The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-18 00:00:00

IHE SUN, i,oNDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MATB 18, 1862,

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tertatilient. In this way yearly one sees an-
nounced by advertisement dinners (each duly pro-
vided with chairman, sometimes also with vice. chair-

men, always with a procession of stewards, having
one and all of them a mystical rod of office, and

invariably led off at all the toasts by a loud-lunged
fugleman in the shape of a practised toastmaster)
—certain among these dinners, by the Way, being
of the most unappetising name, style, and title
imaginable. The Orthopaedic hobbles in one while—
the Cancer Hospital has its festival at another—and

so on through " all the ills that flesh is heir to"—
benevolent
people readily finding some distressful
plea for having a feast for the purpose of swelling
the funds of some favourite hobby or another among
our practical philanthropists. It was only the other
day, in illustration of this popular rage for dinners
in England, that some of the more enthusiastic pro-
moters of the Main Drainage movement took it
into their heads to glorify the progress already
made, and still rapidly making, in that great subter-
ranean improvement of the capital, by actually
partaking of a magnificent dinner down in one of
the largest of the Sewers! A locality of rather
revolting associations, one cannot but feel, such as
any one might have imagined would have scared
away the revellers invited to the demonstra-
tion, instead of attracting them to it. Yet no—
the whole scheme was so perfectly to regie here in
England that the dinner in the Sewer was a decided
success, and was very numerously attended. The
rage for banquets at the end of a session is aptly
enough illustrated in the political world, year after
year, immediately prior to the prorogation of Parlia-
ment, when, by an invariable custom, her Majesty's
Ministers, in agreeable conclave assembled, go down
the river to consume the immemorial whitebait
with lemon juice squeezed over it, and the particu-
larly thin slices of the inevitable brown bread and
butter. It is one of the oddest customs surely in
the wide world for any circle of " Potent, grave,"
and if not "reverent," at any rate right honourable
" Seigniors" to adhere to. And yet, odd
though it he, oddest 'of the odd though
it be, it is decidedly not one of those " more
honoured in the breach than the observance." And
so Ministers, as a matter of pleasant necessity, as
one of the most agreeable among their bounden
duties, consume their White Bait Dinners imme-
diately before the commencement of the Grouse
Shooting. So, likewise, among the general com-
munity : whatever we may be about—getting up a
public company—adding a new wing to an asylum
—welcoming some distinguished servant of the
Crown—bidding goodspeed to another—always,
invariably, unavoidably, comes the celebration of
the event by a banquet, with the inevitable et
cetera* of speeches alternately of a complimentary
character, and by way of acknowledgment.
It is hardly a circumstance to be surprised at,
therefore, that the principal participators in the
promotion of the interests of the Social Science
Congress should bring their labours to a close in the
way already mentioned, viz., by a dinner in the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham. If by nothing else
this dinner was elevated above the level of ordinary
festivities of this description, not so much, we will
say, by the character of the association of whose
labours, this year, it was the amiable termination as
by the casual utterance of an anecdote in one of the
after-dinner speeches delivered towards the end of
the proceedings. The , speaker being the Right
Hon. J. W. NAPIER, the Irish ex• Lord Chancellor.
The subject at once of the speech and of the anec-
dote being the President of the Social Science Asso-
ciation. Anything relating to the personal history
of a great man like Lora BROUGHAM, is at all times
welcome to the nation proud alike of his- genius
and of his career. raid 4,-- _ ..-_.,,a
~.. 1,,,.
career, while his rare and comprehensive genius is
still at its brightest, the interest that cannot fail to
be awakened in the minds of all by particulars such
as those which have just been formally brought to
light by the recollections of the Right Hon. J. W.
NAPIER, it would be difficult to exaggerate. Lord
BROUGHAM is now in the eighty-fourth year of his
age, with his encyclopedia° intellect unclouded,
and with his every energy still so well strung and
so full of healthful vigour, that the youngest man
' who might in any way have been reasonabLy
selected to preside over the recent sessional labours
of the Social Science Association (even if he could
at the same time have been endowed with Lord
BROUGHAM'S mental capacities and his peculiar
aptitude for the office) could- not have acquitted
himself better of the responsibilities devolving upon
him in his post as President. But adverting to the
anecdote, we would here recall to public recollec-
tion, the anecdote mentioned the other day quite
incidentally by the ex• Chancellor for Ireland—Mr.
NAPIER, in reference to the extraordinary length of
time, during which Lord BROUGHAM'S life had
been devoted to the interests of the- whole human
race, observed, that "He (Mr. NAPIER)
remembered some years ago meeting an old and re.
spected lady in the north of England, who knew
Lord BROUGHAM very many years ago: She hap-
pened to be the only lady present at a party when
all the original founders of the Edinburgh Review,
including his lordship, dined together after the
second number of that publication appeared. It
had been arranged that none should know who were
the authors of the different articles in the Review
except the editor, and, of course, the writers of those
articles. On that occasion, which I believe was in
1802, the lady's husband remarked that the writer
of a certain article he had read was fit to be
anything. Mr. BROUGHAM observed, " What ! do
you think he is fit to be Lord Chancellor ?" The
reply was, " Yes, and I tell you more, he will be
Lord Chancellor." Probably his lordship still re-
membered old Mrs. FLETCHER. [Lord BROUGHAM
—Perfectly.] She had the happiness to live years
afterwards, and to see her friend Lord Chancellor of
England. Not, by any means, alone as Lord
High Chancellor of England, however, will the
name of HENRY Lord BROUGHAM, be held by
his fellow crountrymen, in future times, in
grateful remembrance. Personally, of course,
the date of his taking his place on the woolsackmarks
the culmination of what, in Napoleonic, and cer-
tainly, also, in pagan, phraseology, may be called
the Star of his destiny. But since the brief but
brilliant period of his career as Chancellor came
to its close, Lord BROUGHAM has advanced instead
of retrograding or even of remaining stationary.
As the Irish ex-Chancellor NAPIER well remarked
the other evening, when Lord BROUGHAM quitted
the woolsack "he did not descend to an inferior
position." Still he hold his own as the " Hero of
Humanity."

The POPE is in a passion—but then it is excusable,
for we ought in fairies to view it as the temporal
passion of the temporal Porr —the temporalities
being beyond all doubt the real cause of it. To be
sure, it is hardly in keeping that he should hurl
such ecclesiastical and religious denunciations
against these political offenders ; but then again we
should remember that we all naturally fight with
the weapon we are used to. The cause of the wrath
is secular, the attacks are secular too, but these
secular good things are, or the POPE thinks should
be, the patromony of a spirituel prince; and 80
they ebecome religious matters.

But Protestants who are so scandalized at seeing

the Bishop of ROME rail at the assailants of his

temporalities seem to forget the ways and manners

of English and Irish Protestant Bishops. Let any

one lay his finger on the temporalities of their church,

although they are but a comparatively very modern

gift of the nation, and what a stir we have. Even

the temporalities of the graveyards—of dust, ashes
and corruption—were not surrendered a few years
back, till the clergy actually got the temporality
perpetuated when the work ceased ! Let any one
look, too, at the language in which a small party of

unquestionably intelligent men are assailed, who,
under the style and the title of the Liberation So-
ciety, propose to relieve the Church of England
of the temporalities given to it by the State, and
to restore them to the giver for secular

purposes. It would not be easy for his Holiness
to surpass in bitterness the epithets bestowed upon
the Voluntaries by the bishops and clergy of our
own country. Even if any one assails that eccle-
siastical monstrosity, which no statesman worthy
the name has ever defended, tha Church of Ireland
—if it is asserted that the Charch of a few thou-
sands ought not absorb all the national ecclesiastical
wealth of a people of six or seven millions—the Pro-
testant hierarchy will wax as warm as the POPE
himself. Equal dealing in Religion is a crime. The
true Religion—that is, any religion—ought to have
all the money; so argue British as well as Roman
Popes.

We should, indeed, rather recommend HARRY of
EXETER, and SAMUEL of OXFORD to study the
POPE'S allocution. It would refresh their spirits.
They could apply it, as they might apply one of
DAVID'S anathematizing Psalms to the domestic
enemies of the Church ; always meaning, by the
Church, those temporal blessings of it which cul-
minate in Bishoprics. They might enrich their
vocabulary—rich enough, perhaps, at present.
Here are a few flowers of this kind of Vatican rheto-
ric—"men who are enemies of the cross of CHRIST"—

"associated by a nefarious alliance "—" blaspheming
what they ignorant of"—" by depraved acts endea-
vouring to weaken the foundations of our most holy
religion and human society"—" crafty artificers of
fraud and mendacious fabricators"—practizers of

"melancholy and diabolical acts"—" debasing the
knowledge of all—diffusing deadly poison—exer-
cising unbridled licentiousness of life and depraved
desires"—" extinguishing every idea •of justice,
truth, right, honesty, and religion"—" deriders of
the most sacred dogmas of Christianity"—men who
" perversely assert that the civil power can inter-

fere in matters which belong to religion"—who
assert that "Divine revelation is even injurious to
human perfection—is imperfect—its prophecies and
miracles the comments of poets—and that oar Lord
JESUS CHRIST himself, hoirible to be spoken, is a
mythical fiction." They are " turbulent worshippers
of perverse dogmas"—nay, they rival the Titans of
antiquity—for "they arrive, also, at that degree of
impiety and impudence, that they endeavour to
attack Heaven itself, and take away GOD himself
from the midst of it."
But enough for a sample—the fertility of the
POPE'S invention really does amount to a kind of
inspiration in this line ; but whether VICTOR Dd.
MANTJEL, RICASOLI, and RATTAZZI, or GARIBALDI
and Clam, will recognise their photographs, here,
may be questioned. An arrow which hits the mark
' is more effective than a thunderbolt which misses it,
and probably all bystanders will see that these
1 bolts of heaven or of hell, it is really hard to say
which, bury themselves in the ground, and leave
the intended victims scatheless. In their way they
surpass even the last papal effusion, and, we must
confess, leave far behind the productions of the
English anathomatisers. As, however, these latter

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them to the study of the POPE'S Allocution.
What ho really can hope to gain by it, at this
time of day, it is hard to tell. Neither French nor
Italian politicians are likely to be much moved by
such ecclesiastical abuse. It will rather do them good.
Every educated man revolts from or laughs at it
and even the illiterate do not believe it. If his poli-
tical opponents were irritable they would have but to
leave him to himself, and he would quickly have to
vent his curses from the mire. They have too much
good sense probably to let him down with a sudden
jerk, but he has a warning already in the reduction
of his army, that he must soon receive temporally,
the due reward of his temporal deeds, at the hands
of those whom he curses.

DEATH OF LORD MUNCASTER.—We have to
record the dcmise of the above nobleman, who died on the
18th ult. at Castellamare, near Naples, in the 31st year of
his age, after a short illness. His lordship succeeded his
father as fourth baron and eighth baronet in 1838, and
married, in 1855, Lady Jare Grosvenor, daughter of the
Marquis of Westminster.

Lieut.-Col. Herbert Wa.tkin W. Wynn, M.P., is,
we regret to learn, seriously indisposed at his seat in Wales.
Yesterday the accounts were more favourable, but the hon.
and gallant member is still net considered out of danger.
A serious accident occtrred on Friday to Lord
Francis and Lady Osborne, when driving in a phaeton from
Castleconnel towards their residence at Clonsingle, county of
Limerick. In the narrow part of the bog-road, on the New-
port line, the vehicle in which they were travelling came in
collision with a donkey cart, which completely overturned
it, and we (Limerick Chronicle) regret to state that Lady
Osborne sustained severe injuries; his lordship was not
much hurt.

Mrs. Ellen Hope has presented to the National
Lifeboat Institution £340, in memory of her late husband,
the Rev. F. W. Hope, for the purpose of enabling the in-
stitution to station a new lifeboat and transporting carriage
at Appledore, on the north coast of Devon, where some
fearful shipwrecks take place nearly every winter.
THE CORONERSHIP OF MIDDLESEX.—The writ
for the election of two coroners for Middlesex—the central
and western divisions—under the recent order in council,
will be forthwith issued from the Crown-office, the Middle-
sex magistrates having derided the question as to the coro-
nership of the Duchy of Lancaster. The election cannot
take place within seven clays of the Sheriff receiving the
writ, and must be within 14 days. The freeholders cannot
poll out of the district in which their property is situated.
The nomination for the central division will take place at
Marylebone, and for the western division at Brentfosd.
The expenses of the Sheriff are to be paid by the candi-
dates in equal proportions. The polling is confined to one
day. Mr. Humphreys has been assigned by the Middlesex
magistrates, at their late meeting, the eastern division, and
the salary has been fixed, including all expenses, at £1,560.
The salary of the late coroner, Mr. Wakley, was £l,BOO
a-year, :and it is expected that the same will be divided be-
tween the two coroners to be appointed for the central and
western divisions.

THE NEW STREET FROM SOUTHWARK TO THE
WESMINSTER BRDGE-ROAD. This new communication
between the Borough and the Southwark-bridge-road has
made considerable progress during the last fortnight, and
in consequence it is expected that in less than a fortnight
the line for foot traffic will be open thus far. For some time
the street has been formed a short distance west of the
Borough Market. From this point to the Southwark-
bridge-road the formation of the street has been continued,
The vaults for the houses which are to be built in connec-
tion with them are nearly all formed on either side of the
way, and the foot pavements over them are nearly com-
pleted. The subway is erected above half the distance, and
at each end of this portion of the line the roadway is being
laid down with solid blocks of granite. The contractor also
commenced on Monday last the formation of the line to the
west of the Southwark-bridge-road, between that spot and
Blackfriars-road, which can be rapidly proceeded with, as
there are not many houses to be cleared away to make room
for the further extension of the street.

Letters from St. Petersburg state, that the
Japanese ambassadors are shortly expected in that city,
After having visited the Russian capital, Vienna, Berlin,
&c., they are to return to Paris, to be present at the fetes
of the lOth August, then proceed to Marseilles, and embark
for Suez,

TUE WARRIOR.--A number of sailors paid off at
Plymouth have gone to their homes at Queenstown and
the surrounding localities by this ship. They represent
her as a most uncomfortable vessel at sea,in-bad weather.
She not only ships seas fast, but leaks- copiously through
her ports, and leaves scarcely a dry article to the men on
the main deck,

LATEST NEWS.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(PER HIBERNIAN, via QUEBEC AND LONDONDERRY.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 7, Morning.
The Confederates have evacuated Fort Wright.
It is reported that the Federal fleet has passed
Fort Randolph, en route to Memphis.
The late engagement before Richmond was more
severe than was first reported, the Federal loss
being now estimated at 7,000 men. The Confede-
rates claim the victory.
General J. Johnston is reported to be seriously
wounded.

Gustavus Smith now commands the Confederates
before Richmond.
General Halleck reports that General Pope is 30
miles south of Corinth, and is pushing the enemy
hard. He had captured a large number of pri-

soners.
General Jackson has made a successful retreat.
Vicksburg papers of the 31st ult. report that
Vicksburg had not been taken.
The Federal Navy Department has ordered the
construction of 15 more gunboats.
The Senate has passed the Tax Bill.
Cotton has been taxed by the Senate at half a
cent. per pound.
Mr. Sumner has offered a resolution in the Senate
that the appointment of military Governors for
Southern States was contrary to the Federal con-
stitution and laws.
Reports from Key West to the 30th ult. state
that a Federal frigate from Vera Cruz had brought
information that the French had been repulsed by
the Mexicans, and were retreating on Vera Cruz,
with heavy loss.
The City of New York, Persia, and Bohemian
have arrived out.
(LATER BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 7, Evening.
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Preps says it is reported that the Federal
gunboats had passed the Confederate batteries on
the James River below Richmond, and that the
Monitor had passed through the obstructions sunk
n the river by the Confederates.
This report is not yet confirmed through any other

source.
The Kangaroo and City of New York, sailing
hence to-day, take out 1,000,000 dols. in specie.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JUNE 7, Evening.
Money abundant. Gold, 4k per cent. pm.
Exchange steady; bankers' bills on London, 1141.
Stocks heavy. Cotton quiet. Provisions dull.
(LATEST BY TELEGRAPII TO CAPE RACE.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 9, Morning.
A naval engagement has taken place on the
Mississippi, near Memphis, resulting in the de-
struction of the Confederate fleet.
All the Confederate vessels were destroyed` but
one.

Memphis surrendered immediately afterwards,
and is now in possession of the Federals.
Southern papers state that the Federal forces
2,000 strong, had landed on James Island, opposite
Charleston, under cover of a gunboat, and that
some fighting had occurred, in which the Federals
were repulsed.
A late despatch from the Confederate General
Girl says :—" The enemy is now in front of me
under cover of his gunboats. An advance is

imminent."
It is stated from Southern sources that Fort
Morgan, commanding the entrance to Mobile, was
OttiteAGU. via buv .w• 4•

General Fremont has occupied Harrisonburg,
Beyond Harrisonburg he came upon Gen. Jackson,
fell into an ambuscade, and suffered heavy loss.
Jackson was expected to make a stand at Fort
Republic.

June 15.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Mademoiselle Marie Battu, who made her first
essay last night before an English audience, is a
very young singer (not yet 20, we believe), already
enjoying a certain reputation in Paris, where, little
more than a twelvemonth since, she made her debut
at the Theatre 'Wien. One of the pupils of the
celebrated Duprez, Mademoiselle Battu has never
studied in the Conservatoire, nor. if we are rightly
informed, has she ever sung in French opera. Under
these circumstances, she claims the indulgent criti-
cism to which every new aspirant is entitled, and
which should on no account be withheld from timid
inexperience. This indulgence may be extended
with the less chariness inasmuch as Mademoiselle
Battu, in addition to youth and a prepossessing ex-
terior, possesses the germs of unquestionable talent,
and exhibits, moreover, a degree of promise which
at her years is well worth nurturing. Her voice, a
light soprano—though at present deficient in power,
and more or less unequal throughout its register—
is of extremely agreeable quality, and some of its
natural tones, when unforced in the delivery, are
exquisitely sweet and pure. That she has real
musical feeling was evidenced last night in more
than one passage ; and that she is by no means.
without the instinct of dramatic expression was ren-
dered equally apparent. The character of Gilda in
" Rigoletto," was a severe ordeal for an untried and un-
known artist tobrave in presence of such an audience
as that of the Royal Italian Opera, which even the
elaborate vocalisation of Madame Miolan Carvalhe
could not persuade for one instant to forget the in-
comparable performance of Angiolina Bosio, or
force to believe that a singer with voice, taste, man•
ner, and execution essentially French would ever
prove entirely acceptable in a part deservedly rank-
ing high among the highest creations of the modern
Italian stage. That Mdlle. Battu is j net as eminently
French in style as Mdme. Carvalho, without Mdme.
Carvalho's practised experience in the vocal art,
is undeniable, and that this would, in some degree,
militate against her entire success was to be anti-
cipated. But with extreme youth in her favour,
and the fact of her not having yet had time or
opportunity for straining the capabilities and da-
maging the freshness of her voice by constant expo-
sure to the musically artificial atmosphere of the
Thtitre Lyriquo, Madlle. Battu may, and doubt-
less will, get over that peculiar mannerism, which,
of all national idiosyncracies, is the most antago.
nistic to the pure Italian method. Many parts
in her performance were charmingly unaffected;
some few (as, for example, the duet with Signor
Mario in Rigoletto's garden) were marked with
genuine sensibility ; others by a natural ease,which,
when further study shall have brought with it the
self-composure that alone insures to a singer unfail-
ing command of her resources, may help Made-
moiselle Battu to be become what at present she is
far from being—a thorough artist. Her defects of
style and execution were most conspicuously de-
clared in the beautiful melody which Gilda sings be•
fore retiring to rest; but, as we have every hope
that she will eradicate these in time, we shall
not dwell upon them in detail. The audience,
evidently prepossessed by the youthful grace and
modest bearing of the young singer, warmly encou-
raged her throughout her arduous task; and we
may, without hesitation, pronounce her first
appearance a fair and legitimate success.
" Rigoletto" is Signor Verdi's masterpiece, and
there are few modern operas in which the . fine
orchestra and chorus of the Royal Italian Opera
are more effective. Last night there was not a fault
to find, and the entire performance was a genuine
musical treat.
The first representation of "Robert le Diable" is
announced for to-morrow night.

INDIAN P.RIZE! MONEY.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Six years have now passed since the Indian
mutiny, and the army of Central India have as yet
received no prize money. Surely there must be
some mistake, for it is not just or equitable that old
soldiers and officers should receive no reward for
their lone. patient, wearisome campaign of twelve
months under a burning sun, excepting a siivel
EVENING.
I medal,

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
NOTHING FOR NOTHING,

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S IVETV ORDER
IN CHANCERY.

TO THE EDITOR. OP THE tam

SlR,—The law appears to be very clearly defined
by section 64 of the " Chancery Amendment Act,
1852," that the Lord Chancellor should have imme-
diately after the making and issuing of his order of
the 16th May, 1862 (and which was not published
until the 29th May), laid it for approval before both
Houses of Parliament, and that if either house
should within 36 days thereafter pass a resolution,
resolving that the whole or any part of such order
ought not to continue in force, then that it should
cease to be binding. Whether this order has been
so laid before both Houses of Parliament, as pre-
scribed by the statute, I must leave to hon. and
right hon. members to decide. At all events, it is
to come into operation to .morrow, the 18th of June,
a day glorious in history, but whether it will be so
for the Lord Chancellor remains to be proved. The
36 days allowed by law, even if reckoned from the
date of the order, will not expire until Saturday,
the 21st inst.—l am, &c.,

JOHN ROBERT TAYLOR.
13, Brownlow-street, Bedford-row, June 17.

WAKEFIELD BOROUGH ELECTION EXPENSES.—
S. F. Harrison, Esq., the auditor of election expenses, has
published an abstract of the expenses of Sir J. C. D. Hay
and Mr. Smethurst, at the last election. The total expenses
of Sir J. Hay were £Bl7 15s. 4d., and that of Mr. Smethurst,
£717 is. 9d.

-.
At the - Club the stakes now played for at
whist exceed oven in amount those played at Crockford's
in its palmiest days, and are beginning to attract attention,
as few but those who are gifted with large fortunes and
plenty of ready money can indulge in them,—Court
Itursal.

A PLEASING CEREMONY.--A pleasing Instance
9f the friendly feeling entertained by the Methodists to-
wards the Established Church occured at Walkden Moor,
Worsley, near Manchester, in Whitsun week. On Friday
the Sunday schools connected with the Church., Wesleyans,
and Primitive Methodists, made their annual procession
through the district, amounting in the whole to upwards of
1,200 eoholars and teachers. The three schools met in the
centre of the village, when the incumbent, who was head-
ing the Church school, invited the managers of the two
Dissenting schools to unite and sing a hymn together,
which was cheerfully and heartily agreed to, the various
banners being ranged side by side, and the young people
mixing freely one with another. After two hymns had
been sung the incumbent of the district delivered an address
in the open air, in which he exhorted both teachers and
scholars to value highly the great and blessed privileges
afforded them by the Sunday school, and how it behoved
those who were desirous for the extension of the Redeemer'.
kingdom on earth to cultivate a kind feeling for all deno-
minations of Christians, and avoid party spirit, which was
so contrary to that manifested by the blessed Redeemer
while on earth ; that the day was fast approaching when
pastors, teachers. and scholars would be standing side by
side before the judgment seat, where all distinctions of sect
and party would be unknown, when each one would have
to give in his account to God. The union of these schools
gave the greatest satisfaction to the inhabitants generallny;
who testified their approbation by pronouncing th
they had that day witnessed as one of the happiest thates had
c
ever happened at Walkden Moor.
evening, Mr.
e
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday
Bedford held an inquest at HospitalWestminster64
the death of William Armstrong, aged . a
es in front of the
em-
ployed in colouring the ornamental comic
It d .
James s.park. appeare in
Wellington-barracks, St.
evidence that while feet from the ground, when a
employed there on Friday last he was
d
sudden gust of wind caused another ladder to fall against
bl brought the
standing on a ladder about 60
e ow
that on which he stood. The force of th
ladder
edaaweight nd
and a rope to secure the ladder at the top.
Thed edge
of deceased
the
persisted in resting this weight just on the
g
building, instead of placing it properly on the
f
e
although he had been often cautioned by the foreman
roof,
tio do so. This, it was alleged, was th 6 cause of the
ladder being so easily upset, as the weight fell with the
ladder. The medical evidence showed that death must
have been instantaneous, from the ribs being completely
driven into the lungs. The jury censured the foreman for
not seeing that ti e ladders were properly secured before he
allowed the men to ascend them, and ultimately returned a
1 verdict of accidental death,

TH.;

BATTLE A 7 PUEBLA.

The following is the official report of General
Zaragoza, addressed to th© Mexican Minister, of War,

respecting the above engagement :
" Army of the East,Headquarters, Puebla, May 9.
" After having commenced my retrograde move-
ment, starting from the Cumbres de Acultzingo, I
arrived in this city on the third inst., as I already
have had the honour to inform your Excellency.
The enemy followed me at a small day's distance,
and having left the rearguard of the 2d Cavalry
Brigade, consisting of about 300 men, to obstruct
his advance as far as possible, I proceeded, as al-

ready stated, to Puebla. Immediately issued orders
to place the heights of Guadaloupe and Loreto in a
regular state of defence, and I hastily completed the
fortifications of the place, which had hitherto been
neglected.

" On the morning of the 4th I ordered General
Miguel Negrete, a most distinguished officer, to
take the head of the Second Division under his

orders, 1,200 strong, to be prepared to fight directly
he should give the signal, and to occupy the heights
already mentioned of Loreto and Guadaloupe, which
were provided with two batteries of field artillery

and mountain guns. On the same day I formed out
of the brigades Berrizabal, Diaz, and Lamadrid,
three attacking columns, consisting, the first of
1,082 men, the second of .1,00) men, and the third of
1,020 men, all infantry, with the exception of 550
horse, under Gen. Antonio Alvarez, to whom I en-
trusted a field battery. These troops remained
assembled on the Place San Jose till noon ; they
then returned to their quarters. The enemy passed
the night at Azamoc.
" At 5 o'clock on the morning of the sth of May
our troops advanced in the order of battle I had
assigned to them, and which your Excellency will
find in the accompany sketch. I ordered the Com-
mander-General of the Artillery, Colonel Zeferino
Rodriguez, to distribute the rest of his guns on the
ramparts of the town, placing them under the orders
of Gen. Santiago Tapia, Military Commandant of
the State.
" At 10 a.m. the enemy was discerned, not taking
the necessary time to encamp, and advancing his
attacking columns—one towards the heights of
Guadaloupe, about 4,000 strong, with two batteries ;
the other, not so numerous, probably 1,000 men,
threatened our front. This attack, which I had mot
expected, though I was aware of the daring of the
French army, modified my plan, and decided me to
take the offensive, I consequently ordered the Ber-
riozabal brigade to attack at double quick step, to
reinforce Loreto and Guadaloupe, and the mounted
carabineers to take the left of the infantry, to
charge at an opportune moment.
" Shortly afterwards I ordered the battalion
Itiforme,' of Lamadrid's brigade, to go to the sup-
port of the troops on the heights, and which were
becoming hotly engaged, I advanced a battalion of
sappers of the Ist brigade, with orders to occupy
village situated almost on the summit of the ridge.
It arrived in such good time that it stopped the ad-
vance of a column sent to that point in a hand-to-
hand engagement. The French made three sudden
charges, but were each time repulsed. The cavalry
placed to the left of Loreto took advantage of the
opportunity, and charged them vigorously, prevent-
ing them from re-forming and making another at-
tack.

" While the battle was being waged hotly on the
heights a ne-Jess desperate struggle was taking
place in the plain, to the right of my front of battle.
" General Diaz, with two corps of his brigade,
one corps of Lamadrid's brigade, with two field
pieces, and the remainder of Aivarez's brigade, met
and drove back the enemy's column, which was
advancing boldly against our positions. It fell back
on the Hacienda de San Jose, where it was joined
by those we had driven from the heights, and who,
already reorganised, prepared to defend themselves,
and again sounded the charge. I could not attack
them, because they had a n umorical force superior
to mine. I therefore ordered General Diaz, who
was eagerly following them, to halt, and satisfied
myself with holding a threatening attitude.
" The opposing forces remained in face of each
other till 6 o'clock in the evening. The enemy then
to his eiummonent at the Hacienda de los
Alamos, while our troop,' gt•ncliirtlly returned within
their lines,
" The night was passed on the field of battle,
where we picked up the dead and wounded of the
enemy. This occupied the whole of the following
day, and, though I have not a correct return of the
loss of the Fiencb, I am told it is not under 1,000
killed and wounded And eight or ten prisoners.* I
have to point out to your Excellency the conduct of
my brave companions ; the glorious action which has
just been fought speaks well for their courage, and
suffices to recommend them.
" The French army fought most vigorously.
" I conclude by informing you that at the same
time I was preparing the defence of the national
army I was obliged to order the brigades O'Horar
and Carvajal to watch the seditious assembled in
considerable numbers at Matamoros, a circum-
stance which, perhaps, saved the enemy from a
total rout, ;Ind deprives the little army of the East
of the opportunity of a victory which would have
immortalised its name.

" J. ZARAQOZA.
" Head-quarters, Puebla, May 9,
" To the Minister of War at Mexico.

• The Paris Moniteur, which publishes the above, adds
the following note, after stating tLat it has not as yet re-
ceived General Loreneez's despatches :.--
" According to a letter worthy of belief, dated Puebla,
May 10, and which has been communicated to us, the loss
of the French army would be :42 men hors do combat ; that
of the Mexican army, 240 wounded and 146 killed."

THE SPECIAL COMMISSION IN IRE-

LAND.

The Special Commission for the counties of Lime.
rick and Tipperary war opened on Monday after-
noon at Limerick. The judges of the commission,
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald and Mr. Baron Deasy, were
received at the station by the high sheriff of the
county, Captain Croker, of Ballinagar, and the sub-
sheriff, Mr. George Hoare. The Right Hon. the
Attorney-General, Mr. O'Hagan; the Solicitor-
General, Mr. Lawson ; Mr. Sergeaut Sullivan, and
Mr. De Moleyns, Q.C., are counsel for the Crown.
The streets presented no appearance of anything un-
usual during the morning ; but towards three
o'clock groups of people collected at the railway
station and also near the court-house. It is under-
stood that three persons will be brought to trial at
Limerick—namely, Thomas Beckham, who is
charged with being one of the persons who mur-
dered Mr. Francis Fitzgerald on the 16th of May
last; Denis Dillane, who is charged with conspiring
to murder
rd
with a
err; Fitzgerald; and John Punch,
charged ing written a threatening letter to
Mr. Hamilton Langley. At three o'clockp.m. their
lordships took their seats on the bench. The court-
house was fully occupied, though not crowded. The
Royal commission having been read, and the grand
jury panel called over, Mr. Justice Fitzgerald ad-
dressed the grand jury at some length on the origi • • n
and object of the commission, and the cases which.
it would be their duty to inquire into. At 20
minutes before five the grand • jury came into court
with a true bill against Thomas Beckham for the
wilful murder of Francis Fitzgerald. Thomas Beck-
ham was then arraigned, but did
not answer to the
question whether he was
guilty or not. Mr. Coffey
(his counsel) said the prisoner was deaf, and asked
to have a plea of 4, not guilty" entered, which was
done. The court was then adjourned to the follow..
lug morning at ten o'clock.
We learn by British and Irish Magnetic Tele-
graph that Beckham was found guilty last evening
of the murder of Mr. Fitzgerald, The sentence was
deferred.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Royal
Agricultural Society of England will hold their great agri .
cultural show in Battersea-park, commencing Monday next,
the 23d of Juno, and continuing open to the public until the
2d of July. On Thursday the 26th, Friday the 27th, and
Saturday the 28th Jane, a public exhibition of steam cub.
tivators at work will take place, undor the auspices of the
society, near Farningham station,
in rent, to which place
cgeap return tickets will be issued by the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, from the Victoria and London-bridge
termini.

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS-YESTERDAY.

The annual meeting of proprietors of the Union
Bank of Australia is convened for the 14th of July.
A meeting of
.the holders of Venezuela Bonds is
convened for Friday next, to consider the proposals
of Senor Nadal, the Fiscal Commissioner of the
Republic, relating to the settlement of the old debt
and to a new loan.

In the foreign exchanges this afterhoon there was
no variation of importance frog the rates of last
post.

- £144,000 in bar goliA was taken to the Bank to-
day.

The exciter...tent in the Liverpool cotton-market
is undiminsbed, and a further advance of between
an(l, id. per lb. has been realized to-day.
A despatch from Vienna states that the remainder
of the Austrian Loan of 1860 (about £5,000,000)
has been taken by three parties—namely, the Credit
Bank, Baron Solomqn Rothschild, and a combina-
tion of Vienna and Frankfort houses. The form of
stock in which this loan is constituted is not suit-
able for the London market, and therefore no por-
tion of it will be offered here, but the applications
for it at Frankfort, Berlin, and elsewhere are stated
to have been considerably in excess of the total
amount, thus indicating a more hopeful feeling with
regard to the future political course of the empire.
The very large amount of dollars brought by the
Mexican packet has been disposed of at 611 d. per
ounce. This establishes an advance of id. on the
price realized at the beginning of last month,
although transactions to a considerable extent have
been effected :in the interval at 611 d., 611-d., and
611 d. The bar silver and dollars by the Atrato are
not yet sold.

Owing to the death of Mr. W. T. Fraser, East
India merchant, Great St. Helens, a circular has
been issued to the creditors of the house, stating
that the books have been placed in the hands of
Mr. Kemp, the accountant, and that meanwhile
negotiations are in progress for continuing the
business. It is thought that the liabilities ulti-
mately to rank upon the estate will not exceed
£30,000, and that, subject to realization, the assets
will show a considerable surplus.

CITY NEWS---THIS DAY .

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Gold is r.Low about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in
Londo,:i than in Paris, but it is of about the same
val:zie here as in Hamburg.

At the yearly meeting of the Northern Assurance
Company, the uktual dividend of 71 per cent. was
declared.

The Alhambra, for Lisbon, conveyed £63,000 in
specie.

The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail-
way of Canada for the week ending the 6th inst.,
amounted to £8,446 against £6,838 last year.
There is an increase of about £3,000 in the traffic
returns of the Lancashire Railway for the past
week,

Two O'CLOCK.
At the annual meeting of the South Australian
Company, held to-day, a dividend of 7 per cent.
NYQs unanimously agreed to, and Mr. Alderman
Salomon;, M.P., elected to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the death of Mr. Wheelton.
ALomoderate supply of commercial bills have
been negotiated to-day, at previous quatations.
The transactions in the English Stock Market
to-day have been very limited, and the quotations
have been steadily supported, Consols being 91/
for transfer,and 91192 for the 10th proximo. Specu-
lative business is • still remarkably dull, and the
dealings for delivery are equally circumscribed.
The New Threes and the Reduced remained at 9111;
Exchequer Bills, at 3s. to 6s. prem. ; India 5 per
Cant. Loan is 1071 I.
In the Foreign department the dealings have
been to a fair extent, and, in most instances, a ittr-
flier improvement has taken place in values.
Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, lmiever, are firm at
8351; ditto, 1856, have advs.-aced to 701 71}; ditto
New Loan Scrip, to 4,1 prem.; Egyptian, to 2} 1
Prem.; Moorish 5 r— ; ana =man
Scrip, to 1 prem.; Spanish 3 per Cents. have rea-
lised 541 ; ditto Deferred, 441 1 ; ditto Passive,
191 1 ; and ditto Certificates, Bt, Z. Me/dean, after
receding to 291, has recovered to 291 I.
The operations in the Railway Share Market
have again been very restricted, and prices have
remained withott material iteration. Midlands,
South-Easterns, and South-Westerns have improved
about 55., and Norfolk £l, while Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincoln have declined 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have exhibited
-very little animation. Great Luxembourg realise
104*; Recife and San Francisco, 141; Sambre and
Meuse, 101 ; East Indian 1061 ; Great Indian Pe-
ninsula, 104* ; and Grand Trunk of Canada have
improved to 231
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
show rather more firmness. London Chartered of
Australia realise 244 ; Enrisiish, Scottish, and Aus-
tralian Chartered, IS-t, ; Alliance of London and
Liverpool, 4; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 69/
and Oriental Inland Steam, 7.
The shares of the Eastern Bengal Tea Company
are! j prem., and of the Strand Hotel Company
prep.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll f
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll i
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. •
Ditto T_'.,ebentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 99 f
Ditto dtito April, 1864 99
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 99 i
*Consols for Account, July 10
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 6 3
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Ditto Paid-up Scrip
.. 85k 5
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..
.............. Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent.
Portuguese 3 per Cent 1853 —
Ditt.,, Accour • .1
Russian 661`e_teili .
1822 L St
Dittiz,
Sps.-thsei 3 per -,‘init:, 1.862, Scrip
-Ditto Account ... : ........
Ditto New Deferred
I
Ditto Account .. , *****************
Ditto Passive.. ************************ 441
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded ******* • 49 4 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 *********** - "
Ditto Account ..................... &
'Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 ......................•83
'
Ditto Account ...................... -7-1 k 703
Ditto 1862 (Scrip). .............. ,1 I
Ditto, Paid up Senn- - , ~. -
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent......... 10 3
'Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21 per Cent.; Exchange 12 Guil.
TWO O'CLOCK
Consols, Money
913 2
Ditto Account ...............

Tie Courrier de lori•nt announces in the fol-
Aowing paragraph that the French navy has no longer
any need of English coal :—" French coal has completely
replaced Engliah coal in the Imperial navy' Our port re-
ceives every day several boatloads of coal from
river as fir as
ef the Loire, which reach us by canal and 0
.
Thus,
the mines
Lorient, without the necessity of unloading
th
with coal hasm
this vexed question of supplying our navy
been resslved to the advantage of French coal, which may
n all
by a trilling change in the heating apparatus replace o
occasions the coal we were accustomed to draw from
angland,"
THE Hop PLANTATIONS,—Rochester, June 17.
The late heavy storms of rain, with the high gales of the
past fortnight, have had a rather disastrous effect on the
growing hops, which have thereby received a severe check,
many of the plants beginning to assume a sickly yellow
appearance. Notwithstanding this, however, the hops in
most of the plantations are still looking remarkably healthy,
and in the less exposed situations are beginning to throw
out their midsummer shoots. On the whole there is an
absence of vermin, the plant being singularly clear for the
time of the year.
In comparison with the appearance of
the hop Plantations a fortnight since, the plants are cer-
tainly less healthY; but some warm, genial weather would
undo the mischief of the past few weeks. The hop market
continues very %In, choicest Mid-Rents making as high as
130 s. per cwt., and Sussex 1008. to 110 s. The export of
hops is still carried on 0 aoonsiderable extent, upwards of
200 tons having been sent abroad during
the imports the week ending
Saturday last, whileduring the same period
were nil,

QUITE A NOVELTY IN, POLITICAL ECONOMY.—
Retrenchment by the Tories.—Punch.
A CONSIDERABLE SAVING IN