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BENSON'S WATCHEB. " Perfection of mechanism." _Horsing Post. Gold .......................... 5 to 100 guineas. Silver .................... 2to 50 guin eas. Send 2 stamps tor Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for Si. extra. 23 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Establisl24ol2l4fe ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, . COVENT GARDEN. —tinder the slanaaement of Miss Louisa Pyile and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. The Public are respect full y informed that the Last Repre sentations of Wallace's popular Opera of LURLINE are now terminating; in consequence of the pr e p arations tor the ape,cdy production of the novelties announced. OPAL E.,TGLISTI OPERA, COVENT t; GARDEN —under the Management of Miss LOUISA FY NE and Mr• W. lIA HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE .ROSE OF CAS LILLE. Miss Louisa Pine, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs.W. Harrison. H, Corri, Dnrand, St. Albyn, and Wallworth. To conclude with the First Act of T ROVATORE. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. HE A TRY. -R OYA L, HAYMARKET. Lemec, Mr. J. B. Backstone. rrßys EVENING the uPrtormances will comme.noP with T HE STRANGER. Mr. Howe and M iss Amy Sedgwick. After which, the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM BASSADOR. Mr. John Brougham, Miss Florence Haydon, E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--- Lessee and Manaer, Mr. A. Harris. , an adatation of Victor Hugo's cele bratedTHlS PIay EVENING of RUY BLAS, p by F.dmund F a l c oner, Esq. 1 when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his 7th appearance on the English stage:supported by Messrs. Meadows, Garden, Graham, ,supported M Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Lecicrcq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by-SUSAN SMITH. After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mi s Maria Harris. Mr. A. Harris and THEATRE- ROYAL LYCEUM. Bola Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. Last appearance of Miss Gougenheim. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of Til IC LOVE CHAgE. The cen i c Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott. Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon. Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. George ng - . Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Forrester, lir. Campbell, Mrs. Keeley, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Goimenheim. To conclude with the comedy of THE. JEALOITS WIFE : principa l c haracters by Mr. a , ore Vining, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. T. Lyon, Mr s. IL Butler, Mr. J. Johnstone,Morris, Mr. Clifford, M J. Rouse, ISliss M. Ternan, and Miss Goughenheim. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NF,W THEATRE -ROYAL. r-z- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Great Success of the new Drains., by Dion Bourcicanit, Esq., " The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even ing. ENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. THIS EV Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN he BAWN. D. Rourcicault Rome. D. Fisher, Billing-ton, Falconer, Stepnson. C. J. Smith, Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billing - ton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To oonclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 25. ; Family Boxes, - £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. Front Circle Stalls, Is. • Pit Stalls, 28 .; Pit , ls. ed. ; Amp hitheatre, is ; Gallery, Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. kSTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD. First appearance of Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome, and their Troupe of unequalled perf Tmers, dm., including the incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. loitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN MOOD • or, the M e rry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud ofhighl trained Horses, Herd of real De er, Stag Hounds, &c, Allayn a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of Europe. Doors open at half-Fast 6, performance commence at 7. Box -oftloe open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. Wrs , r. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL ING, CONCERTS.- EVERT EVEN A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ............ ........ Miss RUSSELL. Adaldsa (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistinz of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Nev,ro Delineations, Anecdotes, Szc. Prin - cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley F.x. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, is, ...Hall. (Id. THE WEATHER.—Strw 0771(37, Nov. 3, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS!. 50—this day at noon. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER- 30 . 1 7. WIND—South -Easterly; light, with fine clear weather, Frosty in the morning. „ ~,:., 1 „4, . , z.::! , - , .. , 114,i.,cf ~ ,.„ ~,,,,.. „,,,...„,,, 4 4 _ ~-.i,, . ...:1,- ) .4. *7,17:75.1 • t - -- ..k....,...; . 5 tt ,51; , '.t. ,o-t , ---, .. l 4 .4 r Eo THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1860. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. Um—Afternoon, 4h. 29m. To-moltow.-Morning, 4h. 49m.—Afternoon, sh. Ilm. We cannot find words to express the pleasure with which we read Lord JOHN'S RUSSELL'S despatch of the 27th of October, to our Minister at Turin. For our country's sake, now placed before all the liberalism and all the absolutism of Europe in a position of which we are proud—for Ita' sake, happily needing little now beyond the hearty moral support of a great Power, and to whom this despatch is worth more than a fleet or an army—for the sake of the intermeddling Emperor of FRANCE, who now sees that England is committed to a noble policy before all the world, by something more direct than a BONIFACE article in a favoured journal —for the sake of all now concerned, and all who may be hereafter concerned, we rejoice, we may say exult, in the despatch we publish to-day. It is a great victory—Land we hope the noble lord will win many such—for the courage to trample on all the technicalities of diplomacy, to grasp with a strong hand the substantial right of a popular cause, and to do it in defiance of three Autocrats, all of whom had pronounced themselves more or less strongly in - the cause of absolutism, requires courage of the highest order. - We expressed our thankfulness a little tinge back that Lord JorrN RUSSELL was breathing again the air of his free native country, and he does not seem long to have breathed it in vain. We have never doubted the personal sympathies of the noble lord with the cause of liberty abroad ; we have only feared, if we mu s t speak plainly, the indirect influ ence of the German connections of our Court ; but our Court should know that nothing will induce our people to bear with good-will the sovereignty of a race of purely foreign blood, jealously guarded from all contamination with that of the governed people, so much as the perception that • the Ministers of the Crown express, in all their foreign policy, the sentiments of the people of England. When it is well known that Prussia and the c oburgs all sympathise with absolutism rather than with free dom, it makes the continental inter-marriages app ear comparatively harmless, if they do not interfere with England's Foreign Secretary uttering the sentiments of all his countrymen. Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S dispatch gratifies us i n two main points. First, it takes for its text the censure of the King of SARDINIA by Russia, France, and the milder censure of Prussia. Without cir• cumlecution, it, argawentatively, censures them. Perhaps we ought almo st to for g ive the lecturing tone of the despatch to Count CAvOUR, when we see that it is the noble lord's present style, and that three great P owe rs get it almost as severely as the Government of Turin. Its second great merit is, that it argues the whole Italian question on the broad principles of common sense. Even when VATTEL is appealed to, it is to quote from him the reasonable principle that, on the invitation of a brave people, struggling against their oppressors from reasonable causes, foreign powers have a right to furnish the assistance they ask. Our invitation of WILLIAM of ORANGE, and dirassistance furnished by the States, being the pertinent illustration. We may add a third ; it assumes throughout that Italians are really Italians, and not merely Tuscans, or Modenese, or Neapolitans, and all the rest of it—it accepts the common na tionality of all the sections into which the selfish ness of a set of Austrian Lieutenants had par celled a noble country, merely to facilitate her odious rule over them. The reasons by which Lord JOHN RUSSELL justifies both the Italians and the King of SAE. DINIA, cannot of course be novel; we could not wish them to be. What we wanted and what we have, is the recognition as valid, of those arguments which all Liberals feel to be sufficient, and that, by a judgment so important in the diplomacy of Europe as the formal e x p ression of the opinion of England. The Italians have, says his lordship, two plain and reasonable causes for wishing to get rid of their numerous petty sovereigns. One that those sove reigns could not, or would not, administer justice, in their own territories ; in fact, that they substi tuted for it intolerable oppression; the other, that in no other way could Italians be independent of foreign control, but by forming themselves into one strong and organised people. They had tried forty years ago, to obtain free institutions, but were hindered by foreign intervention. They tried again in 1848, and again the result was the same, their best patriots being re warded with cruel imprisonments but just ended. They now make a last attempt, and do it in the reasonable and moderate way of putting themselves under the leadership of a King of their own blood and language, who, moreover, has been signally true to the cause of constitutional liberty—the very kind of liberty which the vast majority of Italians desire. We may hope that this despatch, with the events of the last few days, will make our foolishly vacillating, or blindly selfish ally be think himself of what he is doing before Gaeta. There is, we fear, no doubt whatever that he in structed his Admiral to delay the fall of Gaeta by placing himself in the way of the gallant Admiral, who was the chief hero of Ancona. We then urged our Government to interference either with the EMPEROR himself, or through our Mediterranean Admiral. We must confess that this telling de spatch looks all the right way ; and that we may well hope that the Government which would send it, will not hesitate to enforce in the most desirable way, the neutrality of the French at Gaeta. The elect of Universal Suffrage will also learn simultaneously of the election of VICTOR EMMANUEL by that process, and by a majority even more overwhelming than his own. We also hear of the fall of Capua, and of the union, there fore, of all the forces of GARIBALDI and the King of SARDINIA before the walls of Gaeta. In such cir cumstances, not only would it be lawless inter meddling to hinder the Sardinian Admiral from doing his part in the siege ; it would be simple barbarity. The place must fall, Lours NAPOLEON can hardly wish other wise, but it will fall with less bloodshed in pro portion to the completeness of the investment and the strength of the besiegers. If resistance be seen to be hopeless, as it must be if the town were invested both by land and by sea, the deposed monarch would probably flee at once, and the place sur render without a struggle. We must not conclude, however, without advis ing Lord 701 IN RUSSELL to be consistent. Venetia will now become the test. This despatch, of course, siys nothing of that unhappy country. Any one, however, of Lord JOHN'S reasonings respecting the other parts of Italy apply with, if possible, grea force to Venetia. There the people, in every way in which they can make themselves heard, and for the most " reasonable causes," ask for foreign aid to liberate them from insupportable oppression.. This country, too, is an essential part of Italy—a part of its strength especially—and if not united to the rest, an opening for that foreign control, from which Lord JOHN owns they may wish to be exempt. The time is rapidly coming when a bold asser tion of the just rights of Venetia to share the Italian Nationality will do as much service to Italy as the present despatch. It will do a real kindness to Austria also, since, as she must part with it, every inducement she can have to do so without bloodshed is a real advantage to her. Let Lord JOHN tell her before all Europ• that she ought not to keep,—what he has already termed, " a menace to Italy," and that she cannot long keep it, if she would, and, he will be her I most sincere friend. Y's - We have now full and very interesting details of the capture of the Taku forts. They were taken after a resistance creditable alike to the defenders and the captors, and if we must regret so many casualties to our brave men, we must also remem ber that but for the almost unexpected bravery of the Tartars our troops would not have had the opportunity of showing what metal they were made of. We may also be thankful that though the casualties are so numerous, yet thanks in part to the badness of Chinese gunpowder, the killed were unusually small in proportion to the wounded. Out of 178, only 22 are returned as killed or mor tally wounded. Contrary to their usual practice the Chinese had made preparations for resistance in several places along the twelve miles between the Peh-tang and the Taku Forts. The first resistance was at Sinho, where the Tartars, finding the Armstrong guns and other artillery made the place too hot for them, their cavalry had the boldness to attempt to turn both flanks of our troops ; not only that, but 80 or 90 of them attacked a battery of guns which had ceased firing a short time, but were met by 25 Sikhs, of Fane's horse, and completely beaten—it was a soul-stirring little episode, and the Sikhs, of course, were delighted with the proof of their prowess. The next resistance was by a strongly fortified camp at Tang-kow ; and here again it was almost all the work of the artillery, which performed admirably, both French and English, the ARM STRONG gun, however, maintaining its obvious superiority ; the place was at length carried by the infantry, Lieut. SHAW being the first to enter the fort. The first Frenchman who entered was forthwith promoted on the field of battle. On this occasion, as throughout, the Tartars stood gallantly to their guns behind embras.ures, which afford ed them a very poor protection against a most mur derous fire from the allies. The next object of attack was the Taku forts themselves. These arc situated on both sides the river—but the northern forts, the upper northern one especially, were pronounced by our General to be the key of the position, contrary to the opinion of the French General. Sir HOPE GRANT, too, took the responsibility of acting on his own view, which proved to be the right one. On the 20th the Upper Northern Fort was sum moned to surrender, all things being rea dy for the attack. The demand was repelled with --..... r ... ----,...-- ........—..-- insolence, and arrangements were accordingly made for the morrow. The gun boats were ordered to shell the lower northern fort and engage its at tention, while the main attack was made on the upper one. In both, tremendous:explosions soon took place, " Beams of wood, earth, shells, splinters, bodies, were hurled into the air while the concussion shook the earth for miles round"-+—still the brave Tartars stood to their guns. About eight in the morning, after three hours' firing, the Chinese guns were pretty well silenced, and the pon toon and ladder work began. It was warm work, too. The defenders were hardly less brave and determined than the assailants ; it cost half an hour's severe fighting under the wall before the Allies had fairly entered—and even then the Chinese fought desperately under their casemates ; and here it was that Ensign CHAP LIN, and a French soldier raced up the ramp, the Ensign being knocked over by a bullet—getting up again, and " winning by a head." A French drummer was first into the place, though imme diately after Lieutenant ROGERS leaped in, in another place. It was in this severe struggle, of course, that our principal casualties occurred. The gunboats suffered nothing. And now the judgment of Sir HOPE GRANT was completely vindicated. The southern forts lay at our mercy, being enfiladed by the one we had taken, while the back of the lower northern fort was open to us. The consequence was that the Chinese themselves were aw are of it, and quickly surren dered, without further trouble, both the north and south forts, with all that they contained. " Thus, in a ten days' campaign, were the Peiho forts taken, the disaster of last year avenged, and the Chinese war of 1860 brought almost to a close." We fear the conclusion may not be quite worthy of the commencement —but that we must not discuss till we have more certain information. It is all well that the whole Province up to Tien-tsin should capitulate, but we cannot like the Ambassadors ;going to Pekin as the EN. PEROR'S guests. They ought to have gone with the aspect of conquerors, if they would save the hazard of mandarin pride attempting fresh insults when they are gone. Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG'S guns have been found now to be the first artillery in the world, the Emperor of CHINA should have had a sight of them. The army has occupied the pro vince—well. But much better had it occupied Pekin, and. thus read a final lesson to the whole Empire. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENI ITALIAN POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN. The following despatch has been addressed to our Minister at Turin : FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 27, appears that the late proceedings of the King of Sardinia have been strongly disapproved of by several of the principal Courts of Europe. The Emperor of the French, on hearing of the invasion of the Papal States by the army of Gene ral Cialdini, withdrew his Minister from Turin, expressing at the same time the opinion of the Im perial Government in condemnation of the invasion of the Roman territory. The Emperor of Russia has, we are told, declared in strong terms his indig nation at the entrance of the army of the King of Sardinia into the Neapolitan territory, and has withdrawn his entire mission from Turin. The Prince Regent of Prussia has also thought it neces sary to convey to Sardinia a sense of his displeasure, but he has not thought it necessary to remove the Prussian Minister from Turin. After these diplomatic acts it would scarcely be just to Italy, or respectful to the other Great Powers of Europe, were the Government of her Majesty any longer to withhold the expression of their opinion. In so doing, however, her Majesty's Government have no intention to raise a dispute upon the rea sons which have been given in the name of the King of Sardinia for the invasion of the Roman and Neapolitan States. 'Whether or no the Pope was justified in defending his authority by means of foreign levies ; whether the King of the Two Sicilies, while still maintaining his flag at Capua and Gaeta, can be said to have abdicated, are not the arguments upon which her Majesty's Government propose to dilate. The large questions which appear to them to be at issue are these :—Were the people of Italy jus tified in asking the assistance of the King of Sar dinia to relieve them from governments with which they were discontented ?—and was the King of Sardinia justified in furnishing the assistance of his arms to the people of the Roman and Neapolitan States ? There appear to have been two motives which have induced the people of the Roman and Neapolitan States to join willingly in the subver sion of their governments. The first of these was that the Governments of the Pope and the King of the Two Sicilies provided so ill for the administra tion of justice, the protection of personal liberty, and the general welfare of their people, that their subjects looked forward to the overthrow of their rulers as a necessary preliminary to all improve ment in their condition. The second motive was, that a conviction had spread since the year 1849 that the only manner in which Italians could secure their independence of foreign control was by forming one strong govern ment for the whole of Italy. The struggle of Charles Albert, in 1848, and the sympathy which the present King of Sardinia has shown for the Italian cause, have naturally caused the association of the name of Victor Emmanuel with the single authority under which the Italians aspire to live. Looking at the question in this view, her Ma jesty's Government must admit that the Italians themselves are the best judges of their own interests. That eminent jurist Vattel, when discussing the lawfulness of the assistance given by the United Provinces to the Prince of Orange when he invaded England and overturned the throne of James 11., says, " The authority of the Prince of Orange had doubtless an influence on the deliberations of the States General, but it did not lead them to the commission of an act of injustice, for when a people for good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act of justice and generosity to assist brave men in the defence of their liberties." Therefore, according to Vattel, the question re solves itself into this—Did the people of Naples and of the Roman States take up arms against their governments for good reasons ? Upon this grave matter her Majesty's Govern ment hold that the people in question are them selves the best judges of their own affairs. Her Majesty's Government do not feel justified in de claring that the people of Southern Italy bad not good reasons for throwing off their allegiance to their former governments; her Majesty's Govern ment cannot, therefore, pretend to blame the King of Sardinia for assisting them. There remains, however, a question of fact. It is asserted by the partisans of the fallen governments that the people of the Roman States were attached to the Pope, and the people of the kingdom of Naples to the dynasty of Francis 11., but that Sardinian agents and foreign adventurers have by force and intrigue subverted the thrones of those sovereigns. It is difficult, however, to believe, after the astonishing events which we have seen, that the Pope and the King of the Two Sicilies possessed the love of their people. How was it, one must ask, that the Pope found it impossible to levy a Roman army, and that he was forced to rely almost enitrely upon foreign mercenaries ? How did it happen, again, that Garibaldi conquered nearly all Sicily with 2,000 men, and marched from Reggio to Naples with 5,000 ? How but from the univer sal disaffection of the people of the Two Sicilies ? Neither can it be said that this testimony of the popular will was capricious or causeless. Forty years ago the Neapolitan people made an attempt regularly and temperately to reform their Govern ment under the reigning dynasty. The powers of Europe, assembled at Laybach, resolved, with the exception of England, to put down this attempt by force. It was put down, and a large foreign army was left in the Two Sicilies to main tain social order. In 1848 the Neapolitan people again attempted to secure liberty under the Bourbon dynasty; but their best patriots atoned by an imprisonment of ten years for the offence of endeavouring to free their country ; what wonder, then, that in 1860 the Neapolitans, mis trustful and resentful, should throw off the Bour bons, as in 1688 England had thrown off the Stuarts ? It must be admitted undoubtedly that the severance of the ties which bind together a Sove reign and his subjects is in itself a misfortune. Notions of allegiance become confused, the succes sion of the throne is disputed, adverse parties threaten the peace of society ; rights and preten sions are opposed to each other, and mar the har mony of the State. Yet it must be acknowledged, on the other hand, that the Italian revolution has been conducted with singular temper and forbear ance. The subversion of existing power has not been followed, as is too often the case, by an out break of popular vengeance. The extreme -views of democrats have nowhere prevailed. Public opinion has checked the excesses of the public triumph. The venerated forms of constitutional monarchy have been associated with the name of a prince who represents an ancient and glorious dynasty. Such having been the causes and the concomi tant circumstances of the revolution of Italy, her Majesty's Government can see no sufficient ground for the severe censure with which Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia have visited the acts of the King of Sardinia. Her Majesty's Government will turn their eyes rather to the gratifying prospect of a people building up the edifice of their liberties, and consolidating the work of their independence amid the sympathies and good wishes of Europe. —I have, &c., (Signed) J. RUSSELL. P.S.—You are at liberty to give a copy of this despatch to Count Cavour. To Sir James Hudson, &.o. ACCIDENT ON THE SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—An accident occurred on Tuesday night, at Bromfield station, near Ludlow, on the Shrewsbury and Hereford (single) line of railway, a place but a few miles distant from the recent scene of the collision which took place a faw weeks ago. It appears that the passenger train leaving Hereford at 10.50, and duo in Shrewsbury at 7.25, proceeded safely on its way to Ludlow. As night set in a dense fog arose, and on that account it is presumed that the passenger train ran on and came in contact with a number of trucks inadvertently left on the line, and severe injury was inflicted upon some of the travellers, and much damage to the property. Five or six people were badly hurt, and are now receiving care at inns in Shrewsbury and elsewhere. We believe the harm done to persons was mostly confined to bruises of the legs, hands, and arms, and may be regarded as of a minor character. Singularly enough, William Harley Bayley, Esq., barrister, and a director of the company, who had his eye bruised and blackened in the last collision, was in the passenger train on this occasion, but escaped unhurt. SURRENDER OF CAPITA. NAPLES, Nov. 2. Capua has capitulated. Military honours have been granted to the garrison, who to the number of 8,000 men have been disarmed and sent to Naples, where they will embark. Naples is illuminated, and there are great re joicings. PARIS, Nov. 2. It is true that the French Government gave orders to Rear-Admiral de Tinan to prevent the attack on Gaeta by sea, and it is also trne that the rear admiral was not under the necessity of communicat ing these orders to the Sardinian admiral, as the attack had not been attempted. A telegraphic despatch states that the official journal of Rome, in its number of yesterday, recti tifies in its essential parts the despatch attributed to the Duke de Gramont by Lamoriciere. It was on the energetic demand of the duke, in a despatch addressed to Cardinal Antonelli, that this rectifica tion took place. The terms of the protest of the French Ambassador are those of dignity and good faith, and evince a just indignation. They will be known here to-morrow. THE IRISH BRIGADE. QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY. The steamer Dee, from Havre, with the Irish Brigade on board, arrived here this morning. Their reception was of the most enthusiastic kind. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING, The Swiftsure, Captain Pryce, from Melbourne, with 76,000 ounces of gold, which landed 20 pas sengers at Penzance on Thursday, experienced strong easterly winds, and put into the Sound this morning. She has 140 passengers, many of whom will land and proceed to London by express train. TILE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. An interesting contest took place on the 25th u between the St. Georges, Queen's Westminster, and the Victoria Rifle Corps, for a prize presented by Mr. Turner, of New Bond-street, of a silver statuette of the Queen in coronation robes, with tiara set with diamonds, value 120 guineas. The ranges being at 500, 600, and 700 yards, ten men being selected from each corps, each man firing five shots at these different ranges. The match was decided in favour of the St. George's, who made 90 points, beating the Queen's by 9 and the Victoria by 13 points, the highest score at the 700 yards being made by the Westminster. An incident occurred during the match showing that the Volunteers are not dismayed by an obstacle which requires some ingenuity and a good deal of hand work to overcome. There are three butts at Wormwood Scrubbs, and the St. George's butt for that day was allotted to the Queen's, and from a rising in the ground at 350 yards range it is neces sary to elevate the marksman to enable him to com mand a view of the target, but it was found in measuring the ground previously to the match, that the mound had been erected six or eight yards too far off; so to help their companions in arms out of this dilemma, the gallant Westminsters, both officers and men, set to work, and by the means of some planks, Bz.c., from an adjoining building, erected a most excellent stage for their comrades to fire from, and had only finished turfing the same as the firing at 500 y ards was com p leted. ter SANDILLI, THE CAFFRE CHIEF. The following is a copy of a letter of Sandilli, and one of his Counsellors, to Captain Tarleton, of her Majesty's ship Euryalus, written on the occasion of Prince Alfred's visit : " Her Majesty's ship Euryalus, Sept. 1:, 1860. "To THE CHIEF TARLETON, OP THE QUBEN OF ENG LAND'S GREAT WARSHIP EURYA.LITS, SINDILLI AND HIS COUNSELLORS GIVE THANKS. "By the invitation of the Great Chief, the son of the Queen of the English people, are we this day on board this mighty vessel. " The invitation was accepted with fear. With dread we came on board, and in trouble have we witnessed the dan gers of the great waters, but through your skill have we passed through this tribulation. "We have seen what our ancestors heard not of. Now have we grown old and learned wisdom. The might of E agland has been fully illustrated to us, and now we behold our madness in takingup arms to resist the authority of our mighty and gracious Sovereign. Up to this time have we not ceased to be amazed at the wonderful things we have witnessed, and which are beyond our comprehension. " But one thing we understand—the reason of England's greatness, when the-son of her great Queen becomes subject to a subject, that he may learn wisdom ; when the sons of England's chiefs and nobles leave the homes and the wealth of their fathers, and with their young Prince endure hard ships and sufferings, in order that they may be wise, and become a defence to their country ; when we behold these things we see why the English are a great and mighty nation. " What we have now learnt shall be transmitted to our wondering countrymen, and handed down to oar chil dren, who shall be wiser than their father, and our mighty Queen shall be their Sovereign and ours in all time coming. " And now, Great Chief, we end by expressing oar gra titude that we have had this opportunity of seeing so much. From our hearts we thank you for your kindness and attention to us. We have been cared for in every way, and all our wants supplied ; the chiefs under you have shown us every kindness, and the people under them have acted to us as countrymen and brothsrs. This we more highly esteem, as it was unlooked for and un expected. We feared we had come among a strange people who would look upon us as their enemies, but it has been otherwise. " What we have here seen, and all the kindness received, shall never be forgotten. his " SANDILLI (x x) Chief. mark. "For the other nine Counsellors, " TYOLA (x x) Chief Counsellor,' The Duke of Cleveland has been receiving a suc cession of visitors at Raby Castle, including the Earl and Countess of Stradbroke, Lord and Lady Harry Vane, Lady Alvanley, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Henry Milbank, Mr. Sussex Milbank, Col. Augustus Meyrick (Scots Fusilier Guards), and many of the leading gentry of the county. Viscount Uffington arrived in town yesterday from Ashdowne Park, Berks. Lord Jam Russell arrived in London yesterday from Woburn Abbey. His lordship went in the afternoon to his residence in Richmond Park. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Basset and Captain Basset have returned to Tehidy Park, Cornwall, from Kin lo chew° Lodge, N.B. Sir John and Lady Power have left Kilfane, for Nice, to pass the winter. LORD ST. LEONARDS.—We regret to announce the serious illness of Lord St. Leonards. His lordship was seized with paralysis yesterday evening, and his family have been sent for. His lordship has had two attacks of the same nature during the last two years, but they were not so severe as that under which he now labours. COURT PATRONAGE TO THEATRICALS. —Her Majesty, ever ready to patronise the profession, has ordered her box to be retained for her at her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, for the English, as well as Italian Opera season; also, a similar command has been paid to the St. James's Theatre; and last week we announced that her Majesty had honoured the English Opera at Covent-garden with the same kind compliment. —Era. TILE INDIAN ARMY.—On further inquiry we find that the Commissioners for the Amalgamation of the Armies have not recommended that the European regiments of the Indian forces should be allowed to "die out." We have also reason to believe that no further or supplemen tary report has been called for on the important questions which have been submitted to the attention of the commis ' missioners,—Army and Navy Gazette. L ATE ;3 ri E W • The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 2.—The market has been buoyant, and the settlement has gone on satisfactorily. For the Account, Threes, are now at 69f 421 c ; Mobilier, 718 f 75c; Orleans, 1,380 f; Northern, 975 f; Medi terranean, 922 f 50c ; Austrian, 491 f 25c ; Lom bard, 486 f 25c. The following are the last quota- tions :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 70 Credit Foncier 905 Do. end month.... 95 80 1 Belgian 4± — 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 30 , Roman Bank Shares 2850 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 721 25 Spanish Threes 4Bl Do. Account 7lB 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1375 -- .. 1375 -- Northern New ditto - .. -- -- LyonsandMediterranean 922 50 .. 921 25 Geneva.. - Southern 5ll 25 .. 510 -- Western Eastern .. 633 75 .. -- Sardinian.., 3BB 75 .. -- -- Austrian Imrbard .. - NAPLES. We extract the following from a letter from Gaeta : , I GA ETA, OCT. 26. " Gaeta and its vicinity have quite a martial aspect. Between the barren mountains and the sea runs a road where there are a few thinly-inha , bited villages. At present that road and those villages swarm with soldiers. The theatre of war is gradually approaching as ; the distance to Capua is about 54 kilometres. The river Garigliano, which runs through the plain between this and Capua, is about 30 yards broad, where it divides the road ; it is a sluggish stream of no great depth ; the left bank is flat; the right bank is somewhat steep, and more capable of defence. The Neapoli tans have a camp there of from 3,000 to 4,000 men ; they have commenced erecting a tete-de-pont and some unimportant earthworks. " Between the Garigliano and Gaeta, on the seashore, is the town of Mola, in the very Bay of Gaeta. Here there are some 1,000 troops. In Gaeta there is a numerous artillery, 600 guns, all the artillery depots, a battalion: of Chasseurs, the Swiss veterans, 1,500 sailors, hussars, dragoons, and miscellaneous troops. " As France does not recognise the blockade of the place, Kiug Francis 11. may quietly remain here till he has no mole money to pay the troops. He still possesses an army of 50,000 men eager to fight, and volunteers continually join. " The King holds reviews, shows himself, and endeavours to inspire confidence; but he is no soldier and is surrounded by inefficient officers. In the Neapolitan army rank goes by seniority.. The Com mander-in-Chief is Marshal Ritucci, whose energy and skill do not respond to his good will. The same may be said of the generals. The officers gene rally are intelligent. " The Neapolitan soldiers will in all probability be badly led, badly placed, badly engaged. As on the Ist October, they will fight well, but this time they will have to compete against the regular Pied moutese troops, who will take advantage of every fault. " OCTOBER 27, " The day before yesterday the Royalist army received the order to beat a retreat ; during the night it took up position on this side of the Gari gliano, after a sharp artillery engagement between its rear guard and the Piedmontese vanguard, which had passed Sessa. Thus the struggle is come to the Bay of Gaeta. In Capua were left 6,000 men and artillery. Behind the river there are already 20,000 men, who can be reinforced by the garri sons of Mola and of Gaeta. The bridge is being de stroyed, and barricades thrown up in front of Mola. " The army still hopes that there will be some foreign intervention ; it is confident, chafes at being ordered to retreat, and complains of not being well commanded. There is a certain want of order visible. The commissariat is no longer regular in its supplies, and camp utensils are wanting ; but this might happen anywhere. At the present moment no serious defence can be made, except behind the walla of Gaeta, and there, with the sea open, the Royalists may hold out for a long time. " To-day six Sardinian steamers came to shell the only road of communication which, following continuously the sea-side, joins Gaeta with the Garigliano. At the same moment the Redoubtable came in from Beyrou t• She was signalled to place herself across the road, while the Saint-Louis cleared decks for action, and performed the same manceuvre. A Sardinian officer came to take the orders of the Admiral Barbier de Tinan, and con veyed them to the commander of his division, which immediately sailed again for Naples." Two MEN KILLED AND Two INJURED AT BIR KENHEAD.—On Thursday morning two labourers named John Hannis and Edward Davies were killed, and James Ankers and W. Price were injured by the falling of a jenny at the Birkenhead dock works, near the Wallasey Bridge. The jenny fell in consequence of the balk which supported it snapping in Ora—Liverpool Post. THE DOUBLE MURDER AT BRADFORD.—DEATH ov TIIE MITEDEILESS.—For several days hopes were enter tained that Margaret Sutton, alias Gowland, who cut the throats of her two children, at Bradford, and then cut her own, might recover, but she gradually grew weaker, mental agony tending as much to keep her prostrate as physical suffering from her wounded throat. Yesterday morning, however, she expired in the infirmary, having been calm and sensible to the last. A police officer was in constant attend ance in the ward. Though quite penitent, and evidently preparing for her death, she w as y et frequently, for some days, suffering from agony of m ind, and expressed herself to the effect that sha intended, when taking t h e lives of her children, also to take her own , that all might have gone to Heaven together. Indeed, her agony was frequently so great that she started up in frant ic paroxysms, seeming the ly imagining that she heard a ch ild scream, and evincing utmost horror: but at other ti mes she wa s calm, sensible , and perfectly indifferent as to cted t whether sh e bee recovered thoe r not. The inquest on the body is expehel same time when the adjourned inquest on the children's bodies is resumed—that is, on Tuesday next. theeh fellow Gowland is still about the t o wn, displaying utm bravado and impudence. TILE CAP TU. 'AEU FORTS.' LAW INTE. The following telegram has been received at the Foreign-office : " The following appears in the Moniteur:— " 'MARSEILLES, Nov. 1. 44 4 THE GENERAL DE MONTAUBAN TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER OF WAR " CAMP OF SINGH°, AUG. 24. " 12th and 14th of August—Combats which drove the Tartar army from its positions and gave us their entrenched camps. " ' Aug. 17—Bridge thrown across the Peiho, under the fire of the enemy. " 'Aug. 21—After a vehement resistance we carry by assault the most important of the Taku forts. 200 French and 250 English hors de combat ; a single officer killed. 1,000 Tartars killed, found in the fort, among whom was the General-in-Chief. All the other forts surrender successively. The same evening a capitulation gives us the whole country as far as Tien-tsin and 600 brass guns of large calibre and proportions. The Ambassadors proceed to Tien-tsin, where the Chinese Commis sioners attend them to open negotiations. The allied army is placed in echelon along their route. The generals and admirals all proceed there under escort. The sanitary condition of the army is good.' " THE CZAR IN POLAND. (From a Correspondent of the Daily News.) WARSAW, OCT. 25. In my last letter I gave you but few details on what took place here since the three Sovereigns met. I will now proceed to remedy my omissions. The subject of universal conversation at Warsaw during the day of the 20th was the future result of an interview which would probably influence the destinies of Europe, and the arrival of the Empe ror of Russia was looked forward to with anxiety. At last a telegram arrived from Bialystok, an nouncing the hour in which he was to be expected, and ordering a ballet to be given at the theatre that evening. This order turned the thoughts of all to that famous ukase which shortened the petticoats of the ballet girls 4 inch during the last visit of the Emperor to Warsaw. At Targowek, two versts from Praga, a cottage was got ready to enable the Emperor to change his dress before he made his entry into Warsaw. But by the time the Em ,peror had reached this place he found the cottage in flames, and doubtless did not think the situation very well chosen for a bonfire. He was obliged, therefore, to remain in his travelling dress; he passed through Warsaw with all speed, and imme diately proceeded to the principal theatre. The ballet which had been ordered, and which was entitled on the playbills " Robert and Bertrand ; or, the Two Thieves," was being played. All of a sudden a report was spread among the audience that the Emperor was there, but no one perceived him, as he was hidden in the last stage box on the first tier. Next day came the Emperor of Austria, and the Emperor of Russia went to meet him at the station. I will not enter into particulars, which are doubt less already known to you, of the very cold recep tion which greeted the two sovereigns as they passed through the town, nor of the discontent ex pressed by the Russian nobles on seeing the ad vances made by their sovereign to his not much loved neighbour. In the evening the two Emperors were to go to the theatre again to see the ballet which had charmed the Czar the preceding evening. I may remark that in this ballet there is a dance so well known at Paris that I need not name it, and which is received with extraordinary favour by the guests of our capital. But every one was struck with an alteration in a playbill which was so well and so long known. Doubtless on account of the simultaneous presence at the theatre of the two Emperors, the police, to show them an attention as witty as it was delicate, ordered the piece to be called, for that night only, " Robert and Bertrand," and suppressed the second half of the title, viz., " the Two Thieves." So much wit on the part of the Russian police will seem incredible to you ; but the wo playbills I send you will convince you of the The Emperor of Austria lives at Lazenski, a palace built by the late King of Poland. At the entrance of this palace is a statue of the great King of Poland, John Sobieski, on horseback, which might perhaps have recalled to the mind of the Austrian Emperor some thoughts of gratitude for the saviour of his empire, or, at least, a bon mot of the Emperor Nicholas, who, as he passed by this statue a short time after the conference of Olmutz, is reported to have said, " We have both done the same foolish thing; we have saved Aus tria." The Emperor of Russia lives at Belvedere. Between these two palaces is the Russian hospital of Ujardew, which was formerly a barrack for the guards of the Polish kings. The Emperor Nicholas had a Russian church built there, which is the favourite :lurch of the Czars when they are at Warsaw. On Sunday night this church, which Alexander intended to visit the following morning, was burnt, like his cottage at Targowek. The review had no better success ; the Emperor was very dissatified, and ordered several officers to be arrested. This punishment was very unjust. He wished the troops to be exercised in the same way as French troops, and you may imagine how Russian soldiers must have succeeded in imitating the agility and lightness of the Zouaves. As for the population it was decidedly hostile. The police lost their heads, and arrested at hazard the first person that fell in their way. It is said that the prisons, and even the citadel (of fatal memory), overflow with prisoners. It is to be hoped that the departure of our august visitors will be the signal for restoring these innocent victims to liberty. Yet, in spite of all this, the police did not succeed in awakening the sympathies of the popu lation. An instance will prove this to you. As soon as crowds were beginning to form on the road through which the Emperors were about to pass, and in particular near the entrance to the theatre, tickets were distributed among them, bearing these words—" Go away ; this is not the place for a good Pole." The crowds dispersed immediately. A re port was spread in the town that Marshal M'Mahon, the hero of Sebastopol and Magenta, was coming to compliment the two sovereigns. The sensation was tremendous. Everywhere preparations w made to receive the illustrious soldier with an ovation, and no human power could have suppressed the enthusiasm produced in Poland by everything hat reminds them of France. THE VICEROY OF EGYPT'S STUD The following catalogue of horses, which are to be sold at the Palace of Abassia, near Cairo, has been sent to the Government by Mr. Colquhoun, her Majesty's Consul General in Egypt, as being of importance to all breeders of blood horses in En gland : din " Catalogue of horses of known high bree Pasha remaining from the stud of the late Viceroy Abbas Pasha : " 33 stallions (one of these was bought of Colonel Blood for £4, 000 sterling); 137 mares of Arabian and Syrian stock ; total, 170. " 51 colts entire, and 59 fillies, produce of the ab " o 2 v m e ; ar t e o s t , ahl,iglhleTt EgYP tian breed, and 52 s t a lli ons , ditto ; total, 54. Th e above will be sold by public auction at the Palace of Abassia, near Cairo, on Monday, December 10, 1860, and the sale will be continued on two days of each week till the whole stock be disposed of. By order of the official trustee, Alexandria, Oct. 11." EDHEEN PASHA LETTERS FOR NORWAY.—lnformation having been received that the packet communication between Den mark and Norway has ceased for the winter, the mails for Norway will be forwarded through Sweden until further notice. During the period of the conveyance of these mails vitt Sweden, the rate of p )stage upon letters addressed to Norway will be Is. sd. the half-ounce, and soon, according to the scale for charging inland letters. This rate comprises both the British and foreign postage on letters addressed to Norway, and constitutes the whole charge to the place of their destination, and it may be either paid in advance or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender; except, however, in the case of registered letters, the postage upon which, as well as the registration fee, must be paid in advance.—By command of the Post master-General. ItowLAND HILL, Secretary,—General Post-office, 2d November 1800. .(THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. The court was occupied the whole of the morning in hearing the arguments of counsel in a case which related to the value of a certain quantity of stone which had been lost while in transit% It was entirely devoid of public interest. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ;Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Williams, Byles, and Keating.) 'WILTON V. THE ROYAL ATLANTIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., on the part of the defendants, moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in this cause should not be set aside or a nonsuit entered. The cause was tried at assizes held in Surrey before the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, and a verdict was returned for plaintiff; the damages were ordered to be referred, and leave was given for the present application on a point reserved. The action was brought by the plaintiff against the Atlantic Royal Mail Steamship Company, to recover the value of a quantity of luggage which had been lost. The property in question was placed on board one of the vessels belonging to the company, called the Arago, on a voyage from New York to Galway, and while performing that journey the ship, it was well known, was wrecked off the coast of Newfoundland. The plaintiff alleged that the ship was driven on the rock owing to the negligence of the captain, and, under those circumstances, the com pany were liable for the loss of property occasioned by the wreck. The company denied their liability, and based their refusal to pay for the lost luggage on the pas senger ticket which was given to the plaintiff when he paid his passage money (90 dols.) in New York. The ticket expressly stated that in case of loss or detention by accidents of navigation, or by the dangers of the sea, no liability of any kind was to attach to the proprietors. It was one of the points upon which his clients took their stand as non-liable for the luggage; another was that there was no bill of lading for the luggage in question, and it was known by all the passengers that the company would not hold themselves responsible for any unless there existed a properly signed bill of lading therefor. Rule granted. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., occupied the early part of the morn ing with the arguments in a case, the point at issue being the rights possessed by the owner of a private road, POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(T1113 DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WHOLESALE SYSTEM OF PLVNDER—EXAMINATION OP THE RECEIVER—SINGULAR CASE.—Ambrose Wallis, a bootmaker, 40, Short's-gardens, was charged before Mr. Beadon with systematically receiving a quantity of boots, he property of Mr. Gilbert Deroy, of 27, aranbourn-street, bootmaker and importer. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the prisoner. Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said the prosecutor's assistant was given into custody on the charge of robbing his employer, but was afterwards told by his master that if he told who was the receiver and all about the robbery he would be for- given. He was, therefore, the first witness. Thomas Kersey, 2, Little Newport-street, was then sworn, and said—l am assistant and porter to Mr. Deroy, of 27, Cranbourn-stroet,:and have been so six or seven years. The property produced was taken by me at different times from my master (111 pairs of boots were here produced.) This pair (produced) I stole last Tuesday from the stock. I took them direct to fhe prisoner's shop and sold them. I tOTlEtliem into the parlour, and the prisoner came in. He gave me 7s. for them, the selling price being 255. He did not ask any questions, but always gave his own prices. They had all private marks on them, and it has been going on for nine months. By Mr. Lewis—l have been a thief nine months. Had not sold any of my master's property to any one else. Might have sold perhaps two or three pairs. I never told the prisoner I bought " misfits," or that the boots were my own. Had been there rind left boots in the prisoner's ab sence, and afterwards called for the money. If I wanted any money while the prisoner was on the drink I welt and asked for it. My master said if I :told all about it he would forgive me. Mr. Beadon—The most stupid and absurd thing that could be done to defeat the ends of justice. ®Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said—Having received information of the robbery at 11 last night, I went to the prisoner's house in Short's-gardens. Prisoner was out at the time. Having searched the shop, I afterwards searched the parlour, which was papered. Finding, on trying the paper, a hollow sound, I pulled down some of the paper from the wall, and found behind it and the laths siipairs of womens's boots, which I now produce, and which have been identified by the prose cutor. I afterwards went to Lazenby-court, Long acre, where a female, named White gave me up two pairs of Wellington boots, also identified by the prosecutor. At the station the prisoner, who was shown the whole of the boots, said ho knew nothing about them. I told him they were found at his house, and he said that they were all his make. A pair of boots pri soner was found wearing were also identified by the prose cutor. Turner, 154 C, gave evidence principally confirmatory of Sergeant Joy's, and he also proved finding other boots at prisoner's shop belonging to the prosecutor. Mary White, an old woman, living at 5, Lazenby-court, said—l gave one of the constables a pair of boots left by prisoner's little girl for me to take care of. I have known the prisoner 20 years, but never took care of any before. They were to have been fetched away this morning. Mr. Gilbert Deroy, 27, Cranbourn• street, boot importer, having identified the whole of the boots produced, said—l have been missing a large quantity of boots from my stock for some time, and last night I detected the man Kersey putting a pair of boots into a bag. I then gave him into custody, but told him if he told me all I would forgive him. Mr. Beadon—Never do anything so stupid again. You should have given notice to the police. Mr. Deroy said some of the marks had been scratched from the goods, but others were still on them. The value of those produced was about B. Mr. Lewis having addressed a few remarks to the magis trate on the prisoner's behalf, he was committed for trial. THAMES. CANNIBALISM—BITING A MAN'S EA.R.—Thomas Henry Butler, a labourer, of No. 11, St. George-place, Back-road, St. George-in-the .East, was brought before Mr. Yardley, on a charge of assaulting James Regan. It appeared that the prisoner was Assisting a poor Irish woman, known as the widow Walsh, in turning her mangle, and while doing so the chain of the mangle was broken. Regan and others went into the house to repair the mangle, some drink was called for, and a row ensued about paying for the damage. Regan said that Butler ought to pay all the expenses, on which Butler threw some beer into the complainant's face. A fight and " scrimmage" ensued, and all the Irish in Shovel-alley, St. George, joined in it. The prisoner and Regan fought most furiously, closed, and tell, and while they were down the prisoner seized Regan's left ear between his teeth, and " gnawed away and shook away at the ear, like a terrier shaking a rat." Several bystanders interfered, and took the man's ear out of the prisoner's mouth. The ear was much lacerated, and Regan had been under medical treatment ever since. He appeared in court with a surgical bandage about his head, and it was proved that he had lost a good deal of blood. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, in defence, said that a regular Irish row had taken place, and the parties were fighting together. Mr. Yardley said the defendant was a very cowardly and savage fellow, and he was satisfied he did bite the man's ear. He fined the prisoner £3, and, in default, sen tenced him to one month's imprisonment in the House of ere 11 Correction. THE FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT KING'S-CROSS. During the whole of yesterday much excite ment pervaded the immediate vicinity of the scene of the fearful disaster occasioned by the blowing up of the locomotive used on the works of the Metropolitan Under-ground Railway, the pro perty of Mr. John Jay, of Albion Wharf, King's cross, the eontractor of the above company. The deplorable catastrophe, which has been already truthfully detailed, took place, it will be recollected, at the top of the tunnel, about 15 yards from the mouth, communicating King's•cross with the extreme north end of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, resulting in the instantaneous death of the driver and stoker of the engine, whose bodies were frightfully mangled, very serious injuries to a breaksman, and slight injuries to Mr. Peach, a fore man of the works, and to a cabman in the road. So numerous and pressing were the applicants yesterday to view the scene, that it was found neces sary to station the police to guard the entrance from York-road in order to prevent intrusion and mischievous inspection of the wreck that still re mains where it was caused, under the protection of police, and which indicates beyond question the terrific violence of this, at present, most mysterious explosion. It is still contended that the boiler is sound, and that the explosion must have occurred from the fire-box, the bottom of which is undoubtedly blown out. This mystery will doubtless be elucidated at the coroner's inquiry, which is not yet fixed; From inquiries at the Great Northern Hospital last evening, it was ascertained, through the cour tesy of Mr. A. W. Wallis, the house-surgeon, that poor Church, the breaksman, was still alive, and though his death was not immediately anticipated, it is feared, from the serious injury to his head and the unfavourable symptoms that have set in, that he can scarcely recover. Mr. Peach was enabled to resume his duties a few hours after the occurrence, and the injury to the cabman is found to be of a trifling nature. A legal gentleman is col e le c c e ti s n ed. gevidence on be half of the friends of the L.