The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-19 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, THURSO Y EVENING, JUNE 19, 1862.

rlia-EAT RE-ROY AL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee Mr. J. B. Bucketone.

TilIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights,
int tticd THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W.
Fa .rren, Mrs. C. Young, dtc.

After which, at half-past 7, will be performed (153 d time)
IDUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.

0 YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
+-no Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
Vieth Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter 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.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
DELI' IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
%Use Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 8, to commence at
Box-office open daily from 11 till 3.
Commence a 7

oYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris,
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
litss M. Harris.
After which, at EiQht o'clock, LOUIS XI. Mr. and
llfrs. C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter,
Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, &c. ; Miss Chapman,
and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price,

NEW THRAIRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL-
Role 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 OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Bouelcault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.
To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L.
Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, rArs. H. Lewis.
Commence at 7,

C ANTERBURY HALL.
STECKEL,
The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock.
Grand Selection, at a quarter to Ten, from the Opera,
" DON SEBASTIEN,"
One of the most important works of the late Maestro, Doni-
seat .roduced here for the first time in this country). Ar-
ranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Principal Artiste—Mts., Russell.
The Great Comic Trio, Unsworth, Eugene, and Daley,
with the celebrated Stump Speech. Or any other man " (the
original), in addition to the following array of Comic Talent,
viz.: —E. Marshall (in new songs), J. G. Forde, A. B. Hol-
lingsworth Mime Georgina Smithson, and Joe Brown, the
,
renowned Ametican Dancer.

T 0 XFO
R D,,
" OXFORD STREET.
The miraculous STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in
Ile and unapproachable feats.
wireraca "LA TRAVIATA," "IL TROVATORE,"
" SIMON BOCCAItEGRA," &c. &c. ; G. Linley's "JOLLY
BEGGARS ; " G. A. Maciarren's " MAY 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
'unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Rumsey, Newcomb, Little
Bob,Eugene,and Uneworth (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.
TRIG DAY.—Morning, 711. 101;1:I.—Afternoon, 7h. 32m.
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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1862.

The house was occupied last night in considering

the cases of two very different classes of persons—

more different, perhaps, now, than they were three
or four score years ago—tiplers and clergymen.
The alterations in the Tippling Act are required
by justice to the trade, and the only question was
whether the provisions of amended act should be
extended to the vending of beer, wine, and cider.
Again justice was readily listened to, it being agreed
that as the traders in those articles had received no
fair notice of the proposal to apply the bill to them,
they ought to be let alone for the year at least.

There was also a formal objection of some weight.
But when the house got from spirits to spiritual
men, the debate became quite lively. It was Mr.
BOUTERIE'S Bill, as amended before a select com-
mittee, which came before the house. The object
of the bill was the very simple one, as it would
appear to most persons, of enabling a clergyman
to renounce his profession ; and while renouncing it,
and of course all its emoluments, to be held free
from any disabilities attached by law to that
profession. Justice here would seem to be
as plain as in the case of tipplers, and
those who minister to the desires of tipplers.
An officer in the army or navy if he give up his
profession, is no longer bound by its rules or amen-
able to its authorities. Why should a clergyman
if he withdraw from the Church be any longer re-
sponsible to bishops or the ecclesiastical courts.
Why should he not be as free as the officer who has
fold out is from responsibility to the Horse Guards
or to courts martial ?

Yet all sorts of difficulties were raised on this
very simple affair. Mr. NEWDEGATE was afraid
that the seceding clergyman might in the very
place where he had been officiating, and where
he would have many persons attached to him, open
an opposition shop, and preach in opposition to the
doctrines of the Church. To which the proper
answer seemed to be, though it was not the one
made—« and why not, if w e really have religious
freedom in this country ?" We are surely not will-
ing to renew the Five Mile Act of CHARLES 11.,
by which the ejected clergymen were compelled to
keep at that distance from their own parishes. If the
people wish for the seceding clergyman as their
teacher, Would Mr. NEWDEGATEseriously deny them
that right, or eould he if would? Why, the very
denial, if we were his parishioners, would send us
to him every Sunday in defiance of all the laws
and bishops of England.
Another discussion arose on a curious point—what
should be the declaration made by the seceder to
secure him the privileges of relief from all disabili-
ties consequent on his having taken holy orders_
the Select Committee's Bill says it must be a de.
claration of conscientious dissent from the doctrines
or discipline, or both, of the Church. Mr.GRIFFITII's
wished it to be only a declaration of a wish to be
free from all
"civil
disabilities, disqualifications,
restrictions, and prohibitions, to which he was sub•
ject as being in holy orders." In either case the
bishop MS to record the declaration as a depriva-
tion. The House did not relish, generally, this
very rational amendment. Rational, we say, be-
cause a clergyman might have other reasons than
those of dissenting from the Church for wishing to
be free from active service in it. He might, for
instance, find that he had mistaken his calling. That
he was better adopted for civil than religious
business, and, in that case, why should he be
held bound to obey canons which forbid him any
means of earning his livelihood but that of a school-
master? However, the House in its wisdom
thought that, to get rid of his disabilities, the
clergyman must turn Dissenter. It was observed
that after all there was little in it, since not one
gentleman in the house probably agreed, lite-
rally, to all things in the Prayer Book, so that
a declaration of dissent would be easy enough.
the question Then came whether the bishop
should be left with the power
of eircommunica-
tion. As the bill did away with all penalties in
the clergyman's case, it was thought that the
Bishops could do little harm by such empty spite, i
and not be likely to incur the odium of it. But

the most amusing thing of all was that the
Select Committee—and the House was s ith it—
were exceedingly anxious to prevent the seceding
clergyman from becoming a member of Parlia-
ment. It seems almost ludicrous, bit Mr. Bou-
TERIE said that on no disputed po.nt was there
so large a majority in the committee on the side
of what seems like intolerance and persecution in
its way. Two of the oddest of reasons were as-
signed: Ist. The seceding clergyman ought not, it
was said to be placed in a better position than
those who did not secede. Why not then grant
the right to be members of Parliament to clergy-
men as well as to the other servants of the
State ? If a clergyman suited the electors and
wished for the post, there seems no reason why
he should not fill it. Mr. MIALL was an ex-dis-
senting clergyman, and lie
might have been
elected while a clergyman. Why put church
clergymen in a worse position than those of Dis-
senters ?

But there was a reason No. 2, and that was,
that the select committee were " unwilling
to admit within the house gentlemen who,
in their capacity of ministers of religion,
might have had an opportunity of acquir-
ing great influence over the minds of those with
whom they had been brought in contact !" Mr.
BOUVERIE seemed to disclaim this fear himself
but his sapient majority in select committee were
overpowered by it! So the bill is still to contain
one little penalty—one certainly which could never
be felt twice in a century—on the clergyman who
dissents. He may not represent his fellow-men in
the House of Commons! Can folly go further ?
What the House of Lords will do with the bill we
cannot guess. SAMUEL of Oxford will of course
fight hard for the indelibility of the very holy orders
which he confers.

Twenty years ago there was established by
Government what was called, in 1842, " The
Female School of Design," but which has since
expanded into " The Female School of Art and
Design." It originally had its home in Somerset
House, like the Royal Academy. It migrated
thence to the Strand. From the Strand it went to
Gower-street. From Gower-street it has gone to
Queen-square, There it now remains, with every
appearance of having at length reached its perma-
nent habitation. It is presided over by a Committee
of Management. It has within the last ten years
had entered upon its books not very far short of a
thousand scholars. At the very lowest computation
since 1852, there have been 846 students who have
there sought, and we need hardly add received,
regular and systematic instruction. At the present
moment upwards of a hundred (107) pupils are now
enrolled in the various classes of the establishment.
No less than 72 out of these studying with the full
intention of afterwards earning their livelihood by
the employment brought within their reach by the
instructions they are now receiving.
It is conspicuous among the social problems for
which thousands of philanthropic minds and

hearts are now earnestly endeavouring to

find a solution—this delicate and difficult
and really momentous problem relating to the dis-
covery, if possbile, of suitable fields for Female Em-
ployment. The extraordinary changes which have
within the last half century affected almost every
branch of indistry, of art, and of science, have
dealt the most harshly, as it happens in many par-
ticulars—(none can gainsay the truth of this asser-
tion : it only too painfully defies contradiction)—
with the gentler and weaker sex, with the female
portion of this busy and populous community. One
after another, different departments of toil hitherto
fitted expressiy to the delicate hands of women,

have been closed against them. What was ac-
complished by manual labour, by actual manipula-
tion is, now done by machinery. And even when

these new Mechanical Contrivances are of a

nature allowing of their manipulation still
by the hands of women as let us say
in the instance of those exquisite little contri-
vances the Sewing Machines—the work that now
may readily be accomplished by one " hand," for-
merly required for its completion the sedulous
attention, from sunrise to sunset, and even long
after sunset far on towards midnight in many a
wretched candle-lighted garret, of several female
labourers. Too many of these, of course, among
the humblest class, being as miserably under-

paid as they were deplorably overworked. But

among the better portion of these gentle labourers
are now, for the most part, thrown entirely out
of the reach of remunerative occupation—among
those who have, now-a-days, a new and, until very
recently, for the most part, an apparently insu-
perable difficulty in discovering any means by
which they could support themselves and those
dearer to them often than their own lives, and
entirely dependent upon them for their mainte-
nance—the Female School of Art and Design
is gradually becoming more and more a
central point from which radiate, for them one and
ail, Hope and Encouragement. It is, we firmly
believe, the germ or nucleus of a vast future advan-

itags to the female toilers, furnished to society by
the exigencies, too often by the bitter misfortunes,
of the middle classes. Daughters of clergymen and
medical men, many of the pupils in this admirable
institution have been and are : young ladies sud-
denly constrained by the feree of adverse oircum.,
stances to earn their own bread, and the bread often
of the elder and 3 ounger members of a suddenly
impoverished family. Educated in the Female
School of Art and Design—now we rejoice to know
securely established in Queen-square—they have
been enabled, they are month by month being ena•
bled to dot/11s—to accompiisu vv io.s. tAnuyaLavi , v c..v
and indescribable comfort to themselves what
would otherwise have been next to an impos-
sibility. No wonder, seeing the good that
is being effected in this most interesting
institution, remembering the time that has now
Elapsed since the date of its original establishment,
and the progress that has been made by it from
that period of its foundation a score of years gone
by—no 'wonder, we say,
length have intimated that the QUEEN should at
her gracious determination to
place the Female School of Art and Design formally
under Her IVlAJEsrive Patronage. A kindly resolu-
tion, on the part of the SOVEREIGN, brought to the
k o. the Committee by a welcome com-
municationnw addressed to the 1 Lady who acts as the
's Secretary. A letter written at Osborne
Palace, dated the 25th of April, and penned by
order of the QUEEN, by Her MAJEBT-T's Private
Secretary :-.-ii Dear Madam," says Sir CRARLES
PHIPPB, " I have the pleasure of informing you
that Her 3,lajesty the QUEEN thinks that
the time has come when she may grant
her patronage to the Female School of
Design. You
have had great and trying difficul-
ties, and I happy to think you are in a far way to
overcome them,
and you will have my best wishes
far your success." From that gracious communi-
cation from the QUEEN, we
cannot but rest as-
sured, will date in a very express and ;particular
manner the happiest period of prosperity for this
growing and thriving institution.
On Tuesday last, in furtherance of its interests, the
Female School of Arts and Design had convened, in
its behalf, at the Mansion House in the City of London
an important and influential meeting, presided over

by the right hon. the Lord Mayor, a meeting held
for the avowed purpose of rendering that admirable
institution self-supporting. As an inaugurative
meeting of this kind we cannot but pronounce the
assembly on Tuesday a great and decided
success. The subscriptions there and then raised
were very encouraging and satisfactory. The re-
solutions passed were very sensible, very practica-
ble, and very much indeed to the purpose. Who is
there who knows anything whatever about the in-
` stitution and its doings, that will be disposed for
one instant to deny, or even to doubt, the reason-
ableness of this one ?—" That, in the opinion of this
meting, the Female School of Art, in Queen-square,
which enables young women of the middle class to
obtain an honourable and profitable employment,
and which, at the same time, tends to cultivate
taste in ornamental design, is well entitled to public
confidence and support." Or, again, of the follow-
ing?—" That this meeting gratefully acknowledges
the support and countenance which her MAJESTY
has been graciously pleased to afford to this
institution by honouring it with her special
patronage, and regards this distinguished honour
as an additional incentive to increased exertions
on the part of its friends." The most practical,
however, of all is the resolution here immediately
subjoined :—" That the success which has at-
tended the past operations of this school affords
every encouragement to increased exertions to secure
its continuance, and that for this purpose it is
most desirable that the necessary funds should
be raised to provide accommodation for at least
160 pupils, and thus to render it a permanent and
self-supporting institution." From the accordance
to the Female School of Art and Design of the
Royal Patronage, and from the meeting of Taesday
at the Mansion House, a meeting formally con-
vened, as we have shown, with a view to render the
institution self-supporting, we believe will date the
commencement of a new and auspicious epoch for
the Female Labourers of the Middle Classes in this
country.

The Manchester School has two somewhat in-
compatible predilections—it desires economy, and
it desires also direct taxation. In the debate of
Tuesday night Sir F. HEYGATE dropped, almost
incidentally, in concluding, a remark of whose truth
we have been long convinced. Having observed
that the evidence taken before the Income•tax
Committee, showed it to be a bad tax, he made
against it a very serious charge—he said, " the
facility with which large sums were collected led,
in Ms opinion, to extravagance ;" hence, he thought
it should be reserved for cases of emergency when
the various classes of the people would readily pay
it, without any disposition to quarrel about the un-
fairness, with which it pressed upon them, in the
endeavour to meet a particular crisis.
This great evil of an income tax ha■ often struck
us ; and we may frankly confess that experience has
been our chief instructor. At one time we thought
direct taxation likely to be a stern teacher of eco-
nomy, and possibly it might be so were all
taxation direct, and did the governing classes pay
in proportion to the value of their property, to
the land tax, succession duty, probate duty, and in-
come tax. This, however, they will never do. And,
to this hour, the proprietors of half a county see the

personalty left to maintain widows and orphans
heavily taxed to probate duty; while, without a
blush, they transmit or inherit their vast estates
with no such charge at all ! Direct taxation will
never lie in the form which will induce our tax-
imposers to economise. It will always press more
painfully on the classes struggling to live decently
on small incomes, than on the wealthy landowner
and fundholder.

But the " fatal facility" of Sir F. UxTOATE is the
great danger of the income tax in the hands of
high-minded, but ambitious Premiers. Lightly do
they feel what to the many is a consciously painful
infliction. A penny or two more income tax, in the
way of prolongation of high war rates, especially, is
an easy thing; nor hes it been found difficult to
create panics which should make it seem necessary

to add a few pence. While ever so small a
germ of income tax is left, the panic-mongers,
when it suits their purpose, can get up an alarm,
and ask for more men to spend their time in pro-
ducing nothing but consuming a great deal. When,
too, there is the ready resort of raising the rate of

income tax, there is the strongest temptation to
step far beyond the line of legitimate self defensive
armaments, and to create such naval and military
establishments as shall enable us to play more or
less of the Dictator among the nations. There is
only the check of the slight grumbling from the
more helpless classes of sufferers. The wealthier
and more aristocratic have sons, or nephews, or
cousins, or friends charged upon the army or navy
votes, and therefore with a little well simulated
sorrow, they vote the estimates which shall pro-
vide an aristocratic occupation for their Hopefuls.

Very difficult, and much more effective is the
check imposed by having to raise customs and excise
duties. Unlike the income tax the additional penny
duty on articles of consumption, does not always
bring its penny into the Exchequer. Con-
sumption diminishes; and if the penny more
duty brings three farthings, or even a halfpenny
into the Exchequer, a finance Minister must be
satisfied. This has been urged as an advantage on
the side of direst taxation. In theory it seems
beautifully true. But practice reveals two fearful
drawbacks—one, that though the additional penny
on the Income-tax, like an addition to a parish
rate, brings in its penny, it does so by augmenting
injustice already too grievous to be patiently borne
in times of peace. The second is that on which we
are now dwelling, that this very facility of extort-
ing a sure and certain sum by another turn of the
screw, disposes Governments to give the turn, and
get the money. Facility of "raising the wind"
makes spendthrifts of Governments as well as of
individuals; and it is not facile to raise large
BUMS by Customs duties; it is facile to raise them
by the Income-tax.

impression,
We have therefore a pretty strong
that we shall never see Retrenchment in earnest or
a peaceful policy abroad, till we lay the Income-
tax on the shelf, to be used only when we are
actually attacked, at home or in our colonies. We
regard it as a nettled point that our Customs, Ex-
cise, and other sources would supply ample arma•
ments for a defensive policy. We need not, and
ought not, to make faster progress with our arma-
ments, already enormous, and capable of great re-
duction, than our taxation, apart from the Income-
tax, would enable us to do. Of course, if ten
millions were not wrung from us by the screw
direct, it would fructify to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's benefit in increased trade and con-
sumption. And we must confess that we have

little doubt that if we repeated this autumn and
next spring
our forefathers' policy of 1816 we should
keep our money
in our pockets and the nation be
equally secure—perhaps more so.

The King of Prussia will proceed about the
middle of August to Ostend, where his Majesty will pass,
as is his custom each year, a few weeks.
The Prussian Minister at Turin, Count Brassier
de Saint. Simon, left Berlin three days back to return to his
post. 46 We believe," says the Areutz Zeitung, " that he
carried with him no instructions relative to the recognition
of the Kingdom of Italy.

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.

His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt was seized with sud-
den indisposition yesterday, which prevented his highness
leaving his yacht and proceeding to the Turkish Embassy
in London, for the purpose of receiving a deputation from
the Church of Scotland. The address will therefore be re-
ceived this day (Thursday) at Woolwich.

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.a-His Royal Highness
Said Pasha yesterday visited the Royal gun-factories at
Woolwich. Accompanied by a single attendant carrying
an umbrella, he left the yacht at half-past 9. Senior Inspec-
tor Brine, in charge of the r. olice detachment in the Arsenal,
who speaks French, was in waiting, and with him the Vice-
roy proceeded towards the gun-factories. A number of
guns burst at proof, some of which are the experimental
hooped guns, attracted his attention, as well as various old
pieces of ordnance recovered from wrecks. During the
inspection of these relics the heads of departments arrived
and:were most cordially received by the Viceroy, who was
soon after joined by Mr. Larking. The visitors then pro-
ceeded to the forge, and the Pasha, having been accommo-
dated with a chair, witnessed the operation of rolling out
the coils, welding, &c., and spent two hours in the factory
examining with interest each branch of the department,
and the complete manufacture of the Armstrong gun. The
process was explained by Mr. Anderson with the aid of
diagrams. Mr. Larking translated what was said into
Arabic. At 12 o'clock the Pasha returned on board the
Faid Gahaad, and at 1 10 proceeded by her Majesty's
special train to London.
Since the 13th inst. the Belgian State railways
and the Northern of France and South-Eastern Railway
Companies have granted to travellers from Brussels and
other places tickets available for one month, to go to Lon-
don via Calais and Dover, during the Exhibition, with a
reduction of 25 per cant. on the ordinary fares.
During the last two or three years the French
Government has paid great attention to the cultivation of
'fish, both in salt and fresh water, as an alimentary neces-
sity. The principal person to whom France is indebted for
most useful piscatorial labours is M. Coate ; his nomination
of inspector, both of the river and coast fisheries, appears in
the Illoniteur.
The Paris journals state that M.Dentu, the pub-
lisher, is about to marry Mdlle. Decamps, daughter of the
celebrated painter, who lost his life by the accident last year
at Fontainebleau.
According to letters from Warsaw, nine Polish
ladies accused of having participated in singing hymns and
reciting prayers considered by the police seditious, were re-
moved from the citadel of that city on the 10th, and trans-
ferred to convents.
The Invalide Rune publishes an Imperial ukase
of the Emperor of Russia, raising General Luders, Lieuten-
ant of the Kingdom of Poland, and temporarily Comman •
der-in-Chief of the first array, to the dignity of Count of the
Empire of Russia, as a reward for his services.
"We are authorised," says the Patrie, " to con-
tradict a rumour which has prevailed within the last day
or two of the departure for Kerlin of Baron de Bismarke
Soh eenhausen, the Prussian ionbassador. The envoy of
King William has not left Paris."
Advices from Toulon state that orders have been
transmitted from Paris to have several vessels taken from
the Mediterranean squadron to carry out reinforcements to
General de Lorencez. The steam line-of-battle ships St.
Louis and Imperial are spoken of aslikely to be appropriated
to the service in question. Similar orders, it is said, have
been sent to Cherbourg and Brest.
The Professorship of Greek in Durham Uni-
versity, with a Canonry Residential in Durham Cathedral
annexed, has been conferred upon. the Rev. T. S. Evans,
M.A., one of the Assistant-Masters of Rugby School.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather
this week has continued dull, and unfavourable for the de-
velopment of the cereal crops in the eastern district. A
warm forcing period is now required, but, instead of such a
state of things, the skies have been Lull and lowering. On
Tuesday evening a considerable qaantity of rain fell, and
the outstanding hay crop must have been drenched, Yes-
terday morning showed no improvement, rain still continu-
ing. There are some complaints as to mildew and insect
ravages, but probably these are only of a very partial cha-
racter, and, taking affairs generally a few fine forcing days
would no doubt work wonders.
SINGULAR PHENOMENON :4n the afternoon of
Monday, the 9th inst., the hamlet of Aldreth, Haddenham,
was visited by a severe thunderstorm. In this place there
are two cottages standing in a late place, occupied by
Daniel Cockle and John Stokes, labourers. About five yards
from Cockle's house, and in an adjoinmg field, there is a young
elm tree. The tree was struck by lightning; the fluid
travelled from thence in a very indirect line to the furthest
house, entering the back door, whica was open. Ann Stokes,
aged fourteen years, was standing in this room, not facing
the doorway, but near the middle of it, and in a line
with the door. The electric fluid struck the girl's
lower extremities, paralysing both feet, and producing an
imprint upon the left leg and thigh of the colour of scarlet,
and in every respect resembling the tree itself, viz., the
trunk, branches, and the leaves, and in the most beautiful
model form it is possible to eonceive. She has regained the
use of her limbs, and the daguerreotype appearance is fading
away. Strange to say her dress was not in any way in-
jured by the electric fluid.—Cambridge independent.
MORE OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.—The Mullingar
correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing on the
16th inst., says:--" Last night a number of men went to
the house of Mr. Kelly, farmer, of Ballinlug, one of whom
fired a shot, lodging the contents in the beck door, They
then went to the house of one of his workmen, named
Donnellan, and having obtained admittance pulled him and
his brother out of bed, and beat them severely with whips
and sticks, and cautioned them to give up land they had
taken from Mr. Kelly. On going away they fired a shot.

Two parties have been arrested on suspicion." The Clon-
mel correspondent of the same journal writes :—" On the
night of the 14th inst. several persons, all armed, came to
the house of Edward Hayden, of Curraheen, a respectable
farmer, and commenced firing shuts. Hayden, on going
out in the morning, found a grave dug and two threatening
notices lying therein, threatening him and his herd with
death. It is believed that this was done to intimidate
Hayden proceeding with an ejectment at the Cashel quarter
sessions, which ho had served on a party for the recovery of
a small farm."

CRIME AT NAPLES.—The Paese of Naples relates
the following crime, committed in that city on the 7th :

" An English gentleman and lady named Porter, had fixed
their residence at the hotel called locanda di Europa, but
used generally to dine elsewhere. On the day alluded to,
Mrs Ann Porter, who is stated to be about 70 years of age,
felt herself unwell, and bade her husband go and dine alone'
which he did, and after dinner went to the play. On his
return home he knocked at the door repeatedly without re-
ceiving an answer, and finding upon inquiry that his lady
had not been seen since he had left, he caused the door to
be broken open, when, to the dismay of all present, Mrs.
Porter was found on the floor, weltering in her blood. She
had been stabbed with a stiletto in three places, and, not
content with this, the assassin, finding he had not succeeded
in dealing the death blow, had struck her head several
times violently against the floor. A sum of 3,000 f. had
been carried off. Medical aid having been procured, the
lady was brought to life again, and hopes are entertained
of her recovery. The police immediately took possession of
the premises, arresting all the inmates, from the landlord
down to the lowest menial, and an inspector was appointed
to superintend the searching of the house. Nothing has as
yet transpired, but suspicion has fallen upon one of the
porters of the hotel not enjoying a very good character."

THREE CHILDREN SHOT.—A most distressing
occurrence happened at Sicklesmere on Monday afternoon,
three little girls being shot. Abour a quarter to six the
girls, whose names were Emma and Ellen Clover and
Mary AIM Woodgate, aged respectively six, three, and two
years, WCtC playins-
tilde of the toll-gate, when their attention was attracted
by some crab apples growing on a tree standing in the
fence of a garden belonging to a Mrs. Upson. The
children attempted to get some of the apples, and a little
boy who saw them ran in and told Mrs. Upson that they
were after the apples. She took no notice of what the
boy said at first, but, on his going a second time, said
she would come and see after them, and took a gun which
was hanging up in the house, saying she would frighten
them with it. A neighbour, Mrs. Wright, who was with
her at thelime, told her to mind that it was not loaded,
but she said, " Oh, no, it is not loaded." She went out,
taking with her the gun, which she presented at the
children, who were about twenty yards from her ; when,
either from the nipple catching her dress or the pressure
of her hand, the gun went off, severely wounding the
eldest girl and slightly injuring the other two. Two of
the children were at once sent home, buc the injuries
of Emma Clover proved much more serious, the having
,been struck by no less than 47 shots, all over the front of
her body, on both thighs, the left leg, and both her arms
and hands, some of the shots having penetrated more
than two inches. The woman, on seeing what her thought-
lessness had caused, became so excited that it was neces-
sary for Police-constable Grimsey to remain with her all
night to prevent her doing herself an injury. She declares
that she was not aware the gun was loaded, and expresses
the greatest regret for what had happened. She is in the
custody of the police, and will be brought before the magi-
strates to-morrow. The poor girl Emma Clover remains in
a precarious state.—Bury and'Norwich Post.
THE LATE STRIKE OF THE LONDON MASONS.—
The master builders have, it appears, generally accepted
the terms upon which the masons consented to close their
strike last week, and the men who remained out had been
pretty well absorbed in the various yards and shops. A large
number have been taken on for the Albert Mausoleum, now
in course of erection in the grounds of Frogmore House.
The men have avoided as much as possible going into the
establishments of those employers who made themselves
most conspicuous in enforcing the hour system, some of
whom have vainly endeavoured to get back their old hands,
generally first-class workmen. The total number of opera-
tive masons now employed in London is considerably less
than just previous to the strike last year, the majority of
those who struck having during the continuance of the
strike obtained employment in the country.

LATEST NEWS.

ST. PETERaBURG, JUNE 19.

The Journal de St. Petersburg of to-day publishes
an Imperial decree, authorizing the Governors of
the provinces to proclaim martial law should incen-
diarism break out.

The sentences of the courts-martial are to be
confirmed by the Governors.

Rapine, murder, incendiarism, and destruction o
the crops are punishable With death.

MADRID, JUNE 18.

According to intelligence received here from
Mexico, Sir Charles Wyke, Commodore Dunlop,
and General Doblado have signed a treaty satisfy-
ing the demands of England.
The ratifications of the treaty Were exchanged at
Mexico.

TURIN, JUNE 13, EVENING.
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the following
Address to the King was proposed :
" The Bishops assembled of Rome have cast
grave insults upon our country. They have denied
our national right and have invoked foreign violence.
Let us reply by proclaiming our determination to
maintain intact the national right of the metro-
polis of our country, suffering violence at the hands
of masters whom she repudiates. The words pro-
nounced at the Vatican have declared all negotia-
tions impossible. This language removes every
ground for the hesitation which has long dis-
played the moderation of the Italian people. When
ecclesiastics, forgetting their ministry, put forth
wishes for reaction ; when ruffians carry desolation
from the Pontifical territory into the Southern pro-
vinces, Europe ought to be convinced that the
authority of the Italian King end people only can
settle the Roman question.
After a short discussion, the Address was voted
almost unanimously.

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 18.

The Journal de St, Petersboury of to-day an-
nounces that the Governor-General has determined
to close the Chess Club in the capital, which, ac-
cording to the official statement, was used as the
centre for disseminating false reports.
It has likewise been decided to shut up the pub-
lic reading-rooms, on account of their proprietors
distributing revolutionary publications.

SEINILIN, JUNE 18.
Hostilities in Belgrade were suspended yesterday

afternoon.

The damage caused by the bombardment is in
considerable.

The families of Austrian subjects in the city took
refuge on board four steamers, and came to this
place.