The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-12 00:00:00

rHE SUN; LONDON, MONDAY EVEMNG, JUNE 12, 1865.

elogne nt terms, and said that they were now await-
ing the verdict of the country through the constitu-
encies, but that they had little to hope or to desire
whother in office or out of it, but that "it might
please the ALMIGHTY of His mercy to vouchsafe to
the people of this country a continuance of the
blessings lately poured on them, and along with
those Wessings to give them the, one crowning
blessing of grateful hearts to Him, the giver of
them all."

The assembly had the satisfaction of listening to
one of the senior honorary members of the com-
pany, Lord BROUGHAM. His lordship expressed the
pleasure it gave him to be present, chiefly because
he considered that hall to be the home of a body of
men who had ever been the champions of popular
rights and liberties, and also the friends of instruc-
tion and improvement. The noble and learned lord
gave some very wise advice respecting the approach-
ing elections, and adjured all concerned to avoid
the corrupt practices which disgraced the commu-
nity and injured the reputation of our constitution
in the eyes of foreign nations. The noble and
learned lord, in concluding, delivered a most impres-
sive passage respecting America and the crisis now
at hand. This exhortation, delivered in a style
worthy of the veteran statesman's palmy days
of oratory, must be read with interest, and
should impress those whom it concerns on
the other side of the Atlantic. No ojie has a
better right than Lord BROUGHAM to discourse upon
slavery, and it is to be trusted that his earnest
words will meet with due regard. Mr. CRAWFORD
made a very amusing speech in returning thanks
for the House of Commons, in which he set forth
the evils that environed members, and advised those
ambitious of entering that arena to leave the repre-
sentation of the City in the hands of those who now
hold it. This sumptuous entertainment went off in
the best possible manner, and the result must have
been highly satisfactory to all concerned in the
affair, comprising, as it did, the graces of style and
the gifts of oratory.

Opening of the Lanham Hotel.

On Saturday a private view of this magnificent
hotel took place, when a number of the nobility and
gentry visited it, and none could refrain from admir-
ing the taste of its internal decoration. The Prince
of Wales honoured the directors by visiting the es-
tablishment, his royal highness being received by
the Earl of Shrewsbury (chairman), Mr. Edge-
cumbe Bendle (vice-chairman), Sir James Car-
michael, Bart., Capt. Hoare, and other directors.
The directors having been presented by the
Earl of Shrewsbury to the Prince, the archi-
tects (Messrs. Giles and Murray), the contrac-
tors (Messrs. Charles and Thomas Lucas),
the furnishers (Messrs. Peter and Foster
Graham), Mr. Charles Schumann, manager of the
hotel, and Mr. Grant, secretary to the company,
were severally introduced to his Royal Highness.
The Prince .was then conducted through the hotel,
commencing with the basement story and ascending
to the summit of the building. The Prince in-
formed the Earl of Shrewsbury that he greatly ad-
mired the building and all its arrangements.

About 2,000 persons accepted the invitation of
the directors, among them being the Right lion. B.
and Mrs. Disraeli, Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay,
beside a great many noblemen and other distin-
guished gentlemen. The hotel stands right oppo-
site the church in Langham-place, and is the
largest establishment of the kind in London. It
occupies more than an acre of ground, and being
156 feet in height, it has eight floors, upon which
are more than GOO rooms. Thirty suites of apart-
ments are contained within its walls, there being
more than 300 bed-rooms, and there are 36 . baths
and 14 lavatories, while the larger apartments
comprise a salle a manger 100 feet long and 40 feet
wide, a coffee room and other rooms 50 feet square,
ladies' coffee and drawing rooms, billiard and
smoking rooms, and other apartments " too nume-
rous to mention." The entrance hall is 50 feet
square, and two grand stone staircases open from it
reaching to the upper floors. A post and telegraph
office, and a clerk's office in the entrance
hall show that the directors have not been un-
mindful of the small comforts of such an estab-
lishment, while the visitors may, in parties of
six or less, be raised to the upper floors with-
out the trouble and labour of going up stairs.
Bed-rooms for visitors' servants and for the ser-
vants of the hotel occupy a floor between the
kitchens and the grand saloons, this portion of
the building being entirely fireproof ; while ample
means of egress have been secured in case of fire by
the corridors surrounding each floor and opening on
to four different staircases. And two 16-horse
power steam boilers have been put up to fur-
nish steam to the cooking apparatus, and to raise
water to the tanks on the roof, in which no less than
38,000 gallons will always be stored against the
chances of fire.

The furnishing and decorating of the whole of
the interior, by Messrs. Jackson and Graham, is
most magnificent, everything being in the richest
and best material, and all is carried out with that
taste and judgment which so distinguishes the work
executed by this firm. We imagined that the large
hotel in the Strand furnished by Messrs. Jackson
and Graham was a wonderfully well executed task ;
but in the Langham they have fairly outrivalled all
their former efforts, and the compliments bestowed
upon them by his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales when he took his departure were well deserved.
Another very noticeable feature is the extreme beauty
of the plate, the whole of which is en suite of the
old beaded Queen Anne's pattern. This has been
supplied by G. R. Collis & Co., of Regent-street—a
finer specimen of British workmanship we could not
wish to see. The decoration of the different articles
is most artistic, and as they laid glittering on the
sideboard and dining-table the effect was perfectly
dazzling. The next remarkable feature is the
kitchen, which has been fitted up by the Messrs.
Adams, of the Haymarket, in a style which is with-
out parallel in the metropolis. The kitchen of the
Reform Club was at one time looked upon as a
wonder, but, compared with that of the Langham,
it becomes quite a small affair. The immense ranges
of hot plates, hot chambers, fire-stoves, frying
and a grilling ditto, present a scene at once novel
and remarkable, and one which cannot but increase
the reputation of the firm by which they have been
constructed and supplied.

The tariff of the hotel is at once moderate and
complete ; indeed, so moderate that for the sum
usually charged for very ordinary furnished lodgings
in private houses apartments can be had in the
Langham, and those of the most beautiful descrip-
tion. To-day its rooms are placed at the disposal of
the public ; and it will go hard if the public should not
appreciate the marked advantages here offered to
them.

HERR COENEN'S MATINEE MUSICALE.—On Wed-
nesday afternoon this accomplished pianist gave
his matinee musicale !at the Hanover-square rooms, which
were crowded with a brilliant and fashionable audience,
and the entertainment passed off with great éclat. Among
the performers were Madame Shepherd Ley, Miss Wilkin-
son, and Miss Mina Poole, M. Lazarus on the Clarionet,
M. Pagneau on the violoncello, and Herr Oxinen himself
and a young pupil on the pianoforte. The concerted pieces
were beaitifully played ; one of them, a Sonata in B flat,
was the composition of Herr Coeneu, and was very much
admired, especially the scherzo— the last movement but one.
Mons. Payne delighted his audience, as he always does,
with a solo on the violoncello, and the pianoforte solo and
duet were also among the prominent successes. Madame
Shepherd Ley sung a new song by Claribel Dreamland,
with great effect ; and Miss Wilkinson showed that she
had made great progress since her debut. The programnte
was not too long, and the instrumental and vocal music
was so well blended that a pleasant variety prevented
any tedium. Altogether, it was a decided success, and
must have been very gratifying to the giver.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL'S APARTMENTS at the
Tuileries are being refurnished. The bed and toilette-
table intended fur tho young Prince are just finished, and
are exquisite specimens of wood carving, reflecting the
highest credit on the distinguished artist who undertook
their execution.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE NIAGARA.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 12.

The American war steamer Niagara has arrived
in the river. On coming to anchor she fired a salute,
which compliment was returned by her Majesty's
frigate Irresistible, lying off Netley Aospital.
It is expected the Niagara will come into dock
to refit.

MEXICO.

PARIS, June 12.

Official despatches have been received here from
the city of Mexico to the 10th May, and Vera Cruz
to the 14th May by the steam-packet Lousiane via
St. Nazaire.

The Emperor Maximilian's presence at the works
of the Mexico and Vera Cruz railway had given a
fresh impetus to the execution of that line. A sec-
tion of 100 kilometres had already been opened by.
M. Cheron, a Frenchman, working under the di-
rection of M. Julien, the present manager of the
Western Railways.
A cadastral survey is about to be commenced of
all the rural, urban, and manufacturing properties
in the country. This labour will serve as a basis
for fixing the land tax, which has not yet existed in
Mexico, and will furnish great resources to the
Treasury. It is approximately calculated to yield
an annual revenue of 70 or 140 millions francs,
according as the tax may be fixed at 1 or 2 per
cent.

The financial and manufacturing companies and
the foreign capital they import contribute to raise
the national spirit. The rural militia, strongly
organised, powerfully aid in the extirpation of
brigandage ; steam navigation is being developed
upon both coasts, and the yield of the mines in-
creases. The Mexican mint coined more than
332,000 dollars during the month of April, and the
merchants are taking measures to despatch at the
end of the month of May a considerable convoy of
treasure to the Gulf of Mexico.

A dreadful accident took place at Mexico on the
4th May, whereby the French colony and the whole
population were deeply affected. A fire having
broken out in the shop of a French cabinet maker,
several French general officers hastened to the spot.
The fire was shortly brought under but at the cost
of three lives. Colonel Tourre, commanding the
3d Zouave Regiment, Lieutenant Labrousse, of the
99th Line, and trumpeter Schlinker perished in their
exertions to save the inmates.

The despatches of the Marshal Commander-in-
Chief of the expeditionary corps in Mexico are
satisfactory. . _

In the State of Oajaca order may be considered
to have been re-established, and the garrisoning of
the towns has been entrusted to the Austrian
contingent.
In Michoacan the success of Colonel Potier over
Regules, which avenged the disaster suffered by the
Belgian battalion, has confirmed the favourable dis-
position of the inhabitants. On the same day that
Colonel Potier defeated Regules a detachment of
Belgian and Mexican troops accomplished the de-
struction of the band of Ugalde, vigorously attacked
the previous evening by Colonel Lamadria upon
another point of Michoacan.

Regules, rendered powerless, was forced to retreat
into the Tierra Caliente, where the climate and the
difficulty of subsistence render his position still
more critical.

The activity displayed by the French troops in
Sinaloa had produced good results. The inhabitants
are organising themselves for defence, and the
Juarists bands are fast disappearing. The environs
of Mazatlan are perfectly tranquil. While a quar-
ter of the population are under arms, the remainder
are employed in agricultural labours.
The district of Concordia is also in a satisfactory
condition. Lieutenant-Colonel Cottrel occupied
San Sebastian, a small town of 4,600 inhabitants,
16 leagues from Mazatlan, and Las Messilos. The
civil authorities are installed there, and have en-
tered upon their functions. General Lozado has
been successful against the Juarists bands of
Corona.

The agitation caused in Nueva Leon by the ap-
pearance of Negrete at Monterey has not extended
to the department of San Lius de Potosi. The
French columns will very shortly enter the district
occupied by the insurgents. General Mijia, who
had concentrated his forces at Matamoras, was rein-
forced on the 4th May by the battalion of the
Foreign Legion under M. de Brian. The arrival of
this reinforcement determined Negrete to arrest his
march upon Matamoras and fall back upon Mon-
terey.

The interior departments of the Empire remain
secure. The generals appointed by the Emperor
Maximilian to the command of the territorial divi-
sions are now proceeding to their posts, and will
immediately commence the organisation of the rural
guard. The operations of the Austrian Legion in
the Sierra Madre have been successful, and will
shortly bring about the entire submission of that
district.

The steamship Bresilien arrived at Vera Cruz on
the sth May with the complement of the Austrian
contingent, 1,100 strong, who were immediately
despatched to their garrisons.
The health of the troops is very satisfactory.
FRANCE.
RETURN OF TIIE EMPEROR TO PARIS.

PARIS, June 10.
The Emperor arrived here at five o'clock this
evening. Many houses on the route from the Lyons
railway station were decorated with flags.
The streets were thronged by large crowds, by
whom the Emperor was enthusiastically cheered.
His Majesty is in perfect health.
At night the public buildings and a large number
of private houses were illuminated,
General Mellinet has been elected Grand Master
of the Grand Orient Freemason Lodges of France,
by 142 votes, against 36 given to M. Massol.
BOURSE, June 10.—The chief feature of the
market has been the continued retrogression of
Mexican Stock--the Old Loan, after having lost
per cent yesterday, having receded per cent. to-
day, whilst the New Obligations show a falling off
of -3fr. 75c. The transactions in the other depart-
ments show little or no change on the closing rates
of yesterday. The last quotations were as fol-
lows :-
41 per Cents 95 50
Do. end month

Ditto Threes 4l 25
New Mexican
Do. Bonds 327 50
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
Roman 74

3 per Cents. 67 50
Do. end month 67 45
Credit Mobilier 771 25

Do. end month 770
Bank Shares 3675

Credit Fonder 1260
Italian Loan 66 80

Do. end month 66 80

RAILI`

WAYS.
Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1072 50 ... 1070
Lyons and Mediterranean 847 50 ... 845 --
Southern 595 ••• 595
Western 522 50 ... 525
Eastern 505 ... 503 75
Sardinian . 3lO -- ••• 310
Austrian
Lombard 498 75 ... 500
North of Spain 206 25 ... 206 25
Saragossa 316 25 ... 322 50
Ditto to Barcelona — •••

M. THIERS.—" M. Thiers," writes the Paris cor-
respondent of the Thies, " rarely attains the highest
flight of what is called oratory. He either does not care to
do so or cannot do so. Thero is nothing lofty, or empha-
ti°, or passionate, or declamatory in him. His words, his
tone, and manner aro those used in ordinary converse;
and aro admirably suited to everyday questions like the
present. Ho has wit at his fingers' ends, and galvanises
even arithmetic with it. His comparison of the ordi-
nary and extraordinary budgets to the overladen ship
obliged to transfer a part of her cargo to a smaller
vessel alongside, and then lighten herself to get into port,
and his division of the financial comedy into five acts,
were worthy of Beaumarchais. M. Thiers may not be
eloquent in the ordinary sense of the word ; his force is in
what the French call causerie, but it is a causerie of which
one can never hear enough, so replete is it with life, so
voluble, sparkling, varied by historical allusions always
appropriate and anecdotes marvellously to the point. His
voice shrill, slightly nasal, and southern in accent, pene-
trates every corner of the chamber. There is nothing
emphatic or theatrical in his gesture. He now and then
buttons up his coat and folds his arms, unbuttons and
throws it back from his chest, or leans familiarly on his
desk, with his chin resting on his hand. He hardly ever
refers to a note."

MARKETS—This Day,

MARK-LANE.

The country markets held on Saturday were quiet for
wheat, and the tendency of prices was decidely in favour
of buyers. Very little chinge took place in the value of
barley, oats, beans, and peas, the demand on those articles
being on the whole steady. Flower was in but moderate
request at late rates.
The arrivals of English grain up to our market last
week were very small. The imports from abroad were
37,314 quarters of wheat ; 4,462, barley ; 28,350, oats ;
1,000, rye ; 58, beans ; 1,494, peas ; 31, tares ; 17,518,
linseed ; 13,732, rapeseed ; 4,100, maize ; 2.500, sundry
seeds ; and 227 sacks of flour.
On the continent a fair business is passing in most de-
scriptions of cereal produce, at full prices. Wheat, how-
ever, is somewhat quieter. At New York the export de-
mand continues limited.

CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASLItE.
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 37s to 1 1 a
Ditto, 1861 '9s 42s
Ditto, white, 1t,63 4ls 468
Ditto, 1864
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 18C4
Ditto, 1863
Talavera, 1861
Rye--
Barley—Grinding 23s 2:s
Malting
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk sls 61s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware s4s Cls
Chevalier
Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsli., Feeding l9s 23s
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black lBs 235
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding l7s 225
Beane—Tick • 3ss 38s
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey
Maple
White 37s Cs
' Boilers 378 418
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 265 305
Stockton and Norfolk 23s 27s
American, per barrel 215 21s

quence of the unusually large quantity now being offered.
In English wool, by private contract, only a moderate
business is doing. Growers and holders, however, are
firm, and previous quotations are supported. Last week's
imports amounted to 2,935 bales from Launceston, 4,162
Sydney, 1,656 New Zealand, and 146 bales from the Cape.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
sd s d
Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 8 1
Half -bred do 1 8 1 104
Kent fleeces
south Down ewes and wethersi 7 1 8}
Leice,ter do 1 8 1 9
Sorts -Clothing 1 6 1 11
Combing 1 5 2 0

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, June 9.

The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom-
panied by Princess Helena, and in the afternoon
her Majesty went out with Princess Helena, at-
tended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole.

JUNE 10.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove out yesterday morning.
In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied by
Princess Helena, and attended by Mrs. Gordon,
Iv cut to Loch Bulig and returned by Invercauld.