little
village of Lower Eythorne one day during the past week.
The well, situated in the centre of the village, was the
scene of the sensation. It appears that a woman, about in
the prime of lite, from some cause evidently unknown to
anyone but herself, opened the lid of the well and jumped
down—a distance of 180 feet. The water and the chill,
however, soon drew forth cries and groans from the now
repentant woman, and the unearthly sounds attracted the
attention of one of her sex, who, going to the mouth of the
well, feelingly inquired, " Who's there ?" " Throw down
a rope," was the answer from the depths below. Assistance
was got, the rope lowered, and immediately afterwards the
immersed' was drawn up. The serious part of the story
must now be told—anxious to get on to mother earth, the
the poor frightened creature, as soon as she reached the top,
clutched at the woodwork of the well, when the rope slipped,
and she was precipitated below. After a lapse of time she
was again got up, when it was found, upon examination by
Dr. Chalk, that her leg was broken and other parts of her
body were seriously injured.—Dover Chronicle.
THE MURDER OF ELIZABETH HUN TER.—SinCe
the examination of the prisoner at the Clerkenwell
Police Court, the authorities have been unremitting in the
endeavours to find a further clue to the murderer, but they
have not succeeded, as yet, in eliciting anything material
It will be recollected that, with the exceptivm of the lower
jaw, the whole of the bones had been found. Police con-
stables Stammers and Goss, of the N division, have since
discovered the missing bone in the hole where the head was
interred, and now the only things that are missing are the
wires that wero in the poor child's ears. Tne remains of the
unfortunate deceased were placed in a coffin, covered with
white cloth, and studded with white nails. The inscription
was as follows :—" To the memory of Elizabeth Ann
Hunter, aged nine." The public funeral of the bones took
place yesterday. The procession started from Ward's-
place, Lower.road, about one o'clock, and a large number
of people joined it in its course to Finchley Cemetery.
Hundreds of persons still surround the nursery where the
bones were found.

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