The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1363,

THE HAVAN SILVER-LEAD MINES
COMPANY (Limited), Cardiganshire.
£.).5,G0'), in !,,r)(0 Shares of £5 each.
Deposit, 106. per Share on Application, and As. on Allot-
ment.
DIRECTORS.
M. C. Seto 7, Esq., Maida-hill, and Wheal Seat and
Treskerby, Cornwell; Dirca-x of the Silver Mountain
Mines Comi..any (Limited), Cardiganshire, &c.
R. Hesketh, Esq. (late British Consul at Rio Janeiro),
Director of the Don Pedro North Del Rey Gold Mining
Company (Limited), Brazil.
A. Alison, Esq., 72, Sloane-street, Cadogan-gardens.
General R. Shortrele, Blackheath, Director of the Silver
Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardingshire.
E. Edwards, Esq., C.E., Adelphi. Director of the Silver
Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardiganshire, the
Don Pedro North del Rey Gold Mining Company
(Limited), &c.
Lieut.-Colonel F. Wemyss, Kensington, Director of the
Silver Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardigan-

shire,
BANKERS—EngIish and Fish Bank, 25, Poultry, E.C.
SECRETARY—Mr. Holland Dell.
Temporary Offices-18, Greshara•howe, IM Broad, street,
and 1, York-buildings, Adelphi.
The oltjecfs of this Company are the purchase and work-
ing of the celebrated Haven and Henfwich Silver-Lead
Mines, situate in the perish of Telybont, Cardiganshire, aad
surrounded by s;me of the greatest Mines of the day,
eluding the Welsh Potosi, East Doren, and the Cwmsy mlog
United Mines, as well as the Silver Mountain Mines,which,
after being worked for a few months
li
under nearly the
Directors, already bid fair to become as prctable =.,.e any in
the country

The sett (which has been developed sufficiently to make
its success a matter of certainty) is held at a royalty of one.
fourteenth from Pryse Lo-veson. RA;, at
very extensive
(r_pwardsof 700 acres), and includes several very st:otg arid
celebrated lodge. TWJ 1-.Jng adk,levels have been driven
parallel with the main vein for till: purpose of developing it;
but as far aA can be ascertained the lode
size, averaging from •::0 to 50 feet wida) has
cut in two places, two rich courses of ore beitig tr.,J
A number a similar crcas.cuts will e coucmmeed almost
immedi-ttely in th 7 different levels; abnd should the trials be
attended with equal results, of which there at ma Er: ry
certainty, a !dine of enormous wealth will be at once eats-
-

(which iy of ins

remit

blisheo.
Four shafts are sunk from the surface to the Hit levels,
thus thoroughly ventilating the whoie of the works; good
direct roads from Aberystwith and unfailing streams of
Water pass through the sett, whist offices, workslif pe, &c.,
being already erected, the works can at once be prosecuted
great economy and regularity.
The whole of the shafts, &c., are timbered in a most su'a-
stantial manner; a tramway is being laid in the I..U:.iwich
ad-t level for conveying the ore tJ the dr...saing
Biwerful crushing, drrwing and pumping i
machinery s
being delivered on the mine, and will be erected complee
and at work (dressing ore for market) in less than three
months from this time.
The mires have been inspected by many captsins and
engineers (come of whose reports are annemed) who no.urn-
rmously ag:ee as to their great value, and recoinn va.:and
of th that
ote:a•:ons be carried on with vigcur, he u? e
mines is further c -I:ifii-med by the fact that Lit. Sha;den, of
Aberystwith, who worked only a small portion of the
Bevan Mine Pt la other than surface diggings) sc kl before
his de Mina
upwaids of X'2O,CLU worth of and made a
hat '

orrie fortup

so Ta!ttella m'nes, keluding nt, ore

, crust

ne whole cf
diseove,,red and raiee;... pumping
aL
have trans-
fer Br 3:,
in c'sh, X 1 Z"' •
d for L 3,000 paid-up sharc2, and a
other machinery rea4
farted sum of £3,000, to be raid three menths after the
shareholders have received dividends to the extint ICO
per cent. on the subscribed capital, which will probably
be wiaiin three years.
Atplicatims for shares, accmpanied with t'eposit, which
will oefetutned in inn, if no allotment be made to tie appli-
cant, may he made to the )3ml:ere, or to the Secr,tary, at
the ffices of the Company-, where specimens of the Ore,

and

e Mines map be inspcG:.ed.
taro M. Fran.eis, Cardigan

Extract from Report from Ca

shire.
The driving under Sheidea's ere ground may be taken
at £1,000; so that, leaving cut the value of the pie-
Bent machinery and workings, a sum of about
£3,000 would bring the mine into a far work-
ing state without tiling credit for the returns, the
value of which, however, are indicated in the ab,,Te mica.
lations ; and which, in all probability, would begin to come
it six months atter the works were seri

into effect in at

ously st,

chaff c.s

a ccs

o-1 Ll5O per m

lasion of ih

Lo te,
aor,eor to be v

o h _ye be,

brought in—
The whole range ct side lodes seems neve
seen or thcugtt ot; besides which there is ti
of tb.c trans, which is in effect the main feature ot all mines
situate in so deeply a productive rock as the Clay Slate;
and the trial by cxcecsion East and west oY. toe loch of the
present mine, mere especially to the westward, v.here the
chances of successful mining would be ccnsidered by any
miner to be highly satisfactory.
From all that can be ju4ged of these great mines in their
present state it is difficult to predict Lr a judicious system
of working any other than a most cuccEssful termi-
nating in the establiehm(nt of Mines immense in F
produc-, and once established upon a profitabla footing,
likely to last for many generations; and whoevLr will take
tho trouble to lock into the Eilstory of the Carc.i2anshire
Mines" will find this to be the case in a:mAt every in-
stance. One strong woof in favour of this assertion re is in
the fact that one of the Carcigan,hire Mines rue.nioned bi
name by Piny, the
.Ron,an historian, as working in his da;
(Cwmystwith), continues in ft healtiy and a ve-y profit
giving state at this very moment.

e deep minin

nt 811 l

Extract from Report from Cal- Cbarles 'Williams, Ma-
nager of the S Ivor Mountain, East Broad ,yd, and
Cwmsymlog United Mines
As far as situation goes, the Haven Mines can scarcely
be equalled.
Tae sett is very extensive, having a range cf two miles
on the course of Ihe lode, with an equal width. Water power
is plentiful in all seasors of the year, and can be made avail-
able for wor,ing the machinery at a ti.ffteg cost.
A good course of ore is discovered d laid oven 15
fathoms in length, worth on an average full one ton per
fathom. This course of ore is whole to surface, but the
length and full value of it is not yet ascertained. The
lode at this pint is very strong, being upwards of 20 feet
wide, and by every appearance is making a very great mass
of ore below and above the level.
In the mean Time, the backs can be stored away at a great
profit, and regular sales of ore rent to market monthly. In
this edit there is another good course of ore discovered, but
the level being full of ore stuff I could not get in to ex-
amine it.
The Haven adit level has been driven into the hill by the
side of the lode for a considerable distance, leaving the
productive ore-bearing part standi -g whole to the north,
and is ventilated by two shafts. The back of the lode
shows an excellent gozzan with large lumps of ore
through it. This adi; should be properly opened out, and
the lode cross-cut in several places, and I have no doubt
it will lead to grand discoveries. This level will inter-
sect the course of ore discovered in No. 1 and 2 shafts 50
fathoms deeper than the Heniwich adit, and thus lay open
an immense amount of ore ground to :stope away. These
Nines are of a very great extent, and from merely surface
scratching have produced enormous wealth. The main
lode on which are the works is one of the great champion
veins of Wales, and parallel to Cwmsymlog, East Daren,
Cwmystwith, Dyliffe, Silver Mountain, Goginan, dec. An
enormous amount of heavy and expensive work has been
done in the most substantial manner; splendid new crush-
ing, drawing, and pumping machinery is now being deli-
vered on the Mines, and will be at work within three
months, and the dressing doors will be ready in less time;
consequently, with a further moderate outlay, you will
make this Mine one of the greatest in Wales.

The Marchioness Townehend's dance, announced
for June 10, is unavoidably postponed until Monday, June
16.

The Marquis Drogheda is expected to arrive in
town to-morrow from Ireland.

The Earl and Countess de Grey entertained a
select party at dinner on Saturday evening at their resi-
dence in Carlton Gardens.
-

The Pope is erroneously reported
to
seriously ill with erysipelas in his leg. The affection is but
be again
slight, the health of his Holiness being otherwise excellent.
disposal
The Pugin Memorial Committee having raised a
fund of £l,OOO, have resolved to place it at thethe Institute of British Architects, in trust, for the of
estab-
lishment of a Student's Travelling Fund, under certain
conditions.
.
The result of the concert given by Madame Lind-
Goldschmidt at St. James's Hall last week, for the benefit
of the Roy
al Hospital for Incurables at Putney, is a con-
tribution of £526 to the funds of that charity.
Pedestrians in London have been much interested
this week in a rather perilous-looking attempt to
re-gild the ball and cross of St. Paul's Cathedral. Happily
the workmen have succeeded in placing scaffolding all round
the summit of Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, and
people now amuse themselves by watching thrcugh tele-
s'e PAR the operations of the men at the giddy
w height at
mistakesh.ethey are
compelled to work. As there are so many
made about this ball and cross, it may be stated
that the bail
is 56er: from the outer gallery immediately
below it, thatit is at
feet in diameter, and that it weighs
5,6001 b. ; and that the bottom of the cross is 30 feet far-
ther, weighing 1,3601 b.
Mr. Cope, says the Atheneum, has just completed ,
pictures the fifth of his series of in the Peers' Cor-
ridor, Houses of Parliament. T whole is intended to
illustrate the history of the Civil War,
at.,
thus :-1. Charles
the First erecting the Standard atNVottinghara ;
2. Basing
House defended by the Cavaliers
Common-
wealth troops ; 3. Expulsion of the against the Common'
Oxford for refusing to sign the Covenant;waof a College at
Charles the First ; 5. The Speaker Lenthall 4*
Burial of
privileges of the Commons against Charles's asserting the
seize the Five Members; 6. The setting outoattempt to
Lon-
don Train Bands to raise the Siege of Gloucester; th;
Em-
barkationLon-
of a Puritan Family for New E
ing of Lord and Lady Russell.
6' Carious, now, ain't it, Brown," observes a police-
sergeant in the Hon. Mrs. Norton's new novel,
"Lost and Saved," "how like females are one to t'other ?
This one's a real marchioness, with a real sort of marquis,
dining with the queen and all that ; and here she's been
a-behaving for all the world like Betsy Blane, the fish-
woman as I had in the lock-up last night. She's as like
her—as like as one oyster ,shell is to another."
THE DRAWING ROOM _The Court Journal of
this day (Monday) contains by far the most complete and
detailed account of the drawing-room of Sa.turchiy, the pre-
sentations, debutantes, descriptions of costumes, and an
especial and exclusive article on that event. Price sd. ;
stamped, 6d. W. Thomas, 26, Brydges-street, -
garden, and all newsagents.
FIRE AT THE WEST-END —At about two o'clock
on Saturday morning a fire happened in the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. Cole, a carver and gilder, Rupert-
street, Haymarket. The fire could not be extinguished
until the workshops and contents were destroyed atd the
front house dame ed
to
Mole and C0.;55
, ~ Princes-street, Mr. Haye, pork
hatcher; 64 ditto.
and , Mr, Davies ; and 53, Mr. Salter, the
and water ;
sot were damaged, principally by brealcap

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1863.

Additional particulars have only tended to con
firm us in the impression instantly produced upon
our mind by the first telegraphic intimation received
on Saturday afternoon, and thereupon expressed
by us very distinctly in our columns of that same
evening—in reference to the magnitude of the
disaster which had befallen the Federals on Satur-
day the 2d and Sunday tha 3d of May at Char.-
cellorsville ! The triumph there achieved upon
those two successive days by the Confederates turns
out—the more we learn of the facts—to have been
quite unmistakeable. And it appears to have been
a success obtained by the good generalship of
General LEE, the Confederate Commander-in-Chief,
a success confirmed and carried to the climax of
victory by the vigorous dash and the unflinching
determination of General " STONEWALL" JACKSON,
the most distinguished among that Commander's
many able and gifted Lieutenants. Not one jot less
than the notorious skedaddle of Bull's Run, the
flight of the Federals from the battle-ground on
the 2d inst. proves to have been a veritable
:aura qui peat. Although we have yet to
learn the number of the killed and
wounded upon these two terrible days of
conflict, for once the anticipative mention of a
" carnage " awful, threatens to be in no way ex-
aggerated. For three hours and a half on Satur-
day, the 2d, for four hours, immediately after day-
break on the following (Sunday) morning, the work
of butchery seems to have gone on. A butchery
mostly on one side, upon the Saturday, in consequence
of the ignominious flight of the Federals before the
victorious Confederates. A butchery somewhat
more equally shared by the belligerents on
Sunday, seeing that then at last the Federal
forces appear to have turned at bay, and to have
met with a sort of desperation of resistance the
fierce onslaught of the foe. Remembering all the
while how nearly identical these opposing armies
are in blood, in birth, in religion, in language—it
cannot be without a shudder that the " News of
Battle" from the American seat of war, of that most
miserable and deplorable of all wars, Civil War, is
brought to us, at uncertain intervals, thus, across
the Atlantic. Jocular references have been
made before now to the extravagant state-
ments put forth (principally by the Federals) since
the commencement of the war, the extravagant
and preposterous statements put forth as
to the number of the killed and wounded upon the
different battlefields, since then, contended for by
the belligerents. If we remember rightly, it was
Punch who facetiously estimated that if thus massed
together into one simple aggregate, the total number
would amount to something like a few odd millions.
The dreadful truth, however, is beyond the reach of
contradiction, that the carnage, though exaggerated
at the time of its occurrence, piecemeal, is, never-
theless, in woeful reality, something truly lament-
able in its actual magnitude when it comes to be
looked back at. It has grown, at length, this ag-
gregate of slaughter, to proportions so huge that
Europe cannot but yearn, more earnestly than ever,
to witness,
provewitnes in anys,tobeeome the cause of, if that may but
way possible, a reconciliation of
some kind between these infuriated antagonists. The
French EMPEROR has twice essayed to interfere be-
t weep them with his diplomacy. Twice he has striven
to secure to himself, there, in the.interests of our
Common humanity, the benignant glory of a peace-
maker. Upon each occasion the generous effort was
insakr.
taently recognised, by all but the over zealous
counsels of the Tuileries, to have been hopelessly
premature. It was so recognised—reluctantly, but
unavoidably so recognized—by our own Admini-
strators. In arriving at that conviction, in point
of fact, our Ministers had no choice whatever
before them. The negotiation of a peace
between North and South, then and thcre, upon
each of those occasions, however desirable it was in
itself, was all the while, in the
sTthanatceiso otuorsay, Government actual situation
of hgs
simply impracticable. All that a rea-
sonable Government could under these circum-
without a did
moment'san
ddiudninneseteasnsatlryy.
delay they expressed their regret that this was im•
possible— waiting them elves
watchfully
the French imperial Government to
w ai
t,
in
nrgi
ike
manner, always eagerly on the alert for (what
sooner or later must come) the fitting
opportunity.
*
ly Whenever a more than ordinarily
of any kind happens upon either side, whether upon great disaster
the side of the Federals or upon the side of the
Confederates, one is naturally driven to the inquiry
—ls this the opportunity ? The hope comes to us
almost inevitably now, as it has come to us time
and again before now—it comes to us now, for the
moment, at least, more forcibly than ever—when
General HOOKER'S army (a sort of a grand forlorn
hope in its way after the Federal failures of the
past) is actually understood to have been

believed by very many both at New York and at
Washington to have been all but cut to pieces by
the victorious Confederates at Chancellorsville. As
we could not but take occasion to remark on Satur-
day—a remark echoed, we are glad to observe, to-
day by every one of our morning concemporaries—
the silence, the reticence, the euppressio reri notice-
able on the part of the Federal Government, as to
the result of the Sunday's fighting, as to the
events of the day following, looks ominous
of evil for the North, admits but of one very melan-
choly construction for the Federal population.
Contrary to the principle of the old familiar adage—
"No news is ill news" under any such a combina-
tion of circumstances. A Government similarly
situated, when it suppresses the announce-
ment of facts eagerly looked for by the
people, virtually acknowledges, and, by so doing,
that it has no news of a satisfactory character to
give—nay, on the contrary, that the news
it is known to be hiding is too disastrous
of its kind to be whispered about. Never before
have we had greater reason to look forward
with eager solicitude for the sequel of the
blood-stained narrative of yet another frag-
mentary incident of this direful civil war
in America. Eagerly looking forward to this
sequel, more eagerly, we say, looking forward to it
than ever, because upon the nature of that sequel
may, in truth, more probably than ever now
depend the chances of a close being at
length put to a carnage so very frightful, and
threatening at times almost, one might say, to be
interminable.

The once Commander-in-Chief of the Federal
Forces, General WCLELLAN, is still, as we all
know, popularly spoken of by his admirers as
The Young NAPOLEON. For what reason no
rational European who has watched his career
hitherto can in any way, for the life of him, con-

jecture. If only General LEE, the Confederate
Commander-in-Chief, or General JACKSON the first
of his Lieutenants, knows in any partial
degree even, what the Great NAPOLEON
knew to perfection, how to follow up
a victory, our next advices from America may tend
to strengthen the vague and fitful hopes that have
been awakened in us by the news brought to us on
Saturday by the Persia—the hopes, encouraged by
these later tidings now of the route on Monday of
General SEDGWICK'S division—the hopes, namely,

that, in regard to this deplorable war in America,
there are becoming at last momentarily visible the
glimmering indications of a beginning of the end.

The chief subject of interest in Paris just now
is the attack made by M. DE PERSIGNY on the
free discussion of the press. His last action has
been to attack the France, which, curiously enough,
is one of the most zealous supporters of the Govern-
ment. The charge brought against the journal in
question is that of " in affecting to express the
secret thoughts of the Government daily, but spe-
cially in the article incriminated, it distorts and
disguises its policy in the elections so as to mislead
public opinion." Apparently, Count PERsIGNY is
inclined to echo the words of CANNING—" Save
me from the candid friend." It has been rumoured
that he is personally mortified at something insin-
uated against himself oonoerning the mistake of
putting down the• anciens partis. Be this as it may,
the very harsh proceeding referred to is a most
unwise and very inconsistent one. The sentence
which is said to have given such dire offence is
simple and harmless enough to the eyes of the
English public, and it would puzzle anyone here to
say in what capacity it has deserved a visit from a
commissary of police :—" M. le Ministre of the In-
terior labours under the delusion that the anciens
partis require to be put down, at the very time
when all the world acknowledges that they are
utterly powerless. He has fought them ardently as
though they were present in the flesh, and has not
perceived that he was merely contending against
shadows."

TALLEYRAND, in alluding to the act of some im-
portant personage that had caused great confusion
observed that "it was worse than a crime, it was a
blunder ;" and surely this remark might with true
force be applied to the Count de PERSIGNY at the
present juncture, Nothing could be more impolitic
than to offend, by an overt act of harshness, just
when it is so important and essential to be on good
terms with every one, and to maintain a fair cha-
racter before the eyes of the nation. In a private
atd personal sense also it is nearly as great an error
as in a public view of the matter it seems a mis-
take. It is always a false move to allow any pri-
vate motive to actuate a public action, and the com-
bination in this instance of an affront that is too
trivial to take up at all with the recognition of a
political wrong in a mere form of expression, con-
duces to place the Minister of the Interior in a
false position before the country as a statesman.
He has been too ready to rush into extremes, and
has shown himself incapable of that restraint and
endurance which are such essential qualities in
any man who has to come prominently forward
and brave the attacks of various opinions, and
offend the prejudices of several classes.
The system of surveillance that has long been ex-
ercised over the press of France has been often
lamented by the impartial lookers-on in the neigh-
bouring States. When the EMPEROR made his
famous speech some months ago, exhorting the
French to emulate the English in the glory and
success of their free institutions, it was hoped that
this eterated expression of liberal sentiments would
inaugurate a better and brighter deriod for the
Press,- since, in nothing could our continental
brethren so wisely or so happily tread in their foot-
steps. Those who indulged in such expectations
will be doomed to disappointment, if this event is
to be the precursor of the Government policy in the
eventful time of the elections. All well-wishers to
the Napoleonic rule will deplore this unwise pro-
ceeding, which must damp the expectations of
friends, and give a handle to the enemy, through
its abruptness and severity. There is one satisfac-
tion, however, that the EMPEROR can do just as he
pleases, and therefore we must hope that, with his
usual foresight and discrimination, he will scent
this danger from afar, and revoke these arbitrary
rnui
sl ee so,
vaenrd
and res ctindthese
ran
ple
d regulations,w nto weak
e a k awnhdi which t
powerless
y ran -
to
who,do hi
fa
not
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ewxhaieltel
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gc e
:seen an
mnay
iyn fur
somi aot a
do
at hye rbse,
dangerous to the welfare, if not inimical, to the ex-
istence of a dynasty. It is not likely, if perfect
freedom were allowed to the press in France, that
the privilege would be abused, and, at all events, it
would be worth while to settle the vexed question,
once and for all, by making the expariment. The
coal could easily be put on again if it were the
cmaesne,t and
ou
ltdh Go
be e
entitled srem
rn Government
tthhea t m
best a dteh
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nh
lie
se
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fp etrih
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community, while it would gain the applause and
admiration of Europe for its noble endLavour to
raise the standard
rather
dnadrddoonf freedom in the heart of its
ddoimscitnisisoinons.s It is the same with nations as with
individuals, those are always the strongest who have
criticism,
u
shrinknooturt
uofnrvoimneaedny
s that from
if theirnay
if their actions are mistaken, this is the wisest way
of proving them.
The judgment of one generation
t,
if is valid, they will stand the tet
tai

does not differ on essential points from that of
another, and no great qualities that are wrongly
app ied cannot gain the esteem of tke present, will
obtain that of the future.

Sir RODERICK MURCHISON'S letter will be perused
with great interest and satisfaction by a large class
of readers. In the first place, we must all 1-ejoies
in learning the safety of the brave and enterprising
Englishman, who was reported a short time since to
have fallen a victim to his labours in the cause of
discovery. Consul PETHERICK is already familiar
with the peculiarities and dangers of the African
climate, and the interesting work on the country'
which we owe to his pen, bears witness to his know-
ledge and ability. It will also be a great satisfac-
tion to those who are interested, as all intelligent
and cultivated minds must be, in the progress of
geographical science, to find that the great question
as to the source of the White Nile is believed on
good authority to be satisfactorily settled. Curi-
ously enough, it is the great lake Victoria Nyanza
whose discovery obtained for Captain SPEKE the
Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical
Society, that he now concludes to be—

" The cradle of that mighty birth,
So long a hidden thing to earth."
"The Victoria Nyanza," writes Capt. SPEKE, is the
great reservoir of the sacred Bahr el Abiad, or White
Nile and his discovery has thus proved to be of
eeen greater importance than was first supposed.
Another Englishman,whose popular work on "The
Rifle and Hound in Ceylon" has made his exploits
familiar to the English reader, has resolved to pro-
secute his researches still further, and has gone to
the south-west to extend his explorations, hoping
to find another great internel lake, or branch of the
White Nile. He intends to be absent one year, but
the chances and changes of African travel forbid
an exact calculation. He was the first Englishman
who encountered the returning party, and supplied
their wants with a liberal hand. Captains SPEKE
and GRANT effected their proposed junction with
Mr. PETHERICK at Gondokoro, on the White Nile,
on the 23d of February, and Captain SPEKE, writ-
ing a month later, reports that he left Mr.
PETHERICK, his wife and party, all well. The
spirited lady who shared her husband's
perilous exploits has, therefore, happily not
suffered from the consequent hardships.
Thanks to the energy and daring of our country.
men, combined with the love of science and dis-
covery which has always been a prominent feature
in the national character, the interior of that vast
continent, once a complete terra incognita, is now
becoming gradually opened to European enterprise.
It is not many years since the tide of discovery first
turned in the direction of Southern Central Africa.
It would seem as though, having exhausted the
secrets of the Northern seas, whose dreary winter
and terribae army of icebergs,rendered the achieve-
ments of invasion a fruitless triumph, English ad-
venturers had naturally turned their inquiries to
districts where the task was more hopeful, and
offered, when accomplished, more substantial bene-
fits to mankind. The love of spoil has drawn
ttither some adventurers who, have done
good service by exploring untracked paths
and opening communication with the tribes
of the interior. Captain SPEKE has long been
known as one of the pioneers of African
discovery. In conjunction with Mr. BUR-
TON he accomplished an expedition of
fatigue and danger. His subsequent explorations
in Zanzibar and its vicinity will be fresh in the re-
collection of the readers of Blackwood's Magazine,
from the interesting account of his adventures which
he forwarded to its pages from time to time. His
long course of labours has now met a fitting reward
in this triumphant discovery, which Sir RODERICK
MURCHISON—no incompetent judge—styles " the
most remarkable geographical feat of our age." It
adds another to the many noble testimonies to the
labour and sagacity °Cour countrymen : while the
rapid progress made in the path of African discovery
affords us ground for hoping that the dawn may be
breaking over that benighted country, and that we
may yet see in our own day the first steps taken
towards its civilisation and development. It is evi-
dent there is a large supply of water in the interior,
which, when the appliances of science are brought
to bear, will be of inestimable value. The proposed
cultivation of cotton in Southern Africa is another
step in the right way, for if the thoughts of the natives
are once turned from the plunder to be obtained by
war to the profit made by peaceful traffic, from
the gain derived from the sale of wretched cap-
tives to the sums to be won by horaest trade and
barter, a very important point will have been
gained. The travels of D r. LIVINGSTONE, have already
done good service in the direction of the Zambesi, and
savage and uncouth as the interior tribes may be,
they have yet learned in many quarters to respect
the white man's justice, to trust his honour, and
to fear his skilful band and deadly weapon. It is
too much to hope that all subsequent travellers and
emigrants will keep up the high standard main-
tained by these gentlemen in their dealings with
the natives, but if such a thing were possible it
would be the most valuable ally we could have in
our dealings with the natives. We are glad to find
that Captain SPEKE and his party are now on their
road homewards, to receive, we doubt not, those
tokens of admiration and cordial welcome which
their countrymen will readily accord them.

On Friday the annual meeting of the National
Rifle Association was held at Willis's Rooms, the
Duke of CAMBRIDGE presiding. There was a con-
siderable assemblage present. The Duke of CAM-
BRIDGE made a brief speech, in the course of which
he alluded to several interesting facts. First of all,
his Royal Highness mentioned one circumstance
that was rather unpropi:ious, and that was the
annual subscriptions were not so considerable as the
committee required. This was, he said, an invidious
task to perform, but it was also :a highly essential
one, since unless the subscriptions were very consi-
derable it was difficult for the council to perform
their functions at all. " I hope," said his Royal
Highness, " that the council have met the feeling of
the volunteers in the country, as we all know that
the arm in use by the volunteers should be brought
more forward, and arrangements have been made
with that view." It is to be hoped that this defect
will be remedied before another meeting is held ;
and it is of essential importance that sufficient
means are afforded for the working of this excel-
lent association. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE simply
stated the facts, and left his hearers to point a moral
for themselves. It too often happens that these
plans are set on foot with great enthusiasm at first,
but after a short time they are suffered to fall into
decadence, until at last they are given up in de-
spair. It would be a great pity if such an under-
taking as this was to fail, and therefore it behoves
all interested in its sucuss to bestir themselves, and
to make great Efforts to carry out its original inten-
tions with spirit and energy. The committee have
taken great pains to meet the requirements of the
case, by establishing prizes for the next competi-
tion ; in particular there are the sixty new prizes for
all corners, rank and file,
rifle. Toousing the Government
much attention can hardly be paid to
this subject; and although some persons may con-
sider it overrated and ruined to many other public

concerns, it is not so in reality, and the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE is entitled to the thanks of those whom
it immediately concerns for coming forward so
spontaneously and doing his best to advocate the
claims and uphold the importance of this associa-
tion. A timely wantirg is often of great service,
and it is to be trusted that it will prove so in this
instance, and that the meeting of July will record
more satisfactory details of flourishing finances.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

ANOTHER DEFEAT OF THE FEDERALS.

TOTAL ROUTE OF GEN. SEDGWICK'S

DIVISION.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 18.

An extra edition of the New York Herald of the
6th inst., published just at the departure of the
Persia, has hem received here. It contains the
turther intelligence.
Advices from Hooker's main army to the night of
Monday, 4th inst., announce that General Hooker
maintained his new line without important change.

Monday was a quiet day. No fighting what-
eTer took place until late in the afternoon, when
G,neral Hooker advanced a division to &el the

enemy.

A brisk action ensued, lasting half an hour. The
Federals afterwards retired to their main line and
rested. General Hooker is busily entrenching.

Advises from General Sedgwick's foras are to
two o'clock on Tuesday morning (sth must). General
Sedgwick's division, 15,000 strong, was hotly en-
gaged throughout Monday. It was terribly cut
up, gave way, and finally recrossed the river during
the night. The slaughter was frightful on both
sides.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, MAY 18.
The Ministers did not make their appearance in
the Chamber of Deputies to-day.

The President read a letter from the Ministry, of
to-day's date, relative to the late resolution of the
Chamber. This let ter concludes as follows:
" The Ministry have not asked that the Presi•
dent should relinquish his right of interrupting
their speeches, but only that he should declare that
he has no disciplinary privilege, especially that of
calling the Ministers to order.
The Ministry repeat that unless etch a declara-
tion be made they will not be present at the sittings
of the Chamber.

POLAND.

BRESLAU, MAY 17.

Private letters from Poland state that the Russian
Government has ordered the officers and civil func-
tionaries in Poland to send their wives without
delay into the interior of Russia.