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CRYSTAL PALACE.—LEOTARD. --To afford the numerous strangers now in London an opportunity of witnessing the wondrous flights of this extraordinary artiste, he will give a few performances at the Crystal Palace. The lofty series of Trapeses suspended in the Centre Transept enable M. Leotard to exhibit his feats on a scale without precedent. His performance will take place TO-MORROW (Wednes day) at Half-past Three o'clock precisely. Admission, One Shilling ; Children under Twelve, Six pence. ' t * For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT -GARDEN This Evening, CROWN DIAMONDS. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN. And Att half-past Nine TUE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, A DATJGETER TO MARRY. After which OUR THE AMERICANLICIAN CO FETE.USIN. With DUCK HUNTING: An d GA Commence at 7. NEW TIIEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening:, THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by THE SIIILL lOW DAY. 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Commence at 7. ------- THE OXFORD, 6, 0%1'0112-STREET, EVERY EVENING. —Grand Operatic Selections, with full band and chorus. —The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes — Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of Bumsey, Newcomb, &c. Commence at 7. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY. —Morning, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 42m To-monnow.-Morning, 6h. 3m.—Afternoon, 6h. 26m The King of PRUSSIA has decided on a STUART policy. May he repent in time to save him from deserving a STUART fate; but, for the interests of the Liberal cause in Europe, one may hope that some Prussian HA3IPDENS will be found to expose to the world the despotism of their King. We do not remember the precise terms in which the right to vote the nation's money is bestowed on the Prus sian representatives by their Charter—but this every English school boy, every school girl, even, well knows, that the right to tax themselves through their representatives is the birthright cf Englishmen, and that constitutional or representa tive Government is inconceivable without this as its first attribute. Our Kings have found means to overawe Parliaments, and to coerce them to vote the supplies they demanded. They have endea voured to govern without Parliament, or, like CHARLES 11., with a Long Parliament thoroughly subservient, and to subsist tie worst proceeds of taxes already authorised —but the worst of them have re cognised the fundamental check imposed on them by constitutional forms. — that the people's represen tatives must vote the people's money. How will the Prussian people accept the exact contrary of this ? Will a whole nation be found without one man in it to try the great question, whether he can be legally compelled to pay the taxes not imposed by his representatives, We are aware of the difficult form the question may as sum The taxes may be said to be already lega lised, and that the only thing to be done is to impeach those who spend them without authority of Parliament. Let the Prussian patriot lawyers decide on the form of legal attack, but if there be none, it is obvious to the humbliest capacity that Prussia is still under a despotism as perfect us that of FREDERICK THE GREAT (Tyrant), and that an obstinate, narrow-minded, Divine Right martinet, like the present King of PRUSSIA, is absolute lord of her people's pockets. prus The re . is no evading this conclu sion for the tion, t L nß ; a The KING has laid down this posi sk the Houses for what money I want; if the Representatives offer me less than I de mand, take a nd spend the money without their Toting it, and send them back to their homes." The question naturally d i, arises—Why present them with a Budget at If the KING is to spend the national taxes, without coming to an agree ment with his Parliam entt as to the objects on which the national money shall be expended, why The importance pace the Budget before then, of the issue is great, indeed, when ber that in no other way have tike Prussians we remem ber respecting the number of soldiers tob em a ployed in their army. The Houses de, not e - vote number of men, nor have they e an annual mutiny act, which they could de cli - e to pass, it' the MONARCH seemed to be collecting an army so large as to be formidable to liberty. The Editor of the Cologne Zeitung points out that the practical issue between the KING and the nation is, whether it shall have an army of 120,000, as it stood for a long time after the peace ; or of 150,000, to which it was raised when French Imperialism began to threaten Europe; or of 210,000 to which the KING desires to raise it. The country is quite satisfied to commit its safety to at least 60,000 fewer soldiers than the KING desires to have. The larger number it thinks a needless ex pense, a needless subtraction o f able-bodied men from productive employment , and as mor e likely to be_ used for purposes of dynastic amb ition than for the national interests. The people, in the actual ate A4 ', 4. 01 0. 0 , ) 4 , 4 11* .• tat , • • . % •e7. , , - • : • • -4 Aerr444' •r- - °" THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 1862. state of Europe, are u ndoubtedly right: And, though the KING has played the part of a Royal CROMWELL, we hope the nation will at last xinmph. Mr. PARTRIDGE will hardly regard it as a tribute to his surgical skill when he observes the serious revival of the old rumours about a rifle ball being yet embedded there in GARIBALDI'S wounded ankle. The decision of the Professor, as to there being no bullet whatever in the wound, will be remembered to have been all along most distinct and positive. At any time, under any circumstances, a man with the experience and the professional aptitude of Pro fessor PARTRIDGE would scarcely be likely to prove in any way mistaken in regard to a question in itself of such exceeding simplicity. Under the actual circumstances of the case here referred to, however, a blunder of this kind was, obviously, in the highest degree improbable. Professor PARTRIDGE having traversed the whole distance dividing Lon ' don from Varignano, for the purpose of giving his professional opinion as to the state of the illustrious patient in that fortress in the Gulf of Spezzia, would be certain to have a profound consciousness, at the time of his expressing his deliberate view as to the state of the wound and the probabili ties as to the recovery, that he was speaking in the presence and under the vigilant observation of his professional brethren both at home and far and wide over the European continent. What opinion he did express, we know. If it was de cisive upon any point, it was certainly decisive as to the fact that, in Professor PARTRIDGE'S judgment, there never had been any rifle ball whatever left in the shattered ankle of GARI BALDI by the lamentable shot fired at the Hero, with such, unfortunately, good aim, by one of the Bersaglieri confronting him and his armed fol lowers upon the heights of Aspromonte. The bul let had, he considered, glanced away from the joint after tearing the flesh and shattering the bones, or at any rate, one of the bones (or to be still more accurate, one of the extremities of one of the bones), the inner side of the malleolus of the tibia of the right leg. Yet, after all the interval which has elapsed since Professor PARTRIDGE went from this country to the Gulf of Spezzia, there examined the ankle of GARIBALDI in the Fortress of Varignano,and then pronounced this deliberate opinion as to there being no bullet left there in the Hero's most serious wound for extraction—the Times' correspondent from Italy,this morning, revives the old story about the Italian Doctors being yet in doubt as to whether there may not be still an ounce or two of lead re quiring extraction ! Had it been actually thus all the while, it is hardly probable that Professor PARTRIDGE would have been so positive, or that General GARIBALDI would have found his suffer ings in the interim so greatly alleviated. The wound itself would scarcely have exhibited so steady an improvement. The doubt would not have re quired so long a period to elapse before its revival. Even now we should not be left in any uncertainty. Convinced though we are of all this, we cannot but think that Professor PARTRIDGE would complete whatever good has yet been accomplished by him in this matter—if not in healing GARIBALDI, at the very least in assuaging the anxieties felt here in England in the Hero's regard by his multitude of admirers and sympathisers—by (however briefly) addressing himself in plain words to the enuncia tion once more of his own formal, and positive, and deliberate opinion as to there being no rifle ball then in the wounded ankle, admitting of, or rather absolutely requiring, extraction thus tardily. His opinion to this effect (he may say) has already been made public by him. Admitted: yet still now that these old ugly rumours about the bullet are revived, it would be in the highest degree unsatis factory and consolatory to the personal friends of GARIBALDI in this country, if that already avowed opinion were. upon mature reconsideration, reite rated. The ghost of a doubt in the matter might then, would infallibly then, be laid at rest—and this by a very few more words written under the hand and over the signature of Mr. PARTRIDGE. " Fifth month of the reign of Terror" is the date of a lady's letter from New Orleans, just forwarded to a contemporary by an Englishman. From her description it seems, indeed, to be a reign of terror, half humorously diversified, however, by the great battle between General BUTLER and the Ladies. Sad enough are some of the stories of feminine suffering ; but we are pretty confident that the Lawyer-General, if he would speak out his heart's grievances, would own that he was as much annoyed es the ladies themselves. Although absolute master of the place and its inhabitants, he finds himself, no doubt, completely outwitted by the never failing ingenuity of the weaker sex. The General has gained himself a European name by his famous proclamation, though, strange to say, his fellow Yankees all treat it as an excellent joke, and seem rather to praise than blame him for it. It is indeed quite probable that the proclamation was not in tended to bear the construction which the South and Europe put upon it; but one thing is certain, it ought not to have been susceptible of such an interpretation. To issue a document which most naturally meant that respectable women were to be surrendered to the brutal passions of the soldiery if they ventured to exhibit their detestation of their presence, was an inexcusable insult, not to New Orleans only, but to the civilisation of the age. One can but be struck, however, in perusing this l e tter, with its illustration of very old lessons—the punishment of crime by criminals, and the readi ness o f sufferers to complain of sufferings not worse than those which they have so ruthlessly inflicted. New Orleans has been a very h e ll on eart h i n regard to slavery". The stories of sla ver y th ere , o f s l av e gangs s t an ding for sale, and of the treatm en t of the poor n egroes, which have been told us by w i tnesses whose cre dibility was beyond que s ti on , h • We well knew ourselve s a are revolting en on g captain of an English merc hant vessel, wh o sailed a thither with a crew, a mong whom were fou r coloured British subjects; on his arrival these men emain in the vesse, they were not even suffered to r k e n to the gaol, l badly were seized, handcuffed, ta used, and not placed on board the vessel again till apses of their impri the captain had paid the ex P of owning a sonment, and all for the felony ractice has coloured skin ! This atrocious p con ti nu ed notwithstanding the remonstrances of the British Government. cc The Fe deral Government could not interfere wits the laws of a Sovereign State." Surely the Go vernment is rightly served in finding h a t the State Secedes from Federal , this slough ~ a , l aveh its sovereignty. It is , olders and slavery which is now tort u red by the encou ragement General BUTLER gives to i ts slaves. The General, ladie s , pits th e i r slaves against them. He has it appears, overmatched by the made these poor creatures, who before could not call their black skins their own, so saucy that they take French leave of absenc e for a few days, re turning at pleasure, without fear of th e lash ; that they tell of the concealed arms of their masters, and carry information to the General who protects them. All this, by-the-bye, is somewhat contradictory of he stories we are told of negro affection for their proprietors, and their fondness for the relation between them of cattle and proprietor. One of the THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENY_NG, OCTOBER 14, 1862, ------- abominations of South ern slavery is, that hitherto 1 a slave had no legal redress against any white who injured him ; and of course no more against his master than his master's horse would have had. General BUTLER, it seems, acts on the principle that a loyal black's testimony is better than that of his disloyal master. The ladies and gentlemen of New Orleans have a slight taste therefore of the pleasure of having their testimony rejected in a court of justice ; " no assertion they can make against their masters is thought incredible"—probably not ; only this is but the converse of their own conduct in regard to the coloured man. We need not take iterally all the strong language of an angry lady, but perhaps there is some reality behind it all; she tells us that he bribes the slaves to discover arms, and that masters get into prison for concealing " a sword-cane, a revolver, or a bowie knife." The fair writer seems to forget that in describing such weapons as common and natural, she only unveils the semi-savage life led by the Southern Liverpool. The servants, she says, hide weapons in the house, and then denounce their master and mistress. Possibly, but what, again, has become of the patriarchal relation, and the filial attachment and fidelity of the negroes. She tells us that " the creatures in the streets talk of wading knee deep in the white man's blood when the hour of retaliation should come." Indeed ! we have always heard that contented, well fed, happy, prefering slavery to freedom, they had nothing to retaliate for—indeed that the retaliation would be one of affectionate services for treating them as kindly as they treat very costly cattle. We do not doubt that under the BUTLER regime the slaveholding ladies and gentlemen, too, of New Orleans have rather an uneasy time of it. It must be a bad overturning of sncial relations to have an absolute ruler over them, whose creed is that " the coloured man has rights which the white man is bound to respect," and, amidst all the provocations, which the General is certainly very foolish to notice, we suspect he often does a really capricious and harsh thing_ It is beneath him to descend to a battle of spite and petty malice. We incline, however, to the opinion that if the 20,000 negroes of New Orleans could tell us their tale, it would be one very much in praise of Gen. BUTLER, and we have yet to learn that Englishmen would not think the story of the long oppressed, quite as well worth hearing in regard to their ruler, as that of their old oppressors. It seems to us unworthy of Englishmen to take our opinions of Gen. BUTLER'S rule in New Orleans, only from the months of those whose abominable tyranny is sapped by it. It is something surely, if we are able to read, on the authority of this hostile informer, that " they held last night a Union meeting of free blacks, and that slaves, of course, composed the majority." Englishmen would give a good deal for a BUTLER in every Southern city, if he would in this way secure the goodwill of the negroes, and such public action as should bring their masters to their senses. As to the nonsensical talk about " massacre and bloodshed"—we who heard the same silly rant about West Indian Emancipation, and who knew how ridiculously absurd it was proved to be, if proof were wanted, by the event—we only laugh at it. The first of January is indeed a frightful day to slaveholders in New Orleans to think of : but its terrors all resolve them selves into a very good jollification of the negroes over their New Year's gift of liberty, and a few long faces on the side of their old masters when they pull out their purses to pay them the wages of freedom. The lugubrious sentences of a journal or two in this country, and the furious ravings of the Southern press over the horrors of Emancipation are simply laughable. We should think our contemporary Punch might give us a good cartoon of the weeping mistress, the raging masters, the terrified negro•floggers, and the good tempered rejoicings of the black cattle converted into black men. Nov that the International Exhibition at South Kensington is rapidly approaching the date ap pointed for its closing—it may be allowable to argue that it has not been the failure it is reported to have been in some quarters : that is to say, bearing in mind the adverse character of the circumstances at tendant upon it throughout. Granting for a moment that that estimate may prove to be accurate, which has already been formed as to the Exhibition when closed leaving the guarantors out of pocket to the tune of £50,000 sterling—still we cannot but maintain, even then, that the enterprise must be looked upon dispassionately as a success, under those adverse circumstances alluded to. The lamentable death during the last winter, of His Royal Highness the PRINCE CON SORT, the ori ? ,inator of the Exhibition of 1862, as formerly of its historical predecessor, the Exhibi tion of 1851—was of itself enough to mar the fair prospects of so gigantic and elaborate an under taking„kpart from the irreparable loss sustained by the Royal Commissioners from the absence of that sound judgment and that exquisite taste that had always proved their guide and stay in any more than ordinary difficulty—the presence of Royalty was, in consequence, denied to the Exhibition from the very commencement. It has been with held from the enterprise throughout. The widowed QUEEN has not ventured to cross the threshsld of an edifice that could only by possibility have been fraught to her MAJESTY with the most painful recollections. The Court has been removed from the metrorolis, moreover, during the whole of this last season. In a courtly sense, in point of fact, 1862, has had no Season at all--this very year, that is, of the Great Exhibition. No levees, no drawing rooms—not a single ball or concert at the palace ! The customary attractions of thefashionable world, of foreign as well as of domestic wealth and rank, have all this while been awanting—and that, of course, in the very year when (under the circum - stances of its being the chosen year of the Exhi bition) they would have been most desirable. Anxieties again were for a longer time than usual felt as to the prospect of the harvest throughout the country. Fortunately those anxieties have now been very happily dissipated for t h e t m h o e st ero p p a a r c t— ou b ld ut be until eretah in e t chief w e r portion a t h of er long continuance. The • American war, again, has from first to last been dead • against the interests of the Exhibition. Its lamentabl e consequences, espe cially among the manufacturing districts in the north, are woefully visible at this moment as a reminder of the profound and protracted gloom of the year during which the Exhibition has had to struggle against a world of difficulties. All things cur sidered, therefore, we cannot but rega r d with complacency even this whispered foreboding of a de fi cien cy to the extent of X 50,000, when the in comings and the ou t g oin g s of the Exhibitio n come to The result might clearly have be en be balanced . w orse—under the circumstances. It is to be hoped that the rumours lately a fl oat, to the effect that upon his return from his autumnal excursion in Scotland, the hon. member for Roch dale will attend a public meeting in that borough for th e purpose of addressing his constituents, may be verified. Mr. CoBDEN'S opinions upon public affairs generally, upon what the French call the "situation," would be like a sunburst through the cloudy darkness (politically) of the holidays. Par ties are, in point of numbers at least, so nicely balanced in the House of Commons, about six of the Opposition, confronting every half-dozen of the Government supporters, that a man like Mr. COBDEN standing immediately between the two sides (quits h o calmly and dispassionately standing there, a himself frankly avowed, towards the close of last ses sion ) o ccupies , at such a juncture , a position of no ordinary interest and, in some re spects, even of no ordinary importance. He stands there, in fact, as O'CONNELL once stood there—in he middle Doing of th plank---regulating the oscilla n s this e , or, at any rate, capable of doing o ,his (for Mr. COBDEN has not yet put his capabili ties in this way directly to the trial, he has simply threatened) capable of doing this by the faintest inflection to the right or to the left, to the side of the Government or to the side of the Opposition. Without having a political " tail" like O'CoNNELL, there is not one instant's question about the fact that COBDEN is more than an insulated individual there in the House of Commons when speaking from that second bench below the gangway upon the right hand of Mr. Speaker. His services, his integrity, his intellect, his unadorned name and his unadorned eloquence render, and justly and worthily render him—out of office though he is, never yet in office (though as England remembers it has been offered before now in vain to his acceptance)- - M.P. for Roch dale merely though he is—Mr. COBDEN is a Power within the House of Commons, he is a Power in the State_ His one vote upcn any momentous question carries with it many other votes. His voice is undeniably powerful to influence the deliberations of the Legislature and the opinions entertained out of doors among the masses of his intelligent country- men. It is from a consideration of all this, and from a vivid sense, at the same time, of the impor tance and delicacy of the situation, among about equally balanced Parties, that we look forward with more than usual interest to this early prospect of a speeeh from Mr. COBDEN to his Rochdale constituency. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, One of the oldest ballads of Europe, as well as one of the most popular, is the story of a girl of noble birth, stolen by gipseys in her infancy, who, happening to be witnessed by her father as she was dancing under his windows, at some public festival, was summoned to his presence in order to amuse his friends, and then, by some token on her person, was fortunately recognised. This legend, which was no doubt a fact at some very early period--like its heroine, became a wanderer for the public enter tainment, and formed one of the stock attractions of the Jongleurs and Trouveres who traversed Europe from fair to castle throughout the middle ages, in order to open the hearts and purse-strings of all classes of society. In England, prosaic Eng land, with its rigid realistio tendencies, which can only approach a romance in any shape in order to turn it inside out this story was parodied in the adventure of Edward Wortley Montague, who, stolen from his mother when a child by chimney sweeps, was recognised by Lady Mary, after his exploring of her kitchen flue, on the occasion of a dinner party. Here the maternal instinct, dispensing with the promptings of song and dance, the childlike glitter of Zingaro jewels, or the buoyant grace of Zingaro gaiety, was able to pierce through soot and rags to the identification of its beloved; or, if roused at all, was by the clat ter of his dust shovel on a chimney pot ! It is cer tainly somewhat strange, considering the loud outcry that has been raised on the score of the dearth of dramatic novelty, that a subject so full of dramatic interest, and also ineident, as the original, should never have been appropriated by the stage until within the last twenty years ; and, scarcely less strange, that its first presentment should have taken the form of opera. Such was the good for tune, however, of Mr. Balfe, that he was permitted to enjoy its first impression ; and this not only, but the aid of its conveyance in an emi nently skilful manner. He had not only an ex cellent subject, but a subject admirably developed. His dramatist was Mons. St. George, one of the ablest of his brethren at the time—by whom not a point of the new material was either overlooked or weakened:; and the result was,undoubtedly, one of the happiest, if not the highest, of Mr. Balfe's many inspirations, despite the drawback of his being burthened by such a poet as Mr. Bunn. Nothing but the interest of the subject can explain the extra ordinary fact, that he was able to write such buoyant music to such execrable words. The poetry of this opera, which properly raised such a shout of laugh ter in ita time, can only be compared to the " non sense verses" which were written by Reynolds and James Smith some five•and forty years ago, and sung in private by Theodore Hook. Such grotesque rubbish preserved by music reminds one of the Egyptian practice of embalming the bones of an ape in spices. Achieving the greatest success that had ever been known on the lyric stage of England —an uninter rupted run of considerably above 100 nights, this opera was faithful to the history of its subject and its heroine, and became a wanderer all over Europe for the general entertainment. It has been played, we believe, with success in every capital of the continent. Its production last night, for the first time at Covent-garden, exhibited all the freshness and animation of first performance. Its vivid and graceful music was never more cordially received. The clear and and resonant voice of Mdlie. Parepa told in every note of the heroine—her spirited delivery of the " Marble Halls," winning a warm and de served encore; whilst she did every justice to the characteristic air, " Come with the Gipsy Bride ;" and to her share in the trio of the third act, " Fly with me through the world "—one of the most ori ginal features of the work. Count Arnheim, as a baritone part, should properly have been assigned to Mr. Santley ; but it can scarcely be said to have suffered at the hands of Mr. Weiss. His earnest and pathetic delivery of the " Heart bow'd down " well merited its redemand ; and his singing throughout the opera had a dignity and force about it which left nothing to be wished. Mr. Harrison resumed, of course, his ori ginal character of the young exile, and scarcely permitted his hearers to think that nine teen years had elapsed since he first rendered it so popular. The lovely air, " Remember me," was manly declamation of the "Fair L and of Poland" gi T e e e n t with ne s alaulditswoel nddistinctionselliteeldofotiecnordee,rneensds atnd he lost not a whit of its original and appropriate force and elevation. The Devilshoof of Mr. Corrie had all its usual strength and picturesqueness. The chorus and the band, thanks to the firm hand of Mr. Mellon, were well entitled to our accustomed praises. The house was very full. CAUGTIT AT LAST !-A wonderfully life-like pc.r trait of Mr. W. S. Woodin in propria persona has just been published in the form of a carte de visite. It is issued from the establishment (122, Regent-street) of Bassano, the photographer. It is the very image of the Protein himself—not of any one among his i charity boy —era fsep an t old e n Fogey, , or of scarcely calcul a bl o swa rm of imperson ations. It is Mr. W oo di n, i n fact, as M r . Woodin : not as an o l d lady, popular as po t Isthe"count i n t yp a belle ho i of t h e season. It is not Mr. Woodin a s a S tout B ea dle, or as a shrimp of a 01n,t,, a t s he v a Sewn e ta ll b : k b f u rt and featur es th at adapt t h e mselves with such plastic ires o m readiness t o th e every w him and fancy of the great Bassano l s carte de visite of Woodin, in effect, is nothing less than a trium p h of art, over what weshould imagine must, under ordi nary circumstances, be a very bewilderment of nature—to a I, P-otographer. The Prince de Radali has arrived at the Burling ton Hotel, Cork-street, from Konigsbruk, Saxony. The Duke and Duchess de Morny have left Ithe Clarendon for Paris. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Miss Canning arrived in Grosvenor-square or Sattuay from a tour of visits to Scotland. Lord and Lady Bloomfield and Col:mei and Mis. Talbot Clifton have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Baron Charles de Rothschild has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris. Count Brandenburg, Prussian Charge d'Affaires, has returned to the Prussian Legation from visiting Vis count and Viscountess Palmerston at Broadlands. General and Mrs. Dunn have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Inglewood, near Hungerford. The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have ap pointed the Rev. William Rayson, M.A., of Magdalene Hall, Oxford, formerly curate of Kemerton, near Tewkes bury, to a minor canonry in Worcester cathedral, The Hon. Charles A. Murray arrived ir, town yesterday from Broadlauds, where he has been 'staying on a short visit with Viscount and Visrlountess I.%almerston. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Keppel and Lord Huntingfield have loft the St. George's Hotel. Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India, returned to town yesterday from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands. The Duke of Newcastle has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Clumber Park, Notts. The Marquis of Abercorn has left Baron's Court, county Tyrone, to meet the Marchioness and Lady Geor giana Hamilton at Haddo House, the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen's seat in Aberdeenshire. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left Ged ling Lodge, Notts, on Saturday, for Grafton House, New market. The Earl and Countess of Bective have returned to Underley Hall, Kirby Lonsdale, from Kissengen. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The number of visitors at the Exhibition yesterday was :—By season tickets, 3,508; ditto, ls. day, 661; by payment, 46,838 ; total, 51,007. ST. JAMES'S HALL —The concert of Welsh Na- tional Music, with band of 20 harps and chorus of 400 voices, will take place at St. James's Hall, on Thursday evening next. The performers on the harp will include the names of the most celebrated artistes in London. The chorus will consist of the members of the Vocal Association and the Royal Academy of Music, under the direction of Mr. John Thomas (Pencordd Gwalia). Altogether a groat musical treat may be expected. On Thursday last a marriage was solemnised at Hannington Church, Wilts, between Mr. Ambrose Hussey, of The Hall, Salisbury, and Miss Freke, only child and heiress of the late Colonel Freke, of Hannington Hall. The ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, assisted by the Rev. James Smeaton, uncle of the bride, and was attended by a large assembly of relatives and friends, who, to the number of 80, subsequently partook of breakfast at The Hall. The tenants of the two estates were entertained at the principal inn at Highworth. The bride was given away by her guardian, Captain Wines Johnson, R.N., M.P., and was accompanied to the altar by a train of ten bridesmaids. The happy couple left at 3 o'clock for Oxford, on their way to North Wales and the Lakes of Killarney. MR. TORRENS.---WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND REVENUES.—To call attention to the reports of the Com missioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the years 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1861, reporting that the Commissioners had sold the rights of the Crown in various parcels of land, situate within the forests of Epping, Woodford, Waltham, and Wanstead ; and to move a Select Committee to inquire what steps either have been or ought to be taken to preserve the rights of recreation and resort to the forests exercised from time immemorial by the inhabitants of the eastern parts of the metropolis, as well as the rights of the poorer foresters, which they have long enjoyed, of pasture, cutting wood, recreation or other rights ; and with the view of obtaining compensation (either from the Crown or from those persons who have benefitted by the possession or purchase of the various lots particularised in the reports of the Commissioners), for those who had enjoyed or have been deprived of rights of the kind referred to, also for those officers of the forests who by the sale of the rights of the Crown within the forests have been deprived of any emolument or perquisites. LEICESTER OCTOBER CHEESE FAlR.—There was a very large pitch of cheese at the fair held to-day (Mon day), but a great deal came to hand out of condition owing to the cold or wet. Trade was brisk for good things, but middling sorts were a drug, so much so that a larger quan tity than usual was left on hand at the close of the day. Best Leicestershire cheese range from about 66s to 755. per cwt., and a few other lots made a trifle more. Middling qualities produced from 52s to 60s per cwt. Stilton were a good supply, but for the most part the quality was very inferior. The finest made about lld or is per lb., while other sorts averaged about 7d per lb. HOPS.—The following is an extract of a letter received from Saaz, dated Oct. 7, 1862 :—" The quantity of hops grown in Bohemia and Bavaria, derived from reliable sources—Bavaria has rather mere than half a crop, and Bohemia a little less than half a crop. The prices of Bava riau varied from £6 to Lb Fel cwt., Auscha, £7 to £9 per cwt. ; Bohemian, £lO to £l2 per cwt,, lately there has been an advance of £2 per cwt., which is well maintained. Should any English demand arise prices will go higher." A BEAUTY OF BORNEO.—Mr. Spencer St. John thus describes the daughter of onaof the Datus of Borneo: —" She was the loveliest girl in Borneo. I have never seen a native surpass her in figure, or equal her gentle, expres•• sive countenance. She appeared but 16 years of age, and as she stood near, leaning against the doorpost in the most graceful attitude, we had a perfect view of all her perfec tions. Her dress was slight indeed, consisting of nothing but a short petticoat reaching from her waist to a little above her knees. Her skin was of the light clear brown, which is almost the perfection of colour in a sunny clime; and, as she was just returning from bathing, her hair, unbound, fell in great luxuriance over her shoulders. Her eyes were black, not flashing, but rather contemplative, and her fea tures were regular—even her nose was straight. So intent was she in watching our movements, and wondering at our novel mode of eating with spoons and knives and forks, that she unconsciously remained in her graceful attitude for some time ; but, suddenly recollecting that she was not appearing to the best advantage in her light costume, she moved away slowly to her room, and presently came forth dressed in a silk jacket and new petticoat, with bead neck laces and gold ornaments. In our eyes she did not look so interesting as before." EMIGRATION TO CANADA.—It may be of some service to intending emigrants to Canada and New Bruns wick to know that the Emigration Commissioners receive and remit, free of charge, ter the use of newly arrived emi grants of the poorer class to the Government immigration agents in Canada and New Brunswick, any sum of money not less than £5, nor more than £2O from any one person, which may be paid to them or to their credit at the Bank of England for the purpose. The persons transmitting the money must furnish the Commissioners with the names and ages of the emigrants for whose benefit the money is de posited, and specify the manner in which it is to be expended in the colony—whether wholly in cash, or partly in cash, and partly in providing emigrants with provisions and con veyance to their destination. The Commissioners do not engage to effect purchases of land or otherwise to invest or retain the money for the benefit of individuals, but simply to instruct the Government agents to apply it to the imme diate use of the people after their arrival, either in the mode directed by the depositor, or, in the absence of such direc tions, in the manner which the immigration agents may deem most advantageous for the emigrants. Owing to the various rates of exchange, a given sum will not always pro duce the same amount of colonial currency, but the sum to be received in the colony will in all cases exceed in nominal amount the sum deposited in this country. This plan can obviously be only made available in the cases of emigrants proceeding to those places in British North America where there are immigration agents—viz,, Canada and New Brunswick. How RACES DIE OUT.—The method in which lower races fuse into or escape from the higher is a mystery in its causes but well understood in its result. 'The lower race loses its productiveness; and some d a oz e e s n t s of extinct attest tribes, like the extinct genera of an i ma l s, this. The Red Indians of America, the native race of Peru, and the aborigines of Australia are living examples of thi s ru l e. I n 14 years, in Tasmania, a livin g traveller says, the abori ginal inhabitants, although numberinfueapc.varlvdseemf may rest did not give birth to mo re th an 14 chidr assured that at this rate any class of beings will soon ex haust itself. THE MURDERER HAYES IN DUNDALK.—We have reason to believe this unfortunate and desp era t e man was recognised recently on the Dundalk bridge, which spans Junction the Dublin and Belfast Railway. He had a haggard but a confident look, and, although apparently undisguised, was i n manner, so m ee k 80 a reality disguised in a very clever him s to re n d er th e po li ce blame less in not m a ki n g party who sawalthough him, a n men a a v b in le g to an j uus tice. The u t r er horror of criminals of hi s class, did not think proper to aid in his capture for several reasons. One is, that he would be a marked man— another, th a t h e wou ld not be an info rmer under any circumstances, because, living or dead, he has no sympathy with the ruthless crowbar brigade, which he be lieves the late Mr. Braddell never hesitated to employ.— Lundaa Express. Two DEAD BODIES FOUND IN TIIE RIVER.—Early yesterday the body of a man, about 40 years of age, having the appearance of a foreign seaman, was found in the Thames at Limehouse Reach, by a waterman, who con signed it to the workhouse, to await a coroner's inquiry. On Sunday evening, the body of a young female, respect ably attired, was washed ashore at Erith. There was nothing to account for her having got into the water, or to serve as a clue to her identity. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Norniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, 6way s 1 , 00 4 graf i Sold iu packets by 2,280 Ageßts. LATEST NEWS. MADRID, OCT. 14. Intelligence has been received from Granada that splendid fetes were given in that city upon the oc casion of their Majesties' visit. Letters from Tangiers state that Morocco is negotiating a loan in London to pay off her debt to Spain. THE BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 13. The Pectic and Ellora, with the above mail, sailed this day at noon for Marseilles and South ampton respectively. The Ellora may be expected at Southampton about the 26th inst. The Malta brought the mail to Suez, arriving there yesterday. The China, with the London mails of the 27th of September (3d October), left Suez yesterday for Bombay. The Jeddo, with the English mail of the 27th of August (3d of September), reached Bombay on the 24th ult. (two days early). THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE IN PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCL 13. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, the Mini sters being absent, the President of the Chamber opened the sitting. He regretted being obliged to communicate the vote of the Upper House, which he declared was unconstitutional, The President then moved that the Chamber ad journ for an hour, when the Committee on the Budget should report upon the resolutions proposed bp Dr. Simson and Herr Reichensperger, declaring void the vote of the Upper House and stating their reasons for that conclusion, He also moved that the committee should further report upon the resolutions proposed by Dr. Gneist and his party—viz., that the vote of the Upper House was unconstitutional, and therefore null and void; that the Government is not entitled to base any rights upon that vote ; that the Government is in duty bound to settle the expenditure for 1862 in accordance with the Constitution ; and that it was not justified in making outlays which the Chamber had refused to grant. The proposal of the President was almost unani rcously agreed to. The Committee on the Budget unanimously passed a resolation, declaring the vote of the Upper House, regarding the acceptance of the Budget brought forward by the Government, as opposed to the plain sense and words of the Constitution, and upon that account null and void. The Government would, therefore, not be justified in basing any rights whatever upon the vote. The Chamber then resolved upon instant discus sion of the subject. Herr von Bonin-Stolp protested against this re solution, and quitted the Chamber with five mem bers of his party. No debate, however, took place upon the resolu• tion of the Committee upon the Budget, which was unanimously adopted by the 237 members present. The President of the Council, Count von Bismark- Schonhausen, then read a Royal Message, ordering that the close of the Parliamentary session should take place in the Royal Castle at three o'clock this afternoon. CLOSING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS OCT. 13 (Evening). The Prussian C hambers were closed this after noon. The President of the Ministry read the Speech from the Throne. In this speech the King makes mention of the treaty of commerce with France, and states that the principles of national economy on which that treaty is founded will henceforward form the basis of the commercial policy of Prussia. The speech laments that the discussions on the budget for 1862 have not led to a legal sentiment, and continues : " That budget, as amended by the Lower House, having been rejected by the Upper House, the Go vernment finds itself compelled to carry out the budget as it was originally laid before the Lower House, without taking cognisance of the conditions imposed by the constitution. The Government, although conscious of the responsibility arising out of this deplorable state of things, is also mindful of its duties to the country, and therein finds authoriz ation for defraying, until the legal settlement of the budget takes place, the expenditure necessary for the preservation of existing institutions and the development of the welfare of the country. It feels convinced that this course will hereafter receive the sanction of the Chambers." FRANCE. BOURSE, October 13.—The market has: been firm, but with only a moderate amount of business doing. Threes, for the Account, are now at 71f. 85c., as on Saturday. Railway Share Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents .. 98 60 Bank Shares 3225 Do. end month.... Credit F oncier 1260 3 per Cents Do. end month 7l 85 Italian Loan 73 90 New 3 per Cents .. Romap. Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 1210 Spanish Threes 52 Do, end m0nth....1210 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1052 50 ~ 1053 75 Northern New, ditto - 1010 .. 1011 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 1185 -- .. 1186 25 Geneva 370 .. 370 Southern BB3 75 .. 885 Western Eastern • ... Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa . 622 50 .. 622 50 Ditto to Barcelona 347 50 .. 348 75 FRANCE AND MEXICO. La Patrie publishes the following letter from Vera Cruz, dated 91h September : " The fortifications erected by order of General de Lorencez at Orizaba, and which have rendered that town safe against the attacks of the enemy, allow it to be made the principal basis for the proximate operations, and the point of concentra tion for the reinforcements that are arriving. Thus the inconvenience will be avoided of overcrowding Vera Cruz, and of too long a sojourn in the low lands. The troops will land in detachments, which will be immediately advanced towards the interior, as has already been the case with the Zouaves and the (Masseurs d'Afrique. It is with this view that the prelimi nary measures for the campaign have been taken. In fact, it became necessary to make Orizaba a large provision store, so as to assure the regular forward ing of the convoys. General de Lorencez, with the small force under his orders, was not able to occupy other points, except those which extend from Ori zaba to Chiquehuite. The line of communication has now been completed by the establishment of per m anent posts at La Soledad and Tejeira. Thi s latter locality, which is con n ected with Vera Cruz by a railway, is n o w protected by earth works and by a good garrison. Provisions will be forwarded to this point as they arrive. From thence , where th e s il w l b il e l s fi t n a d tio s n h s el a te t r fi atd d r d e i i s n t f a o n re c eems reinforcements distances the es cort if necessary. t c h o n e rveowy I , To clear the territory of Vera Cruz completely from the incursions of the guerilleros it is thought that it will be necessary to establish posts upon the flank of our line of occupation, and especially at Jalapa. It is also possible that we shall have to occupy the different points of the second road which leads to Puebla by Jalapa and, Perote, so as to be able to make the advance in two columns, and di vide the strength of the enemy. " The Mexican army has not changed position. It has not reoccupied Acultzingo, taken from it early in August. General Diaz was still at Hua tusco ; but it is probable that he will have to eva cuate that point without fighting as soon as the reinforcements have arrived. "An attempt at a pronunciamiento was made in the garrison at Perote, but it was put down, and the ringleaders executed. " The yellow fever had not quite disappeared at the date of the last news, but was gradually sub siding, and it was hoped would have totally ceased by the end of September, the time at which the reinforcements from Toulon and Cherbourg are ex pectefl." THE CONFLICT IN PRUSSIA. Dr. Heinrich Kruse, editor of the Koelmsche Zetung, writing to a contemporary, says :—" Your number a few days ago contained a leading article which seemed to imply that it was the Liberal Opposition (viz., 308 members of our House of Commons against the 11 gentlemen forming the Ministerial party) which wanted to reduce the Prussian army from 200,000 men to 150,000. Quite the reverse. It is the Government which wants to increase the standing army of Prussia. Oar army, which since the Peace of 1815 consisted of some thing about 120,000 to 130,000 men, and was only in 1855 raised to 140,000, and in 1858 to 151,000 men, at present, if things go by the Government, is to be augmented to the enormous state of 210,000 sol diers. Nay, more, the Government created, against the known wish and will of the country, in 1860, in the midst of peace, while all the other great Powers of the Continent were reducing their armies, 40 new negiments, and increased our army actually to 205,000 men. But this overgrown peace establishment is not legally sanctioned by the Prussian Diet, and never will be. " The constitutional conflict in Prussia is at pre sent of a simple nature. The Government contends that the House of Commons has no right to vote the Budget. The Budget says the Ministerial party, is a law to which the House of Lords and the King must give their consent as well. Therefore, if either the Lords or the King refuse to sanction. the Budget as voted by the Commons, there is no , Budget; and if there is no Budget the Government may do with the people's money whatever it likes. This is no exaggeration, but the simple truth, wbich you may read yourself in the enclosed number of the Allgenzeine Preussiche Zeitung, the paper of the Prussian Government. That famous Constitu tionalist, Lord Russell, trying hard to, read, mark, and inwardly digest this new constitutional theory, is said to have nearly died with a fit of indigestion. " As I am writing to you I may as well, in justice to myself, correct an old error. In a leading article of the Yinzes it was stated that the editor of the Koelnische Zeitung refused to publish a protest of certain English gentlemen in the well-known Mac donald case. I did no such thing. Although tlvat protest was couched in a language almost sure to involve the responsible editor in a lawsuit, I de clared myself quite ready to publish the manuscript provided, of course, the gentlemen signed their names, the document asserting facts unknown to myself. But the English gentlemen, not wishing to share the public responsibility, expressly with-• drew their declaration. I did not wish at the time to swell the Macdonald debate with personal mat ters, but avail myself of the present opportunity for vindicating my conduct to my English friends." KELLY'S POST OFFICE DIRECTORY. " Kelly's Post Office Directory" is a work which needs but a simple announcement. Its merits are so thoroughly recognised that to commend it would be as much a work of supererogation, as to coat mend what may be termed a Counting;House Bible. For ourselves we can only say that we find its services indispensable. The preface to this edition mentions that " several additions have been made to the present volume : lists of hundreds and poor law unions have been included in the topography of each county ; it is stated under each parish in what hundred, union, and county court district it is situate, as well as the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery; and the college and university of every beneficed clergyman have been given. The post office savings banks have been noticed; the names of the parish clerks are given under each parish ; and lists of farm bailiffs of gentlemen farming their own land have been added. The bulk of the Directory has again increased con • siderably : the third edition consisted of 1,420 pages; the fourth had increased to 1,752 pages; and the present contains 1,986 pages. The value of the Directory, however, will depend principally on the fact that it has been most carefully correc ted, every parish having been personally visited by the agents during the last six months." LARGE ARRIVALS OF COT7ON FROM BOMBAY AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, Monday.—lie following vessels have at' rived at this port from Bombay, with cotton : Matilda Atheling Pericles 4,766 Zuleika Camperdown Douglas Castle Morning Light Total In addition to these large arrivals. 1,300 bales are 0' petted by the Peterhoff, advices of whose arrival at Hall" fax from Nassau have been received. There is also at sea a cargo of 1,000 bales of American cotton, shipped frora Spain, and consigned to a firm in Liverpool. STATE OF TRADE.—NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE Oct. 13.—The iron and coal works of this district continu e to be well employed, and the colliers and miners find bu t little difficulty in procuring work. Wages, it is true, ar e low, as compared with what was received some years ago , but if a sufficiency of work can be obtained there is no r ota to complain. The quarterly meeting of the ironmasters 01 Staffordshire was looked forward to with some interest /0 South Wales, and the favourable reports have exercised 0n important influentee on the trade of the district. A fort night since the demand for merchant bars had slightly re ceded, but within the last few days several large order. have ccme in, and the market is quite brisk as regards thle particular description of iron. The same may be said of rails, and there is a considerable inquiry for plates and sheets. The orders that have been recently received fr.:tea American houses have taken the ironmasters rather by Bur' prise, as they expected but little from that quarter until the present fratricidal struggle is over. The present quotation of rails at the works is £6, and merchant bars £5 los. to £5 15s. The coal trade evinces increased activity, and the different collieries can hardly keep up with th e d eman d. Preparations are being made for opening several new coal fields, which will greatly increase the supply, The 9ft. - vein has been struck at A bercarn, and it is expected that the colliery will commence working in a short time. Tl l ° Machen Company's new pit at Bedwas is progressing favourably, and there are several other new openings abou t to be made. The present prices of steam coals, free o n board, are 7s. 6d. to Bs.; house coals, Bs. 6d. to 9s. 6d. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday, as the Parlia mentary train, by the London and North-Western Rail way from London,was on its way to Manchester it 'let narrow escape from destruction at Longsight. The tr."' was due at Manchester at 5.35 p.m., and as it neared Lour sight, soon after 5 o'clock, the driver saw approa ch ' ing a train from Manchester on the same line of rail; He was slack en i ng b ut found to stop at Longsight, 0 found it nec essary to reserve his engine and put on 11 breaks to avoid a collision, so imminent seemed the dan ge". r 1 The driver of the other train did the same, and, fortnoci ately, both trains were stopped, but the two engines r o approached within a yard of each other before this could effectually accomplished. Tho train from Manchester an engine engine and two empty cattle trucks, and the driver .1; peared to have been running up the wrong line to t 1 Longsight depot, for coke, notwithstanding ever effo rt a ; stop him as he passed the Ardwick station. The tray t from London had fortunately been detained at Stockl)°r,t four minutes beyond its time, to have extra carriages Pt, on, or in all probability it would have met the other train between Longsight and Ardwick , when both were at big e u ' e then were and the loss of life might have been great; as icr, were 14 carriages nearly full o f passengers ire the Per 1a _. mentary train, The conduct of the driver of the catt le trau g u o who is said to be from Hol y h ead, will, no doubt, unde.rn t inquiry, as the rules of t h e company are s evere agai 5 driving on the wrong line u nder any circumstance s. AN AGED RAVEN.--A sportsman in the neigh , bourhood of the wood of Clairmarais (Somme) shot i days ago an u nusuall y l arge raven o f its, having roun d one ords, legs a small iron ring on whi c h were engraved the cc B orn at Courtry, in 1772." Thi s f ac t i s a coiosvo: of the opinion of certain natu ra li s ts that ravens live for coutUrY aad 4/114161"-GON7Iffilii -