The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies. SMYRNA AND CASSABA. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Adelaide-place, London bridge ; Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., in the chair. The report alluded to a temporary falling off in the traffic receipts after the first few weeks from the opening of the line. The directors found that the falling off in the receipts was owing to the cessation of that portion of the passenger traffic which had been attracted by the novelty of the line, and also to the wet and hot season during which travelling in Asia Minor was avoided as much as possible. This cause led to a reduction in the receipts from passen gers, while the receipts for goods remained nearly stationary, at the low figure with which they had commenced. The receipts were at the lowest point in the mouth of July, during which the weather was very unfavourable for travelling—the passenger traffic averaging only £482 per week, and the goods traffic £165, together £647, or £lO 16s. 2d. per mile per week. The returns received since that period had greatly improved. In the month of August the average receipts per week were £569 for pas sengers and £230 for goods—total, £799, or £l3 ls. Bd. per mile ; in the month of September the weekly receipts averaged £639 for passengers, and £376 for goods—total, £1,015, or £l6 12s. Bd. per mile, and for the week ending Oct. 7 the passenger traffic amounted to £590, and the goods to £sl3—total, £1,103, or £lB is. 6d. per mile. With a view to develope the traffic agents had been appointed in Smyrna and in the interior of the country to make arrangements for sending goods traffic by the rail way. The line was still in the hands of the con tractor. A commission had been appointed to exa mine the railway and report thereon to the autho rities, prior to its being taken over by the Turkish Government, which was delayed by some formalities that had to be gone through. The engineer-in chief had reported on the completion of the works by Mr. Price, the contractor, and on the supply of rolling stock for working the traffic. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said the temporary falling off in the traffic had been fully accounted for in the report, but with re ference to the present position of the railway it came up, so far, to all the directors had anticipated. The traffic returns had continued to increase since July up to the latest return they had received. The great difficulty in developing the traffic of a new railway was to induce the people in the district to give up the old system of conveyance and to adopt the new and more rapid one. The Turks were rather slow in that respect, but means were being taken to obtain additional goods traffic, which he had no doubt would prove remunerative. The goods traffic had gradually increased from £165 in the week ending the sth of July to £513 in the week ending the 7th of October. If they could in duce the camel owners to go further into the in terior, and bring the goods to the railway at Cas saba, they would have work for double the present number of camels. The company had a good line, and he believed it would prove a profitable one. The report was then adopted unanimously. Mr. BURCIIELL remarked that the railway had been honestly made and honestly paid for, and it was now being honestly worked to earn a dividend. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the directors. SCOTTISH NORTH-EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Aberdeen ; Mr. Stirling in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said this was the last meeting of the company. The act passed last session fully authorised the agreement for amalgamation with the Caledonian Company. He then referred to various items in clearing up the accounts to the date of amalgamation. There was £1,400 still due to them by the Post-office. He believed some of the Aber deen shareholders were rather disappointed that on the Aberdeen stock so small a dividend had been recommended ; but the old Aberdeen Company had a larger amount of borrowed money than any of the others—about 75 per ccut. of the whole— and of course the Aberdeen had a larger amount of interest to pay. If made up as formerly he believed all the classes of shareholders would have had the same dividend as at the corresponding period last year. Ile concluded by expressing thanks to the pro prietors for their very cordial support during the 10 years he had occupied the chair. The account 3 were honestly stated, and he congratulated the share holders on the termination of the company. Col. CHRISTIE seconded the adoption of the re port, which was agreed to. Dividends were declared on the Aberdeen original stock at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum, on the Midland stock at the rate of 5f per cent. per annum, and on the Dundee and Arbroath stock at the rate of 81 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £lO,OOO. The meeting was then adjourned to Feb. Ist to receive the final dividend. LEVEN AND EAST OF FIFE. The half-yearly meeting was held at Leven on Friday—Mr. J. Haig presiding. The report stated that the free revenue for divi sion among the Leven shareholders was £1,731, from which it was proposed to pay a dividend of 81 per' cent., and that the proportion of free revenue falling to the East of Fife shareholders was £865, from which it was proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 3i per cent. The CHAIRMAN moved approval of the report, which was unanimously carried, and the dividends were declared accordingly. MIDLAND. A special train of this company left the Derby sta tion yesterday morning, conveying the superinten dent (Mr. Needham), the goods manager (Mr. Walklate), and a staff of stationmasters, porters, and others, for the purpose of posting the men at the various stations and making the necessary arrange ments for the opening of the new line to Manchester on Thursday, Nov. Ist. The signals on the line were carefully inspected, and also the line and sta tions. The inspection of the line by Captain Rich was made a short time since, when the Board of Trade upon his report sanctioned its opening. Mr. Bradley, the superintendent, and Mr. Smith, the goods manager of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, also accompanied the train from New Mills, at which pcint the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line commences. MA,NCITESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE 7 The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from July 1 to Oct. 21, 1866, amounted to £154,659, as against £141,622 for the corresponding period of 1865. The proportion of the South Junction re ceipts accruing to this company from July 1 to Oct. 21 amounted to £13,187, as against £12,990 for the corresponding period of 1865, and the expenses to £6,553, as against £6,176. CONTINENTAL UNION GAS. The ordinary general meeting of this company was held Cubitt in the ehl at the Loudon Tavern—Mr. L. The report stated that the working during the past year had been s isf G actory. The public lights had iacreased from 8 8 ' 069 t o 10,157, and the pri vate lights from 86,466. The revenue showed a steady increag e as° eme,rapared with the pre vious year. The extensive a carried out dur ing the year had caused a veryorkpliaarg.e outlay. The g 5 ,049 of the directors had only succeeded 10,000 seven per cent. preference shelan however, been able to make temporary They had, "[lents to meet the requirements of the rYcoarrange_ but it was necessary to place the remaini g n ag m cipe P i in Y o S of the shares in order to meet the engagements entered into. The net profit, after carryin g £ 1,31 ; to the sinking fund, left £20,162, out of which the directors had already paid an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the original capital, leaving available £11,162, and out of this it was proposed to pay a dividend of 7 per cent. on the preference shares, and to declare a dividend on the original shares at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £620. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on the im provement which had taken place in the receipts of the company during the year. The profits had been 20 per cent., and he had no doubt they would fur ther improve. It was two years since a call had been made on the original shares, but they would shortly have to make one. The preference shares not having been taken up satisfactorily the board had been compelled to borrow money. The debt was now falling due, and the directors had decided upon calling £5 on the original shares. The report was unanimously adopted, and divi dends recommended were declared. MISCELLANEOUS AMEEICAN NEWS. Late news from Connecticut informs us that the new reservoir at West Hartford is nearly completed, and the water will be let into the city immediately. It holds 212,000,000 gallons, and is 250 feet above the level of the Connecticut river. General James N. Palmer of New Haven, died at Hartford on Saturday, Sept. 29. He was a highly respectable citizen, and for many years surveyor general of the state. Edward Malley has purchased for $60,000 the property on the corner of Temple and Chapel streets, at New Haven, for many years the resi dence of Augustus R. Street and Admiral Foote, and will erect a fine block on the lot, which will be the largest and most elegant building in the city. Dr. A. Hill, of Norwalk, has recently patented a process by which ineffaceable painting can 131 done on marble. The colours are fixed as perma nently as they are in stained glass, and the pro cess of applying them is said to be simple and rapid of execution. A plan is in process to dam the Housatonic river at Birmingham, and secure one of the finest water powers in New England. • The company chartered for the purpose in 1864, are now trying to commence operations on $400,000 capital, of which Birmingham will raise one-half. It is estimated that the annual rental of water will amount to $BO,OOO, or 20 per cent. on the cost of the works. The gross receipts from premiums of the Hartford insurance companies for August amount to $564,892. The !Etna returns $251,910; Hartford, $99,906; Phoenix, $82,960 ; Putman, $36,609 ; City, $23,080 ; North American, $20,869 ; Merchants, $19,394; New England, $11,972 ; Charter Oak, $5,942 ; and Railway Passenger, $12,349. Yale College has in all its departments 686 students, of whom 492 are in the academical course, and 113 in the Sheffield scientific school. There are 100 seniors, 117 juniors, and 126 sopho mores, and 149 freshmen, and the Linonian society has 249 members, or six more than its rival, Brothers in Unity. Senator O. S. Ferry has accepted the appointment as orator of the Phi Beta Kappa society of Yale College at the next commencement. Rev. Dr. E. D. Morris, of Ohio, will deliver the poem. The American Social Science Association, organised at Boston about a year since, will hold its second annual meeting at New llaven, com mencing on Tuesday, October 9, and continuing two or three days. Among its members, of whom there will be three or four hundred present, are Presidents Woolsey of Yale, and llill of Harvard College, and John Stuart Mill, Sir John Bowring, and Thomas Hughes of England. The Treasury Department has just completed the settlement of the prize money made at the capture of Mobile. Admiral Farragut's share of this is $19,000. During the war eleven hundred and forty-nine captures were made, and the amount of prize money, after deducting the expenses of con demnation, is $20,501,927.69, of which one half. goes to the captors. Fifteen millions of this amount has been already divided. The largest amount to any individual, from one capture, is $28,000 to Captain Baine. The largest amount to one indi vidual, from all captures, is $129,000 to Captain S. F. Lee. We hear from Berlin, Oct. 20, that the Israelites inhabiting the States belonging to the Northern Confederation, are signing a monster petition, pray ing that they should be placed on a footing of per fect civil equality with the other citizens. Count Bismarck is expected to resume his functions in a fortnight. An exchange says :—Fred. Douglass, in his late Philadelphia visit, had an interview with his old master and mistress. He had not seen the lady for 25 years. She wai very kind to him when a boy, and received him cordially. his old master long ago became convinced of the sin of slavery, and freed his slaves. Ile is now living in Baltimore, but when he beard that his old runaway had been chosen a delegate to the Convention he came up purposely to sec him. OCTOBER. BANK DIVIDENDS.—CharIes River Na- tional, Union National of Weymouth, Old Colony National, Newton National, Central National and National City of Lynn, Merchants' National of Boston, Appleton, Merchants', Old Lowell and Prescott of Lowell, Taunton and Machinists' Na tional of Taunton, all 5 per cent. ; Waltham National, $3 per share ; Attleboro' National, 31 per cent. ; Hingham National and Mercantile National of Salem, 4 per cent. ; Beverly National, First Na tional of Provincetown and Asiatic National of Salem, 41 per cent. ; First National of Cambridge, Pemberton of Lawrence and Randolph National, 6 per cent. We hear from Franklin county that contracts have been made for the construction of the Troy and Greenfield railroad to the lloosac tunnel from Greenfield, and were ratified by the Governor and Council at their meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The entire cost of this section of the road, including depots and other attendant expenses, will be within the legislation appropriation of $600,000. It will be completed to Shelburne Falls in one year from November 1, and to the tunnel by July 15, 1868. A. project is in progress for constructing a dam across the Deerfield river at Scott's bridge, a short distance from Shelburne Falls, and by building a tunnel to convey the water through the hill, it is said that a water power equal to that now afforded by the falls will be made available. The estimated expense of the enterprise is $30,000. A large emi gra ti on of sheep from Vermont to Virginia is in progress, under the direction of George Campbell of Westminster, Vermont. 1,900 were started southward on M onday of last week, and 1,200 undertook the journey last Monday morning. They foot it by the way of Ch atham, N. Y., at the rate of about ten miles a day, ani get their living on the road. They are chiefly cheap grade merinos, purchased at a cost of from $2 to $5 a head. A few blooded rains will accompany each flock. Mr. Campbell shipped from New York, last Saturday, 50 choice merino rams for Texas. The Cocheco (New Hampshire) manufacturing company of Dover, during the last six months, produced five million yards of cloth, and last year its earnings were 30 per cent. John A. Burnham was elected president and Daniel Park treasurer, at the annual meeting, on Friday, Sept 28. Th e state of New Hampshire has lately received an in stalment of $172,067 on a debt of $965,512 for national bounties advanced to the soldiers furnished by the state, under calls of the President prior to January 5, 1864. There had previously been re funded $224,224, of which the larger part was paid before the troops left the state. A great deal of trouble and delay has been caused by the difficulty of finding out what became of the men reported as missing, and of whom in some cases more than two-thirds deserted. The bounties on this portion of the quota will not be refunded, and will be a total loss to the towns who purchased the men of substitute brokers to escape a draft. Colonel Joshua Capenter, of Moulton, was killed on Saturday, September 29, by the falling of a tree. Charles E. Becket, a landscape painter of more than usual ability and promise, died at Portland on Saturday, September 29. One of the mills in Lewiston is hereafter to be devoted to the prepara tion and spinning of jute for bags. Before jute Pingin g was introduced into America, the jute . yarn was impoaed from D un d ee , S co tl an d ; now it is brought direct from Calcutta, and spun and woven here. \Ve have received a letter from the Liverpool agency of the " American Emigrant Company," directing our attention to the mi s t a k es w hi c h have arisen f rom a similarity Emigrant C American jou rna l s, which it is of n ames i n t h e desirable should be corrected. The " Ameri ca pany" is in no way connected onl ,‘ American Aid and Hom es t ea d C with the "'Tony." The American Emigrant Company is an enterprise well established, based on large capital, and owning vast tracts of land. The American Aid and Homestead Company proposed to establish a line of steamships between New York and the Scandinavian countries. The undertaking has, it is reported, failed through the financial incapacity of the company. We ex tract the following from the _lron Age:— " The United Government has, we learn, sold to the Ame rican Emigrant Company the Cherokee reserve lands in the State okKanzas, known as the ' Neutral Tract.' This tract comprises about 800,000 acres of land, and is sold, in conformity with the terms of the treaty, for cash, for $BOO,OOO. the Secre tary of the _lnterior, in negotiating the sale, was careful to guard the rights and interests of the In dians, and wisely elected to secure to them this large amount of purchase money, without risk or abatement, in preference to dividing the lands into small parcels, and incurring the cost, contingencies, delays, and inevitable losses which would result from such a mode of sale. By this measure the Secretary has, at the same time, promoted in the most effectual manner the interests of the country, especially of the State of Kansas, as the company, we understand, will bring its powerful agency as rapidly as possible into operation to direct the stream of immigration in that direction. This will speedily lead to the increase of population and the conse quent development of the rich and varied resources of the section. Thus will be carried into effect the sound policy of the Government in regard to the settlement of vacant lands, and the interests of the State of Kansas will be, at the same time, mate rially subserved. This is another and important step taken by the American Emigration Company in the great work for which it was chartered, viz., " to encourage and assist emigrants from foreign countries to settle in the United States." The work of levelling Fort Hill, at Boston, was commenced on Tuesday, Oct. 2, and will not be completed before spring. The earth excavated will be used in extending India, Central, and other wharves, and will increase their value $7,000,000. Twenty acres of territory lying between Broad, Pearl, and Milk-streets will be included in the pro proposed improvements. Washington-square will be kept open, and a magnificent building, 204 by 143 feet, with wings in proportion, erected upon it, under the auspices of the Boston board of trade. The work has unhoused about 2,000 persons, most of whom have found temporary shelter at South Boston. Colonel T. Bigelow Lawrence, United States Consul-general for Italy, is at Boston on a brief leave of absence. The report of the East Indian Currency Com mission is now completed. It declares in favour of the immediate introduction of a gold coinage in India. The Hamilton woollen mills declare a quarterly 71 per cent. dividend, the National insurance com pany of Boston one of 3 per cent., and the American molded collar company a quarterly' one of 9 per share. From Maine we hear that the Leeds and Far mington Railroad Company has assessed its stock holders 28 per cent. to pay off its mortgages, and leased its road for fifty years to the Androscoggin Railroad Company for $32,000 per year for the first five years, and then an annual increase of $2,000 per year, until the rent reaches $40,000 annually. The Spectator's correspondent, " A Yankee," writing on September 28, says that the Democrat party had made great mistakes in its late nomina tions, showing itself the " mere old rotten" political machine it was for many years before the war. It has rejected General Dix in New York for Governor —life-long member of the party though he has been —and has nominated Mr. Hoffman, the mayor. In Pennsylvania it has nominated a gentleman who rejoices in the name of Meister Olymer, who was one of the bitterest opponents of the Government all through the war. After all, I for one am glad that the Democratic leaders have done this, for it secures the utter destruction of the Democratic party, which, as a political organisation, was the pest and incubus of the country. It was crushed before ; but owing to the lack of statesmanship of the Republican leaders it was beginning to lift up its hideous head again. Now- it will be ground to powder. General Dix, a Democrat, would have been elected by a tremendous majority ; Mayor Hoff Man, also a Democrat, and a very estimable gentleman, will be tremendously defeated ; and Meister Olymer will be " histed" the wrong way in such a fashion that lie will feel like disowning his surname ever after. The best, and also the largest part of the people will not trust the Democratic party with the Government. I verily believe they would sooner put it in the hands of Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, and General Lee, than in those of the Democratic leader. Among the intelligent and educated classes almost all the young men are deserting or not joining the De mocratic party. It is quite common to see a father a Democrat, and his sons, just arriving at manhood, ready to vote for anybody but a nomi nee of the Deinocratic party, even although they are not Radicals or even Republicans. The reverse is almost unknown. Therefore it is that the Philadelphia Convention has failed in effecting a coalition against the Radicals. There is another reason—the President's Tour, which has had just the contrary effect to that it was intended to have. But I venture to assure you that under any circum stances that are likely to occur there is not the slightest chance of an outbreak, or of any conflict of force between the President and Congress. The President will veto, but he will execute all laws constitutionally passed, in spite of his veto. The ballot-box and the Supreme Court will decide all political questions, and the President will not be impeached, unless we have a majority in Congress composed of 'Wendell Phillippses, which is not pro bable. Mr. David A. Wells, the commissioner of the re venue, is at the Tremont House, Boston, and will remain there for some days consulting with promi nent merchants and manufacturers in regard to the revision of the tariff, in which great work he is now engaged. A monument of granite, costing $lB,OOO, has just been erected at Mount Auburn, to the memory of William F. Hamden, the founder of the express business in America. Its marble tablets are in scribed, " Because the king's business required haste."—First Samuel, 21:8, and " Erected by the express companies of the United States, in the year 1866." A stock company has been formed at Bennington, with Dr. J. Scranton as president, and J. U. Cush man as secretary, to work the gold mines supposed to exist at Pittstown, N. Y. The company are unusually sanguine of success.—A mine just dis covered on the farm of Louis Spaulding at Granville, is reported to produce gold, silver, lead, and iron. A recent general order from the War Department of the United States prescribes the monthly rate of commutation of army officers serving without troops, - where there are no public quarters furnished by the Government, at $l5, with the exception of San Francisco, Cal. ; Washington, D. C. ; Alex andria, Virginia ; New Orleans, Louisiana ; Rich mond, Virginia ; Galveston, Texas, and Mobile. $5 extra will be allowed ,for the first-named city and three for the others mentioned. The order will take effect on the Ist proximo. A letter from Cherbourg states that two men-of war, bearing the flag of the United States, have just anchored in the roads there. One is the armour plated ship Augusta; the other is the well-known monitor, the Aliantonontah, last from Kiel. The number of American vessels now at Cherbourg is four, as for the last fortnight the despatch sloop Frolic and the frigate Colorado, carrying the flag of Admiral Goldsborough, have been in that port. It s announced that the Chasse-pot musket; which was repeatedly tried at the camp of Chalons, is defini tively adopted by the War Department. It is some what shorter than the weapon now in use in the French army. It weighs only three kilogrammes, or 61h. looz., carries a sabre-bayonet larger than the old one, and the barrel is rifled. It can be fired, it is said, 50 times in four minutes ; in the ranks, on an average, ten a minute ; and the soldiers fire with ease seven or eight shots a minute. As regards the appearance of the weapon a print of it is published by the illustration—it seems exactly modelled on the Prussian needle gun. If the weight is only that given by the Patrie, it is the lightest service weapon in any army. The Prussian musket is nearly double the weight. Agricultural Prospects. The week opened with a dry morning, but it was somewhat threatening, and at 1 p.m. rain set in, with a good deal in the afternoon. Monday was a dull and thick morning, and at 11 a.m. rain set in again, and at times it was very heavy. No field work could consequently be proceeded with, and the damp atmosphere was much against the thrashing of wheat, although the farmers might be dispsed to bring out more than they do, now that prices are more to their satisfaction. Tues day a dull, thick day, but no rain fell, yet field-work could not go on. Our advices were as under : From Suffolk : " Farmers are now busily engaged with wheat-seed and outdoor work generally." From the West Riding of Yorkshire : " Wheat-sowing is kept back on wet land. The bad quality of potatoes has a great influence on the prices of wheat ; but as turnips are good we trust the prices of meat will be easier, and thus a little relieve the consumer." From the East Riding : " Weather has been on the whole favourable for autumn sowing, which thus far has proceeded under the most favourable auspices." From Bedfordshire it was remarked : " Autumn sowing is proceeding rapidly ; land in fine condition ; in some localities wheat is coming up on light soils. From Wiltshire it was stated : " The weather has on the whole been favourable, and outdoor work is progress ing favourably." From Northumberland : " The weather has been changeable since our last report ; yesterday, however, was very wet ; to-day is fine, with a south-west wind." Wednesday was a fine day, at times sunny, and field work would go on steadily. From the west coast of Scotland, on that day, it was remarked: " The weather has been fine." Thursday was a thoroughly wet day, with a low tem perature ; wind, N.N.E. ; thermometer, 45 early and 48 deg. at noon ; barometer down to 29.50 in. Our advices from Suffolk stated :—" In a former report we said : ' A cold wet spring never yet pro duced any abundant wheat crop ;' such is the case this year, our yield of barley is equally complained of. This season greatly resembles 1853, and we may see an important change in the grain trade before Christmas next. The sad wet and unpropitious harvest weather we have had since Sept. 6 has not improved this anticipation, and the deficient yield of wheat and barley on our fine staple soils is now daily confirmed. A great change has certainly taken place, for prices of both wheat and barley have ad vanced 10s. to 12s. per qr." From Bedfordshire, on that day, it was observed : " The late rain has greatly benefited the meadows and fields of turnips, marigold wurtzel, and other green winter food for cattle." Friday was a fine bracing day, sunny at times, and some work would be accomplished in the fields. On Saturday there was a dense fog, while it remained thick throughout the day, but dry ; and being the second favourable day, we think some progress would be made with every description of field work. A great effort will be made to sow a large breadth of wheat this season, and the in quiries for choice and approved sorts are numerous from all parts of the United Kingdom ; to secure such buyers must not care so much about the quality. There are some very fine Chidham samples secured early, and these have been run up very high, as for such millers are very liberal bidders ; weighing 641bs. to 651bs. per bushel, they tell in the manufacture of flour. The next approved sort is Chidhain, that also commands a good price. Amongst the red samples the golden drop stands high.—Mark lane Express. THE SUN, LO DON, TUESDAY EVEAING, OCTOBER 30, 1866. Naval and Military Intelligence. I T ALETrA, Oct. 25.—Her Majesty's despatch ves sel Psyche, Lieut.-Commander Sir F. Blackwood, arrived on the evening of the 20th inst. from Port Mahon, after conveying Lady Paget and family to that port from Rosas Eay. The squadron, consist ing of the Victoria (flag), Prince Consort, Gibraltar, Royal Oak, and enterprise, was lying at anchor in I'ort Mahon on the 18th inst., and the Cruiser, 5, screw sloop, Commander 11. Singer, which left Malta on the 15th, to join the Commander-in-Chief, was passed by the Psyche, and communicated with by signals on the afternoon of the 19th, being then about half way on her voyage. Nochange has taken place in the intended departure of the squadron, which was to leave on the 22d inst. in order to be at Malta about the end of the month, calling at Cagli ari en route. The Psycheleft again on the afternoon of the 22d for Brindisi, to convey Captain W. It. Mends, R.N., director of transport services, andhis staff to Alexandria, where she is to remain under his orders. It is reported teat she will, on her return to Malta, proceed to Marseilles to embark Sir Henry Storks for this island. ller Majesty's screw corvette Cossack, 20, Capt. It. D. White, arrived on the morning of the 21st inst. from Beyrout, which she left on the 10th inst., having been relieved by the Racer, 11, screw sloop, Commander L. Brine, on the 6th. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary which have appeared in some of the public papers, the Cossack has been remarkably healthy during her stay, extending over several months, on the coast of Syria. Much of her good fortune in this respect is probably attributable to the fact of her having been kept almost constantly at sea during the summer, though opportunities had been found for the officers and special-leave men to visit nianyplaces of interest in the Holy Land. Mr. W. H. Bell, assist-surg. of the ship, having been invalided, proceeds to England in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon. Mr. C. Goolden, second master, invalided from the Hydra, surveying vessel, also goes to Eng land by the same packet. At an examination of candidates for assist.-paymaster, held on board the Hibernia, on the 23d inst., Mr. Ashley Innes, clerk of the Cossack, passed successfully and obtained a first-class certificate. The Hydra, Capt. Shortland, arrived from Girgenti (Sicily) on the m orn i ng o f the 20th inst., to cemplete with coal s , p rov i s i ons , and water. She leaves again to-day for her survey ing ground. The Hydra is in quarantine during her stay at Malta. Her Majesty's despatch-vessel Assurance, 4, Commander Pyin, left on the 20th inst., to join the gunboat Wizard, 2, Lieut.-Com mander P. J. Murray, at Candia, for the protection of British interests in that island. The Wizard was at Canea on the 15th inst., having returned there from her trip to Retyrno and the town of Candia. The story published in the continental journals of the Mediterranean squadron having been in the neighbourhood of Cadiz awaiting instructions re garding the alleged outrage on the British flag in the case of the Tornado turns out to be, as might have been expected, perfectly false. I may here mention that another statement, to which much publicity was given, that the squadron had repaired to Palermo during the outbreak there is equally de void of foundation. The telegraph steamer Hawk arrived from the neighbourhood of Alexandria on the 20th inst., after having successfully repaired the cable as has been already announced. She is now in the dry dock for cleaning purposes. Electric com munication with Alexandria continues to be very satisfactory. The cholera still lingers at Marseilles and Naples, but has rapidly diminished at the latter place, only six cases being reported on the day pre ceding the departure of the last mail. At the for mer it continues to rise and fall from one day to another in a most unaccountable and capricious manner, giving but slight hopes of clean bills of health being issued for sonic time to conic. Some days -not a single case is reported—in the next 24 hours several fresh attacks take place. Our latest advices report four deaths from cholera on the 18th, and nine on the 19th. If this continues there will be no likelihood of any speedy removal of the quarantine nuisance. The accounts from Sicily are by no means reassuring. Letters from Mar seilles, under date of the 19th inst., say that cholera was on the increase at Palermo, Alcamo, and Tra pani. At Marsala the municipal authorities had considered it advisable to encircle the town with a sanitary cordon, so as to prevent persons entering anywhere but from the immediate vicinity without performing seven days' quarantine, and for the ac commodation of such persons one of the neighbour ing convents had been converted into a temporary lazzaretto. On the other hand, I am happy to say that, in consequence of satisfactory information re ceived by the Malta Government, the quarantine on arrivals from Constantinople, as well as from Tunis, has been taken off. The quarantine at Alexandria on arrival from Southampton has been removed , but, as yet, we do not receive them here in pratique. The rigorous infliction of quarantine has apparently been attended this year with so much success in keeping the mysterious enemy from among us that the authorities at Malta are loth to de tract from the value of the experiment by any pre mature relaxation of the quarantine regulations." We understand the Channel Squadron is ordered to Portland from Beerhaven. The Ocean will pro ceed to Devonport, and the Bellerophon to Ports mouth. The screw corvette Pylades, 21, 350-horse power, Capt. A. W. A. Hood, has arrived at the Nore from the North American and West India station, and yesterday went into harbour, where sbe will be dis mantled preparatory to being put out of commis sion. She has transshipped her powder and shell to the Ordnance transports for conveyance to the Go vernment magazines at Chatham, to which place she will also send War Department stores. She is rather leaky, and from the lengthened period she has been in commission, nearly four years, she will require an extensive overhaul and repair. Yesterday the first of the 9-inch tier of armour plates for the ironclad frigate Hercules, 12, 1,200- horse power, building at Chatham, was fixed in its place on the broadside of that vessel, the first tier of plates, of 6-in. in thickness, having been already fixed. The work of plating the Hercules is now being pushed forward as rapidly as the resources of the establishment will permit, there being upwards of 100 tons of the 9-inch plates now in the factory undergoing the planing, boring, slotting and other processes in readiness for their being bolted to the sides of the frigate. The plate fixed yesterday is 16ft. in length by 4ft. in width, and on being re ceived from the establishment of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, where the 9-inch plates for the Hercules are being manufactured, it weighed 10i tons. This weight has been reduced by the planing and slotting operations to nine tons, a portion of each plate of the pier being required to be planed away to a thickness of 6in. to fit the lower tier of plates. The 6th company of Royal Engineers, which ar rived at head-quarters, Chatham, on Saturday night from New Zealand, on the completion of its period of colonial service, was inspected yesterday at Brompton barracks by Col. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establishment, and in temporary command of the district. The marching-in strength of the company was 11 non commissioned officers, one bugler, 79 sappers, 13 women, 15 children, with Lieut. C. Ferguson and Lieut. C. H. C. Hulkes. The 6th company took an active part in the suppression of the rebellion by the Maories, and from its lengthened absence from Eng land its strength has been considerably reduced. The company will, however, be augmented to its full compliment from the depot companies at head quarters. The Fatal Prize Fight. Last evening, at the Charing-cross Hospital, Mr. Langham, the Deputy Coroner for Westminster, re sumed and concluded the inquest upon Edward Wilmot, the young man who died shortly after taking part in a sparring match at a west-end sporting house, as detailed in The Sun. The case had been adjourned in order that some of the persons ac tively engaged in the match in question should be brought before the court, and now Inspector Silver ton, C Division, deposed that on Monday last a man named Daniel Morris came to the station at Marl borough-mews and gave himself up as being con cerned in the death of Wilmot, in aiding and abet ting in the prize-fight on the 9th inst. The witness also produced a card given him by Wm. Shaw, the landlord of the Queen's Head, Great Windmill-street, on the 10th. Witness asked Shaw on the 10th if a prize fight did not take place in his house on the pre vious evening, and he said one commenced there, but it ended in Waterloo-place, as he turned them out. The card he afterwards gave witness was as follows: —"Prince of Wales Athletic Club, established and holden every Tuesday and Saturday evening. M.U. Jemmy Shaw himself, assisted by Little Alec and several other first rate professors. On Tuesday next, Oct. 9, 1866, a trial of skill in the manly art between Young (of Bloomsbury) and Ned Wilinot (of Shore ditch), for a handso ne purse of sovereigns presented by a few gentlemen, patrons of the noble and manly art of self-defence. Admission by tickets, is. each; reserved seats, 2s. 6d. To commence at half-past 8." James Evans, after being cautioned by the Coro ner, said he went in the evening to Jemmy Shaw's, in Broad-court, where he saw the deceased, who said to witness, " Nutts" (the name witness was known by), " I want you to second me in a fight," and wit ness, after some conversation, agreed with another man to do as deceased desired. They all then went together to Wm. Shaw's, in Queen's Head-court, a house kept by the son of the pugilist known asJernmy Shaw. Deceased and another man named Young then went into the ring together and sparred with gloves on for an hour or an hour anda half, witness and a man named Donnelly acting as seconds for deceased, two men named Morris and Dawes, the first named a pugilist, the other a coke merchant, act ing in the same capacity for Young. A man named Flynn acted as timekeeper. Witness could not say whether Shaw, the landlord, was or was not present during the fighting. Witness thtis described the actual fighting: "I can't say much violence was used. My boy was licking the other, and it was £lOO to a shilling whether the other could touch him. I went to Young's father and told him he had better call his boy to give up, but he called out to his boy to go on. Just after then Young gave my boy a blow with the glove on the jaw and knocked him over, and he struck his head against a post. The people did not call out to stop the fight, as there was nothing un fair, and on my going up to my boy I found his head on his chest. I called out that the fight was over, giving in on my boy's behalf, and then I gave him some brandy. He said he felt very ill, and in half an hour's time I brought him in a cab to the hospital." In reply to Mr. Lewis the witness said he had sparred himself, and he could say that there was nothing but fair sparring all the evening. The tw.o young fellows were in good spirits, and were laughing and joking together. Witness did not see the sparring matches at the Crystal Palace, for he was not in the habit of going to " such places." In answer to the jury he said of course the then hit each other no harder than they could, and matches lasted a long time:sometimes. Witness did not know that the two men were going to fight for a purse of sovereigns —he believed the fight was for £2 a side. Shaw, the landlord of the Queen's Head, was quite aware of what was going on in his house. The man Goode gave the deceased half a sovereign with which to back himself. Goode hero said that he owed the deceased half a sovereign and paid him. Witness owned that he knew of " glove fights," stated to the public to be for £5 a side, which were not for money at all; and Goode was pressing these ques tions when the witness got so excited that the Co roner deemed it prudent to stop the questioning. The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and brought the whole case before the jury. He re minded them that the evidence that they had heard showed them that the deceased was taking part in a fight in the house of William Shaw, and no matter where such exhibitions took place, they were illegal. The evidence of those who were present at the fight showed that at a certain stage of the proceed ings the young man's foot slipped, and he struck his head against a piece of wood. The medi cal evidence showed that death was from apo plexy, the result of a blow or a fall, either of which must have been caused by much violence, and the blows struck over the head of the deceased by the gloves would be likely to cause concus sion. If repeated blows were struck over the face and head a person would be rendered unable to stand upon his legs, and would be likely to stagger and fall. If the jury thought the decased's death was caused by a fall or a blow in the fight, then they would have to consider the legal liability attached to the persons engaged in it. " Foster's Crown Law" laid down the following rules :--" Death ensuing from accidents happening at sports and recreations, such recreations being innocent and allowable, falls within the rule of innocent lion)i tide," and after referring to the cases of playing at cudgels and foils, or wrestlingby consent, continued, with respect to misadventures, " In the case of per sons who in perfect friendship engaged by mu tual consent in any of these recreations for a trial of skill or manhood, or for improvement in the use of their weapons, here is, indeed, the appearance of a combat; but it is in reality no more than a friendly exertion of strength and dexterity for the purposes I have mentioned, and which takes the case out of the general rule laid down by Lord Hale, for bodily harm was not the motive on either side. I, there fore, cannot call these exercises unlawful ; they are manly diversions, they tend to give strength, skill, activity, and may fit for defence, public as well as private, in time of need. I would not be understood to speak here of prize-fighting and public boxing matches, or any other exertions of courage, strength, and activity of the like kind which are exhibited for lucre, and can serve no valuable purpose ; but, on the contrary, encourage a spirit of idleness and de bauchery, for these disorders will, I conceive, fall under a quite different concern." "Last's Pleas of the Crown" give a similar view, and it was distinctly laid down that all engaged in these contests, which were illegal, were liable in a case of death caused in them to be•charged with manslaughter. If therefore the jury found the death of the deceased arose through the fight it was their duty to return a ver dict of manslaughter against the seconds, the time keeper, arid the landlord of the house. The jury then retired, and, after being absent for some time, returned into court. The Foreman asked the Coroner if the jury thought the young man fell without a blow whether they should then be right in bringing in a verdict of accidental death. The Coroner answered that they would if they thought his fall was quite unconnected with the blows he had previously received. But if the blows he had received had rendered him unable to stand upon his feet, as was suggested by the medical tes timony, and he then fell, the death could not be called accidental. The jury again retired, and after being locked up for three hours and a half, returned into court at 10 minutes past 11 o'clock. The fore man then stated that 12 out of the 14 jurymen had agreed to a verdict of manslaughter against the prin cipals, the seconds of the fight, and the landlord of the house—viz., John Young, Edward Donelly, Thomas Dawes, James Evans, Daniel Morris, and Wm. Shaw. The coroner thenmade out his warrants for the committal of the persons charged to New gate. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. -~-_- TIMES.—A telegram from Prague conveys some obscure intelligence of an attempt upon the life of the Emperor of Austria. The news only reaches us two days after the event, although the alleged of fence was committed in the midst of a crowd, and the would-be assassin, whose name is not given, was arrested in the act. The execution of the " proba ble design" was prevented by the presence of mind of an Englishman, Captain Palmer. We must await further particulars* to enable us to appreciate the real importance of this sinister incident. In the meanwhile the letter of our correspondent from Prague, which we published yesterday, is well cal culated to prepare us for any melancholy tidings from that city. It is written in fiat contradiction to the accounts by which the progress of the Em peror Francis Joseph through his northern provinces had been described as triumphantly su ccess f u l . " Whatever may have happened at Baunn, Olmutz, and Troppau," we read, there seems no doubt that " at Prague, the great and ancient city, the King of Bohe mia was received with such cutting coldness as would break the heart of a British monarch." It is with a painful sensation that we read the too vivid de scription of the whole scene. There seem to rise before us " that careworn face, that sad, anxious look, that emaciated form which could move a generous people, even in their bitterest and most vindictive rage, to forget the monarch in the man." •We fancy we can see that hard-tried Sovereign " making his appearance amid a dead silence in the streets"—a silence so dead that, "as the carriage passed, the click of the horses' hoofs on the stone and the jingle of the couriers' swords were as dis tinctly heard as if the Emperor were alone and at midnight. And it was midnight around him-- black, lowering, cold, and starless ; the night in which monarchs move when the sun of their people's love has set." There is, indeed, deep gloom gattipr mg round the throne of that ill-starred Francis Joseph, and it seems as if every step he took only plunged him deeper into his sea of troubles. Baron von Beust, we are told, has really been placed at the head of the Imperial Cabinet. The intelligence of that ominous appointment, which was scouted as too absurd to deserve credit, receives now the fullest confirmation, and it is even asserted that the new Foreign Minister took his oath of office at Prague yesterday. We say nothing of the open defiance thus hurled at Prussia and Bismark. The Emperor is au independent Sovereign, and the choice of his advisers is no concern of his neighbours ; but the Emperor's subjects are not likely to share his confidence in a man who, whatever may be his abilities, has invariably ruined every cause he took in hand. Baron von Beust will be looked upon as a- stranger even by the German party at whose head he will be placed; but his appearance in the Cabi net can hardly fail to be. received as a declaration of hostilities by the rival• nationalities of Czechs, Magyars, and Sclaves, now so irreconcilably ar rayed against the Government. We have seen how the nomination of Count Goluchowsky to the Governorship of Galicia has been like a firebrand thrown into that province to light up the worst passions of the Polish and Ruthenian population. The flame of civil discord threatens the Empire on every side ; and, as if there were not enough of Mag yar and German, Sclave and Saxon, and the whole confusion of hostile races, the runaway Jesuits from Venetia have now come for a refuge to the Emperor, and have roused among the people of Vienna and Prague the enmity which that holy militia seldom fails to excite in every European community. Aus tria has had at all times a great many friends in this country. Since the cession of Venetia, we will ven ture to say, she has hardly an enemy. Iris difficult to withhold sympathy from a Sovereign the butt of such constant and undeserved adversity. But to suggest an escape for him out of his present difficul ties seems a task beyond the power of man. Austria is an empire out of date. The House of Hapsburg was put in possession of vast estates at a time in which the idea of nationality conveyed no meaning. It was said of the Princes of the House of Savoy that " geography did not allow them to be honest men." It may be said of the Austrian Emperors that their position rendered any other form of govern ment than absolutism impossible in their States. Austria was a mere abstraction—a dynasty, a Court, a bureaucracy, an army. What she has been from the beginning she will probably continue to the end. The discordant races under her sceptre can hardly be kept together upon free and equal constitutional principles. Austria must seek her basis in one of her nationalities to the detriment of all the others. It was on the German hitherto that her strength was grounded. Should the ruling power depart from her present centre at Vienna, should the sceptre fall from the German, where is there another hand in the Empire able to wield it ? As in the Ottoman Em pire, so in the Austrian, nothing seems easier than to drive out the ruling race ; but nothing is more diffi cult than either to substitute another race in its stead, or to keep together the various races on terms of freedom and equality. There is no course for the Emperor to follow that is not open to objection, to serious, almost insurmountable objection. It is easy to find fault with everything he may do ; almost impos sible to advise the thing he should do. The Magyar and the Czech will henceforth be scarcely amenable to any other rule than that of absolute force, and-it is not clear whence sufficient force for their subjugation is to come. Schemes of confederacies, of personal unions, may look very plausible in theory, but practically they will baffle the efforts of thew isest ruler. Should even the means be found to recon cile the aspirations of the Czech and the Magyar with the interests of the Monarchy, the virtual in dependence of the main nationalities with the authority of the central Government, violence would still probably have to be exercised upon the sub-nationalities, among whom dissatisfaction is equally rife. We have seen how any measure in tended to win popularity with the Poles of Galicia has turned out obnoxious to the Ruthenians living side by side with the Poles on the same territory. In the same manner the Magyar in Hungary can hardly be propitiated without giving offence to his Croatian fellow-subject, and any favour shown to the Czech iu Bohemia is resented as an outrage by his German neighbour. The only safety for the Government has hitherto been sought and found either in pitting the hostile races one against another, or in mustering up a sufficient military force to crush them all. Our age hardly ad mits of either policy, and it may, therefore, be questioned how long it will admit of such a State as the Austrian Empire. The battle of Sadowa has • revealed the existence of another " sick man" in Europe. Sick men, it is true, do not always die at once ; there are chronic and there are even curable infirmities ; but all the symptoms exhibited by the new patient seem to point either to the necessity of violent remedies or to inevitable dissolution. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—Ocr. 27. A. fair supply of wheat at market, which was sold at 2s to 3s per qr advance. Barley, fine, is dearer, and other kinds sold well. Beans and peas scarce, and sold readily at fully is over late rates. Wheat, white Os M 6Bg Beans, azagan...... 4os red' 42: Ms 61s M&ddle and 5tna,11„445 483 Barley - •• • 32s 54s Peas, white .......... 388 ..... ••• —s Oats grey. ........... 3,5,425 CHELMSFORD—OcT. 26. na At the market to-day wheat was in fair supplY, i t,.., the trade was again active, at an advance of 38 to 48..ri. qr for best samples ; inferior sorts, from i s to 2s Wet ; Best barleys realised fully is over the pr id es of last ' d 0 inferior sorts rather slow. Spring corn of all other l r n ruled firm, and brought is more money. a 42 6 Wheat, old white....sos 65d Peas, Partridge ...... 40 3 6, new . .W 6 66s White ...V ... . f old red 483 58s B,iling .. ...... . ~. 40 , new. 48s 57s Dun.... • • . 3 " ...-1 Barley.... 24s 32s dit 0,01d......40a 42 new..- --s 4 5 0 8 Utevalier ...i. —s Beans, Tick, Lirind.ng 95s 30s new. . - 3 ,2 os Malt sBs 08 Barrow L i c ks.,, Oats 2's 26s Mazsgan . .....18 4 0 Chevalier 6,11 624 new.. • •4°6 44 8 2 • GRANTHA: ki—Ocr. 27. is;; old red, 54s to 58s ; nevi er Bn 9s to 54s per 36 stone. ar qr. ; grinding, 30s to 34s p 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per 21 new, 39s to 46s per 38 stone. Old white wheat, 588 to 6] white, 548 to 58s ; new red, 4 ley for malting, 38s to 455 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 308 to stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. NORTHAMPTON—OcT. 27. New white wheat, 56s to 60s; new red, 50s to 56s ; °f) I ! white, 58s to 62s ; old red, 56s to 59s per 36 stone. Ba r l for malting, 42s to 51s per qr. ; gr i n di ng , 29s to 36s pe r " stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s • new, 23s to 32s per 24 stone ' ' Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Iw o, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—OcT. 26. 001 3 was g 1 The attendance at the corn market to-day and there was a brisk business doing. Prices about Ra m as last week. White wheat 50s Od to 51s Od ? 621 b u shel. Red wheat 458 Od to 46s °d i. Potato oats 24s Od to 26s Odl 40Ib bus hel. Common oats 23s 6d to 25 s 04 Bore • 3ls Od to 32s 6d t 53th 3,3 bushel. Barley 32s Od to 33s Odj 20s 6d to 21s 6d If! boll of 2 Oatmeal B oo s* ' Flour, fine 43s Od to 508 6d Vsack of 2 80110. 11 KIRKCALDY—Oct 27. Good supplies of all kinds of grain. Wheat and Arley is to 2s per qr. dearer. Oats unchanged. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...— 54s 0d ' 33s -41 1 2s Od euond 58s Od I 36s Od 24s 6d Third O2B Oct 4us Oct 28s 6d COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s• 6 ' Walls End Hetton ... 22 3 Wallsend Haswell 22 3 ,, Hetton Lyons 19 9 South Hartlepool 21 " Bradyell's Hetton 22 21 3 Tees Davison's W.'Hartley 17 6 Pittington .... . Holywell Main l7 6 Original Hartlepool .. 22 21 Buddle'sWestHartley 17 9 Kelloe East Hartlepool Eden• Main 2120 96 New South i 3 H e e m t t o o n n t ............... .... 2 2 2 0 6 Caradoc Ships at market, 91—sold, 81. A father writes satirically to the 7inies—" 3l l son Hector," he says, " aged 19, crossed 11 Y1 Park, alone and unarmed, b e t ween 7 an d 8 o'el°c' on Monday evening. I trust the natural p r ide of fe parent is sufficient justification for my seekinC r t° make public this gallant and courageous act." v i ! can imagine a " rough " calling into question th e exploit of the young H ec t or , an d s i gn i ng himsel f a " Keeper of the Park." H e m i g ht t ru ly state that his brother-keepers were too well spread over the ground to permit an intruder to escape 1112 ' challenged. The Water-Witch, lately launched from the Thames Ironworks, at Blackwall, is an hydrauli4 iron-cased gun-vessel, of 778 tons and 160-1 101 1 . power. The construction of this v essel is novel' On each side she has a metal pipe for c ontinuous l y discharging water by the propulsion of ete alli ; The force of this water is the motive power OP drives her on. She has a huge water-wheel 14 2 feet in diameter and weighing 8 tons. The water IP „ admitted, through holes in the bottom, into a lout iron box, like the well of a Thames punt, where gudgeons are kept alive. She ejects 300 tons ° f water every minute when working at full e1: 4 , 0 The wheel is constructed to force the water from w f box through the pipes in a continuous stream immense power, and it is said that the els l3l o yields a greater power in proportion to t'' t fuel consumed than the screw or paddle, t ll3 less power is wasted, and that it can he turaira tt thiru Intek warLIS or forwards at pleasur e ' without stopping or reversing the eng i nes , the o ffi ce' on command on deck being able to change the she course, or to modify her speed instantaneou sl y' without communication with the engine-r°° °l; Her trial proved a speed of two knots an ho ur greater than that estimated for her. The Pall- 01 ' Gazette illuStrates the principle on which she to°°e° ~, in the following manner :—" If an y o ne wishes i. "; observe for himself the p r i nc ipl e ' of motion a the Waterwitch, he may do so at a cheap cost by P ll , l c i chasing one of th e i n di aru bb er s ki ns w hi c h are esr% at every toy-ship, and which on inflation smut the dimensions and appearance of a large swa ge. Directly free' egress is afforded to the air by the r e ; moval of the finger from the hole through which t b _ A air has been blo wn i n , th e sna k e rus h es forvia7, across the room, or as f ar as it s supp l y o f air I carry it. This is p rec i se l y th e pr i nc i p l e of th e Waterwitch, except that an hydraulic pressure i r, substituted for an air pressu re , an d th e hydraw l " pressure is constantly kept u p by s t eam, w hile tb e air pressure on the snake dies away almost Won diately as the air escap es . Th e l aw w hi c h opera' in both cases, as also i n th e illustrations which ha T ii been adopted, of a gun at the moment of I ' B° o and of a rocket du r i ng fli g ht, i s th e l aw that sod% and reaction are equal.' The motion is the res t ', of the reaction of the escaping power, whether that power be hydraulic, atmospheric, or gaseous." Miss Maria S. Cummins, the author of the " Lamplighter" and other widely popular nova' died at Dorchester on Monday morning, Oet• She was the daughter of Judge Cummins, andalaT e of cultured and finished literary ability. The ° a , of the "Lamplighter" has exceeded 1,000,000 eerr' 01 and since its publication, in 1853, Miss Cum, has written " Mabel Vaughan," "El Fureidis," an " Haunted Hearts." Most of her later writing' have been published in the Atlantic Monthly. • bea PARIS, Oct. 21.—An Imperial decree publis to-day orders the obsequies of the late M. Th ° e , vend to be celebrated, at the public expense, 00 at count of the eminent services rendered by IL:, statesman to his country. The Moniteur annoui lL 'a his death as a loss to the Emperor and countrl/ 11 . 13 th adds :—" His name is so intimately associated W a the remembrance of the annexation of Nice 3 . 13 , Savoy to France that his loss will remain the obj ev4 of well-founded and honourable regret." The French troops are positively to leave 8 099 u ~_! on the 15th December. "An instalment of tJ French troops, nearly a thousand of the 81st Regi ment, will leave Vera Cruz for France on the 2D . r e inst. The Austrian Government has ordered tjl_ war steamer Elizabeth to sail immediately for Mo de°, with what object is not made known. Births. BippuLni—On the 27th inst., at Blackheath, the Nv - Lieut.-Col. R. Biddulph, Royal Artillery, of a son. o f Bitoox.E—On the 28th inst., at Ewell, Surrey, the wife Henry Brooks, Esq., of a son. HANBURY—On the 27th inst., at 21, Portman-square, til° wife of George Eanbury, Esq., of a son. JESSEY—On the 27th inst., at Brighton, the wife of G ee'. Jessey, Esq., Q.C., of a son. Marriages. BALFOUR —KErrt—On the 25th inst, at Kindrogan, -r de, shire, N. 8., Francis W. B a lf our , Esq., of Ferule C3'sio Fifeshire, late Major Rifl e B r i ga d e , to Jane A nie " second daughter of P. S. Keir, Esq., of Kindrognn• a , +0 DAVSON—CHAPMAN—On the 27th inst., at St. Marg r-i n - Church, Leo, Smith H. DaTson Esq., " M.D.,r Colt° terrace, Kilburn-park, son of the late S. r ayson? ( „1; 1 9, Berbice, British Guiana, to Rose Annie, second ( 10 ° ter of Henry Chapman, Esq., Lee, Kent. Deaths. CLAYPON—On the 27th inst., at Branch Hill Lodge , 1131131 r stead, B. Claypon, Esq., aged 74. ~don+ DENT—On the '2Bth inst., at Highwood House, P --- „iry, Capt. Robert C. Dent, late of H.M.'s let Light CO" Indian Army, Madras. CO" GREENAWAY— On the 28th inst., at 218, The Gro vel berwell, S. Michael Greenaway, Esq., aged 80. T. NEWMAN- On the 28th inst., at Finchley, Middie sel ' C. Newman, Esq., aged 78. o, f SMITH On the 28th inst., Mr. Thomas G. Stn .—, ° New North-road, Hoaton, aged 55. WAIT— On the 27th inst., at 7, Spring-terrace, N. " j- James,Wait, Esq., shipowner, aged 75. „ Li -, Phi l WEBB—On the 27th inst., at 25, East India-road , Webb, of 24, LaurencePountney-lane, E.G., aged London: Printed and Published by WIL MAY( AN of No. 112, Strand, Painter. at Tim SUN OtrOO , ' v. ty Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CO IL° Bliddleoez.—Tuesday, October 30,1840. lauTr A PROFII .ABEE SECON I I' GUNT 131 t A Ccu eand p The, entir e 31st New NOT State f 03, e Ciottiii Tende i be vi e , Celivor a T., , S-" ohtftitb next, t th' 01 Fimlit The or all T 'War Th ( rec e i v }AEI repeat future Thi railita To holloi Mu servic ' Pit fixed :klu allow 10 pe Mu rough breeel also, Mao, form and Snid( dente bein g quail Op Ca airaii 0 • Al T 1 th an and Ti shot N, ueg. 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