The Express. — London, England, 1856-09-23 00:00:00

Y et, exprefig%. TO_ COI Oortlotittott'a late;doi toarts leas* paw, art be et the 011ke, 10, Bottvido.otrost. by Tye eau* the 4., of pi.ohcatioa. LYCEUM. WA) lestrars. BELPIIBOOR. Mr. and Hrs. C. D(Coa.—And lILHOITA, THE ROYAL MILX!(AID. letarts. Vt. Bran b. Took, sal Canasta; Mrs A. Nell , ta (late Mil• Woolisr), MI. H. Garda, Wes Wilt3a. sat Mrs. tt. Wate. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Td Dec—Morning, 86. S2s. Aftarsoce, M. 40u6 Vilomautow—Menaing. 1012. 30s. Aftersoc4lllb. 15m. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. Tor Royal British Bank business turns out to be eves worse than was anticipated. In round numbers the liabilities of the bank are 540,0001., its meets, on the most favourable estimate, 330,0004; its losses 210,0001. Of this amount of lose nearly 122,0004 Tres been occasioned, either directly or indirectly, by the dealings of the directors themselves. Mr. Rms. XHBET B ROVVI4, M P. for Te wktsbery, formerly a direo. tot, has had upwards of 70.0001. out of the bank, and the lose by him, alter allowing the utmost mar gin of value for securities, is no less than 60,0001. By Mr. M•Gatuua, the member for Glasgow—the founder of the whole concern, but the holder, as it ap• pears, of only ten shares in it—the loss is 7,3821. The loss by Mr. Imp; GWTNNE, formerly a director, Is 13.6401.; by the Messrs. Olives, of Liverpool, introduced and recommended by a director, 13,4881. There is a bad debt of 7,0001. against the late solicitor, and of 2,0001. against one of the present auditors ; whilst the liabilities of Mr. CAl'lo'43ll4 the manager of the Bank, and as far as at pre sent appears, the principal artificer of the whole complicated fabric of trawl, may be taken in round numbers at 30,0001. With the exception of some three or four thousand pounds, the whole of this last item must be set down as a dead loss, it having been discovered that the snprosed securities on which the culpably negligent directors were led to rely, were, in fact, no securities at all, " having beset previously charged or encumbered by other parties to the full extent of their value." Some of the admissions made by the chairman and directors at last Saturday's meeting were positively ludicrous from their mixed imbecility and impu dence. " Perhaps you will hardly believe it credible," says Mr. ESDAILL the late Governor, to his galled and ruined proprietary, " that until I was called to the chair in 1863 I did not know that Mr. HUMPHREY Baows was a debtor to the bank at all" t—and yet Mr.Huries Rex BROWN was at that time, and long bad been, a debtor to the bank to this extent of 70,0004, and the man who gets up to make this statement was at that time, and long bad been, In the receipt of 3001. a year from the shareholdsts for the expose purpose of renderiog him more vigilant in the exer cise of the duty solemnly cast on ►is by the legisla ture—the duty of bring truly and exactly in formed se to the actual state of the bank's affairs. Even if this statement be credible, it mamba to an humiliating confession of the semi mandalons and prefligate negligence. The Meant as given by Mr. Owes, another director, of the manner in which this revelation was first made to an astonished board, is really too good to be over, sod in order not to mar its beautiful sim plicity, we shall give it i• the very wards of its narrator. Two years and a half ago,it seems, CAMILRON, the manager—the real pea and thimble man—fell dangerously ill. " Well, gentlemen"— it is Mr. OWEN who .pate—" in easseqmom of his illness the chairman and some of the other directors made some inquiries which disclosed to as that Mr. Camesox had a book with a pricale key which we had now awn. It was never seen by anybody but Mr. CAMPION, and when the chairman opened that book we were all indeed estonished. Whets that book was opened refound that Mr. HUMPHREY BROWN had got 70,0001., end that another director had got 13,0001." What was dose on this astounding discovery? Let Mr. Owert pivoted.— VV ell, I first thought it would at once become my duty to leave the bank, and bad almost resolved never to enter the ermeern again. (Oh ! virtuous Owax.) Bat— (alae foe virtue !)—but, gentlemen, you blow what s dolioato thing it is to touch the interests o) a beck, sad I resolved to remain at my post till Mr. Cammtom's return, especially an my good friend the chairman was overwhelmed with =zloty." Yee. that is what they all did two years and a half ago— all these honourable and excellent men "resolved to remain at their posts till Mr. CA11111014% return"; and when he did return they let him remain as manager, and half•year by half-year they published flourishing reporte,and declared flourishing dividend; and issued new share; sad spent some 16,0001. in opening eplesdid new premises— till the crash cams —being all this time well aware that the comas was hopelessly insolvent. that the whole thing was one huge delusion, and that every added month • its existence could only aggravate the ruin that menet ensile upon its downfall. We have not touched upon the Welsh mine parches', bat it may be as well to my one word upon it, as an illustration of the extreme peril necessarily incurred by a Snit departure from the sound principles of banking. The first step in the transaction was, of course, the axtoosion of large accommodation on insufficient securities to paa• ties wholly unworthy of credit. The advances in. .creased till they reached some 20,0001, when the 'borrowers failed, and the directors, in the chimerical .hops of makiog good their km, took upon them msives, in violation of those elemental rules hrhich ought to govern the besieges of ovary banker, loimploy the capital of their shareholders in working the properties which they had held an ascuritiss for the loan. In this enterprise the amount of capital s wok is stated at 106,403 i. ; it is to be hoped that the a Wants may be equally correct, which gives WOOL as the ;anent value of the property. Ito onolh fke tho moults of responsible management; so mach fee the working of an iostitution "folteleid," awarding to 11r. Coximax, the accountant, "on pelmiplestbst aro speetona and false," and in which, as he defer 6. the shareholders, if the soconots had been prop* made up, aught never to have bad a dividend in any onequarter since its commencement." And now what is to be the fate of the sharshaiders themselves, and of their fellow sufferers—ono degree removed—the depositors P The meeting of Saturday was naturally enough an indiguadon meeting; anger took the place of argument; the groat British poekot interest was in an uproar, sad noise, invective, and denenciation carried the day. Jetraraeleen Haw cadent. The formal businr of the day was to pow a resoledioo declaring that the lbw of dm Book had exhanted its reserve fund and a fourth of fb paid.up cspits:--a resolution merely propagates, going into the winding -op aloes. As swam of present stand, the next step will be the oppournan of the defunct compavy in these babel owl Woos emus further measure is taken by the shiphoidapi or depositors, the remaining funds of the ruined institution will be additionally wasted in that costly and tedious process of dissolutioa. which, in its present state, is a grave discredit to the adminis tration of our mercantile 'AI/. ON of the recent Directors of the Beak threw out a Eng gestion to the meeting, which is well worth the consideration of those more immediately con cerned. The charge in the Master's offices for each separate proof by a depositor of the amount of his deposit is, it seems, 24 2s. A sum of between 8,0001. and 10,0004 might be saved if, by some previous arrangement, this proof could be dispensed with, as it might be, for instance, by compering beforehand the depositor's statement of the amount with the amount as entered in the books of the Bank. This is only one example of the saving that might be effected by a spirit of mutual accommodation. " Thing. without remedy should be without regard :" to undo the put is hopeless, but the position of both share holders end depositors in the future is susceptible of being materially improved or materially impaired by the wisdom or otherwise of their present proceedings. Why, as suggested by a oorrespondent in our impres sion of to-day, should not working committees of shareholders and depo3itors be at once appointed to see what can yet be retrieved from the ruin of the Royal British Bank P We are desired to state that the Commissioners of her Majesty's Inland Revenue duly received, and acknowledged in the manner desired, the half of the Bank of Ragland note for 1001. remitted to them on Wednesday last. THE IIXPRES3, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 185 e, THE CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA (/11011. 0171 01101/1. MOSCOW. SIPT. 16. Everyone who hu read—and who has not P— " The Pirate" of the author of " Waverley," will remember how that prince of jolly fellows, Magnus Trail, determined to make merry at his daughter's wedding—how he killed the fatted calf, mustered the pipers and fiddlers, and summoned all his kin dred and friends from far and near for a whole month's rejoicing. Bat they will also recollect that even the primitive °medians got tired on the third day, and that many began to yawn and languish for a return to the normal state of tranquillity from which they had been so pleasantly disturbed. Just so is it with our coronation 1 festivities in Moscow. We began with a tremendous pro gramme, which every one devoured in a paroxysm of voracious anticipation ; we thought we could see eights, and dance, and eat grand dinners to all eternity. But now, nous awns chanyi tout seta ; the guests are hurrying away in troops, some are enjoy ing the luxury of acute dyspepsia, and even the Emperor himself has exhibited an unmistakeable symptom of weariness in the proclamation just issued, anticipating by five days the original date of the "Futin du people." But, amidst all this pervading lassitude, the British ambassador keep. steadily to the even tenor of his hospitable way, and greatly dines, or merrily dancer, or courteously receives, with that unflinching pluck and bottom which are the proud characteristics of his race and nation. I think mentioned in a former letter the enticipations of the St. Petersburg Engliab, that at Moscow Lord Granville would overtake his Gallic competitor in the festive race, and in the long run maintain for the "Roast Beef of Old England" its tra ditional supremacy; and they have not been disap pointed. The Count de Morey has been distanced to the race, fairly dined and danced down, and to Lord and Lady Granville is now universally conceded the palm for dinners, for balls, for receptions, and, best of all, for no/egging graciousness sad courtesy of demeanour. I do not say this in any ungenerous spirit of depreciation towards the French embassy, who have well and splendidly represented both the wealth and proverbial tads of their great country; but then the Hotel de Moray is Bachelor's Hall, while at the British embassy the ' wives and daughters of England offer a " material guarantee" to the wives and mothers of Ramis, and, consequently, the latter find themselves as ash at home there as in their own domestic circles. This, I can assure you, is no exaggeration. The proeloelel nobility of Russia—the great boyarda of the rich and fertile south are primitive, almost patriareid e in their habits; their homes are their ample., and the warmth of affection exhibited by the different members of a family for no other is quite touching and refreshing te l the English strangers. The old princeling cluster their fair daughters about them "as the hes gathereth her chickens under her wing,' and the latter, while educated to the highest pitch of modem refinement, speaking freely "the four langusges," and being well acquainted with English literature, in which I am proud to say they take unseated de light, dancing, singing, and playing with lady-like grace and skill, have all the freshness and modesty of deportment that foreigners so mach admire in our island girls. It is not to be wondered at, then, that ladies such as I have attempted to describe find themselves emphatically "at home" with Lady Granville, and Lady Stafford, Lady Emily Peal, and Lady MargeretLeveson Gower—that they should gram the receptions, and go gladly and freely to the balls. The second " Dana," one of the precursors of the grand ball which the Emperor is expo:did to honour with his presence, took place on Friday even ing last, and was crowded with the Russian nobility, princes, and princesses, counts and countesses, officers of the guards and the mills, and a most satisfactory display of Russian youth, beauty, and fashion. The noble host and hostess seemed quits es fresh, as merry, and as courteous as if they had not been dancing, dining, and receiving for the last three weeks ore month. They chatted with the fathers and mothers, danced with the eons sad daughters, and, in short, sedulously and sussmetally endeavoured to make all their game os comfortable and happy am possible. I haps I am not infringing on the etiquette of hospitality by these general allusions to the festivitim at the British embassy, but there ars so many Myna.* flying about here, and which are eagerly sellested and punctually transmitted to Western; Soap), respecting our social relations with the Rusin seat and nobiesse, that I feel bound and jutilled in saying what I know to be true respecting the real state of the case. Take one or two examples : It has been generally reported here that Lord Granville and Count de Morey, when coming out hers, bad been respectively entrusted with minatory notes to the Russian government, respecting some political differences arising out of the treaty of peace, but that while Lord Granville had, John Bull-like, at once thrust his note into the hand of the Emperor, Gnat de Many had, with better tact, reserved his, and. ea a onseqoesee, had completely monopolised the attesting of the Russian wart. To give • Defer like oreisoloblonee to the story, it was circumstantially added that when Lord Granville called on Prins Gortekakoff, the latter was "too ill to be seen," and in tea minutes after was receiving the French ma boomer. Now, I have not the privileges enjoyed ►y WPM newspaper oorrespondeots of attending cabinet mandle, or accompanying ambawadore extraordinary when they present diplomatic notes, but with reaped to the first part of the above story, I think that it aeries its refutation in its intrinsic and manifest aheardity. To go to the coronation of the Emperor of Esseia with a letter of oosgrattdation in one band, aid an uncivil political note in the other, would bee something like attending a man's wedding and taking the favourable opportunity at the same time of serving him with a writ. Neither can I speak from personal knowledge of the politico sanatory °million of the hero of Sebastopol on the souks referred to, but this I do know, that he was at Lord Granville's on Friday night as jolly ry possi ble, that be chatted with his host and hostess is the meet friendly manner, and had a tremendous copra- Weeks with Mr. Johan Fans, whom he held by the hand for ten minutes in a corner et ll* ball is m, while he poured Into his ear tease noloondonoly interesting story, the "authentic" istella of which would make the fortune of an Mule native journalist. From the ball-room, gemmed with wax lights, and resonant with the music of "lutes and soft recorders," to the camp and parade ground seems an a b rup t bulletin, but the Asmodeus who p a i n t s t o fi t s with printer's ink so wills it, and Le diabie &pities must go, no matter how it rains; and, —oh ye pluvial deities!—how it did rain in Moscow yesterday morning, when the enthusiatie remnant of the British invasion were wending their way in sick carriages as they could obtain, to the great Hadinka plain, when the Emperor was to review Ms guards and test their efficiency by the evolutions of petite pm.. Oar Mends sore of the Tweed talk ex- latiogly of what their skim can do in wetting an Ear 1 nehmen to the skin, but if they had been present at the Moscow review yesterday they would forswear um brellas in very shame, and admit that a " Botch mist" is Egyptian aridity as compared to a teal right down &Milli rainy day. D own came the steady, pitiless, persevering deluge, as fine as if It had been rubbed against a nutmeg-grater en route, but as dense as the sands of the sea. Even the Cossack hones in the carriages shook their shaggy coats, and the Isvodstcheks looked a little damp, despite the well-known absorbing powers of their well-worn softens. And then the fine uniforms of the officers and soldiers, so soaked, and draggled, and tarnished, and the noble war horses, neigh ing on every side in one wild Awns of climatic'. faction. It would not be complimentary to compare such fine martial-looking fellows as the Russian officers,:and who are so invariably polite to strangers. to drowned rats, but so thoroughly soaked a set of heroes compassionate eyes never looked upon. I must admit that they bore it all like Spartans, and both officers sod men chatted, talked, and smoked while they waited for the Emperor, as if it were a pleasant day in May. The spectators were few in number, although it was a grand field day with the Emperor on the ground, and consisted almost exclu sively of Englishmen and mnjiks of a military turn of mind. The parade-ground, in a corner of which the camp for 120,000 men is situated, is a plain of about the size of a German principality, having one end impinging on the gardens of Petroffky Palace, and the other bounded by a wood, behind which is a gentle eminence, the sits of a new station for the railway. About this point the sham battle was fought, one-half the army defending, while the other attempted to take the position. The Emperor, attended by what on a fine day would have been a most brilliant staff, and such members of the various embassies as did not mind being wet to the skin. rode up and down at intervals between the hos. tile armies, and critically watched the per formance of each successive evolution. It is to he hoped that his Imperial Majesty understood them better than certain of the spectators, for (only for this once) I must waive the omniscience of journalism, and confess that my particular comprehension of the order of battle tended slightly in the direction of the ob scure. The Cossacks obliged us to dismount at a dis tance of about two miles from the field, which was soft as pap,and adhesive as glue; the rain came down in torrents, and so dense was the atmosphere that we could not see the hostile armies, although the frequent reports and hollow rumbling of the artillery an nounced that they were close at hand. After a sore pilgrimage, we at last came to a ris ing ground, the rain suddenly mend, and a sight bard on oar view that repaid us for all our previous annoyances. There stood, in battle array, the whole of the famous Imperial Guard, dotted over the plain in huge human pa rallelograms or glistening squadrons, the bayonets of the infantry in long regular rows sparkling like a diamond necklace, and the varied uniforms of the cavalry glowing like the costumes of some great state pageant. There were the guards o Aeon! white, and gold burnished enhance, and all mounted on splendid chesnut horses. Then there were the Hos- ears, scarlet and gold, or blue and silver, the regi ment of Paul, with their quaint old-fashioned osoical caps, the grenadiers, the Cossacks of the Doo, the favourite " Fiolanske" regi ment, and Bully, the artillery in immense force, each gun drawn by trains of unusual size and power. Soon all these muses began to move, each with the regularity of some vast ma chine, the artillery opened fire, the musketry rolled and rattled, the *Moore galloped two and fro, and I tear swore a little, and the battle was soon at its height. The position, to judge from the loudness of the report, and the prevalence of the smoke, was most resolutely defended, but with what vicissitudes of torten, I am unable to tell, for the tremendous firing brought down the rain again, and the great object with the spectators was to get into shelter as soon u pos sible. We accordingly, in the simplicity of our hearts, rushed to the wood; but very soon found, to our surprise, that we were in the very centre of the battle. The holders of the eminence had valorously repelled their assailants, and were now driving them pelt null before them into the plain. Oar harbour of refuge become the some of a desperate hand-to-band contest, in which the soldiers charged or resisted, rushed about, and Bred totally regardless of the ones of travellers or the convenience of special eserespondents. Pop, pop! Bang, bang! Gan wadding flying about in showers, and an odour of " that villainous saltpetre " of the most smothering intensity ! To our im mense satisfaction, the bill forces, after a san guinary struggle, at length cleared the wood, the assailants were driven into the plain and thoroughly defeated, and trumpet signals informed no that the sham battle was over, and that the poor soldiers might go home to dinner and dry clothes. Bo ended the great Battle of Eadinka, the men cheering lustily for the Emperor, and the conquering army celebrating their victory according to Realm cus tom with songs of triumph, MI of wild, warlike melody and national character. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. AND BRITIAN mIowL) (PROM 00Z OWN COZINSPONDINI.) _ PARIS, TUMIDLY MORNING. 1 Au article in the kroniteur of this morning nye that the raising of rents, accompanied by dear. ness of provisions, bee awakened the solicitude of the Bower. The same article observes that 1,665 houses have been demolished, and 8,552 built, since 1852 ; that the dwellings of operatives are, and will be still further, increased in number ; and that the oonstruction of Dew buildings gives employment, to a multitude of workmen, and increases their wages, so as to compensate them for their temporary suffering. It is added that the diminution of rents will naturally take place in the coarse of time. The Three per Cent& cloned yesterday at 70fr. for the end of the month; the Four-and a-Half per Cents. at 92fr.; and the New Loan at 70fr.; Orleans Railway shares, 1,3500; Great Northern, 980 fr.; Strasburg, 912 fr. 150 e.; new shame, 8300.; Paris and Lyons, 1,331 fr.; Lyons and Mediterranean, 1,800 k.; Western of France, 9330. 75c.; Bordeaux and Cate, 7250. • Great Central of France, 662 fr. 50c.; Lyons and G enera, 780 k; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 1,677 fr. 50c. Austrian Railways, 8550. PARIS, YoxDAT. Our intelligence from Spain again exhibits the in secure tenure by which O'Donnell holds °Moe. Ac cording to a conespondenos from Madrid, published in the Debate,• the minister has lately found himself in a position to offer his resignation. The Queen did not think proper at the time to accept it; but the minister whose propositions O'Donnell sup ported on that areasion has since had actually to retire. The following private telegraphic despatch hubs= received: Madrid, Sept. 21.—The Gauge* publishes a decree acceptiog the mignstioa of M. Canter% and naming to the dike of Minister of Finanose M. Balaton* Direetor-General of Fateaoes. A severs esseptoene had takes plea on the 9th between the pains of Melilla and the Moon of the mire% to which the latter had suffered a serious loam. The Spanish troops I had 19 killed and 70 wounded. A melancholy acci dent has just occurred on the Aranjuez Railway, by which Ave persons have lost their lives." The speedy return of Narvaez to Spain can now hardly be deemed doubtful. The Madrid journals of the 17th express this expectation. The Novedades says :—" An authorisation was yesterday, after the promulgation of the Constitution, sent to Marshal Serrano to deliver to the Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) his passports, if be should demand them." The Nation also announces that the duke would soon return to Madrid. The Monileur of this morning contains the follow Mg news of the court . BIARRITZ, SEPT. 21. The Emperor and Emprees!went yesterday to Baint-Jean de.Lus. Their Idejestits, notwithstanding the bad weather, went to us the dyke of that small interesting town, a part of which, unfortutatisly, has been already swept away by the sea. The Emperor gave I,ooof. to the mayor for the bureau of charity, Low, to the naval commissioner for the widows asuman, and 6,000 f. to the core, for repairing the church. A Council of Ministers assembled on Saturday at the hotel of the Moister of Justice. Prince Jerome left Havre with all his suite on Saturday by the twelve o'clock train, and on arriving at Paris proceeded at once to his apartments at the Pattie Royal. By a decree of the Minister of Public Worship, M. Armband, avocet, has been appointed his chef du cabinet, in the room of M. Charles Fortoul, appointed to other functions. Wit Court. Bm. 21. The Queen and the Priam drove jeeterdey to the Beiloch Shute, where him Royal Highness went deer etalkieg. _ _ _ The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived at Balmer' yesterday, sad remains in 'itemise's' opos her Majesty. The royal dinner pony yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, the Prinoese Amalie of Hobenlohe Bohilliegfaret, the L►dy Augusta Bruce, aid Lord James Murray. Despetehee were reeeived at the Colonial-odic' yesterday bola the Gontaote of the Moth Algerian protium Sir Alan bl.blab, But., accompanied by Mies ll.Nsb, has born on a visit to t►e Rai and Cession of Albemarle, at Quiddeshara Nall, Norfolk. Vim:oast and Viscountess Bury, and a small family patty, wars invited to meet the distingaished pest. Baron Juni Rothschild has left the Clarandon for Paris. Miss Florence Nightingale is, we understand, on a visit to thls wearier Jost now. The illestvieiss lady, travel ing bung., arrived in Aberdeen es Wednesday, asoonspasied by ►sr father, sad after staying owleralght at Donets HAM, left is Ttaraday foetus's for Birkhall, t►s ssat it &r Jas , Ilve Prost. It is nadarstood that the Earl of Granville will, nom tomb, Moscow, proceed to Carlsbad, is Germany, for the benefit of the waters; sad that the noble earl will not return to Esslaad until the middle or hew end of October. Viscount and Visas:Wm Pa!mantas will leave Canebrldge-besee, Piccadilly, for Broad Lade, most likely tomorrow, when the noble premier will probably remain mill the enuesessassi of the cabinet conaelle briags b 1 strafe to Loodca. The Canadian Free Prese aye that the Right Hoe. Robert Lowe, whoa It entitles "ow, of her Majesty's easeutin emaasillors, sad s Mgattary of the press," has wind at Deeepa's Hotel, Montreal. Primo Fro - deficit William of Prussia anived at Balla is Oa Ititti frog► llossew. The sew Bisbop of Loudon ie, it is said, to be oar distinguished amours's, Dr. Tait, Dam at Carlisle. He is s bretber at our townsims Yr. Jobs Tait, advert", IMMO of Clailtusassooltirt, sod Mr. J. C. Tait, Wit.; bat, nevertheless, is a slut of fibers' politico sad progressive A Berlin letter states that the Xing of the Belgians bay dettlitively fixed fir visit to that city for the 15tti of October. The King sad Queen of Prussia arrived at Berlin as t►e 17th from Bromberg, sad hamodistely proosodod to Saat-Sosii --- The Dachas Of Genoa, travelling under the name of Coast= de Bayer, arrived at Irarallo es t►e 16th, gad alighted at the Howl of Icily. Is dm Memnon the bead of the Natiosal Gaud performed "ad= pima of mega udn the "Haden of the Pries= who left the ant =gain fee Ora. The Pantos Gault*, of the 18th iut., tee name that the Dashes) &lent was ao fu resound is to be able to talcs saw nourishment. ROYAL BRITISH BANS. Sta.—The made, of the dilators ad share holders of the Royal British Bask proved that the latter were non latest oa coodenelag the psi thea is pro. victim foe the future, the time kings buss epistle real- Wallas, which Wield bars boa devoted to some plea of adios. I as aafortaately oas of the depositor., ad It arm to Re that a coalmines appointed by no dormitory. ad mother by the shareholders, would Noe drameda a arroasoweat which would same 60 per nat. to the credi tors lisenliately, sad • farther lastalmost to the Moat winch the assets sad calls oa shares would product. The an. slat night be developed or i•s full vane realised. Do tot let us be the victims og delay sad heavy legal expose, which lug told • wiadieg•ep n Chummy would @stall, to the einem, It le said, of 80,0001., bat let what ma be ob tined hen the wink be appropriated to It. proper par. rm. A few lien non you, air, would really help tbls desired srmagemeat.—Your, &a, ♦ LADY. &pt. 23. There is a rumour in the City that Alderson 8a lemma is likely to be re-appoiand Lord Mayor of London, at the election which lam take Vale seat Monday. Dm Sheriff's insagaraties dinner will take plies at the Lnedos Tama, Biebpslate•sttaet, ea Tuesday but, the 10th last., sad nil be carried eat oa a slab of almost aspreeeseetes spleadoar. The amber of fleets invited by the sheriff+ elan, Muse. Meal sad Keats, somata to upwards of 200. Tim NAM Discus Wirf•Giona.—Mow Mae jute@ epitomes% hap determined ea • ealiMolism of the diosses Leedom, and Dr Tait, who is w hove the eaperrbfta of the Metropolitan See, will have :=I the fisM over +hie ski Bishop of London have shied. The dimeas el London will bootee:A realist orttll rat portion ef the metropolis which Is within the illy 111111% la oddities to this extensive parishes of &lONA- Clestemessil, Winston, Limehosse, Inteptlitah, mit, Whims:impel, Hack Be y and Stoke Newington, with espial parishes in '' diet:, Heal, and linereg, ems at prewar seder tits jarisdistios of the Mho dLeados. • 'ergs pewit°. of what at present conelltatee the orshboosary of Midellseez will be piped seder the patrol of a Bishop of Westmiastar, and the Abbey will be his cathedral shank. This new dismiss will eremprim the whole of the pariahs. within lb. city of West minster, gr. Perms, Maryleboss Yoddissitote, Hussies- Mk Bt. Giles's, Bt. Georges, Bleambary, Chilies, thaw Witioss. Hemmersmith, sad the several outlying Abele will be one erslidemea for the Mosses of sad two tor the glosses of Westminster. Amnia SO most Pitiable livings whisk ths Bishop of London will lose IN_ htsgitt ere the rester: of St. B It, Bishops/at., a tMs mem* of Grass B o de en , wor d 1,71,111 arm silk. Margaret, Lothbary (alter s*** oft as lard Obsesilsr), worth IihOOL • pout the redrif et NI. Mary, Ns worth 1,0001. • year ; the mine of St. U worth 1.0261.. par ; Oil paderalsnhip. esste_Pliseslits. tresserewhip, sad ell the pft41411111411 Mars The Bishop of West =how stll tioss Is his ets t aisse ether livings. the see e illllllllollS. or NM • yeas; ths rimers of et. 11a nd wink 1.4001. a par ; Use lanai. b l ow riaMmilion, war* 141111L wa s ti par • the ineuebstoy at rwere• _Knght , 1,2004. a yeas ; ther vMmgs d "nom. w m=l a pan; the incumbency of wgoth 1,7001. a year; the viesrago of Hammer ansm. tam Oa a pis; the incambeney of Highgate, "oft dill . s Fee ; sad several Weer beseAws. No one is e s Imo triad :or the aftw hishoprittof Westadastor.- 21mim no Bank of Liii.stg has jest rased its rats of Moms ss a 'sr oat et: ssallentsl bWs, sad 01 Ni hum ossartlise. SPAIN. The following is the royal decree reestablishing the Constitution of 1845, with modifications : ROYAL DECREE. Hiving taken into consideration the rations set forth by my Council of Ministers, I decide es follows : Art 1. The Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, pro mulgated on the 23rd of May, Ind, is and shall continue to be ra-establ'Otad. Art. 2. Until the Corte', in concert with my own &nth° city, shall have determined what is fitting to be done, the said Constitution is modified and shall continue to be moth. lied by the following additional act, which is to be observed and executed as an integral part of the said Constitution, frees and after the publication of the present royal decree. Given at the Palace, Sept. 16, 1836. (Signed) THE QUEEN. (Conatenigned) This President of the Council of Ministers, LEOPOLD O'DONNELL. The last news received from Catalonia leads to the supposition that the Carlists have not entirely aban doned their insurrectionary projects. They bad, with their friends in Madrid, organised a conspiracy which has been discovered, and has led to the arrest of a great number of them. THOM • The cabinet is dislocated. The Minister of Finance has sent in his resignation, which has been accepted, and two other ministers are to follow him in his retirement. It must not be supposed that the sale of the church property is of great importance as a money ques tion. Nearly the whole of it hu, in fact, been already sold, and what remains is of small moment. As the law most be carried out as regards the other mortmain properties, the exchequer Is sure to be re plenished, and the public credit would be propor tionately improved, were not the question so mixed up with politics. The Bonne is in a great consternation. The public creditors, to whom Cantero promised payment of their interest on a certain day, have lost all hops of receiving It. The French minister has caused the publication in his organ the Journal de Madrid, of an article under the head, "A propos do Duo. de Valence." It con tains an unmistakable injunction to Narvaez to abandon all idea of becoming Minister, combined with a fresh promise of support to O'Donnell. The cholera has appeared again in tke Asturias. A terrible storm has caused frightful ravages in the pro• vines of Leon. The lightning set lire to six houses in one village, and killed two persons in another, while in a third it killed a shepherdess and thirty sheep. The storm extended about ten miles. In Gironde the public librarian has discovered a manuscript of the Bible which is traced to the euly put of the twelfth century. It is written on parch ment of great fineness. The pages are divided into two columns, and enriched with arabesques and ornamented letters, painted with great taste. ITALY. NAPLES. A correspondent of Le Nord, dating from Naples, Sept. 10, says : The aspect of the situation is very different from what it was at the date of my last letter, the flattering unreason of which were derived from the conciliatory spirit then per riding the negotiations going on between our cabinet and the French ministry. In fact, nothing thee could lead us to expect so sudden a change in the settlement of our dif keenest with the Western Powers. What has occurred in high political spheres ? Whence comes this cheese of feeling, this sudden transition from the most concilia tory overtures to threats ready to be converted into deeds ? I know not ; but certain it is that sines that time the favourably breeze which augured so happily just now has changed into a gale that may shortly bring here into Out readatead an Anglo•Frecch squadron, the approach of which would probably be sig nalised by the recall of the representatives of Frames sad 114,1 and, in case the King should penist in his refusal to grant the general amnesty di sanded by France, which on this question proceeds heed in hand with England. Bork is the substance of a communication which the French misdate! hie jest made to oar goverment. This inenaeleg attitude on the part of Frazee is by so mash the les comprehensible, seeing that Baron Breoier, if my information be correct, had given us reason to hope that his csbinet would take into consideration and give due weight to the friendly explanations contained in a note that wu lately sent to it, as well as to the English Marv( d'afaires, by 11. Cards,—a note which bad beim previously submitted to the French diplomatist for his sanction. If Ism to credit the versions most believed is the higher sphere s of our capital, this mote, whilst prominently stating the governmental seas ins that prevent the King from seceding at present to the wishes /Rousted by the Western Power., has given a glimpse of his Majesty's wish to enter gradually Into the path of reform, when be shall dun It pouible to do so. Everything seemed to be going on smoothly, when Baron Brenier, reverting to what be had said, declared this note to be oalatisfactoty, and had to. course to throats. As it Is not ivy likely that the Breech government would ohmage from dsy to day iu line of 000 duet, it ia to be presumed that Baron Bresier was not thoroughly initiated into the intentions of hie Cabinet. _ The Kirg, they say, is resolved on tuistieg foreign pres sure, end on maintaining the inviolabilay of hie royal pre rogative herein lies the danger of the present situation. Oar dispute her reached that ro'at at which reasonings end cmjeetures become superfluous; henceforth words must be dOetrded to make room for events which cannot now be long in asking their eminence. PIEDMONT. The Risorgimento of Torio, of the 18th coat., publishes the followiog letter : SUBSCRIPTION 101 THS 10,000 MUSKETS. we bee* naive" frees Gana on eleventh list, eostaising the names of 600 'abet:fibers, aeaapsaleil by the follow's' letter : "Bute, Beiterrlaad, Sept. 1. 84,-01 all the aubeeriptliaia, called astioasi. Welsh hare hitherto boss (meted is Piedotest, sous is son Gadded to that aims this the one you have proposed is you patriot'. joaraal for the palely." of 10,000 usadmits, to be given to the first Dollen province which will rise in arms against the common enemy. Consequently, and it being my conviction that Italy ought to mien herself hen independence, and that it is the duty of every Italian MU seu, whether he inhabits the country or resides abroad, to assist his brethren, by every possible means, in arming themselves against the oppressors of his country, I request I you, Mr. Baiter, to insertb• my name on the list of that eminently Rational subserTption for 150 francs, the price of a Bwiu carbine, which I will shortly forward to the com mittee by a safe conveyance.—l remain, &c., " A 1.1..E7 -, UND - 1, Central." TURKEY. The Sinai brings intelligence of a serious conflict which took place on the Bth instant at Trebizonde. Some Turkish boatmen tore down the flag of a Ras. Sian merchant vessel, and threw the sailors into the sea. The Russian consul has demanded the die. missal of the commander of the town, an indemnity, and the punishment of the boatmen with the bead. cad°. The aysn is inquiring into the matter. A portion of the Imperial Ottoman Guard Will embodied for Hetzegovine ; the Porte declaring that it will cause its rights in Montenegro, which is an integral part of the empire, to be respected. SWITZERLAND. M. Sydow, Minister of the King of Prussia to the Swiss Confederation, was still at Berm on the lith. Now that the first excitement of the Neufchatel affair has passed away, the moat prominent subject of discussion in the Federal Assembly is the direction to be given the railroad from Lausanne to Berne. Party spirit runs very high indeed on this subject, the die. putants on one side contending for a line via Oron and Freiburg, and those on the other for one by way of Yverdun, Payerne, and Freiburg. On the 18th the ' discussion was proceeding in the Conseil National with great vigour. A letter from Frankfort states that there is no truth in the reports which ascribe to the Prussian government the intention of bringing its dispute with the de facto government of Neufcbatel before the Germanic Confederation. M. Mautenffel has addressed a circular to the representetivee of Prussia at the courts of France, England, Austria, and Russia, in• yoking the protocol of Loudon, dated May 24, 1852„ and following also the principle laid down at the Paris Congress, in its sitting of April 14, 1858. namely, " that States between which any serious difference shall arise shall, instead of appealing to arms, have recourse, as far as circumstances will admit, to the good offices of the other powers." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 18th, in the Debates sayst—t' Prussia in her turn has just sent a note to Denmark, in which she declares herself in principle favourable to the redemption of the Sound Does, and proposes opening negotiations between all the govern. menu interested in the question, in order to fix the amount of indemnity. A special conference will be held at Copenhagen for this purpose in November. The customs conference of Eisenach is going on very slowly, and will probably last until the end of the year. The conference has removed its scene of opt). rations to Weimar, as Eisenach does not contain suf ficient accommodation for the members during the winter. The Provincial States of five provinces of Prussia have been convoked for the sth October, in order to give their opinions on different bills which the government is to submit to the Chambers.' RUSSIA. The Russian government has just decided that the populations of the vast territory which it possesses beyond the Lake of Baikal, in Northern Asia, shall receive an organisation similar to that of certain populations of the Black Sea and the Don, and shall be called " Comas of the Baikal"; also that they shall form a special army, consisting however only of cavalry, commanded by a hetman. The government has likewise decided that the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia shall have under his command th• maritime department which has just been established 'at Irkutsk, and which comprises the administration. of the fleets and naval stations of the Pacific. " The Empress Dowager of Russia," says a letter from Berlin, " will be accompanied in her visit to Italy by the Grand Duke Constantine. Her Majesty will leave Moscow on the 23rd, and will proceed direct to Nice, via Warsaw and Vienna, and will not visit the Prussian capital until her return." The Journal de St. Petersburg publishes the fol• lowing rescript, addressed by the Cm on the ith iota. to Geoeral Berg, Goveroor•General of Finland: In the enemies of the functions of Governor-General of Finland, which had been confided to you by supreme astho ' rity, you have fulfilled the duties which that office impend upon you with the true seal end the peculiar talents which have always distinguished your career in the service of the state; and by your happy c operation in the accomplishment of our designs, constantly tending to the prosperity of this unity, you have succeeded, in a period difficult though of limited nitration, in securing the general confidence and gratitude of the population. In order to manifest the high regard with which you have inspired Ls by such conduct, end to attach you by indissoluble bonds to this country, we have raised you to the hereditary dignity of Count of the Grand Duchy, and we enj you to p ymiraelf to the Cham ber of Nobles, in crier that your name may be inscribed there among those of the counts. IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS OF THE MEDI- TEHRANEAN FLEET. A telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles, dated yesterday, says that the Sinai, which left Constanti• nople on the 15tb, brings the following intelligence: The squadron of Admiral Lyons has received, by telegraph, an order to remain, in consequence of the dispute relating to Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents. Some French ships also will soon arrive. The Austrian troops will, for the same reasons, remain in the Principalities. THE CUSTOMS CONGRESS. (molt ore OWN COMMISSIONER.) BRUSSELS, Seri% 20. The Hotel de Suede appears to have been made the headquarters of the gentlemen who, representing the various nations of Europe, are about to meet for the discussion of the principles of Free Trade. The na tions, it would appear, have responded to the invita tion of the Belgians with alacrity. Even Spain, generally torpid in these matters, has sent two com missioners; while Holland has proved, by her repre sentatives, that she is advancing bravely to that style of commercial freedom which we enjoy. It mast be confessed that the moment for the Con gress is opportune. The King has just completed a round of triumphs in the various cities of his king. door. The principles which he propounded when he stepped upon the throne have been faithfully adhered to. Encompassed by great despotic governments, he has been enabled by proper conceesio3s to publics opinion, and the honest transaction of the public business, to respect the freedom of his people, and to maintain order, when surrounded by the clamour of en European revolution. A quarter of a century has shown that the Belgian people know how to govern themselves I and there is perhaps no stranger con. treat upon the face of the earth than that presented to the traveller who approaches Brussels from the French frontier. On one side of a railway station you must talk politics in a whisper—you mast be chary in the use of names. On the other, you may talk loudly about the imperial policy, and, if it so please you, deploy a sheet of L'llomme upon your knees. Well, it is on this, the free side, that a certain number of gentlemen, interested in the simplification of tariff., and is the general march of nations towards commercial freedom, determined to I