The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-27 00:00:00

SUN;, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21. 1861.

THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1861.

Two MILLIONS AND A HALF for iron ships, and
plated wooden ships is the new demand of the
Government. Not all of it this year. A quarter
of a million is all we are asked to pay now, with,
however, the certainty that the rest is to follow, as
complete as if we laid the entire foundations of a
house with estimates to that amount. All the work
is to be commenced, which is to issue in the above
enormous cost. We can only hope that if capital
is to be so largely invested, in the way we have so
often recommended, it will be saved from being
sunk in the forts for which so little, and against
which so much can be said. It will be too bad to
make us pay for both together, even though one be
paid for by loan. If we make ourselves strong
enough in new ships, we need not squander our
money on the shoals near Portsmouth Harbour.
But why this sudden and hot haste for iron vessels
and that after so long delay ? It is the old reason—
France is again seriously ahead of us. We have but
twelve iron ships built or building. France—Lord
PALMERSTON tells us with precision—has six large
iron-plated ships afloat ; ten begun, which, with or-
dinary diligence, may be afloat in eighteen months
or two years at most; and eleven floating batteries,
as they are termed, making twenty-seven in all.
That is, this is the number she may have afloat
with ease in two years. Is this to go
on, it is asked—are we to be for ever provoking
France to build against us ? " No," replies Lord
PALMERSTON, " that, certainly, is not the case
now. France has taken the lead. It is not our prepa-
rations which induce her to arm ; but it is her great
preparations which render it indispensable that
we should make corresponding preparations." Mr.
LINDSAY, who, to do him justice, has spared no pains
by personal investigations to ascertain the truth,
while he leaves with Lord PALMERSTON the re-
sponsibility for his statements, yet asks for the de-
tails ; but at the same time, like his friend Mr. COB-
DEN, adds, that if the noble lord's statement be ac-
curate, which of course he ought to assume, he
should not be content with two
millions and a half,
he should be prepared
to rote double the sum. He
strongly asserted, apparently with the anger of a
deceived man, that " France had no right to those
ships." If she really had them, she could not be
honest in her professions towardsEnglaud, and "it
behoved us to know what she meant by }lnchon::

ments."
In these last remarks of Mr. LINDSAY we
\
entirely concur. Nor can we accept Mr. Prro's
remarks as an entire justification of France. It
may be true that since 1858 France, steing that
iron must triumph, has prudently avoided
expenditure on wood. It may be true that
our Admiralty Lords have been intolerably ob-
stinate, or supine, or wasteful, or all of
these, in scouting iron just as they did steam,
and then screws, in the navy, till the lazy 1
blunders had to be paid for by the country at an
enormous cost. All this may be true. Yet, the
fact remains that the French navy is in such
a condition that France has no need whatever
of this costly augmentation, unless she cherishes
ambitious projects, against which we espe_
cially, and all Europe, too, must be on
guard. Again, we believe the truth is undeniable,
that when the income-tax collector calls, every
EngliAman should remember that LOUIS NAPO-
LEON, and no one else, is answerable for that in-
tolerable infliction. Were he and his policy dead,
the very next session the tax might be abolished.
If he pursues his present course, he vc ill make, war
at once, the cheapest policy.

Even for the las, hours of the Session we do not
gru'!ge the time occupied by the debate on the
slave, Trade last night. T
-he speech of Mr.
GIiEGOIt7, with his strong. American leanings, but
above all, that of Lord PALmE,„
" lON, dealing cut
even-handed justice to the three great culprits in
this accursed tralD, wilt not b 3 without their
weight in the capitals of Europe and of
America.
prance is repenting of the infamous REGts con-
tract, and we must not, perhaps, be too severe
therefore on bygones; bat still it ought not to
pass without indignant rebuke, that, though
ashamed at last of having invested French mer-

chants with powers which enable them to pur-
chase slaves in Africa, and to sell them to a
nominal apprenticeship in their colonies, her go-
vernors were not so %shamed as to stop the vile traffic
unconditionally. We have purchased the stoppage
from them, by permitting them to hire our own
Indian subjects, on the same conditions as our own
planters do in the Mauritius. We only hope that
means may be found as effectual as those employed
there, to ensure the good treatment of the
coolies. In the Mauritius all is quite satisfac-
tory. The natives of India have returned so
much benefited by their service, that their
report has made it popular. Indian labour is now
readily procurable by our planters, because the
conditions of the contract have been honourably
kept. We hope it will be the same in French
colonies.

For two other offenders, Spain and America,
little indeed can be said. Cuba is now the only
mart for the slave trade. Spain has long beEn
bound by treaty, and by the receipt of half a
million of money to pat the trade down there.
The treaty she laughs at ; she has pocketed
the money ; remonstrances are met with
promises to do her best in the business ;
but her best is, that the trade flourishes, that her
Captains General of the Island go out poor and
come home rich, and that sugar is grown in Cuba
as it used to be grown in Jamaica, by using up at
a fearful rate the lives of the imported Africans.
Spain, as Lord PALMERSTON says, begins to be a
little ashamed—but the blush is scarce perceptible,
and she goes on. Cuba is to her poor aristo-
cratic favourites what a Governor-Generalship of
India is to ours; we mean, of course, excluding
considerations of morality. The latter can have
but little weight at Madrid.

But even Spain would, we believe, be nearly
helpless, but for America. The formally and still
diplomatically, United States, are the great
offenders—the great culprits in the Slave-
trade iniquity, as they are in the crime
of slavery itself. They are so both directly and
indirectly. Directly, for the ships which carry on
the traffic nearly all sail from their ports ; and in-
directly, because she requires immunity of search
for her flag, even though the circumstances may
be very suspicious. Mr. GREGORY stated
last night that out of ten slave vessels captured
by the American vessels themselves, seven
slavers were from New York ; out of 44 which
arrived at one part of the African coast, thirty-one
were American vessels. Lord LYONS, in writing to
Lord JOHN RUSSELL in September, 1860, told him
that in the previous eighteen months, eighty five
vessels had sailed from American ports to be
employed in the slave trade. With such hard facts
before them, we should like to know what the
American Government and people have to say for
themselves. They refuse a reciprocal right of
search in the case of suspicion of this odious
kind of piracy. Their flag is, consequently, the
one selected by all the sea brigands of Christendom ;
by a little contrivance the ship is registered as an
American one, and then our blustering hectoring
transatlantic friends tell us.that it shall be a casus
belli if we meddle with a criminal whom their own
laws condemn. Nothing Lord PALMERSTON
could propose would they accede to. It was
suggested by him, once, that a British and
American ship should hunt in couples for
slavers ; the slaver when caught to be the prize of
the American vessel, if found to be an American.
This, however, his lordship observed, seemed too
likely to accomplish its object, and was therefore
declined. Mr. BUCHANAN never did, wittingly,
any real mischief to the slave trade. He once
found a few captured negroes a heavy expense
to the Government—but- once, however ; a remedy
was soon found for that. American cruisers went
off somewhere for water when they saw a slaver.
It is conduct like this which compels England to
feel that it owes nothing to the cause of the Northern
States. Partly from a most puerile and priggish
pride about the right of search, a pride without
excuse if England the older and stronger nation
were not above submitting to it, they
prostituted their flag to the Cuban slave
trade. And further, they installed an
Administration, a Senate, and a House of Represen-
tatives, under whom eighty five ships were sent
forth in eighteen months as slavers ! Can England
think much of the new-born zeal for freedom of such
a people? We cannot excuse them on the ground
of the predominance of pro-slavery men in
the Legislature—since, while this was just the
cause of the evil, it was a cause entirely
within their power to remove. The Free States
could at any time have returned a majority of
Representatives pledged to suppress the slave-
trade under the American flag. It could have
had, if it pleased, a President and a small
majority of the Senate on the same side.
With the Northern States, therefore, has lain
the entire responsibility of upholding a traffic
which is surely the most disgraceful ever known
among civilised nations. We shall be but too
thankful if Mr. LINCOLN reverses the policy of his
predecessors, and if the American people awaken'
from their moral stupoi.

The compensation (!) to the extent of £lOO.
awarded by Lord PALMERSTON to the " Poet
CLOSE," because of the withdrawal of the
pension of £5O per annum set apart for
that Illustrious Obscure out of the £1,200
place
admits
demveitrey year at the disposal of the Premier
for the encouragement of Art, Science, and Litera-
ture,of no justification. The Prime Minis-
ter, in armw •
erlog Mr. STIRLING the other evening
in the Rouse of Commons, when the hon. gentle-
man, whose name we havejust
mentioned,
the referred
to that ridiculous little incident,Prime
Minister himself, it is only fair to say, attempted
to utter in regard to it not one word of—what can
be strictly called justification. 'Viscount PALMER
STON endeavoured to extenuate the course pursued
by him under the circumstances, and nothing
more.
And those circumstances in themselves, it must be
allowed, were sufficiently vexatious and embarrass_
ing. A blunder, an egregious and preposterous
blunder had been committed in the selection of this
ludicrously inappropriate recipient
pounds
stwernlinty;
fourth part of the twelve hundred sterling
annually placed (for the purposes already
specified)
at the command of the First Lord of the Treasury.
While judiciously awarding pensions to the rela-
tives of world-famous and delightful writers like
ROBERT SOUTHEY, and LEIGH HUNT, and Mrs.
JAMESON, and others known to fame in the world
of polite literature, the Prime Minister had been de-
luded in a moment of carelessness, or we might say
while labouring under some extraordinary hallucina-
tion, into the belief that a neglected poet, " a gem of
purest ray serene," a flower hitherto " born to blush
unseen," had suddenly been brought to light
in the person of one " CLOSE." An in-
dividual arrogating to himself—if it ba in
any way possible to employ a word so big
in regard t ) a claim sc utterly absurd and prfpof...
t .roux—arrogating to himself the title of " Post
Laureate" to a certain African potentate entith d
he King of BONDY, a personage closely allied
d)ubtless with th- immortal prince renowned in
the old Coml.; Song, under the euphonious designa.

tion of Hokipokiwinkiwang F libbi i baski-
kang. To this amazing phenomenon the Poet
Laureate of a woolly-headed savage, with a palace
probably little better than a mud hut and a ward-
robe possibly extending no further than the pos-
session of the proverbial cocked-hat and pair of
pumps of the caricaturist—to this self-educated
genius who had won his way to the favour of his
Nigger Majesty, Lord PALMERSTON had in an un-
lucky outburst of goodnatured pity awarded for
the rest of his life the sum of £5O per annum out
of the public money. CLOSE—" the poet CLosE"
—we now have it from the lips of Mr. STIRLING,
speaking from his place in the House of Commons
onwas originally bled a
butcher,Tu Tuesday a
buty
y evening—"
forsook that occupation to
earl
become a printer, which was more to his taste, as
he seemed to have possessed a fatal facility for
doggerel verse and ungrammatical prose." The
origin of this aspirant to poetic honours was in
itself, it must be allowed, in some respects auspi-
cious. SHAKSPERE'S father, besides carrying on
the trade of a wool-carder in the little house in
Henley-street, Stratford-upon-Avon, is said to have
been at one time a butcher as well as a wool-
carder. There was a recollection, truly, with which
to kindle the " poet CLosE's" ambition and with
which to fire his capacious and resplendent imagina-
tion ! Besides, whatever may be said about SHAK-
SPERE'S father—it is at any rate a well-known fact
that among the minor poets of England there was
indubitably one who had originally shouldered the
meat-tray as a butcher's boy : to wit KIRKE WHITE.
This encouraging thought for " the poet CLOSE,"
being in itself as indisputable as that other kindred
fact recorded in English History, the fact that in
the person of Cardinal WOLSEY a butcher's son had
risen to the Woolsack. The rest of the narrative of
the rise (if it can be in any way, as the merest figure
of speech, called a rise) of the poet CLOSE—shall
we say to fame ?—at any rate to a literary pension
from England's Prime Minister—the rest of this
" ower true" tale, as recounted on Tuesday evening
in the House of Commons by Mr. STIRLING, is
really worth giving just in the very words of that
hon. gentleman :—" For years," said Mr, STIRLING,
" he (the Poet CLOSE) had carried on this species of
manufacture, his productions being generally in the
shape of handbills circulated through the post.
Persons who sent back money to ' the poet' on
receiving these papers were duly lauded in the next
issue, and those who neglected or refused to send
back money were made the subjects of his satires."
Nay, Mr. STIRLING went on to say, " Some of these
effusions were of such a nature that he (Mr.
STIRLING) was greatly surprised how CLOSE had
so long escaped the horsewhipping he had
done so much to deserve. CLOSE was pro-
secuted for a libel in one of these in 1855, and the
Attorney-General conducted the prosecution. The
defence was, that praise or blame could have no
effect from him, and that what he said against the
lady could do no damage. The defence, however,
did not stand good. The verdict was against
CLOSE, damages £5O; and but for his poverty the
damages would have been heavier. The plaintiff
did not wish to press for the damages, and remitted
them on condition that CLOSE should publish a
retraction of the slander, and indulge in no more
for the future. This CLOSE consented to do. He
did publish a retraction, and was let off the
damages; but on several subsequent occasions he
referred to this trial as an occasion on which he had
been heavily mulcted for telling the truth.'" Mr.
STIRLING added very justly that " he thought
that when it was found that CLosE did not deserve
the pension, he ought not to have had the £lOO.
The noble lord had told them that CLOSE was a self-
educated poet, belonging to the same category as
BURNS, and then the Premier produced ' the memo-
rial' which he flourished over the box and sat down,
as he generally did, amidst the cheers of the House."
Now, that Lord PALMERSTON blundered originally
in giving this particular pension of £5O per annum,
he himself acknowledges. The acknowlegment is
visible, indeed, in the very fact of the withdrawal
'of the pension itself. But grievously as Lord
PALMERSTON blundered in the first instance in
regard to the £5O (the very amount of the damages,
coupled with the adverse verdict above mentioned,
the verdict for libel !) the noble lord, we cannot but
think, blundered yet more grievously afterwards
in granting Mr. CLOSE—out of the public purse—
£loo by way of " compensation." Compensation !
in the name of common-sense, for what ?

Mr. Layard, who, it will be remembered, was for
a short time Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Lord
John Russell's Governmemt, will succeed Lord Wodehouse
in that office. Earl de Grey will resume the office of
Under-Secretary for War, which he formerly filled with
conspicuous success ; and Mr. T. G. Baring will re-
turn to the India-office as Under-Secretary of State. Mr.
C. Stephenson, of the Treasury, now private secretary to
Sir George Lewis at the Home-office, will act in a similar
capacity at the War-office.
Sir Maurice Berkeley's title is not to be Baron
Berkeley. We believe he will be raised to the Peerage by
the title of Baron Fitzhardinge.

A process has been invented by Mr. William
Longmaid for an improvement in the manufacture of iron
and steel, which consists in the introduction during the
operation of puddling of a small quantity of gold, which is
diffused throughout the mass, and which is said to confer
extraordinary advantages in increasing its ductility,
strength, and durableness. If the results alleged should
be substantiated by sufficient trials, there seems a proba-
bility that it will have an important influence on the manu-
facture of artillery, ships' plates, anchor cables, and all
those portions of railway plant in which tenacity is most
essential.

ARGYLL Rooms.—This establishment closes this
evening to enable the proprietor to re-decorate and improve
this far-famed salon de dense. The rooms will re-open in
August.
BARON DE VIDIL.—A Paris letter in the Inde-
pendance of Brussels says f—" Some journals have an-
nounced that the name of Baron do Vidil has been struck
out from the list of the Jockey Club; this statement is in-
correct. It is only for the 19th, and conformably to Art.
22 of the regulations, that a general meeting has been con-
voked, in order to decide whether there are any grounds
for applying to a member of the club (13zr ,n de Vidil) Art.
24 of the regulations, which says :--( In case of any inerious
infraction of the regulations or of the laws of honour and
good conduct, the committee is bound to conv.,lie a general
meeting, which will decide whether there is good grounds
for the exclusion of the member who shall have been guilty
of it.' "

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—A negotiation is now
ttahkeintagopstlacine for
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cussed the whole question in a very friendly way ; and on
a very favourable report of the inter-
pernetsioent state of the negotiations it would be
the initiative in conciliation, names of the firms thus taking
Parliament, in the trade, and any decision premature to
but they are of high standing
013. they come to will materially
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influence the rest of the em
complaining of the
a petition was pre-
of the building trade held last evening,
military
unf,rtt.
p ired for presentation to Parr
authorities of the War- effice furnishing' a
artificers to the contractor for the ChelseSaupearlyraotk.
up the places of the men w;ao had declined to work tou fill
the hour system. While, however, there is some prospectnder
ix! a settlement of the dispute in London, it has
nately extended itself to the provinces. During last week a
large number of the employers in Liverpool placarded the
town with a notice, that on and after Sept. 2 they intended
to enforce the systcnl of paying and hiring by the hour. On
this announcement the operatives met and deter.nined on
immediate resistance. On Monday last the whole of the
plasterers, 214 in number, and the bricklayers employed by
those firms who had signed the above notice, refused to re-
sume work until the notice was withdrawn. Should this net
be done the strike, it is expected, wili become general. _

A PILLAR OF FIRE IN ENGLAND.—A "
o • column, bearing the appearance of cloud or smoke, with
a point tapering downwards, like a church steeple re
versed," passed over Pinston on Saturday week, impelling
some railway waggons, scorching trees, damaging roofs,
and emptying the ponds over wilich it passed,—Liveridooi
Courier.

Ll 6. T J' Itv 6.

MADRID JULY 27.
The powder magazine at Villa Feliche, Aragon,
has been blown up.
One hundred mills were burned down.
Twenty workmen were killed or severely in-
jured.

La Patrie announces the arrival at Paris Hof
General Montauban, who had command of the
French troops in China.
La Patrie also publishes accounts from Vichy,
according to which the Emperor is in the enjoyment
of excellent health. His -Majesty has himself drawn
up a plan for embellishing the town with a new
boulevard, a park, and public gardens.

TURIN, JULY 26.

The official Gazette of to-day says :—" Two indi-
viduals, named respectively Groben and Austerlitz,
have been arrested here on a charge of enlisting
recruits for the Pontifical army. They had Papal
and Austrian passports. Lists of men enrolled
since 1860, and a quantity of Bourbon and Papal
portraits and decorations, were also found on them.
They were about to enter the Italian army in order
to attempt, to corrupt the soldiers."

FLORENCE, ICILY 26.

A reactionary band has been formed at Tosca-
nella. Troops will be despatched from Leghorn in
order to prevent them from crossing the frontiers.

VIENNA, JULY 26.

A stormy discussion on the question of the na-
tionalities took place to-day in the Lower House
of the Reichsrath.

All the members of the Right, with the exception
of three, left the House, previously, however, re-
serving to themselves the right of expressing their
views on a future occasion.

firm. New York Central, 77 ; Erie, 27; Illinois,
681. Flour sc. and wheat 2e. dearer.
The steamships Hibernia, Saxonia, City of Wash-
ington, and Asia have arrived out.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 26:

The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New
York on the 17th inst., arrived here at 7 a.m. She
brought 221 passengers, 1,100 dols., and a box of
diamonds, value 6,000 dols., for Havre. She landed
108 sacks of mails and 20 passengers, and pro-
ceeded at 7.30 p.m. ; all well.

STATE OF HUNGARY.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)
FESTH, JULY 22.

The Imperial rescript, which arrived last night
from Vienna, has been read to-day to both Cham-
bers of the Hungarian Diet. The hour fixed was
noon for the Deputies and 1 o'clock for the Mag-
nates, and in the former Chamber considerably be-
fore the appointed time there was a numerous
attendance both of members and of the public. By
the latter every available nook was made the most
of, the reporters' gallery was invaded, and even
through the large skylight faces were seen peeping.
With little ventilation, in an almost African
temperature, and in strong expectant excitement,
the melting multitude waited, but noon struck, and
the President, although in the House, did not take
the chair. The reason of this unusual delay pre-
sently transpired. So unacceptable did the Re-
script appear to the- few who had had communi-
cation of it, that Count Apponyi had thought it
right to telegraph to Vienna to know if that was
indeed the final decision of the Emperor, and whe-
ther there was no chance, even at this more than
eleventh hour, of a change in the Imperial mind.
This last earnest and almost hopeless appeal shows
how bad was the impression made by the document,
and foreboded for it a most unfavourable reception
by the Chambers and the nation. It was past half-
past 12 when President Shiezy took the chair.
After the protocol of the last sitting had been read,
one of the secretaries, M. Tanarky, commenced the
, reading of the rescript, amid perfect silence and
profound attention. It was long, filling eight large
sheets of paper, and I to-day can give you but a
very brief and imperfect notice of it. In two words,
' however, I may tell you that it seems to be considered
worse even than the most gloomy anticipations had
foreboded. Not only the Ultras but the most Con-
servative (in the sense of attachment to the dynasty)
are disgusted at it, and the latter deplore that the
Emperor should thus have thrown away the excel-
lent opportunity that presented itself of conciliating
the Hungarian nation. But my time is short, and
I must get to the rescript, reserving reflections for
to-morrow. In that document, inter alia, it is posi-
tively denied that the union existing between Aus-
tria and Hungary is legally a merely personal one.
During the last three centuries, it is said, there has
been so much approximation that the personal union
has become a real one. This is much the same as saying
that during the struggle that has been long carried on.
with varying success, between the central power at
Vienna and the Hungarian nation, so much has been
extorted and seized from the latter, so much stolen
and so much abolished, that the former now con-
siders it possible to deny the existence of what re-
mains, Although in the Hungarian address it was
most formally declared that under no circumstances
would the nation send Deputies to the Vienna
Reichsrath, on the plea that to do so would be
equivalent to nullifying the constitutional laws that
for eight centuries have existed, the rescript con-
tains a command that such Deputies should be sent,
and warns the Diet to do all in its power to hasten
their election. This passage cause(' a very strong
sensation. With respect to the laws of 1848 the Em-
peror declares that, as those laws are in complete
contradiction with the Imperial patents of the 20th
of October, 1860, and the 26th of February, 1861
he not only cannot grant them, but that he most de-
cidedly will not. This violent announcement pro-
duced in the Chamber of Deputies an amount of
emotion and stir which might have become almost
uproar on the part of the more impetuous members
of the Chamber had these not have been cautioned
and quieted by cries of " Hear, hear !" from the
majority. I must say that, considering all the
circumstances of the case, the aggravating terms
of the address, and the excitable temperament of
this southern race, the demeanour of the Chamber
was most commendable for its calmness and dig-
nity. The Emperor, the rescript continues, has
called together the Hungarian Diet to the end that
those obstacles which impede perfect harmony be-
tween nation and ruler may be removed in a legal
way, and he requests that the Parliament will busy
itself with the tranquil preparation of projects of
law for the country, and that the nation will con-
sider it a duty to follow the example of its fore-
fathers. At tt is the Chamber laughed, and that
was not surprising. The Emperor wishes obstacles
removed; what those obstacles are has been fully
pointed out in Deak's address, which the rescript so
abruptly rejects. The union between Hungary and
Transylvania is declared null. In connexion with
this point the rescript refers to the various nationali-
ties of Hungary in a manner that seems to confirm
the prevalent belief as to the basis or vantage
ground from which Vienna proposes to work against
Hungary. I find it a most positive article of faith
amongthe Hungarians that Austria is again stirring
up the different nationalities, with a view to estab-
lish her rule and power by favour of their animosi-
ties and dissensions. They discover confirmation of
this opinion in a demand set forth in the rescript
that the Diet should immediately busy itself with
such measures as shall satisfy the different nation-
alities: Now, it is well known that the Diet will not
do this so long as its numbers are incomplete, so
long as there are kept aloof from its deliberations
some 200 Deputies from Croatia and Transylvania,
by whom it is here maintained they should be shared
in. This refusal will be availed of, it is predicted, in
case of the dissolution of the Diet (extremely
likely to occur at no distant period—so far, at least,
as we can as yet judge of the probable course of
events in an early future) by the Vienna Govern-
ment, which will represent to the different nation-
alities that the Hungarians are in reality their
enemies, and so will arouse ill-blood and produce
hatreds and contests which it thinks will tend to
keep down the Hungarians. I give 3 ou this as the
opinion I hear very generally expressed here. As
regards the question of the coronation, the inau-
gural diploma, the rescript says, will not be issued
until the Diet shall have settled the above matters.
The deficiencies mentioned in Deak's address, in the
announcement of the abdication of the late Empe.
ror, will positively not be supplied.
The answer returned to Count Appony i's telegram
to Vienna, aboxementioned, was that nothing c mid
be changed in the rescript. The advanced party
here seems well pleased at the conduct ot'the Impe-
rial Government, which justifies, they say, all their
anticipations, and will unite all political parties and
fractions in one common band of antagonism to
Austria. They quote the " Quem deus cult per dere,"
and gird themselves to encounter hard times, pro-
bable persecution, and a severe struggle at a date
which they do not believe remote.
Although the chief display of feeling and centre
of interest was of course in the Lower House, it
was by no means uninteresting to observe how
the rescript, so unequivocally condemned by the
Deputies, would be received by the Magnates, and
to their place of meeting, a temporary one in the
Dorotheen Strasse, a portion of the spectators pro-
ceeded when the other Chamber broke up. The
Magnates' Chamber is small, bat'not inconvenient,
and today it was a world too wide for the scanty
number of its members that attended. Count
Apponyi, the President, was in the chair; near to
him,
on his left front, sat the Primate of Hungary,
at a scarlet table, on a scarlet bench, with a scarlet
skull-cap covering his tonsure, and a scarlet lining
to his ample robe. Beside and behind this rev.
gentleman sat sundry bishops and other high cleri-
cal dignitaries; opposite to him were some of the
high aristocracy of Hungary and keepers of the
Crown--Carolyi, Zichy, Ancirassy, Mailath, Bce.
A great number of the Magnates are at their estates
in the country, and it is looked upon as an indica-
tion of their dissatisfaction at the Vienna policy
that they did not return for the present occabion.
I do not think it is saying too much to say that in

both houses the rescript has been received with
contempt and disgust. Such, at least, was the im-
pression a careful observation of the mien and
movements of both Deputies and Magnates made
upon me. Bitter smiles greeted the most obnoxious
passages of the document; murmurs (in the Lower
Chamber), not loud, but deep, were frequent ; not
a single elfin was at any time heard to brighten, in
some small degree, the lowering cloud of discon-
tent. The rescript was received almost as if it had
been a defiance, and the sabres of some of the Mag-
nates clanked ominously in their metal scabbards,
as their wearers fretted and started with irritation
and impatience at some of the most offensive pas-
sages of the Imperial mandate.
It was announced that the rescript would be
printed and distributed. Notice will be given when
the Chambers are to meet again—probably in two
or three days, at least the Deputies, who will then
hold a private sitting, to be followed by a public
one. Both the Deak-Eotvos party and the other
have formed committees, since this morning's sit-
ting, to hold consultations between this and the
next sitting. As yet I can give you no idea of the
course likely to be pursued, and might only mislead
you by hazarding conjectures. We shall shortly
see how things shape themselves.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CITY.

The writ directing a new election for this city
was received yesterday (Friday) morning by the
Mayor (Alderman Sadler), and at 12 o'clock the
customary proclamation was made on Carfax. The
election will take place on Tuesday next at 12
o'clock, when there is no doubt that Mr. Cardwell
will be returned without opposition. The right
hon. gentleman has issued the following address:—

" TO THE ELECTORS OF OXFORD.

" Gentlemen,—l have accepted the office of Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, and have consequently vacated the
seat which I occupied by your favour in the House of Com-
mons. I venture to solicit a renewal of that trust. I be-
lieve that you have not been dissatisfied with the manner
in which the interests of England and the cause of freedom
in Europe have been sustained by the advisers of the
Crown ; and I hope that in matters of domestic policy an
adherence on my part to the principles which you have
heretofore approved will ensure to me the continuance of
your confidence and generous support.—l have the hrnour
to be, gentlemen, your most obedient and most faithful
servant,

"EDWARD CARDWELL.
" 74, Eaton-square, July 25."

THE CANADIAN REINFORCEMENTS.

QUEBEC, JULY 7.

The Great Eastern arrived here to-day. As she
swung round Point Levi, and appeared in full view
of the town, it seemed to 10,000 spectators as though
a slice of land had been miraculously detached from
the shore, and was floating on the broad bosom of
thA St. Lawrence. There was a large crop of ships
in port, and the leviathan glided in and out among
them with the ease and assurance of a tiny ferry-
boat. She never looked so vast upon the waters of
New York Bay as she does here, whele every vessel
is a foil to her superiority, and every object ashore
throws her bulky proportions into wondrous relief.
As she passed the transport Golden Fleece, the
latter, itself an enormous ship, looked like a
yacht in comparison. The Great Eastern has made
the passage in eight days, and however great her
failure in some respects, she has certainly made a
successful voyage in the service to which she is
now consigned. It is very probable that she will
be retained by Government for the purpose of
transporting troops to distant parts of the empire.
Some 4,000 British soldiers, including two regiments
of the Line, a regiment of Rifles, a battery of flying
artillery, and half-a-dozen Armstrong guns, have
been brought to this province within a week by the
Great Eastern and the Golden Fleece. The move-
ment has, I see, excited comment in the United
States, and English journals do not seem to under-
stand its object. The explanation offered by mili-
tary authorities here is not an unreasonable one.
In the first place, they say that the reinforcements,
excepting the artillery force, merely raise the garri-
son of Canada to its strength before the Crimean
war. This is true. Again, it is urged that the
troops are required to maintain the police of the
Canadian frontiers during the existence of pend-
ing troubles. This is also true. In times past
frontier duty was performed by a Provincial regi-
ment (the Canadian Rifles), but on the withdrawal
of Line regiments for Crimean, and subsequently
for Indian service, the Rifles were ordered to
garrison Quebec and Montreal. By the new ar-
rangement they will merely return to their old oc-
cupation, and the regiments just arrived will gar-
rison the large towns.—New York Times.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

COVENT GARDEN.

The supply of fruit is very moderate, of vegetables sea-
sonably extensive. On the whole, the demand may be
considered steady, at the following rates :

FRUIT.

a. d. 5. d. a. d. a. d
Pineapples, perlb 4 oto 6 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 4to 0 6
Colonial do., each 1 6to 2 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 6to 2 0
Grapes,per lb 2 oto 5 0, Cobnuts, per lb 16to 2 0
Foreign do 2 oto 3 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
arelons, each
Peaches, perdoz 12 0;o20 6 i Figs, er doz . 2 oto 4
Nectarines, per dz 10 oto 15 01 Strawberries pun. 0 .6 to 1 6
Apples, per sieve 3 oto 6 01 Gooseberries hf sv 5 oto 6 0
Pears, per do .... 2 oto 6 01 Currants, per do. 6 oto 8 0
Oranges, per 100 6 oto 12 01Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 0
Lemons, per 120.. 4 oto 8 OlGreengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
Apricots, per doz 1 oto 3 0 I Raspberries, pr ptlo Bto 1 0

VEGETABLES.
Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 3 6 Shallots, per lb 1 6to 0 0
Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9to 1 6, Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0
Savoy do., pr do. 1 6to 1 9 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 4
Cauliflowers, pdz 2 oto 6 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6 2
0
Brocoli, per bush. 1 2to 1 4 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6 o 0 0
to
Potatoes, per ton 60 to 100 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 0
tt o o
21
New ditto, pr cwt. 5 oto 10 0 a Smalli o s
h salad,roo s
.pppsr.eppdurnzoe,
041
80 03 to 0
61 0 2tt o 0
063
Peas, per 4 sieve 1 3to 1 9 m
6
Turnips, dz bunch 3 6to 6 6 Artichokes,
Cucumbers Garrote, pr
do. . .
40
tt
oo
09
80
ECabbageodt
pl eoxt t'o
score 1
-•••
Garlic, per
lb 6to 0 8 Radishes, dz hnds 0 Bto 0 10
Sorrel, per
.s.leveo oto 0 0 Tomatoes,alnuts, p
ofrloZ. 100 0
. 6
00
to
00
00
Spinach,hf sv
0 6to 1 0 Walnuts,
Brus. sprouts,h.s 1 Bto 1 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Onions, hf. sv 0 oto 0 0 I Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0
New Do., dz bun 1 oto 1 9 I Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 0 6
French beans, pun 0 oto 1 3 I Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 0
Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per pun. 1 0 to 1
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Turkeys, 5s Oct to 7s Od ; poults, 5s Od to 6s Od each ;
geese, 4s Od to Gs Od ; goslings, 4s Od to Os Od ; ducklings,
Is 6d to 2s 9d; rabbits, is Od to is 9d each; wild do.,
to is ld ; pigeons, Os 6d to 9d each; large Surrey fowls,
6s Od to 12s Od; chickens, 3s 6d to 68 Od; barn-door fowls,
3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Od ;
grouse, is Od to 2s Gd each; pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s Gd ;
ptarmigan, 28 Od to Os ; woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s Od; snipes, I s
64 to 2s Od; teal, Os Od to is 6d ; wild ducks, 2s 6cl to 3s Od ;
widgeons, is 6d to Os Od ; plovers, is Od to is Gd each ' •
guinea fowls, 5s Od to 7s Od ; roasting pigs, 6s Od to 9s Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, 11d to is 14; English, is Od
to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to 8s 6d ; French do.,
7s Od to 7s 6d per 120; leverets, Os 04 to Os Od each.