The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-20 00:00:00

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Mrs. Wllklrui.—And JAMS RETURN PROM CANTOS. Tile Leclereqs. PRI .ICIATM. TMla Warman, DILI6ATS GROUND. Mr. George Thing and Miss M. Oliver.—LOVE. Moira. H. Marston, Venn, Shore, Cathcart; Mn. S. White and Miss °matinee Aylmer. —And PIO.7IECLION. Mimeos M. Oliver and Murray. BRITANNIA. Tel Itvzintd. CAST ON TIM MERCY OF THZ WORLD. Mn. S. Lino—Pinging byMesnrs. L.ndall. Plampton, and NW H. Coveney.—Wr. C. Burton and MdDe. C. Stephan. - And A BLANCHZUSIL Manes lara St. Cane and M. Lacey. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tyro DAT Morn'ALM. 45m.....A1t0rn00a. Ob. Om. To-moRIOW-31ornbm, Oh. 10m.....Alimmoon. Ob. 30m. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20. Weighing everything, however, we cannot see that India or any other cotton-growing country is likely to trench heavily upon our stock of the precious metals for some time to come. Events are tending that way, but have not yet gained full force. Reverting to the trade balance of say fifteen millions sterling stated above as standing appa rently in our favour, on • comparison with last year, and arising almost exclusively through a dimi nution in our foreign expenditure, the question may be asked—lf the balance is so largely on our ide, surely, the comparatively limited supplies of cotton which are at last struggling into Liverpool ought not to produce much effect? We fear, in deed, the quantity will not speedily become large enough to produce any great effect ; but, in con sidering the question of the trade balance, ac count must be taken of our importations of certain articles which, though requiring to be paid for equally with cotton, corn, or tallow, com pletely elude the investigation of our offi cial statisticians. We refer to the intro duction of foreign securities—stocks, bonds, and shares—of which, according to some authorities, the English public hold at this moment some fif teen millions sterling more than they did at this time last year. If the estimate be accurate, it tallies rather remarkably with the amount of the trade balance already mentioned, and would tend to show that the account, as between this country and abroad, is pretty nearly adjusted, with the difference that the saving in imports of cotton is absolute and immediate, while time is probably allowed for the complete liquidation of the instalments on foreign loans. There might thus be some ground at first sight for the inference that, sinking the operations of individuals and massing the aggregate result, Great Britain has this year invested in foreign securities the fourteen or fifteen millions sterling which she has saved in her outlay in cotton and other useful commodities. But it is satisfactory to find that this conclusion is invalidated by the consideration of another im portant element in the question—one which does not seem to have received due prominence in re cent discussions. In talking of the securities that have been imported people are too apt to forget those that have been sold and sent away, whereas it is only the balance, or difference be tween these two sums, that can really have any permanent effect on the international settlement. Now, though it cannot be denied that we may have imported, as the computation is, fully fifteen millions of foreign securities—Turkish, Egyptian, Moorish, Peruvian, Venezuelan, and others—during the period under notice, and that the nation may therefore, by • figure of speech, be said to have turned its cotton savings (savings which may here after be wanted again for their old purpose) into stocks and shares, we are convinced it almost admits of demonstration that the amount of American securities which bas passed from the hands of English holders to the other aide of the Atlantic during the same period is not less than 10,000,0001. or 12,000,0001. This forms • very important set-off. Only by our large realisations of American securities can be explained the fact that America, though she has largely diminished her consumption of European goods, has been obliged to send us, in eight months of this year, 6,261,8481. in specie, against scarcely any at all (54,0531.) last year. We have, there fore, not been so imprudently lavish in our invest ments in foreign securities as many people ima gine, for practically, to a considerable extent, the process has merely been an exchange of some foreign securities for others. On the whole, the result of these inquiries is of a somewhat negative character, each of the move manta referred to being attended with • good deal in the way of compensation on the opposite side. The broad inference is that the money market is not likely to be disturbed to any extent worthy of the serious attention of men of business, although it is very possible that the occasional incidence of the instalments on foreign loans, combined with the unquestionably increasing payments for Indian and other foreign cotton, may trench further on the bullion in the Bank, and perhaps cause the rate of discount to range somewhat above its present leveL Two per cent. is neither a safe nor a permanent rate for money in this country, and the sooner the Bank retraces its steps—if only to the extent of a half or one per cent.—the more confidence may we feel in the restoration of • conservative action in the money market. The calm precedes the storm. When money is at two per cent. the seed is usually sown which springs up in due course in psaic. It is therefore almost a matter for con gratulation if anything occurs to abridge the period wherein the community are peculiarly ex posed to fall under temptation. THKRE is once more a prospect of some slight change hi the money market. More than alight it can scarcely be, if reliance is to be placed on the statistics of the imports and exports of the king dom. The real value of these statements consists in the light they throw upon the condition of the trade balance between this country and the rest of the world, and the only testimony at present to be drawn from them is that the balance is in our favour—that is to say, the foreigner is still in debt, and is gradually discharging it. A few facts and figures, tending to render this dear, may be ac ceptable. The last Board of Trade returns show that, as regards the exports of home produce and manufactures, the present year is, thus far, almost exactly on a par with last year, while our exports of articles of foreign and colonial origin, which, though equally our property, may be regarded as merely passing through this country, have exceeded those of last year by upwards of a mil lion and a quarter sterling. So far as these figures go, therefore, the general balance would appear to be to this small extent in our favour, as compared with last year's experience. But the exports apply to only one side of the argument ; we must look to the imports as well ; and here stands out the important fact that we have this year imported 14,000,0001. less of foreign commo dities than we did in the same period of 1861. The stoppage of the American cotton trade is sufficient of itself to account for this immense falling off in the imports. It is a phenomenon which will here after have a powerful effect in raising the value of money, but will not begin to act until the supply of cotton increases. At present we are receiving the returns for the large consignments of cotton manufactures which were made on credit to every part of the world, while we are keeping at home the funds which are ordinarily sent abroad for the purpose of replenishing our stock of the raw mate rial. As long es this state of affairs lasts money must accumulate here, unless a counteracting in fluence is exerted by other considerations of equal force. Keeping our cotton money at home evi dently moans a large accumulation of idle capital and a very low rate of interest. Yet it is not to be forgotten that every month we shall have a smaller balance to receive from abroad on account of past consignments of goods, while the efforts at cotton growing which are now fairly in progress in every part of the globe cannot fail, sooner or later, to result in at least • partial compensation for the withholding of the American crop. And we must remember that whenever the foreign producer shall be in a position to look up from his toil, and point to his piles of baled cotton, money will flow out of this country in • ratio proportionate to the lowness of our stocks. We have gone on consuming these almost to the uttermost limit, and the lower they become the more we shall have to buy when the new sources of supply are opened. If this view is correct, it should follow that the period of greatest abundance in the money market should be that when the stock of cotton here is the lowest, and the facts of the moment furnish rather a striking corroboration. There has been hardly any cotton at Liverpool, and gold has accumulated in the Bank of England until the amount of eighteen millions and a half has been reached, and until the glut of money has been felt very severely by those whose business is to find channels for employing it. But during the last few weeks a sensible recovery has been observable in the stock of cotton, owing to some considerable arrivals, chiefly from India; and, almost imme diately thereupon, the barriers which the high level of the exchanges interposed to the outflow of gold have been broken down. The effect is seen in the reduction in the bullion in the Bank of England from eighteen and a half millions to little over six teen millions, and in the more cheerful aspect of money lenders and discounters, who seem to think that the period of their greatest difficulty is over. None know better than they how to use the game as soon as they get it—if ever so little—into their hands, for they hare a powerful aid in the vague apprehensions of the commercial public, or, it would perhaps be more correct to say, in that dis position to prudence and caution which leads so many persons to over-supply themselves with FRENCH MINISTERIAL APPOINTME THE EMPEROR AND M. THOUVENEL. The ifoniteer of yesterday announces the fol lowing appointment : M. de Latour d'Anvergne, as French Ambassador to Rome, in place of the Marquis de Lavalette, whose resignation has been accepted. • As Ministers Plenipotentiary, have been ap pointed : M. Talleyrand Perigord to Prussia, M. Sartiges to Italy, M. Bandin to the Netherlands, and M. Fournier to Sweden. It is announced that Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotbikie are to proceed from Lisbon to London to visit the Exhibition previous to the closing of the building. money directly indications of Bitisco MG oh 101ES ey aervable. —.--_ But although it seems probaMs /4,st our %Woks' DRUMM% Cam, 18. of cotton have seen their lowest, asks is—Aiskr- The Queen, with the Princess Helena, Princess tunately for Lancashire—no prospect of any L ou i sa , Prince Leopold. and Plum . %nada% left the speedy resumption of the supply on its old scale, p g...., Coburg e t t h ree o'clock yesterday, and travelling and no prospect therefore that the money market through the night arrived at the pekoe at Luken at nine wilt yet be overtaken by the payments for cotton. I o'clooh this morning. India is doing something, and is accordingly taking ! The Duchess of Coburg and Gotha accompanied the some specie, although in the natural order of Queen to the station at Coburg, and there took leave of her ' things she ought rather to send specie to us, in IMa In attendance upon her Majesty and the Royal Family liquidation of the intereat on her debt held in , wen / 4 „,i y ci me hm, Lady Augusta Braes , Lj eut. . Gee „ Te t England, and of the large home expenses of the Hoe. C. Grey, Lieut.-Colonel du Plat, Dr. Jenner, and her Government. She would require still more , Mr. Roland. specie from us than she is now taking , Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left were railway and other public works being carried Coburg on Wednesday evening, upon a visit to the Prins and Princess Louis of Heise, at Darmstadt, and rejoined on there on the large scale witnessed some short time back. The relaxation which has taken place 1 the Queen at Cologne. in this respect operates as a partial relief to the home money market. lirbe qrourt. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the governors of the Mauritius, Malta, and Gib raltar. Despatches were sent to the governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, New Zealand, the Australian colonies, and North American provinces, and to the Lgrd High Com missioner of the lonian Islands. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are receiv ing a sneeemion of visitors at Drnuilanrig Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Charlotte Her leave town to-morrow for their seat, Floors Castle., Roiburghahire. The Countess de Flahault and Ma.dlle. Elphin done de Flahault arrived at Albert-gate House on Saturday from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Buocleuch at Drum. liar's Castle, Dumfriesshire. The Marquis of Tweeddale and Lady Jane Hay . have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Sandgate. The Earl of Winchilaea, Captain and Mrs. Stewart, and Heron Fagel have left the St. George's Hotel. The Earl of Wicklow has left town for Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and Lady Agneta Yorke have left Sydney Lodge, Southampton, for Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. The Earl of Glasgow, Lord Huntingfield, Lord Methuen, and the Earl of Chesterfield have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Cost are expected in town in • few days from Paris. Viscount and Viscountess Curzon arrived at Curzon House on Saturday from Penn House, Bucks. Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby have arrived at their mansion in Piccadilly from visiting Lord and Lady Aveland at Normanton Park, Rutlendsbire. Lord and Lady Churston have arrived in town from • tour oa the Continent. Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining a succession of visitors at their seat, Normanton Park, Rut landshire, during the past week. Lady Milford and the Hon. Mr. Eyre have left town for Brighton. Lady Marian Alford has left Paris for Orleans. Sir Charles Knightley, Bart., accompanied by his daughter, the Hoo. Mn.s Gage, haaj left town for Faws ley Park, Northamptonshire. Sir Henry Hoare, Lady Hoare, and Miss Hoare have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley.esuare, from Stourbead, near Bath. The marriage of Lord Robert Montagu, M.P., to Miss Elizabeth Catherine Wade took plasm on Saturday last at Christ Church, Paddington. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford is at present on • visit to Scotland, and will officiate at the con secration of an episcopal church at Berwick-on-Tweed on Thursday next. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Drummond Wolff. Eeq., C.M.G., Chief Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, to be a member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and to authorise him, by dispensation, to assume the rank and precedence of that dignity without the preliminary ceremony of investiture. The extra sittings of the first division of the Edinburgh Court of Session commence on Monday, the 3rd November, when the Yelverton case will be taken up, it being placed first on the roll. A very considerable sum has been gathered al ready in Dublin "to bay shillelaghs for the London-Irish," as some interpret the matter ; and the columns of the ultra papers are filled with "leaded" letters, in which the writers, in sending their donations, glory in the bravery and religions seal of the rioters. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have just received • marble bust of the late Prince Consort from the studio of the eminent sculptor, Mr. Theed. The like ness is an exact counterpart of the List bust of his royal highness now io the possession of her Majesty, and by the same artist, her Majesty having permitted the college to obtain a copy of it. There is an agricultural society at Chertaey and • conservative club at Castle Hedingbam. Each had a dinner on Friday evening, and at each dinner members of parliament were present. Mr. Lindsay, Mr. Cresson, M.P., I and Mr. Briscoe, M.P., were at Cherteey ; and h►lf-a dozen conservative county members were at Castle Radios ham headed by Major Bereeford and Mr. Du Cane, M.P. Mr. Lindsay. at Chertey, devoted moat of a speech he made to expressing his sympathy with the Southern states of America, and his opinion that our government ought at once to recognise the Confederates as a nation. Major Beresford and Mr. Du Cane, at Castle Hedingham, also sympathised with the South, but they declined to say that the English government ought to interfere. Mr. Du Cane, in addition to this, spoke joyfully of the prospects of the conservative party, and was particularly severe upon Mr. Gladstone. It is said that Mr. Bolton, of Birmingham, who was killed in the late railway accident near Edinburgh, had a railway insurance policy entreat for 1,0001. He had also made proposals to an Edinburgh office for • policy of 700/. ; had remained • train behind to undergo the medical examina tion, and had deposited with • friend money to pay the premium on the policy being signed and tendered. It is said that t h e firm (Hammond, Turner, and Co.) by whom Mr. Bolton was employed are to raise an action of damages against the railway company, and • suit will also be insti tuted by his widow. This will only be one amid a great host of claims arising from the excessive fatality and amount of personal injury done by the accident. The fall in the company's 1001. stock in three days represented an extinc tion of capital of above 100,0001. The stock has, however, slightly recovered. Sir John Bowring arrived in Paris this morning from the Hague, where be has concluded a treaty of amity and commerce, on terms of complete reciprocity, between the Dutch government and that of the Hawaiian Islands. We understand that Sir John is also accredited to the Emperor of the French by King Kamehameka IV.— Galignani. . _ _ The Side says that the Prince de la Tour d'Au retype-Lel:magma* the new representative of France at Dame, is the nephew of the late Cardinal Archbishop of Arras, and brother of the Archbishop of Bourges. He held the legations of Ducal Barony, Florence, Parma, and Turin, and lastly that of Berlin. He is personally known to the Pope, to whom at the time of his exile at Gaeta be was several times despatched on missions by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. A painful sensation has been produced amongst the habitual British residents in Rome by the accidental The .3foniteur also publishes the following letter death of Mr. Shepherd, juo., son of the gerane of ass from the Emperor to IL Thouvenel : 1 Anglo-Roman Gas Company, last week, on the occasion of "My dear K Thouvenel,—ln the very interest the opening of the central railway station in that city. Private letters state that Mr. Shepherd fell from a bridge of the policy of conciliation that you have loyally or platform, and sustained injuries which produced his subeerved, I have judged it necessary to replace death, after a lingering agony of three days. you in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; but, in Four of the five devisee of the French Institute deciding to part with a man who has given me so have as the present moment vacancies to 811 op. The many proofs of his devotedness, I feel bound to tell Academy of Fine Arta is alone complete. In the French him that my esteem and confidence in him Are in Academy the chairs left vacant by M. Blot and Duke Pas noquier are to be occupied. At the Academy of Sciences. wise impaired. lam persuaded that in any M . M. de sm .., sod do Gooporio have to be re p laced ; position you may occupy I shall be able to count in the Academy of Inscriptions, MM. Jomard and Ch. upon your intelligence and attachment, and I Maugin ; and in the Academy of Moral and Political Sol. pray you, on your part, to believe in my sincere ecees, MM. Damiroo and Banda. At the French Academy friendship. the receptions of M. Octave Fenillet and the Duke de (Signed) ..m mumc ,„ . ” , Broglie bare also to take place. Wsersererurss Scnoot.—The Andrea of Terence (with slight changes) will be acted in the dormitory of St. Peter's College on the evenings of Thursday, December 11 ; Tuesday, Donohoe 16; and Thursday, December 18—the last two days with prologue and epilogue. yAfE - - EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER LATEST INTELLIGENCE, Winities =Amu FRANCE. .) ", CIRCULAR OF M. DROUYN DE LENTS ON THE ROMAN QUESTION. PARA Our. 21:).. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the cir cular, dated Oct. 18, addressed by IL Dronyn de Lhuys to the diplomatic agents of France abroad. In this circular M. Drouyn de Lhuye points out in what spirit he accepted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and states that the policy of the Emperor, indicated in his letter of May 20, recently pub lished, has not changed, but remains animated by the same sentiments as heretofore for the two causes upon which he has lavished in equal measure tokens of his solicitude. The minister concludes as follows :—" The Em peror's government will continue to devote all its efforts to the work of conciliation undertaken in Italy, entering into it without discouragement as without impatience, and with a full sense both of the difficulties to be encountered and of the mag nitude of its task." SPECIE FOB THE EAST. 000THAIEPTON, Ocr. 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, sailing at 2 p.m. to-day for the: Past, takes out bar silver, value 138,250/. ; dollars, 206,625/. ; sovereigns, 33, 4 6.3 1 . ; gold coin, 46,7291. ; silver coin, 501. AMERICAN MAIL. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY.• The Royal Mail steamship Arabia arrived here at 10.30 p.m., and embarked mails, pa►sengere and telegrams, and proceeded immediately for Halifax and Boston. All well. She experienced severe gales from the south west. • This telegram only arrived at 12.35 p.m., to-day (Mon day). EXPRESS FROM PARIS cno outs own! 001 PARIS, SoNDAT Emma. The moat important fact announced to-day is that M. Drouyu de Lhuys' circular on the Roman question will appear in the Monittur to-morrow. It is to be inferred from the Emperor's farewell letter to M. Thouvenel that the latter minister was dismissed, and did not resign. The France starts a new red herring to amuse the credulous who believe iu the policy of conciliation, in the shape of a rumour that Mgr. de Nerode, the Pope's minister at war, is about to resign, and that Cardinal Antonelli will be found more tractable. In the Temps M. Nefftzer very strikingly exem plifies the progress of ultramontanism in France by the following sketch of the present attitude of tbree journals, representing respectively the petticoat clique, the government whatever it may be, and the legitimist party : Each of the three journals, the Prance, the Consiku tionnef, and the Union, has made a step in advanos. The Conetitu tionnd has taken she place of the Prance, the Prance hes taken that of the Union, and the Union has got on • little further. Six weeks ago the Union would have been only too glad of • guarantee of the Beata quo. Now it wants more, and says it awaits satirisation. Six weeks ago the France iinlarged at endless length upon the necessity for new endeavour to bring about a reconciliation between the temporal papacy and Italian unity. Now it openly proclaimsthat the object of the imperial policy is the maintenance of the stain quo in Rome, Six weeks ago the Constitutionnet was indignant with the France. Now it appropriates the thesis left behind by that journal, and indulges in variations of its own about the reconciliation of the papacy with liberty. Six weeks ago the Constkutionnel talked haughtily of the policy represented at Rome by M. de Lavalette. Now that M. de Lavalette is dismissed, the Constitutionnei resigns itself very cheerfully to the change, and represents to its readers that " a new negotiator, not in any way committed upon the question, offers considerable advantages, and does away with certain difficul ties." How can it reasonably be expected that the Pope will abandon his non porrumus, which has hitherto met with such remarkable success? M. de Lavalette and M. Thouvenel have twice put it solemnly upon record that the Pope would never cede anything. IL Thouvenel warned the Holy See that, if it persisted in its " immo bility," the French government would be compelled to ex tricate itself from a situation which falsified its policy. The Pope still replied, non poseunuu ; and now, not our troops, but IL Phouvenel and M. de Layslette retire ! What nonsense to suppose that a fresh negotiator is likely to be more successful. But what is the use of arguing? The press can do nothing, and, as it is told by the France, is not entitled to be beard (n'a pas La parole). It eon merely observe and record facts. The France, which now speaks just in the haughty and truculent tone which the Pouvoir did on the eve of the coup d'etat, taunts the poor, crippled, frightened journals, on their sudden en lightenment as to true French police, and claims the Debate as one of the newest converts to the policy of conciliation and still conciliation. A poor article in the Debate of this day lends some countenance to the insolence of the France, but I shall be surprised if the Debuts, upon consideration, does not protest against the interpretation put upon a single article of one of its minor rant teurs. - - The Patric hears from Turin that the result of the ministerial council yesterday was, after a stormy discussion, that K Rattazzi and his colleagues remain in office for the present ; that their first act will be to call upon the French government officially for an answer to General Durando's circular, and that after the unfavourable answer which is anticipated some of the ministers will resign. K Rattazzi, however, will remain in any case till after the meeting of parliament (about Nov. 10, and will then propose either to persevere in the present policy of propitiating France, without being dis couraged by delays and refusals, or to seek tht solution of the Roman question by other means than those of the French alliance. On such a dilemma being propounded, Rattazzi calculates on the support of the chambers. If his conciliatory policy should be condemned, be will resign. Garibaldi has written an affectionate letter to Victor Hugo, promising to be present at the first representation of the Miserable iu London within two months from this time. God grant that he may be able to keep the appointment, but the latest accounts from Variguano are most alarming. A P.S. in a Turin letter of the 14th, in the Tampa, contains the following : I have just seen Dr. Riboli. He is greatly cast down. The mere sight of Garibaldi at once dissipated in his mind all the illusion' encouraged by the optimism of the daily bulletins. Garibaldi is pale, exhausted, attenuated. A fever, not intuits, but of daily recurrence, is slowly un- Burning him. As to the wound, If. Riboli agrees with M. Palasciano that the ball is in it. He thinks it not safe is attempt the extinction at present, end at the same time fears that delay may bring with it the most serious complicatioes. In short, his impression is most discouraging. K Charles Hugo has addressed the following letter to the Mick : I appeal to year impartiality to insert the following la the Snicks A contstunioui, published by the• Phan de la Loire, decisive that the statements in the letter sent by see to the Monileur on October 6- and which the Monitenr declined to insert—were al►ogether false. I confine my re. ply to the fact personal to myself, namely, the preventive interdiction of the drams La MisErabla. Of this fact 1 have the proof is ray hands. Ido not publish letters which do not belong to me @lone. Bat a fact, milting from letters in my preosesion, and which no one will dare to Amy, is that the performance of the Aliserobies was pro hibited preventively on August 11, before the regular inter diction on the report of the committee of examination, which was not made till September 13.—Beceive, ha., Oak's= How). A story which has been going the round of the papers that the Amazons steam frigate, lately arrived from Mexico, had been sunk in the Laza retto of Toulon, because she was so thoroughly infected with the yellow fever miasma that it was impossible to purify her, is untrue. The ship is to be sequestrated for a time and fumigated, but the idea of destroying her, which (I rather think) was entertained, is given up. The deaths on board her were so numerous that the truth will not be told about them for a long time to come. I decline to repeat, thinking them exaggerated, the figures cur rently reported. 1862. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The Exhibition will close on Saturday, the let of November, but after that date there will be a further period of a fortnight, during which the public will be admitted, and the charge for admis sion will then, it is believed, be half-a-crown. Holders of season tickets will, however, have the same privilege as they now have, and the five guinea tickets will also be available during the extra fortnight for the Horticultural Gardens. The funds of the commissioners will, we apprehend, benefit but little from this extension of time ; for it has been decided that the picture galleries are not to remain open after the Ist of November, and the machinery annex will also be closed after that date. The Exhibition will thus be divested of two of its principal attractions. But, in addition to this, it has been decided that " sculpture and light goods, which can be carried by hand, may be removed on Monday, the 3rd of November." The terms of the regulation would seem to imply that only such articles of sculpture as can be carried by band are to be removed on that day. These, it is scarcely necessary to say, would be very small works ; but we believe the intention really is to admit of the removal of any works of sculpture, and also of such light goods as can be carried by hand. The highest temperature on Saturday by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers was :—ln the nave, 51.2 ; in the galleries, 51.2 ; in the western annex, 57.1. The temperature of the dew point, 44.8. About five degrees cooler than on Friday. The following were the total numbers admitted on Saturday : By season tickets By payment Total 15,849 THE EXHIBITION AND THE OMNIBUSES. The moral courage and devotion to science and art of the 10,000 visitors who paid their half crowns for a peep at the Exhibition on Saturday cannot be sufficiently admired. Such an attendance on such a day is conclusive at once as to the vita lity of the Exhibition, and the interest taken in it by the public. Western London is now a desert, but sail, close to its western boundary, the roads are daily alive with people, all making their way to South Kensington, or away from it, and invariably finding the latter by far the more difficult strategic operation. During these latter days of the Exhi• bition, the omnibus proprietors have been trying upon the British public a series of experiments somewhat similar to those of the man who under took to train his horse to do without food. We know that he at last got him down to a grain of corn a day, and we also know the consequence. The British public have now been got nearly down to the grain a day of vehicular accommodation, but, in spite of the short allowance, will probably struggle on with their visits " under difficulties," until the close of the Exhibition. The struggle which daily takes place for seats in any sort of vehicle is certainly one of the most exciting and amusing incidents of a shilling visit. From three o'clock in the afternoon, the Arabs take possession of all the avenues down to Hyde-park-corner one way, and to Cadogan-pier on the other, with generally a flying column along the upper road. In better days, they contented themselves with taking possession of the cabs, but now they also surround the doors of the omnibuses ea they come down, and keep every one out, and off, except their own clients. They have established a law as irre vocable as any statute of the Modes and Persians, that no individual of the rougher sex is to take an inside seat ; and, if any man, however Nature may have unfitted him for the escalade to the roof, attempts to pass the cordon, an indignation meeting is summoned on the spot, and a resolution is put and agreed to nem. con. by the crowd of females in waiting, that the unhappy individual must be a foreigner, and is certainly a disgrace to civilized society. The at tempts of old men, and lame men, and heavy men to obey the Draconian law add very much to the amusement of the bystanders, but are often at tended with danger to the acrobats themselves. Latterly, the females, not finding the monopoly of the inside of the omnibuses sufficient, have, under the skilful marshalling of their Arab generals, also invaded the roofs, and every evening scenes may be witnessed in which the agility of the " Swift ICamillae" is far more conspicuous than any fas tidious regard for what are vulgarly known as " the proprieties." On Saturday, the compare,- tively small numbers somewhat modified the evil, although the weather exercised a counteracting in fluence. True, there were only about 15,000 at the Exhibition, but walking away was impos sible, and therefore the omnibuses and the Arabs and the cabmen had a perfect Saturnalia ; the at tempts of the men to get inside were more persis tent, the indignation meetings more frequent, and the whole neighbourhood was in a chronic state of scramble up to a late hour in the evening. Some thing certainly must be done to regulate the omni bus and cab service of Loudon. We know that a legislative attempt in that direction has already killed one valuable member of parliament, and re duced the great metropolis to a three days' depri vation of all means of locomotion, but still the attempt must be repeated, even at the expense of more senatorial martyrdom, and more state of siege, and it must be persevered in unto emcees, if we do not wish mighty London to be a disgrace in this respect, and a laughing-stock to the whole civilized se world. DISTRIBUTION OP PRIZES BF THE PAINTERS' COMPANY. It is well known that this company have lately instituted an annual exhibition of work peculiar to the emit they re t, it being the object to render their guild practically useful. In pursuance of this intention they have had an annual exhibition, at their hall in the City, of what is technically termed graining, marbling, writ ing, and decorative work. This year, the International Exhibition having attracted the principal exercises of theee as of all other handiwork, the Psinten' Company did not have their exhibition, but cer tain judges appointed by them proceeded to the International Exhibition and awarded prizes for work de. serving such notice, the principle of the award being that it be made to the actual person performing the work, and not to any firm merely getting up the work by the aid of various workmen, the great desire of the company being that the artisan should be stimulated to the °zeroes of his work as an art as well as mere means of existence. Ths prizes were on Saturday last awarded by the Master, lir. J. Comfort, in full eourt, at the ancient hail of the company, to the following priseholders, viz..— Mr. J. Kennett, for graining; Mr. W. Read, for marbling ; Mr. J. Bradley, for 'loathing ; Mr. J. L. Canticle, for decoration, a silver medal each. To Mr. W. A. Grant, for graining ; Mr. W. Medic for marbling ; Mr. W. Pit man, for writing; Mr. H. Ba rrie, for decoration, a bronze medal each. Te Mr. G. Lainson, for decoration, a cer tificate of merit ; and honourable mention was made of de corative work by Mr. James and Mr. J. Badgers, of Shef field, and to Mr. Ptinloary, for 'titan in an altar-piste by ?deems. Cox. The prisebolders, after the preesotation,dised with the company ta their hall, it being the annual feast. NOILWION MIIIIIOAI Fumy Ax.—A committee bee just bees chases to cony out the detail' o this festival for next mamma. sr. Joke Benedict has again been choose 000duator, sad has been requested to produce for the Dent festival some novelty et his own composition. EXECUTION OP CATHERINE WIL.WiN. (THIS DAY.) The wretched woman, Catherine Wilson, who wa. ooericted at the last session of the Central Criminal Court of the crime of murder by poisoning, was erecutiA this morning, at 8 o'clock, in front of Newgate, in the presence of an immense crowd. . Notwithstanding the apparent concluaiveneue of the evi. dance against her, the, prisoner has ail along maiotaiLed her innocence. Only • few days before her execution she herself prepared a statement in writing to be trans. mitted to the Secretary of State, in which she entered into • detail of the circumstances connected with the death of her supposed victim, and declared most positively that she never administered any poison, and that sho was entirely • innocent of the crime of which she was convicted. It would seem that there was such a strong feeling in the mind of the public as to the guilt of the prisoner that no effort was made by any section of it to procure a remission of the capital punishment ; evens the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment an. peered to feel that it was • case that would not justify them in . mkt-posing ; the prisoner's own memorial, and a 1 statement of her cue by her attorney, were the only step, taken to induce the Home Secretary to interfere. Mr. Under-Sheriff Mackrell, as is customary upon these oc• sioos, went to the Home Office on Saturday, and had an interview with the Chief Secretary, in reference to the prisoner's cane, receiving • communication in writing to the effect that, upon a careful consideration of all the circumstances, the Horne Secretary did not feel himself justified in interfering with the course of the law. The pn. loner was informed of this very soon afterwards, and she heard the announcement without exhibiting the least Since her conviction the prisoner has been constantly attended by two female warders, and it appears that to them she has repeatedly stated that she was innocent of the mime for which she was to suffer. Her demeanour, however, was such as not to create any belief in the minds of the officials of the gaol that she was speaking the truth. The prisoner was evidently a woman of the most firm and determined spirit, and it was the opinion of all those who have been about her, that she had resoled from the first to pursue this course ; her indomitable will enabled her, as will be seen, to carry it out to the hat moment. The prisoner attended the prison service in the chapel twice on Sunday, and she appeared to pay great attention to the discourse of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary of the prison. She took her mash as usual, and did not late at all dismayed at the near approach of death. After _ _ she retired to rest on Sunday evening she slept soundly for several hours, undisturbed by the fury of the elements, it being a most tempestuous night, or the noise of the workmen erecting the scaffold, which can be plainly heard within the prison. She was visited at an early hour by Mr. Davis, who preyed with her for some time, but he forebore from making any allusion to her crime or front premolar her to make any statement upon the subject. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence and Mr. Sheriff Jones arrived at the gaol shortly after 7 o'clock, ammo. ponied by the under-sheriffs, Messrs. Ferrer and Mackrell, and • few minutes before 8 they were joined by Mr. Jonas, the governor of Newg►te, Mr. Humphreys, the principal warder, and several other of the prison officials, who escorted them into the poi to the room where the process of pinioning was to be performed. Here the prisoner wee introduced, after a short interval, accompanied by one of the female warden. She walked across the room to a seat that was pointed out to her with a firm step, as apparently as unconcerned, and indeed, even more so than any of the spectator The female warder Used the prisoner and shook bands with her, and then retired ; after a short mimed, Calcraft, the executioner, commenced placing round the pri• sonar's arms and body the leathern straps and apps• ratus by which unhapry criminals are secured. Daring all this the prisoner did not exhibit the least emotion; she only once raised her handkerchief to her eyes, and appeared to pram it to her forehead, as though she had felt some sudden pang, but she quickly withdrew it, and resumed her composure, which never gam abandoned her to the last moment. The fatal moment having by this time nearly arrived, Mr. Jonas, the go. Torpor of the prison, went up to the culprit and, in an im. preasive wanner, said that her time was now very short, and he inquired whether she bad anything to say to the sheriff,. The prisoner, in • firm, calm tone replied, "I se innocent ;" after this nothing more was said to her. The melancholy cortege then proceeded to the scaffold, the prisoner walking without the least assistants the whole of the way, and also up the steps to the drop. Her appearance was the signal for loud murmur among the crowd, but there we no other manifestation of feeling. During the tiros that Cale-raft was adjusting the rope and pulling the cis over her face, the wretched woman stood quite firm ad unconcerned. She did not appear to exhibit the slighter emotion, and when the drop fell she seemed to be dad almost iostantaneously. The body, which was cut down at 9 o'clock, will be buried this afternoon within the precincts of the gaol, in pimento of the terms of the sentence. The crowd assembled was immense, the number d persons present being variously estimated at from twenty to thirty thousand. They were, however, certainly mach more orderly than usual on these occasions. FATAL PIT ACCIDENT. -POUR MEN KILLED. A very melancholy accident happened na Fri.bvy afternoon last at the New Priestfield Colliery, CI. lenliall, about three miles from Wolverhampton, which re. suited in the instantaneous and frightful death of four rota The colliery is the property of Mr. Henry Ward. Imo' master, by whom it is being worked. At about half.rest four on the day named, five men, named respectively Farshaw, aged 3 .2 ; Michael Curty, aged ; Thomas Lewis, aged 28 ; John Ginty, aged 2r;; sod a young man named Edward Evans, were all seceuding to the surface of the earth up the shaft of a stone pit. They were all riding in &carriage locally termed a tackle, which was at tached to the winding chain. Over this cage was a tempuras roof or "bonnet " formed of plate iron, and used as a protec tion to the men when they go down or come up a pit, from any accident through the falling upon them of anything from above. This abaft was eighty yards deep, and the men had reached to about the centre when there come 'woo thorn, with fearful force, a massive "skip," coustructed pries Pally of iron, and used to convey the minerals to Viewless. The "skip" had suddenly fallen from the brink of the shaft, and had acquired an immense momentum from the distance it had fallen. It would seem to hay. coutinued as coarse against the side of the shaft, inasmuch as it of not alight upon the roof of the "tackle.' The meth however, who were beneath the roof. were not removed from danger, for the "skip" came mion them, sd that with such terrible violence that four of the to were mutilated corpses instantaneously, and the aides et the shaft were disfigured with evidences of the terrible reality. The fifth man (Evans), who was on the oppoll side of the cage to that occupied by oompauioos, haplely escaped with only a slight bruise on the temple, but be td to cling toe portion of the machinery of the " tackle" 10 save himself from being precipitated with his lifeless new panions to the bottom of the shaft. Men descended to tle bottom as speedily as possible, and performed tio distressing duty of collecting together the masa remains of their decreased comrades, and sending them o the surface. By this accident three women have been and' widows, and ten children orphans. On Saturday. an HIV° was formally opened before Mr. T. M. Phillips, the ewes for Wolverhampton. When sufficient evidence had to" given to justify the interment of the curl. 9, the is.;uo was adjourned until Thursday next. Toss MINIETRY.---The Ministers arc expected TO arrivals town in order to attend the Cibioet Council taM . mooed by Lord Palmerston on Thursday next, am' : 344 rrot lust. Mr. Milner Gibson will reach London (Monday); Lord Granville, who has been the minute attendance on the Queen, ts expected at his resident . < Bruton• street on Tuesday ; Mr. Gladstone is also exyrdt i on the same day in town from Hawardeo Castle. T he Hoar Secretary (Sir George Grey) is expect.' to attire at L 4 day preceding the council from his seat, Fdlotloe, Northam' berlaud. Lord Palmerston. who is staying at his Broadlands, Hants, is expected to travel to tows it t h ' d forenoon of Thursday. Sar George C. Lewis. the Its Newcastle, the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Chancellor, ta. the other members of the Cabinet are also expected arrive in the metropolis for the purpose of tieing vivant." the meeting, which will be held at the office of tbe ?TOM in Doisniug_etreet.— Mervyn-. HYDE rAlti YEETZILDAY.—YenteRIEV, oEing the e ff ective precautioes taken by th e police and na hme authorities in Hyde-park, coupled with the e‘tivroehr:, propitious state of the weather, there was not the son g semblance throughout the day of anything en s" en'' io reality there was nothing to indicate th.tt the park likely to be " frighted from its propriety," or that r! tented anything more to ordinary promemuleri wonted orderly aspect. Notwithstanding this. s• no Sunday, the same amount of police and military farm"' posted in the purlieus of the pall els d Munn CoTTON FROM HOMBAY.—The am % • cotton at Liverpool from East India still robtilWa. at; Saturday lam three more ships entered the Mei!! 5 Bombay, via. :—Arkwright, with 4.196 bales ; A fne ... u t. 5,161 bales ; and Sir Charles Napier, with 4,133 making a total of 13,512 I.