The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

BRADFORD.

On Tuesday afternoon Lord Fitzwilliam, K.G.,
Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire,
reviewed about 1,000 Volunteers in Peel-park,
Bradford. The day being a holiday, and there
being a gala in the park for the joint benefit of the
Bradford Infirmary and the park fund, the atten-
dance of spectators was immense, certainly 50,000,
as indicated by the money received for admission.
The following Volunteer corps were present :-2d
West York (Bradford) Artillery, fcur companies,
commanded by Major Wood ; Pudsey and Farsley
Artillery, commanded by Captain Pepper; 3d West
York (Bradford) Rifles, six companies; 6th West
York (Huddert-field) Rifles, four companies, com-
manded by Major Crosland; and the 35th and
39th West York (Keighley and Bingley) Rifles,
who for drill purposes are attached to the Bradford
Corps. The review commenced at half-past four
o'clock. Lieutenant-Colonel Lister, of the 3d West
York (Bradford) Rifle Corps, commanded the
brigade, which consisted of three battalions. On
entering the park the Lord-Lieutenant, who wore
his uniform and blue riband, was received with a
salute of 19 guns, fired by No. 1 battery of the
Bradford Artillery Corps. His lordship was
accompanied by Sir John Ramaden, Bart., M.P., who
was attired as a deputy-lieutenant of the riding, and
by Lieutenant-Colonel Harman, one of her Ma-
jesty's Inspectors of Rifle Volunteer Corps-. After
receiving the Lord-Lieutenant with a salute in line,
and marching past with the Rifle Corps, the Ar-
tillery Volunteers took no further part in the brigade
movements of the day, which were performed by
the other corps in a very soldierlike manner. Each
man had ten rounds of blank ammunition. At the
conclusion of the review the Lord-Lieutenant ad-
dressed the brigade, and said it must be a great gra-
tification to the whole of the corps assembled to
know that during the last two years they had made
themselves to no small extent good and efficient
soldiers. It was a gratification to him to come
among them, and to witness what they had done,
and he thought that what he saw around him was a
proof of the esteem in which they were held by their
townsmen and neighbours. Alluding to the new
•barracks of the Bradford Rifle Corps, his Lordship
said he did not think that a more efficient place for
praisethe purpose
t ohe adjutant
t of drill coofu
theld be
corpsf found, n
(Captain
and he gave
Pepper)
for his exertions in connection with the erection of
the barracks. It was a credit to all of them, and a
credit to the town of Bradford, that they had so
suitable a place in which to go through, during the
more inclement seasons of the year, the duties that
devolved upon them. Lieutenant-Colonel Lister,
on behalf of the Rifle Volunteers, returned thanks
to Lord Fitzwilliam for having come among them,
and said he had no doubt that, with the patronage
and moral support of those who held high stations
in the land, the Volunteer movement would remain
a great institution for years to come. The Lord-
Lieutenant afterwards inspected the Bradford corps
of Artillery Volunteers, and addressed them in
very complimentary terms, Major Wood returning
thanks. His lordship was loudly cheered by the
troops at the conclusion of the proceedings. The
ground during the review was well kept 13.. y the
Artillery Volunteers of Pudsey and Farsley, under
the command of Captain Pepper. Refreshments for
the whole of the corps were provided by the Park
Gala Committees, free of expense.

The old charter of the State of Connecticut, in the
United States, granted by Charles 11., 200 years ago, still
hangs in the office of the Secretary of State at Hartford,
the capital of tile above-uamed state.

necessary permission having been obtained from
her Majesty (the Prince being still in mourning,

and travelling under the title of lhron Renfrew),

preparations were at once commenced to give him
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a suitable reception. The intimation first given to

the public stated that his Royal Highness might be
expected to arrive on the 6th inst., and the city de-
corations were undertaken in that belief. It be-
came known on the arrival of her Majesty's ship

Firebrand, on Tuesday, that owing to the indispo•
sition of General Bruce, one of his Royal Highness's
suite, the Prince had resolved to leave Cephalonia
a day earlier, and that he might be expected here
on Thursday, the sth, instead of Friday, the 6th, as
originally intended. This alteration of plan sub•
jected the committee of management to considerable
inconvenience, as it was impossible to complete in

time the street embellishments according to the
original programme. However, the truth of the
trite old saying, " Where there's a will there's a
way," was never more or better exemplified than
on this occasion.

Early the day before yesterday the tower signal
announced the approach of the Royal squadron,

consisting of the Royal yacht Osborne, her Majesty's
ship Doris, Dapt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, and her
Majesty's ship Magicienne, Captain his Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiningen ; and at 7 o'clock
the Osborne, with his Royal Highness on board,

entered the Great Harbour, followed closely by the
other two vessels. The yacht was immediately
boarded by Capt. Brett, aide-de-camp to the Gover-
nor, and at 11 precisely his Royal Highness landed,
amid the most deafening cheers and acclamations of
the thousands of persons who fringed the bastions

and swarmed along the wharves, and on every poin,

'rom whence a view of the scene could be obtained

The quiet ship's boat in which the Prince landed
wad made to pass through two long lines of native
gondolas filled with well-dressed people, and deco-
rated with flags and awnings, whose bright colours,
under our southern sunshine, reminded one strongly
of those bright and fairy scenes from the history of
" fair Venice" illustrated by the gifted pencils of
Canaletti and Turner,

At the landing-place, which was handsomely
decorated with carpeting and damask, and sur-
mounted by a light arch, over which floated the
Royal standard, the Prince was received by a depu-
tation of the clergy, the elected members of Council,
and the leading merchants and gentry, whose cor-
dial welcome he very gracefully acknowledged.
On the Prince landing, the Governor presented to
him Canon Amato (as locum tenens of the Roman
Catholic Bishop), who was on the right-hand side
on the jetty, and then the elected members of the
Council of Government, who were on the left. A
handsome bouquet of artificial flowers, worked in
filagree by the nuns of St. Ursula, was then pre-
sented to the Prince by the children of several re-
spectable inhabitants, who wore an appropriate
fancy costume, He here entered one of the car-
riages prepared for him, accompanied by the Gover-
nor in plain clothes, and proceeded along the route
sketched out in the committee's programme, pre-
ceded by the deputation who had received him on
landing, and the University students, bearing silk
banners, with golden inscriptions of " Welcome,"
"Prince of Wales," " England for ever," &c., and
by great crowds waving flags and cheering vehe-
mently. From Calcara-gate, the place of disem-
barkation, to the Floriana-gardens, the road by
which the Prince had to pass was skirted by fes-
toons and garlands draped between poles, and mil-

way, on the rising ground, a very handsome
triumphal arch was erected, on which was inscribed
the word " Welcome," and which, it is said, elicited
the warm admiration of the Royal party.

Una platform on the right, inside Porta Reale,
a stage of seats had been constructed, on which
were grouped a brilliant assemblage of handsome
and fashionably-dressed ladies, and in the centre
were placed several hundred children of the Pri-
mary schools, neatly attired, who sang with singu-
lar pathos and in full chorus our beautiful National
Anthem, " God Save the Queen," and " Rule Bri-
tannia," and who threw showers of bouquets into
the Prince's carriage as he proceeded. This throw-
ing of flowers was repeated from many of the
windows and balconies as he drove through the
main street, which was beautifully and artistically
decorated for the occasion. From the summits of
Venetian poles, skirting the footway along the
entire length of the Strada Reale, floated gay
banners. Wreaths of myrtle and festoons of ever-
greens drooped from post to post, and at each point
of contact a shield, with the ensigns of England
and Malta united, was placed within a garland.
From the windows and housetops floated flags and
tapestry of bright colours. At intervals along the
street ornamenal arches broke the monotony, and
produced a very pretty effect. Crowds of well-
conducted and picturesquely- dressed people,
thronging every thoroughfare, rendered the scene
one of those grand fairy-like, 'pictorial displays
which no description, however vivid, can recall.
The carriage containing the Prince then continued
its way to the Palace-square, which was decorated
in the fashion of the Strada Real, with the addition
of the mottoes—

" God save the Queen."
"England for over."
"Long live the Prince of Wales."

And the inscription—" Magna et invictm Britannia
Melitensium amor et Europa vox has insulas con-
firmant. An. MDCCCIV."
In the evening the illuminations, not only in Va-
letta, but in the suburban towns and villages, were
all but general.
In front of the Palace a richly-decorated stage
was erected for tho accommodation of vocal and in-
strumental musicians, embracing all the choicest
professional talent of the place, and who performed
a hymn composed for the occasion in a manner
which gave great satisfaction to the Prince and
Royal party, who occupied the Palace balcony dur-
ing the performance. The crowd, which was com-
posed of the best of the Maltese and English inha-
bitants with their families, and whiaa entirely
filled the square and the streets leading to it, seized
every opportunity between the parts of enthusiasti-
cally cheering the Prince, who repeatedly bowed
his acknowledgments. At the close of "God save
the Queen," which was performed with beautiful
effect, the Prince withdrewe, but the people kept up
the rejoicings until a late hour.
The Prince was on horseback by 7 on Friday
morning, and accompanied by the Governor and
I Staff visited the chief points along the fortifications
and bastions, and at 11 a.m. witnessed fro ficm
the
Palace tower the discharge of the guns on the forts
bearing seaward, and of the ships of war in port,
directed against two steamers made to represent an
approaching enemy, The effect was much heightened
by the line walls being manned by the troops, Who
also discharged their pieces at the approaching
vessels. In the afternoon the Prince visitcd the
soldiers' gardens at Floriana, and rode out to St.
George's Bay, where he laid the foundation stone of
a soldiers' library, in connection with the barracks
recently constructed there. At night the illumina-
tions Were reheated with increased brilliancy and
his Royal Highness visited
effect. This morning
several spots of interest in the island, and intends,
I am informed, leaving on return to England, via
Marseilles, to-night.

SounumPToN,Wednesday.--The North German
Lloyd screw steamship Bremen, Captain 11. Wessels, sailed
hence at 2 p.m. for New York, with the German and English
,nails, about 300 passengers (of NV 11 in 101 are in 11w saloon),
9,500 dols in specie from Havre, and a large cargo. She
has no Ppecio from England,

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 11.
The Great Eastern arrived here this morning.
She left New York on the Ist inst., and brings
nearly 400 passengers, and 56,000 (his. in speck.
The steam ship Kangaroo arrived at New YOI k
May 29.
The most important feature of news by this mail
is the evacuation of Corinth by the Confederates,
full details of which will be found below.
Mr. Dawes, in a speech in Congress, stated that
the expenses of the Federal Government, from
March 4, 1861, to May 22, 1862, amounted, in
round numbers, to 441,000,000 dols., and that the
total debt of the country at the present moment
was 411,000,000 do's. The accuracy of these figures
was questioned by several members. In reference
to the Tax Bill, Mr. Harris gave an opinion that
it was severe on commerce and manufactures, and
that one-fifth of the whole would be paid by the
city of New York.
The President has appointed, and the Senate
confirmed, John A. Hedrick, collector for the port
of Beaufort, North Carolina.
A despatch, countersignel by General M'Clel-
lan's chief of staff, states that by the burning of a
bridge across a creek on the line of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg, and Potomac Mini-._ -_, ica-
tion is cut off between Richmond and the army of
General Jackson.
The Richmond Inquirer strongly opposes any
further retreat of the Confederate army, and recom•
mends a battle before Richmond.
General Wool has issued still more stringent re-
gulations against trade and commerce in Norfolk.
A serious disturbance had taken place at Norfolk.
The particulars are not fully given, but it appears
a negro attacked a Union soldier, and part of a
New York regiment was called upon to quell the
disturbance. Three negroes were killed, two or
three wounded, and the leaders imprisoned.
The British steam ship Stettin, in charge of
Acting Master J. D. Barclay, from Charleston
Bar, May 24, arrived at New York, May 29. The
Stettin was captured off Cape Romaine, May 24,
while attempting to run the blockade at Charleston.
She has a cargo of brandy, wines, saltpetre, &c.,
which, with the vessel, is valued at 500,000 dollars.
She was from Nassau, N.P.
The St. Louis Republican says that trouble is
breaking out afresh in Western Tennessee.
A considerable force of rebels is said to be at
Trenton ready to march on Union City and Hick-
man. Union men from Weakly and Obion counties
were flocking to Hickman for protection, and 400
or 500 rebel cavalry were stationed at the mouth
of Obion river, awaiting the draining of the swamp
in that region to plant a battery to prevent the pas-
sage of the Federal transports on the Mississippi.
The New York journals state that it is the
custom in New Orleans to imprison public women
found in the streets of New Orleans in the Cala-
boose, and that the meaning of General Butler's
order directing that ladies of New Orleans who
show contempt for Federal soldiers are to be treated
as women of the town plying their avocation, is
that they are to be imprisoned in the Calaboose.
No explanation, however, could in any way pal-
liate the issuing of an order so disgraceful and so
little creditable to the manliness of Gen. Butler.
A correspondent of the New York Times, writing
from camp, ten miles from Richmond, May 24,
says :
" The hope that many entertained of the Confe-
derates retreating from Richmond to a point fur-
ther south seems to have vanished, and the bloodi-
est battle of the war is expected here. It may not

be impossible, to-day it seems probable, that our
troops will have to go into the trenches again, and
that the heavy Parrott guns will be brought from
Yorktown and planted on the banks of the Chick-
ahominy. As to the number of their force, there is
little doubt but that they have concentrated suffi-
cient to outnumber us greatly."
EVACUATION OF CORINTH.
DESPATCHES FROM GENERAL HALLECK.

" Head-quarters, Department of the Mississippi,
Camp on the Corinth road, May 28,

Three strong reconnoitring columns advanced
this morning on the right, centre, and left, to feel
the enemy and unmask his batteries. The enemy
hotly contested his ground at each point, but was
driven back with considerable loss.
" The column on the left encountered the strongest
opposition. Our loss is 25 killed and wounded. The
enemy left 30 dead on the field. Oar losses at other
points are not yet ascertained. Some five or six offi-
cers and a number of privates were captured.
" The fighting will probably be renewed to-mor-
row at daybreak. The whole country is so thickly
wooded that we are compelled to feel our way.
"H. W. HALLECK, Major General.
" Hon. E. M. Stanton."

" Near Corinth, May 30.
" General Pope's heavy batteries opened upon the
enemy's entrenchments yesterday about 10 a.m., and
soon drove the rebels from their advanced batteries.
"Major-General W. T. Sherman established
another heavy battery yesterday afternoon within
1,000 yards of their works, and skirmishing parties
advanced at daybreak this morning. Three of our
divisions are already in the enemy's advanced
work about three-quarters of a mile from Corinth,
which is in flames. The enemy has fallen back on
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
" H. W. HALLECK, Major-General.
"Hon. E. M. Stanton."
1862.
" Our advanced guard is at Corinth.
" Near Corinth, May 30,
" Conflicting accounts as to the enemy s move-
ments. He is believed to be in strong force on our
left flank some four or five miles south of Corinth,
near the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
" H. W. HALLECK, Major-General.
" Hon. E. M. Stanton."
"Near Corinth, May 30, 1862.
"General Pope's advance, the 39th Ohio Regi-
ment, occupied Corinth at 40 minutes past six this
morning, and raised our flag on the Court House.
" The enemy evacuated the place last night, re-
treating down the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The
telegraph line is occupied with military business,
but expect to obtain particulars soon,"
uEa r sT,INOIaNy. 30.
;THE D,E,
HTAtalieLeSk,soHFeaTaHci
"During all of last night the mo •
ving of cars and
suppressed whistles sounding betokened some move-
ment going on, but, it not being any extraordinary
occurrence, was not Considered of an extraordinary
nature.
" About five o'clock this
morning several explo-
sions were distinctly heard. Immediately after
skirmishers were thrown out, and a general advance
took place.
" A very large amount of railroad iron was un-
touched. There being some 12 or 15 tracks of
railroad from the depot to the entrenchments, with
side tracks and switches, they were unable to move
troops with great rapidity.
" From all information gleaned from prisoners,
it is thought the evacuation commenced at sundown
of last night, the enemy retreating in three diffe-
rent directions—east, west, and south.
" Beauregard stated to the citizens that he in-
tended evacuating, and throwing himself on both
our flanks. At this hour Corinth is held by our
outposts, and cavalry is searching for the enemy.
That sent by Gen. Pope came upon and dispersed
the enemy eight miles below Corinth, on the Mheo-
bile and Ohio Railroad, in the act of burning t
bridge, and captured 40 prisoners.
" The enemy's rear guard destroyed the depot, a
few bales of cotton, and a church, and intended de•
stroying the entire village, but the citizens saved
sonic 50 houses. They also broke open stores and
burnt the contents.
" A large cavalry force under Colonel Elliot,
sent out on Wednesday morning by circuitous

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learn from the prisoners that it wastinottilt 0,
Corinth last night that a large bridge had been
destroyed, 'lO miles to the south, by a body of our
cavalry, and that General Pope's 20-pounder Par-
rotts yesterday enfiladd their camp, killing 80 men
and 100 horses ; also that a 30-2ounder Parrott
shell thrown into Corinth by Pope as an experi-
ment destroyed the locomotive and killed the cngi.
neer.
" It is thought among military men that the de:
stru,_:tion of bridges south, the uncomfortable proxi-
wity of our falling shells, and the possibility of
Federa! success on the Missisiippi, were the causes
of the evacOtion• 'Pie enemy's works certairdy
were of very great strength, and capable of making
a stout resistance."

" eurin!-h, May 30.
"It is now t:seert3ined that the evs.cna!ion COin-
incnced the night before last, the ei:cnlY
south ward ly until they reached
bridge burned by our forces, whent,e they
went to Grand Junction, ay.d th.race south-
wardly (on the Jackson Railroad). Some
ladies and citizens remain here. The
citizens inform us that Richmond has been evacu-
ated, and that Memphis is almost wholly deserted
—all the stores being closed with the exception of
a few groceries. It is ascertained that Van Dora
had a band of Indians under him. Col. Jackson.
reports finding the road for several wiles sirewil
with knapsacks, havresacks, arms, and canteens,
showing great demoralisation. The woods are full
of stragglers, who are being brought in as fast as
possible,. Probably between 2,000 and 3,000, in-
cluding almost the entire 13th Louisiang, are in our
lines now. Many of them arc deserters, end the
balance have been captured since the evacuotion.
A United States military telegraph was completed.
to this point to-night."
The New York Herald says :
" Okolona, to which place Beauregard is reported
to have gone, Mobile and
is a small station on he
Ohio Railroad, 67 miles south of Coriflth and 261
miles north of Mobile. About 10 miles south
of Okolona, at West Point, the Nashville
and Jackson Railroad leaves the line of the
Mobile and Ohio road, and runs south-westerly t
Canton, Miss., a few miles north of Jackson. Tho
only advantage to be obtained by the occup4tion of
this position is, that there are two roads leOding
southward from it—one to Mobile and the other to
Jackson. There the Tombigbee river and swamp
flanks the position upon the east, making it neces-
sary for General Halleck to march down from the
north via Corinth. At all events the rebels thug,
gain time, and unless they are, as General Halleck
supposes, ' in force upon his flank,' no news of great
interest need be looked for from this quarter for
some time."
ADVANCE OF GENERAL BANKS FROM
HARPER'S FERRY.
"
" A dispatch received: tingtWa7 May 31.
Department
states that a brigade of Federal troops, preceded by
four companies of the Rhode Island cavalry, under
Major Nelson, entered Front Royal yesterday morn-.
ing, and drove out the enemy, consisting of thf) Bth
Louisiana, four companies of the 12th Georgiaj
and a body of cavalry. The Federal loss is S
killed, 5 wounded, and 1 missing, all from the
Rhode Island Cavalry. We captured 6 officers and
151 privates, besides a large amount of transport,
including two engines and 11 railroad cars. Our
advance was so rapid that the enemy was surprised,
and was, therefore, not able to burn the bridges
across the Shenandoah.
"A despatch from General Banks to the Secre-
tary of War states that the sth New York Cavalry,
Colonel Deforest commanding, entered Martinsburg
this morning, and passed several miles beyond,
where they encountered the enemy'
muk
s cavalry, cap-
tured several prisoners, a waggon, sets, and
ammunition, and an American flag. Col. Deforest
reports that Colonel Kenly is at Winchester
wounded."

REPORTED EVACUATION OF PETERS-

BURG.

"Norfolk, May 30.

" Two fugitives arrived here yesterday from
Richmond. They report an army of 200,000 men
in the vicinity, among whom, both officers and men,
the dissatisfaction is very general. They were
living on half rations of bacon and hard bread.
The fugitives state that Jeff Davis had been beard
to say that he would make the streets of the city
run with blood before surrendering.
" A report comes in from our scouts, who are ad-
vanced some miles beyond Suffolk, that the city of
Petersburg is to be, or has been evacuated by the
rebels. The Seabord and Roanoke Railroad, it has
been ascertained, is in good order as far as the
Blackwater river.
" Col. Hawkins, of the 9th New York Regiment,
with 20 men, arrived here in the Port Royal last
night, having left Roanoke Island yesterday morn-
ing and passed up by way of Currituck Sound, and
thence by canal to Elizabeth River. Thus the in-
land route is opened, by which Gen. Burnside's
department may communicate with the capital
without the risk of the passage outside of Hatteras.
Col. Hawkins is not the first, however, to arrive
hero by the canal ; several sloops and schooners
fltdtegohenyt
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are making on an extensive scale for a
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"If the sentiment of the proposed meeting should
be satisfactory to Gen. Wool, it will probably in•
duce the President to open the port."

The New I ork Time; of June 1 says :
" Important news reaches us from the West.
Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, is stated to be
fully occupied by our troops, the inhabitants re-
maining being decidedly loyal. The legislature had
scattered, and Governor Rector had fled from the
State. It is also announced that Vicksburg, Missis-
sippi, has surrendered to the Lower Mississippi fleet.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on May 31, a bill was introduced
by Mr. Wilson to enable slaves to establish a "
to freedom under the act to confiscate the property
of rebels, &c.. The bill legalising the accept 31r. anc
the President of volunteers, was called up
b afur.
Wilson, who offered a substitute author
ther acceptance of volunteers,butlimiftoi:l.
premiura
number to 700,000, and providiug_fn
g and for thci
of two dollars for every 501dier en!' i_d-v'ance. Mr.
gitslitallge whole
payment of two months' wages u
Wilson stated that the
617,654; but there are a
aggregatelanumbur of men
leave and sick, and the
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probable number a (1
feetive Inch is the field ig
500,000. ' •
endlnent was adopted limiting the pre,
An am otendwaton . .
and debated until the
mium to the regular service.
The bill was diFeussid until 1 o'cleck, when the
Bill was again taken up
Tax
adjournment. The reposed taxon coal was reduced.

THE MOORS OF PERTIISUIRE.—The 'weather
during the last fow days has been stormy and unsettled.
Tho thunder showers upon the hills have been heavy and
continuous, and the deluges of rain have been injurious to
the young broods and hatching. On Monday several hail
theds
a gi nr
sO ai
Ul o ; directions,
e d arr e
warm
showers—Very unusual at this season—fell apon the hills
,
and moorlands, accompanied by keen, cutting
winds
ofe
Gamekeepers were out upon the rang
and their reports upon the conditionmore
favourable than was anticipated. A few y y
Weather will speedily restore the ellorgi
enfeebled by the rain falls. 0s of those broodsh

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Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, a Household Picture, under Two Lights,
entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe, Mr. W.
Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c.
Alter which, at half-past 7, will be performed (147th time)
AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck
; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothcrn.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitied L A CONTRA-
.ANDISTA. Senora Pcrea Newt, Senor Ricardo, and the
rps de Ballet.
To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.

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periaischoolmaster, arrives.at Rome in the midst of
the fete, and the EMPEROR resolves to have a new
election of his Legislative Assembly. So little does
he fear the effect of adding a score of guardian
Saints to the protectors of the Vatican. It must
also have occurred to even the least observant of the
Assembly, that the French protectors of Papal
temporalities are now reduced to one Brigade—a
Brigade soon, perhaps, to sail for Mexico.

It is now sixteen years since Lord GEORGE BEN-

TINCIi, in one of his earliest speeches in the House

of Commons, raised a good-humoured laugh against
himself by avowing his earnest wish to witness the
installation in Downing-street of " a stable Govern-
ment." Falling from his lips, the phrase bore

about it so whimsical a construction ! Upon the

very morrow of the day upon which the words fell
from the lips of the noble lord, the late member for
King's Lynn, we remember having ourselves first
directed public attention in these columns to what,
remembering Lord GEORGE'S antecedents, might
almost be said to have amounted to a lapsus
The laughter provoked by that somewhat unlucky
expression, employed as it was at a moment when
that noble and gallant scion of the House of Rut-
land, that Preux Chevalier of the expiring lance of
the Protectionists wished to be at his gravest—
wished to impress the House by the solemnity of
an almost pathetic utterance—the laughter, we
say, thus unwittingly provoked did not speedily
die out. It was echoed far and wide throughout
the country. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK did not soon
hear the last of it.

Just now in a somewhat similar plight is Mr.
WALPOLE. The Right Hon. Gentleman, by rea-
son of his astounding withdrawal of the Amend-
ment entrusted to his care by his Party
—its withdrawal, as one may say, at the
eleventh hour and three-quarters, upon the eve of
" The Derby"—has given rise (on his part most
unintentionally and undesignedly) to a series of
jokes at his expense, as—in the words affixed to the
famous caricature—" The Man Wot didn't "—bring✓
the DERBY Government in ! 3lr. DISRAELI him-
self was the first of the great parliamentary joke.
masters to raise the laugh rather cruelly against his
late right hon. colleague. The Leader of the Oppo-
sition, with his usual serio-comic air at these times,
with raised eyebrows, and a countenance expressive
of affected dejection, appealing to the sympathy of
his hearers upon that momentous Eve of " The

Derby " for all such as might have the lamentable

ill-luck to behold, just at the crisis
of the great race their chosen Favourite—bolting !
The humorous member for Liskeard, however,
almost immediately afterwards topped the happiest
joker of them all, by his exquisitely ludicrous sug-
gestion in regard to that carefully selected Favourite
of the Conservative Opposition, not so much that
he was afflicted with the vice of Bolting as that
" somebody had got at him." Those who had wit-
nessed the whispered confabulation that had been
going on just before the startling withdrawal of Mr.
WALPOLE'S Amendment on the 3d inst.—the whis-
pered " asides" that had been exchanged between
the right hon. gentleman and some of the more
crotchetty members of the Opposition recalcitrants,
such as Mr. BENTINCK and others—best appreci-
ated upon the instant the full force of Mr. Os-
BORNE'S ridiculous but most felicitous suggestion as
to the real cause of what had just then happened.
Another amusing commentary of a similar char-
acter has just now been thrown out upon the same
grotesque incident by another member of her Ma-
jesty's Opposition. Upon the occasion of a Con-
servative demonstration which took place on
Friday evening at Maldon, Mr. Dr CANE thus

facetiously remarked, in regard to Mr. WALPOLE'S

certainly eccentric and to some extent still incom-
prehensible proceedings :—"lf," said the hon. gen-
tleman, " I may venture, in these days of Ascot and
the Derby, to use for a moment the language of the
turf, I would say that in my humble opinion the train-
ers of our Conservative stable committed a slight mis-
take in entering a horse at all for the ' amendment

race,' and that they committed another and far more
serious error in the choice of the jockey they selected
to ride him. We all of us know that, according to
the laws of the turf, if you have entered a horse for
a race, and you have reason to doubt the quality of
his four legs, you may always scratch him up to the
moment of starting ; but when the starting flag has
been lowered, and the race is fairly commenced, if
your jockey deliberately throws himself off, it is
somewhat apt to shake public confidence in the
honesty of the stableman." It is Mr. OSBORNE'S
thought again—only differently expressed. All
that there is now left for the right hon. member for
Cambridge University to do, is to bear the laugh
that he has excited against himself as best he may.
He cannot possibly hush it up. The laugh must
be laughed out. Mr. IVALroLE has appealed
to the risibility of all too directly to allow of its
suppression. What lent especial poignancy to the
absolute absurdity of his proceedings on the 3d
instant in the House of Commons, was his exag-
gerated and almost, one might say, awful solemnity
of look, and voice, and delivery, in rising to explain
to the House his withdrawal of the Amendment.
The House will not easily forget what it then wit-
nessed. The incident will long survive in its recol-
lection. And it is certainly one in no way calcu-
lated to enhance its hitherto high estimate of Mr.
WALPOLE'S dignity either in debate or in state-
manship.

Turning from a consideration of Mr. WALPOLE
and his cushioned Amendment, Mr. Du CANE, upon
the occasion we are referring to, that is, on Tuesday
evening, down at Maldon, happily enough
reprobated our present system of war-
like expenditure in a time of peace as
an egregious persistence among the nations in play-
ing out a ruinous game of " beggar my neigh-
bour." We certainly cannot see the force of another
jokeorf:is, by the way, however—namely, where
he" raises a frivolous laugh among his Conservative
hearers down at Malden, by deriding Mr. COBDEN'S
offer of his diplomatic services to induce
the Emperor
of
armament:, -vv. the FRENCH to consent to a dis-
°old that, in serious truth, the
Government would toke Mr. COBDEN fairly at his
word ! It might be better then both for France
and for England.

The ladies on the ladies—how
can we overlook
such a topic? When they discus Reformatory Edu-
cation, when they present papers on how to employ
the 600,000 of their sex who cannot marry, in these
islands, which permit not double blessedness to any
man, we listen to them with respectful attention
flßut when, like Miss FRANCES COBBE, they come
forward and tell us how they may make themselves
yet " more of women," and of yet more worth to
us all, we are dubious. Let not Miss COBBE look
frowningly—our doubts are all to the credit of the
ladies as they are. It is hard for us to wish to
change them. We look at our chosen ones—we
who have only made our choice as yet, and we
who have sealed it many years ago at the altar—
and can Miss COBBE be displeased with us if we
question the possibility of change for the better,
Miss COBBE may tell us that she could turn our
angels into archangels—but we shrink, almost,
from the thought; with our angels we have grown

familiar; to exalt them to archangels would be to
make them a little too awful for ordinary mortals.

And then again, should Miss COBBE persuade us
that archangels would be as pleasant teatable com-
panions as angels, and yet far more potent in some
respects for the family welfare, she makes a demand
upon us which requires some disinterestedness.
We ourselves should derive little of the benefit.
Our lot and that of our sons and daughters who
are come of age, is fixed. It is our lasses under
twelve or fifteen at most, who must undergo the
exalting process. It is the generation whom we
shall look upon as we are leaving life, who are to
be blessed with women and wives such as England
has never yet beheld. Those amongst us who have
such young daughters she would remind that
we surely wished to do the best for them ;
and we hope we should not deny this. But then
would come our request, in return, to be assured
that what she proposed was the best. It might be
so; but then the old predilection, just adverted to,
for our ladies, as we have them, would steal over us,
and we should ask to be permitted to think over at
leisure all the more important points in her argu-
ments. We should instinctively fear whatever
threatened to make our young daughters too much
unlike their mothers,

If we leap at once to Miss COBBE'S chief practical
proposal, we may be sure that the great majority
of our male readers would at once hold up their
hands in astonishment. It is nothing less than
opening University examinations to our girls, and
training them to pass ! Miss COBBE must not be
surprised to learn that most of the young men would
at once exclaim, let me have one of those who stuck
in mathematics, or Greek, or Latin. Miss COBBE
will tell us that this, which we are apt to think an
instinct, is neither more nor less than an ignorant
prejudice. This part of her argument is thus con-
densed in one report of her paper :—" A classical
education did not make a woman masculine. It was
as absurd to teach a girl French because a boy
learned Latin, as to make her eat mutton because
the boy ate beef. The assimilation of mental and
bodily food both suited the natural constitution. A
woman's micd is made by the CREATOR wholly
different from that of a man, and in everything she
does, art, learning, or philanthropic labour, these
differences come out. She works not like a man,
from without, by force of will and legislative power,
but from within, by persuading and inspiring. To
educate a woman to the utmost is only more and
more to educe her womanliness; to make her more,
not less, a woman. A sound and solid education is
even more needful for her than for a man, her
natural quickness leading her to shallowness and
hastiness of conclusions."

How can we refute such arguments ? Indeed,
we have no wish to refute them. Miss COBBE her-
self is quite aware of the argument which, if not
mentioned, yet, in reality, makes her own secretly
suspected, for she " begged both men and women
to put aside the prejudices which the obnoxious and
ludicrous ideas attached to that popular ogress the
strong-minded female, brought upon all subjects
connected with the claims of women. She would
rather have the sex remain in Boeotian ignorance
than assist in the multiplication of the 'strong-
minded woman ;' but she again maintained that no
system of education could remove the difference
between the natures of man and women, which de-
pended not on accidental circumstances, but on the
instincts implanted in them by the Creator." The
audience seemed to listen to the paper with unusual
interest, and to have greeted it with hearty applause.
We may well suppose, therefore, that whether the
London University open its examinations or not,
Miss COBBE has made some converts, and that
mothers, and perhaps fathers, will have returned
home to try the recommendations of the clever lee
turer.

And surely there is a great deal to say for them.
When the power to read and write was a singular
acquisition for a female servant, she felt it to be a
distinction which often made her almost as unplea-
sant in the kitchen as the "strong-minded woman"
is in the social circle. But already the reading and
writing servant feels herself no wonder, though not
long ago she did as much as anything to create
a prejudice against popular education ; and if a
more solid education were customary for girls
of the middle classes and upwards, the distinction
of strong-minded women, and the temptation to
display the supposed strength offensively, might
vanish together. What, then, would be the effect
on girls of being fed with the same educational diet
as boys ? Miss COBBE would say they would be
girls still, and as much so as ever. Original differ-
ences of mental temperament would develop them-
selves as strongly as ever, whatever the instruction.
Partaking daily of the same family meals does not
interfere with the different muscular and general
development of the sexes ; why should the same
mental food not nourish equally well the female
and the male intellect ? The lily and the rose flou-
rish side by side in the nursery ground with the
young oak and pine.
Well, all this may be so. We half incline to the
belief ourselves that had not custom made a certain
course of education feminine and another masculine,
we might never have supposed that any amount of
such school teaching as we give our boys would
spoil our girls and eventually our women. We, too,
should deny that a cultivated woman was likely to
be a less good wife and mother than an ignorant
one, or that, as SYDNEY SMITH said, "a woman's
love for her children depended on her ignorance of
Greek, and that she would he likely to desert
err infant for a quadratic equation," Feminine
instinct is too strong to be destroyed by even
inappropriate education, but it would not be easy
to prove that a generally more solid education
for girls would be inappropriate. The difficulty,
we apprehend, would be to adjust the claims of
what have acquired the name of " accomplish-
ments." While these—Miss COBBE must forgive
us the sentence—while these have the preference
in the " matrimonial market," her arguments will
tell but little practically. And, somehow, the
husband is apt to prefer his wife's having made
pleasing acquisitions in which there can be no
rivalry with his own, or which do not, it may
be, qualify her to detect that his exercises were
done for him at school, and that he passed with
the " pol" at the University. We must conclude
with the Chairman of the section, by saying that if
we had the power of conferring degrees, we should
be most happy to propose that Miss COBBE receive
from us the degree of M.A.—mistress of the art of
discussing a subject with sound reason, with infi-
nite grace, and with perfect propriety.

BURlALSbeenconsideraßbllyLpL.ae—reSdir by M. Peeeletco's tcoßurmmiitatele.Blilhlehbailsl
now begins with a clause providing that the parish clergy-
man, if required by " the relative having the conduct of the
funeral" of any person entitled to burial in the parish, must
grant permission for the burial to take place without any
service at all; this appears to be an adaptation of the prin-
als
ciple
of of marriages before a registi ar, Upon the application
o this " relative having the conduct of the funeral,"
the clergyman
may, if he think fit, grant permission to the
minister of any religious denomination to perform at the
grave a burial service other than that of the Church of
England, but a proviso is now added--" that such service,
if not acchoclminngs,tooraepxuttbalcistl:
prayers, is refused, the clergyman must state his reasons
permissionefdrormitulailo,lyslisaclrlipcieunrsei.s”t onllfythoof
to the bishop's registrar, who is to transmit the statement
to the Homo Secretary. A clause has been added, providing
that where a public cemetery contains "both consecrated
and unconsecrated ground, this bill is not to authorise the
use of a ziow burial service in, the eouseerated ground.

LATEST NEWS.

MADRID, JUNE 11.

The discussion on Mexican affairs was continued

in Congress to-day.
Senor Calderon Collantes admitted having de-
clared that a monarchy was the best form of
government if the Mexicans were favourable to it ;
but that he would support no form of government
by force. He had also declared that he should see
with displeasure the throne of Mexico occupied by
any other than a Spanish Prince.
Senor Collantes said nothing to indicate what
would be the future policy of the Spanish Govern-
ment in Mexico.

SE PETERSBURG, JUNE 12.

The Journal de St. Petersburg of to-day publishes
an Imperial decree, appointing the Grand Duke
Constantine Namiestnik, and the Marquis Wielo-
polski Chief of the Civil Government and Vice-
President of the Council of State. General Luders
is ordered to continue to discharge the functions of
Governor until the arrival of the Grand Duke.

The Northern Bee publishes a strong article in
reference to the late great fires, and advocating the
immediate formation of volunteer fire brigades, to
be composed of citizens.

PARIS, JUNE 11.

The Patrie of this evening says:—
"It is asserted that negotiations will be shortly
opened at London for the drawing up of mediatory
proposals to be made simultaneously by England
and France to America.

TURIN, JUNE 11.

The Chamber of Deputies will discuss the finan-
cial state of the country on the occasion of the first
bill being presented to it, destined to cover the
deficit of 1862.

VIENNA, JUNE 11.
According to advices received here" from Athens
the now Cabinet is composed as follows :
President of the Council and
Minister of the Interior General Causei
Minister of War M. Spiromilo
Minister of Marine
Minister of Public Worship M. Hatziokas
Minister of Finance

Minister of Justice M. Kliopulas
Minister of Foreign Affairs M. Thocsaris

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 12.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Alhambra, with the above mails, has arrived here.
She brings 50 passengers, including Lord and Lady
Kensington and family, £1,511 in specie, and 719
packages of cargo. She spoke the Tagus on the
9th, and the Magdalena on the 11th.