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right hon. gentleman. a sic sedebat statue in Tra-
falgar-square, as aco mpanion to that of good Dr.
TENTER—by right ol' the title Mr. FITZROY might
thus surely gain for 1 iimself as foremost among the
best of our popular benefactors and national
philanthropists.

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Parliamentary report, was quietly agreed to after
a little discussion, and the select committee ap-
pointed accordingly.
Now, the meaning of all this was from
the first instant sufficiently apparent from the
very wording of this proposition, and from
the significant time chosen for its introduction.
But, as if the imputation designed to be thus cast
spitefully at their immediate predecessors by those
extremely severe and straightlaced economists
of the public moneys, her MAJESTY'S present ad-
visers, the right hon. gentleman who introduced
the motion to the House of Commons, yesterday,
in his official capacity, was as plainly and coarsely
outspoken as he could possibly be under the cir-
cumstances. The bearing of the whole movement,
then, to put the matter at once in plain English,
was simply this—that a direct charge was thus
insinuated against The late Ministry, for inasmuch
as at its instance divers new contracts had
been entered into, or proposed to be entered
into, for the more rapid and regular trans-
mission of the mails, hither and thither, be-
tween the mother country and the more
remarkable and important of her remote and
scattered possessions. There was the con-
tract, for example, recently concluded with
a steam packet company for a new American mail
—along a new Atlantic route, between Galway and
our North American territories. Mr. GLADSTONE
finds himself upon a sudden stricken with dismay
at this novel contract, involving an annual outlay
(commencing with this next year of our Lord 1860)
of £75,000 ! It is so bold a measure, one so new
and so costly, so entirely running out of the old
groove of routine, one snapping asunder so very
abruptly the accustomed trammels of red-tape—that
Mr. GLADSTONE having, among other trifling respon-
sibilities, to see to the payment of these untimely
£75,000 sterling—becomes alarmed, thinks it
is time for the House of Commons to in-
terfere, insists that the continuance of this
audacious policy is calculated, undoubtedly,
to create, all over the world, where there are
British establishments, British interests, or British
settlements, a sanguine and confident expectation
that the purse of the British public would be avail-
able to supply a regular and expensive postal cora-

We have a few word's to say to our Bishops, and
to all who interest themselves in Bishops' business
in the House of Comnacms. In the days of good
old JOSEPH HUME, that indomitable exposer of
abuses got hold of one in which all the religious
people ought to have backed him heartily. He
attacked a monopoly—lt monopoly of what would
the reader imagine ? ANThy, a monopoly of nothing
less than the printing dof the Bible. Up to that
time the abuse had gone on nearly unquestionedl;
but some printers—Mr. CHILDS, of Bungay, we
remember, was prominent-in the exposure--showed
that the Bible, like all alter protected manufac-
tures, was enormously enhanced in price to the
public by the profits of monopoly. The result of
Mr. HUME'S committee of inquiry in 1830-31
established the conclusion that protection
doubled, if it did not quadruple, the
price of Bibles ; and the consequence of agitation
was, that the Scotch patent, which was to expire
in 1840, was not renewed, and that the English
patentee lowered his price to about what it would
be on Free-trade principles.
As the English patent was to expire in January,
1861, and the price was so much reduced, although
the legality of the patent itself is more than ques-
tionable, there was a lull in the agitation, and the
public seemed disposed to let it ran its course. It
has run it ; and it must certainly never commence a
renewed one. Printing the Bible is as open to all
the trade in Scotland as the printing of SHAKE-
SPEARE, and it must be made so here. There is
no reason why English printers should be de-
prived of any legitimate branch of their trade
more than Scotch printers. We, who have so
much to do with the printing-press, may be allowed
to feel a little sympathy with all who use it, and
to demand for them their full rights. On Monday,
as our readers may have observed, a brother editor,
Mr. BAINES, of Leeds, is to put a question to the
Home Secretary on the subject. We shall, there-
fore, soor know whether after the 21st of January
next the Government purposes to renew the patent,
or to place any restriction whatever on the free
printing of the Scriptures. We can hardly sup-
pose that a Free-trade Government can venture to
do so. The patentees have had their unfair, if not
illegal privilege long enough in all conscience ; the
pretext of superior accuracy will not do in these
days, when good as well as cheap workmanship is
secured by unrestricted competition, and we may
hope, therefore, that Sir G. C. LEwts' answer will
save all further trouble.
We remember one remarkable incident in the
former agitation. There is a religious society called
the Bible Society. Its object was to buy Bibles
dear and sell them cheap ! For this purpose it
collected subscriptions all over the land, and num-
bers of well paid secretaries and agents scoured the
country, travelling post, or by mail, or, latterly,
" first class," in search of guineas. Thus were the
society enabled to sell to the trade and to sub-
scribers at less than cost price ! The Bible is now
printed, in consequence of this agitation, at a lower
price than the society used to sell it for, even by
help of subscriptions ! The subscriptions might as
well have been thrown into the sea. Yet this religi-
ous society supported the monopoly ! And that al-
though to abolish the monopoly would have saved
all need of subscriptions, and have furnished the Bible
cheaper than it could have been afforded by sweeping
tho country for guineas. How men, professing zeal
for religion and the Bible, could sacrifice their ob-
ject to a kind of Tory sympathy with monopolies,
we could not comprehend at the time, nor can we
now. While petitions were coming up from all
quarters against the monopoly, we believe the
society itself—the society which should have been
the faithful steward of the guineas it gathered—
the society for cheapening and circulating the
Bible—was silent. What, then, are we to infer of
the spirit which animates what are termed reli-
gious societies ? We have not heard that this so-
ciety, even now, although the largest purchaser of
Bibles in the world, and that, too, with other per-
sons' money—we have not heard that it has taken
the lead against Bible monopoly ! We shall be
curious to note, on Monday, whether Mr. BAINES
has been prompted by the Earl-street gentlemen.
We suspect not. We rather suppose, from a pam-
phlet we have just received, that it is quite another
society which has moved in the matter—that for
the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage
and control.

munication.
All this is designed to be expressive of virtuous
indignation, on the part of the Whig-Peelite-Radi-
cal-Palmerstonian Government, against the sus-
picious character, and profligate liberality of those
mail contracts recently entered into by the DERBY
Administration. There is an old saying about
the folly of people throwing stones when they
live in glass houses themselves. It is really nothing
short •f an outrage to the common sense of the
public to hear these men, among our administrators,
declaiming against the suspicious character of the
mail contracts entered into without previously con-
sulting Parliament, and upon the consequent
liability of the national exchequer to the drain
of something very like a profligate expendi-
ture ! As if people had altogether forgotten
that outrageous mail contract with Australia which
was bungled into during the former PALMERSTONIAN
Government, the mail contract which resulted only
in a series of failures and a glaring waste of the
public money—that Australian mail contract, the
cancelling of which by a stroke of the pen was
among the best of the many good services per-
formed during the twelvemonth of his colonial
administration by the right hen. baronet the mem-
ber for Hertfordshire. It ill becomes the \Vhigs
and Peelite members of the present Coalition to be
casting these slurs of imputation upon the late
Ministry, in the matter of mail contracts of all
things in the wide world!! It scarcely needed Mr.
DISRAELI'S confident remark last evening, that
"with respect to the Cunard line, as well as with
respect to the Galway line, we have been influenced
by no other consideration but what we thought
would be for the public advantage"—followed, at
the close of his observations, with the yet more
explicit, and if possible yet more confident, assur-
ance—" I am perfectly prepared to vindicate our
conduct in this matter whenever an opportunity
may be given to us to do so, and I look with the
utmost confidence to the opinion of the house in
respect to what we have done." The interested
outcry of those who are, for sufficiently obvious
reasons, enamoured of the mercantile interests of
Liverpool, will have, should have no weight with
the eventual decision upon such matters of our
legislators and administrators, of the Parliament
and of the Government. For ourselves we love
not the mercantile interests of Liverpool less—but
the Imperial interests of the United Kingdom
more. As for the merchants of Liverpool, were
they not formerly dead against the first proposition
of Holyhead—and afterwards dead against the first
notion of Birkenhead ? Let them as vainly
strive now to gratify their selfish jealousy of the
development of the new designs of our engineers
and navigators in regard to the Galway line of
packet service between the mother country and her
North American dominions ! Common sense, the
public interest, economy of time, economy of money
—all are in favour of Galway and against the
envy of Liverpool. Notwithstanding the
£75,000 per annum, the new scheme is too allur-
ing to be set aside now very easily—even out of
purely economic considerations. It rests upon the
broad and solid basis of Truth—about which we
know, all of us long since—magna est et prevalebit.
eft

mers.

THE RED CROSS OF
THE BRAVED EXGLAND,-THE FLAG
OF

Old England ! thy name shall yet warrant thy fame,
If the brow of the foeman should scowl ;
Let the lion be stirred by too daring a word,
And beware of his echoing growl.
We have still the same breed of the man and the steed
That wore nobly our Waterloo wreath ;
We have more of the blood that formed Inkermann's flood
When it poured in the whirlpool of Death ;
And the foeman will find neither coward nor slave
'Neath the Red Cross of England—the Flag of the Brave.

We have jackets of blue, still as dauntless and true
As the tars that our Nelson led on ;
Give them room on the main, and they'll show us again
How the Nile and Trafalgar were won.
Let a ball show its teeth, let a blade leave its sheath,
To defy the proud strength of our might,
We have iron-mouthed guns, we have steel-hearted sons,
That will prove how the Britons can fight.
Our ships and our sailors are kings of the wave,
'Neath the Red Cross of England—the Flag of the Brave,

Though a tear might arise In our women's bright eyes,
And a sob choke the fearful " Good bye,"
Yet those women would send lover, brother, or friend,
To the war-field, to conquer or e
Let the challenge be flung from the braggart's bold tongue,
And that challenge will fiercely be met ;
And our banner unfurled shall proclaim to the world
That " there's life in the old dog yet."
Hurrah ! for our men on the land or the wave,'
'Meath the Red Cross of England—the Flag of the Brave !
ELIZA COOK

The health of her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent is re-established. Her Royal Highness will leave
FragMOTO House next week to visit the Queen at Osborne.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, accom-
panied by the Count of Flanders, took leave of the Queen
yesterday morning.
We are authorised to state that there is no truth
in the report that it is the intention of her Majesty the
Queen to visit Ireland this year.
PROTECTION OF THE TEMPLE FROM FIRE.—
The benchers of this ancient inn have lately had anew and
powerful engine added to their fire-extinguishing appa-
ratus, of the same size and power within ordinary brigade
engine, which, upon being tried the quadrangle of
the building, was found to be able to project water over the
flag-staff of the Temple Church. The machine is menu-
factored by Mr. Merryweather, of Long-acre, and promises
to be of great assistance in the event of a fire
ttaakir4
in place
amongst such valuable property as is conined the
ne is
archives of that establishment, as the engi capable of
discharging half a ton of water in a minute to a height of
130 feet.
PRACTICAL JOKING IN THE ARMY.—The Dublin
correspondent of the Cork Reporter supplies the following :
—" On Saturday a melancholy event took place here.
been
Two
officers of a regiment stationed in this county had
hauled up and tried by court-martial for one of those wit-
less, brainless, and filthy practical jokes which all had
hoped had died out. Upon hearing the sentence of the
courttt gboldrownedoo
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civilian can or will find time to sympathise with people
who outrage all rules of common decency."
DISQUALIF3B7.TIPOoNIISarOdFuRrIOuhMaArNt,
Herbert, relieves Romanists from a certain
ISSTirS.lTASombeirlvl Somerville,
George IV. cap. 7, so as to
It repeals a part of
sel:ueinn'srieerof wthheicAhetthleoty
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disabilityand3 lther. 1 2Mt rh a.
allow persons of term persushion to hold the office of
the bill by no
Lord High Cb, Lord Keeper, or Lord Commis-
smi oent
me rs ocifnalithaeesGreaat Seal of Ireland. But
Romanist to be "keeper of tile-Royal
conscience" in this country.

CIE 1 ISIN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1859

LATEST NE

W S.

SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES

BETWEEN

FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.

PARIS, THURSAY, 9.45 P.M.
An Extraordinary Edition of the Moniteur con-
tains the following :
L'EMPEREUR A L'IMPERATRICE.
VALLEGGIO, 7 JUILLET.
line suspension d'armes est convenue entre l'Em-
pereur d'Autriche et moi.
Des Commissaires vont etre nommes pour en
arreter la duree et les clauses.

The following telegrams have beeit- received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, JULY 7, 9.50 P.M.
OFFICIAL DESPATCH.

TILE EMPEROR TO TIIE EMPRESS.

An armistice has been concluded between the
Emperor of Austria and myself.
*My commissioners have been appointed to agree
upon the last clauses.l-
- The word " des" in the original has evidently been
mistaken by the translator for " mes."
t This does not accurately convey the meaning of the
French " la dur6e et les clauses."

PARIS, FRIDAY, JULY 8.

The Moniteur of this morning, after having
given the official despatch sent yesterday by the
Emperor to the Empress, adds :
"It is necessary that the public should not
misunderstand the extent of the armistice ; it is
limited merely to a relaxation of hostilities between
the belligerent armies, which, though leaving the
field open for negotiations, does not enable us for
the present to foresee how the war may be ter-
minated."

FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, JULY 7

In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, Austria
proposed that the whole federal contingent should
be mobilised, and that the Prince Regent of Prussia
should be requested to assume the command-in-
chief of it.

FIUME, JULY 6,

Two French war steamers have been reconnoitr-
ing off this place. 1,000 French soldiers have
occupied Cherso. The occupation of Fiume by
Austrian troops continues.

BERNE, JULY 7

Advices have been received from Samaden to the
6th instant. All the Austrian troops have left
Windschau, and are now concentrated on the
Stelvio Pass, where a conflict is expected to-day.

FIUME, JULY 7

Yesterday evening the French frigate Julie and
a war steamer appeared off the port. Upon one of
the vessels discharging a gun, the Mayor and four
Consuls went on board. The commander explained
that he had received orders to reconnoitre Fiume,
Buccari, and Porto-Re, and asked whether Aus-
trian war steamers were in the port, and also con-
cerning the strength of the garrison. He further
gave his word that nothing was intended against
the population, and that the garrison, authorities,
and archives might be withdrawn. This morning
the vessels have left, and everything has returned
to its former state.

TRIESTE, JULY

The Archdukal Yacht Fantasie, • after having
successfully broken through the blockade, has ar-
rived here from Venice.

The French squadron before Lussin numbered
on the 3d instant 16 vessels, of which three were

The inhabitants of Fiume were yesterday even-
ing alarmed by the appearance of hostile vessels
off the town. The sailing of fishing boats and the
nightly traffic between Venice and Chioggia has
been strictly forbidden.

The Toulonnais of Tuesday publishes at the
head of its columns, in large type, the following
" communicated" note from the Prefect of the
department :—" It has been remarked, not without
astonishment, that the Toulonnais in various num-

bers has given details on maritime movements
which are stated to have taken place in these latter
times. Without seeking to know whether this
journal were well or ill-informed, the deplorable
facility with which it accords publicity to rumours
which, if they were well founded, would be of a
nature to inform the enemy of arrangements he
may have interest in knowing, is to be regretted.
It will no doubt suffice to point out the possible
consequences of such publication to cause them to
cease completely."
The Debats contains the following :
.. •

" According to Austrian despatches, Admira.
Romain-Desfosses has taken possession, without
resistance, of one of the Illyrian islands, at the
northern extremity of the Archipelago, called the
Island of Lossin. We may remark that this island,
which is about ten miles long, and from one
to two broad, has an excellent port and good
anchorage ground outside, covered by islets,
which shelter it and may serve as a defence. We
may further state that Lossin is commanded at
its northern extremity by a mountain,• where a
look-out allows the sea and the approaches to
the island to be closely watched. Lossin is 25
miles from Pola, 40 from Fiume, 50 from Ancona,
and 75 from Venice. Though unacquainted w" -
the ulterior designs of the fleet, we are inclined to
see in-the occupation of the island and port of
Lossin the judicious choice of a base of naval
operations, with an evident intention of not
touching on the territory of the Papal States. The
peremptory refusal of Admiral Jurien to have any-
thing to do with the towns of Ravenna and An-
cona, or the events there occurring, seems to fa-
vour this hypothesis. The Illyrian isles are not
included in the Germanic Confederation ; they ex-
tend all along the coast of Dalmatia, which is
also unconnected with the Confederation. The
taking possession of this island is therefore per-
fectly justifiable, and we have good reason to
think that the French fleet is about to establish at
Lossin its depots of coal, ammunition, provisions,
and its hospitals, if necessary, as also to leave its
transport vessels there, in order to operate on the
enemy's coasts with war vessels clear of all impedi-
menta, just as an army leaves behind its convoys,
baggage, and even knapsacks, when going into
actual conflict."
A letter from Valeggio, in the Union, says :
" The siege of Peschiera, properly so called,
has not yet commenced. General Froissard traced
out for the Picdmontese a line of counter-valla-
tion which is now in course of execution, but
which, unfortunately, is not to surround the
place. The garrison of Peschiera may therefore
make sorties in the open space and attack the
assailants. The corps of General Niel, which has
crossed the river, is nearly two leagues off. The
garrison keeps up a constant fire from large guns
on the blockaders, and it is the continual roar of
their artillery which gave rise to the idea that the
siege had commenced."
Another letter from Valeggio says :--" The
Guard on entering Solferino made the not unim-
portant capture of 26,000 blankets. General Vinoy's
division was the first the next morning to cross the

Mincio opposite this place. The river is there very
rapid, about 160 feet wide, and its banks are
steep. Although cannon placed at Valeggio could
have commanded the passage, not a musket shot
was flred. But the general took all possible pre-
cautions against a surprise ; he made two squadrons
of light dragoons swim across at a covered point,
each dragoon with a rifleman behind him. On
landing, the riflemen deployed as skirmishers,
minutely examined the ground and took possession
of the heights. Some inhabitants who were ques-
tioned having declared that the enemy had retired,
a bridge was thrown over the river, and two hours
after we entered the town. The place was com-
pletely pillaged ; we could not even find a
glass of wine for the general, the enemy,
before leaving, having turned the cocks of all
the casks in the cellars, and let the wine run
off. Last evening, four soldiers without arms
having gone to a neighbouring farm for water,
found ten Austrian soldiers armed, who had just
arrived on a similar errand. One would have
thought that the French would have retired; but
no—with true French boldness they ordered the
ten Austrians to surrender. Six of them ran away,
and the four others gave up their muskets, consti-
tuting themselves prisoners. The French then
made the Austrians fill the vessels with water, and
carry them to the camp." ,
The Nord publishes a despatch from Vienna,
of the sth, stating that two of the Generals
commanding corps d'armee in the Austrian
service, Count Clam-Gallas and the Prince
Edward of Lichtenstein, have resigned, and
that General Zedwitz has also withdrawn from the
service. Another despatch from Trieste, of the
same date, announces the institution of a council of
prizes at Zara, and a council of appeal at Trieste ;
also that General Clam-Gallas had arrived in the
latter place from Verona.
The Piedmontese Gazette, of the sth, publishes
lists of Sardinian officers killed or wounded since
the commencement of the war ; whence it appears
that 2 colonels, 2 lieutenant-colonels, 3 majors, 17
captains, 21 lieutenants, and 17 sub-lieutenants
were killed ; and that 2 major-generals, 4 colonels,
1 lieutenant-colonel, 12 majors, 59 captains, 58 lieute-
nants, and 74 sub-lieutenants were wounded up to
;he 24th ult.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

THE FR.

OLAND.

Yesterday the annual meeting of the members of
the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland
was held at the offices, Sussex-chambers, Duke-
street, St. James's, the Marquis Townshend, the pre-
sident, in the chair, supported by the Earl of
Ilchester, the Earl of Harrington, Lord Kinnaird,
Viscount Raynham, M.P. General Count Zamoy-
ski, Col. Pinney, M.P., Mr. R. Monckton Milnes,
M.P., Mr. J. Abel Smith, &c.
Mr. W. LLOYD BIRKBECK read the report, which
stated that during the past year the receipts had
been exceeded by the expenditure by above £3O.
It stated that as the legacy of the late Lord Dudley
Stuart was all paid, some means must be taken to
obtain fresh funds to enable them to continue their
assistance to the poor Poles. The number of
Polish refugees in London was 724, being a decrease
of 36 as compared with the previous year. The
report then mentioned the attempts of the Prussian
officials in power to entrap the Poles by sending to
them letters recommending insurrection. On the
part of Poland subject to Russia, the hopes enter-
tained of Alexander 11. are far from realised ; reli-
gious persecution exists, newspapers are suppressed,
and the formation of temperance societies is for-
bidden, while the great measure of emancipating
the serfs, which originated in the petition of the
Polish nobles of Lithuania, makes very slow pro-
gress. There is reason to believe that during the
last two or three years the efforts of Russian dip-
lomacy have been incessantly directed towards dis-
solving the Anglo-French alliance. After pointing
out the danger to Germany from the Russian
position in land, mentioning Austrian atrocities
in Galicia, and the flagrant breach, by the annexa-
tion of Cracow, of the Treaty of Vienna, of which
the present Prime Minister observed—" If the
treaty is to be respected on the .Po and
the Rhine, it must be respected also on
the Vistula and the Danube." It concluded
by stating that the dream of those politicians
who believed that peace could be preserved, how-
ever grossly justice might be outraged, has been
rudely interrupted. They may close their ears to
the just complaint of Poland, they may shut their
eyes to the clear evidence of her national existence,
they may misrepresent her history, and even re-
joice over her destruction or subjugation, as tend-
ing to general tranquillity ; they said the same
thing and expressed nearly the same sentiments
respecting Italy ; but, in spite of their most posi-
tive assertions, a day of reckoning had arrived for
Italy. It is not by continually crying peace when
there is no peace that her blessings can be pre-
served. A nation wounded in its interest and its
honour holds out a standing invitation to invasion,
and it is vain to charge solely on designs or revolu-
tionary tendencies the sure results of outraged jus-
tice and violated treaties. Let, at any rate, the
larger measure of censure be reserved for those who
render wars possible, and even necessary, by them-
selves treating with contempt every authority ex-
cepting that of the sword.
The Earl of HARRINGTON, in moving the adop-
tion of the report, said he was proud to meet them
on the present occasion, as their object was to sym-
pathise and assist an oppressed and virtuous race.
He addressed them as Conservatives, as loyal men.
as patriots, as men who stood up in the defence of
their country and their nationalities. (Hear, hear.'
They were charged with being revolutionists, but
in his opinion the revolutionists were those tyrant
sovereigns who deprived Poland of her liberties,
and who destroyed the Constitution of the brave
and the loyal Hungarians. (Cheers.) They were
the men who, properly speaking, should be called
revolutionists. When the present Emperor came
to his throne it was supposed that he was disposed
to render justice to his subjects generally and to
the Poles in particular ; and in consequence-of that
profession it was deemed advisable that this asso-
ciation should not meddle much with political mat-
ters. They must never despair, for he felt that the
spirit of the brave Poles themselves and the feeling of
the country in their favour was such as to warrant
them in continuing the most active exertions. As
a proof of the desirability of that he referred them
to the fact of the present Emperor of Russia being
induced, as far as was in his power, to do away
with serfdom in that country. He then referred to
the conduct of Prince Metternich with regard to
Cracow and Galicia, which, he said, caused the
farmers of the former place to rise against their
landlords. In a despatch dated April 2, 1848, it
was stated that M. Figuelmont, the Austrian Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs under Prince Metternich,
said, in a conversation with Lord Ponsonby, our
then Ambassador, " Austria will be able at any
time to raise the peasants against the landlords, and
can easily compass the ruin and destruction of the
discontented." He would ask if that was not
sanctioning and encouraging murder. The result
was that the landlords were murdered in the
mutinous feeling aroused. Prince Metternich took
advantage of that state of things, and incorporated
Cracow with the Austrian empire. He again told
them they must not despair, for one day Italy would
be in a state of utter slavery, and the next—owing
to the King of Sardinia and Count Cavour—would
be rioting in liberty. (Applause.) In early life he
was personally intimate with Prince Metternich.
As a private man he was agreeable, sociable, hos-
pitable, but as a diplomatist—although considered
to be one of the greatest —he was one of the meanest
of mankind; he was no statesman, but a shallow-
minded man ; and instead of being the enemy of
revolution, he was for ever sowing the seeds of re-
volution. The consequence was, that was now
going on in Italy was the result of the acts of his
arbitrary and despotic Government. He bad just
been reading a blue-book, which was alike honour-
able to Lord Derby, and his Government. (Cheers.)
At the end of it Lord Malmesbury sums up the
whole case, and assigns the cause of the war to the
Sardinians. At first it appeared to be correct, but
when he came to reflect he thought of Prince Met-
ternich, His opinion was, that the Italians would
have been a dastardly set had they not acted as
they had done. He said, in the old cant phrase,
"Italy for the Italians," but, in addition to that,
the strength of Germany must be kept up. He
was not for universal suffrage nor for the law of
the bayonet, but he was for a constitution like the
English, than which none could be better. If
they had a republic, let it be a Washington re-
public without slavery, with filibustering, and
,
without lynch-law. He was for national liberty,
and not the liberty of the sword. (Applause.)
Lord KINNAIRD, in seconding the motion, said that for
some time past he had looked upon the cause of the Poles
as hopeless ; and, looking at the complicated state of affairs
on the continent, he was afraid that they would never live
to see the nationality of the Poles restored. Bxt he be-
lieved that there were good grounds for very great hopes.
Ho felt that if the cause of civil and religious liberty were
spread it must extend to other countries, and then Poland
would rise to its place among the other nations. He be-
lieved the Emperor of the French was sincere in respect to
obtaining the liberties of the Italian people. (Hear, hear.)
He regretted that any remarks had been made upon the
Emperor Napoleon, as he believed nothing but taunts and
reproaches would alter him from being the firm ally of
England. He believed it was his wish and that of the
French people to maintain the best possible relations with
this country. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was then agreed unanimously.
The Earl of ILCHESTER proposed the next resolution :
" That the present time seems favourable for recalling
the question of Polaad to the attention of Europe, inasmuch
as the altered policy of Russia towards Austria, her adop-
tion of the project of the Polish nobility for the manumis-
sion of serfs, and the national conflict now going on in
Italy, are circumstances of more than usual significance to
the development of the prospects of the Polish nation; and
that these circumstances, far from estranging men's minds
from the immediate consideration of the actual condition
and probable eventualities of Poland, do, on the contrary,
render it incumbent on all well-wishers to her eausP, and
especially on tho Pnloa themselves, to maintain a position
of prudence and watchfulness for the present, and of hope-
ful preparation for the future."
Mr. MILNES, M.P., in seconding, expressed an opini6n
that the present was a most favourable time for the causer f
Poland, if any time could be more favourable than another.
He felt that the present time was favourable to Poland, in
consequence of the mysteriously providential interference
of this war in Italy. It was most important that the
people should retain the system of nationalities, and if
they had them not they should obtain them as soon as
possible. In the early part of his life he resided in Lom-
bardy, and there saw everything going on right, but it was
ever present to the mind that he was not in a free country,
that it was a military Government carried on by an unccn-
genial race. One of two things must result from this war.
Poland must revert to national independence, or by her
spirit of nationality, and by her talents and intelligence,
she might become the conqueror of Russia. He felt that
one of these things must occur, if he was not mistaken in
the spirit and character of the Poles. (Hear, hear.)
-This resolution was also agreed to.
M. J. ABEL SMITH next [proposed the re-election of
Marquis Townshend as president, and in doing so expressed
a fervent wish that their efforts might soon be crowned
with success.
and said that on
General Count ZAMOYSKI seconded,
behalf of the Poles he ventured to give the association the
warHe cwomitphlaßinnsedeioef
assurance that they (the Poles) were sanguine of success..
He did not charge France with
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wFtihrthaenoGncetovatneerkdninmEgennygtlsetondfdbeeinng engaged in
Eng-
land with doing this wilfully, but it was from a want of
intelligence.
The Earl of ILCEESTER entirely concurred with the gal-
lant Count that the omission was the result of the want of
intelligence.
The motion having been
cepted the office of president for a_ n'other year.
carried the noble chairman ac-
bMITH Dr WORTHINC-
Viscount RAviciikm, Mr. A•
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and gentlemen, viz., the Right Hon. the Earl
noblemenborough, the Right Hon. Viscount Raynham, M.P.,
the Right Hon. Lord Kinnaird, K.T., the Right Hon. Lord
faor-i1 fi the e
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the Hon. art i, Colonel Wilson
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Colonel Pinney, M.P., Richard nstoneMonckton Milnea
Esq., M,P., William, Scholefield, Esq., m,p., 'pm putt,

PARIS BOURSE, July 7.—A report of a fall of 3
per cent. at Berlin produced a slight depression at
the opening of the market, but prices rallied after
the first few operations. Threes have been done
at from 63f. 75c. to 63f. 85c.; Mobilier from 675 f.
to 680 f.; Orleans, 1,255 f. to 1,260 f..; Lyons, 837 f.
50c. to 8,10 f.; Eastern, 610 f. to 612 f. 50c. ; Nor-
thern, 910 f. to 915 f. The following were the last
quotations :-
4 pea' Cents. .... 95 Credit Foncier 625
Do: end month Belgian 4t —
3 per Cents 64 Piedmontesa (5) .. 84
Do. end month 64 Roman —
Bank Shares 2720 Austrian —
Credit Mobilier 682 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 685 Home Debt 39

RAILWAYS,
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 9lO .. 910
New ditto. '795 .. 795
Lyons and Mediterranean B4O .. 840
Geneva — .. 495
Southern
Western 517 50 .. 517 50
Eastern
Sardinian 385 .. 390
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money,
25f 21e. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 90c.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY EVENING

The steamer Fulton, Captain Wotton, has arrived
at Cowes with mails of the 25th ult., and proceeded
to Havre. She has 122,300 dols. for England, and
881,218 dols. for France, and 180 passengers for
England and France.
On the sth of July, in lat. 49.55 N., long. 17.30
W., the Fulton spoke the British ship Toronto,
steering westward ; on the 6th, in lat. 49.42, long.
10.12, passed a screw steamer bound westward ;
same day, in lat. 49.41, long. 9.35, spoke the British
ship Conqueror, steering eastward; and lat. 49.45,
long. 9.4, spoke the ship Black Hawk, of New
Bury port.
Enchange on Europe continued very dull, money
was rather more active, and in a few instances de-
mand loans were marked up to 6 and even 7 per
cent., but lenders found difficulty in obtainsng such
high rates. Mercantile paper unchanged.
The stock market was duller than at this period
of last year. Western stocks generally continued
to decline. State stocks in active demand.
The cotton mark et was quiet, and sales confined
to about 400 to 600 bales, in lots, chiefly to spin-
ners. Good brands of fresh ground State and
Western flour were firmly held, while old brands
were dull and lower. Sales of all kinds moderate.
Southern flour without change of moment.
Corn was more buoyant with a fair amount of
sales, including old Western mixed at 80c. ; new
ditto delivered at 81c. to 82-1 'c.. round white at
82c. ; round yellow at 83c.; and Western ditto at
84c.
Sugars were firmer and more active, and closed
at an advance on the week's sales of fully lc. per lb,,
the largest advance being on refininc, goods, which
were scarce ; refined sugars were also higher, and
closed at an advance of lc. to le. per lb. on the
week's sales. The heaviest rise was said to have
been realized on coffee and sugars. The sales of
raw goods embraced about 1,400 hhds. and 212
boxes, mostly to the trade. Coffee was more active,
with sales of two cargoes of Rio, comprising about
4,300 bags in all—on private terms, with some
other small lots, at 91c. for St. Domingo, and
141-Ic. for Java. Freights were steady, though
engagements were moderate, included in which
were some 300 bales of cotton for Liverpool, at C.
to 5.32 ; 500 boxes of cheese by steamer, at 255.,
and 1,500 barrels of resin to London at is. 6d.
The lowa Republic State Convention had adopted
a resolution condemning General Casso.
The flour markets at Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Buffalo, Cincinnatti, and Albany were generally
dull.
The cotton-market at Charleston declined lc. to
c. on tho lower qualities; better grades unchanged
and final ; middling fair, 2c.
Advises from California are to the 6th ult. There
has been a sudden advance in navigation. Stock
quoted at 40 per cent. General business was mbre
active, and accounts from the mines were flattering.
Gloomy accounts continued to be received from
Fraser River.
Havannah advises are to the 19th of June. No-
thing of importance. The sugar market was dull,
with a stock of 400,000 boxes on hand.
h

AFFIXING POSTAGE STAMPS,

Tho best mode of affixing postage stamps is to wet slightly
the corner of the envelope and the gummed side of the
stamp, and then gently to press the stamp till it is firmly
fixed. The practice of dipping the stamp in water is objec-
tionable, because, unless the stamp be immediately with-
drawn and care be taken, by the use of blotting paper or
some other absorbent, to remove any excess of moisture,
,um may be washed off or the stamp may be rubbed
the
off the letter.
By the use of envelopes bearing an embossed stamp, all
risk of the stamp being detached may be avoided. Envelopes
bearing a penny embossed stamp may be purchased at any
post-office ; and on application at the office of Inland Re-
venue, Somerset-house, London, W.C. ; embossed stamps
of any value are placed on envelopes, newspaper-wrappers,
or letter-paper.
By command of the Postmaster-General,
ROWLAND RILL, Secretary.
General Post-office, July 9, 1859.

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.—It was currentlhy.
reported yesterday that Lord Chelsea, Secretary of
British Embassy at Paris, has been recalled, and was tot
succeeded by the Hon. Wm. Grey, Secretary of Legett. ion
at Stockholm. The Hon. Mr. Elliot will remain Minister
at Naples, and Sir Arthur Magennis rep
these
the
Queen at Lisbon. If, as we have reason b these
statements are correct, other changes the diplomatic
service must shortly be announced. -D Nrews•
general force
THE IRISH CONSTABULAB,Ze.e—T he
p lhe peace and to re-
of the constabulary.employed to
press crime in the si ,!,er kingd of Ireland includes 12,306
men and 346 horses ; thet reslearoevnite force is 432. This army
year £568,641, plus other
of police cost the country y
expenses not applicable rto counties, but paid within the
year, which raises the total amount of expenditure to
£653,956 ; £639,391 is borne by
the public, and L 13,865 by
counties, cities, and towns.
IMPILOVEME'NTS IN NEEES.—MILWALKER'S PATENT.
—4‘ Difficult as it may aDL
pp to entirely change the struc-
ture of so small an article, this patent shows what may be
done even with the eye of a needle. A ridge or slightly
raised
part is mad© before the eye, and a groove beyond it,
into which the thread falls while sewing ; the usual pres-
sure of the thimble drives the needle with its thread at once
through the cloth, affording relief of no ordinary character
to the tailor or sempstress, and saving much of their time.
We have submitted these needles to a good judge of such
articles, who has declared them superior to all others, not
only as above stated, but particularly also with relation to
facility of threading."—The Engineer,

Esq., M.P., John Ayshford Wise, Esq., M.P., A. W. King-
lake, Esq., M.P., Colonel Salwey, T. Abel Smith, Esq.,
B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., Edward Romilly, Esq., Joseph
Ferguson, Esq., Edmond Beaks, Esq., Edward Johnstone,
Esq., Thomas Phinn, Esq., and W. Adams Smith, Esq.,
be elected members of the council for the ensuing year :
And that William Lloyd Birkbeck, Esq., be re-elected
honorary secretary."
A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.