The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism. "—Morning Post. Gold Watches 4 to 100 guineas. Silver Watches 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the management of Mise LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, will Open for the Season on MONDAY, Oa 3d. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Murray. Stage Manager Mr. E. Stirling. T HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with SEE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Amy Sedgwick. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Buck- Atone. And MALLOITE'EN. . _ Comment* at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—This Theatre will OPEN on SATURDAY next, September 24, with a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled IVY MALL ; the scenery by Messrs. T. Grieve and W. Telbin. To conclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE ; the Ocenery by Mr. W. R. Beverley. During the recess the Thea tre has been redecorated. bTW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. l E Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. This splendid New Theatre, replete with every comfort, WILL OPEN for the Season on MONDAY, Sept. 26, 1859. ADELPHI DRAMA, COMEDY, FARCE, and BUR LESQUE, and ADELPHI EFFECTS ! ! ! — O n which occa d sion Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Too le, Mr. Davi Fisher (his first appearance at this theatre), Mr. Paul Bedford, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Henrietta Simms, Ac., Are., will appear. The performances will consist of a DRAMA (2d time), of the highly successful piece of ONE TOUCH OF NATURE ; a new Farce , by J. M. !Morton, Esq., Celled LOVE AND HUNGER ; and the popular Burlesque of THE BABES IN THE WOOD. The Box-office will be opened on Thursday, Sept. 22, and every day after, from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN la Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION or THE LADY OF LYONS. After whioh, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough, Oliver, and Lavine. Commence at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS. — EVERY EVENING.—The 11,1181 C of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now fi rst made public iron England at these Con serts), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele- Vrated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY , an d the usual coal Concert. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come disc and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting 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. Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer 's new opera of DINNORA. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 66--highest since noon yesterday. 57--4owest this morning and during the night. 60—this day at noon. DinourrEn-29.45 ; a fall of half an inch since yesterday. VirSICD, Westerly; rough, wet, and stormy, with sun shine. This day is the Autumnal Equinox, and the weather is very unsettled. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two DAY. —Morning, 7h. 37m.—Afternoon, Bh. 28m. To-Mouitow-Morning, 9h. 12m.—Afternoon, 10h. 2m. THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1859. Suggestions continue to be hazarded by corre spondents in almost every department of our forces as to the best mode of manning the Navy. But the true principle, after all, is better pay, better usage, with a proper reform in the Mutiny Bill. Seamen are as kind and good-hearted as other people, and can appreciate good conduct in their officers accordingly. What they chiefly dread is the tyranny so frequently and so unmercifully exercised by some commanders, who mistake their duty, by using severity instead of kindness, to en sure smartness. A good seaman is ever smart when duty requires ; but to be always harassed and kept on the qui sire without any reasonable necessity disgusts good men, and gives a bad name to the service. Men are frequently flogged for a mere trifle or misapprehension ; and, if not flogged, they are put in the black list, and kept there from wilful caprice. This degrades men in their own estimation, and renders that odious, which would otherwise become a pleasant duty, for sailors pride themselves on meritting the good opinion of their fellow-men and the respect of their officers. Experience daily proves that the working of our naval system must be altered to meet the require ments of the age. Steam has introduced a new element into the management as ;well as the fighting of our ships. Steam has greatly altered the character of navigation, and must be met accordingly. Whatever changes may become necessary should be made with care and simplicity. Improvements will duly present themselves in our experience. But, first of all, we must have men. The late Board of Admiralty have deserved well of their country by making provision for a good reserve. We quite agree with the Times that in order to get good men and keep them, tempting inducements must be held out in the shape of pre sent pay, with increasing pension according to length of service, good character, and severe wounds. These and more promotion to deserving men from before the mast, would act with magical effect on sea faring people, and even on landsmen too. Young lads would enter willingly, and become an excellent nursery for seamen in after years. There ought not to be so much squeamishness in receiving young men as there was lately displayed with regard to entering volunteers. Now, with respect to our Marine force. Years and years past, we have impressed on those in power the expediency of increasing that force and making them all learn the practice of Artillery. But advice is thrown away on those who fancy themselves above responsibility. Now, however, they must conform to the exigency of circumstances or give place to those who will, for the national safety is paramount to all other considerations. Suppose the present Marine force were aug mented, say to 48,000 men. Divide that force into three watches of 16,000 each. Let one watch be always on board ship, for a given time ; let the second watch man o'r forts and do duty as Coast guardsmen, and let the third watch be at the head-quarters of the several divisions, or em ployed where -wanted. Then to perfect these men in their several duties on land as well as on board ship, let the watches relieve each other in due tim e, and thus We shall ha ve a f orce prepared for any se rvice and inure d to every s - men they wo u ld b e on requ site duty. As coastgusarardu (A:ling, and be ever on the watch to prevent the alert to meet invasion when that dread e d bug_ bear adventures on our coast. Then as to manning our ships, the proportion o f s&'amen and marines—marine artillery, for they would all be drilled for that service, the proportion must depend upon the actual working of our steam navy—be it one-third more or less according to .circumstances. Coals are wasteful expense where 'wind can be turned to account for nothing. We may be for months blockading an enemy's ports, bud the decisive arbitrament of action is only for a day, or it may 1)e an hour. Why, then, waste what it is costly to get and no loss to husband ? In case of any sudden emergency we could, by having such a disposable force of marines at hand, say 32 ,000, double or even treble our home Navy at once, by dividing the crews of ships in comng.ssion into two or three watches—and with the marines be ready for immediate action, for the sailors and marines being all well used to the service, they would be ready for any and everything. Let the Admi ralty look to it—or rather let the Government insist on breaking through red-tape tomfoolery, and act as men. Then, again, with respect to being prepared against invasion, which must of necessity be sudden, we shall have a nucleus of well-trained men, who can turn their hand to prompt account. Instead of fortifying points here and there all along the coast, for the invaders will choose their own ground, how much better would it not be to have flying batteries at several central stations, ready to be transported by railways at telegraphic notice to th• scene of danger ? We may be told that suggestions like these would entail heavy expense. We answer—no expense ought to stand in the way of national safety. Our being well and always prepared will make our assailants think twice before they ven ture in paying us a rough, and unwelcome visit. We shall have two chances to their one —land and water—and a good hot fire into the bargain. Suddenly—in the midst of European and Asiatic complications, in the midst of all that is said and written about the anxiety of the Italians and the atrocity of the Chinese—there starts up another of those periodical annoyances, a new difficulty be tween Great Britain and the United States. The present difficulty between the English and the Americans, like so many of its predecessors, proves, on examination, to be only the sequel of one of the old difficulties long past and gone, and, up to this moment, supposed to have been years ago settled definitively to our mutual satisfaction. Again the supposition turns out to have been quite erroneous. Again the more sanguine believers in an amicable understanding between father and son, between JOHN and JONATHAN, have been too precipitate, we find, in laying that flattering unction to their souls. The celebrated treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, solving (as it was imagined) the problem of the Oregon Boundary, defined, it is true, the line there sepa rating the territories of Great Britain and the ter ritories of the United States, to all appearances, quite explicitly. It traced that boundary line as running " along the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which sepa rates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean." But, as it so happens—" this said channel," appa rently very clear and simple phrase, indeed, is, in reality, one of considerable complexity and uncer tainty. And for this sufficient reason that there are, am it so chances, two channels dividing Vancouver's Island from the North American Continent. There is a channel, that is to say, upon either side of the little group of the Arroo Islands. Which of these two channels is the one meant by that clause in the Treaty of 1846, about the Oregon Boundary, remains in fact yet to be decided. Inso much is this uncertainty recognised in both coun tries, that Commissioners from the two Governments have, in point of fact, been busily occupied for some time past in striving—hitherto ineffectually—to settle the matter in dispute for once and for all to general satisfaction. Such in effect was the actual situation out in Fuca's Sound, when the Government at Washing• ton—incited, probably, by a remembrance of the old legal adage about possession being nine points of the law—sends ont a sort of a buccaneering, fili bustering expedition to put an end at once to all further uncertainty by formally seizing one of the said Arrou Islands—the one variously called the Island of San Juan or Bellevue. The ex pedition is altogether so flagrantly lawless of its kind, that it is not unworthy of having been led by General WILLIAM WALKER, the most renowned and daring of all the Yankee filibusters. Another filibustering general, however, takes command of the invading force—General HARNEY it is who suddenly makes this descent upon San Juan, formally taking possession of it in the name of the Republic, not " one and indivisible," but free and independ ent. General HARNEY goes thither with one com pany of infantry and four companies of artillery. He is supported by four vessels of the American navy. He lands fifty of his soldiers on San Juan —begins building barracks there—and issues a proclamation claiming the island as American ter ritory. Free and independent !—certainly, a Re public is that acts thus contrary to all right, to all justice, to all international law. Against proceed ings so directly and monstrously •in contraven tion of all the habits and usages of civilised countries—Governor DOUGLAS at once protested loudly and indignantly. His Excellency, by a counter-proclamation, declares the occupation to be illegal—claims the island on the part of her Bri tannic MAJESTY as under the supremacy of the Crown of England—and despatches to San Juan forthwith a British force of Sappers and Miners with her MAJESTY'S ships Tribune, Plumper, and Satallite. Captain PICKNET, who has command of the American garrison already established on the island, refuses leave to the English Sappers and Miners to land. It is even asserted in some of the United States newspapers received by this last limit, that a British steamer had opened fire upon the Americans, and that in consequence of this lament able collision between the forces thirty Americans had been killed. Rejecting these rumours, however, as altogether idle and extrava gant—it is obvious to us, at a glance, that, here, in this little difficulty about San Juan is the germ of what may, if not nipped, betimes, in the very bud, grow speedily into a monstrous disaster. Happily, Governor DOUGLAS and General HARNEY appear to have, both of them, taken the wisest course left to them, under the cir cumstances, by referring the whole matter, at once , to the consideration and decision of their respective Governments. Upon those Governments, therefore, at London and Washington, devolves, at this mo ment, a very solemn responsibility—the imminent responsibility of hastening, at last, to an amicable settlement, a long standing dispute which has been brought thus to a sudden climax by a lawless act of occupation. We have for some time refrained from noticing a subject on which most of our contemporaries have seen fic to comment, because we thought it hardly fitted for the columns of a newspaper. It has, how ever, become so prominent of late, having neces sarily attracted the attention of local journals in three sections of the kingdom, that a daily news paper can hardly ignore it ; nor, on account of cer tain remarkable connected circumstances, should Iv( be justified in doing so. We refer to the " Re vival of Religion" in the North of Ireland. One of the consequences of the great commercial panic in America, at the close of 1857, was that many per sons, in New Y or k especially, regarded it as a providential judgment, more particularly on the i originated egt commercial world. s rrh idea of mid-da money-getting, money in y meetings for c prayer and worship the intervals of business ; these extended, till throughout that great commer- dal city, and the Free States generally of the Union, mid-day prik yer meetings, in which laymen were the chief actores, became as common as Sab bath-day services in other Christian countries. There wag not, that A e remember, any remarkable physical excitenienl, but a good deal of pithy, pointed speaking, mu,* more calculated, doubtless to awaken the thought `less than a faultless sermon from an English rector,. and very numerous short prayers, offered chiefly by laymen; our American exchanges at that time I tad frequently columns filled with accounts of then , meetings. The busi ness daily papers, some of tlf.em at least, even pub lished supplements filled with: such narratives. Now, for a long time we have heard little or no thing about the American revivals from the Ameri can journals. There is not, that we are aware, any reason to doubt that their religious influence was considerable. The chief thi.ag apparent was a very great multiplication of the services common amongst the Christian denominatiions of the coun try ; and this must be likely to result in the diffu sion of more religious feeling than usual. For our selves, we confess, we have looked', and shall yet look to the effect, in reference to Atnerican Slavery. We shall be slow to believe in any religious excite ment being the work of Heaven, which does not do its part in destroying that unmistakeable work of hell. We were told in a recent number of The Westminster, that the work, or " mission " of the " Evangelicals" in England came to an end with the Abolition of Negro Slavery. We all know that in this country they were the strength of that movement; and we may reasonably look, therefore, for a marked effect on the position of Negro Slavery in America, from a " revival" amongst the " Evan gelicals " of America. If wo see it, we shall believe that it was, at least, a Revival, conscience-deep. The Revival now in progress in Ireland was an off-shoot from that of America. The Irish journals most favourable to it describe it as having begun with persons who were " led to pray for an Irish Revival from what they heard of the American one." For a time all went on as quietly, in man ner, as in America, but the Irish excitability ere long surpassed:all that had been heard of from New York. The most marvellous accounts were soon published, not merely of crowded prayer meetings, and monster open-air meetings, surpassing those collected by the popular young Baptist orator of the Surrey Music Hall, but we heard also of per sons " falling down in trances," having " visions of heavenly scenes," and sometimes of infernal scenes also ; and of almost every variety of supernatural excitement. The grand distinction of these physical excitements from all usually connected with reli gious "revivals," was what is termed in the local phraseology being " struck" or " struck down." Of course the greater part by far of those thus affected are young women, and in them the affection un qnestionably seems like one of the many diversities of hysteria. It is, however, confessedly not con fined to young women; in some cases mentioned in the Irish papers it is strong men who are " struck." One we noticed, a robust and powerful man, a farmer, another a publican ; and the former is mentioned as having stated that he long struggled against yielding to the influence or power to which he was ashamed to submit. It is these manifes tations which have formed the subject of so much controversy. The well-known GEORGE GlLFlLLAN—hini%elf a Scotch reverend—pronounced them in a sermon to be the " veriest work of the Devil." But some Presbyterian divines on the spot speak of them as the work of the Deity himself ! More moderate men, less versed in the mysteries of Heaven and hell, and more likely to he correct, regard them as every way objectionable, but as purely natural and as not being, with very few exceptions, impostures. Under strong religious impressions an individual or two were thus affected in the first instance. Such affections are always contagious ; if one fainting person he not promptly removed from an assembly, it is well known others will soon follow, and in this way the " strikings down" probably began in the neighbourhood of Belfast. But na turally it would not, and did not, stop here Persons met together under the circumstances in connection with which the first physical prostrations had occurred ; the preaching and service was of a character adapted to produce them ; it was looked for, expected by hundreds, and the conseq•zence was that such scenes were multiplied. Even strong and robust persons, like the farmer and publican adverted to, are far from being unlikely subjects for such im pressions. They were doubtless illiterate persons; indeed, we are told that illiterate persons only have been attacked ; and this class is peculiarly liable to a superstitious kind of apprehension of the magic influence of some unknown power. By far the ablest pamphlet we have seen on the subject is one by the Rev. Archdeacon SToPFORD, who went to investigate on the spot. Dr. STOP FORD belongs to the Evangelical school, has no an tipathy to Religious Revivals—rather, we should say, a prepossession in their favour ; but ho is very positive, assigning his reasons at great length, that the physical effects adverted to are those of hyste ria, and nothing else. He even designates his pamphlet " The Work and the Counterwork " regarding the revival essentially as a really good work, but the " strikings down," and the like, as the " counter work." On the whole it is not denied, we do not know that anyone wishes to do so, that much good has been done amongst a large number of illiterate and immoral persons. A Catholic judge on the bench, and secular as well as religious journals, testify to this. We only hope the refor mation will be permanent—more so than that begun by the excellent Father MATIIEW. The ex travagancies, all wile and prudent divines, as well as laymen, regret, and endeavour to suppress them. Let us hope that nothing of the kind will be im ported into theological Scotland and exciteable Wales, into which, as the country papers inform us, the " revival" is spreading. So long as these revivals are employed to spread religion amongst a class who will attend to it in no other form, per sons of better religious tastes will accept the acci dental evil for the sake of the substantial good. Earnest men must choose their own methods. In The Sun of yesterday we gave a communica tion from a special correspondent of the Times. It was an account of a monster prayer meeting at Armagh, to which place cheap excursion trains were ruR from Belfast, a distance of thirty miles. A part of the scenes, both in the railway and on the green where the meeting was held, were such as certainly could not redound to the credit of religion any where. In the centre was a large platform, on which many really educated and respectable ministers stood and addressed the people, among them the well-known and much-respected Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, of our own metropolis, a preacher certainly here of the more refined caste, and in whose place of wor ship nothing unseemly would be tolerated for a moment. It seems, however, that a violent and illiterate class of speakers drew off considerable numbers, and endeavoured to produce the "striking down" results which have made so much noise. It would appear, however, from the letter that re spectable ministers are endeavouring, though in too feeble a voice, to suppress what they see to be so undesirable. v ,t: vf, . 40 , ~, ~J , .. ~./ ~, . • 4 4'' 4 s a 0. • .504 F. .. ..„ If 4 , ...it; A . F.,.., ...: ~ ..k , ~..; s ~ ~ , ,,,e , ..... :',.!-- . , P,TIIE7),ATN,"LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1859. THE ALHAMBRA PALACE. At this favourite place of amusement the attractions of Mr. M'Collum's great Anglo-Saxon troupe continue to draw enthusiastic audiences to witness two performances daily. The skill and daring exhibited by the ladies and gentlemen of the establishment are worthy of all praise, while the extraordinary docility and sagacity of the beauti ful stud on which they exhibit, excite the wonder and ad miration of all who see them. Mademoiselles Josephine and Clementine perform some very dashing feats, and M. Quaglioni makes his fine Arabian mare, Carrava, go through a variety of dances with such admirable precision as makes the beholder think her dancing-master must have been a very successful teacher, and a very clever fellow indeed. Another wonderful part of the performance is that of the " Chinese Grotesques," who consist of six youths dressed in imitation of Chinese costume, and go through such sum mersaults as almost takes away one's breath. The "fun" of the entertainment is well kept up by two excellent clowns —Mr. Croueste and Mr. Nelson—the latter of whom rather astonishes the audience by the superior style in which he plays upon two different harmonicons, one made of Ameri can pine sticks, the other composed of stones. For this very agreeable little episode in the usual routine of the horsemanship Mr. Nelson was twice encored last night. Indeed, the entire amusements of the evening gave groat satisfaction to a very numerous and respectable audience. DEATH OF PROFESSOR NICHOL. Dr. Nichol, Professor of Astronomy, Glasgow Univer sity, died on Monday afternoon from congestion of the brain. Her Majesty the Ex-Queen of France and family left the Waterhead Hotel on Tuesday, for London, after a stay of three weeks. His Highness the Prince Wassiltchikoff has returned to Maurigy's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. The Earl and Countess of Donoughmore passed through Bath last Friday, on their way to Pencarrow, Cornwall, on a visit to Lady Molesworth. The Earl of Elgin has left Fenton's Hotel, on his return to Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Fingal have left the Queen's Hotel, Vpper Norwood, for town. The Earl of Portsmouth has left Howchin's Hotel, for his seat in Hampshire. Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their resi sidence in Halkin-street West, front the Continent. Madame la Baronne de Espelta and family have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from Paris. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London yesterday, for Penmemmaur, Conway, North Wales. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis has left town for Harp. ton Court, Herefordshire. Sir Henry Calder and Mr. Wm. Delafield have left the Oatlands Hotel, for Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Gentry have arrived at Fentons Hotel, from Liverpool. DEATH OF MR. SPENCER PERCIVAL.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Spencer Percival, eldest son of the late Right Hon. Spencer Percival. He joined his family on Thursdap last at Weymouth, apparently in good health, and died on Friday night after a few hours' illness. DEATH OF COLONEL WILDMAN.—We regret to announce the death of an old and not undistinguished Pe ninsular and Waterloo officer, Colonel Thomas Wildman, late of the 7th Hussars, which took place unexpectedly at his residence, Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham, on the morning of Tuesday, the 20th inst. The kindness and liberality with which, as owner of the picturesque domain of Newstead, the deceased threw open at all times his house and grounds to the public of the thickly-peopled neigh bourhood will cause the regret excited by his death to spread far beyond the circle of his family and private ac quaintances. The Agincourt, from Melbourne, was announced yesterday morning, with 33,390 ozs. of gold, worth about £133,000. The letters from St. Petersburg state that Mr. J. B. Kemp° ' the tallow speculator, who lately failed for a large amount, is expected to pay about 40 or 50 per cent. The shipment of silver to Bombay next week is expected, irrespective of any remittance on the part of the Council of India, to prove large. The possibility of the Government having to purchase silver for transmission to China for war expenses is also beginning to excite atten tion. 'There is an increasing expectation of some early announcement from Biarritz of an adjustment of the Italian question, and rumours are in circulation that it will be fol lowed by the introduction of financial proposals in the mar kets of Paris and London. DONCASTER GRAND STAND RECEIPTS.—The re ceipts at the Grand Stand during the recent meeting amounted to about £3,200, or £3OO less than last year, not withstanding, in the opinion of many, the attendanoe was quite equal to former years. This being St. Matthew's Day the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, in their robes, at tended Divine service this forenoon in Christ Church, and afterwards the examination of the boys in the Hospital, pursuant to ancient custom. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—At a meeting of trade delegates last night, the chairman, Mr. C. Murray, said that, though the masters asserted they had obtained 3,000 men, only 21 fewer than usual had received relief from the conference. At a meeting in Paris the other day, of the shareholders of the proposed Italian railway by the Simplon, it was stated that upon the completion of the proposed tun nel under the Simplon, the Alps, that formerly took twelve hours to pass, will be passed over in half an hour. In that short time the traveller will pass from the valley of the Rhone to the valley d'Ossola, and the Lake of Geneva will be only four hours from the Lago Maggiore. ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER EXPRESS.—SOUTH AMPTON, Tuesday Night.—lntelligence has been received here front the Channel Islands that the South-Western Company's steamer Express, from this port for Jersey, got on the rocks of that island this morning. Mails and pas sengers were saved. The company have despatched their steamer South-Western with men and materials to her assistance, and it is hoped she will be got off. ANOTHER BRITISH VESSEL FIRED INTO BY THE SPANIARDS.—HULL, Sept. 19.—The schooner Jenny Lind, Captain Toogood, from Marseilles to Lynn, put into Lagos Bay, Portugul, on the Ist of September, through stress of weather, and reports that, in coming through the Gut of Gibraltar, 14 days ago, and while passing Tarifa, she was fired into by the Spaniards ; the shot struck the starboard gangway rail, went through both boats, and carried away the port rail. Fortunately no lives were lost. ACCIDENT AT KENNINGTON.—Yesterday morn ing, about nine o'clock, a very dreadful accident occurred near Kennington-gate, through one omnibus running into another, and, unfortunately, Mr. Wm. White, of Lough borough-park, Brixton, received severe injuries. The unfor tunate gentleman was on the front seat of a Brixton omnibus, which was proceeding to the city ; when at Kennington gate the buckle joining the reins came undone, no doub owing to its having been improperly fastened, and the horses gvea spirited, made a dart f orwar d. Th e d r i ver was d them in, a n d th e ve hi c l e was conse quently dashed with great violence against an Islington omnibus. Mr. White had his leg completely smashed be tween the two omnibuses, and in an insensible condition was conveyed to the residence of Mr. T. 0. Duke, surgeon, close by, but was eventually removed home to his house in Lonzhborough-park. Very slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. FISHING WITH ILLEGAL NETS.—Lieut. Keats, of her Majesty's g unboat Spanker, appeared at the Sun derland police-court, on Thursday last, to prefer a charge against John Boyd, a fisherman, for fishing with an illegal net. He pointed out that the act of Parliament provided that no nets should be used which were less than one inch and three-quarters square from knot to knot. The defon dent's nets were only one inch and a quarter; and instruc tions had been given to him to proceed against all fisher men whose nets were discovered to be constructed contrary to the provisions of the act of Parliament. The act fur ther provided that illegal nets were to be forfeited, and the persons using them fined not l ess th an S s. or more t h an £3 . This being the first case of the kind brought before the bench their worships imposed the minimum fine, and ordered the nets to be forfeited. Hop-MARKET, Sept 16.-114 progress of the picking throughout the week has been uninterrupted and active, and a large portion of the crop consequently secured, and from every important district the reports are uniform as to the abundance of the yield, and, generally speaking, the superior quality of the g row th. Th e samples. hitherto exhibited—of course the earlier pickings—are health, ripe, and well managed to a degree seldom observed, affording a confident expectation that the crop, as a whole, will be as distinguished for quality as it undoubtedly will be for abun dance. 'Throughout much of the plantation, and particularly that of Middle Kent, the yield per acre proves larger oven than iu 1855, and although s i n c e then the extent of land unde r hop cultivation has been reduced reduced 10,000 acres, the impression is strong that the duty will come out very nearly £300,000, although there is but slight disposition to bet upon it. The market is now abundantly supplied with Sussex and Weald of Kent hops, and moderately also with the choicer descriptions ; there is a fair demand for dealers' hops, in anticipation of the approaching country fairs. In of grap generally e choice hops but little is do ne as y e t ; i n t w o or th ree in stances high figures h ave b een o b ta i ne d f or very crack 1 \s tiis j but speaking the currencies neither of gelding nor hops can be considered settl e d, al though the latter, as will b e seen b y th e su bj o i ne d quota tion have declined to tolerably mo d era t e ra t es . P resen t merchants' prices :—New Sussex pockets, 60s. to 65 5 . t o I° n 68s. ; now Weald of Kent, and grapy Mid-Kent pockets, 65. e. to 755. to 80s. to 84s. ; now Middle and East Kent, 955. to 1125., very choice, 1265. to 1475. CRYSTAL PALACE. —VICTORIA-BRIDGE.—A model of this great work of engineering skill, a description of which has lately appeared in the leading journals, and which is to be opened in November next, has been placed in the centre of the nave at the Crystal Palace. The model, which is the property of the Canadian Government, being constructed to scale, visitors may form some conception of the gigantic character of the enterpri se which has succeeded in bridging the St. Lawrence, by a structure only 176 feet less than two miles in length, as well as sonic slight notion of the want of through c.;rinnunical ion between Canada and America W:liCh would commercially justify so costly an undertaking. A large collection of photographs, taken at various times d tiring the construction of the bridge, kindly lent for exhi bition by Sir C. P. buoy, afford much information respect ing the progress of the structure. To those persons who may be el.: .irous of comparing the proportions of this great bridge with those of similar works in this country, the model gallery of the Crystal Palace affords ample oppor tunity, as in it will be found models of the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits, the bridge over the Dnieper at Kiel' . (the longest suspension -bridge in the world), the Saltash Bridge on the South Devon Railway at Plymouth (oue of the latest and most gigantic works of the late Mr. Brunel), the Crumlin Viaduct, and other great engineering works. As adding to the interest of the subject it may be mentioned that the passengers by the Great Eastern will probably be in America at the time fixed for the formal opening of the Victoria Bridge ,• and it will be a coincidence long to be remembered, that the successful completion of two such great works as the Great Ship and the Victoria Bridge should have resulted at the same period, and through the labours of English engineers. LATEST NEWS. ----a-- The following telegrams have been received at \lr. Reuter's office : BERNE, SEPT. 21. M. Desambrois had a consultation yesterday with he French Ambassador, after which a courier was mmediately despatched to Turin. PARIS, SEPT. 21. It is asserted that the result of the visit of the King of the Belgians to Biarritz was fully sue- cessful. Messieurs Blanqui and Boichot have arrived at Marseilles, stating their intention to avail them selves of the general amnesty. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 20. News has been received from the frontiers of Morocco. The nati e tribes had renewed their attacks on the French outposts, and had pillaged and set fire to some of the French houses. General Esterhazy made a brilliant onslaught, and repulsed the, enemy . The Government of Morocco does not appear to be implicated in these attacks, but has not the power to check them. VIENNA, SEPT. 20. The Wiener Zeitung of this day contains an Im perial decree raising tho state of siege in Venice. However, some slight regulations will continue provisionally in force for certain cases. MUNICH, SEPT. 20. Baron von Buest, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Interior of Saxony, and Baron von Hugel, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Wurtemberg, ar here to-day, to hold conferences, it is supposed, with our Minister for Foreign Affairs. FLORENCE, SEPT. 19. The Government has notified to the Plenipoten tiaries of the Grand Duke to evacuate the Palace within three days, and in case of noncompliance the property of the Grand Duke is to be sequestrated.' ROME, SEPT 17 (via Marseilles). His Holiness the Pope has recovered from his late Eness. The Papal Government has expressed its satis faction with the article on Italian affairs published in the lifoniteur of the 9th inst. Conferences be tween Cardinal Antonelli and the French Ambas sador (the Duke de Grammout) eontinue to be hail. It is said that the functions of the Council of State and the financial Consulta are to be extended. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 19. A special tribunal has been created to try the 40 or 50 persons, principally Circassians and Kurds, who were arrested on a charge of seditiously con spiring together. Each moment's information tends to deprive the senseless scheme of these men of its gravity, as it had no ramification ; and, so far as has been ascertained, no other persons than those now under arrest are implicated." The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second Edition) says : " The great report of the day, said to be btsed on private despatches from Biarritz, but with respect to the value of which I can say nothing, is that the knotty question of the Duchies is arranged, that Tuscany is to be reigned over by King Leopold's second son, and Parma and Modena united under the Arch duke Maximilian. Such a settlement, if indeed it be completed, must be considered as' decidedly favourable to Austria, while, at the same time, as far as the Belgian Prince is concerned, it ought not to be unacceptable to the Italians. The allotment of the two small Duchies to an Austrian Archduke would doubtless cause great dissatisfaction at least at first, oven although the one selected be, of all the family the man who should stand best in Italian opinion. I repeat, however, that these are but re ports, and may prove utterly baseless. They have obtained wide currency, and to them is, in a great measure, attributed the slight improvement at to day's Bourse. Whatever they may be worth, the feeling out of doors is better, and there seems a growing belief that things are tending to concilia tion. The ultra-Italian party alone are dissatisfied, and refuse all belief to the reports above cited. Another rumour is to the effect that there is to be no Chinese expedition ; that the head of the Peiho mandarin has been proffered in atone ment, coupled with promises of all the satisfaction that may be required, of immediate reception of the Ambassadors at Pekin—in short, of concessions almost unbounded. Whether he believes himself and his people to be in the right or in the wrong, it would, doubtless, be the wisest and the cheapest plan for the Chinese Emperor to give in at once, in stead of waiting until signal vengeance be followed up by the exaction of heavy penalties ; but -we Tr await more positive inf orma ti on b e f ore fee g con vinced that his Majesty has shown such agacity and prudence. HOLLAND. OPENING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION OF 1859-1860. THE HAGUE, MONDAY. To-day, at one o'clock, the King, accompanied by all the Princes, opened the legislative session with the following speech : " Messieurs,— " At the commencement of your ordinary session it is pleasing to me to be able to give you the assur ance that my relations with foreign powers are satisfactory. I receive from all the Governments proofs of friendship. " The state of our internal affairs is also satisfac tory, and there is reason to hope that it may be still further ameliorated. " In the different branches of the general admi nistration, as well in the provinces as in the com munes, order and civil and religious liberty prevail. " The subsidies granted by the Legislature for the improvement of our means of defence are usefully employed. The benevolent co-operation of which you have given proofs on this occasion, the patrio tism of my people, which has been again recently manifested by the ardour of the militia in joining their standards, and the excellent spirit that has never ceased to be exhibited by my land and sea forces, give me the firm hope to be able to maintain, under all circumstances, the independence and in tegrity of the soil of our country. " In the domain of the arts and sciences the Netherlands continue to support the honourable rank which she holds. • "Agriculture, guided by science and experience, does not cease to undergo useful ameliorations. This source of national prosperity has not been so abundant this year as we had reason to hope. Nevertheless, if there has not been an extraordinary arvest, some oornpensation is found in the abund ance of food for cattle. "In spite of the pernicious influence exercised by war, commerce has lost none of its activity, and other branches of industry have continued iu a flourishing. state. Navigation and the construction of shipping have still to struggle with the difficul ties wh;-:11, during the past year, interfered with their extension and prosperity. " The product of the ways and means of this country is satisfactory. "The state of the Treasury will permit us to put our band energetically to the work in the execu tion of great public works. Some new projects for the construction of railways will be presented to you without delay; .your approbation will also be asked for the establishment, at the expense of the State, of a shorter water transit from the capital to the sea. " If I acknowledge with gratitude this flourish ing state of the finances of the country—and I consider that it is in a great measure the fruit of the advantages we draw from the possessions of the State in the East Indies—l feel at the same time the consciousness of my duty to devote all my solicitude to the prosperity and progressive development of these posses sions, and the sacrifices which we are required to make for this purpose, as well as for the mainte nance of our authority in those countries, have been made with great liberality. " Thus, if this authority should be menaced, I reckon not only that my forces, by land and by sea, who fought at Djambi and Retch, will once more give me proofs of their shining courage and valour, but also on the patriotism of that portion of the Netherlands people who reside in. the Indies. The massacres at Banjermassing shall not go unpunished, and we shall continue to labour energetically to enforce the submission of Boni. "Order and tranquillity reign in the West Indies The examination of the project of law relative to the emancipation of the slaves of that colony was not conducted to a definitive result in your last session ; a modified project of law will be immediately sub mitted for your deliberation. " Gentlemen, you will have many labours with which to occupy yourselves. New projects of law will be presented for your examination, and you will be able to resume the consideration of those projects of law which you were unable to finish before the termination of the preceding session. " May the task which devolves upon you be ac complished under the blessing of the Almighty, and be favoured by the maintenance of repose and peace, for the safety of the country. " I declare the ordinary session of the States General to be opened." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Constitutionnel has a very interesting account of the new bridge across the Rhine which is to unite Strasbourg with Kehl. It will be finished at the end of 1860, and will prove of immense advantage in the communication by railway between France and Ger many. The Siecle has lately had some admirable observa tions upon cellular imprisonment, which it condemns as the cause of madness, of suicide, and of future crime. It points out the horrors of the peniten tiary system of the prison Matas as a terrible aggra vation of the punishment to be inflicted which de mands prompt reform. The paragraph relating to the press in the Moniteur has made the impression that was to be expected, and is spoken of with disappiontment and disapprobation, and qualified as harsh and even brutal. This is what one hears out of doors. The papers are much more reserved in their expres sions of opinion. The Debats, Univers, and Ga zette de France reproduce the paragraph without comment. The Constitutionnel and Patrie do the same, not having as yet, it is to be presumed, re ceived license or order for laudatory remark. The Pays, their brother in the bonds of Government, says that the note in the Moniteur refutes recent rumours of " pretended amelioration, and, by re establishing the true principles of this important question, gives a new pledge to public stability and security." In speaking thus, the Journal de l'Ent pire, of course, only does its duty as a zealous hireling. BOURSE, Sept. 20.—The market was heavy at the opening, but somewhat recovered as the day wore on. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 60e., rallied to 68f. 85c. Mobilier varied from 765 f. to 785 f. ; Austrian, 535 f. to 540 f. ; Lom bard, 552 f. 50c. to 555 f. ; Orleans, 1,370 f. to 1,375 f. ; Lyons, 873 f. 75c. to 875 f. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. 95 Credit Foncier.... 670 Do. end month 95 I Belgian 41 . — 3 per Cents 6B 75 Piedmontese (5) .. 85 Do. end month 6B 90 Roman B4 75 Bank Shares 2BOO Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 782 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account 790 Home Debt 44* RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 9lB 75 918 75 New ditto BO5 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 :: 875 Geneva — • • Southern Western 577 60 .. - -- Eastern Sardiniau 4lO .. Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. • money, 2,5 f 10c.; three months, paper, 24f% 971 c.; money, 24f. 921 c. RUSSIA. While publishing Prince Bariatinski's report of the capture of Schamyl and the fall of Gounib the St. Petersburg Gazette says:— " Schamyl, who is now 62 years of age, was born in the Ac ul of Himry, on the Koissobou territory, where his predecessor, Ghazi-Mouhammed or Kasi- Moullah, was also born, and fell when the fortress was taken on the 18th of October, 1832. "It is needless to point out the importance of the victory which has placed in the hands of Prince Batiatinski the last bulwark behind which the power of the Imaum of the Caucasus found a refuge. The detailed report of these events will shortly, doubtless, enable us to form an exact appreciation of the material and moral result which the capture of Schamyl will have caused among the native population." AMERICA. [BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY NIGHT. The screw steamer City of Washington left New York on the 10th, and arrived here at midnight, bringing 40 cabin and 233 steerage passengers, and 613, 429 dollars in specie. Landed 44 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1 a.m. Political news unimportant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 9. The reaction so long expected in the Stock market begins to be felt, the decline not yet heavy enough for special remark. There was a large business done in Central to-day, at a decline of to on yesterday's prices. Sales this morning were at 781. Breadstuffs firmer. Southeron floor, fair demand ; rye firm, at 83c. to 84c. ; barley quiet. Coffee firm. Cotton.—There was a pause in the market, dealers waiting private advices before doing much ; midland uplands, 15a. Pork firm ; beef fair demand; prices unsustained. Tallow, 10,000 lb. at 101 c. Tea steady, with good demand. Freights steady, and rather firmer to English ports. NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 9. Cotton sales, 3,900 bales. Prices steadier. Mid dling, 11c. to 111 c. Corn dull. Pork steady. Sterling exchange, 9 to 91 premium. Savannah cotton market inactive. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The screw steamship Indian, Captain Smith, has arrived with the Canadian mails of the 10th, and telegraphic advices from New York to the 9th. The following are the latest telegrams (via Quebec) : " Sterling exchange is in moderate request at steady rates, Bankers' bills range at about 1101 . " The cotton-market is flat, and sales are to a triflng extent, at about former prices. Breadstuffs arc all steady, and prices are firmly maintained. Beef and pork are dull, but without any quotable decline. Lard is buoyant at 101 c. to 114 c. per lb. Sugars are quiet. Coffee is firm, at 102 e. to 121 c. for Rio. Spirits of turpentine steady, at 451 c. to 46c. Scotch pig iron heavy, at 23 dols. Freights continue quiet. " NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 8. " Cotton sales to-day 4,000 bales, at irregular prices ; middling to strict middling, 11c. to Mess pork dull, at 14 doll. 75c. Cotton freights to Liverpool, 19-32 d. to ad." (VIA FATHER POINT.) " The usual New York telegram of the 10th has failed to come to hand. NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 9, EVENING. " The sales of cotton to-day were 3,500 bales• There is a better feeling in the market, and prices Thu are steady at 11c. to 111 c. for middling. an d the business of the week foots up 20,500 bales , receipts of the week have been 22,000 bales, against 11,500 in the corresponding week last year' The stock on hand is 55,500 bales, against- 40,000 last year. Corn is dull, at 70e. Flour quiet and steady. Freights of cotton, to Liverpool quoted at 19-32 d., but shippers only offer 9-16 d. Sterling exchange is quoted at 9 to 911- prem. " MONTREAL, SEPT. 10, Evening. _ " Our flour-market has been active at steady prices to-day, and new wheat has been selling freely. Ashes steady, at 5 dols. 60c. to 5 dols. 65c. for and 5 dols. 65c. to 5 dols. 70c. for pearls . " It appears from the report of the C hief E gration agent that the number of emigrants arrivehu at Quebec up to this date has been 7,356, whic shows a decrease of 4,100 as compare d with the number at the same date last year." pots, THE PENINSULAR MAIL (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Ellora, steamer, Captain Christian, has ar rived, with Lisbon mails of the 17th, and Vig ° ' 18th. She did not communicate with Oporto on accoun t of bad weather. She brought 15 passengers, including Mr. Howard and Mr. Baring, M.P. ; £6,059 in specie. In lat. 45 10 N., long. 7 49 W., passed the Sultan steamer, bound to Vigo, and the ship 'Victoria Regia, steering westward. The Duke of Oporto had left Lisbon with the steam-frigates Estefania and Bartholom ew de Pia., to take part in such operations at Morocco as ma/ be necessary to protect British subjects. Lisbon exchanges—On Lonon, 421 to 42 ; 1 Paris, 541 to 542; Genoa, 534 d ; Amsterdam, 411; Hamburg, 461. THE STEAM-SHIP NOBTHAN • The Peninsular and Oriental Company have re" ceived intelligence of this vessel's arrival at Adell, on the sth inst., all well, and the ship m aking but little water. She was to continue her voyage to Bombay the following morning. FIVE NEW POINTS OF CRIMINAL L-4 (From Dickens's All the Year Round.) 1 There shall be no judge. Strong represen!a tions have been made by highly popular that the presence of this obtrusive character is VI: judicial to their bests interests. The court wil l - composed of a political gentleman, sitting in a s , e : eluded room commanding a view of St. Sarn es :,, park, who has already more to do than any bur: creature can, by any stretch of the human imagi ll "‘ tion, be supposed capable of doing. 2. The jury to consist of 5,555 volunteers. 3. The jury to be strictly probibited from seel g o b t either the accused or the witnesses. They are Il he to be sworn. They are on no account to hear the to They are to receive it, or such re eulPrits tations of it, as may happen to fall in th eir o and they will constantly write letters abo ut it to s the papers. 4. Supposing the trial to be a trial for murder by_ poisoning, and supposing the hypothetical case, the evidence, for the prosecution to charge the ft ministration of two poisons, say arsenic and anti. mony ; and supposing the taint of arsenic in to' body to be possible, but not probable, and the Pro body of antimony in the body to be an 001111 certainty ; it will then become the duty of the jerl d to confine their attention solely to the arsenic, a l . entirely to dismiss the antimony from their r ain e 5. The symptoms preceding the death of the r . a,.. offender (or murdered person) being describea evidence by medical practitioners who saw then; other medical practitioners who never saw , then. shall be required to state whether they are sistent with certain known diseases—but, they so° never be asked whether they are not exactly Oil sistent with the administration of p o ison. To illustrate this enactment in the proPesecito bill by a case :—A raging mad dog is s een . g run into the house where Z lives alone, foal:sloe at the mouth. Z and the mad dog are for so me time left together in that house under proved eircion: stances, irresistibly leading to the conclusion. tbs.!. Z has been bitten by the dog. Z is afterwar.ap found lying on his bed in a state of hydrophobkiht and with the marks of the dog's teeth. Now, symptoms of that disease being identical with those of another disease calledtetanus,which might EAT... e t vene on Z's running a rusty nail into a certain of his foot, medical practitioners who never sal it shall bear testimony to that abstract fact, an u shall then be incumbent on the registrar-general to a certify that Z died of a rusty nail. It is haPeo_ that these alterations in the present mode of cedure will not only be quite satisfactory to to_': accused person (which is the first great consider to _ tion), but will also tend, in a tolerable de g ree, the welfare and safety of society. For it is t l 3 , L k sought in this moderate and prudent m easure ? wholly denied that it is an inconvenien ce to societ7 to be poisoned overmuch. FUNERAL OF MR. BRUNEL, C.E.—Ye sterc l morning the mortal remains of Isambard Kingdom Brune: Esq., were interred in Kensal-green Cemetery. The flue, ral procession, which was of a private character, left Dui") ..1 t 9 street, Westminster, the late residence of the deceased, a 0 o'clock. The cortege consisted of four mourning coachf: containing the principal relatives of the deceased and als ° the following gentlemen, distinguished in engineering science :—Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Field, Mr. Hawkshawy '''ti; Walker, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Charles Manby, and nunl er° d e others. Twelve carriages belonging to friends of the de others. followed the procession. The whole of the housf.. in the immediate vicinity of the deceased's residence, In Duke-street, closed their shos and windows in token of respect. At the cemetery al arge number of gel lti gle connected with the Society of Civil Engineers, an' . o , profession generally, assembled and follow ed the profesp to the grave. THE LATE Mn. BRUNEL.—We are glad to les lll . la that care has been taken to preserve an adequate nisra°r/ t of this distinguished gentleman, whose premature death t. such a time cast so universal a gloom over the public min.?. Mr. E. W. Wyon, the sculptor, has, ernussion of DI family, taken a mask of the features ofthe deceased, tul from the artist's well known ability no doubt s uch a bult will be produced as shall faithfully perpetuate the portral of one of the greatest engineers of our time. THE COLLISION ON THE GREAT WESTERN.t The adjourned inquiry into the late fatal collision whri; took place on the 14th, at the Slough station, by viii i i , L e Thomas Treacher, the guard of the goods train, was J"'"'"" was resumed yesterday before Mr. G. A. Charsley, deputel: coroner for South Bucks. A great many witnesses r" examined to show whether the signal lights were Corrvil worked on the morning of the accident, but the eviden : was of such a contradictory nature that the jury, a ft4l : o .. long consultation, returned a verdict of " Homicide by 0 1 . 1 adventure," to which they added the following remarks • ~. " That, in consequence of the conflicting evidence rasp:ll%lr lug the signal lights, we are unable to record anY 4) , we verdict than that of ' Homicide by misadventure; en' t - ,,, think the guard to blame for starting the train three WW I 4 before time without the authority of a proper person P Reading" The proceedings then terminated. NEW ZEALAND.—A series of tables has been Pub lished by the authorities of the Colonial Secretary's °V ) Auckland, New Zealand, giving the principal results of t .. census of that colony taken on the 24th of December Jas'. These tables, which have been published in anticipation_co': the annual volume of statistics of New Zealand tor 1 8 'n show that the colony is rapidly increasing in population au': the material elements of wealth. The number of tae Eur ° d pean population in the colony in 1851 was 15,035 maks , a l !, 11,672 females, or a total of 26,707. In 1858 there wer e 33,585 males, and 25,669 femals, er a total of 59,254. Tim a shows a centesimal increase in 7 years of 123.37 g al The 119.91 females, or 121.86 on the whole population. It, live stock in theossession of Europeans in the colonY l'• 18.51 was as follows: —2,890 horses, 60 mules and assep l 34,787 cattle, 24043 sheep, 12,121 goats, 16,214 Pgs. _ lee 1858 the numbers were as follows :—horses,l4,9l2 ; nun. and asses,. 122; cattle, 137,158; sheep, 1,523,316 ; Kes,V, 11,767 ; pigs, 40,692. In 1851 the quantity of hula . ra acres) in the possession of Europeans and under erog2s4; fenced was as follows :_Wheat, 5,5141; barley, I, ° het oats, 2,324 ; potatoes, 2,256 k ; sown grass, 15,5 89 1 ; to tal crops, 2,126/ ; total under cultivation, 29,140 i ; . fenced, 30,47 e /. In 1858 the total average was as --Wheat, 13,6981 ; barley, 3,016 ; oats, 12,496x' potatoe, 8 13 8 1; potatoes, 558 x; sown grass, 98,0381; other crops, ~ a , ,1 total under cultivation, 140,946 k; total fenced, 23 5 ; 1 """ a THE COST OF THE LATE WAR.—The iiiige nle % Zeitung endeavours to estimate the cost of the late wsr.__t is impossible, says the writer, to estimate the absolute c. h of a war, since its influence on trade and industry, thlp, ina nense, is indefinite. Considering only the stuns actu ._•7 expended is supporting the campaign, he says that Austre: without reckoning the loan sheraised in England at the the ginning of 1859, has expended 200,000,000 gulden f" t he follows: purposes of war. France has applied 500,000,000 f. to ._ same purpose. Piedmont, it is known, had access to the French military chest ; but, besides this, she increased her loan by 50,000,000 f., and her debt to the Turin Batik by 3 8 3 ta ,0 t O es 0,000f. The exact sums spent by the other Itosnlioitti cannot be ascertained with precision, but, reck _,,„ . the 5,000,000 f. added to the Bolongese loans, 20,000,Uvy.. c innot be an over estimate. With regard now to the n ra st tral Powers, Russia gives no means of making t stimate, but, considering the additions to her vaalliounesca.ull7. eurps, the cost to her must have been 15,000,000 thaln Finally, the sums raised by the German States for their ea p se of putting their forces on a war footing way eht'atia together at 90,000,000 gulden, about a third of s pec remains remains unspent. These conclusions the German Mc, arranges in a table as follows. Wo translate francs 11' pounds : Austria, about .. France, ditto . • Piedmont, ditto .. Other Italian State, ditto Russia, ditto • . England, ditto .. Germany, ditto £20,000,000 20,000,000 4,000,000 800,00 0 1 200,000 'BBO,OO O 5,120,000 ----- £52,000,000 ...,.. 21102