The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-06 00:00:00

GREAT EASTERN STEAM SHIP. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. The GREAT SHIP is expected to leave her moorings, Cif Deptford, to-morrow about 7 arm. Extra trains will leave London for GREENWICH as often as may be required after 6 a.m. Additional trains will also run to Woolwich, Erith, Green hithe, and GRAVESEND after 7 a.m., affording passengers au opportunity of witnessing the ship pass down the River to the Nore. C. W. EBORALL, General Manager. London Terminus, 6th Sept., 1859 THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING the performaneeo will oomrience with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF ➢LY LIFE. with THE CONTESTED ELECTION. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. And HALLOWE'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. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, 'consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and RIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of sothe of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals o f France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.87—falling rapidly. wpm, S.S.W. ; rather fresh, with some rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, Bh. 29m.—Afternoon, 9h. 15m. To-Moßnow-Morning, 10h. lm.—Afternoon, 10h. 45m. For some time back the country has been all on the alert to be prepared for invasion. This has been occasioned by the supposed conduct of one of our faiends over the way. It is now assumed that there was no sufficient reason for such alarm. However that may be, the people all over the United King dom have taken up the idea, and acted on the princi ple, that where danger was apprehended although it did not appear, still it might come, and so they resolved to be prepared against the cry of wolf come when it might. This is consonant with pru dence and will one day find its due reward. We may have nothing to fear in probability—but as the possible might take us unawares it is well to guard against all dangers. Acting on this princi ple we hear of nothing but the formation of Rifle or Volunteer Clubs. " Riflemen, form !" seems to be the order of the day, and a manly amusement, if not one of duty, it is universally acknowledged to be. In July last a public meeting of Scottish Volun teer Rifles took place at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the able presidency of Lord ELCHo, who made a very stirring speech on the occasion. That speech had been so well thought of that the meet ing requested his lordship to be allowed to publish a corrected report of it. His lordship readily con sented, and now we have a copy published by RIDGWAY, and the SMITHS, of the Strand, lying before us. Lord ELCHO is not only a bold Scot, but an accomplished sportsman. The rifle is to him " familiar as a fan" in fairy hands, and right well does he expound its use. After enlarging on the desirability of the formation of volunteer rifle clubs, he points out the best manner to ensure their accomplishment. In 1804, when we were threatened with invasion by the genius of NAPOLEON ,from the Heights of Boulogne, Mr. PITT called .out the Volunteers, and he considered them as a body forming a solid system of national defence. Lord ELCHO now enforces that principle by showing that our independence should not rest on the friendship or forbearance of any foreign potentate ; and his lordship is quite right. The wonderful efficiency to which a body of men might be brought in the event of invasion is exemplified by the example of GARIBALDI, who, with but a handful of voluntoers, hung on the right wing and flank of the Austrian army in the late war. His Lordship then speaks of the probable number of volunteers that might be raised : " What number of volunteers we may expect to get I cannot pretend to say, but I have full confidence in the spirit and patriotism of our people ; and we have lately seen what may be done in an emergency, when in such a town as Brescia, 3,000 out of a population of 40,000 volun teered for Garibaldi's corps. London alone, therefore, if ever called upon to make similar exertions, might, accord ipg to the same relative proportion, furnish more than 200,000 men. We may, therefore, I think, reasonably look to the establishment of numerous volunteer corps ; and we may confidently trust to their zeal and patriotism, as well as to a spirit of rivalry and competition, for their rkill as marksmen, and for their efficiency as sol- diers. "I have already touched upon the chief objection to them, namely, that they would be inefficient for pur poses of defence ; but there are other objections urged against theta. It is said that you cannot have these rifle corps in any number, from the difficulty of getting range, and the danjer of shooting in all directions ; that there is risk in thus arming the people and establishing a no tional guard , finally, that it will interfere with yeo manry corps. ' "Now, gentlemen, as a practical rifleman, accustomed to the use of the rifle from my childhood, I say, without fear of contradiction, there is no greater delusion than to suppose that it is necessary to have a long range to learn to shoot. These modern: rifles, with the conical expanding ball, will unquestionably shoot accuracy at extreme ranges at 1,000 or 1,500 yards--but, in order to learn to shoot at that distance, there is no occasion to practise at a long range. The art of rifle-shooting may be divided into two parts—shooting, and judging distance. " Shooting consist —Firstly, in knowing in what position to hold the body when taking aim ; secondly, in knowing how to take the sights, and aim at the object you wish to hit ; and thirdly, in knowing how to pull the trigger by a steady pressure, without a jerk. "Now these things can be acquired without even powder andball--simplysnapping off caps at a lighted candle. To teach men to shoot at a mark with ball, a range of one or two hundred yards is all that is required. Beyond this, it is a mere question of the sighting of your rifle; and the man who. can hit a bull's-eye at 100 yards will be able to shoot no Tess well at 1,000 if his rifle is properly sighted, and he know the distance. In point of fact, as far as this matter of range goes, there is no more difficulty now in establishing rifle corps than there was in the practice o the bow is s the good old days of merry England, when, by an act of Henry VIII., butts were ordered to be set up in every* parish, so that the youth might be instructed in the use ce the bow. All that would now be required would bk tine erection of walls or mounds at the back of the targets 1, where there was not some hill-side against which to pr actise, and if additional precautions are thought to be desirable, a screen with an opening thr,ugh which ,iothiri 2,- but the ball and target can be seen should be. erectod at the other end of the range. Through it the rift Oman would fire, and any chance shot which did not go through this opening would be stopped by the screen. " The of her part .of r ifl e - s hooting, namely, judging dis tance, is pc whops the chief difficulty to be overcome. It is more fr. nu want of the power o f judging distance than from airy inaccu.ntey of aim—as many who hear me well Imo w—that /Jeer so often escape unscathed by the sports man's bullet. Now, judging distance is taught by sta timing men at certain measured inter vals,. say ever: y 100 yards along any clear open space ; a straight roakhl would do. At Hythe it is done along the beach; irl L ondon the Guards are taught to judge die lance irr 11.‘ide P. ark. The men under instruction are singly grade to, guess tl le distances at which the different points are plat at and .be answers are taken down in writing; by this means they learn the degrees of distinctness with which the details of a man's features and form can be distinguished at different distances. Judging distance, therefore, does not require the use of a rifle, for it is not necessary t.. knock over a man with a ball to show that you know the distance he is off. There are, moreover, many instruments gradu ated to the average height of a man which are used for the purpose, and which in actual warfare the captain and officers of a company would do well to carry. Nothing could be clearer or better defined than this. Then as to the dress—that of the Knicker bocker is preferred as possessing all the advantages of•the kilt as regards freedom of limb, without any of its disadvantages. " Moreover," he says, "the Knickerbocker legging and laced ankle-boot have this additional recommendation, that they re semble in a great measure the dress of our own peasantry. They might, indeed, be almost said to constitute an existing national costume—for the English peasantry generally wear breeches, leg gings, and laced ankle-boots ; and the Irish peasantry wear breeches. The main difference between the two is this : the Englishman buttons his breeches and the Irishman habitually wears them unbuttoned." Then, as to the colour of the dress, it should be grey, light or Austrian grey, the material Tweed. The worst colour for riflemen is the invisible green, which actually appears: perfectly black. He says that red is the most fatal colour, while the least fatal is Austrian grey. The proportions are—red, 12 ; rifle green, 7 ; brown, 6 ; Austrian bluish grey, 5. This is curious and instructive, if true. Now we suppose it must be true, for the Austrians are on the point of changing their military uniform of white to grey ! There is a capital woodcut of a rifleman prefixed to this speech, which looks all that a practical soldier at ease should be. Major-General HAY has endorsed Lord ELCHO'S proposals in the appendix to this speech, and is well worthy of perusal. Matter-of-fact and prosaic to the last degree ;hough the Right Hon. JAMES WILSON undoubt- edly is, he nevertheless afforded, upon the first of this present month of September, the liveliest illus tration of one of the most amusing among the earlier sketches of Mr. THACKERAY. This was upon the occasion of The Cutlers' Feast down at Sheffield, a full report of the elocutionary proceedings at the close of which banquet appeared in our impression of Saturday evening. It will probably have been remarked by many of our readers how, in the exor dium of the otherwise singularly rational and argu mentative oration delivered upon that festive night by the right hon. gentleman, lately M.P. for Devon port, previously M.P. for Westbury, and now, as we may style him pretty correctly, her Britannic MAJESTY'S Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer, indulged himself and his hearers, in a piquant manner, with a variation of the customary after dinner hyperbole. If that was not precisely the happiest evening of Mr. WILSON'S life—it was all but that acme of human felicity. Observe the very opening words of the harangue—when the right. hon. gentleman rose in the midst of "loud cheering" to articulate his grateful acknowledgments. " I am sure," quoth he, " every gentleman will well understand what must be my feelings, almost a stranger in your town, after you have received me in so kind and indulgent a manner, to have to ac knowledge it." A little incoherent, by the way, but no matter—the right hem. gentleman thus con nues to articulate his thanks in emotional lan " I rise," he says, " as well as 1 am able" guage. —giving one a lively notion, in that one brief sen tence, of the relief and refreshment it would pro bably have been to his delicate and agitated nervous system to have taken at that moment a timely swiff at a bottle of salts, or a vinaigrette. However, in the absence of any such opportune reviver, Mr. WIL SON has to gird up his loins and brace himself to the encounter of the rhetorical difficulty as best he might under the circumstances. And it is in these words he continues—and it is here that we find the apt and vivid illustration (already alluded to) of that humorous sketch from the pen of Mr. THACKERAY :—" I assure you," he says impres sively, " I assure you the observations of the gen tleman who proposed it (viz., his health), and the manner in which you have received it e., the toast), have made on me the deepest impression, I say without exaggeration, THAT I EVER EXPE RIENCED IN MY LlFE—(loud cheers—and no wonder) —the deepest impression not only from the kindness of your reception, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." Pretty tall talking, that ! or, as the Yankees would otherwise express it—Piling it up rather mountainously ! Blatherum-skate ! accord ing to some Irishmen—or precisely what that facetious Patlander startled Mr. Secretary PEEL with at the Lord-Lieutenant's table, when de scribing the rhetorical arts of the oiliest of Advo cates—" First of all he butthers them up, and then he slithers them down!" To indicate the same thing more epigramatically—what the French call "blague !" and we, in our more homely vernacular, " bosh!" But the Sheffield people liked it. The Master Cutler sat in the chair—and the cutlers generally, or the pick of them, sat round their own hospitable board, after the best possible use of all cutlery in the shape of knives and forks, drinking in the seductive flatteries of their honoured guest, and—" listening delighted." It was only a sa-nple of human nature—and " Natur'," as we all know, is " a rum un'," accord ing to the celebrated Mr. SQUEERS, the Yorkshire schoolmaster. So true is it to human nature, indeed, that we have read the whole thing,years ago, or, at any rate, have enjoyed the opportunity of so doing, if we cared for it, almost word for word in SPEC'S report of " A Dinner in the City "—to be found iu Vol. 11. of Mr. THACKERAY'S republished " Mis• cellanies." There we read. at page 334, as follows —in the course of the after dinner speechification : —" Then the Secretary of the Tape and Sealing wax Office [Mr. WILSON to a T] rose to return thanks for the blessings which we begged upon the Ministry [read for " Ministry" " Himself," and the cases are precisely analogous]. He was," he said, " a humble—the humblest member of that body. The suffrages which that body had received from the nation were gratifying; but the most gratifying testimonial of all was the approval of the Bellows Menders' Company. (Immense applause.) Yes, among the most enlightened of the mighty corporations of the City, the most enlightened was the Benows-Menders. Yes ;he might say, in consonance with their motto, and in defiance of illiberality, Affiavet veritas et dissipati swat. (Enormous applause.) Yes, the thanks and pride that were boiling with emotion in his bosom, trembled to find utterance at his lip. Yes, the proudest moment of his life, the crown of his am bition, the need of his early hopes, and struggles, and aspirations, was at that moment won in the approbation of the Bellows-Menders. Yes, his children should know that he too had attended at those great, those noble, those joyous, those ancient festivals, and that he too, the humble individual who, from his heart, pledged the assembled com pany in a bumper —that he too was a Bellows- Mender." That—perhaps with a little more florid eloquence—is really and truly the English of it all, the right-down, plain English of all the hyperboli cal flummery addressed to the Cutlers of Sheffield by Mr. JAMES WILSON upon the first of September. It is Mr. THACKERAY'S anticipative ironical com- mentary upon such assurances addressed to a Com pany of Cutlers by a right hon. gentleman, as—" I assure you that-so-and-so, and so-and-so, your com pliments, your approval, your approbation have made on me the deepest impression, I say, without exaggeration, THAT I EVER EXPERIENCED IN ➢IY LIFE !" and so forth. There is but one lexicographer who can afford authority for any such language, and (we need scarcely add) he is obviously— WALKER. Most of our readers will have read with surprise and regret the new style of public amusement that has been introduced in America. We allude to the extraordinary and foolhardy achievement of cross ing Niagara upon a cord. Not content with this daring feat M. BLONDIN, the adventurer in question thought proper to risk another life as well as his own, and on the 17th of August he crossed the falls on a tight rope, carrying his agent, Mr. CONCORD, a man weighing 136 lbs. on his back! The excite ment created by the announcement of this perform ance is described as something surprising. Ex cursion trains were run upon all the roads leading to the falls and every train was crowded. Two steamers each took down about twelve hundred persons, and a very large number went down in their own carriages, making in all, we are told, " probably the largest crowd ever assembled at Niagara Falls." The ordinary feats of M. BLONDIN are, one would think, sufficiently perilous without his undertaking to carry a man over. Here is the description of his crossing alone :—" After proceeding about 100 feet he stopped, swung one foot and then the other,and then,walking along 15 or 20 feet, stopped and stood upon his head, resting on the balancing pole which lay across the rope, the ends supported upon the guy rope. He then ran along the rope, stood upon his head, sat down, turned somersaults backwards and forwards, and proceeded to the middle of the river where there are no guys. He here lay down on the rope on his back at full length, stood on his head, laid his balancing pole across the rope and stood upon it with one foot, and balanced it with the other foot, his hands lying by his side. He then passed along the rope to where the guys on the Canada side were fastened, and laid down his balancing pole. He now returned with his body suspended beneath the rope, running along with his hands and feet, as an ape, to the middle of the rope, between the guys. He here went through all the feats attempted by tight-rope performers, such as hanging by one foot, then the other, by one hand, then dropping his body down full length below the rope and whirling round, resting his breast upon the rope, and with arms and legs extended, as if in the act of swimming. He hung by both arms, and then passed his body between his arms and the rope, and in fact per formed all the feats ever accomplished by the most agile tight-rope performers. He then returned to where his balancing-pole was, took it up, and crossed to the Canada bank, stopping several times to turn somersaults, stand upon his head, upon one foot, and to lie down upon the rope." M. Blondin occupied something over half an hour in crossing, most of the time being spent in his performance on the rope." As might be expected, the excitement occasioned by this feat induced another adventurer, whose heels are more gifted than his head, to make a similar attempt. The Rochester Union tells us that a man named Delave crossed the Genesee river and falls upon a rope with safety and success, all the more marvel lous that the rope was wet and not properly tightened. On this occasion, too, the crowd was immense, being " the largest array of spectators ever seen congregated for a single object in this city." It is with great regret that we witness the encouragement and continuance of such foolhardi ness. Our transatlantic cousins are thought to be somewhat too careless of human life as it is, and such exhibitions as these are certainly not calculated to increase their respect for it. Were there any possible object to be attained by the display, were there any public good, or even scientific advantage, to be derived from it, recklessness would rise into heroism, and we should regard with admiration as a noble courage what we can now only look upon as a contemptuous disregard of the respon sibilities of a human being. These American ad venturers should be warned by the fate of the poor acrobat at Waterloo-bridge, who lost his life under such melancholy circumstances. Human life is surely something more than a mere toy, that the fact of a man running an imminent risk is to be considered as a fitting public exhibition. We believe such aimless achievements have gone out of fashion on this side of the Atlantic, and we trust to the good sense and humanity of our people to discou sage their revival. Our " go-a-head" cousins do not display their civilisation to advantage in en couraging these reckless proceedings, stimulating the acrobats to continue their foolhardy exploits, and tempting excitement on the verge of eternity. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Leiningen have left Howchin's Hotel on a tour through Switzerland. His Excellency Baron Bentinck has left town on a tour of visits in Yorkshire. Viscount and Viscount Palmerston left town yes terday for Broadlands, Hants. Sir G. C. Lewis left town yesterday for Harpton Court, Kington, Herefordshire. DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP CARE.— The Right Rev. Bishop Carr, rector of Bath, and formerly Bishop of Bombay, died yesterday morning at a quarter to eight o'clock at his residence in Lansdowne-crescent, Bath. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews are about to re turn to the United States, intending, it is said, a theatrical tour there. They will go by the Great Eastern. OPENING OF THE ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN THE WOKING NEcnoroLls.—Yesterday forenoon a large number of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows, Manchester Unity, left London by the South Western Railway, for the purpose of being present at the inaugura tion of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, a portion of the Ncro polis at Woking. The members walked in procession from the station to the ground, and assembled in the chapel, where the chaplain, the Rev. R. Le Make, made a dis course, founding his remarks on the 133 d Psalm. They then went to the ground, whore an address was delivered by Dr. Pettigfew, who stated that there were in Middlesex no less than 54,710 members of the society, and in Surrey nearly 2,000. _ _ PARIS, Sept. 4.—The Emperor does not relax in his warlike preparations. A foundry for cannon is about to be established at Bourg-es, and the town is to be strongly fortified. The number of iron-bound ships of the line which are ordered to be laid down is raised from 10 to 20 ; and since the Admiralty workshops do not suffice for the completion of the engines, &c., the Creusot Company has received orders to keep their forges at the disposdl of the - Government. This order has been given in consequence of the successful issue of the experiments which you were re cently informed were - about to be made at the Hyeres isles, on some iron-sheathed gunb.ats. IMMIGRATION.—The number of emigrants who returned to the United Kingdom in 1858 was 23,704, of whom there came from America 18,841, and from Australia and New Zealand, 4,863. The return of emigrants from America is attributable to the commercial distress which during last year prevailed . in the United States and British North America, and paralysed the usual means of employ ment. The smaller number who returne 1 from Austratia consists, probably of persons who, having acquired pro perty, have come back to enjoy it in the mother country. M‘MATION AT MAGENTA.--The Nation, which we suppose is an authority upon everything relating to Mar shal M'Mahon, says that the following passage is extracted from a letter sent by the marshal to Gen. Changarnier, and concludes that it proves the movement by which the fortune of the day was retrieved by the French army to have been undertaken by the successful general on his own responsi. bility, and contrary to the orders he had received :—" I had orders to operate in a given sense. But having heard the sound of cannon, and learned the danger which threa tened the army, I tore up my orders, and did the reverse of what I was commanded. I succeeded, inasmuch as I have been made a duke and marshal of France. But is it your orinion that I failed in my duty as a soldier and in discipline ? I feel the necessity of having the decision of such a man as you." The bar silver by the Mexican steamer has been disposed of at dltd., it being a decline of id. from the price realised by the preceding packet. The dollars are still unsold, . rzi. 7 , ' , • : ovr .tu I • M A , N4,1 4 1;i # • . 4 4 1 a s or. ,„ , •, )„„, RO IT 4 bIEL ' 4,4Tlirt.. : THE SUN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1859. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ZURICH, SEPT. 6. Austria desires a guarantee from Sardinia against all future secret intrigues in Italy, previous to making any concessions at the Conferences. It is asserted that the principal object of the visit of Prince Metternich to St. Sauveur was to endeavour to arrange an interview between the Emperors of France and Austria for the discussion of the difficulties the Conferences have met with, but this interview has not yet been decided on. PARIS, SEPT. 6th. Rear-Admiral Du Pouy who had been summoned by the Emperor to St. Sauveur, has just quitted the Imperial residence and proceeded to Cherbourg. PARIS, SEPT. 6. The Constitetionnel of this morning publishes an article contradicting certain assertions contained in a leter, which appeared a few days ago in the In dependence Beige, from its correspondent, with the signature " H.," and which treated of the policy of the Emperor towards England in connection with the treaty of Villafranca. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 5. The Faedrelandet of this day states that Prussia and Austria have informed the Danish Government that the affairs of Holstein are being treated of by the Federal Diet. Prussia and Austria stated that this communication needed no further reply from Denmark. TURIN, SEPT. 5. The municipality of Milan has arrived at Turin for the purpose of inviting the deputation from Florence to visit the city of Milan. The Tuscan deputation will quit Turin on Wednesday and pro ceed to Milan. VIENNA, SEPT. 5. The official Wiener Zeitung, in its evening edi tion, contradicts the alarming rumours which have been current regarding the continuance of the Zurich conferences. It hopes for a satisfactory conclusion, and considers the presence of the French troops of occupation, which have been left in Italy, to be of service to the interest of order. BERNE, SEPT. 5. Signor Manuel Rances y Villanueve, late Minis ter at the Court of Brazil, is appointed by the Spa. nish Government Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary to the Helvetic Confederation. FLORENCE, SEPT. 5. Last evening a grand illumination took place throughout Tuscany ; the arms of the house of Savoy were placed upon the gates of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Palazzo Pitti, amid the enthu siastic cheers of the populace. The municipal body of Florence gave a grand fete. A proclamation of the Government explains the words which the King of Sardinia b,as addressed to the Tuscan de putation. The peasantry participate in the uni veral joy of the people of Tuscany. TRIESTE, SEPT. 5. Advices have been received from Corfu to the 28th ult. The lonian parliament is prorogued to the 10th of December next. PALERMO, AUG. 29. Complete tranquillity prevails throughout Sicily PARIS, SEPT. 5. Prince Richard Metternich arrived here this morning. To-morrow a conference is to be held at Paris for the definitive settlement of the question of the Danubian Principalities. FLORENCE, SEPT. 5. The Marquis de Ferriere•le-Vayer, the French Ambassador at Florence, has been recalled by his government. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. 130L - RsE, Sept. s.—The market has been rather firmer. Threes were done at 69f. 10c. and improved to 69f. 20c. Mobilier varied from 815 f. to 822 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 558 f. 75c. to 5601. ; Orleans, 1,368 f. 75e. to 1,372 f. 50c.; Lyons, 870 f. to 8731. 75c.; Southern, 5071. 50c. to to 510 f. ; Eastern, 6501. to 652 f. 50c. ; Northern P2sf. to 927 f. 50c. The fol lowing were the last quotations : •U per Cents. .... 98 I Credit Foncier 670 15e. end month .. ^— o. 41 99 25 3 per Cent 5....... 69 20 I Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 69 20 i Roman B6 Bank Shares...... 2800 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 823 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 823 75 Home Debt 42 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 922 50 .. 922 50 New ditto BO7 50 .. 811 2.5 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 872 50 Geneva — .. 530 Southern Western . 572 50 .. 572 50 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. Austrian Lombard 557 50 .. 558 75 -- - - _ . . Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. ; money, 25f 71e.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 e.; money, 24f. 95c. THE PAPAL STATES. A letter from Rome of the Ist, in the Delats, says:—" The Ambassadors of France has repre sented to the Government here that the Emperor would w•ee with pleasure, under certain conditions freely accepted by both sides, the Legations return under the authority of the Pope. They might, for example, he said, retain the Administration which they have given themselves, and which appears to satisfy them, and pay the same tribute and taxes as those which existed at the moment of the de facto separation. It is probable that Bologna would sub mit to these conditions if they were recommended by friendly Powers ; and in that case the Pope would keep a governor at Bologna to prove his high suzerainty, but everything ease would be dis tinct and separate. The Ambassador has also recommended reforms in the rest of the States of the Church, but he has done so in terms which, from their perfect moderation, cannot leave the Holy Father to suppose that he does not enjoy full liberty. It appears that the basis of the pro posed reforms will be the project of 1857. It was added by the Ambassador that the military occupa tion of Rome by a French division must necessarily cease, but nothing definitive was said as to the period at which it should do so ; it is, however, believed that it will be in the course of the coming year, arid perhaps in the first six months of it. The Holy Father must then prepare a serious military force and be supported by the opinion . of his own subjects, for Austria will not intervene, and if by chance a third Power should attempt to meddle in the affairs of Italy, and if Piedmont, as an Italian State, should wish to prevent it from doing so, France would probably see no sufficient motive for creating an obstacle." THE DUCHIES. The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna publishes the following curious article : • " The question of th e D uc hi es will not much impede the proceedings of the authors of the peace, as it has been completely settled in the preliminaries of peace. It will present but very few difficulties of detail, and those will not in reality belong to the sphere of action of the Conference. The clause of the preliminaries by which the expelled Sovereigns are to return to their States may be simply copied into the treaty of peace. It will without doubt be therein copied, such as it is, with perhaps a clause in favour of the Duke of Parma. The execution will not, therefore, be an object of stipulation, but a question of fact. The affair of the Duchies becomes very simple when one fact is not forgotten, to whioh the journals pay but little attention. It is, that the King of Sardinia signed the preliminaries of Villafranca, including the cause relative to the Duchies. Whe ther he did it willingly or unwillingly matters little. He did it, and he will be obliged by the other contracting Powers to hold to it. King Vic tor Emmanuel is bound by his signature, and as neither Austria nor France is disposed to allow the article to fall to the ground, he must also sign the treaty of peace which reproduces it. King Victor Emmanuel cannot therefore accept the annexation of the Duchies. At this moment, that is before the signature of the peace, he is still free to leave hope to his admirers by saying to them--' I cannot yet explain myself, for I do not yet know what will be the final result of the Conference;' but when the treaty of peace, including an article on the restora tion of the legitimate sovereigns, shall be signed, the King of Sardinia can only express in his declaration the regret that he was not able, in spite of the best intentions, to annex the Duchies to his kingdom. The restoration will then take place of itself. Victor Emmanuel will not accept his election, and his in terest will not permit him to let another candidate be chosen. He would moreover condemn a pro clamation of the Republic, and the same would be the case with France and Austria. The procla mation of a Republic would be, in our opinion, the only case that could occasion an armed intervention. The restoration of the legitimate princes will not necessitate any such intervention. Let the Pied montese volunteers and soldiers who agitate the Duchies. in the disguise of national guards, be re moved, and that can easily be done by menacing the King of Sardinia to cause French troops to re main at Milan, Turin, and Genoa so long as the Piedmontese shall remain in the Duchies ; let, we say, the populations of Central Italy be delivered from revolutionary terrrorism, and reaction will take place of itself for the advantage of the dis possessed Sovereigns, supposing that those Sove reigns proclaim the reforms and institutions to which the populations are entitled." • The Piedmontese Gazette announces that in answer to an application made by the Prussian ambassador at Turin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Vienna has informed him that the hos tages taken in Lombardy were released by the military authorities on the 18th ult., as well as the horses .taken by requisition. The following statement of the votes collected in the States of Parma is published in the Piedmon tese Gazette : —For annexation to Piedmont — Parma, 23,222 ; Piacenza, 17,287 ; Borgo San Don nino, 5,963; Borgotaro, 4,679 ; Poatremoli, 5,044 —total, 56,195. Against annexation—Parma, 113 Piacenza, 257 ; Borgo San Donnino, 43; Borgotaro, 49 ; Pontremoli, 19—total, 483. AMERICA. . • The screw steamer Hammonia, Captain Schwen sep, arrived in Cowes Roads yesterday morning, en route from New York to Hamburg, with 54 pas sengers, 188,047 doll. in specie, and advices of the 24th ult. _ _ _ The Hammonia had during the voyage fine wea ther and south-westerly winds, except during the last two days, when the winds were variable. On the Ist inst. she passed the ship Marengo, and on the 3d the Flying Foam, both bound to the west ward. By this arrival he have one day's political news beyond what was brought by the Arabia. Late advices from Kansas state that the border ruffians are again in arms. Considerable uneasiness existed, and a renewal of the old disturbances is anticipated. The latest accounts from the gold region speak of new and very productive dis coveries of the precious metal. The diggers in the Kansas gold region have adopted a state consti tution. Energetic measures are king devised by the Government at Washington to put an end to the Cuban slave trade. _ _ By late advices from Hayti we learn that the republic was quite tranquil. ?President Giffard has been chosen " Grand Protector" of the Order of Freemasons. The Canada, from Liverpool, falling due at Hali fax on the 23d, had not arrived there on the 24th. At Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Buffalo, flour and wheat were dull and unchanged up to the evening of the 23d. At New Orleans, on the 23d, cotton was unchanged. Sales duling the day, 550 bales. THE SILK TRADE. Accounts from the silk-producing departments announce that native silk is becoming every day more scarce. There was scarcely any business transacted at the last market of Aubenas, the heavy rain having prevented the growers from coming to market. The little silk offered for sale was purchased at from 88f. to 92f. the kilogramme, according to quality. The manufacturers of Lyons are living almost entirely on orders received from the United States. Spun silk from Syria is quoted at Marseilles at 92f. the killogramme. Wines of last year's growth are in gooddemand at the wine market at Bercy, and prices are firm. The near approach of the vintage appears to produce no effect on prices. Holders of stook are now convinced that the vintage will be 'deficient in quantity, and the quality will depend on the weather. It is generally believed that a further rise in prices will take place. At Auxerre, where the vineyards pro mise an excellent vintage, the light stock of wind on hand, and the unfavourable accounts received from other wine-producing districts, have caused an increased demand, and good ordinary Burgundy is not to be had for less than 110 f. the cask of 300 bottles. White wines of 1857 are quoted at Bar le-Due at 70f. the hectolitre. Macon wine was sold at Bourg last week at 56f. the hectolitre. The wine-growers of Chaulieu have raised their wines 15f. the cask within the last month. The vintage in- that neighbourhood is not as good as last yikr. Wines of the Beaujolais have risen 20f. die cask at Macon within the last feW days. The wine-groWers in that neighbour hood are in despair at seeing the appearance of the grapes. They have become small and withered, and, as they drop off the stalk, the crop is daily diminishinF,. The damp nights have improved the vineyards in the neighbourhood of Montelimart ; grapes are sold there at 12f. the 100 kilogrammes. The approach of the vintage and the prospect of a good crop in that nighbourhood have produced a fall in the price of -wine at Nantes. There is very little business doing in brandies in the Paris mar ket ; prices, nevertheless, are well maintained. At La Rochelle brandy is quoted at from 105 f. to 120 f. the hectolitre, without the cask. Beetroot spirit is worth, in Paris, 87f. the hectolitre ; Languedoc, 110 f. THE DUKE OF MONTROSE ON THE PROBABILITY OF INVASION.-At a meeting held on Friday last at Dum barton, for the formation of a volunteer rifle corps, Sir J. Colquhoun, lord-lieutenant of the county, presiding, the Duke of Montrose said—" We know, as the lord-lieu tenant has said, that we are now more liable to invasion than formerly—that is to say, that an invasion might more 'readily take place now than in former years, as the navies now-a-days ere different from those of past times, so that there is no doubt it would be easier to land a large body of troops here than formerly. We must feel that, notwith standing the great amity that is profeised by a, neighbour ing country towards us, which we reciprocate and are anxious to maintan, yet we cannot feel so safe as if there was a constitutional Government in that county, when the whole is dependent on the single will of one individual. (Cheers.) We must feel that there is no check upon him if he should think it to be to his advantage—but I think he won't find that—to attack this country. Ho has not the check of a Tarliament or of the representatives of the na tion, or the more mild influence of the cour try through the public Press ; and therefore we cannot possess all the secu rity which we should have without baing armed for all contingencies. This feeling, has spread all over the coun try, and has been spoken of in Farliament, and the expres sions there given forth have been endorsed by the people at large ; and therefore I think we ought to adopt a line of conduct pursued by a large portion of the people of Eng land, and also by many in various parts of Scotland—a course which I consider extremely desirable." ASCENT OF MosT BLANC.—Messrs. Tyndal and Frankland have just made a successful ascent of Mont Blanc. On the 21st August these two English savants reached the summit, where they placed their tent of india rubber on the south side, and prepared to pass the night, with the intention of returning at 10 o'clock the following, morning, which they accordingly, did. Thus these two gentlemen sojourned on the summit of Mont Blanc for the space of 20 hours, with their three guides and seven porters. Thus this hazardous enterprise, and which was the first attempt of the kind which has been made, was happily crowned with success. The party suffered from violent attacks of headache, exactly resembling sea-sickness in their effects, and from which none of them were exempt.— Journal de Geneve. THE GREAT EASTERN. Unavoidable circumstances connected with the clearing out certificates prevented the great ship leaving her river moorings this morning, as previously intended. From an early hour the various thoroughfares on both sides of the river leading to the place of departure of the mon ster ship Were crowded by pedestrians and vehicles of all descriptions. As early as five o'clock some thousands were waiting at the different railway stations, eager to be transported to some favourable spot where a view might be had of the greatest achievement in maritime architecture. However, all were doomed to disappointment. The railway officials, as soon as they were made aware of the postponement of the sailing of the ship, very con siderately issued a placard to that effect, and thus prevented an idle journey to the anxious expectants. Trips had also been announced by the steam-boat companies to convey passengers some considerable distance down the river ; but they likewise gave Lmeons notice of the delay which had occurred. The scene on each side of the river at Greenwich was most enlivening ; the esplanade presented quite a holiday appearance ; and as numerous visitors had arrived at Greenwich the previous night, the various hotels must have reaped a good harvest. We believe it is finally arranged that the Great Eastern will sail to-morrow (Wednesday) morning. It is intended to commence towing her down at the half•flood tide, so that she may reach Gravesend by mid-day. She will arrive at the Nore about noon on Thursday, when she will swing to adjust compasses, starting for Portland on Saturday morning next. The Liverpool Albion says—" Some of our metro politan contemporaries, in enumerating the imports and exports of India, China, and Australia, and speaking of Calcutta as the port of the monster ship, confidently ask, ' Can any one doubt but she will get full cargoes there ?' Now, our readers will only have to look at the map of India to see that nothing will be got at Calcutta save the pro ducts of Bengal and the provinces on the Ganges, and that it would be foolish to suppose that Bombay would send goods 1,400 miles out of their course, Madras 700, Singapore 1,300, and the Chincie ports from 3,200 to 3,500, Australia being equally distant. The directors must not be misled by such nonsense. The imports of Calcutta are not equal to those of Pailadelphia, Boston, Montreal, New Orleans, or Baltimore, nor one-twelfth of those of New York ; and of her exports, what may be the Great Eastern's share but a part of the indigo, silks, spices, and valuable products, not amounting alto gether to 25,000 tons a year ? Sugar, rum, rice, would come by clipper ships to direct ports, the freights of these, during the last two years, ranging from 10s. to 60s. per ton—a poor look out for her shareholders ! Where, then, is the emigration to or from India ? As we said before, the trade for her is that formerly carried on by the liners and packets, and now by them and our steamers, and as the great ship cannot come here or to New York, the St. Lawrence and Cork are the next best. Should the internal navigation of America, by Quebec, be overlooked, and another port chosen, then Portland and Norfolk have their claims, the former •being the shorter voyage, but having 200 or 300 miles more rail to Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Chicago, and St. Louis, and 100 more to Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore, New York being half way between them. On the other hand Norfolk has, by rail, all the cotton trade of the Carolinas and Georgia, as well as the tobacco and grain trades of Virginia, Tennessee and Ken tucky. Next to New York, Quebec, by her vast inland ship navigation, would be the most likely port to fill the great ship ; and second to her, Nor folk. It will depend on the Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian people, by having the rail extended to a proper harbour for the winter in the St. Law rence, and a wharf erected, to have the benefit of the great ship at all seasons. The ]ritish and Irish press have given the pros and cons, but we believe that it is as yet undecided as to her trade by the directors. Saunder's News Letter says:—" A noteworthy fact is that the ship nearest in size to the Great Eastern arrived in England from America about, 30 years ago. She was called the Baron of Ren frew, was 600 feet long, and was composed of large logs of timber clamped together in the roughest manner. It was predicted that she never would steer, never would cross the Atlantic ; but she did, and immediately upon her arrival was broken up. Indeed, she was nothing more than imported timber, having been patched together to avoid the timber duty, which was then exceedingly heavy. She ful filled her mission in every way, but the Govern ment was down upon the new dodge, and prevented any repetition of the experiment. ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON.-A very curious atmospheric phenomenon was produced on Friday morning on the railway wires round Paris. At 7 o'clock, when the service commences in the various stations, it was remarked at the central station, placed at the hotel of the Minister of the Interior, that some of the instruments were charged with electricity, as if the corresponding station had sent a constant current. It was soon found that the fact was general, the wires at all the stations beingin the same state. By interrupting the circuit of the wires strong sparks were obtained. The same thing was produced at the same time on all the telegraphic wires throughout France, the stations placed between two lines receiving the current from each side. At half-past nine the electricity, in place of being permanent, showed itstilf only at intervals. The scientific authorities were consulted as to the cause of this phenome• non. In stormy weather atmospheric electricity produces many discharges, which set in motion the telegraphic ma chines, but these discharges are instantaneous and have not a permanent character. • EXTRAORDINARY ELECTRICITY IN , THE ATMO SPHERE.—STOPPAGE OF TELEGRAPILIC COMMUNICA TION.—Astronomers are divided as to the causes of the re cent extraordinary superabundance of electricity in the at mosphere, but of the fact there can be no doubt, as evi denced not only by the unusual brilliancy of the aurora borealis, but the impossibility of transmitting messages by the telegraphic wires. On Sunday the deflections of the needles at the telegraphic offices were strong and erratic, but not being a business day the inconvenience was not great. Yesterday, during the early part of the day, the electricity was so abundant that no information could be obtained for the newspaper offices, nor were private messages transmissible. The needles instead of being obedient to the ordinary magnetic current, were violently agitated and de flected by the electricity of the atmosphere, the result being that the telegraphic clerks could only decipher a word or two of a sentence, leaving the information incomplete, con sequently valueless. These phenomena occurred in connec tion with the wires of both the Electric and the Magnetic Telegraph Companies, and were not merely local in their manifestation, but interfered with messages from London, Liverpool, Birmingham, and more distant places. So great a disturbance of the electrical currents has not been known for many years, scarcely since the invention of electrical telegraphing. During the afternoon and evening of yes terday thetommunication became re-established and regu • lar = lfanchester Courier of Saturday. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY.—fn a letter to a con temporary, the writer refers to an instituti on w hi c h h as already for a long time worked well in the armies of several States of Northern Germany. He states that in the armies he alludes to there is a law that no soldier can be flogged unless he is previously, by a sentence of a military court, transferred to the second class of soldiers. The measure of transferring a soldier to the second class is never resorted to, unless the man, by committing many offences, or by persisting in the repetition of the same offence in spite of punishments, has shown himself to be an o th erw i se incor rigible offender. It deprives him of the honour of wearing the cockade with the colours of his country, and renders him liable to bodily chastisement, which even then can be inflicted only in consequence of a fresh offence, and a sentence to that effect passed by the Court. This institu tion exempts the great body of the soldiers from a punish ment which is considered degrading in the armies of Northern Germany, France, and many other countries ; it gives a fair warning to .the obstinate offender, and might prove to be of benefit if adopted in the army of this country. ANOTHER RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE AMOUR.—The Hamburg Orresponden't has the fol lowing from St. Petersburg :—" We are informed that another expedition to explore the territories of the Amour is now being organised under the auspices of the Grand Duke Constantine. At the herid of the expedition is M. Maninow, well known for having travelled on foot through all Russia in the costume of a working man, in order to study the condition of the Peasantry. Several exploring parties have already left Irkutsch for the countries men tioned, but solely with a view to search for the gold places said to exist there. Some of the explorers have found rich mines near the source of the Seja, but not easily worked, im mense thickness. they are covered with a stratum of peat of thickness. It is not without interest for the China trade to learn that the western provinces of that empire now send caravans of tea to Semipolotinsk, so that K iatcha no longer enjoys the monopoly of the tea trade. The caravans from Central Asia generally take two routes ; some go towards Siberia, Siberia, by Semiplototinsk and P e t ro hauwtosk, and th e others towards Orenburg by Tron z k. The favour accorded to the Asiatics of passing th e R u ssian frontier without passports from their own G overnm ents and the reduction of the custom duties, havd had a most beneficial effect on the trade." DR. SMETHURST says—Why is Dr. Smethurst still detained therea prisoner are .—A writer in gaol? in Is he considered "guilty," but that utation" of the ex tenuating circumstances to justify a a contemporary the crime, the law ought to be sentence. Unless there are no circumstances ,'‘c a om Then he ought to be course. is he considered innocentaFin exte nuatewtohiethaketsan innocent man in released, for it is as unjust to de The only conclusion, I prison as it is to execute s reprieved sentence dur ing her Majesty's pleasure, think, to be drawn from the!f:aicm.nst.tthhaatt htch‘e‘ in i order to give more time to sus pended during her pleasure, justify a emu:nitration of and can be none, in such a sift the matter. As there are ex tenuating to tenuating circumstances, there time for investigation , appears to to give more the sentence, and if the "reprieve,': or the delay is not in tendedother band,he is considered inno cent,be no valid reason why the executionl of the . sentence should be defeired. On the • tely discharged, since it is the height of cruelty or if there be a doubt as to his guilt, then he ought to be immediately to punish, in any way , an innocent man, or a man o f w h ose criminality must there is a doubt. It be borne in mind that Dr. Smethurst is not now in gaol awaiting a fresh trial, unless what is going on at the Home-office may be considered such, THE NINE ROUES' MO V-Ellf-E -Arr " The membqrs of the conference who assenabled yesterday at the Paviors' Arms were in higher spirits apparently than they have been at any tune since the commencement of the strike, at the prospect of the dividend which they were enabled to declare: It was generally supposed by the employers gild others who were not acquainted with the nature and amount of the levies which have recently- been made among the men in work that the dividend wo uld be even smaller titan it was a fo rtnight ago. They w ill be surprised, therefere, to l earn that the actual dividend declared amounted to 3s. per wen to every society man, of whatever class, at this mot-. meat out of work in consequence of the lock-ou • This is in addition to what the societies will seve rally contribute, so that for this week at least the men will not be left entirely without funds. At Or same time Trollope's men, noW reduced to killedin number, received, as was anticipated, 12s. . and Bs. unskilled labourers. The effect of a distil bi;ttiwonofoolfdt.hislinaitnudrue,ceasmnouonnt.sinocgiettlynearly .0,30 u. men , who are now out of work for no fault of their own, and will' have no quarter to look to for assistance, to join sei cieties ; and it makes the masters more determine" in their resistance to .unions of every descriptio.% when they see how powerful an organisation cant. raised as it were almost instantaneously for an o u ject so unworthy as that to which, in their opinion, the present agitation is directed. Satisfactory, however, as the present dividend of 3s. per man is regarded t o be, it must be reinera: bored that last week no divid end was struck only , B .° that adding it to the previous on e of ls. ld. it Far _ gives an average of ls. did. per man per wok. the first time since the Strike beg an we have been furnished with an exact list of t he number of Dieu in each trade who were entitled to share in the dt . tribution, together withthe exact amount disburse:4, The document is interesting in a statistical pcan'' of view, and it is important, also, as showing be ; yond cavil the number of society men in e verl f b w r o a r n k c h i no London the ond buildingon and trade Woolwich. at t h i H s mom list e s n t pot 0 t 1:: i n s t ,:' Trollope's men lO4 skilled artisans at 12s £62 6 ° 34 1 6 ° 79 . . 87 unskilled, at Bs. • • Carpenters and joiners „ 0 0 2,446 at 3s ............... °"; 0 0 Bricklayers WoolwichstNonoe.ssawyers y m e r e s n . Plasterers 740 at 3s ............... 111 0 660 „ .............. 99 0 9 Masons Painters 1 , 2 , 0 • 1 8 o ji .. 491 , 73 13 ° 10 7 - Labourers' NNNNN 00000..... 25879 Lodge, . . 9 9 .............. 250 69 : 1 i ............................ N N N O O O ... 436 .. .. 44 22; 0 :0 ,:, ................................................................... 2 3 77 1 : : cool .. 189 „ .............. 4. " 4 0 41 1 0 .. 154 2 3 2 0 .. 5 24 17 2 ' , 7 , ............................ 1:7 n 4. 11 ° , .............. „ 6 No. 10 .. 167 44 ' - 0 N., 11 „ .............. c „ 0 No. 12 . • 54 „ .............. 9 0 23 .. 0 No. 13 • • 12 " ............ 1/6 Labourers from „ ............ Mr. Macey's 01 8 .... • ......... 1245 7,846 n tober Of this total of 7,846 the skilled ar tisans 11- nrt ion 4,889, and the labourers 2,957. This Pro 13- by would appear to indicate that the labourers aqc•ns, no means so generally society men as the 11 . 1 ; t 2 s'i an a while the small number of members in 1 1, ' l ,;dgee 13 would lead to the conclusion that those ::: t v is were of recent formation. Indeed the probabn.e.,ot. that they owe their origin to the present ine:vewtions The men continue to receive contrihe _,. in from the provinces, and the delegates reOre'rv favourable terms f the reception which, eto to where greets them. A great meeting s,; a nd held in the Trades' Hall, Glasgow, tellig'," to Mr. Potter and Mr. Gray left London yesteras-70, be present at it. A monster meeting 10.11,164)&1e pected at Manchester this evening, at Whici''The gates from the metropolis will be present. ter- Anti-Strik e Committee held two raeetings Yes i n day at the Adelaide Gallery • but they Were again overwhelmed by the scouts and pickets of the sli o , ties, who interrupted the proceedings 511 ,1 „ ti bia gether behaved so outrageously that the P° 11 ,,p c ,, - ,ted• to be called in to clear the hall. This they er„ -- bit not without difficulty, and the device• was tu e ly - upon by the committee of admitting by tickets ottlero but these were surreptitiously obtained, and lila so me were little mended. On the whole, however, s-vo 40 men appended their names to the lists, and it to stated that many more were known to be subscribe, but were prevented by the very P e , c , - the and cogent system of " persuasion" adopted v-1 re . Trades Union men .. The committee continue t . ,,. ° 00 ceive encouraging and sympathising letters from all quarters, and already the subscriptions for War ay to Messrs. Smith, Payne , and Smith's begi n t 0 sume important dimensions. The deputation of 16 from the 400 builders' Ore; men, who were appointed at the meeting held Saturday, met yesterday at the Foremen's Instittl';' Lyons'-inn, for the purpose of arranging the int e ia view which it was anticipated the employers vr°,„llo give them at their meeting to-day. An applies,so with this object was forwarded in the course 0 1 g , day . to Mr. Wales, the secretary to the Central xt; sociation of Master Builders, but it did not a rrive i r time to elicit any reply. It is understood, hell; that a joint deputation from the forem en and 41,0 Anti-Strike Committee will be received o."e. masters to-day, when it is hoped that some arran° ment will be arrived at for opening the slier" 6„ for During tu na tthe operativesw hole of THE ANTI-STRIKE MOVEMEN T ' o f the unfortunate iynesthteerdbauyilnduiningbetrsradoe,..-s ,pento strike crowded the thoroughfare in Adelaide- h e ad' Strand, in front of the Adelaide-rooms, the l' e- ti . quarters of the committee recently formed f ar e n' rolling the men opposed to the strike, and afforails; them an opportunity of emancipatingtheose the from the tyranny of the society originatiughot Nine Hours Movement. At intervals throul the the day Mr. Ballard, a foreman smith, n iA n „ s sed Chairman of the Anti-Strike Committee, aa,'„" t ioe large bodies of them within the hall in exe. - e ing of the objects of this counter movement, auti ll ,;rthe them in their own interests as well as-tho se thos e masters to give in their adhesion to it. On e°. O ro' meetings was held between 10 and 11 in the b „,- Ill a ctert ing, and another, of a more animated e" — wee later in the day. Mr. Superintendent Durki,ok in attendance with a small body of police to ell de . any attempt at a breach of the peace, but tile d no meanour of the men was so orderly as to a ffor sent pretext for his interference. Most of thos e P re gr. were society men, precisely the class wh elll „f the Ballard aims at winning over to his side " a ve, question a. large number were men " c ! f h tb B from principle, never identified themselves vo-' t o f society, but who are, nevertheless, thrown ° oc tl ietY employment by this unhappy strike. Th e 8 i gr• men now and then interrupted the address ° s on Ballard, as did others, asking him, questie t e n t he various points in dispute, and especially as t o or interpretation to be put upon the " doeuln ee 'non declaration, which the masters seek to i se d° n ot them, and which it is clear many of t he . be as rightly understand. What they requi r ed to ,ila sured was that in signing the declaration theY:teita, not thereby be precluded from joining or ee oral' ing to be members of a body formed for th; theta nary purposes of a benefit society. Many O s oul are certainly under the impression that theY ~......, be so precluded, though the word s of the dr"..i. pot tion itself, as explained by Mr. Ballard, c ,_ un . warrant any such interpretation ; butlismin u , couldcertainty prevails among the men on thinn would be point. including even non -society_ d in to e fill concerned but an act of justice to them amatter beyond the for the masters to place the w hile it might possibility of cavil or question, f the stri ke. tend to shorten the duration o ter - Numbers of the men of both classes yes st terms aga in day inveighed in indignant other the document, designating it' and d degradation epithets, as a badge of slavery anan on them , which the masters sought to impose „ :0 , declaring that no consideration on earth shou.teni: .., duce them to subscribe it. These expressio us,°_: opinion and determination were vocifero 11.. Mr. " fl cheered by the rest of the audience, and ti,,, lard at times found it a work of difficulty t° if', 7 , anything in favour of the obnoxious t her edocurneut contended, however, that, judged by itself, ..,. was nothing in it contrary to perso nal freedei", He was twitted fur bein g p aid for the p art he scS; taking in the dispute, but that he indignantlY ,se nit d, lie said, incidentally, that the object of t% t mas t e rs was to obtain labour in the market. This This sally elicited a storm of derisive taught u' and one man, taking up •Mr. Ballard's line of firg to merit, added that their (the men's) policcheered's -sell it in the dearest—a sentiment loudly Mr. BALLARD rejoined that the best course wde.. mend,, labour to the operation of supply gar o f and he implored them in the interesi ~, themselves, of those who were near and dear. hat them, and of their employers, forthwith to do win_ they could to terminate this unhappy quarreller): 7. then left the hall, and the men attempted to s, : r :: chairman of their own and continue the dis ' b ell 'e s et ed, but to this the manager of the building 0. J inn whereupon they gave three cheers for then n a Hours' Movement and separated. Between 3 4 ' E . L. ..a 40 men came forward in the course of the day, . ", t st again st pledged themselves to support the prote the strike, - --- At the the ordinary meeting of the Town Council of Glasgow on Friday, the Lord Provost presiding, it ft: agreed, on the motion of Sir Andrew Orr, to reques t 4.. Lord Provost and magistrates of the city to ask the .1. , tional Association for the Pro motion of Social Science to hold the meeting of 1860 in Glasgow. 1 .'