The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-17 00:00:00

FY MARKET AND CCMM ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocic. The Liverpool cotton market yesterday closed tamely, and prices of Americans and Surats were 1-16 d. to id. per,lb. dearer than last week. All other kinds were unchanged. The sales were 6,000 bales (1,400 for export), comprising 40 Per nam and Maranham at 6d. to 7d. ; 20 Bahia at sid. to 62d. ; 100 Egyptian at 53d. to 9d.. ; 700 Surat at 31d. to 41d. ; and 50 Sea Islands at 10d. to lid. per lb. The Railway Share Market opened dull, but in the afternoon improved and closed firm. Letters received from the manufacturing dis tricts this morning represent trade as having, within the last two or three days, exhibited slight symptoms of improvement, the inquiry for fabrics having rather increased, and the prices have taken an upward turn. The woollen trade, however, is not likely to evince much activity until after the colonial auctions in London, which will in clude about 57,706 bales, and various opinions are hazarded as to the probable result. In Liverpool, cotton, as mentioned above, has risen id. per lb., bat this, it is expected, will not produce much steadiness in the market for manufactured articles, as the advices from the United States are not con sidered altogether favourable. The Overland accounts from Bombay do not re port any improvement in trade. The markets for British manufactures were quiet, and lower prices were generally accepted. The supplies of cotton. piece goods were large, and consequently ruled heavy. Owing to the want of rain it was expected that there would be a material deficiency in the opium crop. Money ruled steady, with a rather more active demand. In our issue of yesterday we noticed that Baron Bruck, the Austrian Minister of Finance, has laid a project before the imperial Government to insti tute a new bank of credit, ceding to it certain crown lands, upon its advances to the State, for a sum equivalent to 155,000,000 florins. By a telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated the 15th instant, it is stated that this important project has received the Imperial sanction. This new institution of credit will receive the name of the " Hypothek Banc," or the General Bank of Credit. It will have power to advance upon public and other securities, but will not be a bank of issue. Consequently it will not interfere with the operations of the old banks, but will rather tend to relieve them in their heavy transactions with the Government. Should its credit be good on the Paris Bourse and the London Stock Exchange, it is anticipated that there will be an influx of gold into the Aus trian Treasury, so as to enable the Imperial mint to add the precious metals to their currency, which at present is at:' a very low ebb. The Government in acceding to the measure state that it is for the purpose of extending the commercial and industrial operations of the country, which at present are severely depressed. The public funds at Vienna remained stationary, and other stocks were generally firm. The Na tional Loan had risen from 781 to 78k, while Bank shares had fallen from 1055 to 1053. The Mnoiteur, of the 13th, publishes a decree which prohibits the exportation of chestnuts and horse-chestnuts to the 31st December ; also flour and meal ground from the same; and admits them at the reduced duty of 25 centimes per 100 kilo grammes. English Securities opened this morning with rather a heavy appearance, some disposition being shown to renew " Bear" operations ; but on real purchases being made to a rather large extent the market became firmer, an .1 Consols advanced to 871 and 88i for money. The Account prices, after having been 87g - and 87/, advanced to 88k and 88k. Exchequer Bills remained heavy at 7s. to 3s. disconut. India Stock is flat at 225, but Bank Stock is firm at 207 to 209. The New 3 per Cents. are 871 to 87 5 :, and the Reduced 86! z to 862. A moderate business is doing in Foreign Bonds, and generally at steady prices. Spanish Deferred rather advanced, being 19,', to 191. Equador are 4.1. Grenada Bonds are 181, and the Deferred 6 . 1, which are previous values. Peruvian Bonds are worth 71 to 73, Venezuela 4i per Cents. 253, and the Deferred 11. Turkish 6 per Cents, opened at l B7-. 1 5 to 87:,, but have since rallied sq. to .803: for account. The Now Scrip is at present 31 to 3 dis count. Dutch 21 per Cents. are flatter at 641, but the 4 per Cents. have risen to 931. The Railway Share Market has partaken of the firmness of the Funds, and although the transac tions are very limited a slight advance is observ able in most of the principal lines. The business was chiefly in Midland, Brighton, North-Western, and South-Western. The French lines in most cases are nominal, as the dealing in them is to'a very small extent. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 20 1, ex div. ; Peruvian, 72 to 74 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to S 8 ; Spanish New Deferred, 372 to 381 ; ditto Three per Cents., 19 to ; ditto Certificates, 4to4k ; ditto Passive, 4i to 5. United Mexican Mine Shares have recovered from yesterday's depression, and are now firm at 41 to 41. Banking Shares are dull, and without any particular alteration in value. In the miscel - market there is no particular feature to notice, but Royal Mail Steam are up to 10s. higher. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'OL , ( From t 7 Onicial List. ) 11n , inAss done Bank Stock 3 por Vent. Reduced Anunitics......... 3 per Gent Consols Annuities 874 a 8,1 7i New 3 per Cent. Annuities L'ule Annuities, Expire sth Jan., IVO 3i 3 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 16 India Stock India Bunch, £lOOO .. Ditto, under £lOOO 2 3 p Consols ?or Account, Bth November B7B 8} E collect= Bills, 2id. I 2d. £l000 2500 72 Small Eseheqxer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent..., 981 Ditto 1859, „ ~. 981 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1i per Cent. Grenada Bonds, Deferred P , Bonds, 4' • Cent- 71. 3 'eruvian ,onas, 4.i per - ..... Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per Cent. Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 79i Ditto for the account 79i 80t1 Ditto New. Scrip, 4 per Cent. 3 d Ditto for the Account 3N 3 Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent. Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent Avhiends on the above payable in London. Datch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull Ditto 4 per Cont. Certifleatee 93i HALP-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto for tbei keeount Bth Nov B7i 88 - PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is 6 per mills premium (according to the last tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17e. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 . 32'; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25•32 i, it follows that gold is about the same price in London and Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark, which, at the Eng lish Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standar d gold, gives an exchange of 13.5 a ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13.61 it follows that gold is 0.41 per cent. dearer in London than in Ham burg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 109 i, per cent. ; and, the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.1.7 per cent. in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation of gold from the United States. ST. PETERSBURG.—The advices from St. Petersburg continue wholly devoid of any remarks beyond the simplest commercial topics, with the exception of an oc casional assertion adroitly intended to create a belief that, the greater the disasters she sustains, the more distant will be the probability of Russia seeking peace. The amount of produce being sent forward to the fron tier was comparatively small, and the rate of excharge had dropped to 35 4 d., thus incr eas i ng th e p ro fit of smuggling gold out of the country. The bad accounts of the grain crops in the northern provinces are fully confirmed, and this new element of embarrastnent is likely to proye important.. i SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. ":11oalne Prices yesterday. 23 - '2 4 3k-- 4 • •• .... n • 74 -7 : 16 - 15 14 - 15 9 - 8 87 89 581 - bat 11 - 12: 5i - 6 - 11 12 9d - • - 69 49 - 51 91 9; 16 - 71 -- 73 6} - 7 844 - 68 - 70 119 . gg - 101 63 50 " 55 65 - TO 5 -- 6 5 6 751 -75 i •• "'"" • • 61 - 64 95 - 96 921 - 93 21 - 1 - lh 811 - R2i! 91 - 81 8 7 22 -- 22, d 641 i 64 37 39 a. ...". a. 12 - 14 - 2,} i*6 - if; 25i ... 26. 68A 69i 8 7Act 4 —94 d 11/ 124 45 96 90 95 .. ii •• - 74 5i - 5i 24 - 26 WO 105 73 75 41 13 114 24 57 58 —31 i 5 3d 2d pa: - 35 ... .... EtiLwASe. St. A.berdeen „.„ Axabg. Noting. Bost and Eastn. fa t :, ro girming. We've rh :t7 Stour Va 11,7 ..... • Birk eihd. Lancsl.. Che4ire June' i)o. Chesh. do £5O and. 225 C3ns. Do., £20... tlyth &TynsorigiuN £25 (issd. at £•4s`: ;iristol and Exeter ....... Carm. and Cal digan Chester di Holyhead. (Jerk and Bandon... Jerk, Black, dr Cornwall Do. A Do. B Gil ell Junction &Belfast June. Dun. P. dt Abe , Jne, Do.Nw East Ai glia.n Eastern Counties.. East. Union, . De., B. Stony.,... Do., New 'East Kent oast Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgo Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth Ez Dux Forth & Clyde Jr n Furness . Do. Extension Glas ., owk S \W fit Great N. of Scotlnd. ( :rest Northern ... Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lrc.) Great Western Do. Stour Val Rat Gun. Stk. . all Irish South-Easter . all Lancaster & Carlisle 14i Do., Thirds 7 Do. New Thirds...... 100 L.naas h. and Yorksi !Da., Wet. Riding Un. ral Liv.Crsby.&Soutbpt all London & Blackwal Xi Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. 16 iDo. Fifths Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...0 2 a 1)o. Eighths 1.00 London andS. Waste tri, Do., .£5O 68 Do., £4O di Liadndrry&Celera,int ill Lndridrr: , . & Eun!=iii 10 Manch.Shef.& Linch 611 Do. Shares, No. 1 2s. I )0., Man. iL.T. Lin. Un 1 Metropolitan )0 Midland 100 100 7 i 100 100 )o, Birmn g • & Derly ; Q. West. (Ir 6, t)o. Half Shares ewea t 1 e & Carlisk , Nwpt..Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk 1 1 Northn.Countics trn. North ..... North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred . Do., B Guarentee , ' N. astern—Berwic , Do. do. Extoneion Do.do.G.N.E.Thrch Co. Lends Do. York North London N.&S.Wstrn.,Hami - stead, and City Ju North Staffordshirc North Western., N. & S. Westrn. Juno Nuneaton, Hinckley ,1 and Leicester.. Ox, Wore.. & Wolv. 'f.?..ts:aortth o .cish Central... Scottish Midland._ hropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. dt Riv. Due Do Staines, Wok. VWo'F tockton DarlL 'Atc23lKt.n dr H-rtle 2 av vale ........ f)o. Prof., No. 1. rissrues Flay, l'.& R. Ulverstone & Lanes. Vale Neat lL. Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&L;raerek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. B West London. Wimbledn & Croydon FOR kntwerp&Rott ‘rikre Do. 5 p. c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes ReLgian gastn. June Roziers to Graissessae Bombay, Bareda,anA Central India.Scri.; Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of Franco Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c Do. EY tengion Do. do. do., '59, do (id. Th of Canal a,A is Do. St. Lawrence St Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Dcben., con. into Stk. till '62 no. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. CeLtral of F ram. (;t. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent... Do. New 5 per cent Po, Extensions.... . Great Luxerebourr Constituted Sharec Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. New Do. Dde., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O D. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto' Do. 6 por cent. Lake aonst. Sr, Basle Vern and Turnhout Lyons and Genova Lyons & Mediterran ladras Do. Now Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege ( Interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D0.20/.Shs Do. 20/. 3 p. c F.& (fmy. B. dt Am s. Shs. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen da Cherhrg. Do Rome and Frascati Rouen and Havre. Royal Danish Royal Swerl i al i Do. Obligations .... , lambre and Memo._ Do. 5i p. cent. Prof Scinde' , Do southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders ..... •• • Do srl per c. Prof western of France Do Z , 3aland JOINT-STO I A.ustraiasia Bank of London Uri. Col. C British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asi? fihrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia & China City Colonial . ....... Commercial of ... nd Eng. Scot.& A ms.Cht . bond. Chart. Bk 0; Australia..,,,, Ditto New., London and County:. Lnd.&E.Bnkg. Corp. London Joint Stock Lond. West . mdn En st; Nationalnd. & pro Do. New, National of Ireland New South `Nalco Oriental Bank of CorporAtion ........ .• Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg Ry anld Imp Co Royal British :mitt) Australia Union of tinstrrlia... Do. New Union of London - .. - 18- 5 - 4 —• 2d 2 3 par ip 24d 2 d I - i par 351 94 104 21i 221 1 r io -6 60 62 89 91 3i 4 5i 54 par -4p p 4 - 2i - 3 22i - 2Ri - lip 99 - 101 112 -11 g 113 - 116 104 106 22i -22 i 110 - 115 5 -- 6p I9i - 20 7 9 2 - 3 4 1 - 5f 41 5 :44i P 5 12 -- 12 - 74 - 8?. 2 444 - 45 44 - 46 ... - pm 20i - 214 2 -12 - 34- 8 - 8 4 ••• - ••• i - 1 p .• • ... - pm 3i - 30 - 313 p 18i 7- 194 BANKS. 84 - 86 50 - 52 i d par i 4dis 52 54 16 -16 i 19 -19 P -- d 3 8 - 40 par -- 2P • ••• •••.• .., . 34 - 36 40 - 42 52 - 54 !leo •••• we. ... a. 40 .:- 41' 69 - 70 7i - al all 5 5 2f ) 10 20 5 20 18 2O irpo 20 16 20 40 81 10 20 20 20 100 100 100 20 20 100 100 20 50 THE surf. LONDON WEDNESDAY NV ei - t91.N0. OCTOBER 17 1856, LINES L, Is"..&SED MILD F 4 ', Nrr A .1,• . THE ACTUAL RESULT OF THE HARVEST DISGRACEFUL APTEMPT TO ASSAS SINATE. SAZYtilik. Compem , ;aetua' • yesterlay. kl 3 this day. IN FRANCE. Bedford and Blet3hley Bucirghamoh. Clydesdal 0 Jc. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and llal. M. Lin. v.TS nc E. Un. H. Sh. Gias. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New GlatrA Dn. Fr flrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Sharer. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do.Preferem.,e Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middleebro' & Redcar. London N. Vie ,t, L. &N. W. E. Un. The Revue Contemporano publishes a remarkable article on the provision question. The writer, M. A. Villedieux, evidently has derived his informa tion from authentic official sources, and his appre ciation of the actual . result of the harvest in France may, consequently, be relied upon. The folio wiLg extracts from this article will be read with in terest : DUBLIN, Tuesday Morn inr , . —The following t,ac count of the barbarous attempt to assassinate a lady, who was, unfortunately for herself, the pro ' prietor of land in the county of Cavan, a short re port of which was forwarded yesterday by tele ' graph—is supplied by the correspondent of the Evening Mail. Since the memorable massacre at Finnoe, in which one of the victims was a lady, the annals of Irish agrarian crime present no similar scene of atrocity to the one hero recorded : " BALLYCONNELL, Oct. 13.—1 n the annals of assassi nation and Ribandism I have not, I think, read of any thing equal in atrocity and barbarity to the act which I shall now endeavour to give you an account of. Miss Charlotte Hinds, on Friday last, about 4 o'clock, when returning from Ballyconnell, was met in the lane or avenue leading to her house by two demons in human shape, who at once dragged her off the car, knockdd her down with loaded sticks, and then deliberately fired no fewer than three pistol-shots into her face and head, after which they walked quietly away, leaving her for dead. The unfortunate lady was shortly afterwards carried on a door to her own house, where she now lies in the most excruciating pain and agony, having, besides the beating from the sticks, received no less than four bullets in the face and head, one of which is lodged in the brain. Her medical attendants entertain not the slightest hope of her recovery. Some 18 months ago sworn information was given that this lady was soon to be shot, and a communication to that effect was made to the Government, who ordered that she should get; a police escort at all times she might call for such, but she only availed herself of the privilege on one or two occa sions. Poor, unsuspecting creature, who set herself down to live in the midst of her property, thinking that at least a lone and unprotected woman might be safe among her tenantry, but alas no. Neither age rier sex is now, nor ever was, respected by the hellish Riband code, which is ' unchanged and unchangeable.' It will be a-ked, in what did the unfortunate lady offend ? She dared to exercise the rights over the property which she had purchased in the Encumbered Estates Court. She dared to look for and enforce payment of her rents from refractory tenants, and she dared against others to bring an ejectment which would have been tried at the ap proaching sessions of this town. Yes, all this she had the temerity to dare to do, and, notwithstanding her many acts of kindness—and they are admitted to be numerous—to her tenants and neighbours, she has paid the penalty of daring to look for her own. Such a heinous, cold-blooded, cowardly actis enough to make one's blood run cold to contemplate. This locality is in a frightfully bad state. It is well-known to some of the magistrates that another was on the list for assassination, and would have preceded poor Miss Hinds, if the dastardly agents of the Riband system could have taken him unawares. Let the Government, then, do what they can at once. They can station an active and determined stipendiary magistrate, and a sub-in spector of the same stamp, at Ballyconnell ; and they can, under the act, form a police-station on the lands of Tubberlion (where the deed of blood was perpetrated), making the land liable for all expenses. When they do this, then I will give them credit for a desire to protect life and property in this doomed locality." Referring to this terrible outrage, the Mail remarks : Etna'floss done this day. 93 - 96 95 - ICO t.Nrt , ;l E. Count Caldoui&v " It appears from the information we have received that the deficit will amount on an average to a falling off of 15 per cent. on an ordinary crop in the worst dis tricts, and of 10 per cent. in the others; consequently we have an average proportion of 12 or 12! z per cent. for all France. As the total consumption of the coun try is on an average 82,000,000 hectolitres, including the grain required for seed, not more than 10,000,000 hectolitres will have to be drawn from abroad. Wheat and rye present unfortunately a proportionate deficit. The result of our inquiries, which are perfectly conclu sive on this point, shows that, if the wheat and rye crops have been deficient in quantity, they have been everywhere, with very few exceptions, of a superior quality. The ground is sound and full, it yields a much larger produce than last year, and the flour leaves no thing to be wished for with regard to its nutritious properties. We could mention a departinent where, judging from the first specimens ground, it is con sidered that the superiority in quality is so marked that it will compensate, in the estimation of the most com petent judges, the deficit in quantity to the amount of a 12th or even of a 10th. A still more important re source will be derived from the spring cereals, which have produced everywhere excellent crops. The supply of barley, which on an average amounts yearly to about 17,000,000 hectolitres, the half of which only is used as food, is most abundant. The crop of this year exceeds by from 15 to 20 per cent, the ordinary produce. The maize or Indian corn offers also, in the districts where it is most cultivated, a favourable appearance. It has suffered only in two or three departments of the south; in others th• surplus is estimated at 25 or 30 per cent. above the average. It is particularly fine in the eastern districts. Maize contributes, one year with another, to the amount of 6,000,000 of hectolitres for human consumption. Time accounts from the east of France are also very favour able as respects the buckwheat, there cultivated on an extensive scale, which supplies each year about 6,000,000 hectolitres to the support of the rural population. The departments of Brittany and the centre of France are san guine in their expectations as to the results of this useful crop. Chestnuts, which the inhabitants of Limousin, Ce vennes, and Brittany consume to the same extent as the cereals durining a great part of the year, present an ap pearance of extraordinary abundance. The same may be said of vegetables, and chiefly of broad and kidney beans. If to all these we add the oat crop, the produce of which will be very large, we may boldly state that the defi ciency in the wheat and rye crops will be in a great de gree compensated. We receive from all sides the most satisfactory accounts of the potato. The disease with which it has been attacked for the last 10 years is on the eve of completely disappearing. It has scarcely shown itself at all in a great number of departments the most remote from each other, and in those where it has ap peared the injury it has inflicted is very trifling, Nevertheless it has attacked certain localities with more or less intensity ; but it has lost, even in these, a great part of its venom—a symptom of its speedy disappearance. The potato crop will be the more abundant, as the marked decline of the disease ob served in 1854 induced the farmers to plant it more generally. To complete this expose of the state of the crops throughout the country, we must add that the grape will yield considerably more than the last few years. It is by no means uninteresting either to observe that fodder has been generally abundant, and that cir cumstance may have a beneficial influence on the price of meat. We may also mention a circumstance calcu lated to lessen the attending difficulties—namely, the tardiness of this year's harvest, which came in three weeks or a month later than usual. During that space of time the country has lived on the produce of 1854. If, then, as there is every reason to hope, the next har vest be nct retarded, that of 1855 will Have to supply the country only during a period of 11 or 11L ; months instead of 12." Gt. West] Yk. New. & Ecrw. Y. &N M I Do.. , Do i 6 17 is 102 IC4 S. Easter Do 12i -- 13 23 -- 115 -- 120 IPeto & Co. Norfolk Do L.& N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. 2i - 2i Midid.Braelfl Newmarket Bury Exton N.& Est.s p.c. Do. 6 nor et. Do. Fixeds p Prost. & w y: , . Do. A tihr,4. A Roystn.& Hit. Shof.Roth and Goolog.sp.c. Shrews. &Her. S. Staifordsh Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do wilt4r-or,rst 90 2 par ip 1 - ;6 58 En. Coun. E. Count Do L.& N.W Do IGt North Laneash & Yorksh. T. Brassey M. MC lean l Stoskt, & Darlingt lio :: fii n - 8} 2t 21 304 - 314 85 VO I otwAR tn. " Miss Hinds (a Protestant), a lady possessing a small property in Cavan, generally resident in Dublin, could get nu rents from her reluctant tenants, who thought they should anticipate Parliament in enforcing tenant-right, and appropriate the whole proceeds of their farms to their own use. After a struggle, seeing poverty staring her in the face, she ejected some of the non-paying tenants, and went down to occupy the farms herself, preferring to till the ground for subsistence to starving. Coming home on a car from Ballyconnell market she was fired at by two ruffians going up a narrow lane leading to her house by the verge of Currea-wood. Dr. Roe, of Cavan, was sent for, and found her in a hopeless state. Reports differ. Some say she still lives, some that she is dead. Property has its duties as well as its rights.' By property, the agrarian philosopher who uttered the axiom meant the owners of property. They have their rights—so the law says, and so the public in England -suppose ; but they enforce those rights at the risk of their lives. If they dare to ask for their rents, they are re fused ;if they enforce them, they are butchered. The day of their execution is generally publicly known, and, as they pass on to the slaughter, curious faces pop out of cabin-doors with a demoniacal grin, and are hastily withdrawn." THE CATALRY AFFAIR NEAR EUPATORIA. The following appears in yesterday's Afoniteur : "The Minister of War has received the following re• port from Marshal Pelissier:— " M. le Marechal,—ln my despatch of the 29th of September I stated to your Excellency that I had sent General d'Allonville to Eupatoria with three regiments of his division of cavalry (the 4th Hussars, the 6th and 7th Dragoons, and a battery of Horse Artillery); I then expressed the hope that the able activity of this General, seconded with zeal by the Muchir, Ahmet Pasha, would succeed in dispersing the troops the Russians have re tained in the vicinity of Eupatoria, and afterwards in threatening the chief line of the enemy's communication between Simpberopol and Perekop. " 'A brilliant cavalry engagement took place on the 29th of September at Koughill (five leagues north-east of Eupatoria), in which the Russian cavalry under Gen. Boris was completely defeated. This action inau7urates very auspiciously the series of operations of which Eupa toria a ill nnw be the pivot. " According to a previous arrangement between Gen. d'Alimi villa and Ahmet Pasha three columns quitted Eupatcria, on the 29th, at 3 in the morning, to march against the enemy. _ There are a few additional particulars in the sub joined account : "This horrid outrage was committed in open day, shortly before 4 in the afternoon, in a populous place, with several houses immediately contiguous to the place, but, until the deed was done, and the fellows se curely off through a neighbouring wood, not one made their appearance. It was also committed beside her own property, but it was remarked that almost if not all the tenants on the land made their appearance in Ballycon nell market that day most conspicuously, in order to be out of the way. One of her tenants, an old lame man named Andrew Reilly, Miss Hinds took up on the way; but as his life is in some of the leases on the lands he escaped, though he says he was fired at, but this is not believed. Miss Hinds' servant boy is committed to the Bridewell here for further examination, as he prevari cated, and told a most improbable story. Miss Hinds was a most kind, good, religious woman ; her only crime was endeavouring to get her rights from a banded law less set of tenants, who thought to hold the lands with out the payment of rent. She had an ejectment served a few days ago on one Stephens here, on the 26th inst , which is the cause of this deed of blood. When the report came in here to the market it seemed to be no thing more than an every-day occurrence, and was received with savage exultation by many—even women. If the Government do not send an active, efficient, and determined resident magistrate and sub-inspector of po lice at once here, it is feared there are more such acts in contemplation ; indeed it is well known there are. If some strong measures are not taken in time with these murderers neither life nor property is worth a day's purchase. Why not at once send a party of police to these lands under the Crime and Outrage Act. Miss Hinds is still alive. She has considerable property of cattle and crops on the land, which will be all taken off if not protected, and she is in a low backward place, unable to be removed. She lies in a most precarious condition, all battered with blows, and many bullet wounds in the head. Are we in a Christian country, or among the Kafirs ? but even these would respect a woman." The first, directed to the south-east, took up its position at the extremity of the isthmus, towards Saki. It had only a few squalrons of the enemy before it, which it easily drove back with the aid of two guns, which supported the column by their fire. " The second, commanded by Abmet Pasha in per son, passing by Oraz, Atchin, and 'reject], advanced nl on Djollchak, destroying iu its march all the stores of the enemy. " :The third column, at the hcad of which was Gen. d'Allonville, was composed of 12 squadrons of his divi sion, of Armand's Battery (of Horse Artillery), 200 irr e . gular cavalry, and six B_•yptian battalions. It cr~esel one of the arms of Lake Basik, and marched by Chiban upon Djollchak, the general rendezvims, where the two last columns joined each other about 10 in the morning. " `These columns had driven before them the Russian squadrons, which had successively fallen back upon their reserves. During the halt ordered to refresh the horses, Gea. d'Allonville observed the movements of the enemy, who, with 18 squadrons, several troops of Cossacks, and artillery, endeavoured to turn his right by advancing be tween him and the lake. STATE OF TRADE. " General D'Allonville, supported in the rear by two regiments of Turkish cavalry, and the six Egyptian battalions, immediately directed his force upon the point of the lake, so as to surround the enemy himself. The promptitude of this movement enabled the 4th Regiment of Hussars, the first line of which was led by Gen. Wal sin-Esterhazy, to make a close attack on the enemy, while General Champeron, with the Gth and 7th Dragoons, in the second and third line, advanced on the Russian Lan cers, and compelled them to a precipitate retreat, during which our troops harassed them for a distance of more than two leiiguea. " The enemy being unable to keep their ground on any point and flying in every direction, GeneraldoiAlelulteond ville halted th e s quadrons, and, bef ore re tiring, c all that the Russians ha:? abandoned on the field of battle. MANCHESTER, OCT. 16. The market this morning has been flat. Yesterday a disposition to operate, which had manifested itself some little on Saturday, led to more business than of late from a belief that the greater stea,dineis in the raw material at Liverpool might lead to some reaction in prices here ; but this morning the intelligence gleaned from the tele graphed summaries of the money articles contained in the morning papers had a disheartening effect, and the business done has been very light. To some extent the downward course of prices has been checked, but while sellers are less willing to make concessions, buyers are again manifesting a disposition to withhold their orders where there is no temptation in the shape of easier prices. Both in cloth and yarn the feeling is the same, and the transactions throughout the day have been on a small scale. " ' As the result of the action we have taken six. guns (three Bannon and three mortars), 12 caissons, and ono field forge, with their horses and harness ; 169 prisoners, of whom one is an officer, Lieutenant Procopvitcb, of the 18th Lancers ; and 250 horses. " The enemy left on the field about 50 killed ; among them was recognised Colonel Andreowski, of the 18th Lancers, of the division of General Korf, who com manded in this en gagemen t, an d who h a s the reputation in the Russian army of being a cavalry officer of great merit. Our loss, in compa r ison, is very small ; we have six killed and 29 wounded ; M. Pujade, aide-de-camp of General \\raisin ; and M. de Sibert de Gornillon, ordon nance officer of the same general, are among the latter. " 'This brilliant action does honour to the regiments engaged in it, as well as to General Walsin and D e Champeron, and to General D'Allonville, who speaks in high terms of the support he received from Achmet Pasha, and the Turkish troops under his command. " Receive, Monsieur, &c., " 4 PELISSIER, Marshal, Commander-in-Chief."' Messrs. John Slagg and Co. say : " Since Thursday last, when it became known that the Bank had made no further advance in the rates for discount, there has been a better feeling in the market, and a fair amount of business has been done in most de scriptions of goods. In prices there is no change to notice since last Tuesday—tbe full extent of the improve ment being to check the downward tendency which then existed." Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co., report : "There is no improvement in our market whatever to-day either in price or demand. Yesterday there wai a more animated feeling, and a larger amount of business was done, but this has entirely passed away, leaving the market stagnant at the lowest previous prices. The threatening aspect of the money-market seems to augur a very unsettled state of business. LEEDS, OCT. 16. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS DE BRABANT Considering the period of the year, the state of the money market, and the price of corn, the business transacted in the cloth-halls this morning has been fully as good, both as to extent and prices, as could be expected. Winter goods have sold to a fair extent, and among them several arti cles suitable for the outer apparel of women. There is undoubtedly some contraction of work in the woollen mills in several of the villages in this district, and some persons express fears of a very indifferent winter trade ; but the general feeling is one of confidence that there will continue to be little less than an average business done, and at remunerative prices. There is little or no diminution in the demand for woollen goods for the come trade, and there are many indications that the great bulk of the people are well employed, and that even the present high price of bread will not be much complained of by the working classes. AT ST. CLOUD. A Paris letter of the 14th, in the Rdependance of Brussels, gives the following details of the grand dinner of between 60 and 70 covers given to the Duke and Duchess de Brabant At St. Cloud on Saturday : " The Empress, from her interesting position, did not attend, and it was the Princess Mathilde who did the honours. The Emperor and her Imperial Highness went to the apartments of the Duke and Duchess to accom pany them, and his Majesty presented the Princess to the Duchess, and the guests to the Dake. At table the Duchess occupied the centre place opposite the Princess Mathilde ; the Emperor was on the right hand, and the Prince Napoleon on her left. The Duke deßraban t was on the right . of the Princess Mathilde, and the Minister of Bel gium on the left. Lady Cowley was on t he right of the Emperor, and Mme. Rogier. the Bel g ian ambassadress, on the left of Prince Napoleon. The other places of honour were occupied by the Minister of Foreign Af fairs, the Minister of State, and M me. Fould, Marshal and Mme. Magnan, the Minister of Justice, and the President of the Senate. Amongst the other personages present were the secretaries of the English and Belgian Legations, and General Canrobert. In the evening there was a reception, and the Empress joined it. Danc ing to the piano took place, but the Duke and Duchess de Brabant being in mourning did not take part in it. The Emperor danced with the Princess Mathilde. Amongst the guests were the Countess de Montijo, mother of the Empress, the Duke and Duchess de Alba, and the Ambassador of Turkey. The Empero r an d the Empress, and their Royal guests retired at half-past eleven," LETTER FROM THE SULTAN TO GENERAL LA 114ARMO.RA. The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the following letter, addressed by the Sultan to General La Marmora " General—The brave troops which the King, my august and intimate ally, has placed under your com• mand, have contributed to the brilliant victory gained by the allied armies, a victory which worthily crowns so much courage and bravery. I congratulate you and your brave army in my own name and in that of my people, as I have congratulated our brave allies the English and French. Turkey acknowledges your bravery as well as your own country, and the whole world admires the heroic courage of the sons of the nations now united by the bonds of an intimate alliance. The taking of a fortress, the siege of which will illustrate the annals of military history, is the best recompenc for their heroism, which their country will ever remember. The President of the General Council of War, General of Division Rifaat Pacha, the bearer of these presents, will ex press . t o . 7u s , General, by word of mouth, my sincerest c "g rati b a o t n i rat I pray God to have you in his holy keeping. the Palace of Tcheragan, on the 7th of the harrem, 1272 (the 28th Of September.") 'goon of Mo. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SEEJEANT OF THE 36T$.—Yes terday (Tuesday) morning s warrant was granted by R. Blunt, Esq., one of the Windsor borough magistrates, for the apprehension of Pay-Serjeant George William Bennett, of the 36th Regiment, charged with em bezzling and absconding with certain monies belonging to his company. It appears he left his lodgings in com pany with his wife, about a quarter to ten o'clock on Monday evening in a cab, and has not since been heard of. In the morning, on his absence being discovered, information was immediately given to Mr. Eager, aupe• rintendent of police. Hie defalcations exceed 1001. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of e.dn3issions for six clays ending Oct. 13.—Number admitted, including season ticket holders, 25,211. , Amount received for admission s , 1,157411 x , 6d. MR. SIDNEY HERMTRT AT WILTON. At the " triennial commemoration" of the opening of the Wilton Parochial Library and Reading-room, a public tea party was held in the National School-room, on Tuesday last ; the Right Hon. Sidney Herbtrt, M.P., in the chair. The room was tastefully decorated with flags, ever grens, and pictures, many of the latter being eiegravings ' of scenes and incidents in the Crimea. In addition to the family and visitors of Mr. Herbert nearly all the leading families in Wilton and its vicinity were present. Considerable additional interest was excited by the pre sence of the Hon. and Rev. S. G. 04mrne, and the pro . raised narration by that gentleman of some of his expe riences in the East. Mrs. Bracebridge, the coadjutor of Miss Nightingale in her labour of benevolence in the re formation of the military hospitals, was also present, in company with Mrs. Heibert. The preliminary business of tea-drinking being over, The Right Hon. S. HERBERT, M.P., said he had been asked by the committee to preside over that meeting, and had great pleasure in complying with that request. Three years since a meeting was held to consider the best means of establi s hi ng i n W i lt on a parochial reading room, which mi g ht give t, all classes the opportunity of getting access not only to books, but also to those periodicals which were of so much interest by their ac counts of those occurrences which from day to day were taking place around us. The result of that meeting had been the establishment of the reading-room, which he believed had been eminently successful, the memLers now numbering 80. They had a good supply of books, but that supply was limited, and'it *was of importance to find means of increasing the library by obtaining fresh works when the old ones had been read. This might, he was informed, be done by connecting themselves with a similar society, and so making an exchange of volume's when the old stock was exhausted. He had himself brought some books with him, which he hoped the committee would do him the honour of accepting, as some contribution to the stock of the library. (Cheers.) Another subject they would have to consider was, hew to obtain the means of having a series of lec tures at their reading-room. He was informed that by putting themselves in communication with the Society of Arts they could get lecturers from London, perfectly masters of every subject on which they were selected to lecture, and supplied with extensive apparatus for illus trating them. In considering the suggestions he had just made, it bad occurred to him to write to a gentle man who had always taken the liveliest interest in mat ters of this kind, and be bad asked him to come over and give them a lecture on the present occasion on those great events which, during the last 12 months, bad filled every household either with the greatest exultation or the deepest grief. He felt proud of the courage and conduct so nobly displayed by our army during the war in the Crimea. He confessed that be was not one of those who were disposed to find fault or to depreciate the efforts made by the English army in the late siege. He thought, on looking back upon the history of British war, they would hardly find an instance in which in so short a time such eminent and decisive successes bad been gained as those lately achieved by our army in the Crimea. (Cheers.) When did they ever see in so brief a period such victories a-i were commemorated by the names of Alma, Balakiava, and Inkerman--names which would ever be household words in England ? (Cheers.) They bad on the walls of that room pictures of these battles and these great events, and they had also the portrait of a lady whom they all knew—Miss Florence Nightingale, whose exertions, whose sacrifices, and whose self-devotion had won for herself an undying name. (Cheers.) Miss Nightingale was not among them that evening, though they had among them a friend of hers, who bad shared with her, and could bear testimony to, the dangers and horrors which, in the dis charge of her high mission, she had gone through. To that friend he would tender his thanks on their common behalf, but yet they might believe him when he said that whatever thanks—whatever honour—whatever reward they might give here, were as nothing compared with the reward hereafter. When he wished to open that evening's meeting by some observations from one who had himself visited those scenes of interest, it oc curred to him that the Rev. S. G. Osborne also went out on a mission of mercy. To Mr. Osborne he also would tender his thanks for the efforts he had made on behalf of the suffering army. That gentlemen had witnessed those scenes of suffering, and had shared in their allevi ation. He had consented to come over to Wilton that evening, and he was glad of introducing him to his friends present. He was sure they would give Mr. Os borne every attention while he made some observations on what he had seen. They would listen to him with the greatest pleasure while he was addressingthem on a sub ject of so Much interest as those scenes which he had personally witnessed, and was now about to describe. (Cheers.) The Hon. and Rev. 5. G. OSBORNE, who was re ceived with loud cheers, said he had unexpectedly re ceived a letter from Mr. Herbert, asking him to come over and give the people of Wilton a little Crimean talk. The only mistake Mr. Herbert made in that application was that he had never been in the Crimea, and conse quently could not of his own experience tell anything about it. But if he had not walked in the scenes of war himself; he had walked in the dark shadow of war—if he had not witnessed the charge and the glory of the battle-field, he had seen the wounds and sufferings which succeeded it. Allusion had been made to one not here present, Miss Nightingale, but there was one among them, 'UN. Bracebridge, who had nobly sup. ported her in her labours. The work they had done, the toils they had endured, would have been too much for the endurance of an Englisman, but they were not too much for that of an Englishwoman. (Cheers.) When the future historian shall give in a future reading-room his account of this campaign, not the least proud pas sage in it will be that which tells at once how English men fought at Inkerman and Alma, and in the fear ful fire of the Redan, and how Englishwomen also were found to shrink from no work, however appalling, to which duty called them. (Cheers.) To those works they were moved by no motives of worldly fame, but by those only of tried Christian feeling. There were some things in which, when men failed, women could succeed, and t Ariss Nightingale and' M r s. B race b r id ge , who supported her, would not ba the least honoured in the history of that Eastern camnaio ' n. To turn to lighter subjects, he bad brou g ht w ith him two or three things—trophies of the war—which might possibly be of some interest. I.lr. Osborne then exhibited several interesting trophies, and after expressing his deep re gret that he had too short a notice to prepara a more re gular lecture, and thanking his audience for the kind ness with which they bad received him, proceeded once more to advert to the conduct of the English army in the East. He (Mr. Osborne) went to the East with a very (afferent feeling towards the soldiers than the one he now entertained. He now honoured the soldiers, for he could realise the feelings under which they went forth to suffer and to die in the discharge of their duty to their country. (Cheers.) He did trust, then, when the war was over, that honour would be done to all alike— that they should not have some greeted like the stars of a theatre, while others were neglected, but that one and all hi the English army would receive the honours and rewards to which their valour entitled them. Mr. Osborne then proceeded to notice the beneficial work ings of such institutions as the one whose members and frieLds he was addressing, and concluded - ; - eic4uent, address by avowing his belief that no class had any more right to a monopoly of education than to a monopoly of the light of heaven. (Cheers.) Mr. 11. BLACKMORE, on behalf of the company, begged to thank Mr. (:sborne fur his interesting lecture. Three cheers were then severally proposed and given for Mrs. Bracebridge and for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, who, as was observed by Mr. Blackinore, had done so much for Wilton. MITIGATED NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY. (From the Derbyshire Courier. ) "The question whether the war expenditure is be yond the means of the country must, therefore, be boldly met. If it be upon a scale to involve a permanent drain of gold there is no alternative but to lower it, or to prepare for that mitigated form of national bankruptcy which consists in a suspension of specie payments." Here is an "alternative" truly ! Having been forced into a great war, we are - decidedly against having it starved. Therefore no surrender, no reduction ! Let us by all means have a "mitigated national bank ruptcy." The writer in the Times, from which paper we have made the extract which stands at the head of this article, is sufficiently prolix, but not very logical. If, says he, the war expenditure exceeds the means of the country, we must either reduce our expenditure, or proceed to "a mitigated form of national bankruptcy," to enable us to do without such reduction of expenditure. "A mitigated form of national bankruptcy" is, therefore, a specific for raising the war expenditure of a great nation. What then is this splendid financial operation to which so important and advantageous a result is attri buted ? " A mitigated f o rm o f national bankruptcy of consists," says the Times oracle, "in a susp ension specie payments." 15th March, We are not without precedents. On all t h e gloom and 1848, the French Government, „ terror of an unparalleled Revolcuitnion,-". issued a decree which involved " the actual suspe ns '" n ois,caalifillrtne pay ments."d The Times, three days a ft erw ard that this measure could hardly he distinguished und er the circumstances from a general act of bankruptcy," 18 0 4 r 9 5 , t l effects." essthan u y t, e a b r eh a o i l t d e r which must produce " the w p t a o s id t y u e s a t r h , hat on the 16th February,rytheofTitire this "act of general banktrineptheiA'Yo' "the only passage in which the French h a ve reason to be p rou d , was this "act o f general bankr uptcy " —which was now said to be a decree—this masterly operati on, " a " heroic re sistance to a dverse circumstances," which "rescued the country from the jaws of bankruptcy, and society itself from dissolution Weconclude that multitudes who a ll ow the Times to think for them, read, believed, and admired both these statements—at the time when they were written. Now let us refer to our own precious experience in this country. On 27th February, 1797, the stock of bullion In the Bank of England had fallen to 1,272,0001. Everything looked gloomy. A foreign invasion was supposed to be impending. "In addition," says Mr. Francis, "to foreign force, domestic treachery was jus fiably feared. Corresponding classes, Friends of the peo ple, and Jacobin societies were spreading a poison and a pestilence through the minds of the nation. It was well known that a number of discontented men would gladly hail the appearance of a French fleet off the English coast. Ireland was approaching an open insurrection. Disaffection bad seized upon our seamen. The Nore witnessed an active mutiny." "The wooden walls of Old England" tottered. What saved our country in this perilous hour ? "That PREFE ,ENtle; :311.A St. 20 St. 15 10 St. 20 all 100 10 6 1100 100 100 'lOO 100 'lOO 10' 1.00 100 berdeen o. N 0.2, 7 p• e• tlrthandTyry lOpel c. pref. (issd.a.tsol & Ex. 4 p. c. 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Scrip... 1 all ).,, KegifAered 20 5 Crust& L.Co.U.Can 100 383 Pw Diej4l4's ;And 13 59k i 68i 8 1001 100 52i 2 751 6} 92 31 3 8212 6ii i lli 12i 82 23i 3 a d ad 44i 5 44i a d all all 10.) 118 17i mitigated form of national bankruptcy which consists in a suspension of specie payments." Thus it was. On February 26, 1797, an order in council empowered the directors rat the Bank of England to suspend cash payments. The next day came the trial. IThe bank note ceased to be " convertible "--" national bankruptcy " commenced—" an act," as Mr. Fox said, "was done which struck at the foundation of public credit." The timid were in a state of consternation. But Government was firm. The Bank was guarded by soldiers. But there was no need of them. The mer chants in the city assembled to support the Bank, fo r they wanted bank notes—the instrument of exchange— and cared nothing for gold. The people 'immediately understood that the bank note was "convertible" into all the necessaries of life. In the afternoon—we speak on the authority of one who well remembers the event— the troops were quietly withdrawn from the city, and " national bankruptcy" became fur twenty years a mere bugbear of the financial imagination. One solitary individual remained for a few hours, musing—like Marius amidst tte ruins of Carthage— over the fallen grandeurs of his country's commercial credit. It was a young man of lofty literary and finan cial aspiratione, engaged by that great organ of public intelligence, the Times newspaptr, which was then com mencing its giant course of fame. But there was nothing to be done, and little to be said about the affair. And 1 so the young reporter slowly wended his way to his ac customed retreat—the Goose and Gridiron, St. Paul's Church-yard —and there converted his " inconvertible" 11. Note into the supplies of beef -steak and brandy which the exciting occurrences of the day had rendered requisite. How for nearly twenty years this country prospered and progressed under the suspension of Cash payments, how from this day of " mitigated national bankruptcy" we bore up against all adverse circumstances at .home and abroad,—the gigantic enterprises in which we bore a distinguished part, the hundreds of millions which this country raised and expended in the prosecution of the great European war,—are matters of history with which all are acquainted. Was the Bank Note ever, for a moment, " inconver , tible ? " The idea is simply ridiculous. Money ceases to he money the moment it ceases to be convertible. With this inconvertible paper money we raised armies, subsidised foreign legions, carried on commerce with the world, and developed and expanded the industrial energies of the nation at home. But was the Bank Note " convertible " into gold and silver ?It was—in the proper manner—viz., at the market price. The Order of Council for the suspension of specie payments was issued on 27th February. On the 6th of March follow ing, the Bank issued a notice that, " in order to accom modate the public with a further supply of coin for small payments, a quantity of dollars were ready to be issued." On the first day of the 'issue of these dollars the people crowded to get them ' • but the B an k was ' amply provided • the call for dollars decreas e d every day, "and on th e 31st October, 1797, these dollars, of which 2,325,099 had been issued in eight mouths, were called in." (Francis,) Representative paper money will purchase gold, iron, tin, copper, or silver at plea sure, as easily as a check with the signature of Roths child is " convertible " into an estate in the Highlands or a ship of war. It was the mistake which was made after the Peace, in 1819, of enacting that the Bank note should always be exchangeable for gold at a fixed rate, that has produced a greater amount of ruin, misery, and disaffection in the country than the world's history has ever exhibited. The events of the day confirm all that has been said for years on the absurd and pernicious effects of the Peel Monetary System. Why are discounts at 54 per cent. ? Why are Franco and England fighting for the po-session of a few millions of a particular metal, in the struggle to retain which the trade and commerce of both couniries are severely injured ? Why do we put it in the power of the Emperor of Russia, by the abstraction of a few millions of gold, to strike a heavy blow at our commerce and trade. Ail this is permitted by the mis taken principle of making the circulating medium of nations rest on a metallic basis. What would have hap pened in this country had not the gold discoveries of California and Australia mitigated the effects of our false principles of currency ? But ari accidental, though most extraordinary, circumstance, such as the vast dis covery of gold, proves nothing in favour of a metallic currency, or of paper money based on metal, though it may assist us for a time. A nation's money should not be an article of merchandise, but purely representative, exchangeable into every commodity at the market price. To relieve the pressure of the day, and while the prin ciples of monetary science are under the investigation of the nation, we should therefore hail with satisfaction that " n.:itigated form of national bankruptcy which con sists in a suspension of specie payments." Bet we go much further : we wish to see not the " suspension " only, but the total abrogation of specie payments at a fixed rate. REFORMATORY ESTABLISHMENTS. WORCESTER, Monday Night.—The Quarter Sessions for the county of Worcester were opened to-day before the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, Bart., M.P., and an unusually large muster of the magistrates, among whom were Lord Lyttleton, lord-lieutenant of the county, Earl Beauchamp, and near 70 other magistrates. In the course of the county business, a question came before the court as to the propriety of re-appointing a committee appointed at the Michaelmas Session last year to consider the provisions of the act for the better care and reformation of youthful offenders. The Right Hon. Chairman said the committee bad no report to make, but he would avail himself of that op portunity of stating the view which he took of this in teresting and important subject, which was, that at this moment it was hardly desirable for the county to move iu the matter. In the present state of the law, it was perfectly clear that they must move, if they moved at all, on the voluntary principle. That plan had been attempted in some counties, and was now being tried in the adjacent county of Warwick. This was an experi ment in which he felt the deepest interest, but he must say that he did not feel sanguine of the success of the voluntary principle when applied t matters of this mag nitude ; and, therefore, be thought before they took any steps themselves, they should watch the result of the experiment in Warwickshire. They bad collected in War wickshire a sum of 1,6001., which was a very large sum to cell upon any county to contribute by voluntary benevolence. They had the advantage in Warwick shire, . too, of the establishment of a r, formatory school at Saltley, near Birmingham ; but ho understood there was a difference of opinion existing as to whe ther they should connect themselves with the Ut ley esta'Aishinent, or set up another more centrally situated. He was not aware whether the large sum of 1,6001., which had been contributed inWarwick shire, would be sufficient for the purpose, but he had been told by some personal friends that irrespective of the cost of the establishment of a reformatory, the sum granted by the Government was not enough by 71. per head for the support of the prisoners confined in these establishments. Therefore private benevolence would have to be taxed, not only for the amount necessary for starting the institution, but also to the extent of 71, per head annually for maintenence. It would also be a question for consideration whether they might not take advantage of the establishment of reformatory schools in adjacent counties for sending their offenders to. He was very anxious to see these establishments carried out; and there was one remarkable case for trial at these sessicns which showed the necessity for such establishments. He alluded to the case of a boy aged 11 years, who was charged with housebreaking, and who had before the alleged offence been a boy of very abandoned habits. The right hon. baronet in cone elusion repeated his doubts cf the success of the volun tary system ; and before he was prepared to originate a movement in the county for the establishment of a refor matory, he was disposed to wait the result of the efforts made in other counties. Rev. T. PEARSON observed that Worcestershire was one of the counties of England that had no ref : rm d t p o o e s Y i He dwelt on th e impo r t a nc e o f checking early atidooepttiongersimome,etshaiiodgbeofwathsecoonovrtin, at convinced of thetn a necessity of tthhaetetohuentryighwtouhlodn.tackbeniorpmtahneamnodttethide expressed lord-lieutenant of Rev. J. PEARSON expressedsimilar desire to that o f to hear wh a t a his father, the last speaker. Heregretted had fallen from the right bon. chai e t n c d o , nsid d ered the ye reformatory us ution for the he would originate chairman, still hoped he thought luntary principle the county. No doubt tbbaeooGto institution f v o e r r fi t m h the n • Lord LYTTELTON (lord-lieutenant)said he did not wish to throw any discouragement on what had been done in the Government was in the right. Warwickshire, but he was bound to Say that he could not quite collect, from what passed at the recent meeting there, what was intended to be done. The Saltley in stitution bad been in existence some time, and the pro position was to enlarge the existing building there and make it a county institution. That proposition he un derstood bad been acquiesced in on the part of the whole of the magistracy of the county, but he heard the other day that doubts had arisen in the minds of some of the magistrates, and that the whole question was thrown open now, whether they should have a new establish ment in the centre of the county, or whether they should enlarge that at Saltley. On the general question he would say that he was very anxious that something should be done, but he was very much of opinion that there woul 1 be no great value in the reappointment of the com mittee at these vssioes, because that court had no poweF to deal with the rates for supporting an institution ; and as there was in many counties in England something doing by private efforts, he thought that would induce Parliament to leave it to private efforts, and not to give power to the Quarter Sessions to deal with the county rates in support of these establishments. But if any movement should be made in the county he should be happy to join it. He believed the sum paid by the n Government still left a considerable sum it wasproposed to to support these institutions. He refe r red t to the Wilts p be made meeting lately held, at which estab lish an institution on the model of the one se t on foot a t Hardwicke, near Gloucester, by Mr. Barwick B a k er , and one or two other magistrates, and which he believed was nearly self-supporting. _ Aftt•r a short conversation the matter d roppe d . Th e committee was not reappointed. Mt:mum—The crew of the ship Allerton, of Sunder. land, out nine days from Liverpool, bound for Madras, mutinied and refused to work the ship, because she was so leaky. The captain was consequently oblige dto get a pilot crew to take her into Queenstown. THE SEPTEMBER A.uSTRALIA.N MAILE.—The celebrated c lipper ship Rea Jacket, Captain M. M. Millward, be longing to the White Star line of Australian packets, and which sailed from the Mersey with the English mails of the 20th September, was spoken on the 28th ult., seven days out, in latitude 38.50 north, longitude 20.15 west, by the Le Quellec, arrived at Bordeaux. This is a very favourable outset, and augurs a capital voyage. 10 44 10 all all all all all 50 MI an ICON . - 8 32 li 29 1