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may pronounce that vast army unnecessary. Ido
not mean to. say 44at that army is raised for the
deliberate purpose of aggression, I trust it is not,
but thepossession of power to aggress frequently gives
the desire to do so. You cannot, you are not
entitled to rely upon the forbearance of a
stronger neighbour. You are bound to make
your defensive means proportionate to his means
of aggression. But it is not only on land that
the arrangements of France are disproportionate
to her necessities for defence. We know that
the utmost exertions have been made, and still are
making, to create a navy—very near equal to our
own—a navy which cannot be required for purposes
of defence of France, and which, therefore, we are
justified in looking upon as a possible antagonist we
may have to encounter—a navy which would give
to our neighbours the means of transporting within
a few hours a large and formidable number of

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TB EA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bta.ikstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commenae with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, 3liss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY,
ik which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear.
To conclude with A HUSBAND AT SIGHT.

Commence at 7.

P JOYAL PRLes INC
see S S'Sris. THEATRE.-
, Mr. EA. Har
THIS EVENING, will be performed HOME TRUTHS.
After which, the French vaudeville, MILITAIRE ET
PENSIONAIRE. Characters by the Zouaves.
And LA CORDE SENSIBLE.
Followed by AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN.
To conclude with BOWL'D OUT.
Commence at 7.

troops to our coast."
Now, who is it that makes these well-considered
observations, and makes them where he knows
they will be heard in a few hours in every capital
in Europe, as well as by the House of Commons
and all England—lt is the First Servant of the
Crown, and on the most grave responsibility. That
ought, with all fair-minded men of all parties, to
go for much. If there are occasions when the
Premier of England is no party man, an occasion
like this is surely one of them. We ought to do a
man like PALMERSTON the justice to believe that,
right or wrong, he spoke under the fullest sense of
his responsibility to his Queen, to his country, and
even to Europe.
But if there be a man in England likely to be
right on this question, Lord PALMERSTON seems to
us to be the man. Few will claim superior know-
ledge of Foreign Courts, of their objects and plans.
Indeed the supposition, not probably incorrect, ha;
been, that he is far better versed, proportionately at
least, in foreign than in home affairs. But a yet
stronger point is, that Lord PALMERSTON of
all men would be the last to entertain
groundless apprehensions of France. He
was the first man here to congratulate
the present EMPEROR on his overthrowing French
liberties, with violence to those who occupied high
position, and ;bloodshed amongst the citizens ; and
was long under a cloud, for his apparent sympathy
with a military and despotic revolution. He has
been the avowed personal friend of the EMPEROR,
his guest, not in diplomatic and formal style, but
amid the heart-opening scenes of the chase andsocial
amusements. He has never shown any sympathy
here with the attacks made on the EMPEROR, but
has alwaysrepelledthetn. And, finally,he authorised
Mr. GLADSTONE, with the help of Messrs. GIBSON,
COBDEN, and BRIGHT, to try their best towards get-
ting up a reciprocal trade, which should do its part
in making war less agreeable to a larger number in
both countries. He retains some faith in the ulti-
mate workings of that treaty, though he must
have noted with pain that the selfishness and
trickery of the French have made the treaty, thus
far, rather a cause of umbrage than an olive branch

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Mr. B. Webster will make his first appearance (since his re-
turn from his provincial tour) in the course of the present
month, at his Annual Benefit, particulars of which will be
duly announced.
12t,h week of the favourite American Actress, Miss Julia Daly.
T;118 EVENING, THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J
L. Toole, P. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billington, Stuart, Eburne,
Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolg,ar, Miss 11. Simms,
Miss E. Kelly, and Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford and Miss Julia Daly.
To conclude with OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs.
Eburne, Ward, and Romer.
Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
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Pit Stalls, 25.; fit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, la ; Gallery, 6d.
Actin7 Manager—Mr. WM. Smith.

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TO-NIGHT, _ . .

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Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
This Evening, the Elistoric4l Spectacle, entitled FAIR
ROSAMOND, or the AMAZON CRUSADERS. To be followed by
Scenes in the Arena. To conclune with THE SPOILED
CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Amelia Smith.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—H. Felix Revolti.

CONCERTS.

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
C. H. GOITNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, Is Hall, dd.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
&an and Mimic), and E. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, .tc., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

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of peace.
And this is the Minister who, having never
before spoken in such language, feels now obliged
to look across the Channel and to tell the Govern-
ment of our neighbour that they maintain an army
toolarge forhon est purposes,an d that when that army
is combined with an ever increasing navy, equally
unnecessary for defence, the conclusion is that
France can mean nothing else than, that not merely
Austria or Prussia, Belgium or Switzerland, but
that ENGLAND should regard her as a possible
antagonist. The French Government is, we believe,
annoyed at the late mighty increase of our naval
force, and is doing what she now can to depre-
ciate her own, and to induce us to hold our
hands. First, M. KERGUEVEN is put forward to
represent a large part of the French ships as so ill
built that they are no match for ours. And but
just now a pamphlet is published, "by autho-
rity," which quotes largely from our House of Com-
mons' speeches, to show the immense additions we
have made to our navy ; while it represents that
of France as going on very gerttly and peacefully,
intending no harm to us, or to any one else ! One,
however, of its statements but confirms our general
argument from the convictions of such a man as
our Prime Minister, for it is just this—that Lords
PALMERSTON and RUSSELL have outdone all their
predecessors in the additions made to the navy
since they have been in office ! If this be true, it
is but another proof that our Prime Minister and
his distinguished colleagues have shown their faith
in their opinions, by actions for which they are
responsible to the judgment of those who have to
pay for all.
We do not wish to lay more stress than isreason-
able on what might be ridiculed as the PALMER-
STON argument—though, amongst thosa who would
sneer, we know none whom the country would ac-
cept with confidence for its guides on such a ques-
tion—but we ask in concluding, Is there any man
who, while deeply regretting the never-ending
naval and military expenditure of the last few
years, does not feel that he is not prepared for risk-
ing things in the present state of Europe ? Swit-
zerland feels itself wronged already. Belgian de-
puties tell their King, by describing what no
Power will dare to do at this day, what they really
think France desires to do. German petty Sove-
reigns hurry to Baden, to anticipate bargains
with Prussia, of which their liberties shall be
the price. The monarchs of Austria and
Prussia are merging old feuds, and at
this moment are consulting for the common defence
of Germany. The SULTAN is trembling at the
thought of ten or twenty thousand Frenchmen
landing on the coast of Syria, not forgetting
Algeria, and the immobility of the French at Rome
—we may add, as significant as anything—M.
PARADOL is in prison for writing a little inoffensive
rhetoric in praise of liberty, and M. LEvmArtn,can-
not get authorisation for a journal to discuss
with "moderation," the politics of France, be-
cause his writers are too respectable and
moderate ! A throne so weak at home
maintains an army and navy large enough to
invade England and to terrify half Europe—the
inference is that, any day, to keep a shaking
Emperor on his seat, the mad game of turning
Frenchmen's eyes to their armies on foreign soil
may be the only resort. The throne of LOUIS
NAPOLEON has cost us millions, and will cost us
millions many more yet. May it not cost us blood
also ?

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1880.

Our readers will not count us among the dupes
of Lord PALMRRSTON, nor will they even think us
likely to put undue faith in him. Perhaps so much
the more will they be disposed to go with us when
we would place the faith in his impressions and
convictions which we think justly his due.

We frankly confess, then, that surveying the
whole question impartially, we do regard the
speech of the PREMIER of England in regard to the
proposed fortifications as entitled to the greatest
weight. We do not refer just now so much to the
arguments, however -weighty and just they may be,
as to the man—the argumentum ad homine as we
might term it. That Lord PALMERSTON should
have spoken as he has done in relation to things
across the Channel, should have, as it strikes us,
great weight. The fortification question, of course,
divides itself into two parts—what is necessary
—even urgent—to be done, to make our arsenals
safe against sea and land attack ; and
whether the circumstances exist which require
that we should do it. On the first point, which is
a professional question, we have the report of the
Commissioners. We have examined that report
carefully, and recorded our opinion of its great
ability, and of the attention to financial considera-
tions, also, by which it is marked. We believe few
intelligent laymen can peruse the report and the
evidence attached, without being convinced that in
all that is essential the Commissioners are thoroughly
right. The differences of opinion amongst wit-
nesses, so sneeringly alluded to by some. not only do
not surprise us, but give strength to the represents•
tions of those who were responsible for giving
their opinion on the whole case, since it shows that
they did so after fair consideration of all sides of
the question.

But the other half of the question is a purely
political one, and one on which Lord PALMERSTON' s
antecedents make his statements of the highest im-
portance. It may be necessary to recal the noble
lord's language on Monday night—" Now, as to the
necessity of these works, I think it is impossible for
any man to cast his eyes over Europe and to see
what is passing there without being convinced that
the future is not free from danger. It is difficult
to say where the storm may burst, but the horizon
is charged with clouds which betoken the possi,,
bility of a tempest. The house, of course, knows
that in the main I am speaking of our immediate
neighbour across the Channel, and there is no use
disguising it. It is in no unfriendly spirit that I
am speaking. No one has any right to take offence
at considerations and reflections which are purely
founded upon the principle of self-defence."
Then, after justifying the commercial treaty from
its tending to peace, and showing, nevertheless,
'what a frail security it would be, and how slow a
nation, go fond of military glory, will 132 to change
to predo.minantly commercial tastes, the noble lord
resumed,—,,
there nothing in the state of Europe
that leads us to think that we might by the course
of events be called upon to iiefend ourselves
against hostile attack? We see in France an army
of 000 and odd thousand men, of whom 400 and
odd thousand are, actually under arms, and the re-
mainder are merely on furlough, and can be called
into the ranks in a fortnight.
That army is
greater than France requires fa,.
the pur-
poses qf defence. No nation in the worldwould think,
unprovoked, of attacking France. Nothing Could
be gained by it; no one could expect to dismember'
France, am!. no one would fare otherwise than ill
who venturoi upon an unprovoked attack .upon
France; eaci therefore for the defence of France we

From the telegrams last received it is evident that
the battle near Melazzo must have been fiercely
fought. We are told that the Garilialdians " lost"
780, and that the Royal troops had 1,223 " killed "
with the addition—which surely might have written
anywhere, that " there were many wounded on both
sides." The telegram is from Genoa, as is also ano-
ther informing us of an insurrection on the main-
land at Avellino, in which foreign troops shed the
blood of the citizens. At Gaeta itself the soldiers
were shouting " down with the Constitution."
There, are yet therefore not wanting men on
whom the young Bourbon may rely. Men who
will fig-ht and die for hir.a. Of what class they
are, and under what inducements they fight, we
shall learn in due time. They may be compro-
mised regiments ; they nay be gorged with plunder

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arid pay; they may be subjects of superstitions as
abject as that of the KING-or all these may
combine, to keep them loyal to the vilest
despotism known in civilisation. But, un-
less the Neapolitans rise universally, and
with an aspect which renders suppression hopeless,
it would seem that the deperadoes of despotism
will not let;ltalian liberties be consolidated without
serious bloodshed. Perhaps the " humanity" of the
young Monarch, when he sees that some remain
faithful even to him, will show itself in the way
opposite to that of " saving bloodshed," and his
mercenaries will be stimulated by promises of
pillage and plunder to fight again.
The state ef things on the mainland, shows suffi-
ciently that it were folly, indeed, on our part, to
use even our influence with GARIBALDI to dissuade
him from landing there. Just as the petiole are
beginning to breathe freely and to talk without
restraint, the soldiers are clamouring to set aside the
constitution while it yet subsists only on the word
of a Bourbon, while others are ready to shoot down
the people if they rise for their liberties. We do
not see how anything but complete deliverance of
the people from all dread of the soldiers can
reveal their real wishes. We trust they will
rise above local feeling and be less Neapolitan
than Italian, the two being, in the pro-
per subordination of the former, so thoroughly
compatible. To enable the people, however,
to express their real sentiments, GARIBALDI must
be at hand. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S opinion on
Thursday night that GARIBALDI might make a
truce with the Neapolitan troops, and engage not
to land on the continent, was, we hope, a purely
diplomatic one. He at least assured us that
he declined to employ force in support
of his opinion, and the Neapolitan envoy
now says, that he never asked it. The
intercourse between our Foreign Secretary and the
Minister was verbal, and we presume the truth is
that he wished Lord JOHN should understand that
force would be acceptable, but did not ask it in
diplomatic language. As to what the next news
may be, it is perfectly vain to speculate. IVe
should be surprised neither at a complete revolu-
tion and the flight of the KING ; nor at a return of
Royal perfidy, and its temporary success. But,
of the final triumph of GARIBALDI and Italy,
left to themselves, we cannot doubt.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July 27.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

N E b.

Tlie following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

NAPLES, JULY 24 (VIA GENOA).

An insurrection has broken out at Avellino.
The foreign troops spilt the blood of the inhabi-
tants and plundered several houses. At Gaeta the
soldiers shouted " Down with the Constitution !"
" Long live Maria Theresa !"

GENOA, JULY 27.

According to advises received here the loss of the
Garibaldians at Melazzo was 780. The Neapolitans
had 1,223 killed. There were many wounded on
both sides.

PARIS, JULY 27.

England, although insisting on the free accession
of the Sultan to the Convention for regulating the
collective intervention in Syria of the Powers who
signed the treaty of 1856, has nevertheless no in-
tention of abandoning the unfortunate Christians
in Syria. She claims an exemplary punishment of
the principal authors of the late massacres, and that
the administration of Syria should be reorgan ised,
in order that the Maronites might obtain the most
efficacious guarantees for the future. These gua-
rantees to be placed under the collective protectorate
of the above-mentioned Powers.

On Saturday, Aug. 4, a prize of 100 sovereigns will be
given by the Squadron to be sailed for by yachts of any
Royal Yacht Club. Time race, half " Acker's " scale.
Tonnage to be computed according to the Royal Thames
Yacht Club, but the sailing regulations to be those of the
Royal Yacht Squadron.
The Cowes Town Regatta, it is expected, will take place
on the day of the Queen's Cup race.
ROYAL RURAL FETE.—This annual gathering took
place on Friday, the 27th inst. The seamen from the
yachts, the tenants from the royal estate, and the Royal
tradesmen and their families, were present as usual. The
Queen, the Prince Consort, and the junior branches of the
Royal family were also present, and seemed heartily to
enjoy the sports.

THE COURT.

OSBORNE, JULY 27.

It is on that ground that, awaiting the answer of
the Sultan relative to his adhesion to the said Con-
vention, negotiations are being continued between
the Great Powers. On Saturday last M. Thouvenel
charged the Marquis de Lavalette, by telegraph, to
urge upon the Divan to adhere without delay to the
Convention respecting an armed intervention in
Syria.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, rode on horse-
back yesterday. Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge was in
attendance.

M. and Madame Van de Weyer, and Miss Van de Weyer,
arrived at Osborne yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party included the Princess Alice,
Prince and Princess Leiningen, the Belgian Minister,
Madame and Miss Van de Weyer, Lord Clyde, Miss
Horatia Seymour, and Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps.
Lord Clyde left this morning.

No reply has yet been received from the Porte

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 24.

Up to this moment the Porte has not given its
reply to the proposals relative to a European inter-
vention in Syria. It is almost certain, however,
that the reply of the Porte to the said proposals
will be negative.

His Serene Highness the Prince Ferdinand
Radziwitt has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street.

The Prince and Princess Wladimir Bariatinsky
and family have arrived at tho Clarendon Hotel, from Paris.
Their Excellencies the Moorish Ambassadors,
accompanied by Captain Lynch and Mr. Drummond Hay,
bad an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the
Foreign -office, to take leave previous to their departure.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived at
the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday.

business.

DRESDEN, JULY 27.
The official Dresden Journal, in an article on the
interview of the two Sovereigns at Toplitz, says :--

" There appears to be good reason to suppose that
the meeting of the Emperor and the Prince Regent
and of their principal Ministers, will have a ma-
terial influence in bringing about a complete un-
deritanding between Austria and Prussia, so
much to be desired for the welfare of Germany ;
and that the Toplitz meeting will prove a fresh
guarantee for the protection of the interests and
the maintenance of the integrity of the great
L German Fatherland."

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 27

The Marquis La Greca, the Marquis de Campo-
disola, and the Marquis de Curtopassi, have left the Claren-
don Hotel for Paris.

The Earl and Countess Vane have left town on
a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough at Blen-
heim Palace, Oxfordshire. _ _

The Earl and Countess of Airlie have left Cam
den Hill for Cortachy Castle, Forfarshire.

We have learnt with regret that the Countess o
Bective is seriously ill at Park Lodge, Virginia.

The representatives of the powers did not yester-
day sign the Convention relative to the expedition
to Syria.

It is said that they will meet to-morrow at the
Hotel of Foreign Affairs.
The signing Powers are those who were present
at the Congress of-Paris.
It is doubtful whether anything definite will re-
sult from the interview at Toplitz. The Prinse of
Prussia will meet King Leopold at Ostend.

Garibaldi is at this moment at Messina.

sinated.

BOURSE, July 27.—There has been but a very
limited amount of business transacted, speculators
being already engaged with their arrangements for
the approaching settlement. Threes, which opened
at 68f 10c, are now at 68f 15c; Mobilier, 682 f 50c ;
Orleans, 1,365 f; Northern, 952 f 50c ; Austrian, 501 f
25c; and Lombards, 497 t 50c. The market re-
mained dull to the close, when the following were
the quotations :-
41 per per Cents ... 97 75 Credit Foncier
Do end month.... 97 55; Belgian 4i —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 10 Roman
Bank Shares 2805 —! Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 685 Spanish Threes 47 50
Do. Account 6BO j Home Debt

Lord and Lady Ashburton will leave Ashburton
House on Tuesday for Addiscombe Farm, Croydon.
Lord and Lady Proby return to town to-day
from Newmarket. _ _ _

Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly last
evening at Cambridge House.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Last evening Signor
Giuglini took his annual benefit. The entertainments were
"Lucia di Lammermoor," a ballet divertissement, and a
portion of "La Favorita," performed by the elite of Mr.
Smith's company. The house was crowded in every part.
_ _

A Paris correspondent of the Courrier de Mar-
seille says :—" The Emperor Napoleon; to recompense
Abd-el-Kader for his conduct in favour of the Christians
in Syria, has sent him the Graud Cordon of the Legion of
Honour."

We understand that the number of new regi-
ments of the Line to be added to the army, in consequence
of the extinction of the local European force in India, will
be nine altogether, of which, three will be cavalry, and six
infantry. In these regiments promotion will not be regu-
lated by the purchase system in operation in the rest of the
Line. It will be more on the old Indian system of pure
regimental seniority, tempered, however, by selection, espe-
cially in the higher ranks. We believe it is not at present
contemplated to interfere with the organisation of the Bom-
bay and Madras cavalry.—Army and Nary Gazette.
All the accounts we receive from China concur in
representing everything going on as well as possible as re
Bards the British expedition. The whole of the troops had
arrived with the exception of the Siege Train, and there was
at hand a small Siege Train sufficient to commence with
until its arrival. The army was in wonderfully good health,
excellent spirits, and from the generals downwards full of
mutual confidence. The expedition was about to start for
the north, but at the date of our advices there appeared to be
considerable doubt as to the French being ready in time.
Indeed the accounts we hear on excellent authority of the
state of our allies are not calculated to sustain their boasted
superiority in organisation. They had no horses for their
guns, next to no commisKtriat, and very few carriage ani-
mals for stores, &c. We understand that an offer made
by Sir Hope Grant of a number of ponies was at first ac •
cepted by Ueneral Montauban, but afterwards rejected on
the score of their expense, which was no more than that at
which they were supplied to the British Army. Let us
hope that it will not end in our allies expecting us to sup-
ply those deficiencies which it is their pride to say they
experience generally to a much less extent than ourselves.
—Army and Navy Gazette.

DEATH OF film, HENRY J. WALLACK.—This
much esteemed and highly-accomplished lady, who was
better known to playgoers under her maiden name of Miss
Turpin, expired after a short but severe illness on Thurs-
day, the 19th instant, at one o'clock in the morning,-leav-
ing an aged mother, three eons, and a bereaved husband to
mourn her irreparable loss. The immediate cause of her
decease was cancer in the right breast and stomach. As
Miss Turpin she made her first appearance at the Haymar-
ket Theatre, under the management of Mr. Morris, in the
summer of 1832, having previously acquired considerable
reputation as a vocalist. When Mr. Osbaldiston became
lessee of Covent-garden Theatre four years afterwards,
Miss Turpin became one of the principal members of his
company, and it was during her professional career at this
theatre that she was married to Mr. Henry Wallack, who
at this period held the office of stage manager.—Era.
APOTHECARIES' HALL—The following are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the
seien, e and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise on Thursday the 26th of July :—Edwin Matthews
James, Shrewsbury; Henry Lewis Harper, St. Luke's Hos-
pital; Arthur Samuels, 62, Eldon-place, Liverpool: Benja-
min Evans, Duffryn, near Newcastle Emly, S.W, ;
William
Gimson Giroson, Walton, Leicestershire. For an Assis-
tant.—Edward Lee Bailey, Maida-vale. The following
gentlemen also on the same day passed their first examina-
ti,m :—Herhert M. Morgan, Bartholomew Lumley, Dcci-
mus Curme, and vate, u 22 ur liin. c. 0114,34.-,
London; Frederio Meggy, guy's Hospital; Richard Jones
Owen and. Thomas F. Morrish, 6t, Bartholomew's Hospi-
tal ;.'Ea Mt..nd Gwynn, London Hospital; Daniel Taylor,
'Bury, Lancashire. •

THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 28, IMO.

AMERICA.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY 341ORNING.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Atrato,
Captain Woolley, with the West India and Pacific
mails has arrived. She left Jamaica on the 9th
Barbadoes 11th, St. Vincent 10th, Demerara 9th,
Trinidad 9th, and St. Thomas on the 14th inst.
She brings 160 passengers, and specie, value

1,941,400 doll., and a very large cargo, compris-
ing eochineal, indigo, jalap, cigars, coffee, sarsapa-

'ilia, cocoa, &c.
On the 16th she passed the English brig Derwent,
standing same course as the Atrato. On the 22d
543. e passed the English ship Palmerston, from

Bombay, bound to England.
Lieut. Striven, R.N., Admiralty agent, on board
the Royal Mail Company's screw steamer Trent, was
missing. He had been very ill, and was supposed to
have fallen overboard.

From Chili the news is unimportant. Congress
was making but little progress in the despatch of

Further important discoveries of copper in the
desert of Atacama are reported, which are attract-

ing much attention from their abundance and rich-
ness. The silver mines of Chanarcello and Tres
Puntos are rather more promising.
Castilla was about blockading the port of Cobija.
All communication between that country and Peru
is still interdicted.
From Carthagena we learn that the State of
Bolivia declared itself independent of the Federal

Government on the 3d.
General Posada is raising troops on behalf of the
general Government to march against Mosquera,
in Cauca.

It is reported that Don Antonio Ma Prodilla
Governor of the State of Santander, has been assas

The Valparaiso market is very dull, both in im-
ports and exports. Copper in bars quoted 20 dols.
25c. to 20 dols. 50c. ; cocoa, 11 dols. ; coffee scarce;
silver bars per ounce, 10.78; silver coin, 20 per
cent. premium.
Exchange on London, 60 to 90 days, 4s 3d per
dol ; Paris, 4f 55c. Freight to England, £3 per
ton.

The Barbadoes House of Assembly met on the
21st. The news was unimportant.
The island was suffering severely from drought.
The sugar crop was entirely finished.
Exchange on London quoted—Bank bills, at 30
days, 490 dols ; 60 days, 4871 dols ; 90 days, 485
dols. Private bills, 90 days, 480 dols.
At Trinidad the weather remained unsettled.
The crops were entirely over. The prospects for
next year were encouraging, and a fine crop is ex-
pccted to be reaped.
In sugar and cocoa all operations had ceased.
Breadstuffs and provisions were in full supply.
Freights quoted at ls. 9d. for sugar and 2s. for
cocoa.

Exchange at Colonial Bank selling, at 90 days'
sight, 485 dols. per £lOO ; ditto, 60 days' sight,
487-1 per £lOO ; 30 days' sight, 499 dols. per £100;
purchasing, 90 days' sight, 475 dols. per £lOO.
There is no news of importance from Jamaica.
Speculation in flour continued, but without any
activity, and the general business has not improved,
the large supply of ground provisions and fruit still
limiting the demand for breadstuffs. Butter—sales
of Irish at 13d. ; Halifax, lot-d. Beef, 255. per
barrel. Coffee, none at market. Cheese, sales at 14d.
Freights not increased ; hams (York) dull, at
131 d. ; lard wanted, sales at 9d. ; pork demands
110 s. per barrel ; pimento no transactions ; rice
(Carolina), 225. ; sugar, 16s. to 19s. ruling figures ;
tongues (ox), 565. to 58s. per half barrel.
Exchange on Landon—Jamaica Bank, 90 days,
par ; GO days, 1 per cent. premium ; 30 days, 1 per
cent. premium. Colonial Bank—Rates for cash,
per cent. extra if payable in discount ; 90 days,
par ; 60 days, per cent. premium ; 30 days, 1 per
cent. premium.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 27

The royal mail steam ship Persia, Captain Jud-
kins, from New York on the 18th inst., arrived
here at 12.30 p.m. to-day.
The Persia brings 168 passengers, and 450,000
doll. in specie for England, but none for Havre. She
landed a portion of the mails, and proceeded at one
p.m. ; 01 well.
The Persia made the passage from New York in
days and a half.
The Africa had arrived out.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald states that England and France bad
resolved to interfere in Mexico, and had invited
the United States to participate in the interven-
tion. The invitation was not likely to be accepted.
NEW YORK, JULY 18.

The steam-sloop Flying Fish, belonging to the
Prince of Wales's squadron, reached St, John's,
Newfoundland, today.

BAROMETERS FOR LIFEBOAT STATIONS.—A meet.
ing was held yesterday at 14, John-street, Adelphi, of the
committee appointed by the Royal National Lifeboat Insti-
tution to consider the various reports received from different
parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom on the useful-
ness of their being supplied with barometers. Captain De
St.- Croix, H.C.S., was in the chair. There were also pre-
sent Admiral Fitzßoy, F.R.S. ; Capt. Washington, R.N ,
FR. S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty ; Capt. Ward,
R.N., Mr. Richard Lewis, and Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S.
The following lifeboat stations of the institution applied to
be provided with barometers :—England—Durham : W hit-
burn, Seaton Carew. Yorkshire : Middlesborough, Red-
car, Hornsea. Norfolk : Cromer, Palling, Yarmouth.
Suffolk : Lowestoft, Pakefield, Southwold, Thorpeness,
Aldborough. Kent : Margate, Dungent ss. Sussex: Cam-
ber, Rye, Hastings, Eastbourne, Newhaven. Isle of W7ight :
Grange. Dorset : Lyme Regis. South Devon: Exmouth,
Teignmouth. Cornwall : Penzance, Sennen Cove, New-
quay, Padstow. North Devon : Appledore, Braunton.
Wales—Carmarthen : Llanelly. Pembrokeshire : Tenby,
Fish guard. Cardiganshire : Cardigan. Merionethshire :
Aberdovey, Barmouth. Carnarvonshire : Portmadoc.
Flintshire : Rhyl (tubular). Anglesey : Llanddwyn,
Holyhead, Moelfre. Lancashire : Lytham. Cumber-
land : Silloth. Isle of Man: Castletown. Scotland—
Ayrshire : Ayr. Caithness •shire : Thurso. Banffshire:
Buckle. Elginshire : Lossiemouth. Ireland—County
Down : Tyrella, Newcastle. Louth : Dundalk and
Drogheda. Dublin : Skerries. Wicklow : Wicklow, Ark-
low. Wexford : Cahore, Rosslare Fort, Wexford. Carnsore.
Waterford: Tramore, Dung,arvan. Cork: Youghal, Bally-
cotton. These several lifeboat stations represent many
thousands of our seafaring population, and it will be readily
conceived what beneficial results may emanate to life and
important
step. amongst these hardy men from this
step. It is a fact that at the present day the master of our
smaller coasting and fishing craft hardly ever think of con-
sulting a barometer, nor indeed have they at most places an
opportunity to do so. It is estimated that a good barometer
cannot be fixed to a lifeboat-house under £6, so that it will
require a considerable sum to carry out effectually the plan
of the National Lifeboat Institution. We understand that
a benevolent gentleman has presented to the institution £5O,
to be applied specially to the purchase of barometers for its
lifeboat stations, and we cannot doubt that the public will
readily make up what may be further required to accomplish
soimportant an undertaking.
COMMITTAL OF Two PRIZEFIGHTERS.—OXFORD,
Friday.--Yesterday, two mem, named Joseph Goss, alias
" The Unknown," and Jemmy Welch, who officiated as
the second of Sayers in the recent prize-fight for the cham-
pionship, were brought before two county magistrates, Dr.
Wynter and Guy Thomson, Esq., charged with unlawfully
creating a breach of the peace by making an assault upon
and fighting a pitched battle with Bodger Crutchley, of
Birmingham, in the parish of
.Checkenden, on Tuesday
week. It appeared that early on that morning, the defen-
dants, in company with a number of other people, left
London by a special train on the Great Western Railway,
and alighted at the Wallingford-road station, a short dis-
tance from which a ring was formed, and Goss and Crutch-
ley fought for £lOO a side. After a contest which lasted
three hours and twenty minutes, " The Unknown" was
declared the victor. The fight took place on the Oxford-
shire side of the River Themes, and for upwards of an
hour and a half it proceeded without molestation from the
police. At length two officers belonging to the county con-
stabulary arrived, who ineffectually tried to stop the fight,
and who called upon the Bei k,hire police to assist thm,
but they stated, in reply, "that they had no orders to go
out of their own county." The belligerents when called
upon to desist good-humouredly told them to go away, as
it would be over presently. A crowd of 300 or 400
persons were assembled to witness the fight, and at its ter-
mination they quietly dispersed. Warrants were subse-
quently issued for the apprehension of the leaders and
placed in the hands of the police, and Goss was taken into
custody at Northampton, and Welch was arrested at his
residence in London. They were committed to take their
trial at the next quarter sessions, but were eventually ad-
mitted to bail, themselves in £lOO each and one surety each
in £5O.

RESPITE OP THE SEAG R AVE MURDERESS.—A
communication was received by the high sheriff of Leices-
tershire on Wednesday, the 25th inst., from the Home-
office, stating that the execution of Hannah Holmes (who
was convicted at the recent assizes of the wilful murder of
her master, at Seagrove, in the above county) was respited
during her Majesty's pleasure.
THE WALK ERIN GIIAM MURDER.—Wednesday
morning next at 8 o'clock has been fixed for the execution
of John Fenton, who is under
spenter;-gt-Walßeringharn, Notts. The execution
will take place in front of the county gaol. No event of
the kind has taken place in the county, we believe, since
August, 1844, when William Saville was executed for the
murder of biz wife and three children,