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eT VI. 'i r->-w / ( z - `l/ / NEWSPAPER e 4 RE AT WESTE RN RAILWAY. ‘_A CHEAP EXCURSION TO BATH AND BRISTOL.— On SATURDAY, October 8, A TRAIN will leave PaddinOon at 640 p.m., for BATH (Fares, 12s and 63.) ; and BRISTOL (14s. and 75.), returnim, on Monday, October 10, from 'Bristol at 5 30 p.m., and Bath at 6 p.m. • 01C ,114 - art • 44 .. 444 " 1111 111: .. tx'k* ,e , *(o{l , -,,,s • . n 4 _ 4 ,4,„ it / 4 • • \„ , _ . • ,-„,• • - ',1 7 y . O • Pt!: L. • - - s?' # Ron , . e 41, - ...... METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND GENERAL . LIFI4: ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W. Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments. Loans on real and personal security. • F. FERGUSON CAMROUN, Manag•er. THE BURHANI BRICK, POTTERY, AND CEMENT COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies Acts, the liabilitiesfof Shareholders being limited to the amount they each subscribe for. Capital, £lOO,OOO, in 20.000 shares of R 5 each. Deposit, lOs per share on application, and £2 on allotment. DIRECTORS. Bonner, W. Price, Esq., 78, Mark-lane, and Pembury, Kent. Davies, John, Captain K N., Princes-place, Kennington -park Harrison, G. H. R., Esq., F.S.A., Kennington -park. Beeman, E., Esq., 70, Borough, and Tonbridge, Kent. Roche, John, Captain R.N., Upper Westbourne-terrace, Hyde park. Varney, William, Esq., Durham, Kent. Ward, John, Esq., 48, Claverton-street, Pimlico. (With power to add to their number.) BARKERS - London and County Bank, Lombard-street, E.C. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Roche and Gover, 33, Old Jewry, E.C. BROKERS. Messrs. Smith an d Binney, 5, Angel-court, Throgmorton street, E.C. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. W. Conner, Esq. Temporary Oflices—No. 152, Gresham House, Old Broad street, London, E.C. This Company is formed for the purchase of the extensive and valuable Brick and Cement Works established by the late Thomas Cubitt, Esq., at Burham, on the River Medway, which, by the judicious outlay of capital in the application of every modern improvement, he succeeded in snaking what they now - indisputably are, the most extensive and complete of their kind in the kingdom. Applications for shares, detailed prospectuses, &c., may be made to the Brokers or Solicitors ot the Company ; or to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, 152, Gresham House, Old Broad-street London, E.C. BURHAM BRICK, POTTERY, and CEMENT COPANY (Limited.) NOTICE TS HEREBY M GIVEN, That NO APPLICATION for SHARES in this COMPANY will be RECEIVED after WEDNESDAY, the 12th day of October next. By Order. A. W. CONNER, Secretary pro tern. 152, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, E.C. THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon onet, reuires only to be visited to beronounce of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is open and healthfUl, a few minutes' walk from all the public buildings and places of business, and being connected with the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately attended to. The public should know that under the present manage ment they will find every comfort and convenience at the same charges they are paying at the minor hotels. It has accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors, is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is so arranged for the advantage of every class of visitor, that Beds.can be had from is. to 2s. ; Private Rooms, from 2s. to 4s. ; Breakfasts, from Is. 6d. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 2s. •, and all other charges of that moderate character which will give satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a Visit. The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ; a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen Private suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner Parties, Public Meetings, Arc., Arc. ; two first-class Refresh ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms. A Night Porter in attendance. EDWIN TAYLOR. Proprietor of the Royal Station Hotel, Hull, and Crescent Hotel, Filey. N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'Hdte at five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.- McCOLLUM'S GRAND CIRQUE CLASSIQUE. Immense Attractions. Engwement of the celebrated LEON, who appears niehtly in his wonderful Hurdle Acts. Last Three Nights of the LAURI FAMILY, in their Comic Ballet, THE RENDEZVOUS. Two representations daily, commencing at 2, and at half-past 7. ARGYLL ROOMS, G rea t Wi n d m ill -street, Piccadilly. —These elegant rooms are now open for the Winter Season for Promenade Concerts, with the celebrated Argyll Band, conducted by Mons. A. Lamotte ; principal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Dancing at 10 o'clock. Doors open at 8, commence at half-past. Admission, ls. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn, RE-OPENED for the SEASON.—This establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegan and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection of its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING. Great alterations and improvements have been made during the recess, and nothing has been left undone that could en hance the beauty of the place, or increase the comfort of the visitors. Doors open at half-past 8; overture at 9; closing at 12 punctually. Admission ls. TIAILY, AT THREE O'CLOCK ( an d on MON -1-, DAY and SATURDAY ings at half-ast eight), Dr. KAHN will DELIVER his eve cele n brated and po pular LEC TURE on the " Philosophy of Marriage." The MUSEUM, 3, Tichborne-street, Haymarket, is OPEN DAILY (for gentlemen only). Admission, ls. Handbook tree to visitors. Dr. Kahn's treatise on "The Philosophy of Marriage," free by post for twelve stamps, direct from the Author, 17, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, NA USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONQUNDED lir HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. WHEN YOU ASK FOR GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, SEE THAT YOU GET IT, As inferior kinds are often substituted. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. WOTHERSPOON & CO.. GLASGOW AND LONDON RUPTURES. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN PATENT LEVER TRUSS is allowed by upwards of 200 professional gentlemen to be the best for Hernia. It consists of a small and elastic pad, to which a lever is attached, and (instead of the usual stel sring) a soft badage, fitting so closely as to avoid detect i on p on. A descriptive n circular may be had, and the truss forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being , sent to the manufacturer, Mr. John White, 228, Piccadilly. Single Truss, 165.. 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. Double ditto, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage. is Bd. Post-office Orders to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. Maker of Elastic Stockings, Knee-caps, dm CERTAIN RELIEF for the AFFLICTED.-- v Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, area sure remedy for affections ofthe liver, Indigestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe tite, lowness of spirits, &o. They can be taken at any time, without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels, without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness and pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerves, and invigo rate the whole system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes, Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engraved on the Government stamp. 3, GREAT MARLBOROUGH -STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Tncapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive indul gences. • • Has Just published, price Is. ; by post, 13 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4; An entire new and original Work, entitled Synopsis : The PhysioIOURSELVES. og,y and Anatomy of our Generation - The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of, and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennerrhagia (Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrheea,lmpotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &o. FEMALE. The Physiology and 'Anatomy of Women- Functional Ir regularities in Health ant Sickness —Choice in 31arriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum, and the securing of Healthy Offspring. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY ; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love and other Matches._ Sterility. Removed, and Healthy Off spring secured. No. 3. THE CASE BOOK 100 Cases of SPERMATORRHCEA, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Confessions" and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &c. &c. To be had of Mann. 39, Cornhill ; and"the. Authors. Advice to the Working Classes, fee Half-a-Guinea.' TIU BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLAT?, POWDER Contains the greatest amount of easily assimilated nourishment for strengthening delicate persons, children, and infants with weak stomachs, c hest, or nerves, and, at 3-pence per meal, affords a delicious breakfast, lunch, or supper. It is the best dietetic homcepa- Mc preparation, and maybe eaten either alone or mixed with Du Harry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Admirably adapted to rear Infants with. In Tins at ls. 6d; 11b., 35.; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b. 12s. ; 121 h., 265. The 121 b. forwarded carriage free, on receipt et Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent street, London ; and through all Grocers and Chemists. NO MORE INW DTI BA R D RY'S ELICIOUS MEDEC HEALTH-RESTORING REVALENTA A RABICA FOOD Cures effectually indiges tion (dyspepsia), constipation, flatulency,l.oin nervousness, biliousness, liver complaints, hysteria, neuralgia, impurities, ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, eruptions,sleepless- Irritability, low spirits, diarrhoea, dysentery, diabetes, headache, noises in the head and ears, debility, _ s hemorrhoids, pains between the shoulders, despondency, cramps , sas nausea, and sickness ( during pregnancy or at seal, sinki ng lit' , cough, asthma , bronchitis, consumption, also Children 's complaints. We extract a few out of 50,000 expressions of gratitude from nvalids thus cured : Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of many years' dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. "Fifty years' in describable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, comtipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food4' Maria Joly. Cure No. 53,816. Field Mar shall the Duke of Pluskow, of dyspepsia, constipation, ner vousness and liver complaints which had resisted all baths and medical treatment. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervo usness, indigestion, gatherings, loiv spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure, of constipation, dyspepsia, and nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36 ,212. Captain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spawns and d a il y vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Hervey, of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 29,628. Dr. Wurtzerof consumption. Cure N 0.46.270. Mr. James Roberts, merchant Fernley, Surrey, of 20 years' diseased 'lungs, spitting of blond, liver derangement, partial deafness. gure No. 4,208. 4 Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms and nausea, have been effectually cured by Du Ba rry ' s health -restoring Food. Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlingfon Rectory, Norfolk." —Cure No. 3,906, of thirteen years' cough, ndigestion, and ge nera l d e bilit y. J ames P or t er , A t h o l-street, Perth. Sold in canisters, 11b. 2s. 9d. ; 21b. 45. 6d. ; 121 b. 22 s ; Super refined quality, 51b. 2 2 5. ; 101 b. als. The 101 b. and 121 h. sanisters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, an d Co., purveyors to her Majesty', 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch-street •, 330, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate-street ; 105 and 63, Oxford street ; 85, Tot tenham-court-road ; also in Liverpool, at Nixons. 1, Castle -street Leeds, Reinhardt and Co. ; Dublin, Or. Butler, Medical Ildinburgb, Batumi and Co 4: l l.nchester. Sharp and Scott No. 20,996. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., L MOST A HEROINE By the Author of " Charles Auchester," &c. "To those readers who are looking for a novel a little ou of the common beat 'Almost a Heroine' will be pleasant The author has talent and eloquence."—Athenrcum. Hurst and Blackett,l3, Great Marlborough-street. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. Od., THE TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; showing why they so often appear In curable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure . of Strictures of tlie Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which their management is founded. By his systematic management an immense mitigation of !'pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuable contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular, Dec. Ist, 1858. London: H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. THORLEY'S FOOT) FOR CATTLE.—Every person having an interest in domestic or farm animals ihoulcLobtain a supply of this celebrated and economical food, 'Which will prove invaluable during the approaching season. For keeping horses in'good condition it is unequal ,ed. Pigs fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their flesh increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find :, , Teat advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua lity of the milk during its use. All animals are benefited by it. A pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by festimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri •ulturists, forwarded on application. In casks containing 148 feeds (measures_ enclosed), price GOs., carriage paid to any Railway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders navable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Nowgate-street, London. N.B.—The public arecautioned against being imposed upon by worthless imitations. ITINEGAR. Patronised by her Majesty's Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE CONCEN TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Families, by using this de licious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health; Dr. ifassall, of the "Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by the Trade, in bottles labelled and capsuled. Wholesale, 6.3, King William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample sent free to any Railway for 3s. 6d. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Treasurer—Edward 3lasterman, Esq. During the past year (1858) 40,403 received the benefits of this Charity, either as out or in door patients ; and since its foundation to 31st December, 1858, the number relieved was upwards of 649,000. The Committee entreat AID to enable them to continue this great work of charity. STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. p OYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT LA) INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution earnestly appeal to the public for pecuniary assistance to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on the limited funds of the Society. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. Sept. 21, 1839. Contributions will be thankfully received by Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; and at the office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, W.C. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION 48, Gracechurch-street, London. For MUTUAL ASSURANCE on LIVES, ANNUITIES, dc. Established December, 1835. DIRECTORS: SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq., Chairman. CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., Deputy Chairman. John Bradbury, Esq. Robt. Intrham, fisq., M.P. Thomas Castle, Esq. Charles Reed, Rvq. Richard Fall, Esq. Robert Sheppard, Esq. John Feltham, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq. Charles Gilpin, Esq., M.P. Charles Whetham, Esq. Charles Good, Esq. • PHYSICIANA J. T. Conquest, M.D., Hodgkin, M.D. BANKERS.—Messrs.. Brown, Janson, and Co., and Bank of England. SOLICITOR.—Septimus Davidson, Esq. CONSULTING ACTUARY.—CharIes Ansel], Esq., F.R.S. MUTUAL ASSURANCE WI MOUT INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY. On the 20th of November last the total number of policies issued was 21,033. The amount of capital was £1,621,550 lls. 11d. Amount paid for claims arising from death, and bonuses ac crued thereon £809,616 14s. 4d. The gross annual income arising from pre miums on 15,262 existing policies is Annual abatement on the 20th November, 1857, to be continued for the five years end ing in 1862 50,112 0 0 £197,581 1 1 69,850 7 1 Add interest on invested capital • Total net annual income £267,431 8 2 The present number of members is 12,647. At the Quinquennial Division of Profits made up to the 20th November, 1857. the computed value of assurances in Class IX. - was .£1,000,090 16 6 Assets in class IX 1,345,125 0 5 Surplus or profit £345,034 3 11 The effect of the successful operation of the Society during the whole period of its existence may be best exhibited by re capitulating the declared surpluses at the four investigations made up to this time. For the 7 years ending 1842 the Surplus was £32,074 11 5 5 years „ 1847 86,122 8 3 51 Of 21 5 years „ 1852 „ 232,061 18 4 5 years „ 1857 345,034 311 Members whose premiums fall Sue on the Ist October are reminded that the same must be paid within 30 days from that date. The Prospectus, with the last Report of the Directors, and with illustrations of the profits for the five years ending the 20th November, 1857, may be had on application, by which it will be seen that the reductions on the premiums range from 11 per cent. to 98 per ceit., and thit in one instance the premium is extinct. Instances of the bonuses are a l so shown. JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary. September, 1859. MEDICAL ADVICE►. f R. LA'MERT, R eg i s t ere d L.S.A., H onorar y Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, M.D. et the University of Erlangen, &c., may be CONSULTED on all cases of Debility, Nervousness, and the secret In firmities of Youth and Maturity, from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight, at his residence,. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON Dr. La'Mert has just published, price Sixpence, with nu merous Engravings and Cases, a :New Edition of his Work, entitled SELF-PRESERVATION, which will be sent free, in a sealed envelope, by Mann, 30, Cornhill, London, -or by the Author, to any address, for Eight stamps. CONTENTS. SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. SECTION ll.—Puberty—ManhW The Morale of Genera tive Physiology—True and False Morality. SECTION lll.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical Itelations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tages of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring. SECTION IV.—Spermatorrhnea and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries. SECTION V.—The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties—lmport ance of Moral Discipline. biiECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De ty—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's Principles et Tresitment ; Medical, Dietetic, and General, derived trim Tirehty Years' successful practice. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD ON ONICTIN The fearful dangers t o invalids fro O m. spurious imitations of DU BARRY'S invaluable HEALTH-RESTORING REVA - LENTA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and, upon application in 1854 for protection, the High Court of Chancery granted an injunction restraining 'Alfred Hooper Nevill, and his agents, under a penalty of £5,000, from selling any article resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, of which we are the sole pro prietors. Now, therefore, this is to give notice that the above reward will be paid, upon conviction, to anyone giving infor mation of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who may attempt impositions. London : ,BARRY DU BARRY & CO, NO MORE SICKLY OR ILL-CONDITIONED HORSES OR OTHER CATTLE. RAREY'S HORSE and CATTLE-IMPROVING FOOD restores the efficiency, vicrour, endurance, and muscle of ill conditioned or apparent A worn-out Horses, Cows, Bul locks, Calves, Sheep, and Pigs. In a short time it improves their appearance and value by 20 and 30 per cent. RAREY and Co., 77, Regent's Quadrant, London. In tins at 35., at Os., at 11s. ; in casks, of about 450 feeds, 50s. ; of about 1,000 feeds, £5, being about lid. per feed. Forwarded on receipt of Post-office orders. The:casks free f carriage. NO MORE MEDICINE Price 2d., free by post, a popular treatise, sixty-four P a ge s , THE NATURAL REGENERATION of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS, practically illustrating the effectual Cure, without Medicine, of Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatulency Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpiditof the Liver, bilous Headaches, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debi lity, Cough, Asthma, Con sumption,'Despondency, Spleen, &c., without Pills, Purgatives, or Medicine of any kind, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means ; adapted to the general "slider. London : Barry Du Barry di Co. 77. Recent-street. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. WORCESTER, THURSDAY. A dreadful occurrence has happened here, whi c h has thrown the city into a state of considerable ex citement. The particulars, as far as they can be ascertained at the present moment, are briefly a s follows : Mrs. Harris, the alleged murderer and suicide, resided with her husband up to yesterday in the Bath-road, I)igby, a short distance from the Royal China Works, where her husband was employed. Yesterday, on her husband coming home to din ner, about one o'clock, a quarrel arose between them and the wife became much excited, and, snatching up her children, ran out of the house, vowing that she would never return to it. Her husband heard nothing of her all last night, and becoming uneasy inquiries were instituted, and the worst suspicions have been verified to-day by the discovery of the body of one of the children, a boy, in the river, about a mile below 'Worcester. It is the general belief that Mrs. Harris, on leav ing her home, went directly to the river, about a distance of a quarter of a mile from her house, and that she jumped into the stream with both her children. The river has been dragged all day, but only one body has been found. The stream is much swollen by the rains, and the bodies may have been carried a considerable distance down. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1859. THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER ALMA. Yesterday morning the official inquiry into the loss of the above vessel was resumed at the Green wich Police-court, before Mr. Traill, assisted by Capt. Walker, H.1411.C.5., as nautical assessor. Mr. Cumberland conducted the proceedings on the part of the Board of Trade ; and Mr. Wilde, Q.C., again attended for the captain and chief officer. Henry Carter (third officer) said—l hold a certi ficate of competency from the Board of Trade, dated December, 185 G. I have been seven years in the service, and have made 40 trips to the Red Sea. On the morning of the wreck it was my watch, havinc , relieved the third supernumerary officer at 12 o'clock.' He gave me the course N. by W. W. After seeing the ship was steering her course I proceeded on to the forecastle. There I found Mr. Davis, the chief officer, pacing the deck. He ordered me to keep a sharp look-out for the Harnish Islands, and to let him know as soon as I saw them,and then went round to visit the look-out men at their stations. He cautioned hem to keep a sharp look-out and went forward ,o the forecastle. We made Harnish bearing N.W. -} W. I reported this to Mr. Davis, who ordered me to port a quarter of a point, remarking that it would be N. by W. 1 W. I went aft and gave orders to the quartermaster to steer N.W. a W., and said, " I will go to the wheel, so let me know what is her course." I then walked to the standard compass, and after seeing the order had been obeyed I took my position with the chief officer on the fore castle.. At two a,m. we made Little Harnish, bear ing N.N.W. westwardly. Mr. Davis then ordered me to 'Art another half point, which was obeyed precisely as before. -At 6.45 a.m. I called the chief officer's attention to the appearance of high land bearing about N. by W. 4 W. He ordered me to port half a point. I was at this time looking through my night glass, and saw nothing like rocks or reefs. I was lo oking at the appearance of the high land. It was very indistinct. Upon receiv ing the order to port half a point I went off to the quartermaster and told him to steer N. I W. I had not time to reach the standard compass when I heard Mr. Davis call out " Hard a-port—stop her," and immediately ran to his assistance. The helm was put hard over, the ship answering it rapidly. I felt a slight shock. The ship proceeded a short distance, and a severe shock ensued. This was im mediately followed by another, which threw us from the wheel, and the ship rolled over on her beam ends. I considered the ship's head was then about N.N.E. The compass card vibrated consider ably when she first struck. John Smith, second engineer, next examined—l was second engineer on board the Alma during her last voyage. At the time of the wreck I was not on duty, but lying awake on a table opposite the en gine room door. I did not hear any orders given about the engines. I reversed the engines myself about two minutes after the ship struck. The order, I believe, was given to do so, but I did not hear it. The third engineer was on duty. . Richard Ellin—l was quartermaster on board the Alma on her last voyage. It was my first voyage in her, having joined the vessel at Calcutta. During- the middle watch, on the morning she struck, I was doing duty as quartermaster. I was starboard at the standard compass, and my duty was to see that the ship was steered her proper course, to heave the log, and obey general orders. The man at the wheel was under my supervision. I had to see that he steered the right course. All the different courses given during that watch I am sure were attended to. At the time the vessel struck we were steering N. by W. Major Thomas Fane said,—l am at present an officer unattached in her Majesty's service. I was a passenger on board the Alma on her last voyage, and was on deck the whole night until she struck. I heard one of the officers rush past me and give some orders which awoke me. I also heard Mr. measure. In this Arnaud succeeded, but on the condition that Spain should send a contingent of 20,000 men to Rome. On the arrival of the Brief in Madrid the greatest possible publicity was given to it in order to procure purchasers ; at the same time, however, the offer made by Arnaud was blamed, the promised troops were refused, and Arnaud was withdrawn. It is more strongly than ever asserted that the Duke de Grammont has re peatedly said, both to the Pope and the Cardinals, that the return of the Romagna to the dominion of the Holy See was no longer possible, and that there would be great danger of losing also the Marches and Umbria unless concessions were made. In con sequence a Council of Cardinals was called, and it is said that the institutions so often demanded by France are about to be conceded, with many modi fications. Those who are well-informed, however, are of opinion that such institutions are by no means calculated to give satisfaction; that 'the Marches and Umbria are resolved on throwing in their lot with the Romagna, and that nothing will remain to the Pope but the patrimony of St. Peter. • The execration of Cardinal Antonelli is both great and general, and even the clergy are opposed to him, seeing as they do that he it is who has ruined the Papal State. Still his Holiness persists in keeping him in power. Antonelli represents in his person the impossibility of reform, and revolution in per manency in the States of the, Church. He and Mazzini will have deserved equally well- of the Papacy. The excesses of the Swiss who have arrived here from Marseilles exceed all description. Many of them are already deserting. The Minister of Arms, the Most Eminent Cardinal Antonelli, seeing that there is no probability of his forming a Papal army with such materials, has put a stop to all further enrolment in that quarter. In Pesaro a conspiracy has been discovered among the native troops to de sert en masse. A few have been arrested, and a different distribution of them has been thought of, with the hope that the Swiss may keep both the troops and the people in order. In this general de rangement the finance of course suffers, and a debt has been created of 1,500,000 scudi, and another of 500,000 will be added. It is said that the Duke Salviati, the head of the family of Borghese, has lent the Government 400,000 scudi, and that the Duke Grazioli (whose father, a baker, left him a sufficiently large fortune to raise him to a duke dom) has lent as much at 21 per cent. This rich proprietor has lately purchased the Palazzo Brescia on which Pius VII, sPent 900,000 scudi. 300,000 scudi were paid down, but that will not suffice to pay one-half of the debts of the nephew of that Pope. NAPLES. A letter from Naples, dated Oct. 1, says !—" It is impossible to mistake the great excitement which now agitates all classes. Even the very lowest have taken the infection, and talk about Garibaldi, and desertions, and encounters, and speak of im pending and violent changes. The sentiment is universal that something is about to happen. In fact, it is wonderful what progress the public spirit has made within the last few weeks ; so much so that I do not believe I shall be committing myself when I say that even here in Naples--that is to say, in the Kingdom —we shall in a very brief space of time witness a violent commotion. This change has been greatly on the increase since the Swiss left ; it was what might have been expected, but this incursion of Garibaldi into the Marches, or the report of it, has given a most extraordinary impulse to the public feeling. It is impossible to give you an idea of the terrible influence which the name of the great Italian h •ro exercises on the people. Nurses frighten children by sending Garibaldi after them ; the nation has great hopes in him as one of their future deliverers ; the Court are terror-stricken by the shadow which he casts upon them from a distance. After the review of cavalry in Capua last Satur day the Icing went, as I told you, to Gaeta, whence he returned to Posilippo on Monday, and landed at the casino of Prince Luigi. In the evening he went to Portici. The report is still that he is to go to San Gennaro and even to Sulmona. My report of military movements was so very full in my last letter that I shall not venture to say much more on the subject. In the main I believe I was right. Immense excitement prevails here; so that, with the utmost discretion, it is difficult at times to select the true from the false amid the thousand and one reports which prevail. In the Calabrias tranquillity prevails ; that is to say, the people have not actually risen. Several steamers left last week for Syracuse with the 11th Regiment of the line, and at the beginning of the week they brought back the sth Regiment of the line from Syracuse to Gaeta. Two steamers have left also for Pescara, one with the ambulance for the army on the frontier, and the other with seve ral companies of soldiers to assist at the disem barkation of it. This being effected, the steamers will remain, it is said, to cruise in the Adriatic. Of the efforts which were making to add to the number of the army I have already spoken. Sixty ducats a man to all who have finished their time, and are willing to remain, and 15 grani a day are unheard-of prices in this country, and show the great eagerness of the Government to obtain men. The levy of 1860 is, too, I hear, being called in with great activity, and in this way 18,000 more men will be obtained. There is talk, too, of mobilizing the Civic Guard ; in fact, no stone is left unturned to meet the danger which threatens, not the country but the Government and the Court ; for, with this exception, all parties here are panting after every movement which must upset the present order of things. Even the Royalists and the greatest reac tionists now confess that the King threw away tho most favourable moment of his life at his accession to the throne for making concessions to his sub jects. It is now felt that whatever effort to con ciliate was made would be lost, and might prove even dangerous, and that it is necessary therefore to carry out the present plan of action to the last. Such a confession shows what is the actual position of the Government and its future intentions. A report was spread about at the beginning of the week that the Royalists and the police would make a demonstration in the streets, with cries of " Viva it ! " " Viva it Statuto !" Of course such a report is laughed at, and even were such a fact to take place, so little is the faith which is reposed in the Government that no one would be found to re echo the cries. But few troops remain in the city, and these regard the police with an evil eye, while the latter gentlemen seek to avenge themselves, as it were, upon the people. I can give you no idea of the active search which has been, and is being, made for those who are in any way suspected of being connected with the clandestine press, nor is, I think, too much importance attached to this recent proof of the awakening of the public mind. Many perquisizione have been made in the printing offices, and many of the printers arrested, but all to no purpose. The cleverest members of the police have been charged with the office of discovery, and many dressed in plain clothes have been sent among the people with orders to affect sympathy with them, but all in vain. The Corriere di _Napoli (the clandestine journal) did not make its appearance exactly in the same form last Tuesday as usual, and the type was far from correct, but still a journal made its appearance, and was widely circulated. The people, in fact, set the police at defiance, and beat it. The number to which I allude has some words attri buted to Lord Palmerston, which he is said to have spoken to one of the leaders of the Italian move ment. " Act, act, and let others undo what you do if they can." It concludes in large type with " Garibaldi is in the Marches of Ancona." There was to have been a Council of State at Portici last Monday, and all the Ministers went down, but neither the King nor Severino were there, and they PRICE 4P. STAMPED, SD, I were compelled to return. No information of the 1 absence of the King had been given to them. Filangicri is still at Sorrento, and hold:; himself as much aloof as ever from all affairs of State, though I am now given to understand that his counsel was taken with regard to the expedition to the fron tier, and for the management of the campaign. All official acts are still signed by the President, Carascosa. The gravity of the position may be estimated by the fact that the Cardinal of Naples has sent a letter to his clergy, by which he refuses all sacer dotal and ecclesiastical ordinations at present, and during the season when such ordinations are made. The reason assigned is that the Holy Father is ex posed to great danger. Such an act, together with many others similar, which the Church knows well how to execute in the right time are well calcu lated to exercise a considerable influence over the minds of an ignorant and superstitious people. How great is their superstition you may gather from the following fact. On the day of the fete of San Gennaro a French liner, the Hellespont, came in and grounded on a shoal called the Gaiol 1, near Posilippo. It is a well known spot and Go• vernment is much to blame for never having placed any signal there. It is said that the boatmen had some words with the captain, and that the latter called the blood of the saint• the blood of a pig, " and that very day, sir," says my informant, " the vessel went ashore. The saint punished him for his impiety. You may laugh as you like, but all Naples says so. lam a religious man, and know that the saint did it." Davis giving orders forward, and immediately after that I heard the ship strike. I instantly rushed to the side of the ship, and on looking over saw that we were on a reef About half an hour after the boats, with the ladies, suddenly disappeared. I cannot say at what distance the boats disappeared, but could hear the oars. It seemed to me that there was a haze over them. The boats landed about 150 yards off. [A sketch of the reef taken by a witness on board her Majesty's ship Cyclops was here produced.] Mr. Cumberland here stated that it was not his intention to put any other witnesses under exami nation that day, and the inquiry was therefore further adjourned. JONATHAN'S RIDE TO PEKIN. (From Punch. TUNE—" Yankee Doodle." Our nation always goes ahead, By methods noways sneakin'; Hear how our minister got In triumph into Pekin : I calculate that he warn't barred By planks athwart a river ; Too 'cute a coon was Mr. War Whose storyol'll deliver. Firstways he steamed to Ning-Hou-Fou, Along with his Legation, And there our vessel was brought to A posture of fixation. The Chinamen a box packed in Our diplomatic corpus, Conducted by a Mandarin, A-blowin' like a porpus. This box was made without a lid, But hadn't got no winder, That breathin' it might not forbid, But observation hinder. With necessaries it was stored, Though sight it held a check on, Had food and liquor both aboard, And baOty, toe, I reckon. Upon a raft 't was sot to go, Considerable pretty, All up the Ki-Tcheou-Yun-ho, To Chany's lust-chop city, And right slick through the Great Canal, Our minister to render Unto the Chinese capital, In dignity and splendour. At Pekin Gate upon a truck, Drawn by a team of oxen, Our citizens were proudly stuck, Still shut their grand state box in. Thus into Pekin town did drive, (Such honour seldom waits men I) Our nation's representative, And all our other statesmen. The truck was wheeled into the Court- Yard of a certain mansion, Whose walls cut all excursion short By space of narrer 'spansion. Our envoys there was kep select, To whittle at their leisure, Some time a hearin' to expect, And wait the Emperor's pleasure. Their mission ended, from their cage Politely liberated, They were, in that same equipage They came in, re-located, And brought, with care particular, To where they first intruded, Like blacks inside a nigger-car, As snug, and more secluded. I reckon that's the way to treat Our great and glorious nation, And oil'er humble pie to cat To them as flogs creation ! But we must swaller down our pride, When dollars we are seekin', And be content, old hose, to ride In a boss-box up to Pekin. COLONIAL BISHOPS.—The Bishop of St. Helena, Dr. Piers Claughton, will leave England in a few days for his diocese. The Bishop of Capetown, Dr. Gray, who has been mainly instrumental in procuring the erection of St. Helena into a separate see, is also about to return to the Cape colony. The new see becomes a suffragan to Cape town, and thus makes that province to consist of four bishoprics—viz., Capetown, Grahamstown, Natal, and St. Helena. It has been admitted by the Colonial Secretary, after consultation with the law officers of the Crown and the Archbishop of Canterbury, that there is nothing to pre vent the bishops of the church in South Africa from con secrating in their cathedral churches bishops to head mis sions in countries beyond the dominions of her Majesty. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—It is With pleasure we notice the daily increase of cures without medicine of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility, by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica. We quote the following :—Cure No. 52,087, Field Marshal Duke of Pluskow, of a gastric inflammation of the stomach. Curo No. 51,614, Baron de Polentz, P re f ec t o f L angenau , o f many years horrible sufferings of the nerves and an obsti nate constipation. Cure No. 48,721, General Baron de Zuluskowski, of many years' fearful disorders of the diges tive function. 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A letter from Milan, dated Oct. 23, says : " Milan is the most unruly of towns and the Milanese the most ungovernable of peoples." This was the " refrain" which was repeated for years by the Austrians. It served as an excuse for the tight grasp in which Austria held the fair city. Nothing but the strong hand of military rule could keep in order this turbulent population, and the reins once loosened anarchy must needs follow. So long and so often has all this been dinned into the ears of Europe, that half of it at least believed the Milanese, the most incorrigible race of 'evolutionists. Nor did the appearance of the town under Austrian rule belie this belief ; on the contrary, it served to strengthen it. That sulky silence, that concentra tion of hatred which was stamped visibly on the physiognomy of the town, that captiousness with which every Govenment measure was received as a new grievance and insult, were quite calculated to give some appearance of truth to the Austrian view of the Milanese character, It would have tired the patience of a saint that tough, premeditated illwill which saw in every concession a sign of weakness and in every new rigour a fresh ground for com plaint. Well, all this has been changed, as if by magic. Let any one who knew Milan under the Austrians and who might have still some misgivings in this respect, come here now, look about him, and inquire, lam 's'ure he will 'go away with the im pression that Milan is tho most quiet and orderly of towns, and the Milanese the most easily go verned people on the face of the earth. Its humour is like the deep blue ever -autumnal sky above it, brightening and gilding everything,. the marble lace of the Duomo, the bold outlines of the Alps, and the vapours arising from the plain. As everything was bad that the Austrian Go vernment did, so everything that the Sardinian Government does is satisfactory. As the Austrian soldiers were detested and shunned, so the Sardi nian and French troops are courted and petted. Scarcely a single administrative disposition has been altered, the old taxes not only not changed but increased by the extraordinary war-tax, almost the whole administration is carried on by the very men who were so objectionable in the timess of the Austrians ; the Custom-house officers have kept on the very uniform which the Austrians had given them. In one word, Lombardy is living well nigh under the same laws as of old, and is content. In deed, the outward change is so small that one would almost be inclined to attribute the thorough change in the disposition of the people to a simple ehange of colours. Never has there been, perhaps, so much painting going on in a town as in Milan since the retreat of the Austrians ; the black and yellow has disappeared and the red, white, and green taken its place everywhere. The white coats have gone, and blue and gray ones are in their place. The blue trousers are seen no more and their place is taken by red and gray ones. The helmet of the Austrian Gendarme has given way to the cocked hat of the French and Sardinian Gen darm•s, and a band in blue kepis is playing where one in black shakos was wont to soand its martial strains, and, en parenthess, much better. But this change of colours represents the down fall of foreign domination and the beginning of a National Government, so long desired, and this is the spell which has converted the silent city into one full of life and movement, which has changed a suspicious population into a confiding one, and the turbulent Milanese into bons enfants. In spite of the delays which take place in the military organisation of Lombardy,—in spite of the inconveniences caused by the maintenance of the provisional state of affairs,--confidenee is scarcely shaken, and very little energy would be sufficient to restore it altogether. This is so much the more wonderful, as there is a general feeling in the population, a kind of instinct rather than a conviction founded on reasoning, that before next spring Italy will have to fight Austria, and that probably, without an ally. It is above all in the higher class that confidence is least shaken, which is naturally explained, by the more conservative tendency which this class exercises everywhere. In the present instance this conservative feeling is very likely heightened by the recollection of 1848-9, and the fear of seeing the revolutionary element get the upper hand. Every one will sympathise with this feeling up to a certain point, but the question is whether there is not more danger in too great caution than in too great boldness. The national feeling has awakened, and there is no mistake that it will as sert itself, but unless those in whose hand the lead now is prove themselves fit for the work it will seek leaders elsewhere. As for the peasantry, it is as most peasantries, if not all, it must not be ex pected to take an active part, unless it sees some material advantage in store for it. But, on the other hand, it may be led away without difficulty, especially if there is so strong a proportion of the active e!ements as there exist in Lombardy, with her many towns. The population in these is to a man with the movement, and ready for every sacri fice; but, just because it has the national cause so much at heart, it is most anxious to see it progress and least likely to be satisfied with a lethargic Go vernment. As in - Piedmont, in the Lombard towns the inactivity of the Government has produced the desire for the convocation of the Chambers, which, with true instinct, are expected to inspire the Go vernment with the necessary energy, or, if neces sary, change it into one more capable of coming up to the hopes of the people. Had there been any authority shown, the thought of convoking the Chambers would probably not have occurred. Popular assemblies are too new in this part of the world to understand fully the strength which a Government derives from their existence and sup port. But ender the circumstances the wish for them becomes more and more general, and this wish is the best sign that all is not as it should be in the present Government of Piedmont. TILE PAPAL STATES. A letter from Rome, dated Oct. 1, says :—Letters from the Marches inform us that on the Neapolitan confines, in the direction of Asdoli and Rid, troops are being concentrated, and it is believed that orders have been given to the soldiers in Romagna to advance on Pesaro and the Marches. The opinion here is that the Neapolitans have orders to protect the Pope in union with the Papal troops, who have directions on the slightest movement to leave Pesaro, Urbino, and other places, retiring upon Ancona. We have been expecting here the German volun teers whom Austria has not brought into discipline and sent to their homes. This new enrolment is said, however, to have been opposed by France. A telegram has been received here to the effect that the Romagnoli were advancing, ani great apprehension was the consequence. The Secretary of State applied immediately to the Duke de Gram mont for counsel and instruction, according to re port. The Duke was at Frascati, a d on another person being applied to the curt ans er was, "So much the better, as thus matters ould terminate more quickly." " On the Duke's being applied to again," says the report, " his Excellency replied that he had nothing to do with the in ernal government of the State, and that the Sover ign Pontiff m us t d o t what his wisdom dictated." T e alarm, was, Smahrumpt _ how ever, false, and so the affair ter m i na t e d qu i etly. Pre cise dismissal of intelligencethe F i rst enables ec ta mere to expla in ry,ofthe sp th e n b sE bassy, Senor l'Arnaud. In order to expedite the investment and the sale of the ecclesiastical pro perty in Spain, Arnaud, who for many years has cenducted the affairs of the Spanish Legation . in Rome, received orders to obtain from the Papal Government an Apostolic Brig, sanctioning the TUSCANY. A letter from Florence, dated Oct. 1, says,—The Italian cause has made what may seem, even to the soberest-minded people, a considerable step. The Tuscan Government, by a proclamation dated Sept. 29, announces that " King Victor Emmanuel ac cepted (accolse, received) the free deed of allegiance of the Tuscan. Modenese, Parmesan, and Romagneso people, and declared that the first act of his sove reignty would be to make good those rights he held from the people." A meeting to.ik place the other day on the sum mit of the Apennines which part Bologna from Flo• rence, at an inn between Scaricalasino and Lojano, between the three dictators, Farini, Cipriani, and Ricasoli, in which the measures now before us were proposed, discussed, and unanimously agreed upon. You know that Farini has for the last three or four weeks placed Parma and Modena in the very posi tion in which Tuscany is now, since the publication of yesterday's decrees. He has breathed his own brave spirit into the hearts of his two confederates, and henceforth the four united provinces are com m- tted to the same policy, and bound to follow one common destiny. Whatever may be the real ultimate fate of these Central Italian provinces, there is no doubt but a commercial and monetary league will be established between them. In the worst events Italy will be united in a confederacy, as we see the German Zoll verein making one country of the whole Bund with out interfering with the individual sovereign rights of its 36 Princes, or influencing the good er bad policy of their internal Gouernments. Here, how ever, it is almost high treason to express any misgiving as to the actual fusion or union of the " Great and strong Italian kingdom." Any step, however short and timid, taken by the Governments towards annexation gives rise to the most buoyant hope and the wildest exultation. It was market-day yesterday (Friday) at Florence, the union flag of Italy was hoisted on the tower of the Palazzo 'Vecchio, the square was full of country people, and the mass of the peasants were as frantic with joy as the warmest patriots could wish to see them—frantic with joy at the idea that their exist ence as Tuscans was at an end, and that their branch had merged into the common stock of the great Italian family—that Tuscany had given up her autononaia, or separate existence, only to become Part of a State, or nation, to which a sufficient strength would insure the blessings of a really in dependent, free, and eternally united self-govern ment. ,The moral effect of these measures, in short, is infinitely greater than their real worth as political acts. It is a case of " better late than never," and the Tuscans are grateful for what they have re ceived. They give their rulers credit for that very indecision which characterised their policy hitherto, and which they look upon as caution and discretion. Men who have so long wavered and temporised, they think, would not now be so resolute and free did they not know how far they may venture with safety. They fancy their new boldness, which no new incidents or opportunity seems indeed to justify, must arise from some hint this Government has received from Turin or Biarritz. The article in the 111oniteur•, for the tenth time disclaiming all views of dynastic aggrandisement in Italy on the part of France, is supposed to have been fol lowed by some secret instructions to the Cabinets of Turin, Modena, Bologna, and Florence to be " up and doing." There are men here whose faith in the Emperor Napoleon would move mountains. They do not care to settle to their own satisfaction the question that if the Emperor is true to them, then must he break his most sacred promises to Rome and Austria; and that if he sets no store by his words to Austria and Rome, any reliance on his engagements to themselves is no better prop than a broken reed. That he has been tricking, and must ultimately swindle somebody, they are willing enough to acknowledge, only they have a sanguine assurance that they, at any rate, will not be the duped party ; nay, that the Emperor will maintain so much less than he promised to their adversaries in order to fulfil so much more than he promised to them, or, indeed, to fulfil what he never pro mised to them—to fulfil the very contrary of what he promised to them, as, in sober truth, he has always expressed himself to the effect that the an nexation scheme was " an impossibility." Private letters from Turin inform me that a long despatch in cipher from the Emperor to the King reached Turin on the 24th, and was answered by the King from Monza. It is possible that the new energies displayed both by the King's Ministers and by the provisional rulers of Central Italy may be the result of some encouraging words from Biarritz ; for, if we are to believe the lifoniteur, and if Napoleon 111. truly renounces the scheme of an Etrurian kingdom for Prince Jerome (whether or not such a scheme ever entered into his views), there certainly ought to be no reason why he should not rather wish to see these provinces united to Piedmont than brought back to Austrian allegiance by the restoration of the exiled Princes. General Fanti published his first order of the day on the 24th ult.,and Garibaldi, under whose standard flock the youth of Romagna in large masses, has opened a subscription for the purchase of small arms, the list bearing the name of the hero himself at its head. Central Italy will soon suffer from no lack of volunteer soldiers. Fanti has decreed that 20,000 men shall be the contingent of Romagna, and it is to be hoped that public munificence will aid the Government to bear the expence of their main tenance. The Tuscan armament alone, lam told, costs this country 15,000 dollars per day, something like £lOO,OOO sterling monthly, although the s - N hole Tuscan force, I believe, does not exceed 20,000 men. On the other hand, we hear that the Duke of Mo• dena's force amounts now to 17,000 men, and that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had scraped together 5,000 or 6,000 combatants. The actual numbers of the Papal army no man can ascertain, as the gar risons of Pesaro and Perugia are a kind of Dan aides' sieve, where as many men are lost by deser- tion as are daily brought in by very lavish recruit ment. There is no doubt, however, that Austria is straining every nerve to supply the Pope and the Dukes with as many men as she can spare, and it is likely enough that she will not be very strict * I WIR":6-, • 4 10 _ '',:•"',, . 0 4 in her demand of immediate p y t.t. Lia...,, ,,- ~ .. - Ik.rsii" . : ~., i equipment and other warlike ma •"..._,_4-:* of those dethroned princes is hero 11 E*4-: .... , z%s., she be debarred from any possibility citaxeatilin g S them by direct intervention, she will certainly give them all the help she can afford underhand. The whole question resolves itself into the consent she may or may not obtain from France to these data destine mancelivres; though, so far as the Papal Stat. . ,erne.6, A. ,iii inclined to think that France herself must have winked at the enlistment of the Swiss runaways from Naples both at Rome itself and at Marseilles. It behoves the Italians, at any rate, to be ready for any attack from their late Sovereigns, whether they come at the head of a native or a foreign soldiery. A defeat they might suffer from the Papalini or Duchisti, no matter whether Italians, or disguised Swiss, or Croatians, might lose them the sympathy of Europe past all recovery, A letter from Mazzini, addressed to Victor Em manuel, privately printed, but freely circulated at Florence, is now before me. It bears date the 16th of September, and seems to confirm the rumour that Mazzini was here at some time or other. In this letter Mazzini emboldens the King of Sardinia to seize on the whole of Italy and make it one king dom from the Alps to the sea ; bidding defiance to France, Austria, and as many European Powers as might date to say aught against it. He promises the King the support of " us " all—that is, of the whole of his own Republican party, though for himself he expresses his readiness to go back into the land of exile, being too far committed to his party and too strongly wedded to his democratic convictions to live under the sceptre of even the most liberal and national King. Such is, however, not the language Mazzini held in 1831 to Victor Emmanuel's father, for in his letter " to Charles_ Albert of Savoy," Mazzini showed no repugnance to flght under a King's standard provided only the King should wage war against Austria. lIANIFESTO OF THE PAPAL UOVERXMEXT The following is the text of the Allocution of the Pope, delivered at the Consistory of the 26th ult. : Venerable Brethren—ln the address which we de- livered to you in June last, with our heart overcome by grief, we deplored all that had been done by th© enemies of the Holy See at Bologna, Ravenna, and elsewhere, against the civil sovereignty whim legi timately belongs to us and to this Holy See. We moreover declared at the same time that they had all incurred the ecclesiastical censures and penalties enacted by the sacred canons, and we de creed that all their acts were null and void. We indulged in the hope, however, that those rebellious sons, moved and affected by our words, would have returned to their duty; they all know the kindness which we have always displayed since the commencement of our Pontificate, and with what love and zeal, in the midst of the serious • difficulties of the present times, we have always - directed all our care and all our thoights to secure the prosperity, and the tranquillity of our people, both as regards their temporal and spiritual inte rests. Supported by counsels, by instigations, and k by assistance from abroad, and feeling their auda city strengthened by that circumstance, they have not hesitated at any attempt ; and, carrying dis turbance into all the iEmilian (1) provinces sub ject to our Pontifical power, they have withdrawn them from our sovereignty, and from that of this Holy See. The standard of defection and rebellion having been raised in those provinces, and the Pontifical Government being therein overthrown, there were at first established dictators of the sub-Alpine kingdom, who afterwards took the . name of com missioners extraordinary, and then that of governors-general. Audaciously arrogating to themselves the r i g ht s o f our supreme power , t h ey dismissed from public functions those persons whose well-known fidelity towards their legitimate prince made them regarded as incapable of joining in per verse designs. These men have not even feared to usurp the ecclesiastical power by subjecting the hospitals, the orphan establishments, and other in stitutions of that kind, to new laws. They have gone so far as to ill-treat the members of the clergy by sending them into exile or throwing them into prison. In their declared hatred against the Apos tolic See they called together on the Gth of this month, at Bologna, an assemblage which they styled the National Assembly of the people of 'Emilia, and there promulgated a decree full of lying pretexts and accusations, by which, falsely alleging the unanimity of the people, they declared in contempt of the rights of the Roman Church, that they would no longer be subjected to the Pontifical Government. On the following day they made a fresh declara tion, as is now the custom, that those provinces wished to be annexed to the domain and kingdom of the King of Sardinia. In the midst of those deplorable attacks, the chiefs of tho party incessantly labour by all the means at their disposal to corrupt the habits of the people, particularly by di s t r ib ut i ng b oo k s an d Journals, printed either a t B o l ogna or e l sew h ere, and in which they encourage every kind of licen tiousness ; insult the person of the Vicar of Jesus Christ ; mock the practice of religion and of Christian piety ; and turn into ridicule the prayers commonly offered up to the moss Holy and Imma culate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, either to do her honour or implore her powerful protection. Even in theatrical representations there is no re spect for public honesty, modesty, or virtue; and the persons devoted to God are held up to derision and to contempt. This is what is done by men who call themselves Catholics and who declare that they are full of re spect and veneration for the supreme spiritual power and authority of the Roman Pontiff. Every body sees how deceitful such a declaration must be, for the authors of these acts conspire with all those persons who wage relentless war on the Roman Pontiff and on the Catholic Church, and who spare no effort to root out and extirpate from all hearts, if that were possible, our divine religion and its salutary teaching. This is why you particularly, Venerable Brethren, who participate in our labours, and share our pain, easily understand in what affliction we are plunged, and what sorrow and indignation we feel in com mon with you and all well-intentioned persons. In the midst of such great bitterness of heart, what consoles us is that the great majority of the populations of the provinces of 'Emilia detect these culpable enterprises, and stand aloof from them with horror, preserving their fidelity to the legiti mate prince, and manifesting firm attachment to our civil authority and to that of the Holy See ; also, that the clergy of the same provinces, worthy of the highest eulogium, have nothing so much at heart amidst these troubles and agitations as scru pulously to discharge their duties, and to show in a striking manner their firm faith and the respect with which they are animated towards us and the Apostolic See, by braving and despising all perils. And now, since we are bound by the gravest of our duties and by a solemn oath to support un flinchingly the cause of our most holy religion, to protect firmly against violation the rights and pos sessions of the Roman Church, to defend our civil authority and that of this Apostolic See, and to transmit it intact to our successors as the patri mony of St. Peter, we cannot refrain from raising our apostolic voice, in order that all the Catholic universe, and particularly all our venerable brethren, the bishops—from whom we have received, in the midst of the bitterest sorrows, to the great joy of our heart, so many remarkable and illustrious tes timonies of faith and love, and of attachment to us, Peter —may y n Se k e, no a w nd w t it h h e patrimony what energy o f thewe v e blesseddisap prove everything ourpt Pontifical h l p i s c ro l o i :eir t n h e ci e se men have d are d ! o accomplishotf to our the provinces of 'Emilia, sub jectedT hat is why we entirely reprove, and declare null and of no effect, all th e ac t s o f w hi c h we h ave spoken in this august assembly, and all the acts encroaching on the power, ecclesiastical immuni ties, our civil sovereignty, and that of this Holy See, principality, power, and jurisdiction—what ever may be the name given to these acts. No one is ignorant that all those persons who, in the provinces above named, have given their support, counsels, or assent to the acts which we blame, or have in any way promoted the accom plishment of them, have incurred the ecclesiastical penalties and censures which we alluded to in our allocution mentioned above. And now, venerable brethren, let us throw our selves with confidence at the foot of the throne of grace, in order to obtain from Divine assistance the consolation and the strength necessary in the midst of such great adversities. Let us not cease to address to God, who is rich in mercy, fervent and humble prayers, in order that by his all-powerful virtue he may bring back the guilty, some of whom, perhaps, know not what they do, to better thoughts, and to the paths of justice, religion, and salvation. (1) The provinces of Romagna, now under the Papal rule, were called /Emilia under the latter rule of tho Romans. c MR. ROBERT STEPRENSONWe greatly regret . to learn that the report of Mr. Robert Stepbenson's con valescence is incorrect. He still continues m a very pre carious state, and although somewhat easier last evening, the symptoms aro of a character to cause great anxiety to his friends.—Times.