The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange.—Bankers' bills, 1051,- to 106. Stocks
are quiet : Erie, 22 ; Illinois, 59! ; New York Cen-
tral, 721. Cotton dull, middling Upland, 134 14c.
Breadstuffs declining. Corn higher. Provisions
dull.

-ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTI-

TEI TION.

A meeting of this institution was held on Thurs-
day at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas
Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There
were also present Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.8., Alexander Boetefeur, Esq., Captain Wash-
ington, R.N., F.R.S. (hydrographer of the Ad-
miralty), Colonel Palmer, Sir Edward Perrott,
Bart., Admiral Bullock.

Mr. LEWIS, the Secretary, read the minutes of
the previous meeting.
The silver medal of the institution was voted
to Lieut. Dyer, R.N., and Mr. George Farrin,
gunner of her Majesty's ship Ajax, in testimony
of their intrepid services, in conjunction with many
others who:had been previously rewarded, in savinc,
life from the brig Neptune, of Whitehaven, which
was wrecked off Kingston on the 9th of February
last. Lieut. Dyer had been twice swept away by the
surf, but was providentially saved, and Mr. Farrin
received, on that disastrous occasion, a seri.)us
wound on the head from which it was said he still
suffered.

The silver medal of the institution was likewise
presented to Mr. John Large, master gun-
ner in the Royal Artillery, in acknowledgment
of his brave exertions in wading into the
surf at the peril of his life and aiding to rescue
three out of seven of the crew of the schooner
Harmony, of Waterford, which, during a heavy
gale of wind, was wrecked in Freshwater West
Bay, near Milford.
A reward of £2 was granted to Charles Gilbert,
fisherman, of Sutton-bridge, on the Lincolnshire
coast, for his prompt and very laudable services in
rescuing, at considerable risk of life, four men,
whose boat, during squally weather, had sunk,
placing her crew in a most dangerous position.
Gilbert observing the accident, pushed off imme-
diately to their help, and arrived at the spot just
in time to save them from a watery grave.
A reward of £l3 was also voted to the crew of
the Arklow lifeboat, belonging to the institution,
for pulling off, in reply to signals of distress from
two vessels, which had, however, afterwards got
out of danger. It often happens hat a vessel has
a signal of distress flying, and that there is every
reason to suppose her in extreme danger, when the
lifeboat's crew are quickly at their posts, but they
go off only to find on arrival at the vessel that, by
a change of wind, or other unforeseen cause, she
has escaped the danger, and that the services of tho
lifeboat are not required; yet the crew of the latter
may have to incur as much risk in going out and
returning to the shore through a heavy surf as if
they had returned freighted with a shipwrecked
crew. Such services are, indeed, sometimes of the
most trying description that the lifeboatman is
called on to encounter, as all the dangers and ex-
posure which he may have undergone have been to
no purpose. Yet in such cases it will not do to
hang back until it is certain that the shipwrecked
crew are in the last extremity, for it would then
too often happen that the far greater disappoint-
ment and grief would be experienced of seeing the
vessel and her crew engulphed, when the means of
safety were already on their way, but too late to
be of any avail.
A reward of £l2 was likewise granted to a num-
ber of poor fishermen of Blasket Island, on the
coast of Kerry, for their very laudable and humane
exertions in rescuing 15 persons from a boat bAong-
uip dfdwlesinexd,hoafd Nh
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ewn Yaboarkn.,
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bo
durtheing
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fearful
doned in a sinking state, with 53 persons on board,
in the Atlantic, in March last. After enduring
great suffering on the ocean for many days, the
poor shipwrecked men were ultimately observed by
the islanders, who found them in a most exhausted
state, and brought them ashore at much risk of
life, two of the sufferers falling dead on reaching
the land. The survivors were taken into the cot-
tages of the islanders and treated most kindly by
them for several days, during which period it was
fcund impracticable to communicate with the main
land.

It was reported that the Institution had sent en
Wednesday a large lifeboat, 35 feet long, accom-
panied by a transporting carriage, to Selsey, on the
Sussex coast. The London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway Company had readily given them a
free conveyance over their line. Some members of
the Society of Friends and others had contributed
.£lBO towards the cost of the lifeboat, which amount
_
had been collected by Mr. H. B. Wilkinson, and
Mr. Joseph Beck.
Scotland,
building
for
The Institution had also lifeboats ready to be
forwarded to Campbeltown, in S St.
Ives, in Cornwall, and others were
several other places.
• tied to supply
It was stated that the society
as usual by
by Negretti and Zambra, and verified its lifeboat stations with manufacturedlaromheeceotredniratdslieynldy
Observatory, Green-
Mr. Glaisher, of the Royal t
r nteow the
lifeboat, most
d o ns
wich. The charts, on which
make them without
of the instruments are noted,d
offer serviceable
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held a few days ago at
At a public m
Guernsey,
illiterate difficulty
onin intelligible
IC)
it decided
plan of the
institution, to the so-
ciety. from the
A report was read inspector of lifeboats,
of his recent visit to the lifeboat stations of the in-
baelseetiinatgno
stitution on the Sussex and Rent coast, all of which
he found in good order.
paymeLts, amounting to £450 were made on
various lifeboat establishment '
The committee earnestly appeal
appeal to the public for
0 them assistance, to enabl h ym to meet the continued
heavy demands on
their many lifeboats, now num-
bering one
hundred and twelve.
The proceedings
then closed.

1357 letters from Malta we learn that the order
lately issued relative to the minute examination of cast-iron
ordnance has begun to be carried into' effect, including that
of our sea-service cannon, which has been strictly searched
there by Captain Boyle, of the Royal Artillery, Inspector
of Warlike Stores. The result, we are told, in the St. Jean
d'Acre, 101, was that, according to the new regulations,
nearly three-fourths of herguns were pronounced unservice-
able, to the great astonishment and consternation of the
Admiral commanding. The inqury is to extend to every
ship as soon as possible, and this first result is not encourag-
ing, though we may add that, practically, litttle fear of.
guns bursting need be entertained, except under extreme
circumstances. It is satisfactory to add that they enter-
tain no scruples whatever in using them. The naval store-
keeper at Malta has in store no adequate supply of guns to
replace them. We have not yet heard of this:examination
having as yet been extended to our home ports.--4"10
and Navy gazette.

- E t 3 S'S
It 0 Y A li i. osB e Pe
and R 12
IN.
itaal
et% Mr. A. Harris. THEATRE.--
THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by
Messrs. F. Matthews,Widdicombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden;
Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss M. Harris.

Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Feebler. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezln, Ryder, Meadows, &c ; Misses
Heath, klsworthy, and R. Leclercq.

Ems' THEATRE-ROYAL, A DELPHI.-
E3ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of " Tho Colleen Bawn. " The Adelphi

"Census" every Evening'.
THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford.
After which (202 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boncicanit, D. Fisher, Billinzton, Falconer, Stephenson,
'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billing-ton, and Mrs. Chatterley.

To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Ebnrne, -Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss E. i'horne,, and Mrs. Chatterley.

Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
T EIIS EVENING, the most successful Spectacle ever
produced, MAZEI'I'A, with splendid scenery and stately
effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders
and SCENES in the CIRCLE. Concluding with the Panto-
mime Ballet entitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced
prices. Doors open at hall-past 6.
On Thursday, June 13th, Benefit of the Rocky Mountain
Wonders.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

EVERY EVENING,

Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including
Verdi's new Opera, THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
in England and only to be heard at this Establishment), with
a Chorus of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any
other Concerts.

Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard ; the popular Solos on the Cornet-a-
piston, by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day) ; the
Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain-
ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con-
tinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son.

The Comic Department comprises the following favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Blanchard, and
numerous other artistes.

Re-appearance at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

TH E 0 XFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.

Mr. I.rvv, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete
scale) from Dinorah, Martha, Stradella, ctn., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari. Kimber-
ley', Bernard, Beaumont, Bervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Mr. Henry Herbert, with full band and po:verful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, J. Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall. Harvey, and French. and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence; Balcony and
stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tsui Ds'.—Morning, 2h. 58m.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m.
To-mounow.-Morning, 3h. 36m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56m.

Vag WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 9, 1861.
THEEMOMETER, IN THE SHADS.
59—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
53—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.78 ; falling.
WIND North Tasterly; light, with dull, cold, rainy
weather. It also rained in the night.
JUNE 10.
THERMOMETER, IN TEE SHADR.
58—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29'76 ; now up to 29.87.
WlND—South-Westerly—light; with dull, but warm,
weather. There was heavy rain in the night and this
morning.
Two o'CLocx.—The wind veered to N.W. about one
o'clock with very heavy rain, with sti ong gusts and water-
falls in torrents. It has now gone back to S.W. again,
with sunshine and cloudy weather. There must be a thun-
der-storm not far off. We had lightning yesterday.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1861.

If anything could alleviate the profound sorrow
caused by the untimely end of Count CAMILLO
BENSO DI CAVOUR, it would assuredly be the news
now brought to us of what may be called the sine
qua non of the policy announced by his successor,
the Baron BETTINO DI RICASOLI.
The indispensable condition of RICASOLI'S ac-
ceptance of the Premiership, that able statesman
has frankly intimated in his answer to the KING'S
offer to him of that supreme responsibility. What
is that indispensable condition ? Is it not precisely
what ought to be the first essential proclaimed by
Count CAVOUR'S successor ? THAT--'‘ Not an inch
(more) of Italian territory shall be given up !"
That is the condition which, it is confidently as-
serted, has been announced by RICASOLI to VICTOR
EMMANUEL—the indispensable condition, without
which he (the Baron DI RICASOLI) cannot under-
take the duties of Prime Minister, cannot hold in
his hands the Foreign Portfolio. Supposing that
we are to accept the glad tidings—as let us sin-
cerely trust we may, as authentic—adieu to the
dreams of NAPOLEON HI. about the acquisition by
France of the island of Sardinia.
Anxious glances in the meanwhile are turned
just now towards the Island of Caprera, where,
according to the unwelcome intimations of the
telegrams, an alarming attack of illness has pros-
trated General GARIBALDI. Is it not possible,
however, that this dreadful intelligence may be
untrue—that, at any rate, it may have been exag-
gerated ? Is Italy, immediately after losing her
foremost Statesman, to be threatened now with the
loss of her most illustrious Soldier ? GOD grant
that out of all the bitter griefs and anxieties that
are now descending upon that beautiful land in the
very hour when its political unification appeared
to be ensured—Cop grant that out of all those
bitter griefs and anxieties the brightest epoch of
her history may yet emerge,
and that,in spite of
the lamentable death of CAVOUR, and the reported
alarming illness of GARIBALDI—ItaIY may yet
fulfil her noblest destiny, and happily accomplish
the work of her complete political reorganisation.
Hitherto, CAVOUR had been the Brain of Italy,
directing her councils, while GARIBALDI has been
the strong Right Arm wielding her sword. Having
lost her master-mind in Diplomacy, she cannot
afford now to lose the foremost Hero upon her
battlefields. It is impossible to credit that any
such terrible crisis could be reserved to her after
all that has recently been achieved in her name
both at the council board and upon the battle
field.

On Wednesday evening a Festival of a deeply
nteresting character will be presided over by the
right hon. gentleman the member for Buckingham-
shire. The occasion, however, is one of a purely
philanthropical character. We would premise this
for the information of several among our brother
Editors in Paris, the redacteurs of those imperial
organs who recognised a political manifesto in the
graceful tribute offered to H.R.H. the Dac D'AU-
MALE, as Chairman of the Literary Fund Banquet
—so regarding it simply (in every sense sim-
ply) because that touching and eloquent tribute
was offered to the exiled Prince by the right hon.
gentleman the leader of her MAJESTY'S Opposition.
Our brother journalists over in Paris, quite losing
sight for the moment, it would seem, of three facts
as sufficiently obvious in themselves as the following,
as sufficiently obvious, that is, to all of us here in
England—Firstly, that the Literary Fund Institu-
tion is in no respect whatever a political establish-
ment. [Even Mr. DICKENS will allow that much
—earnestly though he has striven to reform it from
its foundation upwards as an institution urgently
requiring rehabilitation !] Secondly, that the Due
D'AUMALE was there in the chair at theLiteraryFund
Banquet, not at all in his capacity as an Orleanisf,
but solely in his capacity as an exiled Princeaeldlitss-.
dis-
tinguished by his many rare accomplishments.
Thirdly and lastly, that the Right Hon. BENJAMIN
DISRAELI was known to the world as an eminent
Novelist before he had ever dreamt,:perhaps (though
of this the readers of even his maiden romance
" Vivian Grey" may be doubtful), before he had ever
dreamed, perhaps, of becoming an eminent States-
man. The imperial redacteurs at Paris, in their
strictures upon Mr. DISRAELI'S recent speech a
the Literary Fund Banquet—recognizing in that
right hon. gentleman—not the celebrated author of
Coningsby, of Sybil, and of Contrini Fleming, but
exclusively the member for Bucks, and the Leader
of the Great Tory Party, the front ranks of which
are filled up for the most part by the country gen
tlemen of England.

Yet, if—as who shall hesitate to say P—ltaly can
nowhere find another CAVOUR, could nowhere dis-
cover a second GARIBALDI—Out of 25,000,000 of

men, " numbers" may, at any rate, in some degree,
compensate (so far, at least, as anything can compen-
sate) the loss of TUE MAN. Vanished the " divine
fire "of GE/sans! Imperilled the " divine fire "of
HEROISM! there must still be left the ardent hopes,
and aspirations, and resolutions kindled by Each
in the bosoms of—how many millions shall we say
out of those 25,000,000 ! Time will answer. And
in the meanwhile the dismay awakened throughout
Italy, we may also add throughout Europe, by the
death of CAvot•R, had been already allayed by the
announced policy .of his successor RICA SOLI. The
grief of Italy, the sympathetic affliction of Europe,
caused by the tidings of that calamity may be yet
further alleviated, will be yet further alleviated, let
us venture to say, by the consolatory intelligence
that OARIBALDI's illness has been exaggerated,
and not only exaggerated but dissipated.

Premising therefore that the banquet over which
Mr' DISRAELI is about to preside as Chairman s
in no Way a merely political demonstration—being
far beyond that, an earnest effort in the interests
of philanthropy—we would here add briefly that it
is a banquet given upon the occasion of the first
anniversary (the advertisements erroneously print it
the second anniversary) of the foundation (in 1860)

Three days later from New York make us ac-
quainted with advances on the part of the North, and
increased musters for defence by the South. The
rumours, however, of actual fighting at Alexandria

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.MARKET. prove to have been baseless. From the South we
cannot easily obtain definite information ; it has
THIS EVENING, the tertornlanoes will commence with
the Crn dy of THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. probably no wish to- furnish the world with any,
Mathews,°e Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, ke. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes. and hardly any means to do so if it had. It has
Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE
LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. not only no postal communication with Europe,
And THE SUN AND THE WIND. but it has none with the States through whom all
Commence at 7.
- American news has to reach us. Hence we rarely
get anything more specific than that "it is re-
ported that the Secessionists are throwing up
earthworks at Manassas ;" or, " it is reported that
large numbers of Confederate are troops at Rich-
mond." One telegram, however, boldly says that,
" 10,000 Southern troops are at Harper's Ferry,"
and the " report" in this case is made to apply
to the Federal troops which were to ',make a move
to cut them off from Richmond.
From the North, however, both of its doings
within its own lines and in the South, the informa-
tion is, much of it, more categorical. They can
tell us what the enemy are actually doing close to
them—as at Harper's Ferry and Alexandria—at
which latter place, as well as near the former, the
belligerents seem to be face to face ; though the
telegrams relating to Alexandria are a little con-
flicting and obscure. This place is, it will be re-
membered, a few miles south of Washington, on
the other side of the Potomac, and is on the rail-
road which connects the Virginian lines with
Washington. Our readers must not forget, if they
wish to observe the effect of movements on either
side, that Harper's Ferry is the western extremity
of the attack and defence ; Washington and Alexan-
dria the centre ; that from thence the Potomac
and the Bay of Chesapeake bends down to the
South and East, till we find General BUTLER on
the extreme East and South, relatively to Harper's
Ferry and the centre. Richmond, the capital of
Virginia, lies, as it were, in the centre of the arch
roughly formed by these places and the line of the
Potomac, and is probably made the chief centre of
the assembling of the Secession troops, because
from thence any part of the line can be most
easily reached. It is to Richmond, we read, that
the forces go, and from thence that reinforcements
are expected at Alexandria or Harper's Ferry.
As all our news comes direct from the North, we
must suppose that the accounts are as favouz able
to it as they can be ; though we have not observed
any tendency to exaggeration. The war excite-
ment and enlisting continue as vigorously as ever ;
which is more than might have been expected.
The onward movement has not been much ; an
" important movement on Western Virginia, where
the people are Unionists," is spoken of, also the
" taking possession of Grafton in Western Vir-
ginia." A report at New York on the 28th that the
Federal troops had actually marched on Harper's
Ferry was not confirmed by telegrams from Halifax
on the 30th; only that large bodies of Pennsylvanian
troops were moved in that direction. For the rest
the North was strengthening the defences on the
Potomac. General BUTLER had captured Hampton,
the town adjacent to fort Monroe, and was waiting
reinforcements, which are leaving New York for
him, before he attacked Norfolk, where the Navy
yard is situated.
The blockade appears to be efficient. A con-
siderable number of prizes are already announced ;
and New Orleans itself is at last closed to trade.
The correspondent of a contemporary gives us a
very interesting sketch of the blockade of another
port—Pensacola, the port of Florida, where there is
a navy yard and forts, which, he says, have cost the
Federal Government above £6,000,0000. This alone
might fairly account for the unwillingness of Mr.
LINCOLN to part with it lightly. The Yard is pro-
tected against a properly foreign enemy by forts
on the mainland, and also by the now much heard
of Fort Pickens. Those on the mainland are old
and inefficient ; Fort Pickens, on the long, narrow
sand bank, or island, Santa Rosa, is strong, and
reminded the writer of a Sebastopol fort. It is
also backed by the presence of a considerable Fede-
ral squadron. The channel is so narrow that the
forts entirely command it, and Fort Pickens, it is
said, could easily knock down those on shore. On
the other hand, General BRAGG appears to
have erected, skilfully, powerful batteries on
the coast, and the works at the Navy
yard enable him to cast shot and shell to destroy
those who built it. At present the hostile officers
were very civil to each other. They seemed to
fight cniefly by practical jokes, such as compelling
£50,000 worth of provisions to go up the Alabama
river to Montgomery, four or five hundred miles,
and to come back by railway to Pensacola, when
the commander of the squadron could as easily
have seized them aIL Such things, and permitting
the enemy to erect, without disturbance, under the
muzzles of the guns of both fleet and fort, the bat-
teries which are to be used against both, are cer-
tainly an unique mode of carrying on war. A
few bloody encounters will soon put an end to all
such hesitating lenience. By the last accounts the
rebels have abandoned all intention of attacking
Fort Pickens.

of the Agricultural Benevolent Institution. The
object held in view by this institution is the relief of

Decayed Farmers, their Widows, and Orphans—a
cause surely in the furtherance of which every one
of us alike, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative,
may equally wish to participate. The Festival, in
aid of the Funds of this newly-established Agricul-
tural Benevolent Association, will take place, then,
in the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday evening—
the day after to-morrow. And most heartily do we
wish it success. As Chairman of the evening, no one
assuredly could have been in any way more suitably
selected than the right hon. leader of our English
Country Gentlemen.

It was purely a coincidence, of course, but still it
was a singular coincidence under the circum-
stances, that at the very sitting of the House of
Commons which witnessed the successful passing
through the popular branch of the Legislature of
the long-contested Budget Bill, with its dubious
little enigmatical surplus—[in respect to which
surplus, by the way, there was all that pother
about the Tea Duties, and the Paper Duties, and
the Sugar Duties, and the Income Tax]—the Secre-
tary of State for India produced his startling and
almost alarming motion for a supplementary loan
of £4,000,000 in behalf of the Government at Cal-
cutta.

There always are these tantalising addenda
requiring—as certain as fate—to be taken into con-
sideration by the House of Commons, after that
House has nominally got through the whole tangled
web of the country's resources and liabilities. It is
a mere matter of course, we must acknowledge it,
that when the financial position of the empire
appears to have been thoroughly scrutinised in
all its bearings without anything of importance
apparently having been any whereoverlooked, there
will all of a sudden start forth, almost at the mo-
ment of self-gratulation with JOHN BULL, another
of those vexatious little sums in addition of which,
until that instant, he wots not at all. Talk of every
house having its " skeleton in the cupboard," Mr,
THACKERAY ! The political House that Jack built
swarms with them. And, above all, the Counting
House attached to it, among the other " Offices,"
the old familiar Counting House where Jack sits,
like the king in the nursery song about the black-
bird pie, "counting out his money"—yes, counting
it out, everlastingly counting it OUT—doing this
vicariously, of course, through the hands of his
appointed Steward fad Cashier and Seneschal all
in one, to wit, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer !
Why, that one apartment alone, among all the
numberless apartments of the great national estab-
lishment, the palace-home of Circumlocution—
Laeie's Counting House—is completely wainscoted,
is absolutely walled with those Skeleton Cup-
boards. And as the national destiny will have it—
the door of one or another of those cupboards, Joux
beholds flying open perpetually—now that, now
this—at moments, too, almost always the most pro-
vokingly inopportune.
It happened exactly in this way as we have here
intimated on Monday, the 3d of June, in the House
of Commons—the very sitting at which the long
talked-of and obstructed, but at last triumphant,
Custams and Inland Revenue Bill was read a third
time and passed, amidst the readily comprehensible
cheers of the Liberal side'of the House, the side of the
Government. Scarcely had the echo of those cheers
of theirs died out, when—er-r-r-whang ! wide open
flies the Calcutta cupboard, disclosing to view the
grim Indian Skeleton. The Secretary of State, Sir
CHARLES WooD, with no unwilling finger, has
touched the spring—the right hon. baronet, skilled
by long practice in these heartless manoeuvres,
wants to borrow a snug little sum of £4,000,000
for the convenience of Hindostan. Thereupon,
after Sir CHARLES has spoken and explained, so far
as he himself could then understand it, the situation
of affairs, fiscal and financial, over yonder in the far
East [Mr. LAING'S admirable speech not having then
arrived], there is a somewhat lengthened discussion
in regard to this motion for a loan of £4,000,000 in
favour of the Indian Government. The upshot of it
all being—what it always is in these cases—just as
a mere ordinary matter of course—how does the
phrase run ?—" the motion was agreed to, and the
House resumed." Scarcely a moment's hesitation
about it. The thing is to be, the House sees that
it is to be, and it acts accordingly. Mr.VANSITTART
stood almost alone on Monday evening last during
this debate in the House of Commons, when pro-
testing that, to his view, the statement just heard
from the lips of Sir CHARLES WOOD justified the
gloomiest anticipations. That lugubrious view of
the future, particularly of the financial future,
opening up to our Indian Government, we, for one,
could not but regard even then as in the highest de-
gree extravagant. Unwelcome though this fresh de-
mand upon the Imperial Government for aid through
a loan to the extent of another sum of £4,000,000
may be, we will even say at once is, we must never-
theless think, as we do think, and that most deli-
berately, that the aspect of affairs in the Indian
perspective is in all respects, when viewed as a
whole, singularly fraught with encouragement.
Indications of the on coming of this more propi-
tious future for Hindostan were visible to all who
cared to look at them with a dispassionate glance on
Monday, even in the inadequate and merely frag-
mentary explanation given by Sir CHARLES WOOD
when asking for this new loan of £4,000,000. Mr.
LAING'S Budget for the year had beenwwe knew
that much oven then !—[how much more fully do
we not know it now that we have actually read and
have since commented upon Mr. LAING'S masterly
Financial Statement !]—had been brought forward
at Calcutta, and had been recognised as, upon the
whole, far more satisfactory than any one could have
well anticipated. Mr. LAING had telegraphed to
Sir CHARLES WOOD—the pleasantest news he could
well have sent him!—that by January he (Mr. LAING)
would be able to balance the Indian income and the
India expenditure ! More than which mortal man
could hardly have looked for at the hands of the
late Mr. WILSON'S successor under existing circum.
stances. Remembering the legacy of debt left by
the Sepoy Mutiny, and recollecting how in addi-
tion to that after-result of the dreadful Bengal insur-
rection the resources of the Exchequer at Calcutta
had been latterly drained away by reason of the
late deplorable drought and consequent famine
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that assurance of Mr. LAING'S, promising the Secre-
tary of State that by January next there shall be
a balance in India of income over expenditure ! As
it is the India Chancellor of the Exchequer is now
known to have distinctly announcedi.a y deficithnis recent
Financial Statement that there, in that last Budgetof
his, there is already nowhere recognisable
Still money,actual money,hard cashmeang out upon
the nail is wanted, and must be got at sera h e ew_by
reason of the famine there, and of the necessary
employment of the starving population upon the
public works latterly, and very judiciously set on
foot—hence this demand for the sum of £4,000,000.
A million of silver, Sir CHARLES WOOD remarked,
he had already very recently transmitted in hot
haste to Calcutta. But one million of silver, it
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