The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.- Mr. CHAPMAN, of the White Hart, Acton, Middle sex, begs to inform Lis friends , and neighb ours that the Latest Edition of "The Sun' can can be seen at his house as above. TORN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY ELP TOO PR PASTS is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a oleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 64.1.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most use ul invention of the day, AGUA AMA It KLLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO. ' Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, 'respect fully. oaer to the public this truly marvellous which gradually restores tne human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. T Agua Amarelia has none of tLe properties of dyes • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the s ystem, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. I'rice one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles. Ifs. of. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John 61-o4nell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highnessthe PIIIIOEB3 of Wales. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Mornivg, 9h. 3Gm.—Afternoon, 10h. 15m. To-Molutow.-Morning, 10'•i. 54m.—Afternoon, 1111. 28m. egg - CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR HONG KONG. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Oct. 18, 1866. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 30th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for Supplying and Deliver ing into Store, or on board her Majesty's steamships and vessels et Hong Kong ' 5,000 TONS of COALS. 1 , 000 tons of the Coals to be shipped by the 30th November, 2,000 tons more thereof in the mouth of December, and the remainder thereof in the month of January next. One third of the quantity to be shipped iu each of the above mentioned periods to consist of North of England Coals, and two-thirds of South Wales Coals. All the Coals to be fit for the service of her Majesty's steamships and vessels. A Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Deplrt anent, Admiraly, Somerset-house. No Tender will be re ceived after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals for Hong Kong, and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Sumerset-house, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £25 per cent. on the value for the due performance of the Contract. By Order, ANTONIO BRADY, Rogistrafof COntracts and Public Securities. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton THIS EVENING will be performed .-hakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH Mr: H. Talbot ; Messrs. Sinclair, T. .w.ead, W. 11•Intyre, Henri br yton ; Mesd,,mei Amy Sedk,wick, Jenny Bauer, Rebecca Isaacs, &c 'To conclude with T r; BEGGARS' OPERA. Captain 31acheath, Mr. W. Harris in. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, THIS EVENING, THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charle4 Mathews, Buckstone, Corni,ton, Chippendale, Rogers, Clara, Braid. Gordon, White, &c. ; Mesdames Mathews, Chip pendale, 11111, 1 / 4 right, &c. Alter which, the BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. Misses Healy. To be followed by T FIE CRITIC. Mc. srs. C. lilathews, Compton, Rogers ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at Seven. The ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Feehter. THIS EVENING, BIUJTUS AND CJESAR. Ile3rade Miss -- - At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Aefs, THE LONU thTILIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. 1. Greive and assistants. Messis. S Emery, H. Widdicomb, Fitzpat,ick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, bewbound, Stanley. Lomas, Morel And, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Toby Tweedleton, Mr. H. Widdlcomb ; and Miss (iratton Acting Manages, Mr. IL Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. IV. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THE LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT.CE,—Johnny Reilly (an Irish Sailor). Mr. D. Boucicault ; Jane Learoyd (a Factory Girl), Mrs. D. Bouci cault. At 7 o'cAock. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Leesee and Manager, Mr. (leo. Vining. - WINTER SEASON. N.B.—Doors open at Half-past Six, performances to com mence az Seven. THIS EVENING, a Comedy. in Three Acts, by John Oxeuford, Esq, entitled TILE T tr LE ALLIANCE. Mr. Vining, Mr. J. G. shore; Miss li. Rogers, Miss Neilson, and Mrs. Buckingham White. After which, at 9 o'clock, TILE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN' by Watts Phillips. Esq. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Neilson, Miss A. Thon3son; 3lr.Forrester, Mr. G. Honey, and Mr. J. G. Shore. Grand Ballet of tiollemians, in vt hich M3I. Flageolet, dlo doche, Comete, and I,,lormancle, will appear. Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds. HEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TLI IS EVENING, at 7 precisely ( , 1h time), E fIIEL ; er, OILY A LIFE. 2iiiss Kate Terry, Mn. Alfred Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Billington,Stephen son, Ashley, Romr, C. J. Smith, &c. To conclude with HELEN; or, TAKEN FROM THE GREEK. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Emily Pitt ; 3lessrs. Paul Bedford, It. Panto, F. A. Shaw, Ashley, Eburne. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE MARRIED BACHELOR. Messrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone and ll.c s hes. To be followed by IN THE WRUNG BOX. After which, will be produced a Grand Burlesque ci DER FREISCHUTZ ; or, A Good Cazt tor a "%cu. Messrs. Thorne, Jame., and Robson ; Mesdames Swan - borough, Raynham, Johnstone, and ciu ,hcs. To conclude with WAILING FOR THE UNDER GROUND. Commence at Seven. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught terrace, V:d4ware-road, is specially appointed AGn to deliver the LATE EDITION of "11114: SUN" at the earliest poPsible moment alter leaving the tress. He is able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburhs, and iu many parts 01 the Country at a comparatively early hour the same ..veuiug, say 40 miles by 9 o'clock. - - - Orders by Post punctually attended to. THE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. R. GLENI PI delivers ti.e LA I'E EDITION at Cllelsc4, 7.40; 8; Starch-green, 5; Woonvich, 7.30 ; Uxbridge, 9.20; Walford, 8.45. 11IIE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN." J. 1101eMES begs to inform his friends, and the public generally. that he supplies thu LATEST 14:0ITLJN of "THE SUN as soon as published —No. 16, Hampstead road, N.W. THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as soon as Published, con t a i n i ng a ll the LAn4:6l NMVS and S:'OI3,TING INTEI,LI(IK.Neri, by H . NV, 11.Alt*t8, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blacktriars-road, London, S. SPORTING. —JOIN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of " nil , : SUN" as suou as pub ished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. TIIE LATEST EDITION o f " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every E vening, by ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish-street, Oxford-street. Fon THE LATEST POLITICAL and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE see the L a t e Edi t i on of "The Sun" at Mr. Blake's , Queen's Head, Windsor street, Uxbridge. LONDON, FRIDA}, OCT. 19, 186 G. The Mayor of Oxford having given his annual dinner afforded an opportunity for speech-making, which will afford interest at this dull time of the year. The entertainment was to the leading per sonages of the city university and county, and was very brilliantly attended. The " Health of the City Members „ being an intere s ti ng given, Mr. CARDWELL made Speech. After some complimentary remarks respecting the Mayor, on his retirement from office, the right dilate upon hon. gentleman proceeded to the in eorm around us. A s to the events so lately passing war in Germany, we save cause to rejoice that for at one time it threateneditis over so soon, in duration the disastrous to rival struggle across the Atlantic. While fully , Y u Mr. CARDWELL in the satisfacti on l Pa i t"ing with he expresses, at the brief duration of the war, we c annot, go so far as he does in believing that a te , • • Lneheial char),,e has taken place. " We have seen a new Germany ' I i arise on the ashes of the old—a Germany which is 1 likely, I think, to exercise a greater influence in the councils of Europe, and I trust that that in fluence will be a beneficial one." If ,it is it will be something quite unprecedented of late years, for Prussia's influence and efforts have always been on the wrong side. Of course, as here mentioned, England has no jealousy concerning the territorial aggrandisement of foreign countries, only nothing that has taken place in Germany of late has .13een of a nature to promote the advantage and hap piness of others. Mr. CARDIYELL very truly states that England is " justly confident in its own re sources, material, and wealth ;" but we wish that the Government of which he was so prominent a member had shared his convictions, and not acted as if they were afraid,of the resources of Germany. Had they done so Prussia could never have attained that supremacy which she has now unhappily done, and been able to dictate terms to others just as it suits her own arrogancy and self-sufficiency. Mr. CARDWELL is a good statesman, and his re marks and observations are worthy of all attention in many important respects, more especially where he seek's to point the moral of the late war to us. "If we see victories gained more rapidly than the victories of C.E3AR or NAPOLEON ; if we see the destinies of empires changed in a war so short in duration that it has been termed a seven days' war; I think it is only prudent for the greatest countries in the world to investigate the causes of these events, and to consider whether they can learn from them any lesson in regard to the future organi sation or improvement of their own material re sources." This is very much to the point, and exactly what we should do, when we ponder upon what has recently taken place. The strik ing advantages which Prussia gained by the forethought and energy displayed by her Ministers in preparing for the war may well cause all red tapists to learn wisdom, and our time-servers to exercise their powers a little more to their own credit and the advantage of the country they pro fess to serve, and whose money they squander at so fearful a rate, that they may draw good from evil, and take the lesson of this German war to heart in the matter of our inefficient state of preparation for emergencies. Another subject of interest at the present time was referred to iu this excellent speech, namely, the " extent to which men engaged in civil life arc de voting themselves to the study of the military art, and constituting themselves valuable accessories and reserves in aid of the regular forces of the country." The Volunteers have already shown themselves to be deserving of all commendation, and those who are now in Belgium have displayed their "practised skill" in a manner creditable to their own efficiency and reassuring to their countrymen. It is interesting to notice the progress that has been made in the public estimation and appreciation of the valuable addition to the services of the country. In all places, and at all times, when matters of general interest to the community are referred to, the Volunteers are specially made mention of. The Royal Naval Reserve is also a great element of strength if its appliances are properly made use; of and, as Mr. CARDWELL said, it is most important that each force should be kept in its own separate state in high efficiency, the advantages they possess being very great. As they are chiefly on the defensive, and not on the aggressive side, they are a great make-weight r on the side of peace. Another point worthy of consideration in Mr. CARDWELL'S speech was his allusion to American affairs, and side by side with that great Republic, but not in any emulation of it, we are now engaged in constructing a new community by the union of the several provinces of British North America. Mr. CARDWELL deserves great praise for the energy he displayed in furthering this impor tant work, and for the encouragement he had the prescience to afford it. The description given by Mr. CARDWELL of this Confederation is a very just one, and one calculated to inspire confidence in its future. "They will not be of a greatness to com pare with their powerful neighbours, there will be no rivalry, and there will be no jealousy ; but ex tending as they will from the , Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with an unlimited territory, with a large population, with commercial enterprise, and with maritime enter prise, they will constitute no mean community among the nations of the world." One of the most creditable acts of the late Government was this inauguration of the Confederation in North America, and it is well for them that they can look back upon a work so likely to afford satisfaction for the future, and to consolidate the frontier of the " foremost dependency of the British Crown." Mr. CARDWELL was precluded from adverting to the " vexed questions of the day," but he spoke of the general policy to be pursued in a strain very diffe rent to that which animates those meetings where Mr. BRIGHT is lord of the ascendant. fie said that it was his sincere and earnest hope that they might address themselves " to questions of that kind in no narrow or party spirit, but in a broad and patriotic spirit, conscious of the vast importance of their proceedings to the future destinies of Eng land, and animated only by a paramount desire to arrive at conclusions which may satisfy public ex pectation and strengthen the institutions of the country." Mr. lIENLEY returned thanks for the county members, and made a few interesting remarks. He said that he did not think it advisable to join the present Government, because he deemed it wiser for a man to find out for himself that he was old than to leave it to others to find out that he was not able to do his work. Whatever his opponents may say of him, no one can possibly aver that want of straightforwardne ss is a characteristic of Mr. HEN LEY'S discourses. Whatever he has to say he always says in in a a d dire v e r c t t i n manner, without any ci r cumlocution teherigflaitct,litohna. that at t t l h em es a e n en ir t u e l r y said, or - lexaggeratio n . Itainments men ofgaTtlolhranks and opinions came toge ther without alluding to questions of discord, that this " was not an unimportant lesson, for one of the great secrets of securing all that was valuable was to respect Referring to the recent differences of opinion." I changes in Germany, - Mr. HENLEY said that all old landmarks had been swept away, and that, therefore, those who now lorded it over others must show their fitness to do so by securing ad vantages to the people. If they did riot do so ~ a fearful day of reckoning would certainly come upon those Princes who had brought about these changes, unless the just expectations of the peoples and of Europe were fulfilled, and the proposed end of the change accomplished." We are glad to meet with so sensible a remark, instead of the encomiums usually bestowed so lavishly upon Prussia just now. The moral has very often been pointed of the neglect and ingratitude with which the most useful public services are too frequently repaid, and every one who has taken the trouble to exercise his memory can at once recall a dozen provincial his torical names. It is, however, somewhat mortify ing to find that although we may have improved considerably in some other respects, we are still as bad as our ancestors in this, and that wealthy and munificent England does not scruple to avail her self of the talents and labours of men whom she leaves to starve on their reputation. The story of official ro u ti ne, o f pre j ud i ce, and unw i ll i ngness to g inventor ive an but there i a fair as more been e disgraceful times out of number, aspect of th e case than this. It is when the in ventions of men who have d evo t e d t h e b es t par t o f their lives t o some great public end are accepted and profited by ; but 'the inventor himself is so ill-requited that, instead of hi s success enjoy ment, i t leads to ointment. being a source of profit a n d nothing but mortification and di sapp Such a case, if the aory is told tet ly, and as yet TILE SUN, LOILI; 1 ,;IN, FRIDAY EVEMNO, OCMBER 19, 1866 it remains uncontradicted, is the case of Mr. SNIDER, by whose invention for converting the Enfield rifle into a breechloader, the whole nation is now so largely profiting. It would have been impossible after the experience gained in modern warfare for England to have rested satisfied with her old wea pon. The expense of supplying our entire army with anew arm, and the serious consequences which might result from an inefficient method of conversion, may be roughly estimated without much labour, and the actual saving to the national exchequer result ing from Mr. SNIDER's admittedly successful design is something to be reckoned by hundreds of thousands sterling. The converted Enfield is generally acknowledged to be superior to that Prussian needle gun, of which we have all heard so much, and we know that in Prussia the fortunate inventor is loaded with honours and re wards. Let us see, then, what reward rich and liberal England has in store for her inventor. Seven years ago the invention was presented to Government, and was, after characteristic delay, accepted and adopted on an extreme scale ; and then, it might be supposed, came the time for re warding the inventor. No such thing. We ma nage matters much more economically than that in England. Mr. SNIDER was told to send in his claims under the three heads of expenditure, ser vices, and invention, and was given to understand that the first two were enough at a time. He esti mated his expenditure and his services at £2,700, not, one would think, a very, ,exorbitant sum. Go vernment, however, thought differently, and re ferred the claim to its solicitor, who advised the offer of £l,OOO ! This the inventor of the converted Enfield accepted, being in reduced circumstances, sick at heart with hope deferred. The actual claims being thus settled, we hear no more of the reward due for the invention, and our Administrators, past and present, may congratulate themselves on having saved the public money at the expense of justice, humanity, and national honour. The fact of Mr. SNIDER'S being in bad health, and without the means of subsistence, adds to the hard ship of the case, though in common justice, if he were a - CRESUS, the Government ought to pay him what his invention is worth. But if he were a Cnnsus, and had dressed up some one else's ideas, he would very likely have been re paid with a peerage and half a million. There may, of course, be two sides to the question, and the in ventor may have been unreasonably exacting ; but as yet the fact remains uncontradicted that the man who has rendered a great public service is left in poverty and sickness, while out of the 12 or 14 millions annually voted for our Army Estimates not one fraction can be spared for the inventor who has excelled the needle-gun. We published on Wednesday a very interesting letter from Captain ANDERSON, of the Great Eastern, on a subject most congenial to him. His object was to render the honour due to the hearty goodwill and professional skill of the officers and men connected with the memorable expedition in which Captain ANDERSON and his " big ship" played so conspicuous a part. The Liverpool banquet, it is true, was given in honour of all the members of the expedition, and Captain ANDERSON, in his speech on that occasion, endeavoured, he says, to express his sense of the zeal and efficiency of the services rendered ; but, thanks to the late ness of the hour, the press of matter, and the exigencies of the telegraph, the reporters did not think fit to give the world a verbatim report of . what the captain said. He complains, half humorously, half indignantly, that they only said he made " a characteristic speech ;" which, as the gallant officer does not profess any peculiar style of oratory, was a somewhat perplexing definition. Perhaps, how ever, they meant that the readiness and cordiality with which Captain ANDERSON gave the credit of success to every one but himself was quite in ac cordance with his character, and in this aspect of the case the commander of the Great Eastern need not complain of the sagacity of the stenographers. He is not contented even-with praising the officers in connection with the expedition of 1866, but has a word of commemoration for those who laboured with equal zeal, but less good fortune, in the days when anAtlantic cable was a hope, but not a reality. " No one," he says with kindly courtesy, " can ap preciate more than I can the former efforts on board the Niagara and Agamemnon, with ships so un adapted, and cable appliances so immature, as com pared with the Great Eastern and the cable ma chinery of 1865 and 1866, and I hope the officers employed in those former struggles will not do those of the late expedition the injustice of supposing that we claim more than that the opportunity was ours to complete what they had begun." Those former struggles and failures, so far from being profitless, were in fact mainly conducive to the ultimate success of the scheme, seeing that much was learned from them, the deficiencies and errors in the cables themselves, and in the machinery and management were ascertained, and experience taught that practical knowledge which no theoreti cal science can hope to equal. Staff-Commander MORIARTY, one of the officers of the Aga memnon in the former expedition, took part in this one, and gave Captain ANDERSON very useful assistance. The most gratifying testi mony is borne by Captain ANDERSON to what he calls " the cheerful zeal" of Captain CoSI3IERILL, of the Terrible. We can fancy how welcome was the cheery sailor paying his visits to the anxious party in the great ship with his encouraging " You'll do it yet" when doubt and despondency threatened them. lle was not content with words, however, for. " What can I do ?" was his oft-repeated question, to be followed, as soon as the want was expressed, by the ready " I'll do it." No less valuable to the conductors of the undertaking was the nautical skill shown by the commanders of the Medway and . Albany during the anxious weeks spent on the grappling ground. It was, says the captain, of the greatest importance that the vessels of the squadron should keep always together close enough to begin work whenever it was possible, and yet avoid collision in fogs. "We were often separated by fog, gale, or darkness; yet whenever the day dawned, or the fog cleared, there the squadron was to be seen converging from different points towards the mark buoy, a small spot looking no bigger than a man's hat upon the surface of the ocean. Unless all had concentrated their minds and watched their ships and compasses night and day no such beau tiful illustration of nautical science could have been possible." The recovery of the lost cable was, in fact, the crowning triumph of the expedition, and many who were sanguine as to the ultimate suc cess of the new line were very doubtful as to the chance of finding the old one. The result has been highly creditable to the zeal and perseverance of all concerned, and Captain ANDERSON may rest assured that the public will not readily forget the services of any of those whose names are associated with the great nautical and telegraphic exploit of 1866. DOCK CORPORATIONS AND THE POOR RATES.—It was stated at the meeting of the Mersey Deck Board yes terday, that the surplus for the current year would have been £70,000, instead of £7,000, had not the board been !mulcted in the payment of poor rates and arrears for past years. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PAEIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. The Moniteur states that General Lebeeuf, in concert with the Austrian military authorities, was present at the evacuation of the fortresses of Pes chiera, Mantua de Leguand, and Palma Nova. These different places were consigned by the Aus trian Commander into. the hands •of the General, who then delivered them, in the name of the Empe ror, to the care of the Municipalities. This double operation was effected with perfect order, and in the four cities in question the Municipalities charged General Lebceuf to convey to the Emperor the ex pression of their homage and gratitude. The official paper also publishes a letter from Berlin, dated October 1, which states that recent events will give a great impetus to the productive resources of Prussia, who will be able to send her productions to the European markets upon favour able terms. The letter 'adds that Prussia will have possession from the dispossessed Governments of various productive mines, and that she will be able to work the railways under advantageous circum stances. The French Government has received a communi cation from the Emperor Maximilian, in which he expresses his earnest desire to make any sacrifice to fulfil his engagement towards France, and particu larly to the holders of Mexican securities. In order to effect this object a portion of the Customs Revenue is to be devoted to the payment. A letter from Rome says :—" The malady with which the Empress of Mexico is afflicted has caused the, most painful emotion here. The cause of the malady was the disappointment which attended her mission to the Pope, increased by the fatigue of a long voyage. The object of her Majesty's voyage was to arrange with the Pope the basis of a Concor dat, the principal clause of which was to authorise the sale of ecclesiastical property. At the first audience which the Empress had with the Pope, his :.Holiness made her Majesty understand that her mission would be ,a failure: Instead of words of consolation, the Pope spoke with great bitterness of the policy pursued by the Emperor Maximilian in regard to the clergy, and even went so far as to threaten her with the Divine anger. The interview had a very painful effect upon the Empress. On the third day of her sojourn at Rome she went twice to the Vatican, and in the evening an apart ment was prepared for her. It was then she lost her senses. She had an idea that there was an in tention to poison her, and she would not take any nourishment except from the hands of her lady at tendant. The Empress walked about the streets of Rome with a silver gDblet in her hand, and drank water from the fountains. Great sympathy was manifested towards her when she left Rome, ac companied by her brother, the Count de Flandres." The fine weather has again departed. It began to rain at mid-day, and it has rained heavily up to the hour of post. The Moniteur, in a review of the events of the day, says that the evacuation of the fortresses of Venetia continues without incident. Each of the strong places is delivered up to the local authorities. The official paper proceeds to give an explana tion of the policy of the French Government in regard to the events of the Crete. " Affairs there have become appeased. In the presence of the dif ficulties which arose the Emperor remained faithful to the conservative andprogressive policy which he has always pursued in regard to the events in Greece. When the Cretans made known their grievances the French Ambassador at Constantinople was instructed to examine into them and to give as sistance, should their complaints prove to be well founded. The Marquis de Moustier gave his opinion to the Cabinet of Greece with friendly frankness. His advice was received with gratitude. There is now less agitation in the Hellenic provinces adjoin ing Crete, and the Cretans are more disposed to attend to the conciliatory advice given to them by the Porte." The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the French Ambassador to the English Cuurt, who is now in Paris, will return to London in the course of the week. The chief event in the fashionable world of Paris is the marriage of the Marquis de Saillant with Mdlle. Clemente de Pre- Ministers and many ladies of title were present at the Church of St. Philippe, where the marriage was celebrated. A paper affecting to give fashionable news says that the head-dress of the bride was , 4 marvellous," and that the toilette of the Countess de Talleyrand, blue taffetas, covered with Valenciennes lace, was much remarked. General Gontald, aide-de-camp of the King of the Belgians, was among the company, and many eminent personages from Belgium. The journal La Patrie has been purchased by a society of capitalists for 1 ,500,000 f., at the head of which were the principal directors of the Credit Foncier. A letter from Florence speaks of an alliance be tween Prince Humbert and the daughter of the Archduke Albert, Mathilda-Mary-Aldegonde-Alex andra, born on the 15th July, 1845. The autumn steeplechases at La Marche on Sun day next promise to be attractive. Twenty-nine horses are entered for the Prix d'Automne (handi cap). For the Free Handicap 25 horses are en tered. Marshal O'Donnell is expected in Paris, some say with an important mission in reference to Spain. I cannot learn anything about it in the quarters where I usually apply for political information. N LATEST INTELILL7-...4 TI NOB. (RE UTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SAXONY. LEIPSIC, Oct. 19. At a meeting of 400 members of the National party in this city a committee was appointed, which, in the event of the continued resistance of the King of Saxony to conclude peace with Prussia, is to solicit King William to order new elections of members of the Saxon Chamber of Deputies, who will then have to represent the interests of the people of Saxony as opposed to the particular inte rests of the Saxon Government. PESTH, OCT. 19. The cholera is greatly diminishing in this city. MORAVIA. pnuNN, Oct. 19. The Emperor has ordered the completion of the Moravian railway system to be carried out with the greatest possible expedition, and the execution of public works in Moravia to the amount of one mil lion of florins during the current year. His Majesty has remitted 10,000 florins to be distributed among the poor of Brunn. Dr. Giskra, Mayor of Brunn, has been decorated by his Majesty with the Cross of the Order of Leopold. PORTUGAL. LISBON, OCT. 18. The King, Queen, and suite went to Oporto this morning in order to be present at the inauguration of the statue of Dom Pedro IV., which is to take place in that city to-morrow. TIIE BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, OCt. 18. The Ripon left at 8 p.m. yesterday, and the Pera at 9 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 20th, and the latter at Southampton on the 27th instant. SUEZ, Oct. 18: The Norma, extra steamer from Bombay, arrived at 1 p.m. to-day. FRANCE. PARIS, Oct. 19. The Moniteur of this morning announces the death of M. Thouvenel as a loss to the Emperor and the country, and adds—" His name is so inti mately associated with the remembrance of the an nexation of Nice and Savoy to France that his loss will remain the object of well-founded and honour able regret." A Lyons letter of the 14th says :—" This city has just witnessed a demonstration of working men. For a week past it has been announced, with details of a more or less disquieting nature. Yesterday the senator, Prefect of the Rhone, issued a procla mation to the workmen marked by a happy union of firmness and compassion. I purposely say com passion, for the sufferings of the silk weavers are only too real. M. Chevreau tells them that he is aware that a manifestation is about to be made ; he exhorts them to distrust the devisors of it, and to have confidence in the Emperor ; and he con cludes by offering to meet their delegates in order to come to an understanding as to the measures to be taken to assuage the sufferings caused by the pro longed want of employment. A proposition like this could not but be accepted, and this morning at ten the delegates left the Croix-Rousse for the old town-hall, now become the prefecture. A crowd of not less than from 8,000 to 10,000: men followed and filled all the streets and approaches of the Croix- Rousse and the Place des Terreaux. The square itself was for a time thronged, but a strong body of sergents de ville took up a position in it and kept the people in the side streets. This great mass of the population, however, raised no cries nor caused any disorder. During this time what took place between the prefect and the delegates? We do not yet know. It is asserted that the men were instructed to ask that a tax should be imposed upon the looms worked outside the octrei barriers, the abolition of the municipal tax on looms within the city, and the prompt opening of great national workshops in aid of the most pressing wants. Of those three propo sitions, the second alone, rumour declares, has been accepted." BOURSE, Oct. 18.—Two o'clock. —The market continues dull with few transactions, and these, with the exception of railway shares, at generally lower quotations. French Threes, for the account, are offered at 68f. 70c., with a fractional decline. Italian Fives are now doing at 55f. 5c., a decline of 25c. Credit Mobilier Shares are sf. lower, at 622 f. 50c. ; and Spanish Mobilier 2f. 50c. lower, at 344 f. 25c. Credit Foncier remain unchanged, but Comptoir d'Escompte have fallen 5f., to 880 f. Railway Shares are firm, and some show a fractional advance. Lyons are most in demand, and are doing at 902 f. 50c., an improvement of 2f. 50c. Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol lows : 4i per Cents 97 i Bank Shares 3575 Do. end month — Italian Loan 55 30 3 per Cents. 6B 60 Do. end month 55 20 Do. end month 6B 67 1 Mexican Loan — 2 _ _ _ Credit Mobilier ... 620 Do. Bonds Do. end month 622 50 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier Home Debt — Do. end month 1360 Deferred ICALLWAYS. For Account. Orleans Northern ll7O Lyons and Mediterranean 902 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain lO6 25 Saragossa 132 50 Ditto to Barcelona — Roman 577 50 545 - TIIE CONSERVATIVE HOME SECRETARY. —There is a considerable party in England who are of opinion that it would do certain political agitators and leaders of trades' unions good if they wore subjected to the discipline lately established by Governor Eyre in Jamaica. This party was very wroth at Mr. Walpole for the considera tion which ho showed to the Reform. League, and our comic journals, whose vocation is exaggeration, represented Mr. Walpole as crying; and, for political ends, phrases equally liquefied have been applied to that interview. The fact is, Mr. Walpole never shed any tears. When he com menced to speak ho paused, as though under emotion, but it was no more than many persons display who break down in a speech under unusual circumstances. So far as ho showed reluctance to proceed with measures which must have led to a considerable loss of life, his conduct was to his honour ; and it is bad policy, as well as bad taste, to make an offensive use of a characteristic of sympathy, which public men are not in the habit of betraying. If such conduct is persisted in, it will come to pass that inso knee and severity in an official will be thought the safer policy. The people who ridicule Mr. Walpole for his sympathy do all that lies in their power to bring the bearing of Sir Richard Mayne into fashion. The people have no interest in this. If the fashion a contemporary has put on, of suggesting thatthe Hyde-park railings shall be cast into a Niobeian statue of Mr. Walpole, is to be fol lowed by the working class, we shall oblige the Homo Secretary to perpetrate some official carnage to prove his nerve. For it requires less courage, iu these days, for a minister to commit an outrage than to hesitate and be hu mane. Mr. Walpole chose by far the most courageous part, and was called to account by his own party for it. It is the interest of the people to respect, and even honour, him for this.—The Working Man. " ENOCH ARDEN" WITH A DIFFERENCE. —A citizen of Atlanta, Georgia, was draughted into the ranks of the Southern army during the war, and went away, leaving his wife to sigh for the end of the conflict. At length the end came, but he came not, and after long waiting she took to herself another husband, and all wont merrik with them. Last week, however, the truant spouse suddenly returned. lie did not upbraid his wife, was willing that she should continue to live with her second husband if she preferred to do so, but merely insisted on taking his son and going off with him. The mother could not con sent to part with her son. If he would wait till the next morning she would make her preparations, and both sho and the boy would go with him. So ho waited ; but when morning came both sOn and mother had flown with the oecvad husband tv parts tullin6w4i ! -4tlanta New Era. LITERATURE. Cervantes' Don Quixote. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. One vol. Pp. 737. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. A sumptuous volume—ponderous only in a mate rial sense—is this glory of Light Literature. Gus tave Dore de France (or, as we suppose we might rather say, de Paris) and Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra are congenial spirits. They harmonise wonderfully well when brought thus directly into companionship. Pen and pencil, wielded by their hands, dance the wildest fandangoes together over the pages as we turn them-- and we know not which of the two the more extravagantly in an utter abandon of the very wildest eccentricity. Spreading the huge volume open —upon the support of no flimsy reading-desk, but of some substantial table, worthy of the weigh t, we bid adieu to gravity or sadness, to pensive medi tation or to serious thought of any kind upon the instant, nay, in point of fact, until some consider able time after we have shut the massive tome toge ther to recover from the side-shaking laughter of which the book is provocative at almost every turn of the leaf. Four hundred illustrations are here scattered affluently through the glorious letterpress. Four hundred drawings from about the most rapid pencil surely in all Christendom—the pencil of Gus tave Dore ! A daringly imaginative artist, who, al though as yet in the very flower of his manhood, has illustrated thus abundantly and enduringly such widely contrasting works as the Holy Bible, as Dante's " Divine Comedy," as this very work before us of Cervantes' " Don Quixote," and among others again of such a preposterous book as the anonymous " Adventures of Baron Munchausen." No wonder with a pencil so free, so bold, so untiring, so ambitious, that this young French draughts man has won his way well to the front already. If his repute required justification, as being, in truth, thoroughly well deserved, it would be sufficient to turn over the leaves of merely a very few chapters of his illustrated edition of the Holy Bible. Apart from that—his opus inagnunz as an illus trator---" Don Quixote" is almost sufficient for the same purpose—that is, in the way of affording that same kind of justification. The English version of the work —carefully edited, in the revision of the text of it, by J. M. Clark, M.A., and preceded by a brief but adequate biographical notice from the pen of T. Teignmouth Shore, M.A.—has been issued from the press as a veritable edition de luxe by one of the great popular publishing houses of the day—that of the Messrs. Cassell, Fetter, and Galpin. On its productioa they have manifestly lavished all •the resources of their immense establishment. The Bible Dictionary. Two Vols., pp. 1141. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. - • - Another costly publication by the same house, but one of a very different character from the work just noticed. Designed for the bookshelves as a work of reference, and, as such, appropriately clad in serious, even sombre, binding, the " Bible Dic tionary" forms a striking contrast, even in its exter nal appearance, when placed side by side with the gorgeously emblazoned bevilled binding of Dore's "Don Quixote." Divided into two weighty volumes —the first ranging from Aaron to Izri (pp. 573)-- the second from Jaakan to Zuzims (pp. 568)—the Dictionary under notice is embellished with a pro fusion of eminently useful explanatory woodcuts, distributed in amongst the letter-press, to the num ber of very nearly six hundred engravings. Taking the information here compacted together as a whole, it is, of course, indisputable (mais vela va sans dire) that scarcely two individuals out of the entire population of these islands could anywhere be found who would pronounce it to be orthodox. Yet what marvel can there possibly be in that—remembering what was said of this country, so wittily, nearly a hundred years ago, by Marie Arouet de Voltaire, when he spoke of England, with his ineffable sneer, as that land of a hundred religions and one sauce. Setting aside all ques tion as to the work's having any value at all upon doctrinal points, it is full of interest, and of value, and of perfectly reliable information_ of various kinds—geographical, historical, arch aillogical, philo logical, and otherwise. Christian's Mistake. By the Author of " John Halifax." One Vol., pp. 320. Hurst and •Blackett. A charming new edition of a very charming tale is this reprint of Miss Dinah Mulock's affecting story, entitled " Christian's Mistake." As a frontis piece embellishment, F. Sandys has depicted Chris tian herself, pausing for a moment, with a sorrowful expression of countenance, upon the staircase, whence she is watching Lord Uniacke as he saunters, cigar in mouth, to and fro in the distant river-side avenue. As the new volume added to the Messrs. Hurst and Blackett's well-known Standard Library, the book is particularly noticeable, because of a change in the general appearance of it, in the bind ing and tooling, in the paper and typography—in all but the size, which is pretty much the same as that of the preceding volumes. Coining to us under any shape, however, the work could hardly fail to be acceptable as the welcome reprint of a general favourite. FUN'S THIRD VOLUME—that is, Vol. 111. of the New Series, but Vol. X. of the Old Series—more than sustains the repute of Tom Hood as the alter ego of Fun, or, in other words, as Fun's head joke master! As we have already before now remarked, he is there indisputably as the right man in the right place, as the round man in the round hole, or as the square man in the square. Ever since he took the penny rival of Punch in hand as Editor, he has not only held his own admirably well, but he has raised the excellence of the whole publication, alike among its writers and among its illustrators. WEXFORD ELECTION. (From a Correspondent.) From the meetings which have t a k en p l ace a t Wexford and New Ross, I think we rimy safely infer that Mr. Pope Hennessey may b e cer t a i n o f hi s election for the county of Wexford, and once more appear on the floor of the House of Commons, of which he was for some years, if not a brilliant orna ment, at least one of the most earnest, painstaking, and successful debaters that ever had the good for tune to address the . house. We are quite sure that all parties will view with satisfaction such a result, and none more so than the present Government, to whom he was of infinite service when out of power. The Cambridge Music Hall. -- ss - -- This well-known and admirably conducted music hall having passed from the hands of its late pro prietor and founder, Mr. Nugent, into those of Mr. G. Page, the.pvent was last night celebrated by au inaugural concert. All London knows what a day and night of rain we bad, but Mr. Page's patrons bravely despised any inconveniences on this head, and the hall was well filled. The entertain ments were of the character usually provided at this establishment ; but there were several ac cessions of talent, .both in the sentimental and comic departments, to give extra eclat to the occa sion. Certainly the most noticeable feature in the programme was the return to the " operatic selec tion," the leading attraction in the earlier stages of the modern music-halls. A selection from " La Traviata" was extremely well rendered, with Miss Charlotte Grosvenor as prima donna. The mis cellaneous entertainments followed quickly on each other, and it is a merit at this hall that hardly any interval is allowed to elapse between the serving up of the various musical, dramatic, and sensational dishes. The Cambridge Music Hall has" now become a musical institution in the east end of London, and there seems every probability of its maintaining, and even improving, its position in this respect under Mr. Page's proprietorship. Mr. C. Creville, under the new management; retains his old and ably-filled post of musical director. THE GREAT ''ASTERN SHIP. —The question "Where is she to be put ?" is still a source of great anxiety and negotiation in Liverpool. The Dock Board having de clined to construct a gridiron in the Alfred Dock, the Great Ship Company have renewed their application for accom modation at some convenient point of the river whore the vessel can be " gridded," and the painting, repairs, &c., effectually carried out. Tho Dock Board have plans of a gridiron on a large scale, which were at ono time rejected by the directors of the Great Ship Company on the score, of expense, but the probability. is that ultimately a modifick tiun of these plans will have to be resorted tv if the vessel is to find acconimodatioa itt the Mersey BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Oct. 18. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor figurt3s of the previous account : responding DEBTOR. Oct. 18. Oct. 11. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 No tes in circulation ... 974,952,725 971,392,725 Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 19,422,221. 95 25,103,795 43 Treasury account cur rent creditor / 165,961,091 35 165,224,821 66 Current accounts, Paris 221,194,526 73 227,159,483 82 Do. branch banks 33,330,265 28,167,802 Dividends payable 1,175,096 75 1,245,066 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six. months 2,372,304 91 2,372,304 91 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries Total 1,654,623,501 90 1,657,507,112 98 CREDITOR. Oct. 18. Oct. 11. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- _ _ . counted, not yet due 286,081,279 95 277,039,818 74 Do. branch banks 347,800,322 346,032,092 Advances on deposit of bullion 20,557,700 19,008,600 Do. branch banks 5,575,400 10,013,500 Do. on French Public Securities 13,286,200 1 3 , 435 , 300 Do. by bran c h b an k s 7,944,900 7,494,600 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 24,752,500 24,298,300 Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980 750 14 , Do. disposable Bentes Immobalis6es (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,00 0 -- 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 1,873,954 93 1,643,962 45 Sundries T0ta1............ 1,654,623,504 00 1 ,657,507,112 98 Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) DAMAN). diftirt HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, Wednesday. The Queen opened the Aberdeen Waterworks, yesterday, at Invercannie. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur. The suite consisted of the Duchess of Roxburglie, the Hdn. Emily Cathcart, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel Ponsonby, Major Elphinstoue, Mr. Sahl, and Dr. Robertson. The royal party drove to Ballater, where a s pecial train was in readiness, which conveyed them to a temporary station at Inchmarlo, where her Ma jesty was received by Sir James Burnett, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire, and Mr. Davidson, of Inchmarlo, through whose ground the royal party proceeded to Invercannie. On arriving at the reservoir the Queen was re ceived by Sir Alexander Anderson, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and the Police Commissioners (by whom the works were undertaken), the Earl of Kintore, Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, the members for Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, and many of the gentry of the neighbourhood. A detachment of the volunteers of the district mounted as a guard of honour. After the delivery of a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, minister of the parish, the Lord Pro vost of Aberdeen presented an address to the Queen, who was graciously pleased to read an answer. Her Majesty then turned a watercock (which ad mitted the water into the reservoir), and declared the works to be open. At the conclusion of the ceremony the royal party returned by the same route to Balmoral. On passing Inchmarlo-house her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept a bouquet, presented to her by Miss Davidson. The Queen drove in the afternoon with nine() and Princess Christian. Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart and Major Elphinstone, rode to Ballater, and paid a visit to Dr. and Mrs. Jenner. Sir Stafford Northcote had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Sheriffs' Inaugural Banquet. Last evening, Mr. Alderman Waterlovi and Mr. Francis Lycett, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, entertained a large party of gentlemen at a banquet at the Stationers' Hall, on the occasion of their pointment to the offices they respectively hold. Among the company present were— Mr. Alderman Copeland, Alderman Sir John Musgrove, Bart., Mr• Alderman Sidney, Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Bart., Mr. Alderman Finnie, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Alderman William Law rence, M.P., Mr. Alderman Abbiss, Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Mr. Alderman Dakin, Mr. Alder man Besley, Mr. Alderman Gibbons, Mr. Alder man Stone, Mr. Alderman Cotton, Mr. A. 5. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Charles Capper, M.P., Mr. T. Cave, M.P., Mr. James Goodson, M.P., Mr• Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr. George Moffat, M.P., . Mr. Alderman Sheriff, M.P., Mr. William Tite, M.P., Mr. M‘Cullagh • Torrens, M.P., Mr. Holland (Governor o f the Bank of England), Mr. Huut (Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England), Sir John Thwaites (chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works), Mr. Henry Pownall (chairman of the Middlesex [magistrates), Mr. Horace Jones (City architect), Mr. Under-Sheriff Crossley, Mr. Under-Sheriff de Jersey, Mr. Edmund Hodgson, master of the Stationers' Company, and the war dens, treasurer, and court of assistants of the Sta tioners' Company, the mayor, aldermen, and mem bers of the corporation of the city of Worcester, the mayor of Nottingham, Sir Charles Crosley, Sir George Hodgkinson, Mr. Thomas Cotterell, Mr. W. H. Twentyman, Mr. H. J. Nissen, Mr. J. E. Saun" ders (chairman of the City Lands Committee), Mr. James Waterlow, Mr. A. J. Waterlow, Mr. Conn' cillor and Sheriff Stollard, the master wardens and court of assistants of the Spectacle Makers' Cora pany, Mr. H. Giffard, Q.C., Mr. D. Evans, Mr. W. B. Waterlow, Mr. H. Sykes Thornton, Mr. W. Campbell Sleigh, Mr. W. Metcalfe, Mr. John Lycett, Mr. Peter Graham, the high bailiff of South wark, Mr. Thomas Rudkin (chairman of the Mar kets Committee), Mr. Lawley (chairman of Local Government and Taxation Committee), Mr. George Ledger,,the Rev. Allen T. Edwards, M.A., and the Rev. G. T. Perke, M A • • The loyal toasts having been duly honoured, bar: Sheriff LYCETT proposed " The Health of the Lora Mayor," which was responded to by Mr. Alderman FINNISS, in the unavoidable absence of his lordship• Mr. AldermanWATEßLow then gave " The House of Commons," coupled with the name of Mr. Al derman Lawrence, M.P., who, in returning thanks , said that that assembly was fully prepared to take into its consideration the necessity for extending the basis on which it existed. It would not become him to express an opinion upon the subject at such a momont as the present, but he might be permitted to observe that there could be no doubt that the house would meet the wishes of the people in a fair and prosperous manner. There were other questions however, which would be pressed forward in the House of Commons, and brought to a satisfactory' conclusion ; as, for instance, the education of the people, the homes of the people, &c. —question s which he was quite sure would be discussed in such a manner as to cause the benefits arising from the° to be fairly distributed amongst all classes of the community. Mr. Sheriff LYCETT proposed " The Mayor, A l- , dermen, and Corporation of the City of Worcester, of which city the hon. gentleman expressed himself proud to be a native, and intimately connected with its manufacturing interests. The MAYOR of Worcester, in returning thanks' alluded to the exertions which had been made by' Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow to improve the O dwellings of the poor, and stated that be most r , dially coincided with him in those praiseworthy' efforts. Mr. TITE, M.P., proposed " The Health of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex," observing that, aa far as Mr. Alderman Waterlow was concerned, he was quite sure that there was no one in this room, no one in the City of London, who did not highly approve the exertions he had made, and was Bt u ' making to improve the homes of the poor. He (I\ l . l ' Tite) was at the same time happy to testify to the merits of Mr. Alderman Waterlow's father, who was present on the occasion, and who had, alwa9 3 , id en tified himself with movements for the benefit 0 ' the poor. The office of sheriff was an ancient office' It existed before that of the mayor, through th e worst time and under the worst form of govern" ment, and it had always maintained the rights an privileges of the City of London. In reference to Mr. Sheriff Lycett, the hon. gentleman said that by the aid of his own exertions, he ha,d become one °, ' the merchant princes of th e City o f L on don, and was fully entitled to the honour which his fellovir citizens had recently conferred upon him. (Cheers.) The Sheriffs respectively acknowledged the corn' pliment, Mr. Alderman Waterlow expressing the great pleasure he felt at the fact that his father, t ° whose good example he was greatly indebted for hi ° success in life, had been spared to sit beside hula ° a this (to him) most interesting occasion. " The Magistrates of the City of London" w 3 l the next toast given, and Mr. Alderman Copelaa" returned thanks. Other toasts followed in succession, and the all tertainment was brought to a close shortly b ef°l.o 11 o'clock. L,WHETTIER BEES WORK AT NIGHT, I have be ef often asked. They certainly do, as in looking a them in a glass hive by means of a lighted candle , I 113 f always found thorn to be apparently busy in various No Y'; A swarm put into an empty straw hive, quite new, lat ° i b the evening; will have a considerable quantity of c° l ' l 6 completed by the next morning.—EnwAnD 4MB, in pi l° a Wok Al by % coi the fey an be o f op fit