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ENSON'S WATCHES.I "Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Seu:l2 stampa tor Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrip tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for se. extra. 23 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. - --- ROYAL ALHAMBR A PALACE MUSIC HALL, Leicester Square.—This establishment is undergoing repair and decoration, and will shortly be opened with a first-class entertainment, consisting of Vocal and Instrumental Music by Artistes of known repute, and at prices to cultivate a musical taste for the million, to which this entertainment will be expressly devoted. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. E. T. SMITH, o begs respectfully to announce to the nobility, gentry, subscribers, and his stanch old friends and supporters, the British public, that this THEATRE will OPEN for its EIGHTH 'WINTER SEASON, under his lesseeship and man agement, on MONDAY, October 15. Ever mindful of the generously remunerative support which he has invariably received in all his theatrical under takings, and confident that that support will be continued by a discerning public as long as he continues to merit it, Mr. Smith has now resolved to replace the 1 heatre Royal, Drury-lane, in its former proud position at the head of the Thespian Temples of Great Britain. The following for • midable concentration of talent will form the corps drama tigne of her Majesty's servants during the ensuing season : Mr. CHARLES KEAN. f Mr. BAItSBY. Mr. GUSTAVUS BROOKE. Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. Mr. TOM MATTIIEWS• Mr. CHARLES MATTHEWS. Mr. CORMACK. Mr. PAUL BEDFORD. Mrs. CHARLES KEAN. Mr. ROBERT ROXBY. Mrs. CHARLES MATTHEWS Mr. CATHCART. Mrs. STIRLING, and Mr. G. EVERETT. Miss STIRLING Mr. LAMBERT, (Their First Appearance _ (From Australia, his First here). Appearance). Mrs. FRANK MATTHEWS. Mrs. DowTON. Mr. TILBURY. Miss E. ARDEN. Mr. WLA.NE. Mr. TEMPLETON. Miss HELEN HOWAR D . Miss CLYDE. Mr. F Mr. SPENCE ARRELL. R. bliss MINNIE DAVIS. Mr. DREON. MiSS THIRLWALL. A New Drama, by Mr. WATTS PHILLIPS (author of " The Dead Heart"), will be produced on MONDAY, the 12th of November, in which Mr. Benjamin Webster will sustain the principal character; and Mr. Paul Bedford will also appear. Mrs. and Miss Stirling (from the Olympic Theatre) will make their debut in a New Piece. At Christmas the GRAND PANTOMIME, written as here tofore by E. L. BLANCHARD, Esq., will be produced, for which it is confidently expected that the Scenic Effects of W. BEVERLEY, who has carte blanche as to expense, will obtain even increased renown. On the 28th of January, 1861, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, Miss Chapman, Miss N. Chapman, Mr. Cathcart, Mr. O. Everett, and other artistes will appear in one of the plays of our immortal Shakespere. Several New Dramas will be produced during the season ; one of them,lin whiclithe whole strength of the company will be included, is from the pen of that highly successful author, Mr. Tom Taylor. At Easter, an arrangement has been made with Mr. Gustavus Brooke, to appear on his arrival from Australia. Other important engagements are on the tapis, and will be duly announced. Stage Manager—Mr. ROBEItT ROXBY. Musical Director—Mr. TULLY. Director, Painter, and Superintendent of the Scenery, Mr. W. BEVERLEY. Ballet Master—Mr. CoRmAcK (late of the Princess's Theatre). Costumes by Miss Dickinson and Mr. Palmer. Machinist, Mr. Tucker. Properties by Mr. Needham. Prompter, Mr. Craven. _ TUB WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, OCT, 6, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 60—this day at noon. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 60—highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-30.38. WlND—South-Westerly; light, with very fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rHIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 3m.—Afternoon, sh. 21m. To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 46m.—Afternoon, 6h. 11m. rrX f? 1 , cui•m j , - (-- 4 , .k* ' 'Et•ito` Reduced Prices as usual. 11 . ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LESSEE—MR. E. T. SMITH. In consequence of unavoidable circumstances, the Lessee takes the earliest opportunity of informing the subscribers and the public that the PRODUCTION of ROBIN HOOD is POSTPONED until Thursday next, October 11, and has the pleasure of announcing that he has arranged to give, in lieu, on Monday next, October 8, IL TROVA TORE, with the following cast : Manrico .. Signor GIUGLINI Il Conte di Luna • . Signor FRANCESCO BniANI, (His first appearance in this country.) Ferrando.. • . signor VIALETTI. Un Zingaro .. Signor CASTELLI Azucena Madme. LEMA.IRE. Inez Mdlle. Bonsr. Leonora .. Mdlle. TITIENS. Conductor .. Signor ARDITI After the Opera will be sung the NATIONAL ANTHEM by the whole strength of the Company. OY AL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT- I'' GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees.—THlS EVENING will be presented the opera of LURLINE ; characters by Messrs. I. Wharton, 11. Cord, G. Kelley, and W. Harrison ; Miss Lefll2r, Miss Albertazzi, and Miss Louisa Pyne.—Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Eight. Doors open at Hal-past Seven. rrHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstqne. THIS EVENING the performances Will mum( THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclercqs. Followed by DOES lIE LOVE ME? Messrs. Howe Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg. wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF Frr zs)lY THE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farren, and Rogers; Mri. Wilkins and Miss Henrade. Followed by A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. • Commence at 7. with THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. MONDAY, October 8, First Appearance in England of the young and celebrated Comedienne Miss JOSEPHINE GOUGENIIEIM, who is engaged for a limited number of nights. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. The Public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, having been newly Decorated and Embellished, is Now OPEN for the Winter Season THIS EVENING, Oct. 6, with a Comic Drama, entitled DELICATE GROUND. At ttr which, a New and Original Drama, written by Tom Taylor, Esq., entitled TILE BRIGAND AND HIS BANKER. Principal characters by Mr. George Vining (his 6th appear ance here), Mr John House, Mr. Villiers, Mr. 11. Watkins (the popular American Comedian, his 6th appearance in England), Mrs. Keeley, Miss M. Ternan, and Madame Celeste. To conclude with MAGIC TOYS : Valentine, Miss Lydia Thompsun. The talented Comedienne, Miss Josephine Goughenheim, of the principal Theatres in America and Aus tralia, is engaged, and will make her first appearance in England on Monday, October 8. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. -I - X. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BcnJ. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq., "The Colleen Bawn."—Miss Agnes Robertson every even ing. THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss W oolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boureicault, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC lIATII CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. • Doors open at halt-past 6 —Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes:II. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. • Pit Stalls, 25.; PA, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ASTI EY'S ROYAL AMP r HITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, M. Wm. BATTY. Last Six Nights of "Mazeppa." Notice.—Speedily will be produced, with great n i l. r 7 e dor i a Grand and Original Equestrian Spectacle, In TI written expressly for this Theatre by the popular author c lT FITZBALL, Esq., entitled "110111. 1100'x," with entirely new Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments. This Evening Lord Byron's splendid Flippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of ht.-lily-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day. Doors open at half -rast 6, performance commence at 7. Bog-office open daily from 11 till 1. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NOR3IA. Norma ... ............... Miss RUSSELL. Adalgisa (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ET II lOPIAN S, consisting of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Neg•ro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Nezro Artistes, 3lessrz. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Arr. ( TGIIMANS. Balcony, ls, Hall. dd. TUE PRINCE the Prince OF WALES AND BLONDIN.—When off, the .arrived Blondin bowed to the Prince and started ' ace watchi ng hi m attentively through a tele scope. Prince The Prin had a seat in a rustic pavilion, the Duke of Newcastle and suite sitting in the rear, with Major Teesdale and o regard to dressthe. sorne Sitlng crosslegged in front, with no that the Prince and suite dress will be surprised to see in clothes very plain and give a neat, and which would and dandy the horrors. Blondin crossed and returned, app l a he Prince complimented him by clapping his hands in prepared to carry a man over. To this'3°; and then . Blondin n w h ou i d ba h c e k allow Blondin the Prince objected, and only after repeated assurances o to start with Colcord, his agent, with to have a photograph taken. The Prince,Nl:paaeltircishoiineig only breathless interest, commenting much on the Many people were disappointed, as they thought thatnacne. din would carry the Prinea on the rope. We state this in - all seriousness, as the affair was freely talked about by the spectators. For the first time Blondin returned on stilts, the Prince also having put in a protest against thi s per formance. It was a most arduous and masterly feat, but did not please the Prince, who thought it foolhardy. 'When Blondin reached the shore, the Prince and suite had a long conversation with him in French, complementing him, and asking him about the stilts, and his feelings whi l e on the ro p e. As the Prince left ho said, " Thank God, it's all over." Observing Farini's roe further up the river, h e asked what , as."A path for another fool," answered Dr. Kirwin Tin Prince laughed aloud, and nodded his assent to this ~. pigr amn . like whle atic reply. The sensation on seeing 131endin is Y or k i rer s a tg the execution of a man by hanging. New In COns e eetfroenee of the death of setjee Jej the late Sir Jam present barond: , b ß a aronet of Bombay, his eldest son, the Legislative C oimei i:%l 3 y virtae of Act No. 20 of 1860 of the India, assumed the names of Jam setjee Jejeebhoy, i n Jamsetjeo JejeebhoT, li eu a 4f his former names of Cursetjee _ :will henceforth be known by the name of Sir Jamset e Augiet, 1860, 3 ° jeJeebh° Y , Baronet,—London, 25th THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1880. Another phase of the Road Murder mystery has passed away, and we know but little more than previously. Yet it cannot be denied that the endeavour to fix a charge, in some form, on ELlza- BETH GOUGH, has fixed, somewhat more definitely, our attention on several small facts and circum- stances, and enabled us better to estimate their value. The public, perhaps, will be curious to know what was the real design of this prosecution Mr. SLACK, and all to whom he communicated the result of his examinations, must have been fully aware that no jury would convict the young woman from the evidence adduced; for of her being the actual murderer there was not a shadow of proof ; and of the only other possible charges, those of being an accomplice before or after the fact, beyond the circumstance of her being in the room whence the child was taken, the grounds of suspicion were of the most doubtful character. The result of the whole inquiry before the Magis trates was more unfavourable to some of the wit nesses than to the young woman, and it is diffi- cult not to believe that the real object of the pro- ceedings was to place GOUGH in a position in which she might be induced by confessing all she knew to save her own life. That the girl does know who the murderer is, it is difficult to doubt, The child was a very heavy one. No person could well have held him, and have adjusted at the same time the bedclothes of his cot with such exactness as had been used. A man, according to the surgeon's description of the violence used, seems, probably, to every one, to have been the inflicter of the wounds. But no man would have laid the bedclothing in the order in which it was found. Either therefore a woman and a man entered her room and bore off the child; arranging first the clothing, as GOUGE( says she found it, or its arrangements must have been her work, in which case, she, of course, was privy to the whole transac tion. If Mr. SLACK had little doubt of the latter being the truth, his strong suspicion is, perhaps, shared, justly or not, by the majority of those who read the evidence. The probable manner of the child's death, from the later reflections of the surgeon on what he had seen, appears somewhat clearer. The darkness about the mouth was so considerable as to make him almost certain that if death had not been ac tually caused by suffocation, the pressure applied to the mouth had caused pulsation to cease, before the dreadful cut on the throat was inflicted; at least the appearance of the mouth, coupled with the fact that the blood had not spurted about, rendered it almost certain that the heart had ceased to act. The stab was undoubtedly inflicted after death. The bloody part of the work was certainly perpetrated out of the house. But, why resorted to if the child were suffocated? Was it to make sure that by no acci dent it should recover breath, and even from the watercloset make its cries possibly heard ? But one or two unknown mortals can answer this sad ques tion. The chief points against the nursemaid, relied on by the prosecutios, were, First, the necessity of two persons to leave things as they were found, the improbability of two persons entering her room for the purpose, and the strong presumption hence arising, of her guilty knowledge. Second, the discrepancy between her own statements as to the time when she knew that the blanket was removed from the bed. Thirdly, the piece of chest-flannel fitting her and apparently belonging to her, which was also found inside the water-closet. Fourthly, The discrepancy between her statement and Mrs. KENT'S—as to her having tapped at her door an hour before the time when she found her awake. Perhaps, we may add, her statement that she saw into the cot while kneeling on the bed, though to us this seems very trivial. Some persons will think more of some ef her own casual remarks, most of which, however, if not all, receive a sinister interpretation only from her presumed guilt or complicity. The blanket story was the most striking one of the discrepant statements. To two policemen, FOLEY and IVoLFE, she said that she had not missed the blanket till she saw it brought in with the body of the child. But she told MORGAN, the parish con stable, before the body had been brought in, that she had missed the blanket. The bedclothes, more over, were of such a form that, as they were found in the morning, it could not have been apparent to a person by looking at them that a blanket had been removed. If she knew it was missing, how did she know it ? If she contradicted herself respecting the time of her knowing of the loss, why did she do it ? Could she have ever thought of its being evidence against her that she knew it had been taken ? This would have been astute forethought indeed. The most striking faet, however, to ns, in the whole evidence, is that of ELIZABETH GOUGH and Mr. KENT having both of them made discrepant statements respecting this same blanket ! Mr. KENT went off to Trowbridge before the body was found. Yet he gave evidence that he knew the blanket was missing—that Mrs. KENT told him of it. Hew aid Mrs. KENT know ? for she says she did ; but she does not tat us how sha came by the knowledge, and the evidence tends to show that she had not examined the clothes in the cot. Had GOUGH told her ? But now the strange dis crepancy occurs in Mr. KENT'S also, that he twice told FOLEY, the policeman, that he did not know of the blanket being missing till after his return from Trowbridge. There seems no reason to doubt Fo- LET'S veracity. And if he spoke the truth the re sult is, that ELIZABETH GOUGII and Mr. KENT resembled each other in having both of them denied, and both of them affirmed, knowledge of the miss ing blanket before the body was brought in. The single denial and affirmation of either might well be set down to temporary confusion of recol lection. But that two individuals, and about the hour, should concur in making the identical incom patible answers about the same thing, is one of the most mysterious of the mysteries of this painful business. It ought to be most rigidly scrutinised. Some stress has been laid upon the assertions by the accusod of the innocence of Miss CoNsTAIICIE KENT and of Mr. KENT; of her being cer tain that nothing more would be found in the soil of the water closet; and of her .... telling ELILA DALLIMORE that though the chest flannel fitted her, it was n 6 reason why she should have done the murder. But we cannot like the manner of this witness, and strong expressions of opinion as to how the murder was done, and by whom, were, as the Chairman observed, nothing re markable when all around her were expressing their opinions. And her manner, he remarked, was altogether that of an innocent person, being neither sullenly reserved, nor officious in making communications. Mr. KENT'S own conduct and statements are, perhaps, as perplexing as any, Not only the strange coincidence of contradictory assertions, identical with the self-contradictions of GOUGH already noticed, but his passing the parish constable and policeman, and setting off to Trowbridge. One of the sons, however, went for URCH, the nearest policeman ; but whether by his father's direction is not said. Then his locking up the police whom he had in his house for several hours, while he walked about, the night after the murder, so that, though they could get out of the house, they could not get into any other part of it; his refusing to allow a plan of the house to be taken ; the Newfoundland dog, though comparatively old, not barking that morn ing, as he almost certainly would have done at a stran ger's footstep or scent—these are singular and im perfectly accounted for facts; and, when to these we add the almost divining where the body would be found by one of the two men, they induce us to think it possible that the inquiries may, as yet, have taken a wrong direction. The case does not remain quite as it was. Suspicion must yet rest on one or more inmates of the house, and may do so till the judgment day. At the same time the supposition of co-operation from without is not utterly without I support. More it were not just to say, at present. The Duke of NEWCASTLE has acted with admir able tact and discretion throughout the whole route traversed by H. R. H. the Prince of WALES in the British North American possessions. His grace is understood to have received, in regard to the exercise of that tact and discretion, a carts blanche (so to speak) from her Most Gracious MA JESTY, before H. R. H. started upon this deeply in teresting and unprecedented expedition. And his grace, we must all of us admit, has justified to the full this signal mark of the Royal confidence. The task entrusted to him was one of exquisite respon sibility. It was one, moreover, in the performance of which he could look for guidance at moments of anxiety to no single precedent whatsoever. Upon his own unaided judgment the onus of every suc cessive doubt or difficulty devolved. And though it might have been presumed by the more sanguine before starting that all would necessarily be, in nau tical parlance, "plain sailing" before the heir to the Crown, and H. R. H.'s entourage, the late disgrace ful proceedings of the Orangemen of Kingston and Toronto have proved by this time directly to the contrary—they show that the PRINCE'S pathway was not strown uninterruptedly with flowers — that his Royal Highness could be, figuratively speaking, pelted more indecorously with the oranges of bigotry, than with any of the ordinary mud and brickbats commonly ,darkening the air at a brawl among the roughs in one of the back slums of Billingsgate. 'throughout the entire length of the progress made by the Prince of WALES in our British North American possessions, from the moment when his Royal Highness first set foot upon the opposite shores of the Atlantic, to the time when he paused upon the frontier line dividing the two Canadas from the United States, his grace the Colonial Secretary has exercised an adroitness of discrimination beyond all praise, in conducting the proceedings of this unexampled pro gress of the Prince of WALES along the eastern borders of the North American continent. There, for the first time, the Duke's tact and discretion seem to have suddenly left him for awhile altogether. No great harm has come of it we ad mit. But it is none the less, to our thinking, a grievous error of judgment on the part of the Colo nial Secretary. Allusion is made, of course, to the circumstance naturally enough arising in the in stance of the Prince of WALES himself out of the motives of simple CURIOSITY—the circumstance of his Royal Highness countenancing, by his presence, the foolhardy buffooneries by which that rope-danc ing mountebank, M. BLONDTN is latterly in the habit of desecrating the sublime spectacle of the Falls of Niagara ! It is hardly less than lamentable, we cannot but think, that his Grace the Duke of NEW CASTLE should should have consented thus to allow tho dignity of his Royal Highness's character to be derogated from, by its public asso ciation in this manner with one of the most puerile, and at the same time one, of the most flagrant instances ever upon record of the One Step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous! Does any one want an illustration of that One Step, he may recognise it upon the instant in the first nimble foot-tread taken by M. BLONDTN, the French rope-dancing mountebank, along the cord stretched above the rapids of that stupendous series of the Niagara cataracts. The outrageous incon gruity, the monstrous and indefensible indecorum of this utterly ludicrous exhibition at the Falls of Niagara, the limes' correspondent has admirably expressed where he writes—" To leave the study of these eternal cataracts to witness the feats of any rope-dancer, however skilful, is very much like shutting your prayer-book to go and witness a pan tomime." The correspondent might even have said that it is rather like shutting your prayer book, and while holding that prayer-book still in your hand, turning to witness the per formance of a pantomime, " got up" "by particular desire," within the immediate precincts of some sublime temple dedicated to the worship of GOD—uuder the shadow, let :us say, of our grand old Abbey at Westminster, or of Notre Dame in the Isle de Paris, or of the world's wonder among sacred edifices,the glory of the Eternal City, the matchless Cathedral of St. Peter's ! In the mere sound of that everlasting voice, going up cease lessly from the Falls of Niagara, by night and by day, year after year, generation after generation , century after century—from the first hour of the subsidence of the Deluge until now—in the mere sound, we say, of that everlasting voice of inarticu late adoration there seems something like absolute impiety in the plaudits accorded to the nonsensical f r eaks of this preposterous acrobat i n hi s parti coloured tights and spankled jacket ! It i s lik e grinning through a horse-collar by the side of a death bed ! It is like turning somersaults to the organ tones and the choral chant of the " Halle lujah" of the Mount of Olives of Beethoven "'Tread lightly—it is holy ground !"—is heard in the roar of those everlasting falls—is visible in the spray of those eternal cataracts. And yet there, in answer to that bidding of nature, M. BLONDIN has the drum and the pan dean pipes and the little strip of carpet—" treads lightly" upon chalked soles— deems the " ground" so " holy " that he quits terra firma to tremble above it, if not " upon the suspen sion 'of a hair," upon the tightening of a two-inch rope. Ask a mind, a heart, a soul like that ( f CHARLES DICKENS what are the emotions excited by the presence of those sublime Falls of Niagara '—and then see, in 'your imagination, M. BLONDIN 'claß Bring upo n his rope-walk over the cataract ! TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1860 Not any man that ever was born has ever, we are quite satisfied, enjoyed a more exquisite sense of the humorous, of the ludicrous, of the laughable, than our incomparable Boz—yet in the awful presence of those majestic Falls of Niagara he could feel and think and write only in a strain of solemn and spontaneous elo quence. Take in proof of this one of the noblest passages in the American Notes, a passage penned throughout in a spirit worthy of a poet and a Christian Philosopher : " Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect and the enduring one—instant and lasting—of the tremendous spectacle, was Peace. Peace of mind : Tranquillity : Calm recollections of the dead : Great Thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness : nothing of Gloom and Terror: Niagara was at once stamped upon my heart, an Image of Beauty ; to remain there change less and indelible, until its pulses cease to beat, for ever." ---[For the whole passage, of which this is the merest fragment, see Vol. 11., pp. 176-130 of American Notes for General Circulation.] What said or rather sang the reverent voice of the noble earl now the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, when as Lord AIORPETH ho loitered along the banks of that heart-moving spec tacle of the Niagara cataract ? Read the opening lines of what the Earl of CARLISLE then wrote — they are worthier looking at than the monkey tricks of BLONDIN the Mountebank — There's nothing great or bright, thou glorious Fall, Thou mayest not to the fancy's sense recall : The thunder-riven cloud, the lightning's leap, The stirring of the chambers of the deep ; Earth's emerald green and many. tinted dyes, The fleecy whiteness of the upper skies ; The tread of armies thickening as they come, The boom of cannon and the beat of drum, The brow of beauty, and the form of grace, The passion and the prowess of our race, The Song of Homer in its loftiest hour, The unresisted sweep of Roman power; Britannia's trident on the azure sea, America's young shout of liberty I Instead of Niagara continuing to be henceforth suggestive of any of such kind of elevated or even ennobling associations, it appears to be degenerat ing into a stupendous stage for the display of M. BLONDIN'S skill in —(we can hardly call it less than this)—acted blasphemy. THE QUEEN IN GERMANY. (From the Court Newsman.) COBURG, OCT. 2. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out shoot ing yesterday with the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Prince Frederic William of Prussia, and Count Alexander Mensdorff. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, the Princess Frederic William of Prussia, and the Princess Alice, drove at one o'clock up to the Castle of Callenberg, where lun cheon was prepared, and where the Royal shooting party joined her Majesty and the princesses. At a little before five o'clock the Prince Consort, having some business to transact, took leave of the party and entered a carriage to proceed alone to Coburg. After his royal highness had gone about three miles the horses, which were, driven four-in-hand, commenced kicking vio lently, and shortly started off at full speed. The coachman, assisted by his royal highness, did everything in his power to arrest the progress of the frightened animals, but with out effect. At about the distance of a mile from Coburg the road from Callenberg crosses the railway at a level, and upon approaching this spot the Prince Consort observed that the bar, which is lowered to prevent carriages crossing the line when a train is expected, was closed preparatory to the arrival of the train due at Coburg at five o'clock. A waggon which had been stopped by the bar was also standing upon the road. A violent concussion being then inevi table, his royal highness jumped from the carriage and fell to the ground. His royal highness, though receiving some superficial cuts and bruises in the face, was not at all stunned or seriously hurt, and shortly proceeded to assist the coach man. The carriage had in the meantilt come ißker colli sion wit h the bar of the railway and we upset, the coach man being dashed to the ground and considerably hurt. His royal highness immediately devoted his attention to this man, who was conveyed to the lodge of the railway servant who has charge of the bar. The horses having thus freed themselves from the car riage, continued their career into the town of Coburg, and were there seen by Colonel Ponsonby, the Prince's equerry, who had been in attendance in the earlier part of the day. The colonel immediately procured a carriage, and securing the services of Dr. Baly and Dr. Carl Honschutz, the medi cal attendant of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, ho proceeded with them to meet his royal highness. The prince, who was still in the small cottage, directed the attention of the medical gentlemen to the coachman, and desired Colonel Ponsonby to continue his route to meet her Majesty the Queen, who was at that time on her return to Coburg, in order to inform her Majesty of what had. taken place. His royal highness's escape may be considered as most providential. The prince's general health has not at all suffered from this accident, and the bruises will in all probability disap pear in a few days. We are happy to say that the coachman is considered much better this morning. FUNERAL OF MR. 11. INGR.IIII, M.P. The mortal remains of this lamented gentleman were interred, yesterday, in the new cemetery, at Boston, Lincolnshire, whose inhabitants testified their deep respect for the deceased by entirely re fraining from business during the day, and accom panying the body of their honoured townsman to its final resting-place "among the people whom he had loved so well." The remains arrived in Boston on Wednesday morning from Liverpool, attended by a few personal friends, and were conveyed to the house of Mr. Nathaniel Wedd, an uncle of the deceased, in the High-street, whence the funeral procession moved at one o'clock yesterday. From an early hour in the morning the town had put on an aspect of mourning, every place of business, including the public houses, being closed, the blinds of all private residences drawn, and the vessels in the port displaying their flags half-mast high, whilst the bells of the churches tolled muffled peals. The procession was headed by a body of police-constables, after whom followed the Ist Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers and the 4th Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers. The Mayor of Boston, with the magistrates and members of the corporation, came next ; then followed a large number of the inhabitants of the town and neigh bourhood, including the Freemasons, the Odd fellows, the Foresters, and the artizans of Boston. The Rev. G. Blenkin, vicar of Bos ton, and several other clergymen preceded the body, which was conveyed in a hearse drawn by four horses. Mrs. Ingram, widow of the deceased, with her two sons, rode in the first mourning coach, and other members of the family followed in succeeding carriages. The pro cession was closed by an assemblage of nearly 200 gentlemen, headed by Mr. Staniland, M.P. for the borough, and including many distinguished literary and artistic friends of the deceased. The road to the cemetery, both within and without the town, was lined with spectators, whose countenances indicated the universal sorrow felt for the departed. On arriving at the cemetery chapel the service was performed by the vicar. The Rev. Mr, Barker, rector of Rickmansworth, near Loudwater, where Mr. Ingram's family have resided for some years, read the prayers over the grave. The remains are deposited in a plain brick grave, and the coffin bears, on a brass plate, the simple inscription : " Herbert Ingram, Esq., M.P. Died Sept. 8,1860." The Duke of Rutland is expected to arrive at Cheveley Park, Cambridgeshire, to entertain a select circle for pheasant shooting. _ . . The Marquis of Abercorn has arrived in town ; from Baron's Court, county Tyrone. The Marquis of Salisbury has returned to Hat field House, Herts, from visiting his estates in llants. The Marchioness of Salisbury and Ladies Cecil arrived at Hat field early in the week, from visiting the Earl and Coun tess Delawarr at Buekhurst Park, Sussex. VISIT OF LORD STANLEY TO WARRINGTON. — Lord Stanley has promised to address the members of the Warrington Mechanics' Institution, at a dinner to bo held on Saturday, the 27th instant. His lordship will be for several days the guest of Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., president of the institution. Mr. Cross, M.P., Mr. Green all, M.P., Alderman P. Rylands, and other gentlemen, will take part in the proceedings. Intelligence was received yesterday of the death of Mr. Matth e w Uzielli, seco nd partner of the house of C. J. Dev aux an d C o ., mer chants, of King William - street. The new steel gun (rifled) invented by Mr. Lynet Thoma s , recently forwarded to Woolwich Ar senal, from the M erse y Steel Works, for experiments Gt Shoe buryness, has been fired in the long range, the result of which is as follows :—The gun, c h a rged with 281 b. of powder and a sh o t wei g hing 1601 b. o bt a ined a fight of 10,000 yards, or 5,1 miles. Arrangements are being made to carry out a course of trials and experiments with the gun, in the promo of the Select Committee of Winlwiell Arsenal, LITEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : NAPLES, (via *Marseilles), OCT. 2. The Royal troops having arrived within a day's march of Naples, attacked yesterday the en trenched positions of Madeloni, defended by Bisio, and the positions at Caserta, defended by Sistori. Garibaldi has announced a complete victory. The Garibaldians, it is stated, captured a brigade of Royal troops. The losses were considerable on both sides. The Anglo-Sicilian battalion lost all its officers. The Neapolitans withdrew towards Capua and Gaeta. The King and his brothers intend to continue the fight. They have ordered the fortifying of the road leading to Rome. Tho King frequently visits Capua. TURIN, OCT. 5. The journals and correspondence received here from Naples contain details of the battle on the Volturno. The Garibaldians made 2,000 prisoners. The number of the enemy's dead was very large. The loss of the Garibaldians was estimated at 1,000 killed and wounded, THE CHAMBERS AT TURIN. TURIN, OCT. 5. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Cabello demanded the production of all documents relating to the entry of the Sardinian troops into Umbria and the Marches. Count Cavour refused to comply, and said that the con sideration of the diplomatic question arising from that affair had scarcely commenced. The victory of Garibaldi has not yet been con firmed. ROME, OCT. 3. Placards announcing the taking of Ancona have been posted up in different parts of Rome. Yester day evening the city was illuminated with Bengal fire in honour of the event, The Papal Government is making fresh enrol ments, and promises large rewards. The Papal troops, who still remain faithful, are concentrated at Tivoli. The column of General Massi is concentrated at Poggio. The French occupy Comarca, Rome, Corneto, and Civita Vecchia. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. The Moniteur says :—" The affairs of Syria have entered a new phase. Military action will now succeed the moral influence which has hitherto been exercised by our troops. Some other chiefs of the Druses have been arrested, and will be tried at Beyrout. The Caimakan of the Druses is among the prisoners, " These measures have produced a kind of panic among the Druses of the Mountain, and their attitude is more undecided. " Measures have been taken for the protection of the French twist manufacturers. " The wisdom and the vigorous energy of the chiefs of the Franco-Turkish army allow us to hope that the moment approaches when a solu tion, dearly bought, will be the reward of so many efforts." FRANKFORT, OCT. 5. The rate of discount has been raised from 2 to 3 per cent. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 5. BOURSE, Oct. s.—There has been rather less doing to-day, but the market is firm, and with a slight improvement in quotations. Threes are now at 69f 30c ; Mobilier, 730 f 25c ; Orleans, 1,378 f 75c ; Mediterranean, 922 f 50c; Strasburg, 646 f 25c ; Northern, 983 f 75c ; Austrian, 497 f 50c ; Lombard, 497 f 50c. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 85 Credit Fender Do end month.... 95 95 I Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 20 Roman — Bank Shares —l Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 725 Spanish Threes 4B 75 Do. Account 720 —lHome Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans — 1377 50 Northern New ditto — 837 50 Lyons and Mediterranean .. 922 50 Geneva — 360 -- Southern — .. 507 50 Western Eastern Sardinian • . 495 - - - .. 495 -. Austrian — LozrbLad DENMARK. We take the following from the Dagbladet, of the 2d October : " The Rigsdag, or Parliament, was opened yes terday. The two Chambers were immediately constituted. The Landsthing elected as President M. Brunn, member of the Supreme Court ; and the Folkthing gave the Presidency to M. Bregendahl. "His Majesty King Frederick 11. arrived at Co penhagen last Sunday, and wherever he has shown himself he has been warmly received by the popu lation." THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION. The following is the allocution pronounced by his Holiness Pius IX., at the secret consistory of the 28th ult.:— Venerable Brethren—lt is with incredible pain and pro found sorrow that we are forced to deplore and condemn new attacks, unheard-of till these days, committed by the Piedmont ese Government against us, the Holy See and the Catholic Church. That Government, you aro aware, abusing the victory which by the aid of a warlike and great nation it had gained in a most disastrous war, extended its sway over Italy, in defiance of all laws, human and divine. After exciting the populations to revolt, and, with mon strous injustice, driving the legitimate Sovereigns from their dominions, it invaded and usurped by an iniquitous and truly sacrilegious act certain provinces of Emilia, subject to our Pontifical authority. Now, while the Ca tholic world, responding to our most just and grievous complaints, ceases not to protest against this impious usur pation, that same Government arrogates to itself other provinces of the Holy See in the Picenum, Umbria, and the patrimony of St. Peter. Seeing the population of those provinces in the enjoyment of the most perfect tranquillity and faithfully attached to us notwithstanding that a lavish expenditure of money and other perverse dealings had failed to seduce them from our legitimate civil Government and that of the Holy See, it then let loose upon those pro vinces a band of worthless men to excite troubles and sedi tion, and afterwards sent a numerous army to attack those same provinces, and subject them by force of arms. " You are well aware, venerable brethren, of the impu dent latter addressed to our Cardinal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, by the Piedmontese Government, to justify its brigandage. It is not ashamed to tell us that orders had been given to its troops to occupy our provinces, if we did not immediately dismiss the foreign ers enalled in our small army, raised solely to secure the tranquillity of our Pontifical dominions and their populations ; and you are aware that at the very time that letter was received, those provinces were actually occupied by the Piedmontese troops. Verily it is impos sible not to be deeply moved and indignant in presence of these false accusations, the various calumnies, anirtbe out rages which that Government is not ashamed to cover its impious and hostile aggression against the civil authority of the Roman Church, and to attack our own Government. Who would not be astonished to see our own Government taken to task for enrolling foreigners in our army, when everybody knows that none can refuse to a legitimate Go vernment the right of enlisting foreigners among its troops I Assuredly this right belongs in a special manner to our Go vernment and that of the Holy See, since the Roman Pon tiff, the common father of all the faithful, cannot decline to receive with all his heart those who influenced by religious zeal, wish t o servo in the Pontifical army, and lend their aid to the defence of the Church. Here its must be observed that this concourse of foreign Catholcs is chiefly duo to the perversity of those who have assriled the civil power of the Holy See. No one, indeed, can be ignorant of the lidignation and grief which seized the whole Catholic world at tip zlewo of the Waitot tul4 impietts aggreggioA ou the dominions of the Apostolic See. A great number of faithful, from different countries, eagerly hastened of their own accord towards our Pontifical dominions, and enrolled themselves in our army to defend our ri;rhts, thosn'of the Holy See, and of the Church. With singular malignity the Piedmontese Government does not hesitate calumni ously to stigmatise our soldiers as mercenaries—our soldiers, of whom a great number both natives and foreigners, of noble extraction and bearing illustrious names, had deter mined to serve in our army without pay, and solely out of love for religion. The Piedmonteso Government well knows the incorruptible fidelity of our army, and how useless were all the perfidous manceuvres employed. It is useless to offer any refutation of the false accusation of bar barity brough6against our troops since the calumniators can produce no proof of the charge ; and, what is more, this same accusation may with justice be thrown back on themselves, and fully justified by the atrocious proclama tions issued by the chiefs of the Piedmontese army. " It is well to remark here that our Government could have no suspicion of this hostile invasion, since it had re • ceived the assurance that the Piedmontese troops were ap proaching our territory, not as invaders, but to protect it from bands of disorderly persons. The General-in-Chief of our troops, therefore, could not think that he would have to fight against the Piedmontese army. The aspect of things having changed contrary to all right and all expec tation, as soon as he learned the hostile invasion of an army evidently stronger and more numerous than his, he wisely resolved to retire to the fortress of Ancona, in order not to expose our soldiers to inevitable destruction, but, being stopped on his march by the enemy's troops, ho could not but fight to opena way for himself and his soldiers. "At the same time, however, that we award due and well-deserved praise to the General-in-Chief of our troops, to the officers and to the soldiers, who, when attacked unawares by the enemy, fought most bravely, though in ferior in numbers, for the cause of God, of the Church, of this Apostolic See, and of justice, we can with difficulty re strain our tears on learning how many valiant soldiers, young men of rank especially, whom their faith and noble hearts had induced to fly to the defence of the temporal power of the Roman Church, have met with death in this unjust and cruel invasion. We deeply sympathise with the mourning into which their families are plunged. God grant that we may bo able to dry up the tears of those families by our words. It will be for them, at least so we trust, a ground of no little consolation that the honour able mention, so welt merited, that we make of their fallen children and relatives, prove the signal example of faith, devotedness, and love towards ourselves and this Holy See, which they have, by im mortalising their names, given to the Christian world. We further cherish the hope that all those who have gloriously fallen for the cause of the Church, will obtain that eternal peace and beatitude for which we have prayed, and shall pray unceasingly, to the most High and most gracious God. We must also here award the praises due to our dear sons the governors of provinces, especially the provinces of Urbino, Pesaro, and Spoleto, who, in the midst of the gloomy vicissitudes of the times, have constantly and cou rageously performed their duties. " But now, venerable brethren, who could tolerate the . glaring impudence and hypocrisy with which the infamous aggressors dare, in their proclamations, to say that they enter into our provinces to re-establish there the principles of moral order ? And this rash affirmation is made by those who, declaring an implacable war against the Catholic Church, its ministers, and its property, and absolutely de pising the laws and ecclesiastical censures, have not hesi tated to throw into irons either eminent Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, or Bishops, or the most ho nourable men of one or the other clergy; to drive religious communities from their own monasteries; to rob the Church of its property, and to devastate the patrimony of the Holy See. The principles of moral order would there fore be re-established by those who found public schools of every false doctrine, and houses of perdition ; who endea vour, by abominable writings and infamous spectacles, to offend and destroy modesty, honesty, and virtue, to turn into derision the sacred mysteries of our Divine religion ; the sacraments, the precepts, and the laws of the Church, its ministers, its rites, and its ceremonies; to annihilate every notion of justice, to shake and destroy the founda tions of religion and of society. " This is why, in this unjust aggression, in this horrible invasion of our temporal power, accomplished by the King of Sardinia and his Government against all the laws of jus tice, and of the law of nations, we, calling to mind the duty imposed onus, again energetically raise our voice, in the midst of your illustrious assembly, and, in face of the Catholic universe, we reprove and condemn the criminal and sacrilegious excesses of that King and of that Govern ment; we declare all their acts null and of none effect, and we claim, in the most urgent manner, the integrity of that temporal power which belongs to the Roman Church, as well as its rights and those of all Catholics, and we shall never cease to claim the restitution of them. "Here we cannot conceal from you, venerable brethren, that we are overcome by the most lively bitterness, in see ing that in such a wicked and even execrable spoliation, we are again deprived of foreign assistance, in consequence of different difficulties which have arisen. Certainly the reiterated declarations which have been made to us by one of the most powerful priiices of Europe, are well known to you. Nevertheless, while we still wait for the effect of them, we cannot but be cruelly afflicted and disturbed, in seeing that the authors of and actors in this frigktful usurpation persist and advance with audaci y and insolence in their detestable designs, as if they were assured that no ono will effectually oppose it. "Their perversity has reached to such a point, that the hostile troops of the Sub- Alpine army, having been sent almost to the foot of the walls of our well beloved capital communication is stopped ; public and private affairs are in suspense ; the roads are intercepted, and, what is more serious, the Sovereign Pontiff is reduced to the most painful emba rassment for the affairs of the church, and cannot provide for it, since the principal road of communication with the different parts of the world is closed. Thus, vene rable brethren, in those bitter agonies, and in such an ex tremity, you understand that we are brought to the painful necessity of thinking, even in spite of ourselves, of adopt ing opportune resolutions to save our dignity. " In the meantime, we cannot abstain from particularly deploring the disastrous and pernicious principle, which is called that of non-intervention, proclaimed some time ago by certain Governmentq, tolerated by others, and put in practice, even in the case of the odious aggression of one State against another; whence it follows that a sort of im punity and license is secured, in contempt of all laws, human and Divine, for the invasion and the spoliation of the rights, the properties, and the domains of another, and which we see happen in these lamentable times. And what is truly wonderful is that it is with impunity allowed to the only subalpine Government to trample under foot and to violate this pretended principle, since we see it under the eyes of all Europe send its troops on the territory of other States, to dethrone and expel the legitimate princes. Hence fol lows this pernicious absurdity that foreign intervention is only admitted in order to excite and favour rebellion. " This, therefore, is a fitting opportunity for us to exhort all the Princes of Europe to reflect on the gravity of their counsels, and in the meditations of their wisdom, how many evils and peri:s are accumulated in the detestable events which we deplore. The case, in fact, is of a bar. barons violation accomplished against the universal law of nations; and if it is not completely suppressed, there is henceforth no security for any legitimate right. It is the question of the principle of rebellion, of which the Sub- Alpine Government shamefully supported the yoke, and which easily explains what dangers threaten Governments and fall on all civil society, since it opens the breach be fore the fatal communism. It relates also to the violation of the solemn conventions which guarantee the integ rity and the independence of the Pontifical State, as well as of all other European ones. It is the case of the violent spoliation of that power which, by a special design of Divine Providence, was given to the Roman Pontiff to secure to him, in the Universal Church, the full liberty of the exercise of his Apostolic ministry. This liberty ought to be, on the part of all Princes, the object of the most lively solicitude, in order that the Pontiff himself may not be submitted to the influence of any foreign Power, and that thus the Catholics, who . inhabit the domains of those different princes, may be in complete security. "All soN ereigns must therefore be persuaded that their cause is intimately connected with ours, and that in coming to our assistance they are providing equally for the preser vation of their own rights and of ours. We urge and ad jure them, therefore, with the utmost confidence, to lend us their assistance, each according to his condition and his means. We have no doubt that Catholic priests and na tions will, with the utmost ardour, make every effort to hasten, with commo n accord, to assist, defend, and protect, by every means, the father and pastor of the whole flock of the Lord, attacked by the parricide armies of a degenerate son. 6 But you kn ow well, venerable brethren, that all our hope must be put in God, our aid and refuge in our tribu lations • in God, who wpunds and heals the wounds, who smites and cures, who gives death and life, who leads into the abyss and delivers from it. We therefore in all confidence and humility of heart, unceasingly offer up before Him our imploring the efficacious interc ess i on o f th e mfelo.vstenltipolrya3rs, and Immaculate Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, and the support of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, that he may make manifest the might of his arm, and break the pride of his enemies ; that he may put to fight those who attack us, humble and crush all the enemies of his holy Church. Lastly, that the hearts of prevarica tors may be changed by the Almighty power of His grace, and that Holy Mother Church may soon rejoice over the so-much-desired "conversion." The revising barrister for the county of Nor thumberland completed his revision for the southern division on Tuesday. The Ltherals claim a gain of 55 votes upon the roll. The tamford Mercury says of the representation of Boston :—" The Liberal party seem undecided as to the choice of a man. I n addition to the names given in our last, Major Ameotts and Mr. Forster have been talked of. The former of these is well known in the county, and the e)nsistency of the latter is guaranteed by M • E. Baines, M.P." .cora T m h e e nc i i t n u o. blis i b l in e g m s e e: s on the 104 Mr, Nurray's f9l l 9wiug 6 few days later. srso.nLoisngomnanthheoldpothineitr otrfadfoalorallye THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the overland mail we have received advises and journals from Bombay to the 11th of September. There is little news from India. We take the fol lowing from the Bombay Gazette:— " India is perfectly quiet. Whatever misfortune may be looming in the distance—and there are many amongst us only too ready to predict for the empire the worst calamities—the preparations already made for levying the income tax have, as yet, produced not even popular excitement, much less discontent. The firm attitude taken by the Government has, in truth, completely silenced opposition. Their resolution —announced in the Legislative Council by Sir Bartle Frere, who Las throughout been the ablest and most cordial of Mr. Wilson's supporters—to carry on all the mea sures of the late Finance Minister, destroyed the last hope of the disaffected. Even the consolation which the opponents of the income tax found in the Lucknow libel case has now been taken away from them. The Arms Act still excites a good deal of attention in the Mofussil, but the attempt to pro voke an agitation in the presidency towns has failed." The Bombay Tones and Standard, which is strongly opposed to the income tax, says—" If we arc not misinformed, the last mail carried to Eng land a despatch from the local government to the Secretary of State, representing the danger of persisting in 'the attempt to levy this income tax, and the necessity of abandoning it at whatever The same journal contains the following local intelligence :—" Within the last week it has been proposed to found two new banks in Bombay. Ono of these schemes will probably fall to the ground. The prospectus of the other company gives suffi cient guarantee upon its face of the legitimate and bona fide nature of the enterprise. Its provisional committee consists of men of high character in the native community, and of great wealth. The capital is sixty lakhs of rupees, and the share list, we under stand, was filled up in less than 24 hours. The bank is to be called The Central Bank of Western India,' and very stringent provisions are to be introduced into the deed to prevent the bank fol lowing the example of the Oriental and Mercan tile banks, by removing the headquarters of the establishment to London. The projectors wish to make it distinctly an Indian bank, and propose opening branch agencies in the Mofussil. It was at first supposed that the establishment was to be under exclusively native management, but the sup position is erroneous. A more important enter prise than this, however, is about to be launched amongst us. The opprobrium of our port for years has been its want of wharfage accommodation, and the delay which takes place in the loading and un- loading of cargo. A vessel can seldom discharge and take in cargo in less than two months, and it is proposed to remedy this by the construction of a deep water pier in the harbour. The projector of the work is Mr. D. J. Kennelly, formerly of the master attendant's office. The point of departure from the shore is to be the Carnac Bunder. It is proposed to make one vast wharf of the Carnac, Musjid, and Clare Bunders, stretching from the site sf the present slaughter-house to the verge of the Elphinstone Bunder. There would be ample room upon such a wharf for the erection of a custom house, bonded warehouses, storage, sheds, and eot ton ground and screws, and the most careful study of the locality points it out as in all respects the fittest for the purpose. The pier will run out front Carnac Bunder to Cross Island, a distance of 400 feet. Along this jetty, which will be 100 feet wide and traversed by a double line of tramway, the native craft of the harbour will discharge and load. At the pier-head a transverse section 6,000 feet long will run parallel with the course °t i the harbour In 'deep water, where it is proposed that square rigged vessels shall discharge and take in cargo. The section will be 60 feet broad, and little more a mile long. The project has received the careful consideration of Government, and is warmly re recommended by the commodore of the navy, the collector of customs, and by numerous shipmasters who are acquainted with the port, and have been consulted thereon. The pier seems to be the natural remedy for the evils under which our shipping trade suffers ; and as the amount of capital required in the enterprise, £600,000, is not excessive, there is little doubt of the scheme being carried through. Mr. Berkeley is to be the consulting engineer." HURRICANE ON TIIE SCOTTISH NORTH-EASTERN COAST. On Wednesday the coast and counties along the north-east of Scotland were visited with a storm of wind and wet more terrific and destructive than has been experienced in the quarter during the last 20 years ; indeed, some of the older people say the gale was never equalled in the north. Tuesday evening at Aberdeen was comparatively mild, but Wednesday morning broke with the wind blowing a perfect hurricane from the west, and when day light struggled fairly in it revealed the destruction wrought in a few hours in the streets of the city being actually littered in many places with chimney cans, patent iron smoke guides, tiles, slates, and glass. The gale continued blowing fiercely all fore. noon, the work of destruction still going on through out the town in sign-boards being torn down, high chimneys toppling over, the humbler and older houses having their coverings carried off, new buildings in the course of erection partially sharing the same fate, while whole ranges of paling, as also lofty attic windows, came dashing to the ground, to the great terror of the few venturesome and dutiful individuals who would not be stayed by the elements from taking their places in church, the day being the Sacramental Fast. Nor was the gale less sparing of the forest and floral beauties of Aberdeen. Trees and shrubs planted in favourite squares and other spots have been ruthlessly broken or torn up by the roots, while a number of the gardens and nurseries about town have likewise fared very badly. Regarding the harbour there was, of course, a deal of anxiety, and not without cause. The steamer Ben My Chree, which had arrived late on Tuesday evening from Inverness, sailed again dun ing the night for Edinburgh, but had only pro ceeded as far south as Bervie when the captain found it necessary, from the violence of the gale and the state of the sea, to put back to Aberdeen. Happily the steamer was able to make the harbour, but not before some 50 of the sheep on boar g d staeirn had nsst perished. Several of the vessels at the quay s id e brok e each otherth e i r considerablemoorings an damage apitching wasd heavily on e t o a bows, yl d n . o t t Ah w e i iltrahrsgtcaeenlsedhbienrdagtuetndhdee under which I r wi e p w hpi s ecrh being tshheipm a s t e their postsaHn H all i ebaurli knocked over, and several workmen injured. Two vessels that anchored a short distance out in the bay, not deeming it prudent to venture taking the harbour, were s een d ragg i ng the i r anchors about wildly, but the wind being fortunately for them off shore, W. and N.W., they managed to ride out the gale in safety. In the course of the afternoon tidings came from the country districts that the storm had been quite as severe there as in town. Great trees, 70 and 80 feet in height, and the growth of as many years, had snapped under the strength of the wind, or been uprooted: The farmers, it is feared, will be heavy sufferers, the stacks in the corn yards being much injured, while the sheaves that happened to be in stook were lifted up and sent spinning about the fields like feathers. The grain still uncut has also been fearfully shaken. Fortu nately, amid all this, so far as was known on Thurs day morning, there had been no cases of fatal per sonal injury, the only accidents reported at the infirmary and police offices consisting of slight hurts from the falling of tiles and the throwing over of several aged persons in the streets. The wind and rain continued strong and heavy till Thursday morning, but towards forenoon the weather settled down greatly. Both north and south of Aberdeen the hurricane has been equally severe and destructive. The will of Nathaniel Goldsmid, Esq., barrister.. at-law, of the Inner Temple, late of Upper Berkeley.. street, and of Rue Valois du Rome, Paris, where he died on the 19th of August last, aged fifty-three, was proved in London, on the 25th of September, by two of his executors, Y. H. Goldsmid and Jaws Young, Esqrs. The will was mad e i n L ondon i n 1858, and two codicils in Paris, dated this year. The personalty was sworn under 19,000, which together with his real estates, and interest and in come frem the property under settlements, is for the enjoyment of his wife during life, and then to the two sons. His daughter, who has an interest under a marriage settlement, is a novice in a convent at Rome ; and the testator has directed the guar - dians whom he has appointed over his children to exercise the greatest care that they are brought up in the Boman Catholic faith.