The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-11 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. Astounding and Expensive Parisian Engagement. 'HIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented T WOODMAN'S HORSE, introducing a treble company o f e r g nestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world. Cht :1 eters by Messrs. Holloway, W. Cooke, Anson, Francis, M ar k Howard, Anderson. F o Ik:wed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA. in wl licit Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and Madlt'e. Blanche will appear. m u . .. which, Madame Amite Maurice, from Paris, will make h er T er .- A 'fic Ascent from the Stage to the back of the Galleries. ow . urice will also have the honour to introduce his extraordi, ry Dogs. To cone le with A MISTAKEN STORY. Dress Cirrus, ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Galleries, 6d. Private Boxes from £1 ls. to £2 2s. and upwards. 'THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under 1 the Management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. IV* Harrison. THIS EVENING. MARITANA. Characters 'by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Ferdi; nand Glover, Mr. George honey. Mr. J. G. Patey, Mr. Bar tleman, Mr. Kirby, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Di v ertiStieMent, LA FLEUR D'AMOli n Mesdnes. L. Ilichelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. ROYAL rRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Mana(:,-cninit of Mr. Charles Kean. IIIIS NVENING will be presented Shaksperc's Play of KING JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. frIHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. ILessee, Mr. J. 13. Buckstone. f HIS FTENING* will be performed (fourth time), TILE T OF A COAT. Mr. Charles Mathews. „After which, THE 1)0 WAGER. Mr. and Mrs. Charles )(al h ew s. Wiowed by THE ETON BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews , &e. AuA JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. RO YAL STRAND THEATRE. • ii , easee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EI , :ENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST: Messrs. Selby, rarnelle, and Miss Swan borough. After which VIE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by TUE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS : Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Conunence at 7 o'clock. kStage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. - OANTERB ', T RY HALL, Westminster-road.— i t 'roprietor—C. MORTON. V- I The public is mat respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in es, ,nnection with the above hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND Isi. TGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p. ictures, by Ant m. The New Gallery contains as extensive Co llet- Non of P lent and Modern Masters, and is also devoted to Art prodttet.io.ns generally. The l'roprietor feels he may confidently asse,'t that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New rine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will prca-it an attraction which, whether ,aa regards the architectural. beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitb.'rto unattempted combinations • within, will be found to be 'WOoIIY without parallel in the Kingdom. • The MUSICAL ENTERTAINME'NT commences as usual at Seven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN .OFFICE, Nov. 11. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 4.s—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day at noon. BauomETEr.-30 . 33. ' Wixt, South-Easterly ; light, with fine weather. Heavy fog in the morning. The question of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law Amendment must come before Parliament and the country next session. Two bills have already been brought forward—the one by Lord CHELMS FORD in pursuance of the pledge he had given, the other by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who, to a certain extent, may be regarded as expressing the views of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law. We believe that many alterations will be made on behalf of the Government in the measure brought forward by the Lord Chancellor, and that with the beneficial alterations contem plated, it will go far to meet the viewsboth of creditor and debtor, affording a just and fair distribution of property amongst the bona fide claimants, and protecting the latter if he has honestly and truly disclosed the state of his affairs, and given up his entire estate for distribution amongst those justly entitled to participate therein. The distinction that has hitherto prevailed between traders and non-traders will, to a certain extent, be abolished. It does not follow that the Court for the relief of Insolvent Debtors will there fore be closed. On the contrary, that Court will become absolutely indispensable. There are thou- Sands of persons whose effects could not defray the expenses of proceedings in bankruptcy. Indeed there are many at this moment who :arc too poor to become insolvents, and who are only enabled to obtain their liberation through the use of funds placed at the disposal of the Commis sioners and other public officers, The business of the Court is admirably performed, and there arc many honourable instances in which parties have defrayed their debts - even to the last shilling, although exempted from legal liability either against property or person, save with the leave of the Court, which will only be granted on facts clearly and explicitly set forth. But the Insolvent Court should be authorised to grant complete relief; the power may be safely confided to the eminent judges who preside therein, or those who may be appointed their suc cessors. The present law is a tax on prudence. It is virtually a bar to any future success on the part of the person who has been compelled to seek relief. His future exertions are mortgaged, and should he be fortunate enough to save a little money, it will only be the cause of vexation and annoyance. It may bring him again before the Court, rip up the troubles which had been what is commonly termed a nine days' wonder, and occa sion very serious damage to his position and credit. Can any reasonable cause be as signed why the insolvent, if he passes his examination with credit, should be placed in a worse position than the bankrupt ? A large proportion arc men who are within the opera tion of the bankrupt laws, but whose assets are not sufficiently large to tempt any speculative attorney to work a commission. The creditors certainly are not sufferers. They obtain full and complete jus tice, and have no reason to complain that the matter has been decided in Portugal-street rather than in Basinghall-street. The only sufferer is the insolvent, who is compelled " to leave hope behind," inasmuch as any future success, any triumph that may attend on ability, fidelity, and zealovill be not for his own advantage, not for that of his family, but for those who may possibly have proved obdu rate creditors, and completely ruined his prospects in the hour of distress and difficulty. It is not natural to suppose that a man would submit to privation and difficulty—that he would refuse him self any indulgence, when it was merely for the benefit of such persons. The debts incurred after his discharge have priority, and therefore he takes care to make his liabilities fully equal to his invest- ments. Now this is against public policy. There is no principle on which it can be sustained, and we hope and believe that Lord CHELMSFORD will next session terminate the anomaly, and introduce the greatest amelioration in the law of debtor and creditor that has received the Legislative sanction for a long series of years. Imprisonment for debt will also probably be abolished, at least so far as the mere will and plea• sure of the creditor is concerned—there malice will no longer prevail. Vindictive persons cannot ~ jet • t z .7" THE SUN. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1858. be allowed to take the law into their own hands. It must be administered by responsible judges, who, if they think proper, may be authorise& to punish an improvident or fraudulent debtor. Reaction seems to havo begun in earnest in America. It is hardly two years since RUCTIANAN and the Slave Power were triumphant, in a severe struggle, over FREMONT and Free SoiL Pennsyl vania, the Quaker State, gave the vote which virtually placed in the Presidential Chair one of her own sons. It was known that anti-Slavery feeling there was very strong, but it was not so strong as to be uninfluenced by immediate proximity to a Slave State, and by the prospect of giving a Presi dent to the Union. Mr. BUCHANAN also discreetly said as little as he could which might irritate the Freemen of the Northern States. Since his elec tion, however, he has found it impossible to serve two masters. He must choose between them, and he chose the Slave Power. Hence his miserable Kansas policy, by which he offered that territory a heavy bribe if she would but enter at once as a Slave State, while, if she did not, she must remain several years before she could be an Independent State at all. The bait was rejected with scorn, and Kansas is rewarded by seeing the Missouri ruffians withdrawing into more congenial quarters, and her free population rapidly increasing and insuring her soon taking rank among the Free States. Not only in this affair but in others, Mr. BUCHANAN has not been lucky. That is, not lucky for electioneering purposes. He is no nearer ap propriating Cuba than any former Presidents have been. Central America is not annexed, nor likely to be, just yet, and even in the dispute with Great Britain about the alleged misbehaviour of our cruisers, for one thing the facts turned out to be fictions, and for another, Lord MALMESBURY was able in good faith to point to the demands of Gene ral CASS himself as the rule by which England had guided, and was still willing to guide, herself. The whole affair turned out to be that very undignified thing which we designate 'familiarly as a " mare's nest." Mr. BUCHANAN, therefore, has irritated the North by what they regard as treachery in regard to Kansas, while lie did not satisfy the South, and has failed to reap any compensatory Ostend or filibustering laurels. Hence it is, as we suppose, that the elections have gone decidedly against him in the North. In Pennsylvania, and in Indiana especially, he appears to have emboldened the Republicans, and proportionately to have depressed the energies of the Democrats or pro-Slavery men. The former were previously very much divided into sections who could not be induced to act together. But the prospect of decided victory by union has now dis posed the rival sections to compromise their dif ferences; in which case it would seem they can carry all before them. " Settlements have been made everywhere—we are informed—and New York itself is likely to show large opposition gains." If so, we are told, the probability is that the next House of Representatives will be hostile to the Administration. With so impulsive a people, however, as the Americans, it is not safe to con clude too hastily. Not a year ago BUCHANAN ap peared likely to vanquish all opposition, and he must be a bold man who could predict victory to the Republicans from their present successes. It is very gratifying to observe that our apparent yielding—for it turned out there was nothing to yield—on the right of search, seems to have brought the Americans to their senses respecting the slave trade. They appear now to feel ashamed of doing nothing to vindicate their flag from the stain of this infernal piracy. They have, as we hale seen recently, captured a slaver themselves, have landed her emaciated cargo of human good' on their own shores, and shipped them off again to the coast of Africa, to Liberia. A letter from the medical man in charge of them, to a friend in this country, has just been published. It gives a heart rending account of their degraded mental and physical condition, and of their dreadful sufferings; but what is most remarkable—all American as he is—he denounces the infernal traffic as indignantly as an Englishman could do. He is confident that his country is as hostile to the slave-trade as ours, though this is hardly compatible with the very rare captures made by American cruisers. He maintains, however, that we must make the slave trade piracy and murder, which we have already done, and only want the Union to follow our ex ample. He says that we ought to try slave-traders on a different plan, "probably by swinging► them at the yard-arm." Good ! Dr. RAINEY ; only get your Yankees to agree to it, and England would readily swing the crew, or the officers at least, of every vessel condemned as a slaver. When we find Americans, mad the Emperor of the French, too, ashamed of the trade, we may begin to hope for humanity. If these two countries would but do their duty, we would soon make Spain do hers, and then farewell to this accursed traffic, for ever. The Reform agitation has now entered on ano ther phase. The honourable member for Birming ham proposed in one of his speeches at that town that Reformers should take their bill into their own hands ; that they should select some trustworthy member of their party to undertake the charge of a bill on which the utmost practicable amount of unanimity can be obtained, andthen press it on the House as the bill they were determined to carry. Whether. Mr. BRIGHT then spoke by the card or not, we are not permitted to know ; it is one of the secrets of the hitherto little known Reform Committee. We recommended, however, at the time, and have done so before, the plan of Reformers acting for themselves, and let ting Government know both that they meants business, and what sort of business they meant. And we have urged the advantage of such a course for men who have nothing to conceal if Government threw them on the country, and also the advantage, if Government assented to their views as expressing those of the country. The Reform Committee has taken Mr. BRIGHT at his word. They 'have convened a meeting of Reformers from different parts of the country, and, having informed the hon. member of what they intended to propose, they invited him to the meeting, and formally, by a resolution moved by Mr. ROEBUCK, and seconded by Mr. MIALL, placed in his hands the preparation and conduct in the House of Commons of the People's Reform Bill. It was neither in Mr. BRIGHT, nor for Mr. BEIGHT to refnie to carry out his own own proposal. :He accepted it, therefore, and it is, we presume, settled that a National Parliamen• tary Reform Bill, with the names of BRIGHT and ROEBUCK at its back, is to be ready for us all next spring. The party in office may be as willing, great part of them at least, to give us a bill as they are j r pc e i,c. p et o pur r a t re e e d :l t . nt o b oi o o e n , or roaut not.s House of Lord d AllBI eodnfhoN here r d ße i s tt e abni k ai n knows 11 7 i may yeEoLble said and did at Knowsley, a n d no one knows whe ther irreclaimable Tories are to reti • re, and a Rus sell -Stanley Administration to be the result. Gossip and guesses all—but, it is no guess that a man has undertaken the task of drafting a bill for the country, Milo is not likely to quail at any.diffieulty. It must be confessed that 11s mot yielding a jot of his peace crotchet, on accowit of its unpopularity, makes it very certain that he NV ill not yield to blandish ments in high quarters, m - hen he has undertaken a confessedly popular cause.. Mr. BRIGHT does not enter upon his task as one of the easiest. He is fully aware of difficulties with out and of difficulties within the House of Com mons. He quite sees that what is a hard task for a Minister with a pledfsed majority at his back, and the patronage of offi!.!e in his hands, must be a task indeed, for an independent member—one so little pliant by nature as himself, and so liable to be thwarted by the diverse opinions of gentlemen who have as good a right to act independently as him self, and by the less worthy opposition of others who may yield to petty envy or jealousy. Mr. BRIGHT, as at Birmingham, is disposed to a measure of com promise rather than of permanency. He thinks that extreme Radicals, like himself, ought to consent to some modification of their demands for the comfort of the nervous and the propitiation of the hostile. No one will attribute this in JOHN BRIGHT to any unworthy motive. It is but too w ell known that he would prefer to be as pugnacious for his own views on the suffrage as he is for peace-at-any price. We accept it, therefore, rather as an evidence of his intention to put his bill in a shape in which it can be carried. A sort of semi-official position in this matter has made Mr. BRIGHT him self half a moderate already. But what effect will the announcement of a Bir mingham Bill have on the constituencies and on our Ministry ? On the latter its influence will be very much in proportion to its influence on the former. If the towns, seeing a prospect of their wishes being presented in a working form to Par liament, and presented by a man whom nobody can affect to despise as an advocate of a popular cause—if they should bestir themselves, and should insist on the main points of his bill being enacted as law—we do not see how any Government can resist. Members cannot defy their constituents, and Ministers cannot defy Members. A dissolution on a popular Bill would only bring it back again with yet more stringent provisions. All that a Ministry could gain by a dissolution would be time, but it would certainly be time for which full interest would be exacted., Meantime the country would be kept in a state of needless excite ment. Questions would be raised which the Aris tocracy and the Church would prefer to see dormant. Both would be in danger of sinking into the almost contempt into which they fell during the first Reform Bill battle, and that of the Corn Laws, and all for no purpose. The elec tors must be masters at last. ' As to the Lords, they must give way, or raise a commotion on the greater question, whether they are longer to be indulged with anti quated privileges, ought to wield them against the people. They may enjoy their name and nominal rights in peace for many a day if they are as prudent as Mr. RAREY, and do not acquaint the people too much with the secret of their own strength. We see but little difficulty with them if the people but choose to signify their will. Parchments and coats of arms would soon appear to disadvan tage if they once began a conflict with reason and popular feeling. We thoroughly respect all such of our Lords as have shown themselves worthy of participation in the affairs of the nation ; we have no wish to set them aside just yet. Another generation may view the subject more logically but we would rather reform their practice only a little, and at once ; we would abolish, for instance the pernicious privilege of _voting by proxy ; and , compel those who vote on the nation's business to hear the arguments on it, and we might not be very reluctant to relieve the spiritual peers of their secular duties ; but, deem bene se gesserint, the Lords may live on for generations to come for all that we care. The longer the better. The mode in which most of them became legislators is indeed the climax of logical absurdity ; but we aro used to it, and if these hereditary legislators understand that they are revisors of national work, not masters of the nation, we may all of us, long jog on (Am fortably enough together. THE COUR 11 WINDSOR, Nov. 10. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday comprised the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince of. Wales, the Princess Alice, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess of Leiningen, the Prince of Leiningen,'thetMarquis and Marchioness of Aber corn and Ladies Louisa and Georgians Hamilton, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Colonel the Hon. R. Bruce, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Col. the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, Sir James Clark, Sir George Couper, Lieutenant-Colonel Purves, Colonel the Hon. Jas. Macdonald, the Rev. C. F. Tarver, Mr. Gibbs, and Major Teesdale, R.A. The following hsd the honour of receiving invitations after dinner :—The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de - Weyer, Miss and Mr. Victor Van de Weyer, Colonel the Hon. N. .and Lady Mary Hood, Miss and Mr. Arthur Hood, Colonel F. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Miss Horatia Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Hon. Lady and Miss Phipps, Captain and Mrs. F. Sayer, the Hon. Mrs. Biddulph, Lady and Miss Couper, Mr. and Mrs. G. Couper, the Hon. T. Stanley, and Viscount Mahon. The band of the 2d Life Guards played before dinner, and her Majesty's private band attended in the Drawing room after. The Queen, with Princess Alice, walked in the Home Park this morning, and 'visited the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore. Tho Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, wont out shooting. The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary took leave of her Majesty, and left the Castle in the forenoon, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Lieut.-Coloriel Purves. The Prince of Leiningen also took leave of the Queen, and left Windsor for Portsmouth. The Princess of Lein ingen quitted the Castle for Frogmore House, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent. The Duke of Cambridge returned to London in the after noon, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and Ladies Louisa and Georgiana Hamilton have taken their depar ture. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulvror Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. The Canadian' Ministers, the Hon. Mr. Cartier and Mr. Inspector-General Galt, accompanied by Mr. Bates, had an interview -yesterday with 'the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation from the guardians of the Roch dale Union, introduced by Sir Alex. Ramsay, Bart., M.P., and Mr. John Bright, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Heap (chairman), and Mr. Alderman Livesey, together with Mr. John Holgate, the clerk, had an interview with the Right Hon. T., Sotheren Estcourt, M.P., yesterday, at the office of the Poor-law Board. Although State reasonspre - vent her Majesty from responding to the unanimous desire of the North American provinces that she should visit that portion of her dominions, her Majesty, with her usual courtesy, has seized the occa sion of the presence of several of the Canadian Ministers to acknowledge the loyalty of her North American subjectshy paying marked honours to their representatives. The Hon. Mr. Cartier, on a special invitation, joined tho royal circle at Windsor Castle on Saturday and remained until Monday. We are sure that this proof of the interest which the Queen takes in British North America and the courtesy shown to her Ministers will be heartily appreciated by Canadians. — Canadian News. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary returned to Cambridge Cot tage, Kew, yesterday afternoon, from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. We regret to learn that a great affliction has fallen upon the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fitzroy, in the sudden death of one of their sons. The Baron Rothschild was prevented ev sa e a nt e e v d en bein g t, present at the Lord Mayor's banquet by LATEST NEWS. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. The Euxine, with the mails from Calcutta and China, arrived at Marseilles at 7 o'clock this (Thurs day) morning. The mails were to leave for London at 10. The passengers are detained in quarantine until Friday afternoon. "BEYROUT, Our. 27. " The packet boat from Alexandria has brought news of general agitation which is reigning in Asiatic Turkey. Insurrections have taken place at several places, Omar Pacha maintaining himself at Bagdad with difficulty. " The tribes living between Tripoli and Aleppo have revolted. " The communication is interrupted between the Libanus and Tripoli, and between Alexandria and Aleppo. The garrison of Beyrout have been sent against the insurgents. " The disorders in the Libanus have been ap peased by the bishop, Joseph Jahiol." OPENING OF THE BELGIAN CHAMBERS. THE KING'S SPEECH. The Belgian Legislative Chambers were opened on Tuesday for the session of 1858-59 by his Majesty in person. Having taken his seat on the Throne, King Leopold addressed the members of both houses as follows : " Gentlemen--I am happy to find myself again surrounded by the representatives of the nation under circumstances entirely favourable to our country, in the double view of our internal situation and of our relations with foreign countries. " Those relations, founded on sentiments of reciprocal confidence, continue to strengthen as they arc developed. Several treaties will be laid before you. One of them will have the effect of relieving literary productions from all impediments at the frontier of the two contracting countries. We are endeavouring, besides, by a new law to guarantee the rights of authors and artists in a more complete and efficacious manner. " Penetrated by the duties incumbent on it for • the moral and intellectual development of the coun , try, the Government consecrates all its cares to the prosperity of public instruction. " The primary teachers received last session a manifest pledge of its solicitude, and the youth of our schools, assembled with their masters, testified ' ' sentiments towards me at a recent solemnity of which I shall treasure the reminiscence. " The edifices for our primary schools being re cognised as insufficient in a great number of the communes, a fresh credit will be asked for to aid their administrations in providing for that popular necessity. " The questions connected with the exercise of public charity will be settled after an inquiry into the situation of the indigent classes, and into the efficacy of the means employed •to relieve them. My Government has not thought it right to defer the presentation of a bill intended to put an end to the differences of opinion for which the wording of art. 84 of the communal law has left room. " In spite of a commercial crisis that severely tried very many countries, the material interests of the land have continued to develop with remarkable energy. Our national railway, which for nearly five and-twenty years has largely contributed to that improvement, has just been extended and, so to say, completed by the Luxembourg line, which creates for our territory a new transit route of the most im portant kind, and links to us an interesting pro vince by opening to it fresh sources of. prosperity. The people havo a lively sense of this, and I was pleased at associating myself in presence as well as feeling to their satisfaction and their hopes. " The progress of the public wealth exercises a happy influence on tite situation of the Treasury. The ordinary receipts present an excess relatively ' to the expenditure that has served to reduce the floating debt. " The cost of boatmen's licences has for a long time given rise to well-founded complaints. A bill will be laid before you for reducing that impost. " A' bill will also be submitted to you for ensur ing a better apportionment of the land-tax. "My Government will call your attention to measures destined to favour trade and manufactures, by facilitating loans on merchandise and the pub lic sale of the colonial produce and the raw materials that mainly employ our maritime commerce. " The means likely to inspire a habit of saving among the labouring classes ought to be an object of anxiety to the public authorities. Proposals will be made to you to introduce into the Annuity Fund such modifications as are indicated by expe rience, and to institute a good system of savings banks on large bases. " The improvement of country roads and of the public health will receive a further impulse from your co-operation. " You will have to decide at an early period of the session on the law in reference to personal re straint, and on the reform of the Penal Code, which the present, Chamber will hold it a point of honour to complete. " A law on the judicial organisation will be sub mitted for your deliberation. "The Civic Guard and the Army continue to show themselves worthy of our common solicitude and animated by the same spirit of patriotism. " My Government is occupied with reforms that are to be introduced into the Militia Law. " The last decennial census has established an augmentation in the population, one of the conse quences of which must be an increase in the number of the national representatives. " Such, gentlemen, is the sum of the work that will occupy you during this session. I have the conviction that your patriotism will not recoil be fore the completion of that laborious task, and that I may look for that loyal and active support from the national representatives as will permit my Government to impart to the public business a rate of progress both regular and productive of results.', FRANCE. PARIS; WEDNESDAY. It is announced that a Commission, composed of three persons appointed by the Minister of Algeria and the Colonies, is about to set out for the coast of Africa to examine on the spot the question of immi gration. The Emperor has signed a decree appointing Captain Lafon de Lndebat, on the proposition of the Minister of Marine and the Colonies, to be a mem ber of the Council on Marine Works, in place of Captain Paris, appointed Vice-Admiral., Vice-Admiral Charnier has been continued in the position of President of the same Council. The last despatches received from China an nounce that Admiral Rigault, after having taken possession of the establishments at Tourane, had immediately marched on the city of Hue, the capital of Cochin China, and of the entire empire of Annam. According to the aspect of the political world we might expect a period of dull tranquillity for some time to come. On all sides no immediate difficulty presents itself. Spain will probably be contented with the O'Donnell policy. France will not invade England this year; therefore each country had better take to reform domestic abuses. According to late despatches from Lisbon the Portuguese Cabinet seems disposed to accept the friendly and conciliatory feeling of France. M. Paira is expected in Paris on the 15th of this month. The Marquis Villamarina, Piedmontese Ambas sador, has been requested by his Sovereign to pre sent the municipality of Paris with a bust of his Majesty, in remembrance of his visit to Paris. Despatches from Rome record the death of Count Mastai, brother of the Pope. The same communi cation adds :—" Several distinguished Russians are here expected this winter, as well as Queen Chris tina, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1858. Lord Granville, and Lord and Lady Stratford Canning." BOURSE, Nov. 10.—The market was buoyant at the opening, but afterwards slackened. Threes varied from 73f. 90c., to 73f. 70c. ; Mobilier 975 f. to 967 f. 50e. ; Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 875 f. ; Orleans, 1,370 f. to 1,365 f. ; Southern, 573 f. 75e. to 572 f. 50e. ; Northern, 995 f. to 990 f. ; and Austrian, 657 f. 50c. to 656 f. 25e. The following are the last quotations : 4 per Cents. 96 25 Do. end month 96 50 3 per Cents 73 80 Do. end month 73 90 Bank Shares 3160 Credit Mobilier Do. Account 977 50 Credit Fonder 662 50 Belgian 41 99 73 Piedmontese (5) Roman 95 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — RAILWAYS. Cash. Accoum Orleans Northern New ditto. B3O .. 840 - Lyons and Mediterranean 877 50 .. 880 New ditto Geneva Midi . — • • Southern Western 617 50 .. 615 Eastern - Grand Central — • • —.-- Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 2.5 f. 10c. ; money, 2.5 f 7ic. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 921 c. "--- *--' • • • . 630 DENMARK. The following three ordonnances were published at Copenhagen on the 7th inst. : " We, Frederick, &c., make known— " 1. The German Diet having declared in its re solution of 11th of February, 1858, that it could not recognise as having the force of constitutional law the constitutionifor the common affairs of the monarchy, inasmuch as applicable to the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, we have resolved, conformably to the 23d Article of the common Constitution to, abrogate the constitution of Hol stein and Lauenburg. Reserving to ourselves the right to take the necessary measures to reattach the two duchies to the rest of the Monarchy, we ordain as follows : " The common Constitution is abrogated as regards Holstein and Laucnburg. " The Common Ministry, as regards Holstein, is responsible to us alone. " 11. We, Frederick, &c., make known— " Whereas the German Diet declared, by its resolu tion of the 11th of February, 1858, that it could not recognise as having the force of constitutional law either the decree of the 11th of June, 1854, con cerning the Constitution of Holstein, insomuch as the dispositions of that law were not submitted to the deliberations of the Provincial Estates of the said Duchy, or the letter patent of the 23d of June, 1856, concerning the designation of the special affairs of the Duchy, we have resolved and ordain : " The abrogation of Articles 1 to 6 of the Or donnance of the 11th of June, 1854, relative to the Constitution of Holstein, as also the above-men tioned letter patent relative to the designation of the special affairs of the Duchy." The third decree, convoking the Estates of Holstein for the 3d of January next, concludes as follows : " We recommend particularly to the conscientious examination of the Estates the propositions which we have thought fit to make consequent upon the abrogation conformably to the federal resolution of the 11th of February, 1858, of the first six articles of the Holstein Constitution, of the letter patent of the 23d of June, 1856, and of the Common Consti tution of the duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg. " Those propositions will give the Estates an op portunity of expressing their wishes and proposals relative to the regulation of the Constitutional po sition of Holstein in the common Monarchy on the bases of the letter patent of the 28th of January, 1852. For the remainder we refer to the tenour of the ordonnance of the 11th January, 1854, and its annexes, and we hope that the Estates, aware of the paternal intentions which led to the institution of the Provincial Estates and an extension of their powers, will endeavour, as much as in them lies, to realize those intentions and to respond - to the confidence placed in them." PROPOSED RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BE. TWEEN GREENWICH AND WOOLWICH. Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, and Messrs. John Roberts, T. W. Tanner, Bristow, and W. G. Smithovaited on the directors of the South- Eastern Railway Company, with a memorial, signed by upwards of 500 of the leading residents and tradesmen of the town of Greenwich, having for its object the securing of railway communication be tween Greenwich and Woolwich by means of a junction line from the terminus of the Greenwich Railway and the Charlton station of the North Kent line. Mr. CARTTAR explained to the board the result of the labouri of a committee appointed at a public meeting of the inhabitants since the deputation had the honour of an interview in June last. Resolu tions had been unanimously passed in four of such a line of railway, and memorials, numerously signed, had been prepared both to the Government and the South-Eastern Railway Company to secure the line being made. Mr. RICH, one of the directors, remarked that in 1846 a bill had passed through a committee of the House of Commons, but was thrown out of Parlia ment, although the company had obtained an opinion:from Professor Airy, the Astronomer Royal, in support of the proposed line, which would pass through Greenwich Park. Mr. W. G. SMITH reminded the directors that many nervous persons objected to passing through the Blackheath tunnel of the North Kent Railway, and that consequently this traffic was lost to the company. The directors held out hopes to the deputation that if an independent line could be constructed, the South Eastern Railway Company would assist in promoting and leasing the undertaking. Mr. CARTTAR explained that the committee had not prepared estimates, neither had it any particu lar line in view. All the committee had done was to labour to obtain a strong feeling among the in habitants to render assistance to any company pro moting a bill which would give them the commu nication required. The deputation then withdrew. The memorial to the Government, for permission pass through Qreenwich Park, will be presented a few days. THE MEDICAL COUNCIL. The appointments are now completed, with the exception of that of the representative of the Col lege of Surgeons of England. Legal difficulties exist as to whether the right of election belongs to the executive council or to the entire body of fellows and members. The following is a list of the council : Sir James Clark, Bart Sir Charles Hastings. Mr. Wm. Lawrence. Mr. T. P. Tealo, Crown. Dr. Christison. Dr. Stokes. Dr. Watson, College of Physicians of London. Mr. J. Nussey, Society of Apothecaries. Dr. Acland, University of Oxford. Dr. Bond, University of Cambridge. Dr. Embleton, University of Durham. Dr. Storrar, University of London. Dr. Alex. Wood, College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Dr. And. Wood, College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr. James Watson, Glasgow Faculty. Mr. Syme, University of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Dr. Lawrie, University of Glasgow and St. Andrews. Dr. Ag. Smith, College of Physicians of Ireland. Dr. R. C. Williams, College of Surgeons of Ireland. Dr. Apjohn, University of Dublin. Dr. Corrigan, Queen's University in Ireland. Dr. Leet, Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland. According to the act the council have the right of nominating as president one who is not a member of their body. Shoilld they elect one of themselves to the presidency a vacancy would arise in the re presentative seat held by the member so elected. Great diversity of opinion exists as to whether the president ought or ought not to be a member of the medical profession. When the measure was before Parliament it was stated 'that in all probability some of the nominees of the Crown and of the uni versities would be laymen. It has turned out otherwise, so that there is a chance of the council being exclusively professional. DINNER TO SIR J. RATCLIFF. F.S.A., MAYOR OF BIRMINGILLII. It is not often that we feel so great an interest in the election of the chief magistrate of our pro vincial boroughs as that which recently has oc curred in the important town of Birmingham. The election of Sir John Ratcliff to the office of Mayor for the third year in succession speaks more than the most eulogistic language that we could pen. His years of office have been attended with the greatest benefit to the borough. His ability and energy manifested itself upon his election to office in the first instance, and none of his numerous friends have been disappointed by the marked in dication of his desire to promote the interests of his native town. In order to mark the event a banquet was given by the corporation , on Tuesday evening, to Sir John, who had that day been elected Mayor of Birmingham for the third. time. After the usual loyal and complementary toasts had been disposed of— The CHAIRMAN (Alderman Hawkes), having taken care that a bumper was filled, said he had to call upon them to drain it to the health of Sir John Ratcliff, Mayor of Birmingham ; though if he had not been that night Mayor of Birmingham, the same assem blage would h ave t a k en p l ace, and the same feelings of respect and gratitute to him been displayed. (Cheers.) It was indeed a great privilege for them to be able to invite the head of the municipality as their guest after two years' service, and to say to him—" Thou hast done well ; thou hast elevated the character of old Birmingham; and we invest thee for another year with the same power and the same dignities, and wish God speed to your efforts to promote the interests of your native town." (Cheers.) All of them rejoiced when Mr. John Ratcliff came into the Corporation. He did not wait to be pitchforked into it as an alderman ; but coming in as a plain councillor, he applied himself to its work, had his merits recognised, and ,was soon elevated to the position of an alderman. As to what he had done since then, was it, not written in the debate of the day ?—how Bir mingham, from being a sort of Bocetia, had by degrees been raised to that point when the pros pect of a visit from the Queen came upon Brumma gem citizens as startling as did the comet upon astronomers--and when the greatest sovereign in the world, revolving round their worthy mayor for a time, shed upon him rays of lustre which would adorn him and the town for many a long year to come. (Cheers.) Coming to that very 9th of Nov., 1858, they found the most rigid economist and the most extravagant members of the Council unit ing in declaring that, however they might differ in opinion as to the method in which Birmingham should be governed, yet when they found one of their number honestly willing to take upon him self the duty of upholding the dignity and honour of Birmingham, they found themselves ready to unite in allowing him to do for three years what he had done for two. (Cheers.) The Town Council having been pleased to lay upon the Mayor the same duties for another year, all would no doubt join in the hope that health and prosperity would attend him, and that the sons and grandsons of the present race of burgesses would remember that in John Ratcliff they had one who had added lustre to the name of good old Brummagem. The health of the Mayor (Sir John Ratcliff) was drank most enthusiastically. The MAYOR, who rose amidst loud cheers, said that though they had heard his voice a good deal that day, he could not refrain from acknowledging emphatically the honour they had done him in meet ing so numerously, and in listening so kindly to what the chairman had been pleased to say of his services. The esteem and approbation of such a meeting as that was the highest to which he could L aspire, for none knew better than the Council how far he was entitled to the confidence reposed in him. (Cheers.) And when he saw around him those who had elected him for the third time to the high and proud position of Chief Magis trate of one of the greatest towns in the kingdom, it only made him feel more strongly what he had always felt, that not only was he prepared to sacri fice whatever amount of money might be required to uphold and promote the dignity of his native , town, but that if his life were required, he would cheerfully lay it down for the welfare and glory of Birmingham. (Loud cheers.) If there was one thing he desired more than another and which he held dear upon earth—that thing was the prospority and well-being of his native town. (Cheers.) Much had been said that day about the entertainment he had given, but he was ready to declare that to his knowledge none had been given for his own glory or his own aggran disement. (Cheers.) No one thing he had done , was done for- the purpose of elevating himself. (Hear.) He had nothing to gain by an y suc h course. He had. gained all he could reasonably require. He had been fortunate in business; he had sufficient for the future ; he could have left the town to live far away from the smoke and turmoil of city life. (Hear, hear.) But no, On that soil he had spent the best part of his life ; on it he wished to pass the remainder of his existence ; on it he wished to do all the good that his energies and means enabled him to do ; and on it, with the assistance of the Council, it was his wish to do all that in him lay towards securing for the town the position which so large and wealthy a com munity ought to enjoy. (Great applause.) In resuming the important duties of chief magis trate for the third year, the council and the town at larr , emiolt have every confidence that his utmost energies would be exercised in promoting the wel fare and interests of a town which had so greatly distinguished itself upon the gracious visit of her Majesty the Queen, and which held so proud a position amongst the great commercial emporiums of the world. When his present term of office expired, he trusted he should continue to merit the approbation of his fellow-townsmen, which was to him the greatest honour that could be attained. Having again thanked the company for the flatter ing manner in which his health had been received, the honourable gentleman resumed his scat amidst loud cheering. Several other complimentary toasts followed, and the company separated after the enjoyment of a most agreeable evening. THIS LAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 42s 8d barley, 35s 5d ; oats, 23s Od ;' rye, 33s Od; beans, 42s 9d and peas, 44s 4d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. - Wheat, 42s 8d barley, 35s 9d ; oats, 23s 5d ; rye, 32s ld ; beans, 44s Od peas, 44s 9d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WAX. —Wheat, 10:5,157; barley, 80,185 ; oats, 7,237 ; rye, 147 ; beans, 3,219; peas, 714 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Notwithstanding that only a moderate supply of beans was on offer in to-day's market, the demand for all kinds ruled heavy, at Monday's currency.- -We were rather scantily supplied with sheep, the general condition of which was inferior; yet the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at unaltered quotations. The best old Downs sold at 45 10d per 81bs. The show of calves was limited, and the veal trade was heavy,,,on former terms.. Pigs and milch cows were very dull, at barely stationary price. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 2 6 2 10 Second quality do. 3 0 3 6 Prime large oxen 3 8 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Crse. & inf. sheep 2 8 3 0 Second quality do. 3 2 3 6 Suckling calves, 16s to 21s 14s to 19s. a. d. s. d. Prime crs-wool d 0.3 8 4 2 Pme. S'thdowndo. 4 4 4 10 Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime small do 4 4 4 8 Large hogs 2 6 3 2 Small porkers and quarter-old store pigs, TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts 1,020 Sheep Calves l9O Pigs PoREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts l9O Sheep . 1,200 Calves llO Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.—The trade still rules heavy, and prices are barely supported :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 38 4d to 48 4d; pork, 2s 4d to 4 6 Od 81bs. by the carcase. per SOUTHALL, Nov. 10.—The supplies of stock were sea "nobly large, and the trade ruled h eavy , at drooping prices :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 10d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 10d t o 4 s 6d ; and pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per 8 lbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Nov. 10.—Each kind of stock was in good supply, and heavy request, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4 s 10d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 2d to 4s per 81bs ; mulch cows, £l3 to £l7 lOs ; suckling calves 128 to 20s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. -- Meadow hay, £3 Os to lOs ; clover, do., £3 108 to £5 ss; and straw, £1 ss. to £1 10s. per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND. ---Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs; clover do., £3 12s to £5 ss. ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 12s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHI TECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 3s to £4 10s; clover, do., £3lss to £5 Bs. • and straw, £1 Ss to £1 lOs per load. A moderat e demand.' AMERICAN MAILS.—The City of Baltimore sailed from Liverpool yesterday with a mail and full com plement of passengers, for New York. On Saturday next the Cunard steamer sails for New York. Letters will be received at the Liverpool Post-office until 10 a.m.,. with late fees until 11 a.m., and on the landing-stage until 12. There will be nodirect Canadian despatch from Liverpool until the 17th, commuxlcA7'loN WITH STRANDED VESSELS. During the last few years the National Lifeboat Institution has had many opportunities for observ ing the great need that existed for the adoption of a uniform system of management of the mortar and rocket apparatus, and for the distribution of instruc tions concerning the same on board all merchant vessels, so that their crews might never be ignorant of the proper steps to be taken to ensure their own safety after communication by line had been effected by the mortar and rocket apparatus with the shore. The institution has likewise from time to time re ceived communications from persons residing on the coast, pointing out the necessity that existed for some such provision, and has had brought under its notice lamentable instances of the want of know ledge of the apparatus by merchant seamen leading to fatal results. In one instance, the extreme case of five men passing the rocket line around them, and then all leaping overboard together, to be drawn on shore through the waves en masse, on which occasion only one of that number reached the land alive. In a second instance eleven men perished, after a communication by line had been effected with a wreck, through one of the crew making the line fast round his waist, and jumping overboard with it, when no second communication could be effected. In a third instance, a rocket line having been thrown over a schooner wrecked in' Bally cotton Bay, Ireland, a lad was at once secured to the end of the line and a frail log line was employed to were him to the shore. The log line, of course, broke before he was 20 yards from the vessel, when he was drawn ashore in a half-drowned condition by the rocket line ; but the communication was t'hus cut off from the wreck, and no second line could be thrown over it. Fortunately the vessel held together until the tide had fallen sufficiently to get her crew out by other means, or they would have inevitably perished, as she went to pieces on the following tide. And a fourth instance'is that of the sloop Queen of Grimsby, wrecked off Yarmouth, on the 19th ult. It is the opinion of competent persons that the people on board the sloop might have been saved in about half an hour after she struck, had the mate under stood how to fasten the line to the mast head. In stead of doing so a man had, at the peril of his life, to go off from the shore to fasten the rope to the vessel's mast. With a view of preventing such catastrophes in future, we append the instructions issued by the Board of Trade on this important subject : " DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS AND CREWS OF SHIPS. " In the event of your vessel stranding on the coast of the United Kingdom, and the lives of the crew being placed in danger, assistance will, if possible, be rendered from the shore in the follow ing manner, namely— " 1. A rocket or shot, with a thin line attached, will be fired across your vessel. Get hold of this line as torn as you can; and when you have secured it, let one of the crew be separated from the rest, and, if in the daytime, wave his hat or his hand, or a flag or handkerchief ; or, if at night, let a rocket, a blue light, or a gun be fired, or let a light be displayed over the side of the ship, and be again concealed, as a signal to those on shore. v 2. When you see one of the men on shore separated from the rest, wave a red flag, or (if at night) show a red light and then conceal it, you are to haul upon the rocket line until you get $ tailed block with an endless fall rove through it. " 3. Make the tail of the block fast to tie mast about 15 feet above the deck, or, if your masts are gone, to the highest secure part of the vessel ; and when the tail-block is made fast, let one of the crew, separated from the rest, make the signal re quired by Article 1 above. "4. As soon as the signal is seen on shore, a hawser will be bent on the whip-line, and will be hauled off to the ship by those on shore. "5. When the hawser is got on board, the crew should at once make it fast to the same part of the ship as the tailed block i s ma d e f as t to, on ly 18 inches higher, taking care that there are no turns of the whip-line round the hawser. " 6. When the hawser has been made fast on board, the signal directed by Article 1 above is to be repeated. " 7. The men on shore will then pull the hawser taut, and by means of the whip line will haul off to the ship a sling, cot, or life-buoy, into which the person to be hauled ashore is to get and be made fast. When he is in and secure, one of the crew must be separated from the rest and again signal to the shore as directed in Article 1 above. The people on shore will then haul the person in the sling to the shore, and when he has landed, will haul back the empty sling to the ship for others. This opera tion will be repeated until all persons are hauled , ashore from the shipwrecked vessel. " 8. It may sometimes happen that the state of the weather and the condition of the ship will not admit of a hawser bei ng se t u p, i n w hi c h cas e a sling or life buoy will be ha u l e d o ff i ns t ea d, and the persons to be rescued w ill b e h au l e d th ro ugh the surf instead of along the hawser. " Masters and crews of shipwrecked vessels should bear in mind that the success in landing them may, in a great measure, depend upon their coolness and attention to the rules here laid down ; and that by attending to them many lives are annually saved by the mortar and rocket apparatus on the coasts of the United Kingdom. " The system of signaling must be strictly ad hered to; and all women, children, passenger s , and helpless person s s h ou ld be landed before the crew of the ship. " The illustrations will help to explain the man lier in which the mortar and rocket lines are used." What the National Life-boat Institution has for some years advocated on this important subject has at length been effectually carried out by the Board of Trade—an improved and more complete appa ratus in use on the coast, and a uniform rule in its management, both on shoro and on shipboard. It is a great step in advance towards the fulfilment of our national duty to afford relief to shipwrecked persons on our coasts, and we prognosticate the happiest results as a consequence. BLACK IMMIGRANTS FOR THE FRENCH COLONIES. (From the Sydney Morning Herald of Sept. 10.) The official papers in reference to the alleged case of kidnappini , at the Kingsmill Islands, have • at length been published, and show prima facie a clear violation in spirit if not in the letter of the laws against the slave trade. The facts, as they appear from the published evidence, may be brieflV stated. The Sutton, an old whaler, was chartered by Mr. Joubert, of Sydney, to proceed to some of the South Sea Islands, and hire a number of the natives to labour for five years in the plantations at the French colony of Reunion, more generally known as the Isle of Bourbon. Capt. Wilson was placed in charge ofher, and a Mr. Dalmeyne was sent as emigration agent. The latter was supposed to Le a French government officer, who was to see fair play in the making of the contracts ; but he was prac tically the nominee and deputy of the charterer, by whom he was paid. At the Kingsmill Islands —a'group inhabited by the most barbarous of the Polynesian tribes—two white settlers, an Ameri can and an Englishman —were taken on board, and through their instrumentnlity a number of islanders were induced to hire themselves for a few months to make cocoa oil at some island not named. The white men and their boat's crew were to be taken back. But, the weather proving adverse, the whole party were carried on in the Sutton to Reunion, and Captain Wilson, after some pressure, paid the expenses home of the white men and their native followers. But the rest of the islanders were all sold off to the planters as the bondsmen of the latter for the next five years, having, been induced, at an early stage during the passage, to go through the farce of a ffi x i n g their signatures to agreements for this servitude. Many of the entrappedislanders seem to have taken the matterpretty easy, but others suffered dread fully when they ascertained what was to become of them. The evidence of these facts does not rest solely upon the statements of the white interpre ters, but upon those of many of the crew. Some of the latter arc evidently most favourably disposed towards the captain, and seem to think this species of enterprise permissable, yet their testimony still gees to make out the charge of kidnapping, and no effort seems to have been made to rebut that charge. It is to be hoped that some strong remon strances upon this subject will be addressed to the Imperial Government of France. To say nothing , of the fraud which is thus committed against a body of unprotected and ignorant savages, there is a great proximate danger attending these transac tions When the Kingsmill islanders learn how their countrymen have been cheated into slavery, they will entertain a strong desire to avenge them on the white traders indiscriminately. They will probably gratify their desire by cutting off the crews of small vessels touching there. The innocent will suffer for the guilty., Many of the deeds of violence committed by Polynesians are to be traced to previous outrages by white men. DRINKING FOUNTAIN ON HOLBORN-HILL—At a vestry meeting of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, held in the V es t ry - room, St. Andrew ' s -court, on Tuesday, S. Gurney, Esq., Lombard-street, made, through Mr. Potter, an offer to erect at his own cost a drinking foun- Llin, to be placed on Holborn-hill ;it was unanimously resolved to accept - the offer; the rector and churchwardens being requested to fix the site.