The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-15 00:00:00

THE `SUN„ LONDON, MONDAY I?, v'gNING, JULY 15, 1861.

THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1881.

The Africa has cheated us by a day. She
brings news, little enough to be sure, up to the
3d, and on the 4th the President was to deliver
his Message. Perhaps it may after all be very
much like our Queen's speeches in one respect,
that all its points will have been anticipated.
Money and men will almost certainly be its two
great demands; but we need not expect any details
of warlike plans. High ground will doubtless be
taken, but the when and the where of action will
be left in the minds of General SCOTT and the Pre-
sident. We are only told that there is much uncer-
tainty and speculation respecting the administration
not making any fotward movement, those who are
on the spot therefore do not seem to have much
the advantage of us.
The North is feeling the effect of the war
doubly. It has to pay heavily, and business is at
a standstill. The banks of New York have es
larger amount of specie in hand than they ever
had—upwards of £8,000,000. The consequence is
that the war fever is somewhat less hot, or at
least there are lucid intervals. A correspondent of
a contemporary writes :—" The stars and stripes'
wave in New York in as great profusion as
ever, bnt there certainly are signs of the war
enthusiasm abating. People are as patriotic
as they were e a month ago, but the voice
of reason is beginning to make itself heard, and
many of the Northern journals are beginning to
dare to hint that le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.'
The candle is alight at both ends, for while thou-
sands of men are ender arms, supported at an enor-
mous expense, the working men who remain have
too often no work to do and no bread to eat. In
Baltimore the greatest distress prevails. In Phila-
delphia a monster meeting of working men has
been held, at which it was stated that 5,000 able-
bedied men are out of employment. One of the
speakers said, We have men in our midst who have
not tasted meat for months—men who have not
received. two meals a day for months.' "
In New i lone tis almost as bad ; though such
numbers have enliited there is great want of em-
ployment, and Irople are anticipating that actual
war, at td winter will make things yet worse. The
Democratic press is also again taking heart in pro-
portion as the inconveniency of .waTheir journals protr
estegin
"thats t oi f tellth e
on the ',people.
Union is to be continued it can onlybebtyhrow
the
voluntary' consent of its members ;" they
the blame of the present state of affairs
on "the exercise of unconstitutional powers
by the' present chief magistrate." They eons
demn the Morrill tariff as " enriching the
few at the expense of many." They say that the
war, the standing army, and the tariff are "de-
structive to the liberties and material interests of
the Northern States ;" and that " the attempt to
muzzle-the Democratic press by mobs and tertorism,
to prevent citizens from expressing their honest
opinione, calls for, and deserves, the strongest con-
demnation of every true friend of liberty and
order."

Probably the South is not better off than the North
in respect to the military qualifications of its sol-
diers and officers, but the North certainly appears
to need ail the time General SCOTT is taking to per-
fect its drill. Here is the account of an eye-witness:
" In spite of the very large number of troops
round Washington, there was hardly ever a
brigade field-day. On several occasions three
or four corps were assembled for inspection
by the Preside nt ; but I only once succeeded in
seeing a regula!, brigade drill which resulted in the
most hopeless club' I ever witnessed, and I have
had the plea.su:!e of assisting at some very complete
ones nearer Lome. Every one seemed to have
got into a stute of utter confusion, and a few
hundred cavalry might have done what they
pleased withtlicm. It is not the fault of the men;
they have picked up their drill, as far as it goes,
with wonderfrd quickness, but many of the
officers are disßracefully inefficient. Hence arise
bitter complaints on the part of the men. When
they find that their officers cannot go through', a
few simple ma vements correctly, they are notliksly

_..,~.~.

to have atuChconfidence jthem in the field. In
many of the regiments the very worst, feeling
against their commanders prevails; and in action,
without confidence in their commanders, they are
certain to be unsteady. Finer material for soldiers;
if they were decently commanded, could be found
nowhere."

We saw a few days ago that the South could
give no better account, not, indeed, so good a
one of the companies it was sending north from
the Mississippi, and the best conclusions we can
draw from all the accounts we have noticed, is
that the Southerners will not equal General
SCOTT'S men, at present, in field operations, while
behind batteries it is plain that they have fought
with considerable skill and courage. Money will
doubtless be even scarcer in the South than in the
North. They will be unable to turn their stocks
into money at all. Our readers will see, in a very
interesting letter from the South, an account of a
a planter on a princely scale who has no chance
whatever of converting the vast produce of his
6,000 acres of land. And we remark by the
way that they will be interested in the
impartial descriptions of negro slavery in Mr.
RUSSELL'S letters. Southern hospitality, and
meeting with kind masters do not alter his
English perceptions. The mirth of the free
feathered tribes suggested to him the sadnesss of
the bondsman. When my eyes," he says,
" uncurtained the early morning" I might have
imagined myself in the magic garden of Cherry
and Fair Star, so incessant and multifarious
were the carols of the birds, which were the only
happy coloured people I saw in my Southern
tour, notwithstanding the assurances of the many
ingenious and candid gentlemen who attempted to
prove to me that the palm of terrestrial felicity
must be awarded to their negroes."

It seems dismally appropriate upon a drenching
ST. SWITHIN'S to have occasion to comment upon
one of the wettest• reviews that even the Devil's
Own has had experience of since the inauguration
of the Volunteer Movement. Saturday, the 13th
of July, having now been thoroughly soaked into the
memory of our Riflemen on Wimbledon Common,
will not very speedily, we should imagine, be lost
to their recollection. Yet, full of discomfort though
the day itself must have been to the various corps
there collected together, the result of the day must
be allowed to have been eminently satisfactory
nevertheless. It has brought to a dripping con-
clusion certainly, but also, it must be allowed, to
a very brilliant close as well, the whole of the
lengthened and interesting proceedings connected
with the great annual meeting of the National
Rifle Association. And as if in indication that
1861 is really to be regarded as an advance upon
1860—the crack rifle shot of last year has this
year come off second best. It is very probable
that Mr. Ross in his recent contest
should have been labouring under grievous
disadvantages. It is just possible that he may not
have met with the generous and manly fairplay
which was certainly due to that keen-eyed, firm-
handed young Rifleman—though in regard to
the rumoured lack of this fairplay towards
him, we are sanguine that the account ex-
tracted into our ',impression of Saturday from the
columns of a northern contemporary, the Edinburgh
Courant, may prove, upon further inquiry, to have
been, in some measure, founded upon error, or, at
any rate, greatly exaggerated. However the facts
may be, in other particulars, in the instance of Mr.
Ross, the Rifle Champion of England last year—
Rifle Champion of England now no longer—it
must assuredly be regarded as little short of the
miraculous if—while suffering (as it is stated that
he was suffering) from inflammation of the eyes,
particularly from inflammation of the right eye,
inflammation so severe as to require the application
more than once of blisters to relieve the excessive
irritation—he could, nevertheless, contrive to hold
his ground as he did so well with his eventually
successful competitor, Mr. PETERKIN.

To Cambridge it must certainly be a matter of
interest to remember that the two rival crack shots
for -what may be called the Rifle Derby were both
of them from that university. The challenge match
between the two great universities having been
shot off at the commencement of the
proceeding on Saturday, between Mr. OWEN and
Mr. NORSWORTHY for Oxford, and Mr. Ross and
Mr. PETERKIN for Cambridge. Thrice—as it is
known in these kind of contests—came the compe-
tition : that is to say the firing took place at three
different ranges ; first at 800 yards, then at 900,
and lastly at a thousand. Saving, in this latest
range, the range of a thousand yards, the superiority
of the Cambridge over the Oxford representatives
was sufficiently remarkable. Yet even there the
successful hits of Messrs. OWEN and NORSWORTHY,
when clubbed together, only exactly equalled those
of Mr. PETERKIN alone. It was the falling off in
the firing of Mr. Ross in that, the third stage of
competition, that lost him his chance altogether.
For until then he had actually the advantage over
his competitors. At the out3et,•it is true—viz., at
the first range (that of 800 yards) Mr. PETERKIN
was a-head of him by one—but at the next range
(that of 900 yards) Mr. Ross had not only made
good the difference, but was four beyond the
score of the man who had just threatened to be,
as he immediately afterwards proved to be, in
fact, his conqueror. It was consequently by being
the very lowest upon the list of all the four
competitors at the range of 1;000 yards—when
his sight, but recently recovered from severe
inflamation, had by that time been taxed to the
very uttermost—that Mr. Ross lost in this year's
contest the pre-eminenee he had won so very
I brilliantly in its predecessor. Altogether the con-
test here referred to is one of so singularly interest-
inga 1
cl
thataraeter to all Riflemen throughout the
country,
eilvalehreerceograived et:t score precisely as it
has been officially

CIIIDRIDGE.
Yards.
800 900 1,000
E. Ross 11 13 2
.. Total.Peterkin .. 15 9 ,
# .• 31
• OXFORD.
Norsworthy 4 7 4 15
8 1
Owen • • • • 3 12

It was after this competition in a challenge match
between the rival universities had been brought to.
a conclusion, that the proceedings of the day may
be said to have commenced in real earnest. It was
at three o'clock that his Royal Highness the Com-
mander-in-Chief appeared there upon the dais pre-
pared for the occasion, the Duke being surrounded by
a splendid staff of officers, including amongst them
Gen. SCARLETT and Sir RICHARD A IREY—and that
his Royal Highness, after addressing the assembled
Volunteers, distributed the prizes to the number of
93 altogether. About the most satisfactory as-
surance that could possibly have been given to the
Riflemen assembled on Saturday, either to partici-
pate in or simply to witness this distribution, was
the one given to them in the following sentence by
His Royal Highness :—" There has been a great
number of prizes shot for, but almost to the very
last the competition has been so close that it has
not always been certain that those who have lost
have of necessity been the worst shots, although,
unhappily, not successful." Several of the compe-
titors, it will be observed from the catalogue of

prize winners, had the satisfaction of carrying
off more than one trophy of their skill as
Riflemen. From the absurd manner in which
some of these prizes " went" in the distribution of
them on Saturday it is earnestly to be hoped that a
lesson has been learnt for the avoidance of
similar incidents in future by those who have the
regulation of the proceedings of the association.
For example, there were two prize winners (repre-
sentatives of Rugby both of them, as it happened)
who carried off together Lord ASHBURTON'S prize
—the CELLINI shield cast in silver by ELKINGTON.
What were they to do with it ? Split it in two ?
Divide it in half ? Or fight for it ? There was
another prize winner who carried off two
trophies in the general competition—but,tas ill luck
would have it, those two trophies were identically
the same in character, being two proof copies of
the engraving of the Allied Generals before Sebasto-
pol ! As a matter of course, the recipient—Capt.
WIGRAM, of the Coldstream Guards—bore off his
twin prizes in the midst of laughter. The most
preposterous incident of all, however, being the one
which led an Ensign in the Civil Service Corps very
judiciously to prefer two silver cups (if only by
reason of their being what WEIMMCK would call
"portable property !") in lieu of the nonsensical
and ponderous prize that had fallen to his share—
the patent safe ! As even these little contretemps
will indicate, however, that grand concluding day
of the Rifle Season down at Wimbledon on Saturday
was, in spite of the weather, fruitful enough of
amusement. Considering how recent is the date
upon which the the whole of this great movement
was inaugurated, we cannot but think that its pro-
moters and well-wishers have abundant reason for
regarding its progress with exultation. And
hardly anywhere, we presume, save perhaps down
at Rochdale, would any section of the people of
Great Britain refuse to give—if ever called upon
for it—a hearty viva for the Volunteers !

We are sorry to learn that Hungary has met with
one serioas reverse, and Austria gained a probably
not unlooked-for triumph, her statesmen being but
too well acquainted with the means by which it
was obtained. We refer to the telegram, which
states that the extreme national party in Croatia
has triumphed, and voted for separation from
Hungary, by 120 against 3 votes. We have heard
little from Agram of late, and we fear the pro-
bability is that Austria has been again purchasing
by gold, if she has it, or by promises, the votes of
the Croatians against Hungary. This was her
well known infamous policy in 1848, and it was
carried out by the villain JELLACHICH, who served
as faithfully as it could wish, a Court which at the
same moment was proclaiming him as a traitor in
Hungary, and sending him money to Agram
with orders to march his semi-barbarians against
the Hungarians before they were prepared
for him. Happily, the Hungarians turned
out en masse and drove the traitor to the perfidious
court at Vienna, by whom he had been sent on his
perfidious and bloody mission.

The Croatians were of course cheated of all the
liberties promised them, as soon as Russia had put
all "'things in the hands of the Viennese Germans
again. Instead of greater liberties than they had
enjoyed in connection with Hungary, they found
themselves deprived of their old franchises and
comprehended with Hungary in one universal
scheme of amalgamation. Instead of nationality they
were to become but a county, or at least a province.
The consequence has been that the Croatians be-
came as irritated with Austria as the Hungarians
were. They co-operated with her, and Hungary
forgot the wrongs done her by the Croatians in
1848, or rather attributed them to the knavery of
of the Hapsburgs. If we remember rightly
the Croatians refused to merge their na-
tionality in the Austrian Reichsrath, and
have, up to the time of this announcement, co ope-
rated with Hungary. The Hungarian Diet, indeed,
resented the non-invitation of the Croatian repre-
sentatives to it ; but it would seem that Austria
has been playing a deep game, and has succeeded
in detaching the Croatians. The latter are sure
soon to have reason enough to repent of their
folly, if the result turns out what it appears to
be, that Austria has a second time cajoled
Croatia.

Rumours are rife that this is not all—that a
Holy Alliance of Prussia, Russia, and Austria has
been formed against Poland, and that one condition
is, that Russian aid should be again furnished if
needed in Hungary ! It is probable on account of
its wickedness. It being just what might
be expected from the thorough political depravity
of the three Courts. The PILATES and HERODS
always: patch up their quarrels when civil and
religious liberty are to be crucified. Perhaps the
exceeding likelihood of such a nefarious combina-
tion is the only real basis for the reports. We
hope the Jews will at least hold tightly their purse-
strings. Austria is still " hard up." She proclaims
by way of encouragement to money lenders, a
smaller deficit. In 1860 she now says it was only
six millions and a half sterling, against twenty-
nine millions in 1859, the year of the war. But
she has sold her railways, and pawned, we hope,
everything she can pawn, to raise loans. Russia,
too, though her finance is really quite a state secret,
is known to be largely behindhand—Prussia
is not insolvent, but she is too selfish
to spare anything for others if she can help it. She
can take subsidies, as the English Exchequer knows
to its cost, arid use them to betray the givers, but
we never heard, and never shall hear, of this mean
and beggarly kingdom offering money to a friend.
We trust, however, that Hungary will rise superior
to all the schemes of despotic roguery and violence.
She can afford to bide her time. Let violence do
what it will now, it cannot extinguish the rooted
feeling of nationality in 12,000,000 of people ; and
if Austria determines to subvert despotically, by the
help of German and Russian regiments, the clearest
legal rights, Hungary has but to await the next
moment of Austrian weakness, and then to liberate
themselves, like Italy, for ever.

We cannot agree with a contemporary that a
subscription in England towards a statue to the
memory of Count CAVOUR is inappropriate. To us,
as to the Italians, the contribution appears honour-
able to both countries, as well as to the deceased
statesman. The idea of its being an aid to Italian
any
erect member
of
the the
statue,
poverty certainly never entered the mind either of
municipalityor that
hat o
off Turin,
ur i
on
f,
twhohe s
sub-
scribers. 131 ()
anbyou mt
e to b-
scribers. The wealthiest men here are accustomed
to receive testimonials generally subscribed for in a
way burdensome to none, and affording pleasure to
every giver. No doubt testimonial giving is occa-
sionally grossly abused ; it is sometimes intended by
partisans to whitewash or gild, if possible, very
doubtful innocence. We have seen a costly one
proffered to a Railway. King ; but the abuse is pro-
verbially no argument against the right use of any-
thing, otherwise the Maine gentlemen would be
perfectly right in requesting us to suppress distil-
leries ; and, to our minds, a more fitting occasion
for uniting in a testimonial could hardly iv offend
than that which many noblemen and gentlemen
saw in the proposal by Italians to erect a monument
to Count CAVOUR.
Not only did the Count study long our polltic3l

and commercial ' policy in England itself, and
avowedly conform his views for civil, religious,
and commercial freedom very much to ours; but
the Count's whole course is one in which every
Englishman has felt a deep interest. We
forgot Reform Bills and all we could forget, in our
interest in the Italian struggle. Our Foreign-
office earned all its laurels at home by what it did
abroad. Indeed, by acting out the wishes of the
country in backing CAVOUR'S efforts for Italian
emancipation, they not only won applause, but did
much towards maintaining the Ministry in office.
If Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S foot slipped at all towards
Austria, the country was almost ready to push him
down ; if he wrote angrily towards Count CAVoUR,
or differed from GARIBALDI, the country was only
angry with him, and the cry was, " CAvoun for
ever," and Lord JOHN was obliged to draw in his
horns.

It is sufficient for the gentlemen of such
high position, and of such different opinions to have
sent their subscriptions; as money was not the object
they are adequate representatives of the national
feeling; but that feeling is such, that if a list had
been opened at every bankers in the kingdom, none
would have been returned without numerous signa-
tures. The British public feels, we are sure, grate-
ful to the noblemen and gentlemen who so worthily
represented them ; and Italians will feel it an
honour, that the FRANKLIN of their struggle should
exhibit on his monument a proof to all ages of the
spontaneous admiration of ono of the greatest na-
tions of his age; and will be equally gratified, when
the time shall come—may it be long deferred!—that
a monument shall be erected to their WASHINGTON,
if England should indulge again the same honourable
sympathy. It is however enough that Italians can
tell us that the deed is cordially appreciated not
only by Turin, but by the whole of Italy.

THE POST-OFFICE LONDON AND SUB-

URBAN COURT GUIDE FOR 1861.

KELLY AND CO.

The publication of the Post-office Suburban
Directory some time since was a very acceptable
addition to the Metropolitan Directory, and Messrs.
Kelly and Co., have now completed this much
required directory to tie suburbs, by the publication
of a Court Guide for those localities. A reference
to which will enable us to discover without trouble
the whereabouts of retired individuals who live in
the newly sprung up •illas which are to be found
in the :unknown squares, streets, crescents and
roads which surround London.

At ETV MUSIC.

Sabbath Chimes.
ktrand Polka.

Buy Bias.

The International Exhibition Waltz and Gallop:
The Music Publishing Company, 17, Peter's-hill,

Si, Paul's.

We here meet with some pleasing pieces for in-
strumental performance. " Sabbath Chimes" is
one of the best of these ; it is taken from a sacred
song, by Mrs. Captain Younge, and is a very effec-
tive composition, on the whole. It is arranged by
E. Reyloff. " The Strand Polka" is another good
piece, that is very animated, and will prove attrac-
tive to those who like an agreeable change in dance
music. It includes the melody of " Sally come up."
" The International Exhibition Waltz and Gallop" is
a stirring subject and pleasing in its general effect.
This is composed by L. E. Reyloff, as is also the
" Ruy Blas Quadrille," which is a very desirable
acquisition for dancers, and without being remark-
able, is effective and pleasing. Altogether, this
collection of music is a very advantageous thing for
those who wish for what is entertaining at a cheap
price. These pieces are all above the average in
point of merit, and can be recommended as simple
studies, as well as amusing subjects for general
performance. It is a great advantage nowadays to
be enabled to procure music at so much more mode-
rate a cost than heretofore ; and those here cited
are favourable specimens of the style that is issued,
and may become therefore general favourites.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

------
FRENCH PLAYS.

The benefit of M. Lambert Dennery, the energetic direc-
tor of the French company now acting at this theatre, will
take place to-night, when a series of performances will be
given well calculated to show the strength and talent of the
artistes whom he has brought together. Amongst the
pieces given will be "Les Deux Veuves, characters by
Mdlle. Lemerle, Mdlle. Alic Theric, and M. Gravier ; "Le
Bougeoir," by M. Paul Devaux and Mdlle. Lemerle ; " Le
Piano de Berthe," by M. Paul Devaux, Mdlle. Alice
Theric, and Mdlle. Marchal ; "Le Trompette de la Garde,"
Mdlle. Marie Basta, &c. During the evening a concert
will be given, in which Mesdames Parepa, Caradori, and
Malabran, MM. Gardoni, Devroye, and Gassier will sing.
The public will see from the programme the amusement
that is in store, and we hope the opportunity of recognising
the successful efforts of M. Dennery will not be neglected.

We believe that Lord John Russell will shortly
be summoned to the House of Peers. His long services
in the Lower House, both as Minister and Legislator, emi •
nently qualify him for this mark of Royal favour.—Tines.
THE PRIVATE FETES AT CREMORNE.—An in-
teresting feature of the private fetes which are to be given
on the 18th and 24th of the present month, in aid of the
funds for the distressed weavers of Spitalfields, will be the
early entertainments for the juvenile members of the fami-
lies and friends of the ladies patronesses, to take place from
half-past five to half-past six or seven. All kinds of juve-
nile amusements, ascents of balloons, performances by
Mdlle. Vandermeersch and her wonderful birds, and
Alpine panoramas, will be provided. _ .

. -
THE POPE.—The Augsburg Gazette corroborates
the unfavourable intelligence which I have transmitted to
you respecting the Pope's health. It says : "So many
conflicting rumours have been current respecting the
Pope's health that it is time to rectify them. His Holi-
ness is suffering from dropsy—the symptoms were not
alarming until lately, when fits of giddiness and san•
guineous congestions have supervened " I have this very
day seen a letter from Rome which also bears out the
accounts received.

The telegraph between this country and the
Channel Islands has failed in consequence of the constant
breaking of the submarine cable near Portland, from being
rolled over the rocky bed in that neighbourhood by the
strong tides and currents there. It is in contemplation to
lay down a cable between Alderney and the Isle of Wight,
the bed of the sea at the latter place having been examined
and found to be better adapted for that purpose than at
Portland.

Several of the Marseilles journals state that
M. Alexandre Dumas has just left that city for Naples,
where they say he is about to found an extensive culinary
establishment.

Blue coats have been furnished to provincial
letter-carriers, to be used Instead of red ones. These coats,
as well as the red coats of the mail guards, are of a much
better material than those hitherto provided.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending July 13 was 3,007, of which 916 were now
cases.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF
THE CHEST, VICTORIA-PARK.—The number of patients
relieved at this institution during last week was 1,188, of
which 198 were new cafes.

GRAND TRUNK Of CANADA RAILWAY.—The re-
port of the Grand Trunk of Canada Railway was issued on
Saturday afternoon, preparatory to the meeting on Friday
next. It states that the total receipts for the half-year end-
ing the 31st of December were £376,847, and the working
expenses £311,163, or a'Jout 841 per cent. of the earnings.
The balance in favour of revenue was applied towards the
linepart
is paymentn ow s
a i ofd theto Atbein
rdunSnt.inLgaworrednerc,e
butrent.
ho They angodliocan
severe winter has told heavily not only as regards mainte-
nance and repairs, but also on receipts.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—An action
for breach of promise of marriage was tried on Wednesday,
before Mr. Baron Fitz;erald and a special jury, at Sligo.
The piaintiff was Miss Mary henry, aged 23 years, and
the defendant, Mr. Roger M'Carrick, a gentleman of be-
tween £2,000 and £3,003 a-year, aged about 45. The pro-
mise to marry, which was traversed by the defendant, was
made some months sirce, on the occasion of the pasties
spending "a pleasant ilty in the country." Evidence which
sustained the case was given, and Mr. Whiteside, who was
specialty retained, delivered an able and humorous speech
in mitigation of damages. The jury, after two hours' deli-
beration, awarded the plaintiff £l,OOO.
THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—The masons on Satur-
, day paid every man on strike 10s. each, being the weekly
stike pay of the society, irrespective of the dividend result-
in.gfrom tho subscriptions and gifts of other trade so-
cieties. The bricklayers also paid the whole of their strike
members 15s. each, besides their picket money, amounting
to ss. each, and during the 15 weeks :of the strike they
have paid their men the same amount.

Ll 6 t " r- F4l w
-n -14 11

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
BADEN-BADEN, JULY 14.
This morning an attempt was made on the life
of the King of Prussia, with a pistol, while he was
walking on the Promenade.
His Majesty, however, received no injury beyond
a slight contusion in the neck, and returned to his
residence on foDt.

LEIPZIG, JULY 15.

The miscreant who made the attempt on the life
of the King of Prussia is a young man named
Becker, aged 21, who formerly studied at Vienna.
He does not belong to any society.
Yesterday evening seals were affixed to the doors
of his residence at Leipzig.

PARIS, JULY 15.

The Illoniteur of to-day says :
" The Emperor continues to derive much benefit
from the waters of Vichy.
" There is no truth in the report that Dr.
Rayner had been summoned in all haste to Vichy.
Dr. Rayner has not left Paris.'
The JVonzteur also announces that General
Fleury left yesterday for Turin, He will remit
to the King of Italy an autograph letter from
the Emperor, replying to the notification made by
Count Arese.

INDIA. .
The following telegram has been received at the
India Department :

" THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.

" CALCUTTA, JUNE 14 (via GALLE).

" There has been abundant rain at all the prin-
cipal stations in the Punjab and Upper Provinces
generally.
"No other news of importance.
" Funds—Fives, at sr. 4a. to sr. 6a. discount;
Five-and-a-Halfs, at lr. 2a. to lr. 4a. premium.
"H. JOHNSON.
"Alexandria, July 8.

"V. G. MONTANARO.
" Malta, July 12, 1 30 p.m."

THE CALCUTTA, CHINA AND AUSRALIAN

MAILS.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY MORNING.
The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at eight this morning.

The mails were to leave for London at ten.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, July 13.—The market continues in the
same inactive state, as far as regards business for
Account, with prices well maintained, with sales
for Cash and lower quotations. For the Account
Threes are now at 67f 85c. Railways quiet, but
firm.

The following were the last quotations :-
4t per per Cents ... 97 45, Credit Foncier ll2O
Do. end month.... 97 551 Belgian 4f.. lOO
3 per Cents -
Do. end month 67 85 ' Roman
Bank Shares 2857 50 I Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 667 50 ; Spanish Threes 47 75
Do. Account 668 751Irome Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 971 25 .. 972 a5O
Geneva 385 387 50
Southern 670 .. 671 25
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

AMERICA.

QUEENSTO WN, SUNDAY MORNING.

The Royal Mail steamship Africa, from New
York on the 3d inst., arrived here at 12 mid-
night, landed the Irish and a portion of the
English mails and nine passengers, and proceeded
for Liverpool at 12 20 a.m.
She brings 102 passengers, and precious stones
value 68,100 dols.
NEW YORK, JULY 2, EVENING.

Great uncertainty and speculation exist in the
public mind as to the reason why the Federal
Administration make no forward movement.
All the Baltimore Police Commissioners have
been arrested, and the military remain posted
throughout the city.
The Tennessee Secession troops have left Knox-
ville in order to prevent the advance of Federal
troops into East Tennessee.
The Bank statement shows the amount of specie
held to be over 42,000,000 dols., the largest sum
ever held by the New York banks.
The stagnation of trade is increasing. The
steamers Persia, Etnt, and Hammonia have ar-
rived out.

The Golden Fleece has passed Father Point.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, JULY 2.

Stocks dull. New York Central, 731 ; Erie,
22k; Illinois Central, 65k. Exchange.—Bankers'
bills, 1061. Money abundant. Cotton firm and
advancing; middling upland, 14/c. to 15c. Flour,
15c. lower, with a tendency to a further decline.
Wheat heavy and 4c. lower. Corn dull and prices
lc. lower. Provisions quiet. Sugar held firmly.
Molasses in limited demand. Coffeo unchanged.

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY.

The Norfolk, Captain Attwood, belonging to
Messrs. Money, Wigram, and (:0., of London, from
Australia, has landed several passengers here, and
is gone up Channel.
She embarked 26 cabin and 164 steerage passen-
gers, and brings on freight 60,000 ounces of gold•
dust, valued at £240,000, 2,527 bags of copper ore,
3,153 copper ingot, 1,264 cakes of copper, 377 cop-
per tiles, 773 bales of wool, 82') bags of cork, 96
hhds. of brandy, 31 casks of tallow, &c.
Eight deaths have occurred on the passage—viz„
William Collith, chief cabin passenger ; and three
men, one woman, and three children, second and
third cabin passengers. The Norfolk left Melbourne
on April 13, rounded Cape Horn May 12, and
crossed the Line on June 11. From Australia to
the Horn very boisterous weather was experienced;
four large icebergs were encountered, and the pas-
sengers state that the ship was twice in great dan-
ger. The largest berg was seen in 125 W. It was
about 350 feet high.

Since rounding the Horn calms and contrary
winds have prevailed ; off Rio Sampero blew with
so much force as to carry away the crossjack yard.
The Norfolk spoke, July 3, in lat. 40 35 long.,
37 2 IV., the America whaling schooner, G. W. W.
Lewis ; July 7, in lat. 45 27 N., long. 23 24 IV.,
the American ship Jeremiah Thomson ; and July
13, in lat. 49 21 N., long. 6 30 W., the ship Sinbad.
The Monarch, Capt. Gill, belonging to Messrs.
Green, of London, left the Sound this morning
with a large number of passengers for Melbourne.

A number of ships, said to be the Portsmouth
division of the Channel fleet, passed up outside the
Sound this afternoon.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF TREASURE.—A few
days since a party of seven men were employed in grub-
bing up several decayed trees on the estate of Captain
Wheatley, at Erith, when they diicovered a bar of metal
some feet below the surface, and completely embedded in
the roots of an old oak tree. The bar was taken to the
Running Horse Tavern, when it was discovered to be solid
silver, value about £125, and bearing date 1532. As it
appears that the lord of the manor declined to claim the
property the finders took it to a bullion dealer's in London,
who offered to purchase the bar provided that the consent
of the Treasury was first obtained. A statement of the
case was then forwarLd to the Lords of the Treasury, from
which an answer was received to the effect that no claim
would be made on the part of the Crown, and the property
has, therefore, been sold, and the amount shared amongst
the fortunate finders of the treasure.