The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENY_NG, OCTOBER 14, 1862,

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abominations of Southern slavery is, that hitherto 1
a slave had no legal redress against any white who
injured him ; and of course no more against his
master than his master's horse would have had.
General BUTLER, it seems, acts on the principle that
a loyal black's testimony is better than that of his
disloyal master. The ladies and gentlemen of New
Orleans have a slight taste therefore of the pleasure
of having their testimony rejected in a court of
justice ; " no assertion they can make against their
masters is thought incredible"—probably not ;
only this is but the converse of their own conduct in
regard to the coloured man. We need not take

iterally all the strong language of an angry
lady, but perhaps there is some reality behind

it all; she tells us that he bribes the slaves to
discover arms, and that masters get into prison for
concealing " a sword-cane, a revolver, or a bowie-
knife." The fair writer seems to forget that in
describing such weapons as common and natural,
she only unveils the semi-savage life led by the
Southern Liverpool. The servants, she says, hide
weapons in the house, and then denounce their
master and mistress. Possibly, but what, again,
has become of the patriarchal relation, and the
filial attachment and fidelity of the negroes. She tells
us that " the creatures in the streets talk of wading
knee deep in the white man's blood when the hour of
retaliation should come." Indeed ! we have always
heard that contented, well fed, happy, prefering
slavery to freedom, they had nothing to retaliate
for—indeed that the retaliation would be one of
affectionate services for treating them as kindly
as they treat very costly cattle.
We do not doubt that under the BUTLER regime
the slaveholding ladies and gentlemen, too, of New
Orleans have rather an uneasy time of it. It
must be a bad overturning of sncial relations to
have an absolute ruler over them, whose creed
is that " the coloured man has rights which the
white man is bound to respect," and, amidst all
the provocations, which the General is certainly
very foolish to notice, we suspect he often does a
really capricious and harsh thing_ It is beneath him
to descend to a battle of spite and petty malice. We
incline, however, to the opinion that if the 20,000
negroes of New Orleans could tell us their tale, it
would be one very much in praise of Gen. BUTLER,
and we have yet to learn that Englishmen would
not think the story of the long oppressed, quite as
well worth hearing in regard to their ruler, as that
of their old oppressors. It seems to us unworthy of
Englishmen to take our opinions of Gen. BUTLER'S
rule in New Orleans, only from the months of those
whose abominable tyranny is sapped by it. It is
something surely, if we are able to read, on the
authority of this hostile informer, that " they
held last night a Union meeting of free blacks, and
that slaves, of course, composed the majority."
Englishmen would give a good deal for a BUTLER
in every Southern city, if he would in this
way secure the goodwill of the negroes, and such
public action as should bring their masters to their
senses. As to the nonsensical talk about " massacre
and bloodshed"—we who heard the same silly rant
about West Indian Emancipation, and who knew
how ridiculously absurd it was proved to be, if
proof were wanted, by the event—we only laugh
at it. The first of January is indeed a frightful
day to slaveholders in New Orleans to think
of : but its terrors all resolve them-
selves into a very good jollification of the
negroes over their New Year's gift of liberty,
and a few long faces on the side of their old
masters when they pull out their purses to pay them
the wages of freedom. The lugubrious sentences
of a journal or two in this country, and the furious
ravings of the Southern press over the horrors of
Emancipation are simply laughable. We should
think our contemporary Punch might give us a
good cartoon of the weeping mistress, the raging
masters, the terrified negro•floggers, and the good
tempered rejoicings of the black cattle converted
into black men.

Nov that the International Exhibition at South
Kensington is rapidly approaching the date ap-
pointed for its closing—it may be allowable to argue
that it has not been the failure it is reported to have
been in some quarters : that is to say, bearing in
mind the adverse character of the circumstances at-
tendant upon it throughout. Granting for a
moment that that estimate may prove to be accurate,
which has already been formed as to the Exhibition
when closed leaving the guarantors out of pocket to
the tune of £50,000 sterling—still we cannot but
maintain, even then, that the enterprise must be
looked upon dispassionately as a success, under
those adverse circumstances alluded to.
The lamentable death during the last
winter, of His Royal Highness the PRINCE CON-
SORT, the ori?,inator of the Exhibition of 1862, as
formerly of its historical predecessor, the Exhibi-
tion of 1851—was of itself enough to mar the fair
prospects of so gigantic and elaborate an under-
taking„kpart from the irreparable loss sustained
by the Royal Commissioners from the absence of
that sound judgment and that exquisite taste that
had always proved their guide and stay in any more
than ordinary difficulty—the presence of Royalty
was, in consequence, denied to the Exhibition from
the very commencement. It has been with-
held from the enterprise throughout. The
widowed QUEEN has not ventured to cross the
threshsld of an edifice that could only by possibility
have been fraught to her MAJESTY with the most
painful recollections. The Court has been removed
from the metrorolis, moreover, during the whole of
this last season. In a courtly sense, in point of fact,
1862, has had no Season at all--this very year, that
is, of the Great Exhibition. No levees, no drawing-
rooms—not a single ball or concert at the palace !
The customary attractions of thefashionable world,
of foreign as well as of domestic wealth and rank,
have all this while been awanting—and that, of
course, in the very year when (under the circum -
stances of its being the chosen year of the Exhi-
bition) they would have been most desirable.
Anxieties again were for a longer time than usual
felt as to the prospect of the harvest throughout
the country. Fortunately those anxieties have
now been very happily dissipated for the
tmhoesteroppaar
ct—oubldutbe
until
eretah
ine tchief w e
rportiona t h
ofer
long continuance. The • American war, again, has
from first to last been dead •
against the interests of
the Exhibition. Its lamentable consequences, espe-
cially among the manufacturing
districts in the
north, are woefully visible at this moment as a
reminder of the profound and protracted gloom of
the year during which the Exhibition has had to
struggle against a world of difficulties. All things
cur sidered, therefore, we cannot but regard with
complacency even this whispered foreboding of a
deficiency to the extent of X 50,000, when the in-
comings and the outgoings of the Exhibition come to
The result might clearly have been
be balanced.
worse—under the circumstances.

It is to be hoped that the rumours lately afloat,
to the effect that upon his return from his autumnal
excursion in Scotland, the hon. member for Roch-
dale will attend a public meeting in that borough
for the purpose of addressing his constituents, may
be verified. Mr. CoBDEN'S opinions upon public
affairs generally, upon what the French call the

"situation," would be like a sunburst through the
cloudy darkness (politically) of the holidays. Par-
ties are, in point of numbers at least, so nicely
balanced in the House of Commons, about six of the
Opposition, confronting every half-dozen of the
Government supporters, that a man like Mr.
COBDEN standing immediately between the two
sides (quits
h o calmly
and dispassionately standing
there, a
himself frankly avowed, towards the
close of last session) occupies, at such a juncture, a
position of no ordinary interest and, in some re-
spects, even of no ordinary importance. He stands
there, in fact, as O'CONNELL once stood there—in

he middle
Doing of th
plank---regulating the oscilla-
n s
thise, or, at any rate, capable of doing
o

,his (for Mr. COBDEN has not yet put his capabili-
ties in this way directly to the trial, he has simply

threatened) capable of doing this by the
faintest inflection to the right or to
the left, to the side of the Government
or to the side of the Opposition. Without having
a political " tail" like O'CoNNELL, there is not one

instant's question about the fact that COBDEN is
more than an insulated individual there in the House
of Commons when speaking from that second bench
below the gangway upon the right hand of Mr.
Speaker. His services, his integrity, his intellect,
his unadorned name and his unadorned eloquence
render, and justly and worthily render him—out of
office though he is, never yet in office (though as
England remembers it has been offered before
now in vain to his acceptance)--M.P. for Roch-
dale merely though he is—Mr. COBDEN is
a Power within the House of Commons, he is
a Power in the State_ His one vote upcn any

momentous question carries with it many other

votes. His voice is undeniably powerful to
influence the deliberations of the Legislature
and the opinions entertained out of doors

among the masses of his intelligent country-

men. It is from a consideration of all this, and
from a vivid sense, at the same time, of the impor-
tance and delicacy of the situation, among about
equally balanced Parties, that we look forward
with more than usual interest to this early prospect
of a speeeh from Mr. COBDEN to his Rochdale
constituency.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,

THE BOHEMIAN GIRL,

One of the oldest ballads of Europe, as well as
one of the most popular, is the story of a girl of
noble birth, stolen by gipseys in her infancy, who,
happening to be witnessed by her father as she was
dancing under his windows, at some public festival,
was summoned to his presence in order to amuse his
friends, and then, by some token on her person, was
fortunately recognised. This legend, which was no
doubt a fact at some very early period--like its
heroine, became a wanderer for the public enter-
tainment, and formed one of the stock attractions of
the Jongleurs and Trouveres who traversed Europe
from fair to castle throughout the middle ages, in
order to open the hearts and purse-strings of all
classes of society. In England, prosaic Eng-
land, with its rigid realistio tendencies, which
can only approach a romance in any shape in
order to turn it inside out this story
was parodied in the adventure of Edward Wortley
Montague, who, stolen from his mother when a
child by chimney sweeps, was recognised by Lady
Mary, after his exploring of her kitchen flue, on
the occasion of a dinner party. Here the maternal
instinct, dispensing with the promptings of song
and dance, the childlike glitter of Zingaro jewels,
or the buoyant grace of Zingaro gaiety, was able
to pierce through soot and rags to the identification
of its beloved; or, if roused at all, was by the clat-
ter of his dust shovel on a chimney pot ! It is cer-
tainly somewhat strange, considering the loud
outcry that has been raised on the score of the
dearth of dramatic novelty, that a subject so full of
dramatic interest, and also ineident, as the original,
should never have been appropriated by the stage
until within the last twenty years ; and, scarcely
less strange, that its first presentment should have
taken the form of opera. Such was the good for-
tune, however, of Mr. Balfe, that he was permitted
to enjoy its first impression ; and this not
only, but the aid of its conveyance in an emi-
nently skilful manner. He had not only an ex-
cellent subject, but a subject admirably developed.
His dramatist was Mons. St. George, one of the
ablest of his brethren at the time—by whom not
a point of the new material was either overlooked
or weakened:; and the result was,undoubtedly, one of
the happiest, if not the highest, of Mr. Balfe's many
inspirations, despite the drawback of his being
burthened by such a poet as Mr. Bunn. Nothing
but the interest of the subject can explain the extra-
ordinary fact, that he was able to write such buoyant
music to such execrable words. The poetry of this
opera, which properly raised such a shout of laugh-
ter in ita time, can only be compared to the " non-
sense verses" which were written by Reynolds and
James Smith some five•and forty years ago, and
sung in private by Theodore Hook. Such grotesque
rubbish preserved by music reminds one of the
Egyptian practice of embalming the bones of an
ape in spices.
Achieving the greatest success that had ever been
known on the lyric stage of England—an uninter-
rupted run of considerably above 100 nights, this
opera was faithful to the history of its subject and
its heroine, and became a wanderer all over
Europe for the general entertainment. It has
been played, we believe, with success in every
capital of the continent. Its production last
night, for the first time at Covent-garden,
exhibited all the freshness and animation of
first performance. Its vivid and graceful music
was never more cordially received. The clear and
and resonant voice of Mdlie. Parepa told in
every note of the heroine—her spirited delivery
of the " Marble Halls," winning a warm and de-
served encore; whilst she did every justice to the
characteristic air, " Come with the Gipsy Bride ;"
and to her share in the trio of the third act, " Fly
with me through the world "—one of the most ori-
ginal features of the work. Count Arnheim, as a
baritone part, should properly have been assigned
to Mr. Santley ; but it can scarcely be said to have
suffered at the hands of Mr. Weiss. His earnest
and pathetic delivery of the " Heart bow'd down "
well merited its redemand ; and his singing
throughout the opera had a dignity and force
about it which left nothing to be wished.
Mr. Harrison resumed, of course, his ori-
ginal character of the young exile, and
scarcely permitted his hearers to think that nine-
teen years had elapsed since he first rendered it so
popular. The lovely air, " Remember me," was
manly declamation of the "Fair Land of Poland"
gi
Teeentwithne s alaulditswoel nddistinctionselliteeldofotiecnordee,rneensds atnd
he
lost not a whit of its original and appropriate force
and elevation. The Devilshoof of Mr. Corrie had
all its usual strength and picturesqueness. The
chorus and the band, thanks to the firm hand of
Mr. Mellon, were well entitled to our accustomed
praises. The house was very full.

CAUGTIT AT LAST !-A wonderfully life-like pc.r-
trait of Mr. W. S. Woodin in propria persona has
just been published in the form of a carte de visite. It
is issued from the establishment (122, Regent-street)
of Bassano, the photographer. It is the very image
of the Protein himself—not of any one among his
i charity boy
—era fsep
ant old e
n Fogey,
, or
of
scarcely calculablo swarm of impersonations. It is
Mr. Woodin, in fact, as Mr. Woodin : not as an old
lady,
popular
aspot
Isthe"count i
nt
yp a belle
ho iof the season. It is not Mr.
Woodin as a Stout Beadle, or as a shrimp of a
01n,t,,
atshe v
a Sewnetallb :kbfurt
and features that adapt themselves with such plastic
iresom
readiness to the every whim and fancy of the great
Bassanols carte de visite of
Woodin, in effect, is nothing less than a triumph of
art, over what weshould imagine must, under ordi-
nary circumstances, be a very bewilderment of
nature—to a I,
P-otographer.

The Prince de Radali has arrived at the Burling-
ton Hotel, Cork-street, from Konigsbruk, Saxony.
The Duke and Duchess de Morny have left
Ithe Clarendon for Paris.

Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon.
Miss Canning arrived in Grosvenor-square or Sattuay
from a tour of visits to Scotland.

Lord and Lady Bloomfield and Col:mei and Mis.
Talbot Clifton have arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
Baron Charles de Rothschild has left Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris.

Count Brandenburg, Prussian Charge d'Affaires,
has returned to the Prussian Legation from visiting Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston at Broadlands.

General and Mrs. Dunn have left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, for Inglewood, near Hungerford.
The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have ap-
pointed the Rev. William Rayson, M.A., of Magdalene
Hall, Oxford, formerly curate of Kemerton, near Tewkes-
bury, to a minor canonry in Worcester cathedral,

The Hon. Charles A. Murray arrived ir, town
yesterday from Broadlauds, where he has been 'staying on a
short visit with Viscount and Visrlountess I.%almerston.

The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Keppel and Lord
Huntingfield have loft the St. George's Hotel.
Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India,
returned to town yesterday from visiting Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands.
The Duke of Newcastle has left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, for Clumber Park, Notts.
The Marquis of Abercorn has left Baron's Court,
county Tyrone, to meet the Marchioness and Lady Geor-
giana Hamilton at Haddo House, the Earl and Countess of
Aberdeen's seat in Aberdeenshire.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left Ged-
ling Lodge, Notts, on Saturday, for Grafton House, New-
market.

The Earl and Countess of Bective have returned
to Underley Hall, Kirby Lonsdale, from Kissengen.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The number
of visitors at the Exhibition yesterday was :—By season
tickets, 3,508; ditto, ls. day, 661; by payment, 46,838 ;
total, 51,007.

ST. JAMES'S HALL—The concert of Welsh Na-

tional Music, with band of 20 harps and chorus of 400
voices, will take place at St. James's Hall, on Thursday
evening next. The performers on the harp will include the
names of the most celebrated artistes in London. The
chorus will consist of the members of the Vocal Association
and the Royal Academy of Music, under the direction of
Mr. John Thomas (Pencordd Gwalia). Altogether a groat
musical treat may be expected.

On Thursday last a marriage was solemnised at
Hannington Church, Wilts, between Mr. Ambrose Hussey,
of The Hall, Salisbury, and Miss Freke, only child and
heiress of the late Colonel Freke, of Hannington Hall.
The ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. the Bishop
of Gloucester and Bristol, assisted by the Rev. James
Smeaton, uncle of the bride, and was attended by a large
assembly of relatives and friends, who, to the number of
80, subsequently partook of breakfast at The Hall. The
tenants of the two estates were entertained at the principal
inn at Highworth. The bride was given away by her
guardian, Captain Wines Johnson, R.N., M.P., and was
accompanied to the altar by a train of ten bridesmaids.
The happy couple left at 3 o'clock for Oxford, on their way
to North Wales and the Lakes of Killarney.
MR. TORRENS.---WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND
REVENUES.—To call attention to the reports of the Com-
missioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the
years 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1861, reporting

that the Commissioners had sold the rights of the Crown
in various parcels of land, situate within the forests of
Epping, Woodford, Waltham, and Wanstead ; and to
move a Select Committee to inquire what steps either
have been or ought to be taken to preserve the rights
of recreation and resort to the forests exercised from
time immemorial by the inhabitants of the eastern
parts of the metropolis, as well as the rights of the poorer
foresters, which they have long enjoyed, of pasture, cutting
wood, recreation or other rights ; and with the view of
obtaining compensation (either from the Crown or
from those persons who have benefitted by the possession or
purchase of the various lots particularised in the reports of
the Commissioners), for those who had enjoyed or have
been deprived of rights of the kind referred to, also for
those officers of the forests who by the sale of the rights of
the Crown within the forests have been deprived of any
emolument or perquisites.
LEICESTER OCTOBER CHEESE FAlR.—There was
a very large pitch of cheese at the fair held to-day (Mon-
day), but a great deal came to hand out of condition owing
to the cold or wet. Trade was brisk for good things, but
middling sorts were a drug, so much so that a larger quan-
tity than usual was left on hand at the close of the day.
Best Leicestershire cheese range from about 66s to 755. per
cwt., and a few other lots made a trifle more. Middling
qualities produced from 52s to 60s per cwt. Stilton were
a good supply, but for the most part the quality was very
inferior. The finest made about lld or is per lb., while
other sorts averaged about 7d per lb.
HOPS.—The following is an extract of a letter
received from Saaz, dated Oct. 7, 1862 :—" The quantity of
hops grown in Bohemia and Bavaria, derived from reliable
sources—Bavaria has rather mere than half a crop, and
Bohemia a little less than half a crop. The prices of Bava-
riau varied from £6 to Lb Fel cwt., Auscha, £7 to £9 per
cwt. ; Bohemian, £lO to £l2 per cwt,, lately there has been
an advance of £2 per cwt., which is well maintained.
Should any English demand arise prices will go higher."
A BEAUTY OF BORNEO.—Mr. Spencer St. John
thus describes the daughter of onaof the Datus of Borneo:
—" She was the loveliest girl in Borneo. I have never seen
a native surpass her in figure, or equal her gentle, expres••
sive countenance. She appeared but 16 years of age, and
as she stood near, leaning against the doorpost in the most
graceful attitude, we had a perfect view of all her perfec-
tions. Her dress was slight indeed, consisting of nothing
but a short petticoat reaching from her waist to a little above
her knees. Her skin was of the light clear brown, which
is almost the perfection of colour in a sunny clime; and,
as she was just returning from bathing, her hair, unbound,
fell in great luxuriance over her shoulders. Her eyes were
black, not flashing, but rather contemplative, and her fea-
tures were regular—even her nose was straight. So intent
was she in watching our movements, and wondering at our
novel mode of eating with spoons and knives and forks,
that she unconsciously remained in her graceful attitude
for some time ; but, suddenly recollecting that she was not
appearing to the best advantage in her light costume, she
moved away slowly to her room, and presently came forth
dressed in a silk jacket and new petticoat, with bead neck-
laces and gold ornaments. In our eyes she did not look so
interesting as before."
EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—It may be of some
service to intending emigrants to Canada and New Bruns-
wick to know that the Emigration Commissioners receive
and remit, free of charge, ter the use of newly arrived emi-
grants of the poorer class to the Government immigration
agents in Canada and New Brunswick, any sum of money
not less than £5, nor more than £2O from any one person,
which may be paid to them or to their credit at the Bank of
England for the purpose. The persons transmitting the
money must furnish the Commissioners with the names and
ages of the emigrants for whose benefit the money is de-
posited, and specify the manner in which it is to be expended
in the colony—whether wholly in cash, or partly in cash,
and partly in providing emigrants with provisions and con-
veyance to their destination. The Commissioners do not
engage to effect purchases of land or otherwise to invest or
retain the money for the benefit of individuals, but simply
to instruct the Government agents to apply it to the imme-
diate use of the people after their arrival, either in the mode
directed by the depositor, or, in the absence of such direc-
tions, in the manner which the immigration agents may
deem most advantageous for the emigrants. Owing to the
various rates of exchange, a given sum will not always pro-
duce the same amount of colonial currency, but the sum to
be received in the colony will in all cases exceed in nominal
amount the sum deposited in this country. This plan can
obviously be only made available in the cases of emigrants
proceeding to those places in British North America where
there are immigration agents—viz,, Canada and New
Brunswick.
How RACES DIE OUT.—The method in which
lower races fuse into or escape from the higher is a mystery
in its causes but well understood in its result. 'The lower
race loses its productiveness; and some daozeesnts of extinct
attest tribes, like the extinct genera of animals, this. The
Red Indians of America, the native race of Peru, and the
aborigines of Australia are living examples of this rule. In
14 years, in Tasmania, a living traveller says, the abori-
ginal inhabitants, although numberinfueapc.varlvdseemf
may rest
did not give birth to more than 14 chidr
assured that at this rate any class of beings will soon ex-
haust itself.
THE MURDERER HAYES IN DUNDALK.—We have
reason to believe this unfortunate and desperate man was
recognised recently on the Dundalk bridge, which spans
Junction the Dublin and Belfast
Railway. He had a
haggard but a confident look, and, although apparently
undisguised, was in
manner, so meek 80 a
reality disguised in a very clever
hims to render the police blame-
less in not making
party who sawalthough
him, a
nmenaavbinleg to
an j
uustice. The
utrer horror of
criminals of his class, did
not think proper to aid in his
capture for several reasons. One is, that he would be a
marked man—another, that he would not be an informer
under
any circumstances, because, living or dead, he has no
sympathy with the ruthless crowbar brigade, which he be-
lieves the late Mr. Braddell never hesitated to employ.—
Lundaa Express.
Two DEAD BODIES FOUND IN TIIE RIVER.—Early
yesterday the body of a man, about 40 years of age, having
the appearance of a foreign seaman, was found in the
Thames at Limehouse Reach, by a waterman, who con-
signed it to the workhouse, to await a coroner's inquiry.
On Sunday evening, the body of a young female, respect-
ably attired, was washed ashore at Erith. There was
nothing to account for her having got into the water, or to
serve as a clue to her identity.
Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the
usual kinds. Norniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore,
6ways 1,004 grafi Sold iu packets by 2,280 Ageßts.

LATEST NEWS.

MADRID, OCT. 14.

Intelligence has been received from Granada that
splendid fetes were given in that city upon the oc-
casion of their Majesties' visit.
Letters from Tangiers state that Morocco is
negotiating a loan in London to pay off her debt to
Spain.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 13.
The Pectic and Ellora, with the above mail,
sailed this day at noon for Marseilles and South-
ampton respectively.

The Ellora may be expected at Southampton
about the 26th inst.

The Malta brought the mail to Suez, arriving

there yesterday.
The China, with the London mails of the 27th of
September (3d October), left Suez yesterday for
Bombay.
The Jeddo, with the English mail of the 27th of
August (3d of September), reached Bombay on the
24th ult. (two days early).

THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE IN

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, OCL 13.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, the Mini-
sters being absent, the President of the Chamber
opened the sitting. He regretted being obliged to
communicate the vote of the Upper House, which
he declared was unconstitutional,
The President then moved that the Chamber ad-
journ for an hour, when the Committee on the
Budget should report upon the resolutions proposed
bp Dr. Simson and Herr Reichensperger, declaring
void the vote of the Upper House and stating their
reasons for that conclusion,

He also moved that the committee should further
report upon the resolutions proposed by Dr. Gneist
and his party—viz., that the vote of the Upper
House was unconstitutional, and therefore null and
void; that the Government is not entitled to base
any rights upon that vote ; that the Government
is in duty bound to settle the expenditure for 1862
in accordance with the Constitution ; and that it
was not justified in making outlays which the
Chamber had refused to grant.

The proposal of the President was almost unani
rcously agreed to.

The Committee on the Budget unanimously
passed a resolation, declaring the vote of the Upper
House, regarding the acceptance of the Budget
brought forward by the Government, as opposed to
the plain sense and words of the Constitution, and
upon that account null and void. The Government
would, therefore, not be justified in basing any
rights whatever upon the vote.
The Chamber then resolved upon instant discus-
sion of the subject.
Herr von Bonin-Stolp protested against this re-
solution, and quitted the Chamber with five mem-
bers of his party.
No debate, however, took place upon the resolu•

tion of the Committee upon the Budget, which was
unanimously adopted by the 237 members present.
The President of the Council, Count von Bismark-
Schonhausen, then read a Royal Message, ordering
that the close of the Parliamentary session should
take place in the Royal Castle at three o'clock this
afternoon.

CLOSING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS
OCT. 13 (Evening).

The Prussian C hambers were closed this after-
noon. The President of the Ministry read the
Speech from the Throne. In this speech the King
makes mention of the treaty of commerce with
France, and states that the principles of national
economy on which that treaty is founded will
henceforward form the basis of the commercial
policy of Prussia. The speech laments that the
discussions on the budget for 1862 have not led to
a legal sentiment, and continues :
" That budget, as amended by the Lower House,
having been rejected by the Upper House, the Go-
vernment finds itself compelled to carry out the
budget as it was originally laid before the Lower
House, without taking cognisance of the conditions
imposed by the constitution. The Government,
although conscious of the responsibility arising out
of this deplorable state of things, is also mindful of
its duties to the country, and therein finds authoriz-
ation for defraying, until the legal settlement of the
budget takes place, the expenditure necessary for
the preservation of existing institutions and the
development of the welfare of the country. It feels
convinced that this course will hereafter receive the
sanction of the Chambers."