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ITENTB,E ROYAL DRURY-LANE. TSole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING will be periormed Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH Mr. H. Talbot ; Messrs. Sinclair, W. Mintyre, Henri Dr yton ; Mesdamel AMy Sedgwick, Jenny Bauer, Rebecca Isaacs. ms To conclude with THE BEGGARS' OPERA, Captain Alacheath, Mr. W. Harrison. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKE'r, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, VIES EVENING, THE OVERLAND ROUTE . Msr e s .4 ss. Choi let Mathews, Buck s ton e, Com ; .ton, Chippende, oer, Clark, Braid. Gordon, White, ac. ; Mesdamt s Mathews, Chip pendale, 11111, vt right, &c. After which, tho BALLET DIVERTISSEMEN r. The Misses Healy. To be lollowed by THE CCU TIC. Me srs. C. Mathews. Compton, itogers ;Mrs. ?i,zwiiliam , &c . lo conclude with MY 11 UzBANLYS GHOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM. TIIENTRE.- Sole L e asee and Manager, 3lr. Ye:Jaen ruts EVENING, EVENING, AN C.F.SAR. Miss Hearade. At a Qiarter before 8, the new Drama. in Four Au' s, THE LONU w ritten t)y Dioa isoacicawt. The New Scene , yby Mr. 1. Greive aa.d aesistants. MeBB4Emery, Widlicomb, Nitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderaon, ewbound Stanley. Leman, Moreland, Audrewa, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To co nclude w ith TWEEDLF.TON'S TAIL COAT. Toby Tweedleton, Mr. 11. Widdmo mb ; and Miss liratton Acting M an ager, Mr. H. Barnett. Stage Manager , Mr. W West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THE LONG STRIKE.-ROYAL LYCEUM T HEAT rtE,—Johuny Reilly (an Irish Sailor), Mr. 1). Boucicault ; Jane Learoyd (a Factory Girl), Mrs. D. Bouci cault. At 7 o'clock. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and 'tanager, Mr. Geo. Vining. WINTER SEASON. N.B.—Doors open at Half-past Six, performances to com mence at Seven. TUIS EVENING, a Comedy, in Three Acts, by John Oxenford, Es q , entitled THE T_RIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. Vining, Mr. J. G. Shore; Miss K. Rogers, Miss Neilson, and Itirs. Buckingham White. Atter which, at 9 o'clock, THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. by Watts Phillips. Esq. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Neilson, Miss A. Thomson; Mr. Forrester, Mr. G. honey, and Mr. J. G . Shore. G rand Ballet ot oohemsns, i which MM. Scenery by Mr. Flageolet, Clo doche, C o mete, and Norman i de, n will appear. E. Lloyds. IIEATRE ROYAL ADELYIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Tills EVENING, at 7 precisely (51h time), ETHEL ; or, ONLY A LIFE. Miss Kate Terry, Mrs. Alired Miss Furtado, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Billington, Stephen son, AsuleY, Komi', C. J. Smith, Ac. To conclude with HELEN ; or, TAKEN FROM THE GILEEK, Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, 1. A. Shaw, Ashley, Ithurne. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, 3lrs. swanborough. TUB EVENING, THE MARRIED BACHELOR. llessrs. Thorne and Price; Misses Johnstone and Hughea. To be followed by IN THE WRONG BOX. 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Tins DAY.—Morning, Bh. 15m.—Afternoon, Bh. 56m Ta-Moßnow.-Morning, 9h. 3Gm.—Afternoon, 10h. 15in , -4, (di l e_ ": oug a . th , - • 44. '-C , 4,;; , ,,„5eW 143 t 10 diN" 11(141V LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 1866 Mr. BRIGHT has bad a few last words to say in Glasgow, and yesterday morning was entertained at breakfast by a body of the Scottish National Reform League. On this occasion the hon. meta jeer for Birmingham seemed to be more moderate in his tone than he was on the previous evening, al though there was still an under -current of bitter ness in his discourse ; but we believe this has grown so much to be his habit by this time that he can hardly avoid indulging in this strain when he gets excited or interested in a theme. At the commencement of his speech Mr. Brower dwelt chiefly on subjects more inti mately connected with Scottish interests. 0j course he interpolated a little abuse general and particular into his summary of the affairs relating to national representation, and he told his hearers that " he could not believe that the tenant farmers in lladdingtonshire would submit to be long repre sented as they now are." Worse than that, how ever, is to be the doom of Lord ELCHO ; for Mr. BRIGHT does not think that until the Scottish people are wholly changed that there will be found any county in Scotland, " any population, or electoral body even, that can be in favour of repre sentation by such a gentleman." This sweep ing condemnation is thoroughly in unison with Mr. BRIGHT'S mode of judging. If any one differ from him, no matter how great or influential he may be, how much respected for his private cha racter, how much admired for his talent or energy, he must be set aside as useless lumber not worthy to come before the public. Until all men are born with the same tastes and feelings, with similar opinions and like convictions, we do not see how this theory of one voice can ever be reconciliated. The best and wisest differ continually, and it would be great presumption on the part of any politician to decide who is or who is not useful, and who has or has not the welf are of the country and the true interests of the people at heart. Mr. BRIGHT Pays a well-deserved tribute to the intelligence of the people of Scotland, and especially records his opinion of the good order maintained by those who figured in the display of Tuesday, but we beg to assure him that such merits .s feelin gs , wouldand not long be theirs if they were actuated by la shared his views in respect to their superiors in station. The true greatness and real glory of the lowe r classes of Englishmen a n d Scotchmen consist i u t heir exhibition of those qualities which arc the v er y reverse of those Mr. BRIGHT imputes to them. They were never further removed from a desire to pro ceed to violence than they are at present, but that does not exculpate him from constantly referring to the nation. lie amuses himself by asking what would become of the United Kingdom if the men of these classes re to be sud denly taken from us, an we d then replies, " Why, the nation would dwindle into no nation at all, and those men who from the heights of their wealth look down upon those multitudes 'whom) buguefoi alone it is to labour and to obey the laws, and to have no share in the making of those i laws, why those men wou ld be at once dethroned from being the ostens ible leaders of a great nation., and would themselves, incompetent as they are, have to descend even to the works of common l a b ou r which they now despise." This is very idle reasoning, ' and it might as well be asked what would become of those who labour all their employers, and the wealth they have if , were swept away. Mr. BRIGHT is always throwing out hints, and ask ing, as he did yesterday, " whether it be right, and whether it be safe," for the Tory party to say this and that respecting the people ; but it might be re torted on him, if it be right for him to keep asking these questions. If there be such glaring injustice done, let him confine his remarks to things, and not extend his rancorous observations to persons. Mr. BRIGHT thinks that it is his duty to aid in the abolition of a greater monopoly than that of the tax on food, which some years engaged his efforts, and he is resolved not to rest till he has put down again the " stupid and ignorant monopoly of the landowners." Mr. DALGLISH, M.P., proved himself to be no sincere friend to the cause of Re form, because he alluded to the probability of the present Government bringing in a Reform Bill next Session, and " warned the people to be on their guard how they credit it, feeling convinced it would not be introduced with sincerity or from a sense of justice, but simply extracted by fear." If this is to be the policy of those who are urging on the people to make demonstrations in favour of Reform, we can tell them beforehand that it is a very base and unworthy one, and Mr. BRIGHT had better reflect before he adopts again the con temptible course he pursued in 1859. He will only draw down upon himself the contempt of all really honest Reformers, and expose the insincerity of his own feelings. A great national work, that affects the interests of a mighty nation, should not be profaned by the admixture of mean motives ; but if Mr. BRIGHT will not allow Reform to be carried unless he can fulfil his desire of exterminating his opponents, and dealing a deadly blow at the higher classes, we must consider him as a most mischievous agitator, who takes advantage of his opportunities to act unfairly, and in the end he will most assuredly forfeit the respect of those whom he professes to serve with so much zeal and ,ur. ardor Men are proverbially inclined to delay any necessary practical reform which has not the excite ment of political partisanship to recommend it, or does not press sharply and heavily upon themselves. The English have long been noted for the lazy patience with which they endure undoubted griev ances notwithstanding their energy and enterprise in some directions. Such indifference and laissez faire are all very well with regard to petty annoyances, or even where some of our own social difficulties are concerned, but there are occasions on which the consequences are disastrous. Sometimes a long course of delay and neglect is followed by a startling catastrophe. Persistent disregard of the sanitary condition of the poor in our eastern parishes was succeeded by that terrible outbreak of cholera which startled the whole community early this autumn. In the same way, although the calamity is on a far larger scale, the chronic indifference of our Anglo-Indian authorities to the great needs of the country under their con trol—irrigation and means of transit—has been followed by the fearful famine which is now deso lating Arissa and its neighbourhood, and which is bringing in its train a host of attendant evils. The accounts which reached us by the last mail pears to =VC actea 'wisely Ina' pfbmptly oy tele graphing full authority to the Governor-General to make an immediate advance from the Government funds. But the evil has reached a height which the greatest exertions can hardly control for a time, and, as had been all along feared, the pestilence is showing itself iu its track. Cholera has broken out in several of the most affected districts, and has found the wretched population only too ready to succumb to its attacks. In such a state of things, which they have little reason to hope will speedily mend, it is no great wonder that we hear that vice and crime are prevalent, that plunder and robbery are growing common, and that in parts of Bengal parents are selling their children, to be spared the anguish of seeing them starve. This is a terrible picture, but there is, un happily, no reason to believe it is overdrawn. Famine is an enemy already too familiar to many of the Indian districts, and its features are generally the same, varying only in intensity with the extent of the misfortune. The famine this year, despite all improvements, is a very severe one, and the worst of it is that no immediate relief is anticipated. The Chairman of the Relief Fund in Calcutta, in his recent telegram to the Viceroy at Simla, relative to the severity of the distress in Arissa, and parts of Bengal, stated that it was likely to continue for several months. The most painful part of the business is that the prevailing misery might have been so much lessened by foresight and timely exertion. This is surely a case in which prevention is a hundredfold better than cure. It is far easier for a Government to be wise in time, to lay in stores, to provide em ployment on public works with attendant depots of food, and to organise an efficient system of relief at the commencement of a famine than to grapple with it at its height, when pestilence, and crime, and discontent have added to it s t error. If, on the first mutterings of the distant storm, efficient efforts had been made the sufferings of the people might have been greatly mitigated, and thousands of lives might have been spared. Famine is not a disaster which can take us by surprise. It is not like a pestilence which may suddenly break out in apopu lous district ; not like a typhoon or an inundation, or an earthquake or a volcanic eruption, which might find the wisest unprepared. The national supply of food cannot fall short without warning, and in a country like India, with its vast and helpless population, and its deficiency in the means of com munication, the first indication of danger should arouse the authorities to action. the lamentable loss of independently o f life, the damage done to the prestige of the Government is a very serious thing. A to have everything done people, accustomed for them, murmur, because their rulers can not find them food, and the worst of it is that they have real ground for complaint. It would be most unfair to any one individual to lay the blame on his shoulders ; but the malcontents in India do not scruple to select objects for their censures. It is a noticeable fact that the Indian press, usually so subservient to those in power, is unsparing in its indignant denunciation of those in authority. them ame publishes a letter from a Bengal, in the districts, which is reprinted in the Bengal llurkaru for the benefit of English readers. The writer gives an account of what he has himself witnessed in the vicinity of of Arissa, and speaks very strongly of the neglect of the local government. Had there, he says, been half as much care taken to save life in India as was taken to preserve the cattle in England during the cattle plague hundreds might have been saved. " are a conquered people, and our lives are of less Talus than the lives of the cows, goats, pa d 6heep of England. If handreds and thousands of us were to die, who would count ? But in Eng land a statement of dead beasts was prepared." It is most unfortunate that sentiments of this kind should be current among the natives. The manifest injustice of such a statement, the perversion of facts, and unfairness of illustration, do not prevent it from being in the highest degree mischievous among the uninformed. The natives are not for the most part sufficiently aware of the powers of modern engineer ing science to be sensible of the real cause of complaint against their English rulers—the neglect of irrigation, but they are quite able to understand the effect of the apathy and hesi tation which have failed to assist them in their sore distress. We shall be anxious to learn from Calcutta what steps have been taken since the receipt of Lord CRANBORNE'S communication, and mean while it is to be hoped that Englishmen will not fail to learn from the extent of the present calamity the necessity of bringing public opinion in this country to bear upon the constitutional indolence of the Anglo- Indian Administration. tomed position without causing any damage or in jury of importance. A few cases of fever, however, had occurred in some of the districts where the waters had remained for some time. The mortality was not very great. The Vienna Gazette publishes in French and Ger man the text of the Treaty of Peace concluded be tween Austria and Italy, but I do not translate it as the chief provisions of it were well known before. The total amount of the subscriptions announced in the Moniteur to-day for the relief of the sufferers by the late inundations is 784,023 fr. More cases of poisoning from eating supposed mushrooms are recorded. At the village of Cade role, near St. Jean du Garde, in the South of France, a family named Rossignol, have been poisoned. The family was composed of the mother, her two daugh ters, and a governess. Of the above persons three died very shortly after eating the vegetable—the mother, one of the daughters, and the governess. The other daughter was not expected to survive. I find, from a perusal of many provincial papers, that the fears respecting the vintage excited by the long continuance of cold wet weather have happily proved to be unfounded. There is no doubt that in the majority of the wine districts the produce is very abundant. Indeed the abundance was so great as to cause a demand for extra workmen, who made a sort of strike for higher wages, and received atout a third more pay than usual. Such has been the quantity of wine in some localities that it was difficult to pro cure barrels or other vessels to contain it. Of the quantity produced there is therefore no doubt, but it is proved that the quality of some of the wine will not bo so good as that of last year. This morning early there was heavy white frost in all the localiti e s around Paris, but the sun rose brightly, and has been shining already, but a rather cold wind prevailed. The Charivari has the following rather malicious anecdote. A traveller was seated at a table d'hôte, and when a dish with radishes was passed round, he emptied them all into his own plate. " I beg your pardon," said the gentleman seated next to him, " I am also very fond of radishes." " Not so fund as I am," said the traveller coolly, and he persisted in eating them all. This traveller was no other than Count Bismarck. When the Prussian generals im posed burthen upon burthen on the city of Frank fort, the bankers of the ci-devant capital of the Ger man Confederation found it useless to remonstrate, " We have worked all our lives to get our millions," said they, " and we like them." "Not so much as I," said Bismarck, and he took the- millions. King George the Fifth protested against the annexation of his states to Prussia, and said that as a good Prince he liked to govern his subjects, the Hano verians. Count Bismarck answered, " Not so much as I do," and so he annexed Hanover to his own kingdom. LI It is very much to be regretted that the recen outrages in Sheffield should not have produced more effect in arresting the cause of those mis guided and malevolent individuals who have out raged all sense of justice and propriety by their conduct. The recent accounts that have reached us from them show that unfortunately the evil has taken too deep a root to be eradicated quickly or easily, and in fact may be considered as one of those dangers which periodically affect society, and which must be met in a bold spirit and a determined manner. It appears that letters have been received by two of the masters in the town, which contained threats, and in one of these allusion was made to another flaring-up occurring shortly. Energetic efforts have been made to facilitate the discovery of the offenders, and the reward has been augmented to eleven hundred, accompanied by the promise of free pardon to any accomplice who is not the actual criminal. We trust that these inducements will speedily induce some one to come forward and throw light on this confused subject, for much de pends upon the effect of bringing the mis creants to justice. It will never do to allow matters to rest as they are, and for a spirit of terrorism to reign triumphant. It is true that in Ireland it has long been difficult, if not impossible, to stop these outrages, but in Eng land something must be done, and the sooner the better for the safety of society and the furtherance of justice. We may add also, for the credit and character of those who form these Trade Associa tions, the more respectable ones must be against such acts, and those who are half and half had better realise the fact at once that great harm will inevitably ensue to their undertakings, and blame attach itself justly to them, if a period is not put to such infamous practices at once, and for ever. We live in days when such LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Oct. 18. An Imperial rescript, dated 14th inst., has been published here to-day, convoking for the 19th November all the Diets of the Empire, with the exception of that of Hungary. The Emperor has also addressed an autograph letter to Count Majlath, the Aulic Chancellor of Hungary, announcing that the convocation of the Hungarian Diet had been deferred for the pre sent on account of the prevalence of cholera. The letter further requests Count Majlath to return to his post without delay, in order that, should a favourable change take place in the sanitary condi tion of the country, the Diet may be opened imme diately. The Emperor also requests Count Majlath to communicate his sincere thanks to the Hungarian Volunteers for their services to their country, and to express to the inhabitants generally his Imperial tecognition of the numerous proofs which they have longinitoetlfea.-aliiaii-OPFenirkiinr.bc4h" outrages can no longer be tolerated, and it is the duty of all to impress this part seriously upon those who persist in forming these societies and THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1866 cellor. Miss Braddon's New Magazine. Belgravia a London Magazine. Conducted by M. E. Braddon. No. I. As a first appearance this is upon the whole per fectly satisfactory. It will disappoint only the cavillers at Miss Braddon's immense popularity. It will more than realise the expectations formed in regard to her new enterprize by the majority of her admirers, and as such of her very cordial well-wishers. Externally and internally Belgravia is refreshingly attractive. It is the most propitious coming forth of a new adventurer amongst our monthly pe riodicals, that has taken place since the inauguration of the career of the Corn hill. And as the ripe golden hue of W. M. Thackerary's Magazine gladdened the eye with a welcome touch of colour, to say nothing of the arabesqued design artistically traced upon that same rich colouring by the graceful pencil of the draughtsman—precisely in the same way now does M. E. Braddon's Magazine, in its turn, both by its delicate green and umber colouring, and by the dainty device by which those contrasting hues are blent together and interwoven, gladden the eye by the mere charm of its external appearance. Like the Cornhill both in size and price, Belgravia is adorned with double the number of the Corn hill's full-page embellishments. Whereas the Cornhill has always contented itself with two, Belgravia appears with no less than four highly elaborated illustrations. In regard to the mere material part of the " getting up" of it—in the matter that is simply of paper and of typography—it competes not only with the very best of its shilling contemporaries, but with the older high-priced monthly magazines, such as Maga and Regina, or, reversing the sequence and speaking of them lite rally, such as Fraser and Blackwood. Three metri cal and ten prose contributions make up the con tents of this initial number of Belgravia. Some among the latter, it is true, we cannot but regard as so much mere padding. We can't help looking upon them, in other words, as having been thrown in, somewhat as straws are in the manufacture o f bricks—just for the purpose, we may presume, o holding the other materials together. Speaking of the articles to which we are here taking exception as of so many mere makeweights, we would pass them by at once with a simple curt enumeration of their titles: " African Martyrology," by Winwood Reade, beginning with Clapperton and ending with Sir Samuel Baker—"An Adventurous Investigation" be ing a delineation of Manx madmen and mad women, tediously spun out, and painfully out of place as it 1 appears to us—an Oxford sketch, entitled "In the Schools Quad"—and No. I. of a seriesof Belgravian Prose Ballads (self -descriptive, this one, of "The Chaperone") a simple and flagrant eccen tricity. " A Fireside Story, told by the Poker," promises, by its title, to be better than it proves to be. The " Feast of St. Partridge, at Park Hall," however, is not only vivacious, but delightful from first to last. "Market-street, Manchester," again, is another of those animated outpourings of discur sive chat, in regard to which George Augustus Sala has long stood without any competitor—but never more conspicuously than since the time when (about two'years ago) he first took, like Young Dorrit to be "of the streets streety." " Love in November," by Mortimer Collins, is a snatch of erotic verse that one might have looked for more confidently from Algernon Swinburne than from any one else. The Rev. Blomfield Jackson's lines on the " Slain at Sadowa" are utterly marred by the inharmoniously absurd effect of the first verse of the opening stanza. Evelyn Forest's " Indictment," the other metrical contribution not yet particu larised, being suggestive, by a very few words in deed, of a very glowing picture, a pictuee pencilled with only too much passion, but with exquisite grace, by C. J. Staniland. Another over-impas sioned picture is the one by E. K. Johnson, embel lishing the serio-comic historical record about " Swells," in which Antique Swells are shown to us, while in the enjoyment of a classic symposium. The writer of this same entertaining paper on Swells, has evidently acquired a mastery of his subject . iii - Og£ alJae"ciatiVeTT. t qi c ( l , ll / 1 4M in g* tinkriat e ch perfectly the Fine Gentleman under all his vary ing aspects, namely, as the Coxcomb, the Fop, the Blood, the Beau, the Exquisite, the Dandy, and the Swell. Speaking of the noblest type of them all—the Swell—he says, and says truly : "Yet these heads of theirs never bowed down before the face of their enemies, which leads me to observe upon a very remarkable feature in the idiosyncrasy of a swell. Though gilded, painted, and perfumed,—with tender toes made tenderer by a reckless employment of leather, and white hands made whiter by a judicious use of kid, —this phenomenon of civilised life was never found to be defi - cient in spirit. Perhaps to be a swell at all—to defy the scoffs of other creatures, and set completely at naught the contempt of the wise—argues so large an amount of assur ance, that after it, nothing in creation can exist too appal ling to be faced with the profoundest confidence and com posure. Be this as it may, the histories of the Indian mutiny, the Crimean war, and similar periods of horror and bloodshed, attest, as must be confessed, to this redeeming attribute in a thoroughbred swell ; who is thus as much to be dreaded by his enemies in war, as friends, with any re spect for their own complacency, would dread him in 'sweet piping times of peace.' " The full length portrait, however, as it has here been drawn with admirable skill to the very life, is worth the giving here, or worth the reflection here, shall we say, by means of quotation : " The S well ! wonderful offspring of the most intricate art ! Conscious of his own superlative excellence, and freezingly indifferent to the gibes of vulgar ridicule, see how stately he threads his way through the mazes of ob servant crowds, and admiring thronged assemblies ! There are two well-defined varieties of the Swell which we must remark almost every day of our lives: the soft fragile creature, upon whom the lightest breeze seems to fall with a too ungentle force ; and the defiant S well, whose haughty frowns and devouring looks are apparently borrowed from the aborigines of New Zealand. Fairness, thinness, effemi nacy, weakness, together with pearls, turquoise, and silver ornaments, are the specialities of the former; whereas the latter who is by nature sable-haired, olive-skinned, strong built, and robust, delights in green and red, and never misses an opportunity of introducing in his apparel as many gold busses, rubies, garnets, horse-shoes, and death's heads as is consistent with the canons of swelldom ; and in this respect swelldom is not niggardly. They have certain family features, however, which are common to both, and without which they would not be Swells. No aspirant to either degree would, without whiskers, pass for anything but a spurious and impudent pretender. It is in vain to commence swellism, if neither nature nor cantharides have bestowed this prerequisite. Besides, the culture of the whiskers supplies the thoroughbred Swell with the main business of his life. Shave him from ear to chin, and his occupation is gone. Cover over that inexpressive region of the human countenance with the luxuriance needed, and what with washing, brushing, greasing, perfuming, and stroking, he has enough to do to occupy all those valu able hours when he is not showing off the fruits of his manipulations in public. Then all Swells are, in the ela boration of their more trifling accessories, works of the highest finish. They are stippled all over and in every part, principal orsubordinate, like a fine miniature on ivory; and the effect is so artificial and precious, that framing and glazing seems the next thing to be clone, though in charity (rather t. them than others) we must stop short of hanging them up. Now, quitting his exterior, let us look to what he has, or rather has not, in him. Not much conversation; not a very rich stock of ideas ; not at an a copious vocabu lary. Every portionless widow is 'a horror;' every pen niless maid 'a fright ;' an ordinary acquaintance ' a fel lah ;' men of fortune ' trumps ;' a friend who accepts one's bills ' a brick ;' and those old 'uns who don't 'regular muffs and duffers.' What ho abhors is' beastly ;' what he does not abhor is ' jolly;' and what he loves—and he disdains to love anything else—is himself. And with respect to all the enjoyments of existence he is simply passive. He was never surprised, amused, or contented since he was born. Pleasures bore him; people bore him; his creditors bore him ; the routine of life bores him; the weather bores him; the first day of the week bores him : the Opera on the last bores him. The only emotion to which he is liable is dis gust; and there is so little heartiness about this, that when he owns to it, it looks only like a remote objection. Then he eats without any sign of relish ; drinks only to remove depression, or create au unnatural sensation, which, when fully obtained, affords no satisfaction ; and there is so little vital sensation between his sleeping and waking hours that he is conscious of no agreeable refreshment in his slumbers, or pleasurable excitement in the activities which follow." And now, having said and quoted thus much of, and from, No. I. of Belg,ravia, we have to speak but of two other contributions, making up the full com pliment of the contents of this the initial number of Miss Braddon's New Magazine. We have re served our reference to them purposely thus until the very end, because in bidding adieu for a while _ to the new periodical, and vii,Alin it all possible °‘l° FAST MEN. A SKETCH BY "WHIZ." (From the Sporting Review.) Notwithstanding the patronag e of Augustus Caesar, the mentorship of Maecenas, and the friendship of Marcus Tullius, Cicero, and Publius Virgilius Maro, Horace was one of the fastest men of his age, and as a man of the world had a thorough knowledge of human nature, men, and manners; and he was the first man who brought lyric poetry to any degree of perfection amongst the Romans, and there is no doubt, from his odes and satires, was a swell of the first water, loud in his apparel, which oft pro claims the man, and a promenader in the Campus Martins and the Circus Maximus, and a constant attendant at the Forum. We fancy him a sort of cross between Count D'Orsay and the late lamented Earl of Chesterfield, with a dash of Tom Moore in his composition. He was a gallant —a perfect Don Juan, and his armours with Lydia, Chloe, and Lyc6 most engaging. He was faithless in the extreme, but evidently fonder of Lydia than his other loves. When Lydia upraids him for his affection for Chloe, what says Horace ? "If our former love returns, and unites us by a brazen (not, as often at the present day, golden) yoke, what if Chloe, with her golden locks, be shaken off, and the door again opened to repudiated Lydia ?" Lydia replies with much pathos, " Though you were brighter than as a star, of more levity than a cork, and more passionate than the Witorka i ikAl l liali„s2? - 1 111d ly var o. ,I should love to live, and " Tecum vivere antem, tecum obeam libens." But enough of the ancients. In the Middle Ages there was Henry 11. with Fair Rosamond, Edward IV. who had his Jane Shore, and Charles 11. his Nell Gwynn, and sub sequently George 11. his huge elephants and his white mice, so ably described by Thackeray ; but we aro not sur prised at his loves for these angels or otherwise, as the case may be. We all woo them and win them for weal and woe, and as Shakspero says— " Win her with gifts if she respect not words ; For costly gifts, in their silent kind, More than quick words do move a woman's mind." We now come to George IV., the gamblers, and gaming houses, the bane of all good, and which were now in the ascendant at the west end of London ; and many of the gaming houses merged into the then new Crockford 's Clubhouse in St. James'-street. Crockford was a partner in Wattier's Club in Piccadilly, where play was carried on to a great extent ; and report states that Hughes Ball, called " Golden Ball," lost £45,000 at a sitting. During the progress of the new building in St. James'-street, there was a removal to Pall Mall, whilst Crockford laid the foun dation stone of that princely fortune he eventually amassed. Luck never seems to have deserted him, and his winnings have been stated to have reached in one year £lOO,OOO. In 1828 the club was formally constituted. A committee was formed, and the chair was filled by the Earl of Sefton, and 300 noblemen and gentlemen enrolled their names as members ; and Ude was engaged as French cook at £l,OOO a year. Forty-two servants, in and out of livery, were engaged on this establishment. Of the 300 members not more than 70 were playmen, who played games of chance —hazard, for instance, whilst others played at whist, ecart6, and games of science, but declined partaking in the amusement and excitement of the dice-box. The game of hazard was played in a small front room on the second floor, and that room was never shown to visitors, who re quired a ticket to visit the morning play, which commenced at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and continued till 7. At 11 o'clock the real play began, the bank putting down £lO,OOO, and the stakes may be said to have been un- limited. I cannot conclude this sketch without observing that Old Grockey was a man of the most humane and bonevolont disposition. He never discharged a servant if ho could possibly avoid it, and he has been known to read a strong moral lesson to one as to his future conduct in life. lie had a splendid freehold estate at Newmarket, where his young wife and family resided, and were greatly re spected by the inhabitants, and particularly by the poor, who often felt the benefit of their humanity and generosity. There were also several mihor silver play-houses in the neighbourhood of Leicester-square that we have visited to seo life, which was all the fashion in the days of Tom and Jerry; in fact, we all tried to be Corinthians of the first water, and we thought of the beautiful lines of Milton "Open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound The infernal doors, and on their huge hinges grate Harsh thunder. I fled, and cried out 'Death !' Hell trembled at the hideous Name, and sighed from all her caves, And back resounded 'Death !" " Amongst all the vicissitude of life and the various phases of human nature in her best and worst form, perhaps gambling is the most fatal. We remember a man—a young nobleman—having a capital, on coming of ago, of £200,000, and an income of £75,000 a year. He might have been a Prince of Wales in those times, as there were few Crightons afloat, but he took to handling the dico box ; and as every body knows, or ought to know—as Crockford once said, he could not live under the sacrifice of a noble man an hour— the capital soon went. Ho became a mere tool in the hands of his creditors and his dear friends the Jews—the vaga bond Jews I and ho subsequently subsisted on £5,000 a year out of his very fine estates in Derbyshire and Nottingham shire. We also knew another man of a different calibre, a much greater rogue and fool. He married a black-diamond heiress, of the North of England district. He left her as too black or too stupid ; and he, being a good-looking fellow, she loved him; and after he left her she settled £4,000 a year on him. He gambled on the Stock Exchange, and is now living in retirement in the country with a bare subsis tence ; and, for excitement sake (a ruling passion), he has turned religious. We need not go on multiplying examples of stupidity. Everybody knows there is either a rogue or a fool born every minute ; but we prefer the former. As Old Weller says, you may circumvent him somehow, as he wanted Sam to circumvent the housemaid, or himself the widow of the Markis of Granby. Perhaps two of the fastest men of their day were Colonels Leicester and Lincoln Stanhope; and Colonel Berkeley, Lord Segrave, and Earl Fitzhardinge-1 believe these men were both too clever to be gamblers, because they knew the deed odds against which they would have to play. But such was the innate love for gambling amongst all classes of the community that open betting was allowed at all the races, in booths, especially Epsom; and huge fat women under large umbrellas kept watch and ward at roulette tables for the lower orders on the course, as there was n. A division under Inspector Walker, perhaps one of the most cunning of his craft, and who rivals Buthven, Forester, and Gouge Ledbetter, of thief -taking notoriety, and Doy-otreet, cess upon the delightful path upon which it has runners, and who received as much as an ex-Lord Chan already by its very first step advanced so far and so adventurously, we would fain speak of it by pre ference as at its best. Both these contributions are purely imaginative. Both, in fact, are stories. One — a miniature story which is to be related in no more than three parts (of which the first part is here given to us in its entirety)—is anonymous. The other, more ambitious in its character as a work of art of far more considerable dimensions, is the grand attrac tion with which Belgravia opens—the pice de resist ance with which it undertakes to satisfy the appetite, month by month, of even the most insatiable of its devourers—being nothing less than the new serial story by the Editress herself—a story entitled " Birds of Prey," from the hands of the authoress of " Lady Audley's Secret," and of so many other renowned talcs of enthralling interest. The " Iron Casket" is the title, by the way, of the smaller (anonymous) story, here very effectively commenced --a tale of the travaux forcs. Both it and the " Birds of Prey" will be found to have been exquisitely illustrated—the former, that is " The Iron Casket," by F. J. Skill, the latter, that is Miss Braddon's own romance by M. Ellen Edwards. Four chapters leading off the "Birds of Prey" have already taken us far on into the interest of the plot and into the thick of the intricate mysteries among which some of the principal characters of the narrative are now seen to be getting inextricably entangled. Bloomsbury is the familiar scene in the midst of which the story opens. " The Birds of Prey" being manifestly those two congenial brothers—one a surgeon dentist, the other a horsey kind of attorney--Philip Sheldon, the dentist and George Sheldon, the attorney. Scattered plentifully enough, here and there, through the opening chapters of the new tale, are some of those inimitable touches which more than anything else almost that can be specifically particularised indicate what one speaks of as the master-hand. Such minute yet vivid touches, let us say, as that in which old Mrs. Woolper is spoken of as caring in her capacity as Philip Sheldon's housekeeper for the in terests of the hard, strong, black-whiskered young man of thirty, or rather for the interests, as Miss Braddon puts it, " of the black-eyed baby she (the old housekeeper) had nursed three and thirty years ago !" Or such another touch— so slight yet so startling—a touch this time not emotional in its way, but half weird half gro tesque—as where Philip, while wandering down stairs in the very dead of the night on come wicked errand, when all the house is hushed in sleep— comes into his professional torture chamber, and we read—as from under the hand of Henri de Balzac— " The tall horsehair chair looked unutterably awful in the dim glimmer of the taper, and a nervous person would almost have fancied it occupied by the ghost of some patient who had expired under the agony of the forceps !" Miss Braddon is evidently in full force, and writes accordingly--her new story being already as enthralling as her ne w magazine promises `o be successful. The fast men of the present day seem a different race altogether ; and whether the immense and absurd excess of smoking obliterates and obfuscates the finer faculties, is a problem for the more astute philosopher. But when we find a young man—a very young man—giving upwards of £2,000 for a yearling (as a sporting writer observed to us the other day, who was at the sale) worth £5OO and no more, notwithstanding the value of the Derby, as the cog noscenti immediately laid £lO,OOO to £2OO against him for the Derby of 1868, we think he must be wrong in his judg ment, or have taken too much champagne on the lawn. ull Lt. _ &f , _ ~..: , °' artatr HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, Tuesday: The Queen went out in the morning yesterday with Princess Christian, and drove in the afternoon with Princess Louise, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe. Princess Louise rode in the morning, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Aumale dined with the Queen and the Royal Pamily. To Australasia via Panama. A passenger by the first mail steamer on this route has sent to an Australian paper a narrative of the journey. He writes :—" 1 have come in the pioneer ship of the new line, the Rakaia, which has carried the first mails. ➢ly ticket was No. 1. We left Southampton on Saturday, June 2, in the Atrato, a magnificent steam frigate of 1,967 tons register, 3,126 tons burden. 'We anchored early on the 16th in the capacious harbour of St. 'Thomas's, having made the run of 3,630 miles (actual dis tance) in 13 days and 14 hours.. , The enginesmade mcre than 14 revolutions per minute, each turn of the wheels propelling the ship nearly 24 yards. Twenty hours were run at half speed, and we had a strong head wind. At St. Thomas's four ships awaited our arrival, and in the course of the day proceeded on their way to their various destinations, my own lot being on board the Tamar. We had about 30 passengers and 30 tons of cargo, contained in 700 packages, all of which had to be transhipped in the course of the day and under a blazing sun. No sooner was the work effected than we began our life on board the Tamar, which, favoured by a strong trade wind, made the run to Colon-1,060 miles — in four days 15 hours, and the captain informed me that it could have been done in 22 hours less, had there been any object to gain, but it was useless to make speed, because the ships at Panama going north, south, and west would not be ready to re: . . - ceive their passengers till the 24th. Disembarked at Colon, or Aspinwall, as the Americans term it, we mount the cars on the 22d, and plunge into the wild and exquisitely beautiful scenery of the Isthmus. We cross the immense chain of the Cordilleras at a depression, so that we have not to ascend more than 254 feet above Pacific high-water mark. The total length of the railway is 47 miles ; the fare is included in your ticket from England to the Antipodes. For the most part the rail is carried through alluvial plains or savannahs—by the edge of morasses—along the bank of the Chagus and Obisco rivers, through dense forests of exceeding richness and beauty of foliage and flowers. The overwhelming fertility of the soil is indicated by a reeking mass of vegetation which covers the whole face of the country, and would speedily choke up the railway itself but that it is kept in check by gangs of men, whose work it is to conflict with this prodigal growth. Arriving at Panama, the most picturesque and imposing town along the west coast, stately, but comfortless, We found the Rakaia, in which the voyage across the Pacific was to be made, waiting for us. She had made the run from Milford Haven, 11,315 miles, in 46 days and 11 hours, with two stoppages for coal, involving a detention of seven days and a half, and a delay of three days in the Straits of Magellan, owing to heavy weather. She left Panama on the 24th for the longest run on any mail route iu the xv hen tile n. 31,.. w. lett Panama her weight, including engines, coal, and cargo, was 3,200 tons, and it must be regarded as a triumph of mechanical skill and science that the application of 21 cwt. of coal should drive this mass through the water at the rate of a mile in six minutes, and that this should be repeated for 27 or 28 days in continuity until the whole breadth of the Pacific, 6,540 miles, has been passed over. The Rakaia is a very comfortable ship, with all sorts of convenience for passengers, and her ventilation is good, but it seems to me that it is a serious defect for any ocean-going steamer, in tended for long passages, not to be fitted, by means of tanks or an inner skin like the Great Eastern, to take in water ballast, and thus to preserve the trim and gravity of the vessel. In consequence of the want of such loading, the Rakaia has tumbled about and rolled greatly during the last 2,000 miles, affect ing not only her company, but also her working. We left Taboga, an island about 12 miles from Panama, where ships anchor and take in coals be cause the bay nearer the shore is shallow, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 24. Our course lay south, in o rder. to clear Cape Mata—a low point 80 miles distant, and forming the western arm of the Gulf ; thence to the Galapagos, sighting and leaving them on the starboard hand. From the Galapagos, the captain , who has had long experience in command of steam ships, and is evidently a master of his craft in its higher departments and scientific knowledge, took a great circle course that would carry us by Pit cairn Island to a certain point on the New Zealand coast, whence he could at any time diverge to Cape Palliser. From the Galapagos we had the Humbold t or equatorial current in our favour, and the trade winds blew softly.We accomplished half our distance in 12i days. During this period the weather NOS deliciously mild and enjoyable. We were in the tro pics. The thermometer generally stood about 80 deg., but the atmosphere was so pure and invigorat ing that it was a luxury to inhale its freshness, and at night the vault of heaven seemed to have enlarged and the stars to have become more lustrous, owing to the absence of moisture and the diaphaneity of the atmosphere. On Sunday evening, July 8, we passed Pitcairn, but as it was dark and a heavy swell run' ning, we durst not near the shore. The island is in habited, but, being out of the usual course of ships, communication is infrequent, and a heavy swell ren ders landing difficult. No sooner had we passed the island than we found we had left the tropics and pleasant weather, and fallen at once into wintry storms and cold. The sea raged, the winds were fierce, and the ship, lightened of her coal, began to roll heavily. After two gales of great severity had blown themselves out, we began to fear that our hopca of a rapid passage would be disappointed ; then fa" vouriug winds sprang up, and theengines, refreshed by cold water, propelled the ship with greater velo city, and we recovered lost time ; but it was then found that the rate given by the log and the work done by the propeller gave a much less result by ob servation than was expected, proving a strong cur rent towards the east. A third gale of greater force and endurance dashed our hopes, and for several days the powers of the ship were heavily tasked. A t about 800 miles from Cape Palliser a patch of green water, with much weed, was passed, and on Satorl day, the 21st, the weather cleared, and a fine win" speeded us on to our desired haven. We sighte d Pallisenal. The total distance run has bee' 6,5 23 miles. The engines made 1,519,502 revolution e l and 861 tons of coal were consumed. The thermo meter between Panama and Pitcairn ranged from 90 deg. to 75 deg. ; between Pitcairn and Palliser from 69 deg. to 49 deg. On the 22d of July w e arrived at W ellington, New Zealand. The near reute is of great value to IN ew Zealand. The grea t difficulty is the very wide stretch of ocean withou t any place for coaling, &c., so that the ship has t° leave either end very heavily freighted, and in c as e, of accident may be in distress or continuous ball weather ; may be near her terminus, and yet be short of fuel to take her home. The voyage of th e Rakaia, an experimental trip, absolutely the firs over an untried way, without any collected know ledge of winds and currents, has been made within a few hours of the computed time, and must there fore be regarded as a success most satisfactory to her captain a nd officers, and encouraging to Of company and the New Zealand public. I have a t ! . interest whatever in the company. I was but ' passenger. I have been sailing half round the wer ld in the wake of the setting sun, and have come at 10' to his rising. I find I have lost a day, dropped etl y of our log." associations. A striking instance of the harm occasioned by such outrages as these committed in Sheffield may be seen in the occurrences that lately took place in Nottingham. The evil example will of course be fol lowed if care be not taken to arrest its progress. On Monday, in Nottingham, some men on strike in the building trade blackened their faces and made a attack upon we r regret those o w s h a o y t h h a a d t t t h h e e sensey did t g o r e g a o t s to av w ag or e k a , injury to them. One of the victims, indeed, is at th 7 e- g‘tal quail &PAW,. —ii)„ tOßcg captured, and are remanded for a week. We hope that they will be dealt with in the manner they deserve, and the severest penalty of the law in flicted upon them. It will be the only way to deal with such ruffians ; and if it be found that the existing laws are not strong enough to deal with such offenders, we hope that during next ses sion steps will be taken to augment them. It is high time that a stop be put to such a tyrannical and oppressive system, and those who clamour for their rights had better be taught to respect the rights of others. Perhaps there has been too much latitude given to these trades unionists ; but, be that as it may, they must look to themselves, and take heed that they are not regarded as dangerous to the safety of the subject. It cannot be tolerated for a moment that the condition of things which exists at present in some of our large towns can be allowed to remain in statu quo, and the sooner a remedial , change takes place the better. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. The Moniteur in its bulletin says :—" According to a private despatch from Vienna, the departure of the Emperor Francis Joseph for the journey which he intends to make in Bohemia, Austrian Silesia, and Moravia was fixed for this day. His Majesty desires to accelerate the distribution of assistance which is to be given to the peasants who suffered loss from the military occupation of the country." It is stated officially from Florence that Count Oppizoni, formerly Charge d'Affaires of Italy to the Germanic Confederation, will direct the Legation of Italy at Vienna until the definitive appointment of the representative of King Victor Emmanuel at the Austrian Court. The Italian papers last received in Paris teem with congratulatory aspirations in regard to thep/e -biscite, which is decidedly to be carried into effect on the 21st inst. La Nazione states that this docu ment is conceived in the following terms :—" We wish for the reunion of Venetia to the kingdom of Italy under the monarchy of King Victor Emmanuel and his descendants. Yes, . No, • 7, After the plebiscite, the ballot-boxes for which will be kept in operation during two days, the Court of Appeal of Venice will assemble in an extraordinary and solemn meeting to examine the votes. The suffrage of the whole of Venetia will be sent to Venice, and on the 28th inst. proclamation will be made of the solemn will of the Venetian people. The Movimento states that Victor Emmanuel will receive at Turin the delegates from Venice, who will bring the result of the plebiscite, in order " to render homage to the patriotism, the self-denial, and the constancy of the Piedmontese, who were the first in Italy to desire and obtain the common deliverance of the country." The Minister of War is about to offer to Venice and Vicenza the medal of military bravery in me mory of their glorious struggle against the Austrians in 1848 and 1849. The provincial deputation of Florence bas sent by telegraph a fraternal salute to the provinces of Venice, Mantua, and Verona, on the occasion of the return of these provinces to the sway of the Italian flag. On receipt of the telegram the muni cipality of Mantua sent to the Prefect of Florence the following "The country of Virgil responds to the country of Dante by thanks for its fraternal salute, and by an enthusiastic viva." The evacuation of the Quadrilateral by the Aus trian troops proceeds rapidly. On the 11th instant General Frauzini entered Mantua with four batta lions. On the same day two Italian battalions occupied Peschiera, and one battalion occupied Legnano." From the accounts of the Italian papers gene rally, there is much enthusiasm and delight at the prospect of increased freedom and unity for Italy. According to the latest accounts from Egypt the alarm at the inundation of the Nile was quite dis- Bipated, and that rim had retgawd tQ ita ACCUA• FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 17.—Two o'clock.—Business to day is slack and quotations are lower, as is gene rally the case after a settlement. French Threes are doing at 66f. 721 c., a decline of 10c. Italian Fives lose 45c., to 55f. 15c. Credit Mobilier Shares are 3f. 75c. lower, at 621 f. 25c. Credit Foncier and Spanish Mobilier have declined 2f. 50c. each, to 1,360 f. and 342 f. 50c. respectively. Comptoir d'Escompte are If. 25c. lower, at 888 f. 75c. There is hardly anything doing in Railway Shares ; where there is a quotation it is a fraction lower than at yesterday's close. In Paris Gas no transactions. A decline of * is telegraphed from London on Con sols. Three o'clock.—The market remains much in the same state, only a very slight amelioration having taken place in quotations, the close is as follows :- 41 per Cents 97 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 65 Do. end month 6B 72i Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 35G5 Italian Loan 55 20 Do. end month 55 30 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Homo Debt Deferred r &U. Credit Foncier Do. end month _ For Account. 857 50 Orleans ................... Northern Lyons and Mediterrane an 9OO Southern 578 75 Western 552 50 Eastern ............... MS Sardinian . — ___ Austrian Lombard North of Spain lO6 25 Saragossa l3O Ditto to Barcelona — Roman — MARKETS.—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Although the supply of beasts on sale here to-day was only moderate, the demand for all breeds was in a sluggish state, at Monday's currency. The top figure was ss. 4d. per Sibs. The show of sheep wes rather limited, yet the trade was somewhat heavy, at late rates. The best Downs and half-breds sold at 6s. to 6s. 4d. per 81bs. There was a fair sale for calves on former terms. The highest quota tion was ss. 6d. per 81b. Small pigs were firm in price, but large hogs were very dull. Per 81b to sink the offal. sdsd s d s d Crse & inf. beasts... 3 6 3 10 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 6 5 10 Second quality do ..4 0 4 6 Prime J'thdown do.t3 0 6 4 Prime large oxen ..4 8 5 0 Large coarse ealves.4 6 5 0 Prime Scots. &e.... 5 2 5 4 Prime small d0......5 2 5 6 Crse. and inf. sneep.3 10 4 2 Large hogs .4 0 4 8 Second quality do ..4 4 5 2 smailporlcers.. ..... 10 5 2 littob:.. .Os ed to 6. ed. Suckling calves, 21s to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 314 to 311 each. "lead of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 8 0 Cows. • ..• • • • • Sheep and 1 .mb4 1 SO Caves .. 144 Plgs Beasts 932 Cows. — Sheep and lambs 4,560 Calves 2'2 rigs 4OO MEAT. NEIVGATE AND LEADENKALL.—The supplies of meat are good, and the demand is moderate, as follows :—Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 6d ; veal, 4s 2d to 5s 4d; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 4d per 81b by the carcase. - . . HAY. SMITHFIELD. — Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 lOs; clover £4 15s to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load. moderate demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to .£4 15s ; clover, £4 15s to £5 15s ; and straw, £2 Os to .£2 lOs per load. Trade inactive. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay .£.3 lOs to £4 lOs ; clover, £4 15s to £5 15s Od ; and straw ' £2 Os to £2 lOs per load. Supply FIRE IN THE ROYAL PALACE AT BRUSSELS —The King's palace at Brussels has narrowly escaped being burnt to the ground. A fire which had been smouldering for several hours during the night was perceived on Satur day morning about seven, when it had burned away the flooring of ono of the rooms and destroyed several valuable pictures, amongst them one representing our Saviour, by Eubens, and various objects of art brought by the present King from Egypt. The firemen being called in were soon able to extinguish the flames. The loss is estimated at not less than 400,000 f. The disaster is attributed to the care lessness of a workman who the evening before lit a fire in an adjoining room, and on going away omitted to see that it was extinguished. THE RUMOURED ITALIAN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON.— The semi-official North German Gazette designates as a complete invention the report that the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar had communicated to the Emperor Napoleon intelligence, which he had rec eived from Berlin, of an Italian conspiracy against the life o of the Frch Eraperer. YON COMME No alteratio count has beet weekly court 1 anticipated, o , the last return which must I notes. The e and the comp no doubt infli urination to k figure. The active, and th cent, for the 1 The Stock morning, owi Bank minims have receded money, and Stock depart have fallen advanced At the me Company to tors have re dividend of 30th June share from t The sum day. The bar packet bas I Were any d Would no dc within aboi could be ta] The last to this day, Great Wester North Weste South Weste] Brighton Midland South Easte Great Northo Lancashire a Bristol and North Easte Manchester, Great Easter London, Ch These of the co generally Great Wes the North Western o the Midla] £2,454, or Lancashir( and Exete] on the Mai on the Gr 4 Chatham The foil tober, 186 change or sight, 2s. 2s. Ofd. do Governin( R 5.106 ; rate of di; tola), 16 per 100 sailed fl Cornparir the 28th following don, an chang e 0 , per Ceut an advan of ; pri lola, Accorc day, the The E the rain of the / and at ti Consols the acC Annuitil Excheqt laud St , ditto En Forei Mexical Cents., and Ce] and Ita Unitl shares, Atlas steady Bonds Ban] flatter. and c, 44 ; C there 1 at 20 Ails( little Tei egt graph p a rry, Credit Eleetr at 38 Teleg tin ue ther d and is I\ iortl 15g. Great Th but NI and ] Lo ra l and TI in se are t a De 3 pe Nev