The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-16 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. With THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. And :.11ALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. - - Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. - MACBETH ( EVE EVEN l made public inNG.—The Music England at these Con of Verdi's Oera of RY now first certs), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual Vocal Concert. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINNORA. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BeatomEmu-2 9 . 48 . Warn, North-Easterly ; rather fresh, with heavy clouds, and alight rain occasionally. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Mornin.g, 3h. 57m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m, To-Moßßow-Morning, 4h. 27m.—Afternoon, 4h. 43m, The dilatory conduct of Government in granting its concession to telegraphic communication with India seems now to recoil on ourselves in a two-fold degree. The late conduct of the Chinese has shown beyond doubt the vast importance of rapid commu nication with India. If the telegraph had been established, as it might have been two years ago, we could have sent orders to India at once, and before another week were past an army could be almost on its way to China from Kur raehee, Bombay, Madras, and Bengal of such force that no power in China could withstand. Even now it is not too late to send out orders for immediate preparation and equipment of the seve ral divisions from each of the Presidencies. Some fifty or sixty thousand men could be transported readily by the large available resources at hand, and that, too, of men too willing to volun teer their services in so good a cause. It would take months before a sufficient force could arrive from Europe, for promptitude is half the battle, seeing that the most will be made of our unexpected discomfiture. Indeed our very pr estige is rather at stake, for it is hard to tell how the rumours will operate with the natives generally to our disadvantage. We have abundance of ship ping, naval and commercial, to carry out the enter• prise in a spirit befitting our character and renown. Why should not the Government send orders at once by the route of Panama to our Admiral in the Pacific, to despatch all the vessels and men he can spare to the scene of action. These ships would be almost at the mouth of the Peiho as soon as those from Calcutta. In any case their services would be available for immediate co-operation. There is no time to lose, and the delay of a vieek or two may cost ten times more in carrying out the enterprise, than if it were done at once in a spirit worthy of our fame. That our gallant ally is fully awake to the necessity of prompt measures may be inferred from the readiness manifested by the Emperor NAPOLEON to join in the expedition. But England, haring already ample means at her immediate dis posal, ought not to wait, but strike while our tem per is up and the iron is hot. Reinforcements may follow, and help to secure whatever is attained by promptitude and valour, directed by sound discre tion, and executed by daring skill. There cannot, fortunately, be any doubt what ever as to the course likely to be pursued in regard to the Chinese by the two great allied Governments. It should rather be said, not the course likely to be pursued, but--the course certain to be pursued by those Governments. The atrocity is altogether too monstrous in its character to be overlooked. The crime is one so hellions of its kind, that while it cries to Heaven for Vengeance, it resounds through the Earth in accents that demand instant Retribu tion. The occurrence is one that is characterised by no extenuating circumstances whatever. It admits, not even by the most tortuous means, of any momentary palliation. It will stand forth in history in all its naked infamy as an act of cruelty and dishonour quite unparalleled. A proceeding of a somewhat similar description is known to have provoked, about sixty years ago, one o f the most dreadful chastisements ever in flicted by the wrath of an inexorable commander in-chief—the chastisement, in fact, of absolute ex termination. The incident occurred towards the close of the last century. The scene was Jaffa The punishment was a Massacre. The Comman der-La-Chief was Young General NAPOLEON BONA PARTE. Extraordinary misrepresentations long held up to public detestation this episode in the Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1799—an episode one might have imagined sufficiently fearful of its kind to have rendered any over-colouring of it quite a matter of supererogation. In reality the facts were simply these :—the wretched Arab soldiers, who were destroyed in this great and signal catas trophe, were the worthy followers of the warlike Pacha then opposing the advance of the French under BONAPARTE, the Pacha, significantly sur named DJEZZAR, or the Butcher! During the earlier Part of the campaign these very soldiers had been taken prisoners -of-War by General BONAPARTE. After being disarmed they were then released by jhe young adventurer, upon the usual condition, fat they swore not to take arms again during the rost of the campaign against the French Chief— su reessively their captor an d lib era t or. S carce ly wt is the band apparently dispersed upon this custo m' try understanding than the oath was violated. Pr oceeding upon his march across the desert, NA PO LEON arrived before Jaffa to find that lyin g and reer cant horde of the soldiers of DJEzzaa arrayed against him behind those formidable forti fical ions. But what capped the climax of their infamy was this—that immediately upon t the Flag of Truce arriving before the walls of J a ff , the bearer of that sacred white banner was ad Mil l`ted within a gateway of the forti car fiachy,it and there, l'n spite of the sy mbol he r , e tis ins lamout..ly decapitated—his head being thrown in nio, ;ker . y .over the battlements. For this reduplica tion Time—for this iterated and r eiterated atrocif y—NAPOLEON BONAPARTE doomed to death every one of those Arab soldiers. The penalty inflict ( !d upon them was not decimation—it was eater tination. They were shot down to the last man hi r a pitiless fusillade. They " died the death" by mute derons discharge after discharge of mus ketry;. ' When the French troops had passed through r• mg, • ) .!f•Q Jr" !,•• • "",,;; I . )/ ' THE SUN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1859. Jaffa on their way towards St. Jean d'Acre, they left behind them among the desolate fortifications several deadly moulds of newly-turned earth, under which lay the victims of this appalling retribution. Europe shuddered at the first tidings of a catas trophe almost unexampled in war. Sir ROBERT WILSON, perverting some of the facts, branded the young conqueror's reputation with the evil brand of a needless and pitiless cruelty. The accusation was enforced in 1814 through the famous brochure "De BONAPARTE et des BOURBONS," of the Viscomte RENE de CHATEAUBRIAND. It was adopted as " proven" a few years later by Sir WALTER SCOTT in one of the earlier chapters of the eight volumed life of the modern SESOSTRIS. Something in the way of extenuation was attempted, it is true, in England by HAZLITT, and in France by LAURENT de L'ARDECHE, and accidentally by SAVARY and D'ABRANTES, and a multitude of other diarists and autobiographers. Eventually—according to the inevitable rule implied by that old familiar scrap of classic wisdom, magna est veritas et prevalebit— the truth has become known, not a fragment, but the whole of it. It may be found dispassionately and categorically stated, with every minute particular, in the pages of M. TIIIERS. Re garded in a military point of view, regarded in a political point of view—the massacre of the soldiers of DJEZZAR PACHA at Jaffa was a Dreadful Necessity. Isolated with his forces in the midst of the desert—BONAPARTE had, poli tically speaking, no alternative. A Dreadful Necessity, of a very different cha racter, though one arising from a very similar cause, is, beyond any doubt of it, thrust at this moment upon the allied French and English Go vernments. An empire like that of China—con taining within it nearly a moiety of the human race, or, in other words, according to the generally accepted computation, 400,000,000 souls—cannot, it is true, if we could wish anything so diabolical, be exterminated, cannot be decimated, cannot be held responsible for an atrocity perpetrated in a little hole-and-corner of that vast territory (around the forts upon the mud banks of the Peiho) by 20,000 or 30,000 lawless assassins, lying there in wait for 1,300 men, and those men their sworn friends, lying there in wait for them in deadly ambuscade. The responsibility for this dastardly and treacherous act belongs not to the whole of the scarcely calculable myriads of the Chinese popula tion. BUT—for this great crime the Imperial Government at Pekin MUST be be held Directly and Absolutely Responsible. That is the Dreadful Necessity devolving now upon the Allied Nations ruled by VICTORIA I. and NAPOLEON 111. Upon the Imperial Government at Pekin—only a little further up that river of the Peiho—must fall swiftly, surely, inexorably, a Deadly Retribution. There is in this no alternative whatever before France or before Great Britain. The atrocity is extraordinary. Ihe punishment of it must be pro portionally grand and astounding.. The complete ness of the chastisement—veiling the infamy of the crime chastised—should be such that it should be held in the world's perpetual remembrance. It is hardly for us to censure the management of another journal, however freely we may all of us combat each other's opinions ; but the course of The Times in rejecting such a letter as we insert to-day, is so extraordinary, that we are at a loss to comprehend the reason. Generally, not only from a sense of fairness, but as a practical principle of journalism, respectable newspapers freely accept letters advocating views entirely hostile to their own, when they come from persons whose position gives them a title to be heard. It is recognised by us all as a compliment on the part of such writers to think us a desirable medium for giving their views publicity. We are, of course, free as air to prove them utterly wrong. But the public like to know what men whose special knowledge entitles their statements to attention have to say, and we natu rally wish to give the public what it likes. Not only because we have always a pleasure in giving our readers both sides of the question, but for our interest we should gladly insert any letter against our own opinions if the writer had a fair claim to be heard, or if the letter was remarkable for ability, or for the facts it contained. The letter of Mr. AMASA WALKER, who was ex ollicio Secretary to the Executive:Council, at the time when the secret Ballot was in force in Massachusetts, is certainly a gentleman whose statements on the subject of the Ballot are as well worthy of public attention as those of Mr. DANA to Lord RADSTOCK on the same subject. Mr. DANA is spoken of by Mr. WALKER in the highest terms, as a gentleman of the highest position at the bar, and a man of integrity and honour ; but Mr. WALKER thinks him too deeply engaged in professional pursuits to have anything more than " impressions" on such a political subject as the Ballot. Mr. WALKER himself, however, had to do with the working of the whole business, " it came especially under his per sonal observation," " he saw all the returns opened and examined," and there is hardly a statement made by Mr. DANA from " impressions" and " report" which Mr. WALKER is not able to correct by facts, and by special knowledge. We have heard of a very decided man who when told that " the facts were against him"—replied— " and so much the worse then for the facts." 15 this the penalty which the Times proposes to inflict on hostile facts ? "So much the worse for them," they are not to appear in its columns unless they are such facts as it can banter. Yet this is not always the case, since frequently enough " it veers round" all at once after long tacking against a gale of facts which it could not exclude, and be a newspaper at all. In the absence of other reasons it is impossible to imagine any other reason for the non-insertion of Mr. WALKER'S letter than that it utterly anni- ' hilated all the value of Mr. DANA'S letter as a tes timony against the Ballot from the experience of Massachusetts. The Times wills that the false wit nessess (unintentionally, such we believe) shall alone be heard. Evidence to prove that the Ballot cannot be at the same time secret and free from fraud is freely published ; evidence to prove the former evidence erroneous must not be heard. The Times is not to be a court of justice in regard to the Ballot, but a grand jury to hear ex parte evidence only. It will find true bills against the Ballot, but it will not impartially try its merits. The State of Massachusetts in lilsl passed a law that the voting should be, by placing the voting paper in adhesive envelopes of a kind provided by the State. Now, Mr. WALKER, the gentleman who officially superintended the ballotin', tolls us that, contrary to Mr. DANA'S representations, the balloting papers did not tumble out and create difficulty ; that " gluten" was not provided at the polls to aid in sealing, though some deriders of the Ballot carried gluten pots to the poll to get laughed at for their miserable joke ; above all, that the attempt at once " to secure secrecy and prevent fraud did not fail," that secresy was obtained, and the fact never denied. That fraud was entirely prevented and by the simple regulation, that two voting papers in one envelope for the same L different candidate s for nothing; and thatthe • candidates count e d onl y for one, and if for TFIE I SITN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1859. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TRIESTE, SEPT. IG. The Austrian Lloyd's steamer brin gs advices from Constantinople to the 10th inst. The line-of-battle ship Fethiri hat; taken re inforcements to Candia, and Kabul Effendi has been sent there as Commissioner E xtraordinary from the Government. Fresh affrays have taken place bo.ltween Chris tians and Druses in the Lebanon. SMYRNA, SEPT. 9. In consequence of a judicial invc:s•tigation, the Prussian Consul, General Spiegelthal, has been sus pended, and the business of the Consulate has been transferred in the meantime to the Dutch Consul. TURIN, SEM). 15. The Council of the different disti:icts of Turin yesterday gave their approval for the erection of monuments to the King of Sardinia and the Empe ror of the French. The deputations from Parma and Modena arrived here to-clay at twelve o'clock. The members of the n►unicipality and the Parliament went to meet theta at the railway terminus, and they met with an enthusiastic recep tion from the population. The city is en fete. The deputations will be received by the King at three o'clock to-day. TURIN, SEPT. 15. The following is a summary of the answer given by his Majesty to the joint deputations from Mo dena and Parma : The King expressed his thanks to the people of Modena and Parma for the unanimity of their votes recorded for the annexation of their provinces to Piedmont, by which theyhave confirmed the wishes expressed by them 11 years ago to the King, his father. His Majesty continued thus :—" I agree with the desires you have the mission to communi cate to me ; they are fresh manifestations of the national will, to save the country from the disastrous consequences of a foreign rule, and to erect a barrier which would ensure to our countrymen the possession of Italy to the Italians. The deputations will under stand in what manner the King must proceed towards the accomplishment of the wishes of the Assem blies. Armed with the rights which I have ac quired, I will support your cause before the great Powers, and especially before the French Emperor, who, while leading the victorious legions of France, was fighting for the independence of Italy. Europe has recognised the right of other nations to pro vide for their security by constituting a Govern ment capable of defending their liberties and their independence. She will be neither less just nor less generous towards the Italian provinces. The votes which your Assemblies have recorded, and the numerous volunteers who have fought under the flag of Piedmont during the days of the late struggle, have proved that firmness is a tried vir tue with the people of Modena and Parma." The speech of his Majesty concluded thus There fore, I need not say it to you—Persevere ; I will only congratulate you upon the order and the moderation of which you have given such brilliant examples, in order to prove to Europe that the Italians know how to govern themselves, and that they rre worthy to be citizens of a free nation." The following telegram was received at Liver• pool yesterday (Thursday) evening by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company : "The Valparaiso (screw steamer) arrived at Panama on the 21st inst. with 33 passengers, and about 536,000 dollars in specie. All well. Intel ligence of a declaration of war by Peru against Ecuador had been received at Callao when the steamer left the port, and it was believed that General Castilla would take the command of the forces in person. The amount of specie shipped from Colon for Europe was about 550,000 dollars," The above dispatch is dated August 23, and is signed " C.T. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The .21/oniteur publishes a private letter from Peiho, giving an account of the late defeat, but it adds nothing to the details we have already given. Count de Reiset has left for Biarritz, to give an account of his mission in Italy to the Emperor. BOURSE, Sept. 15.—The market is firm, with an improving tendency, but there is very little doing. Threes have improved from 68f. 65c., to 68f. 80c. Mobilier varied from 782 f. 50e. to 790 f. ; Austrian, 537 f. 50c. to 540 f. ; Lombard, 547 f. 50c. to 550 f. ; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,367 f. 50c.; Lyons, 870 f. to 872 f 50c. The following were the last quotations : per Cents. .... 94 50 ; Credit Foncier 670 Do. end month .. 94 60 I Belgian 4f — 3 per Cent 5....... 68 70iPiedmontese (5) 85 50 Do. end month.... 68 70 Roman B6 25 Bank Shares...... 2780 Austrian Credit Mobilier 790 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. • Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto BlO .. 810 Lyons and Mediterranean 873 75 .. 872 50 Geneva Southern Western 575 .. 57 , 5 f astern Sardinian Austrian .. 537 50 .. 536 25 Lombard ..... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ' • money, 25f 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. The Modena Gazette states that Commander Malmusi, President of the National Assembly of the Duchy, and the Marquis Fontanelli, who had been on a mission to the Emperor of the French, have returned, and declared themselves highly satisfied with their reception, having received new proofs of the generous protectorate which the Em• peror continues to exercise in favour of Italy. The. Opinione q of Turin states that the regular co ntingents of the various States of Central Italy are fixed as follows :—Modena, 4,000 men ; Ito magna, 7,000 ; Tuscany, 10,000; Parma, 4,000; total, 25,000 men. The Diritto of Turin, contrary to what had been stated, viz., that the deputation from the govern ment of the Legations would not be officially re ceived by the King, asserts that it will be so, and receive an answer similar to that which was given to the Tuscan one. Prince de Metternich, the day after his arrival at Vienna, had a private audience of the Emperor of Austria. The previous day, the Prince had a conference of several hours' duration with Count de ltechber,g, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Tile bill on Public Works, adopted by the Cham bers in Belgium, by which a sum of 20,000,000 fr. is set apart for new fortifications at Antwerp, has just been promulgated in the Belgian Moniteur. Ti' c NORTII RHINE MlNES.—Under date oC At4,-aston, July 9, the correspondent of the Adeldide Obseirei reriarks with respect to these mines, that " Toe North Rhine Copper Mine is being worked spiritedly under the superinteedence of Mr. Barker, who arrived from England last March. Two lodes, named respectively Nicholl's and Napoleon's lodes, have been intersected at 20-fitthoms levels. The former is about three fret wide, and is composed of rich black ore, mundic, and spar, par taking of the nature of felspar. The latter is one foot wide and of a similar character to the other. Both have a very promising appearance, and are likely to give handsome returns to the proprietor s." Great excitement had been created in the colony by the discovery of some informality in the grants from the Crown of these mines ; but this was immediately rectified by the Government and fresh grants ordered to be sent to the lessees.—dustralian Nail. M. LEDRU ROLLIN AND THE IMPE- DIAL AMNESTY. TO THE EDITOR Or THE SUN. Sir,—When I first received the intelligence of an amnesty my thoughts at once embraced the murde- - - rous climates of Guiana and Africa, that will only retain too many tombs already, and I exclaimed, " At last !" and I rejoiced sincerely. Then I said to myself that for a great party there is something less sterile than mental indignation and disdain—deeds. Why, then, renounce ourselves these deeds, this activity, whenever they may prove possible? Banished without right, recalled without right, throu7h mere force, every one of us, in my opinion, had to ask himself this question : Am I likely to act more usefully, to serve our cause better, if, in- stead of protesting, I put at once to profit an exist ing fact, or at least reserve to myself the faculty of benefiting by it, at my own day and hour, accord ing to the offerings of chance ? Such was, to my understanding, the most practi cal, consequently the most politic, conduct to be kept ; and therefore I did not protest myself — therefore my advice went to not protesting, when- ever, from the various regions of the proscription, my friends did me the honour to ask for it. Withal, as far as I am personally concerned, I followed apparently a right inspiration. It so hap- pens that any and all protestation at my hands would have proved not only inopportune but even ridiculous ; inasmuch as the threshold of France, reopened to all, was to remain closed to me, the Government declaring that I am not comprieed in the amnesty. Not, however, that I am excluded nominally— that would have been an appeal to public sympathy. I am thrown out without noise, jesuitically, by means of one of those unexpected distinctions which Tartuffe might have envied. lam simply refused to be considered as a political convict—l am but a common murderer. 0 hypocrites ! If the shift is, on the face of it, too clumsy to de ceive a single individual, at least it reveals one odious character more of that prosecution in contu macianz got up against me some two years ago, and the real meaning of which, at the time, appeared to many people unaccountable. Why, then I ask, con- demn him twice to the same punishment In 'fact, it was not intended to have me con demned more amply, but under a different head, in order, first, to deprive me, if possible, of every right of refuge, and, at all events, to exclude me, without even mentioning my name, from a general amnesty, sooner or later unavoidable. I will not revert to that legal enormity ; public feeling has condemned it. What could it avail, _ . indeed, to mention again, to the lasting confusion of the French courts of justice, that a man whom I never saw, a man whose name I was ignorant of, a man who himself was never able to articulate my own name, having declared he thought he had seen me at a certain place whence I departed without even pronouncing a single word—that was deemed sufficient to strike me as one of his accomplices P True, for this service he was soon afterwards par- doned. Once more, it would be useless to insist any longer upon that grotesque and wretched sham, in which nobody ever believed, not even the British Cabinet of the time. Certes, they seemed readily disposed to hand me over. We were at that mo ment yet in the happiest days of concessions and the alliance. Nevertheless, they have since pub licly recognised through Lord Clarendon's mouth, that the allegations brought against me were of such a futile nature that extradition could not but be at once refused. Such are the fundamental facts of the case. As to its formal character in point of law, I was arraigned for a plot (cornplot),tending to a felonious attempt (attentat) against the chief of the State. Now, under the French law, a plot (complot) means necessarily a political offence. An attentat likewise implies of necessity a politi cal crime, both words being specially introduced, in legal parlance, in order to better designate a crime of an exceptional and public character. It is even only by dint of the most forced, the most outrageously impudent of all imaginable political fictions, that such an offence (attentat) was raised in the scale of penalties to the height of parricide. [The man of the 2d of December a father of his subjects !] Ah, forsooth, it is not nature, it is poli tics alone that is capable of indulging in such monstrous assimilations. Let me add, in fine, that deportation, the very punishment inflicted on me, is a penalty exclu sively political. Therefore, accusation and penalty clearly charac terising the offence, such a crime, even supposing it had ever existed in substance, never was, never could be, anything else but a political crime. I challenge any and all French lawyers to deny the strictness of this conclusion, without even ex cepting such as have, through their baseness, now disgraced that respectable title—a Dupin, a Ba roche, or a Troplong. Now, the fraud being unveiled, what remains in reality ? Two political enemies, face to face, the one of whom thinks it useful to visit the other with ostracism. Well and good. But is not this hatred so grossly enraged against one man somewhat carried away, and wanting in cleverness ? He that proclaims himself unshakeably enthroned, who has the audacity of hewing out of granite and porphyry the long line of his dynasty's mausoleum, he, above all, who pretends to making Europe tremble before him, does he play a clever game in appearing to tremble himself before the sound of a name ? Public opinion will decide. As for me, but for the powerlessness to which I am reduced in serving the cause of liberty, I have no occasion to complain of this new blow. I am served the same policy I applied myself to M. Bonaparte, with this difference, however, that I acted openly, frankly, without organising false hood as a system, and setting to work the most perfidious machinations. Minister of the Interior, I ordered the body of M. Bonaparte, yet an outlaw, to be seized; Member of the provisional government, I voted against repealing the laws that banished his family; Member of the executive commission, I was en trusted with supporting, in parliament the pre servation of those laws. And I did fulfil this task with eagerness, be cause I felt it was necessary to shelter the masses against their own mistaken impressions ; because I foresaw the people, scarcely emancipated, would, under the deluding charm of tradition, soon be re -. plunged into the servitude of the first Empire. History will tell whether I was wrong. One thing, at any rate, I am forthwith entitled to affirm as being manifestly evidenced: If M. Bona parte had been far away from France—if all hope of returning had been closed to him for ever—he would neither have had the leisure nor the means of preparing, in concert with the re-actionary, party, those bloody and nefarious days of June, 1848, that entombed the republic. If, for evil and tyranny, this strength has con sisted in acting slowly, patiently, but incessantly, why then should we, who have public welfare and the triumph of liberty in view, deprive ourselves of the means of acting ? Let us not forget that every republican who re ' turns to France without having degraded himself is, in spite of all, a light-spreading focus and a sol dier ready for the coming day,—l am, &c., Sept. 14. LEDItU ROLLIN. • LIFE-BOAT SERVICE.—CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN, Sept. 14.—A few days ago the Norwegian brigantine Opreisingen. of Arendal, 69 tons, laden with timber, struck on a a rock ire Castletown Bay about 5 p.m. It was blowing at the time a gale from the westward, but being then off shore a harbour boat was enabled to reach her. The rudder was soon carried away, and it was decided to procure warps to try to get her under weigh. For this purpose the master and carpenter went ashore in the harbour boat, leaving the re. ,1 of the crew, three in number, on board. Before they could return the gale increased and the wind veered round to W. S.W., when it soon became impracticable to communicate with the vessel in an ordiniry boat. At 11.30 at night it was decided to launch the new life-boat stationed by the Royal National Life-ix-4d Institulion at this place, which was effected at midnight. The night was very dark—tide four hours' flood. On reaching the brigantine she was found to be full of water, and the crew in great danger, isiotwithr standing the fury of the elements, the poor fellows were safely landed at 2 a.m. The above-named valuable institution has promptly paid, through Mr. Burman, its bon. local secre tary, the gallant crew of the life-boat £1 each man for their laudable services. THE BALLOT IN AMERICA. expense of the system was trifling indeed ; one ballot-box sufficed where six were required before, and the election did not cost the State three cents for each elector ! " Not a single case of dispute, informality, or embarrassment arose from the use of the envelopes, nor did a single complaint come up from any inspecting officer or town clerk of any one of the 32 towns and cities of the commonwealth, of any difficulty or incon venience. . . Elections were never conducted more satisfactorily and harmoniously, or with less labour and expense." These are the facts in reply to Mr. DANA'S fictions. Our contem porary thinks the fictions better without the facts. Mr. WALKER'S explanation of the mode in which the secret Ballot was got rid of, and of the reason why it is not re-demanded, wears, to say the least, the appearance of truth. Mr. DANA wisely kept aloof from these inquiries. it would not have served Lord RADSTOCK'S object to have discussed them. No enemy of the Ballot, in regard to the . emasculation of the Ballot law in Massachusett's, could say— "Felix qui potuit causas conoseere rerum." For the party causes, in this case, would deprive the results of all value as against the secret ballot. Our readers must judge for themselves, but we cannot doubt that Mr. WALKER has stated notorious truth ; and, we may add that it is per- fectly in harmony with the more vague remarks of Mr. DANA on this last point. Optional secret voting was the result of party zeal. So hints Mr. DANA, so broadly asserts Mr. WALKER. Our readers, however, can compare both letters, and we cannot doubt the result. PASSENGERS FROM INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALI 4. The following is a list of the passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, Captain Evans, which is expected at Southampton with the heavy portion of the India and Australian mails on Sunday or Monday next : From Calcutta.—Captain White, Major Talbot, Dr. and Mrs. Fleming and two children, Captain Barry, Dr. Crozier, Mr. D. F. M'Leod, Mr. Murray, Mrs. A. T. Osmond. Dr. John Dunlop, Captain Shuldharn, Captain Field, Lieutenant Robertson, Captain Hyndman, Lieutenant Brazier, Captain Hon. A. C. Liddell, Captain Lyon, Captain and Mrs. Williamson, in fant, and servant, Lieutenant Homen, Major T. C. Young, Captain O'Neill, Lieutenant Dugdale, Mr. L. Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. Creak, Mr. Plank, Mr. Le Patomet, Mr. A. Osmond (late purser of the Simla), G. Ashley (steward of ditto), Mrs. Robertson (stewardess of ditto), Captain Smith, Lieutenant Stoddart, Lieutenant M'Donald, N. Shephard and H. Monday (stewards of Simla), and Captain C. R. West. From Madras.—Mr. and Mrs. Carstairs, two children, and servant ; Lieut. D. Strettell, Mr. R. 11. Coe, Lieut. G. Webster, Dr. W. Vansoneven, Ensign Crawford, Mrs. Moffatt, Captain C. H. Crewe, and Captain D. Venables. From Shanghai.—Mr. Howlett. From Hongkong.—The Rev. Mr. Huleat and servant, Mr. Page, chief steward, Peninsular and Oriental Company's service. From Singapore.—Mr. Crane, Captain and Mrs. Campbell, and Mr. Leon. From Galle.—Mr. Ross and son, Mr. Tinlah, Mr. Morris and servant, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Green, Mrs. Elliott, infant, and servant, and Mr. Perrins, late chief officer of the Candia. From Aden.—Capt. Henry, late commander of the Alma ; Mr. Baker, second officer ditto ; Mr. Davidson, supernumerary third officer, ditto. From Mooshedjera.—Mr. Davies, chief officer of the Alma ; Mr. Carter, third officer ditto ; Peter Mills and Richard Allen, quartermasters, ditto. From Suez—Mr. Dimma, second engineer of the Benares ; Francii Kelly, Charles Sheath, Jaseph Lnevin, and John Pearson, firemen, ditto ; Thomas Ruffett, and Charles Shrubb. From Sydney, New South Wales—Mr. B. Fre dericks. From Melbourne—Mr. and Mrs Cooke, Mr. Ridney ; Mr. and Mrs. Merry, Mr. R. W. Gibbs, Mr. H. Still, Dr. A. Beckett, Mr. W. Harvey, Mr. Ouzame, and Mr. A. Kenny. From Mauritius—Mr. G. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Mathison, four Misses and two Masters Mathison, and servant, Mr. A. Murray, Mr. W. H. Miller, Mr. J. Kinley, late chief engineer of the Oriental ; and James Eastman, fireman of the Union. From Alexandria—Mr. Porter, William Hud ham, and Mr. and Mrs. Broad. THE CHINA STATION. The following is an epitome of the services of those gallant officers who were killed before the Peiho Forts on the 25th of June Lieutenant Alfred Graves (1850) served in the Styx, 6, paddle, in the East Indies, from July, 18:51. till 1856, and had served as senior lieutenant in the. Assistance, screw store ship, since April, 1857. He had received a medal for his services. Lieutenant Charles H. Clutterbuck (1852) served in the Amphion, 34, screw frigate, in the Baltic fleet; from January, 1853, till the close of the Rus sian war, and for which he received a medal. He had served as senior lieutenant of the Acorn, sloop, in China, since June, 1856. Lieutenant William H. Rason (1855) was mate of the Leopard, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Plumridge, in 1853 and 1854, and had held the command of the Kestrel and Plover, steam gun boats in the East Indies, since March, 1857. He had received a medal for his valuable services. Lieutenant Henry L. T. Inglis, R.M., served as second lieutenant in the Russell, 60, screw, in the Baltic expedition in 1855, and for which he received a medal. He has served as first lieutenant in the Sanspareil, 70, and Highflyer, 21„ in China, since March, 1857. Lieutenant Hamilton Wolridge, R.M., served as second lieutenant in the Colossus, 80, on particular service, from July, 1856, till June, 1857, and had served as first lieutenant with the Royal Marine Brigade in China since August, 1857. Captain Theobald M'Kennah, of the Ist (the Royal) Regiment of Foot, became an ensign Feb ruary 2, 1849, lieutenant, March 19, 1852, and captain May 15, 1855. He served at the siege of Sebastopol in 1855, for which he received the medal and clasp, and the Order of Knight of the Legion of Honour. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff have arrived from Germany at Tun bridge Wells, where they purpose remaning for some weeks. The Lord President of the Council and the Countess Granville intend to leave town to-day for Ger mrny. 'We are gratified to learn the health of the countess is greatly improved, and a few weeks on the Continent, it is anticipated, will entirely restore her ladyship to con valescence. The marriage of the Earl of Dalkeith, son of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, with Lady Louisa Hamilton, third daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, is stated to be appointed to take place on the 3d of November. Lord and Lady Chelmsford left town early in the week, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Thesiger, on a tour of visits in Scotland. Lord and Lady Elcho and family left town yes terday for their seat in Scotland. Lord Elcho goes to Aberdeen to attend the meeting of the British Association after seeing his family home. The marriage of Lady Agnes Caroline Graham, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, with Captain John Murray, of the Grenadier Guards, was solemnised yesterday at St. George's Church, Hanover- square. Another failure at St. Petersburg is-reported, owing to the tallow speculation—a . Mr. Kavrejin, a large dealer. VEXATIOUS CUSTOMS' REGULATIONS AT LIVER POOL.—At the meeting of the Mersey Docks Board, yester day, it was stated that the Customs' authorities had recently issued a new order to the officers of this port, in pursuance of which no goods could he landed until all the entrances of the cargo had been passed. Great inconvenience had re sulted fro:n this innovation, and the Board were in corres pondence with the authorities for the purpose of seeking a return to the old system. The recent depression on the Vienna Bourse is attributed solely to the conviction that, owing to the dis organized state of her finances, Austria will soon be com pelled at any sacrifice to raise another loan. The dividends on the stock known as the "National Loan" are bound to be discharged in silver, but, instead of literally fulfilling that obligation, the Government p a y them in paper allow ing such additional percentage as they deem it right to fix from time to time as a compensation for the breach of con tract. For the interest about to fall due during the next three months this premium is fixed at 15 per cent. ~.--- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The accompanying letter having been for warded to the Times newspaper for insertion, in answer to one which appeared in their columns on the 27th ult., but that paper (with its usual one sided justice), refusing its admission into its co lumns, I shall feel obliged if you can find room for the same in your paper.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, AIIIASA WALKER. London, Sept. 12, 1859. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln your paper of the 27th ult., placed in my hands since my return from Paris, I find a letter from my fellow-countryman, Richard H. Dana, jun., Esq., giving a brief history of the ballot in Massachusetts. Although generally correct in the details he has furnished, Mr. Dana I think has inadvertently fallen into a few important errors, which I beg leave through your columns to correct. After stating that although the ballot was at first intended to be secret, such had been the modi fications of the original law, by subsequent enact ments which required that all votes should be depo sited open and unfolded, that it had virtually be come little better than the viva voce mode of vot ing, Mr. Dana proceeds to speak of the ballot law of 1851, which provides that all votes should be placed in sealed envelopes, of uniform " character furnished by the State." In giving an account of the operation of this law, Mr. Dana says that " envelopes get opened in the box, tumbling out their contents, and thus were rejected." This is a mistake. Such a result was predicted by the enemies of the law and feared by its friends, but no practical difficulty whatever arose from that quarter to remedy the difficulty. He has errone ously stated further that the authorities " were re quired to keep a supply of gluten at the polls to aid in sealing." Here, again, the gentleman is totally in error ; no such thing was done, and he will search in vain for any such provision in the statutes of Massachusetts. What confused the mind of Mr. Dana in this case probably was that certain disaffected oppo nents of the sealed ballot did in derision of the law, at the first trial, carry gluten pots to the polls, but there was no use for them, and those who thus con ducted only made themselves ridiculous. In giving his final summary of the whole matter, Mr. Dana says " that the attempt to introduce a mode of ballot which shall be at once secret and secure against fraud and reasonably convenient, has so far failed with us." Here I feel compelled to take a direct issue with the gentleman ; that such is his sincere opinion I do not doubt, but that such opinion is founded on fact I deny. He does not bring any proof. And " if the law has so far failed," he should have told us why. Will he say that it did not secure the entire in dependence of the voter, or that he could not give what vote he pleased without the knowledge of any one ? Certainly I think he will not venture to do this, for, from the very nature of the case, the law must and did ensure entire secrecy ; the voter, in going to the poll, could take tickets of different kinds from as many vote distributors as he pleased, and from these at his own convenience select the one he preferred, put it in the envelope provided for him, seal it up and drop it into the box, and no human being could possibly know how he voted, nothing could be a more perfect protection, and I have never seen it asserted anywhere that secrecy was not obtained by the sealed ballot. Will Mr. Dana say that the law did not entirely prevent fraudulent voting ?—I am sure he will not, because he knows that under that law, double voting by accident or design was certain to be de tected ; the words of the Act are, If in any case more than one vote is found in any envelope, bear ing the name of the same person for the same office, all but one of such votes shall be thrown out ; or if two or more votes be found in any one envelope, bearing the names of different persons for the same office, all such votes shall be rejected." This, of course, precluded all attempts at fraudulent voting, and all accidental mistakes would be corrected, and these accidents were known to have previously been very frequent. A respectable clergyman was detected a few years since in depositing two votes which adhered together so closely that he did not discover the fact until informed of it by the inspecting officers. All this was obviated by the new law. Nor, lastly, will Mr. Dana, I presume, attempt to prove that the law was so unreasonably inconvenient or difficult, cumbersome or expensive, as to be found impracticable. So far as expense was con cerned the sum total was not three cents per ann am to each voter of the Commonwealth; and so far from being inconvenient, the use of the envelope greatly simplified the mode of voting, and rendered the use of more than one ballot-box unnecessary. Under the old system I have myself seen as many as six boxes in use at the same time for the different kinds of officers to be chosen : so convenient has it been found, that in many cases, to my knowledge, the envelopes are still used on account of their greater convenience. If none of these specifications can be sustained by proof—and I aver that not one of them can be—how can it be said that " in so far the law has failed ? " Mr. Dana is one of the most distinguished men of Massachusetts—holds a very high position at the Bar as a man of integrity and honour—has no supe rior, and is entitled to profound respect—but I must be permitted to say, that in regard to the question before us, I think he is not sufficiently well in formed ; deeply engaged in his professional duties, and far removed in all his walks and associations from the ordinary affairs of political strife and agi tation, it is not surprising if in a matter apper taining to popular elections he should have in his mind impressions rather than facts. 1 feel less hesitation in speaking decidedly in regard to the operation of the sealed ballot law of Massachusetts during its continuance, than I should otherwise do, had it not come especially under my personal ob servation. Holding the office of Secretary of State, all the returns passed through my hands. As ex officio Secretary of the Executive Council, I saw all those returns opened and examined, and I know that not a single case of dispute, informality, or embarrassment arose from the use of the envelopes, nor did a simple complaint come up from any inspecting town clerk, of any of the 32 towns and cities of th e Commonwealth, of any difficulty or inconvenience. I assert that the elections were never conducted more satisfactorily and harmoniously, or with less labour and expense. But it may be asked, if all this is true why was not so good a law in full force ? Mr. Dana and every other Massachusetts man knows very well why it was not. In 1853 the Whigs, for the last time, got temporary posses sion of the government of the State, and as they had ridiculed and opposed the sealed ballot while out of power, one of their first acts of party spite was, not to repeal it, for that they dare not attempt to do, so popular was the law, but under the plau sible plea that every man should be allowed to me the envelope or not, they provided by an amendment to the law that the use of envelopes should be op tional. This emasculated the law, as every man who voted under envelope would be presumed and taken to be hostile to the dominant party. But it may be further inquired why is not the sealed ballot restored, since the Liberal party is again in power ?—the reason is well understood in Massachusetts. The Republican party, now in the ascendant, is composed to a great extent of the in fluential members of the former Whig party, who as they have been the persistent opponents of the sealed ballot, object of course to its restoration, and any attempt made for that purpose would divide the party. In addition to all this, there is no danger of intimidation in the present condition of parties. In Massachusetts the Republicans are so strongly in the majority, that there are no severe party contests, and when one party is certain of victory, no person cares how a particular individual votes. Consequently there is at present no occasion for the protection afforded by the envelope. But let the time come when party lines shall be well defined and closely drawn, let the contending forces be so equally divided that each section hopes for success, partizans take the field to influence and intimidate voters, as in times past, and the Sealed Ballot will be demanded at once, and is certain to be restored. —I am, Sir, your obident servant, AMA SA WALKER. London, Sept. 7, 1859. A singular incident is related in the Memorial de Courtrais as having just happened to a otel-k s eer in that town. He had sent a lad, about 17, h with , pe ooof. of French gold to be exchanged for Belgian bank-notes, which the messenger regularly effected, receiving five notes of I,ooof. each, but which he lost en his way home, whil e th e hotel-keeper was lam entin g over his loss a little girl, of five or six years of a g e, living at a short d ista n ce from his house, brought to her mother a piece at paper, on Which was a small vignette, and which she said her brother had out out with a pair of scissors from a larger piece. The mother recognising bank-note, ran to the child, and found near him a I,ooof. note cut into eleven it as belonging t o a had an y tithem in the s t ree t, and had put four others others, beg an t o cr y, b u t pieces. The child , on being questioned wher e h e had fou nd a t the e l e n n o g t t e h , ittle b arno his intending t and said whetherthatheh h a e d cut out the pictures -fromo.,N ng each. The lo toys dof the hotel o . k ee per having tae come known, the woman restored him the no t e s which remained whole, 43 well as the • pieces of the other, These latter having been carefully put together, were taken by tin bauk and cashed tAe next day. - GEOLOGY UST.RALIA• The Adelaide Observer says :—,, A preliminary report, embodying the chief conclusions at which_ Mr. Selwyn arrived from his survey of a portion the this has ust been printed -by order of House of Assembly. We e regret that in Mr. Selwyn s. opinion neither gold, coal, nor deep-seated natural reservoirs of water are likely to be found in any abundance in those petitions of South Australia which he has visited. And although this is o nl y a preliminary report, it appears to contain all th . : opinions which Mr. Selwyn has formed, and in, further report will only amplify those opinions, ann furnish us with the grounds on which they ar, e based. For the present it will suffic commentsise Mr. Selwyn's report, reserving any w have to offer until we are in possession of his com plete report." The following is the report : " Adelaide, July 1,1859.—5ir, —I have the honour to inform you that I returned to Adelaide last even ing, having completed a haEty geological able of as much of the colony as I have been abl e to visit during the limited time I have had at m y disposal. The country visited and examined era ' : braces portions of the counties of Hindmarsb, Stull Adelaide, Eyre, Light, Gwaler, and Stanley, Pe ss : ing north by ount Remarkable to a few. piles west of Port Augusta ; thence through the Fln i ,n e , r4 Range as far north as the latitude of Mount 31n-`ll, lay and Mount Serle ; thence east to the basin of Lake Torrens, returning south by Mount Chain; bers, the Passmore, the Siccus, Black Rock , 3 . the Burra. I regret that I shall be unable to report favourably on either of the three very iraportan_v points to which my attention has chiefly bee n directed during this examination —name y, g s, existence of profitably workable gold or coal fie, o and the practicability of obtaining water in t ' il northern districts on the artesian principle. Thoug . there are certain localities, chiefly within the settleti districts, which I shall refer to in my report, Where I think trials for gold might be made with a Tett; opinion that no great extent of gold sonable hope of success, I am notwithstanding 0 country will ever be discovered in South Australia. pre - No indications whatever of coal, or even of the sence of carboniferous rocks, is to be found in any portion of the province that I have visited. If au. ' such exist, they must be sought either east of tell Murray or west of Port Augusta. The artesian e principle will not, i think, for reasons which 1 will,„ point out in my report, be found applicable, or to Du producig depended on as a means of procuring water in al artificial pools and reservoirs will, I think, of the districts I visited. Ordinary, wells, dams , a ., e , be found to be a less costly and more certain in...e.e11.„.. of obtaining a sufficient supply of good water. nay ing already somewhat exceeded the period of lq leave from Victoria, I have the honour to requert" tha:; you will exense my sending in a final reP° lo o before quitting the colony, as it will take some tl ,_ to prepare ; it shall, however, be forwarded a s 00 as possible after my return to Melbourne. --I have, &c., ALFRED R. C. saw - is , generally; Government Geologist, Croce Lands, Adelaid . The Hon. the Commissioner C of re_......... Victoria:_e CRIME IN FRA4IV-C-E. -- • • days The Court of Assize has been occupied twe' with the trial of the man Beuchard, aged 24, fclr o the murder of M. Danin, in the Reu d'En.ghiirt in s the night of the 31st July last. Of this trim the de tailed account was given at the tirae• °n bOu se night in question, the concierge heard a noise in the office, just above Ills of M. Danin, who was director of the Union •i so d merciale et Industrielle, and he went and r 0 the up that gentleman, M. Danin hurried to so. office, but, before entering it, was met I: 7„ a e lD ea who stabbed him eleven times. es. He s'abierol - stairs to the lodge, and expired altc° s , l - l t he of th . e mediately. The office was on the entresol, aT'd murderer q „ letting himself down from the win:d got.- clear off.. But he left behind him a Peib7;:ris knife, and it was recognised as the properti ° • f • Beuchard,. who had been in the service e ` r e- Da . Danin. It was evident from the state of the mises that the murderer must have secreted 111`00. , self over night in the yard of an adjacent h ell s & the guilty party, before entering M. Danin 's ?Po l e ment, had taken off his shoes, and left them y in 1a ard . , and they were recognised as Beuchard's.. ,sa addition, just after the murder had been conmilt.lo, a man, resembling Beuchard, was seen liipPierf along the streets, without shoes, and had 1 1113 2„ s r a conveyed to Montrouge in a cab. Benelle was two days after arrested at that place. han d, had a sprain in his foot and cuts in his , 0 and he could not give any satisfactor y account. to how he came by the m . These circutasOeco left no doubt of the man's guilt, and he but fax he denied it. The only matter on which there co ° ,, 0 be any doubt was his motive for the crime ; vehemently asserted that he had no other than tea desire to be avenged on Danin for having for t 1 an improper connection with his wife, who he in his service, and had remained in it afte r ill (Beuchard) had left ; but a d rawer in which s% was known to have kept his mone y had bean forced open, and there was re ason to believe that a sum of money, though it is not known h ° ,, mach, was abstracted. On being interrogated ui.T, the President of the Court, Beuchard answered' „d to Pre vell " "M. Danin took my wife from me, to n l7 my seeing her not only forbade me to come t house, but would not permit her to leave i t to _ to market. This irritated me, and on the 31 : . , July, on reflecting about the matter, I became e asperated.. I several times prayed God to g In , calm, but in vain. Fatal thoughts oppressed and . I went without reflection towards theneusme. It . is true that I entered the house, and wh ° n- 00 within, I went to my wife's chamber, but she NI . 1 0 not there,. and I supposed that she was in Danl, ° A determination to be avenged then seized me . looked about for'matches to get a light, and in s odoin t upset some papers in the office. M. Dania e V ) , u—l had a poignard in my hand, and the mis i °,:t tune . happened!" The President remarked t"'cl. this statement could not be true, inasmuch as it his i , been positively ascertained that his wife was in Ile: own chamber on the night in q uestion. The 10:. persisted in saying tha t he had not g one to tt!: house to rob. A number of witnesses gave evideln to the excellent character of the prisoner's wife an the belief in the co urt was that his whole ;.°,1.,/ sed the extenuating priso c n i e r r cu t m o circumstances, es, labourncd tfil; C c oncerning her and the deceased was entirely' out foundation. The jury returned a verdict gui ou l r t t y withh nc life. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Only a limited supply of English wheat was on offer in to-day's market, and its general condition was by ii° l1 W ' 1851111 : fine. Sel e ct e d sam ples were cleared off at full e urrene but inferior parcels ruled heavy at Monday's quotatioos..4 On the whole, a fair amount of business wa s tran Nvel r sscl or, in useful qualities of foreign wheat. In prices, h ° bisr no change took place. The s upply on offer was seasons large. it I 'a- Floating cargoes of grain, off F a l mou th, were a flu" quiry. Fine barley was scarce, and in request, 44‘ per qr. Other descriptions were a slow inquirY• an On the whole, a fair business was tr( nsacted In'" former terms. Fine was worth 70s per qr. but Oats, beans, and peas were dull, and the turn lever; the value of flour was well supported. at from 420 to ARRIVALS THIS WEER Flour. y 2 Barle Malt. 01 " 4 , 1 5 " 1,0 50 English 2,680 ( 560 I 1670 Irish Foreign .. 3,990 2,550 —62, 9 4 u pl. I NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat here to -da y are rather cuttensi,...4"- and the trade generally is heav y , at barely station' prices : Per 81bs. by the Carcass. a d. s. d . a... 3 1 s. d• ". 6 Inferior Beef 210 to 3 0 Infr. Mutton. 32 to 0 Mid. d 0..... 3 Bto 4 4 6 Pm.largedo. 38t03 10 i Prime do. 42to A 0 Do. small do. 4 oto 4 4 i Veal 3 4to '' 6 4 'Lame pork.. 3 6to 3 8 1 Small pork BOROUGH HOP. ICen 4 Th e supply of new hops, both from Sussex. and 08 has become. extensive. Good and fine n ew samples , fair request, at fullprices ; but other kind s move off lowile: Yearling and old hops continue to give wa y in Pric The duty is called £266,000. New Mid and East lieut 80s to 1000 per cwt. Weald of Kent 65s to 80s ,' Sussex.... 60s to 725 transacted TEA.—.A COLONIAL. rather large amount of business has..bet;io at the late advance. 'Common C on ger Is q" 16.1 d per lb. , SUGAR.—The market has n ot exhibited much ac t ti vitr ; uut a fair b u siness has been done at about former rae., * rather large quantity was o ffered at public sale, but o n t amall portion was d is p osed of. In the refined raari`e rather easier terms have been current. 18 0 °C COFFEE.—There has been rather extensive a to Ae l! Plantation Ceylon, and prices have declined about ofitl per cwt. Other descriptions have been in moderate " mand at about previous r ates. RicE.—There has been rather more inquiry, and in S° lll° instances a slight improvement has taken place. . _ fot SALTPETRE.—The market remains steady, and o• parcels have been disposed of at previous values. TALLow.—The transactions have been rather limited,trt 0 on the spo ~,,, particularly for forward delivery. P.Y•—• h , 57s 0' quoted 57s 3d to 57s 6d, and last three months per cwt. cow It appears that foraParmas well us Tuscan'' , t em plates issuing proposals loan. f;,;. ~"~