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MR. CHARLES KEAN'S FAREWELL SEASON, ag Manager of the ROYAL PRLNCIWIS'S Trl EATR, will commence on SATURDAY, the '2 n d Oct. next, and conclude on Saturday, the 30th July. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TIIIS EVENING will be performed THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Messrs. Buckstone, Howe , and Farren ; Mrs. C. Sinclair. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. I'erea Nena. 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 31rs. A. Mellon (late Miss Ivoolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon, Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, E. Falconer, and Barrett, EVERY EVENING. To conclude with the New Farce, entitled TOOers, MU M rs. CH FOR GOOD NATURE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rog 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, NoTIIING TO NURSE; Mr. Swan borough, Mrs. Selby. After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, km Followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Miss M. Oliver and Mr. PargellC. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Miss E. Wilton. Commence at 7 o'clock CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss 14.'11101, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Mine, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Nr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the month of October, A Film ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con nexion with the above Hall. TIIE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE. SEPT. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 72—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. _ . BAROMETER--330'04• WIND, Northerly; light and fine. THE SUN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1858. The Earl of ELGIN has earned his Marquisate. Nothing could have been more admirably nego tiated than our recent treaty of peace with the Chinese. With the terms of the treaty our readers are already perfectly well acquainted. They have been given by us so succinctly and repeatedly that they assuredly require no further enumeration. It were almost as superfluous to detail yet again the various concessions made by China in the peace now concluded with the Allied Powers of Western Europe, as it would be to prose over the different articles of the treaty signed in 1843 by the Man darin KEYING and Sir HENRY POTTINGER. Of the particulars of the ceremonial accompany ing the negotiation of this more recent and more important Treaty, we have all of us read with delight the vividly graphic narrative penned by the Times' Correspondent. By a curious coinci dence, pointed out by that able narrator, the Treaties of 1843 and of 1858 were alike signed on the 26th of June. By the first—on the 26th of June, 1843 — the thin end of the wedge was cleverly inserted. Now, again—on the 26th of June, 1858—the wedge has been driven home with an unerring hand to the heart of the stubborn fabric of Chinese exclu siveness. Driven home thus by our energetic diplo matist, the Scotch Thane, who,webegan by saying, has thus very nobly earned a reward we doubt not now reserved for his acceptance—his elevation from an earldom .to a marquisate. Undeniable though the facts are by this time, the particulars relating to this memorable negotia tion are nevertheless so remarkably good, so wonderfully advantageous to ourselves, so hopeful for the Chinese; so auspicious of the spread yet further and further, among a stupendous popula tion of more than 400,000,000 Pagan barbarians, of the benefits of civilization and of the blessings of Christianity—that even now the news seems to be really and truly scarcely credible. There, how ever, legible and tangible enough, is the magical Treaty, duly signed, sealed, and delivered. Sealed with the vermilion seal of the Chinese Government —signed with the hieroglyphic signatures of the Mantchoo Mandarin KWEILIANG and of the Mongol Mandarin HwAsHANA—the latter President of the Civil Board and Second Commissioner, the former Chief Secretary of State and Senior Commissioner. The authoritative autograph upon the other side being the more familiar name of Lord ELGIN, Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Nay, the various topics of the Treaty are not merely completed thus by the respective negotiators ; but an Imperial decree, according to our latest advices (dated July the 4th, 1858), had actually been received from the palace of the Emperor HEIN-FLlNG—declaratory of his consent to its ratification. So much for this rapidly negotiated Treaty of Tien-sin—a pacification, the terms of which secure to us an ample indemnity for the past, and a most propitious and encouraging prospect for the future. There cannot bo an instant's doubt, that the terms thus quickly exacted from the Chinese are in no way exorbitant. They must prove in the end, they cannot possibly fail to prove in the end, signally beneficial to the very race from whom they have been extorted at the cannon's mouth, and at the point of the bayonet. They will open up to the people of China not merely the comforts of cheap calico and hardware—the produce of the workshops of Birmingham and of the factories of Manchester—they will (far beyond all this) bring them into direct and constant intercourse with the traders from distant England. Who can tell—perhaps before much longer we may receive evidence of the fruits of this intercourse, among our importations of tea and crape, in the shape of a queer little fly leaf of hieroglyphics called a Chinese Newspaper. Railway contracts may be entered into by enter prising English firms for the laying down of rail ways along the Chinese seaboard, and far away into the interior, along routes leading to Burmah or to Tartary. Telegraphic wires may connect Pekin with Canton. Submarine cables may be trailed down the channel of the Pciho across to Hong Kong. We may have photographic serials brought home vividly illustrative of Chinese life—public and domestic —city and suburban. Ste • reoscopie views may come to us of the turns and angles and watch towers of the Great barbaric Wall between China and Tartary. What a God-send, at any rate, the treaty will be to that pleasantest of travelling companions, who has told us long ago all we could reasonably want ever to be told about Chamouni and Mont Blanc—about Musson and that delight fully stupid ass of an Engineer. When our hu morous observer has returned—the Londoners, at least, will not have reason to remain long in ig norance as to the peculiarities of life and Man ners among the Chinese multitude. Edueationists continue, like other folk, to make their discoveries, and to promulgate them till they gain general acceptance. Amongst the latest is one enforced, by Sir GEORGE GREY in the sensible and useful speech which we gave our readers yester day. The business then in hand was adult rather than juvenile instruction ; the meeting was one of Literary and Mechanics' Institutes--a me. ting, there fore, of persons interested in teaching those who had left the care of National or British and Foreign Schools, and who have become perfectly free agents —our lads, our young men, and, to some extent, our middle-aged men too. It is for them that Mechanics' Institutes were first devised ; and the most sanguine hopes were cherished of seeing our rising operatives voluntary students in the exact sciences, in history, biography, and geography. The works of the Society for the Diffusion of Use ful Knowledge, originated by the same earnest men who planned Mechanics' Institutes, sufficiently show what they hoped of the rising town generation of England. Formidable treatises on algebra and geometry alternate with others on important and useful branches of knowledge ; there was a vigorous effort for " knowledge made cheap and easy ; but we do not, just now, recollect one of the long and able series in which the aim was " knowledge made cheap and amusing," much less in which the aim was chiefly to amuse. Another principle sacred in the estimation of the promoters of these institutions was, that political and polemical works must not on any account be admitted into the libraries ; we believe they were till lately, perhaps are to this day, generally refused, even if proffered gratuitously ! The result of these great mistakes has been - conspicuous enough. It is, indeed, marvellous how they could have been made. Take that part of the commu nity which has the means of ready access to books, and how many of its members are students of useful knowledge ? And what, again, is the pro portion amongst our middle-class young men and women, and of those of the higher classes too, who read much besides amusing fiction, religious books, or politics. The institutes appear to have sedulously and jealously excluded just the kinds of reading which those who read without the aid of institutes almost universally prefer. Besides ignoring the universal propensity of our race to seek excitement and amusement for its own sake, they ignored also the most marked characteristics of Englishmen—their earnestness in politics and religion. The controversies in each, form almost the staple of English conversation—when it gets beyond gossip—according to the temperament of the talkers. Yet, under the pretext of preventing strife and debate in these bowers of science, not only amusements, but controversy too, were excluded. The rule should have been the exact reverse. , The patrons of all creeds in politics and religion should have been invited to contribute all respect able works on their own side, and the graver and more earnest readers should have been able to find in the mechanics' library just such pamphlets and books as the class next above them read with inte rest ; but, above all, the institute should have been_ the place where every good tale and novel could be found. It should have vied with the circulating library by the superiority of its selection only ; it should have sought to amuse the toil-worn opera tive by what amuses the sons and daughters of his better-off neighbours, and have endeavoured to improve his taste by excluding merely the vicious and the trumpery. Sir GEORGE GREY, in his speech to which we have referred, entirely and heartily accepts these views. They are not new. They have been advo cated several times already by gentlemen of diverse politics and creeds, and it is now pretty generally conceded that the people cannot be drilled into the love of " useful knowledge," technically so called; it is acknowledged that knowledge, like trade, must have its own free course, and that it is as useless to overstock the operative reading market with intellectual materials not in demand there, as it was to send our pianofortes and our broad thin calicoes to the Celestial Empire, who wanted neither. So complete, however, is the change becoming, that the quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily literature of the time is now the most attractive part of the entertainment in all institutes and in libraries for the many. Let any one visit these places at the hours when those can be present for whom they were specially designed, and he will see the table or the fireplace surrounded by students, not of science, or philosophy, or even of history, biography, or travels, or any of the branches of "useful knowledge," but of the latest newspapers, as the article most in demand, the time for that most precious vehicle of knowledge being generally limited, so as to give all a chance ; while those who are waiting for it are poring over the next latest paper, or the pages of _Blackwood or Fraser, or some weekly or monthly, anxiously looking up every minute to see whether their turn for the most interesting knowledge is come. In deed, according to these means, the Mechahics' Institutes are perforce becoming newsrooms. And this is the course which must not only be adopted universally, but the friends of adult in struction must advanbe in it. It is in their power, we firmly believe, to do very much both to allure the working classes from intemperance and dissipation, and to lead them on in the path of self-improvement. The modern newspaper is the very thing for that purpose. It contains such a mass of information, not worthless gossip merely, brought from all quarters of the globe, that a habitual newspaper reader, unless he confine himself to its trifles, must know more of all it concerns men to know, beyond topics of per sonal and local interest, than passably educated persons knew in the last generation. The class of persons, indeed, who now edit newspapers and contribute to them is the guarantee for this ; they arc persons not only of knowledge and ability, but persons who have a character to maintain. While the great body of readers will always prefer the newspaper and the novel to everything, the newspaper, much more than the novel, will suggest to them innumerable subjects on which they may be led to seek yet higher knowledge. Between the varied and valuable news of the day, the reviews of books and the comments of a well-educated editor, it seems impossible that newspapers should not be the happiest device conceivable for impart ing a great deal of current and improving knowledge to those who will read no more, and of stirring up many to drink at deeper fountains. "Si vispacem parabellu;n." This time-honoured apophthegm has seldom been impugned save by those who altogether ignore war, and who are pre pared to surrender even their constitutional rights and privileges —nay, more, their very liberties, to the first assailants. Everyone, in fact, agrees that the national defences must be preserved in good order and efficiency. We cannot permit an armed foe to pollute the sacred soil of England, and to preserve this cherished immunity we must be pre pared, not only to maintain the defensive, but also to assume the offensive, whenever occasion may require such a demonstration. It is an im portant power, no doubt, to be enabled to withstand an enemy's attack, but we shall scarcely maintain our prestige unless we are able to return blow for blow, and to maintain a moderate balance in our favour should it unfortu nately come to hard fighting. Hitherto England has maintained her maritime • , ( 4 4 1 1 :11 `eku I:4A, 0. ;: f • .• 1- • , "14_,ST:e. 4. • T .':,4111.10111r y 07,4 b it j 11,4'^ THE SU' N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1858 supremacy intact, and so long as Britannia really " rules the waves," thex(3 is no danger of her sinking from the high posit ion which she admittedly occupies amongst fir nations of the world. But it is by no means, an easy task to keep facile princeps in any pa cticular line. And as to naval matters England must not only be the first naval power, but can bear no rival near the throne." Whatever experiment is tried by other nations with reasonable prospects of success, must be forthwith tried by us at any cost or expense. If we cannot keep the lead, we must at all events advance pari passu with every aspirant to naval power. This is the age of new inventions. All the notions of our forefathers have been completely changed by the rapid progress achieved. A new and powerful clement (steam) has been introduced into all the arts of life, whether peaceful or warlike. The genius of Watt has wrought a social revolution of no ordinary magnitude. Whether we travel by land or water, steam is the universal mode of pro pulsion. It supplies motive power to the elaborate and beautifully-constructed machinery that ren ders England the first of manufacturing nations. It has rendered our ships of war virtually independent of time and tide. And could NELSON again review a British fleet, he would behold with astonishment the changes that have taken place, and be at a loss to know how to manoeuvre the squadron. Our old 84 or 74-gun men-of-war were quite sufficient for the wants and exigencies of the period. But would any admiral now like to enter with such vessels on a naval contest against others having all the modern im provements ? It requires but little prescience to declare that, whatever his skill or bravery, or the enthusiasm of the gallant and devoted sailors under his command, the result would be but a foregone conclusion--an ignominious defeat would be a matter of perfect certainty. Science will still pre vail over mere physical power ; and so it would be if electricity should supersede steam. Those which are at present the most formidable instruments of war, would become comparatively useless, when another of a superior description was introduced and. brought practically into operation. Admiral Sir G. R. SARTORIUS has recently directed public attention to a new class of vessel, which he declares—and on such matters he is an unexceptionable witness—" would prove far more efficient for home defences than any vessel of the present construction." He suggested the plan at the commencement of the late Russian war, but of course could not get rid of the red-tapism that obstructs every improvement, until its imperative necessity is clearly demonstrated. He wrote both to M. DE PERSIGNY and Sir C. WOOD, pointing out the advantages of his plan, and the dan gers that would arise if Russia were to adopt one of a similar character. Nothing, how ever, was done, but now it appears that a vaisseau belier (ram -ship) is actually constructing at Cher bourg; and if its powerO, and capabilities be as great as those indicated by Sir G. R. SARTORIUS we must keep pace with the enterprise of our ally, or submit: to the consequences, whatever they may be. We cannot as yet declare that all the conditions referred to in the letter of the gallant Admiral, which appeared in our impression of Tuesday last, can be obtained whether that complete in vulnerability can be combined with superior speed and easy management, for these are points of vital importance. But unquestion ably the matter is worthy of calm and attentive consideration, and of searching inquiry. In such a matter red-tapistit must be set aside, and all the precedents of the " Circumlocution"-office specially ignored. We know that it was ono of the most formidable modes of maritime war in the olden time. In the days of CAESAR and POMPEY, and MARK ANTONY, when the empire of the world was decided at sea, every galley had a powerful beak, in order to enable them to run down their opponents. But there was no mode of propulsion by which they could obtain the requisite speed. At present all that is required is a full and fair investigation ; so that it may be ascertained whether this plan may be carried into execution with any and what modification. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 15 Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and Prince Arthur, honoured with their presence a ball for the servants and gillies given by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Abergeldie. The Royal party was attended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Miss Stopford, the Earl of Derby, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby, Major Teesdale, and Mr. F. W. Gibbs. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent continues to take walks and drives in the grounds in the vicinity of the castle, and we believe enjoys highly the quiet beauty of her Deeside retreat. — Aberdeen Journal. _ _ _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Lieut.-Colonel Clifton, arrived at Hanover on Tuesday last, on a visit to the King and Queen of Hanover. _ The Prince and Princess of Kotschikoff and suite have left the Brunswick Hotel, for the Continent. Lord John Manners, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, is spending the autumn at the Birnam Hotel, Perthshire. The Marquis of Lansdowne will arrive at Bowood Park to-day, from a tour of visits to Scotland. We regret to learn that the Countess of Abingdon is very seriously ill at Wytham Abbey. Lord and Lady Norreys 4were summoned from Scarborough, on Thursday, in consequence of the alarming symptoms her ladyship's attack had exhibited. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery are passing the season at Dalmeny Castle. Lord and Lady Foley will leave Worksop Manor on Monday, on a visit to the Duchess of Grafton, at Euston Hall, Suffolk. The Hon. Somerset J. Calthorpe has arrived in Grosvenor-square, from Perry Hall, Birmingham. Mr. Secretary Walpole left town yesterday, for Balmoral. . _ . _ ----- Lord and Lady Harry Vane arrived in town last evening from Battle Abbey, Sussex. The noble lord and her ladyship will leave town to-day on a tour of visits in Scotland. Lord John Scott has left the Clarendon for Causton House, near Rugby. The Duke of Bedford is entertaining company at Woburn Abbey. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry left town a few days since, for Mount-Stewart, county Down. The Earl of Clarendon and Lady Constance Vil liers are on a tour in Germany. The noble countess and the remainder of the family are passing the season at the Grove, near Watford. The Earl and Countess of Erroll are entertain ing a select circle at Slaines Castle, Aberdeenshire. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers have left Homburg for Paris, en route home from Germany. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave Cambridge House on Monday nex t for Broadlands. The marriage of Lord Walter Scott, third son of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, and Miss Hartopp, daughter of Sir W. and Lady Hartopp, is to be solemnised, the first or second week in the ensuing month, at Four Oaks, the family seat in Warwickshire. L ord Walt e r Scott has recently retired from the army. Mrs. Gore, the popular novelist, who has recently become afflicted with partial blindness, is about to submit to an operation for cataract. This lady's loss of sight is attributed to protracted anxiety for the fate of an only son, who has been serving with much distinction on the staff at Lucknow and in theßohilcund campaign. THE LATE MR. SAMUEL RlGG.—This eccentric but truly benevolent old Quaker died at his residence, in Bayswater, on Monday last, at the advanced age of ninety one years. He retained his mental faculties and character istic shrewdness to the last. He had been a solicitor for nearly forty years, and had left the profession more than thirty years ago in disgust, which he was in the habit of professing in decided terns. He confined his businees chiefly to conveyancing. Besides legacies to several friends, he has left lar t ie donations to eleven public schools and four temperance societies. Of the latter he was a zealous advo cate and supporter for many years. His will was written out by himself only three years before his decease, and a clause inserted that if any dispute should arise amongst the legatees such dispute should be referred to arbitration, the decision of which should be final ; and any dissentient re fusing to a bid e by suc h-d ec i s i on s h ou ld b e d e prived of all benefit under his will. The executors deputed to carry out his i n t en ti ons were hi s o ld an d es t eeme d friends, Dr. Gourley, of Regent's-park, and Mr. W. Parnell, of Can terbury. LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, FRIDAY. It is stated on high authority that the King has consented to appoint the Prince of Prussia co- Regent, with unlimited power, and that the latter accepts the position. The Chambers are to be officially informed of the arrangement, so that it is probable the Prince has agreed to accept the constitution. The St. Petersburg journals of the 9th announce what they call a " decisive defeat" of Schamyl in the Caucasus. According to them, on the 2d ult. a large detachment of his forces attacked a Russian column in the gorge of Acho, but was repulsed with considerable loss ; whereupon Schamyl with a part of his troops resolved to make a diversion at Wladi kankas. He marched there, and found a column of Russians, under General Mischehanko. The R uss i a n general manoeuvred in such a way as to entice him into the place, and then, dividing his force into two columns, he attacked him both on the right and left, and at last routed him with a loss of 370 men killed, capturing, besides, 84 horses, 424 muskets, 280 swords, 445 pistols, and 14 tents —one of the latter Schamyl's own. It was on the 11th ult. this engagement took place, and it is said that the Russian loss was only 14 killed and 16 wounded. A letter from Vienna, in the Boersenhalle, says: Russia of the Sardinian by Villafranca isbeginning to create bad blood here, and the affair will probably not end so quietly as is hoped at St. Petersburg and Turin. Although port T h o fe acquisition it is known positively here that the Russo-Sardi nian convention was concluded with the full appro bation of France, the establishment of Russia in the Mediterranean will perhaps soon become the sub ject of serious diplomatic discussions. To Austria, the cession of the port of Villafranca to Russia is doubly grave ; first, because it 'will embarrass the increase of her military and mercantile shipping in the Adriatic ; and next, because it will seriously menace her political interests. During forty years, Russia attempted to obtain a Dalmatian port—either Ragusa or Cattaro—but failed, in pre sence of the perseverance of the Austrian Cabinet. Now, however, Russia has adroitly taken advan tage of the disposition of the Sardinian Cabinet to conclude a good affair on account of its financial difficulties, and to promote its anti-Austrian policy. To a port in Sardinia, Russia will only have to add one in Albania ; and then she will have two mari time positions which cede in no respect to those at England, and from which she may hereafter pursue the realisation of her political projects." FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. " Their Majesties," a letter from Biarritz states, " enjoy their residence by the seaside exceedingly, and are in excellent health. - The Prince Imperial is also as well as could possibly be desired. The Empress bathes every morning. Their Majesties pass several hours each day in the open air, and take a considerable share of walking exercise. In addition, they drive out every afternoon." " The visit of Prince Napoleon to Algeria, which was to have taken place on the 24th Sept., has," says a Paris letter in a Brussels journal, " been ad journed to the end of October. The Prince is de sirous, before leaving, of settling the great ques tions now pending relative to the organisation of the colony." The final arrangements agreed to at the conclu sion of the Paris Conferences have been ratified by all the Governments, and will be made public forthwith. The Independence of Brussels says :—" The King of the Corea has offered the French Government a portion of his territory to found an establishment on. That Sovereign, though tributary to China, is perfectly independent in the administration of his States." BOURSE, September 17.--The market has been steady, but speculators have not entered eagerly into affairs. Threes have been done at 72f. 65c. and 72f. 75c. ; Mobilier varied from 9111 i. to 930 f. ; Orleans, 1,427 f. 50c. to 1,430 f. ; Northern, 995 f. to I,ooof. ; Eastern, 747 f. 50c. to 750 f. ; and Lyons, 860 f. to 857 f. 50c.. The market remained steady to the close, when the following were the last quotations : 4i per Cents. .... 96 Do. end month .. ..... _ pex.Cents 72 75 Do. end month 72 95 Bank Shares. 3150 Credit Mobilier .. 930 Do. Account . 950 Creldit Fonder 670 Belgian 4} . — Piedmontese (5) 92 Roman 92 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 4O ItAILIVATS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. 835 —: .. 842 50 Lyons and. Mediterranean Now ditto Geneva 647 50 .. 650 Midi . 607 50 .. 610 Western 645 .. 648 75 Eastern Grand Central _ Sardinian . 467 50 Austrian 690 462 50 690 - men to Gaza, where he caused nine Mussulman priests and others to be arrested, and sent them off for trial to Jerusalem. This act of vigour exaspe rated the Mussulmans, who threatened to be revenged the moment the troops left. Seventy Christian families, alarmed at these threats, took refuge at Jaffa. Unfortunately there are not troops enough in Palestine to maintain order, and the Porte must remedy that deficiency, if it wishes to keep the country." Another letter of the same date, in the Moniteur, gives a more favourable account : " The excitement which had been produced among the different classes of the people by the massacre at Jeddah has now subsided. The country is at present tranquil, and I can assure you that the journals of Europe which represent Egypt as being a prey to agitation and dis- - turbance are ill-informed. As to the plague, it is exactly with it as with the talked-of conspiracies. All apprehension on the subject has disappeared, and it may be said that the public health was never better than at present. It is therefore much to be desired in the interest of commerce that an end should be put to the rigours of the quarantine regulations, which are now no longer necessary. M. Sabatier, the French consul-general, has arrived here. The Cyclops is still at Suez." RUSSIA. It appears from a return just published by the Russian Government that at the beginning of the present year the debt of Russia was 518,334,007 roubles, equal to 2 ,073,336,000 f. This sum, remarks the return, cannot be considered excessive, the debt of England being 19,383,000,000 f. ; that of France, 7,558,000,000 f.; that of Austria, 6,617,000 f.; and that of Prussia, 939,000,000 f. Thus Russia is the least indebted of all the great States except one, and she is the least of any compared to her population. In England, for example, the debt is equal to 718 f. for each inhabitant; in France, 210 f.; in Austria, 167 f.; in Prussia, 55f.; and in Russia only 35f. The sums employed annually by each State in payment of interest and in sinking funds is 713,750,000 f. in England ; 511,235,000 f. in France ; 343,200,000 f. in. Austria ; 150,000,000 francs in Rusgia ; and 47,000,000 f. in Prussia. Russia here again is the last but one, and accord ing to population the lowest, in England each inhabitant paying 27f. ; in France, ,14f. ; in Aus tria, 9f. ; in Prussia, 2f. 80c. ; and in Russia, only 2f. 50c. Finally, whilst in England the public debt absorbs 43 per cent. of the whole budget, it only takes 30 per cent. in Austria and France, in Russia only 12, and in Prussia 11. THE EAST. A letter f rom Al exan dria of the 6 th , in the Union, sa y s :—" The telegraph has pr obabl y in formed you of the arrest of Abda llah Pacha, ex- Minister of Fi nance, an d three Beys and eleven Arabs, guilty, it i s sa id, o f having conspired against the Viceroy, and of having disseminated a predic tion that the death of Said Pacha would take place shortly. All of them have been tried and condemned to the galleys ; but here, as in Turkey, a sentence of that kind does not carry with it any stain on the character, and many functionaries, now in office, have been subjected to a similar one. The conspi rators at Cairo had, it appears, accomplices in this city ; for, on the arrival of the mail which brought the news of their condemnation, several rich cheiks were arrested. One of them, the famous Suley man, will be seriously compromised by the papers seized at the house of Abdallah Pacha. The ani mosity which exists in the minds of the Mussul mans against the Viceroy is caused by the energetic measures which he adopted to protect the Christians against the fanatics whom the affair at Jeddah had excited. After the excesses com mitted by the Turks at Gaza, the bishop and prin cipal Christians, who were principally designed for the poignard of the assassins, took refuge at Jaffa. The Governor of Palestine, having received. orders to act with promptitude in putting down any sangu i nary outrages, went with 200 horse- SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 13th contains a telegram, dated Corunna, 12th, twenty minutes past three o'clock p.m., stating that their Majesties and the royal family were at that very moment leaving Corunna amidst the loyal demonstrations of the inhabitants. The Queen was to return direct to Madrid. The Gazette also contains a com munication from the Minister of Justice to the Minister of Finance, informing the latter that forty nine titles of marquis and twenty-eight of count have been annulled. The Minister of Finance has to take cognisance of the fact, because the sum paid down when the heir of a title takes possession is very considerable, and the annual tax paid by the host of titled persons forms an important item in the Spanish revenue. The President of the Council (O'Donnell) was expected in Madrid a few days before her Majesty. Some capitalists, it was said, intend to establish a large paper manufactory in Catalonia. Accounts from Melilla to the 6th state that the Moors had recom menced their • attacks on the town. A Madrid letter says :—" Tightness prevails in the money market ; in fact, merchants state that a greater scarcity of the precious metals has not been expe rienced for years. This scarcity affects the rate of exchange in the provinces to a most inconvenient degree. It is difficult to negotiate bills upon San tander at less than 12 per cent. The bank of Valla dolid discounts at 8 per cent. In Faience 4 per cent. per month is demanded. Unless the price of corn lowers in such a manner that merchants be induced to sell, there are fears that some bank ruptcies will take place in the agricultural dis tricts." Baron de Humboldt has just celebrated at Berlin the 80th anniversary of his birthday, in the enjoy ment of full health both of body and intellect. He has just finished his celebrated work, the " Cosmos." Congratulations have poured in on him from all classes of society. Among the persons who visited him were the Princess Frederic William and her brother Prince Alfred, who came from Potsdam for that purpose. After calling on M. de Humboldt, the Princess and the young Prince visited the chateau, the Palace of the Princes, the Museum and Exhibition of the Fine Arts. A letter from Frankfort of the 14th says : " About noon yesterday two trains on the railway, from Taunus to Hochst, one coming from Mentz and the other from Frankfort, came against each other with considerable violence. Several of the passengers were injured, some of them severely but none were killed. A letter from Turin of the 15th states that Gen. de Lamarmora, Minister of War, after passing a grand review of the garrison, left that place to visit Nice, Spezia, and the district of Liguria. It is stated in a letter from Milan that a journal destined to defend Austrian interests is about to be established, under the title of La Gazetta ltaliana, in that city. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. A fall of about £BO per share took place yester day in the shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Com pany, the impression having strengthened that the defective portion of the cable lies a great distance out at sea. The closing quotation yesterday after noon was £330 to £370 per £l,OOO share, being but little above the extreme point of the depression which was witnessed a few weeks ago, when doubts as to the practicability of laying the cable were generally entertained. A correspondent of a contemporary says : " Whilst the Americans are worshipping their net and burning incense to their drag on one side of the ocean, and whilst Mr. Bright has become be knighted on the other, the oracle, like those of old, is suddenly dumb, or murmurs inarticulately, as if in apoplexy. The directors and electricians are making quite sure that the cause of non-transmis sion of the current is abrasion ; but there is another contingency which may have happened to the wires, and which I have not seen publicly suggested—that of fusion. The galvanic charge requires to be very heavy to overcome a partially perfect insulation. Now, if at a given moment, unintentionally, the wire be charged at both termini simultaneously, it is quite possible that a fusion may be the result somewhere along its length, not, it would seem, in this instance so as quite to destroy continuity, but partially`, possibly reducing , the entinwm3 wire to a r string of beads kept in position by the outer cover of the cable." The Cork, Reporter contains the following para graph :—" The South-Western steamer, which left our port yesterday evening, had on board a great number of boxes of scientific instruments and appa ratus, intended for the prosecution of experiments at Valentia, in the repair of the Atlantic telegraph cable. Its partial failure has been discovered to have arisen from an accident to it about 200 miles from the shore at our side. The removal of this injury is looked upon as a matter very easily ac complished." IRELAND. DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. THE HARVEST IN ULSTER. It is not a week since complaints were rife in the northern papers of apprehended mischief being done to the crops by the then unfavourable state of the weather, wet and stormy as if it had been during the early part of September. Matters have happily taken a better turn, and the Banner V Ulster concludes a long review of the state and prospects of the harvests in these terms : " With such glorious weather as we have had for the last few days there will be no cause of complaint. Farmers are working double tides, and the lands are being cleared with almost magical rapidity. Reaping may be reported as finally finished, except in rare cases, and on very late lands. Stack-yards begin to assume the appear ance of later autumn, and old sites are often found too small to contain the ample produce ready for storing. We may safely. predict that by the middle of next month there will be safely stacked at the farmsteads in the north of Ireland the largest quail- , tity of unthrashed grain ever seen in this counts There are further repo r t s f ro m the north, equally as favourable as the foregoing. DEPARTURE OF CARDINAL WISEMAN. The Cardinal's Irish yester day, and thi s morn i ng hi s E m i n ence embarks at Kingstown on b oar d th e ex p re ss boat, which sails at 9 o'clock. H e sa id mass an d preached yesterday in the church of St. Andrew, Westland-row. BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION AND RETREAT.—Yesterday evening a general meeting of the board of director s an d others interested in the welfare of the institution was held at their rooms in Paternoster -row. The annual report stated that the amount of invested capital in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, at the date of last audit, amounted to £21,969 ls. 2d. During the past year there had bbn granted in permanent assistance, or annuities to 16 individuals, being members or widows of members, the sum of £371 lls. Bd., and in temporary assistance to 31 individuals, being mem bers, widows, and orphans, £512 35., being a total disburse ment forthe year in relief of £BB3 14s. Bd., and a grand total so disbursed since 1841 of nearly £7,000. The report also stated that the whole of the houses for decayed mem bers at the " R e t rea t," situate at Abbott's Langley, Hert fordshire, were fully occupied. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received files of papers from the Cape to the 28th of July. We take the following from the Argus of the 27th : " The Governor left Cape Town, to mediate between the Boers and Basutus, yesterday morn ing, at 10 o'clock. It had been made known, for two or three days previously, that his Excellency had resolved to start immediately after the despatch of the mail steamer, and arrangements were made in Cape Town to do honour to the occasion of his Excellency's departure upon so important a mission. All the Cape Town Volunteers assembled ; the Cape Royal Rifles formed a guard of honour, under the command of Capt. R. D. Jones, at the entrance of Government-house ; the Cape Volunteer Cavalry lined the walk at the back of the Cape Royal Rifles, and the Cape Mounted Rifles were drawn up in line at the top of Grave-street. The Volunteer Artillery were posted with their guns at the Castle bridge. The cavalry were under the command of Lieut. R. le Sueur, and the artillery under the command of Major Duprat. " As a mark of respect to his Excellency, a great number of the most influential persons in this city assembled at Government-house, where the Exe cutive Council sat for some time previous to the hour appointed for starting. " When the Governor appeared at the doorway arms were presented, and the talented band of the Cape Royal Rifles played the National Anthem. His Excellency, who appeared highly gratified at this manifestation of good feeling and esteem, took leave of those who had assembled at Government house, and of the Cape Royal Rifles, and then rode off with his suite. He was accompanied to Salt River by the cavalry and the Cape Mounted Rifles. When his Excellency arrived at the Castle-bridge a salute of 19 guns was fired by the artillery in first-rate time, which honour his Excel lency graciously acknowledged. At Salt River the whole military escort came to a halt, and, after receiving the thanks of the Governor, the cavalry and Cape Mounted Rifles returned to Cape Town. " There could not have been less than 2,000 persons present to witness his Excellency's depar ture. It was generally remarked that the appear ance of the volunteers and their conduct on this occasion did themselves and the metropolis of the colony infinite credit. His Excellency spent last night at the Paarl, at which place, as well as at Beaufort and other places en route, the inhabitants have made arrangements to give him an enthusi astic reception. We wish him God speed." THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Royal West India mail packet Magdalena, Capt. Abbot, arrived here to-day, with the Pacific and West India mails. There is no news from Mexico, the packet from Vera Cruz and Tampico not having been due when the Magdalena sailed. Her dates of sailing are :—Panama, August 23 ; Val paraiso, July 31 ; Calao, August 12 ; Jamaica, 25 ; Demerara, 25 ; Trinidad, 23 ; Barbadoes, 27 ; St. Lucia, 28 ; Antigua, 29 ; St. Vincent, 26 ; Thomas, 28. The Magdalena brings 69 passengers, and specie to the amount of 749,371 dollars. _ _ _ Mr. Montagu Dundas, late fifth officer of the royal mail steamship Thames, invalided, died, Sept. 3, on the passage. Mr. Alfred Fuller, chief officer of the royal mail steamer Eagle, died at Jamaica, August 26. The schooner Australia, Royal Mail Company, with outward mails, on anchoring in the harbour of Nassau, New Providence, was struck by lightning, which shivered the foremast all to pieces ; fortu nately the crew escaped without injury. The crews of the steamships on the main route have suffered much from the Chagres fever this season. The West India Islands generally, and Demerara, are in a healthy state. In Jamaica the weather had continued extremely dry throughout a large part of the country. In several parishes the drought proved the most severe that had been experienced for many years past. On some estates in St. Ann and elsewhere two sets of plants were consecutively burnt out of the ground. It is feared that the approaching crop of 1858-59 will be very seriously affected by it. A fine shower, the first for some months, had fallen. _ _ According to a despatch received by the Gover nor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, her Majesty's Government had not deemed it pru dent to sanction the proposition of taking steps for the introduction into the colony of the expatriated free black and coloured inhabitants of the Southern States of America. A more active business had been transacted dur ing the fortnight, in consequence of a desire on the part of some to speculate. Flour had advanced considerably. Coffee was selling at 365. to 41s. per 100 lbs. according to quality. English cheese was selling at ls. td. per lb. Tonnage was plentiful, but freights were dull. Sugar, 17s. to 20s. accord ing to quality ; very fair samples, at 21s. to 225. per 100 lbs. Tobacco very heavy and very dull. Exchange on London, 90 days, 1 per cent. premium.. In British Guiana the weather had been very showery, with oppressive heat. Sugar-making ope rations had commenced pretty generally, and the canes were yielding well. There is said to be a blight in the coffee planta tions of Martinique. The reports from Trinidad are favourable to the crops. liarbadoes and Antigua have suffered much from drought. PANAMA, AUGUST 32.—Since the sailing of the last European mail, but little important news has transpired on the isthmus. The weather has been unusually fine for the season of the year, and the health of the isthmus is excellent. A slide on the railroad took place near Obispo, which blocked up the track, and prevented the trains from passing, so that the passengers were detained all night on the road. The next morning the passengers were brought over. No damage done to cars or pas sengers. A correspondent writes to us : " The Thames arrived nt Grey Town on the 12th, and proceeded to Blewfields. What or where Blew fields is a great portion of the British public are, no doubt, ignorant.; even those that go there are in the dark, except that they proceed some 90 miles from Grey Town along a low dangerous coast, and fis illy anchor off a bluff' without any shelter, a v zy smai mail bag is landed on a little island at the entrance of a lagoon, where, in a hut, the only one on the island, dwelt a white man and four or five natives. To approach this island the boat has to cross the bar, where a heavy sea runs at all times ; frequently it is dangerous, and the lagoon abounds with sharks and alligators. The ship remains a night, that is to say, if she is not obliged to get un derweigh on account of the weather. Blewfields, the metropolis of his Mosquitian Majesty, is said to be some five or six miles up the lagoon. The Go vernment, I understand, pay £l,OOO per annum extra for this service ! I have inquired of many, and none can explain this mystery. The mail, I should say, was a mere bag of post-office besidesforms this forms. There is, I believe, one Englishman resident the one that receives the mail. By arrange ment the time so necessary f their machinery and boilers . t t o o r therights s teamers to put at Grey Town is cut short, and I don'the a te to say that on many occasions the lives of those landing are risked. You will see that Blewfie lds is p ut on a footing with the important B r azilian ports, and Grey Town, wh ere there is neither freight nor passenger traffic, has a fortnig hqy Grey T ow n is in a very low state; many are leaving. The Costa Ricans , and Nicarauans have rejected Mr. Vanderbilt s golden offer of £lOO,OOO dollars and the opening of the route for the vision ary scheme of M. Belly, for such it i s. N o wonder —from the experience the natives have had of the Yankees. On the 9th Colonel Cauty came down, and on the part of the Governments of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, took possession of Punta Arenas, the opposite side of the harbour, but Captain Wain wright, of her Majesty's ship Leopard, interfered, in consequence of some old agreem en t, b which y we are bound to protect Mr. Scott, late of Morgan Grimson and Co. Her Majesty's consul also ob jected on the pa r t o f the Mosquitian Government. The Leopard ha s b een statione on this coast and Jamaica eight mont h s. To give you some idea of the Blewfields anchorage ---the Leopard, in getting under weigh, shipped a sea on the upper deck, when a man was washed off the forecastle and lost. " Colon is the Aspinwall' of the Americans. Why should we not call it so ? The present system lead% to confusion. It is best known as Aspinwall, and considering that the Americans made it, why not adopt their name for it, they returning the compliment by accepting our Grey Town.' What ever its name, it goes on flourishing, and no wonder, as it is the only safe and easy com munication between two oceans. It is a com plete monopoly. There is no mere thorough hiso than Brother Jonathan where interests are concerned, but the system is carried really too far here. Traffic is frightened off the road by the enormous charges, and the route by Cape Horn preferred, except for pas sengers and specie. Various rumours are flying about of Liverpool traffic by Cunard steamers— lines of ditto to Fraser River, lines to Australia, and even that the Leviathan is to be called into the service: It is to be hoped that the British Govern ment will not give its assistance to any project un less the proprietors of the railroad act with more liberality, and reduce their charges. Should they not do so we ought to do all in our power to open another route and destroy the monopely. Mr. Cunard it now a director. Many consider him an important accession, and look forward to an im proved state of things. " Fraser River does not turn out so well as was expected by the Yankees ; that is perhaps all the better for keeping out lawless characters. It is better, perhaps, that the mines should be worked by companies." Mr. Nelson, commercial agent for the Panama Railroad Company, sailed for Costa Rica in the Columbus, for the purpose of concluding the rail road contract with that government. A severe gale was reported at Colon on the 16th inst. ' • it caused no damage. The slide on the rail road has been repaired, and the trains are running as usual. Her Majesty's ship Alert was at Panama on the 23d. The news from the mineral districts of Copiapo are more flattering daily. A rich discovery of copper mines has lately been made north of "Tres Puntas. CALLAO. - Dates are to the 12th August. General Castella has been elected President of Peru. The French admiral has had another question with the Government, relative to the proceedings of a Peruvian vessel of war with a French merchant ship on the coast, for which the Peruvian Govern ment has had to pay 5,000 dols. Business is very dull ; the Bay is full of vessels, chiefly American, waiting charters. Two large ships arrived this week from Bombay, leaking. The _Honolulu Advertiser says that the American clipper ship White Swallow had arrived on the 2d and sailed on the 6th inst., to land guano at Jarvis Island, chartered in St. Francisco on account of the American Guano Company. She can carry 1,200 tons, and is the pioneer ship in the guano trade. It is stated two or three more ships will be chartered at San Francisco, to load at Jarvis Island. THE ARIEL STEAMER ASHORE. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The United States mail steamer Ariel, Captain Ludlow, is ashore on Stone Point, between Calshot and Hurst, in the Solent. A telegram was received from Hurst last night to this effect :—" Apparently, Ariel, from New York, passed at 8.50 p.m." Not making her appearance in the river, a steam tender was despatchedabout 11.30 to meet her, and she was found ashore. The night was thick and dirty. Th e tender took out the mails and passengers for the place, and arrived about half-past 3 this morning' The Ariel had 70 passengers for this port, 50 for Havre, and 60 for Bremen ; also some specie, th e amount of which cannot yet be ascertained. TWO steam-tugs are now alongside her, and a third LI about to leave to render assistance. She lies on a bank of gravel. Nothing more is known here at present. Th e Ariel left New York on the 4th inst. No dange r is apprehended to the ship beyond the detention necessarily occasioned. Stone Point is about 10 miles inside Hurst. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—The rumour which was circulated yesterday in the Stock Ex change and in other quarters (whieh we copied fran_l contemporary), to the effect that the London Gene ra Omnibus Company will declare no dividend at their neZ t meeting, is entirely without foundation. THE CONSTANTINOPLE AND ALEXANDRIA ... m EL GRAPH.—It is expected that the submarine telegraph between Constantinople and Alexandria will be completed in a month. GALWAY AND HALIFAX STEAM-PACKET LINE (LEvER'S.)—LIVERPOOL, Sept. 17.—The propeller steamer, had reached Boston previous to the departure of the All? from New York. The Pacific had arrived off St. John a at eight o'clock on the morning of Sept. 2, making the run to that point in less than four days and a half. —The THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Fridat. nth steam ship Atrato, Captain Woolley, left this ay the West India mails, a full cargo, £2OO in specie, £4,900 in jewellery,- and 149 passengers, among whom are Captain Grant, lady, and family; Captain Chatfield, Lieutenant Duncan, Ensigns Aldworth and Shirley, and a body of Sappers and Miners, for British Columbia. The steam ship Valetta, Captain Soy, left this day with the Peninsular mail, £2,100 for Cadiz, £6OO for Lisbon, a full geheral cargo, and 43 passengers, among whom are Major Gore and Major Ord. The steam ship Hammonia, from Hamburgh to New York, which was announced to leave the former port on the 15th, and Southamption on the 17th, with passengers and freight, was compelled to return to Hamburg soon after quitting that port, owing to a derangement of her machi nery. She is expected here on Wednesday next. IMPROVEMENT OF ST. PAUL'S-CHURCHYARD: - Orders having been given by the City Sewers Commission - , ers to Mr. Chadwick, the City pavior, to relay the who le the eastern and southern sides of St. Paul's-churchy ard with four-inch cubes, the dean of the cathedral has PvT! permission for the carriage-way on the north side of t h e edifice to be opened druing - the relay for the purposes of n'" public traffic. EXTENSION OF THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH To THE FOREIGN OFFlOE.—Yesterday morning . the workme n ' who commenced their labours the previous night to connec! the Foreign-office, in Downing-street, with the Subman,°,.° Telegraph Central Station, resumed their employment wol: the superintendence of the company's engineer. The at nection was completed in the evening, and this morn it is expected, messages will be received direct Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from the v ar The British embassies throughout Europe and vice versa. t he Secretary for India will also receive his dispatches &a l g a, Governor General at the India House direct, a connec" - with that establishment being about to be established. Ye' DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE.- - terday Mr. Sergeant Payne, the coroner for London ar e Southwark, received information of the death of Tin° o3 , Seymour, aged 40, under the following melancholy c irc %a stances. It appears that the deceased and another went named Thomas Gilmour,:aged 23, were in the emplorl i ron of Mr. Stones, engineer, and were assisting to cart an e lf cylinder, weighing about two tons, when the chain sudde,Ti, snapped and the cylinder fell on them. They were o ' 4 , cated as soon as possible and conveyed to St. Thofasitt Hospital, where Mr Grabham, house surgeon, Was at immediate attendance, assisted by the medical staff of .„t valuable institution. On examination it was found tilp Seymour's head was most fearfully fractured, and he bk shortly after his admission to the hospital. Gilmour s 'tt is broken, and he is not expected to live. The inquest ),"-- take place on Monday. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—lnformation been received at the Chief Police Office,Detective Great t land-yard, Whitehall, of a daring highwv r .bberY °l e d domestic of the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, n°,u i to Charles Kendrick, who was returning from Zetla nd Aske; and when near the top of Pilmoor-hill was attack by two men, one holding the horse and the other dragg l ; him to the ground. He then received a severe blow on t head which rendered him perfectly insensible, and ?".„ 1 4 , robbed of a massive silier hunting watch, an Albert chaff and some gold. The Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland' pay a reward of £5O to any person who shall give such .; formation as shall lead to the apfeehension and convictlo"" of the offenders. MlNES.—Since mu• last a fair business has bees doing in the Mining Market, and for one or two spe.„,,culf, tions a good dem an d h as s p rung u p. A m ong these w specula Grenville shares have advanced from 6s. 61 to 12s. 6d:l and leave off at 9s. to 10s. • this demand has not been caused by any change of importance in the mine, but thro u g h large purchases, consequent upon the report that_ a well' known firm were about to take the management, and du' ample capital would be raised for the erection of steam: power, to prove the mine effectually and speedily, as certainly deserves, as for a shallow mine the prospect so far have been very encouraging. Rosewarne, to 35 ; a fair business has been done, but leave off, flatter; the lode in the 58 fin. level is said to be worth £BO per . Crambler and St. Aubyn, 1321 to 1371. G reat Al keep at 4k to 4f, and several purch ases ma d e d ur i ng tw week. North Robert shares have further advanced t ° 3,3 i, consequent on other improvements. Alfred Co w sole not quite so firm a t 10 to 10i ; one . or two fav° ° ,l able points are expected to come o ff h ere. Vale A Towy shares have been more dealt in a t 17a. 6d t o 185. 6 , - ; Wheal Margery, 111 t o 11 • a goal sale of ore' was er a lJt week, and shar es considered below what the prose cc warrant. Cain B rea , 521 t o 55 . In he a vy s h are s the': has not been s o muc h d o i ng : Devon Consols, _451 t e t 465 ; Basset, 190 t o 200 ; S out h F rances, 190 to 200; e Seton, 270 to 280 ; G rea t S ou th T o l gus, 141 to I;s' Ile' "10 foot, 6± to 7; Wheal Arthu r muc h more in rekeet , " t sub-divided sha res h av i ng b een d ea l t i n at 17 s . 6 to 2 43 leaving off, 15s. to 17s. Mining Journal of this day , se s RIO DE JANEIRO IN 1858.—The Sunderland la" r gives publicity to the following frightful narrative, dr,. ° 4 1 0 up by Capt. E. Robinson, of Sunderland, master. 01 1 „ . e ship Raleigh, of South Shields :—" I arrived at this P,;,1 in the beginning of May, 1358, being sent to bring hail vessel, whose captain died of yellow fever; little L a g ', e d think, before leaving home, that I should have witn e e re the sufferings of so many of my fellow-creatures that, ©r ill of this dreadful epidemic. I was told it would be before I arrived, but I found that, so far from that . ',„" t the case, its ravages were unmitigated. In the street w e ie lodged in, five in one family were buried from the 100 10 0 one day. The Rio journals were publishing in their eol u r no rt No cases of yellow fev e r t o -d a y.' O ne s hip at the r t et had seven ca_ptains dead before she could be broug ht on t o the place. The vessel, the Raleigh, of South Shields' b ief I have come home in command of, had her captaine,„ c by officer, second officer, and four of her crew stricken doraed the disease. On the day before the captain died I V iio po him at the hospital ; I there witnessed such sights as never again to see—poor sailors in the height of the roe malady, with the black vomit, vomiting dark ftiu, l hol coffee. I shall never forget the looks they gave me, atb- r a pf their poor dull eyes brightened as I gave them aw° da y, comfort, and told them they would get better. Nex t the when I returned to see them, I found the whole gone' No captain and six of his crew all dead and buried. Still, cd cases of fever,' say the Rio journals. The number c°7o off by yellow fever from Feb. to May, 1858, amountelio, 1,609, upwards of 600 of the death: being among El re d sailors. The presence of a plague fever is not to be woe c at, the state of the town being a disgrace to civilised P e gbe All manner of filth is to be met with in most parts °' ou r town Dead animals and filth I cannot describe meet y eye and offend youx soma almost everywhere." each Lend Thur Roth 65,57 prices Spani 1001; per C( guese 401; ; Tm 3 per C Now 21 Ditto Id Ditto u Console India S Excheq Ditto S Brazilif Ditto Mexica: Ditto Periwig Ditto Ditto Ditto Portugi Ditto Russia" Ditto Spanish Ditto Ditto Turkial Ditto Tenezu Ditto Ditto French Ditto Subj due at Birkenl Junci Stock Ditto di Cape T 23, 18 Danube Dublin fereru Ditto di Ditto di Ditto di Ditto di Ditto di Exeter Grand ' Bebe] (Nov. Ditto di Ditto di Great V optioi Italian Killarm Lancast 1860) Lancast 1859) Lumbar London 1859) London (July Ditto di Manche shire, Ditto di Ditto di Ditto di Ditto di New Bi 1358) Newry 1, 18 i. Scinde South I (Dec. Waterfc Share Ditto di Whiteli New Whiteh cent. Ditto di Ditto di of E T 1 and rate: after In was fully bale,s. Sil been For