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1 1 11 EAT It OY AL, U R Y-L A NE. Under the Management of MiA3 L. ryne and Mr. W. Ilarrison. THIS EVENING, MAR ITAN A. Characters by lam; 1.01t4a sitsan M. l'reL:eatt, Mr. Verdi na:El iirt,ver, Mr. George !lotwy. Me. J. U. ratcy, Mr. Bar th:man, Mr. Kirby, an+l .Ilr. W. Ifarrismi. Conclactorr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with new Millet DivertiBservmt, LA FLEUR D'Amoen : nod Pivolustle. 0 Rl\ C S' S THEATRE. ) Under the Manalein:n tof Mr. Charles Kean. s ^ IS l 3 EVENING•wiII I, , pre:knited Shakspere's flay of KING JOHN. King Jahn, :ill-. C. Kean—Constance, 31r3. C. limn. rreceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. rrEATIt E-110 Y AL, II A YAIARKET. • Leasee, J. B. Buck Atom. }:TP:NING w - 01 be perfprine,l LONDON ASSU- R ‘N'CIi clic. and Mrs. C. Matthew+, Lte. Ilk; WOULD 111..1 A . N Amu. JACK'S RETuRY FR(JM CANTON. • - And ANY PORT IN A STORM. • . . Commence at 7. 11 0 Y AL.STRAND TTIE AT R E I.essee and Direc'creii., Mis 4 Swanlywoulzlt. EI7gNING, •WOOING IN IR. 1 AND LOVING 1\ KAI:NEST: 3lessr4.. a::}1 Miss Swan °rough. After which Tirz MAID AND THE MAGVIE. P 911 " ..7 . 41 - by 'nig BONNIE w I Anil IV( AUNT'S 1-11.1513 AND ; Mr. Swanborough, Mrs. Oe:by,3lis3 Tertian. . . Commence at 7 o'clock. A VS ROYAL AM P ITH E ATR E, W-est in in ster-road. Sole Lessee,. Mr. William Cooke. the New Tariff: Dress Circle, ; Upper Poomee, 2s. ; Pit, la. ; Galleries, 6d. Great am! Extraordinary Sensation produced by the new and brilliant Decorations —Splendid Act Drop—Magnificent Chstidelier—Appropriate Scenery. Durine . the - week the new and successful drama of THE BArrLE OF BOTHWELL BRIG. With TILE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, comprising* the eyointions and egnitat ions of the first Professors itt the world th,:runeepialle , l Stud of Horses. To cericlude with a Farce called fee for boo kitr- FAMILY JARS. No Stage Manager, Mr. It. Phillips. • , . fl . ANTERBURY HALL, WegtrninOcr-fortd.— ' . Proprietor—C. MoRTaN. publ . _ The ic : is most roapecttully. informed ilutt the _FINE ARTA I to.rttv, in 'connection with the above Hall, !SNOW OPEN. 1)AI AND,S.N (IT, -from 11 o'clock h.ni. until 12 o'clock p.m. The :IN ew Gallery contains an extensive-Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern 3-fasters, and is also devoted to Art 'productions generally. The Proprietor. feels be may coundently :I..4sert that, viewed altogether, the exbot itr, Musie "Hall, the Nei' Pine:Arts Gallery. rrd t'te r-cently added Aitte-Hall, will livs.7nt.- attraction which, whether as r,-:.;ards the architectural. beauty of the structures them sr(; e., or the varied and , hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be•found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at Sevin o'clock. THE WEATHER.--StTN OFFICE, Nov. 5. THERM 4 METER, IN TUE SHADE. 53—highest since neon yesterday. 48-lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. - - BARomETER-r-30 - 18. Wt.). -- n, Northerly; fresh, with dull hazy weather. THE SUN. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1858. Next session will, we hope and believe, call forth all the energies,of the Independent Liberals. They will hold the reins of power in their ,own hands— will be the judges to decide on the conflicting elaiini,of the several candidates for office. That a Reform Bill will..be brought forward by the Offernment is certain. The intimations that have slrea ly been given—the hints thrown out, prove, beyend -the possibility of doubt, that Lord DERBY will appear in,the field as a Reformer. But what will be the extent and nature of the anticipated Treasure? • That is the great, the all-important question. Will it be merely a plausible exense, to " keep the word of promise to the ear, but • break it'• to the hope?" . or -will it fairly, enter on the great luestion3 on which the - voice. or public opinion hits already spoken trumpet-tongued, and on which the• popular mind has been earnestly set? Such a proposal wou'd establish the Government of Lord DERBY firmly in Office. But should there be any holding back— any refusal to keep pace with the advanced intel ligence of the agc-,—the prestige achieved during the priA se:ision will be seriously deteriorated, if not absolutely forfeited, and once more there will be seramble Sot' place and power. between those dire will be to give as little as pos sible to the people. Lord r.l - I,3I.I{,SiME, too, will probably produce 1118 long-promised bill, no inkling whereof was suffered to ooze - Prth, probably for the very good reason that the Noble Lord did not know his own Mind, gnd had not exactly decided on any of its provisions. It is notorious that nothing was pre pared, that not a line-was drawn out of what was to have been the great - measure of the session, and " the - Lead;ng Journal" was throwing out many hints as to the prApriety of postponement, and the iinpc:ssibility of carrying a Reform Bill together with our India bill, and other pending measures. The ex- - I,)rTaiir hid grown over-c.mfident. lle fanci.:l that his party. was to po..verful to allow of the po.f4bility of any Ferious &int ; that because he to " albeit -without any real clam: c title, the independent party were bound tlyielduAreascaing obedience, and to submit to any amount ef - P;nubl:lng and contumely which he might think proper to heap upon them. The mere hint of resignation would, he supposed, be sufficient atL7.ny.moment to bring . 111.? v.-averers back to their allegiance; br, even if he should go through what de dc'enied to lie the Pree of regipation, that he had only to stretch forth his hand again and take pwessiOn of office, whenever he likLd to do so. ' 'deed, it seemed to be rather a good joke than . oilierwise; for, as he : imagined, it would speedily bring the insubordinate memben of the party to a - 126 - E6 - :vd thtiir situation, and induce them tn - obey the Ministerial behests " with bated breath and deep humility." Tor once he reckoned without his.hoA. The c'tV- 3 11s "Con,i piracy Bill" had alienated every . true, hearted Libiral, and the thorough pluck. of Lord I)EnBY and.hcs coned ues comnraatled the respect , • . end tnl taf l ° ll of thellortieand country, and • allthawaircquired—Yiz., a fair and impartial tria . ' cr " the (111 -gl ,l - of the. community at the . cl r ur g . 4 mPcnding cliiticn Mica were sati4actorily an honeural;ly adjuqud. Importailt concessions were made. - Faith was kept with 'respect to the Inemne 7 tax, and a budget introduced that was the approbatioli of men. of all clay es in society,. and of every shade and variety of political Opinion. The *Mall instalment of: Reform granted by the Aoli .gale i mu i ense protierty, qualificatio n " tion,of the 1-lirac , terF It po pularity to . v, 43 shown that they r: re r..ot refusing al.3a , iverf,ally required nrac lioration, iv or credit for it der to get a. 9 part of an o r wise Meat,rrre measure. Auspicious auguries thc g a thered from the fact, and sanguine hopes were 0 Nver enter t a inecl that Lord .DERBY, who was o ne f the: Ministers • 'Passed the first Reform Bill, it forward to ite legiti would he the man to carry mate extent... .The settlement of the Jewish disabilities giving to. Baron ROTHSCHILD the seat for which he . had be,e n kept twelve Y e ars waiting by the self - styled lAberak, .was another great feather in th e terial Cap. was_ said that it' Was forced Uppit them, and that if, they possibly could they woUid ham© refused the boon. tal_, at, L:ast, iS aer: 13 that it vELs6 by their - means that the A:its - "FYIt admission to the Legislature, and that the injustice and disabilities under which a body of loyal men had so long been labottring; wcre're moved, and it is by no means clear that he cliff, cult- would have been surmuunted. iad Lord PALmERsToN-remained in office. An admirable measure for the futur government of India was also carried successfully through Par- liament, which transferred the .Government of that mighty empire from the East Inditi Company to Queen VICTORIA. An admirable Council was appointed to assist With . advice the new Secretary • f State. Some had been elected by the directors of the moribund Com pany, and the choice met general approval. The nominated members were equally unexceptionable. Indeed, it was u niversally admitted that in the new Board the Minister& had been fortunate enough to put the right men in the right places. Mr. Wirt.n, then, was fully justified in declaring that more had been accomplished by the present Ministry, during the part of a session that they were in power, than by their predecessors during the many years that they-were in office. So much for the past. The country is now looking anxiously onward, and speculating on what will be the tenders from the rival parties. There must be a great extension of the franchise—that is inevitable. The constitu tional theory is, that there can be no taxation with out representation. Every man who contributes to the national revenue, directly or indirectly, is entitled to a voice in the framing of the laws, or in controlling the public expenditure. Almost every male a'lult would, according to this theory, have an irresistible claim to a vote, but some re strictions have been imposed, and although great relaxation should take place, some security may still be required to show the fitness of the party. Every person paying any direct tax or rate should, as a matter of course, obtain a vote.; and Mr WYLD'S suggestion, that every person able "to read _ and write" Tel r.L.o cbtain the fran chise, is worthy of attentive consideration. Nothing would give a greater stimulus to educa tion, or inspire the rising generation with a desire to improve their minds, in- order that they may cease to be political ciphers, and have voices in the government of their country. . There must also be a more equitable distribution of the electoral districts. It, is too ridiculous to say that 180,000 voters should return more than half the members of ,the House of Commons, while more than four times the number return only a minority: Indeed Mr. BRIGHT has shown that little more than twenty representatives have- as many constituents as the favoured 330, who can carry anything they desire, and place or overthrow an administration. The Ballot is, however, the most important of al the demands that have been put forward. No extension, no redistribution of the franchise can be satisfactory. unless full protection be accorded to the voter in the discharge of the important trust confided to his charge. The public mind is intently set on that, and without its concession nothing will be acceptable. Lord PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL have proved themselves the inveterate opponents of this just and salutary change, and it now remains for Lord DERBY and his coadjutors to show that they are more willing to meet the wishes of the community. We invite attention to the communication from "An Old Soldier and Politician," which will be found in another part of this day's impression. He very properly insists on a limitation of the du ration of Parliament, in order that hon. gentlemen may retain a more lively sense of the responsibility they' owe to 'their constituents. Yerhnps the best plan would he that one fourth of the elected should relinquish their seats every year, so that there would be an entire change every four years. Our correspondent's letter will well repay perusal. We earnestly invite public attention to a letter from an energetic, consistent, and indefatigable monetary reformer on the all-important question of currency reform. Mr. I-TAMER STANSFELD has lost no opportunity of recording his deliberate and well-considered opinions against the mon ster grievance that too frequently paralyses the national industry, and leads to periodical convulsions in the money market, and passes, by a regular cycle, through all the phases, from mania to panic, and back again from panic to mania. There is no person whose contributions and arguments in favour of a free trade in currency have been more convincing than those of Mr. • STANSFELD, and we - always rejoice to give insertion •to anything from a . respected and valued collftborateur, on a subject in which he is so com pletely at home. Mr. STANSFELD'S letter is addressed to the President of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce. It :;bows that the wishes and intentions of that important and influential body have been frus trated, and that the views which they desired to be represented to the Committee on the Bank Char ter Act have been; -s-no doubt unintentionally-- suppres,ed. The Leeds Chamber has, to its honour, boldly entered on the qv estion usually voted a bore, and it passed two resolutions that reflected great credit on its members. Although its trade was in the soundest dud .healthiest _condition, the clear headed men engaged therein perceived that they would he involved in the greatest difficulties but for the suspension of the Act and the indispensable violation of its 'stringent regulations. They ac t cordingly passed the following rcsolutionS, which ought to have been printed in letters of gold, viz.:-- " Ist. That the clause in the act which limits the Direc tors of the Bank of England. to an issue of - .£11,000,000, excepting against gotd, ought to be'aboliahed,•stnd that the d:rectors should have a discretionary power to exceed that limit as, necessity may require. . • • , , . "Id. That the 'Bank direetOrs should also be . allowed 40 ipme Li Banl of England 'notes; convertible .into gold in Lond;3n, in times of pressure and difficult y ." , These resblutiens - strike at the 'very root of the act of 1844. Its very essence ;14' to enhance the issues whenever there is an abundance of bullion in the Bank coffer:, *but to • starve the currency whenever there is a partial deficiency. It is, there fore, doubly- mischievous, and produces the alterna tions betwaen 1 and 20 per . cent., so dear to the hearts of the "hard calculators." I\ 7 llen money is cheap it ,adds to the abundance : the Bank is bound to purchase from every . Vendor at £3l7s. 9d., :314 ,is compelled to force its paper on the market at almost nominal rates. Great excitement is thus produced, when everything would remain quiet, if the directors were allowed to exercise their discretion,- and to follow the promptingS, of -their experience and judgment. FourteenMims of money against paper may rkt one time be too much, but it is far more likely to, be too little. The undue inflation of the currency is mischievous, because it. inevitably leads to a collapse, and produces the other extreme. The ~directors, - however, cannot help themselves, and they "Are exposed to a - series of almost daily Mouse-square, b ecause lectures from Printing they *ill not cast aside prudence and stimulate the excitement to the highest pitch on this account, and the country are .greatly indebted 2 tO _:.• them for refus in g to listen .to the ill< idi crizi oc th "hard cAeulator " of the orgaP • • Sit :period • that • - the 4. e d ot e() t he £14,000,000 again st eectai .... tie s was established,. the foreign commerce (.4f the country has more than doubled. And we .believe that the internal trade was incr , :aged in a st7l greater ratio. The repre sett tative and measlare of value which was at ~‘ one time •amply", sufficient for every demand is therefore now altogether inadequate. The de mand_ lifts been more than doubled, but the supply remain i stationary. llence the difficulty—hence the distress, which could only be averted by a copiot s issue of notes, many of them of such convey iient denominations as would enable them to take xhe place of sovereigns. In 1825 the accidental discovery of a box of X 1 notes saved the Bank from closing its - doors, and the nation . from the wildest con fusion and general distress. Lord ASHBUR TON explained. the magical effect of the dircovery. He declared that " the credit of the Bat tk for all domestic purposes was perfect." So it is still, and, so it has been during the times of greatest distress and difficulty. Never was a bank note objected to. All that was required was that there should be a sufficient supply to meet the wants of the people. The worthless rags were always acceptable. As we have repeatedly stated, the issue of twenty millions of £1 notes would economise an equal amount of gold. Indeed Mr. JAMES WILSON, late Secretary of the Treasury, declared that it would produce an equal result to the discovery of twenty millions of gold in the centre of England. We trust, then, that the Leeds Chamber of Com merce will follow up its.valuable resolutions, and that other bodies of a snilar character may thoroughly investigate and arrive at sound con clusions respecting a question incomparably the most important that could be ventilated, and on which the welfare, happiness, and prosperity of the industrious population of the United Kingdom mainly depend. Calamities, sometimes, by the very excess of theirhorror, are productive of certain advantages. They illustrate in an unmistakeable manner the necessity of precaution • and the feasibility of measures for the prevention of their recurrence. There have been two' r three catastrophes recently both by sea and land; precisely of the same charac ter--catastrophes so frightful in their magnitude that they startle society into a vivid recognition of the fact that there really exists aperpetual liability to their occurrence. But with the demonstration of this truth Collies the consolatory conviction that by the adoptionof.certain rational precautions-that "lamentable liability may be appreciably diminished. There was very recently, for example, the de struction by fire far out at sea of the German-emi grant ship the Austria—with the total loss of her numerous passengers, and the all but total loss of her crew. The horror of that calamity still lives in our remembrance like a nightmare. • It is still vividly present to our imagination. .Thosehundreds of our fellow - creatures huddled together in a corner of the deck with the flames gra dually eating a. way towards them—narrowing the space in which they were crowded upon each other—scorching them more and more fear fully—driving, them one upon another, until, with the intensity of the burning beat, and the pressure of the throng, the wretched victims dropped one by one, or in:- agonised clusters, into the fathom less ocean beneath. All this • wholesale death • frbm the fact that the boats had been stove in, capsized; or otherwise rendered Useless by the suicidal rush into thein- of the panic stricken men, women, and children, at the first outburst of the conflagration. Supposing measures of precaution to have been adopted betimes, with a view to the prevention of this mad rush - to the boats--.-supposing the . crew to have been well organised, each -man going to his appointed place at the period of emergency, the passengers being methodically told off into the various boats in succession, the vast majority, if not the whole, of -the unfortunate creatures now gone might at this very time .be surviving. Precautionary .measures of this kind could, under the- direction of a vigoroUS com mander, be readily taken by a few simple. an ticipative arrangements. It does not appear to us at all impracticable to render the recurrence of these destructive rushes to the boats almost im possible—and this' without in any way impeding the free and proper , iworking of the ship. A light but strong moveable framework might be contigu ous to every boat upon the ship—a framework Capable of being moved out at the first alarm, and firmly locked into .position, as a barrier against undue pressure. One by one, at a wicket entrance, the passengers might be • admitted—one by one they might be placed in order in the boats—one by one the boats themselves might be lowered With a . . regularity and precision like that of clockwork. Together with these very possible and reasonable arrangements there might be- secured,' besides ample boat accommodation, an abundant store of life-preservers. There is nothing in all this in any \‘'-a.v extravagant: the thing might readily be done —it might be rendered compulsory in every passen gcr-vessel leaving our shores—the men en bOard a ship might be 'periodically drilled to the working of the - system as it . portion of their rcgnlar.exercise.. There is plenty of iclle time out at sea. - That idle time might be as well occupied ----a portion of it—in this way - as in any other. The idea, at any rate, is well worth taking into consideration. The recurrence in the case of the Eastern City of a like casualty to that which resulted in the total destruction of so many of our hapless fellow-creatures on board the Austria, has but very recently brought this dread peril again before tbe public. There is no reason at all why efforts in the : way here sUggeked might not be attempted with a view to the diminution of a danger so trulyawful in its character —one, more over,• so constantly affecting our national" interests and home affections as a great maritime and mer- I cantile community. MUM' CIRCULA.R. WINDSOR, Nov; 4. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stan ley arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit, and dined with het Majesty; Col. the Hon. R. Bruce, Major-General the Right Hon. J. Peel, and Major-General Sir . Harry J ones had the.honour to be included. The Queen and Prince :Consort walked in the Home Park this morning. The Princesses Alice and Helena rode in the Riding- house. The Hon. Lucy Kerr and the Hon. Mary . Bulteel have succeed the Hon. Beatrice Byng and the Hon. Emily Cathcart as Maids of Honour in Waiting. • Major-General the Right lion. J. Peel returned to Lon don in the forenoon, and Major-General Sir Harry Jones left Windsor for Sandhurst. A deputation from the Board of Guardians of the City of London Union, consisting, of Mr. Abbiss, Mr. Sibley, Mr. Badger, Mr. Fisher, Mr, Wood, Mr. Hill, Mr. Saunders, and the Rev. T. Wiltshire, together with Mr. Bowring, Clerk of the Union, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Sotheron Estcourt yesterday at the office otthe Poor taw Board. . The Right Hon. T. W. Henley left London on Wednes day evening for Brighton. Despatches were received at the Colonial-Office, yester day, from tho Governors of Ceylon, ManritiuS, Hong Kong and Malta. A deputation of the Rod Sea and Indian Telograpji Com pany waited on the First Lord of the Admiralty yester a;le:n:eieslting(tecroeftary Mr. ). Marshman, the eliairman of the company ; Mr. 'W. H. Stephenon (of4ial director) ; Mr. 7 . 1 ... Dent ; Capt. Hall, R.N., C.B. ; Mr. Eric C. Smith, !ki Lionel Gi . sborno (engineer to the ompo.ny), .and Mr. . .... . _ . , 1 i...7•:., t i , . 4 .... % v e . .. . ~ • ~.. !)..:%,:,:;,'' , .<‘4. 0 1611111.41 1 . -. .. , 4. , • i 1 . ...o. 4 : A 1111V; ', . . ; 4111111 bc ' - t i(fr . . .::: ;' 4•; * • ' ~,„ 1.• , „; ;„,: ' „,. <,..? • 4 ' , ..,1 -!. ;', .., -.' l, ..- ~ ! 't. , -' , ..:.,;-- T gul - r i. ‘ . ..,,,,--fai,, THE SUN, LONDON, Fl l DAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1858. LATEST NEWS. PRUSSIA. THE CHANGE OF, MINISTRY IN PRUSSIA. BERLIN, THURSDAY. The Ministers Von der Heydt (Trade), and Simons (Justice), have received an offer of seats in the administration which the Prince of Hohen zollern is-forming—an offer which, however, they have declined to accept. The Prince's acceptance of a commission from the Regent to form a Cabinet was made known to his colleagues by Baron von Manteuffel on the 3d. The old Ministers remain in office until the Prince's arrangements are completed. In the new Prussian Ministry Prince Hohen zollern is President of the Council ;M. Schleinitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Bethman-Holl weg, Minister of Public Instruction ; and General Bonin, War Minister. The rest of the present Mi nistry will, it is said, retire, as soon as the arrange ments for supplying their places are completed. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur publishes a report from the Prince Minister of Algeria, proposing that all past or future transactions for the sale and transfer of lauded property between one Mussulman and another, or between a Mussulman and a sew, shall be regulated by Art. 3 of the ordinance of the Ist October, 1844, and Art. 17, of the law of 16th June, 18M. These articles state that no sale or transfer of landed property in Algeria consented to by a native for the benefit of a European can be attacked on the ground that the sale of such pro perty was prohibit edby the Mussulman law. Among the various reasons put forth by the Prince Minister in his report in favour of the present measure, he mentions that, in many instances, property had been sold, and after it had undergone various im provements, and been considerably increased in value, the sellers had come forward and claimed its restitution on the simple reimbursement of the original purchase money, urging in support of their claim that the sale of such property was prohibited by the Mussulman law. In some of those cases the purchaser, says the report, had been obliged to deliver up property which had become twenty times more valuable since it had been in his possession. The report is followed by an Imperial decree carry hag out the system recommended. A letter from Manilla states that the Spanish troops destined to co-operate with the French in Cochin-China sailed from that port on the 27th Aug. for the Huo-nang group of islands, about sixty miles from the coast of Tonkin, which had been fixed on as the rendezvous. The Spanish forces consisted, as already stated, chiefly of Tagal troops, with two battalions of riflemen, a detach ment of cavalry, and one of artillery of the royal army. Twenty-one transports were employed to convey the troops, and other 4 were to follow with ammunition, provisions, tents, clothing, &c. On the evening preceding their departure a solemn mass was celebrated in the open air in presence of the troops, and was attendzd by the Captain-General and other authorities. BOURSE, Nov. 4.—Rente has been offered, owing to the deliveries of stock which have been pressed on the market for the liquidation ; one broker alone has delivered 575,000 f. of Rentes, that is, fort capital of more than 13 millions of francs. Threes have been done from 73f. to 72f. 90e. ; Mobilier, 910 f. to 915 f. ; Lyons, 876 f. 25c. to 877 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,340 f. to 1,342 f. 50c. ; Southern, 563 f. to 566 f. 25c. ; and Eastern, 705 f. to 705 f. 25c. The following were the last quotations : It per Cents. .... 95 90 Cr6ditroneier 650 Do. owl roorktli. .. Belgian 41 — 3 per Cent 5....... 72 85 Piedmonterse (5) Do. end month.... 73 Roman 94 V Bank Shares . 31.50 Austrian Credit Mobilier 925 Spanish Threes 46 50f Do. Account 923 75 I Home Debt 42 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Orleans ___ Account. 1342 50 972 50 Northern New ditto. Bl5 .. Lyons and Mediterranean... • New ditto - -- • • Geneva 623 75 .. 620 Midi . — • • Southern Western . . .... , Eastern Grand Central - „ „ . Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71e. ; money, 25f sc, ; three months, paper, 24f. 921 e. ; money, 24f. 87le. A Belgrade letter. says :- —" The question of de ciding whether functionaries and ecclesiastics should be permitted to sit in the great popular assembly of Sonia came on lately before the Sedate, and was resolved in the affirmative. The place of holding the meeting has led to a difference between the Prince and the agent of the Porte. The former desires to ha , e it at Kragajewatz, be came the proceedings could not be free at Belgrade, in consequence of the presence of a: Turkish garri son. The matter remains undecided, but it is said that the Scrvian G overnm ent has addressed a note to the great power s o n the subject, complaining that the rights guaranteed to it have not been duly regarded. A letter from Bagdad of the 19th ult. states that the Arab tribes of the territories between the two branches of the Euphrates, after having been de feated several times by Iskender Pacha, had made their submission to Omer Pacha. In one of their combats with Iskender Pacha they lost 300 men, of whom three were sheiks, and in another 100 horses, 4,000 sheep, and 1,000 oxen were captured from them. Several superior officers, and amongst them the Arab colonel, Bou Maza, distinguished them selves in the engagements. Omer Pacha was not expected back to Bagdad until about the middle of November!, A letter from Berlin, of the 2d, states that it was not doubted that the Prince of Hohenzollern Sig marirretn had accepted the task' of forming a Ministry in compliance with the wish of the Prince Regent, but that it was not certain that he would himself remain permanently in the Ministry as President. The Prince is father of the Queen of Portugal. The Belgian journals state that the Minister of the Interior, M. Rogier, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. de Briere, had, left for Wurtemberg and that the object of their journey was to visit the agricultural schools of that kingdom. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. did not all appear, that day being. Sunday, and the con tents of those which reach us are confined to notices of the elections. The Leon Espanol had been again seized. We learn by the Milan Gazette that the Arch duke Ferdinand Maximilian, who has now re turned to the capital of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, received on the 28th ult. Count Castel lani, one of the gentlemen who propose accompany ing Count Freschi on his journey to Asia with a view to attempt the regeneration of the silkworm in Europe by the importation of new species from the East. .11.1.1-1. had upwards of an hour's con versation with Count Castellani, and evinced the deepest interest in the undertaking. CHURCH-RATE CONTEST AT HAWARDEN.—At the general meeting of the parishioners of Hawarden, held im mediately after the destruction of their ancient church by an incendiary; a resolution was unanimously adopted that the parish would raise L'l,ooo by means of two rates towards the sum required ter robuikling the edifice, the patron and the rector agreeing to raise by themselves and their friends the additional amount necessary for completing the work, say 41,000. Tho latter part of the engagement has been duly . observed, and the parish has paid one moiety of 'the rates, but to the second rate an opposition has just been raised. The nutabers, hOwever, at the termination of the scrutiny on Tuesday, were the xate, 280 ;, against, 165—ma jority,- 115:—Vreeter Courant. THE LEEDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND THE BANK COMMITTEE OF THE Hausß OF C0..11310175. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Siu,—l send to you, as one of the warmest advo cates of Monetary Reform, the enclosed lettek to the President of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, as illustrative of the bias of the Chairman of the Bank Committee, whose report reads more like the speech of a counsel for his client than the summing up of a judge. You mark truly, in your Tuesday's edition, on the vast importance it would be, were John Bright, whom I am to call my per sonal friend, to turn his honest mind and splendid talents to the 'consideration of the Money Question. Were he to give the same assistance to the destruc tion of the monopoly in money—the mere instru ment of exchange—which he aid to the monopoly in Corn, he would find many of the evils of which he complains vanish ; and that the same necessity would not exist for the working classes to emigrate, and seek in banishment to a foreign land the necessaries and comforts of life which they cannot find at home.—l remain, Sir, Yours sincerely, HAMER STANSFELD. The Grange, Burly, near Otley, Nov. 4, I'BsB. TO DAR,NTON LUPTON, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE LEEDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Dear Sir,—Not finding in the evidence of Mr. Smith, who was deputed by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce to appear on their behalf before the Bank Committee, any reference whatever to the excellent resolutions passed by them relative to - the Bank Charter Act, I beg to call your attention to the false position in which the Leeds Chambel• of Commerce are placed by the omission. The following extract is from their minutes " BANK. CHARTER ACT. " This Chamber having been requested to depute some gentleman practically conversant with the •working of the above act and its effects on the monetary system and trade of the country, - a meeting of the Council was held on tha 12th of May last—Darnton Lupton, E,sq., the president, in his place—ivhen, after considerable discussion, the meeting passed a reiolation in favour of the following views : " Ist. That the clause in the act, which limits the Directors of the Bank of England to an issue of £14,000,000, except ing against gold, ought to be abolished, and that the directors should have a discretionary power to exceed that limit as necessity may require. " 2d. That the Bank directors should also be allowed to issue £1 Bank of England notes, convertible into gold in London, in times of pressure and difficulty." • The first resolution virtually recommends the repeal of the Act 0f1844, as the clause restricting the Bank of Eng land to an issue of £14,000,000 against securities is the very essence of that Act. The Leeds Chamber or Commerpe, in passing these rese lutions, have, in my opinion, distinguished themselves be yond all other ehamberi of commerce, having pointed out therein the principal cause and cure of monetary panics in this country ; and their views, representing those of Leeds, the metropolis of the important manufacturing district of the West Riding. of Yorkshire, having been requested by the Bank committee, are entitled to be properly recorded on their minutes. That this has not been done appears to have arisen from • the circumstance of Mr. Cardwell, the chairman, a staunch supporter of the Act of 1844, having had a private interview with Mr. Smith previous to his examination before the committee. It may be the privilege of chairmen of committees of the House of Commons to have such interviews;' but if so, it is a practice liable to great abuse. What would be thought of the conduct of a chairman of Quarter Sessions holding private interviews with witnesses previous to a trial, and yet such were held, in more cases than. one, by the chairman of the committee appointed by the representatives of the people, to try the vitally important cause of "the Country versus the Bank Charter Act and its respondent, Lord Overstone." It is but human nature that a chairman, having a strong bias in favour of certain opinions, would, wider such circumstances, however un consciously, shape his questions to a witness in such a man ner as to elicit answers which would meet his views and omit those 'which would not. Should not Mr. Cardwell, as an impartial chairman, have put questions to Mr. Smith- before the committee so as to have given them the opportunity of recording - on their minutes the resolutions of the . Leeds Chamber of Com merce, which were known to Mr. Smith, and doubtless communicated by him to Mr. Cardwell, and are not the public entitled to know what passed in the private inter view as well as what occurred before the committee? What chance was there for the. public, after witnesses had passed through such an ordeal, to obtain a just verdict on the trial of " The Labour Interest versus the Money Interest," ancb with a select committee holding its meetings with doors closed to the public—with two Bank directors amongst its members, sitting in judgment on their own monopoly—with two other members selected expressly to watch over the interests of the joint-stock and private banks of issue—with three bankers besides the Bank directors— with a Peelite for a chairman, who was a party to the in troduction of the Act of 1844, and is still a most strenuous supporter of it—with three other members of the Committee similarly situated, or who voted in favour of the act on its former trial before the committee of 1848. With such com bined adverse influences what chance was there for the pub lic of a just verdict ? Are theynot warranted in denounc ing such a jury as packed—such a committee as " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare ? The testimonies of Mr. Smith, a partner, Messrs. Becketts and Co., and one of the, oldest and most respected banking firms in the country, are entitled to great respect, and in its condemnation of the Act of 1844 is most valuable, corroborating views which I have long entertained and published. He bears witness that the act is inoperative in ordinary times, and fails in times of pressure and panic ; that it in duced 'a Want of • confidence which caused money to •be hoarded ; that although in the district of Leeds, in 1857, there was no excess of credit to any great extent, no ac commodation bills, as far as he could find out, and not one in his own bank, that trade was apparently very sound, and there was not the slightest reason to apprehend a panic; that only one failure in the district connected with the crisis occurred ; yet that, if the Treasury Letter sus pending the Act had not been issued on the 12th of NoveMber, the entire commercial body of this important district " must have gone to the wall." His views, nevertheless, should be regarded. as those only of a private banker, interested in the monopoly of issuing notes, and not as those of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, from which, in some Tespects, they widely differ. The Leeds Chamber of CoMmerce wished the clause re stricting the issue of the Bank of . England to £14,000,000 to be abolished, and a discretionary power to be giyen to the directors to exceed that limit as necessity may require. Mr. Smith wishes the clause to be retained, but a discre tionary power to be given by law to the Government to exceed it in times of pressure. Mr. Smith also wishes, as a private issuing banker, that the period flied by the list for taking the averages of the issues of country bankers should be altered, so as practi cally to add to their issues' 15 per cent. more than they dare at present isue for fear of the penalties imposed by the Act for exceeding the authorised amount. - These wishes of his are almost identical with those ex pressed to the committee by Mr. Rodwell, the chairman of the Association of Country Issuing Bankers. This body wished their own issues to be practically enlarged to the amount intended by the act, by altering the period for tak ing the averages; but they would forego their fair claim, and "continue the provisions of the act precisely as they now stood, rather than open the whole subject for public discussion.'! Foremost amongst these provisions is the clauserrestrict ing the Bank of England to an issue of £14,000,000 against securities, the keystone of the work of ;monopoly; -but, as regards thiF point, Mr: Smith so fir differs from them, that he would allow the Government to enlarge and strengthen it, when rid . longer able to bear the pressure of the stiper. structure of commercial liabilities. Mr. Smith is warranted in giving his own views, from the nature .of his appointment by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce. He is asked by the committee ( 5 ,57 5 ), " You have been 'depUted by the Leeds Chamber of Commerce to come and give evidence before this committee:" and he answers, ." They passed a resolution requesting me to.come here. I was not at home at that time. It was done, therefore, quite ignorant of their intention." Of course, unCleistich an appointment, he was not committed to re present exclusively the views of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce. . . . • The following questions respecting the propriety of an issue of one pound notes were put to him, not by the chair man, who must have learnt from Mr. Solidi that such an issue was recommended by the Leeds Chamber of Com merce in time of pressure and difficulty, but incidentally by another member of the committee, Mr. Cayley—( s ,7 so ). "You have asked with regard to the year 1825, when there was only £1,250,100 of bullion left in. the coffers 'of the Bank, do you remember that in spite of that low state of bullion, the panic was relieved by the issue of a number of one pound .notes ?" " Yes, perfectly" (5,751). " That, in point of fact, was 'analogous in principle to the extra issue which was ,empowered by the Government Letter 2" " It supplied thel3lace of bullion, and would do so again ; it would do so at any time." The Leeds Chamber of Commerce have a duty to dis chargethey owe it to themselves and to the public, to ascertain and make known how it happened that theiy deli berative resolutions respecting the Bank Chart n- Act wcra suppressed, and never reached the Bank Committee. Not doubting that they will faithfully discharge this national duty, and place themselves in the right relative to this all-important question, I remain, dear sir, yours sin cerely, ~ HAMER STANSFELD. The Grango, Burly, ne - r O'-ley, Nov. 3, 1858. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners chartered yesterday afternoon, the '4th inst., th e Commodore Perry, 2,143 tons, to sad. from Liverpool for Melbourne, Victoria, at £l3 13s. 9d. per statute adult, to be ready for the reception of passew-ers OA such day as the COnaja,Moners appoint between the 10th and 17th Deciarber. AN OLD 'SOLDIER ON REFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A fair number of our Parliamentary great guns have already fired off, and many more will probably shortly follow. Most of them will, I suspect, have shown themselves to be loaded with blank cartridge, and little can be expected from them, before the war season . commences in February next, when, it is to be hoped, they will throw in their round shot with good effect, and that the pro mised Reform Bill will not end in smoke. A chief in gredient in it ought to be, in my humble opinion, the Vote by Ballot. But, sir, I have not, as yet, observed that any speaker has touched on that point, which I consider equally essential—the dura tion of Parliaments. Now, sir, it is much more pleasant to a newly-elected member to say to his friends—" Now, 1 hope to be able to represent you for many a year to come," or to think that he has a good chance of doing so, and thus (to use a com mon phrase) to snap his fingers at them, than to have:the reflection that he will have to appear among them again at the end of three years, at furthest. An argument frequently used against this change is, that the average duration of Parliaments 'is not above three years. This, I think, should have no weight, for we have known theni to run on till six years' duration, one, not many years back, to its seventh year. I will not, however, touch on historical periods, but confine myself to expressing My. opinion that our present system .is totally wrong, and is only maintained by the objection our public men have of speaking or writing on what may be termed " a self-denying ordinance." To go to another point—that which I commenced with great 'guns. No has come out so strongly, and whose speeches at Birmingham have been ' commented on by you so forcibly and so justly : I presume tuniake a few reMarlf,s. Is it not strange that hethe apostle of peace at any price, the Intel* hater of war and all its paraphernalia— should have gone to Birmingham, of all places in the kingdom, the very focus and hot-bed of every thing that produces the means by which war is carried on, and among constituents who are chiefly employed in the construction of every deadly weapon —cannon, swords, rifles, &c. How is it, I ask, that Mr. Bright can so outrage his feelings and his opinions as to ask for the suffrages of such destroying hands. Your faithful servant, AN OLD SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN. The Welsh Hills, Nov. 3, 1858. LITERATURE. Lives of the Queens of Scotland. By Agnes Strick land. Vol. VII. Blackwood. and Sons. Another volume will bring to a close this noble series of historic biographies. It will comprise within it the lives of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and of her daughter Sophia, the Electress of Hanover, upon whom, as our annals relate, the succession to the Crown of Britain was settled by Act of Parliament. It is especially observable that the conclusion of the life of the Electress Sophia brings these historical biographies down to a period contemporaneous with the reign of Queen Anne, the narrative of whose career, it will be remembered, completes*the record of" The Lives ofthe Queens of England," by Agnes Strickland. So that the range of the companion series, now rapidly approaching its completion, will be directly parallel with that of its brilliant and classic predecessor. Already this remarkable contribution to our national annals has so nearly advanced towards its termination that we may speak of it as a work virtually completed. So far as relates to the, Queen's Regnant of Scotland, it is, in fact, at this moment brought to a conclusion—the current - volumes relating the last mournful incidents in the career of the beautiful and unfortunate princess whose memory survives as that of the most roman tic of all the Scottish Sovereigns. Miss Strick land's narrative of the death of Mary Stuart is, beyond any question whatever, the most eloquent, the most touching, and the most authentic ever yet penned by biographer. It is impossible to read it without emotion. 'The scene, the person ages the incidents, all rise up before us as we turn the leaves—as vividly as though we really saw and heard them—as though they were events not of three centuries since, but of yesterday. The piety of Marys death is placed beyond the possibility of doubt. Her patience, her meekness, her tender thought for others rather than for herself, all these pathetic evidences of her perfect . submission to the decrees of Divine Providence are displayed conspi cuously for our admiration. During the breathless moments of preparation upon the morning of her most inhuman execution, we hear resounding melo diously that exquisite impromptu prayer, " well known," says Miss Sti ickland, "to have been ex temporised by the Queen" during her last devo tions : " 0 Domino Deus I Speravi in to ; 0 care me Jesu I nurse libera me. In dura catena, in misera pcena, desidero : Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo, Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me I" Exquisite words of tender and pathetic sup plication—words that may thus be echoed back in the vernacular : " 0 Lord and O. God I have hoped in thee. 0 Jesus, sweet Jesus, now liberate me ; In sorrow I languish, in chains and in anguish, Lamenting, repenting on lowly bent knee, Adoring, imploring -0 liberate M 9 I" It is difficult, lookineback at this infamous crime —the murder. of Mary Stuart by order of the Eng lish -Queen and Government—it is difficult to say whose conduct appears the most. cruel and inhu, man among those who, either directly or indirectly, partiCipated in its •perpetration: The brutal and fanatic Earl of Kent fills us with abhorrence. The harsh and unrelenting bigotry of the Dean of Peterborough excites in our mind, as we read on, feelings of half-incredulous amazement. None can recal to mind without a shudder the pitiless spite with which Elizabeth vowed that her rival should die the death, confirming the de claration with an oath, " Yea, by G-- !" Few can remember without mingled emotions of scorn and horror the callous and implacable hardihood with which Lord Burleigh ordered all the arrange ments for the execution. It is Consolatory to remem ber that if the creatures of the English Queen were thus covering themselves with infamy by aiding with inhuman zeal the atrocious work of official assassination—the faithful dependants of the Royal victim were in some manner redeeming human nature from this infamy by their evidences of deathless devotion. The tragic spectacle revealed to us through this sombre loophole of history is one, in truth, eminently calculated to excite our pity and our admiration. There are tears in the annalist's voice , as. she tells the tale to us anew ; and, beating our brea3t like 'the wedding guest in the poem of Coleridge, we needs must listen to the words of the sorrowful narrative.. " Sadder and wiser" we close the volume—grateful to the pro found research and vivifying eloquence of Agnes Strickland. Remembering, vhile we lay the book aside, that according to those closing lines of Caussin, Queen Mary's French biographer—" So long as there shall be eyes and tears in this vale of misery, there shall-be-tears-distilled on those Royal ashesi and - the piety of the living shall never cease with full hands to strew lilies, and violets, and roses 'on her tomb." And the perpetuated grief is Wholesome purifying and elevating. Olim IneininisW e A Summer and Winter in the Two 'Wellies. By Julia Kavanagh; author, of " Nathalie," " Adele," &c. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Miss Kavanagh's clever historical works and sparkling novels have long since obtained for her a high rank among our feminine writers. She has now ventured into a new sphere, ancl has given us her impressions of Southern Italy—a task for which her cultivated artistic taste and unusual knowledge of ancient history especially qualify her. Her de scriptions of the loveliness of Italian skies and scenery are glowing and enthusiastic ; indeed pro saic readers will be tempted to say they are almost too much so ; at least there is too much reiteration of the artistic delight in the wonderful effects of colour, and the influences of a southern' sky. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm of the, authoress in spires the reader with som e thi ng of the same feel ing ; and those who have visited these beautiful and traditionary regi ons w ill rev i ve their first im pressions while revisiting them in Miss Kavanagh's pages. A lengthened stay at Sorrento enabled her to make the acquaintance of a poor Italian family, and she gives us some pleasing domestic details of the home life and management of these industrious and frugal people. The management of silkworms, the olive trees and vineyards, and the simple girl's foreign, eclm vo r n i der therate in marvels unfolded to her by the pleasantly - among the visions, of rained templ es an d l one l y p l a i ns. Th e historical lore of our authoress is something uncommon for a feminine writer. She has_ all the misdeeds of the Man Emperors, and the comments of Virgil and Horace, always ready for reference or illustration. Her familiarity with the native tongue, too, helps her very much in gaining an insight into national character. When she leaves classics ' and his ory, however, for political econoniy, slit is is not so successful, and her logic shows more of her own country's eloquence and Italian enthusiasm than of sound English common sense. All who love the beautiful in art and nature, who prize the reminiscences of antiquity, must ever regard Italy as a consecrated land ; all who love liberty and re spect independence, must feel sympathy . for the position of her people without despising the national character. But it is too much to depre ciate the glorious privileges of a great and free country, to speak with scorn of all the advances of modern civilisation, in order to represent the Italians as a happy and contented people, far our superiors in all the real ends of government, and not possessing political rights or national education, because they do not wi&h for them, With all the food they care to have cheap, with the priests to disseminate religious knowledge among the lowest, with brotherhoods and sisters of mercy to tend the beggar and the sick, with the festivals of the Church for recreation, what need they care, she asks, if a police inspector objects to the portrait of a man with a beard, or a public officer openly sells justice for a dish of stewed fruit ? Miss Kavanagh in dignantly says that, thanks to the religious societies, so far above our charitable institutions, starvation is unknown ; but she tells us, a little fur ther on, of a lady fainting from want while present ing a petition to the Queen, who, greatly affected, ordered one of the gentlemen of her household to give her a hundred ducats, of which the poor lady received ten. She takes every opportunity, while professing to decline entering on the subject, of depreciating English laws and customs, and many a scornful allusion to the want and ignorance among us does she introduce. Doubtless poverty and crime are plentiful among us—doubtless ignorance and vice are deadly ene nies to our labouring population; but while we own the evils existing, we endeavcur to mitigate them • a d because we make no s ret of our drawback and boldly face and attempt to re.nedy what is wrong, we are told that the Italians are far biter cared for and more contented than our English labouring class. To talk of a " lurking resentment, of which the farsighted prophesy with dread and terror the fatal outbreak" among us, and directly after to speak of the Neapolitans as " physi cally happy and socially free," is simply absurd, and Miss Kavanagh, in her anxiety to claim respect for the land of art and classic memories, has altogether departed from plain facts, and lost herself in a maze of inconsistent sophistry. True lovers of Italy will rather own the wrongs and sufferings of her people, and wait in patience till Time brings the oppor tunity to help her to regain her lost independence and departed freedom. Apart from this question, t tete is much to engage and gratify the reader. The description of the buried cities, though not novel, is always interesting ; and though the same associations must arise with almost every visitor, yet the account of each one's impressions has some thing new and striking. With all Miss Kavanagh's enthusiasm and knowledge, we cannot think she has displayed her abilities to such advantage as in her former works . ; and now that, as she mourn fully tells us, " a year of light and splendour is over," we trust she will again turn her attentiop to that department of literature in which she espe cially shines, and give us a companion picture to the sprightly " Adele" or the heroic " Madeleine." MUSIC. Szx Songs for Leisure Hours. By Thos. Plumptrf Methuen. Cocks and Co. The composer of these 'Six Songs is distineish able at once among the average throng of his con temporaries by his originality and tenderness. Turning the leaves, running our hands over the keys, " lifting up our voice" as he bids us—we not only hear but feel that beyond mere musical acquirements he has great musical endowments that beyond his scientific and manipulative skill he has melody and he has pathos in its expression. Although these songs by Mr. Methuen number only half-a-dozen altogether, they are so various in their merits that they have taken in a wide range of his abilities as a musical composer. As a veil diversified and harmonious collection they will be right welcome in many a boudoir and drawing' room"; and once welcomed in either they will, often and often be transferred from the drawer a the canterbury to the folding stand of the piano. However varied the tastes of the different songsters who may search this little cluster of ballads forplea sure, it will be strange if any fail to find among the, six here grouped together one or two destine long to be ranked among their especial favourites. The first song in the collection is one that Mr. Knight himself might feel honoured in having attributed to him, and the words of which Mr. Chorley might not disdain to have penned—l , Thq Aged man was Sitting"—written by the Rev. H. H. Methuen. - We road it—we sing it—and it haunts our remembrance. Dainty and aerial is the second ballad " When the breath of English Meadows," taken frmn " The Baron's Little Daugh ter." The third, enigmatically entitled " rwould not bring thy dial back"—(words by the comiieser)-- chants earnestly and impressively— OH age is weaving for thy head Its crown of hoary hair, And gems of love and tenderness Are richly studded there. I,3ut thou host sought a diadem More costly in the sky, And we will rest content below While thou art crowned on high." The fourth song—its theme selected from Sacred Poetry, " Sweet Evening Hour "—is. dulcet and meditative: The fifth--who does not remember the delicious verses ?—is an exquisite. rendering ill song of those lovely lines of Tennyson— " Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver! But not by thee my steps shall be For ever and for ever." It is not the first time these beautiful stanzas have been set to music, but they have neverbefore been set to music so gracefully, tenderly, and deliciously; This one song alone ought to secure to Mr: Methuen a wide and enduring , popularity. The, sixth, completing the series, " Speak ! Smile • Sing !" written by Charles Kent, author of Aletheia, repeats in many a tender tone and cadence, no less than in the simple, but dexterous beauty of the accompaniment, the mastery of his, art by the composer. Gladly shall we welcome from the gifted hand of Thomas Plumptre Methuen some other group of melodious compositior s. Mr. Arthur Gordon, third son of Lord Aberdeen will accompany Mr. Gla, stone as Secretary in his mission to Corfu. Mr. Gordon was for some time precis writer at the Foreign-office, and also acted as Private Secretary to his father while Prime Minister. Lady Lytton, says the Beth Chronicle, has re turned from the continent, and again taken up her abode at Clarke's Hotel, Taunton. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, accompanied by their two sons and the Princess de Salerno, arrived at Dresden, from Vienna, on Sunday, on a visit to the e3c - Queen Marie, who resides in a villa near the city. The Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, who has been called by the Prince Regent of Prussia to form a new administration, is the father of the young Queen of Portugal. He abdicated his petty sovereignty a few year s ago in favour of the King of Prussia, the head of the house of Hohenzollern, and obtained by the King's order the title of Highness with the prerogative of a junior prince of the royal family of Piussia. He is a lieutenant-general in the Prussian service, and commandant of the Dusseldorf mill' tary division. He is brother-in-law to the Marquis Pepoti of Bologna (the grandson of Murat, King of Naples), -whose bold and clever pamphlet on the mismanagement, of the Papal finances was lately noticed with so much commen dation. .The Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen is under stood to bee. member of the moderate liberal party. THE OLTTWARD Aus fRALIAN MAILS.—The Post master-General gave notice yesterday, that the Niagara would take out the next overland Australian mail, and that ship mails will be made up in the General Post-office on the morning of the 10th inst for Now York and Newfound land, to be forwarded from Galway in the Prince Albert steamer. THE MAILS, &C.—SOITTHAMPTON, Nov. 4.—Tli Peninsular and Oriental C o mp an y' s steamship Indust Capt. J. Weeks, sailed hence to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. She takes out the India and China mails, 123 first-class and 31 other passengers, a full cargo, and 871 boxes of specie, jewellery, &c., value £238,583 65., con signed as follows :—Bombay, silver, £42,380; jeweller'', £247 lOs ; Ceylon, jewellery, £ 336; M a d ras , silver, £15,000; gold, £1,270 10 3 . ; jewellery, £1,216 16s. ; Calcutta, silver, £30,400; jewelry, £2,749 10s. ; Hong Kong, silver, £96,206 75. 3d, ' • jewellery, £603 ; Sh ang h a i, s il ver , £ 47,960; jewellery, £243 13s. 9d. Total, silver, £231,946 7s. 3d. ; gold, £1,270 10s. ; jewellery, £5,366 Bs. 9d. Among her passengers are Lady F. Somerset and daughter, Deputr Assistant Commissary-General Mills ' Mrs. and Miss Mills. for Malta; Si r H arr y Fl e t c h er , f or Alexandria ; Capt. G. Fireman, Staff-Assistant-Surgeons Crean and Marshall, for Madras ; Captain and Mrs. Pixley, Captain and Mrs, Syme, Paymaster M'Donald, for Calcutta; Rev. W. 3. and Mrs. smith, for Hong Kong, &c. The United States mail steam-ship Vanderbilt, Capt. Lefevre, also left to-day for New York, with the German, French, and English mails, 150 passengers, and a full cargo. She has been detained a day beyond her proper time, in con sequence of the repairs to her keel, & e ., ren dered necessary by touching the ground in the Weser. The screw steamer Bavaria, Capt. Taube, arrived from Hamburg this morning and sails early on Friday for New York, with between 300 and 400 passengers and a large cargo. The Royal Charlie, a small craft of 38 tons burden, Capt. Rowley, sailed from this port yesterday, full of cargo and stores for Trinidad, to take up her, station as a "sugar drover." She is the property of a West India planter, and was built by Messrs. White, of Cowes. The captain is ac companied by his wife and a crew of three men. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Valetta, Capt. A. Kellock,lleaves at 7 a.m. on Friday for London to - be repaired. . THE. LATE ROBBERY OF 970 DOLLARS.—At the Liverpool police court yesterday (Thursday) TimothY Kirby, first officer of the American ship Patterson, NV LIS brought up on remand, charged with having stolen 970 dol lars from a 'seaman named Harding, on board the ship while on the voyage from Now Orleans to Liverpool. The facts of the case appeared in our paper last week, and after the examination of an additional witness yesterday, w" .° swore to se e ing the prisoner with several 5 dollar gold piecel the same evening as the Patterson - arrived in the Liverpool doekit, , Mr. Mansfield -sent the 'prisoner for, trial at the seeElol2ls,