The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 1860. The Emperor of FRANCE has taken ample revenge for exclusion from Warsaw. The three great Powers saw fit to meet without him. The greatest, territorially, was prudent enough to explain that he " meant no offence" by not asking the elected Emperor of FRANCE with the two other Royal guests, to the old capital of the elected Kings of of Poland. Oh, of course not, says the French EMPEROR, only, since you do not let me confer privately with you at Warsaw, I shall have a little public chat with you and all Europe. It will suit my purpose quite as well. And, if it should so happen that I promulge notions inconvenient to any or all of you, blame yourselves not me. Had vou thought it worth while to ask the Sovereign of the principal continental State, he might have compared notes quietly with you j before giving his notions to the world. Such we understand to be the animus of the article in the Constitutionnel, of which M. REUTER furnishes us the principal points. One can easily imagine the EMPEROR, after having drafted it for his ma -official ergan, saying to, himself—There, y o ur Majesties, I wish you may like it; perhaps nex t time 5 ou meet before Europe for a conference, you may think it quite.'as well to ask me to it ; if not, you may then hear a little more, rather less to your taste than this. Certain it is that the article in the French newspaper nullifies the War saw Conferen ce . i t tells all the world what the excluded potentate Ne ill let the assembled poten tates do; and they may bite their nails as long as they like over the council table, they will not dare to violate the circle which the G reat Magician of the Western Empire has drawn around th em. The sting of the article is that he vi • rtually places himself above them all. Ile is the Emperor of Emperors. The whole article implies that on what France does, depends, what they may dare e to d o . France wills to let the Italian revolution alone ; therefore, two other ENIPERORS and a KING, ail ea ger to rehabilitate every Italian despot, must let it alone too ! The EMPEROR has even, for the pleasure o f vex i n g the magnates of W arsaw, changed his Italian faith. Formerly it was that a w eak Italy was the interest of France. N ow he generously merg es the interests of France ,- in those of Europe, and tells the three ex clusives that " an organised and p owerful Ital y is henceforth the interest of Europe !" and he • l not to hold in forms them that Europe will do wis - e j private conclaves of three kings, but a general Congress to consecrate an Italian Monarchy by an • • 0. a ll this act of high jurisdiction ! How mortifying t must be is plain when we remember that Letts ra had no other object in going to the conference than to - et 6 a guarantee for Venetia, and probably, au thority to make an attack on her lost possessions. The n , how biting are the reasonings. We read of a gentleman who chose for his crest an arm holding a hammer, and bringin g it down on an anvil—with the motto in plain English " By this I got you ;" " been he:n early life a blacksmith. And LOUIS NAPOLEON boasts in like manner of his Imperial origin—and proclaims himself the elect of France to those who hate the very idea of popular election for any purpose, and most of all for the creation of a monarch. Yet this, says the excluded from Warsaw, "is my title to the throne, and one reason why I cannot inter fere in Italy without betraying my origin.' " "In taking part," says the Constitutionnel, " against Italy, the Emperor would betray his origin; he would lose the character he holds from universal suffrage, by which he was selected, and would divest himself of the authority necessary to a Sovereign of France for the good of Europe. The more he is equitable to peoples the greater is the service rendered by the Emperor to the prin ciple of authority."—" Universal suffrage!" "Equity to peoples"—and equity to peoples " rendering ser vice to the principle of authority." Why, such Napoleonic Ideas must have spoiled the night's rest and the breakfast of all the three monarchs. And then the position claimed for herself by the EMPEROR-IVIODERATOR OF EUROPE! Pacificator of Europe ! The Emperor of RUSSIA'S father had no doubt that such titles could be appropriate only to the CZAR—the God of Russia. His son must ' hear a very different story. To think while the Lords of some hundreds and millions of men were met together, of being told by the monarch of about a third of that number that he, not they, was the Moderator of Europe ! That ROMANOFFS, and HOHENZOLLERNS, and HAPSBURGS might all play their parts, or put forth their energies, might quarrel or combine, as they pleased, but that he was the JUPITER of the continental Olympus, and that, after having been re-instated on the throne of his uncle by the hundred-handed BRIAREUS of universal suffrage ! They will all whisper to each other that they had better have had him in War saw, than this article in the Constitutionnel. The worst is that if they look southward from Warsaw they see that they are helpless. Austria has tried her best to cajole the Hungarians, but already the tidings of satisfaction and joy manufac tured at Vienna begin to be followed by very dif ferent accounts. The Hungarians begin to be heard complaining of the very defects which we at first indicated—the separation of the annexed nation alities from Hungary—the withdrawing the power of taxation from the Diet—and the non-restitution of the power over the army and over peace and war, which are given by the old coronation oath to the Hungarian Diet. Hungary will soon see that her old guarantees, those without which the Diet is no better than a parish vestry, are wanting. Hungary therefore will not be quieted by this sham humiliation, and so far Austria will be hindered from venturing beyond the Quadrilateral. Then she has put herself to an enormous cost to strengthen Verona and Venice especially, and to fill the country with troops; has done it too out of her miserable poverty. Yet, all depends on whether she can move at once. As soon as VICTOR E3IMA NUEL is proclaimed King of NAPLES, and has ejected the King of GAETA, his game will be up. Twenty-four millions of freemen under one heartily constitutional monarch will soon be more than a match for Austria, on their own soil at least. And that consummation is now fast approaching, Next Sunday VICTOR EMMA NUEL will, in all probability, accept at Naples the almost universal vote of the country, and then it will be for him to tell the last of the BOURBONS that " the people, the legitzmate source of power," have made their choice, that he means to enforce it, that he must therefore choose between exile or apartments in St. Elmo—if any be left by that time. With the " Moderator of Europe" at Rome, and the King of ITALY master of all the country besides, poor Austria, the pitied guest at Warsaw, will be told—she must wait till she is attacked— and what then ? - Why, that she must take care of herself as she best can between Hungary and Italy. It was the Rev. SYDNEY SMITH who originally remarked—" If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes—some circular, some squAre, some oblong— and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole." The reverend wit adding—" The office and the officer, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other." Quaint as the saying is—it has long since passed into a proverb. The complimentary or sup. plementary sequel to which was happily hit upon, if we remember rightly, by Mr. LAYARD, " the Member for Nineveh"—meaning, the now familiar aspiration . for the induction of the right man into the right place in all the various departments of the public service. With an especial. view to the attain ment of which desirable illustration of the " fitness of things" there has recently been allowed to grow up among us the comprehensive and elaborate ma chinery of the Competitive Examination System. That system which a few years back, shortly after its adoption by the QUEEN'S Government, carried such a comical terror to one of the contributors to Mr. DICKENS'S _Household TP ords—the writer avowing himself to be in perpetual fear and trembling lest, unexpectedly, one of these fine days some roving body of commissioners should come down into his part of the country and then and there subject him perforce to a searching examination! The popular novelist, Mr. ANTHONY TROLLOPE, has since then exemplified the operation of the new system in a very vivid manner through the humorous pages of his well-known fiction of the Three Clerks. This competitive examination system, in point of fact, has now been sufficiently long in use amongst us to admit of its being in its o'. n turn subjected to a wide and stringent scrutiny. We have abundance of data by this time to " go upon" in the not unrea sonable endeavour to arrive at some dispassionate decision as to the efficiency or inefficiency of the scheme in regard to the attainment of the particular result originally aimed at in its organisation. How the scheme has worked during the last five or six years, we may now learn in detail from the authen tic records of the various public departments. There is a particular row of the blue-books annually accumulating upon the national book shelves that may be turned to for the desired information.by Foli o a ft er f o li o s t an d s range d th ere side side big with the truths they have to tell as to the working of the new-fangled system of com petitive examinations. There are the "Reports of the Committees of Inquiry into Public Offices" to begin with—under date 1854.—from the facts re corded in which the whole project, as now in active operation, may be said to have sprung as from armed and p ro f oun d i n JOVE'S headache, fully wisdom, sprang forth PALLAS herself, the very goddess of all competive examinations. There are n ext—under date the year immediately ensuinc, (1855) —the " Papers relating to the reorganisation sci:ncillnY—isstilloes for o f the Civil Service." Then come pouring out in ponderous yearly tomes—from 1856 to 1860 inclu " Annual Reports of the Civil Service To say norling of that supple mentary volume the current year (1860)—the "Report of the Select Comnlcltce on Civil Service Appointments:" Under the shadow of the leaves of which later blue books—how much domestic wretchedness is there not lying perdue partially visible, only half latent, dimly suspected—what innumerable heartburnings are there, what poig nanthome griefs—what agonising disappointments! Was it not Lord MELBOURNE who said in regard to that supposed enviable privilege of patronage appertaining to a Prime Minister that in reality it was a privilege in no way enviable at all—for inas mueh as the Minister rejoiced one individual in the award of each particular appointment, he S disappointed a hundred, it might be many hundred, less fortunate aspirants. What was thus upon the old system a merely possible, or we will even say pro bable contingency—under the new system of com petitive examinations has become an invariable and inevitable necessity. And the disappointments here too are all the more painfully realised among the competitors who fails to win the prize held up to their competition by a sense of a something partaking :of the ignominious in the mere fact of the failure in the attempt to pass through those competitive examinations I Whatever else has come of the new-fangled system as yet, this one truth has at any rate been quite plainly demon strated—that Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN was alto gether labouring under a misapprehension when he anticipated (at p. 336 of the Reports of Committees on Public Offices) that the result of the adoption of the new system would be to attract into its ranks (into the ranks of the Civil Service) " the ablest and the most ambitious of the youth of the country." The Right Hon. Baronet while labouring under that impression was the victim of an amiable hallucination. The " most ambitious of the youth of the country" are not attracted into the Civil Service by the magical magnetic in fluence of those marvellous competitive examina tions. Nor can the simple fact of their not being so attracted be any matter for surprise, if we take into account the probabilities of the case as de fined by Mr. WADDINGTON (vide Reorg. Civ. Service, p. 387), where that gentleman remarks : "A strange ambition indeed, for a double first. class man to aspire to be a subordinate for life, upon pay which might, with rigid and unrelenting economy, enable him to bring up a numerous family, but which no power of self denial or self-torture could stretch so as to enable him to make a provision for them after his death ; and this to at tain, if greatly favoured by fortune, the dignity of Chief Clerk, possibly on the ♦ery day on which his friend who stood by him in the list of honours is made a Bishop or a Judge. The reporters cannot, I think, have been acquainted with many of 'the ablest and most ambitious youth of the country.' If they had, they would have known that they are not, and never will be, the stuff of which clerks in public offices are made. It has been my great good fortune to be the friend of several of them ; some of them are now occupying high positions. I have had to deplore the early fate of other; but I can assure the reporters that they all duly appreciated their own merits, that they knew their own value, and were not disposed to barter the golden days of their prime for an abject pittance less than the earnings of the clerk of a barrister in respectable practice." The opinion expressed recently by one of the ablest of the Quarterly Reviewers is also very remarkable : " Those who conduct the enormous and varied commerce of Great Britain, and indeed of every other European coun try, have always contrived—apparently with satisfactory results—to fill up the vacancies in their vast army of sub ordinates without the help of this new machine." And the reviewer adds sarcastically : " Even the directors of companies, who do not carry on their business on their own behalf, but, like the Govern ment, on behalf of a vast body of constituents to whom they owe their power, have found the system of simple nomination perfectly effi:tient. They use their own judg ment in the choice of a servant, or they rely on the judg ment of subordinates or of friends ; and perhaps they sa tisfy themselves that he possesses the knowledge which the office for which he is destined will call into play. But not only have they never, within the memory of man, thought of examining their candidate in philology, Greek verse making, and the differential calculus, but even now, when the theory has become familiar to the world, they utterly decline to accept, in the slightest degree, these qualifica tions as a recommendation for their choice. This system is new in this Government, unknown to other civilised Governments, and unknown to men of business anywhere. There is one country, and one country only, where it is in full force, and has been in full force for ages. In China every officer, from the highest to the lowest, is appointed by literary competition. If the state of things in China is our administrative ideal, we are in a fair way to reach it. These results of the new system are certainly so directly contrary to those which were anticipated at the period of its adoption, that the whole scheme appears to demand most urgently a speedy revision, with a view to decide at as early a date as possible, as to the alternative of its retention or its abandonment. The Queen will hold a Privy Council tomorrow (Friday) at Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary left town yesterday afternoon for Brighton. The Countess and Mademoiselle St. Pierre have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Swit zerland. Viscount and Vicountess Palmerston left London yesterday for Leeds. Baron Oscar de Mesnil has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Brussels. The Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Sussex, which has become vacant by the death cf his Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G., will, it is said, be bestowed on the Earl of Chichester. The riband of the Garter worn by the late duko does not fall, as it would naturally, to the disposal of Lord P almerston, inasmuch as Lord Derby, on retiring from office last year, was nominated an extra knight of that illustrious order, by command of her Ma jesty, and consequently succeeds to the first vacancy which occurs in that body by death. THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AT BRIGHTON.-- We are very happy to announce the arrival of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by her daughter, the Princess Mary. The Royal Duchess left the London-bridge station by the 4.10 train on Tuesday after noon, and reached the Brighton terminus precisely at 10 minutes to 6 o'clock. Her Royal Highness's carriage was iu waiting to convey her to the residence engaged for her in Brunswick-terrace. The Royal Duchess travelled in a beautifully fitted up saloon, but no ceremony was observed either on her departure from London or on her arrival in Brighton. We understand it is her Royal Highness's in tention to remain six weeks in Brighton, and we trust that the Royal Duchess will derive benefit from the salubrity of the air on the coast.—Brighton Gazette. lIEALTH OF THE EAE,L h OF DERBY.—The state of healthtiseofeotuhseidEearralbloef anxiety Derby t a o s i f l io s rme time been such as however, to know that he is now steadily to ca family. d It is gratifying, convalescence. The answer to inquiriesailyatatvnaonweioniegytoylvsatredrs_ day was that his lordship continues to improve in health, apprehensionyvereattacic so s o e f v s e Q r r e i , c i i n s d c e ( e )n d -, s a e n ci d uenc thate con sequences. there id e i s has not h n a o d w it a s n e as at one time to excite painful anxiety, — but d fortunately it e m on e st ic , ll , attendants, has yielded to the care and skillo g f o l o d d s aided by the vigour of a naturally Mrs. Glover, DEATH OF Mlt. EDMUND GLOVER Nib on. Theatre Loyal, Glover, eldest son of the late celebrated actress, and for some years past manager of the 'li! ri a . Glasgow, expired yesterday morning at Edinburgh, after a long and painful illness. RAILWAYS IN NAPLES.—Advises from Naples state that the railway concessions granted to Mesra Adami and Lemmi, of Leghorn , have not been revoked a ,. as was reported, but confirmed with modifications. One reason for the hastening of railway en ter p rise in th e TWO Sieil a i e ea consists in the desirableness of finding work for th e nat i ve volunteers, who will be thrown ou t employment at t e conclusion of the revolutionary struggle. Rio DE JANEIRO.--Some of the advises from Rio de Janeiro, by the French steamer Guienne, state the failure of Messrs. Carriette and Co. to have been for £190,000. They mention also that although the firm have covenanted to pay their creditors a composition of 6 per cent, the 'instalments are to be spread over two years, with out security, while it is also a condition that the partners are to take the first £3,000 realised by the assets as a capital to enable them to continue business. The principal circum stances connected with th a failure of Senhor Moho e Souza, which took place in September for nearly £500,000, still remained without clear explanation. Previously to the stoppage of Carruotte and Co. another flour dealer, named A. de Castro, had stopped for about £llO,OOO. There have also been several other failures in the dry goods trade, and thus the total liabilities of sus pended..r firms during the past three or four months had been ra l, e , l to an aggregate little short of a million sterling. The debts of th e flour and dry moods dealers fall chiefly on foreigners, those of Mello e Souza principally on the Ca p i.. tafists and banks i n Ri o . N ever th e l ess , , th e general pros in the Emp eror is perfect, and agr i cu lture is gourisLillg, peels of the country are described to be highly satisfactory. The Governm en t the crops 1111110 st is stable a n d we ll su pp or t e d, the confidence districts being very large' LATEST NEWti. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, OCT. 24 (EvENING). It is asserted that Baron Ricasoli remains in office. Adviees received here from Naples to the even ing of the 23d inst. do not confirm the despatch, originating from an official source, announcing that the Garibaldians had entered Capua. King Victor Emmanuel had arrived at Venafro. No further news has been received here concern- Lug the result of the voting in Southern Italy. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 17. It is asserted that several ambassadors have re quested•that Turkey in Asia should be visited by the Grand Vizier as well as Turkey in Europe, the state of the former being equally serious. Arrests are reported to have been made in the army and among the lower clergy of Constan tinople. Several Poles and Ferrad Pacha have been arrested. VIENNA, OCT. 24. The official Wiener Zeitung publishes an Im perial patent, dated Oct. 20, constituting a statute for the organisation of the Provincial Diet of Styria. The Diet is to consist of 6 representatives of the clergy, 12 proprietors of landed property, to which certain privileges are attached; 10 representatives from certain chartered cities, 2 from the Chamber of Commerce, and 12 from the other communes of Styria, making in all 42 members, of whom 40 are to be elected. The Emperor appoints the President of the Diet. WARSAW, OCT. 24 (NooN). This morning the Prince of Hohenzollern Sig maringen visited the Prince Regent, and Count RechbQrg conferred with the Emperor of Austria; Up to to-day no special conference of the ministers of Austria, Russia, and Prussia has taken place. The Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent remain here until Friday. NAPLES, OCT. 23. Cojazzo and the vicinity have been evacuated by the Royalist troops. The line of the Volturno has been abandoned for that of the Garigliano. The national flag floats on the heights above Capua. Hopes are entertained that Capua will be shortly evacuated. We have also received the following telegram : " Turr's division has received orders to be ready to start by sea—destination not known. " The Hungarian Legion is to form part of it." FRANCE AND ITALY. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says :—I beg to draw your atten tion to the following article in the Constttutionnel, because I know it represents the present views of the French Government regarding Italian affairs. The policy of the Emperor Napoleon, the writer observes, has been attacked with equal violence by two classes of opponents. One declares that although the French Government, in stopping short at Villafranca, desired to check the revo lution to save the Pope, and to reconcile the various Italian Princes with their popula tions, yet nothing of that programme has been carried out, as the revolution has swept across the whole Italian peninsula, invaded Sicily, and avowedly intends to attack Venetia at no distant period. On the other hand the opposite party says to the Emperor's Government—You took in hand the grievances of Italy, gave an irresistible impulse to a whole people, spent the money and blood of France in the cause, and now, when a dynasty so odious and unpopular as that of the Neapolitan Bourbons is attacked, you not only refuse your support to the generous men who have devoted their energies to the triumph of Italian unity, but you prolong at Rome an occupation which irritates the national feeling of the populations, and pre vents the sentiment of freedom from expandiug to its legitimate extent. The article in the Constitu tionnel adduces arguments to prove that neither of these extreme courses could be with prudence adopted by France. To the first class of objectors your contemporary gives the following reply : " What do these persons, who would wish to see the Emperor turn against Italy, call on him to do? Thsy ask him to place himself out of the pale of all the principles he represents, and all the rules he has laid down. They ask him to renounce the moral authority which he exercises for the welfare and the peace of Europe. They wish him to contradict himself, and, so to speak, to change his nature. But is that, possible ? Can the Em peror forget that he is the elect of universal suf frage, and the representative on the throne of the ideas of the new society and of all the progress of civilisation ? Can he betray the origin of his name and of the mission which he holds from the confidence of the French people ? His enemies de sire it, no doubt, but they esteem him too much to hope for it. And to what would such a defection serve ? To weaken the prestige of the Emperor without advantage to any one. There is one thing which the whole world now understands, even those who regret to see it, namely, that the great influence of the Sovereign of France is one of the elements of the equilibrium, and of the security of Europe, and, moreover, one of the most precious resources she can invoke in the troubled situation of most States. The Treaty of Villafranca responded to a high conception, and it is profoundly to be regretted that the treaty has remained a dead letter; but the Sovereigns who signed it never had the pre tension to impose by force of arms the rights which were reserved in it. That pretension would have been irreconcileable with the situation which the treaty was to consecrate. Austria lost at Sol ferino her supremacy in Italy, and, except her sove reignty in Venetia, retained nothing ; but ought France to inherit the very situation which she had wrested from the House of Hapsburg ? Ought she to impose her domination on Italy, after hav ing destroyed that of Austria ? Ought her promises of enfranchisement to end in such a falsehood ? And for the advantage of whom would the Emperor have turned his arms against his old ally, the King of Sardinia, and have placed himself in flagrant discord with England ? For the ad vantage of Governments which, according us neither their sympathies nor their confidence, have no right to demand such sacrificss !" Such is the answer given to the first category of opponents—those who affirm that France has not gone far enough. To the others, who consider that he has gone too far, the article says : "Italy is passing through a great crisis of her destiny, and is, in fact, in revolution. A revolu tionary situation has temporarily replaced for that country the regular conditions of international exis tence. Hence the profound perturbations, the infrac tions of public law, the violent invasions, the preci pitate annexations which we have witnessed ! Could France lend a hand to such wild move ments? At present, perhaps, we excite distrust, but if we had encouraged Piedmont, instead of blaming her, what would have happened ? We should necessarily have had to break off Russia, which has just -withdrawn her Ambassador from Turin ; with Prussia, which protests ; with Austria, which feels herself menaced. We should have in evitably glided to universal war. The fortune of France, her labour, her industry—all that would have been abandoned to the haz uds of a gigantic conflict. The Emperor would have changed his part and his character; instead of being the moderator of the revolution, he would have become the leader of it; instead of being the pacificator of Europe he would be her terror ; instead of being the powerful • arbiter in questions of equilibrium, he would have lost the very titles of his jurisdiction; and, though elected by 8,000,000 of suffrages and representing the na tional will, he would have become nothing more than the instrument of a party." The article concludc6 in the following terms : " During the last year a very profound move ment has taken place in Europe, but it is not suffi ciently remarked. When the French Emperor, at the beginning of 1859, pleaded the cause of Italy, he had scarcely on his side the opinion of his own country. But now everything is greatly changed. England, which then demanded the inviolability of the treaties of 1815, now favours Italian unity ; Prussia,- in a recent document ema nating from the distinguished statesman who directs her foreign affairs, recognises in Ita lion nationality a happy presage for Germany; Russia, under the influence of a liberal Sovereign, also shows herself disposed to take into account a new element in the life of nations ; Austria herself has an immense interest in escaping from the un certainties which weigh so heavily on her, and the reforms she has just accorded prove that she is re solved to enter on a liberal course. As to France, faithful to the interests which she has defended, not being engaged with any one she would in a Congress derive advantage from the reserve with which she is reproached and the moderation she has known how to maintain. Better than any other Power, perhaps, she would be able to indicate the points of a compromise between all divergencies. After having enfranchised Italy, supported the Pope at Rome, blamed the invasion of the Roman States and of the Two Sicilies, and caused the principle of non-intervention to be re spected by respecting it herself, she cannot be sus pected either by Italy, or by the Papacy, or by Europe. We have too much confidence in the wis dom of the Sovereigns who would be represented in s congress not to be convinced that they would understand how much the spirit of compromise constitutes the condition of the re-establishment of order in the Peninsula. Italy, organised and power ful, is henceforth a European interest, and Europe, in consecrating by an act of her high jurisdiction that organisation, would prove herself both far seeing and just." FRANCE. PARIS, 0cT..24. BouitsE, Oct. 24.—The market has been heavy, and the little business done has been at a slight decline on the quotations of yesterday. For the Account, Threes are now at 68f 821 c; Mobilier, 702 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,367 f 50c ; Northern, 973 f 75c; Mediterranean, 918 f 75c; Austrian,4B6l 25c; Lom bard, 483 f 75c. The following are the last quota tions : 41 per per Cents 95 85 Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 85 Bank Shares 2850 Credit Mobilier 705 Do. Account 703 75 Credit Fonder 9OO Belgian 41 Piecimontese Fives 79 '— Roman . 79 Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt BAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .. .. 1367 Z5O .. 1367 50 Northern New ditto BB5 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 916 25 .. 915 Geneva 355 .. 355 Southern 505 .. r- Western Eastern Sardinian 393 75 .. 388 75 Austrian Imrbard 483 75 .. 482 50 BE N S N'S WATCHES.I " Perfection of mechanism." --Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for 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 ss. extra. 33 and 34, LudTate-hill, London. E.C. Established 174 g. 4 OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT 'I) GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole es Lesse. THIS EVENING, DINORAH. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Leffler, Miss Thirlwall ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. T. Chapel, 31r. H. Corri, Mr. St. Albyn. To conclude with the First Act of TROVATORE. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. THEA TRE-RO YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. THIS EVENUM - the nerformanees will c ommence w ith the new comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, E. Villiers, and Buckgtone; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Miss Florence Haydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. 'Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren, .end John Brougham ; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the adercqs. Commence at 7. I,OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. This Theatre will RE-OPEN on SATURDAY NEXT, Oct. 27, when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian re nown, will make his first appearance on the English stage. in an adaptation of Victor Hugo's celebrated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ; characters also by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Meadows, Garden. Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ' • Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. After the Farce, the admired Play of THE FIRST NIGHT. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. In consequence of the extraordinary success attending' the production at this Theatre of Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of "THE LOVE CHASE," the brilliant reception accorded to Miss Gougenheim in the character of Constance, and the enthusi astic applause bestowed on Mrs. Keeley's personation of The Widow Green, the Management feels called upon to announce its repetition during the week. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. The Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Calleott. Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. George Vining, 11Ir. H. Butler, Mr. Forrester, Mr. 4 Campbell, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Gougenheim. After which, a BALLET DIVERTISEMENT, in which the celebrated Dancers the Misses Marie and Annie Collin son will appear. To conclude with. every Evening, a New Drama, entitled THE PIONEERS OF AMERICA, principal characters by Mr. H.Watkins (his 10th appearance in Ene:land), Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Forrester, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. J. Morris, Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Turner. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben, . 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 Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs. Billing - ton. - After which, THE COLLEEN - BAWN. D. Ponrcicault, D. Fisher, Billing,ton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. • Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes,'Xl. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, U. ; Pit Stalls, 28.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. War. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing* popularity of the Grand Spectacle of RosiN4Fleop. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by E. Fitzball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, ,t c, Ailan a-Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. 'ro be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Riders of Europe. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at T. Box-office open daily trom 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma • ..... •......... Miss RUSSELL. Adale - isa .................... 31adame MARIA, (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistino- of Seventeen Per formers, organised expressly for this e , tablishment, for the Performance of Vocal and 'lnstrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, Is, —.Hall, 6d. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCT. 25, 1860. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 62—this day at noon. 51 —lowest this morning and during the night. 61—highest since noon yesterday. BAnomnTER-30.08. WlND—West-South-Westerly ; light, with very fine, mild weather. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. 9m.—Afternoon, 11h. 35m. To-MORROW...Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Om. 4 1 ? - ' • __ 4- k kzr. • I w THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 18 0. SWITZERLAND. A reply has been sent by the Swiss Federal Government to the complaint of France on the sub ject of the insult to the French flag at Geneva on the 31st August. The document winds up by the following conclusions :—" The facts which took place and which have been narrated above, allow of the following results being irrevocably established: —lst. The authorities and magistrates of Geneva have undoubtedly done their duty either by their own interference on the spot, which prevented any act of violence of any consequence, or by the im mediate opening of an inquiry with a view to the discovery of the guilty parties. 2. The majority of the citizens present also disapproved of the in cident, and also united in the efforts of the autho rities to re-establish order. 3. The inquiry has not been able to lead to the discovery either of the aggres sors or of the instigators, and it has not therefore been possible to bring them before the tribunals." ROYAL MAIL STEAM COMPANY. A meeting of the Royal Mail Steam (West India) Company was held yesterday, Captain C. E. Mangles in the chair, when the report was adopted, and a dividend declared of £2 per share, free of income-tax. It was explained that the in crease in the working expenditure arises from the use of larger ships, which have enabled the service to be carried out with greater speed and regularity. The large earnings of the Tasmanian and the pro ceeds of the letting of the Parana to the Galway Company do not appear in the present account, al though they have been now received. The cost of re pair has been beyond the stipulated sum, but the amount standing at the debit of this ac count will be considerably reduced in the current half-year. To show the satis factory working of the new service it was mentioned that of the 14 trips to St. Thomas's, out and home, 13 have been performed within the time allowed, while the other was only 10 hours behind. The Brazilian service has been performed equally well. Annexed is a list of the company's fleet : Registered Horse No. Name. Tonnage. Power. 1 Shannon (iron) 2 Seine (iron) 3,440 800 3 Atrato (iron) 4 Parana 5 Magdalena 6 La Plata 2,404 1000 7 Oneida (iron screw) 8 Tasmanian (iron screw) 9 Tyne (iron) 10 Avon ~,,, it Tamar 1,707 400 12 Medway 13 Thames 14 Trent 15 Solent 16 Teviot 1,744 450 17 Dee 18 Clyde 19 Mersey (iron) 20 Conway 21 Wye (iron screw) 751 180 22 Derwent 794 260 23 Eagle 21 Prince (iron) 44,345 11,730 UNEXPLODED SHELLS.—A fatal accident with an Armstrong shell took place on Tuesday at the tower near Eastbourne, which was fired at some two months ago with Armstrong guns. This tower is being prepared for a further series of experiments, several workmen being en• gaged in clearing away the debris of the last bombardment ; among this it was known there wero several unexploded shells, a caution to this effect having been distributed at the time the experiments terminated. In the course of clearing away the rubbish several live shells have been found, and on Tuesday afternoon a 100-pounder was fished out and laid on the beach, a short distance from the tower. Three sol diers, belonging to the Line Depot stationed here, were exa mining the tower, when one of them saw the shell and com menced handling it; it is said that he pushed a piece of paper into the fuzee-hole, and lighted it with a inciter. The shell exploded, inflicting injuries from which the poor fellow died in about four or five hours afterwards, the only wonder being that he was not blown to atoms. As it is, the destructive nature of these shells was most fearfully appa rent, the left leg being blown off at the thigh, the right one smashed and broken, and the whole surface of the chest driven in, while one of the arms was broken in several places, and the face blackened, presenting a most ghastly spectacle. As soon as possible the sufferer was taken to the Military hospital, but he sank rapidly from the fearful in juries he had sustained. A coroner's inquest will be held, when it is hoped that a full investigation will be made as to the way in which the shell was ignited. Two MURDERS IN BRECoNSHIRE.—At a very early hour on Friday morning the body of a man named David Price was found in a meadow through which passed a footpath to his own house, at C wmdyhesfa, near Trecas tle, with injuries which put out of the question any doubt , as to their having been wilfully inflicted. Two ribs had been broken, and ends had passed into the lungs. havi ng Some other ribs had been loosened from the cartilage, a knife or other sharp weapon had been thrust quite through the fleshy part of the thigh, and several cuts appeared on the scalp. The deceased had been at a sale by auction about two miles distant, and, having partaken freely of drink, had been quarrelsome on the occasion. Ile bore the character of be ing a violent and quarrelsome man, and was particularly unpopular in the neighbourhood. Two young farmers who had last been seen in his company have been taken into s hitherto obtained and a coroner's inquest o pened on Saturiay has been adjourned to the 31st inst. The evi dence obtained has been of a scanty nature, the re being gr:cat re luctance in the vicinity to give any information: Cries of distresst to b t h o N s V e er o e f i d le r a u r n d k ( e nl n t men eh prev re i t o l u t r s n n i h i g g h tfro,btrart,tbheernsgalrele, wereemed Crickhowcll, was suffered to pass unheeded. On Sa turday a middle-aged woman residing at Gwyn VecLant, near __ e _ .lla few shot by a young man, her own nephew, and d the aspect of murder, and not of a ccident, a • is minutes. Statements made by the nephew n give the affair d custody of the police, awaiting the result of au inquest, LITERATURE. Lalla Rookh : an Oriental Romance. By Thomas Moore. Longman. It is not often that we meet with so beautiful a book as the one before us. It is perfect in its style and admirably adapted for an elegant gift, or an ornament to the drawing-room or library. It has besides the rare merit of being intrinsically valuable as well as externally excellent. The works of Moore contain, amid some superfi ciality, much that is charming, and his name is undeniably ranked among our first order of British bards. There is a flowing measure and a sparkling style in his verses that are melodious in the extreme, and are never more welcome than at present, when unhappily the fashion has obtained of substituting mysticism for melody. The bewil dered students of our latter-day muses have to wade through what may be appropriately described, in the words of Fadladeen, as " some thousands of lines as harsh and indigestible as the filberts of Berdaa." " The Fire Worshippers" presents as striking an exposition of devoted attachment and heroic courage as poet ever chose to set forth the achievements of the brave, or illustrate the magic influence and potent spells of love. Hafed and Hinda are shining stars in the horizon of all devotees of romance, and lasting monuments to the fame of him who has sent them forth crowned with beauty's wreath and honour's garland to delight and impress the youth of many generations. The description of Hinda is again and again referred to by those who would depict all that is graceful and fair in their heroines, and a more fascinating portraiture has seldom been given than in these lines : Oh what a pure and sacred thing . Is Beauty, Curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light ! Beautiful are the maids that glide, On summer-eves, through Yemen's dales, And bright the glancing looks they hide Behind their litters' roseate veils ; And brides, as delicate and fair As the white jasmine flow'rs they wear, Heth Yemen in her blissful clime, Who, lull'd in cool kiosk or bow'r, Before their mirrors count the time, And grow still lovelier ev'ry hour ; But never yet hath bride or maid In Araby's gay Haram smil'd, Whose boasted brightness would not fade Before Al Hassan's blooming ehild. The hero may furnish a model for patriots, and all defenders of their country can take no better models for steadfast endurance and glorious zeal than the band of Ghebers, who maintained bright and inviolate the sacred trust committed to their charge, and resolved : Though living they could not be victorious— Yet, dying, their deaths should be glorious. There was something grand in the sublime despair with which they regarded their success and yet persevered in their efforts. When Hope's expiring throb is o'er, And e'en Despair can grasp no more, This spot shall be the sacred grave Of the last few who vainly brave Die for the land they cannot save. Yet the same God who heard their sires Heard them as on the altar fires, They swore the latest, holiest deed, Of the few heart s still left to bleed, Should be in Iran's injured name To die upon that mount of flame ; The last of all her patriot line Before her last untrampled shrine. The concluding passages in the career of Hafed arc most impressive : 'Tis come, his hour of martyrdom, In Iran's sacred cause 's me'; And though his life hath passed away Like lightning on a stormy day, Yet shall his death hour leave a track— Of glory, permanent and bright, To which the brave of after times, The suffering brave, shall Long look back. "They come, the Moslems come I" he cries, His proud soul mounting to his eyes, Now, Spirits of the Brave who roam Enfranchis'd through yon starry dome, Rejoice, for souls of kindred fire Are on the wing to join your choir. There is something holy in the faith that thus triumphed over all obstacles, and in the devotion that regarded death as the stepping-stone to glory and suffering of the most dreadful kind only, the means to escape ignominy, and thus a friend and guardian : And ne'er did Saint of Issa gaze On the red wreath, for martyrs twin'd, More proudly than the youth surveys That pile, which through the gloom behind, Half lighted by the altar's fire, Glimmers—his destin'd funeral pyre ? Heap'd by his own, his comrades' h an ds, Of ev'ry wood oderous breath, There, by the Fire-God's shrine it stands, Ready to fold in radiant death Tho few still left of those who swore To perish there, when hope was o'er— The few, to whom that couch of flame, Which rescues them from bonds and shame, Is sweet and welcome as the bed For their own infant Prophet spread, When pitying Heav'n to roses turn'd The death-flames that beneath him burn'd I Hafed's greatest moments were his last ; and the struggle ho made to reach the goal, while the foes pressed around him, is a worthy close to his life of heroism, and throws a halo over his death of mar tyrdom : A voice spoke near him—'twas the tone Of a lov'd friend, the only one Of all his warriors, left with life From that short night's tremendgus strife.— " And must we then, my Chief, die here ? "Foes round us, and the Shrine so near 1" These words have rous'd the last remains Of life within him—" What ! not yet " Beyond the reach of Moslem chains 1" The thought could make ev'n Death forget His icy bondage—with a bound He springs, all bleeding, from the ground, And grasps his comrade's D arm, now grown Ev'n feebler, heavier than his own, And up the painful pathway loads, Death gaining on each step he treads, Speed them, thou God, who heard'st their vow! They mount—they bleed—oh save them now— The crags are red they've clamber'd o'er, The rock. weed's dripping with their gore;— Thy blade too, Hafed, false at length, Now breaks beneath thy tott'ring strength! Haste, haste—the voices of the Foe Come near and nearer from below— One effort more—thank Heav'n I 'tie past, They've gaiu'd the topmost steep at last. And now they touch the temple's walls, Now Hafed sees the Fire divine— When, lo I—his weak, worn comrade falls Dead on the threshold of the shrine. " Alas, brave soul, too quickly fled I " And must I leave thee with' ring here, " Tho sport of every ruffian's tread, "The mark for every coward's spear ? " No, by yon altar's sacred beams 1" He cries, and, with a strength that seems Not of this world, uplifts the frame Of the fall'n Chief, and tow'rds the flame Bears him along ;—with death-damp hand The corpse upon the pyre he lays, Then lights the consecrated brand, And fires the pile, whose sudden blaz e Like lightning bursts o'er Oman's Sea.— "Now, Freedom's God ! I come to Thee," The youth exclaims, and with a smile Of triumph vaulting on the pile, . In that last effort, ere the fires Have harm'd one glorious limb, expires I " Paradise and the Peri" is a most exquisite com position, and in its few pages brings before the ' mind's eye many lands and varied scenes. The descriptions all through this work convey their meaning in the most charming manner, and the similes and allusions are replete with graceful thoughts, clothed in beautiful language, as when the Peri soars to the gate— And she already hears the trees Of Eden, with their crystal bells Ringing- in that ambrosial breeze That from the throne of Allah swells. And further on, in her last venture for the hidden charm— Now upon Syria's land of roses Softl,y the light of eve reposes; And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal e lect; While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. The sinner beholding the innocent child praying is one of the finest subjects that a poet ever touched upon, and the passage that records it is most appro priate— Ara how felt, he, the wretched Man Reclining there—while memory ran O'er many a year of guilt and strife, Flew o'er the dark flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace. " There was a time, he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones—" thou bl esse d child When, young and haply pure as thou " I look'd and pray'd like thee—but now" He hung his head—each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling, which had slept Freni boyhood's heaurci he thawteipnts_tahnet came Fresh ' Fresh o'er him, n • And now—behold him kneeling there By the child's side, i n h umble p ray' r,While the same sun b eam shines upo n The guilty and the guiltless one, of joy proclaim thro u gh H eav ' n And iymi The triumph of a Soul Forgiv'n 1 'Twos when the g °Men orb had , While on their knees they l'g ,. , e s r e 4' yet, here fell a light more l Than ever came' from suonvoerlystiaarr, Upon the tear that, warm and meek, Dew'd that repentant sinner's cheek. To mortal eye this light might seem A northern flash or meteor beam— But well th' enraptur'd Peii knew 'Tv,eis a bright smile the Angel threw From Heaven's gate, to hail that tear Her harbinger of glory near ! " The Light of the Harem," and " The Veiled Pro phet of Khorassan," are not such felicitous composi tions, but they contain here and there some delight ful pieces, and " The Feast of Roses" is very charm ing. The illustrations in this book are very admirably done ; they are no less in number than sixty-nine. They are from original drawings by John Tenniel, engraved on wood by the brothers Daiziell. They represent the principal scenes and characters of the narrative ; and scattered abun dantly through its course, they impart a grace, while they infuse a life and-spirit into its pages. There are also five ornamental title-pages, which are most elegant, and add an additional attraction to the book, bang of Persian design ; they are by T. Sulman, jun., engraved by H. Woods. At the commencement there is an illuminated title•page, from several ancient M.SS. in the library of the East India House. Of the others, the one prefixed to " The Light of the Harem" is the most graceful and pleasing; it is from porcelain and illuminated MSS. The preface is that - written originally for " Lalla Rookh," in the collected edition of Moores works. In it mention is made of the flattering testimony that the poet received of the merit of his compositions, inasmuch as they were rendered into the language of the nation which he had chosen as the scene of his romances. Allusion is made to the circumstance by a lively friend of the poet in these lines— I'm told, dear Moore, your lays are sun g • (Can it be true, you lucky man ?) By moonlight in the Persian tongue, Along the streets of Ispahan. The admirers of elegant literature will be gratified with this volume, and the refined ranks of the reading community are greatly indebted to those whose handiwork has presented them with a charm ing production of genius, illustrated with discern ment of taste, and arranged with peculiar skill. Among the brilliant stores of ornamental books that abound in the winter season, it is not likely that many will surpass in excellence or attraction this beautiful and interesting work. VISIT OF LORD PALMERSTON TO LEEDS. ARRIVAL OF HIS LORDSHIP. Very extensive preparations are being made in Leeds in anticipation of the public meetings, at which Lord Palmerston, during his visit to York shire, has consented to assist. His lordship was expected to arrive in town at three o'clock yester day afternoon; and a vast concourse of people assembled at that hour at the Central station. The train made its appearance punctually, but did not contain the Premier of England ; and the good people of Leeds had to restrain their enthusiasm until the arrival of the next Great Northern train, which the time-bills fixed for six o'clock. At that hour an immense multitude congregated on and around the station. The train arrived with tolerable punctuality, and his lordship, with Lady Palmerston leaning en his arm, and accompanied by the Right Hon. W. Cowper, chief commissioner of Public Works, made his way through a lane which was readily opened up for his passage, to the waiting room, while the horses were being put to his lord ship's own carriage, which was brought by the same train. When the party entered the waiting-room the officials shut the door; but it was soon opened by his lordship, who, as well as Lady Palmerston, seemed immensely to enjoy the popular anxiety and enthusiasm. On the top of the carriages of the train, which commanded a sight of the waiting room door, the more agile of the populace swarmed like bees ; but they did not long enjoy the point of advantage, as the train was moved off and shunted on to a siding—a manoeuvre at which his lordship seemed greatly amused. The crowd gave many broad hints that they should like to hear his lordship speak, and pressingly asked for "just a word or two ;" but the noble Viscount made no sign until it was announced that the carriage was in readiness, when he said— Gentlemen, there is a good old saying, "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." You have been very kind in receiving ns,'l hope you will let us have a lane to get away. This sally elicited loud applause and laughter. An opening was immediately made in the vast crowd, and amid tumultuous cheering his lordship and party passed to an open carriage, drawn by four beautiful grey horses, and drove off to Kirk stall Grange, the seat of Wm. Beckitt, Esq., whose guest his lordship will be during his stay in Leeds. Though the crush at the station was immense dur ing the time his lordship remained, the utmost good humour prevailed. Lord Fitzwilliam, the lord lieutenant of the county, arrived in Leeds in the course of the after noon, and formed one of the distinguished party entertained last night at dinner at Kirkstall Grang e. This day (Thursday), the Chambers of Commerce of Leeds, Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Halifax, Hud dersfield, and Batley, will meet at twelve o'clock, to make preliminary arrangements for the inter view with his lordship on the subject of the amend ment and consolidation of the Bankruptcy and Inr solvency Laws, which interview is fixed for throe o'clock. In the evening, Lord Palmerston will preside at the soiree of the Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society, in the Victoria Hall. At noon, to-morrow, his lordship will meet the Mayor and Corporation at the Town Hall, t o receive from them an address, and will be welcomed by a large assemblage of the magistracy and th e public, for whose admission arrangements have beeli made by the distribution of tickets to the numbe r of 1,800, of which 1,000 are appropriated to the corporation, 500 to the mayor, and 300 to the magistrates. The mayor and corporation will appal a in their robes, and seats will be reserved for the special guests of his worship, to the number of 100. The Leeds Volunteer Artillery, and the Leeds Volunteer Rifles will be present at the south front of the hall, to receive his lordship with all honour on his arrival. At the close of the proceedings Lord Palmerston will adjourn to the mayor's rooms and partake of luncheon, on the invitation of his wor ship, and will be joined by the Riding and borough members, the magistrates, the corporation, and other gentlemen who have been invited by the Mayor to meet him. The same afternoon, at th ree o'clock, his lordship will preside over the annual meeting of the Leeds Ragged School Society, in the Music Hall. He will afterwards return to Kirk stall Grange, where he is expected to remain until Saturday niorning, when he will proceed to Fryston Hall, near Pontefract, and become the guest of Richard Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P. During his stay there he will meet the tenantry of his Fairborn estate, and take luncheon with them at the vicarage, Ledsham, which has been kindly placed at the disposal of the tenantry * by the Rev. Mr. Landon for the purpose. Sir, John Ramsden, M.P., Mr. Milnes, M.P., and others of the local gentry are also expected to be present. The day has not been finally decided, but it will either be on Saturday or Monday, probably on the Monday. THE PAPAL STATES. A letter from Rome, in the Monde, gives the fol lowing statistical details : " The Catholic world is divided into 1,007 bishop rics, or prelacies, with episcopal jurisdiction under different titles—apostolic vicariates, abbatial juris dictions, or territories nullius diocesis. Of the 1,007, 681 are i n E uro p e , 128 in Asia, 29 in Africa , 146 in America, and 23 in Oceania. In Eur ope there are 2 patriarchs, 116 archbishops , 484 bishop s , 45 concathcdrals, 15 abbots or priors with quasi-episco pal jurisdiction, 6 military chaplains, 18 vicars, de legates, and apostolical prefects. In Asia there are 6 patriarchs, 3 archbish o p s, 54 bisho p s, 6 5 apostolical vicars and prefects. In Africa there are 10 bishops, and 19 apostolical vicars and prefects. In America there are 22 archbishops, 115 bishops, and 9 aposto lical vicars. In Oceania, 2 archbishops, 12 bishops, 8 apostolical vicars, 1 apostolical prefect. As regards Europe, the following is the detail :—ln Italy, 1 patriarch, 47 archbishops, 215 bishops, 44 concathe drals, 11 abbatial territories, and 1 military chap lain. In Spain, 9 archbishops, 45 bishops, 1 conca thedral, 4 military chaplains or prelates. Portugal, / patriarch, 2 archbishops, 14 bishops. France, 16 1 military chaplain. Bel gium and Holland, 2 archbishops, 9 bishops, 1, apos tolical vicar. Austrian empire, 16 archbishops, 48 bishops, 1 abbot, 1 military chaplain. German Con federation, 6 archbishops, 18 bishops, 3 apostolical vicars or delegates. United Kingdom of Great Bri tain, 5 archbishops, 38 bishop s , 3 apostolical vicars. North of Europe, 2 archbi s h ops , 14 bishops, 3 a p os tolical vicars. Malta, Greece:turkey, 6 archbishops, 14 bishops, 8 apostolical vicars or prelates under different names. Switzerland, 5 bishops, 1 abbot, and 2 apostolical prefects." f {