The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-22 00:00:00

the SON, LOINDO.N, FBIOAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
'.Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
and a Special Jury.)
HALES T. COLEXAN AND OTHERS.
Mr. D. Kean, Q.C., and Mr. B. Rigby appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. D. Seymour, Q.C., and another learned
gentleman for the defendants.
The plaintiff, John Hales, is a solicitor, and the defen-
dants, George Coleman and Maurice Abrahams, are in
business in London, and the third defendant, Mr. Edward
Lawrence Levy, is a solicitor. The plaintiff sued the de-
fendants for an act of trover, iu having converted to their
own use and wrongfully deprived the plaintiff of the pos-
session of certain furniture, fittings, and utensils of t►ade,
Hof a tavern keeper, for the value of which he claimed £5OO.
('he defendants pleaded not guilty, and the goods were
not the prqperty of the plaintiff as alleged.
The plaintiff stated that he had advanced money to
Jackson last. year, for which he received, as security, a bill
of Sale on the goods in question. However, he discovered
that it had been seized by another person at the house of
Jackson, in Rupert-street, Haymarket, and when he re-
monstrated with Levy, who was the solicitor of Jackson,
he was threatened with criminal proceedings for making a
false demand, and the party whom he placed in posses-
sion was forcibly ejected from the house by Coleman,
and was, in fact, mobbed by all three defendants.
The jury were locked up, and had not delivered a ver-
dict when we went to press.

Ritualism in the Church,

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DEPUTATIONS TO THE ARCHBISHOPS OF
CANTERBURY AND YORK.

Yesterday deputations of lay and clerical mem-
bers of the Church waited upon the Archbishops of
Canterbury and York, on the subject of cer-
tain innovations in the ritual, of the Church.
That to the Archbishop of the northern province
ism ushered into the presence of his grace, at the
Bounty-office, Dean's-yard, Westminster, at a
quarter to one o'clock. It numbered nearly 100
persons, and included the following :—Rev. Frede-
rick Chalmers, Dr. Jardine, Rev. D. Vetch, Mr. A.
Bonar, Colonel Elphinstone, Mr. W. Delpratt, Mr.
Hawkesworth, Rev. U. Davies, Rev. W. Conway,
Mr. G. A. Allan, Mr. Cressingham, Mr. J. D. Hay-
ton, Mr. H. Wright, the Dean of Derry, Major-
General Mithall, Rev. W. Powell, Rev. E Wilmot,
Marquis of Westmeath, Captain Hull, Lieutenant-
Colonel Reynold, Mr. William Evill, junior, Rev.
W. Conway, Mr. R. S. Faulconer, Rev. S. C. Adam,
Mr. 11. Hill, Rev. J. M. Ward, hey. E. Clay, Rev.
R. 11. Killick, M.A., rector of St. Clement's Danes ;
Major-General Nuttall, Dr. James, the Rev. Thos.
Ja k es; KA, vicar of Chevening ; the Rev. W. D.
Al Vested,
----A., incumbent of St. Saviour's, Pad-
dington ; the Rev. J. S. Jenkinson, M.A., vicar of
Battersea ; Captain Hill, the Rev. W. Pennefather,
M.A., incumbent of St. Jude's, Islington, and about
a hundred other gentlemen.
Mr. COLQUHOUN read an address to his Grace,
which he said was signed by 2,499 clergymen, 3,010
churchwardens, and other laymen. Several other
memorials were presented, signed by 24 clergy and
1,815 laymen. Ile said the deputation did not
understand the memorialists to ask for any restric-
tion in the constitutional liberty and diversity of sen-
timent which ..rere wisely permitted within the
National Church. Accepting the Liturgy as it
stood, the memorialists had to complain of an
unconstitutional departure from the orders of
the Church, unsanctioned by authority. They
complained of communion-tables superseded by
altars covered with drapery and strange ornaments,
accompanied by illegal lights, incense, and genu-
flexions, processions with banners, priestly vest-
ments, being exact copies of those of the Church of
Rome, and novel prayers interpolated in the
services, all of which they considered to be out-
ward signs of a violent change. After advert-
ing at some length to the doctrines supposed
to be involved in these new practices, the
memorial proceeded to say that it would
be a mistake to suppose that the party within
the Church, now united to undo the work of the
Reformation, were either small in number or influ-
ence, or that they were to be restrained by authority
or persuasion. Within the metropolis episcopal
authority had been exercised in reference to the
matter, both by the late and the present Bishop of
London, but their efforts to restrain the practices
complained of bad been of no avail. The council of
the English Church Union, now the acknowledged
head of the new party, had within the last few days
announced the policy which they intended hereafter
to pursue. They made no secret of their deter-
mination resolutely to oppose oven a bishop if he
should commit an unjust aggression on any person
in spiritual matters, and that they should regard as
an unjust aggression every attempt to restrain a
clergyman from those peculiar practices and
doctrines which were repudiated by the Church of
England at the Reformation. That such practices
should have been declared illegal as soon as they
were examined could excite no surprise, for if they
were legal the Reformation of the Church would
have no existence, and the history of the last 300
years would have been a delusion. The memorialists
in conclusion prayed that steps might be taken to
maintain intact the integrity of the Church.
Mr. LEFROY, M.P., presented a vast number of
memorials, which, with those presented by Mr.
Colquhoun, made the totttl number of signatures
57,383.
Mr. COLCItHUN said that, judging from a meeting of the
English Church Union held a few days ago it was idle to
suppose that anything would come from kindness, and he
must venture, on behalf of the deputation present, as well
as on behalf of large bodies of people out of doors, to ex-
press their opinion that the.present was a great crisis in the
history of the English Church. He believed that the
Church of England was strongly rooted in the confidence
of the people, and would continue to be so as long as she
remained faithful to primitive order and to apostolical truth.
T he Archbishop of CANTERBURY would merely say, before
they parted, that he was deeply sensible of thecritical posi-
tion of the Church, and no one could be more earnestly de-
sirous of adopting such measures as would effectually check
and suppress the movement complained of. It had been
suggested that legislative measures should be taken. That
was a grave question, and it was not for him to commit,
himself at present to any particular plan, but his heart was
entirely with the deputation in the desire to maintain in
their integrity the doctrines of the Church.

The deputation then retired.
DEPUTATION TO TUN ARCHBISHOP OP YORK.

The Archbishop of York received the deputation iu
Queen Anne's Bounty Offica, Dean's-yard, Westminster
tho members of which were pretty nearly the same as in the
other case. The Archbishop of York wore his full episcopal
robes. The Archbishop of Canterbury was in plain attire.
Mr. Colquhoun presented to his Grace a memorial, signed.
by 2,124 clergyman and 2,610 churchwardens; also four
other memorials signed by 9 clergymen and 299 laymen,
Those were independent of other memorials which had
been presented to the Archbishop from other sources.
The Archbishop of YORK, in acknowledging them, ex-
pressed a hope that the clergy and laity would strive to obey
the law of the Church with alacrity. The practices com-
plained of had been spoken of as childish and frivolous, but
he believed they had been adopted with a deliberate inten-
tion of affecting the doctrinal position of tbeEnglishChurch.
That was not the place for him to give pledges, but he felt
quite sure that a remedy would soon be found for the
difficulties which were now perplexing the Church. Recent
researches in the province of York had shown that there
was nothing in the usages of the Church since the early
part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth to justify the innova-
tions now being introduced.
Mr. CoLQUHOUN thanked his Grace for the courtesy he
had extended to the deputation, ant took the opportunity
of expressing his doubts as to the expediency of Parlia-
mentary interference.

MARKETS.---This Day.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The public sales have continved to proceed with
a fair spirit, and prices generally are well maintained.
SUGAIL—There has been no public sales during the last
few days, but in the private market fully previous quota-
tions aro current. Refined goods are dull, and without
change in value.
COFFEE.—A very limited amount of business has been
entered into, and only superior qualities have maintained
former prices.
RICE.—The demand for home consumption has been
moderately active, but_ holders still demand full rates,
which has in some measure checked operations.
TALLOW.—The market has shown symptoms of more
activity, and quotations for both present and forward deli-
very tend upwards. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 455, and
last three months' delivery 478 6d to 48s. per cwt.

The Stock Exchange Committee held a meeting
yesterday afternoon, and have posted the following
The committee for
grellenoelrilatliopnuripnosetshe ushahvoingerZved a second memorial
with reference to the mode of dealing in bank shares
have fully reconsidered the subject. In the opinion
of the committee any deviation from the usual
practice would seriously obstruct the course of legi-
timate business, and by rendering bank shares less
negociable would be detrimental to the interest
of the holders and the public. It is therefore
resolved " That no special rules for the settle •
ment of bargains in bank shares be adopted."
me following resolutions relating to alterations in
Rules 98 and 99 have been passed this day, subject
to confirmation on the 25th inst. :—Resolved, that
Rule 93 stand as follows : Registered shares or
stock, if not delivered within seven days, may be
bought in against the seller at or after 12 o'clock
on the eighth day after the date of the ticket, and
all loss incurred thereby shall be borne by him ;
but, in case a member shall, without the consent of
the buyer, retain a ticket more than two days from
the date thereof, the member so retainin it shall
bear the loss.' Resolved, that in Rule 99 'The word
, fifteen be altered to ten.' "

CHAMPAGNE.—Some French statistics give the
subjoined details. Thirty million bottles of champagne
annually sold are thus distributed : —Africa cowumes but
100,000 of these; Spain and Portugal, 300,000 ; Italy,
400,000; Belgium, 500,000 ; Holland as much ; Germany,
1,500,000; Russia, 2,000,000; Prance, 2,500,000; thirsty
England, 5,000m0; India, ditto; and North America,
10,000,000 bottles. Those figures refer to the consumption
of wino really grown in the champagne countries. .

Our National Defences—ls England Safe ?

The time has now come when it behoves every English-

man to give attentive consideration to the present state of
the armaments of his native land. With war declared on
the continent of Europe ; with Fenian raids made on a
distant continent upon one of our patriotic colonies; with
the Russians edging close to our Indian possessions ; with
two of our most powerful European allies by this hour in
all probability in actual conflict, and with other dark signs
of coming events which may prove inimical to the security
of this wealthy and happy isle, no forethought, no care, uo
skill, no cost or effort should be spared at this momentous
period to guard from every ill this " land of the free"—
our populous, peaceful, and intellectual country. To con-
template what would be the effect upon the happiness and
civilisation of the world if England were blotted out by a
sudden conquest, or should cease in any way to maintain her
position as a first-rate power, may well be left, without any
effort on our part to portray it, to every ono on his own
account, for every one, considering such a catastrophe iu
his own way, would increase the strength of his own con •
victions by every new thought, by every repeated reflec-
tion, until the feeling that the barest, the remotest possi-
bility of such an event should not be suffered to remain in
the category of mere possibilities, would attain an intensity
which those who have never deeply pondered on this sub-
ject, or those who have rested in the blind faith of Anglo-
Saxon energy and skill, or in the still blinder and more
baseless belief in the care and watchfulness of our official
government over the security of our national existence,
can have no conception of. Nor is such a sudden conquest,
or such a depression of the etninenceof a kingdom,.beyond
the pale of possible occurrences in modern warfare. We
drew no comparison here of our armaments with those of
France and other European countries, we purposely avoid
it; but we do assort that there are existent the material
powers capable of effecting the one or the other, while we,
on the other hand, have not, at this moment, nor can we
have for months to come—and months in modern wars are
eventful periods indeed--the necessary means of prevent-
ing such destructive attacks as could at once be prepared
against us.

In the series of articles we purpose putting before our
countrymen at this critical juncture of public events sen-
sationalism of any kind is in the highest degree as foreign
to our wishes as it would be inimical to our object. We
feel strongly, more strongly even than we like to express,
that the consideration of our national defences has been
tampered with beyond the endurance of the British na-
tion, if that nation knew and comprehended the true con-
dition of our present military and naval power, and
thoroughly understood the gross and culpable neglect that
there has been of the scientific and mechanical genius of
tho country by those to whom during the past
few years since the vital change in military and
naval armaments has been progressing, the charge of
our national defences has been entrusted. It
is not too much to say that, so far from our national defences
being what they ought to be, they have been trifled with
to a perilous degree—we say advisedly perilous degree,
because we have neither a ship, a gun, nor a land fort ca-
pable of resisting such attacking forces as could at this mo-
ment be brought against us, because neither our biggest nor
our thickest ironclad ships, the largest and most formidable
of our guns, the strongest of our land batteries, could resist
the attacks which at least one country has the means already
prepared of making upon them. That the Americans could
sink our Northumberlands, Warriors, and Bellerophons,
with their Monadnocks, Puritans, and Passaconaways, is
perfectly certain. The treatment the Callao forts gave the
Spanish fleet is substantial evidence of this ; and the
Numancia, it should be remembered, is a sister ship of our
vaunted Northumberland, in armour, size, and guns. It
was no idle boast Commodore Rogers made as to what he
could do with her.

Evon if we might at this timo advantageously compare
,he strength and number of our own warlike engines with
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those of the most powerful continental States of Europe, it
can hardly be supposed those powers who are already
commencing, or those who may hereafter engage in the
coming desperate hostilities, if they continue for any length
of time, will not emerge from their mortal encounters
with armaments of far greater capacity than they as yet
possess, and that if the British nation does nothing in
the interval to effect and maintain the necessary supre-
macy of our military and naval arms, we shall find some
other country than America, and in close and dangerous
proximity, capable of demolishing us at a blow. Suppose
one European ambitious country after a four years' war to
come out victorious with such an armament as the United
States has at this hour in its arsenals, its harbours, and
afloat. Suppose any European country possessed of what
the Americans actually have fit for service, 1,500 15-inch
guns (440-pounders), and some hundreds of 20-inch guns
(1,080-pounders). What have we to bring against such
a stupendous array of artillery ? Not a single gun of equal
calibre—not one efficient 400-pounder, not one of any
larger size whatever. Against such terrible weapons we
have nothing absolutely, and literally not a single effective
gun that mud be even hopefully cipposed. Not one. Big
gun after big gun, ordered or made by our Government,
either from being wrongly constructed, or worse, being
rifled on wrong principles, bursts at the 300th or 400th
round ; and .£1,500 after £1,500, and more, is thus time
after time reduced to scrap iron for re-smelting, because
officialdom—we coin the word to avoid personalities—has
put its "foot down" on a wrong principle, and won't take
it up again. Just so officialdom erects forts of grauite,
which artillerists tell us shiver under shot from modern
artillery—not British—like glass, and neglects the iron
which even the remote Peruvians had the good sense to
select ; just so officialdom builds broadside ships and arms
them with little guns, preferring something "tall" to look
at to something less magnificent but infinitely more des-
perate and impenetrable in the fight ; just so, too, official-
dom prefers to nick and notch, and twist and coil its can-
non in endless variety of ways, all alike destructive of
the resistance and endurance of the metal of which they
are made, and involving all the dangers and difficulties
of having to convey to battle-fields and forts a dozen
sorts of shot and shell for the same sized guns, and
none of which will fit any other sort of gun than
that for which it was expressly made, and no sort of
gun being able to be fired with any other sort of shot
than its own. The "muck-muddle" and danger of such a
complex confusion in a real campaign can be easily com-
prehended by any intellect not absolutely obtuse.
To contemplate seriously the bare possibility of such an
event as the blotting out of England as an independent
nation would seem to most like madness, but we say de-
liberately it ought to be contemplated, For as war goes
nowadays, such is the mechanical skill, and so complicated

the machinery by which it is effected, and such the amount
of time required for the production of the instruments of
modern warfare, that the nation which, being attacked,
cannot at once effectually resist, may bo quickly beaten
back, until the mechanical appliances of its gun factories
and dockyards are captured, and then to rally would bo
impossible. In every age in all vital national events his-
tory repeats itself. The brave may sometimes win; the
strongest and best armed generally ; the negligent never.
England encourages peace and civilisation throughout the
world, and there is thus a moral reason beyond the national
one why England should be the strongest and foremost
power. This at this moment she is not, but she might be.
What, then, we want to do is to show truly and undis-
guisedly the dangerously neglected state of our national
defences, and what can, and how soon can, be accom-
plished that which is necessary to place England in mili-
tary and naval power, so far as human prescience can
aconiplish it, beyond tho possibility of degradation and
calamitous reverses. Our argument is, that England
having no desire for war, should have the proper military
and naval weapons to enforce respect, and by being too
strong to be attacked with any prospect of success should
thus ensure the calm serenity of peace throughout her
wide dominions. It is certain, however, that England has
been allowed to come to the last hour when desirable pro-
vision for her own security can with any degree of cer-
tainty be made. It would take two mouths from this day,
from any day, before the first gun of such an artillery as
England ought to possess on land or at sea could be pro-
duced. It would take six months to build the first ship fit
to protect the present navy of England ; and it would take
three months before the first of those iron embrasures and
turrets which our principal forts ought to possess could be

prepared. It would thus take six months, if the British
people took up the subject in earnest at once, before Eng-
land would have made even the first step on the road to
safety.—. Morning Herald.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 14 11 15
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18; 11 19
--11 181- 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 47 25 55
B 25 471

JIIIBSAL - LO 'til ,a 55
Hambnrg
Paris Short 25 10 25 20
Ditto 3 Months.2s 35 25 471
Marseilles
Fran Wort on the Maine 1171 1181
Vienna, — 14 0
. l4 50

Trieste — 14 0 14 50
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid . —44 i
Cadiz
Legho —rn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 30 30 80 0

ANOTHER GREAT COTTON FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.—
On Wednesday night a fire broke out in two cotton ware-
houses in Parliament-street and Britton-street, near the
South Docks, Liverpool. The fire had made considdrable
progress before it was discovered, and tho flames defied the
efforts of the fire brigade. Upwards of 1,600 bales of cotton
were stored in the premises, besides 200 tons of logwood, the ,
greater part of which has been consumed. The principal I
owners were Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co. ; a small
portion of the cotton belonging to Rathbone Brothers
Taylor, and Co., J. Swire, and Walton, Bolton, and Co
The two warehouses were divided by a narrow passage,
and the flames quickly spread from one building to tho
other. -

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS DAY.

The LORD eaccemon took his seat on the woolsack
at half-past ten o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Cheshiro
Lines, Glasgow Bridges, Salisbury and Yeovil Rail, North
British Railway (Saint Mar,garet's Divorsion);North British
and Leadburn, Linton aid Doiphinton Railway Compa-
nies, and North British Rai, Way (Stirling, &c., Branches).
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Mersey Pneumatic Railway, ~even and East of Fife
Railway (Amendments), and stuzbridga Improvement
(Amendments).
Their lordships then proceedei to bear some appeals, at
the conclusion of which the honse adjourned.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. This Day.

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MA.7011 FINNEY'S SON-SENTENCE.
To-day the Assistant-Judge directed that George Hamil-
ton Finney, the son of Major Finney, who was a month
ago found guilt) of stealing a silver spoon, the property of
Charles Cooper, the lessee of the Albion TaVern, Russell-
street, Covent-garden, to be brought up for judgment.
Mr. Sleigh asked the Court to deal mercifully with the
prisoner, as he was suffering from heart disease.
Tho Assistant-Judge said the case had stood over for
some time to allow an application to be made to the Home
Secretary on his behalf for a pardon, but from the in-
quiries that had been made, he (the learned Judge) had
no doubt whatever as to the propriety of the verdict at
which the jury had arrived. It was his duty to deal with
the prisoner as he would With any other person, and the
sentence upon him was,
that he be imprisoned and kept
to such hard labour as be would be able to perform for
five months.

The sentence seemed to surpriso the young gentleman.

UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Mails for the United States are made up in London every
Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday
evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening
mails must reach the General Pest-office by 6 o'clock
p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6
o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted
half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's
mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day,
by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning
mails are taken by the Southampton steamers.
Mails from the United States are due in London on
Mondays and Thursdays of each week.
Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the
shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States,
California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates :
—Not exceeding 2 oz., ld. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding
3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., bet not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an
addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16
ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At
the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more
than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical pubhcation)
may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon.
This postage is only the British portion, .a further sum
being charged on delivery. The periodical works
or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the
ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and
the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or
books (except those specified above), addressed to the
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There must be no writing, or other marks upon such
periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex-
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Any other writing, &c., will render the packetsliable to
letter rates of postage.
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.OYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SO CIE TY. —A: meeting of
the above society will be held on Monday evening, Juno
25, at half-past 8, at Burlington House, Sir R Murchison,
Bart., in the chair, when the following paper will be read :
—Explorations on the Atbars, in Abyssinia. By S. W.
Baker, Esq.

SHEEP WORRYING IN SCOTLAND.—Between Sun-
day night and Monday morning last no fewer than 261ambs
and one ewe were worried by dogs on the farm of New
Belses, Roxburghshire, in the occupation of Mr. Wylde.
On entering a field on Monday morning the shepherd came
upon the half-eaten carcases of two lambs, and in a corner
of the same field he found other 24 lambs and a owe lying
together, in a heap, all dead, a number of which Appeared as
it they had died from suffocation through being forced to-
gether. There is no doubt but the animals have all died as
the result of an attack by dogs, but where from or to whom

belonging the police have as yet been unable to ascertain
—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

THE NEWCASTLE Cup.—The Newcastle Cup for
1866, now on view at the manufacturers, Messrs.

E. and E. Manuel, 1, Burlington-gardens, is a work of

unique design and most elaborate beauty. It is a silver
vase in the renaissance style, relieved with gilding. The

handles aro formed by figures of St. George attacking the
dragon. A. female figure, typifying the city of Newcastle,
and bearing the city arms, surmounts the cover. The
battle of Chevy Chase, having been fought in the vicinity

of Newcastle, has been selected fer illustration on two bas-
reliefs ou the body of the vase. The first represents the
scene before the combat between the Earls Percy and
Douglas, when Witherington, an English squire, offers to

decide the quarrel by a siuglo combat with any Scot ; the

second depicts the combat between the earls,duriug which
Earl Douglas met his death by au Eugllah arrow. Sir
Hugh Montgomery, a Scottish knight, then rushed through
the fray and pierced Earl Percy with his lance, seeing
which an English archer shot an arrow at Montgomery
and killed him. These thrilling incidents are narrated in
silver with a display of poetic fancy and dramatic expres-

sion that may well awaken admiration. Seldom has his-
tory been presented in a more costly and attractive form

han it assumes in this superbly embossed vase, which

might serve not only for a racing cup, but also for an aca-

demic prize, so rich is it iu historic interest and legendary
lore. It is a magnificent work, and does honour to the

artist who designed it, and to the manufacturers who car-

tied his conception into truthful and spirited execution.
PETROLEUM FOR ASTIIMA.—A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman writes to that journal :—" I have a son
six years old that had the asthma in the most distressing

form for three or four months, when ho was one or two

years old. We tried everything we could hear of without
getting relief, tilll we were told to rub his neck and breast
with petroleum, and we used it both crude and refined, ex-
periencing very speedy relief and a final and permanent
cure; for he has not since had a return of it, and is now a
very healthy child."

THE NlLE.—Colonel Scobell, the last surviving
commissioned officer who took part in the battle of the
Nile, has just died at his seat, Nancealverne, near Penzance,
at the ago of 88. Deceased was the son of the Rev. Mr.
&obeli, vicar of Sancreed, Cornwall. He entered the
Royal Marines at an early age, and was present at the battle
of the Nile, on board the Alexander, Capt. Ball, as second
lieutenant. Ho was also engaged on land in Nelson's
Italian campaigns. The gallant colonel in later life de-
voted himself to agricultural pursuits.
SIGNOR ARDIYI's GRAND CONCERT AT HER MA-
JESTY'S THEATRE.—Signor Arditi's great concert,
which is generally accepted as the culminating point of all
the morning entertainments given during the London
fashionable season, came off brilliantly on Friday last, the
15th instant. In a theatre crowded with rank and fashion,
it was really a sight to witness the delightful attention
with which the audience lingered on almost every piece.
Madlle. Titiens, the great prima donna, now confessedly
standing alone as the first singer in Europe, was, of
course, the loading artiste on this remarkable occasion.
Besides her marvellous power as a singer, we feel com-
pelled, in justice to her great taste (exhibited in another
direction than that of music) to notice, for the information
of our lady-readers, her dress ; which was an exquisite
morning costume in the richest whitepoutt-de-soie, trimmed
with mauve silk, forming festoons. The ekirt was trimmed
with Cluny lace and shells of mother-o'-pearl. Nothing
could exceed the effect of this tasteful dress. The dress,
we believe, was made by the well-known Messrs. Jay, of
Regent-street, an establishment now celebrated in London
and in Paris for its exquisite Court Millinery.
BURIAL OF THE POOR.—One of the last Acts
passed was to enable Boards of Guardians in Ireland to
provide coffins and shrouds for the burial of poor parsons
who at the time of their death were not in receipt of relief
from the poor-rates.
THE WORKS OF THE LATE JOHN LEECH.—Yes-
terday Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods sold
at their rooms, King-street, St. James's, a portion of the
original sketches made by the celebrated artist John Leech,
comprising many of the most celebrated political cartoons,
" Mr. Briggs," and other designs for Punch,
" Social Miseries," " The Brook-green Vc.,lnun e," ' U
"Pocket-book," and "Pictures of Life ahnisdt:Cliarartn:
Handley-
dren of the Mobility," "Rising
• Cross," and other, publications,
and
'no lots were offered
colours. One hundred and eighty-ni
attendance, the
__ was. a good .
being
sale sale, and although J.
the
dull, the prices realised being
Generatio some sketches in
sale throughout was y_
very low, ranging
colours, No. 182,
"Fra-the latter amount, which was the
being knocked downdforor
any
single sketch. The entire
fr°vlney'LlSti;, Dli:ogYuoinueaLse.t ACustkeOtcsses,in"
highest sum obtdainabce f
3.115 S COUTTS s
value of her
' . uCtittoC.ii AT CARLISLE.—MiSS
Coutts has added .
collection realised
still further to the
ficentehetls Church, at Carlisle, by filling
sbtethP three two-light windows in the
with staine,
el. The principal designs on tho windows are the
"Takingcllanc down from the Cross" and the "Ascension."
gift ofci
gSltas.
PRESENT OF A LlFEBOAT.—Yesterday Robert
Broadwater, Esq., of Homey Rise, and his friends, formally
presented to the National Lifeboat Institution the munifi.
cent sum of £420 to defray the cost of a lifeboat in com.
memoration of his fiftieth birthday. The event was cele,
brated by a dejeuner given by Mr. Broadwater at the Ship
Tavern, Greenwich, to a large number of his friends, who
had assembled to congratulate him on the occasion.
Messrs. Forrest, the boatbuilders of the institution, had
the lifeboat "Broadwater" rowed down the river, and
afterwards:exhibited in front of the Ship Tavern to the
great satisfaction of Mr. Broadwater and his numerous
friends.

ITEIRD EDMOI:

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

ADVANCE OF TEE PRUSSIANS ON

GOTTINGtN.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

BERLIN, JUIle 22.
The two Prussian corps under the command of
Generals Falkenstein and Manteuffel, coming from
Hanover, and the corps under General Beyer,
coming from Cassel, are now marching towards
Gottingen. The Prussians have occupied all the
available passages of the river Worra.

CASSEL, June 22.
The Electoral Hessian Minister of War has been
arrested by the Prussians and conveyed to the for-
tress of Minden (Prussia).

THE BANK OF FILLNKFOBT.
FRANK FORT, June 22.
The Bank of Frankfort has reduced its rate cf
discount from 7 to 6 per cent.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

IPSWICH RACES—THIS DAY,
NURSERY HANDICAP.
Court Card (Parry) 1
Mavourneen (Lynch)
Stud
(Loates)
Betting—Even agst Court Card, 7 to 4 agst
Stud, 5 to 1 agst 31avourneen. Won by half a
length.
GREAT SUFFOLK HANDICAP.
Ostregor (Mr. Bevill) 1
•
Peeress (Lynch) 2
Troublesome (Loates) 3
Oberon, Caprice, and Pinchbeck also ran.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Ostregor, 3to 1 agst
Peeress, sto 1 agst Pinchbeck. Won in a car.ter,
SHRUBLAND STAKES.
Ace of Hearts 1
Doeford

Won easy.
MEMBERS' PLATE.

1

Won by a length. Six ran.
BENACRE STAKES.