The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-22 00:00:00

6, OXFORD -ST RENT.

This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis_ ()pen Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selectirms
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus)
from "Macbeth" and "Mt Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves),
W. 11. Wieland, E. Marshall. and W. Randall. Admission,
Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tim DAY.—Morning, Ih. 58m.—Afternoon, 2h. 24m.
To--monzow.-Morning, 2h. 46m.—Afternoon, 3h. Cm.

-THEWEATIIER.--Sux OPPIOE, JULY 21, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN TUE SHADB.
73—highest since noon yesterday.
58—lowest tnis morning and during the night.
68—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.84 ;
WlND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with cloudy,
dull weather, and some rain in the night.
Afternoon—Wind tresh and gusty, inclining to rain.
JULY 22.

THEEMOMIIITER, TN THE SHADE.
70—highest zince noon yesterday.
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
68—this day at noon.

BAROMETEn-29.85.
WlND—South-Westerly; moderate, with heavy rolling
clouds, and sunshine occasionally. It rained in the night,
and heavily this forenoon for about ten minutes.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1861.

A fresh arrival from America is of a
very
war-
like character. A Colonel TAYLOR came to Wash-
ington with a flag of truce, but was sent back,as if a
spy, under false pretences, or, at least, as having
been employed merely to gain time. Congress was
busy voting appropriations and lo—ans
and one piece of intelligence, if confirmed,
will do something to conciliate a little
more good-will in this country, we refer to the
proposal to abolish the MoREILL Tariff, and restore
that of 1857. The Treasury and the people too
will assuredly feel the benefit of this late approxi-
mation to something like justice to other countries.
Military matters are a little chequered. General
PATTERSON, who, it will be remembered, had
routed General JOHNSTON from Martinsburg, finds
him so powerful near it, that he has been
reinforced; General M'CLELLAND, too, is ex-
pecting hot work ; but, in Missouri, 1,200
Federalists have been compelled to give way to,
they say, 4,000 Secessionists, with small loss to
themselves and much heavier loss to the rebels. It
is not said how the Federalists became aware of
the rebels' number and losses when they had to
turn their backs on them. The St. Domingo affair
18 so much felt that it has already produced a demand
for papers. As to the Message, we are told that
e.vek in NOW ;York, which will have to pay meat
neavity towards its demands, it is generally ars
proved. The Senate even outruns the President
it has appropriated £100,000,000 to the war; and
authorised raising 500,000 volunteers!!!

The Lord Chancellor's
maiden speech on Thurs•
day evening iu the House of Peers was altogether
as brilliant and successful an inauguration of his
career as a debater in that Rouse
as could possibly
anticipated or hoped
have been for by the most
zealous appreciators of the learned
lawyer, popu-
larly kno-nn until so very recently as Sir RICHARD
BETHELL, M.Y. fisr Wolverhampton. The Lumen

of this first appearance of Lord WESTBURY in the
discussions of the House of Lords was indicated not
so much by the unusual cordiality of the applause
with which that generally sedate and phlegmatic
assembly greeted the close of Lord WESTBURY'S
remarks upon his resuming his place upon the
woolsack, as it was by the all but universally ad-
mitted cogency of the Chancellor's arguments in
refuting the objections raised by Lord ELLEN.
BOROUGH to the Indian Courts of Judicature Bill,
then under the consideration of the House of Lords
for a second reading. Before taking into account
any one of these objections of Lord ELLENBOROUGH,
the Chancellor took occasion, at the very outset of
his remarks, to observe most gracefully—" Since I
have had the honour of holding a seat in this House,
I have listened on several occasions with the plea-
sure and admiration which all must feel to the
speeches of the noble lord on my left. But," added
Lord WESTBURY, "I must confess I do not think
the speech he has made this evening is distinguished
by so much candour or so much knowledge of the
subject as generally mark the speeches of the noble
earl." And the Chancellor then went on imme-
diately to indicate it thus :—" The noble earl," said
he, "spoke of the Supreme Court as if it had not now
to administer native law ; but the Supreme Court
has an area of jurisdiction within which come the
great cities of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay.
Within that area the judges of the Supreme Court
administer not only English but native law." And,
again—" One principal topic of the noble earl's
speech has been the ignorance of English barristers,
and their unfitness to administer native law satis-
factorily. Yet the present state of the administra-
tion of justice in India is this—there is a Supreme
Court within whose jurisdiction come the chief
towns of the Presidencies; beyond them there is a
local jurisdiction that I may describe as divided
into districts, each having a Zillah judge, who
decides both in civil and criminal cases. From these
judges there is an appeal to the Sudder Adawlut,
and, with great deference to the noble
earl, I must say that, though in theory this
court may have some original jurisdiction,
it is practically confined to matters of ap-
peal." And, asked the Lord Chancellor, " What
is the result ? That with regard to the natives
beyond the limits of the towns, there is one supreme
court to administer the law, and with regard to the
natives within the limits there is another. And
with regard to British subjects, if they are within
the limits of the towns of the Presidency they are
amenable to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court,
but if they are beyond those limits they are subject
to no jurisdiction except the limited powers the 53d
of George 111. gives to the local magistrates of the
Mofussil. The result is there is an unjust and un-
reasonable division between the nati7es on one side
and the Europeans on the other; one is placed on
a different footing from the other. Can this be
satisfactory to the natives of the country 9" In
these passages the whole argument for the measure
now passing through the Imperial Legislature may
be said to be condensed. That measure is a Govern-
ment measure. It has been introduced into Parliament

for the simple purpose of amalgamating twojurisdic-
tions hitherto—if not directly antagonistic to each
other—unnecessarily running parallel with each
other—and separated, each from each, conse-
quently quite as unnecessarily. Until now, in
point of fact, there have been, there are
two Courts existing, as it were, side by side in
India—at Madras, at Bombay, and Calcutta—the
one Court entitled (an absurd misnomer as it will
be seen forthwith) the Supreme Court, and the
other the Sudder Court—the Supreme Court exer-
cising jurisdiction over the Europeans, and the
Sudder over the natives in Hindostan. We have
said. that the title of the Supreme Court is in itself
an absurd misnomer. And it is so thus. It
could only of course affect to bo the Supreme
Court in contradistinction to the Sudder Court ;
thereby presumed to be below in authority.
Whereas, upon the contrary, the two courts are in
authority perfectly upon a level. They are inde-
pendent of each other, as we have already observed
—and each in its way is supreme, the one over the
Europeans, and the other over the natives in Hin-
dostan.

The India Courts of Judicature Bill proposes then,
we repeat, to undertake nothing more nor less than
the amalgamation of these two courts, and the
blending together, harmoniously, of their two need-
lessly divided jurisdictions. In undertaking to do
this, the measure now before Parliament is simply
fulfilling a promise formally given to that effect
no less than nine years ago : that is
in 1852. And the need there is for the fulfilment
of that promise, is all the more clearly recog-
nisable in the fact that the two classes of courts—
Supreme and Sudder—are in existence in the capi-
tals of the so-called Presidencies, meaning the
Governorships of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta.
District tribunals, of course, exist also apart from
these supreme courts at Calcutta, Bombay, and
Madras—district tribunals scattered here and there,
far and wide, throughout our Indian possessions.
Appeals being referable from the judges of these
district tribunals in the instances of natives to the
Suddar Court, in the instances of Europeans to the
Supreme Court, in the respective presidencies.
All who have examined into the past and
present system of the administration of the laws in
Hindostan, agree in recognising the advisability of
amalgamating the two supreme jurisdictions. Ad-
mitting that to be the case—and who shall gain-
say it ?—not even Lord ELLENBOUOUGH—the next
question is, as to the source or sources from which the
Judges of the One Court shall he drawn? Remember-

lug that the jurisdiction of that One Court will be one

affecting both Natives and Europeans, it is obvious
that, in all fairness, the sources from which the

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this new measure, the Indian Courts Judicature
Bill, introduced by the Government and cham-
pioned by the Chancellor. Natives of Hindostan
British CiVil Servants now in our Indian provinces, ,
barristers promoted from silk or stuff gowns to the
ermine and the bench in Asia, and the European
judges already out there at Madras, and
Bombay, and Calcutta—these are proposed
to be the administrators of the law hence.
forth in the Supreme Courts of our Indian

Empire. Happily the specious objections raised.
by Lord ELLENBOIIOI7GH have scarcely been arti-
culated by the lips of that eloquent and gifted,
but captious and precipitate censor of our whole
Indian scheme of Government, before they are
scattered to the winds by the resistless force of the
logic of the Lord Chancellor.

Vie National Review for July* has an article of
high merit on the " Civil War in America ;" on
some points the writer's views ;differ from those
which we have brought before our readers, but on
more it harmonises with them. The whole is cha-
racterised by an independence, yet sobriety, of
thought which make it every way worthy the at-
tention of our readers, and of the well got up and
ably edited Quarterly in whicq it appears.. The
National Review strongly sustains the position we
have always taken, that " Ambition not humanity
has been the guiding and inspiring passion of the

* Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly.

strife." Dr. PATTON, of New York, and many other
Americans, when appealing to England, or de-
nouncing her, lay great stress on Slavery being the
real subject of dispute. We hear loud complaints
of this country's inconsistency, in leaning, as we are
quite falsely supposed to do, to the South. England,
the country which has abolished slavery and attacks
the slave trade, at such a cost--that she should not
be in a furious, a warlike passion with the South-
-monstrous, inconsistent, to be accounted for only
by envy of our greatness and a wish to see it
obscured !

We know here how absurd all this denunciation
is, vet probably to this hour the great mass of the
Northern population really believe it. The plain
truth is that both parties are animated by what
we conceive to be such, very commonplace mo-
tives that we can feel no interest in their
real objects. We have never been able to detect
(with the exception of the Abolitionists) a spark of
in the aspirations of the North.
as the ambition of working out a
philanthropyor
except
manifest destiny " of the most inflated preten-
sions, may be called patriotism, have we seen any-
thing worthy of being dignified by that name. The
North hates negroes indeed far more than the
South does ; it hates slavery, too, but it is a politi-
cal, not a moral and religious hatred. We are
pleased to see so independent and well informed a
contemporary asserting so strongly views which

some have thought rather harsh on our part. We

are, however, satisfied of their correctness, and the
facts which prove it are abundant. A patent one is
the readiness with which the North has made one
concession after another against the poor slaves,
and in favour of their oppressors. The North has
persecuted Abolitionists, hitherto, only less than the
South has done. While the Northern clergy were,
in truth, in their pulpits, in regard to slavery,
"denying the faith and worse than infidels," they
were branding as infidels the men who believed in the
fundamental doctrine of their own Declaration of
Independence, as well as in the spirit of the Gospel
and Christianity. Their public religious societies,
even Bible and Tract and Missionary Societies,
were gagged on the subject of slavery. Two minis-
ters once went hence as a deputation from the
Baptists—the sect which took the lead in the
abolition of negro slavery in the West Indies—
to the Baptists of America. They were forbidden
in a triennial Convention of Baptists in America to
open their mouths on the subject ! They thought
of persisting in delivering the message they had
brought from England; they were told that, if they
did, the police would be ordered to deport them
from the country ! This was long ago, and the same
temper has been growing ever since.

If we turn to the PRESIDENT'S last speech, which,
of course, has arrived since the article we have re-
ferred to was written, how fully dos it confirm our
views. Negatively, it is altogether prc-slavery.
We may say that positively it is so, since it refers
the timid to his inaugural address, and this address
openly recognises the black spot in the Constitu-
tion of the rendition of fugitive slaves as the pole star
of Federal slavery legislation ! We must repeat
what we have said more than once, that, in these
circumstances, while we cannot wish well to those
who are fighting for slavery as a heaven-descended
institution, we cannot feel any interest in the great
effort of the North, which is merely to reunite
themselves in one national bond with all the abomi-
nations of slavery. Amply large enough in terri-
tory, and numerous enough in population to form
at once a mighty nation, and a wealthy one too,
we have wondered that the North should not be
glad to shake itself loose from the corrupting and
debasing embraces of the South. To us it appears
infinitely degrading to the North that it
can take any pride in such an illicit con-
nexion with so disgusting a paramour. Up
to the time of the last election, indeed, this domineer-

I ing DELILAH, the South, so completely infatuated
the Northern SAMPSON, that there was nothing
which was not surrendered to her. The Republi-
can throne, the Bench of Justice, the Church itself,
and of course all the spoils of office were all freely
sacrificed by Northern Republicanism, such as it
was, to retain the love of its imperious mistress—

Slavery.
With a truthfulness which his American readers
will perhaps resent, but which they will do well to
remember is the sketch of no unfriendly writer,
who can see their behaviour before other nations
better than they can themselves, the reviewer
observes, page 158 :
"Nay, if they could only read the dispensation rightly
(though it would be unreasonable to expect them so to do),
these very humiliations and enforced foregoings arc so many
grounds for gratitude and gratulation. The lesson might
be severe ; but no nation ever needed it so much. For
generations they have revelled in the unwholesome and
perverting" contemplation of their own grandeur, and the
one sentiment that filled their hearts had been that of the
Babylonian despot : 'ls not this the great Babylon that I
have built, by the might of my power, and for the honour
of my majesty ?" Under_this demoralising influence they
had grown aggressive, overbearing, and unjust ; Truth and
Right had become dim and feeble in their sight before the
pagan worship of a gigantic strength and a Titanic will;
external greatness had blinded them to the progress of
domestic degeneracy, and they had grown daily prouder
and more imperious as they grew less and less worthy of
imitation and command. They had lacked deplorably,
though without the faintest consciousness of the want, the
controlling and compressing influence of some antagonistic
power; of impassable boundaries; of natural, cogent, but
invisible restraints; of barriers that compelled respect, but
did not awaken irritation."

Again, page 168, speaking of their possible
future, he says—

" Every aim, every blessing, that collective Man ever
sought for is within their command, if only they are wise
and just. But it is in vain to deny that immorality of
more than one kind has eaten deeply into the heart of the
people.. Their objects are not noble, their means are not
scrupulous or pure, their standard of what is worthy,
lovely, and of good report is neither lofty nor righteous.
They are greedy, grasping, and overbearing ; immoderate
in the extent and not delicate as to the character of their
earthly desires. Their egotism, not unnaturally, has grown
gigantic and blinding. In the idolatry of their self-worship
and self-seeking, they have become regardless of the equal
rights, and almost ludicrously unconscious of the relative
position, of others. We cannot say that morally, intellec-
tually, or physically they have of late been an improving
race. Their literary taste and their political behaviour
seem to have degenerated. The language and temper of
their public men at this conjuncture, especially towards
England, are really painful and astounding, and show how
a long career of self-indulgent encroachment, and long
hapa their bthit:fiotn: eascshtildish self-adulation, have blindel them alike
to what is reasonable and what is decent, and augur ill o
to
the
crguidecrisis
andßc f
a governstart
startling
ecaatlanation i naya
shock
them into soberness, and prove the commencement of an
altered course. It will assuredly be their own fault if they
are not in future a worthy as well as a mighty people."
This, though strongly stated, is not more than
the simple truth. Whether our author is as correct
in his anticipations of the impossibility of i
allows
to think h
fionrkin afar
the
con-
quering the South we are not so sure. It is often
asserted, but there is,
wear
are inclined
heene
stronger Unionist element than
very cotton States themselves. The wisest men
there must see that if the demagogues who at pre-
sent domineer over them conquer, it must be by a
help which may in its turn domineer over them.
The " mean whites" with arms in their hands, and
such clever but moneyless lea& rs as they now have,
will be dangerous masters when a' war is over.
Again, we cannot but think a peaceful emancipa:

Never before, perhaps, has there been more strik-
ingly illustrated in this country the necessity there
is for a PUBLIC PROSECUTOR than in the instance
of this very lamentable case of the Baron DE VIDIL.
Upon the case itself we have not as yet one syllable
to write by way of comment. Comment of any kind
whatever, in fact, at this particular moment,
upon a matter so exquisitely painful in every
way were not simply indiscreet, but would be abso-
lutely unjustifiable. Yet from the very delicacy of
the " situation" actually arrived at between the
accused and the accuser, between father and son, be-
tween M. DE VIDIL and the Baron DE VlDlL—con-
strains one, almost irresistibly, to point the impres-
sive moral of this terrible and most tragic tale by
adducing the dreadful facts, even as they now stand,
as affording an all-sufficient argument in favour of
the appointment of a Public Prosecutor. Were
there an office of that kind already in exist-

ence there would Lave arisen no such

painful incident as that which now threatens
to impede the course of justice in consequence of
the natural reluctance of a Son to prosecute his
Father, upon second thoughts, on so fearful a charge
as that of attempting his murder the murder
of that father's own offspring. Heaven grant that
the appalling occurrences recently enacted in the
green lane down at'Twickenham, and in the head
Police•court at Bow-street before the Chief of our
Metropolitan magistrates—where Father and Son
stood opposed to each other so frightfully—may at
length awaken our jurisconsults and our legislators
to the recognition of the sore need there is for our
placing a Public Prosecutor in the front rank in
the revised scheme of our criminal law adminis-
tration.

MR. EDWIN JAMES, Q.C:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I beg to inform you that I have, by the
instructions of Mr. Edwin James, given notice to
the Benchers of the Inner Temple that it is his
intention to appeal to the Judges against the order
made by them at their sitting on the evening of the
18th am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
W. E. KNOBEL.
3, Cannon-row, Whitehall, July 20.

We understand that it is the intention of her
Majesty, by the advice of her responsible Ministers, to
create Admiral the Right lion. Sir Maurice Fitzhardinge
Berkeley a peer, by the title of Baron Berkeley of Berkeley-
castle.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the first Lord of the Treasury in Dows-
ing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmer-
ston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the
Duke of Newcastle, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alder-
ley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. E.
Cardwell.
The Duke of Argyll, after the Cabinet Council
on Saturday afternoon, suddenly left town for Paris. We
are informed that his grace in the afternoon received a
telegram from the French capital conveying intelligence of
the illness of the Duchess of Argyll, who had accompanied
her mother and brother, the Dowager Duchess of Suther-
land and Lord Albert Leveson Gower, to the continent.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.—We are informed
that the Duke of Buckingham is in a very precarious state
of health. The accounts received last night gave a more
favourable view of his grace's illness, but only slight ex-
pectations were entertained of his ultimate recovery, The
Marquis of Chandos was summoned to town yesterday in
consequence of the illness of his father.
The Bishop of Durham's state is, and for some
clays to come must necessarily be, very precarious. During
the past night such a change for the better has taken place
as it is hoped will lead to his lordship's recovery. Dr. D.
White, of Newcastle, and Dr. R. Ferguson, of London, are
still in attendance on his lordship.
NATIONAL BOUDOIR OPERA COMPANY.—This

celebrated company is now performing in Wrexham. They
have taken the theatre for six nights. Selections from the
grand Opera "Ii Trovatore" were given on Monday and
Tuesday evenings last, which were admirably executed.
The contralto, Miss Emma Heywood, gave great satisfac-
tion; and it is sufficient to say that her ability is of no or-
dinary character. Signor Borrani, the primo-basso, needs
no comment from our pen, he is an artist of no ordinary
merit. The company have spared no expense to gratify the
taste of the admirers of the opera in Wrexham.—Wrexham
2'elegraph.

PICTURES AND GAS.—The letters written in April
last by the late Mr. Braidwood and Mr. Sidney Smirke on
the subject of lighting the British Museum with gas have
been laid before Professors Faraday, Tyndall, and Hoffman,
but they adhere to their former opinion of the safety of the
gas-lighting at South Kensington, and state that the tem-
perature of the picture galleries there, in the parts most ex-
posed to the action of the gas, is not so high when the gas
is burning as when the sun is shining through the skylights
Professor Faraday, howeiver, recommends that the roofs of
such galleries lighted by gas be of iron, and he observes
that he should greatly hesitate to recommend gas-lighting in
the British Museum against the opinion of the architect,
who alone is aware of the construction of the building and
of the dangers by fire which it may involve. He remarks
that he is very strongly against the common practice of
erecting a church or other building by one set of hands,
under one mind, and then giving it over to another autho-
rity Ind set for the introduction of gas apparatus and pipes,
or pipes of hot air or water (frequently at high temperatures
and pressures) into parts and places where no intention re-
specting them had existed before, where no preparation had
been made for them, and where the final arrangements must
partake more of accident and risk than of premeditation
and forethought.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S PEERAGE.—Some of the
papers have stated that Lord J. Russell's title would be Earl
LadlowiThis is a mistake, which probably owed its origin
to the fact that Lord John Russell has inherited from the
Duke of Bedford an estate in Ireland, which he bequeathed
to his brother, as it was bequeathed to him, by Lord Lud-
low, and which (with the profits that had accrued from the
estate) he considered himself entitled to dispose of without
trenching on the large property belonging to the ducal
estates. This princely property the late duke left, not only
unimpaired, but largely improved ; but he left to
favourite and distinguished brother the casual inheritance
which now enables Lord John Russell to take his rightful
place among the foremost in rank, as he has ever been in
intellect and patriotism, in the land. Lord Jobn Russell
will retain in WA' earldom the illustrious name of Russell,
to which he has been so long attached, and which he has
done so much to illustrate. He will meet his constituents
at Guildhall on Tuesday naxt, to take his leave, and m ill
not again appear in the House of Commons, where ho has
won so many triumphs during the last 40 years ; but he
has not the slightest notion of giving up public life, as some
of his opponents are glad to assert, without any knowledge
or foundation.—Observer.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.—At a general mee L-
ing of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron held at
the Castle, Cowes, a few days ago for general busiaess, the
following members were present :—Commodore the Earl of
Wilton (in the chair), Henry Thqrold, Richard Franklin
George P. Bentinck, M.P., W. B. Ponsonby, F. P. Delme
Radcliffe, H. J. Adeane, M.P., Colonel Sir Anthony Ster-
ling, K.C.8., Sir Thomas Whichcote. John E. W. Rolls,
John Wardlaw, Lord Henry Cholmondeley, Earl Vane,
Lindesay Shedden, John Harvey, H. M. Hammersley, Ar-
thur A. Davenport, Sir Henry Oglander, and the Earl of
Dalkeith. The following candidates were balloted for and
elected members of the squadron :—Lord Aberdour, Mer-
lin schooner, Gt tons ; James Edward Bradshaw, Destiny
schooner, 140 tons; W. J. Pawson, Zoraide schooner, 143
tons ; and the following captains of the Royal navy :
Thomas Saumarez and James H. Cockburn, as honorary
members. It was also ordored that an annual subscription
of £lO be in future paid by the Royal Yacht Squadron to
the National Lifeboat Institution, instead of £5 as hereto-
fore, Lord Henry Cholmondeley, as a member of the com-
mittee of its management, and other gentlemen bearing
their testimony at the same time to the great and national
importance of the operations of the Lifeboat Institution.
Four yachts were wrecked on our coast last year. The Earl
of Rosso and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, who respectively
subscribed £5 a-year to the Lifeboat Society, have, with
other yacht owners, recently supplied their yachts' crews
with excellent cork jackets, similar to those worn by the
crews of the lifeboats of the institution. The next meeting
of the squadron will take place at the Castle on Friday,
August 9, being in the Regatta week, for the election of
members and general business.

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AMERICAS

Q.UEENSTOWN, JULY 22.

The Royal Mail stet unship Europa, which arrived
here at 2.20 a.m., let Boston on the 10th, and
Halifax on the 12th in st.

She brought 108 passengers, and diamonds of the
value of 2,625 dols. far England, and 895 dols. for

Havre.

She landed all maits except those for Liverpool,
and 10 passengers, amad proceeded at 2.30 a.m.

NEW 'YORK, JULY 9, EVENING.

Colonel Taylor, wliu had arrived in Washington
with a flag of truce, bearing despatches from Pre-
sident Davis to President Lincoln, has been sent
back without any unswer. The contents of the
despatches have not transpired, but are reported to
be frivolous, and the trending of the despatches only
a ruse to gain information.
Congress has pass ed a resolution to consider busi-
ness concerning nay ul and military appropriations
only. All private bills are to be referred for consi-
deration to next Congress.

Bills have been in:troduced for the repeal of the
tariff of 1861 and tle adoption of the 1857 tariff,
and also for abolishing all ports of entry below
Baltimore.

A resolution has passed, asking the President for
the correspondence 'with Spain relative to the incor-
poration of San Doi vingo, and what protest, if any,
the Federal Administration had made against the
insolent and aggres the conduct of Spain.
6,000,000 dols. h mve been voted for the payment
of volunteers.

The President's llTessage and the report of the
Secretary of the Tveasury are generally approved
in New York.

General Patterson. has been reinforced at Mar-
tinsburg.

General Johnson it; reported to be in the neigh-
bourhood of that place with a large force of Con-
federates.

A mutiny has broken out among the Garibaldi
Guard at Washingtorn, and is not yet quelled.
The Arago, from ,:;outhampton, has arrived out.
(LATEST BY TIZLEGRAPII TO HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, JULY 11.

A battle occurred at Carthage, Missouri, on the
sth inst., by 1,200 Federal troops attacking 4,000
rebels. The FederaliLs is finally retired with the loss
of eight men killed and 45 wounded, while the
enemy, it is said, lost over 250 men. The Federal
troops are fast concentrating, and the rebels in that
section are expected to be utterly routed within a
day or two.

There was some brisk skirmishing yesterday
near Laurel-hill, \V e stern Virginia, between the
Federal troops and the rebels.

A battle is expectocl to occur to-day by General
I‘l‘Clellan attacking the entrenched position of
the rebels.

The Senate has ps ssed a bill authorizing the em-
ployment of 500,000 -volunteers, and appropriating
500,000,000 dols. for the war.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill
authorizing a loan for 250,000,000 dols.
The Senate has expelled a member from one of
the seceded States.

The wife of Professor Longfellow was acci-
dentally burnt to death at Boston yesterday.

COMMERCIA.I INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JULY 11.

Exchange, bankers' bills, 107. Stocks buoyant.
Illinois Central, 671 ; -.Erie, 23 ; New York Central,
75. Cotton firm, and prices continue to advance.
Middling upland, 15t. Breadstuffs remain flat and
declining. Provisions dull.

NAPLES, JULY 19.

General Cialdini has ordered 15,000 volunteers
from the National Guard to be enrolled for mobili-

sation.

Several Garibaldi= officers have accepted ap•

pointments.
The brigands who were concentrated at Monte-
falcone have been beaten.

JULY. 20.

General Cialdini has issued a proclamation ex-
pressing his confidence in the people and the
National Guard, and appealing to the whole
Liberal party to assist in dispersing the Reactionary
bands, and thereby defeat the man who pays them
and directs their movements from a distance.

JULY 21.

Several persons belonging to the Reactionary
party, and the chief of the Reactionists at Monte
Silvano, have been arrested.

The chief of the brigands at Montcfalcone, author
of the massacre at Mileto, has also been arrested,
and, according to the Nazionale, shot.
Nearly 500 brigands still threaten Avellino.
About 50 have been made prisoners.

TURIN, JULY 21.

The journals Il Popolo and l' _ltalia of to-day an-
nounce that the brigands have given a banquet
within eight miles of Naples to celebrate the ap-
proaching return of Francis IL
The .Nazionale says :

" The Minister of War has ordered the distribu-
,ion of 30,000 rifles among the National Guard of
,he province of Naplcs."

PESTH, JULY 20.

The Pesther Lloyd of to-day says :
" Counts Apponyi and Mailath will for the pre-
sent remain at their posts.

" Count Fogach, the new Chancellor of Hungary,
has declared to the Councillors of the Aulic Court
his determination to act acording to the constitution
and the wishes of the nation.

" A circular to the Obcrgespane is in course of
preparation, urging them to act in concert, according
to the constitution."

VIENNA, JULY 20, EVENING.
Count Moritz Esterhazy has been appointed
Minister without a portfolio.

JULY 21.
Omar Pasha 'has landed at Ragusa, and was re-
ceived with military honours. He will leave imme-
diately for Antivari, in order to have a conference
with the Prince of Montenegro.

THE LATE DUCHESS OF KENT.—The Aberdeen
steamer of this week brings to London a sarcophagus in-
ended for the mausoleum at Frogmen). The sarcophagus,
which will enclose the coffins containing the remains of her
late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, is of blue granite
of very fine quality. The principal part is formed from a
block of some six tons in weight, hollowed out to the re-
quisite depth entirely by the chisel, with great labour, after
the surface polishing had been finished. The top is a
splendid slab nearly four tons in weight, the upper surface
bevelled from the edges upward. Under the body of the
sarcophagus aro four moulded supports resting on a sub-
plinth. The length is about eight feet by four feet in
wi4th, and five feet in height. In style the sarcophagus
is chaste and simple, with nothing in the way of
ornament save plain mouldings. The effect of the
whole--finished, as it is, with great care and skill, and of
very superior granite—is massive and striking. On one end
there is a monogram of the letters Alpha and Omega, en-
circled by a serpent, executed in the early Christian symbolic
style, and on the bevel of the top, on one side an inscription
in English, setting forth the titles, age, &c., of her late
Royal Highness, an inscription in German occupying the
other side. The sarcophagus is from the granite works of
Mr, Macdonald, Aberdeen,