The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-27 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Under the Management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W • Harrison. TMS EVENING, Flotow's Opera, MARTHA. Characters by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. .J. G. Patty , Mr. T. Gratton Kelly, Mr. -.Kirby, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of ➢lr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of KING JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. T Eng EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSU- R ANCE : Mr. and Mrs. C. Matthews, Ste. HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And ANY PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs.C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, kc. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swanborough, Mrs, Selby, Miss Ternan. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. The New Tariff : Dress Circle, 39. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Galleries, 6d. Great and Extraordinary Sensation produced by the new and brilliant Decorations—Splendid Act Drop—Magnificent Chandelier—Appropriate Scenery. During the week the new and successful drama of THE BATTLE OF BOTHWELL BRIG. With THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, comprising the evolutions and equitations of the first Professors in the world and their unequalled Stud of Horses. To conclude with a No Farce for booking. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. pented, some retracted. :One after another,they got back into Parliament. Mr. GIBSON celebrated his return by upsetting a " strong" Government. Mr. BRIGHT has since then resumed his eminent, rather, it should be said, his pre-eminent place among the most brilliant orators in the popular branch of the Legislature. Almost every man returns for one borough or another to the House of Commons—saving the man of men among them aII—RICHARD COBDEN. At last, as we have seen, as recently as yesterday, he is suggested as a fit and proper person to pro pose as a candidate for the suffrages of the Free trade electors of Manchester. But Manchester will not hear of it. Rather Mr. BAZLEY than Mr.COBDEN. Anybody, in fact, in preference to the latter. Man chester is resolute, is obdurate—to the very last is consistent—to the very last is independent. One can only wish now that Mr. COBDEN may find some opportunity of coming to an explana tion with the Liberal constituencies. For—as we said the other evening (before the death of Sir JOIIN POTTER) —We should be heartily glad, sup posing the ex-Member for the West Riding to have repented of the past, to look forward into the future to the speedy return of RICHARD COBDEN to the Commons House of Parliament. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engned for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, G LEES, nwErrs, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel!, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde, Mr..-E. Taylor, and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks —Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay —Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat THE FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open on Wednesday next. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OcT. 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon:yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day at noon. BanomETEn-30. 23 . WIND, Northerly ; light, with fine weather. THE SUN. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 185 x. It is a very bitter lesson that Mr. COBDEN has had to learn during the last two or three years. But tonics are bitter. May this bitter treatment prove to have had the influence of a tonic upon the judgment of the Free Trade Leader—or rather, it should be said ex-Leader. The truth is, Mr. COBDEN had latterly come to be so honoured for the great things he had unquestionably done, he had been so thoroughly, cordially, generously, and ungrudgingly appreciated, that that clear, shrewd, sagacious head of his was turned just the least bit in the world. He came, at last, to regard himself as pretty nearly infallible. He left off reasoning. He simply dictated. He got to regard himself at last as the arbiter of the destinies of the House of Commons. " The greatest Member of Parliament that ever lived" (according to the terms applied to Sir ROBERT by the present leader of the House) had, upon a memorable occa sion, disclaimed any right whatever to a share in the honours belonging exclusively, as he said, to the then powerful Member for Stockport. Thou sands and hundreds of thousands had long recog nised the force of RICHARD COBDEN'S " unadorned eloquence." At last RICIIARD COBDEN himself began to regard that eloquence of his as all-power ful. Again there was, in his instance, another and a very startling illustration of vaulting ambition overleaping itself. Mr. COBDEN turned a sudden summersault—out of Parliament. Eclipse ran the race at the last General Election, and—was dis tanced. A long interval elapsed, during which Mr. COBDEN'S name has remained continu ously, pertinaciously under a cloud. And at last—bitterest cut of all—Manchester will have none of him. Poor Sir JOHN POTTER dies prematurely. There is a vacancy to be filled up. Mr. Bright in the meantime has got in for Birmingham. Mr. MILNER GIBSON has returned to his accustomed seat below the gangway. The greatest of all the great men of the party is still denied access to the legislature. Mr. COBDEN is hid away somewhere in privacy, brooding over the vanished glories of his power, fame, and popularity. Suppose we consent to a reconciliation with him—call him back from his seclusion—and bring him in again upon the heads of the people and this time too as M.P. for Man chester. There is the opportunity clearly before them ; but Manchester won't hear of it. Mr. WILSON submits the proposition to the Liberals, Free-traders, Reformers assembled together yesterday in the Royal Exchange Rooms at Manchester the famous GEORGE WILSON, Chairman of the League, suggests this project to the Manchester men, and gets groaned down and hissed down in return for his pains, amidst a tumult of disapprobation. It shows how painfully the popular feeling was woainded by Mr. COBDEN—how bitterly the Lan cashire men were aggrieved—how great the error was that could only thus be expiated. Mr. COBDEN has had many a' sharp blow, but this has been the hardest of all yet administered to him this scornful and decisive rejection of the mere notion of him by the chief of the Liberal electors of Man chester. Although there has been no reduction in the rate of discount at the Bank of England, as required, or rather insisted on, by the Times, there has been no great falling off in the amount of " Other Securities." The decrease within the week has been only £2,500, an amount so insignificant as not to be worth while taking into the account on either side of the balance sheet. The unemployed notes have, however, been largely reduced, to the extent of nearly half a million, while in the bullion there is a decrease of £220,431. The directors were, therefore, fully warranted in the prudent course to which they adhered, and the wrath of " The Leading Journal" has been altogether misplaced. Indeed, it is to be apprehended that the evil which the directors have, so far as lay in their power, endeavoured to avert, has already taken deep root. The large withdrawal of private deposits within the past week would seem to indicate such a result. There are sundry schemes for carrying off British capital to foreign parts " looming in the future," and it behoves John Bull t 9 button up his pockets pretty tightly before he listens to the voice of " the charmer," whether he appear under a Russian or an Austrian mantle. We have already explained why it is that in advancing money to Turkey we promote the objects for which Great Britain has expended so much blood and treasure. " The scripholders " need have no qualm of con science, for they are doing that which will be exceedingly beneficial to their country. But will it be so in assisting Russia to advance her already gigantic power at British expense ? as good interest can be had at home, and o 4 far better security for an Englishman. Ireland is now in a far different position from what it was ten years since. The security there tendered is as good as any that can be obtained in any part of the world. A Parliamentary title perfectly un impeachable affords the easiest mode of raising money, or disposing of the property should the holder require back the whole or any portion of his original investment. No foreign war can disturb the value of these securities. They are close at hand, and can at any time be made avail able. Besides, money invested in Ireland or in any part of the United Kingdom increases our taxative powers, and therefore dimi nishes the burthens to the rest of the country. We would, therefore, urgently entreat our readers to pause before they invest their money in foreign speculations, at least until they have ascertained whether there is not something equally beneficial which they could obtain at home. The Times is, however, following up its onslaught against its quondam pets, the Bank Direc t )rs, with an indefatigable • pertinacity that shows how earnestly at heart it has the reduction of the Bank rate of. discount. and the consequent increase of gambling specula tions, and the excitement that inevitably produces a panic in the long run. Day after day long diatribes are poured forth against the folly of the attempt to regulate the rate of discount, and it is more than hinted that the Bank must have some sinister motive in remaining opposed :to what the Times thinks " ought to be its policy." It would indeed be strange if any public establishment were bound to advance money at a rate below that which it considers fair and proper. If it was bound to follow every movement of the discount market, the quotations would speedily be cooked to answer the purposes of certain speculators. The Directors would be deprived of every degree of discretion, and reduced into the mere automata that it was the intention of the Act of 1844 to make them. If, as the Times asserts, the Bank of England is but a private establishment, in the same category as the London and Westminster or Messrs. GLYNN and Co., it is the greater degree of impertinence to attempt to interfere with its private affairs, or to attempt to regulate the rate at which it must charge on the bills tendered to it for discount. But this is not the only instance of bad taste exhibited by the Times. It is compelled to admit, that " although for three weeks past the terms have been nominally 1 per cent. higher than those current out of doors, the amount of their balances has experienced no diminution."' This is the fact that puzzles the Times. If it could see the Bank deprived of business—completely stranded—it would be satisfied, but unfortu naetly it is not so. There is still an abun dant demand for money even at - fi per cent. The balances are just as fully employed as the directors would wish them to be. The reserve of notes and the stock of bullion have both been reduced, although not to an alarming extent, yet quite suf ficient to induce the directors to pursue a pru dent course, and not expose themselves to the censure that would inevitably follow any undue relaxation at this moment, should a crisis arise sooner than had been anticipated. The Times asks, Will any one believe that person s holding bills which they can discount in the open market at 2 per cent., will carry them to the Bank in order that they may pay 3 ? It looks upon thi s as the triumph of reasoning, but in answer we must say that we believe it—the public believe it, and even the Times itself lends an easy credence to the unquestionable fact. Alen of high standing will not, for the sake of a few shil lings, or a few pence, take their transactions out of the regular channel, and cast them on the stormy sea of the discount market. They have made up their minds to pay a fair and reasonable price for such accommodation as they may require, and they would greatly prefer paying 3 per cent. to the Bank of England to 2 or even 1 per cent. through some doubtful outsider, who would obtain some compensation for the cheapness of the terms on which the bill was cashed by hawking it up and down in every quarter, and showing that he was the real bona fide holder of such an instrument. Why, then, should the Times dare to assert that the Bank satisfies itself with second class paper, that which would be charged at a higher rate out of doors If there ie Any =Plaint egahiet It is only consistent in these gentlemen that they should so have acted. We deeply grieve with them as they do, we doubt not for one moment, themselves—that such is the necessity of the case. But so it is. Mr. COBDEN, with many of his asso ciates in the House of Commons, went count er t o public opinion two or three sessions back. And one and all of them, at the - ensuing general election, got bundled out in conse quence. M r . COBDEN, Mr. BRIGHT, M r . GIBSON, Mr. Fox, cum ceteris paribus—they all went to the wall. North, south, east, west—the story was still the same as the electioneering re sults came dropping in from all quarters. The free and independent Liberals would have none of them. At Manchester, at Stockport, at Rochdale, at Old ham—the thoroughgoing Reformers were unani mous. They were disgusted with the proceedings of their late honoured and trusted represen tatives. They preferred having perfectly new men to accepting once more those more emi nent men by whom they feel themselves to have have s e fl agran tly and gratuitously betrayed. Mr. =D came in for Stockport, and so with the rast of these Liberal constituencies. Tithe passed. dome of the ez44 Th.., • ,‘ 5 c ri e d peccavi, some re the Bank, it is that it is " too fastidious." It will not look at second class paper on any terms, or at any price. The unholy thing is peremptorily eschewed. Why, then, pretend that the Bank is acting in opposition to all its antecedents ? Simply that they may inflict an unwarrantable injury on the Bank, although they are themselves aware that they are resorting to the suggestio falsi. The spasmodic efforts of the Times are in one respect satisfactory. They clearly perceive that the pre sent system is in a moribund condition—that its days are numbered—and they strive to make the best use of what will probably be the last oppor tunity at its disposal for some time to come. LATEST NEWS. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Minister of Justice has submitted to the Council of State the draft of a decree re-establish ing what is called the "Consiel du Sceau des Titres." It enacts that the council shall consist of three senators, two councillors of State, two judges of the Court of Cassation, three masters of requests, an Imperial commissioner, and a secretary ; and that "in a general manner, and in all that is not contrary to existing legislation, its attributions shall be the same as those of the Conseil du Sceau, which was created by the decree of the Ist March, 1808, and of the Commission du Sceau established by ordinance of the 15th July, 1814 ;" that is to say, that it " shall deliberate and give its opinion on-1, demands for tho examination, confirmation, or recogntion of titles sent to it by the Emperor; 2, on the demands and verification of contested names and titles ; 3, on demands for a total or partial remission of Chan cery dues, and generally all questions submitted to it by the Keeper of the Seals." The decree pro poses further to enact that " any person whose name or title may be contested may through the Keeper of the Seals apply for the examination and decision of the Consiel du Sceau thereon ;" also that " in default of documents, the right to a title or a name may result from possession previous to 1789, such possession being proved by mentions in docu ments emanating from public functionaries or officers, or in historical papers." BOURSE, Oct. 26.—The market has been heavy in consequence of a report that large sums had been drawn in gold from the Bank of France to be sent to Vienna for the first instalment of the railways which have been purchased by the Lombardo- Venetian Company. Threes, after having been done at 72f. 85c. rallied to 72f. 95e. ; Mobilier varied from 890 to 897 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 6571. 50c. to 658 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,345 f. to 1,347 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 870 f. to 872 f. 50c. ; Southern, 562 f. 50c. to 565 f. ; and Eastern, 720 f. to 722 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations : II per Cents. 95 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents 72 95 Do. end month 73 50 Bank Shares 3125 Credit Mobilier 907 50 Do. Account Credit Fonder 645 Belgian 4f . — Piedmonteso (5) 93 Roman 93h Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern' New ditto. Bl2 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean B7O .. 870 New ditto Geneva 620 .. 620 Midi 553 75 .. 565 Western 607 50 .. 610 Eastern Grand Central — • . ---- Sardinian. Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. Mc. ; money, 25f 10e.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f, 921 c. ITALY. The St. Petersburg Gazette gives the following list of the military forces of Italy :—" Sardinia, it says, has an army of 50,000 men, but in time of war she can double that number. In 1848, she opposed 80,000 men to Austria, and at Novarra she had 135,000 men on the field. It is true she was beaten, notwithstanding. The Neapolitan army is 70,000 strong, and in case of war it can be readily increased to 100,000. Rome, Tuscany, Parma, and Modena reckon 30,000 men among them, and Austria raises in Lombardy 40,000 conscripts, who are in permanent service, not in their own country, but in the German provinces of the empire. This amount of 190,000 men in time of peace allows the calculation to be made without exaggeration, that Italy might easily raise 300,000." It is not easy to say what can be the motive of this enumeration, but such persons as desire to make themselves thoroughly acquainted with Italian military organisation will find full details in a pamphlet on Italy published about 15 or 20 years ago by General the Duke de Reggio. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 25. The report of the joint committee of the amalga mated Houses has been printed. It recommends the adoption of a resolution recognising " the ne cessity of the Regency." This recommendation is preceded by a lengthy statement of the evidence, the motives, and the legal points on which it is based. It recites " 1. The appointment by the King, October 13, 1857, of the Prince of Prussia as his representative or locum tenons, for three months, with the renewals of the same appoint ment at intervals of three months, to wit, January 6, April 9, June 26, 1858. " 9 . The ordinance of the 7th of October, 1858, by which the King calls on the Prince to assume the Regency. " The ordinance of the 9th of October, 1858, by which the Prince of Prussia declares that he assumes the Regency. "4. The ordinance of same date, convoking the Diet, with the speech of the Prince Regent to the two Houses at the opening of the Diet on the 20th. Medical certificates, it proceeds to state, were laid before the committee, as well those of last year as three recent statements of date 7th of September, 20th of September, 7th of October, 1858. The certificates attest the King's entire possessio n o f th e capa city to form and to communicate his intentions, while they at the same time declare it impossible to fix, even approxi mately, the time of his Majesty's probable recovery." It cites next the Art. sec. 56 of the Charter, which enacts that " when the King is a minor, or labours under any other prolonged disability (dauerend ver kindert) of exercising his authority himself," the nearest agnate of full age shall assume the Re gency. It declares the assumption of the Regency by the Prince of Prussia to have been in conformity with the constitutional situation thus created, by the ordinance of the King on the one side, and the enactment of the charter on the other. Then follows this noticeable paragraph :--- "Upon the exact bearing of these two legal rights thus called into being, upon each other, and upon the Regency, a diversity of view arose in the committee. This diversity of opinion, however, yielded to a general conviction that to enter upon any attempt to define exactly the respective claims of these opposite interpretations was no part of the duty of the committee. To have followed out the mutual bearing of these constitutional rights would lead into the most delicate and difficult questions of public law. A solu tion of these questions is not incumbent upon us, since the committee appears fully united on that point, which is the only ono submitted to the House by the Prince's message." -It will be observed that the foregoing paragraph places the King's ordinance side by side with sec. 56 of the Charter, and speaks of the latter as well as the former as concurring to constitute the Regency. It abstains from pronouncing them as co-ordinate, or equipollent forces, a declaration which could not have been unanimously obtained in the committee. This attitude exactly measures the extent to which the views of the Constitutional party are likely, at present, to find favour and re ception. The house is at this moment sitting as a Plenum, but I shall not be able to send you by this post any account of the reception which the above report of the committee meets there. There is no doubt of the truth of the rumour spoken of in the papers, that a circular has been or will be issued from the Home-office, restraining the officials from interference, such as they have hitherto practised, with the elections to the Chamber of Deputies. This order, which is . certainly well meant, is attributed to the Prince Regent's own unbiassed. sense of right. The provinces; even the eastern, arc beginnidg to stir in preparation for the elections. The Liberal party speak very hopefully of their prospects. The vote by which the Chamber of Nobles in Prussia rejected the proposition of present ing addresses to the King and to the Prince- Regent, on the occasion of the establishment of the Regency, has caused considerable sur prise at Berlin. The New Prussian Gazette ex presses an apprehension that this attitude of the Chamber may•lead to erroneous comments. Ac cording to that journal, which is in a position to be well informed, two reasons appear to have guided the majority of the Upper Chamber in its decision. First, it wished to set aside all pretext for giving rise to political dismsi9ns, which might also have taken place in the other: Chamber; and net the THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAYIEVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1858. decree of convocation did not appear to assign to the Diet in the present session any other mission than that of receiving the communication of the institution of the Regency. 4 - 4 - -7z 40 4- 4 -% , 1J1 74, ,, „ us 40, ,eOl. Did 2) R.01T ".1 OFFER TO RESTORE THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The insertion of the enclosed in your columns would greatly oblige yours, &c., G. 0. WILDMAN WHITEHOUSE. Valentia, Oct. 23. Valentia, Oct. 23, 1858. To the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. Gentlemen,—lntense interest in the success of a work with which from the first I have been so largely identified—an interest which neither the sense of a recent injury can extinguish, nor unde served contumely destroy, leads me, in the present critical, and almost desperate, state of the Atlantic cable, to come forward and offer my services again to the undertaking. All the opinions which the board have published, as well as their acts founded upon those opinions, concur in leading irresistibly. to the inference that the present condition of the cable is considered to be almost, if not absolutely, hopeless. As one of the projectors, upon the faith of whose representations a large portion of the original capi tal was subscribed, as a late officer, whose position afforded him the very best opportunities of gaining experience, which may now be of value to the in terests of the company, and as one whose opinion may thus have some weight, even though dia- ' metrically opposite to that adopted and published by the board, I feel that I am entitled, nay called upon, to offer my services at the present juncture. I have not tested nor in any way examined the state of the cable since my return to Valentia, nor shall I of course do so after all that has passed, until I receive definite permission from the direc tors for such examination to be made by me. It is therefore from previous observations and from a careful review of all that has occurred since my departure from Valentia, that I now state my strong conviction that our cable is recoverable— readily recoverable—and if such opinion be correct, the re-opening of communication with America must at once follow the adoption of the proper measures. A few days' testing, guided by the experience gained during the manufacture and subsequent use of the cable will in all probability enable me to ascertain this beyond doubt. If the result of this examination be such as to satisfy my own judgment, I shall then be prepared to make to the company the following offer : I will undertake at my . own cost, and at my own risk, to re-open communication with Newfound land, and, further, to maintain it for a given num ber of years, at a moderate percentage upon the gross receipts of the company, this being payable so long only as the line shall be kept by me in good working order. I now, therefore, request the directors' permission for such examination of the cable as shall bo neces sary to enable me to make an offer in the terms above stated.—l am, &c., G. 0. WILDNIAN WHITEHOUSE, Late Electrician to the Atlantic Telegraph Company, THE COURT. WINDSOR, TUESDAY, OCT. 26. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson) and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen dined with her Majesty yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Wynyard (the commanding officer of the Ist Bat talion Grenadier Guards) and Major Cowell, R.E., had the honour of being invited. The band of the Grenadier Guards played during dinner : Overture—" Guillaume Tell." Waltz—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Selection—Sicilian Vespers. Quadrille—Musketeers. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and performed in the Drawing-room the following selee- tions : Overture—" Zampa" Herold. Motetto (No. 1) Geschvvind Marsch Sulze. Romance—" La Part du Diable" . • Auber. Bolero—" Vepres Siciliennes" Verdi. Finale—" La Domino Nair" The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Prince Alfred, walked in the Home Park this morning, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore. The Queen Marie Amelia, the Duke de Nemours, the Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Duke de Chartres, the Comte do Paris, and Prince Philip of Wmtemberg visited her Majesty in the forenoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will leave St. James's Palace to-day on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort, at Windsor Castle. His Excellency Count Orloff, accompanied by Count and Countess Pouchkin and family, have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Duchess of Malakoff are expected to leave Albert-gate House to-day for Windsor Castle, having received an invi tation from her Majesty to join the royal circle. His Excellency M. Isturitz, the newly appointed Minister from Spain, who arrived a few days since from Madrid, to enter on his diplomatic duties, goes to Windsor Castle, either to-day or to-morrow, to present his creden tials to her Majesty. The Duchess of Wellington leaves town to-day to join the Duke at Claremont, Norfolk. The 'Marquis of Lansdowne has left Bowood for Broadlands, on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Pal- merston, The Marchioness of Ely and family have arrived at their residence, Prince's-gate, from Scotland. The Marchioness de Conceica and family have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, from Italy. Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining a succession of visitors during the past fortnight at Nor manton Park. The party have had capital sport in his lordship's well-stocked preserves. Lord and Lady Foley will return to town from Worksop on the Bth of next month. The noble lord and her ladyship will leave on the 20th proximo for the Conti nent. The Dowager Lady Raglan and the Hon. Miss Somerset are expected in town in a few days from visiting the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland at Apthorpe House, Northamptonshire. _ _ . Lord and Lady Calthorpe have arrived at their resideiice in Grosvenor-square from Perry Hall, near Bir- mingham. Lord and Lady Alfred Churchill are passing the season at Perry Hall, near Birmingham. The Count and Countess de Lalaing have left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia. We are glad to be able to contradict a report that has appeared in a contemporary, and to state that the gallant admiral of the fleet, Sir John West, continues in good health at his residence in Eaton-square. Lady Williams has returned to town from visiting Lord and Lady Foley, at Worksop Manor. The Rev. H. Dawkins and Mrs. Dawkins and Mr. Dawkins, and the Rev. G. Boyce and Mrs. Boyce, have arrived at Edwards's Hotel, the former from St. Neot's, and the latter from Kent. Monsieur and Madame de Bernoff have arrived at the Clarendon, from St. Petersburg. a paper MARRIAGE ofyesterday respectingLOßD thelN TO a r i • z g T e he f r the e por Lord - Lieutenant with the Lady Adela Capel is correct. The Earl of Essex, the bride's father, is the possessor of large estates in Roscommon, where his lordship has been recently a visi tor. The Viceregal nuptials are to take place on Tuesday, and the ceremony is to be strictly private. ESCAPE OF A POLITICAL PRISONER.—The fol lowing curious escape from the Hopital St. Louis of a poli tical prisoner and alleged lunatic is recounted by the Inde pendance Beige :—" M. Fargin Fayolle, an ex-member of the National Assembly, who took part in the affair at the Conservatoire des Arts-et-Metiers with Ledru Rollin, was condemned for that offence to imprisonment for life. After undergoing his punishment for six years, he was seized with illness, and it was decided to remove him to a maison de sante. Three years ago he was accordingly taken to the Hopital St. Louis, where he resided in the Pavillon Ga brielle, which is reserved forpatientswhohave the meansof paying for better accommodation. Two days ago, on one of the attendants entering the apartment, the prisoner had dis appeared and all his effects had been removed. The evening before, about five o'clock, after he had dinner, M. Fayolle went into the garden appropriated to the use of convalescent patients ; he spoke to several as usual, and walked up and down as he was in the habit of doing.. At half-past seven he returned to his room, but, before doing so, he, contrary to ordinary habits, shook several of the patients heartily by th bbe ihid pitoun an in d .a j fr usAs om t toin tha tiath t ee l.L th e n o bl vy o o n iilw e hid h icl i. ha s y s he e e e b r;.! f .i escaped t h a n d s ANA reMOTOCIIga effects, all maim uukaowla." SPAIN. Madrid journals and letters of the 22d have ar rived. " Yesterday, at 3 o'clock," says a semi-official organ, " all the monthly liabilities of the country were paid up, and the sum of 2,000,000 dols. re mained in the Treasury. This," it adds, "is a palmy state of things, of which the like has not been seen for some years in this country." The Peninsular Correspondence says :—" The Minister of Finance is understood to have expressed a strong opinion with reference to the case of foreign creditors, and to be determined. as soon as the financial state of the country shall allow, to do justice to the holders of Spanish coupons." A royal decree in the Gazelle appoints M. Bayarri, who was one of Marshal O'Donnell's colleagues in the Cabinet of 1856, to be Crown counsel and member of the Supreme Tribunal of War and Marine.. The rigorous treatment of the press continued ; a new prosecution of the .Espana had been ordered, and the Novedades and the Esperanza had been seized. The Correspondancia Autografa, a governmental publication, contains the following somewhat singular announcement : " General Dulce, Captain-General of Catalonia, has been autho rised by the Queen in the kindest terms to marry the Senora Treserva, who belongs to the best society of Barcelona." Rumours having been spread that General O'Donnell contem plated making himself dictator, the semi-official organs assert that they are unfounded, and are only concocted to render the Minister unpopular. " The man," says one of these journals, "who possesses the confidence of the Queen has no need to employ extraordinary means to consolidate his power." Some of the journals assert that there is no truth in a statement made by some American papers that COrisrirctoioa amcrnsot the blacks in one of the Spanish garrisons at Cuba have been discovered. A letter from a ministerial source says :—" The oppo sition journals, which, during the time that M. Mon was stillinMadrid, were continually speculating on the probability of that gentleman's succeeding the present Minister, are now asserting that a discord ance of views between Marshal O'Donnell and the Minister of the Interior exists. But the fact is there is no matter of any kind of importance on which there has ever been any difference of opinion among the men in power." THE NEW MEDICAL ACT-MEETING AT THE BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE. Last evening a meeting of the profession was held at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross, for the purpose of forming an associ ation, to be called the " London Medical Registra tion Association." The proceedings have been suggested by the coining into operation of the new Medical Bill. Amongst the gentlemen present were Thomas Wakley, Esq., the coroner for West Middlesex : Dr. Smiles, Dr. Semple, Dr. O'Connor, Dr. Webster, of Dulwich ; Mr. T. Wakley, Mr. G. T. Brent, deputy-coroner ; Mr. Weedon Cooke, Mr. Sotherin, Mr. Clarke, of Soho ; Dr. Ladd, Mr. Allen, Dr. Horne, Dr. Lavies, Dr. Cross, Dr. Routh, &c. On the motion of Mr. Wakley, Dr. Webster, of Dulwich, took the chair, and having congratulated the profession on the passing of the new act, re commended them to make the most of it by secur ing a fair representation in the council. Mr. WAKLEY then addressed the meeting, He referred to his own struggle for medical reform in the House of Commons, stating the moment he began to converse with members upon the subject of quackery a number of them were always ready to state the benefit which some members of their families bad derived from quack medicines. Had he prosecuted the subject under such circumstances, as he could have wished, he would have had some 200 of the legislature advertising those quack im postors through the country. He urged all present to aid the registrar appointed by the new act to carry out its provisions in a proper manner. Mr. ALLEN, who moved the first resolution, expressed the desirability of forming a registration association, and mentioned the filthy advertise ments which quackery was thrusting before the eyes and into the hands of every one, as an abuse that required to be checked. He passed a high eulogium on Mr. Wakley for his efforts on behalf of the profession, and said that a close watch must be kept on the College of Surgeons in the election by the council of that body of its representatives. Dr. O'CoNNoR said that legal opinions had been taken on that point, and they were directly at variance ; the solicitor to the college holding that the council had the right of election. (Laughter.) Dr. THORNE seconded the resolution, and the meeting was subsequently addressed by Dr. Ladd, of Lambeth ; Mr. Clarke, of Gerrard-street, Soho ; Mr. Lavies, of Westminster ; and several other gentlemen. With respect to local associations already formed, Mr. WAKLEY thought they might be made of great value to strengthen the central association, and suggested that their chairman should be ex officio members of the central committee. " The London Medical Registration Association" was then formed, a committee was enrolled, and several subscriptions announced. There were upwards of a hundred gentlemen present. THE LIBERAL INTEREST IN NORTH WARWICKSHIRE. The annual meeting of the association formed " for the purpose of establishing the Liberal inte rest in NorthWarwickshire," was held yesterday in the committee-room of the Town-hall, at Birming ham ; the Hon. E. C. Leigh in the chair. Among the county gentlemen present were Sir T. G. Skip with, Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, Mr. W. Martyn, M.P., B. D. Webster, Esq., &c. A long report was read, setting forth the result of the operations of the as sociation during the past year. From this docu ment we need only extract the concluding para graph, which said If the Liberals of North Warwickshire will exert themselves in furtherance of the cause, taking an active interest in the work ing of the society, your committee look forward to the time when the objects of the association will be fully accomplished." The report was adopted, and all who are desirous that the purposes for which the association was established may be at tained, will concur in the wishes of the committee. At the same time it may be noticed that of late years the achievements of those who have assumed the direction of the interests of the Liberal cause in North Warwickshire have not been marked by so much success as might have been anticipated ; and it may be hoped that a sense of shortcomings in the past will be the means of stimulating them to a better-directed action in the future. North Warwickshire may be won by the Liberals in two or three years ; if the present movement fails in that respect it is because those who are its prime movers are deficient in the power to rally round them the Liberal party generally. In alluding to the result of the election for the county In 1852 we referred to the folly and absurdity which had dic tated the blustering notices to quit which had been given to Messrs. Newdegate and Spooner. The county is not to be won by buffoonery of that kind, and we should be sorry to see a repetition of it. The meeting yesterday was addressed by most o f the gentlemen named above, and the desirability of having a candidate ready was strongly urged. On that there cam be no difference of opinion. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last an accident, nearly attended with fatal consequences, happened to Mr. Gaston, superintendent of the mills at Barcombe. It appears he was standing beneath a trap-door, when a sack of wheat fell from an upper story direct upon his head. In its descent it struck an intermediate floor, and burst the tie, consequently the blow was lessened in force, and as Mr. Gas ton is a strong thickset man, he withstood the shock, which dislocated his neck ; but instinctively raising his hands, he pulled his head up, and the workmen heard the bones snap again into their socket. Although he still feels the effects of the blow, yet we are glad to hear he is recovering, under the care of his medical attendant, who states that had he not acted as he did, his death, in five minutes, would have been inevitable.—Sussex Express. FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A CHILD FROM FIRE. Yesterday afternoon Mr. William Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest at the Sea Lion Thvern, Wootton street, Blackfriars-road, on the body of Mary Ann Cole, aged four years and a half, who lost her life by being fright fully burnt through the accidental ignition of her clothing. The evidence of several witnesses tended to prove that the deceased was the daughter of Stephen Cole, a porter, living at No. 5, Sigwell-place, Broadwall, New-cut. She was left in the care of her grandmother, who had occasion to leave the room for some water, and on her return found the poor girl with her clothes on fire. The grandmother with great difficulty extinguished the flames. Dr. Jones was called in, but was unable to pre serve life, the deceased being much burnt about the neck, face, chest, and arms. The deceased herself admitted that after her grandmother left the room she took the candle off the table to look for a needle which had fallen on the floor, when her clothes caught fire. The coroner, in summing up, said that he had not had a case of the above description for some time, but as the winter approached such cases always unfortu nately increased, as the poor had to leave their children with a fire or candle, of course, for a much longer time than during the summer, The Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death" THE LATE SIR JOHN POTTER, M.P. The Manchester Guardian contains a memoir of this gentleman, who, irrespective of his seat in Parliament, occupied an important local position as the head of the well-known mercantile firm of Potters and Norris, as a magistrate and deputy lieutenant (since 18M) of the County Palatine, as a city magistrate and visiting justice of the gaol, and as an alderman° and active member of the Manches ter corporation. " Sir John Potter was the eldest son of the late Sir Thomas Potter (the first mayor of Manchester, twice elected to the civic chair in successive years) by his secsnd wife, the daughter of the late Thos Bayley, Esq., of Manchester. He was born at Pole field, near Prestwich, in 1815, and was educated in the University of Edinburgh. During his father's lifetime Sir John did not take any active part in public life, but shortly after the death of Sir Thomas, which occurred in March, 1845, he was calla forward to succeed his father in various public duties and functions. He was introduced into the Manchester council by being at once elected an alderman ; while ho was placed on the commis sion of the peace for the county within two months after the decease of his father. His popularity grew rapidly with all classes, and on the 9th November, 1848, he was elected to the civic chair, which, for three successive years, in compliance with requests from almost all the members of the corporation, he filled with credit and honour to himself, and with no small advantage to the town. Before his mayor alty, the old party spirit, remaining from the bygone contests for supremacy which had agitated the community from the grant of the parliamentary franchise to Manchester, b the Reform Act of 1832, and which had to some extent been revived by the opposition to the incorporation of Manches ter from the year 1838—still continued to push its barriers into every social circle, till there remained scarcely a spot of neutral ground on which Whig or Tory, Liberal and Conservative, corporator and anti corporator, Churchman and Dissenter, could meet in amity, and—without the slightest compromise of principle, or the laying down a single dogma of their respective political, theological, or municipal beliefs, or opinions —learn, simply by knowing each other better, to entertain a higher mutual respect and esteem. It was reserved for Sir John Potter to effect, by his many high social qualities, and the great respect in which he was personally held by men of all parties, a great and important social change in this respect. In the liberal and cour teous dispensation of his civic hospitalities he brought together gentlemen who till then had met nowhere else, unless as opponents in some public arena. The length of his term of office gave him large facilities, of which he fully availed himself, for ripening the intercourse of our most respected and valuable citizens, from the cold interchange of civilities with which it commenced, into the cordial respect and esteem which all right-minded men may and ought to feel towards each other, however separated by party or denominational distinctions. We need not adduce further proof of this than the fact that between the deceased, who lived and died a conscientious and zealous Dissenter, and the Bishop of Manchester, a firm and steady friendship was formed, which is closed only by death. Another great labour of his mayoralty is one, the success of which was always a matter of the deepest interest to him even to the premature close of his active and useful life—we refer to the founding of the Manchester Free Library, a good work, of which it would be to rob him of his due revutation were we merely . to say that he took the chief part. By his great social influence, by his direct personal advocacy of the object, and his persevering canvass of his numerous friends for substantial aid, he really became the founder of that noble institu tion, which every succeeding generation among us will value more highly than its predecessors. That it was not a mere popularity-seeking scheme is obvious from the fact that, even within the cor poration itself, it met with great and strenuous op position. But Sir John never wavered in his aim, never relaxed in his efforts, till he saw this favourite object of his desires securely and satisfactorily at tained ; and we believe there are few of his many public acts and efforts to which he looked back with more pure and disinterested satisfaction than the establishment of the Free Library. When his mayoralty, protracted to the unusual term of three years, was drawing to its close, the Queen honoured Manchester with a visit ; and, on the 10th October, 1851, in presence of thou'§ands of his fellow-citizens, conferred on their popular and excellent Mayor the honour of knighthood. We know of no other in stance of father and son, each as the chief magis trate of a great city, receiving this honour in suc cession from the same sovereign, and his fellow citizens generally rejoiced in the gracious act as a compliment to themselves. In politics Sir John was an advanced Liberal, advocating the enlarge. ment of the electoral body to the extent of house hold suffrage. On his benevolence and kindliness of heart, his readiness to do good with all the energy of his impetuous nature, and on the many excellent traits of his private character, especially in the do mestic relations of life, we must not dwell. These are treasured memories' with those who knew him best ; but his death, in what seems but the mid-day of life, will be mourned by the great body of the community." THE OVERLAND _ROUTE FROM CALI- FORNIA TO NEW YORK. The first California overland mail arrived at St. Louis. on Saturday in 23 days and 4 hours from St. Francisco, bringing dates from our Pacific empo rium ten days later than had been received by way of the Panama route, and from the interior of Cali fornia of course still later. In the fact thus briefly stated we have a atriking condemnation of the po licy blindly pursued by the Federal Government throughout the last ten years. During these years the Treasury has spent at least two millions per annum for the support of ocean mails, about one million per annum of which has been devoted to mails by way of the Isthmus of Darien to Cali fornia. Had this money been expended in sending mails through our own territories on the most direct routes from the Mississippi to the Pacific, the ser vice would have been far better performed than it has been, with the incidental result of opening a great national highway across the continent, lined with settlements and villages and provided with every accessory to comfortable and expeditious travel, whereby the mails would now be carried at least twice a-week from San Francisco to St. Louis within 20 days, with side routes from Memphis to San Diego, and from St. Paul to the Dalles in less than half the time now required by the roundabout ocean transit. Grant that these mails would, at the outset, have been interrupted or delayed for two or three months in winter, and still the gain to the correspondence and business of the whole country would have been immense, while the advantage to emigration and travel would have been still more palpable. The pioneer from Wisconsin or lowa who resolves to try his chances in California must now journey 1,000 miles eastward in order to begin his voyage of 7,000 miles to San Francisco, whence he must make another expensive eastward journey of several hundred miles to reach the mines, from which he was but 2,000 to 2,500 miles distant when he started. The cost to him of this circuitous jour ney, both in time and money, is far greater than would be that of a passage by stage coach over the direct route, while the filth, discomfort, and danger to health of the sea route are inconceivably greater. Shall this be continued? Had the direct route or routes been opened at first—that from St. Louis to San Francisco in 1849, and side routes from Mem phis or Alexandria to San Diego and from St. Paul to Portland or Oregon city in 1851 and 1852—we should have been ere this in daily telegraphic com munication with our Pacific brethren, and with stages running daily for two•thirds of the year on all three routes over good and safe waggon roads for emigrants, and with railroads covering at least two-thirds of the distance on one route and well started on the others. All this we have lost through Government patronage and partiality favouring the Isthmus route. And to -day we have confederated gangs of speculators, including men high in office, intent on the squandering of more money on the Nicaragua, Tehuantepec, Honduras, Chiriqui, and other far away routes—said money to be taken out of the Federal treasury and to flow ultimately into the speculators pocket. Fellow-citizens of the whole country, but especially of the free West, watch the votes of your representatives on the questions of new mail routes across Mexico or Central Ame rica, and of renewing existing contracts for mail service by, way of Panama. See that the Yeas and Nays are called on every such question, and we will take care that they be published.—New York Tribune. SHOCKING CASE.--A YOUNG MAN STABBED BY His BROTHER.—At the Leicester Borough Court, yester day morning, a young man, named Frederick Thomas Sharp, was ch arge d w i t h stabbing his brother. It appeared that between 12 and 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, the injured man, who was in liquor, was attacked by three men in the street. His brother and father hearing of it went out and rescued him and got him into the house. The foolish man then wanted to go out and renew the quarrel, and be cause opposed by his father and brother (the prisoner), he quarrelled with the latter, who used the strange expres sion, " I would sooner kill you myself than let you be killed by them." The prisoner then drew a knife and stabbed his brother four times, twice in the back and twice in the ab domen. Mr. Thompson, surgeon, d e p o sed that the wounds were all very deep ones, and that the poor man's life was in danger. The prisoner, who denied t h at he intentionally stabbed his brother, was remanded for a week,—.3fanchester Examiner. THE NAVY. A deputation from Falmouth, accompanied by Mr. T. G. Baring, M.P., had an interview with Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas yesterday at the Admiralty on the subject of the proposed construc tion of docks in Falmouth harbour. An Admiralty order was received yesterday evening at Woolwich dockyard to hold the paddle wheel steam yacht Black Eagle, Master-Commander Petley, in readiness to embark the funeral car of the late Emperor Napoleon, from the Royal Arsenal pier, on Monday, Nov. 1, for conveyance to France. Mr. D. Partridge, inspector of naval steam ma chinery at Woolwich, was yesterday ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty to proceed to Hull, and survey the engines of the gunboat Sandfly, tender to the coastguard ship Cornwallis. The Sandfly left Woolwich only a few days back, after undergoing some considerable repairs in her boilers and ma chinery, which it appears are again in an unser viceable condition. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, Commander Joseph Dayman, has arrived at Wool wich. She is ordered to be admitted into basin forthwith, and to be paid off. An addition will shortly be made to the number of large line-of-battle screw steamers by the launch of the Hood, 90, which is nearly completed, at Chatham dockyard, where she has been on the stocks several years. Two other line-of-battle ships, the Atlas, 91, and the Irresistible, 80, are also building at Chatham, both of which are to be fitted with the screw. The Lords of the Admiralty have also ordered a 91-gun screw steamer, to be called the Bulwark, to be built at that establish ment ; in addition to which a fifth line-of-battle ship will be laid down as soon as one of the slips now occupied becomes vacant. The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, one of the class of vessels built from the designs of Sir Baldwin Walker, is nearly com pleted, and can be brought forward for launching. immediately ; orders to that effect have been re ceived from the Admiralty. In addition to the new ships in progress at Chatham, the Trafalgar, old 12Q-gun sailing ship, is in dock being cut down, to be converted into a 91-gun screw steamer, when she will be fitted with engines of 600 horse power. On the removal of her principal timbers they were found to be in a perfectly sound state. A careful examination of the Swedish man-of war corvette Naijaden, 18 guns, Capt. Warberg, was made at Chatham dockyard yesterday by the authorities at that establishment, when it was found that she had sustained considerable damage on the occasion of her running aground on the Galloper Sands during the passage from Christiansand, from which port she was on her voyage to the West Indies. The injuries to her keel and all other defects to the vessel are to be made good at Chat ham with the least possible delay. The new screw steamship Edgar, 91 guns, arrived at Sheerness at 10.30 a m. yesterday from Woolwich, in tow of steam vessels Monkey,Widgeon, and Bustler. She has been taken to moorings at Blackstakes, to remain until the defects to the cais son at the fitting-basin entrance are effected. Pre parations are being made by laying blocks in No. 1 dry-dock for making good the defects to the caisson. The Committee of Investigation on Dockyard Economy, consisting of Rear-Admiral of the inuo Robert Smart, K.H., C. 8., &c.; Mr. R. Laws, store keeper of Chatham-yard ; Mr. H. Chatfield, master shipwright of Deptford-yard ; and Mr. A. Murray, chief engineer and inspector of machinery at Ports mouth-yard, yesterday commenced their investiga tion at Sheerness-yard. Mr. W. L. Freeman, store receiver of the yard, was the first person called on to give evidence. The investigation is expected to occupy from seven to eight days. The Jackal, steam vessel, Lieut.-Commander C. T. W. G. Cerjat, is ordered to be paid off at Sheer ness on Friday next. The theory of iron-sided ships resisting . the fire of ordinary men-of-war, or shore batteries, has most signally failed in practice, as developed at Portsmouth on Monday (briefly alluded to in our columns of yesterday), by the gunnery of Her Majesty's ship Excellent. The Erebus, a new 16-gun iron-built steam battery, of 200 horse power, the production, we believe, of Napier, of Glasgow, was moored at 400 yards' range from the gunboat Snapper, iron plates 4 inches thick (the same con sistency as those of which the battery is built) hav ing previously been affixed over the ports on the side next the gunboat. The fire was directed from the Snapper at the space between these supplemen tary plates, the solid side of the battery, and con sisted of four 68-pounder " turned " solid shot, and four 32-pounders, the former projected with the service charge of 17 lb. of gunpowder, and the latter with 10 lb. The result was instantaneously deve loped ; the 32's merely indented the iron battery, but the 68's passed right through it, and the first of them split two of the beams. Only eight rounds were fired. • The experiments were not repeated yesterday, but a survey was made, and a report founded upon it for the information of the Lords of the Admiralty, by Capt. Hewlett, C. 8., command ing the Excellent. Mr. A. H. Long has been appointed a midship• man to her Majesty's ship Victor Emmanuel. THE ARMY. Orders have been received at the head-quarters of the Royal Engineers' establishment, Chatham, for the 3d Company of Royal Engineers, under the command of Major C. H. Sedley, to be held in rea diness to embark for service at Gibraltar. The men have been inspected by Col. Sandham, and are ex pected to embark on Tuesday next. Assistant Staff-Surgeon T. A. Macarthey has been ordered to proceed from Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, to Woolwich, where he will embail in charge of troops proceeding to Hongkong. The following troops will embark at Portsmouth on Saturday, on board H. M. S. Himalaya, Com mander J. Seccombe, for Corfu, for which destina tion she will leave on Sunday :-35 officers, 3 offi cers' wives, 3 ditto children, 1 servant, 854 non commissioned officers and men, 60 soldiers' wives, and 66 soldiers' children, of the 2d battalion of the 9th Foot, from Aldershott ; 3 officers and 50 non commissioned officers and men of the 2d (Queen's Royal) Foot, from Deal ; 4 officers, 50 non-commis sioned officers and men, 13 soldiers' wives, and 19 soldiers' children of the Ist battalion of the 14th Foot, from Fermoy ; total, 1,163, exclusive of crew. THE MILITIA. The 79th Antrim, Queen's Royal Rifles, in com mand of Colonel the Marquis of Donegal, G.C.H., were on Monday put through the manoeuvres of a general field day, and thoroughly inspected, by Major-General R. P. Douglas, Assistant-Adjutant - General, who expressed himself extremely satisfied With the appearance and soldier-like bearing of the corps under inspection. TIIE VICTORIA CROSS. (From the Gazette of last Evening.) WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 26. The Queen has been graciously pleased to confirm the grant of the Decoration of the Victoria Cross to the under mentioned Private Soldiers of her Majesty's Army, which Decoration has been provisionally conferred upon them by the Commander-in-Chief in India, and by Major-General James Hope Grant, K.C.8., respectively, on account of Acts of Bravery performed by them in that country, as recorded against their several names : viz : Private James Shaw:, Rifle Brigade (3d Battalion) for the act of bravery recorded in a despatch from Major-General James Hope Grant, K.C.8., Commanding the Lucknovr Field Force, to the Deputy Adjutant-General of the Amy l of which the following is an extract :—" A n a r m ed rebel had been seen to enter a tope of trees. Some officers and men ran into the tope in pursuit of him. This man was a Ghazee. Private Shaw drew his short sword, and with that weapon rushed single-handed on the Ghazee. Shaw received a severe tulwar wound, but after a desperate struggle, he killed the man." 75th Regiment—private Patrick Green, for having, on the 11th September, 1857, when the picquet at Koodsia Baugh, at Delhi, was hotly pressed by a large body of the enemy, successfully rescued a comrade, who had fallen wounded as a skirmisher. Private Patrick Carlin, 13th Regiment, for rescuing, on the 6th of April, 1858, a wounded Naick of the 4th Madras Rifles, in the field of battle, after killing, with the Naick 's sword, a mutineer sepoy, who fired at him whilst bearing off his wounded comrade on his shoulders. Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned non-commissioned officer of her Majesty's army, who has been recommended to her Majesty for that decoration, en account of an act of bravery performed by him in the Crimea, during the late Near, as recorded against his name, viz. Sergeant-Major Charles Wooden, 17th Lancers, for having, after the retreat of the Light Cavalry, at the Battle of Balaclava, been instrumental, together with Dr. James Mouat, C. 8., in saving the life of Lieut.-Colonel Morris? C. 8., of the 17th Lancers, by proceeding, under a heavy fire, to his assistance, when he was lying very dangerously wounded, in an exposed situation. ALARMING OCCURRENCE WHILE HUNTING.--* On Saturday, a good day's sport with the Aspull harriers had well nigh been marred by an occurrence of a very pain ful and fatal character. Mr. k S. Kearsley, of The Height, near Bolton, was one of " the field," and when the scent was in the neighbourhood of Standish, near Wigan, that gentleman jumped some rails on the bank of a collierY railway, when his horse's hind legs went through some old rotten timber, grown over with grass, which concealed the mouth of an old colliery shaft. For a few seconds the noble steed struggled desperatelyto obtain firm footing, but he was unable to do so, and at last a portion of the surface embankment giving way, he fell backwards to the bottom of the pit, and was killed on the spot. Most miraculouslY , Mr. Kearsley himself escaped. He adroitly managed to alight from his horse over his hind quarters, and succeeded in obtaining a solid f oo ti ng one single ins tant before the Wiwi], fell a 4 was to pieces. Prei Cen , 102] eelr to 1 861 bus but 1) .ueri in L to z , E N Dort a ka kat day• „eha Aarl ttay tiOt, 'Ay t °f tl 4 ot t ab, qu We th; rai fire, Seri Pren J, si lo , d e o hav, E lLe i I3N 4 141