The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism."—Nornlng Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. etnd 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the manazement of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, will Open for the Season on MONDAY, Oot. 3d. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Murray. Stage Manager Mr. E. Stirling. T HEATRE -ROYAL, • HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commenee with SHIM STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Buck- None. pad HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—This Theatre win OPEN on SATURDAY next, September se, with a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled IVY BALL ; the scenery by Messrs. T. Grieve and W. Telbin. To conclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. Z. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE ; the •cenery by Mr. W. R. Beverley. During the recess the Thea tre has been redecorated. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADE LPHI. Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. This splendid New Theatre, replete with every comfort, an WILL OPEN for the Season on MON DAY, Sept. 26, 1 85BUR ADELPHI DRAMA, COMEDY, FARCE, d LESQ.IifE, and ADELPHI EFFECTS ! ! I—On which ocsa sion Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. David Fisher (his first appearance at this theatre), Mr. Paul Bedford, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Henrietta Simms, ac., Sic., will appear. The performanc es will consist of a MAMA (2d time), of the highly successful piece of ONE TOUCH OF NATURE ; a new Farce, by J. M. Morton, Esq., Called LOVE AND THE R O OD and the popular Burlesque of THE BABES IN THE WOOD. The Box-office will be opened on Thursday, Sept. 22, and every day after, from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.— ZVICRY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of DLACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-. Worts), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual Topa Goncer t. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish C &an and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. Mackney. ome- Beyeral interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and heautMed, and constitute one of the mo st unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. Will shortly be produced, a G ran d Selection" from Meyer beer's new opera of DINNORA. THE WEATHER.—Strx ONCE, SE7T3MBER 21. THZII24OICSTEIt, DT THE SHADE. 66—highest since soon yesterday. 57-.. lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at loon. BAItomETEB.-29.45; a fall of half an inch since yesterday. WIND, Westerly; rough, wet, and stormy, with sun shine. This day is the Autumnal Equinox, and the weather is very unsettled. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 7 h. 37m.—Afternoon, Bh. 23m. To-Moßitow-Morning, 9 h. 12m.—Afternoon, 10h. 2m, am.. 4................."•••••••••...... THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1869, Suggestions continue to be hazarded by corre spondents in almost every department of our forces as to the best mode of manning the Navy. But the true principle, after all, is better pay, better usage, with a proper reform in the Mutiny Bill. Seamen are as kind and good-hearted as other people, and can appreciate good conduct in their officers accordingly. What they chiefly dread is the tyranny so frequently and so unmercifully exercised by some commanders, who mistake their duty, by using severity instead of kindness, to en sure smartness. A good seaman is ever smart when duty requires ; but to be always harassed and kept on the qui vivo without any reasonable necessity disgusts good men, and gives a bad name to the service- Men are frequently flogged for a mere trifle or misapprehension ; and, if not flogged, they are put in the black list, and kept there from wilful caprice. This degrades men in their own estimation, and renders that odious, which would otherwise become a pleasant duty, for sailors pride themselves on meritting the good opinion of their fellow-men and the respect of theii officers. Experience daily proves that the working of our naval system must be altered to meet the require ments of the age. Steam has introduced a new element into the management as :well as the fighting of our ships. Steam has greatly altered the character of navigation, and must be met accordingly. Whatever changes may become necessary should be made with care and simplicity. Improvements will duly present themselves in our experience. But, first of all, we must have men. The late Board of Admiralty have deserved well of their country by making provision for a good reserve. We quite agree with the Times that in order to get good men and keep them, tempting inducements must be held out in the shape of pre sent pay, with increasing pension according to length of service, good character, and severe wounds. These and more promotion to deserving men from before the mast, would act with magical effect on sea faring people, and even on landsmen too. Young lads would enter willingly, and become an excellent nursery for seamen in after years. There ought not to be so much squeamishness in receiving young men as there was lately displayed with regard to entering volunteers. Now, with respect to our Marine force. Years and years past, we have impressed on those in power the expediency of increasing that force and making them all learn the practice of Artillery. But advice is thrown away on those who fancy themselves above responsibility. Now, however, they must conform to the exigency of circumstances or give place to those who will, for the national safety is paramount to all other considerations. Suppose the present Marine force were aug mented, say to 48,000 men. Divide that force into three watches of 16,000 each. Let one watch be always on board ship, for a given time ; let the second watch nit= our forts and do duty as Coast guardsmen, and let the third watch be at the head-quarters of the several divisions, or em ployed where wanted. Then to perfect these /nen in their several duties on land as well as on board ship, let the watches relieve each and thus we s h a ll h ave a f orce o ther in due t ime, prepared for an y service and inured to every requ site duty. As coastguards-men they would be on the watch to prevent smuggling, a n d be ever on the alert to meet invasion when that dreaded bug bear adventures on our coast. Then as to manning our ships, the proportion or seamen and marines—marine artillery, for they would all be drilled for that service, the proportion must depend upon the actual wo rking of our steam navy—be it one-third more or less according to circumstances. Coals are wasteful expense where wind can be turned to account for nothing. We .may be for months blockading an enemy's ports, bait the decisive arbitrament of action i s onl y for a dam, or it may be an hour. Why, then, waste what it is costly to get and no loss to husband P In ease of any sudden emergency we could, by having such a disposable force of marines at hand, say 32,000, double or even treble our home Navy rat once, by dividing the crews of ships in commission , - • ! „,, . „,,,,t. DUI MA,. . _..0. t. • , . !,:. 2 ::::',._ • . .7,..,,, • • 4lift ~..• .". 4 '‘."' V'' , , O ' ' '' ' ......‘.41.; ' 44 - ,,,,,, "' ' ' into two or three watches—and with the marines be ready for immediate action, for the sailors and marines being all well used to the service, they would be ready for any and everything. Let the Admi ralty look to it—or rather let the Government insist on breaking through red-tape tomfoolery, and act as men. Then, again, with respect to being prepared against invasion, which must of necessity be sudden, we shall have a nucleus of well-trained men, who can turn their hand to prompt account. Instead of fortifying points here and there all along the coast, for the invaders will choose their own ground, how much better would it not be to have flying batteries at several central stations, ready to be transported by railways at telegraphic notice to the scene of danger ? We may be told that suggestions like these would entail heavy expense. We answer—no expense ought to stand in the way of national safety. Our being well and always prepared will make our assailants think twice before they ♦en- ture in paying us a rough, and unwelcome visit. We shall have two chances to their one —land and water—and a good hot fire into the bargain. Suddenly—in the midst of European and Asiatic complications, in the midst of all that is said and written about the anxiety of the Italians and the atrocity of the Chinese—there starts up another of those periodical annoyances, a new difficulty be tween Great Britain and the United States. The present difficulty between the English and the Americans, like so many of its predecessors, proves . _ on examination, to be only the sequel of one of the old difficulties long past and gone, and, up to this moment, supposed to have been years ago settled definitively to our mutual satisfaction. Again the supposition turns out to have been quite erroneous. Again the more sanguine believers in an amicable understanding between father and son, between JoHN and JONATHAN, have been too precipitate, we find, in laying that flattering unction to their souls. The celebrated treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, solving (as it was imagined) the problem of the Oregon Boundary, defined, it is true, the line there sepa rating the territories of Great Britain and the ter- .- ritones of the United States, to all appearances quite explicitly. It traced that boundary line as running " along the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which sepa- rates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean." But, as it so happens—" this said channel," appa rently very clear and simple phrase, indeed, is, in reality, one of considaable complexity and uncer tainty. And for this sufficient reason that there are, as it so chances, two channels dividing Vancouver's Island from the North American Continent. There is a channel, that is to say, upon either side of the little group of the Arroo Islands. Which of these two channels is the one meant by that clause in the Treaty of 1846, about the Oregon Boundary, remains in fact yet to be decided. Inso much is this uncertainty recognised in both coun tries, that Commissioners from the two Governments have, in point of fact, been busily occupied for some time past in striving—hitherto ineffectually—to settle the matter in dispute for once and for all to general satisfaction. Such in effect was the actual situation out in Fuca's Sound, when the Government at Washing ton—incited, probably, by a remembrance of the old legal adage about possession being nine points of the law—sends out a sort of a buccaneering, fili bustering expedition to put an end at once to all further uncertainty by formally seizing one of the said Arroo Islands—the one variously called the Island of San Juan or Bellevue. The ex pedition is altogether so flagrantly lawless of its kind, that it is not unworthy of having been led by General WILLIAM WALKER, the most renowned and daring of all the Yankee filibusters. Another filibustering general, however, takes command of the invading force—General HARNEY it is who suddenly makes this descent upon San Juan, formally taking possession of it in the name of the Republic, not " one and indivisible," but free and independ ent. General HARNEY goes thither with one com pany of infantry and four companies of artillery. He is supported by four vessels of the American navy. He lands fifty of his soldiers on San Juan —begins building barracks there—and issues a proclamation claiming the island as American ter ritory. Free and independent !—certainly, a Re public is That acts thus contrary to all right, to all justice, to all international law. Against proceed ings so directly and monstrously in contraven tion of all the habits and usages of civilised countries—Governor DOUGLAS at once protested loudly and indignantly. His Excellency, by a counter-proclamation, declares the occupation to be illegal—claims the island on the part of her Bri tannic MAJESTY as under the supremacy of the Crown of England—and despatches to San Juan forthwith a British force of Sappers and Miners with her MAJESTY'S ships Tribune, Plumper, and Satallite. Captain PICKNET, who has command of the American garrison already established on the island, refuses leave to the English Sappers and Miners to land. It is even asserted in some of the United States newspapers received by this last mail, that a British steamer had opened fire upon the Americans, and that in consequence of this lament able collision between the forces thirty Americans had been killed. Rejecting these rumours, however, as altogether idle and extrava gant—it is obvious to us, at a glance, that, here, in this little difficulty about San Juan is the germ of what may, if not nipped, betimes, in the very bud, grow speedily into a monstrous disaster. Happily, Governor DOUGLAS and General HARNEY appear to have, both of them, taken the wisest course left to them, under the cir cumstances, by referring the whole matter, at once , to the consideration and decision of their respective Governments. Upon those Governments, therefore, at London and Washington, devolves, at this mo ment, a very solemn responsibility—the imminent responsibility of hastening, at last, to an amicable settlement, a long standing * dispute which has been brought thus to a sudden climax by a lawless act of occupation. We have for some time refrained from noticing a subject on which most of our contemporaries have seen fic to comment, because we thought it hardly fitted for the columns of a newspaper. It has, how ever, become so prominent of late, having neces sadly attracted the attention of local journals in three sections of the kingdom, that a daily news paper can hardly ignore it; nor, on account of cer tain remarkable connected circumstances, should w( be justified i n d o i ng so . W e re f er t o the " Re vival of Religi on " in the North of Ireland. One of the consequences of the great commercial panic in America, at the close of 1857, was that many persons, in New York especially, regarded it as a providential judgment, more particularly on the hi money-g etting, e gyi gaetting, money-l ov i ng commercial world. This orig i nated the idea of mid-d ay mee ti ngs f or o rn prayer and worship in the intervals of business ; these extended, till throughout that great oommer- !TnE7sTTN," LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1859. THE LACE. At this favourite place of amusement the attractions of Mr. M'Collum's great Anglo-Saxon troupe continue to draw enthusiastic audiences to witness two performances daily. The skill and daring exhibited by the ladies and gentlemen of the establishment are worthy of all praise, while the extraordinary docility and sagacity of the beauti ful stud on which they exhibit, excite the wonder and ad miration of all who see them. Mademoiselles Josephine Clementine perform some very dashing feats, and M. Qua g lioni ni:',Yes his tine Arabian mare, Carrava, go through a variety of dances with such admirable precision as makes the beholder think I.•er dancing-master must have been a very successful teacher, and a the very clever fellow indeed. part of Performance is t4St of the Another wondevfill " Chinese Grotesques," AO consist of six youths dressed in imitation of Chinese costume, and go through such sum mersaults as almost takes away one's breath. The "fun" of the entertainment ie well kept up by two excellent clowns —Mr. Croueste 444 Mr. Tielsen--the utter of whom rather astonishes the audience by the superior style in which he plays upon two different harmenieons, one made of Ameri can pine sticks, the other composed of stones, For this very agreeable little episode in the usual routine of the horsemanship Mr. Nelson was twice encored last night. Indeed, the entire a musements of the evening gave great satisfaction to a very numerous and respectable audience. DEATH OF PROFESSOR NICHOL. Dr. Nichol, Professor of Astronomy, Glasgow Univer sity, died on Monday afternoon from congestion of the brain. ller Majesty the Ex-Queen of France and family [eft the Waterhead Hotel on Tuesday, for London, after a stay of three weeks. His Highness the Prince Wassiltchikoff has returned to Maurigy's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. The Earl and Countess of Donoughmore passed through Bath last Friday, on their way to Pencarrow, Cornwall, on a visit to Lady Molesworth. The Earl of Elgin has left Fenton's Hotel, on his return to Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Fingal have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town. The Earl of Portsmouth has left Howchin's Hotel, for his seat in Hampshire. . __ Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their resi sidence in Ifalkin•street West, from the Continent. Madame la Baronne de Espelta, and family have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from Paris. __ _ The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London yesterday, for Penmemmaur, Conway, North Wales. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis has left town for Harp ton Court, Herefordshire. Sir Henry Calder and Mr. Wm. Delafield have left the Oatlands Hotel, for Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Gentry have arrived at Fenton l / 4 Hotel, from Liverpool. DEATH OF MR. SPENCER PERCIVAL.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Spencer Percival, eldest son of the late Right Hon. Spencer Percival. He joined his family on Thursdap last at Weymouth, apparently in good health, and died on Friday night after a few hours' illness. DEATH OF COLONEL WILDMAN.—We regret to announce the death of an old and not undistinguished Pe ninsular and Waterloo officer, Colonel Thomas Wildman, late of the 7th Hussars, which took place unexpectedly at his residence, Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham, on the morning of Tuesday, the 20th inst. The kindness and liberality with which, as owner of the picturesque domain of Newstead, the deceased threw open at all times his house and grounds to the public of the thickly-peopled neigh bourhood will cause the regret excited by his death to spread far beyond the circle of his family and private ac quaintances. The Agincourt, from Melbourne, was announced yesterday morning, with 33,390 ozs. of gold, worth about 0133,000. The letters from St. Petersburg state that Mr. J. B. Kempe, the tallow speculator, who lately failed for a large amount, is expected to pay about 40 or 50 per cent. The shipment of silver to Bombay next week is expected, irrespective of any remittance on the part of the Council of India, to prove large. The possibility of the Government having to purchase silver for transmission to China for war expenses is also beginning to excite atten tion. There is an increasing expectation of some early announcement from Biarritz of an adjustment of the Italian question, and rumours are in circulation that it will be fol lowed by the introduction of financial proposals in the mar kets of Paris and London. ----- - DONCASTER GRAND STAND RECEIPTS.—The re ceipts at the Grand Stand during the recent meeting amounted to about £3,200, or £3OO less than last year, not withstanding, in the opinion of many, the attendanoe was quite equal to former years. This being St. Matthew's Day the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, in their robes, at tended Divine service this forenoon in Christ Church, and afterwards the examination of the boys in the Hospital, pursuant to ancient custom. TIIE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—At a meeting of trade delegates last night, the chairman, Mr. C. Murray, said that, though the masters asserted they had obtained 3,000 men, only 21 fewer than usual had received relief from the conference. At a meeting in Paris the other day, of the shareholders of the proposed Italian railway by the Simplon, it was stated that upon the completion of the proposed tun nel under the Simplon, the Alps, that formerly took twelve hours to pass, will be passed over in half an hour. In that short time the traveller will pass from the valley of the Rhone to the valley d'Ossola, and the Lake of Geneva will be only four hours from the Lago Maggiore. ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER EXPRESS.--SOUTH AMPTON, Tuesday Night.—lntelligence has been received here from the Channel Islands that the South-Western Company's steamer Express, from this port for Jersey, got on the rocks of that island this morning. Mails and pas sengers were saved. The company have despatched their steamer South-Western with men and materials to her assistance, and it is hoped she will be got off. ANOTHER BRITISH VESSEL FIRED INTO BY THE SPANIARDS.—HULL, Sept. 19.—The schooner Jenny Lind, Captain Toogood, from Marseilles to Lynn, put into Lagos Bay, Portugul, on the Ist of September, through stress of weather, and reports that, in coming through the Gut of Gibraltar, 14 days ago, and while passing Tarifa, she was fired into by the Spaniards ; the shot struck the starboard gangway rail, went through both boats, and carried away the port rail. 1 ortunately no lives were lost. ACCIDENT AT KENNINGTON.—Yesterday morn in, about nine o'clock, a very dreadful accident occurred near Kennington - gate, through one omnibus running into another, and, unfortunately, Mr. Wm. White, of Lough borough-park, Brixton, received severe injuries. The unfor tunate gentleman was on the front seat of a Brixton omnibus, which was proceeding to the city ; when at Kennington gate the buckle joining the reins came undone, no doub owing to its having been improperly fastened, and the horses being very spirited, made a dart forward. The driver was unable to hold them in, and the vehicle was conse quently dashed with great violence against an Islington omnibus. Mr. White had his leg completely smashed be tween the two omnibuses, and in an insensible condition was conveyed to the residence of Mr. T. 0. Duke, surgeon, close by, but was eventually removed home to his house in Very slight hopes are entertained of his iu F fe i h e s recovery. .g hl-1. P, ITH ILLEGAL NETS.—Lieut. Keats, of her Majesty's gunboat Spanker, appeared at the Sun derland police-court, on Thursday last, to prefer a charge against John Boyd, a fisherman, for fishing with an illegal net. He pointed out that the act of Parliament provided that no nets should be used which were less than one inch and three- quarters square from knot to knot. The defen (lanes nets were only one inch and a quarter; and instruc tions had been given to him to proceed against all fisher men whose nets were discovered to be constructed contrary to the provisions of i the act of Parliament. The act fur ther provided that illegal nets were to be forfeited, and the persons using them fined not less than Bs. or mere than This being the first case of the kind brought before the bench o p ordered thetheiri nets to be forf e it e d. H , Sept 19.—The progress of the _ i A E rs T hps imposed the minimum fine, and picking throughout the week has been uninterrupted and active, and a large portion of the crop consequently secured, and from every important district the reports are uniform as to the abundance of the yield, and, generally speaking, the superior quality of the growth. The samples hitherto exhibited—of course the earlier pickings—are health, ripe, and well managed to a degree seldom observed, affording a confident expctation that the crop, as a whole, will be as distingui , hed for quality as it undoubtedly will be for abun dance. Throughout much of the plantation, and particularly that of Middle Kent, the yield per acre proves larger even than in 1855, and although since then the extent of land under hop cultivation has been reduced reduced 10,000 acres, the impression is strong that the duty will come out very nearly £300,000, although there is but slight disposition to bet upon it. The market is now abundantly supplied with Sussex and Weald of Kent hops, and moderately also with the choicer descriptions ; there is a fair demand for dealers' hops, in anticipation of the approaching country fairs. In choice hops but little is done as yet ; in two or three in stanceshigh figures have been obtained for very crack go generally speaking the currencies neither of g,,,iitli gis,butnorof grape hops can be considered settled, al- I though the latter, as will bo seen by the subjoined quota tion have declined to tolerably moderate rates. Present merchants' prices :—New Sussex pockets, 60s. to 655. to 68s. ; new Weald of Kent, and grapy Mid-Kent pockets, 655. to 7os. to 80s. to 84s. ; new Middle and East Kent, 95s very choice, 1265. to 1475. 6l t t o 12 YS I TA s" L PALA CE.—VICTORTA-BRIDGE.--A model of this great work of engineering skill, a description of which has lately appeared in the leading journals, and which is to be opened in November next, has been placed in the centre of the nave at the Crystal Palace. The model, which is the property of the Canadian Government, being constructed to scale, Visitors may form some conception of the gigantic character of the enterprise which has succeeded in bridging St. Lawrence, by a structure only 176 feet less than two w m iles in length, as s;•ell as some slight notion of the want . of through communication between Canada and America w:tich ould comm erc i a lly' justify so costly an undertaking. A. lat ge collecti on o f p h o t ograp h s , taken at various times during the con s t ruct i on o f th e b r idge, kindly lent for exhi k.g. in bition by Sir C. P. Honey, afford much information respect ing the progress of the structure. To those persons who may be d,!sieotis of comparing the proportions of this great bridge with those of siniilar works in this country, the model gallery of the Crystal Palace affords ample oppor tunity, as in it will be found models of the Britannia bridge over the, Menai Straits, the bridge over the Dnieper at Kieff (the lon ges t susnens ion-bridge in the world), the Saltash Bridge on th e S o uth Devon Railway at Plymouth (Cue of the latest and most gigantic works of the late Mr. Brunel), the Crumlin Viaduct, and other great engineering works. As adding to the interest of the subject it may be mentioned that the passengers by the Great Eastern will probably be in America at the time fixed for the formal opening of the Victoria Bridge ; and it will be a coincidence long to be remembered, that the successful completion of two such great works as the Great Ship and the Victoria Bridge should have resulted at the same period, and through the labours of English engineers. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BERNE, SEPT. 21. M. Desambrois had a consultation yesterday with the French Ambassador, after which a courier was ,mmediately despatched to Turin. PARIS, SEPT. 21. It is asserted that the result of the visit of the King of the Belgians to Biarritz was fully suc- ce~~f~~~ Messieurs Blanqui and Boichot have arrived at Marseilles, stating their intention to avail them selves of the general amnesty. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 20. News has been received from the frontiers of Morocco. The netive tribes bad renewed their attacks on the French outposts, and had pillaged and set fire to some of the French houses. General Esterhazy made a brilliant onslaught, and repulsed the enemy. The Government of Morocco does not appear to be implicated in these attacks, but has not the power to check them. VIENNA, SEPT. 20. The Wiener Zeitung of this day contains an Im perial decree raising the state of siege in Venice. However, some slight regulations will continue provisionally in force for certain cases. MUNICH, SEPT. 20. Baron von Buest, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Interior of Saxony, and Baron von Hugel, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Wurtemberg, ar here to-day, to hold conferences, it is supposed, with our Minister for Foreign Affairs. FLORENCE, SEPT. 19. The Government has notified to the Plenipoten tiaries of the Grand Duke to evacuate the Palace within three days, and in case of noncompliance the property of the Grand Duke is to be sequestrated.' ROME, SEPT 17 (via Marseilles). His Holiness the Pope has recovered from his late illness. The Papal Government has expressed its satis faction with the article on Italian affairs published in the Moniteur of the 9th inst. Conferences be tween Cardinal Antonelli and the French Ambas sador (the Duke de Grammont) continue to be held. It is said that the functions of the Council of State and the financial Consulta are to be extended. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 19. A special tribunal has been created to try the 40 or 50 persons, principally Circassians and Kurds, who were arrested on a charge of seditiously con spiring together. Each moment's information tends to deprive the senseless scheme of these men of its gravity, as it had no ramification ; and, so far as has been ascertained, no other persons than those now under arrest are implicated." The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second Edition) says : The great report of the day, said to be b tsed on private despatches from Biarritz, but with respect to the value of which I can say nothing, is that the knotty question of the Duchies is arranged, that Tuscany is to be reigned over by King Leopold's second son, and Parma and Modena united under the Arch duke Maximilian. Such a settlement, if indeed it be completed, must be considered• as decidedly favourable to Austria, while, at the same time, as far as the Belgian Prince is concerned, it ought not to be anacceptable to the Italians. The allotment of the two small Duchies to an Austrian Archduke would doubtless cause great dissatisfaction at least at first, even although the one selected be, of all the family the man who should stand best in Italian T repeat, however, that these are but re ports, and may prove utterly baseless. They have obtained wide currency, and to them is, in a great measure, tAtributed the slight improvement at to day's Bourse. Whatever they may be worth, the feeling out of doors is better, and there seems a growing belief that things are tending to concilia tion. The ultra-Italian party alone are dissatisfied, and refuse all belief to the reports above cited. Another rumour is to the effect that there is to be no Chinese expedition ; that the head of the Peiho mandarin has been proffered in atone ment, coupled with promises of all the satisfaction that may be required, of immediate reception of the Ambassadors at Pekin—in short, of concessions almost unbounded. Whether he believes himself and his people to be in the right or in the wrong, it would, doubtless, be the wisest and the cheapest plan for the Chinese Emperor to give in at once, in stead of waiting until signal vengeance be followed up by the exaction of heavy penalties ; but we await more positive information before feeling con vinced that his Majesty has shown suitli sagacity and prudence. opinion. HOLLAND. OPENING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION OF 1859-1860. THE HAGUE, MONDAY. To-day, at one o'clock, the King, accompanied by all the Princes, opened the legislative session with the following speech : " Messieurs,— " At the commencement of your ordinary session it is pleasing to me to be able to give you the assur ance that my relations with foreign powers are satisfactory. I receive from all the Governments proofs of friendship. " The state of our internal affairs is also satisfac tory, and there is reason to hope that it may be still further ameliorated. " In the different branches of the general admi nistration, as well in the provinces as in the com munes, order and civil and religious liberty prevail. "The subsidies granted by the Legislature for the improvement of our means of defence are usefully employed. The benevolent co-operation of which you have given proofs on this occasion, the patrio tism of my people, which has been again recently manifested by the ardour of the militia in joining their standards, and the excellent spirit that has never ceased to be exhibited by my land and sea forces, give me the firm hope to be able to maintain, under all circumstances, the independence and in tegrity of the soil of our country. In the domain of the arts and sciences the Netherlands continue to support the honourable rank which she holds. " Agriculture, guided by science and experience, does not cease to undergo useful ameliorations. This source of national prosperity has not been so abundant this year as we had reason to hope. Nevertheless, if there has not been an extraordinary arvest, some r.ompensation is found in the abund ance of food for cattle. " In spite of the pernicious influence exercised by war, commerce has lost none of its activity, and other branches of industry have continued in a flourishing state. Navigation and the construction of shipping have still to struggle with the difficul ties which, during the past sear, interfered with their extension and prosperity. " The product of the ways and means of this country is satisfactory. " The state of the Treasury will permit us to put our hand energetically to the work in the execu tion of great public works. Some new projects for the construction of railways will be presented to you without delay ; your approbation will also be asked for the establishment, at the expense of the State, of a shorter water transit from the capital to the sea. " If I acknowledge with gratitude this flourish ing state of the finances of the cantry—and I consider that it is in a great measure the fruit of the advantages we draw from the possessions of the State in the East Indies—l feel at the same time the consciousness of my duty to devote all my solicitude to the prosperity and progressive development of these posses sions, and the sacrifices which we are required to make for this purpose, as well as for the mainte nance of our authority in those countries, have been made with great liberality. " Thus, if this authority should be menaced, I reckon not only that my forces, by land and by sea, who fought at Djambi and Retch, will once more give me proofs of their shining courage and valour, but also on the patriotism of that portion of the Netherlands people who reside is the Indies. The massacres at Banjermassing shall not go unpunished, and we shall continue to labour energetically to enforce the submission of Boni. "Order and tranquillity reign in the West Indies The examination of the project of law relative to the emancipation of the slaves of that colony was not conducted to a definitive result in your last session ; a modified project of law will be immediately sub mitted for your deliberation. " Gentlemen, you will have many labours with which to occupy yourselves. New projects of law will be presented for your examination, and you will be able to resume the consideration of those projects of law which you were unable to finish before the termination of the preceding session. " May the task which devolves upon you be ac complished under the blessing of the Almighty, and be favoured by the maintenance of repose and peace, for the safety of the country. " I declare the ordinary session of the States General to be opened." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Constitutionnel has a very interesting account of the new bridge across the Rhine which is to unite Strasbourg with Kehl. It will be finished at the end of 1860, and will prove of immense advantage in the communication by railway between France and Ger many. _ _ The Siecle has lately had some admirable observa tions upon cellular imprisonment, which it condemns as the cause of madness, of suicide, and of future crime. It points out the horrors of the peniten tiary system of the prison Mazas as a terrible aggra vation of the punishment to be inflicted which de mands prompt reform. The paragraph relating to the press in the Moniteur has made the impression that was to be expected, and is spoken of with disappiontment and disapprobation, and qualified as harsh and even brutal. This is what one hears out of doors. The papers are much more reserved in their expres sions of opinion. The Debats, Univers, and Ga zette de France reproduce the paragraph without comment. The Constitutionnel and Patric do the same, not having as yet, it is to be presumed, re ceived license or order for laudatory remark. The Pays, their brother in the bonds of Government, says that the note in the Moniteur refutes recent rumours of " pretended amelioration, and, by re establishing the true principles of this important question, gives a new pledge to public stability and security." In speaking thus, the Journal de Em pire, of course, only does its duty as a zealous hireling. BouisE, Sept. 20.—The market was heavy at tthe opening, but somewhat recovered as the day wore on. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 60c., rallied to 68f. 85c. Mobilier varied from 765 f. to 785 f. ; Austrian, 535 f. to 540 f. ; Lom bard, 552 f. 50c. to 555 f. ; Orleans, 1,370 f. to 1,375 f. ; Lyons, 873 f. 75c. to 875 f. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 95 Credit Foncier 670 Do. end month .. 95 Belgian 4i ... 3 per Cents 6B 75 Piedmontese (5) .. 85 Do. end month 6B 90 Roman B4 75 Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian Cridit Mobilier .. 782 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 790 Home Debt 44i cial city, and. the Free States generally of the Union, mid-day prayer meetings, in which laymen were the cb.ief actors, became as common as Sab bath-day services in other Christian countries. There was ntot, that we remember, any remarkable physical ezcitement, but a good deal of pithy, painted speaking, much more calculaiZ',sl. doubtless to awaken the thoughtless than a faultless sermon from an Eng lish rector, and very numerous short prayers, offered, chiefly by laymen ; our American exchanges at tilat time had frequently columns filled with accouras of these meetings. The busi ness daily papers, some of them at least, even pub lished supplements _filled with such narratives. Now, for a long tune we have heard little or no thing about the American revivals from the Ameri can journals. There is not, that we are aware, -- any - any reason to doubt that their religious influence was considerable. The chief thing apparent was a very great multiplication of the services common amongst the Christian denominations of the coun try ; and this must be likely to result in the diffu sion of more religious feeling than usual. For our selves, we confess, we have looked, and shall yet look to the effect, in reference to American Slavery. We shall be slow to believe in any religious excite ment being the work of Heaven, which does not do its part in destroying that unmistakeable work of hell. We were told in a recent number of The Westminster, that the work, or " mission " of the " Evangelicals" in England came to an end with the Abolition of Negro Slavery. We all know that in this country they were the strength of that movement; and we may reasonably look, therefore, for a marked effect on the position of Negro Slavery in America, from a " revival " amongst the " Evan gelicals "of America. If we see it, we shall believe that it was, at least, a Revival, conscience-deep. The Revival now in progress in Ireland was an off-shoot from that of America. The Irish journals most favourable to it describe it as having begun with persons who were " led to pray for an Irish Revival from what they heard of the American one." For a time all went on as quietly, in man ner, as in America, but the Irish excitability ere long surpassed:all that had been heard of from New York. The most marvellous accounts were soon published, not merely of crowded prayer meetings, and monster open-air meetings, surpassing those collected by the popular young Baptist orator of the Surrey Music Hall, but we heard also of per sons " falling down in trances," having " visions of heavenly scenes," and sometimes of infernal scenes also ; and of almost every variety of supernatural excitement. The grand distinction of these physical excitements from all usually connected with reli gious "revivals," was what is termed in the local phraseology being " struck" or " struck down." Of course the greater part by far of those thus affected are young women, and in them the affection un qnestionably seems like one of the many diversities of hysteria. It is, however, confessedly not con fined to young women; in some cases mentioned in the Irish papers it is strong men who are " struck." One we noticed, a robust and powerful man, a farmer, another a publican ; and the former is mentioned as having stated that he long struggled against yielding to the influence or power to which he was ashamed to submit. It is these manifes ,ations which have formed the subject of so much controversy. The well-known GEORGE GlLFlLLAN—himself a Scotch reverend—pronounced them in a sermon to be the " veriest work of the Devil." But some Presbyterian divines on the spot speak of them as the work of the Deity himself ! More moderate men, less versed in the mysteries of Heaven and hell, and more likely to be correct, regard them as every way objectionable, but as purely natural and as not being, with very few exceptions, impostures. Under strong religious impressions an individual or two were thus affected in the first instance. Snch affections are always contagious ; if one fainting person be not promptly removed from an assembly, it is well known others will soon follow, and in this way the " strikings down" probably began in the neighbourhood of Belfast. But na turally it would not, and did not, stop here. Persons met together under the circumstances in connection with which the first physical prostrations had occurred ; the preaching and service was of a character adapted to produce them ; it was looked for, expected by hundreds, and the conseq•ience was that such scenes were multiplied. Even strong and robust persons, like the farmer and publican adverted to, are far from being unlikely subjects for such im pressions. They were doubtless illiterate persons ; indeed, we are told that illiterate persons only have been attacked ; and this class is peculiarly liable to a superstitious kind of apprehension of the magic influence of some unknown power. By far the ablest pamphlet we have seen on the subject is one by the Rev. Archdeacon STOPFORD, who went to investigate on the spot. Dr. STOP FORD belongs to the Evangelical school, has no an tipathy to Religious Revivals—rather, we should say, a prepossession in their favour ; but he is very positive, assigning his reasons at great length, that the physical effects adverted to are those of hyste ria, and nothing else. He even designates his pamphlet " The Work and the Counterwork " regarding the revival essentially as a really good work, but the " strikings down," and the like, as the " counter work." On the whole it is not denied, we do not know that anyone wishes to do so, that much good has been done amongst a large number of illiterate and immoral persons. A Catholic judge on the bench, and secular as well as religious journals, testify to this. We only hope the refor mation will be permanent—more so than that begun by the excellent Father MATHEW. The ex travagancies, all wise and prudent divines, as well as laymen, regret, and endeavour to suppress them. Let us hope that nothing of the kind will be im ported into theological Scotland and exciteable Wales, into which, as the country papers inform us, the " revival" is spreading. So long as these revivals are employed to spread religion amongst a class who will attend to it in no other form, per sons of better religious tastes will accept the acci dental evil for the sake of the substantial good. Earnest men must choose their own methods. In The Sun of yesterday we gave a communica tion from a special correspondent of the Times. It was an account of a monster prayer meeting at Armagh, to which place cheap excursion trains were rum from Belfast, a distance of thirty miles. A part of the scenes, both in the railway and on the green where the meeting was held, were such as certainly could not redound to the credit of religion any where. In the centre was a large platform, on which many really educated and respectable ministers stood an•l addressed the people, among them the well-known and much-respected Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, of our own metropolis, a preacher certainly here of the more refined caste, and in whose place of wor ship nothing unseemly would be tolerated for a moment. It seems, however, that -a violent and illiterate class of speakers drew off considerable numbers, and endeavoured to produce the "striking down" results which have made so much noise. It would appear, however, from the letter that re spectable ministers are endeavouring, though in too feeble a voice, to suppress what they see to be so undesirable. RAILWAYS. Ca.sh. Account. Orleans Northern 9lB 75 .. 918 75 _ _ _ New ditto BO5 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 875 Geneva — -- .. -- Southern Western 577 50 .. Eastern Sarcliniaa 4lO .. -- -- Austrian Lombard ..... Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f 10c.; three months, paper, 24f. 97fc.; money, 24f. 921 c. RUSSIA. While publishing Prince Bariatinski's report of the capture of Schamyl and the fall of Gounib the St. Petersburg Gazette says : " Schamyl, who is now 62 years of age, was born in the Acul of Himry, on the Koissobou territory, where his predecessor, Ghazi-Mouhammed or Kasi- Moullah, was also born, and fell when the fortress was taken on the 18th of October, 1832. " It is needless to point out the importance of the victory which has placed in the hands of Prince Baxiatinski the last bulwark behind which the power of the Imaum of the Caucasus found a refuge. The detailed report of these events will shortly, doubtless, enable us to form an exact appreciation of the material and moral result which the capture of Schamyl will have caused among the native population." AMERICA. [BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY NIGHT. The screw steamer City of Washington left New York on the 10th, and arrived here at midnight, bringing 40 cabin and 233 steerage passengers, and 613, 429 dollars in specie. Landed 44 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1 a.m. Political news unimportant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 9. The reaction so long expected in the Stock market begins to be felt, the decline not yet heavy enough for special remark. There was a large business done in Central to-day, at a decline of to on yesterday's prices. Sales this morning were at 781. Breadstuffs firmer. Southeron floor, fair demand; rye firm, at 83c. to 84c. ; barley quiet. Coffee firm. Cotton.—There was a pause in the market, dealers waiting private advices before doing much ; midland uplands, lsa. Pork firm ; beef fair demand ; prices unsustained. TaKow, 10,000 lb. at 101 c. Tea steady, with good demand. Freights steady, and rather firmer to English ports. NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 9. Cotton sales, 3,900 bales. Prices steadier. Mid dling, 11c. to 111 e. Corn dull. Pork steady. Sterling exchange, 9 to 91 premium. Savannah cotton market inactive. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The screw steamship Indian, Captain Smith, has arrived with the Canadian mails of the 10th, and telegraphic advices from New York to the 9th. The following are the latest telegrams (vta Quebec) : " Sterling exchange is in moderate request at steady rates, Bankers' bills range at about 1101. " The cotton-market is flat, and sales are to a triflng extent, at about former prices. Breadstuffs are all steady, and prices are firmly maintained. Beef and pork are dull, but without any quotable decline. Lard is buoyant at 101 e. to 111 c. per lb. Sugars are quiet. Coffee is firm, at 101 e. to 121 c. for Rio. Spirits of turpentine steady, at 451 c. to 46c. Scotch pig iron heavy, at 23 dols. Freights continue quiet. e , NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 8, " Cotton sales to -day 4,000 bales, at irregular prices ; middling to s trict middling, I le. to 11-I,c. Mess pork dull, at 14 dols. 75c. Cotton freights to Liverpool, 19-32 d. to ad•" (VIA FATHER POINT.) " The usual New York telegram of the 10th has failed to come to hand. is NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 9, EVENING. " The sales of cotton to-day were 3,500 bales• There is a better feeling in the market, and pric es are steady at 11c. to 11 1 c. for middling. The business of the week foots up 20,500 bales, and the receipts of the week have been 22,000 bales, 0 against 11,500 in the correspond in g week last year. The stock on hand is 55, 500 ba les, against 40,00 last year. Corn is dull, at 700. Flour quiet and steady. Freights of cotton to Liver p ool quoted at 19-32 d., but shippers only offe r 9-16 d. Sterling exchange is quoted at 9 to 91 prem. " MONTREAL, SEPT. 10, Evening. " Our flour-market has been active at steady prices to-day, and new wheat has been selling freely. Ashes steady, at 5 dols. 60e. to 5 dols. 65c. for pots, and 5 dols. 65c. to 5 dols. 70e. for pearls. " It appears from the repor t of the Chief Emi gration agent that the number of emig r ants arrived at Quebec up to this date has been 7,356, which shows a decrease of 4, 100 a s compared with the number at the same date last year." THE PENINSULAR MAILS' (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Ellora, steamer, Captain Christian, has 10- rived, with Lisbon mails of the 17th, and Arig°t 18th. She did not communicate with Oporto on account of bad weather. She brought 15 passengers, in cluding and Mr. Baring, M.P. ; Mr. Howard In lat. 45 10 N., long. 7 49 W., passed the Sultan steamer, bound to Vigo, and the ship Victoria £6,059 ins pecie. Regia, steering westward. The Duke of Oporto had left Lisbon with to h steam-frigates Estefania and Bartholomew de Dlllso to take part in such operations at Morocco as may be necessary to protect British subjects. Lisbon exchanges — On London, 421 trdano 424 41 ; Paris, 541 to 542; Genoa, 534; Amstet, Hamburg, 462. TILE STEAM-SHIP NORTHAM. The Peninsular abd Oriental Company have re' ceived intelligence of this vesse l's arrival at Ade°, on the sth inst., all well, and the ship ma ki n g but , little water. She was to continue her voyage t ° Bombay the following morning. • L I. I IW . FIVE NEW POINTS OF C.RIMINA (From Dickens's Dickens's All the Year .Round.) 1 There shall be no judge. S tron g represel. tions have been made by highly popular culpri s that the presence of this obtrusive character is pre that to their bests interests. The court Will p. , composed of a political gentleman, sitting? n °: eluded room commanding a view of S. ni es ,"; park, who has already more to do than any lin ° "„ creature can, by any stretch of the human n 111113111". tion, be supposed capable of doing. . 2. The pry to consist of 5,555 vo l u nteers. . 3. The jury to be strictly prohibited fro are ° m sega n o g t either the accused or the witnesses. They the to be sworn. They are on no acc ount to ear o. evidence. They are to receive it, or such represe tations of it, as may happen to fall in their WsYai; and they will constantly write letters about it to the papers. A or 4. Supposing the trial to be a trial for rauru er or poisoning, and supposing the hypothetical case , ~. the evidence, for the prosecution to charge the au i, ministration of two poisons, say arsenic and eli t he mony ; and supposing the taint of arsenic in re. body to be possible, but not probable, and th e 13 1 „to sence of antimony in the body to be an abs c r e g certainty ; it will then become the duty of the to confine their attention solely to the arsenic,. at. entirely to dismiss the antimony from their fir 5. The symptoms preceding t he death of the ~ offender (or murdered person) being describehaeg evidence by medical practitioners who saw . t .beta other medical practitioners who never sa ', OO . shall be required to state whether they are 04- ,,ii sistent with certain known diseases—but, theY s hall never be asked whether they are not exactly c sistent with the administration of poison. osed To illustrate this enactment in the proP to bill by a case :—A raging mad dog is see n in g run into the house where Z lives alone, feellitue at the mouth. Z and the mad dog r for 0 0 .. .., time left together in that house under proved Cire.wl4 stances, irresistibly leading to the conclusion til_7l, Z has been bitten by the dog. Z is afterigaiTs, found lying on his bed in a state of hydroPb° the and with the marks of the dog's teeth. tho seN° l/ ' symptoms of that disease being identical with r of another disease calledtetanus,which migh t suP :rt vene on Z's running a rusty nail into a c ertain P is % of his foot, medical practitioners who neve r sad it shall bear testimony to that abstract fact, an 1 to shall then be incumbent on the registrar-ge.0•113 ed certify that Z died of a rusty nail. It is hoP ro .. that these alterations in the present mode of Po l e cedure will not only be quite satisfactory t?.,„ .. s . accused person (which is the first great consla'to tion), but will also tend, in a tolerable degreef_ot the welfare and safety of society. For it is i fb e sought in this moderate and prudent m easure i • e ti wholly denied that it is an inconvenience to so° to be poisoned overmuch. _-------;-- FUNERAL OF MR. BRUNEL, C.E.--1( es terall P ....not morning the mortal remains of I sambard Kingdom T he ' f ; n e. .n Esq., were interred in Kens al- g reen Cemetery. iftite ral procession, which was of a p rivate character, left ii 9 street, Westminster, the late residence of the deceas2.lies, o'clock. The cortege consisted of four mournini Too containing the principal relatives of the deceasau t li o , nr ing the following gentlemen, distinguished in eng" .-- Mr. science :—Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Field, Mr. Hawksholf!rons Walker, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Charles Manby, and uttn i : t or others. Twelve carriages belonging to friends of the ceased followed the procession. The whole of thn " 8 in in the immediate vicinity of the deceased's resider!? i ' l o f Duke-street, closed their shops and windows in tkit e „, e o respect. At the cemetery a large number of gent i tto connected with the Society of Civil Engineers, e s ' Os profession generally, assembled andfollowed the prefer; to the grave. to leilrli THE LATE MR. BRUNEL.—We are glad riot that care has been taken to preserve an adequate Ine l l, al of this distinguished gentleman, whose premature dent dl such a time cast so universal a gloom over the pub of hid Mr. E. W. Wyon, the sculptor, has, by permission ossowd family, taken a mask of the features of the deceased' bu st from the artist's well kno wn ability no doubt s uch ", s it will be produced as shall faithfully perpetuate tPn," of one of the greatest engineers of our time. v:ll l ,T.''' THE COLLISION ON THE GREAT WEST-- ,;011 The adjourned inquiry into the late fatal collision 170 took place on the 14th, at the Slough s tation, hi ;01, Thomas Treacher, the guard of the goods train, was n o , . cwoarsonreesruporedsyoeusttherdßauyekbse.forAe Mr. G. A. Charsley,sdeP _ere examined to show whether the :115genatalinlialighytswwitenre"covi:r.t8 7-1704 worked on the morning of the accident, but the e 1 11 4, 0 was of such a contradictory nature that the jury, b 1 long consultation, returned a verdict of " Homiciaa Dia:, adventure," to which they added the following re pest" " That, in consequence of the conflicting evidence Dr " oth 9r ing the signal lights, we are unable to record any A w e verdict than that of ' Homicide by misadventure; i.?tites think the guard to blame for starting the train. threenw,, at before time without the authority of a proper peril" Reading" The proceedings then terminated. p ub- NEW ZEALAND. ---A series of tables has been fijc e, lished by the authorities of the Colonial Secretary'l °oohs Auckland, New Zealand, giving the principal results tot. census of that colony taken on the 24th of Decerahef.L, of These tables, which have been published in anticipann'og. the annual volume of statistics of New Zealand for 1° 8,11 4 show tat te coleny s rapidly increasin in populatilor the material elements i of wealth. The nug m b e r of tilf , an d peen population in the colony in 1851 was 15,035 msofore 11,672 females, or a total of 26,707. In 1858 theru , rl O 33,585 males, and 25,669 female, or a total of 59,25 4 % s ' a o shows a centesimal increase in 7 years of 123.37 win e oe 119.91 females, or 121.86 on the whole pppulation. 11_ in live stock in the possession of Europeans in the colo Y 9, 1851 was as follows :-2,890 horses, 60 mules aucl_ a°B lo 34,787 cattle, 233,043 sheep, 12,121 goats, 16,21 4 Pia':, ii ies 1858 the numbers were as follows :—horses 14,91 2 i oa ts, and asses, 122 • cattle 137 188 • sheep 1;523,316 4 / ill . 1 1 1 1 7 . ,,.. ,a 1 / 4 . 11,767 ; pigs, 40,692. In 1851 the quantity o f tan an d acres) in the possession of Europeans and under c..gvi; fenced was as follows :—Wheat, 5,5141 ; a nd 1, ot her oats, 2,324 ; potatoes 2,2561; sown grass, 15,58 0 i ; to crops, 2,1261 ; total ' under cultivation, 29,1401,;000 fenced, 30,47..1. In 1858 the total average was as 1 01 ,t ' t00 0, —Wheat, 13,6981 ; barley, 3,016 ; oats, 12,4961 ; e 1 3 , 1; potatoes, 558 f ; sown grass, 98,0381 •; other croF.,s, ,4 8 1. total under cultivation, 140,9461; total fenced, 23• 9, ' ito T HE COST OF THE LATE WAR.—The Atflgelfe" it Z e itung endeavours to estimate the cost of the late sc'eost is impossible, says the writer, to estimate the absolute:e of a war, since its influence on trade and industry', absolute y immense, is indefinite. Considering only the sums ac v iA, e xpended ix supporting the campaign , he says tha at t Al s be. w ithout reckoning the loan sheraised in England !.°-.":the g inning of 1859, has expended 20 0 , 000,000 gulden ' the purposes of war. France has applied 500,000,000 f. t t ° o t he same e purpose. Piedmont, it is known, had acor s e d iier .1- French military chest ; but, besides this, she incr t p,199 loan by 50,000,000 f., and her debt to the Turin Py to lian 33,000,000 f. The exact sums spent by the other totting States cannot be ascerta with precision, bt, eS, , OOOf• the 5,000,000 f. added to the Bolongese loans, 2 b ! , , t u b u i cti n ra en t ; c innot be an over estimate. 'With regard now tral Powers, Russia gives no means of making nobsA artei estimate, but, considering the additions to her voers• r•urps, the cost to her must have been 15,000,0001„ our Finally, the sums raised by the German States for In e P t il - ketl p ,se of putting their forces on a war footing WO ,I jo b, still together at 90,000,000 gulden, about a third of ‘ l4 '., ns per remains insunpent. These conclusion translateGrfitun'r into arranges a table as follows. We fray pounds : Austria, about .. France, ditto .. Piedmont, ditto .. Other Italian State, ditto Russia, ditto . • England, ditto .. Germany, ditto 4 r 2 2 5 : : 0 2 ' ,: : 8281 0 :20000 ! 0 : 0 : 000000 0 u,o - g l of i Shi act