The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-05 00:00:00

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.-
C. F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the
Queen, D, Bruton-street, Bond-street, having beeft selected
by the Cimmittee to make the " BADGE" to be worn by
the Members of the " National Rifle Association," begs
the to inform them that it may be procured at his
Establishment, or on the grounds at Wimbledon, in SILVER,
price 7s. 6d., and in GOLD ENAMELLED, price Three
Guineas.

rfrirEATIVP_I-EOYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Backstair..
'''`P IS EVENING. thr periormanees will escrnmenee with
THE 'KIDDY ASHORE. Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
After which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas.
Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, &c. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
- Followed by TAKING BY STORM. Mr. C. Mathews.
And THE GALICIAN FETA

Commence •t 7.

RoYAL PRINCESS'S THXATRE.--
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A
HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and Miss
M. Harris. _

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Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, IA ; Misses
Beath, Elsworthy, and It. Leclercq.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
VTITTS EVENING MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne.
Alter which (224th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. eisher, Billineon, Falconer, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

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 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 ; popular Solos on the Cornet,t-i.iston,
by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers
Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double
rsDpoe,r;cinaontdtsbetaLeneialisimelrot; continued success of Mr.
The Comic Department comprises the followinc, favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth; the NERVES, by
Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

TH E 0 X F 0
RD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting*
raider it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and )
from " Macbeth" and "Un Ballo in Maschera." both Solos operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal ad instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, bin F. Jonghmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is support (thed
Nerves)
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Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French e ,
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DA.T.—Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 6m.
To-noußovi.-Morning, 12h. 35m.—Afternoon, 12h. 55m.

THE WEATHER.—Strw OFFICE, JULY 5, 1361.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS,
67—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.

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Wisp—South-Westerly; fresh, with variable weather—
rain and sunshine, with heavy clouds.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1861.

Galway is looking up—the " Atlantic Royal
Mail Steamship Adriatic" has made the voyage in
five days from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Gal-
way. We are not indeed quite sure whether the
wires are restored and that we have the full
benefit of the rapid passage, but it shows what

can be done. The latest news reaches to the
28th. It consists chiefly of details for which we
refer to the telegrams. Gunboats on the Potomac
and the rebels appear to have frequent skir-
mishes, and other small engagements unimportant
to the general result have taken place. The
Federal Government has recognised the new
Provisional Government of Virginia, which or-
ganised itself on account of the treason of the
old Government to retain Virginia in the Union.
The war in Virginia is now, therefore,
against only the Eastern part, and the
Federal forces under General APLELLAND are
co-operating actively with the Western Virgi-

. -
nians. In the Border States the Union cause is
gaining strength rapidly. Maryland has had her
elections for Congress, and the Union men, after
all, have a large majority. In Missouri the
Unionists were numerous also, and General LYON
has met promptly, and thus far successfully, the
attempt of the traitor Governor to raise a large
army. Probably the remainder of the Kansas
Ruffians will, however, fight fiercely there. At
present, indeed, in fierce skirmishing and guerilla
fighting, the rebels have had the best of it, but in
regard to the main movements they are percepti-
bly retreating as the Northerns advance.
The 4th of July had, as we anticipated, its com-
memoration here as well as in America, though
some doubt appears to have been entertained as to
the propriety of holding it in so sad a year of the

States' history. The view taken, however, was
quite right—that for Americans abroad to have
been silent this year would have been to " send
the chill of death to their brethren at
home,
and be next door to treason." The
tone of the meeting was all we could wish.
The chairman, the eloquent Dr. PATTON, of New
York (an able letter from whom recently appeared
in The Sun), prayed at the commencement of the
breakfast for the extinction of slavery, and stated
well and tersely the principles essential to liberty
which
.had been violated by the North. Two
English Dissenting clergymen, one of them the
Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, spoke well also at
the meeting, and the effect of the whole will be
good on the feeling between this country and
America. We are pleased to observe that in
many quarters the absurd misunderstanding of
English views and feelings is giving place to
juster notions, and we quite expect that, ere
Ling, it will be owned that our Government
could not have acted more justly, humanely, and

wisely.

Wonders will certainly never cease—who would
have believed in a LEVER powerful enough to lift
the Austrian Empire itself out of all its difficulties
Yet such is the announcement. In our youthful
studies on the mechanical powers we learned some
lines as aids to memory which we have found so
us 1.111, that we think we remember them even now
—and thus they ran__
44 Of lever powers the different kinds are three,
The first in steelyards and in scales we see;
The best, a second, is the Miller's lift,
Where power and fulcrum to each end you shift ;
But in the third, the worst of all, my friend,
You find the weight and fulcrum at each end."

A fourth kind having, however, been found out we
must venture an addition to the old distiches—and

it may run thus—
" Still of a fourth the Auill ian Court can tell,
That lever's name is LEVER—JOHN ORRELL."
Our readers may perhaps remember that they have
heard of it before. Its stupendous powers were
tried in connection with a certain Galway Company,
which, indeed, came to grief, not however through
any deficiency in the machinery, but through the
base Whig Sassenachs, who, however,
nearly came
to grief themselves for their atrocious demand that
an Irish Company should fulfil its contract.
Our readers may wish to know a little about the
application of this potent agency to Austria. For

two shillings and sixpence, by applying to Mr. E.
STANFORD, Charing Cross,-they may know as much
as we do. For that sum they may purchase a pam-
phlet whose title reads thus—" Austria, her position
and prospects—by JOHN ORRELL LEVER, M.P."
It must be of use to nearly all Englishmen, for its
first chapter is headed " Erroneous Impressions
Respecting the Government and People of the
Austrian Empire ;" and we need not say how much
we owe to those who undertake kindly to efface
erroneous impressions. We have looked through
the chapter, however, and we cannot discover what
" impressions" are erroneous. We are told, indeed,
that " our usually keen and far-seeing merchants
and manufacturers, who hunt up buyers in every
part of the world, seem to have been totally Mind
to the capabilities of this near neighbour, and to
' the advantages to be derived from the extensive
use of the productions and commodities which she
possesses in such quantities." Bat we were not
aware before that blindness was an " impression;"
We are told in like manner of " misconceptions,"
but not what they are ; and of profound " igno-
rance," but ignorance of what, is not mentioned.
We have indeed a rehearsal of the productions of
Austria, including the kingdom of Hungary, and
of its capabilities for indefinite increase of these
productions, but we were most certainly not igno-
rant of all this. Our conception, however, was
that the tyranny and sluggishness combined of the
Austrian Government was the chief reason why
the Empire was so miserably unproductive with
every natural facility for becoming the reverse, and
the pamphlet does not show this to be a " miscon-
ception," indeed it almost directly justifies it. The
writer says :—" Hitherto Austria has not made the
best of her opportunities for advancement and pro-
sperity. Her people have not derived from the
various elements of wealth, civilisation, and
power, with which the Empire abounds, the
results they are capable of producing, They
have buried their treasure instead of using it,
and to this many of the inconveniences from
which they have long suffered must be attributed."
Just so. We have only understood Austria but too
well. Further on he remarks—" We shall find that
no modern State has advanced so slowly as Austria !"
True again. True as the Gospel, against which the
HAPSBURGS fought so long under Jesuit leadership.
But the fifth chapter tells us that Austria is now
a penitent, and amending her ways. " She has
undergone a great change." Our author is as
smitten as Mr. ROEBUCK was, with the paper Con-
stitutions shown him at Vienna. Here are the
fruits of Austrian penitence—
" The diploma of the 20th of Oct., followed as the natural
result of the investigations and deliberations of the Reichs-
rath. Taxation, the making of laws, and all questions of
imperial policy are placed under the control of the imperial
Legislature, whilst to the provincial diets the regulation of
subjects that relate exclusively to the provinces are en-
trusted. Thus Constitutional Government, on a broad and
liberal basis, is established. This is not a mere juggling
with freedom, not the shadow without the substance, not a
solemn mockery, but a real reform ; and the manner in
which it has been received by the people of Austria proves
that its advantages are clearly appreciated. Keeping in
view the imperative necessity of preserving the unity of the
empire, the Government have laboured zealously at the
good work of restoration. They have not suffered them-
selves to be deluded by senseless cries for changes that lead
to revolution, but have endeavoured to obtain practical re-
sults from a thoroughly. sound and practical reform."
On this we have only to remark that this
diploma was, in regard to the Kingdom of Hun-
gary, whatever it might be in reference to the
other nationalities, as arbitrary, illegal, and revo-
lutionary an act as any for which our STUARTs
brought on themselves decapitation or exile. In
regard to that kingdom—that is, in regard to the
most important part of the domains over which
FRANCIS JOSEPH has a hereditary title of sove-
reignty—the diploma was " a mere juggling with
freedom," " ehadow without substance," " a solemn
mockery," instead of "real reform." It attempted
to create "a Unity of the Empire" in the case of
Hungary as flagrantly illegal and insolent as the
incorporation of Poland by Russia—indeed, more
so. Instead of the Hungarian being guilty of
" senseless cries for changes that lead to revolu-
tion," it is precisely the authors of the diploma of
the 20th of October who are amenable to that
charge. By an arbitrary stroke of his pen, the
revolutionary tyrant and his abettors coolly and
complacently think they are authorised to subvert
a real national constitution which has lasted a thou.
sand years, and to offer as a substitute the papel
thing of yesterday, which Messrs. ROEBUCK and
LEVER could put in their pockets.
We are told of the people's interest in the Royal
family, and the sympathy and feeling evinced for
the young QUEEN. Why, yes ; we in England
felt for the poor young female; we lent her
our Royal yacht; and we may suppose the
Viennese would show more sympathy than stran-
gers ; but when we read that " the Emperor of
AUSTRIA is regarded as the father of his people," we
should like to know of which of his peoples ? Is he
so regarded at Presburg, Pesth, and Arad ? Is he
so regarded at Hermanstadt, or even at Agram ?
Have even the Tyrolese shown themselves quite
satisfied with his paternal tenderness ? or did our
author pass through Venetia, and find the inhabi-
tants but too happy in the kindness which sent
them the gentle BENEDEK, and a couple of hun-
dred thousand soldiers, to ward off the liberty for
which they so ungratefully sigh ?

It is time, however, that we should just mention
the main object of the pamphlet. The writer has
found in regard to Austria what ARCHIMEDES dis-
covered for the world. He has a standing-place
and a fulcrum. English capital, English alliance
with Austria gives him a footing, and the fulcrum
is, what the reader would of course expect from the
writer, a Steam-packet company—This time " A
Line
of Steamships from Trieste to England !!!
The writer fears that Austrian Financiers may want
boldness, but he tells them that by " Liberal
n of steamship lineos
sub-
sidies (of course) they uagnhat t teol e
graencourageph com pt ha
ne for-
maties
and, he should have added—to be very particular
in respect to paying the subsidy, but not meanly
exacting in regard to the fulfilment of the terms of
the contract. Such of our readers as may wish to
take shares in an Austrian Steamship Company we
must refer to the pamphlet itself. For ourselves we
would rather throw our money into the Adriatic
at once, than into an Austrian company. A State
which the writer shows to be utterly insolvent ; a
State which cannot bring itself to renounce its
despotic determination to make constitutions in-
stead of abiding by those which age and treaties
have consecrated ; a State which aims to crush
llungarian liberties on one side, and Italian liber-
ties on the other; a State which ignores both con-
ditions of commercial and industrial science—free
trade and freedom—such a State we would not
trust with a single sovereign. Let her make her-
self trustworthy first.

Alarming accounts come to us this forenoon by
telegram from St. Petersburg. They evidence a
very critical condition of affairs, both financial
and commercial, in the Russian autocracy.
According to the Borsen Zeitung of yesterday—
The proprietors of the principal mining esta-
blishments and cotton mills are greatly embar-
rassed. Sugar-houses ask for subsidies amount-
ing to several millions of roubles. The great
manufacturers are beginning to close their vorks

the largest distilleries and many industrial establish-
ments are either sinking or have already suspended
business; several companies are winding up their
affairs; shareholders in large concerns are dis-
posing of the best shares at a loss of 50 per
cent." Certainly enough and to spare, here, of mer-
-1 eantile and financial sources of embarrassment to
the Muscovite Government. To say nothing of the
political sources of embarrassment accompanying all
this dire confusion in the commercial world in the
western provinces of that vast empire, the countries
peopled by the Poles ! Close upon the heels of this
last Polish agitation come these threatenings of
bankruptcy, of diminished labour, of withdrawn
wages,with portents of yet more dreadful evils in the
future, evils absolutely certain io supervene upon
these troublous times, in the shape of scarcity and
disease, it may even be in the end of famine and
pestilence ! All this, of course—unless, unless there
be contrived some timely interposition either of the
Government, roused for once from its dispotic in-
difference, or—of Divine Providence !
It is not an ordinary foreshadowing of peril to the
Russian community this intimation of the Borsen
Zeitung of yesterday. That intimation—announcing
to the world not so much rumours only as actual
events that have already taken place, or that are
taking place—is, without any extravagance of
phrase, one in truth of the most alarming character.
Mining establishments—cotton mills—sugar houses
—manufactories—industrial enterprises of various
kinds, are all thus spoken of as grievously embar-
rassed ; as asking eagerly, despairingly, for enor-
mous subsidies, " subsidies amounting to several
millions of roubles ;" as closing their works ;
as suspending business ; as visibly sinking or even
winding up their affairs with a panic-stricken pre-
cipitation. " Several Companies," it will have been
remarked, the Borsen Zeitung speaks of as coming
to an end prematurely as Companies : the " share-
' holders" in certain " large concerns" [a very free
translation, doubtless for the benefit of the telegraph
officials, from the original 'phrase in the St. Peters-
burg journal]—the shareholders in certain "large
concerns" there being in effect so panic-stricken
individually that " they are disposing of the best
shares at a loss of 50 per cent.," or (we sup-
pose) thereabouts. At any rate, whether with
sufficient cause or not, the mercantile com-
munity at the other extremity of Europe
is quite manifestly at this moment full of
anxious foreboding and trepidation. And, mean-
while, the Russian autocracy, stricken thus with
financial confusion and mercantile embarrassment
within, is being eaten into by a political gangrene
at one of its extremities. Much, in fact, as the same
direful combination is revealing to us, has long
been revealing to us the Austrian despotism in
extremis. Fiscal and financial confusion, a con-
fusion that is ever becoming "worse and worse
confounded," may of course be spoken of with
perfect accuracy as the normal condition, as the
chronic anguish of the Austrian Exchequer.
But, in addition to that, in itself most
perilous affliction, the KAISER'S Government
has of late had the Hungarian gangrene festering
and enlarging at one of its extremities. Whatever
the sequel of this present crisis may be among the
mercantile classes in Russia—there unquestion-
ably is that crisis fully upon them, and that more-
over, as a melancholy coincidence would have it,
simultaneously with the pressure of the present
weighty Polish anxiety upon the Imperial Govern-
ment. The Emperor ALEXANDER IL appears to
have fallen, indeed, upon evil days—and that,
moreover, at a juncture the most deplorably
unexpected. For it will be yet remembered,
it is not probable, in fact, that it will
be very soon forgotten—that it was but upon
I the very morrow of the Emancipation of the
I Serfs throughout the Russian Empire that the
streets of Warsaw were dyed red with the blood of
its unarmed Polish citizens, men, women, and chil-
dren, cruelly slaughtered without the smallest pro-
vocation by the soldiers of GORTSCHAKOFF. ALEX-
ANDER may yet extricate himself from the "slough
of despond" into which his councils have been
latterly sinking—but these latest tidings from the
metropolis of his vast Empire indicate rather
ominously that the urgency for some attempt at
least at this extrication are rapidly becoming, in
truth, very imminent.
lr

Testimonials have long since become so popular
that by an inevitable reaction they are latterly
becoming unpopular. There are occasions, how-
ever, when public feeling can find no happier
expression than in the getting up of yet another
Testimonial. There is one movement of the kind
now on foot that we ourselves do most certainly

regard with very great sympathy, and one that
we are anxious to promote at once by the earnestness
and cordiality of our advocacy of it. We mean the
one which was commenced only yesterday down at
the Mansion House, when, under the presidency of
the Lord Mayor, a goodly gathering of the citizens
of London assembled there to inaugurate what we
trust will soon be known far and wide, and long
remembered when completed as The BRAIDWOOD
Testimonial. '

The origin of this generous effort on the part of
the public to commemorate the merits of a good
and zealous public servant was fully expressed in
the long-winded resolution (the lstlresolution)—pro-
posed yesterday by Mr. TITE, M.P. for Bath,
and Architect of the Royal Exchange, and
seconded by Dr. CUMMING, the popular
Scotch preacher, one of whose congregation
the eminent public servant, deceased, had been
during several years past. This resolution, inti-
mating plainly but dully, through a rather tedious
flux of words, " That it is the opinion of this meet-
ing that the high character, and long and useful
services of the late James Braidwood, C.E.,
the founder and superintendent of the London
Fire Brigade, taken in connection with the
painful circumstances under which he lost his
life in the gallant discharge of his duties at
the great fire of the 22d June last, [and further sup-
ported by the consideration that the community at
large may be justly said to have shared for many
years in the advantages arising from the devotion of
his talents and services to the single purpose of
suggesting and promoting the means of adding both
to the security of life and property], render it
expedient and proper'that the profound regret
manifested by all classes at his loss should find ex-
pression by
means of a public subscription, to
be applied to the benefit and advancement of his
children and sisters." The
passage
marked off with brackets in this one which w
e have
marked comprehensiveave
but otherwise admirable resolution,
we cannnot
but think might have been left out with d a vantage.
And we think this and avow this to be our thought
the more readily, because the opinion expressed in
the passage thus indicated is in itself so entirely
superfluous. The truth it enunciates is so per-
fectly well kL own, is so literally notorious. Of it
we might say indeed— cela va sans dire! We all have
reason, good and valid reason to bear Mr. BRAID-
WOOD'S name in our grateful remembrance—We,
the 2,998,000 (according to the new census) or (to
speak in round numbers) the 3,000,000 inhabitants
of London and Westminster have ample reason, Wa
repeat, to do so. And it is, because of
this, that We count confidently upon the rapid

completion upon a munificent scale of the " good
work" of raising among all elasses funds for the
completion of the BRAIDWOOD Testimonial.
Perishing as Mr. BRAIDWOOD did, bravely in the
discharge of his duties, he should have this Testi-
monial, for he deserved it.

THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—At a meeting of the Ethnological Society
on Tuesday last, owing to a gross personal at-
tack on me by an individual present, apparently
one of those who have for a month past inces-
santly persecuted me by casting doubt upon my
veracity, I deeply regret that, in a moment of great
irritation, I was guilty of conduct most unbecoming,
which is peculiarly contrary to the usages of society,
and which I was never before guilty of.
I hope, therefore, you will allow me, through the
columns of your widely-circulated paper, to express
my deep and sincere apology for what occurred.
1 have also felt myself bound to apologise to the
members of the Ethnological Society through their
President.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant,
129, Mount-street. T. B. CHAILLU.

REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE.—Yes-
terday afternoon her Majesty, his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, and the royal family, accompanied by the
Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal),
attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived
by special train on the South-Western line at the Royal
Clarence-yard, Gosport, en route for Osborne. Her Majesty
and the royal party immediately embarked on board the
royal screw yacht Fairy, Capt. the Hon. J. Denman, and
left for Osborne, under the usual loyal demonstrations from
the men. of-war and batteries of the fortifications. As the
Fairy steamed out of the harbour at 5 30 p.m. a strong
southerly gale was blowing, and as she crossed Spithead
she rolled heavily, and storm trysails were set to steady her.
The gale had been blowing, accompanied by incessant rain,
from 11 a.m., and one of Negretti and Zambra's sea-coast
barometers had fallen to 29 35. Shortly after her Majesty
had crossed to Osborne the rain ceased, and the wind,
veering round to west, became more moderate.
VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO IRELAND.—We under-
stand it is the intention of her Majesty the Queen to visit
Ireland towards the latter end of August. Her Majesty
will remain four or five days at the 'Viceregal Lodge, in the
Phoenix-park, and will probably visit the camp at the Cur-
ragh of Kildare ; thence she will make an excursion to the
Lakes of Killarney. Her Majesty's visit being of a private
character, as was the case in 1103, no public receptions or
ceremonies are contemplated.

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—To-morrow, being
the day appointed for the celebration of the forty-second
birthday of her Most Gracious Majesty, business will be
wholly suspended at the Customs, the Excise, the various
docks and bonded warehouses, the Bank, the Admiralty,
Horse Guards, Ordnance-office, and Somerset-house, and
partially at the Post-office. An inspection of the House-
hold Brigade of Infantry will take place at 10 o'clock, on
the Parade in James's-park, by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge.
According to advices from all parts of France

appears certain that the harvest this year will be three
weeks earlier than last year.
THE Loss OF LIFE AT THE GREAT FlRE.—There
is believed to be too much truth in the rumour of a large
loss of life having taken place during the calamitous fire at
Cotton's-wharf, on the night of Saturday and the morning
of Sunday week, as since then numerous applications have
been made (the majority of them by females who have lost
their husbands) at the police stations in the district of
Southwark Police-court, for their missing relatives. Some
bodies have been found in the river, and a description of the
dress of the persons found has been posted at the doors of
the police stations, which has led to their being discovered
by their friends. A few days ago the body of a well-dressed
man was found near St. Saviour's Church. He had on a
black frock coat, a silk vest, &c. He was about 5 ft. 5 in.
high, and about 50 years of age. The bodies lie at the
dead-house of St. Saviour's Church.
THE WAKEFIELD PROSECUTIONS FOR BRIBERY.
—We are informed that, at the forthcoming assizes at
York (which will open on the 9th inst.) indictments for
misdemeanour will be preferred by the Crown against Mr.
Mr. John Dodgson Charlesworth, the late Conservative
candidate for Wakefield, and Archibald Crowther, one of
Mr. Charlesworth's supporters. It is understood that Mr.
John Bartf Charlesworth, the cousin of the candidate, and
who was put upon his trial at the last assizes, will not be
again indicted; but Mr. J. L. Fernandez, now suffering
imprisonment for contempt of court, will be brought up
by habeas corpus, to give evidence against the candidate.
The causes will be heard before Mr. Baron Martin,
and probably in the second week of the commission. The
counsel for the prosecution are the Attorney-General, Mr.
Overend, Q.C., Mr. Monk, Q.C., Mr. Cleaeby, Q.C., and
Mr. West.-111anchester Guardian.
DURHAM ELECTION.—The writ was received in
Durham on Wednesday morning, and was proclaimed at 2
o'clock in the afternoon. As three clear days must inter-
vene between the proclamation of the writ and the election,
the nomination will consequently not take place until Mon-
day. Sir W. Atherton is not expected to arrive in Durham
until Friday, and will probably address the electors on that
evening. Strenuous efforts are being made by one or two
individuals to get up an opposition to the return of Sir W.
Atherton, but they are not countenanced in their endeavours
by any considerable section of the conservative party. They
have given it out that they are in correspondence with Lord
Loughborough, a son of Lord Rosalyn, to allow himself to
be put in nomination. A requisition is said to have been
sent round, but it has failed to receive the sanction of any
influential members of the party, who have declined to com-
mit themselves to any such ill-considered proceeding. The
matter is therefore likely to fall to the ground.—Newcastle
Chronicle.
REPRESENTATION OF RICHMOND.—Mr. Roundel'
Palmer, Q.C., who has been appointed to the office of Soli-
citor-General, will, it is understood, become a candidate for
the representation of Richmond, Yorkshire, which is vacant
by the resignation of Mr. Henry Rich. The borough is a
very small one, having less than 250 registered electors, and
a contest is unknown there. A writ for an election in the
borough was ordered last night, and by Tuesday or Wed-
nesday next the new Solicitor-General will in all probabi-
lity have taken his seat as member for Richmond.
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—A
meeting of this institution was held yesterday, at its house,
John-street, Adelphi—Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., F.R.S.,
in the chair. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, read the minutes of
the previous meeting. A reward of £l2 was voted to the
crew of the institution's lifeboat stationed at Arklow, on the
Irish coast, for putting off with the view of rendering assist-
ance to a ship which was seen on the 12th ult. in distress on
Arklow Bank, which is nine miles off the land. Before the
lifeboat reached the bank the ship had got off and proceeded
on her voyage. Rewards amounting to £ll 17s. were also
voted to pay the expenses of the society's lifeboats stationed
at Carmarthen Bay and North Dundrum Bay, for going off
with the intention of succouring vessels in distress, which,
however, did not ultimately require the service of the life-
boats. The silver medal of the institution was voted to Mr.
Henry Puxley, of Dunboy Castle, for swimming off, and
afterwards saving at considerable risk of life, by means of
a small boat, four persons who bad been capsized from their
boats during stormy weather off Berehaven, on the coast
of Cork, on the 7th ult. A reward of £2 was also voted to
two fishermen for saving three persons whose boat had
capsized and sunk near Carrickfergus during a gale of wind
on the night of the 15th ult. The three men were found
clinging to the boat's mast, which was only a foot above
the water. It was reported at the meeting that the institu-
tion had during the past month sent a new lifeboat and
transporting carriage to Campbeltown, on the west coast of
Scotland, and that Lady Murray, widow of the late Lord
Justice Murray, had defrayed the whole cost of the estab-
lishment, being nearly £5OO, in memory of his lordship.
The institution had also lifeboats and transporting carriages
nearly ready to be sent to St. lye's, Cornwall ; Aberystwith
and Llanthlywyn,in Wales ; Scarborough, and Tynemouth.
A new lifeboat was ordered to be built for Kirkcudbright,
the expense of which, together with a transporting carriage,
had been presented by a benevolent gentleman resident in
Manchester. Lord Selkirk had liberally promised to
build a house for them. The institution also decided
on receiving Lthe Guernsey lifeboat station into con-
nexion with it, and on completely renovating the establish-
ment. A new lifeboat and transporting carriage for Jersey
were also ordered to be built, the expense of which was to
be defrayed by the States of that island. It was reported
that the Spanil Government had recently ordered Messrs.
Forrest, of Limehouse, to build six powerful lifeboats on
the plan of the institution, to be stationed on dangerous
points of the Spanish coast. It was stated that some
friends of the society at Ipswich were making arrangem nts
with the ministers of all denominations in that town to
preach sermons in their several places of worship on a given
Sunday in aid of the important and national objects of the
Lifeboat Institution. It was also reported that the late Mr.
Thomas Fisher Remington, of Uplyme, Devon, had left a
legacy of £lOO, free of duty, to the Lyme Regis branch of
the institution. Payments amounting to £6OO having been
made for various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings

closed.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND TUE BIG DRUM.
—Some few years ago the big drummer of au irre-
gular native regiment was taken ill upon the line
of march, and it became necessary either to abandon
the big drum, or to find some unusual means for its
conveyance. The latter alternative was adopted, Here was
one of those innumerable contingencies which, not having
been provided for by a general order, could only be settled
(as it was, after some twelve months' correspondence) by the
appearance of a plragraph in general orders, announcing
that " The Right Honourable the Governor General of
India in Council had been pleased to sanction the payment
of three annas (fourpence-halfpenny) for the conveyance of
a big chum from Deyrah to Rajpore."