The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-30 00:00:00

RENSON'S WAT C H E S-. "Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr W. HARRISON, will Open for the Season on MONDAY': Oct. 3d, with, for the first time on the English Stage, Meyer beer's highly popular Opera of DINORAFL The Libretto of the English version of DINORAH by Henry Chorley, Esq. The Operatic Company will comprise the following artistes: —Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Pilling (pupil of Mrs. Wood, her first appearance), Miss Fanny Cruise (her first appearance in London), Miss Thirlwall, and Miss Parepa (her first appear ance at the Royal English Opera) ; Mr. Santley (his first ap pearance), Mr. Henry Haigh, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. Mengis, Mr. Lyall, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Bartleman, Mr. Terrott, ,Ir. Maurice de Solla, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Ballet :—Mdlle. Rosalia Lequine (her first appearance in England), Mdlle. Pierron, Mdlle. Pasquale, Miss. C. Morgan); Mr. W. H. Payne Mr. H. Payne, Mr. F. Payne, and Mons. Vandris. A nume rous Corps de Ballet. The Band and Chorus will be on the same scale of completeness as the preceding seasons of the Royal English Opera. The scenery by Messrs. Grieve, Tel bin, and W. R. Beverley. Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stir ling. Acting Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. Ballet Master, Mons. Petit. Chorus Master, Mr. Smythson. The Box-office will be opened on Monday, Sept. 26, under the direction of Mr. Parsons. Prices of Admission.—Stalls, 7s. ; Private Boxes, £4 45., £3 is., £2 12s. 6d., £1 55., £1 is. ; Dress Boxes, ss. ; Amphi theatre Stalls, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is. Doors open at half-past 7, commencing at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe,W. Farren, Mrs. B. White, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss Amy Sedg, - wick. After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White, Mrq. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And HALLOWE'EN. - - Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (6th time) a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled IVY HALL. Messrs. H. Bland, H. Widdicombe, Frank Matthews, Graham, Garden • Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saville, and Mrs. Charles Young. To conclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING will be performed THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke (2d time), Mr. B. Webster ; Hulks, Mr. D. Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bed ford. After which, ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Messrs. E. Webster, Billing - ton, Moreland, Miss H. Simms. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher, Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box -OMOe 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. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatterton. OPENS for the Season on Saturday next, Oct. 1. New comedy, THE WIDOW'S WEDDING, supported by Messrs. S. Emery, Barrett, C. Young ; Mesdames Katharine Hickson, Murray, Arden, Manders, &c. New burlesque, by Leicester Buckingham, Esq., entitled VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa, in which Messrs Barrett, C. Young, Francis ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Clara St. Casse, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de Ballet will appear. To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. In the course of the evening the National Anthem will be sung. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office opens from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. OYAL STRAND THEATRE, XS) (.> Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. And TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL C ONCERT S.— v EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con ierts), the extraor•.inary Violin Performances of the cele- Lrated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual local Concert. Comic Vocalists —Mssrs. GeorgeHodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Picturts 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. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection - from Meyer beer's new opera of DINORAH. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 30. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 61.—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.85. WIND, South-Westerly; fresh and stormy. It has been raining all day. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 56m.—Afternoon, 4h. 14m, To-Mounow-Morning, 4h. 33m.—Afternoon, 4h. 52m - _ , o "" _ 010.7---_O,I.CL LI 1,14, g •-• -' 3 •-• -47 THE SUN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1859. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Reform ! we hope we shall have one day to give with all the honours ; to-day we give Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Italy ! with three times three. Heartily, unreservedly, we re joice in his announcement of foreign policy at Aberdeen ; it is worthy of him, and worthy of his country, and this part of his speech will be read with pride by every Englishman. Without a syl lable of threatening to any power, without a word of vain-glorious boasting of what is due to Eng. land's dignity, without a sentence of such solemn bluster as every now and then appears in the Moniteur, the Foreign Secretary of England has maintained our position in the business-like, rea sonable language which best commends itself to his own countrymen, and which must weigh with • Foreign Courts and Cabinets. As to our general position, he justly says it ought to be such a one that " if we forbear, our for ' bearanee should be the forbearance of strength." It has been the object of one great continental monarch to bring about a different result, and to render forbearance, on our part, a prudent calcula tion of the strength of a fleet built to vie with ours, and for nothing else. Lord JOHN RUSSELL speaks the general feeling of the country when, as its Foreign Minister, he advertises all Europe that this is not to be. England objects to shedding more blood on the Italian question, but it is not because she cannot match her navy with the navies of the whole Continent. She thinks that common sense and reason ought to avail between nations, and she will try what it can do. Able to strike, she will strike only with the force of argument, unless she should be driven to another course by unquestionably hostile movements. And admirably, all must confess, does Lord JorrN put the arguments for leaving Italy to the Italians. He saves the pritle of Austria by showing that France could not, when she tried to do it, govern Italy. Be saves the pride of France by showing that Austria could succeed no better ; shutting up both to the conclusion that the Italians themselves could best govern themselves. " A general full of youth, full of genius, full of capacity of every kind, both for war and civil appointments ”- '—ev en he only caused the Lombards sixty years ago to sigh for emancipation from France ; and France must make the be st of the compliment to her general, and of the fact. Since 1814 Austria had, by the decree of the Great Powers, tried her hand in governing Italy, and with the result, as mildly phrased by Lord JOHN, that the Italians had become every year more and more averse to her rule. Both the great neighbours of Italy are out of court as candidates for acceptable governors of the Italian piminsula. Well, another great man arises in 1859, and affords the Italians an opportunity freely to state afresh what they would have. and, with one voice, they tell us their one wish. That wish Lord JOHN RUSSELL is determined, so far as English influence can effect it , sh all be respected. Should a congress be Proposed h o will make it a sine qua non of Eng land's having anything to do :with it, that no foreign force shall be used to interfere with the right of the people to manage their own concerns. " A right," Lord JOHN says with homely but telling truth, " not very different from that of a man—say in this city of Aberdeen —to regulate his own house !" There, gentlemen of the Holy Alliance of 1815, meditate upon that homely English sentence of an English Foreign Secretary, when receiving the honour of the free dom of a British university town. It may be a better text for you than one you once had from the German Consort of her MAJESTY, that this old " Constitution of ours was on its trial." Lord JOHN is not content, however, with giving them the mere principle, he will meet objections. What if a man so regulate his house as to endanger setting his neighbour's house on fire ? Well, good ; his neighbours would no doubt put a strait jacket on him, or take his house under their own care ; but the very re verse is the case in Central Italy. While Austrians were dominant, their part of it, at least, was at the mercy of brigands, and hardly safe to live in. The other parts were groaning beneath the Dukes, till every republican plotter had a chance to conspire or agitate. Since Italians have got rid of Foreign influence the house is quiet ; the Ro magna is free from brigands, and no one who would mar their efforts to secure a regular quiet constitutional government under VICTOR EM MANUEL, can gain a hearing. There is not a chance for the despots by force of either arms or arguments. The two Emperors, Lord JOHN says, have given up the first kind of force, and the second is altogether with the Italian themselves. Even the editor of the Moniteur —the editor, we mean, now knows this so well that he publishes in his journal that the last hopes of a NAPOLEON in Italy are at an end. And we are to believe the very idea to have been a calumny ! Amen !—let it be what. the Moniteur pleases so long as central Italy is left to choose its own master. Very glad are we to see England thus speaking, and speaking through a man who is on this ques tion at least but following out the antecedents of his former life. We may forgive LOUIS NAPOLEON and Lord JOHN a good deal if they between them give us a free Italy. We have only to whisper in Lord JOHN'S ear, that we mean, too, to be a little freer ourselves. India will now be saved—she is to have an incom tax. Two or three times this graceless and merci less impost has saved England, and now its virtues are to be tried on our vast but bankrupt colony. Just at the same moment, too, that we learn the financial doings of our Calcutta magnates, we have Mr. JAMES WILSON, the very impersonation of statistical arithmetic, pruning his wings for a flight to India, and performing, much like the swallows, who are also preparing for their voyage, little flights in Indian finance, at Sheffield and Hawick. What he will say to the doings of his compeers— for we are told he is to be as great a man in India as the Chancellor of the Exchequer here—when he arrives at the Government house on the banks of Hooghly, we are not permitted to know. The fiscal proposals now before the Governor-General in Council were known when he spoke at Hawick ; but whether they are the prelusive dawn of the Wil sonian mind on the East, or whether they will need revision in the light of his greater knowledge, Mr. WILSON did not vouchsafe to tell his old friends at Hawick. One class of taxes which have been proposed cannot be very pleasing to Mr.WlLsoN's somewhat Manchester mind. New taxes on imports into India will appear to him like an attack on Man chester cottons; Burton ale, and such kinds of things, he would not mind, perhaps—that cannot be made in India; but to tax what is so largely produced in India itself by hand labour, will in his eyes violate every principle of free trade. Pro bably he regards it as the temporary expedient of a crisis. He announces free trade as the finincial saviour of India ; but, he will not think it free trade to have cotton goods taxed when they come from England to India, and not taxed when they are produced in India. A general augmentation of Customs duties is, however, the first proposal. And as it falls heaviest on luxuries, and the natives use but few of them, it is assumed to be a tax on Europeans chiefly. The trade of India is, however, gradually increasing, and its exports so far Qxceed its imports, that it has taken £26,000,000 of silver in five years to pay the difference! a circumstance which has, we are told, caused a general rise of prices in Bengal. The Income-tax does not seem likely to be popular ; everything else is likely to be taxed •to the uttermost it will bear, not overlooking an in crease of the odious salt tax, which Sir Jollsi PAR INGTON will not forget to notice—it seems therefore to Anglo.lndians as if, after having been bled at every pore, some large artery was now to be cut in addition. But, most ungraciout i of all, the cove nanted civil service, the highest paid service in the world, exempts itself from tax!! When Sir ROBERT PEEL proposed an income tax to redress the balance of finance and to enable him to commence his Free trade policy in this country, our QUEEN sent a mes sage by him to the House, that should Parliament find it desirable to adopt such a measure, she wished her own income to be subject to the same deductions as those of her subjects, and one'schedule especially provided for the assessment of our Government officials down to a minimum salary. In India the QUEEN'S respresentative and the Government in troduce an Income-tax Bill, under which all em ployments but their own are to be taxed!—all, except of necessity, the poor ryots, who, as they already pay about eighteen shillings in the pound, are mer cifully supposed to have paid enough. Bankers are the highest class subjected to the income tax, they are to pay £2OO or £lOO a year for exercising their call_ ing. Thence the scale descends till the lowest taxed trade—the costermongers of India, we sup pose, are to pay 4s. per annum into the Indian Exchequer for leave to buy and sell their wares. After all, we arc told by the Indian journals that there will be a deficiency of 63- millions in India, besides at least as much in this country, and of this they do not expoct the new taxes will meet more than 11 millions ; 5 millions still to make good ! Mr. WILSON, no doubt, lays his finger on the remedy—the army must be reduced. The native army is now larger than it was before the mutiny. The European army four times as large, to watch such an enormous native force. This must all be put an end to, although it may destroy a vast amount of military patronage. If, as Mr. WILSON says, the Indian army is to cost £21,000,000 per annum, we had better have done with the country at once. It will not pay for occupation, govern ment we will not call it, at such a cost. The Pun jaub was disarmed successfully; Oude is now dis armed ; and we are told disarmament is to be uni versal. Let it be so ; and then, if we reduce our native army as quickiy as non-enlistment, and em• ployment in China, or elsewhere, render possible, and our European army by sending home super fluous regiments, we may soon have an army which i s am ply sufficient for the peace of India, and not ruinous to her exchequer. An income tax is. howev er , a fair thing for the wea lthier natives of India , who cont r ib u t e now next to nothing to the Government under which they amass their naoney. It must, however, be made to bear fairly on all men of large incomes or property. A Goirernor-General and his Council ought to pay double rather than nothing. Tilt: SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1859. ADEL.PiII THEATRE. Last evening the popular drama called " The Willow Copse," written by Nr.eBsrs. Boucicault and C. Kenny, was revived at this house. The interest of the plot mainly de pends upon the charaoters of Luke Fielding (Mr. Webster), a fine old English yeol man, and his beautiful daughter Rose (Miss Henrietta Siumls), who loves and is deceived by Sir Richard Vaughan (M:r. Billington). When the old man discovers his daughter's shame he determines to give up his farm and leave the country. A terrible scene ensues between the father and daughter when they are left alone, after discharging their servants and tenants. The pas sionate upbraiding of the old man is fearful to witness, while the agonised pleading of the daughter for mercy is deeply affecting. The contrast of the two characters is very striking, and both Mr.. Webster and Miss Simms drew down the repeated applause of the audience by their excel lent portrayal of the parts. Eventually, however, love is rewarded ; Sir Richard Vaughan marries the fair Rose and the father and daughter become reconciled and happy after the old man has been lost sight of for six years by every one except his faithful servant Meg (Miss Woolgar), who was very warmly received on her appearance. The lights to relieve the rather heavy shades of the picture were supplied with a most skilful hand by Mr. Toole, whose Augustus de Rosherville keeps the house in con tinual laughter. Mr. Paul Bedford, as Staggers, is also highly amusing. The evening's entertainments concluded with " One Touch of Nature," and the farce of " Love and Hunger." STRAND THEATRE. The corps dramatique of the Strand Theatre have done equal honour to themselves and to the fair lessee of this favourite little playhouse by presenting Miss Swanborough with a valuable testimonial, designed to express their high sense not only of her great professional abilities, but also of her genuine private worth. This tribute, which all who know Miss Swanborough will admit to be richly deserved, consists of a silver tea and coffee service, of very elegant design, and bearing a suitable inscription. The testimonial was presented in the presence of the whole company, who assembled on the stage for the purpose; and the offering acquired peculiar grace, and derived its true value from the circumstance that it was quite spontaneous on the part of the donors, and altogether unexpected by the lady herself, who, before the evening when the gift was presented, had no idea that any such honour was intended. After an excellent speech from Mr. Parselle, who was chosen to express the feelings of the company on this interesting oc casion, Miss Swanborough rose amid a scene of affecting enthusiasm to return thanks, which she did with manifest emotion. She entreated their indulgence, and hoped they would excuse her emotion in being placed for the first time in such a novel position. (Cheers.) She assured them that she did not feel equal to the task of ade quately thanking them ; yet it was such a pleasing duty that she could not allow any one else to take it off her hands. (Cheers.) She was prepared to reply to an expres sion of their thanks, but their costly gift was quite unex pected by her. She needed scarcely to dwell on the success of the little Strand Theatre, under their united exertions, as that was a fact now too well known to require comment there. (Cheers.) She felt that was a fitting opportunity for expressing her heartfelt thanks to everyone, not only for what they had done for the theatre, but for their zealous co-operation in everything connected with her and hers. (Cheers.) She felt that had they not done so her efforts would have been unavailing indeed. (Cheers.) She begged most gratefully to thank the gen tlemen of the press for the kind and encouraging words she received from them at the commencement of her man agement. She was beset with difficulties, and their kind words were an encouragement to her, and acted as incen tives to future exertions. (Loud cheers.) She felt that her language was poor and weak for the occasion, especially after the able and charming manner in which Mr. Parselle had addressed them. (No, no, and cheers.) But her heart was full, and they must take the will for the deed. (Cheers.) She felt that honour deeply, and she assured them she would ever cherish their costly gift as one of the most precious mementos of her life. (Cheers.) It should never be parted from her, as it would remind her of bygone times, when they had fought hard and won success. (Cheers.) Again thanking them from the inmost recesses of her heart, she wished them all health, happiness, long life, and prosperity. (Great cheering.) A round of applause, fol lowed by a merry dance, concluded a ceremonial creditable to all parties concerned. SURREY THEATRE. This theatre will be reopened to -morrow evening with an entirely new series of performances. A tragedy, entitled " The Bridal of Beatriz," is the most important play an nounced. The play is a new one, with new scenery, dresses, and machinery, and Mr. Creswick is to undertake the principal part. In addition to this, a troupe of native American minstrels will give a variegated entertainment, and the whole will' conclude with a farce, also new—" The Three Dummies." The Duke of Hamilton will leave Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran, in a few days, for Easton Hall, Suffolk, to receive a select party for the pheasant shooting. The Duchess of Argyll and her infant daughter, according to letters received in town yesterday from Inve rary Castle, N. 8., are progressing favourably. The Earl and Countess of Malmeshury have, during the last few weeks, been entertaining a succession of distinguished friends at Achnacarry, his lordship's shoot ing box, near Fort William, N.B. Lord Dunkellin left town on Tuesday for Wilton House, near Salisbury, on a visit to the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, during the stay of her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia. Lady Frederick Bentinck is making a tour in France. Her ladyship returns home at the doss of next month. Count de Jaucourt has left the residence of the French Embassy to join the distinguished circle visiting the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, at Wilton House, near Salisbury. Sir Henry and Lady Bold Hoghton and family have arrived at Howchin's llotel from Inverness. Mrs. Carlos and Miss Louis Wood have left Howchin's Hotel for Frostenden Grove, Suffolk. Lieutenant Longley, Royal Engineers (son of the Bishop of Durham) ; arrived on Wednesday morning at Limmer's Hotol, from Shanghai, China, by overland mail, via Marseilles. Lieutenant Longley's wound, re ceived at the recent attack on the Peiho forts on the 25th of June, is healed, but the ball is not yet extracted. The Marco Polo has arrived from Melbourne with 58,040 ounces of gold, worth about £232,000. She left on the 12th of July. The Royal Charter had arrived in 59 days. The elections were to commence on the 20th of August. There was a great outcry against _Ministers for not sending relief to the Admella. The shipments of gold since the last mail for England comprise the Dover Castle with 78,191 ounces; Yorkshire, 29,471; British Trident, 32,767 ; Dirigo, 18,657; and George _Marshall, 29,813; making a total of about £755,000, exclusive of £lO,OOO previously advised by the Waterloo. About £120,000 in bar gold was taken to the Bank yesterday. Of the 95,000 sovereigns by the Kent, a great portion were Australian, and, together with a sum of £30,000 in bars, were bought for the Continent. Those of English coinage were sent into the Bank. THE NATIONAL. DEFENCE COMMISSION. The gentlemen forming this commission have been the last few days at Pembroke visiting the various sites for the effectual protection of the arsenal as well as the haven generally. Government have this week entered into a contract for another powerful battery to be erected. It is to be con structed on Bulwell Point, a commanding situation, about half-way between the dockyard and the mouth of the harbour. FUNERAL OF DR. ALISON.—The remains of th's distinguished and much lamented professor received the honour of a public funeral at Edinburgh on Wednesday. Sir Archibald Alison, brother of the deceased, was the chief mourner, and, in addition to a large company of private mourners, the funeral was attended by the magistrates and council in their official robes, the professors of the Univer sity, the members of the different medical corporations, the Royal Society, &c. After service in St. John's Episcopal Chapel, conducted by the Very Rev. Dean Ramsay and other clergymen, the body was interred in the burying ground attached to the chapel in presence of a large as semblage of spectators. - - DEATH OF AIR. BALCHIN, THE BRIGHTON STA TION MASTER.—This efficient and highly-respected officer, so well known to all travellers on the Brighton Rail way, expired on Sunday last. He had been suffering slightly for some time, and went to Norfolk for a change of air, returning apparently restored ; but a relapse came on, bronchitis and inflammation set in, and he was com pelled to take to his bed on Wednesday last, expiring on Sunday, deeply lamented by his family and his friends, in his 44th year. Mr. Balchin had been 21 years in the ser vice of the company, during which time he opened the Shoreham, Worthing, and Chichester stations, and suc ceeded Mr. Fountain as station-master at Brighton. The company have lost in him a most; valuable servant. He was buried yesterday, and Messrs. Hawkins, Craven, Greaves, Farmer, and many of the company's officers, in cluding about 50 station-masters, followed his relearns to the grave as a last tribute of respect, and in the street where the deceased resided, the inhabitants paid a similar tribute by closing their shops. A " memorial fund" is to be set on foot for the benefit of the widow and child of the. deceased.— Trot Setssex Gazette. METEORIC PHENOMENON. --A great meteoric phenomenon has recently occurred in the State of New York, about nine miles south of Albany. A loud explosion was heard by several. persons, and in about two minutes after the stone fell, striking a waggon-house, and then roll ing into the grass. When picked up it was warm and had a strong sulphurous odour. It is of the size of a pigeon's egg, irregular in shape and angular. One portion of the stone is of a steel-gray colour, with bright metallic spots interspersed. The stone closely resembles the meteorite which fell in Linn county, lowa, in 1847, and now in the cabinet of Professor Shepherd, of New Have.n.—Philaelel phia Journal. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, SEPT. 30. Letters from Gibraltar of the 25th inst., state that eight English ships had arrived in port the previous day—six from the Mediterranean squadron and two from England. - DRESDEN, SEPT. 29. The Dresden Journal of this day announces that the President of the Council, Baron von Beust, left to-day at noon for Vienna. TRIESTE, SEPT. 29. The Austrian Lloyd's steamer, just arrived, brings advices from Constantinople to thQ 24th instant. A commission has been appointed for investigat ing into the late conspiracy, rnd is composed of the Grand Vizier, the Sheik-ul-Islam, the Minister of War, the Minister of Police, the President of the Grand Council, and the President of the Tansimat. Two generals, several colonels, and other officers and priests have been arrested. Djaffer Pasha, of Albania, one of the conspirators, drowned himself during th 3 transport of the pri soners. It is probable that the conspiracy had ramifications in the provinces. The publication by the papers of any communi cations relating to the affair is prohibited. MuMar Pacha, Minister of Justice, has taken his departure for Egypt on a special mission. The vessels composing the squadron of evolution have returned. The three months' arrears of pay due to the gar rison of Constantinople has been paid. The bearer of the firmans will leave the day after tomorrow for Jassy and Bucharest. ATHENS, SEPT. 24. Prince Alfred is expected here. TURIN, SEPT. 29. An official communication, in reference to Central Italy, is spoken of as having been forwarded by Sardinia to the Great Powers. BOLOGNA, SEPT. 28. In contradiction to current report, an attested letter of the Abbess of the Convent of Verruccio has been published, which certifies that no soldier had trespassed iu the convent. PARIS, SEPT. 29. The Patrie of this evening says : " We believe ourselves in a position to state that the return of the Emperor has been deferred to the Bth of next month." The same journal contains the following : ~ " The number of vessels and troops which are to form the French expedition to China has not yet been decided on. " Up to the commencement of last August no treaty had been signed between France and Cochin China. " The reports of disturbances in Naples are unfounded, but some agitation is reigning there, and GoTerument has taken precautionary measures." FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Arnioricain of Brest says :—" Our port has just put upon the stocks the ship-of-the-line Magenta, the construction of which has been or dered by the Emperor, and the plans of which have been made by M. Dupuy de Lome, Director of Materiel at the Ministry of Marine, and after the Emperor's own ideas. The vessel will be blinde (steel-plated). Its length will be, it is said, 100 metres (328 English feet), including the large iron spur which it will bear in its front. It will be a pattern vessel of a new model." A letter from Boulogne says that a floating bat tery is about to he constructed there, with a double tier of guns. It is to be iron-plated, without masts or sails, navigated by steam, and armed with rifled guns. The 3lonitear de la Flotte says :—" There has just been terminated at Lorient the Couronne, ship-of-the-line of the second class. This vessel is one of ten now in construction, and which are to be finished within a year from this time." Letters from the provinces confirm the report of the general armament of the French ports and coasts. On the Provençal coast, the Government has purchased pieces of land at very high prices, for the purpose of erecting fortifications upon them. The Echo Agricole has the following paragraph : —" The War Department has just sent to Cher bourg, St. Malo, and other points of our coast the plates which are to serve for the establishment of revolving batteries. Those plates are broader and stronger than those employed on railways to change the direction of locomotives and waggons ; like these last, they are composed of various pieces which fit into each when mounted on the wooden framework which gives them motion. Thus a can• non placed on these new platforms may be turned in an instant in any direction at the will of the gunner." BOURSE, Sept. 29.—The market continues heavy, but prices have been maintained at about yester day's rates. 'Threes, after having been done at 69f. 10c., are now at 69f. 25c. ; Mobilier varied from 810 f. to 818 f. 75c. ; Austrian, 548 f. 75e. to 551 f. 25c. ; Lombard, 552 f. 50e. to 555 f. ; Lyons, 897 f. 50c. to 902 f. 50e. ; Orleans, 1,392 f. 50c. to 1,395 f. The following were the last quotations 1' per Cents. .... 95 50 Credit Foncier 685 D month end ontk .. ---I Belgian 4k — .3 per Cents 69 15 Piedmonteso (5) .. 86 Do. mil month 69 10 Roman B6 25 Bank Shires - CTedit Mobilier .. Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 812 50 Home Debt 4l RAILWAYS. Cash. Aceount. Orleans 9 8 3 2 5 0 9 8 3 2 ' 5 5 -- Northern . New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 905 905 Geneva 535 535 Southern Western 590 590 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ..... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 13c. ; money 251 11c.; three months, paper, 241.91 c.; money, 24f. 931 e , RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg letter states that Schamyl has been taken suddenly ill at Tchougonieff, a small town in the government of Khorthoff, in the south of Russia. The Emperor on being informed of the fact immediately sent off a despatch ordering that he should stop until his health was perfectly re stored, and as his Majesty is about to travel in that direction, it is probable that he will meet his pri soner on the road. The old palace of the Taurida, at St. Petersburg, is being prepared for th e r e c e p tion of the vanquished:hero of the Caucasus. When the deputation of the nobles of Russia, who lately arri7ed at St. Petersburg to discuss the first part of the proposed law for the emancipation of the serfs, waited on the Emperor at Tsarskoe- Selo, on the lGth, his Majesty addressed them as follows : " Gen tlemen,—l am most happy to see you. I have called you to assist in a work which interests ►nyself not less than you, and of which you desire the success as much as I do. The future prospe rity of Russia depends on it. I am certain that my faithful nobles, who have ever been devoted to .he throne, will zealously second me. I con• sidered myself as the first noble in the empire when I was yet heir apparent. I was proud of the title. I am proud of it still, and I continue to look upon myself as forming part of your class. I have undertaken this work with entire confidence in you, and with the same confidence I have sum moned you here. To enlighten you as to your duties I have had instructions drawn up, which have been communicated to you. They have been misunderstood. I hope that all misunderstandings have now disappeared. I have read your letter which was presented to me by lakov Ivanovitch (General Rostovizoff.) My answerhas already been communicated to you, without doubt. You may rely upon it that your opinions will come to my knowledge. Those of your opinions which coincide with that of the commission will enter into the re gulation drawn up by it ; all the others, even those which may not agree with its opinion, will be pre sented to the central committee and laid before me. I am well aware, and you are convinced of it your selves, gentlemen, that this work cannot be accom plished without sacrifices, but I wish those sacrifices to be made as light as possible. I will endeavour to aid you, and I rely on your assistance in the firm hope that you will justify my confidence in you not only by words but by deeds. Adieu, gentlemen." What purported to be a short extract from this address was received by telegraph, but was very imperfectly done. SARDINIA. A Turin letter of the 2Gth, in the Siecle, says : " Yesterday the King and the Ministers re turned from Milan, and to-day a council has been held at the palace to deliberate on the conduct to be adopted in consequence of the Wishes expressed and officially manifested by the populations of the Centre of Italy. I have reason to know that the result of the deliberations is that there shall be addresed to the Powers a memorandum explana tory of all that has taken place; of the votes which have been come to by the assemblies; and of the offers of annexation made to the King. The me morandum will support with firmness the positive rights which all these acts confer on the King of Piedmont. All the ministers, without exception, are in accord to give to this document a great cha racter of decision and energy. Such a document will have this point of interest among others—that it will be based entirely on the principle of popular right. It is certainly a symptom of the times to see ti.e oldest sovereign family in Europe, the house of Savoy, frankly accepting this political doctrine destined to remodel society." The Modena Gazette of the 24th says :—" By a decree of the 20th the following nominations have been made in Parma :—Dr. Brunn, to the direction of the Department of Justice ; Dr. Massari, Inte rior ; Professor Montfredi, Public Instruction ; Marquis Mischi, Finance; and Professor Torri giani, Public Works. The directors of the different departments have elected for their President the Director of Public Instruction, Professor Mont fredi " The same journal publishes the following communicated article : " The annexation to the kingdom of Sardinia having been proclaimed by the vote of the sove reign Assembly of Central Italy, it was the duty of the Government to proceed to make the people enjoy the advantages which they expected from the union, and which may be founded on. reality, and it was their duty to labour to remove all the obstacles to the free circulation of persons and merchandise, obstacles which there is no longer any reason for maintaining between provinces which now consider themselves as belonging to one State. At the commencement of October all the customs regulations and the passports between the States of the future kingdom will bey abolished, subject to the settlement of respective interests therewith connected." PRUSSIA. A lettter from Berlin of the 27th says :—".While the Prince and Princess Frederick William were at Breslau lately some serious disturbances took place. The city was illuminated in honour of the Royal visitors, but the statue of Blucher was by some chance omitted, and, in order to repair this neglect, a number of workmen and others assembled and went about collecting money to purchase lights. This was not done without some degree of tumult. On the following day the disturbances recommenced, and became so serious that it was found requisite to call out the troops, who made use of their arms and wounded several persons. On the third day there were again some assemblages, but order was not disturbed. The prince and princess have left for Baden, where the 48th anniversary of the birth of the Princess of Prussia is to be celebrated on the 30th, and thence their Royal Highnesses will proceed with the Prince Regent to Cologne, for the inauguration of the new bridge over the Rhine." The same letter says : " Some indications exist from which it may be concluded that the Cabinet of Vienna intends to come to an understanding with the Prussian Go vernment on the policy to be pursued by the two Powers with regard to the reform movement in Germany. This belief is founded on the fact that the initiative of the Government ought to direct the movement in such a manner as to prevent its becoming a party instrument. If the two Powers in concert make propositions at Frankfort tending to the modification of the federal constitution, con formably to the interests of Germany and to the wishes of the people, the national movement will have produced a very satisfactory result ; but if, on the contrary, the movement be left to itself, and no attention be paid to the just demands of the country, it will only prepare catastrophes for the future." BELGIUM. The Belgian Chamber of Representatives as sembled the day before yesterday, M. Dorts in the chair. M. B. Dumortier warmly supported the prayer of the petition that French gold should be made a legal tender in Belgium. After a few words from the Minister of Finance in opposition to such a course, the petitions were referred to a committee to report thereon. The discussion on the bill relative to inquiry into the elections of Louvaine was after wards proceeded to. The Senate, it may be remem bered, changing its original opinion, lately pro posed to do away with the inquiry altogether, as unnecessary. The question having come back in that shape to the Chamber of Representatives, this latter body referred it to a committee for examina tion. The committee decided against the views of the Senate, and proposed to increase the number of the members of the lower Chamber composing the committee of inquiry, and so do without the co operation of the Senate. That recommendation was adopted by 49 votes to 34. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 25th contain little news. In the event of a rupture between Spain and Morocco, Spanish subjects who may be in the country are, says the Correspondancia Autografa, are to be placed under the protection of France. A Portuguese squadron, having the Duke of Oporto c•.i board, was at Tangiers. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21.—0 n Friday even ing last a number of persons were arrested by the Government, charged with conspiring to assassinate the Sultan and some of his Ministers. The arrests, which continuod to increase in number during Saturday and Sunday, amount to about 400 in all. A large number of the accused have, however, since been set at liberty, and those actually in cus tody at tilt present time do not probably exceed 100. Judking from the persons seriously compromised, the plot would seem to have found most favour with the corps of the Ulemas, with the Softas or students, who are for the most part aspirants for admission to that corps, and with the army more eqecially the artillery. A commission of in quiry, consisting of six members —viz., the Cheilch-ut-Islam, the Grand Vizier, the Seras kier Pasha, the President of the Grand Council, the President of the Council of Tanzimat, and the Minister of Police—was . immediately for med. It held .its first sitting on Sunday last, at the barracks at Couleli, where most of the prisoners are confined. Their plan was to have surrounded the Sultan in the street, to have upbraided him with the abuses of his Administration, and to have required his abdication in favour of a more worthy successor. If their remonstrances were favour ably received, they would have remained satisfied for the moment with the progress of their scheme, relying on the disaffection prevalent throughout the empire to protect them, and carry into effect the object they proposed to themselves. In the event of this not appearing to an swer the purpose, but of violence being used to put an end to the remonstrances, the Sultan—it is hardly sought to conceal the fact—was to have been killed on the spot. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The screw steamer Bavaria, Captain Taub, has arrived in Cowes Roads from New York, which she left on the 15th inst. Her news is anticipated. She brings 743,632 dols. in specie for England. She reportshaving experienced a tremendous gale from N.W. from the 21st to 23d inst.; on the 22d a heavy sea struck her, which stove a part of the deck-house and filled the boiler room with water, in consequence of which she run out of her rudder and split all sails. While heaving to another sea struck her and washed overboard two persons. One was a cabin passenger, named John Sayers, from Cincinnati, and the other a seaman belonging to Hamburg. The ship was hove to for 30 hours. On the 21st, in lat. 48 N., long. 46 W., the Bavaria spoke the steamship Vanderbilt, hence, for New York, and on the 27th, in lat. 49.40 N., long., 17 W.. the ship Madras, bound east. The Arago steamer, which brings New York mails of the 17th inst., was telegraphed from Hurst at 10.5 a.m. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 29. The screw steamship North Briton, Captain Grange, has arrived with the Canadian mails of the 17th inst. and telegraphic advices from New York, via Father Point, to the evening of the same date. The Nova Scotian was spoken an the 19th, bound for Quebec. The rivalry between acrobats at Niagara Valls had led to a fatal result. A man named Shields— a professor of course, for who is not a professor ? undertook to jump from a scaffold to the river below, a distance of 90 feet, and swim ashore in a current running 14 miles an hour. The end of this business, however, is announced in a telegram as follows : "Professor Shields, who advertised to jump from a plat form, on the 16th inst., into the Niagara River, near the scene of Blondin's feats, was drowned this morning while trying to find a place free from rocks. His body has not been:recovered." The 3d of Novemer has been appointed a day of thanksgiving in Upper Canada for the bounteous harvest. The Quebec timber market was very dull, very few transactions having taken place, and only two of any magnitude. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Arrived at Quebec, Sept. 8, the Greenock, from Belfast. Sept. 9, the Transatlantic, from Aberdeen; the St. Law rence, from Glasgow ; the Penelope, from Gibraltar ; the Policy, from Barcelona; and the Juno, from Cardiff. Sept. 10, the Coriolanus, from Halifax; the Athens, from Baltimore ; the Jessie, from Madeira ; the Lord Sidmouth, from Port Glasgow ; the Champion, from Greenock ; the Tadmor, from Grangemouth ; and the Primrose, from Limerick. Sept. 11, the Chieftain, from Lancaster. Sept. 12, the steamship Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool, and the President Blumenthal, from Genoa. Sept. 13, the Lady Falkland, from Rio de Janeiro; the Nelson, from St. Thomas's; and the Harvey, from Belfast. Sept. 14, the John Bunyan, from New York ; the Eden, from Milford ; the Russia, from Sligo ; and the Dominica, from Cork. Sept. 15, the Frederick William, from Genoa; the Wan derer, from Leith ; the Thames, from Alloa ; the Gold Hunter, from Ardrossan ; and the Valera, from Liverpool. (BY TELEGRAPH VIA QUEBEC.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 16, EVENING. Our cotton market is without activity, the sales of to-day being restricted to about 500 bales on the basis of 11;c. per lb. for middling uplands. The business of the past three days has been only 2,700 bales. The market for flour is dull and heavy, and the quotations generally show a decline of sc. to 10c. per barrel. Superfine State sells at 4 dols. 15a. to 4 dols. 50c. ; round hoop Ohio, 4 dols. 80e. to 5 dols. 15c.; and mixed to good Southern, 5 dols. to 5 dols. 15c. Wheat is drooping, and lc. to 2c. per bushel cheaper. New spring is quoted at 95c. ; white Western, 118 c. to 120 c ; and red, 110 c. Indian corn is scarce and firmer; holders ask 84c. per bushel for mixed Western. In the provision market pork is firmer. Mess, 15 dols. to 15 dols. 12c.; prime, 10 dols. 50c. to 10 dols. 62c. Beef is active, at unchanged prices. Spirits of turpentine firm at 47c. Groceries are generally firm, but steady in Freights.—The quotations to Liverpool are 7-32 d. for cotton, and ls. 9d. per barrel for flour. The money-market shows no material change, and the same may be said of sterling exchanges. By way of Father Point we have received no commercial or political news from New York, but we have a despatch dated at six p.m. on the 17th inst., which states that the Royal mail steamship Persia had not been heard of up to that hour. Our readers are already acquainted with the cause of this delay, and the fact that the Persia could not reach New York before the 18th inst., judging by the time when she was passed by the Africa. MONTREAL, SEPT. 17, 6 P.m. Our flour-market is steady, with a good demand and light receipts. Wheat comes forward slowly, and is unchanged in value. Ashes steady, at 5 dols. 60c. to 5 dols. 65c. for both pots and p€arls. ACCIDENT TO ANOTHER CHANNEL ISLANDS STEAMER.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.—The South Western Company's steamer Despatch, which left here for Guernsey and Jersey at midnight on Wednesday, broke her intermediate shaft off the Casket, and put into Alderney, from whence the mails and passengers were sent to their destination by a small steamer. This break down will not interfere with the usual arrangements of the company with regard to the conveyance of mails and passengers. Complaints are made of the delay allowed to take place in completing the legal formalities connected with the arrangement by which the stock of the Shropshire Union Railway is to be converted, at the rate of £2OO for £lOO, into the stock of the London and North-Western. Pending the settlement of the matter the stock of the Shropshire Union is virtually unmarketable, and great in jury is inflicted on all who are compelled to realise. According to a telegram received by Messrs. W. Parfitt and Co., ship and insurance brokers, dated Mel bourne, August 19, in anticipation of the Australian mail, business at that date was dull, an d wool, tallow, and hides scarce, and prices high. The yield of gold was very satis factory. No failures have taken place in the mercantile community. Great speculation prevails in the new mining companies. Colonel Neill, Deputy Adjutant-General, was killed on the 20th of July by a fall from his horse. The steamer Admella, from Adelaide, was totally wrecked near Cape Northumberland on the 6th of August ; 25 lives were saved, and 87 lost. The Tasmanian submarine cable is successfully laid. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR ST. PAN CRAS.-At a meetinx, of the representative vestry of St. Pancras, on Wednesday, the vexed question of the erection of industrial training schools for the pauper children of St. Pancras was, after a long and very stormy discussion, finally set at rest, for it was resolved to erect schools on a splendid site offered by the Burial Board at Finchley, at a cost of £12,000. The money is to be borrowed, and to be paid back in instalments going over 20 years. DEATH AT A DANCING ROOM.—On Tuesday last a fatal accident hap2ened at Beaminster, Somersetshire, to Robert Tuck, a man aged 67 years, who, on leaving the dancing room at the Red Lion, about seven o'clock in the evening, accidentally fell down stairs. The injuries re ceived were so serious that he died early on the following morning. An inquest was held on the body at the White Hart, on Wednesday last, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. A NATIVE ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.—The following is a translation of an address from her Majesty's loyal subjects at Fingoe (the native population) on the re call of Sir G. Grey :—" To the Great Queen Victoria. Oh our great Queen, graciously look upon us. We, thy sub jects, Fingoes, residing at Graham's Town," desire t o approach thy feet, and pray before thee. F or a long time we have sat under thy government, loving thy authority and customs. In thy kindness thou didst send Sir George Grey, that he might administer rule over us. We saw, when we arrived, that he was just such a chief as we black people needed. He manifested his love towards us in many things. He helped us in all things. He gave us ground to live upon, that we might no longer be as wanderers and strangers with. out location. He built us great schools that our children might enter them, and learn nicely like the children of Eng -IN 2 people. We rejoiced for all these things. We said we are a blessed people under our Queen Victoria ; we are like children who ha ve a f a th er i n a ll t hi ngs to preserve, feed , and help them. But to-day we are smitten with sorrow by hearing very heavy tidings, that thou, our great Queen, hast called home our chief, Sir George Grey. To -day has'l hearts weep—thby are dead because of this. We "' of our our Queen forsaken us or not ? Having deprived father, we are now orphans indeed. No, our r_ g d e :end back don't throw us away, but hear our prayer, With us, and our chief, that he may again come and live d ma y the Lord comfort us by taking away our crying. t o with all the of Heaven look upon thee, and bless u t s Queen, lteavest this world blessings of this earth. and when theu„, vell—Gedite Franif - may de give thee a throne in Hea " THE RULES OF THE MANOR discharged from , his f t fortnight old, while Manor, in obedience to . ton, who was fined for killing a h i :r e e l , harvesting, with his seithe, has employment on the Kingsto . ii LacY a rule established there ag t labourers convicted of inter- meddling Frampton will readily get meddling with game. a nd will soon have cause to congra tulate himself that he does not live in a . district where they fine men for putting . „ ani d ru art interfere b t ed that Lord Londesborough, sympa thising with the poor man t rampton, has sent him a pig. This is what may be called a practi ca l way o f d o i ng go od.— Sherborne Journal' LITERATURE. • The Climate of Brighton. By William M.D., Physician to the Sussex County Hospital Longman. of o r Although Brighton has long been one most favourite and fashionable waterino-Places' v arieq and is constantly sought for the sake and amusement, its climate has never been ranhe,a., Kebbetts among those peculiarly salubrious. Dr. in this little work, undertakes to show that it trot been done justice ''to in this particular. Iv asserts that Brighton is labouring under rea ll l Kebbel!, sanitary defects, which he has often endeavoured to bring before the notice of the public, and tha e the epidemics which have arisen from this sour; have at times brought its climate into unmeriteue disrepute. He alludes to the reports which vire!: current last year of the prevalence of diphtheria ,11'0 that town, but he says that he is d , pr epared show that the fatal cases in Brighton did not e e teed, if they were not under, the general average of other places." After a careful analysi s of li:if average temperature in the different parts _ Brighton, and some general observations on tnie, influences of climate, he proceeds to state the varir a ous classes of patients to whom he thinks the i ft s 0 of this locality especially favourable. He : mn , mentions those invalids who should, in his 0 1 1 ` 11- s ' avoid it, such as those suffering from any affectiori, of the eye, or those predisposed to inflamiltat°d:.. attacks. It is a useful little treatise, especially serving the attention of the medical profesgeon• Exercises adapted to Charente's French Course. Part 11. Longman. ch M. Auguste de Charente, the professor , of Frell st at Sandhurst, is well known as one of the la ° ch careful and diligent of the compounders of F ren instruction books. His excellent course of grT; inatical and idiomatic studies of the Fren ch t ri o, guage has been adopted by the W a r-office.r„ r „ ar y use of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Colleges, and has been well received by the pu, e®n The first part of the companion exercises has e ta _ published some time. The second parison of the French and English syntax , is thenom ready, and will be a most efficient assistant o,_ French scholar. Those who desire it can obtflia the four parts of Ni. Charente's course separately"; more comp* and we should think there were few is calculate and careful courses of instruction. It with the aid of the corresponding exercises, a e enable the pupil to acquire a thorough knclwiLidfs of this useful language, whose acquisition is in pensable to a good education. part, on the co w Choix des Meilleures Scenes de Moliere. par pr. E. Dubuc. Blackwood. ..derr Dr. Dubuc here presents to the young re " w •th who is desirous of forming an acquaintance .e sof the works of the great French comedian, a .„s er „ i vr es extracts, which include the principal chefs a 66 ,," pid. of Afoliere. By careful supervision, and, * "-tain summary of some suppressed passages, he the aged to preserve the coherence and character ° . uto plays without putting objectionable patin es ,, l o tes the hands of the young. He has given the of some commentators, and has added se i r o r planatory notes of his own, where the it°,7,,re meaning of the text is obscure. He has "I'gir fixed to each comedy a short introductios,•exj,;re ing the action of the piece. The "notice 0 ,7, 00 phique," which he has appended, is abridge." mo st that of Voltaire. Extracts from nine of Ille, eil • popular comedies are given, and as the work °bit tirely in the French language, it is adn ii h i lar, adapted for the improvement of the young s n— hiei as well as attaining the object of familiarising with one of the great French authors. e s, The Boy's Birthday Book. A Collection of jit i o l us . Essays, and Narratives of Adventure. trated. Houlstox and Wright. Blig hted e d There are few boys who w ou ld no t bed ; for with such a gift bo o k as thi s. I t i s b e st s°' t „ — „ffora rather juvenile reade rs , an d to suc h it willthe greatest possible sa ti s f act i on. M rs . S. other William Howitt, A ugus t us M ay h e w, al'‘,:tors , well-known n ames appear i n th e li st o f contriu ll- 0/03 and they have furnished an agreeable varietPnt of of the chief features in the book is the a OOO fief "A Boy's Ascent of Mont Blanc," full of intent details of the expedition. Further on we 111 „ ee „";nes; narratives of " Buffalo-hunting in the Phil 11 4 7, The • Hunting the Lion," " Young Giants' aper Mammoth found in an Iceberg," &C. In th e P OO on " Young Gi an t s " we fi n d interesting 9i, Tejohn' of the early lives of George Canning, San ille :, l son, and George Stephenson. There are nand hundred engra v i ngs , many o f them exc ene t i v e effective, and it i s a lt oge th er a most tit trae Birthday Book. TBE BIRMINGHAM EXPLOSION T 74• BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY EVE'"- that o,cl a ock yo t u h n is g of Only one body remains unidentfied• It is t fou r af g .t i e r r i no a b b n ou s t ea l r s cb ye: va r s s o b f ein a g ge ni . a de A for con"a young woman who before had been d rePot te The valescent, but was now alleged to be missi ti P t h, th s men had nearly completed their search bell e ,t a t the •tairs where it was reported to be likely t' a - t hat body might be found, when it was exPlais e A r iate, theba woman who said that she was rumour of the death was a false one, e , en" y a rela ti r c i ti g an who, by the assertion, had s ucce eded in ae c ir ti h - e &In entrance to the interior of the premise s. the hos' now maintain that the numbers dead,7,,vales' pital, and who have reported themselves e ° l - tally cent, or are still out-patients of the hos Pit three with the number upon their books—with bi e to principals and the traveller, 69. NeverthelesThed satisfy the public mind, two other circuo3serbeea spots in the ruins, that were stated to hat; 061 without previous inspection, were being el a n" b/ up to a late hour. Seventeen bodies, mutilateui lie crushing, and charred by the action of fire, sti ll _, o • in gun-boxes, which serve for temporary coffifb; they are ranged around a marquee pitched in the ch yard adjoining the place of the explosion, and Wil l o f tent, as an illustration of the frailty of life, is variegated colours, used previously on festive oeea: sions, and never again, we trust, to serve such a p at, pose as that for which it is now employed. Such' . the condition of the corpse s from the influences befal l ' notified, that it is alm ost sur p rising how any ell! can be identified. Certainl y in most of the case' identification can only be by remnants of clothing' not, however, in all cases left. Hundreds of Per sons co ntinue to surround the building, clam orona for admission to see the ruins. This they eret a llowed to do upon contributing to a box naileti.,!' the entrance, and labelled for the benefit of We sufferers. These conditions do not, of course, apply to the horrible contents of the inarquee, t° see which many would be willing to give late sums. The inquest is to be held to-morrow aft g 8 noon. The firm maintain that the calamity 01-4"- nated in a fire occasioned by an explosion of go , and that the explosions were incidents in the tire' The assurance company dispute paym ent for en explosion. TILE SCILLY ISLES AMD THEIR Xllll.°' MR. SMITH, g.P. This leads me at once to speak of the iligh l Y Mr. Smith's sovereignty., Not only improved tone of morals which have res ulted under is a scarcely ever seen in the islands, excep t drunkar a be be $ strange sailor, but thieving is rare in th e extrenlisei and people leave their doors unbolt ed at night with perfect safety. I . was shown one ° (1 living on St. Martin's Island who was suspected of the only house robbery known for years, an he was tabooed by his neighbours, and raroll spoken to. The proofs had not been cient suffi to convict him. All offender s are tried at sessions or assizes in Cornwall, but few ever g o. Pauperism is almost unknown ; And the other vices and ill-deservings seem to have been for many year! far below the average of any English district of which I ever investigated the morals—and they ere not a few. I attribute this in a great measure to ployed. Mr. Smith's edicts. He permits no person to brig He carries his power up his children uneducated, and he has provided into good schools for them• and will tolerate no child after been a th fl e t fa a m ge il b y e r n e g ni i iig n e e , tri loig ether be school must set to work. I ques tion if there be an " Tom " having idle boy oa the islands; and if Miss Carpenter were to establish a Scilly Ragge d School, it would infallibly die of inanition for lack of the remotest approach to a " City Arab." If any h e ad of a family disobeys Mr. Smith, whether in the good governance of his family, or the prescribed a margement of his land, he gets " notice to quit ;" n as every other house belongs to Mr. Smith, his There hest move is necessarily exile 6 toEngland. are about 3,000 inhabitants in all the si x isles, and I believe th em to constitute the most thoroughly moral group in the kingdom ; and my latest exr e riences and means of judging enable me to sPe . „"l; highly of their general intelligence. It is a Pl e d of the real improvement in public morals ef fec t by the Lord ot the Isles that he put down Ell re gling so vin•orously that scarcely any is said cellars main ; and yet I was shown the enormous wan under the times having at Tresco, the elergY,egs in former times having made much more by kegs than lithes.—Once a Week. TIIE SOUTHERN MAIN DRAINAGE. --A large nura bet. of excavators in the emp lo y of the contractor for com pleting the main drainage sou th of the Thames have com menced operations in eptford Broadway, an d will con tinue their work along ChurcDh- s t ree t to Deptford Creek. An im mense amount of earth has already been cleared out, ... 3 at kei qu tex rea is I 13a, bil Bto at 4 htai D 1 b e NI; Ne ha , SCi RO