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BENSON'S WATCHES. "Perfection of mechanism."—Mornin,g Post. Cold Watches .................. 4 to 100 r ,- „Yuilicas. Silver Watches .............. 2to t.O guineas. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches, OYAL ENt.LISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the manaa-ement of Miss L. Fyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, DINO R A H. Messrs. Santley, IT. Corri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thirl wall, and MISS Louisa Pyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. D I VERTISSE3fENT. Mdlles. Lequine, Pasquale, Pier ron, and Mons. Vandris. Commencd at 8 o'clock. TiIEATRE-ROYAL, HAY MARXET. Lessee, Mr. J. I. Backstone. Tun; ETF,NING the performances swill commence with AN UNEQUAL MATCH Miss Amy Sedgick. After which, a new Fare.-, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White, Air+. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. AYMARKET THEATRE ROYAL. - .1_ For the Benefit of MISS AMY SEDGWICK, SATURDAY, October 22, 1859, and her Last Appearance ; oh occasion wi be produce , by the kind permission of Mess n whicrs. Robson and Emden, PLOT AND PASSION. Madame de Fontanges, Miss Amy Sedgwick (for this night Only). To be followed by THE DAY AFTER TILE WEDDING. Lady Elizabeth Fteelove, Miss Amy Sedgwick. To conclude with THE RIFLE AND HOW TO USE IT in which Mr. Buckstone will perform. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Uarris. TR'S EVP.YrNI4, the performances will commence with LOVE'S TELEGR'APIL To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE. To conclude with THE ✓TWO POLTS. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL , ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. Benj. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING will be performed ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss Kelly. After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben. Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher, Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Bots Office open open from 10 to 5. No charge fo r securing, sea, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith ROYAL sT. JAIES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ; Mesdames Erank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson. After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen ford, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, support 2d by Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half - p ast six ; perform ance commences at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanboroitzh TATS EVENING, TILE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An other Retreat from Moscow. And CAUGHT BY TTIE EARS. F o ll o wed by TitE VERY LATEST EDITION OF T HE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'olook. (14NTERTIUR Y HALL CONCERTS. — v EVERY EVENING.—The Nagle of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). In a few days will be produced a Selection froth Meyer beer's new opera of DINORAH. Comic Vocalists -Messrs. fleorrre Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. I'. Critelli'ela, and E. W. Vackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of - galls have be 'n re-decorated and boantitied. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFPICM, OCTOBER 21. THEINIONETER, IN THE SHIM 61—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. BAnomzTEr.-29.32. WIND, Northerly; light, with very cold weather. The coldest night for six months. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 9h. 7m.—Afternoon, 9h. 51m. To-lIoRRO w•Mornhn, 10h. 33m.—Afternoon, 11h. 10m 414 . 2) / 6 ) 1 / 4 , ,•2 A), 1. m '41110";. >e n - . 7 1 . 4 44,44:!: • lt,o - • - THE SUN. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1859 Already we have had several distinct celebrations of one of the most memorable events of 1859—the virtual completion of the grandest of all modern achievements in naval architecture. The Great Eastern, however, is worthy, indeed, of this reite rated jubilation. It is worthy of it as one of the most signal products of our engineering genius and com mercial enterprise. Wednesday, howbeit, at length it may be observed, witnessed the gratifying inci dent of its crowning inauguration. For ur on that evening, at the Royal Hotel, Holyhead, the directors of the Great Ship Company were entertained at a grand banquet, in company with a numerous gather ing of distinguished public characters, by the London and North-Western Railway Company, termed by one of the speakers, the greatest railway company in the world. Conspicuous among those who participated in these festivities, it s will be seen through the interesting report of the proceed ings published in another part of our impression of this evening, were the late First Lord of the Ad miralty and the present Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Between the speeches delivered by those two prominent members of the House of Commons —one, a man of rare genius, the other, a man of remarkable common sense, energy, and general in- telligence—there is, of course, observable a very marked difference indeed. But the kind of diffia- ence is not, perhaps, altogether precisely what the majority might have anticipated. Mr. GLADSTONE, in returning thanks for his cr,vn "health," not contented with giving a dry toast, must needs give one, if we may venture upon the vulgarism, very thickly and over abundantly buttered. He it is who tells his hosts that their's is " the first railway company in the world." He speaks of the Chairman (the Marquis of CHANDOS) to his face, as " an honour to the order to which he belongs." He has a word of panegyric to be pro nounced over the recently devoured banquet itself, declaring it ecstatically to have been "so admi rably served !" He has, almost we were going to say the indelicacy, but we will call it instead of that the effrontery, to tell the audience he is addressing that it is " incomparable com pany Altogethcr piling the Pelion upon the Ossa of flattery, and making the Olympus of ordinary compliment quite a wart by comparison ! Besides which, there comes blown to us in the rather empty wind-bag of Mr. GLADSTONE'S after-dinner oration cn Wednesday, a distorted fragment of a ridiculously applied extract from Dr. JOHNSON, and one admirably selected quota tion, quite the gem of the speech, from POPE'S " Windsor Forest." As to the former—that is, the Johnsouian " elegant extract"—quoth Mr. GLADSTONE, "Dr. JOHNSON, I thilZ7Z, says"—so that the right hon. gentleman is actually not quite certain about the right authorship of a remark that must surely, to the ordinary run of English students, be familiar as household words—a remark which the Chancellor of the Exchequer thus goes on to murder in cold blood for the purpose of a prepo.,terous misapplication—" Dr. JOHNSON 1 think says that whatever induces a man to lire more in the future and less in the present exalts him in the sale of creation." If Mr. GLADSTONE will but take down fro:n his bookshelves the volume ofJoHNsoN's works, containing the Doctor's account of his " Tour to the Hebrides," he will find the original passage in its integrity and en tirety —on e of thz most exquisitely beautiful rhetorical passages in the English language : we THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1859. Alyea' ~.r.i.....,...a............, ..........---- quote it here exclusively from memory, a passage running, we believe, verbatim as follows : " We were now treading that illustrious isand which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be difficult if it were possible, and would be found impossible if it were endea r vowed. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever snakes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as should conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which had been dignified by wisdom, learning, or virtue. That- man is little to the be env ied whose patriotism would not gain force upon plains of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Those, " we believe,' are JOHNSON'S ipsissima verba—a fragment of which, dwarfed and distorted, was indecorously dragged into his speech on Wed nesday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the purpose of a bizarre travesty, through a most ludi crous application. The quotation from POPE, how ever, as before intimated, was as admirably applied as that from JOHNSON was misapplied—and, cer tainly, reading those three familiar couplets (from one of the earliest effusions of our English ALEX ANDER the Great) by the light of Mr. GLADSTONE'S comment, the poet's verse seams distinctly prophetic of the repeal of the Navigation Laws and the triumph of Free Trade principles—so happily pro phetic that we are fain to repeat them here in our Leading columns : "The time shall come when free as waves or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Where nations enter on each swelling tide, And seas but join the nations they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the New World run forth to seek the 011." R e verting, however, to our consideration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's last after-dinner speech, as a whole, we would earnestly recom mend him, the next time he displays his rhetori cal abilities over the dessert, to moderate his im mense powers of eulogium, and, above all things, to remember SCROOGE'S deprecatory appeal to the ghost of Marley—" Don't be fl)wery JACOB!" A delightful contrast to the ornate but really empty oration of Mr. GLADSTONE, was the emi nently sensible and practical speech delivered to that " incomparable company" on Wednesday evening by Sir JOHN P:tKINGTON. If for nothing else that speech of the ex-First Lord of the Admi ralty would have been worthy of all praise and of prolonged remembrance for the following : " I think" said Sir JOHN "we cannot come to Holyhead, we cannot look at this great and noble harbour, without recollecting that that harbour has arisen from the grants which have been given by the House of Commons, and I hope and trust the House of Commons will not be wanting in the great duty which devolves upon them at this mo ment of providing harbours for England. Ido not believe that two more important steps have ever been taken towards the naval strength—towards the defences—towards the commercial prosperity of England—than the creation of those two noble arti ficial harbours of Portland and Holyhead. It was my duty to come here a year ago officially, although I am not now a member of the Government, and I was then delighted to hear it very often happens that 200 or 300 vessels at a time during the winter find shelter in this harbour of Holyhead, which vessels would otherwise be buffeting about with great risk to life and property in St. George's Channel. Now, I trust that the liberality of the House of Commons will not be restricted in this great item of public expenditure. I cannot help here appealing, not to you the constituents, not to my brother members in general—but if it is not very unfair, and if my right hon. friend will forgive me—l hope 1 may appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon this subject, with respect to a report not long ago presented to Parliament and the public, from the commission on harbours of refuge. I had the honour myself of appoifiting to preside over that commission Admiral Hope. I appointed Admiral Hope because I believed then, as I believe now, that he is a man not only of distinguished gallantry and professional skill, but a man of great ability. The report which has been presented justifies that which it recommends—an extension of the system of harbours of refuge and I hope and trust that the House of Commons will be liberal in this respect." Admirable words, ad mirably well applied, and upon an occasion in every way most felicitous. We earnestly trust that they w ill be taken well to heart by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, by the British House of Commons, and by the English people generally. It would be an appropriate incident worthy of com memoration hereafter in the history of the greatest maritime nation the world has ever seen, if the multiplication, and com pletion, and perfect organisation of the whole system of harbours of refuge were to date in effict from that wise and patriotic appeal made by Sir JOHN PAKINGTON to the people and to the Parlia ment—an appeal made by him • with a force so familiarly felicitous upon the Great Eastern's crowning inauguration. In returning thanks for , the House of Commons last Wednesday, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON very pro perly began with confession of sins. Not that he has himself, as we consider, much to answer for, we mean in respect to bribery—the topic to which he was adverting. Let it be remembered that, as Lord BROUGHAM reminded us at Bradford, it was Sir JOHN PAKINGTON who co-operated with him in endeavouring effectually to put down bribery ; and to do it by means which we must acknowledge would have gone very far towards accomplishing the object. Lord BROUGHAM and Sir JOHN had prepared a declaration to be made by members on taking their seats, so stringent that no member could have done what, for instance, Sir Wm. HATTER, Messrs. PRICE and MONK, Alderman CARDEN, and Messrs. LEATHAM and CHARLES WORTH have just confessed to having done, with out blasting thcir reputation for ever. I Sir JOHN has, we believe, done his best to purify the boraugh constituencies by any means short of the Ballot ; and had not the House of Commons opposed his proposal, and refused to iequire its members to make an effective declaration, we should have had no Wakefield and Gloucester commissions ; it would have been impossible for gentlemen who had sent above £4,000 each to com paratively small constituencies, to have professed their solemn belief, that, in no way, directly or in directly, was their return due to bribery and cor ruption. We may hope, as Lcri BROUGHAM and Sir JOHN' PAKINGTON have both spoken out so boldly on the present disgraceful revelations, that the - House will be_ compelled to do something bona fide against bribery. "I am sure,"—said the hon. Member — "that all will agree with me in saying that this vile system is demoralising to the people, discreditable to our whole representative institutions, and ren ders an appeal to the people not a test of enligh tened opinion on any matter of public policy, but a mere question of who may have the longest purse, or the most unscrupulous partisans." This is, in deed, but a repetition of Lord BROUHAM'S observa tions at Bradford—We may say of the opinion of every unbiassed man. Look at the last Parlia ment. Who can deny that Lord PALMER STON'S majority was a purchased majority ? ly the • unseated, if their places were supplied by Derbyites, would have given that side the majority. But Tories cannot boast. Glouces ter and Wakefield have demonstrated that had Lord DERBY obtained a majority, that, too, would have been a purchased majority. There is nothing to choose, in this respect, between either party, and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON did not hint that there was. It may be truthfully affirmed that even a majority of 50 in the House of Commons, as things now stand, may be destroyed by free resort to bribery. There are certainly at least 25 boroughs in the kingdom in which money spent as freely as at Gloucester or Wakefield, we may add Norwich and Berwick, . would have carried the election. Sir JOHN will perhaps be taunted with Dover, and we are by no means prepared to defend what he did there. Let it be recollected, however, that it was but follow ing too faithfully the precedents furnished in, what was understood to be a Government borough, by other First Lords of the Admiralty. We quite believe that no man in the house would be more willing than Sir JoIL to take all such unworthy influence out of the hands of the Government. We adverted the other day to the demoralising influence of bribery on the candidate class, and nothing in the late investigations has pained us more than to see what unworthy artifices and equivocations it has led gen tlemen to resort to. Not the least culpable being, that most common of all, what we may properly term corrupt ignorance. Surely hardly any immorality can be much greater than to minister to crime, and yet by avoiding sight of the commission of the crime itself to fancy your self innocent. Let corrupt ignorance be branded as it ought. It is not ignorance. The candidates at the boroughs referred to did know that bribery must be going on. Either they are such, idiots as to be on that account disqualified for representing any constituency in the House of Commons, or they had sense to know that thousands of pounds could not be required for honest purposes with constituencies not exceeding 1,000 or 1,800 voters. Technically, legally, perhaps, these gentle men did not know what was done with their money. Though it was sent in sums solarge, and sent secretly, yet they had no knowledge of what they did not see done with it. But would any of them tell a friend that they had no suspicion, amounting to moral certainty, that their purses were the fountains of corruption, at which hundreds of voters wore de filing themselves. Some persons will talk lightly of bribery— "Oh the poor fellows are glad of it,"—•it's a wind fall for them once in a while," and so forth. 'We believe, in old seasoned, boroughs, like Norwich, Yarmouth, and those now under the Commission harrow, there is a good deal of feeling of this kind. We have even known men boast of the vast sums of money they have spent in winning an elec tion ; Alderman CARDEN himself was said to have boasted on the Exchange of the money he had spent on political objects. But do such men seriously think of what they laugh about ? We know but too well that the greater part of what is received in bribes goes in dissipa tion. It is received by unprincipled persons, and spent in drunkenness and vice. It does not even do the receiver any pecuniary service while it mi nisters to their sensuality. But worse than that—it makes them one and all, as Lord BRotiGiikai observed morally guilty of perjury. Each takes the bribe, knowing that he may be called on to take the bribery oath, and of course prepared to take it, or openly to confess himself guilty. Ninety-nine out of a hundred, of those who take bribes, do so, we believe with Lord BROUGHAM, fully intending to perjure themselves if called on to take the oath. With him, we therefore hold them morally guilty of perjury, and those who furnish the money as morally guilty of subornation of perjury. We cannot, of course, dwell on the subject now, but it should be borne in mind that suppression of the grosser forms of bribery is but half doing the work. By all means let us render Gloucester and Wakefield doings impracticable ; but the cruel bribery of intimidation, of undue influence ; of a proprietor of land, almost without saying a word coercing his tenants ; of the lawyer, ban ker, and creditor coercing their clients and debtors ; of all the nameless unfair means by which one man overbears the judgment and the electoral liberty of another—these evils are far more extensive than the more loathsome ones just now before us, and for them there is but one known remedy—the BALLOT. A remedy which need not supersede, but would rather come strongly in aid of those pro posed by Lord BROUGHAM and Sir JOHN PARIN GTON. Austria. Prince. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Down ing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmer ston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord J. Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Chancellor of the Exhequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir G. Grey, Earl of Elgin, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Saturday) at Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will leave her present residence at the Isle of Wight on Friday, the 2Sth inst., for'Frogmoro Lodge. Their Excellencies the Count and Countess de Torre Diaz and lqadlle. de Zulueta have left London for Madrid. The Duke and Duchess de Medina Celi, accom panied by Count Guaqui, Grandee of Spain, and suite, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian and the Ladies Kerr have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. The Countess Dowager of Caledon has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, from Castle Caledon, County Tyrone, Ireland. Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yesterday morning from his seat, Broadlands. His lordship left town for Windsor Castle in the afternoon. Sir G. Cornewall Le wis arrived in town yesterday morning from Harpton Court, Kington, Herefordshire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to London yesterday morning from Holyhead. PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—There is now on the way to tkis country from the Maharajah of Cashmere, as a present to her Majesty, a most costly shawl tent, which will contain, moreover, a bedstead of solid gold. The value of this regal offering is said to exceed fifteen lacs of rupees (L 150,000). THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—Messrs. Beardmore and Robinson, electricians, have visited Valontia this week, and set on foot a series of experiments on the Atlantic cable. Encouragement as to the success of the undertaking, both as regards the resuscitation of the old and the laying of a new cable, is in the ascenda nt. These gentlemen found room, in the state of the cable, to disseminate new courage among its friends.—Tralee Chronicle. TIIE LORDS' PROTEST AGAINST THE REJECTION OF THE BALLOT.—A bill for enabling the Scotch peers to elect the 16 representative peers for Scotland by ballot was moved in the House of Lords in 1734, and was rejected. Many peers protested, " because (to quote the words of their protest) the method of voting by ballot appears to us infi nitely more preferable on many accounts ; for as it is well known there are several alliances among that body of nobi lity, many of the peers may be put under great difficulties, their alliances drawing them one w ty and their opinions and inclinations another way. It is also possible that by pensions from the Crown, or by civil or military preferments; some of them may be under obligations to a court and ho reduced to a hard necessity (under 'tho power of an arbitrary minister) either of losing their employment or of voting against their nearest relatives and their own opinions also. We apprehend that no election can be called perfectly free where any number of the electors are under any influence whatsoever by which they may be biassed in the freedom of their choice." DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CAMBERWELL.—Yester- _ day morning, between one and two, the premises belong,inr , to Mr. Carter, hairdresser, Camberwell, were discovered Co be on fire. Mr. and Mrs. Carter, with their two children, were in their beds asleep. A policeman succeeded in arous inc, the inmates, but owing to the fierceness of the flames, they were unable to get to the front door, and as a last re source they made to the back of the building, and succeeded in reaching the street in safety. Engines were called into operation, but the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed, and the building nearly consumed. The origin of the mis fortune is unknown. Mr. Carter was insured—the contents in the Liverpool and Loudon-dace, and the building in the Sun-office. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MADRID, OCT. 20. The Correspondencia Autoyrqfa advises the Ministers to have recourse to arms, as the Emperor of Morocco has not given satisfactory declarations to the Government. The same correspondence approves the resolution taken by the Government, in ordering the Spanish Consul to leave Tangiers. PARIS, TIItiIiSDAY EVENING, 9 r.M. The Emperor of Russia will remain at Warsaw ,o the 231. He will there meet the Emperor of M. de liiissekff will return immediately to Paris BRESLAU, Ocr. 20. It is stated by well-informed persons that the Emperor of Austria will arrive here at the same time as the Emperor of Russia, who will be here on the 23d inst. The Emperor Alexander arrived at Warsaw on he 19th inst., unaccompanied by the Hereditary MARSEILLES, OCT. 20. The Valetta, with the mails from Bombay, arrived at 2 p.m. this day. BOMBAY, September 26.—Tmports abating ; cot ton falling; oilseeds steady. Exchange on London 2syd; money abundant. The mails left Marseilles for London at 4 p.m. _ The Behar, with the heavy portion of the above mail, was to leave Malta for Southampton on the 18th instant at 8 a.m. FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, OCT. 20, In the sitting of the Federal Diet of to-day the representatives of the four kingdoms and of the Grand Duchies of Besse and. Mecklenburg, and the Duchy of Nassau, made a proposal for a revision of the federal military system. The question of the constitution of the Electorate of Hesse was not discussed. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 19, Messrs. Stieglitz and Co., bankers, will retire from business on Jan. 1, 1860, and are now engaged in liquidating their affairs. TRIESTE, OCT. 20. The Austrian Lloyd's steamer, just arrived, brings advices from Constantinople to the 15th inst. Two of the chief conspirators have died at Kulely. Sir Henry Rawlinson, English Minister to the Persian Court, has been received by the Sultan, and afterwards took his departure for Teheran. Prince Alfred is about to visit Metelin, the Dar danelles, Salonica, and the Greek Archipelago. A vessel with a number of Circassian emigrants on board has been wrecked, and 203 persons lost their lives. FRANCE. PARIS, THUItsDAY. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at St. Cloud. This is not a day of news, but there are various reports of a gloomy description in circulation, some of them too wild to repeat. Our rumour is that Neapolitan troops have landed at Ancona. Upon the whole the complexion of the news from Italy is unfavourable. Considerable excitement is said to prevail in Piedmont on account of the conditions of the Peace, which have transpired and are consi dered very unsatisfactory. The state of the Duchies is also represented as very alarming, and it is said that Marshal Vaillant has written to the Emperor, suggesting their occupation by French troops, or that a civil wa: will shortly break out. A Paris letter in the Lidependance of Brussels again brings forward, with some variation, the plan spoken of a few weeks back for the settlement of the Italian Duchies. It says " The signature of the treaty of peace between France and Austria is the first step towards the final consummation of the arrangement. You may be certain that discussions have taken place for carrying out the plan which was mentioned some time b ek, and vihich now is said to have abetter chance of success than ever, though with some slight modifications. According to that project the defini tive treaty of peace is to stipulate that the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duchess of Parma shall be restored ; likewise, that the Duchy of Parma shall be divided by drawing a straight line from Pietra Santa and along the road of Massa, Carrara, Pontremoli, and Scttoloa to Pia cenza, all which towns are to go to Piedmont. The foitification.i , of Piacenza are to be augmented, so as to defend the frontier of Piedmont. Austria wanted to make Piacenza a federal fortress, but she yielded to the opposition of France. The Duchess of Parma is to have the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. The Grand Duke of Tuscany before entering his States is to promulgate a constitution which has obtained the assent of the French Go- vernment, and it is not believed that his return will excite any serious resistance. This plan, how ever, has not yet received the assent of Piedmont, and that is the principal reason of the visit of Gen. Dabormida to Paris. As things have taken this turn, all that the Congress will have to do will be to put the treaty of peace and these slight terri torial modifications under the sanction of Europe. It is believed also that Menton and Monaco will be definitively annexed to Piedmont, and that the Prince, as an indemnity, will be allowed princely honours and a dotation from this latter co untr y . Such are, it is said, the arrangements come to." A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels,. says : " The Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, before his departure from Turin, received a note from Count Walewski, delivered by the Prince de Latour d'Auvergne, and which was a reply to the last me morandum of the Piedmontese Government on the affairs of Central Italy. In the note, Count Walewski recommended Piedmont to act with groat prudence, and to avoid furnishing, by too much ardour, a pretext to the enemies of Pied mont to accuse her of acting with a view to ag grandisement. The note also expressed a desire that •nothing should Da changed in the state of Central Italy until the great powers should have come to a decision on the subject. It. is in con sequence of this language on the part of the count that the permanent occupation of Parma by the Piedmontese troops and the regency of the Prince de Carignan were postponed." . A second telegraphic despatch from Constanti nople states that Fuad-Pacha will probably resign as well as Aali- Pacha, the Grand Visir. It may be remembered that these two heads of the Turkish Ministry had strongly opposed the desire of the Ambassadors to call Abdul-Medjid's attention to the situation of the empire, and had received the collective memorandum very coldly. This is thought likely to be the cause of the retirement of those two functionarics. The Constitalionnel publishes a long article on the works of general utility which the peace will enable France to undertake; and among the rest specifies the new railway liaes now in progress or in contemplation. It adverts with justifiable satis faction to the rapidity with which such works have been executed in France, after an undue delay at andrst, io r p e o a i t n points Britain.the fa l e t t s t a h y a s t : t — he extent of rail way communication in the country is now.greater han ❑ fit :ri:aisc asc(, t htoe under ktiiiloo t m h ,n e eot dr i e l e ill ios u r e a n teh c x e seoc o uf f tai t om h n e :l,e :: : aperial Govern ment, has been able to repair the time lost at first in, dis cof ussions political revolutions. We now possess 8,700 kilometres raised d y by42o companies,oo,ooo,ooo andr f 50,0 o which ooo 0 3 f r ,2 . s b o y ,O wa t O h h O e si , u O c s h O b t O s a l i el t r ga e . cc. Selß-teoluis3:ett we have still 7,600 k ilometres to construct, and nearly 3,000,000,000 fr. to disbt zse for them. Such is the object we have to attain durin tl a new epoch of peace which is now commencing. And when we shall have accomplished that object France will have a greater length of railway than any other counts y in the world, as she will have 16,300 kilometres, whilst the United Kingdom of Great Britain will only have 15,500. But the same will no be the case with regard to the population or the superficial extent of territory. Thug when the great networks shall be executed Franco will on:ly have 450 kilometres for every million of the population, whilst in Scotland the proportion will be 910 kilometeres, im England 866, and in Belgium 482. There is therefore nothing rash in the projects which we are now endeavouring - to carry out." The cause of the larger pecuniary returns of rail way lines in France as compared with those in England is thus explained : " If the English network gives in proportion to its length a smaller revenue than ours, notwithstanding all the ele ments of traffic which ought apparently to give it the supe riority, it is because it was constructed without any gene ral plan. In order to remain faithful to the principle of laissez-faire which dominates all her economic organisa • tion, England authorised the execution of all the lines demanded, although they were destined to injure ono another, without procuring to the country any benefit pro portionate to the capital which they absorbed. This has occasioned an unintelligent competition, which has greatly reduced the average traffic of English railways. In France we have avoided that mistake, and have divided the terri tory into large zones, each served by a single enterprise. This rational proceeding has prevented the construction of parallel lines, the waste of capital, and ruinous rivalities. And that is why our railways have more traffic and are more profitable, and why they will continue to be produc tive even when they shall have received the embranchments and extensions now in contemplation." BOURSE, Oct. 20.—The market has _been very dull, and prices looking down. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 80c., receded to 691. 60c.; Mobi lier varied from 792 f. 50c. to 785 f. ; Lyons, 915 f. to 912 f. 50c.; Orleans, 1,3701. to 1,367 f. 50c.'; Southern, 5121. 50c. to 510 f.; Austrian, 517 f. 50c. to 5461. 25c. ; Lombard, 557 f. 50c. to 556 f. 25e. The following were the last quotations ll per Cents. .... 95 Credit Foncier 690 Do. end month Belgian 4i lOO 25 3 per Cents. 69 60 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 69 6511-Inman B3 75 Bank Shams 2825 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 783 75 ISpanish Threes Do. Account ..... 785 —lHome Debt 43 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 933 50 .. 935 New ditto B2O --..— Lyons and Mediterranean 915 .; 912 50 Geneva Southern - .. 515 Western . . 572 50 .. Eastern Sardinian - Austrian Lombard .... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 111 c. • money, 25f. 10c.; three months, paper , 24 f. 96c. ; money, 24f. 94c. A Vienna letter in the New Prussian Gazette says :—" The Emperor, on his return to Schoen brunn on the 15th from Ischl, immediately receiued Field Marshal Prince Alexander of Hesse, brother in-law of the Emperor of Russia. The Prince, who has been appointed to the command of a Russian corps, will only remain here a few days. On the evening of his arrival from St. Petersburg he re ceived a visit from Count de Rechberg, the Presi dent of the Council of Ministers. A report is cur rent here that an interview is to take place between the Emperor Francis Joseph and the Emperor Alexander, and that the Archduke Albert has been charged to prepare for the meeting of the two Em perors at Warsaw." A telegraphic despatch states that the interview in question is to take place at Mpslowitz. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING. The ship Yorkshire, Capt. Reynolds, belonging to Mcssrs. Money, Wigram, and Co., of London, 79 days from Melbourne, was off the port to-day, with about 50,000 oz. of golddust, 12,000 sover eigns, and 190 passengers. She left Melbourne Aug. 2, rounded Cape Horn on the 25th, and crossed the Line Sept. 14. A great number of icebergs were observed on approaching the Cape, and when ro unding a small one was struck, without damage to the Yorkshire. Fine weather was experienced from Australia to the Line, which distance was accomplished in 44 days. For the last three weeks baffling winds have prevailed. THE GREAT EASTERN. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING The President of the Chamber of Commerce has received the following letter, and communicated it by public handbill : " On board Great Eastern, off Holyhead, Oct. 19. "Dear Sir,—We have agreed to go to Southamp ton. Get the moorings ready. I shall be in town to morrow and Friday, if you wish to see me. " I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant, "L. S. MAGNUS. " P.S. She will leave this harbour within 10 days." The anticipations which we have expressed that the long delay necessary to really fit this ship for sea would prevent her departure for America either during this month or next have thus far been realised. At a board meeting, held at the ship, at Holyhead, on Wednesday afternoon, the date of the departure for America was postponed sine die, and orders were given that all money paid for passages to the States should be returned. At present no time can be fixed for the transatlantic voyage until good progress has been made towards fitting out the ship in thorough sea-going com pleteness—a work which, we need scarcely say, will involve considerable time. Though some dis appointment may possibly be felt in England, and a good deal more in America, at this indefinite postponement, yet on the whole the directors have taken a prudent course both for the passengers and shareholders in thus, as far as is in their power, placing the first real voyage beyond the chance of mishap or shortcomings of any kind. It is almost certain that the vessel will not start for the States this year. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. There was only a limited supply f English wheat on offer in to-day's market, and its general quality was some what inferior. Primo samples of both red and white moved off steadily, at full prices, bu t low and damp qualities met a slow inquiry, at Monday's currency. We were tolerably wall, but not to say heavily, supplied with most description of foreign wheat. Millers generally purchased cautiously, yet prices were supported. There was less activity in the demand for floating cargoes, at late quotations. We have again to report an active mnquir y oatfulll all kinds of barley, especially for malting parcels, very prices. There was a moderate inquiry for malt, on former terms. A steady consumptive business was passing oats, at pre vious rates ; but beans and peas were much neglected. Flour was unaltered in value. ARRIVALS THIS WEER* Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour. glish 2,310 3,170 690 ' 260 ; 780 Irish Fo r 9,460 4,930 18,060 160 sic. NENVGATE AND LEADENITALL. E ac h kind of prime meat sold steadily, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state. The sup plies are good. Per Blbs. by the Carcass. s. d. 5.a. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beef 2 10 to 3 0 Infr. Moutt on 3 2to 3 6 aid. do ..... 32t0 3 6 Mid. d . 38to 4 0 Pm.larp•odo. 38t03 10 1 Prime do. 42to 4 8 Do. small do. 4 oto 4 4 Veal 4 oto 6 0 Large pork.. 3 4to 4 0, Small pork BOROUGH IMP. Our market is well supplied with all new hops, and the demand for them continues steady, at full prices. Year lings and old qualities may bo purchased on lower terms. New Mid and East Kent .84s to 147 s per cwt. Weald of Kent . GOs to 76s „ Sussex... 53 to 65s ~ COLONIAL. TEA.—No dealings of any importa nce h ave b een re corded, and prices remain without alteration. SuGAR.—F. , r the finer qualities of British plantation there has been a more active demand, and full prices have been obtained. Foreign descriptions, of good qualities, were also in request, and sold for higher rates. In the re fined market a moderate amount of business has been done, ftt slightly advanced quotations. • CorrEE.--For Plantation Ceylon there has been a steady inquiry at late values; other qualities are in fair demand at previous prices. Itter..—The market is moderately active; no material alteration, however, is apparent in values. SALTPETILE.—A large quantity has been offered at public sa le, but there has not been much animation, and prices remained almost the same as before. TALLOW.—A steady business has been transacted, and little variation can be recorded in prices. P.Y.C. on the spot and for last three mouths delivery is quoted 59s 6d to 59s 9d per cwt, FUNERAL OF ROBERT ST_EPIIENSON, ESQ., M.P. (THIS DAY). The mortal remains of this eminent man, whose name, in connection with some of the mightiest works of engineering skill will for ever be remembered, were interred this morn ing in Westminster Abbey. The line of procession from the mansion of the deceased gentleman in Gloucester-square to the Abbey, was crowded by thousands of persons, and a sight more impressive yet simply grand, as the mournful cortege proceeded in proces sion up the nave of the sacred building, cannot be imagined. About 11 o'clock the funeral procession proceeded through - . - Hyde-park, Grosvenor-place, Victoria-street, to the en trance of the Great Cloisters of the Abbey, Dean's-yard, Westminster, where it arrived in the following order : Mutes and Pages. The Hearse, containing the body of the deceased. The coffin was superbly made of polished English oak, most elaborately decorated, on the plate of which the fol lowing inscription was engravel : ROBERT STEPHENSON, Esq., M.P., Civil Engineer, D. C. L., F. R. S. Born Nov. 16, 1803. Died Oct. 12, 1859. FIRST CARRIAGE. George It. Stephenson, Esq. I G. P. Bidder, Esq. C. Parker, Esq. Bidder, s Erg. SECOND CARRIAGE—PALL BEARERS. The Marquis of Chandos. I Sir R. Murchison. G. C. Glyn, Esq. THIRD CARRIAGE—PALL BEARERS. J. Locke, Esq., M.P. IJ. Chapman, Esq. S. Beale, Esq., M.P. FOURTII CARRIAGE. The Mayor of, and Deputation from, Newcastle. FIFTH CARRIAGE. Nicholas Wood, Esq. William Koll, Esq. I P. H. Stanton, Esq. T. E. Harrison, Esq. SIXTH CARRIAGE.. J. Ellis, Esq. I J. W. Ouse, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. The Mayor of Sunderland. SEVENTH CARRIAGE. Sir Joshua Walmsley. John Perry, Esq. I Dr. Bird. Mr. Alderman Allison. EIGHTH CARRIAGE. 'Joseph Sandars, Esq. I W. H. Budden, Esq. George Vaughan, Esq. Wm. Woollens, Esq. G. Berkley, Esq. J. Berkley, Esq. IsTINTII CA.RUIAGE. T. S. Gooch, Esq, 1 W. H. Phipps, Esq. TENTH CARRIAGE E. Clark, Esq. I R. S. Illingworth, Esq. Rev. R. S. Gordon. R. Hayes, Esq. ELEVENTH CARRIAGE. B. P. Storkman, Esq. Kirton, Esq. J. Green, Esq. I Spiers, Esq. G. W. Sehmidht, Esq. At 10 minutes past 12 the Very Rev. the Dean, Dr. T Trench, preceded by the choristers and canons, went to the south door of the nave to receive the funeral cortege, and from thence it was conducted up the nave, which at this moment prey nted a most impressive appearance (there being nearly; 2,000 persons present, all, with very few exceptions, being attired in deep mourning), the great bell oiling and the organ pealing forth its most solemn notes, in the following order : The High Bailiff of Westminster. AlmS:raen of the Abbey. Sixteen Boys of the Choir. Sixteen Gentlemen of the Choir. The Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey. Canons Repton, Jennings, and Cureton. The Dean and his Attendants. The Mayor and Sheriff of Newcastle. TILE COFFIN. Mourners. Sir C. Walker. The Council of the institution of Civil Engineers. [Amongst whom were Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Errington, Sir J. Rennie, Mr. Fowler, Mr. John Scott Russell, Mr Walker, Mr. llaudsley, Mr. Charles Manby, &c.] Deputations from various parts of the country. The magnificent chant, " I am the resurrection and the life," having been performed, The 93th Psalm, " Lord, thou hast been our refuge," was next chanted, and the Rev. S. S. Jones then read the les son from first Corinthians, chap. xv., verse 20, "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept." Handers anthem, from Job, chap. xxix., " When the ear heard him then it blessed him, and when the eye saw him it gave witness of him," was next sung, and this concluding the portion of the burial service within the choir, the procession was re-formed and the coffin carried to the grave into which it was lowered, whilst the words " The man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live," &c., were solemnly chanted. The Very Rev. the Dean then read the remaining por tion of the service. The whole congregation joined in the Lord's Prayer, and the thousand voices in deep emotion repeating the words after the full enunciation of the Dean was intensely affecting. "His body is buried in peace, But his name liveth evermore." from Handel's Funeral Anthem, which was most effectively sung by the gentlemen of the choir, finished the burial ceremony, and, -amidst the solemn notes of the "Dead March in Saul," the mourners.and friends of the deceased were Conducted to their carriages, and the immense assem blage diepersed. The whole of the funeral arrangements were ably con conducted by Messrs. Morant, Boyd, and Morant, of 61, New Bond-street. TILE .RECALL OF ,SIR GEORGE GREY, GOVERNOR OF THE CAPE. Yesterday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, a numerous and influential deputation of merchants and others connected with the Cape of Goad Hope had an in terview, by appointment, with the Duke of New castle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, at the Colonial-office, for the purpose of urging upon his Grace the importance of reinstating Sir George Grey in the Governorship. of the coony', having regard to his general efficiency, and especially to the skill with which he was accomplishing the paci fication of the eastern frontier, a policy which was fast approaching its final accomplishment, to the complete satisfaction of the colonists of all classes, at the time of his recall. Among the gentlemen composing the deputation were Mr. W. F. Russell, M.P. Sir Charles Fox, Mr. J. lt. Thomson, Mr. Gondlonton, Mr. Searight, Mr. G. Lathom Browne, the Rev. J. Harsant, Mr. R. Pounsett, Mr. W. Forster, Mr. G. Bushell, Mr. Hamilton Ross, Mr. J. Barry, Mr. Cawood, Mr. P. Vanderbyl, Mr. M. S. Vanderbyl, Mr. Birkeworth, Mr. Mosenthal, Mr. Saxon, Mr. Henry Robinson, and Mr. C. J. Busk. They were introduced to his Grace by Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P. Mr. LArrnom BROWNE, managing director of the Cape Town Railway , wasp roceeding to state the object of the deputation, when The Duke of NEWCASTLE interposing, said he thought he observed gentlemen present apparently taking notes of what was being said, and he felt it right to state that on an occasion of this nature, when a deputation was received by a Secretary of State on a matter involving the exercise of the prerogative of the Crown, it was inconvenient to have reports published in the newspapers of all that transpired at such an interview. Such a course, indeed, altered the character of the deputa tion, and necessitated the adoption of a reserve on the part of the Minister by whom it was received, for which otherwise there would be no need. Re ports in the public journals of what was said at interviews of that kind, which were presumed to be private to some extent, were not unfrequently made the subject of comment in their columns; and such a course was inconvenient, tending as it did to im pose restraint upon a Minister of the Crown with whom a conference was sought. If he had been aware that it was intended that the deputation should be accompanied by representatives of the newspaper press, he should certaintly have deferred receiving it for a week. He wished to be under stood as making those observations in no unfriendly spirit whatever to the public journals, or with anv undue desire to invest the interview between the deputation and himself with anything like secrecy. His object was rather to state, as a general rule and for the reasons he had alleged, the inconvenience of the m c l o .. u G rs o e p t t o o w Ni h ,o ic N h , h a e mhaedmrbeefi of e . rred ihe deputation, said they had not before been aware that they were accompanied by reporters. It was here stated on the part of some of the representatives of the newspapers, four of whom were present, that they attended in consequence of a letter addressed t o th e e dit ors o f the respective journals stating that the deputation was to meet his Grace. Mr. LATTIOM BROWNE, the principal spokesman of the deputation, said he had certainly written to the editors of the newspapers. but he had made no request with regard to the attendance of reporters. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said, most unquestion ably such a letter was tantamount to an invitation that reporters should be present. No one ever sent a communication to the editor of a newspaper ap prising him, for instance, of the intention to hold a public meeting on some subject of public interest with any other view than to seeure the tilt •ndance of a gentleman to report the proceedings. He (the Duke of Newcastle) must not be supposed to de sire the exclusion of the representatives of the newspapers, now that they were present, but if reports were to be taken of what occurred, he must frankly tell the deputation that he must exercise the utmost reserve, and, in fact, say nothing. (A laugh.) He believed he might say it was tl et x ception, and not the rule, for deputations to 'Mit ters to be accompained by reporters. Peiln ps, under the circumstances, the best course would e to postpone the interview until that day we. k. This suggestion did not appear to meet with ih • approbation of the deputation, and the reporLrs, who, from the first intimation from his Grace that their presence was likely to impose some reserve upon him, were about to withdraw, now prepared to do so, feeling that the object of the deputation would otherwise be defeated. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the conduct of the representatives of the newspapers present had been perfectly frank and gentlemanlike. Before they retired —if it was their intention to retire—he wished to say, that as it had got wind that he had written a despatch to Sir George Grey, he must state that that despatch had crossed Sir George on his passage home from the Cape, and that he had since furnished him with a copy of it. He (the Duke of Newcastle) need scarcely say what the pur port of that despatch was. Ile might add that he had made an appointment t) see Sir M. o. Grey to morrow (this day). Mr. L. BROWNE reminded his Grace of the deep regret which the recall of Sir George Grey had occa sioned to all classes of the colonists, and of the anxiety with which they would look to the public journals for some intelligence of the course her Majesty's Government were prepared to take in the matter. From this point, however, the interview was con ducted without the presence of the representatives of the press. AGRICULTURAL MEETING. HEREFORDSHIRE. HEREFORD, Thursday. The Herefordshire Agricultural Meeting took place here yesterday. The dinner took place at the City Arms Hotel, and was presided over by Mr. C. W. Allen, supported by Lord Llanover, Mr. King King, M.P., Lord W. Graham, M.P., Mr. Mildmay, M.P., Colonel Clifford, M.P., Mr. G. Clive, M.P., Mr. It. Yapp (High Sheriff), Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskins, Mr. Robert Biddulph, Mr. James Phillipps, and others of the leading gentry and yeomanry of the district. After the usual introductory toasts, the CHAIR MAN proposed " The County Members." Mr. KING KING, M.P., after some remarks of a personal nature, said th6e was now no question upon which public opinion was much divided. It was the general opinion of the country that we should be prepared for any emergency that might arise, by strengthening our army and navy and defending our seaports. All seemed perfectly unani mous on that point; and though he had an abhor rence and dread of warlike proceedings as much as any Quaker, he believed the best way to avert the threatened evils was to be prepared to meet them. (Cheers.) He believed the subject of the represen tation of the people did not excite any very deep interest. He had this ground for saying so—that the present Government managed to get through the late session without any serious agitation on the subject. As to the subject of providing better cottage accommodation for labourers, he believed two cottages to every 100 acres would be sufficient, or at all events a great improvement sn the existing system. (Cheers.) Lord W. GRAHAM, M.P., paid a tribute to the of the late Mr. Blakemore, M.P., and dwelt upon the importance of stimulating the introduction and improvement of agricultural machinery as a means of compensating for the scarcity of agricul tural labourers. He noticed the improvement which had resulted from the operation of these societies, and hoped that the agricultural interest would con tinue to increase in prosperity. Mr. MILDMAY, M.P., said the only way to supply the defect of agricultural labour was to pay more attention to the improvement of machinery. The more this was employed the more improvement ere would be in the 'intellectual and social eon- dition of the agricultural labourer. If machinery was used farmers mast have intelligent and trust worthy servants, whom they must pay adequately, and for whom they must provide decent and com modious dwellings. These improved dwellings would not only be a great boon to the occupants, but landlords would find their profit in them ill their increased habits of respectability in the labourer, and his forming habits of saving, which would prevent his becoming a charge on the rates on an emergency. He deprecated the practice of hiring servants at " mops and statute fairs, and thought that if these nuisances could be dispensed with in other counties they need not be perpetuated in Herefordshire. Another means of improving the labouring classes was to educate the younger children. (Cheers.) The more intelligence the man possessed, the greater must be the value of his labour. People might depreciate the advan tages of education as much as they pl.eased, and say' that it raised the servant above his work, but his opinion went to the contrary. The clergy and landowners might do much in this respect, but they' must have the co-operation of the farmers. There was certain farm-work which must be done by - children, and would not pay for the employment of adult labour, but he suggested the plan of send ing the children to school and to work on alternate days. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN proposed " The He filth of the . City Members, which was well received. Mr. GEQRGE CLIVE (Under Secretary of State for the Home Department) replied, and apologised for the absence of Colonel Clifford his colleag_l , who, with Lord Llanover,. had left the room. Il e said that he was painfully reminded of the duties of his office by hearing an organ being ground out side, for one of his most arduous duties had been t° assist the police magistrates in putting down tile nuisance of nrgan grinding. (Laughter.) 1 0 hoped the good news that the papers had contain ed that day would turn out to be true. Peace seemed' to be nearer in Europe than it had been for som e time past, and they heard from China that the Emperor was prepared to receive the English Embassy in the kindest, the most loving , and peaceable manner. (Laughter) This was 6 mild measure after what had recently occurred when we considered the recent shocking slaughter of our men, and the enormous expense necessary t ° set the matter right. He had heard a story Of $ French Ambassador of so imperturbable a wee . tenance that nobody could tell from it whether 1 18 had received a kick or a compliment ; the ErePer?„ t of China seemed to exp ec t s i m il ar c o nduct fro m the English people, and t h a t th ey wou ld endu," might choose amount of chasti semen t hi s su bjects raigr choose to inflict without retaliation. But some ac' monstration was necessary to convince the Chinelo we would not put up w ith suc h i n di gn iti es ; and if e the measures adopt e d wou ld promo t e a s peed restoration of peace, coupled with a little coot"" bution towards expenses, it would be a very haliPJ termination to a disastrous affair. (Applause.) e Mr. CHANDOS W REN H OSKYNS , i n a high ly practical speech, pointed out the advantages of pr p e : moting local competiti on by o ff er i ng p r izes le; things peculiar to the district, and expressed l i , astonishment and pride he had exp er i ence d in T.: nessing the magnificent exhibition whi c h h a d or: racterised that day. He held ou t h o p es that , meeting of the Royal Agri cu lt ura l Society nligll be held at Hereford in 1862 : an d w hil e h e assure' them that visitors would be astounded at the noble show of Hereford cattle that could be made, b e advised them to give prizes for hops, apples, dike' ent kinds of wheat, and other things peculiar to the district. Many other toasts were proposed. havDeEtoATZOOunE announce It th . e F s ß ud A d N e C n l d S e G ath ßA o T E M S ; — F N r V a Francis i r s e r r ; l ei , : of Pall-mall, which occurred on Saturday last. Ile well known in this country and on the continent as on e the best judges of engravings, both ancient and modeLr His knowledge of English and f • portraits, and --° foreign familiarity with every fact of their history, and the lives ° f the originals, were almost unrivalled. During upwarall 30 years several of the finest collections in England, Oa especially that of th e l a t e L or d N or th w i c k, were feria e ( under his superintendence; and to him the print-roaln the British Museum is indebted for many of its most elf; ous prints and drawings. He was also an admir..b'e ju ub a of paintings, as far as historical portraits are concerned , ,„ several of the most interesting pictures in the rec oil established National Portrait Gallery had passed throng, his hands. He was of kind and amiable manners, alvgla 'ready to communicate any information he possessed , at his death will be sincerely regretted. THE STEPNEY CORONER'S INQUEST.—The B.s t if u l; of London has caused formal notice to be served uponßev. James Bonwell, incumbent of St. Philip's, St e p n° 2l3 of his lordship's intention to issue a commission under t'i o provisions of the Church Discipline Act, for inquiring ino, the grounds of the scandal existing against him in referent° to the above inquest. The commission will be addresee d i y Dr. Twiss, the Bishop's Vicar-General ; the Ven ernu Archdeacon Hale; the Rev. Canon Dale, Vicar of St. PI, eras; the Rev. J. E. Kempe, Rector of St. James's, We gt minster ; and the Rev. W. G. Humphry, Vicar of ' Martin's-in-the-Fields. • At THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION LIVERPOOL.—The arrangements for the forthcoming 10 ,., Trot to the Earl of Perby and other leaders of the Congt, e , vative party, at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, on 1 1 ' 0 evening of the 20th inst., are now nearly completed. f f committee have had a most difficult and invidious task awarding tickets—though the price will be two guineas t h e the numercus applicants, wl.ose number far exceeded si ace at the committee's disposal. The dinner, which "0,", b( cold will be supplied by Mr. Lynn , of the W ater Hotel. The bo.T.e3 will be devoted solely to the use of 1 , 1 11 1 dies (at ss. ahead), and after the diLne: the galleries no le thrown open to gentlemen, at the rate of s s. in the P.O f ont rows, and 2s. GI in the back rows. The ladies, 't e a slid will be requ - . , sted to wear the Conservative celours —r e o anl blue—as libually p(s3ible, but, as the hall haa,b,be recently redecorated, no flags or other ornaments WI," 10 3 made use of. An instrumental band and a company g _ _ singers will be stationed in the orchestra. PRESENCE OF MIND IN A SERVANT GIB! o f About one o'cloCk last Friday two men scaled the wall s the Manor-house, Alphii gt at, and entered the back Pro-, mises. The noise awoke tl e servant, who immediately 0 /0 municated with a gentleman staying with Mr. lookedSne doing so she had to traverse a long passage. She er ,4, out and saw the men taking away lead, when she slo,u, " Take the gun and shoot them." This caused the vil their to run away, leaving a pair of shoes, a black apron au" " e ir pieces of cloth: It is hoped these articles will lead to detcc tier ,—Bridgetrater Mercury.