The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-01 00:00:00

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An abundant supply of capital is still apparent in all directions ; the discount brokers are eager for business, and the competition which consequently prevails keeps . down th e ra t es t o an unusua l ly l ow po i nt There is no perceptible increase in the quantity of commercial bills brought forward for nego tiation, and yet the advices from the manufactur ing districts, as well as the shipping accounts of the ports of London and Liverpool, speak confi dently of an improving tendency in trade, with en larged operations already in progress. The letters received from the North of England this morning are in some respects satisfactory. At Man chester last week, ho-wever, there was some depres sion, the tenor of the American advices having depreciated cotton to the extent of t-d. per lb. Yarns have slightly receded in value, and for piecz goods and cloths prices have been barely sustained. At Leeds the accounts are favourable, and a consider able business has been done in light fabrics suit able to the China trade. Wools continue at firm rates. At Bradford both wools and yarns• exhibit an upward tendency, but the market for piece goods continues very quiet. The hosiery trade at Leicester is a ctive, and the op era ti v es generally well employed. The iron trade of South Staffordshire has exhibited no change of importance. The demand for the U nited States has not been so active as was antici pated. In the various hardware trades of the town and district there is little alteration either as re gards the demand or the prices current. The hardware trades of Sheffield and Wolverhampton are steady, arid but little improvement can be re ported in the saddlery ironmonger trade at Walsall. In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday a 'very moderate business was transacted, at about former quotations. The sales were estimated at 6 ,000 bales. The Railway Share Market presented rather more animation, bat prices slightly receded. Small amounts of gold continue to leave the Bank of England for the continent. This move ment, however, will be checked by the Australian remittances now hourly expected. It is presumed that a fair p ro p or ti on of those supplies will be taken in to the Bank, an d ass i st i n making up the defi ciency lately caused by the dividend payments, and few withdrawals announced during the last tw o or three days. About £281,227 in specie has just arrived from the West Indies and America. As the two Austra lian vessels, the Agincourt and the Lincolnshire, have now been a considerable period at sea, it is not improbable that the total receipts during the fortnight will exceed £1,000,000. The Ist of November being always observed as a holiday at the Stock Exchange, there is nothing to report in connexion with the Market for Stocks and Shares. The transfer-offices at the Bank of England are closed, to enable the officials to adjust the half-year's balance. The City, as usual under alleh circumstances, presents a very quiet appear ance. The closing prices of Consols on Saturday after• noon Were 981 I, for money, 981 for the 10th inst., and 98 for the Deceniber account. B BR ITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. ank St oc k NPe: Ce n t . R educed Annuities 97 64 1 eer Cent. C onsols Annuities India Sto perk Cent. Annuities c Di tto Deb en t ures 227 994. __ D itto 2d I ssue Ditto Bonds, , £l000 Consol s for Account 981 March June. le llequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &11d... 37 40 1 31 B razil n F iaOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 5 r i, Cen . , e - "itto 1858, p 41 per t Cent. 971 c l i tador New consolidated p Ditto P rovisional Land Warrant 4l ePlvian, 41 per Cent. -D itto Account p Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. 3: t.t n o A es e e c , o lBs t 3, 3 per Cent. 4611 $ !an, 1822 un , £ St., 5 per Cent ll3/ Turkish, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account ' 94 Ditto Ne w Loan Seep ' Ditto Acco un t Ditto 2d I ssue _Ditto Acco un t Ve nezuela 5 per Cent. D itto Deferred 2 per C en t l5 Dividends on the above payable in London. Du' -ell Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 661 Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account, Nov. 10 9B THIS DAI'S SHIPPING. • 1 , Loxflox, N ov. I . —Wind this day at noon, N.E ; alKht breeze, and foggy. vi3uvuormr, Oct 30.—ind E.—Arrived—Wilhemina P 1 Abeone (screw steame W r), from Calcutta and Cape l St. totT.bael's; Maria Catherine, from Quebec for Southamp (.ournAltrroN, Oct. 31.—Wind E.—Arrived—Atrato b"'eauier) from St. Thomas; Vanderbelt (steamer),. from .r e , nert. /tl'oirrsmouTH, Oct. 31.—Wind S.E. to N.E.—Sailed— jMajesty's steamer Himalaya, for the Mediterranean. lIATRAMS, Oct. 30.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Nagaden, rethe West Indies. It tv ° a w ßs, Oct. 31.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Augusta, for Pm) 11411. fo sTow Oct. 30.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Ocean Gem, r Ol, S a • isco n Francisco. nc LYMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Arrived—Palmyra, from Viey .S.W. frola n Melb POR ou TSMOUTH Oct. 31.—Arrived—Essex Londfa, rne. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Arriv e d LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Oct. 31.—The Queen and Rosalie, from Quebec ; 14 11) ,M, from Calcutta ; Linda, from Ibrail ; Janvrin, from Anne from Oporto•• Maria, from Safes; Arcadia, screw stemer:from Alexandria. le"' lTiv ed, Nov. I.—Lydia, from Antigua •, James Smith, Buenaorfu ; Wallace and Middleton, from St. John, New fr om wi ck ; Queen of the West, from Bombay ; Oregon T, Quebec ; Brooksop, from Sinoupore ; Sumatra, from G: ‘ , 11 " 1 ; Hiawatha, from Miramili ; Nelson, from St. 1) --r ge's, New Brunswick ; Admiral, from St. ohn's, New -s,rus.aick. The American ship A. Z., from New York, for Glasgow, 6948 ; crew and passengers taken off by the ship Admiral 'arrived here. The b ar k Gl en i ffer, from Fleetwood, for Quebec, was lost '4 thick weather, on the 2d of September, in Pistolet Bay; c rew saved. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. ` V ied, N.W.E. ; tide, last hours' flood ; weather light, Kith f og. Denav d Oct. 31 J ilia from Shanghag ; Raccon, from e , . L , st mt ; Roach, from Gothenburg ; Mary Clark, from Cron- C" ; Odin, from Gefle ; Ninoon Jane, from Soderham ; oucordia, steamer, from Cronstadt. ,Wind S•E„ moderate. DEAL, Monday Morning. V —triv ed, Nov.l—Blle of Whitehaven, from London, ardiff. fro i „ as t s ed, I st—Oriental, from London, for Otago ; Essex, e tt r,„'", ondon, for Port Phillip ; Arethusa, from London, for 8;'; 1 4 ; Alexander Cochrane, from Beyrout, for Hull. for \ , - ed, Ist-- Hannah Digma, , for a Western Port ; Arran, Indies Orleans ;corvette, Naiaden, Swedish for the West THIS "ETS. CORN EXCHANGE. There was a large quantity of foreign wheat on the stands. Even the finest samples were very dull, and prices ruled quite Is. per quarter lower than on this day se'nnight. For cargoes of grain afloat there was scarcely any demand, and the quotations were nominally unaltered. Fine malting barley was scarce, and in steady request, at full prices ; but other kinds were very dull, at barely late rates. Malt was in moderate supply and sluggish request, at last week's currency. Although the supply of foreign oats was good, the oal trade ruled firm, and prices were is per qr. higher than on this day se'nnight. Beans moved off slowly, at about last week's prices. Blue peas were in steady request, at full quotations ; bui other kinds were a slow inquiry. We had a dull sale for flour, and prices had a drooping :endency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new 37s to 43s Ditto, old Ditto, white, new 4os 508 Ditto, old --s —s Norfolk and Linco!_i, red, old 379 44s Ditto, new Rye—Old —s —8 New 32s 36s Barley--Grinding...., 258 31s Malting 36s --s Chevalier 378 41s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingston and Ware 568 58s Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 2ls 28s Potato 27s to 32s Youghal and Cork, black .. 228 25s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 248 278 Beans—Tick Pigeons Peas—Grey Maple Whi'e 4os 44s Boilers Flour—Town -made Suffolk 3OB 33s Stockton and Norfolk METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 5,167 head. In the corresponding week in 1857 we received 5,915 ; in 1856, 7,037; in 1855, 7,88.5 ; in 1854, 7,721; in 1853, 7,012 ; in 1852, 6,117 ; and in 1851 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam Ebuiilngen.. lB .. 31 .. —.. 35 .. 1 Dordt . 4.. 145 .. —.. Hamburgh —.. 123 .. -- .. Varil .. 66 .. .. .. Tmmingon - .. Frederickstadt 266 .. 72 .. 9.. Medemblik Bremen Antwerp Ostend BO .. "-- • • """ ''' • • --- • • 4 .. '-' • • 2 .. '-'" • • Total 1,354 3,550 31 212 20 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1857 1,487 .. 3,664 .. 81 .. 629 .. 45 1856 1,653 4,853 .. .. 391 140 1855 1,918 .. 5,501 .. .. 260 .. 206 [854 2,1,52 .. 5,056 .. 307 .. :206 1853 1,828 .. 5,203 .. .. 453 .. 218 .852 668 .. 5,110 .. 251 88 We still continue to receive very inferior supplies of stock— both beasts and sheep—from the Continent, and apparently they are likely to continue in poor condition throughout the winter. About an average time of year supply of foreign stock was on sale here to day, in very middling condition. All kinds sold slowly at barely stationary prices. There was a decided increase in the arrival of beasts from our own graz ing districts, both as to number and quality, when compared with Monday last. The primest Scots were in fair request, at full quotations; but most other kinds moved off slowly, and in some instances prices were 2d per 8 lbs. lower. The top quotation was 4s. Bd. per 8 lbs. From Lincolnshire, Leicester, and Northamptonshire, we received 3,000 short horns ; from other parts of England; 400 of various kinds ; from Scotland 56 Scots ; and from Ireland, 870 oxen, &c. The supply of most kinds of sheep was rather on the in crease. Prime Downs and half-breds were scarce, and in request at very full prices. All other kinds moved off slowly, at last week's currency. About 680 sheep came fresh to hand from Ireland. The show of both English and foreign calves was limited. Prime veal sold steadily, at full quotations ; otherwise, the trade was heavy. We have no improvement yet prices were somewhat fir Per 81bs. to s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 2 8 3 0 Prime crs-wool d 0.3 10 4 4 Second quality do. 3 2 3 6 Pme. S'thdown do. 4 6 5 0 Prime large oxen 3 8 4 4 Large crse. calves 3 10 4 6 Prime Scoffs, &c. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 2 10 2 2 Large hogs 2 10 3 4 Second quality do. 34 3 8 Small porkers 36 4 2 Suckling calves, 18s to 21s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 18s to 235. to notice in the pork trade, and ner than last week. sink the offal. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep 22,2.50 Sheep Calves Pigs 7OO Pigs A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Nov. 2, 1857, and this day, Monday, Nov. 1, 1858. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Nov. 2, 1857.N0v. 1, 1858. a d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . Second quality ditto Prime large oxen 3lO 4 2 3 8 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep . . Second quality ditto . . . Prime coarse-woolled ditto . Prime Southdown ditto . . Lambs Large coarse calves . . . Prime small ditto Large hog s . . . . . Neat small porkers . . . Beasts Sheep and lambs . , Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 3, 1856.---Beasts, 5,399 ; sheep and lambs, 22,200 ; calves, 203 ; pigs, 670. Nov. 5, 1855.—Beasts, 5,205; sheep and lambs, 22,470 ; calves, 193 ; pigs, 565. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were fairly supplied with wheat, in which very little business was transacted, on rather easier terms. Fine barley moved off steadily, at very full prices, but light parcels were dull. All other articles were a slow sale, at previous currencies. Throughout the continent the wheat trade has continued heavy, and prices have a drooping tendency. In the United States produce has sold slowly. The arrivals •f English grain up to our market last week were only moderate. The imports from abroad were liberal —viz., 13,571 quarters of wheat, 7,360 barley, 49,895 oats, 234 rye, 1,656 beans, 2,465 peas, 20 tares, 4,582 linseed, 860 rapeseed, 195 mustard seed, 470 sundry seeds, 1,066 cks. and 1,071 bls. of flour. The arrival of wheat fresh up to-day from Essex was on the increase, compared with Monday last, but the receipts from Kent were very moderate. Although the show of samples of both red and white was not to say extensive, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled heavy in the extreme, at a decline in the quotations of from is to 2s per quarter, at which amount of depression sales progressed heavily. THE HOP DUTY. • O n account of the duty on Imps of the growth of 04 Year 1858, di s ti ngu i s hi ng, ' the districts, and the rear the new duty : Districts. 13allistap le ry Duty. E a s Znu 5 18 Of 101,641 2 If 1,032 3 11 Gle uees t am er G rautl i 13 5 1 Items It em , Isle of . i . , f Wight 10,863 17 5 i\z't Ilillie'°l h il a i t n p ton 135 7 0 ' 8 13 7 9 3 9 ottin h a 38 16 10 b ° xforci g ni ss i , e4l e d f ueielitae r . l loco g 178,063 19 21 483 8 31' ,o ur b,, S Uffolk "uge 6,273 1 11 - 1 Sur rey Su ssex 427 9 51 T aunt *lir a ' s ° n 5 5 8k w are e. , Middle Woreester 5,776 8 111 £463,820 14 4 o,ld duty, at 1 12-20 d. per lb 254,001 14 9/ 8-20 1\ ew duty, at 8-20 d. per lb 187,740 8 4 12-20 Additional duty of 5 per cent , per Act 3 Viet., c. 17 22,078 11 2 £463,820 14 4 FREDR, GRIPPER, Assistant-Accountant and Comptroller-General. 14414 Revenue -office, Oct. 30, 1868. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since Monday last the supplies of both town and country killed meat on sale have been less extensive. Prime beef, mutton, and veal have moved off steadily at full quotations, otherwise the demand is still very inactive. Per 81bs. by the Carcass. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beef 2 Bto 3 2 Mid. d 0..... 3 4to 3 6 Pm. large do. 3 Bto 3 10 Do. small do. 4 oto 4 4 Large pork.. 2 6to 3 6 s. d. s. d. Infr. Mutton. 2 10 to 3 2 Mid. do 3 4to 3 8 Prime do. 3 10 to 4 6 Veal 3 4to 4 4 Small pork BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine new hops continue to move off steadily at fully last week's quotations. All other kinds are very dull, at barely previous currencies. Mid and East Kent pockets 7os to 120 s per cwt. New Weald of Kent do s4s to 68s ~ New Sussex do 48s to 60s ~ Farnhams 80s to 100 s ~ Country 75s to 85s „ The old duty has been declared at £254,001; the new, £187,740 and the additional, £22,078. SEEDS. We have not the least improvement to Rotice in the de mand for. linseed, and prices continue to have a drooping tendency. In rapeseed no change has taken place. Mustard seed continues dull. Cloverseed, trefoil, and all other descriptions are a slow sale. Cakes are quiet at our quotations. Turnip,White, p.bus.l2s to 14s Swede Mustard, Brown Bs 12s White, new l2s 15s Tares,Winter,new 12s0d 13s Od Old —s —s Canary, per quarter 76s 82s Rye grass, new 22s 28s Clover, Red Eng., et. 50s 58 8 White Foreign Red 4Bs 56s White 56s 68s Trefoil, new. 2os 22s Carraway Coriander l2s 14s Hempseed, per qr 40s 44s Linseed,Eng.sowing 68s 70s Crushing Baltic --s —s Odessa .. 54s 58s Linseed Cake, p. ton— English 9 15s 10 Os Foreign, p. ton 9 7s 1015 s Rape Cakes,p. ton 5 10s 6 108 Rapeseed, p. qr..... 64s 68s BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. Full average time-of-year supplies of potatoes continue on sale here. Good and fine qualities are in improved re quest, at very full prices ; but all other kinds are very dull. The imports last week were 890 tons, chiefly from Dunkirk and Antwerp. York Regents, 75s to 90s ; Kent and Essex ditto, 65s to 90s ; Shaws, 60s to 75s ; Scotch, 65s to 90s ; foregn, 55s to 57s per:ton. WOOL MARKET. As the public sales of colonial wool will commence on THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY' tVENING, IstaVVMß.gg IASA. Thursday next, there is scarcely any demand for any kind of wool, and prices rule almost nominal. The stock of Colo , nial is now 42,000 bales. No imports took place 14st Wtbit. SHADE TREES QT H 2 BOULEVARIiS, PARIS. The whole length of the boulevards, from the Madeline to the Porte Elt, Denis, will be replanted this autumn. Most of the trees—if, indeed, not all that we remember in our youth—were felled in 1848, to serve as barricades or ttl Mae ttisim for trees of liberty, Which, somehow or another, never thrived. The police are accused of having enter tained a mortal dislike to these unhappy members of the vegetable kingdom, and evinced great promptitude in removing theme The successors to the trees of liberty filrtned a Motley gather ing. They had a mangy l oo k, an d soon w i t h ere d . Their premature decay was caused, according to the authorities, from having sucked into their sap the essence of anarchy and revolution left by their 13redecessors, and it has been discovered that it is impossible for imperial plants to live in the soil which nourished democratic poplars. To obviate this inconveaience trenches three metres wide have been opened on either side of the boulevards, along the edge of the pavements, and all the democrati cally contaminated soil dug out and carted away to make room for good vegetable earth brought from the most imperial portion of French territory. The trees of like origin are brought into Paris, holding in their roots their native earth, and so planted. Drain pipes are arranged round the roots and below the pavement, for the purpose of supplying air and water to the roots, which they cannot imbibe through the asphalte. The same system will allow of the application of liquid manure, in order to develop the growth as rapidly as possible. In dependently of the revolutionary and anarchical causes before mentioned, one of the chief reasons of the trees perishing was the " pest stratum," formed by the infiltration of gas from the leakage of pipes. To guard this each system of drain pipes is seated on a foundation of concrete, and enclosed by walls, and other drain pipes ar3 placed exter nally, to receive whatever gas may escape and allow it to pa - A into the atmosphere. The trees are all from 10 to 13 years of age, and 8 to 10 metres high. With that order and regularity which flow from a perfectly centralised system of administration. the boulevards are to receive dis tinct species of trees. There is to be no mingling of classes, and none of 9 , e laisser aller doings of nature are tolerated. Thus the Rue Royale, which has not yet h3en ornamented with trees, is to be planted with South American sycamores or maple ; the Boulevards de la Madeleine and des Capucmes with planes; the Boulevard des Italiens with Japan sumacs ; the Boulevard Montmartre with elms ; the Boulevards Poissonniere and Bonne Nouvelle with chesnuts ; and the space in front of the Gyiruase with catalpas. The reader will re mark the exquisite adatio iin which the planta tions are effected; how the relative botanical value of the trees are apportioned to ::23 social position of the locality—from maples, sumacs, and planes, down to common elm and chestnut. Next autumn the plantations are to be continued up to the Bas tille, so that there will be a regular succession of plants, all arranged in bot anica l order, from one end of Paris to another. Whether the effect will be as pleasing as if a little more latitude were allowed, time will show.--Building News. FIRE AT THE CASTLE MILLS, KENDAL. A serious conflagration occur re d on Friday morn ing at the Castle Mills, the premises of Messrs. J. J. and W. Wilson, woollen mhnufaeturers. The build ing where the fire occurred is the frontage of the mill, and behind it are extensive sheds filled with the valuable machinery. This front building is chiefly used for the stoving purposes of the manu factory, but there was at one end come machinery for teasing the wool. Not a sign of anything wrong was visible at 2 o'clock in the morning, but between 3 and 4 a dense smoke was observed by police -sergeant Hoggarth and police-constable Cookson, who were on duty at the higher part or the town, to rise from the neighbourhood of the mill, and shortly afterwards the flames broke out. The police officers hastened to give the alarm and rang the fire-bell, and by this time the fire had been observed by several other persons. The en gines were soon on the spot, but such was the rapid progress of the fire that it shortly became evident that the front of the mill must be either wholly or almost entirely destroyed. By half-past three the flames were bursting out of the roof, and, viewed from the higher parts of the town, presented a magnificent but fearful spectacle. The efforts of the firemen were judiciously directed by the Messrs. Wilson to save the engine -house, a new building adjoining the north end of the structure on fire, and to prevent the flames from pene trating into the large area or the sheds full of machinery. Fortunately very thick iron doors separated the sheds from the flames raging on the other side of the wall, otherwise nothing could have prevented a destruction of property tenfold more disastrous than that which has occurred, and which must have thrown all the numerous hands in the mills of the Messrs. Wilson out of work for months. As it was, the machinery hat a narrow escape. The massive iron doors were red hot, and one of them is much bent by the action of the fire. About 5 o'clock the flames were sufficiently subdued to preclude any danger to the rest of the mill. The fire must have had a very strong hold of the com bustible interior of the stoving rooms before the flames became visible. The clock in front of the building had stopped at half-past one, so that its works had been subjected to considerable heat long before that time. The machinery for teasing at the north end of the building was not much damaged, and as coon as the roof and flooring can be restored can be again put into use. Some of the tenters are also available. The total damage, however, is probably not less than £1,200, which we are glad to say i s ver y ne arly covered b in an insurance the Phoenix Fire-office. There will, however, 9e som loss by delay in getting the part of the mill which is destroyed in to working order. A great number of people we on the spot after the alarm was given, and active assistance was given in manning the buckets. The supply of water from the mill race left nothing to be desired on that score. It is 19 years ago on Tuesday next since the same firm sustained a considerable loss by their warehouses being destroyed by fire in Stramongate, which occurred Nov. 2, 1839. The present is the largest fire—in fact, the only serious one—which has occurred in Kendal since the destruction of the Low Mills woollen manufactory in June, 1851. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF INSPECTOR BUDD. Edward Mark Council, a pensioner from the Royal Engineers, Was placed at the bar, before Mr. Traill, for final examination, on a charge of attempt ing to murder Wm. Jas. Budd, senior inspector of the R division of police, on duty at Woolwich dock yard. The prosecutor was now sufficiently recovered from the effect of the wound to attend the court, and deposed as follows :--On Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 6, between the hours of four and five o'clock, I left my office at the dockyard for the purpose of procuring change for several bank notes, in order to pay the men under my inspection. I crossed over the the road and entered a tradesman's shop, when I saw the prisoner on the same side of the way. I looked out of the shop door to see if the prisoner had gone past, as I had heard that he had used towards me and I did not wish to come in contact with him. I left the shop, and walked along Church-stroet, the prisoner being in front of me, and when at Marty's-passage I lost sight of him, I then entered the shop of Mr. Vicars, butcher, and obtained some change, and left for the purpose of returning to the dockyard. On passing the end of Coleman-street I saw the prisoner come towards me at a smart pace from that street. I kept my eye on him until I came to the shop of Mr. Rastriclc, chemist, which is nearly opposite the dockyard gate, and a coal-wagon being at this spot, I lost sight of him. I was crossing the road for the purpos e o f en t er i ng the dockyard gate, and when within a few yards of the gate I heard a quick step behind me. I looked sharply round, and at that moment the muzzle of a pistol was close to my nose on the left side of my cheek, and I received the contents of the pistol, which was fired on my left cheek, imme diately under the eye. I caught hold of the prisoner, who was about to get away, and police sergeant Ryan and constable Willes came to my assistance , and secured the prisoner. The ball was immediately extracted, and I have been under medical treatment up to the present time. I re ceived the pistol produced from a man named Flint, who stated that he found it in the road. George Flint proved that immediately after the occurrence he found the pistol produced in the road, opposite the dockyard gate. The prisoner now put numerous questions to the prosecutor, with a view to elicit that he had com mitted perjury, &c., and he contended that he was a persecuted man. Mr. Inspector Brine intimated that a man em ployed at the dockyard could prove that the prisoner had threatened to take the life of Mr. Budd. Mr. Traill said it would be necessary to procure this evidence on the trial. The several witnesses, whose evidence has pre viously appeared, were then ! with the prosecutor, bound over to attend at the next Old Bailey Sessions, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. LORh ELGIN;4 TREATt WITH JAPAY • (From the North China Herald.,) We learn that Lorcl El in has, during his shor stay or a fortnight iii the CaUHal tar !dila"' s% ceeded in concluding a treaty with the Govern ment of that country upon the most advantageou terms: We ,undertitand that the Ameri can t rea ty which had been signed about three Weeks pre viously, or immediately upon the arrival of the in telligence of the Treaty of Tien-sin, forms to a great extent Hit base of the treaty which has just been negotiated by the British Plenipotentiary. The principal points in that treaty have already transpired. It provides for a resident Minister at the Court of Jeddo, for the opening of the ports of Kanagawa (which has not been inappropriately called the Whampoa of Jeddo), of Nagasaki, and of Hakodadi within the term of one year from the date of signature ; at later periods a port on the west coast and another on the east coast called Hiogo, which is the port of Ohosaka, are to be opened to the commerce of the West, while the principal cities of Jeddo and Ohosaka are to be thrown open to trade. For the present Europeans, with the exception of the Minister at Jeddo, are not allowed to travel in the interior. The peculiar internal organisation of the country, which is di vided by 360 feudal , princes int o separa t e an d almost independent principalities, will account for this restriction. The commercial arrangements are on the most liberal possible scale. All exports, with the ex ception of a few prohibited articles, are subject to a duty of 5 per cent. Imports are charged with a duty of 20 per cent., but as there are no tonnage or other dues this does not seem an unreasonable amount. A list 'of articles on which an import duty of only 5 per cent. is charged is excepted from this general provision; and one of the most important concessions which we are informed was obtained by Lord Elgin was the insertion in this latter list of cotton and woollen goods. We are much mis taken if, from what we hear of the Japanese, the market thus created for our home manufaC tures will not rival that afforded by the - vast empire lately thrown open by the treaty of Tien-sin. Another important provision, and one which we believe is not con t a i ne d i n the Ame rican treaty, is that by which it is agreed that the tariff shall be subject to revision at the end of five years. This is a most necessary precaution in the case of an unknown and uncreated trade. There are other minor differences the details of which have not reached us, but we believe the above con tains the principal items of the new treaty, together with its points of difference from that signed by Mr. Harris, the American Consul of Siraoda. The Russian Minister, Count Putiatine, was at Jeddo while Lord Elgin was there, but we understand that his treaty differs in no material point from the American. In order to show the great progress which has been effected by these treaties in opening up the heretofore jealously-closed empire of Japan we sub join the Convention made by Sir James Stirling at Nagasaki so recently as October, 1854 : " Art. 1. The ports of Nagasaki and Hakodadi shall be open to British ships for the purpose of effecting repairs and obtaining fresh water, provi sions, and other supplies of any sort they may abso lutely want for the use of the ship. " Art. 2. Nagasaki shall be open for the purposes aforesaid from and after the present date, and Ha kodadi from and after the end of 50 days from the Admiral's departure from this port. The rules and regulations of each of theseports are to be complied with. " Art. 3. Only ships in distress from weather or unmanageable will be permitted to enter other ports than those specified in the foregoing articles with out permission from the Imperial Government. " Art. 4. British ships in Japanese ports shall conform to the laws of Japan. If high officers or commanders of ships shall break any such laws it will lead to the ports being closed. Should inferior persons break them they are to be delivered over to the commanders of their shipssfor punishment. " Art. 5. In the ports of Japan either now or which may hereafter be opened to the ships or subjects of any foreign nation, British ships and subjects shall be entitled to admission to and to the enjoyment of an equality of advantages with those of the most favoured nations—always ex cepting the advantages accruing to the Dutch. and Chinese from their existing relations with Japan. " Art. 6. This convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Nagasaki on behalf of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, and on behalf of his Highness the Emperor of Japan within twelve months from the present date. " Art. 7. When this convention shall be ratified no high officer coming to Japan shall alter it." Such was the truly magnificent convention signed by the British Admiral and countersigned by Lord Clarendon, then our Foreign Minister ; a document , we should imagine standing alone for the singu larity of its provisions, and yet so well thought of, or, which we should think much more probable, so little examined, that Sir James Graham actually ventured to take credit with Parliament for the achievement, and Parliament actually voted money to pay for the Emperor (yacht, just presented to the Japanese Government in token of our gratitude for permission to water our ships of war in certain ports on 'condition that our officers did not break the laws, and that no high officer in future should endeai our to modify the restrictions imposed by this convention on all intercourse, diplomatic or commercial, between Japan and Great Britain. When it is remembered that the advantages ac cruing under the above arrangement to the Dutch, from which we were so carefully to be excluded, consisted in a trade limited in its extent by the Japanese Government, which passed entirely through their hands under the most annoying re strictions, and subject to a duty of 35 per cent., the extraordinary advance made in these treaties may be the more readily appreciated. It is a somewhat singular fact that, according to the last advices, the Dutch Superintendont, Mr. Donker Curtiors, had not succeeded in signing a treaty according the Dutch those commercial advantages which have since been granted to other nations. We have been permitted to extract from a pri vate journal an interesting sketch of this visit to Japan, which we give below : "On our arrival at Nangosaki on the 3d of August we steamed at once into the inner anchor age, and brought up about a quarter of a mile from the landing place at Dezima, where we remained until the sth, when we left for Simoda, the fleet consisting of her Majesty's ships Furius, Retribu tion, Calcutta, Inflexible, Lee, and Emperor. His Excellency and suite and the officers of the ships visited the bazaars and made purchases, and inter changed visits with the Dutch authorities resident there. " Before entering the bay at Simoda, where we arrived on the 10th, we saw a volcano in feeble action. The country is pretty, but the town mean, and not likely to become an important trading port. There is a breakwater to protect the anchorage against the heavy rollers that occasionally set in. A large bazaar of lacquered ware, superior to that at Nangasaki, tempted many of the staff and others to invest spare dollars. All the articles chosen were taken to an office at a short distance, where some Government officials were seated, who , on ascertaining the price, charged a per center and weighed our dollars against their current coin —itzebeus—three of these being equal to the dollar. " Here we met Mr. Townsend Harris, the Con sul-General of the United States, and his secretary, Mr. Hewsken, who kindly offered his services to Lord Elgin as an interpreter, which with his knowledge of the language were most valuable. "Oh the 12th, we left for Jeddo, Mr. Hewsken accompanying us, and on the same day anchored about five miles off the capital of Japan. Several boats with Government officials came on board very soon. No foreign ships had ever before anchored so near the town, the American and Russian ships having always remained about 15 miles off. Here we found a paddlewheel steamer, given by the Dutch to the Japanese Government ; she had the national (Japanese) flag—white with a red ball in the centre and a white pendant ; there were also two other very ugly ship-rigged vessels, built by themselves ( guar d s hips). The boats that came off to us had the Imperial colours— white, with black trefoil leaves in the centre- Several officials of rank visited Lord Elgin and in vited him to take up his residence ashore, where communication would be more'easy, as the distance to the ships was great and the weather sometimes boisterous ; so on the 17th Lord Elgin and staff left the ships in the gunboat Lee, and ships' boats with guard of honour, &c. and ran as close in to the landing place as they co:11d, where it was neces sary, to take to the ships' gigs, and after some little difficulty, soon surmounted by men-of-war's men, we landed. The officials were there to receive his Lordship and suite ; chairs (norimones) were also in waiting, and we were transported to our new domi cile. It was not sumptuous, but it was clean, newly matted, and bedded for our reception. A Bhuddist temple and a lotus pond indicated it to be the resi dence of the priests. A dinner was sent from the Emperor somewhat similar to a Chinese repast, but each person was furnished on a separate table. The Commissioners, six in number, having had a n interview with Lord Elgin at his residence re specting a treaty, his Lordship and staff, with some officers visited the Minister for Foreign Affair s a t the Emperor's palace, where we were received in the presence of several official personages. H av i ng been requested not to go into the room with the same shoes that we then wore, we put slippers over them. Pipes, sweetmeats,KC., w ere prov id e d in a separate room, to whichmost of the party were invited, leaving Lord Elgin in conferenc e w ith the TALLOW. Since our last report about an average business has been transacted in tallow, and prices have undergone very few changes. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot, is selling at 49s 9d per cwt. Town tallow is 51s net cash. 1854. 1855. 1836. I 1857. 1838, Stock this day.... 29,419 22,073 12,260 22,310 14,439 Price of Y.C. 638 Od to 668 3d to X 57 to 56s 6d to 49s 94 668 Ott —s Od —s dto —s Od —s Od Delivery last week 2,171 3,544 3,411 2,828 3,230 Ditto from June 1 23,187 55,C02 56,779 43,428 43,329 Arrivals last week 2,218 '2,625 1,412 2,604 3,793 Ditto from June 1 26,688 29,063 51,059 52,446 46,199 Price of Town .... 67s fid 69s 3d 58s Od 598 64 53s 6d STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. I'ETEItsBURG. Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1858. 1857. 1856. to Oct. 6, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks. poods to the cask) 72,411 69,228 87,1( 3 In ships loading and lighters 13,596 15,377 13,3.35 Total loaded off from St. Petersburg, Oct. 8, O. S. 86,007 84,605 100,435 Do. after this date Total at the close of the navigation - - 103,761 119,095 London Liverpool 4,540 2 ,245 7,978 Bristol 2,893 592 3,916 Other English ports Ireland 590 1,132 951 Scotland Germany 6,013 10,087 1 6,956 France America Total 72,411 69,228 87,100 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day) , BOW-STREET. ROBBING A WORKHOUSE.—A young man, named Ball, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of the guardians of the Strand Union. Mr. Hughes said—Between the night of the 14th and morning of the 15th last May the tailors' shop of the Strand Union was broken into, and a quantity of wearing apparel stolen. The entry had been effected by breaking away the large ventilator of the room. In a short time after the robbery became known a letter, written by the:pri soner, who was an inmate of the house, was discovered. It ran as follows :—" This is done for taking away my knife, catch me if you can. W. Ball." From that time until Saturday last nothing had been heard of the prisoner, when he applied at the workhouse for a night's lodging ; a policeman was then sent for, and he was given into custody. Police-constable E 56 said—l took the prisoner into cus tody—He said he was the person who committed the rob bery, and that he sold some of the stolen articles in Kent, and the rest he had worn out. Mr. Jardine—Well, what have you to say to this charge ? Prisoner—l've got nothing to say. I did the business, and I plead guilty. Mr. Jardine—l shall send you to prison for six months. RIVAL ARTISTB.—Thomas Smith, a man of about 45 years of age, was charged with threatening to "do" for Mrs. Barnasconi, the wife of a photographic artist, carry ing on business at New-street, Covent-garden. Mr. Barnascon i said—On Saturday I was at home when the prisoner came upstairs, and, without the slightest cere- mony, entered my apartments and commenced using very bad language. I ordered him to quit the place, but he refused, and dared me to touch him. I took hold of his collar to eject him, and a scuffle ensued, when my wife ran for a constable. The prisoner has threatened to shoot my wife, and then afterwards to blow his own brains out, as he would never be taken alive. Cn Saturday night he threatened to "do " for my wife, and I feel sure that, unless something is done, some day or other he will carry out his threat. Mrs. Barnasconi said—On Saturday the prisoner entered our apartments in a state of intoxication, and commenced using bad language. I became alarmed, and said I would go for a policeman, upon which he said, "If you go for a policeman, you shan't live." He has frequently threatened to shoot me. I am very much afraid of him, and I feel my life is in danger. I have known the prisoner for two years. I have been married a year and eight months. Mr. Jardine (addressing the prisoner)—Have you any questions to put to the witness ? Prisoner—She's a great deal too good for her husband. Mr. Jardine—You can make your statement presently ; but have you any questions to ask ? Prisoner—No. Mr. Jardine—You can now say anything you please. Prisoner—All this is caused through jealousy on account of my being in the same business as the complainant. For some time he's had thc, run of the business in New-street, and a few days ago a strong opposition was got up, and, as a natural consequence, "the cutting system" was carried on with such intensity that, I believe, the police were about to interfere to put an end to the nuisance. I had been over once or twice to make peace and to - come to some arrangement in regard to the prices which we should charge for the future, and an agreement was then made that the low prices should be abolished, but the agree ment was violated by the complainant, who commenced working cheaper than ever. I went over last Saturday to speak to him about this circumstance, when I was treated in a manner I did not deserve, as I have been a good friend to the complainant. I never intended doing any harm to his wife. Mr. Jardine—The constable who took you into custody also heard you threaten the lady. I must protect her from your threats. You must enter into your own surety in the sum of £5O, and your partner must also do the same to the amount of £2O, to keep the peace towards the complain ant and his wife for six months. The bail form having been gone through, the parties left the court. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A CONSTAELE.—John Ryan and David Scully were charged with assaulting the police under the following circumstances : Police constable Bunco, of the C division, said that, hearing a noise in South Audley-street that morning, he went up where he saw a number of persons assembled making a great noise. He requested them to leave, upon which the prisoner Scully struck him a severe blow in the mouth, causing it to bleed, knocked him down, kicked him on the shins, and behaved so violently that they were obliged to strap his legs together and take off his boots to prevent further injury. 104 C said he got a kick in the groin while assisting the last witness, which had caused him much pain for some hours, but he could not swear that it was done intention ally. The prisoner Ryan was pretty quiet after being taken into custody. Ryan was discharged, and Scully was committed for 14 days. THREATENING TO DO FOR A CITY MISSIONARY.— Catherine Mahoney, an inmate of St. James's Workhouse, charged with being drunk, creating a disturbance, and threatening to do for a City missionary. Mr. Lestley, master of St. James's Workhouse, said the prisoner, who had been let out to go to her own place of worship, she being a Catholic, returned about half-past two in the afternoon, having been drinking. She created a great disturbance, and on being expostulated with, threat ened to do for a City missionary who was present at the time. She frequently got drunk. Mr. Beadon said it was outrageous. She was allowed to go out to her chapel and then got drunk. Had she been before him previously, he would have given her the whole term. He should commit her for 7 days with hard labour. EXTENSIVE .ROBBERY. Timothy Kirby, a well-dressed man, late chief officer of the American ship Paterson, was charged at the Liverpool Police-court, on Thurs day, with having stolen 9731 dols., the property pl o . f easts J te a el r m . s o e James Harding, The at N pT e e l prosecutor e Orleans a tr el er s a e a ns m sa ona d n lhve h je b on i o n a he r ded went ee e n st shipa mo on board he placed his trunk in the prisoner's room, at his request. In th e t run k there were two cases containing silver plate, and two cases containing s. e A e b m o p u l t ai t ti lir a n e e t i w f weeks after had d ft a e n r y s l a m il l i u n a g m t e h s e , and 9pr7i3tnaskeds Av a h eor e ll n ar answered in the affirmative said there were a great many sailors about the ship, and it would be safer for him to keep them. The com plainant av e the them p opened h h e i s p r t suennke,r. Just d be h e f e e d r e o l e l a n r t s e , r n n g d g the Channel the complainant said to the prisoner that he thought of placing the money in the hands of the captain for greater security ; but being told by the prisoner that if he did his money was lost, he agreed to allow the prisoner to obtain possession of the whole. On arriving in the Mersey complainant again asked the prisoner for his money, but it was refused, on the ground that he was going on shore, and could not stop to give it to him. He did go on shore, and did not return. The next the complainant heard of the prisoner was that he was in Queenstown, whither he followed him, and was told by the prisoner that his money was all right in Liverpool. The prisoner paid his expenses to Liverpool, and on arriving there said he would go to the vessel, but did not think the money was there ; if the complainant would return to Queenstown he would make it all. The prisoner went to the ship, but as the money was not produced he was given into custody. The complainant said he had entered proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court, but was not successful. If he had obtained his money he would have been quite satisfied. On the application of Mr. Palgrave, solicitor, Mr. Mansfield ordered the p r i so ner to be remanded for seven days, Mr. Palgrave reserving evidence in a charge of perjury contained in an affidavit of the prisoner made in the bankruptcy proceedings. Japanese Minister, after which we ref tatted to our "During our stay at ledfie we made excursions into the country several miles. The scenery was charming and the land highly cultivated. The houses and persens of the people are extremely clean ; in the villages are bathing boluses. The people exhibited much curiosity, but no incivility, At a spot *diem there is a pretty waterfall and stream tea and reireshnictits may be had, served by young women who are far from ugly; being unmarried, they exhibited a set of beautifully white teeth and black arched eyebrows ; some whiten their faces, neck, and upper part of the chest by means of chalk. The appearance of the married women with blackened teeth and their eyebrows removed was in ungainly contrast to them. At an entertainment there was introduced a strong frothy tea, made by pulverising a teaspoonful of a very superior kind and whipping it into a frothy beverage, but it was too strong to be agreeable; the remains of former served sweetmeats, &c., were served a second time, the names of the parties having been placed on the boxes containing them. The servants who brought in these things each wore a sword, made a low bow on placing them before us, and retired placing the palms of their hands upon the upper parts of their thighs. Presents of silk, lacquer-ware, porcelain, &c., were made to the different persons of the embassy and officers of the ships. Among the former were some pieces of silk that may only be worn by the Japanese nobles, no inferior person being allowed to buy or possess it ; it is said to be made by banished nobles. It is not better in quality or handsomer than Chinese silk. The easy, affable, kind manner of the Japanese officials as compared with the self-conceited airs of the Chinese is remark able, and impressed us greatly in their favour. They were jolly, too ; drinking to the Queen, the Emperor, and the Commissioners in Champagne as if they liked it, with a hip-hi p, h oorah ! They ex pressed their feelings of satisfaction at the visit of the Ambassador, and hoped that one of them as Ambassador from the. Court of Japan-might meet him in England, Moriama being the secretary. "On the 16th of July the treaty was formally signed by Lord Elgin and the six Commissioners. At an interview held for the purpose some dais previous Lord Elgin delivered to the Prime Minis ter the letter of Lord Clarendon presenting the steam yacht to the Emperor of Japan from her Majesty the Queen of England; preliminary ar rangements were made for transferring her, and ii was proposed that her name should be changed to any other that they might suggest. Accordingly, after the treaty was signed the party went on board. A salute of 21 guns was fi re d, i n exce ll e nt time, from the fort, and the British colours were hauled down and the Japanese hoisted, the Retribution and Furious each saluting the flag with 21 guns. The name of Dragon was then given to the yacht by request of the Commmis sioners. They expressed great pleasure at the beautiful fittings and furniture, and gave Lord Elgin a letter to Lord Clarendon in reply to the one they had received from him. They visited the Retribution while steam was getting up on board the Dragon, and after steaming about until lark the parties returned to their respective ships and homes, the Japanese firing rockets and exhibit ing bluelights at the yardarms of the yacht. " On the following day (27th) we left Jeddo Bay for Shanghai, and arrived here on the 2d of Sep tember, after a most delightful and satisfactory trip. "We saw the Fusiama mountain, said to be 12,000 feet high, which is represented on their por celain and in many of their picture books. The population of Jeddo is about 2,000,000, the streets of the city are wide, and the people kept in good order by numerous police and military attendants. " The medium of communication is the Dutch language, which is spoken fluently by the Japanese." THE SURRENDER OF THE CHARLES ET GEORGES. LISBON, OCT. 25. The Portuguese Government has addressed the following note to the French minister : "1. The Portuguese Government, being unable to resist the violence of France, will deliver up the vessel. "2. The French Government having rejected the arbitration of a third power on the question of right, the Portuguese Government also rejects arbi tration on the question of indemnity. "3. Let the French Government present the claim for the indemnity and it will be promptly paid." The following are the remarks of the lornal do Commercio, and may be taken as a reflex of the opinion entertained and expressed by the press and by the whole of the population of Lisbon:-- " It is said that the French minister will be much disappointed by our rejection of arbitration in the question of indemnity, for it is supposed that the French Government wished ours to entertain the matter of arbitration, in order afterwards to cede it with a show of generous disinterestedness, thus putting a further affront upon Portugal. In this case, the hopes of the French Govern ment are vain. The wrong is now consum mated, and Portugal has yielded to brute force, but she is not alone ; by her side yields a power ful nation and a generous people. England, which was the leader in the abolition of the slave trade, did not care to maintain the Found she had taken; she did not wish to maintain the justice of the cause of her ally, who has made so many sacrifices to comply loyally with the terms of the treaty which she ratified with her ; a treaty whose end is for the best interests of Christianity and civilisa tion. England has beheld passively this insult to her dignity and honour. The organs of the impe rial Government have spoken haughtily enough. The Presse says :—' To use violence towards Por tugal would be to give her importance and to de feat the ends intended. Sufficient will be the pro sence of the French flag in the Tagus to obtain all the satisfaction demanded, and the Portuguese Government will not in this case be the most humi- Hated, it will be the British squadron which is ac customed to work upon the anchorage of Lisbon as a port of Great Britain.' We wished at the same time to transcribe here an article from the Journal L'Ami de la Religion, which speaks in almost the same terms of England. The Emperor Napoleon has also declared himself the friend of religion, and, to leave no doubt respecting his evangelical sentiments, he is proceeding in Portugal as we now see. England has abandoned the cause of right— the lion has crouched before the eagle, who a second time wishes to plunge her talons into Portugal. Does the English Government imagine that in the balance of public opinion the criminal indifference will not in future weigh against her ! The eagle begins his flight without opposition, but after wards it may be too late to drive him back to his eyrie. We, however, bend our neck to this great est violence which a strong power can practice upon a weak one, and we see that treaties and jus tice in international relations are a pure farce. Let all our treaties and conventions be burnt in public, and once for all let it be declared that law is the power of the strongest arm. We have been vio lated and spoiled by the French Gorvenment. Why, then, must we keep up diplomatic relations with them ? Let the Portuguese ambassador retire from Paris, and let a consul for commercial relations be only kept there. Does not the imperial press call us a power without any importance ? At such a powerful court there should only be represented such nations as can contemplate without complete eclipse the brilliancy of so much glory. Govern ments which exist by despotism and violence always fall amid the curses of the nations. Glory will not suffice to save a despot. The sun of Austerlitz set on St. Helena ; but this, when it disappeared from the eyes of man, was still glorious, for it illumined the world with the memory of great deeds. It now only remains for England and Portugal to declare that the French Government has the right to traffic in slaves ; thus, at least, something may be saved in this shipwreck of treaties. The cause is lost, but our honour is saved, and Portugal may still lift her head proudly before her oppressor. Sham e and infamy recoil upon those who abuse their power, tread under foot the sacred rights of treaties, and then boast of justice." ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S -INN -ROAD.— The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending Oct. 30 is 2,360, of which 00 were new cases. A MUSICAL AND CRITICAL CAT. —Mademoiselle Dupuy, of the French opera, whose playing upon the harp was the wonder of Parts, was convinced that she owed her artistic excellence to her favourite cat. As soon as she sat down to practise upon the harp, her cat assumed an at titude of intense attention. At any passage of peculiar beauty puss went into an eestacy ; and so well measured was this sensibility, according to the excellence of the playing, and the pathos of the composition, that Mdlle. Dupuy was able to judge of the music by the manifested emotions of her cat. She believed puss an exact prophet, foretelling precisely how music would affect an audience. She was grateful accordingly to her friend, to whom she thought she owed mainly her artistic success. In her last illness, at the approach of death, Mdlle. Dupuy sent for the notary to make her win. She had accumulated a for tune, and the first item of her will gave her town house and her country house to her cat. To this she added an annuity, sufficient for the support of the four-legged mew sician during its life. And to make sure that this, her last will and testament, should be fulfilled, she gave seve ral legacies to friends on the express condition that they should see to the fulfilment of her wishes. It was also a condition that they should take turns, during each week, in going to see and keep company with the orphan cat. The relatives of Mdlle. Dupuy disputed the will, and a lawsuit was the consequence. But the cat gained the cause, and lived out her day with genteel alternation be tween her elegant town house and the tasteful country house,—Merrys Museum, LORD ELGIN'S MISSION TO CHINA: (From the Times.) It would seem to have been reserved to the era of Mr. Disraeli's Chancellorship of the Exchequer to dissipate the last nebulous fragments of the great Asian mystery. Lord Elgin's mission has already made Chinese Mandarins as familiar to us as Marl borough -street police magistrates, and events already promise that we shall soon know rather more of the habits and belief of a Japanese bonze than we do of those of some Church of England curates. In the interval between signing the Treaty of Tien sin and settling its details in Shanghai and Canton Lord Elgin utilizes his leisure by a visit to the islands of the Japanese Empire, and within two months of the accomplishment of the Treaty with China sends us home an unlooked-for, or, at any rate, an unhoped-for, Treaty with Japan. Nothing could have been more apparently hopeless than the attainment of any such object. We had no groun d of quarrel with the Japanese, or even cause of com plaint against them; and we were even expressly, and by our own recent act, forbidden to ask any new privileges. Admiral Sir James Stirling—a name which in future generations, when the history of events in these seas has been truly written, will o call a glow into the face o f every Englis hman --had, in 1854, made a treaty wherebsyhi s lie obtained r the might great concession that English go into two ports to water ; and in return for this great privilege the English undertook to respect the monopoly of the Dutch, and never to seek to alter the treaty then granted. The onl y excuse which Lord Elgin could have under these circum stances to go to the Japanese Court was to present a steam yacht, which, as an acknowledgment of the Stirling Treaty, the Admiralty had sent out to the Emperor. But, inasmuch as this yacht was confided to the Admiral, and not to Lord Elgin, and under strict instructions to deliver it up at the dis tant port of Nagaski, the yacht offered no great fa cility for negotiation. Moreover, it soon appeared that the present of aPleasure yacht to a Japanese Emperor is like the present of a pair of spectacles to a blind man—the first and most fundamental law of the Empire being, that the spiritual and temporal Emperors of Japan shall never pass the outer gates of their palaces. With a curious felicity we had thus hit upon the only movable thing in the whole world which an Emperor of Japan could have no chance, not only of ever using, but also of ever seeing. The Admiral, finding no one at Nagasaki able to receive this present, and perhaps a little disgusted with the ridiculous position his instruc tions and the character of his present placed hint in, handed over "the Emperor" to Lord Elgin and went his way towards Canton. Our Ambassador errant was now, probably to his great satisfaction, left alone to his own devices, with two steamers of war and a gunboat as a guard, and his little toy steamer, the name of which was now judiciously changed from " the Emperor" to "the Dragon," as a bait, or bribe, or peace-offering. Fortune favoured the boldness of the enterprise, and American astuteness helped us. Lord Elgin reached Nagasaki on the 3d of August, and found no one there but some Japanese underlings and some Dutch officials, who naturally, gave him small hopes. Thence he went, staggering through one of the tremendous gales that vex these seas, to the wretched harbour of Simoda, where the Americans are in power, and at this place he for the first time discovered the workings of the echoes of hi s own d o i ngs on th e Peiho. It seems that as soon as the - Tien-sin Treaty was arranged the American Commodore rushed off to Japan to take advantage of the consterna tion certain to be created by the first news of recent events in the Peiho. It was smartly imagined. He found at Simoda the American Consul-General just returned from Jeddo, whither he had been upon a six months' mission, vainly importuning for some commercial privileges. The Commodore immediately took him on board his ponderous steamer the Powhattan, and steered right away for Kanagawa, a station well kno cvn to the American men of war since Commodore Perry's time, about 15 miles below the capital city of Jeddo. Terrible stories and frightful anti cipations had for some time possessed the minds of the Japanese. Japan, like other countries of ancient institutions, has its conservative and pro gressive parties. The Prince of Boringo had stood stoutly for the ancient Japanese constitution and no foreign competition. But when the American ship of war appeared, and when the American ver sion of the warlike operations in China circulated, a strong feeling gained ground in favour of the progressive party. Prince Boringo retired, and Prince Bitsu took his place. Under the new Ad ministration Mr. Harris, the Consul-General, was admitted to an interview with the Emperor ; ports were opened, and commercial tariffs agreed upon pretty much as is set forth in the statement we borrow from the North China Herald. When Lord Elgin arrived at Simoda he found Mr. Harris in high spirits at having completed this treaty, and the precedent gave him an opportunity whereof he sadly stood in need. We must here—having re cently spoken in terms of complaint to our Ameri can friends for sending their silliest men upon im portant embassies—s ck n owl e dge that Mr. Harris acted throughout these transactions with a frank ness and courtesy worthy of the representative of a great friendly Power. Mr. Harris acted like a man who was strong in his own knowledge of the interests.of his country. Lord Elgin departed at once for the anchorage below the capital, where he found the American, and also the Russian war steamers. The neutrals had been quick to scent the game from afar ; they had run a race against us to gather not only the spoils won by our arms, but even the contribution 4 to be exacted by terror of our deeds. Beyond this anchorage of Kanagawa were rocks and whirlpools and perils innumerable, all faithfully deposed to by Japanese pilots. Capt. Sherard Osborn, who has the reputation of being confident, and not unreasonably confident, in his own seamanship, believed in none of these things. Steaming over the anchorage he held on up the Bay of Jeddo, and, stimulated by the sight of Jeddo city, which slowly unrolled itself in the north-west angle of the gulf, he pursued his course, undeterred by a full gale of wind, until he could cast anchor within gunshot of a series of well constructed batteries, which run across the shoals facing a portion of the city. Lord Elgin's well judged confidence in his captain was thus rewarded by a position whi c h, consi d er i ng he had to deal with Asiatics, insured his success. It was a bold move made at a timely moment, for he could have done nothing at a distance. Since Mr. Harris obtained his Treaty there had been a reac tionary movement in Jeddo, directed by the inde pendent Princes and hereditary nobles. They had outed the Minister who signed the Treaty, and Prince Boringo ruled again. But the apparition of the British steam frigates Furious and Retribution, intruding even upon the sacred seclusion of the capital, spread consternation throughout the camp of the obstructives. We made no menaces and use I no threats, but we fear there was something like the pressure of a force which was not altogether moral put upon these gentle Japanese. Our ex cuse must be that if the Americans had obtained concessions upon the strength of the terror areated by the roar of the lion it would have been har d that the lion should get nothing on his own ac count. We need not tell how shore in due state and livedin a gaudy templ e, an Lord Elgin w ent on d 1- i ri v s i i t t h e d i ts man two negotiated for fourteen days, andy pay lli ts on of tohfatinmliiaglihittayntcsi,t3ornodf Jedd o ,itshundred sq uare mi miles of inhabitants ; the result has been a Treaty which gives us all we can require for the present. It gives us free commercial access to anreingitoernesitninga charmi ng ountry rich in c oa l s beautiful i utiful amiableclimate, peoplae,nd to toa ae and minerals. As we improve or abuse these op portunities so will the event be to our profit or our shame. We do not entertain the hopes which have been expressed in some quarters as to the great com mercial value of a trade with Japan, and we are sorry for the anguish of mind which must fall upon Mr. Bright when he conies to contemplate a set of estimates swollen by a salary for a resident Minister at Jeddo. But we must, nevertheless, congratulate the country upon this accession of the Japanese Empire to the comity of nations. They are a people who differ altogether from the Chi nese. They are not only industrious and inge nious, but they are also inquiring and m os t desi rous of civilisation. Two hundred years ago they were upon the point of becoming a Christian people. They have what the Chinese have not — the capacity of a fervent faith, and it was a poli tical necessity and not a barbarous intolerance that suggested the prohibitive and exclusive character of their modern policy. The conspiracy of the Portuguese missionary priests occasioned and almost justified the cruelties that are recorded in the Romish Martyrology ; but if our dealings to wards them are conducted with as much good faith as is almost certain to appear in their deal ings with us, we may hope to base upon this treaty new friendships and new connections in the East, of a different character, but scarcely less important in their results than those which,Europe expects from the Treaty of Tien-sin. LETTERS'TO THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. —On Saturday last the Cunard steamer Asia sailed from Liverpool for New York, with the United States mails, a large number of passengers, and a full cargo. Owing to the winter arrangements there will be no steamer for Ca nada before the 17th Nov. On Saturday next, the British and North American mail steamer Niagara leaves for Hali fax and Boston with the American letters, &c. Letters will be received at the General Post -office till 7.30 a.m., and finally, with late fees, at 8.30 a,m.