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SATITADAY.

Queen Victoria's share in the Cherbourg ceremonies terminated yester- day. In the morning the Emperor paid her a farewell visit. She sailed from the harbour about noon, under a triple salute, and arrived safely at Osborne, at five o'clock in the evening.

At the dinner given on board the Bretagne' in honour of the Queen, on Thursday, the French Emperor proposed the health of her Majesty and the Royal Family of England. He said- " I am happy to be enabled to express the sentiments by which I am animated upon this occasion of the Queen's visit to Cherbourg. The facts do indeed speak for themselves, and prove that the hostile passions which were excited by some unfortunate incidents have never been able to alter either the friendship which exists between the two Crowns, or the desire of the peoples to remain at peace. I have, therefore, the firm hope that if any attempts were made to revive again the mncours of a former period, such attempts would be foiled by the good sense of the public, as the waves are baffled by yonder breakwater, which at this moment serves to protect the squadrons of both empires against the violence of the sea:" The Prince Consort replied on behalf of our Queen. In the course of his speech he said—

"The Queen is most sensible of the words we have just heard, which will for ever be dear to her. The Queen is doubly happy in having an oppor- tunity, by her presence here, to join the Emperor in endeavouring to draw together as closely as possible the ties of friendship which exist between the two nations. That friendship has their mutual prosperity for its basis, and the blessing of Heaven will not be wanting to confirm it." After the banquet the fleets and fortifications were illuminated. The French squadron saluted the Queen, and a magnificent display of fire- works took place.

The town was also brilliantly illuminated.

The intelligence from Valentia continues to be favourable. A despatch dated yesterday, says:—

" Electric communication is maintained perfectly. In answer to the signals from our coils they returned us this morning at 8.40 accurately to Greenwich time, as directed, the pre-arranged landing signal. The com- plete instruments which were on board the Niagara for speaking cannot possibly be adjusted for some days." The Agamemnon and Valorous departed from Vakntia yesterday. On Thursday afternoon the end of the cable was landed by the paddle- box boats of the Valorous.

"The end of the cable has been connected to the company's station, and the signals of alternate currents in opposite directions continue through the cable. The currents from Newfoundland are very good, giving deflections of 61 on either side of galvanometer, according as a positive or negative cur- rent is transmitted. The regulating apparatus transmitting messages through the cable is being fitted up at each end, that for Newfoundland having been taken out of the Gorgon, but it will probably be a few days before they are finally adjusted and ready for work. The line is expected to be open to the public in three weeks or a month, when the line overland to Placentia, Newfoundland, and other arrangements have been completed."

The submarine telegraph to the Channel Islands has been successfully laid, and communications are now going on between Southampton and Alderney.

Chelsea new bridge will be open free to foot passengers, for the first time, tomorrow.

Two new peerages were officially announced in the Gazette of last night. The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom has been granted unto John Charles, Earl of &afield, by the name, style, and title of Baron Strathspey, of Strathspey, in the counties of Inverness and Moray. The second announcement has a higher public interest. It is that the Queen has granted the dignity of Baron of the United Kingdom unto General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B., Commander-in-chief in the East Indies, by the name, style, and title of Baron Clyde, of Clydesdale, in Scotland.

The grant of a Baronetcy to Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence is also notified.

Mr. Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, proposed by Sir M. Lopes, and seconded by Mr. T. Belfield, was elected yesterday Member for South Devon, without opposition.

The Cotton Supply Association held a meeting in the Town Hall of Manchester yesterday, to receive information from Mr. Campbell, British Consul at Lagos. Mr. Campbell said that the palm-oil trade from the Bight of Benin has increased during the last six years by about 600,000/. out of 1,000,000!.; and he asked why a cotton trade should not receive equal development if this country supplied capital for the purchase and skill for the preparation of that important product ?

The first ship loaded with cotton would give the signal for the whole of the cotton regions of Africa. The people are exceedingly fond of agricul- ture. In Abeokuta they prefer working in the plantations for 3d. a day to working at any other employment for 9d. But hitherto they have been shut out from communication with civilized countries, and their roads are at present mere pathways. He" believed the Niger would become the Mississippi of Africa as its trade became developed. At present the cotton from that region had been obtained from Abeokuta only. It was a peculiar feature of this part of Africa that it contained towns of 40,000, 60,000, 80,000, 100,000, and even 120,000 inhabitants, while other parts only contained scat- tered villages. The people were not only growers, but manufacturers of cotton, and from Lagos and the Bight of Benin 200,000 cotton cloths of native manufacture averaging 241b. each in weight, had been exported in the year 1857 to the Brazils or elsewhere, for the clothing probably, of thew own countrymen. The shipment of cotton from Lagos in 1856 was 34,4911b., and in 1857 it was 114,8441b. There was no founda- tion for the prevailing belief that the free African will not work if he were secured the fruits of his labour. At Lagos the people go to work at daybreak, they take their meals and rest in the heat of the day, and a more industrious people he believed does not exist. In the question of cotton supply to England, it must be remembered that in Africa there was no rent to pay for the land. He had resided in that country thirty-five years; he knew an Irish gentleman who had been there forty-five years, and he believed there was nothing in the climate for a European to fear, provided he lived temperately and moderately. On the motion of Sir John Potter, seconded by Mr. Hadfield, it was resolved that the Association, with the support of the trade, should en- deavour promptly and practically to realize all the great advantages thus perceptibly offered for the important increase in the supply of the raw material which was so much needed.

There was a remarkable case tried yesterday at the Guildford Assize. A clergyman, the Reverend Charles Vansittart, nephew of the late Lord Bexley, and formerly incumbent of White Waltham, Berkshire, was sued for 681. 17s., the cost of board, lodging, and necessaries supplied to his wife. The couple seemed to have lived happily together for sonic time. But in 1849 Mr. Vansittart appears to have behaved with great cruelty to his wife; he was threatened with a public horsewhipping, his conduct was brought under the notice of the Bishop by her friends, and he promised amendment. In the meantime Mrs. Vansittart had become a convert to Roman Cole. licism. The beating continued, and there were serious quarrels about money matters. In 1856 Mr. Vansittart declared that his " hatred and aversion" towards his wife was so great that he could no longer live with her, and a deed of separation was prepared, whereby Mr. Vansittart pro- mised to pay his wife 120/. a year. This he had not done. Baron Bram- well said the real question was whether the defendant was liable to support his wife. If a husband turns a wife adrift, and she has no means she is not permitted to starve. She was allowed to pledge her husband's credit for her support according to his position ; but she was not permitted to do more. In the present case the defendant was proved to have told his wife that he had no home for her, and she was therefore compelled to provide for herself, and the only question in the cause was whether she had done so in a manner that was not justified, according to the position of her husband, or not, and if in their opinion the charge of the plaintiff was a reasonable one, under the circumstances he was entitled to a verdict. The Jury immediately re- turned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount.

The Coroner's inquiry into the late explosion of fireworks in the West- minster Road terminated yesterday in the following verdict. "That the deceased children, Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Ann Caroline Bridges, died in consequence of burns received by the explosion at a firework manu- factory in the Westminster Road on the 12th ult., carried on by William Bowyer Bennett, and this jury find a verdict of manslaughter against the said William Bowyer Bennett, for having unlawfully carried on such manu- facture contrary to the statute of the 9th and 10th of William III., cap. 7. This jury cannot separate without expressing their anxious hope that the proper authorities will take measures to prevent the recurrence of such ca- lamities for the future." Mr. Bennett was then held to bail, himself in 100/. and two sureties of 501. each, to appear and take his trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court on the 16th inst.

A Coroner's Jury have found a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against a woman who drowned her two children at Cleveden. She did it because her husband had scolded her for saying she had paid certain taxes when she had not.

Mr. Francis Walesby, formerly fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Recorder of Woodstock, died after a short illness, at Park Crescent, Oxford, on Thursday morning.