The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

THE ATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. U rider the Management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. TINS EVENING, Balfe's celebrated Opera, THE ROSE OF CASTILLE : Characters by Miss Louisa Pyne. Miss SusaD. Pyne Miss M. Prescott Mr. Geo. Honey, Mr. Bartle man, and :fr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'A3IOUR : 3lesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Nay of KING JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Ben. rreceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. T FITS EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSU EAN"CE : Mr. and Mrs. C. Matthews, &c. With HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. After which, JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And ANY PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, EXTREMES; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Messrs. IL Vandenhoff, Emery, J. Rogers, J. G. Shore, and Barrett; Miss %Toolgar, Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon. After which the Lauri Family. To conclude with TOO MUCH FOR GOOD NATURE : Messrs. Emery, Rogers, ke. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS; Messri.C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, Sec. ♦fter which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And MT AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swanborough, Mrs. Belby, Miss Ternan. _ _ Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. The New Tariff : Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Galleries, 6d. Great and Extraordinary Sensation produced by the new and brilliant Decorations—Splendid Act Drop—Magnificent Chandelier—Appropriate Scenery. During the week the new and successful drama of THE BATTLE OF BOTHWELL BRIG. With THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, comprising the evolutions and equitations of the first Professors in the world and their unequalled Stud of Horses. To conclude with THE POST OF HONOUR. No fee for booking. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. rANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following Company 01 Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DicETS, &c., viz.:—Mies Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Hanshaw, S Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay —Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the present month A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con. nexion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, OCT. 19. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. Cs—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.65. WIND, Easterly ; fresh and squally, with dull rainy weather. THE SUN. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1858. The far East and the far West of England aro exhibiting just now two rather different, rather opposed activities. In the remote West the Ballot Society has been, during the last week, holding very successful meetings at several places. In Exeter, Devonport,:and Truro, we find by the local journals that the electors have been enlightened, if light they need, on the subject ; and at the last mentioned place, it being an important election eering capital, a public meeting was held to pro mote the adoption of the Ballot in the Reform measure of next session. The Vice-Ch.irmnn of the Ballot Society, Mr. WHITEHURST, attended all the meetings, and furnished many practical illustra tions of the intimidation so universal in the coun ties, and so much too common in the towns. In the Eastern Counties, Castle Hedingham has again poken, and Major BERESFORD, Mr. Du CANE, and other rural Conservatives, have warned Lord DERBY not to listen to Radicals and to democratic de mands. The Ballot, to be sure, they did not ex pressly repudiate. All the speakers took for granted, like all others hitherto, that a Tory Re form Bill we are to have, but they seemed to have some hope that it should really be " a mea sure to suit all classes and to please all parties?, Without protection to the voter this can never be. Our Tory friends acknowledged that extension of the suffrage must be one feature, but extension must include a class more dependent, if possible, than the large classes which are now at the mercy of others. Whether in the counties or in the towns, whether by enfranchising more agricultural tenants or more operatives, an extension of suffrage except under protection of the Ballot, will be but an extension of political slavery. All parties cannot be pleased by the most liberal looking measure, unless they feel that it elevates instead of degrading them. It is not merely those whom sham Liberals may deride as theorists, who will be aggrieved if protection be not given to the voter. The new electors themselves will not thank those who have made them electors. They will even owe them a secret grudge. At present they may justly feel that they are deprived of a right enjoyed by their equals or their inferiors; but they are not compelled to disgrace themselves. The law denies them, indeed, the privilege they ought to have ; but it does not now give it them with one hand, while it permits with the other the inti midator to take it from them. We strongly suspect that a large , extension of the suffrage may form a part of the new bill ; but we are perfectly sure that it will procure few thanks unless it prove a bona fide extension. One of the speakers at Castle Hedingham con trasted, as has often enough been done before, the larger proportional number of members returned by boroughs. They return, he reminds us, three hundred and nineteen members, while the counties return but one hundred and forty-four, and the ratio of electors is as three to one in the counties and towns respectively. This is an apparent inequality, but only an apparent one. The real electors for the counties are landlords. Give us the numbers, and we imagine the three to one would be just re versed—the boroughs - would have three electors to the one of the counties. Subtract, besides, from the boroughs those entirely under the influence of the landlords, and their members, as they ought to be added to those for the counties, and the proportion of members returned by the counties would be vastly the greater. Now, the concession of the Ballot would settle all these quarrels. No one could object then to representation in proportion to population an d number of electors. Liberate the country electors, divide them in some fair proportion into tolerably equal constituencies merge the agricultural boroughs in them, or unite these small places in dietriets of boroughs —we should not be very pug mew, Ats to which—and we should willingly enougb.!contede to the country constituencies their natural proportio n t 0 members. The one thing which vitiates all calculation, and prostrates all fair arrangements is, that the electoral unit, the individual elector, is in sonic cases a re 11 unit, in others but a cipher multiplying ten or one hundred times the value of the real unit, his landlord. Make the tenant as well as the lani,( rd an elector, which the Ballot would do, and how easy would it then be to adjust representation fairly. Lord HARDWICKE spoke out the other day as an alarmist. The gallant Earl spoke strongly, it is true, because he felt strongly ; but to say that he spoke as an alarmist is an exaggeration. Himself a distinguished officer in the Royal Navy of Eng land, the Lord Privy Seal is- naturally solicitous, beyond the ordinary run of administrators, in re gard to the well-being and efficiency of the most national arm of our different warlike profes sions. Lord HARDWICKE'S sympathies with the maritime service date back to his boyhood —extending down a period of nearly half a century's duration. It is not surprising, therefore, that the noble lord should be disposed to regard the interests of the Royal Navy as in a great measure pre-eminent to almost all others. Why, this position of pre-eminent importance is attached to the naval service by most thinking and patriotic Englishmen. Unprofessional men —mere land-lubbers--are disposed to give the navy in this way precedence. We, all of us, as rationally as nationally, take a pride in our wooden walls beyond all other pride of a warlike character. We have an inerradicable repugnance for a stand ing army ; but in broad contrast to this we have a decided and rooted partiality for a floating navy always in readiness. Among all the estimates annually submitted to the House of Commons in a Committee of Ways and Means—the Naval esti mates are precisely those least begrudged even by our most rigid economists. Mr. WILLIAMS nowadays, Mr. HUME, if you might pare cheeses and skin flints anywhere else than in our seaports and dockyards. Rather than at any time run the hazard of an injudicious thrift in regard to our fleets, we would as a nation, even as confessedly a nation of shopkeepers with the chance of the other extreme, that of a thrift less and prodigal expenditure. The Board of Admiralty need never grumble over empty coffers. That we have long known and felt as a community. It will be so until—not very long before the arrival of Lord MACAULAY'S New Zealander. Yet with this all readiness, his eagerness to en courage the development of our naval resources we are fated at last to hear from Lord HARDWICKE in the autumn of 1858 the distinct intimation that if in regard to our navy much has already been done —" yet much more remains to do !" In speaking thus, however, we do not in any way conceive that the Lord Privy Seal speaks as an alarmist. Surely it is wiser in these matters to warn—than to to brag ! Surely it is more patriotic for a compe tent witness like Lord HARDWICKE to explain as clearly as maybe what is yet admissable to be done in the way of improvement, than to expatiate idly and vain-gloriously upon what in this matter has already been accomplished ! Besides, Lord HARD WICKE'S chief provisions are wholly incontrover tible. Science has already effected a transformation in naval tactics, in naval architectural, in naval organization generally. But far more than anything that science has yet done—this is what science is actually now doing in the way of still further transformations. As a sailor, the noble and gallant Earl feels that it is advisable, above all things, to keep the service "up to the mark" pro portionately with the advance of scientific improve ment. Hence his very startling statements last week—statements not of an alarmist, but of a thoughtful and patriotic administrator. It is nearly two years since the Times put forth the doctrine that occasioned such fearful c0n5terna .:,.„.;,.......0,,,+ th. .. ~.2.1e time Clic internal commerce of the country could be carried on without a single ounce of gold. A deposit of Consols, or the fact that the notes would be received in payment of taxation, would render them uni versally acceptable. There was, however, just one leetle drawback—viz., the alleged necessities of our foreign trade, which demanded all the crushing restrictions that periodically paralysed the trade and commerce of the country, reduced the teal crea tors and producers of the national wealth to distress and misery, compelling them to sacrifice the hardly acquired savings of more fortunate years, and all the comforts they had with provident care and just pride accumulated. In each commercial crisis pro duced by the artificial scarcity of gold, tens of thousands, aye, hundreds of thousands—we fear we might almost ascend to millions—of stalwart men, the bone and sinew of the country, are thrown out of employment, and changei into, not merely un profitable, but discontented consumers. " Lean and hungry" persons have been proverbially dan gerous, if not from the time of CASSIUS, certainly since that of SHAKSPERE. The nursery hymn tells us that— " Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." Men who have abundance of unwelcome leisure, who are hardset to kill time, and not very anxious to hasten back to their denuded homes to witness the wretchedness of dirty housewives and weep ing children, in vain imploring the food which they are unable to bestow, examine very sharply into every complaint, and the more so when there are real practical grievances to be adjusted. A little extra pressure of the screw may make them dangerous, not only to themselves, but to others of more exalted rank. And it would be but prudent for those who are in the enjoyment of every luxury wealth provides to be contented to leave some small portion to their less fortunate brethren. Even the children described by LOCKE as " pulling at the scanty coverlet" did not in those days allow any of the family to remain absolutely naked. The admission and the objection referred to in the beginning of this article consti tute the great elements of the Currency ques tion, and it will materially simplify the argu ments on either side if they b e k ept. closely in view. Can we not obtain a domestic circulating medium adequate to carry on all the internal commerce of the country although there were not a single ounce of gold in Great Britain ? Unquestionably so, answers the Times, and the matter is too clear to waste time on. Men, in accepting anything in pay ment for their goods or labour, do not look to its intrinsic value. They do not inquire whether the tendered sovereign contains 123 grains of gold of specific fineness. None but very" hard calculators" indeed will weigh it, and not one in a million will ever think of having the purity of the metal tested to ascertain whether it is 22 carat gold, All they know, all they require to know, is, that it possesses a purchasing power—that it will be accepted from them in payment of value received to the extent of £l. The butcher has to pay the salesman for his meat, and he has to hand over, in turn, to landlord and tax and rate collector. The money paid to the baker goes through a similar process. In fact, there is no end to the modes by which a man Who possesses a national note constituted a legal tender in every domestic transaction, can advantageously dispose of it. Indeed, we believe that there is not a money changer in Europe or America that would look scornfully at the welcome stranger. _ _ _ It would of course be indispensable to take precautions against any over-issue, but that might be arranged under the authority of Commissioners appointed by and responsible to Parliament. We could not conceive that men of position and known experience and standing would be actuated by a reckless desire to involve their country in ruin, and to bring disgrace and discredit on their own names needlessly or recklessly. • There only then remains the difficulty—we must maintain our foreign exchanges to induce other nations to deal with us, and for that purpose we must not only pay an ounce and a quarter of gold for every £5 note presented, but we must enter into a series of restrictive regulations that would be ridiculous if they were not praductive of such ter rible evils to the welfare and prosperity of the United Kingdom, and the happiness of its people. It gold were dealt with merely as a commodity, subject to all the changes and vicissitudes. of the market, in accordance with the law of supply and demand, it might safely be left to the enterprise of those engaged in the trade. Gold might at one period be at a small premium, but it would far more frequently be at a ,discount. The extent of the fluctuations would, at the outside, seldom, if ever, exceed a few pence in the pound. The foreign merchant would willingly tack that risk on to the other speculations in which he was engaged. It would be far less formidable than that arising from an increase of discount from 2to 10, or possibly 20 per cent., and the forced sales thereby occasioned, which reduce him to bankruptcy and ruin. It almost savours •f the sages of Laputa. We might have fancied that some at least of the currency quacks had visited the flying island, and taken a high degree at its university. It is certain that the foreigner would receive the same value under either system, and but a comparatively small por tion of gold could be required to adjust the balances, which would generally be favourable to England. But this can only be accomplished at present by those incessant fluctuations, which are less objec tionable when they assume the phrase of " infla tion," than when there is a scarcity, aye, a famine of the only recognised measure and representative of value. We should complain of 1 per cent. as well as of 20, although the evils of the former are incomparably less than the latter. Indeed, it is because the one inevitably leads to the other, that money being rendered a mere drug in the market is to be avoided. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff have left town, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. The Marchioness of Waterford has left Claridge'. Hotel for Curraghmore, Ireland. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond are receiving company at their seat, Cadlands, near Southampton. hnongst the company last week were Admiral Sir George Seymour (Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth) and Lady Seymour, Lord and Lady Camoys, Mr. and Lady Rose Lovell, Mrs. Lane Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, the Misses Seymour, Capt. H. Seymour, Col. Powell, &c. The Right Hon. Sir W. G. Hayter, Bart., M.P., and Lady Hayter have left South-hill Park, for Paris We believe that the statement which has ap peared in several journals to the effect that Mr. Karslake is about to take rank as a Queen's Counsel is premature. The learned gentleman has certainly not applied fora silk gown. Mr. iames Garth Marshall and the Hon. Mrs. Marshall and Miss Marshall have left the Clarendon, for Paris. WINDSOIt, Monday.—Yesterday herßoyal High ness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Leiningen, drove in the Great Park. Her royal highness, we are happy to say, is in the enjoyment of excellent health. Her royal high ness arrived at Frogmore from the North on Wednesday last. --- DAATH OF SIR H. J. CALDWELL.—We have to record the death of Sir Henry John Caldwell, Bart. He SW(I LtIITZ AMA, ILL toyer, ruv GAUCA u of D. R. Paynter. Esq., of Dale, in the county of Pem broke. He succeeded his father in 1842. The deceased baronet was a distinguished officer in the Austrian service. TESTIMONIAL TO SIR JOHN• PAKINGTON.—A movement, initiated by a meeting of Worcestershire gentle men, under the presidency of Lord Ward, is being made to present a testimonial to Sir John Pakington, on his retire ment from the chairmanship of the Worcestershire quarter sessions. FATAL GAS EXPLOSION AT COLONEL GREVILLE'S. —Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westmin ster, resumed the inquiry, at St. George's Hospital, into the cause of the death of Elizabeth Blampen, who was in the service of Colonel Fulke Greville, M.P., at No. 2, Albert-gate, on the night of the 13th Sept. last. The coro ner said it was a very lamentable case, and the evidence was very unsatisfactory. He thought the public could not be too well informed of the dangerous character of such works. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," and expressed their belief that there had not been sufficient caution on the part of the gas-fitter. The coroner said the gas-fitter ought to have represented to Col. Greville the impro s priety of leaving such a duty to a female servant. THE AUSTRALIAN DESERT.-SAD FATE OF MR. COULTHARD. — Despatches have been received from Mr. Babbage, who was still prosecuting his exploration, but he does not appear to have succeeded in finding any country that can be easily made available. His letter, dated June 16, describes the finding of Mr. Coulthard's remains. The body of the unfortunate man lay under a scrub bush, and at a short distance from him his canteen and other bush accou trements. Upon one side of that canteen, offering a con vex surface of tin abbut 12 inches long and 10 inches deep, is scratched with a nail or some other rough-pointed in strument the following inscription :—" I river reached water I do not know how long it is since I left Scott and Brooks, but I think it Monday bleeding pomp to leive of his blood I took his black horse to look for water and the last thing I can rember is puling the saddle off him & letting him go until now is not good. lam not th shure how long it may be wether 2or 3 days I do not know My Tung is stkig to my mouth & I see what I have rote I know it is this is the last time I may have of expressing feeling alive & the feeling exu is lost for want of water My ey Dasels My tong burn I can see no More God Help." Major Warbuton has also returned to Ade laide from his exploring tour, but he does not seem to have been more successful.---Australian and Neu; Zealand Gazette. A WORD TO THE BENEVOLENT.—ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.--It is with much regret we learn that this institution, whose great utility to the poorer classes, as well as the necessity for its merciful interposition between them and disease and death, is sufficiently demon strated by its giving relief to more than 2, 500 patients weekly —is so greatly in want of funds, in consequence of its daily increasing development, as to risk the necessity of some of the eleemosynary benefits conferred by its officers on the more destitute of the very poorest of their patients being cur tailed. This ought not to be. The claims of this Institu tion are of a nature that should command the constant as sistance of the humane and benevolent. It is a charity that seeks no other recommendation than the poverty and disease of recipient, and - hopes for no other reward than an alleviation of the sorrows of the destitute and afflicted stranger. THE iIkURNOPFIELD MURDER.—It will be re membered that a great amount of alarm and horror was created throughout the country in the winter of 1855 by the murder of a young surgeon, named Stirling, who was shot down and murdered and robbed in a country lane, near Burnopfield, in the county of Durham, at midday. Two men, Richard Rayne and John Cain, the latter known in the country side as " Whiskey Jack," were apprehended by the county constabulary and charged with the murder, and after a long investigation by the coroner, a lengthened chain of circumstantial evidence appeared to be established against them. They were tried at the Durham Assizes, but the case failed in the most material points, and they were acquitted. These men returned to their homes, and it is but fair to them to state that they had the sympathy of their neighbours, and have since been most regular and industrious in their habits. Cain, who had been a bit of a poacher and smuggler, was taken on the grounds of a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood, and is now his . gardener. He, since his acquittal, has been most active in attempting to clear up the mystery of the murder of the poor young man. He has ferretted out a considerable amount of information with regard to other parties ; and he has satisfied several gentlemen of great in telligence and influence in the county that he and Rayne were not implicated in the murder. On Saturday a commu nication was received in Gateshead from the visiting jus tices of Maidstone, stating that a prisoner who is in custody there has confessed that he was present at the murder of young Stirling. Ho gives a detailed account of the cir cumstances, and states that after the poor young man was shot, his throat was cut, and his brains beaten out by the murderers. Major White, the chief constable of Durham, will make full inquiry into the circumstances. A PEOPLE'S PARK IN LIVERPOOL.—LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The labours of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science are likely to be rewarded by no small share of success in the town of Liverpool, judging from the efforts which are now being made-in the way of improving the condition of the working classes. Hence, it appears that a movement has taken place which is likely to prove successful for the establishing of a park for the people ' of Liverpool, on a plot of land known as Parliainent-fields, one gentleman in Liverpool, a large employer, having offered the sum of £l,OOO for this object, on the condition that 20 other gentlemen will put their names down for the like amount. The property in question belongs to the Earl of Sefton, and it is thought that for an object of so praise worthy a character his lordship would be willing to treat on liberally= for the Dale of the estate, '... 1 . ~. 1.. A 4 . -.... 4 0, • .. 4.... . . SC) plio',l. Ai g gitz-• - -Am... sk . 4 , ik - ÷lr.-: 1— A id.-. .. . 401p14. ' ,, •(,4, k. vWfb— l , Joib ~.?".,: . ...,.„51- ',., .40,, ,„; Th... , ~ , a-- ,•• - ry.. . 1 . ---..„ ...., - THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1858 LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuter's office, Oct. 18 : MARSEILLES, OCT. 18. The Bombay Times contains the following : Since the Ist September the native army in the Punjaub, whose conduct had become suspicious, has been gradually disbanded by Government. Twenty soldiers a-day, from every regiment, are sent to their homes. Two regiments, fearing they would be massacred in small parties, revolted at Moultan ; 1,400 of the mutineers have been killed. The same paper deplores this fatality, and asserts that the state of affairs in Oude is still bad, and that the insurgents are strong, but thinks their chiefs are divided. The situation in Gwalior grows worse. The Government of the Rajah alone is faithful, the population being very much excited by the emis saries of Nana Sahib, four of whom have been taken and executed by blowing them from can- nons. Tantia and the fugitives from Gwalior have sur prised and captured the town of Patun. The Rajah of Patun is in flight, his troops having re volted and possessed themselves of considerable treasure and 40 guns, General Michel overtook Tantie. Topee and dis persed the rebels under him, and :recaptured 25 guns. _ The same journal pretends that the difficulties in Central India are only commencing. Ceylon has been connected with India by a sub marine telegraph. PARIS, OCT. 18. It is assured that the reported assassination of the French and Spanish Vice-Consuls at Tetuan is without any foundation. Nevertheless, it, is stated that the excitement in Morocco is very great. La Patrie of this evening contains the follow ing ALGIERS, OCT. 18. The steamer iias arrived from Orau with des patches from the French Consul-General at Tan giers, dated the 12th inst. These despatches do not mention anything of the supposed occurrences at Tetuan, which must therefore be pure inven tion. MARSEILLES, OCT. 18. M. de Lesseps arrived here to-day on his way to Barcelona. He has accepted an invitation, made by the President of the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of Marseilles, to a banquet to be given on his re turn, which is expected on the 28th inst. RUSSIA. A few days ago the Gazette de Cologne learned from its Vienna correspondent that a conspiracy against the life of the Emperor Alexander had been discovered, and the persons concerned in it arrested, but nothing tending to confirm the intelligence has come to my knowledge. In fact, the correctness of the news is greatly questioned. Every man of well-constituted mind must sincerely hope that a special Providence may watch over the Emperor Alexander, and that he may be permitted to com plete the great work which he has begun. The Russians boast much of the personal courage of the Emperor Nicholas, but the present Monarch is the braver man, for he has dared to undertake a task from which his father shrunk. The late Czar once in plain terms confessed to a celebrated Austrian statesman that he was " afraid" to meddle with the serf questioi. A most shameless attempt to defraud the Russian Government has just come to light. The Imperial authorities declared the distance from St. Petersburg to Moscow to be 607 wersts, but M. von Struve has found it to be 88 1-3 d wersts less. The American coin nftnv which ;. AIIYIC-4,1114 +b. would have pocketed about 12,000,000 dols.—or, at all events, a considerable part of that sum—had it not been for M. von Struve's opportune discovery. In order to make out the 607 wersts all the dis tances given on the projected railroad were erro neous. The Emperor, as you can easily conceive, is very angry, but the matter is likely to be hushed up, as the reputation of men of high rank for com mon honesty is in jeopardy. There was a tremen dous fire at Orel (the capital of the Russian Govern ment of the same name) on the Ist October, and another on the 26th Sept., at Livny, in the same Government. At Orel 500 buildings were de stroyed, and about 200 at Livny. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. REIGATE. The writ for the election has at length been sent down. Yesterday morning it was proclaimed in due form, and Friday morning has been appointed for the nomination. The only candidates ostensibly in the field are Mr. Monson and Mr. Wilkinson ; but Mr. Edwin James came down yesterday, and was in communication with some of the electors, but it is not known whether he intends to stand. It will be recollected that Mr. Wilkinson had re tired from the contest shortly after the vacancy in the representation of the borough originally occurred, and Mr. Edwin James then offered him self to the electors ; but Mr. Wilkinson a second time announced his intention to stand for the borough, and claimed the support of those electors who had pledged themselves to vote for him in the first instance. This proceeding created a complete schism among the liberal electors, and occa sioned a good deal of excitement and personal feel ing in the borough, and the result was, that Mr. James expressed his intention not to divide the liberal interest and declined to stand. It is rumoured that there is an intention again to put him in nomination on Friday, and which is the cause of his coming down to Reigate yesterday. A great deal of angry feeling and excitement prevails upon the subject, and the contest is expected to be a very close one. GUILDFORD. The returning officer received the writ on Satur day, and the nomination is appointed for Friday next. The only candidittes in the field are Mr. Guildford Onslow and Mr. Evelyn. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. The Cesarewitch settling progressed most satisfactorily. No great winners are reported beyond the immediate " party" of Rocket. The Cambridgeshire betting took rather an extensive range ; the animals most in request being Blanche of Middlebie, Zouave, and Ignoramus. CLOSING PRICES. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 9to 1 agst Blanche of Middlebie (taken) 12 to 1 agst Leontes (taken and offered) 14 to 1 agst Zouave (taken) 14 to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken) 20 to 1 apt Prioress (take 25 to 1) 25 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken) 25 to 1 agst Goelette (taken) 25 to 1 agst Satinstone (taken) 30 to 1 agst Rocket (taken) 30 to 1 agst English Rose (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Physalia colt (taken) 40 to 1 agst The Farmer's Son (taken) 40 to 1 agst Eclipse (taken) 40 to 1 agst Nelly (taken) 40 to 1 agst Tricolor (taken) 50 to 1 agts Lambourn (taken) 50 to 1 agst Kelpie (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Barbarity (taken) 800 to 100 agst Prioress, Rocket, and The Brewer " mixed" (taken) The following lot were backed at evens against the field : —Zouave, Blanche of Middlebie, Gouvieux, Nelly, Eury dice, Beacon, Prioress, Leontes, The Brewer, Physalis colt, and Lambourn. DERBY• 12 to 1 agst Promised Land 2.5 to 1 agst Cavendish (taken) 33 to 1- agst Viking (taken) 33 to 1 agst Gaspard (taken) 40 to 1 Liget Gamester (taken) AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, ATM. 11. For a considerable time past commercial affairs have remained in a state of great depression, in consequence of the warehouses being overstocked with English and American goods. It is quite evident that until a great part of the stock in hand is cleared off the imports continually arriving must, if sold, lag disposed of at a price disastrous to the shippers. The evil long complained of—great irre gularity in the mail service—has tended to cr/mp the ordinary operations of trade, and efforts are being made to procure the adoption of the Panama route instead of that by way of India. The presence of a considerable naval and military force at Port de France, New Caledonia, the French station in the Pacific, has occasioned some uneasi ness here, lest the three ships of war, two war steamers, and 1,000 military, should be assembled within a few days sail of Australia, with hostile views. The advices just received, contradicting a prevalent rumour of a rupture between England and France, has quieted the alarm. A new electoral bill for this colony has for some time past occupied the attention of the House of Assembly. Manhood suffrage and vote by ballot has been affirmed. The effect of this large exten sion of the franchise will be to give a preponderance to the town constituencies over the " squatting" interest—the pioneers of Australian prosperity. The electric telegraph from Adelaide to Mel-hr bourne is in full work. The line northward, from the latter capital to Sydney, is in a state of forward ness, the work being in progress on each side the border, the junction to be at Albany. When com pleted the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia will have the benefit of rapid communication to the extent of nearly a thousand miles. The new lighthouse at the entrance of Port Jack son being finished, a bright fixed light is nightly exhibited. The lighthouse stands on the edge of the cliff, forming the Inner South Head, at an ele vation of 60 above the sea level. A new gold-field has been discovered in the north of this colony, which is said to be the seat of a rich auriferous deposit. It is in the Port Curtis district, about 30 miles from Rockhampton and seven from the Fitzroy . river. The diggers, who are as yet only " surfacing," are well satisfied with their earn ings. What are called the old gold-fields, though so long and diligently worked, exhibit no falling off in the produce. The Yass mail-coach was stopped about three weeks ago by two highwaymen with blackened faces, who robbed the passengers of money and valuables to the amount of £2OO, and carried off the mail-bags. One of the latter has been found, unopened, and an active search after the thieves has resulted in the capture of a man supposed to be one of them. We have lately heard of serious outrages com mitted by the aborigines on the borders of the settled districts, who have murdered some of the whites, and committed felonious assaults on females. For a long time previously the natives had been peaceable towards the settlers. Mr. Roberts, civil engineer of Sydney, who has been for several months engaged in surveying the squatting district of the Bar wan, lately fell in with a party of the " hairless savages," whose existence has recently been made known. They comprised a family of six, a man and his wife and four chil dren, all totally destitute of hair. Their complexion is of a copper colour, less dark than that of the North American Indians, and partaking more of the Mexican tint. It is supposed that this family is the produce of an admixture sf the Malays and the north-western black tribes of Australia, driven from the interior by continuous and incessant drought, or that they are the remnant of some extinct race. The winter, now on the eve of giving place to out Australian spring, has been unusually severe this year. Snow has fallen in some places, to the vast admiration of many a colonist under twenty years of age ; and the creeks in various parts have been covered with numerous flocks of swans, ducks, teal, widgeons, and other wild fowl. Nevertheless, an extensive drought has prevailed in the southern district, causing great destruction among the cattle from the want of food and water. The price of meat is consequently high in the Victoria markets. COLONY 'OF VICTORIA. The following are extracts from the " Commercial and Financial Report," (for the correspondents of Westgarth, Ross, and Co.), per mail from Mel bourne of 16th August, 1858 : LONDON, 15th October , 1858.—The August Mail from Australia, due here, via Marseilles, on the 3d, was delivered only yesterday morning. Telegrams from Malta had pre ceded it by the usual five days. The outward May Mail did not reach Melbourne until Ist August, 27 days behind time, nor the June Mail tilll3th August, eight days overdue. From the constant mishaps of this postal service, the colo nists may now hope to be at length delivered by the fresh contract just concluded with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, for continuing the Suez line. The arrangement is understood to be for seven years, and the aid to be about - 4 4 4lsal. f„rmer coin viz., £185,000 yearly. The steamers proceed to aye; 4 George's Sound, Kangaroo Island (for 7 Adelaitre), and Melbourne. Fifty-five days are allowed between South ampton and Sydney, 52 days from or to Melbourne,and five days less respectively via Marseilles. Leaving outh ampton on the 12th of each month, and Sydney on the 15th, it is expected that between arrival and departure of Mails, there will be seven days at Sydney, 13 days at Melbourne, and 17 days at Adelaide ; while in England there will be 12 days between arrival and departure, via Marseilles. The call at Gene is now to be only for the outward passage ; homewards there is instead a call at Mauritius, with the advantage of avoiding the monsoons, and at an estimated extra distance of only a hundred miles. The regular service begins at Southampton on 12th March, and at Sydney on 15th February next, the Home Govern-. ment having arranged for the mails prior to these dates with' the West India Royal Mail Company. Meanwhile the first vessel for the Southern Station, the " Salsette," of 1,900 tons and 400 horse-power, leaves Southampton for the Cape route on Ist proximo, and will carry a Mail. In these times of failure with Steam -boat Companies,only one other tender was sent in, which was that of the rest India Royal Mail Company, but for a considerably larger sum than that of its rival. Most likely this company will shortly arrange for the monthly service via Panama, which the Imperial Government are now evidently contemphtting. SHIPPING INTEREST.—PORT OF MELBOURNE.—The town is eight miles up the River Yarra, and vessels drawing above nine feet water cannot ascend. To larger shipping the voyage terminates at the anchorage, Hobson's Bay, and this is held to fulfil " Port of Melbourne" in the Bill of Lading. To bind the ship to deliver in Melbourne requires a more special mention, as " Melbourne Wharf ;" at the anchorage, cargoes are discharged by lighters, or ships may now discharge in Hobson's Bay, at the jetty of the Mel bourne and Hobson's Bay Railway. Presently the Wil liamstown and Melbourne Railway will afford the same facility. The Government are just completing this work, and also about to deepen the Channel of the Yarra. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of gentlemen con nected with the Australian colonies and New Zea land was held at the St. Paul's Hotel, St. Paul's churchyard, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of founding an institution through the in strumentality of which colonists in Australia and New Zealand might, during their sojourn in the mother country, meet together, and by means of which colonial interests might in some degree be represented at home. The' chair was taken by Mr. FARMER, who stated that since the meeting had been advertised it had come to his knowledge, and to that of other gentle men interested in the subject, that an association was already organised with the view of carrying out the object 4hey had in contemplation, and that premises at the Jerusalem Coffee-house had already been partly secured for the reception of members. Under these circumstances, he would read the rules and regulations of that association, and, if the meet ing approved of them, it might be desirable to amalgamate at once, and join the society, which he understood was described as the " General Austra lian Association." The_ rules of the 'association having been read, Mr. BOUSFIELD explained its object, which was, he said, to provide a place of meeting for Austra lian colonists on their arriving in this country, and to enable them to communicate for the benefit of the, colony and with a view to their personal convenience. It was proposed to have a reception room similar to that of a club, together with library, maps, and specimens of the products of the colonies, so that the association might be regarded as a sort of gathering-point at which trustworthy information might be obtained with regard to all matters relating to Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand. Messrs. Harpur and Burn were now negotiating for the purchase of the Jerusalem Coffee-house, where ample accommodation could be provided for the members. A GENTLEMAN suggested whether it might not be desirable to bring Canada within the action of the association. He was aware that some years ago some project of the kind was mooted, but Canada then appeared indisposed to join Australia. Things, however, were now different, and he felt it would be far better to give the intended association more general scope, by admitting any British colony that might make application. The CHAIRMAN said he saw no reason why the suggestion should not be carried out. He was in favour of giving the institution a more catholic element, by throwing it open to all the colonies. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BOUSFIELD said that the association with which he was connected did not certainly contem plate including any but the Austrahan colonies, of which New Zealand might be considered as one. Mr. MOOREHOUSE expressed his opinion that it would be desirable to open negotiations with the General Australian Association, so that no tinie might be lost in carrying out the object for which the meeting had been called. He moved a resolu tion to that effect. The resolution having , been seconded by Mr. T. C. BRAY, some discussion ensued, in the course of which several gentlemen expressed their opinion of the desirability of such an insti tution as that indicated, but appeared dis posed to adhere to the original proposition, that it should be limited to the Australian-colonies. _ A resolution was nextpioposed by Mr. COOK, and seconded by Mr. PEARCE, to the effect that a deputation should be appointed to wait upon the committee of the association, and carry out terms of amalgamation. After some discussion, however, the resolution was negatived, and the meeting was adjourned for a month to consider the regulations of the existing association. A. vote of thanks to Mr. Farmer for presiding concluded the proceedings. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. againstc t of a a Papalrwtyh erhilehee King John, the bad hero of one of Shakspear's finest historical plays, is exactly one of those characters which only a great tragedian f . like Mr. degree emmence. C. Kean can raise to the proper de —which Save best h uttersas onlythe speech theeff e clap trap, offending one portion of the audieu p c as it delights the rest—he is unquesti e on a a s b i l l object not of sympathy, .but aversion. Nor doeys anh ever acquire the peculiar popularity to a villain of the lago school . may lay just claim. H e is not a valiant cynic, like Richard 111., who sea sons murder with sarcasm. If his heart does no t c ommand affection, neither does his head enjoin respect. He is simply a prince, who wishes to strengthen a crooked title to a throne, without the slightest scruple as to means, and also without the slightest ability to keep upon his head the crown he has unjustly acquired. Nevertheless, Kmg John is a personage whom all the histrionic artists who have been earnest in attempting the highest tragic flights have delighted to represent. What, then, is there in this meanest of royal criminals that should awaken the ambi tion of those who seek the elevated and the sub lime ? On the surface all is uninviting. What subtlety, so alluring, lies beneath the surface, that the most towering ambition is tempted to call it forth from its hidden depths ? The only gr eat scene for the actor that p la y s King John is that in which the wicked monarch gradually unfolds to his creature his morbid desire to get rid of the innocent boy, who is the sole ob stacle to an uncontrolled possession of the throne ; and the embodiment of the mental condition ex hibited in this scene demands the highest qualities. John is a timid villain, who dares scarcely trust his own thought, till he finds his evil aspirations encouraged by the words of a too ready confidant. He would not tell Hubert to kill Arthur, but he would have him offer to perpetrate the foul deed on the faintest indication of a word ; and for the ex hibition of this half-hidden, half-revealed p ur p ose , all the exquisite refinement f. Mr. Charles Kean is required. Though the voice is lowered from that anxiety for secrecy , which scarcely . allows the speaker to trust his ow n ears with his frightful ima ginings, the intensity of evil desire is distinctly shown, and there is so mething of desperation in the eagerness with which the King leaps from his sup pressed mode of utterance to the ejaculations of a hearty friendship for Hubert. A great moral is conveyed in the fourth act, when John, with a revulsion of feeling , upbraids the instru ment of crime, and fiercely is the revulsion delineated by 14. Charles Kean; terrible, too, is the death in the last scene, with all its com plicated agony ; but the scene which should be witnessed again and again, studied over, and pon dered over, is that which we have endeavoured faintly to describe. Here our great tragedian shows himself a thorough master of all the profoundest secrets of his art. If the character of John is one revealed by hints and faint suggestions, the emotions of the Lady Constance—the other great character in the tra gedy—are displayed without reserve. The rage and the still more impassioned grief by which this unhappy lady is actuated, spring from the holiest source—she is a fanatic of maternal tenderness. Thoroughly does Mrs. Char les Kean appreciate all the capabilities of this wonderful character, and we should hail the revival of " King John" as the great event of the theatrical year, were it only for the opportunity afforded to the first living actress of . giving an unbridled manifestati on of her surpassing power. That pride of grief, in which Constance boasts, is grandly depicted, when shesits despairing on the ground, with her imaginary co mpanion, the prescribed sorrow ; such a queen o f a w e has a right to exact the homage of kings. Still more com manding are the utterance of her lacerated heart, when despair is almost heightened to madness, but nevertheless cannot subdue the tenderness of the mother. Loud and indignant in the assertion of her sanity, the passages in which she recalls the image of her " pretty Arthur' interrupt most pathetically the cur rentnf hpr. rasa • lamenting her " widow-comfort , alLavneserthseorrsotage cure," a mingled sentiment of awe and sympathy is le ft in the minds of all who have witnessed this mighty display of grief.. These two characters, sustained by the greatest actor and actress of the age, stand forward dis tinctly from the rest ; but the whole play is pro duced in a complete style, that shows the archwo logical manager in full activity. Those heavily armed barons, w ith their strange-looking helmets on their heads and netted chains about their shoul ders, with long shields, long swords, and long surcoats—how immovable do they look in repose, and how briskly do they intermingle with each other when the cry of battle is raised! . How does the Middle Age revive in the persons of burgher and baron, when the hostile armies meet before Angiers, and how sacred is the repose of Swinstead Abbey ! How accurate, and how full of animation, are all the masses ! We cannot omit to mention the very effective manner in which the scene between Hubert and Arthur was sustained. Mr. Ryder gives a good striking portraiture to his character; and little Miss E. Terry drew tears from many who sympa thised with her sufferings. " King John" is the first " revival" of the " fare well season," and from the excellence of the acting, and the perfection of the raise en scene, it makes the word " farewell " more unmusical than ever. THE EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT NEWCASTLE. A special sitting of the borough magistrates o Gateshead was held at the town-hall, on Saturday at two o'clock, the mayor (Bryan J. Prockter, Esq.) and Mr. Alderman Smith being the sitting magis trates. The Viscomte F. de Maricourt, who had been apprehended at Blyth (North) by Mr. Seborey, the superintendent of police of the borough of Gateshead, under a warrant issued by the bench two days previously, was brought up in custody, charged with having assaulted Mr. J. Bolivar Manson, the editor of the Northern Daily Express. The defendant , w ho is a slight made but active young man, with a small light moustache and im perial' bowed to the magistrates on entering with a courtly air e qually removed from the ferocious ruffian or the crack-brained young soldier who might have been expected in his person. Mr. George Reed, clerk to the magistrates, read the charge, and Mr. Edward Glynn, a solicitor, of the firm of Laws and Glynn, Newcastle, was sworn as interpreter, and explained the substance of the in. formation to the defendant. The bench decided to hold the defendant to bail, Mr. Manson, who was present, offering no objection. The defendant was then bound over, himself in the penalty of £2OO, and two sureties in the penalty of £lOO each, for hi s appearance at the usual sitting of the borough magistrates to-day (Tuesday). The defendant ex pressed, through the interpreter, to the bench, hi s thanks for the courtesy with which he had been treated, and both parties left the court with their friends. Mr. Sterling, of Westgate-hill, the tradesman alleged to have been influenced by the Count de Maricourt, has published a letter, wherein he, iri the most positive terms, denies that the count ever canvassed him for his vote, and so the extraordi nary affair stands. The suspension has taken place of Messrs. William Arnold and Sons, of Billiter-street, hemp manu facturers, with liabilites amounting to about £B,OOO. A favourable liquidation is expected. The general business of the port of London still remains inactive. The number of ships reported inward during the past week was 176, while 111 were cleared out ward, including 17 in ballast. The exports generally have not been large and those to Chi na i n particular are ver ylimited. Of the ships now on the berth loading outward, 54 are for the Australian colonies, four for Vancouver's Island, one for San Francisco,, and three for China. THE HOMEWARD AUSTRALIAN " MAILS.—The heavy portion of the mails from Australia, New Zealand, &c., arrived at Southampton yesterday morning, by the steam-ship Cambria, Captain James 'Anderson, chartered by the Royal Mail ompany, which left Alexandria on the 6th and Malta on the 9th inst. The Cambria encountered a strong gale from the eastward off Gibraltar, and passed some deck gear, such as hencoops, do In ac cordance Off Lisbon she passed several wine pipes. line, the mails ghouse, & ~ off the cordance with the custom adopted on this General , came home in charge of a clerk . on the ship's office, and were all serted ready for delivery passengers (of whom 24 arrival. - The Cambria brought 46 1 three ser vants,from the Posts first-class, 10 children, he Australian squadron), 41 and five invalids from the Australian and 326 packages of mis cellaneous merchandise. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 18. A meeting of the members of the senate was held to-day in the Arts School for the discussion of the proposed regulations of the faculty of medicine. It appeared that since these regulations (mainly drawn up by the Board of Medical Studies) were submitted to the senate in June last, the Act of Parliament passed affecting the practice of medicine has ren dered various alterations necessary. The report was accordingly referred back to the council of the senate for reconsideration by the members in con junction with those of the Board of Medical Studies. THE LE BAS PRIZE. The prize for the best English essay with refer ence to the history, institutions, and probable desti nies and prospects of the Anglo-Indian Empire, has been adjudged to Lumley Smith, 8.A., fellow of Trinity Hall. THE MAITLAND PRIZE. This prize, for an essay on some subject connected with the propagation of the Gospel through mis sionary exertions in India and other parts of the heathen world, has been adjudged to George Frede rick Maclean, of Trinity College. QUEEN'S COLLEGE. The following promotions and elections to scho larships in this society have been this day declared : Stone, to be removed to a scholarship of £so London, ditto ditto Musson ditto ditto Whitley, ditto ditto Brent, ditto ditto A gratuity of £2O to be granted to Stone, and gratuities to Lees and Johnson of £lO each. • - Ball and Marsden elected to scholarships of £l5 each. SCREW STEAMERS, THEIR PRESENT CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. • The sale of th e French screw-steamer, Francois Arago, by auction last week at Birkenhead, by order of the High Court of Admiralty, has excited atten tion to the low prices ruling for that description of property, and speculations as to the future of the fleet of screw steamers at present on sale. Many have been forced on the market from the bank ruptcy of the companies for whom they were originally constructed. Since 1852 screw propulsion for sea-going ships has increased in a much greater ratio than the legitimate demand. I. From the exaggerated value attached to the combination of the screw propeller with sails. 2. From the great stimulus given to it by the Russian war. 3. From the great facilities of credit given to specu lative shipbuilders and owners in this country and on the continent from 1854 to 1857, the practical result of . long sea voyages has proved auxiliary screw steamships a costly mistake, and full-powered. ones to expensive to compete with clipper-ships. The war demands, partially revived by the In dian mutinies and the Chinese war, has ceased. The failure of the Western, Newcastle, and other Banks has put an end to the credit system of the shipbuilders, and the general result is that screw steamers are selling at about one-third, or, as in the case of the Francois Arago, one-fifth their origi nal cost, when they can be sold at all, for the diffi culty is to get a bidder at any price. In Hamburg the Petropolis and Teutonia, two magnificent seraW ships, werr offered by public sale a few days ago at £lO per ton, having cost near £4O, and not a single bid was made for them. On the 28th a new screw vessel of 2,400 tons, belonging to the same owners, or rather to their creditors, is to be sold by auction in the Clyde. On the 30th the fleet of steam vessels belong ing to the Genoese Company, comprising sir screws, four of them of 1,800 tons, come to the hammer, to be followed by the Antwerp steamers, built for the Transatlantic trade, of 2,000 tons each. In France, the Franco-American Company having lost their capital of 1,800,000 francs (X 64,000), their half-dozen vessels, of 1,600 and 1,800 tons, must be sold to pay off the liabilities of the com pany ; and the fleet of the European and American Company, composed of equally magnificent ships, must follow, if the position of the concern is to be judged of by the price of their shares. Here, then, are twenty to 'thirty large screw steamers, that must be cleared before the market can revive. Where are the buyers to come from, and. what are the circumstances that will rule prices ? First, of the whole, the great majority are of the highest class, a ux ili ary screw ships. Perhaps there are not above two or three that could pass- the Ad miralty' standard of twelve knots at the measured mile. It appears clear these vessels will be sold at the price at which they will pay as sailing ships, con sequently their value is ruled by the freight mar ket, and their power of competing with the im proved class of timber ships now at work. With their engines taken out many - of these ships would answer admirably as carrying vessels ; and we pre- • dict this will be the fate of all auxiliary ships. The fact must be looked in the face that, in the present navigation, oreianN,o3 no ,age a t uxil hat ia ti r o y steam N o ls rry sel ffe-fB"ntale-eoa7.3"arSteamoion a r the f whele distance. The two or three of the lot that can steam 12 knots must look for customers in the large mail companies, and take what price they can get for • them. The smaller class of screws on sale, from 400 to 800 tons, will be absorbed by the coasting and continental trade in time ; but the North of Europe and other kindred companies have so swamped the market that a considerable time must •, elapse before the brokers' lists are seriously dimi nished. Their owners are, however, in better plight that the holders of large steamers ; for one purchaser for a 2,000 there are 20 for an 800 ton screw. Is screw steaming at an end then ? Far from it. The joint-stock companies and banks, who have been the principal means of creating this surplus of ill-adapted screws, are for the time done for, but the legitimate trader will go on gradually and profitably developing steam navigation, using his experience, and, what is of equal consequence to success, his own money, in constructing the best description of vessel for the particular trade she is required for, until, in the progress of time, a new generation of directors and their dupes get up steam navigation companies, raise prices 50 per cent. in all building yards, pay sham dividends, build in twelve months what ought to have been spread over ten years, spoil legitimate trading, finally, go out in bankruptcy, and glut the steam• boat market as it now is. THE CARDEN. ABDUCTION CASE. DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING. The proceedings in the case of "Arbuthnott 1 - • Carden," were resumed this morning at Kingstown Police -court. Mr. Jones, a stipendiary magistrates was examined on the part of the defendant, and positively swore that he believed Mr. Carden in capable of committing any act of violence towards Miss Arbuthnott. The woman Keating, alias Douglas, was also examined for the defendant, and deposed that she had no authority from Mr. Carden to offer money to any person for any purpose re specting Miss Arbuthnott, except what was con tained in letters found on her person. Miss Ellen Arbuthnott was then called and examined by Mr. Walsh, Q.C. She said, " The last witness came to me on the first occasion, and had an interview of abut ten minutes, when she stated that she had been offered a situation as housekeeper to Mr. Car den. Mr. Gough was present at the time, but not concealed. Mrs. Keating purported to have come to know if I recollected a certain promise that I made to her to place her children at school. I re plied that I did not. • She said she was trying for a situation as lady's-maid, and I said I hoped she would be successful. Mr. Carden's name was cer tainly not mentioned at the second interview. I was alone, and Mrs. Keating said that she had come to inform me and Mr. and Mrs. Gough also that she had been offered the situation of house keeper to Mr. Carden of Barnane, and she wished to know whether it would be offensive to me and to Mr. and Mrs. Gough if she should accept it ? said that I was surprised at her mentioning Mr. Carden's name to me, but that I had not any wish to interfere with her, arrangements, at the same time saying that she should never attempt to hold any communication with me again of any kind, and . I desired her to leave St. Helen's at once, or I should be under the necessity of desiring the servant to turn her out. She then went away. and I have not seen her since. Nothing further occurred after the mention of Mr. Carden's name. I should think the interview did not last over five minutes." After a lengthened discussion the magistrates decided on holding Mr. Carden to bail in the sum of £5,000 to keep the peace towards Miss Arbuth nott. ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The quarterly court of this society was held yesterday at Willis's-rooms, King-street, St. James's. The chair was occupied by Vice-Admiral Sir W. 0. Pell. After the con firmation of the minutes the balance-sheet was read and adopted. It showed that, including the previous balance of £543 -17 s. Id., the gross receipts amounted to £1,169 7s. ld., of which a balance remained of £6BB 7s. 4d., i l l addition to the funded stock of £36,513 18s. 9d. Admiral W. Richardson proposed a resolution, having for its object the admission of offi cers o f the RoyaiMarines as members and of themselves and families as participators in it s benefits. The chairman said this could not be adopted without altering the charter, which mentioned no thing. about marines, b u t con fi ned i tself to off i cers of the ro yal navY, and consequently the proposed resolution must be taken only as a notice of motion for the court to be held 01 January next, In and (lent ISTo. 105 i Cent; Russ 94 1; 31)1;' So a /n o Ch at esl don 2riei r ata, Vete f it ' ll -'9,21 T Erin t ie° old Of p o t 4105(