The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

The critical situation of the Austrian empire is sufficiently well indicated through the eagerness evinced by the Cabinet of Vienna to grant conces sions to the Hungarians. It is intimated, more over, in the midst all this hubbub about an Italian Confederation that—among the possibilities of the hour—there (in the last surviving remnants of the fair Italian provinces subject so long and so disas trously to the House of Hapsburg) there, even in Venetia, Austria is prepared to inaugurate at last a purely constitutional form of Government. Never was that old schoolboy morsel of classic latinity more frightfully appropriate— Tinzeo Danaos et cetera ! So frightfully appropriate, indeed, that we might almost be tempted to give it in its thread bare completeness, but that the words have been long since—ages ago—repeated in " damnable ite- ration," reiterated here, there, and everywhere, usque ad nauseam. It must be allowed, however, that of this peculiar thought, the policy now being pursued or rather promised (for it is as yet only, in truth--a policy projected) is distressingly sugges tive. Well may every Venetian, every Croat, every Hungarian, exclaim Timeo Danaos ! For never has a Prince of the House of Hapsburg pledged himself in this way to his unhappy subjects but his evil promises have led eventually and inevitably to a deliberate perjury. Divine lips have said, "Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles ?" We quote the holy words with all imaginable reverence ; but, in doing so, we venture to ask if the Viennese Councils do not admit of their application to the fruits again and again expected, and the fruits again and again dropped or gathered, from the Upas of the Austrian Government ? Constitu tional reforms, political concessions, acts of imperial liberality squandered by the ruler of the great Austrian empire upon Italians, upon Croatians, upon Hungarians ? The performance in the mere mention of it is about as preposterous as that pro mised by BILLY BOTTOM—namely, to " roar like any Sucking d ove !" S carce l y h as the programme of imperial benefactions in store been perused to the end,in any single instance,but what the idistcy of any serious belief in it has been pointed by the bayonet carved by the thong, and thundered by the artil lery of the Kaiser. • The history of that cruel • despotism is the epitome of all human wickedness in government. The whole fabric of the Austrian Empire is built out of robbery and spoliation under the diplomatic phrase of absorption, in realisation of the fine sounding ambition of a power bent (as the familiar words run) upon territorial aggrandise ment. ItuDoLPH of Hapshurgh rightly regarded has proved in this way to be simply the heroic pro genitor of a race of crowned buccaneers, or, as the Americans term the successors of the old buccaneers, filibusters. It has been now a province, now a kingdom, now a principality that has been in (we admit it) most vulgar but (we insist upon its being . 0 444' ). b 4 r , 0 , \ y *4,2 , THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 21, 1859. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Bend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GA RDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison• Tills EVENING will be performed THE TROVATORE. Messrs. W. Harrison, Santley, Walworth ; Miss Parepa and Miss Pilling. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, IL Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and Mons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with JILILLOWE'EN. After which, THE BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jasper (his or' inal character), Mr. C. Mathews. • Followed by a new Comedietta, entitled THE LATE LAMENTED. And MY WIFE'S DAUGIITER. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THI , z EvENTNG. the performances will commence with A WoNDERFITL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harris, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. To be followed by THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs. Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, It. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C. Lee ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI, Me proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, BillinLzton, C. .1. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Woolgar, and Hiss K. Kelly. _ _ _ Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINORAFT UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. iVm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.—SoIe Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.—The Public is re spectfully informed this Theatre will OPEN for the Winter Season on MONDAY, Nov. 28, with a new and original Drama Fantastique, written by a popular author, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Full particulars will be duly announced. ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or, Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett, Charles Young ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and Nelly Moore. • After which (sth time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee William Cooke. Continued successfnl career of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., caned GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by a Powerful Company, including the fallowing popular favourites :—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis' Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. Great Dramatic Tableux—Full Stud of Trained Horses— Scenes in the Circle by the Star Equestrians of Europe, John Henry Cooke, Madlle. Marguerite„ Miss Rosina, and the world's wonder, Little Menoni, also, the Extraordinary Performing Elephant—Clowns, 11. Croueste, Rowella, French Pierrots, Gymnasts and Acrobats innumer able, concluding with the exceedingly laughable Comics Ballet called LOVE'S VAGARIES. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six pence. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night, 42—this day at noon. B A aommTen-30.02—falling. WIND, East South-Easterly; fresh, with fine cold weather. Nov. 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day at noon. BAROMETER--29.82. WIND, South-Easterly ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. Heavy fog in the morning. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE MIS DAY.—Morning, Ilh. 4m.—Afternoon, llh. 33m. To-moitnow.-Morning, Oh. Om.—Afternoon, 12h. sm. also) most expressive parlance—taken in and done for ! In the most flagrant of all these meanly fla grant and deplorable instances Austria was the accomplice of the Russian and Prussian Govern ments. Yet, heinous though the guilt of both those pillaging Governments unquestionably was in the perpetration of the great crime of the Partition of Poland, it was immeasurably surpassed in the depth of its atrocity by the monstrous ingratitude with which the Aus trians thus repayed the very land whose heroic sons had, under JOHN SOBIESKI, been the Saviours of Vienna from the Turkish barbarians ! The ingra titude thus evidenced in truth involves as by a logical necessity—no matter how tardily—inevi tably, inexorably, an overwhelming retribution. And not only is that retributive day of reckoning fast approaching now for the Polish nationality, but for other despised, but in secret dauntless and unforgetting nationalities—for the Venetians, for the Croatians, for the Bohemians, for the Tyrolese, for the Hungarians. One of the most fertile and beautiful among all the many stolen provinces of Austria has but within the brief compass of a very few months past been forcibly torn from the grasp of the Viennese Government. That is the beginning of the end of this unnatural power formed out of the incongruous blending of so many deceived and alien nationalities. The emancipation from that prolonged and dire thraldom but recently achieved for Lombardy by the Franco-Sardinian armies will be the signal (we may be assured of this) for the timely rising of the long-expectant Venetians, and Croatians, and Hungarians. As an additional and conclusive augury of the same approaching rupture of the Austrian Empire, we regard the af fected willingness of its Government to make poli tical concessions, to plan here an Utopia, there an Arcadia—to build up, in fact, in Hungary and else where all kinds of bran-new Constitutions. before 12 o'clock, when those addressed to us by the same mail, did not reach us till nearly three, just as we were going to press. Our correspondents in the suburbs feel the inconvenience. They can hardly post anything after 7 a.m., even some who live, like us, within, the three mile circle, which shall reach us in time for insertion the same day. Yet one little matter more. One of our regular subscribers complained to us a few days ago that letter-boxes were not either made universal, or not required at all. He has had one for some time. He thinks them very reasonable requirements ; he confesses that the saving of time to the postman, and the expediting the delivery to all, is obvious. But he says that not half the neighbours in his street, a quiet one, have boxes. That he has seen the postman losing much time at others' doors, through which he receives his letters later, and he suggests that all houses, not cottages, ought to be made to pay something extra if they will not put up boxes when their neighbours do. Let there be, in other words, an efficient penalty, or none at all. None can wish less than we do to depreciate our Postal service, There is probably not another in the world which can compare with it. It has pointed out the way to other countries, who have all followed more or less the example set them, and, so far as we at the moment remember, are better or worse in proportion as they assimilate their manage ment to that of the institution which Mr. ROWLAND HILL has created. We say Mr. HILL, because he is the creator of the modern Post-office. The insti tution is as different now from what it was before the days of penny postage as is travelling by rail way from travelling by coach. Not only in virtue of the powers of the locomotive and the rail, do letters reach our breakfast-table, which used to arrive late in the afternoon, or even next day, but the Post-office is now the institution of the mil lion. The increase of letters is indeed only mea sured by millions. Nineteen millions more last year, for instance, than in the year preceding ! And since the institution of the Penny Postage in 1840, an increase of 447 millions ; making the number of letters delivered last year nearly seven times as many as in the year 1839, when the old rates were in force. Setting aside, therefore, nume rous and valuable improvements and additions — the Money-order system, and the Book Post espe cially—the main grand result is one for which Englishmen all over the world owe to Mr. ROW LAND HILL a debt of gratitude which they cannot forget. It is not, therefore, in the spirit of captious complaint that we advert to one or two small prac tical matters which are sometimes very annoying in their working. We will mention only what we have met with in the last week in connection with our own office. They must be instances of what must be daily teasing to others, as well as to us; and we hope he will give them his kind and patient consideration. But a few days ago we received from a friendly local journal of large circulation a number of slips, evidently posted at the eleventh hour, containing a full report of what our brother journalist thought was in great part matter of national interest. Had it come by book-post, it would have come for one penny, for it barely exceeded the ounce weight ; so slightly, indeed, that probably putting on the stamps afterwards turned the scale. Probably, in the haste of the last minute, the book-post was not thought of, or possibly the knowledge that it might as a book parcel be detained for examination led oar correspondent to prefer the envelope. Yet for this anyhow obviously accidental error we had to pay FOURPENCE extra. Why fourpence ? Everyone familiar with the Post-office knows, firstly, that the penalty for accident as well as fraud (and we admit that in this business the penalty must be the same) is double the deficient postage ; and, secondly, that, like Sir ROBERT PEEL'S jump ing scale, the payment scale for letters, after two preparatory steps of one penny for each half-ounce, sets off in twopenny jumps. Whether you want an ounce or not, you must pay for an ounce. If the putting on of the postage-stamp but causes the scale to vibrate when you have put on the two, you must put on two more to satisfy the demand of the jumping scale. A similar principle is adopted in the book-post. Now, is this a fair penalty ? Suppose that some harsh drill like this were needful to make people careful at first (which we do not believe), it is totally unnecessary now. There is no disposition to cheat the Post-office. We all willingly pay the fairsharge for a letter. We do not, however, wil lingly 'iv this charge. The accident is never the fault of the receiver, who must always bear the pe nalty. Were the amount more important, he would not like to inform the sender of his mistake, it being generally caused by a haste to accommodate the receiver. How often, as in the instance we refer to, does " immediate " show the urgency under which it was sent. Fraud in these under-stamped letters is, we repeat, the rare exception, and the punishment ought therefore to be as light as possible. Our definitive, and we think fair suggestion to Mr. HILL is -Ist, that his scale of charges should give up jumping, and pro ceed at the regular pace of one penny for every half ounce additional. 2dly, that one penny in excess of the extra postage, in every case, is a sufficient penalty to inflict on the receiver for his friend's oversight —or, if Mr. HILL prefers, to pay for the trouble of charging the letter, and keeping the ac count with the letter carrier. At present every person who has to pay, as we often have done, four pence for a friend's sending us, accidentally, with a twopenny stamp, the two-hundredth part of an ounce too much, feels very much as he does when a cabman demands of him double fair. " Anything fair," " anything even a little generous," but "no imposition, not even a penny." FRANCE. 1 per Cents. .... 95 50 Do. end month .. 3 per Cents 69 901 Do. end month 69 85 Bank Shares 2900 Credit Mobilier 772 50 Do. Account RAILWAYS. This is our chief grievance. Another is local. Our office is in one of the busiest thoroughfares of the metropolis—but we have not the felicity of living East of Temple Bar, and under the benign rule of the Mayor and Corporation of London City. We find that, in consequence of this, the country letters, which come by the mails arriving in the middle hours of the clay, are not delivered to us till from three to four hours later than they are to those who live within the artificial London. To a news paper this is, of course, of the greatest consequence. We have, we think, a right to complain, when we have found letters reaching the Stock Exchange , THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1859. LATEST E WS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, Nov. 21. The Constitutionnel of to-day, in an article signed by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, says that the declaration of the Cabinet of Turin on the subject of the regency of M. Buoncompagni are of a nature to make those arrangements possible which have generally been considered as very difficult of exe cution. It is understood that if M. Buoncompagni exer cises the regency it is only for the maintenance of order in Central Italy. Italian interests are in harmony with European interests, in order to reserve for the Congress the definitive regulation of the situation of the Italian Peninsula. TURIN, Nov- 19 Baron Ricasoli, President of the National Assembly of Tuscany, has protested against the appointment of M. Buoncompagni as Regent of Central Italy. TURIN, Nov. 20. M. Buoncompagni has left to-day for Parma and Modena, where he will stay several days. The question of the acceptance of his Regency of Central Italy by Tuscany is in the way of settlement. A Cabinet courier, bearer of the Treaty of Peace, is expected to arrive 1146 to-day from Zurich. The exchange of the ratifications will, in all probability, take place to-morrow. General Garibaldi announces, in a proclamation addressed to the Italians, that he has withdrawn from the military service, and he adds :—" On the day when Victor Emmanuel shall call his soldiers to arms I will take my place again among my fellow-combatants." GENOA, Nov. 18. A deputation from Tuscany, consisting of Signor Egallcotti, Signor Coppi, and Signor Febrizzi, sent by the Baron Ricasoli, President of the National Assembly, to protest against the Regency of M. Buoncompagni, has arrived in Turin. The deputation has not been received by the King, but Prince de Carignan will receive them in a private audience. MUNICH, Nov. 20. It is stated that, on the invivitation of Bavaria, a conference of the Ministers of the States of second rank, and also the minor States of Germany, is about to take place on the 23d inst. at Wurzburg, in order to come to some agreement about the pending questions of German policy. PARIS, SUNDAY. It is stated that the official convocation of the Congress will take place to-morrow. A certain ob jection made by Russia causes a delay. It appears that Baron de Malaret is to replace the Prince Latour d'Auvergne as Ambassador at Turin, in case the latter should be appointed Am bassador at Berlin. The Constitutionnel of Saturday confirms the statement which appeared in the Patrie, namely, that the Anal de la Religion would be prosecuted for publishing the letter alleged to be from the King of Sardinia to the Emperor of the French, relative to the regency of the Prince de Carignan. No formal invitation to take part in the Congress which is to be held on the 15th of December next has yet been addressed by France to England, but Count Persigny has been instructed to arrange the preliminary conditions with Lord John Russell. The formal and official invitation will be sent to London from the Cabinets of Vienna and Paris simultaneously. The notes containing the invita tion will not be identical, as it has been stated; Aus tria will propose that the Congress shall assemble in Paris, while France will abstain from indicating any place. It is certain that A ustria, through the medium of Prince de Metternich, has protested here against the nomination of a Regent by Piedmont, as such A regency would be contrary to the conditions of the treaties of peace signed at Zurich. Baron de Talleyrand will replace the Marquis de Moustier as Ambassador at Berlin, The Mar quis Bonneville will be appointed Ambassador at Athens. The departure of the Spanish troops to Morocco has been delayed, as Marshal O'Donnell will not consent to their leaving before the collection of the war material has been completed, which will be very shortly. No invitation to take part in the approaching Congress has yet been sent to any Power ; the lettres de creance will be sent to the Plenipoten tiaries on Sunday or Monday next. THE BOURSE, Nov. 19.—The market has been flat, and prices have slightly declined. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 95e., receded to 69f. 85c. Nlobilier varied from 777 f. 50c. to 772 f.; Austrian, 546 f. 25e.; Lombard, 546 f, 25e.; Orleans, 1,365 f. ; Lyons, 885 f. The following were the last quota tions:— Credit Fonder G 95 Belgian 4/ — Piedmontese (5) Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 43 Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 950 950 New ditto. B3O .. 832 50 Lyons and Mediterranean BB3 75 .. 885 Geneva 527 50 .. Southern Western 565 Eastern Sardiniaa. Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c. ; money, 24f. 95c. GREECE. The sixth Legislative session of the Greek cham bers was opened on the 10th inst. by King Otho. After stating that Greece was at peace with all foreign Powers, his Majesty said : " Gentlemen, Deputies and Senators,—You are aware that my Government, always anxious to fulfil its engagements towards the Powers who guaranteed the loan, has proposed to them to make a final settlement of the affair according to the re sources of the state. They have claimed, for the present, an annual payment of 900,000 f., convinced that the payment of that sum will not create any embarrassment to the public service. My Govern ment will ask from youthe grants necessary to cover this sum, and will follow up the negotiations rela tive to the final settlement of this question—a set tlement which is indispensable to the consolidation of public credit and a healthy system of our finances. I entertain the hope that the kindness always shown to Greece by the protesting Powers will facilitate the result of this negotiation." After mentioning various local measures, the Royal Speech formally announces the opening of the sixth Legislative session. The Euryalus, with Prince Alfred on board, ar rived at the Piraeus on the 10th inst. THE WRECK OF TIIE ROYAL CHARTER.—The body of the unfortunate Capt. 'Withers was washed ashore at Bull-bay at 3 p.m. on Thursday last. All his clothes were on except his coat. On his person were found a gold watch and chain, two gold seals, £36 in gold, and a silver snuff-box, bearing the inscription—" Presented by the pas congers of the ship Glocester to Capt. Withers, November 7, 1838." The watch had stopped at half-past seven. The body was much disfigured about the face and hands. On Saturday last Dr. Watts, Mr. Richard Moore, and Mr. C. D. Collet, the Executive Committee of the As sociation for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Know ledge, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer at his o ffi c i a l res i dence i n D own i ng - street, i n the caurse of which they presented an address on the subject of reducing the taxes on F aper. The deputation was accom panied by Mr. Robert Chambers, of Edinburgh, and intro duced by Mr, Ayrton, M.P. SCOTT'S STEAM-GENERATOR. [We extract the following from the Daily News. If the invention come up to expectation it will prove of incalculable benefit to the public, and will no doubt make the inventor's fortune.] Mr. Scott, an engineer, who has had many years' experience of the steam machinery of America, in vited a number of gentlemen connected with practi cal engineering science in this country to inspect, on Saturday last, an invention of his for the safe and economical generation of steam power, and which, although he has taken out a patent for it, is as yet but little known amongst our employers of the mighty agent. Starting from the point that the two great desiderata to be obtained were economy of space and of fuel, without loss of power or of safety, Mr. Scott's attention has been turned towards same means by which the present cumbrous apparatus might be superseded and steam generated more readily, more cheaply, and with much more portable appliances. The process for which he claims the merit of original discovery may be divided under two heads—a novelty in the mode of evaporation, and an entire change in the construction of the mechani cal media. At present, as every one knows, a large boiler is filled with water, and, fire being applied underneath, the steam is generated very much in the manner in which we see it done in the ordinary tea-kettle. The water being pumped in cold, and in its flowing and cohesive state, has to be first heated, then broken into globules by the action of the fire, and finally evaporated into steam. The first two of these processes exhausts nearly two thirds of the applied combustion, and it is by super seding them that Mr. Scott hopes to effect the great saving both of space and of fuel. In order to effect his purpose ho substitutes for the ordinary boiler a spiral tube, coiled in rings, and tapering to the top, in the shape of a blunted cone. By this form he gains great economy of space, and that increase in the amount of heating surface which is found in the multitubular boiler of the railway locomotive, with a greater evenness in the impingement of heat, the coil being placed vertically instead of longi tudinally, as in the case of the locomotive tubes. The water is injected at the bottom, but with it is also injected a jet of air, and in the fusion of the two as they enter the coil he contends that he has established an entirely new principle in steam generation. The water enters the helix, or coil, in the form of spray, dispersion having been effected by the jet of air, and consequently its evaporation takes place the moment it touches the heated iron, the air pump having in fact performed the preli minary operations of heating and dividing the water into globules or spray, which under the present sys tem are effected by the slower action of the fire. Th• tubes being of lap-welded iron and of circular form are ten times the strength of a boiler made of metal plates rivetted together, and,besides,from the rapidity with which the steam can be generated,the preliminary ac tion of the air pump having already reduced the water to the most readily evaporable form, it is only made as it is wanted to work the piston, and there is no dangerous accumulation as in the case of the or dinary boiler. Mr. Scott's invention, therefore, may be said to consist of a new mode of injecting water into the boiler, namely, in connection with a jet of air, which converts it into spray ; a new form of generator, in the adoption of the coil or worm ; and a new form of safety valve which he contends will, when taken in connexion with the form and strength of the coil, completely do away with all risk of explosion. The safety valve being of the same diameter as the tube in which the steam is generated, is considered to be quite sufficient to preclude the possibility of the latter bursting. The calculation of the inventor is, that his generator will save three-fourths in space, and one-half in economy of fuel, with the greatest possible immunity from the risk of dangerous explosion. An experimental engine has been for some time at work at the Poplar Iron Works, and Mr. Finney, the proprietor, reports most favourably as to its strength, safety, speedy generation of steam, and economy, of space and fuel, under all of which heads he states the calculations of the inventor to be fully borne out by actual experience. The engine was working on Saturday last, and the speed with which the steam could be " got up" and " blown off" was proved by repeated experiments. Of course due allowance must be made for the favourable circum stances under which every man will introduce his own invention to the public, and for the sanguine temperament of inventors, that most useful and most ill-requited class of men ; but, making all reasonable deductions, we are strongly impressed with the idea that Mr. Scott has made a real and important discovery in t he process of steam genera• tion, and that his invention is well worthy the attention of scientific and practical engineers, as well as of all persons interested in the improvement of the steam engine. The Marquis of Lansdowne will leave Lansdowne House to-morrow for Bowood, where a large circle of visi tors are about to assemble. The Lord President of the Council and the Countess Granville arrived at their mansion in Bruton street on Saturday night from Germany. The noble earl and countess have travelled home by easy stages, owing to the delicate health of her ladyship. The countess has much improved in health. The Earl of Sefton will leave town to-morrow on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and the Ladies Villiers left the Grove, near Watford, on Saturday last on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort at Windsor Castle. The Duke and. Duchess of Richmond entertained at dinner on Thursday evening, at the family mansion in Portland-place, the following family circle :—Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe- Weimar, the Marquis of Anglesey, th. Countess of Ches terfield and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, the Earl of Lucan, the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, the Earl and Countess of March, Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge, Sir Charles and Lady Sophia Des Voeux, Mr. and Lady Augusta Sturt, Hon. R. Bingham, Col. the Hon. W. Coke, the Hon. and Rev. J. H. Nelson, Rev. A. Peel, Dr. Hair, Col. Maitland, Captain Tower, Mr. Des Voeux, &c. The oil A I pArquis and Marchioness of Stafford have left Stafford House, for Lilleshall, Salop. On the recent visit of the Marquis and Marchioness to the Emperor and Em press of the French at Compiegne, the Marchioness was accompanied by her piper, M'Alister, who had several op portunities of displaying his musical and terpsichorean talents before the Imperial Court. M'Alister has brought home with him a valuable gold watch presented to him by the Emperor in acknowledgment of the amusement he af forded the Court. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have returned to Chesterfield House from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan left Portmai square yesterday for their seat, Deane-park, Northampton shire. Mr. Otway, her Majesty's Minister in Mexico, and Mrs. Otway and family are prolonging their stay at the Brunswick Hotel, Jennyn-street. The marriage of the Earl of Dalkeith and Lady L. Hamilton will now, it is understood, be celebrated in a very quiet and unostentatious manner compared with the splendid nuptials that were in contemplation previous to the death of the dowager Countess of Harewood. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, and all their family, will put off their mourning for the occasion, and will resume it immediately after the ceremony.—Court Journal. Mr. Leonard Horner has resigned the office •f Inspector of Factories. The Factory Act (probably through inadvertence) only authorises the appointment of a new in spector to be made in a case where a vacancy is created by death, and does not provide for the case of a vacancy pro duced by voluntary resignation. The vacancy created, by the resignation of Mr. Homer will not, therefore, be filled up.—Observer. THE BALLOT.—Tn reference to the statement in the leader of Saturday's Times, that "the ballot has been shelved," we are requested by the committee of the Ballot Society to announce that Mr. Berkeley has made no com munication to them of any intention on his part to "shelve" the ballot, and that they have no reason to believe that the hon. member for Bristol has the intention imputed to him by the Tinges, but should the Times be correct the Ballot Society will take care that the ballot is not shelved, in or out of Parliament. INDIA AND CHINA. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office in anticipation of the Calcutta and China mail due in London, via Marseilles, on the 27th inst. : INDIA. CALCUT TA, OCT. 28. (Four days after the departure of the mail.) Business dull. Freights lower. Exchange on London, 2s. gd. to 2s. id. CHINA. HONGKONG, OCT. 13. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer C rnton was lost in a gale off Macao. The crew has been saved. Trade better. Freights dull. Exchange on London declined-4s. 9d. to 4s. 90. CANTON, OCT. 13. All quiet. Trade improved. Demand for im ports dull. TQa market opened favourably. Teas have been taken freely. Freight, £3 for London and Liverpool. SHANGHAI, OCT. 5 Imports in good demand. Teas taken freely. Exchange on London at six months, Os. 71d. is 6s. 71d. Freights, for tea, £1 10s. to £2 ; for silk, £3 105. to £4 10s. Steady business in silk. OCT. 6. The Chinese Government has repudiated its treaty with the United States by refusing to open the ports of Swatow and Taiwan, as stipulated by that treaty. Trade uninterrupted. European goods in good demand for the North. Tea a shade lower in prices. Silk as last quoted. Exchange on London, 6s. Bd. Large sales of manufactured goods at higher prices. Tea exports to Englsnd, 8,407,5141 b. ; prices nearly the same as before. Silk exports to Europe, 88,261 bales. Price of No. 3 Tsatlee, 400 to 410 dols. Exchange for bank bills at six months, 6s. 7d. SINGAPORE, OCT. 21. The mail steamer arrived at 6 o'clock this morn ing. Trade improving. Exchange on London at six months' sight, 4s. 9d. Tonnage heavy. JAPAN. JEDDO, SEPT. 23. The affairs in Japan remain still unsettled. A change of Ministry favourable to foreigners is daily expected. A Russian officer, Marifat, and one of his crew, have been murdered by the Japanese. Atonement for this outrage has been demanded by the Russian Ambassador, and has been granted by the Govern- ment. The dollar question has not yet been decided. Trade dull. JAVA. BATAVIA, OCT. 8. The Governor-General is seriously ill, and it is urgent that he should be relieved. The expeditionary force to Boni leaves this month. The Sir Robert Maclure is in dock at Onrust. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Colombo arrived at Calcutta on the 25th of October in 69 days from Southampton. ADEN, Nov. 9. The Simla, with Calcutta dates up to 22d Oct., arrived here to-day. Only 50 out of 1,000 of the discharged Europeans at and near Calcutta have accepted bounty for China. By an order of the 21st of October, two years' service are to be granted to those men of the local army who have not taken their discharge, and are to be permitted to enlist for China, and will receive a bounty of 50r. oa condition that they enlist for 10 years. Lord Canning left Calcutta for the north-west on the 10th of October. India 51 per Cent. Loan, from 5 to 51 discount. Received by pout from Alexandria. We havo received by extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, our letters and papers down to the 26th ult. The following is from the Bombay Gazette of the 26th ult. Although but little news has arrived from the seat of war in Okhamundel since the departure of the last mail, what little there is, is of the highest interest. Proceeding in the order of time, the ope rations at Beyt must occupy our attention first. On the 2d inst., the squadron, under the orders of Capt. Cruttenden, of the Ferooz, accomplished the ap proach to that island. Thence, on the following day, the steam frigates started off on a reconnoitring expedition : two days afterwards the Ferooz, the Victoria, tne Zenobia, the Clyde, and the Constance appeared on the point of coast facing the fort of Beyt, upon which they opened a crushing fire, which was directed along the whole of the eastern front, but mainly on the two strongest works. The effect was considered to be overwhelming ; the officers and men who composed the force were confident of suc cess, and, the engineers concurring, determined to assault the place without delay, and fixed upon the morning of the next day, the 6th. It appears to have been planned that the place should bo can nonaded the whole of the morning, and that the storming column should rush forward as the fire ceased. From all accounts, the men composing this column pushed on to the fort a little too soon, for they found on reaching it that unlooked-for ob stacles were interposed between them and the enemy which barred an advance for awhile ;—the bombard ment, although it did great damage, and perhaps inflicted great loss on the enemy, produced no deci sive results. The fort was thoroughly loopholed, and the consequence was that the stormers were ex posed to the withering blasts of shot that swept through their ranks during the short combat that ended in the rout and retreat of the Waghers. On the evening of the same day, the British flag was seen flying from the fort, and the whole of the con tested ground was in the hands of our soldiers, who, according to their usual custom, fought bravely and with great success. The victory of the 6th is much more important than was at first supposed. Our loss is now ascertained correctly ; the number of killed and wounded among the officers is five, and among the non-commissioned officers and men, 71. With respect to the movements of our troops, and the actual operations performed since the fall of Beyt, we are yet uninformed. There is reason to believe, however, that our men by this time have tested the strength of Dwarka, which is rockoned one of the strongest outposts which guard the chief marine residence into Okhamundel. The temples at Beyt were decorated in a very costly style, and, consequent upon a rumour here that our soldiers had appropriated their valuable - contents, the Banians and Bhattias of Bombay, pe titioned the Governor for their restoration. The following is the reply sent by the Government to the petitioners : " From 11. L. Anderson, Esq., " Secretary to Government, Bombay, " To Munguldass Nathoobhoy, Esq., and others. " Dated 25th October. 1859. POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. " Gentlemen, —In reply to your petition of the 16th inst., I am directed by the Right Hon. the Governor in Council to inform you that instructions have been issued to the officers in charge of the field forces in Okhamundel to re spect the whole of the temples at Beyt and Dwarka, and to restore such idols and property as may have oeen taken from either place.—l have, &c, " 11. L. ANDERSON, " Secretary to Government. " Bomday Castle, 25th October, 1859." From the north-west provinces there is nothing of importance. During the last week some of the rebels of distinguished position stood forth conspi cuously. We have a report, hitherto softened, that the Nana has been seriously ill, and we infer from the statement. he is not out of danger. The Lahore Chronicle mentions a report, which we are inclined to doubt, that the Nana died in the Dang valley, and that his followers had all dispersed in several gangs. A few days before the departure of the last mail it was announced that the leading merchants and members of the different professions would call a public meeting to protest against the tax on trades and professions. There was a grand master in the Town Hall on the 11th instant, and the meeting was in itself an important one—avowedly the com mencement of an endeavour to oppose the introduc tion of the tax on the ground " that it is partial in scope, unsound in principle, and replete with injustice to the most loyal and most useful members of the State, namely, the industrial classes of her Majesty's subjects in India." The leading city men who attended the meeting "came out strong . ' in denouncing the financial policy of the Government in proposing a tax of this description. The mea sure has been freely criticised lately, and judging by such flashes of opinion and sentiment as have been struck from the popular heart in public meet ings, it is abundantly clear what sort of feeling is growing up upon the subject throughout the coun try. The toiling millions will not submit to have their hard-earned savings taken from them. We hear from Calcutta and Madras that orders have been received from the Supreme Government to detain the discharged men of the European regi ments and offer them a bounty of 50 rupees on con dition of their proceeding to China. " Private in formation," says the .Englishman, " reached us by the Candia that the Ministry at home could not believe in the great exodus of discharged European soldiers from India, and that at the eleventh hour Lord Canning would, by some well-timed and politic stroke,detain them at the Presidencies. On receiving, the disastrous news from China, and authentic infor mation that the discharged troops were proceeding home without any efforts being made to detain them, an order appears to have been sent to Lord Canning to offer them a bounty to enlist for China. This ex plains the detention of the two vessels, with 1,000 men on board, which led to so many conjectures. We now learn that they were detained in order to induce the men to re-enlist for China, and that of 1,000 men, only 10 volunteered to remain." In China nothing positive is yet known as to the policy which we are going to adopt towards the Chinese Government. It is believed, however, that in the event of a war being decided upon, the fact will become known to the Chinese before any ade quate force can be assembled; and the China Mail apprehends that " Scunkonilism and the war party will consequently gain the ascendancy in the coun cils of the Court •f Pekin ; and that some general attempt, if not by open warfare, yet by secret and Chinese means, may be made on the foreigners of the coast of China, and especially on those at Shanghai." Under such circnmstances the best thing they can do is to form a militia at once, in order to be prepared for any emergency ; and although the materials for any considerable force may not be available, yet, as far as possible, it will be as well to maintain an armed attitude, as the Chinese will not hesitate to adopt violent measures to get rid of " the outside barbarians" as soon as they hear that a new war has been determined on. A goodly number of troops are already on their way to that country, and in all probability another war will soon follow. The New Times informs us that Major-General Sir Hope Grant proceeds to China to assume the command of the troops to be employed in that quarter. COMMERCIAL. Bombay Standnrd Office, Oct. 25. We have no change to note in the value of money. In Government Securities, Fours, after advancing to 75k, have declined again to 741 per cent. Fives and Five-and a-Half have been in good demand, and prices have advanced to 89 and 95 per cent. respectively. Cotton Piece Goods.—Grey skirtings have been rather more readily taken than at the date of our last, and a con siderable quantityhas changed hands at the slightly reduced prices we then quoted, and in which we do not now make any alteration. Cotton Twist.—There has been an exceedingly dull mar.• het for yarns, and the sales unusually small during the past fortnight. Woollens are unchanged in value, and the demand is small. Metals.—Copper continues to be much wanted, as far as manufactured descriptions are concerned, and the few sales made havo been at higher prices. Cotton.—The market has had a declining tendency, in consequence of the inactivity of buyers for homeward ship ment, caused by the dull advices thence. Freights.—Homeward rates are almost the same, the only alteration being a partial advance of 2s. 6d. per ton for Liverpool, for which port we now quote 17s. 6d. to 225. 6d., and for London 17s. 6d. to 20s. per ton. The improvement for China has continued, and Rs. 10 per candy has been freely given. Exchange on London was at one time quoted at 2s. lid., at which figure, however, little business was done. We now again quote 2s. Oki. for first-class, and 2s. ld. to 2s. lid. document paper. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING. The Ellora steamer, Captain Vincent, has arrived. She left Lisbon on the 17th, and Vigo on the 18th; did not communicate with Oporto. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., is among the passengers. The Ellora brings Captain Campbell and 32 seamen belonging to the British ship Duke of Wel lington, which left Liverpool October the 21st for Bombay and was completely destroyed by fire on the 11th instant, 200 miles to the westward of Cape Finisterre. Crew picked up by the French schooner Idee, of Nantes, Captain Lesquerre, which arrived off Lisbon at 10.20 a,m. on the 17th. -- Lisbon exchanges on London, 531; Paris, 534 ; Hamburg, 471 ; Amsterdam, 52; Genoa, 530. TO THE EDITOR OF VIE SUN. MONDAY, Nov. 21, 1859. DEAR SIR,—In The Sun newspaper of the 18th instant, under the heading " Police Intelligence," you report a profligate case (heard at the West minster Police-court), of Pethers v. Ponti, of 19, Stanley-street, Pimlico. I now wish to protest against your report, as the house 19, Stanley-street, Pimlico, is occupied, and has been for years, by Mr. Mark Rogers ; and that no such persons as Ponti or Pethers have ever, dur ing my residence here, occupied any portion of my house. Your report has already caused me painful annoyance from a passers-by," and, I fear, likely to be a great pecttniary loss to me, So, in justice, I hope, you will remedy the error in your next im presion, and I shall remain truly yours, MARK ROGERS. No. 19, Stanley-street, Pimlico. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, NOV. 19. —The Cunard Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain Leitch, sailed from the Mersey to-day for Halifax and Bos ton, via Queenstown, with the mails for the United States and British North America, 75 passengers, and a large cargo of fine goods. On Wednesday next the Canadian Royal Mail steamship Anglo-Saxon, Captain Ballantine, will leave this port for Portland, with the mails for Canada. INCREASING OUTWARD OVERLAND MAIL. — The mail packet - carried over from Dover to Calais on Fri day night 212 boxes of mails for India, China, Mauritius, and Australia, the largest I ever sent via Marseilles. Of the number, 140 were large boxes, of about 1001bs each, for Australia. THE BRIBERY INQUIRY AT NOIC7ICIL —As anticipated in The Sun of Saturday, the Liberals car; ried the internecine political warfare which has commence , here still further against their opponents. On Saturday summonses were issued against Sir Samuel Bignold, who claims one of the seats at present vacant for Norwich, and the Rev. S. F. Bignold, rector of Tivetshall, Norfolk, one of his sons, to answer an information charging them with conspiring to effect Sir Samuel's return at the general elec tion in April last by bribery and illegal practices. A se cond summons was issued against Mr. J. H. Bignold, another of Sir Samuel Bignold's sons, charging him with bribery on the same occasion; a third summons against Captain Ferdinand Ives of a similar character ; and a fourth summons against Mr. James Hardy and Mr. George Priest charging them with conspiring with Sir S. Bignold and the Rev. S. F. Bignold to effect Sir Samuel's election in April by bribery and improper means. All these gen tlemen are persons of more or less influence in the Conservative ranks. It is expected that the summonses will be heard this (Monday) afternoon • but there does not seem to be a positive arrangement on the subject. There are now no less than five leading Liberals and seven leading Conservative summoned, and six cases await the decision of the local magistrates. Such a state of things is unpre cedented in the annals of Norwich, and, unless steps are speedily taken to allay the storm which has arisen, disclo sures rivalling those made at Glocester and Wakefield may be expected. The charge against Mr. Collins, of which full particulars have appeared in The Sun, arose out of a mere municipal squabble ; but the fresh cases about to be heard, refer to the severe contest which took place in Norwich at the last general election between Sir S. Bignold and Mr. C. M. Lushin,gton in the Conservative interest, and Lord Bury and Mr. Schneider in the Liberal. Col. Boldero, the ex member for Chippenham, who was nominated as a condi date at the election, in Juno, on Lord Bury's appointment to the office of Treasurer of the Household, was in Norwich on Saturday. LI TE_RA TUR.E. Mr. and Mrs. 21sheton. By the Author of " Mar garet and her Bridesmaids," eke. 3 -vols. Rural Lind Blackett. It is impossible to be otherwise than pleased with the perusal of any work by this authoress. There is a grace in the manner, and an int erest in the story of this now production, that fully sustains any previous reputation of the writer. The chief cha racter to attract notice is Marion Flower, or May flower, as she was generally and appropriateeln, y' called. She is a charming sketch of a young maid gay and happy, full of interest in all around her, and ever intent on good actions and kind p urposes. Such was she till, ix an evil hour for her own hal ) " husband she became Mrs. Godfre Her y Asheton. husband was one of those disagreeable men wh o commit more errors than some really evil disposf, persons, through his pride, obstinacy, and sell conceit. His parents were to blame in the first in stance for bringing him up in such repr ehensible notions concerning the impo r t anc e of his family' and then debarring him from that contact w ith the to world, which is of such inestimable i i m portanc e all who are to occupy a prominent pos ition thatl i s ' He loved Marion after his own fash ion, to say, he cared far more for himself; and when the first excitement and interest atbachlif itself to his new state was over, the s tron g er fee ing predominated, and self reigned supreme. a Poor Mrs. Asheton was placed in tryiti.g situation, but she was much to blame putting her husband's absurd wishes her as her first duty to be followed• trol , was not a man gifted with sufficient self-eon ble or endowed with principle and feeling, to en° 1. him to be a safe guide in the decision of Oge e tous cases. Hence, in allowing him to take all her children to be brought up in a strange with foreign attendants, and under the sup n ot of her sister-in-law, who hated her, she give up to duty, but made a Griselda-like saeri,";c4; to suit the erroneous ideas of a conceited and fiell n man. As might be expected from such a Ora te ,. before misery resulted to every one, and many long ye' — o f of sorrow and suffering were the consequences Owl _- Godfrey's cruel demand, and Mario n ' s rash pliance. In the description of Mrs. Trevorr„,e meet with much knowledge o f c haracter. ' cunning contrivances to which the artful Worn ct resorted are most ably disclosed, an d the e must which such incessant, cautious, insinuatio ns have produced on a disposition like that of he r brother's is truly manifested. The re is also I a n ! : exemplified in the delineation of Marion's Italie, cousin, the beautiful Beatrice, who posses sed in 'n , eminent degree the fierce jealousy w hich dig e guishes the daughters of the south. In the ra l f r. which possessed this passionate lady at the 2 11 $ 10 riage of Godfrey, to whom she was attache r formed sinister designs against the pone° °? he gentle cousin, so that altogether the ea rlier y ors of the married existence of Mr. and Mrs. A s i sl e , were:beset with troubles, and environed with is $ culties. The story is not pleasing; but therehde. power in its construction, and a pa thos in t, e _ it scriptien of many of its passages, which renneYill rank a superior work of fiction, and as s uch it w r in the estimation of many. The West Indies and the Spanish llialn• Anthony Trollope, author of " The Chapman and Hall. This clever, though somewhat careless o°l has turned his attention from fiction to reality', has forsaken novel writing for the record oft yellers' tales. He gives us an account of his soil u b . in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Trinidad, an d the ne'g o f bouring islands, together with his impressions;es Central America and the Bermudas. To Jae 34 1 1., Bertra--- he devotes a considerable share of his v olume , V al i ing a very minute sketch of its social and condition. He has chapters on tow n and courg; black men, coloured men, and white men, " state of the sugar trade, and on the general 09 0 • s of government. Of the town of Kingston he gir. og most dismal account, and his picture of his desl° lll t i o stree march through the solitary . and sun-baked of Spanishtown, after his visit to the Governer' te enough to deter all future travellers from att elli „4 ing such complimentary ceremonials. The c° ll ' ooo he looks upon more favourably. He g ive° s amusing anecdotes of the habits of t he blac The k Mof following incident exemplifies their lee di splay :-- T AS One Sunday evening, far away in the country, al , 1 0 47 d us, I saw a young girl walkinliom from mg with a gentleman, the proprietor•of the church. arc'cio .•"„ ti , wap arrayed from head to foot i g n white ; her gloves were il l . and her parasol was up; her hat was white, and so wo oe d lace, and so were the bugles that adorned it. Sim i 'ld be with a stately dignity, worthy of such a costume r; ty'e hind her walked an attendant nymph, carrying th ; prayer book on her head. A negro woman carrie s "go burden. on her head, from a tub of water weighing _ ni t ', t ip dredweight down to a bottle of physic. When we weighing to her, she turned towards us and cur . tsied She c ri, r r i for she recognised her massa,' but she curtsied 'n th er egi l dignity, for she recognised also her own finery' 0 behind with the prayer book made the ordinary ( :0; Who on earth is that princess ?' said I. Ting ig t ait sisters, whe both work at my mill,' said my friend. "vie Stmday they will change planes. Polly will have the e• - 01 sol and her hat, and Jenny will carry the prayer I,o°*' her head behind her.' " The condition of Jamaica planters appelrB tfhabire melancholy enough. One grea t obstaele to ''s-es successful prosecution of the sugar trade 6110 from the difficulty of getting labourers. way, blacks, since their emancipation, giv e qu ite to their constitutional laziness, and are r ed content to lay in the sun and live on the natural content produce of the fertile climate. Mr. Bertram chapters on this subject are well worthy tho with tion of all who are in any way connected Eng lish' West Indian legislation. He asks, " Are men in general aware that half the sugar esta;ffee Jamaica, and I believe more than half the.e_4l! plantations, have gone back into a state of nn°_, A , that all this land, rich with the richest produc e an d some 30 years since, has now fallen back into ws,sd ness ?" After describing the state of affaill 'atte r the difficulties on both sides, he sums u p the 11 and very justly:—" Abolition of slavery is goo free-trade is good. Such little insight a° a plain to man may have into the affairs around him s ee ;o inn. me to suffice for the expression of such an „ o ed Nor will I presume to say that those who PrQr either the one or the get a good law passed, and out of hand, i 0 a any rie/ desirable. There are from day to daY se ; d impediments. But the law having been I;a B ,r -e per• should think somewhat of the sufferers.' "600 other were prernatureiways theless, though some of those who once Mau: the hogsheads of sugar a year, now make but 3 ",%,,,r planters will not hear of abandoning the r 'Z i g trade. It is the one suggestion which, for ma i, to our author, they cannot tolerate. Fronl Jamaica to an the traveller proceeded to Cuba, whose 0 1° 8 1 1;00 nexation to the United States lie hopes for. Br itish he journeyed to Trinidad, Barbadoes, After Guiana, and finally to Central America. A an describing his impressions of that disturb d arlu'roye. attractive locality, and its prospects of ment, in the shape of railroad s, canals', The gives us an account of his trip to Berinuas• so me convict establishment in that i sland receive! coo , just censures for the great indulgences arl i a tten forts it allows the convicts. The book is wr t re jt a pleasant, easy manner, seemingly withon! un dice. It conveys a good deal of informati ;web affectedly; and the bold, fearless style in jo wls the writer attacks, abuses, and asserts hill O ftp dts engage the reader's attention. The eatn e _ a lso that have been perceptible in all his works m' s, „„4 manifest in this one. A degree of carelessneene74 diffuseness, occasional repetition, and a t ,..g o tyle• want of concentration and correction in iii.Niever mar the vigour and effect of his writings. r e w ho theless, it is a pleasant volume ; and thel iro la wish to know something of the state of It wish the West Indies can hardy do better than al' its pages. idrel y r en Me Halliday. diciture soj2trr Illustrated William WC° Houlston and Wright. Wz by 7derspin. Jiy Iwo. whic h This is a humorous record of the advent u re! rp Mo , befel Dir. Horatio Wildersp in on his J° tl t ,t throughfor life. His first adventure is very pleatta; ys terl 0 he sees his own name in one of those ul hi advertisements in the Tinzes telling of somethiatlf .0 left advantage. A deceased uncle in Ballara bllctli lei,. him some thousands, on the strength ef i _ W ,,, he he immediately forsakes the office desk, where he employed his time making blots and a un ds up the shilling's of an account with the P e ca le. of His the same. He begins life on a large! 2 rA ble cool, tog di is love affairs involve him in ad fficulties. His endeavours to make a f e ber l• y's acquaintance excite the wrath ;',,; s a, friends Jwho insist on his fighting a duel. 11 : t ens N , e rsary feigns death and in great alarm he En from the country to learn from the firei -n c es paper he meets with abroad that he has, of the s victim of a hoax. A subsequent il' fo r, sakes leads him into further trouble. , e ot io _a -es love for politics, and after a otorroY: e' e ot its he makes his Parliamentary debut. " ' f ir is 1 1 is mortals to command success," and therefor! An e.ecHoratio Wilderspin's political career is briecuiti, l tion petition involves him in debt and dill',„ooes and after many reverses and perplesities, he e' ry tog from__ a dilemma about unpaid rent b 9 m ar ved his stout landlady. The illustrations all° the oe numerous and laughable, and w e Corn nor y eutio x Pages to the serious attention of all sensed of more nmbition than disctrntuent• J i io '— On Saturday Lord Pa lmerston gave, ‘'taboot dence, Cambridge House, Pi c cadilly, the fast u_erliberg n er this season to his colleagues. Most of the 3 ' the Cabinet were present.