The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-05 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 73—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.02. WIND, North-Westerly; light, with warm weather, wad cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TYIB DAY.—Morning, 7h. 56m.—Afternoon, Bh. 42m. To-Mounow-Morning, 9h. 25m.—Afternoon, 10h. 7m. The game of PLON PLON for Italy is over, and her chcnce is now, more than ever, in her own hands. Happily she seems to know it. Each of the four States might now adopt for the motto on their shield Arma virumque cano, for the cry is to arms, and VICTOR EMMANUEL, the man with whom they have resolved to link their future ; and, they will succeed. We begin now to feel pretty confi dent that they must. We know that the man of the coup d'etat has not spoken ; that the author of the Villafranca peace maintains an ominous silence ; and that Austria is ready for any villany—for the spy or the incendiary, for dagger or poison, for bribery or violence. Still we trust that the dark perfidy and brutality of Austria, and the myste rious cunning of the Liberator of Italy, will all be equally at fault before the attitude assumed by the four Italian States. First, and chiefly, they are now arming rapidly General FANTI'S proposal to have 50,000 or 60,000 men shortly in arms, is likely to be soon realized. GARIBALDI is the great recruiting sergeant. To the appeals of his soldier-like eloquence the youth of Italy are responding. Whithersoever he goes, " He sends an electric spark, (we are told), through the heart of the Italian youth," in his progress through the Romagna. " The priests and foreigners (he tells them) have been, and are at the bottom of all our evils. It is time to settle accounts with them, and make short work of it. Let every one who counts himself an Italian stand up and follow me. I have seen both the French and Austrians face to face more than once ; they are brave troops, both of them, but no more than men, and men we are too. Their ranks are numerous, but we have a just cause, and GOD on our side. I offer myself as your guide ; those who come after me will be at no loss to find where the enemy is." Such is the language of the man who is recruiting Italians to guard the newly-gained liberties of Italy, and, if need be, to fight for them. From every side we learn that volunteers are flocking in. Even tram• pled down Venetia, and the remaining parts of the Roman States, are sending their contingents. Men, we doubt not whom the villanies of Austrian ad ministration and the corruptions of the Papal Go vernment had converted into brigands, now find by hundreds that they can give full play to their in dignation against oppression, by offering their skill and courage in the service of virtuoits patriotism. And this they are doing. " Our liberties depend on ourselves" is now the universal feeling; and when that is the case, a nation is in the position which can alone maintain its liberties. FANTI and GARIBALDI, -with 60,000 men determined that the future op pressors of Italian liberty shall reach it only over their bodies, is a security which no Congress can g ive —a fact, indeed, which will compel the favour able verdict of a Congress. Now, too, the day of vengeance for the Jews has arrived. Long have they endured all kinds of in sults and oppression from Austrian, liodenese, and Papal bigotry—even their children being baptised by stealth, and then wrested from their father's bosom—but their turn is come. We learn that the Jewish moneylenders freely open their strong boxes and take up the loan by which the patriot army is to be equipped ; the ducats and florins which Austria and her lieutenants could hardly c btain by threats of imprisonment and torture come forth, we are told, as if the project were to reconquer Jerusalem or to rebuild the Temple! How deadly must be the hatred of Austrian religious oppression, how firm the confidence that Sardinian Catholicism is a creed which honours the sacred rights of conscience, when the children of Israel thus hazard their trea sures in support of such a thorough revolution. We value this fact. No set of men on earth better un derstand the probabilities of a case like this. They 1 have agentstin every royal and imperial city—they know better than any of us every Exchequer in Europe—they can tell who are able and likely to go to war, if any people can, and they—the" Jewish money-lenders"—are zealously contributing to the Central Italian Loan. If they thought unfavour ably of the prospects of the cause, however much they sympathised with it, they would not lend their money uselessly. Perhaps we could hardly blame them. The authorities, too, of the four united States are labouring wisely and well to make a prac tical fact of the union with each other and Sardinia before any congress can assemble. Were it to meet even now, the Great Powers would find passports between the countries abo lished, and the boundary custom-houses removed. They would find the same coins, weights, and mea sures adopted, and they would find a whole people in each State exerting themselves in every way to fuse the four States into one with Sardinia. The peasantry, the last to stir themselves in a revolu tion, and the secular clergy, who sympathise with the'people,are becoming ardent unionists. The Italian country priest is a jovial fellow, who cares more for the people than for bishops, cardinals, and popes,and the priests have therefore, in great numbers, signed the popular documents, while the ecclesiastical Dons have 'lased the doors of cathedrals to masses for the patriot dead. The consequence is that cathe drals are deserted and parish churches crowded. Such is the state of things for the two Emperors, and the other Powers of Europe, to muse on. They may like it or dislike it, but it will not be easy for them to change it. Hardly will Europe stand by and see FANTI and GARIBALDI'S noble army crashed by superior force. The Emperor of the FRENCH having lost his chance for his cousin, can never let Austria impose her Dukes by force, if she wish ever so strongly to do so. He has made him self a position with which he cannot trifle, and all the moral influence of England will be used on the right side. Indeed, Europe generally must follow her. We do begin, therefore to hope the best for Italy ; chiefly because Italy places her principal hope in the swords of her own sons. Now is the time when personal and pecuniary sacrifices may insure her freedom, and she seems increasingly ready for both. Now is the time for them to do what English patriots did in the days of the STUARTS, and they are prepared to do it. Mr. BRIGHT has again spoken—and spoken manfully—upon the Reform of Parliament. He has spoken this time not through the medium of an elaborate three-hours' oration from a platform, but through some half-dozen sentences in about the briefest possible fragment of a purely incidental and almost unpremeditated correspondence. But these few words are so very clear, and, so to speak, they are so very distinctly articulated, that they are really, as far as they go, all-sufficient, There is no glozing over a difficulty. The plain and simple truth is spoken right oat—and it is spoken plainly and simply. Mr. BRIGHT expresses himself like a man who has nothing to conceal, and who (having nothing to conceal) has thought deeply andearnestly upon the subject upon which he is expressing his opinions. The communication here referred to is one addressed to the author of a pamphlet, entitled "A New Reform Bill," one Mr. JOHN DAVIDSON. It is written from Rochdale, and dated " Septem ber the 21st, 1859." It goes at once directly to the point without an instant's circumlocution. Mr. BRIGHT tells his correspondent, the pam phleteer, at the very outset, " I do not think such a bill as is described in your pamphlet either practicable or just." And why ? It is soon told. "The exclusions," observes Mr. BRIGHT, " the exclusions contemplated would turn out most capricious in working." He adds, thereupon, quite clearly—whdt it really is upon that point that he himself is particularly desirous of seeing accom plished. "I am," he writes "in favour of an exten sion of the franchise, consistent with our ancient practice, based upon ocoupancy and unfettered by considerations connected with education or tem perance." And he observes yet further and yet more explicitly—" Fix the franchise at the point which will include all rateparrs, or at a £6 rental—at some point on which the majority can agree—but don't confuse the question with ques tions of morals." In this there is an obvious con sistency. And the bon. member for Birmingham thus forcibly and manfully draws these his latest comments upon Reform to a conclusion in the earnest words here following :—" If," he writes, " you try to exclude all men who are not perfectly wise and prudent, and to include only the intelli• gent—your whole system will break down. If you will trust the people in the bulk, without attempt ing definitions and choice selections, you will get a good constituency, and without dijfi cultg." Opinions like these frankly ex pressed in opposition to the more involved views of Mr. JOHN DAVIDSON, the pamphleteer—opinions such as those above quoted, opinions deeply thought and clearly worded, while they are authenticated by the signature of JoHN BRIGHT (and are worthy of him), might almost have been signed plain JOHN BULL, from their manly bearing and significance. If we could but get Another JOHN to speak out as plainly ! One whose surname is RUSSELL, and whose prefix of courtesy " Lord." But that Other JOHN, alas, happens to be such a master of state craft, of the tricks and chicaneries of your profes sional administrator ! And as he is less burly in shape than either BULL or BRIGHT, he is in his own ways and means more diminu tive. Insomuch that he is, to very many of us, not so distinctly JoHN as JOHNNY. "The calm JOHNNY," as the late Colonial Secretary says cf him, through a popular satire, crystalising for the nonce Lord DERBY'S famous snot into a now fami liar couplet— " Next, cool and all unconscious of reproach, Comes the Calm JOHNNY who upset the coach." Instead of speaking out plainly and to the purpose like JOHN BULL or JOHN BRIGHT, this Other JOHN has his attention too variously di rected elsewhere—watching his opportunity to to clutch at the reins—casting an eye askance at the dangling skid—or (at the change of horses, and just before the fresh start) fumbling suspiciously at the lynch-pin ! 0 for one hour of the old " fire "in the old days, when the noble lord's acts were worthy of JOHN BULL, and his words were worthy of Josrx BRIGHT, when " ---- the steam was on, And languid JOHNNY glowed to glorious JOHN: " The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left Claridge's Hotel for Cobham Hall, near Gravesend. The Countess of Longford and Lady Louisa Pikenham have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Nor wood, from \Aro:thing. Viscount and Viscountess Lismore purpose spend ing the winter months at their seat in Ireland. The noble lord and her ladyship have arrived at Shanbally-castle from visiting the Earl and Countess of Bessborough. Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Shrubland-park, Suffolk. Lord Bellew has taken his departure from the Albemarle Hotel for his seat in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. E. Cottreill Seholefield have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, for Paris. The Misses Bertie Mathews have left Farrance's Hotel for Tonbridge Wells. MEDICAL OFFICERS IN INDIA. TO 'THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sue,—liindly, grant me space in your columns to draw attention to a despatch of the Right Hon. the Commander-in-Chief in India on the medical service of the British army, and published in March last, with the sanction and satisfaction of his Excellency the Governor-General in Council. It may be premature to draw attention to that despatch, or to ask if its remembrance has passed away with the day of its issue. The medical ser vice trust that they will not be so treated. The reading of the despatch has excited confidence in the breasts of officers who have distinguished them• selves for zeal and ability during the memorable struggle for supremacy in India in 1857, 1858, and 1859, that their services will not be ignored. The contest is considered over, and long Gazettes bear by every mail rank and honours to all officers, except medical officers, who saw service during the mutiny. Of the officers of the royal regiments serving in India some five hundred have been either decorated or promoted. Of the medical officers of these regiments but four have been decorated, none promoted. Of the junior regimental medical officers one , (of the 32d Light Infantry) was pro moted, so that out of three hundred military sur geons but five have received any reward for valuable services. It is difficult to reconcile this forgetful ness with the reading of the despatch of Lord Clyde recommending these officers to the protection of his Excellency the Governor-General, and who have received the cordial acknowledgments of the Government of India for the important services they have rendered. The withholding of rewards freely conferred on all others from military surgeons is questionable or rather unquestionable policy. The feelings engen dered by such open illiberality are certain to affect the medical service, and consequently the public purse, as such slights tend not a little to prevent men of professional zeal and ability from entering our army. Of nothing a highly organised mind io more sensitive than to be made to feel that his pro fession, instead of being a passport to position, is too often cast up as an excuse for the refusing of equal honours. How must Dr. Linton feel, who came so success fully out of a campaign which brought him nothing but incessant labour, great anxiety, and forgetful ness ? He naturally should feel the slight cast on him and on his services ! How must the regimental surgeons feel when observing that even the head of their department, notwithstanding oulogiums and recommendations, and incessant mental labour during the last two trying and wearisome years, is passed over in marked silence on the point of deco rations ? Why is this ? Is a third-class decoration of the Honourable Order of the Bath to be the pie plus ultra of a military surgeon's honours ; and, that distinction once gained, are no services, however brilliant, masterly, and successful, to be further rewarded ? Such cannot be the opinion of a Go vernment which prizes the conservation of life mm e than its destruction. Such cannot be the opinion of Earl Canning. We trust that the despatch on the medical ser vice, published on the 31st March last, will not be allowed to remain a dead letter, but that his Excellency the Governor-General and the Right Hon. the Commander-in-Chief will show that they do not consider their published opinion a mere empty compliment, and that the military surgeons in India, and Dr. Linton, their Inspector-General, really deserved the protection and cordial acknow ledgments of the Government, and, deserving such, shall be suitably rewarded, either by decoration, promotion (brevet or substantive), or by having come time added to their service. Such an act of grace would come well from the Government of India, and would remove from the minds of our army surgeons the uncomfortable conviction that they form a marked exception in the general bestowal of decorations and rewards. I remain, sir, Bengal. JENNER. .t . " .r.; *! , l3 i; 4-R . ~,,- ; - 7 1J1 . VA,. ci tj) , i••••": a, ' - _ , bnorr ' ' _ bzt, , ~ , , , ---...., _ THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1859. BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. ROYAL Under the icanazensent of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, DINO R A H. Messrs. Santley, H. Corri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thirl wall, and Miss Louisa Pyne. .._ . Conductor, Alfred Mellon. DIVERTISSEMENT. Mdlles. Levine, Pasquale, Pier roll, and Mons. Vandris. Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. HT. Walter Lacy's Benefit. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers, Mrs. B. White, Mr 4. Wilk - ins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And HALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with (10th time) a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled IVY HALL. Messrs. H. Bland, H. Widdicombe, Frank Matthews, Graham, Garden; Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saville, and Mrs. Charles Young. To conclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING will be performed THE WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. B. Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher, Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss Kelly. Doors open at half-past six--Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, new comedy, THE WIDOW'S WED DING, supported by Messrs. S. Emery, Barrett, C. Young ; Mesdames Katharine Hickson, Murray, Arden, Menders, Arc. New Ballet Farce, MAGIC TOYS, in which Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet will appear. To conclude with VIRGINITIS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa. Reduced prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office opens 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 XGGS. After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR ; or, An other Retreat from Moscow. LADY OF lowed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LYONS. - ' - - - - Commence at 7 o'clock CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con tees), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele trated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual Vocal Concert. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINORAH. ---- ----- DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last evening the enterprising and indefatigable Mr. E. T. Smith gave a very fine performance of "11 Trovatore," with Titiens, Giuglini, Madame Borehardt, and Signor Badiali in the chief characters. The great German prima don'ia sang in her grandest manner throughout, and was most ably supported by Giuglini, who, as Manrico, again dis played all the exquisite beauty of voice, refined taste, and dramatic ability which have rendered him cne of the most popular singers of the day. The veteran Badiali, too, "fought his battles o'er again" with undiminished energy, and gained new victories. To Madame Borchardt, who perso nated Azucena for the first time in London, great praise is likewise due. The music of the part is in many places ra ther too low for her, but she altered it where necessary very judiciously, and her performance on the whole was very successful. The house was densely crowded, and the usual redemands and recalls were not wanting. Mr. Smith gives another performance of Italian opera this evening. A pension of £7O a-year has been given to Mr. Charles Duke Yonge, author of several Greek and Latin school-books, for literary services. The vicarage of Basildon, Berkshire, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Bailey Fisher, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford. The benefice, which is worth about DSO a-year, is in the gift of the trustees of the late Rev. Charles Simeon, of Cambridge. TIIE EDINBURGH BANQUET TO LORD BROUGHAM. understand that the dinner to Lerd Brougham, for which a requisition from many of the leading citizens of Edinburgh of all ranks and classes was despatched to his lordship several months ago, is likely to take place on Wed nesday, the 26th inst. There is no prospect, at present, that the Mi nisters will be summoned again to London to attend a Cabinet Council, but, immediately after the arrival of the Court at Windsor Castle (expected on the 17th instant), the Queen will hold a Privy Council, at which the leading Minister of the Crown will attend. At this Council the further prorogation of Parliament will be taken into consi deration. At present it stand prorogued to Thursday, the 27th of October.—Court Journal. The " secret mission," which was announced as returning from India, is ascertained to have been de spatched by the request of the Emperor for the acquisi tion of a splendid diamond, said to be unique in the fineness of its water, and which his Majesty was determined to present on the 16th of the month, the fits day of Saint Eugenie. The diamond had been reported as having been last seen in the possession of a Jew merchant at Goa, thence carried off for sale to the confines of China, and was finally captured in possession of a Portuguese jeweller just at the moment when he wa■ on the point of setting out to offer it to the Shah of Persia. —Court Journal. THE ALLEGED POST-OFFICE INQUISITION.—We are authorised to say that there is no foundation whatever for a statement which has appeared in some of the public journals to the effect that, by direction of the Postmaster- General, or of Mr. Rowland Hill, the officers in the Post office at Liverpool have been called Ipon to reply to a series of questions of an inquisitorial character. The facts of the case are, that a few persons in that office having, it was feared, become embarrassed in their affairs and entangled in a system of pecuniary accommodation, an investigation was ordered; and the postmaster of Liverpool judged it expedient, in making that investigation, to address to these persons certain questions • but this course he took on his own authority alone ; and on the matter coming to the knowledge of the chief office, an inquiry into the post master's proceedings was immediately instituted. BRITISH SUBJECTS 'EXPELLED FROM MEXICO.— It may be remembered that, after the victory of the reac tionaries and the triumph of Miramon at Tacubaya, several English gentlemen of great respectability were arbitrarily expelled from Mexico by the de facto Government for hav ing, in a private representation to Mr. Otway, the British Minister, used some strong expressions respecting certain outrages committed by the Mexican authorities on English subjects. Lord J. Russell, on becoming acquainted with the circumstances, addressed a despatch to the Mexican Government, in which he not only demands that the ex pelled gentlemen shall be allowed to return, but that repa ration shall be made for the losses they have sustained, and compensation given to those who have been sufferers from the excesses of the priest-party in Mexico. The accounts from St. Petersburg confirm the view expressed as to the bearings of the recent ukase for the conversion of the enormous paper currency of Russia into 5 per cent. notes, inconvertible except in certain pro portions by annual drawings spread over 37 }ears. The measure is said to be.regardedwith favour, and it appears no doubt is entertained that a sum equal at least to about £60,000,000 of the £110,000,000, which is supposed to be the total of paper afloat, will be brought in. It 13 also men tioned that since the promulgation of the ukase there has been an increasing tendency to depression in all other Rus sian securities—a natural consequence of a change that may be regarded as a virtual creation'of a new stock of un precedented magnitude. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 dis. and the short exchange on London is 25.15 per D. sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng lish Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about the same price ju Paris as in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4221 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per D. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore about 3 10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1101 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex change is in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of inte rest, the present rate leaves a small profit on the importa tion of gold from the United States. IJ rr E s N E -W- The following tdcgrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : MARSEILLES, OCT. 5. The French forces concentrated on the frontiers of Morocco amount to about 20,000 men under the command of General Martemprey, and it is said that their operations will not be confined to the protection of the frontiers of Algeria, but that they will occupy a portion of the territory of Morocco, of which Ouchda is the centre, and from which point the incursions by the Moors have taken place VIENNA, OCT. 4. The Austrian Correspondence states that there is in Vienna no paper of a semi-official character. The Correspondence also denies the reported wed ding of a Prince of the Imperial house. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. A letter from Marseilles says that Sardinian houses are purchasing arms and ammunition there. The following letter had been received at Marseilles from Genoa :--" Purchase forthwith 3,800 common muskets, 2,000 rifles (such as are used by the Chas seurs de Vincennes), and 1,000 rifles of another description. State the price of cavalry pistols. All these arms are for the Duchies." The Marseilles letter adds that the order will be easily executed. There are about 60,000 muskets for sale at Marseilles. This large stock is explained by the purchases the Levantines are in the habit of making in that market, and by those of the houses who are in the habit of sending arms for barter to Senegal and Madagascar. BOURSE, Oct. 4.—The market was buoyant at the opening. Threes were done at 69f. 60c., and after improving to 69f. 75e., are now at Of. 65c. Mobilier varied from 815 f. to 822 f. 50c.; Aus trian, 550 f. to 552 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 553 f. 75c. to 5571. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,405 f. to 1,410 f. ; Lyons, 9071. 50c. to 915 f. ; Northern, 9371. 50c. to 9401. ; Southern, 5171. 50c. to 5201. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. 95 25 I Credit Fonder 687 50 Do. end month .. 96 25 I Belgian 41 7 3 per Cents. 69 65 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 69 75 Roman B6 Bank Shares 2825 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 823 75 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 820 Home Debt 44i RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 940 .. 938 75 New ditto 827 50 .. 828 75 Lyons and MGditerranean 9lO 50 .. 910 Geneva Southern Western 590 .. 592 50 Eastern Sardiniaß 415 .. 412 50 Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f 11c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 921 c. A Berlin letter, of the Ist, says :—" We learn from a trustworthy source that it is not true, as reported, that negotiations have been in progress between the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna relative to reforms to be effected in the federal institutions of Germany, nor even that any propositions of the kind have been made. The general conviction here is that Austria would oppose on principle every project of modifying the federal organisation. The Prince-Regent has given the Ist regiment of llulans to his grand-nephew, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, on the occasion of that prince's majority. Till now, the Grand Duke held only the rank of captain in the regiment which belongs to his father." The Parma Gazette oontinues to publish a series of letters written by M. Thomassin, envoy of Parma at Vienna, to the Marquis Pallavicino, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the buchess Regent. These letters contain curious revelations of the manner in which the French Government was spoken of in the reactionary courts, and they abound in insult ing language- The French bishops, in particular, are abused for their political attitude, and are con temptuously designated "cowardly princes of the Church." A Vienna letter says :—" The imperial decree relative to the Protestants has not caused so much satisfaction in Hungary as the German journals have represented. The Protestants in that country have expressed their gratitude for what had been done, but at the same time they clearly declare that all their wishes have not been fully attended to. The Protestants were above all things desirous of the meeting of the Synod, which would make known to the Government what they require, and be charged to direct the execution of the ameliora tions granted. The decree, having suppressed the old superintendents, has thus deprived the Protes tant Church of the natural organs who might regu late the transition from the old to the new state of things." The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, Ist, says :—" We are informed on good authority that the Cabinet of Copenhagen, in reply to the notes of Austria and Prussia, has forwarded communica tions to those Cabinets, declaring that the proposi tions of the Diet of Holstein were not of a nature to be sanctioned by the Danish Government. In its explanations as to the provisional position which the last royal patent has created for the Duchies as an integral portion of the Danish monarchy, the Danish Cabinet persists in its system of refusing any further adjournment." Letters from Grand Ducal Hesse state that judi cial proceedings have been taken against M. Hoff man, member of the Second Chamber, and also against M. Metz, advocate to the Superior Court, for having signed the declaration of Eisenach. The municipality of Hanau, in Electoral Hesse, have resolved to present an address to the Elector, similar to that recently sent from Cassel, soliciting the re-establishment of the constitution of 1831, and also to present a petition with the same object to the Fulcra' I)iet. AUSTRALIA. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) A telegram received from Malta announces the arrival of the Panther with the Australian mails of the 18th of August. THE BRAZILIAN MAILS. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING The Tyne steamer, Capt. Heenan, with the Bra zilian and River Plate mails, has arrived. She brings dates from Buenos Ayres, Aug. 27th ; Mor.tcvideo, 30th ; Rio, Sept. Bth ; Bahia, 12th ; Pcinambuco, 15th ; St. Vincent, 23d ; and Lisbon, Oct. Ist. She has 81 passengers, £19,000 in specie, dia months in value £54,980. The Avon steamer, hence, left St. Vincent 22d of September, and the Bogota steamer on the 23d. Business dull at Buenos Ayres. Exchanges 66s and Os. Preparations for war were still going on. Coffee had been very active at Rio, but the great influx of American vessels had dopc-4,ssel the market to such a pitch that buyers retired in a body. Sugars, 3,700 to 4,300 for whites, and 2,600 to 3,200 for brown. Exchange on London, 24a to 241. Exchange at Bahia, 25 and 241. Coffee.—Supplies from the interior were of very inferior quality ; price firm at 4,500 to 4,650. Hides Business very dull at Pernambuco, the rainy season having stopped communication with the in terior. Sugar—Supplies ceased, transactions limited. Muscovados, 2,350 to 2,900 ; Paraibas, 2,600 ; Ma coios, 2,650. Cottons in great demand, and the small supplies have sold at 8,800 to 9,800. Hides scarce. Exchange, 241 and 241. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MOU'SING. The screw steamer Anglo-Saxon, fr o m Quebec on the 24th ult., arrived last eveniw She brings 103 passengers. The steamship New York, from Southampton had arrived at New York. Her Majesty's steamer Himalaya had readied Quebec via Halifax. The Canadian papers contain little news of inte rest; 'but by way of Father Point we have the following late telegram from New York : " NEW YORK, SEPT. 24, EVENING.—The steam ship Kangaroo, with 1,570,000 dollars, and the Ocean Queen, with 1,250,000 dollars in specie, took their departure to-day, the former for Liver pool, the latter for Southampton. " The shipment of gold from California, due at this port next week, will amount to two millions of dollars. " Cotton is unchanged. Sales to-day 600 bales. Flour is without material change. Wheat is heavy, and ic. to 2c. lower. Corn is heavy, and has de clined lc. to 2c. Provisions unchanged. Pork ra ther firmer. Spirits of turpentine dull at 47c. Rice quiet. Freights firmer." NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 23, EVENING.—SaIes of cotton to-day, 2,500 bales, at lie, to 111 e. for mid dling. The sales of the week amount to 25,500 bales. The receipt of the week, 38,000 bales against 28,500 in the corresponding week last year. Export of the week : 14,000 bales, making a total since Sept. 1 of 129,000 bales. Receipts at this port over last year 36,000 bales. Sterling exchange 91 to 91- prem. MOBILE, SEPT. 23, EVENING.—SaIes of cotton to-day, 700 bales, at 10-e. to lle. for middling, prices being easier, but not quotably lower. Sales of the week, 8,150 bales ; recepts of the week, 12,620 bales. Increased receipts at this ports for September, 160 bales. MONTREAL, 24TH, EVENlNG.—Political mews quite unimportant. The cricket match between the All England Eleven and twenty-two of Montreal Club commenced to-day, and excites great interest, people having come from all parts of Canada and the United States to witness it. When the play stopped tonight the score stood—First innings, Montreal, 85; All England, 7; and one wicket down. The match will be resumed on Monday, September 26th. Market—Ashes: Early in the weep pots realised 5 dols. 70c., and in two instan•es 5 dols. 75c., but thebulk of business has been quoted to-day, pots, 5 dols. 60c. Flour unchanged. LITER ATURE. The People's Byron. Part IX. John Murray. October has brought to a close with the ninth shillinc , instalment this monthly re-issue of this splendid one-volumed, double-columned edition of the poetical works of Lord Byron. The republica tion in a serial form, and- at so small a price, of this superb and at once compact and complete edition of Byron was a happy thought, indeed, on the part of Mr. Murray in anticipation of the ex piring of the last of the originial copyright:. It has served, we believe, to scatter these brilliant and world-famous works, in their entirety, over the length and breadth, not only of Eng land, but of English possessions. It places the writings of the greatest poetic genius who ever sprang to light from the ranks of the Peerage, within reach at last of all the educated ranks of the community. It makes the Poet of the Upper Ten Thousand, the Poet at last (by possession) of the Million. It puts the people at length in pos session of " Childe Harold," " Don Juan," " Cain," " Werner," the " Corsair," " Parisina," the " Age of Bronze," " Manfred," " Beppo," " MazePPR?" " The Bride of Abydos," and all those other veritable gems studding the round of Lord Byron's true coronet. 771 E TRANSPORT CLARA. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY EVENING. The transport Clara, with soldiers' families for Calcutta, which grounded on the rocks under Nare Head, yesterday morning, arrived here this after noon, making five inches of water per hour. A telegram from the Horse Guards orders the imme diate landing of the passengers, and the ship is to be put in dock. The accident is attributed to an indraught, or swell of the sea. The chief officer was in charge. At 11.30 on Sunday night the Eddystone bore east half north, distant eight miles. The ship was steered west by south, which would take her ten miles south of Nare Rock. The weather was thick, and the Clara is reported to have been going six knots when she struck at 3.15 a.m. on Monday morning. Her guns and blue lights brought a pilot, who assisted in carrying out an anchor astern, by which she was hove off as the tide rose. He states that the Clara's jib-boom was within 50 feet of the cliff, against which she would have gone to pieces had the tide been higher. Divers report that the main keel is damaged. 211 R. N.EWDEGATE AND MR. BRIGHT. At the inauguration dinner of the Sutton Cold field Town-hall, which was opened by Lord Leigh, Mr. C. N. NEWDEGATE, M.P., in returning thanks for the members for North Warwickshire, took occasion to refer to Mr. Bright's recent remarks on the army. The hon. gentleman said he needed no other proof that he should have been wanting in his duty to his constituents if he hai failed to obey the kind bidding of the warden on the present oc casion, than the presence ofthe distinguishad assem blage who had so kindly accepted that toast, and he could assnre them that his hon. colleague, Mr. Spooner, would have been equally gratified in at tending had he not been advised to go to the sea side to recruit his strength after the labours of last session. He was confident that every one present rejoicedat his hon. colleague enjoying that recreation and restorative after the constant attention he ever paid to his duties during the session. He (Mr. N.) heartily joined with his noble friend (Lord Leigh) in congratulating the inhabitants of Sutton on the completion of the edifice in which they were assem bled, the decoration of whiclr displayed so much taste and judgment. Nor could he fail to appre ciate the choice of the corporation in their recent ejection of Lord Leigh as their high steward, for he was well assured that the general opinion would sanction their appointment of a nobleman so well known for the honourable, upright, and benevolent characteristics of his disposition, and who manifested such unaffected devotion to the advancement of all good objects in the county wherein he worthily represented her Majesty. He could not, however, while joining in this. celebration, forgot that this office had until very recently been held by the late Earl of Aylesford, than whom no one had afforded a brighter or more steady reflex of the character of an English nobleman ; his tenure of office had en hanced its dignity, for he was one of those whose memory, as his life, reminded all who had known him that there was a peculiar meaning in the words ", noble" and "gentle'' in their old English - sense. His retired habits and aversion to display had made his influence rather felt than ostensible ; but the soundness of his judgment and benevolence of his disposition, had commanded universal re spect. He rejoiced in the union of hereditary rank with corporate freedom which the vitality of this ancient corporation exhibited; it reminded him that the freedom of England was not the growth of yesterday. (Cheers.) Some, however, seemed to forget this; and when he remembered the well merited enthusiasm with which the health of the army had been received in that hall—the health of those Englishmen whose services abroad were no less important to the safety and the greatness of England than their conduct at home—he could not efr in from availing himself of that first oppor tunity of referring to some remarks which Mr. Bright had thought fit to make with reference to a great body of the army of England ! Nvhom he de scribed as in a position more ignominious than that of the Cuban slaves. The men to whom this re mark was applied were men who came originally from the labouring class ; but not content with this, Mr. Bright went on to speak of those who by merit had risen to the position of non-commissioned offi cers, as " unmitigated scoundrels." The position of these men, as soldiers, precluded them, and it was for the interest of society that they should be pre cluded, from replying to these unwarrantable calum nies; but he (Mr. Newdegate) felt tYit he should be wanting in his duty if he did not on the first occa sion of which lie could avail himself reject and re pudiate, as unworthy of the constituency which he represented jointly with Mr. Bright, expressions -vhich were un'"orthy of a member of the House of Commons. The calumny was one that must grate on the feelings of every Englishman ; and he hoped that the Liberals of Birmingham would find some means of restraining Mr. Bright from the use of expressions which were as unjust as they were of fensive and disgraceful, not only to himself but to the constituency which ho represented. (Cheers.) The lion gentleman concluded by cordially acknow ledging the reception given to the toast. THE CAPTURE OF SCILIMYL. The St. Petersburg journals publish long accounts of the recent military operations in the Caucasus which have terminated with the surrender of Schamyl. The following is the despatch referring to the last event : " Head-quarters, under the Ao6l Keghery, August 27. . _ . . " Yesterday the Commander-in-Chief sent a de spatch to Simpheropol to be forwarded by telegraph to St. Petersburg, announcing the capture of Ghounib and the surrender of Schamyl. " Thus the last blow has been given to Muridism. The fate of the eastern region of the Caucasus is finally decided. After a sanguinary struggle of halt a century, the day of peace has arrived for it. •' In a former bulletin it was stated that the Com mander-in-Chief had put an end to the fruitless ne gotiations with Schamyl, and taken his measures to capture Mount Ghounib. "The troops were placed round Ghounib in the following manner :—Against the eastern face two battalions of the Infantry Regiment Schirvanski, with four mountain field-pieces, under the command of Colonel Kononovitch ; against the northern face two other battalions of the same regiment, the Ist battalion of the Grouzinsky Grenadiers, one batta lion of the Samoursky Regiment, five sotnias of ir regular cavalry, and two sotnias of Yeomanry, under the command of Major-Gen. Prince Tarkan- Maouravow ; against the southern side, two batta• lions of the Regiment Apscheronsky, two battalions of the Regiment Samoursky, and the 21st battalion of sharpshooters, under the command of Colonel 'Fergoukassow ; finally against the western side two battalions of the Infantry Regiment Dagestansky, under the command of Colonel Radetzky. " The command of these advanced troops and the measures to be taken immediately for the engineer ing works were intrusted to Major-General De Kesseler i ,under the chief command of Aide-de-Camp General Baron Wrangel. " On the same day Major-General De Kesseler made a minute reconnaissance of all the localities, and commenced preparing gabions, scaling-ladders, &c., and all articles necessary for a siege and assault. " An inspection of the approaches to the summit of the mountain showed that the eastern decline, though the weakest and most accessible from the nature of the ground, offered, nevertheless, the greatest obstacles, as the paths were intercepted by strong breastworks, vigilantly watched by the ma jority of the garrison of Ghounib. It was conse quently decided not to attack that side, except as a last extremity, preferring, if possible, an attack on one of the other sides ; nevertheless, to occupy the attention of the enemy and to keep him always on the alert, in the expectation of an attack on thp.t side, Colonel Kononovitch ordered troops to advance gradually on that quarter by regular siege works, intrusted to Captain Falkenhagen, of the Engineers. "In the night between the 23d and 24th the sharpshooters of the Schirvansky Regiment made a dash forward limier fire of the enemy,. and esta blished themselves behind some rocks not far from the walls, leaving their reserve in some outhouses abandoned by the enemy. " On the 24th Major-General De Kesseler visited the troops of the north side, and took measures to occupy on the following night some points in the vicinity of the craggy heights on the summit of the mountain. Similar orders were given to the troops on the south and west side. " On the 25th, before daybreak, Colonel Tergou kassow, commanding the troops on the south side, ordered Lieut.-Colonel Yegorow, in command of the Ist battalion of the Infantry Regiment Apsche ronsky, to approach the rocks, who, finding he did so unobserved by the enemy —thanks to a dense fog —took advantage of the moment to advance his men still closer to the summit. The ground, which had been previously explored by voluntesrs, offered such great difficulties on this point that the besiegers doubtless considering it inaccessible, had only a small post to defend it. " In front of the besiegers rose perpendicularly like a wall, one above the other, three pointed crags (each from eight to ten sagenes in height) open only at one point where there was a narrow transversal defile. One hundred and fifty volunteers, led by Captain Skvartsow and Ensign Kouschnarew with sandals of bark or leather, provided with scaling ladders and grappling irons, succeeded in scaling the rocks, helping each other up till they gained the terrace which separates the first crag from the second, and were followed by the battalion, which left a body of riflemen placed on prominent points below, where they could pick off any one on the upper crags. The volunteers, followed by the bat talion, now scaled the second point by means of ropes and ladders, but under the fire of the enemy, who had discovered them, and finally succeeded in reaching the upper plateau of Ghounib, where the whole battalion took footing about 6 a.m. Mean time the volunteers had circumvented the enemy in his barricades placed against the rocks, had made seven prisoners, and killed 15 (three were women armed) ; the others withdrew under cover of the fog. " Simultaneously (at 15 versts' distance from the Battalion Apscheronsky) the troops on the north side, led by Major-General Prince Tarkan-Maoura vow in person, had scaled Ghounib under the same difficulties, and with the same success, on the oppo site side. "On reaching the summit, Prince Tarkan , Maourvow advanced th e com p an y o f r ifl emen o f th e Grouzinsky Grenadiers, under the orders of Sub-Lieutenant Mikeladze and the sotnia of irre gular cavalry under Captain Djafar-Aga, who took the lead, followed by the whole battalion of Grenadiers, under Lieutenant-Colonel Gabaiew, against Schamyl's tent, and on the outposts of ,the entrenchments upon the eastern decline of the mountain, so as to surround the Aoul. " Taken aback by the simultaneous apparition of our troops on v, rious points, the mountaineers aban doned the walls on the eastern decline, and fled in disorder to the heights, exposed to the fire of the riflemen of the Schirvansky Regiment. The ma jority of the Murides, including Schamyl and his sons, sought shelter in the Aoul of Ghounib, and posted themselves in the houses. " Pursuing the Murides who had evacuated the works, Colonel Kononovitch advanced rapidly the Ist and 2d battalions of the Schirvansky Regiment, with four mountain guns. Meanwhile Colonel Radetzky reached the summit of Ghounib, after encountering great obstacles on the western side. " Some hundred Murides, who had fled in disor der from the entrenchments, and found themselves cut off from the Aoul, collected together on a wooded eminence on the left of the road leading to the Aoul, and thence, under cover of rocks, opened a very brisk fire against the advancing companies of the Schirvansky Regiment. Two companies were pushed forward to dislodge the Murides. These latter, finding there was no chance of flight, threw themselves upon our men, sword and dagger in hand. After a fierce hand-to-hand fight of short duration, but determined and sanguinary, the Mu rides were driven from their hill, and attacked the guard we had posted near the enemy's cannon at the foot of the ascent. Closely pursued, they were driven to the banks of a small rivulet, where every man of them was put to the bayonet. " While our troops were advancing eagerly on all sides of the Mid, Major-General De Kesseler, obe dient to orders from the Commander-in-Chief not to neglect anything to take Schamyl alive, put a check upon the ardour of our troops, who were ready to storm the Aoul, and placed them so as to render the escape of any one impossible. "At this juncture the Commander-in-Chi e f came up in person, accompanied by the C omman d er of the troops of the Caspian coast, and ordered the firing to cease, and sent a summons to the Murides shut up in Ghounib to surrender —not to expose the Aoill to all the horrors of an assault, as it contained many women and children. After negotiations, which lasted nearly two hours, Schamyl, findinc , the Aoul surrounded by a thi c k c h a i n of troops 6 ready to enter i▪ t, decided u p on surrend i ng at dis cretion. Accompanied by so me d evote d M ur i des, he presented hi▪ mself to th e P r i nce and submitted his fate to the clemency of the Emperor. " The Commander-in -Chi e f or d ere d hi m t o b e taken to his head-q uar t ers, w h ere, on the morrow, his two sons and all his family joined him. Thence they were all sent on the 27th to Temir-Khan- Schoura, whence Schamyl, and his eldest son, Kazi- Mah oma, have b een sent to S t. P eters b urg, accom panied by Colonel Trompovsky, of the Guards. " At the capture of Ghounib four cannon, a ram part gun, and Schamyl's battle-axe fell into our hands. Some hundred Murides wero made pri soners, and as many were slain. " Our loss was 19 regulars and 2 'militiamen killed ; 7 officers, 114 regulars, and 7 militiamen wounded; 2 officers and 29 men received contu sions." MR, BRIGHT, M.P., ON PARLIAMENTARY RE roP.M.—The following letter of this gentleman was recently received by Mr. John Davidson, the author of a pamphlet, entitled A New Reform Bill :—" Rochdale, Sept. 21, 1869. Dear Sir,—l do not think such a bill as is described in your pamphlet either practicable or just. The exclusions con templated would turn out most capricious in working. I am in favour of an extension of the franchise, consistent with our ancient practice, based upon occupancy and un fettered by considerations connected with education or tem perance. Fix the franchise at the point which will include all ratepayers, or at a rental—at some point on which the majority can agree—but don't confuse the question with questions of morals. If you try to exclude all Lie n who are not perfectly wise and prudent, and to include only the intelligent—your whole system will break down. If you will trust the people in the bulk, without attemptino definitions and choice selections, you will get a good con''.. stituency, and without difficulty.—l am, your 4 respect.. fully, Jomi BRIGHT." LORD TEYNHAM ON PARLIA MENTARY REFO_R.2II. Lord Teynham, says the Newcastle Daily Chro nicle, has communicated the following letter to Mr. R. B. Reed, the Secretary of the Northern Reform Union : "Old Church Cottage, Bexley, Kent, S.E., Sept. 29, 1859. " Sir,—Every available opportunity should be seized by Reformers for the expression of their minds, for the aid of their friends, for drawing out the intention of opponents ; in a word, for the furtherance of our cause. , . "An election is about to take place for the county of Ayr. The Conservative candidate who addresses the elec tors in the No r th B r itish Advertiser of September 24, is one of the people whom the House of Commons in its com ing session will tax, and for whom it will engage in the business of legislation. "The candidate is aware that at present some only of the people of Ayr, who share with him the public burdens, and are governed by the laws, have a voice sending one to represent them in the assembly he hopes to join. The rest, the bulk of the people, are unrepresented. " He is aware that on this account the question of the extension of the franchise is one of national importance, which must immediately arise. " He has observed that an identity of sentiment has been expressed by the head of the present Government and the most respected of Conservative statesmen, and looks, hence, for its early settlement upon a safe and constitutional footing. " But the sentiment embodied in the Reform Bill,' and carried, after an arduous struggle, by the Minister of the day, with the support of the country, was not identical with the views of the most respected members of the Opposition. " The Conservatives of our day are more polished by the friction of public opinion than the Tories were : and have bent their stubborn wills to the demands of famine and as inexorable political complicities, but they are essentially the same as the men who opposed reform of old. " Therefore, by how much the principle of the new Re form Bill will be opposed by the Conservatives, even so much will it approximate to the just wishes of the people. " For the present Liberal Ministry to have the support of the country, it has only to express in the principle of their measure of reform ' identity of sentiment with the Opposition.' _ _ - ‘ 2 But the Conservative candidate for Ayr says, I desire to see the privilege of the franchise placed within the reach of educated industry.' If he will say, in explanation of his meaning, that he desires that every man obtaining an honest livelihood, who can so read as to gather knowledge, may be admitted to the privileges of a freeman ; then in that respect he is worthy of the support of every true reformer. " The candidate adds—' He would not lower the fran chise to the unimproving and irresponsible.' The man who has learned a trade, or who knows hoW to earn his living, and can read—ls he unimproving ? " The man who is bound to render obedience to the laws, who registers his place of abode and place of business—ls he irresponsible ? " Should the Conservative candidate answer these questions in the negative again, pro tanto—ls he worthy of a Liberal's support ? " It is of the utmost importance that the professions of a candidate for a seat in Parliament should be explained in words expressive of the facts with which we are surrounded. " Men can thus learn with unerring certainty who are for them and who against them. " Hoping that the Northern Reform Union will be able to put itself in communication with the Reformers of Ayr, and seeing in this instance the necessity of national organi sation, the local interests may receive general support.--- 1 have the honour to be, sir, yours faithfully, "Mr. R. B. Reed, ‘ITEiNHAY. " Hon. Sec. Northern Reform Union." THE STRIKE, Yesterday the Executive Committee of the Central Association of Master Buiiders held a meeting at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars ; Mr. Plucknett, of the firm of Messrs. William Cnbitt and Co., of Gray's-inn-road, acting as chairman. there was a full attendance of members, and the meeting lasted several hours, but sitting as they did with closed doors, little is known of their delibera tions, except that they ended in no definite result, and the meeting at its rising stood adjourned for $ week, unless circumstances should arise to render an earlier conference necessary. From rebind' furnished by the members of the association it ap' pears that nearly 10,000 men, in various depart ments of the building trade, are now at work, un der the terms of the declaration, within the metro politan postal district. To some extent, though comparatively limited one, it is said the declaration has been adopted simply as a shop rule ; but, in the main, the members of the Central Association of Masters are understood to remain firm in their ad hesion to the document, pure and simple, or, at least, in the reasonable desire to procure a revision of so much of the laws and by-laws of the trade societies as impedes the legitimate progress of all building operations, and cramps the freedom of the operatives themselves in the exercise of their skill and industry. At the usual weekly meeting last night at Shaftes bury-hall, Aldersgate-street, the delegates from the metropolitan trade societies, not belonging to the building trades, presented themselves in consider able force, and brought contributions to a consider.- able amount in the aggregate to the common fund for the support of the men on strike. The Rev. Mr. Verity, a Lancashire clergyman, also delivered a lecture last night in St. Martin'e• hall, Long-acre, in the interest of the men, to $ crowded assembly of them. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. you kindly give insertion to these few remarks in answer to a letter from " A Meta' ber of the Builders' Central Association," which appears in the Times of this morning, charging Ile with " outrageous falsehoods ?" He brings for ward this and other charges as an excuse for the course the builders have adopted. This course, es you justly observe, has produced " a suicidal re' action against them." Now, Sir, I challenge the Builders' Association to put their finger upon any statement made bf the Conference that is not strictly in accordance with the facts. We are the parties who reallf ought to complain of falsehoods. A more s , out. rageous falsehood" was never asserted by any publY body than that contained in the resolution which the Builders lately passed, stating that 8,000 men had returned to thei r wor k un d er the " document. Not 7,000 were at the time locked out, and our re turns, taken from the numbers who were dailf counted on leaving work, showed that hundreds, instead of thousands, would have been nearer the mark. This unblushing statement of the 8,000 men would, if true, have supplied workmen to every unfinished building in the metropolier whereas it is well known by the " passers by" that , with the exception of a few labourers hanging about, not a man scarcely is at work at the West' minster Palace Hotel, the Glocester Coffee-house Piccadilly, the Cancer Hospital, the Duke of Buc cleuch's mansion, the Houses of Parliament, or ill' deed, at any of the large jobs in the metropolis" where the " document" is enforced. It is also said that we have been guilty of a act% of treachery in previous dealings" with. the Mae' tors' Association. Here, again, we will leave it to the public to decide which party has the most cause to complain. We have had only two com munications with the Builders' Association, one through the eminent merchant, Mr. Ingram Tra vers, and the other through Mr. Jay (one of their own committee). In the former case it was agreed that Mr. Travers's proposal for settling the disputes" should be submitted by Mr. Sidney Smith (seer& tary) to the Association of Master Builders, and by myself to the Conference. The Conference im mediately agreed to accept Mr. Travers's proposal by a majority of 29 to 9, but after about a fort: night's delay it was found out that the secretary of the master builders had put Mr. Travers's paper in his pocket, and never brought it before his mar' ters (not considering it of sufficient importance), although he had been engaged for four hours with Mr. Travers and myself discussing the terms of the arrangement. Now — , take the manner in which we were treated in the last (Mr. Jay's case), for which the Builders' Association has, not only in your columns, but in every newspaper, been so justly and universally condemned. Mr. Jay expressed a wish to see me, and on intimating his desire of putting an end to the differences, we discussed them at some length, and ultimately he begged me to get the Conference to put their proposals on paper, to lay before the next meeting of the masters. We followed his advice, and transmitted them with a respectful letter. Everybody knows how this overture was met by the insulting resolution against holding any communication whatever with an "illegal and irresponsible body." As to " tyrannical acts," there is none that can have exceeded that which took place on the 6th of August last, when the masters turned into the streets so many thousands of industrious men who had nothing whatever to do with the original quarrel. The " Member of the Builders' Association" concluies his letter by saying that if the trades will purge the " rules and byelaws of the trades' societies" (referring to the objectionable clauses) " the document' can then be unconditionally with drawn." This we have already agreed to by adopting Mr. Ingram Travers's and Mr. Marsh Nelson's proposal to amalgamate our societies on the pattern of that of the engineers, one of the most flourishing of the trades' societies, and the most respected by both masters and men---a society which has been almost universally approved by the leading merchants of the city of London. When "A, Member of the Builders' Association" makes false charges against poor men he should not be ashamed of signing his name to them, so that the public and the working-men may know who is the person desirous of still further widening the breaoh between the employers and the employed. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE POTTER, Secretary. Paviours Arms, Oct. 4. THE SUN, LONDON' WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1859,