The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF THE NEW COMEDY. THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Falconer, Rogers, Barrett, Mesdames Charles Young, Weston, and Miss Kate Saxon. To conclude with the New Farce, KICKS AND HALF PENCE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, and Barrett. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, and Farren ; Mrs. C. Sinclair. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL - QUIVER. Perea Nena. Followed by A WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds. To conclude with A KlSS ommen INce THE DARK. C ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF T MHE PIeIGTAIMessrs,LS, in which Miss Swanborough, Miss Ternan, rs. Sby, C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke will make their appearance. Followed by A RO UGH DIAMOND. Miss M. Oliver and Mrs. Leigh Murray. To conclude with FAMILY S. Miss E. Wilton. COMmenCe at 7 o'clock. C ANTER BURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Be.dseY, Miss l3runell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Mime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tirol', Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce that 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.—SITN OFFICE, SEPT. 7., THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 69—highest since noon yesterday. 55--lowest this morning and during the nigb4 66—this day at noon. BAROMETER--30 . 04. WIND, South-Westerly ; light and f.me. The inauguration of the Leeds Town Hall, on Tuesday, was, after the departure of her MAJESTY for her northern seat, where she can, for a time, enjoy the domestic felicity so dear to her heart, suitably concluded by a magnificent entertainment given by Sir PETER FAIRBAIRN to a large party of the guests invited to do honour to the occasion, The worthy Mayor, who bore his blushing honor:a s with becoming dignity, spared no exertions to render the feast all that could be desired by the fortunate recipients of his magnificent hcApitality. He showed what one of the people could do, and the most fastidious autocrat could not cavil at the taste or liberality displayed by one who had been the archi tect of his own fortune, which, we trust, will remain in his family through many generations. Nothing was omitted that could add to the festivity. The newly-dubbed knight, who had just received the accolade of honour at the hands of his Sovereign, was fully at home in the chair, and the eloquent manner in which he prefaced the toasts, which, in his hands, were by no means matters of form, showed that he was eminently qualified for the position in which he was placed, and which he had achieved:by honourable industry and unblemished rectitude. Perhaps the most interesting part of the proceed ings was when, in returning thanks for the toast of " The Mayer and Corporation," he declared that the mag - aificent edifice which had that day been opened, and which reflected so much credit on all parties concerned, was but a mere " instal ment of what was anticipated"—not so much for the benefit of the upper classes of society as of the working people." He declared that " the Town Council were not inclined to do too much at once, but they would go on gradually, and they would always endeavour to discharge their duties efficiently and satisfactorily." This is the true principle by which the greatest amount of pro gress can bz... attained. Spasmodic efforts are very well, but " slow and sure" has commended itself to the plain common sense of the nation, as the best rule for producing the greatest results in reasonable time. It might almost have been stated that muni cipal institutions, felicitously designated by Mr. BEECROFT as a " Sixth Estate of the Realm," were on their trial! If so, they passed, through their champion, the Corporation of Leeds, brilliantly through the ordeal, and the remaining estate— " personified as JOHN BULL," had abundant reasons to be proud of the representatives of the Woollen Metropolis. The hon. gentleman happily alluded to " the alliance that day afresh cemented between Royalty on the one part, and free municipal insti tutions on the other;" that "in days of yore regal visits had been paid, as if by-Divine right, to despoil property, or to invade privileges. On that day the SOVEREIGN had visited Leeds, leaving behind her blessings and honours, cheerful faces, and " pleasant recollections." This, as we yesterday stated, constituted the great, the all-important distinction between Royal progresses of the present day and those of the olden time—how the Monarch is regarded as acting for the benefit of the people—not the people as being merely for his or her grandeur and aggrandisement. The con stitutional principle is thoroughly recognised, and hence the cordial goodwill on the one side, and affectionate and devoted loyalty on the other, with which the parties mutually regard each other. We trust many similar occasions may arise to bring the QUEEN and her people together, and sure we are that the enthusiastic reception accorded by the inhabitants of Yorkshire will merely serve as a precedent that will be closely followed in any district or locality in which she may set her foot, whether it be east, west, north, or south. Leeds has well discharged its duty. There are other municipalities that will be equally desirous of doing their devoirs to one whose domestic virtues are so well befitting her exalted station. When the submarine cable shall have been secured from the recurrence of those lamentable interruptions to the electric current, endangering the:whole of the telegraphic intercommunication— and we do confidently trust and believe that it may be so secured--obviously the next step to be taken will be the laying down of another, and another, and another of these magical links, bringing toge ther (though still at a distance of more than 2,000 miles from each other) Valentia and Newfoundland. Wheh several cables shall have been safely depo sited in the Atlantic, one end of each coiled up on the coast of Ireland , and the other end coiled p o the coast of North America—then, but not till th en , we may look upon the completed enterprise with something like equanimity. Then, but not sooner —not, certainly, while the priceless boon thus acquired by the ingenuity of Man applying to his own purposes the magical powers of Nature, trembles, so to speak, upon a hair —hangs perpe tually upon the tenuity of a single cord of gutta pereha—is dependant wholly and solely upon this solitary bond of union between the two continents, nay, for that matter, between the two hemispheres. Prudence, safety, economy, all demand this addi tional expenditure upon the undertaking. What has been done once, can surely be done again. Let it then be done, and that speedily—and when it is eo done we maY relit and congratulate one another. Hardly, in reason, can we be of fe ring each other confident felicitations upon the pi 3rfect realisation of a day-dream that any moreLer it, by reason of some lamentable casualty, may slit my to have been dissipated. But, having multip lied these mar vellous means of correspondence • with our fellow citizens in Newfoundland, we mat: y at length, and n o longer irrationally, regard 11 e most glorious scientific achievement of the nin zeenth century as really and seriously accomplishe a.. Therefore, again, we say the lac xt step before us is to pay out another and yet Dine Cher of the sub marine cables between Valenti A. and Newfound land. Subsequently the process of e . lec trio telegraphing must extend further, hither a nd. thither, both in the eastern and in the wester a hemisphere. A telegraphic cable will thus, , o f course, sooner or later connect us with our West Indian possessions, Another cable trailed on to Panama, and linked across that isthmus, will bring as into momentary intercourse—northwards, with British Columbia — westwards, with Hong Ko ng and Sarawak— southwards, with the northern and eastern coast of Australia. Meanwhile, those thrilling nerves of wire would have bee:A running out along th a bed of the Medi terMnean—across Suez—down the whole length of `ale Red Sea, onward through th.e Straits of Bab-el mandeb, and so beyond the watert; of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to Ceylon, and the opposite coast lines of the peninsula of Hind.ostan. Thence, by additional cables between Malaya and Sumatra, along the channel of the Straits elf Malacca, branch ing off northwards, southwards, and eastwards, to Hong Kong, to Labuan, and to the southern and western coasts of Australia, the circle would be completed, and the whole scPltered immensity of the British Empire—its sixty colonies or there abouts—its possessions at once European, Asiatic, African, American, and Australasian, would be bound and knitted rAtkd twined together by a magical network of electric cables—its further most limits being - brought by that happy time into instantaneous communication. It is no iii day-dream this—but the reasonable surmises consequent upon a gigantic and magnifi cent reality. That reality—the submarine cable between Valentia and Newfoundland. This achieve '..nent moreover, it should be remembered, is no isolated fact, but the most majestic realisation of a project already successfully carried out upon a smaller scale elsewhere—by cables, for example, connecting England and Ireland, or the chalky cliffs of Albion with those confronting our sea-beat isle on the opposite shores of the British Channel, the white craggy coast line of France bringing us into hourly intercourse with the European Continent. We are dot, consequently, counting without the book, or shooting beside the mark—we are reason ing by the book, that goodly tome of submarine telegrams already produced here at London, there at Paris, yonder at Dublin. We have seen the bull's-eye won long ago by the winged arrow of the lightning. The Future—radiant, marvellous, magical, scarcely credible though it is—shines bright and plain before us. Anyone who lists may trace its outlines, as we have done—they ar e clearly discernible. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES told the good folk of Sheffield the other day that there were two facts just now of some political importance—that Lord PALMERSTON was recreating himself at Paris, and that Lord DERBY had sold his stud. Certain it is that the latter portent is looked on with dismay by the Whigs, and they arc anxiously asking, what does it mean? Does Lord DERBY mean to become a working, Premier? and if so—bless us — what is to become of us ? Lord. DERBY has always been understood to prefer the turf and an Opposition oration to the toils and solicitudes of office. Even this year, he is supposed to have done his part chiefly by the aid of an ever-ready genius, and left work pretty much to one near him, known to pre fer it to amusement ; but should the Premier have determined to bring both his high abilities and his practical energies, too, into the service of a Con servative Premiership, it will not be such an easy task to eject him from it. In fact, in selling his stud, the Whigs fear that Lord DERBY has sold them. Somehow, the deed compares naturally with the similar one of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. He, ardent lover of the turf as he was, when he deter mined to lead the Conservatives in the Lower House, and when, for that purpose, he devoted him self intensely to political studies and political work—he found that he could not lead on the turf and in the House of Commons too. He made his choice, and was confessedly in the path of success, when his course was suddenly arrested. Lord DERBY is already the accomplished head of his party. He needs no study or preparation ; he needs time only, and . the concentration of his energies to one great object. Surely it is much more likely that he has resolved to give himself to the weightier duties of politics on the very threshold of sixty, than that he has any puritan quarrel, with his old pursuits. His party needs his whole strength ; a large number of the county members, especially, reluctantly follow the leadership of genius in the Lower House, and want the noble lord to be much more prominent as the head of the Govern ment; and, with a son destined to play an important part in the government of his country, it may be worth Lord DERBY'S while to make the most of the present Conservative innings. The ugly fact for Cambridge-house is, that Lord DERBY should look so differently on his position now to what he did when he was last in power. In 1852 we heard nothing of selling off his stud. He too well knew that, even with a Parliament elected under his own auspices, the chances were all against him. Does he think so now ? It would seem not. He sacrifices the turf to politics. The natural expla nation seems to be that he thinks the latter now a pretty sure game. He sees that he was not merely tolerated last session, but that a supposed large hostile majority turned out to be a friendly ma jority. He has seen also that there is a pretty sure way to retain this majority, namely, by com pelling his Tory supporters to yield to common sense and the country, when the country is determined to have a liberal measure. Does Lord DERBY mean to govern in accordance with speaker t popular wishes, and to beco me aga i n t h e Reforming Lord STANLEY of a quarter of a century at back h ? e We can desire nothing more, as aak Cutlers' feast observed, than that it should prove true that, in his case, " the child is father to the man ;" and that Lord DERBY, in 1858, should be an improved editi on o f th e L or d S TANLEY o f th e fi rst Reform Bill. The Lord STANLEY of the pro3ent day would be ready enough to co-operate heartily with him. If it really be the case that Lord DERBY does mean to remain in office, and that he intends, if possible, to consolidate his power, we may almost take it as an omen that he has decided also on a liberal and popular policy. We cannot imagine him so infatuated as to imagine, especially with Lord STANLEY at his elbow, that he can keephis post for a week by hoisting the flag of " No Reform," or of " No Concession to Democracy." He must know that the pseudo-Liberals would at once hoist the opposite colours, and would probably succeed in overthrowing him. He must see that the people demand a better representation, and he must know that they have a right to it, have the power to enforce it, and will do so, if irritated by direct oppo sition. But will Lord DERBY endeavour, by shuffling and evasion, to keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope P We can hardly believe this possible of Lord DERBY. Cunning is not his forte, not his disposition. He would be much more likely to beard the populace than to shuffle with it. He will not put a Reform Bill into a QUEEN'S Speech, and then in April not have even a draft of it. He will either refuse all Reform, and go out rather than give it, or he will give us such a - Reform Bill as shall do credit to the DERBY Cabinet. Such, at least, is the hope we are inclined to cherish. Some will think a Reforming Tory Premier an impossibility. It is no greater an impossibility than a Reforming Whig Premier. What was there in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S last that Lord DERBY need shrink from ? And as to the late Premier, he was known to be quite as hostile to liberalising the representation at all, as Lord DERBY can be. If the Derby-Disraeli Cabinet is to last through another session, a tolerably honest Reform Bill is an acknowledged necessity of their position. They must have something in the shape of one. Can it fail to occur to the most determined Tories— to such as Mr. HENLEY, for instance, that it would be infinitely more for the interests of the aristocracy to surprise the people by their liberality than to fight and squabble with them over what must be conceded at last. Even that real Tory, Earl GREY, has told them that a good bold measure of Reform is preferable to such half measures, as tempt to annual agitation. This seems almost like a political truism, and it is hard indeed if a man of Lord DERBY'S position and ability cannot induce the Tory pecus to follow their leader in what is so easily shown to be the safe track. Lord DERBY is now in the position to give the go-by to the old dawdling Whigs, to inaugurate a new Tory policy, —to impart, as it were, a new meaning to the word Tory, and to induce the nation to give its generous confidence to that one of the two aristocratic parties which shows its confidence in the people. Such are Lord DERBY'S opportunities. We shall see next spring whether he follows the routine course of all holders of power, or whether he has sold his stud to take up with the people. DEATH OF THOMAS CROMPTON, ESQ.—We regret to announce the death of Thomas Bonsor Cromp ton, Esq., of Farnworth Mills, near Bolton. The melancholy event took place at the residence of T. Delarue, Esq., the Hazells, Sandy, Bedford shire, yesterday. The deceased gentleman was in the 67th year of his age. ALBEMARLE HOTEL, BRIGHTON.—Sir Chapman Marshall, alderman, is amongst the latest arrivals. At Vienna the Austrian paper currency has re covered to its par value. The mail steamer for Brazil to-day will take out £69,400, £51,000 in gold, and the remainder in silver. A further arrival of about £lOO,OOO in gold from Russia is expected in the course of about five or six. days. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India, has appointed Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.8., and Mr. ' Henry Baillie, M.P. to bo Under-Secretaries of State ; and Mr. James Cosmo Melvin, late Deputy-Secretary to the East India Company, to be Assistant-Under-Secretary of State. -- INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF NEWTON AT GRANTHAM. - This interesting ceremony takes place on the 21st inst., and Lord Brougham has signified his in tention to be present on the occasion. LONDON COMMON COUNCIL.—A vacancy in the City of London Common Council has occurred by the death of Mr. James Rowland Carr. Mr. Carr represented the ward of Bishopagate upwards of 20 years. Bishop Maltby has presented a donation of £2O to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The demands on this valuable institution are at present very heavy. In addition to having 70 lifeboats under its management, it is now building ten new lifeboats for various dangerous points of the coast. When complete with carriages, houses, and other stores, these ten lifeboats will cost at least £3,000. EMIGRATION.—The Prince Alfred steamer ar rived at Pembroke-dock on the 6th instant to embark emi grants for New Zealand. She lies alongside the pontoon at the Ney-land terminus of the South Wales Railway, Mil ford Haven, taking in coal and embarking emigrants, for which that famed por* is so convenient. This is the second vessel that has done so thence during the present year. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Yesterday this insti tution was re-opened fo the public, after being closed for a week, as usual at this period of the year, in order that the contents might be re-arranged, the building repaired and cleaned, and the attendants allowed a holiday. During the day a great number of persons availed themselves of the re opening to visit the institution. The general department of antiquities, natural history, &c., will remain open to the public every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10 to 5 o'clock, till the end of October ; and the reading-room, to persons having the privilege of admission, from 9 to 5 o'clock daily.' It appears that the negotiations for establishing mail services to Australia and British Columbia by the Panama route are still under the consideration of the Go vernment. In both cases promptitude will be important. Supposing the Panama route to Australia to be adopted alternately with the Suez line, 18 months, it is believed, must still elapse before it could be thoroughly organised. The route to British Columbia could be perfected probably in a much shorter period, but even in that case a consider able delay will occur in getting the vessels to their station. via Cape Horn. Looking at the rapid growth of Austra lia and the momentous prospects in British Columbia, it will be seen there is no time to be lost. The Royal Mail Company, it is said, are offering to carry out both services, and, as they have already in their hands the Atlantic por tion, it may be presumed they should be prepared to exe cute the task most expeditiously and on the cheapest terms. The contemplated time from Southampton to Sydney would be 55 days. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—Up to yesterday even ing no communication of any kind, telegraphic or other -wise, had been received at the office of the Atlantic Tele graph Company, as to the operations supposed to be going on at Valencia to ascertain the point of interruption of the electric signals, since the message from Mr. Saward, the secretary of the company, dated from that place on Satur day, and which appeared in our impression of Monday. The directors, accompanied by Mr. Saward and several practical electricians, are still at Valentia; but at present the officials of the company left in London are without any information as to what has been done there to discover the place of stoppage or the result. The permanent shore end of the cable intended for the Valentia end, and which is much stronger and thicker than the rest, and calculated to resist the greater amount of risk to which it is exposed asit approaches the landing-place, is now being embarked at Plymouth, and will be conveyed to its destination without delay. The impression still obtains among the company's servants that the point of interruption is at no great distance from the shore at the Valentia termination, and this de rives confirmation froth the letter of Mr. Whitehouse, which appeared in this journal. THE DEAN OF CARLISLE AND THE REV. PRR crivron LIVINGSTON.—On Tuesday morning the Bishop of Carlisle, assisted by Dr. Travers Twiss, chancellor of the diocese of London, and the Rev. C. J. Burton, chancellor of the diocese of Carlise, as assessors, held a Court in the. Chapter-house, for the purpose of hearing an appeal of the Rev. G. T. Livingston, minor canon and precentor, arising out of a dispute which at the time created much interest in the public mind. Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Lawrie appeared for the Dean and Chapter. Mr. Temple, Q.C., represented Mr. Livingston, the de fendant. Several questions were discussed as to the powers of the Court and the nature of the evidence permitted to be offered, and which was very voluminous. The nominal point at issue, and which the bishop had to try, was the right to prescribe the selection of music to be used in the cathedral service. Mr. Livingston claim e d thi s right under a clause which gives the precentor the com mand of the minor canons, clerks, and choristers---“ Q u id_ quid ille legendum aut canendu m praescripserit pro m pt e whether a r ere d ebe the n t. general" IIt was for the bishop , dean does not as visitor, to d eci d e authoritya of h over ride this limited jurisdiction. The facts are those .—A draft of a selection of music for the fifth Sunday in Lent was handed to Mr. Livingston by the organist, containing an anthem from the " Messiah," to which he entertained objections. He forwarded the draft to the dean and canons, with a marginal note objecting to the anthem, but not suggesting any su bstitute, and received it back again, with a memorandum by the dean dissenting from the objection. The precentor next addressed to the dean a letter asking him to reconsider his judgment, but on the following day, being applied to in the usual course to furnish the customary list of the next Sunday's music, he, not having received any answer from the dean, wrote and exhibited lists altered in conformity with his own opinions. Upon this an angry correspondence took place. The dean prohibited Mr. Livingston from having anything further to do with the singing lists, and eventually sus pended him from his office. The disputed anthem was restored to its place in the list, the dean's name being appended to it as an authority, and that of Precentor Livingston struck out. Upon this, Mr. Livingston pre sented certain charges against the dean, which he vainly endeavoured to induce the chapter to receive. The dean then pronounced formal sentence upon him, a course in which he was supported by the canons residentiary of the cathedral. Against this decision Mr. Livingston appealed to the visitor. Mr. Temple opened the case and stated the facts set out in the appellant's petition, and these, so far as they went, were not disputed. Mr. James, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter, contended that the grounds of Mr. Livingston's dismissal were not solely those alleged in the document purporting to 'dismiss him, and entered into a long statement, and read many letters endeavouring to show that the rev. precentor had been wilfully contu macious and disrespectful to his superiors since his appoint ment in 1855. At the conclusion of the learned counsel's speech the court adjourned until Wednesday, when Mr. James announced his i n t en ti on o f exam i n i ng the dean and canons and the organist. There is a strong feeling in Carlisle in reference to this subject, the capitular body having been for some • time past very unpopular with the people of the old cathedral city. LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 8. Accounts have been received from Constantinople to the Ist. M. Thouvenel had left on an excursion to Mount Athos. A partial modification had taken place in the Ministry. Abdallah Pacha, the new scherif of Mecca, had been received by the Grand Vizier. The bombardment of Jeddah had produced an unpleasant impression on the Porte ; the Turkish Government state that the satisfaction would have been more striking if the Turks had acted alone. The conclusion of the new loan has caused the exchanges to go down materially. The son of Fuad Pacha had, left Constantinople with the ratification of the convention relative to the Principalities. The English consul at Jassy is dead. Prince Ghika was continuing to exert all his influence to obtain the post of Hospodar. The electoral struggle bids fair to -be very sharp in Wallachia. Emperor has decided that the functions of Governor- General, such as they have hitherto existed, are sup pressed, as well as the government council and the secretariat-general. A superior commandant of th land and naval forces in Algeria is appointed, with extensive military and political powers. The Emperor has appointed General de MacMahon to that post. The administration will be carried on direct by the prefects in the civil territory, and by the generals in the military. You shall shortly receive my detailed instructions. Assure the functionaries and the clerks who may be affected by this measure that their future welfare shall not suffer from it ; they may rely on my protection. The whole of • the present system will continue to work without any modification until further orders ; every one must remain at his post. The Emperor and I rely on you, my dear general." The Akhbar of Algiers states that Colonel Ribourt, first A.D.C. of Marshal Randon, has arrived in that city, to officially deliver up, in the name of the marshal, the service to the governor ad interim. BOURSE, Sept. B.—Large sales for realisation have been effected in Rente. Threes, after having been done at 72fr. 60c., declined, and are now at 72fr. 35c. ; Mobilier varied from 895 fr. to 887 fr. 50c. ; Austrian, 692 fr. 50c. to 690 fr. ; Orleans, 1,390 fr. to 1,387 fr. 50c.; Lyons, 832 fr. 50c. to 830 fr.; Eastern, 750 fr. to 747 fr. 50c. ; Southern, 590 fr. to 583 fr. 75c. ;and Russian, 516 fr. 25c. to 515 fr. The market became rather firmer towards the close, when the following were the quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 96 Credit Foncier 640 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 3 per Cents. 72 10 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 72 40 Roman 9l 25 Bank Shares. — Austrian Credit Mobilier 890 I Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 882 50 IHome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orle.an Northern New ditto - 816 25 Lyons and. Mediterranean 835 .. 832 50 New ditto — Geneva 635 .. 632 50 Midi . 585 50 .. 588 75 Western 635 635 E tstern Grand Central Sardinian Austrian 470 - .. 467 50 686 25 .. 687 50 RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 30th ult., in the Debats, says :—" The Emperor, on the report of the governor of Eastern Siberia, has ordered that a town, to bear the name of Blagowitchensk, shall be founded at the confluence of the Sei and the Amur. The Russian Government is now having made in Prussia 5,000 Minie rifles on a new system. The barrels are to be 38 inches long, and the calibre 58- 100th of an inch, with four grooves. The longest range of these rifles is 1,200 paces. The total length of them is 4ft. sin., and they are well suited to light infantry. It is said that for the future all the musket barrels are to be made of steel." A letter from Warsaw says :—" Prince Gorts shakoff, Governor of Poland, has arrived here from his foreign trip, and M. Tymoski, Secretary of State, has returned from St. Petersburg. The Em peror has promised to attend a ball given by the nobles of Wilna, and to offer them one in return. In the Government of Wilna great preparations are being made to receive his Majesty with fitting honour." t • z., A1 . c7.41, " • 41, to '3 • *, rA i g ' , vt. .• 1 . ' 14 4 •44.4 • _,J f + • M ~„10.4)ho • T,H E SUN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter of the 4th states that a con ference on the question of the duchies took place on the preceding day between Count Buol, Count Rechberg, President of the Germanic Diet, and Count Ingelheim, Austrian Minister at Hanover. Another letter from Vienna states that the Kaimakam of Moldavia, Prince Vogorides, has sent in his resignation to 'Constantinople, assigning as his reason that the result of the Conference of Paris have responded so little to the hopes of the Rou mans that an insurrection is to be feared. The letter, however, says that the real reason of the Prince's resignation is that as the Conference has decided that the future Hospodar must be born of Rotunan parents, he, being a Phanariot, cannot become a candidate. The letter concludes by asserting that the news from the Principalities are satisfactory, and that his fears of an outbreak are perfectly imaginary. The Empress of Austria was going on so well on the 3d that her Majesty was able to leave her bed. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAPH MESSAGE FROM HER MAJESTY. At the inauguration of the opening of the line at Jersey, on Tuesday, the following telegraph message was forwarded by Mr. Aubin, constable of the island, through the Hon. Mr. Walpole, to her Majesty:— " The Directors of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company, on behalf of the people of the islands, solicit that you may be pleased to lay before her most gracious Majesty this the first message con veyed by their telegraph. Though the establish ment of this means of rapid communication with the mother country is an event of minor importance to the empire at large, it is one of heartfelt satis faction to her Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects here, as tending to draw still closer the bonds which for nearly 1,000 years have linked these islands to the crown of England, and more firmly to secure that connection, the foundation of their liberties and their prosperity, and which like their fore fathers they would deem no sacrifice too great to preserve. " Jersey, Sept. 7. Her Majesty returned the following gracious answer by telegraph : Holyrood Palace, Tuesday night, Sept, 7. " The Queen has received with the highest satis faction the announcement of the successful comple tion of a telegraphic communication with the Channel Islands, and while her Majesty congratu lates the directors of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company upon their success, she rejoices in the more rapid means of communication and the closer connexion thus happily established with a portion of her dominions hitherto locally separated, but always united to her Crown by a spirit of unswerv ing loyalty unsurpassed in any part of them, and of which the message just transmitted on behalf of the people of the islands contains a very gratifying expression." A telegram received from Jersey, dated Wednes day afternoon, states that her Majesty's reply had caused great enthusiasm in the islands. The line is to be opened to the public to-day (Thursday). The cable, manufactured by Newall and Co. at Birkenhead, is of the size of the shore end of the Mediterranean cable, but with ends in a propor tionate degree thicker. It starts from Church Bay, Portland, and rests in depths of water varying from 35 to 40 fathoms, as far as the island of Alder ney, which has been fixed upon as the first station. At this point the French coast is only nine miles distant, and Cherbourg is plainly visible. From Alderney the cable stretches to a point on the north-west coast of Guernsey, and crosses that island to St. Peter's Fort, where there is a station in the guardhouse, nearly upon a level with the sea. It then runs to Cape Grosnez, and is landed upon a sandy beach—a matter of no small importance in an island so begirt with rocks as Jersey. Between eight and nine miles of underground work brings the line to St. Hollers. The station is situated at the corner of the Grand Square. A considerable trade already exists between the Channel Islands and St. Malo, Granville, and other places on the French coast. An extension in that direction would afford to Normandy and Brittany the facilities of communication which are now de nied to them. A message of 20 words from Eng land to any of the towns in those provinces is now charged from 12s. 9d. to 14s. 6d. The charge for a message of like length from London to Jersey is ss. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN I 2( EDINBURGH. (From the Scotsman.) Yesterday (Tuesday) evening, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with several Of the royal children, arrived in Edinburgh on their way to Balmoral. The evening being unusually fine, an immense concourse of people thronged the Queen's-park long before the hour fixed for her Majesty's arrival at Meadowbank station. Crowds were conspicuous on various parts of the north side of the hill, and not a few clambered up to the summit of Arthur's S eat, to get a bird's-eye view of the scene below. The preparations at Meadowbank were of the usual cha racter. The sides of the staircase leading from the plat form to the road were lined with a very choice collection of plants and flowers, supplied from the nursery of Messrs. Lawson and Son. The steps, _as also the central part of the platform, were covered with crimson carpeting. In front of the station were richly-ornamented hangings of coloured cloth, the whole being surmounted with a large crown and the royal arms. On either side were lamps of stained glass, and four similar lamps of larger size were fixed along the platform. Detachments of the 16th Lancers, Ist battalion of the Wile Brigade from Glasgow (numbering 200 men), the Royal Sussex Militia, and the battery of Royal Artillery from Leith Fort, lined the road through the park from the station to Holyrood, and were formed in position at half ' past six o'clock. In front of St. Margaret's station was a guard of honour of the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and the band of the 16th Lancers. Shortly after seven o'clock, Sheriff Gordon, accompanied by Mr. J. A. Campbell, Lord Melville, the Duke of Buc cleuch in his uniform of Lord-Lieutenant, the Hon. Capt. Carnegie, of H.M.S. Edinburgh ; Lieut. Johnston, R.N., and Lieut. Cerjat, of H.M.S. Jackall, the Hon. Colonel Dalziel, and Captain Jones, aide-de-camp to Lord Melville, arrived on the platform. There were also a good number of ladies present. The North British Railway Company were represented by Messrs. Ronald, Sprott, Horne, Leishman, and Bowman, directors ; Mr. Rowbotham, manager ; and Mr. Nairne, secretary—all of whom had proceeded to Berwick to meet the train. Mr. Hodgson, the chairman of the directors, was unavoidably absent. Sheriff Logan and Sheriff Hal lard accompanied these gentlemen to Berwick, and travel led back by the train with them. The royal train reached Longniddry Junction at six minutes past seven, 12 minutes before the specified time and a telegram was despatched to Meadowbank stating that her Majesty would arrive there "immediately." Precisely at 20 minutes past seven-16 minutes before the time pre viously announced—the train dashed up to the platform amidst the deafening cheers of the people who crowded the vicinity of the station. Prince Albert was the first to step out of the saloon car riage, Lord Melville assisting both his Royal Highness and her Majesty to alight. Princesses Alice and Helena were the only other occupants of this carriage. In the saloon for the royal family were Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur, these being the only other members of the royal family accompanying the Queen. In the carriages adjoining the saloon were the royal suite, consisting of Lady Macdonald, Lady Churchill, Miss Stopford, Sir C. Phipps, Gen. Grey, and Colonel Ponsonby. The Earl of Derby travelled with the suite in the same carriage. Sir James Clark had arrived in Edinburgh by a previous train. The Queen and Prince were dressed in the plainest cos tume, her Majesty having a light bonnet and summer dress and the Prince Consort a plain suit of black. On recog nising the Duke of Buccleuch, her Majesty advanced to him and shook hands, addressing a few words to his grace. The Premier also shook hands very warmly with Lord Melville and the Duke. The moment her Majesty alighted and proceeded up the steps leading to her carriage a royal salute was fired from the Castle, the band of the Lancers struck up the National Anthem, and the spectators who lined the road cheered lustily as the Queen appeared. Her Majesty bowedrepeatedly when in her carriage in acknowledgment of the warmth of her reception. The royal cortege immediately proceeded towards Holy rood, the immense assemblage of spectators cheering with great heartiness all along the route. The open space in front of the Palace was kept clear by detachments of the city police under Mr. Linton, which were stationed at the different barricades. A guard of honour consisting of the Royal Sussex Militia, was stationed in front of the building, with the band of the regiment under Bandmaster Burke. A few men of the Rifle Brigade, from Glasgow, and a body of the Royal Artillery, were placed on each side of the Palace entrance. The Duke of Richmond, Colonel of the Sussex Militia, who wore the decoration of the Garter, was in command of his regiment. At the gates of the Palace there were present to receive her Majesty—Bailie Blackadder (representing the City in the absence of the Lord Provost), Mr. Rutherford, the De puty-Keeper of the Palace, and Mr. Matheson, of the Board of Works. Two "royal postmen," mounted, were in at tendance, for the purposo of carrying despatches to the post office in time for the mail. A few minutes after half-past seven the carriage of Sheriff Gordon, who had driven on in advance of the cortege from Meadowbank, so as to be in readiness to receive the Queen dinedce - at Holyrood, arri ved in the q uadran gle of the Palace, and a l m ost directly after the two carriages conveyi ng her l‘la pa Palace-yard. tYand the royal children edr Majestyrove into the Pal at a the y the Dukes of Buccleuch and e s Shortly' before 9 o'clock Richmond, Viscount Melville, and Sheriff Gordon having received invitations. Her Majesty's departure will take place from H 1 o yrood at a quarter before 9 o'clock this' (Wednesday) morning. A m ilitary guard will be in a tt en d ance to escort the party to Meadowbank, where a special' train • will be in waiting. PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter, in the Borsenhalle, says :—" The discussions of the Conferences of Paris will not be published in extenso. At least the Conference has adopted a resolution by which all the Powers repre sented have engaged not to publish anything, except an extract from the protocols." It will be observed that this statement is in contradiction to one which was made a short time back in the Paris ournals. A Berlin letter says :--" In the numerous sittings of the council of ministers which have lately taken place, the question of the Prussian navy has been under serious consideration, and the chances for that branch of the service do not appear to be as favourable as was at one time hoped. The Minister of War, who every year asks for con siderable credits, thinks he has a direct interest in opposing the navy, and the Minister of Finance has declared that he is not prepared to devote any larger sums to it, the present surplus being barely sufficient to provide for the increase which has been ordered in the salaries of the government functionaries. He added that he should, perhaps, be obliged to increase certain taxes, particularly that on tobacco. That is the favourite idea of the Prussian financiers, but it is one which is not at all relished by the public. Baron de Manteuffel, who is at the head of the Admiralty, does not appear to have pleaded in favour of the navy, perhaps because he fears that a special ministry may be formed for that branch of the public service. The arguments brought for ward against the increase of the naval power of Prussia is, that the present force is amply sufficient, and that, if increased, it would be obliged to draw its seamen from the mercantile navy. Whatever may be the value of these arguments, it is certain that a State like Prussia ought to take political reasons into consideration, and that, at present, her navy is not in a state to contend either against that of the Swedes, the Danes, or other second and third-rate States." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 4th have arrived. The Gazette contains a telegram from Ferrol, of the day before, stating that their Majesties, who, together with the Royal family, were in excellent health, had witnessed the launching of the Nar vaez steamer of war, and had inspected the arsenal. It had been resolved to erect a statue of the Queen at Comma, to perpetuate the remembrance of her Majesty's visit to that place. A grand religious ceremony had been performed at San Sebastian, by order of the municipality, on the anniversary of the taking of that town from the French by the English and Spaniards, in 1813 ; for five and twenty years no such ceremony had been per formed. SIR HUGH Ross.—We have every reason to believe that the telegram from Bombay of the 4th of Aug., in which it was stated that Sir H. Ross had resigned his command of the Poonah division of the Bombay army, should rather have been that he had resumed it, as letters have been received from him of that date mentioning that ho had resumed that command.—Edinburgh Courant. JUMPING OVER A RAILWAY PARAPET.—Yester day morning, about 2 o'clock, a man named Railton, in the employ of Mr. Hughes, engineer, of New Cross, was found lying under one of the arches of the Greenwich Railway at Edward-street, Deptford, groaning, and unable to move. He stated that he had been in the company of a woman, and that a quarrel ensuing between them, two men came up, who violently assaulted and robbed him. He was at once conveyed to the nearest police-station, where it was found that he had sustained such serious injury to hi spine as will, probably, render him a cripple for life. On inquiry by the police it was soon ascertpined that this story was quite without foundation ; that the injured man and a com panion had been to the Crystal Palace, and that, instead of getting out at the New Cross station on their return home, they went to London, where they took the train for Dept ford without paying their fare. On arriving at that station both men, in order to avoid detection, got out the wrong side of the train, and succeeded in reaching the up platform. Being observed they were stopped, when Railton, who was intoxicated, started up the line, pursued by a ticket collec tor, and, in trying to escape, jumped from the parapet, which is about 25 feet high, and had lain in the state de scribed until found by the police. TURKEY. The following are the principal portions of the text of the decree lately issued by the Sultan, relative to financial expenditure in Turkey :—" Considerable sums wastefully expended or swallowed up in remu nerations and pensions of all kinds, have taken the place of useful and profitable expenses ; the persons employed by the state, blindly giving way to a style of living beyond their means, have gravely prejudiced the interests of the treasury. And, nevertheless, we take nothing so seriously to heart as to secure the progress of the power and glory of our empire, and to consolidate the repose and the welfare of all our subjects, who are in our hands a sacred deposit, of which we must render an account to God in our quality of High Caliph, and to increase their pro sperity, by the development of commerce and agri culture. It is for this reason that not only a few days since we instituted a special commission, composed of some of our ministers, and who have been already deliberating on the amelioration of the financial situation of our empire, on the means of preventing the funds necessary for the general expenses be coming the prey of waste and dissipation, and on the measures to be adopted in order that the reve nues of the state shall be devoted to their proper purpose ; that is to say, to procure a good govern ment, and the welfare, security, and contentment of the people from whom the revenue is drawn in the shape of taxes, and to complete other ameliorations which are considered as useful to the country. It has been also by my orders officially notified to the purveyors of my imperial palace, to those of the Sultanas, as well as to speculators who advance money to them, that whether they belong to foreign nations or to corporations or trades of our empire, from the day that the Seraskier Pacha was placed at the head of that commission, none of their demands would be admitted. I have thus manifested myfirm and unchangeable resolution to devote for the future a special attention and solicitude in order that the tut:lds of my civil list and of my privy purse shall be managed with order and economy. I will have my Ministers and others employed under the Go vernment act in the same manner; they shall labour energetically to introduce perfect regularity said economy in all branches of the public and pri vate expenses in general. Such is my decided determination." The commission alluded to is, it appears, at work. A number of orders sent to Paris and elsewhere have been countermanded, and dif ferent articles to the amount of 15 or 20 millions, which had not been paid for, have been returned to the different dealers. A Constantinople letter in the Austrian Gazette gives the following as the address delivered by the Sultan in the Divan, when enjoining economy on the governors of provinces and other high digni taries :—" I appointed you to your offices in order to ensure the welfare of my subjects, without dis tinction of form of worship or nationality. But I have found you negligent and unfaithful servants, and many of you have not done your duty. I have been good to you, but you have made an abusive use oemy kindness, you have trifled with my indulgence. Henceforth I shall be most severe, and whoever does not obey shall be chastised." FRANCE. PARIS; WEDNESDAY. The Emperor and Empress, since their arrival at Biarritz, have received numerous personages of dis tinction. The Princess Aima Murat is on a visit to their Majesties. The Empress has begun: taking sea-baths. The Mayor of Biarritz has published an address to the inhabitants, requesting them not to disturb their Majesties' privacy by making demon stration s in their promenades. The Prince Imperial who, as already mentioned, left Paris on Saturday evening, arrived at Bayonne at a quarter before 12. A great crowd of the in habitants of the latter place had assembled near the station, and received his Imp er i a l Hi g hness with the loudest acclamations. Their Majesties went from Biarritz, and met the Prince half-way between that place and Bayonne. The health of the young Prince is excellent. A letter from Bayonne of the '7th inst. says : " The day before yesterday the ceremony of giving the religious benediction to the first works of the new jetty and barrage took place in pre sence of the Emperor. These works, which were ordered by his Majesty, notwithstanding the un favourable opinions given of the plans by several engineers of merit, have been, daring the last year, carried on with great rapidity, under the direction of M. Daguenet, the engineer who proposed them. The results may be already judged of, and there is every chance of complete success. At noon all the sailing and row boats of the port were in requisition, filled with elegantly-dressed persons, all proceeding towards th e b ay , an d a num b er o f ca followed theat s t a h m e e s p am em e tt.imTewtehestenaemwelyrs mar towards d ri e ag ro es ad had been engaged, and took on board the authori ties of the town, the members of the chamber of commerce, and other constituted bodies. At three o'clock their Majesties and suite proceeded, with out escort, to the point of attraction in two caurt carriages and four. The Emperor was in full military uniform, with the cordon of the Legion of Honour. Their Majesties alighted on the shore, which was crowded with people, and proceeded to the extremity of the platform of the new jetty, where they took their seats under a canopy, round which were assembled all the authorities and clergy. The bishop delivered an address to 'the Emperor, and his Majesty replied in a few words, which were received with cheers, afterwards conferring the decoration of the Legion of Honour on M. La font, a member of the council-general, and on M. Detroyat, vice-president of the Chamber of Com merce. After the religious ceremony of blessing the sea and a pile which was about to be driven, the steam-engine erected on the spot was set to work, and in a few minutes the pile, under the stroke of the powerful machine, sank several yards into the ground. The Emperor, with the Empress on his arm, then descended from the raised platform on which they had been seated, went towards the machine, and attentively e xamined the different works, and addressed questions to the engineer. After remaining an hour and a-half on the jetty, which as yet only consists of a single row of piles, with a temporary platform, and vibrates at the beat of every wave, the Emperor and Empress returned to their carriage, and proceeded to the villa Eugenie amidst loud cries of Vive l'Empereur ! Vive l'lm peratrice !' " Prince Jerome, according to the Journal clu Havre, will soon leave that port to return to Paris. The boats which the Prince has been in the habit of using have already been replaced in the store houses of the naval department. The day before yesterday the Prince received the Mayor and de puty Mayors of Havre, preparatory to his final departure. General Baron Renault, ad interim governor general of Algeria, has receiving the following telegraphic dispatch from Prince Napoleon dated Paris, Sept. 1 :—" I h as t en to inform you that by a decree dated yesterday, the 31st of Augu3t, the THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL ABERDEEN, SEPT. 8. The Queen left Edinburgh at 9 o'clock this morning, and travelled by the Scottish Central and Scottish North- Eastern to Aberdeen, passing through Stirling and Perth, and arriving at 1.50. Her Majesty then proceeded by the Deeside Railway to Banchorry, and, having lunched there, travelled in an open carriage by Aboyne . and Ballater to Balmoral, arriving about 6 o'clock. • • Mr. Seymour Clarke ably conducted the arrangements o. the train throughout. The weather is splendid, and• the castle grounds in beau. tiful order. Lord Derby is with the Court. THE LEEDS MUSICAL FESTIVAL. LEEDS, SErr. 8. From the time of her Majesty's departure yesterday till long after midnight the streets of Leeds were thronged with one of the densest and at the same time most well conducted multitudes ever assembled from various parts to assist at a ceremony of more than ordinary interest. A salient characteristic of the crowd was its exuberant loyalty. To hear " God save the Queen" and " Rule Britannia" from so many perambulating choirs, one might have thought they had all been taught by Mr. Hullah, and that the director of St. Martin's-hall had limited his course of instruction to the national airs. Some parties contented themselves with unison, and were triumphantly successful; others were ambitious enough to aim at part-singing, when the result was not quite so satisfactory ; nevertheless, in. every instance, the genuine heartiness of the performers: made up for such short-comings as might, under other' circumstances, have been likely to offend ears attuned to harmony. The illuminations were famous, especially in the street called Briggate, which quite dazzled and perplexed the eye with fantastic emblems and transparencies, all the way from the bridge across the Ayre to the opposite extremity ; but so closely packed were the crowd, so countless the vehicles of every description—of which omnibuses and carts, literally alive with human beings, were the most numerous ttnd con spicuous—that locomotion was a difficult problem to solve until a very late period of the evening. And yet, wAenever bands of instrumentalists were heard playing, or companies of singers vociferating, the welcome strains of the national anthem, the otherwise immoveable mass gave way, and the musicians—allowed to accomplish their harmonicas "rounds"—passed onward without let or hindrance. Not only were the streets thus busy, thronged, and animected, the windows of every house were open, and those who, from timidity or any other cause, would not venture out - of doors, were almost equally diverted by gazing at the see ne below without sharing any of its dangers—thus indulgi, ag in the advantageous position of the philosophical looker- , m described by Lucretius. Such a day and such a night had never before been known at Leeds—the " praty marl :et town, having one parodic) church, reasonably well build( sd, and as large as Bradforde, but no so quick," so ingenuously described by Leland. The performance of " Elijah" at the Town-hall thiA morning, which attracted an audience of more than 1,800 persons, was a good beginning, since it decided three ques tions of no small importance with reference to future under- takings, and all three favourably—first, the acoustle pro perties of the building ; second, the wisdom of the policy which led to the appointment of an English conductor, .In the person of Professor Bennett ; and third, the position which the Leeds Festival will have a right to take, if thir igs continue to be managed in the same way—a position, it rr Lay be as well to state without further preliminary, second -to none. In one respect the Oratorio of Mendelssohn fared bet ter than on any previous occasion in our remembrance since' it was last conducted by the composer. We allude to the ex: tot faithfulness with which the times of every piece were ia dicated, from the overture to the last chorus, a point of the highest consequence. By this innovation on a custom that has recently prevailed of hurrying the times in almost every instance—than which nothing can be more detrimental t o the general effect, and nothing more inimical to the balance so indispensable to a proper appreciation of the whole--the gain was manifest. Every point contained in the sc,,re, whether for voices or for instruments, came out with un wonted clearness, and thus numberless beauties were re - vealed that are too often altogether lost. Not a measure', not an accent, not a detail in this great work but has its purpose ; and if the ear, no matter from what impediment, is unable to comprehend them all, it is impossible for the mind to grasp the entire meaning of the composer, just oo much of whose intentions are neutralised, if not .indeed frustrated. There are very few words in which the orches tra plays a part of such significance as in " Elijah." Every piece —choral, concerted, or solo—owes much of its expres sion to the instrumental colouring ; and that Mendelssohn was one of the greatest of musical colourists (if the terra may pass) is universally admitted. The effects to be pro duced by the comparatively unaided choir had been already pretty nigh exhausted by the incomparable Handel, the only way to approach whom so nearly as Mendelssohn has done in "Elijah" was through the medium of the or chestra. The score of "Elijah" is a model regarded from this point of view alone. The instruments almost speak with the eloquence of human voices ; each has its marked and individual character ; to each a part is as signed that distinguishes it from its companions. Of this, peculiarity endless examples might be cited ; but as time presses (an inconveniently brief interval elapsing between the termination of the Oratorio in the Town-half and the hour at which the "express" starts for London-- -1 p.m.), we must be satisfied at present for having sug gested its consideration. Enough, however, has been said to show how necessary it is, in such a composition as "Elijah," that the composer's instructions with regard to the time of every piece should bo in all cases religiously obeyed, and to account in a great measure for the unquali fied and truly musical success of to-day's performance. Professor Bennett—himself a Yorkshireman, having been born in Sheffield—was honoured with a genuine York shire welcome on appearing in the orchestra, and a burst of the heartfelt applause proclaimed the satisfaction of the audience at the end of each section of the Oratorio, which was happily allowed to proceed without any interruptions in the shape of those unseemly "encores" that protract the duration without in any way increasing the enjoyment of the performance. The principal singers were Madame Novello, Madame Weiss, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Santley, and Mr. Weiss ; the duet, " Zion spreadeth her hands for aid," being allotted to Misses Helena Walker and Crossland, while Miss Freeman, Messrs. Inkersall, Winn, and Hinchiffe took part in the double quartette, "For He shall give his angels charge." Mr. W. Spak presided at the organ. With this general notice we must now desist, premising that there still remains much to say of the performance which has thus brilliantly inaugurated the maiden festival of Leeds. Nothing can be more auspicious than the weather, and although her Majesty the Queen has departed, the excite ment is by no means allayed. All the streets contiguous to the Town-hall were crowded from an early hour this morn" ing ; and the festival proceedings excite universal curiosity and interest. RAILWAY POLICY. A meeting of delegates from almost all the companies in the United Kingdom was held this morning at the Euston Hotel, Euston-square, H. S. Thompson, Esq., of the North •Eastern, in the chair, for the purpose of considering, and, if agreed to, of carrying into practical operation, the following resolutions : " 1. That the rates and fares on the several railways 01 the kingdom should be so fixed as to realise the largest amount of net profits to the companies entitled to them. " 2. That where any two or more companies, interested in any particular traffic, fail to agree among themselves so to the rates and fares to be charged, the points in dispute should be referred to arbitration." A gentleman attended from'The Sun to report the pro ceedings, but, on applying for admission, he was informed that the meeting had decided, by a show of hands, n ot to admit the representatives of the press. The subject of discussion was, we believe, the quarr el between the North-Western and Great Northern Railical* WRECK ON TILE ARKLO TV BANKS. The following additional particulars of the ship wreck which occurred on the 2d inst., on Arklovi: Bank, and of the providential rescue of the vessel crew, will be fo un d i n t erest i ng. O n t h e even ing of that day a ship was observed to be aground on the Arklow Bank. There was a strong gale bl ow i ng , an d a hi g h sea running at the time. The life-boat placed at Arklow by the Royal Natio na l Lif e boat Institution of London was launched with as much despatch as possible, and about 5 o'clock p.m. she reached the vessel, which the sea was then breaking over, and although several fishing boats had put out before the life-boat, they found it impossible to communi cate with her. The regular coxswain of the life boat seeing that it would be attended with great risk to go alongside, let go the anc h or w i th i n a short distance of the ship, and having succeeded in heaving a line on board, he made fast the life-buoy to the other end, and this being drawn on to the vessel, each of the c rew i n success i on was ma de . fast to it, and was th us h au l ed on b oar d the , life-boat, and b y t hi s means eleven °I the hands were rescued. Previous to th e life-boat comin g i n s i g h t, f our o f t h e crew h a d g ot into two of th e s hip' s b oa t s, t wo i n eac h ; on e 0f these boats was almost immediately capsised by tremendous sea which struck her. The two men managed to cling to th e b o tt om o f th e b o at, and were picked up by th e fi s hi ng smac k C a therine , the other two were also taken on board the saw ° smack, and thus the entire crew, numbering fifteen souls, were saved. As the fishing boats could o ° t .. approach the vessel near enough to get those 0 '; board off, it is evident that, but for the presence the life-boat, the eleven men who remained in the vessel must have been left to perish, unless they could havp clung to the rigging until the followil day, when the weather mode ra t e d. Thi s ex celleo life-boat is on the design o f M r . P ea k e , an d was , built by the Messrs. F orres t, o f Li me h ouse , don. The vessel (which has become a total wrec k) was named the Harriet and F r an c i s , a b ou t 450 to .. burthen, and was bound from Li ver p oo l to Bald . more, with a cargo of salt and earthenware. THE FLOWER SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALA CE. —A grand exhibition of flowers and fruit was opened Ye, 6 terday at the Crystal Palace, and will be continued to- It is the third and last of the 'seizes for the present I.'er l ,; ) and, with respect both to the number and quality ei "" 0 specimens exhibited, is at least equal to either of the twt_ previous shows. The attendance of visitors yesterday , 31 . ° h withstanding the late period of the season and the lug ° price of admission, was very numerous, but included a lot, proportion of annual ticket-holders. To-day, when i +4 .n . charge for entrance is to b e re d uce d t o a shilling, a a " -- larger influz of spootAtors may be expeoted, 1 Cc are pr. vi: ha a an ha St in