The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-01 00:00:00

2 in the way of vanity and servility require, titles-4a of themselves to a discount ; dukes become one-pound notes, of which it requires one and a half to mate an honest guinea ; and barons are bad shillings, scarcely worth sixpence. Half the political gentlemen in Paris, Messrs. TITIEIS and Guam . included. OM barons, but blush to own the soft impeachment. What earthly hum lies in the innocent creation P In these mild and generous days, instead of sending our ene mies to perdition, let us simply wish them no more harm than to be ridiculous. Britons events are daily adding to our e on the subject of banking. We think the d%tillao: server cannot but recognise a striking accordance in the occurrences of the last and the present year, both at home and amongst our neighbours. The moat pre judiced in favour of any particular system will own that grave reasons have presented themselves for re considering what were considered to be established principles.' Foremost amongst the principles which a few years back it was much the fashion to decry, was the notion of leaving bankers the uncontrolled manage ment of their issue. As long . as private banks would issue notes at will, the misery attending every crisis was unscrupulously charged to the ac count of the banker, who was accused of having nourished speculation. It was of no avail that the banker who did so became the sure victim of his im prudence, and thus served as a warning to his compeers. Bankers were assumed to be incorrigible venders of worthless paper when they had an oppor tunity. The public was voted to be incapable of re sisting the temptation to take notes which were known to be issued without security and without limit. Sailing upon this current of public opinion, the followers et Sir Roemer PEEL'S policy voted a strait-waistcoat for every banker, as the sole way of protecting an unarmed and simple public from his predatory claws. Experiments have since then been tried in eoarly all the states of Europe, both on the results of restricted and of unlimited issues. Those of the Austrian minister of finances are amongst the pro minently useful lessons that have been taught us. Baron Kumsee came into office with an impression that the Bank of Vienna, which, until his time, bail been managed by directors chosen from the leading merchants of that city, had degenerated from its on ginal character for general usefulness, and had become the mere tool of the rich houses who had access to its coffers. He found that thus houses had bills to an enormous amount in its portfolio, and that the Vienna firms had become organs through which the paper currency of the bank circulated to the remotest corner of that immense empire, the extremities of which are about eighteen hundred miles asunder. The insinuations of rivals and ene mies, and the prospect of never-fading laurels to be gained by a successful exploit in this field, where he bad full liberty from his colleagues to do as he liked, urged him to adopt a decided line of reform. The governor of the bank, although then a merchant, was named by the crown. The firm of which he was a partner, got into difficulties, and stopped payment. A great deal of their peter was in the hands of the bank. The opportunity and the exc2se for acting with decision were furnished, and the minister did not let them slip. Stringent restrictions were imme diately enforced against the large houses that Ltd availed themselves of bank accommodation. They were pressed so hard that many broke, entailing rain on thousands, and spreading dismay throughout the commercial world. In the confusion that ensued, nothing was talked of bat the vigour of mind shown by the not very youthful minister, and the criminal extent to which accommodation had been afforded to those who did not deserve it No evidence was produced u to the share the unffirtunate house had in promoting trade, or agricul tural and manufacturing industry in the remote provinces of the empire, which without each accom modation, or its surrogate, a good organisation of local private credit, could not have been effected. Still less did any inquire into the possibility that the trading connexion of those houses was as useful to the bank, as the aid of the bank was to them. Such questions are seldom asked anywhere, and we cannot wonder at their not presenting themselves to the minds ofjhe people of Vienna. But the reformation that had been projected was accomplished. The direction was re constituted, and the control of the bank placed more immediately under the Minister of Finance, who soon after started a novel system. This consi sted in an extension of the issues on the authorisation of the minister, beyond the strictly trading limit. When the tide of speculation that had so long favoured railway enterprise began in 1846 to set against it, the pressure of fresh calls became early sensible at Vienna. Baron KIJBECK thought to stay its force by purchases of shares made on government account whenever the market flagged. A large issue of notes was the result, which, not being called for oy a corresponding increased production, threatened to bring about a depreciation. The minister became alarmed, and tried to stop his supplies, bat was met by irresistible evidence of the imminence of a tremen dous crash the moment he did so, which he had not the nerve to encounter. A notification has, therefore, been issued to the effect that the purchases will be continued, although the result of pressing them much further may be foreseen by all. This result of ministerial interference in trading matters, to the extent of regulating the dependence of the trader on his banker, is here attended within a short space with its inevitable accompaniment—an as sumption of responsibility by the servants of the crown which they have no means of supporting. A depreciation of the bank paper would, by destroying trade, endanger the political stability of the empire; and if a revolution were avoided, the loss of so useful an establishment as a central national bank would be almost irreparable. All this has been encountered by a minister's attempting to strengthen the bank and extend its functions through government support. In . stead of appealing to trade, and awakening the whole -1101110 competition of private credit, which would eventually have called forth a circulation of local notes that could be exchanged for those of the national bank in case of need, and which would have given a proper elasticity to the currency, all private issues were suppressed, and branch banks in all the provinces were substituted for the trading connexion that had been destroyed. But the asks of the central bank, which might, if the natural chan nels for circulation had not been stopped up, . have circulated almost without limit, threat ened to become a drug when there was no com mercial confidence to carry them into circulation. Baron Kuesce, like every other minister who tries the experiment, will find that no one, not even the crown, has en unlimited power of issue, and that the public not only keeps a strict watch over all who pro fess to trade on creffit, but that it is both a safer and less onerous t o to leave banking to those who un derstand its laws and have watched their operation practically in spheres to which a minister's eye can It appears from our Paris despatches of Wednesday, that the popular demonstrations in favour of parlia mentary and electoral reform, are assuming a foroe and extension which the court and cabinet had not at all anticipated, and consequently • to excite both attention and uneasiness. The nat Meaux was signed by 1,700 persons. monster ban quet is now announced at Comes. The frightful massacre of the Arab tribes in Mo rocco, reported in the Paris journals, appears, by more recent arrivals, to have been greatly under stated, owing to a press error of the Algiers journal rEcho d'Oran, front which the report was taken. „A typical error," says that journal of the 18th Sept., " was committed in oar last number. In the report of the extermination of the tribes of the Hachema and Beni-Amen we gave their numbers at from 1,200 to 1,500 only; it was 12,000 to 15,000 we should have printed ! !—and it would have been more exact to have stated a higher number." Truly, French domi nation in Africa is destined to be recorded in charac ters of blood. These unfortunate triles took refuge among their fellow-religionists in Morocco, who ex terminated them in cold blood, flinging the children over precipices and into ravines. To prove how much the number of these unfortunates hasbeen underrateone tribe d at 15,000, the Echo d'Oran shows that alone, the Beni-Amen, on the lowest estimate , • have amounted to this number. It consisted of 2,200 tents, these tents containing, one with another, seven persons, giving a total of 15,400; and besides this, there was the other tribe, little less in amount. A few scattered fugitives, not amounting probably to one hundred, were all that escaped to bring the bloody tidings of the extermination to the christian lova& rs, the original curse of the country, and canoe of such wholesale massacres. nfl • 0 We repeal in liaVespress oa Mendip (ewe.- sively) the panis Witielt oak plass as the Benne at Vienna, is avegrasee a the distontiananos of the purchase d *Ws t, and the re ht-4dirut thereupon. Letters sines received boa mention the following curious fads fit winswiameiwith this affair Whin the rob leek Owe to-day (18tb) on our BOOM t spsealseers .riread. away, sad it via neorrsary to have them teargyin brim Perteaately, word was sent that the gerieemas lad shagged the resolution it had farmed of =l=ystmeares tie awns, and a out of eleven 2W4=ristroo. The ands b new is yesinsioa of 1120111 thaa the Yam of dr sham of the dilieset rsiltrays, and it is ressaisad that the whsle mai he penbased by the state in the courts of a kw day.. The mond will mann to about ten millions of florist. The Nord Rail*avdtat from Vienna to Presbourg, will den roods for private speculation. Le Cherrier Fronde announces (without tig its authority) an important fact. The Bey of says that journal, haa.lsean required by the Sultan to withdraw the exequitnia from the Creek consuls in his ports, in accordant).- with the like measure at Constantinople. The yew request has been made to Mehemet Ali, as has Were been stated. These no minal vassals of the POrte have formally refused to amply with this requisition. - A report was current in Paris that the Chambers Weld be convoked for the 6th December. We find the following in the Constitutionnel, in re inspect to the rumour that we' inister of Finance has unsolved to postgame the s n The bit - lien is the present moment a subject of grave dl tor dm • o f Finance, and indeed for the whole ashieet The which present themselves to the loin are einenhey esewelesa with these difficulties, and singularly lissas theinansiel porkies. Several journals have sootoses4 wined berntor reporeng to attach great coalldson es the dochataka4 that the hiwitsr of Finance, i i ssnse of having _procured private resources, had es as laastenantats porn& the task of contracting Ahreardlag to theissa which we have pro ton& ken a psi soeree we sea iodised to think that the porkies of the Miskser at Manua is sot such as that he en es yet eras toy &Alm relative to that measure. Id. Dense, se the ennotypiarmed with just reason at the dilloatiet width the Inosia crisis is calculated to crests fur him to offigglag the lean, is at the present moment e n. deaverarlog torkost, without however knowing if be can Sad then, theorem et postponing that painful undertaking. For that crp lig thes just applied to his colleagues to , seed hint Ate elements necessary for the for- ' matin of ho l iest of 1819, and to concert together on the moos of tee lloin the total within the narrowest possible limits. It is not until after that preparatory labour, and when e shall have decided on the proton' basis of the budget h for 1819, that the hoh. minister will be able to judge of his wants and resources, mid that he can at bin determine the period and conditions of the loan. The Madrid mails of the 24th have arrived. We give, below, the letter of our own correspondent. It was expected that M. Salamanca would present to the Queen , on the evening of the 24th, several de crees relative to the finances of the state for signature, which would appear in the Gazette of the 25th. Pri ' vete letters say that Mr. Bulwer his returned to Madrid from La Orsnja ix, consequence of despatches which had arrived from London, the contents of which were of pressing importance. It was said in certain circles in Madrid, according to these letters, that Lord Palmerston had formed a project for getting the marriage of the Queen annulled, for changing the succession through the instrumentality of the Cortes, and for marrying the Queen to the Count Monte molin. All this has been again and again reported at Madrid, and the present announcement has no better grounds than former ones. The authors of this gossip neither kuow nor could have known anything of the subject of Lord Palmerston'a despatches to Mr. Bulwer. It seems tht we 'were right the other day in conjecturing that the French government must hide her pacific intelligent* from Austria. That intelli gence has now become public, in the shape of an agreement between the Pope and the Austrian government respecting , the occupation of Ferrara. The Pe stipulates that that town shall not have a national guard, and that its garrison shall consist not of citizens of the Roman states, bat Swiss. This con descension on the part of his Holiness will scarcely satisfy the Romagneee. , The report given by us yesterday of an betook produced at Leghorn xy the alleged detection of a reactionary conspiracy there, in which the chiefs of the police were suppled to be implicated, is con firmed. According to the present advice, it appears that some agents of the police, who were hostile to reform, and probably instigated by Austrian in fluence, having on the night of the 20th attacked a group of young men ribose liberal opinions were well known, the population of the city rose and com pelled the police to laity the town. After being farther excited, the people proceeded to arrest a number of persons charged with being opposed to reform and progress, to the number of about fifty. These disorders caused the local authorities to call out the national guard, mid to issue the proclamation which we subjoin, and which had the effect of re storing tranquillity : Livernam,—Some alarming reports, disseminated during the last few days, have created • fear that public security was about to be disturbed by the plots of conspirators. These reports have afforded a pretest to some ill-disposed individuals to commit ads blamable as being arbitrary and violent, and which would have been attended with serious consequences but for the intervention of the patrols of the civic volunteers. To put rtn end to disorder so grave, the local government, invested with sufficient authority by the superior government, has resolved to call immediately into active service the civic read. The command of this body, under the provisional dumeeion of the Gonfaloniare ' is in trusted to the cbefs de hataillon Bartolomei and nacho. All the good citizens of Leghorn are invited to concur and aid in this duty ' • and the . people are warned that all the orders which the said ci vic guard may have occasion to issue for the re-establihnient of public tranquillity must be respected and carried taw execution. In tine, to give complete assurance to the public mind, the governor makes known that all the persons. most openly accused by the pub lic voice have spontaneously surrendered themselves Into the hands of the authorities, and have been transferred to a place of security, there to undergo a formal examination, the result of which the public is desired to wait for to ca lm nem sad confidence. , The project of a petition in favour of political re form from the Genoese having been submitted to hag Charles Albert, and not having been approved by him, the intention of protesting it is abandoned. The general condition of the people of Italy may be It ferred from this fact, that in Piedmont, one of the most liberal states, and that which is among the fore most to support the Pope, the people are not even allowed to lay their cempiaints, remonstrances, or wishes, at the foot of the throne. We gave yesterday the substance of intelligence re ceived from Naples at Cis date of the 21st inst., pre senting a most gloomy picture of the situation of that part of the peninsula. We have to-day to give a much more agreeable report, the authenticity of whisk however, we are not ablate vouch for. It is, however, credited in respectable quarters, and accepted by one of the semi-official organs of the French cabinet. According to this report, the King of Naples has resolved to grant a ind amnesty to all insurgents who shall immediat ely lay down their arms; and, in order to establish the tranquillity of the kingdom on a more sure and permanent basis, has determined to effect in the government numerous administrative reforms. The minister, Pietro Cstells, is ordered to prepare a project in accordance with these o.ssigns. The Cotemporaneo, Roman journal, of, the 18th, mentions (what we formerly have stated), that au appli cation had been made by .the Austrian government to the Pope, for permission to march trops through the papal territory, to aid the Neapoldtan government lo this application, says the Cotenporoneo, his holi ness has given a most formal and decided refusal. Apo ppular movement having been manifested in Massa Carrara, in the duchy of Modena, a detach ment, with two pieces of artillery, was sent there. When these forces were passing through Reggio (Mo dena) they were received with loud marks of dis approbation by the people. A council of war was nominated at Mtesa, to try and execute, within 24 hours, all who should be found in arms. Several persons had been arrested for crying " Vire Pio IX." All the people of the neighbouring states of Tusmny, and the Genoese, who madly frequent the markets, were stopped on the frontiers. The national guard has been organised by the regency in Lucca, on principles showing the utmost confidence in the people. The regulations are even more popular than those adopted in Tuscany. Letters from Parma say that the admission of all journals whatever is prohibited in that duchy except the Milan Gazette arid the Journal des Debate. What ignominy," soya a Leghorn journal, " for that ment whoee official journal is thus placed on a par with the Milan Goalie!" The Nuremberg Ciirrespondent says that on the 14th, when the Pope was inspecting the national guard posted at the Quirinal, ho addressed them, exhorting them to wait patiently e vents, sa y in g thai . • •_ nadirs lave beat wounded. General °Hess is still O ~ steelwhere he enlists fresh soldiers. Till now the C has protected hia against the order of the Dia make the Pasha of Janina to have him condo General Grissiottis is still alive. The co of Ipasn has mat hint 800 drachms. .. COLONIAL. CANADA.—Uozeirc.--Exemerea Fier--.A fire, more destructive than any which occurred situ the memo rable conflagratioa, has taken plies in Quebec. The Chronicle says : It began in the /omega in the rear of a house in St. Johnureet, and communicated with isitraordi. ash rapidity to a paint and oil store in front, which was soon one attest of flame. The aurroundag houses were speedily enveloped. Stretching across the "Reset, , the lire laid hold of a large building occupied m a dry go* store, which was completely burned. In nevi-street, it extended to and consumed a dwelling-house of the ordnance depart ment, and destroyed the intervening tenenteneWbangarcls, and the like. A large stone house, being covered with tin, and having a good substantial coupe-fess, fortunately escaped with a considerable scorching, the hangards in rear havin been consumed, and the wooden windmill—frames b u ried. Fortun a tely the weather wan calm, otherwise the destruction of property, great as it has been, would have been tenfold more. Irbe Court. Yesterday afternoon the Queen Dowager, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, arrived at Osborne on • visit to the Queen. The Earl of Denbigh, Master of the Horse, was in attendance on the Queen Dowager. The august party crossed from Gosport in the Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence. Yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock, the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Savo Meiningen, and the Duchess Ida and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, left her residence, Marlborough house, for Osborne, Isle of. Wight. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of DeubigL, and the Duke of Saxe Meiningen was attended by the gen tlemen of his suite. Her Majesty and her illustrious Tilltora proceeded to the Nine Elms terminus, and left town by the London and Benth-Western The Princesses of Saxe Weimar, attended by Lady Gore, Hun. Miss Hudson, Miss Gore, and the Rev. J. R. Wood, honoured Mr. Murforirs panoramas of Cairo, Athens, and the Himalaya Mountains, with • visit yesterday. The Princesses Hannah and Emilie of Saxe Weimar, accompanied by Lady Gore, the Hon. Min Hud son, and the Rey. J. Wood, honoured the Royal Polytechnic Institution with a visit yePterd.tv Despatches were rec,iveu yesterday at the Colo nial-office from the Governor-General of Canada, and also from the governors of the other North American provinces. —Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office fur the Governor of New South Wales, and also for the Governor of New Zealand. MARRlAGE.—Yesterday the marriage of Mr. George Granville Verne& Harcourt, M.P., eldest eon of the Arch bishop of York, and the Countess Dowager Waidegrave, daughter of Mr. Braham, the celebrated vocalist, took place, by special licence, at the village church, about a mile distant from Belhus House, Sir Thos. Leonard's seat, near Ocken don, Baez. The bride and bridegroom, with a select dale of their relatives, proceeded to the church, just before noon, from Belhus House, when the marriage ceremony was duly performed; Lord and Lady Norreya and a select party being witnesses of the sob run rite. The marriage was conducted' as privately as possible, and after partaking of a &Yaws the hon. gentleman and his bride departed fur Numbs= Park, the Archbishop of York's seat, near Oxford, where they pass a short period, prior to their departure on a continental. tour. It is the thir 1 matrimonial contract the lad 7 has entered into since 1839. The hon. bridegroom is in his 63d year, and had been a widower during the last nine years, his first wife being a daughter of the late Earl of Luean, by whom he had an cod_r child, Lady Norreys. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of the Marquis of Kildare, eldest son of the Duke of Leinster. and Lady Carolina Levraon Gower, third daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, was solemnised yesterday at Trentham, Staffordshire. The Duke of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald arrived at Trentham early in the week from Carton-house, Maynooth, Ireland, in order to be present at the nuptials, and • large cirle of the relatives of the bride congregated at the ducal seat on the interesting occesion. The wedding party left the Duke of Sutherland's mansion for the new church at Trentham about half-put 11 in the forenoon. The religious solemnity was performed by the lion. and Rev. Henry Howard, Dean of Lichfield, brother of the Earl of Carlisle. The bridal party, at the conclusion of the ceremony, and after the cue registry of the marriage, adjourned to the mansion, where a sump tuous repast was prepared in the grand dining room. The noble marquis and the fair bride subsequently left Trentham fur Lilleshall, near Shiffaall, Shropshire, one of the Duke of Sutherland's seats. The Duke of Devonshire was prevented from being present by the arrival of distinguiehi.d company at Chatsworth, and Viscount Morpeth was also to have been . • there but for his recent accident. APPROACHING 'MARRIAGES.—We learn that the Hon. Spencer Cecil Ponsonby, fifth son of the late Earl of Ilessboroush, is shortly to conduct to the hymeneal altar the Hca. Louisa Dillon, third daughter of Viscountess (Dow.) Dillon, and • sister of the preterit Viscount Dillon. The ceremony is to be solemnis. el in the course of the ensuing month.—A marriage is definitively arranged between Miss Felicia Susan Lygon, eldest daughter of the Hon. General Henry Lygon, and niece of the Earl Beauchamp, and the Earl of St. Germane, and the Bev. Charles Cavendish, third son of Major.Oeneral the Hon. Henry Cayeadi.l.-Ihe marriage of the Bee. Captain Charles Elliot, third son of the Earl of Minto, and Miss Antiphon, daughter of Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., will be solemnised towards the ease of next mosth.—A matrimonial alliance is currently rumoured in the higher circles of society—the parties being a noble lard of considerable wealth and the youthful daughter of a wealthy commoner. REGISTRATIONS CITY OF LONDON.—The court resumed its sittings 'wards ,aad sornpletediehe revision of tholist for the wards of Bread etreel. Queenhiehe, and Vintry. The cases heard were onuses/Sy void of barna. The following is the remit of the day's revision :—Liberal lelainse elbwd, 17; disallowed, 19. Conservative claiae I allowed, none; &mellowed, L.—Liberal objection, sustained, 1.41 i failed, I& Conservative, sentained, 70; bled, 23. Cistercians by both parties, sustained, 13; failed,.2. The court will proceed to-day with the, parishes in the wards of Bridge, Candlewick, and Walbrook.. WEsTmneens.—The lista for SI. Georgrieperish were poseeeded with.—Arthur Thellmon, Esq., of Thatos-muare, chimed to be regntased. It appeared he hed‘lot hie in Eaton-perm to Mr. John Thorrold, reserving to himself the right of osoupatien of a cellar, and of acceseen a rapboard in a passage leading to the kitchen.—Mr. Arbour appeased in support albs clam, and contended that an occupation of this nature by the legal tenant of a house was such a poses. aka as entitled the claims's* to a vote.—Ms Haggett re ferred to the decision of the court in Smith's cam, and which woo similar in its eissumatenoes, anal material'd the* the oc enpution was insufficient. The claim was rejected: la the caned Dr. Lankiest's, which was heasd'on Wane,- day, and which turnedon the non-payment of a rate on the sth April, which , had net been made till the 29th of that month, but the mods of 'trilling wheat was regulated. by • local act, the barrister said that the act we. oddly wended, but ha thought ha must admit the claim. Mr. Daggett signified that he would not essmeente the ap peals in the cases of Smith and Steele , of which he had given notice. The lint s for St. George's were gene through, and the court adjourned to thisday, when than for St. John's and St. Margaret's will be taken. The molt of the day's revision —2 expunged , 178; retained, and objections withdrawn, 2S. DINBIGHSTHRZ.--Oh Monday last.— Grant, Esq., barrister appointed to revive the list of voters for the county of Denbigh, held his court at the Wynnetay Arms Inn, in Anshan, hr the townships of Coed Cbristionydd and Christionydd Kendrick, in that part of the parish et Ituabon which is included in the Llangollen polling district. Mr. Hayward, solicitor, of Osirestry, appeared for the conserva tives ; w hile for the liberals there were Mr. Hughes , Mr. Wright, Dr. Lewis, of Wrexham, and several others. The list contained 22.8 objections made by the co:mei-retiree and overseers, out of which Mr. Hayward succeeded in expung ing no less than 201, leaving only 27 names to be retained. The liberals made 27 objections ; but the barrister decided that the notices were not only informal, but that they were not delivered in time to the overseer, and, consequently, not being gone into, they remained on the register un disturbed. THE NEW SHERIFFS. THE PRESENTATION. —The ceremony of presenting the newly-elected sheriffs for the City of London and County of Middlesex, W. Cubitt, Esq., M.P., and C. Hill, Esq., took place yesterday, at the Court of Exche quer, according to ancient custom. The procession reached Westminster Hall about half-past two o'clock, soon alter which the Cursitor Baron (G. Bankes, Esq. , M.P.) took his seat on the bench. The Recorder then introduced the now sheriffs to his lordship in a laudatory and eloquent address, in the course of which be stated that Mr. Cubitt began business in the humble occupation of a carpenter, and by his own industry and prudence had become a builder of great eminence, having oonstructed ma n noble edifices, amongst others the Fishmongers' Hall, in which he would that day, no doubt, receive the congratulations of his fellow citizens, whose esteem he had so justly won. The learned gentleman then described Mr. Hill as a stockbroker, who had had the good fortune to acquire an independency early in life ; and, alter complimenting him on the high estimation in which he was held by the citizens of London, proceeded to pan a high eulogium on the late sheriffs (Aid. Challis and Mr. Kennard) for the urteous and able manner in which they had performed the co arduous duties of their year of office. Sonic technical forms having been gone through, the Candice Baron expressed her Majesty's approbation of the choice which the Livery of London nad made of gentlemen to fill the high and important office of sheriff for the ensuing year ; and, having made some judicious observations on the nature of the duties which would devolve upon them, he concluded by bestowiag his meed of praise on the sheriffs. The usual ceremony of counting six horse-shoes, sixty-one holo-nails, and chopping two bundles of sticks (in pursuance of which custom the corporation of London hold certain estates in Shropshire) was then performed by the senior alderman who had not passed the chair ; after which the members of the corporation withdrew, proceeding in the City state barges to Blackfriars-bridge. TR' BAIMOST.-1.11 11•011`dallt• with 11•46. 1 t •0 1 40 111 a grand banquet was given in the evening, to which :he prinel pal members of the corporation and of the guilds of which the new sheriffs are respectively members, together with the Lord Chief Baron, the Curator Baron, and other members of thejudiciel bench were invited, to celebrate the hangars tion. The e sage d wirer , waa4 banqueting-room of Fish mongers' Hall, a building , by a singular coincidence, was erected 11 Mr. Cubitt, an Of which company he is a member—which was fitted up for the occasion, and in which covers were laid for *bout 2.50 guests. The banquet com prised, besides turtle and venimon, which were supplied in profusion, every &limey of the season, and was served in a manner that reflected ,credit on the providers, Mews. Bathe and Breach, of the London Tavern, and fully maintained the character which the weelthy company of Fishmongers basso long enjoyed for princely hospitality. The Right Hen. the Lord Mayor presided ; and amongst the most distinguished of the guests were the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Raft, the Cursitor Baron, the Solieitor-General, the American Minis ter (Mr. Bancroft), the Lord Mayor elect, Major-General Sir J. Lashing on, 14r. MastertnatOLP. for London, Mr. Coles, M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Chaplin, 24. P., the Queen's Itersembrancer, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Pres cott, Mr. Walter, M P., the late sheriffs and underaheriffs, the present under sheriffs, and the majority of the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council, the City Solicitor, &c. The visual loyal and constitutional toasts having been duly honoured, "The Army and Navy " being acknowledged by Major-General Sir J. Lushington, Mr. Sheriff Cueirr proposed " Her Majesty's Ministers," combining it with the health of the Solicitor-General, and remarked that none were more interested in the preservation of peace than the citizens of London ; and so long as those ministers exercised the address they had hitherto done in maintaining peace throughout the world, and promoting the prosperity of th s great empire, they might be assund of the support of the citizens of London. ( Cheer.) The N OLICIT0 11.015•81tAL, in returning thanks, referred to the return of Lord J. Russell for London as a testimony borne by that city to bis high honour and political worth. It was the wish of the present government to maintain peace throughout the world, to uphold the honour of the realm, and protect alike the interests of England, Ireland, and Scotland, which were, in fact, one and the same. (Hear.) Mr. Sheriff HILL proposed " The Health of the Lord-Lieu tenant of Middlesex, the Marquis of Salisbury," coupling that toast with "The House of Peers."—The Marquis of Salisbury briefly acknowledged the compliment. The LORD Maxon then gave "The Health' of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex (Messrs. Cubitt and Hill)," to which toast both gentlemen spoke their acknow. ledgments. Mr. Sheriff Cenrrt next proposed " The Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Platt, and the Judges ,' to which the Lord Chief Baron returned thanks. "The Lord Mayor Eleet " war nest given, and duly acknowledged by Mr. Alderman limper. The following tuast, "The American Minister," was limited to by Mr. Bancroft, in a brief but eloquent speech. he Cursitor Baron," " The Court of Aldermen,' and vermeils other toasts, were subsequently given ; all of which were' appropriately acknowledged. A variety of glees, principally from the works of German omposers, added to the amusement of the evening. IRREGULARITY IN THE DELIVERY OF THE QUERN'S Lerreas IN SCOTLAND.—A LOST PACKET. — During the time the court was at Ardverikie, the whole of her Majesty's letters, both official and private, were trans mitted to .Scotland through the Post-office; none of the Queen's messengers being employed upon the service, es upon former occasions. It has already been stated that the seals of several letters for her Majesty were found to be broken upon their arriving in Scotland. This, however, Is not ell; for other letters have been found never to have reached their destination, and those to which we allude, con taining official documents of considerable importance, have not yet been discovered. It appears that a short time before the Queen left Scotland, a packet, enclosing official de spatches for her Majesty, was sent through the Post office to Ardverikie by Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary. Many of these documents re quired her Majesty's signature. Amongst these papers, forwarded from the Home-office, was the patent of one of the Military Knights of Windsor, to be signed by the Queen, upon his being raised from the lower to the upper foundation. It has been arranged that a new patent shall be made out. The most searching inquiries have been going on for some days in the Post-office department, for the purpose of endeavouring to discover with whom the blame rebut. It may be mentioned, that several of the letters to pewits in the royal establishment, upon reaching Ardverikie, had been so completely saturated with water, that the writing was rendered scarcely legible. SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—The quarterly general court was held yesterday ; Mr. Charles Franks, the sub governor in the chair ; but alter the reading of the minutes of thi last court, and the election of parties to form a committee on the by-laws for the ensuing year, there being no business before it, the court adjourned. ZiNcaorr MINING COMPANY.—A general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday 'M the o ffi ces, Finsbury-square ; Mr. Hodgson in the chair.— The directors, in a short report, stated that during the lea four months many important and valuable discoveries had been wade which would smelly enhance the value of the property. The accounts showed a bailors in favour of the company of 1,3801., and it was anticipated that the funds would speedily place the shareholdersin receipt of a dividend. I The expenditure for the four months endive 30th June ' amounted to 10,8001. 10s. 9J., end the returns for the same period to 12,180/. The mining captain's (Capt. Polhill's) report gave en encouraging account ol the mining operations, and stated that the company's prospects were better now than for years past.—The Chairman said he had recently visited the mine, and could corroborate these statements. In answer to questions, he said the present month's ore would product about 2,0001. In perhaps three weeks' time, the Wheal Pro vidence part of the mine would be got into working again, and some of the deeper levels would probably be suspended. The premeds of the two months succeeding this (July and August) would produce a profit of 1,0001. tr. James said he should be glad to know from the chairman what were really the prospects of their undertaking. They had had many flattering statements at these meetings, but nothing mare.—The Chairman, as a young director, declined to express any positive opinion, but said he had no doubt the property would be benefited by the alterations which the director* had ordered. Recently their expeusea had been very heavy, owing to the dearness of provisions.—Mr. Lee thought they ought not to give away their property to keep people in Cornwall. The expenses of working this mine wave most exorbitant; and he moved that three efficient shareholders be appointed to go down and examine the mine, make a valuation of the machinery, and let them know exactly how they stood.—After a conversation, in the coarse of which the chairman stated that another meeting would probably be held about the end of the year, Mr. Lee withdrew his motion, in the hype that there would soon be an improvement in the affairs of the company.—A resolu tion, approving the report and accounts, was then adopted, thanks ware voted to the chairman and directors, and the proceedings terminated. • INCELARR OF POPULAR REPRESENTATION.—Last night a very numerous meeting, convened by the national alliance for promoting the representation of the people in parliament, was held at the British School-rooms, Cowper street, for the purpose of advancing the objects of the associa tion. The chair was taken at half-past 7 o'clock by Mr. E. Miall, who stated briefly the object for which the meeting was convened. The first monition was proposed by Mr. bl'Aubeey, to the effect that the Houses of Commons elected since the Reform Bill had no claims to the confidence of the friends of civil and religious liberty, and that the time had therefore arrived for • national movement, for the purpose of extending to the whole people theirnatural rights. The great body of the people of the country were becoming every day more and more impoverished, whilst wealth was accumu lating in the heads of individuals beyond the precedent of any former time or country. The cause of such an evil was to he found in the fact that the parole had no sufficient con ' trod in the state or government. How could that be called a proper representation of the people, where, as was the cam st the last election, 13 unsuccessful candidates polled more votes than 101 who had been returned to euth enist ? Sack a representation was a mere mockery. Mr. Ebenezer Clark secooded the resolution, which was carried unanimously.—Mr. T. Berme proposed the next reso lution, which pledged the meeting to advocate a real repro sentatioa of the people in parliament—universal suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, payment of mem bers, and short parliaments. If the people of this country had been properly represented in parliament they would have no state church; education would be left free, and they world have a good sanitary measure, instead of the miserable bill that was proposed to the last parliament. Such a mea sure was far more necessary to the country than a bishop of Manchester.—Mr. Henry Vincent seconded the resolution. He said the object of the alliance was to area a reel repre sentation of the people, which was their undoubted and in alienable right. They wished to compass it by peaceable means; and such was the:advance of the people in political knowledge, that the time could not be far distant when they would be successful. All they wanted was organisation, and—however they might be laughed at for it—money. The pence of the people would carry the object that was dear to them. They might be beaten back for a time, but they would triumph in the end, and the six points would become the law of the land. They must not be cajoled by whir or conservatives, but must show all that they were in earnest, by being practical and going straight forward to their object. A scheme would be promulgated in a few days which had for its object the spreading of their principleshy means of lectures and tracts; the contesting of independent towns ; and, if necessary, the payment of eight or nine members of parliament. Every thing that was passing around them evidenced the spread of democracy . in this country ; and not only in this country, but in the various states of Europe, the sound of freedom's steps was heard. In Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain, the spirit of democratic freedom was rife. And in beautiful Italy—in the City of the Seven Hills herself—homage was paid to the sacred name of liberty by the Pope himself. He hoped that her advent and triumph throughout the world would net be stained with crime or blood. The resolution was carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was they paused . to the chairman, alter which the meeting separated. COOKSLAND.—Sir,—It appears from Dr. Lang's letter, in your journal of the 27tb, that both Mr. Davidson and myself were in error respecting the lality which that gentleman proposes to call Cooksland, an d recommends for the cultivation of cotton. This error, however, was a very excusable one, as Dr. Lang adds, " In North-Eastern Aus tralia." Now the north-east coast of Australia only commences at Sandy Cape, and extends thence to Cape York ; and no part of Australia south of tie sth parallel a latitude g en n, with any propriety of language, be called Nodhasage ri Anntz.llia. A similar error was made in the design*. el th e p eo pt ie ,sd, but now, I believe, abandoned, colony sg N o * Austraha, When I first heard of this I c Included it was of mune somewhere between Cape York and the North-Weg Cape; jutte d o f w hi ch , it was attempted at Port Cani, nearly in the centre of the e.st coast. W e might as well lay that Boulogne is on th e north Coast of Europe. I t 'p p m , from his description that Dr. Latsee's Cooksland Mulmitheg with what is known iogiew South W.les as " The Hoeft Bay district." The name of Cooksla.dd is a ease but might perhaps; with more propriety be ratentr i t o whole eastern coast from Cape Howe to Cape Yi.rk; as sho e ,. ing the extent of coast first discovered and explored by twilit* trams navigator. Iby no means reprobated the formatio n of a colony in every part of the northeast oast on account of the sterility, but only in the tract between Ea. deavour River and Cape York; to this, perhaps, I might add the part lately attempted between Sandy Cape eg g Broad Sound, between which two places Port Curtiss Pita. ated. Port Bowen, a little north of Port Curtis, is, at all events, hopelessly barren, and a great moss o f ate . rile hills seems d to stretch along the coast to the south. North of Broad Sound, however, and from it to Rockingham Bay, the coast had a amore pre raising appearance than any other part of the Australian coast which I have seen. Good land was often found by tie close to the sea, as soon as we had penetrated the belt cif mangroves which always margin its hays and inlets. From the recently published accounts of Dr. Leichardt's arduous journey, it appears that several important streams fall into this tract from the dividing range, among others the Bard*. kin, apparently the largest river he met with. Had the re °tatty attempted settlement, under Col. Barney, only goes an far as West-hill or its neighbourhood, I think they would have been tempted to make a longer stay before abandoning the enterprise. The country about Cape Palment.m, with the many steep and woody Wands fronting it, Was often really charming in appearance, well-wooded, grassed, arid watered, and the climate appeared to be delightfua. I am very unwilling to use strong term., for fear I might be the means of leading any person astray, but I cer tainly think the country between Broad Sound sad Cape Upstart deserving of exploration, with a view to in immediate occupation, when once a steamer shall rego. laid, traverse its shores. Whether its staple shall be cotton, or wool, or any other commodity, is utterly oat of my pro. vines to decide. The great range of the tide, however, near Cape Palmerston, amounting at the springs to 30 feet, and the deep and secure harboarage about Port Mote in Whitsunday Passage, together with the abundance and variety of the ' timber, point out this tract as the probable locality of th e future shipyards of that part of the world.—J. Beets. kit% —Geological Survey, Tapythy Evan, Denbighshire, Sept. k DANGEROUS PILING OF WAGGONS.—Sir,—P errajt me to call your attention to the dangerous manner of lout ing hops on the various vans and waggons at this time of the year. Last winter they passed over London-bridge piled seven and eight or nine pockets high, to the great danger of life and limb of passeneers. This morning is passing 11'm ton-street, Maze pond, I observed a waggon c 'melt:etyma. termed against the basement of a house, which roust haw *liken it to its foundation; or, had it been a smaller house, moot have destroyed it; fortunately, the shutters were closed, - 'I the windows would have been smashed, II this bad warred later in 9. dig very possibly some person would We lost their life.—J. TITO:UNE& THE SERMEN-STREET ASSAULT CASE.—Siv,—.lf die grievance of which I am about to complain could be re. dressed without the aid of public opinion, I would not seek to obtrude myself on the notice of your readers ; but I hes to impugn the decree of a county court judge —a magistrate despotic by law, and unless the press intervene, irresponsible I , in fact. Some time back a nobleman, alter putting a letter into the post-office letter- box at my house, entered my shop and asked for certain goods ; they displeased him ; he 6e• paraged them in terms, and in a manner that tome appeared contumelious, and I:ordered him repested , y, and, nodoubt, an angry tone, to leave the shop. He refused, and I seat fors policeman to remove him. Whilst this noble pence en remaining in my shop, not for the purpose of purchuitss te inquiring after goods, nor for any purpose connected with my duties as the keeper of a poet-office, but in define el fy order to quit it, a pp:iceman passed. The intruder ere out to him, returns with him, and recommences the slims lion. I then, after requesting him to withdraw (but, is maintains, without such request) came from 'eked lay Punter, and pushed him into the street, with that degree d farce which I judged necessary to overcome the resistance I had reason to expect from a man more powerful Mannar. self, but without any wanton • act, and also without the least injury, in fact, to the person or dress of this pronage. He brought an action against me in the Wart nuniter County Court. I felt too strong in the justice of my erase t 3 seek the aid of a lawyer; or to invoke the isle. petition of a jury and the result war, that the Mho of the wart gave • verdict against me of '2Ol. damages, beside. c was advised that the verdict was wrong in point of law; I lilt that it was so in point of j ustice; and I applied by toes eel for a new trial. The application was refused,..ith oafs, on three grounds:-Ist. That I used "gross violence" 2nd. That, as a tradesman, I cannot revoke the *Mete— or, as the lawyers call it, "license"—which, by keeping shop, he gives to each one of the public to enter it—l had no right to turn this intruder or anyone elm out of my shop. And 3rd. That as the keeper of s post-office I had no right to clear the pram As to the first ground, lam advised that a man is rear titled to recover damages even for "gross violence," She has provoked violence, unless he can prove material upps his person or property, or acts of vindictiveness; ss to second, I am told that the permission to enter and :eases his shop, which a tradesman gives to the public, is lima* to the purposes for which the shop is kept, and like say other license may be revoked at pleasure without Naga assigned ; as to the third, I am informed that the keeps of a peat-office is not deprived of his rights of one against persons who enter or are in his shop ir purposes not relating to the business of the psie office. If the judge of the Westminster County Gout is right in his law, there is no outrage, short of pe sonal violence, which a shopkeeper, especially if he keep post-o ffi ce, must not endure in his hop, without rednis; fir if he may not himself turn out those who insult hiss, • neither may a policeman, and clearly no setioneas line the injury will be of a moral and not a material dander. Take the case of a shop in which a young girl a com pelled to serve. Ars the importunities or an grove seducer to be endured by her, or her parents re friends, without resistance ? Yet there is no 60 of resistance, says the judge of the Westmissar County Court; and as, if there is no right of resistaace, se evidence of the cause of resistance could be admitted it trial, the person contemplating seduction might Mies la action, if turned out, and punish the protector of Mersa perhaps. by a fine of 201. 1 will not trouble you. with (e -ther illustration. If, now, the judge of the Weenier , County Court is wrong in his law, what redress, air, have I' What redress any tradesman in Writminster, who, belies that judge, justifies an assault committed in defence of le possession ? If such redress there is none, it is only throve: you, air, that it can be obtained.—A. CLaius.-132, Jertays Street, St. James's, Sept. 30. INQUESTS, Y ESTERDAY. MANSLAUGHTER.— Be fore Mr, Wakley, 31. P., at the Oxford Arms, Ceram town, on the body of Mr. Thomas Ricketts, aBI,, retired naval officer, whose death was occasioned him( been knocked down by a chaise-cart. Deceased, w at No. 4, Hawley-terrace, Camden-town, on the elm* of Monday week was crossing the Hampstead•era, sor, Bayharn-street, at the time th at a chaise-cart, la woo were two men, and which was drawn by a bay pool, lir , proceeding down the Hampstead-road. The animal iris goel at a speed of about twelve miles an hour, ether, before the deceased, who was infirm, could get out of the way, hems knocked down, and the wheel of the vehicle we nt owe him. Several persons caUed to the driver t o stop, who locket back, and whipped his pony, which went at a nor Ma rate, and he got away. The coroner said the jury could re turn no other verdict than that of manslaughter, r the driver was going at furious speed: while, when called to, Its ought to have stopped. Verdict: "Manslaughter Will. some person or persons u nknown." The cermet ft' recta a sergeant of police of the S divided, yr was present, to use his best exer tions to trsee ?2.1. guilty perty.--SUICIDE PAWL JlALOWlT.—Beforstili Redford, at the Charing-cross Hospital, on the of Mary Ann Osborne, aged 16, of No. 401, S who, in a fit of jealousy, poisoned herself with ansit, The deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Osborne, 1! . . feetioner, of No. 401, Strand. For some tire pre had been much in the habit of attending the ba J lls us udi masquerades a bout London, especially the St, _ Assembly Rooms, in company with oatmeal young mean y one of whom, named Walters, she was strongly avert Latterly she had grown jealous of this pass imesslai_7 ad u lt f r equently heard to declare that she +veil ern . threats but these were so often repeated that If his II." was taken of them, On Tum Tuesday &Rentals el acquaintances on entering the shop saw 11;; ing out of a large tumbler, and when qu eAlirarl what she had taken, she answered that it Irma: Other persons in the house also heard what stn n ss o i n d e , o be ul l y iev a ul " la r k ," h r, n a d u supposed it was not dial assistance was obtained. The deceased wasasat bought some arsenic, which, as proved by pelten% and from subsequent inquiry it was ascertained . thria....ste examination, was the cause of death. In a letter west her room the said that her Mends would soon heir 01. 1 ! ttounbitiimui "I ' 4 111 : 1 ' death, and that she had been to Cremorne for the less on Mr. Walters said he went to Vauxhall a fesvtt o r; with the deceased and a ballet girl named be $6 Oll ceased was particularly vexed at the preference aid for her companion, with whom he danced the whole Verdict—" That the deceased died from poiwo ; bat she did not take it to destroy life, and that her life r il l have been saved had proper attention been paid." STOPPAGJg ETI 01 NG A RAILWA MANCHESTER.. Y CALLS.--ZRE AT MET MA/MESTER, TiltßSDAY. —This da y 4 rhb, meeting •of the bankers, merchants, and traderi o SIP chester, called by the Mayor, in answer to a rret o ii o signed upwards of 300 et the "toelading firms iu the to srt ss was he ld in the Town consider whether sny what steps can be taken in order to limit the drain upon t* floating capital of the nation, occasioned by continued rani calls, and to diminish the pressure which is now so injurioestl affecting the tilde of the district." The meeting Vol numerously attended. . Shortly after eleven o'c.ock, • Armitrtnage, Esq., the Mayor, took the chair, amts leo ehee g The Mayon said that bating !wired a r equisition 10 01 meroualy and respectably signed, he could net !metal* call the meeting. It would afford thaws an opportuoitf: discussing this important subject, and be host all parties would confine themselves as much as p,t,ible to it Mr. Thomas Bezutr, president of the Manchester Cig* , 1 . . ' • ME- EXPRESS, FR,41411-MMlitis OCTOBEIR,J, "la4ri. •• • . a league \ of the Itelian sovereigns weal sem be formed which would assure to Italy the regular pro gress of its institutions. We find the following in the Nourelliste of Mar seilles : In spite of the denial given by the German papers to the essesseemss of the retirement of the ex-Empress Maris ea Moe roesived • letter from Loon, stating that coma has had a conference so th is subject at Veins Mr. Ward. minister at Leas. The abdication of MAO Leeks awns te be settled; there is only a (jolli ties at lictite peerien which mast be made to her. It resell' lbeis Uwe eheametasete, it the , / should be acoom pilehed. *se the ivisider family of Loma would be called on te mesed the etc-Beweis at Parse, and that the Duchy of Leese wadi be ieserparate4 with Tuscany, the whole in virtu* d the treaty of Vienna. MADRID, SEPT. 24. The object of the ministerial paper hap been lat terly to prove that no other government can rule the country safely but the present one; and to insinuate that both the convocation of the Cortes and the dissolution are equally perilous, as risking the translation of power to the hands of one of two parties, both of which it stigmatises in its number of to-day la dam terms " There are, in truth, two parties which threalas the 'murky of the crown, the one powerful lintimeell= it is supported by Prance, and the other it is supported, it appeals, by England," r e t l insialifintgasge of this sort it would appear to be the in linghent Oa prossat government to establish a juste-milieu under the pretence that the security of the gegget= such a violation of the constitution. It really art a little arrogant in a knot of seven men, who are disevrsed by all parties, and with one or two exceptions can lay as little claim to the qualities necessary for governing a nation as any knot of the same number who take their ices together in the Cafe Suisse, assuming that they constitute the only possible key-stone that can hold Spain together, and thus majestically swallowing the oyster while they present • shell a piece to the two great conflicting in terests. There is • sort of ill-omened fatuity about the levity with which the present ministry seems to regard legal and constitutional cowries, which makes one fear that they are blind to the fact that the surest guarantee of the throne of Isabel 11. lies in a sacred regard for the constitu tional rights of the people. If the ministers contemplate entrenching themselves in a dictatorship behind that throne, they can take no step which will more certainly lead to the infusion of dangerous subversive revolutionary principles in those classes who are at present enthusiastically loyal, and the very demonstration of whose loyalty, on • recent occasion, seemed to inspire the authorities with apprehension. If their acclamations were fearful, will their murmurs be lees so ? But not to speak of the populace, the most moderate organs of the liberal press, in presence of these ill-boding dam, confess, 'es well as the moderados, the danger which menaces the throne. The new system of civil administration devised by Senor Esoosura is expected to appear in one of the earliest Ga. :Mee. According to the Faro, the Minister of the Interior has had to yield before the opposition of Salamanca, who ob jected to the suppression of the intendenclas ; so that the new governors-general will only have the authority at pre sent held by political chiefs, although exercised in a more extensive sphere. In the new organisation there will he three cusses of officials. 1. Governors-general of districts, equal in number to the captains-general, being, in fact, the civil rank corresponding to that military authority. 2. Po litical chiefs of provinces, who are to take the name of civil governors. 3. Sub-delegates in the leading provincial towns, who will enjoy a salary of from 14 to 16 thousand reals. On the night of the 20th an Altra-moderado meeting of twenty-five persons, nearly all officials, took place in Valen cia. These gentlemen, considering themselves the apostles of the modendo party, of which they only represent the Faro friction, agreed to appoint a committee with a view to the election of a body to be called, " Political Committee of the province of Valencia," whose appointed task will be to offer the most systematic opposition and carry on the most un compromisii g war against all governments, whose misisters an not of their (that is the Faro) way of thinking. Among the persons named to form the committee were Senores Moron, Castillo, Company, Calve, Marco, and Valterra.— Clamor. The Erpectador reports that Nervier has begun with fresh precipitation a round of farewell visits to friends, being on the point of returning to his embsaiy et Paris. The Popular of last night, on the strength of aletter which it publishes, and attributes to a Carlist officer of Bordeaux, denounces a progrcsista conspiracy for the assassination of Nervier, and intrigues of Lord Palmerston for putting Montemoliti upon the Spanish throne, corroborating the latter accusation with what it understands as the Carlist tone taken by the Chronicle. FRANCE.—PARIS, SEPT. 29.—THE INFERNAL. MACHINE NUISANCE.—One of those' small fulminating bombe, which have of late been so frequently spoken of, ex ploded on the evening of the 28th, in front of the Theatre Bisterique. As usual, a number of bits of paper were im mediately scattered about, which the crowd hmtened to pick up. On each wags printed—" Let us commit acts of in cendiaries, until there be no further opposition to a just division of land and crape" ilassr, SEPT. 26.--.-Lallteell OP A FRENCH LINE OP-BATTLE SHIP.—A 12tin ship, the Valray, was launched at Brest, on the 25th inst. An immense crowd was assembled on the ommion, and at half-past three the noble vessel, dressed out with flags and green branches, glided into the water amidst tb• loudest acclamations. The night of this gigantic amain is calmiated at 2,500,000 kilogrammes. LYONS, Sirr. disturbances arising from a strange cause look place at Lyons on the 26th. For some time ribt, rummers had been cement in Lyons that a demon had chamfer his scentof operation a ladles' school in that place, and was nightly playing upon some of the pupils with which were not merely offensive to morality, but attended with physical torture, fir amen other cruelties nails were forced into , the flesh of the The police, informed of these things; sad placing aireredis the belief of the presence of a supernatural agent„ enema upon an inquiry, the relish of which was the arrest. of mime persona on suspicion of having been the ppeerrppeatratoseof these outrages. The lewer climes of the i 'tants, diethesedell their first credulity, now imagine, frcessemething that hie transpired, that the outrage' and tortures alluded to were inflicted by some priests is connivance with the person who keeps the school, with a view to protease& effect en the imagination of the pupils favourable to their religious view On Sunday night, nearly +,eafl of the rimed re paradesk the streets, shouting el bas lee pikes and+ proweded t► the house of the Able* Collet, who is ausperedef having been a party to the affair in questioe, and threaten& le hang his. Fortunately the police interfered in time to prevent any serious result, aed dispersed the mob. MartaziLLEs.—The Chamber of Commerce of Mar seilles has issued a notice informiog mercantile men that It hes received intelligence from the French consul la Testeny that the cholera having made ib appearance es amend ports of the Sea of Asof, the sanitary council of Leghorn has augmented from seven to fourteen days the quarantine for vessels coming faun that part of the world. FREDERIC Sovits.—This.gentlemsai. whose death we announced inhaling taken pibm a' few days since, we' buried on the 28th inst. at the cemetery cf Parole Chaise, outside Paris. The concourse which folbwed the funeral was immense. Victor Hugo premounced theology upon the character of the deceased. Several other gentlemen spoke, and the crowd were about to disperse, whancriesef 's Alex andre Dumas" were heard from divers voices. That gen tleman had been recognised, and seeing him the crowd wished to hear him speak. Tim called upon, Alexandre Dumas came forward to speak. His voSe was, however, choked by his sobs. He stopped, then road* another a/- tempt, but failing a second time, tore himself sway from the proposed ovation. " Dumas," says the .kurtsal dies D, , brsts., or rather Jules Janin, " was sot the lent eloquent of these men who held the crowd in &state of rigid attention for two hones." ETIQVITEL.—It 'tee that,. previous to pro moting the Persian am or and his sude to the Kiag, at Compiigne, it was perceived that the illustrious foreigners wore so stockings they wear large mousers, with ample folds, and the robe, or roles, they potion them am so lank as to allow th e yellow siepossekes to be scarcely visible. But could etiquette allow the illustrious amt to be admitted to the presence without stoskings ? The question was a very grave one. The digression was long ; but after due reflection, etiquette was triumphed, and it was decided that the noble Persians should put on stockings. The civil list, the inexhaustible geserosity of which is go wall known, mot, as a present, a completeset of red striped cotton stockings, of the tinnier gUtot. The polite foreigners, grate ful for such courtesy, contrived to get them on, without too much trouble, and the presentation took place, The day of the review arrived ; when the court and princes, slighting from their carriage", got on horseback, the valets led round rime horses which they held in readiness for the Persians, that the latter might follow the King's staff during the review. They got upon the offered steeds, but one thing was forgotten ; the Persians do not ride like the French, and the long stirrups of the French saddles soon caused the ample trousers to wriggle up, the rubes floated to the wind, and the meagre tibias of the easterns were soon exposed to view, covered with the elegant red striped stockings. The courtiers, it is said, laughed heartily,—they were to blame. It is not enough to respect the rules of coquette; it would be better to respect those of good breeding and of hospitality, and making use of a little more foresight, not expose foreigners entrusted with an official mission to disagreeable scenes, when intending to do them honour. A short time after, the foreigners sot into their carriage, from which they ought not to have been preyed to descend, since it was impossible to , procure them the means of riding on horseback according to UM custom of their country. RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 11.—CIIOLERA fit RcestA.—There is no more talk of the journey of the Emperor ; and it is probable, on account of the cholera, that it will not take place. From the 16th of October, 1846, to the 14th of June, 1847, the cholera has attacked, in the Caucasus, 17,055 pesos", 6.318 of whom have fallen victims to the scourge. On the 25th of July the cholera had reacted its highest degree of intensity in Astra can. The greatest ravages were in the lower parts of the town, which are &insp. The men have been attacked with five times more violence than the women; the Russians much more than the Musaulmen aid the Kalmuck,; because the Mussulmen are more sober than the Russians, and the Kalmucks live principally in the open air. Thirty-one indi viduals died on the 31st of July. The scourge has now pretty nearly disappeared. GREECE.—ArnEss, SEPT. 13.--Within the last few days Nome skirmishes have taken place between the troops of General Mancerit and the rebels of N &upset Some ".I.a