The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-15 00:00:00

T 1 OYAL ENULTSII. OPERA, JL COVENT-GARDEN. Under the mann , ement of 3liss L. Fyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, DINO 11 A 11. Messrs. Santley, H. Corn, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thirl wall, and Miss Louisa Fyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. DIVERTISSEMENT. Males. Lavine, Pasquale, Pier ron, and Mons. Vandris. Commence at 8 o'clock. • T HE A T -R 0 Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. if Frig EVENING the performances will commence with A. 1,1 UNEQUAL MA'rcir. Miss Amy Sedg - wiek. After which, n new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Bad:stone, Compton, ROgCrS, Mrs. B. White, ltlr3. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And ILALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. RO YA L PR INCE S S'S TIIEA'FRE.— Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with LOVE'S TELEGRATIL To be followed by a dramtic tableau in Watteau FORTUNE. lours, by J. It. Planche, Esq., entitaled LOVE AND FORT U To conclude with TIC TWO POLTS. W TIIEATRE - ROYAL, AD sterELPHI. N E Sole propri e tor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Web. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING will be performed ICI ON PABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss Kelly. After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben. Webster; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher, Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charg e for securing seats, nor for hills of perforinance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-strect, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, THE WIDOW'S WEDDING. After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen ord, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, supported by Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa, in which 3ftsars. C. Young, Barrett, A. Denial, Francis; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Clara St. Casse. Eliza "A rden, C. Eanoe, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de Ballet will appear. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half - pa st six ; perform ance commences at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanhorongh THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH' THE GOLDEN EGGS. After which TIIE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An other Retreat from Moscow. And CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock, CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con lefts), the extraorainafy Violin Performances of the I. rated rated Infant DELEI'IERRE FAMILY, and the usual focal Conce. t. Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Ffolson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfielel, and E. W. Melekney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts 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 beers new opera of DINORAH. THE WEATIIER.—Surt OFFICE, OCTOBER 15. THERMOMETER, IN THB SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. BauommTEn-29.58. WIND, Easterly; light, with dull hazy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—)corning, 3h. 29m.—Afternoon, 3h. 46m. To-Monatow-Morning, 4h. 4m.—Afternoon, 4h. 23m. K-~I"'i ›Jf 6414.,cc_e, ---- 4 . -,....'. i ~,.,,A - ), , ff --- ; .' ' • r.-.,- i... ~ , ' , Corr ."'"' " . . %%" .. -.:~_xs ~~7~tr TII E SUN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1859. ---41.-- This afternoon the majority of her MAJESTY'S Ministers have assembled at the PREMIER'S official residence in Downing-street, in obedience to the official summons distributed among the Sixteen. Certainly they hale enough to talk about among themselves there in solemn conclave—if they only will for once be in earnest about their work—if they only will but throw aside at last, for the briefest interval, the customary air of dilletanteism and pococuranteism characteristic of our English Administrators. There is one reflection that actually encourages us to be sanguine for once upon this point, a reflection that cannot possibly fail to force itself upon the collective judgment of the Cabinet. And this, obvi ously—the strength and energy confronting them in the organised phalanx of the Opposition. Before the prorogation of Parliament at the close of last session, that Opposition was formidable enough. Shortly before that prorogation—upon the grandest field-night recorded in HANSARD, upon the occasion that is to say of the largest divi sion we believe ever counted out into the lobbies— the clear majority obtained against the Derbyites by a combination the most heterogenous well imaginable, was no more than that ominous nun. ber of Thirteen thus fatally echoed back to Lord DERBY and his colleagues as the numerical symbol of their own Administration. Thirteen was the sum total of the advantage gained over the Conservative party by an union, for onca, of all the long scattered forces of their miscellaneous an tagonists—Radicals, Whigs, Peelites, and so-called Independents. Thirteen, even, then, however, only for the morrow, so to speak, of that memorable night's victory. For—under the glare of the bull's' eye of Election Committee after Election Committee, the minute Majority rapidly dwindled down pretty nearly to no majority at all—almost to a minority. Twelve of the thirteen faded out altogether. - And by the close of the session the solitary survivor—actually but ONE—like the last rose of summer, was left blooming alone ! Parlia ment dispersed in August with a perfect knowledge of that fact. It will re-assemble in February still with parties almost in a state of equilibrium there in that lower branch of the Legislature. Ministers will do well, therefore, if they prepare themselves at once for the coming struggle—remembering that, as they showed no mercy whatever to their. opponents, so the latter will assuredly show no mercy to them - whenever they discover a fitting opportunity to retaliate. The Coalition, moreover, has all the more reason to prepare be times against the chances of discomfiture, the recess having multiplied around them all kinds of diffi culties, home and foreign, fiscal and financial, diplomatic and administrative. Simultaneously with the social disturbances re sulting near at home amongst ourselves in one direction from the Strike, and in another, from the Revivals—how many anxieties hav e sprung into existence recently, north, south, east, west, in either hemisphere ? The question is easier asked than answered. The difficulties in all directions are so many and so various, that they arc not very readily in truth to be enumerated. The chief among them were happily indicated a week or so back by that wicked satirist the artist whose pencil of caustic drew in Punch the cartoon depicting " BLONDIN Outdone" —the Premier trundling the Foreign Secretary along that rope of sand, the Palmerstonian Policy, over an abyss in its way as formidable (as the scene of such perilous exploits) as the Falls of Niagara —an b abyss rendered appalling by the descent together, en masse, of the Chinese Difficulty, the Reform Difficulty, the American Difficulty, the Indian Difficulty, and so forth, in deafening, blinding, bewildering perspective ! Yet all those difficulties must be met somehow by Lord P.IL3IERSTON arid Lord JOHN and their fourteen colleagues of the Coalition—and met, too, in the face of that most formidable, because numerically powerful and per- fectly organised, Opposition. The Italian question involves our relations im mediately with Sardinia and the Two Sicilies, mediately with France and Austria, directly or indirectly with all the States of the Germanic Con federation, wit h all _ the Powers, large or small, Catholic or Protestant, of entire i-_,llristendom. Our re solute adoption hitherto of the prinC_of ; the t ra lity does not preclude us from a cce p t. _ ?le Neu privileges, does not exonerate us from assumn.,l7 the responsibilities of Arbitration with a view to the better securing of the political liberties, the union, and the independence of the Roman Penin sula. There is that anxious source of disquietude, moreover,-upon the frontiers of Morocco, where, again, as mediators, we might debar France and Spain from the fancied necessity of lighting anew the conflagration of war in Northern Africa. The renewal of war has unhappily become a necessity upon the coast of China, whither the Western Powers are preparing to despatch with all convenient haste armaments proportioned in every way to the greatness of the outrage to be expiated, to the grandeur of the prestige to be re stored, and to the vastness of the empire to be in vaded. There is that other outrage no less flagrant of its kind, but happily as yet bloodless, the seizure of San Juan by the United States' soldiery—neces sitating the settlement at lait, summarily and defi nitively of the long-vexed question, there, as to the validity of the rival (British and American) claims of the rights of sovereignty. A perfectly new phase has of late been evolved in what is popu larly known as the Eastern Question, the relative position of the Eastern races, particularly of the Turks and the Russians—by two startling events, occurring almost simultaneously—the cap ture of the Caucasian Imaum, SCHAMYL, by the Muscovite General, Prince BARIATINSICI, and the opportune discovery, upon the very eve of its ex plosion, of a deadly conspiracy against the life of the Sultan-Caliph, ABD-UL-MEDJID. This new phase will have to be scanned all the more cauti ously now that Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE has withdrawn from his twenty or thirty years' tenure of the post of honour as the Britannic SOVEREIGN'S Ambassador at Constantinople. For tunately, however, we have at this juncture accre dited there to the Sublime Porte as her MAJESTY'S representative about the next best man in the whole range of our diplomatic service—Sir HENRY LYTTON BUIAVER—one of the most astute and ex perienced among all`living masters of the higher science and profounder arts of diplomacy. Alto gether—the more closely we scrutinise the Situa tion, whether it be at home or abroad, whether it be in regard to Reform, or in regard to our Foreign Policy, the Minister who unquestionably assumes at this moment the prominent position in this Coalition Cabinet of Sixteen—A 1, among all those sixteen before England and before Europe is— not the First Lord of the Treasury, but one of the Five Secretaries of State, the virtual Premier — Lord JOHN RUSSELL. To Lord JOHN the country looks at this crisis—foreign nations look—far more than to Lord PALMERSTON. The fact is unde niable. Here is Lord JoHN's vengeance. In the recognition by his overshadowed rival of the com pleteness of that unostentatious but supreme ven geance lies the germ of disruption to the Coalition Government. How long the Sixteen can be held together in spite of inevitable and rankling jealousies remains still purely, of course, matter of conjecture. Yet must that Happy Family meet at intervals —it is the frightful necessity of their position— all their mortal repngnances to the contrary, not withstanding ! And these are the - sympathetic judgments that have to harmonise upon all sorts of delicate themes with an eye all the while to the on-coming of that inevitable session when they will find themselves again confronted b:7 the solid phalanx of an admirably disciplined Opposition, led on by the wiliest and, upon occasions, the most daring of all Parliamentary tacticians ! Lord BROUGHAM has told us, as the result of an octogenarian's experience, that " if everything at elections remains on its present footing—if election contests can only be carried on at a cost ruinous to all but the most wealthy—if no means are afforded to securing condign punishment to the practisers of corruption, and the only risk incurred is the loss of a seat—the existing evils must continue to eat into the vitals of our constitution—to render what is, in mockery, called free election, a mere farce—to make the House of Commons, only by accident, the choice of the people—to convert the electicn of its members into the means of subvert ing the independence and destroying the morals of their constituents—and to raise a grave doubt whether the country would not be injured by an extension of the franchise, if it did not beget a fur ther doubt about the benefit of the franchise as already enjoyed." Weighty words these. Yet, each sentence in them is but incontrovertible truth. The investiga tions at Gloucester are but the illustration, by no torious facts, of both the conditions and the conse quences of Lord BROUGHAM'S long proposition. There we have a city, a Cathedral City, an old city, a city of a magnitude fairly to share in the repre sentation of the country, a city which no Reformer would propose to disfranchise,—yet, even there, every word of Lord BROUGHAM applies. It is just " things at elections remaining as they are " that would make it far better that Gloucester should be disfranchised !—Batter for the morality of its inha bitants, rich and poor; better for the morality of Sir W. HATTER himself, and of the candidates who sought the doubtful honour of representing the length of their own purses and the venality of the citizens ; better for the "free and independent" electors, who would certainly be more free if they did not possess the freedom of the old city so steeped in corruption. Hero we have a city whose election in 1818, cost £4o,ooo—Sir M. BERKELEY confessing to £16,000; and which, even since the Reform Act, has been regaining its viciousness at a rate which promises to ruin all political morality whatever. One solicitor gave it as his opinion that there were not ten electors who were not more or less corrupt ;—and that if they did not receive money bribes, they obeyed some other unworthy influence. The statement was indignantly contra- - dieted by Mr. PRICE, the late member; but from all that followed, it seems very like the truth. Another most competent witness showed that the direct bribery had gone on increasing at such a rate that the first 150 who took bribes would soon be swelled to 800, or about half the constituency ; an assertion no one thought of disputing ! When we find Sir W. HATTER helping to send £5OO in a secret way from London (secrecy for • anything but voting), Sir W. CARDEN spending also in 1857 not less than £4,lls—and this year, when all is put to gether probably not much less ; the Liberals also, spending similar sums, yet all parties except the " Captains" and one or two more who actually dis bursed the money, not knowing anything about bribery, and almost assuring us that they had no reason, to suspect anything—when we find men of education and position, men of shrewd business habits too, paying and forwarding large sums of TflE ;SUN, LONDON 3 SATURDAY EVENING,_ OCTOBER 15, 1859 money with such Tirgi-a innocence, to a notoriously corrupt old city, we II ally cease to wonder at any thing. We We imagine, however, that not one of those gentlemen would have faced the de claration pre used by Lord BROUGHAM and Sir JOHN P A:KINGTON. Our virtuous House of Commons resolved, however, that its doors should present no terrors to the briber. Against Jews it long closed them, but our pious SPOONERS and NEWDEGATES had no such horror of Christians whose religion lay in demoralising their fellow men by hundreds. The evidence taken at Gloucester contains hardly the usual amount of ludicrous revelations, thou:h one can but regret to use the word ludi crous in 1 .. . 1 Terence to what ought to excite mere disgust. .The tricks and dodges by which corrup tion endeavours to keep on the safe side of law will, clause even vice to provoke a smile. There "medicine" for which THOMPSON, s the however, known at Gloucester' as THORNTON, telegraphed to London ; the select family of COOPEYS, numbering 12 or 14, who always voted together, and to whom some bribers Would rather give £2OO than lose them ; the "sweetening' offered to a man taking his tea; money offered to the wife to become the EVE to her ADAM; playing a game at skittles with the briber that the money might be received for a bet, not for a vote; political preference enough, re maining, to vote for £B, for a Whig, though £lO might be got for voting for a Tory; and many other funny scintillations from the dark mass of the evidence. But looking at it as a whole, it is not merely insufferably tedious, but intolerably dis gusting. "I gave so much," and "I took so much'' —is the sum of it : the chief variation being that between wholesale and retail transactions. Glou cester, like Norwich, Berwick, Wakefield, &c., is but an electoral brothel. There were the greater delinquents—the impenitent Magdalens—con fess ing to sending £lOO, £2OO, £5OO, £l,OOO, and so forth, at a time, or to accepting those amounts. There were the humbler offenders, owning that they had bribed with a £2 or a £5, or a £lO ; or that they had given to a whole family of COOPEYS an untold sum. To a certain extent all parties were ignorant of what each other did ; but it was the ignorance of corruption. It was convenient, should anything happen, that each should know as little as possible. The impartiality of the actual workers and reci pients was remarkable. Very few would vote a sovereign or two cheaper on one side than the other, and after having received money from one side they very freely took it and voted for the other; pro bably having had the first sum more than doubled by the other party. THOMPSON himself had been ten years in the service of the Conservatives, and seventeen in that of the Liberals—electionening politics being his profession. No Nazareth, however, without some good thing in it. There is a Conservative Club in Gloucester, and the Liberals matched it with a Reform Club, which certainly was needed. The latter adopted the opinion, they say, of the late Mr. COPPOCK, that the Ballot only could put down corruption, and they made it a condition with every candidate that he should vote for the Ballot. This, beyond all doubt, speaks much in favour of the wishes of the Liberals. It shows also that they were confident of a majority without corruption. The world will justly believe that the Tories must have always been the beginners of corruption, when it sees them afraid of. secret voting—of voting which would net give them a receipt for the wages of corruption—while the Liberals wanted no such receipt. On the broad facts of the case, therefore, the verdict must be, that both parties bribed—bribed almost without stint—but that the Tories are the party who are 'afraid to lose the power of bribing, probably, therefore, the party which began it, and which has gained most by it. THORLEY'S FARMER'S ALMANACE FOR 1860. When one attains eminence in any department of science imitators are sure to follow in his train. We have doctors in medicine, philosophy, and other subjects ; but it has been reserved for Mr. Thorley to gain general commendation as a cattle doctor, blending with his peculiar practice the art of agri culture in its most scientific application. Thus we have very valuable hints as to the improvement in the breeding, feeding, and management of live stock, with a variety of information highly essential to the farmer. Mr. Thorley has just published a very compact handy little almanack, embracing a very great variety of very useful matter connected with agri culture, and special reference to food for cattle. It contains besides, farmers' memoranda for each month, steam culture, steam cartage, cattle cookery and veterinary science, chemistry of cattle food—in short, everything requisite or useful so far as science can be applicable to the farmer's wants. It contains, also Agricultural Societies, Fairs, and Markets in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle%f Man. The principal Government and Public Offices, Courts of Law, the Houses of Peers and Commons, with their town residences, also find a place in this modest, interesting, and very cheap handbook for the farmer as well as for the general • man of business. As a specimen of the benefit derived by cattle from using Mr. Thorley's food, we give the follow ing testimony from William Miles, Esq., Dixfield, Exeter, who says : " I have tried it with great success on a little mare I4f hands high, 27 years old, and a perfect "bag of bones." It may be interesting to you if I detail the gradual increase in her weight between February 20 and June 11, on which day I last weighed her : s. On 20th February, she weighed Cwt 5 . qrs 3 . lb o 20th March, t, 17th April, fl 7th May, • )7 11th June, If This experiment has satisfied me of the value of your food in getting horses into condition, because she is not only fat and sleek in her coat, but she is hard, and in good health and spirits." The Prince of Wales, attendel by Colonel the Hon. H. Bruce and Major Teesdale, loft llolyrood yester day morning for London, and arrived at Buckingham Palace at 25 minutes past 10 o'clock last night. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio arrived at the Sardinian Legation yesterday, from Paris, after a tem• porary leave of absence. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, and a select party, are visiting the Earl and Countess of Powis, at Powis Castle, near Welshpool. The Earl and Countess Fortescue and Miss Geale have arrived at Somerville, the noble earl's scat in the county Waterford, from Castle Hill, Devon. The Earl of Westmoreland, we regret to learn, has been labouring under severe indisposition. Owing to the illness of his lordship he was unable to attend the late Earl of Jersey's funeral. Viscount and Viscountess Combermere have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Combermere Abbey. The field-marshal is prevented meeting her Majesty at Chester, by a cold, which confines him to the house. Lord John Russell, accompanied by Lady Johr. Russell and family, arrived in town yesterday, from Aber geldie Castle, N.B. Lord and Lady Kinnaird have returned to Rossio Priory, Perthshire, from visiting Lord and Lady Aber et omby, at their seat near Stirling. Mr. Campbell Wyndham has arrived at the St. George's Hotel from Newmarket. The mail brought by the Indus was a very heavy one. It consisted of 240 bags and 17 boxes of letters and newspapers. The number of letters was about 130,000. SIR G. GREY.—A meeting was held yesterday of merchants and other connected with the Cape of Good Rope, to receive the address to Sir George Grey, as pre pared by the committee recently appointed, Mr. J. It. Thomson in the chair. The address refers to the great services rendered by Sir George Grey to the colony, and expresses a hope that his recall from the governorship will be rescinded. After some remarks by one or two speakers, the address was adopted. It now lies for signature at the offices of the Capo Town Railway and Dock Company. The chairman intimated that, as they had no positive information that Sir George is to resume his post, a deputa tfon will wait upon the Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Newcastle, with the address. LATEST NEW 6. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MARSEILLES, OCT. 14. Advices have been received from Rome to the 11th inst. The Sardinian Ambassador, M. de Minerva, had left on Sunday, passing through a dense crowd, which remained silent, but exchanged with him repeated salutations. French and Pon tifical gendarmes were placed on his line of road. The Duke dc Grammont had been received by the Pope in a private audience, which lasted an hour and a half. He also dined with the Pope and Car dinal Antonelli on Sunday. His Holiness leaves on Thursday for Porto Anzio. VIENNA, OCT. 14. An official notice has been given that the reserve military corps which had been drawn for service during the war will be dismissed, and that the tax exempting civilians from military duty will be re imposed. PARMA, OCT. 13. The National Guard and all classes of the towns people are signing an address of thanks and adhe sion to the Dictator Farini, for the energetic mea sures he has recently taken. The conscription has ended very well, only two cases of non•compliance having occurred, and those in the province of Piacenza. FLORENCE, OCT. 11. The Grand Duke has written to his partisans to abstain from every attempt in favour of the re establishment of his dynasty. The Provisional Governmenthas diminished the tax en salt. A letter from Berlin says :—" Ail the Ministers have returned to Berlin except Prince llohenzol lern and the Minister of War, and Cabinet Coun cils are held daily. It is rumoured that a modifi cation of the Ministry is not improbable, as the Cabinet is not unanimous respecting certain bills to be brought before the Chambers next session. The Minister of War will return with the Prince Re gent." inquire the reason why the coasts of the province 1 were blockaded, and of course received an answer which fully enlightened him on that subject. The French squadron has to regret the death of M. Bary, a naval cadet, who had been severely wounded at Peiho. This young man was much beloved by his comrades and esteemed by his supe riors. He died without knowing that the Empe ror on learning his brave conduct had made him a knght of the Legion of Honour. M, de Bourboulon, the French Minister in China, had not returned to Macao ; he remained at Shanghai, to be nearer the centre of events. The town was tranquil and busi ness had not been interrupted. The fermentation which had appeared during some few days had gradually calmed down. A slight disturbance had occurred at Voosung, but that incident, which was occasioned by the complaint of several Chinese sailors employed on board some vessels in the opium trade, had nothing to do with politics, being simply a question of wages." BOURSE, Oct. 14.—The market has somewhat rallied to-clay. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 30c., improed to 69f. 55c". Mobilier varied from 780 f. to 795 f. ; Austrian, 542 f. 50c. to 546 f. 25c. ; Lombard, 547 f. 50c. to 552 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,350 f. to 1,360 f.; Lyons, 897 f. 50e. to 905 E; Northern, 927 f. 50c. to 932 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 667 f. 50e. to 672 f. 50e.; Southern, 510 f. to 512 f. 50e. The following were the last quotations : 41 per Cents..... 05 25 Credit Foucier 600 Do. end month .. ——l Belgian 41 . — 3 per CeTits. 69 55 i Piedmonteso (5) B5 50 Do. end month.... 69 50 Roman B5 Bank Shares 2825 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 790 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 792 50 , Homo Debt 43 THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The Vectis, with the mails from India and China, arrived at Marseilles at 5 p.m. yesterday. The mails left for London at 10 p.m. TRIESTE, OCT. 14. The Austrian Lloyd's steamer, just arrived, brings the following advices CALCUTTA, SEPT. 9. Feroze Shah had made an attack upon the Mundleseer station, in Central India, and effected the release of 700 prisoners. Captain Hawes, the political agent there, was killed on that occasion. HONK •KONG, AUG. 24. The Russian steamer America, having on board M. de Mouravieff and several Engineer officers, had arri'red on the 14th of July at Pehtang, coming from Ilakodadi. Two Engineers proceeded on the 22d of July to Pekin to make preparations for the telegraphic line from that place to the Russian territory. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, SEPT. 9. Imports have declined; exports are moderate; prices unaltered. Freights better. Exchange on London, 2s. 21d. MADRAS, SEPT. • Exchange on London,.2s.:old. to 2s. lid. HONGKONG, AUG. 24. Freights unaltered.. Exchange on London, 4s. 11d. to 4s. 111 d. Canton—Exports have risen. Imports quiet. SHANGHAI, AUG. 16. Silk animated ; tea limited. Exchange on Lon don, 6s. qd. to Gs. '7ld. Freights—For tea, £2 10s. to £3 10s.; for silk, 10.3. to £6. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. Tsays :—" The Court will go Pays otoCnoolpf iehgins eveningll eotelst of November. It is asserted that during the sojourn of the Emperor and the Empress there the Emperor of Austria will pay a visit to their Majesties." The contradiction given to the rumours in cir• culation yesterday has caused the Bourse to open this morning at a considerable recovery. The Parisian journals, supposed to be inspired by Government, quote and confirm the intelligence concerning the early signature of peace and a meet ing of the European Powers in Congress to settle the affairs of Italy. The Patrie says :—" All the difficulties which up to the present time had ren dered that union doubtful appear to have vanished. Those difficulties were serious. In the first place Austria was determined to hold to the Villafranca treaty, and declined any superior jurisdiction. On the other hand, England demanded the previous re• cognition of the rights and voice of the Italian people. The Patrie concludes that concessions on both sides have been made on account of the firm attitude of the Italians of Central Italy, and therefore a Congress has become more than ever a necessity. • The Constitutionnel thus confirms the informa tion you have received :—" Several journals attach credit to rumours which are very inexact relative to the delay in the deliberations at Zurich. As we have had more than one occasion to declare there is every reason to expect that the signing of the defini tive treaty of peace will soon take place. The con tracting Powers are in accord on all the stipulations which are to form the subject of the treaty with the exception of that relating to the Lombard debt, on which there is a difference of opinion ; but everything leads to the hope that this difficulty will be promptly removed. As to the new questions which are not to be regulated by thetreaty,u n i they w w i h l be a l s l u b t h m e i t t g e r d e a t t o r a o C w o e n rsg r a e r s e s ,Thr now also in accord." M. de Bormida, the French Envoy at Turin, has arrived in Paris. no will wait on the Emperor to-morrow. M. do Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador, saw the Emperor to-day, and leaves immediately for Warsaw. Count Walewski received to-day Lord Cowley and the diplomatic corps. The news from Spain shows that the Government •f Madrid is prepared and determined to punish the Moors. The period fixed for coming to an aarangement expires on the 15th (to-morrow), we may therefore conclude hostilities will commence. English and French ships of war are hovering about the Straits of Gibraltar. The Espana has accounts from Tangkrs to the effect that Mr. Drummond Hay, the English Con sul-General, whilst riding in the town a few days before, saw a Moor take aim at him with a gun, but that he rushed on the man, disarmed him, and made him a prisoner; also, that two days be fore this event, the Secretary to the Eaglish Consulate in the same town was fired at, but not hit. The French intelligence from China comes down to the 10th Aug. In addition to the news already published, the following facts are mentioned:— " Rear-Admiral Page, appointed to the command of the Indo-Chinese naval division, in place of Vice-Admiral Itigault de Genouilly, whose time of service has expired, arrived at Hong Kong by the last steamer, cominz, from Europe via Suez. After the attack on the forts at Taku, the commanders of the allied forces blockaded the two arms of the Peiho, and captured several Chinese junks. This measure produced a great effect on the population along the coast, for the traffic of the Peiho is very active. The Governor of Petcheli, under those cir cumstances, had recourse to a singular step, which shows the duplicity of the Chinese. He sent to RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 925 .. 930 New ditto B2O 820 Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50 .. 905 Geneva 530 .. 530 Southern Western 560 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian 4lO 410 Austrian - Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. ; money, 25f 11c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 2#1.95c. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, dated Oct. 12, says the subjoined brief, but most important, communication has just been made to the public by the Finance Department : The last instalment of the voluntary (National) Loan made in the year 1854 having, with the exception of some few subscriptions, been paid on Aug. 24, it appears that the total amount of obligations issued by the State during the last few - years on account of the debt in question is 611,571,3001, of which sum 26,492,1001 have been paid over to the Sinking Fund. Thus the sum for which obli gations are now in circulation is 585,079,2001, with which the voluntary loan of the year 1854 is definitively closed. As the Imperial Patent of 1864 only empowered the Finance Department to raise 500,000,000f1. by means of a national subscription, the foregoing communition has produced an exceedingly bad im pression on the public, which asks how it is possible to have confidence in a Government " which keeps faith with nobody." The Dutch and other, foreign capitalists, supposing that the total amount of the national loan was 500,000,0001, bought largely, and their debtor now coolly informs them that he has raised no less than 111,500,000f1. more than he was authorised to do. The real value of the stock is the same, but its nominal value is likely to be materially diminished by the inexcusable conduct of the Government. As the foreign capitalists who have advan2ed money to Austria since the year 1854 have done so ou the supposition that the exact amount of the national loan was 500,000,000f1., it stands to reason that their confidence in the sinc:rity, if not in the probity, of their debtor, must be shaken. The Presse makes the following observations on a sub ject which may possibly create almost as great a sensation abroad as it has done here : "The information just received has greatly surprised us. It was known that Government had not insisted on the payment of some of the subscriptions to the loan, and we therefore believe that the sum really raised was much below 500,006,000f1. We did not for a moment suppose that a largo sum has been received by Government, as it was expressly said, in the Imperial Patent of June 26th, 1854, that the 'highest amount' (Maximal-Betrag) of the loan was- to be 500,000,0001 In a Ministerial Itescript of September 15th, 18.54, it was stated, 'on the au thority of the final reports from the provinces,' that the sum subscribed was 506,788,4771 The statement that 611,571,3001 were raised is the more remarkable, as the subscriptions to the Loan ceased on the 31st August, 1854, and their result was made known to the public within a fort night from that day. There is some mystery, which the Oesterreichische Zeitung (the organ of the Finance Depart ment) has not attempted to clear up, although it foresees that 'many questions will be asked, many r njecturesin dulged in, and many biting remarks m ade. " It is possible that the State balance-sheet—an analysis of which was forwarded yaterday—is cot rect, but the Vienna financiers appear to have very little faith in it. The assurance has to-day been given me that Baron Bruck is not in immediate want of money, as he has a large supply of " Grun• dentlastungs-Obligationen" (bonds issued when the soil was emancipated) in hand, but still it is certain that Government is in great pecuniary difficulties. The National Bank, its principal creditor, is said to. be importunate, but the committee has not the courage openly to oppose Baron Bruck, who, in his way, is as absolute and arbitrary as was the late Emperor Nicholas. Formerly he prohibited all un favourable mention by the press of his own measures and of the doings of his pet establishments; but the present Minister of Police has done away with the preventive system which, in defiance of the press law, had gradually been introduced by the late Cabinet. About ten days since it was said in my correspondence that Baron Hubner had "tabooed" certain subjects, but the statement was not quite correct. It was simply hinted to the representa tives of the Vienna press that it might be well to avoid certain subjects and to touch on others very lightly. DEATH OF MR. FLETCHER NORTON.—We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Fletcher Cavendish Charles Conyers Norton, attache to the Embassy, at English at Paris, eldest son of the Hon. George C. and Mrs. Norton, who died at his lodgings, in Paris, on Thursday night. Mr. Norton entered the diplomatic service in December, 1847, as attachtl to the Legation at Lisbon. He was afterwards attached to the Legations of Naples and Brussels, and in August, 1854, was appointed second paid attachil at Paris. The deceased gentleman had been for some months past in a very weak state of health. He had just attained his 30th year, having been born the 10th of July , 1829. RELICS OF SIR JOHN FRANLIN'S EXPEDITION. Arrangements will shortly be made for the admission of. the 'fiublie to view the relics brought homo by Captain M'Clintock, at the Museum of the United Service Institu tion,:under such restrictions only as may be required for the protection of the various objects in the museum. ADDITION TO THE NAVY.—We alluded a few weeks since to the fact that a very important addition was being made to the British navy, in the form of a fleet of gunboats, of larger tonnage than those at present in the service and we are now enabled to give some: details with reference to this important class of vessels:Which are no doubt destined to do good service in the: event of any future war occurring. These gunborts .age eighteen in number, and of two classes, the one of 595 tons burthen and the other of 425 tons. The firms Co whom these boats have been entrusted are Messrs. IVigram and Co., and Green and Co., of Black wall ; J. Scott Russell and Co., and Mr. Pitcher, of Northfleet ; Mr. T. Mare, of Millwall ; White, of Cowes; Messrs. Miller, of Liverpool; and Mr. Lungley, of Deptford. The following are the Names of the 14 vessels building in the port of London, including one which Mr. Wigram is building at Northam yard, South ampton. Three of the vessels, it will be seen, are to'replace those sunk by the fire of the Chinese at the forts of Peiho. Building at Blackwall—ee, Plover, and Perch, each of 425 tons ; Racehorse and Cormorant, of 695 tons. At Deptford—Mullet, 425 tons. At Millwall—Snipe, Spar row, and Dart, each of 425 tons ; Eclipse, Lily, Star, and Serpent, each of 695 tons. At Southampton—The Cygnet, of 425 tons. Of the remaining gunboats, two, the Pelican and Steady, of 425 tons each, are build ing at Liverpool, one at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and one at Northileet. The boats are considerably advanced in frame, and but for the difficulty experienced by all the builders in obtaining* seasoned crooked timber, would have been ready for planking by this time. They are all, how ever, according to the terms of the contract, to be completed in the spring of 1860.—Steune 'Shipping Chronicle. TiE GREAT EASTERN.—A telegram from Mr. 11. Berkeley, M.P., ono of the directors of the Great Ship Com pany, was received on Thursday evenin,r , by M r . William Patterson, of Br istol, the builderui the Great Western, Great Britain , Ro y al Charter, and other celebrated ocean steamers, gentleman to visit Holyhead e requestings urv ey the Great Ea stern. It is presumed that Mr. P t d torson's inspect ion will be made in conjunctionwith the a represen t a tives of the Board of Trade. Mr. Patterson left Bristol for Holyhead yesterday afternoon. POST-OFFICE CLOTHING.—The authorities at the medical adviser to givenunderstand, to G enera l Post-office, acting, as we are upon the suggesti ons of Dr. Lewis,the that department , have come to the determination of granting in future to the letter carriers, &c., two coats instead of one as heretofore; ono of a light description, to be worn during the summer months, and the other of a heavier material, for winter. THE QUEEN AT LOOl-1 GLASGOW, FRIDAY NIGHT. The Queen, Prince Consort, and Princesses Alice and Helena left Edinburgh at 10 this morning to visit the Trossachs and Loch Katrine, and open the new Glasgow Waterworks. The day was dull, with frequent rain, and the beautiful scen er y o f th e dis trict was half enveloped in the mountain mists, but the Royal party nevertheless seemed greatly to enjoy the visit. The ceremony of opening the aqueduct which is to convey the water of Loch Katrine to Glasgow, a distance of 37 miles, passed off well in presence of a large concourse. Her Majesty reached the tunnel upon the Loch a little after two o'clock. She was accompanied by the Duke of Newcastle, and was received by the Lord Provost and magistrates of Glasgow, the Dukes of Montrose and Atholl, the Earl of Mansfield, &c. The Secretary to the Water Commission read an address from the Corporation, to which the Queen made the following reply : " I accept with great satisfaction your loyal and affectionate address, and thank you sincerely for the expression of your attachment to my throne and person, and for the cordial welcome with which you have received me. "It is with much gratification that I avail my self of this opportunity of inaugurating a work which, both in its conception and its execution, re flects so much credit upon its promoters, and is calculated to improve tho health and comfort of the vast population which is rapidly 'increasing round the great centre of manufacturing industry in Scotland. Such a work is worthy of the spirit of enterprise and the philanthropy of Glasgow, and I trust that it will be blessed with com plete success. I desire that you will convey to the great community which you represent my ear nest wishes for their continual prosperity and hap piness." It rained very fiercely except during the per formance of the ceremony. Her Majesty returned to Tlolyrood about seven &clock. Glasgow has hitherto 'drawn the greater portion of its supply of water from the river Clyde, the purity of which, never very remarkable, has lat terly become worse from being impregnated with the drainage of a large mining population resident upon its upper banks. The serious consequences resulting from the use of impure water by the inha bitants were peculiarly perceptible in 1848 during the prevalence of the cholera epidemic. At that time it was remarked that the southern quarter of the city, which had recently derived a supply of pure water from the Brockburn stream, seven miles south of Glasgow, was much less affected by the disease than those quarters supplied by the Clyde ; and the cause of this was clearly shown by eminent medical authorities to be attributable to the supe rior quality of the water used by its inhabitants. This and other circumstances led the Corporation of Glasgow to take up the matter, and after some years' active perseverance, during which two or three Parliamentary contests were fought, a •bill authorising the formation of the works now com pleted received the assent of the Legislature. It was in the year 1806 that the original Clyde Water Company was established. They drew their supply from the river at Dalmarnock, about two miles and a-half distant from the city, where engines were erected to raise the water to the necessary level. This was the only source of supply up to 1847, when a new company undertook to convey water from the Brockburn, a stream which had sufficient elevation to dispense with the necessity of artificial raising power, to Gorbals, the southern suburb of Glasgow. This project was eminently successful; but coMplaints of the impurity of the water sup plied to three-fourths of the city still continuing, the Clyde Company, stirred into action by the fear of competition, went to Parliament with a proposal to bring water into the city from Loch Lubnaig. Their project was professionally recommended by . Mr. Rendell, of London, and Mr. Leslie, of Edin burgh, both of whom gave'engineering evidence in its favour. The act was obtained, but from some cause or other the works were not proceeded with. The question was again revived in 1852, when the Gorbals Company put forward a project for the supply of the whole city from the Brockburn source. This brought the Clyde Company into renewed ac tivity, and the Loch Lubnaig project was revived, and a new bill preferred in place of the former act, the powers of which had been allowed to expire. The municipal authorities of Glasgow now thought it time to interfere and prevent so impor tant a matter as the supply of water to their densely-populated city being subject to the incon veniences arising from private squabbles between competing companies. With this view, having first consulted Mr. J. F. Bateman, an eminent engineer, well acquainted with the requirements of his native city, they determined to oppose f i . t a l o e sr olu,or the Loth Lubnaig project, and origi o n e a h te K conveyance of water from L of supply which they contended had many advan tages over Loch Lubnaig bill having been successfully The Clyd e C ompany ' s opposed, Mr. Bate man was instructed to co m pl e t e his sur:eys.for the Lo h c i h ll Katrine project; and the this having been done, aCouncil of Glas gow in the session of 1853.4 for carrying out the undertaking. The promotersthe were however, met by a fierce oppositi on from Board of Admiralty, who contended that, by withdrawing the large quantity of water proposed from Loch Katrine, the navigation of the Forth would be injured, and especially the well-known anchorage at St. Mar garet's Hope. This opposition deeated the bill, but the bellies of Glasgow were not disheartened, and, with full confidence in Mr. Bateman's calcula tions, they reqUested the two lamented engineers whose deaths have caused universal regret—Mr. Brunel and Mr. Robert Stephenson—to examine the localities and report upon the scheme. Those eminent men went over the ground early in 1855, and made a joint report, in which they gave the great weight of their united testimony in favour of the Loch Katrine scheme, after careful compari son with various other projects put forward with the same end in view. The opposition of the Admiralty was shown to be absurd, and, armed with this report, the bill was reintroduced into Par liament, and this time carried, though not without much difficulty. One of its provisions obliged the Corporation of Glasgow to purchase the vested interest which the proprietors of the Clyde Com pany - held, estimated at nearly half-a-million of of s the e f n has w e bmeoenneyre.qu'ilr'heids amount,flaorrgdeefrayingh t as e works has been borrowed on the securit y of an un wcoesllt a W limited rate upon the houses and property within the city. The undertaking is specially distinguished by an d beauty of the Highland l t a h k e es gre f a r t extentornw hich the water is brought— the excessive purity of the supply—the difficult and rugged character of the monntainous country through which the works for its conveyance have been constructed —and the large volume of water, no less than 50,000,000 gallons per day, which is obtained. The lakes appropriated to the purposes of the waterworks, and for the supply of the mill owners, fisheries, ane other interests on the rivers from which water will be abstracted, are Loch Katrine, eight or nine miles in length, with a sur face of 3,000 acres; Loch Venacher, four mil es i n length, with an area of 900 acres; and Loch Drunkie, with an area of about 150 acres ; having altogether a water surface of upwards of 4,000 acres, and containing within the limits to which they may be raised or lowered about 1 ,600,000,000 cubic feet of water. The drainage area of Loch Katrine is 22,800 acres, and of Loch Venacher and which Loch Drunkie 23,000 acres, maki ng a total 45,800 acres. On this the average falilitoftwi rain of is between 70 and 80 inches per ann um . falls on the collecting ground of Loch Knatr in i Katrine about 80 inches on the average of five years' obser vations. If all the water which flows from the rugged mountain sides into Loch Katrine were s im op p p o l u y nd o e f d B , o,o it oo, w oo ou o ld er afford 9o,ooo o a regular daily isitepdrovisideednbar gallons. The ' the ° works which sqlvithto 50,000,000 gal lons t a o v r e a g h e e l e v n h iecxhe executed the water by lout rain. It is ob tained masonry and tthe outlet four feet lons per day for 120 day sluice-gates it down, if ne cessary,iat level, above the ordi to 3 feet below that ordi nary summer level, and by drawing depth in all. In like mann • t giving 7 feet in for compensation to the • manner e . requisite storage river Tothwhich of a regular guaranteed qu • , consists tained by raising Loch VeannatilitY per day, is ob i above its ordinary summer level,es feet 8 inches down 6 feet, giving 11 feet 8 inches and drawing it raising Loch Drunkie 20 feet. in all and by outlets of the lakes are inter•st. The works at the Provision is made for the dischargeing and important. as for the daily regulated supply, of floods as well the passage of salmon and other and for securing constructed " salmon ladders." fish by properly 360 feet above the tid e at Glasg ow Loch K a t r i ne is which allows for th e l oss, of fall an elevati on of the water, and s till secures a In the conveyance 80 feet above the hi g h est sum ' pressure of 70 or cult of land the city. The aqueduct from within Glasgow is about 34 miles in 1 Loch Katrine to I which consist of ridges of reek of efilgth, 10 or 11 of de scription, forming the spurs of Bo the hardest towers to 3,000 feet above the levele Lomond, which Through these ridges, in a tolerably of the works. tion, the aqueduct is carried • straight three. neling, the tunnels being feeteight tprincipally by tun and having a fall of ten inches in in diameter, the mile. three deep and wide valleys the Across by cast-iron pipes four feet. water is. conveyed in diameter, with a f a ll of five feet per mile, d at the dist ance an of about 26 " miles from Loch Katrine, near Mugdock Castle, a largo reservoir of about 70 acres in ex tent, and containing 500,000,000 gallons of water, has been constructed. From this reservoir, the surface of which is 311 feet above the sea, the water is taken to the city by two lines of cast-iron pipes, each 3 f e et in diameter, one being about 7, and the other 8 miles in length. Of the 26 miles which lie between Loch Katrine and the service reservoir, 13 miles are tunnelling, 31 miles are iron piping, and the remainder, where the ground has been cut open, is an arched aque duct of eight feet in diameter, having the same in clination as the tunnels. Where the ground has been excavated it is filled in again over the aque duct, which is covered throughout, and the surface restored to its original condition. There are in the whole work 70 distinct tunnels, upon which 44 ver tical shafts have been sunk for facilitating and ex pediting the completion of the work. The first tunnel commences immediately upon the aqueduct leaving Loch Katrine. It is 2,325 yards in length, GOO feet below the summit of the hill, and has been worked in addition to the open ends by 12 shafts, five of whic'l are nearly 500 feet deep. This tun nel is in gneiss and mica slate. The last tunnel is at the southern extremity of the aqueduct, just before it enters the service reservoir. It is 2,650 yards in length, almost wholly through whinstone, at a depth of 250 feet below the summit of the hill. Besides these, which are the two longest tunnels, there are, at intermediate places, others of 700, 800, 1,100, and 1,400 yards in length. The rock tun nelled through was in most parts of the most ob durate description. For several miles along the side of Loch Chon, where the work passed through a succession of ridges of mica slate largely mixed with quartz veins, the progress did not exceed three lineal yards in a month, although the work was carried on day and night. In the Loch Katrine tunnel, and generally in the mica slate, the ordinary average pro gress was about five yards in a month. In drilling the holes for blasting the rock with gunpowder, a fresh drill or chisel was required for every inch in depth upon the average. About 60 drills were constantly in use at each face, and the cost of gunpowder alone was from 275. to 30s. per lineal yard. The charac ter of the rock, however (as had been clearly fore seen when the work was determined upon), was such that no water occurred in any of the tunnels or workings so long as they were in the mica slate and clay slate, and there was therefore none of the inconvenience, delay, and cost frtm the presence of water which usually attend extensive tunnelling. When the works left the slate rocks and entered the old red sandstone, tunnelling was avoided as much as possible from lea: of water ; but even in this formation it was met with in much less quantity than it had been anticipated. Not to speak of smaller constructions, there are 25 important iron and masonry aqueducts over rivers and ravines, some 60 and 80 feet in height, with arches of 30 feet, 50 and 90 feet in span ; and in addition to about 46 miles of new pipes within the city for distributing the water to the inhabitants, there are about 20 miles of large cast-iron pipes of three feet, three feet six inches, and four feet in diameter for conveying the water to the city. The number of people employed, exclusive of iron founders and mechanics, has generally been about 3,00 a • and for the greate r p ar t o f th ese huts and roads and all other accommodation had to be provided—the country for the most part being of the wildest and most inaccessible description. The accuracy with which the works have been executed is most creditable to the resident engineers and inspectors, among whom should especially be mentioned Mr. George H. Hill, Mr. James Gale, and Mr. Alfred Moore. The difference between the levels taken for Parliamentary purposes and those subsequently taken when the works were set out for construction, was only 1-50th part of a foot, or about of an inch in the 26 miles between Loch Katrine and the Mugdock Reservoir ; and so truly have the tunnels been driven, that the junctions can only be distinguished by the different directions of the drill holes. The works have been completed for the conveyance of water to the city within three years and a half of the time they were first com menced, and within the time originally contem plated, and at a total engineering cost of about £630,000, being about 10 per cent. beyond the Parliamentary estimate, after allowing for addi tional works. TDB QUEEN'S RETURN FROM BALMORAL. _ On Thursday, at 9 a.m., the Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales; Prince Arthur, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, left Balmoral for the South. The attend ants on the Royal family included Lady Churchill, the Hon. Emily Hope, Major-General Grey, Col. Ponsonby, Col. Bruce, and Major Teesdale. The Duke of Newcastle accompanied her Majesty as Se cretary of State in attendance. The weather was most auspicious and promising, and continued beau tiful the whole day. The Royal party posted to trainßan c 1 b na e r i y, n g a nd d i .a w thence nby wo proceede dengines, b g y a railway,gaily h decorated.te Aberdeen was reachea at 1 o'clock, and Stonehaven, where lunch was provined at the station, at 1 35. After a stoppage of half an hour the Royal party resumed their journey, and arrived at Perth' at 45, and at Edinburgh punctually at the hour fixed in the programme, 6 24. At Aberdeen, Stonehaven, Perth,gtirling, and other points on th e routeguar d s of honour from the depot battalion at Aberdeen and Glasgow awaited her Majesty, and the platforms were thronged with the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood and the local magistrates. Although the shades of evening were rapidly deepening be fore her Majesty's arrival at Edinburgh the attend ance of the inhabitants was almost as large as on any former occasion. The route from St.-Marga ret's Station to Holyrood Palace, nearly a mile in length, was lined by thlachments of the 13th Light Dragoons, the Royal Artillery, and the West York Rifles, backed the whole way and on both aides of the road by a pretty broad margin of eager spec tators. Among . the noblemen and gentlemen awaiting her Majesty at the station were the Duke of Buccleuch, Viscount Melville, commanding the Forces in North Britain, with Staff officers Colonel M'Cleverty and Captain Jones, A.D.C. ; Captain D'Eyncourt, of her Majesty's ship Edinburgh; the Sheriff of Mid-Lothian, the Lord Provost of Edin burgh, Colonel Pitzmeyer, It.A., the Directors of the North British Railway, &c.. On the stoppage of the train. her Majesty and the Prince Consort stepped out of the Royal carriage, and after a cordial greeting to Lord Melville and the Duke of Buccleuch, ascended the staircase, fol lowed immediately. by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, and the junior m em b ers o f th e R oya l dea by Family. Her Majesty, as w e ll as a ll t h e mem b ers of the R oya l F amily, appeared, so far as could be fudged a passing glance, to be in excellent health and spirits ; and the Queen and the Princess Alice wore shawls of Royal Stuart tartan. The baud of the 13th Light Dragoons struck up the Queen's Anthem as the Royal Family entered a number of close carriages and drove through the park to Holy rood, while a Royal salute boomed from the Castle guns. A guard of honour of the West York Rifles Was mounted in front of the palace, and presented arms as her Majesty approached, while the Royal Anthem was played by the band of the same regi ment. The constables of the Abbey of Holyrood and the Society of High Constables of Edinburgh were drawn up at the entrance, where her Majesty was again received by the Duke of Buccleuch, Vis count Melville, the Sheriff, the Lord Provost, Col. M'Cleverty, Capt. Jones, &e., who had preceded the Royal cortege, and by Mr. Rutherford, deputy keeper of Holyrood, Mr. Matheson, of her Majesty's Works ; Mr. W. B.• Hay, Bailie .af Holyrood, &c. The Royal dinner party was, we believe, confined to the Royal Family, with members of her Majesty's suite and those of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort left Edin burgh yesterday morning at 10 o'clock for Loch Latrine, where her Majesty will formally open the waterworks constructed there by the corporation of Glasgow. Her Majesty will return to Edinburgh at 6 p.m. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at tended by Major Teesdale and his suite, left at the same hour (10 o'clock) fur Buckingham Palace by the North British Railway express train. This (Saturday) morning, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family are to take their departure from St. Margaret's Station for the south, at nine o'clock. The military, in addition to the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Regiment, will be drawn up in the park, under the command of Major Davidson, and will present arms on the approach of the Royal cortege. The Royal train, on leaving St. Margaret's, will proceed to the Hayniarket Station of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and thence along the re cently opened junction line, connecting the Edin burgh and Glasgow with the Caledonian Railway, by which it will proceed to Carlisle en route for Penrhyn Castle, where her Majesty will remain till Monday. NEWSTEAD ABBEY AND ESTATE.--it is reported that the venerable and classic pile at Newstcad, the resi dence of the late Colonel-Wild man , together with the estate, e xceeding 3,000 acres i n extent, shortly be brought to the hammer in one lot. The late lamented owner of New stead Purchased the estate in 1818 for D-1,000, and since then very large sums of money have been expended in improving it, so that independent of the great increase which has taken place in the value of landed property during the last few years, there is every reason to expect that it will fetch a very long price. The connection of Lord Byron with this char ming rural retreat, will also, no doubt, act as an additional attraction to purchasers, and cause the biddings to be of the mos t spirited character. It is said that the late Col. Wildman has left the whole of his real and personal property to his widow for life, with remainder to his brothers,—Xottingliam Journal,