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N°. 22.151.

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vernment considered as a debt of honour the damages that
might be caused to the Brazilian trade by the reprisals.
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view, if possible, to reconcile and satisfy the two
factions in Missouri. He had instructions not to
interfere with either party, but confine himself to
his military duties.

In such delicate circumstances the British minister, who
formerly would admit of no means of conciliation at all,
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pedient of having them submitted to an impartial arbitration.
The Imperial Government thought proper not to resolve
upon this expedient without previously knowing, whether
the arbitration was to include both questions, or only that
which concerned the cflicers of the Forts,

"I need hardly assure you, gentlemen, that our
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the President remarked that there was evidently a
'serious misunderstanding' springing up between
him and the Germans of St, Louis, which he would
like to see removed.

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With the answer from her Britannic Majesty's legation,
that both questions should be submitted to arbitration, the
Council of State was consulted, and, in conformity with
their opinion, the Imperial Government declared, by a note
of Jan. 5, that wishing to avoid that any intention should
be attributed to them of opposing any peaceable and honour-
able means of resolving the pending questions, wishing to
contribute to the prompt removal, without infringing on
the national dignity, of the existing difficult situation be-
tween the Government of his Majesty the Emperor and her
Britannic Majesty's legation, they accepted the proposal of
arbitration only as to the question concerning the officers of
the frigate Forte, so that the arbitrator should pronounce
not about the right and duty which the Government has of
causing the laws of the country to be executed, but only as
to the point whether in the manner of applying those laws
any offence had been committed to the British navy.

"Observing to him that the difference of opinion
related to facts, men, and measures, I withdrew.—
" JAM ES TAUSSIN G."

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SALE of INTEREST in MILL PREMISES and LANDS at
O'BRIEN'S BR I D'4E, in the County of Clare.
IN THE COURT of BANKRU P fCY and INSOLVENCY.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
In the Matter of William Digan and Henry Wickham lii
both of 'Brien's Bridge, in the County of Clare, Millers o
Bankrupts.
TO BE SnLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, tour-
suar t to the order, and subject to the approbation of
the said Court, at Michael Ilartigan's Auction Rooms,
Cec 1-street, LIMERICK, on WED S ESDAY, the Ist day of
July, 1863. at the hour of One o'clock in the Afternoon,
All the Estate Right, Title, and interest of the said Bank-
rupts, a d of their Assignees. and of the Mortgagee of, in,
and to all that and those, the Dwelling-house, faces, Stores,
and Mill, situate, lying, and being at 0' ,rien a Bridge, in
the County of Clare, held under n at
of Fee Grant,
bearing date the 15th Ault, 1854, for ever, at the Yearly
Rent of £l2O 13s. 10d., with the right of turbery on the Red
Bog at O'Brien's Bride.
And also all that and those that part of the lands of
O'Brien's Bridge, containing 2 roods, and known by the name
of the New Nil Pond, situate, lying, and being at O'Brien's
Bridge aforesaid, held under Indenture of Least dated 19th
November, 1828, for the lives therein named, at the Yearly
Rent of £2 Os.; and also
All ,hat and those, that part of the Lands or Building
Ground of O'Brir n's Bri-ge,-held under Indenture of Lease,
dated 19th November, 1828, tor the term of three lives therein
named, at the yearly rent of VI; and also
All that and those, the Watercourse or Mill `cream run-
ning through the lands of Moss Bank, part of the said lands
of O'Brien's-lodge. t ge her with the strip of gr and or path-
wry running alongside said new Watercourse to the 'eft
thereof as it proees from the Bride at Bridgetown, CCM-
taißing, in length,c d
from the Bridge atg Bri ge own to where
said course joins the old Mill stream. 95 perches and 6 feet, or
thereabouts, and in breadth 8 feet, held under lea e of 25th
November, It2B, for lives renewable for ever, and subject to
no rent.
CHEYNE BRADY, Chief Registrar.
For particulars of Title and conditions of Sale, see Abstract
of Title posted for inspection at the Court of Bankruptcy
and Insolvency, Four Courts. Dub in ; at the Auctioneer's
Rooms, Cecil-street. In the City of Limerick; or at the office
of Joseph Murphy, Solicitor for the Mortgagee, paving car-
riage of the Sal , No. 11, Bachelor's-walk, DublEs in, and 55,
George-street, Limerick. Michael Murphy, q., Official
Assignee, No. 33, Upper Ormond-quay, Dublin.

DESCRIPTIVE PARTICULARS.
These Mills are within seven miles of Limerick, in the
centre of an extens ve corn-growing country, embracing pa t
ofth-• counties of Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary, are situate
-
on the banks of the River Shannon, with water carriage al-
most to the Mill door, and having the same communication
with Dublin, Athlone, dm.. kc., and are in every possible re-
spect about the best circumstanced in the South of Ireland.
They are nearly quite new, and have been erected with all
the new and modern improvements, and have cost, from time
to time, over £20,000, and consist of
No. I—A Steam Mill, driven by a powerful Steam Engine,
by Caird and Company, of GI sgow, with three very large
Boilers, which work up to 100-horsepower, and for the supply
of which there is abundance of fuel in the immediate neigh-
bourhood.
This Mill is in the most perfect order, is fitted up with 9
par of first-class 4-feet Belgian stones, with Bovill's patent
exhaust. 4 Silc-dressing Machines. 1 Wire Machine (Ameri-
can) an ether patent Cleaning and Screening Machine, all on
the new st and most app •oved principles, and are capable of
Grinding and Dressimr, 1.200 Barrels of Wheat per week.
No. 2—A War( r Mill, fitted up comnlete, with four pair of
new 4 feet 6 inch French Burr Stones, two Silk-dressing Ma-
chines, and is capable of Grinding and Dressing a very large
Quantity of both Wheat and Indian Corn. In this 141 ill t ere
is room for two pair more of Mill Stones, and the Wet r-
power has been vastly increased this season by extensive
drainage works, which are being carried out in the neigh-
bourhood.
N . 3—A 1 ree and convenient Corn Stores, quite free and
independent rf the Mills, and capable of containing 10,00 u
Barrels of Grain.
No. 4—A large range of Shedding. Stabling for 12 Horses,
Coach-houses, Bake-house, Piggeries, kc kc.
No. s—The Dwelling House and Garden, modern and con-
venient, handsomely fitted up, and is in perfect order and
repair.
inTthhee Inivhesotlesuoft
stthaenptiraelmeirsdeesraarne
and repair,
hrelitydevnfcelorsiemdm, aedretaatell,
occupation, and do not require an outlay ot'oneshllin; for
the Milling Trade on either Machinery or Buildings.
Those Premises are so extensive that there is ample room
and sufficient spare buildings. so that a portion, with great
there
advantage and at a small outlay, could be easily converted
h to
into a first-class Bre ,rery, for the carrying on of which trade
-g every po-sible facility, and for which this sittation
presents many most important advantages, offering thus on
the
fa
Ira,ers and capitalsts a rare and most desirable
investment

But, before all, the Imperial Gov-rnment required that
the reprisals should cease, and the prizes made by the
British admiral should be released.

Mr. Christie having assented to the agreement on the
terms above propounded, and the principal condition
necessary for its effect having been fulfilled, the Brazilian
minister in London was authorised thus to proceed towards
het Britannic Majesty's Government.
Her Britannic Majesty having accepted the accord as
contained in the notes exchanged at this Court on the sth
of January, and fixed at £3,200 the amount that was to be
paid for the shipwreck of the Prince of Wales, the requisite
payment was effected immediately by the Brazilian repre-
sentative, with the essential declarations of the accord.
His Majesty the Emperor, acknowledging the sentiments
of justice and impartiality by which his Majesty the King
of the Belgians is distinguished and characterised, proposed
this august sovereign for abitrator in the decision of the
question relative to the officers of the frigate Forte.
This choice was well received by her Britannic Majesty.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians accepted with the
greatest benevolence the functions of arbitrator, which were
offered to him by common accord of the high parties in-
terested.

This affair is still pending, as well as the reclamations
which the Government deemed themselves entitled to ad-
dress to her Britannic Majesty's Government, demanding
condign satisfaction for the violation of their territorial
sovereignty, as five Brazilian ♦essels have been captured
and detained as prizes within the empire's own waters, on
the plea of reprisals, by war ships of the English navy, and
also a just indemnity for the prejudices resulting from those
captures.

INFORMATION RECEIVED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE CON-
FLICT AT THIS COURT.

According to the reports received from the president of
the province of S. Pedro, of Rio Grande do Sul, the indivi-
duals incriminated for the depredations of the English
barque Prince of -Wales had been found guilty, and the
process been sent up in conclusion to the respective law
judges.
One of the criminals, the most implicated in that de-
linquency, who had returned to Albardao, was imme-
diately arrested, and the Imperial Government forwarded
the characteristic descriptions of the others to the Imperial

legation at Monte Viddo, in order to claim from the
Oriental Republic the necessary measures for their being
apprehended and delivered over to the justices of the
empire.

These proceedings took place even before the transactions
which passed at this Court with her Britannic Majesty's
legation were known in that province, it not being oppor-
tune to acquaint the last with their result.

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General Fremont, the members of the committee
who had consulted the President on the subject at

Washington detailed the results of their interview.
The movement, it appeared, was not originated by

Gen. Fremou t or his friends, but by negro preachers

and other prominent black men. Col. Fairman,
member of the committee, reported that Mr. Lin-
coln would gladly accept the aid of the coloured
troops as a military organiantion, but found some
difficulty, in consequence of the high rank of Gen.
Fremont, in offering him a command so much less
important than be had a right to accept if again
summoned to active service. He believed, at the
same time that " Freemont was the man to do the
work and give it effect, on account of his peculiari-

ties and those of the coloured peor le." Displaying II
a map, in which the dark parts represented those
portions of the Southern States which were most
largely inhabited by coloured people, Mr. Lincoln
drew the attention of the committee to the country
around Vicksburg, and remarked " that he hoped
for ca-operation from the negroes to take Vicks-
burg and to hold it." Mr. Chase, who was present
at the interview, never spoke, but Mr. C. Sumner,
who manifested great interest in the proceedings,
expressed his belief "that the greatest name to to
written in the history of the war was to be written
by the hand of that man who should organise the
coloured people into an army for their own delive-
rance and the restoration of the Union.' The depu-
tation withdrew, with the impression that Mr. Lin-
coln desired to see Gen. Fremont at the head of
the black army, but could not, for personal reasons,
offer him the appointment; and that he would be
grateful if Gen. Fremont would solve the difficulty
by volunteering his services. The second glimpse
afforded into the workings of Mr. Lincoln's mind is
suggestive of the source of the perils that beset the
country and that must continue to beset it as long
as he remains in power. A German gentleman
named Taussig, who had been deputed during a pro-
fessional visit to Washington to present to the Pre-
sident a copy of the resolutions adopted at a mass
meeting in St. Louis, on the 10th of May last, tells
the story. Mr. Taussig having been admitted and
stated his business, the President read the resolu-

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rates, and are reduced to the Europea)V w*‘.y.r...\ Ivi.,,
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unable to lay by a shilling for a rainy dai.Pitz: ;.,..rf:%:,f4l
instances the masters have yielded to thiti:*a: . 0__.1,..,`V :14,7
the men, in others they have resisted anddlitittiOics),S
resist,more especially the contractors for the clmnsins --s—
-of the streets. Toe consequence is that the filtlig'
garbage of the city, exposed in barrels upon the

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"cot pavements for the contractors to clear away,

has been left untouched for nearly ten days, seething
and simmering in the rays of the hot sun, and emit-
ting such foul odours as compel the unhappy way-

'arer to hold his nose as he passes, and deprecate
in silent prayer the pestilence which is but too likely
to flow from the dense malaria that reeks on every

side.

The pric( s of -provisions and necessaries arc

calculated by the retail dealers at a far higher rate
of increase than that which would ha warranted. by

he rise in gold. Three months ago gold was at

premium of 73 per cent., and it now stands at 42

a difference of 31 per cent., but the upward start in

taken at the high rate of gold, h asmale tame;}
. .

itself at the lower, so that the poor labouror euff?rs
double Ey:try night meetings of the working
men, lre held to debate the conditions which labour
is t..) dictate to capital in a country whore labour

is so scarce as to be virtually the " boss" of .the
',bosses;": ai;d every night su attempt, of. some
kind or other id made on the part of tie employers
. .

to give the meetings a political character, with the
view of defeating or weakening their original pup-
pose. But, as a rule, the men are too earnestly
alive to their own interests to allow themselves to be
diverted from the business which they have most at

heart, and persist in ignoring all party speeches and
party issues. It is asserted, however, that the orga-
nisation was commenced, and prefiguring a general
union of all the trades for mutual protection against
the lowering of wages, has another and equally im-
portant object—that of resistance to the conscrip-
tion. This charge is not easily proved. It may be
utterly unfounded, or it may be quite true; but on

the latter supposition it is net likely that the pro-
moters will suffer the facts to become public with-
out strenuous denial, The probabilities are, how-
ever, that some such action of the working classes is
meditated, or has already commenced ; and that, in

the present temper of the Democratic party through-
out the State as well as city of New York, the
Government will not force the question to an un-
pleasant issue, by insisting upon a draft that might
be violently resisted.
Already, in other parts of the Union, the prelimi-
nary enrolment of the names of citizens liable to
military duty under the Conscription Act has led
to breaches of the peace, and in Indiana to the
assassination of the enrolling officer and his assistant.
Under these circumstances, the voluntary enlistment
of the black population and the manner in which the
negroes behave in the battle-field become questions
of the highest political importance. Mr. Lincoln
and his principal advisers seem as if they despaired
of any further white aid for the conquest of the
South, and the white labouring classes, in their de-
testation of the conscription, favour the black en-
listment as greatly as the President himself, for the
selfish reason that the more numerous the negro
armies the less likelihood there will be of any further
drain upon the blood of the whites. As yet the
negroes have had but three opportunitiea of showing
their military prowess in the field, or their military
obedience in circumstances of danger—first, in
Florida, under Col. Higginson ; secondly, at Port
Hudson, under General Banks ; and lastly, at Poca.-
taglio, under Colonel Montgomery. On the first
occasion, under Colonel Higgieson, when the das-
tardly white regiments set fire to the beautiful city
of Jacksonville and destroyed the churches and
chapels for mere wantonness of mischief, and the
private houses of the citizens for the purposes of
plunder, the negroes took no part in the outrages,
but loudly expressed their disapproval and disgust.
At Port Hudson, under General Banks, they were
led against the enemy's work and purposely placed
in a post of danger. They fought with the most de-
termined bravery, and were met with the most deter-
mined resistance. Out of a regiment of 900, 600 were
slain. Gen. Banks reports of them that " they an-
swered every expectation, and that in many respects
their conduct was heroic. They made during the
clay three charges upon the batteries, suffering very
heavy losses, and holding their positions at nightfall
with the other troops on the right of the tines.
Whatever doubts may have heretofore existed, the
history of this day proves that the Government will
find in this class of troops Effective supporters and
defenders. They require only good officers, com-
mends of limited numbers, and careful discipline to

tions in a loud voice. When he had concluded he
entered into a voluntary discussion, which lasted
two hours, on the various subjects which had been
thus brought under his notice. Mr. Taussig on
leaving the White House wrote down from memory
the substance of what Mr. Lincoln said, and pub-
lished it in one of the newspapers of St. Louis.
The chief points in the curious document are that
Mr. Lincoln admitted that it might be a misfortune
for the nation that he was elected President, but
that having been elected he meant to be President,
and to act as such, even if he had to die for it ; that
he would not remove any Generals or make any
changes in his Cabinet to suit the views or wishes
of any particular party, or faction, or set of men ;
that General Halleck was unjustly accused by public
opinion ; that Generals Fremont, Butler, and Siegel
were not systematically kept out of command ;
that they had placed themselves where they were
by their own action, and that he was willing to
employ them again, but that at present he had
more pegs than holes to put the pegs into. He
refused to admit that there was a want of unity in
the Cabinet, though he confessed that each Secretary
was only responsible for the good administration of
his own deparment, and that there was no cen-
tralisation of responsibility except in the President
himself. With regard to the state of affairs in
Missouri, consequent mainly upon the Proclamation
of Emancipation, and to dissensions which it had
created among the Unionists, the President dec'ared
that both parties were wrong, " and ought to have
their heads knocked together ;" that each of them
would rather see the defeat of the other than that
of Jefferson Davis; and that those among them who
were in favour of the gradual emancipation of the
slaves more nearly represented his views than those
who insisted upon their immediate manumission.
At the cicse of the interview the President re-
marked that there was evidently a serious misunder-
standing springing up between himself and the
Germans of Missouri, which he would like to see
removed. It appears from these admissions that
Mr. Lincoln has great confidence in himself, and
almost equal confidence in his Ministers; and that
nothing less than some great and overwhelming
calamity to th© national arms will cause him to yield
to public opinion in the matter of any Minister now
in office, or any General now in command, "fight-
ing Joe Hooker" included.
The working classes in this city, as far as any
jndgment can be formed of their opinions by their
presence in large numbers at meetings in favour of
peace, by their patronage of journals opposed to the
Administration, by their conversation among each
other at places of public resort, or by the chance
remarks which they let fall in the presence of their
employers and others, are strongly opposed to the
war. Though led away, like the majority, in the
burst of passion that followed the bombardment of
Fort Sumter, they gradually lost their interest in
the war as it proceeded. The first cold fit that came
upon their enthusiasm was caused by the President's
Proclamation of Emancipation, for the working
classes, as a body, are not Abolitionists, and the
Irish more particularly are notoriously opposed to
the competition of negroes with white labour. The
second refrigerant of their zeal, more effectual than
the first, was the depreciation of the currency caused
by the enormous issues of paper money, and the
simultaneous rise in the price of food and all the
necessaries of life. The last and, perhaps, the sorest
trial of their patience with a war which they have
ceased to approve or to hope any good from, is the
threatened conscription. The abolition question was
more or less a sentimental one, but the questions of
the currency and the conscription are practical. They
appeal to the pocket and person, and under their
combined influences the working classes of this city
have wrought themselves into a state of discontent
which the Government will do well to study if it
wish to prevent mischief. Hitherto labour, in con-
sequence of the scarcity of workmen, has been so
well paid that the working man's paradise, if any-
where on the face of the world, was to be found in
the United States. With provisions at only half of
the British and European prices, and wages at a rate
double at the very least, and in some instance treble
that of the Old World, the working man found his
position not only comfortable, but highly prosperous,
inasmuch ae he could live welt and save one-half of
his income. The war, however, has effected achange.
It reduced, through the agency of Mr. Chase's
superabundant greenbacks, the value of the dollar
to about 60 cents, while at the same time it sent up
the price of provisions and other articles of prime
necessity to the extent of 20 or 30 per cent. ; virtu-
ally reducing the working man's income to less than
one-half of what it used to be in the ancient days of
peace and prosperity when James Buchanan was
President. As there was in no trade any rise in
wages in consequence of the enhanced cost of living,
and no disposition on the part of the "bosses" (as
employers here are called, to avoid the use of the
unwelcome word " master," which goes against the
stomach of a free and enlightened citizen) to raise
the vvagz:s to a point at which the labourers could
live as comfortably as before, a series of strikes has
taken place in almost every trade in the city. The
stevedores, the longshore-men, the ship builders, the
ship painters, the ship joiners, the house carpenters,
the sawyers, the builders, the painters, the tailors,
the shoemakers, the hatters, the compositors, the
pressmen, the pianoforte makers, the scavengers,
and several others are now on strike for an advance
of wages. The ship painters demand 21 do's. per
diem, instead of 1. The longshoremen, or dock
labourers, demand 25c. an hour for 11 hours per
diem, or 26 dols. a day, with 50c. an hour for extra
work after 6 o'clock in the evening ; and all the
other trades make corresponding:demands upon the
"bosses," which they justify by the assertion that
the price of food is so high in depreciated dollars
that they cannot support themselves at the ancient

make them excellent soldiers." General Banks is a
cautious man, who makes few, if any, mistakes, and
praise from him must be held to be well deserved,
wherever it may happen to fall. The third and
most recent achievement of the negroes is the occu-
pation of the railway bridge at Pocatiligo—between
Charleston and Savannah—an important military
point, the capture of which cuts off the communica-
tion between those two cities. It appears to have
been effected with so little difficulty as to lead to the
supposition that such large reinforcements have
been sent from both places to Vicksburg and Port
Hudson as to have left them without adequate de-
fence against a surprise of this kind. It is so mani-
festly impossible that the Confederates can allow
this position to be held without an attempt to dis-
lodge the captors—whether black or white—that
stirring events may immediately be looked for in
that quarter. In accordance with the avowed policy
and determination of the South, every negro cap-
tured in arms will be hung. If the threat be exe-
cuted, will Mr. Lincoln and his Government—who
have officially proclaimed that a black soldier in
their uniform is as good as a white, and has the
same rights as a prisoner of war—retaliate by the
execution of a corresponding number of white pri-
soners? They have solemnly and repeatedly de-
clared that they will do so. If they do, the war on
both sides will degenerate into one of unmitigated
barbarity and ferocity, and outraged Christendom
will be called on to interfere in the desecrated
names of religion and civilisation.
Whatever may happen, it will be remembered to
the eternal shame of the Federal Government that
it set the first example of this odious warfare, and
that it deliberately strove to excite the slaves to
murder their masters. On the 3d of this month,
nine days ago, this same Colonel Montgomery, the
hero of Pocatiligo, and one of the " rowdy" officers,
first brought into notoriety by the border atrocities
of Kansas, led his black troops up the Coosaw
River, in South Carolina, in several steamers, to
proclaim freedom to the slaves. Landing his men
without opposition—for there were none to oppose
him—he proceeded to the nearest plantations, and
made what he calls " a successful haul" of upwards
of a thousand able-bodied negroes, for the recruit-
ment of the Federal armies. The Abolitionist
journals of the North applaud the thheisalciet ;grboeust
burntthey
say nothing of the shameful episodes of the main
which were
belonging sestory. Colonel Montgomery a
tothe ground t o
upwardsplaplanters—many
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o f
in-
habited by women and children only,
chairs tables,tbhoeookws
having gone to the war. loaded his steamers
s
and in the darkness with pianofortes, bedding,
looking-glasses, " and any
illuminated by the blazing rulunasn,
" furniture,"
torches had left on every side, emtbthaiatrytkehodisf
. of the. night,ely
household
n
incendiaryhis recruits
and his plunder, thinking, perhaps that he had done
his little beat towards the restoration of the Union,
The N )rthern people should not deceive themselves
in this matter. They desire to stand well in the
world's
opinion ; hut they Trill forfeit the little
sympathy that still attaches to their cause if They
Ignorantly or wilfully allow the war to assume the
ohape that such men as Col. Montgomery are im-
pressing upon it. When a people, fighting for in-
dependenc2, only desirous to be let alone, are in-
vaded upon their own soil and in their own homes,
the world looks with comparative leniency upon any
vengeance—Lven though it transcend the ordinary
bounds
which they may wreak upon the in-
vaders. But the same leniency is net and cannot
be extended to the invaders themselves. He who
kills in self-defence is exonerated by the sympathy
of the world, and is at worst guilty of manslaughter.
Ile who kills as an aggressor is a murderer. Upon
this principle any severity, or apparent cruelty, that
may be exercised by the South in its resistance will
be condoned by the heart, though it may be deplored
by the judgment, of the nations ; while any similar
cruelty or vengeance exercised by the North will be
received with a universal hiss of reprobation that no
nation or Government, however proud and powerful,
can withstand, without present and future injury
and loos of caste, consideration, and charae',;:z.

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CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS.—_Half a
million flowering' plants bedded out. The Park and
Grounds in most luxuriant beauty. Tens of thousands of
Roses in Rosery. Hundreds of Palm trees and rare tropical
plants inside the Palace.

CRYSTAL PALACE.--GREAT ROSE
SHOW of the SEASON.—TO-MORROW (Saturday),
June ,7th.
Admission, Half -a-crown. Guinea Season Tickets free.
NOTE.—The unusually favourable season has led to such an
increased number of entries, that this Rose Show will be the
largest ever held. Besides collections of new Roses, and
large collections in Vases and Pot Roses, upwards of Five
Thousand Trusses will be exhibited from all the principal
irrowers. The doors of the Palace will be opened at 10, the
barriers inclosing the Show will be removed as soon as the
judves have completed their awards, about 12 o'clock. The
Roses remain on view until 6 o'cicck.

TO-MORROW, the LARGEST and FINEST
ROSE SHOW EVER HELD.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-DRAMATIC
PERFORMAN 7E. —TO-MO RROW (Saturday).--J.
Maddison Morton's Farce. " FITZSMYTHE, OF FITZ -
S3lY'r FIE HALL." Messrs. Lucks-one, Farren, and Rogers ;
Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Fanny Wright. With Scenery and
Dresses. Half-a-Crown ; Season Tickets free. Half-a-crown
Reserved Seats now on sa,e at the Crystal Pal ice, or at 2,
Exeter Hall. Coors open at 10. Rose Snow from 12 to 6.

111-IEATP.E-R.3Y AL. }JAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. 3. B. Buokstene.
THIS EVENING, a new Farce, entitled AN UNLUCKY
MORTAL.
After which, 34th time, a new:and original comedy. entitled
FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy : Mr. Buckstone, Mr.
Howe, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and
Miss Louisa Ange!.
FolFowed by (14th time', a new Farce, EASY SHAVING:
Mess,s Compton, W. Gordon, Rogers ; Miss Louise Keeley,
Miss Fanny Wright.
To conclude with THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA.
Commence at 7.

TDUKE'S MOTTO.
lIL.NDRED THIRTY-SEVENTH NIGHT.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
Under the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTER.

THIS EVENING, to commence with an Original Sketch,
entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Harden,
H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter-past Eight, the Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and PrDlogue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feral and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G. Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougn am,
H. ‘‘ iddi zmbe, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Sophy Henrade. Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, and
Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past.