The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

riIIIE AT RE-R OY AL, DR URY-LANE.I .1_ Under the Management of M iss L. P y ne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, Balfe's celebrated Opera, THE ROSE OF CASTILLE : Characters by M iss Louisa Fyne. Miss Susan Harrison l'ync Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Geo. Honey, Mr. Bartle man, Mr. F. Glover , Mr. A. S t. Alb y n, and Mr. W. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'A3IOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. p OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Al) Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENINGr wiI KIN I be prsented Shakspere's Play of . King John, Mr. C. KeanGJOHN —Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. rrHEATILE-ROYALB , Bucks Htone AYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. . . TIM; EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSU- X ANUE : Mr. and Mrs. C. Matthews, 8:e. HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And ANY PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanboroug:h. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs.C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, Jz.c. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swanboroug,h, Mrs. Selby, 3llss Ternan. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'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 prod uced 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 C IRCLE, comprising the evolutions and eqtdtations of the first Professors in the world and their unequalled Stud of Horses. To conclude with a e Farc fee for booking. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road: — NJ OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engazed for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Ilenshaw, S Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Himc, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde, Mr. E. Taylor, 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 Tan FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of constructien, will be thrown open on Wednesday next. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCT. 26. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day at noon. BAROMETER- 30 . 32 . WIND, North Westerly ; light, with dull weather. THE SUN. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1858. The King of PORTUGAL has evinced great dis cretion in yielding where he could not have resisted without involving all Europe in war. " Right" was clearly on his side, but " might" was as cer tainly against him, and he pursued a dignified course in yielding, but at the same time protest- ing that he " ceded only to the threatened employ. molt of force." This may be regarded by small minds as a " humiliation," but it is not a " humiliation " to the Portuguese Government. They had ex hausted every mode by which an authen tic judgment could be obtained. An appeal was still pending before a court of competent juris diction. The decision might at once terminate every difficulty, and that decision would speedily be obtained. Would France wait until judgment was pronounced ? An instant negative was put on that suggestion—what the French Government wanted, it required violently and immediately. It would hear of no delay, listen to no arguments institute no inquiries. It had put forward its de mands, and unconditional, unreasoning obedience was expected on the side of the weaker power. Portugal, however, put forward another proposi tion, which it was scarcely anticipated could be rejected. It offered to abide by the arbitration of any neutral Power selected by France itself—to let its opponent determine the tribunal, and to in vest that tribunal with unlimited authority. Even this was refused. France would listen to no reason, would admit no mediation. Its sole argument was its power, with which Portugal could not possibly cope ! The restoration of the " Charles et Georges" was one act of coercion which must inevitably place France in the wrong, no matter how great may be the merits of the case on which it relies. The humilia tion, we repeat, is not with Portugal, but with the superior power that constituted. itself sole judge in its cause, and refused to tolerate any intervention in any form, or under any circumstances. It is said that England ought to have interfered; that it should not have permitted a friendly power —one that has been a kind of pupil and follower of our own—thus scandalouAy to be coerced, for merely following our own advice, and acting in obedience to the instructions it has received ; that it was incumbent on our Government at least to have interposed, and flung itself between the wolf and its intended prey. This is all very well for those who only seek to disparage the present Government, to fling dirt on every possible °sea sion, and discover matter of censure in its every act, right or wrong. But it will be very different with all disposed to take an independent and straightforward view of affairs. They will praise the judicious caution that saved the nation from becoming entangled in what must at least have been a very complicated and un pleasant transaction. Had England directly interfered, hostilities must have followed, and, as we have already stated, a contest in which the Western Powers, England and France, took opposite sides must have been fought with the most fearful consequences to humanity and to civilisation. We may also ask, Were we prepared for such a conflict, were it forced on us in such a man ner that it could not be evaded without the abandonment of our position as one of the great Powers of Europe ? We fear that the answer must be in the negative. Any sudden declaration of war would find us in a state of the utmost per plexity and unreadiness. Doubtl ess , every man w ould do his duty in the h our of emergency' Those who had hitherto spared their purses would readily imperil their persons. They would fi g h t bravely, nay desperate l y , p ro aril et foci's, b ut, alas ! they would fight unskilfully. There would be a vast amount of individual valour and indi vidunl daring, lmt that v;Guld nut mifiice again s t trained and disciplined cohorts. It would, indeed, only lead to the destruction of those who knew not how to fight, and were too brave to run away. Those mep, who might be turned to so good an account, would become mere food for gunpowder, and be expended on the first opportunity. The first and main line of defence, as has been well suggested in a letter which will be found in ano ther part of our impression, is on the ocean itself, - where the wooden walls will still protect our " iron - boluul coast." The efficiency of the Navy , 44 ) , ~.•• l• MA,. ;, tt...24:16041 'r(4... 'itt . et, ,V7iggasibio,p,...ita, t b DR Orr , / E I must above all things be looked to. Lord HARD WICKE has told us quite enough to show that it is not what it might be—that an additional utlay is required, and additional powers for e nsuring its being adequately manned at brief notice. The nation will I never again tolerate the infamous system of im pressment, or at least until every fair means has been tried and found wanting. We must try what fair . pay, good food, and proper treat ment can effect, before press-gangs are again authorised to steal human beings, and carry off, for compulsory and unwelcome service, men who fancy themselves to be free, and who are required to fight in defence of their quasi liberties (!) Let proper means then be adopted to provide proper ships, suitably manned with volunteers, who, after all, are far better than " pressed men." This provides for the ocean, but there is a second and very important line of defence—the coast itself. Let us for a moment suppose (Dii avertite omen) that the British fleet had been evaded or conquered ! that by any means the way was open to the invaders. The landing on such a coast as ours of a large force would be a work of no ordinary difficulty. Even under the most favourable circumstances, and receiving asistance in place of opposition from the shore, against any judicious resistance it would be virtually impracticable. A well-managed band of navvies would, in a few hours, throw up a line of earthworks that could be readily defended, and would effectually prevent the landing. On this point we refer to the letter above referred to, which clearly and distinctly points out the mode in which the coast or leeward defence might be made available. But we shall repeat usque ad nau seam what we have already said as to the necessity of training the people. Rifle practice is all imp-or tant, and a little drilling could easily be associated, so that a number of picked shots could be turned out at a moment's notice, with quite sufficient knowledge to associate and work together whenever occasion required. It would be an amusement to the rising generation, who would willingly make as many sacrifices to join the local rifle club as they do at present to join the cricket club. It only requires a little Government aid and a little Government encouragement to set the thing going, and it will speedily become self-supporting. These are matters worthy of notice, and we earnestly hope that the attention of the Government may be directed thereto, so that the national defences may be placed in every respect on the most satisfactory foundation. According to all reasonable probability, the comprehensive Charge delivered on Thursday last to the Grand Jury, at Kingston-upon-Hull, by the learned Recorder of that borough, may be one of the very last to which he will have the opportunity of giving utterance in that particular character. Mr. WARREN'S career as Recorder of Hull has now extended over 'a period of six years, during the lapse of which he lias rapidly acquired for himself a high judicial reputation. Latterly—namely within the narrow compass of the three sessions which have elapsed since his first election to a seat in the House of Commons, as member for Midhurst—the hon. and learned gentleman has attained for himself no mean position, in fact, a really distinguished and con spicuous position, among the ranks of the more independent of the national representatives. As a constitutional lawyer, his repute was thoroughly established long before his entrance into Parlia ment. Since that period, however, it has been very considerably enhanced. Mr. WARREN has not remained inactive as a member of the Legislature. He has himself initiated some of the most important legal reforms recently brought under the considera tion of the two houses. An epitome, therefore, by him of the legislative achievements of the last Parliamentary session becomes at once a matter doubly interesting, because clearly reliable and authoritative. Elsewhere in our impression of this evening we accord with great pleasure to the latest and in some respects the most masterly of those judicial abstracts by Mr. WARREN, whatever advantages may accrue to it from our circulation. Its perusal can hardly fail to be pre-eminently instructive to the generality— comprising as the charge does within it the very pith amd marrow of all the manifold changes in the law effected in 1858 by numerous Acts of Par ) liament. The simultaneous enumeration and analysis of all these various enactments will be found in the course of this address, presented in consecutive array with a terseness and lucidity in every way eminently characteristic. It is an epitome, in fact of recent legislation not unworthy of one of the the ablest of the later editors of Blackstone. The Learned Recorder has, moreover, taken especial care to bring (according to Lord BACON'S phrase) directly " home to men's businesses and bosomes," the facts he has here voluntarily undertaken to enumerate. For example, he startles the mercantile men by the revelation in a few words of the law as it really is in regard to crossed cheques—astounding some in deed, for the first time with the intimation that they might subject themselves to the penalties of felony by simply obliterating with a pen-stroke the words " and company" upon crossed cheques through sheer inadvertence. Nevertheless, while descending thus to particulars, the learned Recorder of Hull embraces within this luminous synopsis of the session the whole diver sity of the late enactments of the imperial legis lature. He specifics at the very outset what he aptly terms the "monster topic," the act tranfer ring the Government of Hindostau from the Company to the Sovereign. He then makes particularly and most honourably mentions the splendid act making provision for the future rule of the new colony of British Columbia—according (while so doing) to the right hon. baronet the Colo nial Secretary, " a statesman of brilliant genius and an ornament to his country's literature," that noblest tribute of all, the enviable meed laudari a viro laudato. Subsequently there are passed ra pidly under his survey, as he speaks—the Act remodelling the Scotch University System ; th e Act regulating anew the whole of the Medical Profession ; and immediately afterwards the cluster of six Acts intimately affecting the actual Consti tution of Parliament. " The first of these," observes Mr. WARREN, "is to prevent seats in the House of Commons remaining vacant during a whole re cess, in the case of a member's having accepted office under the Crown, since n propagation or adjourn- ment of Parliament ; when that is the case, the Speaker may issue his warrant for a new election during the recess. A second totally abolishes the property qualifications of mc-nlwr3 of Parliament. A third continues the Corrupt Practices act of the year 18 54—varies the statutable definition of " candidates" and renders it lawful for them and their agents (appointed in writing) to provide con veyances for voters for the purpose of polling, but o prohibits paying money or giving any va l ua bl e consideration to the voter for or in respect of such travelling expenses. By this last, and one or two other provisions, it is sought to prevent bribery under color of paying travelling expenses. A fourth abolishes the three oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, substituting for them one short oath, containing "so much only of the three as the legislature has deemed it right to preserve. It also enables Jews to make declarations in certain cases, but is expressly declared not to affect any of the provisions of the Roman Catholic Relief acts. A fifth act enables either House of Parliament to pass if they think fit, a resolution enabling a Jew to take the new oath omitting the concluding words, ' And I make this declaration upon the true faith of a Christain.' A sixth carries into effect one of the main provisions of a bill which I mysely had introduced into the house during the last Parliament, and have given nptice of for the next tession, enabling select committees of the House of Commons for the future to examine wit nesses on oath in matter* relating to private bills—putting both hous es , as I have long con tended they ought to b,e on the same footing in this particular." The rest of this really remarkable charge we earnes'dy commend to the examination of our readers, calculated, as it is throughout, we believe, to afford them solid information as well as the liveliest satisfaction in perusal. It reflects honour upon the learned Recorder that he should thus laboriously strive to facilitate, for the com munity at large, the toil of acquiring an accurate and complete knowledge of the latest changes effected in the laws by which the free people of these happy islands are governed. THE NEW ARMY WARRANT AND ITS CHANGES. LATEST NEWS. Tn consequence of the promulgation of the new Royal warrant, regulating promotion in the higher ranks of the army, the following important changes will be immediately gazetted Major-Generals J. Home Home, Sir W. B. Clay ton, John Spink, Sir James Jackson, K.C.8., R. C. Manse], John Drummond, James Freeth, Sir Chas. O'Donnell, John Leslie, R. B. Coles, E. P. Buckley, and Sir Richard Doherty will be promoted to be lieutenant-generals. The undermentioned Colonels will become Major- Generals—PlZ, B. F. Dalton Wilson, S. B. boi leau, late 22d Regiment ; Hon. G. F. Upton, Coldstream Guards; Hon. A. A. Dalzell, late 48th Regiment ; T. Simson Pratt, half-pay 26th Regiment; Orlando Felix, W. N. Hutchinson, late Grenadier Guards ; H. F. Lockyer, 97th Regi ment ; Simcoe Baynes, late Malta Fencibks ; M. C. Johnstone, 87th Fusileers ; F. Meade, W. F. Forster (Deputy Adjutant-General), F. Johnston, Albert Goldsmid, E. Macaithur, C.B. (commanding the troops in Australia), D. H; Macdowall, J. P. Hely, C. R. Bowers, J. Arnaud, F. Towers, Sir Robert Garrett, half-pay, 46th Regiment ; R. Connop, T. M. Williams, W. Nepean, A. H. Trevor, Inspecting Field Officer of Dublin Recruiting District; R. W. Brett, .W. H. Dutton, the Earl of Albemarle, G. T. Colomb, the Marquis of Conyngham, Sir Sydney Cotton, K.C.8., 10th Reginient ; Maurice Barlow, late 14th Regiment ; J. N. Jackson, 99th Regiment ; Botel Tr dell , 83d Regiment ; J. Clark, Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum ; R. W. Brough, half-pay, 2d Regiment ;E.H. D. Napier, E. Harvey, J. R. Young, half-pay, sth Fusileers ; J. Michel, C. 8., late 6th egiment ; R. P. Douglas, Inspector-General of Militia ; C. Craufurd Hay, Commandant of the School of Musketry at Hythe ; W. L. Dames, 37th Regiment ; C. 'Warren, C. 8., half-pay, 55th Regiment ; G. A. Malcolm, C. 8., and R. H. Wynyard, C. 8., 58th Regiment. Several of these officers not having qualified them selves by six years' service in the rank of regimental field-officer will only receive the honorary position of Major-General with the half-pay of their last regimental rank. Together with the Generals now on the list in a similar position they will be formed into another list separate from that of the effective and the supernumerary Generals. The new supernumerary list of Generals will con sist of Major-Generals C. Windham, C. 8., Sir John Inglis, K.C.B. Sir James Hope Grant, K.C.8., Sir W. R. Mansfield, K.C.8., Sir T. H. Franks, K.C.8., and Sir Edward Lugard, K.C.B. All these officers have been promoted out of their turn for distinguished services in the field. They will remain on the supernumerary list until such time as they would become Major-Generals by seniority, when they will be transferred to the establishment as vacancies occur. They retain all the pay and advantaFes arising from their earlier promotion for distinguished service, without impeding the pro motion of their seniors, as was the case under the warrant of 1854. The following Lieut.-Colonels, who attained that rank prior to the 20th of June, 1854, when the warrant of that year was made to take effect, will be promoted to the rank of full Colonel. These officers, along with many-others now on the Colonels' list, have been " jumped over," in consequence of the qualifying clauses of the warrant of 1854, which gave every Lieut.-Colonel the rank of Colonel im mediately on his completing three years' command of a regiment or three years spent in certain staff situations. The list will now be re-arranged, so that all the Lieut.-Colonels commissioned as such prior to June 20, 1854, will stand on the Colonels' list m the same relative position occupied by them as Lieu tenant-Colonels before that date. This will be done by special brevet, dated November 28, 1854, after which the " jumping over " system com menced. Besides the replacement of the Colonels since promoted, the following, who are still Lieu tenant-Colonels, will be made Colonels of Nov. 28, 1854—viz., R. Vassall, W. H. Adams ' A. Hous toun, J. De Lacy, R. Chetwode, J. P. Westropp, G. M. Reeves, 99th Regiment, R. H. Lowth, 86th Regt.; E. C. Fletcher, half-pay 3d Dragoon Guards; B. Daveney, Ist Regt. ; E. Bagott ; J. Patience, 65th Regt.; J. Scargill, R. Lewis, S. Tryon, 0. D. Ainsworth ; T. Ogilvy, 2d Life Guards ; J. A. Udny, Irish Staff; G. Swann ; G. W. Fordyce- Buchan, late Scots Fusilier Guards; J. H. G. Dal rymple, Scots Fusilier Guards ; A. Horne, 13th Regt. • J. Armstrong, Cape Mounted Rifles ; E. A. Holdich, C. 8., 20th Regt. ; W. D. Fallon, 74th Highlanders; W. B. Ainslie, C.B. ; S. T. Christie, 80th Regt. ; W. M. Wood, Coldstream Guards •, H. P. de Bathe, Scots Fusilier Guards ; and R. San dars, C. 8., half-pay 19th Regt. The following 26 Majors will also (though pro bably not at once) be promoted to be Lieut.-Colonel in succession to the same number of effective Colonels appointed Major-Generals on the establish ment—viz., Majors T. Lillie, Ceylon Rifles ; M. G. Adams, G. F. Murray, 65th Regiment; T. Byrne, 10th Regiment; E. Moore, 11th Regiment; R. M. Best, 10th" Regiment ; Fitzwilliam Walker, Cana dian Rifles ; R. Pitcairn, Donald Stewart, G. P. Hume, 15th Regiment ; E. 0. Broadley, 0. Lloyd, Ormsby, H. C. Brewster, 76th Regiment ; C. Beamish, 35th Regiment; H. Gahan, St. Helena Regiment ; Collingwood Fenwick, 76th Regiment ; G. Munro, R. H. Harris, F. P. Nott, J. Ross Wheeler, 29th Regiment; A. T. Allan, 81st Regi ment ; Thomas Ross, 73d Regiment ; B. Harrison, 13th Hussars ; Albert Watson, F. J. Phillott, and Wyndham Bewes, 73d. Regiment. The above does not include the promotions in the Ordnance Corps, which will also be affected somewhat by the warrant. It will serve to show, however, the considerable changes created in the higher ranks among the officers of the Cavalry, Guards, and Line. Several staff appointments will be at once rendered vacant, among which we may mention those of Inspector of Militia, Commandant at Hythe, Inspecting field-officer in Dublin, Com mandant of Royal Military Asylum, and Assistant- Adjutant-General in Scotland ; besides which, pro motions without purchase will go through all ranks in the Coldstream Guards, 10th, 37th, 58th, 83rd, 87th, and 99th Regiments. A telegram from London, printed in the Debuts of yesterday states that the Duke of Malakhoff has received an invitation to Windsor, and that the Duchess of Mala khoff will be presented to the Queen by the Countess of Malmesbury. His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister and the Countess Platen have returned to the residence of the legation, from .Sweden, after an absence of three months. The Mayor of Melbourne left Morley's Hotel on the 23d inst. for Dublin. We understand that he will re turn to town about the 2d Nov. Mr. Edward Litton, Senior Master of the Court of Chancery, Mr. Henry Daley, and Mr. William Seton, of the Treasury-office, London, the commissioners appointed to inquire into the nature and extent of the duties of the several officers of the Court of Chancery, and the fees or emolu ments payable to them, and as to whether any and what alterations should be made therein, held their first sitting in the chaniher of the Lord Chancellor's secretary, Four Courts, at Dublin, on Friday. A large number of the officials of the Court of Chancery were present. The inquiry is to be con ducted with closed doors. We (John o' Groat Journal) regret that our burgh member, Lord John Hay, has, since the close of the parliamentary session, continued in a very precarious state of health, and that during the recess he has been debarred by his physician from taking any active part in public affairs. Hopes of his speedy recovery, are, however, now entertained. 4t per Cents. 95 50 Do. end month .. 3 per Cents 72 95 Do. end month 73 Bank Shares 3125 Credit Mobilier Do. Account Geneva . RAILWAYS. In the general business of the port of London during the past week there has been considerable activity. The number of ships reported inward was 3.58, including 57 with corn, grain, flour, &c. The number cleartd out ward was 119, including 19 in ballast. Of those now on the berth loading outward 56 are for the Australian colonies, three for China, five for Vancouver's Island, and one for 53411. "1r1bc0, The exports to China still continue light THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1858. SPAIN. accusation in which it is hard to say whether folly or insult is predominant. That accusation is now disavowed and effaced, and, if we still speak of it, our reason is that we desire to see once for all those fictions put an end to which have produced so many unpleasant incidents connected with the right of search and the right of visit. The reality of the maritime right of nations not only better guaran tees the dignity of the different flags, but we con sider that by leaving to each state greater liberty of action it would be more efficacious against the infamous traffic of slaves." BOURSE, Oct. 25.—The market has been heavy to-day Threes have been done at 73f. 10c. and 73f. ; -Mobilier varied from 902 f. 50c. to 912 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 660 f. to 662 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,345 f. to 1,347 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 870 f. to 872 f. 50c. ; and Southern, 565 f. to 568 f. 75c. The market con tinued dull to the close, when the following were the quotations : Cr6dit Foncier Belgian 4f loli Piedmonteso (5) Roman 93 50 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Cash. Account. Orleans .. 1347 50 .. 1345 Northern New ditto. Bi2 50 .. 812 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 872 50 .. 872 50 New ditto .. 622 50 Midi 567 50 .. 566 25 Western 612 50 .. • 610 Eastern Grand Central Sardinian . . .. 457 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 251. 15c.; money, 25f 10c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 921 c. The Madrid journals of the 21st have reached us . The corrected lists of electors had, pursuant to an order from the Government, been stuck up on the walls of -the Ministerial offices, and in the most frequented places, at Madrid, and crowds had col lected to examine them. The approaching elections continue to excite , interest not only in the capital but in all the great provincial towns. The Peninsular Correspondence, in a new article on them, in which as usual, it defends the O'Donnell Cabinet, says : —" This Cabinet has steered clear of the dangers of reaction on the one hand and has known how to avoid the exigencies of ultra-liberalism on the other. It has now left to the nation to decide whether it will consent to the moderate use of its rights and the steady progress in public affairs which are the natural result of an alliance between a confiding monarch and a free people." • It was stated some time ago that the Govern ment had resolved to postpone the projected expedition against the Riff pirates until after the conclusion of the Mexican affair ; but the semi-official journals now state that the ap pointment of Lieutenant-General Prim to the com mand of an expedition has been definitively agreed to, and that the number of the troops to be engaged in it is to be 12,000. In spite, however, of this very positive affirmation, a letter from a minis terial source declares that " nothing whatever has been definitively settled on the subject." The steamer Pizarro had left Alicante with troops for Cuba. Letters from the seaports state that during the last few days the weather had been exceed ingly bad at sea. Letters from Seville state that the Infanta Christina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, whose recovery was almost despaired of a few days ago, is already out of danger. Spanish journals state that it has been resolved to establish regular lines of steam naviga tion between. Santander, Bilboa, and London ; also to cause the mail steamer between Alicante and Marseilles to make two voyages a-week instead of one. PERSIA. We have already received by telegraph intel ligence of the arrival at Tresibond of Ferruck Khan, the Persian Envoy. A letter from that city now furnishes us with some further details : " The Trebizonda, Austrian steamer, arrived here on the Ist, after having experienced very boisterous weather in the Black Sea. On the fol low*. morning Ferruck Khan was visited by the Turkish authorities and by the European consuls, and on the 3d left for Erzeroum, accompanied by M. de Vernouillet, one of the attaches of the French embassy at Constantinople, who is to remain with him until he reaches the Persian frontier. The Envoy, both on his arrival and departure, was sa luted with a discharge of 21 guns from the citadel. The governor of Trebisond, knowing that the roads are invested by brigands, sent a strong escort with the Envoy, and on the previous evening despatched a body of cavalry to clear the road. Ferruck Khan will only remain three days at Erzeroum, and will then start for Van, and make a longer halt at Tauris, where he is to receive despatches from his Government. The city of Tauris pro poses, it is said, to give a grand reception to the Envoy, as a mark of its gratitude for the advan tages it will derive from the different commercial treaties which Ferruck Khan has concluded in Europe. The Shah has given orders for the con struction of a line of electric telegraph between Tauris and Teheran, and the Persian Government is about to adopt several other useful reforms sug gested by European civilisation." A letter from Copenhagen, of the 20th, states that the King returned to the capital on the previous evening from the Palace of Glucksburg. On the following day he was to hold a secret council and afterwards proceed to the Palace of Frederiksborger. DEATH OF SIR JOHN POTTER, M.P.—MANCHES TER, Monday afternoon.—We regret to announce the death, this morning, at Beech-house, Pendleton, of Sir J. Potter, M.P. for Manchester. For several days Sir John had been gradually sinking, and his friends had, since the end of last week, little hope of his recovery. Sir John was in his 44th year. His illness lasted exactly a fortnight. DEATH OF DR. H. M. HUGHES.—We regret to have to record the death of Henry Marshall Hughes, M.D., Fellow of the Royal - College of Physicians, and physician to Guy's Hospital, which mournful event occurred at 12, Marine-parade, Brighton, .on Thursday last, in the 53d year of his age. ILLNESS OF MR. SPURGEON.—The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's admirers will be sorry to learn that the rev. gentleman has been attacked with a very gainful disease— inflammation of the kidneys—and that a few days ago. his life was all but despaired of. His medical advisers have given it as their opinion that no danger now exists, but he is prohibited from preaching just yet. The money for the site of his new chapel—£.s,4oo—was paid down the day before he was attacked.—Bury Times. ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.--As many as one hundred and thirty-four articled clerks have given notice of their intention to be admitted attorneys next ,term, in addition to a number from Easter and Trinity terms. ' THE END OF THE LONG VACATION.—The long vacation terminated on Saturday, and yesterday the several law offices of the common-law courts were opened at the usual hours, as also the Judges' Chambers; in anticipation of the forth coming Michaelmas Term, commencing on Tuek day week, when the new Chancery orders are expected to be is sued, and when the new Chancery Amendment Act will cone into force, under which the novel appearance of a " jury" will be seen in the Court of Chancery assigning damages for wrongful acts on injunctions, and under breaches of agreements, &c. THE WESTERN BANK.—We understand that an action of reduction, repetition, and damages has been raised and executed by one of the shareholders, a lady, resident in the east country, against the directors ofthe Western Bank, so as to test the question of their ultimate liability. We believe that the shares held by this lady were purchased shortly before the closing of the bank, and it is anticipated that this will form a strong ground of action. We cannot at present enter into the particulars, but hope to be able to do so in the course of a few days. Mr. J. Montgomery Stacey, S.S.C., Edinburgh, is the agent.--North British Daily Mail. A Paris correspondent of the Nord states that numerous French missionaries, men and women, have left during the last few months. Ten members of the Society of Mary have left for New Caledonia ; a bishop and ten members of the same society, for the ()ramie missi ons thirty , -one members of the society of Ptcpp for T . hiti Sandwich Islands, Valparaiso, Santiago, L ima, &c. two monks and two nuns for North America ; and tw enty-one priests of the Society of Foreign Mission s, for China. A testimonial has just been presented to the R ev. . ti r Jos. Ditcher, M.A., vicar of South Brent, "in ecogm tru o ti n l . of his firm and consistent maint enance of the cause of in the face of much opposition and rep roach, in the case of Ditcher v. Denison.' " The testimonial consists of a large sized polyglot Bible, a pocket Bible, and a fine quarto copy of the Book of Common Prayer and of the Book of Homi lies, all being r i c hly bound, and bearing appropriate inscrip tions. We (Aberdeen Herald) understand that George Reith, Esq , the present able secretary and general mana ger at Aberdeen of the Scottish North-Eastern Railway, h as b een a ppointed to the management of the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada. We have heard the salary stated at! £2,000, INDIA. MONDAY, OCT. 25, 4 59 P.M. The following message has been received at the East India-house. ."ro James C. Melvill, Esq., India-house, London, from H. L. Anderson, Esq., Secretary to Go vernment, dated Bombay, Sept. 27. ~ OUDE. " A successful attack on a body of rebels, number ing about 3,000, posted on an island of the Gogra, took place on the 19th inst. Two companies of Europeans, the Kupperthela Contingent, and some of Hodson's Horse, attacked and drove them out of their intrenched position on the island, killing, it is reported, 1,000. The Artillery fire did great exe cution among the fugitives, and also sunk two boats laden with the enemy. " Two of the rebel leaders are reported to be among the slain. The British loss not severe. "CENTRAL INDIA. " The Gwalior rebels are still at Seronge, but it is thought that they will make an attempt to cross the Nerbudda between Saugor and Bilsa. The fol lowing are the present positions of three columns of British troops serving in Central India :—Major- General Michel, commanding Malwa field force, at Bilsa ; Brigadier Parke, with Neemuch field force, at Sarunpore ; and Brigadier Smith, moving with his force:from Goona toward Seronge. " The first cavalry reinforcement for Central India, consisting of Guzerat and Gaekwar Horse, from Dohad, under the command of Capt. Buckle, was expected at Ookin. yesterday. " The Bombay Presidency is quiet. " H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. " Bombay Castle, Sept. 27. " V. MONTANARO. " Malta, Oct. 25." PRUSSIA. The following telegram was received at Mr. Reuter's office, Oct. 26, 11.45 a.m. : " BERLIN, Oct. 26, 10.37 a.m. "At a separate meeting of both Chambers, this day, a message was received from the Prince Regent, informing them that his Royal Highness will take the oath prescribed in Art. 58 of the Con stitution before the members of both houses, and requesting them to assemble this day at 1 o'clock at the Royal Palace (Koenigliches Residenz- Schloss) for the purpose of being present at this most solemn act; immediately after which the Landtag will be closed." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The departure of the Emperor and Empress for Compiegne has been postponed for a few days. The following are the terms in which the Mont . - teur confirms the intelligence of the difference being terminated between France and Portugal:—" The Minister of Foreign Affairs received yesterday morning a telegraphic despatch from the French Minister at Lisbon, dated the 23d, announcing that the Portuguese Government has decided on giving up the Charles-Georges, and on setting Captain Rouxel at liberty." The termination of the difference with Portugal is remarked on by several of the Paris journals. Their observations, however, are not of any great importance, as the pacific conclusion of the dispute was never doubted. Still, as a matter of curiosity, we subjoin a few extracts. The Constitutionnel uses the following language :—" We never for a moment entertained any doubt of this pacific solu tion. If the sending of two ships of war to the Tagus was a demonstration calculated to support the just remonstrances of France, we thought that the Cabinet of Lisbon would not hesitate to yield to such representations. It is henceforward diplo macy which will perform the principal part in the solution of international disputes, and Portugal would twice deceive herself, if, in refusing to recognise the error committed by her authori ties, she had thought to struggle by force against right and justice. However rapid has been the success in arranging this matter, the im portance of it must not be underrated. It would be wrong to consider the affair of the Charles- Georges as a simple incident which may now be forgotten. It would certainly have been a highly objectionable precedent, if France had found herself compelled to have recourse to force to obtain the triumph of her right ; but it was indispensable to also establish another precedent—that every ves sel, provided with the papers prescribed by the law of 1852, having on board a Government agent, and fitted up according to all the reeulations set down for such matters, cannot be stopped in her operations, either voluntarily or by error, se izea, and confiscated. There is reason to believe that, in consequence of the noise which this affair of the Charles-Georges has made, there will be no neces• sity for this precedent to be appealed to, but it is well that all foreign navies should know the ex tent of their rights and of their privileges. That is simply what the French Government has had in view, and if it has insisted energetically with the Portuguese Government, it is because its remon strances were supported by facts. The Government of King Don Pedro has well understood that state of things. In disavowing the conduct of its colonial agents it yields to no intimidation. Its weakness was only in the abuses committed at Mozambique ; those are now repaired ; and Portugal retains towards France as towards Europe her political rank, after having given a satisfactory proof of the feelings of union and of concord which ought now to animate nations towards each other." The Siecle seizes on the opportunity to pro nounce against the manner in which, it affirms, the right of search and the right of visit are so frequently confounded. The former is a right of war'belonging virtually to every bel ligerent nation to prevent the conveyance of con traband of war ; whereas the simple right of visit appertains altogether to a time of peace, and be longs to the war vessels of every nation, in order to prevent piracy. As the right of visit has for its sole object to ascertain the nationality of a suspected vessel, the proceedings ought to be of the most sum mary character. The Siecle is of opinion that the practice cannot be given up altogether without danger, but it also thinks that in the present day it is exercised in many cases most improperly, and in a manner only suited to the right 'of search. It is that abuse which our contemporary de sires to see removed, and in reference to the 'l ir e of have offences, Por tuguese case it th us expresses it se lf on th e p o i n t : 'no taste r o f on from which legal lvhie h fictions ,allv ay f s o r aris eassimila tionsno matter what may be done, arbitrary interpretations, often contrary to common sense, as has just taken place in the case of the vessel seized by the Portu guese authorities. France, which had at her first great revolution voted the abolition of slavery, as gross in its character that their example is more and definitively suppressed in 1848, sends according to a system which we will not discuss here, a vessel to the Coast of Africa to engage free labourers. The Portuguese, in virtue of the treaties of 1831, exercise their right of visiting the vessel, and there happen to be among them judges silly enough to declare that a French vessel, by order of the French Government, and with a French commissary on board, had come to exercise the slave-trade on the coast of Africa! Without the consideration due to Don Pedro IV., a young constitutional king, animated by liberal in tentions, we should have asked, at the first intelli gence of that outrage, why our fleet did not at once bring to Brest all the vessels of war anchored at Lisbon. France carrying on the slave-trade ofiloially, with the tricoloured flag aisplayed, 1 0 an MANNING THE NAVY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Sir Maurice Berkeley addressed a letter to me on the 10th of October, containing the same statements which he makes in the communication you publish this morning. I replied to him at length ; and I should have thought courtesy would have prescribed that, in addressing you, he should have given the whole correspondence instead of limiting himself to a repetition of his own asser tions. Considering, also, that Rear-Admiral the Earl of Hardwicke, the Lord Privy Seal and a member of the Cabinet, publicly declared only last Saturday that, " during the last war the ships of the Royal Navy went to sea in such a condition as to inflict a positive injustice on the brave officers in com mand of them, and that if it had not been for the efficiency of the latter, and the way the crews were disciplined, they might as well have stopped at home," I think the late " Senior Naval Lord of the Admiralty" would have acted more prudently had he refrained from inviting public attention as to the management of " the department of naval ad ministration peculiarly under his guidance — namely, the manning her Majesty's ships." At the commencement of the Crimean war the Admiralty found that the navy could not be effi ciently manned. They appointed a committee of naval officers to consider the whole subject, and on their report they issued a circular, dated the " 14th of June, 1853," and signed "R. Osborne," which established the " continuous service" system, of which Admiral Berkeley says, that " it has worked admirably"—and which he boasts of having " adopted and carried out in conjunction with his colleagues." That this system, however, has un fortunately failed as a means of inducing seamen to enter the navy is sufficiently established by the fact that one of the first acts of the present - Board of Admiralty was to appoint a mixed commission, which is now sitting, to consider why British sea men will not volunteer for the British ships of war. Sir Maurice Berkeley's letter is calculated to mislead as to the operation and effect of the system he adopted. 1. He tells you that "at the close of the Rus sian war not one man was discharged from the naval service, being of good character and physical abilty, who desired to remain." ' I answer that it is notorious, and that the navy estimates show, that " at the close of the Russian war some thousands of men were discharged from the naval service ;" and I put the Admiral in this dilemma—either that the men so discharged were men of " good character and physical ability," or that his ships were manned by men of bad charac ter, and that he was making the nation payfor physical incompetency. I say, further, that the terms on which men were permitted to re-enter under Sir M. Berkeley's regulations were of such a nature that few men of " good character and phy sical ability" would desire to remain. I might cite cases in which men who had received wounds in the service, and whose good character was certified by their captains, had been discharged ; and I have heard of ship's crews refusing bodily to re•enter, and giving three cheers for their release from the navy as they left for the shore. On fair terms, no doubt, these ' men of good character and physical ability" would have " desired to remain ;" but on the " continuous service terms" Admiral Berkeley offered, it is not, I think, to be wondered at that they desired their discharge. 2. The late " Senior Naval Lord" tells you that " any man who enters for continuous service may obtain a pension after 10 years." I shall leave you to judge how far this is a fair or candid statement. On consulting the tables relating to continuous service, you will find that men may absolutely serve 20 years in the Royal Navy without either obtain-. ing increase of pay or pension ; for Admiral Berke ley's regulations prescribe that " men who do not enter for continuous service cannot be granted either increase of pay or the pension after 20 years' service." - • --- If a man does enter for " continuous and general service" (i.e., not for a limited period or particular ship), he will then only be entitled to pension after 20 years' service ; not before ; being . even then liable to be called upon to serve again in the navy. The regulations " reserve to my Lords of the Admiralty a discretionary power of awarding pen sions after 10 or 15 years' continuous service ; ' but the seamen are in no way entitled to such pensions, and I believe the Admiralty never have awarded them, except, it may be, under very special circum stances. I have asked Admiral Berkeley to point out to me any cases in which such pensions have been granted, and I have asked in vain. In the words of the regulation, I believe " their Lordships have not thought proper to grant pensions after those terms of service ; and lam the more con firmed in this opinion from the fact that in his letter to me Admiral Berkeley declared that " con tinuous service for 10 years entitles a man to a pension," while in writing to you he greatly qualifies that statement. 3. Admiral Berkeley tells me in his letter that he was personally responsible for the regulation that, on entering the navy, £2 should be paid for an outfit. In his letter to you he attempts to draw a distinc tion between " men" and " boys ;" but he should also have told you that under his regulations " men" who enter are styled " boys." No time counts in the navy until the age of 18. A volunteer at 18 years of age is therefore classed as a "boy," and cannot be rated a second-class ordinary man until after he is 20, for he must be " at least two years at sea" in order to be so rated. Thus, a young and active Deal boatman, whose courage and s trength may have been tried a dozen times on the Goodwin, at the very age when he is best calcu lated to go aloft and do the work of a ship, is treated on entering the navy as a " boy," and sub jected to all the Admiralty regulations of that class. It is not the fact that this demand of 40s. for outfit secured a more respectable class of volunteers for the navy, or kept out the inmates of workhouses, as Admiral Berkeley would lead you to believe. On the contrary, even at Deal the guardians have frequently provided the outfit money for paupers sent from the union workhouse on board her Majesty's ships; and this fact refutes Admiral Berkeley's assertion that he " refused the boys from union and parish schools." Indeed, only yesterday a case was heard by the magistrate at the Wands worth Police -court, in the course of which it was stated by the master of the Wandsworth Reforma tory that from 30 to 40 inmates (i.e., convicted thieves) had been " bound to the navy" from the asylum; the authorities being acquainted with their antecedents. The statements in the Admiral's letter are, in fact, made to prop up a . system which has failed, and for which the Admiral himself is, to a very great extent, responsible. Such is the sailors' dis gust at the "regulations," that the Lord Privy Seal, who is at the head of a commission appointed to inquire into the effect of Admiral Berkeley's sys tem, absolutely goes the length of suggesting that we must establish the pressgang, and that, in the event of a war, " we must adhere to the principle of laying an embargo on our ports, and seizing sailors for the defence of the country." The single fact in his letter on which the Admi ral is right is as*to the proposal of the "Deal boat men to man a ship of war" not having been " re. fused." The men met upon the subject, the project was proposed, and a number of men agreed to carry it into effect. But the proposal, as I ascer tained at the end of . last week, never actually reached the Admiralty. I was therefore in error in saying that their " proposal was not accepted ;" but it is not less the fact that the men would have been ready for such work had any inducement been offered them, and that many of them sub sequently joined vessels going to the Black Sea, and were discharged at the close of the war under circumstances for which I observe Admiral Ber keley offers no explanation. The gallant Admiral fears n " t th el a i t tr the in t t e n nd b e e n r c l o a f_ my letter may be to preve y _ jesty's naval service." I . have aead r v or to h l i d s o ltn u r that such apprehension is groundless , ff " regulations " have produced that e ect by antici pation. Can Admiral Berkeley explain to you why the British seaman , who will not enter the British navy, will enter the navy of, find, States On reflection h e may perhaps that the " Re gulations for the Entry of Men and Boys into the Navy may not be with out their influence in "pro ducing what we must all deplore as so great a national reflection. In appealing to your sympathies on behalf of the D ea l boatmen, I did so in the Cause of philan thropy, and in the hope of aiding, in their hour of trial, a body of men whom I believe to be peculiarly deserving. I was informed as to the reasons why they could not, at present, enter the merchant ser vil,ul.l not enter our navy. vice, and why the Although forced to touch upon it incidentally, I had no desire or intention to open up that grave national subject of " manning the navy," into which Sir Maurice Berkeley has, I think, so un• wisely forced m e . B u t, b e i ng f orce d i n t o th e dis cussion, I do not shrink from it ; and nothing would give me more sincere satisfaction than to find that this correspondence led the British public to reflect and to consider whether the difficulty which presents itself to the manning of our ships of war is best to be encountered, as the Lord Privy . Seal proposes, by return to the system of impress ment, as Sir Maurice Berkeley proposes, by " per severance in the system of continuous service, or, as I would humbly suggest, by doing ample justice ' to those gallant seamen on our coasts, on whose strength and valour We rely in our hour of peril but who are treated with far too little considera tion when their hard services demand reward. HENRY KINGSCOTE. 96, Eaton-place, Oct. 21, the anniversary of Trafalgar. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir,—The speech of the Earl of Hardwicke at the Cambridge Agricultural Association is well worthy the serious attention of the whole nation. His lordship, who is a member of Government, and who of course is aware of the real facts of our posi tion, publicly and distinctly says " that he believed the condition of our navy to be weaker than at any period—certainly absolutely weaker than that of some great powers near us." His lordship also states " that, as a member of Government, he had seen experiments which proved to him the miser able inefficiency of our present ships for war pur poses"—" that in ships of the line we arc inferior to other nations," and "that for the purposes of war our sailing ships of war are at an end." His lord ship then states that " the army, as a profession, might be useful when the foe reached our coasts, but that we should be prepared with fleets ready to put to sea at any moment to prevent them reach ing our shores." He confeises " that those who conducted the affairs of the naval profession were not altogether settled in their minds as to the most expedient way of laying out the public money in the manner best calculated to promote the public good, for so rapid was the progress of science, and so variable the minds of inventors, that not six months elapsed without some change ;" and in his difficulty his lordship advocates that press gangs may be once more at work, when the lives, the properties, and the wealth of the inhabitants of this great nation are at stake. If Lord Hardwicke be correct in these state ments, our position is dangerous, the more so if those who are at the head of the naval profession are in difficulty how to act. His lordship states that the army as a profession might be useful when the foe reached our coasts. I cannot for one moment allow the possibility of British fleets being defeated, but will allow my imagination to take a flight, and suppose that an enemy is making pre parations to disembark an army. The great loss to the country would be the burning of our arsenals by the sudden attack of an enemy's fleet. The remedy for this danger is simple and easy. All our seaport towns com municate by railway with Coventry, Weedon, and the centre of England. Arsenals may be there placed, free from all danger, and an order for the equipment of our ships of war can from these inland towns be as easily, and nearly as quickly, executed as from Woolwich, Portsmouth, or Ply mouth Dockyards. The mercantile community would purchase the government warehouses at the sea-ports, the purchase money of which would lessen the prices of those built inland. Lord Hard wicke declares our sailing ships of war totally use less as ships of war. Sell them at once to our merchants. In this manner the arsenals of the nation are as available as at present, and in complete safety ; and the nation's ships, which are useless, are dis posed of. I have presumed to make these simple suggestions solely because Lord Hardwicke says that those who are conducting the naval profession do not see how to spend the public money in the manner best calculated to promote the public good. But allowing that the enemy has beaten our fleets or attempts to land, is there any real danger to the nation ? Decidedly not. If proper, simple mea sures be taken, and with very little outlay of money, no enemy from the sea can possibly disembark on our shores and advance into the country. I will even allow the enemy by the heaviness of their ship artillery fire to have cleared our troops from that part of the shores where they intend to land. Their heavy guns from their ships may possibly hit random shots at 600 or 800 yards inland, and they may have even mastered our artillery on Mar tell° Tower and sea coast defences. But they are not one step further advanced in the invasion of Great Britain. Our second or chief line of defence is 700 yards inland. Artillery, even light, is very difficult to land ; and even if landed can produce little effect at 600 yards distance. If we had heavy artillery in our second line of defence we could in all safety smash their artillery and destroy their boats, without the loss of a man on our part, it being quite indifferent to us on land whether the enemy be destroyed in deep water by our fleets at sea, or in shallow water by artillery and rifles firing in security in our second line of defences. S'ach defences, in my opinion, should be made according to the admirable new system of fortification of Mr. James Fergusson, but as engineers doubt his science, I will show another so simple that it cannot cause any jealousy on their part. By calculations made by railway contractors, 100 men can in ten hours make 100 yards of a ditch, 21 feet broad at the top, and 12 feet deep, with the earth thrown inwards as a parapet ; there fore 10,000 regular " navvies" could be forwarded by railway to any particular spot, and in ten hours could make such a ditch (or form an impediment) of 51 miles. We here see that if an enemy was on. the coast how easy it would be for " navvies" to throw up lines of defence quickly out of the reach of the enemy's artillery. I here show this very simple plan to prove that even if Lord Hardwicke is right as to our fleet, there is no fear, and I trust some of your military writers will try to point out the impracticability of this simple plan, so that something better be fixed upon. I can show that if each Coast Guard Station was furnished with four of my rifle batteries, they could assemble at the rate of 7 miles per hour, and throw in a more destructive fire upon a disembarking army than 10,000 infantry ; but thinking that Lord Hard wicke's speech may produce an erroneous and un favourable impression, I now only show how the army as a profession might be useful when the foe approached our coasts. From a knowledge of the feeling of the public, I may say that his lord ship's plan of again resorting to impressment is utopian ; but as there are not less than 50,000 sporting licenses granted, we can always depend on having 25,000 of the best shots in the world ready' to be employed after the manner above professed in the defence of their country.—l am, &c., London, Oct. 19. CHARLES SHAW. THIS DAI'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Oct. 26.—Wind this day at noon, N.B. ; moderate breeze and cloudy. OFF FALMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind E —Arrived— Kedgeree, from Rangoon for Hamburg. CLYDE, Oct 24.—'Wind E.—Sailed—Glasgow (screw steamer), for New York. QEENSTOWN, Oct. 25.--Wind E.—Arrived —Havering,' from London for Madras. Sailed—Hougomont, for Cal cutta. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived Vatella, from New York for Rotterdam ; her Majesty's ship Gorgon, from Fayal, and left for Woolwich. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind Thomas Having, from Falmouth. Sailed—Her Majesty's Racer, for the westward ; her Majesty's ship Lapwing, ditto. OFF SOUTH FORELAND, Oct. 21.—Arrived—Bremen• haven, from Rotterdam for New York. TABLE BAY.—Arrived—Merchantman, from London and Rio Janeiro for Calcutta, with troops. GALLE, Oct. 3.—The Soubadar, from Mauritius to Ma dras, was wrecked on this island, off Tohrue, on the 15th August. SINGAPORE, Sept. 9.—The Clarendon, bound to Liver pool, has put back, and is discharging her cargo for repairs. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SouTHA.mrroN . , Tuesday Morning. Wind N.E. Arrived.—South Picton, from Newport ; Le Coq and La Poole, from Cherbourg ; Courier, steamer, from Jersey. Sailed.—Atalanta and Despatch, steamers, for Jersey; Le Coq and La Poule, for Cherbourg ; Alliance, 'steamer, for Havre. LIVERPOOL ; Tuesday Morning• Wind S. Arrived.—Milan, screw steamer, from Messina ; La Brice' from Dunkirk. Sailed, Oct. 25 Queen of the South, for 'Valparaiso ; Clara Pillau Cordalidide, for Lisbon ; Herald, for Bahia ; Maja, for Santa Martha Belle, for Trieste. The Sarah Ann Ruskin, which was ashore on South Breakwater, Holyhead, has been got off. The Ann Pugh went ashore during a gale, October 18, in St. Indwell Roads, and went to pieces. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Wind, tide, last hour's ebb ; weather fine. Arrived, Oct. 25—Sir G. Anderson, from Archangel; Sarah, from Denia • Trial, from Wyborg. Arrived, Oct. 26 1 -Flora, from Stockholm; Agolus, front Cronstadt ; Providence, from Gravelines ; Haabet, &oat Stockholm Sailed—Panther, for Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Wind E. by N., fresh. Passed, Oct. 25.—Alice, from Sunderland, for Suez. Passed.—Guister, from London for Cardiff; James It Keeler, from London, for New York; H.M.S. Gorgon, from the westward, for the River; Duquar, from Shields, for Algiers. Five sail of foreign men-of-war from the eastward fox the westward passed outside the Goodwin Sand.. DEATH OF A SCENIC ARTIST.—Mr. Chas. Burton , a clever scenic artist and actor, who, for some years ptistl has been engaged at the Brighton Theatre, died on 1 0 Monday morning, after a short illness, at the early ago 0-1 21. Mr. Burton leaves a widow, to whom he had been married about 11 months, and an infant a few weeks old. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AssoclATlON.—Th e Kensington and Notting-hill branch of the above associatio n was opened on Friday evening last with a social tea meeting for young men, after which Mr. W. E. Shipton, secretary to the parent association, addressed the, meeting in a vel, interesting manner on th e origin, development, and obje ct ! of the association, whi c h was listened to with the greatest attention by upwards of 100 young men, who evinced b 7 their repeated applause their gratification with the evening _ entertainment. The Revs. J. Stoughton and J. De Key/cr. Walloons also addressed tip meeting. ha Pc fo/ Of ill{ 1 :x.( ch a roc( co n , a qi COnl Ali n sho N as. to rn ab oi ta n Cem Red 8 21, kat' 3.11111 b il ;i lilni ir np Llli abo, Ag r 11 4 . to 8 M a : Sat St.