The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE, TO-MORROW. —I SCOTTISH SONG. The Edinburgh Tonic Sol-fa Association, whose singing this day was so enthusiasticall y received, will give a " FESTIVAL of SCOTTISH SONG,' consisting of Duetts, Trios, Glees, and Burden Songs, To morrow (Wednesday), at Three o'clock. The Programme viii be in three parts—the first and second consisting of miscellaneous Scotch songs, the third part selec tions from the songs of Bps, and will comprise all the most popular of the Scottish melodies. Leader—Mr. James Heriot, of Edinburgh. Admission, One Shilling; Children, Si x p enc e. A few Reserved Seats, Half-a-Crown extra, will be on sale at the stand in the Centre Transept. Display of Fountains, and Great Organ performance after the Scottish Concert. - E JE NSON'S WATC . HES. I " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning,Post. Gold .......”.. 5 to 100 guinea& Silver Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrlp- Wive of every Construction of watch now .niade, with their prices. ( r Watches sent to all parts of the lringdoAfreo by post, or to India and the Colonies for 55. extra. , Established 1740. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London , B.C. 4 THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lemee„ Mr. J. B. Buskstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commenee with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Chi Buokstone, Com_pton. ppendale. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. , After which A GAM OF SPECULATN. Mr. Affable Hawk, Mr. C. Mathews ; E Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. E. IO Fitzwilliam. To oonolndo with THE CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCE SS'S THEATRE..... Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be performed MACBETH. Mr James Anderson and Miss Elsworthy. After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Miss Maria Harris. Mr. A. Harris and Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE - ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Last nights of the popular Adelphi Drama of Janet Pride. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss LaidlaW. After which, THAT BLESSED BABY. Mr. Billington, Mr. J. L. Toole, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past 6--Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, A 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, 11- Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. Bd. ; Amphitheatre, is Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manages, Mr. Wm. BATTY. Crowded Houses.—Re -engagement of the celebrated Dela vantl Troupe, Mr. George Hutchingson, and the Wonder of the World, the Great Little Menonii, A. Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Sept 8, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including the greatest Equestrienne in the world, Madlle. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Menoni. Doors open at half-past 8, performance commence at 7. Box-ofnoe open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager--Mr. W. WEM!. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt'. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. — EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA, And Selections from DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, 11 ...Hall, 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with iieg,ro delineations, anecdotes, tc., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—Bux OFrica, SEPT. 4, 1660. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.26 ; still rising. WlND—Northerly ; light, with very fine dry, sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m To-monnow.-Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1860. The last days of Bourbonism in Naples are at hand. Not only is the great General steadily and rapidly approaching from the south, but, if we may credit the correspondent of a morning contem porary whose information has generally proved correct, the north of Italy will meet the south at Naples—the regular soldiers of VICTOR EMMANUEL will be there almost as soon as those of GARIBALDI. It is said that Count CAVOUR has " thrown off the mask"—or as he himself would doubtless say, has adapted himself to circumstances or yielded to the irresistible logic of events. He is according to this letter, which is dated from Turin, on the 30th of August, resolved to send a strong body of soldiers to preserve under any circumstances life, property, and tranquility in Naples. He intends to send them, as far as practicable, by sea, but if not, to demand for them a passage through the Papal territories. Such a passage was granted to Austrians in 1821, and to Neapolitans themselves in 1848, and the Count does not mean to accept a refusal now. There is a fair show of reason for such a step, provided the Sardinians take a course precisely the reverse of that of the French at Rome. The latter went there to coerce the Romans into submission to a rule they hated, and ha ve h a t e d e v er since. The Sardinians will not, we trust, if they go- to Naples, depart from the strictest political neutrality. They go to save the city from the dangers to which it might be exposed, from the fierce antogonism of factions, from the brutal lazzaroni, from the mer cenaries in the KING'S service, and from the exas perated Royalists, who have long battened on the corruption and cruelties of the Government. It may well be that, the National Guard is not competent, unaided, to resist all the classes from whom disturbance is to be feared; but we should think it as likely as anything that the letter of LUCIEN MURAT, and the recent advance into public notice of the NI e.azinists , are amongst the chief reasons which have induced Count CAVOUR to take this perfectly abnormal step. Abnormal, however, only for a Government which avows the principle of non-intervention. Austria has intervened often enough. France is most injuriously intervening at Rome at this moment ; we trust the Sardinian intervention will be simply and solely for the civil safety of the population. Much as we should like to see all cordially uniting in VICTOR EMMANUEL, we should deplore his doing a single at.a which constrained a single Neapolitan to vote in his favour. If he does but honestly preserve the city from bombard ment by the KING (who denies, however, any such intention), and from the temporary riot of rascality which abounds there, he may then justify his departure from neutrality. His bona fide procla mation to the Neapolitans must be " Choose freely your own Government, but choose it without riot or bloodshed." If we look at Naples itself, and south of it, all is most hopeful. Amongst the councillors and even the generals of the army we have constant rumours of resignation and defection. It seems quite certain that General NIINZIANTE has left the KING and gone on board a Neapolitan ship of war, and that only one general, the savage Bosco, stands heartily by the disconsolate Monarch. The KING is said to Promise that all fighting shall be outside the city; and the National Guard having intimated to him that they could be relied on only to resist civil tumult, he is said to have begged them not to place his mercenaries between two fires, by attacking them from behind, while the Gari baldians assailed in front ! If not literally true the story, no doubt, correctly represent his fears. But what can the poor wretch hope for when the Count of SYRACUSE himself makes his peace with VICTOR EMMANUEL. Indeed the correspondent above re ferred to from Turin goes so far as to say that in a second letter the Count has actually recognised VICTOR EMMANUEL as the King of Italy. But it is south of Naples that the decisive work is being done. GARIBALDI there so completely commands the entire straits, that Messina is com pletely isolated. But far more important even than that—more important than his victories themselves, considered as strictly military feats, is the temper he everywhere finds both among the troops and the population. The latter welcome him even far more enthusiastically than did the country popula tion of Sicily—exerting themselves also to the utmost to supply his wants when he has had to de pend on them. At Reggio, however, he seems to have formed abundant stores. As •to the troops, their chief manoeuvre seems to be to yield after pre senting the appearance of resistance; presenting it, however, in such a way as not to endanger their lives. The capture of the battalions under BRI GANTI and MELENDEZ, one of 2,000 and the other of 1,800 men was effected with wonderful skill, and humanity; yet it is impossible to feel 'quite sure that BRIGANTI did not take the position he did, to give GARIBALDI the opportunity of showing his skill. Certain it is that after the surrender the fraternisation was complete. GARIBALDI himself went down among the Neapolitans, showing how entire was his confidence, and was almost torn to pieces by hugging and embracing ; soldier and offi cer, including Gen. BRIGANTI himself, fraternised. And such we may, for humanity's sake, hope will be the story to the end, One line of defence after another has been abandoned, and we are told the way is now un obstructed from Reggio to Salerno itself—the obstructions there and outside Naples—we have every reason to hope will melt away, much after the fashion of those at Reggio and Monteleone, and perhaps in ten days more GARIBALDI may date his orders from Naples, and the fugitive KING from on board ship, or a little later, from Vienna. The Army evidently cannot be trusted, and the whole country, as fast as it gets clear of mercenary or Royalist troops, proclaims the Dic tatorship of GARIBALDI. He pursues his uniform course. He longs to avoid bloodshed—his last proclamation to the Neapolitans of the continent says :—" I wish to avoid bloodshed among Italians. I have seen that you are brave, and don't wish to see it again; our blood we will shed together on the corpses of the enemies of Italy, but between us let there be peace—accept that right hand which has never served a tyrant, but which has been hardened in the service of the people." Yes—ltalians will accept it—and should he ever visit this country, Englishmen of all classes would be proud to grasp it. It is always, in fact it has become proverbially ; ungracious to look a gift horse in the mouth. Yet for the life of us we cannot help acting thus, how• ever perversely, in regard to certain presentations made to the nation by private individuals. There are conditions sometimes coupled with those gifts that tend to render what could otherwise be viewed only as evidences of munificence and magnanimity singularly vexatious, crotchetty and irritating. Take a case in point. There is a commodious dwelling house on the north side of Lincoln's-inn-fields—No. 13, to wit—which is opened to public inspectipn during two or three months out of the twelve, and which contains within it a miscellaneous assortment of works of art and objects of curiosity bequeathed to the nation by the collector, the late Sir JOHN SOANE, and known ever since then as Sir JOHN SOANE'S Museum. Now this museum might have been quadrupled in value as a popular benefaction if it had been left to the country by Sir JOHN SOANE in an open liberal-handed manner, without encumbering it with any conditions whatsoever. Supposing, for example, that it had been so be queathed by the donor to the British Government, it need not have been kept all this while isolated in No. 13, Lincoln's-inn-fields—it might have been rendered accessible to the public at large without the smallest restriction of any kind at all—it might have been opened to the examination of the country at large, from year's end to year's end, in stead of during one solitary quarter in each twelve month. The imposition of these arbitrary condi tions can alone be attributed to one motive, and that a motive of a very petty character, namely vanity. The donor appears in these instances to be, above all things, desirous that his name as the donor should be perpetuated as glaringly as possible. Therefore—let the museum, the gallery, the collec tion, or whatever else it may be, stand apart from all others, even though its isolation involves the necessity of its remaining in a comparatively ob scure tenement like this No. 13, Lincoln's-inn-fields, where Sir JOHN SOANE'S Museum has, ever since Sir JOHN SOANE'S death, been incurring the risk of destruction by fire through the merest ordinary casualty, upon either hand, of an accidental conflag ration. It is vanity and nothing but vanity which says—" My gift shall remain apart from all other gifts to the nation, and shall be called by my own name exclusively, by way of advertising my generosity to posterity in perpetuity, and securing to m e thus an inexhaustible flood of posthumous admiration !" Compare with this the gift, pure and ',sim ple, the unconditional bequest of some museum, or gallery, or collection, left literally pro bono publico by the munificent public benefactor. Does such an unconditional gift redound less, think you, or more, to the honour of any such benefactor ? Does not the fact of its being so left enhance the grace and value of the donation ? And is it less likely to be cared for by the nation with a view to its better preservation ? Why, on the contrary, the treasures so left are far more likely to be kept by being at once placed in one out of harm's way of the great fireproof structures devoted to the purposes of such collective preservation. A passage occurring incidentally in the Report of the Select Committee upon the South Kensing ton Museum has thrust these foregoing thoughts upon our consideration. It is that sentence in the report which says—" The collection of British pictures at South Kensington was commenced by Mr. SHEEPSHANKS ; who in (living them to the nation stipulated that his pictures must be kept either in the immediate neighbourhood of Kensing ton in a suitable building, or, jailing this, at Cam bridge." Now, in alluding to this stipulation we are perfectly conscious that we are doing nothing less invidious, nothing less ungracious than—looking a gift horse in the mouth, and a gift horse, too, which is valued at upwards of £50,000 sterling ! The SHEEPSHANKS' collection is a very rare and noble gift to the nation—one reflecting the highest honour upon the munificent giver. His donation —valued at £52,592 —being all the more generous from the fact of its being vouchsafed by Mr. SIIEEPSHANKS during his lifetime. But—grate fully acknowledging this on behalf of the nation thus magnificently benefited by the spontaneous generosity of this gentleman of ample fortune, of • . 1 A z .I,' gt: _ -bßorr ruE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1860. exquisite taste, and of superb munificence—we cannot but regret that he should have deemed it necessary to mar the grandeur of his gift by any such vexatious stipulations. Of course, like his Grace the late oracular Duke of NEWCASLLE, down at Clumber, Mr. SHEEP SHANKS the openhanded giver of the SHEEP SHANKS' Collection had a perfect right to do what he liked with his own. He might had it so pleased him, have enjoined that his gift was to be received by the nation on condition that thenceforth and for ever the hall porter at the principal entrance to the SHEEP SHANKS' Collections should be a skilled acrobat, who should be required every day, on opening tho outer portal of the gallery, to turn three summersaults, to stand upon his head for seventeen seconds, and turn wheel-fashion with outstretched arms and legs once in a figure of eight. These or any others might have been his stipulations. Instead of which they are as they are—and hinc:ille lachrymce, hence our lamentations over those ridiculous Brompton Boilers, in which are entombed almost all the Bri tish pictures belonging to the nation, the gift to England of Mr. TURNER, of Mr. VERNON, of Mrs. ELLISON, of JACOB, and BELL, and AN GERSTEIN, and of other munificent donors, as well as of Mr. SHEEP SHANS himself—gifts which Mr. SHEEPSHANKS has helped thus directly to drag down into that artistic slough of despond there at the south-east corner of South Kensington ! We live in the hope that Mr. SHEEPSHANKS will yet think better of it, and that he will generously resolve to sweep away his (as we cannot help regarding them) eccentric stipulations. Then in that most desirable eventu ality—with the Royal Academy removed at length (as it ought to have been long since) from the space it now encumbers in Trafalgar-square —the NATIONAL GALLERY (rebuilt) may be worthy in all respect of the name of the National Gallery. It may include among its treasures not only speci mens of the great European masters of the art, but together with those other paintings which we na turally regard with peculiar pride and plea sure, the examplars of our English school, the gifts of the genius and patriotism of JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, and of the generosity and munificence of national benefactors like SHEEP SHANKS, JACOB, BELL, VERNON, and ANGERSTEIN. The annual report of the Metropolitan Board of Works has just been issued. We gave some ex tracts from it on Saturday. The High-level Sewer is fast approaching completion, as, by the rates we have had to pay, it certainly ought to be. The drainage of our pockets will, we may hope, do something for draining away from us the causes of disease. The course to be selected for the North Low-level Sewer depends, we are reminded, on the settlement of the " important" question of the em bankment of the Thames. Important indeed it is ; and when we consider the advantage:to the river ; the advantage to houses and buildings, in regard to security during the making of the tunnel; the advantage to the streets of London by relief to their traffic ; and, we may confidently add, the ad vantage to the property on the side of the river, i and the avoidance of a long block-up of our busiest streets, we can only say that the embankment must be made. If properly gone about we cannot doubt that it may be made a paying work. Mr. TRAIN will doubtless help to make it so by a fair , contract for his street railway; or an ordinary railway may perhaps be made. Compensation should be all the right way. If the wharfingers get wet docks for mud, and if the property adja cent to the embankment increase in value—then the embankment might more properly demand a contribution than be regarded as a ground of com pensation. What millions might have been saved in negro emancipation, and in railways, if com pensation had been refused by Act of Parliament, till loss or deterioration in value were proved after the event. Let the condition be—compensation, if, after a year or two you can show a property di minished in value—but with this additional condi tion, that if there be a rise in value of the property, you contribute proportionally to the cost of the em bankment. How many of the owners of riverside property would accept the alternative ? All would know too well that their property would be per haps doubled in value. We notice with pleasure, that the Commissioners seriously think of the " utilisation of sewage-matter," as a probable source of profit to the public. Now, therefore, is Mr. MECHI'S time. The High-level Sewer will soon be complete. If his plan be adopted, there will be no need to pollute the Thames with its contents at all, or to incur the expense of taking it quite so far. He will need all the fluid that comes down, water as well. Even the storm water will, he tells us, be valuable to him ; though we should think he would have had more than enough of water this summer. His plan, if it will but answer, is far more applicable than any other, to the termination of a large sewer ; and that it will answer we have proof not only from the experience of Mr. MECHI himself, but from that of the little town of Watford, whose 4,000 inhabitants receive from the Earl of ESSEX £5O a-year for permission to use what our huge London sewers will soon be pouring forth abundantly. At the same rate, the two millions and a half of London ought to receive more than £30,000 a-year in diminution of their Metropolitan Sewers rates ! We have little doubt the sewage is worth much more, and that any company who would undertake to utilise it, avoiding of course, all the deodorisation non sense, would soon see its shares at a splendid premium. It should never be forgotten that, under a system of perfect utilisation of the sewage and waste of a town, each town would produce an additional amount of food, equal to its own consumption. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Wur temburg and her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Olga, accompanied by their suite of attendants, have lef Claridge's Hotel for Shanklin, Isle of Wight. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been staying during the past week at Gordon Castle, near Fochabers, N. 8., on a visit to the Duke and Duchess o Richmond. His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto have left Hill-street for Brighton, to pass the autumn at that favourite watering-place. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff and family have left the Prussian Legation, on Carlton-house-terrace, for Brighton, with the intention of residing there several weeks. The Marquis of Itastings has arrived at Inistry wick House, Lochawe, N. 8., on a visit to Captain and Lady Bertha Clifton, from Doningtou Park, Ashby-de-la- Zouch. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have left Claridge's Hotel, for Belgium. The Marchioness of Abercorn, after visiting the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, at Shnborough Staffordshire, has gone on a visit to the Duko of Bedford, at Endsleigh Cottage, the noble duke's romantic seat near Tavistock. The Earl Granville, the Lord President of the Council, left his residence in Bruton-street, on Saturday, for Germany. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor left Calverley Park, their seat in Cheshire, on Friday last, for Dunrobin Castle, N. 8., to join the family circle staying with the Duke of Sutherland. Laura Countess of Antrim and Lady Helen 111‘Donnell have left Lowndes-square for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Molesworth. _ _ Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, who left town on Friday for Brocket Hall, Herts, are entertaining a select circle at their country seat. LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Renter's office : VIENNA, SEPT. 3. The Austrian Gazette says : " The first plenary sitting of the Council of the Empire will be held on the 10th inst. " A revolutionary committee has been discovered at Verona. Its members have been arrested. The papers which were seized throw a surprising light on the proceedings of a neighbouring Power." TURIN, SEPT. 2. It is stated that the concentration of two Sardi nian corps d'arniee on the frontier, is owing to the menacing attitude of General Lamoriciere. According to advices from Palermo the elections are to take place on the 15th inst. ROME, SEPT. 2. It is stated, in official quarters, that the French garrison at Rome is to be increased by 3,500 men, in order to better protect that city, as well as Ciyita Vecchia and Viterbo. General Ncue has been appointed Commander o. :he French Division. All political manifestations have been proh bite d. Ancona has been declared in a state of siege, and the Papal delegate has been recalled. Ponto Corvo and Benevento are almost in a state of insurrectiot. Agitation likewise prevails in all the other pro vinces. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 4. The Moniteur publishes the following letter addressed to its editor by Prince Lucien Murat:-- " Sir,—l have to remonstrate against the inter pretation given to my letter by the Moniteur. I have never had any pretension to engage before hand either the Emperor's policy or the alliance of France. But I think, and I intended to say, that if independently of any foreign influence, universal suffrage manifested itself in my favour, the wish of the people would doubtless not be less respected as regards Naples, than it has been for the other parts of Italy.—Accept, " Sept. 1, 1860." " L. MURAT. BOURSE, Sept. 3.—Stock was rather offered at the commencement of business, and for a time the tendency was downward. A little rally afterwards took place, but prices still remain lower than at the close on Saturday. For Account, Threes, are now at 68f sc. Mobilier, 688 f 75c; Northern, 953 f 75c; Mediterranean, 886 f 250; Austrian, 481 f 65c; Lombards, 475 f. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents.,.. 98 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 05 Bank Shares 2820 Credit ➢lobilier.,.. 692 50 Do. Account — Credit Foicier 897 60 Belgian 4f 7S 50 Piedmontese Fives 7Bk Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 4B Home Debt .. — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1375 .. 1375 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 890 .. 888 75 Geneva 362 50 .. 365 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard THE BOMBAY MAIL. By Extraordinary Express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we have received letters and papers from Bombay to the 7th ult. Already a high judicial officer, of no inconsiderable reputation at Madras, has come forward in no am biguous manner to express his concurrence with those who sympathised with Sir Charles Trevelyan, and now we have not only soucars (bankers) and bunneahs (tradesmen), but even the judges at Bom bay, openly contesting the legality of the measures originated at Calcutta. It is impossible that such a state of things can continue with advantage to the state. From the statements made, it appears that thewhole deficit—as the total expenditure for 1859 -60 in England and India amounts to £46,417,462;whi1e the revenue for the year is only £38,127,332 is no less in amount than £8,290,130, and this does not include the million sterling for compen sation, which is to be included in the charges for 1860-61. The total of the estimated revenue for 1860-61 is put down at £38,162,660. The charges for the same period are estimated at £45,510,679 ; in all leaving a deficit of £7,348,019. To make up this total of expenditure the following items are given :—Compensation, £1,000,000; charges for collection, and cost of salt and opium, £7,154,911; civil and political establishments, i 3,397,746; judicial and police charges, £4,000,000; public works, including military buildings, £4,390,300 ; army charges, £15,276,320 ; navy ditto, £888,900; interest on the debt, £3,124,070. Total expenditure in India alone £39,600,970. The home charges are set down at £4,403,770, but recent advices from London increase the estimate under this head to £5,333,217. Besides this, £1,455,939 is to be locked up for guaranteed interest in Eng land, and £50,000 for the same liability in India. The million for compensation is an extraordinary charge, which will not occur again ; bat, on the other hand, the Indian estimate does not allow for nearly n million, 'the amount, as already mentioned, by which the English estimate of home charges ex ceeds the estimate prepared in this country. If the chief features there of this estimate are correct, i ought to be remembered that of the £3,124,070 which is set down as interest on the Indian debt, at least one-half of that amount ought to be regarded as a British rather than an Indian liability. A large portion of this burden was incurred not for local, but purely national purposes. What can be more un just than to saddle the Indian Exchequer with the outlay entailed by the Chinese and Persian wars, or with the whole expense of the Affghan and Bur mese expeditions ? It would not be using too large a word to say that probably not less than two mil lions of the interest on the Indian debt ought in equity to be made a charge on the finances of the three kingdoms. This would reduce our deficit for 1859-60 from £8,290,130 to £6,290,130, and for 1860-61 from £7,348,019 to £5,348,019. Admit, then, that it is possible to retrench our military expenditure to eleven millions and a half, which was the total charge before the mutiny, in stead of fifteen millions and a quarter, which is the estimate for the next official year, and it is pretty clear that the deficit apprehended for 1860-61 will have almost disappeared. Our expenditure will be only a million and a half in excess of our revenue ; and can we not economise a million and a half per annum? Look at the cost of the Indian Government. Home charges £5,333,217, with a council at £3,000. per annum, which is pro nounced by the secretary, its chief, incompetent to advise on any important question; a Governor Gene ral who, in five years, absorbs upwards of £200,000 ; councils which, except at Madres, are mischievously incapable, at a cost of £5,000 a-year. The civil and political establishment of India are rated at no less a sum than four millions a-year, or more than 10 per cent. on the gross revenues of the country. Ido not know whether this figure includes the £l,OOO a-year whidh Mr, Wilson has been per suaded to accept from an impoverished exchequer, for disordering and disturbing the loyalty of the population of the non-mutinous presidencies of British India; but the arithmetic in which I have perhaps too copiously indulged suggests a suspi cion that reduction has not reached its utmost limit—that councils, if the treasury is emyty, may be abolished with benefit to the finances both in London and Hindostan—that a Governor-General, equal to Lord Canning in rank, and not inferior in ability, may be found capable of presiding over all Northern India (Madras and Bombay being governed independently), for a consolidated allowance of £20,000 a-year ; and, finally, that civil and political salaries may be gradually reduced, the rights of the present generation being respected,so that the charge for these establishments shall not exceed two millions and a half. The judicial charges, which are a dis tinct item, may, in like manner, be subjected to substantial retrenchment. Depend upon it, Sir Charles Trevelyan knew what he was writing about. One of the ugliest scorpions with which Mr. Wilson's income-tax has scourged the Anglo-Indian popula tion, is the double thong with which the lash descends upon our backs. Officers with Indian pensions, officers on furlough, holders of Indian securities, will all have to pay an Indian tax and an English tax—Wilson's income tax and Gladstone's income tax. Is it not iniquitous ? If an old officer draws apension in England of £3OO a year for service in India he will be called upon to hand over 4 per cent. to the Indian Exchequer, and 10d. in the pound to Downing-street. Surely since the days of Front de Besmf and his compeers, who used to replenish their purses by a little amateur practice as dentists on the mouths of wealthy Israelites, there never was a more cruel injustice perpetrated by the potentates of that illustrious nation which is so fond of singing uproariously— "'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, The name of a free-born Englishman." It is a melancholy task to add that Sir Henry Ward, the Governor of Madras, died at Government House, Fort St. George, after a few hours' illness, on the night of Thursday, August 2. It is announced that this eminent administrator, whose decease will be a grave loss to the Presidency, fell a victim to cholera, which for some weeks had been raging in Black Town and its environs. It is, however, a fact not without significance, that this amiable and able statesman expired on the day after that on which the income tax came into operation, and it is rumoured that a short time before a placard of a' threatening and violent character was found in the Government House. It is to be hoped if these ru mours are without foundation that the authorities will lose no time in meeting them by an explicit contradiction. The lion. W. Morehead, who has always enjoyed a high reputation as a public servant, succeeds the lamented ruler whom India has lost as Provisional Governor of Madras. This is the second time within a period of one short month in which Mr, Morehead has been preferred to the chief seat in the Madras Council. It is stated in the Bombay Times and Standard that the late Sir Henry Ward had been selected by the Cabinet for the high position of Governor-General of India in the event of Lord Canning's death during the mutiny. COMMERCIAL. BOMBAY, AUG. 7. The past fortnight has been one of great sluggishness in nearly all kinds of business, and even the slight demand which we had to notice last mail for cotton piece goods has nearly subsided. The public weather reports continue onthe whole favourable, but the natives state that their private advices from the growing districts speak of an insuffi ciency of rain having fallen. Money is still abundant, and the bank's rate of discount is unchanged. The number of spinning and weaving companies now in course of forma tion threatens, if carried out, to create quite a revolution in the market for English manufactures. Including one already working at Broach and ono projected at Ahmedabad, the whole of the establishments will represent more than a million sterling of capital, working over 300,000 spindles and 4,000 looms in this presidency. A good deal of speculation continues in shares, but Government Securities are still falling, and we now only quote 831 for Four, 97: for Five, and log per cent. for Five-and-a-Half per Cent. paper. The Income Tax Bill is at length passed, its operation to be commenced from the Ist instant, and the first quarter's payment falling due on the Ist of November. In consequence of the continued bad advices of the Eng lish market, cotton has further declined from Es. 8 to 12 per candy. No European houses are purchasing, and the dealers being compelled either to ship on their own account for England or China or lower their prices much further, are for the most part choosing the former alternative, and electing the chance of the China market, where, however, prospects do not appear very promising. NAPLES. A letter from Naples of the 27th ult., in the Ppinione, says : " Garibaldi's march among the insurgent popula tions is a perfect triumph. The combat of Piale, which may be said to have decided the fate• of the Bourbon dynasty, was won chiefly by the Calabrian national guard, who attacked the troops with the bayonet. As a proof of the national enthusiasm of the Calabrians, it may be stated that Mileto sent to Garibaldi on his disembarkation 200 national guards completely armed, and that these men have per formed prodigies of valour. Carasiosa's battery, which is perfectly organised, has entirely passed over to Garibaldi, with man, cannon, and ammuni tion. The Garibaldian steamer, Franklin, carrying a flag of truce, arrived at Naples two days ago with 800 officers and soldiers of the disbanded army in Sicily, who refused to serve the Dictator. In send ing these men home, Garibaldi proved alike his power, his generosity, and his disdain of the falling Government. Coal and provisions were sent to the Franklin from vessels of the Neapolitan navy, and courteous messages were transmitted to her officers. The letter of Count de Syracuse has produced a profound impression. In his palace a register has been opened for receiving the signatures of all who adhere to the views set forth in it, and already thousands of names have been inscribed. This even ing seven generals assembled to declare that they would no longer continue a conflict, the sole result of which can only be to cause the useless shedding of blood, and to augment the hatred between the troops and the people. The revolution is progress ing in the Basilicata, where Colonel Boldini is directing it with great military intelligence. Already 20,000 men are armed and organised, and they keep up communications between Calabria, Salerno, and Avellino. In the last two provinces also the revolution has broken out, especially at Celento, Anano, and in the Caudine valley. Thus Naples is entirely surrounded by the insurrection, and, although the city is tranquil in appearance, we may assert that it has pronounced for Victor Emmanuel. In the streets and the cafés his name alone is heard." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, The North Atlantic Company's steamer Adriatic, Captain Comstock, from New York on the 25th ult., has arrived off Cowes. She brings 180 passengers and 870,343 dols. in specie, of which 200,000 dols, are for England and the remainder for France. The Vanderbilt and City of Baltimore had ar rived out. The Adriatic spoke the Africa on the 25th ult., steaming west. On the 29th, passed the wreck of a large ship waterlogged. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales left Quebec on the morning of the 23d ult., and was ex pected at Montreal on the following day, where great preparations had been made for his reception. The city was overflowing with strangers, and the enthusiasm unparalleled. During the firing of the salutes four seamen were blown to pieces on two of the men-of-war forming the escort. Nicaragua had taken no steps towards repelling the invasion by Walker. Advices from Havannah report that the city was healthy. The coolie trade was rapidly increasing. Exchange, irregular. London, 60 days' sight, 15 to 151 prem. NEW YORK, AUG. 24, The Money Market is active, and rates range from 6to 7 per cent. for first-class paper. Foreign Exchange active—London, 109,1 to 110 for 60 days. The Stock Market is buoyant—Virginia 66 901 to 91; New York Central, 84.:,1 ; Erie, 291 to 301; Illinois Central, 801 to 801 (871 to a ?). The Cotton Market is steady, with sales of 1,000 bales. Flour and pork active. Coffee heavy. Freights firm. Viscount Maynard is, we are sorry to learn, suf fering from severe indisposition, on the Continent. The Levant Herald (Constantinople) of the 22d ult., says :—" Lord Dnfferin British Commissioner to Syria, arrived h e re on Sunda/by the Marseilles steamer, and at once proceeded in, one of the Gannet's boats to The rapia, where is lordship is now staying as the guest of the ambassad or." TEE CORPORATION FINANCES. The Chamberlain of the Corporation of Lou don, Mr. Scott-or the civic Chancellor of the Ex chequer, as one might designate a man through whose hands far on to half a million of money passes every year,-ha's just issued his statement for the past year touching the financial condition of " the first t pity in the world." Considering that two-thirds of the present year have passed away, the first thought which such a document suggests is that its pub lication cannot be said to be in the least prematmre, seeing that it enlightens the citizens on subjects of corporation finance down to a period leo later than the 31st of De cember, 1859. Taking it, however, as it is, we find that, inclusive of a balance in hand on that day twelvemonths of £56,346 odd, and of a loan of £20,000 raised within the year, the aggregate receipts of the Corporation for the year 1859 amounted to £366,228 19s. ld., and the total expenditure to £287,421 14s. 6d., leaving a balance in the hands of the Chamberlain at the beginning of the present year of £78,807 4s. 7d., or larger than that of the previous year by £22,461. Among the receipts, by far the largest item is that of £100,876 18s. 4d. derived from rents and quit rents. The markets have raised £14,119 in round numbers-namely, Leadenhall, £2,920; Newgate, £4,452 ; Farringdon, £794 ; Smithfield (shorn of its ancient significance), only £233 ; and Billings gate, £5,719. Under the head of " Duties" £90,533 odd have been realised, including the metage on coals, £73)88 1 ; the metage on co rn , £14,007 ; the groundage of corn, £879; the metage on fruit, £1,651 ; and the stamping of weights and measures, £ll2. Then follow a number of mis cellaneous receipts, amounting in the aggregate to £289,882, and including, among others, £60,000 derived from the sale of securities; brokers' rents and fines, £4,451 ; justiciary fees, £1,087 ; interest on Government securities, £3,991; reimbursement on account of prisons, £4,573 ; ditto on criminal prosecutions, £2,221 ; officers' surplus fees and profits, £2,131; and casual and incidental receipts to £2,827. Turning to the expenditure side of the account, it embraces, among other items, charges on the corporation estates to the amount of £8,585 ; on the markets, £5,019 ; on the Metropolitan Cattle-market, £8,969 ; charg es on the various du ties, £19,636 ; charges in aid of public improve ments, £31,500 ; expenses of magistracy, £7,128 ; police expenses, £ll,BBB ; expenses of prisons, £18,836 ; administration of criminal justice, £7,453 ; civil government, £27,441; charitable do nations, pensions, and honorary rewards, £7,243; education, £5,091; Holloway Prison, 13,476 ; city library, miscellaneous and incidental expenditure, £4,388; purchase of securities, £11,137 ; and cash applied in discharge of loans, £105,000. The above is a synopsis of the general receipts and dis bursements. Singling out some of the details, the outstanding loans contracted by the Corpora tion, mostly for purposes of public improvement, represent an aggregate sum of £1,700,600, which is held at interest varying from 3* to 5 per cent. Of these about £242,800 fall due in the present year. The sum borrowed for the building of Holloway Prison was £92,700 ; for the formation of the Metropolitan Cattle-market, £305,000 ; for Cannon-street improvement, £500,000 ; for Thread needle-street and other improvements, £40,000; for Reserve Fund, £350,000 ; for New Cannon-street, £106,000 ; for Clerkenwell improvement, £128,800; for building the Royal Exchange, £85,000; and for repairilig Blackfriars-bridge, £73,100. For sewerage purposes, £20,859 has been expended, including £11,806, a contribution towards the expenses of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The balance in the hands of the Chamberlain at the end of last year in respect of the reserve fund was £7,748 6s. 4d. ; of the sinking fund, £2,300 12s. Bd., and of the city accumulation fund, created by resolution of the Common Council in 1858, £924 12s. 3d. The cash liabilities of the Corporation on the 31st of Decem ber last amounted to £1,866,732 14s. ld., and the cash assets to £1,207,034 16s. 10d., showing an excess of cash liabilities over cash assets of £659,697 17s. 3d. The various accounts are car ried out in detail over 71 folio pages of print, but we have extracted the more prominent items of public interest ; and such of the citizens as may desire to dive deeper into the subject may pro bably be furnished with the requisite materials on application to their representatives in the Court of Common Council. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, Sept. I.—Our duty to-day finds no support at £4,000, the cold nights being fatal to the late burr, and to the developed hop acquiring weight and condition ; and altogether we must call our prospects decidedly worse. Prices very firm, with advancing rates for fine 1855's and 1856'5. MAIDSTONE, Aug. 30.—The hop plantations generally are in a very precarious condition. The reports that reach us from almost every quarter in this district are so unfavourable as to lead to the conclusion that very fear hops can be grown this year. The continued wet and boisterous weather, the excessive quantity of vermin with which the plant is beset, the mould and honey dew to be found in many of the beit-looking plantations, together with the unhealthy condition of the burr, render the possibility of anything like an average crop out of the question, even should the weather now clear up and set in fine and dry. The duty is going back in nearly every parish, and it is the prevailing opinion that it will not exceed £40,000, even should it realise that amount.—Sussex Express. ROCHESTER, Sept. I.—lu a few of the plantations hop picking has commenced, but the hops are in the worst possible condition, and in many places will not pay the expense of removing them from the poles. The present is, probably, without ex ception one of the worst hop seasons ever remem bered, and the duty will only reach a few thou sands. EDENBRIDGE.—FIRST SALE OF HOPS.—On Wednesday last, Mr. Thomas Shorter, of Lingfield Lodge, sold to Mr. Thomas Alexander, of Hasted, his growth on the poles, set at one ton, for £2OO clear, the buyer to pay the duty and expenses. Last year Mr. Shorter grew on the same land, about five acres, over five tons. HEREFORD.—The blight in the hop plantations may now be said to be confirmed. As a whole, we never before saw them in so miserable a plight as then are at present. In some frvoured few there are a sprinkling, and some growers are san g uine enough to believe they shall have a fourth of an average crop, and lucky growers will they be, should their hopes be realised ; but, under any cir cumstances now the crop must be small and must lack quality ; the weight therefore will suffer. The duty for this distaict is called at £5,000, which many of our largest grow ers consider too high by £2,000. The low temperature and cold winds must retard the growing of the wheat, which would be inevitable with a high temperature after so much rain. The hop duty for the whole kingdom is called at £50,000, with shy backers at that amount. ON SAVING CR O P . S OF CORN IN WET W.EATHEI?, Mr.Wakley, in a letter to a contemporary, says : Allow me to suggest a new application of mechanil cal power with a view to the saving and preserving of ripe crops of corn and other vegetable products. At the commencement of last week the accounts from all parts of the kingdom with regard to the harvest were dreary and alarming. Having long been of opinion that mechanical means, which have been so liberally and skilfully employed by our agriculturists for producing crops, had not been adequately used for saving them when produced, I determined, if it were possible, to get a drying-ma chine manufactured for the purpose of experiment. Accordingly, on Wednesday last I consulted Mr. Savage, engineer, of Eastcheap. I explained to him that my object was to cut and dry sound ripe corn, whatever might be the fall of rain. To attain that object I proposed that after being cut the corn should be received under cover, and where the pre mises were sufficiently capacious, the sheaves should be subjected to the action of a drying-machine, worked either by hand, horses, or steam ; or that the ears only, separated from the stalks by being drawn through inverted metallic combs or hackles, might be so treated. Mr. Savage is a "coffee-roast ing machine" manufacturer, on a large scale. He considered that the plan I proposed was quite prac ticable, and, on seeing him again the following day, he stated that the more he reflected on the subject the more fully he was convinced that the proposal could be carried into effect. By this gen tleman I was kindly referred to the manufactory of Mr. Lloyd, engineer, of No. 79, Guildford-street, Southwark, and also to the office of Mr. Davison, No. 8,: London-street, Penchurch-street. Having explained to these gentlemen the object I had in view, they both expressed an opinion that the plan was easy of adoption and might b e carr i e d i n t o effect with perfect facility. At Mr. Davison's the operation of drying different substances had been already carried into effect te, an extent of which I was entirely ignorant. At.i!,lr. Lloyd's manufactory I found that, by a simple contrivance, air had been driven through a machine, under the influence of a six-horse power, to the extent of 10,000 cubic feet a minute. Here was a corn-drying machine already made. But at Mr. Davison's, in London-street, I saw the model of a dessicating machine manufac tured and used by that geritleman. I found that he employed such machiiaes for roasting coffee, cocoa, and chicory, and drying flax, cloth, feathers, malt, wood, and even bridis ; but not one of them, strange to say, had ever been used for drying corn, either in the sheaf or in the ear. The drying powers of these machines appear to be almost fabulous, and Mr. Davison stated that he could evaporate from wet substances as much as four ton s o f wa t er in eight hours. Mr. Dav i son does no t en t er t a i n a doubt that these machines may be used with extra ordinary results for the drying of ripe corn, wet from the field. In his machines artificial heat may or may not be used. Mr. Lloyd, of Guildford street, Southwark, is a fan-blowing machine manu facturer. The machine that I saw at his premises, through which, by a six-horse power, he could pro pel 10,000 cubic feet of air per minute, occupies a space of only five feet square, an d it s cos t w ould be about £4O. Having . adva nce d t h us f ar i nto my in quiries, I determined on consulti ng M r . Ald erm an Mcchi, to whosr..iabilly, energy, and enterprise the public are so deeply ind e bt e d f or a vast number of improvements in agriculture. I saw that gentle man on Friday last, and in less than five minutes he pronounced the proposed plan not only practic able, but highly useful and important. The Alder man remarked that wind is an excellent dryer, and added, " At my farm yesterday we had one of your machines on a grand scal e ; we h a d a brisk breeze, and consequently car r i e d a s t ac k o f w h ea t.' On leaving Mr. Mechi he stated that he should at once go and see the instruments I had mentioned. That drying machines may be used beneficially for other purposes than saving crops of corn is quite obvious. During the last winter thousands of tons of mangold-wurtzel and turnips rotted after they had been stacked, housed, or caved. A similar .de struction may be prevented in future by subjecting these valuable productions in autumn to the drying process. Possibly the decay of potatoes may be prevented in the same manner. Within a few years it is, I think, probable that the application of me chanical skill with a view to the saving of ripe crops of corn in wet weather will be generally adopted when necessary throughout the kingdom. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Great fears are expressed for the harvest of this year. As I have lived in one of the most fertile corn-growing districts of the midland coun ties for 30 years, and as I have from habit and in ehnation watched the phases of every harvest during that period, I venture to give an opinion as to the present agricultural prospect. First as to hay and root crops. The cold and backward spring reduced the stock of hay to a minimum. The heavy rains of May and June forced an unusual crop of upland, meadow, and artificial grasses, which were, as a general rule, remarkably well got in in the unusually fine July ; the wet August forced a second crop, and established the root crop where the activity of the farmer enabled him to take advantage of the alternations of the weather. To what extent the meat market would have gone up in the ensuing winter hut for this timely supply of food for cattle it would be hard to imagine. It is true that much hay was destroyed in the valley of the Thames and its tributaries; suffice it to say, that the state of the Thames as a main outfall and carrier for the drainage of a large part of Midland England is a di sgr a c e to a civilised country. The farmers in the valley of the Thames tried to beat out the sediment of the floods by pass ing their hay through a thrashing•machine, and they may have to repeat the experi men t if the landowners will not combine to improve the water way of the father of English rivers. Now as to the corn harvest. My own observati on , and such in formation as I can gain from oth ers , l ea d to t h e conclusion that there is no deficiency in any grain crop. The wheat was thin in the spring ; a piece which I condemned to b e p l oughed up will yield nearly, if not quite, four quarters per acre. The barley and oats were sown under very favourable circumstances; the time was favourable for the wheat blossam. The ears are full, and all that was wanted was fair weather. If the weather had been hot, as far as we can judge, the corn would have ripened short of its maturity ; as it is, though slow, the maturity is satisfactory. As yet, hereabouts nothing has been spoilt. Last year early in August the wheat and the barley had sprouted, the latter especially ; up to the present time nothing of the sort has been seen ; and, comparing the two years on my own small farm, composed of soilsvary ing from light gravel to clay, the value of the corn crop is at least 10 per cent. in favour of 1860. Here, at least, we have neither cause for fear nor com plaint. The quantity of rain has been, month by month, about equal tolBo2, th e wettest year I ever remember. Heavy rains just now would give us an excess not to be expected. Wh eat , b ar l ey, an d oat ricks are springing up to-day in this parish, and, with the blessing of a fort n i g ht' s fi ne wea th er, t h e h a rvest of 1860 will be abundant and well secured, —I am your obedient servant, Abingdon, Sept. 1. J. C. C. MR. LINDSAY'S MISSION TO AMERICA.—The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times.—Sir,—l am sorry you did not ascertain the facts connected with my visit to the United States before calling attention to it in your leading article of Saturday last. state that I do not visit that country in any official But, as so much has been said about it, I think it right to capa citytMyre.arCdo_b- whatever, and that the Government will not be re sponsiblelf I wished office, which I do not, I should certainly not . sir, your obedient servant, Me, aspire to that of for anything I may say or do. Cob den might have written as much the head - quarters of ‘ S ‘ . Bl3 L e i e N i a D l s e A n y v . oy S, * AU! t a i n m fr , la rs , Times. It is stated for the information of our iron and steel merehants and manufacturers that there is to be an ex hibition Sept.i s date 3- l E as * these' oods in France, which will last from the sth instant at St. Dizier, in the Marne. till the Ist October. As it is known that the manufacturers, founders and others from the Marne, the Ardennes, and the Moselle are resolved to endeavour to shdw on this occasion that they are equal to us in every respect, an opportunity is presented for our makers from Birmingham, Sheffield, &c., to prove their superiority- It appears that the exhibition is to be held in a productsar, and that it is also to include a great variety of the of France and a succession of fetes. Particulars may be obtained by writing to the Sec retary of the Exposition, St. Dtzier, Prance. for the a The trade reports E Pst week refer to the suspension of Mr. B. Om yre, of Sheffield, cutler, with liabilities for about Xrio and assets £15,000 ; and of Mr. William Banks, of Bi t is s en, .m.nmaster, also with liabilities of £90,000, and failure isitaismated to exceed that amount. To-day a s' l ' all being that' been announced in the wine so of M I' • and Grant, essrs. eretre trade, the 114/n et ; Mr. Al 11 . 11 aly is the acceantant. About of Tower- e sr o e und is expect,:d. 10s. in th° RI EDAL „ Gla ze S FOR RIFLR "V OLUNTEERS.—The , tition of rifle h • s ooting wl.tch took place at Wimbledon 00 ' 14-e t time sine short ~ e has bee, followed by contests in many of a corps .nrougli ou t cue country. th"of skill instituted tr ials an d the resit has been to cause increased attention to be paid rile shooting. For th e p ur p ose o f prov idi ng some y recc,rd for the most successful shots, a very neat medal has j us t b een produced by Messrs. Pinches and Co., the eminent medallists, of Oxendon-street. On the reverse of the medal is the figure of a rifleman, kneeling, in the act of firing, an d on the obverse a laurel wreath. The centre affbrds space for engraving the name of the winner, the regiment or corps to whi c h he belongs, and the locality or occasion on which the competition took place. The medal, which may be cast in gold, silver, or bronze, is attached to a plain green ribbon, with a metal band bearing the royal initials. The three medals in gold, silver, and bronze, con stitute a set of first, second, and third prizes, and the honour of winning one or other of these medals is well worthy of being eagerly contested, and we should be glad to find that every Volunteer corps in the country had among them three men entitled to wear these graceful recognitions of their skill, BER WI CK ELECTION COMMISSION, BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, SEPT. 1. The Commissionersmet this morning at 10 o'clock, and William McCiall was brought up by the gaoler under a Secretary of State's warrant to be examined. He, however, again refused to be sworn, upon which the Chief Commissioner told him that, as he might possibly alter his mind before the 30th of October, the day to which the Commissioners intended to ad journ, and it might appear hard to keep him in prison should he be willing to be sworn, it had been determined by the Commissioners that he should be discharged from custody at present, but that he would have to attend before them in London, and if he then refused to be sworn would have to take the consequences of his contumacious conduct. The secretary then handed a warrant for his discharge to the gaoler and served a summons on M'Gall him self, requiring him to attend at the Chief Commis sioner's chambers in the Temple on October 30. The Chief Commissioner then thanked the Mayor for his attention, and adjourned the further inquiry until October 30, in London. THE ROAD CHILD MURDER.—The memorial to the Home Secretary from the Mayor and other influential inhabitants of Bath, praying for a special commission to investigate this mysterious tragedy, has been forwarded through Mr Tite, one of the members for the city. Mr. Tite has communicated with the Mayor of Bath, stating that he has had an inter view with Sir G. C. Lewis, who, looking to the grave importance of the subject, and the in fluential names attached to the memorial, has promised to give the matter his most anxious and patient consideration. In addition to the memorial above referred to there is ano ther now lying for signature at Frome, Trowbride, W ar . minster, Westbury, and the adjacent villages, also addressed to the Home Secretary, praying that "however unusual such a course may be, a special commission may at once be appointed further to investigate this mystery, to endeavour to discover the criminal, and afford opportunity for state ment on oath to be made by all concerned." The fi rst iirst per son to whom this memorial was presented for signature was Mr. Kent himself, and he at once expressed his great ~ til d ingness to dose, and a dded that his who le hous.hold wo be glad to do so also. Ili; solicitor, Mr. Dunn, howeverl o- advised that , considering, his position a s a G o vern ele ,l l ' o ffi c er, it would be in ex p edient for him to do so , espeeT a A Y as it is Mr. Kent's intention to proceed to Lonilonw with i n company with his,solicitor, to obt a i n an i n tervi e hile the Home Mr. Waddingt on, Under Se cretary fo r t h e of State D e partment, personally to urre its •er lean pre) t remains • proposed magisterial examination of Mrs. in abeyance. CAN TIIIS BE TRUE ?—John Mitchell, one of the convicted Irish rebel patriots of '4B, has left Richmond, his adopted country, for France, a t the invita ti on of the Em peror Napoleon, wh o h as conferred upon him a Government appointraent,—Limerick, Chronicle,