The Express. — London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

1 4 a rb expreoo. TO CORRBSPONDENTB. deeellemerte istemint lee "Me alms,* Woks leseiag piper. Test be .1 .rbCe, 17, boteveibetetet. by Tea °tie& ea the Let et pat beaaeli. RION WATER AT LONDON DRUMM tins tuv—Morang.Ott. Aftornoss. Ih. 11m. Tomato% —Mtmnirs, .... Alterooot, In. 41. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. Ulan' the obareholders of the Unity take imme diata and efficient steps to put the Company on a better fooirg as regards the public, there can be no dcubt in the minds of those who read the report of the special meeting held on Thursday last, that IN fate is sealed. The object of that meeting waa enable tea Directore to lay before the shareholdies the reasons which induced them unanimously accept the resignation of Mr. BAYLIS." Their Nor sous ware very clearly given. Re domineered sow thew ; he negteeted the business of the company k order to get up new schemes; and he plunged theoote peu.y intoespensee, absurd and unnecessary. We are disposed to smile at the idea of all theme gentlemen cowering before the awful Mr. BATLIS like school boys in presence of their pedagogue, and have little sympathy with them; but the charge of neglect of his duties is a much more serious one, and it it is true, and if the statements made by Mr. VAUGHAN are correct, it is to he regretted that some more active steps were not taken by the members of the Boiled to arrest a course of proceeding which was telling se injuriously on the interests of the Unity. Betwusa May and August, 1856, the number of new policies was less by 125 than during the same period of 1856; the difference in the amount insured was 37,8001., although "every poor fellow employed in the Unity Bank was compelled to insure his The premiums received during that period were 1,5161. lees than in 1855: between March 1 lad 3-aly 91 (tour months) 104 policies were suffered to lapse, dinrioiehiog the premium receipts by 6151., and the number sod importance of policies abandoned were increasing. These are serious results of the neglect attributed to Mr. BAYLIS, who appears from the general testimony to Dave been the very soul of the concerti, from his energy and activity. Bat hie friend Mr. Dlecett says that " Mr. BAYLIS is a company maker; he cannot help it, and =Mat you restr,in him, he will go ore making companies to the end of time." Now it is much to be regretted that some provision was not made for a division of laborer n order that Mr. BAYLIS might have been allowed free scope for his ingenuity in getting up companies, at any salary that might be thought adequate, and that some one else might have been found to look after them when they were at work. The Directors tell tie that the wonderful results promised by Mr. BAYLIS have • disagreeable jack ()leathern quality about them. " When they got into Pall-mall they were to do a great business, but when they got into the new office the business was not Incensed. Oa the fat of May the bank was to open, and then the great increase was to take place." Instead of which, the business is (cling cif. Some two months ago Mr. BATLIB published an address to the Unity shunt holders which indiestr d every different state of things It is one of his own maxims that the success of an insurance company is to be measured chiefly by the amount of new business obtained ; how, Uses, does he reconcile the tolling off of the new business with the bowed success? It was not desirable that he should hint at the real state of thing., bat he might at acy rate have left the subject alone. We ingested at the time that "truth" was a very valu able ingredient in the successful conduct of a public company, and we beg once more to hint that is addition to " great powers and powerful brains" (tette, Mr. Itlecut), a scrupulous respect for troth is a very desirable quality in a Manager. The third ground of dissatisfaction on the part of the Directors is the extravagant expendi ture; bat surely they are equally responsible for that evil with Mr. BAYLIS, although it may be urged on their behalf as a palliative that they seem, as a general role, to hays at at the board merely to do his bidding. On the question, however, which is of more imme diate interest to the public, namely, why the Com pany withheld 1,2601. from Mr. AITKIN, very little new light has been thrown. Two of the Directors at least, Mr. TATLOII and Mr. JACKSON, seem to have proteeted at once against the iniquity; but their sense of justice was smothered by the " powerful brains" of Mr. BAYLIS, who is distinctly charged by Mr. JACKSON with having been a party to the compro mise, knowing ell the facts; and this is oorroborated by Dr. LLOYD, who states that be went into Mr. BAYLIS'S room on his return to town and related all the circumstances to him. It is a mere question of eredibility. Mr. BAYLIS steads up as the champion of indisputability, and as he founds his title to the emilldesee of the shareholders on the resistance he has offered to au infraction of the main principle of the institution—the indisputability of the policise—we naturally looked for some explanation of his letter to WIELAND of the 18th of June, in which he proposes coolly to set aside this very policy altogether, "if any nppremiou as to health has taken plaoe;" the policy having then been in faros nearly six month.. There is no mistake as to Mr. BATLIS'S ideas on his standard principle of indisputability. On Thursday he stated distinctly that "if there bad been any concealment at the time the proposal was mad•, he naderstood the Odin vo. lantarily took the rink on its own shoulders! and nevertheless he proposed to WILLA/CD to try and evade the claim which was becoming imminent, and SS WILLAND did 'tithing in the matter, Mr. BAYLIS must have known that there was no ground for dis puting the policy, except murder or suicide. It is evident, at any rate, that on the 18th of JUDO, the 4 . great powers, the uncommon mind, sod the powerful brains" had got into a terrific muddle— they were probably absorbed in getting up some of the sew companies which his friend Mr. Macaulay' he cannot help making; and until we have some explanation of this eine/tiler circumstance we mast believe that Mr. BATS did adopt Dr. LLOYD'S views as to the propriety of this transonic's, whirl be eh aruterime as " foul," " improper and unjusti fiable," and " a violation of their contract." Mr. MLCIIL we presume, hom the letter published by Mr. BAYLIS, has perfectly mastered the cue, and perhaps be eau Aid time to favour the public with an expla. nation of this purs'iog iococsistency, which Mr. BAYLIS is evidently incapable of elucidating. As to the part taken by Dr. LLOYD and WIELAND there rin be no two opinions. It matters little what Dr. Ltotb's impressions were when he went down to Glasgow ; WIELAND'S letter shows that on July 3 they "both, upon further inquiry, believed that no foul play had been practised." On the 4th, Dr. LLOYD writes a letter to Mr. AITKIN, the insane, fully confirming that statement, and yet be person ally clinches the bargain with Mr. AITXIN which deprives him of 1,2501., to which be ism questionably entitled. Dr. LLOYD and WIELAND seem to hive been the antes darnOes of Mr. BAYS: the one was his, boom friend, the other owed his Olugow appointment %bias ; and is it to be supposed that, after the ex plioit statement we have quoted, Dr. LLOYD would have given Mr. BAYLIS to uoderstand in his verbal account of the transaction that there was suspicion of murder? We have Mr. BAYLItee own evidence on this point : he says, " I do not know what circum stances justified the compromise, and that is exactly the point I wish to have made clear." If, on the 11th of September, he is still ignorant of any circumstances (and there was but one circumstance which could have rendered it even politic) to justify the compromise, how was it that, without the knowledge of the Board, he took upon himself to adopt it, and asked them on July 7th for a cheque for 7501. to send to WIELAND ? We are utterly usable to reconcile these circumstances with that high feeling of honour to which Mr. BAYLIS lays claim, to the exclusion of his fellow Directors; the only difference between them that we can see is this, that when the disrepu table bargain had been struck, some of the Directors adopted it, in spite of the " indisputability" principle; and while the deoeased lady was still alive, but in a critical state, Mr. BAYLIS proposed to defraud the ' husband of the whole 2,000 i. unless he chose to go to law tor its recovery. One thing at any rate is clear, that the indisputable character of the Unity policies is considered by Mr. BAYLIS to be all moonshine, a good " springs to catch woodcocks," like the annuities to distressed policy-holders and shareholders, the apprenticeship fees ; the educational fund, and the rest of the" Unity principles." It was, no doubt, a very splendid ides, and a very attractive one; bene ficial to the nati/o post futon) generation of share holders and policy-holders, but good for nothing unless rigidly carried out. But if the Directors, and if Mr. BAYLIS, the inventor of the schema, cannot resist the temptation of leaking an initiations profit for their shareholders by ignoring the fundamental prin ciple of the phi, what probability is there of the other principles being carried out by their seceessereP At any rate, the public has had fair warning as to the worth of the Unity policies, unless the share holders devise some means of marking, in an unmis takeable manner, their reprobation of this scandal ous breach of faith. An absence of moral courage, or a strange want of moral feeling, marks the conduct of all parties in this lamentable business ; but, at the same time, the public ought not to forget that both the Directors and Mr. Barua have had no personal ends to serve in the transaction ; it was far the benefit of the shareholders that they have compromised their honour; a singularly shortsighted view of the interests entrusted to them, since they have seriously jeopardized the very exirence of the whole of the Unity institutions. We have not spared Mr. BAYLIS, because we have a great ion to three assumptions of spotlees nicety of honour with so many doubtful points hanging to them ; but he is evidently the most important person in the practical working of the Company, and one whose energy and restless activity the shareholders will find it difficult to replace. To him, however, is mainly attributa ble, it would seem, the ruinous expenditure of these concerns, chiefly because he has been under no sufficient control; but if the shareholders can 1 find a Board of Directors who can direct his ener gies into a proper channel, can control his mania for getting up companies, and keep him under their hands, instead of putting themselves under his, it appears to us that the "Unities" may possibly still rollover themselves, although it will take years to of from the public mind the series of gross blunders which have marked their progress I hitherto. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (mow oui owx BOUTHAMPT I, SasuiDLT Moaxxxo. The Peninsular and Orient►l Company's Steam packet, Aden, Captain Week's; Admiralty agent, Lieut. Hay, R.N., arrived with the Peninsular Her dates are :—Gibralter, Sept. 6; Cadiz, 7; Lis bon, 9; Oporto, no mail, owing to the impossibility of communicating, a heavy swell being on the coast; Vigo, 10. The Aden brings twenty-four passengers, amongst whom are Lieut.-Colonel Whitmore, Captain Gesturing, Ensign Harrison, Mr. Finlay, Rev. Mr. Liogden and wife, &o. Her cargo consists of 12 packages specie (3,280 L), 453 boxes grapes, 441 boxes lemons, 1,367 boxes raisins, 30 boxes almonds, 118 packages Orchilla weed, 137 boxes of tomatoes, 30 boxes of eggs 26 packages of Palma baskets 100 packages of melons. Yellow fever has appeared in Oporto, and no communication is allowed between that port and Lisbon by sea, whilst travellers over land from Oporto are allowed fns ingress to Lisboa. The cholera has almost disappeared at the latter place. The most fatal cases were ascertained to have arisen from the patient having recently partaken of melons. On the outward passage, the Aden refrained from communicating with Lisbon, to avoid being placed in quarantine with Cadiz and Gibraltar. has souped to America. An employe al the com pany has been despatched to New York, accompanied by French and Basil& polies 'gents. He carries with him letters to all the French and English con suls in America, and unlimited letters of credit. A clerk of the company who resigned six months ago, upon the representation that he had inherited con- siderable property, and who hu bought Several houses in the suburbs of Paris, has been arrested on suspicion of being mourned in the embezzlement. It is also said that another sub-cuhier has been arrested. The Measager de Booms announoss that, in order to provide work for the labouring classes of the dis trict, the Pyrenean network of railways will be own mewed immediately, and that the company to whom the conoession may ultimately be made will be re quired to recoup the expenses incurred by the state. It is nevertheless thought not doubtful that M. Pe reire is certain to have the concession. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria and his bride are pro bably by this time at Biarritz. They were expected on Wednesday evening. Baron Wendland, the Ba varian Minister, has left Paris to reosive them. _ . . .. , 11 Prince Loma Bonaparte/.901• has lately arrived at Biarritz. As far a German news ma *verb* believed, nothing was more certain than that M. de Hubner would not go to Naples. The fleet has been stated positively ever and over again during the week. However, the government Pays now says:—" A letter from Corfu . . innounces that Baron de Hubner, the Austrian Am- Masada at Paris, has paused by on his way from Venice to Naples." A letter from Solingen, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" A French agent, M. Goldenberg, has been here recently, charged by his government to make an inquiry into the produce of our manufactories which is peobibited in France. It is therefore hoped that tie sostoms legislation of France with respect to this palace will be modified before long." The Emperor of Russia Fes conferred the cross of Stanislas Ist class on M. Benedetti, director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Fresno. The following is an exact list of the military trophies of the French arms which now decorate the front of the Invalid..:—On the eastern side of the gateway, an immense Algerian mortar; an eight- pounder gun, on which are the words nee pivribus imps.; a Russian cannon, weighing 2,770 kilo- grammes, cut in 1793; a cannon taken at Con stantine in 1837 ; a piece of Russian siege artil lery, cast in 1793; three superb Prussian cannon; two Austrian, one Dutch; four small Russian field pieces; two pieces of siege artillery from Antwerp ; sod eighty heavy siege guns from Algiers. On the western side of the gateway, eight siege guns from Algiers ; four small Russian field pieces and two mortars, cut respectively in 1807, 1821, 1831, 1837, 1844, and 1847 ; an Austrian oulverin, being a masterpiece of the art of cannon casting; Dutch siege gun; a Russian mortar, out in one pine with its platform in bronze; four Austrian rise gins; a heavy gun from Antwerp; a Russian siege gen, weighing 2,665 kilogrammes; a field pine, bearing the name of Louis Charles de Bourbon, Count d'Eu and Doke d'Augon dine; a very large Russian siege gun, completely mutilated by the French cannon balls; and a large Algerian mortar, weighing 1,272 kilogrammes. AU these guns are in bronze and many of them of admirable workman ship. The Russian guns are it .formed. The Progres du Pas dt MASS says it is probable that the circular of the Bishop of Arras will be brought before the Council of State. Lord Cowley, it I. said, intends to make a representation to the Minister of Public Instruction, in order to reassure the numerous English families who send their children to French schools in the Pas de The Toulomusis of the 9th speaks of orders having arrived at the port for arming 30 vessels of different sizes. MN gout/. BALMORAL, Bum 11. The Quits sad the Prince Comet drove out yesterday atersoon. The rest of the Royal Foully took wa/klag sad riding exercise ia the neighbourhood of the Castle. Despatches were novena yeeteedey at t►e Colosial-nllso from the Governor of New South Wales. Despatches were seat to the Governors of tits North A... dean Provisoes. Bir B. H. Nortbcote, Bart, M.P., is now staying et Bede Ham, whore he aasspiss the mules uttage of lair T. D. Asload. But., M.P. Bit George Wombwell. But, has arrived at New butab Park, from his towe rooldeneo. The Right Rao. Sir C. Wood, who returned to hie °Medal residense at the Admiralty ea Wednesday, from hie amnia! tour of impieties, has left town for Hirkigtem Hail, Yorkshire. Lady Mary Wood, who Illeoupssied the right bah baronet duriag tb crake la the Admiral. y yacht, had previously joined ber fisally at the reastry seat. Amougat the recent visitors to the Lord Warden Hate', Dover, are the Mamehionses of Doesgal and suite ; Lady Whitehead and suite; the Earl sad Collates. Beetles sad salts; the Earl of Listowri and snit.; the Hos. Mr. Justice Cromwell; the Dowager Lady Clinton sad the Ho. mumble Moo Seymour and suite; Lady Moleeworth sad salts; Coast Panistsjbl, and Coast Baortcreki sad suite, from lit. Petersburg. THE COhIIIANDER•IN CRISP AND THE PRINCE OF Ortomoi.—rt curies' faddist, which has created a consider able wrestles in the locality. occurred at Stirling railway stades on the *cosies of Monday. His Royal Highs's' the Prises of Orange and suite were awaiting the arrival of the north teals for liintisrgh. When it reached the statioa the distinguished stranger went forward to • int 'lase carriage sad was about to step into it when hi was po litely 'stormed by a solitary goofiness'' 'Piaui that be bed taken the whole carriage for his own use. His highness of Grasp at ease backed at of the sacred each:team and so. eared a slat elsewhere. The solitary gentleman was the Ceasetsedevia-Chief of the British army.—EdieforirA Major•Oeneral Sir Hugh Rae, who filled through. out the war the very delicate and important gasifies of British Commissioner with the Preach army, has beta or dered by the Doke of Cambridge to attend the great An t:riga review, whisk will, we believe, take place this week. Mu. BRIGHT, M.P.—We understand that our boa. repremrtative, who has boss staying near Bellater, Ahemlased**, hoe left that pace, and gone es a VMS to th• Bid of Aberdeen, at Dad& Boam.—lfiasehesfor Aga twirler ors/ Time. EARLY CLOSING FESTIVAL AT Till CRYSTAL PALACI.—The lune& of the Early Claim' Association at the Crystal Palau, ou Saturday, the 20th teat., promisee to be a eery pleasant affair ; sad it is to be hoped, as well to the salts et the general recreation Isouatent u for the purpose et allowing the Crystal Palace dincters bow geed a shilling @output? sea be brought together ea a Seige -1 day, that the attendanee ova this CCCIIIiOII will be eery aernersus. Mies P. HORTON'S (Mu. T. 0. RitED's) "Pope. Lill iLLUSTRATIONS."—After a very ruccesefid lOW through the " hwhienable waterlog places" of Etat sod SWIM, Mr. sad Mn. Reed are now holiday-making le Paris, sad will return hose to resume their previa:Se. eepregrasents on the latli lestaat, whoa tbey will appear at Portsmouth, and efterwards ffl,ll their entertelonsent a t Southampton, Salisbury, Winebester, Bath, Rueter, Divest port, Choluolium. Wonistsr. Olosofttsr, sad other lazier towels 4 Oa west of Eagles& MARTLILBONE Jaws Aodoreon, the usgedius, sad Miu Blswonky (aa surest who I. rapidly defog is pablie estirestiu), after playing with peat secesse to the lovers of the legititaste drama" is the tar I But, are 'boat to commute as segarieetent it this th in g '', when they will perform' a sacestsiea of Shakepearssa she ' rasters with every advantage of resale Aids, each sa the donjons of this locality have not witnessed of late years. OLYMPIC THIIATAL—Mr. W. 8 Emden, acting nam•lier of this thastry, vie boa loeg been favourably kern to the playniao weld el Laudon as • wet seemed. aid ;Hiatt/Ain setae Defers the certain, has ansoeseed his meal bowel for this suede!, when hie friends will be ootosialoo4 by • soolosoks of attractive porforsaaoto vat* slight to Nod to voty proltobio welts. RAILWAYS IN RUSSIA. (PROW • I have just learned from authority upon which I tiff* reliance may be placed, that the Russian government have determined on granting concessions foe the fallowing lines of railway :—A line from Mos cow to Nishni; a line from Moscow to Thee:done, on the Black Sea; a line from Moscow to Layben, and a line from Petersburg to Warsaw, with branches from Petenberg to join the Prussian lines. With regard to several short internal lines, which are a sort o f fancy bits with the speculators, it is determined that nothing shall be done until certain improvements in the inland navigation now under consideration shall have been completed. The whole length of line con oeded is about 4,000 vents—over 3,000 miles--and the estimated capitol five millions, upon which a guarantee of 5 per cent. is to be given. The success- Int competitors are, I understand, an Anglo-French Company, the principal names mentioned being Stieglits (the Petersburg banker), Uzielli, Pereira (Credit Mobilier), and one or two English names, which will be published in due time. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (NOON 001 OWN PARIS, Fiioe. ETZWING. It is a curious fact that the news of the Empror and Empress's visit to Spain was first made known in Paris by a telegraphic despatch from Madrid. The intelligence was received with incredulity in Paris this morning, for it was thought that either the Moniteur or some semi-official journal would have received the news direct from Biarritz had it been true; and, moreover, very excellent reasons were given why their Majesties ought not to cross the Spanish frontier at the present time. However, we have this afternoon detailed accounts of their visit. A letter of the 10 . . h, from a correspondent at Ban Sebastian, says : Yesterday atiereetro, at half-pert three o'clock, the Preach war steamers Newton sod Pelican catered this pietareoque bay with the Emperor and Empress of the French os baud, attended by a lIIMITORII snit,. At .nt bell an bear before, the eamisadaat-geberal of the pre vises fee:tired as *apnea from the gammen of Passages (diatast three miles from this place), informisg Min that their Majesties were taking a look at that port, sad might be expected hourly at San Sebastian. Mikity preparstioas were is eormqaentie made, and the Emperor and the Ew. press ranived • thanderieg salute from some of the M pounders which were mounted in suck haste twos the battlesesta of the citadel after the late insurrection at Madrid, as they landed at the stein of the new mole, where thesesismadaat-geeend and civil governor of the proviso, with the British tioseconstal, coalman dant of marine, cap tain fifths port, aloolde, end municipality resolved their Mejestles amidst the congregated populational 81111 Sebes ilia, all of whom, gentle and simple, seined determined tot to loos sash as opportunity of taking • good view of the man °f an day," and the "gractiosa y astable Barr aia," of whom we Bpasiards are so pond. The Emperor's simple blue frock treat, light waktorat, sad dark trousers, gave him the air of air English sea titans, to which contributes not • little a raga ler English•bailt bat. The Imperial 4%1140 contend of General Noy, the Marquis de Layettes, Deo do Cadent, Could Tanker de la None, the Pnfict of the Beans- Pyrenees, sad beyond ladies of bower, isolating the widow of M. Deem the late Minister of Marine. Oa tearing the Imperial party walked to the besatiful shank of Santa Maria, where the Bowen prayed • few wassail at the altar, sad then proceeded to the town house in the Plaza Nueva. Oa appearing la the °seta bol may, their Majesties were cheered by the popu lace who filled the equate beatnik. Adjnurniag theme to the Mealelpal Library, their Majesties partook of nfroshmeats in that apartmeat, when Lieut. March, the British vice.consel here, bad the homier of being presented to the Emperor. This was the oaly pre otatation, I believe, that took plate. A tour of the hill apes which the citadel and the picturesque British cemetery are situated, isaludigg a inspection of the citadel and a megailisest bird'e-eye view of the surrounding country, con eluded the imperial visit te Baa &banks. The Emperor read with evideat interest the &Wish ioaciption on the tombs of several °Seers sad sea belonging to the old British Avail liary Legion, inaladieg a white marble tablet to the nemery of Sir R. Fletcher sad the other esgineer oaken who fell in the siege of San Sebastian la 1813, and it mos remarked that his Majesty left for • moan's the Entprese's atm to decipher the letters better. Their Msjoeties evi dently enjoyed their visit and appreciated the velem., which they received. The shadows of might were steeling over the Allman whoa the Newton (what an eznaple the French set the Bailie% In honouring merit and genius!) and the Pelican, hoisting light. et their mastheads, stood oat of the bay. The Measager de Bayonne has the following pas sage, which is not of cosy interpretation : The bells meg 'merrily, the large gun of Castello thun dered, sad the people, fall of emotive, seemed to welcome s one of the greatest kings of Costal*. It appeawd as if, ►y their asthma *alto cries of " Vim l'ldaspenur," they de_ sired to stigma to the worthy heir of the greatest eases of modem time. the old traditima—the Ischasgeshle love, which the Spanish intim preserves for its ancient moos:ohs. Farther on the utne journal says : This day will fors &depot!' in the souls of St. Muth's; it proves the oomotwaity L f sentiments sod intarests which aoite the popolatiooe ins the two sides of Oh. Fire:lees. To understand aright these strange sallies it is ne cessary to remember the yet unexplained naturalisa tion of the Imperial Prism as a oitisen of Biscay, and to molder the import of the pamphlet published at Paris advocating a close alliance between Frame*, and The Bourse was rather firm, notwithstanding a further fall in Consols. The Rents rose 100. for cash, and Sc. for account, closing at 70fr. 700. end 70fr. 860. Credit Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c. Railways were all rather better. A private telegraphic despatch states that °collet, the sub-cashier accused of robbing the Northern Railway Company, has been arrested in London. Baron Rotts3tuld has taken at traordlnary measures foe arresting the prin cipal delinquent, Carpentier, who it is supposed SPAIN. (nom ♦ SPROUL CORIMPONDILIIT3 EXILE OF DON ENRIQUE AND HIS TWO SISTERS. The Infant Don Enrique (brother of the Bing) has been exiled to Mallorca; one of his sisters has been sent to St. Sebastian, another to Granada. The ex planation of this proossding, which is given in the saloons and put in circulation by the friends of the cabinet, is the opposition said to have been trade by these three children of Don Francisco to the dotation accorded to the wife of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. The exile of the two sicere has no other end than to give an appearanoe of probability to this rumour. The real cause of the exile of Dun Enrique is that many advanced Liversls wished to substitute him u cove reign for Queen Isabella. I will communicate to you some details respecting this conspiracy, of which I am assured Don Enrique was entirely ignorant. The Belgian minister has presented his letters of credence. The Queen has not yet come to any de• oision relative to the legation at Washington, or to the appointment of the command,erin.chief of the Halberdiers. A telegraphic despatch has been re ceived announcing that the Emperor of the French visited St. Sebastian yesterday. ITALY. According to the Opinions of Turin, the raising of the state of siege in Parma is due to the influence of the new Bastian envoy. The Opinions says :7. There is a story current at Milan of Marshal Radetaky' s having lately drunk a trait to the Ring of Bardieia, pro mising to pay him a visit at Turin next sprit'. Oa the other hand, we learn from Parma that it wet COMO S ark elberg, the Rouian envoy, who persuaded the Duchess of Parma to raise the *We if elute and to 'uponm the tribunal', or Gouts martial; exprassiog, moreover, on opinion to the effect diet her dependance upon Austria was neither useful nor in atmordanee with her &gutty. The Bslancia of Milan having lately Stated the Pontifical forms at 14,300 men, the Ruorgimento of Turin observes that that number admits of consider able reduction, and that the real force of the Papal army is not more than 8,000 men, viz., 7,400 infantry and 800 cavalry, exclusive of two companies of ar- tillery with twelve pieces of cannon. The Papal first (!) consists of a 12-gun brig, which is to be sold, and two small steamers, that only pot oat to sea by day. Count Ernest von Steckel berg, the Russian minister to the court of Turin, arrived at Parma on the 3rd, to present his credentials in the same opacity to the IDuchess Regent. BELGIUM. A congress of homeopathic medical men is to meet at Brussels on the 23rd, and the most eminent homoeopathists of Europe are expected to take part in the proceedings. SWEDEN. The elections of the three orders which, with that of the hereditary nobility, forts the deliberative chambers of the Swedish Diet, are completely termi nated. With a very few exceptioar, the electors of the order of peasants have re-elected the deputies who eat in the last assembly ; sod the majority in the next National Diet appears to be secured to the liberal party. 13, 1858. M. Mercier, minister at Neufchatel, having been arrested, a domiciliary visit her been made at the house, and important papers have been discovered immeshed under a woman's dress. The National Suisse publishes the following note : "We read in the Courrier de Bienne, the Berlin journal which we cited yesterday was well informed. Prussia bas just lodged a protest with the Federal government against aoy interference on its part with the drain of Neufchatel." _ _ The Revue de Geneve announces that one of the Counts Poland's has died of hie wounds. This is not, we believe, the Count Pourtales who wee the leader of the insurrection. The Swiss Federal Assembly is convoked for Thurs day next. The circular to the members is silent on the affairs of Neufchatel, although the recent events there must neoessarily and at once occupy the atten tion of the Chambers. As far as can be gathered from an obscure telegraphic communication from Berlin, the Prussian Government is about to make a strong effort to secure the recognition of those claims on Neuf chatel whioh, for the last eight years, it has never omitted to meet. . . " The population of Neufchatel," says a letter in the Suisse, of Berne, "on the evening of the sth, streamed towards the port where the leaders of the late revolt were expected to arrive under escort. At six o'clock, the steamer came in with part of a divi sion of Bernese troops on board, to whose care had been entrusted MM. de Meuron and Portalir, who bad been captured in the canton of Fribourg. The troops formed two lines, and marched up to the town with the prisoners in their centre. The inhabitants were deeply touched at the reverse of fortune exhi bited in the case of Count de Portaler, whose noble head crowned with white hairs commanded their sympathise It was indeed an awful blow for the count, who, the possessor of a fortune of thirty mil lions, was now passing the streets as a criminal." HANOVER. HAMBURG. SEPT. 11.—A royal proclamation of the government of Hanover has annulled all the articles of the Constitution of 1849 relative to finances. The civil list is fixed by royal decree at 600,000 thalen. DENMARK. The Diet of Denmark has been convoked for an extraordinary session on the 4th October. It is stated that the government will make commuoics, tions to it relative to the affair of the redemption of the Sound Dues, which affair it is thought is nu& ciently advanced to allow hopes of a prompt solution to be entertained. A letter from Vienna of the 7th, in the Bourse Gazelle of Berlin, says :—" It is stated on good autho rity that the cabinet of Vienna has proposed to Prince Kallimaki, the Turkish ambassador, a pacific arrangement of the affair of Montenegro, and has offered its mediation. It is aid that ham Bey, who has hitherto filled at Vienna the Inactions of First Councillor of Legation, and who left this city yester- day for Constantinople, has carried with him de spatches relative to the affair ; and that Baron de Prokesch, the Austrian internuocio at Constantinople, has received orders to come to some understanding on the matter with the Grand Vizir and Fnad It is affirmed that Prince Danilo, who is somewhat alarmed at the preparations of the Porte, is disposed to consent to an arrangement, and that an agent of his, named Milo Ethonsservic, has arrived here to the purpose of requesting the mediation of Austria. RUSSIA AND THE EAST. TRIESTB, Sin. 12. A packet has arrived with Constantinople news to the 6th. Ghempek hea been almost destroyed by fire. The Russians are actively tortifyiog Bog and Nicolaleff. The English fleet him returned from the Black Sea, but the Gladiator was to continue to cruise before the Isle of Serpents until it is evacuated by the Russians. (According to all the news of late 1 11 date ►he Russians evacuated the island long ago.) The Sultan has sent a handsome sword and the order of Medjidie to Admiral Stewart. A letter from Athens of the 7th says that the allies have declared that they will not evacuate Greece until a ministry shall be appointed possessing th e confidence of the Western Powers. It is hoped that the Greek government will return a favourable answer. SEBASTOPOL. A letter from Sebastopol, in the Abeille du Nord, states that the Russian government is using the greatest activity in repairing the damage caused during the siege. The steam legate Chersonesus and the transports Rani, Labe, and Prouth have been raised. The lest named has heea seat to Nicolaieff. In the Bay of Karabelnaia the warehouses are being converted into barracks; and carpenters, masons, and other workmen are arriving there, sent by the government to take part in the works to be executed. AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED STATES. (PROM OUR SPECIAL NEW YORK, Acucar 30. Both Houses of Congress are still in session, nor is there any immediate prospect of adjournment. The House of Representatives stands firmly to its first decision, and through every variety of form known to parliaments carries its slender but undaunted majority. The Senate declares its determination to protract the session till the latest hour of its consti tutional existence, rather than bend to the lower house. The sympathies of the great mass of the people in the. Free States are with the House of Representatives in their manly, dignified, and inde pendent course. They are justified in withholding the army appropriation from the President, unless he is deprived of all power to send soldiers into Kansas to sustain the Border Ruffians: and the Free State men say that if, in consequence of withholding the appropriation for the year, our array is disbanded, Mr. Pierce and his friends must shoulder the respon sibility. They can unlock the Treasury in one minute. It is alleged with irresistible force, that if Mr. Pierce does not inteed to force slavery into Kansas by means of United States muskets and cannon, then the proviso can do no harm ' • while if I e does, he ought to have no grmy at his command. But it is true beyond all doubt that be has used all his dispo- sable military force hitherto in driving the Free State settlers from Kansas, and helping Border Ruffians in. It is true that he is directly responsible for bringing upon that devoted territory a bloody civil war; and it is just as universally believed that if he has the power he will continue to use it for the same infamous purposes. The only way to arrest him in this san guinary course is to stop the army supplies. Better, say the Free State men, disband tlh army of 10,000 or 16.000 men whose services are of doubttol utility, on the whole, than to use these men and these 16,000,000 dollars in the unhallowed work of forcing slavery into the soil of freedom. This is a plain statement of the argument, without gloss or vsruish. Hence the firm ness with which Mr. Banks's small majority persist in their first course. The arrival of the Illinois yesterday with the Cali fortis mails up to the ,sth brings us full details of the late scenes of violence which have been enacted in San Francisco. The Vigilance Committee has transported some 20 of the most desperate character, that infested that city, hanged two murderer', and declared itself en permanence. Judge Terry was still retained in the hands of the committee, who do not contemplate his immediate release. The sub ject came up for the consideration of the Senate yesterday at Washington, and it we. argued that ledge Terry being an officer of the United States District Court, Congress could with propriety inter fere for hie liberation. This would all do very, well at any other time, but now the expniment will not probably be tried. The people of San Francisco found their city under the control of a set of murderers and blacklegs. There was no smithy for liberty, life, or property. They sought relief in the only way left, lifter having exhausted all other resources, and they achieved a revolution and put all power into the hands of • committee of public safety. All good citizens united in the movement ; the men chosen to rale the city enjoyed the entire confidence of their fellow-citizens; their acts have all been approved of; perfect order reigns in Sae Francisco, and the world will justify what has been done. A great deal of unnecessary alarm has been excited at the exaggerated reports of the prevalence of yellow fever at the quarantine of this port. That several deaths have occurred in that locality and its imme diate neighbourhood from this malignant and terrible malady is true, but this is by no means a new thing. During the hot season we always have deaths trout yellow fever at the quarantine eta•ion in the Bay of New York. There have been more than usual this season; but it is not believed that a single case of yellow fever has yet occurred in New York or its immediate environs, which embrace a million of people. The disease is now, however, rapidly disap pearing even from the quarantine, and in a week there will probably not be a single case in the hospital. Since the heated term broke up with copious shower, which watered the whole country, we have enjoyed • delicious atmosphere, and all the later crops are coming in fully as well as the average of the last five veers, and in many states with great abundance. In spite of all that is said by alarmists and speculators, the cotton crop will, beyond all hszard, be a good one. Indian corn will be a ftir crop everywhere, and through the whole north and west abundant. The potato rot, which a few years I ago had become alarmingly prevalent, has almost entirely disappeared from the continent. This is generally attributt dto the drought of 1854, which extended from the most eastern of the Brhish pro- Tilton to California and Oregon. . The bondholders of Californian securities need feel no alarm at the failure of Palmer, Cook, and Co. to pay over the interest on the City and State Bond& The State treasurer, on hearing the intelligence, im mediately made new arrangements honourable to the State, and her credit will not antler by the de falcation of the banking house alluded to. The money market of San Francisco was easy; the re. wittance of gold and drafts on the eub.treasury of New York 1,865,000 dollars. The Shippiny List of San Francisco, after speaking of the general improve ment in business in California, says The money market has pres:nted tew changes during the fortnight on which to base an wended review. Rates remain uncharged, end the demand has not very materially increased, although towards the close we think we notice somewhat more inquiry thou even the near approach of steamer day would account for. There is an abund►ace of capital here, u usual, at the disposal of those who have the securities to offer for it, and rates are low enough, except for such at are caught in a tight place, who of course have to pay heavily for the privilege of being accommodated. Bank rates remain unchanged—say 21 per cant., but this discount is not at present so lsrgs es it should be to afford proper fulfiller, to a community where so much credit in gives as in oar own. The supply of dust from the interior appears to be falling off quite con•iderably of late—more so, in fact, than we had any reason to anticipate thus early in the season. This has been caused, of cones., by the failure of the inpply of water, not only in the natural but in even the artificial rounds. The followiog is a statement of the export of treasure for the first seven months of the smut% year : Reported previous to July 1 24,214.911 doll. Shipment per J. L. Stephens, July 5 2010,841 „ Shipment per Golden Age, July 21 1,931,836 is Other shipments in July 28 220,088 dab. We have within a few days received much excit ing news from Kansas ; but we distrust all telegra phic despatches from that region. Everything of this kind comes through Missouri, and the Border Ruf fians give to it a complexion to suit themselves. For instance, four or five days ago the news came that 1,000 Free State men had met peewit , armed, at tacked and nearly destroyed Lecompton and other strongholds of the Pierce ruffians, and made a"clean sweep" of the territory. Hence we read a humble and touching appeal for help, aid, arms, and men, to save the friends of slavery—signed by Atchison, String fellow, and their fellow-ruffian'. But the simple truth is out at last. The ruffian, a few weeks ago intercepted a large body of free state emigrants, stole most of their pro perty, took from them their arms and ammunition, and compelled them to turn beck into a howling wilderness with their wives and little ones. This last achievement it was thought had wound up the Free State party. But they recovered, and with large reinforcements pressed oo ; and from the latest accounts it appears that they have been vic•orious, and it is hoped they are now strong enough to stand their ground. The news from Kansas is on the whole somewhat more encouraging. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. s.—The Queen has been graciously pleated to eppnint Henry Adrian Churchill, Esq., C. 8., now third paid Attaché to her Majesty's Legation at Tehran, to be her Majesty's Consul in B oats —Garette. Cabs are about to be introduced into Malta. Mr: Andrews, tbe ooachnialter, and mayor of Snithamolon, has received an order fora number of them, to be rent as POW as possible. The open air preaching in Bishop Bonner's fields, near Victoria Park, is to be continued to-morrow (Sunday), on which occasion the Hey. William Deacon Long, M.A. incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Bermondsey, will officiate. THE BRUSSELS FREF.TRADE CONGRESS.—Mr Maher Gibson, M.P., has signified his intention of attend ling the sittings of the c ititrats B. &di - ord is to make • very imp eing demonetratioo. The president of its Cham ber of Commerce, Mr Tittle Sait ; one of its parlism.ntery reorestatatives, Mr. Henry Wickham; the secretary of the Chamber, Mr. JAG Difiloglol2 ; together with one other member of the Coembiir, Mr. Jacob Behrens, are to at tend. The Bantam Chamber of Commerce is to be repre sented by Mr. Thos. Studer, and declarations of a:Begirn from rim lay quarten are pouriog in drill.—Mancherfer Examiner. THE WEST INDIA COMMAND.—We understand that Rest Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., who is now on his ;omega to Ecglaud in the Hannibal, will suc ceed to the North Aniericnn and West Indian c ionised in November, at which time R•iar Admiral Fanshawe's period of service will have aspired. Sr. Houston, it is b lieved, wishes to cmtioue in toe Hannibal, but it is not probable that the Admiralty will 1.114C100 the ompleyment of a screw line-.f-battle ship on 'hat station w beet coal is lo very costly a c , 1110204ity. — United Service GiVeCie. The Mayor of Southampton will give • banquet to the directors of the European and Australian Royal Mail Company, prey ous t i the departure of their tint mill steamship to Melbourne, in Victoria. AUDIT OF FUBLIC ACCOUNTS.—The select com pathos apt oirt.d by the House of Comm- to to inquire into she receipt, hone, and audit t f public mut ets in the Es chrquer, the Pay-office, and tt e Audit Department , have published the suidet.• e taken t'olo,o IN al, but make no report, in consiquence of tie importance and exn or of the subject, the incomplee state of the inquiry, and the ad vanced period of the at intim. The Hight Hnn. Sir F. T. 1 Bating was cha man of the committee the first witnesa lea mined wit Lord blontesetle, whine ersminatt. o occupied I four entire sittings of the varmintr. His lordship woe 1 further :stained on three rtlCCMialf days by the committee. Mr W. G. Anders a, pritci: al clerk to charge of the &menial business of the T-esauty, was Plea warned at great length by the committee. The ether witnesses ea- Grained were Messrs. E. A. Hafer, C. Vine, E. Hominy, C. Macaulay, H. T. D. Bathurst, and J. Hollirge. The evi dries of there wituesars me-unit... 148 rages, and there are 27 appendices which flit 3;0 payee more. Thee PIPIT' relate to the Each( que and Pay., Mee, the C.lmmisiarist Cheat aces net, the rammer t of loans, the exchange of Enchequer Bide, the Paymaiter General's batman, reports en the Commissioners of Audit, and other matters relating to finance. TILE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS was 0141. elect at Honolulu on the 19. h of June to Miss Emus Roobed. THE RUSSIAN SUGAR BUTTER—The Russian go. eminent has published a notice, making modifications in the import duty on sugar of all kind., with the in pirat of that made from beetroot. For refined saga in loaves • duty of 5 enables ('he roohle ts 41r) the p.itail (*lined 16f kilogrammes). is ealutitutail for the premona Pe h‘bonoe l , by all the frontiers except Odeva. eters it was admitted en changed. F . o rawr t 'I s 3. es, which duty r ve rnal. 3 melees, 3 g 3 roubles 20 copnckr, and 3 roobles 60 clue:s, aceirdb. to the place of importat ice, le replac d by a anitom one or 3 roubles copeck is with )Ti • shove change. ate applterib'e to imports by nee,ose by land still re staining prohibited, except in the ktagdom of Tolosa. FINLAND.—A letter from Wiborg, in Finland, d the 29th silt , says:—" Ore of cite mesa emorrai eat - wises ever undertaken in Einl.nrl. tl e construction of a moat from Babas to Wiboeg, has j oat been terminated, after twelve years' mei t.truptol Lehner, though Biotech had which hit lion with tbe Gulf of Pothnia. The length of It, including the branches, is equal to a third of the total length of wibirenrecathaelbriele.:Finstea"ct:ce7litilayeTerhsuistiOitg:e.minte:twde t 'l ct iltn i n s i n ea d : Finland. I i i i