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SOUTH WALES COALS,

for Six Months, from Ist July next.
The Coals to be fit for the serviee of her Majesty's Steam
Vessels.

The said Commissioners having the power to increase the
monthly supply to any quantity not exceeding 3,000 tons in
each month, if required, on three weeks' notice.
The conditions of the Contract and a form of the Tender
may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received
after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed
unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised
in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words" Ten-
der for Gibraltar," and must be delivered at Somerset-place,
accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible 'persons,
engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the
sum of £2,000, for the due performance of the Contract.

CONTRACTS FOR SHIRTS AND STOCKINGS FOR
THE ROYAL MARINES.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset-place, 4th June, 1860.
rIIE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 21st
inst, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying
and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at I,ept-
f rd, all such BRUITS for the Royal Marines, and GRAY
WO “STED STOCKINGS for Sergeants of the Royal Ma-
rines, as shall from time to time be demanded for 12 months
certain, and afterwards until the expiration of three months'
warning.

Patterns of the articles may be seen at the Royal Marine
Office, New-street, Spring-gardens, between the hours of one
and four o'clock.
No tender will be received unless made on the Printed Form
provided for the purpose ; and which may be obtained on ap-
plication at the said office.

Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions of the, Contracts, which may be seen at the
said Office.

No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or au agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at
Somerset-house.

PROSPECTUS OF THE IMPERIAL
THESSALIAN MINING COMPANY
(Limited).
Capital £lOO,OOO, in 50,000 shares of £2 each. 10s. per share
payable on application, and 10s. on allotment.
DIRECTORS.
James Nugent Daniell, Esc., Blackwall Railway.
Henry Morris Kemshead, Esq., 46, Lime-street.
John Cater, Esq., Rood-lane.
Sir Henry Leeke, K,C.8., M.P., Ovington-square.
Joseh Fry, Esq., Gresham House.
SirCusack P. Roney, Old Broad-street.
Charles Whetham, Esq., Gracechurch-street.
Local Agent—Major It. Stuart, H.B.M. Consul, Volo,
Consulting Engineer—Wm. B. Bray, Esq„ C.E.
Solicitors—Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, Masterman, & Hughes.
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths.
Brokers—Messrs. Field, Son, and Wood. •
Secretary (pro tem.)—Mr. A. C. M. Prince.
Offices-85, Gresham House, Old Broad-street.
The mining property which it is the object of the present
Company to acquire and work is situated in the provinces of
Thessaly and Epirus, and a portion of it in Macedonia, known
in the country as the Sanjak of. Janina, Trikala, and Volos ;
it embraces a superficial area of great extent, and many
ranges of mountains rich in mineral deposits. Amongst
those ranges are comprised Mount Pindus, Mount Othris,
Mount Felton, Mount Ossa, and Mount Olympus, which are
elongations of the weal-known metalliferous chain of moun-
tains passing through Elyria and Carniola, in Austria.
11.1. M. the Sultan of Turkey, in the year 1856, granted a
concession for mining on the above property during a period
of 31 years from that date, subject to an annual rent of motto
piastres (about £650 sterling), in lieu of all royalties, payable
on theist day of January in each year. The concession com-
prises the exclusive right of mining in the- above districts,
and an exemption from the payment of customs dui ies on all
minerals produced from the mines.
The district possesses unusual advantages for the export
of minerals, having a great extent of seaboard both in the
Adriatic Sea and in the Grecian Archipelago. The boundary
co the Adriatic Sea comprises a length of 200 miles of the sea
coast from the Gulf of Arta, northwards, passing opposite to
Corfu, and on towards the harbour of Duratzo in Albania,
north of Avlona. The boundary in the Grecian Archipelago
embrsces about 100 miles of sea coast from the Gulf of Volo
to Katharina, in the Gulf of Salonica.
The concession was originally granted to Ized Pacha, and
has finally become the property of Mr. George Zarifi, of the
well-known Constantinople house. This gentleman has con-
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numerous veins of argentiferous and auriferous lead have been
laid open. Large works for smelting the ores from these
veins have been erected there, about three-quarters of a mile
from the sea coast. They are described by Mr. William B.
Bray, C.E., in his able report (copies of which maybe obtained
at the Company's offices, or of the brokers) as very extensive
in character, substantial in construction, andcapable of treat]
ing a large quantity of ore.
The smelting establishment consists of 14 furnaces, of dif-
ferent sorts, besides a complete set of desilverising pans,
according to Pattinson's process. There are six ore and slag
hearths, three roasting furnaces, two cupelling furnaces, and
a reducing furnace. There is a water- wheel of 40-horsepower,
but this power can be more than quadrupled. There are sets
of stampers for crushing ores, as well as extensive apparatus
for washing and dressing them.
There are workshops, smitheries, saw-mills,'&c., and exten-
sive magazines for charcoal. Wood can be delivered at the
works from the adjacent extensive forests at a low cost, and
may be had in unlimited quantities.
The establishment at " Pelion Works " is capable of smelt-
ing from nine to ten tons of mixed metal daily, and of
separating tha silver and gold from the lead. There are
generally from 60 to 80, and sometimes as much as 150 ounces
of silver, and from six to eight dwts. of gold, in a ton of
metal, and its average worth for gold, silver, and lead's from
£2B to £3O per ton.
The ores of Galena yielded by the mines are very rich ;
some of them give as much as 82 per cent. of metal, and the
average is from 30 to 40 per cent. The mineral veins vary in
breadth from 2 to 10 feet, and yield on an average about 35
per cent. of mixed metal, consisting of lead, silver, and gold.
The gold and silver are refined at the works, and the lead is
of the softest and best quality.
The Directors have entered into a provisional arrangement
for the purchase from Mr. Zarifi of the abovementioned con-
cession, together with the smelting works, furnaces, plant,
machinery, minerals, and other property belonging to the
mines. Mr. Zarifi, wishing to retain a large interest in the
undertaking, has agreed to accept payment for the property
as follows, viz.:—£30,000 in fully paid-up shares at par, and
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Labour can be obtained In the neighbourhood of the mines
nron economical terms, and a ready market is found in Turkey
for all lead raised from the property, the price at Constanti-
nople being higher than in London.
Applications for shares may be made in the subjoined form
to the Dire:tors, at the Offices of the tompany go. 8.5, Gres-
ham House, 01(1 Broad-street; or to Messrs. Field, Son, and.
Wood, 9, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street, London.
Each application for shares must be accompanied by a pay-
ment to the Bankers of the Company of 10s. per sh ire on the
number of shares applied for. If no allotment be made the
deposit will be returned in full.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Imperial Thessalian Mining Company
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers, Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Smiths, the sum of £ , I hereby request
that you will allot to me shares of £2 each in the above
Company, upon the terms of the prospectus ; and I hereby
undertake to aocept the said shares, or any smaller number
that may be allotted to me, and to pay the further sum of 10s.
per share upon the shares allotted to me when required so to
do.—l am, gentlemen, yours obediently,
Name in full
Address in full
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between 50 and 60, some of whom were landed des-
titute of everything. Among them is a cabin boy,
aged 16, taken off the Norwegian schooner Abra-
ham by a fishing lugger, the rest of the crew having
been washed overboard. He escaped the general
fate by happening to be below at the time, where
he had been sent by the captain for some refresh-
ment for the crew, then almost exhausted, as the
vessel laboured very heavily. While down a tre-
mendous sea struck the vessel, and when he went
on deck he saw nothing of the crew except the mate,
who was at the moment struggling in the waves a
hundred yards off. The boy, having secured the
captain's watch, lashed himself to the rigging,
whence he was rescued after 43 hours. The loss
entailed on the fishing interest of this port by the
gale is almost unprecedented. A large fleet of
mackerel boats—upwards of 200, was caught in the
North Sea by the storm, and scarcely a boat has
come in which has net sustained some damage in

loss of nets, gear, or men. Ten loggers and two
smacks are still missing, having on board upwards
of 100 hands, men and boys, and worth, with nets
and gear, from £5OO to £6OO each vessel. Some
hopes were entertained of their safety up to Satur-
day night, but as the wind fro n the south-east on
that day did not bring them in, and as Sunday
passed without any tidings, the worst is now feared.
All the crews belong to this neighbourhood, the
men in many instances having wives and large
families ; and for some days past the beach has been
the scene of the most heartrending spectacles, the
poor women coming down to inquire after some
boat containing a husband or a son, and filling the
air with their cries, as they heard that no tidings had
been received. Another fishing lugger, the Prima
Donna, which had been missing, was brought in on
Friday, abandoned; and the master, a man, and a boy
arrived here on Sunday from a French port, having
been taken off the wreck by a French vessel, and
landed there. They report that the remainder of
the crew, to the number of seven, were washed over-
board. This fearful destruction of life and property
has thrown a sad gloom over the town ; it is feared
that the clubs will be absolutely ruined. Vessels
arriving here report that the North Sea is literally
strewed with pieces of wreck, spars entangled in
fishing nets, deals, casks, &c.

SHIELDS, Sunday Night.
The weather came on extremely rough again last
night, a heavy sea roaring over the bar of the Tyne,
and threatening a second storm. It rained and
blew all last night, and has rained during the whole
of to-day, the wind blowing from the south-east.
A number of laden ships sailed yesterday, and sea-
faring people were very anxious last night with
regard to them. There have been many arrivals of
light vessels to-day. All have got in safe. The
Mary Muncaster bark has arrived here to-day from
London, in charge of one of our most experienced
captains, Mr. James Turpie, an ingenious inventor
of a patent trysail. The Mary Muncaster has
brought in with her the survivors of the schooner
John, of Goole; the master and his wife have lost
their lives under most affecting circumstances. The
Mary Muncaster left the Thames on Saturday
night week, and encountered the fearful gale of
Monday morning between the Dudgeon and Cro-
mer. Mr. Turpie states that the gale came on with
immense suddenness and fury, and though he has
been at sea 30 years and encountered all kinds of
hurricanes in the China and Indian seas and on
the Atlantic, and was out in the Royal Charter gale
last year, he never encountered such a fearful storm
as that of Monday. His vessel was speedily
stripped'of her sails by the wind, and so violent
was the hurricane that the crew were unable to
work their way up the rigging, and the vessel was
taken out of their hands by the hurricane. While
drifting before the storm the John hove in sight,
under balanced reefed mainsail, and, as the crew
of the Mary Muncaster were powerless, the vessels
came together. The master and mate of the Mary
Muncaster haulcd the mate and two of the crew
of the schooner into their ship ; but the master of
the schooner, Mr. Rhodes, lost his life in trying to
save his wife, who was on board. ife had fastened
a line about his wife, but while the officers of the
bark were trying to haul her on board, the hitch
he had made slipped, and she was carried away by
the-waves and drowned. Mr. Rhodes had fastened
a line about himself. and the mate of the bark was
pulling hiin into his vessel, when the two ships
were suddenly thrown together by a fearful sea,
and the poor fellow was crushed between them,
the line slipped from the mate's hands and he sank.
The vessels fortunately shortly after drifted asun-
der, else it was thought they must both perish.
During the storm the Mary Muncaster drove on to
a bank, and thumped on the ground several times,
but the wind and sea raged so fiercely that she was
carried over the sand and was saved. There are
vessels belonging to the Tyne and adjacent ports,
which were known to be out in the gale, still un-
accounted for; and, from the melancholy accounts
that are reaching north-east ports, it is greatly to
be feared that several of them are gone with all
their crews. Intelligence has reached here of the
loss of the brig Walker on the Dutch coast, and
it is feared other north-country vessels have per-
ished in that neighbourhood. There have been
many wet cheeks by the humble hearths of our
harbour towns to-day, as seamen have recounted
their merciful deliverance from death in this fearful
storm ; and some affecting scenes have been wit-
nessed as rough and hardy men have appeared at
our places of worship to thank the Almighty for
their merciful deliverance from peril and death.

PORTSMOUTH, Monday.
The accounts of the casualties along the coast
from the effects of Saturday's gale have not proved
of so severe a nature as had been anticipated, neither
has it passed by without the loss of vessels or of
life. At 5 p.m. on Saturday a brig was observed on
shore to the eastward of Chichester harbour, but the
sea ran so high that the Coastguard could render
no assistance. By sunset the vessel went to pieces,
and every soul on board was lost. Scarcely a
south-west gale of any strength occurs in the Chan-
nel but it is accompanied by loss of lives on this
part of the coast, extending from the east end of
the Isle of Wight to the 0 wers light-vessel. No
lifeboat of any kind is stationed here, and the only
boats available are those of the Coastguard, and
they are utterly useless in contending with the
heavy surf on such occasions. The brig Triumph,
Southampton, from Guernsey for London, with
240 tons of stone as cargo, was struck by a sudden
squall at the time the wind shifted so suddenly
daring the gale, and had all her canvas blown from
the bolt ropes. At nine p.m. she struck heavily on
the Woolmors, a dangerous shoal off the mouth of
Langston harbour, and continued beating along
the sands till 10 p.m., when she became firmly
fixed in her present position at nearly high water-
was experienced in getting
mark. Great difficulty
the men on shore, owing to the tremendous surf
running up the beach. A spar with a small line
attached was thrown into the surf, which the
Coastguardsman, making lines fast round their
waists, rushed into the water and secured. A haw-
ser was then hauled ashore, one end being made
fast on board, and by these means the crew were
rescued, two of them being in a very exhausted state.
The whole of them were conveyed to the hotel in
the village, where they received every attention
and kindness. the captain of the brig reports
that there was an awful sea running at five p.m.
on Saturday
between. the Nab Light and the
0 wers ;
and that after, his canvas had been blown
away by the squall on the wind shifting, his vessel
drifted pasta schooner with only one mast stand-
ing, and driving towards the shore, green seas
making a clear breach over her. lie thinks she
must have gone downsoon afterwards with all on
board. A collier brig is reported to have been
driven ashore off ,entnor ; and another, the Light
Sign, and Siafrom Sunderlind f)r Southampton, has
gone ashore- to the ~,est7c,;rti of Stol:cs-hay. Great.
damage has been done to the gardens, along the
coast, and in several exposed situalions large trees
have been levelled with the grow ml. It still Mows
fresh from the westward, with passing squalls.

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ledge of the assembly that the permanent Imperial
Councillor Von Szogyenyi and the Imperial Coun-
cillor Count Albert Nostitz had been appointed
first and second vice presidents by his Apostolic
Majesty ; that the two permanent Imperial Coun-
eillors Baron von Lichtenfels and Count Mercandin
had been appointed members of the commission
entrusted with the verification of the protocols of
the future deliberations. A considerable majority
soon after entrusted the same duty to the two
Imperial Councillors, Count Anton Auersperg and
Count Anton Szecsen. Count Apponyi and Count
Andrassy afterwards developed, in_their speeches,
those points which they thought adapted to their
respective positions as Hungarian subjects of his
Apostolic Majesty.
The session for 1860 was then declared duly
opened by Archduke Rainer, and the Assembly in-
formed that on the next morning they were to be
received by the Emperor in person.
On the following day (the Ist inst.) the members
of the Council of the Empire assembled in the
Throne-room of the palace, when the Emperor ad-
dressed them as follows

" My Lords, Councillors of the Empire,—Be
heartily welcome. I have called you around me,
since I count upon with certitude to have found in
you men who will assist me in my endeavours to pro-
mote alike the welfare of all nations of Austria faith-
fully and with true devotion. All important ques-
tions relating both to general legislation and to
the exigencies of the budget will be laid before
you, my lords. Please to bear in mind, in your deli-
berations, those supreme principles that the weal
and the woe of all parts of this vast empire are
most intimately interwoven—that the solidarity
and mutuality of interests through all my Crown
lands are facts which encircle and bind together the
monarchy through a thousand of sacred and time-
honoured links ; that each attempt to shake or
loosen those links must lead immediately to the
detriment of the whole of its parts, preventing all
progress, both intellectual and material, and that,
therefore, I could by no means allow such attempts
to take place without trespassing on my sacred
duties towards my empire and my people. Let us,
therefore, my lords, secure and enforce equal rights
and protection to all nations of Austria, and may
they thus be united into one strong link of concord
and brotherhood.

"My Lords,—When called upon to examine the
single item of the budget, pay due consideration to
the political position of Austria, but do so with the
utmost care not to increase the charges of the
people. Soon you will satisfy yourselves that up
to this very hour, although reforms in finance are
slow to ripen into full effect, considerable economy
in all branches of the administration have already
been obtained without lessening altogether the
general income. If, then, we progress in this direc-
tion with perseverance and strength—if thus we
succeed in bringing to wholesome results those re-
forms of inner administration which I have ordered

—then, my lords, I have no doubt, and I hope as-
suredly that if no extraordinary event thwart lour
efforts, the hoped-for financial balance may be finally
attained.

"The welfare of all the nations entrusted to my
care constitutes the highest aim of my unceaing
endeavours, and also the development of our inter-
nal welfare as well as of our importance abroad,
are those noble tasks to which the whole of my
zeal is devoted. In the efforts to realise those su-
preme national boons, you, my lords, are with. me,
as well as all my faithful subjects, and thus let us
pray unto the Almighty, and implore Him to give
to our combined endavours His Holy will aud,His
mighty assistance."
The following is the speech of the President of
the Council of the Empire (Archduke Rainer) at
the opening of its session :
" My Lords and Gentlemen,—At the time when
his Majesty, our most gracious lord and emperor,
announced, by the manifesto of July 15, 1859, to
his faithful subjects the return of peace, he was
also pleased to declare that the blessings of peace
were doubly precious, since they afforded the ne-
cessary means for the task of promoting both the
inner welfare and the external security of Aus-
tria by developing her rich intellectual and mate-
rial resources, and by introducing proper improve-
ments and changes in her legislation and admi-1
nistration.' Indefatigable in the pursuit of this
first and supreme aim, his Majesty has felt the
necessity of informing himself of the interests
and wishes of the whole population of the empire.
by means of the advice and the reports of such of
his subjects as were themselves immediately 'con-
cerned in those changes. The most important
task of the provincial diets will be, therefore,
to bring to his august knowledge those
same wishes and interests. But also in the centre
of the empire his Majesty has resolved to gather
around him faithful, experienced, and independent
councillors whose great knowledge and thorough
loyalty to the Throne and the country will prove
the more beneficial the more difficult the problem
laid before them appears to be. His Majesty has
been pleased to entrust this grand and noble task
to the Council of the Empire, which, notwithstand-
ing its present augmentation, is to discharge busi-
ness in the form and way used hitherto. You will
readily understand, my lords and gentlemen, that
this Imperial Council, in its present enlarged form,
is to act as a supreme one both of the Emperor
and the Crown.' In accordance with the Imperial
patent of March 15, 1860, you aro, my lords and
gentlemen, summoned around the Emperor, and
you will, no doubt, devote all your efforts to the
realisation of his august and all-important prospects
and views. You will constantly bear in mind that
his Majesty, in appealing to your advice, intended
above all to reinforce his supreme council by such
men as would independently express their indivi-
dual opinions, and bring to his knowledge the needs
and wants of all classes of our populations, but who
at the same would never forget that the weal and
the woe of all repose on the rights of the Crown
as well as on the maintenance of the unity of
the empire. My lords and gentlemen, I have
been called upon by his Majesty to superintend
your deliberations, and therefore a copy of
the rules adopted for the transaction of business
(geschafts ordnung) having been communicated to
each and all of you, I beg leave to invite you, in
compliance with section 3 of the above•named
to take the oath there nrescribed. [Presentation of
the oath.] Before we begin our task, my lords and
gentlemen, allow me to address you a few words.
Receive, then, above all, the assurance that, to the
best of my knowledge, and with the utmostimpar-
tiality, I have resolved to discharge my duty of
superintendence, watching, however, over the
strictest compliance with the above-named Imperial
regulation and form of business. I feel sure that
in serious appreciation of the noble tusk entrusted
to you, my lords and gentlemen, you will assist me
fervently and faithfully, and that you will do all
your best to ensure those prosperous results which
both Emperor and country expect confidenfly from
your patriotism and loyalty. Great and important
indeed are the subjects of discussion submitted to
you, but by far the most important amongst them
is the deliberation on the question how our financial
administration is to be improved and how the in-
disperislizle necessities of the budget shall he pro-
vided. Ample preparatory arrangements have
already been made; they will no doubt faell,it.ate
the that very question on the hlppy
on
of which the welfare of our country undoubtedly
depends. But not less, I feel persuaded, my lords
and gentlemen, you will devote all your zeal and
wisdom to those other questions which his Majesty
has been pleased to lay before you. Very serious
indeed, we cannot deny it, is the position of our
country at the present hour, which witnesses the
first assembly of this augmented Council of the
Empire. However, a better future is in expectance,
and therefore, let me congratulate you, gentle-
men, on your present noble mission relating
to the realisation of such better days and pro-
spects. So let us, then, always remember our Em-
peror's device, ' V iribus unstis,' and may God help

"I am not in the possession of a man clat,' con-
sequently 1 express in this august assembly only
my individual opinion, without rendering my coun-
try responsible for it. Yet, I feel it incumbent on
my duty, as a citizen, to accept a position enabling
me to give my personal views as if my country had
called on me to do so. When I view the great
bearing of this enlarged council which, considering
an important epoch, has a great task to perform—
when, moreover, I reflect on the great influence
which this council will exercise on the countries
belonging to the Crown of Hungary, I feel in duty
bound to say a few words in order to explain my
position in this high assembly in reference to Hun-
gary. It must not be a secret to this council that
the enlarged Reichsrath ' has created some serious
thought in Hungary. It is natural that a country
which is attached with a religious piety to its pre-
vious legal relationship to the empire and to its
historical rights and institutions, should look upon
these important changes with the deepest concern.
The extension of the council, in which the future
representatives of Hungary are to be brought into
direct contact with all the other Crown lands,
is such an important fact that, irrespective
of its usefulness and necessity, it may well
engage some serious thoughts. The more this
opinion is spread, and the more I have been
impressed with it, the greater most be the rea-
sons which made me and my compatriots
answer to the call of his gracious Majesty, and to
enter upon a path which seems to separate us from
our political friends, whose opinion we had ever
shared. Indeed, the fact that we have come here
shows the amount of confidence which we place in
our high-souled monarch. According to his grant
of the 19th we are to-regain our political existence,
and we are to be allowed the legal right to express
our thoughts in this high assembly, and to enforce
that opinion which is based on our historical rights,
and to which, provided we use it in the interest of
the Crown and the whole empire, we are entitled to.
It proves further what are the hopes we build on
this political debate, and what is the value we place
on the liberty of a legal discussion which will enable
us to conquer prejudices, to allay misunderstanding
which contributed so much to widen the breach
between the peoples of the same empire—this being
upheld at thef,great cost of all, rendering every
boon valueless though it might have been placed
in the palm of the hand. I believe, and believe it
firmly, that the supreme council is a safe issue from
difficulties ordered by the wisdom of our gracious
monarch, which is au exceptional position we could
well enter upon, inasmuch as it is the only one by
means of which all misunderstanding, all great
burning questions, and consequently that of Hun-
gary, may be best settled. It will show itself that
Hungary desires nothing which might throw the
least umbrage on the well-being of the united
monarchy, or which might peril the safety of the
other provinces—that they desire to attain nothing
at their expense, but that they, on the contrary,
wish that their connection should be beneficial to
them, in securing a general well-being, and to
strengthen the organic ties of the empire. In
this expectation I enter upon this path. I
wish to be understood that I do not intend
to renounce one of my principles. I feel
bound to preserve our historical rights. Nor have
I resigned my rights in the future liungarian con-
stitution, for I accepted the task with that well-
understood condition that I should not forfeit any
privileges and duties which the future may entail
on me."

Count Apponyi concluded by an expression of
gratitude to the Emperor.
Count Andrassy endorsed the above sentiments,
adding that in his present position he stands on his
own responsibility, and not as a representative of
Hungary, and that, he is authorised to express the
same views on behalf of his colleagues.

THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRIVILEGES OF
TILE LORDS AND COMMONS.

(Fro:n the _London Correspondent of the Liverpool _Albion)
Next, as to the Commons' committee hunting for
precedents to cushion Lords' antagonism on the
paper question, for that is the object of the explo-
ration ; and the Tiverton miner, having little coun-
termining to guard against, nearly all the delvers
being his accomplices, will take care they shall not
search in vain. In fact already there has been suffi-
cient found to dispose of the whole affair • so if
there be the least sincerity in Gladstone he had
better go out, and if in Bright he should " come
out" as fast, and the latter as hot and strong as
possible; otherwise the pair will have to settle
down into as thorough a couple of Piccadilly" ap•
pendages " as stepson Cowper or stepson-in-law
Shaftesbury themselves. The report is already
virtually made, and is no report at all, which is.just
what is wanted. It .avill be merely a dry record of
precedents, so tabulated that they will need no re-
commendation to give them the desired point,
namely, that the Peers are in the right, and the
Commons in the wrong, and serve them right, too,
for pretending to be in earnest when all the world
knows they are not.
At the first meeting Mr. May handed in to
Chairman Walpole a prodigious list of precedents,
which was handed back with a request for detailed
explanations of each, that is, of the bearings of each,
for circumstances alter cases in these as in other
matters • and a precedent that may apparently
be perfectly pertinent to the present business
may turn out to be wholly inapplicable, because of
motives or objects, other than these on the surface,
mixed up with it. There is one precedent, how-
ever, which there is no getting over, but which has
not been mentioned yet, and is now mentioned here
for the first time, namely, that of 1774, when Lord
North's Cabinet brought in a bill for the better
government of Quebec, commonly called Lord
North's Canada Bill, in which it was provided that
a tax may be levied on the Roman Catholic popula-
tion for the 'church and clergy purposes of that
persuasion. The Whigs opposed the bill ; partly
on the no-Popery, Jacobites, and so forth; partly.
on privilege, the bill originating in the Peers. At-
tention to the latter fact was repeatedly called by
Charles Fox, then very young. He several times
divided the house, but was beaten. Not only did
the bill become law, but it was prominently alluded
to in George the Third's Speech from the Throne
at the close of the session. By the time that this
precedent is put in the pipe of Mr. Bright, and
smoked in peace, there will be a cessttion of the
vapouring of the Birmingham furnace. Then indeed
will he." speak with abated fire," as he lately said,
but unjustly to himself, that he now speaks; for he
never spoke better, and probably the best speech he
ever made in his life was that of last night, short
as it was. It produced a most remarkable impres-
sion on the house ; and the impression all his
speeches do make there furnishes the most comical
commentary on the gibberish in some of the
papers which represent him as without weight any-
where, and as deserving of it nowhere. It was
curious to observe that Bright's seat last night
was occupied by the burly Milesian metropolitan,
Lord Fermoy ; but as soon as he brought on the
question as to what the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer meant to do with the money saved in conse-
quence of the Peers' veto against the paper remis-
sion, he vacated the place. Into it Bright stepped,
an:l thence made his remarks, in his best elocu-
tionary manlier, and that is far better than the
very best in the'house, Graham's perhaps alone es-
copied ; for Gladstone's is far inferior, although it
is the cant of the minute, or rather was a short
time ago, to assume the contrary. Gladstone eyed
the trib-inc intently all the time he was speaking,
with evidh admiration, if not entire s) mpathy ;
for ii, is difficult to del ermine, and that difficulty, n 8
applied to one a:-d all of our public men, is the
curse and paralysis of the time, hoW far he is in
earnest, how far he is Palmerston-ridden, how far
independent, how far prepared to vindicate that in-
dependence in action, instead of " letting I d
not wait upon I will," like the poor cat [Pusvyite]
in the adage: Gladstone himself spoke with evi-
dent restraint and constraint; and it was amusing
to perceive his half-satisfied embarrassment, when,
making reference to his " noble friend," he turned
round, and discovered that said friend was " con-
spicuous from his absence," as another noble friend
once said on the City hustings,

baleli has—glatified a.
bile, impatience. The prele_.
the quick succesion ollarree'e
battles, and the surrender of the Rityal intly Three
followed each other almost es rapidly as telegraphs
could tell them. We sit and see it all pass rapidly
on, and clap our hands, growing impatient if the
curtain should be let down between the acts. This
guerilla chief, although now a great General, and
the supreme leader of two millions of people, still
makes war like a guerilla chief. That promptitude
which success stamps as wisdom and which failure
:brands as rashness is; in his cit cumstances, the only
than-- With-guns and forts, and trained.
armies, Generals versed in the regular
strategy of modern warfw e as his enemies, with
brave, ardent fellows, de:litn eof everything but
teat hearts and strong limbs as his supporters,
Garibaldi hid to do all by dvd‘,, or not at all. HO
has done it. He h forcud his way into Palermo,
he has beaten the King's army, he has driven theta
into their forts, and he lets oliliged them to admit
their inferiority by consentit,,,, to Capitulate. Fast
upon the intelligence t hat the a tpitulation had been
completed, and that the 24,000 soldiers of the
King's array were going fot::it under the pressure
of the patriJtic bands which had beaten and sur-
rounded them, comes the new 3 that the capitulation
has been broken, that the lints and vessels have
again opened fire upon the city, that the insur-
gents have resumed their arms and are swarming
round the army, that the city is barricaded
and that amid the devastation which is going
on the troops are deserting, and even a Neapolitan
General has gone over to the popular cause. The
procession of great events is rapid enough, but un-
happily we have them as yet only in outline.
Garibaldi is the hero for the present age, when
steam and electricity have so spoilt us for enduring
the tardiness of old tidings that we should, per-
haps, if we got Caesar's celebrated despatch, quarrel
with the comma which separates the vidi from the
vie/. But still, when we have quenched our thirst
for news, we yearn for a long, quiet enjoyment of
the details.
Unfortunately, Sicily is an island. What is still
worse, Sicily is an island the surrounding waters
of which are in possession of a fleet hostile to the
Sicilian cause. We'cannot hope that the Neapolitan
Government will be polite enough to forward the
Sicilian accounts of those Royal victories which
shine so gaudily in their official garb. That this
rush of events is all chronicled and well described
for us we are tolerably sure ; but when these ac-
counts will reach us it is impossible to guess, as from
hour to hour we wait for them. Even, however,
from the information before us now we can under-
stand that the original positions of Garibaldi and
the Neapolitan Generals are counterchanged. It
is General Lanza's position which is desperate,
and it is Garibaldi's which is secure It cannot be
otherwise. Although we want details, the events
speak for themselves. Lanza would never have
proposed or consented to capitulate if he had any
hope of maintaining his ground at Palermo. The
order of the Court to remain and bombard the city
is an order to remain and be destroyed. This may
suit the selfish policy of the Neapolitan tyrant. He
may prefer that his soldiers should be rather massa-
cred, red-handed with the blood of his subjects,
than return to Naples defeated and discouraged,
to spread abroad in the King's own home dominions
a practical contradiction of those fabled victories
which had been posted up in the streets of Naples.
Such a spectacle of-defeat would have been, perhaps,
an enouragement to revolt. Better that they should
do what massacre they can and then perish, or better
even that they should go over to the enemy, than
come home and proclaim by their presence that
Garibaldi is triumphant and the Bourbon power
broken. Again, it is said that there were
4,000,000 of scudi in the Treasury at Palermo.
It is certain that there are in the forts arms and
stores to equip all the youth of Sicily, and guns
to make the harbour an uncomfortable anchorage
for Neapolitan ships of war. Francis 11. might
well believe that happen what might, nothing
could be much worse for him than the capitulation
which had been signed by General Lanza. ; If, as
we hear it said, those 4,000,000 scudi were to be
handed over to Garibaldi, subject to the rights of
the King of Naples and to his orders as to the
ultimate destination of them, there was not want-
ing that spice of irony which should give poignancy
to this humiliating capitulation. General Lanza
might, perhaps, have said in his defence that he
brought 26,0(0 men to surround the throne of his
Sovereign, and to protect his continental dominions
from the attack which was certainly impending,.
The King, however, does not seem to place much
value upon these men. He evidently thinks that
the army .which could not or would not keep
Garibaldi out of Sicily will either want the power
or th::, will to keep him out of Naples.
- We see in all this the despair and the distrust of
a falling tyranny.. His hope from his own army
being evidently gone, the King of Naples betakes
himself.now in nnndicant fashion to those foreign
Pow( rs whose counsels he has so often rejected,
and whose warnings he has treatcd with scorn. He
hopes that those from whom he would endure no

inferees,,:ion on behalf of his tortured subjects will
now inte-fere, when those subjects have righteously
risen against his monstrous tyranny, and hold hint
in their grasp. He has applied to Austria, and it
was supposed for a moment at Turin that Austria
had moved down a body of 15,000 troops to
create a diversion, or even to punish Piedmont
for her connivance in this Sicilian expedition.
Such consistency did the rumour obtain that
French regiments were marched to the point in-
dicated. Their appearance called out the Aus-
trians, and the two rival uniforms stood once
more for a moment face to face. Of course the
alarm was without foundation. Even Austria
is not quite so mad as to fight in such a cause as
this ; but the prompt movement of the French troops
shows how quickly any such enterprise would be
met. We are not able to say what verbal comfort
Austria may have afforded her ally, but she cer-
tainly is not prepared to sacrifice herself in order
that he may pursue his career of cruelty and folly.
Scared as he was, Francis 11. next applied to the
Emperor of the French for an armed mediation.
The telegraphic message found the Emperor at
Lyons, and we are assured that it received an in-
stant reply, to the effect that any interference of
France in this conflict was entirely out of the ques-
tion. The Bourbon, therefore, is left to his fate.
Unless be can hold his own against Garibaldi and
the people he has so justly incensed there is none
to help him.--Times.

THE CORPORA7I J.N AND ME MER-

CHANTS.

A notable controversy appears to have long
existed between the Corporation, the Gresham Com-
mittee, and the merchants of London. The mer-
chants arerepresented to have supplicated in vain the
joint Gresham Committee to relieve them from the
hardship of attending "'Change" without shelter,
and during nine out of the 12 months in the year,
in this our variable climate, we can imagine the
amount of unnecessary suffering that may be occa-
sioned. For this a remedy has been suggested by
the patient complainants, who, moreover, have gone
the length of proposing to relieve the trustees of the
Exchange from any expense, if expense alone be
the impediment. It has always appeared to us a
strange oversight when, after the fire which con-
sumed the previous structure .by Jarman, a new
building was constructed, that it did not occur to
the joint representatives of Sir Thomas Gresham
how advantageous would have been an enclosed
building for the transaction of business there. They
might have gathered the experience from Antwerp
that its open Exchange, however beautiful and
world-admired, was found to be inconvenient, and
was consequently roofed in. The Bourse of Paris
has been complained of by some, by reason of its
roof accumulating and conducting sound to such an
its
money as to render it, with th loquacity of
money merchants, a perfect Babel. No
.such
notoriously
waituhona-
acoustiicooefl,iffifocrulttoy
soundcould ,
itb
glass ever,
conductor, while on the score of light and tasteful
elegance we need only point to the new reading..
room of the British Museum to demonstrate what a
feature of interest, of beauty, as well as of comfort,
may be rendered of the proposed glass roof of the
Exchange area. Moreover, as in this comparatively
ungcnill climate we have, in the interior of the
Royal Exchange, attempted to introduce art decora-
tion on its open, unshelterc-d walls, we should re-
mernbrr that one generation of the frescoes of Mr.
Sang have disappeared before the combined attacks
coofrdzepnr, dthseindockeeo.uttfotz))a,,li-I,,tl.l.elreeNfvoercei, base
tiny
have only lately been, the".satincel artist', to take
some care to preserve them. We might hint, too,
that i‘ollgh's statue of cur Sovereign, which so
ifltdi stands in the cvotre of the area,
m:dri-go a suiti:h!, (1.,L).r-3ing from the dirt
now fit, Ntemaienlly preeil,il,:teel upon it from the
damp eaves of the adjacent ha ildhigs preparatory to
the construction of the desired glass covering that
would shield it for the future.—C'ity Press.

FRAUD ON A SAVINGS BANK.—A young man
named Frederick Eton, and an aged woman, named Mary
Ann Manby, were, this morning, placed before Mr. Beadon,
charged with forging a receipt for money on theiProvident
Institution, St. Martin's-place. The money, it appeared,
had been deposited by Manby for the benefit of her son, A
minor, now in India, and in order to obtain the interest on
the sum, viz., £2O sterling, Eton said she had previdiod 011
him to represent himself as her son. Both prisoners were
remanded.

EARLY CLOSING ON SATURDAYS AND
THE RIFLE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.
A MORNING MEETING in connection with the EARLY
CLOSING ASSOCIATION will be held, at St. James's Hall,
to-morrow WEDNESDAY, June 6, at 3 o'clock, for the pro-
Motion of earlier closing on Saturday.
Lord ELCHO. M.P., in the chair.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Right Hon.
Earl Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Radstock, the Rev. William
Landels, Arthur Mills, Esq., M.P„ Benjamin Shaw, Esq.,
M.A., the Rev. J. M. Bellew, and others, will address the
meeting.
Doors open at half-past Two.
Admission by Tickets only, to be obtained spat.. Austin, at
the Hall ; Messrs. J. and F. H. Rivington, 3,r100-placc,
Pall-Mall ; Nisbet and Co., 21, Berners-street ; Seeleys, 2,
Hanover-street ; Westerton's Library, 20, St. George's-place,
Hyde Park -corner ; W. Skeffington, 163, Piccadilly ; E.
Stamford, Charing-cross ; and at the offices of the Association
35, Ludgate-hill.

JOSEPH FITTER, Secretary.

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of the said Compan will be SHUT on WEDNESDAY, the
13th day of June, any d open again on TUESDAY, the 3d day
of July, 1860

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TH EATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE FAMILY SECIZET. Messrs.
Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Villiers, Buckstone, Mrs. B.
White, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss Amy
Sedgwick.
Followed by a new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF
FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and
Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade.
After which, THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By
the Leclercqs.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Phelps.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED. Mr. Meadows,
Miss C. Leciercq, &c.