The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-28 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. A' Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Bend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH 'OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, will Open for the Season on MONDAY, Oct. 3d, with, for the first ti e on the English Stage , Meyer m beer's highly popular Opera of DINORAH. The Libretto of the English version of DINORAH by genry Chorley, Esq. The Operatic Company will comprise the following artistes: —Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Pilling (pupil of Mrs. Wood, her first appearance), Miss Fanny Cruise (her first appearance in London), Miss Thirlwall, and Miss Parepa (her first appear ance at the Royal English Opera); Mr. Santley (his first ap pearance), Mr. Henry Haigh, Mr. H. Corsi, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. Meng-is, Mr. Lyall, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. Bartleman, Mr. Terrott, Mr . Maurice de Solla, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Ballet :—Mdlle. Rosana Lequine (her first appearance in England), Mdlle. Pierron, Mdlle. Pasquale, Miss. C. Morgan); Mr. W. H. Payne M r . H. Payne, Mr. F. Payne, and Mous. Vandris. A nume ral's corps de Ballet. The Band and Chorus will be on the same scale of completeness as the preceding seasons of the Royal English Opera. The scenery by Messrs. Grieve, Tel bin, and W. R. Beverley. Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stir ling. Acting Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. Ballet Master, Mons. Petit. Chorus Master, Mr. Smythson. The Box-office will be opened on Monday, Sept. 26, under the direction of Mr. Parsons. Prices of Admission.—Stalls, 7s. ; Private Boxes, £4 45 . , 13 35., £2 12s. 6d., £1 55., £1 Is. • ' Dress Boxes, ss. ; Amphi theatre Stalls, is. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, ls. Doors open at half-past 7, commencing at 8 o'clock. • THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with AS YOU LIKE IT : Jaques, Mr. Howe ; Orlando, Mr. W. Farrell ; Touchstone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Miss Amy Sedgwick ; Celia, Miss M. Ternan. After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White, Hrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And ILALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (4th time) a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled IVY HALL. Messrs. H. Bland, H. Widdicombe, Frank Matthews, Graham, Garden ; Mrs. ' Mrs . Weston, Miss Kate Saville, and Mrs. Charles Young. Tconclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J .B . JPlanche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, to commence with GOOD FOR. NOTHING. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Billington, Eburne, More land. Powell, and Miss Woo boar. After which, ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Messrs. B. Webster, Billington, Moreland, Miss 11. Simms. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher, Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford. C. J. Smith, Eburne ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly. Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for MIS of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatterton. OPENS , or the Season on Saturday next, Oct. 1. N e w comedy, THE WIDOW'S WEDDING, support ml by M ess rs. S. Emery, Barrett, C. Young ; Mesdames Katharine Hickson, Murray, Arden, Manders, &c. New burlesque, by Leicester Buckingham, Esq., entitled VIRGINIIIS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa, in which Messrs Barrett, C. Young, Francis; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Clara St. Casse, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de Ballet will appear. • To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. In the course of the evening the National Anthem will be sung. Reduced Prices —Gallery, Oki ; Pit, is. The Box-office opens from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Mloe Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. And TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. _ _ _ Commence at 7 o'clock; CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. EVERY EVENING.—The Vale of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public - In England at these Con serfs), the extraordinary Violin Performances of the cele brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual Vocal Concert. Cbmic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimie), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. Hackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant siesta of the metropolis. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINORAH. THE WEATHER.--SUX OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 28 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 57-4owest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at noon. BA.Rommm.-29.85. WNW, South-Westerly; light, with fine weather. Some min in a. morning. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Dtor.-- Morning, 2h. 37m.—Afternoon, 2h. 57m. To-bioßßow-Morning, 3h. 17m.—Afternoon, 3h. 37m. ; • .7. ''--. '. ~y, " A _ ~T . au i. VAL. 4.% ~, ': , L ,. i '-.W7 .--- i: • A ' . ' ono rr _••.:„. __ ' .. • T • it o ' - ~ 44" :;': ' btu u • .., : AWL' '' i• ' 0 4 a • ' ' -,_ THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1859. The capture of SCHAMYL--'`lB recounted in pic turesque detail in our columns yesterday—is but the repetition of an old, old story ; yet a story, old as it is, that never palls upon us by repetition. The incident has been witnessed again and again before now in the w,orld's history. It is fami liar to us in the instance of REGULUS—and later' in Italian annals in the more mourn ful, though less terrible, narrative of the rise and fall, the glory and the misfortunes, of BELISARIUS. We remember in our own time a precisely similar occurrence to this final capture of SCHAMYL, the redoubtable Imaum of the Caucasus. We remember another renowned warrior, like SCHAMYL half knight, half prophet, the heroic AED-EL-KADER, falling at last into the hands of the foreign foe whose chivalrous assaults he had so often ,repelled, and whose most insidious advances he had so often evaded. A yet more famous inci dent of this character, the most extraordinary instance of the kind anywhere to be found on record, is that in which the conqueror of Europe, bowing to adverse destinies, in 1815 delivered himself up to the captain of an English man-of-war, then lying off Rochefort. At a first glance it appears incom prehensible how men of this character, and of these peculiar antecedents, can survive any such over whelming catastrophe. Viewing any one of them in their pride of power, it seems incredible that they can ever submit to captivity. You would say that surely these men at least would perish rather than yield. That the lion of the desert could never be barred into a den. That the eagle of the mountain crag could never be caged. The one simple explana tion of the anomaly is, however, discoverable in the vial fatalism which is, generally speaking, the 4 tiuguishing characteristic of the world's great Adventurers. It ig herein especially, though in a sense in which the familiar words are not generally used, that these extraordinary personages pay their tribute to humanity. It is by their absolute sub mission to their evil fortunes in the hour of supreme trial that they attest in a. very signal manner before the gaze of all the living millions of their fellow men, as well as for the co ntemplation thenceforth Oct gener ation after generation their subjection to a. power as superior to their own as immeasurable sap is to an atom. Th at is unquestionably the true significance of this othe rwise inexpli ca bl e nwetacle. That is the real i m p ort of the great lesson taught by these astounding catastrophes. Viewed in this light, there is a grandeur in the bending of those haughty spirits to the decrees of ltieaven—a grandeur incomparably more sublime than is the height of their earlier puissance and prosperity. So regarded, BELISARIUS in rags. BELISARIUS blind and begging alms stands before posterity in an aspect far more venerable than Iti.Lisaitius at the head of his legions in his charac ter as a powerful generalissimo. And in the melan choly shadow of his nearly six years' captivity in ate Wald of St. ' Helena, NAPOLEON, Captain, Consul, King, and Emperor, " NAPOLEON, le plus grande poets du monde," as BERANGER called him, captive though he is there himself, himself more effectually captivates the imagination of thoughtful men in after ages than when from his palace of the Tuileries his imperial sceptre swayed directly or indirectly the destinies of all Christendom. Misfortune, in truth, if but rightly used, if but accepted with dignity, seems rather to enhance than to diminish a heroic reputation Of this there is in France at this moment, indeed, a very noble and a very conspicuous illustration. The fair fame of M. DE LAMARTINE has in no way been dimmed by his retirement into privacy after having in 184 S held for three months the reins of a virtual dictator ship. A gentleman and a man of unsullied white ness of honour—a poet and a hero—M. DE LAMAR TINE, whatever the other Republican chiefs may have done since the downfall of the Provisional Government, M. DE LAMARTINE, at any rate, has not found it necessary to seclude himself near Leicester-square nor at St. Heliers—and it is no derogation from his personal dignity, but, on the contrary, a very striking tribute to it, that a villa is now being erected is the Champs Elysees as a present to him from the grateful and appreciative Parisians. The Emir ABD-EL-KADER lost not one particle of his dignity, again, when placing his submission in the hands of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, or, when later, a prisoner in the Chateau d'Amboise, he was visited by the veteran Marquis of LONDONDERRY. In his place of honourable banishment in the dominions of the Sultan ABD UL-MEDJID, the scymeter of the Arabian warrior remains to this day as unstained as when, with the green turban coiled under the shade of his burnous, he led his heroic aloud of followers over the wilder ness. So will it be now, let us hope, for years yet to come with the valiant Imaum SCHAMYL lately captured at last at Gounib by the Russian Prince BARIATINSKI. The circumstances of his capture were certainly in every way eminently charac teristic. Driven into the fortified stronghold of Gounib by the vastly superior forces of the enemy, SCHAMYL there stood at bay in that little rocky fort with a small force of no more than 400 Murides. Upon the 7th of this present month of September the Russian assault upon Gounib com menced. Before the close of that fatal day for SCHAMYL, his warlike career bad terminated. Not, however, until after a most desperate resistance and a contest as prolonged as it proved to have been sanguinary. Out of his 400 followers but 47 remained with SCHAMYL still living at the termina tion of that deadly encounter. BARIATINSKI, the Russian Prince, we then read in this last chapter of the history of SCHAMTL'S war in defence of the Caucasus—BAßiaTiNsKi having come up, bade his men to cease firing, and himself in a loud voice summoned the Imaum to surrender ! SCHAMYL in quiring (from within his last retreat " a house cut out of the solid rock") upon what conditions ! " Come out without conditions !" sail the Prince. " SCHAMYL," says the Nord, " came out, and the Prince met him, though advised by his officers to retire for fear of treachery. Are you SCHAMYL ?' asked the Prince. ' I am,' replied the Imaum. Well, your life is safe,' said Prince BARIATINSKI ; you my keep your wives and treasure, but to-morrow I send you to St. Peters burg. Your fate will depend upon the will of the Emperor, my august master.' SCHAMYL," adds the Russian record, "bowed, without uttering a word." It is the hero-Fatalist once more submit ting implicitly and reverently to the irresistible decrees of Divine Providence. Quite a show of Agricultural Meetings we have had lately ; some half-dozen we haVe had to report in the last few days, and some notice they certainly deserve. They serve to mark the change of ideas among agriculturists, as well as the actual results in prize cattle and implements, and, we must add, in prize labourers too. Country:lords and 'squires, and county members are, of course, the chief speakers, and will eontinue to be so. The agricul tural meetings of different kinds are their Forum ; only, a dinner table, not despised amongst good citizens, also, must ever be the rustic rostrum. And, truly, looking back a little, what a change do we notice in these meetings. Well do we remem ber the time—indeed it is hardly fifteen years ago —when the farm steam-engines in England might have been counted, as the Esquimaux would count. Indeed, the fingers of one hand would probably at that time have been more than sufficient. Now, steam power is one of the regular shows at agri cultural meetings—the very cream, indeed, of the implements, and examined with more curiosity than all besides. And when we listen to the speeches, steam is the watchword—give us steam ploughs, and steam to do everything for us—till one begins to fear that our noble sleek teams of agricultural horses will give place to hissing, greasy smelling engines ;as the four-in hand of the mail-roads have done ; or as ugly, Jong, smoking funnels have super seded so many of our masts, with their graceful, curved, and swelling sails. Yes, it is a fact, a sober fact, that farming is rapidly becoming a manufac turing affair, not in the etymological sense of the word ; that, alas, is vanishing with the age when the wives and daughters spun and wove in their own cottages, bat in the modern, the steam sense of the word, which gives the name, manufactures, by preference,:to articles in proportion as they are not made by hand. Lucus, again, from non lucende. The result is to be, that labour-saving machines, all possible of them worked by the great agent of our manufacturing towns, are to cover the land. The railroad is to permeate such purely agricul tural districts as one we noticed the other day amongst the list, from Lynn to H-un-stanton, is to be brought near to every agricultural village, and to send up a cheap horse tramway adapted to its goods trucks, to every farm; and, it may be, eventually to send a tram-road to every field in the farm. The land is to be drained by steam, ploughed by steam, drilled by steam, weeded by steam, the crop carried home by steam, threshed, winnowed, and sacked by steam—these last three being all now commonly done at once by one implement—and finally carried by steam to the nearest market town or port, there, perhaps, in these days of the supremacy of steam it will be ground to flour by steam, the old uncer tain windmills at least giving place to the power with which water can alone compete ; water indeed, itself, being of little pecuniary advantage except to the first individual who appropriates the quiet, rustic, half poetic power. But what is to become of the labourer amidst these great changes ? Is he to be " improved" as Yankees would say of the Red Men, " off the soil." By no means. Our speakers tell us that, in the good times coming, the working man is to have at least one meal of meat per day. The little slice of bacon to flavour a whole bowl of potatoes is to be represented by a better plate of mutton, or beef, or pork th an they give us in a L ondon eat i ng house for sixpe nce. The millions " rejoicing in potatoes" of the Norfolk clergyman a few years back, are to be saystheNorfolk Lord WALSINGH.kar, for exchanged, i x ; r c ei a o n ic g i e n d, in a dinnergor meat each day ?" And hew is this result to be brought about. Our own Mr. MECriI, we have no doubt, could tell us. The labour-saving machines have proved, everywhere, yet, to be labour -creating machines ; and creators p THE SUN, LONDON; of labour of a higher class, and which must be better paid and fed. The man competent to work and take charge of a costly engine will not graze or browze on seven shillings a week, nor even eat as a vegetarian what the magnificent in come of eleven or twelve shillings a week will pur chase. He shares the intelligence and the know ledge of his master, and he will demand to share his master's food if not his master's dainties. The very character of the rural artisans will be altered ; the village blacksmith will become a skilled en gineer, competent to repair on the spot ingenious movements, valves, shafts, and apparatus of all kinds, and the carpenter will have to adapt him self too to the change. We may sigh over our Arcadias and our rural innocence, but those we poetically deem so innocent will prefer the unpoetic . , solid dinner to all the gnileless beauties of potatoes and porridge. And, then, some of these landlOnis tell us, farmers must profit by the change too. But thereby hangs a sad tale—penniless farmers who now drag on as tenants-at-will must lose their little holdings—landlords must surrender, their command of a tenant's vote—and a man of capital enough to take a long lease, and to make the land a profitable investment must amalgamate several of the farms which maintained, once, each its independent yeoman—independent of all but his landlord, to pay whom he had to thresh his whole crop at Michaelmas. A sad story that. What is the little yeoman to do ? Canada or Illinois, hardly the distant lands of Australia and New Zealand are his hope—his only hope. He is the very man for them, and they for him. There he can soon be his own landlord, and not in the interim fare much harder than he did at home. There he can soon not only be master of his land but master of his vote also, even without the protection of the ballot ; and can still, if he please, call VICTORIA his Queen. Meantime the man of capital who follows him employs twice or three times as much labour on the farm. Draining, fencing, marling, cluing , deep ploughing, a large supply of stock, all demand more of that help which his predecessor was too poor to purchase. More live, and live better, on the soil ; more is produced of every kind, and the whole com munity gains. But, for this change of a poor for a wealthy tenant, one speaker, himself a landlord and farmer, tells us. that the landlord must give the tenant full security ; that is, he must have a lease, which will protect, to him, the profits of his outlay. In deed, to make the highest improvements, he must have a kind of leasehold estate, in which the first cost of expensive improvements and additions shall leave but a small proportion to the time of holding. Perhaps, as noteworthy a fact as any, in the opinion of a large number of persons, will be, that a once Pro tectionist landlord, and minty member should be found, not merely silent about Protection, but con demning the vote he had given, with good inten tions, for the corn-laws in 1815, as a vote for a law which had produced an incalculable amount of in jury to the agriculturists ; and speaks of the period since the repeal of the corn-laws as the most satis factory ever known for farmers ! ! Such, however, was the frank statement of Mr. HARCOURT, the member for Oxfordshire ; and such, when party feeling is forgotten, is now the opinion of every Whig and Tory who fought so hard for a tax on our bread. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived at AVilt . on House, on a visit to the Right Hon. Ski ney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert. _ _ His Highness Prince Wasiltchicoff has left Maurigy's Hotel for Brodick Castle, N. 8., on a visit to the Duke of Hamilton. Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess You soukoff have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. His Excellency Prince Doria Pamphili and his son, Prince Gianetto, have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. The Duke of Newcastle returned to his seat, Clumbcr Park, on Monday evening. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady ➢fary Cecil, who were expected in town this week from Germany, have delayed their return home for a few days. The noble marquis and marchioness are ROW expected to reach Burghley House the second week in next month. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers have left the Grove, near Watford, to join the party visiting the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert at Wilton House, near Salisbury. The Earl and Countess of Ripon left their villa at Putney-heath yesterday, to visit the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert, at Wilton House. The marriage of Colonel the Hon. James Mac donald with the Hon. Miss Blake, daughter of Lord and Lady Wallscourt, was solemnised on Monday, in the pre sence of a select circle of friends, at the parish church of Hampton Court. The marriage of the Hon. Miss Campbell, youngest daughter of the Lord Chancellor and the Baroness Stratheden, with Mr. Duckworth, of Orchardleigh Park, Hampshire, will be celebrated on Tuesday, the 4th proximo. Lord John Russell left London yesterday for Edinburgh. Lady Katherine Valletort and her infant daughter, by accounts received in town yesterday from Brockett Hall, are progressing favourably. Count Blucher has arrived at Prussia House from the Continent. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned on Monday evening to Penmaenmaur, Conway. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., left town on Monday evening for Wilton House, where he is enter taining a large party of distinguished friends. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson left London yesterday for Southampton. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis left town yesterday for Balmoral. Sir George Grey, ex-Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and Lady Grey, have arrived at Howehin's Hotel. Mr. Roundell Palmer and Lady Laura Palmer have left the Oatlands Park Hotel for Suffolk. Major-Gen. Angerstein has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Everton Hall, near Brandon, Norfolk. Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., and Mrs. Locke have arrived at the Oatlands Hotel. Colcnel Franklin has left Howchin's Hotel on a visit to Sir Samuel Cunard, at his seat Bush-hill Park. The King of Wurtemburg yesterday attained his 79th year. " Prince Napoleon," says the Nonvelliste Vaudois, " has purchased for 720,000 fr. a fine estate called the Bcr genie, situated on the banks of the Lake of Geneva." The Sardinian Government continues its severity against the press of Savoy. The Bon Sens of Annecy of the 23d has been seized, the editor having been apparently forced to take out the objectionable matter, as that number arrives with five columns in blank. THE ISLAND OF SAN JUAN.—Colonel J. S. Haw kins, Royal Engineers, chief commissioner of the Oregon Boundary Survey Expedition, arrived in London yesterday from Vancouver's Island, in the capacity of special envoy from Governor Douglas to the Home Government, in con sequence of the recent occupation by the United States troops of the Island of San Juan, in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca. The gallant colonel transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. THE SAN JUAN DIFFICULTY.—We have reason to believe that General Harney, the commander of the United States' forces in Oregon, took the step of placing a military post on the Island of San Juan on his own re sponsibility, and without instructions from the Federal Government at Washington. He has declared to the British authorities that he did so because American citizens had been arrested on the island, but that he did not mean his occupation to be permanent, though it was his intention to hold the island until he heard from his Government at Washington. TILE COMMAND IN CIIIN.A.—An army of 10,000 men will be sent from India, the selection of which is to Le left to the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief ; and of this force, which might well he increased one-half, Major-General Sir Hope Grant, K.C.8., will have the com mand, than which a better selection could not be madd. Ii the troops are selected with as much judgment as the general there will be little indeed to object to.—Hemeictud We understand that Major-General Sir Hope Grant is to have the command of the expeditionary force to China. No troops will be despatched from England, but a force of 10,000 men is to be sent from India, the selection of which will be left to the Governor-General and the Com mander-in-Chief. —Overland Mail. THE WINDSOR RAFFAELLE DRAWINGS.—Photo graphs of the original drawings by Raffaelle in the Royal Library at Windsor, have been recently taken at the ex pense of the Prince Consort, and the negatives presented to the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Coun cil on Education, from which impressions will be supplied to Schools of Art and the public generally at the cost of paper and printing. LATEST NEWS. The following. telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, SEPT. 28. The Monileztr of this morning contains the fol- .owll3 g :- Several foreign papers assert that the solution of the affairs of Italy will be obstructed by the desire which the Emperor has to create in Italy a kingdom for a Prince of his house. These rumours need not be refuted ; in order to deprive them of every foundation, it suffices, with out mentioning the engagements made at Villa franca, to remind the public of the acts and words of the Emperor both before and after that epoch. ROME, SEPT. 26. To-day the Sacred College met and appointed 17 Bishops. _ _. In the annual allocution of the Pope, his Holiness alludes to the National Assembly of Bologna, and refers to the censure expressed by that Assembly against he Papal Government. In conclusion his Holiness expresses kt h.ope that tho Romagnese will return to their allegiance to the INT See. FRANKFORT, WEDNESDAY. The Senate has rejected the appeal made by the National Association against the refusal of the Director of the Police to sanction its statutes. DARMSTADT, SEPT. 28. The official journal of this day contains a decree for the renewal of the ordnance of MO, which prohibits all subjects of Hesse-Darmstadt from be coming members of any political society established either in the interior. or abroad. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 26. The States have been opened to-day. The Pre sident in his speech said—The Government and the Council of the kingdom had but to choose between Federal execution and the suppression of the whole common Constitution, in so far as it relrtes to Hol stein and Lauenburg. Government has chosen the latter, although it does not recognise the compe tency of the Federal execution. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. BOURSE, Sept. 27.—The market has been very flat, and the prices declining. Threes have been done at 69f. 10c., and 69f. 20c. Mobilier, 805 f. to 815 f.; Austrian, 548 f. 75c. to 550 f.; Lombard, 551 E 25c., to 555 f. 75c. ; Lyons, 897 f. 50c. to 902 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,392 f. 50c. to 1,397 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 675 f. to 680 f. ; Southern, 517 f. 50e. to 520 f. The following are the last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 95 Credit Fonder 685 Do. end month I Belgian 4 1 . 3j,.Fe,;i4 --- .. :'' 69 40 Pieamontese (5) B6 Do. end month.... 69 35 Roman B6 Bank Shares 2840 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 820 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans tsTorthern 935 .. 937 50 New ditto B2O Lyons and Mediterranean 905 Geneva - - .. 905 - - .. 537 50 Southern Westan 590 .. 592 50 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 13c. ' • money, 25f 11c.; three months, paper, 24f. 9 1c.; money, 24f. 931 c. THE ITALIAN QUESTION. A Paris letter in the Semaphore of Marseilles mentions a new solution of the Italian difficulty:— "It is proposed to divide the territory of the Duchies into three parts ; one of them, Tuscany, in order to please Austria, will retain its old Go vernment and Urand Duke ; the second, Parma, out of deference to the wishes expressed by the popular assemblies, will be annexed to the king dom of Victor Emmanuel; and the third, Modena, will remain independent; but the Duke of Modena, for reasons easy to understand, will retire and cede his rights to the Duchess of Parma. The dis possessed Duke of Modena will retain his title and rank of sovereign prince, and will also receive a considerable pecuniary indemnity. In diplomatic phrase, he will be mediatised. It is manifest that this division of the territories gives Piedmont a perfectly natural and regular frontier line to the south, while its neighbour, on that side, is a small state placed under the authority of a princess whose liberal ideas will not form a too striking contrast with Sardinian institutions. The Duchess will form, between the constitutional King of Piedmont and the sovereign of Tuscany, a well-devised and easy transition. On one side, she will touch upon her old States, where she leaves many friends, and on the other, upon the States of a prince of the House of Lor raine, with whom common interests always kept her on good terms. On his part, Ferdi nand IV., taught by experience, will restore the Tuscan constitution and govern in conformity with the spirit of the age. Bologna and Romagna will remain under the authority of the Pope ; as the promise made by the Emperor to the Holy See, that no encroachment shuuld be made on its temporal power, cannot be disregarded. The Pope will give satisfaction to the desires of his subjects there by establishing at Bologna a consulta, whose de liberations will suggest reforms which the Pope is to carry out as far as advisable. Lastly, there re mains Venetia. If we may believe a very prevalent report, it was partly with a view to deciding the form of government to be adopted in this portion of Northern Italy, that the King of the Belgians lately intervened. He proposed, in the name of Austria, the establishment of a vice-royalty to be given to his son-in•law, the Archduke Maxi milian. This Prince, whom the treaty of Villafranca would place in a position altogether independent of the Austrian empiro, would endow Venice with liberal institutions. Venetia would also have a native army in accordance. with the stipulations of Vil la frau ca." A letter from Turin, in the Union, says : " War in the spring is here considered certain, and I may add throughout the whole of Italy, as the inevitable result of present indici sions• and agitations ; every one now begins to think that not only the Conference of Zurich, but the Congress itself, should it assemble, would be powerless to prevent that eventuality. The ar ticle of the French official journal, • that of the Constitutionnel, the French despatches which have for some time past rapidly succeeded each other, and, more particularly, the confidence of the King in the future and in France—all is explained in a warlike sense, having the complete independence of Italy for basis and for object." The following is a text of the despatch, dated the 4th, addressed by the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs to Count Traun, Austrian Minister at Dresden and Coburg, with reference to the atti tude assumed by the Duke of Saxe Coburg on the German reform question : " Among the different party programmes which have latterly treated of the transformation of the Germanic COnfederation into a Parliamentary Fe deral State placed under the direction of Prussia, there is one which has particularly struck us, be cause it expresses with special earnestness a demand for the exclusion of Austria from reconstituted Germany. In this declaration, published at Gotha, the idea of a well-known party, which represents itself to be the National party, is set forth with unaccustomed frankness, and in a mariner which shows that it is desired to place the Imperial Ger man State, in its future relations with Germany, on exactly the same line as Denmark and the Netherlands. And subsequently we saw not with out strong, regret that 1.11. the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha had not cnly received a deputation which presented him with this programme and with an address, but that he made use of language of assent and of absolute encouragement without any reserve. The Imperial Government respects ' every sincere conviction, but the words which fell from princely lips at Gotha do not enter into the limits of free individual opinions, but concern a collection of very positive and very important rights and obligations. His Highness Duke Ernest himself cannot but see that the object to accomplish which efforts are being made to form a new pre tended national party, by means of elements taken from the democratic ranks and the Gotha party, implies an absolute negation of the relations founded on the treaties existing between his Austrian Ma jesty and the other princes Of the Germanic Con federation, including the Duke of Saxe-Coburg also, and therefore that any countenance or aid given to the efforts of this party is equivalent to a renunciation of the Federal treaty. The Imperial Government has the' the right, but it thinks that it has . still more the patriotic duty, to remon strate in time, and expressly as it does by these presents, against the act by which the Duke has manifested his sentiments. It has at heart the welfare of the whole German country, and can not forget that the disastrous errors of the same party which can now boast of an appoval given to it trom so high a quarter has already delivered up Germany at a not very distant period to the greatest 1 confusion and to the danger of civil war, danger from which it was not saved by constitutional doc trines narrow and without foresight, but by the noble German feelings of our Emperor and master, 014 by the moderation arid love of peace of the two great German powers, In conformity with the iiitt2ntions of the Emperor Francis Joseph, I beg of your Excolleney to tp e lie care, by leaving a copy of the present despatph with the Minister of State of the Grand Duke, or in any other form which may appear suitable to you, that the preceding observa ttons, and e i vccipily a l p legal reserves pp*, shall be brought to the knowledge of the Duke.,-- Wccive, cue., "RECHBERG." The Diritto of Turin relates the following oc currence:—On Sunday last, when the royal train arrived at the station at Alessandria, another train with 800 Hungarians, who had formed part of the levy effected in Piedmont during the war, was about to start for Genoa. The Hungarians, on perceiving the royal train, greeted it with an interminable " Elien !" which means " Long live the King !" His Majesty, touched with this cordial manifesta tion, sent for General Klapka, who accompanied the Hungarians, and requested him to thank them in his name; he further expressed sympathy for the Hungarian cause, and encouraged him to hope —a just and noble cause could not fail to triumph in the end. The words, being repeated by General Klapka to his countrymen, produced an immense sensation. THE LOSS OF THE NEPTUNE. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. From Major Charles Swaffield to Brigade Major at Fort William, Calcutta, dated Akyab, August 6, 1859. Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the infor mation of his Excellency Lord Clyde, the Com mander-in-Chief, the wreck of the Neptune, with a . detachment of her Majesty's troops on board. The Neptune sailed from Calcutta on the 12th of July, 1859, and shortly after leaving the Sand Heads fell in with very bad weather, which lasted for nine days, the last three of which it blew a furious gale. On the 28th ultimo we lost our mainmast and very important spars. I should mention that for many days we had been drifting on a lee shore, our dis tance from which we did not know. On the morn ing of the 29th we lost our most useful, and as it afterwards appeared, our only available boat. During those nine days our position on the chart Was not known, as neither sun, moon, nor stars were visible to enable the master to take an obser vation. On the 29th it cleared up, and we found we were near the head of the Bay of Bengal. After a consultation, it appeared that Akyab, a seaport in Arracan, was, in our then crippled, condition, the best port to make for. On nearing it we again broke our foreyard, which had been repaired, and could then do:nothing but drift before the wind. We anchored that night, the 31st ult., after narrowly escaping striking on a reef called the Oyster reef. On the - morning of the Ist of August we parted from our anchor and drifted on to a reef; the ship first struck at about 12 o'clock (noon), and con tinued to strike and drift with the tide and sea till two o'clock of the next morning. We expected every moment that she would go to pieces ; she finally settled at a place, I believe about 18 miles north-west of Akyab. On the morning of the 2d there was a very heavy sea and surf, and a raft could not be constructed ; we were about two miles and a half from shore, and consequently had no hope of saying life, not having an available boat. It was evident that at high water her decks would be swept ; we were at prayers, and had given up all hope when the joyous sound was heard of a " steamer in sight." She proved to be the Neme sis, Capt. Goodwin, come out to search for us from Akyab, where our guns had been heard. • Shortly after coming to an anchor, her boats were sent, and continued to ply between the two ships until every soul was taken out of the Neptune and put on board the Nemesis. An officer's wife, a soldier's widow, and the sick were first lowered into the boats, and then' the men Slid down into the boats by a rope from the forecastle, and latterly (the ship having sunk deeper or the tide risen) stepped into them from the fore chains. The behaviour of the troops was most admira ble ; they were stationed on the poop until the sea washed over that part of the ship, and came for ward as their names were called. There was not the slightest symptom of a disposition to rush or even to hurry to the boat, though it was perfectly evident that the ship was in momentary danger of going to pieces, and before the last of the troops left, the sea washed over every part of the vessel. I attribute our being saved, under God, to Captain Goodwin, of the Nemesis, and to those who so gal lantly commanded her boats at the imminent risk of their lives, amongst whom were Captain Porter, marine assistant commissioner, and Mr. Earle, chief mate of the Nemesis, who were both volun teer . for this most dangerous service. There was• a fearful sea running at the time; nothing was saved, or could be saved, except life and the things we stood in. I believe it to be my duty to call the atten tion of his Excellency to the extreme risk attending the despatch of troops down the Bay of Bengal in a sailing vessel at this time of the year, when it has to beat against the south-west monsoon. On reach ing Akyab everything was done for the comfort of the troops by Maj or G ars ti n , o f h er M a j es ty' s Indian service, and commanding at the station. In moments of danger the master of the vessel was at his post and exerting himself to the . utmost; he was the last man to l e av e hi s ship. The troops will return to Calcutta in the BiLinah steamer. From Captain R. Goodwin, Commander of her Majesty's steamer Nemesis, to Major G. Verner, Commissioner of Arracan. Sir,—l have the honour to report the arrival of her Majesty's ship Nemesis, under my command, at this place, at 6.20 p.m. of this day, from the wreck of the troopship Neptune, wrecked off the mouth of the Myoo river, with the following passengers saved Her Majesty's Troops 31st Regiment—Major C. Swaffield, commanding troops ; Lieut. Pepper, George F. Adams, assistant-surgeon ; 64 privates, and Mrs. Swaffield, with one European maid ser vant. Her Majesty's Troops 6lth Regiment—Eighteen privates, one warrant officer, and two camp fol lowers. Her Majesty's 74th Regiment Light Dragoons —One private. Crew of the Neptune—Captain L. T. Fillan, two mates, seventeen men (European), and five natives. In all 106 passengers saved, and one mail bag, of letters, &c., wet. • The Due de Chartres, who served with the Sar dinian army in the DE liancampaign, has recently been on a visit to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, who is nearly re., latcd to his mother, the late and lamented Duchess of Or- Jeans. The stay of his royal highness at Schwerin was not of long duration, and he has now proceeded to Switzerland, en route to join his regiment at Piedmont or in Lombardy. SIR C. TREVELYAN AND THE NATIVES.—A na- I ire correspondent —a warm admirer of Sir C. Trevelyan— says that his Excellency had recently been cultivating the go :d graces of the poorer classes of the native community by teveral acts of condescension and courtesy. "A few days since his Excellency visited the garden of a poor native, and proceeded to pluck some of the flowers. Observing that the owner was attentively watching his motions, heinterrogated him wheth er hi s act amounted to trespass, and was assured, in reply, that the distinguished honour which he had con fen ed upon the poor man's flowers would cause them to bloom earlier and blush redder for all time to come. His Excellency then showered a handful of coins upon the de lighted Hindu, and went on his way." Another instance is related by the same correspondent of the Governor's good nature. , Riding down Popham's Broadway with his body guard, he was graciously pleased to pause and witness " the antic sports" of a " tiger, who, with attendant tom-toms, had been for some hour' delighting the neighbourhood by his performances. Sir Charles, with his accustomed libe rality, showered out another handful of eoins. "It is needless to add," says the writer, " that his Excellency left th 9 spot -with the blessings of the multitude."—Honeward THE CAPTURE OF SCHAMYL. (From the Times.) Some years ago the capture of Schamyl by the Russians would have been to the enthusiasts of na tional liberty a blow hardly less severe than the defeat of Charles Albert or the surrender of Georgey. The Caucasian tribes were admitted to all the sym pathies of European Liberals, and the name of their chief was venerated wherever men admired the ex ploits of uncivilised heroism or dreaded the advance of Russian power. And this sympathy was cer tainly not undeserved. The extraordinary man whose career has now been brought to a close may well rank with the most famous chieftains of any age. The mythical Tell never performed more dar ing actions ; Abd-el-Kader, in our own day, never won such victories over disciplined troops and im mense resources. Though Schamyl has not suc ceeded, like Czerny George, in winning the inde pendence of his territory and establishing himself as an independent Prince, yet there is no d ou bt that his military gen i us has been more elevated, his courage and endurance more fully proved, and his ascendancy over, his countrymen more complete, than that of any similar character in modern times. Yet those acquainted with the condition of the Caucasian provinces have been long aware that the struggle was virtually concluded. The constant and persevering efforts of the Russian Governors, supported by the whole strength of the empire, made the extinction of national resistance merely a question of time. Of late years Schamyl, grown old, and perhaps failing in hope, if not in energy, has seen all the districts on which he could depend for support slo ,vii; occupied by the enemy, all tb e tribes who were his allies conquered, or bought, or driven from their strongholds, He has been grad ually confined to his native mountains of Daghestan, and since the conclusion of the Turkish war the toils have been drawn about him with a skill and determination which made his capture certain. Indeed, it nAay now be said that any efforts for t 4 destruction of Russian power in the Caucasian districts must be to late. The strength of the State, delivered from all external enemies, and abandoning for the present any designs on Europa, has been turned to the COD salidatipp, of the Asiatic provinces. Not only in the Caucasus, but in Persia, in Tartary, and on the borders of the Chinese Empire, will the activity of St. Petersburg be employed, and perhaps success. fully, We rutty regret the disappearance from the scene of so romantic a character as Schamyl, but we are obliged to exclaim, as probably he exclaims himself, " It is destiny !" and to accept the domi nation of the Czar on the southern slopes of the great mountain barrier. Still, the overthrow of the chief Caucasian leader is an event not without significance. The struggle has been by no means a mere display of barbarous virtue without object or meaning or hope of suc cess. It has been warfare full of importance to Europe, and to no country more than to England. The resistance of the Daghestanees represented the resistance of Central Asia to that invading march of the Russians which we are told will take the place of the designs on Constantinople. The world had an interest in the success of Schamyl, and, to do him justice, he gave the Western Powers a chance, of which they did not think proper to avail themselves. The Turkish war was, indeed, the crisis in the life of Schamyl. Such a conflict be tween East and West had probably never been ex pected by the old warrior, but when it came he seems to have taken advantage of it to the utmost. It is difficult, indeed, to speak with any certainty of the proceedings in that obscure corner of the earth, and Schamyl has been made almost a fabul ous personage by the plans and enterprises falsely attributed to him. But it is certain that in 1834 the retreat of the Russians from Moldo-Wallachia and the threatened attack on Sebastopol stirred up Schamyl to make a new effort. He advanced into Georgia, and, though the Russians were strong enough to drive him back, he carried off no little plunder, and took several Russians of rank as hos tages. Although this may not have been a very bril liant exploit, it had at 'Cult the effect of making the Russians alarmed for the safety of Teflis, and com pelled them to detract from the strength of the forces which were opposed to the Turks in Arme. nia. About the same time a person representing himself to be the delegate of Schamyl arrived at the Porte ; he brought with him a letter from the chief, and endeavoured to enlist the British and French Embassies in his master's cause. The Naib, however, returned without receiving any positive assurances, and the result proved that the two Western Governments cared little for the portion of the earth in which Schamyl lab oured. It may have been that in London and Paris no one con templated a long campaign in the Crimea. The fall of the Russian fortress and the expulsion of the enemy from the peninsula were looked upon as a matter of course, and then, may be, it was thought that a final blow in Georgia would crush the power of the Czar. If this was the scheme, the fates thwarted it. The war in the Crimea lingered on, and France, wearied with her exertions, was glad to accept a peace, even while Russian cannon crowned the heights on the north of Sebastopol. During the whiter of 1855 the thoughts of both nations were occupied by a contemplated enter prise against Nicholaieff, and we are fa r f ro m a sser t ing that this was not a point worthy of importance. But it is impossible to look on these events politi cally - without feeling that, for English interests especially, the destruction of Russian power in the Caucasus and south of it would have been a grand design ; nor would it at that time have been diffi cult of accomplishment. Indeed, the straits to which the Russians were brought in the matter of commu nication would have made Georgia an easy prey to an invading army. Had the war continued—had France carried on a campaign in Russia Proper, and left our own fine army free to operate on thE east of the Black Sea, the fate of Asia might have been very different. The army which Mouraviefl led to Kars would have been swept away by the continually increasing levies which England, non warm in her work, would have marched into the country. i p But this was not to be, and now the most inde pendent of the Caucasian races and the most inde fatigable of chiefs have bowed to the strength, skill, and patience of Muscovite warfare. It is, in deed, possible that another Schamyl may arise and continue the contest, but this is very doubtful. The advances of the Russians are slow, but sure. They have cut down the forests, made roads, established cordons round the disaffected tribes, and everything promises that ere long they will be obedient, if not loyal, subjects of the Czar. As to the Circassian. ',roper, inhabiting the coasts of the Black Sea, 3 have long been unable to oppose any the Russian commandants, and must not be of the con founded with the pertinaciousresistance to warriorss of the Russians eastern districts. The final su give them Court of Teheran, as further authority in pacifying the will,Caucasu t s he success doubt, hanshi s. Viewed in this and the other Tartar .1 3 well as over the barb o a v r e o r k us rulers of Bokkara, Khiva. light, the capture of Schamyl is an event of interest even to those who are little enthusiastic for heroes or nationalities. (From tie Daily News.) The fall of Schamyl appears qr,ite as likely to open a new period of Russian aggression as to dos( an old one. The Court of St. Petersburg has main tained its persevering warfare of a quarter of a cen tury with the Chieftain whom it has at last sub dued and taken prisoner, not from the mere desire of possessing the Caucasian range, but from that of consolidating its power in the provinces which lie to the southward. Transcaucasia has nominally been a Russian province ; and the city of Tiflis. approached from European. Russia through one of the easier passes of the Caucasus, has been the chief seat of Russian authority between the Black Seq and the Caspian. But hitherto this dependence el Transcaucasia upon Russia has been little more than nominal. The provinces which Russia has thrown, as it were, into a sort of political hotch-potch, and has included under this general name, are six or seven in number, the principal ones being Ime ritia, Abkhasia, Mingrelia, Georgia, and Abasia. Most of these are governed by their native Christian princes, and from their being formally included in ,the Turkish Empire when the Caucasus formed the acknowledged barrier between that empire and Russia, they took the name, in analogy to the States on the Lower Danube, of the Christian principali• ties of Asia. From a Turkish suzerainete these States passed to a Russian one, and the princes have all paid heavy tribute to the Czar. The extent of the Russian dominion differed, indeed. between the different Stat es , an d while intrepid and unconquered tribes held possession of the chief ranges of the Caucasus, any consolidation of the Russian power beyond hat barrier was impossible. It is supposed that the final defeat and capture ( f Schamyl have n o t ex ti ngu i s h ed the Caucasian enemies of Russia; but there can be no doubt that, more particularly in the eastern mountains, and on the slopes which descend towards the Caspian, which were Schamy's strongholds, this encroachin: 4 power will make a great inroad into Transcaucasit This event has a very important bearing on the recent settlement of the East, by the Treaty of Paris in 1856. So far as Transcaucasia was concerned, the great result of the Ruasian War had been, ()- course, the extinctien of the maritime power of Russia on its emats. This event was of an import ance to the Christian Principalities of Asia which r has commonly been overlooked. 'I he authority o: Russia, up to the ontbreak of the w ar , i n 1854, had been maintained in those States much more by sea than by land ; and the evidence of this truth rest in the fact that the sea-board Principalities were the only ones in which St. Petersburg could be said to exert any real or considerable power. lu of her words, Russia could rule maritime Trans caucasia from Sevastopol, when she could not rule inland Transcaucasia through the range of inter secting mountains. When, then, the Russian fleet in the Euxine was destroyed, the Christian Princi palities seemed likely to regain a great part of their independence, though no s tipulations it! their interest were contained in the Treaty or Peace. Russia could no longer control them by sea; and there was nothing but the old disheartening struggle in the Caucasus to trust to for the re-establishment of her dominion. If the mountaineers could have but held their own, the Asiatic effects of the Treaty of Peace would pe rhaPs have been g re ater than the European. It is pr o " hably owing to the blow thus struckin the Crimes at the progress of Russia in the Transcaucasian provinces that the late vigorous efforts for The the su us- or b jugation of Schamyl have been made. R sians saw th a t th e y had buried some 300,000 400,000 troops in their efforts to master the pas'e 3 of the Caucasian range, and that they had lost also, their means of assau lt by se a. It became n ecessary" to an ambitious Power, resting espcially uPgll prestige, to concentrate all its efforts in one yur! struggle for Caucasian victory. So far as Scharaii goes, the result is attained ; how far th e other e tribes may evince active hostility rem ains to be s e t But one result can hardly be ques tioned ; t he Transcaucasian Principalities will h enc eforward bey more than ever subjected to the Russian r ule. The Caucasian mountaineers area people 'distinct from the lowlanders on either side orehern. r ; nor is there the slightest resemblance between language and that of either Turks, Russians , Per sians, or Armenians. It has been calculated that the Caucasian tongue recognises seventy dialects, with just such a difference as to indicate distinct !Jun and sympathies, but withal such a, sense of n ati° ro ality in the face of a common enemy as the Eastern under Schamyl's lead. Their origin is and Western mountaineers have before this shorn to supix'si n be Indo-European ; and what is not less tri, k is the fact that they are commonly 31ahowe'aus—' sianuor Armenians, are almost entirely while the population on either side, whether It christl i Prince Bariatinski, the captor of Scharal s l y , ; ma now probably inaugurate a new political throughout the Transcaucasian provinces. Russia has drawn a revenue of only hitherto year from these Principalities ; she Will DOW P2l; bably draw much more. Before, indeed, vo an precisely estimate the result of this victory 11 1:1 1 ' 0 Transcaucasia, we must learn the attitude ef, t a other mountaineers ; but it can hardly be der, to that Russia has conquered a dominion were be be put beside her recent acquisition on the Asa l " X 200,000 AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS (IRELAND). 4.- • ' A report by Mr. William Do telly, the R e g is tr ust Genei al, on the agri cu lt u re of Ireland , hagl ° I .' v „,.. been published, from w hich we extract the 0 ing tables : 0 Decre ase ' 1858. 1 . 859. rIIerVIS •D A ere, Acres. Acres. Acres. n -81,461 Wheat 546,964 465,497 Oats BBearreley and -- 1,931,241 1,931,197 ..-- -- 13,249 190,768 177,519 --- 3,239 Rye.... 16,472 13,242 Beans and Pease 12,935 14,841 1,90 6 - Decrease on cereal ...-, _ , —..- • ..._ -- --- ' 97, 990 Total crops in 1859 2,748,380 2,652,296 1,906 96,084 Acres. 0 ne „. o sse. 1858. 1859. Increas • cres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Potatoes 1,159,707 1,200,144 40,437 16,936 Turnips 338,202 322,266 -- Mangel wurzel & 2,62 3 beet -root. J,731 2,1 1 , 651 Cabbage‘ 3,132 ' a Carrots, parsnips, & other green crops .. - Vetches and rape 33,360 33,207 --- 29,731 27,108 -- 33,132 31,580 - 1, 343 1 53 ---- --.----. 4 qi,691 Increase on green Total crops in 1859 18,830 Acres. 1,617,531 1,636,361 40,437 *" From these figures may be deduced the - f °IWWIa general result : Acr e°. 969° 54 Decrease on cereal crops Acres • Tncrease in green crops 18,380 ) Do. do. on flax 44,683 in do. " Do. onmeadow and clover 12,185 ) 7 5 , 696 Total decrease in e x t en t o f l an d under crops in lat'' ° 'ber The following table represents the total non of live stock : 1 40 ' No. No. No. of pi ci3 of horses. of cattle. of sheep . 1 409, 3 1858 9 3 1,26%87 1859 n ' er ease. Increase. Increase. Increase. Increase or de- 147, 0 1 0 crease The value of the li v e s tock in Relays' ' mated at : Tota l . Horses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. £ 3 - p 0, 99 5,031,328 24,765,884 3,947,192 1,578, 69 ' , a -g INCREASE OR DECREASE FROM 185 5 TO looi_:crease. Increase. In c r ease . D ecrease . Increase. -"i•otal. Horses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. X £ X £ 06 1 5 86 ,3, 269,511 £ 581,032 1,597,284 15,384 , INCREASE OR DECREASE FROM 18 58 TO 1819• crease. Increase. Increase, I n c re ase. Decrease. ei,oto. Horses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. „ 4 £ 988,1 v" 140,760 928,408 102,700 183,7 63 The entire number of holdings in all of which, says Mr. Donelly, returns have obtained, is nearly 600,000. The num ber r merations this year has been about 4,000. They nd m e have been selected from the constabula r Y a i e us, tropolitan police, who, as on the former ?e n u t ' wan have discharged their duties in a very effictfellosving nor. Mr. Donelly adds to his report the ° dition observations :___.,,As regards the present On ~in u e Irelan, been of Irish agriculture, I beg to state that I eul ter . to receive communications from various cust,u, complaining oP the pernicious growth of W. _ Air which is unfortunately still permitted so extens_ivi7, grass is. 4 to prevail, not only upon the tillage and of the country, 'but also along the sides of pu. °±, roads, railways, and canals ; and an anxious desire r, very generally expressed for a legislative measure.v: protect the industrious and improving farmer, Nitu cleans his 'land, from the great injury done to his crops by by b t y h e t field w he in w g i e n d d se f e r d om s oftnhoexiou of some negli s weeds, which are, o ther fruitful sources of contamination above re gent and careless neighbo ur, as well as fro m the ferred to. Such a protection is afforded to the 01 . 1 ' tivator of the soil in some of her Majesty's colonies and also in parts . of Europe. Upon this Ribject th e i following experiments of that eminent man and distinguished . agriculturist, the late Sir John S i r clair,. cannot . be too forcibly impressed upon the public mind :-1. Seven acres of light grayelif. land were &Rowed, and sown broadcast with I,, isr e at • one acre was measured off, and not a weed Was, pulled out of it ; the other six were carefully weeded.. The unweeded acre produced 18 bushels; the six weeded acres 135 bushels, or 224- per ae re i which . is 4,1 bushels, or -1,- more produce in fa"" 0 . weeding. 2. A 6-acre field was sown with barley, in . fine tilth, and well-manured. The we edu per acre. The produce of an unweeded owing to a great abundance of charlock, cost 1 20, .., acre lit; only . 13 bushels, of the weeded 28. Difference h j i , favour of . weeding 15 bushels per acre, besides t a Six acres sown with oats ; one acre ploughed land being so much cleaner for succeeding crop s ' b :i g hed hels once, and unmanured, produced only 17 bu s— re i Another six acres ploughed three times, ul au ..„ ll ";„,t and weeded, produced 37 bushels. This exP eri i i;bl proves . that oats require good management ali— i of pay for it as well as other crops. Ten bushe's to the increased produce may be fairly attribute" I the weeding,. and the other ten to the manure; re take this opportunity of again expressing my re_ spectful thanks to the landed proprietors, the t en t h s farmers, the clergy of all denominations, to _ public . press for their continued and gener? 7 . assistance in reference to the collection of !liese . lT portant stati s ti cs , th e succes s of which is mainly due to the good feelin an d confidence that no's' on this subject, g which are so creditable to the intelligen ce o f a ll ranks and classes in Ireland. REMOVAL OF THE GREAT FASTER TO SOUTHAMPTON WATER. SOUTHAMPTON, TuEsnAir- There is no doubt but that in the course of a feW days the Great Eastern will be removed from her present position, and anchored in the charming roadstead known as water. Every arrangement necessary theSouthampton wi llatonce e be ode to effect so desirable an object. Captain Harri f4°9 ' the commander o f th e ship, was this day at S ent, " ; ampton, and every particular relating to the oils has been canvassed and discussed. There is Pr °- bably no port in the United Kingdom possessing 1 sa many ad van t ages in favour of the Great Easterij." With a fine stream of water, which at lo w tide ' never less than six fathoms in depth , with ample room for the ship to swing, being within an eZ distance from London, possessing a factory ;d building and repairing of ships whic h for size ..e 0 ,killed workmen is unsurpassed by any betw een London and the Clyde, and occupying a pesit_l°, that would bring great revenues t o the coniPot by the ready access it afforded to visitors fro?' parts, Southampton has advant a g es b e yonZL 46 ' ..r0e o te t r h n er op p p o orotsiteltthiesinretaetndneadvatlohmosopoitralthneow iGreadte_T n of erection, being about three miles from the WI" and ti lij On , Vat, and ire e epi fu rl to,] RAI 3 p , 11,di D I ),itt MU