The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-12 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRGRY.LAITE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MARRIED FOR AtONEY. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, bfessrs. Robert Roby and A. Younge ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss Mason will appear. To be followed by NITOCRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan, G. Wild, C. Vincent, &c.; Miss Glyn, Mrs. Selby, Miss De Vere, Miss Anderton, MiS3 Cleveland, G lyn` THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. Wifl be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS. After which, THE PRETTY GIPSEY AND THB BULL "GHTER. ollowed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which, THE SPANISH DANCERS. To conclude with JOHN JONES. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed RORY O'MORE. Characters by Messrs. Rad ium, P. Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Bland, Garden, &c. ; Jiisses Mary Keeley, Kate Kelly, Wyndham, /cc. Followed by BETSY BAKER. To oonelade with OPEN SESAME. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. 11. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio . THIS. AND EVERT EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, Will be presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint ments, MA.GIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF WITFI TE SPIRITS, being the most and interesting series of expUeriments ever given within the walls surprising of any theatre. 84,721 persons have visited the Lyceum already to see the Great Wizard of the North. Prices of admission: —Private Boxes, li. 1 is. 6d. and 11. Is.; Orchestra Stalls, 43.; Dress Boxes, 39.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; Gallery , 6d. No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daGyrail. nd Morning Performance ou Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Doors open at Half-past One. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HEIR AT LAW. Dr. Pangloss, Mr. W. Shalders. After whiab, A DAY IN FARIS. To conclude with a new Ballet, introducing the Patriotic Dance, ; Les Allies," with a View of Sebastopol and the Maiakhoff Tower. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, he wonderfuly successful Equestrian Military Spectacle, by J. . STocounna, Esq., called, The FALL of SEBASTOPOL ! The Storming of the MalakhotT, 111,c. A numerous company 40) auxiliaries ! Mr. William Cooke's matchless stud of trained horses, and a battle 7 fleld formed by both the ring and the stage! After which the EQUESTRIAN SCENES in the CIRCLE, and other Entertainments. isos•-o@ice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, fun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 1 min. aft. 2 —Evening 16 min. aft. 2 To-MORROW—Morn.S9 min. aft. 2 —Evening 15 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, Oct. 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 59 highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'68. WIND. S.W.—Light, with dull weather. Slight rain in the morning. ro ) il ~~,.`. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1855. The Philo-Muscovites are zealous in their voca ion. They omit no opportunity of advancing the cause which, for reasons best known to them selves, they have thought proper to advocate. In üblic and in private they vainly strive to stem the torrent of public indignation—most justly ex cited— and, substituting reckless assertion for argument, they seem to fancy that their exagge rated statements will be accepted without reserve ; nay, more, that the columns of journals de voted to the cause of liberty and civilization will be thrown open to their lucubrations, insulting and vituperating nationalities already sufficiently outraged without subjecting them to the kicks of these petty persecutors. Although limited in number they make up by a mischievous activity for their in significance in other respects. We take it for granted that the Editors of other jour nals are exposed to annoyances similar to that to which we have for some time been sub jected—that we are not exclusively singled out for this plague, or tormented with letters opposed to all our views and opinions, which we are coolly requested to publish, without regard to the other numerous claims upon our space. We wish to inform the gentlemen who take the trouble of thus writing to us, that our opinions have not been lightly formed, nor shall they be lightly altered ; and also, that while we are ready to support our views against all legitimate criti cism, we cannot be expected to convert our journal into an organ of " Germanism " or "Muscovitism," by making it the medium of giving publicity to slanderous, mendacious, and totally unwarrantable assertions. We have for a moment been tempted to insert one or two of these extraordinary productions for the purpose of exposing the arrogance and folly of the writers; but there arein one and all matters that forbid the act. For, as we have stated, they are invariably combinations of not merely unsupport- but absolutely unfounded, assertions, com bined with low scurrility and a total absence of a ny generous or patriotic sentiment. The general object seems to be the justiication o f Prussia and Austria for their despicable neu gravely assured is " the trality, which we are best position we can possibly expect or hope for ;" while the duplicity and insincerity of the latter Power, and its scandalous violation of its delibe rate and solemn undertakings, are slurred over as matters of the most trivial importance, which scarcely require justification. One gentleman gravely excuses, or rather attempts to excus e , this unwarrantable conduct, on the extraordinary ground that " it arises wholly from the partition of Poland, and that Russia, Prussia, and Austria are bound irrevocably in this league, and cannot abandon it 1" And thus, because, forsooth, they have joined in one act of shameless robbery, they are for ever afterwards to bo excused from paying the slightest attention to the dictates of truth and justice ! We have never seen a more power ful condemnation of this most atrocious and in famous proceeding, than the supposition that it should act as a permanent and insuperable obstacle to any retrograde movement, and for ever prevent the political criminals from entering on a more honourable course. That " Nulls Testigia re trorsum" should remain indelibly braaded3on their shameless brows, is but a suitable punishment for their fearful crime. It is that which has encouraged Russia to pro ceed in her aggressive policy, and has thus occasioned the severe and well-merited chas tisement, so soundly administered ; while it has also caused the name of Austria and Prussia to stink in the nostrils of all high-minded and honourable men. Verily they have their reward, although it is of a very different description from what some of our would-be correspondents seem to think. Another ground is that " the proprietaries of RuSsia are crying out irt all directions" at the limitation of their commerce, and that we do not get half as much of Russian produce as we re quire ! The former reason is one that will strongly commend itself to Russian feelings ; but why it should be taken into consideration in Eng land passes our comprehension. While with respect to the latter, we shall on l y say, that there are higher interests at stake than any temporary and that t o points of convenience, a just and ho nourable conduct of the War we should wi [lingly sacrifice the use of Russian produce, au . d submit to any privations which it would er ciail. Once more, then, we trust, that we may hence forward be spared the infliction of such letters, which only occasion a very useless trouble to the writers, and a very needless annoyance to our s alves. It is an honour, not a disparagement, to his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, to ascribe his reception at Liverpool to his connection with the army much more than to his connection with Royalty. The Mayor, in giving his health, justly observed that there was no need to allude to personal q ualities which had obtained for th e i r possessor a deserved popularity ; what interested the people at this time was, " to see one so nearly I allied to our beloved SOVEREIGN sharing with his Isoldiers all the hardships of the campaign." His !Royal Highness is now cheered by every assembly he meets, from the same feeling which makes every village and every cottage proud of the wounded man, or the invalid, who revisits the land of his birth after having shared the dangers land the glories of the Alma, of Balaklava, and of Inkerman. The Duke was known not only to have been a Crimean Hero, and to have com manded in every battle in which the English were prominently engaged, but to have been also an active Soldier's friend in the Hospital and the Commissariat—to have been, in a word, devoted to the entire duties of his profession. The Duke openly acknowledged the defective condition of our army compared with that of the French for commencing the campaign, attributed it to the French continued experience in Algeria, and to our having starved the Naval and Military de partments during 40 years of peace ; but, though we are not disposed to mingle criticisms with festal rejoicings, we cannot think a service starved which costs the country some 16 or 17 millions l annually, nor that India has been a school of practice inferior to Algeria itself. France, how ever, knows no difference between her Algerine and home armies, unless it be to honour and trust the former more ; nor does she, on their re turn, consign them, except by courtesy, to the rank of civilians. The great lesson of the banquet, however, is from the locality and the audience. While given to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and attended by Lord DERBY, Lord HARDWICK; and others of the aristocracy, of course the merchants of Liverpool were the class whose sentiments were represented by their MAYO; and responded to by the noble and military guests. Moreover, the illumination of the town was splendid and general, notwith standing the unfortunate rain of the evening. The CZAR may learn, therefore, with ease the real sentiments of our traders and merchants. He may compare Mr. BRIGHT'S orations on his own humanity and honesty, and on the horrors of taxation, with the successive speeches by which the Mayor of the English Odessa introduced the healthy of his military guests. He may ask him self, if he will, whether the Governor of Odessa, or the head of the merchants in that place—if such personage there be—could elicit the same unconstrained response to a repeated demand for a vigorous prosecution of the War. A sordid and cunning Greek merchant might, indeed, in the land of the knout and beneath the Lord of Siberia, say anything known to be acceptable ; but the CZAR must feel that the merchants of his Liver pool wish that he and his war had sunk with the last of his Black Sea navy. How different at Liverpool. Not a town in the kingdom which feels more sensibly the effect of War on trade—not a town which is more affected by the rise of discount at the Bank, and the fall of Consols ; yet, with the Bank asking 51- per cent., and understood to intend asking 6, Liver pool has no sympathy with Mr. COBDEN'S falling back on the Vienna Note, with Mr. BRIGHT'S falling foul of every movement in the War, or with Mr. GLADSTONE'S finding a superfine meta physical basis for peace in the last Vienna pro posals. Lord DERBY will, too, be able to inform his late Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he again the editor of the Press, that in the judg ment of Liverpool merchants the objects of the War are not yet attained, and that the second commercial port in the kingdom prefers all the War taxes, and all the interruption to trade, such as it is, to patching up a peace with Russia on any terms yet to be obtained. All this after we have seen what one Sebastopol, or half Sebas topol has cost, proves beyond mistake that the commercial courage of the country is the worthy associate of its military courage. Trade and agriculture at home are willing to pay for tho battles of liberty and civilisation, if our brave soldiers are willing to fight them. This universal feeling is to be attributed, we believe, to one opinion, and to one only—the universal opinion, that the War is one of the most just and necessary in which England was ever engaged ; the opinion also that Russia must be shorn of much of her ill-gotten territory and strength before she can be safely left again to her self. Not enough yet—is the universal sentiment, in regard to Bomarsund, Sweaborg, the Sea of Azoff, and Southern Sebastopol. Well so far— but the unprofessional common sense of every Englishman plainly understands that this kind of work must be carried much further. He could wish it done more quickly—but, quickly or slowly, done it must be. Odessa, Nicolaieff, and Sher son he ranks with the Crimea as indispensable pledges of security for the Euxine, nor will he feel easy if Russia be allowed after the War to threaten the Danube from Ismail and Bessarabia. Circassia he considers a settled question, and he knows that Russia holds more of Asia than is either tight or expedient. Unless we are much mistaken, too, there is a serious conviction that P o l and and the Baltic oug ht to be emancipated. I t i s felt that all this f or tress -building betrays a guilty purpose. That Cronstadt would never have been made what it la, unless it had been known that the unmasking of Sebastopol would bring an English navy into the Baltic. Vast numbers who know little of the particulars of the frontier strength which the CZARS have created by the robbery of civilised territories yet know that they have done it ; that CATHERINE and .ALEKANDER, and, more lately, NICHOLAS, were outrageous and cruel offenders in that line. The universal sentiment is, if we mistake not, that all the Russian wrong doing should now be put right, once and for ever. That it will be, eventually, the cheap est, a s well as the most ra ti ona l mo d e . H ence th e intelligent patience with taxation. What some deride as enthusiastic and visionary, and crusading on be half of oppressed nationalities, is, we suspect, the unexpressed, but the real aim of the practical many. Their wish is to see Russia effectually humbled. Were we to catechise them as to whether her retention of this territory or that, this fortress or that, from Cronstadt to Ismail, or Batoum, were compatible with effectual humilia tion, we imagine the successive answers would show that it was meant that Russia should lose everything but Russia. - - This national sentiment is altogether in accord- ance with our own, and our Government will be wise to act accordingly. Odessa, Nicolaieff, and Kherson are now more important to Prince GORTSCHAKOFF than the North of Sebastopol and the line of the Tchernaya. Deprive him of that basis and he must starve. Destroy it, and he will soon be obliged to move without the Allies firing a gun. Our navy, too, can be doing this, while the army is attending to military duties. But for Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and his like-minded successor, Odessa would have been a ruin before now, and Sebastopol have surrendered months before. The present War commends itself so strongly to the national feeling, on the ground of right as well as expediency, that the public look with eagerness for expressions of sympathy, where active co-operation may not reasonably be expected, from all countries where the principle of freedom is in any degree developed, and are proportionally disappointed according to the extent of that de velopment, when such expressions are withheld or sympathy with Russia is proclaimed in their place. This, it is needless to remark, is perfectly natural, but, as with other expectations of a similar kind, the public, in case of disappoint ment, will do well to exercise a discreet forbear ance, and, by taking care to acquaint themselves, as far as they are able, with the causes and real extent of the neutral or hostile feelings at which they feel aggrieved, insure themselves against falling into serious error. And especially will they do well to follow this counsel in regard to the United States of America, to which at the outset of the War they confidently looked for moral, if not for material, support, and from which it may be said they have got less of either than of their opposites. For, after all, it must be remembered that though America by descent is essentially British, and possessed to a large extent of that love of individual liberty and free institutions more or less inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race—by constitution she is partially Russian. As a recent writer remarks, " she is Anglo-Saxon in her history, and Slavonic is her experience. Commercially she is allied with ' England, geographically with Russia. It might almost be said that America contains an England and a Russia within her borders, for the republi can cities of the north can scarcely regard with indifference our contest with an encroaching des potism, whilst the planters of the south see in the preponderance of Russia, though they could not themselves explain how, a defence of slavery. They are simply conscious that there is very much in common between the serflom of Novgorod and I Tamboff, and the slavery of Alabama and Vir ginia." It is not muoh to be wondered at, there fore, that, with such antagonistic principles at war within her boundaries, expressions of hostile feel ing should occasionally reach us from across the Atlantic, and that those of sympathy should be , rare and feeble. And the less surprise will be felt when other circumstances are taken into account. America, it should not be forgotten, is the most active and and powerful commercial rival we have, and it is next to impossible for close competition to exist without engendering some degree of jealousy and ill-will, which naturally finds expression on every eligible opportunity. The Celtic element too can not be expected to be idle, or to fail in operating prejudicially against us. Distance is said to "lend enchantment to the view ;" but the only enchantment it lends to this country in the eyes of Irishmen in America is that required to distort or caricature her every feature. The ill-advised interference of a portion of the British public in the slave question, it is well known, gave rise to a bitterness of feeling towards us which can hardly have subsided, and which, there fore, may fairly be taken into consideration also, for of all grounds of ill-feeling commend us to attacks on the " domestic institutions" of Ame rica as the most prolific. ' In addition to all this, it should be recollected that the scum of the American political world is ever on the surface— that the noisiest and least scrupulous politicians most largely avail themselves of the facilities for good and evil offered by the Press—and that the pirates whose descent on Cuba we, in alliance with Franco, continue to baulk, could hardly fail to tender their mouthing sympathies, if not their active support, to Russia, as the enemy of their enemy. All things considered, then, it will be seen there is not so much cause for disappoint ment as was generally believed—that, in point of fact, we estimated America too highly, and ex pected more from her than we had a right to do. While confessing this error, however, the opposite blunder must be avoided. Because so little sym thy with, and so much hostility to us has been expressed, we must not come to the con clusion that this is a fair representation of America. On the every e reason liEgin to believe that th e e the on t s r t a a r t y e , of th e publicrthere is great majority of the American people are with us in heart, and consequently, to say the least, indisposed to take part against us. This much, at all events, is certain, France and Englani can, and will, accomplish the great work they have in hand, and thereby immortalise the present era in both their histories without the aid of America, however much, or little sooner, they might have done so with it. The honour will be all theirs, though America will reap quite as much of the material advantages. DEPARTURE OF PART OF TRE BLACK SEA FLEET FOR NAPLES. We extract the following important intelligence from a letter just received from Constantinople, dated Oct. 1 : "The intelligence we have received from the English fleet mentions the adoption of a rather important mea sure. Four ships of the line are to leave the Black Sea for the Mediterranean, viz , the Albion, 90 guns, Capt. Drummond ; Rodney, 90 ; London, 90, Captain Jones ; Queen, 116, bearing the flag of Admiral Stopford. These four vessels are accompanied by two of inferior size, viz., the Wasp, screw corvette, and the Leander, sailing frigate. The Albion is replaced pro tem. by the Queen oa the station at Constantinople. The Wasp sailed oy yesterday, without coming to anchor, and subse quently entered the Sea of Marmora. A report, well ac credited, induce us to believe that these men,of-war, de tached from the English fleet, will not proceed to Eng land immediately, bat they are destined to assume a menacing attitude in the Bay of Naples, under the com mand of Admiral Stopford. RETIREMENT OF GENERAL MARKHAM. G e T n he e r al following farewell arkhani t to the on b , y L on hisieu te giving t. up the-command : "The Lieutenant-General being about to leave the Crimea for England, in consequence of the state of his health, cannot part from the division he has had the honour to command without expressing to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, his thanks for the manner in which everything has been conducted during the time he has been commanding them, and he confi dently trusts that during the ensuing six months nothing will be left undone to confirm the discipline and good and cheerful feeling at present existing in the division. "By order. (Signed) "R WILBRAHAM, "Assistant Adjutant-General.' No intelligence respecting the proceedings of the fleet before Odessa has been received in Paris. Very important intelligence is, however, expected in official quarters, but not before Saturday. The Marquis de Modena and Captain Leyland and Mrs. Leyland have arrived at the Clarendon, fromi:/orn dovon Lodge, N.B. Lord and Lady George Quin have arrived at their re• sidence, in Belgrave-square, from YorkOire. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, THURSDAY EVENING, OCT. 11. Up to nine o'clock on the evening of the 9th instant the fleets had undertaken nothing against Odessa. A band of Montenegrins has made an irruption into the Herzegowina, and in doing so has violated the Austrian territory near Krivoscia. THE AFRICAN MAILS. PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, 11 A.M. The Royal African mail steam-ship Retriever, Captain Macin tosb, from the West Coast and Madeira, is inside the Eddystone, and approach ing the Sound. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Moniteur publishes the following : " France will learn with as much joy as gratitude to Providence that the Empress is pregnant. This happy event, which promises to the Emperor the only satisfac tion which was wanting to his domestic happiness, is a new guarantee of the stability of our institutions. Every one will address thanksgivings to Heaven and prayers for the preservation of the health of the Empress and for the fulfilment of the hopes of the nation." The Royal Prussian Gazette states that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are to stand godfather and godmother to the little Prince or Princess which is shortly expected to increase the Imperial family of France. The market has been very flat, as the specula tors apprehended a new rise of on the rate of dis count of the Bank of England. But, as Consols had slightly improved, there was a rally on our securities. Nothing was officially known about the result of to-day's sitting of the directors of the Bank of France, but it was considered as certain that the discount would be maintained at 5 per cent., but the Bank would renounce the measure concerning the bills at 75 days' date. The Threes have been flat from 64f. 50e. to 64f. 55e., and the other securities remain at the range of yesterday's prices. It was reported at the end of the Bourse that the directors of the Bank of France had main tained the measure which they had taken last week. The railway shares were firm, but without much business. Nothing particular in miscellanies and foreign stocks. The following are the last prices of the securities : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i. per Cents 9O 25 89f. 750. 3 per Cents 64 45 61 55 New Loan 6.i 50 65 25 Bank Shares 3150 Roman Credit Mobilior llB2 50 Austrian Belgian Fives 94i Spanish Threes 37i Piedmontese B4 25 Home Debt 3li RAILWAYS-808 CASH. fr. c. c Orleans .. lll2 50 Lyons Geneva 658 75 Western... 782 50 Strasburg Cette 670 New Ditto 757 50 Mediterranean 1220 Testo .. Northern Lyons ll3l 25 Austrian Corn. 740 AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 7th, in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin, says :—" The arrangement which the Government is about to enter into with the Bank for the regulation of financial affairs will allow it to dispense with any other capital. It is stated, in fact, that the Minister of Finance has declared to M. do Rothschild, as well as to the Baron de Sine, who was carrying on negotiations on account of M. Pereire, that he could not come to any decision until the Bank had executed the ope rations proposed to it. The negotiations with these gentlemen may, therefore, be considered as broken off." According to a letter from Vienna, in Voss's Gazette of Berlin, France has given her adhesion to the proposition of Vienna that Prince Stirbey, the Hospodar of Servia, whose functions would expire next spring, shall retain his present dignity until the questions relative to the organisation of the Principalities shall have been settled. M. de Wil lebruck, the Prussian Ambassador at Constan tinople, has arrived at Vienna, on his way to his post, and has had an interview with Count Buol. Several bankers here give credence to the ru mour that Russia is contracting a loan in North America, and that the negotiations are n ear ly concluded. GREECE., General Kalergis, before giving up his portfolio, addressed to the army the following order of the day:— "Soldiers !—Circumstances oblige me to give up a post in which, for nearly 16 munths, I have had the honour to preside over, your destinies in the capacity of Minister of War. " I leave you with profound grief ; for, during the whole time, .1 have continually received from you the strongest assurances of your deep attachment to my person ; and I also have had, on my part, abundant opportunities to appreciate those high military virtues which, I do not hesitate to affirm, have rendered the Greek army one of the best in Europe. " My true mission in the midst of you has been to establish a strong bond of union between you and the glorious Allied armies in this country ! You have most worthily seconded my efforts, and rendered my task more easy, and the most happy consequences have resulted, both to our country and to ourselves, on that account. "Thanks to your good conduct, soldiers ! and to your prudence, which has stood proof against every insidious suggestion, that army of occupation, influenced solely by warlike considerations, has laid aside its menacing cha racter, and now covers our national soil with the bene ficent standards which waved triumphantly at Navarino, Aid during the expedition into the Morea. " Under the happy auspices of this union, soldiers ! you have made some advances in the path of that genuine progress, which, I assure you, can only be found in honour—the most colossal stride yon could have effected, even from the commencement. It is sufficient, however, to remind you, that instead of four battalions of the line, you now form nine. "At the same time, your military ardour has not been inactive. For want of enemies on the field of battle, you have turned your gallant arms against those foemen who are more obscure than dangerous, who cumber and dishonour our soil, and are a disgrace to the Grecian name. Dating from the middle of the last year to the present day you have annihilated 767 robbers, of whom 53 were killed and 714 captured, in the exercise of their shameful trade, and delivered into the hands of justice. "Soldiers! proceed still in the same course. Con duct yourselves always as brethren towards the brave Allied armies, who have held forth a generous and friendly hand towards you ; and to which, I may say, so many glorious recollections and ardent hopes are united. The innate sympathy existing between the armies of civilisation and that of Greece can now only be denied by the inveterate enemy of all Hellenic progression. You are not ignorant that this sympathy affords the strongest guarantee of the present happiness of our beloved country and of better hopes for the future. "Having devoted myself to this idea, so fertile in benefits to Greece, I most sincerely pray that, when better times arrive, under its guidance, we may again combat in the same ranks. .....___,_ , "Athens, Sept. 21 (Oct. 3), 1855. "The Minister of War, " KALERGTB." Letters from Copenhagen say that the banish ment of Prince Ferdinand from the capital—should he persist in his refusal to sign the new constitu tion—is spoken of. Rumour even assigns to him a forced place of residence—viz., the fortified city of Fredericia. A letter from Frankfort states that M. de Bis tnarck-Schonbausen has assumed th 9 Presidency of the Germanic Diet, for all the business transacted in committee, during the absence of Baron d e Prokesch. The public sittings of the Diet will not be resumed before the 25th of the present month. A letter from Kars of the 7th, in the Presse d'Orient, says that the fort was completely in vested by the Russians, and that only couriers were able to leave and enter. Provisions had be gun to fail, and 600 horses had been killed for food. The garrison was anxiously waiting for the long-promised reinforcements. The Madrid journals of the 6th contain no poli tical news. The King was indisposed, and had to keep his chamber. It was of cholera th a t M. Sagaste, Governor of Madrid, died. Accounts from the Philippine Isles to the 6th August st a t e that perfect order prevailed there, and that the sanitary situation was satisfactory ; but that some arrests had been made amongst the artillerymen of the garrison, in consequence of the men having combined to demand a diminution of two years in their period of service. The permission granted by the Allies to friendly and neutral flags to ship grain in the ports of th e Sea of Azoff, under proper restrictions, was nego tiated by the Austrian Government at the instance of the Trieste house of Gopcewitsch, which had large stores of corn at Taganrog, and lost it all during the bombardment. We are now able to add that Russia i has also given its consent to the measure, but, of course, Only as far as concerns the flags of neutral states, LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES, BANKERS, STRAND. This was a dividend meeting. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, stated to his Honour that Sir. Bates had informed him that a partnership deed was executed by him when he joined the other bankrupts. It was thought it was in the assignees' office with the papers of the bankrupts, but on searching it could not be found. It was now supposed it must be with Mr. Cookney, who formerly represented the bank. Search should be made for it, and as soon as it was found it should be produced. Mr. Bell, official assignee, said he had never seen the deed of partnership. His Honour said it must be found. He must see it before he could decide many of the points raised. Mr. Lawrence said that with reference to the point raised by Mr. Bagley at the last sitting, for keeping the estates of the bankrupt* separate, each estate to answer its claims, it was proposed to have a private sitting, and examine the parties as to the course of dealing, agree on the facts, and present them to his Honour, who would then be asked to adjudicate on them. It was a point of considerable importance to all interested, and it was proposed to enquire into the mode by which the bankrupts, as Halford and Co., as army and navy agents, received the half-pay and pensions of the claim ants. His Honour was probably aware that the prac tice was for officers not only residing in this country, but when on foreign service, to give their agents a power of attorney to receive their pay or pensions, and, consequently, a great deal would depend on the question of whose names were inserted in the power of attorney. His Honour said he must see the partnership deed before he decided anything. Mr. Lawrence said it was impossible to get the deed to-day. The point raised was not to be decided to-day. All he asked for was the appointment of a private sit ting to examine Mr. Bates and Mr. Torey, the principal clerks who had succeeded the bankrupts as army and navy agents. He proposed the examination to take place on Wednesday next. His Honour granted the application, and again im pressed on Mr. Lawrence that he must have the partnership deed produced. Mr. Prior, whose claim for 1,0001. at the last sitting stood over for him to show the consideration he gave for the bill, appeared and produced the cheques he gave when he discounted it at 5 per cent. discount. Mr. Lawrence having examined them, and asked Mr. Prior a few questions, said he wished all the trans actions had been of so straightforward a character as that of Mr. Prior's. Proof was accordingly allowed. Mr. Linklater, on the part of Mr. Walkinshaw, con nected with the City of Glasgow Insurance Company, who claimed for 13,3501. at the former sitting, said he had since then had an opportunity of examining the covenant in the deed on which the claim had been made, and he proposed now to withdraw it, because that gentleman was not named in the deed on which the claim was made, and to ask it should be made in the names of the five gentlemen named in the deed, and in favour of whom the covenant in the deed was given by the bankrupts. The deed was dated the 2d June, 1854, and the facts were beyond dispute, but on looking at the deed the question arose whether at the present time these gentlemen had any right to prove, seeing that by the deed the bankrupts were stated to be the sureties for Gandall Brothers for the payment of 20,0001. in three instalments. One instalment only had become due, and therefore be applied to prove for the two remaining instalments not due, under the 177th and 178th sections of the Bankruptcy Con solidated Act, which had relation to a contingency similar to the liability of the bankrupts under the deed in question, and gave the Commissioner po aver to ascer tain the value of the contingency, and allow the persons to prove for it. Mr. Lawrence said the facts were not disputed. There could be no doubt Strahan and Co. were bank rupts, and he believed it might be taken that Gandall Brothers had since become bankrnpts in France. Mr. Linklater said he believed tho argument to be adopted on the other aide was, that this was not a debt on a contingency, or to pay money on a contingency, under the sections of the act he had named. The learned counsel quoted a number of cases in support of his ap plication. The Court would have to determine the value on which his clients should prove. Mr. Lawrence said that the covenant in question was not one in which the bankrupts were to pay, but some other person. The case adverted to by Mr. Linklater did not apply in this case. The claimants here had no right to prove under this covenant, which was not a security, nor bad any default taken place under it. The remedy against the bankrupts was by an action at law for the breach of the covenant by the principal debtor, the value to be assessed by damages, and which remedy existed notwithstanding the bankrupts obtained their certificates. He contended there was no contingency here as contem plated by the 177th and 178th sec. of the Bankrupts Consolidated Act, and quoted a number of cases to show that a breach of this covenant did not - live the claimants a right to prove under the bankruptcy. Mr. Linklater having been heard in reply, His Honour reserved the point. Mr. Hacon applied to prove on the separate estates of the bankrupts on the part of the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company, in the name of Mr. Finlay, the manager. The claim was for 10,0001., the balance of a larger sum with interest up to the date of the petition. The covenant in the deed was to pay a large sum of money by eight instalments, seven of 3,0001. each, and the eighth of 4,009/. Of these instalments all but three were due prior to the bankruptcy, one had since become due, and the remaining two were not yet pay able. In this case, the bankrupts jointly and separately covenanted that, should Gandall Brothers not pay, they would pay the debt and interest by quarterly instal ments. There lwas 'default in' one instalment, and he proposed to prove for the value of the whole debt, but if his Honour thought that inexpedient he would prove for 3,0001. due July last, and enter a claim for the remaining 7,0001. The question was accordingly reserved. Mr. Bell (solicitor) asked to prove for a debt on the part of the only son of Sir J. Paul against that bank rupt's private estate. On the marriage of the son with Miss T. Kay in 1851, the father granted him an an nuity of 9101. payable by quarterly instalments during lifetime. The father was 54 years of age, and the son 28, and the annuity had been valued by Mr. Morgan at 7,5781 Mr. Lawrence had no objection to the proof but suggested, as the son was indebted to the estate, it should be named on the margin of the proof. The assignees were entitled to a set off. The proof was admitted accordingly. Mr. Bell then claimed to prove for 2981., on the part of the daughter-in-law, who the father-in-law covenanted to pay an annuity of 3001. per annum on his and her surviving the husband, and so lung as she remained a widow. Mr. Lawrence said this was a contingency which he wag at a loss to know how the actuary valued it. His Honour ordered this claim to stand over. Mr. Bell then claimed to prove for 9,0001. consols for the son, against the separate estate of Sir J. D. Paul. On the son becoming of age his father induced him to surrender 9,0001. Consols, on his giving him a covenant that on his death his executors should• pay him the amount. This amount was a part of the wedding por tion of the bankrupt's wife, who was dead, and in which he had only a life interest. The son was the only issue of that marriage. Mr. Lawrence had no objection to the admission of the proof. The son appeared to have given ample conf sideration. _ Mr. Bell—He give up the reality for worse than the shadow. Some other proofs having been admitted, the dividend was adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. ASSAULT UPON A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.— William Hands, a middle-aged man, described on the charge sheet as a watchmaker, was brought up on a warrant by Fenton), 227 M, one of the officers of the court, charged with committing a brutal assault on Emma Hands, his wife. The complainant, a decent-looking female, said she had been married to the prisoner six weeks, and a few days afterwards he commenced ill-using her. At times his conduct was so violent that she believed he would murder her, and then he broke every piece of china and glass ware in his reach. Wednesday night she was sitting up for him with her child upon her lap when he came home, pulled her off the chair, and struck her with his clenched fists on several parts of the body, besides kicking her in the faca in a violent manner until she was insensible. He then left her, and now she be lieved her jaw was broken. The magistrate asked her whether she bad been to a doctor ? She replied that she had, and he advised her to go to the hospital, but she had not done so at present. The magistrate asked her whose child it was she was n ursing ? She said it was hers by a firmer husband, an she had two oldei than that, which the prisoner was quite well awar e of before he married her, Th e magistrate asked her what was the cause of his beating her on Wednesday. night f She answered, that when he came in he asked her for a silver gilt ring she had on her finger, saying that it would hang him. She was about to take it off when he seized her by the hand, and nearly bit her finger off. They then struggled, and he knocked her down, and afterwards kicked her. The Magistrate asked her what business her husband was ? She replied, that she did not know exactly. He sometimes bought watches and jewellery, and after doing something to them sent her out to pawn them all over London. She generally earned him as much as 30s. before breakfast by going to the pawnbrokers. If she happened not to be successful, on her return he beat her. She was, in fact, all over bruises ; but all she wanted was protection and a separate maintenance. Mr. Solomon, for the defendant, said that it was all through his wife's family that these quarrels took place, and his client was willing to allow her 14s. a week for her maintenance. The female was quite as violent as her husband, and assaulted him quite as much. She had a watch and ring of his on Wednesday, and because she would not return them they had a wrangle, and both fell on the ground. The Magistrate said that the female had been grossly assaulted by her husband, and as he had promised her a separate maintenance, he should adjourn the case for further inquiries. THAMES. FALSE IMPRISONMENT AT SEA.—EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION.—On Mr. Yardley taking his seat on the bench this morning, Mr. Joseph Smith, a solicitor, ap plied to Mr. Yardley for a summons against Captain Henry Peachey, the master of the ship Clara, for a❑ assault on John Doyle, a mariner. • Mr. Smith stated that the application was one almost unprecedented, for the alleged offence was committed three years and a half ago, on a voyage from Southamp ton to Swan River, Western Australia ; but he submit ted that ought not to be a bar to the man obtaining re dress. The party complaining was a seaman on board the Clara, and having given some offence, real or imagi nary, to the captain, who he discovered was on intimate terms with some of his female passengers. Mr. Yardley said the solicitor had better not go into extraneous matters affecting the character of a'person not present. Mr. Smith—Very well, sir. The man, for some offence given to the captain, was confined in a small hole, 4 feet square, for 78 days, and when the ship arrived in the Swan River he was taken before a magistrate, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. After he bad been in gaol a fortnight only the governor of the colony interfered, released him, and appointed him to a situation in the water police, in which he conducted himself in the most satisfactory manner. Mr. Yardley—This is scarcely a case for this court. If the man has been wrongfully imprisoned for 78 days, it is a case for one of the courts at Westminster, and the man ought to receive adequate damages. Mr. Smith said the Clara would sail again from Lon don in five or six days, and this was merely a prelimi nary step to carry the case to the sessiong. The complainant, in answer to a question by Mr. Yardley, said no assault was committed upon him. He was first ordered aft and then sent below into a small place, built up for him, and the lock and key turned upon him. Mr. Yardley said the man was never assaulted at all, and he did not know whether This could be a case of constructive assault. The man was told to walk into the place ;he did so, and the key was turned upon him. If the mariner had resisted and said he would not go into the place, and the captain had seized him and laid hands upon him, that would be an assault. Doyle—lf I had resisted the captain would have said that was mutiny. After considerable discussion on the law of the case Mr. Yardley said he did not see his way clear to grant a summons at present, but gave Mr. Smith liberty to renew his application after ho had consulted some deci sions of the judges bearing on the case. The Duke of Devonshire will leave Lisruore Castle, at the early part of next week, for England. His grace is expected to arrive at his residence, in Kemp Town, in about a fortnight. FAREWELL DINNER TO Mn. THACKERAY.—The friends of Mr. Thackeray entertained that gentleman at a fare well dinner—preparatory to his departure for the United States—yesterday evening, at the London Tavern. 11r. Charles Dickens occupied the chair, and covers were laid for sixty. Madame Einstein Devy has arrived, from Paris, at 73, Grosvenor-street. The Carlisle manufacturers have, within the last few days, again advanced the wages of their handloom weavers 10 per cent., making 20 per cent, within the short period of four weeks. The title of Mr. Charles Dickens's new serial is Little Dorrit." This day Mr. Gladstone, .who is staying with his family at Hawardun Castle, will deliver a lecture in the national schoolroom at Hawarden on " The Colonies," fur the benefit of the literary and scientific institution established there. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—Her Royal High• ness continues to occupy a suite of apartments at the Bedford Hotel ; and now that there is a change in the weather, the Royal Duchess avails herself of the oppor- tunity of taking carriage airings on the Marine drive. We are happy to state that her Royal Highness is in the enjoyment of excellent health, and that she purposes remaining in Brighton some days longer.—• Brighton Gazette. The Right Hon. Geor7e Corne wall Lewis, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has resigned the office of Commissioner of "the Oxford University Commission." An enormous vessel, bearing the name of Malakhoff, and having the same proportions as the Napoleon, has just been launched at Toulon. TALLow.—Large quantities of tallow are imported into London in Prussian vessels, a large portion of which finds its way to Havre, by the route of the South-Western Railway and the South-Western Company's Cbannel steamer. _ CONSUMPTION OF TEA.—The quantity of tea entered for home consumption, as appears from an official do cument, between January and August last was 44,126,5361b5., being an increase on the preceding year. WINE IMPORTED.—•It appears, by a return to Parlia ment, that there were 5,580,947 gallons of wine imported between January and August last. The quantity en tered for home consumption in the period was 4,411,842. CUSTOMS REVENUE OF TIE CLYDE.—The Customs Re venue of G7eenock for the quarter just ended shows the large increase of 24,2731. as compared with the corres ponding period of last year. The Glasgow Cu-toms Revenue for the quarter shows an increase of 11,3831. over the corresponding quarter of 1854. THE SOUND DUES.—The Danish Government has taken an important step in the matter of the Sound dues. It has invited all the maritime powers—including the United States of America—to meet in Congress at Co penhagen, in November, there to settle the question. It is said that Denmark proposes the capitalisation and redemption of the dues. NEW PLANETS.—Dr. Luther, of Bilk, discovered a new planet on the sth of October. The exact where abouts of this new planet is not distinctly given. M. Leverrier, at the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, announced the discovery of a small new planet by M. Goldsmith, a painter and amateur astronomer. The number of planets is now 38. THE CROWN 'PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AT BALMORAL.— It is positively asserted, on the best authority, that the Crown Prince of Prussia, father to the prince who was lately sojourning at the British Court, visited Balmoral incognito about three weeks ago. It is well known that the sympathios of the Crown Prince and his family are strongly anti-Russian and pro-British, notwithstand ing the unmistakeable leanings of the reigning sovereign of Prussia.—Scottish Daily News. At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, the application of Mr. Hinton, for a music licence for Highbury Barn Tavern was again refused. A Vienna letter states that M. de Bach, Minister of the Interior, has been affianced to the eldest daughter of Count de Buol, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The ex-Queen Marie Amalie and the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier have joined the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and the P r i nces Alexander and Phillips of Wurtemberg, at Frankfort. The Kind of the Belgians has presented a gold medal to M. J. De. Geyters, of Antwerp, author of the Flemish or ation read a t the late celebrati on of the twenty - fifth anniv ersary of Belgian nd e- Theexiled Archbishop of T ur i n, M onse i gneur seigneure x. Franzoni, is at present staying in Paris. A letter from Vienna says that the celebrated orchestral leader, Strauss, has received an invita tion to visit St. Petersburg, on the occasion of the approaching carnival, with a promise of 2,000 roubles more for the engagement than he has ever hitherto e r r e c eiv from e Rome d. in a Russian that on the occas i on o f t h e chantingof journal, says otm in that city in honour of the fall of the Malakhoff, the French wished the flags of Sardinia and Turkey to be fixed in the church, but the Papal authorities refused; the one excommunicate the other Mussul man—they could not admit of such a profanity ! The French minister telegraphed to Paris for instructions, and received for reply the order to insist upon the appearance of the flags in the hurch. gc Happily, says the letter, " the reply did not arrive here until the religious ceremony was over." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Times of this day.) Many speeches have been made within the last fortnight, but few in which there has been any thing to notice, and still fewer which have deserved any word of praise. It is, therefore, with some pleasure that we refer to the remarks made by the Duke of Cambridge at Liverpool. A Royal Duke and a General not long returned from active ser vice could hardly address an audience at the pre sent time on any other subject than the great events which have lately occupied the nation. On the past campaign and our military system, which has so c om pl e t e l y collapsed, the Duke of Cam bridge gives his opinion freely, and with a candour and goad sense which may well shame older men. There is a certain class of speakers who always " have seen with great regret " the observations made on those who allowed a noble army to perish of cold and sickness, or thrust forward a doomed band to destruction, while the comrades who could have saved them were kept inactive in the rear. These are generally men belonging to some clique which has a friend in command, or who think to display superior discernment by proclaiming the general judgment of their countrymen to be un founded and unjust. Those, however, who have a position to lose cannot venture t o display this arro gance and affectation. Even the Cabinet has tacitly admitted the justice of all that has been said both on former and recent shortcomings, and now we hear a personage of the highest rank, and with the best means of forming a judgment, openly pro claiming the reality of the delinquencies which have been so stoutly denied. "At the beginning of the Crimean campaign," says his Royal Highness, " deficiencies manifested themselves which made every one impatient. Officers were impatient— men were impatient—l was impatient." Be cause the nation was impatient too, and found an expression for its feelings, a set of loud mouthed underlings has ever kept up a cry about calumny, falsehood, and the injustice of attacking absent men. It was said that persons at a dis tance could know nothing of what really passed, and that even civilians on the spot ought not to presume to give a judgment on military affairs. We have now a General of Division who fought during two months of the campaign, and those the most disastrous and depressing, and his opinion coincides with that which the public has long since formed. The Duke speaks of the late disasters as due to our military system, rather than to any individuals actually engaged in the Crimea. This is, n o d o ubt, to a great extnt true. The defects are of ancient date. Every officer and every department can throw with justice considerable blame on other persons and other branches of the service. But the public condemnation cannot be averted by this mutual shifting of responsibility. The result remains the same--that the British army was ruined by the incompetence of its heads and the anarchy of its departmentg ; that each man was partly the cause of his neighbour's failures helps the defence but little. No particular man has been held responsible for what has occurred ; but those in office and those in command, as nearest to our disasters, have been naturally held more responsible thais others. The nation is well aware that so complete was the chaos that such an advantage as being able to discover the true primary cause of the evil is not to be hoped for. The system may be regarded as immediately guilty. The question then remains—What is the system, and who are responsible for it ? Why is it that the States of continental Europe can embark in war with out so discreditable and disastrous a transition from a state of peace ? What are the advantages possessed by these less wealthy and less active nations ? France has, indeed, carried on cam paigns during a quarter of a century in Africa, but it has been chiefly a warfare of skirmishing and. surprises ; it was not in Africa that her engineers learnt how to sap up to the Malakhoff. In the present generation Russia has made only a single short campaign in Hungary ; yet the Russian gene rals and officers have shown themselves, by the ad mission of their enemies, men of the highest skill, while their transport service and commissariat have performed prodigies. Prussians and Austrians never see any warfare more serious than a review, yet were they to take the field they would, perhaps march and bivouack without serious loss. Even little Piedmont has surprised the world by the efficiency of its troops. Everything connected with its army is said to be a model of arrangement. We, the only people who in the last 40 years have car ried on regular wars—we who have fought the dis ciplined armies of mighty Indian princes as well as Caffres and New Zealanders, who have invad ed China and tamed the Burmese, find our selves on a great occasion novices in the mili tary art. Why have Affghanistan and the Punjaub given no lessons for the Crimea ? That Indian experience has been lost as regards the present war is part of the system, and the blame must fall some where. But even practical warfare seems in the case of our allies and enemies to have been less the cause of efficiency than careful education and accurate arrangement. Our officers we know to be brave beyond all praise ; the men who follow them are worthy of such leaders ; yet what is the result ? We cannot relate a deed of heroism without blushing at an act of folly. They rush needlessly on batteries at Balaklava ; they have no batteries to defend them at Inkerman. It is fine, it is glorious, but it is not war, say F renc h an d Russian lookers-on. The subaltern and the general are equally fear less and equally unskilful ; there is no difference between them ; the general is only a subaltern of 70. These gallant deeds have not saved the nation's military fame ; after a year of perils and endurance, every paltry Grman newspaper can talk of Eng land's exhaustion and humiliation. Each matt has done his best, but his best has only been to fight with the untutored bravery of his race. Head, skill, a keen eye, and a calm judgment are wanted, and we owe the deficiency to the system, which the Duke of Caintridge openly condemns. It is of no use to recur to the past; those who had the management of military affairs, and who are chiefly responsible for the incapacity of commanders and the confusion of departments, have now , to some extent, been succeeded by o th er men ; always sup posing that General Simpson's recall has not been cancelled. It remains to profit by past errors, and we are glad to find that among the highest in the State they are so justly appreciated. The remarks of the Duke of Cambridge on the political question of the war will be received with satisfaction. " A peace at the present moment," says his Royal Highness, " would not be an honour able, durable, and lasting peace. Until such a peace could be concluded he was for carrying on the war with all possible vigour and determination." It is, perhaps, unnecesary to give special praise for an opinion at which the duke has arrived in com mon with the great body of his countrymen, but the people will be glad to find that they have in him one who shares their patriotic feelings, and will give no countenance to the unworthy coali tion with which we are threatened. This is a time when the co-operation of every rank is necessary for the success of the common cause, and the knowledge that a near relative of the Sovereign feels and expresses the sentiments of the country will give confidence to those who labour to uphold its dignity, while abroad it will discourage any ignorant hopes that may be founded on what are called dynastic influences. It is some consolation to have a Prince of this manly mind. All orders of the State seem now united to prosecute the war through victory and disaster until its objects be won. Sebastopol will not satisfy a people who are in arms for the security of Europe. Victories and captured cannon are not the results for which we bade farewell to a peace of 40 years. We fight for a principle, and not for the point of honour The Duke of Cambridge is as sensible of the blessings we have lost for a season as any Lancashire peace maker. "Every one," he says, " who had wit nessed, as he had, the actual miseries of war would rejoice at the return of peace, and cherish a state of peace as one of the greatest blessings a nation could enjoy." Yet his conclusion is that of almost every reflecting Englishman. He urges the nation to make no peace at present, nor at any time to cease from the struggle until ample guarantees be given that i.t shall not be renewed. This we believe to be true wisdom ; the men who would enforce these views are the most earnest labourers for future security. Though success come slowly, though the progress be painful, and won step by step, it is the duty of the nation to persevere with vigour, pa' tienee, and self-denial until the darkness which threatens Europe shall pass away. Perhaps the brightness which will succeed it is nearer than the most sanguine dare to hope. Iv THE WEST INDIA SQUADRON. Her Majesty's ship Powerful, 84, Captain T. L. Meg' sie ; the Cornwallis, 60, Captain Wellesley ; the Pear broke, 60, Captain Seymour ; and the Rosamond, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Crofton, are all ordered imme* diately to leave Spithead, to reinforce the West India squadron under Rear-Admiral Fanshawe. The &Et' named goes to Jamaica, and the other three to Bermuda Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir M. F. F. Berkeley. K.C.8., arrived at Portsmouth from the Admiralty Ye s ; terday, and went out to Spith ea d i n the steam-yacht VivILL to inspect the above ships, and imparted instructions to their captains, after which he proceeded to Chichester. It is understood th a t t h e cause of these rein f orceme ntg , is the reception o f i n f ormation by the Government 49 ' several men-of-war being in course of construction 1 1 American shipbuilders for the Russian Governme nt. These vessels, it i s reported, are to b e i ntercepte d , as tbe . American Go vernment refuses to di scountenance theo. construction. Bo ; Mi Ne Ne da re] to Si] g r THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1855