The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE
_3O, 1862.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY•LANE.I
Dion Boucicault, Lessee.
TO-NIGHT, MONDAY, June O. MP, the performances
will commence at 7, with the SPITALFIELDS WEAVER :
Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins.
After which, THE COLLEE V BAWN : Messrs. Dio
Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame n
Celeste,
Jessie M`Lean, Stevins.
To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs.
Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan.
Box-office open from 10 to 5.

TREAT RE-R 0 AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE FIAPPIEST DAY OF
MY LIFE. Mr. Compton, Miss Caroline Hill, &c.
Att which, at a quarter to 8 will be performed (162 d time)
OURer AMERICAN COUSIN., Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballets ntitied LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Peres Nena, nor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with SHOCRING EVENTS.

14 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
11) Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
195th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DA Y ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falconer Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
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To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
',Liss Lydia Thompson.
Actin, Manatrer—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.

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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
hiss M. Harris.
After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien
and Louis de French', Mr. Charles Kean; Messrs. Jordan,
Everett, R. Cathcart, Meadows, &c. ; Mesdames Fielding,
Chapman, R. Leclercq, Henderson, and N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No halt-price.

NEW THEATRE-RU YAL, ADELPHI.--
Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
TO-NIGHT, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw,
K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs-
D. Murray, Emery, D. Fisher, Billing,ton, Stephenson, C. J.
Smith, Romer; Miss Agnes Burdett, Miss woolgar, Mrs.
Billington, and Airs. H. Lewis.
To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs.. J. L.
Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL.
STECKEL,
The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock
Immense success of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's
Opera,
" DON SE BASTIEN,"
(Produced here for the first time in this country).
Arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Principal Artistes—liss Russell and Signor Tlyoli.
The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth
(the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other
man "). Also the following array of Comic Talent, viz. :
E. Marshall, J. G. Forde, A. B. Hollingsworth, Miss Geor-
gina Smithson. and Joe Brown, the renowned Dancer.

HE OXF OR D,I
6, OXFORD STREET.
The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in
new and unapproachable feats.
Verdi's "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATORE,"
" SIMON BOCCANEGRA," - G. Linley's "JOLLY
BEGGARS ; " G.A. Macfarren's " NfAY DAY. Principal
Vocalists Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those
Little
unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Rurnsey, Newcomb,
Bob,Eugene,and Unsworth (the original "or any other man").
Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.
Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International
Exhibition Cantata.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY .—Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 4h. 6m.
To-ifoßßow.-Morning, 4h. 24m.—Afternoon, 4h.
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NOTICE.

All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to
Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112,
Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord
Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun
newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in
respect thereof.

We should be sorry to exert the humblest mea-
sure of influence in a way which might lead men
into a losing course of action, but we must number
ourselves with those who would warn Manchester
of the danger of inaction in regard to the supply of
cotton. Some of the highest authorities among
their commerical men have already done so, and, on
looking at the working of things in America, every
month appears to us to call upon Manchester, with
increased reason, to be up and doing.

The present posture of the great cotton capital of
England is precisely that to check the development
of cotton cultivation all over the world, and in India
especially. Manchester acts, or rather is inactive,
on the ground that any day the war in America
may terminate, and fresh and abundant supplies
of slave cotton be again poured into her hungry
starving market. India will never exert itself while
this is the hope of Manchester. She remembers too
well former efforts, by which heavy losses were sus-
tained through being superseded by America; and
so long as Manchester shows that America, not
India, is the permanent hope, the latter will not
hazard being again kicked off for the slaveholder
and his production. We think both India and
Manchester are wrong; we have little doubt that a
vigorous Indian effort would never result like the
former one. India would not again lay herself open
to the complaint of careless collecting, cleaning and
packing the crop, In a year or two, if the Govern•
went does its duty, or Sir C. WOOD will permit it to
do so, there will be no further complaints of the
cotton being spoiled and de:ayed by careless, slow,
and uncertain bullock conveyance, and thus the
worst objection to Indian cotton would be removed.
India can also, and will, improve the quality of her
staple by American seed and by irrigation. While,
on the other side, there is increasing improbability
of any early supplies from America.
We observe that a contemporary points to the
probable opening of the Mississippi traffic in cotton.
The river, except about the 300 miles which is the
very centre of cotton planting, is now in the hands
of the Federals. The remainder will be so imme-
diately, for nothing can withstand the combined
Federal fleets from the North and the South ; it is,
then, assumed that the planters will at once clear,
pack, and ship their cotton. we e take this to he a
mere imagination, all the facts pointing the other
way. Not a single instance of a cotton planter
friendly to the North has yet been mentioned.
Granted that the cotton already burned has been
that accumulated in town warehouses, and that it
has been done under compulsion by the retreating
Federal troops; yet, all the evidence is against the
probability of the planters selling their cotton to
Federal traders, or to persons trading under Fede-
ral auspices. The planters and their Eons have
been the officers and best soldiers in this war ; they
have imbibed all the bitter Spirit of hostility which
modifications, sufferings, and defeat could add to
their previous contempt for the North, and who that
remembers the force of a public sentiment, can
suppose that these planters will at once
turn round, and enter on a trade which
would relieve the North of some of its worst diffi-
culties. We may be assured they will never do
this pending the war.

Is, then, the war likely to come soon to its ter-
mination ? The facts on which a correct opinion
on this point must rest are equally before us all ;
they certainly do not warrant any such pleasant
anticipation. The very latest news, if in some re-
spects hopeful in the West, is altogether the other
way in HALLECK has not done with
BEAUREGARD yet, though the latter seems to be
sadly in want of that indispensable article, food;
but INITLELLAN seems to be quite incapable of
movement at present. Re has been twice surprised
on either flank; guerilla bands threaten his corn-
muications; he is demanding, and cannot obtain,
large reinforments ; while from somequarter—pro-
bably the men whom BEAUREGARD connot feed--
the Confederate army has received considerable

reinforcements. It is very clear that even when
the waters of the Chickahominy subside M'CLELLAN
does not feel himself strong enough to attack Rich-
mond till he is largely reinforced.

The movements of General JACKSON show how
strorg the Confederates are. His able exploits had
the effect of enfeebling M'CLELLAN, by depriving
him of the conjunction of M‘DowELL, who, him-
self strengthened by the forces he had received from
BANKS, was to have joined him for the grand at-
tack. Instead of this he was obliged to keep where
he was to save BANKS and the city of Washington.
Worse than that, the Valley of the Shenandoah,
from which JACKSON drove BANKS, is one of the
most fertile in wheat in Virginia, and everything
looks as if the Confederates intended to make it their
granary for an autumn and winter campaign. It
were folly to prophecy the results of military move-
ments, but there is no reasonable probability of
M'CLELLAN being in a position to act with prompti-
tude at Richmond, and the North is getting soli-
citous about him.
But even should JEFFERSON DAVIS fall back
from Richmond as BEAUREGARD did from Corinth,
it would only be to go farther south and move into
the interior, where, away from Federal gunboats,
the Confederates might protract the war, as the
Federals would find it utterly impracticable to
conquer the vast interior. Indeed neither North
nor South shows the least symptom of yielding.
Each demands and easily gets reinforcements for
its vast armies, and as the last result there can be
little doubt that the South would rather put arms
into the hands of their negroes than allow the
North to do it. When the North has threatened
emancipation and arming the negroes rather than
tolerate secession, the South has always replied
that two could play at that game, and that if it
came to the question of submission to the North
or of arming the blacks, the latter would be chosen.
We have every reason to believe it would. Let
then the temper of the two great American com-
munities be considered, and the means which des-
peration could put into the hands of the weaker
side, and we can see little or no prospect of an
early cessation of the war. The Federals will never
relax their hold of the forts and rivers, nor the
Confederates of the interior, and while this state of
things lasts cotton will never leave the Confederate
interior through ports occupied by the Federals.
Once more, therefore, we venture to sustain the
advice of those who urge on Manchester a vigorous
cotton campaign in India. It is difficult for a large
trade to get out of its routine, or for such buyers as
they have been, to believe that their money will not
attract that for which it is offered. In this case it
will not without a helping hand. Not only must
Government, especially Sir CHARLES WooD, the
chief obstacle, be watchfully pressed to do its share
of the work—that of conveyance and irrigation ;
but Manchester must send her agents amongst the
Ryots. They must go with advances of money in
hand for the Ryots, who are too poor to cultivate
without it, while the native usurers would grind
them with fifty or sixty per cent. interest. The In-
dian Government must furnish a good law for se-
curing the advances, and they can then be made
by English capital on easy terms. The same per-
sons would be the agents for purchasing the cotton,
and seeing it properly cleaned, packed, and con-
veyed—and thus European superintendence and
European money may quickly do for the cotton dis-
tricts what it has already done for the tea districts
in Assam. Is it too much to expect of the queen
of manufacturing cities that she would at once take
vigorous action in a case in which her own trade is
so entirely at stake ? It is time that her manufac-
turing princes did somethiug wuitl.,), of themselves
to rescue their trade from longer dependence on the
uncertainties of American slavery.

Mr. HORSMAN must now recognise, we should
imagine, that he has been rather too precipitate.
A like qualm must be forcing itself also through
the " second thoughts" of Lord ROBERT MONTAGTJ.
His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH has small
reason truly to feel himself under any very weighty
load of obligation to those champions of his privacy
in Whitehall-gardens who, by their excited inter-
position in his behalf in the House of Commons,
have already contrived rather seriously to injure
still further an originally bad and damaged cause.
Pas de zele, said TALLYRAND to the embryo diplo-
matist. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH might well
have hinted the advisability of a like discretion on
the part of those friends of his grace who have so
very recently and so very actively been " encumber-
ing " him with their help ! Festina lente—is the
motto emblazoned under the device of the PLUN-
KETTB on their old heraldric escutcheon. Alas for
the interests of the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and
QUEENSBERRY in the matter of his adroitly (not to
say cunningly) renewed lease of Montagu House
—Festina lente is by no means the favourite
axiom apparently either of Lord ROBERT
or of Mr. HORSMAN. They have in turn
not only hastened, they have positively
jumped—to a conclusion! A letter is addressed to
Mr. HIGGINS by the right hon. the Chairman of the
Thames Embankment Committee, himself also a
Cabinet Minister. A series of letters have appeared
recently in the columns of our chief morning con-
temporary. The Mr. HIGGINS for whom Mr.
COWPER'S private letter was intended is known
to be officially connected with the journal referred
to. Nothing more is required by Mr. HORSMAN—
a right hon. gentleman who piques himself upon
seeing through a millstone as well as—any other
man ! He sees so clearly through this millstone at
rate that ho makes an attempt forthwith to hang it
about the neck of Mr. COWPER by way of summary
punishment ! Only—in the very act of doing this—
he miscalculates his own position in regard to the
millstone so egregiously (somewhat after the
manner of JACK KETCH in the well known de-
nouement of the street-tragedy of " Punch")
that his own head, instead of his intended vic-
tim's, gets impaled within it. And Mr. HORSMAN
and not Mr. CowPEß—suddenly makes an abrupt
descent in public estimation accordingly. Mr.
11°11'811414 not only can see through the millstone,
but can thrust his head through it until it rests
(collar-wise) upon his own shoulders—the result
being eminently bathetic! The most ludicrous anti-
climax almost that any one of us could very well I
have imagined.

Such an elaborated and formidable series of
charges as they were—those directed on Friday
c on
night by the right hon. member for Stroud against
Mr. COWPER, against Mr. HIGGINS, by implication,
(the right Mr. HIGGINS we mean), and also and in
a particular manner against the Times newspaper!
This was, recollect, at the very last sitting,
the
House of Commons. Here, however, is Monday only
and now Mr. HoRSMAN has been enabled to "Mark
how plain a tale can put him down !" Mr. HIG.
GlNS—[and, once for all, when we write here of
Mr. HIGGINS, we refer to the veritable Simon Pure,
and not by any means to Lord CIIELMSFORD's Mr.
HIGGINS, the all-but Master of Lunacy,]—Mr. HIG-
GINS has addressed a very plain statement of facts in-
deed to our leading morning contemporary. He puts
these facts down upon paper as recently as yester-
day, and they make their appearance this morning
in the columns of our contemporary. It is impos-
bible not to see at once that they are perfectly

conclusive. Mr. HORSMAN'S accusation against Mr.
COWPER, it will be remembered, is very briefly,
but very distinctly, to the effect that the latter fur-
nished Mr. HIGGINS with the materials for making
charges, through the " leading journal," against
the members of the Thames Embankment Commit-
tee, and charges of nothing less, in truth, than
meanness and subserviency. Hear, now, what it is
that Mr. HIGGINS himself has to avouch upon the
matter in question—" Entertaining," he writes,
" as I confess I do, a very decided opinion respecting
the report of the Committee, I expressed it to Mr. Co-
w with whom I have the honour of being slightly
acquainted, on meeting him accidentally about a week
ago." Observe, here, at the outset, that the
opinion is Mr. HIGGINS'S opinion—an opinion ex-
pressed by him to Mr. COWPER, and not instilled
into Mr. HIGGINS'S mind by Mr. COWPER. Before
this chance conversation of about a week ago between
these two gentlemen then, and still, of course, but
very slightly acquainted with each other, Mr.
HIGGINS had already seen a resolution of the
committee, reported and commented upon ; in con-
sequence of which he remarks, " I therefore inquired
of Mr. COWPER whether the report of the commit-
tee and the evidence taken before it had been
published. He told me that they had not yet re-
ported, but that as soon as they did report he
would send me a copy of the evidence. I saw and
heard no more of Mr. COWPER or the evidence in
question till Saturday morning, when I read the
debate of Friday night with astonishment, as
I had never obtained any " materials" of any
kind from Mr. COWPER, nor had I ever had the
honour of writing to or receiving a "otter from him
on any subject whatever. Mr. HORSMAN must,
therefore, see that if, as he appears to suppose, I
have done anything towards poisoning the public
mind on the subject of the Thames Embankment
Committee, it would be highly unjust to cast the
blame of what I have done on Mr. COWPER, or to
seek to make him responsible for any misdeeds of
mine, past, present, or to come," Than this, cer-
tainly, nothing by possibility could be more con-
clusive. The words above quoted in italics speak, in
effect, for themselves. They point the moral and
adorn the tale of the misdirected letter which—in
an evil hour for Mr. HORSMAN, more perhaps
than for anyone else—reached the hand of Lord
CHELMSFORD'S misguided son-in-law. Mr: HORS-
man has argued from false premises. And, as a
matter of course, he has in consequence arrived at
a wholly erroneous conclusion. And assuredly,
from the bitter animus shown by him on Friday
night in the House of commons, we cannot for one
instant find it in our heart to condole with him
upon the very distressing consequence of his own
almost spiteful precipitation. At the very moment
he himself is about to fling mud—with a capital
aim—at his antagonists, lo and behold he has him-
self floundered into a quagmire up to his very lips,
and (morally speaking) has all but disappeared

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS ALICE.

(From the court Journal.)

Her Majesty's gift to the Princess Alice is a beautiful
bracelet studded with pearls and diamonds, with the like-
nesses of the Queen and the Prince Consort, set round with
pearls and diamonds ; on the top the Royal coronet, and at
the bottom the likenesses of the Princess Alice and the
Prince Louis, with their monograms. The Queen also pre.
cents the Princess with three rings, which are in accord-
ance with the prevailing fashion of gifts at great weddings,
namely, a ring of diamonds, one of emeralds, and one of
rubies. We,believe the production of these chef d' wuvres
of jeweller's work was intrusted to a great house near Hano-
ver-square.

The Prince of Wales's present to his sister on her mar-
riage is a parure, or bodice, of emeralds and diamonds, and
a tiara of the same precious stones. The Royal bridesmaids
Present a t.s service of silver gilt. The Prince Consort's
presents were prepared last year, before December ; they
consisted of two bracelets, a splendid brooch, and a tiara of
diamonds and emeralds. We believe her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal will present the Princess Alice with a
handsome ebony dressingcase, ornamented, and lined
throughout with the richest silk velvet, fitted with highly
chased, engraved, and engine-turned gold-mounted articles,
the crown and cipher elaborately worked on each. It was
made by Mr. West, of St. James's-street.
Soon after the marriage the Prince and Princess will
leave Osborne for St. Clare.

The death of the Grand Duchess of Hesse has, it seems,
caused some change in the plans and arrangements of Prince
Louis and the Princess Alice; for there seems to be no
doubt now that the Prince and Princess will reside for
some time in the year, if not permanently, at Darmstadt,
where, indeed, a residence is being prepared for their recep-
tion. Their first sojourn will be, however, at Frogmore.
considerable portion of the trousseau of Princess Alice is
already packed up for transmission to the Continent.

The foreign Royal fancily to be present at the wedding
on the Ist of July will ba the Crown Prince of Prussia,
Prince and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Coburg, Duke and
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince and Princess
Charles of Hesse, Prince Henry of Hesse, and Prince Wil-
liam and Princess Anna of Hesse,

We un•lerstand that, in consequence of the strict privacy
with which the Royal marriage ceremony will be performed
on Tuesday next, that the Princess will only be attended to
the altar by bridesmaids of the Royal Family—namely, the
Princess Alice's three sister's and the Princess Anna of
Hesse.

We hear that, in coniequenco of tho indisposition of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York will
officiate at the marriage of the Princess Alice and Prince
Louis of Hesse.

It is expected that her Majesty will again visit Windsor
on the 21st of July for a few days previous to her departure
for Scotland. The Quefa will reside at Balmoral until the
middle of September, when her Majesty intends visiting
Germany. On or aboat the 15th of October, her Majesty
will again take up her residence at Windsor Castle for the
winter season.

The Royal servants will be required to leave off their
mourning for two days only, the Ist and 2d of July.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were :—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of
Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. M. Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Following the usage which
has lung obtained on the presentation of the honorary free-
dom of the corporation of the city of London to distinguished
persons and great public benefactors, the Lord Mayor will
entertain Mr. George Peabody at a public banquet at the
Mansion -house, on the evening of Thursday, the 10th of July,
on the occasion of his receiving that mark of distinction, the
highest they can confer, at the hands of the Common Council.
With respect to the grand entertainment to be given in
honour of the Viceroy of Egypt, at the Mansion-house, on
the evening of Saturday next, it is right to state that it is
an act of hospitality on the part of the Lord Mayor, distinct
from one which had been intended by the corporation to
the illustrious stranger. First among the foreigners of dis-
tinction visiting this c•iuntry, whom the Common Council
desired to invite to the forthcoming entertainment at Guild-
hall, about the middle of July, was the Viceroy, but on his
Highness being consulted as to a day that might suit his
convenience he is understood to have intimated that as his
stay here was limited he should be obliged to forego the
intended compliment.

TIIE SPECIAL SERVICES AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
—Yesterday evening many hundreds of persons who were
attracted to Westminster Abbey by the announcement that
the Bishop of Oxford would preach, failed to obtain admis-
sion, the nave, in which service was performed, having be-
come densely packed in the course of a few minutes after the
doors were opened. Prayers were intoned by the Rev. Pre-
centor Haden, and the lessons read by the Dean. The
Bishop preached from the new pulpit, taking his text from
the 12th chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes, 7th verse,
" The spirit shall return unto God who gave it." In the
course of his very eloquent and impressive sermon, which
was listened to with profound attention, his Lordship paid
a touching tribute to the memory of Bishop Mackenzie and
to the Earl Canning, who was buried in the Abbey only a
law days previously,
PaosELYTism.—Brighton has of late been in a
ferment, in
consequence of a servant girl, named Coe, a
native of the town, having been abducted by a Roman
girl urnrtri. 0
Catholic priest at Dorking.. The parents of the girl were
unable to obtain access to her, and a public meeting of the
inhabitants of Brighton was called for Wednesday night,
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LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, JUNE 29,

The Court of Cassation has, "in the interest of
the law," annulled the judgment of the Court of
Douai in the case of M. Mires.

The decision of the Court of Caseation is to be
transcribed on the margin of the judgment of the
Court of Douai,

TURIN, JUNE 28, EVENING.

To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, Signor
Peruzzi supported the proposal of the Committee
on the Budget to limit the authorization to collect
the taxes to a period of four months, and said that
ho did not wish to express either confidence or dis-
trust. ;He thought the Ministry did not follow the
policy of Count Cavour, and defended the Ricasoll
Ministry against some accusations.

Signor Peruzzi also alluded to the visit of Gari-
baldi to the Continent, adding that it was not the
Ricasoli Ministry who summoned him. He spoke
of the necessity of Rome being the capital of Italy,
and said the Ministry ought to employ moral, dip-
lomatic, efficacious, and energetic means to this end,
and not follow a policy of expediency.

JUNE 29,

The Chamber of Deputies has agreed to the Bud-
get as submitted by the Ministry by 215 against 81
votes.

PALERMO, JUNE 29.
Yesterday Garibaldi and Prince Humbert arrived
here unexpectedly.

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They will be present at the inauguration of the
National Rifle Association, which takes place to-
day.
Prince Humbert will preside.
Garibaldi has addressed the people, urging upon
them the necessity of concord.
The city is illuminated.

BERLIN, JUNE 28.

The Crown Prince of Prussia left for Cologne to-
day by the mail train, en route for Osborne, in
order to be present at the nuptials of the Princess
Alice.

His Royal Highness proceeds to Osborne via
Calais and Portsmouth.

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BELGRADE, JUNE 28.

The mission of the Turkist Commissioner is only
to put a stop to hostilities, and institute an inquiry
into the present state of affairs.
The pending questions betveen Servia and Turkey
will be settled elsewhere.
Perfect order and tranquill.ty prevail in Belgrade.

The Faris papers publish the following tele-

gram ;

" RAGUSA, JUNE 28.

"On the 25th inst. Dervtsch Pasha marched in
the direction of Ruaine, and en the evening of that
day a battle took place atlta, in which the Mon
tenegrins were repulsed.
" On the 26th inst. Der visch Pasha continued his
march towards Niksich_ Another battle took place
near Spuz, in which the Montenegrins suffered
considerably."

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 28.

An Imperial Ukase has been published ordaining
the establishment of a University at Odessa for
New Russia, and granting the concession for the
construction of a railway from St. Petersburg to
the harbour of Oranienbaum.

THE CALCUTTA ANT) CHINA (11F, AVYI
MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, JUNE 29.
The Ripon, with the above mails, left this day at

6 p.m.
She may be expected at Southampton on the
4th July.
The Ellora, in tow of the Sultan, left for South-
ampton at the same hour,

RUSSIA.

La Presse has the following :

" The conflagrations in Russia are spreading from
St. Petersburg to the provinces. At Tiflis, on the
16th May, 10 houses were burnt to the ground ; at
Mohilew, on the 9th June, 20 houses; at Czerni-
chow, on the 11th June, 44 houses, 133 shops, and
a church. Conflagrations have also taken place at
Novgorod and at Cronstadt.
" Terror prevails at the seat of Government. The
force entrusted with the care of the public safety
has been increased. The houses are closed, and no
stranger is admitted. The losses at St. Petersburg
are estimated at many hundred millions of roubles.
In addition to the numerous arrests that have been
made, the sudden disappearance of Col. Rostoffsoff,
Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor, has given rise to
much comment. He is accused of being connected
with the secret societies, and in correspondence with
them. What adds to the excitement caused by this
incident is, that the Colonel, now denounced as a
revolutionist, is the son of the General who put a
stop, by his revelations, to the insurrection of 1825,
and was ever afterwards the devoted, confidential
adviser of Nicholas."

THE SOCIAL EVIL.—A number of foreign gentle-
men now visiting the metropolis assembled on Saturday
evening at the St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, for the purpose
of hearing a statement and joining in a discussion respect-
ing the laws existing in this country for the suppression
and discouragement of what is popularly designated " the
great social evil." The affair was set on foot by the pro-
moters of the midnight mission, in consequence of the erro-
neous opinions circulated by M. Assolant, and other spe-
cial correspondents of the continental press, tending to mis-
lead their countrymen on this important though delicate
subject. Amongst those present were Dr. Forbes Winslow,
the Rev. Mr Marzials, pastor of the French Protestant
church, St. Marlin's le-Grand, Mr. J. Stabb, and Mr. J.
L. Keys. The proceedings, which were conducted through-
out in the French language, were commenced by Mr. Keys
who dwelt upon the difficulties associated with the question
amongst all moral nations, and referred particularly to the
scandal of the public appearance of fallen women in the
streets of London and our other large towns. He next pro-
ceeded to show that the intense jealousy with which the
English regard any infraction of personal freedom rendered
impossible the introduction of any system of police regula-
tions such as is in vogue on the continent, more especially
as such a system was considered by very many persons as
a direct sanction of vice. He went on to describe the laws
and police regulations established for the suppression of
vice in this country, and having shown that all efforts for
the reclamation of unfortunate women must be left to the
charity of individuals, enumerated the various " peniten-
tial ies" and " homes" which have been instituted for that
object. An account was then given of the midnight mis-
sion, which it was asserted had effected a vast amount of
good. At the conclusion of Mr. Keys' statement a general
conversation ensued, in the course of which various sug-
gestions were made for the removal of the unsightly scenes
which take place nightly in our leading thoroughfares. The
meeting did not separate till a late hour.
PRIZE-FIGHTING IN LEEDS.—On Thursday, at
the Leeds Town-hall, John Parkinson, carter, of York-
road, and Wm. Waite, miner, of 4, Elm-street, York-road,
wore charged with being concerned in a prize-fight on Sun-
day night, in a field belonging to Mr. J. Lister, farmer, of
Skelton Grange. Inspector Lister and a party of the police
heard of the proposed encounter, and went to the field, but
as soon as they were observed the members of the P.R. and
their followers, to the number of 400 persons, scampered
away in various directions, and the polies only succeeded in
apprehending the two prisoners. Waite was ono of the
combatants, and Parkinson had seriously assaulted Mr.
J. Lister, upon the latter gentleman attempting to stop the
disgraceful proceedings. Mr. Lister was struck, and kicked,
and stoned, and his face and head bore testimony to the
rough treatment he had experienced. The magistrates com-
mitted Parkinson for two months to prison for the assault;
and ordered Waite to enter into sureties for his good be-
haviour for two months, himself in £4O, and two sureties of
£2O each.—At the Town-hall on the previous day Joseph
Oldham, one of the principals in another fight fixed to come
off during the week, was bound over in his own reCog-
nisances to keep the peace for sic wathe.

MR. AINSWO.I2TIPS NEW STORY.

The new instalment of The Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, in Bentley's Miscellany, for July, is full of
incident. And it is so eminently picturesque withal
in its descriptions that we' cannot but regret the
fact of its appearing without illustrations, Had
Leech, or Phiz, or Cruikshank, or any other of our
popular illustrators undertaken the adornment of
the letter-press with their facile pensils, what bril-
liant opportunities would they not have had in this
new number of the Miscellany, in the closing chap-
ters of the third book of " The Lord Mayor of
Loudon !" There is that eccentric scene of
the revels of The Capuchin Club, at White
Conduit House, in Islington, where Wilkes and
his associates are discovered in their grey gowns
and cowls, their wigs off, and their bald pates
gleaming in the candle-light—seated, sound asleep,
in their chairs, round the table littered with bottles
and glasses. Or, again, there is that still more
fantastic spectacle of
THE DUEL IN THE FOG.

Directing the monkish!torchbearers to march in advance,
Tilbury put himself at their head, and proceeded cautiously
along a covered walk leading to the bowling-green, which
they luckily reached without further hindrance.
After a brief consultation between Tom Potter and Tra-
descant, the whole party proceeded to what they judged to
be the centre of the green, and having ascertained by hold-
ing down the links that the pound was free from obstruc-
tion of any kind, they at once prepared for the business in
hand ; the that care of the seconds being to place the torch-
bearers in such a position that no undue advantage should
be given to either side.
This was a task of some little difficulty, as the seconds
could not exactly agree, but at length it was satisfactorily
accomplished. Four of the monks were arranged in a
square, one at each corner, and exactly four yards apart,
while the fifth man was ordered to stand beside the com-
batants. Those at the corners were enjoined to remain
perfectly motionless whatever might occur, but the central
torchbearer might follow the movements of the comba-
tants, but must be careful to keep out of the way, and
distribute the light as carefully as possible. The links
at each angle were to be held aloft, and not waved or shifted
on any account, but the central torch was not to be so
much elevated, and might be raised or lowered according
to the exigencies of the moment, at the discretion of the
bearer. Not a word was to be uttered by any.of the torch-
bearers.
These regulations made, the two antagonists, who by this
time had divested themselves of coat and waistcoat, stepped
into the square, while the seconds retired, and the rest of
the party, who looked on with considerable interest, grouped
themselves around.
At this moment the scene was exceedingly picturesque,
and must have delighted the artistic eye of Mr. 1 ilbury.
Seen through the thick tawny vapour with which the torch-
light ineffectually contended, the monkish figures, cowled
and gowned, had a strange fantastic effect, and looked like
assistants at some dread and mysterious ceremonial.
Viewed through the same opaque medium, and only im-
perfectly distinguished by the spectators, the chief actors
in this singular scene had an equaLy ghostly appearance,
and by a very slight stretch of the imagination might have
been taken for phantom of fierce duellists who had perished
by each other's hands, and had been summoned from a
bloody grave to renew their strife.
Descriptions such as these evidence, agreeably
enough, that Harrison Ainsworth's hand is still
well "in " as a master romancist ! His hero, Tra-
descant, appears, in the present instalment of the
narrative, quite as an altered character. Prue has
changed him! Herbert is no longer his foe, but
his intimate. The gay young " blood" has cooled
down, and taken, at length, amiably enough to the
drapery line of business! To Tom Potter's in-
credulity. To the Lady Mayoress's disgust, and
to that of her two lady daughters. To the Lord
Mayor's eminent satisfaction. But, most of all to
the extatic delight of Old Bow Bells. Candish,
of course, has had his share in this amazing
transformation ; the result of which, it is not im-
possible already to perceive, will end in Prue and
Tradescant making a match of it, and living happily
together for ever afterwards.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1862.