The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED.

Last night Mr. and Mrs. German Reed gave an entirely
new entertainment, consisting of popular illustrations from
real life, in the Gallery of Illustration in Regent-street.
The entertainment was divided into two parts, the first
being entitled " Our Home Circuit," the second part " Sea
Side Studies," and sonsists of a series of sketches of cha-
racters, admirably filled up by Mrs. German Reed, who was
ably assisted by Mr. Reed himself. The most attractive
portion of the entertainment consisted of a number of
songs, the composition of Mr. German Reed, which were
exseedingly well sung by Mrs. Reed, some of them being
warmly encored. In the second part Mrs. Reed gave her
very entertaining sketch of Sally Skaggs, which was re-
peated by particular desire, in which she sings her very
amusing ballad " When first I went to service," and which
obtained a hearty encore.
The entertainment, which never flags, is well worthy of
a visit, and those who remember Mrs. Reed as Miss P.
Horton need not be told of the spirit, vivacity, and ster-
ling ability she displays throughout the entire perform.
ante. At ths conclusion of the entertainment Mr. and
Mrs. German Reed had the honour of being called before
the curtain.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.
THE IRISH SECRETARYSHIP.

The under-current of discontent has already set
in here. The rumoured appointment of so able a
man as Mr. Cardwell to MI the comparatively, un-
important post of Chief Secretary for Ireland has
failed to give satisfaction. It is the old story a
hundred times repeated. The great administrative
talents of the right hon. gentleman are freely ad-
mitted, and his services to the Roman Catholics in
his opposition to the Ecclesiastical Titles Act are
not wholly ignored ; but then Mr. Cardwell has
had the bad fortune to have been born on the off
side of the Channel, and is, therefore, quite in-
capable of knowing anything of the Irish tempera-
ment. Cunning Lord Derby managed these things
better. Irishmen were to be found at the Admi-
ralty, at the Treasury, in one of the highest law
offices, and the eminently popular Lord Naas, the
projector of the admirable Dublin Police Bill, was
Chief Secretary for Ireland. Alas, bow changed
now !

THE LAW .APPOINTMENTS.
Saunders' Newsletter states that. Mr. Henry
George Hughes has refused the judgeship in the
Bitin*:ruptcy Court, vacant by the death of Mr.
Macao. It is scarcely credible that the offer was
ever made. Mr. Hughes's professional income must
be nearly double the salary of the judgeship, and
he can well afford to bide, his time until something
turns up more worthy of his position at the Irish
equity bar.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke
of Newcastle, the Right lion. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. W. E, Gladstone, the Duke of
Somerset, the Earl of Elgin, Sir George Grey, the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right Hon; T. Milner Gibson.
Lord John Russell has appointed the How, George.
Elliot and Mr. George Russell to be his private secretaries.
Mr. Villiers Lister has been appointed Precis Writer.
TRINITY Housx, TOWER-HlLL—Yesterday being
Trinity Monday, the elder brethren of Trinity House pro-
ceeded to the parish of St. Olave's, Hart-street, Crutched-
friars, where Divine service was performed according to
annual custom. The grand banquet to his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort and her Majesty's Ministers takes place
on Saturday evening, the 2d of July.
On Friday next the royal mail screw steam-ship
Ethiope sails from Liverpool• for the West Coast of Africa,
with the mails, &c. The letter box at the Liverpool Poet-
office is open for letters till 12.45 p.m. with a late fee, at
1.15 p.m., and on the landing stage at 2 p.m.
THE OUTWARD INDIA MAIL—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamship the Pera, Captain.
Jamieson, arrived at Malta with her usual punctuality oni
the evening of the 12th of June, in eight days from South-
ampton, including stoppage at Gibraltar, nothwithstanding
having had head winds as far as Cape St. Vincent. On the
9th, when 60 miles to the eastward of Gibraltar, she ex-
changed signals with the barque Egyptian, standing to the
westward. The Pera left for Alexandria on the morning of
the 14th. The Ellora, with the overland London mail, ar-
rived at Malta early on the morning of the 15th, and pro-
ceeded onwards to Alexandria immediately after coaling.
The Behar, with the heavy homeward mail, left Malta for
Southampton on the afternoon of the 13th, and the Nepaul
on the forenoon of the 15th for Marseilles wi4h the home
ward Indian mail.

THE OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.—SOUTHAMPTON,
Monday.—The Peninslar and Oriental Company's screw
steamship Colombo, Captain J. S. Field, sailed hence to-
day, with the heavy portion of the mails for the East Indies
and China, a full cargo, and specie and jewellery to the
value of £285,017. The Tagus, Captain Hall, is due on
the 21st, with mails from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo; the
New York, Captain Von Sauten, on the 22d, with mails-
from New York of the 11th inst., for England and Bremen;
the Behar, Captain Hicks, with the Bombay mails, and the
Hammonia, Captain Schwensen, with New York mails of
the 15th inst., on the 27thl. the Ariel, Captain Jones, on
the 30th, with English and French mails of the 18th, from
New York ; the Atrato, Captain Woolley, with the West
India, Pacific, and Mexican mails, and the Alhambra,
Captain Steward, with the mails from Lisbon? Oporto, and
Vigo, on the Ist proximo; the Pera, Captain Jamieson,
with the India and China mails, en the 4th; and the Tyne,
Captain Sawyer, with the Brazil and River Plate mails, on
the sth. The Vanderbilt, Captain Lefevre, leaves this port
on the 22d inst. for New York ; the Orissa, Captain Joy,
and the Sultan, Captain- N. Cook, on the 27th, the former
taking out the Bombay mails, and the latter the mails for
Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon; the Weser, Captain Gatjen, for
New York, on the 28th, and the Arago, Captain Lines, for
New York, on the 29th.

The Red Sea cable has announced the arrival at
Aden of the Calcutta mail of the 17th of May, but the news
by that opportunity has been anticipated by the • Bombay
mail of the 23d. It is satisfactory, however, to receive a
confirmation that the line is in working order. The mes-
sage was despatched from Aden to Suez on the 10th inst.,
and would have reached London two days sooner had it been
telegraphed from Marseilles instead of forwarded by post.
The land line of the company between Suez and Alexan-
dria was completed, with the exception of 15 miles, when the
last advices left on the 11th inst.
The arrival of £500,000 in bullion was announced
yesterday, the Asia, from New York, having brought
£289,000 ; the Monarch, from Melbourne, £171,400 ; the
Moscow, from St. Petersburg, £27,000; and the Ripon,
from Alexandria, £13,600. Including the £56,000 in Aus-
tralian gold, by the Essex, and the £530,000 in gold and
silver, by the West India steamer La Plata, there is an
aggregate of no less than £1,087,000 in specie, chiefly gold,
awaiting disposal. There is consequently a prospect of
some amount being taken to the Bank during the present
week. The bullion operations at that establishment yes,
terday were too small to deserve notice.
DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday evening, a n
inquest was held at the University Hotel, Grafton-street
East, Fitzroy-square, before Mr. Wakley, on the body of
Mr. Charles Hall, aged 47, a coachbuilder, who committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Tho deceased
had for a length of time been in a desponding state of mind,
for which there was no assignable cause. On Wednesday
evening last, he, in conversation with his wife, said he did
not think it worth while living longer. She went out after-
wards, during which the unfortunate man took the oppor-
tunity of cutting his throat with a razor, and he died on
the following day. There were several witnesses examined,
all of whom spoke to the deceased's low, dejected state of
mind for some time past. The jury returned a verdict that
the deceased committed the act while in a state of insanity.
The amount of revenue of New South Wales for
the quarter ending March 31 was over £58,000 greater than
that of the corresponding quarter of 1868. A large portion
of it is traceable to the increase in land sales, and to the
newly imposed assessment ; but £22,000 is from the Cus-
tords receipts alone. • - •

LALTEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

The following telegrams have been received a
Mr. Beutei•'s office :

BERLIN, JUNE 2

The Preussische Zeitung states itself authorised
to declare that the communication of the corre-
spondent oaf the Nord respecting a letter alleged to
have been_ 'written by the Prince Regent to the
Emperor Napoleon on the character of the mobilisa-
tion of the sixth corps d'armee, •is entirely an in-

vention.

TJtIESTE, JUNE 20,

According to reports current, the Austrian vessel
Buona, of the class No. 2, which had been captured
by the French, has been given up as free, because
its proprietor and captain are Venetians.

MUNICH, JUNE 20.
Major-General von Tann has left for Berlin on a

special mission.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 20,

The Marseilles papers announce that the Mi-
nistry of the Pacha of Egypt has suspended the
Suez Canal works. M. de Lesseps has published a
protest, recalling the recent formal engagements of
Said Pacha concerning the Suez Canal project. M.
de Lesseps also states his double character of repre-
sentative of Said Pasha and of a regularly coasti-
tuted company. The French Consul in Egypt has
officially offered his mediation. .

THE- lONIAN ISLANDS.

CORFU, JUNE 10.

In consequence of the war all the normal chan-
nels of communication between this island and
Trieste—as, indeed, also Malta and Italy—have
been interrupted, and the harbour of Corfu is en-
cumbered by the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd's
Company, 15 of which are at the present moment
lying listlessly at anchor there, under the protec-
tion of our neutral flag.
In the last month a chance ship of war and the
fortnightly Liverpool steamers have been the only
means of communicating with Europe ; while an
occasional telegram from Malta, with stale accounts
of the events which are occurring in Upper Italy,
gave brief and tardy news of the war. The sub-
marine telegraph between Malta and Cagliari is
still broken, and its want is at this moment more
felt than ever it was. Let us hope that it will be
promptly repaired.
This little island is now to be somewhat relieved
from its isolation, arrangements having been made
to run a steamer twice a-month to and from Malta
with the mails.

Tranquillity has continued throught the Seven
Islands since the noisy agitators of the National As-
sembly retired to their homes. The lonian Parlia-
ment does not reassemble until September, and until
then, provided no extraordinary circumstances arise
of a character to stimulate the discontented zealots
of lonia, we may enjoy the blessings of repose and
calm government.
Yesterday, 'a French steamer chased an Austrian
brig into this very harbour. A great many prizes
have been made by the French hereabouts.
A Turkish squadron, under the command of Mus-
tafa Pasha, anchored here last week. It is com-
posed of a screw line-of-battle ship, a large screw
frigate, and a steamer. They proceeded on their
course on Saturday, taking a considerable force
to the frontiers of Montenegro, where hostilities
have again broken out. It is, indeed, said here
that the Montenegrins have made an incursion into
the Sultan's States, and gained possession of a for-
tress near the frontier. French officers have for
some time been with the Montenegrin army, and
large supplies of arms have reached them from
France. It is thought by no means improbable
that Montenegro may, under the excitement of
existing circumstances, gave an impulse to a move-
ment among the Christian populations of Turkey in
Europe, among whom the elements of revolution are
ripe, and who are encouraged by the great northern
Power to struggle against the Turkish yoke.
The military authorities have been busy inspect-
ing the state of the fortifications and outworks, and
guns of large calibre have been mounted in some
of the embrasures. The Melbourne and the Sir
William Peel arrived here : last week, bringing the
2d Battalion of the 4th Royal Regiment, and a
company of Artillery and Engineers.