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Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon-street, City. Gallons, 50. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 64. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE; -THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magid and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Ile would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has snared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those Who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that i t is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst Many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro need a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Prof essor A n d erson t o rep l y at length to a tithe of the co mmunications which reach him on the subject. He regr e ts t hat many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen Who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions. on Spirit-rapping are expressed, and every ev genin, within the L Yccum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his Multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whale force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mn, D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: --" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and new in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very a cceptable to him, for ho was poor, young (under 20), an or- Phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid losing his power a a medium, and he would sooner lose ois life. The refusal, s however, made Barnum thoughtful. Re inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is ene of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the e ditorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom Alight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe 'n spirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross ,a swindle, wh en h e finds th a t th e i ncum b en t o f W or tl ey (tb e Rey, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the ~,Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Ccx's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that Which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that s pirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one Wh o was present when he and Lord Brougham had their s4ance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and they to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right band, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the Ettbject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will 13 e received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual Jugglers. In the coarse of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. i ng, the programme being continually changed. Grand f ashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, at 2 •'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : iu which the Wizard will do 13 Y magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer loin, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and th e possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Lo Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. . . Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the T ansfor tnation—black into white, and the Discovery every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate.rsus. Into Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verne; or, the Casket o 'which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of to al a l t " ra p p r en a : se e n u t t : the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed rt locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. ' Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency O f Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spi r it store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in elhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the ,„ w ord . of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, E psom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum , whisky, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally ?roving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, And occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act S. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expos 6 of S pirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of t he Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become t ransformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, iu which ho who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the 'Shortest iloute to the Antipodes. 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L:dopn advocated by various writers on these important disorder: lll6dies 'MERT M.D; B y BA ICIEL LA 37, DE D Lo ember of the University of Edin- Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated 1; A I E, LONDON. object of t ee hi r s ta tr in ell a se bi id tiOn' & c ., &c . burgh, Honorary Member of the ,_Point out the fearful con degradation in Man vhich have produced more misery i n ' l ' Youth, and excesses, 334 T a h en Ce ces SSe r n e ti sul a l a d n p d thri w vail h t e go all are ; m e t oe c: n scl shouldo n s know Life, than, perhaps, any of hangsecret doubts harard 01 ,1 .that there a reco mmendedpersons deeay to atall enOtefnin Its perusal is particular Ah m e d ; c a l n as d s i p y o r f disease known tO modern which every h e t i r c ir heel phy th si , c:l ap co pia nd es it s i , e n, an an being is entitled: It is absolutely neceSsarY ,rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated without r' ncurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indalgence, how these penalties ray be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed, And how the evil and its consequences Maybe avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or function! lerangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cum file Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensivc :ractice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have intortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant emnirics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretenelons. 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It was generally believed that they were going to meet a formidable naval form!, about to appear before our city, and expose it a second time to the horrors of a bombardment. The greatest alarm is visible on every countenance, notwithstand ing the afr of confidence assumed by the military authorities. If this second misfortune should occur to complete the ruin of our commerce, the magnificent palace of Prince Woronzoff would be the first build ing knocked to pieces by th e fi re o f the All i es. O ur military eng ineers have done thei r u t mos t t o save it from destruction. They have planted six howitzers on a height close to the wall which separates the Prince's garden from the Boulevard. The thickness of the wal has been doubled, and embrasures have been opened in it to enable a battery of field artillery placed in the Palace Ccurt to play on the assailants. Besides the large battery of 36 pieces erected last April, a second bat tery, of semicircular form, containing 12 guns, and com manding the roadstead, has been also erected. It is hoped that the iatter will be sufficient to preventany hos tile vessel from entering the military port. Since sum mer the military engineers have constructed a new bat tery of 32 pieces of the largest calibre on the ground to the west of the colonnade, which will sweep all the approaches in the direction of the Peresip. There are besides, at intervals along the garden terrace , pieces of heavy c a lib re , w hi c h may a t a moment 's notice be brought forward and form a second flying battery of sixteen guns. I have been informed by per sons in the Commissariat at Nioolaieff and Kherson that the passage between Kinburn and Oczakoff has been rendered quite impracticable. Upwards of 50 boats laden with large stones and fragments of rocks have been sunk along the channel over a space of at lnast two verets, a narrow canal only having been left for navigation. Thus vessels wishing to enter the Li man will have to pass quite close to the fortifications, under the very guns of Kinburn. The latter is re garded as a fortress of the first class, owing to the im mense works thrown up around since the landing of the Allies in the Crimea. The same process has been gone ,through at the entrance of the Bug, which is flanked by two large batteries on either side. Ml the vessels the Russians could procure have been sunk there, and no boat, however light its draught of water may be, can enter the river. Only one very nar row passage now remains open for the Russian boats which proceed from Nicolaieff to Kherson, Kinburn, Oczakoff, and sometimes even to Odessa, on military service ; but on the first appearance of danger, an im mense mass of stones, rocks, &c., heaped up along the shore, will be thrown into the passage in order to block it up completely." LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, oCTOBEit 20, 1855. SALE BY AUCTION. TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHER LARGE CAPITALISTS. Gloucestershire and Monmoutiphire. The Elotel, Gardens, Lawn, an New Passage Ferry, 11 miles from Bristol. 4R. LILLY is instructed to SELL, by t AUCTION, at the Commercial Sale Room, Bristol, on FRI DAY, the 2d November, 185`, at One o'clock precisely, The Hotel, Garden, Bowling Green, extens ve Stabling, Coach houses, and Outbuildings, at the New Passage, with two Cottages and Gardens, and about eight acres of Meadow• and Pasture Land, all in the parish of Henbury, in the county of Gloucester, adjoining the shore of the River Severn, and about 11 miles from the city of Bristol. And at the same time and place will be Sold, The ancient Passage or - Ferry, across the river Severn, from the New Passage on the Glouce,tershire side to the Black Rock Hotel on the Monmouthshire side of the river, within a few furlongs of the South Wales Railway; together with the Quays, Piers, and Landing Places on the ,Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire shores, and the Pill, called Chissell Pill, and all the Tolls, Fines, Payments, and Emoluments receivable on account of the said Ferry, Piers, Quays, and Landing-places. A reference to the Map of England will immediately show the important position of this New Passage Ferry. It affords the shortest route between the West and South-West of England, Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, and Southampton; and Monmouthshire and South Wales; and also between Bristol, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Liverpool ; and a railway of about lOy v miles would connect the Ferry with the Midland Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Steam-vessels upon the system in e between the Cheshire and Lancashire shores at Liverpool, be tween New Holland and Hull, and at the Frith of Forth, could con veniently ply across the New Passage Ferry; and an immense traffic in passengers and goods now carried on with Monmouthshire and South Wales, across the Bristol Channel, or by the circuitous route of Gloucester, would he the immediate result of such an improved com munication. The South Wales Line would be reached at a point only fifteen miles from Bristol, which, via Gloucester, is upwards of sixty. The above Property well •leserves the attention of Railway Con tractors, or of any Capitalist who is disposed to secure the command of one of the most important Railway routes in the kingdom, and which must at an early period be adopted as an indispensable mode of communication between Bristol and Monmouthshire and South Wales. NOTE.—The Hotel, Lands, and Ferry will be offered for Sale in one Lot or In several Lots, as may be announced at the time of Sale. To view the Premises apply to the Tenant ; and for further peril culars to the Auctioneer, at Bridge-street; or to SAVICIIT, CLass, and FIISSELE, Solicitors, 12, Corn-street, Bristol. EVENING LECTURES at KING'S COL LEGE, London.—On and after Monday, Oct. 29, KING'S COLLEGE WILL BE 0 I'EN on Five Evenings in the Week for Classes in the holy Scriptures, Latin, French, German, English Language and Composition, Modern History and Geography, Ma thematics, Arithmetic and Book-keeping, Landscape, Figure, and Model Drawing, the Elements of Chemistry, and in the Principles and Practice of Commerce. A prospectus will be forwarded, on application to J. W. CUN NINGII Esq., King's College, London; and full information may be obtained at the College from 10 to 4 daily, and from 6 to 8 every evening except Saturday. 17th Oct., 1855. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. SALE OF OLD STORES AT GOSPORT. ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET-PLACE, 18th October, 1855. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of I Lord High Admiral of the United Kincdom of Great Britain end Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on FRIDAY, the 2d Novem ber next, at 12 o'clock at noon, the Captain Superintendent will put up to Sale, in the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard at Gosport, tevera Lots of TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0. (preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta. tion.—Address THOS. LETTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yarmouth. " This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward, Blenheim Palace.— Oct. 20, 1554." " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a supply as usual ; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.—A. F. Conrroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." HR. HENRY DRUMMOND, M.P., AT THE criERTSEY AGRICULTURAL MEETING. Yesterday the annual meeting of the Chertsey Agri cultural Association, established for the encouragement of deserving farm servants and agricultural labourers, was held in the town of Chertsey. The proceedings as usual on all such occasions, consisted of a ploughing match and a public dinner afterwards. The ploughing took place in fields belonging to the Rev. J. C. Clark and Mr. J. Bailey, in the immediate vicinity of the town, and the day being singularly fine for this season of the year, a considerable number of people were at tracted to the spot. Prizes to the amount of between 201. and 301. in the aggregate were afterwards distri buted among the successful competitors. The dinner, with which the business of the day was appropriately wound up, was held at the Town-hall at 3 o'clock ' • and among the gentlemen present were Mr. Henry Drummond, who acted as chairman, and Mr. Locke King, two of the members for the county ; Mr. Robert Gosling, the late high sheriff; Colonel Sumner, Mr. J.' J. Briscoe, and Mr. W. K. Hesseltine. The labourers also dined at the Bell Tavern. The cloth being removed, Mr. DRUMMOND, in proposing "The Queen," said— We are apt sometimes to forget that it is our duty to drink to the Sovereign, whoever that Sovereign may be; but, owing to the great virtues which surround the pre. sent Sovereign—we are in so much admiration of her virtues as a wife and a mother, that those things which are but the accessories, and which make the ornament, are really sometimes mistaken for our loyalty itself. The toast was drunk with acclamation. Mr. DRUMMOND then gave "Prince Al hert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal family," and in doing so said the'royal family was nothing more nor less than like the family of any farmer now hearing him ; and he should like to know what any one in that room would say if an impertinent neighbour, on learning that a young man had fallen in love with his (the farmer's) daughter, were to turn round and remark that it was a very improper marriage. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) Would he not instantly tell such a meddler to hold his tongue, and mind his own business ? He (Mr. Drum mond) asked simply that the same degree of forbearance should be evinced towards the domestic affairs of the royal family as a man in the position of a farmer had a right to claim. Because Mr. Walter, Mr. Delane, and Mr. Dasant said that a female member of the royal family was not to marry such and such a person, was that a reason why the marriage should not take place ? He (Mr. Drummond) said it was a most abominable act of interference ; and if they (the meeting) would not suffer such meddling by strangers with their affairs, upon the same principle they ought not to allow it is the affairs of others. (Hear, hear.) The toast of " The Bishop Clergy of the Diocese" fol lowed, to which the Rev. Mr. JENNINGS briefly re sponded. Mr. DRUMMOND said the next toast upon their list was "The Army and Navy, and those of our Allies ;" and it was very well in those postprandial speeches and cheers to profess great regard for the army and navy ; but if that was the case, how came it that they (the public) encouraged all the calumnies and slanders that were spoken and published against them ? Lord Raglan was the victim last year of the most scandalous false hoods. He did not say wilful falsehoods, because the persons who uttered them could not know the facts— but they were nevertheless falsehoods ; and when Sir John M‘Neill was sent out to the Crimea he made no secret in telling the whole truth, as it really was, and justified Lord Raglan in every single particular for which ho was blamed during the last year. They allowed these calumnies to go on without inquiry, and they ran away propagating them abroad, and then they wondered that the people on the Conti nent had no great heart to join them in the war. He happened to be a short time in Germany during the present autumn, and one day he dined at a table d'iwte, at which the company were mostly Ger mans, and all more or less acquainted with the English language. An English gentleman came he and began to talk very big about the war. He asked, among other things, why we did not bombard Odessa ? The reason, he said, was, that Mr. Sidney Herbert had sent out orders not to bombard Odessa, and assigning as a reason that he had some private property there. He (Mr. Drummond), addressing the gentleman in question, said he would no doubt be happy to hear so gross a ca lumny as that contradicted. He himself, he added, had seen with his own eyes a despatch written by Admiral Dundas to Admiral Hamelin, begging to be allowed to go and bombard Odessa. Hamelin referred the matter to General Canrobert, who refused to allow them to en ter upon the enterprise ; and Mr. Sidney Herbert had no more to do with the fleet not going to bombard Odessa than any gentleman in that room. The very same course was now being pursued with regard to Gene , rail Simpson. What would they think of five or six general officers sitting down and dictating to the Attor ney-General, Sir FrederickThesiger, and men like them, how they should conduct a Chancery suit On the same principle, what could so many tenth-rate lawyers in this country know about military tactics, or how to conduct a great military campaign ? And yet these were the men who bad been leading the country by the nose all along. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) He said, if our generals and army fought our battles with Russia in a distant part of the globe, it was our duty to fight their battles at home, and to see that the calumnies to which he had referred received no credence at our hands. (Hear.) Colonel SUMNER briefly acknowledged the compliment paid to the army and navy. Mr. R. GOSLING then gave "The Members for the County." Mr. LOCKS KING, M.P., in responding to the toast, said it was a matter of great congratulation to him, see ing that he had long taken a very active part in the , repeal of certain- laws which were detrimental to the agricultural interest, that the anticipations of the agriculturists arising from the operation of free trade had altogether vanished, and that agriculture was now prosperous. (Hear.) There were, doubtless, a variety of circumstances which caused the greatest de pression to the agriculthral interest. The change to which he had referred was effected at a time when they were unprepared for it, and when other laws and cus toms which prevented the overflow of capital to the land ought to have been abolished. Matters, however, were now changed. They had high prices, they had agricul ture thriving because they had made a number of im provements, and he felt quite convinced that, though those high prices might have done them good, yet that their prosperity was much more owing to the great im provements that they had made in the cultivation of the land than to any temporary advance in prices. He could not help thinking, at the sam e ti me, that they ought not to rely on those high prices. The war might last for a time, but he hoped it would be brought to a speedy, honourable, and satisfactory conclusion. And when that time came, they might rest assured that there would be a reaction, and they must be prepared to meet that change by improvements in the cultivation of the land. (Hear.) They must rely upon their own exertions for those improvements, and this was the proper time to do so. He thought th a t a new era was fast dawning for the agricultural interest. The time was, when meetings of this kind were first commenced, that they felt a great step was taken to improve the condition of the labour hag classes ; but it seemed to him they must do something more—they must look higher up the tree, so to speak, and they must endeavour, if they could, to remove all those laws and abolish all those customs which interfered to prevent the flow of capital into the cultivation of the soil. He believed that by adopting . this course they would do more than by any other means to promote the happi ness of the humbler classes—(hear)—and to forward the objects which those societies had so much at heart, He always felt that when these doors were somewhat forci bly opened for the admission of foreign produce it was only fair that the principle of free trade should be ap plied also to the raw material—the land itself—and that all those technicalities and difficulties which interfered with the tratifer of land from a willing owner to a willing purchaser should be entirely removed. (Hear.) He ap pealed to them whether, in a country like this, where the population was fast pressing on the means of sub sistence, it was right that we should retain any of those laws and customs which interfered with the free cultiva tion of the soil, which greatly oppressed the labouring classes, and did great injustice to the whole community. (Cheers.) He found from statistics that there were in Great Britain and Ireland no fewer than 15,000,000 acres of waste land capable of improvement and cultiva tion, but which were not cultivated at all. In England there were said to be about 4,000,000 acres of waste land capable of cultivation ; in Scotland, where the land was locked up under a close system of entail more severe than in England, there were no less than 6,000,000 acres capable of cultivation; and in Ireland, 5,000,000 acres which still remained without cultivation. He was struck with the remark of Lord Stanley the other day to the Liverpool and Manchester Agricultural Associa tion. His lordship said that if any man retained land in his own hands which he had not the power to im prove, and did not sell, he was a wrong-doer to the com munity. (Cheers.) If that remark was applicable to an individual, bow much more so was it applicable to a legislature which allowed a number of laws to exist (not obsolete laws, but which were srictly in force), which compelled a man to keep in his own hands that which it was utterly impossible for him to improve. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman proceeded to eoinpare the position of a landowner in these circumstances to that of a soldier who bad inherited a machine for Making stockings, and which was entirely useless to him so long as it remained in his hands. By converting the machine into money, however, the soldier did that which benefited himself, while at the same time it became an instrument for in creasing the wealth of th e commun i ty. The hon. gentle man having made some further remarks on the existing laws relating to the tenure of land, concluded by thank. hag the company for the honour they had done him in drinking his health. Mr. DRUMMOND, in replying to the toast of his health, said—With respect to what had fallen from his hon. col league in the representation of the county on the sub ject of entails, he might state that from the first moment he had a seat in Parliament he had laboured hard to get a registry of titles to land throughout the kingdom, which would do away with a great many of the com plaints to which Mr. Locke King had alluded. That plan, he was happy to say, was now in course of being carried out after a long delay, the present Solicitor- General having taken up the subject most warmly. He assured them the opposition he had met was not from the landowners themselves, but from the lawyers, including old chancellors, half-dead chancellors, and live chancellors. It was a great thing to get a man who bad mortgaged his estate to understacd that he had really no longer got it. When once you got to understand that, you had gained a great step in the right direction. He would tell them this, that unless they got leases they never would farm their land in a satisfactory manner. He would give them one or two instances. One was the case of a connexion of his own in the north of England where there were no leases ; and when the tenants there said to Mr. Caird, ou his visit to them, that they had no leases, that gentleman omitted that fact in his com munication to the public. It did not suit his book. But though there were in that case no leases, there was a regular valuation every year, which in point of fact answered the same purpose as a lease. With regard to his own conduct in Parliament, he could honestly say that he had endeavoured all along to look at things and not at sounds. He positively cared nothing about a mea sure which was called conservative, or which was,intro duced by a party said to be conservative, if in point of fact its tendency was destructive. And if it was destructive, he always voted against it. If, tin the same principle, he saw a motion propounded h av i ng the factious o bj ec t o f turning out an existing government, without having a better at hand to supplant it, he always gave such a mo tion his most strenuous opposition. He really thought that it would be better to have no government at all than some that he had seen. At present they had five parties in the House of Commons, any four of which were able at any moment to devour the fifth. His belief was that their real danger consisted in the propensity of the House of Commons to become the government of the country—to become the executive instead of being sim ply the legislature ; and against such a system he would always contend. (Cheers.) Ho would now propose to them the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Chert sey Agricultur a l A ssoc i at i on. " He was excee dingly glad that this association had continued in force for up wards of 20 years, and sorry that in other parts of the country kindred societies had died away. He could not understand why farmers did not feel it to be an advan tage to them to meet together now and then and talk over the business of their daily lives. Manufacturers were accustomed to do so, and a farmer was a manufac turer. He thought in the first place they were wrong in not getting leases ; but it was no use preaching to a farmer unless you could show him something. The very last time he had th e p l easure of seeing theta in that room, even showing them something would not do, far he remembered a s h oema k er or a ta il or bring ing into the room on that occasion a practical illustra tion of a most eno rmous pro d uce having b een raised from a single seed. He mentioned this to show how much might be done by superior cultivation. On that occasion a gentleman at the other end of the room said it was all very well for gentlemen farmers to come and humbug the practical farmers in that way—(laughter)---- but there the thing was before his eyes. It was said that seeing was believing ; but this gentleman saw and did not believe. The fact was, if the tenant farmers could not be ind uce d to meet together on those occa sions to talk over their own affairs—it the mountain would not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the moun tain ; and if the farmers would not come and partake of such a dinner as they had had that day, then the country gentlemen must provide a dinner of bread and cheese and onions, and come in smock-frocks to meet them. (Laughter.) They had heard a great deal about the improvement of cottages, model cottages, and so forth, but he should be obliged to any one who would tell him how to build a cottage and make it profitable. It was said, look at the Scotch, and see what they have done in this respect. Why, throughout Scotland there were but two room s i n a ll t h e i r co tt a ges, which , in their own language they call e d " but and a ben ; and no matter how many children there were, they were stowed, just like herrin gs i n a b arre l, a ll toge ther in the same bed. He must say, however, notwithstanding, that the Scotch peasantry, on the whole, were more moral than those of England. He would tell them more than that. He had endeavoured co n ti nua lly t o t urn s mall families out of large cottages and to p u t l arge f a milies into them. But what wa s th e consequence ? Why, they shut all the children into one room and let the other, If this asso ciation would tell them how to keep people separate who ought to be kept separate, he for one would bo much obliged to th em . Th e h on. gen tleman, in conclusion, urged the ad van t ages o f d eep p l oug hing, and the advisa bility of granting leases for 7, 14, or 21 years. After some other complimentary toasts, the company separated. GRAND ROWING MATCH.—The grand rowing match between John Mackinney, of Richmond, and Kelly, o f Fulham, who contended in August last at the Royal Thames National Regatta, w ill take place on Wednes day next, f rom P u t ney -bridge to Mortlake, for 2001. The event is one of great aquatic interest, and large sums of money are laid out at evens upon the result. DEATH OP LIEUT. JOHN R. OUSELEY.—We regret to hear from Kiel of the death of Lieut. John R. Ouseley, of H.M.S. Pembroke, son of Sir W. Gore (formerly Bri tish Minister in Brazil and the River Plate) and Lady Ouseley. This promising young officer, aged 21, was landed from the P em b ro ke on account of th e extreme weakness to which he was reduced by illness, bro ug h t on by exposure during the bombardment of S weab org ; and although his father, who had been summoned by telegraph, procured the best medical aid, which for some days gave hopes of his recovery, the disease when he landed had advanced too far to be overcome. Ris fune ral took place on the 9th at Kiel, in the presence of his father, the British and French Consuls, the captain and officers of the Danish war-steamer Hecla, and some Eng lish residents. There was no. English man-of-war in the harbour of Kiel at the time. The usual funeral honours were paid by the Danish naval authorities. ATTEMPT ON TEE LIFE OF SIR _HENRY WARD. The Indian Mail brings the intelligence that an at tempt has been made on the life of Sir Henry Ward, the Governor of Ceylon, by a Cingalese, who is represented by the local papers to be a wild-looking wretch, the very tout ensemble of a ruffian, who would use the knife with out the slightest compunction. He had been known for many years as a notorious thief ; he was originally employed as a canteen man in the barracks, but his thieving propensities and evil disposition shut him out from any further employment. The particulars of the attempt are thus given : Miss Kate Ward, about gun-fire on the morning of the 7th of September, hearing a noise in her room, where she and her sister slept, perceived a man bolting her door on the inside. He remained there some little time examining the things on the dressing and about the room. When he left the room, Miss Ward made an alarm, on which the man picked up a knife, and after threatening her, hastened along the passage, passing the Governor's room, just as his Excellency was coming out, alarmed by the noise. The Governor, armed with a Colt and stick, pursued him down the passage into the drawing-room, and on coming up to him the man turned round and came at him with the knife. The Governor then fired at him, and, not wishing to kill him, shot him through the shoulder, and afterwards kept him at bay, until he was eventually secured by the Peons, not, how ever, until he had wounded two of them with the knife, a small table one, belonging to the house, and which he picked up in the passage leading to the bedrooms. He only took a sheet used as a takle cover, which he found in the passage, and a towel, and froM his behaviour seems to be more a madman than a thief. Had the Go vernor not been armed with a pistol the consequences might have been very serious. He never spoke a word all the time. The man, who is now in the hospital, has two wounds on the lower part of the neck on the left side. These do not communicate, so far as the medical men have been able to ascertain. It is doubtful whe ther the wounds have been produced by a bullet or the bayonet of a soldier. He has also two other wounds, one on each side of the wrist. He has a stupid look, and the suspicion has been thrown out that he is insane; but he has been recognised as a gaol bird and as a despe rate character. He has marks on his back of former punishment. In a few days it is expected he will be able to attend the court. OLD STORES; colsisting of serviceable Tongues, Old Provisions, Biscuit Bags, Staves, Casks, Paymasters' Implements, Necessaries, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said YE..rd. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent for notes of admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the Yard. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following \taste will be performed by his celebrated Band during he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney), Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultana (Bosisto). Quadrilles—Le Rol du Pastel Lamotte), Les Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al ,,ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), 11 Trovatore (Tutton). Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al nert), Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— rhe Imperial Guards (Laurent); The Heels (Streather). Schottische —La Guirlande de Fleury (Bosquet), La Varsovlana (Laurent). Prin cipal Cornet a•Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission one Shilling. SAD CASE OF SUICIDE BY A MOTHEI? WITH AN INFANT. HEREFORD, Thursday Evening.—The good folks of the town and neighbourhood of Kington, in this county (on the road from London to Aberyswith, and a delight ful spot well known to tourists and invalids), were this morning thrown into a most painful state of sorrow, in consequence of the landlady of the Oxford Arms Hotel there, an exceedingly lady-like person, and one univer sally esteemed, having been found (with her infant child) drowned in the River Arrow, a celebrated trout stream, running at the foot of the eminence on which-the town is built. It appears that shortly after the confinement of the unfortunate woman, having a flourishing business to attend to, which necessarily brought with it some amount of care, she went to visit a sister at Birming ham, in the hope that change of air and excitement would prove beneficial to her health. On Tuesday she left Birmingham on her return home, and had gone as far as Leominster, who she felt herself much indisposed, and sent a message to that effect at Kington, in conse quence of which Mr. Evans fetched her in a gig the same day. On Wednesday evening she was observed to be not so well as could be wished, and at the request of her friends a medical man was sent for, who prescribed a sleeping draught, as it was thought that the fatigue con sequent upon suckling a heavy child had superinduced ennui. It is believed that she took the draught shortly before retiring to rest, which was rather earlier than usual. Early this morning a charwoman going to work ob served the front door open, and thining, perhaps, that some one had been robbing the house, she aroused the servants, who were sorely puzzled to account for it, the house being very full of company, and no one having in timated any intention of leaving early. Mr. Evans was called, and for a moment he sugge , ted that perhaps a gentleman named Beavan, who was staying in the house, had got up early and was going shooting ; but when he four /lk that neither his wife nor child were beside him in bed, histeelings can h ar dly b e d escr ib e d . H e could not guess Alit had happened, though he felt an indefinable misgiving hanging over him. He rose with haste, dressed himself, and at once insti tuted a strict inquiry, but no one could give him the least intelligence of his wife ; in fact no one had seen or heard of her departure. In this state of suspense persons were sent to see if any tidings could be gained of the unfortu nate woman, who was not beard of until about 6 o'clock, when she was found lying drowned in her night-dress, with her child about two or three yards from her, in the River Arrow ' • the water at th a t s p o t no t b e i ng more than two feet deep. No reason can possibly be assigned for this deed ex cept that it was committed while in a state of temporary derangement, as deceased had an excellent home and was thriving in business. DOUSES FOR THE LABOURING POOR. TO TAE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-It has given me much pleasure in seeing that houses for the labouring poor have been brought under public consideration, and that many talented, influential, and amiable individuals have given their decided opinion that better cottages should generally be built for the labourers and their families, in which opinion I most fully coincide. If this should happily take place it would be attended with much less expense than is gene rally imagined, as nearly the same expense is incurred in the doors, windows, and grates iu small rooms as in rooms of moderate size. The chief difference of expense is in the building of the cottages. I now speak of it in a pecuniary point of view, without giving an opinion of my own, as my wish is to draw the attention of the public to the subject. Suppose, for argu ment's sake only, the whole of the landed and household property of England belonged to one individual, and he would, consequently, be obliged to pay all the poor rates, county rates, all expenses attend ing t ransportation, &c., &c., would he or would he not find it his i n t erest to b uild them all, or nearly all, larger cottag es , as pure air is so conducive to health ; they would then learn more self-respect from their infancy, there would be fewer invalids sent to the different unions, less number of persons transported, and fewer cases come before the magistrates; the head or father of the family, finding his house more comfortable, would become more domestic. I now speak of houses for the labouring poor in large manufacturing towns. There is no necessity for the whole of the labouring poor to live near the manufactories, comfortable houses could be built for them at some distance from the town, and I would stronglT recommend, if possibl e , it s h ou ld b e on or by the s id e of a hill. Owing to the elevation you would then, in a great degree, avoid the exhalations of the earth at night, which is detrimental to health. The labourer would consequently always have pure water for his coffee or tea, breath pure air after his return home every night and on Sundays, and they and their families would most probably enjoy that invaluable blessing, good health. The workmen of the different manufac• tories could go every morning, and return every evening by the railroad, at a trifling expense. I would recommend the manufacturers, merchants, clergymen, &c., to form buildi ng soc i e ti es w i th l i m i ted liability. The houses could be let to the labourers at a fair and moderate rent, and there is a great probability that they would receive a fair return arising from this investment ; but eren if this should no t h e th e case, t h ey will have the pleasing satisfaction of knowing that they have increased the comforts, and consequently the hap piness, of so many of their fellow-countrymen. Hoping to hear shortly this desirable improvement has taken place to a considerable extent,—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, MERCATOR. October 17, 1855. STEAM TRAFFIC WITH GERMANY, FRANCE, AND TEE UNITED STATES. --- The American steamer Ericsson left Southampton yes terday for New York, with 150 passengers, a French and German mail, and a large cargo. Bonds were' en tered into by the commander to be answerable for da mages which an English court of law might adjudge her liable to in consequence of her coming into collision with a collier in the Straits of Dover, whereby damage was done to the collier, and one of her crew lost his life. The Ericsson belongs to Messrii, Dunham and Son, mer chants, of New York. Another steamer is about to be put on the same line—viz., that of Bremen, Southamp ton, and New York—by th e same parties. New steamers are about to be built in America, in the room of the Washington and Hermann. These steamers are to be 4,000 tons burden, and to be propelled by paddle-wheels. They will be larger than the gigantic steamer Himalaya, the largest in the world. Vanderbilt is also about to put on a steamer of similar tonnage, to run on the Havre, Southampton, and New York line. There will shortly be eight first-class steamers running between Bremen, Havre, and New York. The Havre steamers do not touch at Southampton, but call at Cowes to drop and take in their English mails, passengers, and cargo. The Bremen steamers call at Cowes for a similar purpose on their voyages to B remen , an d at S outhampton on their voyages to New York. The object of calling at Cowes is to avoid the light, river, pilot, and dock dues, charge able on their coming to Southampton. The Bremen steamers are obliged to c a ll , however, at the la tter p ort on their ho mewar d voyages to take on French cargoes f or A mer i ca w hi c h them. Sm a ll s t eamers run b e t we en Southampton and Cowes to tend on th e A mer i ca n one, and to convey to n t there board theaiting large for and fro their English mails, passengers, and cargo. The Americans have now completely secured a monopoly of the immense passenger and goods traffic between Ger many, France, and the United States, and all attempts to draw it away to Liverpool have failed. [PRICE 4D• STAMPED SD• DEPARTURE OF THE _REFUGEES PROM JERSEY. The conductors of the publication entitled L'll omme left Jersey on Wednesday night, and took refuge in Guernsey. Previous to their departure a mob, car rying sticks, assembled before their door. A. large number of French refugees were inside, well armed and prepared to defend themselves, but happily the police in terfered and prevented a collision. tAt a public meeting, held at the Hall of Science, City road, on Thursday evening, Mr. ELIGH in the chair, Mr. ERNEST JONES called the attention of the meet ' ing to the proceedings at Jersey, and maintained that the objectionable passages in the letter published in L'llomme had no reference personally to her Majesty, of whom he spoke in the highest terms, his language being responded to by the meeting, but only bore a political sense. If blame, he said, was to be attached to any one for the expressions contained in the letter, it was not to fall upon those who published the letter in Jersey, but upon those who first issued it in London. He recom mended that the exiles, if banished from Jersey, should be invited to London, where a public meeting should be held at St. Martin's Hall to hear the explanation which the meeting at Jersey refused to receive. Mr. NASH moved a resolution in accordance with the preceding suggestions, which was seconded by Mr. M LAUCHLAN, and adopted by the meeting. A committee, consisting of the members of the Na tional Charter Association Committee, was then ap pointed to carry the resolution into effect. ADMIRAL BRUAr S . SQUADRON. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. ( From yesterday'allioniteur.) Admiral Bruat, Commander-in-Chief of the French naval forces in the Black Sea, has received from Marshal Pelissier the communication of an order of the day, in which the Commander-in- Chief of our army in the East addresses his con gratulations to the landing corps of seamen detached for the siege of Sebastopol. Admiral Lyons has also transmitted to Admiral Bruat the expression of the sentiments entertained by the Lords of the Admiralty of the harmony which has not ceasad to prevail between the Allied Admirals since the commencement of the operations. The following are copies of these documents : GENERAL ORDER. Soldiers,—The brave seamen of Admiral Bruat's squadron, who landed in order to share our dan gers and labours, are about to leave us. The Russian seamen of the Black Sea, who had not dared to contend with them on their own ele ment, have come to know them before the walls of Sebastopol. As for you, you know very well, during the whole period of this long and difficult siege, that they, with their comrades of the land artillery, have given proofs of courage, constancy, and resolution in the service of their numerous and powerful batteries. It was with pleasure and confidence that we re ceived them amongst us ; it is with regret that we see the moment of separation arrive. A reciprocal union and esteem, formed on the field of battle, binds us closely to these brave sea men, to their valiant officers, to their worthy chief Rear-Admiral Rigault do Genouilly. We shall meet them again, let us hope, and then, as now, the fleet and the army, the seaman and the soldier, will have only one thought, the glory of their country ; only one sentiment, devotion to the Emperor. General Head-quarters, at Sebastopol, Oct. 4, 1855. The Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, A. PnussrEn. On board the Royal Albert, off Sebastopol, Oct. 6, 1855. My dear Colleague,—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have charged me to express to you the great satisfaction with which they have seen the complete accord that has not ceased to obtain between• us. It is to this happy good un derstanding and to the cordial co-operation of the officers and crews of the two fleets that their lord ships attribute the success which has constantly attended our naval operations in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff. Their lordships charge one to transmit their thanks to your Excellency, and also to the officers and crews placed under your orders. I have never had, my dear colleague, a more agreeable duty to perform, nor one harmonising more with my own sentiments, or with those of the officers and crews of the fleet which I have the honour to command. E. LYONS. By the following order of the day Admiral Bruat has made known to the squadron these flattering testimonials to our navy : ORDER OF THE DAY. Addressed on the 6th of October to the Mediter ranean Squadron. The Admiral commanding-in-chief hastens to make known to all the ships of the Mediterranean squadron the general order in which the Marshal commanding-in -chief the army of the East ad dresses to the landing corps of seamen the precious testimony of his high esteem and confidence. The squadron most joyfully see those valiant brothers in arms, who have shared with heroic con , stancy the labours and dangers of an army of which France is proud, returning to their midst. She will thank them for having upheld so high, during the trials of this long siege, the flag of the navy, and will receive with a just feeling of pride the tribute of glory which they bring. These are, indeed, the noble traditions which make the strength and honour of a corps ; these are the examples which ought to inspire a generous rivalry. The Admiral commanding-in-chief ad dresses his congratulations to the officers, under officers, seamen, and marines of the landing corps. He testifies to their brave chief, Rear-Admiral Ri gault de Genouilly, his entire satisfaction with the energetic ardour which he has infused into all this noble devotion, and he eagerly embraces this op portunity of addressing to him this fresh assurance of his affection and esteem. BRUAT. SPAIN AND THE WESTERN POWERS. SPEECH OF GENERAL O'DONNELL. The following is a speech delivered by General O'Donnell, Minister of War, at the sitting of the Cortes on the 12th of October : M. Orense has just been thundering away against France, England, and everybody. I do not wish to an swer these harsh attacks ; I confine myself to observing that great events are taking place in Europe, which may bring on a general war. More than people think er desire, it is undoubted that a day may come when our own interest may compel us to take part in the struggle. If M. Orenso imagines that a nation can remain isolated when Europe is engaged in a sanguinary contest, he de ceives himself ; he thinks like the man who believes he has only to be peacefully diTosed to avoid the chance of being involved in an affair of honour. It is with na tions as with individuals, they often cannot avoid fight in,q, however pacific they may be. Do you know what would happen if we were to carry out to the extreme this system of isolation ? Sooner or later we should be despised by all, and other countries would make war upon us. When the government shall deem it fitting, it will frankly submit this question to the Cortes ; until then I shall not say another word upon the subject. But I cannot pass over in silence M. Orense's observa tions when speaking of nations that prove every e _" in day their attachm en t t o S pa i n. F rance h as never , 6_ v the time of L ou i s Phil ippe, prove d more re li g ious l ytha s n s she is now doi ng a ll h er sympat hi es f or Spatin; she has always maintained—sh e now m aintainsTb ate e i y offered e rictest vigilance at the Py renees . E ng l a nd hay c. Although we ships for transpo r ti ng our t r oops to A we do not require them, wo ought no t the less on that account to express all our gratitudeo for the offers a n d services of friendly nations.--nati e os whom M. Orense can find a n oppor never fails to attack whenever b tunity. In his opinion, the go vernment ought t o take a i f l a tt e r myself th a t I am very Orense the same l i sv • ' e a t y u a an t. s n d el‘dlthat t a h t e i a r . very liberal course. liberal, though not exactly in l a i n b z e a r n a a ls re I signed the programme of I il l: time when many homes and looked out the Messiah . But I will tell M. Orense that the if he is treadin g i n I shall not follow, because f I did I should be afraid of stumbling down •• e into anarchy, a n d at last into despotism, which arecipelP detest qu ite as muc h as I do anarchy. WEST INDIES.—The West India mail has brought advices from Sydney, 'yid Panama, one day later— namely, to the 6th of July. They contain nothing of i m portance, except some additional details of the altera tions in the tariff just proposed by the Governor-General. According to the Sydney Herald, the duty on tobacco is to be increased to the extent of 50 per cent. Upon the other articles of the existing tariff the increase is 100 per cent., with the exception of dried fruits, on which the charge is to be raised from id. to 2d. per lb. The articles which have been added to the tariff are salt, vinegar, soap, candles, and timber. Upon salt the duty i 8 put at 2s. per cwt. ; on vinegar, ls. per gallon ; on soap, 4s. p er cw t. ; on candles, 2d. per lb, ; on timber, and laths, bulk or sawn , 2 s. per 100 cubic feet ;on shingles underiead laths, 2s. pe r 1,000. Th e total Customs ' receir the new system wou ld b e est i mate d a t 679,0001. Pub- licans' licences aro to be increased In the annual fee from 301. to 601., and the former light dues charged upon Blipping aro to bo re•imposed. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Oct. 19. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES CASTLE.—The Marquis,Conyngham has, we bear, taken this beautiful marine residence of the Go vernment, on a 21 years' lease; but as some of the mem bers of the Royal Yacht Squadron some time back ex pressed a wish to obtain it for a club-house for the Squa dron, his lordship has most handsomely offered it to the R.Y.S. As the Castle does not contain half the accom modation that the club requires, it is generally believed that the majority of the members will prefer the old club-house. COWES HARBOUR. -TO WHOM DOES THE SOIL BELONG t —For some years the corporation of Newport has exer c'sed a control over Cowes Harbour, asserting that " the bed and soil of it, from high-water mark on one side to high-water mark on the other side, was the pro. perty of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Newport." No one (not being a corporation man) could make any erection on it, or even drive a stake into the gravelly banks of the harbour, without first obtaining the consent of the corporation of New port, or being threatened with an action by them for trespassing on their property, though the party or his forefathers might have purchased the said property years before. The inhabitants of Cowes disputed this inter ference of the authorities of an inland town with the wants and requirements of a seaport. Some few years ago this corporation brought an action against the late Mr. G. 11. Ward for constructing the landing-place at the Fountain Wharf, but they could not succeed in their wishes to oblige him to remove it, and from that time they have confined themselves to threats and abstained from suits at law. A short time since they threatened to bring an action against the Trinity Board to oblige them to remove th e l an di ng - p l ace t h ey had had con structed to facilitate the landing of the Queen and suite from the Royal yachts, but they have not actually com menced proceedings. Now the Admiralty has taken the matter into their hands, and, in consequence of some complaints, have sent an officer (Captain Scott) down to report on some encroachments, and also on some gravel banks which obstruct the navigation at low water. We understand that a dredging-machine will be sent down to remove the banks. This will put the question to an issue. CLOSING OF GRAVEYARDS.—In consequence of notices having been served on the churchwardens of Northwood that no interments would be allowed in the churchyard after the Ist of May, 1857, nor in that of Cowes church after the Ist of May, 1856, a burial board was elected by the vestry to purchase a piece of land for future inter ments, which they yesterday did, very desirably situated ou the east side of the Newport-road, at about one mile distance from the centre of West Cowes. It consists of 31 acres of meadow land and a quarter of an acre of wood. The price agreed on for the former was 751. per acre, and at the rate of 501. per acre for the latter. It has a large frontage to the main road. THE MONEY MARKET. The advices from Paris this morning state that the advance of the rate of discount yesterday by the Bank of France was•not resolved upon until the telegraph re ported the alteration on this side, when it was adopted to preserve the equilibrium between the two countries, no change having otherwise been intended. If this be correet, it is an additional proof of the salutary course of the Bank of England, since it is only by the adherence of the Bank of France to those vigorous measures, the early neglect of which has caused much of the present embarrassment, that the danger of further difficulties can be averted. The discount-market in Paris, however, seems to be less unsettled than in London, since, from the mercantile letters received to-day, it appears that good bills can be negotiated a half per cent. below the Bank rate. It is understood that the prevailing high rates of dis count have already had the effect of causing considerable amounts of foreign stock to be sent to the Continent for sale. A further favourable circumstance consists in the fact that some portion of the recent drain from the Bank of England has arisen simply from a demand on the part of the Scotch, Iriab, and other provincial banks. In this manner a large parcel of sovereigns has been taken away to-day, and it is believed that the total ab sorbed in these channels during the past month or two beyond the usual amount is little short of a million ster ling, the means for procuring such extra funds having in several instances been obtained by sales of Exchequer bills or Stock. On the other hand, against these re-as suring circumstances must be set a rumour that the Rink of F rance are d es i rous of procuring an a dditi o nal 2,000,0001. in gold, and that the future Australian arri vals are likely to b e p urc h ase d to supp ly it. h,' mode, however, ontioe, however, in which th e cre dit i s t o b o arranged be hoped stated, and. it would b e sa ti s f ac t or y if it could that the may be alteration found sufficientyesterday t in o the 0 Frenchtopiish whatrateof is dis countde sired, and that the plan, be sur r e e e s i c s in t d h e a d t . Tbbo eccouuln i i a f t rrii countries sv h i a lt. s hoe b f e rs e eu n acc e ht n i t ,a) e ar r t t if p fir ._i oc n im. e a d i , tnhl w ee i ata l iu asfirisutuceiffiectets,besindceepraen_ cated as the ultimate incr ease of anxiet y that must be e th p u m e u e s a t t felt on the other.—Timei City Article. eralarsebno'iisinchdioevnoounseassidtehen- is —Admi:ision on payment, CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SITILLINQ DAY. •—• Fri -547; total 8 ,769. C • , I . 3,222 ; do. by Olrespon"lng day 2,48 . last year, 1 s d e a a y s , o, ?e t ti c r et : s,_ THE MINES OF MEXICO. —A . Pamphlet was lately published in Mexico, under the title of "Mexico's Foreign Trade since the Conquest ;" it contains some interesting statistical details respecting the produce of the gold and silver mines. The total value of the gold and silver coins struck at Mexico (the kingdom) from 1521 to 1852, together with articles made from the 4865 pr ecious metals, amou n t s t o 3,562,205,000 dollars. In the city of Mexico it se lf t h e s i lver co i nage amounts to ,000 d o ll ars, and the gold to 111,806,000 dol lars, together 2,359,971,000 dollars. The remainder was coined or wrought in the other towns of Mexico, but the whole of this colossal sum, with the exception of 100,000,000 of dollars, was exported. In the year 1690 the quantity of silver coined iu the capital was 5 ,286,000 dollars, and in 1691 it amounted to 6,214,00 0 dollars. From 1691 to 1700 the quantity diminished, until it dwindled down to 3,379,000 dollars. After thi! year it gradually increased again, till in 1809 its ein t point was attained, the coinage for that year in 24,708,000 dollars. In 1837 only 516,0 n 00 18 silver were issued by the Mint;7 i 's were_ .. a Pole again, and in 1852 amounted to 2,770,00,0, dollars. Extract of a letter from Sebastopol and a Russian, and both were in such a condition as to deserters who arrived a tGeneral Simpson among our soldiers. excite the liveliest compassion thea _ and fragments of their Their clothes were in rags, their feet. They came from the a the whole of the state , that all they had to eat men were in the same _ army near Raider, and they stated . was bread or biscuit and barley, an d that they got no meat, and had only occasional issues of quarter rations of vodka, or spirits. When t he place w as evacuated the English took 62 prisoners, many of wh om were d run k : and asleep am id t he ruin s of the ho uses , an d t h ey were all badly dressed and ill provided with shoes or boots. The wounded men taken in recent affairs of outposts by the Sardinians present the same appearance, and the fact is evident that the Russians are rapidly deteriorat ing in condition and in external efficiency. The men state that they get 31b. of bread or 1k lb. of biscuit a-day, and a little barley, which they boil into a kind of soap, and that that is all their rations. Now and then they_ receive a small allowance of wheat or barle bran d y. They are kept alive by assurances that the all i es soon go, and then they will have (pear tures!) the spoils of the English camp, which " everything but food." deluded is rich i c c:r e ie. air Lek eal 1318 )ut nee ►dy CF. des 0 Or ives ring .to lips, • lb. Bar )d to ditto 8d ; 10d ; )d to hi 4(1 Ls Bti cash, ingly tan t, pear par. Wnd lue .11 Ig;anti L 24 tg. 14 et. 20 .OT. 1 D :~