The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

ROYAL ENOLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Gnder•the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, DINORA H. Messrs. Santley, H. Core, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thin-- wall, and Miss Louisa Pyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. DIVERTISSEMENT. Mdlles. Lequine, Pasquale, Pier ron, and Mons. Vandris. _ _ Commence at 8 o clock. THEA Tlt E-It.OYAL, HA YMARK ET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVEN INO the performances will commence with AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs, B. White, Mr Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENTNG, the performances will commence with LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTITNE. To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. IVEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL -LI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENIN ssrs. G will be performed ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Me J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss After which, THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben. Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher; Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher, 31fr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. e Box offic open from 10 to 5. No car securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All h fees ge to for servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, THE WIDOW'S WEDDING. After w successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen ord, Esq.,entitled MAGIC TOYS, supported'by Miss Lydia Thompson, Bliss Clara St. Cease, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa, in which Messrs. C. Young, Barrett, A. Denial, Francis; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden, C. Ranoe, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de Ballet will appear. Reduced Prices —Gallery, 6d; Pit, ls. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ance commences at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR ; or, An other Retreat from Moscow. And CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'clock CANTERBURY - EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con verts), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele brated Infant DELEPIERBE FAMILY, and the usual 'Vocal Concert. Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchlleld, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated bill and b ea utified, and constitute one of the most unique and bril !L ights of the metropolis. 17111 shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer 4 Dew opera of - THE WEATHER.—SIys OFFICE, OCTOBER 13 THZEMOICETEB, IN THB SEULDB. 56_highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 59—this day at noon. BAROMETER- 29 . 80 . light, with dull cloudy weather. WIND, N.E. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 25m.—Afternoon, 2h. 41m, To-Moßßow-Morning, 2h. 57m.—Afternoon, 3h. 13m, The Northern Reform Union has issued a stir ring Manifesto to the Reformers generally through out the United Kingdom. It is above all things a very sensible and a very temperate document. It manfully looks in the face of all the opposing dif ficulties, of all those large, and stubborn, and nume rous obstacles that must be removed or beaten down before we can hope to realise any substantial measure of Improvement in our system of popular representation. Many, doubtless, of the more sanguine Reformers throughout the country will be disposed to carp at the tone and general purport of this address as calculated to spread abroad a feeling of discouragement. Yet reflection cannot fail to satisfy, however reluctantly, even these that this is really, after all, the only rational course to be pur sued. Can any reasonable man honestly maintain for a single instant that he does actually believe as at this moment to be upon the eve of a grand and comprehensive and thoroughly effectual Reform of the Legislature ? Does he credit for one second of time the Ministerial, inuendos—for they are abso lutely nothing more—hinting that 1860 is to be the bona fide year for the new and crowning Reform of Parliament ? It were preposterous to affect to argue seriously for three minutes that we are one inch nearer the realisation of Reform, now that we have got this grand Hocus Pocus Coalition, than we were when we had as our rulers the thirteen members of the DERBY Administration. So far are we from thinking this, so far have we been all along from allowing our selves to be deluded into this belief, that we do still feel perfectly well convinced, as we were perfectly well convinced months back, that we had a better chance of obtaining larger reforms from the Derbyites than ever we are likely to get from the Palmerstonians. Lord DERBY and his col leagues once having made up their minds to accept Reform as a Necessity—as they had—might have carried any measure of Reform, however large, through the House of Peers, any measure, how ever large that their elastic Bill could have been expanded into during its passage through Committee in the House of Commons. Whereas now under the Whigs, or rather under the Coalition made up of Whigs, Peelites, and Radicals, marshalled into order by the Premiership of a political nondescript like Viscount PALMER STON, we have no such security. Ratlnr we should say we have a clear certainty before us that they cannot—they absolutely can-not—carry through the House of Lords any measure of Reform which thermay contrive somehow or other by hook or by crook to drag through the Commons House of Par liarnept; There is at any rate that one agreeable certainty before the nation, now that in the inte rests of Reform ( ) the Derbyites have been driven from office to be replaced by the Palmerstonians. It was the knowledge that this would be in evitable, that induced Mr. ROEBUCK—as honest and earnest, and thorough a reformer as there is in the United Kingdom —to op pose with all the force of his energy the specious, bat really factious and most mistaken movement which led to Lord JOHN'S last successful "dodge," for the change of Administrations. It was the same solid and substantial reason that influenced in a like direction one of the most keen-witted men of business in the House of Commons, Mr. LINDSAY, the eminent shipowner. It is idle now, however, talking of the Past in regard to the real interests a Reform, not merely as a Parliamentary Question, but as one which has latterly become essentially Ministerial. What we have to look to now of course is the Future—we have to scan dispas. sionately the prospect Reformers have spread out before them now that we have the dear old Whigs back again in power, and (what is yet more) now that we have the Whigs formally installed in office under the Premiership of Lord ALMERSTON. We a ll know what a thoroughgoi P ng Reformer Lord PALMER STON 19 ! We all know that the Whigs have no vested interests to maintain intact, and to preserve to themselves as something sacred, in the present system of Parliamentary representa tion! We all know that the Great Whig Chiefs (Lord LANSDOWNE, for instance) have no snug pocket boroughs (like Caine, for example) requir ing to be swept clean away by the Reforming besom of Destruction ! Again, we all really do know how many times Lord JOHN RUSSELL has tried and tried, and yet gone on and tried again— always to no purpose —his hesitating hand as a re-Reformer of Parliament ! The recollection of these things certainly does not dispose us to look forward very confidently to 1860 as the year hence forth to shine resplendently upon the records of Hansard, as the year of Reform in the Popular Representation. What then ? Why then—as the address of the Northern Reform Union recommends, —let us hope, in trumpet tones, that will ring far and wide over the land—" Organise and Agitate !" They themselves, the members of that Union, are nobly setting an example to all other Reformers throughout the United Kingdom. As to what it (the Union) has done already, note what is here said upon that point in the Address :—" The Northern Reform Union has now been in existence nearly two years. During that time it has held 200 public meetings, sent 85 petitions to Parlia ment, circulated 500,000 tracts and pamphlets, and organised in the two counties of Durham and Nor thumberland a vigorous and flourishing association." As to what the Union prop oses to do yet further in the way of Organisation and Agitation, note what then follows in the Address—" The work," says the Union, " we have marked out for ourselves, between now and the reassembling of Parliament, comprises the holding of upwards of 50 public meetings, the collecting of 100 petitions in favour of manhood suffrage and the ballot, and the circu lation of a million tracts and other Reform publica tions." And as a significant reminder of the veri table necessity there is for this Organised Agitation, if we really do aspire in earnest to obtain adequate measures of Reform, the Address calls up vividly to the view of Reformers generally the follow- ing timely recollections :—"The Parliament," it reminds Reformers, " that granted the Reform Bill did not do so because of their belief in its justice, but because ths Birmingham and Northern Political Unions had created such a public opinion out of doors, as it was not prudent to oppose further. The Parliament that repealed the Corn Laws did not do so because of being converted to free trade principles ; but because they saw that famine in Ireland, and the Anti-Corn-Law League, were pro • ducing a commotion that threatened, if not stayed, to sweep away all exclusive privileges, and to en danger the stability of the State. The people will never be enfranchised till they have, by organisa tion and agitation, brought a kindred influence to bear on the Legislature." These are wholesome reminiscences. They are seeds scattered abroad at the right time over a soil that has been newly turned, and that is ready for their reception. May they strike deep root, and bear fruit a hundred fold ! All our readers take, no doubt, the deepest in terest in the subject of our national defences. They may not all, however, suppose that a paper on rifle practice, read by a militia captain, can be any thing very entertaining to them. Unless themselves riflemen, they may think it very right that such papers should be read, and very right that the press should make them public property, for the use of those whom they concern, but they will take it for granted that the details ;of the matter do not concern them. If any of our readers have in this way passed over, as belonging to the profession only, the paper which we printed on Tuesday, in which Captain KING describes rifle training at Hythe, we are confident that if he will read it after dinner it will keep him from falling asleep, and that he will be highly gratified, also, to know that at the Hythe School of Trainiig we certainly have the right man in the right place. We have money enough squandered, we all know, in the Army, and in the Navy, too; it is consolatory, therefore, to know that it is not squandered at Hythe. Money's worth of knowledge and practice is, there, unquestionably given to our national de fenders. Captain KING is indeed the Homer to his Achilles, Major-General HAY ; and many an equally meritorious, skilful, painstaking officer there must be, who finds no Capt. KING to tell the world of his well-done duties to his country. We do not, therefore, disparage others, not even Our invaluable LUCANS, CARDIGANS, and ATREYS, by noticing the merits of an enthusiastic, patient, and laborious instructor in the first grand qualifi cation for a volunteer defender of his country. We notice at the outset that Major-General HAY ap pears to us to have formed precisely the right con ception of what Rifle Volunteers are wanted for, and what they should be. Our readers may remem ber how frequently we have urged that volunteers can never be expected to compete with regular sol diers in what depends upon constant drill, and on a soldier's living in his work ; but, that there is no reason why they should not be made as good, or almost as good, shots as our regular troops. We hence contended, and we speak from experience, that an amount of interest nzay be awakened in rifle shooting which will equal, or surpass, that produced by any of our manly national games— while the invaluable advantage of this game, as we may call it, is, that it may turn, any day, to the most holy account—to the protection of our shores —our firesides—our wives—our children. No other amusement can boast such reason in its sport. Have we spoken too strongly of the amusement — the sport of rifle practice? Hear the lecturer— " This practice lasted from Tuesday to Saturday, and I cannot describe to you the excitement of it. It exceeded anything I ever saw. Hunting, or cricket, or boating, is nothing to it ;" and in this strain a long description proceeds. General HAY and his pupils will have done something for their country, if they can but induce the hundreds of young men who want something really manly to amuse them, that they may have it in carrying a rifle for their country. _ Major-General HAY frankly tells his pupils from the first what is to be their object. Not the man, he, to sneer at volunteers—he is enthusiastic for training them. He takes them first, however, into his lecture room. He explains to them that they are wanted, not to charge a regiment of Zouaves or to face their charge—that is the work of men whose lives are devoted to military service. No. The volunteers are to be first-rate shots. They are to have drill enough for skirmishing well—drill enough to obey a commander and karass and worry an enemy ; but their grand excellence is to be that at a third or half of a mile's distance, and from be hind their own hedgerows and hills, they shall be able to make it deadly work indeed for a Zouave or any one else to show himself. Nothing like a fun damentally right conception. It is a stream of light on the path of teacher and taught. General HAT has this. His pupils have it. Both see that, let what theory you please be right or wrong, while war is waged by deadly missiles, men who can shoot down an enemy as soon as they can fairly see him in the dim distance, must have their value ; their value for defence especially. General HAY'S volunteers will never be antiquated. A General of the next century will find men who can hide them e destre . y an enemy half a mile off, as use-' aau l ful as Fiel6oNlarshal His Royal Highness the PRINCE CON; 101 IT will find them, when, at the head of all who wi 11. entrust themselves to his military skill and pro wess, he heads the defence of his coun try against t' ae last onslaught of despots on " Con stitutional G )vernment." We :can 111 trdly conceive any tuition more in spiriting than , that of Major-General There he had them- —forty-two of them—two Peers, bar ' risters, count ry wentlemen, tradesmen—and every one of these 10.8 so interested in what he conceived there was v, , orth doing and might be done, that from sun-rise to sum-set, these gentry were as en thusiastic as himself, for mere aiming drill—a drill which taught them to shoot with precision, lite rally, before they had fred a shot ! And—let our young lawyers' clerks, and our tradesmen, too, note this—the General preferred men who had never fired a shot before ! They have no bad habits to unlearn. What a noble college this for the Rifle Corps all over the country. No favouritism there--the peers and the tradesmen met on equal terms at Hythe. The best shot had the highest honour there, whether he were a grocer's son or the son of a nobleman. Indeed, in the hard work of emulation all difference vanished. It was an apt exemplification of the effect of promotion, strictly, by merit. 31 , CLINTOCK'S ARTIC DISCOVERIES. A SKETCH-BY JAMES WYLD. A sketch this is—as timely and welcome as it cannot fail to prove deeply affecting when studied —a sketch of the recent discoveries made along the extreme northern coast of North America by the chivalrous and daring Capt. M'Clintock, R.N., in search of Sir J. Franklin and his long-missing ex pedition. It is the epitome upon one little sheet of paper of alithatprotracted and mournful story—of all the long series of Searching Expeditions sent forth in quest of any traces of the famous Franklin and Crozier Expedition. Here they are all defined— the trails of all those noble Searching Expeditions of Ross, Osborn, Browne, Rae, Collinson, Ander son, Hobson, Young, M'Clintock. The last the most memorable, of course, becomes the one at last successful. Mr. WYLD'S sketch has reached, already, a second edition, in which will be found interpolated an enthralling little miniature map or chart, marking out distinctly the Probable Route of the Franklin Expedition. There is one familiar thought running along the whole of that track, sic transit gloria niundi et niari! His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, and suite, is expected to arrive to morrow at Buckingham Palace from Scotland. his royal highness will leave Balmoral with the Queen and the Prince Consort to-day for Holyrood Palace. The Prince of Wales goes to Oxford early next w.3ek to pursue his studies at the university. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will shortly return to his residence at St. James's Palace from visiting Sir George Wombwell, Bart, at the gallant baro net's seat in Yorkshire. Prince W. Bariatinsky and family have returned to Grillion's Clarendon Hotel from Shanklin, Isle of Wight. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister, is expected to arrive at the Sardinian Legation, from Paris, to resume his diplomatic duties after a brief leave of absence. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and family arrived at his grace's official residence at the Admiralty yesterday, from Maiden Bradley, their country seat. The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian and Lord Walter Kerr and the Ladies Kerr have arrived at Cla ridge's Hotel from Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Lord and Lady John Russell and Misses Russell left Abergeldie Castle on Monday, on a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, at Haddo House, Aberdeenshire. The noble lord and lady and family were to leave the following day for Edinburgh, en route for town. _ _ Lord and Lady Gardner have left town for his lordship's fishing quarters in Scotland. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert have arrived in Belg,rave-square from Wilton House, Wilts. Sir John and Lady Pennefather have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Malta. There is no truth in the report that Lord Claren don has accepted the Governor-Generalship of India. THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steamship Delta, Captain Black, left Southampton yesterday with tho out • ward Bombay and Australian mails, 1337,000 specie for the Mauritius, Bombay, Melbourne, and Sydney ; and 132 passengers, 108 of whom were first class. THE CANADIAN MAILS.---- . Che Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company's screw steamer Anglo-Saxon sailed from the Mersey, at half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morn ing, for Quebec and Montreal, with the mails for the Cana dian provinces, 100 passengers, and a large cargo of goods. THE UNITED STATES MAILS.—The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company's screw steamer Kangaroo sailed from the Mersey at noon yester day for New York, with the United States mails, 75 cabin and 206 steerage passengers, as also a full cargo of general merchandise. _ THE BROUGfIAM BANQUET.—It has been arranged that the banquet given by the citizens of Edinburgh to Lord Brougham is to tae place in the Music-Hall there on Wed nesday evening the 26th inst. The price of the ticket is fixed at a guinea, and the number of persons dining is limited to about 620, but the galleries and, other parts of the hall will be fitted up so as to accommodate in addition seve ral hundred ladies and other spectators. The Lord Provost is to preside. DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL WILLIAM HOLT.— We have to record the death of the above gallant admiral, which occurred on Sunday last, at No. 3, Suffolk-place, aged 69 years. The deceased officer was midshipman of the Minerva, and served in her boats at the capture of two gun-boats on the coast of Spain, in 1806, for which he was gazetted. He served also in the Surveillante, and com manded a, rocket-boat at Copenhagen, in 1807. He was promoted to lieutenant in November, 1810, and served as such in the Blossom and Undaunted, participating in a variety of services in the Mediterranean ; of the San Joseph, at the capture of Genoa, in 1814; was senior lieutenant of the Hussar, and severely wounded while in action, in the boats of that ship, with a horde of pirates on the coast of Cuba, in 1824, for which he was promoted to commander in September of that year. He became captain in June, 1838, and rear-admiral on the reserved half-pay 10th September, 1857. ACCIDENT TO AN EXPRESS TRAIN NEAR CARLISLE. —On Tuesday afternoon an accident of a serious, though not of a fatal nature, occurred near Carlisle, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. It appears that the ex press train from Scotland, which is due at 12.50, started from Carlisle for the south at one o'clock. It consisted of eight carriages, made up of composite, first and second• class. It is customary to put an assistant engine to heavy trains, in order to help them up a steep incline about a mile from the city, these engines being generally atta c hed to the end of the trains. ° As soon, therefore, as the express train on Tuesday started from the station the auxiliary en gine ran slowly out of the shed in order to get behind. Within a short distance of the station there are two cross ings, one caused by the Maryport line, and the other, at St. Nicholas, by a branch from the Newcastle Railway, and a highway over which the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way runs on a level. This latter is always looked upon as a point of great danger, and the trains are prohibited from crossing at a speed of more than about four miles an hour. In order to do this the driver of the express train slack ened speed shortly before he reached the crossing ; but it is said he did so before reaching the usual place. The driver of the second engine, not being aware that the ex press had so suddenly shut off steam, ran his own engine along at the usual speed, the consequence of which was that he dashed into the end of the train. Many of the passengers • were looking out of the windows at the time, and the sudden shock sclut their heads against the sides of the windows and against each other. Several of them re ceived bruises on the nose and other parts of the face, and a considerable sprinkling of blood was the result. One lady, a Miss Walker, of Maryport, received a rather severe wound on the forehead; and the Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Appleby, was also somewhat injured. The train was of course immediately stopped and medical assistance obtained. As soon as the extent of the injury was ascertained the train was brought back to the station, but in about hal f an-hour started again. The whole of the passengers, with the exception of Miss Wilson and a servant of Mr. G. 11. Head, a director of the railway, went forward ; but the two we have mentioned were taken to the County Hotel, where their bruises were attended to. Singular to say the only damage broken i accident buffer en putt e last ca re r ri a c g e e i .vedltb3isthperotbraabinle wasthat a the a stop to the practice of send in g en g ines behind trains in future. AWFUL MURDER AT WREXHAM.—Wrexham, on Monday night, witnessed a cold - bl ooded murder—a crime of the similar character not having t aken p lace for nearly 50 years, the last having been the murder o f an old woman. The brute is named Puleston Jackson, a man who, for the last few years, has spent the best part of his time within the prison of the county. The murdered woman is named Thomas, but is generally known through her alias, Rache!, and she too, like the murderer, has of late years been a fre quent visitor to gaol for drunken and disorderly conduct, the last time being about throe weeks ago, upon which oeca• Rion she gave birth to an illegitimate child. On Monday murder r t d h e i r s (seventimel n o s ' c p lz t k o ) r b L o a t i h n b were the l P p (7l ree y -c N o v n ei s i tal i l i e Law ley were standing close to the Town Hall, when they sud denly hoards screams of " Murder !" and " Police The sound came from a narrow street close by, and they instantly ran to the rescue, when they discovered that the woman was suffering from a blow from Jack son , which had been given in the face with such force as to c u t hi s k nuc kl es. n In a few moments the woman expired. Ja c k son was ta k en into custody on the charge, and the poor child was taken to the workhouse. TIIE CONVICT WORSEY.—This convict, who, it will be recollected, was at the last assizes condemued to death for the murder of his wife at West Brternwich, was on Tuesday removed from the county gaol to Milbank Prison, where he will undergo his commuted sentence of penal scr • vitucle for life. , • ,::1„ , 1 . : ., ' ''''4,,,,t. 0. , . M, ~, ... 6 , . id" , .., ~ , ._4_, : ,, i g& t ,T. z ___ ~ , 1. 2 1 „ w :„„rAtbh,. It o ['e ' .1 4,i7a-... -... ~.. ..... ~„-**. f tio°, , --„, , ..,. THE SUN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1859 ME SUN, LONDON TRURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1859.1 LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, OCT. 13, 10.30 P.M. Their Majesties the Emperor and the Empress have just arrived from Bordeaux. PARMA, OCT. 12. Justice is being done for the murder of Count Anviti. The Dictator Fatini arrived here yester day. The town is surrounded by Modenese and Tuscan troops. About fifty persons implicated in the assassination were imprisoned during the previous night, and will be submitted to the tribunals. Arrests continue to take place. A proclamation by General Farini has been posted up here, ''herein the crime recently com mitted at this place is vehemently branded. The pi oclamation states that Italy had risen, through the noble and devotee. conduct of its sons, in the esteem of all civilised nations; and her public conscience insists upon satisfaction for this horrid deed, and it shall be obtained. The Dictator says :—" I am invested by the people with the mission to protect its rights, and, before all that, of justice. The guilty shall be punished, and the name of Italy shall not be dis honoured. Citizens .and National Guards, gather yourselves around me under the standards of civili zation and of Italy. The flag of Italy is always placed on the spot where men make sacrifices of their life not where their honour is tarnished. The heart of Victor Emmanuel has been afflicted by this dreadful event. He is used to govern a people which sheds the blood of the enemy only on the battle-field, which knows how to maintain liberty for itself as well as procure it for others, because it knows how to obey the laws of the country." An other energetic proclamation in the same sense has been published by General Fanti. General Ribatti has been appointed General Commander of the troops of the town and piovince of Parma. TURIN, OCT. 13. Advices received here from Paris state that the Prince Napoleon will visit London at the end of the present week, where he will remain five days. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 13. The King is expected to return to Copenhagen from Glucksberg this week. The Minister of War, Colonel Lundbye, has tendered his resignation for reasons of a non-political character. The following address has been issued by Gen. airibaldi at Bologna: " Army of Italy—Eleventh Division. " Soldiers !—The hour of a new struggle ap proaches. The enemy is threatening, and will per haps attack us before many days are over. In ad dressing my old companions of Lombardy, I know I am not speaking to deaf men, and that it is enough to tell them that we are going to fight the enemies of Italy. I shall look to see you, then, firm in your ranks ! " GARIBALDI. " Head-quarters, Bologna, Oct. 5, 1859." ROME, OCT. 9. After the departure of the Pope a demonstration took place in honour of the Sardinian ambassador ; and a crowd of visitors, estimated at 10,000, called and left their cards at the ambassador's residence. The French gendarmerie preserved order, but the effect of the demonstration was profound. The Count de la Minerva will leave Rome to morrow, when it is expected another silent demon stration will take place. MARSEILLES, OCT. 12. Advices from Constantinople have been received to the 3d inst. Additional discoveries have been made concern ing the conspiracy, and it is asserted that incen diary machines have been discovered which were destined to burn the European quarter of the town. The Ambassadors had held deliberations as to what measures should be recommended for public safety. Two of the conspirators brought before the Sul tan proclaimed boldly the public wrongs they con spired to redress, and accused the Government of wasteful extravagance, of which the people and the army were the victims. The Grand Vizier had ten dered his resignation, but it had been refused ; evident dissension reigned among the Ministry, and the fact of a dissolution seemed i nev it a bl e . One year's t pay is now due to th e t roops i n A s i a and the I oumelia. A new loan has been contracted under very heavy conditions. Prince Alfred had replied to the invitation of the Sultan that he would visit Constantinople. The Emperor of Russia would arrive at Odessa on the 17th inst. The emigration of the Cireassians had become enormous. The Malta newspapers state that scenes of fana ticism were enacted o❑ the occasion of the obsequies of the Bey of Tunis. The Moors assailed and stoned the Jews, wounding many of them, some mortally. Some Christians were also wounded. A Minister of the new Bey came to the rescue, strik ing and killing with his sabre some of the culprits on the spot, and caused 30 of the Mussulmans to be arrested. Tranquillity now prevails. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY, . _ . News of the signing of the treaty of Zurich is hourly expected. The representatives of the Powers will afterwards meet in Congress. To-morrow there will be a Privy Council at St. Cloud, presided over by the Emperor. The Paine contains a despatch from Marseilles, stating that an envoy of the Sultan had arrived at Alexandria, bearing an order to the Viceroy of Egypt to oppose the continuation of the works of the Suez Canal. The foreign consuls had imme diately assembled. The Univers publishes at the head of its first column the text of a warning which it has re ceived, signed by the Minister of Public Instruc tion, acting ad interim for the Minister of the L►• terior. It is worded as follows : " Considering the article published by the Unieers in its number of the Bth instant under the title of 'Europe et Asie,' and signed by Louis Veuillot: " Consid , rng more particularly the following pas sages As to France, an extraordinary careless ness at one time kept her aloof from that scene —at another, she went there by starts, without any decided idea,- announcing great things, and only doing paltry ones—abandoning the interest of the country, advancing only for the purpose of retiring, sowing in order to acquire the glory xhich was never malted. 0.-1 r position in the Annamite Empire is beyond com p • rison more miserable than before the war, and the unfortunate Christians will pay by hundreds and thousands of martyrdoms for the assistance which France led them to hope for If in Feance either carelessness or ignorance or the most incomprehensible obstinacy in the deepest p .yjudices prevents the skilful movements of the Russians in Asia to be followed; if every cry of alarm uttered on this subject has only excited with it; the invincible di s dain of idleness and inea • parity. . . ." What can then be done by Eu rope, having those e h w i h m o p a ie r t e y d , u o ine d d b to y b r e T r o a l y u t i i ; o e t t lf : and by i t n o te b r e n t l a . y d h i e ss r e se ns u i , on b s eec2pa w uss i ee th e o v u o t y,t l h ea n d i gerlsea leads s r Ctoohasdiodreerimehgre that t te fo r c e ohte7, creail)urnotaneihaitne; it thwe with careles sness fitildWe Emperor, aness, an d b by etsoasrii t c h l e e insults and accusing it of abandoning the glory and the in terest of the country in the affairs of Asia; " Considering that it represents the expedition to Cochin China, which was so generally under taken for the benefit of Christianity and civilisa tion, as being calculated to lead to thQ martyrdom of thousands of Christians; " Considering that those attacks, as unjust in fact as they are violent in form, are still more aggra vated by the insults against France and Europe, and that they have for object to excite contempt for the Emperor's Government, decrees that a first warning is hereby given to the Univers, in the per son of M. Taconet, the responsible editor, and of M. Louis Veuillot, the writer of the article." The French Minister of Foreign Affairs has re ceived a note from the Dictator Farini, declaring that the murderers of Colonel Anviti shall be promptly punished. BOURSE, Oct. 12.—The market was heavy at the opening, but afterwards rallied in consequence of large purchases being made for the military caisses. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 40c., improved to 69f. 50c. Mobilier varied from 807 f. 50c. to 812 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 545 f. to 547 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 550 f. to 552 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 906 f. 25c. to yoBf. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,3601. to 1,365 f. The following were the last quotations : 4/: per Cents. .... 95 25' Credit Foncier DO. end month .. 95 15 Belgian 41 - 3 per Cent 5....... 69 50 1 Piedmontes6 (5) B5 7.5 Do. end month.... 69 50 • Roman B6 Bank Shares. ..... 232.5 I Austrian Cr6dit Mobilier BlO Spanish Three's Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern ... 932 50 .. 930 New ditto B2O .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean 906 25 .. 906 25 Geneva Southern Western 560 .. 560 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 415 Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f lle.; three months, paper, 24f. 97te.; money, 2f. 95e. ITALY. A Turin letter of the 9th says :—" The letters received here to day from Parma are filled with details of the late lamentable affair. It has been asked how it was that the troops at Parma did not interfere. The answer is that which has been al ready given, namely, that they occupy the citadel, and that it is a good half-hour's distance from that place to the guardhouse of the carbineers. If then Colonel Doda, after having lodged Anviti in the guardhouse, could have foreseen the assembling of a crowd, it would have been difficult for the troops to arrive in time; and as it is probable that the colonel did not think it necessary to call out the soldiers until a certain time after the commencement of the popular manifestation, it will be seen that the crime could not be prevented by the troops. And what is true as regards the soldiers, is still more so with respect to the national guard. It appears that Anviti was going to Piacenza, the principal centre of aristo cratic reaction, to promote a conspiracy; and that he had previously received the mot d'ordre at the Austrian head quarters at Verona, and had come to an understanding with the known partisans of a restoration at Ferrara, Bologna, and Modena. A hundred gold pieces and notes for some thousands of francs were found on him. As he is a count and chamberlain it may not seem surprising that he was in possession of such a sum ; but he was known to possess no fortune whatever, and the find ing of the money on him is considered a serious proof that he was on a political mission." The Indipendente of Turin of the 10th is of opinion that the political authorities at Parma incapacity. The evinced incredible weakness and The Piednzontese Gazette announces that from the Ist of November next direct telegraphic com munications are to be reopened between the Sar dinian Siates and Venice and the Austro-Germanic Confederation ; also that telegraphic communica tions already exist with Malta through Naples and Sicily, as well as with Athens, Scio, the Piraeus, Smyrna, Syra, and Cape Hellas. The rates for Tuscany, Modena, Parma, and the Legations have been reeucea in conformity to the Convention of Berne, to which those States have adhered. Count Cavour arrived at Turin on the 10th, to act as president of the committee on the electoral law, which was to meet on the following day. It was lately stated in the Univers that two Swiss deserters had been - barbarously beheaded in a slaughter-house at San Arcangelo, in Romagna. The official journal of Bologna declared the state ment false, and the following additional contradic tion of it has now been addressed to the editor of the Univer•s by the Municipality of San Arcangelo : " Sir,—We have learned with great sorrow from the official journal of Bologna the accusation against a butcher of our town which you have in serted in your journal. According to you, that individual, thinking that the punishment of being skot, which some revolutionary soldiers proposed to inflict on two Swiss deterters, was too mild, chopped off their heads with an axe in his own slaughter-house. Such a thing would be really horrible. But for the honour of our country, and for the honour of the brave men who have has tened to its defence under the order of General Roselli, we most solemnly protest, and we hereby do so, against this outrageous assertion, and de clare that it is an odious falsehood—a falsehood all the more vile from the fact that the moderate and exemplary attitude of Romagna now excites the admiration of all civilised nations. We hope that onr protest will induce you to contradict the false news published in your journal, and that for the future you will be less ready to listen to the falsehoods spread by your pious correspondent at Pezaro. Unless you do we shall have the right to think that, in order to serve a fanatical jesuitical party, you readily lower yourself so much as to practise the precept:—' Calumniate! Calumniate ! Some of the calumny will always stick !' In the hope that you will think yourself bound in honour to do justic9 to truth by inserting this letter in your journal, we are, &c., " L. MARINI, SACCHINI ARCANGELO." RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 3d inst., says : " I have just been informed that the Emperor has telegraphed to his Ambassadors at Paris, London, and Berlin to join him at Warsaw on the 15th of October. This news has created some sensation and much conjecture." A telegram from Vienna, dated the evening of the 10th inst., announces the departure of M. de Balabine, the Russian Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, for Warsaw. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 3d instant, states that a shipbuilder in that city is to construct, by next spring, 150 screw steamers, intended for the navigation of the Neva. Steam navigation on that river being considerably developed. _ _ It is stated that, notwithstanding the capture of Schamyl, the Caucasus is far from being entirely subdued. The Invalide Russe announces that the mountaineers have another chief, named Mahomed Amin, not less intrepid and fanatical than Schamyl, and who may still resist ono or two winters. The Russian army in the Caucasus, which is composed of 60,000 men, cannot be reduced for some time to conic. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The Athenian .has arrived with the African mails to the following dates :—Benin, August 24th ; Fernando Po, 29th ; Cameroons, Sept. 2d ; Old Calabar, 3d; Bonny, Bth; Brass River, 9th; Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th; Cape Coast, 14th ; Cape Palmas, 17th ; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Bathurst, 25th; Teneriffe, Oct. Ist ; Mideira, 3d. She has 2,500 ounces of golddust. Cameroons River was unhealthy. The barque Mars, of Liver pool, Stone, master, was totally destroyed at Bonny August the 10th ; she had on board 1,200 barrels of gunpowder. Trade at a standstill at Bonny, in consequence of disturbances in the Eboe country. 'lle new Governor, Don Gandara, had arrived at Fernando Po, in the Spanish frigate Ferrolana ; the late Governor, Don D. Chaeon, is a pissenger by the Athenian. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Her Majesty s ship Falcon and the Susan were at Fernando Po. The Mary Hamilton left Fernando Po for Queens town, on the 15th of August. Tho Moselle and the Invincible were at Came roons. THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH AT BORDBAUX. The Ilioniteur of yesterday contains the subjoined account of the Emperor's speech at Bordeaux, which, received by submarine telegraph, was published in The Sun of yesterday. BORDEAUX, OCT. 11. This morning his Majesty received the authori ties. The Archbishop of Bordeaux delivered the following discourse : " Sire,—The clergy of this diocese, speaking by me, is happy to renew to your Majesty the sin cere homage of its respect and devotedness. It is with true French pride that we contemplate your Majesty, whose valiant sword has raised so high the glory of our country. It is with joy that it salutes the Mother of the Prince Imperial, and the noble sovereign who so well combines firmness of mind with goodness of heart, and who in days of difficulty bore so nobly the weight of public cares. " Sire,—When, eight years ago, the town of Bor deaux received you with so much enthusiasm, the vault of our ancient basilica resounded with the acclamations of the crowd ; we, my priests and I, were there, assisting with joy at what seemed to us the baptism of the new empire. We then prayed for him who had stayed the rising and swelling waves of revolution, and had secured on the brow of the church and priesthood the emblems of honour which men were trying to tear from it—for him who had inaugurated his great destinies by restor ing his city, his people, and his temporal power in its integrity to the Vicar of Christ. "On this day, Sire, we pray again, and with yet more fervour, if that is possible, that God may give you the means, as he has given you the will, to remain faithful to this Christian policy, which draws blessings on your name, and is perhaps the secret of the prosperity and the source of the glory of your reign. " We pray with a confidence and hope which de plorable events and sacrilegious violenep have not discouraged ; and the ground of our hope, the realisa tion of which seems at this time so difficult, is, next to God, 'yourself, Sire, you who have been, and desire to be, the eldest son of the Church ; you who have pronounced those memorable words—' The temporal sovereignty of the venerable head of the Church is as much bound up with the eclat of Catho licism as with the liberty and independence of Italy'—a noble thought, and in harmony with the sentiments professed by the august chief of your dynasty. " Yesterday, when your Majesty set foot for the first time in the beautiful city which has sprung up as if by enchantment on a spot formerly desolate— when your Majesty was seen kneeling in the as yet unfinished sanctuary, it seemed to all that the imma culate patroness of the spot covered you and your august consort, and your beloved son, with her maternal protection. You will discharge towards her a debt of gratitude in procuring a triumph for her son in the person of his vicar. This triumph is worthy of you, Sire ; it will put an end to the anxieties of the Catholic world, which will salute it with transport." His Majesty replied : " I thank your Eminence for the sentiments you have just expressed. Your Eminence does justice to my intentions without overlooking the difficulties which obstruct them, and show that you compre hend your high mission when you seek t. strengthen confidence rather than scatter vain alarms. " I thank -you for having recalled my words to mind, for I have the firm hope that a new era of glory will arise for the church, as soon as all share my conviction that the temporal power of the Holy Father, is not opposed to the liberty and indepen dence of Italy. " I cannot enter now into the explanations which the grave question you have raised would require. I will merely say that the Government which was the means of restoring the Holy Father to the Pon tifical throne will only give utterance to such re spectful counsels as are dictated by sincere devoted ness to the interests of his Holiness ; but it cannot but be alarmed about the day, which is not far dis tant, when Rome will be evacuated by our troops. For Europe will not allow that the occupation of Rome by the French troops, which has lasted for ten years, should be prolonged indefinitely. When our army shall be withdrawn what .will it leave behind ?—anarchy, terror, or peace ? These are questions the importance of which cannot escape anyone. But believe me, in the times in which we live, in order to resolve these questions, it is neces sary, instead of appealing to ardent passions, to search with calmness for the truth, to pray to Pro vidence to enlighten both the people and the sove reigns upon the wise exercise of their rights, as well as upon the extent of their duties. " 1 doubt not that your prayers and those of your clergy will continue to draw down tde blessing of Heaven upon the Empress, my son, and me." GAS IN THE 211ET_ROPOLIS. A meeting of delegates from the various districts of the metropolis was held yesterday afternoon in St. Martin's Vestry Hall, to consider the propriety of having a deputation to wait on the Home Secre tary, to ascertain the views of the Government with respect to legislating on this important sub ject. The chair was taken by Mr. Godson. Mr JAMES BEAL (Hon. Sec.), in explaining the objects of the meeting, said they *ere called to gether to consider the position of the various gas companies throughout the city with respect to the public. The acts of Parliament granted to these bodies were given on the express under standing that the public should be protected by competition, but by a combination among them selves they had secured the power of charging what price they pleased. The object of the delegates assembling there was to obtain the sanction of the public to a bill to be introduced into Parliament next session, the object of which was to protect the consumers of gas. The provisions of that measure included a fixity in the maximum price of the arti cle, which was the only remedy against the injuri ous effects of the present combination, and that a limitation should be put to the dividends which they now paid. The bill contained, also, a provision for removing the power now possessed of cutting off the gas without notice, and of charging the arrears of former tenants of houses upon those who might succeed them. There was another section to prevent improper re gistration. The special business of the meeting, however, was to refer to a former interview which they had had with the Home Secretary ; and, in another, to ask the right hon. gentleman if he were prepared, on the part of the Government, to state whether, in the ensuing session, they were prepared to take the question into their own hands, as they did with the water companies, and take such fu r th er s t eps as m i ght be deemed ' necessary. The first resolution he had to propose was, " That the Home Secretary, having promised the deputation, on the sth of July last, that ho would consider the proposed Metropolitan Gas Regulation Bill, with a view of judging how far it met the alleged grievances, and inform them if the Government would adopt and bring in the measure, another interview be now sought for the purpose." Mr. WARING seconded the resolution A DELEGATE asked why it was the bill of last session was not introduced, and that they were now in the same position they had been more than a year ago Mr. BEAL replied that the dissolution of Parlia ment upset the arrangements of the committee, ad when it met again it was too late to introduce a bill. Indeed, the Standing Orders Committee would not permit them to do so, unless there was a probability of carrying it through. The present proposed bill was not the same as that of last ses sion, but it applied solely to the metropolis, 'whereas the Sale of Gas Bill concerned the whole country. The resolution was then passed. Resolutions were next passed to apply to the Home Secretary to appoint a day for receiving the depu tation, and instructing the hon. secretary to em ploy a professional man to serve the usual notice. After which— Mr. HuGuEs, the engineer of the delegates, read a very interesting paper on the price of gas in London as compared with the provinces, and the discrepancies existing in the metropolis, to the disadvantage of the consumer. Mr. Dow.DoN thought the maximum price of gas should be 4s. instead of 4s. 6d., and moved a resolution to that effect. Mr. FARRER seconded the motion. After a short discussion, the resolution mas withdrawn, and the usual vote of thanks being. given to the chairman, the meeting adjourned to this day fortnight. TILE NORTHERN REFORM UNION. The following address has just been issued by the council of the Northern Union : " Fellow Reformers,—According to the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, - Parliamentary Re form has been a popular question in this country for the last twenty-five years ; for the last sixteen years it has been a Parliamentary, and for the last ten years a Ministerial question.. Parliament after Parliament has been dissolved, and session after session has been prorogued, but the subject still re mains where the Whig Reformers of 1832 left it. The members of the House of Commons, as a body, are indifferent, if not hostile, to any legislation on. the matter ; and if we except fifty members, we believe the remaining six hundred would rejoice if it was abandoned altogether. Reform has, how ever, so interwoven itself with the leading questions of the day, that all the parties in the state are com mitted to legislate upon it. Eash pretends to be desirous of carrying a satisfactory measure on this subject, but they, at the same time, avail them selves of every trifling excuse for indefinitely post poning it. • "The Legislature correctly represents the opinions held by their constituents upon Reform. The elec tors, who are in earnest on its behalf, are propor tionately not more numerous than are the thorough. Reformers in Parliament. The middle classes pos sess the power, if they choose to exercise it, of making the House of Commons extend the fran chise to their industrial fellow countrymen. The representation is in their hands. It is needless for them to talk of aristocratic domination as the chief obstacle to the extension of the suffrage. Aristo cratic influence would be comparatively powerless in the House of Commons if not for their help. Truth compels us to say that the present electors, as a body, are as selfish as ever the constituencies were before the passing of the Reform Bill; and it is from their desire to retain possession of exclusive political power, that deters them from assisting to raise the working men from the condition of poli tical pariahs. " The indifference and hostility of the electoral body were never more clearly shown than during the exertions of Mr. Bright last autumn. In a series of masterly and eloquent addresses, he pleaded for. Reform in most of the large towns of the empire. The support he received from the electors was out of all proportion to the efforts he made, and the objects he sought. The local associations that sprung into existence in the town he visited died out when. he left, and the agitation he created subsided when. he became silent. "We can understand moderate reformers' refus ing to support our programme. They can u rge it the comm on - p l ace o bj ect i ons usually raised against Manhood Suffrage. Such arguments cannot, however, be advanced against Mr. Bright's pro posal, which is extremely moderate. Nor can any objection be found against him as their leader, as he is a man of undoubted integrity, and his abilities and courage have won for him the admiration of men of all parties. "We speak it, therefore, more in sorrow than in anger,' that from the body of those who now wield political power you can hope for little support. The unenfranchised must work on the electors, as the present electors worked on the boroughmongers of past times. " Cordially co-operate with all who will support your demands. Oppose no honest measure of reform, however moderate ; but still firmly and persistently put your programme forward as the only sound one ; and make it manifest, that while you do not oppose s moderate measure, you only accept it as an instal ment of your just rights. That portion of the mid dle class who are opposed to you, from false fears of the revolutionary designs of working men, reason with, and in a respectful manner endeavour to con vince them of the error of their opinions. But to those who oppose the enfranchisement of the people from selfishness, and who have forgotten that they won the suffrage for themselves by your help, under the promise .that they would enfranchise you when they were brought within the pale of the constitu tion, offer an unbroken and incessant resistance. Let them know that the means you used to help them to !gain their political rights, you will use against them to win your own. Such men yield only to fear or compulsion. You are strong enough if you resolutely combine to compel them to listen to your demands. Those who are not for you are against you.' Organise and agitate. " The parliament that granted the Reform Bill did not do so because of their belief in its justice, but because the Birmingham and Northern Politi cal Unions had created such a public opinion out of doors, as it was not prudent to oppose further. The parliament that repealed tke Corn Laws did not do so because of being converted to free trade principles; but because they saw that famine in. Ireland, and the Anti-Corn Law League, were pro ducing a commotion that threatened, if not stayed, to sweep away all exclusive privileges, and to en danger the stability of the state. The people will never be enfranchised till they have, by organisa tion and agitation, brought a kindred influence to bear on the legislature. In all such matters, our rulers yield only to the force of a public opinion that will not be trifled with. Next session, and and perhaps the next, will pass away with results, so far as reform is concerned, no better than the two last. Working men—if they want political power—must . be determined to win it themselves. " The Northern Reform Union has now been in existence nearly two years. During that time it has held 200 public meetings, sent 85 petitions to parliament, circulated 500,000 tracts and pamphlets, and organised in the two counties of Durham. and Northumberland a vigorous and flourishing association. The work we have marked out for ourselves, between now, and the reassembling of Parliament, comprises the holding of upwards of 50 public meetings, the collecting of 100 petitions in favour of manhood suffrage and the ballot, and the circulation of a million of tracts and other reform publications. Our organisation was never so com pact and efficient as at present ; and we appeal to our brother Radicals throughout the country to organise their respective districts, so that at the opening of next session we may be able to present a determined and united front to the opponents of the people's rights. " Depend upon it no reform in the fiscal, ecclesi• astical, or administrative departments of the state can be complete or permanent unless the people have a proper control over their representatives. Reason, arguments, entreaties, the demands of mil• lions, the material and moral interests of the empire ifw a no l er l t tia_htrdheei the we ali welfare n abn ry o ee t df h o leoi partyionntnhtaeetorifeosnvtnation. Parliamentary toe pfs a e fi a ra. el d cia e atdi r moy w netn, h ota o ann ird h ya a nr s rooe .h a t oibrnfagtt the h a e t form ; free, fair, and full representation. This is our demand. We must compel the governin classes to compl y w i t h i t. Intelligence and morality cannot work out their legitimate ends by the rotten instrumentality of political favouritism. B declar e f or r i g h t as right. Preach the greatoldly prin.. eiples of p o li t i ca l equality. Cast yourselves upon truth, and confidently abide the issue. The work may be slower than the impatience of our desires; but it will be sure, safe, and permanent. " By order of the Council, "R. B. REED, lion. Sec." WEYHILL HOP FAIR. —Yesterday (Wesday this celebrated h op f air was formally opened for n the sale) of hops. There was a large attendance of factors, growe re, &c., fr om every hop county. The number of pockets of hops pitched this year exceeds that of last fair, and will nearly approach 5,000. London was largely represented by hop factors and merchants, and the chief brewers sent agents. At the commencement of the fair very few sales were effected. Hop growers asked an advance on recent prices made at country markets, &c., and, buyers being unprepared for this step on the part of hop planters, business began slowly. Large g-rowths were purchased on speculation, and will be retailed out. Sussex supplied some well-grown and well preserved hops. Kent brought pockets of her choicest gatherings, which' met a good in.. quirt'. Mid and east Kent obtained the highest price. Wealds commanded a sale at late prices. Worcester and country hops were in request, although prices asked pre vented active business. Farnhams, as usual, formed the chief attraction of the hop fair, and the eager demand for this description of hops caused good prices to be made. The samples were in excellent condition. The annexed were the prices made :—Sussex, fine growth from choice plantations, made from £3 to £3 lOs per cwt., and many growers held over rather than make abatement ; Kent h9pe, Wealds, sold at from £3 10e to £3 18s and £4 per cwt. Mid and East Kents realising £4 to £4 lOs and £5 per ditto ; Worcester and country piekings varied in price from £3 12. to £1; Farnhams fetched from 1.5 18s to 16 6s, and primest samples £7 per cwt. In the aggregate a large amount of business was transacted, although there was no activity displayed, as business was principally in the purchasing of and which will s ubsequently be submitted r proportions; in fact, the fair cannot be forwh oslaelegrinowlethssse, said to be more than formally opened, and hops are still being brought up. The hop fair will be resumed this day (Thursday). In the cheese and provision fair there is a brisk trade. There is a good demand for best cheese and well-cured bacon, Prime Cheddar cheese made 62s to 70. and 80s per cwt. Gloucester, good doubles, 54s to 68s, and single, 44s to 50s per cwt.. choice made tiltons, £4 4s to 45 per cwt.; primest description of old realised is per lb. Bacon—Flitches of well-cured bacon CAUTION TO MUSHROOM made 7d to 9d p er lb. EAs.—Lt week an elderly man i n in the marshes ne a r M ER idhurst a , s who had been previously in robust health, was suddenly seiz e d w ith violent vomiting', &0., which caused his wife to send off for their medical attendant, who, on arriving and having made the requisite inquiry, without hesitation pronounced the symptoms to arise front the man having 30 hours before, eaten a quantity of large, or what aro commonly called " horse mushrooms." After a short stay the medi cal man left his patient comparatively tranq u il ; a f ew hours a f ter, however, he was again sent for, but before he reached th e house the poor man had breathed his last; and this in less than 60 hours from the time of eating the mushrooms. The appearance of the corpse was remark able as indicative of the cause of death; inasmuch as be sides considerable frothy exudation from the mouth, which smelt strongly of fungine, advanced decomposition had taken place within 24 hours. The body was of a dark purple hue, and so frightfully swollen that not a single feature of the countenance was discernible.