The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-04 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. I HIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of T MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. C. Kean—Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Under the Management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, Balfe's , ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne. Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. George Honey, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement ; Mdlles. Zilla Pasquale, and Morlacchi. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstons. 111 THIS EVENING will be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. Peres Nena. With THE KING'S GARDENER. And JOHN JONES. Commence at' 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. Extraordinary Attraction.—For the Benefit of Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, MONDAY, Oct. 4, and for this night only, Sheridan Knowles' Play of THE HUNCHBACK. Julia, Mrs. Charles Young ; Helen, Mrs. A. Mellon ; Sir Tuomas Clifford, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Master Walter, Mr. E. F a lconer ; Fathom, Mr. Emery ; Modus, Mr. J. G. Shore. Followed by A CONCERT, in which the following distin guished artistes will assist :—Madame Ruddersdorff, Miss E. Hughes, Miss L. Pearce, Mr. George Perren, Mr. A. Irving, Mr. and Master P. Core. Instrumental Solo Performers— Harp, Mr. S. Chatterton ; Violin, M. Lehon ; Pianoforte, Mr. John S. Stone ; Flute, Mr. J. Richardson. Conductors— Signors Randegger and F. Emil Berger. After which the Ballet of THE RENDEZVOUS, in which the Lauri Family will appear. Doors open at half-put 1, to commence at 7. Box-oflke open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND; Mr. Swan borough, Mrs. Selby, Miss Ternan. After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DISETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, h. L Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroll, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay —Director, Herr F. Jonohmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &a, until 12 o'clock. - • -- - - - NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the month of October, A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con. nexion with the above Hall THE WEATHER —SUN Orrzcz, Oct 4. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 52 lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.94. Wrrna, North-Esterly ; light, with dull weather. = ' 7e *l , 4-74 . It ) CLUI. Atiz. PS 4 -41119\ v. 0.- " / 4-4 - • r TiFb- • _ g "tr . , 0 _ Rorr i A , - •A, I u THE SUN. MONDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1858. The scattered remnants of the rebel forces in India may now be properly termed " flying columns," not in the ordinary, although in the literal sense, of the term. They are only brave against those who have no means offensive or de fensive at their disposal ; and any body of the dreaded " Feringhees" assembled together are suffi cient to induce ten times their number to seek safety in flight. They have, when too late, disco vered the grave mistake into which they suffered themselves to be betrnyea. They have, by sad ex perience, discovered the extraordinary energy, vigour, and unflinching determination of the Bri tish soldiers ; and after the fashion of the disap pointed bully in the old play, each is tempted to exclaim, " An' I had known he was so cunning of fence, I'd have seen him d—i before I meddled with him." How gladly would they now retrace their footsteps ! How fervently would they rejoice, one and all, if they could discern the slightest prospect of regaining the position which they forfeited, and once more becoming "pets of the Company." Alas, that chance has for ever departed. Their gross misconduct, their vile treachery, their want of " fidelity to their salt," has not only re duced themselves to the character of houseless and despairing fugitives, but has terminated the rule of those who were their over-kind patrons. To use the Hindoo idiom, the "raj"' of the Company has been overthrown, and henceforward Queen VICTORIA, really as well as nominally, rules over the Anglo-Indian Empire. They now are merely striving to prolong their miserable existences to the last moment, without hope of eventual success ; they are merely striving for escape. They are too well aware that the tem porary respite which has been accorded to some of the detached parties is ascribable to the state of the weather. The incessant rain is their only preserver; and when that terminates, and weather fit for campaigning is restored, the period of retribution will have arrived, and those who who have sinned too deeply to admit of any lenient consideration of their cases—towards whom cle mency would be crime—will have to expiate their manifold and fearful crimes. Notwithstanding the rainy season, they only find safety in incessant motion. No sooner do they assume a position than some of their indefatigable pursuers certainly approach, and they as certainly fly, distancing for the moment the "avengers of blood," by whom they are unceasingly followed. The myth of " Orestes pursued by the Furies," has been powerfully illustrated. There are thousands, aye, tuts of thousands, for whom there is no longer the slightest hope of rest or shelter, whose toil is as enduring as that of Sysiphus or the Danaides, and who cannot for .a, moment enjoy the smallest portion of the plunder for - which they have so deeply sinned, thus adding thia tortures of Tantalus to that of the other chief criminals of the Heathen Mythology. to and fro cannot long But this scampering continue. In a few weeks Lord CLYDE will again take the field with an , overwhelming force, sufficient not merely to defeat, but to surround and destroy the despairing brigands ! It only requires that force to induce the native population to assist actively in the destruc tion of those by whom they have been more annoyed and inconvenienced within a few months than by the legitimate authorities within as many years. At present these parties are afraid to join us. They are intimidated by the strength of the rebels, which, although inadequate to meet even a British police force, are yet sufficiently powerful to plunder and destroy an unprotected village, to butcher the 111011, and expose the women to a still more terrible fate. It is but lately that MAUN SINGH was relieved from those who besieged him in his own stronghold, because he refused to go further with them in their reckless career, and had earned an ample amnesty for any past misdeeds, by the protection - which he afforded, in the dark hour of danger and distress, to those who sought shelter at his hands. ,There are many other Zemindars and Talookdarg who held aloof while the struggle was still immi 'pent, and the result of the contest had been, as yet, undecided, who would now gladly come forward with all their power on our side, but who await the coming of Lord CLYDE to be assured of sufficient strength to overcome the rebels. It may be that these men are trimmers, that they have exhibited neither chivalry nor nobility of conduct ; but, when the British supre macy has been completely re-established, they will not prove less useful allies, in crushing the scattered remnants of the insurrection. Every thing predicts a speedy termination to the existing state of affairs. It only requires the co-operation of the inhabitants of the several districts to ensure it, and that co-opera tion we shall speedily and effectually obtain when " the Hieland pibroch" is heard floating on the breeze, and Lord CLYDE is once more at the head of his invincible columns, hurling destruction against all who resist, and showing mercy when ever the slightest claim can be exhibited to a lenient consideration. The unanimity of all parties in approbat iota of the appointment of Lord STANLEY as Minister for India has been as remarkable as it has been, hitherto, justified by his Lordship's conduct of the heavy and important business which was thus on a sudden placed in his hands. One passing and equivocal sneer, at his first appointment, intended to be interpreted by the event, is all that we re member of a hostile kind ; indeed, there was time for nothing more. From the hour of his appoint ment, Lord STANLEY applied himself with such diligence to the Resolutions and the Bill, the press ing business of the hour, that they were curtailed and moulded, respectively, to the results of the best judgments of the time, and without truckling to any party ; and the noble lord had the honour of seeing a bill passed by both hours, embodying, as nearly as possible, his own conceptions of what the change ought to be. He was not, indeed, thought to be himself desirous of change at all in the form of Indian Government this year, but his decided opinion was that any change ought to be as little as possible of an entire revolution, and should re tain all the better elements of the old Board of Directors. Whatever may be thought of his Lord ship's opinions, he has at least succeeded in giving effect to them ; and probably few will affirm that we should have procured, at least for the present, by any other means a better working council than that which has now been constituted. The election of part of the councillors by the old Board is perhaps the most objectionable of the arrangements; the mistake about time of service, salaries, and pen sions may be corrected at any time within ten years. In one opinion all parties appeared to concur — that while Lord STANLEY was President of the new Council everything would be looked to as carefully and as honestly as it could be by any human vigi lance, and a thoroughly upright policy would be pursued while he was responsible for it. The Indian Minister has now completed his ap pointments, and has got fairly to work. The nomi nations by the Government were, we believe, en tirely unchallenged, and one which, though declined, was amongst the first offered, has been justly commended on all sides. We wonder whether Mr. SMITH and the Whigs would have offered a councillor's post to a philosopher of such acknowledged merit, but of such an entirely oppo site school, as Mr. JOHN STUART MILL. We cannot believe that the family party would have departed so far from their wont, unless, indeed, as in the case of Sir W. MOLESWORTH, from the necessity of purchasing support ; but Sir WILLIAM, after all, was a kind of aristocratic Radical. On the whole, we imagine that both Anglo-Indians and Englishmen at home congratulate themselves on the result of I;,he Indian measures of last session, in so far as it has not placed the nomination of the new Council in the hands of Mr. SMITH and his titled superior. Last week the new Indian Government showed itself in one further stage of its existence—that of being toasted at a civic dinner—a stage essential to -every English institution. Indeed, we may designate the dinner at the Fishmongers'-hall as the christening of the new-born Indian Govern ment—from this time it is registered as among the dinner-honoured institutions of the land. The Prime Warden of the company was, of course, the officiating minister, and Lord ►STANLEY avowedly acknowledged himself as father of the new Council. His speech was altogether worthy of his reputation, and showed that he was fully alive to the diffi culties and duties of his post, yet by no means dis posed to shrink or evade them. It was concilia tory towards all parties both in England and in India, both Europeans and natives ; such, indeed, is the temperament of Lord STANLEY him self : a temperament in him, happily associated with a perfectly independent judgment, and with firmness in acting on his judgment. His Lord ship is a happy union of tolerance and indepen dence, and we believe it will be seen that he can influence as well as be influenced. He justly observed that we had " to protect India from the fluctuations of Parliamentary politics ;" and, though we are sure nothing was further from his Lordship's intentions than to intimate any such thing, we hope that, whatever changes may occur next year in the Government of the country, he will be invited and will be content to remain at his post. Of course, it is a possible, almost a probable thing, that Reform Bill battles may end in a resig nation of the present Ministry, or a dissolution, or both, and nothing, we are sure, would be more objectionable to the whole country than to see India again placed in the hands of Mr. SMITH, or even Sir CHARLES WooD. If the Whigs, under any arrangement should accede to office as the whole or part of a Cabinet, they could. not do a more popular thing than to offer Lord STANLEY the retention of his present office wholly unfettered by any party considerations. The public would not fear Lord STANLEY'S opposition to any political reforms that were desired by the nation, and there could be no reason, that we can conceive of, why, for the sake of India, his perfectly independent support or opposition should not be cordially accepted or willingly tolerated. The party to which Lord STANLEY nominally belongs could not feel aggrieved by his compliance ; it would be not deserting his party, but saving his country, and India. There ought not to be a Whig and a Tory policy for India ; on Indian questions, therefore, Lord STANLEY would always have a united Cabi net, or at least a majority; and even on questions of home ,policy, the only danger would be that Whigs would find his Lordship too liberal a col league for them. This general view of our relation to the natives of India is so well expressed that, though the passage is rather long, we reprint it entire We regard, and undoubtedly we ought to regard, the natives of India as persons towards whom it is our duty to have a good will, and for whom it is our duty to labour. But that is not enough. It is not enough that we should regard them as objects on which our benevolence may be exercised—as persons as to whom it is in our power to make important changes for good. We must look at them also as being men with whom, and not against whom, we have to work—men with feelings of their own —men, though politically subject to us, with a sense of their own rights, and with a respect for their own independence—(cheers)— men who are apt to be all the more tenacious of their intel lectual independence and national customs because of the political subjection in which they are held. (Cheers.) Un doubtedly the position of a conquering and governing raec confers many advantages as regards the influence which may be exercised over a conquered people ; but that posi tion has also its disadvantages, for the position of a con quering race is one which almost inevitably tends to pro duce a certain sense of superiority, a certain arrogance, if that be not too harsh a word to use, a certain disregard to wards feelings, in which, not being placed in similar circum stances, it is utterly impossible for us to share ; and I d o not hesitate to say that, unless we iuodify and keep within proper bounds that feeling of national superiority—unless we remember carefully, and even jealously respect, the very prejudices of those whom we have to rule ; above all things, if we attempt to introduce the force and influence of government into that which ought to be a matter of private conviction between man and his own conscience -(cheers) — if we do this, or even if we are suspected upon plausible grounds of attempting or desiring to do it, we shall have our efforts at improvement thrown back in our face as in sults, and shall end in doing more harm than good." Of course, we do not interpret sucli.language in the spirit of the men who could repair and orna ment the bloody car of Juggernaut, and throw the Bible and the cross beneath its wheels. Lord STANLEY means that religious liberty should be complete, that the Government should aid the missionary only by protecting him equally with the Hindoo priest and the Mahommedan moolah, and discourage nothing but overt immorality and orime. He is not the man who through fear of the natives would go out of his way to pander to super stition, but he is the man who would candidly appreciate the effect of education, of the traditions of ages, and of habit, on the minds of natives, and who would not employ compulsion, or Government patronage, where education and the preaching of a better faith can alone effect a permanent and bloodless change. Already we hear of Reform Associations being constituted in the provinces, and commencing vigorous action. The Northern Reform Associa tion is organising itself for work, and even in a county, North Hants, a local Ballot Society has been formed ! We hear, also, of other similar movements. It is not at all too soon. The three or four months before Parliament meets will be all needed. Some little time is required for Reformers in each district to come to an understanding with each other, then for committees of Reformers all over the country to know each other's minds, and to come to some definite agreement as to the points on which they shall insist. The time before us will certainly be not at all too long for a steady, busi nesslike movement on the part of the country, for a movement which shall effect two desirable objects : First, and chiefly, the securing of a satisfactory Re form Bill ; one which will last us, with the good will of all parties, for another quarter of a century —and why not for a century ? Secondly, for securing that object in the most quiet and time-saving manner. There will be no need for long and exciting agitation, no need for two or three resignations, and a dissolution or two, if the country will but take up its work betimes, and steadily attend to it. We trust our readers will bear with us, if even at this dull season •we suggest to them what we think so exceedingly desirable. In every town and county there are certain active persons who well know each other, and on whose bestirring themselves all depends. What seems to us both easily practicable and of great importance is, that these gentlemen should not defer till the eleventh hour, and for an extemporised agitation, what they could effect so much better by merely taking a little more time. The Northern Reform Associa tion has already held some thirty public meetings in the northern towns of England, wisely confining itself to its own district, and leaving Midland, South, East, and West, to follow its example. Hitherto the Association has found that its meet ings have been about equally composed of the middle and working classes, and that the best understanding has prevailed. Indeed it is an object of no little consequence, to promote this kind of goodwill between the two classes, who, together, can vanquish all the Peers and the Peers' sons in Parliament, but whom the aristocracy, when the hour of trial comes, will endeavour to divide and conquer if they can. They prolonged the battle on the Corn Laws by this unworthy device, and they will, perhaps, " try it on " with the now Reform Bill. The middle classes must, too, in fairness, remember that we gained the suffrage for ourselves by the aid of the working men, and, beyond all contradiction, with the understanding that, when the latter had got us a vote, we should put our shoulders to the wheel to get them one. We all know how this promise has been kept—we should rather say, forgotten or evaded ; and it is most desirable that no ill-will between operatives and the classes next above them should be a result of the new Reform Bill. We appeal to our friends in the country, because we think that the practice of leaving everything to metropolitan associations is in every way un desirable. They are useful as the centres of move ment, but the life must exist and the pulse be quick in every part, if the nation is to act with vigour and effect. Our rulers care little, anti ought to care but little, for a merely metropolitan com mittee, which has got up, perhaps, a few local com mittees; what really tells on the Government and on the Houses of Parliament is to find the country awake and acting from one end to the other, and to know that the London organisation is a mere necessity or convenience to give effect to the deter mination of the kingdom. A London political com mittee, not originated to concentrate the political action of the country, may be compared to a Lon don warehouse erected before the provincial towns' had produced the manufactures which should fill it. We may tell our country friends this great secret, if it be one, that they are our political strength, and that we here are merely in the central position to give effect to their exertions. They are the power, and we but the axle to impart their motion to the Government and the Legislature. Timely and well-considered action on the part of the country will not only unite all classes of Re formers, and conciliate the working men, but will also prepare our Members of Parliament and the Government to concede what they would otherwise resist. These worthies, the greater part of them at least, require some time to convince them that the people are in earnest, and even to appreciate their demands. But a small proportion of them belong to the people. Though elected by them, they associate but little with them, and in their own circles, though they occasionally whisper their fears as to what the troublesome Radicals may strive for, they persuade themselves that the coun try is very well satisfied with its representatives and their conduct. Members of Parliament want to know that everywhere bodies of electors, the loss of whose votes would be the loss of the next elec tion, are stirring on the question of Reform, and they will then talk over the thing a little earnestly when the ladies have retired. As to the course of the Government, no one can doubt that its conduct wholly depends on the course taken by the country. It is quite possible, nay, we think it is easy for the people, to induce the pre sent Ministry to give us a thorough Reform Bill— a Bill which should induce the country in gratitude to give Lord DERBY a decided majority at the dis solution which must follow it. How stand the facts ? Tories and Whigs are equally opposed to any really liberal measure—to any reform which places more power in the hands of the electors. Of their own goodwill, therefore, neither party will grant this. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1858 But, if the nation show that more electoral power it will have—if the Whigs and Tories both see that the concession cannot be avoided—then most cer tainly we shall have the two parties bidding for office through concessions to the public. A few of the more determined Tories might quit the present Cabinet, and there might be additions from unex pected quarters, or there might be equally unex pected conversions, but a DERBY Mintstry might still carry a People's Reform Bill. As to old doings of the Tories, why, they are done and over, and few of the Whigs could use them as stones to pelt with without being pelted in like manner in return. Has not Mr. HENLEY told us that " Conservative" is now an antiquated name ? and has he not done his best to name his party " The Progressives ?" To be sure he tried his hand at definition, but when even he felt it expedient to claim the word, he must have known that definitions are but the weakest of political cobwebs ; the slightest urgency will hurt them. The truth is, any party, to be in office, must take up with the nation's policy. It is absurd to speak of a stable Govern ment as having any other ; and if the nation does but indicate its policy unmistakeably Lord DERBY and his colleagues will not make the political mistake of leaving to the Whigs the popu larity of carrying out that policy, and also the long lease of office consequent on having done so. We hope it will not be found difficult for the leading reformers in every part of the country to settle the main points of their programme. They have not a party object but a national one. They should band together to serve neither Whigs *or Tories, neither Liberals nor Conservatives. Their object is simply' to give the people of the United Kingdom the power of fairly and truthfully representing their opinions in the House of Com mons. One man in seven is not the people of Eng land—that must be set right first. That one man's vote in one place should be able to neutralise eighty men's votes in another is not fair representatiour that account must be , next made square. That any man should vote under the fear of what his landlord, or banker, or lawyer, or creditor, or cus tomer, or patron, or master, or even of what his friend will say or do to him, is not allowing that man to be represented—the Ballot-box must make the voters independent. On these points all re formers, if they discuss matters, are sure to agree ; let them at once meet, discuss, agree, act, memo rialise, and petition, and " they'll not fail," no, not with even the Lords, the Whigs, the Tories, the POPE himself, and the almighty Times too, against them. • A pictorial abomination of a very different and of a far more pernicious character has followed immediately upon the weeping away of the literary garbage of Holywell-street. Cannot Lord CAMP BELL early in the next session of Parliament revise that wholesome and beneficent enactment of his which has already done so much good ? We would put it to the noble and learned Lord as earnestly as possible for unless something of this kind can be done, and that speedily, a worse abomina tion—an abomination immeasurably worse • than that of which Lord CAMPBELL'S Act so very recently relieved the metropolis, will have grown into very hideous proportions. It blazons itself forth already in the shop windows, not in obscure byeways like Holywell-street, but in some of our most crowded thoroughfares. It is a villany not requiring to be ferreted out, but glaring upon us vividly as we jostle each other upon the thronged pavements. It is asvillanous an evil, in its way, as though those frightful Penny Gaffs, described by Mr. HENRY MAYHEW, in his " London Labour and the London Poor, " were displayed gratuitously for every passer-by. Our contemporary the Morning Post but very lately drew attention to this new and most lamentable scandal, urging upon the authorities the necessity for its instant suppression, and its thorough extirpation. And the nature of this scandal ? It is nothing less than the wholesale display of licentious photographs, taken from nature and formed into stereoscopic slides. Enough if the mere fact is here alluded to—the fact of these detestable productions being conspicuously placed in many of the London shop wind ows . If Lord CAMPBELL'S Act, as it is, does not already em power the police to interfere here, in GoD's name let it be carefully revised next session, so that the strong grasp of the law may at once strangle this new iniquity, and make a clean sweep of this more flagrant outrage upon public decency than any the noble and learned author of the bill contem plated would require removal from the borders of our great thbroaghfares. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. C. Kean's farewell season as a manager commenced on Saturday evening last, when " The Merchant of Venice" was presented for the seventy-third time with unabated effect and attention. The house presented a crowded appearance in every quarter, and the warm reception with which Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean were severally honoured indicated in the most gratifying manner the feeling of the public towards these distinguished artistes, who have so nobly won the highest position -which any members of the dramatic art have ever attained. Mr. Kean's Shylock is a magnificent impersonation ; true to the author's meaning in every look, gesture, and uttered sentiment. A Shakesperian portrait as distinct as it is powerful, and rendered still more impressive by the marvellous accuracy of the scenic details with which it is environed. This grand embodiment alone suffices to establish his supremacy as the first tragedian of the day : and when we call to mind his extraordinary excellence in Hamlet, Richard, Lear, Wolsey, Louis XI., Mephistophiles, Macbeth, and many other diversified parts of equal importance, it would be difficult to select one from among the celebrated •of his predecessors, entitled to take rank •in a higher line. Versatility and ideality are amongst the leading qualities which mark the superior genius of a great actor, and we could not readily. hit upon a name and person in the annals of the stage, in which they have been more strongly deve loped than in Mr. C. Kean. Mrs. C. Kean's Portia is equal to her husband's Shylock, as , a dramatic effort in a totally different class, and gives to the secondary or episodal plot of the play an equal prominence with the leading incident. Twelve nights more will close the long and successful run of the " Merchant of Venice," when, from foreign history and scenery, we shall once more find ourselves on English ground, and in the old feudal times of the Plantagenets— we allude to the revival of "King John," which is pro mised for Monday, the 18th instant, and supplies one of the finest subjects that Mr. Kean has yet handled. Mr. Charles J. Mathews, the comedian, with Mrs. Mathews, sailed by the Asia, from Boston, on the 22d. Sept., for Liverpool. Mr. Mathews has several engage ments at Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, and plan his way up to London. MADAME CELESTE.--This popular directress of the old Adelphi Theatre has returned to London, after her autumnal visit to France, and will commence a short star ring engagement at the National Standard Theatre this evening, in her celebrated character of Miami, in the drama of " The Green Bushes." Mr. Paul Bedford, who is also engaged, sustaining his original character of Jack Gong. We very much regret Ito say (says the Court Journal) that the Earl of Derby is suffering from a severe attack of gout at Knowsley. The gout is a bitter enemy , of the Premier's, for though others may suffer more fre quently, none can do so more severely. In Lord Derby's case it not only seizes the feet but the arms also, and the present attack, which has now lasted about a week, equals in virulence that which kept the noble earl so long con fined to his house in St. James's-square, in the height of the Parliamentary session. Unless his lordship's recovery is much more rapid than anticipated, the meeting of the Cabinet, announced for next week, cannot possibly take place. The Cabinet Ministers are nearly all out of town. Lord Derby is at his seat, Knowsley-hall, Lancashire, where he is suffering from an attack of gout. Mr. Spencer Walpole is in Ireland. Lord Malinesbury remains at his residence in Scotland. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is at Hughenden-manor. General Peel is at Balmoral. The Marquis of Salisbury and Mr. Henley are at their respective country seats. Sir Edward B. Lytton, the Colonial Secretary of State, remains in London. Mr. Secretary Walpole ended his official attend ance at Balmoral on Wednesday last, and took leave of her Majesty. The right hon. gentleman does not return to official duty in town, but purposes making a short tour in Ireland previous to resuming his attendance at the Home ' Office. Major-General Peel succeeds Mr. Walpole as Minister in attendance on the Queen at Balmoral. The Home Secretary proceeded in the first instance, to Glasgow. —Court Journal, LATEST NEWS. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING. The mail steamship Athens, Commander Strudd, arrived this morning from the Cape of Good Hope. She left Table Bay Aug. 21st ; St. Helena, 31st ; Ascension, Sept. 4th ; and Madeira, Sept. 21st. Her cargo consists of 71 pipes, 188 hogsheads, 67 quarter-casks, 111 aums, 6 ankers, 4 kegs, and 6 cases wine, 1 case brandy, 181 elephants' tusks, 2,000 horns, 100 giraffe bones, 7 cases ostrich feathers, 140 cases arrowroot, 17 bales of wool, 18 bales sheepskins, 18 casks whale oil, 9 bundles whalebone, 5 tons spelter, 708 slabs copper, 100 bales cotton, 149 bags linseed, six bales rags, 60 cases cowries, 400 cases oranges, and 58 various packages. Her intelligence is nine days later than that by the Indiana. The markets continue unchanged, and great dul ness prevails. The general election commenced in September. The missionary party, consisting ofthe Ven. Mr. Moffatt and wife, Mr. Moffatt, jun., and wife, and the wife of Dr. Livingstone, were to leave shortly for the interior. The missionaries for the Mako lobo and Matabelo will not accompany them, but leave a month afterwards. Colonel Von Haken, of the British Legion, a Waterloo hero, who fought under Blucher, died recently in Kaffraria. It is expected that the second battalion of the 60th Rifles and the 26th Regiment will leave the Cape shortly for India. The steamship Megoera and the East India Com pany's war steamer were embarking horses in Simon's Bay. The Hermes was refitting. The Carpentaria, of Liverpool, from Bombay, arrived in Simon's Bay on the 16th of August leaky. The crew of the Marion More were in a state of mutiny. The Athens was detained at the Cape 24 hours by orders of the Governor, of whose arrival on the frontier no intelligence had been received. She experienced light winds all the way from the Cape, with only one day north-east trade ; put into Madiera for fuel ; subsequently strong north east winds prevailed, with heavy gales on the 25th and 26th of September. A large number of ships had called at St. Helena for refreshments on 28th and 29th of August. At Ascension, the steam-ship Hercula, which arrived on the 3d from St. Helena, and the store ship Buffalo. A succession of S.S.W. and W. gales had been experienced at Madeira. The French brig Horns, Capt. Azemas, from Cette, with wine, oil, and brandy, for Martinique, foundered off the east end of the Island on the 20th September : crew saved. The Athens spoke Aug. 27, in lat. 20 S., long. 5 W., the ship Sumatra, of Palermo, bound to Gibraltar, 105 days out : supplied her with pro visions. Aug. 30, lat. 10.40 S., long. 5 W., the barque Wilhelmina Catharina, from Java for Rot terdam. Sept. 1, lat. 14.20 S., long. 7.30 W., the barque Kahlambra, 42 days from Algoa Bay. Sept. 24, lat. 37.39 N., long. 12.52 W., barque William Edward, for Rio Janeiro. Sept. 25, lat. 39 N., long. 13.50 W., ship Trafalgar, of London, steering S.W, Sept. 27, lat. 39 N., long. 13.50 W., barque Caledonia, steering S.W. ; and lat. 39 N., long. 13.50 W., ship Derwentwater, from London for Hobart Town. Sept. 26, lat. 47 N., long. 15.39 W., Park Paragon, steering N.W. Sept. 30, lat. 43.49 N., long. 11.58 W., bark Moultrie, steering S.W. Oct. 1, lat. 45.4 N., long. 9.51 W., her Majesty's steamer Terrible, with the gunboats Growler and Quail in tow, steering S.W. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE OCEAN CHIEF. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY E VENiff a. The Black Ball packet ship Ocean Chief has arrived at this port from Melbourne. She sailed from thence on the 15th July, rounded Cape Horn when twenty-five days out, crossed the Equator August 28, and. since then has had light and baffling winds. She has brought 47,594 ounces of gold. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Capt. Lott, arrived in the Mersey shortly before noon to-day, with later intelligence from the Western Continent. She left Boston on the 22d, and Halifax on the 24th ult., and she brings advices from New York by telegraph to the 23d. Besides the mails, the Asia brings 78 passen genera including Mr. Charles Mathews - and lady (late Mrs. Davenport), of the New York theatres. [lt ought to be noticed that the news brought by the Pacific, on the Galway and Halifax line, which arrived on Friday, is one day later than that brought by the Asia, which arrived on Saturday. This is an important point in favour of the Galway line.] The screw steamer North Briton arrived at Quebec on the 20th, but in consequence of a storm prevailing her news could not be•obtained until the following day. The Niagara (Cunard line) had arrived from Li verpool at Halifax on the 22d ult. The Maine elections have ended in giving a com plete republican senate. • , The large steam-frigate noticed some months ago as building for the Russian Government has been successfully launched. Some 50,000 persons were present. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided that tamarinds preserved in sugar are subject to' a duty of 30 per cent. ; cotton socks with dyed tips 15 per cent. ; and spring steel the same rate of duty. The steam-frigate Niagara left Charleston on the evening of the 20th for Africa, with the Africans captured in the Echo slaver, by the American brig of war Dolphin. The steamer Water Witch left for Norfolk on the 21st, and the Fulton was to leave next day. They were there to complete their crews, and thence proceed without delay to Buenos Ayres to await the arrival of the other vessels of the Para guay expedition. The deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans are on the increase. For the thirty hours ending noon on the 20th they had reached to 107. A plentiful supply of money continued to pre vail at New York. In Exchange there was nothing doing. Cotton was a shade firmer, and prices ranged from 134 ; to 131 for mid. Uplands. Flour receipts were large. State and Western were a shade better, with a good demand for home con sumption, and a moderate export inquiry ; unsound brought 3 dols. 60c. to 4 dols. 60c. ; superfine State, 5 dols. 15c. to 5 dols. 25c. ; extra State, 5 dols. Sc. to 5 dols. 60c. ; common to good extra Western, 5 dols. 40c. to 5 dols. 70c. Southern more active and firmer ; mixed to good selling at' 4 dols. 70c. to 5 dols. 50c. ; fancy and extra, 5 dolg 60c. to 8 dols. SOUTH AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tamar, Capt. John H. Jellicoe, with the usual mails in charge of Lieut. Lyon, arrived this day at four o'clock. During the voyage homewards the Tamar expe rienced stormy weather and heavy sea all along the coast of Brazil, fine weather to St. Vincent, strong N.E. winds and head sea to Lisbon. The TamarbriniSTpeaeto — ihe amount of £42,675 10s. 4d. from the following places, viz., Monte Video, £5,465 'l6s. 7d. ; Buenos Ayres, £15,980 Bs. 9d. ' • Bahia, £3,1 84 12 s. ; Rio de Ja neiro, £14,384 135.; Pernambuco, £3,370; al so diamonds, precious stones, and pearls to the amount of £17,240. And on freight -100 barrels of tapioca, 194 rolls of tobacco, 80 boxes of grapes, 73 parcels of sundries. A new measure, establishing differential duties on all produce shipped to Buenos Ayres, had re ceived the sanction of the Government of the Parana. The political news from the River Plate is unimportant. Business at Buenos Ayres was generally dull, although the prospects for the spring season were encouraging. Produce was well maintained, and in salted hides higher prices had been paid. Exchange was quoted at 655. From Monte Video no news of importance, - although both in politics and business there was more confidence. At Rio de Janeiro business during the month ' was to a less avera ge , owing chiefly to a continued excess of supplies. Although the sales of coffee have exceeded those of the previous month they were yet far short of the average quantity. In sugar a fair business was done, both for export and home consumption. In the money-market there was great excitement by the sudden announce ment of the Bank directory, on the 25th of August, that they had raised their discount to 11. In ex change a more than average amount was done by this steamer, 268 d. for 90 days. Shares were de pressed and stocks declining. From Bahia we learn that sugar has been in brisk demand at rising prices, ,but the purchases effected have been unimportant. The stocks of cotton are mostly in second hands, and the demand was increasing. Rum continues dull. Some trans action have taken place in exchange at 251 d. and 251 d. for 90 days. The weather has been unusually severe. The British barque Matilda, of Liverpool, was totally lost at Maceio, with a cargo of cotton. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The steam-ship Valetta arrived this evening with the above mails, 30 passengers, £1,475 in specie, and a full cargo of fruit, &c. Her dates of sailing are—Gibraltar, Sept. 25th ; Cadiz, 26th ; Lisbon, 29th; Oporto and Vigo, 30th. She spoke the Tagus, with, the outward mails, steering for Vigo, on the 30th. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. A7Co — uncil of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at St. Cloud. Prince Jerome was present. Prince Napoleon, on the day after his arrival at Warsaw, was present at some cavalry manoeuvres, commanded. by the Emperor in person. There was afterwar6 a battue, followed by a dinner at Wil lanow, the residence of Count Auguste Polocki, grand equerry to the Emperor. The evening was concluded by a representation:at the Court Theatre at Lazienski. On the 30th ult. his Imperial High ness was to be present at a grand review, and was to leave in the evening, after dining with the Em peror. Prince Paskiewitch had been sent to the frontier to meet Prince Napoleon. The Moniteur publishes a very long report to the Emperor from M. Roher, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, on the subject of the regional cattle shows, and pointing out the great advantages which have resulted from them in every part of the country:—" The document commences by alluding to the desire expressed by his Majesty that agricul ture should henceforth hold, among the great interests of the country, the rank which belongs to it, and of which it has been too long deprived. The manner in which the wishes of the Emperor are now carried out may be seen by the great change which has taken place in the agricultural districts of France during the last few years. In all parts of the country, waste lands have been brought into cultivation, and heath and furze have given place to corn. The cultivation of wheat, which in 1846 only occupied 5,936,908 hectares (2-1 acres each), extended in 1856 over a superficies of 6,468,236 hectares, and in the same period the average yield has increased from 10 hectolitres to 18. The report then goes on to point out the great advantages accruing to agricultare from the establishment of special schools, which have furnished skilful and well-informed farmers ; and also from the creation of regional cattle shows, which have tended mate rially to excite emulation, and have led to many improvements in the number and quality of the animals. The report then alludes to the great advantages derived from the measure decreed by his Majesty, of throwing open the frontiers of France to the admission of foreign cattle to the different grand exhibitions. The report also alludes to the different exhibitions of agricultural imple ments, and points out the important advantages which have resulted from enabling farmers to avail themselves of the various improvements in troduced. The report next enters into a detailed list of the names of persons who have obtained prizes at the regional exhibitions, and points out the grcuinds on which the prizes have been awarded. It then goes on to state that from 1860 the number of regional cattle shows will be greatly extended, and the conditions of them modified so as to bring them within the range of a greater number of departments." BOURSE, Oct. 2.—The market was heavy at the opening, owing to the large deliveries of titles, but afterwards rallied. The settlement of the Share Account was heavy, but the rates of continuations having been moderate, those securities afterwards improved. Threes varied from 73f. 35c. to 73f. 60c. Mobilier, 967 f. 50c. to 980 f. ; Orleans, 1,417 f. 50c. to 1,425 f. ; Lyons, 875 f. to 882 f. 50c. ; Southern, 590 f. to 600 f. ; Northern, 980 f. to 987 f. 50c. ; and Eastern, 942 f. 50c. to 947 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations : 41 per Cents. 96 Do. end month 3 per Cents 73 55 Do. end month _ 73 70 Credit Fonder 660 Belgian 41 lOO 75 Piedmonteso (5) Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 4O 75 Bank Shares 3lOO -- Credit Mobilier .. 985 Do. Account ..... 988 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and, Mediterranean BB2 50 882 50 New ditto - • . -- Geneva 650 .. 650 Midi 595 602 50 Western 642 50 642 50 Eastern Grand Central Sardinian — .. 461 21 Austrian 667 50 .. 668 75 Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 20c. ' • money, 251. 15c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 2tc, ; money, 25f. SERVIA. The Trieste Zeitunq and the Augsburg Gazette have received some information relative to the state of affairs in Servia which is not devoid of interest. Accordmg to the Servian Constitution the National Assembly (Skouptschina) ought to meet once a year; but Prince Alexander and his partisans in the Senate have managed to prevent its convocation ever since the year 1848. The Skouptschina has not only a right to examine into all the acts of the Government, but no alteration of importance can be made in the legislation without its concur rence. Circumstances have recently come to light which induces the belief that Prince Alexander has been guilty of gross violations of the Constitution, and that the conspiracy to take his life was a con sequence of them. Last month the proposition, made by Garaschanin to convene the National As sembly was rejected by a small majority of the Senate. When the news of the defeat of the Minister of the Interior was known in the " Okruschien" (districts or departments) : the excite ment was tremendous, and it was seriously pro posed that the nation should of its own sovereign will, convoke the Skouptschina. As the ferment continually increased, the Ministers of the Interior, of Finances, and of Justice, and M. Wutschitsch, the President of the Senate, went to the Hospodar, and gave him to understand that he must either consent to the convocation of the Skouptschi na or permit them to retire from office. The Prince, being greatly . alarmed, gave the necessary hint to his creatures in the Senate, and, on the 15th inst., that honourable body unanimo us ly accep t e d th e pro positkon which it a few weeks previously h a d rejected. A Commission is now em ployd in making preparations for the approaching elections. Although Bosni a i s now quiet great dis content prevails, as the B e y s s till pertinaciously insist on the payment of the "tretina" or third. They, however, treat the Rayahs less harshly, as they are aware that the Porte is firmly resolved no longer to allow its Christian subjects to be trodden under foot. Another reason for their treating the peasants less barbarously may, perhaps, be found in the Turkish proverb, "If the Rayah dies the revenue dies with him." ROYAL CRy,MORNE-GARDENS. Formally the Chelsea Elysium will reach the close of its prosperous sea son to-night, when the farewell gala is announced to take place, with all the attractions fof Marionettes, two comic ballets, dancing (professional and otherwise), fireworks, and extra illuminations ; but the fineness of the weather post pones the actual shutting of the gates till the end of the week. THE LATE FIRE AT GREENWICII—Mr. Roper underwent another examination on Saturday, at the con clusion of which he was admitted to bail himself in £2OO, ,and two sureties of £lOO each. He will be brought up again on Thursday next. M. Mires, it is said in the Paris journals, has bought of M. Paulin, the Paris publisher, 20,000 copies of the " History of the Consulate and the Empire," by M. Thiers, in order to distribute the same, as prizes, to the sub scribers of the Constitationnel and the Pays. SPORTING NO TES'. HARROW. Mr. Topham has boldly undertaken to establish a legiti mate meeting at Harrow, and it must be confessed that his venture is likely to be attended with the utmost success. With nearly £6OO distributed amongst the different stakes, the fields will doubtless be satisfactorily large ; and should the weather only continue fine, a Derby Day concourse will be witnessed on Mr. Elmire's farm. Mr. Topham has been untiring in his exertions to make the arrangements com plete, and the running ground has been formed and aid out with much discrimination, and the course is, perhaps, as pretty as any in the vicinity of Lon don. A. view of all parts of it will be commanded by the spectators in whatever position they may station them selves. The list contains fourteen items, five of which close this evening, and it is said that they will obtain good en tries. Princess Royal seems likely to place the Sefton Han dicap to her owners' account. The Two-yrs-old Sweep stakes has eleven nominations, and of those the most note worthy are Ardour and Newcastle. Mr. A. Williams may win the Handicap Plate of £4O with either Rara Avis or Palm Leaf. The Argosy and All's Lost are likely to ob-' tain the foremost positions for the Licensed Victuallers Handicap. About half-a-dozen runners will show for . the great Mid dlesex Stakes, and Julia and Satinstone may prove the best of the lot. Palm Leaf and Eltham Beauty seem to me as much entitled to notice as anything for the Nursery Han dicap, which may bring out the largest field of the meeting. Princess Royal is not badly in for the Copeland Handicap, and Target shall be my mark for the Stewards' Plate. Little Tom ought to win the Hurdle Race. The meeting is under the stewardship of the Earl of Sefton, Lord Clifden, and W. T. Copeland, Esq. The regular staff of officials has been engaged, and, so far as the management is concerned, suc cess is at least deserved. Wenlock Races will take place to-morrow and the " card" will not be unattractive. Only two stakes have closed, and the acceptances for them will not be declared until this even ing. On Wednesday I will bring under consideration the Bedford, Hereford, and Perth meetings. A FRESH MAN. LONDON MODEL YACHT CLUB. The closing of the season of the London Model Yacht Club was celebrated on Saturday by a match among its first-class craft, the following boats ,starting : Yachts. Tons. Owners. Eugenie 6 Mr. D. T. White. Blink Bonny 5 „ G. West. Gnat...... 5 „ J. West. The prize was a silver cup, and the distance from Green wich to just below Coal-house Point and back. They got away at 11.1.30, with a W.S.W. right-away breeze, and the Blink Bonny slashed away with the lead, Gnat second, to Blackwall Reach, where the Eugenie passed her, but the order of sailing at Erith was Bli nk Bonny, Gnat, Eugenie, which was maintained all the way down and up again to near Gravesend, when the Gnat went into best place, and, increasing her lead all the way home, won by 181 minutes ; Blink Bonny, which was much hampered by a yacht not in the match, was second, and Eugenie arrived. about 15 minutes astern of her. LADY FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—May I request that you will have the kind ness to insert a further letter, which I have just received from Captain M'Clintock, R.N., command ing Lady Franklin's yacht, conveying the gratifyr ing intelligence that he has safely crossed the middle, ice of Baffin Sea, and is in a fair way of successfully accomplishing the noble object of his enterprise ? _ _ Leiters which I have read from Dr. David. Walker, the intelligent surgeon and naturalist of the expedition, published in the Belfast News, give the most cheering account of the health and happi ness of all on board, notwithstanding their winter's campaign in the middle ice. I am, sir, your humble servant, JOHN BARROW. 17, Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, Oct. 2. "Arctic yacht Fox, near Pond's Bay, July 26. "My dear Barrow,—l cannot let what may be our last opportunity of writing home slip past without sending a few lines to you. If you let your memory play you a trick, and the past year slip by, you will exactly understand my posi tion. The chief difference is that lam now in sight of Pond's Bay, and have not the dreaded middle ice to circum vent. We reached Cape York on the 26th of June, which is very early, and there Petersen had a chat with his old friends the Arctic Highlanders. Poor Hans (the Esqui maux who accompanied Dr. Kane's expedition and re mained behind) was up at Whale's Sound, married, but childless, and unhappy because he could not return to Greenland. " There has been no north or west water as yet this year, at least subsequent to the 20th of June. The whole of Baffin's Bay, from Hakluyt Island to our present position, is filled with ice light in character, and muc h b roken up, but still as muck an impediment to navigation as if it re tained its winter constitution. The summer is a warm one ; but what is wanting is a succession of strong winds to re move the ice. Although round Cape York this day month, we have only succeeded in getting thus far to-day. "It is quite impossible to say what may be the state of Barrow Strait a month, or even a fortnight hence. lam not given to imagining difficulties, so shall not augur evil upon the present state of things.. You know that the first week in September is worth the whole season put together, and, as we are here to take advantage of it, our chances are by no means to be set down as indifferent. After getting all the intelligence of ships or crew, &c., from the Pond's Bay natives, and for which they have received credit sines 1842, I purpose making the best of my way to Beechey Island, in pursuance of the objects of my voyage. AR this you are well acquainted with. lam sure you will rejoice to hear how generously the whaling captains have behaved towards us, supplying us with potatoes, beer, stores, &c., and even some fresh beef. " We have not been able to communicate with many of them, owing to our hurry to steam onward, but the fault has not been theirs that we have not received still larger supplies. lam happy to say the Fox is as sound and well equipped as when she left England, and we are all in excel lent health. Such extra supplies as may be necessary should our absence be prolonged beyond next year I intend to take on board at Beechey Island, as a measure of precau tion. But it is not my intention (as you may recollect I stated at the outset) to expose my companions to the risk of being compelled to pass a third winter, if the object of my voyage can be secured without it. I like them all ; they are up to their work, and deserving of my entire confidence. " Near Cape Horsburgh we communicated with the natives who were at Port Dundas at the time of the Phoenix's visit. The old Chief remembered Captain Ingle, field's name. For the last two years three families of them have resided upon Point Beatrice—poor isolated, happy wretches I " Should there be any intelligence of interest picked up at Pond's Bay I will certainly endeavour to find some of the whalers along the coast to the southward, in order to send the information home. " For the present goodbye, and believe me to remain, my dear Barrow, sincerely yours, "F. L. 31‘CLDITocx." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--We beg to inform you that our screw whaler the Diana, of this port, Capt. John Gravill, jun., arrived here this day from Davis's Straits. She left the Fox discovery vessel, Captain M'Clintock, in the north part of Pond's Bay on the 28th of July, and brought home for the friends of the captain and officers of that vessel some eases containing specimens of natural history, &c., and. also a quantity of letters, which were posted here this day. Captain Gravill saw the Fox last on the 3d of August, when she was plying up Pond's Bay. Captain M'Clintock had heard something about a wreck from the natives there, and was pursuing his inquiries into the matter, after which he intended to proceed to Beechey Island for provisions. Considering anything relating to the search after intelligence as to the fate of the gallant Franklin of national interest, we forward this intelligence of the progress of Captain M'Clintock to you, trusting it will thus be communicated to all concerned. We are glad to state that the Diana has 14 whales, 125 tuns of oil, and 61 tons of bone ; and reports our steamer Chase with 8 large fish, 115 tuns of oil, 7 tons of bone ; and the steamer Tay, of Dundee, with 6 whales, 103 tuns of oil, 6 tons of bone. The superiority of steamers for engaging in. this trade is thus fully demonstrated. It will be remembered that the Diana above re ferred to was the first steamer ever sent to the northern fisheries. We are, sir, your most obedt. servants, W. BROWN, ATKINSON, & Co. Hull, Oct. 1. A SCENE,—The inhabitants of Victoria-Square, Pimlico, were seriously alarmed about 8 p.m. on Saturday last, by reiterated shrieks of " Thieves robbers I murder police ! police I" &c., emanating from some ladies who had rushed to the balcony of one of the houses there. It seems that they were in a most desperate and terrible fix, and were about to consign themselves to the pavement below. Arms, of course, were flung into the air, accompanied with still more piercing shrieks of " Murder I thieves!" &c., remind. ing one of that fair creature who just descries assistance in. the distance in the sanguinary tragedy " Blue Beard" one used to read about. Happily in this instance assistance was at hand, for in less than a "Jack Robinson" a crowd very soon assembled to help the affrighted dames, who dis cover that a gentleman, apparently rejoicing in the return. of Bacchus's weekly festival, had, in his felicitous condi-. tion, mistaken the number of his residence and fallen head long into the passage of his neighbour's house on the door being opened to his rat-tat, which had been converted by the sensitive inmates into an attack upon their premises, and, one would have supposed, their lives. TELEGRAPHIC STATISTICS.—I I I the year 1857, in the United Kindgom, there were 9379 miles of telegraph open to the public, 770 stations, and 46,482 miles of wire laid down, the number of instruments in work was 3653, an d the messages sent by the public 1,241,163. In the year 1855 the miles of telegraph were 8796, of wire 43,720, sta tions 678, instruments 3080, messages 1,017,529 ; this,how ever, does not include the messages sent from the continent.. The Electric and IntanationalTelegraph Company, on Jar, 1, 1858, had 68 agreements with railway companies 'mid public offices for their business messages; the neiib er o f these is not recorded, but it is estimated that t17,-,7 are three times those sent by the general public. ITAtelhgence was also furnished to 142 provincial journalf, an d 55 rea di ng _ rooms. The messages transmitted t( and from the Conti nent by the Britisb. and Irish 3T.tgnetic Telegraph Com pany, in connection with the 2ubmarine Telegraph Com pany, are estimated at 250.,%)0 messages per annum, exchi sive of those sent by the public. The South-Eastern Rail way has no working arrangements with either of the other companies. are Ini are - Fo Vei lei Lx nil Dii