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London, England, 1868-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1868.

who reached the shore in safety. Admitting
all these particulars, there is rto proof that
more of the passengers or crew may not have
reached the shore alive on portions of the cargo or
fragments of the wreck. Besides Captain BELL,
and the three who came in the boat with him, two
afterwards joined him, and three were seen drifting
towards shore, and afterwards, it is suppowl, found
dead ; neither party knew of the existence of the
other. There may, therefore, even by Captain
BELL'S own story, be several survivors who may have
fallen into the hands of the Somali, at a little dis-
tance from the wreck and its spoils. If we are to
disbelieve the whole story, what becJmes of the
evidence of Colonel VLAYFAIR, the British Consul
at Zanzibar, respecting the hides ? At any rate the
-niry ought to be prosecuted, since this is not
‘,;,111 speculation should be indulged in,
• nassengers and crew have a

LATEST INTELL LGEN Ch.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, August 6.
The National Company's steamer Erin arrived
out to-day.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing ,riper;. 1491. Sterling exchange
on London, 1001; 5-20 P1444:1 §tates
1882, ji4 ; ditto, 1885, 1121 ; 1040 lionds)
1091; Illinois, lAOI Eli?, 01. Cotton—mid-
dling upland, 29g. Petrolet,m3--sta4ar4 white,
341. Flour, extra otatet 49 20c. to 09 soc. ;
old mixed, 151 20c.

ARRIVAL OF THE JAV A.
(Via Queenstown)
NEW YORK, July 28.
The Senate has confirmed Henry M. Watts as
Minister to Austria, and General Rosecranz as
'''-ister to Mexico. The Chinese treaty has also
--ov ratified, and the Committee on
4;rected to inquire into
Canadian

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matter on
and the relatives of the
right to know the truth.

The official correspondence relating to the Wim-
bledon Volunteer Review has been published, and
will be found interesting to peruse. The Under-
Secretary at the War-office acknowledged the re-
ceipt of a report from Major General HAMILTON
on the review of Volunteers at Wimbledon on the
25th ult., and expresses the satisfaction experienced
by Sir JOLTS PAKINGTON in regard to the execu-
tion of their manoeuvres, and especially at
the remarks of that officer, in respect to
the regularity which marked the Volunteers on
their march from the ground at the end of the
Review. It is intimated, in connection with the
Report, that his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
Commauding-in-Chief has perused it with great
satisfaction. The Review took place, it will be
remembered, in presence of the Prince of Wales,
and the number assembled was less than
had been anticipated, in consequence of
which other arrangements had to be made at the
last moment, but little inconvenience was expe-
rienced thereby. Several manceuvres were gone
through, and the force was drawn up in line to
resist the approach of an enemy supposed to be
coming from Putney and Wandsworth. This was
well performed throughout-, and after the manoeuvres
were ended the force was formed in columns at
quarter distance, marching past his Royal Highness
the Prince of WALES in quick time, in open
column of companies, his Royal Highness the
Duke of EDINBURGH honouring the Ist Lon-
don Artillery Corps by marching past at their
head. Subsequently the force was formed in
double line of contiguous columns facing
the saluting point, and advanced in review
order, a Royal salute concluding the proceedings.
No wonder that, reading those last words offering a
spontaneous 'tribute to the discipline manifested by
the Volunteers on their disposal, no wonder we say
that Lord LONGFORD refers to Sir JOHN PAKING-
TON'S especial gratification at the commanding-
officers' remarks in regard to the regularity observed
by the Volunteers on their march from the
ground at the close of the day's proceedings.
General HAMILTON, the Major-General com-
manding, in commenting upon the late
review in his communication addressed to
the Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards,
takes occasion to remark, " I have reason
be satisfied with the manner in which the several corps
of Volunteers were handled by their brigadiers, and
with the general steadiness of the men under arms;"
adding that he could not conclude without remarking
upon the efficient manner in which the ground was
kept by a detachment of the 17th Lancers from
Hampton Court, aided by some police, almost every
Volunteer being outside the enclosure before the
public entered the reviewing ground, and the
Volunteers marching off to their respective stations
with perfect regularity.

been unaninaou..•,

Foreign Affairs has been L.—
the expediency of negotiating a new
treaty with Great Britain.
passed appropriates
the imports towards
sl3rsh,eooFou,OnodOin ganßniullalasly
the reduction of the Public Debt.
finally
The Conference Committee has struck from the
bill the section legalising gold contracts.
Congress has passed the bill discontinuing the
Freedman's Bureau over the Presidential veto,
which declared the bill interfered with the Presi-
dent's constitutional powers of removal and ap-

pointment.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill
prohibiting the sale of gold by the Secretary of the

Treasury.
The Georgia Delegation has been admitted to
seats in the House.

Mr. Hamilton, the new Radical member for
Florida, has offered a resolution to impeach Presi-
dent Johnson, which has been referred to the Judi-

MARKE7 S-1 llls DAY.

comospoNDENCE FROM PAM, 1 THE RorAL VISIT TO MIDDLESI3O.ROUGIL

The programme of arrangements for the approaching
visit of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur to Middles.
borough is now almost completed. The most extensive and
complete preparations have been made to lend Eclat and
magnificence to the occasion. Decorations andilluminations
will be made on an extensive scale. The Ist North York
Rifles and the North York Artillery Volunteers will be in
attendance as a guard of honour on his Royal Highness, as
will also the 15th Hussars from York. On Monday after-
noon the Prince will be met at the Middlesborough station by
the mayor and corporation and a number of other gentle-
men, when a loyal address will be presented to his Royal
Highness in the name of the corporation. Remaining the
guest of Mr. Bolckow over Monday evening, his Royal
Highness and suite will, on Tuesday, the 11th, open the
Albert Park. A grand banquet will be held in the new
Exchange Hall, when the Archbishop of York and several
noblemen and gentlemen are expected to be present.
Every facility has been provided by the authorities for a
successful fete. The prince will leave by train early on
Wednesday morning, so as to be in Scotland in time for
the opening of the grouse season,

THE WELSH EISTEDDFOD AT RUTHIN.

The National Eisteddfod is now in full working order.
The bards, the more prosaic, if rather more prac-
tical social science men, the minstrels, and all
the personnel of the great annual gathering of the Prin-
cipality are assembled in the ancient town of Ruthin,
which has been made specially spruce and gay for the
occasion by means of floral arches, garlands, and ban-
Ders3 which combine all the brightest types of colour.
rho Eisteddfod of the current year will perhaps be
the most important that has been held in the Princi-
pality. Of late years, what may be termed the prac-
tical element has been gradually leavening the purely
bardlo, and this year the practical element is stronger
than ever it has been. The inaugural address of the
president of the Social Science Department, M. Hugh
Qwen; seems_ to b4VP been an excellent one, and this
department of the national gathering may be rendered
highly beneficial in many practical ways to Wales.
Several paperp hepering en the 410,01, AO social condition
pf the Welsh people have contributed to this department,
among which is a very interesting paper en "The Work-
ing Man and his Health," by Mr. Morris, of the Stamp
Office, Swansea, whose paper on " Building ,oeletles," last
year, was received with so 1111.1011 favour.—Cambria Daily
Leader.

PHE DEAN OF CANTERBURY ON HIS

DEFENCE.

The Dean of Canterbury for the first time takes part, in
the Guardian, in the correspondence which has been
elicited by the Dean's presidency at the Cheshunt College
anniversary. After decla: iug that be has given up no Church
doctrine, the Dean proceeds:—"l have no hesitation in
saying that, as I do not expect, so neither do I wish for,
any rcabsorption of Nonconformists into tho Church of
England. I believe it would bo the worst thing
possible, both for ourselves and for them. Wo are
to bo not unwise, but understanding what the
will of the Lord is.' And to my mind, his
will has been unmistakably manifested in the free expan-
sion of the Christian conscience as now found among us. It
is our duty not to fight against His providence; not to at-
tempt to IN ork our way back to a uniformity which has ut-
terly gone by; but to surrender our miserable jealousies; to
accept, bravely and frankly, the state of things in which
God Las placed us; to walk, in the kingdom of God,
and to the house of God, and in society before
the world, hand in hand with our Nonconformist
brethren. Thus only shall we of the Church of Eng-
land be making safe and wise preparation fcr the day
which must soon come upon her. We may, if we p'ease,
lower ourselves, by exclusiveness and uncharitableness,
BO as to become in that day a mere sect among sects ; but
we may also, and I hope wo ;:hall, so lift in our esteem our
Christian brethren around us, as to find ourselves, when do
prived of the aid of the State, a church among churches."

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The Irish Church Commission neport laid before

Parliament was merely a "dummy," to enable the actual re-
port to be produced, when ready. Fully a month must
elapse before the document can be completed, and a longer
time still will be required for the printing of the voluminous
'schedules and tables of statistics by which it will be accom
g I panied. --

An accident has occurred at Fiddown Bridge,
county Waterford, by which a gentleman on board Mr. Mal-

cotuson's steam yacht lest his life. The vessel was return-
ing from a regatta, having a number of ladies ou b)ard,
when in passing under tho bridge a rc'pe from a vessel wbicl
was across the waterway, not Leing pereccived, caught tit(
funnel and knocked it down upon a Mr., Roberts, who wa

killed on the spot. Sorno of tilos) on board had time to
stoop, others wero thrown into the river, but were rescued.

The elegant tomb which has for several month:
past been in course of erection iu tho Greek Church
at Arnaout-keui for the remains of the Into Aldine.
Mussurus, wife of hfussurus Pasha, the Turkish Am-

bassador in London, a Constantinople raper states, is now
nearly finished. It is constructed wholly of Marmora marble,
and its sculptural ornamentation is said to surpass in artistic
taste and execution any similar monument in Constantinople.
The removal of the deceased lady's remains from their tem
porary resting place will take place this month, whet:
Mussurus Pasha is expected to take part in the imposing
ceremony on the occasion.

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HER MAJESTY.

RINK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Aug. 6.

DEBTOR.
July 30.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.,.. 182,500,000
Profits in addition to

Aug. G.

TRAMPLED ON BY A BULL.—A shocking occurrence
marred the proceedings in connection with the
annual show of the Driffield Agricultural Society.
Shortly before the judging commenced, a man
named Thomas Within, a herdsman in the employ of
Mr. Joshua Craven, was in charge of a bull called Red
Admiral, two years and ten months old. Suddenly the
Admiral turned upon Within, knocked him down, and
trampled upon his chest and body, breaking, as it after-
wards was found, three of his ribs, and, it is feared,
inflicting other internal injuries.
CHINESE Lor.E. —The St. Petersburg Gazette says
that there is now in the Russian capital the richest Chinese
library in the world. It consists of 11,607 volumes, 1,168
wood engravings, and 276 manuscripts. The books are
on all sorts of subjects, and among them are several rare
works, one or two of which are unique, there being no
copies of them even in the largest libraries of China. The
library was collected by M. Skatchoff, now Consul-General
in Pekin, during a residence of fifteen years in the Chinese
Empire. Recently M. Skatchoff offered to sell it for
9,000 roubles (4fr. each) to the Imperial Library at St.
Petersburg and the Russian Academy of Sciences, but
both institutions were compelled to decline the offer for
wants of funds.
THR BROKEN ATLANTIC CABLE.—On Monday
night Mr. Willoughby Smith, the eminent electrician,
started for Valentia, county Kerry, in pursuance of in-
structions from the joint committee of the Atlantic and
Anglo-American Telegraph Companies. He was followed
on Tuesday by Mr. Latimer Clark, who will verify his
tests, which at present shew that the fault lies at about eighty
miles from Newfoundland, in water not exceeding, if it
reaches, 100 fathoms in depth, and that the interruption of
communication is so complete as to put it almost beyond
doubt that the injury has been caused by the grounding of
an iceberg. Communication will, it is expected, be re-
stored in less than a month ; but meanwhile the other
cable is fully equal to the work required of it.
CONVERSION OF CAST-IRON GUNS.—At the late
competitive trial between two Woolwich 64-pounder
wrought-iron rifled guns and a 32-pounder cast-iron gun,
converted to a 64-pounder rifle on the Palliser system, the
wrought-iron guns burst respectively at the 2,211 th and
2,273 rd rounds, while the converted 32-pounder fired 2,280
rounds, and was not injured to any extent worth mention-
ing. The consequence of this trial has been the abandon-
ment of tire manufacture of wrought-iron 61 pounders,
and Sir John Pakington has given a heavy order to the
Elswick Ordnance Company'for 212 Palliser guns. The
old guns are now being selected at Woolwich for trans-
mission to Newcastle-on-Tyne, and about 30 of them have
already gone. They consist of 65 cwt. 8-inch shell guns,
and will be converted to 64-pounder rifled cannon. These
212 guns are immediately required by the navy, but far
greater numbers are wanted for our land fortifications.
No funds are at present available for undertaking tLe
conversion of the old guns on a large scale in the royal

gun factories.
A REV. LECTURER AND lIIS REPORTER.—The
New York Evening Post is responsible for the following
" comparison of notes" between an eloquent and reverend
lecturer and the somewhat reckless reporter who attempted
to put his remarks in type. Here is what the reporter
said of his lecturer :—" The lecture last evening was a
brilliant affair. The ball ought to have been filled, but
we are sorry to .:1,37 only forty persons were present. The
speaker commenced by saying that he was by birth an
ecclesiastical deduction ; gave alearned description of Satan,
and his skill in sawing trees. Among other things, he stated
that the patriarch Abraham taught Cecrops arithmetic.
We trust the eloquent divine may be induced t ) repeat the
lecture at some future clay." Here is what the lecturer
said of the reporter :—" Dear sir, in a report of my lec•
ture in your beautiful city you have made some mistakes
which I wish you to correct. You make me speak of myself
as bybirth ' ecclesiastical deduction.' What I said was, that
I was not by birth, but only ecclesiastically, a Dutchman.
Instead of speaking of Satan as sawing trees, I spoke of
him as sowing Awes. I said nothing of Abraham, but
spoke of the Arabians as nomads of patriarchial simplicity.
I said that Cecrops was the founder of Athens, and ire
etructed the people in agriculture."

The christening of the infant Princess, fourth
child of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, took place yesterday at Marl-
borough-house.
The infant Princess received the names of Vic-
toria Alexandra Olga Mary.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

182 A-0,000

capital (Art. 8, Law,
Juno 9, 1857)
7,014,776 02 7,044,776 0
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 1.4
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 --
Notes in circulation -
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 40,338,230 07 39,017,410 55
Treasury account cur-
rent
creditor 79,397,603 91 73,835,116 59
Current accounts, Paris 340,752,489 97 354,646,157
Do. branch banks 50,052,444 49,602,882 ---
Dividends payable 2,415,675 2,070,479 --
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last