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W.C., and of the undersigned ; of each of whom printed par ti cu lars may also be had , and to whom p ro p osals for purchb:se by private contract may be made. A.DAM - RIVERS STEELE, Solicitor, 41, Bloomsbury-square, London, P.C. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 1112. 42m.—Afternoon, h. m To-moultow.-Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 31m, --......m•M01M..........1MM1N1 Immonim , THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1862. We congratulate our fellow-citizens on the South side of the Thames that their voice, backed by that of the press and the 'public generally, has prevailed. rand Committees, as well as Dukes of RUC CLEIICH, find it useless to resist when a job be ccmes so glaring, and the parties interested are so nut oerous, that full discussion is insured. In this case the press and the—in a conventional sense— respectable portion of the public were perfectly dis interested. They ha te contended entirely on behalf of their poorer neighbours. An hospital is an in stitution to confer upon the most needy of the poor, in the most critical medical cases, tio benefit of the highest medical skill ; this aspect of the case should never be forgotten. The physicians and surgeons in attendance upon St. Thomas's Hospital lay just and deserved stress upon it in their statement. In England the poorest enjoyed " the skill of HIINTIIR and ABERNETHY and COOPER, BAILLIE and BRIGHT, LISTON and BRODIE, CUTE and TRAVERS, when each was at the zenith of his power and reputation." A splendid charity this, but one entirely conditioned on the prorinlity of the hospital to the great city in which first doss surgeons tend physicians must reside. Those wIt:o have demanded the abandonment of the scheme for making St. Thomas a country hospital may truly say that in so doing they have secured for the poorest person suffering under a case need ing the highest skill, or nee,iing to undergo an ope ration of the greatest difficulty, the very men who would be sent for by Belgravia, or by the Palace itself. To this is to be added the other great considera tion, that the cases most claiming hospital atten tion are thole "of acute disease, and the immediate effects of severe accidental injury." The number of these is very great ; and their conveyance by railway or other means would always involve great suffering, often danger, frequently loss of life, before they could receive attention. These two facts alone are sufficient to decide the question of removing the Hospital, or of retaining it near its old site. There aro several collateral reasons of great importance ; but the incalculable advantages of being near to the highest raedislal skill, and to the innumerable cases which require immediate attention, are suffi cient alone to convict of folly, if nothing worse, the Proposal of the Grand Committee to remove the hospital into the country. We observe that the statement of the Physicians and Surgeovs endorses the a rguments which we urged the other day, sup portine:t them irresistibly with their greater means of illustvation; nor can we conceive that after that statement` has published, and public opinion so strongly Emilyresae Committee to attett it be possible for the Grand old one. pt any scheme similar to their The Grand c oomitt pos sible, but the u o o e t were let down as gently as psh su bmit to an aratuam : l : ll w.ls that they had to to 28, their resolu tion, by a majority of 47 t the thieg. The Grand Committ ee That will settle itself may now be stfely Jeft after such an uinst 'ietielo" t o resu me their search fora locality. m uc h vi as to the necess of not too mach a said by them i:y restricti ng t h e i r choice, lest the p ro p rietor of th e favoured s l• ou ld demand an unreasonable s um , Of site coars e t h er e is something in this; .but proprietors m ust know that the public -would no move tolerate the Grand Committee in wasting the fu4ds of the charity in giving an unreasonable sum for 4 desir• than i n purchasing an undesirable able site, one. Railway c om p anies and all public companies are considered by a certain class as fair game—as fat geese ,to be plu ,4ced ; but the mqn w ho had pro- Ind who raised t he p rice exor perty in the market„ to the poo r, bitantly, to the injury of a charity head again could never hold up his in society. To make a sha,"p bargain with per sons who are avowealy se ° Ling pr ofit as mach as you are, may be excusable. Commercial morality certainly exca's it; .1,1•11111......7.--___ ... •' at i • ' ... '...." *,,,, . 'VI.. ", - --, • ,:, .. ' :'''''''' - 1-' - . ;Tat' . -,, :".41 - ,10:ti, - —"- • 4: 4.'4 , 6 , • ..., v. , -, r - • . 2.- ~.iir• e , '' ,7" - - 1 / 2 "..7,:',:: 1 ,. xr . ~.,1 ~.,. ,- .„...L. ,-. 5. .0 1 ' .'-' .+''''' It- • Ipirs ...... but few men would defend the seller who should add a large sum to what he had previously been willing to take, because the land was needed for the service of the poor, the sick, and the dying. It was very well to use this as a pretext to save the Grand Committee from too much humiliation, but till we see it we will not believe of any of our countrymen that they would demand more for their property, because it was wanted for an hos pital. The man who could do so ought to be haunted by the remorse which would make his gains a very uneasy possession. Its full value he ought to have. All beyond that would be robbing the poor. At the first general meeting of the Law Amend ment Society, held on Monday evening, when Lord BROUGHAM again, according to annual wont, occupied the chair—an admirable speech was de livered by the Noble Lord the member for King's Ly n n — a speech in which the progress of the cause of Legal Amendment during the 'last few sessions was tersely and most clearly epitomised. By the aid of Lord STANLEY'S opportune reminders, it becomes at any rate clearly recognisable that if the Legisla ture has been otherwise idle of late, it has made an appreciable advance in the way of realising a variety of most important legal improvements. So viewed —regarding our legislative labours of late years, that is to say, exclusively in reference to their effi ciency in bringing about many desirable changes or modifications in the laws of England—the sea eions of 1860, 1861, 1862, cannot be deemed to have been in any way inoperative. They clan, on the son- trary, be looked back to, with extreme satisfaction They have secured and realised to the nation, in ra pid sequence, beneficial changes of an extraordinarily comprehensive kind, in regard to the law of divorce, in regard to the law of bankruptcy, and, last not least, in regard to the laws hitherto regulating the transfer of_ land. Besides all which, and a multi tude of minor improvements, there are those grand preliminary steps which have been at length taken towards the general consolidation of the law; steps that, if persevered in, must ultimately lead us to the codification of the whole mass of our ancient, composite, and, at present, most complex system of jurisprudence. Numerous other legal improve ments are still, as many of them have been, indeed, long since, in active preparation. Upon the law of patents—the most diffi cult and complicated question, Lord STAN LEY protests, he had ever had at any time brought under his consideration—a Commission having been issued by the Crown, has actually this very day commenced its sittings ! As to the question of the Concentration of the Law Courts, we are rejoiced to observe the noble lord the member for King's Lynn asserting that, in his opinion, it must prove one that cannot possibly give much trouble, if only for the simple reason that, upon the theory of it, there is just absolutely no dif ference of opinion at all anywhere discernable. " The whole world," said he, " agreed that the concentration of the courts would be an advan tage to all parties ; the real point being whether, in the present actual state of affairs, when the expenditure was going on at a rate absolutely unprecedented in a time of peace, it was possible to find funds to accomplish that reform." As to that vitally important problem relating to the possible creation of a Department of Justice—a pro blem, the solution of which, Lord STANLEY observed, with truth, that the House of Commons has now, for some years, stood formally pledged, that for rea sons specified by himself, reasons, however, that we candidly confess we do not recognise as in any point of view either cogent or conclusive, Lord STANLEY does not deem to be ready for any im mediate action. In the first place, he thinks thus unfavourably as to the probability of its early so lution, because the subject itself is not exciting any great amount of public interest. And, in the next place, he is led to that disheartening con clusion in the matter, by a vague conviction that but few among his fellow members would care very much to go into it. Neither of these reasons, as we take it, being in any way sufficient to justify the relaxing of the efforts making of late years, both within and with out the walls of the Legislature, towards the bring ing about, if possible, of this long wished-for crea tion of a distinct Department of Justice, a depart ment comprising amongst its great functionaries that most desirable Law Officer—a Public Prosecu tor I The questions that Lord STANLEY considers are among all others the ripest just now for the immediate consideration of Parliament, the noble lord, on Monday evening, with an evident gusto gladly and even eagerly enumerated. First and foremost among them being of course the still in complete and indeed (considering its magnitude and complexity) the as yet hardly commenced work, the great work of Consolidation ! " This," Lord STAN LEY shrewdly remarked at the first mention of it, " was really a double process, for unless, besides consolidating existing laws, they devised some plan for incorporating new acts as they passed them, in the legislation of which they formed a part, their work would be like pouring water into a sieve, and they would never see the end of it." So re garded and so treated, however, namely, as a double process, it does undoubtedly, we cannot but. recognize with him, admit of a gradual solution. The work must be done, of course, slowly, continuously, and with the utmost possible circumspection and systematization. It cannot, by possibility, be accomplished—all at once. The labour is herculean of its kind, and must be accomplished (above all things, this should be borne in mind by the promoters of the enterprise) gradu ally. were B t ehsai that e L s o t r h d e foregoing e q n u n e m s t i e o r n a s t e , d before the others all. close of his remarks on Monday : legal improvements projected in regard to railway legislation, in regard to the ecclesiastical courts, and in regard to pri vate bill legislation. Alogether, the noble lord's speech, brief and condensed though it necessarily was, was fun of encouragement. ____......----- It is not simply interesting, it is also in the highest degree important, to note in some way the exact extent of the progress made and making to wards the relief of the immense distress now deso lating Lancashire. Several weeks since Mr. COBDEN warned us, through a singularly impressive speech of his in reference to this destitution among the manufacturing operatives, that the loss in wages alone amounting then to a weekly lose et the rate of £7,000,000 per annum, would inevitably (ac cording to his calculations) before the winter should have passed by, have risen to a still more frightful magnitude. He told us plainly that, in wages alone, before the turn of the year the manufacturing districts would be losing week after week at the \ ion. mt annually of £10,000,000. At the time when the e was uttered we believed it to be no g.- \ gyration, Reflection and inquiry have since then t only toC clearly convinced us that there is no exagge ration. Th e evil requiring to be dealt with, increases still steadily In w w ays—in me efforts of a mitigatory et cdoinff s u ecl sio u n en an tly d b i y n uinn tensity. It req u i res to b e - remitting and enla rg i ng kind. These efforts, we ha ve th e c onsolation of knowing, have all along been making, and are b e i n g made, in all imaginable directions , and s till with a fervour of unanimity beyond all praise. Still— one thought remains through it all, shining but too THE SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1862. plainly and steadily before us to admit of our cherishing in regard to these efforts any overween ing sense of exaltation—the thought that as the funds pour in, so they pour out also towards the relief of the afflicted. Immense as the distress is, munificent as are the accumulated funds collected together to relieve it—the whole system of relief is (necessarily, we should premise, under the circum- stances), a hand to mouth system. There is no pos sibility of husbanding the resources now being gathered together. Large though they are in themselves, they are in a manner insignificant when compared with the world of afflic tion they may be the means of dissipating if but promptly and judiciously applied—as they are being ! Considerable though the amount received already by the Central Committee and the subordi nate Committees co-operating with it—the moneys have come to hand piecemeal, and have been dis tributed out of hand piecemeal. There has been no opportunity whatever of laying them out, in the ordinary acceptation of the phrase, to the best ad vantage. Supposing the capital could have been realised at once by some miraculous process—the interest upon it, even then, would have been wholly inadequate for the alleviation of even a sectional part of the great mass of misery and destitution that had to be taken into account and helped promptly and practically. From hand to mouth, we must insist therefore, that alone could any real relief be afforded. Aud from hand to mouth it has been afforded in consequence. During the last week not far from £20,000 (according to the se oretary's book, £19,300) have poured into the relief fund cared for by the Central Committee at Manchester. Yet—before the new weekly grants were authorised at Monday's meeting—the Central Committee retained at the bank no larger reserve fund than £76,565 altogether. This—to meet a distress that, estimated by the loss of wages alone, amounts, according to Mr. COBDEN'S figures, to a weekly mulcting at the annual rate of £7,000,000 to £10,000,000. Notwithstanding all which there is no room, happily, for the nation being in any way disheartened. By this time the magnitude of the difficulty is becoming on all hands fully realised. Our magnates are in no respect disposed to blink it. It is fully realised—and it is being manfully en countered. So far as the country can contrive to deal with it, it will be allowed to do so. When the difficulty becomes too great for these spontaneous efforts on the part of the community, the Govern ment, in obedience to the Councils of the State, will interpose to guard the afflicted multitude in the north from the horrors of actual starvation. A Government Grant is the National Reserve of Bene volence. It is the thought that is, there, always ready at hand, to be applied to some supreme dis tress at an ir.stant's notice, that heartens the people on in their spontaneous charities. Not in any way, however, leading them to relax their own indivi dual efforts. But, on the contrary, inciting them even to renewed exertions—by the influence, as one might almost call it, of an anticipatory emulation. So long as they can in any way contrive to do so, we may be certain that the People of England will strive to meet the difficulty themselves. When their efforts to this end shall prove unhappily in efficacious, then, but not sooner, let the Government promptly and resolutely come to the rescue. If the Economist be right, and its figures ap pear to be well authenticated, there is some hope that with this winter we shall have have passed the worst of the cotton crisis, and that by the beginning of 1863 there will be such a resump tion of work, as shall greatly alleviate the suffer ings of the great body of the workmen. At pre sent the price of cotton is so high, and the price of the manufactured articles so disproportionately low, that manufacturers dare not work. Nothing, indeed, more clearly proves the great extent to which production had been overdone, than the comparatively low prices of manufactured cotton goods at this time. They bear no reasonable comparison with the prices demanded for the raw material. This state of things is, however, tend ing to remedy ;thelf. The high prices of raw cotton being it to Liverpool from every quarter, and so tend, ultimately, to reduce the price ; on the other hand, the cessation of production must, before long, raise, the prices of yarns and goods. Thus. at last, the relation between the prices of the two will be such that work can bo resumed without too heavy loss. As soon as this is the case manufacturers will be but too glad to avoid the heavy loss attendant on stopped machinery, and the partial support of their operatives. Our contemporary, whose introductory remarks to the following statement, appear to be well founded, sums up as follows: The estimates for 1863 will then stand thus : Bales. Bales. Stock of all kinds on Dec, 31, 1862 Probable imports from India .. 1,400,000 19 ~ Egypt Brazil tl Other quarters.. 25,000 - 1,775,000 Total supply for 1863 Expert demand Consumption, for say four days a week, about 28,000 bales m 52 weeks= 1,456,000 2,056,000 Stock, Dec. 31, 1863 .. 119,000 The amount required for four days' work a week we have oalculated on the standard of 1861. But with the economy that has since been enforced in every mill and in every pro cess, a less quantity might perhaps suffice. The result, however, is in in any case encouraging; since it shows that, even without a single bale arriving from America, there would still be cotton enough to afford our operatives about two-thirds their ordinary work and wages, and still leave a stock of upwards of 100,000, bales at the end of 1863. This is an encouraging prospect, and we hope will be verified by fact. As soon as only short time to the extent of four days a week can become general, we may hope for the dawn of a more cheerful state of things. The prospect is one which should however encourage to contributions of every kind, by removing the chill of hopelessness; since it is perfectly certain that all which can possibly be done will barely preserve life, and the health . requisite for the resumption of work ; not to mention that the resumption of work will at best be very gradual, and all calculations of this kind, are liable to dis turbance from unforseen causes. THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UA 1 VIFITY. (From the North British Mail.) Yesterday morning the subjoined letter was re ceived by the secretary to the Liberal Association from Lord Palmerston, who, it will be seen, has accepted the rectoral chair for the next three years : " 94, Piccadilly, 17th November, 1862. " Sir, —I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, informing me that the University of Glasgow have done me the high honour of electing me their Lord Rector for the ensuing three years ; and I beg to assure you that I shall accept the distinction so conferred upon me with much gratitude and pride. There were rea sons founded on circumstances wholly unconnected with Glasgow, which led me before the election to wish that the choice of the University might fall upon some other pet - son, but those reasons must g ive way to the very flattering decision which the University has been pleased, to make.— I era, sir, yours faithfully, (Signed) 44 PALXEREITON. " George Faulds, Esq." A volume entitled "London Scenes and London People" is announced for early publication. The book will consist of a series of papers on the antiquities of London, and also . modern sketches, which have been contr ibuted to the G '" l / — P ros, under the signature of " Aleph." LATEST NEWS. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 19. The reply of the Danish Government to Earl Russell's note of the 24th September in reference to Schleswig-Holstein is published to-day. It says : " The maintenance of the common Constitution in Schleswig is a vital question for Denmark. The Danish Government will, therefore, firmly adhere to the line of conduct prescribed by this conviction. The acceptance of the propositions made by Earl Russell would lead to the destruction of Constitu tional life in Denmark, and would soon even im peril the existence of the Monarchy itself." TURIN, Nov. 18, EVENING. Tue Chamber of Deputies was opened for the session to-day. The Minister of Foreign Affairs laid upon the able diplomatic documents relating to the Roman question. - Signor Buoncompagni asked for an explanation of the policy adopted by the Ministry. Signor Ratazzi declared himself ready to afford an exposition of his conduct as a Minister, and the debate was appointed by the Chamber to take place on Thursday. NOT. 19. The diplomatic documents laid upon the table of the Chamber of Deputies in yesterday's sitting were :—The circular, dated the 10th of September, issued by General Durando, which has already been published ; a note, dated the Bth of October, ad dressed by General Durando to the Chevalier di Nigra ; and the note of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, in reply to the circular note of General Durando. ROME, Nov. 18, Evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Prince of Prussia have been received by his Holiness in private audience. The Archbishop of Besancon has arrived here. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 18. A report of the Minister of Finance to the Em peror has been published to-day, showing the bene ficial results during the last half-y ear of the system of calling in bank notes. The export of precious metals has been reduced to the extent of 19i mil lions, and the rate of exchange has improved. ATHENS, Nov. 15. Disturbances have broken out at Patras. The telegraphic communication has been re-esta. Wished between Chios and Syra. .................... PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The trial of the Due de Grammont Caderousse and the four seconds in the duel in which Mr. Dillon, editor of the Sport, was killed on the 23d nit., took place to-day, when all the parties were acquitted. The consideration of the claim of Mrs. Dillon, as partie dale, was adjourned. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : t , MARSEILLES, Nov. 19, " The Euxine, with the above mail, arrived at Marseilles at 8 a.m. this day. " The mail was to leave for London at 11.30 a.m." on the National Debt is 115,000,000f1., and the War Department, for the army and navy together, pur poses to spend 122,000,0001-92,000,000f1. for ordi nary, and 30,000,000f1. for extraordinary expenses— so that no more than 117,000,000f1. will be left for defraying the expenses of the civil administration. The Reichsrath proposes to levy a tax on all rail road tickets which cost more than two florins, but it is probable that such an impost will hardly bring in more than seven or eight hundred thousand florins per annum. The tax at present levied on the coupons of state and private stock is 5 per cent., but it is likely that it will be raised to 7 per cent. before the session of the Reichsrath is at an end. The Directors of the Bank are about to request the Upper House to mediate between them selves and the representatives of the people, as they, consider themselves hardly treated by the latter. It is possible that such is really the case, but in my opinion an appeal to the " Lords " will do harm rather than good, as the members of the Lower House strongly object to the interference of the nominees of the Crown in matters of finance. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 16th announce that the Queen will give a grand dinner on her fete day, the 19th inst., and a ball on the 28th, the anniver sary of Prince Alfonso's birth. According to the Diario, M. Mon has given Marshal O'Donnell the assurance that he entirely approved of the general conduct of the Government, but that he had always been opposed to the re-embarkment of the Spanish troops in Mexico. The Marshal said that the Go vernment of the Queen of Spain had offered to that of France, in case of the Treaty cf London being again put in practice, that the Spanish troops should recommence the campaign, in concert with England. The French Cabinet, says the Diario, observed that, the honour of its flag being engaged in the expedition against the capital of Mexico, it could not accede to the proposal of Spain. M. Mon, while maintaining his refusal of the Presidency of the Chamber, declared his devotedness to the pre sent Cabinet, for the succession to which he had no ambition ; and he promised that he would never suffer his name to serve as a standard to the Oppo sition. The Correspondancia, on its side, affirms that Marshall O'Donnell did not speak of the re sumption of the campaign by the Spanish troops. He simply said, that journal asserts, that the Cabi net of Madrid would take part in negotiations for again carrying out the Treaty of London if Eng land would join in the fresh negotiations. LIIERA7 U.RE. Three I ears in Melbourne. By Clara Aspinall. Booth, Regent-street. By no means the most pretentious of the works that have appeared on the Antipodes, this is cer tainly one of the pleasantest, whilst, as regards the district it describes, it yields to none for fullnessof information. The author's first impression of Mel bourne was decidedly favourable. " I did not ex pect," she says, " to find myself in such a handsome city ; the streets wider than those of any provincial town I had ever seen in England. The first coup cail, as I drove up Collins-street (which is 99 feet wide), amazed me. This street is lined on each side with handsome shops, banks, and private houses, three or four stories high, worthy of the neighbourhood of Hyde-park." But all is not gold that glitters, and the skeleton concealed in Mel bourne is bad drainage. " Owing to this want some direful malady may—we know not how soon—visit this city and make desolate the hearths of many of those through whose influence a good drainage ought to have been effected. I was staying at one time in a handsome house where the atmosphere of the sitting-rooms was at certain times, and more especially in wet weather, so obnoxious that we could not remain in them, feeling that we were inhaling poison. This was in consequence of stagnant water, having no egress, remaining in the house. The suburbs of the city, however, appear to be healthier and pleasanter, and most well-to. de families reside there in preference." Of Australian politics the author says little, but she leads us to infer that the democratic element is beginning to have undue sway, and that the colony in this re spect has entered on a downward path. House rent in Melbourne is, she says, very high, as are also servant's wages. But little encouragement is given to art in the colony. Religion is at a dis count. Piofessional men swarm like mosquitoes, and the writer strongly recommends none to emi grate there who have not "invincible determina tion, great energy of purpose, patience, and self denial." To those who may intend to make the vonture some useful directions are given, and they will find the work repay perusal. ROUTLEDGE'S PUBLICATIONS. The widely-spread reputation of this firm as caterers for the intellectual amusement of the young will be well sustained by the books before us, which are characterised not only by the tasteful manner in which they are got up, but by their variety of subject and agreeable handling. The first in the list is I very Boy's Annual, the frontispiece of which consists of a photograph of the Prince of Wales elegantly framed in gold and co:our, whilst the illuminated title page is of extremely pretty design. The work is adorned, moreover, with nearly one hundred illustrations, and its contents comprise tales of adventure by sea and land; articles on " Our Domestic Pets," by the hey. J. G. Wood, M.A.; " Rambles through the international Exhibition," by Edmund Routledge ; whilst vari ous sports and pastimes, such as football, hockey, cricket, chess, &c., are described, and the more difficult points in them made clear by means of woodcuts.—Next comes The Wild Man of the West, by R. M. Ballantyne. This, as may be guessed by the title, is an exciting tale of Indian adventure, containing a number of spirited illustrations, and is a capital book for boys.—ln Clarissa ; or, the :Mervyn Inheritance, by Anne Bowman, which is also plentifully illustrated, we find a tale written for the special delectation of young ladies. It nar rates in an easy, pleasant style the trials of a young girl named-Clarissa, who, after being brought up in luxury by an indulgent godmother, is left desti tute by her sudden death, and sent to the work house by the supposed heir to the Mervyn property. Taken thence by an attached servant she becomes governess, meets with various adventures, and at last discovers her father and mother, succeeds to the " Mervyn Inheritance," and becomes the happy wife of Joseph Goodwin, who had loved her long and well. Of a different stamp is the volume called Dick Rodney, or the Adventures of an Eton Boy, by James Grant; inasmuch as it treats of hairbreadth 'sclpes on the stormy ocean, as well as from the hands of evil disposed Spanish desperadoes. Leaving Eton, and undecided as to a profession, Dick Rodney spends some time at his father's rectory, near the sea. Making there the acquaintance of a Dutch captain, whose schooner was being repaired, he goes on board of her evening and remains there by himself, whilst the captain leaves the vessel for a short time to secure her by some additional warps in con sequence of an unusually high tide. The vessel breaks loose, however, Rodney is carried off to sea, and is picked up by a brig bound for the West Indies. But a " Cubano," whom they unluckily save in a drifted boat, murders the captain and several of the crew, and although he is eventually thrown overboard he escapes to au uninhabited island, whither the crew of the brig, which has been destroyed by lightning, follow. They are rescued, however, by a Spanish merchantman, on board which the " Cubano" attempts to excite a mutiny. It is suppressed ; and Dick Rodney, after seeing the miscreant garotted at Vera Cruz, end discover ing, with a shipm a t e , a f a mous diamond, which, shining by night and becoming invisible when ap preached, had long baffled the search of the natives, he returns to England and prepares to enter the university, —The Story of Cervantes, by Amelia B. Edwards, is the strange eventful history, re garded, of course, from a somewhat imaginative point of view, of that great Spaniard, who was " a scholar, a poet, a soldier, a slave among the Moors, sand and the author of " Don Quixote." And ID The Story of a Penny, by Mrs. Perring, we find a well written litrle tale, adapted to children of a smaller growth, holding up good examples, and ending, as such tales should do, pleasantly and cheerfully. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 18.—The Bears continue to have the command of the market, and rule it according to their wishes. The - business done has been rather limited, but at a further decline, Threes, for the' Account, being DOW weak at 70f. sc. The Italian Loan is with difficulty maintained at about 71f., and Mobilier are also lower. Railway Share Mar ket quiet, and up to the present time with little variation in price. The market rallied towards the close, and left off as follows 4,4 per Cents 97 50 Do. end month -- 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 25 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1055 Do. end month 1060 - RAIL Bank Shares 3345 Credit Fonder 1290 Piedmontese Fives 70 50 Italian Loan 7l 20 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes s3a Home Debt .. 6O vAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1042 53 .. 1043 75 Northern New ditto Ly o ns and Mediterranean 1146 25 .. 1147 50 Geneva.. 350 .. Southern B3l 25 .. 832 50 Western Eastern ... • Sardinian 377 50 .. Austrian .. Lombard • North of Spain Saragossa 627 50 ~ 630 Ditto to Barcelona 333 75 .. 335 -- AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 16. It being notorious that the present deplorable state of the Austrian finances has arisen from the inordinate outlay for the army, the Lower Cham ber will hardly fail to subject the War Budget for the year 1863 to a very strict revision. The Minister of state, fearing that the representatives of the people will refuse to grant the whole sum demanded for the War Department, has urged some of the more influential of them to abstain from making opposition to the Government in a matter in which the Emperor, in his capacity of Commander i n i t h (3- u C i in-Chief, is personally interested. The Deputies ti—there were 16 of them— listened respectful attention to M. von with e s i t Schmerling, but they did not deem it advisable to pledge themselves to any particular line of conduct. During the interview between the ' Minister and the 16 Reichsrathe the former was asked whether the Government proposed to con tinue to defray the expenses of the troops belong ing to the Duke of Modena. M. von. Schmerling replied that 65,00011. per month would be re quired for the Modenese soldiers, " but," added he, " there is reason to believe that the question relative to their support will be satisfactorily settled before the year 1863 is at an end." The Committee of Finance would have taken the War Budget in hand yesterday, had not Count Degen feld, the Minister of War, declared that he should not be prepared to enter into details until Tuesday next. Dr. Giskra yesterday read to the com mittee his report on the proposed expendi ture of the War Department, but was not heard by Couut Degenfeld, as that high functionary did not make his appearance until the learned member for Brunn had finished his task. The Ministers Rechberg, Schmerling, and Lasser, and Lieutenant-General von Schmerling (the brother of the Minister of State), were present during the whole sitting, which was an unusually ani mated one. The debates in the various com mittees are not officially made known to the pub lic, but in general the substance of them is com municated to one or other of the daily papers. A stipend 0f , 3,600fl , which the Bishop of Carpi, in the Duchy of Modena, has received ever since the year 1815, is likely to lead to an interesting dis cussion in the Reichsrath. After the last war in Italy the Bishop of Carpi demanded the 3,600f1. of the S4rdinian authorities, but they referred the rigl7t reverend stipendiary to the Austrians. The 3,6001 were readily paid by the Imperial Govern ment, as it wished to stand well with the Italian prelates, but the Committee of Finance finds it strange that Austria should continue to pay a salary "to a bishop of the Italian kingdom." The Aus • trian Cabinet professes not to understand what is meant by a kingdom of Italy, but by the foregoing it would appear that the Reichsrath is less :dull of comprehension. The total expenditure during the year 1863 is estimated at 362,500,0001 The interest A7LAN7IC AND GREA7 WESTERN 171rE LATE 7 RAILWAY COMPANY. A private subscription is in course of completion for £562,500 first mortgage bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company—an Ameri can undertaking which, through the support of Spanish capital, has been uninterruptedly carried forward without disturbance from the war or any other circumstance. This line is to complete a link which will establish direct communication between New York and the West without break of gauge, but its chief peculiarity which has attracted notice in Europe is that it communicates by a short branch with the centre of the Pennsylvania oil districts, and promises to command the whole of that traffic, and greatly to facilitate and cheapen the transit of the oil for shipment. The entire length of the work will be 378 miles, and the whole is expected to be com pleted next year, but the construction takes place in sections, as it passes through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The New York sec tion-48 miles, commencing at a'point of the Erie Railway at a station termed Salamanca--has been for some time in operation, and an issue of deben tures for 1225,000, secured on that portion, has already taken place. The present issue is to be secured by the Pennsylvania section of 88 miles, which opens up the oil region, and the third and last issue of £900,000 on the 242 miles which are to constitute the Ohio portion is not to be made until after two years from this date. The entire share capital is £1,750,000. There seems to be no doubt as to the extent and importance of the traffic which the line most control, and the net receipts even on the portions already opened are stated far to exceed the amount required for the interest on the debentures, while in addition the company are to have a benus from the Erie line of about 10 per cent. on all the traffic they may bring to it. Under the cir cumstances, the value of the investment must apparently depend on faithful management, and on the probabilities in that respect each person must inquire and judge for himself. The present state of American currency and politics has not ne cessarily any very serious influence either on the actual condition or future prospects of such of the railway lines in that country as are distant from the seat of war, since the depreciation of the cur rency can be met by an increase of charges, and the check to the growth of population is compensated by the check also imparted to the introduction of rival schemes. Thus far the Spanish capitalists and others interested profess themselves entirely satisfied with the spirit and manner in which every part of the undertaking has been carried out ; and, in order to insure regularity of provision for the interest and sinking fund on the bonds issued in the London market, it is stipulated that the first earnings of each half-year, as well as the whole of the Erie bonus, are to be paid, until they reach the requisite amount, to Messrs. Brown Brothers and Co., of New York, to the credit of Messrs. Samuel Gurney, J. P. Kennard, and Charles Moz ley, as trustees in England, The interest, which is to be at the rate of £l4 for each bond of £225, is to be paid in sterling in London, and the sinking fund is to be of an amount that will cancel 4 per cent. of the bonds in London annually at par. The issuing price is to be 70, and the legal contracts in connec tion with the arrangements have been superintended by Messrs. Freshfields. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 18, If disaffection and disorder in a community are the results of misgovernment, the South Dublin Workhouse must be one of the worst governed in stitutions in the British dominions, The officers and inmates are continually troubling the police magistrates with their complaints of assaults and riots on the one hand, and of oppressive treatment on the other. At the late commission a number of young girls were sentenced to penal servitude for setting fire to their beds in the dormitory of the workhouse. They seemed delighted with their sen tence, as it would remove them from the place where they had been supported for a number of years_ The Judge ou that occasion made some sever. remarks on the management of the institu tion which produced such unhappy relations be tween the paupers and the officers. It was expected that his remarks would have the effect of pi oducing some change in the spirit of the government, while the exemplary punishment of the refractory girls would deter others from imitating their disorderly condubt. But no such effect has been produced, On the contrary, four of the men were brought before the police magistrate yesterday, charged with mt.li ciously setting fire to the beds and bedding in the male dormitory ; they were also charged along with eight others with assaulting a number of the officers by throwing stones at them. It was proved that they struck matches and deliberately set fire to the building, thereby endangering the lives of the in mates. Mr. Bell, wardmaster, deposed that he locked up all the prisoners in the yard for the purpose of pumping water for the use of the house. In an hour afterwards he saw a man named Moriarty in the act of taking off the lock of the door, assisted by others. They put holdfasts in the wall to make the door fast, and placed large stones against the door for the purpose of preventing them getting in. Witness went for some of th 3 officers to force open the door, when they threw stones at them. It appeals that the inmates feel aggrieved at being treated as prisoners and locked up as a punishment. At any rate, they so hate this workhouse that they were rejoiced at the prospect of exchanging it for a prison. At the request of the master the case was remanded, as one of the officers, a wardmaster named Francis, was so seriously injured as to be unable to attend. The Waterford Mail reports a daring attempt to burn the workhouse of that city on Wednesday evening last by three women who had been refused admission. Fortunately, Mr. Ryan, the master, discovered the smoke issuing from the wards where women of ill-fame, were placed, and on searching it found a quantity of the bedding on fire. The women attacked him with stones, and it was not until he had obtained further assistance that he could suc ceed in extinguishing the flames, which were com mencing to spread to the bedding material in the room. The women were given into custody. In the same county, on Thursday night, the house of Mr. Edmund Power, of Springfield, was attacked by some persons, who threw heavy stones at it from the road, and smashed all the front windows. Mr. Power lately acted as solieitor for a Mr. Higgins in prosecuting some persons for trespass, and it is be lieved that this outrage is a manifestation of their revengeful feelings. Probate of the will of Sir Thomas Wyse was yes terday granted in the Prerogative Court here, the evidence taken in Greece having clearly established its legal execution. THE PRINCE CF WALES—A HAPPY COINCIDENCE. —The Rev. Richard Tyacke, vicar of Padston, Cornwall, relates the following happy and singular coincidence rela tive to the Prince of Wales's majority. On Sunday the 9th inst., the Padston lifeboat belonging to the National Life boat Institution, was the means of saving, under very peril ous circumstances, the crew of four men of the sloop Loftus, of Padsten, which had in a heavy surf parted from her anchors and gone ashore. By the written permission of the late Prince Consort, the Padston lifeboat was called the "Albert Edward," after the Duke of Cornwall. It is therefore rather a singular and happy coincidence that this lifeboat, which is the only one in the kingdom called after his Royal Highness, should on the very day on which the Prince of Wales attained his majority, have rescued four poor fellows from an inevitable death. This valuable life boat had on a veral previous occasions been the means of saving several shipwrecked crews on the Domed Bar Sands, under the most perilous circumstances. ATTEMPTED MURDER. —Yesterday morning, be tween two and three o'clock, Captain John Peter Sweden, a Norwegian, and Peter Lawson, mate of a vessel in the London Docks, and also a Norwegian, who had been to Deptford on business, were returning home, and when near a low beer -shop by the Commercial Docks, stopped to listen to what three Dutchmen were quarrelling about. The latter suddenly pulled out their long knives and attacked the two un fortunate fepraco m roui e ler n sdo . fec rabma A l noeo p d, doa.l police,cd fv c o oiutnnhps found u a ot b toh l el e eeo d a st esnwddoo of time nt ftm a oh i r l eet o urts they h eao ytt e e a w r s iuen fromrf ge tcfwehohrneeevrenesreyiieeensdthoato the hospital, where it was found that the cap tain had three very deep stabs in the back, one in the chest, and several in the face. Lawson had been stabbed through the jugular vein and in the region of the heart and chest. Both now remain in a very dangerous condition Up to the present time the assassins sns have not been apprehended. Mr. Whitworth, in a letter to the Times, says-- Will you allow me to state, with reference to the late trials of my shells at Shoeburyness, that their effect upon the timber of the target which repre sented the ship's side will not be really ascertained until the iron plates are removed P The target is formed of a solid frame of teak 18in. thick, plated with iron on both sides, the plates being 4 and 5 inches on the outer and inch thick on the inner face of the target. There is no doubt that the 18 inch timber between these two faces is very much shattered internally byemy shells, though the iron plates themselves are perforated with compa ratively unsplintered holes, In these, the first trials of the shells with large guns, I was desirous of using means already in use as far as I could. The cavity of the 7.inch shell was therefore filled with 51b. of ordinary cannon powder. It is now evident that greater quantities of powder, either alone or combined with other chemical agents more powerful still, may be employed as bursting charges, and much greater shattering effects will be produced. The simple construction of shell and the means of enclosing the bursting charge employed by me will I believe admit of such agents being used with much advantage, and without danger of premature explosion. _ There is also another point to be considered ; flat fronted shells are not deflected upwards by water like the " round-heads." They will pass through very many feet of water and then penetrate a ship's side, or damage her rudder, or screw, as was shown by experimf nts made at Portsmouth. A shattered hole made in a ship's side below the water line will be plugged, if at all, with very great difficulty. The further trials of the 12-pounder field gun reported in the Times of November 15 show that inclined plates will not deflect these shells, the plates having been completely penetrated at an angle of 45 degrees. ith some reluctance I take this opportunity of adding a few words in reply to Sir W. Armstrong's letter which appeared in the Times of November 13. In a former letter addressed to you by Sir William he invited me to a " proper and systematic trial" of our respective guns, admitting, in reality, that such a trial had not yet been made. I readily accepted the proposition, and offered to refer it to $ tribunal tube jointly appointed, and to agree to any condition that might be determined upon by that tribunal. But Sir William now states that the only comparative trials that can be made must he official• It was not necessary to wait for the proposition or consent of Sir W. Armstrong to enable official trials to be made. If he meant his proposition to go on further than this, his former letter would appear purposeless, so far as it related to compara tive trials of our respective guns. NEGRO _RIO7S IN ST. VINCENT. The following letter from St. Vincent, West Indies, received by the last mail, brings news of a riot which at one time assumed very alarming pro portions. The writer, who is a gentleman of posi tion in the colony, bore no inconsiderable part in the events he describes : " St. Vincent, Oct. 24• "You will be sorry to hear that a very serious disturb' ance has occurred here, which has not been quelled with" out difficulty and loss of life. For some time past it has been the custom on several estates here to issue to the labourers employed on them rum, sugar, &c., in ad dition to their regular wages, and the withholding of thee° allowances was the apparent cause of the first outbreak, which took place about four weeks ago upon an estate on the windward side of the island. The labourers on tha t property struck work, assembled in large bodies, and assaulted the overseer. A warrant for the apprehension of the ringleader having been obtained, the police who at tempted to execute it were resisted and beaten. A reinforce^ went of police were therefore marched to the scene of the disturbance, but the mob, which consisted of several hun dred infuriated labourers of both sexes, armed with cutlasses, fire-arms, and bludgeons, surrounded the mansion-house on the estate in which the police were posted, and where the attorney and his family had taken refuge, and commenced yelling and shouting and blowing conch shells, cutting the canes, firing houses and cane-fields, and, in short, behaving like madmen. The officer in command of the police, feeling that his small force of 24 men was unable to cope with such overwhelming numbers, communicated th e a ff a i r t o Lieu t." Governor Mll agra vo, who visited tile es t a t e in ni,rni ." s with the Attorney-General, the Hon. C. D . S tewar t, an addressed the rioters, promising an inquiry into their al leged grievances, upon which they dispersed, a pparently satisfied, , - - "A rew flays after a large body of labourece, among whom *ere' those who had committed the riot at Mount . Bentinck, collected, and visited several estates nearer Kings town, beating the managers and their families and destrer ing the furniture and contents of their dwellings. The colony being without any organised force, and the persons in charge of estates being unable to rely upon the assit ance of the better disposed labourers, who were forced 11 the rioters to join in their lawless proceedings, it was possible to oppose any resistance to the mob, which had greatly increased and was marching towards Kingst c ' s°l4 destroying the houses and property of the owners and nI nagers of estates, and ill-treating every one who calne its way. Every hour fugitives arrived in the town, s" / ' severely injured, and many deprived of all their prope rty ' The danger became so imminent that Lieut.-Gov ern o c r i Musgrave at once placed th e c o l on y un d er mar tial law, a ll , a force of mounted and foot vo l un t eers w ith s ome artil lery and two small field-pieces, abo u t 150 i n a ll, were, u nc t ie t , the command of the Hon. C. D. Stewart, posted 0° 11 " milefrom the town so as to check an advance of the r ebelSt who, it was understood, had planned the attack of 1 0118 ,. 0. town, where there were a large number of ill-disposed P e "; sons ready to rise and assist in the work of plunder an destruction. On Wednesday, the 2d instant, the Inotnl,,tea 8 volunteers, in number about 20, were detached, unde r I ; command of Major Van Heyningen, and proceeded t 0 estate six miles from Kingstown, where it was unde rs ,,, te :i g the rioters were committing serious depredations. small body of horsemen met a mob of about 800 who We armed, and who drew up to receive th e vo l un teers; a c h tt was made, which the rioters resist e d f or a f ew minutes, u" then breaking into disord e r fled t o a s teep Plans Wile : horses could not follow them. So m e o f their number We : left dead on the spot, and several others were wortalif wounded. _ "The police and mounted volunteers were su bsequen tly moved forward as far as Georgetown, about 20 miles f r°— ra Kingstown, but the rioters disappeared before them au d whi re : tired into the thick woods in the interior of the island. advance had the satisfactory effect of discouraging 15°— ;,. 6 0 thousand labourers who had procured arms and threatening the firing and plunder of Georgetown, an d - their progress the force took several prisoners. s " The Lieutenant -Governor had sent to Trinida d I° ' man-of-war, and accordi ng ly h er M a j esty ' s s hip Cballeager 22, Captain Kennedy, C. 8., arrived, and landed her cl; plement of Marines. H er l aunc h was su b seq uently ae ll . t a visit the leeward coast, wh ere , a lth oug h the labou r : ra j population were comparatively quiet and orderly, a est ,,, lt e of the principal rioters were stated to be concealed. ve presence of the Challenger in the bay had a very se a t eep . t effect on the malcontents in the tow n , w hich had '. guarded night and day by a large b o dy of special coo stables. 64 ent orivel A detachment of her Majesty's 21st Regin 3 -- - Bis on the 12th from Barbadoes, The r i o ters being th us parsed, and the ringleaders and their followers to the !A i % ber of 200 having been taken, martial law was abolis hed the 20th, and business and the cultivation of estates being resumed. "From the confessions already made by some of the P ri' soners, there remains no doubt that, while the first outbr ei t arose apparently on account of the discontinuance of practice of issuing rum and sugar to the labourers, it Lo taken advantage of to carry into execution a plot whiell og for some time existed among the lower classes of the 1316 to population, the object of which was to seize and approplo the several estates in the island, and to dispose of the wilfao and coloured inhabitants; while it is also stated that a W °. o f fate awaited the female members of their families, son's . e cl whom had actually, in anticipation of success , been a llot ' to the ringleaders of these scoun d re l s. d "Much praise is du e t o th e L i eutenant -G o vernor an those acting under hi m f or the decisive steps t a ken' aft cures e resen Legislature, rderedeen e wh s i s c a,, which met yesterday, while Pa ssi li r Tn:i by this unfortunate affair, du d forget to ackno w l e d ge t h e exert i ons o f hi s E x cellency/ is those who have b een ma i n l y i ns t rumen tal in que liil3gt oe" serious insurrection—the mo s t serious this island has , rienced in the present century. t "It is estim a t e d th a t it w ill h a ve cost the colony If ° r oe than £4,000, while the loss to the unhappy planters, sa°for of whom have l o st th e i r a ll, and some have been inittre_„ of life, is most serious ; added to which, the suspenan7iti business and of cultivation, and the feeling of insel o , which may naturally follow such an outbre ak, are pr o tive of great injury to the colony." says : e Palace: The Paris correspondent of the Journal da An experiment of an e lectric p iano has been trie at th of Compiegne. The inventor, who is g tive of Troves, gives to the instrument great power, ne the air played was repeated on another piano placed at it e other extremity of the palace. He pretends that playing a tune in Paris, he can have it repeated ilots1::, taneously at St. Petersburg, provided the electric wires star, intact." I EBURYNESS. +