The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1Z 'lB6l.

rrHEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. II Bnekstone.
T=ITS EyVENT N 14, pert orna oes corn mPnee with
the Cmed of THE OVERLAND R. Chas.
Matheows, ituckstone, E. Villiers, RogeOUTrs, SE ; Mrs. Messrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
Followed by THE ADVENTURES OF A LOVE
LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. C Mathews.
And THE SUN AND THE WIND.
Commence at 7.

R 0 YA L PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Mana!er, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TRUTH AND FICTION. Supported by
Messrs. F. Matthews,Widdlcombe, Shore, Cathcart, Garden;
Miss C. Leclercq, Miss R. Leclercq, and Miss Ar. Harris.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Dlr. Pechter. Sup-
ported by Hermann Vezin, Ryder, Meadows, &a ; Misses
Heath, Elsworthy, and R. Leclercq.

NiEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
„LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of "The Colleen Barrn. " The Adelphi

"Census" every Evening-.
THIS EVENING, the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Ur. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford.

After which (204th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boncicault, D. fisher, Billlngton, Falconer, Stephenson,
'C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.

To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Ebarne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Nate Kelly, Miss E. ehorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.

Doors open at haU past 6—Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
THIS EVENING, the most successful Spectacle ever
produced, MAZEPPA, with splendid scenery and stately
effects. To be followed by the Rocky Mountain Wonders
and SCENES in the CIRCLE. Concluding with the Panto-
mime Ballet ehtitled JOCKO, the Brazilian Ape. Reduced
prices. Doors open at half-past 6.
On Thursday, June 13th, Benefit of the Rocky Mountain
Wonders.

CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
EVERY EVENING.
Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas, including
yeKli's new Opera. THE SAL MASQUE (first produced
in Eno; land and only to be heard at this Establishment), with
a Chorus Of Forty Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any
other Concerts-
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard;
he the popular Solos o
on
the
he day); Cornet-a-
the
piston, by 'dr. Levy (t first performer t
Brothers Conrad (in an entirely new and original entertain-
ment on the double rope, not to be seen elsewhere); con-
tinued success of Mr. Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comic Department comprises the following favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth, F. Blanchard,
and
numerous other artistes.
Re-appearince at these Concerts of Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGHMANS.

T H E OXFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET. _ _

Mr. LEVY, undoubtedly the best performer of the day on
the Cornet-a-Piston—Grand Selections (on the most complete
scale) from Dinoratt, Martha, Stradella, &c., and other vocal
and instrumental music, by Miss Russell, the Misses Stuart,
and Miss Ernst, Messrs. Charles Greville, Fornari, Kimber-
ley, Bernard, Beaumont Ilervon, Huish, Signor Tivoli, and
Kr. Henry Herbert, with full bold and powerful and selected
chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Joi2.tmans.—The following
Comic talent, Messrs. W. Randall, Blanchard, W. H. Wie-
land, Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Harvey, and French, and
the Brothers Conrad in their latest and best entertainment,
every evening. Admission, Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and
Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tans DAY.—Morning, 4h. 16m.—Afternoon, 4h. 34m.
To-monnow.-Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon. sh. 16m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12,1881.

The Una brings news from New York to the 31st,
the Saxonia to June Ist—as usual, the greater part
being " report,"" intention," and " confident state-
ment." The facts asserted are-Ist. That two
steamers were engaging the rebels at Acquida
Creek, the place at which the last accounts stated
that 5,000 Federal troops had landed—this is
rather inexplicable ; next, that there are 13,000
men, and great activity at Fort Monroe ; that
450 slaves had fled into General BUTLER'S
camp, who, it will be remembered, now
treats them as contraband of war, instead
of returning them, and employs them on fortifi-
cations against their old masters; that Virginia
has a majority of 150,000 for Secession; but nothing
is said of Western Virginia; and that the earth-
works of the rebels command the roads to Rich-
mond and Harper's Ferry.

The rebels appear to be a little bolder. They
have advanced far enough to threaten Alexan-
dria, where the Federal troops were ready for them.
And the " confident" statement is that Virginia
will soon be invaded from all quarters. The
Democratic party will sustain a severe loss in
the death of Mr. DouGLAs, who, it is said, is sink-
ing daily with no hope of recovery.

What is to become of La Gloire ? We have heard
it suggested since last night's debate that she must
soon "go to glory." Either there, or that glorious
place " the bottom," would seem to be her certain
fate, should she venture to encounter but a tolerably
fast British gunboat, armed with Sir WM. ARM-
STRONG'S last, as described to us by the Duke of
SOMERSET last night. Let our readers look at his
account of the matter :—" We had no end of sugges-
tions and recommendations. Some people recom-
mended indiarubber, others a thick mattingof hemp,
others chain armour. The answer' sen t to these gen-
tlemen was that, if they would send their experi-
ments to Portsmouth, we would try them. I myself
saw chain armour tried, and the very first shot de-
stroyed it. Indiarubber and hemp were equally
ineffective. Last yearit was said we should slope
the sides of vessels, and shot striking at an angle
would glide off; but when we came to try Sir W.
ARMSTRONG'S bolts the slope made no difference at
all. That was the last answer I received from Sir
W. ARMSTRONG. Then it was said that the iron
should be 41 inches thick. I was rather doubtful
whether that would be sufficient. I ordered the
vessel to be laid down at Chatham to have such
flotation that she might carry at least 6 inches of I
iron. I thought 6 inches tolerably safe. I now
find that Sir IV. Arinslrong's guns have fired
through 8 inch iron with the greatest facility! In
building these iron vessels it is a great problem
where we are to stop. Thin iron won't do; thick
iron is very little better. It is, therefore, very
difficult to say how we are to make our vessels
safe."

Here, then, seems to be an end of all the 4 and
41 inch and 6-inch ironsides. Let them make the
Iron 8 inches thick—let them thicken it till it will
no longer float, and Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG will
fairly " pulverise" the strongest irop plate which
can be wrought.

Ships may be made shell-proof by a compara-
tively moderate thickness of iron, but mark: the
consequences. The Duke says :—" We had some
experiments at Portsmouth, and one Of the first
was upon an iron target of less than an inch thick.
The result was that round shot, in striking the
iron, broke into pieces, bat passed on into the
vessel, and 700 pieces of iron were picked up
inside the ship. That showed that round shot
produced as bad an effect as any shell. It
seemed, therefore, tnat merely. to case with thin
iron would be to expose men-of-war to as great
destruction as
p )ssible, while they were
loading the ship wi th
unnecessary weight." It
would seem, therefor e, that merely to render a ship
shell-proof is to rend er every solid shot fired at her
side as bad as a shell.. We cannot wonder that the
Admiralty is dispo sad to make repeated trials
in the most costly mode
before they engage largely
of ship building. The Duke himse
lf
strongly
leans to the opinion rhich we have before indi-
cated as our own, that Aventually the heavy 22
inches 'of teak lining twill give place to its

weight of Iran, and thus without injuring
the flotation, make the ship far stronger,
but several mechanical and engineering points have
to be settled before we construct wholly of iron.
In the meantime, as the Duke observes, we can
hardly be wrong on one point—that of giving our
vessels the armament which can pulverise the sides
of La Gloire, or of any like her. If we cannot quite
settle the question of the best form of defence, it must
be right to make our ships irresistible in offence ;
the Government is therefore doing its utmost in
putting ARMSTRONG guns on board our ships of
war, equipped with which, and with well trained
hands to work them, it seems we shall be able
to give a pretty good account of all the ironsides of
Europe. Large wooden ships, it appears, are no
longer ordered, though some near completion have
been finished. And it is even proposed, should
circumstances call for it, to cut down the large ships
we have already built, and case their broad-
sides with iron. They will not, however,
even then be equal to a ship built to be an iron-
plated vessel, hence haste in this mode of creating
iron sides is not desirable. Every day, however,
new questions arise on the mode of fastening
plates, the kind of iron to be used, and the like, so
that a little delay for purposes of experiment is
really time saved. Should any pressure occur, oar
shipyards could turn out a fleet of iron ships greater
than the fleets of all Europe combined.

A project of high importance, which has again
and again received the sanction of the Home Go-
vernment and of all the Colonial Legislatures and
authorities concerned, is once more to be pressed on
the attention of the Colonial Secretary and the
Home Government. We refer to the HALIFAX AND
QUEBEC RAILWAY. Respecting the desirableness,
indeed, of its completion, there can hardly be two
opinions; besides the Colonial Legislatures, such
English statesmen as Lord ELGIN, Lord GREY,
and the present Lord DERBY when Lord STANLEY,
in 1851, have all expressed themselves strongly on
the political, military, and commercial advantages
of the proposal. We are not, indeed, aware that
any difficulty but the money one has stood in the
way, a difficulty aggravated, since the railway was
first proposed, by the occurrence of the Russian
war, and, we suppose, latterly, by the demands our
great ally has made on us in the way of com-
pelling us to measures of costly self-defence.
The grand point is, that we ought to have a direct
communication in winter as well as in summer
with our great North American colony, through
our own territory. At present, for nearly half
the year, we are dependent for communica-
tions with Quebec entirely on the goodwill of
America. If we forsee no immediate danger to the
peace between England and the United States, it
must be confessed, that our security lies in the
forbearance and conciliatory temper of this
country, and not in that of our touchy and
encroaching American neighbour. So exces-
sively irritable are the once United States, so
unreasonable eves now in their anger with our
neutrality, that no one can tell when they may not
overstep the bounds of endurance. With their
strange touchiness and rudeness combined, the
dreadful event of a war with England, though we
hope distant enough, is quite a possibility ; and it is
one of the securities for peace with such a country
that it should not hold in its own hands the power
of the greatest possible annoyance. It could as
things now stand, in winter time, isolate Canada
from the rest of the Empire, and attack her when
she could have no support from home. The Quebec
and Halifax Railway would place the colony within
ten days of succour from England itself, besides
connecting it with New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia.

The promoters of the bill observe in their peti-
tion that it would expedite communication with
Canada by thirty-six hours, as well as take the
mails through British territory ; that £25,000
a-year paid to the United States for mail convey-
ance would be saved; that a large annual sum
in the mileage rate would be saved to the Imperial
Treasury were Halifax adopted as the American
port ; and that of nearly half a million which the
Imperial troops in Canada now cost, a large part
might be saved when regiments could be forwarded
promptly, at any time of the year, from England
in the hour of need. Now, for six months in the
year Canada is cut off from military communication
with England. It is also alleged, and it would
seem with good reason, that the rapid communica-
tion with the colony would revive that identity
of interest with it which has been too long en-
grossed by the United States.
s.
The practicability and cost are, therefore, the
chief points for consideration. This is entirely a
money question. Not such a one as that of the
Grand Trunk, which has nevertheless been com-
pleted. There is no Victoria-bridge across a mighty
stream here; nothing, in short, of the slightest
engineering consequence in the portion which now
remains to be completed. The line will, indeed,
be longer than it would have been bad our
blundering Boundary Commissioners not suggested
to the 'cute Yankee commissioners a way in which
they might ask for territory which did not
fairly belong to Maine, and then good-naturedly
let it go. We have now to make a long circuit
round the territory Maine thus acquired, and
which, though of no use to her, projects between
New Brunswick and Quebec. Still, the colonies
have constructed so much of the line themselves
that only 350 miles remain to complete the direct
route through British territory between England
and Canada. Once at Quebec, railways extending
2,000 miles meet the line at once, and connect it with
the States; and in due time railways will thus be ex-
tended from Halifax on the Atlantic to Vancouver's
Island and the Pacific.

The sum required
i
£3,000,000. This would seem estimated at about
there is no land to purchase, the country not diffi-
cult, and where not a perm
objects bat those of direct utility,
T
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et
eo a b
be
e sufficient
wastede colonieso4w noh,aoe
nor any
propose to contribute annually themselvesh
z
in money towards the interest of the ad-
vance, and £20,000 more in grants of
land. This is at least an earnest of
their interest in the matter; and the land thus
granted along the line must speedily become so
valuable that it can be hardly doubted it would
repay the cost of the line in a short time. If so,
we should gain a great Imperial object at the cost
of merely a temporary advance. The deputation,
which is to see the Duke of NEWCASTLE on Friday,
will, we suppose, be referred to Mr. GLADSTONE,
as Sir E. B. LYTTON referred a former deputation
to Mr. DISRAELT. We can but hope they will
succeed with both Ministers.

The business of the session is at length and in
earnest beginning. Time enough that it should
certainly, now that Jane is fast running on to
Midsummer.

Pushing its way through a series of alarming
obstructions, the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill
comes within view of that final stage, the goal of
every measure aspiring to be an enactment.
The Bankruptcy Bill again, if denuded of half
its merits (merits that were, in their integrity, few
enough to begin with), after being reduced to con-
, siderably less than half its original proportions,

yet does at last promise to pass onward, in however
mutile.ted or diminished a form, towards the same
eagerly looked for destination.

And yesterday a dread avoidance of what
might prove the otherwise inevitable fate of being
massacred ruthlessly on the approach of August
among the rest of the Innocents—yesterday morn-
ing the House of Commons entered at length for
the first time this session upon the consideration
in Committee of the various Bills introduced for
the Consolidation of the Criminal Law. The
scrutiny of these Bills in succession in Committee
was a pretty stiff piece of work for a Tuesday
morning—with an evening sitting coming on, as a
matter of course, immediately afterwards. The
Bills under consideration having reference, among
other things, to accessories and abettors, to criminal
statute repeal—(in that one direction alone,
quite a glimpse of an Augean stable of obsolete and
in some respects barbarous legislation) to larceny,
to forgery, to base coinage, and to divers other
offences against the person and malicious injuries
to property. One after another these bills—a few
exceptional clauses alone having, in some of them,
been reserved for future and more careful considera-
tion—worked their way steadily through Com-
mittee, The House having met at noon was by
three o'clock adjourned. Yet eight important
bills had within that interval passed through Com-
mittee! In regard to one of these bills, the Coinage
Offences Bill t..) wit, Mr. M‘MArtort objected to
it in reference to clause 31, " that it gave the power
of immediately apprehending a person who ten-
dered counterfeit money." Adding, " Nothing was
more common than for mistakes to be made as to
the genuineness of coin, and this clause gave
new powers and even monstrous powers." The
Solicitor-General answering to this objection
" that the clause only applied to per-
sons who were apprehended in flagrante
delicto, and unless power of immediate apprehen-
sion was given, it would be found that the only
means of proving their guilt had been made
away with." Whereupon Mr. M'MAHON—
with a chivalrously dread of the mere pos-
sibility of a recurrence of anything of the
kind afterwards—instanced " the case of a young
lady, who a few years ago was given into custody
in Regent-street, for passing a bad half-crown—a
half-crown afterwards discovered to be a good one."
Yet, in spite of all this, upon a division in com-
mittee, the clause thus seriously objected to was
carried by sixty-five to seven ! So resolute was
the committee to get through its work boldly,
rapidly, unrelentingly.

We can only give our sympathy once more to
WILLIAM HENRY BARBER, Attorney-at-law. That
unfortunate gentleman has again had his claim for
additional pecuniary compensation from her
MAJESTY'S Government, ineffectually brought
under the reconsideration of the Commons House
of Parliament. The validity of his claim has been
yet once more denied—it has been haughtily set
aside by Sir GEORGE GREY, and, if that be pos-
sible, still more haughtily and obdurately set
aside by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It was again insisted, as it has been so
often insisted before now, that enough
was done some few years back in the way of pecu-
niary compensation to Mr. BARBER the victim of
an atrocious fraud and conspiracy—that enough was
done in this way some years ago, when £5,000 were
awarded to that unhappy gentleman by the Legis-
lature. Those £5,000 simply replacing the sum of
money actually lost by Mr. BARBER ! And that
forsooth is called compensation ! Why it is merely
a pecuniary compensation, equivalent in its effi-
cacy to that monstrous moral compensation (save
the mark !) which the law allows to any one
who has been unjustly condemned (like Mr.
BARBER) the Sovereign granting a Free
Pardon! ! ! to a person who is proved to have
been, from first to last, Perfectly Innocent ! Just
in the same way, just to the same extent, Mr.
BARBER may be said to have already received pe-
cuniary compensation by having his own £5,000
returned to him ! If only this afflicted victim,
first of all of fraud, and afterwards of injustice—
if only he can yet live long enough, we do not even
now despair of his receiving justice at last to the
extent of a paltry £3,500 additional (a generous
decision would make it £5,000, and so ignore the
account with some show at least of generosity), we
do not even now despair, in his regard of justice,
not mercy, but simply justice, being meted out to
him at length, however tardily, by the magnani-
mous decision of the House of Commons in the
name of the British Government.

The Italian Ministry, if not yet fully constructed,
is in course of construction. According to the
latest advices it would seem that the follow-
ing may be regarded as a tolerably accurate out-
line of the new Administration :

President of the Council
Baron RICASOLI and Minister for Foreign
Affairs.
Signor MINOTIETTI .... Interior.

Signor BASTOGI . Finance.
Signor SCIALOGA

Gen. DELLA ROVERE War.
Gen. MENABREA

Signor MIGLIETTI Justice.

Signor DESANCTIS .... Public Instruction.

RICASOLI, at any rate for the Premiership,
holding together with that supreme position
the responsible charge of the Foreign Port-
folio. MINGHETTI in all likelihood for the Ministry
of the Interior : and DELLA ROVERE for the War
Department. The rest still doubtful. Whatever
may prove the ultimate selections made by the
Successor of CAVOUR, there cannot be a moment's
doubt as to the projected policy of his Government.
As closely resembling the policy of CAYOUR as may
be in any way practicable it must be ! That is the
first essential. If anything the policy of CAVOUR will
be exaggerated we should think in the die ection
towards which the Great Minister's designs all
tended. Unification—that is the first necessity. No
more concessions to NAPOLEON'S lust for territorial
aggrandisement—that
ge new
todvist kingdom
—mir_tdhat is the second. The mainte-
nance of the armed force required for the defence of
that
re is—as a
isthethiradn.ffioAionndtlyinsurbe:
stantial assurance that it will be cared for—there
is the fact that the Hero whose voice
firstati of imperatively demanded that
on a
armament,all still happily survives in
national
his island home at Caprera. If CATOUR has been
taken away—GARIBALDI has been left. The
exquisite anxiety awakened upon the very morrow
of the startling demise of Italy's greatest Statesman
by the ominous tidings of the serious illness of
Italy's greatest Soldier—that exquisite and pro-
found anxiety which threatened to fill up the cup
of affliction to overflowing—has, as the world
knows by this time, been completely dissipated.
The intelligence of General GARIBALDI'S alarming
indisposition is understood now to have been little
better than a cruel fabrication. go that the
thoughts o those most deeply interested
in the cause of Italian Unification may now rErcrt
simply to an immense Grief and to as imPlense
Hope—the Grief inspired by the sudden close of
the existence of CAYouit—the Hope still kindled by

the remembrance of all that remarkable man had
either attempted or accomplished.
It is particularly noticeable at this moment,
in regard to the late appalling disappear-
ance of Count GAVOTTE, from the public
scene upon which he himself, at the moment
of his withdrawal, was figuring so conspicuously,
that the official organ of the Austrian Government,
the Moniteur of Vienna, the Austrian Gazette, has,
unlike so many others opposed to the policy of the
dead Statesman, notified CAvooß's death in a man-
ner not unworthy of the organ of a great Govern-
ment. Insomuch that this reference to
CAVOUR'S Death has already been spoken of
pointedly as presenting to view "an example which
Irish Catholics and French Legitimatists would do
well to follow !" The Austrian Gazette referring
thus, in fact, to one of the deadliest and most for-
midable enemies that has almost ever carried con-
fusion to the councils of the Austrian Government:
—" The grave is before us, and we will not therefore
offer a judgment on one who was our enemy.
What we Austrians can say is, that Count CA YOUR
has left amongst us a memory that will never die.
His object was to weaken and humble Austria—
that object he has fully attained. A great revolu-
tion has been accomplished by his hands."
How different reflections like those—pronounced
with sense of awe by the side of the sud-
denly opened tomb of a Great Enemy
how nobly and chivalrously different from the
diatribes uttered by impassioned zealots and unre-
lenting antagonists ! Antagonists and zealots who
would do well, we cannot but think, if--by the side
of that yet scarcely closed tomb of Count CAVOUR
—they could repeat from their hearts, no less than
with their lips, those lofty yet lowly supplications
addressed to the Divinity by one who was a Roman
Catholic like themselves, those noble lines from a
noble poem—PoPE's Universal Prayer :

" Let not my weak unknowing hand
Presume thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land
On each I deem thy foe."

FRANCE AND AMERICA.

DECLARATION OF NEUTRALITY.

The Moniteur of yesterday says the following
declaration, submitted to the Emperor by the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, has received his Ma-
jesty's approbation :

"His Majesty the Emperor of the French, taking
into consideration the state of peace which exists
between France and the United States of America,
resolved to maintain a strict neutrality in the
struggle commenced between the Government of
the Union and the States claiming to form a par-
ticular confederation.

" Consequently his Majesty, in view of the Ordi-
nance of Marine of August, 1681 ; Article 3d of
the Law of the 10th April, 1825 ; articles 84 and
85 of the Penal Code ; 65 and following of the
decrees of the 24th March, 1852 ; 313 and follow-
ing of the Maritime Penal Code ; and article 21 of
the Code Napoleon declares—

" Ist. It shall not be permitted to any ship of
war or privateer of either of the belligerents to
enter and to remain with prizes in our ports or
roads for more than 24 hours, unless compelled by
necessity to seek harbourage.
"2d. Any sale of objects taken as prizes shall
Rot be allowed in our said ports or roads.

"3d. It is prohibited to all Frenchmen to take a
commission from either of the two parties to fit out
vessels for war, or to accept letters of marque for
privateering, or to aid in any manner the equip-
ment or the armament of a ship of war or privateer
for either of the two parties.
"4th. It is also forbidden to all Frenchmen resid-
ing France or abroad to enrol themselves, or to take
service, whether in the land force, or on board ships
of war or privateers, of either of the belligerents.
"sth. Frenchmen residing in France or abroad
ought equally to abstain from every act which, com-
mitted in violation of the laws of the empire or of
international law, might be construed as an act of
hostility to either of the two parties, and contrary
to the neutrality that we have resolved to observe.
" Contraveners of the interdictions and recom-
mendations contained in the present declaration
shall be prosecuted conformably to the dispositions
of the law of the 10th of April, 1825, and Articles
84 and 85 of the Penal Code, without prejudice from
the application that might be made by the said con-
traveners of the dispositions of Article 21 of the
Code Napoleon, and of Articles 65 and following
of the decree of the 24th of March, 1852, concern-
ing the mercantile marine; and 313 and following
of the Penal Code for the naval force.

"His Majesty declares, moreover, that all French-
men who shall not conform to the present prescrip-
tions shall not be entitled to claim any protection
from his Government against any acts or measures
whatever that the belligerents may do or decree.

" NAPOLEON.
"The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
"M. THOUVENEL."

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton give a grand
entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and Princess Mary to-morrow at the ducal re-
sidence in Arlington-street.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare have
arrived from Ireland, and gone on a visit to the Duchess
(Dowager) of Sutherland, at Cliefden, near Maidenhead.
The Earl and Countess of Southesk have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel from Kinnaird Castle, N.B.
Sir Joseph and Lady Bailey have arrived at
Story's Hotel, in Dover-street.

We have to announce the death of Lady Dor-
chester, which melancholy avant took place on Friday last,
at Lord Dorchester's seat in Hampshire. Her ladyship
does not leave any issue.

The mortal remains of the late Vice-Admiral the
Hon. Sir Richard S. Dundas, K.C.8., have been taken to
Melville Castle, the family seat in Scotland. The inter-
ment takes place to-day.

Married, on Monday last, at St. Thomas's Dis-

trict Church, by the Rev. H. T. Lumsden, in the pre-
sence of a large family circle, the Right Hon. Viscount
Gort, to Mrs. Tudor, of Portman-square. After the cere-
mony the newly-married couple proceeded to their seat,
East Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight.

IHE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.—By the sth of the
Consolidated Orders of the Court of Chancery, rule 6, it is
provided, that " The Lord Chancellor may from time to
time, by special order, direct the offices to be closed on days
other than those mentioned in the Ist rule of the said
order." Wednesday, the 10th July next, having been ap-
pointed for the celebration of the anniversary of her Ma-
jesty's birthday, and such event having been heretofore
observed as a general holiday in the several offices of the
Court of Chancery, his lordship doth therefore order that
the several offices of the Court of Chancery be closed on
Wednesday, July 10.
SUICIDE PREVENTED EY CRINOLINE.—A girl
named Jane Bradbury, living at Stafford, was about to be
married to a stonemason, named Wright, and went out to
meet him for the purpose of arranging for the publication
of the banns of marriage. Finding that he had taken his
departure for Stoke, in company with another person, she
threw herself in the mill-pool, She was buoyed up, how-
ever, in the water by the expansion of her crinoline, and was
rescued before she could sink. She expressed her regret for
the attempt on her life.

Two PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.—A me-
lancholy accident took place two days ago at Wambrechies
(Nord). A farmer named Delos, his female servant, and
three labourers were engaged hoeing in a field when a
thunderstorm came on. The five persons were standing in a
line, M. Delos at the head, and the woman next him, when
a loud clap of thunder was heard, and the lightning fell.
The farmer was killed on the spot; the woman was knocked
down, but rose again for a moment, bleeding at the nose
and mouth, and then fell dead. The three men escaped
without injury.

STRANGE ACCIDENT.--J west of England paper,
after describing a successful balloon ascenli from Truro and
the descent of the aeronaut in a cornfield, says : " Mr.
Simmons was soon surrounded by upwards of 2,000 persons,
who commenced crowding upon the silk, and, seeing this,
Professor Simmons entreated the mob to stand back. A
poor fellow, however, named James Thomas, a plumber and
brazier, got enveloped in the folds of the silk without being
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noticed, and on its being discovered some short time after-
wards t,y Prgre"!soF Simmons, he appearedand was quite black in the face. 1. to be suffocated,
tedical aid was quickly
rendered, but little hopes were entetained of his recovery.
have been unable to learn whether or not the poor
fellow is still iu dkist6no: We should have stated that the
voyage was accomplished in 10 minutes,

L,A 1.1 ES T 'N E .W. S.

PARIS, JUNE 12.

The Illonileur, in its bulletin of to-day, announces
the settlement of the question of the Government
of the Lebanon, and gives the following details in
addition to those already known.

The Governor of the Lebanon will have the rank
of Muchir, and will reside at Der-il-Kama. Order
will be maintained in the mountains by militia re-
cruited from the inhabitants of the country.
Turkish troops are only to advance into the
Lebanon on the requisition of the Governor.
The Moniteur also publishes the list of the new
Ministry at Turin, which fully agrees with the one
published in yesterday's Gazetta di Torina.

TURIN, JUNE 11.
The 7urin Gazette of to-day asserts that the new
Ministry has been formed as follows :
President of the Coun-
cil and Minister for Baron RICASOLI.
Foreign Affairs ....
Interior
Finance
Commerce
War General DELLA ROVERE.
Marine
Justice
Public Instruction

TURIN, JUNE 11.

The Chamber of Deputies, on the motion of its
President, decided to-day that a marble statue of
Count Cavour should be placed in the hall of
Assembly.

VIENNA, JUNE 11.

The Polish and Czech members of the Lower
House have made a proposal that the Emperor
should prorogue the sittings of the Council of the
Empire until a representation of the whole mon-
archy be obtained, and that he should immediately
convoke the Provincial Diets.

NEW ZEALAND.

MELBOURNE, APRIL 25.

The war in New Zealand terminated on the 19th
March by the unconditional surrender of the

natives.

Trade quiet. Wool exports, 2,585 bales.
The following are the departures of gold-ships
since the last mail :—The Agincourt, with 19,8820 z.;
the Norfolk, with 58,7850 z. ; and the Donald
M`Kan with 50,0080 z.