The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

BENS° N'S WAT4H BS, ":Perfection of racehanisra." --Morning Post. Gold Silver — 2 to guineas. Send 2 stamps for ilenson's Illustrated Pamphlet, five of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches ?nut to all parts of the kingdomfrce by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. S 3 and 34, Ludgat4all, London, E.C. Est/0)1131nd 1741 OVAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ," 8, GARDEN—under the Manac4ement of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, CII'OWN DIAMONDS. MhsL. Pyne Miss Thiriwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. 11. Corti, Mr. A. St: Albyn, Mr. If orncastle, and Mr. G. Kelly. To conclude with the First Act of T IIOVA TORE, Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence r.; itl ssee, i.:RO=AL, 13. Bask-stone HAYMARKET. Le KT. J. . THIS EVENING the nerformanoes will oomrnense with the new comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? ileGrs. Howe, Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Backstone ; Miss Amy Sect , - wick - . Miss Florence Hayden, and Mrs. Wilkins. Irollowed by a now comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chippendaie, Howe, Rogers, IV. Farren, snd John Brougham ; Miss Florence Hayden; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. Ey the Leclercqs. Commence at 7.' ItO I „7, P T PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- 4.. 4.1 Lc see and 3rarta:!:er. Mr. A. This Theatre will ltr.-OREN TO-NIGHT (SATITRDAV), Oct. 27, when Mr. Feet:ter, the favourite actor of Parisian re nown,—will make his first appearance on the Env o lish stage. in an adaptation of Victor lityro's celebrated Play of WHY by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ; characters also by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Meadows, Garden. (lraham, Raymond, 3forland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris • Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston. and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. Atter the Farce, the admired Play of THE FIRST NIGHT. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, th e p e rformances will commence with Sheridan Knowles's.Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Th e Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Calimit. Principal chartioters by Mr. T. Lyon, , M Mr. Henry Nevill e . M r. George Vinin , . Mr. H. Butler, „ Mr. 1 oFrester, r: Campbell, Mrs. Keeley, :hiss Kate. Saville, and Miss Gongenhelm. After which, a BALLET DIVERTISEMENT, in which the celebrated Dancers the Misses Marie and Annie Collin son will appear. To conclude with, every Evening, a New Drama, entitled THE PIONEERS OF AMERICA, principal characters by Mr. H. - Watkins (his 11th appearance in Eno-land', Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Forrester, Mr. El. Butler, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. J. Morris, Miss Kate Saville. and Miss Turner. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. • Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq., "The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even ing.. TEETS EVENING, TETE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith. D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Vioolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and hire. Eilliuton After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Ponreicault, D. Fisher, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billirton, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATU CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. _ Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7, Box-Wilco open from lo till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes,"Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, :s. i • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 4d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. -•- Acting itranagar—ilr. Wm. Suitt. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wn. BATTY. Triumphant inccess and increasing popularity of the Grand Spectacle of ROBIN HOOD. This Evening, the highly suocessful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Fitzball. Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or, the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan a-Dal Rebecca, Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of Europe. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-oMee open daily from 11 till 4. Stare Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. C"iTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma ....- Miss RUSSELL. Adaleisa Madame MARIA, (Her first apnearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistino - of Seventeen Per formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Nero Delineations, Anecdotes, Arc. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, 0. W. Pell, 11. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGLIMANS. Balcony, Is, Hall. 6d. e ): ' ,4 , I t , V i 4 c r--- 0 41 - : • , % , , t ,• -- 1 . : 4.' - 'grei , '''l a 3. r . r .-- 4-L, ' biy. 7,4 ' 4 -b 2 "'" , "' ~.' , 45,,,, ,1, ~ ~ . i• , , ~ t . L i " ' ' 'l..t,i - r'• ‘ -4. , e.„ -' . t..., •,-:, - . ~ysh ~~= ti; THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1880. Numerous and frightful though the murders of the present year have been, one of the very blaQkest recorded upon the blood-stained annals of 1860 was the assassination of old Mrs. E3ISLEY down at Mile-end, on the evening of Monday, the 13th of August. It was a crime in itself singularly brutal in its character ; but its own intrinsic atrocity has since then been enhanced by its perpetrator to a degree of i n f a my almost, we believe, if not entirely, un paralleled. The prisoner, who was accused of having deprived this wretched old woman of lite, has now—after what he himself acknowledged to have been a careful and patient trial by a jury of his countrymen—been formally convicted upon th e evidence, and is 'at this present moment in the condemned cell under sentence of death. The evidence upon which GEORGE MUL LINS has been thus found guilty is what the evidence almost invariably (we had nearly written it almost inevitably, from the very nature of the crime of murder) must be—circumstantial. It is the rarest occurrence well imaginable to be found anywhere related in the history of these deeds of blood and darkness, when the murderer is actually seen in the act of destroying human l ire —when he is seized upon the spot, red-handed, with the weapon yet warm in his grasp. Half a century has gone by since the family of the MARS— father, mother, and children—were all butchered, had their throats cut at mid-day in their home, in the very midst o f this populous city of London, actually in the 37 . gh t o r witness against the author of that wholesale assassination. And even then that eye-witness of the crime-.the servant girl, who had gone out to get the beer for dinner —beheld the murderer c utting the throats of his victims as she stood, jug in hand, paralysed with horror at the half-open sitting room door—beheld the murderer cutting the thr oa t s of the la s t o f hi s victims in the reflection of the ghastly scene in tie lass over the mantelpiece ! looking-glass The evidence of an actual eye-witness in fact is about the rarest evi dence that is ever brought into a court of law against a murderer. Whenever it is brought int o court it is almost always that of King's evidence—or rather we should say n ow Queen's evidence. It is the evidence of an accomplice—not actually himself a shedder of blood—who purchases immunity from the penalty of death by the additional infamy of turpitude to the more heinous criminal, the actual assassin, Otherwise in the vast majority of instances the evidence against the accused must needs be, we repeat, almost by necessity circumstan tial evidence. It is entirely upon circumstantial evidence that Alueeime has now been convicted of the murder of Mrs. RUSLEY. No one saw him do t 1 e deed—re one affects to have seen him do it. In all human probability the murder was witnessed only by the awful eye of DIVINE PROVIDENCE. It was perpetrated about twilight o n londay evening, the 13th of A ugust. A crashing blow or two must have done it, when the victim was taken altogether at a disadvantage, ~~~ _ _ THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE', Oar. 27, 1800. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADR. 63—this day at noon. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 58—highesI since noon yesterday. BAnommTnn-29.97. WIND--Southerly; light breeze, and fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. ISra.—Afternoon, 12h, 37m. To-moßaow.-Morning, 121. 54m.—Afternoon, Ilh. 11m. TNitw - tilW back was turned to the assassin, and when 1 there, consequently, could not have been made (from the dcspete character of the blows administered) even a sho of resistance. A plasterer's hammer (exactly flit' to the wounds upon the head of the murdered wo ), a hammer belonging to the 'accused (now the nvicted) was produced in court during the trial in -support of the evidence. A half worn-out boot (likewise, in its turn, fitting to a bloody footprint on a plank of tho flooring imme diately outside the room in which the murdered body was found), a boot also T , lorging to the ae ::sl-(1 (now the convicted), was, in the same way, produced in court during the trial in support of the evidence. The very plank itself, or at least that portion of it bearing the bloody footprint, was submitted in court to the scrutiny of the jurymen, Between the cracks in the worn-out sole of the boot it was shown that there were grey hairs, grey human hairs, precisely like the hair upon the head of the old woman who was murdered. But, then, MuLniels was by trade a plasterer—a stray hair or two like that might (without much marvel) be found sticking to the boot of any plasterer. The jury wanted a pair of compasses to convince them that the size of the boot corresponded with the outline of the bloody footprint. The hammer was an ordinary plasterer's hammer like hundreds of other hammers that would fit just as accurately into the wounds in the head of the miserable woman murdered. All this, and a great deal more of the like kind of circumstantial evidence, was clean swept aside as, comparatively speaking, valueless, in the cautious, masterly, scrupulously impartial summing-up of the Lord Chief Baron POLLOCK, before whom this wretched man was tried, and by whom, after the verdict of guilty had been delivered in by the foreman of the jury, the miserable creature was formally and solemnly sentenced to death as a convicted murderer. All those parts of the circumstantial evidence brought to bear against lisluLLlss, all that about the ham mer, and the boot, and the hair, and the bloody footprint, even the waxed thread tying up the parcel found in the shed near EMI'S house in the brickfield and the thirty threads or strands in the old apron string of tape—all this, let it be observed particu larly, was swept aside by the Lord Chief Baron in his summing up, as being (as we have said), to his mind, in a manner, so to speak, absolutely valueless. But—when the Judge came in his summing up to that part of the evidence where it was shown that Mui,LiNs, unconsciously to himself, revealed the infamous " plant," by which he had endeavoured to fix the guilt of this murder upon an innocent man —for the sake of diverting attention from himself, and of actually obtaining for himself at the same time tho bloodmoney (;C3OO sterling) offered for the discovery of the murderer —then an audible thrill ran through the Court, and it was felt that the jury had but one verdict to give, that the prisoner's days were already numbered. The index finger pointing directly to the guilt of MULLINS was this--at his (MULLINs's) instance, in compli ance with the suggestions of his own volunteered information against Emm as the accused murderer —the shed near Eau's house was surrounded by the police headed by Sergeant TANNER; Nothing was found—the police came out of the shed baffled in their search—and then MULLINS (finding his " plant" fail) stepped forward with the exclama tion, " You hau'n't half searched the shed ; look behind that slab; you'll find the parcel under the bricks at the back of it." Well might the Lord Chief Baron deduce from this that the men tion by MULLINS of the slab and the bricks behind it—inferred on the part of MULLINS a certain guilty knowledge. Recognising those egregiously absurd admissions blundered out by MuLuNs, all the rest of the evidence " fits in" against him, as exactly as the sharpened edge and the blunt end of his hammer fitted into the deadly wounds upon the head of the murdered woman, as the sole of his half worn out boot fitted into the bloody footprint near the door of the room in which her body was found mur dered. The twofold guilt of the assassin and the false-witness is fairly brought home to this hoary headed ruffian—he is convicted, at last, upon the clearest evidence, although throughout every particle of that evidence is strictly circumstantial—he now lies justly condemned to death by the laws of his country, awaiting his last hour, with but short time for repentance, his name blackened with a double infamy—as a villain and a mur derer. The Canadian Orangemen have not yet had their fill of folly. As if it had not been enough to be left to ruminate on their bigotry at Kingston, and to have placed their Mayor at Toronto in the most illnominious position an Eng/islanan can occupy, which we will not, indeed, specify more exactly, they held it appears on the sth a public meeting at Toronto, to whitewash the Orangemen, and to tar and feather the Duke of NEWCASTLE. They have just sense enough to say no harm of the QUEEN and her son, but of the unfortunate Duke they can hardly say evil enough. The truth is they have got themselves into as ridiculous a scrape as the POPE'S Irish Brigade at Spoleto; and, like Dr. CULLEN and the Cathedral full of ecclesiastics who said mass all day long over the souls of the prisoners and poor PIMODAN, the Toronto Orangemen thought that nothing was better than boldly to face it out. The assumption would then be that those who made so much of themselves and theirs were something after all. If a thousand men could vote that they were the excellent of Canada, the very salt of Toronto, and that the Duke of NEWCASTLE ought to be hung, then so it must be. The finding of such a jury who could question ? It will, however, be questioned, and pretty pub licly, too, some clay, if tile Toronto Orangemen go on as they have begun. They have appointed a committee to prepare an address to the Queen, to both Houses of the Imperial Parliament, and to the different branches of the Canadian Legislature, founded on the resolutions passed at this notable meeting ! We may be sure therefore that some Earl RADNOR—or perhaps Messrs. NEWDEGATE and SPOONER, will undertake the business of lecturing the Duke in Parliament by asking for a copy of the address and of her MAJESTY'S advised answer — when perhaps the Premier may have the pleasure of telling all the zealots concerned his views of the advice given by the DUKE to the PRINCE ; and we apprehend they will not wish to be told them a second time: They must have something to say for their rude follies very different to anything they have yet said, before they will change the minds of all England, indeed we might say of all America too, in regard t o their behaviour. They have written themselves mad bigots in the eyes of cis il ization ; it is hardly worth their while to brand it on themselves by further outrageous immodesty. We have read, as carefully as it was practicable to read such rubbish, the full-length report of these brave speeches in a Toronto paper ; and we can s ay that that, for unblushing parading of bigotry an d f o lly, as consummate virtue and w i s d om, they are qu ite equal to the performances of Archbi s h op Cui, L and other leaders l ay and clerical "Brass Band" at home. B u t and , neither the speeches nor the resol u t i ons enabled us Ito get hold of anything which amounted to even th :I. of ' the BwYER, shadow of a grievance. We gave the resolutions on (? Wednesday); but, lest we should misrepre- we repeat the chief accusation in their own words, 'it is that " repressing their patriotic demonstration of welcome to his Royal Highnes the Prince of WALES and interfering with the action of various municipal bodies under whose auspices or with whose sanction they were invited to join in the general rejoicings with their fellow-subjects of all classes and creeds,produced irritation andheart burn ing, and left a feeling of dissatisfaction And (discon tent among the Protestant population of Canada, which never would have existed had the Duke re membered that his Royal Highness was the guest of the Province, and that through the Government alone should all his communications have been ad dressed to the Canadian people." This charge of interfering with the municipal bodies seems to be the favourite one hit upon by the Canadian con stitutional lawyers, as they think themselves. They again " cannot refrain from expressing their in dignation that, while the people of Canada possess representative institutions, and have their own Parliament and the management of their own local affairs, any member of the Imperial Government, who owes no responsibility to them, should dictate the course to be pursued by the inhabitants of the country and make direct communication to their municipal authorities in matters of purely local arrangements which not only did not contravene any law of the Province, but not even any law of the Empire." The ineffable absurdity of all this will be apparent enough when it is recollected that these " municipal authorities" had so managed matters that the DYKE and the PRINCE were com pletely taken by surprise, that it was indeed the intent of these violently cunning men to surprise the PRINCE into passing under their yoke. Whatever the propriety or impropriety of the DUKE'S communicating with the municipal authorities, he had no alternative when the obtru sion upon him of what was known to be offensive was so sudden and municipal. But what can be said for these gentlemen when the correspondence is known which they had the hardihood to produce at the meeting. Mr. CAMERON, the head of the Toronto Orangemen, had written to the Governor, and had been informed by him, after conferring with the DUKE, that an Orange address would " be very embarrassing." He boasts that he bad listened to that advice, and the Orangemen had presented in consequence no ad dress. The Governor, however, seems to have re ceived another letter from the restless Mr. CAMERON—fOrlhat gentleman read to the meeting the following letter : "MY DEAR SIE,—I have no objection to your publish ing my letter of August 13. " If I recollect aright, no word passed between us on the subject of Orange insignia or banners to be used in the re ception of the Prince. Had the question been received, I should certainly have thought them quite as likely to be embarrassing' to an English Prince and English Minister as any address which could be presented. " The antidote to an address may, if necessary, be admi nistered in the answer; the other class of demonstrations admits of no such protest. " however, thin is immaterial. There can be no doubt that you, as the chief authority on the part of the Orange men, foresaw the probability of difficulty, and took measures to obtain correct information at the earliest practicable mo ment. —Yours vex y faithfully, "EDMUND HEAD. "Hon. J. H. CAMERON." Thus fully warned, not through the municipal authorities, but through the Governor of Canada himself, that their gaudy partisan exhibitions would be annoying to our English Prince and Minister, these worthies yet persisted in annoying their guest with what they knew would be so unpleasant to him! lAfter these flucts are known, we imagine there will not be two opinions here on the conduct of these persons—gentlemen, so far as this matter is concerned, we cannot term them. All that we heard before bore but one aspect; but that they should, in reply to their own inquiries, have been told that what they would wish to do would be annoying, and that they should still not abstain from doing it, :renders their behaviour a disgrace to the colony, and no meetings of their partizans all over Canaela can wipe it out. Are we to hope that the sober Protestants of the colony will step forwso:d and vindicate their character. If they do not our conclusion will be, that they, who know so much better than we can do the local status of these bullies, deem them unworthy of their notice. They possibly are below contempt, at least below w hat ought to call forth public ex pression of it. It may be that we, in writing about them, are giving them a purely factitious import ance. Of one thing we are certain, that the con sistent, manly, liberal conduct of the Duke has won him gold en opinions here; and that an Orange mob, wi;th the delinquent Mayor of Toronto in the chair, are little likely to change opinion in England. All ret ipectable Protestants in this country regard Orangeisin much as they do Ultramontanism, and they are only grieved ,to see it compassing sea and land to make proselytes, and when it has made them that it should also make them tenfold more the children of bigotry than them selves. From, such persons the charge of favcuring Catholics at the expense of Protestants, will be simply evidence of perfect religious neutrality on the part of the Duke. The reception accorded to H.R.H. the Prince of WALES by the free-born citizens of the United States is something more important than a mere piece of court pageantry passing through the midst of a hospitable republican demonstration. It is one of the most graceful and beautiful incidents that the future Bancrofts and Macaulaypi will hqve to record in the annals of the eider and the younger divisions of the great Anglo- Saxon race. Americans and Englishmen can only be brought more closely and more cor dially together, by such reciprocations !of good feeling between the citizens of the young republic, and the heir to that old constitutional monarchy from which that young republic (now not eighty years ago) emanated during the reign of the Prince of WALES'S great-grandfather. It was only a day or two since that we published the particulars of the reverential visit paid by his Royal Highness, the eldest son of our beloved SOVEREIGN to the hallowed grave of that great rebel to the Crown of her MAJESTY'S grand father, King GEORGE lll.—that great rebel and heroic patriot who has left behind him so pure a fame and so imperishable a monument of his msg. nanimity. It comes as a fitting sequel to this pilgrimage of the Prince of WALES to the grave of WASHINGTON, that his Royal Highness should so soon afterwards pass through the street of New York in the midst of such heartfelt and enthusiastic acclamations. Not one loyal Englishman amongst us all but will read, with a glow of pleasure, the particulars given in another part of our impression of this evening, the deeply interesting account there given of the Prince of WALES'S arrival in New York, and of his Royal High ness's progress down the noble Broadway. on It whose accountappearsthat tthe et purchase ciShoacsiceot of £600,000 d 6O T , s o c o oom gold pt wasof r madearis, in London about a fortnight back, arc still offering a pre mium for some rather large amounts. The parcels bought ttere this week oil t.4eix account exceeds £lOO,OOO, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER F 27, 1860. LATEST NEW S. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, SATURDAY. The Illoniteur promulgates the convention sup plementary to the Treaty of Commerce between France and England, and which was concluded on the 12th of October. The Customs Tariff subjoined to the said conven tion will come into operation on the Ist November, 1860. The Moniteur also says :—" The Cpinione Ra tionale published a note which it was asserted had been communicated by the Austrian Embassy at Paris to the correspondents of certain journals. We are enabled to give a denial to the source which has been attributed to this document, and to declare in the most formal manner that it rests upon premises entirely destitute of foundation." TURIN, OCT. 26. The following is the result of the voting upon the question of annexation at Palermo : Total number of votes registered, 36,267. Ayes Noes Annulled .. l5 The Opinione contains the following official an nouncement : " Signor Farini, having been appointed Extraor dinary Royal Commissioner at Naples, is replaced in his post of Minister of the Interior by Signor Minghelli. " Signor 3lontegemolo has been appointed Com missioner of Sicily." The result of the vote in the city of Naples shows that 154,000 have voted for annexation. PARIS, OCT. 26. The Patrie says :—" The news published by the Opinionel ationale relative to a congress is not sup ported by auy authentic information." The Pays says —" The information of the Opinion° Nationale is incorrect." The Opinione Nationale says :—" We believe we are in a position to state that Austria had proposed to enter upon negotiations with the French Govern ment in order to bring about a pacific solution of the Italian question, and that in case of unsuccess Austria would resort to arms with the countenance of the Sovereigns her allies." The same paper adds :—" This news, however, greatly require authentic confirmation." THE WARSAW CONFERENCE. WARSAW, OCT. 26. On account of the illness of the Dowager-Em press of Russia, alterations have been made in the arrangements for the departure of the Sovereign s. There will be no hunting excursion. The Emperor of Austria leaves before noon to- day. The Emperor of Russia and the Prince Regent will leave Warsaw this afternoon. PARIS, OCT. 26. To-day Baron Hubner had a private audience of the Emperor at St. Cloud. To-morrow he will proceed with Count de Bourqueney to Chantilly, on a visit to Lord Cowley. Baron Hubner will leave for Vienna next week. MADRID, OCT. 2G. In yesterday's sitting of the Cortes the opposition announced their intention of making interpellations on the subject of the foreign relations of Spain. The Government having declared itself ready to rep/3- to any question, the interpellations were ad- journod. Spain having protested against the entry of the Sardinians into Roman and Neapolitan territory, her Ambassador has received orders to quit Turin. A charge d'affaires will remain to conduct the business of the legation. THE SIEGE OF CAPUA. The Paris papers publish the following tele• gram : NAPLES, OCT. 24, EVENING. The capture of Capua, which has been an. nounced, is not confirmed. Victor Emmanuel is at Steoni, about 20 miles from Capua, with 25,000 men. A battle is shortly expected between the Neapolitans and the Piedmontesc." The following is the note in the Opiniono Na tionale alluded to by the 111oniteur. It is given in the Opinion in very prominent type. The in troductory observations are signed M. Gueroult "We (Opinion Nationale) believe we are not committing an indiscretion by making public the following note, which is said to have been communicated to the correspondents of certain journals at Paris by the Austrian Embassy, and a copy of which has found its way into our hands. If, as we have every reason to believe, this note is not denied, it would result there from that the casus bell will be distinctly put by Prince Metternich as regards the Italian question, and that Austria is assured in this circumstance of the support of the Sovereigns who share her views of international law. We need not point out the gravity of the situation that would be thus inaugu rated by the return of his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador. 1 " "The Embassy of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria is authorised officially to declare, on instructions received from Vienna, that the reports of extraordinary:concentration and increase of troops in Venetia with the object of mak ing an attack upon Piedmont, are devoid of foundation ; also that the nomination of General Benedek to the command the army of Italy bears no such construction ; nor do the instructions and information as yet' received authorise the Embassy to believe that an immediate attack of Piedmont is in the intentions of the Imperial Government. It is believed that his Highness Prince Metternich is charged, on his return, to enter into diplomatic negotiations (pourparler) with the Imperial Go vernment of France on the Italian question, and on a pacific and equitable solution of that question. And it will only be after the failure of this last effort that the Emperor of Austria, in accordance with the Sovereigns who take the same point of view of right as himself, may make an appeal to arms to assert the rights and principles stipulated in the last treaty." FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 26. BOURSE, Oct. 26.—The market has been more buoyant, and the business transacted has been at improved, quotations. Threes for the Account are now at 69f 5c ; Orleans, 1,373 f 75c; Mobilier, 707 f 50c; Northern, 973 f 75c; Mediterranean, 917 50c ; Austrian, 487 f 50c ; Lombard, 485 f. The follow ing are the last quotations :- 4f per per Cents ... 9.5 GO Credit Fonder 9OO Do. cud month.... 95 50! Belgian 4i 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 80' Roman Bank Shares 2840 1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 706 25 , Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 702 50 Homo Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1365 .... 1366 25 Northern New ditto _ .. 833 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 915 • • 915 Geneva _ .. 332 50 Southern ........ - Western. Eastern Sardinian...... Austrian Lon^bard ~ .... ~ ~ „ 435 •-- I , 482 450 LORD PALMERSTON AT LEEDS) LEED S, FRIDAY. THE CORPORATION ADDRESS. Lord Palmerston was received at the Leeds Town Hall shortly after noon yesterday, by the Mayor (W. Kelsall, Esq.), and the Corporation. The following address was then read by the Town Clerk (J. E. Smith, Esq.) : " To THE RIGHT 1 - 10n)UILABLE LORD VISCOUNT PAL. MERSTON, M.P., LU., FIRST LORD OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. " We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Leeds,, in the county of York, gladly embrace the opportunity which your lordship's visit to the town affords us of offering for ourselves and the great consti tuency we represent, a tribute of respectful gratitude for your able and distinguished public services, how extending over more than half a century. We thankfully acknow ledge, as characteristic of your lordship's Parliamentary and official life, a steady adherence to those sound prin ciples of government which, under Providence, have se cured our national honour and happiness, loyalty to the Sovereign, the maintenance of law and order, and the pre servation of our glorious constitution, by reforms adapted 10 the progressive requirements of the country, and neither prematurely foreed upon it before it was prepared for them, nor timidly or selfishly withheld when they could be advan tageously accomplished. Imbued with these principles, and endowed with the high requisites (or British states manship, your lordship has been alike distinguished as a Minister of the Crown, and a champion of constitutional and social improvement ; strengthening the people'si reve rence for the Crown by the beneficial exercise of its powers; and promoting constitutional and social improvement by a powerful support to the great measures of Catholic Emanci pation, Parliamentary Reform, and the Repeal of the Corn laws. In our foreign as well as our domestic relations we owe to your lordship a large debt of gratitude. Amongst living statesmen it is to your lordship that the glory of making the name of an Englishman as much respected as that of an ancient Roman pre-eminently belongs. Under your guardianship, a British subject, if innocent of crime, is secure in every quarter of the globe. Nor has the benefit of your lordship's administration of foreign affairs been con fined to our own countrymen. Other nations have, at critical periods, owed to it their escape from impending war; and you. lordship's counsels have ever tended to the preservation of peace on the only basis that can perfectly secure it a due ob servance of the reciprocal obligations betweengovernors and governed. Against the excesses of irresponsible power on the one hand, and unbridled license on the other, your lordship's warning voice h as b een o f ten ra i sed ; and the wisdom of the warning exemplified by the blessings flow ing from its observance, or the calamities resulting from its neglect. Your lordship's high qualifications for the public service happily led our beloved Queen, with hearty satis faction to her Parliament and her people, to confide to your hands, at an important crisis, the most honourable post a subject can fill—that of Prime Minister of England. The energy and ability with which the difficulties of that crisis were surmounted, and the skill and judgment with which your lordship has presided over the national councils during your tenure of office, constitute additional claims (which we are proud to acknowledge) on our admiration and gratitude, and strengthen the confidence which we share with the great body of our fellow-subjects that under your lordship's guidance our country will steadily continue in its course of loyal attachment to the Sovereign, reverence for law and order and judicious impro vements i n it s time honoured institutions." Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said—l ean assure you, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, tbs - iit it is impos sible for language adequately to axpress the high feelings of pride and gratifisation with which I have been inspired not only by the cordial and friendly reception which I have met with from the inhabitants of thin great city, but more particu larly by the kina and flattering expressions —too flattering I am conscious—of confidence contained in the address which has just been read. Under any circumstances, such proofs of goodwill and confidence from a great and important portion of the community would be most gratifying to the mind of any man, but I feel peculiar pleasure, be cause I have had, through friendship and through official relations, a sort of connection with this great borough of Leeds. It was my good fortune to enjoy the personal friendship and to receive the valuable official assistance of your distinguished townsman, the late Mr. Baines, a man of whom it may be said that he was the type of an English gentleman—(cheers) —esteemed and respected in private life, and endowed with those statesmanlike qualities which fitted him to perform important functions in the service of the State. (Cheers.) I trust that I am not flattering myself too much in thinking that I claim a continuance of the friend ship which I enjoyed with him in the person of his respected brother. (Cti'eers.) But, gentlemen, if public men undeep";) labours and anxieties in the performance ofi their public duties, they receive an ample rewg:ird in such ma r k s o f p ersona l con fid ence and gerid will as those with which I have been honc,ured to-day, and especially when they proceed, as in this case, from one of the most important communities in the kingdom, one of those great seats of industry which constitute the wealth, the greatness, the prosperity, and the dignity of the United Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, in your addre ss you h ave embodied opinions founded on just principles of national government, you have expressed your sentiments as to the propriety and necessity of progressive improvement in all the in stitutions of the country, but you have wisely ob served that those improvements should not on the one hand be forced prematurely, nor, on the other hand, be delayed too long. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) It is perfectly true that men who have deeply reflected on possible improvements, r l 'who have convinced their minds of thegood which would result from such changes, are often impa tient of the! delay which necessarily intervenes be tween the conception and the execution ; but these rapid and " pen stroke" improvements may suit despotic countries, where the executive Government is all in all, and where the nation is compelled to obey those impulses which proceed from above ; but in a country like this, where the whole nation participates in the function of Government, where .public opinion is as powerful as the edicts of the governing authority, there time and delay are often [ essentially necessary for the accomplishment of good and useful legislation. (Cheers.) If improve -1 meuts and reforms are not fully discussed, if all the objections on the one side and all the advantages on the other are not put forward before the mind of every reflecting man, if public opinion is not fully prepared for the change, the good tact which might otherwise result from such changes is not fully and properly accomplished. And thus it has been with all those great improvements which you have mentioned in the address that has been just read. (Hear, hear.) It is perfectly true that within the last 30 years greater improvements have been made in the laws and institutions of the coun try than perhaps were accomplished in any coun try or by any nation within the same period of time. We have seen that great disgrace to human nature, negro slavery, abolished—(cheers)—by a sacrifice nobly offered and nobly endured by the country— a sacrifice great indeed in point of money, but which was amply compensated by the great and honourable result which it attained. (Hear, hear.) We have seen our Catholic fellow-subjects placed on a footing of equality with the Protestant part of the community. We have seen those laws which related to dissenters—the Test Acts—repealed. (Cheers.) We have seen the corn laws repealed— (loud cheers)—a change which produced content ment and prosperity to a very large portion of the community; for whereas before, when the seasons were adverse, and the price of food was raised, it was natural men should think that the high price of provisions was created by the sordid avarice of a section of the community ; whereas every man must now feel that if his food is dear, it is the result of the inclemency of the season, and not in consequence of any misgovernment of man. We have seen the changes made in the laws regulat in fs - ress.:sipai cor porations—changes -- ss'i", ) , important with reference to the gra.ad principle of local self-government. And we have, more than all, seen the groat improve ment in the political organisation of the country which was effected by the parliamentary reform of 1832. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, all these changes were the result of long discussion, of conflict of opinion, and of conflict of interest; and if it were not so, if it had been accomplished by some sudden stroke of the pen, they would not have resulted in the good which has been effected by them, being the result of discussion, and coming upon a country pre pared to receive them, and sensible of the advantages they brought with them. (Hear, hear.) Gentle men, this address which has been read has adverted in terms for which I beg to express my heartfelt gratitude—has adverted to the general ;system of administration, and aspecially to our fo re i gn rela tions, If, gen tl emen , the Government of which I hare had the honour to be a leading member has been successful in its conduct of affairs, the merit is due, first of all, to the generous support which it had received from the people of this country, to the unbounded confidence of the Crown, and to the dis tinguished ability of those colleagues of whom the administration has been composed. (Hears) We have indeed been successful in assisting to spread political liberty in other countries beyond our own —(hear, hear)—not by dictation, not by armed in terference not by imposing o n na ti ons unw illi ng or unprepared innovations even calculated for their goon, but by assisting those who were helping eaemselves, and by aiding the development in other countries of those principles Of political freedom which we have the happiness of enjoying in our own. (Loud ch eers .) It i s th us, gent l emen , that in Belgium we have contributed to the establish ment of the system of govsrnment which has rendered that country as happy and prosperous as any other country on the face of the earth. (Hear, hear.) It is thus that we assisted the Spaniards and Portuguese in o bt a i n in g constitutions modelled on the general principles of our own, and we have contributed greatly t o the happiness and prosperity of those nations. We are now seeing in another Part of southern Europe changes in progress which I trust may lead to the establishment a a system in Italy as conducive to the happiness and pros e perity of the Italians as, unfortunately, some of the Governments which have existed in that country have contributed to their unhappineo and their biisery. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, our action is the action of opinion alone. (Hear.) We leave the Italians to deal with their own affairs, and all we hope and wish is th a t o th er countries should follow our example—(hear)—and that the people of those regions, favoured by many of the gifts of nature, should be allowed to arrange their internal affairs in a manner which may seem to them best adapted for th^l:: aappiness and welfare. (Confirmed applause.) You have been pleased to say in the address, that by the attention paid by the Government of this country to our fellow-subjects travelling and residing in foreign parts they have been clothed with the protection of England wherever they may harm lessly and innocently be. Why, gentlemen, that must be so, because a country great and powerful like England, whose inhabitants are educated in the principles of respect for the laws, and whose people, when they travel abroad, go for the purpose of com mercial enterprise or for individual instruction or recreation—who never indulge in plots and conspi racies, however they may differ in opinion as to the merits of the institutions in the lands they visit— (hear) —I say that the inhabitants of such a country as this must be respected wherever they go, because they are sure that their countrymen at home will not look with indifference upon insults and injuries which may be undeservedly visited upon their fellow men. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have alluded to the maintenance of good order in this country. No doubt it is the desire and the duty of the executive govern ment to watch over the maintenance of order in the kingdom whose destinies are committed to their charge ; but happily in this country that duty on the part of the Government is easy, and reduced almost to nothing. The peculiar character of the English nation, and that which strikes foreigners most when they visit our shores, is the manner in which the people of these realms govern themselves and maintain order among each other. (Cheers.) It is that spirit of order, that obedience to rule, which not only affords the best security for internal peace, but which, applicable and applied as it is to all the concerns of public and private life, is the elemen tary principle on which the wealth and increasing prosperity of the country is founded, not only in its public respects, but even in its commercial and in dustrial avocations. I say, then„ that for this the Government of the day can take but little credit. It is the people of the United Kingdom to whom the merit is mainly due, and no doubt it is to the daily and yearly increase in the diffu sion of instruction and education among the people, the decline of which it is im possible to contemplate, that this spirit of order is mainly attributable. You are pleased also in the address to refer to the loyalty of the people of this country. Well, Mr. Mayor, that loyalty is innate in the mind of every British sub ject—(loud cheers)—for if there is one peculiarity perhaps more than another which belongs to the British character, it is a sentiment of gradations of rank. Every rank knows its own position. Neither is it jealous of those above, nor does it treat with out respect those who may happen to be below. There is a general consciousness that in human society there must be degrees, and that the preser vation of that gradation is essential to the welfare of the community, and that feeling—and that sen timent—is directed with increased intensity towards the sovereign who sits on the throne. (Hear.) But if at all times that abstract feeling would lead the people of this country to sentiments of fervid and devoted loyalty, it is yet our happiness to be ruled over by a sovereign who possesses in a degree never surpassed all those qualities of head and heart which are calculated to secure to her the deep-rooted affection of every one of the subjects which she governs. (Hear.) It is true, as you have observed, that our sovereign is deeply imbued with the principles of the constitution of which she is the head, and little indeed is the merit of those who are appointed by her to administer in her name, if they follow in that track which she points out to them to pursue, and if they in the adminis tration of those powers which she confides to their hands are sedulously and strictly observant of the limits which the constitution of the country has imposed on the executive authority. But there is another point in which our sovereign peculiarly deserves the admiration and the gratitude of the country—for not only are her cares directed to the time present, hut with a far-seeing foresight she has trained up and educated her royal children. She has imbued them so deeply with all those sen timents and feelings which fit.them to be members of that royal family whom we have the happiness to look up to, that even after that day—long we hopo to be deferred—when her reign may cease, she will bequeath to her people the legacy of a family worthy to succeed her and sure to obtain the confidence and affection of the country. (Loud cheers.) And thus, gentlemen, though of late ye ars we h ave . seen in othr countries sovereigns who have been so un fortunate as to lose the confidence'of their subjects, and to entail both on themselves and their people all those calamities which arise from such a forfeiture on the part of the ruling authority, we have the satisfaction of seeing in this country that every day rivets more closely those bonds of affectionate attachment which now exist, and which I trust never will be diminished between the sovereign and the subjects of the realm. (Hear.) My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, I beg again to return you my warmest thanks, and to assure you that expressions like these of confidence and good will, on the part of such an important portion of the community, are the greatest encouragements which public men can receive in the discharge of their duty, and the amplest reward by which the honest and conscien tious performance of those duties can hope to be followed. (Hear, hear.) The MAYOR then called for "Three times three" for Lord Palmerston, which was heartily given, the loud bass of the organ being used as an accompani ment, and adding considerably to the effect of this demonstration. The proceedings concluded with a round of cheers for Lady Palmerston. After the presentation of the address the Mayor entertained the noble lord and a select party in the State rooms to luncheon. The "Health of Lord Palmerston" was given by the mayor in compli mentary terms ; and the noble lord, in replyin apologised for the necessary brevity of his remarks, ' and stated that he had arranged to visit during the aftereodn some of - =the great manufacturing 'estab lishments, which had contributed so largely to the prosperity and the happiness of the inhabitants, and at the same time to the welfare and greatness of the country. His lordship concluded by giving " Prosperity to the town of Leeds." The toast was responded to by Mr. W. BECKETT. Lord PALMERSTON next proposed " The health of the Mayor." His Worship, having responded, gave " The Re presentatives for the West Riding, coupled with the name of Sir John Ramsden, who briefly re turned thanks. The noble viscount then departed from the hall, amidst loud cheers from the guests as well as from the crowds collected outside. MEETING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL AND SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE. At three o'clock this afternoon a meeting of the supporters of the Leeds Ragged School and Shoe black Brigade was held in the Music Hall. The orchestra was occupied by the children of the school, who, in the interval which occurred between the assembling of the audience and the arrival of the Premier, occupied the time by singing several hymns. Many of the unfortunate children showed their literal qualification as pupils of such an in stitution, many of them being without shoes or stockings, and bearing other outward evidences of extreme poverty. On the arrival of his lordship the National Anthem was sung. His lordship having taken the chair, Mr. R. B. Small, the honorary secretary, read the second annual report. Lord PALMERSTON was enthus i astically received. On rising to address the company, his lordship said —Ladies and gentlemen—and I put ladies before the gentlemen, not simply on account of the courte ous deference which is due always to their sex, b u t because we are met upon an occasion of charitable benevolence, and in actions of charity and bene volence the ladies always take precedence from the kindness of their nature over the male part of the community. (Cheers.) There cannot, lam sure, be anything more interesting to the minds of all those who sympathise with the condition of their fellow -creatures than institutions of this description. They rank among many of those great social improvements which have been made in our arrangements in odern times. Undoubtedly, it recent t imes only that the benevolent is not of t ‘ he wealthy and th e pros and active charii; perou s has been directeu ) better the condition of those in humbler classes of life. But formerly the attention of men was directed simply to afford bodily relief. The comforts of the ody were con sidered to be su ffi cient to occupy th e a t tention of i. m . ps those who wished to reli eve th eir fellow -crs...—r— It is only of late years tha t p ublic attention has b: en Y s active and suczessfull di rected to the minds ot men, as well as to their bodily comforts—(hear, be hear)—and there canno institution more usefully applic a bl e to the intellectual and moral culture of the rising generation than that for the encouragement of which this distinguished meeting has now assembled. (Cheers.) If we look upon it simply as regards the poor crea'tures who are the objects of the institu tion„ it is plain to s e e that nothing can be mor e praiseworthy, and nothing can be more use fill, than institutions of this sort in their effect . We •all k now th a t f rom t h e a r range ments of Prow , - den ce it is impossible to effect that in large commu niti es there shall not be the rich and the poor—it i# i npossiblo to hope that human arrangerAl)l4s • shall entirely relieve the humbler classes of society from the pinching affliction of poverty, and all those distresses, both physical and mental, which arise from such a condition. But wealth and com fort may alleviate the infection of poverty—(cheers) —and there cannot be a better direction of genero sity than that which this institution points out. There must be in all great communities—and the greater the community the greater the development of industry, and the greater accumulation of popu lation the more will the class exist—there must be in a great community a least number of children who either have parents whose poverty prevents them from caring as they ought to-do for their children, or whose improvident and dissolute habits render them negligent and indisposed to give that care and attention, which even their limited means might enable them to afford. (Hear, hear.) There must also be many who, by the visitation of Provi dence, have been from the earliest period of life deprived of those parents upon whose care and at tention they ought to have relied. Well, then, in these cases, institutions of this sort step in to rescue the neglected child from the improvidence or neglect of its parents. They rescue the orphan from the destitution which too often besets him. They give to those children early habits of industry, early habits of order, instruction of a moral and re ligious descripticin, early instruction in those things whit h may conduce afterwards to their success in life ; and when we see the vast demand which this great city affords for the industry and intelligence of every working man and womati, within, we may see that those seeds which are thus sown in the minds and habits of these little children are not sown to run to waste and to bloom without-result ; but as surely as you instruct those children in the means of proper, and social, and orderly, and moral life, and in the means of procur ing by their industry their livelihood, so sure will it be when they come to a day when their labour may be profitably employed, they are certain of finding an adequate demand for that labour, and profitable remuneration for its exercise. (Cheers.) As far, then, as sympathy for these unhappy little beings extends, we should have adequate, com pletely adequate motives for assisting an institution of this kind. But if we take a larger view, and look • upon these institutions as bearing upon the social interests of the country, we shall, in that view also, find the strongest possible motives for encouraging and enlarging these establishments. (Hear.) One of the great evils of civilised society is the uncivi lised portion of the:community. (Applause.) There must be—and it is vain to hope it should not be— there will be in every great community a certain amount of crime, of offences, of dissolute habits, of recklessness and improvidence. But the amount of these evils will greatly depend upon the direction which is given in the earliest years of life to the minds of the rising generation. (Hear.) It is true that it may sometimes happen that those who have had instilled into their minds, in early childhood the best principles, may in after life yield to temptation—be led away by fortuitous circum stances, and desert those paths in which they were early instructed to go. But these cases are com paratively rare. You will find that the great source of offence and of misfortune—for crime is misfortune—the great source of all those evils which afflict large communities and nations lies in this : the want of early and proper instruction of child ren in the first years of their life. (Cheers.) Well, we may take in moral and intellectual things, examples from what is done in physical and mate: rial matters. Why, if you want to dry a morass— if you want to get rid of noxious exhalations from. unhealthy districts, you don't simply go to pump out the water which lies stagnant upon the ground, but you go to the source of the evil, you go to the head of the spring which perforates into these marshy districts, and by turning its spring into channels diverting them from the country which they impregnate you lead them in a healthy cur rent for the use of mankind, and, by so diverting them, that which used to be a noxious morass you turn into profitable, and cultivated, and healthy land for the use of man. (Cheers.) In the same way I say we should intercept the sources of crime at the fountain head. Inculcate early in the minds of the children of the country maxims of religious and moral principles. Teach them betimes the value and importance of rules, regulations, and orders. Teach the child, even in his school hours, to be I obedient to certain regulations, and you will find I when he becomes a man that he will , be more ready to submit to the laws of his country, and to main tain order in the society of which he is a member. (Cheers.) Well, then, if you succeed in thie—if you rescue from vice and crime a vast number of those unhappy children, who if left to all the hazards and temptations to which their condition exposes them, would become criminals and victims of the law, I say you are conferring an enormous benefit on society—a benefit not confined to the day, not confined to the creatures who are the objects of your charity, but a benefit which becomes every day greater and more extensive, which pervades the whole mass of society, and the advantage of which will be felt in future generations as well as in the present time. (Cheers.) A point was mentioned in the report which has been read which shows another and important bearing of this institution. You have been told that that had happened which in human nature might have been expected—that though instruction, moral and intellectual, in the ordinary course of nature, de scends from parent to child, yet that some time that current will be reversed, and moral and reli gious and intellectual instruction *ill go upwards from the child to the parent, and where the child has been well brought up and instructed and the parents have had the misfortune of being differently situated, the example of the child will operate upon the conduct of the parent, that parents be reclaimed from habits that brit . ..es them to poverty and disgrace, by seeing in the example of their children that which they will blush not to be able to imitate and to follow. (Cheers.) I cannot believe that in the great, wealthy, commercial town like this, full of charitable institutions, where men of capital and men of comfort already libe rally and generously contribute everything that tends to the comfort: and well-being and wel fare of those who are below them, I cannot for a moment believe that the appeal which has beon made by the Secretary in the report which he has read will not be attended with complete success, and when the Secretary this time t we l ve m onth s shall read the report of the proceedings of the year which is about to begin, he will be able to answer you that this institution, although comparatively of recent establishment, has yet thriven like a vigorous plant which has already . by its branching shadows overspread a great portion of this great and important town ; and that the benefits which its founders contemplated have begun to be ds ampiy realised. If that be so , I will ven ture to say that the people of thi s g reat town o f L eeds wi t have done an act which will not only be highly and gratifying to their feelings wh en, o t w e n . s_o c T i a h l e c o n n o d b i l t e i satisfactory lord they reflect upon the results, tth but will be of infinite value and importance on of ills amid loud applarse. • re sumed his seat important great and THE BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENT L AW DE PUTATION. —A meet ing held yesterday, prelimi nary to the reception of the deputation by Lor a Palmerston, attended by the delegates of the ya rious Chambers of Commerce and Trade Protection Societies of the West Riding, Samuel Morley, EF,q., of London, and Mr. J. Russell, secretary of The Mercantile Law Amendment Society, it was una nimously resolved :—" That this meeting is of opinion that it is most desirable to urge upon the Government to a dh ere to t h e principle of the pa;r ment of the official assignees embodied in clause 101 of the bill of last session, providing also th at the further payment of the official assigneesbeyond the fixed salary should be subject to the consent of the creditors' assignees. ' FAILURE OF MESSRS. DAVIES AND CO., BANKERS. —The failure was announced yesterday afternoon of Messrs. Robert Davies and Co., bankers, of Shoreditch. The fact of their being in difficulties had transpired before the tee gTshuasttaei::: mination of business and a run ensued, which compelled them to close their doors. Their customers were mostly sPeculatior Is. among the shopkeepers of the neighbourhood, and the it ce-shee x t total liabilities are believed not to exceed £140,000. Tile liquidation, it is feared, will prove unfavourable—ponib 17 an. h c a e v . in not exceeding 100. in the poun se d tna , tu t c h ce fi p r some large losses from advances on building d Before the stoppage took place the Len en and C ount _ bu .. t . the bai an_ r ß e a n nk der s e v d er w e a lt a pp au ea ch ed as to t f o or p as te s v i blishment, however, will open a branch in the 10ca1i , .., LI and will endeavour to mitigate the effect of 141 . es s _ . is• Davies' stoppage by making ad y F ees on the security of the divi dends to which the creditors may__ appear entitled. An nexed is the circular issued by I‘lesra. Davies and Co : October a —Sir,— " 187, Shoreditch, the failure of a firm which . _g y indebted to us, we are , under the pa i n f u l necessity of closing our banking-hoime. Under these c i r cumstances, we have applied to the Lon don and County B. t lessen, tos. , e n, as far as possible, the im mediate inconvenience 0 our customers by making ad vances to them, which, as_7ive have been thi s day informed ma y be obtained on application at their banking-house, South a se. i Hous e, Threa dneedle -street. Ameeting of -ur creditors will be held at the London Tavern in lr h -.street, on Monday next, the 29th • is pps inst, at 12 for 1 t' -. Precisely, at which you . 9 are particularly requested o'clock _ • —We are, sir, your to attend. -rEs and Co." very obedient servants, RosmaiDAN• war, 'taken from wholgold . , m the Bank to-day, but the e of the £152,(7 , _ 0 ,bY the Red Jacket, whose arrival was announced yestera. v . roorning., will go abroad. DEATH OF THE I), TKE DECAZES.—The Duke Deoczos died on Thursday i. -1 Paris, in consequence of ass acc id en t which befel him at T61 111 :4• ~ ..... ..... 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