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BENSON'S AT Poet. " Pe rfection of mechan hfism."—orning Gold ........... sto 100 guineas. SilPei .......... 2to 50 guineas. Send stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet,.deserlp dye of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. om free by post, or to W a tches sent to parts of the kingd India and the Colonies tor ss. extra. NI and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Nstablished 1749. VI MAT, ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT ' G AR,DEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA FYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, CROWN DIAMONDS. Miss L. Pyne, Miss Thiriwan ; Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. H. Corri, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Horncastle, and Mr. G. Kelly. To conclude with the First Act of TROVATORE. Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mallon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. T HEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buukstone. THIS EVENING the performances will oommenoo with the new comedy, DOES HE LOVE ME ? Messrs. Howe, Chippendale. E. Villiers, and Buckstone ; Miss Amy Sedg wick, Miss Florence naydon, and Mrs. Wilkins. Followed by a new comedy, entitled ROMANCE AND REALITY. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, W. Farren, .snd John Brougham; Miss Florence Haydon; Mrs. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Loclereqs. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE-1 Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Farris. This Theatre will RE-OPEN TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY) Oct. 27, when Mr. Pechter, the faxourite actor ot Parisian ere anwi make his first appearance on the Env,lish stain adaptation of Victor Hu,go's celebrated Play of RUT BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. ; characters also by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Meadows, Garden. Graham, Raymond, Morland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Lecleroq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Beath. To be preceded by .SUSAN SMITH'. After the Farce, the admired Play of THE FIRST NIGHT. ___...------------ _ROYAL LYCEUM. THEATRE Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. 1 EVENING, the performances will comrsell , ee . THIS Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE u nd y er the direction f M with 1 3 r. Wm Callcott. Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry Ne . ville, Mr. Scenic Departmen t il b . Butler, Mr. Forrester. Me - Campbell. Principal ch erecters George Vining. Mr• Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Goun.enheira. Mrs. Keelei. ~ w hich, a BALLET DEVERTISEMENT in which After the celebrated Dancers the Misses Marie and Annie Collin the will appear. To conclude with. every Evening, a New Drama, entitled vpol4 r lONEERS OF AMERICA, principal characH en r y m e , ILlCatkins his llth appearance in EnzlandN, Mr. Hry Nev ille, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Forrester, NKr. ii. Butler, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. 3. Morris, Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Turner. , A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. -rx So!c limpprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Great Success of the new Drama, by Dion Bourcicault, Esq., " The Colleen Bawn."—Misa Agnes Robertson every even- ink. THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE CORPS. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fischer, C. Selby, Miss Wocflgar, Miss Kate Kelly, and airs. Billington. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Ponrcicanlt, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David Fisher. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, .62 2s. ; Family Boxes, - £l. Orch,lstra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, U. ; Pit Stalls, 21.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Triumphant Ottccess and incr asing popularity of the Grand Spectacle ot ROSIN 14 p 00D. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three Acts, by Pl. Fit/ball, Esq., entitled ROBIN" HOOD • or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Ro bin Dan, Ix, Altan a- Dale, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena—Star Ri ders of Europe. Doors open at half-Taat 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office ope from 11 till 4. Stage dai M ly' smagerMr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERB URY HALL CONCERTS. EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma .... •••• .• ............ Miss RUSSELL. Adalgisa • (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Por formers. organised expressly for this establishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Nero Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGHMANS. Balcony, 1e,.........--•HsIL 6d. THIt WEATHER...--Strx Oyrici, Ocr. 27, WOO. TII-EIMOICETER, IN THE BILLINI. 63—this day at noon. 51—lowest this morning awl during the night. 58 highest since noon yesterday. BAROMETER-29.97. WIND —Southerly; light breeze, and fine weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. C HIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 181n.—Afternoon, 12h. 37m :r4 )-moßatow.-Morning, 12h. 54m.—Afternoon, :lh. Ilm, ?.:..5.4.1 n , , ~ , , _..) ... , ( .;‘.:1.-;:,,.\,_ e fs, 4,A 4"14' 1 4 e, -,,, ,. - 1,--c/ , ~,,, i., - ,:irm.,...... 4,, , k , _•%, t _tr e; ‘,, i - , b,.., i ,44R 4 Mv, .1h • •••-: ' b•fis: t;. - ~.~;: '~t G~~ THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1860. A ugust. i!cumerous and frightful though the murders of flit present year have been, one of the very blackest rev :orded upon the bloodstained annals of 1860 was assassination of old Mrs. EMSLET down at M ile-end, on the evening of Monday, the 13th of It was a crime in itself singularly brutal in its character ; but its own intrinsic atrocity has since then been enhanced by its perpetrator to a degree of infamy almost, we believe, if not entirely, un paralleled. The prisoner, who was accused of having deprived this wretched old woman of life, has now—after what he himself acknowledged to hilve been a careful and patient trial by a jury of his countrymen—been formally convicted upon the evidence, and is at this present moment in the condemned cell under sentence of death. The evidence upon which GEORGE MUL LINS has been thus found guilty is what the evidence almost invariably (we had nearly written it almost inevitably, from the very nature of the crime of murder) must be—circumstantial. It is the rarest occurrence well imaginable to be I . ( !trzil anywhere related in the history of thes e ""ds of blood and darkness, when the murderer i 8 letually seen in the act of destroying human life;- - when he Is seized upon the spot, red-handed, wi tla the weapon yet warm in his grasp. Half a Cel it Ury has gone by since the family of the MARS— father, mother, and children—were all butchered, had their throats cut at mid-day in their home, in the veil • midst of this populous city of London, actually in 1 ch he sight of the ief witness against the author of that wholesal e assassination. And even then that eye-witness of the crime—the servant girl, who had gone out to get the beer for dinner —beheld the murderer cutting the throats of his vit Aims as she stood, jug in hand, paralysed with horror at the half-open sitting room door—beheld the murderer cutting the throats of the last of his victims in the reflection of the ghastly scene in the looking-glass over the mantelpiece ! The evidence of an actual eye-witness in fact is about the rarest evi dence that is ever brought into a court of law against a murderer. -Whenever it is brought into court it is almost alway s that of King's evidence—or ra th er Nve should say now Queen's evidence. It is the 'evidence of an accomplice—not actually himself a shedder of blood —who purchases immunity from the penalty of death by the additional infamy of turpitude to the more heinous criminal, the actual assassin. Otherwise in the vast majority oil' instances the evidence against the accused must rieeds be, we repeat, almost by necessity circumstan tial evidence. It is entirely upon circumstantial evidemce that MuLliNs has now been convicted of the murder of Mrs.T.MSLEY. No one saw him do tl e deed ---no one affects to have seen him do it. In a ll h probability the murder was witnessed only by t awful eye o:` DIVINE PROVIDENCE. It was perpetrated about twilight on Monday evening, the 13th of August... A crashing blow or two plus ;et have d oiNe • it, when the victim was. taken alt , ?gether at a disadvantage, ,- '4ll when her back was turned to the assassin, and when there, consequently, could not have been made (from the desperate character of the blows administered) I even a show of resistance. A plasterer's hammer (exactly fitting to the wounds upon the head of the murdered woman), a hammer belonging to the accused (now the convicted) was produced in court during the trial in support of the evidence. A half worn-out boot (likewise, in its turn, fitting to a bloody footprint on a plank of the flooring imrae- 1 diately outside the room in wh ich the murdered 1 body was found), a boot also belonging to the ac 'used (now the convicted), was, in the same way, praline(' in court during the trial in support of the . evidence., The very plank itself, or at least that portion of it bearing the bloody footprint, was submitted in .. nourt to the scrutiny of the jurymen. B e t w een the cr . u ks in the worn-out sole of the hat there were grey hairs, grey boot it was shown i... _like the hair upon the head h uma n hairs, precisely o f the o ld wo man w h o was murdered. But, then, MULLINS was by trade a plastC rer—a stray hair or two like that might (without Llu found sticking to the boat of any ps l as terer. The jury wanted a pair of compasses to couvince them that the size of the boot corresponedheiim'arvel) be q with the outline of the bloody footprint. The hamuf er was an ordinary plasterer's hammer like hundreds of other hammers that would fit just as accurately into the wounds in the head of the miserab:e woman murdered. All this, and a great deal more of the like kind of circumstantial evidence, was clean swept aside as, comparatively speaking, valueless, in the caution; masterly, scrupulously impartial summing-up of the Lord Chief Baron POLLOCK, before whom this wretched man was tried, and by whom, after the verdict of guilty had been delivered in by the foreman of the jury, the miserable creature was formally and solemnly sentenced to death as a convicted murderer. All those parts of the circumstantial evidence brought to bear against MuLurts, all that about the ham mer, and the boot, and the hair, and the bloody footprint, even the waxedthread tying up the parcel found in the shed near Emu's house in the brickfield and the thirty threads or strands in the old apron string of tape—all this, let it be observed particu larly, was swept aside by the Lord Chief Baron in his summing up, as being (as we have said), to his mind, in a manner, so to speak, absolutely valueless. But—when the Judge came in his summing up to that part of the evidence where it was shown that MuLLINs, unconsciously to himself, revealed the infamous " plant," by which he had endeavoured is fix the guilt of this murder upon an innocent man —for the sake of diverting attention from himself, aid of actually obtaining for himself at the same time the bloodmoney (L3OO sterling) offered for the discovery of the murderer—then an audible thrill ran through the Court, and it was felt that the jury had but one verdict to give, that the prisoner's days were already numbered. The index finger pointing directly to the guilt of MULLINS was this—at his (M111.1110'8) instance, in compli ance with the suggestions of his own volunteered information against EMM as the accused murderer —the shed near Emm's house was surrounded by the police headed by Sergeant TANNER: Nothing was found—the police came out of the shed baffled in their search—and then MULLINS (finding his " plant" fail) stepped forward with the exclama tion, " You hadn't half searched the shed ; look behind that slab ; you'll find the parcel under the bricks at the back of it." Well might the Lord Chief Baron deduce from this that the men tion by Mummis of the slab and the bricks behind it—inferred on the part of MutziNs a certain guilty knowledge. Recognising those egregiously absurd admissions blundered out by MULLINS, all the rest of the evidence " fits in" against him, as exactly as the sharpened edge and the blunt end of his hammer fitted into the deadly wounds upon the head of the murdered woman, as the sole of his half worn out boot fitted into the bloody footprint near the door of the room in which her body was found mur dered. The twofold guilt of the assassin and the false-witness is fairly brought home to this hoary headed ruffian—he is convicted, at last, upon the clearest evidence, although throughout every particle of that evidence is strictly circumstantial—he now lies justly condemned to death by the laws of his country, awaiting his last hour, with but short time for repentance, his name blackened with a double infamy—as a villain and a mur derer. The Canadian Orangemen have not yet had their fill of folly. As if it had not been enough to be left to ruminate on their bigotry at Kingston, and to have placed their Mayor at Toronto in the most ignominious position an englisiman can occupy, which we will not, indeed, specify more exactly, they held it appears on the sth a public meeting at Toronto, to whitewash the Orangemen, and to tar and feather the Duke of NEWCASTLE. They have just sense enough to say no harm of the QUEEN and her son, but of the unfortunate Duke they can hardly say evil enough. The truth is they have got themselves into as ridiculous a scrape as the POPE'S Irish Brigade at Spoleto ; and, like Dr. CULLEN and the Cathedral full of ecclesiastics who said mass all day long over the souls of the prisoners and poor PI3IODAN, the Toronto Orangemen thought that nothing was better than boldly to face it out. The assumption would then be that those who made so much of themselves and theirs were something after a ll. If a thousand men could vote that they were the excellent of Canada, the 'army Reit of Toronto. and that the Duke of NEWCASTLE ought to be hung, then so it must be. The finding of such a jury who could question ? It will, however, be questioned, and pretty pub licly, too, some day, if the Toronto Orangemen go on as they have begun. They have appointed a committee to prepare an address to the Queen, to both Houses of the imperial Parliament, and to the different branches of the Canadian Legislature, founded on the resolutions passed at this notable meeting ! We may be sure therefore that some Earl RADNOR—or perhaps Messrs. NEWD EG ATE and SPOONER, will undertake the business of lecturing the Duke in Parliament by asking for a copy of the address and of her MAJESTY'S advised answer — when perhaps the Premier may have the pleasure of telling all the zealots concerned his views of the advice given by the DUKE to the PRINCE ; and we apprehend they will not wish to be told them a second time. They must have something to say for their rude follies very different to anything they have yet said, before they will change the minds of all England, indeed we might say of all America too, in regard to their behaviour. They have written themselves mad bigots in the eyes of eil il sietiviseshharydfluytwthoerrthoutthreaigreownhsiilme m to o b d r e a st n y d . it i o z n a t t i h o e n m ; We have read, as carefully as it was practicable to read such rubbish, the full-length report of these brave speeches in a Toronto paper ; and we can s ay that that, for unblushing parading of bigotry an d folly, as consummate virtue and wisdom, they are q uite equal to the performances of Archbi s h op CULLEN, Mr. BOWYER, and other leaders lay and clerical of the "Brass Band "at home. But neither the speeches nor the resolutions enabled us to get bold of anything which amounted to even th THE SUN, LONDON; SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 27, 1860. shadow of a grievance. We gave the resolutions 1 on (P Wednesday); but, lest we should misrepre sent, we repeat the chief accusation in their own words, it is that " repressing their patriotic demonstration of welcome to his Royal Highnes the Prince of WALES and interfering with the action of various municipal bodies under whose auspices or with whose sanction they were invited to join in the general rejoicings with their fellow-subjects of all classes and creeds,produced irritation and heart burn ing, and left a feeling of dissatisfaction and discon tent among the Protestant population of Canada, which never would have existed had the Duke re membered that his Royal Highness was the guest of the Province, and that through the Government alone should all his communications have been ad dressed to the Canadian people." This charge of interfering with the municipal bodies seems to be the favourite one hit upon by the Canadian con stitutional lawyers, as they think themselves. They again " cannot refrain from expressing their in dignation that, while the people of Canada possess representative institutions, and have their own Parliament and the management of their own local affairs, any member of the Imperial Government, who owes no responsibility to them, should dictate the course to be pursued by the inhabitants of the country and make direct communication to their municipal authorities in matters of purely local arrangements which not only did not contravene any law of the Province, but not even any law of thy' Empire." The ineffable absurdity of all this w ill be apparent enough when it is recollected that these municipal authorities" had so managed matters 01 tit the Dui= and thy PRINCE wcro own pletely take by surprise, that it was indeed the intent of these violently cunning men to surprise the NiNcE into passing under their yoke. Whatever tho propriety or impropriety of the DUKE'S communicating with the municipal authorities, he had no alternative when the obtru sion upon him of what was known to be offensive was so sudden and municipal. But what can be raid for these gentlemen when the correspondence is known which they had the hardihood to produce at the meeting. Mr. CAMERON) the head of the Toronto Orangemen, had written to the Governor, and had been informed by him, after conferring with the DUKE, that an Orange address would " be very embarrassing." He boasts that he had listened to that advice, and the Orangemen had presented in consequence no ad dress. The Governor, however, seems to have re ceived another letter from the restless Mr. CAMERON—for that gentleman read to the meeting the following letter MY DEAR SIR,—I have no objection to your publish ing my letter of August 13. " If I recollect aright, no word passed between us on the subject of Orange insignia or banners to be used in the re ception of the Prince. Had the question been received, I should certainly have thought them quite as likely to be embairassing' to an English Prince and English Minister as any address which could be presented. " The antidote to an address may, if necessary, be admi nistered in the answer; the other class of demonstrations admits of no such protest. " However, this is immaterial. There can be no doubt that you, as the chief authority on the part of the Orange men, foresaw the probability of difficulty, and took measures to obtain correct information at the earliest practicable mo ment.—Yeurs very faithfully, "EDMUND HEAD, "Hon. J. H. CAMERON." Thus fully warned, not through the municipi authorities, but through the Governor of Canada himself, that their gaudy partisan exhibitions would be annoying to our English Prince and Minister, these worthies yet persisted in annoying their guest with what they knew would be so unpleasant to him ! After these facts are known, we imagine there will not be two opinions here on the conduet of these persons—gentlemen, so far as this matter is concerned, we cannot term them. All that we heard before bore but one aspect ; but that they should, in reply to their own inquiries, have been told that what they would wish to do would be annoying, and that they should still not abstain from doing it, renders their behaviour a disgrace to the colony, and no meetings of their partizans all over Canada can wipe it out. Are we to hope that the sober Protestants of the colony will step forward and vindicate their character. If they do not our conclusion will be, that they, who know so much better than we can do the local status of these bullies, deem them unworthy of their notice. They possibly are below contempt, at least below what ought to call forth public ex pression of it. It may be that we, in writing about them, are giving them a purely factitious import ance. Of one thing we are certain, that the con sistent, manly, liberal conduct of the Duke has won him golden opinions here ; and that an Orange mob, with the delinquent Mayor of Toronto in the chair, aro little likely to change opinion in England. All respectable Protestants in this country regard Oran geism much as they do Ultramontanism, and they are only grieved to see it compassing sea and land to make proselytes, and when it has made them that it should also make them tenfold more the children of bigotry than them selves. From such persons the charge of favouring Catholics at the expense of Protestants, will be simply evidence of perfect religious neutrality on the part of the Duke. The reception accorded to H.R.H. the Prince of WALES by the free-born citizens of the United States is something more important than a mere piece of court pageantry passing through the midst of a hospitable republican demonstration. It is' one of the most graceful and beautiful incidents that the future Bancrofts and Macaulays will have to record in the annals of the elder and the younger divisions of the great Anglo- Saxon race. Americans and Englishmen can only be brought more closely and more cor dially together, by such reciprocations [of good feeling between the citizens of the young republic, and the heir to that old constitutional monarchy from which that young republic (now not eighty years ago) emanated during the reign of the Prince of WALES'S great-grandfather. It was only a day or two since that we published the particulars of the reverential visit paid by his Royal Highness, the eldest son of our beloved SOVEREIGN to the hallowed grave of that great rebel to the Crown of her MAJESTY'S grand father, King GEORGE lll.—that great rebel and heroic patriot who has left behind him so pure a fame and so imperishable a monument of his msg. nanimity. It comes as a fitting sequel to this pilgrimage of the Prince of WALES to the grave of WASHINGTON, that his Royal Highness should so soon afterwards pass through the street of New York in the midst of such heartfelt and enthusiastic acclamations. Not one loyal Englishman amongst us all but will read, with a glow of pleasure, the particulars given in another part of our impression of this evening, the deeply interesting account there given of the Prince of WALES'S arrival in New York, an d o f his Royal High ness's progress down the noble Broadway. It appears that the Societe d'Escompte of Paris, on whose account the purchase of £600,000 gold was made in London a b ou t a f ortn i ght back, are still offering a pre mium for some rather large amounts. The parcels bought hero this week oil their account exceeds £lOO,OOO. LORD PA LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, SATURDAY. The lioniteur promulgates the convention sup plementary to the Treaty of Commerce between France and England, and which was concluded on the 12th of October. The Customs Tariff subjoined to the said conven• tion will come into operation on the Ist November, 860. The Moniteur also says :—" The Opinione Na tionale published a note which it was asserted had been communicated by the Austrian Embassy at Paris to the correspondents of certain journals. We are enabled to give a denial to the source which has been attributed to this document, and to declare in the most formal manner that it rests upon premises entirely destitute of foundation." TURIN, OCT. 26. The following is the result of the voting upon :he question of annexation at Palermo : Total number of votes registered, 36,267. Ayes Noes ... 20 Annulled .. The Opmione contains the following official an nouncement : " Signor Farini, having been appointed Extraor dinary Royal Commissioner at Naples, is replaced in his post of Minister of the Interior by Signor Min gb elli. " Signor Montegemolo has been appointed Com missioner of Sicily." The result of the vote in the city of Naples shows that 154,000 have voted for annexation. PARIS, OCT. 26. The Patric says :—" The news published by the OpinionelVationale relative to a congress is not sup ported by auy authentic information." The Pays says—" The information of the Opinione Nationale is incorrect." The Opinione Nationale says :—" We believe we are in a position to state that Austria had proposed to enter upon negotiations with the French Govern ment in order to bring about a pacific solution of the Italian question, and that in case of unsuccess Austria would resort to arms with the countenance of the Sovereigns her allies." The same paper adds :—" This news, however, greatly require authentic confirmation." THE WARSAW CONFERENCE. WARSAW, OCT. 26. On account of the illness of thiiDowager-Em press of Russia, alterations have been made in the arrangements for the departure of the Sovereigns. There will be no hunting excursion. The Emperor of Austria leaves before noon to day. The Emperor of Russia and the Prince Regent will leave Warsaw this afternoon. PARIS, OCT. 26. To-day Baron Hubner had a private audience of the Emperor at St. Cloud. To-morrow he will proceed with Count de Bourqueney to Chantilly, on a visit to Lord Cowley. Baron Hubner will leave for Vienna next week. MADRID, OCT. 26. In yesterday's sitting of the Cortes the opposition announced their intention of making interpellations on the subject of the foreign relations of Spain. The Government having declared itself ready to reply to any question, the interpellations were ad journed. Spain having protested against the entry of the Sardinians into Roman and Neapolitan territory, her Ambassador has received orders to quit Turix. A charge d'affaires will remain to conduct the business of the legation. THE SIEGE OF CAPITA. The Paris papers publish the following tele- gram : NAPLES, OCT. 24, EVENING. The capture of Capua, which has been an nounced, is not confirmed. Victor Emmanuel is at Steoni, about 20 miles from Capua, with 25,000 men, A battle is shortly expected between the Neapolitans and the Piedmontese." FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 26. The following is the note in the Opinions Na tionale alluded to by the Moniteur. It is given in the Opinion in very prominent type. The in troductory observations are signed M. Gueroult : "We (Opinion Nationale) believe we are not committing an indiscretion by making public the following note, which is said to have been communicated to the correspondents of certain journals at Paris by the Austrian Embassy, and a copy of which has found its way into our hands. If, as we have every reason to believe, this note is not denied, it would result there from that the casus belli will be distinctly put by Prince Metternich as regards the Italian question, and that Austria is assured in this circumstance of the support of the Sovereigns who share her views of international law. We need not point out the gravity of the situation that would be thus inaugu rated by the return of his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador. "'The Embassy of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria is authorised officially to declare, on instructions received from Vienna, that the reßprts of extraordinary concentration and increase of troops in Venetia with the object of mak ing an attack upon Piedmont, are devoid of foundation ; also that the nomination of General Benedek to the command of the army of Italy bears no such construction ; nor do the instructions and information as yet received authorise the Embassy to believe that an immediate attack of Piedmont is in the intentions of the Imperial Government. It is believed that his Highness Prince Metternich is charged, on his return, to enter into diplomatic negotiations (pourparler) with the Imperial Go vernment of France on the Italian question, and on a pacific and equitable solution of that question. And it will only be after the failure of this last effort that the Emperor of Austria, in accordance with the Sovereigns who take the same point of view of right as himself, may make an appeal to arms to assert the rights and principles stipulated in the last treaty." BOURSE, Oct. 2G.—The market has been more buoyant, and the business transacted has been at improved. quotations. Threes for the Account are now at 69f sc; Orleans, 1,373 f 75c; Mobilier, 707 f 50c; Northern, 973 f 75c; Mediterranean, 917 50e ; Austrian, 487 f 50c ; Lombard, 485 f. The follow ing are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents 95 60; Credit F oncier 9o') Do. end month.... 95 50! Belgian 42 3 per Cents ..., 68 80j Piethnonteie Fives 7B/ Do. end month.... 6S 80 Roman Bank Shares 2840 Austrian Credit Mobilier..... 706 25 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account .. 702 501 Home Debt .. RAILWA.T S. Cash. Account. Orleans..... 1365 .. 1366 25 Northern .... . New ditto... Lyons and Iteditorranean 915 .. Geneva.... _ .. 352 50 Southern . - .. Western .. Eastern • ... . Sardinian..,. 3BB 75 .. Austrian ... Low bard . i 4 485 , . 482 50 v LEEDS, FRIDAY. THE CORPORATION ADDRESS. Lord Palmerston was received at the Leeds Town Hall shortly after noon yesterday, by the Mayor (W. Kelsall, Esq.), and the Corporation. The following address was then read by the Town Clerk (J. E. Smith, Esq.) : " To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT PAL MERSTON, M.P., K.G., FIRST LORD OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. " We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Leeds, in the county of York, gadly embrace the opportunity which your lordship's visit to the town affords us of offering for ourselves and the great consti tuency we represent, a tribute of respectful gratitude for your able and distinguished public services, now extending over more than half a century. We thankfully acknow ledge, as characteristic of your lordship's Parliamentary and official life, a steady adherence to those sound prin ciples of government which, under Providence, have se cured our national honour and happiness, loyalty to the Sovereign, the maintenance of law and order, and the pre servation of our glorious constitution by reforms adapted io the progressive requirements of the country, and neither prematurely forced upon it before it was prepared for them, nor timidly or selfishly withheld when they could be advan tageously accomplished. Imbued with these principles, and endowed with the high requisites for British states manship, your lordship has been alike distinguished as a Minister of the Crown, and a champion of constitutional and social improvement ; strengZhening the people's reve rence for the Crown by the beneficial exercise of its powers; and promoting constitutional and social improvement by a powerful support to the great measures of Catholic Emanci pation, Parliamentary Reform, and the Repeal of the Corn laws. In our foreign as well as our domestic relations we owe to your lordship a large debt of gratitude. Amongst living statesmen it is to your lordship that the glory of making the name of an Englishman as much respected as that of an ancient Roman pre-eminently belongs. Under your guardianship, a British subject, if innocent of crime, is secure in every quarter of the globe. Nor has the benefit of your lordship's administration of foreign affairs been con fined to our own countrymen. Other nations have, at critical periods, owed to it their escape from impending war; and your lordship's counsels have ever tended to the preservation of peace on the only basis that can perfectly secure it a due ob servance of the reciprocal obligations between governors and governed. Against the excesses of irresponsible power on the one hand, and unbridled license on the other, your lordship's warning voice has been often raised; and the wisdom of the warning exemplified by the blessings flow ing from its observance, or the calamities resulting from its neglect. Your lordship's high qualifications for the public service happily led our beloved Queen, with hearty satis faction to her Parliament and her people, to confide to your hands, at an important crisis, the most honourable po st a subject ' can fill—that of Prime Minister of England. The energy and ability with which the difficulties of that crisis were surmounted, and the skill and judgment with which your lordship has presided over the national councils during your tenure of office, constitute additional claims (which we are proud to acknowledge) on our admiration and gratitude, and strengthen the confidence which we share with the great body of our fellow-subjects that under your lordship's guidance our country will steadily continue in its course ofJoyal attachment to the Sovereign, reverence for law and order, and judicious improvements in its time honoured institutions.' Lord PALMERSTON, lir reply, said—l can assure you, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, that it is impos sible for language adequately to express the high feelings of pride and gratification with which I have been inspired not only by the cordial and friendly reception which I have met with from the inhabitants of this great city, but more particu larly by the kind and flattering expressions—too flattering lam conscious—of confidence contained in the address which has just been read. Under any circumstances, such proofs of goodwill and confidence from a great and important portion of the community would be most gratifying to the mind of any man, but I feel peculiar pleasure, be cause I have had, through friendship and through official relations, a sort of connection with this great borough of Leeds. It was my good fortune to enjoy the personal friendship and to receive the valuable official assistance of your distinguished townsman, the late Mr. Baines, a man of whom it may be said that he was the type of an English gentleman—(cheers)—esteemed and respected in private life, and endowed with those statesmanlike qualities which fitted him to perform important functions in the service of the State. (Cheers.) I trust that ram not flattering myself too much in thinking that I claim a continuance of the friend ' ship which I enjoyed with him in the person of his respected brother. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, if public men undergo labours and anxieties in the performance of their public duties, they receive an ample reward in such marks of personal confidence and good will as those with which I have been honoured to-day, and especially when they proceed, as in this case, from one of the most important communities in the kingdom, one of those great seats of industry which constitute the wealth, the. greatness, the prosperity, and the dignity of the , United Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, in youe address you have embodied opi niens founded on just principles of national government, you have expressed your sentiments as to the propriety and necessity of progressive improvement in all the in stitutions of the country, but you have wisely ob served that those improvements phonic] not on the one hand be forced prematurely, nor, on the other hand, be delayed too long. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) It is perfectly true that men who have deeply reflected on possible improvements, who have convinced their minds of the good which would result from such changes, are often impa tient of the delay which necessarily intervenes be tween the conception and the execution ; but these rapid and " pen stroke" improvements may suit despotic countries, where the executive Government is all in all, and where the nation is compelled to obey those impulses which proceed from above ; but in a country like this, where the whole nation participates in the function of Government, where public opinion is as powerful as the edicts of the governing authority, there time and delay are often essentially necessi.:ary for the accomplishment of good and useful legislation. (Cheers.) If improve ments and reforms are not fully discussed, if all the objections on the one siclo and all the advantages on the other are not put forward before the mind of every reflecting man, if p:iblic opinion is not fully prepared for the change, the ,7,00 d effect which might otherwise result from such changes is not fully and properly accomplished. And thus it has been with all those great improvements which you have noentioned in the address that has been just read. (Near, hear.) perfectly true that within the last 30 years greater improvements have been made in the laws and institutions of the coun try than perhaps were accomplished in any coun try or by any nation within the same period of time. We have seen that great disgrace to human nature, negro slavery, abolished—(cheers) —by a sacrifice nobly offered and nobly endured by the country — a sacrifice great indeed in point of money, but which was amply compensated by the great and honourable result which it attained. (Hear, hear.) We have seen our Catholic fellow-subjects placed on a footing of equality with the Protestant part of the community. We have seen those laws which related to dissenters—the Test Acts—repealed. (Cheers.) We have seen the corn laws repealeil— (loud cheers) —a change which produced content ment and prosperity to a very large portion of the community ; for whereas before, when the seasons were adverse, and the price of food was raised, it was natural men should think that the high price of provisions was created by the sordid avarice of a section of the community ; whereas every man must now feel that if his food is dear, it is the result of the inclemency of the season, and not in consequence of any misgovernment of man. We have seen the changes made in the laws regulating municipal cor porations—changes vastly important with reference to the grand principle of local self-government. And we have, more than all, seen the great improve ment in the political organisation of the country vhich was effected by th parliamentary reform of 1832. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, all these changes were the result of long discussion, of conflict of opinion, and of conflict of interest ; and if it were not so, if it had been accomplished by some sudden stroke of the pen, they would not have resulted in the good which has been effected by them, being the result of discussion, and coming upon a country pre pared to receive them, and sensible of the advantages they brought with them. (Hear, hear.) Gentle men, this address which has been read has adverted in terms for which I beg to express my heartfelt gratitude—has adverted to the general system of administration, and especially to our foreign rela tions. If, gentlemen, the Government of which I have had the honour to be a leading member has been successful in its conduct of affairs, the merit is due, first of all, to the generous support which it had received from the people of this country, to the unbounded confidence of the Crown, and to the dis tinguished ability of those colleagues of whom the administration has been composed. (Hear.) We have indeed been successful in assisting to spread political liberty in other countries beyond our own —(hear, hear) —not by dictation, not by armed in terference not by imposing on nations unwil lin g or unprepared innovations even calculated for their good, but by twisting those who were helping themselves, and by aiding the development iu other countries of those principles of political freedom which we have the happiness of enjoying in our own. (Loud cheers.) It is thus, gentlemen, that in Belgium we have contributed to the establish ment of the system of government which has rendered that country as happy and prosperss asr any other country on the fa ce of the earth. ( ca d , hear.) It is thus that we assisted the Spaniar and Portuguese in obtaining constitutioand ns m w o e cle h l!e v d e on the general principles o f our own, contributed greatly to the happiness and inprosperity another of those nations. We are now seeing part of southern Europ e changes in progress which I trust may lead to the establishme.nt of a system in Italy as conducive t o the happiness and pros perity of the-Italians as, unfortunately, some of the G overnmen ts which have existed in in that country h a ve contributed to their unliappen awl jheir MEETING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL AND SHOE-BLACK BRIGADE. At three o'clock this afternoon a meeting of the supporters of the Leeds Ragged School and Shoe black Brigade was held in the Music Hall. The orchestra was occupied by the children of the school, who, in the interval which occurred between the assembling of the audience and the arrival of the Premier, occupied the time by singing several hymns. Many of the unfortunate children showed their literal qualification as pupils of such an in fititution, many of them being without shoes or stockings, and bearing other outward evidences of extreme poverty. On the arrival of his lordship the National Anthem was sung. His lordship having taken the chair, Mr. R. B. SMITH, the honorary secretary, read the second annual report. Lord PALMERSTON was enthusias27ollrydsrhecipeisvoeidd. On rising to address the co m p an y , —Ladies and gentlemen—and I put ladies before the gentlemen, not simply on account of the courte ous deference which is due always to their sex, b u t because we are met upon an occasion of charit a bl e benevolence, and in actions of charity and bene volence the ladies always take precedence from the kindness of their nature over the male part of the community. (Cheers.) There cannot, I am sure, be anything sy more a t i h n i t s e e r e s Nc t i i n t g h to t i t te h e c m o n i n d d i t s i o o n f all of many of those grea t • among g ave been made in our arrangemen ts in modern times. Undo u bt e dl y , it thos e a th e e s i c r r p fW t e i -Ohli creatur es than instituti ons o f th i s They improvements which m i n recent times only that the b enevo l en t social is sndnoatctive charity of the wealthy and the pros perous has been directed to better the condition of those in humbler classes of life. But formerly the attention of men was directed simply to afford bodily relief. The comforts of the body were con sidered to be sufficient to occupy the attention of f e ll ow t h o se who wished to relieve th e i r f e ll • has creatures. been It is only of late years that public attention active and suc2essfully directed to the minds of men, as well as to their bodily comforts—(hear , hear)—and there can be no institution more usefully applicable to the intellectual and moral culture of the rising generation than that for the encouragement of which this distinguished meeting has now assembled. (Cheers.) If we look upon it simply as regards the poor creatures who are the objects of the institu tion, it is plain to see that nothing can be more praiseworthy, and nothing can be more use ful, than institutions of this sort in their effec!. We all know that from the arrangements of Provi dence it is impossible to effect that in large commu nities there shall not be the rich and the poor—it is impossible to hope 014 hump arrantantitti T LEEDS. 1 misery. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, our action is the 1 action of opinion alone. (Hear.) We leave the , hall entirely relieve the humbler classes of society Italians to deal with their own affairs, and all w I hope and wish is that other countries should follow our example—(hear)--and that the people of those e f om the pinching affliction of poverty, and all -Ilse distresses, both physical and mental, which ar'e from such a condition. But wealth and corn -for:2, regions, favoured by many of the gifts of nature, alleviate the infection of poverty—(cheers ) should be allowed to arrange their internal affairs in sity a t y here cannot be a better direction a genero lean that which this institution points out. a manner which may seem to them best adapted for ri, 'ere 'trust be in all great communities—and the their happiness and welfare. (Confirmed applause.) greater • ke community the greater the development You have been pleased to say in the address, of industs v , that by the attention paid by the Government of l at i on the and the greater accumulation of popu saore will the class exist—there must be this country to our fellow-subjects travelling and in a great community a vast number of children who residing in foreign parts they have been clothed with either have parents whose poverty prevents them the protection of England wherever they may harm- from eating as they ought to do for their children, lessly and innocently be. Why, gentlemen, that or whose improvident and dissolute habits render must be so, because a country great and powerful them negligent and indisposed to give that care like England, whose inhabitants are educated in the and attention , which even their limited means principles of respect for the laws, and whose people, might enable them to afford. (Hear, hear.) There when they travel abroad, go for the purpose of coin- must also be many w h o , by the visitation of Provi mercial enterprise or for individual instruction or dente, have been from the earliest period of life recreation—who never indulge in plots and conspi- deprived of those parents upon whose care and at racies, however they may differ in opinion as to the tention they ought to have relied. Well, then, in merits of the institutions in the lands they visit— these cases, institutions of this sort step in to (hear) —I say that the inhabitants of such a country rescue the neglected child from the improvidence as this must be respected wherever they go, because or neglect of its parents. They rescue the orphan they are sure that their countrymen at home will from the destitution which too often besets him. not look with indifference upon insults and injuries They give to those children early habits of industry, which may be undeservedly visited upon their fellow- early habits of order, instruction of a moral and re men. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have alluded to the ligious description, early instruction in those things maintenance of good order in this country. No doubt which may conduce afterwards to their success in it is the desire and the duty of the executive govern- life ; and when we see the vast demand which. ment to watch over the naintenance of order in the this great city affords for the industry and kingdom whose destinies are committed to their intelligence of every working man and woman charge ; but happily in this country that duty on within, we may see that those seeds which are the part of the Government is easy, and reduced thus sown in the minds and habits of these little almost to nothing. The peculiar character of the children are not sown to run to waste and to bloom English nation; and that which strikes foreigners without result; but as surely as you instruct those most when they visit our shores, is the manner in children in the means of proper, and social, and which the people of these realms govern themselves orderly, and moral life, and in the means of procur and maintain order among each other. (Cheers.) It ing by their industry their livelihood, so sure will is that spirit of order, that obedience to rule, which it be when they come to a day when their labour not only affords the best security for internal peace, may be profitably employed, they are certain of but which, applicable and applied as it is to all the fi n di ng an adequate demand for that labour, and concerns of public and private life, is the elemen- profitable remuneration for its exercise. (Cheers.) tary principle on which the wealth and increasing As far, then, as sympathy for these unhappy little prosperity of the country is founded, not only in its beings extends, we should have adequate, com public respects, but even in its commercial and in- pletely adequate motives for assisting an institution dustrial avocations. I say, then, that for this the of this kind. But if we take a larger view, and look Government of the day can take but little credit. upon these institutions as bearing upon the social. It is the people of the United Kingdom to whom interests of the country, we shall, in that view also, the merit is mainly due, and no doubt it is find the strongest possible motives for encouraging to the daily and yearly increase in the diffu- and enlarging these establishments. (Hear.) One of sion of instruction and education among the great evils of civilised society is the uncivi the people, the decline of which it is im- lised portion of the:community. (Applause.) There possible to contemplate, that this spirit of must be—and it is vain to hope it should not be— order is mainly attributable. You are pleased there will be in every great community a certain also in the address to refer to the loyalty of the amount of crime, of offences, of dissolute habits, of people of this country. Well, Mr. Mayor, that recklessness and improvidence. But the amount of loyalty is innate in the mind of every British sub- these evils will greatly depend upon the direction ject—(loud cheers)—for if there is one peculiarity which is given in the earliest years of life to the perhaps more than another which belongs to the minds of the rising generation. (Hear.) It is true British character, it is a sentiment of gradations of that it may sometimes happen that those who have rank. Every rank knows its own position. Neither had instilled into their minds in early childhood is it jealous of those above, nor does it treat with- the best principles, may in, after life yield to out respect those who may happen to be below. temptation—be led away by fortuitous circum- There is a general consciousness that in human stances, and desert those paths in which. they were society there must be degrees, and that the preser- early instructed to go. But these cases are com vation of that gradation is essential to the welfare paratively rare. You will find that the great of the community, and that feeling—and that sen- source of offence and of misfortune—for crime is timent—is directed with increased intensity towards misfortune—the great source of all those evils which the sovereign who sits on the throne. (Hear, afflict afflict large communities and nati ons li es i n t hi s : But if at all times that abstract feeling would lead the want of early and proper instruction of child the people of this country to sentiments of fervid ren in the first years of their life. (Cheers.) Well, and devoted loyalty, it is yet our happiness to be we may t a k e in mora l and intellectual things, ruled over by a sovereign who possesses in a degree examples from what is done in physical and mate never surpassed all those qualities of bead and rial matters. 'Why, if you want to dry a morass— heart which are calculated to secure to her the if you want to get rid of noxious exhalations from. deep-rooted affection of every one of the subjects unhealthy districts, you don't simply go to pump which she governs. (Hear.) It is true, as you out the water which lies stagnant upon the ground, have observed, that our sovereign is deeply imbued hut you go to the source of the evil, you go to the with the principles of the constitution of which she head of the spring which perforates into these is the head, and little indeed is the merit of those marshy districts, and by turning its spring into who are appointed by her to administer in her channels diverting them from the country which name, if they follow in that track which she points they impregnate you lead them in a healthy cur out to them to pursue, and if they in the adminis - rent for the use of mankind, an d, b y so diverting tration of those powers which she confides to their them, that which used to be a noxious morass you. hands are sedulously and strictly observant of the t u rn into profitable, an d cu l t i vated, and healthy limits which the constitution of the country has land for the use of man. (Cheers.) In the same way imposed on the executive authority, But there is I say we s h ou ld i ntercept the sources of crime at the another point in which our sovereign peculiarly fountain head. Inculcate early in the minds of the deserves the admiration and the gratitude of the children* of the country maxims of religious and. country—for not only are her cares directed to the moral principles. Teach them betimes the value time present, bat with a far-seeing foresight she and importance of rules, regulations, and orders. has trained up and educated her royal children. Teach the child, even in his school hours, to be She has imbued them so deeply with all those sen- obedient to certain regulations, and you will find timents and feelings which fit them to be members when he becomes a man that he will be more ready of that royal family whom we have the happiness to to submit to the laws of his country, and to main look up to, that oven after that day—long we hope tain order in the society of which he is a member. to be deferred—when her reign may cease, she will (Cheers.) 'Well, then, if you succeed in this—if bequeath to her people the legacy of a family worthy you rescue from vice and crime a vast number of to succeed her and sure to obtain the confidence those unhappy children, who, if left to all the and affection of the country. (Loud cheers.) And hazards and temptations to which their condition thus, gentlemen, though of late years we have seen exposes them, would become criminals and victims in other countries sovereigns who have been so un- of the law, I say you are conferring an enormous fortunate as to lose the confidence of their subjects, benefit on society—a benefit not confined to the day, and to entail both on themselves and their people not confined to the creatures who are the objects of all those calamities which arise from such a forfeiture your charity, but a benefit which becomes every on the part of the ruling authority, we have the day greater and more extensive, which pervad.es satisfaction of seeing in this country that every day the whole mass of society, and the advantage of rivets more closely those bonds of affectionate w hi c h w ill b e f e lt i n f uture generations as well attachment which now exist, and which I trust as in the present time. (Cheers.) A point was never wil' be diminished between the sovereign and mentioned in the report which has been read the subjects of the realm. (Hear.) My Lord Mayor which shows another and important bearing of this and gentlemen, I beg again to return you my institution. You have b een t o ld that that had warmest thanks, and to assure you that expressions happened which in human nature might have been like these of confidence and good will, on the part expected—that though instruction, moral and of such an important portion of the community, are intellectual, in the ordinary course of nature, de the greatest encouragements which public men can scends from parent to child, yet that some time receive in the discharge of their duty, and the that current will be reversed, and moral and reli amplest reward by which the honest and conscien- gious and intellectual instruction will go upwards tious performance of those duties can hope to be from the child to the parent, and where the child followed. (Hear, hear.) has been well brought up and instructed and the The MAYOR then called for "Three times three" parents have had the misfortune of being differently for Lord Palmerston, which was heartily given, the situated, the example of the child will operate loud bass of the organ being used as an accompani- upon the conduct of the parent, that parents will ment, and adding considerably to the effect of this be reclaimed from habits that bring them to demonstration. poverty and disgrace, by seeing in the example *of The proceedings concludedwith a round of cheers their children that which they will blush not to for Lady Palmerston. be able to imitate and to follow. (Cheers.) I cannot After the presentation of the address the Mayor believe that in the great, wealthy, commercial town entertained the noble lord and a select party in the lik e this, full of charitable instit u ti ons, where 1 State-rooms to luncheon. The " Health of Lord men of capital and men of comfort already libe ' Palmerston" was given by the mayor in compli- rally and generously contribute everything that mentary terms ; and the noble lord, in replying,_ tends to the comfort: and well-bein g an d wel apologised for the necessary brevity of his rem arks, fare of those who are belo w them, I cannot for a and stated that he had arranged to visit during the moment believe that the appeal which has been afternoon some of the great manufacturing estab- made by the Secretary i n the report which he has lisliments, which had contributed so largely .to t e read will not be attended with complete success, prosperity and the happiness of the inhabitants, and when the Se cre t ary thi s ti me twelve months and at the same time to the welfare and greatnessh shall read the r e p or t o f t h e procee di ngs o f t h e year of the country. His lordship concluded by givin g which is about to begin, he will be able to answer " Prosperity to the town of Leeds." you that this institution, although comparatively Mr. W. BECKETT. The toast was responded to by r :, of recent establishment, has yet thriven like a Lord P - ALMERSTON The healthof next proposed e vigorous plant which has already by its branching the Mayor." shadows overspread a great portion of this great gave " The Re- His Worship, having responded,.. , . and important town; and that the benefits which presentatives for the West Riding,' coupled with its founders contemplated have begun to be amply the name of Sir John Ramsden, who briefly re- realised. If that be so, I will venture to say turned thanks. that the people of this great town of Leeds will The noble viscount then departed from the hall, have done an act which will not only be highly amidst loud cheers from the guests as well as from satisfactory and gratifying to their feelings when the crowds collected outside. they reflect upon the results, but will be of infinite value and importance to the social condition of this great and important town.—The noble lord re sumed his seat amid loud applause. THE BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENT LAW DE PUTATION. —A meeting held yesterday, prelimi nary to the reception of the deputation by Lord Palmerston, attended by the delegates of the va rious Chambers of Commerce and Trade Protection Societies of the West Riding, Samuel Morley, Esq., of London, and Mr. J. Batmen, secretary of the Mercantile Law Amendment Society, it was una nimously resolved :---" That this meeting is of opinion that it is most desirable to urge upon the Government to adhere to the principle of the pay ment of the official assignees embodied in clause 101 of the bill of last session, providing also that the further payment of the official assignees beyond the fixed salary should be subject to the consent of the creditors' assignees. FAILURE OF MESSRS. DAVIES AND CO., BANKERS. —The failure was announced yesterday afternoon of Messrs. Robert Davies and Co., bankers, of Shoreditch. The fact of their being in difficulties had transpired before the ter mination of business and a run ensued, which compelled them to close their doors. Their customers were mostly among the shopkeepers of the neighbourhood, and their total liabilities are believed not to exceed £140,000. The liquidation, it is feared, will prove unfavourable —possibly not exceeding 10s. in the pound, the firm having sustained some large losses from advances on building speculations. Before the stoppage took place the London and C oun t y Bank were appealed to for assistance, but the bal ance-sheet rendered was such as to preven t compliance. That esta blishment, however, will open a branch in the locality, and will endeavour to mitigate the effect of Messrs. Davies' stoppage by making advances on the security of the divi dends to which the creditors may appear entitled. An nexed is the circular issued by Messrs. Davies and Co. : " 187, Shoreditch, October 26.—Sir,—I n consequence of the failure of a firm which is largely i n d ebted to us, we are under the painful necessity of closing eur banking-house. Under these circumstances, we h ave applied to the Lou. don and County i as far a s p oss ibl e , the Bank to lessen im mediate inconvenience to our customers by making ad vances to them, which, as we have been this day informed, may be obtained on a pplication at their banki ng -h ouse , South ISea I House, Threadneedle- s t ree t. A meeting of our creditors will be held at the London Tavern in Bishops.. gate •street, on Monday next, the 29th lust, at 12 for 1 o'clock precisely, at which you are particularly requested to attend.—We are, sir, your very obedient servants, ROBERTIDAVIES and Co." No gold wastaken from the Bank to-day, but the whole of the £152,000 by the Red Jacket, whose arrival was announced yesterday morning, will go abroad. DEATH OF THE DUKE DECAZES.—The Duke Decazes died on Thursday in Paris, in consequence of an accident which befel him at Tours. HEALTH OF SHEEP.—Mr. Baylis, Mr. Hemming, and many others, who have given Thorley's Condiment to sheep, record a favourable experience of its use. All declare 4 heir sheep to be healthier and freer from disease, where the condiment is properly given. Writers on the natural his tory of the sheep unanimously mention that this animal reffrs ollpinf sof pnametgai foci, ..e