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ever, a commercial opponent in a Prince who is our military ally, and recently aided us in the capture of Lucknow—the well-known Jung Bahadoor of Nepaul. He and his family derive great wealth from the monopoly of trade which they retain in their hands, and they will not share it with Euro peans. The brothers Schlagintweit mention a case which came within their own knowledge in 1857. An application was made by a very respectable merchant at Calcutta, well known to Mr. Ramsay, resident at Nepaul, to receive ivory and hides from the country, but that trading concession was refused. These difficulties, however, may be overcome by judgment and perseverance. In the mean tune the travellers recommend that a commencement should be made in Cashmere, as we have a treaty with the Rajah which allows any European approved of by the British Government to pass through the country, but that treaty does not extend to the right of set tlement. The first step is, however, gamed, and the second may be accomplished, as a precedent exists in its favour—a French merchant actually dwelling in Cashmere, and sending the famous shawls for which the country . is renowned direct to Paris, where they are received by his correspondents, the Compagnie Lyonai se des Indes. The inhabitants of Cashmere are pointed out as the intermediate per sons to trade with Cent ra l A s i a , f or thi s c a nnot be carried on, at least at the present time, directly by Europeans. The Russians are obliged to traffic in these countries from hand to hand—that is, through the intervention of native traders, who have a great aptitude for commerce, and are eager to promote it; but hitherto the Chinese and Russians have been the only two nations sending to the north of Tibet. ' The valuable information afforded by these intel ligent travellers will be appreciated in our great seats of manufacture, and by our enterprising mer chants. It may be accepted as authentic, gained on the spot from intelligent natives. New and extensive markets may be opened to our industry, and we may carry civilisation where we carry trade, into regions little known, requiring the illumination. of British knowledge. We trust there will be no attempt at military conquest, no building of factories to be con verted into forts. Our peaceful mission shouldhave no other objects than the interchange of commodi ties and the attempt to -win the confidence of the inhabitants by making them feel that we are pro moting their happiness. Morning Herald. D UBEIN UNIVERSII OCTOB Gerald Fitzgerald, "The Chei CY MAGAZINE, N 0.310. IER, 1858. valler." By Harry Lorrequer. Part X. Recent Travels in Sardinia. Lectures on the Atomic Ramblings in theNorth-West. Theory. Count Cagliostro. Irish Lake Poetry. Rides upon Mules and Don- Artist Life in Rome. Con likeys IV. To Karnak and elusion. elsewhere by Moonlight and Theological Styles. otherwise. Our Foreign Courier. Part Life in Old Ireland. • VI. Dublin : A'cx. Thom & Sonsl London : Hurst and Blacken' FAREWELL SEASON OF MR. CHARLES KEAN AS MANAGER OF THE ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— This THEATRE WILL OPEN on SATURDAY next, the 2nd October, with the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. To be followed by . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, which play will'be performhd for a Fortnight, and then with drawn for the production of S,hakgpere's Historical Tragedy of KING - JOHN, -which will be revived on Monday, 18th October. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Under the Management of Miss L. ryne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE ; Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. George Honey, Mr. _Bartleman, and Mr. .W. Harrison Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon, To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement : Mdlles. Mist Michelet, Pasquale, and Morlacchi. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Ilnekstono. THIS EVENING will be performed WIVES AS THEY WEIIE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE. : c After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. Perea Nena. Vith 11 Vi LEND ME FIVE . SHILLINGS. d MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the New Comedy of EXTREMES ; ot, stex of the Day. Supported by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Emery, .1. Rogers, and Barrett ; Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon. After which the Ballet of THE RENDEZVOUS, in which the Lauri Family will appear. Doors open at half-past 0, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swan. borough, Mrs. Selby, Miss Ternan. After which THE L.A.ST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs, C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaTed for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MtVDRTGALS, CHORUSES, G LEES, DIcETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Herr F. JonAlimans, Mr. Honshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling., Senor Antonio, E. L Rime. Mr. Tladsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn.. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay—Dircctcr, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs reApectfully to announce tnat in the month of October, A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con nexion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 30. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 63—lowest this morning and during the n'ght. 69—this day at noon. BAnomErEn-29.66. WIND, North-West ; moderate breeze, and fine. THE SUN. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1858. Lord ADOLPHUS VANE TEMPEST'S select com mittee upon the Land Transport Corps, though it achieved long since a signal and undoubted success, is still in a particular manner deserving of being recalled thus distinctly to popular remembrance. It was in itself a chivalrous movement generously undertaken and energetically carried to a happy result, in spite of much apathy and many obstructions. It involved, however, from first to last the necessity of the ultimate recognition of a great principle seemingly for a long while forgotten altogether at the War-office, under the regime of , the pseudo- Liberal Administration. It necessitated, in fact, as its issue, the recognition of the simple principle of Justice in the relation subsisting between an interesting group of brave and patriotic men and the heads of the War Department of Her MAJESTY'S Government. The treatment experienced by the officers of the Land Transport Corps was indeed, to our thinking, " throughout" what it was pronounced to be by the Report of the Select Committee " in one particular" —namely, " anomalous and exceptional." It will be remembered that, upon the original formation of the corps during the height of the Crimean con flict, several of the gentlemen receiving commissions in it, as officers holding military rank under the sign manual of the SOVEREIGN—did not receive at the same time with their commissions the proper amount of outfit allowance to which as cavalry officers they were beyond all ques tion perfectly entitled. A circumstance, that, surely, to begin with, most anomalous and most exceptional? Again, at that same period of the original formation of the corps it is proved to have been established as—a non-purchasing corps ! " But," says the Report of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons, and presided over by the noble and gallant lord the member for Durham— " but your Committee doubt whether this condition was made known to the officers before they ac cepted their commission !" Surely, here again was something most anomalous and most exceptional ? It was anomalous and exceptional, under the cir cumstances, that this corps, in the first place, should have been established afi a non-purchivaing - --- ,se .; ; - s o.cLu • m 4,. " "444- „`ria , • " t oP, niiwv 1. O AL,, " T: 01 - r . - THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1858. and, secondly, that having been so established, the recipients of commissions in the corps should not have been apprised of the unusual p t uliarity of their position prior to the acceptance ( f (as it has proved) the somewhat questionable bt on of a com- mission. Furthermore, it is particularly deserving of note that—according to the petition presented to the House of Commons on the 14th of August, 1857, into the allegations of which the Select Committee was subsequently appointed on the 26th of April, 1858, to inquire searchingly and scrutinizingly— lieutenancies in the Military Train were ac tually offered to some of the officers holding the grade of captains in the late Land Trans port Corps : offers by the way accepted in some instances, but in others indignantly refused. It is in reference to that particular fact that the report observes emphatically, according to the terms already intimated, that " From evidence before your committee, it appears that the course of offer ing lower grade to that previously held is anomalous and exceptional." This, however, constituted not by any means all the grievances of which the petitioners complained. The conduct pur sued by the Government in regard to the treatment of the unfortunate officers of the Land Transport Corps was, according to familiar parlance, so entirely of a piece—from its commencement to its conclusion—that when —upon the close of the late war—the Land Trans port Corps was disbanded, and the officers of that corps found themselves suddenly, unexpectedly, and peremptorily denied the rate of half-pay, to which they were by right entitled—as officers duly appointed in the London Gazette, as officers hold ing commissions signed by Her MAJESTY'S hand. This in truth was the most cruel and harsh of all the cruel and harsh proceedings to which the petitioners had found themselves subjected in a way so systematically and pertinaciously anomalous and exceptional. Several among their number had been promoted from the rank of non-commissioned officers in other branches of the services, more parti cularly from the position of non-commissioned officers in the Artillery. Others had been appointed to command in the corps from civil situations—one of these latter, for example (Captain HUDSON, to wit), having resigned a lucrative post at the Cape of Good Hope, a situation bringing him £5OO a-year in that colony under the Ordnance Department. It is epecially observable, moreover, in this instance, that Captain HUDSON had done good service in the field during all the Kaffir wars of '46, '47, '5l, '52, '53 ! Yet, actually after all this service in the field, after giving up £5OO per annum to serve his country again during actual warfare in the Crimea—by reason of the anomalous and exceptional arrangements accom panying the disbandment of the Land Transport corps, this officer, by entering that corps, " lost his claim to a superannuation allowance of about £lOO a-year, of which he would have been entitled for his civil services." And, beyond this, by obtain ing the position of Captain in the Land Transport Corps, he found himself on the disbandment of that corps in r 4 eipt of 7s. 6d. a-day for a term of three years, at he expiration of which this provi sion would cease altogether ! A fact which brings us back to the most cruelly ano malous and exceptional of all these proceedings, the diminution of the half-pay to which the officers found themselves entitled, by reason of the sequel to the now well-known order from Horfield Barracks, dated Feb. 26, 1857. The ordinary rates, it should be remembered, are, by the regulations 7s. 6d. to captains, 4s. Bd. to lieutenants, and 3s. 6d. to cornets. Yet upon the morrow of that strange order from Horfield Barracks, by which the officers ofthe Land Transport Corps were in formed that their services were dispensed with- -with the exception (another anomalous exception) of nineteen, whose names were duly specified—these unlucky gentlemen holding commissions signed by the QUEEN herself, were severally informed, through their army agents, that they were divided into two classes under a special rate of half-pay ! Those promoted from the ranks—to receive half-pay according to this very novel scale : ss. captains, 3s. 6d. lieutenants, 3s. comets ! And those appointed from civil situations —to receive the full rate of half-pay, but only for a temporary period, ranging from two years to three at the outside—when, of course, they would have the gratification of finding themselves left by a grateful country wholly penniless ! It was into this systematic injustice towards the officers of the Land Transport Corps that Lord A. VANE TEMPEST'S Committee was appointed to inquire. And admirably, because both effec tively and effectually, did the Committee acquit itself under the weight of its self-imposed respon sibilities. We have reverted to the fact of the existence of this Select Committee with peculiar satisfaction. Its success does not surely the less entitle it to some grateful remembrance. We have frequently had occasion to notice the public meetings, which, during the Parliamentary vacation, arc the safety valves, by means whereof the surplus political steam escapes, not only without danger, but with - advantage, to the community. Much instruction is derived from the observations made on such occasions by duly qualified parties, which, under different circumstances, would be made in either House of Parliament, and the public thus learn the views of Ministers, which may be duly considered during the interval that must elapse before the process of legislation will be again re sumed. • The usual Michaelmas banqut of the Fishmongers Company, given at their ancient hall, was cele brated under peculiarly favourable auspices. The Prime Warden proved that he was fully qualified for the pleasing duties imposed on him, and he had ample scope for displaying the ability and good will with which he entered on the agreeable under- taking. There had been a great alteration in the political and, we may add, social position of 150,000,000 of our fellow subjects during the past year. Twelve months since the nation was exasperated by accounts of horrible atrocities that made the blood run cold. The struggle at Delhi was fresh in every recollection. The fate of the refugees at Lucknow was still trembling in the balance. It was impos sible to say whether they could hold out until the brilliant self-devotion of HAVELOCK, and the gallant soldiers worthy of such a leader, should relieve them at so heavy a price as the life of the gallant NEILL and his daring associates, who shed their blood in that glorious exploit, or until Sir COLIN could complete the rescue so admirably commenced and restore them to their respective homes and anxiously-looked -for friends and relatives. The fugitives at Agra were still in jeo pardy, and there were many formidable bands of rebels in the field. The future govern ment of India was still undecided. It was impos sible to say what might be the ultimate result of the conflict. Although every true-hearted English man had full confidence in the eventual triumph of truth and justices many professing f r i en d s b o l dly predicted the overthrow of British supremacy, and the complete subversion of the Anglo-Indian Empire. _ - . . Theo s inister auguries have AU been averted, Great Britain has forfeited no portion of her pres tige in the East. The once formidable forces have dwindled down to bands of despairing brigands, who, without any hope of escaping the impending doom, are only solicitous to gain a brief respite. In every , pitched battle they have been completely defeated, and with terrible loss, not only of the personnel, but also of the materiel, of war. The latter was even more important than the former, so far as the result of the contest was concerned. They might possibly find men, but they could not possibly replace the guns and ammunition that from time to time were captured by the English troops. India is to all intents and purposes again our own, and there is nothing to create the slightest apprehension as to the retention and permanency of our rule. 13ut it is not merely in India that extraordinary changes have occurred. The sceptre has been transferred from the hand of " tl a Company'? to that of QUEEN VICTORIA. We are now, although separated by so great an expanse of sea and land, one people, under one SOVEREIGN. The name of " VICTORIA" will be recognised as the constitu tional ruler of India, as well as of Great Britain, and it will not now be said that independent Princes are controlled by the officials of a body of Merchant Adventurers. We do not now condemn the extinct Company. Perhaps, as Lord CLIVE said, " Considering the temptations to which he was subjected, he only wondered at his own moderation." It may be regarded as miraculous that there was not a greater display of cupidity and self-aggrandise ment. They had a rich vein whereon to work ; and, looking to the opportunities, it could scarcely have been anticipated that they would have done less. We are, in fact, so happy to have got rid of their reign, that we are quite prepared to accede to the principle— " De mortuis, nil nisi bonum." We shall not in any degree impair the lustre of the recently-erected monument. The very interesting speech of Lord STANLEY referred not merely to the past but to the future. All that was required on the former topic was to repeat the assurance that it was not in the nature of a penal proceeding ; not as a condemnation of the Company's acts or antecedents, " whose cen tury of Empire had come to an end." The progress of events had rendered the change inevitable, and we believe that the alteration could not have been more favourably introduced. It is not merely that Lord STANLEY presides over the Council, and has already displayed an aptitude for the duty, acquired not only by indefatigable exertion combined with extraordinary ability, but also by distant travel, so that he might be enabled to observe and form a sound judgment, not only on the state of the Administration, but also of the native disposition in the interior of India. The principles enunciated by the new Secretary of State are exactly what might have been antici pated. He declares that "it is not enough to regard them" (the Hindoos) " as objects upon whom our benevolence may be exercised, or as persons upon whom it is in our power to operate important changes for good. We must also look upon them as men with whom, and not against whom, we have to work—as men with feel ings of their own—as men who, although politically subject to us, have a sense of their own rights and a respect for their own independence, and as men who will be apt to be the more tena cious of their intellectual independence - . and national customs, because of the political subjection in which they are held." This is the true ground on which to maintain our position, to amalgamate rather than conquer, and in place of enslaving confer the rights of British citizens on those who had previously been merely serfs, whose lives, liberties, and possessions were at the disposal of a self-willed despot. On Tuesday we explained some of the leading features of the Chinese Treaty of the 26th of June. There are some, however, well worthy of notice, to which we may fairly direct attention, and which show the facilities that will henceforward be afforded to British travellers, and which may ren der China a favourite tour for those who have ex hausted all the sights of Europe and the proximate portions of Asia. We shall, perhaps, ere long be hold gentlemen who have acquired all the Celestial habits and fashions, and who will be unable to live without soup made of birds' nests—who will prefer dog to lamb, and chop-sticks to knives and forks. It is right, at all events, that those gentlemen should understand the nature of the facilities placed at their disposal, so that they may be enabled to avail themselves thereof, if they should think it expedient to do so. It is provided that passports, entitling British subjects to travel for business or pleasure through all parts of the country, are to be granted by the British Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities. We believe that the system will be by no means so vexatious or annoy ing as that which prevails much nearer home. At all events, our Consuls will be enabled to take care that the passports thus given shall be duly re spected, so that the eivis Britannicus may receive ample protection, even in the very heart of China. All monopolies are also to be destroyed. The British subject may employ Chinese labour at his pleasure, in any lawful capacity. Boats, too, may be hired, the bargain being made between the parties without any intervention of the Chinese authorities, and all matters in which the rights or privileges of Englishmen are concerned are to be decided by the consular authorities. The remainder of the treaty chiefly relates to commercial matters. It is, in fact, a treaty of commerce, the various provisions whereof are settled with great accuracy. The importance of such a proceeding may easily be estimated from the enormous amount of silver bullion absorbed in the Chinese trade, in consequence of the prevail ing restrictions. Heretofore we were obliged to send hard dollars to pay for our purchases. Hence forward we shall send goods which will be accept able to the Chinese, and prevent one of the conti nuous causes of the perturbations in our monetary system. Those who have formed any notion of the effects produced on our domestic currency by the incessant demand of silver for China to pay for tea and silk, may reasonably estimate the advan tages that must inevitably result from the establish ment of free trade, and that commercial intercourse that will eventually follow " unrestricted competi tion." Hitherto the demand was for silver, but that silver had to be purchased with British gold, and the effect was to disturb not only the English but all the continental exchanges. The drain was for a time averted by the Sycee silver paid by China under the treaty of Nankin. It will now not only be stopped by the amount of the indemnity to be satisfied, but far more so by the demand for English goods which must inevitably follow. The indemnity forms the subject of a separate article. Two millions of taels are to be paid as compensation to British subjects for losses occa sioned by the misconduct of Chinese authorities at Canton, and a like sum for the expenses of the war, and the British forces are not to be withdrawn from Canton until these sums have been duly paid and satisfied. Lord ELGIN has unquestionably well discharged the important duty confided to his charge ; and, as we have already declared, fully and fairly " earned his Marquisate." He has already been made a civil K.C.B. ; but certainly his very valuable services require a higher reward. We have no doubt, however, that merit so fully recognised by all classes of the community and men of all: parties will receive it§ legitimate reward, LATEST NEWS. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. A letter from Biarritz says : —" On Sunday there was here what the local journals call a nautical fete,' and the Emperor and Empress were present at it. First of all, about 20 fishing boats belonging to Saint Jean de Luz, Guethary, and Socon, sailed up to the Villa Eugenie ; then there was a swimming match between the bathing men of the place, and prizes were given to the most successful ; next there was a very amusing duck hunt ; and the amusements terminated by the fish ing boats filing off before the Emperor and Em press—the crews crying out with enthusiasm, Vive l'Empereur !" Vive l'lmperatrice !' In one of the boats the Mayor of St. Jean de Luz came, and the Emperor told him that he had not forgotten a project submitted to him some time ago for im proving the roadstead of that place." " Nothing," says a Paris letter in the Nord, " caused the mission to Warsaw, with which the Emperor has charged Prince Napoleon, to be fore seen. It was at Biarritz, where the Prince had gone to pass a few days, and, from which he was to have returned with the Emperor, that his departure for Warsaw was decided on. He returned suddenly to Paris, and left on Sunday, as already stated, for Cologne. There the Prince reposed a few hours, and afterwards proceeded by special train to Ber lin, where he was to arrive at 9 on Monday even ing. H.I.H. was not to stop in that city, and a spe cial train, prepared by order of the Russian Go vernment, was to meet him on Tuesday morning at the frontier. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, that is, 52 hours after his departure from Paris, he was to arrive at Warsaw, and dine with the Emperor Alexander. His visit proves that the relations be tween the courts of France and Russia are more and more intimate, and that the Emperor Napoleon is desirous to testify by an act of courtesy his friendly sentiments."—Another Paris letter in the Journal du Havre says :—" The journey of Prince Napoleon to Warsaw is interpreted here in various senses. According to one version, the prince has gone to invite the Czar to visit France, as, indeed, he had promised to do at the interview of Stutt gard. This is the more probable, that the Empress is not at Warsaw with him. In this case, he would arrive at the camp of Chalons during the presence of the Emperor, and would thence proceed to Com piegne and Paris." The marriage contract of Marshal Duke of Mala koff, engrossed upon vellum, will be, it is said, a masterpiece of the calligraphic art. On the bind ing will figure the arms of the marshal and his bride, the settlements being drawn up according to the law of community of property between hus band and wife. The contract is highly advantage ous to the bride elect, and confers on her a large jointure. The marriage will probably be celebrated in the chapel of the Senate ; but if the Emperor and Empress, as is asserted, should decide on being present, it is not impossible that the ceremony may take place in the chapel of the Tuileries. BOURSE, Sept. 29, Two o'Clock.—The market has been agitated in consequence of the prepara tions for the settlement, but Rente has been pretty well maintained. Shares have been heavy. Threes have been done at 73f. 20c. and 73f. 40c., and are now at 73f. 30c. Mobilier varied from 975 f. to 987 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 6751. to 676 f. 25e. ; Orleans, 1,432 f. 50c. to 1,437 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 892 f. 50c. to 855 f.; Southern, 605 f. to 600 f.; Northern, 9921. 50c. to 9871. 50c. ; and Eastern, 747 f. 50c. to 752 f. 50c. The market continued in the same state to the close. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 96 30 Credit Fonder... . 660 Do. end month .. 96 50 Belgian 41 3 per Cents. 73 15 Piedmontese (5) .. 91 75 Do. end month.... 73 25 Roman 93 Bank Shares. 3090 Austrian Credit Mobilier 975 Spanish Threes Do. Accounti ..... 975 Home Debt 4O 62 and no stake is too venturesome for Count de Ca your. Fortune ever favours the bold' is a very old maxim, still in favour' at certain Courts which have forgotten the fate of Charles the Bold and his Burgundian dominions," RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 835 Lyons and Mediterranean BB5 New ditto Geneva . Midi 665 605 665 - .. 600 - Western Eastern Grand Central Sardinian 645 .. 642 50 745 - 747 50 463 75 670 - •• • 671 25 .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 15c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 21c. ; money, 2.51. Austrian. ITALY. A correspondent writes from Nice, 27th :—"You will, I am persuaded, have placed no great depen dency on the explanations offered by the journals of Turin in reply to the very absurd statements ad vanced by certain London newspapers in reference to the presence of the Russians in Villafranca. If a portion of the London press has exaggerated the importance of that event, the Turin journals have in their turn committed an equally serious blunder in endeavouring to divest it of all signification. Villa franca is not destin cd to become the 'Sebastopol of the Mediterranean,' for the good reason that Sardinia has not the intention of transforming herself into the Crimea of that sea ; but it is equally false to pretend that the privileges accorded to the Odessa company are simply limited to the gratuitous cession of a tumble down bagne. The aim of the Odessa company is too well known here to permit the latter supposi tion to be seriously entertained. This company has the firm intention of obtaining a direct market in Germany and the north of Europe for the pro duce of Southern Russia and of the East. The port of Villafranca is the only spot which by its position could render that project feasible. Villafranca is at no very considerable distance in a direct line from Coni or Cuneo, and this town —the last station of the Turin Railway—is in communication by rail (excepting the Mount Cenis section) with all continental Europe. A railroad constructed from Villafranca to Coni would conse quently place the Russian commercial depot in direct communication with Central. and Northern Europe. Villafranca would then become the deadly rival of Trieste, and perhaps of Marseilles, though such an idea would be scouted at the present moment in France. After this preliminary expla nation, let me state that one of the conditions made by the Russian company in the convention, which still remains unpublished, is the concession of the said line. The Sardinian Government would have long since carried its railway communications to the coast, had its limited pecuniary resources permitted the outlay ; it is too alive to the advantages which would accrue to the country by an active transit and by the presence of foreign capital, to dream of refusing to facilitate the operations of a company which promises prosperity to Sardinia, and per dition to Austrian interests. The interview held here between General de Lamarmora and General Bagaawood, the representative of the Russian com pany, was connected with this line, and the Minister of W ar , in s t ea d o f re tu r ning to Spezzia, as he had at first intended, left Nice for Turin by the Col di Tenda, along which the projected railroad will have to proceed. The views of the Odessa company will render necessary the possession of important docks (which will have to be constructed), and of all the available port accommodation. It is, therefore, puerile to question the cession of the wet-dock of the port ; it would be wiser to calculate the expenditure which will have to be incurred before that basin can be adapted to the purposes of the company. The adhesion given by the Paris press to the Russian scheme is naturally explained by the belief entertained at Marseilles that the transit of Russian merchandise intended for the North will be exclusively enjoyed by France. But when it shall become painfully apparent that the commercial interests of Marseilles and the prospects of the Messageries Imperiales ' are seriously endangered by a rival favoured in every manner by the Sardinian customs, and enjoy ing more rapid communication with Central Ger many via Switzerland, and with the north, a very different tone will proceed from that press. We shall then, perhaps, learn that the delicious joke of ruining Trieste and weakening Austria may be purchased at too costly a price. I have purposely avoided entering into the political features of the Sardinia line long been playing t bold game, SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 25th contain adver tisements of the great public meeting which the Government had permitted the Progressist party to hold ; they are signed by Mfr Olozaga, as president of the Progressista election committee, and by M. Asensio, as secretary of the same. The latter is editor of the Iberia, which is now in opposition to the Cabinet. The committee had petitioned for the use of the Royal Theatre. The Government, unwilling, perhaps, to evoke the recollections of the tumultuous scenes and ultra-revolutionary speeches of 1854, refused to grant leave, al leging that the Theatre Royal was the property of the State, and not made for electioneering meet ings. It being expected that the elections would attract a swarm of suitors to the Ministerial offices at Madrid, the Minister of the Interior had issued a circular directing the civil governors of the pro vinces not to grant leave of absence to any of their employes, and to recall those who had already received leave ; at the same time to inform the latter that they will forfeit their situations if they are absent beyond the time strictly necessary for their return to their duties. From the number of advertisements for contracts in the Gazette it appears that no small activity is prevailing in the department of Public Works. The scarcity of specie in the northern provinces, which has been much - complained of, has ceased ; it was, it appears, occasioned by speculators having exported large quantities of coin. A letter from a Ministerial source says :—" The journals still continue to deal forth two or three daily columns of remarks on the circular of the Minister of the Interior to the go vernors of the provinces, and which, as it is a sort of programme of the Ministerial policy,will be long before it is exhausted. This document is attacked by one or two liberal prints, whose directors have been disappointed at not, like the editor of the Clamor, having obtained some Ministerial favour commensurate with their ambition. The absolutist journals, which have in their vituperation of the Ministry generally made an exception in favour of the Premier, have been unsparing in their animad versions since the publication of the circular has proved to them, without any doubt, that the mar shal has determined upon working out his long cherished idea of governing the nation with the best men he can find without reference to party politics. It is amusing to read the pompous and wordy declamations in which these journals pro phesy the downfall of a Cabinet under the auspices of which the funds rise, work is abundant, and public confidence strong, notwithstanding the difficulties and disorganisation created by their predecessors. It is not, however, to discussions that public interest is at present directed, but to the elections, which are everywhere the topic of conversation." A letter from Rome states that the demands of the Government of Baden relative to the concordat, and the concessions made by the Holy See being widely at variance on certain points, Cardinal Reisach has broken off the negotiations. An ulti matum has been since sent by Cardinal Antonelli to the Baron de Berkheim, the Baden Minister, who has referred it to Carlsruhe for consideration. A Vienna letter of the 25th says :—" Count de Kisseleff, the Russian Plenipotentiary at the Con ference of Paris, has arrived here, and yesterday had an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He will proceed from this city to Warsaw. The motives which have led to his visit to this capital are not known, but it is conjectured that they are connected with the treaty of the naviga tion of the Danube." The election of the new Regents of the little Republic of San Marino lately took place. They are—Philip Beluzzi and Pasquale Marucci, both lawyers. Their names were drawn by lot. Advices from Vienna confirm previous reports touching the projects of Austria for the increase of her maritime power and cite the fact that the young Archduke Louis Victor has entered the naval service as lieutenant of a frigate. TIIE SHERIFFS' PROCESSION TO WESTMINSTER IIALL.—The cavalcade formed at Guildhall this morning shortly before one o'clock, and proceeded along King-street, Cheapside, through Paternoster-row and Ave Maria-lane, to Ludgate-hill—in consequence of the breaking up of the carriage way in St. Paul's churchyard—along Fleet-street, through Temple-bar, by the Strand to Charing-cross, via Parliament-street, to Westminster-hall. Baron Watson received the Sheriffs about two o'clock, and in the evening the Judges will dine with the Sheriffs, the Lord Mayor, and the Lord Mayor Elect, and a distinguished party, at the inauguration banquet at Tallow Chandlers'-hall, Dowgate hill. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Belvoir Castle, from Longshawe Lodge, Derbyshire. The Marquis and Marchioness Villamedina and family have left the Clarendon for Madrid. Lorg, and Lady Willoughby de Eresby are passing the season at Drummond Castle, Perthshire. Lord and Lady Foley are staying on a visit with Sir William and Lady Middleton, at Shrubland Park, Suffolk. ----- The Lady Harriet Ashley was safely delivered of a daughter, on Tuesday last, at the residence of the Marquis of Donegall, in Grosvenor-square. Lady Peel and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stonor arrived in London, yesterday, from Paris. Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke have recently been entertaining, at their hill residence in the north of Yorkshire, the Duke of Cleveland, the Earl of Suffolk, the Earl of Zetland, Mr. Tufnell, and Mr. Henry Milbanke. We regret to learn of the death, at Taunton, on Monday, of Lady Bowring, wife of Sir John Bowring, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China. The deceased lady was in her 64th year.. Among the company now at Brighton are the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, Viscount Clifden, Earl of Lincoln, Lady Bridgman, Lady Fortescue, Lady Compton, Sir Lovel Lovel, Lady Bar nwell, Lord and Lady Trim leston, Sir John Campbell, Sir Henry and Lady Mont gomery, Sir Edward Marwood Elton and Captain Elton, Sir John Croft, Lady and the Misses Croft, Lady Mac donald, and Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P. GALWAY.—The steamship Propeller has arrived from Boston and St. John's, Newfoundland, having made the passage from the latter port in six days. THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.—The correspondent of the Manchester Examiner writes :—" It may be worth mentioning for just what it is worth, that I was told the other day by a friend who has just returned from the south of France, that it is whispered at Biarritz that the Empress Eugenie is again in a condition to afford hopes that the Im perial dynasty of France may cease in due course to hang on the single life of the young prince. There is no doubt that the birth of another prince is the object of the Empe ror's most ardent desires." BRIGHTON.--The town continues to fill with visitors, and there has been no cessation in the tide of fashion for the last three weeks. The marine drives and promenades present daily a scene of fashion and gaiety not to be witnessed in any other tawn in England, and we may safely assert not in any town in the habitable globe, as a maritime resort. AN ARAB TRAGEDY.—An Arab, named Djelloul ben Mohamed, of Bou. Noua, a few miles from Algiers, was last week tried by the Court of Assizes of that city on the charge of cutting and wounding. Tile circumstances of this case were almost incredible :—He lived, it appeared, in the same gourbi as his brother and his brother's wife, and he conceived a violent animosity against the woman. On the 2d of July last, during his brother's absence, he lighted a fire and made a sickle red hot. He then seized his sister-in-law, bound her hand and foot, and fastened her with her head downwards to the pole which supported the roof of the gourbi ; then, stripping off her clothes he passed and re-passed the red-hot sickle over her person, inflicting dreadful burns ; he next took a stick and beat, her in a savage man ner, after which he unbound her and made her give the breast to her infant. At this moment his brother came in, and he, seeing his wife in such a deplorable plight, rushed on Djelloul. A fierce struggle took place between them; but some persons who were attracted by the noise coming in separated them, and Djelloul was taken into custody. He at once related what ho had done, and said first that his reason was that he had caught his sister-in-law in the very act of adultery with one Bel Kassem ; but afterwards varied his statement, and declared that he had long suspected her of having a criminal connection with that man, and had had his suspicion confirmed by seeing him leave the gourbi. He was not, however, believed, as the woman was known to be strictly virtuous. The victim of his cruelty said that the man's reason was that she had indignantly repelled m e proper advances which he had made her. The injuries re ceived by the woman were of the gravest character, and she is still confined to her bed. The Court condemned the pri soner to 15 years' hard labour. NEW MEMBER OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—At a meeting of the members of the Ber mondsey district Board of Works, on Tuesday even i ng, Mr. Churchwarden Peacock in the chair, Mr. Cyrus Legg was unanimously elected to represent the district at the Metropolitan Board of Works, vacant by the resisatjm of Dirt Pcnjoada, Dm, tin former ropreaqtAtite, _....:~ THE ATLAN27C TELEGRAPH. The Atlantic Telegraph, and all that relates to it, the best kind of rope to be used, the best means of getting it down, and the best way to work it when it is down,—the whole scheme, in fact, seems to be slowly drifting back again into those realms of theory and speculation from which it has only so recently emerged. Already there are many competitors and projectors in the field, some to work the old rope, some to make a new. It is not cheering to find that public attention is almost in stinctively directed to the consideration of the latter project, and that to the hopes and expec tations of the majority, the present wire—laid at such a cost, and with such risks—is already regarded as virtually lost and useless. Among those who have come forward with remedies for overcoming the difficulties of the Atlantic, in case a new rope is required, is Mr. Rowett, who, that there may be no mistake about the matter, ex presses himself as willing to contract to lay the rope from Valentia to Newfoundland—everything included—for as small a sum as £182,000, or some £200,000 less than the capital expended by the Atlantic Company. Such an offer has naturally directed some attention to Mr. Rowett's plan, which is simply that of a rope-covered electric wire instead of the old mode of proceeding by a wire-covered rope. Mr. Rowett's idea is to have the conductor well and safely insulated with gutta percha, and then simply enclosed without further preparation in the strands of a common hemp cable about an inch in diameter. A piece has already been made—not with a view of displaying what would be necessary for the Atlantic depths, but to illustrate the peculiar advantages which such a mode of construction gives over the wire cable. This specimen is certainly as light, as flexible, and as strong as could be desired, and these three qualities must be the very sine qua non with all future Atlantic telegraphs. The cost of such a cable would be only, as Mr. Rowett alleges, £B6 per mile, its weight about 9 cwt., and its breaking strain 4 tons, or nearly twice as much as could ever come upon it while being submerged.— no matter what the state of the weather, or how the vessel ,might be plunging. To this particular rope, as we have said, a certain amount of atten tion has lately been directed, owing, no doubt, to Mr. Rowett's offer to take it in working order across the ocean to America for a regillar con tract price per mile. But, beyond the feeling due to an offer of such magnitude, and made with such confidence of success, neither the proposal nor the rope deserve the notice they have attracted. Mr. Rowett's idea of a rope covered wire is by no means a new one, and, what is more to the purpose, the cable is altnost without exception far inferior in most im portant requisites to others that were designed some time before this was thought of. It is light, strong, and flexible, but so are all such ropes, and so even is the present Atlantic cable (if we may still call it so) in a very high degree. The difference between Mr. Rowett's rope and others of the same kind is, that in the former no adequate protection is given to the gutta-percha, and never can be given by his method_ of stranding the hemp, whereas with all others this important point is carefully considered and provided for. For these and for other reasons which show the cable to have been designed and constructed by a person unacquainted with what a submarine telegraph requires, it is of its kind an inferior cable, though it has dettainLy_done good service in directing attention to the general question of rope-covered wires for the purpose 'of deep sea telegraphy. All the experiments in very deep seas tend to show that the principle of a rope-covered wire is the right one after all. For any depth under 1,000 fathoms a wire rope is the best and cheapest ; for great depths, 2,000 and 3,000 fathoms, it be comes the dearest, because the worst and most diffi cult to submerge. No man who has ever seen a deep sea wire laid but must have been convinced that covering the rope with wire was only making a difficulty which required all the costly apparatus of paying-out machines, breaks, and check tackle to contend against, and which in but too many in stances it has been impossible totally to overcome. Any one, also, who has crossed the Atlantic would engage to pay out a piece of common whip-cord, without breaking it, from Ireland to Ameriea,because in such a case there would be no strain on it, and it could run out as fast as it chose. This ought to be the principle on which all very deep sea ropes should be laid down everywhere. A rope-covered wire, light enough to be very cheap, and because light therefore strong,—with such a coil running from a steamer going 10 miles or so an hour, a dozen cables might be laid across the Atlantic in a twelvemonth if no other difficulties exist. It has been urged that such ropes, if moved by currents at the bottom of the sea, would chafe through at once ; but, besides that this objection applies equally to wire, there exists proof positive that in the greater depths of the ocean the water is as motionless at the bottom as the rocks on which it rests. During the soundings taken by the Gorgon shells of the most delicate texture, and so small that it was impossi ble to perceive them without the aid of magnifying power, were brought up. Yet these shells, even to their finest ridges, were uninjured, and had evi dently lain without movement in those tremendous depths for ages. Another proof is that whenever the strain upon the sounding-line prevented bot tom being at once discovered, and some 100 or 120 fathoms more line were payed out after the lead had touched, it was always known to the foot what surplus had gone over, as the line invariably sunk on the spot where the lead had grounded, and came up in a tangled mass like a ball of cord. Such results could never have been obtained had there been any motion far below the surface. But a question arises with regard to rope-covered wire, 'and, indeed, sub-marine cables of all kinds if laid at very great depths, and that is how far the pressure or weight of the superincumbent mass of water affects the gutta percha insulator. We may doubt the question whether water increases in density or whether it is compressible, but none can deny that it has weight at least, and that this weight comes upon the bottom of the ocean and whatever rests there. The very minute and perfect shells being found at the bottom does no more to disprove such a supposition than an empty egg-shell shows that there can be no such thing as an atmospheric pres sure of 151 b. to the square inch. In both cases the pressure of air and water is equal inside and out. But in the case of the gutta percha insulator it is not so, and the water pressing with immense exter nal force would penetrate in many places where the guard hemp was at all injured, and so gradually permeate the substance of the gutta percha as to reach the copper wire and seriously weaken its con ducting powers. We do not say that such an ac tion does take place, but if it is even possible it would at once do away with the feasibility of such rope-covered wires as Mr. Rowett proposat. In any case his plan of constructing his rope is, as we have said, inferior to many others of the same kind.— Times. ISTHMUS OF SUEZ CANAL.—The Constitutionnel gives the following details showing the progress M. de Lesseps has made in gaining adherents to his plan for cutting a canal from Suez to the Mediterranean : " We announced some days since that already more than 30 presidents or members of chambers of commerce and consulting chambers of arts and manufactures had accepted the mission of representing the Isthmus of Suez Company. Since then new adhesions have arrived from the follow ing towns :—Avignon, Bar-le-Due, Carcassonne, Dieppe, Dijon, Gray, Honfleur, La Rochelle, Lorient, Mul house, Sables-d'Olonne, Epinal, Laigle, Auch, Calais, An gers, Montereau, Rockfort, Lille. The movement of opinion in favour of this enterprise is consequently more and more evident. After having given to those who have ob tained the grant of the canal the most constant encourage ment and moral support during four years of trial, the pub lie in France is ready, as it is throughout the continent, to associate itself financially with the undertaking. M. de Les seps is preparing to respond to these manifestations of sym pathy by incessantly prosecuting the organisation of the uni versal company. He informs us, that as soon as agents shall be appointed in all the departments of Fran th ce e , d Council foreign countries, and before the meeting of of Administration, which is to assemble on 15th Nov.nex he will open a public subscription in a le g al form, of which the conditions will be advertised in the public ) papers. lion r The first portion of the capital has been s, randathird, Theand these who spontaneously and dirgnasyrfoaerddsriaeesresesd,yantoothhun'er during the last four years app . lica subscription.. t p h o e rt m ion es f t o i r m t p h e e rt p au rin t undertaking will thus preserve character it ought to 7 cip pe al rti b e a n nZig; u l_ t i u . have. M. de Lesseps could not fail to collect together, for the accomplishment of his work, all those who so long sup ported him with their good wishes, and whose assistance so powerfully contributed to enable him to attain the end which he is about to accomplish." Two MEN SUFFOCATED IN A WELL.--A fatal occurrence happened at Chatham yesterday, by which two men, named James Whitelock and James Gage, lost their lives. The occurrence took place at Exmouth-terrace, Gillingham, where was an old well which required some re pairs. The owner of the well had agreed with an ex perienced man to undertake the necessary works, but on the latter examining the well he found that the noxious gases had accumulated to such an extent that he refused to go down. One of the deceased men, James Gage, however, expressed his intention to go down, at the same time attri buting the refusal of the others to do so to cowardice. Although his fellow -workmen did all in their power to dis suade him from his purpose he persisted in his intention, and was lowered to the bottom. He complained that the air was very bad and tried to light his pipe with some matches, but could not ignite them. The men above warned him that he had better come up, but he refused to do so, and made preparations - for sending up the bucket. After a few minutes, those above heard him struggling in the water. A warrant officer, who happened to be passing, volunteered to go down, but on reaching the bottom was overpowered with the foul air. The other deceased, Whitelock, then went down, but by this time Gage was dead and the warrant officer apparently dying. They were instantly drawn to the surface, White lock remaining in the well until the rope was again lowered for him. Unfortunately, however, ho was overpowered be fore this could be done, and, although a workman immedi ately descended with a rope tied round him, he did not suc ceed in getting him out before he was dead, the man hi m . fia filiffaws merely Iwl the clect§ v the s% THE ARMY. Yesterday afternoon the whole of the troops in Chatham garrison, consisting of the three battalions of infantry, the Royal Engineers, and the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham division, were drawn up on the Lines for the purpose of going through the evolutions of a brigade field-day, under the command of Colonel H. Eyre, commandant of the garrison. The Ist battalion, which was under the command of Colonel H. Jervis, comprised the depots of the 7th (Fusileers), 24th, 32d (Light Infantry), 35th, 43d (Light Infantry), and 63d, Regiments ; the 2d battalion was composed of the 10th, 20th, 23d (Royal Welsh Fusileers), 29 th, 52 d (Light Infantry), and 61st depots ; the third bat talion included the depots of the Bth (The liing's)i 19th, 75th, 81st, 84th, and 94th Regiments ; the Royal Engineers were under the command of Lieut.-Col. A. P. Ross, and the Royal Marines under that of Lieut.-Col. I. H. Gascoigne. The whole force on the ground was about 4,000 men. On the arrival of Colonel Eyre and his staff he was received with a general salute, after which the troops went through a variety of brigade and field-day manoeuvres, which occupied some time, the several corps not returning to barracks until late in the afterrioon. Yesterday the 3d (Major C. H. Sedley's) corn-' parry of Royal Engineers arrived at head-quarters, Chatham, from Shorncliffe. This company is some what below its required complement, but recruits are joining at head-quarters almost daily. We have to record the death of Col. J. Hamil ton, which occurred at Bloomfield, Somersetshire, on Saturday last, in the 82d year of his age. Col. Hamilton entered the army Nov. 21, 1799, became captain on May 13, 1801, and served the Egyptian campaign of that year with the Coldstream Guards. He accompanied a detachment of that regiment to the Peninsula in March, 1810, and in April was ap pointed Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster - General at Isla de Leon. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel Jan. 30, 1812 ; went to England, March, 1812 ; rejoined the regiment in the Peninsula in July, 1813 ; served there until the end of that war in 1814 ; and was promoted to colonel May 27, 1827. He had received the war medal, with two clasps, for his services for Barrosa and the Nive. The Seringapatam will embark 195 of the East India troops, from the depot at Warley, at Graves end this morning for conveyance to Calcutta. Yesterday morning Sergeant George Hale, pay sergeant of the 4th division of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, who absconded several days ago from - head-quarters, taking with him a consider able sum of public money which had been en-; trusted to him, returned to barracks and gave him self up. From an examination of the books which has been instituted it appears that the defalcations committed by the accused amount to £42, which sum had been issued to him from the pay-office for the purpose of p a ying 00 men. The accused has been about 17 years iri the service, and is an old non-commissioned. offi6: l '. On a previous occasion he absconded, taking' with him some of the public money, for which offence he was reduced to the rank of a private, but on account of his subsequent good conduct he was again promoted. It is said the defalcations will be made good. The accused now awaits his trial by court-martial. MILITIA. The Royal Antrim - iifTe'legiment of Militia, were yesterday inspected by Colonel the Marquis of Donegall, who carefully examined the kit and accoutrements, on the Green-hill encampment round, fronting the mess quarter of the corps at oolwich, preparatory to the monthly muster to take place this morning. The Royal Monmouthshire Light Infantry, attef having undergone three weeks' training, were UP , spected by Colonel Patton, of the Bristol district, on Monday, and on the following day were put through a variety of evolutions, principally skir mishing, before the General Inspector of Militias, Colonel Douglas, the men being in full marching order, and the whole of the officers being present. After the reviews, both Government officers ad.- dressed the regiment in terms highly compli mentary. On the latter day, subsequent to the inspection, the officers invited a large number of the elite of the county to a sumptuous luncheon in the Monmouth Borough Court. Covers were laid for 150. A ball afterwards took place. About 350 men mustered during the drill, the whole force amounting to 750. The Norfolk Artillery Militia were inspected on Monday, and are now disembodied. The Louth Rifle Militia are expected to arrive at Great Yarmouth to-day (Thursday). They are to be quartered in the barracks at Smithtown. THE NAVY. The screw steamship Himalaya, Capt. Seccombe, Was docked at Keyham on Tuesday to ship her fan. . The steam gunboat Redwing, tender to the gun nery-ship Cambridge, was taken outside Plymouth Sound for shell practice. The steam gunboat Skipjack, Lieutenant John Murray commander, was towed from Hamoaze into Barn-pool on Tuesday and took her powder in. The paddlewheel steam vessel Sprightly, tender to the flagship Victory, 101, Captain H. Seymour, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday with supernumeries for the flagship Cumberland, 70, and the screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton. The officers of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines entertained Colonel Stransham at a din ner in their mess-room on Saturday last, to welcome and congratulate him on his appointnient as their commandant. The whole of the available corps of officers on duty were in attendance. Lieutenant - Colonel Fielding, the senior officer present, after the health of the Queen had been duly given, in °- posed the health of their new commandant, eulo gising the estimable qualities of the gallant colonel (Stransham), and expressing his satisfaction at the appointment, in which he felt confident every officer and. Man of the Woolwich division most heartily' joined. He remarked that, although the duties of the office, to be duly carried out, demanded attention and capacity of the highest order, he had no hesita tion in avowing that Colonel Stransham possessed the necessary qualifications in a cumulative degree► and would discharge the important functions of the department not only by commanding but also by governing. The colonel's speech was received with long and loud applause. The whole of the divi sion yesterday assembled on Woolwich-common, in command of Lieutenant-Colonel Congdon, and were put through a course of light field drill. The brigantine Dart was placed in the basin at Devonport on Tuesday. She is to be towed to Faversham creek for a hulk for the men in the pre- ventive service. The Right Hon. Henry T. L. Corry, M.P., has returned to the Admiralty from Scotland, and re sumed his duties as Secretary. The late Vice-Admiral Thomas F. C. Mainwar ing, whose death has been announced as having occurred at his residence at Bath, was lieutenant of the Naiad, and served under Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He commanded the Tartarus fireship at Copenhagen in 1807 ; was pro moted to post rank in 1810 ; accepted the rank of retired Rear-Admiral, October 1, 1846, and retired Vice-Admiral September 11, 1854. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty : Henry Wilson, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Impregnable ; James B. Moorman, paymaster, to the Cumberland ; and Frederick Lucas, additional paymaster, to the Russell. I.Aeutenant John Perry was promoted on the 23d inst. to the rank of commander. SERIOUS DEFALCATIONS IN ST. PANCRAS PARO CHIAL ACCOUNTS. - -Yesterday, at a special meeting of the Vestry of St. Pancras, held in the Vestry-hall, Camden town, Mr. Churchwarden Attenborough in the chair, a somewhat startling expose took place in reference to the de falcation of the parochial funds, the disclosures that had already taken place exhibiting at least in one instance de falcations to a considerable amount. The collectors had their, books taken from them, and they were entirely suspend e d from performing their duties until the affair had been inves tigated by the finance committee. The report of the financ e committee was brought up and read. The committee, afte r a most laborious examination of the parish books and tile collectors' accounts, discovered that the accounts were k e P t in a very unsatisfactory manner, and the collectors had bee° in the habit of keeping large sums in their possession, in stead of handing them over every week to the treasurer. Out of the eight collectors six were exonerated from all serious error in their accounts, but in the case of the o ther . two, one had been detected in defalcations to the amount ot £248, and the other was backward in his accounts to he amount of about £2OO, but he made up the deficiency by the period allowed upon the vestry being apprised in the first place of the serious aspect of affairs. The defaulter was ordered to be dismissed, and his sureties applied to to make up the loss the parish had sustained, but the com mittee came to no definite resolution upon the conduct of the other collector. Mr. Douglas, as chairman of the com mittee, moved that the report be received, and urgTi that, after what had taken place, they could not retain in their service the other collector referred to, who had admitted having retained and made use of the parish funds for his own purpose, he (the collector) alleging that he had been robbed of £175. Mr. Ross seconded the motion, but ex pressed a hope that the vestry would not deal so harshly with the other collector, cons idering he bad made up al that was wanting by the time specified. A long discussion ensued, and the dismissal of the collector was moved and seconded ; but eventually the report was adopted, and the matter allowed to stand over until the next meeting. The board then adjourned. M ANSLAUG HTER AMONG BOYS.—A boy named Wm. Bolton has been committed to York Castle for trial on a charge of manslaughter. He had quarrelled with a smaller boy, William 'Kenyon, only 10 years old, thrown him down and beaten him over the belly. 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