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1118 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 1: S.3.—The insertion ofdo. letter on .. Dr. Robinson and the Authenticity f the II(ly sat Jerusalem," is unavoid ably tieferred. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION lOU Per Annum Half-Wm ly Quarterly Etc Vress: (STAMPED.) .. £1 8 0 .. 0 18 0 .. 0 6 6 Paeab!tin advance. Subszribers are requested to send their Orders through the News Aqent; if direct to the Office. accompanied by a remit tance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittat: Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. At.ragn lvE, 110, Strand London. , -- lit lorr,oo+ LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. .22, 1556 POST SCRIP T A Letter from Vienna in the Augsburg Gazette, says : Baron de Bourqueney has recently received despatches, in consequence of which he has proposed to draw the frontier of Bessar2thia between Itolgrad and the Lake of Yalpuck. But this proposition has not appeared acceptable. The last intelligence from Constantinople of the 12th has created some uneasiness on the Exchange. It was stated that M. 'llouvenel and M. Boute nieff had called upon the Porte for explanations on pendant questions, and that the answers were evasive. The new Ministry was not yet formed. Intelligence from Berlin states that the Prussian Government is thinking seriously of a military expe dition against Switzerland, to compel the release of the Neufchatel prisoners. By telegraph from Madrid, of the 19th instant, we have the following : An official despatch from 3falagn, dated yesterday, announces that the garrison had been attacked by a band of persons proclaiming the Republic. The troops behaved gallantly, and order was soon re-established. Five of the insurgents were killed. The garrison had seven men m minded. King Otho was expected at Athens on the 13th inst. The Chamber of Deputies of Greece hail closed. The new session is fixed to open on the 19th December. THE MT:RDFR AT ERITH.—A man named Thomas Cartwright Worrall, a carpenter, residing at :27, Clayton-place, Kennington, was apprehended on Thursday night, charged with the murder of George Carter in York-road, Battersea. The prisoner was conveyed to the Greenwich Police station, where, while confined in a cell, he committed suicide by taking prussic acid. THE confirmation of the Rev. Dr. Longley, the Bishop of Durham elect, took place yesterday at York Cathedral. LADY STAFFORD, wife of the present Lord Stafford, and cousin to the Dnke of Norfolk, was found dead in her bed on Thursday morning at Costessy.park, near Norwich. Her ladyship had suffered recently from the rupture of a blood-vessel, but was believed to be returning to convalescence. SIR ALEXANDER BAXXF.R3IAX, for some time past Governor of the Bahamas, has been promoted to the Governorship of Newfoundland, in succession to Mr. Darling, now Governor of Jamaica. Mn. Smrru, the Accountant-General at the War Department, is about to retire. He will be succeeded by Mr. Kirby, late Chief Examiner of Army Accounts, whose great expenence in the department, says the Globe of last evening, may be expected to be most beneficially exercised in closing the complicated accounts of the war. SIR ALEXANDER COE/M.IRX was yesterday morning invested with the coif of a Sergeant at. Law, previous to being sworn in before the Lord Chancellor at Lincoln's inn. To-day he will be sworn in at the Queen's Bench and Court of Exchequer, after which he will take his seat as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. The Chief Justice, it is reported, wi'l be raised to the peerage, under the title of Baron Langton. CAPTAIN GEORGE ELLIOT, R.N., is gazetted as Captain of the Port of Gibraltar. THE PRESS. THE "TIMES" AND "DAILY NEWS" ON THE RESULT OF OUR NEAPOLITAN POLICY. [There is one effectual step to purge the Neapolitan State from the evils which desolate it, and that is to put away from the throne he has dishonoured the incorrigible perturber of the commonwealth of Europe.—D. News, Oct. U.] THE Naples correspondent of our Liberal contemporary thus writes from Naples, Novem ber 13 : Our position is one of the most ridiculous that can well be conceived. After many months of menacing correspondence, of European journalising and expec tation, of preparations of fleets, and sailing and counter sailing, the British and French Ministers leave Naples like two private gentlemen (Mons. lirenier, it must be confess!d, with some attempt at eclat), and one French and one English frigate come in just to ask us, " How do you do ?" So little sen sation does the circumstance make here that the names of the Ministers are entered amongst the usual list of departures with the Smiths and Joneses, not the slightest disturbance of the public peace taking place, and kind Italian friends sneeringly observe, " We are much quieter without the Minis ters—don't you think so, ?" The King, too, pats us on the back, and promises to protect us in our persons, rights, property, and interests ; and he fulfils his promise, for straightway he issues a rescript giving orders to that effect, and never were a people more courteously treated than the French and the English. Towards the Neapolitans themselves a more conciliatory manner is adopted, and a degree of tranquillity exists that we have not known for a long time lt shows that the allies have failed in rendering themselves either respected or respectable, and that what they have done or omitted to do has produced dissatisfaction amongst the Liberals, and ridicule amongst the Royalists. At the present moment the King is ccmplete master of the position. He has defied and triumphed over the allies, his " sic rob°, sic jubeo," was never stronger than it, now is ; and all that the allies have done has been to place him on a pedestal which history cer tainly will not accord him. The Times correspondent on Nov. 10th writes much in the same strain : STATE OF NAPLES. Opinions are facts, and those are almost the only facts which at present I have to communicate to you. It is, then, a very common opinion that we, the allies, Gut a very sorry figure in this affair of Naples —not that we have undertaken something which we cannot accomplish if we would, for our power must be undoubted, but that we have been playing ghost to baby, and baby is not frightened. The conse quence is that all parties laugh at us, even lampoon us, as I hear they did in some verses stuck upon Baron Brenier's door the day after he left; and one party, the Liberals, are angry, even indignant. " Why excite hopes," say they, " which were doomed to be disappointed? Why agitate Italy from north to south only to leave her more prostrate than be fore ? The only result of your intervention has been to show the strength of the despotic principle and our utter incapacity, because of your unwillingness, to struggle against it." I must confess that the Neapolitans have too much appearance of reason in such remonstrances, unless the programme which England and France have laid down has some as yet undeveloped good within it. Of course, the Royalist party with their ridicule mingle also expressions of indignation at what they call an impertinent intru sion into the affairs of another man's house, and, if we are to judge from the openly declared opinions of the Russian Minister, his Government takes a simi lar view of the question. Instead, therefore, of pleasing or benefiting any one party, we have offended or disgusted all, and, to judge from appearances, the result of English diplomacy in Italy will be as usual. . . . . His Majesty, I am informed, is in the best possible humour, and, indeed, there is every reason for his being RO when he thinks how completely he has "dune" the French and English. He has bul lied their Governments, and now patronises their subjects. The position is as proud for him as it is mortifying and insulting for the allies. Such, how ever, is the usual infelicity of English intervention in the affairs of Italy, and the result is always the same, that our country loses her influence entirely in the peninsula, and we are alternately blamed and ridiculed. A MONUMENT to the memory of the deceased medical officers, who lost their lives in the late war, was proposed and resolved on at a meeting of mili. tary medical officers, last Saturday, at the Army Medical Board, Whitehall. It was stated at the meeting that 3 . 271. have already been subscribed by the medical officers in Turkey and the Crimea, but as a further sum is necessary, Messrs. McGregor, army agents, 17, Charles-street, St. James's-square, nue been appointed agents to receive subscriptions. SATURDAt, Corrtsponlnart. ELECTORAL INF. QUALITIES. Letter IV. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir,—ln your editorial remarks ou my letter in THE PRESS of the Bth inst. you say yon have little sympathy with my attempts to procure an alteration of the electoral system, but that, nevertheless, it may be of use that Conservatives should attend to the inequalities 1 have pointed out, in order that, should any attempt be made from any quarter to tamper with the electoral Fystem, care might be taken that it. should not again be modelled to suit the views of a faction. Now, if the electoral system was at the time of the Reform Act modelled to suit the views of a faction, I think I am entitled to your sympathy in my at tempts to overthrow the successful conspiracy. I admit that if I asked for the agricultural class (or, to speak plainly, for the Conservative party) more than their just share in the electoral system, I am entitled to no man's sympathy ; but if all I ask is a mere instalment of justice, then f am entitled to the support, not only of the Conservative party, but of every lover of fair play. Moreover, it appears to me that since the government of this country must be carried on by party, it is Quixotic suicide on the part of the Conservatives to hold the electoral arrange ment of 1832 as sacred ; for the strength of parties must ultimately depend on their relation to the electoral system. If that is fairly constituted, good and weil ; but if it is so adjusted as to give the habitual supporters of one party twice the say in the representation which it gives to the supporters of the other party, then it is perfectly certain that, as a rule, the former party must be the governing party. And although in the oscillation of public opinion, through abuse of power or ill-luck, it may happen that the latter may attain power, it is certain they cannot expect to keep it for any length of time; for the preponderating class in the electoral system will soon return to their habitual political instincts and to the support of their ordinary representatives. The electoral system of Great Britain is in this vicious position, for the town constituencies, whose tendencies are Whig, return twice as many members of I'arlia ment in proportion to their numbers as the county constituencies, whose tendencies are Conservative. If, then, the Conservatives are not content with mere fugitive glimpses of power, followed by defeats which must in the long run inevitably destroy their prestige and endanger their political existence as a party—a state of things which already seems to me to have commenced—they must (let the electoral system readjusted. It is vain to strive with a steady majority in the electoral body against them. So long as that is the case not all the fine writing in the world about party organisation and discipline will save them. It is only now that this state of affairs is coming prominently into view. Formerly no such causes were in operation, if anything the electoral balanco being in favour of the Conservatives; but the march stolen by the Whigs is now beginning to tell, and we may rest assured that as time goes on, if allowed to retain their advantage, their power will increase and that of the Conservatives diminish. I may be asked, if this be so, what chance is there of the changes I advocate being carried ? I answer, the chance which there always is in England in favour of any change which can plead a clear case of justice in its favour. The majority of the Com mons are honest men, and an honest case can be laid before them, and, however party zealots may vote, the moderate men both among the Whigs and Radicals cannot avoid voting to redress so manifest an injntice as that which gives twice the say in the government of the country to one class which it gives to another. As to waiting till a proposal to alter the electoral system come from some other political party, that would in practice amount to waiting for ever; for the Conservative change which I have advocated, if pro posed and carried as au amendment to a Whig or Radical Reform Bill, would simply lead to its with drawal and to the indefinite shelving of the question, not to mention the risk of a Whig or Radical Reform Bill being in the meantime carried as the coup-de grace to the Conservative party.—l am, sir, dm., J. A..G. REDPATH AND KENT were re-examined yesterday at the Clerkenwell Police-court. Four more cases of fraudulent transfer were proved against the prisoner Redpatb, and on which transfer he had received dividends. The complicity of Kent was shown so far that he had made the entries in the book which contained Redpath's account. The manner in which Redpath had proceeded was in each of these four cases to plaoes the figure 1 before the sum to he transferred, thus clearing 1,0001. by every trans action. The prisoners were remanded for a week. An application for bail on behalf of Kent was referred by Mr. Tyrwhitt to a Judge in Chambers to fix the amount.