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TO BREWERS, MERCHANTS, AND MALTSTERS. - 111BERNIA Caimans, Loanom BRIDGE, BOROUGII, Septemt , er 7,1855.—0 n and alter the 29th inst. the above will be our Aa.dress, our present temporary Mee is 7, RED LION-STIIEET, BOROEGLI. !NEW HOPS. If you require a few Pockets of New flops, we are promised some New Farnham, Farnham Countries, Mid. Kent, Weald of Kent, and Sussex, on Monday next, and shall be happy to execute your com mands ; the prices will range from about 51. ss. to 71. 75., and as soon as the Market is settled for the New Crop, our Representative will do himself the pleasure of waiting upon you, and we respectfully solicit your commands. THE DUTY QUESTION. The extraordinary universality of an excessive produce of Hops throughout the Plantations, hasled to an estimated duty never known from 1524, when Hops were first introduced into this Kingdom, until now; and for several weeks the generally entertained opinion has been favourable to a duty of 300,0001, and amongst its supporters are many of the firms of the large breweries throughout the Kingdom, who generally contrive to possess the best infor mation upon the subject. To the more uninitiated, yet very interested persons, who make constant inquiries upon this subject, the deductions for anticipating such a growth will not prove uninteresting, neither will the exposition of the points on which those rely who are opposed to such an estimate. Those who are in favour say that the present unrivalled Plantation is about 57,000 acres (the returns are not yet published), viz. last year's acreage. 53,823 acres, and about 3,500 acres of additional plant this year; also, that the general appearances never were CO favourablen- : —that the Colegate Plant (a coarse rank croppy oak), grown pri cipally in the Weald of Kent and Sussex, was never more exten sively cultivated, and that the land is in higher cultivation —they are further induced to back the duty, because in 1826, with an ave rage of 50,471 acres, we grew 269,331 duty, and a similar crop on 57,000 acres would be over 300,8001. In 1850 the average was only 43,127 acres, and the duty paid 233,0001., the present acreage, that year, would have given over 300,0001. duty ; again in 1852, with a Plantation of 44,157 acre., we grew 244,8601. duty, therefore, had 1852 the benefit of this year's Hop-land, 300,000/. would have been paid. The contrary arguments are—that too y m ea ti r c s c a r c e i d , i l t ,2 is lo ta n k o e p n hi f l o ls r additionaliacreage ; as for instance, many were taken as the acre of Hop land, because the custom was to plant llops 6 feet apart in squares, and as an acre of land contains 43,560 square feet, that quantity divided by six times six gives 1,210 hills ; but the practice of planting altered —and instead of intervals of six feet, many planters gave six and a half and seven feet of land apart, and thus 1,210 hills, which in many instances passed for an acre i n 1826 greatly exceeded it, but now in 1855 the collector of Tithe does not count hills, he takes the statute acre and hence part of the increased acreage, as shown by the returns ; they suggest also that too much reliance is placed upon the un harvested crop, which is never secure till 'tis bagged, and that if in all the croppy years since 1808 you take credit for the highest duties of the best district. only in those respective years, and add them to gether, they will fall short of 300,000/. Thus the highest duty ever paid, By the Rochester district was in 1847 £99,011 „ Canterbury If 18 3 5 • • 56,910 „ Sussex 11 1819 •••• • • • . 78,525 By the Worcester district was In 1846 ........ 36,082 We believe there was a freak of nature when Worcester once paid More, but we cannot find the returns. „ Farnham e, Kingdom 185 4 .. 16,305 1826 8,074 £294,907 We have carefully viewed 'both sides of the question, and our opinion is joined to those who think 300,000/. will not be realised. The crop just now is in places visited by mischief—it is to be hoped it may not extend widely, but red rust and mould are present, and every accident seriously threatens the duty reaching the much to be desired goal.—We are, your most obedient servant WOLTON & CO. ROYAL OPERA, DRURY•LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE SLAVE. Characters by Messrs. Stuart, Herberte, Manley, F. RoWns , n, James R. Anderson, &c. To be followed by THE MOUNTAIN SY.LPII. Characters by Messrs. Farquharson, Halford, LlHet Gla!er ; 'Misses Forrest, Dyer, and Lucy Escott. 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, one guinea. Box-office spell from 10 to 6 daily. Tazi.kit'en !WY AL, itAVllAPticr:r. Under the management of Mr. Buckatene. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS. After which, LE GEGARRERA. DE SEVILLE. Pera Nena. Followed by COURT FAVOUR. After which, THE SP.t.NISH DANCERS. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. tAL eItiNeESS'S r &ATILS, ur:trUKD-mTii,ht:T. Under the Management of Mr; C#Ar...LES KEAN. TITS EVENING. Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After wh:eb, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha rine, Mn. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIiI. Proprietor, Mr. 73. Webster.—Directress, Mr.lame Ce"este. THIS EVENING, Will be performed VICTORINE. Characters by Messrs L Mur• ray, C. Se'by, P. Bedford, Wright, Parselle, 8:c.; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. L. Murray, &c. After which, HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ? To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPffITHEATtt~. Lasso and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Lord Bvron's .MAZEPPA and the WILD lIORSE, wills all its original effects and splendid spectacle arrangements. After which, the Equestrian EXERCISES in the ARENA, in ented by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. -Prat. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director, Srf W. Cooke. Jun. HIGH WATER• AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tai DAY—Morn. 16 min. aft. 11—Evening 0 min. aft. Il To-MoRROW—Morn.S6 min. aft. 11—Evening 25 min. aft. 12 WICA'i HER.-1301 OTNICII, Sept. 7. THICENOMITZB, IN TEM SHADY. • 62 -- highest since noon yesterday. 52 —lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day, at noon. BABA:METIER, 30.55—a great rise. WIND. N.N.E. to N.E.—Fresh breeze, with heavy clouds and occasional sunshine. 4 , 1. • A 4,-*!. Cr) t 1 / 4 . 7 , 4 LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1855. The Baltic season has virtually slipped by, and Russia need entertain no further apprehensions respecting the operations of the British fleets. The northern malefactor has been respited for nine calendar months, and may now strengthen his defences, and make all suitable preparations for the reception of his assailants in 1856. He has received a salutary lesson as to weak points, and has learned by experience what it is he must provide against on the next attack. That he will profit by that which has been so painfully acquired seems certain. There is no Sir CHARLES WOOD at the head of the Russian Admiralty to pooh pooh every useful suggestion, and rest contented if he can carry on matters along the beaten path in the old jog-trot pace. It is by no means clear that the amount ,of damage inflicted on the stores and buildings at Sweaborg will not be mere than compensated by the valuable information afforded to the defenders, as to the actual capabilities of mortar-vessels, gun-boats, and the rocket service, against which they can make full provision at their leisure. The question then naturally arises, Why should we be contented with an incomplete measure ? If it was indispensable that something should be done by the fleet to satisfy the nation, why did they not undertake an, easier task, which they could dispose off in workman-like style ? If Sweaborg was too much for their powers, why not be contented with Revel, or Abo, or Riga? A trifling duty properly performed would have been far better than a more import ant one left unfinished. Last year we had Bo marsund. It might not have been all that was expected by the nation, but such as it was the work was fully accomplished. It was left in such a condition that the CZAR • could not repair the damage during the winter. It no longer remained " a menace to surrounding nations," or a defence to Russia. But not so with Sweaborg. By its bombardmpt the Czar, has suffered a certain amount of pecuniary damage, but that is all ! He can, by the simple outlay of money, not only repair the mischief, but be even better off than ever—inasmuch, as he has ac quired a knowledge of our mode of operations, against which he can provide when we come pre pared with the necessary appliances, which have been so urgently demanded by the nation for a considerable time. The fact is, as truly stated by Sir CHARLES NAPIER, that "a great opportunity of destroying Swea,borg has been lost by the imbecility of the AdMiralty." It is quite clear, from what has taken place, that if the fire could have been maintained kit ab few hour s l onger the remaining vessels could have completed th e wor k, an d h ave finally disposed of Sweaborg—and, with it, of Helsingfore—which would have followed, as a matter of course, when its protection and defence was got rid of. But we wanted a few mortar vessels Frotn the paucity of boats of that class at the disposal of the Admiral, too much was placed on those which he had, and they were speedily " used up.".. Forty-five hours were all that they could continue at the extraordinary rate recoired, and but a few mortars remained avail able at the end "of that time. This was the fault o f the,Admiralty, who might and ought to have proi ided for the failure of these important, arms-. W e a g ree with Sir C ®-fix--those letter will Ls found in another part . of this-dirs impression—that spare mortars would not alone have been sufficient. There should have been the vessels themselves, ready to take the place of those placed hors de combat by the rapidity of their fire. But this additional force was not pro vided—nor even the inadequate substitute of spare mortars. Sir CIIARLES WOOD, the respon sible party, w as contented to slumber on, in the vague hope th at the party with whom he was most closely connected, would be enabled to cobble up a precarious truce that would have dispensed with the necessity of exertion on his part. We believe that it was Mrs. HALL who laid down the principle that Boards are invariably " desperate stupid !" The Board of Admiralty certainly forms no exception to the general rule. On the contrary, it exceeds all others in obtuse ness. This probably arises from the fact that its head is, generally speaking, perfectly ignorant of the matters which he is so improvidently allowed to control. Even were his heart in the right place, and he himself desirous of doing his best, it would be a mere matter of chance whether he might blunder in the right course. He might possibly do so, but the chances were in favour of his doing wrong. But how greatly are those chances increased when the political "Jack of all trades," the incompent financier whose failure in the Exchequer was so notorious—the blunder ing autocrat of India—was pitchforked into the situation of First Lord ! If any naval officer held the position now occupied by Sir CHARLES Woon, it is almost impossible that he could have neglected the precautions so obviously required. And the question for the people to answer is, whether stolid ignorance and avowed incapacity shall be admitted as an excuse for shortcomings which have led to so deplorable a failure, and such serious damage to the best interests of the United Kingdom and of the civilised world ? Nor is this all in the case of the present "First Lord." We fear that there is something more serious even than incapacity to be guarded against. We know that he has been the colleague of Mr. GLADSTONE, of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT —that he has been the henchman of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, whose tergiversation has so grievously damaged his own position, and disappointed the people of Great Britain. Should the present Ministry be modified, Sir CHARLES WOOD, like his great prototype, the celebrated " Vicar of Bray," would be sure to retain his position, or at least to keep a seat in the Cabinet, to which his re tarding the operations of the War, and preventing the real humiliation of the enemy would give . . him the best title. Under existing circumstances there is more than mere " incompetency" to be guarded against. But even under the most fa- vourable auspices it would be essential to modify, or rather to abolish, the Board of Admiralty, and to obtain some kind of security that the party nominally responsible, understood something of the matter which he was expected to control, and could make provident arrangements to provide for the exigencies that would probably arise in the natural course of events. Formerly it used to be regarded almost as much high treason to wish well to the enemies of the country, as to entertain the thought of the death of the SOVEREIGN. It would seem to be other wise nowadays. For the well-wishers of the Russians, the sympathisers with the Russians, the deprecators of the War against the Russians—if they continue, as they unquestionably do con tinue, to be the merest atom of a minority, when considered numerically in comparison with the vast aggregate of the population—number amongst them the names of most of those of our public men who have, in some way or other, been dis tinguished for their statesmanship. These eminent characters are distinguished indeed, at this crisis in the affairs of the nation, if for anything at all, certainly for their sympathy with the Russians. They proclaim it. They insist upon the inutility and causelessness, and therefore, of course, upon the cruelty and absolute inhumanity of the War waged by England and France, united with Tur key and Sardinia, upon the Russians. Remem ber, too, that such are not the opinions merely of Political Bagmen like Mr. Con- DEN, of men who can see no further beyond their nose, in matters of international policy, than the length of that good cloth yard which was of old the measure of the strength of our English bowmen, but which, in the hands of our political hucksterers of to-day, is but the in strument for the measuring out of the honour, and glory, and renown of the empire by the miserable criterion of mere mercantile expediency. Opinions such as those we have mentioned, more over, are in no way restricted to trading reli gionists like Mr. BRIGHT, a class of men who seem to square their conscience by the rules, not simply of expediency, but of actual profit, legis lative actuaries, who would strike the balance of our imperial policy, guided by considerations of L. S. D., and not by a sense of Right or Justice, or by the force of any such unsubstantial and purely abstract principles. No—the views of our pro-Muscovite patriots are entertained by men of greater mark than the " gumptious" member for the West Riding, or even than the " bumptious" representative of the city of Man chester. They are the views no less of the very statesmen whose ignorance, whose fatuity, whose delays at one moment and precipitation at an other, whose lust for the retention of power, and whose greed for the perquisites of place were among the chief of the proximate causes of the very war against which their voices are now so loudly inveighing, with such very admirable consis tency ! They are the opinions not only of Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN, .butt of_ those more nota ble recruits who are going through the ignominy of the goose-step of the drill of folly in the awk ward squad of the Peace-at-any-Price Party —raw recruits who, like the ragged regiments of FAL STAFF, are very well known to have been recently marched through Coventry. Conspicuous among these pro-Russianites such notorious provokers of the War against the CZAR, such notorious origi tors of that War, such notorious promoters of it from first to last as—the Earl of ABERDEEN, the War-Prime Minister ; Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the War• First-Lord-of- the-Admiralty ; Mr. GLAD STONE, the War-Chancellor of the Exchequer ; with Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the War-President of the Council, and War-Secretary for the Colonies, and War-Leader of the House of Commons ! These are now, we all know, the chiefs of the pro-Russianites who have merged very recently into avowed leaders of the Peace at-any-Price Party. These—the very statesmen whose folly or wickedness, call it what we will, gave rise to the very War they are now so shame lessly deprecating ! From the outset some among them were suspected. Lord ABERDEEN, for ex ample, from the beginning, was branded by us in these columns, as a pro-Russianite. Latterly the others have had their loyalty to the national cause seriously questioned. Until the time arrived, when compelled one by one for very shame to quit the office they had each clung to with such unscru pulous tenacity, they let fall the mask and appear • in their- right forms as the friends of our enemies, as the antagonists of the cause they themselves had f or a ;,,elfish object nominally espoused) as the do ' precators of a war their own evil courses had pre cipitated. Sir J. GRAHAM, for instance, was one of those far-seeing statesmen who, in 1853, vituperated with all kinds of personal scurrilities the thrice elected ruler of a neighbouring people now happily our august Ally, thereby confirming the opinion long cherished by the AUTOCRAT, that Russia had nothing whatever to fear from the possibility of any solid union of the interests of France and England. Yet this same illustrious, and far-seeing, and over-cautious Administrator— after being the very man to preside as First Lord of the Admiralty over the maritime districts of Great Britain during the first campaign of this mighty contest with the giant power wielded by the irre sponsible Government of St. Petersburg—this same Sir JAMES GRAHAM had the hardihood, on Friday, the 31st ultimo, while referring to the War with Russia, to speak of " the prodigal and fruitless expenditure of millions of the public money" upon it [precisely the same despicable argument dunned into our ears for months past by Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN], and who, later or upon the same occasion, in a vein of lachrymose so lemnity, spoke of the railway he was then inaugurating as a work for which a blessing might not unreasonably be expected, " for it is a work," said he (with a side glance of reprehension upon the War), "of peace and of mercy"—adding, " Such are all GoD's works"— and then—" Our works are generally of a more doubtful character." The Russian War all the while being essential, the handiwork of Sir JAMES GRAHAM himself, and with him of Mr. GLAD STONE, and of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and of Lord ABERDEEN, and for that matter of Mr. COBDEN, and of Mr. BRIGHT, and of the rest of these very Honourable Pro-Russianists Peace-at-any-Price mongers. Surely MAWWORM was their prototype, surely with him they might say, sententiously and sanctimoniously—" I likes to be despised !" For, have they not evidenced in their genius the true flavour and unmistakeable characteristics of the I Hypocrite ? The poor unlucky people, the industrious, hard working, orderly, and much-enduring people of the metropolis must bestir themselves. Like the stray goose which every aspiring lad of the village considers himself entitled to have a pluck at, they are again marked out' for victimisation. St. James's-park is to be bisected by the construction of a carriage-way from Marlborough-house to the Birdcage-walk. In other words, it is to be de stroyed. It is really too bad this continued tampering with the enjoyment of the masses. With a restric tive Beer Bill, an insidious Enclosure Bill, and a pestilent Sunday Trading Bill fresh in every. body's recollection, comes a fourth scheme, which, if carried out, will utterly deprive one of the plea santest retreats in the metropolis of its attractions ; and, what makes the matter worm, the author is not this time a senatorial Mawworm, a money hunting heir, or a foolish lordling, ambitious of Parliamentary renown, but a Cabinet Minister, a Metropolitan representative, well acquainted with the wants and necessities of the people, and who has hitherto been accounted one of their most sin cere and liberal-minded friends—to wit, Sir BENJAMIN HALL Yes, if most accounts be true, to this zealous and successful sanitarian, aid, as was thought, en lightened Commissioner of the Board of Works, by whose instructions a band of music is stationed every Sunday in Kensington-gardens, to the grati fication of thousands, is owing this ill-advised and injurious scheme. The public may wonder, but mere wonder won't do ; they have to deal with a fact. The inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Westminster and Pimlico want a carriage way in the direction of Marlborough House, and although their desire could be gratified by permitting them the use of the existing drives round the Park, the scheme iu question is deemed necessary. But then these drives are tabooed for the use of Royalty and a favoured few, and to let in a mob of carriages would be desecration. So rather than Royalty or nobility should be deprived of an exclusive right, or be exposed to an imaginary annoyance, the people are to be plucked. Accus tomed day by day, or Sunday after Sunday, to repair to these delightful gardens, and pass at once from the dust and turmoil of a bustling and multitudinous metropolis into their verdant shades and the tranquil enjoyment of their thousand natural and acquired beauties—the industrious masses are practically to be deprived of this pri vilege, and to carry elsewhere, if they please, for interment, the memory of their ill-remunerated toil in pent-up localities, rank with an unwhole some atmosphere, simply that Royalty may escape the possibility of a fortnight's annoyance per annum ! Who or what set the Right Honourable Baronet in motion in this direction we are unable to say. Whether the scheme was concocted in compliance with a Court hint, or in ordor to win Court favour, Sir BENJAMIN best knows, and the public have the liberty to guess ; but of one thing we are tolerably certain, that if it has had any coun tenance from her MAJESTY, which we doubt, a proper representation of the case will cause her to withdraw that countenance, it being noto rious that her MAJESTY has always displayed a praiseworthy solicitude for the welfare of the less favoured portion of her subjects. On the other hand, so to speak, we are reluctant to believe that a popular representative like Sir BENJAMIN HALL would condescend to fawn even for a coronet —which he is said to want—on royalty. It is for him, however, to satisfy the public on this head. Whatever was the inducement, they have a right at least to complain of his leaving lent his sanction and authority to the scheme, and also to expect its immediate abandonment. Failing a direct in timation of this, their appeal must be to the QUEEN from her misguided Minister. FAILURE OF NASMYTH'S MONSTER GUN. We regret to learn that Mr. Nasmyth's wrought iron gun has proved a complete failure, and this not on ac count of the mechanicle difficulties which had to be en countered—formidable as they were—but from a most unexpected peculiarity in the material employed, when brought together in so large a mass as was necessary for Mr. Nasmyth' s purpose. It seams that wrought iron, so tractable under all ordinary conditions of working, car not be welded together in very large masses without undergoing a change in its molecular arrangement, ex ceedingly injurious to its tenacity. As we understand the explanation which we have received on this point, an immense mass of iron like that which Mr. Nasm:iith has welded together continues so long in an incandescent and soft state that a process analogous to crystallisation takes place within its substance, whereby the fibrous texture, from which it derives its tenacity, is destroyed, and it becomes even less capable than cast iron of resist ing the explosion of a heavy charge of gunpowder. We understand that, in addition to the unfavourable result obtained by Mr. Nasmyth at Patricroft, another experi ment of a similar nature, made under the direction of Government, has proved a complete f a il ure f rom the peculiarity in the material to which we have alluded ; and a large gun which bad been completed was found utterly unfit for use. Indeed we believe it burst into many pieces on the first trial. Mr. Nasmyth's experi ment has consequently been abandoned.—Manchafer Guardian. The Duke of Northumberland, who arrived in town on Tuesday, from Keilder Castle, Northumberland, where he has been enjoying the sports of the field, left last night to join the Duchess at Alnwick. Lord Saltoun is at present at Ness Castle, where a large circle of friends are entertained with Highland hos- pitality. His lordship intanis to mill, porraauently at Ness Castle, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1855 Co IVES, ISLE OF WIG TlT.—Sept. 6. (iMO.II OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLTGENCE.-Arri va's— Sept. 2. Sibyl, schooner, Francis Rufford, Esq., from West of Scotland, came into harbour to lay up. 3. Minx, yawl, Lord Londesborougb, Belfast ; Eugenie, schooner, John Wardlaw, Esq., Eastward, and pro ceeded West ; Zoe, schooner, H. M. Hammersley, Esq., West of Scotland. 5. Beatrix, schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., Plymouth and other ports. Sailingc— Sept. I. lone, schooner, Sir H. Oglander, Bart., f , r Cowes Harbour, to lay itp. 5. Gloriana, schooner, J. Gee, Esq., Hamblo River, to lay up ' • Frisk, cutter, G. Arkwright, Esq., Portsmouth. 6. Stella, cutter, R. Fraakland, Esq., Cork. Yachts at and about the Station—Capricorn, Cecile, Irene, Zoe, Enchantress, Alarm, Wizard, Nymph, Brilliant, Aurora, Minx, Plover, Gem, Beatrix. Lieutenant-General Sir R. Gardiner, late Governor of Gibraltar, has arrived in England. THE WILTSHIRE ARCLIEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. —This as sociation will hold its annual meeting at Chippenham, on September 11th, 12th, and 13th, under the presi dency of George Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P. A VESSEL ON SOHRE.-.- SKAGEN, August 29.—Tlie Jacob Prentiss, Kelly, from Memel to Bristol, with timber and hemp, was stranded on the Scaw reef this morning, and is very leaky. Endeavours are being made to get her off. H.M.S. NERBUDDA.—Some uneasiness has been occa sioned by the protracted absence of her Majesty's steamer Nerbudda, which left Algoa Bay on the 10th instant for Simon's Bay, and has not yet been heird of. The Hydra and Frolic were both sent to sea on Thursday to look out for her.—Cape Town Mail. COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The colliers are still out on strike in Wishaw and Dalzell—Coatbridge and Airdrie also sympathise. The aim is is. a•day advance. Meetings and processions with music are taking place daily.— No;•th British Daily Mail. KEYHA.3I STEAM-YARD.----An immense block of granite weighing 121 tons, forming the centre-piece over the gateway of the principal entrance to the yard, was put in place on Monday week. It is a beautiful specimen of granite, and was brought from the quarry of Messrs. Greenwood and Co., Gunnis Lake. PENT: OF BREAD IN EDlNBURGH.—According to the price of wheat and flour in the Edinburgh market, the four pound loaf will be sold at 90. and 10d. ready money, according to quality ; and 101 d. credit.—North British Daily Mail. REDUCTION IN PRICE OF MALT WHISKY.—The act of last session permitting the use of malt duty-free in the distillation of spirits, and which comes into opera tion on the Ist of next month, will, we are informed by a distiller, reduce the price of malt whisky about 6 , 1. a gallon proof, or sd. a gallon 11 over proof.—Banif Journal. A MORMON PREACHER DROWNED IN THE LYNHER.— A young man named John Dudman, of Bath, aged 20, a Mormon preacher, who had for several days been in the neighbourhood propagating the doctrines of the noto rious Joe Smith, was accidentally dr iwned in the River Lynher •vbilst in the act of bathing. Deceased was a comtan'ed to the river by a'Persen named Gartrell, whom he nrged to bathe with him. Gartrell refits d, and persua lad the preacher not to vehture in a particular nert of the river on amount of a strong current there. Disregarding advice, Dudman immediately plunged into the stream, and for some time bore himself up by swim ming, stating that he was providentially protected and feared nothing. His situation in the river being danger ous, Gartrell handed out a pole close to him, by the aid of which he might have saved himself, but, refusing this proffered assistance, he almost immediately after sank Plymouth Mail. THE LAsir.—On Tuesday last, at Winchester, Staff Sergeant Crowdy, of the 23d Royal Welch Fusiliers, un derwent this punishment in accordance with the finding of a court-martial, which had sentenced him to be degraded to the rank of private, to forfeit all claim to a pension, to receive 50 lashes, and to be imprisoned for 6 months for robbing Pay-sergeant Pursell, of the same regiment, of the sum of 37/.105., money he had in hand on regimental account for payment of the men. It appears that while Serjeant Purcell was out on business in the town, Crowdy, by means of another key, unlocked the door of the room in the barracks where Purcell was quartered, and where he had left his cash-box, with the key in it. Crowdy having abstracted the money, no suspicion fe'l on him for a day or two, when it was found he had been trying to get gold for two pound , worth of silver, and about that amount of silver was known to have been in the cash-box. On searching his room the sum of 291. 15s. was found tied up in a handkerchief belonging to Ser jeant Purcell, and which was lost at the same time as the money. In the face of such evidence, it is not surprising that the delinquent was sentenced to the most degrad ing punishment the law would allow.—llarapetire Independent. . . NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—Some dissatisfaction has been expressed in Norwich in reference to the long periods for which the accounts of the musical festival held last year have been withheld from the public. The sums derived for the local charities from the festival have been progressively declining of late years, and it is stated that no surplus accrued from the last meeting. This supposition would seem to be warranted from the follow ing statistics of the attendance at the festival since its establishment in 1824 : Year. Patrons. General Comp. First meeting 1824 ... 495 ... 6,993 Second meeting 1877 ... 709 ... 8,362 Third meeting Fourth meeting 1833 ... 699 ... 5,385 Fifth meeting 1836 ... 850 ... 5,362 Sixth meeting Seventh meeting Eighth meeting 1845 ... 1,013 ... 6,721 Ninth meeting Tenth meeting Eleventh meeting A suggestion has been made in one of the local papers that two grand concerts should be given every year, in stead of six triennially. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—THE AFRICAN TWINS.—The twin neern children, who are joined together at the lower part of their backs by a ligament of flesh sixteen inches in circumference, were onWednesday shown to a number of medical gentlemen and persons connected with the press, in the saloon of Drury•lane Theatre. There can he no doubt of the genuineness of this rare physiological curiosity. The children, it must he avowed, do not seem at all the worse in health, intelligence, or hap piness, for the extraordinary bondage in which they have been placed by the caprice of Nature at their birth. They ran to and fro, they talk, laugh, and sing, and are pleased with the notice of strangers. One of them exclaimed, in answer to a remark she overheard, " I don't look like a nigger." Their hair is woolly and complexion a dusky brown. They will be five years old next month, and are both girls, one being named " and the other " Bessy." We believe they manage to be unanimous, as it is desirable they should be, upon all their movements, and they will kies each other with much sisterly fondness, although it is not very easy for them to turn their faces so as to look at each other. Their pulses do not beat together, and all the internal organs are belived to be quite separate ; and it is satisfactory to learn that there may yet be a chance of releasing them, before they grow up, from the incon venient situation in which they now are. It is said that their parents are nearoes in slavery, in one of the Southern States, and that the first profits of their exhi bition in England will be devoted to purchase the liberation of the father and mother. DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY TRAlN.—Yester day morning a mast determined act of self-destruction was committed in a railway carriage, between Notting ham and Derby, by a young gentleman named Payne, son of Dr. Payne, of the first -mentioned town. It ap pears that deceased left Nottingham by •the ordinary train at 8.40 a.m., travelling in a second-class carriage. In the same compartment were two gentlemen who pro ceeded as far as the Trent Junction, where they got out, and deceased was left alone. Trent Junction is equi-dis taut between Nottingham and Derby, being about eight miles from either place. The train on leaving called at Sawley and Draycott, two small stations, and then stopped at Borrowash ; the station-master at which place was proceeding to open the door when he saw the body of Mr. Payne hanging close to the door. The deceased gentleman had taken a black silk neckerchief from his neck, and had suspended himself from the ventilator at the top of the carriage door. He had also taken off his shoes, and turned his trousers up to the knees. He was immediately cut down, and although life was apparently not extinct, he was beyend hope of recovery. The un fortunate gentleman was conveyed to Derby, and Mr. Gisborne, the company's surgeon, attended him, but life was extinct. To show how determined deceased was to commit the rash act, we may state that from the time the two gentlemen got out at Trent Junction until he was discovered at Borrowash not more than 10 minutes could have elapsed. No letters were found upon him to throw any light on the cause of the deed, but he had 21. in money, a band-box, slippers, &c., as if proceeding on a journey. His parents have been made ac quainted by telegraph with the melancholy Circum stance, and the body awaits an inquest at the Derby station. On the same day an inquest was held upon the body by Mr. Wbiston, coroner, at the George Inn, near the railway station, Derby, when evidence was adduced as to the finding of the body, and an opinion was expressed that Mr. Payne had taken away his life whilst suffering from an attack of inflammation of the bowels, to which, it appeared, he was very subject, occa sionally to such an extent as to deprive him of his senses for a time. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that "deceased had destroyed himself, being at the time in an unsound state of mind." REFORMATION OF JUVENILE CRIBIINALS.--The quar terly court of the governors of the Philanthropic So ciety was held at their offices, Crown-court, Thread needle-street, on Tuesday, for the purpose of hearing a detail of the working of their institution, Redhill Farm, Reigate, for the reformation of juvenile criminals. Mr. William Gladstone occupied the chair. The Rev. Sidney Turner, chaplain to the establishment, reported that since April, 1849, there had been admitted into it 816, and that 629 bad been discharged from it, so that the present number on the farm was 187. He added that, of the 629 discharged, 402 had been sent out as emi grants to the colonies, chiefly to New Brunswick, where there were at present 60 of them. During the last three months the admissions numbered 40, and the discharges 52. Of those discharged, 35 had been assisted to emi grate, 12 had been provided with employment (of whom one had turned out badly), and the other 5 either de serted or were sent away as incorrigible. Of those at. present in the institution, 150 were the nominees of Government, which paid for their maintenance ; the cost of which for the whole establishment was, during the last six months, with an average of 196 boys, 3,2321., irrespective of 5904 paid in emigration and apprentice fees. This report was unanimously adopted, and some routine business disposed of, when the proceedings ter minated with a vote of thanks to the chainalay. THIS )4 A Y S NEWS LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(7'HIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) IN RE W. G. BROWNE. This was a meeting for last examination. The bank rupt was described as a clothier, draper, &0., of Dart ford, Kent. The balance-sheet commenced July, 1852, and ended July, 1855, and showed—Capital at commencement, 50/. ; debtor to creditors, 7411. 12g. 3d.; profits, 6921. Credit—by good debts, 2121. ; stock, 3631. ; fixtures, 481. 10s. ; trade expenses, 3771. 9s. Bd. ; domestic do., 3991. 121. ; losses, 691. 10s. The bankrupt passed his last examination. IN RE PEMBLE BROWNE. This was a meeting for certificate. The bankrupt was described as of Carshalton, Kent, wine merchant, formerly trading with J. E. Browne, at Melbourne. Australia, as a general merchant, and lately with Chas. Sevant Walsh, 75, Grosvenor-street, wine merchant. The balance-sheet commenced July, 1854, and ended July, 1855, and showed—Debtor to creditors, 5761. 9s. 6d.; cash received from his wife, 1731. 19s. 11d.; to liabilities of J. and P. Browne of Australia, 7271. 13s. ld.; surplus Ist June, J 854, 863/. 165.; credLtor by pro perty surrendered to assignees, 2691. 19s. 3d.; debtor to J. and P. Browne carried to losses, 5131. 16s. (this is exclusive of proportion of profit and loss account) ; losses on sale of property under bankruptcy, 2301. is. 9J.; losses, Walsh and Browne, 1401. ss. ld.; liabilities, 7271. 13s. ld. The bankrupt came to this country from Melbourne about 12 months since, with the intention of returning. He alleges that the firm is solvent in London, notwith standing the London creditors have taken these proceed ings against them. Mr. Welborne, solicitor to the assignees, had no ob jection to the bankrupt passing his last examination. No opposition being offered by any of the creditors, His Honour allowed the bankrupt to pass his las.t examination. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DA L) BOW-STREET. THE WATCH ROBBERY IN THE STRAND.—This morning the two men named Joseph, Levy and George Purser, charged with being in possession of a portion of. the stolen property, were placed at the bar in accordance with the remand granted by Mr. Henry last Friday. The particulars of the case have been fully reported in The Sun. Inpector Mackenzie this morning informed the magistrate that, he had not yet succeeded in tracing any more of the property, neither had he been fortuna; enough to discover the principals in this ca , e ; hut , from information he had received, he thou g ht h e s h ou l d be able to succeed in both objects if time was granted him. Mr. Henry said he should, in order to allow the In spector every opportunity of dicovering the propert:, and also the principal parties in this case, remand the prisoners for another week, but he would take bail in the sum of 401. for each of the prisoners. Bail for George Purser was then tendered, and he was liberated. The other man, Levy, having bee❑ unable to pro- cure the required surety, was again locked up, GUILDHALL. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE. —I fr. John Carta•, jun.. brewer, of Clifton, near Bristol, recently a Own coun cilior of that ward, but lately become a bankrupt, ap pared before Alderman Humphrey, charged with per jury. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Parry for the defendant. Mr. Clarkson said he appeared on behalf of Messrs. Stuckey and Co., bankers, of Bristol, to prefer a charge of perjury or such other charge as the evidence would support. The perjury consisted of the defendant having made an affidavit in the course of proving the will of his elder brother, Mr. Edwin Carter, on the 21st February, 1847. The circumstances out of which the charge aros, were somewhat interesting and extraordinary. Some time since Mr. Edwin Carter, deceased, resided at Chepstow, and was possessed of a considerable amount of property, between 30,0001. and 40,0001. By , the will of the 12th January, 1846, he devised his pro perty after the payment of certain legacies to the defend ant and his brothers and sisters in fee, with the right of their disposing of the same. Upon this will the brothers and sisters of the defendant with him, raised soinewhere about 20,0001. on this property by way of mortgage, and afterwards by way of transfer and conveyance of their several shares ; the property came into the pos session of Messrs. Stuckey, and bankers, of Bristol. At the commencement of this year, the banking com pany proceeded to sell the property, and realised about 20,0001., on which the abstracts to the title were made out, when to the surprise of Messrs. Stuckey and Co„ notice was served on them by a gentleman named Toge, stating that a will of the deceased Edwin Carter, had been found, which rendered the will of the 12th of January, 1846, inoperative, the will recently found, which conveyed the property in question; granting an annuity of only 1001. per annum to the other members of the family, for their lives, the fee being in Jobs, Carter, jun ,and his children. This circumstance caused extraordinary sensation amongst those who lent the money on the property. Inquiries were made, and it turned out that one of Mr. Carter's sisters married a person of the n sme of Lasbury, and that about the latter end of the past month (August) Mr. Lasbury was sent for by one of the sisters residing with her father at Cid t tn. He went there and in the presence of Mr. John Carter, jun., the following extraordinary disclosure took place. Mr. Carter, sen., said that he considered himself a dying man and wished to disburthen his mind to Mr. Lasbury, and disclose to him what he ought to know. He then said that shortly after the funeral of his son Edwin, they met together, and two wills produced and read, when they thought (Mr. John Carter, jun., being then present), the will of 12th Jan., 1846, contained a more favourable disposition of the estate than the will of April, 1846, and that they there fore adopted the former. Now (Mr. Clarkson said), the family of Carter having obtained 20,0001. on that will, and the second being produced on the disposal of the property, to realise the mortgagees, the bankers had instituted these proceedings. Mr. Clarkson then called on Mr. Togo to produce the second will. Mr. Parry had no objection to produce the will, pro vided Mr. Clarkson undertook not to impound the docu ment. Without that promise was given, he should ob ject to the will and the other papers being produced. He was anxious to give every information possible. Mr. Clarkson ultimately g...ve the required promise, 1846, was produced f r o m h D a noTdchttoehresw,wi Commons,l l l olfwiltphr oJanuary,dauncdedte attestation proved. e . various documents connected with the proving the will, signed by Mr. J. Carter, jun., were put in, and proof gi yen by Dr. Bayford, surrogate, Doctors' Commons, that he administered the oath to the person signing his name John Carter, Pin. Evidence was then given of the proving the will, and that the signatures were in the handwriting of the de fendant. Mr. Lasbury, the brother-in-law was called, and gave evidence in support of Mr. Clarkson's opinion. The case was then adjourned for a week, the defendant b e ing admitted to hail. THE WRECK OF THE SHIP NASHWAUK.—ADELAIDE, S.A., May 28.—The Nashwauk, M'lntyre, from Liver pool to this port, which was ashore at Harnot's Creek, May 13, has gone to pieces, and the beach is strewed with wreck and cargo. WRECK OF THE SHIP AMANDA.—NORTH UIST, Aug. 28.—The Amanda, of and for Belfast, from Prussia, with wheat, was wrecked on ti e 25th of August, en the Point of Airdmile, west side of South UiA ; crew and some of the materials saved. TILE EMPEROR LOUIS NAPOLEON AND THE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE.--Mr. Henry Scott Riddell, of Teviothead, the weil-known author of "Scotland Yet," anal many other esteemed and popular national songs, was re cently, on the recommendation of a distinguished clergy. man of the Established Church, employed to transla'e the Gospel of Matthew into the Lowland Scotch. He was informed that the translation was for a foreigner of high distinction. Mr. Riddell finished his task a few weeks ago, and he has now been informed that his em ployer is no less a personage than the Emperor of the French. The Emperor, he has been given to understand, takes a curious interest in languages, and it would hp pear is especially interested in the older language of Caledonia, the country of the progenitors of his Empress. —Edinburgh Advertiser. ROSES AND ESSENCE OF ROSES.—Certain districts in Bulgaria are entirely planted with roses. In spring, these flowery glades seem to be the asylum of happiness, for, as soon, as the picking commences, the young girls, so meanly dressed, usually so apathetic, are transformed of t o t the makeinto sylphs!, and revel in the perfumed f ra grance of the roses. The essences sold in Germany a nd the west of Europe are obtained from Bulgaria ; but this branch of trade is daily lessening in importance . Chemistry, con rtion4ue-awllyateprr.og progressing , or ganic kingdom, just as it has boro wed the s cent of va nilla from pitcoal.—Caburn's Now lionaly. ngobtains no it longerfro m re the qul r eg detritus flo w e rs LATEST NEWS. DANTZIC, THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 8 r, m. The Vulture has arrived. She is not so seriously injured as was at first supposed. There is not any news of importance. The weather is very bad. The fleets are healthy. BERLIN, SEPT. 6. Intelligence from St. Petersburg has been re ceived. The Emperor has given permission to Count Nesselrode to travel. A great fire has broken out at Moscow, which lasted 24 hours. General de Berg, who commands at Sweaborg, has been decorated with the order of St. Andrew. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 5. An imperial ukase has been issued, abolishing, on the proposal of Prince Paskiewitch, the Field Commissariat of the army on active service ; Com missary General Annenkoff resuming his former charge. TRIESTE, SEPT. 5. Kadikoi is entirely destroyed by fire. MADRID, SEPT. 5. The subscriptions to the loan of 250 millions now amount to 115 millions. The reform of the tariff is being compiled. It is proposed to reduce the duty on cotton goods. The duty on paper and on wood is to be sup. pressed. AUSTRIA. A letter from Berlin, in the Dusseldorf gazette, states that Austria is intent upon negotiating a new loan of from 250 to 300 millions of florins (the florin is about 2fr. 50c.) Councillor de Hock is to pro i.ieed to Paris for that purpose, but many doubt the possibiltiy of Austria raising such an amount of money in France. According to a report which is pretty generally current here, an additional tr ea ty i s sa id to h ave been concluded last week between England and France, which, however, is rot likely to be pub lished, as it is understood to relate to eventualities which the war in the East may bring forth, aLd :ipon which an agreement has been come to by way of anticipation. Qui vivra verra. His Majesty the Emperor left his summer resi dence of Laxeuburg for Ischl this morning. Reports from Montenegro inform us of the fruit less efforts made by the French Consul at Scutari to bring about a . good understanding between the IVlontenegrians and the Sultan. The discontent and distractions of the unfortu nate kingdom of the Two Sicilies is now gaining a very public i iterest. The more so, indeed, as se veral great European countries are likely to take part in the question, and are most certainly not over peacefully disposed towards the present King. It may he of some interest to your readers to learn that the Neapolitan forces consist of 88 battalions of infantry, 36 squadrons of cavalry, 17 batteries, and 43 ships of war, of which 29 are large steamers. This would make a total of nearly 80,000 men. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLES, Sept. 4.—The steamers and sailing transports which so lately crowded the port of the Joliette have taken their departure for the Crimea, laden with troops and military stores, with the exception of the City of Baltimore (which is ready for sea, but which is waiting for the clip per the Great Republic, to be laden with shot. and shells, that she may tow . her to Kamiesh), the Napoleon 111., Waterwitch, the French steamers Sully, Egyptien, Prophete, the American - steamer William Penn, the Sardinian steamer Count de Cavour, and the sailing transports Great Republic, Queen of Clippers, Astoria, Sala din, and Harmonie. The Prophete arrived las t evening from Constantinople, which she left on the 22d of last month, with 60 invalids. The British steamer European sailed last evening, having on board 1,100 men, detachments from the 15th, 32d, 80th, and. 86th regiments of the line, and of the sth, 6th, and 19th battalions of Chasseurs of Vincennes. She towed the clipper Titan, carrying 1,000 men of the 6th, 42d, 50th, 57th, and 62d Regts. The soldiers on deck formed as compact a mass as bees in a hive. The steam-packet Carmel likewise sailed last even ing for Constantinople, taking the mails and 300 of the 10th Chasseurs of Vincennes. The men jumped on board with as much élan as if they were about to advance to the assault of the Malakhoff. Several Sisters of Charity likewise sailed in the Carmel. The quay of the Joliette is to-day encumbered with bombshells of all sizes, which are conveyed there in carts more quickly than they can be received on hoard the transports in the dock. I observe, like wise, that a vast number of shovels are being shipped for the army in the Crimea, made up iLt cases of 25 each. General Rostolan, commander of the forces, re viewed on Sunday the troops arrived here for em barkation, consisting of detachments from the Ist, 14'h, 34th, 44th, 66th, 69th, 70th, and 89th Regi ments of infantry, and sth, 6th, 10th, and 19th battalions of (Masseurs of Vincennes. The men were accoutred in heavy marching order, and ap peared to be all well calculated for the service for which they are intended. After the inspection General Rostolan proceeded to visit Abd-el-Kader, who arrived here from Constantinople by the Thabor on Saturday. This celebrated Arab chief is much changed in appearance since I saw him at the grand review in the Plain of Satory, com manded by Marshal Magnan. He is now broken in health, and has suffered so much from violent pains since his arrival here that he was not able to continue his journey to Paris until yesterday morning. Among the passengers arrived from the East within the last few days is a young man, a native of Marseilles, who commanded a brig freighted by Government to convey stores to Kamiesh. The brig was wrecked about three months since near Odessa. The crew were captured by the Russians, and the captain remained in that town on parole until ho was lately exchanged. He gives a most lamentable account of the state of distress to which all classes in that once flourishing town are now reduced. Many hitherto opulent families, he says, are literally starving. The inhabitants are, more over, living in constant apprehension of being bombarded by the Allied fleets. The town is mined, he adds, and the Russian commander has orders to destroy it rather than permit it to be oc cupied by the Allies. There have been several sudden deaths in Mar seilles within the last week. Among others, Mr. Leigh, from Liverpool, who died after a very few hours' indisposition, though assisted by the best medical advice. His remains were interred in the Protestant cemetery. RUSSIA. The Invalide Russe publiEles the following ex tracts from Prince Clortschakoff's diary of the siege from the 14th to the 18th of August "The fire of the e.emy befere Sebastopol, from the 2d to the 6th (14th-18th) of August, wh ch was very heavy at times, became almost inccastant after nightfall. The besiegers throw in a great quantity of hollow shells against the works of the town. "On the 4th (16th) the fire against the town was slack. " On the sth (17th), at 4.30 a.m., the enemy opened a new cannona,43 and bombardment. They had sue in placing a lar ge nu m b er o f ceeded, for this object , mortars in their nearest trenches. The fire of the be siegers was directed against the Karabelnaia and the works which defend that part of the town. ,6 On our side, despite the violence of this bombard ment, the artillery of the town replied with c instant success, and with no less ener g y th a n th a t o f th e enem y, and, by its well-directed fire, silenced on the sth (17th) some of their batteries, and destroyed the embrasures of others. The serious damage done to our fortifications was repaired by u s as well as possible, although the in cessant fire at short range of the besiegers considerably delays the syorks. "our leases, which were moderate during the first three days, were considerable on the sth (17th)." The Invalide publishes the following details : "Aug. 2 (14th).—The war of mines is carried on in front of Bastion No. 4. We could hear the enemy's workmen. The explosion of a counter mine stopped them. To-day the line of defence of Sebastopol was strengthened by two new batteries. The enemy con tinued to fortify Quarantine 11,y, increased the thick ness and height of the defences of his advanced trenches, and opened two embrasures in the old Volhynia re doubt. • "Aug. 3 (16tia).-. l iVe fired three smoke balls (cconou: fiets) in front of Bastion No 4, whic , ) f. r a tine inter rupted the ens nIN 's T fired tw. n1 ; "" 5, which did us no harm. At ,?.3) p.m, tree lyta ' l, th bots approached Battfly No. 10, within the distal-ice of 900 sagenes, and fired shells. The besieLerssucceed td opening ten embrasures in taeir lower trench in front of the old Kamschatka Redoubt against the Korniloff Bastion. " Aug. 4 (16th).—The enemy succeeded in slightly damaging one of our batteries by an explosion. " Aug. 5 (17th), 4.30 a.m.—As observed already, the enemy commenced a violent bombardment, to which or batteries replied with similar vigour. This terrible fill was kept u p for five consecutive hours, after Which eonsiderab!y s aer. coed. Tire firr of the besie g ers wF directed agai ns t Bast No. 3, the Kornileff Bastion? the three intermediate 13astions, Bastion No. 2 , and the left half of th e secon d sect i on o f th e line of defence. 111 the evening the enemy for a moment occupied our ad vanced lodgments before Bastion No. 2, but Lieutenant Loukaschevitch, in comma ~d o f that portion cf onr and au m of e dit ours former sec p s secret posts,,iti or)s . drove them out, and our fine re a t "Aug. 6 (18tb).—Th e b om b ar d men t was renewe d daybreak with great vigour." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have l e : rived.. They announce that the once famou s the raldo is about to re-appear. The committee of o f t Junta on tariffs, specially charged to make reP c s on cotton tissues, had held several deliberatwiti; It is said that the Minister of Finance intends present a measure to the Cortes for the defin, l Z e i r regulation of the debt immediately a fter 0 . meeting.. A letter of the Ist says that the der das crate party in Galicia had held a meeting st C °l i ; eo de Reis, which was attended by several &Pl o t of . the Cortes, for the purpose of discussing. if 01 . line of policy it is to follow under existing cites stances, and especially in the event of the v, de la Victoria quitting the government. in: tr y provinces, and especially in Valen c ia and -9 8 madu ra, the democratic party has lately disrairog considerable activity. The governm e nt is ke e P o d a strict watch on the movements of the party' the is determined to act energetically aga inst it, J rn " a ll event of its being guilty of any illegality. A— ari a Carlist band has appeared near Tarragon , - the Marshal O'Donnell's brigade, which was 011 , 10 0 march from Burgos to Madrid, has received 0 to occupy Medina Cceli, an imp or t an t s trategi c ' sition in Aragon. THE WEST INDIA IVIAILS' SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT' 6. The Royal Mail Compahy's steam-ship A t : o3 --' , CaptainWoulley, arrived this morning at 1.3- n -- ja from the West Indies, with the usual tofulty charge of Lieutenant C. Pearson, R.N., Adul' agent. On her homeward voyage the Atrato experle strong head winds and much swell. The latest dates broualit by the Atrato a a g e d Grey Town, August 4 ; Colon, 8 ; Demerara : cis , Carthagena, 10 ; Jamaica, 11 ; Trinidad, Go ° l s ; and Jecmel, 12 ; Porto Rico, 14 ; Barbadoes' and St. Thomas, 22. ftS ll The following is the list of passen ge rs, an-, d v i e s whence :—Hon. Judge Farquha rson , MrS• and child, Mt. and Mrs. Hesse, Mr. T. 13 . ` l ,,`, c a; Mr. E. J. Davis, and Dr.. Harvey, f r om Jag l " T. Sir H. Fletcher, Bart., Grenadier Guards, ..„ I "i. s . N. Askins, and Mr. Irish, from Barbadoes 2l-Le i j itr Cloke and Beresford, from St. Vinc e nt ; nington, from Nevis ; Captain Cobb, Howard, Weiss, Blasy, &c., from Colon ; x e- „ o s, De Nully Leseur, Kolff, J. Barr, Cayrol, Sespes, Roubeau, and Ferrandon, Miss Dursf m a &c., from St. Thomas ; s i x i nva lid e d s eamen' ..` t i, her Majesty's ships ; and four distressed J 3rl seamen—total 58. „ gala The Atrato brings on f re i g ht $283,373 " - diet, dust and bars, $34,877 pl a ti na , $213,365 'l4OO 705 serons of cochineal, 43 serons of jalalh ee 1.0 pearls, 23 tierces o f co ff ee , 109 b arre l s of coff s ' o f , bags of cocoa, 12 pack ages o f b eesw ax, 9 ° 9 '. s o ll, succades, 76 cases o f c i gars , 4 cases o f torto ls co w 37 bales of sarsaparilla, and a genera l cargo' sisting of 42 p ac k ages . T0ta1,2,806 paekag e tbie The informati on re sp ec ti ng h er Majest9l s - a nd of war, at the various West India Wart:tad naval stations, at the date of the most re c al-- - vice (August 11) is as follows :—At port thßlatter the termagant, Imaum, and Eurydice; arrived on the 9th from Havana, and Nra' s .r, The Boscawen, Argus, and Espiegle, at SO" •t o re' Wolverine sailed on the 9th for Greytow9 the lieve the Buzzard. The Mariner, at Grenau,,)jr Vestal, at Antigua ; the Arab and Daring 5 ' • vana ; the Medea, at St. Domingo ; th e Scohr at Bermuda. ere The stations of the Company's steam-ships w n ; as follow :—The Teviot, Capt. Moir, Spanish the Clyde, Capt. Heenan, Spanish Main ; the .vf e , went, Capt. Reeks, Gulf of Mexico ; the Of t , Capt. Hole at Grenada, broken down ; the Pr) ° ,, - t, Capt. Bridges, at Belize. Th e T ama r, v'thi Parker, arrived with the mails of the 2d a f ro 16th, and is gone to Windward Islands. : 2 42a Wye, Capt. Powell, had not arrived on the from the Gulf of Mexico. he f ir The Atrato spoke the following ships on t sc ith turn voyage :—Sept. 1, exchanged colours 010 ship Indian Queen, from Barbadoes to Cork ;don, the barque Caroni, from Trinidad to 1-4° 1 2 40 6 Sept. 2, exchanged colours with the French ll`j b ,,l- Mariaparry, from Guadaloupe, and the Charles d loner, outward bound. Sept. 3, e xcbartg e Lcu sa lours with the American ship Brewster, westward. }, was f t)r The Atrato waited seven days at St. Ta° , s OO, the Wye, with the mails from Mexico and Oa' but she did not arrive. frSa The royal mail ship Eagle, witma ils 'o -0 Demerara and Trinidad broke down, and P ut for Grenada, and there remains. The mails we re ' l O O warded by a hired vessel. The chief engin eer in a very precarious state from yellow feve r ' o ooo Yellow fever has broken out among the . 06 0 at Barbadoes. Two officers, of the 69th Rel eo so (Lieutenants Allen and Dorington), and Lie ti n f the Cave, Ist West India Regiment, eight men Royal Artillery, and eight men of the 6 9 tu or r81' ment, have died, as also the son of Capt. 3 l tos val barrack master. The troops are sent out of cot e and are in camp. The mails from Barbal o ice sent on by a hired vessel—those from N is' and Guadaloupt, by a French war-steame r ,'. u t fon t Yellow fever was better at St. Thomas', ", catcall th e cases of small-pox were reported on the aa-Y sailing of the Atrato. 4 1/ From Jamaica we have the story, so r e p ine ro ve told, of trade dull and no prospect of an 40 ment. Mining alone seems favourable. tract the following mining report : fr el; " We are gratified to learn that the repolo' n fi o oPi l l, ing-cross, the property of the Wheal Jai:o3feet w o , age° continue exceedingly favourable. The Iniri i° D hr wider date the 27th July, reports as follows :..,giag t " The lode in the bottom of the Winze, ,° 1 1, 5 414: t low bamboo level, is about four feet wide, uvo e c r b o f u present very trifling, with a good saving bran W eyer' inches thick on the foot-wall. The ground, 11° o ide, still very ha n rd for si he lode is upwards of four fe tp et ; 1, 3 15; with two rich veins of ore on the hanging and f° „., o d, .0 5 the remainder of the lode is orey throughout; will,go.P ing from present appearances, I expect the , 1 7, 0 " ore r only increase in width, but become slue' i f the fitable, on , : i. " In adit No. 2 we are nt present carril: r ge 10 , 4 0 hanging wall-side of the lode, which is too r. jo 0 7, chide in one end. The present end, hoWeY,:d te, s to throughout, and on that account we _are olteobortiLfs nearly all of the lode that is taken. I intel? 4 .01 1 VZ drive a cross-cut in the end, to prove the be l °', B richest:oe of the lode, which at present appears to r w itb ° " Adit No. 3 remains as last report ° 0 0 good spots of ore throughout. ut. °ice • int ° ec gln the 50 fathom (Williams's) cross -e 3 f e et e , intersection of the lode, we have driven 2 t : to 4 i°_ c .,ido it. It consists at present of a branch from 0re, 1104 thick, composed of native and yellow noPP e f l a ke!' 0 of iron, spars, &c., in a rich body of pris°'_ O s decomposed porphyry, with a slight under a y' .10 .0 • whole, as far as we have got into the lode I r tes t consider it highly promising. e the N — five " P. S. Since writing the above, I Be v . o t cut s u 10 pleasure in informing you that we ba y° J b e s tb ic / PO branch of yellow ore from three to four Irl ti d e d 01 f ott William's cross•cut, and which has far exef!..ordieg sanguine expectations. I lose no time in Itw herewith some samples.'" COMhitERCIAt INTELLIGENCE' JAMAICA MARKETS. „es., oral In the absence of anything like active busk'cut g ee not have but few remarks to make. Our 11 hat °olio: is bare of provisions, but it is just as ifts", o l i t tle it , 1 . 1 be so, for the demand is small, and there . ? eou o iti• tion on the part of sellers to parcel out .. tb_e, io rtei stocks are kept down, and business confined t° i s . o m u a t t e satisfactorilychannels, uere to - if °l3l oU ' r h m o as has:_ ipo us• _„ 1:0 0 undated with cargo after cargo, p a e rk th e a t t i t o o re l aeo the case, the result to all parties must b e i f: el , to n o r. ALEWIVES (duty, 2e, per barrel) —Are s ;Fria into active demand for the country, as bee °' rings will not bear carriage. BUTTER (duty, 9s. per cwt.) New— obaucitite: bao affairs at 15d. Another time 18d. would r _. ste of a given for this article, but in the present 0. it 15d. is a top price. BEEF (duty, 10s. worth 565. per halfLarrel. ) -Is wort h 18°. no P rice per ga on can qu ote BRANDY (duty, 68-per barrel of 200 lbs.)--'s°3ltil'll We he BREAD (duty, 6s. lets the CORNMEAL this article. ty, 1s per barrel) Tbe per cwt.) CORNMEAL (du • • ket must he d per box, 5611)04 OW° CANDLES (duty, b sold according, to quality._ 71 151 d to 16d. British Colo to 9d. Composition, . .. 4 4fit °Minn DpVa iin,Ceiogurrr rohi(dbuitteyd,)4l.litel;tleew_t. I ® 1 COM/ 88 41