The Sun. — London, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

.- -~' 1 ~ ~ ':. w p OPAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE. kinder the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREff rr Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bncbtone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE CONTESTED ELECTION. With THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews and Mrs. Fitzwil liam. And HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. -MW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. ole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. Billington, Stuart, P. Bedford, C. Marshall' C. J. Smith, Garden ; Miss Marian Lacey, Miss K. Kelly, and Mrs. Billington. Followed by the new burlesque, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. C. Marshall, Paul Bedford, C. J. Smith, Elinrne ; Miss Woolgar and Miss K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Moe open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL, After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence-at 7 o'clock; VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, • - - consisting of three invenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evo written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AVM) ST 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 75—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.21. WIND, West-North-Westerly; light, with fine warm weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 7h. 54m.—Afternoon, Bh. 35m, To-MORROW-Morning, 9h. 21m.—Afternoon, 10h. Bm, THE SUN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1859. Whigs, Tories, Radicals—all of us welcome the Hon. RALPH BERNAL OSBORNE back again to the House of Commons, and all the more so, be cause he seems likely to re-eater it as a really independent man. We have not too many speakers, everybody knows, who can relieve the heavy tedium of a debate with a little of what quickens our cir culation again, and enables us to wade through the necessary columns of Sir G. C. LEWIS and Sir C. WooD. We all want a little of Mr. DRUMMOND'S clever unaccountablenesses, and Mr OSBORNE'S sharp quips and retorts, to keep us from sinking under the oratorical sandbags which form the staple of so many a discussion, and Mr. DISRAELI will be quite as pleased to see a worthy antagonist as Lord PAL MERSTON an unsworn ally. Cornwall is at least doing well for the independent Liberal party ; she has given them two members without a contest in the course of a few days, and one of them in the place of a Tory. Mr. OSBORNE has at last acquired his liberty. He now knows what it is to sit for a borough the scales of which are held by voters under Admiralty influence. He knows the pleasures of slipping in easily by help of a Whig Board of Admiralty, and of being dropped out as easily by the good offices of a Tory Board. He will be a useful reformer after having experienced what it is to be the foot ball of two parties, kicked in by one and kicked out by the other. Let him be true to his expe rience, and his arguments for the Ballot, at least, will not want pungency; only let him not be ashamed to confess the cause of his success as well as of his defeat. It was no doubt the remembrance of the means which gave him his seat for Dover which so fired his indigna tion in thd celebrated CARNEGIE episode in the House of Commons, and which disposed Mr. DIS RAELI to express his sarcastic sympathy with the honourable member's excitement. Do we, however, guess rightly when we under stand Mr. OSBORNE'S satirical inuendo in respect to Lord PALMERSTON'S Whig Premiership ? Did the new memberlfor Liskeard really fancy he had as good a title to be a Lord as Lords LLANOVER, LYVEDEN, and TAUNTON ? What means this— rather long—but we give it at length as it is in Mr. OSBORNE'S best hustings style—this rather long paragraph ? "It has been objected on another occasion by two or three gentlemen, I believe, that I am a thick and thin supporter of my Lord Pal merston. (Hear, hear.) I have no hesitation in saying that I entertain a great and sincere respect for Lord Palmerston; but when it was imputed to me that I was a thick and thin supporter of that noble lord, I think that the imputer should have called to mind that, had Ibeen such a supporter of his I would scarcely have been in my present position. because that noble lord is notorious for never for getting his thick and thin supporters. (Hear, hear.) It is most probable that, had I been one of that sort of supporters of Lord Palmerston, I would not be on these hustings to-day, but should, in all probability, have gone to another place from which no commoner returns. (" Hear, " and laughter.) I might have been sent to the drawing-room when not wanted in the Cabinet parlour. (Hear.) lam not a nominee of Lord Palmerston here, and never will be his thick and thin supporter in another place. (Cheers.) lam here reminded of a passage in an old play where a great philosopher is asked what becomes of all the old moons. -"Gentlemen'," the reply was, " they are cut up into little stars." (Laughter.) And it seems to me that there are certain members of the old Whig party who are in somewhat the same position as the old moons neve alluded to, and who .have been cut up into very see little star s . (Renewed laughte r .) I have certain peopl'z reduced to that condition, noble men now of whom I speak in their individual capacity with -the hig hest respect. No man can Smith,equal t n h o e w c i. c o n r ci d l t tng manner of Mr. Vernon or of Sir Benjamin Hall, now Baron Llanov Y er ven ' a n d de u prightness, straightforwardness,o man could surpass in nowLo and intelligence Mr. Labouchere, Taunton, and when I s peak of these noblemeu ra I do so with th e u tmos t r espect; but at the same tim e I dissent from th e principle - of s endin g to anot her place certain men, because I am o ne of those who have so great a re spect for the H ouse of Lords that I wish their num ber not to be inc reased b y lavish creation s . I think he is no friend to the three estates of the realm, th e Queen, Lords, and Commons, who seeks to derogate from one or the other, and therefore I object to these creations, Ido not wish to see the House o f Lords made a waste pipe for the surplusage of th e House of Commons, and so far for the accusation of my being a thick-and-thin supporter of Lord Pal merston s. If Lord Palmerston ,had been 20 years younger he would not have made these creations. do not think he would have wide them 10 years ago ; but even now his " failings lean to friendship's side." (Hear.) What, we say, means this ? Mr. OSBORNE lost his election, but he might still have been made a Minister, and a good post offered to some pocket borough Whigling to make room for him. Others, not easily accommodated, were sent into the Draw ing -room. But the clever sharpshooter of the Whigs was neither brought into the Cabinet, nor even into the Ministry, nor kicked upstairs ! Do his jokes on the Upper House mean what they seem to mean ? Does he really laugh at it, or are the grape s sour ? As he could not be member for Dover, would he like to be Lord DOTER, or Lord Somebody-or other ? The honourable member must excuse us for even imagining such a thing ; but when one of the most popular and amusing speakers in the House, one whom, as we have intimated, all sides liked to hear, became suddenly silent, and when his silence is coincident with his acceptance of office under a premier, notoriously not a Radical such as the member for Middlesex was—when we remember this we may fancy to ourselves the same spicy orator even preferring the otium cum dignitate of the Upper House to costly struggles for a seat in the Lower one. Be these speculations well or ill-founded, RALPH BERNAL OSBORNE re-enters the House of Commons to keep in the good graces of the honest electors of Liskeard, not in those of any Premier—of any one having power to ask him into the " Cabinet Par lour" or into the " Drawing-room of the Lords." He can now speak for the Ballot again as well as vote for it ; can praise Mr. COBDEN for declining place even under Lord PALMERSTON ; can dilate on the vast amount of our taxation ; can descant on the amazing financial ability of Mr. GLADSTONE, which no one will deny, and also on the necessity of his readjusting the unrighteous income tax, if he retain it; can picture Mr. DISRAELI as the really great, and really liberal Tory statesman, unfortu nately compelled, like some animals, to move ac cording to the impetus given by his " tail ;" can of course have a little by-play with his friend Sir JOHN PAKINGTON ; but can openly declare that " if he saw the present Government swerving from the true principle, he would have no hesitation in voting their condemnation; and that so far from being a thick and thin supporter of the Goverment, he would be a thick and thin supporter of principles." Let Mr. OSBORNE but adhere to his Liskeard programme and professions, let him but resume in the house the style of things which he resumed outside of it in Cornwall ; and then whether it be the reviviscence of old Radicalism, or his not being offered a seat in the " drawing-room" when there ' was no Cabinet place for him, or both, we shall all be heartily glad to see RALPH OSBORNE himself again. A compendious history of the rise, progress, and development of the Serpentine, together with a preternaturally lengthy epistle from the pen of Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK, will serve surely, if not to ex haust the argument, at any rate, let us hope, so far help to convince Mr. FITZROY of the error of his own judgment as to cause that right hon. gentleman to hesitate before actually carrying out the extraor dinary scheme devised by Mr. HAWKSLEY, and backed up by the approval of Sir S. M. PETo and Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON. Happily, it is not too late even now for a modification of the plans of the Chief Commissioner. A square inch of turf has not yet been turned in Hyde Park with a view to the laying out of the " blind" of the Cockney shrubbery. The foundations of the lodge-like cot tage are not yet dug out. The wheels and pistons of the two little stationary engines are not, yet put together at the head of the Serpen tine. The particular three-fourths of an acre have not yet been selected for the odoriferous pur pose of a nasty, messing process of perpetual, or at any rate of periodical, filtration. It is unhappily too true that, in a moment of weakness, the House of Commons, while in committee of supply, voted £17,000, or at least £16,500, for the carrying out of Mr. HAWKSLEY'S absurd project for what the Chief Commissioner of Public Works disingenuously described at the time as a plan for the complete rapid, and permanent purification of tho Serpen tine. What is worse, in regard to that unfortu- nately precipitate vote, is the plain and obvious fact that, Parliament having been recently dis persed, there is no chance before us for the next five or six months of having that voted rescinded. Mr. FITZROY has got leave and licence from the House of Commons to do just whatever he likes with that £17,000, in the way of gravel-beds, and stucco vases, and ornamental specimens of Cockney cottage architecture. The Right Hon. the Commissioner may, if he pleases, play at Ducks and Drakes with every penny of that £17,000 upon the water of the Serpentine. But—for doing so—he will certainly be held re sponsible upon the reassembling of Parliament. Mr. HAWKSLEY, of course, sticks by his plan as something as nearly as possible perfect. That he does, we repeat, quite as a matter of course— just as he decided, quite dispassionately, in the preference of his own particular little device to any and every of the other devices sagaciously submitted to his scrutiny by her MAJESTY'S Government. It is undoubtedly true that Mr. HAWKSLEY, and, for that matter too, of course Mr. FITZROY also—for the plan of filtration is his also by adoption — has been fortunate enough to obtain for that plan the earnest advocacy of Sir MORTON PETO and Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON. Great names unquestionably, the greatest names each in his own department—PETO among builders —STEPHENSON 'among the world's most renowned engineers. But the question before us is neither a question simply of building, nor yet is it, for that matter, a question of simple engineerfag. It is a point-blank question as to stench or no stench, as to drainage or no drainage, as to whether a dirty, stagnant pool is to be played with or cleansed tho roughly. Pre•eminent though the reputations (each in his own particular metier) of PETO and STEPHENSON—we hesitate not to assert with confidence that Sir JOSEPH PAXTON is yet more qualified than either to decide upon the fittest plan for the treatment of an ornamental sheet of water like the Serpentine ! And as to drainage questions, as to sanitary questions of that particular description—though we don't, in the estimate of his genius, quite go the length of Mr. THOMAS CARLYLE—there is no name second to that of Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK. Now, both Sir JOSEPH PAXTON and Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK are as absolutely and entirely against Mr. HAWKSLEY'S plan, as Sir MORTON PETO and Mr. ROBERT STE PHENsoN (from simply following their own noses, we suppose) are infatuated in favour of it. But concurring with PETO and STEPHENSON in their engineering opinion, well there is just exactly —Nobody. Concurring with PAXTON and CHADWICK—there is the whole of the lead ing portion of the Press, and the mass of the population. It is tolerably proverbial that there are few such stubborn things as facts. And the whole weight of the facts go against Mr. HAWKSLEY'S scheme of filtration. What facts, it may be asked ? Those furnished, we reply by the authenticated statistics of the Registrar-General — together with others supplied by the statistics of the Home Secretary, in connection with the Ser pentine. What says Mr. CHADWICK ? "As far as I remember," he observes, " the mere Money .score f or lives l os t, an d the- vari ous expenses attend ant on the existingdefec tive conditions of the place, could no t b e J ess o n 5 the average than between £l,OOO an d £ 2,000 per annum, which, capitalised at percent., w .t o 3 u o lc , l o o o n o that score alone, j ustif y an outlay of from to £40,000 for works of permanent prevention ; and it then appeared also that the works required for the saving of life were the best for the p ur i f i ca _ tion of the water—inasmuch as every cubic yard 4 gre ‘ S ot • Lau , m 40k A - • ••• ' 4 A it o v. DIED r•lt s \ = A !THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1859, LATEST NEWS. of material thrown into these pools diminished the quantity of water constantly required to freshen the lake, or, in other words, propor tionately increased the sanitary power of the limited supply of fresh water available for the purpose." Mr. CHADWICK has already remarked upon this head alone, in his argumentative commu nication, published in extenso in another part of our impression of this evening, " Though the Serpen tine is to be considered as a promenade for the higher classes during the middle of the day, I sub mit that, for the early morning and the evening in the summer time, it is to be regarded as a great and most important public swimming bath, chiefly for boys, and in winter time as a great public skating place. In this point of view alone, as a matter of common humanity, I personally urged, 10 years ago, as a Metropolitan Sanitary Commissioner, that the pools of water in St. James's-park as well as in the Serpentine should be filled up to a height that would prevent the continued sacrifice of life." Mr. FITZROY should look well to it betimes. It is not even now, we repeat, too late to set aside this preposterous scheme of filtration. Let the Chief Commissioner remem ber that not only may he have to account for the sinking of that £17,000 in these filter beds of Mr. HAWKSLEY, but that he may be held alone, in a great measure, responsible for the continued sacri fice of human life, summer and winter, in the fatal as well as filthy waters of the Serpentine. .DTVELLINGS FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your report in The Sun of the 16th, of the Hertford Meeting, under the above heading, it is stated that the " Model Cottages," erected on the plans of this society, are situated at Tunbridge wells. I beg to say they are situated close to the railway station at Tonbridge-town, and if you will kindly insert this correction, it will save much in convenience to gentlemen who may wish to inspect them.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, H. MARTIN, Agent. THE GREAT EASTERN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—lt is not consistent with my usual habits to ask permission to bring my name before the or to claim any merit for endeavouring, in common with thousands of my conntrymen, to discharge quietly and faithfully such duties as circumstances or position may have imposed upon them. I think, however, that the Great Eastern steamship has acquired something of a public character from the memorial which I have read this day in your columns, signed by certain members of the House of Commons, and addressed to the Directors of the Great Ship Company. I would beg leave to point out that this is the name of the new company, which has finished and fitted out the ship, whereas the company, which built and launched her, was called " The Eastern Steam Navigation Company." I think I should fail in my duty to my late col leagues in the direction of the Eastern Steam Navi gation Company, and to the general and most generous body of shareholders with whom I had to deal, if I were to omit, by your kind indulgence, to claim for them some share of that which is de scribed in the memorial as " a debt due by the country to those gentlemen who have so ably and zealously extended the principle of steam naviga tion," &c. During years of pecuniary sacrifice and loss, of ridicule, of disaster by fire, of disaster by failure of contractors, of discouragements, tedious to relate and almost heartbreaking to experience, we suc ceeded in building and launching this ship, and in handing her over to the present company, princi pally composed of our own shareholders. Of the present company's board of directors I desire to speak with great respect, nor should I think of questioning their merit in the energetic completion of our work. I may perhaps, however, be per mitted to state that I always declared that nothing short of a visitation of Providence should induce me to desist from building and launching this ship, but that I considered that the finishing and fitting out for sea was a work of detail certain to be done by some one, and which required the daily attend ance of directors remunerated for their services (which the directors of the old company were not), and that it would not be consistent with my views to accept a salaried office or to give the time re quired to a matter of traffic management. To the support of my friend Mr. Campbell I feel that no small portion of the vitality of the old com pany was justly due, and he has received my sup port in aspiring to the office which he holds and has fairly earned ; but I am sure that I, as chair man, and the directors of the old company, may claim from him an equal meed of justice for past exertions. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servt., HENRY THOMAS HOPE, Late Chairman of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company. Castle Blayney, Ireland, Aug. 20. THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS. At the last sitting but one of the Academy of Sciences, M. cl'Archiac read a report on a paper presented in April last by M. Gaudry, relating to the geology of the island of Cyrus, the author and M. Damour having, in 1853, been entrusted by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, as well as by the Museum of Natural History, with a scien tific mission to that country. M. Gaudry's essay is divided into three parts—the first treats of the physical nature of the soil and its mountains ; the second of the minerals which it contains; and the third is a detailed catalogue of the specimens col lected during his tour. The island of Cyprus has two chains of mountains—the Cerines to the north, and the Olympic range to the south ; between these lies the plain of Nikosia. The Cerines, which end in a narrow tongue of land called the Karpas, are 26 leagues in length, and from two to three in breadth ; their highest point, Mount St. llilarion, is 1,018 metres above the level of the sea. The Olym pic range, intersected by transversal valleys, has greater altitudes Mount Machera rises 1,444 metres above the level of the sea, Mount Adelphe 1,639, and Mount Troodos 2,007. The oldest sedi mentary rocks in the island consist of black, gray, or while limestone, sometimes superficially red, emitting a bituminous smell when struck with the hammer. It contains no organic remains and forms the axis of the Cerines for a space of 24 leagues, its breadth being one league. It is flanked on each side by tertiary rocks consisting of sandstone of various kinds. The white marl which follows gives one half of the island that peculiar feature which distinguishes the coasts of Syria and Asia Minor.l This marl gradually mcrges into pure chalk. It contains but few fossils chiefly the Astrea Guet tardi, the Chenapus pes-graculi, and the Toxobris sus crescenticus. There are also beds of silex, and powerful gypsum strata, met with in the eastern part of the island, chiefly at Camares and Neta, and in the western at Drimou. The igneous rocks cover about a quarter of the surfaee of the island, and constitute the Olympic chain. Most of them are ophitic and serpentine rocks, the latter rich in nickel, and comprising also eupholite. Among the ophitic rocks, ophitone is the most frequent, which often degenerates into aphanite. Iron, as a hydrate and sulphate, as also sulphutets and carbonates of copper, peroxide of manganese, &c., are frequently met with. Iu speaking of the minerals the island contains, M. Gaudry chiefly mentions hyaline quartz, jasper, agate, opal, various zeolites, and emeralds. The catalogue comprises 1,696 specimens of rocks now arranged in the museum of the Gar den of Plants, and 72 sections of the soil of Cyprus with explanations. The report recommends that M. Gaudry should be enabled to continue his inves tigations. THE GREAT SHIP.—The preparations for the almost immediate starting of the Great Eastern are proceed ing with very satisfactory rapidity; and in tho meantime the interest of the public in the undertaking increases almost hourly. The office in King William-street is daily crowded with applicants, some for tickets to view, but the great majority for passages for the experimental trip, which will positively take place about the middle of next month. Already a very large number of berths have been engaged. The b 5• silver b 'ought by the last West India steamer has been disposed of at 610., showing an advance of id. per oz. The Mexican dollars have also been sold at Gold., or hd. above the rate realised after the last packet, although l t d. lower than that obtained for the quantity from the United States early last week. The Brussels Independence reports that General Changarnier does not intend to avail himself of the amnesty. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.—During the last few days engineer officers have made *surveys in Waterford harbour, preparatory to the erecting of a battery at Creden Head, and batteries near the inlets of Broomhill and Ar thurs town.— Clonmel Chronicle. The amount of Australian gold known to be at sea on board five ships is £560,000, of which £313,000 is duo. The Avon, with £208,000, has been out 93 days ; the Prince of the Seas, with £105,000, 86 days; the Star of Peace, with £40,000, 79 days ; the Eagle, with £126,000, 74 days; and the Beechstorth, with £BO,OOO, 72 days. THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have been favoured with the following tele gram from the Red Sea and India Telegraph Com pany, received from Alexandria, via Trieste : " ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 17. " The Bombay steamer of the sth arrived al Aden on the 14th. " The European discharge question still engages attention. " The British ship Nathalie was wrecked off Bombay on the 23d ult. The mate and two sea men were drowned. " The Bombay money-market continues easy. " Piece goods and other imports were in steady demand. L," No change in freights. " Bombay harbour was crowded. " Exchange on London, six months', 2s. Old. " Freights to London, 15s. to 17s. 6d. " The American ship Isaac Boardman, from Liverpool, arrived at Aden on the 13th inst." The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, AUGUST 23. The Moniteur, in announcing the various nomi nations of the chief military commands, states that the augmentation of these commands is in order to form a more equal division of the military forces of the empire. BERNE, AUGUST 22. The embarkation at Naples of the fourth regi ment of Swiss troops has been effected in the best possible order, they having previously received the whole pay due to them. 1,669 privates and 14 officers will be received at IVlarseilles by the Swiss Consul. Yesterday the French and Sardinian Plenipoten tiaries held a conference. The King of Naples has acted in a perfectly loyal manner towards the Swiss troops that have been disbanded; they receive a retiring pension according to a decree of the late King. The rumour that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had left Paris is unfounded. He will remain here for some time yet. To-day he is the guest of Count Walewski at dinner. Despatches from Naples state that 1,600 Swiss troops had embarked at Naples, and 1,300 at Palermo, all for Marseilles. The Neapolitan Government was only to retain 1,000 Swiss in its service. Naples and Palermo were quiet. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor, on arriving at St. Sauveur, 500 miles from the French capital, found an electric telegraph ready for immediate service ; so that his Majesty can transmit orders to any part of the empire and correspond with foreign Cabinets as promptly as when at the Tuileries. The Jmperial decree relative to the appointment given to the Marshals of France makes but little change in what had existed before the war in Italy. Marshals Magnan, Canrobert, de Castellane, and Baraguay d'Hilliers retain their former commands in Paris, Nancy, and Tours. Marshal de MacMahon is invested with the command of the new arron dissement of Lille, and Marshal Niel replaces Marshal Bosquet at Toulouse. PARIS BOURSE, Aug. 22.—The market opened heavy, but slightly improved as the day advanced. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 85c , de clined to 68f. 60c., and are now at 68f. 80e. ; Mo bilier varied from 810 f. to 820 f.; Austrian, 552 f. 50c. to 555 f. ; Lombard, 550 f. to 552 f. 50c.; Or leans, 1,355 f. to 1,360 f.; Lyons, 866 f. 25c. to 867 f. 50e. The following were the last quotations:- 4i- per Cents. 97 50 Credit Foncier 660 — lso. end month .. 97 50 I Belgian 4 3 per Cent 5....... 68 75 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end mouth.... 68 85 Roman — Bank Shares. 2BOO Austrian Credit Mobilier 820 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILIVAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 921 25 .. 923 75 New ditto. BlO .. 810 Lyons and Mediterranean 865 .. 868 75 Geneva 530 .. 535 Southern Western 557 50 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian - - Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12tc. ; money, 25f 10c. ; three months, paper, 241.971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. The following is the most striking passage of an article in the .Patrie upon the necessity of a European congress : " Sardinia and Austria, then, are incompatible at Zurich. Their plenipotentiaries already decline direct communication with each other ; they only communicate through the medium of the French representative. So, before an agreement could have been come to, they won't even listen any longer to each other. This is a situation that greatly impedes a mutual understanding. " France, it is true, does all she can to allay this antagonism. She arbitrates with an authority equal to her wisdom. She brings to the negotia tions a spirit of business that undoubtedly would succeed were it not confronted by the obstinate resistance of Austria. " Great, however, as is the conciliatory disposi tion of France, she nevertheless cannot go to such a length as to yield to Austria what she cannot abandon, and what she has the right to consider as the fruit of her victories. " France wishes Italy to be independent; Aus tria does not wish it. " France wishes the confederation to be Italian ; Austria wishes it to be Austrian. " France wishes the Pcpe to consolidate his power by prudent reforms ; Austria wishes the Pope to remain subject to influences antipathetic to the French mind. " France desires that the Dukes of Tuscany and Modena may be able loyally to become recanciled with their people; Austria desires to impose them by force. "France wants the fortresses of the quadrangle to be occupied by a federal army ; Austria wants these fortresses to be occupied as barracks by her army, that this may remain as a permanent menace against the independence of Italy. " Notwithstanding her spirit of generous and wise conciliation, we greatly fear that France her self will be unable to carry out her arbitration between Austria and Piedmont. " Recourse must be had, then, to another juris diction. Europe alone is competent to judge and solve such great difficulties, such serious interests. " For all these reasons, the Italian question, in short, as it appears to us, can only be settled by a European congres. The sword of France has cut through the treaties that consecrated the domain of Austria in the States of the Peninsula. It is to the authority of Europe that it appertains to complete the work." The King of Sardinia has directed that 12,000 f. out of his privy purse shall be distributed to the poor families of Milan, especially those who have had one of their number wounded or killed during the war. His Majesty has likewise caused 500 fr. to be handed over to Mme. Bacchetta, the mother of telieutenant in the Ist Regiment of Grenadiers of Sardinia, who was killed at Solferino. A Vienna letter states that out of the generals of the army of Italy whose conduct had not given satisfaction to the Government, only one, General Count Zodwitz, has been brought to a court-mar tial. He has been tried at Padua and co;ldemned. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The screw steamship Sultan (belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company), Captain Neil Cook, bringing the above-named mails, in charge of Mr. Cavell, master, R.N., Admiralty agent, ar rived at Southampton at 2.30 a.m. yesterday. She left Lisbon at 9 a.m. on the 17th inst., Oporto at 7.10 a.m. and Vigo at 5.15 p.m. on the 18th. From Lisbon to Oporto she had light northerly winds and fine weather ; thence to Vigo variable and fine ; and the remainder of the voyage fine weather and moderate easterly winds. This steamer brought 25 first-class, 3 second, and 14 deck passengers; on freight, £4,342 15s. ld., 2 boxes of precious stones, 539 chests of lemons, 21 boxes of grapes, 47 boxes of tomatoes, 32 boxes of apples, 108 packages of elephants' tusks, 56 bales of mat baskets, 187 cases of eggs, 2 bags of corn, and 7 packages of general merchandise. On the 19th inst., at 10.15 a.m., in lat. 44 12 N., long. 8 59 W., the Sultan passed the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Colombo, steering to the south west, all well; 21st, at 5 a.m., in lat. 49 6 N.,long. 4 30 W., the company's steamer Ceylon, steering to the west-south-west, fore and aft sail set ; and at 8 a.m., same day, the American ship Richard Wat son, beating up Channel. The Sultan left Lisbon on the 17th inst. Upon her last voyago out from Southampton, Mr. Sala manca was one of the passengers. It is said that he took with him £27,000, and that he found other resources at Lisbon to enable him to complete the deposit of £40,000 for the provi sional railway contract he had made with the Portu guese Government, and £20,000 deposit required by those who desired to bid for the line from Vendas Novas to Evora and Beja, the Government maximum subvention being declared when the bids are taken on the 19th of September next. The maximum subvention upon the Salamanca contract, also put up for public competition, is £4,500 per kilometre from Lisbon to the frontier near Elvas, and £5,400 from Lisbon to Oporto. The Portu guese seemed lost in admiration at these Spanish proposals, and their disconfidence increased rather than diminished by the promptitude with which such large deposits of hard cash were made a month before they are required by the terms of the Government advertisements. Lisbon exchanges by this packet are quoted, at three months,—London, 52Z- to I; Paris, 512 ; Amsterdam, 41i; Hamburg, 461 ; Genoa, 515. Threee per Cent. Stock, registered, 47.4 48; ditto Coupons, 461 461 ; ditto Deferred, 33 331 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 61 to 7 per cent. premium; Bank of Oporto shares, 25 to 26 per cent. premium. EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION AT BRISTOL. At the Bristol police-court yesterday Mark Butt, a master tradesman, and owner of considerable house property in the city, and Henry Baily, a grocer, carrying on business in Newfoundland street, were charged before the sitting magistrates, W. Herapath, Robert Guy Barrow, and 0. C. Lane, Esquire,s, with having capitally assaulted Mrs. Ann Cottle, the wife of a respectable butcher, residing at Hill's-place, Newfoundland-street. 11Ir. Ayre appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Edlin (of the Western Circuit) and Mr. Sherrard appeared for Baily ; and Mr. Pigeon defended Butt. The case excited an unwonted amount of interest, and the court and its approaches were densely crowded. The inquiry occupied nearly five hours, but the ex traordinary facts elicited may be briefly stated. The complainant, Mrs. Cottle, has a younger sister named Perry, whose husband keeps the Newmarket Tavern, in the Horsefair, Bristol, and on Monday evening, the Bth inst., the complainant spent the evening at her sister's house. Just as they had done supper a pony carriage, belonging to the prisoner Baily, drove up to the door, and he and the other prisoner Butt got out, entered the tavern and called for something to drink. It happens that Butt is Mr. Cottle's landlord, and Mr. Baily, a near neighbour and an acquaintance of her husband, and they both spoke to her and handed her a glass of beer, which she drank. They chatted a little time, and then they said they were going to drive straight home, and she had better get into the carriage and ride with them. She at first declined, but they advised her to do so, and as her sister also urged her to ride she consented. Instead of going straight home, as they had promised, they turdd up Bury-street. She told them they were not going right, to which one of them replied, " We are going to drive you a short distance for a little air." They drove her to the Black Horse Inn, where they induced her to take a glass of brandy and water, and they subse quently drove to the Bridge Inn, where they gave her something more to drink. After that she had remembered no more excepting that she had an in distinct recollection of being at the Black Horse Inn, West-street, and seeing a niece of hers there, until she found herself the next morning on her own bed, with the exception of her shoes and bon net, in the clothes she had worn on Monday. Her habiliments w ere soiled and disordered, and she was very ill, and had been ill ever since. Other evidence disclosed the fact that after leaving the Black Horse the accused drove her to a stable yard belonging to the prisoner Bally, where, she being in a state of helplessness and unconsciousness, and inca able of resistance, they successively committed the offence charged against them. The crime was established by the evidence of a policeman, and after an ad dress from Mr. Edlin, both prisoners were fully committed to take their trial upon the capital charge at the next Gloucester assizes. Mr. Edlin and Mr. Pigeon applied to have them admitted to bail. Tho magistrates said they would receive the application as a notice, and would give it their best consideration. The prisoners, who appeared greatly surprised at the decision, were then removed in custody, the prisoner Baily loudly protesting his innocence. TVIIICHFORD FOREST. We have been favoured with the following in teresting account of the disafforestation of Which wood Forest, in the county of Oxford. At the commencement of this work the forest comprised an area of 3,778 a. 2r. 31p., and was subject to the rights of the Crown, the hereditary ranger, and the com moners, the ranger being Lord Churchill, of Corn bury-park, Charlbury. The Act for disafforesta tion was passed in 1853, and the Commis sioners appointed to carry it into effect were Mr. Serjeant Channell (now one of the Barons of the Exchequer), Mr. Francis Offiey Martin, and Mr. Nathan Wetherell, who appointed as their valuer Mr. Thomas Smith Woolley, of South Collingham, Notts, and as their surveyor Mr. William Bryan Wood, of Chippenham, Wilts, Mr. John Clutton acting as surveyor to estimate the rights of the Crown. The survey shows that there were 19 coppices, containing 1,804 a. lr. 27p., open forest, much covered with timber and brush wood, 1,766 a. 3r. 12p., the lodges, with their enclo sures, 195 a. 3r. 33p., and a few encroachments, 11a. Ir. 39p. ; total, 3,778 a. 2r. 31p. The timber upon the forest was valued by Mr. Clutton at nearly £34,000, all realised, except a small quantity left for ornament. The award of the commissioners was expected on the 13th of June, 1857, by which the Crown acquired an allotment of 2,543 a. lr. 15p. which was subsequently increased by purchase and otherwise to 2,937 a. Or. 6p., of which about 1,970 acres were unreclaimed forest land. The clearing of this land commenced in October, 1856, and was completed in January, 1858, having been in pro gress about one year and four months, at a cost of £5,815. The outlay for reclamation and conversion was as under :—Clearing, £5,815; fencing, £1,135; water supply, £350 ; new farm houses and build ings, £ll,OOO ; management, £7OO ; contingencies, £l,OOO ; total, £20,000, including maintenance of roads and sundry small items of expenditure, making the cost, in respect of the 1,970 acres con verted to arable cultivation little more than £lO an acre. The new roads, about 10 miles in length, were made and fenced by the Disafforesting Com missioners at a cost of £6,985, which sum was provided out of a fund raised by the sale of por tions of the forest lands. The entire estate is conveniently arranged in seven farms, which were let by tender, on leases for 31 years from Oct. 10, 1857, at an average rent of about 28s, per acre for the land, and an additional sum of £6 per cent. on the cost of new houses and homesteads, which are built of the oolitic stone of the district. The mem bers of the Land Surveyors' Club, which com prises gentlemen from every part of England, in spected this great work on the 13th of July last, upon the invitation of the Crown Surveyor, who accompanied them, and were muc h pleased' with their visit. The general scheme of conversion had been well matured in the office of her Majesty's Land Revenue, which is presided over by the llon. Charles Gore, and the execution of the work reflects the highest credit on the energy, talent and judg men t o f th e Crown Surveyor. From the general comprehensive arrangement down to the minutest detail, every part has been maturely considered and admirably executed, and in every parti cu l ar w ith as much regard to economy as consists with durability. The build ings are conveniently arranged and constructed without any oth er ornamen t th an they derive from excellent proportions, and the sites are judiciously s e le c t e d i n re f erence b oth to the oc cupation of the land and the beauty of the pro spects; but the extraordinary part of the scheme has been the marvellous rapidity of its execu tion. In the incredibly short space of sixteen months nearly 2,000 acres of wood were effectively converted int o farming land; the timber cleared, the roots and underwood stocked and grubbed, the division fences made, the land pre pared for cultivation, and the holdings arranged and let, and within nine months afterwards the first crop harvested and the first rent paid. For promp titude of execution and quality of work this con version of \Vhichwood Forest has hitherto been un equalled in this country; and whether it is re garded as an undertaking of interest or a lesson of instruction it is equally worthy of inspection by the landowner or the professional surveyor. It was considered by some members of the club the rent was somewhat high, but Mr. Clutton refuted that opinion by the fact of the property being free from tithe rent charge, as well as almost exempt from poor rates, being by the Act declared a new parish, called the parish of Whichwood ; and the roads and building being newly and most substan tially made, very little reparation can be required within the period of thirty-one years. The novel, skilful, and economical system adopted by some of the tenants in obtaining their first crop, especially that of Mr. Belcher, has great merit, and is worthy of imitation. The well known kindness which characterises the Crown surveyor will secure the necessary information to any gentleman who may desire to inspect this truly national work.—Suffolk Express. SALE OF GAS BILL. The following brief particulars respecting this bill, which received the Royal assent on the last day of the session, will be likely to be serviceable to all gas consumers : After the passing of this act the only legal standard or unit of measure for the sale of gas by meter shall be the cubic foot, containing 02.321 lbs. avoir dupois weight of distilled or rain water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, ex cept as relates to contracts made before the passing of this act, by which a difference of unit of measure is adopted, which contracts are not to be renewed. The models of measures are to be made and veri fied under the direction of the Treasury, are after wards to be deposited in the office of the Comp troller-General of the Exchequer at Westminster, and copies of the same are to be sent to the Lord Mayor of London, and the chief magistrates of Edinburgh and Dublin, and to the chief magistrates of such other cities and boroughs in such other places, and persons in her Majesty's dominions as the Lord High Treasurer of her Ma jesty's Treasury may from time to time direct. The number and sizes of the said models to be de cided within nine months from the passing of this ant in England by order of general or quarter ses sions, excepting in the cases of boroughs, where the order shall be made by the town council, and in Ireland by the town council or town commissioners of every borough or town (such town council or commissioners not being manufacturers or sellers of gas), and in Scotland by meetings of justices. The same authorities are to have the appointment of inspectors of meters, who are to be paid out of the county rate, and in boroughs out o f an y f u nd s applicable for lighting purposes, and if no such fund, then out of the borough fund (in the city of London out of the consolidated rate), similar ar rangements are made in the case of Ireland and Scotland. Inspectors are required to furnish secu rity, are subject to a fine not exceeding £5 for each breach of duty, and are prohibited from repairing, making, and selling meters of gas, and must hold no appointment of any kind in any gas company. Jus tices of the peace and the town council in boroughs to determine and appoint on what days, at what hours, and at what places the inspector s shall; attend with their measuring apparatus within their re spective jurisdictions. A trifling fee to be charged for testing, &c., each meter ; for meters of a small size it will be 6d. ; such fees to be paid over to the treasurer of the county, or to such other person as shall be duly authorised by those by whom he may have been appointed. No meter shall be stamped which shall be found to register, or be capable, by the increase or decrease of water, or by any other contrivance, practically prevented in good meters, to register quantities varying from the true stan dard measure of gas more than 2 per cent. in favolur of the seller, and 3 per cent. in favour of the con sumer. The ooly exception to which is permitted, is where the two contracting parties enter into a written agreement to adopt a different kind of meter. At the request and expense of any buyer or seller of gas, it shall be lawful for any inspector authorised in writing under the hand of any justice of the peace of England or Ireland or of any sheriff justice or magistrate in Scotland at all seasonable times to enter any building, yard, or other place where any meter, whether stamped or unstamped, is fixed, and to examine and test, and, if necessary, to remove the same. Before this can be done, how ever, it is necessary that the other party to the contract should have previously received 24 hours' notice in writing of such intention. In case of a dis puted decision of an inspector the point to be re ferred to two inspectors of adjoining districts. Per sons aggrieved may appeal to quarter sessions. After the expiration of twelve months from the passing of this act no gas meter shall be fixed for use but what has been duly tested and stamped out side in legible letters or fi gures b y an i nspector o f meters under the provisions of this act, and every purchaser and seller of gas may at any time after the expiration of the said twelve months require any unstamped meter, by which his which his gas is measured to be examined, tested, and if found correct stamped, or he may at his own expense sub stitute a stamped meter in place of any such un stamped meter. The above are the leading features of the act. It is a matter of notoriety that owing to the ab son ce of any legal control or supervision in the matter there have been con stant wranglings between the gas consumer and the gas companies throughout the kingdom on the subject of measurement, many of the former complaining that they have been charged largely in excess of the quantity actually used, while not a few of the companies on their part have not unfrequently charged their customers with tam pering with their respective meters. Seeing, there fore, that the design of this act is to prevent, so far as such matters are preventable, the re currence of these inaccuracies and disputes ; and seeing, also, that the sum paid for gas in this country is said to amount to five millions sterling annually, it is evident that this act is one of vast practical importance to all who have to do with this commodity, whether as buyers or sellers. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LownoN, Aug. 23.—Wind this day at noon, North- Westerly ; light, with fine summer weather. SHIELDS, Aug. 22.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Merrimac, for Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, Aug. 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Wash ington, from Porsgrund. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 22.—Wind W. to S.S.W.—Off port—Spady, from London for Bombay. SUNDERLAND, Aug. 21.—Wind N.W—Arrived—Wash ington, from Quebec. CLYDE, Aug. 22.—Wind W.—Anived—M ar i ner, from Trinidad ; Lignan, from Grenada. Sail e d—Ch ev i ot ' for Otago, New Zealand. _ _ GLOUCESTER, Aug. 22.—Wind S.W.—Sailed-- Freedsburg, for Quebec. _ STARCRVSS, Aug. 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Galatea, for Quebec. DUNDEE, Aug. 22.—Wind W. — Arrived—Balour, and James Bales, from Quebec ; Traveller, from Dalhousie for Perth. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ma thilda, from Havanna. Sailed—Margaret Ann, for Quebec. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Wind calm. Arrived.—Ellida, from Christiana; Marie, from Memel ; Triton, from Quebec ; Courier, from Jersey ; Le Coq, and La Pottle, from Cherbourg. Sailed.—Maria Theresa, for the Baltic ; Havre steamer, for Havre; L'Etoile, for Carenton; Despatch, and Ata lanta, steamers, for Jersey ; Jessie, Danube, and Hero, for Newport. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind E.S.E. Sailed, Aug. 22.—Norwood, for Melbourne ; St. Law rence, Quebec; Reform, for Labrador ; N orva l , f or Halifax ; Maloran and Saline, for Antwerp ; Guerrieaix, for Havanna ; Remidge, for Rotterdam ; Sagittaite, for Marseilles ; Hero, for Seville; Naiad, for Gibraltar; Amelia, for Bordeaux; M. Metcalf, for Bucks Port; City of Perth, for Elsinore; Florida, for Savannah; Agenoria, for Ant werp. Sailed, Aug. 23.—Felix, for St. Thomas. Arrived, Aug. 23.—City of Edinburgh, from Calcutta ; Locomotive, from Archangel. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Wind W. ; tide, 1} hours' ebb ; weather fine. Arrived, Aug. 22.—Wild Rose, from Quebec. Arrived, Aug. 23.—Countess Cawdor and Helena, from Riga ; Silvas, from Brussels; Mail, from Cronstadt ; James F. Patten, from New Orleans. Sailed, August 22.—Agamemnon, for Calcutta. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed.—General Snicker, from llavanna, for London; Politena, from London, for Bordeaux. Sailed.—ll.M.S. Scylla, for westward. Report of ship Ellwood Walter, from Bombay, May 25, lat. 28 21 S., long 39 56 E., signalled American barque Roger Stewart, bound westward ; June 1, lat 32 25 S., long. 30 11 E., signalled British ship Covenanters, from Bombay, for Liverpool ; July 1 1 , let. 35 22 S., long. 20 58 E., signalled American ship Mataban, from Calcutta, for London; Juno 13, lat. 34 53 S., long. 1930 E., spoke British barque Esmeralda, from Colombo for London ; same day, lat. and long., signalled British barque Sunderland, bound westward ; June 14, lat. 35 7 S., long. 14 34 E., signalled British ship Black Douglas, from the Kooria Mooria Islands; same day, lat. and long., spoke British ship Sea Queen, from Bombay for London, out 75 days ; June 22, in lat. 28 39 S., long. 11 22 E., signalled French barque Malabar, from Calcutta, for Bordeaux ; June 27, in lat. 58 S., long. 10 40, signalled British barque Elizabeth Martin, signalled French b arque Prince, from from Singapore, for the westward; July 5, i n l a t. 10 N . , long. f 3 o gr r l M V e Bor deaux,cc a . THE CONDEMNED CONVICT, ELLEN RUTTER. The case of the wretched woman, Elled Rutter, who recently murdered her husband at Dursley, is now occupying considerable public attention, and many and various are the reports in circulation concerning her. That there should be a difference of opinion about the enormity of her offence, or about the prospects of her reprieve, we do not won der ; but that the state of her feelings, and her con duct within the prison walls should be so variously represented, is at once a matter of surprise and re gret. We happen to kno w th a t those officials of the county gaol who are brought immediately into contact with the prisoner decline most peremptorily* to give any minute information concerning her at all, but they deny the prevalent and current report that she shows any violence of disposition, or dar ing and stubborn impenitence. We cannot but ad mire the reserve displayed by the prison officers, nor can we hide our conviction that it is their duty to behave as they do ; but notwithstanding the ab surd reports from without, and the very proper re serve within the gaol, we have been enabled from other quarters to obtain some truthful particulars concerning the prisoner and her prospects. Ellen Rutter is said to be a natural child. From her infancy she has laboured under disadvantages. She never knew the fond affection of loving parents —schooling, indeed, she has had, fora grand mother's care provided that ; b u t w hile her head has been attended to, her h ear t h as b ee n untouched. She never felt the blessed e ff ec t s o f a home edu cation. What wonde r th en , th a t a t a bout fourteen years of age she fell a vi c ti m t o a f ou l seducer. We believe it to have been so. H er hi s tory i s Well known in Dursley, and n o b o dy d e nies the facts which we record. For some time it is said that Rutter lived with the author of her misery, and afterwards became a resident, for at out a year and a half, at the Gloucester Penitentiary. It was upon her leaving this institution that she fell in with her late husband. She cohabited with him for a long time before marriage, and ultimately becanl, his wife, because it seemed to be the lightest al; that she, in her unhappy circumstances, could choose. Her husband—a profligate before mar riage—became a confirmed drunkard afterwards , and Ellen Rutter was continually subject to violence and ill-usage of the most cruel description- That this, together with her miserable antecedents —her most unfavourable bringing up—should gradually rob her of all d e li ca t e feeling, all sense s of virtue, all ordinary aff ec ti on , w h o can wonder ? We do not, for a moment, enter into the question —Ought she to be hanged, or ought she not? We simply give an outline of her history, hoping that a lesson may be gleaned not only by poor wretched beings tempted, as she was, to desperation, but by mean, selfish seducers, who are not confined to one class, and low, drunken husbands, who are gene rally to be found among the ranks and in the pew tion of the departed. It is stated that various petitions are being . drawn up in favour of th e p r i soner , some praying for her respite on the grounds recommended by the jury ; some because of the want of evidence at the trial, and the possibility of her statement being correct, of her husband having provoked her t° the murder, and having violently struck her first before it took place. With regard to the first plea, w e are strongly of opinio n that Government will not notice it for a • moment. Concerning the second ground of appeal, we cannot help thinking that there is something in it. The prisoner and her husband quarrelled every night before; they were always quarrelling when he was drunk, and he was con tinually striking her. Why should this one night , when he was more irritated than usual, be made an exception ? Why, because other good people bad gone to bed and could not see the quarrel, should. Ellen Rutter, contrary to all probabilities, be con victed of murder, instead of what we sincerely be: lieve to hav e been aggravated manslaughter ? Those who know anything of the various effects of drunkenness, know well that a man may be despe rate at one moment, and yet asleep a very few Inc" rnents after, and they sh ou ld remem b er t h a t the prisoner herself had been drinking—she had bad about four glas sea o f b eer an d h a d no dinner, and, under such circumstances, was likely to lose all nice discrimination, and to act (if, as we suppos e her, in a violent passion) very much as she did act. There was no premeditation, there was great vro vocation—ought the verdict to have been wilf n murder, or simply manslaughter ? With regard to the conduct of th e pr i soner since her conviction, we have only to sa y that it evi dently has not been violent, desperate, or in all way offensive, for that negative assertion has bee n made by parties whom we can trust ; and on the contrary we hear that those persons who are get ting up a Dursley petition, have actually seen her , and report that she is most meek and quiet, valuing the instruction given to her, and expressing her self as deeply penitent for the offence which she has committed. A petition praying that her sentence may, be commuted to imprisonment for life is now lying for signature at the Working-Man's Gloucester Journal. 7IGHT-ROPE FEAT AT NIAGARA. daNy i ( a A g u a g ra usy a 3 l ) l , s fi w ll a e s d a a mar o m ve i r n fl g o h w iis n - e g a w ga i i t n h y an est i e ua r : mense throng of people, collected to witness the fourth repetition of Monsieur Blondin's daring feat of crossing the chasm upon a cable stretched be tween the cliffs. The crowd gathered was almost, if not quite, equal to that assembled upon any for mer occasion ; and the gathering was warranted, for the sight which was witnessed surpassed all the previous exhibitions of the same character. From this city we should judge that the attendance was greater than at any time before; and from Rochee toefrt h a e n d l i notherit couldplaces n o i n t h t a h v e e v b i e c e i n n i m t y u , cohn, bothany Aidesess All the seats and stand places within view along the bank, in the pleasure grounds upon this side of the river, were crowded, and the enclosure upon the Canada side was better filled than upon any other occasion. Monsieur Blondin rode into they pleasure ground on this side about half-past four o'clock, and started upon his ariel journey after a very few moments of delay in preparation. J trip across to the Canadian shore was accomplishea quickly, as he proceeded at a tripping pace most of the distance, and only paused a few seconds occa sionally to correct his balance and obtain slight rest. All of his feats he reserved for his return journey. Arrived at the Canadian bank, be re freshed himself a little, and took a rest of perhaps 15 minutes, when he agstepped upon the rope' and tripp e d d own the airy plane t ow ards " th& land of th e f ree an d the home of the brave." " sr : about half-way t o th e centre he stoppe d an d sat down, then stretched himself at full length upora the rope, then performed a number of daring an tics, and finally stood upon his head, r emaining. that reve rse d p os iti on f or a l engt h o f time vitue.b seemed a minute at least, swinging and kicking his' feet in the most reckless though ludicrous manner that can be conceived. Resuming his journey, 1 1 proceeded but a little way when he again halted and repeated his performance, with the addition 01 a backward somersault, and one or two sudden. swings around the rope, w hi c h cause d a g eneral flutter among the hearts of the spectators, and brought little s creams f rom many o f the ladies. Starting forward again, he proceeded to the open space in the centre, between the ex treme guy ropes that branch off to either bank , where the cable spans the gulf without staZ or accompaniment. Here he paused again, and his pole upon one of the guy ropes, li g swung himself under the cable and ran across this central space of single cord in the style of a monkey , hanging beneath, and swinging himself along b his hands and feet, with great rapidity. Going bae° again in the same gymnastic manner, when he had returned to point where his pole rested, he 11e gan a series of performances which outdid in thril ling and startling effect upon the nerves of the spectators all that he had done before. Clutching the rope with his hands, he swung his body clear from it, and hung for a lengthy period of more than 10 seconds, suspended by the arms, and by one arm, over the fearful depth of the chasm. Then he re peatedly turned such a suspended somersault as ja' peculiar to boys, throwing his feet over his head is and between his arms, and hanging with the shoul der-joints in a most unnatural position. Then 1 1 straightened his body int o a h orizonta l pos i t i on , still suspended by the arms, thrown backward as de scribed—an exertion requiring immense strength, and calculated to exhaust the nervous system tre mendously. After this he suspended himself by the legs, and by one single leg, hanging head down" wards—whirled around the rope, turned mor e somersaults, stood upon his head again—and, in fact, perfor me d nearly all the most reckless feats attempted by tight•rope performers under ordinary circumstances. T w i ce aga i n b e f ore reaching the bank he halted end repeated some of these antic s ' seeming determined to fatigue himself to the last point of endurance and thoroughly satisfy the spec; tators with his exhibition of daring and skill. And they were satisfied, beyond question. per formance was wond er f u l, an d exc iti ng the most greedy see k er a ft er sensa ti on s ; and was by far the greatest gi ven by M. Bl on din.—Blib r aw Express. enlolrghpf_or CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.-1 4011 " day, Aug. 22.—Admissions on payment, 7,366 ; by season. tickets, 486; total visitors, 7,852. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD. ---- The number of patients relieved at this hospital, due.ng the week ending Aug. 20, 1859, is 2,573, ofwhich 873 v, ere neva cane,