The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-02 00:00:00

FAREWELL SEASON OF MR. CHARLES KEAN AS MANAGER OF THE I[4 0Y AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- ..Liu This THEATRE WILL OPEN on SATTTRDAY (THIS EVENING)D, the NG FOR L 2nd October, wi VE th the Farce of' YIO. To be followed by — THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, which play will be performed for a Fortnight, and then *with drawn for the production of Shakspere's Historical Tragedy of KING JOHN, which will be revived on Monday, ISth October. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. C. Kean—Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Under the Management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison, THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne. Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. George Honey, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement : Mdlles. Zilia Michelet, Pasquale, and Morlacchl. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lyme, Mr. J. B. Buckstono. THIS EVENING will be performed THE RIVALS. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL• QUIVER. Perea Nena. With THE KING'S GARDENER. And JOHN JONES. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the New Comedy of EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Emery, J. Rogers, and Barrett ; Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon. After which the Ballet of TILE RENDEZVOUS, in which the Lauri Family will appear. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swan borough, Mrs. Selby, Miss Ternan. After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES. Commence at 7 o'clock. CIANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following. Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel', Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Mont ague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Honshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Rime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay —Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the month of October, A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con nexion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER -SUN OFFICE OCT, 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 62—highest since noon yesterday. 64—lowest this morning and (luring the night, 65—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.N. WIND, West South-Westerly; light and fine. THE SUN. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1858. Almost simultaneously with the publication of Mr. CARLYLE'S biography of " Friedrich the Second, called FREDERICK the Great," the Auto cratic Administration consolidated by that power ful Sovereign is resolving itself rapidly and per ceptibly into a Constitutional Government. Prussia, after oscillating in policy between alternate alli ances—now with Russia, now with England—is giving herself up at last to the superior fascina tions of our free and enlightened system. There ris - Tong beeirrcu obvious tendency in this direction on the part of the more gifted statesmen—men like HATZFELD and BUNSEN grouped around the Throne of the House of Hohenzollern. Ten years ago the pear seemed ripe—namely, in 1848, when the black, red, and gold banner of the Germanic Nationality was unfurled at Berlin, and when the poor demented old King, now in his premature dotage, might, had he so pleased, have placed himself at the head of the great Confederation. It was a lost opportunity. There was the occasion—but there was not the man. FREDERICK WILLIAM the FOURTH—now non cornpos—might, by a single decade, have bloomed from the King of PRUSSIA into the Emperor of GERMANY. But the monarch had not strength of mind enough, vigour or determination enough, for that position of rare and breathless responsibility. The Sovereign was tried and found wanting. The hopes of Prussia, the prouder hopes of Germany died out as rapidly as they had just before been kindled into a sudden and apparently all-mastering conflagration. The former have, happily, since then been secretly reviving. A sympathy with England and with English institutions has been gradually spreading among the more intelligent politicians in Prussia—running in a parallel line with the increase, during this inter val of ten years, of the mental and moral incom petence of the Prussian Sovereign. All these successive hopes at length found in 1857-1858 two golden auguries for their realisation. The intellectual eclipse under which the unfortu- King de jure ultimately sunk, necessitating his withdrawal from public life thenceforth—in the same way that GEORGE 111. of England and FRANCIS 11. of Austria were concealed from the popular gaze when the kingly power of the former was replaced by the princely authority of a Regency, and when the imperial sway of the latter was forgone entirely by an uncon ditional abdication this kindred descent of FREDERICK-WILLIAIVI the FOURTH from the throne into absolute privacy, has brought with it as one happy sequel, the transference of . the Royal power to the Prince of PRUSSIA, a man of libera tendencies, of inflexible integrity, of unflinching resolution, and of unquestionable enlightenment. And at the very time the Prince of PRUSSIA is assuming the vice-regality of the kingdom his eldest son, heir to the crown of the HMIENZOLLERNS, is but just newly allied to England's eldest daughter. So that the generous political aspira. Ireland and the Irish from the bold experiment adventured on nine years since, and which so boldly set aside all the traditions relating to cal estates. It was indispensable to restore a heal Kier state of affairs in Ireland. The normal co .dition of the landed proprietor in the sister kin dom was one of debt and embarrassment. The sins o his forefathers, even to the third and fourth generation, were visited severely on his head. A series of " family charges" were all suffered to accumulate, the pro visions made for three or four sets of younger children, and probably one or two jointures in addition, pressed fearfully on the nominal owner, rendering him but little better than a mere agent to collect and disburse the rents. Nor was it merely " family charges" that ate up the once flourishing inheritance. The Irish proprietor or heir apparent possessed a fatal facility for obtaining money. All that was required was to sign a bond and warrant of attorney for confessing judgment, and that judgment had all the effect of a specific charge, not only on the lands then in his possession, but on all that should coine into his possession at any tints during his life. The lien was of the most perfect character, and every tenant who had a trifle of money scraped up ' as a portion for the " little girl " was always ready and willing to advance it to the landlord or land lord's eldest son, and the shopkeepers in the vicinity were equally satisfied with the investment. The mere signature was a convenient way of replenish ing the exhausted exchequer. There was a general jubilee when the heir came of age, because, by join ing his father in levying a fine or suffering a recovery, which, as a matter of filial piety he was expected to do, all these debts were rendered perfectly secure. He, poor lad, had generally some pressing claimants to satisfy, and his wants were added to those of the father, and a few thousands thrown in to supply suitable means for rejoicing at the happy event. Matters were by these means rendered very plea sant for a time. There were no troubles, no annoyance. The interest was provided for by new loans, and the" father lived as if he possessed the entire estate without claim or encumbrance of any description ; while the expectant heir emulated all the extravagance of his sire, and seemed to think that all the rents, issues, and profits were already at his disposal ! Under such cir cumstances a collapse became inevitable when the power of borrowing ceased—when lenders be came shy—and the means of the tenants were ex hausted—the interest ran into arrear, and at length some indignant croditor filed a bill, to which every person having a charge, however trifling, was made a party, required to put in an answer, appear by counsel at the several hearings, file a charge in the Masters' Court, and go through a course of expensive and unnecessary proceedings, that soon rendered the costs of the small creditors greater than the amount of their respective debts. There were then perpetual motions in the Rolls Court, all of which were paid for out of the estate, or according to the techni-cal term, were " made costs in the cause." A receiver was then appointed, and thus what had been once a noble estate not far inferior to some of the petty German principalities, was placed at the tender mercies of the worst landlord that ever destroyed a property, the Court of Chancery. Far be it from us to insinuate that such was the condition of all, or even a large proportion of the Irish landlords. There were many prudent and excellent men who gave every fair play to their tenants, and where there was any manifestation of harshness or oppression, it was the poverty, not the will that consented. They were either driven to law by inexorable circumstances, or by the insidious advice of interested men who Imaught discredit on _ - their employers, whom they wilfully deceived. It will not, however, be denied that there were many instances of the class alluded to in the early part of this article, who were totally unable to discharge their duties to their tenantry or to society, and that the too notorious state of affairs had rendered the condition of Ireland a crying grievance —a flagrant offence against society. The mysterious dispensations that reduced so large a proportion of the inhabitants to so terrible a state of destitution, that cut off thousands—tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands—by the combined influence of famine and pestilence, com pleted the destruction of those who had barely kept their heads above water during more prosperous seasons. Not only was the payment of rent sus pended, as if by general consent, but an efficient poor-law was introduced, which made the poverty of Ireland the first charge on its property; and there are but too many instances where the net receipts of large properties were totally absorbed by the payment of the poor-rates, leaving nothing either for the necessities of the landlord or the interest due to the incumbrancers. Such a state of things could not be permitted to continue ; tions of the more advanced among the Prussian Statesmen are strengthened and encouraged by the dynastic influences happily resulting from the well• devised union of the Prince FREDERICK WILLIAM and the PRINCESS ROYAL of Great Britain. The slope of Russia is towards the East, was the felicitous axiomatic phrase of M. DE LAMARTINE. The slope of Prussi a , a t thi s moment, i s clearly shelving in the direction of England and her constitutional form of government. - Under these encouraging auspices let us hope that the daydream of Prussian liberty may yet, at no distant period, be realised; and that the tokens borne to us through the electric cable connecting this country ivith the European Continent, may, from the direction of Prussia, at least, thrill with that noble harmony— " The according music of a well-mixed State." The ninth (and concluding) annual report of the operations of the Encumbered Estates Court in Ireland has been duly published, and will be found in another part of this day's impression. It is an instructive document, and proves beyond the possibility of doubt the vast benefits derived by THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1858. LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, SATURDAY. The mails from Bombay and Calcutta have ar. rived simultaneously. The position of China in the two Kwangs is growing worse. The Bombay Times, of the 7th, says that the rebels in Oude, deserted by the Queen, are in a desperate situation. There is a considerable force, but disorganised, in Behar. Colonels Anderson and Fraser are dead. The Company's paper at Calcutta is falling. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, we learn from Con stantinople, has received the English residents, whom he thanked for their expression of regard, and bestowed an eulogy on his successor. There have been some disturbances at Tripo, and the Governor has been recalled. BERLIN, SEPT. 30. The police have seized the journal Publicist. The offensive article is one on the persecutions to which the Press has of late been systematically subjected. This is, within less than a fortnight, the sixth seizure carried out against Berlin news papers, not counting the police ordinances, which prohibit the entry of publications published in non-Prussian territory. TURIN, SEPT 28, There are rumours of some Ministerial changes at Turin. It is said that the Minister of Public Instruction, M. Lanza, is to take the finances, on con(lition of *his being succeeded in his former capacity by a Mini4ter ready to carry out the projected reforms. Several arrests have taken place among the Nea politan aristocracy, and among the officers of the army and navy. Duke Proto is alleged to have escaped. At the coast of Naples a corpse has been washed ashore, on which papers referring to a conspiracy were found. The plot seems to be of Muratist origin. News has arrived from Tripoli, under the date of the 18th September, stating that Turkey having neglected to send the money to pay the troops, a battalion whose pay was in arrear had revolted, and made an attempt to bring over the other troops. The mutineers have been put in irons. While these events were taking place the Euro peans sought refuge at their respective consulates. The Governor, after order was re-established, demanded reinforcements. The following telegram was received at Mr. Reuter's office, this day, at 5.10 a.m. "PARIS, SATURDAY, " The MonNur of this day publishes a decree, prolonging the measures applicable to the impor tation of cereals (deniees alimentaires) until Sept., 1859. "His Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Napoleon has arrived at Dresden." A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels, says :—" The news of the concession of a place for forming a coal depot on the coast of Algeria to the Russian Steam Navigation Company is positive, but the same has taken place on the coast of Bar bary and of Egypt. The fact, indeed, would not be worthy of remark were it not that it coincides with the affair of Villafranca, and the personal relations 'newly established between the Emperor of Russia and the French Prince." • AUSTRALIA. LARGE ARRIVAL OF GOLD. The Black Ball clipper Ocean Chief, which left Melbourne on the 15th of July, with 48,000 ounces of gold, valued at £200,000, was off Liverpool yes terday afternoon, and expected to arrive during the night in the Mersey. She also brings 120 passen gers and a large cargo. The White Star clipper Sultana, which left Mel bourne on the 24th of June, whose arrival in the Mersey we announced yesterday, brought 40,350 ounces gold, valued a t £160,000, an d 115 pas sengers. The cargo of th e S u lt ana i nc l u d e d 700 of bales of wool, 5,500 bags and 1,140 casks of cop per, and 52 casks of tallow. • .4 * A . mg . a 4 N. • •442iti060-'‘D/zorr , a desperate disease required a desperate remed and the act was passed, which will expire on the Ist of Nov. next ; but only to give way to a worthy successor ; inasmuch as " The Landed Estates Courts," which then comes into operation, will cx- ercise even more extensive functions and powers than those entrusted to its predecessor. That made several startling changes. It enabled a pur chaser to obtain a Parliamentary title that could never be impeached—which constituted a new root to title, beyond which RO purchaser or mortgagee could inquire. We need scarcely say how greatly this added to the value of the property brought to the hammer. This was recognised by owners who were not encumbered, until at last there was a general demand that all the ad- vantages should not be given to improvident persons; but that prudent and discreet men should be allowed to participate therein. This has led to the esta- blishmcnt of the " Landed Estates Court," which will no doubt prove very beneficial in its operation, as well to vendors as to purchasers, to borrowers as to lenders on real security. It cannot have the same extraordinary demands on its attention as the Act which has resuscitated Ireland, and although there were in the earlier stages some . _ very severe cases, individual hardship has promoted the welfare, happiness, and prosperity of Ireland more than all the other enactments of recen years. We see communications established with America via Galway, and it was but yesterday that the Pacific arrived from New York via St. John's, N ew Brunswick, bringing dates up to the 24th Septem ber from New York, six days later than the pre vious advices. The Indian Empire, which sailed the previous day, was completely filled and large quan tities of freight necessarily rejected. The advan tages of an Irish transatlantic packet station are thus clearly confirmed, and this must add to the prosperity, the foundation whereof was laid by the Act of 1849 for the Sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland. Madame Muslims has greatlyimproved in health during her sojourn at St. Leonards. His excellency, who has been in town the greater part of this week, leaves this morning to join his family. Lord and Lady Chesham passed through London yesterday, en route from Scotland to Latimers, Bucks. Lord and Lady Colchester have returned to town from Tunbridge Wells. The noble lord and her ladyship will leave town, at the latter end of next week for Brighton. ,ARC BALMORAL, SEPT. 29. Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and their Royal Highneises Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, rode to Lochnagar, attended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Miss Stopford, Lieu tenant-Colonel Ponsonby, Major Teesdale, and Lieutenant Cowell. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out deer stalking. The Royal dinner party included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lord James Murray, and Miss Stuart Wortley. The Queen and Royal party honoured with their presence a ball given by her Majesty to the servants and gillies of the Castle and neighbourhood, in the new ball-room. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has returned to town from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Sir William Jolliffe has left town on a visit to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Hughenden Manor. Sir Henry and the Hon. Lady St. John Mildmay have returned to Dogmersfield Park, and are receiving visitors. The Right Hon. J. W. Henley left London yesterday afternoon for his seat, Water Perry, Oxfordshire. We (Edinburgh Courant) understand that the Duchess of Kent will leave Aberdeen for the south on Saturday morning, arriving in Edinburgh, via the Scottish Central Railway, at five p.m. Her royal highness will remain in this city until Wednesday morning, the 6th October, when she will resume her journey at 9.50, by the North iritish and Great Northern lines. Her royal high ness will throughout the journey occupy one of the Great Northern royal saloon carriages, which will be sent north for that purpose. Mr. Hancock, of Bruton-street, has recently re set tlie diamonds of the Princess Woronzow, who, with the Prince; is now in this country. Amongst the jewels is a most superb suite of diamonds, some of them of an enor mous size, which Mr. Hancock has manufactured into a diadem, with the capability of detachment into several parts, the centres being so fixed as to be available as brooches. This combination of diamonds, from the dexterous manner in which the parts are attached one to the other, can be transformed into a necklace. The v a lue o f thi s magnificent ornament, which, more than any other, is said to excel in lustre, is upwards of £20,000, and forms the principal jewel belonging to the illustrious house of Woronzow.—Horning Post. THE BRAZILS.—LIVERPOOL, Friday.—The Royal Mall steam-ship Tamar was at Lisbon with £43,000 in specie.. She was to leave on the 29th ult. for Southampton. Exchange at Rio, 264 d. ; at 26d. ARRIVAL OF SPECIE, LIVERPOOL, Friday.—The Black Ball clipper ship Ocean Chief, which sailed from Melbourne on the 15th July, arrived to-day, after a rapid passage, with 48,000 ounces of gold dust. The Sultana, which left Melbourne on the 24th of June has also arrived with 40,500 ounces of gold. We read in the Gazette de Silesi :—" We spoke lately of the reply made by the Prince of Prussia to the municipality of Breslau. We should add that his royal highness made the remark 'that unquestionably Prussia ought not to rest where she is, but that she must make progress.' " APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, September 30:—Henry Bennett Smith; Hertfordshire ; James Richards Walker, Liverpool; Roger Roberts, Rathkeale, Ireland ; Richard Brown, Greengate, Salford, Manchester ; Andrew Gibson, South Shields ; and six gentle men p asse d th e i r fi rs t examination. HER MAJESTY IN THE NORTH.—Her Majesty is constantly driving about in a light phaeton, without any attendant, visiting high and low, rich and poor. We were told, and had pointed out to us, the residence of her Ma jesty's weaver, where all her Barmoral tartans are made—a small cottage on the road side, with a " but and a ben," Inultum in parvo. At the weaver's her Majesty makes re peated calls, being great favourites ; and whose tartans, all gifted away in London, are highly prized, as the only true Balmoral tartan. We nd also a snuff out of John Blair's —" the Queen's fiddler"—box, as the coach stopped at Craithie. John is really not at all like a fiddler ' • neverthe less, John must always ass i s t a t th e B a l mora l rejoicing s. Having :left Edinburgh by the twel ve o ' c l oc k noon tr ain on a Friday, we got to Ballater easily on Sunday morn ing by ten o'clock. Crathie being nine miles off, we drove to church, and, having got a hint to enter by the east end, we did so, and got seats without difficulty opposite her Majesty's seat. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and two ladies came in and took their seats without any ceremony, observing closely the presbyterian form of worship during divine service; and but for the knowledge that the Queen was present, we could see no difference. Her Majesty had no attendant with her but the postilion I when she came, or on leaving the church, and n o t " a red coat" was to be seen. Great improvements are making on the road from Ballater to Braemar. The road on the south side of Balmoral is to be shut up, and that on the north side of the Dee improved for the public. Prince Albert is building a handsome bridge of granite on the Dee, oppo site or near Invercauld House, at his own expense, pre paratory to these alterations.--Glasgow .Daily Hail. , PROBABLE TERMINATION OF THE OAKS COL LIERY STRIKE.—The outrage at Hoyle Mill on Friday night created the greatest excitement throughout the whole of the district, and on Sunday there could not have been less than 6,000 persons viewing the scene of destruction. A sermon was preached in the vicinity of the tents and every thing passed off quietly. On Tuesday seven arrests were made, including a man named Shelton, one of the leaders of the turnouts and two or three from Worsborough-dale. When it became known that some of the men had been-ap prehended the colliers congregated in bodies, and every thing betokened that another collision, or rather attack, was likely, to meet which every precaution was taken by the authorities, and a large body of police was marched down to the houses. Their services, however, were not called into requisition. On Saturday, Sunday, and Mon day a considerable num b er o f th e "bl ac k s h eep " so ld o ff their things and left, not being desirous of being placed in a position in which their lives and property were alike en dangered. On Thursday afternoon a meeting of the mas ters and men took place at Hoyle Mill. The masters stated their willingness to allow the men to commence work on the old terms, as they had before offered, provided they would eome to some agreement with the men at present working in the pit as to the places where they formerly worked. The men who were respectfully received by their employers, then retired, and after a short time invited the "black sheep" to a conference, which the major part of the latter at once acceded to. After some discussion, carried on by both partles with great calmness, nearly the whole of the black sheep" present agreed to give up to the old hands the places in which they had worked previously to the strike. This being what the turnouts stipulated for at a previous conference between them and the masters there is now every probability that the strike, which has now lasted 18 weeks, will be terminated without either party giving way. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The autumn and winter sea son having commenced, season-tickets at half-a-guinea each, available on all occasions till the 30th of April next year, are issued. The screen separating the main building , from the tropical department has been refixed at a consi derable distance down the north nave, thus enclosing the whole of the large basin and both fountains, besides the Alhambra and Byzantine Courts, with the vestibules lead ing thereto. This will form a much more spacious pro menade as a winter garden, possessing a summer tem perature, even during the most inclement weather. Arrangements have been made by which the whole build ing will be kept at a more equable temperature during the winter, and the Palace be made as agreeable and available in winter as in summer. Mr. Mann's Great Concert takes place this day, at two o'clock, and will doubtless attract a Large number of season ticket holders and their friends. The visitors have staid so late at the Palace the last few evenings watching the comet, which is particularly bril liant, that it has been found requisite to light the gas standards in the nave, used by the workmen on busy occa sions. This lighting up, partial as it is, produces a beauti ful effect, and is evidence of the grand results which would follow an entire illumination of the Palace. Half-crown day, Friday, Oct. I.—Admissions on payment, 994 ; ditto, by season tickets, 355 ; total visitors 1 , 349. FATAL ACCIDENT.—TWO LIVES LOST.—Three young men, Edward Humphries, William Taylor, and Jas. Morris, residi ng i n N ewport, but natives of London, on Sunday last left Newport in a small boat for Cowes. They reached East Cowes and landed at the Medina Hotel, took some refreshment, and proceeded to East Cowes Castle to call on a friend of one of the parties ; not finding him at home, they went to the Prince of W a l es I nn , got something to drink, then returned to their boat, and proceeded up the river homewards, when, from some unexplained cause, the boat upset, and Humphries and Taylor were drowned. Morris swam and fortunately reached the shore, in front of Kingston Quay. Had he attempted to ge t on shore either higher up or lower down the river he must have lost his life, as the mud is so soft and deep. He proceeded directly to the police-station at West Cowes and obtained assistance of boats and drags, but, though the boat upset soon after 6 o'clock, and it was then nearly low water, the bodies of the unfortunate young men were not found until nearly 11. o'clock. The boat, only ten feet long, was found bottom upwards. An inquest was held on the bodies, and a ver dict of accidental death returned. The young men were both in situations of trust : Humpheries was managing the business of Mr. Way, grocer, of Newport, and Taylor was a traveller for the same concern. VAGARIES OF CRINOLINE AT CIIURCH.—On Sunday morning last (says the Plymouth. Journal) the worshippers at St, Andrew's Church were not a little sur- prised and amused at a remarkable circumstance iKYo—en burred there to a lady who was blessed with a superabun dance of the present fashionable expander. For the:advan tage of the attendants the churchwardens have had placed about the church in convenient corners tins to receive the drainage from umbrellas in wet weather. On Sunday morning a lady swollen a la mode, while passing one of these tins, happened, by an unlucky chance, to seize.enaat the bottom of her dress, and as she passed along it beat on the ground with the same kind of noise as a dog thut is tail-piped. The sounds attracted the congregation, many of whom laughed heartilx, and the church war d en left his pew to ascertain the cause of a noise so unusual, but lie was preceded by the verger, who had hastened to the lady's assistance and re move d the annoying connexion. We should think that the novelty of the lady's costume by no means added to the calmness of her devotions QS morning. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have just issued their list of new works for the forthcoming season. Among their other announcements of more than usual interest are the following :—A new serial publication entitled " Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions of Popular Modern Works," each to be comprised in a single volume ' elegantly printed, bound and illustrated, price ss. The first volume is to contain "Nature and Human Nature," by the author of " Sam Slick ; " A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies," by Miss Kavanagh ; " Henry the Third, King of France, his Court and Times," by Miss Freer; the genealogical volume of "Lodge's Peerage," improved and enlarged, and contain ing for the first time the ancestral history of the baronets, as well as peers of.the realm; "Episodes of French His tory," by Miss Pardoe. Among the works of fiction an nounced by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett are :—A new story by the author of " John Halifax ;" " Stephan Langton," by Martin F. Tupper author of " Proverbial Phil o sophy ;" "The Laird of N pp orlaw," a Scottish story, by the author of " Margaret Maitland ;" " Two Hearts,' a tale, edited by Mrs. Grey ; " Fellow Travellers," by the author of " Mar garet, or Prejudice at Home ;" " The Master of the Hounds," by Scrutator, author of " The Squire of Beech wood," Bcc, ' • FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Grand Duke Constantine is shortly ex pected in the Mediterranean with some of the ships-of-war under his command. Fuad Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, had an audience yesterday of the Emperor at St. Cloud. It is stated as certain that the Emperor of Rus sia has been invited by Prince Napoleon to visit France, and has accepted the invitation, and that both London and Paris will be honoured with his presence next spring. Moreover, it would appear that Prince Napoleon has been invited to return with the Czar to St. Petersburg and Moscow. General Renault, Governor-General ad interim of Algeria, has addressed the following general order of the day to the army, dated Head-quarters, Algiers, 23d ult. :—" Officers and soldiers of the army of Africa—Marshal Randon lately obtained the authorisation of the Emperor to return to France. Circumstances not having allowed his bidding you farewell at the moment when he left, he wished me to be the interpreter of his feelings towards you. I will therefore draw a rapid sketch of the services which you have rendered under his skilful command, in order that you may preserve the remembrance of him who has been your leader for the last seven years. You have subdued the South by your discipline and incessant activity; and Kabylia, which had always been able to maintain its independence, has been compelled to yield before your perseverance and valour. You have thus completed the comfueit of Algeria; - In imitation of the Roman soldiers, you have, after the victory, laid aside your arms in order to occupy yourselves with the works necessary to consolidate your con quests and prepare the prosperity of the country. Those fortified posts which have been everywhere raised, and those roads which intersect the country in all directions, testify to your patriotic de votedness ; and at this very moment you are eagerly engaged in tracing out the railways which will open a new era to the colony. History will render an account of the striking services which you have rendered, and it will say that, in the army of Africa, the qualities which make a good soldier are united to the virtues of the citizen. Soldiers ! before delivering up the command in chief, with which I had been provisionally invested, into the hands of the general whose eminent services and the confidence of the Emperor have placed at your head, I also desire to thank you on my own account for the eager and loyal co-operation I have always found in you. During the 20 years I have passed among you, I have shared in your fatigues and your dangers. I have been your companion in suc cess, and I am happy to proclaim I have always found intact in your ranks those old traditions of discipline, honour, courage, and abnegation, which constitute the force of armies. Preserve religiously your devotion to your colours ; remain always what you have hitherto been, and you will continue to merit the confidence of your chiefs, and the kind consideration of our Emperor." PARIS BOURSE, Oct. 1, Two o'Clock.—This being settling day for the Rente, there was a great quantity of titles delivered, but money is so abun dant that the rates of continuation did not exceed 274,- and 30. Threes have been done at 73f. 50c. and 73f. 30c. for the present Account, and at 73f. 75c. to 73f. ¢oe. for end of October. The market has been dull, and prices heavy on other securities. Mobilier, 9801. to 9751. ; Orleans, 1,435 f. to 1,427 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 887 f. 50c. to 885 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 750 f. to 7451.; Northern, 992 f. 50c. to 990 f. ; and Southern," 605 f. to 600 f. The following were the last quotations :- 4f per Cents. 96 10 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 73 55 Bank Shares 3lOO Credit Mobilier Do. Account Craft Fonder Belgian 4t — Piedmonteso (5) Roman 93 Austrian Spanish Threes • Home Debt 4O 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto — .. 832 50 Lyons and Mediterranean BB2 50 .. 880 New ditto — .. Geneva 642 50 .. 650 Midi Western 642 50 .. 642 50 Eastern Grand Central — .. Sardinian 460 .. 462 50 Austrian 670 .. 671 25 Exchange on London, at sight, gaper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 15c. ; three months, paper, 2of. 21c. ; money, 25f. NAPLES. Letters from Naples of the 22d ult. make no men of the rumours stated by one of the Paris journals, the Presse, to have been current, of the discovery of a new conspiracy against the King. The same letters state that the marriage of the Duke of Cala bria, Hereditary Prince, with the Princess of Bava ria is to be officially announced on the 3th October, and is to be celebrated on the 12th January, the King's fete. A Neapolitan squadron is to go to Trieste to bring the Princess to Naples, and prepa rations are being made in the royal palace at Naples for the residence of the young couple. The Minister of Russia at Naples had returned to that city; after being absent on leave. The Nord of Brussels denies the authenticity of the despatch from Naples which was lately pub lished in the Thiglish journals. It says : " Everything proves that the document has been drawn up by some clever person who, being ac quainted with the well-known character and dis ' positions of King Ferdinand, has ascribed to him language which may express the real sentiments of his Majesty, but which certainly would never have been used in a diplomatic document. Moreover, we believe there exists a circular despatch sent to all the Neapolitan legations, dated the Ist of July, in which Commander Carafa declares that the Government of the Two Sicilies did not send away the Ministers of France and England, but that it was those countries which recalled their representatives, and obliged the ambassadors of the Two Sicilies at Paris and London to leave, by sending them their passports.' The King's go vernment having,' the despatch continues, ' scru pulously respected the treaties which bind it to other States, is 'not called on to take any steps ; but when the two great Western Powers shall send their representatives to Naples, the King will re ceive them with pleasure, and even with kindness, and will immediately order his representatives at the two Courts to return to Paris and London." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have reached us. A Royal order in the Gazette directs that the Cuban customhouse authorities shall admit, duty free, the cotton seed which the English Government has remitted to her Britannic Majesty's consul general for the purpose of trying the cultivation of the cotton plant in the Island of Cuba. The authorities are directed to watch the trial and to report fully thereon to the Home Government. The Gazette also contains a Royal order ad dressed to the Superintendent of Finance of the Isle of Cuba, informing him that the practice o f permitting foreign consuls to import, duty free, the stationery and other necessaries for their offices is contrary to law, and is in future to be discontinued. In the Gazette likewise appears a decree by which. five of the principal judges of Cuba are summarily dismissed from their places without the usual formula of " being satisfied with their zeal, loyalty, and intelligence." These gentlemen, whose names are Buelta, de la Escosura, Portillo, Valero y Soto, and Franchum, are said to have com mitted serious irregularities in the administration of justice—in plain English, accepted bribes. Another royal order directs that the Spanish con suls in Foreign countries shall take care that the captains of merchant vessels bound to the Spanish colonies shall note down upon their manifests the approximative value of the cargoes of their vessels. The semi-official Correspondancia Autografa says that it is not true, as asserted by one of the journals, that the Government intends refusing the Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) permission to return to Madrid. TUNIS. A letter from Tunis of the 19th says that amongst other reforms the Bey has simplified the insignia of military grades, and has ordered that decorations, instead of being ornamented with brilliants, shall for the future be in silver, He has also gradually reduced his army from 25,000 to 6,000 men. He has, besides, decided that all Government employe shall have paid salaries, so that their situation is no longer precarious. Lastly, in addition to the revenues set apart to the new municipal council, the Bey has presented it for its preliminary expenses, 1,000,000 piastres (650,000 fr.) AMERICA. GALWAY, OCT 1. The steamship Pacific, of the Lever Line, arriv e d here this morning f ro m New York, via St. John's, Newfoundland, in six days and one hour from the latter port, bringing dates up to the 24th of Sep. tdmber from New York, by electric telegraph, to St. John's. Cotton quiet ; unchangeable. Sales, 2,000 bales in three days. Flour buoyant, and from 10c. to 20c. higher. Corn firm. . Provisions steady. Sugar declining e. Naval stores firm. Tea and coffee firm. The Pacific brings 30 first cabin, 47 second, and 261 third-class passengers. THE WEST INDIA MAIL SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT. The Parana steamer, Captain Bevis, has arrived with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails. Her dates are—Vera Cruz, Sept. 4th ; Tampico, Aug. 31st ; ilievannah, Sept. 10th ; Greytown, 2d ; Jamaica, 10th ; Demerara, 9th ; Trinidad, 9th; Barbadoes, 11th; St. Thomas's, 15th. She brings 65 passengers, 856,414 doll. in specie ; diamonds, &c., value £7,268; and full cargo of cochineal, cigars, tobacco, and sundries. Her Majesty's ships lnaum, Leopard, Basilisk, Tartar, Cuba, Buzzard, and Devastation were at Jamaica. In lat. 43 19 N., long., 31 51 W. the Parana spoke the. English brig Julia, and in lat. 46 22 N., long. 22 21 W., the American ship Daniel Webster, from New York for London, The islands were generally healthy. Full average crops had been gathered. The weather throughout the colonies had been unusually dry, and in some places sei iously affected the growing crops. In Demerara crop operations were being continued with good prospects. Shipping abundant, and the colony healthy. There is no political news. The weather at Porto Rico had been of late very , favourable, abundant rains having fallen through out the island. The coming sugar crop would not reach an average, the southern districts having suffered greatly from severe and protracted drought, and the deficiency would be very large ; but on the north side the prospects were the best known for many years. The coffee crop had commenced in some quarters, and was expected to turn out well. Exchanges were higher, and for tonnage no demand existed. Money continued extraordinarily scarce. The Government had in no way relaxed the stringency of its financial enactments, and the country was suffering greatly under the pressure of excessive taxation. . The Fraser River gold diggings were reported up to the 6th of September to be a hoax. Great distress prevailed among the numerous emigrants, and all that could were getting away. General Tamar, American Minister to Nicaragua, left that Republic in disgust, and proceeded to Costa Rica. He ' purposed recommending his Government to use force i n th e i r d eman d s against Nicaragua: The Cass - and Yri,sarri tieaty had noi'i been ratified by the Nicaraguan Government. The want of the usual rains at this season had been severely felt throughout the continent. The American Minister at Mexico had received orders to demand his passports, and will leave on the 15th of October, the yellow fever being too bad to venture before. The British Minister had received instructions to follow the course pursued by his American colleague—viz., to protect against the contributions levied. Tampico was taken on the 25th of Aug. by the Constitutionalists, or Liberals. No part of the coast is now held by Zuluaga, who is about abdicating unless Santa Anna returns, which appeared utterly impossible. The Liberals were gaining ground fast, and preparing to con centrate upon the capit a l. All communication with Vera Cruz and other parts was cut off. Money was plentiful in the capital, but could not leave it for robbers. Robles, the Mexican Minister, had re turned to his country, recalled by Zuluaga, to take his place in case of abdication, but he had yet to get to the city, being on board a Spanish vessel of war off Vera Cruz. Robles was passenger in the Clyde from Havannah to Tampico, but was unable to land there, the town having been taken by , the Liberal party two days before the Clyde arrived. He returned, therefore, to Vera Cruz, and was taken on board the Spanish frigate Cortes, lying at Sacrificio. Yellow fever was very virulent at Vera Cruz. From the Pacific the news is very unimportant. Peace and order prevailed throughout Chili, and the country was progressing favourably. A line of mail steamers to run between Valparaiso, Monte video, and Buenos Ayres was talked of. The news from the silver and copper mines was satisfactory. Bolivia was progressing peacefully, and the army had been reduced one-half. The close of the elections in Peru had left the country quiet. The Peruvian Government, it was reported, was about to declare war against Ecuador on account of the question between Senor Cavero, the Peruvian Minister to Ecuador and the latter Government. Senor Carrion had been elected Vice-President of the Republic of Ecuador, and the elections passed off quietly. Central American news is uninteresting. Cholera was disappearing at Guatemala. The United States Minister had returned from Honduias to that State. ENCUMBERED ESTATES CO URT, - IRELAND. NINTH AND CONCLUDING ANNUAL REPORT. Summary of proceedings of the Encumbered Es. tates Court, from the filing of the first petition— viz., Oct. 25, 1849, to Aug. 31, 1858, being the ter mination of the ninth and last session of the com mission. (On and after the Ist day of Nov., 1854, to be entitled "The Landed Estates Court." 21st and 22d of Vict., cap. 72.) Arranged in 14 tables. 1. Number of petitions presented, including those for partition and exchange, as well as for 5a1e4,413 (Of the above, upwards of 800 were supplemental, with drawn, and dismissed petitions.) 2. Number of absolute orders for sale 3. Number of matters in which owners pre sented petitions • (Of the first 100 petitions, six were presentad by owners. Of the last 100 petitions, the owners of estates presented 47.) 4. Number of matters in which owners were bankrupt or insolvent (In very many other cases the owners of estates became bankrupts or insolvents after the petitions were presented, and the proceedings were subsequently carried on in the name of their assignees). 5. Number of conveyances executed by the com missioners 6. Number of estates or.parts of estates sold by provincial auction, subsequently confirmed by the commissioners By private proposal accepted by the commis sioners The remainder of the premises comprised in the above 8,364 conveyances were all sold by public auction, in court, before the commissioners. 7. Number of lots sold—viz., by public auction in court, by provincial auction, and by private contract, confirmed by the commissioners When the same person became the purchaser of seve rs : lots he generally had them included in the same convey. ante. 3,54' 8,364 8. Number of boxes, containing upwards of 300,000 documents and muniments of title, depo sited in the Record-office 9. Number of cases which had been pending in the Court of Chancery before being brought into the Encumbered Estates Court 10. Number of Irish purchasers 11. Number of English, Scotch, and foreign purchasers .. 324 12. Amount of purchase-money paid by English, Scotch, and foreign pur chasers 13. Gross proceeds of sale to the 31st of August, 1858, as lodged in the accountant's office : By public auction in court, by provin cial auction, and by private contract £23,161,093 6 7 This amount includes a sum of about £500,000, being inters t, at 5 per cent., charged to purchasers when lodging their money after the li m it e d time for payment thereof. 14. Accountant's Office.—Table showing the amount paid on account of purchase-money and of property sold, and of funds distributed, and of credit allowed to incumbrancers who became purchasers, and funds at present in court, and purchase money of recent sales not yet lodged : Total amount of purchase money, as above, from 25th of October, 1849, to 31st of August, 1858, both days inclusive 3,170 1,298 8,258 Amount distributed by order of the Commissioners, in cash Ditto in stock 5,015,612 2 11 Amount of absolute credits to pur chasers on foot of incumbrances vested in them 7 and applied, with consent of Commissioners, m payment of their purchase money Total amount of funds distributed .. £21,931,696 0 9 Funds on hand : Cash in bank........ £413,368 6 11 New 3 per cent. Stock 711,432 19 0 New 3 per cent.Consols 104595 19 11 £1;226,397 5 10 £23,,03 6 7 Note.—The funds here r e t urne d as on hand 161 are 9 subject to be still further reduced by— First—The amount of sums already allocated to parties and to trustees of settlements and the like, but where, from the deaths of the parties, or some of them, entitled thereto, or from so me o th er causes, those sums cannot at present be paid out of court. Second—By amount set apart by the Commissioners' fiats, on account of conflicting- claims (the subject of litiga tion in the Court of Chancery or elsewhere, and not yet decided on) respecting the sum comprised in such fiats. THOMAS SEED, Accountant. There is a diff erence b e t ween th e amount real zed by the sales (as taken from the Sales-book) and ;he amount lodged in the Accountant's-office. This difference arises from— First—Certain provisional credits having been conditionally .allowed to incumbrancers who be came purchasers, but which credits, not having been yet made absolute, are not returned as pay ments, or as credits absolutely allowed in the books of the accountant ; and Secondly—From the non-lodgment in court of the amount of certain of the sales recently had. C. M. OJUISBY. Statistics-office, Dublin, Oct. 1. THE SCOTCH IRON TRADE. (From the Quarterly Report of M. Thomas Thorburn.) The iron trade continues to expand. The produc tion of pig iron in the quarter just closed is unpre cedented, having raached 249,000 tons. The ship ments and local consumption amount, in the same period, to 215,000 tons. The stocks have thus, and partly owing to the continuous cessation of the greatest malleable work in this district, combined with a falling-off in the exports, increased 34,000 tons, and are now 230,000 tons in makers' and ware house-keepers' stores, against 112,000 tons, on the Ist of October, 1857. Yet, in the face of an accumulating stock, exten sive purchases were made at from 535. to 555. 6d. cash, and 545. 6d. to 575. three months open ; the price averaging in July 535., in August 555., and in September 545. 4d. per ton. Although these quotations arc fully 15s. below the average price of the last five years, and scarcely remunerative to the ironmasters in general, still they have supplied the market freely at the current price of the day, and continue to send considerable quantities into warehouse-keepers' stores. Notwithstanding the great slackness still felt by the iron shipbuilders on the Clyde, a growing im provement is to be noted among the local malleable works and foundries, coincident with the decidedly reviving trade of the country. With upwards of nineteen millions of bullion in the Bank of England-the prospects of a great commercial future by the opening of entirely new markets in the East and on the shores of the Pacific-with Brazil, India, Algeria, Austria, and Australia wanting railways-there cannot, fail sooner or later, to be stimulated an increasing de mand for iron, which is the foundation of almost every industrial enterprise. The following are now the prices :-Bars, £7 ss. to .£8 ; Rails, ss. to £7 lOs ; Railway Ch a i rs, £4 2s. 6d. to £4 7s. 6d ; Cast Iron Pipes, £4 17s. 6d. to £5 10s. No. 1 Gartsherrie, 60s. ; No. 1 Calder and Coltness, 555. 6d. ; No. 1 Glengarnock, 555. ; No. 1 G. M. 8., 535. 6d. to 545. 6d. ; No. 3, 525. 9d. to 535. sd. ; East Coast Brands, 535. 6d. to 555. ; Ayrshire Brands, 535. to 553. for mixed numbers. MR. G. T. F. SMITH'S WEATHER PREDICTIONS FOR OCTOBER, 1858.-3 d to sth dull, cool, and ungenial weather, probably some showers. From sth to 9th rainy with raw atmosphere. From 9th to 13th rainy in the inte rim, raw, cold, or squally at intervals. From 13th to 16th alternately bright and gloomy, with some showers. From 16th to 23d rainy weather prevails. From 23d to 29th generally fine, with a genial atmosphere, and but a few showers at intervals. To October 31st similar weather prevails. The warmest period of October will be from the 27th or 28th' to 'the 31st.-12, Gloucester=place, tenham, PRUSSIA AND HER KING. Previous to the period of Frederick 11., generally, and with more than ordinary justice called the Great, Prussia was a fourth or even a fifth-rate Power in Europe. It possessed little else but patches of sandy territory, isolated from the remainder hy the dominions and territories of other Princes. In those days Eastern Prussia was separated from the rest of the kingdom, or, as it was then more com monly called, the Electorate, by the Polish terri tory. The Prussian possessions in Franconia were, surrounded by the territories of jealous neutral or hostile Princes—a fact, th e significancy of which the young King was not very slow to see. Hard did he labour by pen, by tongue, but, most of all, by sword, to remove these political disadvantages ; and though his measures were no t a l ways justifiable,- or his acts, whether military or civil, defensible on strictly moral or ethical grounds, yet it cannot be denied that by his energy, his vigour, and his mili-, tary and civil capacity, Frederick the Second( raised his kingdom from a small Electorate to a first-rate Power, and caused the name of Prussia to be known and respected throughout the civilised world. The more immediate successors of the great man did not possess his talents or his energy. 11l the revolutionary war the States of Prussia on the west of the Rhine were seized or ceded, and at Jena nearly all was lost. By a treaty subsequent to that battle, Prussia lost more than half her populationj and territory, and f or s i x years was little more , than a feudatory of France. Subsequently, indeed,' Queen, King, and people were animated by a t patriotic and national spirit, and by the peace' of Paris, in rewa r d o f h er l as t e ff orts, Prussia! gained what she had lost by the peace of Tilsit, and had her frontiers additionally rounded by the cessions of large parcels of Saxony. So long as Frederick William 111., the father of the present King, lived, the country which he governed main tained a great deal of 'the prestige of the old days of 1741 and 1742 ; but since the accession of the present King, Frederick William IV., in 1840, Prussia has, from the indecision, vacillation, and capricious character of the Monarch, lost much of the influence and weight which so industrious, civi lised, and military a people enjoyed in the delibc _rations and councils of the great Powers of Europe. The King, in many respects an amiable, and in all respects an accomplished, man, was, in his best days, little fitted to rule, and is now wholly unfit to govern. His principal defect was a fatal weakness and vacillation—a sort of dreaminess, mysticism, and indecision, which never permitted him to do more than halt between two opinions. This defect of mind was apparent in the earlier days of the Monarch's reign, and age, and feeble health, and the vicissitudes of later years, have served but to fortify a weakness which, according to one of the greatest masters in knowledge of the human heart, is, under the most favourable circum stances, incurable. "La faiblesse (says Rochefou cault, in speaking of men of undecided character), " est le seul defaut qu'on ne saurait jamais corriger ;'', and in looking to the career of the Prussian King,l we find a verification of the remark. In 1840 and 1841 he halted between Lutheranism and Evan-1 gelism ; in 1842, between a Russian and an English alliance ; in 1843 and 1844, between Absolutism and Constitutionalism ; and, in 1848 and 1849 he halted again as to whether he should lead or re press the movement in Germany. Opportunities, glorious or inglorious, for good or for evil, were thus on four occasions lost, and a majority of the Prussians at length, in 1853, ceased to regard their monarch in any other respect than as a king of good intentions but of weak and feeble resolves. If there were a few of his Majesty's subjects who en tertained different opinions, such persons ought to have been, and we believe were, disenchanted by the events of 1854. In that year Prussia had the most glorious opportunity ever afforded to a nation to embark in the cause in which England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia had engaged. Though not eager for war, the Prussian people would.. have gladly seen their country allied with the civilised Powers of the West against Russia. But the King, as usual, vacillated and wavered, and finally proved not merely inconstant, but faithless to the interests of Germany, of humanity, and of civilisation. Despite the ad jurations and warnings of some of the most dis tinguished of his subjects, the King, following his own inclinations and the suggestions of a narrow clique, remained in quasi neutrality, lending all the while, however, efficient services to Russia. - From that moment the influence of Prussia as a kingdom and the health and intellect of the King have de clined part passe, and there needed but the recent events of Neufchatel to convince the diplomacy of Europe that the Monarch was suffering, not alone from bodily disease, but from mental weakness. For the last twelvemonth it is known indeed to all the world that Frederick William has been com pletely prostrated both in mind and body. His brother, the Prince of Prussia, has, during that period, acted as Reg en t with limited powers; and it is now sought by a camarilla to prolong this un certain state, with continuing restrictions, or with the Queen as co-Regent. But th e P r i nce of Prussia, according to the latest advices from Berlin, declines to be any longer hampered by restrictions and limi tations which impede his action, and give him dan gerous responsibility without free or full power. The fact is, that the Queen, and a camarilla behind her, cannot bear to think the King incapable to go vern, and look forward to the day when he is again to reign. Such a contingency is doubtless possible ; for his Majesty may, by the Divine mercy, again recover both his bodily and mental strength. But at the present moment, after a year's suffering, the case of the Prussian King appears hopeless, and his incapacity to govern is so marked and manifest, that the next agnate, or male relative of a common father, possesses the power, under the 56th article of the constitution, to assume the Regency as a right. This right, we learn from the Berliner Zeit, the present Regent is prepared to exercise; and probably, by the middle or end of the month, he may, assuming his functions as the next agnate, rule in virtue of the constitution and law of Prus sia, instead of by kingly delegation from his brother. For now nearly twelve months the Regent has exhibited a delicacy towards his brother worthy of all commendation—a delicacy oftener sought than found, even in the bosom of illustrious families. But, in quite admitting the delicacy due to a brother and a King, we cannot forget that there are reciprocal and interchangeable obliga tions. The Prince also owes a duty to his country, to Prussia Proper to Po3en, to Brand en b urg , t o Pomerania, and Silesia. It is incumbent on the next heir and ruler of a kingdom, heterogeneous, and not very well knit together by feeling, in terest, or geographical situation, to gather up the reins of authority, and not to prevent a people, intelligent, industrious, and warlike, to suffer from an interregnum or a camarilla, and to be without a responsible constitutional ruler, accountable, if he recovers, to Frederick William IV., and account able in any event to God, to his country, and to Europe.—Morning Post. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, OCT. 1. There will be an election to' one Stapledon and two Open Scholarships in Exeter College in Dec. next. The Open Scholarships are of the value, respectively, of £7O and £5O, and the Stapledon of £5O per annum. The Stapledon Scholarship is limited to persons who are either natives of the Diocess of Exeter, or who have received their edu: cation for the three years last past in some school in that diocese. Candidates for any Scholarship, who must be under 20 years of age, and members of the Church of England, are requested to call 9n the rector on or before the last day of Nov. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 1. This being the first day of term under the new statutes, the Senate met at ten o'clock, when the Proctors resigned their office. The statute De Elee tione Procuratorum having been read by one of the Esquire Bedells, the Senate proceeded to the elec tion of Proctors for the ensuing year, When the fol lowing gentlemen were duly chosen and admitted by the Vice-Chancellor : Senior Proctor—Andrew Long, Esq., M.A., Fellow of King's College. Junior Proctor—The Rev. C. K. Robinson, M.A., Fellow of St. Catherine's College. The Senate henceforth consisting of one House only, the office of Scrutator has become extinct. The following degrees were conferred : Master of Arts.—Leonidas Clint and Charles Edward Douglass, Trinity; and George Hunt Smyttan, Corpus. Bachelors of Arts.—Dionysius Nelson Vounge and Robert Augustus Lucas Nunns, Christ's. THE CARUS GREEK TESTAMENT PRIZE FOR BACTIEL011;. Th e examination for this' prize will commence in the Senate-house on Friday, the 15th of Oct. next, at 9 o'clock a.m. The examiners are Mr. H. C. A. Taylor, of Trinity College, and Mr. A. A. Ellis, of Trinity College. Candidates must send in their names to the examiners on or before Monday, the 11th of Oct o b er. Thi s pr i ze i s open for competi tion to all students who, having been admitted ad respondendunt qualtioni, are not of sufficient stand ing to be created Master of Arts, and to students in Civil Law or Medicine of not more than seven years' standing, who are required, before they will be admitted to become candidates, to produce cer tificates from their respective professors that they have kept the exercises necessary fbr the degree of Bachelor of Law or Physic. No student will be eligible who has not passed the theological exami nation.