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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1865.

In the House of Lords last.evening Lord DERBY
put some very pertinent questions to the noble lord
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs respecting his
recent communications with the American Govern-
ment. The Earl of DERBY, in introducing the sub-
ject, took occasion to express a hope, which, how-
ever praiseworthy, does not appear .at present to be
very well founded, that the conquerors would endea-
vour as far as possible to conciliate Their adversaries
and would treat those in their power not as revolted
subjects, but as those who, though vanquished, were
not disgraced. " On the course which they follow,"
said Lord DERBY, no mean authority, " will mainly
depend the estimation in which they will be held by
the civilised world, and this is a subject which can-
not fail to be of importance to them." But it was
not on the general policy of the United States that
the noble earl wished to address their lordships, but
on one or two particular points which concerned our
own policy with respect to them. He • reminded the
House that when Lord HOUGHTON some short time
back put a question to the Foreign Secretary regard-
ing the belligerent rights Of the Confederates, he
received an answer satisfactory to the House. Lord
RUSSELL said that the term of those rights must
depend on the United States themselves, since when
they gave up the blockade this country would cease
to acknowledge the belligerent rights of the Confe-
derates. Lord DERBY pointed out that by
Lord RUSSELL'S recent circular the recognition
is already abandoned, although President JOHN-
soN's proclamation only partially removed the
blockade. Mr. JOHNSON said that certain ports
were to be open and certain ports closed for the
present, adding the extraordinary information that
persons attempting for mercantile purposes to enter
such ports would be regarded as pirates. This, as
Lord Dun 15howed, is iiimply illegal, duce th

Yesterday was a grand day for the Merchant
Taylors' School. The annual election took place
of scholars to St. John's College, Oxford. In the
evening a grand banquet took place at the Hall in
Threadneedle-street. Lord STANLEY proposed pros-
perity to the Colonial Empire in a very interesting
speech. The noble lord had in this theme one most
congenial to his tastes, and was enable to dwell on
the impressive character of our connection with
those disant spots. He truly said that the audience
to whom he spoke did not require him to expatiate
upon the great advantages which our colonies
afforded to us. Wealth, influence, and power alike
are concerned in their preservation. Yet the noble
lord declared that he thought more of the benefits
that accrued to our people at home in a social man-
ner from having this outlet afforded to them for
the surplus population. This is very true, and
should not be forgotten when the interesting theme
of our colonies comes under consideration. Lord
STANLEY, in his reflective manner, forcibly put the
case before the assembly last night, when he said,
" Given the conditions of English life, a very limited
'territorial area, a perpetually increasing population ;
given, also, the exuberant energy which belongs to
our race, shut up that people within the area which
is assigned to them, with no outlet, and it is just like
lighting a fire under a steam-boiler and screwing
a safety-valve." It is difficult indeed to realise what
England would be without her colonies. They are
her great resource and her puissant allies in form-
ing the mind and manners of many of her popula-
tion, and, besides, increase her strength tenfold
among the nations of the world. Lord STAN-
LEY'S excellent speech was all the more appro-
priate, because there have been some who advo-
cated the renunciation of these inestimable pos-
sessions, and have persisted in forcing • their
unwelcome opinions upon those who denounced
and despised them. The noble lord spoke from his
own experience. He said he had seen a good
11 deal of the colonies, and he never saw them with-
out marvelling at the amount of human energy
and power they displayed. Yet this might, if the
colonists were shut up in this country, have been
provocative of evil rather than of good. Lord
STANLEY also remarked that, by Act of Parlia-
ment, we could never regulate our relations with
our colonies ; they must be settled by circum-
stances. This interesting and instructive oration
was concluded by the noble lord's adverting to
the gentlemen who had come over from Canada,
and proposed the health of the members of the
Canadian Delegation. Without entering upon the
disputed points of the matter, the noble lord remarked,
that if in consequence of our diplomatic differences the
colonies were drawn into quarrels they had nothing
to do with, we were bound to not disclaim all re-
sponsibility for their defence. This is very true,
and speaks the sentiments of the country despite
the prejudices of the peace party, and the assertions
of some sapient individuals. Altogether this speech
no quite a•success, and afforded great gallant=

to the co mpany. The question of our " Colonies"
is one -that cannot "be set aside with impunity, and
our wisest statesmen and most far-seeing politicians
have always recognised its importance, and CANNING,
with the prescience of genius, declared that he called
the New World into existence to redress the balance
of the Old.

It would seem from the intelligence brought by
the Moravian that, notwithstanding the surrender
of KIRBY SMITII, it has been thought desirable to
send an expedition, consisting of 15 of the largest
Federal vessels, accompanied by several others, to
Texas, under the command of General WErrzEL.
From this it would appear that the 'Washington
Government are not altogether satisfied with the
aspect of affairs in the West, and that they are
apprehensive that there is still enough life left
among the sturdy dwellers in Texas and Arkansas
to give them some trouble. Perhaps, too, they are
glad to find employment away from the capital for
some of their superfluous forces, and are desirous of
making a display of their power in that part of the
States. The degree of tranquillity and union which
has been as yet attained is not very promising, and
the worst of it is that those who should make it
their chief business to heal the breaches made by
the war only endeavour to foment excitement and
foster angry feeling. Thus Governor Baownow,
in answer to representations made by the people of
Tennessee respecting the bitter feeling existing be-
tween the returned soldiers and the sympathisers
with the rebellion, has issued a proclamation recom-
mending all complainants to apply to the civil courts
for redress. In the course of this proclamation he
takes occasion to observe that the rebels have for-
feited not only their right to citizenship, but to life
itself. Such assertions as these should not be
lightly made by a man in prominent opposition, for
they can hardly fail to incense and to irritate the
high-spirited people of the South. There is another
point, however, which will go far to exasperate the
feeling of the Confederacy against the North, and
that is the rumoured trial of General LEE for
treason. The New York Tribune, which is usually
a paper of some authority, repeats this report, and
announces that numerous Confederate officers have
been summoned to the District Court to testify
against General LEE and other leaders on a charge
of treason. If this intention is, indeed, carried out,
it will be a most disgraceful breach of faith, besides
a glaring inconsistency. General LEE was in open
arms against the Union when General GRANT, with
the consent and approval of the Federal Govern-
ment, made terms with him as a recognised belli-
gerent, not as a traitor acting in defiance of the
law, and there can be no possible excuse for now
calling that treason which was a few weeks back
regarded as honourable warfare. Since the mere
fact of bearing arms against the Union is regarded
as sufficient evidence of treason, there is not much
need for witnesses to identify LEE with the army.
But it would be highly improper for any Govern-
ment to hold parley, to enter into treaties, or offer
terms to men guilty of high treason ; so that in
declaring LEE a traitor the Federal Government
are denouncing themselves. What General GRANT
may say as to this outrageous breach of faith re-
mains to be seen. There can be but one opinion
among men not carried away by the passions of
the hour as to the moral obligation ; and if the re-
pudiation of national debts is considered disgrace-
' ful, what we must call the breach of the national
word? There is one thing which is satisfactory.
President DAVIS is to be tried by the District
Supreme Court, under Judge CARTER, not by a
Military Convention, as was at first proposed.
Whether or no he may expect or obtain justice
from either, we must leave future events to
determine.

Great Defeat of the Russians in Kho';an

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(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
TIFLIS, May 17.

The progress of the Russian arms in Central Asia
has just received a serious check. Hitherto every-
thing had favoured the progress of General Endoki-
moff, whose successes were as much due to the exer-
tions of Prince Gortschakoff as to the military
talents of the generals of the Czar. Having made
friends of the important population belonging to the
Khanat of Khokan, called Kaissaks, General Endo-
kimoff carried his army of 40,000 or 50,000 infan-
try, with a proportionate force of cavalry and
artillery, into these districts of Central Asia,
knowing well how far he could count upon this
people. By this means, on the side of the Lake
Aral, the Russians, without striking a blow, ob-
tained possession of the fortress of Akmedjid, a
place of great strategic importance near the mouth
of the Sir-Darid. They claimed the fortress as
having been sold to them by the late Khan of Koa-
daiar Khan. On the side of Turkistan the Rus-
sians, after a 15 days' march, advanced to Kodja-
Ahmed, the 'I esak of the Russians, and from thence,
after another march of six days, they reached the
fortress of Tchimkett, otherwise known as Toumkat,
a place about four days' march from Tachkend.
This progress of the Russians, made without firing
a shot, was altogether due to the assistance and
countenance of the Kaissaks, who, partly on account
of their Russianised habits, and partly owing to
their wealth in cattle, which causes them to desire
the protection of the Russians, thus lent all the aid
in their power to their projects of domination.
The great object of the late march of the Russians
has been to obtain possession of the town of Tach-
kend, as occupying a point strategically the most
favourable to their views, being on one side the key
to the Khanat of Khokhan, and on the other seri-
ously threatening the Khanat of BOkhara, if the
latter ventured to offer any assistance to the former.
General Endokimoff, after his march of 21
days, was able to arrive almost at the gates
of Tchimkett, and he attempted to obtain possession
of the place, with the future view of the occupation
of Tachkend. He imagined, it would seem, that
the Khokanese commander would at once open the
gates, and little anticipated that in place of an easy
conquest he would find the Regent at Khokan and
the Emir Mera-Ali-Khanli at the head of a nume-
rous force, ready to oppose him.
The Russian general, seeing the state in a perfect
state of defence with a battery of fifty cannon, gave
up all idea of attacking it, and gave battle instead
to the Emir. The conflict was a bloody one, and
ended in the defeat of the Russians, ''ho were com-
pelled to fall back upon Hodja Ahmed with a pre-
cipitancy which amounted to a flight. The Kho-
kanese had about 1,000 killed and wounded, and the
Russians, it is said, about four times that number.
No doubt General Endskimoff will endeavour at the
earliest opportunity to retrieve this disaster, but it
will be difficult for him to take Tchimkett, not only
on account of the strength of the place, but of the
spirit of the inhabitants, which is no fl thoroughly
roused. The Regent is thoroughly aware of the
importance of the post, and has mustered an army
of 150,000 highly efficient troops for its defence.
It is now certain that the Khan o? Bokhara has not
only sent a sum of money to the assistance of
Khokan, but is at the head of a large army of ob-
servation on the frontiers, in the neighbourhood of
Samariand.

Fatal Accident at the Grosvenor Hotel.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—An accident, unfortunately attended with
serious consequences, occurred at the Hotel yester
day evening. The beam which suspended the
machinery of the lift gave way, and the ascending
room with the persons in it was precipitated to the
bottom. One of our porters was killed by the
counterweight falling on him, and a gentleman's
servant had his leg fractured. The other occupants
of the lift escaped with slight injuries.—l am, Sir,
pure obediently, la GM GOB, Sec.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

NAPLES, JUNE 8.

A telegram from the military authorities of Can-
tanzaro positively contradicts the news published
by the lndipendente that Deputy Galluca had been
tortured and put to death by the brigands of the
Sila under Correa. It is stated that Signor Gal-
lucci, though still a prisoner, has not up to the pre-
sent been suffered ill-treatment from the brigands.
FLORENCE, JUNE 13.

The Nazioize of to-day publishes a correspondence
from Rome announcing that the difficulties in re-
ference to the oath of allegiance to be taken by the
Bishops to the King of Italy have not yet been re-
moved. This circumstance has created some oppo-
sition to the proposals of Signor Vegezzi on the
part of certain personages at the Roman Court. It
is, however, believed that the Pope himself is
favourable to the negotiations which have been in-
trusted to Signor Vegezzi.

ROME.
ROME, JUNE 12 (Evening).

The Pope gave a private audience this morning
to Omer Pacha, Commander-in-Chief of the
Turkish Army.

SPAIN.

AIADRID, JUNE 12.

In the Senate to-day Senor Gonzales Bravo
brought forward a bill authorising the suspension of
cap. 23 of the Press Law.
In the Chamber of Deputies, Senor Gonzales
Bravo declared that the rumour of disturbances in
several provinces of Spain was unfounded.
The Epoca of to-day says :—" We mentioned a
few days since that certain maps were circulating in
Barcelona, representing Spain in 1866, in which
Gibraltar and Portugal figured as Spanish posses-
sions. We learn that copies of this map are to be
found in Madrid also, and that not long ago one
was publicly on view in one of the most well known
establishments in this city."

FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE 13.

The .illoniteur of this morning publishes a circu-
lar, dated the sth June, from the Minister of
Marine to the naval prefects in command of the
French ports, announcing that the Government no
longer recognise the Americans as belligerents, and
ordering that Confederate vessels shall no longer
be admitted into French ports.
MM. Hebert and Romoauf have been appointed
Questors of the Corps Legislatif.
The return of the Emperor to Paris was a real
ovation. Long before the hour at which the Impe-
rial train was expected to arrive, and whilst the
houses were being decked out with flags, vast
crowds were hastening to the approaches of the
Lyons terminus, and indeed along the whole line of
streets through which the Emperor was to pass. A
battalion of the 3d Voltigeurs formed the service of
honour. At five precisely the train entered the
station. The Empress had set out at eight in the
morning for Fontainebleau with the Prince Impe-
rial, accompanied by the ladies and officers in
waiting. The Empress remained at the Palace up
to the moment at which the telegraph announced
from Montereau the arrival of the Emperor. The
Empress and the Prince Imperial immediately pro-
ceeded to the station of Avon, where they received
the Emperor, with whom they returned to the ca-
pita]. The Emperor, on his arrival in Paris, was
received on leaving the railway carriage by the Pre-
fect of the Seine, the Prefect of Police, Marshal
Regnaud de Saint-Jean-d'Angely, and General
Mellinet. His Majesty, who wore the uniform of
a general officer, with the kepi on his head, had his
complexion much bronzed by the African sun, but
looked in excellent health, and not all fatigued by
his long excursion. The same carriage received the
Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial, Gen.
Fleury sitting opposite their Majesties. A picket
of Cent. Gardes formed the escort. Four open car-
riages followed that of the Emperor. Throughout
the passage of the cortege by the Place de la Bastille,
the Rue St. Antoine, the Rue de Rivoli, and above
all in the neighbourhood of the Tuileries, the
and the warmest cheers
repeated. At the
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Palace the Emperor found in waiting the Ministers
in grand costume, the Marshals, Admirals, Presi-
dents of the great bodies of the State, several high
dignitaries of the Empire, and a great number of
Senators, Councillors of State, and Deputies, all
the illumination Majesty on his safe re-
illumination of the at
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nistries, club-houses, and theatres, a great number
of private apartments were brilliantly lit up.
His Majesty would not quit the ironclad squadron
which had accompanied him to Algeria without
leaving it a testimony of his satisfaction. Besides
various decorations and promotions, he directed
6,000 fr. to be distributed to the crews to celebrate
his return. •

" An accident," says the Presse, " occurred to
Prince Napoleon the afternoon before last. He was
driving in a light vehicle known as an American in
the neighbourhood of the Champs Elysees, when,
on arriving at the Rond Point de l'Hippodrome,
the horse took fright, and, starting aside, over-
turned the carriage. The Prince was thrown out,
but fortunately received no other injury than some
slight contusions."
The Emperor's long absence and his present re-
turn are remarked on by several of the Paris jour-
nals. Our contemporaries in general dwell on the
perfect tranquillity which has prevailed during his
Majesty's excursion, and the prosperous results
which are certain to accrue to the African colony
from so minute and so conscientious an examination
of its wants by the Sovereign himself.. We select
for extract, however, only the following passages
from the France, which embody several observations
exceedingly apposite to the case, and expressed
without the extreme panegyric found in other
journals :
" In 1859, the Emperor, on abandoning the
direction of the State, took the command of the
army, and it may be said without any exaggeration
that for the moment national war absorbed the whole
existence of France. On the battle-fields of Magenta
and Solferino were accomplished those great political
acts which were to become glorious pages of history,
and during that memorable epoch victory rendered
everything easy. In 1865 the case was very dif-
ferent. The high personalty of the Emperor, trans-
ported to a new scene of action beyond the seas,
absorbed by other cares, disappeared in some degree
for a moment from the direction of the State, and
left to the Empress Regent all the responsibility
of Government. In that circumstance was
involved a serious trial for our institutions,
and—why should we hesitate to declare it?
—it was with evident anticipations of in-
security that the Sovereign, whose action is so
powerful over our destinies, was beheld removing
himself from his capital. Well, these anticipations
have happily been dispelled. The Emperor, who
departed so calm and confident, has returned with
the satisfaction of finding France as peaceful and
his Government as strong as when he set out. And
yet how many unforeseen events have occurred !
What sudden emotions ! What great debates ! The
unexpected death in America of Mr. Lincoln ; the
apprehensions relative to Mexico, the speech at
Ajaccio, the resignation of Prince Napoleon, the
strikes of workmen, the discussion of the Budget,
the late solemn investigation of our finances, which
have never been more deeply examined ; all this
movement of the life of a great people manifesting
itself by the incidents and the agitations which are
its inevitable conditions—such are the items which
make up the political account of these forty days'
absence ! Few periods have been so loaded with

events ; but, nevertheless, order, tranquillity, and
confidence have never been better assured ; and this
Regency, which had to meet eventualities so various
and so formidable, terminates with an act of gene-
rous and well-imagined policy towards the press,
which honours the initiative and the wisdom of the
Government. These facts prove that if the Imperial
institutions, on the morrow of 1852, found their
chief support in him who established them, they
have become at the present moment a power, a pro-
tection, and a guarantee, and that if the Emperor
always sustains the Empire, the Empire in its turn
supports the Emperor and his dynasty."
BOURSE, June 12.--As is usual at the com-
mencement of the week there has been a total
absence of speculative activity in all departments
since the opening of business to-day ; with the ex-
ception, however, of French Three per Cents.,
which have slightly receded. The principal Securi-
ties have generally maintained the rates current at
Saturday's close. The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents 95 40
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 40
Do. end month 67 40
Credit Niobilier 763 75
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3665
Credit Foncier 1265
Italian Loan 66 70
Do. e.nd month 66 70

RAIL'

Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Do. Bonds 325
Russian 9O 50
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
Roman 74 50

'AYS,

Cash. Acct.
•
Orleans
Northern 1066 25 1068 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 845 ... 845
Southern 592 50 ... 593 75
Western 526 25 525
Eastern 503 75 ... 503 75
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 495 498 75
North of Spain lB7 -- 187 50
Saragossa 317 50 317 50
Ditto to Barcelona 157 50 ... 157 50

ADELPHI THEATRE.

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Last night, a tragic play in five acts, entitled
Geraldine ; or, the Master Passion," was pro-
duced here, and during its representation it elicited
the most unbounded applause. The play, we be-
lieve, is from the pen of Mrs. Bateman, and was
originally acted in America, where Miss Bateman
created a great impression as the heroine Geraldine.
This fact, coupled with the desire on the part of
Miss Bateman to vary her performance in London,
no doubt led to its being brought forward, but at
the outset we must openly confess our opinion to
be that a far better play in all respects could have
been easily selected. The idea, with the author or
authoress, which is strikingly apparent, has been to
preserve all the peculiarities of the character of
Leah in that of Geraldine, and not only has that been
done to the greatest nicety, but several addi-
tions have been made, all, however, bearing
the same peculiarities and mannerism. Thus
we have in the part of Geraldine, as in Leah,
concealed but consuming love, doubting constancy,
rage, jealousy, revenge, remorse, and death, all of
which Miss Bateman illustrates with her well-known
dramatic power, ; but speaking of the drama as a
stage play, it is most undramatically built. The
first throe acts are tame and flat, and it is not until
the fourth and fifth that Miss Bateman has an
opportunity of thoroughly illustrating those emo-
tions which so singularly mark her dramatic imper-
sonations. The plot of Geraldine, in brief, is as
follows :—Geraldine de Lacy, daughter of the Earl
of Chester, is betrothed to a gallant knight, Hubert
de Burgh, who has gone to Palestine as a crusader.
Six years being the period of her lover's anticipated
absence, the Earl of Chester, her father, determines
on her marriage by proxy, and Hubert's friend
Hugo, Earl of Shrewsbury, arrives at the
castle to take his part in the ceremony
as the vicarious bridegroom. During the revelry a
Welsh bard offers the service of his minstrelsy, and
instead of a song the harper bursts forth with a cata-
log e of injuries suffered by the Cambrian moun-
taineers from the incursions of the English, and
denounces the father of Geraldine as the destroyer
of his son, home, and happiness. The earl tells the
old man that his son, who has been a prisoner, had
been liberated that morning ; but the incensed
Welshman, in the midst of the festive party, pro-
claims the wrongs his countrymen have endured
and invokes a curse on all within the castle walls,
and on the shrinking group of the De Lacy family
the act-drop descends. Six years elapse—now
and in the meantime the earl has died,
and his daughter Geraldine has become,
through illness, a hunch-backed woman. When
Hubert de Burgh returns from the crusades
he is received by Geraldine with a fear that his love
for her will not survive the sight of her deformity ;
but the crusader weds her in despite of the disfigure-
ment, which, by the by, is never perceptible to the
audience. Then a seemingly honest prior instils
into the heart of Geraldine a suspicion of her
younger sister Edith being her rival in the affections
of her husband. Sympathy shown by Edith at
Hubert's ill success at the tournay feeds the flame of
jealousy which has been kindled by the prior. The
maddened wife enters the chamber of her sister with
the intention of murdering her, but better thoughts
prevail ; and when the prior, who turns out to be
the son of the Welsh harper, is exulting over the
triumph of his machinations, Geraldine produces
Edith, and, having poisoned herself to render
Hubert happier with a fairer bride, she joins her
husband's hand with that of her sister, and dies.
In the last two acts Miss Bateman declaimed the
passionate speeches of the frenzied and jealous
woman with her usual intensity and effect. The
result was tremendous applause, and applause is
nowadays looked upon as a certain sign of success.
Miss Clara Denvil, as Edith, acted with much
sweetness and feeling, and Mr. Bateman, who made
his first appearance as the Welch Harper, gave the
terrible malediction in the first act with all the fire
and spirit of a genuine American actor. The other
parts of the play, the father of Geraldine, Hubert
the husband, and Anselme the priest, were respec-
tively supported by Messrs. R. Phillips, Jordan,
and Swinbourne, but the call on their abilities is
very small, and smaller still is the part of
Gambo, the court fool, whose jokes were as hard
as the heels of Mr. Billington's shoes invariably are.
The piece has not been extravagantly mounted,
rather the reverse ; but with all its imperfections it
secured a complete ovation for Miss Bateman and
her father.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARKETS

SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £slos Od ; clover,
lOs to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade firm.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 10s to £5 15s; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £l. 14s per load.
A steady demand.
WiirrEcHArEL—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 10s ; clover,
£5 lOs to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load.
Trade steady.