The Sun. — London, England, 1859-11-23 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATC H E S. " Perfection of mechanism." --Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 31, Ludgate-hill, London, E.G. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GA EDEN. Under the management of Miss L. Tyne and Mr.W. Harrison THIS EVENING, I) INOH A II Messrs. Santley, 11. Corri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling*, T kVA wall, and Miss Louisa Pyne. 110 If AL Conductor, Allred Mellon. Ballet, LA FIANCEE. Messrs. W. H. Payne, U. Payne, F. Payne, Mdlle. Lequine, Pasquale, Pierron, Clara Morgan, and M ons. Vandris. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8 o'clock. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lekiee. Mr.. 7. Ruckstone. There will be NO PERFORMANCE th is Eveninsz, in con sequence of the Company being required at Windsor Castle, by command of her Majesty. Commence at 7. THEATRE.- ROYAL PRINCESS'S Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. TUFA EVENING. the pertormances will commence with A WONDERFUL WOMAN. Mr. A. Harri 3, Shore, Frank Matthews, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which, a new farce, in one act, entitled NITR.SF.Y CHICKWEED. Messrs. Widdicomb, Meadows, 11. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs. Weston. To be followed by THE MASTER PASSION. Messrs. Ryder, G. Melville, Graham, R. Cathcart, Garden ; Miss C. Lee ercq and Mrs. Charles Young. IVEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. .L Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Webster. J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Billington, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moteland ; Miss Woolp,:ar, and Miss K. Kelly. Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called DINO RAH 'UNDER DIFF IC I ULT LES. Messrs..l. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at h►lf-Past six—Commence at seven. Box- Moe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor tor bills of performane,e. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM.—SoIe Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.—The Public is re speztfully informed this Theatre will OPEN for the Winter Season on MONDAY, Nov. 28, with a new and original Drama Fantastique, written by a popular author, entitled PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness. Full particulars will be duly announced. ROYAL .ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, factWminster, the Park being open to carriages and o passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, a new Comedy, LONDON PRIDE ; or, Living for Appearances. Messrs. R. Robins, Barrett, Charles Young ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, and Nelly Moore. • After which (7th time) a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with A DEAD SHOT. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-off:3e open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform ante commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke. Continued successful career of the new Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called GARIBALDI ; illustrating the principal events in the Life of the Great Italian General. Supported by a Powerful Company, including the fallowing popular favourites:—Mr. R. Phillips, Ennis Belmore, Raymond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. - Great Dramatic Tableux—Full Stud of Trained Horses—Scenes in the Circle by the Star Equestrians of Europe, John Henry Cooke, Marille. Marguerite„ Miss Rosins., and the world's wonder, Little Menotti, also, the Extraordinary Performing Elephant—Clowns, I. Croueste, Rowella, French Pierrots , Gymnasts and Acrob l ts innumer able, concluding with the exceedingly laughable Comio Ballet called LOVE'S VAGARIES. • Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERB UR V HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EV ENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con certs). And a Grand Seection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAII. Comic Vocalists -Messrs. Georre Unison (the Trish Come dian and Mimic), W. F. Critchfleld, and E. W. Mackney. Several interestinr,r, Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. ROSA RON HEIM'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury llall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is ope.i from 9 a in. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six- THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER. 23, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 45 —lowest this morning and during the night. 51—thisi day at noon. BAUOMETER-30.07. Win), Yorth.-Easterly; light, with foggy weather. Heavy fog again this morning and during the night. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilts DAY.—Morning, 12h. 25m.—Afternoon, 12b. 49m To-mouttow.-Morning, .Ih. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 35m, ee i ~..,• v, ~....._ _ ..,..., ..,,......, ~.._., ~, , ~, ~,,,, f 22 ~.,,, _, ~.,,...,... „,.•„ ..., ~.., 15 r• • It , ` 4111 N. o 1 r L-43,04X , , . ,--. .,4.t.,4"!..: . st7,„Zt!, •-': .= •, t . _ ~,, 2 , ,,, , ,, , , , :, • A 4.„.„,,,, THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1859. There are too ingenious modes of nominally ad vanfAn g o. political cause in this country,th at are about equally futile and equally constitutional. There is the method of petitioning Parliament—by which so very large a quantity of paper is annually added to the national waste-paper- 1 3asket. There is the method of reasoning with a Minister of State per sonally and officially by means of a deputation. Bat one appreciable advantage results, so far as we have ever been able to perceive, from either of these singular habitudes. The deputation and the peti tion each serves its turn so far well that it helps to ventilate the subject-matter subscribed to by the one and spoken to by the other. The petition and the deputation are alike gentle reminders. They are among the customary Remembrancers, the former of the Legislature, th• latter of the Admi nistration. They serve the purpose of hammers to hit the right nail on the head more or less vigor ously. And the deputation has the twofold advan tage over the petition that whereas the petition may be altogether Lurked somewhat after this fashion— the hon. member who has undertaken to present it, mumbling some confused explanatory words quite inarticulately from one of the back benches, shuf fling down the gangway and up to the table, laying the scribbled scroll before the clerks, and leaving it there without any more ado, to be tossed at their leisure under the table by way of adding to the littered sweepings of the Commons ! While this is literally the general history of the ignoble fate of a petition —a deputation is among the number of our poli tical institutions not restricted to the period during which Parliament is actually sitting. And it is above all worthy of notice as the means by which at any season any subject whatever may be brought directly under the individual notice of any one of our chief administrators. So fir, indeed, but, we fear, not much further, it possesses a number of obvious and conspicuous advantages. Never theless, in spite of these, the_ usual end of a deputation to a Minister is hardly less ridicu. loui in its way than the end of a petition to the Legislature. Generally the upshot of all is that the noble lord or the right hon. gentleman, as the case may be, having responded to th, ,, spokesman of the group in attendance, this response being in variably couched in words as enigmatical as a Delphic utterance, is thanked for the courtesy with which the arguments of the deputation have been listened to. And so the said deputation takes its de parture from the Minister's presence about as wise, all things considered, as at the moment of its arrival, an 1 with the cause it affects to have at heart so fervently—proportionately advanced. exception to the Yesterday afforded a happy seal rua of these deputations. This was a deputation received at his town house by the First Lord of the Treasury in reference to the present state of the laws relating to bank ruptcy and insolvency—a deputation, com prising within it no less than fifteen conspicuous members of Vie House of Commons, accompanied by delegates or representatives from (among other places) Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Bristol, Hull, Birminharn, Coventry, Worcester, Bradford, Edinburgh, the West Itiding, Huddersfield, and Southatnytm-. Lord PALMERSTON could not possibly, of course, resist the temptation to crack a joke upon the fog at the commencement of the proceedings. The noble lord's inquiry, "Well, gentlemen, have you any more light to throw upon the subject ? " being responded to by Sir JOHN RAMSDEN in a speech fully and clearly - explana tory of the wishes of the deputation. Several others having afterwards expressed their views, more or less distinctly, and at more or less length, Lord PALMERSTON followed the last of them with a Ministerial elocutionary flourish, full of sound, if not of fury, and like the vast majority of those same Ministerial flourishes signifying nothing. Recollecting that the question under consideration, the necessity, namely, for a reform in the laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, involved some allusion direct or indirect to the two legislative attempts made to that end d ur ing the last session of Parliament—the one by Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposing the repeal of all existing statutes, and the substitution for them of a new act consolidating the whole of the laws in one comprehensive enactment—the other by Lord CHELMSFORD simply suggestive of the addition to the thirty statutes or thereabouts already in exist ence upon the twin subjects of bankruptcy and insolvency—it is no wonder the Premier, during the course of his remarks, referred somewhat pointedly to the bygone participation of his noble colleague in the efforts made in behalf of this particular legal improvement. From the reference made to Lord JOHN by his chief, a lively notion may certainly be formed of the hazard there is of the far larger question of Parliamentary Reform " falling through," by reason of that noble lord's pre-occupation in regard to foreign affairs generally. Viscount PALMERSTON observed, "He coald not undertake to promise that Lord JOHN RUSSELL would in the next session undertake the matter, for those who read the daily nevispapers, and saw what was passing in every quarter of the globe, knew that lis lordship had enough-upon his hands connected with his department without em barrassing himself with other questions !" How ever sinister an augury this sentence may reveal in regard to the far grander necessity of a • compre hensive measure of Parliamentary Reform—it is satisfactory to know that the minor, but still vitally important need there is for a bold and sweeping reform in the laws relating to bank ruptcy and insolvency, Government has wisely entrusted to the very ablest man that could by possibility have been selected to that end within the range of the three kingdoms. Whenever Lord BROUGHAM shall unhappily be constrained, by the still further advance of years, to retire from one among the many high posts of honour he has so long and resplendently occupied— when the noble and learned lord shall have been compelled to withdraw from his prominent position as the First and Foremost of all living Law Reformers —it will be upon the shoulders of Sir RICHARD BETIIELL that Lord BROUGHAM'S mantle will have descended. Whatever Mr. HASTINGS may, by a ludicrous lapsus Unglue, provocative of " great laughter," observe to- the effect that the commercial commu nity do not regard Sir RICHARD BETITELL as a lawyer, Sir RICHARD being about the ablest and the ripest lawyer in the land—as about the first lawyer in the land, we may rest perfectly well assured that Sir RICHARD BETHELL is looked to confidently, not merely by the commercial, but by all ranks and classes of the general community. His as surance, therefore, as the First Law adviser of the Crown—in reference to the projected measure of re form in respect to the cumbrous relating tobaulL ruptcy and insolvency—will carry a peculiar weight with them in every syllable, and can hardly fail to be regarded wherever these same assurances are read as fraught with impressive and substantial encourage ment. Speaking frankly yesterday to the depu tation, Sir RICHARD observed among other things, " I agree with you that this subject is not to be re garderl as purely and exclusively one of a legal cha racter, but that it is one in which the commercial interests are chiefly involved, and that it should be so disposed of that the law of bankruptcy and insolvency may be brought into harmony with the convictions and feelings of the com mercial community, and the whole system of its administration based upon their interests and made consistent with the principles of justice." And later on he said, " Since I entered Parliament it has ever been my aim, so far as my humble efforts could go, to reduce the whole body of our laws into a state of simplicity, order, and consistency; but in our bankruptcy . laws, as they now stand, there is neither simplicity nor order." And - further, he remarked, "In my opinion the foolish and illogical distinction between traders and non-traders ought to be abolished ; and, addressing myself to the task before me, I have come to that determination." Having referred to several others among the chief principles to be embodied in the new enactment the Attorney-General added, in refer ence to that enactment. "That measure," said he, "so far as it has grown to completeness under my hands, has been based on the views I have mentioned to you, and embodies the advice which we have re ceived from several quarters. When ready for legislation it will be submitted to the Cabinet and be fully considered, and; so far as the expression of my own opinion will be a sufficient assurance, you may rely that its consideration_will be approached, not with a view of protecting or consulting legal interests, but to make the measure satisfactory to the great trading interests of this country." Remem , bering which explicit assurance from the lips of no one less authoritative upon the subject than Sir RICHARD BETTIELL, her Majesty's Attorney-Gene ral—the commercial part of the community must already seem to be at length fairly closing its grasp upon this long looked-for and most desirable legal improvement. The Volunteer Rifle Movement has spread throughout the country with a rapidity almost unparalleled, and has excited the enthusiasm of all classes from the highest to the lowest. The mere whisper of an attempted invasion has evoked the old national spirit which has never been found wanting when the honour and interests of the country were really at stake. The enthusiasm manifested among us has already produced its effect on the other side of the Channel. The instructions given to the French Prefects to re strain the abusive attacks so constantly made on this country, in the columns of the French journals, show that the Imperial ruler of our warlike neigh bours is desirous of allaying the storm he has raised. But although there be extra demands upon our resources, we must not allow our efforts to slacken when the hour of excitement and threatened danger may seem to have passed by. However ready may be the friendly assurances of the RAIPEROit and his Ministers, the restless, ex citable army, whose rancorous feeling towards us is admitted on all sides, and the daily increasing fleet are standing menaces. Our statesmen must not suffer themselves to be deluded by fair speeches, or even by the promised assistance in China. We have little security that the alliance of French and English forces in China would be allowed to interfere with the EMPEROR'S movements if other circumstances rei.- SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY EVENING; NOVEMQpit: 23 , moo dered an invasion of this country necessary to his purposes. It is, therefore, with much satisfaction that we see the ready and liberal spirit in which many high-minded and patriotic individuals have contributed to the necessary funds, and the an nouncement of many heads of large establishments that they will provide such of their employes as desiie to join the Volunteer Rifle movement with the necessary equipment. At a dinner given on Monday at Abingdon, Capt. VEEN ON, M.P., made an excellent speech on this subject. He said the Rifle move ment was a great fact, and would have a great moral effect abroad, and added, with truth, that in the event of a war with France we had no cause for apprehension. The present NAPOLEON was not so great as his uncle, the hero of a hundred fights, and allowing that the French soldiers of the pre sent day are equal to the victors of Marengo and Austerlitz, we need not hesitate to meet them. We were better men then, and we are better men now. We quote the following passage from Captain VER NON'S spirited speech, as the true expression of Eng lish feeling at the present moment : " I believe that three thousand in this quarrel—'for thrice is he armed who bath his quarrel just'—would equal double the number of foreigners. I believe that our fleet and our sailors , would never suffer a French soldier's foot to touch the soil of. England. I believe that if we permitted the French army to land—such is the military spirit per vading England—it would be no war, it would be a crusade. The country would rise as one man, and not a Frenchman would live to see his native land again. I have no fear of France; still we do well to be on our guard. It does not befit a great people to be taken unawares. That country is most certain of peace which is best prepared for war. Well, we are prepared. I have it from the highest mili tary and scientific authority in the land that our coast defences are hourly becoming . more formidable. Our navy is the finest in the world—our artillery matchless. Ido not believe Louis Napoleon has any direct intention of his own mere motive against England, but the more I study his political career, the more do I see that, like an adven turer he is the sport of fortune, driven hither and thither by the circumstances of the moment. Already he has lost half his power in his country by the defection of the priest hood ; he now depends entirely on the army. War is ne cessary to them► Turbulent, excitable, and vain-glorious, they . may compel Napoleon to take steps against his better judgment. They say they have a Waterloo to revenge. We have no defeats to revenge ; from Cressy to Waterloo we can contemplate our encounters with the French with great complacency. It needs not the gift of prophecy to reason on past events, and I venture to predict that if the present genration attempts by invasion of England to re venge Waterloo, they will bequeath to their posterity the task of revenging a defeat more complete, more disastrous, and more decisive." We feel . convineed that these sentiments will find an echo in every patriotic heart, and if England, through the turbulence of foreign ambition, is drawn into the contest, it will only be to add new histre to her ancient triumphs. When we read the speech of Mr. BERKELEY, at Bristol, we thought the unwearied opponent of the Ballot would not fail to pervert it. And surely enough, having commented on the hon. mem ber's after-dinner facetiousness one day, it recol lected,. the next, that it had overlooked the oppor tunity of having a fling at the Ballot in the person of the Parliamentary leader on that question. A column and a half on the Saturday atoned for the oversight of the Friday, and Mr. BERKELEY was paraded as shelving the Ballot. We did not believe he meant to be guilty of such inconsistency when we read his remarks, but we saw they were liable to such a perversion ; we, therefore, ought to be thankful to our contemporary for affording Mr. BERKELEY the opportunity of putting himself straight with the Reform party—for the Reform party is really the Ballot party—as the hon. gentle man did in his letter, which we inserted yesterday. We have now Mr. BERKELEY'S written declaration that what he meant was that he would not allow himself to be made a catspaw of to frustrate any sub stantial measure of reform which her IWIAJEST-ea Government might bring forward. He thinks with those Radicals, COBDEN and BRIGHT, that if we can get an extension of the suffrage we ought to take it, although we cannot get the Ballot with it; but just because he believes the Ballot will be more easily obtained through an extended suffrage. The opinion may be correct or not, but it is, we must confess, a widely different thing from shelving the Ballot. It is rather, in the view of those who hold it, constructing a more efficient machinery to carry the Ballot. Small consolation this for those most inconsistent of politicians, anti-ballot Reformers ! Amongst the other conclusions of our contempo rary is this—and it it one on which he lays great stress, and with which he seems not a little enam oured—that the Ballot is "not really" a question of publicity ; it is only a question of the hour ; it only concerns the comfort of the elector who may wish to keep his vote secret for twenty-four hours before the act of polling, and two or three hours after. The question of "the hour !" Be it so. We admit that in mvny cases it is so. Lay the em phasis rightly, and the assertion would express a weighty truth indeed. It is a question of " the hour." The hour of temptation ; the hour of cor ruption ; the hour of seduction ; the hour of com pliance with degrading solicitations ; the hour of bending to almost irresistible intimidation ; the hour in which the act of self-dishonour is perpe trated, hardly to be recalled by any repentance. Mr. DISRAELI lately insisted, at Manchester, with no little eloquence, on tho view that " every man had his opportunity." Is not the converse equally true ? Has not every man his hour of temp tation also ? Not, we mean, of course, his hour of ordinary temptation, of such temptations as, alas, we all yield to, and yet do not feel that we have brought a life-blot on our character. We have our hour of temptation, sooner or later, to accept some great apparent advantage, to escape some great apparent danger, the thought of which would always be painful to ourselves, while the that others knew of our fall:would always be re membered with mortification in their presence. To be sure the Times tells us' that the bribed and bribing class think nothing of it afterwards; CHARLEY chuckles to TOMMY over his five or . ten pound ♦ote. Thanks to the open voting of our contemporary this is too true. But it is just be cause open voting has trained electors and candi dates to moral obtuseness. CHARLEY and TOMMY are Englishmen after all. They did not in the first instance chuckle over the sale of their independence. No ; nor did the poor tenant-at-will, who at times blasters about his loyalty to his landlord, in order to appease his conscience, look up with forced cheer fulness after his forced vote. All this chuckling, and this loyalty, to those whom men dare not resist, is the effect of a lung demoralising training. It is often, it is true, inherited corruption ; the sons follow the fathers; but, i❑ the majority of instances, the fact is that the elector was consciously overcome by vicious allurement or cruel terrors, and sold for ever his political self-respect when it was " the question of the hour." We shall have, perhaps, in reply, a homily on the necessity of inuring men to temptation, of there being no virtue or heroism when there is nothing to resist. But there is an Authority to which we all defer, by which we are taught daily to pray, " Deliver us from temptation." And can we after wards be guilty of the hypocrisy of putting gratuit ous temptation in our neighbour's way ? We main tain that open voting is proved—proved at Glouces ter, at Wakefield, at Norwich—proved in ten thousand cases to be a temptation which demoralises its hundreds and its thousands. We believe that it is one which overpowers the majority of every county constituency—constituencies which would otherwise be among the best we have. We de mud, therefore, that this corrupting tempta- tion shall be removed. We ask it in the name of human weakness, of electoral independence, and of the honour of our Legislators. We might repeat a long list of names which prove that senators sit and vote, and make speeches in our House of Commons, whose presence there is due to practices which ought to make them resign those seats at once. If, however, the secrecy of the Ballot were only one of twenty-four hours—if that was all—even that were an incalculable gain at elections. It was justly thought a great advantage to exchange the fortnight's open public houses at elections for the one day in which elections have been decided since the Reform Bill. Still greater gain would it be if secret voting on the day of the poll rendered it im possible for the corrupters:and corrupted to know how the polling went. The election eve and the polling day are often the worst times of all. G Secrecy on the polling day alone would prevent not a little tumult and vice; but secrecy absolute and com plete, so far as the voter wished to preserve it, would cut the nerves of corruption for the days and weeks preceding the polling day. In every valuable sense the Ballot is the question of the hour, but is especially the question of that hour in which publicity arms the tempter with all his power and weakens the strength of the tempted. In quite another sense—looking at the results of the late elections—looking to the probability of an addition to the class of electors most liable to temp tation, we must affirm that the Ballot is indeed the question of the hour. We confess that we cannot place first the extension of the suffrage. We Say, first emancipate or protect the constituency you have, then extend it as much as you please when you have secured a voter's independence. THE WEST INDIAN MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Ali, Reuter's office : SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Tasmania, from the West Indies, passed Hurst Castle at 11.40 a.m. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Persigny have left St. Lconards-on-Sea on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea, at Eastwell Park, Kent. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived in town on Monday from Kimbolton Castle. Their graces will leave town to-day on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle until Friday, when the duke and duchess return to Kimbolton Castle. The Marquis and 'Marchioness of Abercorn are expected to leave town on Friday on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Vernlam at Crorhambliry. His Yxcelleney Earl Cowley has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Compiegne. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have arrived in. Grosvenor-crescent from Windsor Castle. Viscountess Dowager Ashbrook has left Howchin's Hotel'on a visit to the Duke and • Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace. Viscount and Viscountess Valletort have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Brocket Hall, Herts. Count Jaucourt has left Albert-gate House on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea at Eastwell Park, Kent. The Right Hon. F. Peel, M.P., and Mrs. Peel have left Farrance's Hotel for Hampton-in-Arden, War wickshire. TIIE BANQUET TO MESSRS. COBDEN AND B RIGIIT. —LivEnPooL, Tuesday.—The great demonstration in favour of free trade and financial reform, which is fixed for the Ist December, bids fair to realise the most sanguine expectations of its promoters. Already the whole of the tickets have been allotted. Amongst the acceptances of special invitations, in addition to those of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, are Lord Teyiaham, Mr. J. C. Ewart, M.P., General Thompson, Sir J. V. Shelley, of London ; Mr. Alderman Heywood, of Manchester -, and Mr. Alderman Rylands, of Warrington. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, l‘lr. T. B. Horsfall, Lord Stanley,the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson,-and others have decliined for varius reasons. THE CUNARD LINE FROIII QUEENSTOWN.—The second mail -for Halifax and BoSton, via Queenstown, ar rived at Dublin on Sunday morning in due course, and was despatched from the General Post-office at half-past 10 o'clock. The mail, which consisted of 15 bags, was con ' veyed to the King's-bridge terminus, w h ere a s p ec i a l t ra i n was in readine9s to receive it. The train started at 11 o'clock, and arrived in Cork. at 3.26 p.m., accompliahing the run down in the extraordinary short time of four hours and 26 minutes with the greatest ease. One of the river steamers was in readiness, to convey the mails to Queenstown, to have them placed on b oar d th e E uropa. Arrangements are being made for the New York mails to be foiwarded via Queenstown, as well as the Canadian and Australian mails. The Europa arrived from Liverpool at half-past four o'clock, and remained with steam on till the mails were placed on board at five, when she got ready for sea. Four passengers and their higgage having embarked, the fine ship went on her voyage shortly after. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Pam is is about I d, and the short exchange on London is 25.121 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng lish Mint price of £3 17s. Mid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange of London is 13.31 per 41 sterling. Standard sold at the English Mint price is therefore rather less than 1-10th per cent, dearer in Hamburg than in:London. The course of ex change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 110 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex change is .in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of inte rest, the present rate leaves scarcely any profit op the im vortation of gold from the United States. • LIFEBOAT S ERVICES.--BARMOUTH, Nov. 21.—0 n the morning of the 19th a ship was observed in the bay close on shore. Soon after daybreak she was seen to wear and stand for Sam Badrig. The lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat institution was immediately got out, but before she reached the ship the vessel wa.s on the causeway, thumping heavily. The lifeboat remained alongside the vessel about four hours, when the ship beat over the causeway. As she fortunately made no water, and required no further assistance, the boat left her, with one of the boat's crew on board to assist to take her to Liverpool. She proved to be the Troy, of Boston, from New Orleans to Liverpool. Our correspon dent adds, "I never saw people so glad to see us as the cap tain and crew of the vessel were ; they thought that they were in Carnarvon Bay, near Holyhead ; they mistook Bard sey Light for the Arklow lightship. They never allowed for the inset of the tido." The lifeboat was reported to have behaved very well on the occasion. DI3IENSIONS OF A NEW OCEAN STEAM -SHIP.— The new ocean steam-ship, says a New York journal, which it is proposed to build at Buffalo, to travel 100 miles an hour, is to be of the following dimensions :—Length (three-quarters of a mile) 4,000 feet; width, 731 feet, depth -62 feet. Each end is to be constructed alike, in the form of a wedge. This wedge formis 1,250 feet long, leaving the parallel portion 1,500 feet in length. To steady the vessel fins are attached 590 . feet. long to each of the ends. These fins impart strength, possess • great buoyancy, and are used for the purpose of surface con densation. Each fin has a vacuum equal to a room 20 feet wide; 10 feet deep, and 3,300 feet long. The walls are double. The outer one is 11 inch in thickness, the inner one but 1 inch thick, and each part of those walls is to reach from the bottom to the top of the vessel. The space be tween the outer and inner wall is divided into air-tight sections three feet square, so if tho outside will be broken there can but little water enter. The entire ship is built in air-tight sections, and if broken in two 310 lives will be endangered. There are six wheels on each side placed 300 feet apart. The first, 12 feet from the ends, is comp sed of solid iron, weighs 36 tons, and, taken the weakest way, will suspend a weight of 2,288 tons. [The above looks very like a hoax to take the shine out of the Groat Eastern. What would be the value of a wall half an inch thick, and for such a size?—ED. Sun.] EXTENSIVE FIRE IN THE CITY.—The most exten sive fire that has occurred in the neighbourhood of Bishops gate-street Within for some time past happened yesterday afternoon, in the large factory and dwelling-house belong lng to Mr. A. R. Romey, brushmaker, situate at 27 and 28, in the before-named street. The fire commenced between 12 and 1 in the afternoon, and about 9 o'clock last night it was not entirely extinguished. The fire at first appeared to be confined principally to the front house, and an attempt was made to stop its extension, but unfortunately that could not be accomplished, and in the-space of a few minutes the back factory also became ignited, and numerous en g ine s were soon on the spot, but the flames rose high, and threatened the adjoining premises, and not a drop of water could be obtained for the space of ten minutes. The flames being thus unrestrained, travelled with increased fury. At length, however, the mains of the New River Company yielded a good supply, but the flames bad obtained such an ascendancy as to 'Once the brigade to throw their exertions on the surrounding premises. Whilst the firemen were so .eng,aged the roof of the factory fell, the side walls were noticed to bulge, and in an instant afterwards they fell with a tremendous crash, the brigade narrowly escaping.. The damage done is considerable. The cause of the fire is un known. The content, were insured in the Leeds and York shire Fire-office, tna the Liverpool and London, and the buildings were insured in - the Atlas and Leeds and York shire offices,. • A STONEMASON TRANSFORMED INTO A LEGIS LITOU.—" Authentic !intelligence," says the Perthshire Advertiser, "has just arrived here, stating that a native of this town, Mr. Charles J. Don, stonemason, has defeated official, and attained to the dignity of an Australian M.P. Mr. Dun is well known in Cupar Angus, and when resident was a very useful member of the Mutual Improve ment Society. Mr. Disraeli was telling an English audi ence the other day of the advantage of mechanics' insti tutes • and we have good cause for thinking that the school - ing which Mr. Don got in the meeting room of our society for mutual improvement has helped him to his present posi tion. Wo rejoice at the elevation of our oid working, tramping, sleeping, and debating colleague, Charley'Don,' and earnestly hope he will turn out a wise as well as an energetic legbil a tor," LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Moniteur of this day publishes the following statement : The French Government, believing that the dele gation of the Regency of Central Italy to M. Buoncompagni would prejudice the questions which will be submitted to the approaching Congress, had looked upon the adoption of the above measure with regret. This impression is now' modified by the explana tions given by the Government of Sardinia, which declares that the maintenance of public order was the sole object and only aim of the above delegation to M. Buoncompagni, and-that the concentration in his hands of the Government of Central Italy bad in no manner the character of a virtual Regency. With reference to this question the article con cludes by reminding the public that the Moniteur is the only political organ of the Government. The 2loniteur likewise contains a decree to insure the execution of that clause of the, treaty of Zurich wherein the giving up of the Austrian vessels cap tured during the late war, but not yet adjudged as prizes, is stipulated. Prince Metternich has remitted to Count Walew ski the letters from the Austrian Government, ad dressed to the Foreign Powers, inviting them to take part in the Congress. These invitations will be delivered by the French courier conveying simi lar invitations from the French Government. Count Ponrtales, Prussian Ambassador' at Paris, has arrived here, and has visited their Imperial Majesties at Compiegne. It is stated that his Excellency is instructed to give to the French Go vernment authentic explanations of the late inter view between the Prince Regent of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia. Lord Cowley, it is said, intends to pay a shot visit to London. TURIN, Nov. 22. The following nominations are announced: — The Marquis of Villamarina as Governor of Milan, and M. Desambrois as Ambassador at Paris. BOLOGNA, Nov. 22. The 2d Regiment of the Bolognese Brigade has taken the oath to the King of Sardinia, and received its colours amid the applaUse of the populace. The uniform of the Brigade is the same as that of the Piedmontese army. DRESDEN, Nov. 22. The official Dresden Journal publishes a sum mary of the vote given by the representative of Saxony in the sitting of the federal commission, in which the question or the constitution of Hesse Electoral was brought forward. The same journal announces that the govern ments of Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Hesse Electoral, Hesse Darmstadt, Schwerin, Nassau, Saxe-Meiningen f . and Saxe-Altenburg, will take part in the confeien — ces.at Wurzburg: The Minister Baron Von Beust will pass through Frankfort on his way to Wurzburg. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. An Imperial decree confers the military medal on Vice-Admiral Itifpult de Genouilly and forty seven marines or seamen engaged in the late affair against the Cochin-Chinese. Another decree pro motes four officers of the' navy and marines to the rank of officer in the Legion of Honour, and nominates twenty-seven officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates to that of knight. The mili tary medal has also been conferred on fourteen Spaniards belonging to the expeditionary corps• TILE BOURSE, Nov. 2'4—The market snowed a slight improvement at the opening, but the com plete absence of business prevented any material rise in prices. Threes have been done at 69f. 95c. and 70f. sc. Mobilier varied from 777 f. 50c. to 780 f.; Austrian, 551 f. 25c. to 552 f. 50c.; Lombard, 547 f. 50c.' to 548 f. 75c.. ; Lyons, 886 f. 25c. to 887 f. 50c.; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,367 f. 50c. Northern, 950 f. to 952 f. 50e. The following were the last quotations :- 4f per Cents..... 95 50 tio: end month Credit Foncier 695 Belgian 4} — Piedmontosa (5) Roman B6 50 Austrian Spanish Threes ! Homo Debt 431 3 per Cents 7O '5 Do. enJ month 69 95 Bank Shares 2850 -- aredit Mobilier 775 Do. Account ..... 772 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 950 .. 950 New ditto 832 50 .. 830 50 Lyons and Mediterranean BB6 25 .. 885 -- Geneva 527 50 .. 525 Southern Western 565 .. Eastern Sardinian 4OB 75 .. Austrian Lombard .. .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 251. 71c.; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 921 c. SPAIN. The opposition journals of Madrid of the 18th make new and somewhat violent attacks on the Government for the concessions accorded to Eng land in the Morocco affair. The Queen had caused solemn prayers to be offered up in her private chapel, on three consecutive days, for the success of the Spanish arms in Morocco, and had attended them. Some of the journals having spread reports that after all a peace was likely to be concluded with that Pow,er, the semi-official Correspond:ncia asserts that they are unfounded, and that "no one now believes in the possibility of a pacific arrange ment." The Moors were keeping up an active sur veillance by day and night on their coasts. Mr. Drummond Hay, the English Consul-General, was remaining at Tangier, and WAS having frequent conferences with Katib, the Moorish Minister of Foreign Affairs. JAPAN. The Abet'lle of St. Petersburg publishes the fol lowing letter from the Russian Consul at Hakoda de, in Japan :—" In order to induce the Japanese to enter into friendly communication with us, I got up parties at my own house. My success was com plete, the Japanese readily accepting my invita tions. On Christmas-eve, in particular, I invited a large party, and I had rejoicings in the Russian style. In my drawing room was placed a Christ mas-tree, decked out with various objects and sweetmeats, destined to be offired as presents; the room itself was splendidly decorated, and the Japa nese and Russian flags )were intermingled. The inhabitants of the• town, high and low, male and female, and even some Government functionaries, were present. The Governor sent a present for the tree, and charged an artist to make a painting both of the room and company. Our ladies distributed bonbons and sweetmeats to the children, and litho graphs to thciy, parents. The Japanese seemed much pleased, - and they greatly admired the Rus sian costume, which the ladies put on for the occa sion. On a subsequent day I gave a masked ball, and the dances, which were led by our naval officers, so much interested the Japanese that they took special note of them. The young Japanese who. are pupils 'of the Military School appear very intelligent, and, a fact which will perhaps occasion surprise ; the Russian and English languages form part c: the programme of their studies. The Governor of the town has paid me a visit, and he says that he never did so mach honour to the American Consul. I told him that I considered his visit as an act of polite ness, and that I would return it. He stopped with me four hours, and breakfasted, as did also fifteen of his functionaries who accompanied him. Among the things which particularly attracted their atten tion in my house were naps of the Amoor, and of the eastern parts of Siberia, The holidays of the Japanese new year last a fortnight. On that occa sion the doors of houses are ornamented with dra peries, paper of different colours, and vario u s ob jects, snch as lemons, crabs, arrows, &e., employed as talismans against bad spirits and maladies. At the beginning of the holidays, the Japanese visit their friends and acquaintances, and eat and drink in each house. To compliment the people, I pre sented thdgovernor with a gigantic pie, surmounted by a Japanese flag. It had great success, and in fact part of it was sent to Jeddo. The rejoicings on the occasion of the new year conclude early in the evening, the Japanese retiring soon to rest to enjoy the agreeable dreams which they believe all those who have conducted themselves well during the preceding year are destined to have. Indul gence is even shown at this epoch to prisoners : they are relieved from their chains, permitted to shave themselves, and to dress themselves neatly. The Government functionaries paid us frequent visits, and 'asked us for specimens of articles in which trade can be carried on. They presented us with some sea biscuit, which is very good but exorbi tantly dear. I am now engaged in making the model of a windmill. They have no such mills, and yet they would be'Very useful in the country." LITERATURE. Relly Carew. By Marguerite A. Power. 2 vols. Saunders and Otley. This is a very interesting story, that is written with great spirit, and exhibits considerable know ledge of character. Tile scene is chiefly laid in Ireland, and the authoress evidently possesses a vast amount of information regarding that country and its inhabitants. The description of Mademoi selle Reuonard is a very admirable one. She is exactly the sort of person that insinuates herself into the concerns of a fatiiily,And exerts a dire in fluence on all who are unfortinate enough to come within the sphere of her machinations. " The Fox," as she was-familiarly styled in the neighbourhood, had an arduous undertaking before her, but she never rested from her toils until she gained a para mount influence that nothing could destroy. Mr. O'Dell was a very weakanan, wha, being irresolute himself, looked up with respect to one who seemed always settled and fixed in her opinions on any subject, and was endowed with sufficient determi nation to cope with all 'difficulties, and being trou bled with no scruples of conscience, and disturbed by no tenderness of feeling, could do and dare every thing. He himself, to cap him justice, shrank from anything that would injure others, or even wound their feelings, but was inconsistent enough to let others perform the cruel task that he declined to execute in propria persona. His wife was a very giddy woman, who was destitute of any idea that was nut centred on self. She took no interest in her home, and cared nothing for her daughter Nelly, the unfortunate heroine of this story. Her misery may be imagined, when her life commenced under the auspices of such parents and with thg fatal infliction of " The Fox," for her governess. The years which intervened between the arrival of that hateful woman and her installation as mistress of Coolmore, having married Mr. O'Dell almost immediately after his wife's death, instead of being the happy ones that are the appanage of early youth to a girl like Nelly, were wretched in the extreme. It was to escape from her dreaded step mother that she consented to marry Mr. Carew, whom she disliked, but Nelly was of a timid nature, and threats and subterfuges were alike employed to force her compliance. As might be supposed, she exchanged a temporary slavery for an enduring one, for she too quickly discovered that she had bound herself to one who was in every way different to herself. She gained none of the advantages of position that the importance of Mr. Carew's family had led her friends to expect would be hers ; for Erle Carew disgusted his father with his unworthy conduct till he disinherited him, and the sums of money which the elder Carew for some time bestowed on his unhappy daughter-in-law were wrenched from her by the greedy and unscru pulous gamester. Her life was one long night of sorrow, until roused to madness by the cruelty of her worthless husband, she left with her faithful attendant and infant son, during one of his many absences, to seek • a shelter with some valued friends in Ireland. Her sister-in-law, Mag dalen, is a very pleasing character, one whose gentleness and graciousness formed a striking contrast to the diSpositions of her father and brother. There is something refreshing to the reader, who is worn out with the wickedness of one and the self-indulgence of the other, to quit for a moment the contemplation of Sophie Renouard and Erle Carew, and dwell on the refined excellence and holy resignation of Magdalen. Those who desire to read an exciting sketch of an eventful life of suffering will be pleased with this new work of Miss Power's, and it will doubtless be successful in the novel-reading world from its brilliancy of de scription its vigour of style, and able delineation of character. Women Artists of all Ages and Countries. By Mrs. Ellet, author of "Pioneer Women of the West." Bentley. In her preface to this interesting volume, Mrs. Ellet observes that she never met with any work on female artists except a little volume published at Berlin. She has supplied the deficiency in a very able manner, though, from various reasons, many of her sketches are brief and incomplete. She has consulted numerous authorities of high re pute, including Vasari, Descampes, and Fiorillo. The biographies of Rosa Bonheur, Felicie Fauveau, and Harriet Hosmer, three living celebrities of our own time, are condensed from the Englishwoman's Journal. The sketches of many of the American ladies are prepared from materials furnished by themselves or their friends. Mrs. Ellet extends her researches to the• earliest times of which there is any record of art. The first female artist, whose name she mentions, is the daughter of Dibutades, who is said to have been the inventor of portraits, by her charcoal sketch on the wall of her lover's Grecian profile. She continues her record through the earlier ages of Glteece and Italy, and brings us down to the time when German and Flemish art attained celebrity. She devotes several chapters to the eighteenth century, which witnessed an illus trious band of feminine artists ; and her concluding pages are chiefly occupied with the American cele brities of the time, the biographies of Rosa Bonheur, the famous painter, and Harriet Hosmer, the pupil of Gibson. Many of her readers will doubtless be surprised at the number and varied abilities of these female artists. It proves how mush the powers of women have been underrated in this particular. It is curious to notice how few have had the advantages of early training, and the numbers who have dis covered their talent as it were accidentally. Mrs. Ella has added but few comments; she has sup plied the facts and dates but has not attempted to do more than sketch the outline of the artist's career. She says in her preface, "No attempt has been made in the following pages to give elaborate critiques, or a connected history of art. The aim has been simply to show what woman has done, with the conditions favourable or unfavour able to her efforts, and to - give such impressions of the character of each distinguished artist as may be derived from a faithful record of her personal ex periences. More may be learned by a view of the early struggles and trials, the persevering industry, and the well-earned triumphs of the gifted, than by the erudite or fine spun disquisition. Should the perusal of my book inspire with courage and resolu tion any woman who aspires to overcome difficul ties in the achievement of honourable independence, or should it lead to a higher general respect for the powers of women and their destined position in the realm of art, my object will be accomplished." We commend this work to the perusal of all who have been discouraged in the pursuit of their vocation, and it will also prove an attractive volume to those feminine readers who, though unable to share in the triumphs of their more gifted sisters, have the intelligence to appreciate and sympathise with their efforts. The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. John Murray. No. XLIII. This valuable journal, which is published half yearly, has commenced the twentieth volume, which is a sure proof of its standard character. It opens with tables of statistics shoWing the fluctuations of the temperature, the state of public health, the prices of provisions, and the weekly average of wheat for the half-year. The first article is a Report upon the Preservation of Timber, by the Professor of Ch em i s t r y i n th e Durham University. At the conclusion of his report ' he makes some suggestions for adoption on rail. ways. A prize essay on the Agricultural condition of the Channel Islands, by Mr. Le Cornn, of Jer sey, gives an interesting account of the state of their cultivation, and the condition of farmers' stock, market priers,, &c. Papers on Beet-root Distillery, the Allotment System, American Im plements, and the Influence of Climate on Cultiva tion, are among the remaining subjects. There is is also a valuable prize essay, by J. Algernon Clarke, on the important subject of the application of steam power to the cultivation of land. The writer discusses the various inventions, improve ments and difficulties connected with agricultural steam machinery, and gives a concise summary of progress in this particular. Th e awar d o f pr i zes by the Royal Agricultural Society is giTen in full. TVRECK OF 77.1 E ROYAL CIIARTEB. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sir,—Some thirty-nine bodies have been found since Sunday morning, of which the following only can be or have been identified : Francis F. Hutton, saloon passenger, F. Eufford, passenger, David Bell, as believed from a receipt for a registered letter found upon his person (" to William Richardson from David Bell"), Anthony Belt, Captain James Morris, Mrs. Norman, Pr . Hatch, Mr. Edwin Fowler (at Red-wharf), and Mr. M. W. Pitcher (my poor uncle), at Anil weh. I am, sir, you's respectfully, Moelfre, Nov. 22. ARTHUR ItICH• THE ROYAL CHARTER.— The following' letter, received yesterday morning, gives the latest account of tini progress of salvage operations at the wreck of the Roy" Charter, from which about £lO,OOO has already arrived at the Bank of Eagland : —" Moelfra, Nov. 21—YesterdaY 901 fo this day, although very fine overhead, it has been and . impossible to do any work, by reason of a very heavy sell from the eastward. The divers were down yesterday for about an hour, but could do nothing, the sea washing then, off their legs. Two bales of wool were recovered on Sato,- day, and 21 sovereigns got out of three buckets of salt Several other buckets were washed, but nothing found. .!-`' is now noon, but, from the appearance of the sea, it 19 feared nothing will be done to-day." THE ROYAL CHARTER.—RECOVERY OF 130DIE:i —A Mr. Phair, who has just reached Liverpool f rom Wharf Bay, after a vain endeavour to recog n i s e any of the bodies washed ashore as his two children and some other relatives who were lost in the noyal Charter, sta t es that on the Sunday last no less than 18 bodies came on shore. On the following morning three others were recovered from waves. One of them was evidently a firemaa, as he wo o e rs , white canvas smock, on the breast of which ware se v ,, • u , pieces of coal ; another was apparently a passenger, allu,L , his pockets was found £35, and two plain gold rings 01u silver lever watch (stopped at half-past seven) and his boo' were marked with the maker's name in High Holborn, L° l 2: don. Another was that of a female, and on her person 14 7. found £5. The whole of the property has been handed ov a to the collector of Admiralty droits at Beaumaris.• ROYAL CHARTER.—ALMWCII, Nov. 20. ' ea up a mileat sea the body of a woman, supposed to be a ma ried lady, stout, well made, middle age and height ; on he ring inger two gold rings, one a much worn wedding riu,._„°' the other contains eight supposed Irish diamonds with gr 7 emerald in the centre, set in silver ; black silk body of black crape at the elbows, stays with steel slips, laced be hind ; knitted worsted flannel, no chemise or night dream; black jean boots, laced at the sides, patent leather tool; white cotton stockings, patent elastic garter on the l e ft lei! with brass clasp ; on the other, black tape garb r • no mleo on body or dross to identify. Nov. 21.--A male 'bodY, gone, say sft Gin high, flannel singlet, with white buttons, gold Geneva watch, albert curb chain, shirt, coloured cloth waistcoat ; in the pocket was found watch marked on the back inside k e y with a swa e . seal in one end, plain, one side bloodstone, the other whiz. Perregaux, Geneve ;" two sovereigns, a crown, two crowns, one threepenny piece, one nugget and one Wa a l (supposed' coal), with a bit of gold stuck on to it, Pi o ece paper with with "Rev. J. B. M'Caul, 42, Gower-place, G Zed street ; 40, Huntingdon-street, Barnsbury-park. " njewels, No. 9,746, up last week.—A bit of a flannel shirt with the mar! a d ' W. P., 8 ;" good flannel, marked with red 'narking tare Week' supposed to belong to a man bunied at Anilwch last but the flannel was not discovered until to-day. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS, Nov. 22.—Owing to Leeds being veloped in a dense fog, there was but a very sr! 3° ... attendance of buyers in the cloth-halls this morn in g; nor were there many clothiers, The conseq°e°oo. was that a very small amount of business was d ° es The tone of the woollen trade, however, contra cheerful, and prices firm. n MANCHESTER, NOV. 22.—The market ge-- is very strong and firm. There has been a mod°7o;d amount of business in yarn, both by shiPPe rs the home trade, but not an excited market. An' larger business would be done but for the he a . engagements spinners have already entered I'lo, Any goods available for immediate, or even „11275., rately early delivery, are eagerly taken , and lise extreme prices ; but there are no stocks (W.f., in some of the fine numbers, and even these _.7 4 ; now fast melting down) and it is for this ra. that we have had amore extensive businTei Cloths, like yarns, are exceedingly firm. r ri arc not decidedly higher, but there are no stogy' manufacturers have exceedingly he5,,, 11 /. e to gagements, so that in many cases they d ‘ ,...ecia";f o r book fresh orders, except at an advance. " u " — _, fr actily turers who haue,kept tolerably free of et' we, preferring to meet the demand at current P,r l de . are of course able to s e ll a t ver y full rates. T ue et , mand embraces all kinds of goods, including dl i pts , tics, suitable both to the home and foreign let r ," l- 0 0, long cloths. T cloths, printers, madapones. shirtings, jacconets, tangibs, and fancy fituL u r Finished goods are also in request, so that 1a,n 0 .. has rarely or never been in better demand. 1-1. tors, dyers, and makers-up are excee dingly b e u s - 7 0 ; Messrs. Slagg and Co. report : —Th er e is exceeding) The no change in the market since Tuesday last . demand for all kinds of goods for India and C" 1- 01 continues good ; but the amount of business in the e . is somewhat restricted by the higher priceg eli w o, rally asked. Long cloths. T. cloths, and Pre"7„ g are still in good request, at gradually har uen prices." EXECUTION IN INDI4. Rajah Jeyloll Singh paid the extreme Penal of the law on Saturday morning last, t .. 1 1° 1 115 f inst., at " the scene of massacre." The t ' il t 4;- this man reflects the highest credit on the "de ters who conducted it, while his execution cidedly constitutes the most vigorous act of, 1 1, local administration. There is not single dissentient from the sentence—native or Eur e P e ' - e . all are agreed as to the guilt of the Rajah, and e. have had too much of the fallacious clemency P°l-14 to have looked for an expiation of crimes seet!,,h, Jeyloll Singh had been convicted of in any Pen u l L o ment short of that of the gallows, and it Igo "7 1 4 fearlessly meted out. The example is a terrib le a s id au awful one, but justice has been aveng ea ed + . for society satisfied. By 6 o'clock the arrangenl,ge the execution were complete, under the iniele",isa. superintendence of the Deputy Commissionerf„„s sisted by the Assistant Commissioner. To the po l ice was confided the duty of preserving order. N° el vr . troops were out. Tne assembly of spectators ,eews' particularly scanty. There could not We about more than between 200 or 300 natives, andat , score of Europeans, chiefly military officers , Ph;tice - Nawab Moshun-ood-Dowla being the o nly 11- the of distinction among them. Before removing ,s 4 handcuffs Mr. Carnegy asked the prisoner if lie ';` .. . t anything to say. Jeyloll Sinh denied to the -7 4 his own guilt, averring that he was about to eon for the crimes of others, especially of his ervaur.; that he was not present when the murders la committed, did not even know the exact daYO that it was only on his return to th e city tees three days' absence that he heard of w hat had nof done the day before. He finally , offered to pai r ii 0 ; 1 amount—from a lac upwards—for a covuut%ht of his sentence, and begged that the proposal beforen i gh be communicated to the Chief Commissioner . he was hanged. The death warrant w as then re.,a him, after which the handcuffs were remove d, hands were pinioned behind, the cap put over ; I v . form. He throughout maintained the head and face, and himself assisted to mount the P is ' e t composure, repeating to himself some prays .4-; soon as the noose had been adjusted, Mr. Carneglyl,:a clear audible voice, briefly explained to the .herefare around that the criminal on the gallows e t h a t them was the Rajah Jeyloll Singh, ° II of very spot, where stood before an outer gatescaltop mosey,er , A • the Kaiser Bagh, had stationed himself on th e t o of it, and caused in its immediat e vicinitysios cold- , blooded murder of some 22 o r 23 Eurel) sod and other Christians—that he had been tried cos, convicted of the deed on the clearest and uosted luAve evidence, and that he had bo en sentene re.o death—to be hanged at the " scene of ina ssa f e .the He then gave the order for the withdrawal .0 props, and a single jerk left the culprit swlagp,ood in the air. He died very hard. It wes a "wee five minutes before life was extinct. The kodt vo left hanging for about an hour, after which taken down and buried outside the gaol. ended the days of Rajah Jeyloll Singh. 1 ° 1r the i. ce middle-sized man, well built, rathe r ia i Y middle-age, and of dark complexion, wi above th na nothing villanous in his countena nce.— Otws :ette, Oct. 4. ------- VL14 11.114- DEATH OF THE HON. MOUNTSTITART --, O. STONE.—We regret to announce the death of the bon . 4. Elphinstone, which occurred at his residence, ---TT„,°°,klott. pal k, near Limpstield, Surrey, on Sunday last. l' e II t in d 3 gentleman retired from the dvil Service of the Ea s u• Company in 1827, and acquired considerable literary repo tati en for his work on Cabal. ports of the fishings. Capt. Penny, WHALE F various whaling stations continue to bring c,(rratifYlliketio ISIIING.—The latest returns fro.lll, the voyager, arrived at Aberdeen on Monday morning; Afro _ Cumberland Straits, after an absence of little 10" i, the four months, and brings with him in his little ve 6 l e , o il, Lady Franklin, three large whales, about 60 tons 0._,00 the well-known L.-0 and a few tons of bone. The vole. - ) has thus been i! „3 :' pe r and successful one. Oil is brin.,tupg from £33 to c a w ton ; bone, £414 to £416 per ton. Copt• Penny left reports ,1.0 nd Straits on the 2lth of October, beds Straits aud weather as very tine. d o ubt b lit IRISH TRAMWAYS.—As there is now no ~„ t io that the bill of Sir Robert Ferguson will beeonne !aw l c osi e )urse of the ensuing session of Parliament, a proorro. hms been issued of the City of Dublin and Subur bli j k yeti way Company, under the Limited Liabilities Act. _ tic , 01 flourishing account is embodied in the preliminarin%d ell the success of tramways in New York, chiefly 1010,;„7 00 0 the statistics supplied by the correspondent of the 1 - 1 ,, 0 b1i1l New York. It is proposed that the capital Company should be £lOO,OOO in £lO shares to be P.h tho tbrott_b a co want,d ; to run five lines of four miles elicit s ilurbs, centering in the business part of the citYlau a ?sting the railways atcl quays. of tlie .iiiiia 0,