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LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, by THOS. HOOD, Esq., in FUN, every week. Now Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta he cloth, gilt, price 4,„ 6 ( 1.; post free, 55., t SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN , with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esc]; T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanch trd, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgernan, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand , E sq. Godfrey Turner, h'sq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. treet, London. Office, 80, Fleet-i 44k DANGEROUS R OMAN," AA_ in SATURDAY NIGHT," every week. One Penny. CILOTHING FUND for the RELIEF of the NJ LANCASHIRE and CHESHIRE OPERATIVES. The Lord Mayor and Committee beg to announce that, by the kindness of the Governors of Bridewell, a portion of that Building has been placed at their disposal for the RECEP TION of CLOTHING for the use of the SUFFERING POPULATION in the DISTRESSED DISTRICTS. They therefore invite contributions of Clothing of all kinds and of Blankets, and request that they may be sent to the above-mentioned place, viz.: Bridewell. Bridge-street, Blackfriars, E.C., for the Committee. Mansion House, E.C., 18th Oct., 1862. CRYSTAL PALACE-AFTERNOON VISIT S. This being the Last Fortnight of the International Exhi bition, and in anticipation that many Excursionists and other Visitors, whose time is limited, would wish to see the Palace also, it will remain open during the above period fro m Nine In the Morning; until Seven in the Evening. At dusk the Palace will be lighted by the new gas standards erected in the naves by Messrs. Defries. CCRYSTAL.PALACE .-GREAI FOUNTAINS.—LAST TIME Tills SEASON, TO. MORROW, at Three o'clock. ----_ f'IRYSTAL PALACE. —Last time of the GREAT FOUNTAINS this Season, TO-MORROW, at Three o'clock. This Display will comprise the following:— The Six Fountains on the Upper Terrace. The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains. The Large Central Basket Fountain. The Two Graceful Water Temples. The Forty-eight Tazza Fountains. Fountains. The Six Boang The Grand Cascades and Waterfalls. The Eight Dancing Fountains. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASINS, which alone oover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou sand Jets, discharging One Million Nine Hundred Thousandwhich Ga ll on s of Wate r, including Les GRANDES EAUX, attain the altitude of 234 feet. • .* For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, Wallacp's opera of LIIRLINE. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN. And at hall-past Nine THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, A DAUGHTER TO MA RRY. Alter which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With DUCK HUNTING. And JACK'S RETURN FROM ence C AN TON. O Comm NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by THE SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening, DELICATE GROUND. After which, at 8, Sheridan Knowles' Play of LOVE. With PERFECTION. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening;„ PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR NEY. Conclude with IT MUST BE T4CE, 'TWAS IN THE PAPERS Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening. MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King William-atreet, Charing-cross. , Commence at 8. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay , market. Open every evening for Promenade and Danciag. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING. — Grand Operatic Selection and Cantata —Unsworth, Eugene, sad Daley, the great comic trio, &a Commenee at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OxroßD-STIMET, EVERY EVEN ING.—Donizetti's "Don Sebastien," and other grand Operatic Selections, with full band and chorus. —The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes—Mr. Maelagan's En tertainment Drew Dean. the youthful Flutist—U nsworth, the original of " any other man," are. , Commence at 7. NOTICE. All 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, 12h. sm.—Afternoon, 12h. 26m, To-monnow.-Morning, 12h. 47m.—Afternoon, lh. 3m. e.t:r"y"4l r 1010, " • c; 4 11 ' llts I "" THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1862. The King of PRUSSIA has created for himself a petty stage on which he might utter his monologue to the nation. A party of absolutists approached his MAJESTY by Right Divine, to tell him humbly the true sentiments of the Prussian people, "so grievously misrepresented by the Chamber of De puties." By what right they claimed to speak for the nation is not apparent, seeing they were sent as a deputation by a " Conservative Society"—an avowedly party body. This seemed not to occur to them any more than to him of Right Divine, as as any qualification of their claim. They were " indignant" that the persons, whom the electors, in the teeth of the immense Beanreancratic power of Prussia, had chosen to act and speak for them, should represent their voice as that of the people. And especially were they indignant that they should declare that they had the "exclusive right to re gulate the Budget." This claim, so far as we have seen the accounts of their proceedings, was not made by the Deputies —not at least in a sense different from what is the case in all constitutional countries. The Deputies admitted the right of the Crown to demand supplies—they asserted their right to accede to the demand to the extent to which they thought the country would approve their doing so—they admitted again the right of the Upper House to reject any budget sent up by the Lower House, as a whole, whether the budget were the original ministerial one, or a bud getmodified by the Lower House—they admitted, therefore, the full constitutional share of the Crown and the Upper House in regard the budget, and their real delinquency in the eyes of the deputa tion and thelc3sG, if the former had stated it truth fully, was, that they would not allow the Crown the " exclusive right to regulate the budget. " The animus o f t h e deputation peeped out, ho wever, pretty plainly at the close when they said Never would they suffer the centre of gravity of the Government to be fixe d intheCha G m o b v e e r rn of . Deputies ; they did not want p arliamentary ment, but a royal Government:, Of course this is just wh at the To Upstartth . bitter ihntfetteyeeurrapwaalari tnsett, party in Prussia really want. mor tification they have a Parlia ment, to nullify it. They are the very counterparts, and at this time of day too, of Lord STRAFFORD and his 4 ` Thorough." H appily, how ever, there is every reason to beli eve that hey have not one msn the ability of the English Earl among r - i amorg them; and it! . . with all his high talent, he shipwrecked the ca ase of absolutism in England, ve may hope that I.'eehler abilities will shipwreck the same cause in P russia. If Prussians be not such sturdy frEemen as oar forefathers, in their battle with STUART tyranny, neither has the Prussian monarch such nobl es at his service, as were the Cavaliers of our CH. LIMES. The KING, as m i i g ht be expected, wa s in hi g h feather—h e was th a o .kf u l f or sna il mercies. A l ittle deputation was a gt rat comfort when the whole re presentation of the pktion was against him. But his speech will be no comfort to the country. It is pretty► plainly a drawing of the sword. He just reiterated all the common places to which we are well used here, also, on behalf of an extravagantly large army. " What," be said, " can avail all pre sent wealth, all the development of industry—what can avail all the good things that GOD has given us, if there is no means of protecting them when they are threatened ? Seldom has any enterprise been attacked as that task has been which I began with a view to the protection and the prosperity of my country. It is true I was obliged to ask for it sacrifices on the part of my people, but I am fully convinced that those sacrifices were not excessive, as the financial statement demonstrates." All this reads very much like what Lord PAL MERSTON and his Secretary for War tell us when they want to make us patient under seventy mil lions a year for an army and navy which cannot induce the EMPEROR to leave Rome. But what follows is what Queen VICTORIA, by their advice, would never say, not even if the House of Commons should cut down the army and navy by one-half. Referring to their demand for a "Royal" as con trasted with a " Parliamentary" Government, he said—" As you have remarked, it is not the trans formation of the army which forms the point of attack properly speaking; but themark is elsewhere. The intentions, at first disguised, have become partly unmasked." In other words, says his MAJESTY, these representatives, who decline to sanction the amount of military expenditure I propose, aim to dethrone me. He went on to assert that he " was determined to yield nothing more of the rights which had been transmitted to him," though what he had yielded it is not very easy to see. He varied his phraseology, however, by speaking of the " Constitutional rights" of the Crown ; yet it is hard to comprehend in what respect the deputies have trenched on these at all. On the question of question of the amount of supplies and the number of soldiers the KING and his Chamber differ—whose opinion then should prevail ? A Constitutional Crown is surely pledged to accept only what the people will give. It will be seen that this obstinate Monarch is improving at once the opportunity of the dismissal of his Chambers to assail the press. Not fewer than five papers are mentioned as having been seized or stopped in the Post-office. Herr BISMARK and his master, are imitating, in their way, M. PER SIGNY and his master. The man who was to unite half the German States under the Prussian sceptre, is doing all he can to make them think their own petty despots no worse than he. We should be in no way surprised if Austrian Statesmen should take the hint—for they are able enough—and when they see that disgust with the Prussian Monarch has reached the boiling point, that they should initiate a really liberal policy which should cause all the Liberal party in Germany to desire rather the Protectorate of Austria than that of Prussia. The Prussians must, however, be men. They are loyal to their KING. They must teach their KING to be loyal to them. Some wonderfully interesting statistics have re cently been collected and published in connection with the history of New South Wales. They mark in a very vivid manner the importance of the colony. And they indicate more plainly than any written descriptions could possibly do, the extraordinary speed, the steady advance and that a perpetually increasing advance in its general development. In the cultivation of the soil. In the multiplication of the live stock. In the surprising growth of the number of the population. In the unmistakeable in dication of the general prosperity. In regard to all these particulars the statistics we are referring to are replete with really invaluable, because at once most reliable and most encouraging, information. Not a man amongst us who cherishes any interest whatever in respect to the prosperity of the nation at large, whether at home or abroad, in its foreign policy or in its colonial possessions—but must conn with lively satisfaction facts and figures in dicative in so very remarkable a manner that the British Empire is witnessing now in this later half of the nineteenth century the very reverse of what M. LEDRU ROLLIN dis gracefully exulted over (disgracefully seeing that whilst he wrote thus, he was an exile, sheltered under the aegis of our authority), as in his own phrase, in the pitiable title of his ungrateful book, La Decadence d'Angleterre. If there were any wish seriously entertained by any one to recognise within a very brief compass and with a very small amount of trouble, proof positive of the reality of the fact we are referring to, the fact totally discredited by these depredators of our power and of our consti tutional form of Government, that proof positive might. be witnessed by any visitor to the Great International Exhibition, down at South Kensington, who took the trouble to look, from this point of view, at one half of the collection of works of art and industry there displayed. Mean ing the contents of the eastern division of Captain FOWXES'S monster and monstrous edifice, the products of the skill, or of the industry of Great Britain and her dependencies. The metallic and carbonacious treasures drawn from the depths of the earth by those British Cyclops—our miners! The evidence of the amazing and, squandered over our va riety of the fauna and vast and scattered dominion—brought hither to our shores by vessels sailing over almost every division of that mighty element, over which an Englishman is supposed to have some mysterious and impre scriptible authority, over which, during many centu ries at least, he has exercised an almost undisputed supremacy—a su premacy never yet di spute d w i t h impunity. In every imaginable way the fact of the wealth, and of the increasing wealth, of the power, and that that power, too, long visibly being enhanced —of the prosperity, and of the truth that it is a prosperity that is ever visibly and widely ex tending—all these things are rendered substan tially visible to every thinking observer who traverses the eastern division of the huge build ing now comprising under its roof-beams the marvellous collection of the works of art and in dustry, making up the astounding whole of our last great International Exhibition. As directly corroborating the story thus told by one section of our own collection there, of our British collection, the statistics we have already here spoken of possess a very peculiar, and impor tant, and timely interest for us all. A few of these statistics, the pick amongst them, we will here con tent ourselves with giving—as tending to throw a flood of light upon the actual condition of things at our antipodes. Upon the state of affairs latterly, that is to say, in our noble colony of New South Wales. New South Wales would be especially deserving of note among all our sixty colonial dependencies —if for nothing else, for the circumstance that it is admittedly the greatest of all our pas toral colonies. In that sense it is our antarctic Arcadia! The dimensions of the colony are first of all, of course, worthy of being taken into consideration —the whole urea of it being com puted at 323,437 square miles, or 207,000,000 acres ! Otherwise to express it---four times as large as England getter, o r t h ree times the size Wales and S cotland regarded of England and a nd together, as one kingdom. According to the l ast Australian census (that of 1861) this gave as many as 575 acres of lind as the proportion to each individual. Mr. CHRISTOPHER ROLLESTON, the Registrar of New South Wales, and Mr. SEDGIVICK COWPER, the Secretary to the New South Wales Exhibition Commissioners, are our authorities (certainly reli able authorities) for the facts upon which we are now commenting. We learn through their agency that " The population on the 7th April, 1861, was 350,860 souls (198,488 males, and 152,372 females), exclusive of the military and aboriginal inhabit ants. The subsequent increase by births and by immgration would probably bring the numbers at the end of that year up to 360,000—about 205,000 males, and 155,000 females, the pro portion being about 75 females to every 100 males." It is very curious to note that the capital of the Colony, that is to say, its world famous metropolis, Sydney, actually contains within it more than one quarter of the entire population. Sydney being inhabited by but very little short of 100,000 souls—to be precise, just 93,686. As for the occupations of the inhabitants, not of Sydney alone, but of the whole mass of the population, we find them thus ingeniously classified :,,—;" 1. Govern ment, professional, and trading classes, males, 13,345 ; females, 2,293 ; 15,638, or 4.46 per cent. 2. Manufacturing and labouring classes, males, 31,501; or 8.98 per cent. 3. Gold-mining, males, 20,365; or 5.80 per cent. 4. Pastoral and agricul tural classes, males 46,916 ; females, 7,084 ; 54,000, or 15.39 per cent. 5. Personal offices, domestic ser vants, &c., males, 13,683; females, 14,490 ; 28,173, or 8.03 per cent. 6. Miscellaneous, including women and children, both at home and at school, males, 72,678; females, 128,505 ; 201,183, or 57.34 per sent." Already we have accorded here to this colony of New South Wales its right to a distinctive pre eminence, among all our sixty colonial possessions, as the pastoral colony of the British Empire. Re membering that, "In 1796, the whole of the live stock in the colony, exclusive of goats and pigs, was 57 horses, 227 cattle, and 1,531 sheep," it is something surprising to be told now that, " from this stock have sprung the vast flocks and herds which were feeding on the natural grasses of Aus tralia at the end of 1860, as exhibited in the follow ing table" : Sheep. Cattle. Horses. New South Wales 6,119,163 2,408,686 251,497 Victoria 5,794,127 683,634 69,288 Queensland South Australia Tasmania 1,700,930 83,366 21,034 General totals .. 19,888,381 3,886,641 314,722 The quantity of wool exported from the colony in 1860 was so immense that it amounted in weight to 12,809,362 lbs., and in value, £1,123,699. At the close of that same year, on the 31st of De cember, 1860, the public debt of the colony amounted to no more than £3,830,230 in all, or at the rate of merely £ll an individual ! Skilled artizans can earn there, in New South Wales, readily enough from Bs. to 10s. a day—farm labourers and shepherds from £3O to £4O a year wages, with board and lodging. During several successive years bread has ranged from sd. to 6d. the 21b. loaf being at this time down to 3-1 d! Potatoes being down to Bs. the hundred weight, and meat to 3d., or even as low as 10. per pound ! Millions of acres, we are row re minded, are there to be purchased, at the choice of the bidder, at the uniform rate of £1 sterling per acre. Rents have dropped, of late, as much as 60 per cent. Altogether, musing over these statistics, one marvels that the tide of emigration does not set more strongly in the direction of that hapyy, fruitful, lightly taxed colony of ours, which we are again disposed to regard seriously, and not merely by a complimentary phrase, as our Southern Arcadia. According to the EMPEROR and his new Foreign Secretary, all is to go on in its old course. No new policy is launched, disturbing the waters of either the Seine or the Tiber. The dock-gates have opened, and another vessel belonging to the same service, with the same destination and the usual freight, has taken the place of the old one, and been calmly warped out to start for a fresh voyage —that is all. To be sure, that all is a great all relatively. So much had been going on which seemed to promise that the EMPEROR was coming to his senses, and beginning to be influenced by the generous sentiment s shown by Frenchmen gene rally after the atrocious affair of Aspromonte, that better things were expected. It was thought that the EMPEROR was becoming as ashamed as his sub jects are, that France should be made the gaoler of the Romans, and the prop of a miserable puling and cursing ecclesiastical despot—it was hoped that the miserable RATTAZZI scheme, having disgraced all the actors, from the EMPEROR, who ordered all, to the men who shot the hero to prevent his lead ing Italian youths to Rome, the EMPEROR was about to act with common justice and honour, and to fix a term for the withdrawal of the POPE'S French keepers ; and it is rather the contrast of persistency in evil, with the previously excited hopes, than the inauguration of any new evil, which has excited the public mind. In his circular, which has appeared to-day, M. DROUYN DE L'HuYs, like his master in bis dis missal letter to M. THOTIVENEL, lays stress on his intention to abide by the old policy. Through all phases of the question during the last thirteen years the EMPEROR has aimed, says the Foreign Secretary, to conciliate all interests concerned— which aim might have been all very well if the interests of the POPE'S temporal despotism and Italian liberty admitted of reconciliation. This is termed by the Secretary "a high and impartial policy." Both these it certainly is. It is a high handed disregard of all international rights and the acknowledged duty of non intervention. And it is really " impartial" as between the Italians and the petty despot whom the EMPEROR protects, since he cares not a straw for either. He wrongs the Italians and the Romans, and patron'ses the Holy oppressor of the Italian capital for the perfectly im partial reason that he thinks it for the honour of the Empire to exhibit the POPE in a French cage. The EMPEROR'S Secretary says—" The Roman question touches upon the highest interests of reli gion and of politics, and engenders on every part of the globe scruples moat deserving of respect.' The politics of the case are obvious enough—the glory of the second empire —for to both Emperors wrong-doing with a high hand has been a favourite glory. As to the religion of the business, we may be allowed to smile at the oddity of the association between religion and a BONAPARTE. We may suppose, however, that his sentimental Empress taught him that word " after her return from the bull-fight." To all sound-minded persons "on every point of the globe" religion and injustice —reli gion, and the head of their religion being the poli tical slaveholder of subjects held in slavery for him by foreign slave-drivers—are not very com patible ideas. with There all is th ione darkin gratifying considerationacpapal conneeted Imperial l d ria viliany— that it is doing after all a great work for Italy. The Papal cut-throats sent into the Southern pro ' vinces are indeed a fearful evil, but like other evils they work an undesigned good. The POPE and EMPEROR will never through them restore the THE SUIN, LON9ON, 113MSDAY E:VENING, OCTOBER `2l, 1862. BOURBONS and re-distribute Italy into a weak confederation to be played with by French strength. In the first place, the Papal Imperial wrong will unite the Italy which the POPE and his master desire to break up. All the world over a common wrong will unite those whom nothing else would persuade to act together. The Italians would doubtless be far more likely to split into factions if the French left Rome, and the Austrians the Quadrilateral, than while a dominating hatred thus pervades every mind. Then again, the Italians, according to their own proverb, being nearest Rome, naturally respect it least of all people. And when to the contempt for ' the Papacy which proximity always inspires, we add the special provocation of the Papacy at the present moment, we may conceive how every year makes the Papacy more and more hateful. Indeed, an Italian who intimately knows his country assures us that nine out of ten Italians are anti- Papal. On the same authority we learn that light is extensively dawning on the Italian mind. They think it a point of honour to stand by their Church —they would think it cowbrdice to desert it—but they are renouncing belief in Papal infallibility for belief in the Bible. They would not like the name of Protestants, he says, but they do like the name of Evangelical Catholics. The demand for the Bible, the most deadly danger to priestcraft, is becoming quite general. He knew of the circulation of a hundred thousand Bibles in the last year or two. Now, all this is making the Italians really free— free in thought and understanding from the fetters of the Papacy and its priests, as wed as free politi cally from the decrees of the old petty despots. The two must ever go together. Countries have the spirit of freedom just in proportion as they free their minds from debasing religious bondage to their fallible fellow-mortals. In Europe opposition to the Papacy and civil freedom have always gone together. It will be so in Italy. The opposition to the POPE and the EMPEROR will be the seal of her liberties. Again the telegram has sounded the alarm about GARIBALDI. After all the couleur de rose accounts furnished by the authorities, as to his improve ment in health generally and the gradual healing of his wound—a brief intimation conies flashed to us by telegraph abruptly announcing that his con dition is altogether very unsatisfactory. It is true that in opposition to this announcement, almost in direct contradiction of it, we learn that the Hero, has recently addressed a cordial letter to M. VICTOR HUGO, in which the General pro mises his friend that in two months time he (GARIBALDI) will be in London to witness the first representation of the dramatised version of the poet novelist's great work, Les Miserables. What an attraction to the Lyceum ! that first night of Mr. FECHTER'S appearance in the double character of Actor and Manager, that first night of the representation of the drama prohibited by the Imperial Government at Paris, but destined, no doubt, to delight the theatre-going people of Lon don during the chief part of this next year of grace, 1863. The recognition of General GARIBALDI and M. VICTOR HUGO in a box at the Lyceum on that first night, would surely bring " down" the house with a thunder of acclamations. Unhappily, how ever, the hopes awakened by GARIBALDI'S cheerful missive to the Great French Author are dashed to the dust almost immediately they are recognised by a Turin letter, dated the 14th inst., which appears in a recent number of the Temps, and in which we read, upon the' authority of the correspondent —" I have j ust seen Dr. RIBOLI. He is greatly cast down. The mere sight of GARIBALDI at once dissipated in his mind all the illusions encouraged by the optism of the daily bulletins. GARIBALDI is pale, exhausted, attenuated. A fever, not intense, but of daily recurrence, is slowly consuming him. As to the wound, M. RIBOLI agrees With M. PALASCIANO that the ball is in it. He thinks it not safe to attempt the extraction at pre sent, and at the same time fears that delay may bring with it the most serious complications. In short, his impression is most discouraging." And now comes to-day's brief but sinister telegram. All we can do at this moment, however, is to hope that in these latest tidings from Spezzia there has been something of exaggeration. THE END OF THE LONG VACATION.—On Friday next the long vacation will terminate, when the several common law offices will resume business in preparation for the, coming Michaelmas Term, commencing on the 2d, or rather Monday, the 3d proximo. The Chancery vacation will not end for some days later. But for the Judges' Chambers sitting two days in each week there would have scarcely been any indication of life in the legal profession. Proceedings in actions have slumbered for some time, but arrangements must be made before the 24th instant, or parties will ke entitled to costs for declarations, and after so long a rest attorneys are not inclined to forego their privi leges. The arrears in Chancery and in the common law courts are not considerable. NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.--On Sunday last 47 sermons were preached in connection with this asso ciation, and at some of the services collections were made in behalf of the League's funds. Nine of the sermons were delivered in London, three at Manchester, and the re mainder at Gloucester, Bristol, Swansea, Cardiff, Chester, Worcester, Burstein, Walsall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, South Shields, Spalding, Louth, Peterborough, Bedford, Luton, St. Albans, and other places. Of the 47 preachers, 15 were Churchmen, 16 Baptists, nine Independents, four Me thodists, and three Presbyterians. GARIBALDI AND THE TRADES OF LONDON.— General Garibaldi having in letters to friends in England signified his intention of shortly visiting this country, to thank them in person for the sympathy manifested in his behalf, and for the interest taken in the cause of Italian unity, preparations have already commenced for giving a public welcome to the Italian hero on his visit to the me tropolis. A preliminary meeting has been convened of the influential and leading men in the metropolitan trade so cieties, to consider the propriety of the trades, as a body, joining in the proposed demonstration. Should this course be decided upon, each trade will be at once called upon to appoint its delegates to carry out the necessary arrange ments, and the friendly societies, such as the Foresters, Oddfellows, Druids, Old Friends, &c., will be also invited to take part in the proceedings. LAND COMPENSATION.—An inquiry regarding a claim for land compensation at Plymouth, which commenced on Wednesday last, was concluded on Saturday. Mr. Drake was assessor. Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Johnson appeared for the applicant, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Han nen for the War Department, it being a question of fortifi cations. The residence, Brookland-house, and the land have been many years in the family of Mr. Gennys. The property is situated two or three miles north of Plymouth. The amount claimed was £45,000. The Government in the first place offered £20,000, and was, it is said, prepared to compromise before going to a jury. The amount awarded was—for the house and gardens, £4 000; compensation for severing a piece of water, £2,000 ; for absolute purchase and compensation for clearance rights, £25,158 100.; total, £31,158 10s. The land absolutely taken is about 98 acres. The clearance rights are exercised over 166 acres. Mr. Gennys made a claim for increased value on account of mining royalties, but it did not appear to have much weight with the jury. One Plymouth architect valued the building land at £3OO per acre; another at £275. FATAL COLLISION ON THE RIVER.—About five o'clock yesterday evening, the tide being at the time nearly full, a collision took place in Northfleet Reach, between a brig laden with corn from the Baltic, proceeding up the river, and an empty collier running down. The violence of the shock precipitated the helmsman of the collier into the river, and he sank before assistance could be rendered. The brig kept on her tack to the Gravesend side, and was brought to shore at Northfleet, where she will undergo re pairs at low water to keep her free. DISASTROUS COLLISION AT SEA.—Tbe Hamburg steamer, running between Havre and Brest, came into vio lent collision with a French barque, called the Juanita, from Monte Video, on Friday morning at about 5 o'clock. when about six miles west of the port of Havre. A strong drowned g. i n or south n -wester v weabseenlost,blowing, and intense darkness pre vailed . The Hamburg sun k di rectly. Ten o f h er passengers are were a n and saved seve . r a Thel o missing is stated to b e 26 . T he Ham b urg f or merly ran be tween Havre and Southarapt en ,—M a nchester Guardian. h total er e are mi ssing. The captain and mate PRINCESS'S THEAT.RE. THE NEW MANAGEMENT, This theatre, which on Thursday last witnessed the close of Mr. Harris's management, as well as of the engagement of Mr. and Mr. Charles Kean, with something like the eightieth performance of the spectacular revival of Henry Vlll.—was re-opened last evening by Mr. Lindus, with a company com posed for the most pert of various favourites from the leading theatres, and with an entertainment which favourably indicated the taste of the new lessee, however insufficient may be his present arrangements to render it duly attractive. If it be his intention, as we are induced to infer, to play either the regular or the romantic drama, in a form which shall rest their attraction on the piece itself rather than on its setting—on the merits of the writing and the acting rather than those of mero production—in other words, on dramatic ends rather than the ordinary dramatic instruments—we cannot but think that such a design, supported by a mode• rate amount of energy and a tolerable share of sense and taste, will result in a success that will be as profitable as it will be praiseworthy. Indeed, we see zao other course that is at all possible at this theatre. Spectacle has been so exhausted here, whether in respect to Shakespear or melodrama, whether under the pretence of illustrating poetry, or upon its own avowed attraction, that it seems to us the only path left which a manager can pursue in safety—is that which honestly avows the value of the drama itself and its exposition, and not the facti tious aids which have so often stood in lieu of them. After the manner in which the public have been drugged with the sensuous at this theatre, a recourse to the mental and the human would be the greatest possible novelty. This argument becomes conclusive when it is remembered that spectacle in its highest form, as connected with Shakespear at this theatre recentlywas onlyattractive on the ground of the excitement it supplied to our jaded exhibi tion visitors. In its announcement of dramas, and pictorial aid, in the services of Mr. Beverley, the management puts forth signs of energy undoubt edly in a right direction, but we cannot dis guise the fact, that the company must be considerably strengthened, especially in the matter of heroines, in order to give this right direction any fair chance of success. The enter tainments commenced with Mr. Charles Dance's pleasant adaptation, entitled " Delicate Ground," which was capitally acted by Mr. G. Vining, in the Citizen Sangfroid—saving an occasional excess of emphasis—by Mr. Roxby, in his original character of the lover, and by Miss Mary Oliver, in Pauline— a character that is rather difficult to act, owing to the struggle it exhibits between a true and false attachment, fancied wrongs, and illusive pleasures, but which she mastered with an amount of skill and ease—with a mixture of feeling and intelli gence which marks her recent and sensible ad vance, both as a comedian and an artist. The play of " Love," which followed, most of our readers are aware is a highly poetic treatment of the idea of the "Lady of Lyons''—the assertion of the claims of the heart and humanity against those of an tique convention—but which has the defect of a plot or movement so desultory and meagre as to deprive its eloquent appeals of any due effect on the sympathies. It rather de claims its noble purpose than it embodies and imparts it. Its hero—Huon, the serf—was played by Mr, Herman Vezin with a vigour kind a fresh ness which placed his claims in the front rank of all our young tragedians. His conception had the defect that it leant rather too much to the ideal side, and at times was wanting in reality—in the degree it was want ing in manliness—but, on the whole, it was a very able and a very gratifying performance, which must attach considerable interest to all his future efforts. The Countess, which Mrs. Charles Keen made so attractive on the play's produc tion, is, perhaps, one of the most arduous charac ters in the whale round of the modern drama, owing to the singular boldness, as well as beauty, with which the authnr has painted the struggle of her pride and love—demanding in its actress the utmost passion, as well as the most perfect mastery of her art to render its sudden transitions not only natural, but pleasing. It is, in fact, a character which can only be treated by a thoroughly accomplished artist, who knows the secret of uniting the highly vigorous and graceful. It will be seen, therefore, that its selection was most inappropriate for Miss Florence Aylmer—the young lady who made her debut in it—and who, it is evident, has only very recently adopted the stage as her pursuit. The difficulties of the character overwhelmed her at every point, and left the audience no course but to suspend their judgment altogether till they saw ner in something mere adapted to her, and cer tainly less arduous. The Duke was ably embodied by Mr. Henry Marston, and the sprightly Cathe rine not less so by Mrs. Buckingham White. The farce of " Perfection" concluded the evening, and elicited a continuous roar of laughter at the hands of Mr. Roxby, Mr. Belmore, and Miss Oliver. The house was tolerably full. LYCEUM THEATRE. Last night a smart little comedietta, entitled " It must be true, 'twas in the Papers," was produced here with complete success. The plot consists of the bewilderment occasioned by two women being supposed to be dead when they are not, and appear ing to the great trepidation and confusion of their admirers. The little piece is very strongly cast. Mr. Walter Lacy played the cruel Captain, who supposes his desertion has killed his lady-love, with much humour and effect. The mis take which has occurred with the master happens to the man, and Miss Thompson plays a pretty little fury to the life, who alarms her Toddles (Mr. Robins), first with a fear that she is a ghost, and then by displaying her reality with a threat of her finger-nails, so alarmingly made that he is fain to assent to anything to be released from so formidable a lady. Miss Thompson, Mr. Lacy, and Mr. Robins have been " fitted" with parts to a ninety, and the result is the audience is kept in the greatest good humour for over half an hour. The attractions of " Peep o' Day" continue una bated, although it has now been performed 300 nights. MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS.—The second con cert of the fifth season of these delightful musical reunions took place last evening at St. James's Hall, and, like its predecessors, afforded the greatest possible satisfaction to a. highly critical, numerous, and brilliant audience. Mr. Frith is said to compose his pictures by pho tographing a number of separate figures, and then ingeni ously grouping them into a scene. A statement which has appeared in several Pari sian journals, that Mdme. Alboni intends to retire from the stage at the close of the ensuing season, is (we learn the Musical World) without foundation. Mr. Benedict's oratorio, on which he has been for some time engaged, is on the subject of St. Peter, arranged for music by Mr. H. F. Chorley, with words ft om Scripture. Three new oratorios are talked of in the German musical papers—a "St. Elizabeth," by Dr. Liszt (not yet produced) ; a " Raising of Lazarus." by Herr Vogt ; and a " St. Peter," by Herr Berthold of St. Petersburg. A sister of Madlle. Patti has made her debut at New York. This :ady has hitherto been incapacitated from appearing on the stage, having, from an accident in childhood, been afflicted with lameness. Dr. Seccarini, a surgeon of New York, has invented a skilful apparatus that it is reported, is perfectly successful in hiding the infirmity. Varioas contradictory reports are afloat respect ing Mademoiselle Titiens. One report is that she is en gaged as the prima donna of the company which the English Opera Association is said to be forming. Another is that she is engaged for a series of performances during the next few months at Her Majesty's Theatre. A third is that she is about to proceed to America in order to fulfil an engagement in the United States, and that her place is already taken in a steamer from Liverpool to Now York. Of these statements we are enabled to say that the last is cor rect, the others being without foundation. Mademoiselle Titiens's American engagement will lAst during the winter months, and in the spring she will resume her place at Her Majesty's Theatre. There were 400 bales of cotton sold at Havre last week. Prices varied little from those of the week pre ce d i ng. Accounts from Rouen state that there has been a slight redaction in the price of rape oil in that market, and that consequently buyers; have become more numerous, LATEST NEWS. PARIS, OCT. 21. The - ,_:oniteicr of this morning contains the fol- lowing : " The Turkish ambassador, on presenting his cre dentials to the Emperor, said that it was the earnest wish of the Sultan to strengthen more and more the friendly relations between the two Courts. " The Emperor, in reply, thanked the Ambassa dor for these assurances, and added, Since the Sultan's accession to the Throne, I have followed with strong interest the loyal and courageous con duet of the Sultan, and have applauded the reforms which he has undertaken.'" The lloniteur also announces the appointment of Baron Malaret as Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium, and of M. Ferrier,: Levayer to Hanover in the same quality. BRUSSELS, OCT. 20. The departure of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intended to take place yesterday, was suddenly de ferred, in consequence of a telegram announcing that the sea was dangerous to cross. Her Majesty has been again detained to-day at Laeken by the same cause. One of the Royal Princes, with his suite, has already left for Antwerp. TURIN, OCT. 20, EVENING. The Gazzettadi nrino of to-day, in an article on the circular of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, declares that the policy indicated in the letter of the Emperor of the French to M. Thouvenel has not been changed. It recalls the passages of the letter most favourable to Italy. The Italia does not consider that the Emperor Napoleon desires to close to Italy the way to Rome. It is of opinion that the Emperor perhaps wishes to gain time for the accomplishment of some project which occupies his mind. The health of Garibaldi continues to occasion much uneasiness. FRANCE. BOURSE, October 20.—The market has been firm, but without any large amount of business doing. Threes, for the Account, commenced at 71fr. 30c., and after for a short time receding to 71fr. 15c., again rallied to the opening price, at which they now remain. The Railway Share Market has been also rather quiet, but the prices of Saturday well maintained. The market closed as follows :- 4t per Cent 5....... 98 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 71 35 Do. end month.... 71 35 New 3 per Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier..., 1192 50 Do. end month.... Bank Shares 3237 50 Credit k oneier Piedmontese Fives 72 75 Italian Loan 73 05 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes... , Home Debt .. — RA IL 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO5O .. 1047 50 Northern New ditto — • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1188 75 .. 1190 Geneva 360 .. 367 50 Southern BB5 .. 885 Western Eastern ... . Sardinian Austrian LOW bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 357 50 .. 355 INDIA. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have papers from Bombay to the 27th September, and from Calcutta to September 16. The following is from the summary of the Bom bay limes of India of September 27 : " Captain James Frushard has been appointed Commodore Commanding H.M. Indian Navy, vice Commodore Wellesley, C. 8., retirEd. "The third Criminal Sessions of the town and island of Bombay commenced on the 25th, Mr. Jus tice Couch presiding. The ea.lenddr is comparatively light. The only case of interest is that of Captain Smales, late paymaster of the 6th Inniskillings, who is to be tried for criminal breach of trust. " The second session of 1862 of the Council of the Governor of Bombay is closed. The session was a busy one., Seventeen bills, several of them important, were introduced and discussed, six were passed, and will become law on receiving the assent of the Governor. General. " It is stated that a special sessions of the Bom bay Legislative Council will be held in the middle of October, to p ,ss some bills in a forward state. After this the Governor, it is believed, will visit Scinde. " The Nawab of Sivanoor, member of the Bom bay Legislative Council, died on the 30th ultimo. His successor is not yet named. " The Mekran line of telegraph has been sus pended by order of the Supreme Government. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The heavy portion of the Australian mail has arrived. We take the following items of South Australian news from the South Australian .hegis ter of the 23d August : " Very heavy rains have continued till within these last few days, and the country has been exten sively flooded. Several fatal accidents have oc curred, and much damage has been done to gardens. The weather is at present fine and warm " This year's immigration vote of £25,000 has been passed without opposition. "A more liberal system of leasing mineral lands is likely to be adopted by the Legislature. " A preliminary meeting has been held on the subject of Lancashire distress. The collection in the room amounted to £240. " The body of the Rev. T. Q. Stow has been brought from Sydney and buried in the Adelaide Cemetery. The attendance at the funeral was very large, and arrangements are being made for erecting a monument to his memory. " Messrs. J. and C. B. Fisher's Mount Schanck estate has been sold by the trustees for £BO,OOO. It is expected that 20s. in the pound will be paid to all the unsecured creditors within the present year. " The Chamber of Commerce has resolved to urge upo❑ the railway authorities the charge of a uniform rate per mile upon goods. " Flour is quoted at £l2 10s. for wire -dressed, and £l3 to £l3 10s. for silk-dressed, per ton of 2,0001 b. " Wheat is worth ss. 3d. to ss. 4d. per bushel of 601 b. " Copper is £B6 10s. per ton at Port Adelaide. " Banks purchase draughts on London at 60 days' sight at par, and sell at 2 per cent. premium. "Arrivals.—The Sea Star, the Lady Ebrington, the Alwynton, and the John Norman, from London. "No departure for Europe." VISIT OF MR. COBDEN, M.P., TO MNCHESTER. —Mr. R. Cobden, M.P., arrived in Manchester on Friday evening, on his return from Scotland, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Cobden. On Saturday, a large party of gentle- men were invited to meet him at a luncheon given at the re sidence of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. Sale, where Mr. Cobden is staying. Before the company separated, Mr. Malcolm Ross, vice-president of the Chamber of Com merce, proposed Mr. Cobden's health, the toast being re ceived with great enthusiasm. Mr. Cobden briefly re plied, and expressed the pleasure experienced in being once more in Manchester, amongst his old and valued friends. On Friday morning at 11 o'clock, the hon. gentleman will attend a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The hon. gentleman has written a letter to his constituents, accepting their invita? ion to meet them at Rochd a l e, and has fixed Wednesday evening, the 29th instant, for the meeting. COMPLETION OF NEW LAMBETH-BRIDGE. ---This novel erection is now nearly completed, and will be opened iu a few days for public traffic. In the meantime Mr. Barlow, the engineer, is doing all in his power to render this a model bridge of its kind. In order to dispense with alt unnecessary loading, he is having the roadway paved with wooden blocks, which do not weigh, on the whole, more than about 120 tons, while the footway will be paved with ordinary paving stone. It is undoubtedly a very re markable instance of rapid bridge. building, scarcely a year having elapsed since the commencement of the works, the first portion of the iron cylinders of the piers having been Ma on the 11th of November, 1861, IMPORTAN7 LIFEBOA7 SERVICES. LYTHAM, MONDAY NIGHT. At early dawn this morning n3tice was received that a ship was on the most dangerous part of the Horse Bank. It was blowing a very strong gale at the time from the west, with a very heavy sea. As soon as practicable the lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution was launched, and towed to wind ward by the Loch Lomond steamer. After having been cast off by the steamer the lifeboat had to go through a tremendously heavy sea of broken water, which filled her three times, but, with great perse verance on the part of the crew, she at last reached the ship, and with much difficulty took on board thirteen of the crew and a Liverpool pilot who was on board. The vessel proved to be the ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, U.S., bound to Liverpool with a cargo of wheat, flour, and tobacco. She was of 1,500 tons burthen. After taking off the four teen men the rope by which the lifeboat held to the ship parted, and the Southport lifeboat, which also belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, coaling up at the time, took off the captain and the remain ing three men. The vessel will probably become a total wreck. Nobler lifeboat services have seldom been performed, as: the eighteen poor :shipwrecked men testified with grateful hearts. Both lifeboats behaved admirably. THORPE, SUFFOLK, MONDAY NIGHT. • At midnight the crew of the Ipswich lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, and stationed:at this place, discovered a vessel on the shoal. She was the barque Henry Everest, of Rochester. It was blowing a strong gale from S.W., with a tremendous surf on the beach. The 'ifeboat men were soon at their post, although the darkness of the night and the tempest was enough to appal any man. Life was in distress —and with a promptitude and courage worthy of the great cause they serve, the lifeboat crew, after encounter ing great difficulty in launching the Ipswich life boat through the heavy surf, pushed forward to the wreck, and took off the crew of four men. As soon as the lifeboat brought them ashore, a messenger came to say that snot her vessel was on Sisewell Bank. Again the lifeboat proceeded on her mis sion of mercy, but just as she was coining up to the wreck, her crew were taken off by the gallant exer tions of a French lugger. It will be remembered that a few months ago the town of Ipswich generously subscribed the cost of this valuable lifeboat. Amply have they already been repaid for their generosity, for the poor ship.. wrecked men of the Henry Everest owe their lives, in all probability, to the liberality of the people of Ipswich. We earnestly hope that other towns will follow the laudable example of Ipswich in this grand and great work. The new lifeboat behaved admirably. MARGATE, MONDAY NIGHT. -- --- Yesterday night, and throughout the early part of this morning, it blew a perfect hurricane off Margate. Early in the morning guns were heard and rockets were sent up from all the three light vessels off here. Miss Burdett Coutts' lifeboat, be longing to the National Lifeboat Institution, put off at 3 30 a.m, to an English brig, about 350 tons burden, bound to London from the Mediterranean, which had got ashore upon the Girdle Sand. At that time the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from S.W. to W. The lifeboat reached the brig about 5 a.m., and found the mainmast cut away and anchors and chains lost. She remained until the brig was got off. Although the assistance of the lifeboat was not required, her presence en couraged the crew of the brig to keep to their vessel. The crew speak highly of the way in which the lifeboat behaved, and would cheerfully go out in any weather in her, DES7RUCTIVE FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE. This morning (Tuesday) a most painful sensation was caused amongst the whole of the aged inmates of St. Mary lebone Alms Houses, St. John's -wood-terrace, St. John's wood, owing to a fire, of a rapidly destructive character, breaking out in one of the houses occupied by one of the poor recipients, which, we regret to state, not only destroyed the building and the humble furniture, but was also at tended with fatal consequences to a female, 82 years of age. From inquiries made on the spot it appears that, whilst a police constable of the D division was patrolling his beat, he observed a dense mass of black smock hovering over and in front of the Alms Houses. Owing to the intensity and thickness of the smoke it was at first impossible to tell, with any degree of accuracy, which building was on fire, although it was quite apparent one was. The officer there fore raised a general alarm, by springing his rattle in front of the whole row of buildings. This caused a scene to take place pitiable in the extreme, for the aged people, not knowing to the contrary that their own habitations were on fire, rushed out the best way they were able, some almost in a state of nudity. A few seconds, however, told the tale that the conflagration had commenced in the house num.. bered 9, in which resided a female, named Mary Smythe, aged 82. An immense sheet of flame made its exit through the four windows in the building, and up to that time the poor creature had not been seen to emerge frora her ill-fated habitation. For any person to attempt to enter the place was then an impossibility, for the fire was rolling up in dense bodies and also through the roof, threatening to destroy tae committee-room, No. 8, and - also the alms-house, No. 10. Efforts were therefore made to remove the books and furniture from the last named pre mises which was accomplished, but in so doing considerable damage was done by breakage and water. The police and others started off in sundry directions to call the engines and the Royal Society's fire-escape, and in an almost incredibly brief space the engines of the barracks the parish, three of the London Brigade, and the land steamer by Shand and Mason, arrived, and also the fire escapes. The mains of the West Middlesex Company having yielded a good supply of water, the firemen, under the direction of Mr. Staples, the chief officer of the C dis trict, went to work in an admirable manner, but, although aided by 50 hired auxiliaries, they were unable to get the flames extinguished until the building and the contents were destroyed ; but, fortunately, the fire was prevented from reaching the adjoining houses. As soon as the ruins were sufficiently cooled to enter, search was made for the poor woman known to be therein, and after some time her charred remains were found under the heated debris by the firemen. They were placed in a shell and removed to await an inquest. How the catastrophe occurred at present remains a mystery. It is feared that none of the occupants were insured. Another fire happened in the premises of Mr. N. T. Nathan, No. 6, High-street, Shadwell. It commenced from some unknown cause in the first floor, and speedily assumed a threatening aspect. The parish engine, and several of the London Brigade were early in attendance, and the parish engineer and fire brigade, with the aid of a supply of the East London Company's water, succeeded in getting the fire extinguished, but the damage is conside rable. Fortunately the sufferer was insured in the Alliance Fire Office, and the building was insured in the London Office. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY BREABSMAN. —Shortly before 10 o'clock on Saturday night, Edward Renton, a breaksman in the employ of the London and North-Western Railway Company, was killed on the line, near to the Ribble Bridge, a short distance from the Pres ton station. He was head breaksman on the luggage trains between Preston and Carlisle, and on SatUrday night, hav ing arranged his train for the north, he gave a signal to the engine-driver to attach his engine tc the front part of the train. Whilst the engine was being backed up, Renton stepped on to the down line of rails, without observing that an engine was approaching him on the same line. Before an alarm could be raised he was knocked down by the engine , which passed over his back and the hinder part of his heed , causing instantaneous death. The body was fearfully mutilated. The deceased, who was about 30 years of age, and had long been in the employ of the company, has left a wife and one child. ACCID ENT IN LEITH HAR BOUR .—A n ac cident - ch nearly p rove d f a t a l too k p l ace a b out one o ' cloc k on Saturday morning. A merchant, having happened to loan his way in North Leith, wandered down a narrow lane leading from Coburg-street to the harbour, and not being aware that he was near the water, he walked over the quay. His cries for help were heard by Constable Elrick, who was on duty in the neighbourhood, and others, an d they hastened to his assistance. The constable in his eager desire to save the gentleman fell into the water, an d both had to struggle for their lives. It being about half tide, a mud-bank near was uncovered, and it they succeeded in reaching. Here they were compelled to remain till more assistance was procured, and ultimately they were drawn out with a rope in a sad condition from the water and mud. The gentleman did not receive any cut or bruise, but the constable sustained a severe injury on one of his legs, which has rendered him unfit for his duty since the accident. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, aways good alike. Sold in packets by 2,2Bo.Agentr"