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ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. any great exploits by the British Navy. That they will repel any attack is certain. But some thing of a more active description has been looked for by those who place confidence in our "wooden walls," and are accustomed to indulge in the fond delusion that Britannia really " rules the waves." A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing -street,. It was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panwure, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Vernon S , oith, and the Earl of Harrowby. The council sat three hours. Despatches were sent from the C lonial-office yester day to the Governors of the Australian colonies. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester will remain at the Ranger's Lodge, Richmond Park, until the Ist proximo, when the Royal Duchess returns to Gloucester House for a short period, after which her Royal Highness will repair to Brighton for a residence of three weeks or a month. THIS EVENING, Will be performed L 4 SON * NTIMPLMA. characters by Messrs. Elliot Galer, H. Braham, and I. HaWord; and Miss Lacy Escott. To be followed by THE SLAVE. Prices of admission:--To the two galleries. 6d.; second circle of boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, 45.; private boxes to admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, ono guinea. Box-oftice open from 10 to 6 daily. We shall then look forward anxiously for news from the Crimea, and for the indications at home which may enable us to form tolerably correct guesses as to the nature of the coming intelli gence. To permit the operations above alluded to, to be properly carried out, ample reinforcements should be despatched from France and England. The exertions made by the Russian Government to meet the exigencies of the war should be ri valled by those of the Allied Powers. No means should be spared to conquer the peace that is so desirable, if it can be obtained on honourable terms, and with a reasonable prospect of perma nency. THEATRE ROYAL ELAYMARKET. Under the manruoment of Mr. RDCILIUM THIS EVENDIG, Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS. After which, LE GEGARRERA DE SEVILLE. Pera Nena. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. After which, THE SP4 NTSFI DANCERS. To be followed by OLYMPUS DI A MUDDLE ; er, Wrong People in Wrong Places. Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, accompanied by her youthful family, will close her ♦isit to the Duchess of Cambridge in a few days, and take her departure for Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton have left Hamil ton Palace, Lanarkshire, for Brodick Castle, Arran, where the noble duke and duchess will entertain a suc cession of distinguished visitors during the shooting ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cgs as EZU. THIS EVENING, Will he performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha rine, Mrs, C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. season. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, who have been on visits to th• Duke and Duchess of Leinster, at Car ton House, Maynooth, and the Earl of Carlisle, in Dub lin, arrived at Woburn Abbey, Beds, yesterday, from Holyhead. Next month the noble nuke and duchess commence to see company at Woburn Abbey, and will receive a constant succession of guests until after Christ- THEATRE ROYAL /DELPHI; Proprietor. Mr. R. Webster.—Direetreas, Miami Ce 14414 THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. After which, HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ? To conclude with NORMA. If the clergy, and we include the ministers of every creed, had their own way we should have a prettily governed country of it. Accustomed to pronounce on subjects of the highest moment, and, in most cases, to meet with unqualified as sent, the delusion of individual infallibility too often steals over them, and leads them to pronounce with equal confidence on matters in which the laity are better judges than themselves. And it • is remarkable, when they do so, how ready they are to look to the secular power for the enforce ment of their views—views which, generally speaking, lag far behind the spirit of the age. This, for obvious reasons, has been peculiarly observable in the clergy of the Establishment, and as a case in point, we would call attention to the deliverance of a Committee of Convocation on the question of Church Rates. Now, this impost is generally deemed impolitic, as everybody knows has no sanction in Scripture, and, as many be lieve, is opposed to its spirit. This much is cer tain, that it has disturbed the peace of a thousand parishes, and occasioned an infinite amount of ill will, while its actual enforcement has hauled many an honest man to prison, confiscated a vast amount of hard-earned property, brought misery to many a well-ordered home, cooled the zeal of many a Churchman, and sown an inveterate hatred among others to the establishment whose interest the impost was designed to serve. It is hardly possible that the clergy, as a body, could be ignorant of all this. Let us see how they are affected by the know ledge, and what the recommendation of a Com mittee, which may fairly be taken to represent Convocation, is on this matter —one, let it be re membered, that does not merely affect church people only, but the entire community. Graciously limiting the scope of church-rates to the mainte nance of the fabric and the church-yard in decent orderand substantial repair, the committee, having " bowels of mercy" of course for all men—with apostolic simplicity and charity, pronounce that— " In order to enforce the payment of rates so limited, it is expedient to adopt the course of pro ceeding recommended in the Report of the Royal Commission appointed in 1830." Enforce ! of course by kindly persuasion and the authority of apostolic devotion and self-sacrifice. Not exactly. The churchwarden was to make his estimate, and ask for his rate, and if the vestry refused it he was to appeal to Quarter Sessions, who migh 1319.8. The Duchess of Buccleuch has arrived at Montague House, Whitehall, from Carlsbad, in, we are happy to learn, greatly improved health. The Earl of Dalkeith, M.P., came to London from Scotland to meet the duchess on her arrival from the continent. The duchess, accompanied by the earl, leaves in a few days for Dal keith Palace, near Edinburgh. The police books show that 741,374 foreigners visited Paris during the Queen's stay. Mdlle. Rachel and her troupe have arrived in New York. The Grand Opera, it is said, contemplates the revival of Rosini's Moja, in honour of the illustrious composer, now in Paris. M. Billetta's new opera, the rehearsals of which were for some time interrupted, have been resumed at the Grand Opera, where it stands for the first novelty. Among other marks of consideration of which Mine. Ristori ham been the object in Paris, she had the honour to receive a special invitation for the late ball given to her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Hotel de Ville. Mme. Plessy is suffering from indisposition, happily slight, but yet sufficiently severe to retard her appear ance at the Frangais for some little time. M. Thalberg, says an Italian paper, is at present at Rio Janeiro ; where by the last advices he was about to give a series of six concerts. The Piedmontese Gazette states that the soldiers of the Anglo-Swiss legion have sent 300 f. to the authorities of the canton of Valais, for the relief of the sufferers by the earthquakes. REMINISCENCES OF HANGO.—Many of the shot and shell thrown into the fortress of Sweaborg were marked " Hango" by the sailors, who were bent on revenging that unlawful massacre. The cholera is so violent at Cataneo, in Sicily, that there is a regular panic. Every one is escaping into the open country or woods, and trade is completely stagnant. The Midland Counties' Illustrated News, a newspaper started in Birmingham a few weeks ago, price 2d., ceased to exist on Saturday last. THE VACANT PROVOSTSHIP OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.—It is rumoured that the Rev. W. Thomson, M.A., Rector of All Saints, St. Marylebone, is likely to succeed the late Rev. Dl. Fox, in the Headship of Queen's College, Oxford. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—Yesterday morn ing (Tues lay) intelligence reached Oxford of the awfully sudden death of the Rev. George Riggs, M.A., and late Fellow of Queen's College, who expired at the rectory, Charlton-on-Otmoor, near Oxford, on the previous day. It is stated that a guard of honour from the Royal Perthshire Rifles is to be despatched to Balmoral, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to her Highland resi dence, and to be stationed there during her stay. THE CONVICT HA.CKETT.—lnformation was received on Monday, in the City, of the execution of this notori ous convict, for stabbing the turnkey at the gaol in New York, where he was undergoing a long term of imprison ment for burglary. GRAVESEND REGATTA.—Some thousands of persons assembled yesterday at Gravesend, to witness the annual contest there for a handsome new coat, and other prizes, given by the nobility and gentry, inhabitants of Graves end, Milton, and its vicinity. The coat was won by Thomas Marshall. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.—A large quantity of arms has very recently been forwarded to Sir James Brooke, K.C.8., Rajah of Sarawak. It may be inferred, there fore, that something of importance will soon be heard from that quarter. The Hon. Adolphus Chichester died a few days since, the early age of thirty. He was the brother of Lord Templernore, and grandson to the late Lord Anglesea. THE NEW NAVAL UNIFORM.—We understand that no decision has as yet been come to in reference to the new naval dre-s, but it is thought that a very extensive change will take place. There will be a reduction, if not a total abolition of lace, as in the army. OUR AMBASSADOR AT VIENNA.—Voss's Gazette of Berlin, under date of Berlin, 29th ult., says :—" The Countess of Westmoreland returned here the day before yesterday from Isehyl. The Earl has given up his in tention of retiring from public life, and will shortly re sume his post at Vienna." The cost of the lighting of Versailles during the splendid fete given to her Majesty was 6,5201. The ball given at the Hotel-de-Ville cost 12,000/, A MORMON "SAINT" AND HIS WlVES.—Orson Hyde, 9ne of the Mormon saints, was lately in St. Louis for the purpose of marrying 12 more wives to whom he is affianced. DEATH OF SIR RICHARD BURTON.—This venerable knight died on Monday last, the 3d, at his re-iflence, 3ackett's-hill House, Margate, in the Isl e o f Th anet. Sir Richard B ur t on was son of Sir S. Burton, Knt., of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was born in 1773. He mar ried, in 1802, the only daughter of the late R. Crafts, Esq., of Dumpton House, near Broadstairs, Isle of Thanet. A FRANK REQUEST.—On her recent visit to France, one of the very first things Victoria asked the Emperor was, to enable her to visit the ruins of Neuilly, and also the Chapelle St. Ferdinand, containing the tomb of the Duc d'Orleans, adding, frankly and nobly, that it was a promise she had made to Queen Marie Amelie before leaving England. The desire was of course acceded to, the Emperor himself accompanyin g her to Neuilly. MR. JUSTICE WlLLEs.—Yesterday Mr. Justice Willes sat the chambers, and, as on the other days of his at tendance, disposed of a good many summonses. Mr. Baron Martin was the vacation judge, and was relieved by Mr. Justice Willes on the termination of his circuit. Although this period of the year is called " the long vacation," there is a good deal of common law business, and the summonses taken out related to causes in pro gress. Mr. Justice Willes will take his seat on the bench at Westminster Hall, for the first time, at the commencement of the ensuing Michaelmas term. The ceremony of laying the first atone of the Muscle Napoleon, at Amiens, took place on Sunday. Count de Beaumont, senator, had been deputed by the Emperor to preside at the ceremony, at which were also present the Prefect of the Somme, the Bishop of Amiens, the authorities, the members of the Society of Antiquaries of Picardy, and a number of the principal inhabitants of the city and neighbourhood. Several appropriate speeches were delivered on the occasion, after which an inscription, commemorative of the event, and a number of coins of the present year were sealed up in a leaden box, and placed beneath the foundation stone, which received the usual benediction of the clergy.—Galignani. THE LATH MURDER AT THE BRISTOL HOTWELLS.— BRISTOL, Sept. 4.—A rumour was current this morning in several quarters of the city, that the police had suc ceeded in tracing out the author of the murder of the unfortunate girl Melinda Payne, of whose melancholy and mysterious death we have already, from time to time, given particulars. The statement of the arrest of the murderer is premature, but it is true that a circum stance has been brought to light which, although in it self comparatively trifling, will, it is hoped, lead to im portant results. UNION OF MALTA WITH THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA. EY MEANS OF THE SUBMARINE ELECTRIC WIRE.—A pro ject has been submitted by Signor Bonelli, of Turin, to his Excellency the Governor of Malta, and by him to the British Government, to execute in two months, at the expense of 1 0,0001., the junction of Malta with Cagliari by one of the telegraph cables of his own con struction. Lord Panmure has received the proposal most favourably, and has reqnested the governor to be informed, without loss of time, what portion of the esti mated amount would be contributed by the island Trea sury, in the event of the proposal being sanctioned by the authorities at home. Signor Bonelli has also pro posed a more extended plan of operations by continuing the chain to Candia, and from thence two branch lines —the one to the Dardanelles, the other to Alexandria in Egypt. This latter course would, it is estimated, re quire 60,000/., and 6 months' time. ATTEMPT TO UPSET A MAIL TRAlN.—Yesterday (Tuesday) William Cooper, a platelayer, in the service of the Midland Railway Company, was brought before J. G. Cottingham, Esq., one of the magistrates for the county of Derby, at the, Municipal Hall, Chesterfield, charged with having maliciously attempted to displace a rail on the above line about 300 yards south of the Ches terfield station. It was shown in evidence that on Fri day afternoon, about ten minutes past four o'clock, the prisoner went into a siding box on the line occupied by a pointsinan named George Gilberthorpe, and obtained possession of a connecting rod, n bar of iron perhaps 6 or 7 feet long, with which he went up the line and shortly afterwards returned it, not being applicable for big pur pose. He then got possession of a long iron crowbar used for raising the sleeper 4, and proceeded up the line with it. He was shortly afterwards observed striking at the rails by the pointernan Gilberthorpe, who called out to a labourer who was working at the Wingerworth iron works, and they both went up to the prisoner, when Gilberthorpe, who observed several keys which fasten the rails to the sleepers lying on the ground, asked the prisoner what he was doing, the other man (Hall) seizing He Th w e a p s r t ir e n n e t r a s k a e i n d he wanted custody to . ow a b passedpa r oi from him. over i .h m e . rails at full sp:r l d h w av it e h d out acci- The mail train came up before the keys could be replaced and e knock c i r t dent. The prisoner afterwards said, "I be done.'?"Tnhoe thing ; I only wish I had, but it for that the gauger had been attempt to upset a train was ifaccident reflections on him, and thatan oc curred, reason the prisoner could give this outrageous casting not on him. The blame would rest on the gauger and . also stated that he was drunk, but this was curred, and the rails were in an improper state, the prisoner has the ensuing county sessions at Derb in October next. not believed. The prisoner was committed for trial at ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of lin Payne, THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. Characters by Messrs. Kln loch, Ashley, Shalders, &c. ; Mesdames Summers and Bulmer. Followed by EL TONADOR. After which, FOUNDED ON FACTS. To which will be added UNA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN SEVILIA. To conclude with the WATER WITCHES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wra. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Lord Rvron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE, with all its original effects and splendid spectacle arrangements. After which, the Equestrian EXERCISES in the ARENA, in vented by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West, toting ' , tanager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, xv. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEM DAY—Morn. 17min. aft. B , —Evening 1 min. aft. 9 TO-MORROW —Morn. 47 min. aft. 9—Evening 31min. aft. 10 TH.& WEATHER.—Stne Ornes, Sept. 5 Tannyourrin, IN THE SWIM& 68 highest since noon yesterday. 56 ._,owest this morning and during the night. 68—this day s at noon. BARONICTIII, 30. WIND, N.E.—Slig ht breeze, with d u ll weather. • - kg Atyk o %111 • LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1856, Are the Allied armies now in the Crimea the besiegers or the besieged ? This is a question of considerable importance at the present moment, and the answer may not be altogether satisfactory to the British community, or quite in accordance with our preconceived notions on the subject. It is true that a demonstration has been made against Sebastopol, that it has been repeatedly bombarded, and sundry attacks have been made on its outer defences. But the chief condition of a siege has been wanting. It has never been completely invested. From the very commence ment of the attack it has maintained communica tions with a relieving army and the open country, which have never been, even for a single hour, interrupted. The garrison were thus enabled to receive constant supplies of men, ammunition, and provisions. All the resources of the Crimea and of Russia were available for its use. Relays of fresh soldiers were ready to take the place of those exhausted by over-fatigue, and ample rations were supplied, at least, until the operations in the Sea of Azoff blocked up the principal channel by which they could be obtained. They still, however, although nominally besieged, keep up their communications with the army stationed on the Mackenzie heights, and can receive from it assistance of any descrip. tion that may be required. Both may be united at any hour either within or outside the town, wherever combined action may be considered ad visable, and bear with all their force on any chosen point of attack. On the other hand, the allied troops are at pre sent cooped up within their lines. They have the complete command of the sea, and can therefore receive reinforcements at pleasure. But they can not venture into the open country. They are, in fact, more completely hemmed in than the garrison of Sebastopol; and that, although their forces far exceed those of the enemy—and they have nearly 200,000 men in the aggregate to oppose to less than 150,000 ! The numerical superiority is, however, of but little practical advantage, when they cannot so arrange their operations as to prevent tite co-operation of the relieving army and the garrison, or, what would be better still, cut off the supplies from both, and besiege not Sebastopol itself, but, to a certain extent, at least, the army which recently ventured to attack the allied position on the Tchernaya. We have already indicated how this important operation may be accomplished. A junction could easily be effected with the Turkish troops at Eupatoria, and a sufficient force established to meet any attack of the Russians, and place their army on the Mackenzie heights between two fires. Half the men now in the trenches could maintain the operations against Sebastopol, while the resi due, if despatched to Eupatoria, would not only be able to defend themselves against any Russian attack, but could themselves assume the initia tive, and commence offensive operations against the Russian army. But if this is to be done, it should be done quickly. The favourable season is rapidly wear ing away. A few weeks only remain during which it would be possible for an army to take the field, and operate in the rear of the Musco vites. Every hour is precious. It is a golden opportunity, which, if neglected or misapplied, cannot possibly be retrieved. " The light cloud" is passing o'er the moon, and the result may be of a very serious description, if we still display a degree of apathy and indifference similar to that for which we have already obtained so unhappy & notoriety. But, even if such a diversion should not be attempted, something at least may be done to block up the freedom of communication between the covering army and the north side of Sebastopol. While that is maintained complete success cannot be anticipated. Even though the Malakhoff should yield to our repeated onslaughts, and we should be thereby enabled to destroy the scanty remnant of the Russian Fleet, and to drive th a enemy from the South side, our task would no t yet be accomplished. We should merely find a heap of ruins, which would be just as untenable by ourselves as by the enemy. The northern._ forts would still command the position, and until they had been silenced and destroyed the labour and expenditure should be continued, without cessation or intermission. The fleet might cer tainly render important services —but we do not, and cannot, entertain any sanguine hopes of naval triumphs while Sir C. WOOD remains at the head of the Admiralty. However daring may be our Admirals, there is that paralysing influence at head-q carters that will prevent the possibility cf make it in spite of the vestry ; and if the vestry made the rate, any ratepayer might appeal against it, the ultimate fixing and ordering of the rate in any case resting on Quarter Sessions, on whose authority it was to be collected on the same assessment, and enforced by the same means and remedies as poor-rates ! Everybody knows what these are. Well might Sir GEORGE GREY refuse to grant the canon necessary for the reconstruction of the Lower House of Convoca- tion with such a pro3f of the utter incompetency of that body for wholesome legislation I Justice, conscientious scruples, the expression of popular feeling, the BRAINTREE case, all the mischief, spoliation, and misery hitherto inflicted and likely to ensue, everything connected with the impost— that by Christian men and patriotic citizens ought to have been regarded—coolly ignored, and an invidious and more compulsory law recommended ---one that will convert a recusant into an offender against the State ! From such a spectacle we turn away in almost as much pity as disgust, those memorable words all the while ringing in our ears, " My kingdom is Not of this world," and "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves." HEAVEN save us from Convocation and all parsonic legislation ! A FRIENDLY LOAN OF ONE _HUNDRED MILLION RUBLES TO RUSSIA. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, in his letter dated yesterday evening, says :—" Having drained the country by every means, direct and indirect, the Government of St. Petersburg has despatched agents t. get up a sort of secret loan of 100 millions of ruble•. The head-quarters of those agents appears to be at Berlin. and, if my information be correct, the loan will be assisted by certain Governments friendly to Russia. Royal personages, it is said, have contributed from their private purse. This is not remarkable, for the cause of Russia is the cause of many small European Sovereigns, who see their own destruction in the fall of Russian prestige. DEATH OF THE " BELFAST CHRONICLE." —This old paper died on Friday last. It will have been noticed that Prince Gortschakoff, while admitting in his report that the loss upon his side on the 16th was severe, omits to return the numbers. The Military Gazette of Vienna, a journal not likely to overstate the Russian reverse, says that besides the three generals killed, the Russian army lost 1,451 killed, including 45 officers, and 4,875 wounded. THE QUEEN AND THE LAPDOG.-00 leaving B ou l ogne the Queen suddenly perceived she had left behind a fa vourite little lap dog, and expressed her very great re gret thereat. No notice was taken apparently beyond sympathy, but electricity and steam were made to per form their seemingly impossible feats, and, when the Queen entered her boudoir at St. Cloud, the first thing she saw was her lapdog, that jumped forward to meet her. Sr. BARTHOLOMEW'S FAIR.—On Monday, after an existence of many centuries, the once renowned fair of St. Bartholomew expired. No proclamation took place, nor was the ancient court of pied poudre for the hearing and determining disputes arising in the fair held ; the " Saints' Bell," in Old St. Bartholomew's Church, which has for time immemorial sounded only on the proclama tion of the fair, was silent, and its occupation is now gone. ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF CANDLES, SUGAR, &c.--A general metropolitan advance in the price of white a n d - brown sugar, and also candles, took place on Monday. For the latter article, which has hitherto been at 6id. per lb., an advance of id. has takenpl hn a e c e e,an i. d d fo p r e b r re lh w . n ; and white sugar the increase has added to this, intimation has been given to shopkeepers that an advance will take place in that most valuable commodity—salt, TEE Oriental Ed MAlLS. — Southampton, l L Company's s— Sothm x T i nhe Peninsu lar Captain l. Joy, left this day with th e E a st India and Chinamai u ap t o steam n, Tu chip e e d a y E . general cargo, and 72 passengers, amongst whomwetre Major Tapp, Col. Lag e , B r i ga di er General Mayne,_ Colonel Ryle, Capt. S m ith, E ns ign Hunter, &c. Lieu The for Eurine takes out the f o ll ow i ng amo unt of specie — India and China, 524,461/. ; for Alexandria, 25,1201. for Malta, 50,000/.—Total, 599,5811. THE CUOLERA IN SOITHWARIL—rO consequence of several cases of bowel complaint and diarrhoea, the first symptoms of Asiatic cholera, having been made known to the guardians of the St. Saviour's Union, yester day bills were posted throughout the whole of the Union, notifying that medical gentlemen had been appointed in each district, to whom all persons were earnestly requested to apply on the first appearance of such symptom, without the slightest delay. OUR NAVAL AND MILITARY EXPENDITURE IN 1854.—A ' return m ove d for b y Mr. Wilson gives detailed accounts of the receipt and expenditure for navy, army, commis sariat, and ordnance services for the year to the 31st of 'March, 1854. It shows that the expenditure for the navy amounted to 7,197,8041., being 77,0991. in excess •of the estimates; for the army, 6,503,756/., being :218,290/. under th e estimates ; for the commissariat vservicee, 617,027/., and for the ordnance services, .3,053,5671., being 61,5821. less than the sum granted. The items of these accounts in detail cover a space of nearly 90 pages. THE SUN, LON DON, WEDN ES DA Y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1855, sidered as a thing decided on. It is stated that before his marriage the Prince Regent will be invested with all the rights of his elder brother, who continues ill, and will also take the title of Grand Duke of Baden. The negotiations which have been going on for years past at Rome for the purchase of the Caffarelli Palace for the Prussian Legation have just been concluded. It is intended to construct in this building a ch.pel for the use of the Protestants sojourning at Rome. The young Prince Frederic-William of Prussia, the heir presump tive to the Crown, has just been made a Colonel. The manceuvres of the guard having terminated to-day, the men who have accomplished their period of service are about to be dismissed ; but this will make no difference in the effective strength of the army, as those who are discharged will be immediately replaced by the new re cruitment. The Prussian cloth manufacturers of the province of Saxony have lately received extensive order■ on account of the Ottoman Government." LITER4TURE. The Chemistry of Common, Life. 2 vols. By James F. W. Johnston. Blackwood and Song. Professor Johnston we have come to look upon_ (luring the course , of our attentive and delighted perusal of these two beautiful volumes of popu larised philosophy—with those mingled semi urents of admiration and gratitude which are the meed of a national benefactor. For, so- cording to our view, it is peculiarly to works of this elevated and instructive character that we may look the most confidently, as to the surest means for the more general diffusion of knowledge among the population. The learned author, of what he has happily designated, upon his title page, " The Chemistry of Common Life," has as sumed, in truth, by this single publication, a prominent position among those emi nent men of whom we took occasion to speak only the other day as sages deserving well of their country— philosophers who have de scended from the porch into the marketplace for the purpose of scattering broadcast among the multitude, the largess of wisdom, those pearls and precious stones of Truth which have fallen to their possession from the lips of the Divine Goddess, as of old, around her footsteps, from the fabled mouth of the Arabian Princess. Illustrious among these self-appointed instructors of the people are men of mark and genius, no less distin guished in their several departments than those eminent masters of learning whose names have become, as it were, synonymous with one or other of ' the higher branches of erudition—names associated indissolubly with one or other of the loftier among the fruit-bearing boughs of the tree of knowledge. In this manner, Electricity has by no one been more signally advanced as a science than by Michael Faraday, while by no one have its abstruse prin ciples been brought home with more exquisite lucidity to the grasp of the popular apprehension. Precisely the same may be said in reference to the intellectual labours applied by David Brewster to the study of optics—by John Hind to that of astronomy—by Richard Whateley to that of logic —by William Whewell to that of mathematics— by Richard Owen to anatomy—by Charles Lyell to geology—by Southwood Smith to pathology— and so likewise by other celebrities yet happily numbered in the ample catalogue of still surviving contemporaries. Conspicuous in this catalogue may now be ranked the name of James Johnston, as that of the writer of these charming and brilliant chapters upon chemistry—" The Chemistry of Common Life"—henceforth, we conjecture, to be regarded as the recognised and authoritative manual upon subjects either chemical or physiological. Nothing could well be more singularly felicitous besides than the scheme of the whole work, as it has been here planned out by the hand of Professor Johnston. It assumes no lofty tone as an esoteric medium for exoteric instruction. It undertakes to speak of some among the more extraordinary of the wonders of nature, not grandiously, not didacti cally, but with the utmost simplicity, and, so to express it, even colloquially. •In one chapter, for example, it tells us of " The Air we Breathe, and the Water we Drink;" in another of " The Soil we Cultivate, and the Plant we Rear" ; in another of " The Bread we Eat, and the Beef we Cook" ; another of "The Odours we Enjoy, and the Smells we Dislike." Several distinct chapters again, re lating to " The Beverages we Infuse"—ac quaint us with the multifarious peculiarities of the teas, the cocoas, and the coffees. "The sweetswe I Extract," refer successively to the grape and cane, the manna and milk sugars. " The Liquors we Fer ment," to the beers, the wines, and the brandies. " The Narcotics we indulge in," to coca, and to bacco, to the poppy and the lettuce, to the hop and its substitutes, to the betel nuts and the pepper worts, to Indian hemp, the thorn apples, and the Siberian fungus, to sweet gale, and the rhododen drons, to common henbane, the emetic-holly, and the deadly nightshade. Apart from all which, or rather perhaps it should be said more accurately, in continuation and direct elucidation of all which, our author explains to us with incomparable luci dity—" The Body we Cherish," in all its involved and complicated mechanism, defining with infinite precision "What we Breathe and what we Breathe For," as well as " What, How, and Why we Di gest," crowning his high intellectual labours with a masterly solution of the great problem of " The Circulation of Matter," a problem here solved through the medium of the two concluding essays entitled "A Recapitulation." It would be difficult for any one but the merest dullard to peruse the thirtieth chapter (vol. ii.) of " The Chemistry of Common Life," beginning with page 359 and terminating with page 384, without acquiring from those few graphic sentences a per fectly clear appreciation of the whole of the elabo- rate process of digestion, and through that au accurate notion of the great leading points to be borne in mind by the physiological investigator. Any one, so inclined, may afterwards extend his knowledge upon the subject of our human ana tomy, very readily and very delightfully, by au ex amination of that exquisite little anatomical treatise, published originally, we believe, in the United States, but reprinted by Messrs. Parker and Son, of West Strand, in the accessible and portable form of a cheap little pocket-volume, quaintly entitled, " The House I live in." As a preliminary to the perusal of that charming treatise, however, commend us, and let us in our turn commend others, to the chapter already mentioned as adorning the second volume of Professor Johnston's " Chemistry of Common Life," a chapter preceded and followed by others of a kindred cnaracter—from the reading of which may be derived a mass of valuable and cu rious information. Regarding bread and meat as the staples of our ordinary nutriment, it will pro bably be matter of surprise to the uninitiated to know that from each of those apparently very dissimilar substances the same kinds of nourish ments are extracted by the organs of digestion—the bread consisting of gluten, starch or fat, and salin e matter, the beef of fibrin, fat and saline matter_ both of them being gradually reduced, after bein g swallowed, first of all to a greyish, gruel-like, slightly acid food-pulp, called chyme, and ultimately to a milky fluid termed chyle, the material empl o y e d for the reparation of all the wear and tear con stantly going on, more or less rapidly, through out the whole of our intricate framework. Conv eye d down the gullet or oesophagus, after being duly im pregnated with the warm saline liquid expres se d from the salivary glands by the muscular move ment produced in the process of mastication, the food, whether animal or vegetable, is known to be prepared for the more important organs of diges tion by the influence of a peculiar organic com pound contained in the saliva, a,compound called ptyalin, possessing the property of c h ang i ng the starch of the food into sugar. Constituting as it does only 1-500th part of the entire weight of the saliva, not more than from fifteen to twenty grains of this subtle and potent ptyalin are swal lowed within the twenty-four hours. Neverthe less, so important an element is it in the process of digestion, that too much stress can hardly be laid upon the advisability of careful mastication, so that every mouthful of nourishment may be pro perly saturated with this wondrous mixture of saliva and ptyalin before its passage down the oesophagus. Conveyed by means of this channel into the stomach, the food already prepared by mastication, broken up by the teeth and softened by the saliva and ptyalin, is still further advanced in the process of digestion by the solvent influence of the gastric juice, which is to the stomach itself what the saliva is to the mouth, and which contains within it a peculiar organic substance called pepsin, analogous in its action to that carried on as we have seen at an earlier stage by the ptyalin. About 60 or 80 ounces of this gastric juice mixed with its proportion of pepine, are presumed to be poured into the stomach of a well-fed grown man within the 24 hours. Reduced by its action to the greyish pulp already mentioned as chyme, the food in that form passes out of the stomach through the aper ture named the pylorus into the first portion of the intestines, a portion designated (from its length being about 12 inches) the duodenum. Here the chyme becomes perfected into chyle by admixture with bile conveyed through a small tube from the liver into the intestine : with the pancreatic juice conveyed thither by a similar means from the sweet bread : and with a half liquid slimy mucus exuding from the surface of the intestine itself, a fluid exudation called the intestinal juice, or suc cus entericus. Intermingled with these three liquids the chyme, as it passes onward from the stomach, becomes metamorphosed from a greyish pulp into a milky fluid, the chyle, which is then carried on from the duodenum into the jejunum, and along the whole intervolved channel of the smaller in testines —during its passage along which its nutri tive portions are taken up by a multiplicity of absorbent vessels, the lacteals, and the lymphatics. The lacteals, or milk-bearers gradually uniting together as- they ascend, terminate in the thoracic d uc t—a vessel, in man, about as large as a goose , vill—emptying their pearly contents through the t horacic duct into the jugular vein, where the c i united with the blood, flows into the right al iricle of the heart (an organ acting simulta m iously as a pump and as a churn, as a main sp ring and as a pendulum) whence, passing into th. , right ventricle, it is forced into the lungs for the purpose of purification by being Lrought into din ect contact with the oxygen of the atmosphere. Returning from the lungs, the newly oxygenised bl load passes into the left auricle, thence into the I( ift ventricle, and so through the grand c hannel of t lie aorta, on from the heart to the extremities. I R a full-grown man the blood weighing from ing twenty to thirty pounds ! the lungs bold t (of this) a b ou t h a lf a p oun d ! the heart be . 5 5 upon an average sixty or seventy tio3:„ in a minute ! each thiob driving forw,:ie about two ounces of the vital-fluid ! the w, vd twenty or thirty p oun ds weight of blood r u l e ; onwards at the rate of one hundred and fifty iste s minut e ! so ena bli ng the whole blood to &re ° dl through th e en ti re system every two minut es half ! or twenty times every hour 1 or very 1 17 4 five hundred times in the twenty-four ! Soniel oo indeed, d ur i ng moments o f exc it emen t, the ' n° t he of the blood being so accelerated as to en able whole to complete its circulation in les s the minute ! Such are among the many wonders ou , folded by Professor Johnston to the popula r ive prehension. E x icno di sco omnes — eve ry au cce f chapter of the wor k const i tutes a rev elation ° portant facts, abounding in almost eSry, s i, stance in the purely marvellous. In a r d'iog lous, for exampl e , i s it t o l earn that, lb. to the estimate of Q ue t e l e t , a man weighluisi o isS consists of only 381 b. of dry matter, dry many as 1161bs. of wa t er . Th ese 381hs. r b. matter, comprising 241 b. o f fl es h an d fat, ands coar of bone, or 281 b. of organ i c ma tt er , whin'', .;if ou bustible, and 101 b. of m i nera l ma tt e r, wk s i c `i s tri combustible. Enough, however. The C ue :, er of Common Life m us t it se lf b e s t u di e d in 1 yd the tirety, not sup er fi c i a lly g l ance d a t throughdi of merely frag men t ar y quo t a ti ons . Consolentend and very cordially we may and hereby do onw t ;tbe the volumes under consideration, not sitoPlf . 0 01• casual perusal, but to the careful study of the I is ligent masses of our reading population. I t st o production to be reso r t e d t o con ti nu ally as % a d dard work of referen ce . It may ass ume f° + l. /0 - by right a perman en t pl ace upon o ur ro° 11 ; 11 010 diously-selected bookshelves—among Ou r repertories of solid and alluring infornalltion. alj Ast They are only Cousins. A novel by Claude 3 vols. Newby. to This is a light cheerful story, well calculs;eo while away an hour in this holiday sea son • to. is a great vari e ty i n th e d ramat i s persons ) „ n or duced to our notice. I n d ee d th e rea der is 11 ;07 times puzzled to rem em b er th e di s ti nc tive °h of ters, but the individ ua lity i s never l os t sign u sa the author, each h ero an d heroine, is separate in conduct and disposition. 0 1 . 1 Clare Wilmington is the most pleasing m'thig with ; gentle and yet firm there seems se'S b irlei serene and gracious a b ou t h er . F ro d e rics ' l , O O l was too bold and da zz li ng a t th e comm. i eu ce e l sbi and though afterw a rd s so ft ene d an d sunall eer oo never competed with h er f r i en d. G er t r ude 0 101' is not so prominently put forward; she is cool and pleasing. There are many others Of t h irlei importance. Among the elder ladies LadY ; co is conspicuous. A grea t d ea l o f s kill is sb ° , o 6o , the description of thi s vu l gar ye t c l e ver w" bst She contrived to obtain all her w i s hes, o pt she had not the grace to make the best of good her ingenuity had gained for her. It is 6 1 0 00 b, scene that in which she had to preside at a fotr at her own table. Her guests were som e sh° diously fashionable peopl e , an d ever y vor f good uttered was some offe nce t o th e i r c ode %or ) manners. The story of the Marquis of AV u or is romantic ; but few can sympathise with el e gitill )id fancies, and he evinced a want of righ t nr y in keeping up such d evo ti on t o th e met r o** Ginevra when he had cont rac t e d a seco nd ins t he 0 0 The heroes do not app ear t o suc h a d va ntage T ig ht heroines ; for Noel V ernon was se lfi s h a nd t l3 °, o 'coa less before he went to India, although he ii ii P ou le o at last, and Lord Leyb urne was excee dinglYi Dia and even mean in his suspicious conduct't s he i 1 Vernondale is a very c h arm i ng perso n, ig thy not met with oft e n. A melancholy episocl e ,,melt of the young and b eau tif u l Amy's el°_k;esitr The scene of misery that her little home Pr th tbe, is very naturally described. Altogether, gaiety of Gertrude, the vivacity of Frederilt the sweetness of Claud e , a f a i r assem blage it; rented ; and, alth oug h th ere i s not hi ng °r i g ou t° the characters or cir c u ms t ances , a grea t au:n o O. interest is conveyed, and the talent evinee d %a the numerous actors who pass ov er th e scene, %Oh energy with which the scenes are repreEs" claim attention and regard. oll° Post-Office Directory of Derby s hi re , Leicesm 111 „Nottinghamshire, and Buttandshire. "" • and Co. Wi ll IP A second edition, sup er i or t o th e first, a Of accuracy and extent of information. Agiva e ,.' sa* additions will be found a list of m agistrettliel of principal seats throughout the counties, t'linse with the nearest money-order office to WI, boo° not having one. The classification also eM f fet improved, and the maps, engraved expre i nges the Directory, have been corrected up to the of publication. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine opens with t A P - 1 , Odd instalment of a review of " Some few of war, Monuments of our National Literature," th e :60,,F of the writer's consideration being " the 13- e itb' character as it is expressed in books, ! J e d 1 0 didactic nor historical, but which have fit' to b° taste and humour of the people so truly _7 oo eci: prized in every age s i nce th ey were Pw".. Ab e The poets selected are Ch aucer an d Govre7 o .llo, lived during a period the events of which t, 11 1 9 adduces in justification of his taking for 7 The commencement of modern E ng li s h history d oor influences by which Chaucer, the earliestbis el f great English poets, w as surroun d e d, ee' sigtl to stamp his mother tongue " with the tb classical authenticity and give it curreel re stieg polite world" are point e d ou t i n an in oh ,* sketch of his career; th e p aper t erm inating o gee, brief notice of Gower, w h o pa t r i o tically e "according to his measure of wit," " In our English for to make A book for Engellande's sake." d 0)4 " Telse Wollersien," from the Danish," a n Path of Roses" are continued—the for m e olive ic of war, deepening in tragic interest. irguj o Raids" is the heading o f a no t very happy' • humoured review of Tennyson's " MOT, pelf" the writer justly regar d s as a bl un der. rt0n ... 4 1 Woman's Pamphl e t" re l a t es t o M r s. Ile stesPec, title ironically i n di ca ti ng th e wr i ter 's vio9:000 rot a ing it. Among th e rema i n i ng con tribute be noticed an interesting paper on " The Brittany." rriso o ' The Churchman's M agaz i n e. 113— and geS ty A monthly review of Ch urc h progress '—fing to rll literature, and likely to be inter° Churchmen. Evangelical Christendom. . n d prf. A monthly journal, in w hi c h the stat, e sglo pects of Evangelical Chri s t en dom are u r- ra berg - fore the reader, u n d er th e aus pices of in e the Evangelical Alliance. Newton's London Journal. a PP li el . A record of the prog ress o f i n vention , al 1 00 131 to the arts, illustrated by engr avings, s ll `" D atilr es panied by useful information of a scientific The Merchants' Magazin: o devote :190thwe'r The second number of a s erial d interests of comme rce , an d con taining, al li t rj irith hbl. ü blic o l useful matter, an a r ti c l e on Limited which the commercial and general pointed out to th e m th e wa y in which E al p, - rdeao panies, under the new act, should be r w' order to avoid error. Sharpe's London, Magazin z ' ..toen t Contains its usual variety of enterl'bi the lovers of light literature. g‘ Tea eh - e P- 4 1; may be recommended to those who re" s- ,.fi te ae //- consequently care to know how tha t b u e n f t c t e- P; maligned on its introduction to this Visit Jl Y to the Granite City " Aberdeen) an d Midnight Adventure on the North Cor bliter; land will will well repay perusal. " - u r ; viii l4 l - 10 . 111 ' Maid "is a welcome instalment of a *III t story. "Lorimer Littlegood" an d , " latte verdale's Courtship " are contumea• has entered on a 59th chapter. Vessels engaged in the herring fis hery are a b r e f ie t , ie j olt if o ,6o re a t n u ip rn to French ports. On Friday one THE w with h 350 casks of fish. public meetin g, Monday t. l'se" RESTORATIONgnveOnIredPbOyLAND.--011 i , ro y, et held at the Town-hall. The obtjheectMortohreofv " y e eet/ 11 fr if3 , the restoration of Poland and her en3ancaPe too sgld re ' Russian t yranny. Mr. de Chylinski, a pole, o f b 0 the meeting at some length, and in the theoovreea foli_ieb speech inveighed in good set terms againeti.oltri— Association, which he says is composed 0 1 fi ,, 1 adventurers," of "Russian serpents," who b jb n ief e ii ganised in England a garrison of Muscoviteitro, prof' agents." A petition to the Queen was agresuo-to" tail ing her Majesty to direct her Government Le o, 03 ,, proper steps to call the Polish nation te ,"„deno e • render it every assistance to regain its inclajoetieg After a vote of thanks to the chairman, t - separated. ,rfc 1014..'; THE MURDER AT CUDHAM.--LATEST rAs-- 0 0 0- J BROMLEY, Tuesday Evening:--Every doubt in t ile idea of the police, the brutal murder at Cudham, on the morning ei,..,i0 of in reference tohe prson who oligstur day, the 25th ult., has been removed, a long :„, e - rpir circumstances having convinced them that it Was clog. trated by Robert Peeling, after whom they are 1 : t w ill pursuit, and who, they seem to entertain no de l l c ic-OP . m he shortly captured and lodged ingestßrll cLopclO bolding C. J. Cartar, the coroner for lCenttcll4 tbe ding an inquiry into the circumstances atten_r top, death of Mrs. Jane Bigley, at the Rare spa )1° how' Curiham, on the 18th inst., prior to which iree,itted. ever, it is to he hoped the murderer will be c omro bi 0 . No reward of any kind has yet been offered f 4 ;o' t prehension of the murderer. EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria of the 25th ult., in the Moniteur, says:— " Quiet has not been restored in Upper Egypt. The insurgents having retired into the desert at the approach of the Viceroy, his highness again took the road to Alexandria, and lice his return here things have be come much worslr Some of the tribes have, it is true, laid down their arms, and the troops, left on the princi pal points in the valley of the Nile, are sufficient to pre vent any aggression ; but from the last accounts re ceived, the Bedouins are far from having given up the struggle. The main body of the insurgents are in the Oasis of Dahkel, about seven days' march to the west of Lyout. This Oasis, which is one of the most fertile on the left bank, may be readily defended. The Bedouins are said to be about 7,000 strong; but supposing this number to be exaggerated, and that they only muster the half of that number, it is very doubtful whether, in presence of that force, the Commandant of the Egyptian troops would assume the offensive at the risk of losing his army in the Desert by hunger and thirst. According to recent letters from Massoah and Khartoum, all the missionaries in that part of Abys sinia have received orders to quit the country imme diately. Father Just d'Urbin was pursued by the agents of Abonna-Salame, and it was only by the greatest chance and after undergoing the severest privations that he was able to reach the frontiers of Sennaan, and at length arrived at Cairo in safety. It appears that the Mussul mans are not better treated than the Roman Catholics. Persecution is general against all who refuse to adopt the Copt faith. Mgr. Mazloum, the Patriarch of the United Greeks, died here on the 22d, after a short illness, at the age of 7G. His reputation is European from his eloquence and his works, and he exercised great influ ence both in Syria and Egypt." SPAIN. THE ITALIAN LEGION. TURIN, Sept. I.—The Times, in a second edition, says :—Despite the opposition of despots and re publicans the Anglo-Italian Legion promises to succeed, and perhaps none the worse for the oppo sition offered by parties which moderate men have learned to distrust. The Reds pretend to fear the Legion may be turned against the interests of liberty. The Blacks share Mr. Bowyer's appre hensions of the country being overrun by a licen tious soldiery at the end of the war. Both make it a hardship that on attestation the men should engage to serve in any part of the world, without designating the particular enemy they are to he employed against ; and, as an instance of what should be done in such cases, it has been quoted that the Swiss in the King of Naples ser vice invariably stipulate that they shall not bear arms against Switzerland or its allies. Such objec tions, on the part of the Retrogrades, can be easily understood ; and it would be perfectly natural for the Piedmontese to stipulate that they should not be called upon to serve against their own country; hut in no other State of Italy is there the slightest regard for the present form of Government or reigning dynasty, and it would be strange indeed if the Republicans should knowingly try to save the despots from retribution by the hands of those they have most offended, although it is by no moans the first time they have proved their best allies. The Board of Officers, under the presidence of General Percy, for organising the Legion, consists of Colonel Cavana, of Ferarra, who in the Papal service was distinguished for suppressing brigandage in the southern parts of the Roman States, and has been employed in the Sardinian Government in forming a Guardia Civile ; and Colonel Ribotti, a Piedmontese by bi r th, an d originally in the Guardia Nobile of this country, but a political emigree in 1834, and who since then has served in Spain and Portugal, and spent upviards of four years in a Neapolitan prison for assisting in the Sicilian re volution in 1818. This Board has now nearly brought its prelimi nary labours to a close. There were at first some doubts as to the legality of a foreign Government exercising its own military law in this country, without a special convention to that effect, so that it was necessary to have legal opinions on the sub ject, and the result is, it has been decided that the British Government, in accordance with inter national law, may act upon its own military laws and system in all cases where the punish ments correspond with those inflicted in this country, and that for other special cases, as the re claiming of deserters or in dealings with civil courts, AL—.. a commissioner should be appointed by the Sardinian Government, who will fulfil the duties of prosecutor or bail as the laws of Sardinia may require. There has also been some delay in enrolling caused by the want of barrack accommodation. The barrack at Novara, which had originally been lent to our Government for the use of the Swiss Legion, but which was never taken advantage of, is now under repair, and there are so few disposable quarters in eligible positioins throughout the king dom, that there has been much difficulty in fixing on a place as central depot. Chiavasso, a town abnut an hour from hence, on the Turin and Novara Railway, has at 'ength been chosen ; and as it possesses some large buildings, and is within a short distance of the Plain of San Maurizio, where the Sardinian Government usually has a camp of instruction every year, and where there are permanent hut barracks, though not in very good repair at present, it appears in every respect well adapted for the purpose, and there fore it may be expected that recruiting will com mence actively forthwith. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa remarks that all the clerical journals of Piedmont, such as the Patria, the Armoria, and the Catholic°, display their opposition to the existing Government by either magnifying the losses of the Piedmontese in the battle of the Tchernaya, or speaking disparag ingly of their valour in the field. The Giornale di Roma states that Prince Palavi cini has sent 1,000 scudi (6,000 fr.) to the Marquis Da Via, senator of Bologna, for t!tte relief of the widows and orphans of the victims of cholera. The King of the Belgians came to Brussels on Sunday, from Laeken, and gave an audience to Viscount de Kerchove, who delivered his letters accrediting him as resident Minister of the Sultan to the Court of Belgium. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was present. The Cardinal Archbishop of Prague,' Prince Schwarzenberg, is at present at Enghein, in _e_ ict 1 - giutn, on a visit to the Duke d'Arenberg. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The royal mail ship Lightning, Captain Enright, sails to-day from the Mer sey for Melbourne, with mails for the Australian colonies, 450 passengers, and a full cargo. METROPOLITAN REGISTRATIONS. Mr. J. F. Mac queen, the Revising Barrister, has appointed the follow ing times and places for holding his courts t 3 revise the Metropolitan Lists of Voters :—Westminster—On Fri day, Sept, 21, at eleven o'clock, at the Lord Justices' Court, Westminster. Marylebone—On Tuesday, Sept, 18, at eleven o'clock, at the Court-house, Marylebone, ' for the parishes of Paddington and St. Marylebone ; and on Wednesday, Sept. 19, by adjournment, at th t board-room of the Workhouse of St. Pancras, for that parish. Tower Hamlets —On Monday. Sept. 24, at eleven o'clock, at the Court-house, Wellclose-square. Finsbury—On Wednesday, Sept. 26, at eleven o'clock, in the Lords Justices' Court, Lincoln's Inn. THE PROBABLE COMMANDER OF THE MAMMOTH STEAMER.—We have heard upon good authority that Captain William Harrison, of the Cunard royal mail steamer Africa, has been offered the command of the "great leviathan" steam-ship, now building by John Scott Russell and Co., of London, for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company. The rumoured amount of remu neration to be paid is 1,200/., with other advantages. This, although apparently a large sum, is not more than adequate to the amount of responsibility incurred in taking charge .4 such an enormous property ; and then can be no question of Captain Harrison ' a fitness for the office,—Liverpool Standard. The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have ar rived. A band of armed men, supposed to be smugglers, bad appeared in the Sierra del. Paular, province of Segovia, at a short distance from the palace of San Ildefonso, and an armed force had been sent in pursuit of it. The Minister of Public Works is engaged in 'preparing a bill on canals and irrigation. A letter from Madrid of the 30th ult., in the Constitutionnel, says :—" The French in this city, having inserted a few days ago a malevolent article on England, on the occasion of the visit of the Queen to Paris, Mr. Otway, English Charge d'Affaires, complained to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject ; but the matter has been dropped, in consequence of the journalist having yesterday published explanations in which he dis avows any intention of offending the Queen or the people of England." LATEST NEWS. The following telegraphic despatch has been received at St. Petersburg from Prince Gort- schakoff : SEBASTOPOL, Ara. 20 (SEPT. 1). The fire of the enemy continues as before. There is nothing new. VIENNA, TVESDAY ETESING, SEPT. 4. The following news has been received here, dated Constantinople, August 30 : Mehemet Ali has been appointed Capudan Pasha, in the stead of Halil Pasha. Other changes are expected. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has returned from the Crimea. Omer Pasha leaves on the Ist of September. There is no news of importance from Anatolia. The Contingent, under General Vivian, re- mains for the present at Constantinople. BERLIN, SEPT. 3, EVENING. In the morning of the 27th all the remainder of the allied fleet before Cronstadt weighed anchor and stood out to sea. HAMBURG, S➢PT. 3. Three sail of the line, a frigate, and two steamers, forming part of the allied fleet before Cronstadt, weighed and stood out to sea on the 26th. It is thought that the remainder of the feet will soon follow. MADRID, SEPT. 3. A report that General Zapatro was to be re• placed is unfounded. The Government is satis fied with his services. The receipts of the Trea sury during the month of July were good. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, 10.30 A.M. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam- ship Indus, Captain Soy, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, has arrived in the river. Her mails, passengers, &c., will be landed about mid-day. FRANCE.. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. BOURSE, SEPT. 4.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4. per Cents 95 25 95f. 25c. 3 per Cents 66 80 66 95 Credit Mobilier 1425 Roman Credit Foncior — Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes , Piedmontese — Home Debt RAILWAYS-70R CASH. fr. C. Orleans Western 827 50 Strasburg Cette - Mediterranean 1335 (Therburg Northern Lyons. fr. o RUSSIA. A letter from Warsaw of the 28th ult. says "According to Russian accounts, the corps of Gre nadiers forming the reserve has not yet entered the Crimea, and will only go there to take part in the first offensive operation of the Russians. It is an error that the garrison of Sebastopol has been doubled, and it is scarcely possible that it should be, inasmuch as for several months the garrison has been 60,000 strong. The corps of Panuitin no longer bears his name ; it is at present called the corps of Ofrosinoff, from the name of its new chief. The report that two divisions of infantry of the guard are proceeding from Poland and Lithuania towards the Crimea, and that they are to be replaced by militia, gains credit. Public opinion in Russia demands that the troops d'elite of the guard and the grenadiers, which have not yet seen the enemy, shall be employed in the war. The people imagine that the allies cannot resist these corps united to the militia." TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople, of the 25th ult., says :—" The Turks are to-day celebrating the fete of Courban-Bairam. The Sultan, surrounded by his high dignitaries, went this morning in great state to the mosque of the Sultan Achmet, and with his own hand offered a sacrifice of three rams. He then returned with the same cortege to the Palace at Seraglio Point, where the cere mony of kissing the fringe on the throne took place. In former days it was the foot of the throne that was kissed, but the present Sultan has changed it to kissing the fringe, which is held up by some attendants for the convenience of those who are admitted to pay this compliment to their sovereign." A letter from Jerusalem, of the 18th ult., in the Moniteur, says The civic discords which for several years have constantly desolated Palestine lately assumed such a serious character as to call for the employment of force. Certain powerful Cheiks of the cantons of Napol.)se and Hebron broke out in open revolt and committed deplor• able excesses. Fortunately, however, there was no ensemble in their movements. The mountain of Nape lose was promptly pacified, and Kiamil Pacha was able to concentrate all his efforts against the Cheik Abdur rahman-Amer, who kept Hebron, as it were, besieged. The governor took the field with 300 regulars, some hundreds of horsemen, 1,000 Arab contingents, and four pieces of artillery. The insurgent Cheiks retire I before him, and fortified themselves in Idhna, one of their principal villages, where they threw up entrench ments. After a week's useless negotiations during which time numerous reinforcements were preparing to come and take part in the revolt, Kiamil Pacha was obliged to use his artillery against the entrench ments, and, in spite of an obstinate resistance, to carry the village by assault. Seventy of the rebels were taken prisoners, 22 were killed, and a great number wounded. The village itself was destroyed. The effect produced by this vigorous act has been very great on th• half savage inhabitants of the country. The great majority of the insurgent Cheiks came immediately and made their submis,ion, and paid the arrear of,the tribute which they bad refused to pay for the last three years. On leaving Hebron, Kiamil Pacha was to pass along the plains be tween Ghazza and Kamleh, where considerable outrages have been committed and some blood shed. He will, it is said, reach Jerusalem in about a fortnight. AUSTRIA. We read in a letter from Vienna of the 30th ult., in the Constitutionnel "Baron de Bruck undertook in the month of March last the Ministry of Finance, vacant by the resignation of Baron de Baumgartner. With a well-arranged budget no one would have administered better, or with more probity and strictness, the public revenue than the latter. But in presence of a constantly-increasing deficit, and when recourse to bold combinations was necessary, Baron de Baumgartner could only employ palliatives, and by means of them he had nearly rendered the evil incurable. With a courage which cannot be sufficiently appreciated, Baron de Bruck, after having carefully examined the situation of the treasury, avowed frankly to the Emperor that Austria, by persisting in the system which she had followed, would inevitably become bank rupt. He was of opinion that, in order to promptly re-establish order in the finances, it was necessary to reduce by more than one half the effective force of the army. However, on taking into account political cir cumstances which prevented the employment of such a radical measure, Baron de Bruck undertook, by the aid of other measures and financial reforms, to provide for the current and future service, provided the War budget was immediately reduced by about 60,000,000 florins (150,000,000 fr.) Such is the sole and veritable cause of the partial disarming which the Emperor of Austria, before und er t a ki ng his journey to inspect the army on the Russian frontiers, was obliged to sanction." A letter from Vien*a, of the 30th ult., says : " For some days past there has been great activity in diplomatic relations. M. de Bourqueney and Prince Gortschakoff have passed the whole of the afternoon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The reply of the Imperial Cabinet to the last Russian circular was sent off to-day to St. Petersburg. The Ambassador of Austria, at Berlin, Prince Esterhazy, is to return to his post to morrow. The Russian privy councillor, Count Tenge barski, who has been here for some days, is to leave to morrow for St. P e t ers b urg. In a f ew days the new councillor of the Russian legation, M. de Balabine, who is to repla ce M . F onton, is expected here. It is 'again c d o a n y t in n uteh teobe coursedi discussed sse d September. by the government New plans ; said that M. d e B ourqueney will take three weeks holi of complet e l y re - organising the bank, and of getting rid of the o bl igat i ons to it, gains favour. M. de Bruck proposes, b es id es, to sell the railways and mines of all of th fi e na ida en e c the provinces, and to increase the taxes." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the Ist, in the Debats, says : " The marriage of the Prince Regent of Baden with the only daughter of the Prince of Prunia is now con- • 111 th, C ti 44111