The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-06 00:00:00

-Ia OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATIIE Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be THE MERCH A NT resented OF VENI C Shaksp E. ere's Play of Shylock, Mr. C. Kean—Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE Under the Management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. Perea Nena. With LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. And THE KING'S GARDENER. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, the New Comedy of EXTREMES; or, Ilex of the Day. Supported by Messrs. H. Vandenhoff, Emery, J. Rogers, and Barrett ; Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon. After which the Ballet of THE RENDEZVOUS, in which the Lauri Family will appear. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE . Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND; Mr. Swan• borough, Mrs. Selby, Miss Ternan. After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES. Commence at 7 o'clock. PANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- ‘.../ OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, D'SETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel!, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonehmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tirol', Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay —Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the present month A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con nexion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, Our. 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night 57—this day at noon. BARonETER-30.04. Wnin, W.N.W. ; moderate breeze and fine. THE SUN. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1858. Two very important despatches from Lord. CAN NING have been published under the authority of Lord STANLEY, and will be found in another part of this day's impression. They are peculiarly in teresting documents, constituting the defence by the Governor-General of India of the proclamation which called forth the celebrated despatch from Lord ELLENBOROUGH, which led to the resignation by that noble lord of the office for which he was so well qualified, and to the organised and deter mined onslaught on the Government ; an onslaught which might have produced very untoward results but for the refusal of the indepen dent Liberals to " march through Coventry" with the " thick and thin" adherents of the PAL MERSTON regime—and the timely arrival of the energetic protest of Sir JAMES OUTRAN against the principle on which that .proclamation was founded. That remonstrance--.-eoming from :the person of all others most competent to form a sound and accurate judgment of the probable consequences of the wholesale confiscation clause, placing every landowner throughout the entire district on trial, and visiting him with all the penalties of guilt, until he could establish his innocence to the satis faction of prejudiced and possibly interested judges—was conclusive. He went even further than Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in showingthe dangers and mischief that must inevitably arise from the inauspicious course, and formed thG full and com plete vindication of the Noble Earl, who was made the victim of the attempt of the Whig party to re gain possession of place and power. Lord CANNING himself, in his own defence, is compelled to justify Lord ELLENBOROUGH. Indeed he had given explanations to Mr. SMITH, late of Cannon-row, which might have altered the en tire course, and prevented the transmission of the celebrated despateh, had not the ex-Presi dent of the India Board been pleased to treat it as a private communication, and to suppress it in toto from his successor. It was the absence of any ex planation by the mail subsequent to that which brought the proclamation, that compelled Lord ELLENBOROUGH to speak in such decisive terms. Had Mr. SMITH exhibited a little more candour, or had Lord PALMERSTON, when consulted on the point, instructed him better as to the duty which an ex-Minister owes not only to the QUEEN and coun try, but also to his successor in office—a duty en forced no less by private courtesy than public principle—the CARDWELL resolutions would never have been brought forward, and the DERBY Go• vernment would have been prevented from acquir ing a vast accession of strength, which enabled them to defeat every subsequent attack during the remainder of the session. The public are greatly indebted to Lord - STANLEY for the publication of these interesting documents. Mr. SMITH would have waited for a motion in one or both Houses of Parliament before he con- tented to their appearance, but Lord STANLEY, ex mero motu, freely and gracefully forwards copies to every London daily journal, and thus gives ample currency to the opinions and views of Lord CANNING on the vexed questioß at issue between him and Lord ELLENBOROTIGII. The first despatch is dated the 1 ith June, and is directed to the Secret Committee of the India Board, avowedly as an answer to that of the 19th April, by which he was manifestly greatly nettled. He, however, determined to retain his lucrative position until further notice. We do not blame his Lord- ship. for this prudent decision, although it might not have been that at which his father would have arrived. He expresses his belief, that " a change _ _ in the head of the Government of India, if it took place under circumstances which indicated a repu diation on the part of the Government of India of the policy which had theretofore been pursued to- wards the rebels of Oude, would seriously retard the pacification of the 'country." With that im- pression he was certainly more than justified in abstaining from laying down his position until, at all events, due provision had been made for a qualified successor. There is a perfect agreement between Lords ELLENBOROUGH and CANNING and Sir JAMES OUTRAM on many points. They concur in the opinion that the case of the inhabitants of Oude is altogether exceptional—that they should not be. THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Fyne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. George Honey, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement : Mdlles. Zilla Michelet, Pasquale, and Morlacchl. .7. 1 ! : "a% A .l*. T. CtU ;44,. 47 0 ; , 44 4,7% 1 E01k,0,4 0 014,1r\b"CallWf " 4" ,;11" ' ;7'. '"lft,;• • regarded in the same light as thG rebels of the old provinces, but rather as enemies in a fair and legiti mate war. Their allegiance was but of a single year. They could scarcely. be expected within that period to shake off all former pre judices, and to come unconTtionally under the new authority which had been proclaimed but scarcely acted on in many of the districts. Besides, many of the talookdars had special grievances. Their titles to property in actual possession had been impugned. They were treated as a conquered people ; and, although these facts might not justify, they certainly greatly extenuated the conduct of those who did not stain their hands with British blood, and who only fought fairly in defence of all that they .previously held dear. It is true that they were compromised by the infamous proceedings of those who added to treachery and ingratitude the most infamous atro cities against the helpless and fugitives and pri soners who fell into their hands. But none but those who participated in these abominations should be held responsible therefor. There being perfect accord respecting the premises; the only difference related to the deductions that should have been drawn therefrom. His Lordship took one view of the subject, Lord PALMERSTON and Sir JAMES OUTRAM a widely different one. He intended to combine "an uncompromising assertion of authority" with a " merciful exercise" of it. They thought that the policy of mercy should be more clearly explained, and that no confiscation should be announced until the party had been convicted of acts de serving of such stringent punishment. The true animus is, however, suffered to peep out at the end of the 19th paragraph. Lord CANNING declares, amongst other reasons, that " the confisca tion to the State of the proprietary rights in the soil would tend to the final settle ment of many of those disputes respecting landed rights which have been the source of so much strife and animosity in Oude." This is the key to the entire mystery. This shows the dangerous nature of the ground on which Lord CANNING was trespassing. He desired to smooth over a little difficulty; but in doing so he rendered all the chiefs and landed proprietors utterly depen dent on the temper and disposition of the represen tatives of the British Government, whoever they might be. We shall not, to-day, enter into a consideration of the disputed points. It is better that the defence of Lord CANNING should be thoroughly understood and attentively considered, before a verdict is required on any count of the indictment. Everything considered, we cannot but think that the most important document yet published, in re ference to the late lamentable interruption of the electric current in the Subatlantic cable between Valentia and Newfoundland, is that comprehensive communication (given elsewhere in our impression of this evenings addressed to the Chairman and Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, upon the last day of September, by Mr. W. T. HENLEY, the electrical engineer of St. John-street, Clerken well. The writer of that letter deals not in vague probabilities. He takes the difficulty boldly into consideration just as it is—aided in his researches as much (if not more) by the light of common sense as by that of profound scientific knowledge and professional experience. As we read this deeply interesting document, we feel that it is the effusion of a mind having something in it very kindred to that of excellent DANIEL DOYCE of Bleeding Heart-yard—one of those shrewd, plain, straightforward characters, the especial dread and terror of your genuine Circumlocutionist. The effect of the whole argument is to give us hope— and a hope kindled by a confident reliance upon the sagacity of an intellect essentially (in a compli mentary and not in an invidious sense) simple and matter-of-fact. Mr. HENLEY puts his case with the lucidity and:distinctness of a syllogism. He sets forth in his argument with the undoubted fact of the in sulation being very seriously impaired. He tests the cable by connecting one pole of a voltaic battery to the end of the cable with a galvanometer in cir cuit and the other battery pole to the earth. He finds - a resistance to the current equal to very nearly 300 miles of the copper wire, in fact, to 290 miles altogether. By " resistance," he explains, is meant the impeding force more or less always encountered by electricity in its passage through various con ductors. He, thereupon explains yet further that in addition to this natural and inevitable resistance in every conductor, even when perfectly insu lated, there is, as in the present remarkable instance, the resistance presented to the pas sage of the electric current by the " fault" itself, now that the , insulation of the conductor has been seriously impaired. That fault he shows to be perpetually reverting to its original condition, when he says that "on reversing the direction of the current hydrogen is evolved, which (hydrogen) by reducing the oxide and cleaning the wire, brings the fault back to its former state." Mr. HENLEY, at any rate, reduces the evil to this rather formidable minimum of importance--" one fact," says he, "is unquestionably established, and that is—the fault is not beyond three hundred miles !" Nevertheless such is the amount of friction constantly going on in the harbour of Valentia, upon the rocks and shingle, that he strongly urges the submersion of "some length" of the shore end—a recommendation, how ever, which has already, as Mr. SAWARD informs us, been happily anticipated. Another rather startling view, taken by Mr. HEN LEY, of the fault now interrupting electric commu nications between Ireland and America, is expressed plainly enough where he intimates that, in his opinion, it existed in the cable before it was sub merged. His reasons for so thinking are obvious and forcible enough to be at once appreciated. The conclusions at which he ultimately arrives are these After recommending that the cable should be raised some 15 miles out and tested, he adds, " I cannot say I have any hopes of the fault being found within that distance, but as it would not be attended with any trouble or risk, I think it worth the ;rial. If the injury is in the deep soundings, I be• lieve any attempt to raise it would be the means of breaking the cable and losing the end. altogether. If the state of the cable should not get worse, I am still in hopes of its being- rendered workable by transmitting signals 'slowly,' by having delicate receiving apparatus, and by adopting means for neutraliiiing the earth current." That is the pre- else amount of the hope awakened by this valuable communication from Mr. HENLEY, of Clerken- well. We are gratified at being enabled to inform the friends of Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P. for Durham, that the noble and gallant Lord's health is somewhat improved, and that his medical attendants now consider him to be going on favourably. The Ambassador of Prussia at Brussels, M. do Brockhausen, died last night at Baden, where he had been staying for the recovery of his health. Despatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Dean and Chapter of Lichfield have pre. rented the Rev. Edward Roberts, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, curat e o f Harborne, Birmingham, to the vicarage of that parish, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Canou Qarbett, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1858, LATEST NEWS. HAMBURG. HAMB URG, OCT. 5. The Danish Chambers were opened yesterday by M. Unsgaard, the Minister of the Interior, in the name of the King, who is now labouring under indisposition. The First Chamber has elected M. Bruno as president, and the Second Chamber M. Rottwitt. The following telegrams were received at Mr Reuter's office, Oct. 6, 7.17 : PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Moniteur of this morning states that the Prince Napoleon has paid a visit to the Emperor at the Camp of Chalons, and returned to Paris last night. MADRID, OCT. 5. The Gaceta declares officially that the regula tions of the Public Census will come into operation on the Ist of January next. According to the Epoca the Government will recognise the right of the Church to possess and acquire. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. Prince Napoleon returned last night from his trip to Warsaw to our " good friend and brother" the Emperor' Russia. I doubt if his Highness felt any great inclination for the duty imposed on him ; the ti A sympathy he is known to feel towards Russia, or anything Russian, would at least justify us in sup Posing so. He wasted no time in bandying compliments with Russian princes, or Russian courtiers, saw no one beyond those he was bound to see, did his message as briefly as possible, and straightway came back. He left this morning for the Champ of Chalons to render an account of his journey to the Emperor, and will be back here to-night or to-morrow. BOURSE, Oct. s.—The opening of the market was very flat, with declining prices, but there was afterwards a general rally. The dividends have been deducted to-day from the Orleans shares (30f.), and from the Western (17f. 50c.) Threes have been done at 73f. 95c. to 74f. 15c. ; Mobilier, 1,002 f. 50c. to 1,02.5 f. ; Orleans, 1,390 f. ex div. to 1,407 f. 50c. ; Western, 620 f. ex div. to 626 f. 25c.; Lyons, 882 f. 50c. to 890 f. ; Southern, 605 f. to 610 f. ; Eastern, 745 f. to 750 f. ; and Austrian, 665 f. to 670 f.. The following were the last quotations 41 per Cents. .... 96 50 Credit Fonder 670 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 3 per Cents 74 Piedmontese (5) .. 92 Do. end month 74 10 Roman 93 Bank Shares. Do. Amount; ..... 1012 60 Home Debt 4ll RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. — .. 835 Lyons and Mediterranean BB5 .. 882 50 New ditto Geneva 660 .. 658 7 Midi .a t 605 .. 608 75 Western 6lB 75 .. 623 75 Eastern Grand Central —.—. .. Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 17ic. ; money, 25f. 15c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 971 c. THE EAST. A letter from Constantinople has the following: " Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, with the persons of his suite, visited the Grand Vizir on the 22d, Mr. Sarell acting as interpreter. The noble lord was received with all the honours usual on such occa sions. The greatest cordiality was manifested both by the Ambassador and the Grand Vizir. It appears that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe explained the reasons which caused him to resign the post of Ambassador at the Court of the Sultan, and the object of his visit to Constantinope ; he also begged that his Majesty's orders might be taken as to the day on which he could have the honour of an imperial audience to present a letter from his Sovereign. The Grand Vizir, in reply, said with great emotion that he and all his colleagues, without exception, were happy to see Lord Strat- ford de Redclfffe again at Constantinople, though his stay was to be necessarily only of short dura tion. He dwelt also on the eminent services which the noble lord had rendered to this empire in the course of his long diplomatic relations with the Sublime Porte, and he expressed in the name of the Sultan's Government a hope that the friendly sentiments of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe to Turkey would be maintained elsewhere ; he at the same time assured his lordship that he himself and all his colleagues should constantly entertain the greatest regard for him." The Official Gazette of Belgrade contains the fol lowing note :—" The Minister of the Interior, being firmly convinced that the nation has for some time past felt an earnest wish for a National Assembly in which it can make known its wants through its representatives, pointed out on the 15th of this month to the Senate the necessity of convoking such a body. The Prince on the same day con sented, and the Senate, having taken the matter into consideration, passed a unanimous resolution to the effect that a National Assembly should be con voked as soon as possible, and that a law should be passed authorising the convocation. In order to give as speedy an effect as possible to this deci sion of the Government, a commission has been formed, charged with drawing up, without delay, a bill relating to this subject, and laying it before the competent authorities." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 2d states that the King has become considerably worse, and that, one of his sides having become paralysed, he could only be removed from one room to another in an armchair. The same letter says :—" It has been re solved to make modifications in our military organi sation. The landwehr is to be suppressed ; and in place of one regiment of the landwehr for every regiment of the line, as heretofore, each regiment of infantry of the line is to have six battalions in stead of three—three, however, only being actually called out, the others being kept as a reserve. In time of war the baitalions will be completed by the soldiers who have finished their periods of ser vice, and who have hitherto formed the landwehr. The total number of soldiers will therefore remain the same." In the sitting of the Germanic Diet of the 30th ult., the president communicated the criminal re turns of England and Wales for 1857, which had been transmitted to him by the British legation. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Ist have reached us. The Gazette contains a royal decree, which enacts that the municipal elections throughout Spain and the adjacent islands shall take place on Sunday, the 7th November. The Gazette also contains a series of decrees authorising the nomination of a board of administration in the Philippine Islands, which is to apply the surplus funds of those islands to their local necessities without the control of the Home Government. Don Manuel Gil, bishop of Badajoz, had been appointed archbishop of Sara gossa, in the room of Archbishop Rivas, deceased, and Don Fernando Arguelles y Miranda, a learned canon of Oviedo, Archbishop of Astorga. The Council of State had authorised the Supreme Tri bunal of Justice to commence legal proceedings against M. Navarro, ex-Governor of Albacete, who during the last elections let his zeal in favour of his employers carry him into several arbitrary and illegal acts. The same has happened to Don Ramon Membrado, who signalised himself in much the same way in Cacires, of which province he was governor. The Marquis do Albaida, the only grandee of Spain that belongs to the De mocratic party, and whose life, but with short intervals, has been a long political martyrdom, has written a long address to the electors of Palencia, who have so many times made it a point of honour to elect him, and many of whom have suffered all sorts of persecutions on his account, declining the honour of going to the poll at the next election. The Minister of Fomento (Public Works) is, it is said, pre paring a number of decrees relative to public works, all of which works are to be done by contract, " the confidence of capitalists in the stability of the Government being such," says a Ministerial organ, " that all the contracts lately made are very advantageous to the country, and contrast strongly with the scandals of other times." The treaty with Portugal concerning interna tional communications had been modified, and was about to be ratified. At Albacete, the Liberal party had, like the same party at Valencia and in some other places, signed an address declaring confidence in the present Administration. The Queen had conferred the grand cross of the Order of Charles 111. on the Pope's Nuncio. The Queen and King had received the Prince de Partona, Sicilian Minister, who presented to their Majesties, in the name of the King of the Two Sicilies, the grand cross of the Royal Order of Merit of Naples for the Prince of the Asturias. The Progressist com mittee on the elections had published an ad dress to the electors, in which, whilst abstain ing from any eulogium on the existing Cabinet, they exhorted them to examine its various acts with impartiality. The Peninsular Correspondence contains the following :—" The Supreme Court of Justice is much occupied just now with appeal cases concerning the rectification of the election lists, which cases are net fewer than 17,000 in number, and though a great many of them are so exactly alike that they may be soon despatched after a first judgment can serve as a precedent, yet it would have been impossible to get through them all by the 10th of this month, the day fixed for the election, had not the Supreme Court appointed a sufficient number of supplemen tary tribunals, and called on the deputy fiscals and crown barristers to help to for ward the business. Many of the objections to votes are founded on legal subtleties, and in these cases the Minister's orders will be carried out, that is to say, the spirit of the law will be attended to rather than its letter. Nor are these matters the only things that will afford work to the gentlemen of the long robe. During the incessant personal warfare which has lately been carried on by the newspapers it has been impossible to avoid many a libel. The Ministerial organ, the Diario Es panol, has entered an action against the four news papers, which, as has been stated, have solemnly excommunicated it from newspaper communion. They in their turn have had recourse to the tri bunals for alleged libels against them. Some of the absolutist journals have legal accounts to settle with the tribunals on account of Crown prose cutions, and one or two are under prosecution for libel. As if there were not journals enough already, we arc threatened with the appearance of another, which I suspect is to be very aggressive, for I have observed these last days in the advertising sheet, the Peru, an advertisement in the largest type, Wanted urgently, a responsible editor'—a func tionary in these days not easy to be found. It is to be observed, too, that though there are so many daily journals there are no two of them that are of the same opinion. Thus of the absolutist journals, one advo cates as openly as the public prosecutor will allow the advent of Don Carlos's son with a sort of monar chico-theolocratical government ; another, the Mo narquia (a paper written with much elegance of style) pleads in favour of absolute monarchy with Isabella 11., and as a sort of palliative the fueros or ancient privileges of the provinces to vote their own taxes. Of the progressista prints the most violent is that which is edited by a devout apothecary named Calve Asensio, a man of some reputation in science, who wrote himself into celebrity during the last six months of the San Luis administration, and who, as member of the first Parliament chosen during Espartero's rule, gave proofs of talent that raised him to the first rank amongst parliamentary orators. As his opinions were much too advanced for him to have a place in the Administration, he has commenced a system of personal attacks which have at least the merit of being amusing. Pursuant to the tendency among Span ish writers there is scarcely a ministry or a section of pblitical men that has not some nickname. Thus in 1854, Collantes and San Luis' partisans were called the Polacos or Poles, and Calvo Asensio has given the present Government the nickname of the 'lrish Ministry,' probably with a view of ex citing a feeling of nationality amongst the Spanish people, who are proverbially jealous of foreigners. The nickname, however, appears thus far to have no adhesive property, for though it has been repeatedly applied by the ex-pharmacologist's daily journal, and though it has been eagerly repeated by his contemporaries, the public cannot somehow or other connect the designation Irishman' with anything detrimental to their rights or contrary to their prosperity. The Indipendente of Turin declares the visit of Prince Napoleon to Warsaw to be an event of great political impirtance, as being, it thinks, the prelude to an alliance between France, Russia, and Pied mont, hostile to Austria. The Indipendente regards the intention manifested by the Emperor Alexan der 11. to visit Paris, the facilities accorded by the Sardinian Government to a Russian company, and the augmentation of the French garrison at Rome, as proofs that such an alliance is in contemplation. GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER -SQUARE. Certainly the most attractive, and at the same ,ime the most instructive lessons in geography, are hose which are daily given at the exhibition in Leicester-square. No incident or discovery occurs in any part of the world of general interest but Mr. Wyld's indefatigable agents immediately for ward accurate drawings of the locality, with such minute descriptions as enable the talented ar tists who are employed at home to present them presently, depicted in all the vividness of form and colour, as additions to the dioramic views which have for some years past formed so valuable a supplement to the popular exhibition of the "Great Globe itself." In this way we have been made ac quainted with the actual features of the most pro minent scenes of the Indian mutiny. We have wit nessed the siege of Delhi, we have sailed up the. Hooghly—visited the city of palaces, pushed on into the interior—take a peep within the walls of Be flares, Allahabad, and Agra, and paid a visit to those palaces which must henceforth be replete with interest, as the arenas of British suffering and British-tiitimphs, Cawnpore and Lucknow. The, conclusion of the treaty of Tien-tsin, which has' opened a new field for European enterprise, has, at the same time, afforded a new field for the display of Mr. Wyld's indefatigability in increasing the interests of his museum, and of the talents of his artists. In addition to the views of Hong Kong, Canton, the Bocca Tigris, &c., he has opened a series of views of the less known . portions of China, to which Europeans and Americans are henceforward to be freely admitted. These new views, which are exceedingly well painted, consist of the Port of Amoy and the Ankoi hills, Foo Chow Foo and its harbour Ningpo, Chusan, with the town of Tinghai, Shanghai, Nankin, the Gulf of Pichele, and the ter mination of the great wall, the outside wall of Pekin, and a sort of bird's eye view of the interior of Pekin, as seen from the palace of the chief man darin, which, by an ingenious arrangement of the lights, is presented at su nse t, twilight, and moon light. These views are, like those of India, accom panied, by an instructive lecture, in which Mr. Livingston, the able lecturer, gives a lucid descrip tion of the most marked natural characteristics, works of art, arid historical occurrences which are connected with each scene as it is brought under the eye of the spzetator. Another feature of importance in this exhibition appropriate to the present moment is the marking out on the Great Globe model the course of all the existing and proposed courses of telegraphic com munication, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian, and the discoveries of Dr. Livingstone, which also form the subject of a most interesting lecture. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—On Friday, Sept. 2), 1754, the Earl of Drumlanrig, eldest son of the Duke of Queensberry, was on his journey from Scotland with the Duke (his father) in one post-chaise, and the Duchess (his mother) with Lady Drumlanrig in another, and being tired with riding in the chaise, got on horseback. Soon after wards his pistol accidentally went off, and killed him on the spot.—London Magazine , xxiii. 477. On Friday, Augu s t 6, 1858, the Marquis of Queensberry,i at his seat, Kinmount, Dumfriesshire, went out with his gun to shoot rabbits, and was found dead from his gun having gone off, and shot him from the left breast through to the back,—,Notes and Queries. FINE ARTS. Portrait of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Photo graphed by Lake Price. Lithographed by R. Lane, &c. _ Mitchell. . . . An admirable and life-like portraiture of the heir to the throne has recently been published by Mr. Mitchell, the eminent Bond-street bookseller and print-publisher. It is copied from a photograph taken by special permission, from the life, at Windsor Castle, in 1857, by Mr. Lake Price, one of the most skilled and brilliant of living photogra phers. A lithographic plate, precisely the size of the original photograph, has been produced by the united ability of Mr. R. J. Lane, A.E.R.A., of Mr. J. H. Lynch, and of Mr. W. Gauci--the printing of the impressions having been judiciously entrusted to M. and N. Hanhart. The dimensions of the engraving are 16 inches by 11. The production has been dedicated to her Majesty, by her Majesty's gracious permission. As a work of art, it is exqui sitely finished. As a transcript from nature, it is scrupulously faithful. It represents the young Prince in Highland costume—a dead bird in one hand, a fowling-piece in the other, the chieftain's feather in his glengarry. Altogether, it is not the least morsel in the world like that familiar repre sentation of H.R.H. as he appeared when a child of five or six, dressed like a sailor. But then a dozen years have elapsed since that charming por trait was taken—the Prince of Wales being by this time very nearly seventeen. THE WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND, Last Monday week Mr. Buchanan, the member for Glasgow, at a meeting of his constituents, de nounced the terms of unjustifiable severity with which Scotch banking and Scotch trading have been alluded to during the present year in the House of Commons and elsewhere, and concluded his oration, in the style of Sir Archibald Alison when touching on the same subject, by a proud declaration that, considering its extensive commerce, Glasgow should congratulate herself on the triumphant manner in which she had come out of the late crisis. This afternoon a copy has been received' of the report made yesterday to the shareholders of the Western Bank. Mr. Buchanan, being a merchant of Glas gow, must, while he was delivering the address in question, have had some reason to apprehend the state of things that would be unfolded by this document, and an abstract of its contents will ac cordingly enable the public to estimate the true characteristics of the picture which can be contem plated with so much complacency. The paid-up capital of the Western Bank of Scotland was £1,500,000, and after its stoppage it was found that, in addition to the loss of the whole of this amount, the shareholders would have to provide a further heavy sum, the deficiency estimated being £304,692. The amount paid on each share was £5O, and the liquidators made an additional call 'of £25, one half of which fell due in March, and the other half in June last. Thus every holder of £l,OOO in the concern, in addition to the loss of the whole of his investment, was required almost immediately to provide a further sum of £5OO. Of course a number of the shareholders were reduced to destitution by the first blow, and could, there fore, make no answer to the demand, but on the whole it resulted in drawing in, for the purposes of the liquidation, £440,000, and is expected to yield about £65,000 more. But this aggregate of £505,000 now proves altogether inadequate. The original estimate of the deficiency was incor rect, and, instead of £304,692, it has reached £1,421,948. Another call is consequently announced, and this time to the extent of £lOO per share. That is to say, every holder of £l,OOO, in addition to the loss of his investment and the subsequent payment of £5OO, is now required to furnish a fur ther sum of £2,000. This payment, moreover, is to be made promptly, the time allowed for the whole being only to the Ist of next month. The calcu lation is that, out of the 1,300 families represented by the share list, the utter and irretrievable ruin of nine-tenths will be sealed by this new compulsion. And the charges which have led to the increased gloom of the affair are such as to prove that all that has been said of the gang who were using the funds of the deluded shareholders to figure as great merchants and demoralise the entire trade of the country, has fallen short of the actual facts. The liquidators now announce that the loss sustained through four firms alone—John Monteith and Co., D. and J. Macdonald and Co., Godfrey Pattison and Co., and J. and W. Wallace—will be £833,163, in stead of £608,203, as first estimated. In addition, other insolvents figure also for largely increased amounts. Watson, Kinnear, and Co., £130,548 ; William Smith and Co., £34,861 ; Wm. Brown and Co., £31,458 ; and John Macvicar, £27,671. The losses at the branches have also swollen from. £505,333 to £585,026, and that on American ac count from £60,000 to £lOO,OOO. It is a mortify ing fact at the same time that, owing to the ad vance made by the Edinburgh banks in October having been through sales of Consols, on the con dition that the stock should be ultimately replaced, the subsequent recovery in the prices of the funds will make an adverse difference of £43,000. Nothing, therefore, could be- more complete than the misery that has fallen upon all concerned. There is scarcely a respectable home in Glasgow, where either directly or - indirectly some trace of the affair is not felt, and its sting is greater from the fact that, while the dream of villany and pro fusion was running its course, the mercantile character of the entire city was ex p ose d t o a degree of corruption which will leave its taint for many years. Of the disgrace it brought upon the nation at large every one is aware, as well as of the fact that it was the principal cause of the con vulsion that led to the violation of the currency laws of the kingdom. The directors, moreover, encouraged by the mutual toadying between the aristocracy and merchant princes of the district, even from the first met the difficulty defiantly by threatening the shareholders, and have since been upheld by the Government. But the worst feature of the history remains, and it lies in the fact, that all the infamy that has been encouraged and all the sufferings that have been brought on innocent heads can serve to some minds as food for self-satisfied congratulation, and that there are audiences like that at Glasgow which attended on Mr. Buchanan ready to cheer their heartless and unconscientious egotism.—Times. THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND. BALMORAL, OCT. 3, Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service in the parish church, Crathie. The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Macleod. The Silesian Gazette states that in returning from War saw the Prince of Prussia met Prince Napoleon at Granitza, a station on the Prussian frontier. The two Princes break fasted together, and afterwards remained in conference about three-quarters of an hour. Advices from Vienna state that the Empress of Austria had •so far recovered from her recent confinement that her Majesty has commenced taking carriage exercise ; also that the health of the little Imperial Prince is everything that could be desired. The Archduke Charles Louis, Governor of the Tyrol, and youngest brother of the Emperor of. Austria, has been so much affected by the death of his wife, the Archduchess Margeurite, that he intends, a Vienna letter states, to enter a monastery. Prince George of Prussia arrived at Venice on the 29th ult. from Milan. The Duke and Duchess of Modena arrived at Bologna on ;he 27th ult., on their way to Rome and Lorreto. The King of the Belgians went from Brussels to Antwerp on Saturday to visit the Exhibition of Fine Arts, returning in the afternoon. His Majesty was received by the governor of the province, the local authorities, and the members of the municipality, and they attended his Ma jesty to the railway station on his departura. The Lord Chancellor's rectory of Hillmartin, near Calne, Wiltshire, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Fisher, M.A. The benefice is worth about £5OO a-year. CHURCH CONSECRATION AT SOUTHAMPTON.—On Monday morning the Bishop of Winchester consecrated the church of St. James, Southampton, in the presence of the Ven. Archdeacon Wigram, M.A., rector of St. Mary's, the Rev. H. Carey, rector of All-Saints, the Rev. Canon Nel son, vicar of Holy Rood, the Rev. John Langley, incum bent of St. Peter's, and a large body of the parochial clergy. The sermon was preached by the bishop. The Rev. W. H. White, '8.A.,. formerly cu ra t e of Trinity Church, Southampton, is the incumbent of St. J ames ' s . THE CLOCK AT THE WESTMINSTER PALACE.—On Monday the monster bell, known, as " Big Ben," which is to sound the hours i n th e clock tower: attached to the West minister Palace, was removed from the beam by which it been suspended for some months, under the superintendence of Mr. Quorn, chief clerk of the works, and was safely placed upon a " cradle" for the purpose of being passed to the base of the tower, up the shaft of which it will be raised, to be fixed to the machinery of the clock. THE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. —The Chief Re gistrarship of the Court of Bankruptcy has become vacant by the death of Mr. John Campbell. The appointment is wo] Irth upwards of £2,000 a-year. FALMOITTIL—The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society held its autumnal exhibition and its 26th annual meeting at the hall of the institution in this town, on Wednesday last and three followings days. Sir Chas Lemon, the president, occupied the chair, and a large assem blage of the gentry and other inhabitants of the county and beyond attended, as usual, on the occasion. The display of models and inventions in the mining and miscellaneous departments ' and of pictures and oth er contr ib utions in art and science, both domestic and foreign, were very choice and numerous, and elicited marked commendation from the bejdges of the several sections, wh o awar d e d a goodlynum r of money prizes and of the silver and bronze medals of the society, THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l am instructed to forward for publication a report received yesterday from Mr. W. T. Henley, the electrical engineer, of St. John-street, Clerken well, who is one of the gentlemen whom the directors have consulted in reference to the state of the Atlantic cable. Mr. Henley's advice in reference to laying the shore end at Valentia has been anticipated. From previous circumstances it has been thought advis able to postpone until further information was ob tained the operation of laying the shore ends, with a view to save what at the time the directors were advised would be unnecessary expense. The directors, however, subsequently decided, after due reflection, that it would be advisable to lay the Valentia shore end without delay, and a vessel is now on its way to effect this object. Yours truly, GEO. SAWARD, Secretary. Chief Office, 22, Old Broad-street, London, Oct. 5. " Valentia, Sept. 30, 1858. "TO THE CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTORS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. " Gentlemen,—ln accordance with your instruc tions, I have, since my arrival here, on the Bth inst., carefully tested the cable at various times, and with different degrees of battery power, and I found its insulation seriously impaired, and the results of the testing lead to the conclusion that the injury is at a considerable distance from this (very nearly 300 miles of the cable apparently intervening between this point and the fault.) " As I think it right you should know on what grounds, and by what modes of operating, I and others have arrived at this conclusion, and as you may also like to be informed as to some of the phe nomena of electrical science, as shown in connection with this cable, I have ventured to go a little into detail, hoping thereby to convey some infox mation that may not be unacceptable. " On connecting, one pole of a voltaic battery with the end of the cable with a galvanometer in circuit, and the other battery pole to earth, I find the current meets a resistance to its passage equal to 290 miles of the copper conducting wire of the cable, and as the cable is more than 2,000 miles long, it is, therefore, evident that the greater part of the current finds a shorter route to the earth. " By resistance is meant the impeding force that electricity meets with in its passage through con ductors of all kinds, metallic or otherwise, and which varies immensely, not only in various metallic and other bodies, but also in the same kind of metal, and this can be accurately measured, even in one inch of wire. Taking any given metal, the conductibility of which is uniform, the resistance of the wire will be found to increase as the size de creases, exactly in proportion to the sectional area. A mile of No. 40 copper wire is thus found to re sist as much as 175 miles of the conducting wire of the Atlantic cable. It is necessary, also, that the fine wire should have been previously tested with some of the cable, as wires of the same . gauge are frequently found to vary very much in size as well as in conductibility. "Knowing the resistance per yard of the fine wire, to obtain that of the cable comprised between the point of operating and the fault (and thus to find its length), the battery and galvanometer are connected with the line and earth in the before-mentioned manner; the degrees of deflection are accurately read on the galvano meter, and this process is repeated several times with batteries of different degrees of strength ; the batteries and galvanometer are then disconnected from the cable and earth, and connected with coils of the fine wire, the length of which latter is added to or diminished until the readings of the galvano meter exactly coincide in every case with those noted when connected with the cable. The length of the fine wire will then give that of the cable up to the point at which the battery current finds earth, reckoning about one mile of cable for every ten yards of fine wire. There are several methods of doing the same.thing, but they are all based on the same system of proportionate resistances. " There is next the resistance of the fault itself to be taken into account, for, strange as it may ap pear to some, faults (in proportion to their magni tude) may be equal in resistance to from one mile to several hundreds of miles of cable, and would give the same indications on a testing instrument. If we knew the exact nature of the injury, and how much of the copper was exposed, we could with tolerable certainty tell at what distance it existed ; but, in the absence of such knowledge we must judge from appearances, making use of any pre vious experience we may have had in matters of a similar kind. And firstly, we know if much of the resistance was produced by the fault, it must expose a very small amount of surface, and that on sending positive currents, the wire (by electrotypic action) would be oxidised at th e f au lt y spo t, an d the galvanometer would show the fault was partially repaired by the non-conducting power of the oxide. " On reversing the direction of the current hy drogen would be evolved, which, by reducing the oxide and cleaning the wire, brings the fault back to its former state. Should it be of considerable size, and consequently of small resistance, the coat of oxide found would be thin, and quickly reduced, by reversing the current, showing . that very little alteration was produced by changing its direction. " Precisely this effect is produced by sending cur rents into the cable, indicating the injury to be of that character. A small fault could not reduce the strength of the signals to the extent we find them, unless the wire was separated near that point, and this (which is quite within the range of proba bility) would set our calculations at nought. That the cable is not severed we have abundant proof, but that any one can, by the most delicate tests, discover whether the conducting wire is so or not in a cable of this length I utterly deny. Should such be the case, it does not follow that the line must be rendered useless ; as I have known under ground telegraphs work for months after the con ducting wires•have been separated more than a quarter of an inch by the decomposing power of the batteries employed. A slight fault existed in the gutta percha. This admitted moisture, which, by conveying - the electricity to the earth, caused the decomposition of the wire, and then aided the working of the telegraph, by conducting a portion of the current from one point of the separated wire to the other. Signals were much reduced in power, as in the present case ' • still the wire conti nue d t o work, and if such can be done for months it might happen for a longer period. " If by any means the conducting wire separates, and the gutta percha remains sound, all communi cation ceases from the absence of moisture to com plete the circuit. By our testing one fact is un questionably established, and that is, the fault is not beyond 300 miles. I speak of the great fault. Others may exist between that and Newfoundland; but if it be a fact (as I have heard), that on testing at the latter place very little earth is shown, the probability is that the other part of the cable is rod. Having arrived at the fact of the in jury not being beyond three hundred miles, the difficulty is to know how much withi n th a t dis tance if is to be found, or how much of the re sistance is due to the cable, and how much to the fault ; and although by accurate testings and exa minations a pretty correct knowledge of the facts may be obtained, still it is liable to some uncertainty, and instances have occurred in testing cables where the most experienced have been quite wrong in their conclusions. "I cannot think it possible for the injury to be in the harbour, but should think it advisable to lay down some length of shore end, as the present cable near the land must soon be injured by friction on the rocks and shingle. A piece of the same size laid across the harbour for the Magnetic Company was entirely worn asunder some days since. " In my opinion the fault or faults existed in the cable before it was submerged, and that they would have been detected and made good had the precau tion been observed of having the whole cable tested in water during its manufacture. " Its not shoWing so bad when first laid is easy to be accounted for, as it takes some time for the water to soak through the coating of pitch and tar. In a cable I am now manufacturing a fault was four days in the water before showing anything. " Had your cable been injured after submersion by resting on the sharp edge of a rock, the inner wire and the outer metallic covering must have come in contact, and that this is not the case we have ab - ' •••.•••-,.. • • •• • •••••• • .• solute proof, both fronitlTeitet of a battery current being generated by the iron sheathing and the ex posed copper, and from signals being received ob served —signals were, from the first, much weaker than they ought to have been from a tolerable in sulated fine of that length, and were scarcely suffi cient to work a very delicate relay (which can be used with a current so feeble that it could only be detected on the tongue). The currents now received are not more than a' tenth of th a t power, V and can only be indicated on Professor Thomson's very ingenious reflecting galvanometer, from New foundland ; for, did the iron touch the copper con ductor in the smallest poi n t, no t th e s light" s tsign al could be seen. This is cons t ruc t e d on the principle of the boys' trick of receiving the rays of the sun on a piece of looking-glass and reflecting them on a wall, a very s ma ll mo ti o n of the . hand giving a range of m an y f ee t t o th e spot of light. Professor Thomson attaches a small mirror to the magnetic needle of a very delicate galvanometer of his own eontriyance. The 'light of a lamp 15 thrown on the mirror, and a motion of the needle that would be inappreciable in itself is plainly indicated by the reflected spot of light on a scale. The apparatus could be made much more delicate, still, and capable of working with the smallest amount of current, but there is an obstacle in the way of using such a feeble power, and that is the earth current which shows itself at all times more or less. " If this earth -current were at all constant in its quantity or direction it would be quite easy to com pensate for it and render its effect neutral; but it is most erratic in its movements, sometimes throw ing the spot of light en ti re l y off the scale, at others changing from positive to negative, and back again, so rapidly and frequently, and with such regu larity, that it is difficult to know whether it is New foundland or the earth-current signalling. " These earth-currents in submarine and subter ranean lines (like the atmospheric currents, as they are termed, in ove r - groun d w i res ) are produced by the inductive effect of natural currents of electricity moving parallel with the conducting wires, it being a well known law of electricity that if a current moves in the vicinity of a wire or other insulated conductor a current is set up in such wire in a con trary direction, its strength being in proportion to the parallelism of the wire with the natural cur rent. " Any wire laid parallel with the Equator, or nearly so, will ha ve it s e l ectr i ca l condition dis turbed by every variation in the earth's magnetism. On the first establishment of practical telegraphy the inconvenience experienced from these currents was as annoying as it was unexpected, but in course of time contrivances were produced capable of modifying. or counteracting their effect s , so that but little trouble is now felt from their occur rence ; although even now, occasionally, on some lines, all communication is stopped for a short time when these terra-magnetic currents are unusually strong. On lines of 100 miles or so they only show themselves at intervals ; at all other times the line is quite free. But on a line of such enormous length as the Atlantic cable electric disturbance is sure to take place on some part of it at all times ; and if a current is set in motion in any part the effect is communicated throughout the whole. In another cable (as-well as in this, had its insulation been more perfect) earth -currents would not cause much tremble, as the working -currents sent through the line would not lose their stsength, as in the pre sent case, and consequently would overpower them. " The mere resistance of the cable, as regards its length, would offer very little impediment to its working. The same length of insulated wire stretched on dry earth or other non-conductor could be worked through with a very small power, and at a rapid rate. It is only wh.en it becomes sur rounded by a conductor such as damp earth or water, or by the metallic covering of the cable, that the phenomena of induction again come into play ; and the more complete the insulation the greater will be the embarrassment from induction. " The effect of this is shown when a battery is connected with the line and earth, or outside of the cable. The inner or conducting wire becomes charged or electrified plus ; the outer coating minus (similar to a Leyden jar). When the ends are put to earth the effect goes off, but not instantly ; and when the two electrified media are so far re moved as in a line of 2,000 miles, if connected with the earth, a very considerable time is occupied both in charging and discharging, causing much re tardation of the current ; so that I think four words per minute will be the maximum rate of trans mission through any Atlantic cable with the pre sent dot and dash system. If other plans can be worked by which a letter would be indicated by one or two signals the rate would be increased in pro portion. "As I have made use of the terms ' resistance' and ' retardation,' and as they are words having different meanings, I will explain what constitutes the difference. The resistance' of a wire has the effect of keeping part of an electric current back, or diminishing its quantity, without affecting its velocity, the remainder passing as quickly as it would through a wire of the same length with less than a hundredth part of the resistance. " The effect of retardation,' on the contrary, is to diminish both the quantity and the velocity of the current. For example, in an overground well insulated wire 2,000 miles long, an electric current or impulse would traverse the entire length in one tenth of a second; through the same extent of sub marine line, owing to the effect of the charge, the time occupied would be nearly a second and a half. "Respecting the question of injury to the line from the use of powerful currents, if a small hole leading to the wire exists in a gutta-percha cover ing, near either end, there is no doubt that a cur rent of great quantity and 'intensity (whether pro duced by battery or coils) would have th e e ff ec t o f enlarging the breach by burning ; but this can only take place to a limited. extent. Heat can only be developed by an electric current when the latter meets with great resistance; consequently, so soon as that is diminished by a slight enlargement of the hole all burning ceases. I tried the experiment alternately with the large inducti o n coils with the battery now here (400 cells of Daniel's) and with my large magneto-electric machine. They were each connected in turns with the line and earth, and at the same time with a piece of gutta-percha covered wire (in which the copper was bared to 1-32 d inch diameter) and a piece of copper in a basin of sea water, thus dividing the current between the two routes. The coil current enlarged the fault to 1-20th inch in diameter, the batteries to 1-16th, both slowly. That from the magneto made no change in the fault it was applied to until it was disconnected from the line and earth, and allowed the one road only, when burning took place, as might have been expected. The fault was enlarged very slowly to 1-10th of an inch. On repeating this with the coils the fault was increased to 1-10th diameter, and with the batteries to 1-6th inch, rapidly with both. No further burning can take place with either current until the wire is brought to the sur face of the water, when, owing to the resistance in creasing by the fault being only partly immersed, the burning commences anew, and the gutta percha inflames. " On the arrival of my large magnetic machine I put it together, and connected it with the cable, and have used it a part of every day since, sending sometimes reversals and at others words and sen tences. lam unable to tell whether they were re ceived and understood, but hope to find such has been the case on the receipt of intelligence from Newfoundland. Having a machine at one end only it will, of course, be evident that even if they re ceived properly they could not have answered better than before. But we have been encouraged by seeing more reversals and attempts to send words from them lately than before. I will leave the machine here ; it will be worked at stated hours each day by the assistants until the days fixed upon in October, when it will be used alternately as ar ranged with the battery and coils. The clerks at each end will then act according to preconcerted arrangements, which I hope will have the effect of renewing telegraphic correspondence ; if that is not accomplished, probably the best thing then would be to raise the cable for about 15 miles out and test. I cannot say I have any hopes of the fault being found within that distance; but as it would not be attended with any trouble or risk I think it worth the trial. If the injury is in the deep soundings, I believe any attempt to raise it would be the means of break ing the cable and losing the end altogether. If the state of the cable should not get worse I am still in hopes of its being rendered workable by transmit ting signals slowly, by having delicate r ece i v i ng apparatus, and try adopting means for neutralising the earth current. Prof. Thomson has partially suc ceeded in the latter object by throwing into the re ceiving end of the line feeble currents of different values (from 1 cell to 1-20th of a cell) in opposition to the earth-current.—l am, &c., " W. T. HENLEY, Telegraph Engineer. " 46, John -street-road, Clerkenwell." STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS, Oct. s.—The cloth-markets have pre sented no feature of change this morning: The sales have been to about the usual extent, principally of what are denominated seasonable goods. Prices both of wools and cloth, remain steady, and the prospect of the winter trade for manufacturers is a good one. MANCHESTER, sth.--In yarns there was a fair amount of business doing for India, an also in water-twist for Germany, but for other markets the demand was insignificant in amount. Prices for yarns generally were a l-d. per lb. lower than last week, India qualities excepted, and these are about -Id. higher. In the cloth-market prices are the same as last week, and a considerable business has been done (but without any excitement) in shirtings, long-cloths, and T-cloths for India. All depart ments of the cloth-market are firm, the demand for India having tended to keep up values in all kinds of fabrics. Messrs. J. Slagg and Co. report : , 4 The favourable accounts from the India markets, re imv e a d n d p e rt. forte ee s i t a p b h l e o on o W o deed and s n d d a y t h , e causeddeel decline re pretty po rt ed sharp on de Tuesday was partially recovered. Yesterday and to-day there has been rather less doing in them, but prices are firm at the advance. There has been rather more inquiry for T-cloths and-long-cloths to-day, and the full prices of last week were readily obtained. For other descriptions there is a quiet, steady demand, without change in prices." The Paris meeting on the Suez Canal question is fixed for the 15th of next month. In the interval Mr. Lange, the representative of the company in this country, is about to revisit the various towns in which meetings were held last year. 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