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"INTEIr_iATIONA.L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCILTY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858. — Established 18.17.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace.—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pay claims under policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occuring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided p a yment thereof be made, or no ti ce o f th e d e ath be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman T HE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. HZ, Strand, London. Empowered b Act of , fo LIFE ASSURANCE, SLRVIYORS y HIP Parliament S, ANNUITIES, r M ENDOWENTS, &C DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. W. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. I Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. I J o hd Moss, Esq. John Elliotson,3l.D.,Cantab., Jain Symes, Esq. I.R.S. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO TIIE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde', Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Canta C b., F.R . .5., 37, Conduit-street. ATUARY Esq., F.R.A.., . . FSS W. S. B. Woolhouse , &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in May, 1860. - Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : :I'olicy • Sum Bonus in Permanent addition Bonus in Reduction taken Age. Assured. Cash. out in to S:irtn of Annual Assured. Premiums. eft a £ £s. d. £B. d. £s. d. 1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The fa Internal Blowing are amongst the advantages offered by the tional Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits arc divided amongst the assured every five years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to oue hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. - ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF THE NEW COMEDY. THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Falconer, Rogers, Barrett, Mesdames Charles Young, Wes'on, and Miss Kate Saxon. To conclude with the New Farce, KICKS AND HALF PENCE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, and Barrett. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed THE WAY TO KEEL' 11131. Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, and Farren ; Mrs. C. Sinclair. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUI VER. Perea Nena. Followed by A WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. • Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS, in which Miss Swanborough, Miss Ternan, Mrs. Selby, Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke will make their appearance. Followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Miss M. Oliver and Mrs. Leigh Murray. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Miss E. Wilton. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel!, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmaus, Mr. Henshaw, 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, Ilerr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, SEPT. 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 55-lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29'82. Wizar, Westerly; rather fresh, with dull weather, in dining to rain. Two o'Clock—Slight rain. THE SUN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1858. Although we have not yet received authentic intelligence of the treaty said to have been con cluded with China on the 28th of June, some accounts have been received of the progress of the negotiations, in which Lord ELGIN displayed an amount of firmness and energy reflecting the highest credit on himself, and proving that, for once, England has got " the right man in the right place" in matters of diplomacy. Thoroughly acquainted with the deceitful character of the inhabitants of the Flowery Land, he was prepared on every point, and speedily satisfied the Celestial Plenipotentiaries he could neither be cajoled nor humbugged, and that if they desired the cessation of the war they should act in a straightforward and bona fide manner, and that any breach of good faith would be attended with prompt and severe punishment. The first interview between Lord ELGIN and the sol-disant Plenipotentiaries took place on the sth of June. The Chinese, or rather a Chinaman and a Tartar, had arrived at Tien-sin on the preceding - They immediately requested an interview► stating that they were invested with full powers to bring all matters to a satisfactory conclusion. It had been arranged that Lord ELGIN should have the earliest palaver, Baron GROS the second—then the Russian Envoy, and last of all, the American. Lord ELGIN was attended by his entire suite, and accompanied by many naval officers, and a guard of honour of 150 marines, a very necessary precau tion in dealing with the Celestials, who would be guilty of any act of treachery which could give even a temporary advantage. This first act of Lord ELGIN took the Chinese commissioners completely by surprise. He an nounced his intention of having the credentials on both sides publicly read before proceeding to busi ness. His powers, as may easily be imagined, were ample and. complete ; but very different were those of the other side. They were merely authorising the Chinese diplomatists to inquire into the cause of the " strangers" of England and France (the " bar barian" were omitted), ascending the Peiho, and f they (the Chinese) found them sincerely desirous f putting an end to the war, they were to grant he demand., provided such demands did not infringe the customs of the Celestial Empire, the dignity of the EMPEROR, or the will of the people." , There were too many loopholes for evasion in their document to satisfy Lord ELGIN. He speedily manifested his displeasure, and merely.announcing that the powers were unsatisfactory, took his findi ng . th at t h ey , while the Commissione rs , had received " scholar's mate," remained in a ludi en. us state of perplexity, vainly protesting that no higher powers could possibly be grant ed! Three days afterwards a new actor appeared en Ir.---- KEYING, who had already established a n unenviable notoriety for duplicity and insincerity, arrived at Tien-sui. He had been de graded for his share in the treaty of Nankin, and an opportunity was afforded him of retrieving his position by utterly confounding the barbarians. He pursued his old game in trying to persuade the English to move their ships "a little way down the river," at the same time the inhabitants of Tien-sin were stimulated to show their ill-will to the bar barians. That game having been found successful for a time, at Canton, was again to be played off at Tien-in, But this time it would not do. The gates the scene. 4 7,4 „ , ; _ orttaa l*llll' - ts 01,0101: oft , • • ntr. k •;, ' T• 0 tlbj,` Afeir clay. were speedily scaled, and a party of 100 marines, with a couple of howitzers, marching through the city, speedily restored the populace and their instigators to a sense of their situation, convincing them of the danger of manifesting their d c pleasure against the " foreign devils." _ _ Nor was this the only defeat which poor KEYING sustained. A report had been discovered at Can ton, among YETI'S papers, from KEYING to the EMPEROR, recommending that the treaty of Nankin was merely a snare to delude the barbarians, and that there was not the slightest necessity for its observance. A copy of this docu ment was sent by the interpreters, Messrs. Wade and Lay, to the other Commistsioners, with an intimation that neither Lord ELGIN nor Baron GROS would hold any communication with a man guilty of such disgraceful conduct. There are doubtless official jealousies even in the Flowery Land, and KEYING'S colleagues were only too happy to forward an account thereof to the Empe ror, who forthwith recalled KEYING, and autho rised the other Commissioners to sign a treaty in the terms of the demands, which, it is said, are to the following effect, viz. : First—The residence of a British Minister at Tien-sin, with access to Court, and direct communication with th e Ministers. An official yamun for him during his visits to Pekin. All official documents to be written by him in the English language (to be accompanied by Chinese transla_ tions until the Court of Pekin has procured interpreters). An English college similar to that kept up by Russia to be allowed at Pekin. Second—China to be opened to all the world ; persons to go whither they please and do what they please under a passport system. Third—The Yang-tze to be opened to its commerce from its mouth to its source. Fourth—Christianity to be tolerated. Fifth—lndemnity for the war and losses at Canton to be paid for by the two Quangs, the amount to be agreed on by special Commissioners at Canton. The tariff to be cor rected, the Custom-house system revised, and the English to aid the Chinese in the suppression of piracy. Sixth—ln proof of the friendship and goodwill of the Emperor of China towards the Queen of England a special embassy shall be sent to England forthwith. Should these concessions be obtained, and fairly carried out, we shall have obtained all that could have been anticipated. A new world will be opened up, and great as will be the benefits obtained by Europe and America, they will be far less than those conferred on the Chinese, whose interests will be materially promoted, even in spite of themselves. Under any circumstances, Lord ELGIN has pre eminently merited the national thanks and grati tude for the extraordinary skill and judgment with which he has conducted the proceedings. IN our impression of yesterday we inserted with deep regret a communication from the Secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, that from some unascertained cause, but believed to arise from a fault in the cable in some point yet undiscovered, there had been no intelligible signals from New foundland since one o'clock on Friday, the 3rd instant. The directors were, it appeared, at Valentia, accompanied by various scien tific and practical electricians, and engaged in investigating the cause of the untoward event, with a view to remedy the existing evil. Thus at the very time when the rejoicings in America were of the most rapturous and enthusi astic character, on the "wedding ring " which had united the Old and the New World—by what it was fondly hoped would prove an indissoluble tie —while our own people were indulging in more moderate demonstrations of satisfaction—when Mr. BRIGHT had received the well-merited honour of knighthood for his share in the important achieve ment, the anticipations that had been so fondly in dulged, were, if not blighted, at least greatly reduced by some unknown failure. It is to be hoped that it will not prove altogether fatal to the undertak ing. The mere fact that " signals" are still received from Newfoundland, although they have ceased to be intelligible, encourages the hope that the evil may yet be repaired, and that complete success may ultimately be attained. The delay in the messages, which could not be forwarded at the rate of more than a few words in the minute, leads to the belief that there must have been some defect ab initip in the chain, which, it will be remembered, had been before tested. It would appear from a letter which appeared in the Times of this morning, and which will be found in another part of our impression, that the Directors had been fully warned of the impending danger by a gentleman of great scientific ability and tried experience, Mr. E. 0. WILDMAN WIIITEIMUSE, who was one of the four original promoters of the Atlantic Company. There had, however, been unfortunate dissensions and jealousies, and it would appear as if the Board thought more of these petty difficulties than of the very important duties confided to their charge. This is the statement of Mr.WHITE norsE, which will of course be answered ; and although there is a verisimilitude about his narrative that induces us to give it an easy credence, we shall yet await the answer of the Directors with consi derable curiosity, trusting that they may be enabled to vindicate themselves from the grave charge pre ferred against them. Mr. WIIITEIIOUSE declares that "as early as the fourth day after the landing of the cable at Valentia he felt it his duty to urge in the strongest manner upon the directors the imme diate necessity for protecting the home end of our light and fragile cable, warning them of impend ing injury, and of the certain interruption of communication which would ensue therefrom. Of this no notice was taken by the directors. That a few days later he again brought the subject to their attention in the most forcible manner, both by post and telegraph. The injury which he had foreseen, and of which he had forewarned them, had then commenced close to the shore ; he had detected and proved its existence, and for some considerable time all communications hence to Newfoundland ceased, though, from obvious causes, their signals to us were not equally embarrassed." Although totally unassisted, he had completely remedied the evil by his own skill and activity. The suspended communications were completely restored, and the PRESIDENT'S Message, in answer to that of her MAJESTY, reached the Irish shore,. and occasioned the manifestations of delight that took place. He then, again, "in language as forci ble as he could command, declared to the directors his conviction that this interruption might be expected to occur again at any time, and that they could not depend upon our cable for a single day so long as the slender part, prepared and fitted for deep sea use only, remained unprotected and exposed to the full force of the Atlantic swell on the Irish coast. He felt it his duty to point out, in unmistakeable language, the necessity for the presence of some part of the exe cutive body at the seat of operations. Up to this period—the fourteenth day after the landing of the cable—neither chairman, vice-chairman, director, nor secretary had visited Valentia. Professor THOMSON, who had supplied his place during the expedi tion (which h e was peremptorily forbidd en by hi s physician to j o i n ), an d also Mr. BRIGHT, who had both landed there f rom t h e Agamemnon, having left, the one very shortly for London, the other a day or two afterwards for Glasgow." These are grave charges, which should be fully and fairly met. We shall not enter into the personal quarrel between Mr• WHITEHOUSE and the Board ; but whatever annoyances there might be, there could b e no ex cufie for neglecting such salutary caution from a duly qualified person. When men assume important and onerous duties, they are bound to display proper activity. There is a heavy respon sibility on the Board, and it will be well if they fairly and properly meet the grave accusation that has been preferred against them. It is earnestly to be hoped that one of the most priceless boons ever accorded by science to poor suffering humanity may not be hastily dissipated by being rashly abandoned altogether in surgical practice, because of several recent cases that have most unhappily proved fatal under the administra tion of chloroform. At the same time, nevertheless, we cannot but think that the period has now arrived when the use of this remarkable anaesthetic should be subjected to a very profound and searching professional ex amination. A commission composed of some of the most eminent and experienced of our medical practi tioners, physicians of extended practice and of the highest reputation, together with the most gifted among the great operative surgeons of our age— should be formed as speedily as may be in any way convenient : a commission authorised to examine into the whole vital question relating to the ad ministration of chloroform—empowered to decide whether or not it should be employed henceforth at all, and if so, how, and by whom, under what exact rules, and under what circumstances. A definitive movement, to this end has at length , we conceive, become absolutely requisite. And this simply because of the fatal cases referred to , cases recently recounted in our columns with pain ful exactitude. It was only a few days since, within the last fortnight, that there was related that me lancholy instance at Epsom where a fine young woman, the servant-maid of a resident physician of the town, died under the influence of chloroform while having a tooth extracted. Yesterday there was given in our journal the still more detailed narrative of the death of a little boy eleven years of age, while under the same deadly influence, when having a diseased or broken foot examined. A coroner's inquest of course followed upon each cala mity—the former holden at Epsom, the latter at the scene of the more agonising example referred to, namely, Heatheneote, near Towcester. The verdict in both instances acquitted the admini strators of the chloroform of any blame whatsoever. And certainly, from the evidence brought before the juries in each case, they had no option appa rently in arriving at that deliberate conclusion. In the case which occurred at Epsom the dentist was empowered to administer the chloroform to the young servant girl by a written certificate autho rising him to do so—a certificate penned by her =aster, a local physician, as before-mentioned. In the miserable case at Healkencote the administrator of the chloroform was a surgeon duly qualified, and from the very manner as well as from the purport of his evidence, manifestly a man of considerable intelligence. The dentist of Epsom had often before (and hitherto always successfully) employed chloroform as an anesthetic in the regular practice of his profession. The surgeon of Heathencote had witnessed the happy effects, never previously the fatal effects of the use of chloroform during the late war—an opportunity enabling him to comprise within a very brief interval of time a very large amount of experience. Yet, in both cases, the un fortunate patient expires in spite of every effort to secure a recovery. Respiration ceases, the heart pauses in its action, the pulse stops, the skin be comes cold and livid, a small quantity of frothy mucus oozes from between the lips—and all is over —hardly more, we may rest perfectly assured, to the anguish of the friends and relatives of the hapless deceased, than to the dismay of the startled and astonished practitioner. It becomes advisable then, to say the least of it, to decide as swiftly as may be, upon this momen ous question, whether the practice of using chloro form as an anaesthetic shall be persevered in under some new and rigid arrangements, or altogether discontinued. The abandonment of so wonderful a boon (where it might be successfully employed) would be nothing shout of a calamity. Its indiscri minate application as at present—ls a calamity' Midway between these two courses the true path lies undoubtedly. How that intermediate path might run, how it should be carefully fenced in-- the Commission we have suggested might decide. The Commissioners—if we might presume to offer anything like distinct suggestions to what is, of course, at present a purely hypothetical body— would, in the event of their arriving at a favour ' able decision in the matter of this important ques tion as to the use of chloroform, the commissioners would, we say, in that contingency, restrict the power of employing it to physicians, surgeons, or even surgeon-dentists properly qualified for that precise purpose—besides marking out as plainly as written language can do, the manner of the admi nistration. The suggestions of such a Commission might be embodied in a proper act of Parliament and then, but hardly till then, sufferers might, with something like a sense of security, fly for relief in great emergencies of bodily pain, to the beneficent, but now most perilous influence of chloroform. The Duchess (Dowager) of Hamilton has not been to Euston Hall, Suffolk, as erroneously stated ; but instead has taken a mansion in the environs of the metro. polis for the autumn. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have returned to Alnwiek Castle from a tour of several weeks o the lakes of Westmorland and Cumberland. The Earl and Counteis of Chesterfield's party at Brethby Park, Derbyshire, included Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Count and Countess de Persigny, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Colonel the Right Hon. Cecil W. Forester, Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Colonel tho Hon. R. and Mrs. Curzon, Hon. Ernest and Mrs. Dun combe, Mr. Savile, Mr. R. Sutton, Mr. Fitzroy, Sir James Hawley, Capt. Little, &c. The Earl and Countess Spencer are still on a tour of the German Spas. The noble earl and countess do not intend to return home for several weeks to come. The Countess Fitzwilliam and her infant daughter are, by the last accounts from Wentworth, progressing favourably. Count and Countess de Majlath and party have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yes terday for Hughonden Manor, High Wycombe, Bucks. Lady Wombwell has arrived in town from visit ing her son, Sir Geo. Womb w e ll, at h i s seat in Yorkshire. d Miss Boothby has arrived a t Claridge's Hotel from °Herten, Notts. Lady Sir mr W yn a n tki re n tur N:reidllitaomtoswnWlasyntn,weßoka,rtan have since., M.P., an d gone to Wales. Mr. Henry and Lady Charlotte Arbuthnot have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Tim bridge Wells. TIIE " FIRST OF SEPTEMBER." —Partridge shoot ing began on Wednesday. There is ev er y a pp earance of good coveys and plenty of them, but the crops in low dis tricts will not be generally, off the ground for a fortnight yet, so that the birds will in most cases have a respite for at least ten- days.—Ayr Advertiser. William Kennaway, Esq., our highly-respected fellow-citizen and magistrate, is about to leave this city for Canterbury, New Zealand. Two of Mr. Kennaway 's sons have been established in the colony for some time, where their operations in agriculture have been most successful. We cannot allow one of " Exeter's Worthies" to leave the old city without expressing our earnest hope that in the land of his choice, surrounded by his family, he may expe rience all those blessings which conscious rectitude, high integrity, and an untarnished name deserve. Mr. Kenna way has been twice chief magistrate of his native city, first in 1832, when his able and assiduous labours in the dis charge of his onerous duties during the calamitous visita tion of the cholera were duly appreciated, and are recorded in the archives of the city. At a subsequent period the duration of his mayoralty was marked by his impartiality and his sense of justice, which won for him the general ,esteem of e ver y party. A man who stan d s so d eserve dly high, whether considered as a merchant, a citizen, or a ma gistrate, ought not to b e permitted to leave his native city for a dist an t c li me without receiving some public recogni, ton of the hi g h esteem in which he is held by the inb.abi tauta of old I S'ent imr l'ide( to,— E xcter parr, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1858. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SEPT. 6 Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness th Prince Consort, accompanied by their Royal Highnesse e Princess Alice and Princess Helena, left Osborne at a quarter past 8 o'clock this morning for Leeds. The Royal suite consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hon. Horatia Stopford, Colonel the lion. Sir C. Phipps, Major_ General.the Hon. C. Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel Pon_ sonby. The Royal party crossed over in the Fairy to Gosport, where a special train was waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred accompanied her Majesty as far as Kew, where his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales met the Queen. Prince Alfred quitted th e train here, and proceeded with the Prince of Wales to th e White Lodge, Richmond Park, on a visit to his Royal Highness. Prince Alfred will embark on Tuesday at Gravesend in her Majesty's ship Osborne for Hamburg, whence his Royal Highness will travel to Potsdam and remain for a week on a visit to his sister, Princess Frederick William of Prussia, to take leave previous to going to sea. On leaving Potsdam Prince Alfred will return to England by Coburg and Brussels, and will join her Majesty at Balmoral about the 28th inst. Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., and Lieutenant Anderson, R.N., will be in attendance on the Prince on his journey to the continent. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Princess Louisa, attended'by. Col. Biddulph, left Osborne to-day at half-past one o'clock• for Buckingham Palace, where they will pass the night: The Prince and Princess proceed by special train to-morrow morning, and join her Majesty at Darlington, where the Queen will arrive about three o'clock p.m. en route from Leeds to Edinburgh. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice remain at Osborne under the charge of Lady Caro line Barrington and General Sir Edward Bowater. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will leave the White Lodge, Richmond Park, on the 11th inst., on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort at Balmoral. The Right Hon. S. Walpole joined her Majesty to-day at Kew, and will travel as Secretary of-State in attendance as far as Peterborough, where the Queen will receive an address. The Earl of Derby is to meet her Majesty at Leeds, and attend her Majesty to Scotland. A deputation from the Bank of British North America, consisting of Mr. T. H. Brooking, Mr. J. J. Cummers, and Mr. W. R. Chapman, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe, Bucks. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the North American Provinces. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The doors of this favourite place of amusement were last evening again thrown open, and an immense audience assembled to celebrate the occasion. During the recess the interior of the house has been thoroughly repaired, and newly painted in a very tasteful and elegant manner. The prevalence of light tints, and the frequent use of gold leaf, give the interior a rich and costly appearance. There are no conflicting hues, nor anything to offend the eye with glare, but there is a soft effulgence of colour, and a warm glow of light, which give the house a gay and splendid ap pearance, well befitting a theatre under the direction of such an artiste as Mr. Buckstone. The medallion relieves on the panels of the boxes, which, owing to the darkness of the ground, heretofore attracted little attention, are now brought out with vivid distinctness, and have a very strik ing effect. This gallery of English dramatists includes Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Otway, Ben Jenson, Col man, Foote, O'Keefe, and many others. The boxes have been hung with crimson velvet, fringed with gold, and the light colour of the chairs, which have been substituted for the old covered benches, where it was possible to introduce them without too much sacrifice of space, produces the most pleasing contrast imaginable. " The Way to Keep Him," revived on the very last night of the season that.concluded a few weeks ago, commences the present one, with the same caste as before, save that Mrs. Sinclair acts the widow Belmour in the place of Mrs. Charles Young. Old-fashioned as it is, the comedy pro duces roars of laughter, and though there is no remarkable point in the dialogue, sufficient amusement is created by the perplexities of the sinners whose vices furnish the mo tives of the plot. On the appearance of Mr. Buckstone, who sustained the character of Sir Bashful Constant, he was received in so hearty and enthusiastic a manner, that for some time he appeared completely overcome with the warmth of the welcome. The comedy was followed by a new Spanish ballet, entitled " The Daughter of the Guadal quiver," in which the renowned Perea Nena made her ap pearance, and executed some of her characteristic dances in her most finished and exquisite style, at the terminationlaf which she was rewarded with a perfect shower of bouquets. The evening's entertainments were brought to a conclusion with the petite comedy, " A Wicked Wife," and the lessee's capital farce, " A Kiss in the Dark." We have nothing further to add but our congratulations to Mr. Buckstone on the brilliant audience that assembled on the occasion, which gave augury of future prosperity and success. STRAND THEATRE. At this elegant little theatre, which was re-opened for the winter season last night, a petite comedy in one act, or "piece tie earactere," was produced, entitled "The Last of the Pigtails," and received with well-merited and complete success. The plot rests upon the endeavours of a young and fascinating wife, Lady Starchington. (Miss Swanbo rough), to reform and extirpate the antiquated notions of her husband, Sir Noah Starchington (Mr. Selby), an old beau, and substitute throughout his household, in lieu of ancient prejudices and customs, modern improvements and adornments, thereby occasioning continual turmoils, and in his mansion a civil revolution. Contrasted with the stiff habits of Sir Noah are those of the loose modern swell, Mr. Swellington (Mr. Clark), whose extravagant costume, especially his coat with gigot sleeves, and pegtop trousers, must be seen to be appreciated ; and his pretty, prudish wife, Mrs. Prim Rose Swellington (Miss M. Ternan), whom he ultimately induces to discard her quaint cap and scanty gown, and adopt, with a crinoline, a more fashionable dress, while he at the same time casts off his extreme style and appears more rationally clothed. The acting throughout this little comedy was excellent, and the dialogue vivacious, droll, and, in many parts, far above the average of pieces of this description. Mr. Selby has never appeared to greater advan tage : the character of Sir Noah befits him to a nicety, while that of Mrs. Tabitha Fidget is equally suited to Mrs. Selby, who played it with admirable humour, finish, and tact. Miss Swanborough, too, was very effective, and evinced great improvement. Mr. J. Cl ar k e and Mr. Bland, whose eccentricities contributed much to the amusement of the audience, obtained also its approbation. The author, Mr. C. Selby, was unanimously cheered at the close. The Braemar gathering takes place on Friday, the 10th, when it is expected that the Queen and Prince Consort will be present. The steamer Teviot, with the heavy portion of the Australian snails and £53,081 in gold, is expected at Southampton on Thursday. The Ceylon journals contain _ a long account of the proceedings at the cutting of the first sod of the Ceylon Railway, which was performed on the 3d August by his Excellency, the Governor, in the presence of about 8,000 persons. POLYGRAPHIC-HALL—Herr Wilj alba Frikell,'the celebrated chief of the modern school of conjuring without apparatus, commenced a series of performances last night in the presence of a crowded audience. THE HARVEST IN GLOUCESTERSIIIRE.—Harvest operations in this county may be said to be ended, and on the whole the crops are good and have been got in in prime condition. , - Within the last fortnight, however, the potato disease has reappeared, and it is feared the yield will be below an average. Other green and root crops are looking well. The apple crop is light. DEATH OF LADY ISABEL ANNE DASHWOOD.— The only surviving daughter of James, 7th Earl of Lauder dale, ,Kreat grandfather of the .present peer, Ladylsabel Anne Dashwood, died on Saturday last, at her residence in Seamore-place. Her ladyship married, Ist July, 1793, Mr. Francis Dashwood, of Hall-place, Bexley, Kent. Several families of rank, including Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley , Lady Eleanor Balfour, the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, &c., are put in mourning. RISE IN THE VALUE OF TAY SALMON FISIIINGS. —The salmon fishings belonging to the city of Perth, were, on Thursday, let by public roup, on a lease of three years, at the annual rent of £1,390. The rent paid for the fishin g s last year was only £B7O, making thus a rise upon the rental for three years to come of £520. FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE OF A FEMALE FROM WA TERLOO BRIDGE.—At five minutes before eleven o'clock to-day an unfortunate female flunvherself from the fourth recess from the Middlesex side of Waterloo Bridge into the river, narrowly escaping the abutment. She was seen by a lad, who was standing in the third recess, in the act of falling. She afterwards came twice to the surface, but went down to rise no more. She is described as a short woman, dressed in dark clothes and bonnet. She wrapped her shawl round her bonnet immediately before taking the fatal plunge. A boat came up within little more than a minute, but no appearance of the wretched creature could be discovered. DEATH OF MR. AHER, SUPERINTENDENT OF REPAIRS.—This melancholy event took place on the night of Friday the 23rd ultimo, at 10 o'clock, after a few days' attack of fever. Mr. Aher came out here as an..assistant engineer in the Baroda and Central India Railway Com pany. In October 1855 he was appointed Acting Superin tendent of Repairs on the &parture of Mr. Cony beare to England. The latter not having returned, Mr. Aher was confirmed in the office, and continued to conduct its duties up to withn a few days of his death. Mr. Aher wa s a na tive of Ireland, and was of quiet and unoffending marners ; and notwithstand ing the faults which the Municipal Commissioners now and then chargel him with, ho was a man of business-like habits and devoted a great prrtion of his time to his duties. His remains was followed to the grave by a great number of his sorrowful- friends. In consequence of the sudden and melancholy death of Mr. Aher, the Superintendent of Repairs, and the reported illness of Mr. Conn, his assistant, and the wish of the Commissioners to avoid embarrassing th-li succesam s under the New Act by making any appointment at this time, they have deemed it expedient to place the control of all works in the hands of a sub-CoMArttVel cm:Agin of Pr, )34i§t wad Mr, liv.tchil - Ha, LATEST NEWS. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING. The Royal African Mail steam-ship Ethiope, Commander Croft, arrived in the Sound this morn ing. Her dates are—Fernando Po, July 29th; Cameroons, 31st; Old Calabar, Aug. 3d; Bonny, 6th ; Lagos, Bth ; Accra, 10th ; Cape Coast, 11th ; Liberia, 15th ; Sierra Leone, 19th ; Bathurst, 23d ; Teneriffe, 29th; and Madeira, 31st. The Ethiope brings 2,656 ounces of gold dust, £224 sterling, 2:5,000 franc pieces, 264 dols., and 379 casks of palm oil. Commander White from Sierra Leone and Capt. Lock from the Gambia are among her 30 passen gers, who have presented Capt. Croft with a valu able telescope for courteous attention during the voyage. At Sierra Leone trade is stagnant, and not likely to recover, as the King of Tootah has closed the passes into the Moria country. Hides, 71cl. to Bd. ; palm oil, ls. 10d. per gallon ; nut oil, ls. 6d. ; palm nuts, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per bushel ; camwood £8 to £2O per ton. There is some improvement in the weather. The lady of the Bishop of Sierra Leone died on the 4th of August, after giving birth to a son. Disturbances have occurred in the Port Locho and Ro Pett districts, several lives lost, and many natives carried off prisoners. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steamship Hecla, 6, Commander Aplin ; the paddle-wheel steamship Myrmidon, Commander Robinson ; and Spanish war steamer, with the Governor on board, were at Fernando Po ; the brig Childers, 12, Commander Swinburn ; the paddle-wheel steamvessel Trident, 6, Commander Close ; and the gunboat Teazer, were -at Sierra Leone. The Sardinian brig-of-war Colombo, Commander the Marquis Manstaca, was there on the 6th of August. On the 20th the Ethiope supplied coal to the steamer Rainbow, belonging to the Niger expedi- tion. The African Mail Company's steamship Gambia was spoken on the 14th of August, bound to the Cape Coast, and the American, on the 30th, for Teneriffe. The merchant barque Genevieve, Captain Portal, has been totally wrecked off the Island Matacong. The brigantine Neophyte, which sailed July 6, for Liverpool, returned on the 20th, to Sierra Leone, having lost the master and all the crew, several persons, from jungle fever. She was brought back by two native seamen, super- numeraries. At Old Calabar the Africa, Paramatta at Abeona ; at Sierra Leone the barques Enterprise and Speculation, brigs Ben Campbell and Talbot, schooners Robert Heddles, Emily, Elizabeth Marr, Reive, Augusta, Maggie Walker, Malalong, and Uncle Nat. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. Prince Napoleon will, it is expected, leave Paris about the 25th for Algeria, and will probably em bark at Cette. The council-general of the Herault has expressed a wish that his Imperial Highness would visit that port, which is the entrepot of pro ductions of the south-west of France destined for exportation to the African colony, and it is thought that his Imperial Highness will comply with the request. Marshal Bosquet, whose departure from Paris for Pau has been announced, proceeded by railway to Dax, where he was received by the members of his family, who accompanied him to the Villa Olympia, at Pau, which is occupied by his mother. At the Marshal's express request no military honours were paid him. He appeared much fatigued, but nevertheless his health has improved, and his physicians say that his native air will do him more good than all the assistance of art. " A statement having been made in an English journal," says the Pays, " that in consequence of the murder of a French sailor in a street of Canton all the inhabitants of the street had been massacred by the French, we are able to contradict the asser tion so made. A French sailor was, in fact, mur dered by the Chinese, but the assassins, three in number, were arrested, and after being tried were executed. They were the only persons who suffered the punishment due to the crime." Lord Stratford de Redcliffe arrived yesterday morning in Paris en route for Constantinople. M. de Thouvenel, the French ambassador at Constantinople, has obtained leave- of absence, and is expected in . France at the end of the present month. It is rumoured that he will reqiiest not to return to Turkey, and that he will be replaced at Constantinople by M. Benedetti, chief of the poli tical direction at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. BOURSE, Sept. 6.—The market has been buoy ant, and securities have improved. Threes, after having been done at 71fr. 40c., advanced to 71fr. 85c. Mobilier varied from 840 fr. to 860 fr. ; Austrian, 672 fr. 50c. to 682 fr. 50c. ; Orleans' 1,365 fr. to 1,372 fr. 50e. ; Lyons, 823 fr. 75e. to 830 fr. ; Eastern, 727 fr. 50c. to 740 fr. ; Southern, 565 fr. to 575 fr.; and Northern, 955 fr. to 962 fr. 50e. The following were the closing quotations : 97 65 41 per Cents. .... Do. end month .. 3 per Cents. 72 Do. end month.... 72 25 Bank Shares. . 3150 Credit Mobilier . 870 Do. Account . ' 870 Criidit Fonder— . 640 *— Belgian 41 Piedmontese (5) Roman 9l 25 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt RAILWAYS. A ns ec o ount. Cash. 1360 .. Orleans Northern New ditto BlO .. 812 50 Lyons and Mediterranean B3O .. 828 75 New ditto Geneva Midi . - - '620 572 50 . 577 50 - ---• .. Western 632 50 632 50 Eastern Grand Central — Sardinian 460 .. 465 Austrian • 675 .. 683 75 THE EAST. A letter from Jerusalem of 18th ult. says •. " Some of the leading Mussulmans of Gaza attempted, after the massacre of Jeddah, toget , up a movement against the Christians, but did not succeed. In no other place has anything of the kind been done, th oug h th roug h ou t th e T ur ki s h Empire a certain degree of hostility to the Chris tians is manifested. The Pacha of Jerusalem has not yet returned from hi s v i s it t o G aza , b e i ng anxious to arrest the famous Santon or Mufti, who is labouring to excite agitation amongst the people. It is, however, no easy task to capture him, as, from his reputation of sanctity, all protect him. Nine persons who were arrested at Gaza are still in prison at Jerusalem, and they are causing their friends to exert themselves in order to avoid pay ing too large a sum' for their release. During the last tOn years, the Mussulman propagandism has been making great progress in Asia and Africa, and the European powers have perhaps not paid suffi cient attention to the fact. This propagandism is not only directed against Christianity, but against the power of the Sultan, who is accused by fana tics of betraying Islamism. For years past, devout scheiks, whose zeal has been exalted by pilgrimages jto Mecca, have been traversing the Asiatic pro vinces of Turkey in all directions to restore the faith of the people, and excite their fanaticism against Christians. In some towns they have formed asso ciations, and have enrolled numbers of persons. One of these societies has been established at Jeru salem ; the members of it affect to be exceedingly strict in their conduct, observe fasts, assemble every Friday at the Mussulman sanctuary of Neby Daoud (tomb of Dwyid) on, Mount Sion, And go from it in procession, reciting prayers, to the tomb of a san ton near the gate of Jaffa; after which they dis perse." SWEDEN. A letter from Stockholm says : "On the 11th of next month a year will have expired since, with the consent of the Legislative Chambers, the regency has been in operation in the two kingdoms, and the term fixed by the royal decree is thus about to expire. The public are already anxiously discussing the plan which the King may adopt to legally prolong the sovereign powers with which during his illness he has invested his eldest son. The fundamental compact concluded in 1 . 815 between King Charles John Bernadotte and the States of the kingdom assembled at Stockholm, is formal on the subject of the assent required to be given by the four chambers to the institution of the Regency to be exercised temporarily by one or more members of the governing family: -Last year King Oscar, finding himself unable from his extreme weakness to govern the two kingdoms, addressed a royal message to the four chambers demanding, accord ing to the prescriptions of the constitution, their assent to the establishment of a regency to be exer cised in SWeden and Norway by Prince Charles, his eldest'son. The Legisla -4 17e, Chambers, which were then sitting, gave a favourable vote to the royal message. Now, that the ordinary session is closed, and will not reopen until 1859, every one asks whether King Oscar will find it indis pensable to convoke the States for an extra ordinary session, in order to obtain their assent to the prolongation of the sovereign power confided to the prince, or whether he will think proper to let the Regent retain his high functions until the meeting of the Swedish and Norwegian Chambers at the time fixed by the Constitution. Most persons are of opinion that this latter will be the case." HOLLAND. The King and Queen of Holland, the Prince of Orange, Prince Alexander, and the Prince and Princess Henry of the Netherlands, accompanied by a numerous suite, left the Hague on the 3d for Amsterdam. The Prince and Princess Frederic, and their daughter, the Princess Maria, met the train at Voorschoten, and also proceeded by it to the capital to be present at the fetes, which will take place on the occasion.of the 18th anniversary of the birthday of the Prince of Orange. The young Prince, in hoilour of the occasion, has been promoted from the rank of captain in the navy to that of rear-admiral. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 2d contain no politi cal news. The _Espana publishes a long article insisting on the necessity of making war on Morocco in order to put down definitively the pirates of the Riff. The Queen had not left Ferrol. The colonels of the regiments composing the garrison of Madrid had assembled to examine a new system of military tactics proposed by the Marquis del Duero. The Cronica had been seized. The Nord recently published a telegraphic de spatch, stating that the consular agents of France, Russia, the United States, and Greece had been murdered at Stanchio, in the Archipelago ; but as we looked on the account as an erroneous state ment we refrained from giving it. It is now found that the intelligence so given was completely unfounded. Count Nesselrode, ex-Chancellor of the Russian Empire, arrived at Berlin on the Ist, and alighted at the hotel of the Russian Legation. On the fol lowing day he dined with the Prince of Prussia. TILE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The announcement made by the Secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company in your impres sion of yesterday ought not, I am told, to be allowed to remain unnoticed by me. As early as the fourth day after the landing of the cable at Valentia, I felt it my duty to urge in the strongest manner upon the directors the imme diate necessity for protecting - the home end of our light and fragile cable, warning them of the lin' pending injury, and of the certain interruption of communication that would ensue therefrom. Of this no notice was taken by the directors. A few days later I again brought the subject to, their attention in the most forcible manner, both by post and telegraph. The injury which I had fore seen, and of which I had forewarned them, had then commenced close to the shore ; I had detected and proved its existence, and for some considerable time all communication hence to Newfoundland ceased, though from obvious causes their signals to. us were not equally embarrassed. Left in responsible charge of the Valentia-station►," without support or advice, without assistance of the engineer, and without the presence of a single direc tor, I took upon myself the onus of raising and re pairing the faulty part of the cable, which wa s . easily accessible ; free intercommunication was thus re-established, and early the next morning the Pre sident's reply to her Majesty's message, which had been long waiting at Newfoundland, was trans" mitted from that station by the use of my ments (carried out by the Niagara), and was re" ceived at Valentia and recorded under my oWn patent. I then again, in language as forcible as I could command, declared to the directors my con viction that this interruption might be expected to occur again at any time, and that we could not de pend upon our cable for a single day so long as th e slender part, prepared - and fitted for deep sea use only, remained unprotected and exposed to the full force of the Atlantic swell on the Irish coast. 1 also felt it my duty to point out, in unmistakeable langaage, the necessity for the presence of some part of the executive body at the seat of operations. Up to this period—the fourteenth day after the landing of the cable—neither chairman, vice-chair man, director, nor secretary had visited Valentia• Professor Thomson, who had most handsomely supplied my place during the expedition (which I was peremptorily forbidden by my physician to join), and also Mr. Bright, who had both landed there from the Agamemnon, having left, the one very shortly for London, the other a day or two afterwards for Glasgow. The whole of the details connected with this subject will probably erc long be laid by me before the public. Suffice it here to say, that intimately' connected as I have been with the first and e very electrical operation or communication night and day between the two countries (as, indeed, they had been wholly under my direction), my name' seems to have been on all occasions studiously sir pressed, while my most earnest wishes for the wel fare of the undertaking have been misunderstood , and my actions condemned without inquiry. My duties as electrician-projector of the Atlantic Telegraph (my medical adviser having, as I have just stated, positively prohibited my joining th e expedition) had been fulfilled, when I had demon strated to the world, by the use of my own instru ments, after years of anxious toil, in spite of most grave doubts entertained by some of the highest scientific authorities of our day, the fact of the transmission of intelligence through the submerge d cable between Europe and America, with absolute accuracy, and at a speed sufficient, under good ma" nagement, to ensure a brilliant commercial success to those who had hazarded their capital in the enterprise. With this consciousness I now looked for a well -earned and honourable repose from the more press ing official details of my position, as indeed ,the terms of my agreement with the company ha d allowed. Instead of this I received from the hands of one of the directors an extract from the minutes of a recent Board, drawing my attention to the fact " that my engage' ment as electrician of the company terminated when the cable was laid," and intimating to m e that " my authority as an officer of the company had now ceased," this being conveyed in such terms and in such a manner as to amount in fact to a summarl dismissal. A fortnight has elapsed since I claimed, as a matter of justice, a hill and complete investigation —towards which I am not aware that- any s teps have yet been taken. The Board, having sum' moned me to London to dismiss me, have now found it necessary to adjourn to Valentia: The obstruction to the interchange of messages to which I have already alluded, and the recurrene° of which the directors had every reason, from nil reports, to expect, has now, apparently, again moll' fested itself. I think it right, therefore, towards the public and the shareholders, no less than as a duty to myself' to state that the probability of this recurrence ("., injury had been anticipated and predicted by in e with the utmost confidence, with a view to its pre" vention. There is, I apprehend, little real cause for anxiety, nor is there necessarily, so far as I am a t present aware (for I know no details but those which your pages offer), anything in this obstrue tion calculated to damp the most sanguine hopes ° I ultimate complete success. It is apparently more than a repetition, from continued exposure t ° the same causes, of the fault or injury, already on ce removed, and which ought by this time, so far es human means admit, to have been prevented or rendered impossible. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, EDWARD ORANGE WILDMAN WHITEHOUSE, Electrician-Projector, and one of the Four Original Promoters of the Atlantic Tele graph. Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, Sept. 6. SUGGESTIONS FOR A NEW MBank PIIIC CODE AND ABBREVIATIONS. A correspondent of a morning contemporary proposes the formation of a code of familiar phrases and words, to be call e d th e X-code the whole ° which might be easily committed to memory. Th e reason why he selects the letter x is, that it does . not commence any word in our lang u age, .so that whenever indicated, in the course of the transmis sion of a message, &c., the recipient would instantly know that, it was a code signal. For example' suppose the often-recurring phrase, "We hal,' received the despatches," were always represent ed by x-t ; or, " Her Majesty's ship ' by x-s ; or, " The Governor-General of India ' by x-g-i, what a vast amount of time - would be thereby pined ?, Names of persons and towns might also be include(' in the code. I would also have a system of abbreviations an d contractions such as are used in short-hand writing; The terminations—ment, ing, tion, and ous, would have represented respectively by the letters a, i, and u, as there are but very few words ending With either of those l e tt ers i n the language. Take the word " inve s t men t," f or i ns t ance ; th e t e l eg raphic rendering would then be invest-a, for having hav4 , for nation na-o, for serious serf-u. The terminating letters would always be given in a_distinct manner' followed by the stop always indicated upon the te r " mination of words. A very little trouble wou ld f familiarise our operators with an arrangement of the above kind. As the telegraphic wires have now become Of medium through which a vast amount of huma n thought is daily conveyed, every effort, howev er feeble, to facilitate their operations will,. I trim' receive from the public that fair consideration win e ' their importance demands. VISIT OF PRINCE ALFRED TO PRUSSIA.—N O° i wicir, Sept. 6.—H.R.H. Prince Alfred having 'olitainct two months leave of absence from the naval service, is in. to proceed to the continent, on a visit to their Royal - D i l Ai g e ., nesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia. The wheel steam yacht Osborne, Master Commander G. 11. Bower, has passed the Channel from Portsmouth, an d \ ci d. embark his royal highness and suite at Dover or Grave s % The Osborne will, it is expected, be accompanied b.1,,. c y Vivid, Admiralty steam vessel; and probably by the nu' Eagle, which vessel was at the service of his royal high lle ' during his recent cruise. ose Mr. Norris, the Canadian Envoy for the pnrl3,., of soliciting a Royal opening of the Canadian Great Erb bition, has proceeded to Osborne en his mission. We not say that the request made received the most the A.tie cious consideration loom her Majesty, but there i s 11' ce e doubt that Ministers will advise the Queen that the PrTr. of Wales is not yet old enough to take tart L. a publici,T e menial of this kind. Mr. Norris was m the Isle of IN l at the time of the Privy Council , . when the Croon o_ readily raw the oubject to the Nitustry,—C9ort sThorrig MR. ROEBUCK'S SPEECH AT SHEFFIELD. The late speech of Mr. Roebuck, in his self-im posed character of " Tear'em," has drawn forth some remarks from the Siecle, which are worthy of notice. Our contemporary denies altogether the boasted superiority of the English navy over that of France, and maintains that, extraordinarily numerous as are the vessels of England, they arc not proportioned to the immense extent of her various colonies. Passing then to a consideration of the naval strength of France, the article days : " The French navy, on the contrary, is in perfect equili brium with the wants of the country. In the hypothesis of a naval war, we have not thousands of points to protect, and we can devote all our energies to attack. It is not sufficient, it may be truly affirmed, to possess immense resources ; they should always be on the point that is menaced, as Bonaparte clearly demonstrated to the Austrians in his memorable campaigns in Italy. The English, besides, in their reasoning on maritime matters, always commit an error, which we have already pointed out on several occasions. In a war, a power ought not to expect to have only one enemy—several should be looked for. But England regards exclusively on the side of France; thinks only of France. But she has another enemy, Russia, who presses her in the East, in China, in India, and who menaces her in the Baltic, where the Russian fleet, from being excluded from the Black Sea, is forced to accommodate its forces. Suppose, then, for a moment that an understanding was come to between France and Russia, the French fleet holding firm against the English vessels, whilst the• Russian fleet should convey an army to disembark in England—suppose that, and the Cos sacks might easilybe seen in London. Unite, on the contrary, the Russian and English fleets, and the junction would be perfectly indifferent to us. From our ports, with our army and our maritime populations so eminently warlike, we repel every attempt at landing. Therein lies our superiority; we support our navy by an army, that which England can not do, or at least what she has not been able to do up to the present time." Our contemporary then refers to the yachts and merchant vess e l s o f England, and while admitting that they constitute a considerable accession of strength, seems to treat them lightly, for the curious reason that the taste for maritime matters is rapidly increasing in France :-- ." Blind would be the man who does not perceive how France is in every manner tending towards the sea. Ten years back the families who visited the sea in the fine season were some hundreds ; now, they are counted by thousands. When, under the,Restoration, the n ava l sc h oo l at Brest was founded, it was necessary, in order to have pupils, to pay them; but at present, the number of appli cants for the naval schools is to great that a considerable amount of information is necessary in order to procure admisSion. Formerly, the naval career was a 'sort of excep tion, and a young man ought to be a native of Dieppe, or Dunkirk, or St. Malo, or some other port, to even think of it. But, in the present day, it has attractions for every province, and the navy is no longer the exclusive appanage of any particular district." The project of making Paris a seaport is then alluded to, and our contemporary dwells with great complacency on the effect which such a metamor phosis " in, the brain and heart of France" would produce among the French public in general. Such reasoning' is simply puerile, and scarcely merits even a casual notice, when treating of so grave a cpies:- tion. What follows is more practical and more in accordance with the plain common sense which' generally distinguishes our contemporary when discussing the passing events of the day " The English must make up their minds to the deve lopment of maritime ideas in France. Admiral Napier has recommended them to bring us to an arrangement, consisting of each power consenting to have a limited navy. We, on our side, advise them to draw closer all the bonds which attach them to France, to attempt the greatest number of enterprises they possibly can in con junction with us, and to look with sus picion on those senti ments of jealousy which have so long animated them against France. It is not to diminish the French forces that they ought to endeavour, but to so manage t t r e t m a u T t a i r with us should become utterly impossible f e p o li l c in it t y rie o s f . reL l l v ti h o e n n s a a n n d efnridenadistaldupbes o xi ca s in tu a ig ta b ro e a t f m we ap en urrni th . eghavno the'tivo persuaded strengthens them reciprocally, against amane each other, when they . shall be P(!tphulata populations s r they will no longer dread the farce of f one or the oth er i n such or such a branch of th e service. Major-General Peel, Sir attached Henry to Storks,the va and r Major pepar t ment, are making rv° e the engineer official officer visits to the coast, with a v i ew to arrange a system of coast defence. Amon.. other f it ^and in b • places, Portbinouth has not been forgotten., due time there.is no doubt, from the steps that are now taking, a good and efficient plan will be devised, and a practical system organ ised.--Colert lonntal. WlLLs.—The will of the Right Hon. Amelia Viscountess Falkland, was administered to by Viscount Falkland, G.C.H., P.C., the executor and sole legatee. The grant was limited to the property left to the countess under the will of his late Majesty King William IV., boar in.- date May 3, 1837, over which her ladyship had a power oedisposal. The will and codicil of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Fred. Ashworth, formerly of Chichester -terrace, Kemp-town, Brighton, but late of St. George's -place, Knightsbridge, were proved in London on August 26, by Lady Ashworth, the relict ; a power being reserved to the Marquis of Done gall and Mr. David Lyon, the other executors. He has bequeathed to Lady Ashworth a life interest in his estates, and at her decease to be equally divided amongst the chil dren. The personalty sworn under £25,000. The will is dated 1854, and the codicil 1847. Some obliterations were made in the will by the testator in 1851, but being unal tered, the will was t a k en as originally written. The will of Sir John Key, Bart., Chamberlain to the-City of Lon don, was proved in London by his son, Sir Kingsmill Grove Key, Bart., and Mr. George Parbury and Mr. Edward Hilton, the sons-in-law, the joint executors. The per sonalty is sworn under £40,000. To Lady Key, his widow, he has bequeathed all the furniture in his residence, Manor Rouse, Streatham, as well as all right and interest he pos sessed in the Stationers' Company, to be enjoyed by her for life, the residue to her children. The will is very short, and was made on July 14, 1858; ale signature i s mos t re big a few thick agtrk§,—.l?(lfstrao? ,News,