The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-17 00:00:00

BENSON'S *WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Watches ............... 4to WO guineas. Silver Watches ................ 2 ton, LO guineas. 33 and 31, Ludgate-hia, LoudE.C. Fend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL EN(iLISTI OPERA, co VENT -G ARDEN. Under the munaaetnent of Miss L. Fyne and Mr.W. Harrison. EVENING. DINO A 11. Messrs. Santley, IT. Corri, St. Atbyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pillin, Thirl wall, and Miss Louisa Fyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. DIVE lIT ISSF.MENT. Manes. _Lequine, Pasquale, Pier son, and Mons. Vandris. - Commence at S o'clock. TILEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. 13. Blackstone. TITTS EVENING the performances will commence with AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy Sedgwiek. After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE. AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Ruckstone E. Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White. Mr,. Wilkins, and Mrs. . Fitzwam. And lIALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. TUTS F.VENING. the performances will commence with LOVF.'S TELEGRAPH. To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. R. Planche. Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE. To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELP HI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING will be performed ICI ON and FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole , Cha s Selby, and Kiss Kelly. After which, WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben. stns, Mr. J. L. Webster; Hulks, Mr. David Fi sher ; Augu Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford. Followed b LOVE AND FIITNGER. Mr. David Fisher, Mr. Paul Bed y ford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Mice men from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee. Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, PA HEN rs AND GUARDIANS. After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen ord, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, supportA by 'Bliss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa. Reduced Prices---G allery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ance commences at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough TUTS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An other Retreat from Moscow. And CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF TIIE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALT, CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). In a few days will be produced a Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINOIIAH. Comic V o c a lists - Messrs. Georze Ho lson t (he Trashy.ome dian and Mimic),W. T. Crltchfield, and E. W. Mackne Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beaut fieid. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 16. THENNOWETEU, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and daring the night. 63—this day at noon. BiuomYrnx-29.52. WIND, South-Westerly; rather fresh, with dull rain, weather. Afternoon fine. OCT. 17. THERMOMETER, TN TUB SHADS. 6.s—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.52. WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with dull weather ; rain in the night and this morning. liIGIi WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. 43m.—Afternoon, 4h. sm. To-MORROW-I,lorninir, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 52m. , 1 / 4 .• • , , _7-z-v;,•• THE SUN. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1859. Litt l .e Dorrit's readers—numbered by hundreds of thousands —will remember the incident of ARTHUR CLENNAM'S visit to that room in the Cir cumlocution office, where the two Clerks, we beg their pardon, the two official gentlemen, are loung ing away their time, talking in a listless draw about something or other relating to " dawgs ;" one of these two important civil servants of the Crown leisurely polishing the barrel of a fowling-piece, the while, upon a silk pocket-hankerchief. " Finance," that is to say somebody signing himself " Finance," has just now taken up the pleasant inquiries sug gested by that incident. He follows in ARTHUR CLENNAM'S footsteps, and opens a few more doors in the Circumlocution office for the purpose of whole some ventilation ! And, like ARTHUR CLENNAM, " Finance," with a profound significance in the act, leaves the door, in each instance (when he goes out again), standing wide open. "Shut that door !" crick one of the two clerks in Little Dorrit—at this mo ment we don't precisely recollect whether it was the gentleman polishing the gun-barrel, or his companion spreading marmalade with a paper-knife. At any rate, one or other bawls indignantly after ARTHUR—" Shut that door !" The novelist, by an exquisite instinct of the judicious, refrains from letting us know whether CLENNAM did return t 3 shut it or not. We prefer to believe that he did nnt—but that there it is standing wide open to this day, enabling those who list to look in when they please and see how matters are managed in the circumlocution office, and how the public time is there consumed. How many other official gentlemen in other apartments of the great Circumlocution office will feel disposed to bawl, " Shut that door" after the retreating footsteps of "Finance," who has just looked in upon them like CLENNAM, aud, like GLEN NAM, left the door wide open, for the purpose, we presume, of course, as already intimated, of more perfect " ventilation." The injunction, indeed, seems to come forth this time in a sort of a choral shout from four different directions simultaneously —from the Foreign Office, from the Treasury Office, from the Board of Trade Office, and from the office of the Registrar of Merchant Seamen. Any one who wants a good lorgnette to enable him, no matter at what distance, to see clearly in through those open doorways, may find it supplied opportunely to hand by " Finance" himself in another part of our impression of this evening, in a double-barrelled communi cation to one of ozr contemporaries. Any one may thus be enabled to see for himself at a glance, how it is a good many other official gentlemen, the cavil servants of the Crown, that is of Circumlocution, Iv!le away their time, polish their fowling pieces on bandanas, or spread their marmalade with official ivory paper cutters. The spectacle is really worth looking at for a few minutes. It is—as the Americans might say—" cautionary!" All at the small charge (upon the nation) annually (i n sa l ar i es ) o f (" Finance" tells us) £3,500 , 000 ! ve ry nearly Yonder, in one very big room in the Circumlocution office, inscribed with the cabilistic word" Treasury" of £54 —to the yearly tuneooo ! Yonder, in that , o ther bigger room, the one walled round with pigeon f red tape (the sa holes and ankle deep in a litter o • 'bed "Foreign-office") creel precincts being here ruse And 900! And so at a cost every twelvemonth of , forth--as we look to the right and to the left alter .n.r.,a0a5..,...b.m..a....a......111N........"—_ nately, at the suggestion of that dreadful, inquisi torial, " Finance !" Each department is a very polypus in its way : with ravening arms—more numerous than those of Briareust--stretched forth at all points, hungering, thirsting, all-devouring! The feelers of these consuming polypi of the State are many-named—secretaries, assistant secretaries, auditors of civil list, auditors of accounts, principal clerks for colonial businesss, for revenue business, for financial b r usiuess, for legal and criminal business, first-class clerks (many), second class clerks (more), third-class clerks, and actually in a vague unnumbered way, " other clerks," ac countants, and assistant-accountants —always " as sistants," observe, to do everything! Tot fours perdrix et wive la bagatelle ! It is like the "gag" of DIGGORY in" She Stoops to Conquer " : "Dig. What be you going to do ? Serv. Nothing. Dig. Then I'll help you!" At the C ir cumlocution -office they have plenty of DICGORIES. And besides the " first-Chop " officials— the upper-crust of the departments—they have, of course, a "second-chop " class of almost equal abundance—office-keepers,housekeepers,door keepers, lamplighters, coal-porters, messengers, and what - not, lower arms of the State polypi less aspiring in their reach, stretched forth as it were horizontally, yet in their way, too, hungering, thirsting, devouring, ravening ! The polypus, by the way, is conveniently suggestive of the hydra—and the hydra of the punishment inflicted upon it by the mythical HERCULES ! And the Great Evil-Destroyer again, does he not yet more opportunely bring us round once more to our amiable friend " Finance," who is fain to exclaim at list, " All that one can. do" — (beholding " such gigantic financial profligacy")— " All that one can do is to live and hope that some day a HERCULES will be born who will have the power of turning the full tide of the public resent ment right through this heap of waste and extra vagance !" The suggestion, merely regarded as a possibility, is refreshing to contemplate. Let us cherish it, if only as a day-dream. And let us cling still to that halcyon hope, that timely ventilations, like these just vouchsafed by " Finance," may lead in the end to a clearing away of the profligate ex penditure thus " ventilated" -- a clearance bold, complete, though rough ! The devotion of Lord DUDLEY STUART to the cause of Poland has very recently been most touch- the hall of the noble earl's country seat (Sandon ingly commemorated. It has been commemorated by the Poles themselves. And this at the instance of the most venerable and illustrious among all the hiefs of that heroic race now living—the Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI. A voluntary subscription raised among the Polish Exiles and the Polish population having furnished the means of realising (in answer to Prince ADAM'S Appeal to his fellow countrymen) this exquisite project of a grateful and affectionate testimonial—here is the testimonial itseif in the form of a most beautiful medal of commemoration. A medal pourtraying in front the faithful effigy in profile of the departed noble man—here simply but eloquently designated in the truthful inscription, "DUDLEY C. STUART, Cause) Polonire Indefessus Vindex, Exulum Polonorum Amiens et Fautor." If ever man deserved those enviable and honourable titles, this man did—for during three and twenty years he was in very deed, in the knowledge not only of England and of Poland, but'of all Christendom, The indefatigable champion of the cause of Poland, The Friend and Advocate of the Exiled Poles. Throughout the principal part of his chivalrous life his sympathy was with that cause, his aspirations were for the restoration of the rights of that people ; but from the close of the last struggle of the Polish multitude for the revival of their national independence in 1831, down to the day of his premature demise in 1854, at Stockholm, "every energy of his soul," as Prince ADAM has said very recently, " was given to it, and he remained faithful to it to the last breath of his admirable.life." How dear his memory is to the hearts of the Polish peop'.e, but especially of the Polish exiles, they have now forcefully indi cated through this appropriate commemoration. A description will be found in another part of our impression of this evening, a detailed and deeply-interesting description of the presentation to the husband and son of the late Countess of HARROWBY, sister of Lord DUDLEY COUTTS STUART —of this gold medal, offered by Poland (1859) as a token of gratitude. The ceremony of this presen tation to the Earl of HARRowsv and his lordship's son and heir, the Viscount SANDON, took place, as will be observed, on Monday last, in that part of Hall) known as " The Polish Vestibule." The sentiments with which this gold medal was proffered to the surviving relations of Lord DUDLEY to be held by them and their descend ants its an heirloom, were variously expressed with great eloquence by that beautiful memento itself, by the admirable words addressed to Lord HAIL ROWBY at the moment of its presentation by Major SZULCZEWSKI, and by the dignified and pathetic let ters transmitted to the noble lord at the same time by the Count ZAMOYSKI, and by that general's ill as trious and venerable kinsman, the Prince ADAM CZARTORYSKI. The significance of the great "cause" itself *is epitomised exquisitely in the beautiful map traced upon the reverse of the com memorative medal—a map of the kingdam of Poland as it was, as it may yet be again, a glorious dominion stretching across Europe from the Baltic to the Euxine, watered by the Vistula and the Dniester, walled by the Carpathians—Poland as it was in 1580, when Riga became a Polish Port under STEPHEN BATOR'S', at it was as far back as 9G5, when, under MIECZZSLAS 1., that lair and fruitful land was first converted to Christianity. In the extract which we give from the Sydney Morning Herald,the editor concludes with a very just remark or two. The Ballot Society seems to have sent him a number of queries respecting the work ing of the Ballot in New South Wales; and, natu rally enough, to have asked whether the moral ob jections so pertinaciously alleged here, were found to exist in the colony. The remarks of the Editor are interesting, as illustrating the state of the colony, but in the last paragraph he lays his finger on the real objection felt by the opponents of the Ballot in England, which coincides with that which we, and all interested in honest elections here, have always pointed out as the true one—that it would really place the power in the hands of the electors. The moral objections do not, he says, weigh a fea ther in the colonies. But in the colonies they quite comprehend the true difficulty in the mother coun try—" to reconcile the governing classes to a total surrezder of their political power." The moral objections strike colonists as " frivolous, at least of comparatively little force." He might have com pleted the old formula, and have said, " frivolous and vexatious." To us, we confess they are exceedingly vexa tious. It is not Lord JOHN RUSSELL and others being " against" the Ballot that annoys us. All Englishmen are prepared to respect their political antagonists, and to like them none the worse for being so. It is the hypocrisy of our opponents which disgusts us. Why can they not-manfully say at once--" We don't like to part TIIE SUN, LONDON' MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBEI 17, 1859 with our power." That we know, as the editor at our Antipodes does, to be the truth ; it vexes one, therefore, out of all patience to be asked to meet from time to time sham arguments, which, if we refute them, and they have been refuted a hundred times, do nothing towards gaining our object. Let LORD SOHN RussELt-say boldly, "the rule of the landed aristocracy through their hold on their serfs in the counties and in the agricultural boroughs, and of the monied aristocracy through their power in our Gloucesters and Wakefields—this rule of the landed and monied aristocracy is for the good of the country—release the electors from the land lord's and monied man's power, and he would go wrong—let him vote as he pleases, and his votes would not please me." Let his Lordship meet us in this way, and we should know how to deal with him. But, he probably fears that the electors would know how to deal with him also. Into this subject, however, we cannot just now enter. We only demand that if our Anti-Ballot Governors want to preserve their power over our votes, they should say so openly; that they should not play the hypocrite by putting forward morality, when they care for nothing but power. LATEST NEWS. The following telegram bas been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Shipping Company's Overland Mails : The Pekin, from Bombay, 26th September, reached Aden on the sth inst., and would leave for Suez next day. The Malta, ;with the outward September mail, arrived at Aden on the 4th, and left on the sth inst. for Australia: The Company's steamship Jeddo arrived at Bona. bay on the 23d September, 57 days from Southamp. ton, and would leave for Suez next day. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ZURICH, OCT, 17 All questions, including the monetary settlement, have now been definitively arranged by the Pleni- potentiaries. PARIS, OCT. 17. The Prince Napoleon, who left Havre on board the steamer Dauphin, accompanied by Vicomte Cler, M. Ferri Pisani, and M. Hubaim, is expected to visit the Great Eastern at Holyhead to-day or to-morrow, where it is anticipated he will meet her Majesty the Queen of England. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Parana, from the West Indies, &e., passed Hurst Castle at 12.40 p.m. this day. PARIS, SUNDAY. The report that France claims 300,000,000 f. as indemnity of war from Piedmont is-without founda tion. The French Government, however, having made advances to Piedmont before and during the war to the amount of 60,000,000 f. in arms, provi sions, and money, now claims only reimbursement of that sum. The Prince Napoleon left last night for England to visit the ports and arsenals, and also the Great Eastern. General Dabormida had, yesterday it conference with Count Walewski. The Moniteur publishes a decree authorising the " agents de change" of Paris to employ one or two chief clerks who may act in their name and under the responsibility of the " agents de change." The privileges of such clerks cannot be transferred by sale. The Moniteur in a note further announces that the " agents de change" have giYen notice to the Minister of Finance that for the future, some special cases excepted, their brokerage will be re duced from Ito 1; that further, for time bargains in French Rentes, the brokerage twill be lowered from 25fr. to 20fr. per 1,500 fr. Rentes, and that the fortnightly liquidation, heretofore in practice, is abolished. OCT. 15. Count Kisseleff bas not yet quitted Paris for Warsaw, but will have an audience of the Empe ror to-day, and will take his departure to-morrow. General Dabormida, the Sardinian Minister of the Exterior, has arrived in Paris, and had an in terview with the Emperor yesterday. The Grand Duchess Marie de Lcuchtenberg sister of the Emperor of Russia, will be among the guests to assemble at Compiegne. The Pays of this evening announces that Rear- Admiral Dupony hak left for London on a special mission. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sar dinia, General Dabormida, will proceed to London. It is asserted that the treaty of peace will be signed at Zurich by the plenipotentiaries before Monday next. It is likewise stated all the Catholic Powers will be represented at the Congress, which is to be held at Brusiels". BRUSSELS, OCT. 16 Austria proposed Holland as arbitrator of the Lombard debt. France, however, is said to have declined this proposition,as the Dutch Government might evince a certain bias on account of the great number of holders of Austrian stock in Holland. Letters from Paris state that reports of some changes in the Ministry arc still afloat, and that Count Walewski and the Duke of Padua are men tioned as being likely to retire. MADRID, OCT. 13 Cortes. TRIESTE, OCT. 15, ZURICH, OCT. 15. GENOA, 0cT.15. BRESLAU, OCT. 15. / PARMA, OCT. 15. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. The Correspondencia Autografa states that Mo rocco has offered satisfaction to Spain, but without replying to the ultimatum. Hopes are entertained of a pacific settlement. This morning Marshal Serrano left Madrid. To-day at twelve o'clock the delay expires which has been granted to Morocco for giving satisfaction to the Spanish Government. In the evening the Spanish Consul at Tangiers will leave that place, and after his departure no offer of satisfaction will be accepted. No further news has been received here from Algesiras. The debate on the question of the indemnity for Church property is still being carried on in the Advices from Alexandria to the 9th inst. state that the works of the Suez canal have been entirely discontinued. The note from the Grand Vizier to the Viceroy of Egypt reserves to the Sultan the right of deciding the question of constructing the canal: Nlufta Bey is the bearer of the despatch from the Porte. It is stated that Austria, before accepting the arbitration of a third Power for the settlement of the debt of Lombardy, demands that the maximum and the minimum of the debt of Lombardy should be settled. The King has arrived here amid the enthusiastic cheers of the people. The town is decorated with flags. The Dowager Empress of Russia has also arrived here. The King conducted her Majesty to the residence assigneil for her, the Royal Palace. It is asserted that the Emperor of Russia and the Hereditary Grand Puke will arrive here - next Thursday. The Prince Regent of Prussia is ex pected here on Wednesday evening - , and on Thurs day a grand military parade is to be held. Several Turin papers have stated that Parma has been occupied by Piedmontese troops. This assertion is without any foundation. Many fresh arrests have taken place here. General Ribotti has issued a proclamation in which it is forbidden for any one not belonging to the army to wear a mili tary dress. BOURSE, Oct. 15.—The Syndic of the Agents de-Change read today to his colleagues the Im perial decree which authorises the brokers to have one or two principal clerks to do business even two hours before and two hours after the time of regular business. The market has been very firm. Threes, after having been done at G9f. 60c., went up to 69f. 75c. Mobilier varied from 795 f. to 803 f. 75c. ; Austrian, 5171.50 c. to 550 f. ; Lombard, 555% to 5571. 50c. Lyons, 907 f. 50c. to 912 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,3651. to 1,3701. The following were the last quotations : it per Cents. .... 95 251 Credit Foncier Do. end month .. -- -IBelgian 41 99 50 3 per Cents 69 75 1 Piedmentese (5) .. 85 75 Do. enJ month 69 80 Roman B5 Bank Shares 2325 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 807 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account •„ .. 805 ,Home Debt 43 12 VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS. The following circular to Lord Lieutenants of counties has just been issued from the War-office : War-office, Oct, 14. My Lord—l have the honour to inform you that her Majesty's Government have determined to issue immediately to Rifle Volunteer Corps an additional supply of long Enfield rifles (pattern 1853), to the extent of 25 per cent. on the effective strength of the corps. This supply will raise the aggregate issue to 50 per cent. on the effective strength °Me force; and I have to request that you will be good enough to communicate this decision of the Govern ment to the commanding officers of the various corps in your county, who should at once forward the prescribed requisitions to this office for such portion of the supply as they may be entitled to under the regulations. At a later period I shall be prepared to issue a third instalment of arms of the same pattern as the 50 per cent. now granted. And I hope to be in a position, in the course of next summer, to supply the short rifle with sword bayonet, tl a limited ex tent, in exchange for the long one at present issued. I have the honour to add, that the amount of ammunition for effective members to bo issued at cost price, on the requisition of the commanding officer, is raised from 100 rounds balls per man, GO rounds blank per min, 176 percussion caps per man, 20 percussion caps per man for snapping practice (as laid down in the memorandum of the 13th of July), to 200 rounds balls pa man, 120 rounds blank per man, 352 percussion caps per man, 40 percussion caps per man for snapping practice. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient servant, SYDNEY HERBERT. The Earl and Countess of Derby will receive a distinguished circle of friends at Knowsley Park, near Prescott, early in the ensuing week. The Earl and Countess of Bessborongh have been seeing company at Bcssborough House, County Kilkenny. The noble earl and countess are expected ,to arrive in Lon don from Ireland in the course of next month, to be present at the marriage of Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox and Lord Bingham. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have left his lordship's shooting quarters in the Highlands en route to Chilliniham Castle, near Wooler. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope and Hon. Mr. Stanhope have arrived at Torquay from Chevening-park, near Sevenoaks. The Countess of Longford and Lady Louisa Pakenham have arrived in town from the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. _ The Lord Chancellor will give a dejeuner at Strathedon House, Knightsbridge, on the 2d proximo, being the first day of Michaelmas term, when the noble and learned lord will receive the judges and Queen's coun • Previous to the reception .. of the judges, the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Carter), the Re corder, and other civic authorities, will wait on the Lord Chancellor, when his lordship will signify her Majesty's approval of the choice of the citizens of London. Lord John Russell has returned to town from Scotland. Lady Eleanor Butler, youngest daughter of John, 17th Earl of Ormond°, died a few days since at Soirento, near Naples. Her ladyship was in her 70th year, and was married in August, 1808, to Cornelius Viscount Lismore,' which marriage was dissolved in 1820. THE ARTIC OFFICERS.—We understand the Ad miralty have given directions for the grant of sea-time to Capt. M'Clintock during the period he was in command of the Fox ; but this, we presume, will have to bo done by Order in Council. Lieutenant Hobson's commission as commander will shortly be signed, if it has not already reached that gallant and enterprising young officer.— . • United Service Gazette. SARAWAK.—By the Esk we learn that the retri butive expedition had returned to Sarawak, after inflicting severe punishment on the Kanowit people, for the treache rous murder of Messrs. Fox and Steele. Tho principals had been executed with 14 other Fost-men ; about 200 Dyaks also were killed who had taken up a position above Kanowit.—Straits Times. _ _ - A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.--On Tuesday last a man, named David M'Dowell, was killed by a bull near Armagh. He met a herd of cattle with a bull, which were being driven on the road to the grazing. M'Dowell, know ing that the bull was vicious, as he attacked others on seve ral occasions, called to the driver to pass him on as quickly as possible, standing the while at a gap on the roadside. Immediately the furious animal came up he rushed at de ceased, followed him over the hedge, caught him on his horns, and pitched him up in the air. Deceased fell on his head, and died in twenty minutes. On Wednesday the coroner held an inquest on the body, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts. ROBERT STEPHENSON'S BURIAL.—On Saturday an application was made to Sir George Comewall Lewis for permission to inter the remains of this distinguished en gineer in Westminster Abbey. His consent and that of the Deah and Chapter were granted, and the remains are to be placed in the nave of the Abbey. The ceremony will take place on Friday next. The friends of the deceased will meet in the cloisters at eleven o'clock. Mr. Charles Manby, of the Institute of Civil Engineers, will forward cards of admission to those desirous of being, present. SIX CHILDREN POISONED WITH SWEETMEATS. Considerable excitement has been caused within the las, few days at Northtawton, a small town in the north of Devon, in consequence of the following occurrence :—Six children, belonging to different families, were seized with vomiting, and. Dr. Budd, a physician, on being called in, stated that they had been poisoned. On inquiry it was ascertained that they had eaten coloured sweetmeats called " birds' nests," which were purchased in the fair of a man named Ryan, of Northtawtou. All of that description were shortly afterwards seized by Mr. Superintendent Grant, of the county constabulary, who was informed by Ryan that he bad purchased them of a confectioner 'of Exeter named Sherry. On the following day Superintendent Grant ob tained a warrant and took possession of a quantity ofcolour ing matter, found on the premises of Sherry, and handed it over to a chymist for analysis; ELECTION EXPENSES.—Mr. Robinson, of Lan caster, the elector auditor for the southern division of the county of Lancaster, has published "a full and true account of all the expenses incurred by the Hon. Algernon Egerton and Mr. Win. John Leigh, to serve in Parliament MI- the said division," at the last general election. This account is a very explicit one, though a few of the items are given in a summary form. The first item is—expenses paid by agents previously to the day of nomination £B2O lls. 3d. Next comes advertising, printing, and stationery, £636 16s. 10d., and this sum is divided among 70 firms, the names of all of which and the amount of each account are given. Next, there is the item of £720 3s. 4d. for tho use of rooms, and to make this item the summary of 77 different accounts are stated. The same plan is followed with most of the other items; which are as follows :—Bill pelting, - £43 14s. Gd. ; hire of coaches and railway fares, £1,621 17s. sd. ; profes sional charges, £1,124 Ils. 3d. ; expenses paid to clerks, messengers, &c., including check and poll clerks, £749 3s. sd. ; general expenses, including telegrams, bell-ringers, refreshments for cabmen, horses, &c., £142 Os. 2d. ; pro portion of sheriff's expenses, £377 88. ; election auditor's statutory fee and commission, £10; proportion of reason able expenses, advertising, &c., £l2 15s. Bd. ; retained for disputed accounts, £lB 105.16 d.— total 7 £ 6 , 310 14s. 4d. AN ADMIRALTY TEST OF THE GREAT EASTERN. —The Admiralty give us two formulse by which they test the relative merits of steamships; the former involving the speed, midship section, and indicated power the latter in volving the weight instead of the midship section. To ap ply these tests to the Great Eastern wo require, of course, to have her indicated power, midship section, and weight, and these we are able to supply with a sufficiently near approximation to the truth for our present purpose. Before leaving the ship we ascertained that the total indicated power, developed when the engines did their best, was about 7,200-horse power. Wo have further found by approximate calculations that with the draught of water with which the ship left Portland (25 feet aft, 21 feet forward, mean 23 feet) her midship section must have been about 1,600 square feet. Further, her weight must have Wen at least between 17,000 tons and 18,000 tons—say, 17,500 tons. We know that this must be near tho weight, and at any rate cannot be in excess of it, because the mere iron in the hull weighs 8,030 tons, the engines and boilers about 2,000 tons (reckon ing the weight three-fourths of a ton per nominal horse power), and there were 6,003 tons of coals on board, in all 16,000 tons. To this we add 1,500 tons only for the weight of woodwork, roasts, spars, and rigging, paddle-wheels and screw, water in boilers, and everything else on board, which certainly cannot weigh less than that amount. Taking, then, these quantities—the speed 15 knots, the midship section 1,6:.0 square feet, the displacement 17,500 tons— and substituting them in the two Admiralty formulni suc cessively, we get for the Great Eastern's charnetaiistic numbers 750 and 316 respectively. Now, 11011 C of the Ad miralty vessels reach such numbers as these. We have the Ag,ameinnon giving 634, the Miranda 680, the Tribune 686, the Algiers 687, the Simoom 688, the Desperate 697, the St. Dean D'Acre, 701, the Princess Royal nearly 725, and the Cruiser nearly 728, by . the first formula ; and we have the St. Jean D'Acre giving 201, the Tribune 202, the Princess Royal 203, the Cruiser, 220, the Desperate 224, the Simoom 240, and the Miranda no less than 247 by the second formula; but the very best of these fall, as will be seen, considerably short of the Great Eastern's numbers in both cases.—Nechanive aagazine. RAILWAYS. T --- - -- --- Ca.sh. Account. Orleans Northern 930 .. 935 New ditto. 822 ,50 .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean 907 50 .. 911 25 Geneva 540 .. 545 Southern Western 567 50 .. 562 s') Eastern Sardinian Austrian. sso .. 546 75 Lombard ..... .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f 11c.; three months, paper, 24f. 9710.; money, 24f. 95e. PARMA. P.ARAIA, OCT. 12. Yesterday, at half-past 8 o'clock in the afternoon, i.e., after post time, Farini actually arrived, as was expected. He came in a post chaise and four, a mode of travelling he prefers to the slow and not sure French-made ricketty Central Italian Railway. He had with him General Ribotti, Colonel Frapolli, and other superior officers. Several Secretaries had preceded him. This morning the following procla- oration was posted up at the street corners : " Parmesans !—Your city has been defiled by a hideous crime. A deep stain has been inflicted on our renown. The cause of freedom is disgraced. An insult has been cast upon Italy—this Italy, which, by the generous behaviour of all her people hitherto, had been raised so high among civilised nations. " Public conscience demand's a reparation; it sha have it. The people charged me with the defence of all their rights—foremost of all with the vindi cation of public justice. Crime shall not be left unpunished. The name of Italy shall not be out raged in vain. Citizens and National Guards !—Join me, and give me the strength of your compact opinion ; let us act together in the name of civilisation and Italy ! Our Italian banner waves where men are lavish of life for its cause, not where a breach is made in its honour. Our good King is wounded to the soul. He is wont to rule over a people who shed the enemies' blood on the battle-field : a people who maintained freedom for themselves and won it for others, no less by their valour than by their allegiance to the law. " Parma, Oct. 11, 1859. " FARINI." Besides • the Dictator's manifesto the following was also published : " General Commanding of the Troops of the Central Italian League.—Order of the Day. " Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Sol diers,—The sense of the high mission with which I was trusted, not merely to fight the enemies of our independence, but also with equal resolution to maintain internal order, has moved me to appoint General Ribotti to the general command of the troops of the city and province of Parma. " You have all heard with the same indignation with which I am penetrated the atrocious crime committed in Parma—a crime which reflects the greatest obloquy on the name of Italy, and which would neutralize all our warlike efforts were it suffered to be, repeated, or even suffered to pass off unpunished. The defence of the country is entrusts(' to hearts which beat under the soldier's garb. An Italian should give or receive death only on the battle-field. Your generals havo fought for freedom and independence. They spurn all cowardly deeds—all outrages against law and justice. " FANTI. "Modena, Oct. 11, 1.859." In pursuance of these plain and brave words small bands of Carabineers, led by tho National Guards, have proceeded to several arrests during the night. The number of these arrests is as yet greatly exaggerated ; and it is difficult to decide whether or not the real actors of the horrible tragedy of last Wednesday evening have been secured. A man, who knows the town perfectly well, shook his head as he heard the names of the obscure individuals who have hitherto been secured ; and as he walked with me, and saw se veral sinister-looking faces still moving freely about the streets, coolly remarked that nothing was done so long as such wretches were at large. Unquestionably, the Government's mea sure comes rather too late ; and the domiciliary visits of last night had been trumpeted: about in too loud a key not to allow any man who had a mind to do so to absent himself from home when he was " wanted." • At the same time, I must say that in no instance, or very few—indeed only in one case —has it happened that " the nest was found still warm, but the bird flown ;" so that it would seem the Government have in their power those they sought. Whatever arrests could have been made, however, conviction of the real guilty persons is by many censidered as next to impossible in this town ; in the first place, owing to the hurry and con fusion in which that dark crime was perpetrated, and then to the absence of a proper sense of duty and reverence for the law on the part of the popu lace, and lack of moral courage in the better classes. 'With all their high flourish, therefore, the Dictator's proceedings are, in the opinion of most persons, likely to lead to no greater results than those which answered the general expectation about the mountain in labour. By merely speaking out their mind in foarless words in condemnation of the atrocious and cowardly deed, and freely express ing their determination to bring its perpetrators to condign punishment, there is no doubt but Parini and Fauti have fulfilled a sacred duty; and the blame of moving too late in this business may with full justice be said to rest less upon themselves than upon the Ministers of the Parma Government who received immediate orders to proceed, and pleaded their inability, or even unwillingness, from fear of civil bloodshed and anarchy likely to ensue, to comply with the Dictator's peremptory intima tions. ' AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Oct. 14.—The loss of Lombardy was a heavy blow for Austria, but Baron Bruck's last financial measure is likely to be infinitely more injurious to her. Public coufidence is entirely destroyed here, and every person expresses his conviction that the credit of Austria abroad has re ceived an incurable wound. There are several per sons in this city who pretend to know the day on whioh the Minister of Finances bega n to issue the newly-manafactured National Loan Obligations, but there is an impression on my mind that no one in that city, with the exception, perhaps, of the head of the Vienna firm of Rothschild, had any suspicion of what was going on. Soon after Baron Bruck had failed to raise a loan in Englund demands were continually made on him for mciiey, with which to defray the expenses of the enormous armaments it was considered neces sary to mak. The State Treasury was exhausted, and the Minister of Finances, finding it impossible to raise money in any other way, resolved to tend the National Loan beyond the limits originally given to it by the Emperor in his patent of the 26th of June, 1854. It is not in my power to assert that the foregoing information is perfectly correct, but it can hardly be very far from the truth, as it was obtained from some of the leading Vienna financiers, The great public openly accuses Baron Bruck of having, "of his own accord," manufactured National Loan obligations, but it does not admit of a doubt that he was empowered by the Emperor to act as he did. The Minister's reputation is, however, blasted for ever. The Dutch, who hold Austrian stock of the nominal value of 600,000,0001, are sale stricken, and have sold to a very large ampunt during the last two or three days. It is reported that Baron Bruck is about to retire from office. It appears that the sudden decline in the funds Which occurred a day or two back at Vienna was conse quent, not upon political circumstances, but upon an an nouncement that the total issue of stock on account of the National Loan of 1854 has been £61,157,000, instead of be ing limited to £50,000,000, as was stipulated. For several years the subscribers to this loan, and Austrian capitalists in general, have been under the impression that it had been conducted with good faith, and as the present statement is unaccompanied by either apology or explanation, the da mage to public counclence is severe. LORD DZIDL EY COUTTS STUART AND POLAND. 'On Monday last, the 10th instant. Sandon Hall, in this connty, the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, AVflq the scene of a very interesting event. In the part of the hall called "The Polish Vestibule," ornamented with the tapestry offered by the ladies of Poland to Lord Dudley Stuart, the various reminiscences of Polish gratitude, the bust ,of Prince Czartoryski, and the portraits of other illustrious Polish patriots, the Earl of Har rowby, surrounded by Viscount Sandon, the other members of his family, and a few friends, was pre sented with a gold medal struck in honour of his late relative, Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, the well known champion of the Polish cause. In addition to many tokens of admiration and grateful feelings towards Lord Dudley Stuart during his life, a national subscription has been raised in Poland and among the emigrants, in answer to an appeal from Prince Adam Czartoryski, for the purpose of striking a medal, which would thus perpetuate their gratitude for their departed friend and benefactor. The medal was originally intended for the sister of Lord Dudley Stuart, the lamented Countess of Harrowby, whose premature death, equally deplored by the Poles, is the cause of its having been pre sented to her husband. Major C. SZULCZEWSKI, who was entrusted with this gratifying mission, thus addressed his lord ship :—Though greatly interested in the cause that brings me before you to-day, I appear only as the replesentative of General Count Zamoyski, who regrets exceedingly that unforeseen circumstances prevent him from discharging the grateful task which has thus devolved upon me of delivering into your hands a medal struck at the suggestion of the Polish emigration in honour of your lordship's rela tive, the never-to-be-forgotten Lord Dudley Coatts Stuart. I consider it not only a great honour, but also a rare happiness, to be allowed to be the inter preter, on this occasion, of the feelings of venera tion and undying gratitude cherished by the Poles for their departed friend and benefactor, the noble champion of the cause, the love of which is en shrined with his name in every Polish heart. It was our anxious desire to testify those feelings in presenting this medal to the lamented Countess of Harrowby, who so touchingly manifested her sym pathy with the misfortunes of Poland, and actively exerted herself in common with her incomparable brother to soothe the sufferings of Polish exiles : and it is a source of unfeigned regret to us that this testimonial was not finished before she was called away to another and a better world. We trust that, tardy as is this recognition of Lord Dudley Stuart's devotion to Poland, it will be received by and kept as an heirloom in your noble family ; that, when contemplating this humble token of a naVon's gratitude, your posterity may remember with pride that the man whose disinterested sacrifices for an oppressed people shed a lustre on his country and on humanity belonged to their kin. It is not for me to enlarge here on the services which Lord Dudley Stuart rendered to the cause of Poland ; they have been dwelt upon with eloquence in the appeal of the illustrious chief of the Polish nation, Prince Adam Czartoryski, to his countrymen on the subject of this medal, and a copy of which is thereto annexed. Suffice it for me to say that, although we know and feel that such de votion as his cannot be looked for again, we hope that in your lordship, as his kinsman, as the head of a noble house, ever noted for its Christian virtues and generous sentiments, and as one who has so frequently seconded the persevering exertions of ou r matchless friend, our cau se will always find a supporter ready to demonstrate my ,hbcat,a3nouhronpeesrt_ p ur pose can effect. I now,lord, mission to read and to place into your hands two letters, one from Prince Czartoryski, and the other from General Count Zamoyski, as well as the testi monial of -which I am the bearer. The following are copies of the letters : " Paris, 10th August, 1859. " My Dear Lord Harrowby,—General Zamoyski, my nephew and your friend,. will have the honour to de liver to you the medal by which the Poles have tried to transmit to posterity their gratitude to Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, the noble, the generous, the constant friend of the Polish cause. I have thought it necessary to annex to it an explanation of the motives which have impelled my countrymen to the performance of this national act. " Both myself any my countrymen must ever regret that this duty of all Poland was not accomplished at the time when the noble sister of our generous champion might have been informed of it; she who loved her brother so much— shared his sentiments—who comprehended the greatness of his loss, and wh,:o, herself inconsolable, has endeavoured to assuage our anguish. You, my lord, whom the close ties of friendship and of kindred, and of which she was the link, attachad to our mutual friend—you who have been the witness of his boundless devotion to our clearly just, though cruelly persecuted cause,—you l who in common with us deplore his irreparable loss, it is to you, my lord, that i s due the first copy of the medal commemorative of his vir tues. It is to your noble heart that we prefer to disclose our feelings of regret and of gratitude, and our hope that, should circumstances prove favourable, we shall find in you ase b _ before aeng of advocate yn h o t of our this i u s n i f n o e r d tu a n l a m te ay countr3; become an h in your family, and thus the possession of your 'eldest o w m e on tru str s a t ia in th h e e m rits thr th a e no s o c h n a tim la e n n g ts an o df honma n o i t n h b e a s o n n d , w w i to d, It is with these feelings and the unalterable attach ment which I cherish for you that I never shall cease to he, m y dear Lord Harrowby, " Yours very sincerely, (Signed) " A. CZAIerORYSKI." " My dear Lord Harrowby,—On nay return from Sand on, and at the very moment of starting for France, I received a packet from Prince Czartoryski containing the enclosed letter addressed to you. I regret exceedingly that this packet should have been so long in reaching me, for I am unable, as the Prince informs you, to deliver in person to you, on his part and on that of his countrymen, the medal struck in honour of our de ar D u dl ey , originally destined for his sister, and, now that it has pleased God to unite her to her brother, offered to thoso :who possessed his earliest affections. 6 ! Compelled to leave England, I have entrusted this message to Major S z ul czcws ki. Th o p ar ticular affection. which Lord Dudley Stuart felt for him, the long and use ful services ho has rendered, and does not cease to render, to the cause of Poland, naturally point him out to take my place on this occasion. I hope that ho will find now as be fore, from yourself and Lord Sandon the kind reception which he deserves-. " Believe me, (Signed) " L. ZA.MOYSKI. " London, 18th August, 18:59." Lord HARROWBY then addressed Major Szul czewski in a few words, expressinc , on the one hand the regret which he experienced that Gen. Count Zamoyski, to whom he was bound by ties of long established friendship, should have been prevented from fulfilling his sad though gratifying mission ; on the other, his satisfaction that the task had in his default fallen upon one whom he had so long known personally, and esteemed both by his private character and his services to the cause to which he had devoted himself. In regard to the object of the mission, there were circumstances of such a nature that he was unwilling to trust himself to speak of them, and he would therefore do no more than read the reply to Prince Czartoryski's letter , which, through Major Czulczewski's kindness in permitting him to have a sight of the letter previ ously., he had been enabled to prepare. The reply was in the following terms : " My dear Prince Czartoryski,—The beautiful memorial and faithful resemblance of my lamentee friend and kinsman Lord D. C. Stuart, which under your instructions, as the organ of exiled Poland, has now been put into my hands, comes to me S under very touching circumstances. It was intended for one who would have indeed most highly prized it; but she, alas, is no longer amongst us, to share in your sorrows, and to derive consolation in her own grief from feeling how deeply it had been sympathised in by those, for whom her brother had devoted many years of his benevolent and earnest life, and at last life itself. As her representative, I accept it with pride and gratitude, as a record of personal tics of the nearest and dearest kind, as _well as of the community of opinions and feelings which had long united me with any lamented kinsman in the great cause in whibh ho had employed his best enetgies. lie was a more sanguine, snore able, more devoted, mere persevering advocate of Poland than myself ; but we fully con curred m principle, equally united in condemning mixture t hegre of error cus of s' & the partition of your country ,by the three con tra glwhaitch, crirno a aad asag age the in L e : treachery and violence, it had been effected ; in denouncing the tyranny which .your country had subse quently suffered ; in looking to the re-est a bli s h men t of your country in its independence as the best, if not the security for the West of Europe against the enero only, of the aggressive East; and in sympathising with the.tiaeh.ments lant men wko had sacrificed everything to a not_ gal. noble cause, and after an heroic struggle had borne the consequences of failure with an unshaken and admirable constancy. I n these sentiments we were heartily • united, and in th ese I still remain. "Perhaps somo additional life may have been supplied to these feelings and convictions by personal attachments, by a deep sense of veneration for your own noble character— for the character of one who had abandoned wealth, station, faniily ties, country, without ostentation and without per sonal ambition, and had devoted, as ho still devotes, even to extreme old age, those resources of influence and charac ter, which nothing can deprive him of, to the interests of that same country and her sons. " My son, Lord Sandon, whom you have named as joint sharer in the Ixautiful testimonial gift, will value it as I do, and I hope it will long remain as an heirloom in my family, and one of its most cherished distinctions.—l re main ever, my dear Prince Czartoryski, yours very faith fully, " HAnnowny." - - • The medal is greatly r.dmired fc r the beauty of its workmanship, and the s liking resem blance it bears to the deceased nobleman. The subject of the tre3al and the inscrip:o arc by Mr. Charles Sienkiewicz, a very emi nent scheler ,end ulitian. The dies were executed by Monsieur Bony, one of the first artistes in Paris. The medal, which is 21 inches in diameter, and, in point of design and execution, a most exquisite piece of workmanship, was struck by Messrs. T. and J. Pinches, medallists, in London, The case containing the medal is extremely die tablet, s u p• gant and bears on th e t op a silver mounted by a Polish eagle, with the following in §eription To the Husband and the Son of the Late Countess of Ilarrowby, Sister of Lord DUDLF,Y COUTTS STUART, I This token of gratitude is offered _ by Poland, 1859. The inscription on the front of the medal is:— Dudley C. Stuart, Causze Polo= Indefessus Windex Exulum Polonorum, Amiens et Fal:tor. sat. A. 1803, Ob. Hohnim A. ISSI. Cives Poloui Hoe Monumentum rietatis Publ:ex Ficri Curaverunt. F. C. A. -189, On the reverse of the medal, round the map of • Poland, are the words : "hue Ilonos Nomenque Tuum LandeAve Manebunt." The map, which is most beautifully engraved, with the Carpathian mountains in relief, exhibits the countries comprised in the Kingdom of Poland, in various periods, from the the reign of Mieczyslas 1., when Poland was converted to Christianity (A.D. 965), to that of Stephen Batory, when Riga became a Polish port, (A. D. 1586). The great historical importance and early civiliz ation of the country is explained by its position between the Baltic and the Black Sea, and by the fact that it comprehends the most fertile land (per haps excepting the alluvial plain of the Danube) in the whole of Europe. The Vistulland the Dniester still bear the harvests of Poland to the ocean, but as the ports of shipment are Odessa and Dantzic it is often erroneously asserted or assumed that Russia and. Prussia are ihe sources of the inexhaustible supply of corn which is in fact only to be found in Poland. The noble conduct of the late Lord Dudley Stuart was admirabiv sketched:by Prince Czartoryski, in a letter to the Poles on the subject of the national subscription for the medal which has been presented to Lord Harrowby. A few extracts from the letter will form a fitting pendant to the account of the very interesting event which it is our gratifying duty to record :—" Issued from one of the most illustrious families of Great Britain, a descendant of the kings of Scotland, united by the ties of con sanguinity to the dynasty now reigning in France, and member of the British Parliament, Lord Dudley Stuart knew how to rise from the high position in which he was placed by birth, to that still higher and most honourable post which only a lofty mind could appreciate, select, cccupy worthily, and .pro serve. Guided by justice, and by the exigeneies of the balance of power in, Europe, he devoted himself to the service of an unhappy nation, which the triumph of violence and cunning had reduced to slavery. After our heroic struggle in 1831, when the generous and universal enthusiasm which our cause once kindled among all nations was beginning to cool, when Poland, succumbing under the re peated blows of a conqueror thirsting for vengeance, was delivered up to martyrdom by silent and indif ferent Europe, and her sons, seeking everywhere help against the oppressor, became homeless, bread less wanderers in foreign lands, where their misery no longer excited more than a timid compassion, Lord Dudley Stuart stood forth, and devoted him self courageously to the Polish cause. From that moment, every energy of his soul was given to it, and he'remained faithful to it until the last breath of his admirable life. Whenever a favourable opportu nity occurred, his voice was heard pleading the inte rests of our cause before the English Government, to each Minister individually, in Parliament, and in the public assemblies of the people. When offered a place in Government, his answer was—' I will accept office when you can send me on a mission to the Court of Poland.' Want of success did not discourage him, faith never abandoned him—he was ever ready for new efforts. Descending from the exalted regions of the statesman, he also mingled with the crowd of Polish emigrants. Making no distinction of rank, of condition, of political opinions, he embraced all in his tender solicitude—fed them, clad them, encouraged them, reconciled conflicting parties, and oven bore outrages from them without being disheartened. As their benefactor, he was an example of perseverance, patience, and indulgence, as throughout his whole career he was an example of every civil virtue, and besides his other services inssour cause, Lord Dudley Stuart reor ganised in London the Literary Society of the Friends of Poland, first established by the honour able and illustrious poet Thomas Campbell ; ho en sured its continuance, and enliited among its mem bers persons of high rank and position. He re mained its president during life, and did not even forget it in his last will. This society will remain a living monument of his ideas, of his zeal, of his ceaseless efforts, and, if God so wills it, a time may still come when it will render important service to Poland. When the war broke out in the East, Lord Dudley Stuart, who for years had been pre dicting its inevitable necessity, was not of opinion, like so many others,that the Western Powers could, without the aid of Poland, carry on with advantage the war, against Muscovy. The hopes raised by the war, as well as his fears of failure, causes him to redouble his zeal and activity, and with un bounded devotion, lie made, at that solemn moment, the most strenuous efforts to conquer every obstacle that impeded the triumph of the cause he held so much at heart. In order to infuse greater boldness into the timid calculationi of the policy of the allied powers he visited Turkey and Sweden, two nations which have long been friendly to our country. He endeavoured thus, beyond the precincts of official relations, to create facilities for the powers who were about to attack Muscovy to raise the Polish ques tion. At Constantinople he was received with that traditional sympathy for our cause which had already attracted thither several of our country men ready for the combat. From the South he proceeded to the North. Received with much kind ness by the King of Sweden and his family, the friend of Poland was allowed to speak and was lis tened to. But, alas! it was the last time his voice was allowed to plead our cause before men. Seized with illness during an audience granted him by the Crown Prince, he had not even the strength to re tire, but fell prostrate. He died at Stockholm; a. victim of his zeal in our cause—but like a valorous knight, he fell in the thick of the battle." ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND. While on board the ship Golden Rocket, lying at Greenwich Dock, we were permitted by Capt. C. N. Pendleton to examine his log-book, in which he gives an account of his visit to the island of Juan Fernandez (Robinson Crusoe's Island). The ship was on her last passage to this port from Bos ton, and had on board fifty-five passengers (twenty-five of whom were ladies), who intend making California their future place of residence. Getting short of water, Captain Pendleton decided to stop at Juan Fernandez for a further supplif and therefore shaped his course thither—the island being' nearly in his track. At six p.m, on the evening of March 24th, they doubled the eastern end of the island, and at seven rounded-to eff the Bay of St. Joseph, at the head of which the few inhabitants now remaining on the island are located. The facilities for loading water at the island, Captain Pendleton represent/ to be not very good. The casks must be taken on shore and filled, rolled back into the water, and parbuckled into the boat. While the crew were at this work, the passengers rambled off in different directions to make discoveries. The island is twenty-five miles long by about four in breadth. The land is very high, rising in rugged precipitous peaks —one of them called Tunekcue, 3,500 feet above the level of the sea. The peaks are generally overhung with clouds. The valleys are exceedingly fertile, the grass growing to the height of six or eight feet. Figs, strawberries, peaches, and cherries abound in their season. The Golden Rocket was there in the season of peaches, and the valleys and the hill sides were full of trees, and loaded down with delicious fruit. Captain Pendleton bought four barrels of the inhabitants, and the pas' sengers about as many more. Strawberries flourish best in December and January. There are three remarkable caves in the sides of the hill facing the harbour, about 30 feet in length, 25 feet in width, and about the same in height. The inhabitants now number but fourteen, of whom Messrs. Day and Kirkaldie, from Valparaiso, are the chief persons ; they have been appointed overseers of the island by the Chilian Government. Formerly a penal colony, numbering, 500, was lo cated here, and the caves above mentioned were used by them, but the project was found to be practicable, and the convicts were taken back to the mainland. The Goldol Rocket anchored on the op posite side from that upon which Selkirk lived, and there being a mountain to cross to reach the Robin son Crusoe abode, no one ventured to make the journey. The best landing is on the stern side, but the water is twenty fathoms deep at the head of the bay, and in some places so bold is the shore, that a boat tied by her painter and drifting to the limits, would be in seventy-five fathoms. An immense number of goats are running wild over the island, and an abundance of fish are taken on every coast. The water is obtained from a number of never -failing rivulets trickling down over the rocks from the cloud-capped mountains.—San Francisco Times. All traces of the late war are fast disappeariug• On the plains of Magenta a luxtu ions ve ,, etation is all that meets the view. One house near the station riddled with El lot is still conspicuous, and a few tumuli beside the rail" way, where several hundreds are buried. A dog of African breed, which belonged to General Espinasse, still lurks stout the spot where his master shed his blood, and though often taken away even to some distance, constantly returns