The Sun. — London, England, 1858-08-14 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—NEW THEATRE. MARTHA.—Last Night of the Season. THIS EVENING (sITI:r.D.IY), August I I, the last night of the peason will take place, on which occasion will be performed otow's Opera, MARTHA. Lady Enrichetta, Madame Bosio; Nancy, Madlle. Didion ; Tlum tett, Signor Graziani ; Lord Tristano, Sigaor Tagliatico ; Sceriffo dl Richmond, M. Zelger ; and Monello, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. In the Ircidental Divertissement Madlle. Zina, Madlle.Delechaux , and M. Desplnecs will appear. The National Anthem, " God Savo the Queen," will bo sung at the conclusion of the Opera. Commence at half-past S. Pit tickets, los. Cl., amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and 55.; amphitheatre, 28.6 d. Second tier boxes, Z 2 12s . 6d. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kenn. THIS EVENING will bo presented Shakspere's Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. ROTAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanloorough. THIS EVENING, the Comedy of COURT FAVOUR: supported by Messrs. Emery, Belford, Poynter , Turner, Mi .ses M. Wilton, Hughes, and Mrs. C. . Me l v ill e . After which, HUNTING A TURTLE: by Messrs. Belford, Burt, Turner, J. Clarke, and Miss M. Wilton. To conclude with RAISING TIIE WIND: by Messrs. Belford, Turner, J. Clarke, Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton. cANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road. OP.EN EVERY EVENIN G.—The following company of Vo calists ere engaged for the performance of Seleetions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, Sze., viz : _miss Russell. Mrs. Badeey, Miss Brunel], Miss Ray, Madame Baholetti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Ilerr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, senor Antonio, E. L. Mine, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. sell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde, and E. W. Meckney., Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtney; Director, Herr F. Jongbrnans. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. 11V-19 • ' 44 4 k s o,T.CLU I. µ A 0 _ -4-4% 'A. • iterikae . • p . , ,ibi.Al "'to N. "Ir THE SUN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1858. The arrival of the Calcutta Mail gives full parti culars of the events of which we were lately enabled to indicate the leading features. The dates are, from Calcutta to the 4th July, and from Hong Kong to the 23d June. We gave, in our impression of yester day, a valuable summary from the Calcutta English man of the 3d July, very clearly and distinctly explaining the actual state of affairs, and the results of the operations of the British troops. We give further important information this day, so that our friends will have the latest intelligence both from India and China. The Governor-General has very heartily congra tulated Sir Huou RosE on the successful result of his rapid advance on Gwalior, and tendered his best thanks to Major-Generals ROBERTS and WHITLOCK and the various corps under.their command, and cor dially 'welcomes them to the Presidency of Bengal. These congratulations and thanks have been well merited. Sir 11. RosE has proved himself to be a worthy successor of the illustrious HAVELOCK. Worn out by fatigue, prostrated by severe illness, when rest was of vital importance to himself and the wearied troops under his command, he started into immediate action at the call of duty, although he had ample excuse for remaining quiescent. He cast aside every selfish consideration, and proved himself just what an English General ougkt to be. It was of vast importance to neutralise the conse quences of the temporary success of the mutinous contingent and the treacherous troops of Sciadia. Nothing could have been more injurious to British interests, or more calculated to prolong the strife, than the appearance of a pre tender seated on the musnud of a faithful friend and devoted ally—one who, to use the words of the Go vernor-General, did "not shrink from his obligations, or hesitate to avow his loyalty." Never was there a case where prompt and decisive action was more urgently required, and seldom, if ever, has it been more strikingly displayed than by Sir HUGH ROSE, in his truimphant march on Gwalior. Had there been the slighest hesitation on his part—had he wasted even a single day in recruiting his own strength or the severely-tried energies of his followers, the consequences might have been of a very formidable character. Gwalior would have become the head-quarters of the in surgents ; all the disaffected—and their name is " legion"—would have hurried there. It would, in fact, have been made the rallying point of the rebel lion. Agra would have been seriously menaced, and a considerable force must have been diverted from other service in order to protect it. All these evils have been averted by the skill and activity of Sir HUGH Ross, and we trust that he may receive the rewards to which he is so justly entitled for his bril liant exploits. Not the least interesting part of the intelligence is that relating to the death of the Ranee of Jhansi, whose name had long since acquired painful noto riety in this country for her brutal and abominable treatment of the English captives who had the misfortune to fall into her hands. Her name was associated as a monster of cruelty with that of the arch-demon NANA SAma ; and, per hapq, considering that she was a young woman scarcely more than twenty years of age, it may be regarded even in a more terrible light. If she had more than masculine vices, she had a corresponding degree of courage. She and her sister, both dressed in men's clothes, led the rebels to the attack, and headed the defence against the sharp pursuit of the Bth Hussars, They fell fighting bravely, and thus avoided the terrible expiation of their offences that was otherwise inevitable. Their antecedents had not merited such an end. They should rather have graced the same gallows with the NANA SAIIIB, and been made signal examples of retributive Justice, and of the anger of an avenging NEMESIS ! As we long since pointed out, the contest has now resolved itself into a guerilla war. The enemy, beaten at every point, only find safety in flight. They may harass, but they cannot, so long as British officers act as worthy representatives of Lord CLYDE and Sir Huoit ROSE, seriously endanger our position. They may cause annoyance, but that is all. The danger has passed away with the capture of the several strong holds held by the rebels, and the restoration of Scindia to his rightful throne. Sir H. GRANT, Sir E. LUGARD, and other gallant officers, fully maintain their well-established reputations. The Moulvie has been executed by a native chief, who captured him during a wanton attack on him by one of the leading fanatics. At I resent there must be a cessation of operations until the restoration of better weather. The climate is now far more fatal to our gallant soldiers than the weapons of their enemies. The burning sun causes more deaths than either steel or lead. The heat has been greater than any experienced during the last twenty years ; but the rains having set i n, even at the eleventh hour, have in some degree purified the oppressive atmosphere, and rendered it more endurable. We recently pointed out the state of affairs is China. It is said that ) P o been ordered out, and there French troops have Ten thousand certainly be at en least an equal British f orce. r7t h English and Celestials toe s to a Frenchmen would speedil y b r i nb " sense of their situation," and enable e us rwoMandarins,nestialgotiate on the most advantageous term s . r of very exalted rank, had opened negotiations with Lord ELGIN and Baron GROS ; but as it appeared on investigation that their credentials were not satis factory or their powers sufficiently extensive, they were sent back to the place from whence they came. It seems by no means improbable that there must be a further approximation to Pekin before the remonstrances of the Plenipotentiaries pene trate the recesses of the Imperial palace, or the Brother of the Sun can be made to understand the true state of affairs. At Canton the braves (!) are still butchering all the victims whom they can kid nap. It is more than hinted that they are encouraged by the Chinese Government, and if this be so, surely the time for forbearance has gone by, and the most nergetic measures should be adopted, not merely t Canton, but also at Tien-sin and Pekin. With w h evidence of faithlemesl Lord ELGIN thould not listen to the humbugging excuses for procrastination. He should decide on the exact extent of the satisfac tion he requires, and firmly insist thereon, without permitting any change or alteration whatever. ELIIIU BURRIT'S project of an Ocean Penny Post age will be all the more rapidly and readily realised according to the spread of the submarine system of electric telegraph. It is merely a question of time when the Ocean Penny Postage shall be one of our actual institutions. Come the day inevitably will — we are hastening towards it perceptibly—our advance being appreciable even now by a momentary glance at what is, and at what has been, in the matter of this particular branch of our expenditure. An ordinary letter, for example, may be conveyed at the cost of sixpence, rut Southampton, along the whole of the oriental route to India, across the Mediterranean' from Gibraltar (calling at Marseilles) to Alexandria, across the desert at Suez, along the entire length of the Red Sea, onward, the whole distance to Calcutta. And all this, remember, a mere sixpenny commu nication—when not so very long ago a letter would have been charged ninepence if con veyed from Bath to London in the mail bags in the hind boot of one of those wonderful old red coaches, with the red guard, and the red charioteer, and the smoking :relays, team after team, of well groomed horses, bowling along the brown level of the highroad trailing and winding between green hedgerows all the way from the extremity of Middle sex to the heart of Somersetshire. Because the truth, here mentioned, is trite, it is none the less worthy on that account of being thus explicitely 1 reiterated—now that the necessity is becoming every day more and more apparent, that the facilities of intercommunication between ourselves and our re mote possessions must sooner or later be subjected to a wise, a comprehensive, and an economical reor ganisation. The submarine electric telegraph, we repeat, must hasten the otherwise inevitable event of this Postal reorganisation. It obvi ously stands to reason that with intercourse, direct, I positive, verbal, written intercourse established be tween the extremities of the world, along the depths 1 of a gigantic ocean like the Atlantic, bringing to gether, in the throb of a pendulum, the new world and the old, Valentia and Newfoundland—the previous sluggish channel of communication will be so far deteriorated in value and importance that it will ap pear more than ever slow, tedious, and, under the circumstances, almost, one might say, exasperating. The extension of our maritime steam resources again will come in aid of the growth of the more extended and complicated webwork of submarine cables thread ing hither and thither the abysses of the deep sea• An oceanic penny postage is in these respects already virtually un fait accompli. It will be the corollary of the steam engine as applied to the purposes of marine locomotion, and of the electric telegraph as worked through thousands and thousands of miles of- submarine cable. Insomuch do we regard this advancement as one that must be—by a necessity no less inevitable than that by which a pear, when it is ripe, must fall in obedience to the laws of gravita tion—that we conceive that not one more effort in his humane agitation need be made towards the furtherance of his cherished scheme by the accom plished American Blacksmith. Yesterday another stride in the right directien— another step towards the attainment of the golden goal of the Ocean Penny Postage as an established fact, was incidentally referred to by ourselves in the course of our editorial observations in allusion to a i certain remarkable petition preparing for presenta tion to her MAJESTY'S Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. It has allusion to the mismanagement hitherto of our postal communica tion with Australia. The immediate and unhesitat ing abrogation of the old bungling contract for the conveyance of the mails between England and Aus tralia was, if we remember rightly, the first act of any importance adventured upon by the right hon. baronet upon his accepting the seals as her Ms- JESTY'S Secretary for the Colonies. It was a bold easure which Lord STANLEY had scarcely had time LO think of, and upon which Mr. LABOUCHERE had 'Ter seriously for an instant dreamt of adventur ing. The new _Colonial Secretary, however, was I scarcely gazetted, when by a word, by a stroke of the I pen, the thing was done. It is the way of the Derby ites. They don't talk about reform—they reform. They don't content themselves with moodily pro mising to take a grievance loudly complained of some time or another into their consideration— they take it into their consideration. That, in effect, is the very simple reason why the radical reformers, the ultra-liberals —in the House, Messrs. BRIGIIT and ROEBUCK, out of the House, let us say the Daily News and ourselves— have taken kindly to these statesmen ; have accepted as one of the best Governments that well could be under the circumstances, this energetic and patriotic this really laborious and conscientious and painstak ing DERBY Administration. And so—according to ministerial custom now-a days—there was an end very speedily to the obstructive contract in regard to our postal service with Australia. A memorial is now accumulating signatures in the city —a me morial intended to bring directly under the personal observation of the Colonial Secretary the enormous advantages almost certain to accrue, both to the mother country and to the colony, from the organisation of a double route (westwards as well eastwards) to our Australian possessions. The peti tioners very reasonably suggest that the mail thence and thither, to and fro, ought, in reason and prudence, to be regular and fortnightly. They then go on to expatiate upon the facilitation it would be to the intercourse with our antipodes, if—besides maintaining the rapid intercourse with the southern and western colonies of the Australian group by continuing the route via Suez—we further secured the interests of the northern and eastern colonies by establishing another and very different route, one via the Isthmus of Panama. The two routes, of course, being used alternately— just as the Indian mails leave this country now for Bombay, now for Calcutta. The project appears, upon the first blush, to be both rational and feasible. We entertain very little doubt that it will secure to itself the instant and serious attention of her MAJESTY'S Colonial Secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY* , EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1858. HAVELOCK'S VOLUNTEERe CAVALRY. The following is a copy of General SirJ. Germ's letter, taking leave of this gallant force : " Lucknow, March 29. " My dear Barrow,—We are about to separate, perhaps for ever ; but, believe me, I shall ever retain you in affec tionate remembrance, and ever speak with that intense admiration which I feel for the glorious Volunteers whom you have commanded with such distinction. It would afford me much pleasure to shake every one of them by the hand and tell them how warmly I feel towards them, but this is impossible ; my pressing duty will not allow me even to write a few farewell lines to each of your cfficers ; but I trust to your communicating to them individually my affec tionate adieu and sincerest wishes for their prosperity and happiness. May God bless them and you.—Ever your sin cerest and att ac h e d friend, "J. OTTTRAM." " To Major B arrow Commanding Havelock's Volunteer Cavalry, Lucknow." Her Majesty the Queen and big Royal Highness the Prince Consort arrived at the mouth of the Scheldt, in the Victoria and Albert royal yocht, at about half-past G o'clock yesterday evening. A royal salute was fired from the fort at Flushing as the royal yacht passed. At half-past 8 o'clock the anchor was dropped for the night, and at 4 o'clock this morning the yacht again weighed, and proceeded to Antwerp, where it arrived at abtlut 6 o'clock. his Highness the Prince Nicolas Paskowitch, accompanied by the Count Alexander Schenschin (Ger.eral en-Chef), the C ount Paul Glinka Col. Michel Ahaza, C untl.tour ono ff , Cel. Berakof, the Count Konstantin Schostnk, M. Wurgna, and Dr. Krazinckaff, have taken etnheroutee f a ur ir dprt St. Pureetersburg from the . Brunswick Hotel for Paris, His Excellency the Count de Lavradio has left town for the Continent. The Chevalier d'Oliveira will act as chargé d'affaires during the absence of his excellency. His Excellency the Brazilian Minister and Madame de Carvallo Moreira left town yesterday for Ger many. The Duke of Richmond has gone to Edinburgh to join the SUSFCX Militia, his grace's regiment, which has just removed from Dover. The Duchess of Richmond and Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox have left town for Gordon Castle, Fochabere, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. (By Electric Telegraph.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Cambria steamer, Captain Anderson, has ar rived, bringing the Australian mails, 60 passengers, and £72,128 in specie, elephants' tusks, 18 packages gum, 21 packages flax, and 73 packages sundries. Moderate westerly winds during the passage. She left Alexandria on the Ist, and Malta on the sth. FRANCE. PARIS, AI G. 13. The labours of the Plenipotentiaries of the Paris Conferences will for the moment close without set tling the laws for the navigation of the Danube. Varied interests have created conflicting opinions as to the police arrangements. Each State through which the great stream flows wishes to preserve its police authority. Turkey and Austria appear to favour these claims, and thus differences of opinion on this question have to be settled at some future union of the Plenipotentaries. The organisation of the Danubian Principalities, as agreed to by the Envoys of the great Powers, is not likely to give universal satisfaction amongst the Roumans. The fact is, by calling on the people to express an opinion on their form of government, diplomacy raised a hydra-headed diplomatic monster difficult to get rid of. During the negotiations for the Principalities Lord Cowley has rendered great service to Fuad Pacha, and has given him his support when the in tegrity of Turkey or her legitimate influence and rights were debated. I should presume the Queen's present Government has followed the policy laid down by Lord Palmerston's Cabinet during the con ferences. Official despatches have reached Paris from Con stantinople, informing the Turkish Ambassador that the Government of the Sultan is seriously and deter minedly occupied in creating financial reforms. His Highness the Sultan has agreed to suspend his palace-building expenses and those of the household generally. Tranquillity again prevails throughout the Turkish empire. I have received the following : " CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 4. " The greatest anxiety reigns to learn that the punish ment shall be commensurate with the aggravated character of the crime committed at Djedds. There are many who would have the town destroyed by the naval forces of those nations which have been insulted; but the most reasonable men :among those whose long intercourse with Mahemedans renders their opinion the most valuable, consider that such a step would rouse at once the fanatical spirit throughout Mussulman countries, the effect of which would be most lamentably serious. The chastisement must be inflicted by the Turkish Government, but it is the duty of England and France to see that it is strictly carried out, and not in pro mise only, as is invariably the case when the Ottomans are left to themselves. " The French press advocates an armed occupation of Turkey, to give effect to the Hatti-humayom ; and, without such assistaiee to enforce its execution, it will ever remain a dead letter. We are too apt to take it for granted that England and France must have conflicting interests in any proposition that proceeds from either separately; but the result of establishing the rights of Christians firmly in this country would be to induce a population, the chief ingre dient of which would be the energetic Anglo-Saxon, with the valuable addition of Germans and Swise, which for a cen tury to come could have no interests opposed to our own, which would create the most enduring barrier against foreign aggression, and develope the resources of the fertile plains of Asia Minor, becoming good customers for our manufactures, and producers of vast supplies for European consamption. "The state of exchanges appears to have passed a crisis. There has been a combination of merchants and bankers to afford a temporary relief, on the stipulation that the Sul tan's treasury shall issue no more paper money. The sum proposed to be raised is £BOO,OOO in bills on Paris, London, &c., and the chief part of that sum is already subscribed. It has caused the pound sterling, which had reached 187 piastres, to fall this evening to 175. a The differences between Persia and the Ottoman Porte are in the course of immediate adjustment. The Sultan sailed for Broussa to-day in a screw line-of-battle ship. " Mans. Lesseps went yesterday to Odessa to assist in the establishment of a Chamber of Commerce. A clever Turk facetiously remarked that he intends to pierce the Isthmus of Perekop, as it is absolutely necessary for his happine hat he should cut a canal somewhere." PARIS BOURSE.—The situation of the Bank of France, published this morning, does not show a decided improvement in affairs, and it has produced an unfavourable feeling in the market. Threes, after having been done at 691 r. Sc., declined to 68fr. 95c.; Mobilier varied from 677 fr. 50c. to 672 f. 50c.; Austrian, 640 fr. to 638 fr. 75c.; Orleano, 1,295 fr. to 1,290 fr. ; Lyons, 792 fr. 50c. to 788 fr, 75c.; Southern, 530 fr. to 525 fr.,; Eastern, 677 fr. 50c. to 675 fr.; Western, 622 fr. 50c. to 627 fr. 50c.; and Northern, 935 fr. to 9321 r. 50C. The following are the last quotations : Fr. Ct. 41 per Cents. 96 73 Do. end of mon .. 96 75 Pr. Ct. Credit Fancier 6lO Belgian 41 99 75 Piedmontese 5 81) 50 Roman 9O 75 Austrian . Three per Cent. ... 68 95 Do. end of month.. 68 95 Bank Shares Credit Mobiller 670 Do. account Spanish Threes Home Debt ...... ,WAYS. RAIL Cash—Fr. Ct. Account—Fr. Ct. Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 790 .. 790 Nr -, di evr ditto Geneva Midi Western Eastern Grand Central Sardinian ........... Austrian. .. • 640 592 50 526 25 615 - 675 - 42•? 50 637 50 MALTA. VALETTA, Atm. 7. Advices received from Canea, to the 27th ult., state that order and tranquillity had finally been restored at Canca. The Turks were returning to their country habitations, and a subscription had bee❑ publicly opened, with much success, in relief of those who had suffered most during the disturbed state of the country. Mehmet Emin Pacha, a com missioner of the Sublime Porte, had arrived to re lieve Ahmet Pacha, whose removal has disappointed the French party in Candia. Mr. Longworth and Mr. Ricketts, who it seems are sent out by the Eng lish Government on a special mission relative to re cent events in Candia, have reached Canea. The English Consul of that island left for Constantinople, being called by our Ambassador there. The Go vernment have despatched troops to all the provin cial places. Matters in the town of Candia are, however, still in an unsettled state. A Turk killed a Greek at Rettimo, and the Greek population was consequently thrown into the utmost consternation. I Mehmet Emin Pacha intended leaving Canea for Candia. Her Majesty's steam frigate Vulture was stationed at Suda. The Greek Consul returned to the city on the 26th. Mr. Zimelli, the Superintendent of Public Works in Malta, has returned from London and Paris, whither he was sent by Government to collect information for constructing a new market in Valetta. The design of the proposed building is an excellent one, and its execution being left in good hands, will no doubt be perfect. The present site of the market is made the most of in the new plan, as the intention is to construct it of stone and iron, which will do away with many of the bulky stone obstructions in the present market. The illalta Times says : " If we are to judge by the reports current in town, and the movements of influential persons, as well connected with as opposed to the present Bishop of Malta (Monsignor Pace Forno), the ecclesiastical horizon forebodes a storm. We observe the departure of Monsignor Casolani, the Bishop f of Muricaitro, for Marseilles, en route for Paris and Lon don, also Mrs. M‘Donnell; and on the same day, that o the Rev. S. Combo, secretary of Monsignor Pace Forno, for Rome, bearer of important clerical despatches to the Holy See, for which destination a relative of the bishop (the Rev. Gauci Azopardi) took his departure shortly pre vious. Mr. R. Messina and Mr. E. Zammitt, merchants, supporters of the Jesuits, have also left for Rome. All these movements are owing to the wordy conflict between the Bishop of Malta and the J esu it s —the latter supported by their general at Rome, and the former by the English Go vernment." A maresnest is discovered by the last Malta Times, as follows : A rumour is entreat, but we have not been able to trace it to any good source, that his Excellent:) , Sir Gaspard Le Le Marchant is not likely to continue long 'tn the gover norship of this island." The rumour must certainly be a caloalistic fabri cation ; and no doubt Sir Gaspard h; Ls already ex perienced a little of the usual deception practised in Malta to enable him to treat such things as they deserve. I believe that a strong party of officials are opposed to the energetic measures and vigilant watch of our new governor ; but they must ulti mately succumb, and their notorious laxity and indifference to the discharge of their public duties be changed to energy and attachment to duty. The first good step taken by Sir Gaspard WWI to put all the public departments in proper working; order, and this, of course, is distasteful to many officials. hence some opposition. The Acting Chief Secretary to Government Capt. Brett, A.D.C., is discharging the duties of that office with the greatest credit to himself, and satisfaction to the public. His exact knowledge of public affairs, and ready discernment of what is just and necessary, as well as his courtesy, have already earned him great respect and esteem here. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Panther, with London mail of 2d inst., arrived last evening. The Colombo is expected to-day from Alexandria with the mails from Calcutta and China. The Euxine will convey the overland portion of the mails to Marseilles. A quarantine of 15 days has been established in Malta on all arrivals from Tripoli, and 21 days on those from Bengazi, where, it is reported, the plague is raging. Malta is at present in free pratique with Corfu, in consequence of the precautionary measures taken here. I understand tkat a quarantine of eight days is fixed at Marseilles on arrivals from Malta. Admiral Fanshawe's fleet is still cruising off the island. Her Majesty's gunboat Coquette has arrived from Corfu. The Vigilant has been despatched to Suda Bay, in Candia, to relieve her Majesty's steam frigate Vulture. The following British mercantile steamers have arrived and left during the week, viz. :—General Williams, Demetrius, Thessalia, and Lebanon. THE QUEEN IN GERMANY. FROM THE COURT NEWSMAN. AUGUST 11. At 8 o'clock the Col. de Moerkerke, Master of the Horse to the King of the Belgians, and Gen. Chassal, one of his Majesty's aides-de-camp, came on board to report to her Majesty the arrangements made by the King, and to attend upon her Majesty. Lord Howard de Walden, her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Brussels ; and Mr. Grattan, the British Consul, likewise paid their respects to her Majesty. At a quarter before 10 o'clock the Queen and Prince Coisort landed in the State barge of his Majesty the King of the Belgians at the Quai, where the royal carriages were in attendance, and conveyed her Majesty, his Royal Highness, and suite to the station of the Brussels and Cologne Railway. In attendance were Lady Macdonald, Lady in Waiting; the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Maid of Honour; the Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State ; Col. de Moerkerke and Gen. Chassal, of the Household of the King of the Belgians ; Col. the llon. A. N. Hood and Capt. Du Plat, Equerries in Waiting ; Col. the Hon. Sir C. Phipps, K.C.8., and Sir James Clark. At Malines his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with their Royal and Imperial Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, received her Majesty, and accompanied her to Verviers, where they took their leave. Upon arriving at Aix-la-Chapelle her Majesty and the Prince were met by his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia and a numerous and brilliant staff. Ilis Royal Highness proceeded with her Majesty from Aix-la-Chapelle to Dusseldorf, at which sta tion the Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigma ringen were in waiting to receive the Queen. The carriages of the Prince of Hohenzollern were in attendance, and conveyed her Majesty the Queen, the Princess of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen, the Prince Consort, and the Prince of Prussia, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in attendance to the Breiten bach Hof. The Prince of Hohenzollern escorted her Majesty on horseback. The town was spontaneously and beautifully decorated by the inhabitants, and her Majesty was received everywhere with the loudest acclamations. The Queen and Prince Consort will dine this evening with the Prince and Princess of Hohenzol lern-Sigmaringen. POTSDAM, AUG. 12. The Queen and Prince Consort arrived here a 10 o'clock this evening, all well. THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST. EXAMINATION OP CANDIDATES. The following is the resnit of the examination of candi olates for the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, held by the Council of Military Education at King's College, dur ing the first week in July. Fifty vacancies having been announced as open to com petition, 59 candidates appeared for examination, and 49 passed, one of whom, however, was rejected for a breach of the regulations, and one on the report of the medical officer. To fill two of the three remaining vacancies, the two gentlemen next on the list were specially recommended by the council, having passed a good general examination, although they were deficient in matkematics. The obligatory subjects and the general total of marks to be obtained for qualification were reduced, in conformity with the modification recently made in the requirements for direct commissions, and were as follow :—Mathematics, obligatory section, 400 marks; the English Language, 200 marks ; general total, 1,800 marks. (Signed) D. GREENTREE, Sec. Council of Military Education. 1, Whitehall-yard, Aug. 4, 1858. Name. Where Educated. Marks. Nixon, F. W. Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Private Tuition 7247 Rogers, M. W. ....New Grammar School, Plymouth 6035 Stace, E. V Civil Service Institute, Dublin.. 5930 Deedes, J. G Eton and Private Tuition ...... 5585 Wighton, E. King's College School .......... 5321 Chard, W. W. Grammar School, Plymouth. •.. 5242 Tyrwhitt, T. P. Cheltenham College V I years (till Dec. last) Hutchinson, W. L.. Royal Academy, Gosport Clarke, P. P. D.... Private Tuition • 4261 Hebeler, H Harrow School . 4208 Granville, S Portland House, Brighton, and King's College, London 4131 Barnett, W Chelten ham College 3942 Flower, S. Tonb Mu School (till Dec. last). 3848 llarr s, E. Prepat st, Military Acad. Eltham 3832 Hutchinson, A. R Continencal Academy, Kingston, & Civil Service Instit., Dublin. 3770 Wingate, T. 0 Dollar Institution, Stirling, N.B. 3737 Thrupp, M. Marlborough College 3672 Partridge, S. R..... Home ........ Webster, J. M. ....Private Tuition 3642 Douglas, G. M. ....Private Tuition 3330 Dawson, J. A. Royal Grammar Sch., Colchester' 3310 Cooper, H. T. St. Paul's School Onslow, A. D. Private Tuition 3302 Dinwiddie, W. ....Private Tuition 3480 Lee, J. E Private Tuition 3406 llebden, D. J. B.... Private Tuition 3223 Hammond, J. Collegiate School, Jersey 'llB3 Laseelles, J Holland House, Blackheath .... 3130 M'Kenzie, F. II King's College, London 3lOl Rutherford. J University College, London .. • . 3053 Greatwood, 11. F.—Private Tuition 2973 Neild, H Private Tuition 2970 Skim - ter, 11. St. Mary's flail, Southsea 2937 Pat ers , tn, G Southampton College Inner, W. M. Harrow Sch. and Private Tuition 2880 O'Connor, P. llApe Academy, Soot been • •-• ..,-. '2833 Robinson, J Lemon-street Institute, Dublin.. 2770 O'Brien, M Private Tuition, and St. Mary's College, Limerick 2750 Theobahl, J. \V. Grammar School, Lambeth Hood, W. C. Heath School, Hampstead, and Wimbledon School Hepburn, J. G. B...llarrow and Private Tuition 2609 Burton, II Private Tuition and King's Coll. 2588 Jones, W. F. H.„Private Tuition _ __ _. _ 2.552 St. Panl's Sch. and Priv. Tuition 2381 Campbell, A. J. Harrow and Private Tuition .... 2162 Cargill, S Collegiate Institute, Liverpool .. 2127 M'Kenrie, G. E Baavit-strcet Sell., Dublin, and liolland House, Blackheath .. 1992 Nangle, H. B Royal School, Enniskillen, and Irish Missry. Coll., Ballinasloe 1963 t -- -- Privately ;St. Quintin, T. A..Lton :Rolfe, 11. It. Marlborough College * Rejected for breach of regulations. t Rejected on medical report. : Specially recommended on the ground of superior general exa mination, although deficient in mathematics, INCREASED BUSINESS IN TUE COUNTY COURTS.— By the annual return, just issued, it appears that last year there were 744,622 plaints entered, against 581,003 of the previous year, being au increase of 163,599. From the LONDON GAZETTIS of Yesterday. FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 9. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alexander Henderson as Consul at Londonderry, and of Mr. John G. Barr as Consul at Melbourne, for the United States of America. The Queen bas also been pleased to approve of Mr. Thos, Hampden Mullens as Consul in the Mauritius for his Ma jesty the King of Denmark. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Louis T. Power as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty the King of Hanover. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Jose de Aguilar as Consul at Hong Kong for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 12. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consular Agent at Rome, re porting that all vessels arriving at Civita Vecchia, from Malta and Marseilles, will be subjected to quarantine. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Genoa, enclosing copy of an order of the Board of Health of that port, con taining certain regulations respecting quarantine. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Venice, stating that all vessels arriving at Austrian ports from the coast of Tripoli will be considered as having foul bills of health, and subjected to quarantine accordingly ; and that all vessels arriving at the said ports from the coasts of Northern Africa, including Egypt and Syria, and from the island of Malta, will be subjected to a quarantine of obser vation of six days • it being requisite, however, that they should be furnished with clean bills of health, properly at tested by the Consulate of an European Power, otherwise the perisd of quarantine will be extended to seven days : also that suspected merchandise will require to undergo a quarantine of 10 days, after being opened in the Lazaretto, and that pratique will be refused in all suspected cases. WNITEIIALL, Aui. 10. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Christopher Hodgkin, of Whitehaven, in the county of Cumberland, Gentleman, to be a Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery in England, under the Act of Parliament passed for the relief of persons professing the Jewish pro fession. AUGUST 11. The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has appointed Henry Longridne, Esq., to be an Inspector of Coal Mines, in the room of Herbert Francis Mackwortb, Esq., deceased. WAR -OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 13. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain and Brevet- Major W. H. Seymour to be Major, without purchase, vice Price, deceased ; Lieutenant P. A. W. Carnegy to he Cap tain, without purchase, vice Seymour; Cornet Wm. Jones Thomas to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Carnegy. 3d Dragoon Guards—Edwin Brett, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Gifford, appointed to the Ist Dra goon Guards. 4th Light Dragoons—James Edward Bradshaw, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Davies, appointed to the 6th Dragoons; AsAstant-Surgeon John Charles Camp bell, M. 8., from the Staff, to he Assistant-Surgeon, vies Carte, about to be appointed Physician and Surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Kilmainhaw. 6th Dragoons—Henry Albert Reade Revell, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Billing, whose transfer from 13th Light Dragoons, as stated in the Gazette of the 27th July, 1858, has been cancelled; William Valentine King, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Beaumont, whose transfer from the 4th Dragoon Guards was cancelled in the Gazette of 6th August, 1858. 7th Light Dragoons—Ensign Herbert Owen Raines, from the 56th Foot, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Bankes, deceased. 18th Light Dragoons—Surgeon Edward Scott Docker, from the 7th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Mapleton, appointed to the Staff. Military Train.—To be Ensigns, without purchase : Cornet F. M‘Kenzie, from half-pay, late Land Transport Corps, vice Morris, appointed to the 75th Foot; Cornet T. Churcher, from half-pay, late Land Transport Corps. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major E. Moubray, from temporary half-pay, to be a Supernu merary Captain. The date of the appointment of Assistant- Surgeons A. D. Gulland and E. F. O'Leary, from the Staff to the Royal Artillery, has been altered from 28th May to 27th May, 1858. Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain and Brevet-Major Francis Baring to be Captain and Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Montgomery, who retires. sth Foot—W. B. Knox, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fremantle, appeinteil to the Rifle Brigade. 6th Foot—Capt. John William Preston, from the 76th Foot, to be Captain, vice Waldy, who exchanges. 7th Foot—Ensign Hardinge Giffard Follett to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Butler, who retires; Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Edward William Thomas Mandeville to be Surgeon, vice Docker, appointed to the 18th Light Dra goons. 10th Foot—Capt. Douglas Ernest Manners, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Hamilton, promoted, with out purchase, to an Unattached Majority. 20th Foot—Lieut. Chas. K. Chatfield to be Instructor of Musketry. 42d Foot—Ensign Wm. James to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Brantley, killed in action. 45th Foot—Henry Hodson Hooke, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 55th Foot—Ensign Thomas Dunn to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Williams, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 60th Foot—Sergeant-Major Robcrt Duncan to be Quar termaster, vice Campbell, deceased; Assistant-Surgeon James Doran, M.D., from the Staff, to be Assistant- Surgeon. 66th Foot—Chas. Tennant Wallace, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bent, promoted in the 4th Foot. 73rd Foot—Lieutenant Philip Gibaut to be Adjutant, vice Godfrey, promoted. 76th Foot—Captain Edward G. Waldy, from 6th Foot, to be Captain, vice Preston, who exchanges. 00th Foot—Oscar William de Thoren, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Gordon, deceased. 01st Foot—Lieutenant Lloyd Henry Thomas to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut.-Col. E. W. C. Wright, promoted in a Depot Battalion; Ensign Edward Kelly Obbard to be Lieutenant, without parchnse, vice Thomas; Sergeant-Major William Grant, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Obbard. 100th Foot—William Palmer Clarke, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase. 2d West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major Henry Lowry to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lewis, promoted in 21st Foot. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Francis Daniell, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Walker, promoted. Sr. Helena Regiment—Edward Drummond Ilay, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Furnell, promoted. DEPOT BATTALIONS. To be Majors—Major P. Robertson, from half-pay unat tached; Major F. G. T. Destion, from half-pay unattached; Major IV. Warry, from half-pay unattached; Major 11. Rowlands, from half-pay unattached ; Major G. E. Brown- Westhead, from half-pay unattached; Major F. C. Elton, from half-pay unattached ; Major R. Inglis, from half-pay unattached; Major F. E. Drewe, from half-pay unattached. UNATTACHED. Lieut. N. Goddard, from 35th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase. HOSPITAL STAFF. Surgeon henry Mapleton, M.D., from the 18th Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class. 'Die appointment of Acting-Assistant-Surgeon J. B. Jar dine to bear date July 14, 1858, and not July 23, 1858, as previously stated. ➢REV ET. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Leonard lll‘Douzall, Major, half-pay Canadian Rifles, Commandant of the Staff College, to he Colonel i❑ the Army. Brevet-Major James Palmer, retired full-pay 3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Thomas Phillpotts, of the Royal Artillery, having completed three years' service i❑ the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel in the Army, under the Royal Warrant of Nov. 3, 1854. Major-General C. G. Falconar, Colonel 73d Foot, to be Lieutenant-General in succession to General Lord Clyde, G.C.8., placed on the Fixed Establishment of Generals. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Ash worth, Colonel 44th Foot, on Ist August, 1858 : Major-General Alexander Fisher Macintosh, Colonel 90th Foot, to he Lieutenant-General. Major-General T. Harte Franks, K.C.8., the Senior Supernumerary, promoted for distinguished service, to be placed on the Fixed Establishment of Major-Generals. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Knight Jauncey, half pay, as Major Unattached, to be Colonel. Brevet-Major John Home Purves, half-pay, as Captain Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Chas. Fanshawe, Royal Engineers, to be Major. To be Majors in the Army : Captain C. J. W. Norman, 72nd Foot. Captain Arthur J. Nixon, Rifle Brigade. Captain Martin Dillon, Rifle Brigade. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets of the East India Company's Service, at present doing duty at the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham, with the rank of Ensign, to have the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant, while employed at that establishment :—John Herschel, Isaac Peat Westmorland, Robert Claude Dauhug, Hastings Macsween, Arthur Charles Padday, Thomas Freeman Dow den, Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, Augustus Le Mesurier, David Henry Trail, Arthur Herbert Bagge, William Coningliam, Frank Robertson, William Merriman, Julius Motion, Keith Alex. Jopp, Henry lavenshawTh oilier, Alexander John William Cumming*, Thomas Claridge Man derson, Alexander Francis Baillie, Alexander Jerome Fil gate, Lewis Conway Gordon, James Browne, Charles Mont, Henry Herbert Lee, Alexander Reginald Seton, Thomas Tupper Carter, Henry Meredith Vibart, Lewes Gower Stewart, and Walter Malcolm Roberts. MEMORANDUM. Captain John Wallace Cobloat upon half-pay 34th Foot, bas been permitted to reti re froin the service, by the sale of his commission, he being about to become a settler in Canada. COMMISSIONS SIGNED EY LORDS LIEUTENANT. King's Own Light . Infantry Regiment of Militia—Capt. George Kitson to he Major. Royal Monmouthshire Militia —Captain John Selwyn Payne to be Major; Lieut. John Griffith Wheeley to be Captain, vice Payne, promoted; Ensign John Zam o iski to be Lieutenant, vice Wheelev, promoted. Ist Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia.—Her cules Akerman, Gent. to be Ensign ; Joh n Alex. W illiam Fabie Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign; David Dowie, Gent., to be Ensign. North York Rifie Regiment of Militia.—Henry Cradock, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Paget, retired. Warwickshire Militia, 24 Regiment—Captain William Reader to be Major, vice Sir Theophilus W. Biddulph, Bart., resigned. East Kent Regitnent of Militia—Lieut. George Shirley Itiptwtll to bt Captain, yiqg Young; ipigatd; ueigG George Francis Simmons (formerly Carlyon) to be Lieute nant, vice Maxwell, promoted. Northumberland ,Regitnent of Militia Artillery—Henry Hope Nettlefold, Gent., to he Surgeon. COMMISSION SIGNED BY A VICE-LIEUTENANT. Royal North Lincoln Militia—Captain the Hon. William John Monson to be Major; Lieut. William Longstalfe to be Captain, vice the Hon. Captain Monson promoted. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Henry Tatham, 37, Charing-cross, gunmaker. BANK -lUPTS. Thomas ",Velldon, late of •Peterborough, Northampton shire, grocer, to surrender Aug. 23 and Oct. 1, at I, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghell-street, London. Official assignee, Mr. Whitmore, 2, Basinghall-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Lawrance, Smith, and Fawdon, 12, Bread-street, Cheapside. Charles Ireson, jun., Northampton, builder, to surrender Aug. 23, at half-past 11, and Sept. 27, at 12, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Official assig nee, Mr. Nicholson, 24, Basinghall-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Reed, Langford, and Marsden, 59, Friday-street, Cheapside ; and Mr. Jeffery, Northampton. David Hughes, 13, Gresham-street, City, scrivener, to surrender Aug. 24, at 12, and Sept. 27, at half-past 11, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Official assignee, Mr. Nicholson, 24, Basinghall-street. Attorneys, Messrs. Lowless and Nelson, 2, Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street. Samuel Fisher, Birmingham, tailor and draper, to sur render Aug. 26 and Sept. 16, at half-past 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham. Official assignee, Mr. Whitmore, 19, Temple-street, Birmingham. Attorneys, Mr. Greves, and Messrs. James and Knight, Birmingham. Christopher Denman, Ripley, Derbyshire, linen draper, to surrender Aug. 31 and Sept. 28, at half-past 10, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham. Official assignee, Mr. Harri-t, Middle-pavement, Nottingham. Attorneys, Messrs. Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Man chester; and Messrs. James and Knight, Birmingham. James Saunders and William Saunders, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, nurserymen and seedsmen, to surrender Aug. 27 and Sept. 24, at 11, at the District Court of Bank ruptcy, Bristol. Official assignee, Mr. Acrainan, 19, St. Augustine's•place, Bristol. Attorneys, Mr. Price, Aber gavenny; and Messrs. Bevan and Girling, Bristol. Naish, Newport, Monmouthshire, carrier and commission agent, to surrender Aug. 31 and Sept. 30, at 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol. Official assignee, Mr. Miller, 19, St. Augustine's-place, Bristol. Attorneys, Mr. Champ, Newport; and Messrs. Bevan and Girling, Bristol. Ezra France, late of Dudley Hill, Bradford, and now of Blackmoor Foot, Linthwaite, Yorkshire, worsted manufac turer and joiner and cabinet maker, to surrender Aug. 26 and Sept. 17, at 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds. Official assignee, Mr. Young, Park-row, Leeds. Attorneys, Messrs. Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds. Joseph Foster, Little Horton, Bradford,Yorkshire, grocer and provision dealer, to surrender Aug. 26 and Sept. 17, at 11, at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds. Official assignee, Mr. Young, Park-row, Leeds. Attorneys, Mr. Lees, Bradford; and Messrs. Bond and Barwick, Leeds. EXAMINATION. At the District Court of Bankruptcy, Kingston-upon- Hull—Oct. 13, at 12. 1. T. Maw, Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire, farmer and dealer in horses. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Aecount,pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. St, for the Week ending on Wednesday, the 11th day of August, 1858. ISAUM Notos issued ...... X 31,019,210 'ARTNENT. Govenintent Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities Golii.Co in and Bullion 16,525,210 Silver Bullion £31,010,20 :431,014,210 lEPARTMENT. ProprietOrs' Capital £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Savings Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and . _ Government Secu rities (including Dead Weight An nuity) £10,871,054 Other Securities 15,316,060 Notes 10,419,815 Gold and Silver Coin 7v3,010 Dividend Accounts) 4,668,793 Other Deposits 13,902,961, Seven Day and other Bills £37,309,939 I X 37,302,939 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashter. 1858. Dated tie 12th day of August, 1 GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN. Weekly Return of the Price of British Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the weekending August 7. Wheat... 445. 10•590 d. I Oats... 275. 6•005 d. I Beans... 455. 7'944d. Barley... 31s. 3'039d. Rye.... 315.. 9 764 d. i Peas ... 435. 9•155 d. Aggregate Average of Six Weeks preceding. Wheat 4ls. Sd. I Oats Barley 3os. sd. 1 Rye PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Museovado Sugar, computed from Returns made in the week ending the 7th day of August, 1856 exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importations thereof into Great Britain From the British possessions in America 26s. 111 d. per cwt. Muscovado, the produce of the 3lauritius 3s. 21d. „ Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 3ls. 41d. „ Average price of the three foregoing POLICE CO3IMITTEE-GUILDHALL. OBSTRUCTING THE ROADWAY. This morning, two costermongers, named Cue and Mellers, appeared to answer a summons for causing an ob struction of the roadway near Lime-street. From the evidence of Oliver, the police-constable, it ap peared that on the day in question he arrived at the Fen church-street end of Lime-street, when he found the two men obstructing the road with a truck, heavily laden with oysters. He told them to turn back or else take other steps to prevent the stoppage of the traffic, but they obstinately refused to do so for some time, but ultimately they msved on for a short distance, and then left their barrow and entered a p u bli c h ouse , and remained there some time. The barrow again created an obstruction, when it was removed by the police, and the two men sum moned to answer for the offence. The Alderman, to Illellers—What have you to say to the statement of the policeman? Menai—All I can say, my lord, is, that all he's said's false. I never refused to drag away the barrow, but there was a waggon afore me, and we were filled up with oysters, and couldn't move as quick as the policeman wished. He might as well have ordered the waggon, which had horses pulling it, to move on, and then we shouldn't have stopped up the thoroughfare. The policeman told us to drag on the pavement; but what would you have done, my lord, if we had ? Why, you would have fined us 403. If your honour had been dragging the truck—(lauhgter)— you would have just done as we did. That's the naked truth, your honour. (Laughter.) Alderman—Well, I think it would have been the more humane course to have ordered the waggons on. Mellers—ln course it would. (Laughter.) Policeman—There were four waggons before the barrow, and I thought it was easier for the men to move their barrow, as it was not so very heavy. I ascertained the weight when I was taking it to the zreenyarri. Mellers—Not heavy ! Woat do ybu 'man by that? Why the weight of the oysters was about 6 cwt. You know the weizht ; why you were lugging it down St. Dunstan's- hill— that's the reason you were so fast. Try it up hill, my friend, and I'll warrant you won't go as quick. (Laughter.) He's making the moat of it, your honour. (Laughter.) Alderman—The policeman has done nothing but his duty, but as it appears there were some waggons in the street, and it is just possible they may have been the cause of the ob struction, I shall dismiss the summons this time. Mellers—Thanks, your honour; 1 am obliged to you. (Laughter.) Mellers having given a known wink to his friend, and he having made one of his best bows to the pre siding alderman, they both left the court, congratulating each other on the justice of the decision. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY. BOW-STREET.—A DRUNKEN "COMMERCIAL."—A stylishly-attired man, who gave the name of Chas. Richards, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with assault int; Selena Clerk. The complainant, a very respectable young woman, said —Last night about half-past six I was proceeding along the Strand, taking home my work, when I observed the defen dant making very rapidly towards me. As he approached he pointed his walking stick towards my eye, and thinking be intended to do me a serious injury, I held up my cloak to protect my face. Immediately after I felt his stick strike me violently on the chest, an 6 I then discovered it had passed completely through my cloak, and had it not glanced off from coming in contact with my arm, it would most un doubtedly have deprived me of the sight of my eye. I could not see a policeman at the time, so I followed the defendant for some distance, bathe ran off, ;and I followed the direction be bad taken. On arriving near Temple-bar I found him in custody of the police for assaulting another young woman. I informed the policeman of his conduct towards me, and he then conveyed him to the station, and I there preferred a charge of assault against him. Samuel Dean said—l saw the defendant on Waterloo bridge, last evening. He was very drunk. His clothes were ill a very disordered state, and as he walked along he assaulted several females. I followed him into the Strand, with the intention of giving him in charge, but before I could doso I saw him attempt to poke his stick into the eye of the first witness. - He ran ofl, and before I came up with_ him found him in custotlY,of a police-constable for assaulting another female by pushing his littnd dawn her bosom. Clerk then came up, and having informed the constable of his conduct towards her, the defendant was conveyed to the station. Mr. Hall, to the prisoner—What are you ? Prisoner—A commercial traveller. lam exceedingly sorry for my misconduct, and I am willing to make any reparation that may be required. Mr. Hall—Your conduct is disgraceful in the extreme. It is a great mercy you did not deprive the poor girl of her eye, and I am inclined to believe that if your employers knew of your behaviour, it would lower their estimation of you. They would think you a very improper parson to represent a respectable firm. Drunkenness of itself is bad enough, but coupled with such conduct as you have been guilty of, must Lot to he allowed to go unpunished. I fine you 405., or three weeks' imprisonment. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—REGULAR SMASHERS. Allen, describing herself as a charwoman, and who refused her address, and Mary Smith, who gave an address which was found to be false, were charged, the former with ut t, ring a counterfeit half- crown, and the latter with uttering a counterfeit half-crown and a shilling, to Mr. John Tolbeaux, tobacconist, of 287, Euston-road. From the evidence it appeared that Allen went into the shop of the prosecutor, and, having asked for a cigar and some tobacco, tendered in payment a counterfeit half crown. The prosecutor at once detected it to be bad, and gave her into custody, at which the prisoner pretended to be very much surpthed. The prisoner Allen, in answer to Mr. Bingham, said she bad no lodgings. She did anything. In the case of the prisoner Smith, a bloated-looking woman, it appeared she had gone into the shop a few minutes previous 'to the last prisoner and successfully passed a counterfeit half-crown (evidently from its bearing the same date, and from its general appearance, made in the same mould)in payment for a cigar and some snuff; and while the prosecutor was going to the station to charge Allen, she (Smith) had the audactiy to return and attempt a similar fraud, but this time tendering a counterfeit shilling, and from the fact that the prisoner bad asked for nearly the same kind of articles and that the coins were exactly similar, there is little doubt they were acting in concert. Tricker, the officer who took Smith into custody, said, on asking her where she got the shilling from, she replied, " That's my business." The prisoners were remanded for the attendance of the Migt eolicitoc. THE NAVY. Her Majesty's steam gunboat Vigilant left Malta on the 31st of July, to communicate with Vice-Ad miral Fanshawe, on board the Marlborough, in the offing, with the Conqueror and Centurion in company, and returned to port on the 3d of August. Her Majesty's steam gunboat Coquette arrived at Malta, from Corfu, on the 2d. Her Majesty's steam gunboat 'Wanderer put to sea on the same day, but her destination was not made public ; probably it was Beyrout, by reason of the disturbances at Gaza. Her Majesty's steam gunboat Osprey left Malta on the 3d for India, to relieve the Vulture, which is to re turn to Malta to be refitted for the reception of the Maroquin Princes, who will be shortly returning to Alexandria from their pilgrimage to Mecca. The Agamemnon, 91, screw ship, Captain George W. Preedy, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morn ing from Plymouth. The Dauntless, 31, screw, has undergone, at Portsmouth, a thorough repair, and was taken out of dock yesterday and put into the steam basin to be brought forward for commission. The Curacoa, 31, screw frigate, Capt. T. Mason, is to sail from Spithead for Marseilles to embark Lord Stratford de Redcliffe for Constantinople. The Perseverance, 2, iron screw steam troopships Commander Edward Power, embarked from Ports mouth dockyard yesterday afternoon the remainder of the 4th battalion of Rifles, and sails this day for Alexandria. The bar of Portsmouth harbour being too high to admit of the heavy draught ships now built going over it with more than an inch or two of water under the keel, orders have been issued to remove it forth with. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :---Commander Henry Christian to the Euryalus, Commander Henry Harris to be placed on the retired list ; "William M. Oglevie, surgeon, additional to the Boscawen; Henry Arnot, surgeon, to the Tartar ; John K. Perrie, assistant-paymaster, to the Victor Emmanuel ; David T. Waugh, clerk, to the Madagascar ; Alfred N. C. King and Charles S. Marsh, assistant-clerks, to the Madagascar. THE ARMY. Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. Far; Smith; Colonel - Commandant of the Royal Engineers, died on Wed• nesday at Worthing, after several weeks' illness. The following vessels were yesterday taken up b 7 the East India Company for the conveyance of troops to India—viz., The Jela , ...'ar, to convey 300 of the Company's recruits to Calcutta, on Aug. 31 ; the Gloriana, 883 tons, Capt. H. Toynbee, to convey 15 0 recruits to Madras, to sail on Sept. 4; and the Vernon, 996 tons, Capt. H. H. Consitt, to embark 150 recruits for Bombay, to sail on Sept. 4. The Hon. East India Company have also given notice that tonnage is required for the conveyance of 1,800 reinforcements of the Queen's troops to India during the month of September. The following promotions have taken place in the corps of Royal Marine Light infantry, consequent on the retirement from the service of Lieut.-Col. Vi r . B. Langford, of the Portsmouth division, who has been permitted to retire on the full pay of his rank —Brevet-Major Gallway Byng Payne, the Plymouth division, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and appointed to Portsmouth ; First-Lieutenant George Bazalgette, of the Plymouth division, to be Captain, and appointed to the same division ; First-Lieutenant E. Gone M'Callum, to be Captain ; Second-Lieutenant 11. 1 ' Miles Cooper, of the Portsmouth division, to be First-Lieutenant, and appointed to the Plymouth division ; and Second-Lieutenant F. E. M. St. John , of the Portsmouth division, to be First-Lieutenant. Major-General Peel, Secretary of State for War , accompanied from London by Colonel the Alarqui! of Donegall and Colonel Sir Henry Storks, paid a visi t of inspection yesterday to Woolwich Garrison. 0 1 the General's arrival, at 12 o'clock, he was received by Colonel Bloomfield, second-commandant, and the, garrison staff. A guard of honour, composed et Captain Cox, 10th battalion, in command, Lieut' Young, Lieut. Graham, six sergeants, two truce' peters, and 100 rank and file, were stationed in front of the mess-quarters of the Royal Artillery, at p.m., in anticipation of his arrival, which was fl nounced for that hour. A round of 19 guns 1 05 fired from the saluting battery, and the union jae" was hoisted, and remained floating during the Gene" ral's stay in the garrison. The whole party pro ceeded to the field battery encampment on Woolwich' common, thence to the Royal Repository, where battalion of the Royal Artillery were in attendance, and went through various exercises in manning th e batteries and manoeuvring the different machines for mounting and dismounting guns and mortars. Th e regiment of Royal Antrim Rifles was drawn up 03 the review ground at 2 o'clock for the General's in' spection, but was again withdrawn at 4. From the Repository the General repaired to the mess-quar ters, whence, after a short delay, he proceede d to visit the sick wards of the hospital, which occo; pied a considerable time. On quitting the h os pital they crossed over to the c l o thi ng es t a bli s hment erected at the close of the Rus s i an war , and visited each branch of that department, after which 01 again rode through the Riding-house and the ReY a Horse Artillery-square and stablin g . The Gener A l visited in succession the guard rooms, punishmen_ cells, the officers' and men's quarters, librarie s, chapel, &c., and inspected the field battery range, t he corn and fodder stores and stables, and terminate d a minute inspection of the entire establishment ," d. five o'clock by a visit to the Royal Artill e ry schne°, On his inspection of the lower portion of the bare racks, occupied as the men's sleepi ng rooms, th e General made frequent remarks as to their intoler; able closeness and want of he a lthf u l ven til a tion, an i L : inquired if the iner nwnience could not be remedied Sundry other alte ati ns were lik ew i se spo k en of 1°1„ the improvement of the sanitary condition of t he garrison. A detachment of recruits, some of whom have bee n entered during the present week at Woolwich, having been equipped for service, were yesterday 'aerob e ,. to the Royal Arsen a l s t a ti on , prece d e d b y t h e bug'` band, and despatched to Portsmouth for embarkation on board her Majesty's screw steamship Persee' ranee for Malta. The names of the ensigns who went out with the draught of' the 4th Foot in the Great Tasmania a re C. B. Hammond and C. R. Durrant. IMPROVE2IIENJS IN FIREARMS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Having seen in last evening's Sun a state' ment to the effect that a French soldier of the line had brought before the Emperor and the militarY authorities of France, an invention for the purpos e , of obviating the necessity of rifling the interior a' firearms and cannon, in order to obtain a rotary er' tion of the projectile ; and finding, by the descrir tion, that this end is sought to be obtained by means of six vanes or wings, helically arrnhged at the bas° of the projectile, I cannot but believe that it is idea', tical, or the same in principle, a s th e p l an pro pose d by myself to the Hon. Board of Ordnance, in March' 1855, during the Russian war, in conjunction wit!l the invention of a new de scr i p ti on o f s h e ll, w hich at the same time laid before them. It is not my intention to explain the constructi on of these . shells, for h av i ng at the time, by drawing; and written description, explained them to the Board of Ordnance, and n o t fi n di ng su ffi c i en t i n the answe, l. (as given below) to alter my opinion of what thou'_ , efficiency might be, I have felt, and still feel, it 3 duty not to render the matter public. Of the shells, the answer from the Board of Ord nance spoke thus :—" Your plan for shells ha s been examined by the proper officers, who have reported that in their opinion your shells are o°' applicable to the service;" and then comes the reaftou' because, "the fuse at the base is liable to be bloil - into the shell by the explosion of the c h arges , the shell itself is not strong enough to bear the COl l. cussion consequent on discharge ; they cannot, there" fore, recommend that any e x p er i men t s s h ou ld 13 " e made with your projectiles." This answer I consi der very remarkable, as no objection is made to th e advantages which I stated as lik e l y , i n m y o pinion' to a rise from the use of such shells—viz., " Stlvi g g of time, ammunition for charges, and wear of th e pieces of ordnan c e em pl o y e d," i n a dditi on to othel advantages then pointed out, such as allowing 01e enemy less chance of escape from their e ff ects. Ifti f , i ing sent a sectional drawing, exhibiting an assume d thickness of iron, they appear to have thought 1 ' too thin (as shown), but there could be no possible reason why, in casting, they should not be made . little thicker than was shown on the drawing, it be ing the same as in all new plans—a matter for exl )e : riment to decide, and in no way a ff ecting the princ ip l e involved. In the same section I had shown the fus.e' somewhat short in length and placed in a neck sin"' lar to a cork in a bottle, but it was intended that the, ordinary fuse should be used, w hi c h I d o no t bear 0' being blown into the interior of shells. With re spect to the nibstitute for rifling, I stated that I an ticipated the lbrtn of the shells combined with th e construction of the base or end placed next the charge (which was show n o f the w i ng f o rm b e fore-mol_ , tioned) would produce a rotary motion on the leog i ,, tudinal axis. In a postscript to the answer, it wil 7 stated that this idea had been before proposed. There were other formations of a spiral character, whi ch, s had drawn out at the time as likely to attain th l f , object, but I did not submit them after the receipt f d ' the answers just mentioned, thinking they w° lll t meet with the same fate.—l am, Sir, your obedie n servant, HENRY MACAULAY, Architect, GE., &C. Blackburn, Aug. 13, 18.58. CRYSTAL PALACE. HALF-CROWN DAY. terday the admissions on payment were 1,082; ditto by " 45°4 ticint s : 70; totttl yieitors, 1,70.