The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-17 00:00:00

THEATRE-R 0 YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. R. Buckstonw. THIS EVENING wiY2 be performed THE WAY TO ICEEP HIM. Messrs. Iluckstone, Howe, and Farrell ; Mrs. C. Sinclair. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUrvER. Perea Nvna. Followed by A WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. Great Success. The New Comedy of EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon, Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, E. Falconer, and Barrett, EVERY EVENING. To conclude with the New Farce, entitled TOO MUCH FOR GOOD NATURE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Kate Saxon. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NOTHING TO NURSE ; Mr. Swan borough, Mrs. Selby. After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and .1. Clarke, &c. Followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Miss M. Oliver and Mr. Porsche. To conclude with FAMILY JARS.' Miss E. Wilton. Commence at 7 o'clock. IANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company .f Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections trout all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES , DI ,V DUETS, Arc., viz. :—Miss R usse ll, M rs. B a d sey, 7 ' B, mi pt o Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. .Lawrence, and 3frs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans, M r . nshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. 3lelling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell. Mr. Bartiard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Ma alley. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Covirtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonzhmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, Arc., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.- - -The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce that in the month of October, A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con. notion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 72—this day at noon. mAmostzTEß-29.90—a fall of nearly half an inch. Wllir, South-Easterly ; light, and very sultry. THE SUN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1858. It is but a few years since France and England expended some seventy or eighty millions sterling each, besides ly any valuable lives, in maintaing g‘furkish independence from the Muscovite attack. The vast political importance of preserving the in tegrity of the Ottoman dominions, and preventing the dismemberment of the empire, was thus clearly recognised ; nor was peace restored until ample provision was made for its future security, and, so far as practicable, its welfare and prosperity. The state and condition of Turkey were, for many rea sons, objects of deep interest to the Western Powers, and more especially so to Great Britain. Not only was it essential to maintain the balance of power on the Bosphorus and the Danube, to prevent the Russian flag from floating triumphant over the minarets of Byzantium, and thereby becoming " a standing menace" to the peace of Europe and of the Anglo-Indian Empire ; but the Porte possessed other claims on our goodwill and friendly assistance that could not well be disregarded. We had un fortunately contributed greatly to her present weakness by the part taken by the British fleet in the destruction of her naval power at Navarino. We stood calmly by witnessing the Russian inva sion a few years after, and tacitly sanctioned the stringent stipulations enforced by the Czar, and by means whereof he hoped eventually to become " the sick man's" heir, the chief inheritor of his coveted possessions ! Notwithstanding all these just grounds of complaint, the English alliance was highly prized, and English influence was very con siderable at Constantinople. Our ambassador was the friend and adviser of the SULTAN, and nothing injurious to our national welfare would be tole rated by the Turipsh Government. The commercial regulations, too, were exceed ingly favourable to this country. The tariff was liberal, the duties comparatively light, and Turkish commerce offered strong inducements to British merchants—inducements that would be greatly increased by additional banking facilities, and the adoption of sound and wholesome trading principles ; and there is every reason to hope for great and speedy improvements on both points ; and we firmly believe that the loan of five millions, just contracted in this country, will prove the point on which the restoration of Turkish prosperity will turn. The Times, while discouraging, or apparently casting cold water on this pecuniary assistance, which is but a legitimate carrying out of the aid already rendered, hints that " the Turks have sud denly acquired a strange relish for this borrowing," adding, " But for a few short years, they were as much strangers to the European Money Market as the inhabitants of Timbuctoo. Now, Turkish loans bid fair to make a periodically recur ring appearance in the City ! It is like the poor adv•inturer, who begs the loan of ten pounds. and, on getting the money contrary to his expeeta tion, comes back in an hour for five pounds more. There is too much reason to believe that the Turk ish Pashas are a little captivated by this easy means of bringing sovereigns and napoleons to the Bosphorus. Of yore, money had to be labo riously squeezed out of corn and figs, or conjured ont of depreciated pastures ; but now, thinks the Turk, you merely send to the infidels, and say— " Give us so much, and we and our children and our grandchildren will pay you a little every year," and the money comes. Mashalla, it is wonderful ! In short, it is easy to conceive that personages like ABD-UL-MEDJID and his Ministers are but too likely to look upon the loan system pretty much as ALADDIN looked upon his lamp." Now, this is a very unfair way of putting the question, more than usually so, even for the Times. It can be convicted, even from its own mouth. In the very same article in which it descends to this pointless scurrility the following just tribute is paid to the good conduct of Turkey. It says—" The great resources of the country, the industrial and trading habits of the Christian population, the general liberality of the Ottoman rule in respect to tariffs and Custom houses, are matters on which we have often dwelt ; and, if Englishmen are to carry their capital to foreign lands, there seems no reason why the undeveloped regions of the East should not offer advantages equal to any that Europe or even the New World can afford. Nor are we among those who despond of the political progress of the Empire. The loyalty and good spirit with which the SULTAN'S Government has acceded to the recommendations of the Western Powers, both during and since the war, are highly creditable to the principal statesmen of the Porte ; and we may fairly hope that the grievances complained of by the rayahs will gradually disappear under the influence of new ideas and the spread of material enterprise." It also says Considering what the Ottoman Empire has passed through, few will be disposed to say that the debt is excessive. Turkey can pay with ease what she has covenanted to pay, and the 4. • • ditialtd fill, n 9 doubt, be duly forthcoming." We estOss AO to our humble judgment this is one of the chief points to be considered, The Mussulmsll has established a character for honesty. Whatever his faults (and they are numerous), a lack of integrity cannot be :included in the num ber. He never appeared in the European money market, as a borrower, until there was an absolute necessity. Surely that is not against him. He avoided it as long as possible, and then resorted to it in a far lower ratio than either France or Eng land. Up to the late war there was no Turkish debt. Indeed, it was believed that a religious principle was opposed to the payment of interest, and we still remember the sarcastic observations of the Times when the SULTAN paid a heavy profit in order to annul the contract entered into on his behalf. A war, on which the very existence of the Otto man Empire was at stake, arose. lie had long to wage it single-handed ; while Lord ABERDEEN hesitated, and when he obtained assistance, even at the eleventh hour, it was only in the Crimea. He sent his squadrons there, but he only received from us a few gallant officers—WiLLlAms, LAKE, and THOMPSON. No doubt a bright and glorious con tingent, but still not sufficient materially to lessen the expenses of the Porte. The first debt was but three millions—that was taken at 6 per cent., and the Egyptian tribute, guaranteed by the great European Powers, was hypothecated for its payment. It amounted to £250,000 per annum, and there was consequently a surplus of £70,000 a year after providing for the interest of the first loan. That was applied pro tanto to the guaranteed debt of £5,000,000, leaving £130,000 only to be provided from the financial resources of Turkey—a sum ridiculously trifling in comparison to these resources, and for which the receipts of the Smyrna and Syrian Custom-houses are specially pledged. The loan just concluded is for £5,000,000, for which the customs and octroi duties of Con stantinople afford ample security. It is taken at 85, and, therefore, more than 7 per cent. will be paid to those investing therein, and the Times admits that "Turkey can pay, and the divi dend will, no doubt, be duly forthcoming." This is no doubt a great point, for capitalists arc more anxious for an additional 1 per cent. than the objects for which the money is obtained. But here they can be satisfied on every point. Their consciences will approve the receipt of the clear 7 per cent. It is to restore the depreciated cur • rency of Turkey, to inaugurate a sound and healthy system of finance. There has, no doubt, been extravagance in the private expenditure of the Se raglio, and that has been accompanied by something very like peculation in the public departments. But the SULTAN has shown that he is determined to emancipate himself from this unseemly thraldom, and that no further pecuniary abuse will be tole rated. Every step taken in restoring the financial condition- of Turkey affords an additional guarantee for the peace of the civilised world. There is no thing so elastic as British commerce, and when once the barriers that have hitherto opposed its extension are removed, capital will flow into the districts where abundant returns assuredly and invitingly await it. Hitherto the Ottoman Bank has been the pioneer of the movement. It was started under the most auspicious auguries, with Mr. LAYARD as its chair man, and Messrs. GLYN and HANKEY amongst its directors. Nothing could be sounder than its prin ciples, or more effective than its management. Its only difficulty has been the transmission of the profits realised at Constantinople, in consequence of the adverse exchanges. That obstacle will now be surmounted, and the banking facilities so urgently required by Turkey will be supplied to the mutual advantage of the English capitalist and the Turkish trade. What is a pound ? is a question which, as our readers well know, it is not our fault if they cannot answer; and we hope, if Oxford or Cambridge, or a Currency Committee, should hold public examina tions on Monetary and National Bank systems, that many of our pupils will come off with honours ; but there is another question of considerable public in terest just now—to wit, What is a Conserratire ? It is one respecting which doctors differ almost as much as they do on the other. In regard to both questions, the subjects of them are before our eyes almost every day of our lives ; but the " knowledge of common things" is not quite so easy and com mon. So, at least, one of the great House of BARING lately told the assembled educationists of a country town ; and everybody has echoed the cry since, till there is some hope that a cottager's wife will be able to make her husband's and her children's clothes and linen, and keep them clean and whole, and our maids-of-all-work be able to boil a potato and roast the weekly leg of mut ton decently. Arc thero equal hopes of teaching the omnipotent million what is a pound, or failing that, of teaching them what is a Conser vative a " Common things," both of them, the pounds and the Conservatives too, and the latter question one of some practical interest just now, seeing that gentlemen called Conservatives are just now the Directors of our Bank Political. In common with our readers we have watched with no little interest the transformations—if we may borrow a word from the new popular amuse ment of amateur entomology—the transformations, then, of Conservatism. It was very active, vora cious almost in its caterpillar state ; for sometime it has been condemned to the torpor of the chrysalis —is it now, under the genial sun of office, about to expand its wings, and to astonish us all by the brilliant kind of thing it will almost suddenly beconie ? We have had Conservatives for several months before us in the,Vivarium of the Session; now released from the questionings of honourable mem bers, they are roaming the country and disporting themselves at public meetings, and we ought to know something of the habits and tendencies of these interesting creatures. They have trans acted business before us, and they are now talking before us at every dinner----political or non-political —we should have a pretty good guess, then, at what they are. For one thing, no one doubts that the great family of the Conservatidee consists, in this free country,"of several genera. There are C. Liberalis. C. Media, and C. Innobilis, at least ; besides, as usual, varieties, of which it is difficult to say what genus they belong >to. But we must leave it to some political BOSSITET to portray and contrast all the "variations" which those exhibit who have dared to desert the honest, intelligible, time-honoured name of Tory—a name, alas ! it is to be feared, gone, clean gone for ever, with the noble old oath of abjuration. Mr. HENLEY, and he ought to be able, if any one could, to put us right on this matter, tells us rather what a Conservative was than what he is. According to him, " OTHELLO'S occupation's gone," or all but gone. Conservative meant, as he tells us, when the name was first adopted, one who stood up for three things—the Irish Church, the non-appropriation of Church property to secular and the independ ence o f the House of L ob o i r e d ets s. But, he adds, all these things are quite sat 6 now. Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. Mum, let the Irish Church alone ; the 'Whigs have long ago given up the Appropriation Cl ause, and heartily Val t ha t had utterly got rid Of., the disgrace of doing so ; and. the Lords—arc they not independent enough in al 1 conscience ? Could they not beard the Common s for twenty years together over Jew bills ? A.nd, if they did haul up the colours last session with one hand and pull them down with the ott ter, why, it was only because the Commons, under 'TOM DtiNCOMBE, had fairly boarded the vessel, ind given the Jews everything but a nearly usel ass vote. Conserva tives, quoth Mr. HENLEY, are, none of your sour, uneasy Anti's—your restless destructives—they wanted to conserve the Church and the Lords, and they have done their work so that Anti-State Churchmen and Anti-Corn-La w men, indeed, all the Anti's, are an Anti-quatel 1 race—they have dropped their names, and hardly venture to show themselves under less angry titles. Conservatives, therefore, only retain their .•name masa honoris. It is the badge of complete victory. Well, far be it from us to disturb a pl easant vision in which worthy men can rejoice. 'We will not, just now, even mention certain things. besides the specified three for which Conservativ es fought hard enough but in vain, nor will we alarm them by the cry that the Church or the Lord:: may yet be in danger. What we notice, and with far greater pleasure, is, that Conservatives could most truly take for their motto the old saying, Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis. They hare changed with the times. Why should they be ashamed to say so ? There is no denying the fact ; why burke it in long roundabout phrases, all turning on the difference of meaning between "Progress" and " Reform." Is not reform progress, and progress reform ? Or, are we to have a political battle of etymologies ? We believe it is undeniable that all the leading minds in the Conservative ranks are in a really different position to what they were five ' and-twenty years back. There is among them, we are persuaded, far more confidence in the people at large ; they perceive that there is little of the American domineeringly democratic spirit amongst them; on the contrary, a tendency rather to worship their SOVEREIGN, and to accept with cordial applause any favour of a lord's, from a popular vote to a popular lecture. It is seen that the aristocracy who are equal in character and talent to their position, may, anywhere and at any time, command an ovation for what would hardly be noticed if offered by one of the people ; and, amongst all sensible aristocrats, such facts have had their influence. We think it quite possible that much of the professed Toryism last session was, with many, more of a political neces sity than of an internal conviction, and that it is not, with them, matter of regret that some really liberal measures are now credited to the Conserva tive account. We wish we could say as much for the Whigs. We wish we could quote the Horatian line for them also. We must confess, however, that whether it be or not more or less true of the Conservatives it is certainly not true of the Whigs. The times have certainly given them the go-by ; and, instead of moving on with them, they stand gaping after the train, till they seem likely to be benighted where they are. Stiff as hundreds of old Conser vatives may be, every one will admit that their best men are ahead of their followers ; but it is the very reverse with the 'Whig leaders : they can hardly be said to have followers ; for those who should follow are ahead of their leaders, and the latter are behind the vast majority of their sup porters. Let the Whigs then look to it. The plain fact is, that the country cannot feel very angry with a Ministry which seeks to liberalise its friends, and it does not care for the accession to office of those who are less liberal than the great body of their party. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You have given to your readers, in a recent leading article, some interesting information from Australia, confining it, however, to the colony of Victoria. lam persuaded that many of your read ers would be glad to know how the colony of South Australia progresses. It was only founded in Dec., 1836, and its majority was celebrated in Dec., _ _ 1857, a week after I left Adelaide. Because that colony is no expense to the mother country, and never appears in the Blue Books of the British Parliament, it attracts but little public attention in England. You can judge from the statistical account herewith whether it ought to be so. That statement I have drawn up from official documents, and can vouch for its being correct. Surely it is a proof, not only of the skill and industry of the people, but of the great natural resources of the colony, that it exported last year's produce to the value of £1,686,212 sterling, con sisting chiefly of copper, wool, wheat, and flour, and that after supplyihg all its own wants—paying the expenses of government, including £l,OOO, the salary of the governor—erecting innumerable sub stantial private and public buildings, roads, bridges, schools, places of worship, &c. The exports are nearly equal to £l5 per head for every man, woman, and child in the colony, including the aborigines ; and, besides these things, there have been from £150,000 to £200,000 per annum appropriated out of the public revenue of the colony of South Australia, with a population of only 110,000 souls, to defray the cost of passage money of British and Irish immigrants to its shores. Surely, sir, the men who have added such a colony to the Queen's dominions during the past twenty-one years do as great a service to the state as those who have gained a great victory over her enemies, more especially as it has been achieved without the expenditure of either blood or treasure to the state, and takes off, chiefly British manufac tures, tothe value of £1,300,000 annually. I am, sir, yours obediently, GEORGE FIFE ANGAS. Bideford, 15th September, 1858. CO WES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Sept. 16. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS, Sept. 12.—Caprice, Lieut.-Colonel Charles Baring, from the westward. 13th. Capri corn, Vice-Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., from the western ports. 14th. petrel, Philip Per ceval, Esq., from the westward. 15th. Imogene, Lieut.-Cplonel Plunkett Purton, from Plymouth and 'Weymouth ; and Rattlesnake, G. R. Duff, Esq., from the westward, bound for Ryde. 16th, Ondine, Mortimer Ricardo, Esq., from Lymington, for Southampton. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.—Her Majesty's yachts Fairy and Elfin ; Capricorn, Vice- Commodore C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P. ; Titania, Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P. • Alea, Capt. Philli more ; Petrel, Philip P Perceval, Esq. ; Dream, Geo. Bentinck,, Esq., M.P. • Imogene, Lieut.-Colonel Plunkett Burton ; Ondine, Mortimer Ricardo, Esq. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.—A good many families have left during the week, and there are several fresh arrivals for the bathing season. The departures rather exceed the arrivals, but this town was never so full of company at this season. The Duchess of Somerset, the Earl and Countess of Munster, Lord and JLady Dufferin, Miss Masse, and a number of other fashionables, have been at Aris's Hotel this week. COURT OF COMMON COUNClL—Yesterday' the first meeting of the members of the Court of Common Council, since the expiration of the summer vacation, was held in their Council Chamber, at the Guildhall. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. Mr. Valiance, the chairman of the officers' and clerks' committee, again ad verted to a report delivered in to the court on the Ist of April, relative to the retirement of the town clerk (Sergeant Merdwether), and recommending 'a retiring allowance to him of £1,400 per annum. Mr. H. L. Taylor moved, as an amendment, that the retiring allowance to the town clerk should be £l,OOO per alumni, which was carried by an oveniti4MiLlg majority, • • g oT.CLU M 4, ji k LP' - , 4 4 ik ;;;IrMIP p t *non A Z . m r . AIN m ", • LATEST NEWS. " The Piedrnontese Gazette," says a telegraphic despatch from Turin, " declares that the pretended sale said to have been made to Russia of the port of Villafranca consists in the simple gratuitous concession of an old abandoned establishment for convicts, which is to be transformed into ct depot of coals and stores," HAMBURG, SEPT. 16 The magazine of the steamer Hammonia, which sailed yesterday- for New York, blew up at sea. Out of 293 passengers of al lnations who were on board only five have been wounded. TItIESTE. SEPT. 16. News from Constantinople to the 11 th has bee. received here. It was reported there that Fuad Pacha, on his arrival in London, was to demand explanations as to the bombardment of Jeddah and the occupation of Perim. There was an impression that an ordonnance would shortly be published recommending the dig nitaries of the empire to limit their expenses and reduce the luxury of the persons in their employ ment. The son of Fuad Pacha has left for France, with the ratification of the convention relating to the Danubian Principalities. M. Thouvcnel had returned from Mount Athos, A experienced a mos t cor di a l reception from h priesthood. the here Greek r h eeek Steam-packet companies were being organised in various parts of Turkey. The inquiries instituted at the Sultan's Palace had brought to light ..enormous debts, of which the existence had previously been unknown. Some arrests had taken place, but the Sultanas still resisted, and the Sultan,was already reconciled with his brother Q-in-law. FRANCE. PARIS, TIHRSDAY. A Council of Ministers, at which Prince Jerome presided, was held yesterday. Part of the Emperor's household and his baggage have already arrived at the Tuileries and St, Cloud from Biarritz. The Emperor will, contrary to what was intended some time ago, pass the winter at the Tuileries, the Elysee being found too small for the Court; and the projected repairs in the Tuileries will consequently be adjourned to the spring. The Marquis de Turgot, lately French Ambas sador at Madrid, has arrived at Marseilles from Paris, on his way to Spain, to formally present his letters of recall. BOURSE, September 16.—The market was at first heavy, but as the settling of the shire account advanced it became firm, and there was a general rally. Threes, after having been done at 73f., are now at 73f. 25c. ; Mobilier varied from 940 f. to 960 f.; Orleans, 1,427 f. 50c. to 1,437 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 857 f. 50c. to 870 f. ; Eastern, 7451. b 752 f. 50c.; Northern, 992 f. 50c. to 1005 f. ; and Southern, 605 f. to 612 f. 50c. A sudden reaction took place just before the close, when the following were the last quotations : 4f per Cents. -- Do. end month 3 per Cents. 72 50 Do. end month.... 72 80 Bank Shares. 3150 Cr6dit Mobilier 925' Do. Account 920 95 50 Credit Foncier 670 Belgian 4f , — Piedmontese (5) Roman... Austrian , _ Spanish Threes Home Debt _ RAILWAYS. Cath. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. 847 50 .. 842 50 Lyons and. Mediterranean 865 .. 855 New ditto — • • Geneva — .. 645 Midi . Western Eastern Grand Central. — — Sardinian Austrian... 690 .. 687 50 RUSSIA. Advices from St. Petersburg state that the Em. peror Alexander 11. intends to invest his brothers, the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, with more important functions than those which they have hitherto had entrusted to them. The former, al ready inspector of engineers, is to be charged with the direction of all the establishments of military instruction, and the latter to be made Governor of Poland, in the room of Prince Gortschakoff, who desires to retire. The lavalide Russe of St. Petersburg gives details of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Russia to the cential provinces :—" Their Majesties, with the Prince and Princess Royal of Wurtemburg, arrived at Nijni Novgorod on the 30th ult., and were received by a large crowd. On that and the following day they visited the church and public edifices, and received the nobles and functionaries, also a deputation o f t ra d ers , w h o , according to custom, p resented bread and salt, to gether with specimens of the manufactures of the place. On the 31st the Imperor and Empress gave a grand dinner, and attended a ball, and the next day his Majesty passed a review of the garrison. llis Majesty also visited the House of Correction and charitable es tablishments. On the 2d the Emperor and Empress were still in the place." PRUSSIA. - - A letter from Berlin says :—" The present Cham bers will be convoked is a few days, and the Re gency will be established with their co-operation. When that affair shall have been settled, the pri mary assemblies for the new elections will be called together. The questions will thus be solved consti tutionally, and this arran g em en t may b e a t tr ib ute d to the firmness of th e P rince of Prussia, who has rejected any me asure proposed to be adopted without the participation of the Parliament. An audience which Dr, Boger, the King's phy sician, had of the Prince of Prussia, appears to have contributed to hasten the deci sion. Dr. Boger frankly declared to the prince that he must not think of his Majesty obtaining a complete cure. It was after this interview that the prince came to the resolution of convoking the Chambers, in order that a Regency might be esta blished." AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna in the Borsenhalle says : " It is 'stated in a well-informed quarter that nego tiations are..now going ett—between the Courts of Vienna, Constantinople, Stuttgart, and Munich, relative to the act of navigation of the Danube. The Austrian Cabinet has communicated to Wur temburg and Bavaria the protocol of the Conference of Paris, in which the question of the navigation of that ri ver i s treated:'• After having received the reply of tho se t wo Governments, t h e C a bi ne t o f Vienna will request the Riverain States to assume their labo urs , and will t r ansmit to them the notes relative t o th e a ct of navigation w hi c h severa l great poWers presented to Baron Hubner at . the last sit ting of the Conference. The Commission of the Riverian States will probably meet at the begin ning of next month." A Vienna letter states that the malady with which Mirco, the brother of Prince Danilo, was seized at Ragusa, had become so severe, that to convey the patient to Cettingen on a litter was found necessary. SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 16%—The Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved, and a new one is convoked for the Ist December. The Madrid journals -of the 12th have reached us. The Gazette contains three pages of dismissals and nominations of magistrates and judges by the Minister of justice. " These nominations," says a ministerial organ, " will be well re ceived by the nation at large, as they are for the most part of men who were wrongfully deprived of daces in which they had spent the best year of their lints in orclei to - make room for creatures of the Narvaez Nocedal Cabinet, who were appointed without any regard to . their qualifications, so that the administration of justice fell into hope_ess confusion." Some dis turbances having taken place at Pinto on the occa sion of a religious fete, the Espana ascribes them to Protestant agents, and denounces the different Bible societies of England for distributing publica tions which, that journal declares, " flatter the most detestable passions and sow impiety broadcast." The semi-official Correspondancia Autografa, re ferring to a statement made by one of the journals, says that it is not true that O'Donnell intends to break off with the Conservative party and join the Liberal one, but that his object is to act with both, so as to establish order and liberty. AMERICA. . (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING. The Cunard screw steamer Alps has arrived, with dates from New York to the sth inst. She has 1,650 dollars on freight. The Africa arrived at New York on the 2d inst. The Propeller, steamer, from Galway, had reached - - Boston. The Pacific had arrived off St. John's. The steamer Ariel sailed from New York for Southampton on the 3d inst., with 187,444 dollars. The Atlantic Telegraph fetes took place on the Ist, and were very successful. The quarantine buildings at Staten Island,jNew York, had been destroyed by a band of armed men. At Havannah sugars were firm, with an upward tendency. Advices from Vera Cruz report the suppression of all opposition newspapers at the capital. A deci sive action between the contending parties was looked for. • The Africans captured by the Dolphin were to be conveyed in the steam-frigate Niagara back to their homes. The New York commercial advices report the stock market as being dull and prices irregular. The demand for United States loans was steady, without any change in values. Holders of Five per Cents, were willing to sell at 103 k to 104, but lon was the limit offered. Sales had been effected of Ohio Sixes at 107 ; Missouri Sixes, at 841 to 841 ; Californian Sevens, at 84 ; Indiana Fives, at 89 ; and Michigan Sixes, at 108. Sound railway securities and bank shares were well sus tained, but were not pressed on the market. There was more demand for money for commercial purposes, at about previous rates. Sterling exchange closed firm, at 1091 to 110. Cotton was active, at a c. advance. Ashes firm. Flour and wheat had slightly im proved. Sugar firmer, but no change in molasses. Freights unchanged. SHIPPING INTELIGENCE. On the 13th the Alps passed the Lady Clinton, bound west ; and on the 16th - the Lowden, Rhine, and John Stuart, from London, off New York. Alleghhananeen, from Shields ; Escort, from London ; Hero, from Rotterdam ; Zephyr, from Palermo ; and Ottawa, from Marseilles—at New York. Helen and Frances, from Liverpool, at City Point. John L. Dinunock, from Newport, at Portland. The Two Boys, from Marseilles, put into Rockland 021 the 30th ult. to repair rudder. Itzstein and Weleker, from Baltimore, for Rotterdam, off the. Horse Shoe. The Laura Campell, from Santa Cruz, for London, with mahogany, went ashore on the Twelve Leag ues Keys, and was got off considerably damaged, returned to Santa Cruz condemned, and would be sold. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Magdalena steamer, with the West India and Pacific mails, passed Hurst at 9 a.m. THE NEW INDIAN DEPARTMENT. We are now enabled to enumerate the principal offices in the new establishment of the Secretary of State for India, as just proposed to be constituted by Lord Stanley, and to furnish the names of the several gentlemen in charge, as secretaries, of the various departments. They are as follows : REVENUE-Mr. Prideaux. JUDICIAL—Mr. Hawkins. POLITICAL—Mr. Kaye. RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH—Mr. Danvers. PUBLIC WORKS—Mr. Thornton. PUBLIC OR GENERAL—Mr. Bourdillon. MILITARY DEPARTMENT. SECRETARY—Not yet known. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—Mr. Eade. MARINE AND TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT , SUPERINTENDENT—Mr. Plowden. ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL—Mr. Friend. AUDITOR—Mr. Sandoz. CASHIER—Mr. Dunsmure. INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF STORES—Gen. Bonner. AGENT TO ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL Mr. Clarke. STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT AND KEEPER OF RE. CORDS—Mr. Hornidge. _ CHIEF CLERK-Mr. Onslow. OFFICERS OF COMMITTEE. . SECRETARY TO FINANCE,' HOME, AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE-Mr. Danvers. SECRETARY TO REVENUE AND JUDICIAL—Mr. Prideaux. SECRETARY TO POLITICAL AND MILITARY—Mr, Eade. The gentlemen named as secretaries above have, we believe, all been in charge of the duties which they have now to perform under a different deno mination. Mr. Prideaux was Assistant Examiner. Mr. Hawkins was also appointed an Assistant Examiner upon his retirement from the office of Secretary to the Indian. Law Commissioners. He is regarded as a high authority upon judicial ques tions, having held important posts in the civil ser vice of India. Mr. Kaye, besides the responsible office he has heretofore filled in the Examiner's De partment, is known to literature as the author of " The Life of Sir John Malcolm," and the " History of the Affghan War." Mr. Danvers has been con fleeted with railways and telegraphs from their introduction into India, and was the first witness examined by the Parliamentary committee of last session. Mr. Thornton was selected for the Public Works Department upon its formation a few years ago, and Mr. Bourdillon has been connected with the General Department, which embraces subjects connected with education, the Post-office, and mat ters of a miscellaneous • character. It will be observed.that two distinguished men— namely, Mr. John Stuart MW and Mr. Philip Mel vill, both retire from the public service, with which they have been long and honourably identified, the former as the head of the Examiner's Department, and the latter as the Military Secretary. THE TIMBER TRADE ACCOMMODATION AT LIVER rooL.--The accommodation which the Liverpool Dock Board has granted to the various timber importing firms doing business at the port• amounts to 134,060 square yards.: It is situated at the north end of the town, and in the vicinity of an immense new dock, which is to be called the Canada Dock, and to be appropriated almost exclusively to timber vessels. At the meeting of the Dock Board yesterday a plan of the allotments to various timber firms was read and approved of. The allotments vary in extent, from 5,000 to 15,000 yards. The contract of Messrs. George Thompson and Co., td fence the timber ground at 13s. 2d. per lineal yard, and to provide gates at £l2 19s. per pair, was ac cepted. NOTES FROM BALMORAL—No sooner had her Majesty alighted from her carriage (a light vehicle with pair, which took many by surprise, and deceived others as to the person of the Sovereign), than she was engaged in viewing the improvements still going on about the castle and offices. Another characteristic trait may be mentioned. Rind gifts were brought to the children of the cottagers in the employment of the Queen and Prince on the estate. The Queen and Royal family, in going up to Balmoral, made a call on the duchess; indeed, the usual route was changed to enable them to do so. On the Sove reign reaching Balmoral a splendid Royal standard was hoisted from the castle terrace, and will remain during her Majesty's stay. At the sports and games at Abergeldie on Saturday the Queen and Prince and Royal family remained from half-past three till a quarter to six. The Royal party occupied chairs, ranged under the portico of the castle (Abergeldie), the Queen, then her mother, and next the Princesses Alice and Helena occupying the front row ; the Princess Louisa was a little behind her royal parent. The Prince Consort and Prince Arthur walked about the lawn in view of the sports. These were of a very amusing character generally. There was also some good Highland dancing, besides a general reel of all and sundry of the competitors and spectators on the walk immediately beside the royal party. The weather on Deeside has, since Friday, been pretty favourable. The Prince is generally out some part of the day shooting ; and walks and drives in the grounds are the favourite recreations of the other members of the Court. Frequent despatches are sent by telegraph to Banch or y, an d th en ce expressed to Balmoral. The court may thus be said at present to be three hours from London. , The whole of the members - of the royal family, including the Duchess of Kent, it is understood, enjoy very much their sojourn OA Deeside,—Eeinbuvh Xvning howl. • ROYAL REFUGE HARBOUR COMMIS- SION. INQUIRY AT PORTRUSH. The Commissioners on Harbours of Refuge were expected at Portrush on Wednesday last, but only a portion arrived at Coleman's Hotel, where they put up, waiting the arrival of the chirman. On that day and the next Capt. Vetch, R.E., Capt. Washington, R.N., and other members of the commission, were engaged in sounding the site of the proposed harbour at the Skerries and making observations on the coast. On Friday the chairman, Rear-Admiral Hope, C. 8., arrived in the government steamer Banshee at 9.30, and with the other members of the commission, met in the Earl of Antrim's office at twelve o'clock. The following are the names of the commissioners who attended : — Rear-Admiral Hope, C. 8., W. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P., C a pt a i n W as hi ngton, R .N., Capta i n Vetch, R.E., and John Coote, C.E. Amongst those pre sent at the inquiry we noticed the Earl of Antrim, George Macartney, Esq., M.P., William Dargan, Esq., Thomas Mackay, Esq., Dublin ; James Cramsie, Esq., Ballymoney ' • James Thoms on , Esq., Bally money ; William Parsons, Esq., Cole rain ; W. P. Richardson, Esq., Portrush ; John Crane, Esq. ; Alexander Keenan, Esq., Bally castle ; Councillor Tottenham, Dublin, &c. The commission having been read by the secre tary, The Chairman called on Mr. Macartney, who he said had taken a great interest in the matter, to say whether all parties interested in the subject to come before them were aware that the commission were to meet in Portrush. Mr. Macartney replied in the affirmative, and went on to say that having been on the Committee on Harbours of Refuge, he had made out a list of ten witnesses, with the questions he thought bore on the subject, which he handed to the chairman. He had also called a meeting, which was held in the room they then were in, at which very strong opinions were expressed as to the necessity of a harbour of refuge being erected at Portrush. The three points on which he presumed the commission would decide were—Did the requirements of the mercantile marine and other vessels frequenting the north, about Passage, require a harbour of refuge between the Lough of Belfast and Long Island ? Is Skerries the most fit and proper place for such a harbour, more so than either Lough Foyle, Lough Swilly, or Loughandall were said to be ; and third, Can the work, as proposed by B. D. Gibbons, Esq., engineer to the Board of Works, be completed for the sum named, £100,0000? Having remarked that the Earl of Antrim, lord of the soil, h a d comm i ss i one d hi m to say, that he would look for remuneration for the material taken off the mainland to make the breakwater, and that he would give a free site for the necessary buildings during the work, Mr. Macartney concluded by handing in the list of witnesses. Counsellor Tottenham asked if he would be allowed to cross-examine any of the witnesses, with a view to bring out facts which might escape the attention of the court. He appeared on behalf of certain memorialists, who sent in a memorial from Ballycastle—that memorial, he understood, being in the hands of the commission. The Chairman explained that the memorial had reached them such a short time previously that he had not had time to take it into consideration ; but Counsellor Tottenham had the privilege of putting down on paper any questions he chose, and if the commissioners thought them relevant they would put them to the - witnesses at the close of their exa mination. Not being prepared to adopt this course, Mr. Tottenham complied with a suggestion of the chair man that he would meet the commission in Belfast on Monday. Mr. Samuel Patten, harbour-master at Portrush, was then examined, and gave very strong evidence as to the necessity there existed for a harbour of refuge on the coast as a protection to life and pro perty during the prevalence of west and north-west gales, which blow very strong on that coast for about eight months in the year. He said several of the wrecks which had occurred would have been prevented had there been a harbour of refuge at the Skerries. He spoke decidedly as to the closing of the Vickery, or west sound of the Skerries, and leaving the leeward sound open. He believed there was good holding ground in the roadstead. James Campbell, for 55 years a pilot on the coast, gave it as his opinion that the Skerries was the most suitable place in the north of Ireland for a harbour such as that proposed. The holding ground was blue clay, covered with sand, and it took a good heave to pull an anchor once it was fairly held. The most dangerous winds were west and north west, and from both of these the Skerries would be a complete protection if the works proposed were carried out. Two ships, the Exmouth and Reliance, which were lost, would have been saved had a har bour of safety been accessible at Portrush. Mr. Hutchins, second master and chief officer of coast guard, gave very strong evidence recommend ing the construction of a harbour of refuge at Port rush. He also adiocated the closing of the small sound. Mr. A. M'Alister, who has been 27 years in the coast guard, 18 years of which he was stationed at Portrush, said that from the great increase of ship ping frequenting the north-about passage he had not the slightest hesitation in saying that a har bour of refuge at the Skerrie s was i n di s p ensa bly necessary. He had seen six outward and one in ward-bound passing Portrush in one afternoon. The wind was generally from W.N.W. to N.W., and when the wind was from the S.E. it very often suddenly chopped round to N.W., particularly in squally weather. Mr. Gage, Of Newtonlimady, who had previously been engaged in the shipping trade, was next ex amined, and gave it as his most decided opinion that the harbour should be erected. Mr. G. Scott, for 38 years pilot on the coast, also gave evidence in its favour, and said that Loughan dall was useless as a harbour of refuge, and that Bally castle bay was never used for anything but to "dodge" a tide in, and had gone as far as Belfast Lough when caught in a gale trying to get into Lough Foyle, a: distance of 55 miles. Would have run into Portrush if a, harbour had been there. He thought that if one life were saved by the erection of the harbour, the work should be entered on. Capt. Thomson, master mariner since 1843, and sailing ships in the East and West India trade, was also of opinion that a harbour should be constructed at the Skerries. Capt. W. Johnston, who has been 35 years at sea, and 25 in command of vessels, spoke strongly in favour of a harbour of refuge being erected at Sker ries for vessels from the Clyde and. Liverpool, all of which would take the north-about passage to America if they were sure of , a safety harbour on the north coast of Ireland. Barry Duncan Gibbons, Esq., was next examined as to the practicability of his 'plan of the break water, and said he was still of opinion, from the large quantit y o f ma t er i a l i n the immediate neigh bourhood, that the works could be carried out ac cording to the plan h e es ti ma t e d from, which was substantially the same as that appended to the re port of the committee of the House of Commons. William Dargan, Esq., said he had nothing to add to the views he had already put forward, but was so confident he could make the breakwater for £lOO,OOO that he would . sign the contract then if they gave him the job. Captain Bedford differed in opinion from the previous witnesses in their view of the sound to be closed up. He thought the broad sound should be closed if an 7 ; but he was of opinion that, except to convert it into a commercial harbour, it was not worth the money to make Skerries into a break water. It was good for safety already if a light re placed an it to show mariners the way M at night: Captain Fraser, Mr. Hoskyns, and Captain Magawan, of the Londonderry and Liverpool trade, all gave evidence in favour of the harbour at Portrush. The chairman then asked if any . more witnesses were to be produced, but none having been ,nam e d the proceedings terminated. It is credibly reportedtoomnithbeuirs Company willd Owing General no dividend at th e i r next meeting. The shares declined yesterday aftern oon t o 2 5-16 to 7-16 t he L t o h n a d t, n o per £4 share. THE ATI,AN , TIC TELEGRAPH. —TllO shares o f this company have experienced a d ec li ne to between 420 and 460. It appears the rec en t exper i ments induce a belief that the fracture or fractures—for it is thought there may bnedtw3go —ll be found to exi s t a t a di stance of between 200 miles from the shor e . F or a b out 230 or 240 miles the depth is only 410 fathom s , an d within that range the mischief could easily be repa i red, but a sudden descent a wi then occurs to 1,518 fathoms, where it is extremely doubt ful if anything could be done. The probability seems that it is at this abrupt point the damage has been sustained. TIIE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN STEAM SHIP PING COMPANY.—The directors have issued a circular to their shareholders, notifying that th ey h ave made an arrangement with 'Messrs. Croskey and Co. for the settle ment of all matters in dispute between that firm and the board. Messrs. Croskey and Co. are to pay into the hands of the directors £30,000 forthwith on the attachments being removed, and are to find the money for sending the Lady Jocelyn and Calcutta to sea —the two ships under engage ment for the conveyance of troops to India. Their agree ment is also to be reviewed and reconsidered, with a view to prevent futu mmisunderstandinp-s, and the board hope that -these .and other arrangements will enable them to put the remaining vessels into profitable employment at an early period. In the meantime, it is stated to be indispens able that parties should come forward to take up the de bentures which the holders are not prepared to renew, and that the board rely on the shareholders coming forward to assist in the arrangement's which have been partially made for that strpole, THE AMERICAN FLAG, AMERICAN LAW, AND THE SLAVE TRADE. uTO HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE M. DALLAS, THE AXE-- rcg i MINISTER IN LONDON. SIR,—An American slaver carryin g Ameri can colours may now sail the seas without interruption from British cruisers. On the 18th of June, Lord Malmesbury stated, in t he House of Peers, " It was a l aw o f na ti ons the' , we had no right during time of peace to searc h ' but they have a right of visit which was quite an" other thing. The American nation, however' repudiated the principle, and said that no sus" picion should be sufficient to justify us in boarding a vessel bearing the American flag." On the 2 01 of July his lordship said, " Upon that opinion (tha' , of the law officers of the crown) her Majesty's r vernment at once acted, and we confessed that 1 1 have no claim to the right of visit and search which has hitherto been assumed." . 1 The Earl of Aberdeen on th e 27th o f J u ly said , " If our cruisers knew that there was an America n , vessel sailing by them full of slaves, they would have no right whatever to visit her u n l ess th e y ha d good ground for suspecting her not to be really an American vessel." A British cruiser taking the above course must sanction the right of the captain of the American slaver to the American flag, and to the slaves. deny his right in each case. I deny his right, first , to the flag. Holding in my hand the laws of the United States, I denounce the captain as a pirat e punishable with death. I deny his right, secondlP to the slaves. The British constitution does not re: cognise the right of man to property in man, all the captain's pretended ownership is a wild and guilty fantasy." I picture, in imagination, an American slave r , crossing the ocean, her pestif erous h o ld crammed with victims, and the breeze sweeping past made vocal with the wails of the despairing, an the heartrending shieks of the sick and the dying. Approaching the captain, I demand, in the name of outraged humanity, by what law he claims the manacled sufferers as his slaves ? What reply can lie make ? Does he say that in accordance with the laws of the African coast he bought them and paid for them? I point to the officers and crevrf the vessel and colours, and declare that, as these arc all American, he is amenable to American laws. By what American law, I continue, do you claim these persons as property ? From what state can you claim protection ? Not from Massachusetts+. that state having declared " all men free and equal," and having emancipated her slaves as inconsistent with such a declaration. Not from New Hampshire, that state having declared that "All men are born equal and independent ; all men have ceriain na tural, essential, and inherent rights ; among which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty , acquiring, possessing, and protecting proPertY' and have the right of seeki ng an d o btaining hap piness." Its laws prohibit the holding of slaves. Not from Pennsylvania, that State has declared , " All men are born equally free and independent+ and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights , among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and pro" testing, property and reputation, and of pursan.g their own happiness." Its laws also prohibit slaveholding. Not from any other of the rer maining fourteen free States, because tni laws of each p ro hibit th e h o ldi ng o f s l ave s. continue my inqui r y t o th e cap t a i n. F rom which; of the fifteen slave states can you claim protection • Not from Virginia, though it has liberty for It profession and slave-holdin g f or it s prac ti ce . has declared, " All men are by .na t ure equa l an independent, and have cer t ain in h eren t rig hts, 0 ., which, when they enter into a stat e o f soc i e ty, the; cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty , with the means of acquiring and possessing 1 perty, and obtaining happines s an d safety.,, , ginia prohibits the foreign s l ave trade._ 11 1 1778 it imposed the penalty o f £l,ooo' . .. 1111 , 1 the forfeiture of the s l ave , u p on th e of any slave into that commonwealth. The act was amended in 1785, again modified 'in 1794, and clause of emancipation was introduced. Again mo dified in 1698 to carry out the prohibition of the constitution against foreign importation. SG thin down. to the present .time it prohibits the foreign t slave trade. Not from Kentucky.; its laws prohibit the importation of s l aves , an d every effort wh ic h has been made to r emove th e prohibition has failet! Not from Georgia ; in that state even the domestic. slave trade is felony, a p en it en ti ar y offence. Not from Mississippi ; the importation of slaves is for bidden by the constitution. In brief, from the Re" ,volution to the present day, it has been the pail' of the slave states to prohibit the importation o slaVes. I know of no exception. Will the captain tell me that this is a question not to be decided by the laws of any one of the 32 confederated states—• that they have conceded to the Federal Government the control - of commerce, foreign as well as inter state, and, therefore, to the Federal Government his question •of right belongs ? Granted, and it follows that if any state legalise the foreign slave trade it would be assuming powers beyond its pro vince. I go then to the Federal Government, and, bring ing forth its laws, shake them in the face of the captain, and denounce him as a pirate, punishable with death ; for from the year 1808 to the present time by the law of that Government the foreign slave trade has been piracy. No fewer than nine acts, having for their osten sible object the abolition of the foreign slave trad e ' have been passed by the federal government between the 22d of March, 1794, and on the sth of MaY' 1820. That of the earliest date prohibited " th e carrying on of the slave trade to any forein p l ace or Country." That of th e l as t d a t e d ec l are d the Ali ce ( trade to be piraCy, and affixed the punishment ° f death to the crime ; th us a ll th a t can be effected by mere enactments appea rs t o h ave b een d one . I have thus pro ve d th e A mer i can s l aver to be pirate by Ameri c a n l aw , an d ye t I un d ers t a nd they while he trample s A mer i can l aw b enea th his fee . he is to be p ro t ec t e d if h e h o i s t s th e A mer i c an flag' Will it be said that suc h a concess i on ma d e byEll,g; land to Am er i ca was b ecom i ng , as perpe t ua ting tn, a _,, amiable feeling n ow h a ppily ex i s ti ng b e tween to, e two nations ? My r e ply is , I see no concession to America. The only concession I see is one made to pirate. punishable with death by American law. Shad he take rank with those who honestly sail the seas,' Then what becomes of the di sc ipli ne o f the seas? an d what will be understood by the term—" The Aw e .; ricans are jealous of their rights ?" On what growl: also can other pirates b e i n t er f ere d w ith ? Can British cruiser sanction such a vessel in having se" room without sanctioning two false principles -- ; the right of the captain to the flag in violation of American law, and his right to property in man in violation of the British constitution ? Concession s to a false principle involve future concessions. Tile buried difficulty rises ag ain multiplied. If the right of the slaveholder t o the slave be conceded on the ocean in violation of American law, can it be denied in America where it is sustained by law ? Will not slaveholders demand hereafter the frill market value of their slaves who escape to Canada , as well as for slaves passing ocean-wise from on e state to another, and driven by stress of weather to 'the British West Indies, or going there voluntarily after overcoming their oppressors on the passage Must it not also affect the condition of British coloured subjects visiting the slave states, and w ill not the laws against them, recently relaxed, be made more stringent ? Pro-slavery American diplomacy has made the coloured people groan. What an amount of misery' would have been prevented had the federal govern ment been anti-slavery instead of pro-slavery. What facilities would have been afforded by such a government for suppressing the slave trade ! The capture of a slaver under such circumstances would have occasioned equal joy to America as to Eng land. The lessening of the number of slaves and the increase of the number of freemen, the rescue of the sufferers from extreme degradation, the checking of the pirate in his high-handed career, the re cognition of the laws of justice and mercy, and of the being and authority of God, all these are em braced in the capture of a slaver, and all these, would promote th e h app i ness, peace, an d m utual respect of the two nations. Slavery and the slave' trade can produce no such effects, for " righteous ness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to allY people."--I am yours, &c., Oxford, Sept. 14, 1858. EDWARD MATHEWS• SUNDERLAND AND DURHAM DISTRICT BANK* t We (Newcastle Daily Chronicle) are a u th or i se d t o state tha t the first instalment of £150,000 has been paid to the tors by the New Derwent Iron Company for the purch as . h e o the Derwent Ironworks, and th a t sa ti s f actory secur ity been given for the payment of the remaining instalments. f BANK OF ENGLAND.—The half-yearly Court the Proprietors of the Bank of England took place yesth day, Mr. Sheffield Neave, the Governor presiding. to ° profits for the six months ending August' 31 were stateu be £628,770, making the amount of the rest on that (1 ,, £3,676,868. A di v id en d a t th e ra t e o f 41 per cen t. for t h . half year was d ec l are d, l eav i ng th e rest £.1,021,983. t t of faction was exp r e sse d th a t, no t w ith s t an di ng t h e low raL'be interest lately prevalent, a distribution at this rate could made. FOREIGN BONDHOLDERS.—At a meei....r, j. Central American bondholders yeste r d a y a ft erno on, Mr f i i 3 O D. Powleg in the chair, it was resol ve d t o a uthorise agents of the Government of Guatemala to deduct 2 9 r r : cent. on all future dividends as a remuneration for the s al eo.v. vices of the British Consul there i n a dj us ti ng the fe, debt of the Republic. A simil ar arrangeme nt was ~a _ adopted with regard to the States of Nicaragua, San Sa c ' a dor, and Honduras, to come i n t o operation whenever ni i satisfactory settlement of th e debts of th ose States t. have been ebtained, ex] (Fre Do. oh Michik ,Do. do Now I not I New 1 cony 1857 Do. do New 3d n New conv New sinki Do. do Panani gage Do. do Penns: Ist till 1 The day h the de North shire, and West( Forc4 Franc East 10s. Joh little tic Tc BRIT: 3 per C India Ditto I Ditto Ditto I Console Exchec Ditto .I Ditto; PRIM Braiili Ditto Ditto Ditto Emile/ Ditto Mexico! Did( Peruvi Ditto Portug Ditto Russia Dittc Spanisl Ditto Spaniel Turkii The circle a in Ken ~. di in . eil erg mt tio n .1 spe for 11111 ena wei is n little is at wen'. beta Fl are s gues 100,3 6 Cent ferre vian