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The reverse, however, appears to be the case, fur
Lord SHAFTESBURY •has already explained all the
circumstances of the case. The commissioners were
visiting Lincoln when they received information
from a person who waited upon them at their
hotel. They did not, however, as stated, make any
report on his statements, but they simply suggested
an inquiry. In consequence of that, in the next
visit made in their ordinary circuit two
other commissioners visited the asylum, and
spent two days there, and carefully inquired
into the particulars they had heard, and also into
serious statements that had been made by one of
the visiting physicians, and upon this personal
evidence they founded their report to the Board,
which was in due time sent to the Governors.
This version of the occurrence is certainly in strik-
ing contrast to Mr. HAMILTON'S observation that
the Commissioners based their inquiry " on the
information of concealed authority, and clandes-
tinely investigated." Likewise, there is a great
difference between the second visit of the Commis-
sioners taking place in the ordinary routine of their
duties, and not, as was declared, in consequence of
the "careless and indiscreet conduct of their col-
leagues." Lord SHAFTESBURY was right in stating
that a very grave question is involved in this
comparison of the degree in which public officers
have discharged their duties. Too much care and
caution cannot be exercised in making charges
against those engaged in the performance of their
duty. Lord SHAFTESBURY declares that, as Chairman
of the Commissioners of Lunacy, he is naturally
anxious for their good repute, " on which, indeed,
their public utility entirely depends." This is true ;
and it must be very satisfactory to the noble lord
that he has been able to make so clear a statement,
and exculpate so completely the Commissioners,
who were charged with a dereliction of their
duty. It is a well known fact that from
disputes and misunderstandings at public insti-
tutions many valuable hints are often given, and in
the end important benefits are derived by those
who are in most need of them. It does not appear
that anything very seriously wrong was discovered,
but neither does it appear that all was right in the
management of the affairs in the asylum alluded to
at the period under discussion. The conclusion ar-
rived at, then, is that, in consequence of some state-
ment, advantages accrued to the institution as re-
garded its internal arrangements. Was not this
result a desirable one, and did not the agents em-
ployed fulfil the purpose for which their body was
organised. It is an evident fact that all these in-
quiries are more or less inconvenient and unpala-
table, under the most flattering and favourable cir-
cumstances, but they were not organised with a
view.to convenience, but for the general good of the
sufferers. It is known that the Lunacy Commis-
sioners have been the means of conferring many
great and good services on the most afflicted por-
tion of the community, and therefore it is not in
accordance with the opinion that is generally en-
tertained of their services that these strictures are
made, and there is no doubt that public opinion will
ratify the declaration so emhatically put forth by
their respected Chairman.

Mr. Disraeli seems to have induced several of the
Conservative members to follow him in the vote for
the Exhibition building. We find among them—Mr. Ad-
derley, Mr. Antrobus, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Bathurst, Col.
Cole, Mr. Corrie, the Earl of Dalkeith, Visct. Emley, Mr,
Hope, Mr. Kennard, Lord H Lennox, Mr. Lygon, Mr.
Mainwaring, Sir S. Northcote, Sir F. Smith, Col. Sturt, Mr.
H. Sturt, Col. Taylor, Col. Vandeleur, Mr. Walter, Mr.
Whiteside, and Mr. Whitmore. Thus 22 out of the minority
of 121 were memb?rs of the Opposition. The only liberals
of what is called the "advanced party" who voted for the
purchase of the building were—Mr. Baines, Mr. Clay. Mr.
J. R. Mills, Mr. E. Paget, Sir S. Peto, Mr. Roebuck,
Baron M. Rothschild, Mr. Seely, and Mr. Warner. In
opposition to the motion the great bulk of the Liberal party
were joined by such Conservatives as Mr. Bentinek, Mr.
Bramley- Moore, Mr. Butler-Johnstone, Lord R. Cecil, Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, Sir J. Elphinstone, Mr. Ferrand, Sir E.
Grogan, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Henley, Mr. Horsfall, Lord
Hotham, Mr. Laird, Lora G. Lennox, Mr. Macaulay, Lord

J. Manners, Lord Naas, Sir J. Pakington, Col. Patten, Ms.
Spooner, Lord S.anley, Mr. Stirling, Mr. Wa pole. &c. Mr.
Bright voted against the purchase. Mr. Cobden appears to
have been absent.
THE EXHIBITION BUILDING.—We (limes) are
requested by Messrs. Kelk and Lucqs to correct the im-
pression unfortunately created by the statements made in
the House of Commons on Thursday night, and which led
to the belief that they desired to take advantage of the
terms of their contract, and to refuse to remove the building
from the ground it occupies. They state that they cheerfully
and respectfully bow to the deci-ion of the house, and have
already made arrangements for beginning to pull down the
building on Monday next.
We have already stated that a bust of the late
Sir George Cornewall Lewis is to be placed in West-
minster Abbey. It is also intended to erect a more conspi.
caous monument to his memory in his native county of
ttadnor. A considerable local subscription has been raised
for the purpose, anti some of Sir G. Lewis's friends and ad-
mirers who are unconnected with the county have answered

the invitation of the committee by contributing to the
fund. The form and character of the monument will
necesmarily depend on the amount of the subscrip-
tion, but it is determined that it is to be a .s.aitable
structure in the open air, and in the immediate neighbour-
hood of Sir George Lewis's residence at Harpton. Local
associations fix and strengthen the memories which monu-
ments are designed to perpetuate. The record of Sir
George Lewis's merits and services, which might be almost

lost in a crowd of effigies and inscriptions, mill be secure
from confusion and forgetfulness in the little Welsh county
where his family has resided for centuries. Subscriptions
are received at Messrs. Robarts and Lubbock's, and the
honorary secretary is Mr. R.l). Greeu Price, of 20, White-
hall-place.

CHARLES ALBERT FECHTER, the popular actor,
and now Lessee of the Lyceum, was born, says the
Lady's .Newspaper of this morning, on October 23, 1824,
in a third floor of that curious little thoroughfare, inhabited
by jewellers and milliners, called Hanway-street, connect-
ing, in a crescent, Oxford •street and Tottenha;p-court-road.
His father, a German, was in the employ of a firm of
jewellers, and through change of work had to remove to
Paris, when little Charles Albert was only five or six years
old. Early in life he evinced a decided taste for painting
and the sister arts, which induced his father to apprentice
him to a sculptor. He, however, got soon tired of the shop,
and, attracted by the apparently ideal life of the stage,
resolval to become an actor. At the age of eighteen he
made his dhbut at the small theatre of the Salle Moliere, in
the Mari de la Veuve. From thence he passed for a short
time to the Conservatoire, and subsequently engaged in a
travelling troupe, bent on a tour through Italy. The
speculation turned out not very lucrative ; and, somewhat
disgusted with his theatrical career, Mr. Feilter, at the
end of a year, returned to Paris, and took once more to
sculpture. An offer to play subordinate roles at the Theatre
Fran9ais, brought him again on the stage, and alter a six
months' engagement at the leading French establishment,
he went, in 1846, to Berlin. Here he met his first genuine
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE,

(REUTER'S TELEQRAMS.)

AMERICA.

(Per the Africa.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 22, Evening.

The Confederate ironclad steamer Atlanta, for-
merly the Finlay, steamed out of Savannah, and
was captured by two Federal ironclads after 30
minutes' fighting.
The blockading squadron has sunk the steamer
Herald of Charleston: The fate of the crew is un-
known. Broadsides were fired at the vessel till she
sunk. It is stated that in future the fleet will not
wait to capture, but will fire at blockade runners
till they sink or surrender. A steamer, supposed
to be the Isaac Smith, has been sunk while endea-
vouring to get out of Charleston.
A steamer, supposed to be the Beauregard or
Britannia, was sunk on the 11th inst. while endea-
vouring to enter Charleston.

A schooner privateer is cruising off Nantucket,
and a burning vessel has been seen in that vicinity.
The privateer Tacony captured the Liverpool packet
Isaac Webb on the 20th, in long. 68, and lat. 40.35,
and bonded her for 40,000 dole. The Tacony has
also burnt the brig Umpire.
Admiral Foote is dying.

The reported fighting at Centreville is not con
firmed, and it is denied that there is any Confederate
infantry force on this side of the Bull Run moon•

tains.

Gen. Lee does not occupy Thoroughfare Gap, and
his army is not nearer Washington than the She-
nandoah Valley, although there is a Confederate
cavalry farce at Middleburg, in the centre of Lon-
don Valley.
General Pleasanton attacked General Stuart',
cavalry at Middleburg on the 21st, and reports that
he drove them all day capturing two pieces of artil-
lery and 60 prisoners,
The estimates of the Confederate forces massed
on the Upper Potomac at William's Port, Hagers-
town, Sharpsburg, and around Antietam, and Fre-
derick, vary from 40,000 to 80,000 men. Gen. Ewell
is said to be fortifying Hagerstown. The Confede-
rates have erected a substantial bridge across the
Potomac at Williamsport, and a pontoon bridge at
Shepherdatown. They have destroyed all the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridges from Harper's
Ferry to Cumberland.
The apprehensions of an attack on Baltimore have
not abated. Earthworks are erected around the
west and north sides of the city and barricades in

the streets.
Federal militia continue to be sent there.
General Lee officially reports on the 15th inst.
that General Ewell's division successfully stormed
the entrenchments of Winchester.
Milroy's defeat appears to have been disastrous,
since he abandoned three batteries of field artillery,
siege guns, 28 waggons, and 1,200 horses. Five
thousand of his troops are missing, but they con-
tinue to corze in from various parts of the country.
The Federal General Keyes, with a force from
the peninsula, was within 17 miles of Richmond on
the 15th. A small force of Confederate cavalry has
crossed the Ohio River into Indiana, but the greater
portion were captured. The Governor of Indiana
has called out 20,000 militia for six months.
NEW YORK, JUNE 23, Evening.
The Confederates have re-occupied Chambers-
burg, and apprehensions of their advancing on
Harrisburg are renewed.
In consequence of the slaughter of negro troops
at Milliken's Bend, General Grant has threatened
to retaliate if coloured troops are executed when
captured.

General Johnstone is fortifying the east bank of
Big Black River.
The Confederates estimate their loss during Gen.
Grant's different attaclis on Vtcksburg at 6,000 men,
and tie Federal losses at 40,000. They think that
Grant's present force, with the reinforcements
which he has received, does not exceed 60,000
men.

No fears are expressed of a want of provisions at
Vicksburg.
Advices from
New Orleans to the 14th, repre-
sent the siege at Port Hudson to be progressing

favourably,
goutheria journals assert that the Federal steamer
Essex had been captured at Port Hudson, and
several gun-boats disabled, and that a battle oc-
curred at Port Hudson on the 12th, during which
the Confederates left their entrenchments, drove
General Banks from his fortifications, and spiked
his guns.

Sixteen Mobile adveni:urers have captured the
Federal steamer Boston at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi, afterwards burning two barks, and taking
the steamer into Mobile-
A Confederate cavalry force, numbering 900, has
invaded Indiana, in order to burn the bridges of
the Ohio and Mississippi Rai'road.
The Federal General Carter's cavalry is making
a raid in East Tennessee.
The Confederates are reported to be moving on the
whole Federal line from Memphis to Corinth, and
T
cutting the railroads and telegraph wires.
Federal expedition from Port Royal has
entirely destroyed the town of Darien, Georgia.
Nothing was known at Newbern of the forces
reported to have concentrated in North Carolina,
for resistance to the Confederate Goveinment.
The Confederate iron-clad Chatahoocha has been
destroyed by an explosion, while making a raid on
the Federal fleet at Palachicola. The British brig
Isabella Thompson has been captured.
The Peterhoff trial has been postponed.

ferrtd his- command' from the Aiubecua to the

steamer Georgia.

NEW YORK, JUNE 25, Evening,
(By telegraph to Halifax.)

The panic and apprehension caused by the Con-
federate invasion continue throughout Maryland
and Pennsylvania. The citizens from the border
are harrying to Harrisburg, and thousands of men
are working on entrenchments in Baltimore and
Pittsburg.

General Halleck has visited Baltimore and in •
spected the defences.
This morning the Confederates were within 16
miles of Harrisburg, and were reported to have 10
regiments with artillery and cavalry in South
Mountain, beyond Gettysburg.
Lee's object in threatening various points in
Pennsylvania is still supposed to be to draw
Hooker's army from Washington.
Generals Lee and Longstreer, with 100,000 men,
were reported to have been at Winchester on Friday
last, and it is reported that Lee's whole army has
crossed into Maryland at Antietam, Shepherdstown,
and Williamsport.
On Sunday large Confederate trains were moving
north through Hagerstown, Martinsburg, and
Boonesboro'.

Rhode's Confederate division, 12,000 strong,
with 13 pieces of artillery, crossed at Shepherds-
town on Sunday. Half of them moved northward
on Tuesday, and the other half went to Williams-
port.

The Baltimore American says General Ewell is
advancing in the direction of Frederick.
General Hooker's army occupies the whole
Virginia side of the Potomac up to Harper's Ferry,
and it is supposed that General Hooker will cross
the river at the same fords where Lee entered
Maryland last year, and place himself between Lee
and Washington and Baltimore. The garrison at
Maryland heights now form the right wing of
Hooker's army.

Ewell's advance towards Frederick is supposed
to be to prevent the junction of Hooker with Har-
per's Ferry, but this junction is said to have been
accomplished.
The New Fork Herald thinks that General Lee's
forces will cut the different railroad lines and isolate
Maryland and Washington from communication
with the north and west, and that Lee, with his
main army, will occupy some central point between
Baltimore and Washington, and compel Hooker to
come out and fight, under pain of being isolated
from the east, north, and west.

20,000 of General Brugg's troops are reported to
have reinforced Richmond.

The Governor of NEW Jersey has recalled the
troops of that State from Pennsylvania. A dispute
with the Governor of Pennsylvania, and the fact
that the Jersey troops were abused as copperheads,
caused him to this step.
General Milroy is reported to be superseded.
The Federals were to commence firing_shot into
Vicksburg on the 20th.
Southern journals report that a heavy engage-
ment was progressing on the 21st between the Con-
federate cavalry and the Federals at Big Black
Bridge.

General Banks officially reports on the 14th that
he had established batteries within 350 yards of
Port Hudson. After a vigorous cannonade he
summoned the garrison to surrender. The Con-
federates having refused, an assault was made,
and General Banks gained and held a position
within 50 to 100 yards of the enemy's works. Gen.
Banks is confident of success.

The reported capture of the steamer Essex is

denied.

Advices trom Havanna state that it was rumoured
there that an engagement occurred on the 3d be-
tween the Alabama and the Vanderbilt, off Santa
Cruz.

The privateer Tecony continues her depredations
off Nantucket. Since the 12th she has burned 17
vessels, among which were the ship Byzantium,
from London for New York, and the barque Good-
speed, from Londo,.derry for New York.

Despatches just received from Baltimore assert
that General Lee's programme is to march rapidly
to Harrisburg and on to Philadelphia. There are
rumours that Lee, after crossing the Potomac,
recrossed it at a point below so as to bring a portion
of his forces between Hooker and Washington.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, JUNE 23.

Advices received here from Mexico via San Fran-
cisco to the 24th, state that Juarez had taken the
command of the army. It was supposed that
Juarez would flood the valley on the approach of
the French.

JUNE 25.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 2d inst. state
that Marquez with 7,000 men, and Gen. Bazaine
with 9,000 men, were marching on Mexico by dif-
ferent routes. Ortega and the other generals cap-
tured at Puebla had escaped from Orizba.
The French had arrived at San Martin Los
Mulican.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JUNE 25, Evening.
Money easy. Gold 46 per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London—bankers bills, 1582. Stocks
fiat. On Tuesday and Wednesday stock took an
upward turn, but a downward reaction set in this
morning, though the market closes stronger. New
York Centrals, 1201. Illinois, 1021. Erie, 95i.
Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 104.
Cotton buoyant. Middling Upland, 64c. to 65c.
Flour dull. Wheat firm and advancing. Corn,
good inquiry. Provisions in good demand.
Coffee steady. Sugar quiet. Molasses advanc-
ing, Crude petrolum, 30c.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, JULY 3.

The Berliner Bonsenzeitung of this evening says :
" The Prussian CLvernment has been informed by
Russia that the reply to the notes of the three
Powers will in its essential points assent to their
proposals, especially with reference to the assembly
of a congress. The wishes of Austria will be espe-
cially regarded, while those of England, which are
of a more advanced character, will not be conceded."

The Neue Preussische (Kreuz) Zeitung of today
The King will leave Carlsbad upon the
18th inst. for Gerstein. His 111hjesty's state of
health is satiddetory. Herr Von Biamark Schon-
hausen has left Carlsbad."

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
ST, PETERSBURG, JUNE 28.

Another address from General Niouravieff to the
peasantry has been pubished. He points out to
them that they are no longer bound to the nobility,
and that they should cease to perform services which
the law no longer requires. He calls to their mind
that the Emperor alone gave them their freedom,
that the nobility were opposed to it. Again, one
of General Mouravieffs subordinate generals, the
military governor of Volhynia, having heard that
the Polish language was much spoken, and even
written in some of the public offices, issued an order
with instructions to the officials never to give a
reply or accept a petition in the Polish language,

in order not to "support certain Polish clairps on

the country."

BROMBERG, JULY 4.

The Bromberger Zettung of to-day publishes the
following news from Warsaw, to the 2d inst.:—
" The National Government has sent a declara-
tion to the Cabinets of Paris and London, stating
that it agrees to a conference being held on condi-
tion of the conclusion of an armistice and the ad-
mittance to the Conference of a representative of the
National Government.

"The National Government farther stipulates
that a Diet be convoked for Congress Poland and
the Western provinces, under the guarantee of
Europe and the protection of a Polish national