The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-19 00:00:00

HIGH-STREET, INVERNESS,

Where only can the va.ied products of the Highlands,
natural and industrial, be seen.
In his extensive rooms MACDOUGALL has gathered
together all the best producti 'ns of the Highla d looms in
Tweeds, Tutans, Linseys, Plaids, Shawls, Dresses, the
favourite Highland Cloak, Fiora Macdonald ditto, &c., &c.,
with • the best Native Jewellery (Cairngorms, Pearls,
thapretty products of the Skye. L wis, and Gairloch looms
and knitting needles, the home-made undyed plaids of Ord,
Antherland, and Avoch, the Snuff Boxes, Coups, Bickers of
the Culloden, carvers, &c.
Side by side with this ho has placed all the necessary
Clothing of every description for Deer Stalking, Grouse
Booting, and for Tourists, dre.
7lVisitors to his rooms can at once com Dare the varied pro-
(biota of the three kingdoms.
D. MACDOUGALL, Inverness.
IFICDOUGALL and his patterns of Tweds. eze., can he
seen at 24, BREWER-STREET, REGENT-STREET, from
Two till Six o'Clock, until July 10, when he retu: us to Inver-
nest.

lIER MAJESTY'S THE
Second Night of Locrezia 13nr,zia,.
Madlle. Titiens' Last Appearance but Three.
seated
THIS EVENING iSaturday, June 19), willibe re
Donizetti's admired Opera,
LUCREZIA BORGIA.
With the following powerful cast :
Lucrezia Borgia Madlle. s.
Mafilo Orsini Madame Alboni.
Gubetta...Signor Vialetti I Petrucci, Signor Aldighieri.
Gazelle, Signor Beneventaio.
~•
Duke Alfonso...Siguor Ecletti I Gcinarn...Siar. or Ginglini.
Conductor—Sig. Arditi.
To give the ful'est effect to the production of this admired
work, the principal Artistes of the E tablishment will appear
in the Prologue.
To conclude with the entirely New Ballet Divertissement,
by M. Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. The
principal characters by Madlle. Marie Taglioni, Vesdlles.
Annetta, Rosa, Pasquale, Morlac dhi, and M. Durand.
The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock
A limited number of thus have been secured to the public.
PriCe 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box
Office, at the Theatre.

--tr. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
List Appearances of Mdlle. Titiens.
The Imperial Theatre, Vienna, having refused to grant any
extension of her cong,e, it is respectfully announced that
2daddle. Titiens eaanot appear after Saturday the 26. h.
The following arrangements have been mode :
THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, June 19—LUCREZIA.
BORGIA. Madlle. Titiens' last appearance but three.
TUESDAY, 22d—TROVATORE. M. Wle. Titiens' last
91)13.:aranre ut two.
THURSDAY, 21t.h (Extra Night), LUCREZI t BORGIA.
Madlle. Tithes' last appearance but one.
SATURDAY, 26th, a favourte opera, in which Madlle.
Titienki whi appe4r, being her last appearance.
TUESDAY, June 29— LUISA MI .LER will be repeated.
Madlle. Piecolomini Duchess Frederica, Mad me
Alboni ; Rodolfo, Signor Giuglini ; Walter, Signor Vialetti ;
Worm, Signor Castelli ; and Miller. Beneventano.
Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre.

enunciated at the Conference of Paris, to submit

these rights to the arbitration of an impartial

Power. Where, on the other hand, there was
ground to believe that, although morally right, we I
had in any degree, however trivial, exceeded our
legal authority, he was ready at once to [wile the
=vide honourable, and strive to obtain., through
friendly representations, the means of obtAining a
great benefit to humanity at a very trifling incon-
venience to any. It is needless to say that such
conduct disarmed any opposition, however fac-
tious, and gained, as it richly deserved, the
unanimous approbation of Parliament and of the
country. Where firmness and vigour have been
essential, these qualities have been clearly, although
temperately, displayed ; 'but no untenable posi-
tion was defended, nor was there any attempt to
sustain by bluster and violence what could not be
supported on the principles of equity and justice.
Although the details of the cases so loudly com-
plained of in the American journals and in Con-
gress are not yet fully ascertained, and although
it is possible that too great zeal and energy might

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-
GARDEN, NEW TEIEATRE.
To commerce at half past 8 o'clock.
By desire, Yra Diavolo.
THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, will be Eel-formed (by
desire) /tuber's Opera.
PRA DIAVOLO.
Zerliva, Madame Bcsio ; Lady Alb:ash, Madlle. Marai ;
11 Marchese, Signor Gardoni ; Lorem.o, Signor Neri-B raldi
Matteo, S.gnor PolDnini ; Beppo, Signor Thgliafico ;
Giacomo, M. Zulger ; and Lord Alleash, Signor Ronconi.
Conductor—Mr. Casta.
LA SALTARELLA, in the third act, will be danced by
Madlle. Zona and M. Desplaces.
Prices of Admission : —Boxes—pit tier, 57. 15q. 6d.; grand
tier, 6/. 6s ; first tier, Si. ss. ; second tier, 27. 12s. 6d. ;
orchestra stalls, I/. ; pit, 103. 6d. ; .amphitheatre stalls,
10s. 6,1„ 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre',-23. 61.
Application for boxes, stalls, and pit tickets, to be made
at the Box-office of the Theatre, under the portico iu Bow-
street, and at the principal musicsellers and librarians.

OY AL ITALIAN OPERA,
R
COVENT-GARDEN.

_
NEW THEATRE.
Arrangements for next Week :
On TUESDAY NEXT, June 22, Auber's Opera,
FRA DIAVOLO.

Boeio, Marai, Ronconi, G rdoni, Neri-Baraldi, Tagnate°,
- • Polonini, and Ze ger.
"La Salterella" danced by Zina And Desplaces.
Ou THURSDAY NEXT,
IL LIARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
Rosini, Madame Rosie.; Bertha, Madame Tagliaaco
Figaro, Signor Ronconi
Bartolo. 115. Zelger ; Basili Signor Tagliafico ;
Fiorello Sig. Boldi ; and A.lmaviva, Sig.‘or
After which, the Billet Divertissement
Principal charaeteri by sia.dlle. Zinn, Defechanz,
Esper, Madlle. Zeiia, Mr, Payne, and M. Desplaccs.
_ _ .

, -
SATURDAY NEXT, Juno 26, will be produced Flotow's
Opera, entitled MARTHA. Bosio, Didieo, Mario, Graziani,
Zeiger, Rossi, and Soldi.
the Ine;dental Divertissement will be supported by Madre.
Zina, Madlle. Deleebaux, and M. Desplaees.

ROYAL N 0 ESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH
CHARMS.
After which, Sh ilcspere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE. Shyloek, Mr. C. Kean Portia, Mrs. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL, HA Y MARIN:ET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Followed by AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Mc ssrs. Buclistone
Chippendale, Compton, W. Farreu, Rogers. C!az.k, and Miss
A. Sedgwiek Mrs. B. White, Miss Lavine, and. Mrs. J. Fitz-

Alter which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO
AND PROSERPIN E.
Orchestra St.,lle (which may bo retained the NO•ole o, tir...
evening). Es. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. a (1.1 Second price. S. d.Drees Boe
Bores....Uppe... 3 01Upper Boxes...
it
Gallery

THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS.
—ADELPHI COMPANY for ELEVEN
NIGHTS, col:Pt-low-qv; MONDAY, June 21.—5010 Manager,
Mr. Be;Ja,min Webster—Directre-s, ntdatue, Celeste.—Great
Attraction.—No advance of Prices.—Mr Benjamin Webster,
Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. C. Felby, Messrs. Billinzton, G u•-
den, C. J. Smith, J. Blau!, Moreland, II Romer. Waye, dtc. ;
Madame Celeste Miss M. Anitoll, Mi 33 ,lary Keeley, Miss
Arden, Mrs. Birington, Cbatterley, Miss Laidlaw,
Miss Hayman, &c.
M3NDAY EVENING, will be presented THE GREEN
BUSHES. Madame Celeste, MAry Keeley, and Nlisi
Arden;
Pail Bedford, Charles Sziby, Biliiegten
,
Garden.

After whit OUR FRENCII LADY'S.MAID, Mr. Ben,
Webster and Madame Celeste.

QTRAND THEATRE.-I,Ps3ee and Direc'ress,
Miss Scrauborough.-- Cl4i3 Evenfrtz will be
presented MARRIAGE A LOTTERY, supported by Messrs
Emery, Ray, Belford; Mesdames M. Oliver, Portma,, Victor
and Selby.

After wluoh, a new Burlesque, entitled TIIE BRIDE OF
ABYDOS. Messrs. Charles Young Turner, &e.; Misses
Oliver, Swanborough, &e

To conclude with MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. The
characters by Messrs. N. H. Swanborough, J, W. Ray, Chas.
Young, Mesdames Leigh Murray, M. Ternan, and C. Melville.

inA.NTERBIIRY HALL, Westminster-road.--
" OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The
follow-
f company of Vocalists arc engaged for the pe7rormance f
Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, D VETS, &c., viz. : —Miss Russell, )Irs.
Badzey, ties 8311 :di, Miss Py, Madame Daitoletti,
Miss Montague Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Herr F. Jenglituans Mr. Heushaw, :o..er, J. Bart, er,
W. Moiling, Senor 'An • onio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badzey,
Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and sir. Ber ,ard
Messrs. John G. Forde, and E. Nackney. Pianoforte, Mr.
Cecil Ricks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr
F. Jonghmans. Conan ence at Seven o'clock precisely.
Suppers, dre., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evoning
in a Selection- f, om "LA DAVE BLANCHE" (THE WHITE
LADY), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English
words by Desmond Ilyan, Erg.

THE WEATHER—StYN OFFICE, JUNE 19.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
F3—lowest this morning and during the night,
73—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.18.
WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with fine weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
111111._ s DAT—Morn., 5G min. aft. 7 —Evon., 25 min aft. 8
To-—littorn., 57 min. aft. B—Even., 2.5 min. aft. 9

have induced some of our officers to exceed the
limits indicated by discretion, there is every
reason to believe that the facts have been grossly

e±aggerated by those who wish to remove the

obz,t toles which have hitherto impeded the nefarious
traffic, or to bring on a quarrel between the two
great nations of the Anglo-Saxon race. The
grievance seems, in the majority of instances,
merely to have been making certain inquiries, to
which no master possessing a bona fide right to
display the American flag could fairly object, and
which did, not occasic,n delay or damage to the

ex'ent of the smallest coin of tbo realm. We
have it on the authority of respectable trans-

know by experience, that they may do pretty
much as they please.

We sadly fear, however, that Lord GREY will
knit his brows indeed when he reads the extraets
from the Melbourne papers which we published the
other day. To find that not only are convicts fur
ever excluded from the colonies ; not only has
the Ballot put the vote of every man into his own
hands ; not only has the suffrage bcoome as nearly
as may be household suffrage ; but that a some-
what hang-back Ministry has been ousted and
a thoroughly honest Reform Ministry installed.
A Reform Ministry where they already pos-
sess the Ballot and well towards, Universal
Suffrage ! What can the madmen want ? Well,
they do seem to want a little more. They want,
as Mr. DISRAELI does, a "fairer distribution of
the representation, one taking population as the
basis," and not, as we believe the present distri-
bution of members stands, largely in favour of
the squatter interest. They have thrown aside,
too, the notable Minority representation, and ob-
viously mean to have the
_people themselves repre-
sented. Mr. O'SHANASSY, a name we have so
often heard in connection with Australian Legis-
lation, is the premier who is to inaugurate complete
representative reform in Austrata ; and he does
not falter in his task. He announces that be
means to push his Bill through the Houses, to
dissolve immediately, and to have an assembly
elected on the new plan.
That he will succeed appears to be morally cer-
tain. The Bill was introduced on the 13th of
April, and on the 14th the second reading was
carried by thirty-seven votes to five. It would seem,
therefore, to be quite safe. The personal alterca-
tions between the Outs and the Inns, seem to have
been of a very bitter—too bitter character ; but
there appears to have been reason for it. Ose of
the first acts of the new Ministry was the " ex-
ploding" a job of their predecessors. We may
imagine what fights there would be even in our
aristocratic Parliament, had not our aristocracy
the superior wisdom to act on the very op
posite principle. Here, if at 11h. 59w., as
Bradshaw would put it, a good job for
a client is effected by the outgoers, the in-
comers never meddle with it. They prudently
consider that their turn to go out must come,
and they too may want to bless some of their
dependents with a few fat things just before
they hand over the seals of office.
There can be no doubt that the state of the
land question is the cause of the chief excitement
in the colony. They want a fair representation,
because the appropriators of laud, now quite a
minority, have contrived to override all reason,
by very questionable technical interpretations of
their licensed right of pasture. They have ens
grossed all the land along the rivers, and the
rivers in Australia are pretty much what the
Nile is to Egypt, for nothing can be done far
from water ; and it has become, therefore, im-
practicable to form around the town a colony of
agricultural settlers, because the great sheep-
keepero have literally engrossed the available
land for sheep walks. Those colonists who have
acquired wealth, of course desire to settle down
in the enjoyment of it ; and no enjoyment of
wealth to Englishmen seems greater than that of
owning, and frequently of farming an estate.
The colony, too, needs agricultural produce ex-
ceedingly ; but all agriculture is hindered by the
great shepherds. The new ministry, therefore,
announce a new, popular, and thoroughly liberal
land bill. It is needed more than anything in
Australia ; and it is obvious that, in granting
lin-nse to posture, l
it was never originally intended
to create a vestet interest, especially on© obstrue-
tivo to agricultrlrD

atlantic journals that the behaviour of the parties
in one case, that of The Charles F. O'Brien,
" was civil, and that no threat or intimidation
was used." In another, Captain BRYANT, of the
United States' ship Escart, declared that "from
first to last the conduct of the steamer,her officers and
men, was friendly ; that the ship's hold might
have been filled with negroes for aught they
seemed to care. His visit was not prying in any
sense." Captain HAWTHORN, of the brig Pulaski,
one of the cases complained of, explained that he
was hailed from a British war steamer, and
asked where he was from, and bound, but
was not requested to heave-to, nor was
she boarded, nor did the steamer fire at her.
Tue commander conducted himself as every de-
cent shipmaster would when speaking another
vessel at sea. Captain GORDON, of the Eliza
Merrithew, " was not troubled by the British,
and believed that two-thirds of the stories in cir-
culation about outrages, (h., were made out Of
whole cloth," or, in other words, were unmitigated
falsehoods. The most important testimony, how-
ever, was that of Captain CLINE, boarding-officer
of the Merchants' Exchange at Boston. He said
that, "he had conversed freely with the officers
and crews of every vessel from Cuba which had
arrived at this port, and he declared that not one
of them considered himself damaged t 3 the amount
of one cent. Many of the stories about having
been fired into need confirmation. In two cases
where the captains report having been fired at,
neither the crew nor the mates knew anything
' about it ; and the nonsense about the overbearing
conduct of the officers was too often invented.
Frequently a man-of-war's boat has dropped
alongside, and the officer, without boarding her, has
asked questions and shoved off again. Those who
wish to create a sensation, and see their name in
)'Tint, make outrages of common courte:.y. The
Britisi. deeds generally, the crews of our Vu.....
trade ►2.,,-t. apiie,ur iiii..1....,.. to avoid giving
offence." We balm cited this iirt.sl,o.4re evidence
to show that the general conduct of the officers
and men on the Cuban station was perfectly cour-
teous and unexceptionable in several of the cases
that have been tortured into "wrongs." And
there is reason to believe that a large proportion,
if not the entire of the others, have beer., li
in like manner, more cr less exaggerated.
The American flag has been prostituted 1
by parties who bad no right to use
it. Those miscreants have degraded the Ame.
rican standard, not the parties who have endea-
voured to ascertain their title to display it. The
law officers of the Crown have declared that
English vessels have not the right either " of
search or visitation" in time of peace. And,
under these circumstances, it was an imperative
duty that the British Government should at once
issue instructions to their officers for their future
conduct. And that has been promptly done, and
n such a manner as to remove any just cause of
complaint on the part of the Government of the 1
United States. I

General CASs has himself hid down a prin-
ciple in his letter to Lout NAPIER j and on that
the British Goverunient are ready and willing to
act. Ho says—" A merchant vessel upon the
high seas is protected by her national character.
He who forcibly enters her does so upon his own
responsibility. Undoubtedly, if a vessel assume
a national character to Iviiich she is not entiiled,
and is sailing under fats() colours, she cannot be
protected by this assumption of a nationality to
which she has no claim. As the identity of a
person must be determined by the officer bearing

a process for his arrest, and determined at the risk of
such officer,so must the national identity of a vessel
be determined at the like hazard to him, who,
doubting the flag she displays, searches her to as-
certain her true character. There, no doubt,
may be circumstances which would go far to
modify the complaints a nation would have a right
to make for such a violatiou'of its sovereignty.
If the boarding officer had just grounds for sus-
picion, and deported himself with propriety in
the performance of his task, doing no injury, and
peaceably retiring when satisfied of his error, no
nation would make such an act the subject of se-
rious reclamation."

The question of the propriety and expediency
of maintaining the squadron on the coast of Cuba
is under consideration, and communications have
been made to the American Government. The
chances of collision will be reduced by the instruc-
tions that have been sent out, enjoining the
greatest caution and prudence in any proceeding
that might, by a possibility, injure the suscepti-
bilities of the Cabinet at Washington. We trust
that the temporary annoyance has now blown over,
and that the American Government will treat the
question in an equally frank and generous spirit,
so that arrangements may be arrived at equally
satisfactory to the people of both nations.

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We hope Lord GREY takes a look sometimes
across the globe, such a one at least as he eau
give by the aid of the AuAraiian journals. For
014 acquaintance sake he must like to have a peep
now and then at our colonies, although most of
them, and most of all, those in New Holland, have
been found so unmanageable on his princ!ples,
that he must regard them as rather saucy daugh-
ters of the mother country. The mother country
herself, however, has happily become rather proud
of her daughters, especially since the persevering
ex
terrteio,:ie
stol 341
of W. MOLLSWORTH induced her
to
as adult children. Indeed, like most
fond mothers, ',llO iS.noW di..g.10.3ca to permit them
to bo as waTvard as they -;11)' ani to let them

LONDON,, SA.TURDA.Y, JUNE 19, 1858.

the American diffi-
We hop and bslicire that
culty has been brought to a conclusion. The E
planations ast night offered by Mr. S.
ifiTzGtRAL
were of the clearest and most satisfactory character.
They proved that Lord lthimEsnunY, while vindi-
cAting to the ful!est extent the honour and dignity of
the country, had yet displayed a degree of courtesy
and moderation that conciliated every opponent.
Where we were unquestionably right, he Was
fully prepared, in accordance with the viewo

rpm SUN, LONDONI SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1858.

BANDEt'S "MESSIAH" AT NEWCASTLE.

Speaking of a recent performance of this sublime
oratori. in the Music Hall at Newcastle—the
Northern Daily Express observes, " The highest
praise we can assign it is to say that the performers 1
did justice to the magnificent conception they un-
dertook to render. It was commenced most auspi-
ciously by Mr. Ashton, who proved himself equal •
to the occasion, and the excellence of which we had •
so early a promise was sustained with but few ex-
ceptions throughout. Miss B ►nk, the soprano,
gave her parts generally with great effect ; wo must
' particularize, however, thejubilant spirit she flung
into the air "Rejoice greatly," the exquisite ex-
pression of her "Come mite him," and especially
the unrivalled air "I know my Redeemer liveth ;"
in all which the audience b Ts ample testimony to
her power. But in our own opinion there was no-
thing in the evening like Mies Palmer. Any thing
more complete with tenderness than the air " He
shall feed hisficli," as sung in the fine contralto voice
of this accomplished lady wehartily believe to ba with-
in the compass of melody. And the pathos with
which she reproduced the air " He was despised,"
and the world of expression which she threw into
its close were probably more wonderful still. At
this point the audience were so far affected, that a
sensible pause intervened between the close of the
air and the thunder of applause it elicited ; and,
while every right-thinking person must have been
glad to see that excellence of so high a kind could t
yet be so generally appreciated, every such person
must have been gratified rilco to find the lady firmly
res'sting the encore. Mr. Brandon's rendering of
the grand air " Why do the nations" was a flue
specimen of his vigour. The performances of the
chorus left nothing that could be desired but an
ampler and more commodious hall. They have
lett the comparative excellence of the "Lift up
your heads" and the " Hallelujah Chorus" as much
a disputed point as ever, for whichever of the two
they sing last will always seem to be the finest.
Something we must hive omitted, inasmuch as the
necessities of our position prevented us from hear-
ing all ; but the Brace of an antique statue may be
interred from even a torso, and we have no doubt
• that those performances in the second part of the
oratorio, which we were unable to hear, proved
quite equal to the rest. It would be wrong to con-
elude without a tribute to the band, and the excel-
lent. leading of Mr. Ainsworth. The accompani-
ments, we may remark here, aro very generally too
heavy ; from this fault the band last evening was
completely tree, a single quartette being, in our
opinion, much preferable, except in an unusually
large room. The diocese of Durham may be proud
of its " Association for the Pr .motion of Church
Music"—an association which so eminently merits
the patronage of the eminent persons whose coun-
t tenance and support it enjoys.

THE ANTRIM ESTATES.

REMARKABLE ADDRESS TO LADY LON-
DONDERRY.

A deputation frona the tenantry of the Larne
Estates of the Earl of Antrim, which are shortly
to be sold under the Encumbered Estates Court,
waited upon the Marchioness of Londonderry, on
Friday last, at her town residence, Holdernez.se
Howe London, to present to her ladyship an ad-
dress, inscribed "To the Most Nob!e Frances
Anne Marchioness of Londouderry"—an address
(signcd by almost every tenant on the Antrim
estate) of a character as novel as it must
be gratifying to the noble lady principally
interested. The Larne estates of the Earl of An-
trim, as we hive said, are shortly to be s-dd in the
Encumbered Esta- ea Court. Tue tenantry upon
the estates, seeing the prosperity of those who held
lands under the Marchioness of Londonderry,
adopte d the unusual but gratifying c curse of send-
ing this deputation to her Ladyship, requesting her
to purchase the property now about to change
owners, that they also might experi nce the benefits
which they knew those upon the adjoining estate
to enjoy. Circumstances have prevented the
Marchioness from adopting the course suggested,
although her own heart was set upon it ; but the
reply given to the deputation was kindly and cha-
r+cter stic, and the transaction presents a new and
pleasing feature in the relations betw,en landlord
and tenant in Ireland. •

31EDITERRANEAN TELEORAP.II EXTEN-
A:ION COMPANY-LIIIIITE9.

The first half-yearly meeting of this company
was herd at the London Tavern yesterday, Sir J.
Carmichael in the chair.

Tire report, which has already appeared, was read.
The CHAIRMAN said that the report was so full
he need not enter int) details ; but he would read
.111esrs. Newhall_ +I,. v..ancifacturer of
the catths, in teitunony of the fact th,t, -."
not liable to the same causes of ijury which a ff2cted
the ordinary cables, His own experience as chair-
man of the Submarine Telegraph Company enable 1
him to join in that testimony. With regird to the
traffic it was still on the increase, but it was as yet
impossible to say what would he the amount of
the income, or the rite of the dividend ti 1 the
complete line was laid down to India. next) had
been great delay, he might almost say shameful
delay, in hying down the lino to India,, but they
hid reason to hope that the Government were new
in earnest, and that it would b ) laid down as
speedily as possib'e. He might men Von that some
months ago the directors made an offer to the Go-
vernment to ity down any portion of the line to
India on a sufficient guarantee being given, but as
yet they had received no answer to that proposi-
tion. He concluded by moving th=.3aloptioa of the
report.
The motion having been seconded, a conversa-
tion arose, in the course of which sonic fears were
express:d that the encour tg-inent given to the
line, via the Au trian terrii:ories would- interfere
with the fulibnent of the guarantee to this lice,
and

Aldermaan Ross observed that the guarantee
given by the Government of 6 per cent. dividend
was apparently a contingent rather than a positive
guaron'e-, which a:counttal for a do line in the
confidence of some sh4reholders. lie stusgested
that steps should be taken to induce the Govern-
ment to alter the wording of the guarantee, so as
to remove any such impression. He had no doubt
they would do so, as there was no reason to doubt
their goo ! faith.
Tie Summon, read the clam°, by which the
Lords of the Treasury bound t'•emselves, from the
2d of last December, so lung as t'.e line should con-
tinue in working order, to pay such sum, not ex-
ceeding 7,2001. per annum, as shall be necessary to
make up the sum, as profits to be shored iu the -vay
of cLvidend of 7,200/. or six per cent. on the
capital. Thus, if the clear profits did not amount
to 6 per cent., Government were bound to make it
up, and the only contingency was, that if the profits
did amount i o 6 per cent. without Government aid,
they (the Governmeni) would of coursa have no-
thing to pay.
This expLaiati.m was received with approbation.
Mr. Ssinuel Gurney and Sic J. Carmichael were
re-electel as directors, and the proceedings termi-
nated.

TERRIELE BOL.FR EX P lASION.-SEVEN
LIVES LOST.

Afi ightful calamity has taken pace at the Rhym-
ncy iron works, in oee of the South Wales valleys,
by which seven persons lost their lives, and a large
number were injui el more or less severely. At
the furnaces on the Rhymney side of the river there
arts six boilers attached tothe eng:ne which supplies
the hot blast, the cylinders lying parallel to each
other, with their furnace ends separated only by a
road from the forge, while the orpesite extr.-naities
are partially embedied in the coabeip behind,
wlrre the stack stands. A blacksmith's shop also
stands behind, closo under the regulator. It is
necessary to be thus minute in order to explain how
the accident happened. With very little noise,
both ends of the tube of one of the boilers gave way,
an poured forth an immense volume of boiling
water, just in the manner of a gun at point-blank
range. This discharge carried every one before it
—Ten, women, and boys were swept away. An
erupti m of similar kind took place at the other
end simultaneously, unroofing the smith's shop and
scaldinq two men frightfully... The victims in front
were the coasters, balers, and piling ; about
20 of the latter were injured in so no degree. Three !
girls, who stood directly in the way of the charge,
were killed on the spot; their names are Ann
Davies, aged 15, with severe contusion on the
head ; Ann Thomas, aged 17 ; and Margaret Hop-
kins, aged 13. The two latter were sitting with a
young man named Walter Morpn, who was so in"
juretrthat he (lie.' on the same day. James
Ginger, a coaster, was so featfaly scalded that his
parboiled skin hung in festoons over his heels. He,
too, died the next dAv, d'd a'so John Lewis, a
lad only 11 years of age. In the middle of the
night following the awful accident, a man named
John Sheen, expired in excruciatitt'r age I jos. TIT,
nervous systeuEsof the girls received such a shoe.
as to rands r them !ess
,sensible of
pain, but those
who survived for a few hours bee
,nie the victims of
most horribly suffering. John C, antrer, a black
smith, who had previously Ist a leg, by accident
in the works, was also much injured, but hopes are
entertained of his roc° tory. • The remaining in-
juries are comparatively trilling'.
Au invest has been held before W. H. Brewer,
deputy corene-, and a-jury, and a •ve7diet of
accident 11 death wa rAurned.