The Express. — London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

Int exanctlo. htlolotimmeatii latiorde;Fet:iieltipeene. ;141aies Zombi paper, mast Is at the Mee, 10. Besverierereet. by Tye 'Wink ow the fly of pulallestlos. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT —Mossky, N. Out. Attorsooo, Oh. iii,_ gbassibw—Ntakis. gbh LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. Harr= is everywhere proceeding under the pro- pitious influence of the favourable harvest weather; and the results of every additional day's labour tend to confirm the hopes of the husbandman. Others as well as he watch with no unreasonable solicitude the prospects and proceedings of the harvest field. All clams of the community have cause to understand that their interests are indissolubly connected with one another; and they no longer dream the selfish dream of particular advantage from what is incon sistent with the general good. The trader and the artizsn do not leas appreciate the great benefits of Free Trade because they have learned that for them as well as the farmer a deficient harvest is a bad thing. Any sudden derangement of the money market, like that which is necessarily occasioned by an extraordinary expert of gold to buy corn, infallibly re-acts on trade and employment. It is a great good that when we do want an unusually large supply of common food, we are free to buy it in the cheapest market we can. But it is a greater good when the home market is well supplied with home growths, and we wanly compelled to import the amount of surplus corn which our hiving population ordinarily requires. Many diversities of opinion still prevail as to the probable value of the crops which are now gather isg in. The corn market has not, indeed, experienced anyexcessive fluctuations, but its coaditiou is graphi cally and significantly described as being "extremely sensitive." The troth le, that while the barley crop, as well as that of oats, is everywhere admitted to be most abundant, considerable inequalities are found to prevail in the yield of wheat. In many places it proves to be most Luxuriant ; in others, the pro ducts will be but small, both in quantity and quality; and there are districts where the same fields contain patches indicative of great fer tility, intermingled with others of the mast opposite character. What we had occasion to observe many winks ago, when the crop upon the light soils was struggling to overtake the time it had lost du, iog the dilatory spring, has been fully confirmed by the event. Where the fields from their size or situation were particularly exposed to the prolonged action of the severe easterly winds, the looser de scriptions of soil were gradually removed to such an extent as to leave the roots of the plant without suffi cient covering; and the consequence which we then ventured to anticipate is now found to be realised in the partial failure of the crop. Curious installers of this are observable in a locality where it might least of all have been expected. In what is called the Fen country, reclaimed at no distant period from a state of swamp and marsh, the surface soil proves to be destitute of sufficient tenacity to resist the in cessant and inexorable action of the wind, and in other respect■ to have become deficient in certain chemical qualities which are found in dis tricts where clay is interspersed with stones of various sizes. In a word, the land has been over drained; while the absence of ailicious particles, whether in the form of rock or gravel, is found, in years like the present especially, to deprive the soil of its oecerkary power of nutrition. As nature leaves hersolf without resource, a singular remedy has been recently discovered for this deficiency. In the bed of more than one of the streams that have facilitated so much the drainage of Cambridgeshire and the adjacent localities, deep strata of organic matter 11 a petrified state have been found. The substance thence obtained is singularly easy to be broken, or even ground into powder ; and its appli cation in the same manner as lime or bone-dust manure, is said to be highly beneficial, and attended with bat moderate expense. We are very much inclined to think that the extirpation of fences for the purpose of enlarging the piss of fields, has been carried too far in some soils, and that shelter, like moisture, must be in many places sought for anew. HER MAJESTY'S JOURNEY. (riot ova ows aaroavaa.) EDINBURGH, FIIIIIAT Morainal. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the six elder If their children, arrived at Ediabugligat p.m.00400/1 having aceomplished their lours egi from Londe*. its little more than 10i hours. Theraersetapbred at St Meitner, statios by the Duke of Bueuch, Lord•Lientensnt of Mid labia° ; General Lord Ms Iville, Counander.ia.Chicf in the North British District ; the Hon. Colonel Dslyell, Ateistant -Ailjutaasessevel; Mr. Sheriff Gordon, Mr. Sheriff Mal lard, and various easel and military °Mors. Her Majesty was greeted outside the statloa with loud cheers, and sutured her carriage to proceed to the palace amidst the strains of the National Anthem and " Partant pour la Syria," performed by the band of the 7th Dragoon Gaud'. The royal family and salt, were conveyed to Holyrood Palace, above a mile distant, in a procession of, open ear. rinse, which drove "manly through the Queen's Pak, the route throughout which was liaed by detachments of the 7th Dragoon Guard., 82nd and 92nd Regiments, the County of Edialmargh Militia, and the Fiteabire Artillery Militia. On either side of thei way were deals lines of spectator', the heights above being also studded with numerous groups. Her Majesty reached tha palace before 7 o'clock, a salute from the Castle glens assonasing her arrival there. In the oveetiag the Deka of Buecleach, Viscount Mel ville, sad Mr. Sheri! Gordon, were of the royal dianer role moraing, the Queen, Prlnc•Albert, and the royal family, left Holyrood at halt-past 8 o'clock, and the station at fit. Margaret's at 9 precisely. Their railway journey would terminate at Heathery, Deeeide, before 3 o'clock, whence they would post to Balmoral, reaching the Castle between 6 end 7 in the evening. From the northern counties and from Scotland the accounts are less contradictory, and, upon the whole, more sanguine. In Ireland the oat crop is described as everywhere most abundant; but the breadth of wheat planted in that part of the king dom has ceased to be as great as formerly. This phenomenon, in the face of the high averages of the last two years, would be unaccountable were it not for the still greater inducements held out during the same period to stock farming, for which the shtert, country is proverbially well suited. The rapid; diminution of bands in the labour market her likewise contributed, no doubt, in some maim to the same result—although it is not weep' easy to understand why other cereal crops should not be reduced in extent thereby as well as wheat. We have always leaned to the conviction, that except on the eastern side of the island, and under highly improved cultivation, wheat was rather an unsafe investment for small agricul tural capitals in Ireland. In the western counties, where drainage is still very imperfect, and the climate intensely damp, there mast always be a more than reasonable risk of the finest wheat crops being de stroyed on the eve of maturity. Oats, barley, and rye suffer infinitely lee,, and are, therefore, more prudent farming for small householden. Bat in point of fact, the regions bordering on the Atlantic are daily revealing more and more to that state of pasture from which they were forcibly taken by the rapid increase of pageant pauperism daring the half century that preceded the famine of 1846. There are thous who believe that the ten dency towards pasturage will ere long be checked, like everything else, by the effect on prices of over production; and that, as in the meantime population is likely to acquire a new impetus,we shall witneasby and-bye an ebb in the tide, and a return to the prac tice of breaking up grass land for tillage. It may be so; bat we doubt if the same temptation to obtain half the worth of the fee by letting old pastures for ' , the planting of potatoes is likely soon spin to recur. The existence of a Poor Law, and still more the ocean highway of emigration, which can never again be closed, will create an essential difference in the agricultural future of Ireland, compared with the past. The working population have acquired a knowledge of wages and of comforts they were formerly unused to; and they have at the same time become familiar with ready and easy alternatives of sebeistenos when employment fails at home. We do not fear that we shall ever again see myriads of paupers gambling for existence with spendthrift landlords, by offering exorbitant rents for potato land ; and no other crop than potatoes i s lik e l y to induce any sudden transformation of pasture into THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1855. LATEST FROM ABROAD. VATCIIIIO I& GENERAL SIMPSON. : • WAR Dit'ARTMENT, Barr. 7. Load tianmare this day received the follow ing illielligeace rrOm General flimpeon, dated 66 CRIMEA, Barr. 5, 1855. "Oar batteries opened fire at daylight this morning. . 1 Barr. 8, Firs P.M. "The bombardment goes on steadily and favour ably, with few °sensitise on our side. A Russian frigate, supposed to have been set on fire by our rockets, was bunt last night in the Great Harbour." MISHAPS TO THE ROYAL TRAIN. The train which conveyed the Queen and Royal Family from London to Edinburgh on Thursday last met with a series of mishaps, which not only resulted in her Majesty having to change carriages before she reached her destination, but unhappily, also, In the loss of life. Not withstoidieg the eztraordinary presentness taken to p even the slightest casualty, it would seem that shortly after the Royal train left the metropolis it was found that some of the axles of the carriages, especially one of the last break v.a, were not in a satisfactory stater. When the train arrived at Peterborough, one or two of the sale-boxes were washed out. At Grantham matters were found to be worse, and a man was then eta timed oa the footboards of the train in order to grease t►e axles as it was runnirg. At Retford a telegraphic message was sent to Doncaster to have a fresh break got in readiness. At Haertry the train was delayed five minutes to allow the axles—all of which were overheated more or less—time to cool. Oa reaching Doncaster the last break of the train was exchanged for afresh one, and t►is operation was not un attended with Ineoevesienee, fee the people assembled at that station, not having andeipeted this stoppage, besieged the State carriage as soon as the train pulled up, and climbing lima engines and tenders whisk happened to be standing en the Wings on each flank of the train, and within a foot tr two of the windows of the Royal saloon, indulged their eager cariosity without stint or scruple. After leaving ammeter and getting rid of the all-bat- Ignited break, the state of the axles of some of the other carriages was sufilaient to excite the liveliest anxiety of the officials in charge of the train and to require the most constant eigilacco. On approach. ing Darlington on of the greasers stationed on the foot , beards of the train unfortunately ease in contact with the girder railing of a small culvert bridge; the colli sion kneeked him off the trate, and he was so crushed and mutilated in his fall that he died soon afterwards. At Dar lington her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal, who occupied the principal state carriage, were under the necessity of abandoning it, and proceeding for the remainder of their journey in one of the blue saloon carriages occupied by some of the younger branches of the family. It was found that the heat of the axles was so great as to endanger the safety of the car riage. The teal cause of these untoward incidents is involved is some mystery. The ststeLcarriagn, which have not been used since last September, appeared to be quite sale, la every respect, on their trial journey from London to the Great Northern Company's repairing dei Ot at Doncaster, end back again. It is a very unusual cireum• stance for ea axle to overheat itself in so short a dis tance as that in which the occurrence was first observed in this UM; and it is a still more rare circumstance for several exletreee dose train to overheat in the course of one journey. The grease used was of the best quality, and, we believe, the same as that used during the Hoye! journey to Scotland lest year. The end of the sale of the break oast off at Don caster was needy worn away; the apertures of the busses through which the grease should descend were stopped up by the fusion of the metal, after which, of course, none of the grease could get to the sale. No doubt a rigid investigation will be made into aU the circumstances of the case at the inquest on the body of the unfortunate man whale life has been sacrificed. He was a resident of Doncaster, and has left a wife and three children. Hee Majesty has been pleased to sanction the alteration of the appellation of " Foreign Legion" to that of the " British German Legion," a proper compliment to the discipline and efficiency of the Shornoliffo force. It has been called ups to emulate the old Garman legion of the Peninsula, and no doubt it will do so. His Once the Duke of Rutland is in exoellent r health, sad will, during the shooting season, Nevins select circle at his shooting box, in Derbyshire. -• . • The Earl of Abingdon is entertaining a select circle of Meade at Wythaos Abbey. Joseph Fergssoo, Esq., M.P., has presented 251, to the hind for rebuilding the United Presbyterian Chapel, Fisher-street, Carlisle. The Princess Royal of Sweden (rays a letter from Helaingborg of the 29th alt., in the Emancipation of Brawls) has had the ndafertnne to break her aria at t►e baths of Bandefjord. No ii.rtiaulara are given. The Bps of Buxton is at _present full of company. Oa Sunday afternoon the Rev. Dr. linnet!, of Liverpool, preached in the open air. The rev. gentleman took his stood in **colonnade of the Crescent, sod preached • powerfel and eloquent sermon from Acta :air , v. 25, to • large end attentive audience, who occupied the area, the eloper, sad the windows of the Crescent. The Vicar of Huddersfield, the Her. Impish Bate malt, has elehmiged his living with the Rm. Mr. Holmes, of North Cray, I. Kent. Lord Fortnum continues his Highland exercise. Oa the Ist instant his lordship made one of a party of four gem to amend the mouatain part of his ground, getting to the high range of 3,550 feet above the ma keel. The ob ject of the wont was to attack the hares, 'Moo were first authoritatively given up for destruction by the late Sir R. Peel. Lerd Foresees killed • ptarmigan, and the glum of the qoadruple alliance brought down 93 h arm Mr. James Grahame Edwardea, pupil at Mount Radford School, has been appointel to the Royal Merinos by the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Edwards, woo his basest is a competitive emmination of 42 pupils. Re wee first of the victors, who wen but 14 in all. . . Early ibis week, about 120 of the boys employed in some of the ship•beildieg yards in Dumbarton struck work for as advisee of from 4e. and 4i. 6d. to be. per week. In thus following the reprehensible example sometimes set them by "ohildren of • larger growth, they were motor tanately the cease of throwing severs' men out of employ ment, whose work depended in some measure span the promisee of the boys. Alter remaining on strike for some days, the asketfor &dream was made, and all bands wont to work spin. Francis Roxburg, Fag, barrister-at-law, the corn =Wiener appointed by the-Muter is Chancery to wind op the affairs of the National Land Company, is travelling through Yorkshire to receive claims. The average number of passengers carried by the steamers between Newhaven and Dieppe during the whole of last month was 182 daily oath way. The retorts of corn mold in Wiebech market from Assiut 24, 1854, till Amass 25, 1855, amounted in the grew to 132,000 quarters, which exceeds that of the year pemedlog_by 44000 gasmen. The United Saralee Gazette elates that the enemy am sow treads' as to their new coinage; the shot they favours. with are clefts new, sad mime are marked 1855. About thirty years ago the Worcestershire hounds had • run over a large field of wheat is the neighbourhood of Howell Grange, the soot of the Earl of P, month, to which the numerous horsemen had apparently done datable damage. The farmer ogled on Lord Plymouth, and respectfully stated the mutation of the field, cm yid* his lordship promated.tdm with his abscise fey 601. Bens menthe afterwards, the same farmer cashed on the earl, *hien, bask the cheque, and telling him that, so far from the WI, being raised ft wee actually • better swop la those parts whorish had bees meet trampled. The earl wee se pleased triad& perste( madame sad itamrity that he gave the farmer a dimes far o Atimfred parade is Kea of the me Wrought Mehl This maLltherat noblemen was seramded la his large Medea is Obisergeaddre sad Woreesterohire by his eimero Lady Harriet Clive, who le out the same whin of insisioas somospeast toig adrare for which her Mee heebaad, the Hooomable Rebell E. Clive, had always Wes se seeepitamm DESPATCH FROM GENERAL PELISSIER. (ai SUBNARINR ♦ND BRITISH TILBOILMI.) (PROM OUR OWN CORRISTONDB/IT.) PARIS, SATURDAY MOANING. The following despatch has been received from General Pelissier, dated Sebastopol, Sept. tl : " A vast fire, caused by our shells, seised the Russian vessel Marian lag night. The flames illuminated all the camps. " The Marian was a two-decked vessel, anchored in the bay of Sebastopol. The fire was caused by a shell from the right attack." DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAHOFF. BERLIN, Sart. 7. Prince Ourtchakoff, writing on the 4th, at 11 o'clock at night, says : "The situation before Sebastopol is unchanged. The enemy's fire as before. His approach is con stantly retarded by the fire of our batteries.' tSTRUCTION OF PETROPAITLOVSKI AND FLIGHT OF THE ENTIRE GARRISON. SOUTHAMPTON. SATURDAY. The following intelligence has just arrived: "The allied Beets, consisting of eight ships and steamers, arrived off Petropaulovski on the 16th May, with the intention of attacking it. " The whole of the garrison had made their maps in the Russian frigates Aurora and Divine, having availed themselves of a dense fog on the 17th of April, and eluding the British frigates Barreconta ' and Encounter, which for a long time had been blockading the fort. "The place has been completely destroyed, and 61 guns taken. "The Allied fleets have sailed for the Amoor river, to which the garrison of Petropanlovski have fled." PERSIA. A treaty of alliance and of ootomerce was concluded on the 12th of July between France and Persia, and the ntifications were given to the Minister of France on the 14th. SARDINIA. TURIN, Barr. 7. The Sardinian Legation accredited to Tuscany has been recalled on account of difficulties arising out of the Nomination of a certain attaché. ACQUITTAL OF THE LLXEMBOURO RAIL WAY DIRECTORS. BRUSSELS, FRIDAY. The Tribunal Correctionnel has acquitted the Di rectors of the Luxembourg Railway of the charge of embezzlement. John Ashwell, u being already pro scribed; William Maguey and John Muterman, be cause offence not sufficiently proven by evidence. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. -a -(110X OUR OWN CORI PARIS, FIIIDALT EVIIIIIKO. A private telegraphic despatch received tc day by a Paris banker announces that a French and English fleet having troops on board is already before Naples. I also learn from another and • good source that every preparation has been made for immediate action in case King Ferdinand shall decline, within the short period allowed him to make up his mind, to comply with the °auditions laid down in the ultimatum which! stated yesterday had been presented to him. What these conditions are I am not in a position to say, but I have reason to think that they go much farther than a mere demand for satisfaction foe not having returned the salute of the French ships. The Howiteur contains an Imperial decree, reducing the duties on cast-iron, wires, machinery, &c., so as to make them harmonies with the decree of Nov. 22, 1853. The duty on steel is reduced from 80fr. and 88fr. 600. to 60fr. per 100 kilos. ; and 70fr. in the case of steel wire for musical instruments. The duty on machinery ranges between 15fr. and 65% when complete, and between 16fr. and 2001 r. for separate pieces, the duty gradually increasing in the inverse proportion of the weight. The duty on tools of dif ferent kinds ranges between 75fr. and 200 k., and the old duty is maintained on sickles and flaxoombe. The reduction, the proportion of which, however, varies eonsiderably, is in most cases very great, and in many 80 and 100 per cent. The Prow observes that this decree is another step in the road which must necessarily lead to free trade. At the Bourse the Rents was almost entirely ne gleoted. The fluctuation in the course of the day was but 10e., and it closed at yesterday's price. A good deal of business was done in Austrian railways, which, after several oscillations, closed very firm at a rise of 17k. 50c. French railways were generally dull, and fell from 2fr. 500. to sk. Bank of France fell 20k. The great feature of the day was the ex traordinary rise of 95k. in the Credit Mobilier, occa sioned by an important financial announcement made by the society this morning. It has for some time been rumoured that this great establishment was about to in crease its capital. The special form retire contradiction of the rumour published by the Comaritutionnel the other day, "that the society was not about to issue new shares," was a pregnant confirmation of the belief that the capital woad be increased la some other form. To have issued new shares would have necessitated au application to the Council of State. The course taken is to create obligations payable 90 years hence. According to the published nodes the society will issue 240,000 new obligations of 6001 r. each, bearing au annual interest of 15fr., payable half-yearly, and repayable at par in 90' years from Sept. 1, 1857. Conformably to article 7 of the sta tutes these obligations will be constantly represented to their full amount by public securities, shares, and obligations existing in porrefeuilk. The obligations will be issued at the peke of 280 fr., and will be re sieved by preference for shareholder, wise will he z . , -- entitled in the proportion of two obligations for one' altaMi. The payments for the obligations will be made as follows :—foofr. at the time of subscription, 100 fr. on March 1, 1858, and 80fr. on Sept. 1, 1868. Con• pone of shares in the Credit Mobilise, payable on the lit of Jan. and let of July next will he accepted as money in payment of the first instalmeut,oe the footing of 200 fr. Thus the shareholders are guaranteed a dividend of 200 fr. for the current year, and should the dividend ultimately declared exceed that amount, they will receive the difference. The measure was very favourably received at the Bourse, and the highest price of the day was sustained to the end, notwithstanding many sales to realise profits which speculators were tempted to make by the enormous rise above mentioned. M. Isaac Pereira, who lift for Vienna last night, u I informed you he was about to do, is accompanied by the chef dee contentieux of the Credit Mobilier Society. Besides the affair of the branch society to be established at Vienna, there is, I understand, a question of another Austrian loan. A letter from Havre, in the Echo Agricole, expresses a hope that this govetnment will at onoe extend the period fixed by decree for the free entry of foreign porn. The uncertainty felt as to whether duty will be payable or not after Deo. 31 already paralyses the trade. Corn is rising considerably, and there are accounts of consequent discontent in some of the provinces. In two places, M. Darblay, the well-known Psis corn merchant, has been burnt in eau, because the ignorant people fancy his speculations are the cause of the dearness. The following private telegraphic despatch has been reoeived: IiCRIIIOIIIIIIO, THURSDAY, Barr. 6. "The Czar, on the proposition of Marshal Pas kiewitch, has issued a ukase, by virtue of which, seeing the changes that have taken place in the state of the war, the principal commission of cam paign of the active Russian armies is dissolved." Another despatch states that Count Nesselrode will be re-placed during his absence by M. de Malzorff. Nearly 100 Russian prisoners, a great number of whom are Poles by origin, arrived at Marseilles on Wednesday, and were lodged at Fort St. Nicholas. They intend entering the Turkish foreign legion at Constantinople. The English mail is again retarded. The Inde pendasee Beige was stopped at the post-ofiloe to-day. M. Taxa. Delord, the well-known writer in the Charicari, has joised the redaction of the Sink. Pierre Bellot, a Provençal poet of some celebrity, has just died at Marseilles. SPAIN. The following has been received by telegraph : " MADRID SEPT. 6.—The subscriptions to the loon of 230 million, at present amount to 115 millions. Heavy rain has been falling for the last few days in nearly (very part of Spain. The Captain-General of the Philippine Islands writes word on the 6th July, that the most perfect tranquillity prevailed there." The Madrid Gaudio, of the Ist, contains a notice fixing the 18th as the date to which the period for subscribing for the loan of 230 millions has been extended. The extension of time was already an nounced by telegraph, but not the date. The Madrid journals of the 2nd have arrived. An official return represents that the number of persons attacked bT cholera at Madrid from the commence ment of May to the end of August, was 2,958, and that 1,783 of them died. The cholera has broken out with extreme violence at Painpeluna , on the 28th ult., not fewer than 40 persons died of it. A letter of the 3rd, received in advance of the mail, says that the Queen continued to be in p-rfect accord with her ministers. It states that the Captain-General of Catalonia had reported that two Carlist bands, under chiefs named Guibert and Hnignet, had been routed at Own and Adn ; and it announces that extraor dinarily heavy rains had caused great damage to the railway from Madrid to Albaceta. ROME. A letter from Rome, of the 28th ult., says As the Pope was a few days ago taking a walk near the Cavaleg¢ierl•gate, he met a number of convicts who were being conveyed to the bagnes at Civita Vecchia; they were tightly bound, and thrust into a narrow cart, and, it was evident, suffered greatly from the jolting of the vehicle. The Pope wu much affected, and he cried out to a priest who accompanied him— , What! Is that the way in which prisoners ere con veyed P' The day after his Hollows gave orders that cellular vans, like these used in France and England, should be constructed for the conveyance of pri soners." PIEDMONT. A radical meeting was held at Turin, at a club, called the Circolo Sales, on the 2nd. There were upwards of 1,500 persons present, under the presi dency of the deputy M. Sipco, and of MM. Brofferio, Vslerio, Bottone, Boner°. Canters, and other deputies of the Left. There were also delegates present from Genoa and Tortona, Three resolutions were passed :-1. That of the delegates of Tortona, to the effect that parliament ought to be immediately I convoked, as the only legitimate power able to effect a radical reform in the financial laws. 2. That of M. Brofferio, for the abolition of all new taxes which oppress the poor, without an adequate advan tage to the treasury. (This resolution concluded with denouncing Count Career as having forfeited the confides= of the nation.) 3. That of M. Sinco, calling for the immediate reform of the financial system of the state, and the realisation of all possible economy in the public expenditore. The Corriere Mercantile announces that it is Ver celli, and not Novara, that is to receive the depot of the Anglo-Italian legion. GERMANY. The Austrian Gazette says it is reported that Baron Von Prokesch will proceed u Internuncio to Constantinople early in October. A letter from Berlin of the sth says :—" The Duke of Saze•Coburg hu communicated to the other Ger man Courts the reservations he has made against the intervention of the Diet in tke settlement of consti tutional questions relating to his States, and that he has also invoked the mediation of the two great German Powers. The Prussian government has refused to interfere in the matter, and refers the solution to the Diet itself, which is the supreme cen tral authority in Germany." BADEN. The Minister of the Interior of the Grand Duchy of Baden has jest published the following notifica tion :—" It is said that the chiefs of the democratic party, assembled at London, have brought about an understanding between all the fractions of the party. At a secret sitting, in which they pledged themselves to make common efforts, they decided on publishing an appeal to the peoples of Europe. But before doing so in all languages, emissaries are to bring special printed orders to all the leaders on the Con tinent. These facts are made known to the police authorities of the Grand Duchy, in order that they may redouble their vigilance." DENMARK. A letter from Berlin of the 4th, in the Cologne Gazette, ssys :—" Austria is said to hare o ff ered her mediation to Denmark, in her difference with the United States. Doubts are entertained here as to whether the United States will consent to the oom• promise which Denmark Intends proposing, of lower ing the Sound duties generally. but Prussia would be quite disposed to accept it. The son of the Prince of Prussia, Prince Frederick William, bus left for Ostend to-day ; be for the of the Princess L will ma ttr a intil all hie family return to Berlin. Louis a with the Pane Itegetat of Ades" . THE WAR IN ASIA. The Jean& de Constardissopls states that the Russians have destroyed all the crops, and committed other devastations in the province of Armenia. The nomad Hurd families have left for the south, and a great number of Armenians have followed the Rus sians into Eris's& The Russians are circulating pro clamations in the Armenian language, in which they promise all Armenians who will emigrate into Georgia their protection, exemption from all taxes for ten years, concessions of laud, and exemption from military service for 25 years. A letter from Varna, of the 26th ult., states that Abdi Pacha had arrived there, as commissioner of the Porte, to superintend the embarkation of Turkish troops for Asia. These troops are to be disembarked at different places on the Asiatic coast, and are to be concentrated at Eatonm. A good many deserters from the Russians in the Crimea have arrived at Yarns, and most of them showed a desire to enter the corps of Turkish Cossacks which Sadig Pacha is organising. TURKEY. " Every year," says the Press. d'Orient, "each Massimo!' family sacrifices on or two sheep at the fete of the Courban-Baimm. That custom has just afforded the population of Constantinople an occasion of giving a proof of patriotism ; for the government, having charged the Imam in each of the quarters to recommend the inhabitants to give the sheepskins for the use of the troops in the approachinz winter, not less than 60,000 of them were collected on the second day of the fete at the bridge of Galata." THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Vienna of the 2nd ways:—" We learn from Galata that the Russians are making in great haste preparations on the Danube to resist an attack of the allies ; and they have reinforced their Bantu on the river by several gunboats from Ismail. They are Mated to have received important reinforcements from Bessarabia. Great astonishment had been caused at Galata by the news that the Russians had with. drawn the permission which they recently gave to export corn freely from the ports of the Danube ; bat the fact is, that so many contradictory state ments are made on the subject, that the exact truth cannot be ascertained." PERSIA. Letters from Teheran announce the snivel in that city of M. Bouree, French Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia. He was admitted to a private audience on the sth of July, in which he presented his creden tials to the Bohah,with whom he afterwards had a long conversation. AMERICA. (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (PEON OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Union, which left New York on the 25th tilt. qea arrived. She repute that the yellow fever still rages in Virginia. Cotton is flat. Flour unchanged. Corn is firm. Coffee active. There was more doing in freights for Liverpool and London, at stiffer rates. Telegraphic communication was opened between Halifax and Cape Breton. Exchange on London, 1091 to 110. ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. TO THB EDITOR Or THE RHEIMS. SlB.,—Though tho public have lately bad many accounts of the ascent of Mont Blanc, I think there have been none more original than the one I have the honour to enclose, from a boy of 17, who has just left Eton, and who has since, with a single guide, made the ascent of Monte Rosa also most ancoesstully.— I am, sir, your obedient servant, D. W. C. London, Sept. 7, 1855. Chamosniz, August 18, 1855. • • • • Heard (a young American) and myself arrived here on Monday evening, and took a long walk on Tuesday morning, or rather on Tuesday, for we were twelve hours on our feet. Our guide declared that sack a walk had been made here before, which rather raised our estimation of ourselves and oar powers of walking. On Wednesday we walked to a beautiful spot called the Jar din, in the midst of the Glaciers, and surrounded by all the highest peaks of the Alpe. I had thought the way there was difficult, and you may imagine I was rather astonished at the arrival of a French lady with her husband about an hoar otter us. She, as a matter of necessity, was dressed in the same manner as her husband, which greatly facilitated her movements. We diced up at this lovely spot, and very well too. Knives and forks were scare*, and chickens were devoured much in the same way as they are at Bton on election Saturday or 4th of June. Neither, to make the s i m il e com pl e te, was ohampagne wanting, as the French lady and gtatleman had some, of which they gave us a good share. Well, we were rather more than 9,00 feet above the level of the see, and old Mont Blanc was only 6,000 feet above as, a very little thing where the heights are go great, and be looked smaller than he really was. The beauty of the scenery, the cham pagne, &a, so exhilarated my spirits, that I told Heard that I was going to start next day for the summit of the "monarch of mountains; " and as you had told me to keep my eyes open and sae everything whilst I was abroad, I thought I might as well see as much as I mad at a glance. Deeds soon followed my thoughts; I told the guides my intention ; and from that moment it was a settled thing, and we returned immediately and took a cold bath, in order to prepare us for the nett day's fatigues. Fortunately for us we bad made the acquaintance of a very nice told man here, who, some years ago, was the best guide in the place, but has now retired. This man, simply out of kindness, and for no recompense whatever, arranged everything for us; and when we left Chamounis, on Thursday morning (16th host.), it wee with the beat arranged party possible. This was soon increased by the arrival of two volunteers, who had heard of our good auspices. One of them, a sturdy butcher, amused us all the way by his tricks and utter carelessness of danger. In the descent that fellow would slide some hundred yards down a bank of snow, in defiance of the shouts ci the guides, and atop himself just on the edge of a crevasse. A very different object is he this morning. i saw him when he came to get us to sign a certificate of his having been up. He had no veil or spectacles yesterday, things indispensable even to the guides, and hie face was most 'heedfully burnt, end be could not see oat of his eyes. Well, to come back to the point : we arrived at the Grande Mulcts so much sooner than usual that no one was looking out for us at Chunouniz, and they did not give us the customary salute. This was a good beginning, I thought, at any rate. On Friday morning we started, at 2.30 a.m., from the Grande Mutate, and after seven hours' walking arrived at the sum mit of the highest mountain in Europe, at 9.20 precisely— not without 120/leaky, I can aware you. Two of our guides were unable to reach the top, one being so blinded by the snow that be was obliged to be baulel along by another, as it was quite unsafe to leave him amongst the crevasses alone. We two reached the summit, although I, for one, hardly knew I was there ; as when once one lost one's breath up at that height it was a long time before we could get it again. I was assisted slightly the last quarter of an hour, as I had been especially ad vised to be so, and waived up there as hearty as any of them ; and oh ! how happy I was when I got a good swig of champagne, as I was half dead of thirst; and I em sorry to my that in my hurry to drink it I quits forgot the health of the Queen. We arrived up at 9 20, stayed there half an hour, and were down again at the Greeds Mulets at 12.46 ; w ithout hurrying the least, we started about 1.46, stopped on the road at the usual plum to treat our guidee, and arrived at Chamomile at half.past 6, quite fresh, to the astonhhment of every one. We were so early that nobody expected us, but nevertheless we met al pimple oa the way to meet us; and when we came into the town instead of the usual number of guns, they fired a salute o f ? twelve, and the whole place turned oat to have • look at the " little boys" who had been up Mont Blue. The people who had bun watching as with telescopes all day were astonahed at the rapidity of our ascent, sad the way we had come down, all together, in single file, just as we had gone up, for nobody wanted &mistime. The oily one who ever broke the line was the butcher, end everyone wasted to know who it was that kept gob% like lightning ever the precipices . KTRLI ALFRED CHAPMAN. METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENT. _1,••••.- We have been favoured with an inspection of Mr. Horace Jones's plans for an edifice to be appropriated to purposes of trade, which he suggests as a subeti. tote for the rubbish hole which at present occupies the area of ground at the intersection of New Cannon. street sad St. Paul's Churchyard. It may be remem bered that the Institute of British Architects, by the most influential of their body, did some time back propose that the fine view of Wren's masterwork, obtainable from the vicinity of the point of intense tion, should be preserved to the public, by the per. manent enclosure of this plot of land, and the pee. vention of all buildings thereon. But as the Institute were not prepared with the fends to purchase this boon from the Corporation, who very naturally winced at the propose' to sacrifice some thirteen thousaad pounds—the estimated value of the ground—nothipg seems to have been done. At all events, there the enclosure is, and a skeleton rail appears within it, indicating, we believe, what portion of the site * City are prepared to devote to public convenience, and what they reserve for building purposes. Mr. Jones proposes, in the first place, to stop epee perhaps cover with an arcade, that fraction of the street named Old Change which lies between Wat ling-street and New Cannon•street. This would be attended with no public inconvenience, and has, we believe, the sanction of those immediately on the spot. The ground thus gained, with a small portion in the rear now occupied by the warehouses of Messrs. Phillips and others, and so much of the now unoccupied laud as the City reserve for build ing purposes, he proposes to cover with a hand. some pile of warehouses, to the p 1 n, dm., of which our attention was invited. The style may be deno- minated the Anglo-Italian, as practised in the age of William and Mary and Anno, examples of which are found in the works of Sir Christopher Wren at Hampton Court and elsewhere, and in many buildings erected under his contemporaries and pupils. The materials are red brick and stone. The lower or ground story is a Doric composition, carrying an lonia order, and the whole crowned by a light though im posing attic, the windows being treated with consi derable breadth. The architectural features form the skeleton of the building, aiding its general appear ance, and indicating their own utility. The general lines and character of the deeign are somewhat in harmony with Sir Christopher Wren's great work— as much so, at least, as an edifice devoted to comma mercial purposes can well be with a metropolitan cathedral. Vaults roofed with glass might be carried under so much of the triangular area as the Corporation should elect to keep open, the enclosure being maintained ' by a suitable balustrade or railing. Thus the area might at all events be partially productive of revenue; or, if it seemed good to the civ►c authorities, it week' afford an unexampled site for a statue, securing in either case to the public as extensive a view of the cathedral as we can be warranted in expecting the municipality to provide, when there are so many demands of tenfold urgency and importance to the community upon the funds of which they are stewards. The building proposed is of an exceedingly light and ornamental character—adapted, of course, to the special requirements of those trades which are pHs ctpally carried on in the vicinity of Wood-street. What the intentions of the corporation are uto this present disfigurement of the City, we are of course unprepared to say ; but, as we are given to understand that they are open to proposals for leasing the site, we may assume that they have no posi tive intention of raising any structure on it on their own account; and we may, therefore, safely aid the general desire to be rid of an eyesore, and to continue the recent advances in street-architecture, by inviting consideration of the plans we have loosely describ ed. A meeting of the Directors of the Norfolk Estuary was held a few deys ago, to examine the state of the work', and to arrange the plans for reclamation of land. It MS found that Nature—or in other words the tides—are steadily deep t e m p i o g h h a t n p . tzli t a b r eu le g e h sa v id ia r e a g p ar idl m y) id at ill w e, o a r n k d in in sc A p in in g g np l the ta laud for reclamation. It was therefore thought advisable not to make any large expenditure as present. A large and influential meeting of coal owners and coal viewers, end other gentlemen interested in the education of the children of the miners in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, was held in the Neville Hall, New on-Tyne, on Thursday to consider • echeme proposed by the Hon. and Rev. J. Grey, for promoting education in the mining and manufacturing districts. The chair was occupied by the Earl of Durham, sod smug tbcee pre sent were Lord R worth. Hon. H. G. Liddell, M.P.; Mr. T. E Headline, M.l'. ; Mr. R. Irghsm, M.P. ; Mr. Nicholas Wood, the chairman of the Institution of Moto; Engineers; Colonel Statism of Etherhy ; the Mayors of Newcastle and Gateshead, several of the clergy, and a con siderable number of iofluential coal-miners. Res9liitions in support of the scheme proposed were unanimously • agreed to. A meeting of the promoters of the Whitehsven Races was held on Thursday, for the purpose of giog preliminaries for the forthcoming meetirg. The following gentlemen were appointed stewards, vie. ;—Capt. Harris; of Orsysouthen ; Capt. Weston, of Seaton Hell ; and Henry Jefferson, E'q., of Springfield. A local paper remarks that the inhabitants of Car diff in common with those of most other towns in England. have for some months past experienced considerable incon venience, owing to the difficulty of obtaining copper change ' and there has been • general complaint et great scarcity or copper money; indeed, numbers of people, particulsrlg such as are engaged in retail trade, have been fen- quently put to their wit's end to obtain ' , change for a sixpence," vainly rushing from neighbour to neighbour to no purpose, and have been at last' compelled to return iu despair with the unfortunate coin still unchanged. Such a state of things, we are happy to state, will no doubt shortly terminate, and we shell per-; hape be subjected to an inconvenience of a very &Meant character from a proportionate influx. We perceive that Government have entered into a contract with Mr. Ealpb. Heaton, of Birmingham, to coin 600 tons of copper money. which contrast hes just been completed. No doubt we Mall in common with other towns participate in the cone quiz( advantages when this large quantity ;ham been duly dc-,; culated. Mrs. Ann Simpson, better known as the "Tee-_ total Queen," died a few days ago, aged 70. She was, during the last twenty years a public lecturer on the prin.:, ciplee of abstinence from intox:catiog dritke. Mr. G. V. Brooke's performances in Australia have been less succesaful than the American spreulators, by whom he is understood to be farmed, had anticipated. The commencement of the legitimate dramatic seas son at the suburban and East Eud theatres is indicated bye the re-opaning of ttadler's Wells under the direction of Mr. Phelps, and the advent, as a star, of Mr. Anderson at thol Standard; both of which events take place toil evening. M. Jullien will not, as was supposed, return US; America this " fall," but will defer his eecond visit to the' United States till the excitement caused by Mdlle. Richer. : first appearances there shall have ceased. Mr. Armitage has returned from the Crimea with it,'; portfolio of sketches, consisting of special 'cents and pew-, traits. His design is to paint two liege tictures—Tae, Battles of Inkermann and Balaklava. During one of the Queen's promenades through the' Fine Art section of the Paris Exhibition, one of the small, microscopic pictures by M. Meissonnier—the interior of a , cabaret, with soldiers of the Guard of the old hives of France! drinking and (quarrelling—caught her eye. The group', were picturesque, the costumes striking, and the degree of . finish was mare-piton,. Her Majesty expressed admiration,; of the work. Next morning it was lying in her apartment, at St. Cloud—a present from the Emperor Napoleon, whorl with Imperial courtesy, had bought the picture for 25,0 W francs. Amongst other London improvements is the new street from the Strand ti Covent garden. It will extend from Burleigh-strAt to Taviatock court. The new road through Kensington and Brampton, leading to the Exbibi lion Museum, is now opened. M. Claudot, a French architect, has invented a means of coating stone with a composition resembliog' marble. It is herd, bright, and smooth, and can be coloured . ( in all shades and tints. The 'Change te o rld a i l ez ge aT e eto sta s ura e n u t g , g t e h e e bore c e nt re chief apartment, and the shops side-boxes. St. Petersburg journals announce that a n Exhibie b tion of Fine Arts will be held in that capital th is p er, fl it ge to E b x e et eh ee e l e t spits of the war. California, on the principles of the ce l e brated New York An association has been founded in the ca p ital society, under the title of the Mercantile Library Associer.e lion of San Francisco. The library, which is said to bap well selected, opens with a collection of four thousand Esc T lish works. On Monday next, the 10th, the International &0..1 tistical Congress will commenced its • • gs in Paris. ILO Rooker will preside. The inquiries to be conducted are arranged in four sections : -Ist section, Nosoiogical telilsei of deaths ; statistics of insanity, of epidemics, and of Rod: I dents. 2nd section, Statistics of agriculture, of mean ado communication, and of foreign trade. 3rd section, Stafiel4el of civil justice ; the preparatiin of o tab :e of crimes snail misdemeanours, declared to be such by the respective laera3 of every country ; etatiotiots of penitentiary establiebmesit s sw 4th section, Statistics of pradentlal institution.; statistics OL great towns.