The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

HE GRAND BAL MASQUE of the SEASON —NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS (formerly Casino de Venise), High Holborn, on THURSDAY, December 9, under distinguished patronage, on which occasion this noble suite of rooms will be devoted to one of the most brilliant fetes ever attempted, surpassing* if possible those hitherto given at this unparalleled establishment. The celebrated band, under the direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, will perfornt a yrogramme abounding in novelty and excellence. The ar rangements for the comfort of the visitors will be on the same liberal scale and under the same judicious management as before. A most recherche supper will be served at 1 o'clock, and dancing will commence at 10 punctually. Gentlemen's tickets, 55.; ladies, 3s. Supper, 3s. 6d. N.B.—Mr. Nathan, Castle-street, Leicester-square, is appointed costumier. WINTER. —NO GENTLEMAN during the Winter should be without one of MACDOUGALL'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS, Universally acknowledged to be the most comfortable, useful, and gentlemanly upper Garment now in use, either or Town wear, or the Rail, the Coach, Riding, Driving, and Walking. They are made of Scotch Tweeds, in every variety Plain Colours, and very pretty Mixt ures : also in dark Grey and Black, for Clergymen's wear. Good useful qualities from.... 265. to 365. The best do. d 0..... 38s. to 50s. The Height and Size round Shoulders is sufficient measure. Patterns and price per post, free. Any number of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of order, free to London. D. 3IACDOUGALL, THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE. INVERNESS. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W Harrison. THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'AMOUR Mesdiles. L. Michelet, Morlacchl, and Pasquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, LIVING TOO FAST. And MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. Followed by a new Farce, in one act, entitled THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARkET. Lessee, Mr, J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mr. Buckstone and Miss Reynolds. A new Spanish Ballet, THE INFLUENCE OF GRACE, in which Perea Nena will appear. With WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. John Small, by Sir Wm. Don, Bart. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN EARNEST : Miss Swanborough. And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. The Lessee has the honour to call public attention to the pro duction of a new grand military and equestrian drama, on Satnrday, Nov. 4, for the first time. THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be repeated a new grand Spectacle, entitled LIFE - IN THE EAST ; or, The Fugitives and their Faithful Steed. Written expressly for this amphitheatre by Mr. R. Phillips, and embracing the entire strength of this vast Hippodramatic Temple. Princi pal characters by Messrs. R. Phillips, Holloway, J. Anson Mark Howard, Francis ; Miss Dowton, Miss Weston, &c. Followed by the inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA in which Messrs. W. Cooke, Runnels, W. Cooke, jun.; Mes• dame Blanche, &c., will go through their unrivalled feats. No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught. Commence at seven. Carriages at Eleven. Prices of admission :—Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. Pit, Ss, ; Galleries, 6d. ; Private Boxes, from £1 is to £2 2s , and upward& Stage Manager, Mr. B. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road, Proprietor —C._ MORTON. The public is most - respectfully informed that the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT commences XS usual at Seven o'clock. In addition to the usual entertainment, the SAUVLET FAMILY, of Amsterdam, Eight in number, whose varied instrumental performances have created so marked a sensa tion in the principal cities and towns of the Continent, will perform every Evening at Nine and Eleven o'clock. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 7. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 41—highest since noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.26. WIND, Northerly; light, with dense fog. THE SUN. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1858. The fortunate return to port of the hired troop ship Bombay is certainly matter of very general congratulation. She had been so long unheard of, she had so many of our gallant soldiers on board, she was so old herself, and the weather had long been so tempestuous, that - her fate had not un naturally come to be regarded with no inconsider able degree of solicitude. The narrative of the sufferings and anxieties endured during nearly one. entire calendar month by those on board the Bombay, between the date of her departure from Grave Send on the 7th of November and that of her being towed into Plymouth harbour, a dis masted wreck, on the sth of December, will doubt less have been read with very general interest. by our readers, as given at some length in our impression of last evening. It is a narrative, by the way; which it would be cer tainly difficult to., read through without its ex citing certain feelings of indignation. What does it relate P It "tells us the old story of that miser able penvise and pound foolish system, which has, frot as long as any of us can well remember, been £4 vogue in so many of the different depart ments of the administration. Here Was an old vessel—an uncommonly tough old vessel, if you like, and as the event has cer tainly proved, but still, with all that, an old vessel —hired in a hurry, got ready for the voyage in a flurry, and sent off at one of the stormiest times of the year, with weak rigging—a vessel having on board 500 tons of railway iron loosely packed, and 300 soldiers huddled away between decks with the most inadequate accommo dation. So prepared for a long winter voyage, the Bombay leaves Gravesend on the 7th ultimo, bent upon going round to Cork to take on board there 100 additional soldiers. By the 10th the Channel pilot has quitted the Bombay, and she sights the light of Ballycotton on the coast of Ireland. Heavy and squally weat h er encounter her gales, however, on the morrow—she labours violently, and before the 11th is over, the sails are split into ribbonS. On the 12th the gale is still blow ing with violence , and as eveni ng - closes in another light on the Irish coast is made—the Fastner. Although upon the 13th the wind ap pears to be decreasing, the weather still retains a threatening appearance; on the 14th the breeze has deepened into heavy squalls; on the 15th the gale is increasing, and the sea, beginning to run high and fast ; on the lath " comes the tug of war," even the matter-of-fact log book entry in so many words being thus--- " blowing a perfect hurricane, with tremendous sea running." Previously in the foul weather the three topgallant masts and yards have gone like dry twigs—but now both main and mizen masts go by the board, the thief mate and 17 of the crew being at* the time on the top sailyards. Six dilly out of the number are savedp—eleven being drowned, among them the unfortunate chief officer, who had only succeeded, : -:- ' ,-, :'?4.4 ,4 - 2 . • ~.;,:.,,,v,;,,,,,,,,1..., i r., ,,, 4..„ .. „„,,,, ,9114 . , - - -160Liii k f ' S . , A _ - N .:,,--..., .... 4w .., •.. i ork ,,, a; ..,„Y: . ' 1 4.- - ,' b if: I , ' 2,, -„" t 't •m 0 7 , - '-'''„,,i; 71 - All ',',,...Ar4il'''-''' at last, in daring the men to go aloft for the pur pose of taking in sail, by setting them the example himself. The rigging was bad, was weak, was wholly insufficient for the strain upon it. The men recognised this, and refused to go u aloft to cer tain destruction. The second mat Mr. PETHE RICK, tries to lure them into obeying the Captain's orders, by leading the way. Vainly—the men are too shrewd seamen. Grog is then distributed among them, and the chief mate, Mr. PAUL, setting his life upon the hazard of a die, goes aloft, and shames the seventeen up after him to the perilous topsail yard. Scarcely are they there busy fumbling at the tackling when a heavy sea strikes the ship, " causing her to lurch so fearfully" that —away goes the rigging like packthread, the mizenmast goes by the board, three boats are smashed, and all aloft are thrown into the surge. Imme diately afterwards the captain again wants some of the men to go aloft, "a few minutes before the foremast went overboard, and when it was supported by only one shroud." According to the testimony of the survivers of the crew "they refused to go, and presently the mast fell." On the following day, the 17th, the jibboom and the flying jibboom are carried away, and by the 22d the wreck is pretty nearly completed—the last means of escape from it, the sole remaining boats, the spare and the long boat going adrift, and in doing so carrying away a part of the bulwarks. It is only, as we have seen, by the sth of Decem ber, after exactly four weeks of perillous voyaging in the Channel have elapsed, that the battered, dis masted, boatless Bombay- is towed into port at Plymouth. How this comes to pass—when, on the 18th ult., the barque Port-Glasgow was spoken and on the 24th ult. the American barque, Alice Provost, and at midnight, on the 27th-28th ult., the ship Pilgrim—is soon told. The captain of the Bombay was above taking assistance—had implici t confidence in his own vessel and in his own seaman ship. Not without reason obviously, of course, see ing that the old Bombay, under his command, has clearly weathered the storm, and been brought at last into port with all the officers and soldiers of the different regiments entrusted to her care, in health and safety. But with what increase of danger and discomfort to all on board, will have been painfully recognised by those who read the narrative of those perils and sufferings detailed in our impression of yesterday. Captain FLAMANK'S undaunted courage throughout we are less disposed to designate as gallantry than as positive foolhardi ness. And certainly the thrift shown by the autho rities in committing so many of our gallant fellows thus rashly to an old ill-rigged vessel like the Bombay, we are less inclined to term economy than a most miserabl e combination of parsomony and ex travagance--to save a few paltry pounds jeopardising the lives of 300 persons, men, women, and children. We have been asked by a very intelligent an d hearty Liberal what remedy we could provide, under secret voting, against personation. He had seen so much of it in municipal elections--and we must add we have seen much of it ourselves in a large municipal constituency—that he was really embarrassed by the difficulty. He was a most sincere advocate of, any plan which would rescue the depen dent voter from unfairand degrading terrorism, and from temptations which, :if yielded to, are still more degrading. It does, however, seem a great evil that if you can prove the death or the alibi of any person whose vote stands in the polling book in favour of this or that candidate, there should be no means of amending the return by striking out the votes on a scrutiny. If the voting were absolutely secret this might of course be easily done. You could, with the Ballot, prove indeed that the person had voted, but you could not prove for whom he had voted. Your independent voting might, therefore, after all, have given a false majo rity—a majority of the dead or the absent. The Australians have devised a plan to meet the difficulty, but it is one which, though very slightly, interferes with absolute secrecy. The registrar numbers the electors ; the returning officer, when the elector receives the voting paper, places the elec tor's number on its back ; when the votes have been counted over, the papers are deposited under seal for a limited time, to allow of petitions against the return, and then destroyed; hence, should a scrutiny be demanded; and personations of the dead or absent proved, the fraudulent votes can be struck off by reference to the numbers. It is provided that only those numbers shall be examined which are proved to have been fraudulently used. The chance, therefore, of any elector's vote becoming known is small indeed. It resolves itself into the possibility of the returning officer's first remembering the elector's number so as to identify him, while rapidly counting over the votes after the poll ; and secondly, of his violating the oath which he and all the officials are required to take, that be will not directly or indirectly make known how any elector has voted. We believe that, practically, this security for secrecy is perfect, while it theo retically provides against the danger of persona tion. We should be quite content with such a mode of ballot here, if the slight concession would allay the apprehensions of any timid friends of in dependent voting. But it is worth while to consider whether other arrangements might not render even the precaution of numbering the balloting papers needless. Of course, under any system there must be a register of voters ; and the elector, on presenting himself at the polling booth, must prove his right to be there, and that he has not previously voted at the elec tion. With the ballot, therefore, or without it, there is the record that Smith, Jones, and Robin son have voted at the election. By secret voting, as well as by open voting, should these gentlemen have been on their travels, and been putting the heads of German gens d'arnzes into chancery instead of showing themselves at the polling-booth, the detec tion of the fact that they did not vote is equally easy. So in the case of a political resurrection of the dead, though proper arrangements with the registrar of deaths should render this nearly im- practicable, the false vote could be promptly de tected. We do not see how open voting could faci litate the discovery of the fact that a fraudulent vote had been given ; it could only enable us to redress the wrong done'to the candidate who had not received it. Now, besides the Australian plan, there is another course open, which would issue in giving hardly any _more trouble, and yet would redress the wrong. Let the fact of the votes personated be ascertained; let them be verified by affidavit, if desired, before any non-political judge —say the judge of the county court—Ad if their number would have altered the return, let the defeated candidate, or some reasonable number of electors, have the right to demand a new election. This, now, is often the result of a successful petition, and it would rarely exceed the cost of a House of Commons scrutiny. It seems to us that the k now l edge that for some time after the election a scrutiny by the opposite party could not set it aside, if favourable to the process, t oget h er fraudulent, by an inexpensive with very severe penalties for all parties gu il ty of personation or of aiding and abetting it, would reduce that practice to an utterly insignificant minimum. DEATH OF LADY CLEMENTINA VILLIERS. We deeply regret to announce the death of Lady Clementine. Villiers, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, which took place on. Sunday evening at Middleton-park, Oxon. Her ladyship was in her 35th year, having been born on the 6th of May, 1824. She had been ill for some time, but until lately sanguine hopes were entertained of her recovery ; on Saturday last, however, an unfavour able change took place, and at six o'clock, on Sun day evening, her ladyship expired. She was attended in her last moments by her sorrowing parents, whom this melancholy bereavement has plunged into the deepest affliction. Lady Clemen tina was the second daughter of the Earl of Jersey, and goddaughter of the late Duke of Wellington. Her ladyship was particularly distinguished for her beauty and accomplishments, being an admirable linguist and a gifted artist and musician. She was universally beloved for her many rare and noble qualities, and long will her memory live in the recollection of those who had the inestimable privilege of enjoying her friendship. There are few whose loss would have cast a greater gloom over that world of fashion of which she was so long the distinguished ornament, and many of all ranks will sympathise with her sorrowing family in the premature death of one so gifted and be loved. The Eat and Countess of Westmoreland, Viscountess Ponsonby, Lady W. Russell, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Lady Sarah Bailey, the Duchess of Richmond, the Marquis of Anglesey, Colonel the Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers, and many other families of distinction are placed in mourning by the sad event. ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBORNE. A special train, in charge of M. Crombie, secretary, Mr. Beattie, superintendent of locomotion, Mr. Strapp, resident engineer, and Mr.Godson,chiefsuperintendent of the South- Western Railway, arrived in the Royal Clarence Victual ling Establishment, Gosport, yesterday, at twenty-six minutes past 12, noon, with her Majesty, the Prince Con sort, and all the Royal Family. The Princess of Leinin gen was in waiting with the Prince on board the Fairy yacht to receive her Majesty. Besides her Serene High ness there were in waiting at the reception platform Admiral Sir George Seymour and Flag-Lieutenant Malcolm, Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett and Captain Thursby, Aide-de-Camp, Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, and Flag-Lieutenant Swinburne, Colonel Foster, R.E., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; Colonel Hurdle, R.M., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; Mr. Jamieson, R.N., Storekeeper; and Mr. Noddal, R.N., Master-Attendant or the Clarence-yard; Town• Major Breton; Mr. R. W. Stevens, South-Western Railway ; and a guard of honour of Royal Marine Light Infantry, commanded by Major Aslett, Captain M'Arthur, and Adjutant Holland. The usual Royal salutes were fired by the flagship and the gar rison battery. Her Majesty and the Court embarked forth with in the Fairy, under the command of the Hon; Joseph Denman, Aide-de-Camp, and landed at Osborne-pier at a little after one o'clock. 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. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington the Right Hon J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. We understand that a marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place, between Mr. Hedworth H. Jolliffe, M.P., for Wells, eldest son of Sir William Jolliffe, Bart., and the Hon. Agnes Byng, eldest daughter of Viscount Enfield, and granddaughter of Field-Marshal the Earl of Strafford. His Royal Highness the Count de Paris purposes leaving Claremont to-day, en route for Seville, on a visit to his uncle, the Duke do Montpensier. The Duke of Hamilton has arrived in Arlington street, from Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire. His grace has been called to town by the illness of the Duchess (Dow.) Hamilton, whose health, it is feared,is in a very precarious stge. The Duke and. Duchess of Northumberland pur. pose to arrive at Sion House, Isleworth, on the 18th ins;. from Alnwiek Castle, Northumberland. The Earl and Countess Craven and Lady Evelyn Craven left town yesterday, to visit the family circle stay ing with the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Grham bury, near St. Albans. Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton have [eft town for Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, •m. a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wilton. Lord Sohn Hay, M.P., we regret to learn, is in impaired health, and doubts are entertained if his lordship will be able to attend to his Parliamentary duties at the commencement of the next session. Mr. Bulan, recently named Prussian Minister at the Court of Stuttgart, has left Berlin for his destination. DEATH OE THE BARON DE DELMAR.—This wealthy Prussian nobleman expired on Saturday, Nov. 27, at his mansion in the Champs Elysees, Paris, at the age of 77. In 1832 the deceased baron was married to Miss Emily Rumbold, daughter of the late Sir George Rumbold, Bart., and step-daughter of the celebrated Admiral Sir Sidney Smith. The funeral took place on Wednesday, at the English Chapel in the Aveaue Marboeuf—the Abbe Coquerel (the officiating minister of the French Protestant Church) and the Rev. Mr. Swale (the chaplain of the English Embassy) officiating. The funeral was attended by a very large assemblage of distinguished members of the French nobility, as well as of the Russian, Prussian, Austrian, and other courts, personal friends of the lamented deceased. • The bar silver brought by the Mexican packet has realised 61d. per oz., showing no alteration. The few dollars received on this occasion have been sold at 60id., at which price several limited amounts have been recently disposed of for the China market. THE GALWAY RotrtE.—The Royal Mail steam ship Pacific, will sail from Galway, fo- St. John's, New foundland, and New York, on i hursday, the 9th inst. Mails for this ship will close in London on Wednesday evening. . _ MAILS FOR HAYTI.—In accordance with the pro visions of a postal convention, concluded with the Emperor of Hayti, the following reduced rates of British postage will be levied in this country on the Ist January next, and thenceforward, upon letters, newspapers, and book packets addressed to Hayti :—Letters not exceeding oz., 6d. ; above t oz., and not exceeding 1 oz., Is. ; above 1 oz., and not exceeding 2 oz., 2s. ; above 2 oz., and not ex ceeding 3 oz., 3s. ; and so on, adding two rates for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce. Thb postage must in all cases be paid in advance. Newspapers ad dressed to Hayti, and posted in conformity with the usual regulations, will be chargeable with a postage of ld. each when not exceeding four ounces in weight, and 2d when above four ounces and not exceeding eight ounces. This postage must be prepaid. Book packets may be forwarded to Hayti at the following rates, which must also be pre paid.:—For a book packet not exceeding 4 oz., 3d. ; above 4 oz., and not exceeding 8 oz., Gd.; above 8 oz., and not exceeding llb., ls.; above llb., and not exceeding 111 b., ls. Gd.; above Ilib , and not exceeding 21bs., 2s; and so on, adding 6d. for each additional half pound or fraction of half a pound. The usual book packet regulations are to be observed. THE FOG YESTERDAY.—At an early hour yes terday morning a dense fog settled down upon the metro polis, and continued throughout the day and evening, causing all the usual annoyances, and materially impeding the transactions of business. Towards the evening the omnibusses from Hackney to the Bank gave up running, as did aim those from Kingsland to Camberwell-gate ; and if any vehicles ventured a journey it was found necessary to have link boys in front to guide the horses. On the different railway lines fog signals were placed on the rails, which were heard continually exploding. There were fre quent collisions on several of the roads, the consequence of which was that much damage was sustained by them. In the Hackney-road some daring assaults were committed, by persons who, there is no doubt, had recourse to them for the purposes of robbery, the occasion affording a very fa vourable opportunity for such pursuits. There is little doubt but that many persons have received serious THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1858. t is remarkable that in Australia, though the elections by Ballet have several times been decided by small majorities, in one case by a single vote, yet none of the elections have been impugned, or a scrutiny required. We have sometimes thought that in any wide extension of the suffrage it would be quite fair to require the voter to sign the register opposite to his own name. It would, at the same time, facili tate the proof, if wanted, that the true voter's name had been fraudulently used, and be a stimulus, so far as it went, to education. A voter ought now to be able to do something better than make his mark. In the last generation many substantial yeomen could not write their own names. At the present time no operative or labourer need want that qua lification for an elector. It might be fairly assumed that the man who would not take the trouble 'to learn to write could not care much for the privilege of voting. Some curious scrawls we should have at first, no doubt, almost as illegible as used to be the frank of an M.P. on a letter. As, however, the Post-office put a liberal construction on the writing of Members of Parliament then, so should we be disposed to put a very liberal one on the writing of farm labourers and town mechanics—we should be but too glad to encourage them to write at all. LATEST NEWS The following telegrams have been received Iv Mr. Reuter's office : ST. PETERSBURG, MONDAY. The Northern Bee, of this day, publishes an ac count of the trial of Count Montalembert ; and also a translation of the speech of M. Berriger. The Company of Amver intend establishing a telegraph line from Amver to Nigninewgorow. MARSEILLES, MONDAY , According to ad` ices received from Naples to the 2d, the King has suspended, by royal decree, the sale of the property of those emigrants who had not appeaci before the N ea p o lit an au th or i t i es since five years. The grantee of the railway of Tarento has com• me need a trial against the Government. MADRID, SATURDAY, Dec. 4th The Senate, on the proposition of General Sanz, has brought forward a vote of censure against the Government, on the subject of the rectifications made in the electoral lists. The Marquis de Miraflores has re-presented his bill relative to the elections. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Minister of Marine has just received de spatches, announcing that Baron Gros has succeeded in concluding a treaty with the Emperor of Japan similar to that signed by Lord Elgin, and published in the English papers. It is stated that the inauguration of the immense barrack lately constructed at the Chateau d'Eau is to take place with great pomp on the 15th of December. The Minisfer of the Interior is said to be making preparations for great changes which are to be made among the Prefects and Sub-Prefects on the occasion of the new year. The speech delivered by the Queen of Spain at the opening of the Cortes is very slightly com mented on by the Paris journals, which seem to attach but little importance to the document. They in general merely point to the chief subjects spoken of by the Queen, and compliment the Spanish na tior on the prosperity which it is represented as enjoying. Their congratulation has all the appear ance of an epigram in disguise. 3oußsE, Dec. 6.—The market has been flat; Mobilier shares being particularly affected by the projected new financial bank. Threes have been done at 74f. 15c., and are now at 74f. ; Mobilier varied from 975 f. to 950 f.; Austrian 642 f. 50c. to 641 f. ; Orleans, 1,382 f. 50c. to 1,377 f. 50c. ; Northern, 992 f. 50c. to 990 f. ; Southern, 577 f. 50c. to 575 f. ; and Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 875 f. The following were the last quotations 4i per Cents. 96 60 Po. end month -- 3 per Cents. 73 80 Do. end month 74 Bank Shares 3lBO Credit Fonder 675 Belgian 4f — Piedmonteso (5) Roman 93 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 957 50 Do. Account ..... 960 Spanish Threes 47 Home Debt 42 88 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern - New ditto. 835 -- .. 835 Lyons and Mediterranean 876 25 .. 875 _ New ditto Geneva 620 . 618 75 Midi - -- • . Southern Western 602 50 .. 602 50 Eastern Grand Central — • • Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f. 90c. PRUSSIA. A comparative analysis of the present and the last Chamber gives the following results. Of the 231 members who composed the Right in the last House, only 43 have been re-elected into the pre sent ; of these several only secured their election by announcing their willingness to support the new Ministry. Of fresh recruits, to compensate its losses, the Conservative party has obtained none. Of the ex-Ministry seven had seats in the Chamber, and two only have been re-elected, Manteuffel, sen., and Von der Heydt. The Von Gerlach fraction of the Right—the nucleus of the Ifreuz Parteiwhich counted 39 members—is now cut down to nice. Further,— Chamber of Chamber of I 185 5. 1858. Employes of a superior order 39 29 Landrathe Judges of all degrees Advocates, &c. Military officers Large landed proprietors.. Merchants, manufacturers, and" capitalists Clergy 77 27 40 68 17 21 15 4 91 99 19 22 16 19 THE lONIAN ISLANDS. The following is the text of the protest forwarded to Sir E. Bulwer Lytton by the ten representatives of Corfu : " A feeling of deep aftliction and irritation has been caused in this country by the perusal of the Lord High Commissioner's letter s o f J une 10 , 18 Julythat 14, 1858, in w hi c h the abomi nable assertion the inhabita n t s o f t h e i s l ands of Corcyra y,a and cfu r and Paxo desir e t o b e i ncorporated r(Corfu) with Great Britain, is attempted to be proved by a memorandum of the Procurator -General, who is considered by the Lord High Commissioner as perfectly informed of the sentiments of his fellow countrymen of Corcyra.' The undersigned repre sentatives of Corfu, being the interpreters of the wishes and desires of their country, and witnessing the general bitterness excited by these documents, fulfil a sacred duty in giving a solemn denial to the sentiments deceitfully attributed to their fellow citizens, and protesting against all machinations, they again raise their voices, as they did on th of July, 1857, in ,the Assembly, declaring once more that the only wish and desire of the inhabi tan& of Corcyra has been, and still is, to be united to free Greece. " Corfu, Nov. 13-25th, 1858. " Signed: D. Dandolo, S. Curi, S. Aavanitachi, A. Bisi, S. Bulgari, S. Lascari, A. Polila, T. Ventura, S. Padovan, A. Gialina." THE EAST. Accounts have been received froth Alexandria to the 27th ult. At that date the situation of the country was satisfactory. General Seid Pacha had arrived from Constantinople on his way to Djeddah to act as Imperial Commissioner. He has the most formal and precise instructions from his Govern ment to give his whole energetic co-operation to the commissioners of Prance and England. Letters had reached Alexandria from Djeddah to the 20th, which stated that the investigation into the affair of the murders was going on with the greatest care. A letter from Lisbon says :—" The indisposition under which the King of Portugal has been labour ing is the measles, but his Majesty is now going on well." DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—Mr. John Burton died at East Barkwith, Lincolnshire, on the 2d inst. The deceased was born on the 25th June, 1760, and thus lived in the reigns of George 11., 111., IV., William IV., and Victoria. For 75 years he was tenant of the glebe farm under six successive rectors of East Barkwith. Ho was a man of remarkable strength and industry, being known, oven after ho was an old man, to work in the fields all day and remain up nearly all night threshing corn for the mar ket. When more than 96 years age he would walk to church and back, a distance of nearly three miles, and less than two years ago he took the plough and ploughed for about two hours. His hair was still black at the time of his decease, and his eyesight was so good that he could read small print, in church always following the service and joining in the responses with great precision. He was mar ried, and leaves three children, born with an interval of ten years between each. 7118 BALLOT,IN THE UNITED 'STATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN; SIR,--Will you oblige by inserting the enclosed letter to the editor of the Times, as he declines to insert it in his paper ?—Yours faithfully, W. WICKHAM, Hon. Sec. Basiaghall-street, London, E.C., Dec. 6, 1858. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As your anonymous correspondent resumes his attack on the American Elective system in to-day's Times, I am again compelled to defend the Ballot against his assertions. It is needless to deal with his account of the elections in " Minnesota" given on I know not what authority, as he gives up the case by admit ting it to be " a territory, ust emerging from the forest." In reply to his further attacks on the Ballot founded on its operation in New York, I send you a different account by Mr. Thornton Williams, a distinguished member of the New York bar : " I will take, by way of example the city of New York, containing about three quarters of a million of inhabitants, and divided them into 134 election districts, in each of which there is a poll or place for receiving the votes of those who are resident of such election districts respectively. The votes are generally received through a window or other open ing by persons called Inspectors of Election, who with their clerks, called Clerks of the Poll, are seated around a table, upon which are placed the Ballot-boxes. • These are close boxes, having an aperture in the top of no more than size to receive the Ballot, and as many in number as there are different classes of officers to be elected. The voter presents himself at the window, gives his name and place of residence, which are at once recorded by the Clerks of the Poll, and offers his Ballots, as many different Ballots as there are classes of officers to be elected whom he may choose to vote for. The Ballots are either Written or printed, as the elector may choose—most generally perhaps partly written and partly printed, each voter erasing and filling in names as he sees fit. They are folded so as to conceal the names upon them, and endorsed so as to indicate to which class they refer. They are taken into the hands of one of the inspectors, in the presence of all, that he may perceive that each ballot is but a single paper, and without being unfolded are dropped through the aperture into the boxes respectively indicated by their respective endorsementt. In this manner vote after vote is deposited, until the hour for closing the poll arrives, when the votes are coun ted by the inspectors, and their report made and filed with the proper officer. "This, in short, is the method of voting in the City of New York. I verily believe that this method of secret voting has done much in America to check the spirit of bribery and corruption that might otherwise have been as rife there as it is said to be elsewhere. In spite of this check, however, it must be confessed that America is not free from those who boast of the number of votes they con trol, who tell of the number of their tenants or operatives, and claim political importance commen surate to their assumed political power. But I cannot say that I consider this a very successful class of politicians. The distributors of political patronage seem to doubt if, after all, they really exert as potential an influence as tlfey claim to exert, and the results of elections often go very far to confirm these doubts. Besides such boasters are often embarrassed by some knowing person who is ready to vouch that many of these tenants and operatives voted quite differently from what they were supposed to have voted, that many of them, although they walked up to the poll with a ballot in their hands, really handed in a ballot which they took from their pockets. " The native Indians tell us that 'White man is very uncertain,' but in nothing I. believe, is he more uncertain than in the manner in which he does vote at an election. " A case occurred during a late election in the State of Maine, which shows pretty clearly, I think, the protection the Ballot, by its secrecy, gives to the voter, and its discouraging effect upon those who improperly and directly interfere to influence or tontrol the exercise , of the elective franchise. There was lately, as you are all aware, a general or presidential election in America. The country was greatly agitated from one extremity to the other, by party zeal and personal effort to secure the elec tion of the respective candidates. "Every circamstance that tended to favor one side or the other was sei sed upon with avidity, in the hope of influencing votes by the prestige of anticipated success. • " But what are most looked to at these seasons are the State elections which immediately precede this general election. Maine is the first State that holds her election during this period of agita tion, known as the presidential campaign, and it has uniformly happened that - as Maine led off at her State Election in August, so the whole country has gone in November that this election is looked to with the greatest interest by all sections of the country. In view of this, the Democratic party thought it for their interest to bring elec. tionee:.;ng appliances to bear with all possible force upon the State of Maine, prior to the State Elec tion.---Accordingly, orators were sent into that field, documents distributed ; they even went so far as to canvass the voters individually, and make out lists of those who would be true to the Democratic cause. The result of this counting of votes shewed as pla,inly as figures could well shew, and you know figures never lie, the State of Maine was safe for the Democratic party. So firmly was this believed in New York City, that the Central Com mittee had prepared to celebrate the anticipated victory on the evening of the Election, and accord ingly torches were prepared, and banners painted, and a monster procession was to march through the streets, by way of celebrating a victory so auspicious. The expected hour at length arrived, the telegraph wires began to report the results in cities, towns, and counties, but the report was not quite of the right complexion for the intended celebration ; the truth is, the State had gone by an overwhelming majority for the Republican or F ree Soil cause. The rejoicing was by quite another party than that which had prepared its torches and painted its banners, On comparing the lists previously made with the results of the election, there was a sad discrepancy. It is said that in one town where there were something like 140 votes pledged to the Democratic cause not more than seventy Democratic votes were polled. The secret was, that the heart of Maine was Free Soil to the core, and pledges and party ties were but ropes of sand when the voter came to act with no eye upon him but the Eye above. You will not be surprised if I tell you that the result was a little discouraging to the party that had wasted its treasures upon the voters of Maine. Ard for one I do not believe that party will risk such an investment again. " But the beneficial influence of the Ballot in America is not confined to this very obvious effect of discouraging attempts to control the exercise of the elective franchise. It promotes quiet and order of elections. Let the precise state of the poll be known to the respective parties at any and every hour during the day of election, and it must inevi tably produce discouragement of one or the other of the contesting parties, a discouragement perhaps that would result in a defeat, where would other wise have been a victory; or, on the other hand, it would produce a struggle for votes, for one vote, for two votes, for some precise ,number of votes that would increase as the moment for closing the polls should approach—a struggle that might ter minate, inevitably would terminate, in a scene from the contemplation of which I turn, as from a vision of incipient anarchy, to thank God that from such horrors my country is preserved by the use of the Ballot. _ _ " Let me illustrate the effect of the vote by ballot as a remedy, or rather a preventive, of evils like these by a conversation I had with a defeated can. didate not many months ago. A banker of consi derable fortune was a candidate for Congress in one of the Western districts of New York at the last election and was defeated. Knowing that this class of gentlemen do not always suffer defeat in the most philosophic manner, I ventured to ask him how he felt towards those who had been in the habit of receiving favours at his counter, and who had, notwithstanding, voted against him liTTeplied that he had no resentment toward those who had merely exercised their right to de posit a secret vote against him, for that might be a matter of conscience, but those who had not only voted against him, but had done so openly, by pro claiming their vote or their intent to vote, and thereby giving not merely their vote, but their in - fluence to his prejudice; toward such he confessed a feeling that will I venture to say at least prevent them from ever receiving another favour at his counter." Your correspondent asserts that the American friends of the Ballot Society "never gave a vote in their lives that " was not well known to friend or foe," he says this from his "personal knowledge" of the gentlemen in question. He may or may not have sufficient warrant for this assertion, but it matters little whether these individual voters do or do not keep their votes secret, as your correspondent dces not disprove or deny my assertion that the votes in New York are required by law to be given in secret, and that any voter who likes so to do may keep his vote secret to the end of time. From a lingering hope that a sense of fairness may induce you to publish this I forward it, but if you refuse as you did in the case of my last letter I shall resort to other means of giving publicity to the information given by Mr. Williams. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, F. HENRY F. BERKELEY. Victoria-square, S.W., Dec. 3,1858. REFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—On this most important subject it is desir able to take into account, calmly and dispassion ately, every view that may be presented. I have therefore to submit that there are, as I think, two great principles to be, kept , in view, viz., that all great changes in the political machine should not be made suddenly ; and that it is most desirable that all men shouldbe duly qualified for, and should have a share in, their own government... To accom plish these objects, let the property qualification for the franchise be gradually reduced (fifty years being as nothing in the existence of a nation like Britain) ; and for that purpose let a law be passed reducing just now the £lO qualification to £9; and there after further reducing it by, say, £1 every 5,8, 10 or 15 years, as to Parliament in its wisdom may seem most expedient. And let all other qualifica tions above £lO be reduced in the same periods by the same ratio—that is, by tenths, should tenths be agreed upon. And, in the meantime, let na tional education ge on with great and greater vigour, so that, by the time a property qualification is done away -with, every, or almost every, indivi dual m Britain may possess a thorough educational qualification, without any need for any express stipulation that it should be possessed. When the £lO qualification, in virtue of the proposed law, is reduced to £3 or £4, it might be declared, for any practical difference it would then make, that manhood suffrage should come into operation.—l am, sir, yours respectfully, H. K Edinburgh, Dec. 4. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR have read your various articles on the currency, and likewise your contemporary, the Derbyshire Courier's, with pleasure and pride. From the way in which the subject is brought before the public so perseveringly, I would suggest we had a free trade in issues, the issuer to deposit in the hands of the Finance Minister, or responsible trustees, ten shillings in the pound on all his issues. That amount should be invested in stock for the ultimate payment of those notes ; the holders then would be partially protected. Those who deal in larger amounts are better prepared to take care of themselves, or they should be. Indeed, I know from practical experience this is the right view Lu take of the subject. The failure of Farley's bank at Worcester ought to awaken a feeling to right the country. I could say more, but Ido not wish to occupy you needlessly.--I remain, yours faith fully, AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. Dec. 6, 1858. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY NIGHT. The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Celt, Commander Brown, arrived this even ing. Her dates are—Table Bay, Oct. 22 ; St. Helena, Nov. 2 ; and Ascension, Nov. 8. The Celt conveyed, from the Cape of Good Hope to Ascension, Captain Sir H. Huntley and Dr. Smyth, R.N. Her cargo consists of 138 pipes, 15 hogsheads, 20 half aumes and 29 cases of wine, 35 elephants' teeth, 1,800 horns, four cases ostrich feathers, 70 cases of arrowroot, 124 hides, 8 tons of bones, 139 bundles of skins, 202 bags of linseed, 89 bales of wool, 7 bags of nuts, 601 tons (1,220) bags, 11 cases, and one bundle of copper ore. Sir George Grey arrived at Cape Town from the frontier on the 22d Oct. Mutual concession s have been made between Moshesh and the Free State. The boundary now established is nearly identical with that formerly laid down by Major Harden. The Cape Monitor is not sanguine of permanent peace. Affairs are rather unsettled on the colonial frontier. Thefts have considerably increased, especi ally of cattle. The Cafir Chief Umhala, and two of his coun cillors have been found guilty, by a special criminal court, of attempting to levy war in South Africa against her Majesty; sentence deferred. The general elections were still in progress: The Council elections have terminated, but the scrutiny was not reported. The Assembly elections will take place in January. The smallpox continues very virulent, especially among the coloured population. No correct re gister is kept. The following additional reinforcements have left the Cape for India :—Per Prince Arthur, Captain Cleveland's company of Artillery and 330 Germans; per Megoera, the left wing of 'both Rifles and re cruited invalids ; per Simoom, the 31st Regiment; and per barques Ariel, Estafette, and Simon Edward Oliver, detachments of the German Legion. The emigrant passengers from the burnt ship Eastern City have been forwarded to Melbourne by the Caroline Elizabeth. Five million pounds of wool, valued at £280,000, have been shipped from Algoa Bay this season. The export of fine wool is steadily increasing. There is no intelligence from Dr. Livingstone. The Cape Town Mail recommends its readers not to be too sanguine of the success of the expedition. Her Majesty's steamer Hermes, from Simon's Bay, with his Excellency the Governor, arrived i n Table Bay on the 22d October. The steamship Norman, with the English m a il s , arrived out on the 17th October. In Table Bay—The Witch of the Seas, the Cath cart, the Anna Julia, the Augustus, and the Noon day. In Algoa Bay—The Bon Accord and the Eastern Provixce. In Simon's Bay—The Erasmus and the Mary Montague. At St. Helena, Nov. 2—The Swedish brig Zeghin, the English barque Emerdale, the English schooner Witch of the Seas, from the Mauritius for London ; the Prussian barque Elaine Fredericke and the Norwegian brig Mark Een, from Simon's Bay for London. At Ascension, Nov. 8, were the guardship Tor toise, the brig Anna Porter ; the barque Palestine, 75 days from London, with Marines and stores ; and the ship Eliza, for water. The Celt spoke Nov. 1, the barque Ada Zeigler, for St. IVlelena, in lat. 17 14 S., long. 4 21 W. ; and Nova 15, the barque Barbant, of Bristol, for the West Coast of Africa, in lat. 7 43 N., long. 16 66 W, THE NAVY. Captain the Hon. James Robert Drummonk C. 8., Junior Lord of the Admiralty, who has been appointed to succeed Admiral Shepherd as superin tendent of Woolwich Dockyard, visited the estab lishment yesterday and inspected the whole of the departments, accompanied by Colonel Greene, di rector-general of works to the Admiralty, and Admiral Shepherd. The latter officer has struck his commodore's flag from the Fisgard, on his appointment as Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and Capt. Drummond will assume the duties of his office in a few days. The committee on dockyard economy, consisting of Rear-Admiral Robert Smart, K.H. (chairman) ; Mr. Henry Chatfield, master shipwright at Dept ford yard ; Mr. Andrew Murray, chief engineer at Portsmouth yard ; Mr. Lawes, storekeeper at Chat ham; and Mr. Bowman, civil engineer, commenced their labours at Woolwich dockyard yesterday. The proceedings werss of a private nature, and the committee will meet daily at Woolwich until Christmas. The Childers, 12, Commander W. Swinburn, is preparing for being paid off at Chatham. A fatal accident occurred. on Sunday night, by the drowning of a petty o ffi cer named William Wood wards. It is supposed he fell out of the bow-port, between the Hussar hulk and the Childers. A sudden splash was heafd by the boatswain's wife, who raised an alarm, and although almost imme diate assistance was at hand the body has not been recovered. The Himalaya, 6, iron screw-troop frigate, Com mander John Seccombe, paid wages yesterday along side the Portsmouth dockyard jetty. The Sandfly, screw gunboat, tender to the Corn wallis, 60, guardship of the Coastguard in the Humber, has arrived at Chatham, and com menced loading with stores for that vessel. Mr. Budd, senior inspector C. constabulary at Woolwich Dockyard, who a sho_ time ago escaped with his life from the ruffianly attempt to assassi nate him, the bullet having lodged in his left cheek, received the medial attestation of Sir John Fisher, chief surgeon of the force, on Saturday, and has been permitted to retire from the service on an augmented superannuation in consequence of his wound. Yesterday detachments of invalid troops belong ing to the 3d Buffs, 2d battalion, and 14th Regi ment, arrived at Fort Pitt, Chatham, from Corfu, for the purpose of being discharged. The 2d . badalion of the 20th (East Devonshire) regiment will, it is understood, be shortly sent to British Columbia for service in that colony. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. • the Hon. Walter Talbot, to be Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral C. Talbot, commanding at Cork ; George P. Martin, paymaster, to be secretary to Rear-Admiral Talbot; and Robert Ellis, master's assistant, to the Corn wallis. EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. The following regulations have just been issued: 1. In July, 1859, an examination of candidates will be held. Forty candidates will be selected, if so many shall be found duly qualified. Of these 25 will be selected for the Presidency of Bengal, eight for that of Madras, and seven for that of Bombay. Notice will hereafter be given of the days and place of examination. 2. Any natural-born subject of her Majesty, who shall be desirous of entering the civil service of India, will be entitled to be examined at such exa. min ation, provided he shall on or before the Ist of May, 1859, have transmitted to the Civil Service Commissioners, Dean's-yard, London, S.W.— (a) A certificate of his birth, showing that his age on the Ist of May, 1859, will be above 18 years and under 22 years; (b) A certificate signed by a phy s i c i an or surgeon , of his having no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity, unfitting him for the civil service of India ; (c) Satisfactory proof of good moral character; (d) A statement of those of the branches of knowledge hereinafter enumerated in which he do sires to be examined. 3. In any case in which a doubt may arise as to the eligibility of a candidate in respect of age, health, or character, such inquiries as may be neces sary.will be instituted by the Civil Service Com missioners. 4. The examinations will take place only in the following branches of knowledge Marks. English Language and Literature-- d'ompositio - n. English literature and history, including that of the laws and constitution l,OOO 1.500 Lang-no m literattlrO, and history of Greece 750 _ 9) )9 Rome 750 ), If France.. 375 7/ 2) Germany 9 1 f 7 Italy . Mathematics, pure and mixed Natural sciences; that is, chemistry, electricity, and magnetism, natural history, geology, and mine ralogy. 5 * No candidate will be allowed to be examined in more than three of the branches of knowledge included under this head, and the total (500 marks) may be obtained by adequate proficiency in any three. Moral sciences ; that is, logic, mental and moral philosophy Sanscrit language and literature 5OO Arabic language and literature. 5OO 7,375 5. The merit of the persons examinei will be estimated by marks, and the numbers set opposite to each branch in the pr ece di n c, regulation denote. the greatest number o f mar k s that can be obtained in respect to it., 6. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of examination unless he shall be considered to possess a competent know ledge of that subject. 7. The examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by viva voce examination, as may be deemed necessary. 8. The marks obtained by each candidate, in re spect of each of the subjects in which he shall have been examined, will be added up, and the names of the 40 candidates who shall have obtained a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the re maining candidates will be set forth in order of merit, and such candidates shall be deemed to be selected candidates for the civil service of India. They shall be permitted to choose, according to the order in which they stand, as long as a choice re mains, the presidency to which they shall be ap pointed. 9. In July, 1860, a further examination of the selected candidates will take place in the following subjects :1— Marks. (Sanscrit •••i Vernacular Languages of India (each) 350 *** Each candidate may name one or two languages. If he names one only, he must name either Sanscrit or a vernacular language current in the presidency which he has selected. 2. 3 , 1 e History and Geography of India 500 3. The General Principles of Jurisprudence and the Elements of Hindoo and Mo hammedan Law - 1, - 000 4. Political Economy 5OO In this, as in the preceling examination, the merit of the candidates examined will be estimated by marks, •and' the numbers set opposite to each subject denote the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it. The examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and NI raten answers, and by viva voce examination, as may be deemed necessary. 10. No candidate will be admitted to proceed to India until he shall have passed the further exami nation, or after he shall have attained the age of 24 years. __ 11. The selected can did a t e w h o at the further examination shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the subj ec t s spec i fied in regulation 9 shall be adjudged to have passed, and to be entitled to be appointed to the civil service of India. 12. The seniority in the civil service of India of the selected candidates shall be determined accord ing to the order in which they stand on the list re sulting from the further examination. 13. No person will, even after passing the fur ther examination, be allowed to proceed to India unless he shall comply with the regulations in force at the time for the civil service of India, and shall be of sound bodily health and good moral character. The Civil Service Commissioners will require such further evidence on these points as they may deem necessary before granting their certificate of quali fication. 14. Applications from persons desirous to be ad_ mitted as candidates are to be addressed to the Se_ cretary to the Civil Service Commissioners, Dean's yard, London, S.W. NOTE.—The Secretary of State for India in Council has authorised the Civil Service Commis sioners to state that, with tha view of meeting the expenses to be incurred by selected candidates during the interval which must elapse before they can proceed to India, it is his lordship's intention to allow the sum of £lOO to each selected candidate who shall have passed the further examination in July, 1860, to the satisfaction of the commissioners , and shall have complied with such rules as may be laid down for the guidance of selected candidates• A Berlin letter, in the Gazette de Cologne says —" Austria and Baden agree with Prussia that the Ger manic Diet shall not occupy itself with the question of ltastadt for about six months from the present time. In the interval the Governments interested will come to an understanding oil the merits of the caee," foreif last f eicer rates, Cong, has b given In to activ E rants Prov e( A si be en , Co-, . 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