The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

No. 22,154

LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW WORK.
Just ready, in 3 vols.,
MAR Y 14 YNDS A Y.
By Lady EMILY PONSONBY.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
Orders received at all the Libraries.

LORD WILLIAM LENNOX'S BIOGRAPHY.
Now ready, in 2 vole., Bvo.,
FIFTY YEAR`' BIOGRAPHICAL
REMINISCENCES.
By LORD WILLIAM PITT LENNOX.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Now ready, with a LETTER from the Author, in 3 vols.,
FOURTH EDITION o! LOST AND SAVED.
By the Hon. MRS. NORTON.
" Lost and Saved' will be read with eager inta*est by
those who love a touching story. It is a vigorous novel."—
Times.
A novel of ra e excellence ; fresh in its thought, shrewd
and Subtle in its character-painting, and with a brave soul
speaking through it. It is Mrs. Norton's best prose work."
—Examiner.
Hurst and B`ackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
S T.

JAMES'S HALL.-
GRAND FANCY BAZAAR.
THIS DAY, from ONE till NINE o'clock.
Admission—HALF-A-CROWN.
Choice PICTURES—FLOWERS and FRUIT—RIMMEL'S
FOUNTAINS.

ST.

JAMES'S HALL.—
GRAND FANCY BAZAAR.
THIS DAY (TUESrDAYI),saj;ITYWEDNESDAY and
nefetrtu7SPl=NSFusoilf"gre.

JAMES'S HALL.-
GRAND FANCY BAZAAR.
THIS DAY, from ONE till NINE.
In AID of the FUNDS
Hoff the LONDON SURGICAL
MINION'S CHINATOYSCHILDREN'S CLOTHING and
, dm &o.

ST.

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE,
JUNE 39, 1863.
A Grand MELANGE DRAMATIQUE will take place in
AID of the FUNDS for a NATIONAL METROPOLITAN
MONUMENT to SHAKESPEARE, under the immediate
Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales, before wnom 60 eminent artistes will have the
honour of appearing. —Hon. Sec., Mr. Adolphus Francis, 43,
Cumberland-street, Hyde-park.

MR. CHURCH'S New Picture, the, ICEBERGS,
painted from studies made in the Northern Seas in
the summer of 1859.—German Gallery, 168, New Bond-street,
W. Admission, ls.

P
A RI S. -=GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.
Established in 1855.—Situated in the most Central part
of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal —Six hun-
dred Bedrooms at from 3 to 201r—F0 Sitting-rooms at from
4to 201 r.—a richly decorated Dining Saloon—Table d'Rote
at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining Rooms—Choice
Wines—Dinners served a la carte both in the dining-rooms
and the private apartments—Reading and Conversation
Saloons ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other par-
ties all Newspapers and Serial Publications received—
Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms—numerous
Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises —fi. st-class Private
Equipages at command—Omnibuses running to all the rail-
way stations—Postal Letter-box—Telegraph-office day and
night—Photographic studio—a staff of servants Epeaking all
Languages.

H E 0 X F 0 It D,
A, OXFORD STREET.

Will be performed Selections from the following Operas :
LA CIRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and
MASANIELLO.

Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Ell!son
Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, guista, Kimberley, and

W. Diane, with full band and 'chorus.
Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Drew Dean's Flute Solos
Master Sanders, the Juvenile Vocalist.
UNSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes.

Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the marvellous
ARTHUR and BERTRAND.

The HALL has been newly Decorated and Ventilated. and
is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.

CANTERBURY HALL AND
FINE ARTS GALLERY.
NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
This Evening the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND,
the Two Frew h Clowns.

ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly
for him.
A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH'S new Comicalities, &c,
SAM COLLINS, with new Songs.
UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator.
EUGENE, and G. HUTCHINSON.

GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and
CANTATAS.

Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Miss Townley ; Mr. Green,
Signor Hunan, and Signor Tivoli.
Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission--Hall, Ed. ; stalls and balcony, is.

OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. New
IN Musical Invention, the GRAND PIANO °FICHE ST RE,
c mbining a full Band of 2i Inst•uments, will be Performed
on by the Inventor, Herr SCH LKENBACH, EVERY
AFTER :\ 00N, between the hours of Three and Five o'clock.
Admission—Sixpence and One Shilling.

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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1863,

METROPOLITAN RAIII,WAY.—On and after
the Ist of JULY the Price of SEASON TICKETS
will be REDUCED.
MONTHLY TICKETS will also be issued.
Particulars on application at the Superintendent's Office,
or at any of the Stations on the Line.

ROYAL AT.HAMBRA PALACE.—Continued
Success of the marvellous RISARELIS.

THE ENGLISH and SCOTTISH MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited) will COM-
MENCE BUSINESS at its Temporary Offices, No. 2, Royal
Exchange-buildings, on WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Ist
July,

26th June, 1E 63.

By order,
D. MACPHERSON, Secretary.

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK
COMPANY.
The COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST and WEST
INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give notice that a HALF-
YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MEETING of the said
Company will be held, pursuant to the direction of the Act
Ist and 2d William I V , cap. 52, at the Dock House, No. 8,
Billiter-square, ou FRIDAY, the 10th day of July next, for
the pur rose of choosing and appointing .E IGHT DIREC-
TORS in the room of those going out of office by rotation ;
at which Meeting a DIVI bEND will be declared on the
Captal Stock of the Company for the half year ending the
30th June.

By order of the Court,
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock House,
Billiter-square, June 26, 1863.
N.B.—The chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for ORPHANS and NECESSITOUS CHILDREN,
Pinner, Middlesex.
A General Half-yearly Court was held at the London
Tavern, this day, June 29, 1863, George Moore, Esq., trea-
surer, in the chair, when an .election of fourteen children—
nine boys and five girls—took place. The following is the
result of the poll :
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES.

BOYS.
Piper, Edmund William 9,281 Cooper, H. W.
Jones, Benjamin
Chapman, James
Headland, C.
Waters, T. H 6,246

G IF
Baxter, E. A.
Thorp, Lucy M. 4,817
Mansell, L. E.
UNSUCCESSFUL
Bo'
Porter, clement 3,650
Marshall, Wm.
Compton, F. C 2,275
Shenton, Fred.

ROYAL ALHANIBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Ralf-
past Ten o'clock.

ARGYLL ROOM S.-JULLIEN'S
PROMENADE CONCERTS.
NOTlCE.—Durirg the Week the Selections will be—" Der
Frieschutz a-Forza del Deetino "—"II Trovatore "
" Don Giovanni," &c.
LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays
from half-past Nine to Twelve.
Admission, is.

GE
Ryder, E. C. ... 2,155
Bolton, Isabel
Worsfold, Emily

Offices, 76, Cheapside, Londi

Massingham A. R .... 3,156
Goodchild, Louisa E... 3,050

A.D. 1720.

MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic
s tab' i shment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now
in lull operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for les. 6d ; 21 for £l. 31iniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former
styles.

THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 505., a
new Instrumen`„ by Negretti and Zambra, will cor
rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for
Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ;
57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street.

GEORGE HOBSON invites public attention to
his Superfine West of England Woaden BLACK
THS, for Beaufert and Frock Coats, £2 15s. to £3 3s. ;
the New Neutral Cojour Scotch Angola Travelling and
Tourist Suits. £2 108. to X' 188. ; the new Summer Trousers,
leis. to 215.; the Baden Waistcoats, 1 is.
Excellence wi h Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, 57, LOMBARD-STREET.

The Union of the lonian Islands with Greece.

Earl Russell has addressed the following despatch

o her Majesty's ambassadors at the Courts of Aus-
ria, France, Prussia, and Russia :

EARL RUSSELL TO LORD BLOOMFIELD.
" Foreign Office, June 10.
" My Lord,—The time is at hand when her Ala-

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of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott
invites a trial from the most sceptical, that they may be con-
vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., 10s. ad.,
and 215. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas
Elliott, hairgrovrer ( first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s
wigs. £1 10s.

RIIPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN TILE GREAT
FxIIIILITIDNB OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medioal Gentlemen to he the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of El ERN 1 A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
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Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had,' and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
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A Single Truss, Us., 215., 265. ed., and 31e. 6d. Postage, Is.
, Double Truss, 31s. &1., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, is Bd.
Nn Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,'Post-
office, Piccadilly.

jesty's declaration of her readiness to consent to the
union of the lonian Islands with Greece, if the

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:onion Islands should themselves desire that union,

must be followed by practical measures; and her

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Majesty's Government are anxious, before taking
further steps, to free the subject from ambiguity.

As, therefore, some unfounded notions are enter-

ained with respect to those islands, it may be use-
that I should call your Excellency's attention to
;he truth regarding their position, their rights, and

,heir future condition.

" The lonian Islands are not, as some persons ap-

pear to suppose, a part of the possessions of the
British Crown. They form the Republic of the
Seven Islands, placed by treaty under the protec-
tion of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, his
heirs and successors. The manner in which these

slands came under the protection of the British

Crown is well known to all those who are acquainted

with the European transactions of 1815. Provisions
relating to them were not included among the arti-
cles of the general treaty concluded at Vienna in the
month of June of that year, but on the 4th of June

of that year the plenipotentiaries of the four Powers,
Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, being
assembled, recorded in a protocol what had passed
at their conference of that day. The plenipotentiary
of Austria declared that the question of the posses-
sion of the lonian Islands being connected with the

tranquillity of Italy and of the former Venetian pro-
vinces, the Court of Austria would charge itself
with the protection of these islands, and would gua-
rantee to them the maintenance of their laws and

privileges. But the plenipotentiaries of Russia said
that, desiring nothing else than to assure to the in-
habitants of those islands the happiest lot, and that

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

most appropriate to their situation, they thought it
their duty to promote the wish of the inhabitants
of those islands that they should remain under the

protection of Great Britain. The plenipotentiaries
of Russia also remarked that Count de Capodistrias,
who had been charged specially with this matter,
_ .

being absent, they could not then make any defini-
tive arrangement, and they proposed an adjourn-
ment, and this proposal was finally adopted. It is

well known that Count de Capodistrias, who at that

time enjoyed great favour with the Emperor Alexan-
der, was zealous in behalf of the nationality and

The quarterly meeting was held this day at the offices in
Norfolk-street—Lord Ranelagh in the chair.

The SECRETARY (Mr, Gruneisen) read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting.
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN read the following report of
the Executive Committee : _ _

It will be gratifying to the shareholders to find that the
Executive Committee of the Conservative Land Society
are enabled to annex the following satisfactory tabular
returns of the receipts for the three first quarters of the
eleventh financial year :
Qrs, ending int Shares Total Receipts.
progress. iComplete. Shares.

rope, and a breach of faith to wards the lonian people,
if Great Britain were to turn a portion of a single free
and independent State under her protectorate into a
part of her military possessions, and to make Corfu
an element of her European power. Her Majesty's
Government propose, therefore, now that a
King of Greece has been recognised.by the protect-
ing Powers, to consult in the most formal and au-
thentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny. If those
wishes, deliberately expressed, should be ;n favour
of a union with Greece, her Majesty's Government
would propose that, with a view to considering the
future condition of the lonian Islands, a conference
should be assembled, to consist of the representa-
tives of the Powers who signed the treaty of 1815,
and of the protecting powers who, in 1827 and

freedom of his country men. Knowing that the

lonian Islands could not stand alone as an ludo

1832, signed the treaties by which the kingdom of
Greece was constituted.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) " RUSSELL.
" P.S. You are desired to read and give a copy of
this despatch to Count Rechberg. R.

* Similar despatches were addressed to Earl Cowley, Sir
A. Buchanan, and Lord Napier.

THE BRAZILIAN DIFFICULTY.

The following despatch from Lord Howard de
Walden, transmitting the decision of his Majesty
the King of the Belgians in the case of the officers
of the Forte, was published yesterday
" LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN TO EARL RUSSELL.
(Received June 24.)
" Brussels, June 22.

s. d.
Dec. 24, 18e2 136 67 203 15,946 15 2
March 25, 1803 2OB 24 232 15,03 19 11
June 21, 1863 255 91 346 20,697 2 0
Three quarters
ending Mid-
summer, 1863 599 182 7SI 52,257 17 1
Totals. to Sept
30, 18C2 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2
Grand totals to
Midsummer,'63 15,359 4,107 19,466 677,650 10 3

Compared with the receipts of the corresponding period
last year, the present returns for the three quarters show an
increase of £3,880 ss. 9d., an increase in the quarter over
the Lady-day one of £5,083 2s. Id, and an increase on the
issue of shares of 223, The total withdrawals since the
formation of UP) society (September, 1852), to Midsummer,
1863, £199,348 3s. 3d. ; the total sale of land to Midsummer,
1863, £326,990 Is. 7d.

The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are as
follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority, Total.
4972 3191 1681 9844
Deduct Rights exercised on estates, &c.. 7449

pendent state, he wished to place them under the
protection of Great Britain, whose institutions,
framed on principles of liberty, he desired to see

established among a people of Greek habits and
language. These desires of Count de Capodistrias
were, by the influence of the Court of Russia, and
with the consent of Great Britain, accomplished by

,he treaty of Paris of November 5, 1815, between

Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia.

" The preamble of this treaty recites that the
Powers concerned, animated by the desire of pro-
secuting the negotiations adjourned at the Congress
of Vienna, in order to fix the destiny of the seven
lonian Islands, and to insure the independence,

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liberty, and happiness of those islands by placing
them and their constitution under the immediate
protection of one of the great Powers of Europe,
have agreed to settle definitively by a special act
whatever relates to this object,' &c. The first article
of this treaty declares that the islands of Corfu,
Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo,
and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they
were described in the treaty between his Majesty

the Emperor of all the Russias and the Ottoman
Porte, of the 21st of March, 1800, shall form a
single, free, and independent state, under the deno•
mination of the United States of the lonian Islands.'
The fourth article declares that ' the Lord High
Commissioner of the protecting Powers shall regu-

late the forms of convocation of a legislative assem
bly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in
order to draw up a new constitutional charter for
the State, which his Majesty the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
shall be requested to ratify.' The fifth article
is as follows In order to ensure without re-
striction to the inhabitants of the United States
of the lonian Islands the advantages re-
sulting from the high protection under which
these states are placed, as well as for the
exercise of the rights inherent in the said protection,
his Britannic Majesty shall have the right to occupy
the fortresses and places of those States, and to
maintai❑ garrisons in the same.' A like provision
places under the order of the commander-in-chief
of the troops of his Britannic Majesty the military
force of the said United States.
"It appears clear from these provisions that the
intention of the high Allied Powers was to found in
the Seven Islands a free, independent State, which,
by the protection of so powerful a country as Great
Britain, might develop its resources without fear of
external aggression, or internal anarchy. It appears
also from the fifth article that the main object of the
stipulation placing the fortresses in the hands of
Great Britain was 'to insure to the inhabitants of
the United States of the lonian Islands the advan-
tages resulting from the high protection under
which the States are placed.' The constitution
established in execution of the articles of the treaty
contained in its fourth article a provision that the
established language of the States is Greek,' thus
showing conclusively that the intention of Count de
Capodistrias to create a Greek nationality was
steadily kept in view by Great Britain, as the state
entrusted with the protectorate.
" The British Government having received this
trust, have endeavoured faithfully to discharge the
duties imposed upon them by the allied Powers.
In ,spite of many obstacles, they have amelio-
rated in all respects the condition of the in-
habitants. With regard, however, to the exer-
cise of the constitutional functions of the Lord High
Commissioner and the legislative body, complete
harmony has seldom prevailed between them. But
the great change which took place in the condi-
tion of some of the neighbouring Turkish pro-
vinces, when the Greek people of those provinces
asserted their independence, altered materially
the political condition of the inhabitants of the Seven
Islands. From that time the sympathies of the lonian
people began to turn towards Greece, and when the
Greek kingdom became a recognised State of Europe,
the wish to be politically united with men of their
own race took root among the people of the lonian
Islands. This wish has been often laid hold of as a
pretext for factious opposition; it has been expressed
since 1850, at times when Great Britain could not
listen to it without yielding to projects of ambition
very foreign from the freedom of Greece. But in its
origin and tendency there is something in this lonian
wish of union with Greece which must obtain the
respect of the British nation. A love of independence
in union with a kindred race has in itself claims to
regard from a nation which prides itself on the love
of freedom. It is thus that, with a view to strengthen
the Greek monarchy, to fulfil the original objects of
the foundation of the lonian Islands as a State, and
to comply with the wishes frequently, though irre-
gularly, expressed in the lonian Islands themselves,
her Majesty's Government have declared their readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands

Unexercised Rights
The last share number on the register by seniority is No
13,853 ; and the last share number issued to midsummer,
1863, was No. 19,466. Since the last report, a second estate
has been acquired in West 'Worcestershire, situated on the
Henwick-road, with frontage to the Ludlow-road, Com-
manding views of the Malvern hills are obtained from this
new property, which is adjacent to many handsome villas
and grounds on the banks of the Severn. The committee
hope that they may be in a position to allot the 'Worcester
Estate, and also the recent purchase at Southampton, during
the current quarter. The next allotment of land will be on
Wednesday, July 8, of the Stoke Station Road Estate at
Ipswich, and the Reading Estate ; and some well-secured
ground rents, on the Roman Road Estate, North Bow,
will also be offered on this occasion, The allotment will
take place at Ipswich, after a public meeting, at which
a deputation of the board will attend to explain the
society's system. The Ipswich property adjoins the Hand-
ford Hall villas, and is laid out into 48 plots, ranging in
price from £37 up to £220 per plot. A portion of the pro-
perty will be formed into a crescent, facing which will be
an open space, intended for ornamental gardens extending
to the Stoke Station Road, In addition to plots for de-
tached or semi-detached villas, land has been kept free for
close building and for business purposes, such as an inn or
hotel and ehops. The Reading Estate is a portion of the
Castle Hill property formerly allotted, but as the original
site for the proposed church has been changed to another
locality, the centre of Downshire•square will now be con-
verted into plots for detached and semi-detached houses of
moderate size. The committee have much pleasure in re-
porting that the Rector of Reading, the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
Cust, is now actively engaged in raising funds for the new
church, the society having granted a site free on the estate
equal to the original one. In the new plan of allotment
there are 45 plots, ranging in price from £52 4s. 6d. pp to
£lO4 9s. per plot. The executive committee have to report
that the works on the final portion of the Woodbury-
park Estate, Tunbridge-wells, and on the first allotted
portion of the Colchester Estate, are just completed, and
an inspection of these two properties will show the great
improvement in the respective localities, by the opening up
of new communications. The committee will be enabled
to announce in their next report the completion of the
works in progress on the Roehampton and Putney-Heath
estates. It is with much regret that the committee have to
report the death of John Gorham Maitland, Esq., one of the
earliest promoters of the Conservative Land Society, with
which he was connected as a member of the board, until
his appointment as Secretary of the Civil Service Commis-
sion. As the Registration Courts will be opened in
due course, the allottees whose names have not yet been
inserted on the register are reminded that their claims will
be maintained free of expense, but that it will be necessary to
forward their deeds in time to the society's solicitor, as well
as proper instructions as to the polling place in the county,
where their land is situated, they may find it most conve-
nient to vote, should they not reside in the county. The
executive committee, in conclusion, congratulate the mem-
bers that the business of the past quarter has been of a
nature to afford every promise of another successful financial
year, when it terminates A Michaelmas,

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
In the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it g,ratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly. Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to t 3 dmit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present thenaselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Maverman, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond' and Co. Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W Marne, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ;Nisbellt Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the
STAFFORD S. SMITH, Secretary.

with Greece.
" Her Majesty's Government are not insensible of
the value of Corfu as a maritime and military sta-
tion, nor are they unaware of the apprehensions felt
in Austria and Turkey at the prospect of the aban-
donment of the lonian Islands by Great Britain. It
has been suggested in England that Corfu might be
retained, while the other islands might be given up.
But her Majesty's Government conceive that it would
be a nerversion of the trust confided to them by Ea-

(Translation.)

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"My Lord—l had the honour of receiving yes-
terday from the hands of the King the accompany-
ing portfolio, containing the text of the decision of
his Majesty as arbitrator in the case of the officers
of her Majesty's ship Forte and the Brazilian agents.
"I expressed to the King on behalf of her Ma_
jesty's Government their sense of his Majesty's gra_
cions and friendly act in hating accepted the part of
arbitrator in this painful and troublesome affair.
" The King restricts his judgment to the character
or spirit of the proceeding of the Brazilian agents,
whether, in a national point of view in regard to
the British navy, it was to be deemed offensive or
not; and on this his Majesty decides in the nega..
tive.—l have, &c.,
" HOWARD DE WALDEN AND SEAFORD."

" We, Leopold, King of the Belgians, having ac-
cepted the functions of arbiter, which have been
conferred upon us by common consent by Great
Britain and by Brazil, in the differences which have
arisen between these States in the matter of the ar-
rest, on the 17th of June, 1862, by the guard of
Brazilian police posted at Tijuca, of three officers of
the British navy, and of the circumstances which
resulted after and at the time of that arrest ;

" Animated by a sincere desire to respond by a
scrupulous and impartial decision to the confidence
which the said States have shown towards us,;

" Having to this end duly examined and maturely
weighed all the papers that have been produced by
one side and by the other ;

" Wishing, in order to fulfil the task which we
have accepted, to bring to the knowledge of the
High Parties interested the result of our examina-
tion, as well as oar decision in the capacity of arbi-
ter upon the question which has been submitted to
us in the following terms, namely :
" Whether, in the mode in which the laws of Bra-
zil have been applied towards the English officers
there has been offence to the British navy;

" Considering that it is in no way shown that the
origin of the conflict was the act of the Brazilian
agents, who could not reasonably have had motives
for provocation ;
" Considering that the officers, at the time of their
arrest, did not wear the uniform of their rank, and
that in a port frequented by so many foreigners they
could not expect to be believed on their mere word
when they declared that they belonged to the Bri-
tish navy, while there was no outward sign of their
rank to support their declaration ; that, conse-
quently, once arrested, they ought to have submitted
to the existing laws and regulations, and had no
right to require any treatment different to that
which would have been applied, in similar circum-
stances, to all other persons; _ _ _

" Considering that, although it is impossible to
deny that the incidents which ensued were most un-
pleasant to the English officers, and that the treat-
ment to which they were exposed must have ap-
peared to them most harsh, it is nevertheless proved
that, when by the declaration of the English Vice-
Consul, the social position of these officers had been
duly established, measures were at once taken to
secure them special consideration, and that their
unconditional liberation was then ordered ;
" Considering that the functionary who caused
them to be released ordered their release as soon
as he possibly could, and that in acting thus he
was prompted by the desire to spare these officers
the disagreeable consequences which, in conformity
with the laws, must necessarily have entailed upon
them from any further steps taken in the matter ;
" Considering that, in his report of the 6th of
ll'lJuly, 1862, the Prefect of Police had not only to
make a statement of facts, but was also obliged to
render to his superior authority an account of his
conduct, and of the reasons that induced him to
treat them with consideration;
" Considering that he was from that time, pro-
perly, and without any malicious intention being
fairly attributable to him, authorised to express
himself as he did ;
" We are of opinion that, in the mode in which
the laws of Brazil have been applied towards the
English officers, there was neither premeditation of
offence nor offence to the British navy.

" Done and given in duplicate under our Roya]
Seal, at the Palace of Lachen, the 18th day a
June, 1863. " LEOPOLD I."

MEMORANDUM REGARDING THE ASSESSMENT OF COM
PENSATION IN THE CASE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

On the Bth of February Earl Russell directed the
Queen's Advocate to be informed that the Govern-
ment of Brazil had instructed their representative
in England to notify to her Majesty's Government
that he was authorised to pay, under protest, what-
ever sum her Majesty's Government might demand
in the shape of compensation in the case of the ves-
sel Prince of Wales; and his lordship requested the
opinion of the Queen's Advocate as to the amount
at which that compensation should be assessed.
The Queen's Advocate was at the same time in-
formed that the responsibility of assessing compen-
Batton had not been sought by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, who had, indeed, proposed through Mr.
Christie, that the question of amount should be
referred to arbitration. The course pursued by
Brazil, had, however, left her Majesty's Govern-
ment no option in the matter. The Queen's Advo-
cate's report is to the following effect :—The Queen's
advocate states that he is of opinion that no sum
should be claimed in excess of the sum mentioned
in Mr. Christie's communications to the Brazilian
Government ; that no demand should be made on
account of freight or on account of the loss of the
vessel itself; that the demand should be founied
ore
the plunder of the cargo, of the effects of the crew,
and also upon the too probable murder of some or all
of them. He estimates roughly the loss of wages
and effects at £290, and the compensation for pos-
sible murders at £4BO, to be paid to the families of
those who were wrecked. As to the cargo, be makes
allowances for probable and necessary damage, and
for salvage had the inhabitants of the coast appeared
as salvors in place of plunderers ; and he then
roughly estimates this item at £2,360. Upon these
data a sum of £3,200 was fixed by Earl Russell,
instead of £3,490, the sum total of the items esti-
mated by the Queen's Advocate. This sum was
demanded by a note of Feb. 24, addressed by Earl
Russell to M. i\loreira, and was paid by M. Moreira
on Feb. 26.
Foreign-office, June 21, 1863.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES,---" If it should appear that from jealousy
of trade, or unjust suspicion of contr4band, or any
other motive, the British trade were deliberately
and systematically made subject to vexatious cap-
ture and arbitrary interference, it is obvious that
Great Britain must interfere to protect her flag."
Such are the words of a despatch from Lord Rus-
se—

to Lord LyenF, written- to be communicated
o the American Government. "It, cannot be con-

ceded by the American Government, nor claimed
by Great Britain, that some British vessels may

Lint be fraudulcully engaged in an ostensible
trride tween British ports and AI Atamoras in eon-

veying supplies to. the insurgents of the United
States." Snehie, the important portion of the coLlnter

tespo.tch which has been received from Mr. Stewart.
Phis is a very important issue. We are promised
hat the next steamer will bring us a report of the

arguments and judgment in the case of the Peter-
hoff ; and the fate of the Dolphin is already decided
The American Courts appear to be fully equal to
the occasion, and to be ready to make an interna-
tional law to meet the exigencies of their own special
and temporary convenience. According to the doc-
trines now laid down by Mr. Seward, a belligerent
cruiser may blockade not only his enemies' ports,
but also the ports of neutral powers which have any
possible communication with his enemy's port. If
be can board neutral vessels passing from one neutral
port to another, end can make prize of them, and
if the Admiralty Judges condemn them upon the
ground that the cargo was intended ultimately to
reach the enemy, then it clearly comes in effect to
what we have said, that a belligerent power has a
right to blockade neutral ports, to prevent anything
entering therein which may ultimately reach the
enemy. It is evident that Mr. Seward's words mean
this It is a very strong doctrine, and it carries the

rights of belligerents beyond anything that has ever
been claimed in their behalf since modern views and
armed neutrality protests have set a limit to the
old pretensions. There is nothing to be said in
favour of such a pretension, except that if the Ameri-
cans are determined to rivet this patch upon the
hard old international law, we of all the people in
the world are the least interested in opposing the
innovation. The nature of " contraband of war " is
also receiving a very extended interpretation at the
hands of the traditional champions of the rights of
neutrals. Although we have not yet the judgment
in the case of the Peterhoff, we know that a special
commission had been issued to inquire into the
quality of her cargo, and the report of that special
commission had been read in court. These Com-

missioners say that they have opened the boxes,
cases, and bales found in this steamer, and have
made a true and perfect inventory of the contents.
It seems, however, that there were no cannon, or
muskets, or arms of any description ; no gun-
powder, or shot, or shells ; nothing which, even if
the Peterhof' had been going to an enemy's port

not actually blockaded, would have subjeciedthe
ship to confiscation as carrying contraband of war.

Bni the Commissioners remark that there were
articles on board capable of being applied to army
uses. There was an assorted parcel of drugs, con-

taining quinine, calomel, morphine, and chloro-
form, addressed to " Burchard and Co., Matamoras,
Mexico." There were also cases of Blucher boots,

which we must in candour admit might be worn
by soldiers as well as by any other unfeathered
bipeds. Moreover, there were bales of gray blan-
kets, which " are believed to be such as are
"used in the United States' army." But as these
undoubtedly came from England it seems hard to
conclude that, because the Yankees have bought some
of oar woollens for army purposes, we can therefore
make blankeis for army purposes. There were
also harness and riding saddles and horseshoes, and
13 pieces of bacon and a bag of peas, all of which
might, doubtless, have found a use either in or out
of a camp. Lastly, there were two hydraulic presses,
capable of pressing cotton, and one basket of rusty
cotton hooks. Such is the cargo which, from its con-
traband nature, is held to justify the detention of an
English steamer passing between neutral ports, and
such is the " contraband of war" which the
American Courts are now being asked to
hold suffieient to insure the condemns-

tion of a neutral vessel upon the high seas.
Of course we do not pretend to doubt that the quinine
and the boots might have been intended ultimately
to reach the Confederate storehouses. It may be

just possible that they might have been bought up for
Mexican use, but the probabilities undoubtedly are,
that if they had reached Matamoras, they
would have been pushed into the Confederate terri-
tory. The question, however, remains whether
medicine and boots are contraband of war because
they can be used by soldiers; and secondly, whether
anything thus capable of being uses by an army can
be seized anywhere by the strong hand. The Ame-
ricans say they have the authority of Sir William
Grant and Lord Stowell for what they are doing,
and we are happy to tee that they now entertain a
reverence for the decisions of those two great inter.
national lawyers which they certainly did not pro-
fess in other days. Lord Russell is careful not to
commit himself to any opinion us to whether Sir
William Grant and Lord Stowell's doctrines will
justify such strong measures as are now being taken ;
but if they should, we think ho is quite right, as
an English Minister, not to do anything to weaken
those doctrines which have been found so necessary
to our own island interests. On the other hand, if
these pretensions should turn out to be far beyond
anything ever heard of in our Courts, and quite im-
possible ever to be put forward by ourselves in case
of war, then Lord Russell can scarcely consider
himself acting as a neutral if he submit to them
from one of two belligerents and to the disadvantage
of the other. If we allow boots and blankets to be
seized on their way to Mexico because they are the
same sort of goods we are sending to New York,
that can scarcely be called neutrality. Public
opinion will support Lordßussell in the maintenance
of an absolute neutrality during this war, but it will
not support him beyond this. The English people
desire to hold a real bona fide neutrality between
the two combatants. This cannot be to the extent
we could wish it to be, because the possession of the
sea enables the Northerners to draw from us all the
materials of war, and to engage all the scum of
Europe as mercenaries in their service. Without
this aid the North would long since have been ex-
hausted and the fighting at an end. Bat if the South
have some privileges conferred by the rules of inter-
national law, it would be mean in us to go cut of
our way to deprive her of them because she is weak
and cannot complain. Lord John Russell stated the
ease truly in his despatch when he said "the trade
to Matamoras is a perfectly legitimate trade. It
is carried on from New York as it is from London
to Liverpool. To pretend that some goods carried
to Matamoras may be afterwards transported across
the frontier to Texas does not vitiate the legitimate
character of that trade." If this be so, to surrender
our commercial rights to the Northern States would
be a breach of neutrality towards the Northern
States. Although, however, Mr. Seward puts for-
ward these preposterous claims, there is reason to
believe that the Americans themselves are seeing
that these strange decisions against the rights of
neutrals are establishing precedents which may
hereafter be used against them. A smuggling trade
to Matamoras can be of no great importance to
us, and can never have any substantive effect upon
the issue of the war between North and South ;
but the principles now in course of recognition and
extension in the American prize courts may be
very precious to England at some future crisis
We should therefore be very patient and cautious
in these matters, up to that boundary line where
acts cease to be defensible upon any possible doc-
trine of international law. We observe that the
American papers begin to suspect that they are
going too far for their own interests; that they are
adopting and strengthening all our old precedents,
and forging chains for themselves in future wars.
Some of them are already recommending that ships
going from a neutral port to another should not be
interfered with, whatever may be the suspicions
against them. Ve hen this mist clears away, they
will discover that the course they have taken
iii
this war has established all our pretensions as to
the right of blockade and of search also.
POsT.—The verbose document with which Prefq-
dent Lincoln hes replied to the resolution.; passed
at a recent public meeting censuring his conduct in
rAesmenerticjaunnectuo
Constitution it
respect to the arrest of Mr. Vallandighaua reade
strangelypeelliariti east otfh teh Pe
olt ins Motboththe
theoretically and practically the
Chief Magistratc
of the Republic continues the E his f 11 te
equal of. e o. -
citizens. He may possess by virtue of his high
office great authority, or he may, through the apatnY
or sufferance of the American people, exercise ex-
traordinary power, but he does not for all that cease
to be a citizen
moment approach and shake by the hand, or whom
a knot of platform orators can compel at a
moment's notice to publish an elaborate exposition
of his political views. Still, however, notwith-
standing the relations known to subsist between
the American people and their President, one
cannot read such a letter as that which we pub-
lished yesterday without some feelings of surprise.