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London, England, 1860-07-11 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.

A circular memorandum has been issued by the
Adjutant-General, the Hon, Sir J. Yorke Seariett,
addressed to the army at home and abroad, in which
it is stated that his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief, having brought under the
consideration of the Secretary of State for War the
question of the personal allowance of officers de-
tained at ports of embarkation or on court-martial
duty, it has been decided that the allowance granted
by the Royal warrant of the 23d of December, 1857,
will in future be issued to ali officers so situated
who may nut join a military mess as honorary
members.

The depot of tho 12th Lancers left Leeds on
Monday to join the head-quarters at York, and are
to be succeeded by two other troops of the same
regiment.
The following reinforcements are ordered to em-
bark at Gravesend for Kurrachee in the Cospatrick,
of 1,119 tons, Capt. C. Scott, and the Peeress, 777
tons, Capt. C. W. Rowland, two of the vessels
chartered by the Hon. Council for India—viz., 5
officers and 50 men of the 52d Light Infantry ; 4
officers and 35 men of the 81st Regiment ; and 1
officer and 60 men of the 94th Regiment, from
Chatham ; 2 officers and 50 men of the 7th (Princess
Royal's) Dragoon Guards ; 3 officers and 61 men of
the 61th Regiment ; and 4 officers and 110 men of
the 98th -Regiment, from Canterbury; 1 officer
and 31 men of the 51st (King's Own) Light Infan-
try, from Chichester; 1 man of the 7th Fusiliers,
from Hythe ; 5 officers and 134 men of the 79th
Highlanders, from Stirling and Perth; and 3 offi-.
cers and 111 men of the 93d Highlanders, from
Aberdeen, The Cospatrick will embark her troops
to-morrow.

Some siege operations on a very extensive scale,
in which the whole of the troops of the garrison
will he engaged, will take place at Chatham during
the present summer, active preparations being in
progress for the event.

ANNEXATION OF SAVOY.

Foreign affairs, and the way in which they are
treated by politicians, seem at present to partake
of a kind of brusqueness to which they were for-
merly strangers. Under the guidance of 'Welling-
ton and Louis Philippe, Metternich and Nesselrode,
the European machine worked easily. Its action
was slow ; it sometimes seemed almost to cease al-
together, and when in motion there was plenty of
oil and plenty of skilful engineers. Excepting the
absorption of Cracow, no serious breach was
made in the European system for many years
before '4B, and the despatches of Secre-
tariesand ambassadors were written with all
the vagueness and decorum of a Queen's speech.
But in these times there are more stirring events,
and statesmen of a less urbane character. The
Emperor Napoleon has torn some treaties, and is
vehemently suspected of meditating evil to others.
His subordinates are not so much Ministers as
tools; or rather they are secretaries in the original
sense of the word, and, having no care for an Euro-
pean reputation, indulge in a recklessness of asser-
tion and argument which is almost without a paral-
lel. But in the English Foreign Minister they have
in one respect found their match. Seldom has it
been our lot to read such bold and straightforward
despatches as those of Lord John Russell, both on
the affairs of Italy and those of Savoy. The Foreign
Secretary feels evidently that the old style of quiet
suggestion and courteous remonstrance is as useless
in dealing with M. Thouvenel and his master as the
delicacy of Sir Charles Grandison would be to an
Old Bailey counsel. The annexation of Savoy has
been effected by duplicity towards the European
Powers and something like violence to the people
of part of the country. It is in violation of inter-
national law, and of the understanding which was
assumed to prevail with England; the machinery
of universal suffrage used for its completion is at
least new, and may involve principles fatal to the
security of other States. -When such an act as
this has been performed, and justified in cavalier
despatches, an English Minister may feel that it is
time to throw aside the forms of an embarrassing
politeness. Lord John Russell treats the question
in a manner which shows his real opinion of this
act of France, and he clearly lays down the course
which is to be pursued by England.
-We are not able even now to discover any ade-
quate motive for this extension of territory by
France. The pretext that the kingdom of Sardinia
had become too strong, and that the Alps were
necessary for the safety of the Empire, may be as-
serted by diplomatists and believed by Frenchmen;
nor do we attach much importance to the facilities
which the possession of Chablais and Faucigny
give for an invasion of Austrian territory.
France has had at any time the power of
striking a blow at Austria, and at present, if the
suspicions of the world have any weight, it is not
against Austria that the eyes of French ambition
are directed. France has gained a little territory,
has incurred an obloquy which is general if not
outspoken, has set Central Europe on its guard,
and brought the German Princes into a kind of
union ; and all for what ? We cannot imagine any
other reason than that it was necessary to accustom
Europe to the idea of an extended French frontier,
and that Savoy was the safest district to incorpo-
rate. It may also be that the French were anxious
to break the spell which seemed to debar them from
a development of their political strength, and that
the Emperor has endeavoured to satisfy them with
the least dangerous morsel which it was in his
power to provide. This is, perhaps, the light in
which Napoleon is desirous that the transaction
should be viewed, though we doubt much whether
it be the true one. For this purpose M. Thouvenel
laboured to quiet the Cabinets of Europe, and the
Emperor undertook his journey to Baden. On the
19th of last March the French Minister addresses
to Count de Persigny a despatch in which he
draws a distinction between the annwation
of Savoy and the annexation of anwything
else. The world is not to draw false analogies, and
out of them to sow mistrust. It is absurd to believe
that there can be any thought of aggression in the
North. " Does there really exist," asks the indig-
nant statesman, " any relation between our position
with regard to the Alps and our situation on the
Rhine ?" On the Rhine and in the Low Countries
the modifications of the Treaty have given security
to France, and therefore in that quarter she has
nothing to ask, and will make no aggression. " On
the Rhine the peril has disappeared, while in the
Alps it has increased. Thus the situations which
it is attempted to assimilate offer no resem-
blance, and those powerful considerationsjwhich
oblige us to demand the annexation of Savoy
have no possible application to the state of things
in the East and North of France." The morality of
this language has been formerly commented on.
The principle contained in it is, that France has the
right to " demand the annexation" of every fron-
tier territory which is useful to her in a military
sense. But we have quoted it to show the desire of
the French Emperor that it should bethought that
the recent act is the first and last of his annexations.
Lord John Russell seems not to have been paci-
fied by those reassuring explanations. On the 15th
of May he addressed to Lord Cowley a despatch
giving the Ambassador instructions as to his be-
haviour in the event of a Congress being held, and
stating that in the very plainest terms the opinion
of the British Cabinet on the conduct of France
and Sardinia. That the neutrality of Chablaisand
Faucigny was established in the interest of
in his
zerland and Europe, as well as of Sardinia,
that
it was
fundamental proposition. He declares
the duty of Sardinia to confer with the Powers
which lfenna, and thato
haves
which signed the treaty
been neglected by France.
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substitutehae gis•
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security which Europe has lost.
Such a guarantee the British Government would
find in an arrangement which " should, giving a
military frontier to Switzerland, comprise the
southern shores of the Lake of Geneva and the
Alpine passes to the Valais." Such a substitute
for the old state of things France has refused, and
has not offered anything Which, in the opinion of
the British Government, would have at all the same
value. With respect to the course to be adopted
by England in the face of this accomplished fact,
Lord John Russell declares that while he thinks
Switzerland would not be justified in resistance,
yet " Her Majesty's Government must decline to
take any step which may confer additional vali-
dity on the Treaty of Turin of the 24th of March.*
" In the Conference your Excellency will hold
no other language than that which is con-
tained in this and my former despatches.
• . You will, of course, fully understand that
nothing is changed in that part of the Treaty of
Vienna which binds the Powers who were
to it to maintain the neutrality of Switzerland."
In our opinion nothing more nor less can be do x!r.,
than is here indicated. Force must prevail wit) Iln
certain limits. The world cannot be plunge' a. in
war for every excess of one of its potentates.,ol
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TIIE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 18e0.

What were the Commons about last evening
when in Committee upon that unfortunate Gas
(Metropolis) Bill ? Was it by design or was it by
accident—that the whole thing came to be quashed,
as it were, quite suddenly at the close of that
wretched little wrangling discussion provoked by the
hon, member for Boston, the champion of the gas
companies, Mr. MEABURN STANILAND ? However,
this may be, the consequence of the whole squabble
last night in Committee was that eventually the
motiou that the chairman leave the chair was
(writes one of the reporters present) " apparently
b. 7, inadvertence " agreed to—" so that when the
Speaker resumed the chair no report could be made !'
It is so far suspicious that the motion thus agreed
to "apparently by inadvertence" was the identical
motion introduced last evening (in the course of his
elaborate and ingenious speech) by Mr. STANILAND !
However this bungle on the part of the Commons
then in Committee on this unlucky Gas (Metropolis)
Bill may or may not affect the measure itself
eventually—there is certainly discoverable down
upon thrParliamentary papers for this afternoon,
iercurii 119 die Julii 1860 (among the Notices of
Motion) this subjoined announcement :—" 4. Mr.
SontEttoN ESTCOURT—Gas (Metropolis) Bill—That
the Gas (Metropolis) Bill be referred back to the
Select Committee." This last, by the way, being a
proposition the reasonableness of which was only
too eagerly assented to by the right hon. baronet
the Home Secretary, who intimated that various
circumstances had been brought to light (since the
presentation of the original report of the Select
Committee—upon which report remember the Bill,
then under consideration of a committee of the whole
house, was founded !), which circumstances, argued
Sir GEORGE LEWIS, rendered some further examina-
tion of the question between the Companies and the
Consumers expedient. And so—remarked the
Minister—it certainly appeared to him that the
house would do well to follow out the course sug-
gested by Mr. ESTCOURT, viz., by recommitting
the bill to the same Select Committee from whose
deliberations it may be said to have emanated—to
the end that certain conflicting interests might, if
possible, be reconciled !
Now all this is done, as clearly as anything can
be done, with a view to delay the measure yet
further, by any means, however tricky, upon any
pretext, hoWever flimsy—so that legislation upon
the matter for yet another session may be rendered
altogether impracticable. The hon. member for
Boston, in the first instance, the right hon. mem-
ber for North Wiltshire in the second, the Home
Secretary, in ' his turn, and the House of Commons
itself in committee, each in succession, designedly
or undesignedly, had a gash yesterday at the throat
of this other little innocent. The best that can be
hoped far it now, apparently, is that Mr. ESTCOURT
will be enabled to induce the House of Commons
this afternoon to refer the bill's exceedingly bad
case back again to his Select Committee for reconsi-
deration. And recollect that among the inexorable
standing orders of the House of Lords there is that
sufficiently reasonable one which precludes the
other house from sending up to the Peers any new
bill for a first reading there after the 26th
of
July ! Subtracting 11 from 26, we may very easily
therefore calculate the chances against this unhappy
Gas (Metropolis) Bill being developed now at the
fag end of the present session into a perfected
enactment.
The foremost argument by which Mr. STANILAND
besought the House, last evening, to pause yet

awhile longer before legislating (as he argued)
precipitately upon the matter involved in the
measure then under the consideration of the House in
Committee, was really and truly, to our thinking,
one of the most powerful arguments that could
well be adduced in support of the reasonings of
those who would insist, like ourselves, upon the folly,
and cruelty, and injustice to the gas consumers of any
further procrastination. The argument referred to
being no other, than that the bill in question
affects property (directly) to the value of X 6,000,000
or £7,000,000, and that the property affected by it
prospectively amounts, it is calculated, to " about
half the amount of the National Debt," otherwise
in round numbers to about £400,000,000. All the
more reason therefore, surely, why property to so
vast an amount should not be left by the Legis-
lature, to be dealt with according to the
whim or caprice, or rather it should be said to the
greed and avarice of an unscrupulous monopoly.
What, upon this point, were among the acknow-

ledgments made very frankly to the House of Cora-
mons by the right hon. gentleman the chairman of
the Select Committee, from whose inquiries and de-
liberations, as we have said this ill-starred mea-
sure directly emanated ? Why, Mr. ESTCOURT
plainly and explicitly avowed, last night,
in so many words, that the whole of the
Twenty-two Gas Companies " obtained their acts
upon the understanding that the principle of com-
petition was to be acted upon, and for years com-
petition was carried to a great extent, but in 1856
and 1857, having probably exhausted their re-
sources, they thought it would be better to come to
an understanding, and thereupon combination took,
place of competition !" It is certainly strange after
this that Mr_ ESTCOURT should go the length of
bearing testimony (quite unasked) "that there was
no ground to blame the conduct of any of the com-
panies !" This volunteered testimony, coming from
him all the more amazingly, when it is immediately
afterwards added by the right hon. gentleman
that—" if hereafter any ♦estry or private consumer
should have reason to complain of the quality of
gas or of the amount supplied, there would be for
them, as matters stood at present, no remedy.
They could not," he said, " if dissatisfied with one
company, fall back upon another, because the com-
panies had an agreement among thewselves not to
compete with one another in assig*ed districts."
Now, in that one fact of a combination—of a
combination regularly organised among all the
Twenty-Two Gas Companies—there is one all-
sufficient and overwhelming reason why in
regard to these conflicting interests of the
Gas Companies and the Gas Consumers (the
companies being Twenty-Two and the gas con-
sumers counting by the Million) there should be no
further impediment whatever in the way of whole-
some and long since absolutely requisite legislation.
The five exemplary and laborious gentlemen of the
Select Committee have pottered quite long enough
over the question at issue. They sat, as we know,
twenty-one days (nearly a day for each of the me-
tropolitan gas companies)—they asked a great
variety of questions relevant and irrelevant to the
chief matter under consideration—they duly made
their report, and out of that report, as the butterfly
from the chrysalis, as the bird from the egg, came
in due time this luckless Bill now seemingly
doomed beyond redemption to die the death
prematurely among the battu of so many
callow Parliamentary fledglings. This inten-
tional or unintentional connivance at the monopoly
of the Gas Companies, representing from
£6,000,000 to £7,000,000, is a cruelty, a mockery,
and a direct injustice to the Gas Consumers, repre-
senting property to an amount very nearly in-
calculable.

Our living fortifications ought, after the hint we
have had, to be the first object of our statesmen's
attention. The encouraging fate of the last week
has revealed to us the secret of our true national
defences, and the Government will be culpable
indeed which neglects it. The country will never
tolerate an increase in the cost of the army, that is

certain. Indeed, the thirty millions a-year,
and the shilling income-tar which impends over
us, will be instructors from which the tax.

payers will soon learn again the lesson
of economy, or of readjustment of taxation, or both,
till either expenses will be reduced, or the land-
holders will have to submit to equalised taxation.
Feudal exemptions and enormous expenditure will
not long co-exist.

We now see, however, in what way the all-im-
important object of security against invasion may
be attained. It is no longer—as it was six years
ago, when we pleaded almost alone for the
Victoria Rifles—matter of theory and reason-
ing; the thing is done. Even the Horse Guards
are convinced, and General PEEL, who gave Volun-
teers the cold shoulder at first, now desires to have
all that forgotten, and to rank amongst the be-
lievers. All the " authorities" are advocates of
Volunteers and Riflemen, now that her MAJESTY
has reviewed them, and fired the first shot in our
Tir National. It remains for us to give full effect
to a discovery as simple, and as pregnant, in its
own line, with consequences, as that of the
principle of Free•trade itself. Indeed, we can
hardly conceive of two more fitting companions
than self-reliant commerce and self-reliant defence.
The nation which, since it has been thrown on the
individual energies of its people, has mere than
doubled its trade and commerce, will, when
thrown upon the energies of its citizens for
self-defence, rapidly double its military strength.
Far more, indeed, than that. We see no
obstacle whatever to the creation and maintenance of
a million or two of Volunteers, any hundred
thousand of which would sweep from the earth the
largest army which an enemy could disembark.
But we must encourage; we must afford faci-
lities; the object is national, and just those aids
must be provided by the national Govern-
ment which will save the Volunteers need-
less expense and trouble, and which will cost
the country little. We should deprecate anything
that interfered with the purely Volunteer character
of the movement. Any payment for time, or any-
thing thatput a penny into any one's pocket. But on
the other hand the Legislature and the administra-
tion of the country should jealously watch that the
sountry's Volunteers should be put to no expense
which can be avoided. Two or three things occur
at once. Legislative facilities can be pro-
vided for the ,hiring or purchase of land for
practising and for the erection of butts.
Rifles can be, and ought to be, provided for indi-
viduals who cannot well afford them, of course
under proper but yet generous precautions. And
as we pay a host of drill sergeants already, the cost
of providing them ought not to be met by the Rifle
Corps, though the efficient teachers, we may be
sure, would not fail to receive the gratuities
which no Englishman can be hindered
from giving. Whenever a sufficient num-
ber of Volunteers can be found, there, we con-
tend, the Government ought to have its drill ser-
geants, and its rifles. The latter to be sold to all
who can afford to make one their property, at cost
price, and to be loaned to all others for practice;
remaining, perhaps, at other times, in the charge of

the sergeant, or of some responsible member of the
company.

But there should be another great advance on
our present beginning. Hitherto from considerations
of cost chiefly, our artizan class has not partici-
pated in the Volunteer movement. The corps con-
sist almost entirely of persons belonging to trade
and professions. All this must be changed. The
fraternity of all classes can be developed and
encouraged by nothing better than their interest
in the common defence, and their emulation in a
common service. Education and intelligence and
comparative leisure will doubtless long per-
haps always, have the advantage. But
we believe that the intelligence of our
town artisans and operatives especially, when called
into play, will be found to rival very closely that
of their social superiors. These men ought to be
allured to the volunteer service—not by offers of
gratuities, which they indeed would spurn, but by
cordial invitation, and by the offer of such

facilities as we have already adverted to. There is
no need whatever for expensive uniform—no need,
in truth, for uniform at all. The belt and pouch
are uniform enough; or some cheap blouse might
be provided at cost price for all who would pur-
chase it, and that would be nearly all.
We believe the patriotism and tastes of our
working men to be such that they would respond
enthusiastically to a national arrangement on their
behalf ; and we doubt not that they would
soon be found treading so closely on the heels
of their masters, as to be a very valuable stimulus
to both. The discipline would be of moral service
to them, as we believe it to be to our present Volun-
teers; and it would provide them with a noble,
manly, athletic amusement for hours which they
are:now tempted to squander in dissipating occupa-
tions, because they have nothing definite to excite
their interest. The low tastes we often complain of
or regret, are generally due to the want of facilities
for something better. The entire change of pur-
suit presented by military drill and rifle practice,
combined with the consciousness of a noble object,
would be doubtless very attractive and improving
to our mechanics, artizans, and operatives.
But there should be even a yet wider view, of the
subject taken. Boys should be taught to regard
their country's defence as an object for which they
should be each and all trained. Every child, not a
cripple, should be imbued with the idea that he
may be as good a soldier as any other. We should
say that the Government ought to provide faci-
lities in every populous locality for the
drilling of lads, of schools especially. Such
exercise is always popular. The boys would
be found repeating their lessons spontaneously in
their playgrounds, and they would thus learn in
boyhood what they could then learn with far more
efficiency than at any other time. Schools would
soon feel it as discreditable to turn out a slouching
undrilled awkward lad as to send forth one who
could not write or cipher ; and as the lads grew up
it would seem but natural to them to take their
place in the Volunteer corps of their country's
defenders.

We have thus sketched a few of the most im-
portant of our views on this subject. They are
practical views. We trust they will soon be
adopted. We now see what we have so long ad.
vocated become a popular object, and we believe that
these views, too, for which we might also refer to
previous numbers of The Sun, must in due time
force themselves on popular acceptance.

DEPARTURE OF TUE PRINCE OF

WALES.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 10.

The screw steamship Hero, 91, Captain G. H.
Seymour, C. 8., with his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, and the screw steam frigate Ariadne, 26,
Captain Edward W. Vansittart, weighed anchor in
the Sound at 7 o'clock this morning, and shortly
after sailed for Quebec. On leaving the port the
Prince was saluted by the screw steamship St.
George, 91, Captain the Hon. F. Egerton ; the
screw steam frigate Emerald, 51, Captain Arthur
Cuming ; by the Artillery in Plymouth Citadel,
and by the Cornish Royal Volunteers from a field
battery near the ruins of Mount-Edgcumbe -park.
About a league and a half south-east of the Eddy-
stone the Hero was joined by Vice-Admiral Sir
Charles Fremantle's Channel squadron; wind,
easterly ; very light. It is understood that the
squadron, after escorting the Prince part of the
way across the Atlantic, will return to Bantry Bay,
and, having already visited the capital of Scotland,
there is some probability of their going afterwards
to Dublin.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17, Com-
mander Francis W. Sullivan, one of the Channel
squadron, in attendance on the Prince of Wales
when he sailed hence yesterday morning, returned
to the Sound last night. She reports that when
last seen, from near the Land's-end, the squadron
was in two lines; the Hero was the van-ship, and
was under steam, steering west.

The Earl of Bective, M.P., has left Park-street,
Westminster, for the Lodge, Virginia, county Cavan.
VOLUNTEER SHAM FIGHT IN CAMDEN-PARK.—
We are authorised to state that the northern slope of
Bickley-park, which commands a good view of the scene of
the volunteer sham fight on Saturday next, will be thrown
open by Mr. Dent to the public. The entrance will be on
the public road from Bromley to Chiselhurst, about a mile
flora Southborough-road station on the Mid-Kent Rail-
way. The trains will run through from London•bridge
e.nd Pimlico stations without stopping.

I PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25.121
per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng-
lish Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the
price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange on
London is 13.31 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the
English Mint price is therefore about 2-10ths per cent.
dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 1091 to 1091 per cent., which, when compared with the
Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex-
change is slightly in favour of England ; but, after making
allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest,
the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.

NAVAL VOLUNTEERS.—The Commodore Con-
troller-General of Coastguard having put forth an invita-
tion to such of the Naval Coast Volunteers as are disposed
to serve on board the Channel reserve fleet for a month's
cruise, upwards of 300 belonging to the Liverpool district
have already joined the Majestic in that port. The men
evinced the best possible disposition. It is not true that
any intention exists to disturb the Coastguard on this occa-
sion. Commodore Yelverton, C. 8., the Controller-General
of Coastguard, is expected to hoist his broad pendant on
board the Colossus towards the end of this week .
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVEN T-GA RD EN.---Their
Royal Hignesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Prineess
Mary, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge
and Prince Adolphus of Mecklenburg, honoured the per-
formances with their presence last evening. Colonel Home
Purves, Mr. Lister, Lady Geraldine Somerset, and Lady
Charlotte Lister, were in waiting on their royal highnesses.
Amongst the fashionable company present were—The
Baroness Brunnow, his Excellency the Persian Minister,
the Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of Hamilton, the Mar-
quis of Stafford, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the iarl of Lis-
towel, the Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of
Hopetoun, the Earl Cawdor, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount
Ranelagh, Viscount Powerscourt, Count Batthyany, Lori
Skelmersdale, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord and Lady
Worsley, Lady Tredegar, Lady William Hervey, Lord and
Lady Proby, Mr. and Lady Jane Reptoa, Lady Meux, Lady
Molesworth, Lady Lawley, Lady S. Pelham, Lady Elizabeth
Clifford and Miss Clifflird, Lady Augusta Wentworth,
Major the Hon. W. Coke, Hon. Mrs. Cust, Hon. L. Agar
Ellis, lion. H. and Mrs. Astley, Hon. Mrs. Ives, Hon.
Mrs:Jocelyn, Hon. Gerald and Lady Maria Ponsouby,
Hon. C. Eliot, Sir 'Henry Cockerell, Sir Alexander Bat!ipr-
man, Sir George and Lady Armytage, Sir ichard King,
Sir Frederick and Lady Arthur, Colonel Minchin, Colonel
Neville, Colonel Airey, Colonel Garvock, Colonel Dawson
DlilaisnaseTr'oCttoelnohnaelmS, ci\airaljeotrt, CHaomloiniteolna,nd Mrs.
captain Tottenham
spe and
Spicer,
Captain
Knox, Captain Clayton, Captain Bolton, Captain and Mrs.
Leyland, Captain Sherson, Captain Bateson, Captain
Gough, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webster, Mrs. Arabin and
Miss Arabin, Mrs. Graham Smith, Mr. and Mrs. F'etre, Miss
Byrne, Mrs. Charles Hay, Mrs. Washington Hibl)ert, Mrs.
Thornhill, the Misses Marjoribanks, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett,
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Zanzi, the Misses Pugh, Gals-
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LATEST NEWS.

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

PARIS, JULY 11.

In order not to obstruct the free action of the
Turkish Government, as well as to leave it a com-
plete responsibility, the French Cabinet has de-
cided that the commanders of the men-of-war sent
to Syria shall abstain from all intervention, and
confine themselves to protecting the French Con-
suls and to offering refuge to all Christians who
might apply for it.

VIENNA, JULY 11.

The report that the Austrian Government in-
tends to contract a new loan is without foundation.

PARIS, JULY 11.
The Illoniteur announces that the Legislative
session is prorogued until the 21st July.
The continuation of th© discussion on the judi-
cial project of law is adjourned until after the
budget has been considered.

BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN MAILS
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta, Captain Field, with the heavy portion of the
above mails, arrived off the Needles at 9 a.m. this
morning.