The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1866,

macy depends quite as much as on the ships, it
seerris that there is great need of improvement.
The number to be relied on for the service has been
e.dminishing by 2,000 a year in spite of the liberal
Totes of Parliament. Sir J. HAY wisely suggests
the increase of training ships for the education of
boys along our coasts, by which means a plentiful
supply of well-trained men will be ready when
wanted, men who, being brought up to the service,
will love it as their own profession. What an ex-
cellent opportunity there is here for. providing an
honest means of livelihood for our thousands of
homeless boys. Sir J. HAT. said very truly, " Not
only would well-disciplined men be thus obtained,
and the necessity for harsh discipline and punish-
ment avoided, but many lads who might otherwise,
from want of education, swell the criminal classes,
would be well educated, and would be ready for
service either in the royal navy or the mer-
chant service, according as the demand for
men might happen to be. 'There is a
favourable opening here, one would think, for
some of the boys brought up by our parishes, and
we hope that when the whole Poor-law system is
reorganised, as it must very shortly be, we shall
see this valuable " raw material" turned to good
account for the good of the country, and for the
elevation and benefit of the children themselves.
There are a great many points of detail in the ma-
nagement of the navy which are open to improve-
ment, and many petty savings and regulations which
tend to disgust men with the service. There
are evidently some radical defects in the sys-
tem, since the navy has always been a
favourite profession with Englishmen, and one
in which they naturally excel. The House of
Commons, however much they may grumble at the
amount of the estimates, never fails to vote what-
ever sums are asked for manning the navy. Every
other trade and profession is overstocked with men
eager for employment, while the surplus population
is forced to relieve itself by emigration. How is it,
then, that so popular a branch of the public ser-
vice has to complain of an inefficient supply ? This
is a matter which is surely worth inquiring into, and
to which the evil spirit of routine can perhaps give
us an answer. We hope that it will not be over-
looked among the more exciting but not really more
important matters of the relative merits of guns
and ships.

General Klapka, who was at the battle of Sadowa,
has arrived in Paris.
The Siecle has a letter from Milan, which states
that the popular feeling is against the armistice.
There are large assemblages upon the public places,
where enthusiastic cries are uttered of " No armis-
tice." " The war for ever." Illuminations took
place when it was known that Cialdini had passed
the Po.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE WAR IN GERMANY.
ENGAGEMENT ON THE STELVIO.

FLORENCE, July 12 (Evening).

Yesterday the flying column of the National
Guard had an engagement with the Austrians at
Le Prese on the Stelvio, which lasted the whole day.
The National Guard occupied the first cantoniera,
and took 75 Austrians prisoners. They had some
wounded, but none killed.
Baron Ricasoli arrived this morning at Florence,
and leaves this evening for the camp of General
Ciallini at Rovigo.

The weather was intensely hot to-day—hotter
than yesterday. . _

Cardinal Matteucci has just died suddenly at
Rome. It was only a fortnight ago that he was
raised to the dignity of Cardinal.

THE WIMBLEDON MEETING.

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Yesterday was in reality rather an off-day in the
proceedings of the National Rifle Association, for
although there was an immense amount of busi-
ness to be got through, it consisted entirely of a
continuation of contests already entered upon, with
the exception of the Carbine Prizes, for a sum of
£5O, given by the National Rifle Association, and
to be shot for by the regulation carbine used by
the rank and file of volunteer artillery corps ; five
shots each, at the respective distances of 150 and
200 yards. For these prizes there were competitors
from the counties of Gloucester, Kent, Lincoln,
Lancashire, Berwick, Cheshire, Cornwall, Dorset,
Edinburgh, Essex, Flint, Middlesex, Orkney, Cum-
berland, Shropshire, Somerset, Stafford, Surrey, and
from some other counties who came into the contest
by post entries. _ _

PESTIT, July 13.

It is stated that Count Julius Fudrassy will be
entrusted with the mission of forming a Hungarian
Cabinet.

ZWITTACT, July 12.
M. Benedetti, the French Ambassador, at Berlin,
arrived here last night.
The Prussian headquarters were transferred at
10 o'clock this morning to Czernahora.
The whole Prussian army continues to march
towards the South,

MI NIGH, July 12.

According to advices received here from the
Bavarian head-quarters, the engagement near
Kissengen had no decided result.

The first range of 200 yards for the Queen's Prize
having been concluded, the second range at 500
yards was commenced this morning.
The Secretary of State for War's Prize of £5O
given by the Marquis of Harlington, divided into
13 prizes as follows, one of £lO, two of £5, and
ten prizes of £3, was again the subject of compe-
tition. There were ties for the first and second
prizes between Capt. Punshon, of the Ist New-
castle, and Capt. Astley, of the 49th Regiment, who
severally made 18 marks ; and the three next prizes
were won by Sergeant Cortis, of the 11th Sussex,
Lieutenant Davidson, 3d Forfar, and Private Lane,
17th Forfar.

The Bavarian army is concentrating near
Schweinfurt in readiness to give battle.

SPAIN.
MADRID, 13th July.

The Pabellon Nacional of to-day states that Mar-
sha) Narvaez will adopt conciliatory measures
towards those citizens compromised in the recent
events, but will, at the same time, employ his utmost
energy for the restoration of order.

MERIC A.
(Arrival of the China via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, July 5.

The first stage of the Alexandra prize was also
concluded, and for which Quartermaster-Sergeant
Overstone, 17th Staffordshire, and Sergeant Burns,
3d Lancashire ; each made 17 points, and were,
therefore, ties for the two first prizes of £lO and
and £l5. There were also ties for the minor prizes
between Capt. Bennett, 6th Lancashire, Sergeant
Hall, 19th Salop, Corporal Bennett, 6th Lanca-
shire, Sergeant Brace, 4th West Yorkshire, and
Capt. Kinreah, Edinburgh.
The principal incident of the day was the presen-
tation of the prize given by the Ist Surrey Volun-
teers, to be shot for by Belgians in their own
country at the Tir National, at Brussels, in Sep-
tember next.

The Democratic and Conservative members of
Congress have issued a call for a National Conven-
tion to be held at Philadelphia on the 14th August,
in order to determine the course of action to be taken
by Congress, and secure the complete and immediate
restoration of the Union.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

Colonel Scott, commanding the forces in South
Carolina, reports a great increase of crime and vag-
rancy among the Freedmen, and that they show
complete disregard to their labour contracts.
A dreadful fire has occurred at Portland, burning
nearly half the city, and rendering 2,000 families
homeless. The fire has destroyed property to the
value of $10,000,000.
The Fenian Senate has issued an address urging
the Fenians to continue their labours with vigour
and perseverance. _

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.

An uneasy feeling about the war is again preva-
lent in Paris, for although it is announced in the
Moniteur that the belligerent Powers have accepted
the mediation " in principle," yet it appears that
Prussia has resumed the energetic hostile attitude
which she has displayed from the first, and which
has been suspended for a week, in consequence of
the heavy losses which her victory at Koniggratz
cost her. The movements of Prussia in Bohemia
seem to indicate that she intends to push on direct
to Vienna. The occupation of Iglau is confirmed,
and the head quarters of the Royal army will be
transferred to Zwittau, a town of Moravia, on the
Vienna Railway, to the north of Brunn, but to the
south of the junction of Bcehmisch-Trubau. The
Moniteur, after some further elucidations drawn
from the facts, says it is obvious that the Austrians
could not maintain their position at the latter place,
and if the Prussian information be correct, they are
retreating further from the invading army. The
moral and material state of the Austrian army is
not known, nor is the exact route which it has
taken. On the northern frontier of Bavaria mili-
tary events are taking a serious aspect. It appears
that the Prussians, in their turn, are now entering
the Bavarian territory. The troops of Prince
Charles of Bavaria have taken their position on the
heights of Kissengen. The Prussians penetrated by
Bruckenau, and it was between Bruckenau and Kis-
Bingen that on the 9th a rather serious engagement
took place. General Vogel von Falkenstein, who
commands the Prussian troops in that region, ap-
pears to have obtained an important result—that of
obstructing the junction of the Bth Corps of the
Federal Army, commanded by Prince Alexander
of Hesse, and concentrated round Frankfort,
with the 7th Federal Corps of the Bavarian Army.
In Italy General Cialdini advances against Venetia,
which now appears to have scarcely any Austrian
troops remaining there, his operations upon the
banks of the Po, to the source of that river.

Shortly before six the whole of the Belgian
Volunteers and the Ist Surrey were drawn up in
lines in front of their camp, and at six o'clock M.
Van de Weyer, the Ugrian Ambassador, drove up
in his carriage, the band of the Ist Surrey playing
the Belgian National Air, and the whole of the corps
presenting arms. His Excellency, in consequence
of his great lameness, was unable to leave his car-
riage, but he stood up in it, and was received with
loud cheers.

A bill has been introduced in the House of Re-
presentatives, and referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, authorising the establishment of
territorial governments in British American pro-
vinces, and the assumption of their debts, with pay-
ment of 10 million dols. to the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, whenever the Governments of Great Britain
and of those provinces shall apply for the admission
of the said provinces into the Union.
The resolution offered in the house on the 4th
June in favour of according belligerent rights to
the Fenians was called up and rejected.
_ _

Major Irvine, of the Ist Surrey, who was sur-
rounded by several officers and visitors, then ad-
dressed his Excellency in the French language, and
in eloquent terms alluded to the kind and hospitable
manner in which the English volunteers were re-
ceived in Belgium last year ; and, as there was a
corresponding system of constitutional government
in the two countries, they felt it to be the duty of
Englishmen in general, and of the Ist Surrey in
particular, to reciprocate their kindness, believing
that a feeling of amity should always exist between
the two nations.

The North Carolina Legislature has rescinded the
act excluding negro testimony in the courts in cases
wherein negroes are interested.
Great lawlessness prevails in the neighbourhood
of Meriden, Granada, Mississippi. Bands of des-
peradoes are perpetrating great outrages upon the
freedmen, and have murdered several officers.
The City of Boston, Bremen, and Bavaria have
arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Major Irvine then spoke in English, and said he
had endeavoured to convey in a few but simple
words the sentiments of the Ist Surrey to their
Belgian friends i and in presenting that cup, he
trust- Jey would not estimate it for its money
vr.it that they would receive it as an
expression of that deep sympathy they enter-
tained towards them. They all remembered
how the Ist Surrey were received in Belgium,
and they now extended to the Belgians the right
hand of fellowship in this country. He felt deeply ;
and, however imperfectly he had expressed his sen-
timents towards them in their own language, he
hoped they would, as they said amongst themselves,
take the will for the deed, and what he was defi-
cient in he hoped they would supply. He called
upon the Ist Surrey to greet his Excellency with
three cheers, taking the time from him.

NEW YORK, July 5 (Evening.)

Money abundant. Gold, 1531. Exchange on
London, 167 ;on Paris, 3.35. Stocks firm and
active. New York Centrals, 991 ; Illinois, 121 ;
Erie, 671; 5-20 Bonds, 105 k. Cotton dull ; mid-
dling Upland, 56. Flour and wheat dull. Corn
steady. Provisions and coffee dull. Molasses quiet.
Sugar steady. Petroleum dull : crude, 231 ; re-
fined, 41. Receipts of cotton at New York, 2 days,
3,500 bales.
ORLEANS, July 3d.
Cotton depressed : Low middling, 31 32.

The result of the steps taken by Prussia to obtain
the acquiescence of the Northern States of Germany
to the Prussian allianceis now known. The Moniteur
cites various States which agreed purely and simply.
The Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg Schwerin and
Mecklenburg Strelitz place their contingents at the
disposal of Prussia, but they decline the project of
Federal Reform, and repel particularly the convo-
cation of a German Parliament. The Grand Duchy
of Saxe Weimar, or the principality of Reuss (elder
branch), have consented to be no longer represented
at the Diet of Frankfort, and are disposed to adhere
to Reform. The Duchy of Brunswick, and the
Hanseatic city of Hamburg, have accepted the
alliance, but without according them military co-
operation. The Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, or the
principality of Reuss (younger branch), have en-
tirely rejected the propositions of Prussia, and the
Duchy of Nassau has joined the States of the South
now in arms against that Power. The Government
of the South am still faithful to the Diet of Frank-
fort, and in their turn have announced military
operations. Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, and
Hesse Darmstadt do not desire war. All their
efforts have been made with a view to prevent it.
There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at the
Tuileries, presided over by the Emperor, at which
the Empress was present.

These were heartily given, followed by the Bel-
gian National Anthem.
Major Irvine then presented the cup, which again
elicited loud cheers.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister then spoke
in excellent English, and said—Gentlemen of the
Ist Surrey,—Allow me, before I venture to answer
the few words contained in the admirable speech
so eloquently made by your commander, to repeat
the words spoken by his Majesty the King of the
Belgians when he first heard of the intention of
your corps to ask an audience to present the magni-
ficent cup I now see before me. His Majesty
sympathy I have seen
said :-441 see in this application another and an
Belgian nation."
It was, I assure you, with great disappointment
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the
that his Majesty found himself unable to receive
the old friends he had received in Belgium. Gen-
tlemen, when our English friends show the warm
feelings of which they have given us such proof
this day, and show such affectionate feelings, no
Belgian ought to remain aloof. In the absence
of his Majesty I am proud to be his representative,
although I have scarcely a leg to stand upon, and
to respond, not only to your kind appeal, but to the
committee of the National Rifle Association ; for
Belgians will never forget the kindness they have
received from the public and the chief magistrate
of the city of London, for you have treated the
Belgians as brethren, and they feel perfectly at
home in England. You, gentlemen of the Ist Sur-
rey, have resolved that the ircpression which you
were pleased to entertain of your own reception in
Belgium shall take a more tangible form, and there
will go across the sea this magnificent tribute from
you. Gentlemen, in the name of the King of the
Belgians, in the name of the Belgian
volunteers, I receive this cup with the deepest gra-
titude, and I beg all of you to receive my deep and
heartfelt thanks. people and

The Royal Mail steamship China, from Boston
and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 7.50 a.m.
to-day (July 13), with 178 passengers, and $45,089
and £250 in specie. She landed all the mails, con-
sisting of 129 sacks, and 18 passengers, and pro-
ceeded immediately for Liverpool, all well.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, July 3.

It is reported via Galveston• that Matamoras
capitulated on the 23d June. The Imperial troops,
under the terms of the capitulation had embarked
for Vera Cruz. Escobedo, with 3,000 men, occu-
pied Matamoras on the 24th.
NEW YORK, July 5.
Yellow fever is raging at Vera Cruz.
The Republicans hold Matamoras, and are pre-
paring to attack Tampico.

To-day and yesterday the Temps and the Consti-
tutionnel had articles of warlike tendency, although
the Temps heads them "Bulletin of Peace." To-day
the Moniteur quotes from the Gazette de Baviere
an account of an obstinate battle near Kissingen, of
which the telegraph has possibly given you some
particulars. The Prussians attacked the bridge of
Saale, but were several times repulsed by the can-
non balls. Shells fell into the town and the church
and some of the houses received much injury. The
struggle between the Bavarians and the Prussians
was not yet over The number of Bavarians was
estimated at 54,000 and that of the Prussians at
60,000.

The bellicose hints of the Temps and the Con-
stitutionnel would lead to the belief that in spite of
her late defeat Austria will immediately become
herself again, and will soon be able to concentrate
at Olmutz an army of more than 400,000 men.
Notwithstanding all this, however, the feeling at
the Bourse was better to-day, and the Rente ad-
vanced a little. A lettter from Florence, dated
July 4, says that while the volunteers continue their
organisation under the fire of the enemy, the regu-
lar army continues to form in mass upon the Oglio
before Cremona and Placentia. These movements
of concentration are nearly finished, and news of a
grand attack may be expected immediately either
upon the Mincio or the Po.
We are now told almost officially that Prince
Jerome Napoleon, who was about to start for Italy
on a special mi"sion, has delayed, if not postponed,
his departure altogether. This change is said to be
caused by the facts stated at an interview which the
Prince de Reuss had with the Emperor, when he
delivered a letter from King 'William, stating the
conditions under which Prussia would accept the
armistice, conditions said to be inadmissible.

Major Irvine then
Called upon the English and
Belgian volunteers to give three cheers to his Ex-
cellency the Belgian
Minister for the assistance he
had given on this occasion. (Loud cheers and
hurrahs, the officers of
their caps on the tops of their swords.)
His Excellency said he going to make a
was not displaying
second speech, but he the Ist Surrey
was determined to come
amongst them, for he could have offered only a
lame excuse for stopping away.—(His Excellency
is suffering from
gout, and this was received with
cheers and laughter.)
The proceedings then terminated to the satisfac-
tion of all present, and for a short time his Excel-
lency remained in Lord Elcho's cottage, and then
left for London.

TIIE ERNST MERCK. OFFICIAL REPORT.—
Finding of the Court upon an official inquiry, held
at Genoa, relative to the breaking out of fire on board. the
stances of the case, 'and
Ernst Merck, of London. The Court, after having given
their best consideration. and attention to all the circum-
stances
endeavoured to attain to any information which
could assist in determining the origin of this fire, are of
opinion that the fire did not proceed from spontaneous
combustion of the hay, and can but attribute it to an un-
havinc, to the very best of their.
known accidental cause, such as a spark from the funnel;
and they declare that they consider the captain, officers,
and crew of the ship as entirely fro° from blame, and that
the measures taken by the captain to subdue the firo were
prompt and judicious, and that he appears to have been
well supported by
his officers and crew.—MONTAGli Y.
BROWN, 11. M. Consul and President ; W. KIRBY ; CHAS.
WILSON, Commander of the T. E. Foster, s.s. ; JAMES
DvrancE, of the Livorno, s.s.

A pleasant anecdote is told of two commercial
men who met on the Boulevards. " How goes
business ?" said one. " Are you doing much busi-
ness with Marseilles just now?" " Enormous."
" What do you call enormous ?" " Why, to give
you an idea of the extent of our correspondence,
I may tell you that it costs our house 2,500 f. a
year for ink." " Why is that ?" replied his friend
" llaYo economised 4,0001. a year in ink only in

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117,000 f. Italian Fives ; 1,223 f. Credit Mobilier
Shares, &c. English Consols are telegraphed with
a decline of per cent.
Three o'clock.—The market has further improved,
and closed as follows :

per Cents
Do. end month
3 per Cents. —
Do. end month 6B 75
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Fonder._
Do. end month 1260 -
RAIL

Bank Shares —
Italian Loan —
Do. end month 52 60
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred -
WAYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern . . llO5
Lyons and Mediterranean 845
Southern 520
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard 370
North of Spain 95
Saragossa 122 50
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

517 50