The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-31 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1862,

lIHEAT RE-R 0 Y AL. HAYMARKET. 1
Lessee, Mr. J B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAAIB.
Alter which, at half-past 7, will be performed (137th time)
OUR AMERICAN U
COSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by anew Spanish Ballet entitied LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MN LIFE.

OPAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer.
170th 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, poetie,al, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
Box-office open daily from 11 tills.
Commence a 7

_ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higg,le,
Meadows, &c., and Miss Maria Harris.
After which, at a quarter to 8, TITE WIFE'S SECRET.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean; Messrs. Everett, J. F. Cathcart,
ac.
; Miss Chapman and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-ItO VAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, a new domestic drama, entitled DOT :
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billington, Stephenson; Miss
L. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss H. Simms, Miss K. Kelly,
and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE OCTOROON. Messrs. Dion
Boneicault, Emery, Jamison, Billington, P. Bedford, Phillips,
Stephenson, Powell, Romer ; Mrs. Billington, Mrs. IL Mar-
ston, Miss Latimer, and Miss Denvil.
Commence at 7.

CA NTERBURY HALL AND FINE
A wrs GALLERY.
The miraculous STECKEL at a quarter to 11.
Grand Selections from " Lucrezia Borgia," by Miss
Jon Rus-
sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. gh-
mans.
Great success of UNSWORTII, in his celebrated Stump
Speech " Or any other manoriginl), and EUGENE,
In his Burlesque Singing and Dancing, at Ten o'clock.
JOE BROWN, the renowned American prize Jig Dancer,
for a few weeks only.
Also the following Comic favourites —Mr. Randall, Mr.
Hollingsworth, Mr. J. G. Forde, and Miss Caroline Parkes
in her new entertainment.
be, to inform visitors to Lon-
Messrs. Morton and Stanley
don daring the Exhibition that the GALLERY of PAINT-
INGS well be Open, free between the hours of Twelve and
Two o'clock on and after Monday.

TH E OXFOR D,
6, OXFORD STREET.
Positively the Last Night of
HENRI and PFAU,
THIS EVENING (SATURDAY).

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THE SUN,

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1862.

it is of little use beating about the bush—
the troth is Mr. GLADSTONE has extravagant col-
leagues for whose expenditure he must provide,
though he does not like it. This, and nothing else,
is the solution of all the quibbles and enigmas, and
of all the financial errors, if errors they were,
placed before the House of Lords last night. Of
course, Mr. GLADSTONE cannot say so ; of course
no member of either House of Parliament can say
so—it would not be Parliamentry—but of course the
country knows it quite as well as if it could be said
openly. Even ex-Tory Chancellors of the Ex-
chequer like to say a telling thing sometimes, whose 1
truth they could vouch for, while its consistency
they could not easily defend. Mr. DISRAELI'S
"bloated armaments" he well knows squares
awkwardly with Sir JOHN PAKINGTON'S naval
doings, yet we are quite sure he inwardly glories
in having given the word to the country. And
Mr. GLADSTONE'S promise at Manchester to do
without the Income-tax if the country would enable
him to cut down the " present exceptional expendi-
tufe" to sixty five millions, he also is well-pleased
to have uttered. Indeed Mr. DISRAELI and Mr.
GLADSTONE hold, no one can doubt, nearly identi-
cal views on the national expenditure. Each
of them in his appropriate office would like reduced
estimates ; each has colleagues who, for political
reasons, want a large expenditure, but each
shrinks from the unpopularity of laying new taxes
or increasing old ones. The one in office would'
rather run the Exchequer balances close, and call
for reduced expenditure ; wile the other, looking
forward to office, would first like his predecessor to
have left him large balances to play with, and
next, seeing the tide turning in favour of economy,
he is anxious to pledge his colleagues to a course
which shall make him the most popular of recent
Chancellors of the Exchequer. If, says Mr. DIS-
RAELI, the Income-tax is to go, why should not the
Right Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI and Lord
DERBY have the credit of getting rid of it ?
The sharp and bitter though clever attacks of
Lord CARNARTON, and his defence by Lord DERBY,
are all to be interpreted by this key. The wealthy
city SOLON had prebably none whatever of this
political feeling. Lord OVERSTONE, like most
millionaires, is a very timid man. He is familiar
with balances and private deposits, and instinc-
tively asks for the nation a balance as large in
proportion to its vast business as he expects his
bank customers to keep in relation to theirs. But,
with Lord OVERSTONE'S leave, the case is wholly
different. A nation's credit a.,rand nn itR
balance, but on the certainty that it always can
and always will honour its bills. Low Exchequer
balances mean that the money they save is being
turned over in trade by the people, augmenting
indeed our customs and excise revenue. There is
not happily the slightest doubt that if the expen-
diture of the country exceeded the revenue to any
amount, any year, Parliament would take the
most prompt measures to make good the difference.
-while this confidence remains, it is surely better
that the people should have their own money in
their pockets, than that it should be lying idle, or
be a source of profit to a wealthy corporation only.
But Mr. GLADSTONE has another reason which,
little as Lord DERBY likes it, is a thoroughly
sound one _hat the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
only security is his provorty. Such is the voracity
and nav
of the departments—of the army y espe-
cially—such the tendency of the House of Commons
to profuse measures, involving, like the Education
and Fortification schemes, undefined expenditure,
that unless the Government cashier is able to adopt
the answer of the Vatican, and to reply vfith a non
possumus, there would be no end to the demands
made upon him. If he wishes to spare the nation,
he must take care to have as little as possible to
spare. If he allows a surplus, there are too Many
who will take care that it shall not be a surplus
long.

The alternative that may just possibly arise
out of Mr. STANSFELD'S motion about the Expen-
diture will (in that contingency) be one of so
momentous a character, that it becomes advisable
to take calmly into consideration the present bear-
ing of that motion, and the exact tendency of the
three amendments that have been now one after
another appended to it. The motion itself and the
three amendments are in every. way worthy of this
reiterated and deliberate scrutiny beforehand.
Upon the decision about to be arrived at by the
House of Commons in regard to them, but few
imagine perhaps how very much may be dependent.
That decision must involve far more than the fate
of an Administration. Upon it rests, more
or less, the whole policy on which the
British Empire may be governed during
the next generation. It seemed so small, so
(comparatively speaking)—unimportant in itself,
that first amendment of the hon. member for
Halifax ! And yet—" What mighty contexts rise
from trivial things ;" or at any rate, from what to
the* loag nhgPrvant or the less reflective, may, at the
first blush, have borne the superficial aspect of
triviality.
Mr. STANSFELD formally announces that—upon a
day yet to be selected, upon a day at any rate, that we
know already will follow almost immediately upon
the close of the Whitenn holidays—THAT IN THE
OPINION OF THE HOUSE THE NATIONAL ENTEN.

DIIIIRR IS CAPABLE OF REDUCTION, WITHOUT

COMPROMISING THE SAFETY, THE INDEPENDENCE

charge against Mr. GLADSTONE is the old
one, that he has met the heavy demands of his col-
leagues as exceptional demands—that he has, there-
fore, relied in part upon exceptional sources; and
that he has pursued what his clever opponents term
policy by using windfalls and balances
a" spendthrift
which could be spared; and that with all this he

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has produced a budget without a real surplus." The I —diminishin' g the extent of our annual taxation
whole real question between him and his assailants t appreciably , retrenching by wholesale, and drop-
\
therefore would seem to be whether the expenditure ping thf; In( some-tax ! Nevertheless, as things are,
should be deemed " exceptional " or not. If it be we cannot seriously marvel at heart that the Oppo-
not, they must cut off one half the word with which sition ant I the Government should appear to be
they pelt his financial policy—and, instead of being taking jus t now such totally opposite views of this
a spend-thrift policy, it will he a policy of thrift. motion of Mr. STANSFELD !V e cannot wonder
No one will contend for the wasteful process of , that the an tbition of those who are " out" should
sinking a large additional amount of capital for induce them' to behold nothing but a bonne
what are obviously exceptional charges. And Mr. bouche in that' .t,\pple of Discord that they are con-
GLADSTONE contends that the Chinese, New Zea- sequently so -very eager to swallow. Nor can we
land, and American affairs, and also tile " reconstruc- wonder again, on the other hand, that to those who
tion of the navy," as the phrase is, ought to be are in it should seem to be the most nauseous little
viewed as exceptional. mouthful imaginable : so that they are only eager
Now it is not a little remarkable that Lord ' to quash, it altogether, and that summarily.
DERBY himself last night, cautiously as he spoke But, the original motion of Mr. STANSFELD
on the subject, confirmed Mr. GLADSTONE'S views having been notified, it becomes now a matter of
on the most important point. Lord DERBY COll- peculiar interest to observe anew the precise charac-
eluded his speech with the following remarkable ter of the three remarkable amendments that are
words—" He did not presume to say in what direction announced to follow it. The amendment of the
the Government could effect reductions. He should right hon. member for Stroud—the amendment of
be sorry even to take on himself to call on their the noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire—
lordships to affirm categorically that reduction was the amendment of the noble viscount at the head of
capable of being effected consistently with the the Government. They are worth looking at very
circumstances of the times. His firin belief was that carefully these three amendments. The exact
it was, but he had not the knowledge which should wording of each—seeing how much may depend
induce him to ask their lordships to come to such a upon one or another of them—is deserv-
categorical result. But the Government had before ing of the minutest scrutiny and of a
them the simple choice between two alternatives. very cautious comparison. For the purpose of
Additional taxation was impossible ; removal of affording our readers the readiest access to which
taxation was almost equally impossible ; it was im- labour of love, in the way of analysis first and
possible to continue in the past alarming condition comparison afterwards, we here give in succession
of the finances. The only alternative to which they these three important amendments.
must look—and to which he trusted they would Mr. HORSMAN'S amendment,* it should be borne
100k—was an unsparing, a judicious. and at the in mind, then declares :
same time a perfectly safe, reduction of public "That the House while deeply impressed with Lle neces-
sity of economy in every deportment of the State, and
expenditure."
especially mindful of that necessity in the present condition
These words might almost have fallen from .111 r.
of the country and its finances, is of cpinion that the sums
GLADSTONE himself. They contain a complete vin- voted under the present and late Administrations for the
dication of his financial policy. If Lord DERBY military and naval services of the country have not been
really believes that such reductions, as he speaks of, greater than are required for its security at home, and the
are possible, it would assuredly have been unwise protection of interests abroad."
* Mr. Griffith has given notice of the following as an
to diminish yet further the people's incomes that the
amendment to Mr. Horsman's amendment :—To leave out
money might lie in the national till. Indeed, Lord all the words after "its finances," and to insert the words
"will always be ready to make every pecuniary sacrifice
DERBY declares that addition to existing taxation is i
that may be necessary to maintain the honour, the interests
impossible, if so, what taxes would he have had Mr. and the independence of the country."
GLADSTONE impose, to create the balance he talks Lord ROBERT MONTAGU'S amendment, on the other
of ? Removal of taxation he thinks is impossible; hand, avows :
if so, the only alternative left is reduction of ex- "That her MAJESTY'S Government alone are responsible
penditure, which he himself demands should be
alone are responsible to the House for the supplies which
her MAnsTY asks the House to grant, and that this House
"unsparing," Even, however, looking at the taxes
Mr. GLADSTONE has repealed, it would be wonder-
alone is reap onsibile for the sums which have been voted."
Lord
ful, were it not become almost a proverbial result, PALMERSTON
amendment (only placed upon
the table of the House last evening) declaring :
to notice how marvellously the remission of duties
" That this House, deeply impressed with the necessity
has already recouped itself. The remissions which of economy in every department of the state, is at the same
have created the new French trade, have, indeed, time mindful of its obligation to provide for the security of
very nearly made up the loss of American trade the country at home and the protection of its interests
caused by the war and, perhaps equally, by the abroad. That this House observes with satisfaction the
Morrill Tariff. He would be a bold man now who decrease which has already been effected in the nationa
expenditure, and trusts that such further diminution may
would venture to deny the advantage to the Indus- be made therein as the future state of things may warrant."
trial interests of the country of Mr. GLAD-
The Premier's amendment thus given, thus
STONE'S completion of the Free Trade
worded, cannot but be looked upon as a very bold
programme by his last remissions. Lord OVER-
and resolute simplification of what threatened
STONE was indeed so ill advised as to mention that
to remain, up to the moment of division,
he had looked up his old speeches hostile to the
singularly complex and entangled. By
French treaty, and was much in love still with the noble Premier's announcement of this
them. The Chambers of Commerce, however, amendment of his, the question virtually becomes
throughout the kingdom, and the last returns of
raised to the importance of one of confidence or of
the Board of Trade, have spared us all trouble in no confidence in her MAJESTY'S present Govern-
reply to Lord OYERSTONE'S old speeches. Even went. If the Opposition have been bent all this
our iron masters and manufacturers have almost
while upon putting forth their whole strength (as
trebled their trade with France, high as the duties
is probable) upon the furtherance of their newly-
are, and we find at the present moment some of discovered economic policy—Ministers have now
the towns in Lancashire have actually been saved, (through the amendment of their chief) frankly pro-
from want of employment, and from being thrown on claimed their determination to maintain the perfect
the rates, through the;work provided them by the consistency of their own twofold policy (a policy, re-
treaty. On the other hand, we hear of no com- member, not by any means merely of yesterday), their
plaints, unless it be those of French protectionists, policy as Liberal Economists, and as Patriotic
who deplore that England should supply their
Englishmen. A consistent and comprehensive
customers with cheaper and better articles than
policy in itself—leading them gradually to remit
1 they could furnish. taxation whenever it can by possibility be re-
On the whole the drift of the Tories in the debate mitted, and yet so effectually and comprehensively
was to punish the arch-offender, Mr. GLADSTONE, to care for the efficiency of the national defences,
by fair means or foul, for his mastering the Peers on that to their view (even as economists) the cost of
the Paper Duty—a second object with them was these defences becomes a matter of secondary con
to proclaim an anti-Palmerstonian economy. sideration.
Luckily for Mr. GLADSTONE the two are incompa-
tible. If Lord PALMERSTON spends our money
too, his financial steward did good service in keep-
ing him with as little spare money as possible in his
pocket. To do Lord PALMERSTON justice, he
seems to be studying now the alphabet of economy,
and though he will certainly never take honours in
that line, we do not despair, under the tuition of
GLADSTONE, and an Opposition impatient for office,
of his making very useful progress.

The season at Baden-Baden has commenced, the
Queen of Prussia being the fit st to arrive of the many royal
personages expected this year.
Enormous quantities of mackerel are now being
caught off the back of the Isle of Wight.
The Royal Academy announce that on Monday
the exhibition will open every evening from half-past seven
till half-past 10, and this regulation will continue till fur-
ther notice.

The Temps says :—" The pielure of M. Ingres,
' Christ in the midst of the Doctors,' has been purchased by
the Emperor at the price of 150,000 f. This picture is
signed : Ingres feeit, anno cetatis sue, lxxxii."

Messrs. Waring, Brothers, have received a tele-
gram stating that the third section of the Pernambuco
Railway, in Brazil, and a part of the fourth section to
Gameleira, were opened for public traffic on the 12th inst.
There are 5,000 bales of cotton, several thousand
hogsheads of sugar, and 20,000 barrels of molasses, now
lying upon the levee at Memphis, of which the cotton will
be burnt, and the sugar and molasses rolled into the river,
on the approach of the national forces.
The last letters from Calcutta mention that Mr.
Laing is expected to leave India about the 9th of June and
to arrive here in July, in consequence of the opinion of his
medical advisers that it would not be safe for him to remain
in India during the rains.
FRIGHTFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT BILSTON.
—SEVEN LIVES LOST.—WOLVERHAMPTON, May 30.
Four men and three boys, all colliers, perished at Bilston
this afternoon, by an inundation at the Bradley Colliery of
Messrs. G. B. Thorneycroft and Co. Five bodies unre-
covered at ten o'clock.

THE LUDGATE-HILL TRAGEDY,—Upon inquiry
yesterday it was ascertained that Mrs. 17 yse continues to
improve, and the medical men have strong hopes of the un••
fortunate woman's recovery. A favourable change has also
taken place in the health of Mr. Vyse.

APOTHECARIES'-lIALL.—The following gentlemen
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
May 29 :—Everard William Denton, Ivy-lodge, Hornsea,
Hull; James cieorge Wing, navant, Uatupshire; Walter
Rickards, Cosley, Leicestershire ; Theodore Bloementhal,
Canterbury-row, Ic ennington ; Julian L. Vanderstraaten,
Shaftesbury crescent; Robert Jones, Llanrwst, North
Wales; John Lloyd Jones, Bangor, North g ales; Eugene
Goddard, St. John-street-road ; Charles Henry Humphry,
Balham-hill, Surrey ; Richard Dawson, Waterloo-street,
Brighton. The following gentlemen also on the same day
passed their first examination:—Montague Frederic Ever-
shed, Guy's Hospital; John Whitehead, St. Thomas's
Hospital; Waiter Rumboll, St. Thomas's Hospital; John
Spencer Ferris, King'a College; Shephard Thomas Taylor,
King's College.

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OR THE LEGITIMATE INFLUENCE OF THE COUNTRY.
That is the A
lo of Discord filing down upon the
Rousep
floor of thetobe scrambled for between the
nearly equal forces (numerically regarded) of the
Government and the
its Opposition. It looks so very
blooming and tempting i
way to the Opposi-
tion ! The mere sight of it, as
. we may say whets,
gives a new and very fine
edge to their already
keen appetite for place and power and
that same
l
And yet to the actual holders of office, patronage.
appears
(more than probably in its true light and character)
as one of the little cinderous Dead Sea fruit—B
culent merely in appearance—dust and ash2s really prices.
erclle, `WEALTH OF GREAT MEN OF ANTIQUITY.—
at the core ! For—supposing the motion of the
amountad a.n estate equal to £1,700,000,. besides a scarcely
member for Halifax actually to be carried in its lessin money, slaves, and furniture. The philo-
,so Sencei had a property valued at £3,000,000, and
integrity, and subsequently taken as the key to the
promoteerdilr any 1
£3,500,0
otheTfnrievnd of Cicero, was said to be tiv. or th
policy of a new Economising Conservative Govern- £8,500,0
spent in dissipaelrigornill'ibher.ius left s
.at his dcatasor, dabdov. above
n
squan
Cleopatra gave went—could it seriously be acted upon ? Could I `C23,5%0,000 which Caligula,
high
a year. Caesar, before he had been
the limited policy be suitably carried out ? Would
gphatioonffixces,ooeowoned ndetiarl3dr.£3,ooo;ooko.
affairs that he had only'LaBnoo,ooo,mhge'poonisonoed
not those who had pledged themselves to the realisa-
ggathvee :um as sufficient for his main-
find of Mr. STANSFELD'S charming day-dream
on
one
dinner
adiamond worth
of Lucullius was MOO 000.
himselfia g in
o,
not his
find themselves rather in a dilemma when they came tenants. Cleo
£BOO,OOO. Caligula spent on
fol. 10,00,000. 'The
were sold at '£35,000.
to realise it ? How ? By perfecting the National £BO,OOO. The or-
to expenses for a di,,,e_ "a'
Defences at once, of course, and by—simultaneously Messala bought a house of Antopy
i with the accomplishment of that Hercuiean labour fishes in the fish pond of Lucullius

The Tynemouth magistrates, on Thursday, com-
mitted Mr. Cotton, a solicitor of that town, to Morpeth Gaol
for two months, on a charge of violently assaulting his wife,
and ordered him at the expiration of his term of imprison-
ment to be bound over to keep the peace. From the posi-
tion of the parties the case occasioned a little excitement,
but the general opinion seemed to be that the delinquent
had been dealt with according to his merits.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—EAST BETFORD, May 29.
—The present state of the weather is producing a great
and beneficial effect upon the growing crops of hopes. The
bines are running amazingly and the foliage is looking re-
markably healthy and strong. Here and there a few tly
have been reported, but not to an extent as to cause uneasi-
ness as to future consequences. The hope trade, here, as
elsewhere, is in a very stagnant state, owing to the changes
about to be effected, and it is almost impossible to quote

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.
CORK, MAY 31, 9.10 A.M,
ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN.
NEW YORK, MAY 21.

It is expected that General Hunter will either
resign, or be deprived of his command. General
M'Clellan is at Bottom's-bridge, 15 miles from
Richmond. The advance under General Stoneman
is within two miles of the Confederate army.

The Southern President has announced that even
if Richmond be taken, which he does not anticipate,
Virginia will not be abandoned, and that the war
can be carried on in that State for 20 years if
necessary.

Ip the action before Fort Darling the Galena
was pierced by 18 steel-pointed shot out of 28 fired
into her. The bursting of the Nangatuck's Parrot
gun caused a loss of 17 men. After a battle of four
hours the flotilla was forced to retire beyond the
reach of the enemy's guns.

There is no news from Corinth.
General Wool has advanced from Norfolk to
Suffolk, and taken possession of the latter city
without resistance.

Extraordinary efforts have been made by the
Confederates for the defence of Richmond.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 20 (Evening).
Money easy. Gold 34 prem.
Exchange dull. Bankers' bills, 114. Stocks
active. United States Six per Cent. Stocks (1881),
1041; Treasury Seven Thirty Bonds, 1041-; New
York Central, 891 ; Erie, 391 ; Illinois Central, 611,-
to 62.

Cotton firm. Middling Uplands, 971 c. to 28c.
provisions dull. Sugar firm, with little doing.
Molassses dull. Coffee steady, a fair demand.
Breadstuffs heavy and declining.
The new Cunard steamer Scotia arrived this
morning, having made the passage from Queens-
town in nitie days and eight hours. Had heavy
weather all the way.

MONTREAL, MAY 21.

The Canadian Parliament has been dissolved, in
consequence of the defeat of the Ministry on the
Military Bill,

TURIN, MAY 30.

It is asserted that Garibaldi will shortly set out
for Baveno, whence he will go to Cannobbio, and
afterwards to Genoa.

Fifty of the persons arrested on account of the
affair at Brescia have been set at liberty.

VIGO, MAY 30.

According to news received here from Havannah
to the 15th inst., the French had advanced as far
as Puebla.

General Prim will return to Europe via New
York.

__-.

MADRID, MAY 30.

On Tuesday next the documents relative to the
Mexican expedition will be laid on the table of the
Chamber of Deputies.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 31.

Despatches received here from Montenegro an-
nounce that, on the 26th inst., the Turkish troops
under Abdi Pasha beat the Montenegrins over the
frontier, and burned four of their villages.
Seven hundred Montenegrins were killed.

The consolidation scheme will be published im
mediately. _

BUENOS AYRES (via LISBON), APRIL 29.

Exchange, 661, Ounces, 400 dols. W.S. ox
hides, 44 rls. ; dry hides (American), 42 rls. Wool,
80 dols. to 105 dols. Tallow, 16 rls.
Business rather dull. Political affairs unchanged.
MONTEVIDEO, APRIL 30.

Exchange, 401. W.S. ox hides, 67 rls. ; dry
hides (American), 56 rls. Wool, 31 dols. to 5 dols. ;
flat. Tallow, 20 rls.

MALTA, MAY 30.

The Pera, from Southampton, on the 20th inst.,
arrived on the 28th, at 9 p.m., and left for Alexan-
dria on the 29th, at 2 p.m.

The Massilia, from Marseilles, 28th, arrived this
day at 5 p.m., and leaves for Alexandria at midnight.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 31,

JOIIN LEECH'S GALLERY.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Mooltan, with the heavy portion of the Cal-
cutta and China mails, arrived off the Needles at
eleven this morning.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Information has been received in the Exhibition
building of a plan for pushing the sale of tickets,
which strikes us as being exceedingly well calcu-
lated—first to catch the attention of the provincial
working-classes ; and, secondly, to enable many of
them who might otherwise have had to stay at
home to come up to London and see the world's
show. A lottery—the most innocent ever known
—has been started in Manehester, with Exhibition
tickets and free trips to London and back as the
prizes. The s3heme is a shilling for each chance,
and every twelfth chance is to be a prize, compris-
ing a ticket for the Exhibition and a railway pass
to London and back. We understand that the
plan has been immensely relished in Cottonopolis,
and that it is likely to be extended to Birmingham
and other towns, increasing the value or number of
the prizes according tn, the nearness of the district
to town. There is no reason why it should not be
tried in London, where the prize might be a family

ticket, or a tieket and omnibus fare, and a dinner
at either Mr. Morrish's or M. Veillard's. We do
not think there is much danger of the Attorney-
General interfering with this harmless infringe-
ment of tho Lottery Act.

The half-crown week draws to its conclusion in a
blaze of triumph. Yesterday's was a most nume-
rous attendance, and the company was pretty
equally scattered over the whole building. The
courts allotted to the countries in the north of
Europe are blossoming out with all the rapidity
peculiar to their own short summers. The Sweden
and Norway department exhibited yesterday seve-
ral novelties, including models of all the coasting
vessels, some rich cases of plate, and an assort-
ment of chronometers, for which the exhibitor
asserts an immense improvement on those mow in
use. One, which it appears has been six months
under trial in the Observatory at Stockholm, lost
during that time only the 300th part of a second.
The court is, however, as yet far from complete, and
we merely note these facts in passing to show that
the Exhibition still continues to grow daily in at-
tractiveness.

Several musical performances are announced for
to-day, including one on the great organ from Hull,
by Dr. Chipp, and a pianoforte recital, under the
western deme, by Herr Pauer.

The number of visitors yesterday was as follows .
—Season tickets, 7,014 ; on payment, 16,629 ; total
23,643. Among them were the ex-Queen of the
French, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Duc de Nemours, Lord Bruce, Ad-
miral Rous, Sir Alex. and Lady Spearman, Sir H.
Dalrymple, the Countess of Seafield, the Bishop of
Winchester, and Lady Sarah Lindsay,