The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-15 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. With THE CONTESTED ELECTION. After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. And LIJALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Leases and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. And TO PAIIEN IS AND GUARDIANS. After which, TRYING IT ON. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDI T ION O F THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. C ANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS. — EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele brate n d Ifant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual Vocal Conceit _Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come gay. and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Seceral interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Aits Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINHORA. TH.3 WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 15. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 60—higf.;.est since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. Basnmrrmt-29, .63. WIND, Northerly ; light, with dull cloudy weather, inclining to HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T R IG DAYMorning, 3h. 27m.—Afternoo, 3h. 42m. . To-Idol/mow-Morning, 3h. 57m.—Aftermon, 4h. 12m. There is no doubt that the Emperor NAPOLEON is the most adept of political conjurors. He continues to mystify everybody by his double -doubting oracular proceedings. The determination to allow of no foreign intervention in the affairs of Central Italy had given great offe nce at Vienna, when presto appears the article in the Itloniteur re buking the leaders of the patriots, and the wise men of Vienna are almost beside them selves with joy. But they reckon rather too fast. The Emperor NAPOLEON has a policy of his own, and means to stick to it, at least for the present. Meanwhile the consolidation of Italian Indepen dence is making steady progress—calm as it is dignified. This is reassuring to the friends of liberty. The number of French troops in Lom bardy and places adjacent is stated to be nearer 100,000 than 50,000, as originally given out. There may be good reason 2 for this. If the Emperor NAPOLEON really means to prevent the Austrians from any further interference in the affairs of Italy, the presence of such a force may be necessary, for the knowledge of such power being on the i spot will discourage the Austrians from making any attempt to reinstate the renegade Dukes on the thrones they have forfeited, as much by their breaking their oaths and promises as by their recent acts in fighting against their own subjects. Thus the day of retribution comes with redoubled anguish on those who have, as it were, contrived to dig their awn graves ! They first pandered to the bigotted cupidity of Austria as the slave of Rome ; —betrayed their sacred trust as princes, and de graded themselves, as men, by turning traitors to humanity, by the infamy of their conduct. Having so acted, let them now take their reward, and thank Providence that their lives are yet spared for days of penitence and nights of remorse. The reign of Bourbonism is coming to an end. It has profited little by experience, and misfortune seems only to have hardened its stony heart. Well, like the Stuarts, they have :had their day, and failed to improve it as they might. Time tra velled too fast for them, and they are now left in the lurch solely by their own too clever con- trivance. It would appear that the perfidy of the Chinese Government tends to strengthen the alliance with France, and may yet be productive of mere solid benefit to Italy. We sincerely hope so. If the Emperor NAPOLEON would but eschew any predilection for setting his cousin on an Italian throne, if but even for the present, and cordially seeond the liberal intentions of Eng land, he would find not only France, but all the enlightened people throughout Europe applaud his conduct. Despotism is only tolerable to a good end, as the Dictatorship of the Romans was submitted to for the salvation of the State, and the sooner NAPOLEON can get out of his present trammels the better will it be for his dynasty, and the welfare of the French people. The atrocity of the Chinese Outrage glares upon Christendom. It not only justifies by anticipation —it imperatively demands a terrible, instant, and overwhelming retribution. The occurrence is a Crime, and a Crime of the most heinous character. It is not only an infringement of the Law of Nations —it is an infamous and flagrant violation of the Laws of Humanity. The guilt is the supreme guilt of leze inajeste, of high treason to the sanctity of civilisation. Here was a Treaty of Peace solemnly agreed between the Plenipotentiaries, not of two, not of three, but of four great empires —the British, the French, the Russian, the Chinese. The compact was sacred and binding. The ink upon the documents was scarcely yet dry, the seals were yet warm from the confirmatory, or rather' we might even say (by reason of their symbolical character), from the consecrating impress ! The oaths of fraternal reconciliation were yet vibrating in our remembrance—when this monstrous act at once of cowardice and ruffianism proved definitively, for once and for all—between the Chinese and the rest of the human race—who have the best right and title to the designation of Barbarians ! The memorable and contumelious outrage perpe trated three y ears ago by the creatures of Commis • sioner YEE, upon the British flag then flying on board the lorcha " Arrow" while afloat upon the waters of Canton, E ngland recognished at the time as a perfectly adequate reason for severe and summary chastisement. But what was the insult to the sacred symbol of our Sovereignty on board the lorcha " Arrow" to the brutal and bloody crime accomplished under circumstances of peculiar and, in some respects, we believe, of un?aralleled atrocity, upon Saturday, the 25th of June—the mas sacre upon the 1 9 eiho of nearlyfre hundred, killed and \ wounded, B ritish and French, seamen and marines? Recollect the nature of the circumstances under which this massacre took place. Remember that tb.e little expeditionary, oresther purely corn - plimen t ary, force which was t attacked unex pectedl3 by an execrable ambush —daring « time of proforma "peace—comprised altogether no more than 1,300 me nof both nations, and of all arms, who were there on board the small allied squadron in a man ner as t'Abo pnrsaivants of the newly-arrived Mini sters of E: a is 7l.and and France, the Hon. F. W. BRUCE and M. 1 ); E B4OURBOULON, then on their way, with their .resp ecti vo, suites, to the imperial city of Pekin —th e ratter .orr. board the Du Chayla, theforrner on board tile C 4 TromaNdel. Altogether, we say, the v.( rk,:•-ts , .., ire ek_ n v lun pin.. • m C OD- o.lto THE SUN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1859. little complimentary precursive force just mentione , amounted to no more than 1,300 of both nations and of all arms. Out of which the enormous proportion of 478 men were cruelly put hors de combat by a cannonade sud denly opened upon them from masked batteries by 20,000 recreant Chinese. The aggregate of 478 including 14 French and 464 British ! It will have been se-a from the accounts already published in our columns giving the details of those disastrous occurrences, that the ambassadors accredited by France and England to the court of the celestial ruler of these infernal barbarians arrived off the Peiho on the 18th of June, ever memorable as the Waterloo anniversary. Denied communication of any kind with the principal authorities on shore —refused a passage up the Peiho by some subor dinate mandarins, with whom had been opened an equivocal sort of left-handed correspondence— Mr. BRUCE placed the matter then (as was indeed the only course left to his excellency in that em• barrassing situation) entirely and implicitly in the hands of Admiral HOPE. Apparently that gallant tar felt perfectly well assured of a successful pas. sage up the Peiho in spite of the booms and stakes with which the navigation of the river entrance was obstructed. If there were the assurances thereupon given by the Admiral to the Ambas sador, there again certainly, as the old song says, " HOPE told a flattering tale !" For hardly had the little squadron, consisting of the Plover, having the Admiral's flag, and followed by the other gunboats, namely, the Lee, Janus, Nimrod, Kestrel, Haughty, Starling, Opossum, Forester, Banterer, and Cormorant—entered the river and taken up their position off the Peiho forts ; hardly had two of the iron stakes been drawn, hardly had the first and second bo'om been passed by the Plover and Opossum, when the signal for the preconcerted crime was given ashore—a single gun was dis charged, and immediately " all the masks were rolled up, and a tremendous fire was opened on the squadron," the murderous onslaught thus be coming general. It was nothing less than an am buscade of 20,000 assassins lying in wait there to destroy a handful of brave and confiding men, who had come thither in accordance with arrangements made in a solemn Treaty of Peace—had come thither not as ertmies but as new-sworn friends — come, so to speak, as the body-guard and attendants of two eminent civilians, despatched (also accord ing to treaty) with assurances of amity from the Courts of the Tuileries and St. James's to the Im perial Court at Pekin, in their high and sacred character as Ambassadors ! Twenty thousand Chinese assassins were there, in dastardly ambush, to accord this welcome of death and torture from their masked batteries—to 1,300 men in attendance upon a couple of Ambassadors ! The brutality of the same enemy upon the unmasking of those con cealed batteries we may find illustrated, painfully enough, in the incidents befalling one individual, the brave old Admiral himself, then in com mand of the all but doomed expedition. "At an early period of the action," we learn, " the Ad miral had been wounded on board the Plover by a splinter in the thigh, and that vessel was almost entirely disabled. He shifted his flag to the Opossum. When there, he took his station on the caboose, and thence issued his orders [his thigh, re member, torn by a splinter !] until a round shot cut the mainstay on which he was leaning, and ' caused him to fall to the deck, a height of some eight feet, breaking a rib and severely shaking him. After a short time he left the Opossum in the Du Chayla's gig [the Frenchman's gig]—the alliance being happily as complete and cordiale on the Peiho in 1859 as on the Tchernaya in 1854], and proceeded to the Cormorant, where he remained." So much for the gallant tar in command. Now for the squadron — manned by two hundred less than one-and-a-half thousand—and murderously fired upon from sud denly unmasked batteries by twenty thousand Chinese bombardiers ! Of the total of 1,300 men of all arms—we have seen that 478 were either killed or wounded. Of the ten gunboats—the Lee and the Kestrel sunk "in testimony of the hard fought day "—the Haughty, just contriving to keep afloat till morning, went down in her turn a little E :fter daybreak—" the Cormorant, with the admiral on board and full of wounded, was so fast aground that it was considered necessary to leave her, as she was right under the batteries "—the Plover and the Starlinj, for similar reasons, were abandoned. Eventually the Kestrel (sunk on the 25th) as drifted out on the 26th and towed into shoal water by the Janus, being thus unexpectedly recovered. Eventually also the Plover was set on flames by the Chinese, and the Cormorant sunk by a terrific fire from the batteries. For this atrocious outrage —there cannot be one instant's doubt of it— England and France will forthwith wreak upon its perpetrators a terrible, a signal, and a fitting retri bution. Whatever those wretched humbugs, the drivellers about peace at any price, may say to the contrary—this retribution is demanded at once im peratively, not alone by the dictates of national honour, but by the sacred interests of civilisation. We trust our naval and military authorities will see that the opinion of the country has decided against flogging as a punishment. We will not recur to several special cases which have lately occurred; there is something invidious in thus seeming to fix blame upon individual officers, when they are but acting in accordance with a settled system. Not, let it be observed, that we justify them for not being superior to routine ; we only feel that, if the people of England do not amend their military laws, they are heavily responsible, as well as the administrators of such laws, for their direct consequences. Martial law is, much more to be sure than civil law, a law of the judge's discre tion: Still, the martial law of this country must rest on Acts of Parliament, and, of course, could inflict no penalty forbidden by an Act of Parlia ment ; the country and Parliament must, there fore, share the blame with the officers who flog ; only share it, however ; since we must think that wise, not to say humane, officers would have got rid of the punishment long ago. They ought to have been aware that public opinion was not mere sentiment, but founded on reason. Military men are ready enough to think and to exclaim that civilians know nothing at all about it. We do not know drill, and therefore it is absurdly assumed we do not know human nature ! There is nothing professional required to decide the question how certain kinds of punishment must tell on a human being, and with or without the leave of some of our military and naval friends we must think that we calm lookers-on, who see the work ing of the whole machine, of which they are but parts, have so me a d van t ages f or f orm i ng a judg ment which they h ave not. Oh, some old routinist. or some one who has just put on his " little brief authority," will exclaim— ,, Such incorrigible ras cals as get it, deserve it ; you can do nothing else with them !" And they think that thus they have settled the question. But the public does not think so. Desert ion, re-enlistment, getting bounties once and again, are surely roguish tricks enough ; still we civilians have to su bmit to all kinds of roguery, and we make shift, now-a -clays, to get on without the cat-o'-ninetails, the whipping post, the cart tail, or THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 18b9. even the stocks. Why should not those who have to punish military rogueries do without such things Is well As we? Do they wish to give a handle to peace men—to put into their mouths the argument, th at while civilians have left to Austrian brutality the iv ;e of the stick, military men and their soldiers, are st ) much more like Austrians than Englishmen, that trey cannot dispense with it. We do not believe t hat our private soldiers are worse men for becorn i soldiers. And if they could b 2 kept in order In 'fore they enlisted, without the lash, they surely cal i afterwards. Will the advocates of flogging say that the army is a corrupter of those who enter it— such a corrupter that they cannot be governed like other men, but by punishments at which huran nity literally sickens ? JOHN BRIGHT would know s how to use such a text. Wr'e may well ask of flogging, cu i Bono As to the icnan himself, if he be a confirmed rascal, flog ging• will never beat his rascality out of him ; if, on the .other hand, the man has any germs of good ness or honour left, flogging will destroy them. The hardened villain had better be got rid of as we get rid of any bad servant. He can never be of 'any use in the army, but lie may corrupt others. Let him be drummed out by all means, as un worthy to associate longer with honourable com raales, and let the civil law punish appropriately all his frauds and breach of service. But for a man of whom there yet is hope a more mischievous punish ment than flogging could not be devised. No man can ever afterwards call himself a man again. He has lost caste. No future obedience, or skill, or bravery can obliterate the marks of the lash. He is a degraded man to his dying day, and we do not want men in the army who feel themselves de graded. Will the once-flogged man, in the hour of the greatest need, ever be a candidate for the Victoria Cross ? Will not his feeling be—no mark of honour can efface that old dishonour. There certainly is wisdom in the view that the naval and military services must be treated and dealt with essentially on the same principles as any skilled service. The bounty system is at best a kind of kidnapping system—we mean, it blinds the eyes of a needy or a too jovial man by the momen tary gains. Men are allured, by a nice " lump" of money, to work and wages of which they afterwards sicken ; such men are not precisely the men We want as our defenders. We should have, not soldiers and sailors who feel that they once recklessly sold themselves into a kind of slavery, but men who think themselves fairly paid for their work, and who would not willingly exchange it for any other. This might be a costly plan, though we are by no means sure that it would not in the long run be less costly than the present one. The details would require careful consideration, but we should at least rest upon sound economical princi ples, if we made our soldiers feel that they had sold their lives, labour, and skill in the dearest market, and would get, on the whole, less for them than in any other. " Pay" is, we all know, a magic word with a soldier. Ought it not to be such that desertion would be its own punishment, and that it would be the most dreaded penalty for many other offences, to be turned out of the army for life. We shall be told, of course, that flogging has a deterring effect beyond any other punishment. It would not seem so. The offences thus punishable have rather increased under it. It seems to have no effect on the hardened, and others do not need such a terror. Decent soldiers and sailors, like other men of their grade, have both their sense of honour and their dread of the disgrace or of the un pleasantness, of much more civilised punishments. Moreover, the age of torture is past. We no longer add bodily pains to punishment. Let Russia, Austria, Naples, do it—England does it no longer. Even if a man killed the Sovereign, we should be content to hang him. We must renounce, therefore, torture in the army, too. The thing has been out of date since the days of JA3IES 11. and JEFFREY S. Society will not now tolerate punishments at the sight of which both officers and strong men sicken and faint. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. ABERDEEN, WEDNESDAY. The 28th congress of the British Association was opened here this evening, when the Prince Consort assumed the Presidentship, and delivered the inau gural address before upwards of 2,000 persons. His ROYAL HIGHNESS spoke for an hour, and referring to his presidency, said :—" I felt that I could, from the peculiar position in which Provi dence has placed me, appear as the representative of that large public which profits by and admires your exertions ; and I saw, in my acceptance of the office, the means of which necessarily so few are offered to her Majesty, of testifying to you, through the instrumentality of her husband, that your labours are not unappreciated by your Sovereign, and that she wishes her people to know this as well as yourselves." LATEST,NEWS. _ . ---.4.-. - The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : MARSEILLES, SEPT. 14. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 7th instant. The Sultan nearly lost his life last Saturday. An lonian captain commanding an English steam tug drove his vessel twice against the Imperial Caique, and the Sultan was saved with great difficulty. The captain has been arrested, and Sir Henry Bulwer has assured the Government that the most searching inquiry shall be made into this affair. The Governor of Candia has sent in his resigna tion. The smuggling of arms continues there, and a seizure of a bomb vessel charged with powder ,as been made. The political agitation in Servia is on the increase. The National Assembly (Skuptschina) has been convoked. VIENNA, SEPT. 15. The Imperial Law Gazette of to-day announces that the premium on the interest of the National Loan, falling due in the months of October, Novem ber, and December, 1859, has been fixed at 15 per cent. PARMA, SEPT. 14. The National Assembly, in its sitting of to-day, unanimously voted the confirmation of Signor Farini as Dictator. The Assembly further resolved to take into con sideration a proposal to authorise the Dictator to contract a loan, the amount of which remains to be fixed. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 14. A message received from Tunis states that the Bey of Tunis has been attacked with serious illness, and the French physician had been summoued to his aid. A second message received from the above city states that he had been attacked with erysipe las in the left side, but that hopes were entertained of his recovery. GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 12. Advices received from Tangiers state that no serious disturbances had taken place in any part of the territory of Morocco, and that Sidi Mohammed was on march from Morocco to Fez. Sidi Moham med had been proclaimed Emperor at Fez, Mequinez, Tetuin, and Arabas, and he was about to be proclaimed Emperor at Tangiers. TURIN, SEPT. 14. The deputations from Parma and Modena are expected here to-morrow. The members of the Modenese deputation are—Advocate Muratori, Count Ancini, Professor Zini, Advocate Brizzolari, Doctor Sacerdoti, and Professor Selmi ; and the Parmesan members are—the Marquis Muschi, Count Sanvitale, Maestro Verdi, Professor Fiorrozi, and Marquis Dolsi. The National Guard will be under arms to wel come the above deputations. declared that he would never voluntarily permit a non-Austrian soldier to enter their walls. The mo deration recently displayed by the King of Sardinia in regard to the Duchies was forced, the Emperor Napoleon having desired him not to agree to the proposed annexation. Had the King listened to the dictates of his ambition, and accepted the offer made him by the Tuscans and Modenese, Count Colloredo would have been re-called from Zurich, and Austria would probably again have declared war against Sardinia. When the editors of the Vienna papers had an interview with Baron Hubner, a few days ago, that statesman desired them never to lose sight of the fact that Tuscany and Modena were hereditary provinces of the House of Haps burg. It has recently been asserted that a Euro pean Congress is to settle the non-Lombard part of the Italian question, but it is still doubtful whether one will meet. The Siecle says :—" The solution involving the redemption of Venice, attacked with such violence by the ultramontane party, is so far regarded in a serious light that many persons have come to in form us of their willingness to place their offerings at the disposal of the unfortunate inhabitants of Venetia, and that if a public subscription were or ganised, the poor as well as the rich would bring in their contributions. Two ladies have offered a considerable sum, for which we thank them in the name of humanity." " Spain," Eays the Union, " has protested against the deposition of Duke Robert, of Parma. The pro test is well founded, and would be worthy of a Government being itself the correct expression of political right. But we have to remark that this act loses its principal weight by coming from a Government which itself only exists through the fact of a deposition." A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" The incident which has occurred in China is considered calculated to draw closer the alliance between England and France by the necessity of exercising reprisals for the attack on the Peiho. The journals of London, according to all probability, will suspend their attacks on the French Government, whose co-ope ration against Chinese perfidiousness is more in dispensable than ever. For some days past, and especially since the departure of Prince Richard de Metterl4ich for Vienna, the negotiations between the Cabinets of Paris and London on the affairs of Paly have become more active and friendly ; and it is asserted that the two Cabinets are on the eve of coming to an understanding both as to the meet ing of a Congress and the basis of its discussions." A letter from Bologna of the 10th. states that General Fanti is actively engaged in organising the army of Central Italy, which will soon be raised to 60,000 men. General Garibaldi arrived there on the 9th, and set out again immediately for Ferrara. The King of Sardinia is expected at Cremona about the 21st. The municipality of Como having informed General Garibaldi of their intention of erecting a monument in commemoration of the battle of San Fermo, the general has replied as follows from \1 oden a : " The engagements which took place in May last in your town and neighbourhood are worthy of being recorded. Great indeed was the bravery of the riflemen of the Alps, most of whom belonged to your population. How can I express my gra titude towards you ? For the little I have done you have held me up to the esteem of Italy and even of distant nations. Ten years ago, when I had the honour of fighting on the soil of Lombardy, I covered the national banner with crape, because it had been forced to yield to the pressure of the foreigner. That act weighed on my heart for ten years, while I hoped to return and fight again on your fields. May God, who has fulfilled these hopes, bless the thankful and religious people that has suffered so much." The Cologne Gazette says :—" We learn that the Prussian Government has approved of the plans for constructing a permanent bridge over the Rhine at Coblentz. The new bridge is to be placed at about 200 yards above the present bridge of boats. It is probable that the execution of the works will com mence in the spring." The King of the Belgians, according to the Brussels journals, is to return to Brussels before the 25th. The Indepe.dance of Brussels says :—" Count de Flandre, on his return from Scotland, is to pay a visit to the Royal family of Holland. We are able to announce that the object of it is to arrange the conditions of an interview between the two Courts of Belgium and Holland, in October next, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, on the occasion of the inauguration of the railway which is to unite that province to Belgium." The Madrid journals of the 10th are, like those of preceding days, principally occupied by the pro jected expedition against Morocco, but they give no new details respecting it. They state that of the numerous family of the late Emperor of Morocco, not fewer than ten sons are now living, all some what advanced in life. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The Saxonia, from New York to Hamburg, has arrived, with 150 passengers, 257,500 dols. for England ; 125,600 dols. for France ; and 1,000 dols for Hamburg. Her advices are anticipated. SOUTIIAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The screw steamer Bremen, from New York on the 3d inst., passed Hurst at 9.55 a.m. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato, Capt. F. Wooiley, arrived this afternoon, at two o'clock, from the West Indies, with the usual mails in charge of Lieut. Cashman, Admiralty agent. On her homeward voyage the Atrato experienced fine weather for the first week, subsequently east erly, and strong north-westerly winds the last three days. The Atrato brings on freight 502,750 dols. silver, on merchants' account; 98,136 dols. gold dust and gold in bars ; £ll5 plating; £142 jewellery; 1,597 serons of cochineal, 127 serons of bark, £3,000 pearls ; 30 serons of balsam, 5 sacks of coffee, 7 packages of bees wax, 25 packages of limes, 7 cases of cigars, 3 bales of tobacco, 16 cases of tortoise; shell, 41 packages of ore, 83 bales of sarsaparilla, 53 cases of succades, and a general cargo, consisting of 46 packages of sundries. Her dates of sailing are :--Grey Town, August 17 ; Belize (Honduras), 17 ; Colon, 23 ; Demerara, 25 ; Carthagena, 25 ; Trinidad, 26 ; Jamaica, 26 ; Grenada, 27 ; Barbadoes, 28 ; Jacmel, 28 ; Antigua, 30 ; St. Kitt's, 30 ; Nevis, 30 ; Montserrat, 30 ; Porto Rico, 30 ; St. Thomas, September 1. Her Majesty's ship Basilisk was at Carthagena looking after British interests during the disturbed state of that place. Her Majesty's ship Racer left Honduras on Aug. 17th, for Jamaica. The Imaum, Valorous, and Skipjack, at Jamaica ; the Arachne at Port-au-Prince; the Atalanta at Antigua. United States :ships.—The St. Louis, at Cartha gena ; the Boanake (flag), at Colon ; the James town, at Grey Town; the Sabine left Colon for Grey Town. Sept. 10, lat. 44 49 N., long. 29 29 W., spoke a burp:, supposed to be the Isabella Kerr, home ward bound. Sept. 11, lat. 47 11 N., long. 23 5 W., spoke the American ship Calliope; and Lucy Thompson, standing to the north. The Paramatta is still on Anegada Reef. The divers, &c., and material taken out by the Atrato, were conveyed to the reef by that ship, after transferring mails, passengers, and cargo at St. Thomas. All hands on board the Paramatta speak confidently of her coming off, and they are actively engaged in constructing bulkheads, &c. JAMAICA, AUG. 26.—We regret to state that there has not been any improvement during the past fortnight in the very dull state of things mentioned in our last report. Fortunately we have had scarcely any addition to stocks. The imports, since our last issue, amount comparatively to nothing ; and consequently, although purchasers have continued in their disinclination to operate largely, prices remain pretty generally as last quoted, with the exception of flour, which has declined in consequence of advices from the States. The Falmouth disturbances are at an end. Very complimnetary addresses have been presented to the Governor, owing to some unjustifiable attacks which had been made on him by a portion of the local press. The weather is favourable, and the island generally healthy. FRANCE. It is stated this afternoon that 12,000 French troops are ordered to be held in readiness to leave for China. General Wimpfen is talked of as likely to command them. There is also a rumour—to which, however, I should be slow in attaching weight—of a tendency to agreement between Eng land and France on the subject of a European Con- gress for the settlement of Italy. BOVRSE, Sept. 14.—The market has been quiet, with few variations. Threes have been done at 68f. 60e. and 68f. 45c., and are now . at 68f. 50e. Mobilier varied 780 f. to 773 f. 75c.; Austrian, 537 f 50c. to 535 f.; Lombard, 547 f. 75c. to 546 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,362 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 867 f. 50c. to 865 f, ; Northern, 920 f. to 917 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 652 f. to 650 f. The following were the last quotations : t i Cents. .... 94 50 ; Credit Fonder 670 Do. end month .. 94 25 I Belgian 4i 3 per Cents 6B 55 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month... • 68 65 Roman — Bank Shares...... 2780 Austrian Credit Mobilier • . 782 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 7 85 -- Home Debt 44 RAILWAYS. 9501C60ash 25 i . Account. 2 o onn i 865 t 5. 5 Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and MediterraneanB7o C i cneva 520 .. 522 50 Southern Western 570 .. 572 50 Eastern Sardinian 405 Austrian .. 407 50 .. 535 - Lombard .. — - Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; mone: 251 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 97c.; money, 24f. 95c. AUSTRIA. FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA, SEPT. 12 This Government was greatly displeased with the Emperor Napoleon, because he objected to an armed intervention in favour of the Dukes of Tuscany and Modena, but since the appearance of the note in the Illonzteur of the 9th men in office appear to have recovered their temper. Very shortly after peace had been concluded at Villa franca you learnt from me that the Emperor Francis Joseph had made the return of the two Archdukes to their States a conditio sine qua non, and it is now known here that the Emperor of the French promised to use his influence in order to bring about their restoration. " I am willing to resign Lombardy," said the Austrian Monarch, " but the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Modena have placed themselves under my pro tection, and I must defend their interests even though I sacrifice my own! , Napoleon expressed his admiration of the generous sentiments of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and when the two Sove reigns parted it was with the clear understanding that the Archdukes were to return to Tuscany and Modena, and that Venetia, with a separate Govern ment, was to form part of an Italian confederation. It is evident that Prince Metternich's mission led to the note in the Moniteur, which must necessarily produce a very depressing effect in Venetia, though it will hardly lead to the recall of the fugitive Sove reigns of Tuscany and Modena. After the de claration of the Emperor Napoleon " that the Dukes will not be reinstated by foreign force," it is not probable that Austria will attempt an armed intervention, but still it is certain that she is send ing fresh troops to Italy. Some of the Hungarian volunteers, who were to have been disbanded, will be sent to Venetia, and information has been given me that the railroad communication between Vienna and Trieste will, in as far as the public is concerned, be partially interrupted for a week or ten days from Thursday, the 15th inst. Persons of my acquaintance, who have recently returned from Italy, state that the French force in that peninsula must be nearer 100,000 than 50,000 men. " Many of the large towns teem with French troops, and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that as much French as Italian is heard in the streets of Milan." Heavy guns are now being sent from Styria to the fortresses in Italy, but I am not aware that any of them are rifled. Since the return of the ti oops from Italy some singular facts have came to my knowledge, and one or them is, that many of the guns sunk in the Po when the Allf.- trins evacuated Piacenza belonged to one of the fortresses lying between the Mincio and Adige. In some of the public papers it has been related that it, a short time ago, was the question at Zurich of making Mantua and Peschiera federal fortresses; but the statement cannot be correct, as the matter was settled at Villafranca. Napo leon would fain have had the two strongholds placed in the hands of the Italian Confederation, out as soon as he touched on the subject the Em peror Francis Joseph. positively and peremptorily THE PADIILAM STRIKE. [BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] BLACKBURN, SEPT. 15. Yesterday, after frequent adjournments, this question was settled. The Padiharn weavers resume work at the prices agreed upon last Friday. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, who ar rived in town on Tuesday from visiting Viscount and Vis countess Palmerston at Broadlands, near Romsey, left the Sardinian Legation last evening for Turin, on leave of ab sence for a month or six weeks. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have arrived in town from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercom at Brocket Hall, Herts. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left Tandragee Castle, county Armagh, on a tour of visits, en route to Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdon. The Earl and Countess of Jersey arrived yesterday in Berkeley-square from the Isle of Wight, and will shortly leave for Middleton-park, near Bicester. The Earl of Howth and Lady Emily St. Lawrence have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Frankfort. Viscountess Downe and family have left Claridge's Hotel for Baldersby Park. Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have left Claridge's Hotel for Rotherham, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Gardner are passing the season at Raymede, Berkshire. • The marriage of Lady Agnes Graham, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, with Capt. Murray, of the Grenadier Guards, is to be solemnised to-day. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR ROBERT H. CUNLIFFE, BART., C.B.—We regret to learn that General Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, Bart , died at his seat near Wrexham on Saturday last, in his 75th year. He was born on the 22d April, 1785, and married, first, in 1805, Louisa, daughter of Mr. A. Forster, secondly, in April, 1825. Susan Emily, daughter of Colonel Paton. In June, 1834, he succeeded his father, Sir Foster, the first baronet. The deceased general entered the East India Company's service in the Bengal army in 1798. He gained the rank of general in Oct., 1857; and for his military services in India was no minated a Companion of the Order of the Bath. In 1828 he was appointed colonel of the 4th Bengal Native In fantry. GRAND BANQUET AT LIVERPOOL TO THE EARL OF DERBY.—The grand banquet to be held in Liverpool, at which the Conservatives intend to present the Earl of Derby with an address expressive of confidence in his lord ship's domestic and foreign policy, is fixed to take place on Saturday, the 29th October, in the Philharmonic Hall in that town. It is said that many of his lordship's colleagues in the late Ministry have accepted invitations to be present. The Earl and Countess of Derby intend to entertain a suc cession of visitors during the ensuing week at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. It is stated in one of the journals that a vast es tablishment is about to be formed by the French Govern ment for the purpose of making shoes for the whole army. It is believed that a great economy will be effected by the plan. A grand battue for wolves in the forest of Bui: - eon-Bleu, near Gisors, belonging to Mme. de Rig-ny, took place a few days ago. Six wolves were found, but only one was killed, weighing 571bs. Prince Pierre de Savn Wittgenstein of Russia has arrived at Havre, and taken up his residence at Fras- THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Our dates are, from Valparaiso, Ist, and Callao 12th August. The news from Chili is of a meagre description ; very little business had been transacted by Con gress during the fortnight, but the Mercurio ex- pects it to do something now. The Mercurio informs us that a very rich copper mine has been discovered near the Port of Pan de Azucar, ten miles to the north of Chanaral de los Animas ; the master of the British barque Chilee, had been requested to survey the port and reports very favourably of it. He says it is well sheltered from the southward and is the best port for load ing metals north of Caldera, as there are no dan gers in the way ; ships can anchor there in eight to ten fathoms, a cable's length from the beach, which is of sand. Fresh outrages have been committed by Aure canian Indians in Southern Chile, and a meeting of the Casiques had been held to consult upon mea sures for destroying the frontier towns on the other side of the Biobio, but hopes were enter tained that their designs would be frustrated by the Government. A report was current that the British Minister had demanded the presence of some British men of-war at Valparaiso in the event of four American steamers arriving there, which were expected to settle the difficulties with Chili by force ; but we place no reliance in the report. RIVER PLATE PROVINCES.-All communication between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine/Confe deration has been stopped by the late decree of General Urquiza. Preparations are contiuued in Buenos Ayres for the war with the Confederation, and the Commander-in-Chief has established his head-quarters on the frontier line of Santa Fe. The army amounts to 8,000 men, and the State possesses five steamers and several sailing vessels and gunboats. Montevideo has declared its neutrality in the war, but will undoubtedly take part against Buenos Ayres. The army of the Confederation amounts to 10,000 men, and three steamers were about to be purchased and equipped in Montevideo. There is little news from Paraguay. President Lopez has refused to aid Urquiza in any way in the war against Buenos Ayres. The country is at peace. From Peru the news is of some interest ; the Spanish Minister Sr. H. Garcia de Quevedo had arrived for the purpose of negotiating a peace be tween Peru and Ecuador, but it appears without success. At the time of the sailing of the steamer from Callao, 5 p.m. on the 12th ult., a rumour was current that Peru had formally declared war against Ecuador, and that the foreign representa tatives had been notified to that effect. There was however no official announcement made public in Callao to that effect up to the time of the sailing of the steamer, but we have received a copy of El Peruano, the Government paper, dated 10th inst., which contains an official note of Sr. Melgar, the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressed to the diplomatic corps resident in Lima upon the pending questions between the two countries, which we take to be a declaration of war. The document is altogether too lengthy for in sertion in our columns, but a few lines will give its substance. It commences by accusing Ecuador of having committed the most grave and serious offences against Peru from time to time, and then states the forbearance and friendly course always pursued by the latter to obtain a just and honourable repara tion for these offences; that notwithstanding Peru has overlooked many notable offences on the part of Ecuador and has ever given her proof of the most sincere friendship, sending to that Government wise and able representatives who have offered the most frank and patriotic aid in settling the most important questions in a quiet and friendly way, yet these Ministers have always had to return to their Government, convinced of their inability to accomplish any good, because the Government at Quito, always responded to their just demands with neglect. delay, evasive answers, discourtesy, and, in fact, in a manner foreign to the principles of in ternational relations and opposed even to one's own self-respect. Signor Melgar then accuses Ecuador of having evaded the settlement of the boundary questions on the most frivolous pretexts; of prac tising a constant system of reserve and deception'; of endeavouring to sell or make away with impor tant portions of the disputed territory to foreigners, and of many other very serious charges. He then alludes to the mediation of Chili and New Granada, and says that the course pursued by Ecuador is the cause of their being unable to bring the questions pending to an amicable settlement, andinwtoinadswaurp, by the declaration, that if Peru is forced Ecuador alone must be considered wrehspatoenvseirblkeinfodi: all damages, injuries , and losses of that may be oc casioned lyobnytbhee pterremseinntatbeldocwkhaedne or by a. war, which will Peril gets full satisfaction for all past offences com mitted by Ecuador. The entire document is intended to represent Ecuador as exceedingly overbearing and unfriendly for a long term of years, and Peru as one of the most forbearing and peaceable neighbours in the world, and that after " patience has ceased to be a virtue," she is now so insulted and trampled upon, that there is nothing left to retrieve her wounded honour but to declare war. There had boon another attempt at revolution in Arequipa and Cuzco, but they were put down. It is reported that Echenique was in Arequipa. Judgment had been entered against the repre sentatives Senores Cisneros, Duarte, Casanova, Montts, &c., who, it will be recollected, committed the offence of meeting in the Legislative Hall after President Castilla had declared, that " it was not convenient" to do so. Congress remains adjourned until next year. THE AFRICAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The African royal mail steamship Etbiope arrived here to-day, with the African mails from the West Coast of Africa, 38 cabin passengers, 2,326 ounces of gold, 156 bales of cotton, &c. At Bonny the Regents have paid a fine of 100 casks of palm oil for firing on a British ship. A boat of the ship Mars, of Liverpool, capsized on the Ist of August, and some of the crew were drowned. At Sierra Leone news had been received of the loss of the ship Margaret, from London to Suez. The crew were saved. The Niger Expedition steamers Rainbow and Sunshine were at the mouth of the Nun river. The Royal mail steamer Armenian had arrived at Teneriffe, and sailed. for the River Gambia on the Ist September. Her Majesty's ships Imperial, Antelope, and Sharpshooter were at Sierra Leone r the Medusa and Brune at Lagos ; the Falconer at Accra ; the American corvette Portsmouth at Cape Palmas. Amongst the passengers brought by the Ethiop€ are the Hon. Mr. Fortescue and Gen. Ashburton. THE PONTEFRACT ELECTION.--We learn, says the Leeds Novato, that i no day has been fi xe d f or the hearing before th e umpire, and it s expected that a month will elapse before an y appointment is made. The agents on each side are to meet previously at Pontefract in order to narrow the inquiry as much as possible, LA TV INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DA Y COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE 11. SMART. This bankrupt was described as of Tichborne-street, Hay market, picture dealer, and now came up for his M , certificate. The bankrupt passed on acc ounts p repared by r. Smart Basinghall-street, accountant, and were satisfactory as re garded explanations. It was' clear, however, that in January, 1858, the bankrupt was in a deficiency to the ex tent of £97. The debts to unsecured creditors amount to £2,664. Debts, good— £lO7 property given up to the official assignee, £6BO and about £4O surplus on property held by cr editors as security. The p rofits were stated at £583; against trade expense, £ 615 ; losses, £l, 115; and household expenses, £248. Mr. Abraham, solicitor for the assignees, said that th e y and the creditors were anxious that the bankrupt should have a certificate of the first class. His Honour said the creditors had no right to deci de. Mr. Abrahams said that the losses were on the depre ciation in value of some pictures. His Honour considered there mus t have been some negli- 11° ge nce where the costs so far exceed ed the p rofits, and all could do would be to grant a ce rtificate of the second class. TRADER DEBTOR SUMMONSES. His Honour, in the absence of an y other Commissioner, took a case under the Debtor Tradesmen's clause, the e he e ffect of which is pretty well kn own is a preliminary bankruptcy. As respects name s and facts they a re deem ed " private," although heard in the open court. His Honour asked for proof of the debt, and an affidavit was put in. His Honour—Where is the plaintiff ? Solicitor—He is not here ;he can't attend. erson . His Honour—Then how can I m ake an order e? A d nm on the part of the alleged debtor s to p s us. A penial moning another under such a clause as this ought to appear. I shall not order a bond on this evidence, and as no action has been brought it must be done within 14 days, or I shall dimiss the summons with costs. SHERIFFS' COURT. IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS.—DIMOND V TS-ORLO. This was an aetion to recover £5 for rent of boards ftxe ci to an advertising station belonging to plaintiff. His Honour remembered that on the last occasion it WO agreed that plaintiff should have a verdict and that should be an end of the affair. Mr. Buchanan, for plaintiff, said there was no doubt that defendant should have taken away the boards, aria lac ' t having done so was clearly liable. Mr. Soyer, for defendant, the Cattle Food prop the said that defendant was not bound to take away' boards. It was usual in the advertisinc , trade to send the boards to the owner. bound to Mr. Buchanan thought that defendant Was send for his boards. Upon a former occasion his honour would recollect that defendant consented to a verdict, and the boards were to be removed. His Honour—Yes; I recollect the matter perfectly well, Some discussion then ensued as to an agreement, and cannot see how plaintiff can hope to recover. Thorley said all his agents sent the boards home- His ',Not Honour remarked that defendant must have a verdict, and after the result of the last action plainfiff should have taken down the boards and removed them to ' convenient distance, there to await defendant sending for them. and gr. Verdict for defendant. OBJECTING TO AN INFANT-REA V. B E) " The parties in this suit were relations, and the aniona! sought to be recovered was for debts contracted betWeaTh the parties. Mr. Buchanan objected to plaintiff's being Plaintiff had no relations and thought it v er y hard could not recover what was really his due. Mr. Buchanan—How old are you is Plaintiff—l am under age. H H onour—You must sue by your next friend' Yoh will be nonsuited. a su itor. he Mr. Buchanan did not press for costs. " OCW EXPENSIVE SUITS.-THE NATIONAL LOAN FEN"' "" S TION V. WILLIS. n of pon This case had been adjourned u the aPPlicat'°— Mr. Beard, in order that defendant might attend to I'd certain explanations. This was a judgment summo n ' Mr. Beard again applied for an adjournment, as de fends° was compelled to be absent on his master's business. His Honour thought the application reasonable. Plaintiff said this was a second adjournment. one, Mr. Beard—There are no costs on a judgment sum ln ; and it is absolutely necessary that defendant shalt' present. This is a matter embracing his liberty. His Honour granted an adjournment and no COO. A BARGAIN IS A BARGAIN.-MAYNARD V. WILSON*. f This was an action to recover £ 3 ll s. for three tom coal, alleged to have been sold to defendant, who holds cal" tam offices. Defendant pleaded that the coals were not sold to hilo• ici Mr. Buchanan, for the pla intiff, stated it had been agreed between the parties that plain tiff should su pp ly the cos'a and that defendant should work out the debt by letting plaintiff certain offices. As plaintiff could not obtain 11 14 office ho now sued for the coals. Defendant said that the coals were forced upon him, so that he had only burnt one ton. His Honour thought tha t p laintiff had agreed for a col" tam object, and not for money. He had brought his.aot" in the wrong form, and must be nonsuited. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TRIS D 4 MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Davies B ASE INGRATITUDE—A DEFECTIVE LAW.-JOu. .th an elderly man, was charged before Mr. Bingham 1/1 breaking a pane of glass of the value of £l4, the prof of Mr. Samuel Hicks, 9 , Regent - street , silk mercer (1510 Howell and James's), Mr Hicks said that on the previous evening a Ye ll man in his employ informed him that the prisoner h e thrown a large stone at a valuable pane of g lass, but be the n ot succeeded in breaking it. He then proceeded to door, and seeing the prisoner leaning ag ainst a pillar , 11 , 8 told him he had 'better go away, upon wh ich he immediate thrust his hand into his pocket, and pul lin g out another large stone deliberately threw it thro u g h a pane of the value of £l4. He had been guilty of a similar act before, and only the previous week had broken three or four pane'h In answer to the Chief Cle rk, Mr. Hicks said that Ni r• Howell, a former partner, had assisted the prisoner to great extent from his boyhood, had paid his apprenticeship fees and allowed him about £4O a-year since. He con' dered that the prisoner's object was extortion, as the OW ante to him had been discontinued, and he apprehended danger. The prisoner's conduct had been altogether veri ungrateful. The prisoner said he had had no food for some days. Mr. Bingham said there was a relieving officer in ever! parish, who would attend to him if he applied. . He her: to ( p t u punish w dangerous g p e r r e o s u e s a t f r e e l l a o t w r e s t u g e h t h e a as magistrate's h ano ther session of Parliament would no t p ass o ver withe u ," a law being passed which would enable him (the magistra te] pow er magistra te ] cases where the dam age i s no t a b ove £5). He should o rder imashe him to enter into his own recognisances to keep the pea ce for the next six months, THAMES. FOWL STEALING.—DARING ROBBERY. —Lindsay a morose, dirty-looking fellow, about 20 years of age, w as brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with • breaking into . 01 out-housQ in the rear of of the Devonshire Arms publica house, in Burn's-street, Henry-street, Limehouset stealing therefrom nine fowls, value 20s. Mr. John Matthews, the landlord of the Devonshire Arneit said his attention was called to a large carpenter's s h o p be hind his house last night. The door had been forced, anth6 clu fowl house in the carpenter's shop broken int°. All 7- fowls, nine in number, were gone. On look in g out o C the he him, he saw the prisoner and two other thieves rush iheye carpenter's shop with the fowls in their possession. were pursued, and several fowls were dropped by , the thiev" the The prisoner was the only one secured, a nd three of stolen fowls were found concealed in his trousers. Mr. Selfe—Were they alive ? Mr. Matthews—They were, sir. The carpenter's shop has been broken open before and a quant it y of tools stolen I have also lost fowls on another o ccasion. Two of the fowls taken out of the fowl-house last night were four this morning. The other four are missing. Copping, a police-constable, No. 379 K, stated that the prisoner had been summar il y convicted of felony, and get his living by thieving. The prisioner said he was asked by two others to g 0 with them on a fowl stealing expedition, and while he We° going away with three fowls he was pushed and struck in the eye. Mr. Selfe--You did not expect to get away scot fre e ' 1 convict you of l arcen y on y our p lea of guilty, an d sente o you to five months' im p risonme nt an d hard labour ill ° l° House of Correction. O9 TRACTION ENGINE FOR INDIA.—A traction (3,9' gine (Boydell's patent), ordered by the Government of WO' for use in Bombay, was tested yesterday at East cton, i rt the presence of several engineers and a gentleman sent dovill by the Government to witness the experiment. The East selected for the'trial was the bridle-lane leading from .r.i', Acton to Friars'•place, and, notwithstanding the hes. l 4, state of the ground caused by the rains, the most saurt; expectations of the inventors were realised. Abrupteotp in the lane were passed without difficulty, and the with a train of five waggons, measuring altogether 102 feet: was turned completely round in a space of 39 feet. nr, Monday e ere w last seven e bar k seamen, ho m a MUTINY ON BOARD A MERCHANTMAN. . L ' o f ° bac k to the Mauritius, and which was compelled to put __aliens Falmouth in consequence of the drunkenness and W . s B be ly in tb g , magistrates at Falmouth and sentenced to a fi master was or conduct of the above seamen, were brought befnoerealtihaetloonb weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. The t Ave or otfheLgorneadtoeur,rinniodu to sixil l fromnigh nights overwrought übeght unablefe e l i n t og attendan d w watchfulness fhuel anlel.siiigrfor p ..._ 1 00. The Chinese exchange quotations telep t. at n S ail _ Monday showed a movement of nearly 2 p ars u tiohraeitihnefealvoosuinrgefofthtihsecopuonsttrya r ; e b a u ct t io it n ap to p o e k le) asa l ' o7 . thepre the final rate was Gs. 6d., or ag ain ath e ,: a nd., vious packet. At Hong Kong was 4 2. En land. fresh turn of about It per cent. st g 1 tleleatajnuasttubea; stowing a 1 cor m Itidi £l2, i 76 £26 ---- 3ric ta li kr the In I IQ% Xe,