The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

aRE.AT WESTERN RAILWAY. \-A IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS OF TRAINS FOR NOVEMBER. DOWN TRAINS. The 7.10 a.m. Ch ea p Train from Paddington will start at 7.0 a.m. The 10.30 a.m. Train frem Paddington will start at 10.15 a.m., and will call at all intermediate stations between Slough and Did 45 . The 12.45 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 12.30 p.m. The 1.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to the West Midland Line will start at 1.5 p.m. The 2.0 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued between Gloucester and Cardiff. The 1.!10 p.m. Tr .in from .Paddington to till North will call at Didcot, and not at TwyLrd, but a slip carriage tor Henley will be detached from the Train at Twyford. This Train will be discontinued over the West Midland Line. The 4 50 p.m. Express from Paddington will take passen gers for the West Midland Line, instead of the 6.30 p.m. in rain, which will be discontinued over the West Midland Line. The 5.1 i p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued between Swindon and Cheltenham. A Slip Carriage for Slough and Windsor will be detached from the 8.10 p.m. Train from Paddington. The 8.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will be discontinued. The 0.30 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 9.0 p.m. The 5.15 p.m. Train froneTwyford to Henley, in connection with the 4.0 p.m. Train from Paddington, will be discon tinued. UP TRAINS. The 12.20 p m. Cheap Train from Bristol will be expedited, and will not call at stat ons between Slough and Paddington. The 7.40 a.m. Express from Cheltenham will start at 7.30 a.m. The 9.20 a.m. Train from Cheltenham to Swindon will be discontinued. The 12.6 , p.m. Train from Birmingham will start at 1.15 p.m. The 11.50 a.m. Train from Oxford will start at 12.55 p.m di s_ The 3.55 p.m. Train from Oxford to London will be centir ued. The 1.40 p.m. Train from Basingstoke will start at 1 30 p.m. The 12.40 p.m. Train from Henley will start at 1.30 p.m. The 6.5 p m. Train from Henley w ill start at 5 . 55 P. m * The 6.0 I).m. Train from Windsor to Paddington will start at 7.0 p.m, The 6.45 p.m. Train from Windsor will start at 0.35 p .m. SUNDAY TRAINS- DowN.—The 9.0 a.m. Train from Paddington will start at 9.15 a.m. The 9.45 a.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will start at 10.0 a.m. Paddington to the North will The 10.0 a.m. Train trout start at 9.15 am. UP. fhe 1.15 p.m. Train from Bristol will et art at 1.45 arriving, at Paddington p o a n ddin at 7 g .o to p n .m at . p.m.. and will be amalgamated at adcot with the 2.0 p.m. Train from Birmingham, The 4. p.m. Train from Didcot, arriving 6.10 p.m., will be discontinued. The 5.5 p.m. Train from Windsor to London will be dis continued. For alterations at Intermediate Stations, see Time Tables for November. LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, by THOS. 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THIS DAY. —Morning, 6h. 54m.—Afternoon, 7h. 26m TO.44onnow...Morning, Bh. sm.—Afternoon, Bh. 47m, ' 4 V . ,., , 17. . Nt b .. 0 7,. .1' - . 4 =-;;::.. , ' .; ?-: 74 • , ,,tir *l. ••,•-k- - •4•kf',. ~,, ":".,- - - -4 *. -7 - 1- -• ::. A 4 "\V,i' ,''' , -''''•., " ' s e -- / - __ ' '''' ''. : ,• • , - 1 -,.. . , Itit: l''' ~‘,•;,-,_,,,:;:kr4..7.' 4,t re t -,1 1 , 1:01i' ' - r_liN,o4::. ..' i 4 z. 1 LS;;;. - pi: `..,-"7.4",,kt `04.4 •-.. THE SUN• LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1862. Mr. COBDEN'S speech last night was much more discursive than the one at Manchester. It was addressed to a more miscellaneous audience, and had a good deal of the political cast about it. The state of things in the cotton trade around him naturally claimed first attention ; and with 3,000 hearers of all classes, masters, and operatives, he seems to have had a good word for all. Lord PAL MERSTON was the only man severely handled, but even in his case it was the policy, not the man, which the tribune of the people dealt with. His lordship, personally, was excused on account of education-in an antiquated school, and of his being Rot hypocritical but deluded. Mr. COBDEN maintained, in the presence of this ge assembly, that the whole country was ju stl y responsible for their present sufferings. They were Precisely in the same position as they would be if - " a g lan aNNere engaged in a foreign war, and this countrva countr y „ Potts bl oc kaded. In that case the whole t'ld meet the expense of raising the blockade. B ut as the blockade of the Southern ports produces precisely th e same effects, and that blockade is entirely ire i to the English Govern ment supportin g the 7 due 8 of commercial blockades, the claim of the L an t"l ei • re Imperial claim. The . sufferers is really an sufferings are caused by a purely Imperial policy, While, therefore, Mr. COBD,EN grateful iy ackno w l e d ges the good so widely shown by voluntary subscriptions, he does not shrink from giving his o p i nion that oth er aid may be necessary. A voin to el * of much interest with Mr. P -03gb• EN .ear the character of the millowner fro m , n 3 as ' aspersions. While there may be a few whose ust wealth has been realised through the cotton manufacture, yet, as he remarked , th e g reater part of the mann faeturers must be almoot paralyzed by the failure of their supplies. The manufacturer whose mill is idle has generally his property invested in his plant, and if he has "borrowed money on it he is even harder pressed. The average interest of money on his mill will amou , xt to £2,0 00 a y ear. Then the cottages which he has built, frequently, for his hands, will yield him no rent; meanwhile his lia bility tor five or six l tundred a year for poor rates still remains. Thus the millowner, who is rich only ro in bricke and mortar and machinery while he can be supplied with cotton, when that supply is stopped, is at once saddled with annual losses and charges to which the most munificent contribution of a rich nobleman are but a trifle. His illustration,—for us southern folk—of all the cornmillers at once losing their supply of wheat, of having nevertheless their their poor-rates to pay, and losing the rents of the cottages in which their workmen lived, while others called on them to maintain their workmen thrown out of employ—was a happy e ne. It is a fair parallel with the case of the suffering millowners. After all the charity shown by persons at a distance, the millowners' contributions are immensely the larger. But the operatives are proportionably larger con. tributors still. Rochdale furnishes a painful, though not more than an average illustration. Out of 14,071 persons employed in the cotton trade, 10,793 are out of work, and the remainder earn wages in the week. The ing only two days' weekly loss in wages is £6,500, while from the Board of Guardians and charity com bined they reeeive only about £1,500 j a week. They are thus receiving but about one fourth of what they had been accustomed to earn by honest industry. On this point Mr. COBDEN observed that he only half liked the praise bestowed on the people for their quiet behaviour under their trials—since it almost seemed to imply that it was supposed they were little better than a set of savages. Mr. COBDEN need not, however, be jea lous for his Lancashire operatives. In the agricul tural districts similar distress, could it well occur, would hardly have been borne with the same intelli gence and patience. Hungry men, there, seek relief by burning food. The remembrance of " Swing" prompts the general commendations of Manchester and, not its " pauper, but blockaded poor." On the American war Mr. COBDEN could, of course, but have his opinion. It is, however, a very modest one. He can foretell and predict nothing. He can sympathise with the North, but pronounce no judgment. His theory would be that small nations develope the higher powers of humanity much more than larger ones; but he ob serves that the tendency of the countries is now not to division but to agglomeration ; and, imper fect as are the securities of smaller states at present against the aggressions and plots of larger states, he cannot censure that tendency. It has been exemplified in Italy and Hungary in the old world; and the Americans also seem to think that if they were disunited, the foreigner might set his intrusive foot amongst them, or " play off one State against the other to the degradation and pos sible subjection of the whole." Mr. COBDEN is, of course, entirely in favour of perfect neutrality on our part. He even complains of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, that they should not " enforce upon their own tongues a little of that non-intervention, which they profess to apply to their diplomacy"—a remark meant, we presume, not only for Lord RUSSELL, but for his friend of the French Treaty, Mr. GLAD STONE, Recognition, he objects to, because the real meaning of it is such steps accompanying it as should bring us cotton—but he maintains that it would be cheaper for England to maintain all the cotton operatives, " and to keep them on turtle, champagne, and venison, than to send to America to obtain that cotton by force of arms. It would involve us in a war, and six months of war would cost us more than maintaining the population comfortably for ten years. Mr. COEDRN lays great stress on the opinion and resolution of the great North-western States those in the great region of the Mississippi val ley,—Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. These are the great corn-growing States. We have to go up the Missi sippi a thousand miles to reach them. There are then 27,000 miles of navigable rivers flowing through them into the Mississippi—their population now amounts to eight or ten millions—and hitherto their determination has been not to allow the Mis sissippi to flow through a foreign power. Should t'ey remain firm by this determination the Eastern States, who are but their brokers, must follow, and the war may therefore last for years. Europe could not impose its will on the present population of America. Our intervention would at once unite the whole people as one man. Instead of the parties, whose opposition and dissensions may now bring about peace, we should have the whole of America cor dially combining to resist dictation. These are, indeed, familiar views, but they are worth not ing, as those of an avowed friend of the Free States, and of one who well understands them. His views on home matters deserve separate con sideration. Flying rumours about Greece come dropping in thick and fast. War vessels, almost as rapidly and as numerously, begin to congregate at the Pirwus. England sends her squadron. France, with an affectation of doing nothing, prepares to despatch thither her naval division. Austria is on the alert —the Kaiser giving orders for a frigate, a corvette, and two gunboats to hasten, as quickly as steam can carry them, to the same destination. Prussia would, of course, do very much the same had she but the wherewithal. Hankering after a navy she must needs yet bide her time, as patiently as may be, before she can hope to possess it. She lacks even a Kiel to begin with --the taunt is irresistible, and therefore must be pardoned. What though the noble Earl, now at the head of the Foreign Depart ment—bitten again, it would seem, by that insidious German Tarantula that has already led him, before now, such a wild fantastic dance—what though Earl RUSSELL, once more cajoled by the specious diplomacy of the Teutonic race, has actually blun dered into an advocacy of the shameful and shadowy claims advanced by Prussia in the name of that German Empire, to which it is her here ditary policy to aspire, has actually blundered into an advocacy of the claims put for ward :by Prussia to wrest the twin Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein from the possession of the King of DENMARK as their hitherto recognised Suzeraine !—Prussia has yet but the faintest conceivable prospect of obtaining a sea port, of building a fleet, of securing a place among the great maritime powers of Christendom ! Where for Prussia is constrained to remain neuter while thy naval Powers are being promptly represented at the Piraeus by the divisions despatched thither by Austria, by France, by England! while Russia looks askance at the moment—glaring upon one object of attention just now looked to by all, namely, the actual state of things at the Piraeus, glaring upon it, one might say,. with a decidedly sinister squint, from two wholly opposite quarters, from the two great lind locked seas where her maritime power holds supre macy, from the Euxine and from the Baltic! Nay, while ev en th at E ecood-rate kingdom (of yesterday), now givin g f air the councils o f E l3 ,7 nilse of securin g her place in among the dominant e" the Sixth Great Power racesothe turn also to the Piraeus two of her powerful Christendom, while _ Italy is also despatchin g in tr igatea tfbroenVi,.sicteosr_ Emmanuel from Naples, the Taneret e Edna! An intimation, that, only to be read THE SUN, LONDON, 1111311i0AY EvENINGT, OCTOBER 30, 1862, with chagrin and discomfort, we take it, by the Prime Minister BISMARK, or by his royal master KING WILLIAM. Such as the fact is, however— there it is in the same compromising telegram, however unpalateable to Prussian Monarch or to Prussian Minister. Italy assumes her place as a considerable power no less distinctly at the Piraeus than she did a few years back (when her power was more in anticipation than in realisation) on the shores of the Crimea. Italy is represented there by her war vessels in the waters of the Piraeus, cheek-by-jowel with the naval divisions sent, or about to be sent, to the same tem porary rendezvous by Austria, France, and England. Prussia longing, but helplessly, so far as maritime influence is concerned, to have a finger in the pie—that pie which is just now about to be set like " a dainty dish"—before what King P Prince ALFRED of England, it is said. But then he is a Protestant ! Yet hardly can that surely be ad vanced by the Greek religionists of that Kingdom whose Crown is now going a.begging—hardly can that be adduced as a sufficient and valid reason ! When Catholic Belgium, for example, possesses a this moment, as she has possessed for so many years past in the same happy and prosperous, en lightened an d beneficent reign, a Protestant sove reign, in the person of her constitutional monarch, the beloved and popular King LEOPOLD ! Catholic France but a few years back was ruled, in the person of M. GUIZOT by a Protestant Prime Minister ! Catholic Belgium has been ruled, as we have said, in the person of LEOPOLD, and ruled, too, during many long and memorable years by a Protestant Sovereign ! Greece, with her Greek religionists, can hardly in the presence of facts like those, objeet to receive a new Monarch, coming to her under happier auspices than she has ever had occasion to welcome any Royal Chieftain—she can not object now to entertain the idea of receiving this Royal Chieftain simply because he is not a Greek in faith, but a Protestant ! Catholic France, we repeat, showed in a remarkable manner her en lightenment and her liberality, by placing at the head of all her administrators the Protestant Pre mier, M. GUIZOT. Catholic Belgium has shown yet more signally her wisdom, as well as her liberality and enlightenment, by exulting in the rule of a Protestant KING, who has now during an en tire generation presented to view upon the Con tinent of Europe the almost exceptional spectacle of a truly constitutional Sovereign. Shall Greece now disdain to evidence a like wisdom, libe rality, and enlightenment ? Rejecting Prince ALFRED of England because, in faith, he is a Pro testant ? Objections quite as strong may be raised, however, to each of the other candidates for the crown of Greece whose names have already been svllabled. True that the Due of LEUCHTENBURG is a Greek religionist like the majority of the Greek multitude whom he aspires to rule as his subjects— bat then he is a Russian ! A potent cause for jea lousy, and reasonably so, among all the other (prin cipally among all the Western) Powers of Christen dom. Again, there is that native claimant of the sceptre, whose name has already been bruited about in some quarters pretty confidently, the young Prince YPSILANTE. He, too, like the Due de LEUCHTENBERG, is a Greek by religion —besides being, unlike the Due de LEUCHTENBERG, a Greek also by blood, by birth as well as by parentage. But upon what foundation would such a dynasty be based ? Upon a foundation as vari able and as shifty as a quicksand—instead of being built up on the solid rock, and giving promise from the outset of putting at defiance the force and fury of the storms of any after outburst of a revolu tionary character. Among the Greeks themselves the conviction appears to be already wide spread that no heaven-born dynasty could survive a period of more than a few months' duration, altogether. Is there a talk on the othe.- hand of any imperial aspirant like the Prince NAPOLEON —hitherto baulked of a Throne carved out of the Italian dominions at the expense of his Royal father-in-law ? The Greek religionists might as suredly object to him because of his being a Catho lic, as there is now this idle babble about their objecting to H.R.H. Priuce ALFRED on the score of his being a Protestant ! If but the latter project could be carried out—what a simplification to the difficulties surrounding our rule over the lonian Islands! A simplification accomplished, of course, in that contingency by the absorption of those islands within the new boundary lines of the expanded and recognized kingdom of Greece. Another and a grander advantage yet would obviously accrue from any such a successful negotiation as would place the second son of Queen VICTORIA upon the throne of Greece—that settlement of the difficulty which has now sprung forth in regard to Greece from the recent revolution, insuring to Western Europe an effectual and in very deed (to adopt the late CZAR'S phrase) a material guarantee—but a guarantee kr what ? That then where it is most to be dreaded, and most to be regarded with jea lousy, a check should be put to Russian ambition in the East ! A spoke being thereby put in the Wheel of Fortune, contrived by the wily and audacious genius of PETER THE GREAT—a wheel that if al allowed to roll on, by reason of either the complicity or of the indolence of the rest of Europe, might even yet realise the darker half of NAPOLEON'S prophetic alternative, that before another half hundred years from the date of Waterloo—Europe, if not Republi can, would be Cossack ! A hint might surely be taken by Sir RICHARD MAYNE as well as by the Birkenhead Magistrates from a curious little announcement coming to England just now very opportunely in our French correspondence. The announcement conveying, as we cannot but think, this singularly well-timed hint to those functionaries falls under our observation in the manner following :—" The Firemen of St. Armand, near Amiens," saith the correspondent, " have established an exercise which they call the tir h 1 draulic, in which the tube of a fire-engine replaces the rifle. An iron target is erected, in which a hole is pierced. The target is raised 15 feet from the ground by means of a pole. The water, driven by a fire-engine placed at a distance ' of 25 feet from the target, is received into the cen tral opening, and falls by means of a funnel into a cask capable of holding 25 gallons. The prize is adjudged to the fireman who shall fill the vessel in the shortest time. This period varied on the first trial from 1 min. 43 sec. to 3 min. 30 sec. The firemen are delighted with this new practice, and they have returned thanks to their captain, who origi nated the idea." Now, Why, we ask—if lot (in one sense of the term) seriously, at any rate very earnestly—Why should not this really excellent contrivance be adopted in this country, not merely among our Firemen, but among our Policemen ? The mere practice would be as surely exhilarating to them as it is now proving upon exercise-days to the firemen of St. Armand. And then—and then —is not the deduction manifest ? So soon as our conservators of the peace have fairly got their hands "in" at the hydraulic tir any attempt at a riot on the part of any section of the great unwashed such as the roughs of Hyde-park and Birkenhead, might be put down, if not in a twinkling, at any rate, with a pretty tolerable sprinkling ! Captain HANS Buss's suggestion might then be carried out in the completest and most effectual manner imaginable. Strange to say, there is much dry humour in that same soaking suggestion. The mere notion of a swarm of bludgeoneering roughs being washed into unwonted cleanliness, for once, by a well-directed discharge from the hose of these dydraulic tirailleurs has about it something positively refreshing. ANO7HER PHASE OF " ESSAYS AND hEVIEWS." With a view, apparently, to a prosecution of the Rev. Mr. Jowett, the writer of the article " On the Interpretation of the Scriptures" in "Essays and Reviews," the opinion of Sir Robert Phillimore has been taken in a case which has been laid before him. The following is the " Opinion :"—My duty is con fined to stating whether, in my opinion, certain passages in the Commentaries by Professor Jowett on St. Paul's Epistles, and certain passages in an essay by the same author in Essays and Reviews,' entitled, ' On the Interpretation of Scripture, are or are not so contradictory of, and at variance with, certain of the 39 articles and other formu laries of the Church of England, as to render the writer of them punishable by ecclesiastical law if he were in a position which subjected him to the law. First, with respect:to the doctrines of the Atonement, Satisfaction for Sin, Vicarious suffering of our Saviour, I am of opinion that vari ous passages in the commentary entitled On Atone ment and Satisfaction,' are plainly at variance with, and contradictory of, the 2d, 15th, 28th, and 31st of the 39 articles, and also with various portions of the liturgy upo❑ these subjects. (The learned civilian quotes at some length the passages commencing— " The doctrine of the atonement has often been ex plained in a way at which our moral feelings revolt," &c.) I find that the writer in these and in other passages, and as it seems to me, by the whole tenor of his argument does contradict the doctrine contained in the 39 articles and the liturgy, and sets up an other and a different doctrine in the place of it. Se condly, as to the inspiration of Holy Scripture. In the essay on the Inspiration of Scripture, the pas sages contained in pages 342, 343, 345, with re spect to this subject are certainly at variance with and contradictory of the doctrine of the Church of England as contained in her formularies, according to the recent judgment of the Dean of Arches in the case of the Bishop of Sarum v. Williams,' and Ten dall v. Wilson.' Thirdly, as to the creeds; the Bth of the 39 articles says that these creeds ought thoroughly to be received and believed, for they may be proved by the most certain warrants of Holy Scripture.' It appears to me that the lan guage of Professor Jowett in pages 353, 345, in Essay on the Interpretation of Scripture, plainly contradicts this article. Fourthly, as to the Divinity of our blessed Lord; and fifthly, as to the personality of God the Holy Ghost. I doubt whether the doctrines of the church upon these subjects are so distinctly contradicted in the passages referred to as to found a charge in criminal articles against the writer. Sixthly, as to the doctrine of Original Sin. Though it seems to me clear that the writer does not agree with the doctrine contained in the 9th of the 39 Articles, yet I doubt whether there be passages contained in the Commentary or the Essay, which a court ad ministering criminal justice would hold to be cer tainly and unquestionably contradictory of the articles and formularies. Seventhly, as to the har- mony of the 0 d and New Testaments. I have con sidered the passages in pages 553-554 of the Com mentary. I incline to the opinion that a lenient court might hold that these passages admitted of an interpretation which would not necessarily place them in opposition to the 9th of the 39 Articles." The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have arrived at Stafford House, St. James's. The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House on Tuesday, from Cliefden, near Maiden head. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have returned to their residence in Stratton-street, from Ireland. The Earl of Eglinton attains his majority on the 3d of December, when there will be great festivities on the earl's estates in Scotland, more particularly on his lordship's large estates in Ayrshire. The marriage long arranged to take place between the noble earl and Lady Sophia Pelham, only daughter of the late Earl of Yarborough, will be solemnised shortly after the coming of age of the earl. The Earl and Countess of Craven have been receiving a succession of visitors at Ashdown Park during the past week. The Marchioness Dowager of Lothian and Lady Alice Kerr left town yesterday for New Battle Abbey, near Edinburgh. The Countess Cowper has been entertaining a select party at Wrest Park during the week. Amongst the company present were the Earl and Countess Spencer, Earl of Shrewsbury and the Ladies Talbot, Viscount and Viscountess Boyle, Hon. Major Anson, Mrs, L. Fox, Mr. Henry Greville, Hon. Charle s Ed gcum b e , & c . Viscount and Viscountess Barrington have left Beckett House, Berks, for Brighton. The Bishop of Oxford passed through town yes terday from Hacknoss Hall, Yorkshire, for Hughenden Manor, Bucks, on a visit to the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli. The Earl of Wicklow has arrived in Cavendish square from Brighton. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Misses Canning will leave Grosvenor-square in a few days on a Continental tour. Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby leave town early next week for Torquay. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., has left town to join Lady Mary Wood at Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess De Grey are expected to leave Studeley Park, near Ripon, on Saturday next, for town, in order that his lordship may resume his duties as Under. Secretary of War. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Floors Castle, Kelso, N.B. Mr. Newman and the Misses Newman have left Farrance's Hotel for Torquay, Devon, The marriage of Mr. George Russell, son of Mr. Russell, auditor-general of the Court of Chancery, and private secretary of Earl Russell, to Lady Charlotte Innes Ker, younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rex burghe, took place in the Episcopal Chapel, at Kelso, Roxburghshire, N. 8., on Tuesday last. '[he Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Victoria Russell return to Chesham-place the week after next, from Woburn Abbey, Beds, in order to be present at the wedding of the Hon. Elizabeth Theresa Lister, youngest and posthumous daughter of the late Lord Ribblesdale, with Mr. Melville, son of the late Sir Henry Melville. The earl and countess give the wedding break fast, the fair fiancee being step-daughter to the noble earl. A marriage is arranged to take place between the Marquis of Tullibardine, son of the Duke and Duchess of Athol], and Miss Moncrieffe, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieffe. M. Thouvenel has been appointed chairman of the French Eastern Railway,vice Drouyn de Lhuys. This is a curious change. La Patrie announces the arrival of King Otho at Venice, where he will be joined by the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, brother of the Queen, and by Louis, the ex- King of Bavaria, his father. SINGULAR DEATH OF A SCOTTISH MISER.—Last week there died in the Fever Hospital, Dunfermline, a man fifty-five years of age, named Andrew Hutton, better known in the western district of Fife as the " African Chief." For a number of years he has lived in the most miserly manner, hardly allowing himself enough of food to sustain life, and the little he did take was of the coarsest description. Many amusing stories are told of his parsimonious habits. The immediate cause of death was eating the leaves of ash trees. He had been walking along the edge of a field bordered by these trees, on the fallen leaves of which the cows were feeding greedily. He thought the animals seemed fat, and that if the leaves were good for them they could not be bad for him. He accordingly gathered a quantity and took them home, and, after boiling them, fed on them for several days. The con sequence was that he was taken ill and removed to the hos pital, where he died after some days of great suffering. On searching his house after death the relatives came upon . an old tea-kettle, in which was found a cheque for £7 O , the in terest on which had b een accumu l a ti ng f or 17 years' an d a book showing a bala n c e o f £6l a t hi s cre dit in the National Security Savings B an k. S evera l £1 n otes and a g r e at quantity of loose mone y i n h a lf- crow ns, s hillings, and smaller coins were a l so f oun d i n t h e mo st out-of - the - way places. Hutt on was a l so possesse d o f con siderable property in Dunfermline. He was a great reader, and well versed in several languages.—Edinburgh Courant. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. —The total visitors up to four o'clock yesterday were 61,591, of which 6,2 , '5 were by season tickets, 1,139 by shilling and day tickets, and 57,251 by payment at the doors. Their Impe rial Highnesses the Prince and Princess Napoleon were again present, and, accompanied by Mr. Fairbairn, spent the whole of the day in the building, LATEST NEWS. TURIN, OCT. 29. The Italia of this evening says:— " We have received intelligence asserting that Tristany, with 20 companions, had surrendered himself at Veroli to a French detachment. " The band of brigands, commanded by Tardio, has been destroyed. The chief alone succeeded in escaping." CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 28. According to it dvices received here from Athens, disturbances took place at the Fillet's while the ship having King Otto on board was still in sight. Four persons were killed. The National Assembly will meet within eight days hence, and will, it is said, offer the crown of Greece to Prince Alfred of England. PARIS, OCT. 29. The Patrie of this evening contradicts the ru mour that a French squadron is preparing to sai] for Greece. The other evening journals assert, on the eon rary, that the squadron will leave at the end of the present week. 3 25 P.M. The Bourse has been flat. Rentes closed at 701. 65c., or 20e. lower than yesterday. TURIN, OCT. 29. The frigates Victor Emmanuel and Tancrete are about to leave Naples and Messina for the Piraeus and Patras. VIENNA, OCT. 29. The Emperor has ordered a naval division, con. sisting of one frigate, one corvette, and two gun. boats, to proceed to Greece, for the protection ol Austrian subjects in that country. FRAN CE. BOURSE, October 29.—A further decline of j. in Consols, added to the uncertainty felt as to the re sult of the affair in Greece, caused a further fall in this market at the commencement of business, Threes for the Account rapidly receding to 70f. 50c. In a short time after, however, a rally took place, and brought them up again to 701. 75c., at which they are now. Credit Mobilier and Spanish Mobilier are quoted rather lower, as are also several of the lines of railway. The Italian Loan has also lost ground, being now at 75f. 45c. The market closed as follows : It per Cents. 9B 10 Do, end month 98 20 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 70 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1195 Do, end month 1197 50 Bank Shares 3240 Credit F oncier 1250 Piedmontese Fives 72 40 Italian Loan 72 70 Roman - Austrian Spanish Threes s2k Home Debt RA ILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1052 50 .. 1052 60 Northern .... New ditto oo • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1180 .. 1182 50 Geneva 360 .. 360 Southern Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 617 50 .. 617 60 Ditto to Barcelona 360 .. 355 THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 29. The Royal Mail steamship Norman arrived here this afternoon with the above mail and 35 passen gers. She left the Cape on the 22d ult., St. Helena on the Ist, and Ascension on the sth inst. She was detained one day in Table Bay by a heavy gale, during which the American barqut Lucy Johnson and the English schooner Susan were wrecked. After landing her mails the Norman proceeded to Southampton. At the Cape the cold wet weather had been suc ceeded by warm sunshine and genial showers. The harvest prospects were good, and business had slightly rallied. It was hoped that this improve ment might be progressive and permanent. The communication was again open to all parts of the country, and large quantities of articles of daily consumption were being forwarded to many districts where supplies had run short. Trade in manufactures had also revived. The import market had suffered no material change. Money was easy. The revenue returns for the quarter ending June 30 showed a net de crease of £38,495. The new regulations for the continuance of immigration from England had been published. Free passages were to be granted on y to agricultural labourers, artisans, and domestic servants, who were to be brought out at £6 each. The Governor had refused to adopt the resolutions passed by the House of Assembly for introducing negroes captured by British cruisers. His Excel lency also objected to introducing Caffres from beyond the border. Her Majesty's ship Ariel had returned from her cruise on the Slave Coast, duffing which she had captured 26 slave dhows, and liberated a great number of captives. She also captured the Persian Gulf, a pirate vessel, which fired upon her boats in Mombas harbour, wounding Lieut. Fellowes and two men. Information had been received from the Zambezi of the retreat of the Oxford and Cambridge mission party, through fear of being attacked bi the natives, whom they did not wish again to fight. There was a dispute between the Rev. Mr. Rowley and Dr. Livingstone respecting who is to blame for this fighting having arisen. Mr. Robert Moffatt died near Kuruman on the Bth of August. The tribal titles dispute between the Lieutenant- Governor of Natal and the Legislative Council had been compromised. Extensive fires had occurred at Port Natal, caus ing much loss of property. The following vessels had arrived out :—The mail steamer Athens, on the 10th of September ; the Roderick Dhu, the Northern Light, the Lord Coiling. wood, the Gloucester, the John Mayall, the Express, the Amphitrite, the Marengo, the Joanna, and the Odin during the month. 711 E PACIFIC. By the arrival at Southampton of the West India mail steamer La Plata, we have files of the Panama Star and Herald to the 9th inst. _ The steamer Valparaiso, from the South Pacific ports, had arrived. The people of Chili seemed wholly engrossed with the preparations going on for the celebration of the anniversary of the inde pendence of their republic. Doa Manuel A. Tocornal, Secretary of State, had given a splendid fancy ball at Santiago. A very successful ladies' fair was held at Valpa raiso on the 4th, sth, and 6th of September, for the benefit of the Benevolent Society of that place. The Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad was fast and would, i t was expecte d , b e opene d prog ressing, throughout for traffic before another year. The railroad from Santiago to San Fernando, it was expected, would be opened at the same time. Since last advices the following British vessels had arrived at Valparaiso:—The Glenthunly and Phaeton, on the 7th of September ; the Dayspring, Bth ; the Mandeline, 11th ; the Dundonald and the John, on the 13th. Transactions in charters have been very numerous since the departure of the last steamer, although in some instances at a slight de cline in previous rates. The Georgiana would pro bably be taken up for ores at 13 when the next mail leaves. Exchange at Valparaiso •--On London, 90 to 60, 45d,, 45- 4 1 ,d., to 451 d. ; Paris, 4f. 65c. to 4 f . 70c. Hamburg, 40 to 40,1. 00 0 From Peru there is no particular new b s ut r emained of the English loan had reached l'nesri u gfl ees, Govern 700, - deposited in the hands of ill meat, or rather Congress , still declining to accept the loan. A national bank o f discount and deposit, with power to issue notes for 10 dollars and upwards, was likely to be established. The Government had brought a bill for the purpose before Congre:-s. A bill has also been laid before Congress by the Government for regulating weights and measures by the decimal metre, and being sanctioned•by the Senate would likely soon become law. The patent for importing coal oil, so hastily granted, had been annulled by Congress, so that there is now free trade in that kind of light. The following British vessels since last advices had arrived at Callao—viz., Sea Nymph, Sept. 24 ; Monteagle, 26th ; and also her Msjesty's ship Tri bune, 27th, from Valparaiso. Her Majesty's ship Topaz was to leave Callao for Panama on Sept. 30. A revolution had again broken out in Bolivia. General Perez was in pursuit of General Ache. This latter was trying to collect forces in Corocoro, but as the whole army and all the other towns were for Perez, General Acha would, in all probability, make his appearance in Tacna as a refugee. A vessel arrived at Caldera on the 20th of Sep tember, from Europe, reported the total loss of the American ship Reporter, bound to San Francisco, off Cape Horn ; only four of the crew were saved. The British ship Blue Rock, 700 tons, M'Dowell master, laden with guano and bound to Hamburg, sprung a leak off Chiloe. The captain endeavoured to put into Valparaiso, but was prevented by con trary winds, and the ship finally sunk in lat. 22 40, long. 72 30, about 200 miles south-west of Iquique; all hands were saved. LI 7 ERA 7 U RE. The Ganges and the seine. By Sidney Laman Blanchard. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall. Under this title Mr. Blanchard gives us a series of essays and tales illustrative of various phases of Indian and Parisian life, the former of which are now published for the first time, whilst most of the latter have appeared in the pages of Household Words and All the Year Round. A few miscel laneous papers are also added ; the whole forming a work which, for the lovers of light reading, will possess considerable attraction. Some of the pliers, moreover, touch on topics of no small importance, such for instance as that styled " India and Cotton." " Nature," says the writer, " has given us every advantage in India that soil and climate can fur nish ; but although she has done so much for us, we have done so little for ourselves that the work may be considered barely commences. There are immense cotton fields, it is true ; but neither capital, skill, en terprise, nor even honesty, are employed in raising the plant; which is, therefore, an inferior article, fetching an inferior price. The natives, to whom the cultivation is almost entirely confined, have very little power to improve the state of things, and what power they have they do not care to employ. Each man has a little patch of ground which he cultivates for himself. He is responsible to no other person for looking after his own interests, except, indeed, to the native usurer, from whom he has received advances for the purchase of the seed, and who faithfully sells him up if he neglects to pay them back. The first mistake which he makes is in the matter of this same seed. The seed prodUced from his own district is sown over and over again, year after year, and has been allowed to reproduce itself in this manner for centuries past. The usual fate of a very old family which has been too ex clusive in its alliances, of course attends it. The plan becomes weak and imbecile, and, coming from an exhausted stock, suffers the additional dis advantage of having its education entirely neglected. It never could be an aristocrat, and the ryot (or cultivator) effectually prevents it from taking even a respectable middle-class rank. The seed having been sown, the ryot is happy for a time in throw ing the responsibility upon nature, under whose auspices it usually grows up in due time. The period for gathering depends less upon the ripeness of the cotton than the private conveni ence of the ryot—a marriage or death in his family, or the occurrence of some native fe:tival—so that the process is either performed too soon or too late. The other preparations which it• has to undergo are made upon the same lax principle ; and the delay of transport being added to the other delays, the cottoh most likely catches the rainy season on its way to the coast, where it arrives damaged, if not utterly spoiled. The purchaser, indeed, may con sider himself fortunate if he receives the article only dirty and ill-prepared; for I have heard of such things as straw being packed by mistake in the bales, not to mention the carcases of animals and other little matters of the kind." Any quantity of cotton, the writer says, may be produced in India if the Lancashire millowuers will only bestir them selves. This, at present, they seem little inclined to do, for reasons which Mr. Blanchard takes some trouble to explain. His analysis of the notorious " Nil Darpan " gives an amusing idea of the constituents of a Hindoo drama. In "The City of Akhbar Kahn" we have an excellent description of that wondrous specinarn of Hindoo or Saracenic architecture, the Taj Mahal ; but the part of the work which we think least happy is that termed " The Simpkins in India." A Sailor Boy's Logbook, from Portsmouth. to the Peiho. Edited by Walter White. 1 vol. Chap- man and Hall. This is an unpretending little volume, written evidently with perfect good faith, and giving " a plain unvarnished tale" of the experiences of a youth who, smitten with a love of the sea, entered the naval service for the term of ten years, but left it with dislike at the end of five ; having, during that period, visited China and Japan, and assisted at the disastrous attack on the Taku Forts. As a picture of ordinary seafaring life, drawn by a youth of more than ordinary education and intelligence for that station, the work possesses peculiar value, and we strongly recommend its perusal to lads wh3 may wish to follow in his footsteps. As a specimen of the style, we give an account of the attack on the forts : "No sooner did the Chinese see our boats approaching than they opened a tremendous fire from every available position, tearing up the boats and killing many a brave fellow before we could land. Thus was our hilarity turned into rage, pain, and disappointment, by the want of good judgment; as we thought, somewhere. The nearer we came to the landing place the nastier it looked. However, as soon as our boat touched the ground, we jumped out and found ourselves up to the waist in water and slime ; and, what was worse, our am munition was rendered useless by the soaking it got. Some poor fellows lost their footing, and went down so deep into the mud that they were drowned by the jump from the boat. Others seemed petrified, and crouched into the very bottom of the boats, so terrible appeared the iron storm that we had to face. " We were wader the charge of an old petty-officer. He was addressing an order to one of our party, when a shot struck him and he fell dead. We moved on : might as well advance as to stand there to be killed, especially as the forts were pouring on us a murder( us fire of grape-shot and all other conceivable missiles. The sight was sickening to see so manyfalling around,andyet no one able to stretch out a helping hand to save. All at once I felt a sudden numbness in my head, and my cap was knocked off. I instinctively put up my hand, but felt no blood, and fortunately kept my footing. My impression was that I had been acci dentally hit by a Frenchman behind me who was firing at the forts. Dreadful was our struggle through that greasy mud. At length we reached the outermost trench, where one-half of our number, having spoiled their ammunition, could not molest the enemy; so we halted unde looking on, and wishing the Chinese, the forts, and e officer who selected the landing place, a t the devil; any where but in the place they happened to he. ---- 2he Birds of Song. By H. G. Adams. Hogg and Sons. of the We have here the first of three volumes in which it is purposed to gi ve `` a feathered families of Britcomplete account ain," the birds of song appropriately taking the lead. The volume i 8 adorned wit h u p wards of 50 illustrations by wm Harvey, Luke Clenne l, and W. S. Coleman con tains, int ers p ersed with the descri p ti ons, n ' um an e d : rous anecdotes , an d q uotations from the poet s . t h e end, too, are full directio a n y s , for keeping bi r d s i n At cages, a custom , b y the way, mo re honoured in the breach which we thi n k auce." tha n i n the observ- -- ~.......... Undiscovered Crimes. By Waters. Ward and Lock. Mysterious murders :orm the staple of these nar ratives. They are interesting of their kind, and will no doubt be appreciated by the admirers of this o,yle of literature. PRINCESS'S THEA 7 RE. MISS AMY SEDGWICK. The buoyant and hilarious Miss Amy Sedg wick is a material addition to the ranks of this theatre—the defect of which, as we have already remarked, lay in the direction of a heroine. She appeared on Monday in the "Hunch back," and last even ing in the " Love Chase"—her performance iu the latter play being, we think, much the truer and the more successful. Miss Sedgwick has eens'bility, but she wants passion for the poetic drama, whilst in respect to the comic she has undoubted humour, which in recent years has been refined by no small amount of art. Her Constance is now at all points the very best the stage possesses, and the nearest approach to Mrs. Nesbitt's which our generation is likely to see. In this—to all the vigor and the freshness which distinguished its first present ment, she now adds a variety and truth of pleasantry which makes it as comic as it is natural. Another feature of the performance was the Lydia of Miss Constance Aylmer, which we are happy to refor to as a far more successful effort than her first one. In the simple and deep devotion of the maiden " love distraught," but who rests on her truth and duty as on a rock, amidst fearful surges, she displayed an earnest ness and even pathos which revealed the presence of actual power, however dependent on time and study for its adequate development. To characters of this cast she should certainly confine her pre sent efforts, and gain a foothold of her art, before she takes to a leap upwards. The rest of this charming comedy was very worthily sustained. Mr. George Vining was an excellent Wildrake, with much more balance in its changes than is usually exhibited ; Mr. Shore, an earnest Master Waller; Mr. Fitzjames a young comedian, who has wisely taken to old men —is a very sound Sir William, in theory, if somewhat over-emphatic in practice, whilst the Widow Green of Mrs. Wreton —a powerful addition to the company—presents the only approach the stage has seen to the inimitable performance of Mrs. Glover. The house was well I attended. CITY OF LONDON THEATRE. The great attraction of Mr. G. V. Brooke at the above establishment has compelled the lessees to open the doors a quarter of an hour before the rega lar time. Theie has never before been such an ova tion at the east end of London. The theatre is crowded nightly long before the rising of the cur tain. Mr. G. V. Brooke is nightly called three tend four times by the audience, and received with cheers. Mr. G. V. Brooke appears on Saturday and Mon day in his great part of Virginius. EX-KING OTHO. The Paris correspondent of the Times writes : I am informed that overtures were made, though in an unofficial form, to the French Government to support King Otho on the throne of Greece. This was when the news of the disaster which has be fallen him was first known here, before his flight to Corfu, and before we learnt that the movement was so general Pnd so decisive. It is not said what was the nature of the support asked for, whether moral or material ; but whatever it may be my in formant states that the answer given was peremp tory. Otho, even if he still held out in some corner of what was only till the other day his kingdom, had nothing to expect from France in the way of support or sympathy. The party who pleaded his cause was told that France had other matters of more importance than the restoration of a Sovereign driven forth by his people to attend to, and that the Greeks were at liberty to choose whom they thought proper. From other quarters I also hear that the French Govern ment is resolved to act with the Protecting Powers in this affair. Of the unanimous character of the movement there is no doubt. It appears that the King and Queen, hearing what had taken place in Western Greece, left Messenia on board the Amalie, and touched on the 23d not far from the Piraeus. It was while here that they were visited by the Minister of War. Probably acting on his advice, they proceed( d to Salamis, and the same n ight were joined by three other vessels of war. On the following day, as is already known, they had a visit from the foreign Ministers, who were on board French frigate, and were accompanied by an Eng" lish and an Austrian ship. Meantime, information was communicated to the King that the General who had put down the insurrection of Nauplia had a corps amounting, we are told, to 2,000 men, under his orders, and that it was at the King's disposal. The General proposed taking up a position near Athens against the insurgents, in 'order to intercept their communications. We do not know whether the King accepted the offer, but the next thioS heard of him was that he addressed a proclamatio o to the people, reminding them of their allegiance' while a counter proclamation was issued by the Pro visional Government explaining the causes of the insurrection, and cAling upon them to support lt• If at any moment the Queen, who, as usual, to 4 the chief management of affairs into her hand 6 thought that there was a chance of putting do l the movement, she and her consort m us t soon ba n e been undeceived, for the next news we hear of thel ° is their arrival at Corfu on the 27th, and after a short stay their departure for Venice. The difficulty now is as to Otho's su ccesso r i Various candidates are spoke n o f : —Th e D u ke ° Leuchtevberg, Greek by religion, b u t R us sian ; ~ nephew of Otho, but the Greeks will not hear of Bavarian—" they would," a Greek remarked to i n my hearing, " take the first man they met pa ; of the Boulevards rather th an aga i n h ave a member of that or any oth er G erman f am il y ;" a eon Victor Emmanuel, b u t h e i s a C at h o li c , and tb e . be 60th Article of th e C ons tit u ti on requ ires d successor of Otho to be of the Orthodox faith, a n moreover, Austri a an d R uss i a wou ld o bj ec t. 44- °on se, of Queen Vi c t or i a i s ment i one d, b ut t hi s , I suPP°„nt is, on politi ca l an d re li g i ous groun d s , c omplete .l l 9 t ; ti, of the que s ti on . A na ti ve G ree k, P r i nc e 1 4 3 ' 1 ion , is pointed at, b u t h e i s sa id t o h av e Russia'' $ dencies, and some of his cou n t r ymen believe t hat from nat it in raisediveGrefeo k urmonths. But ho to thethrwonee:or be the manuldbedrivs it is undeniable that the Greek people can hardly hive a worse ruler than the one they have just eas t out from among them. SHIPP IN DAY, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) Morning , Louisa, for CaPe: t GRAVESEND. Thursday Arrived, Oct. 29--Persia, from Demerara. DEAL, Thursday M • ; si L iv o e u r • is 5orsn:1111: Good Hope; Australia, for New york • Passed—Time, for Punta Arenas ,Claudia,l for P : Kitts ; Token, for Lagos ; Fedune Mi n all from Loudot:L, for Swansea-- The present quotation tor bar ' per o unce, be in g i d. abov e that TThe advanc e is caused by the recently current. for Bomb a y . activit y o f the demo° The Liverpool cotton m tar, and prices are falling. limited to 1,200 bales. The t rans actions were It is stated, an d Sir Charles Trevel we believ e correctly, tha t minister, i n Pin will go out to India as fin n rice place A of Mr, Laing. prospectus has Gold reining C been issued of the Sovereign 000, in s h ares _,'''',,. ompany, with a capital of £6O, , of 4 ' l , to purchase and work some lodes 0, quarts near -„, liolgelly, North Wales. The p4rchas. mone— is to I to be ,f.:5 000 in £1 3,000 , . sash and shares. At the nee annual meeting of the Queen Assura Company.lllo at Liverpool, to-dey, the fire pre ~ for the year were stated at £47,420 and the rate 0., premiums at £14,328, and interest at the rate of ° per cent. was declared upon the share capital. _ MURDER BY A FARMER AT GOOLE.--Mr• GeOrgu, Smith, an extensive farmer under the Earl of Boverley,. 'l.l' Goole Grange, near Goole, has been commilted for trial; charged with the murder of Thomas Duckles, wh om o f shot a few days ago. The prisoner, who is only 30 old a nd age, was the employer of the deceased, who was an o ld ?": respected labourer on the farm. The circumstances of t 9 . 7. case are very painful. Mr. Smith had, it appears, been hot some time addicted to excessive drinking, and it as wh e ; too suffering from an attack of delirium tremens the 1 the life of his servant. ' .