The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-18 00:00:00

6.m. with k.scen• ; ; Fe n, for 'ork. lanus, 44,4a1• 310 14 1 _4 I' 11A RKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. UiTi, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool cotton market yesterday closed with a tame feeling, and prices of Americans and Surats were 1-16 d. per lb. dearer than last week. The sales were 6,000 bales (1,200 for export, and 300 on speculation), comprising 140 Pernam and Maranham at 6d. to 7d. ;20 Bahia at 5-id. ; 200 Egyptian at sad. to 7d. ; 700 Surat at 3id. to sd. ; and 100 Sea Islands at 11d. to 3s. per lb. The Rail way Share Market was buoyant, closing at a marked advance on Tuesday's quotations. From Hungary we learn that the State contains 11,443,000 acres of arable land, and that last year's yield of corn amounted to 80,100,000 bushels. The Federal Swiss Government has just prepared a bill, the effect of which will be .to compel those companies to whom railways in Switzerland have been conceded to have permanent boards of direction resident in the Helvetic ter ritory. From France the letters mention that the restrictive measures adopted by the Bank of France are beginning to be felt in all branches of trade. Manufacturers have limited their purchases of the raw material, and the retail trade in Paris is by no means so flourishing as it was a short time since. It is estimated that the deficiency of corn would amount to about 12 to 12i per cent. for the whole of the country, as compared with the average of former years. If this is correct, it is stated that 10,000,000 hecto litres will have to be obtained from abroad. The new tax upon meat went into operation on the 16th inst. The favourable state of affairs on the Paris Bourse noticed by us at the close of Saturday's transactions, and the business done on Monday has not been maintained by Tuesday's reports. On that day the 3 per Cents. for December account fell from 65 30 to 65. At the latter price many purchasers came forward and caused a reaction, and the Rentes were firm at the close, when they were quoted at from 65 15 to 65 20. The quota tions for money of the same stock likewise expe rienced a fall of 35 centimes from their opening price at 64fr. 85c. The 4i per Cents. for Dec. ac count fell from 90f. 50c. to 90f. 25c. The supply of grain in the Paris markets is much restrained by the demand for good qualities ; 250 hectolitres met with a rapid sale at firm pi ices. A decree has been published in the Woniteur, pro longing the interdict which prohibits the expor tation of grain (wheat and barley) from the colony of Algeria to foreign countries until the 31st December, 1856. The Spanish Minister of Finance, M. Britt], we learn by telegraphic despatch from Madrid, remains at his post under the new Administration. It is also mentioned that the Government have demanded of the Cortes an authorisation to grant a loan of 66,000,000 reals to the " Ebro Company," for the purpose of opening up the navigation of the river of that name. Advices from Vienna announce a general decline on the public stocks. The Five per Cent. Funds had fallen from 74. k to 74g, and the National Loan from 781 to 78g. The rate of Exchange on Lon don continued at 1158 ; on Paris it had fallen from 1311 to 131. With reference to a communication in another part of this day's impression, from Messrs. Cunard, Brett, and Austen, of Leadenhall-street, London, and York-buildings, Liverpool, drr.wing our atten tion to a notification, in our Money Article of Tuesday, of the dissolution of the partnership formerly carried on in Liverpool under the title of Cunard, Munn, and Co., and now being carried on by Munn and Co., we beg to state that we simply copied the notice from the circular sent us by the latter firm. The Tyne, West India mail packet, has been telegraphed off Southampton, with 548,000 dols. English Securities at the commencement of busi ness this morning ruled steady, and owing to the intelligence of the bombardment of Kinburn, Con sols advanced to 871 and 87j for money and ac count. There were some real purchases also which gave support, but the speculators generally pre ferred awaiting the result of the Bank parlour meeting, and operated cautiously. As soon as the discount rate was raised the market became very heavy, and Consols receded to 87.1 and 881 for money, and to 87q and 88i for account. New Three per Cents. are 871 to 871, and the Reduced are still at 733. discount. India Stock has risen to 228, and Bank Stock is steady at 207 to 209. Except in Turkish Securities, the dealings in the Foreign market are comparatively of an insignifi cant character. The 6 per Cents., after being 791 to 80, rose to 80k, but have since been de pressed to 79a. The New Scrip has been 31 to 3i discount. Mexican Stock, without the dividend, is at 20. Equador Bonds are 4f, Chilian 3 per Cents. 66, and Buenas Ayres 54. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, Di 201 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto Three per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 371 to 381 ; ditto Three per Cents., 19k to A ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 4,} ; ditto Passive, 41 to 5. Tl►e last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as follow : 1855. Great Western South-Western Brighton 16,559 Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 20.293 North-Eastern North-Western 1854. £24,226 13,910 15,414 28,542 20,018 11,578 22,113 19,289 33,898 56,597 English Railway Shales have become decidedly flatter since the heaviness in the funds. The prin cipal dealings are in the Great Western, Lanca shire and Yorkshire, and Midland. The foreign lines being very quiet do not show much variation. The Great Western of Canada are at full prices. United Mexican Mining Shares are heavy, but in the Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there is no movement of importance. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSIITG PF.ICFS. (From the Oficial ME.) Br nose done Bank Stock ... .. . 3 per cent.. Reduced Annuities 864 i 3 per Cent Consols Annuities W 3 Naw 3 per Cent. Annuities ~ B 7i wt Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan.. 1880 -16 i i Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 34 India Stock Ddis Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 1 p 5 d Consols ;or Account, Bth November Bgiiiiii E [chequer Bills, 2ed 1 2d. £lOOO 2500 Small •_ . 6 7 3 I 73 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent..., 98i I Ditto 1859, „ ..98i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS This Day. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Ditto New, 1852, Vi per Cent .... 924 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto for the Account . ................. 51 Chaim Bonds, 6 per Cont. •• ••••••'•"' 100 Ditto 3 per Cent. Bquador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred hircican 3 per bent. • Ditto for the account Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto for tho account l9i Turk% ki Bonds, 6 per cent 79,! Ditto for the account. BO 79 80A 79i I Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 3l 3 d Dividends on toe above payable in t,on iu; . THREE O'CLOC.E. 67i 871 ... .. 20 10i z d Consols Ditto fol. the oeonnt Bth Nov. The Governor and the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ye-terday at his official residence in Downing street. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Stuchbery, Hunt, Brown, Stone, *Gibbing, and the Rev. G. Phillimore, J.P., Guardians of the Wycombe Union, and Mr. J. Harman, the Clerk of the Union, had an interview yes terday with the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, the Presi dent of the Poor law Board, at the office in Whitehall, on the siubject of the Bledlow Workhouse School. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. George and Bonsor, bad an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, on the suoject of pauper burials in the parish of Bt. Anne, Bobo. TAR SON, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18 1855. Mr. Yardley—No, sir, you will not ; I will hear you at the proper time. SHARE MARKETS. " t 4 4.1 C1 M r e" U 111 t fiet 4P , -40 (THIS DAY.) The depositions having been taken, the prisoner said he was nearly strangled by the two officers ; but they denied that any more violence was used than was neces sary to secure the most desperate ruffiau they h'd ever encountered. They also stated that the prisoner had been twice convicted before, and was a returned transport. RAILWAYS. Closing Price this day. The prisoner was then fully committed for trial. SOUTH WARR. COIVLSIPMAL OP AN OLD SHOP-LIFTER. Mary Hans merstone, an elderly female, well known to the police as a notorious shop-lifter, was brought up for final exa mination, charged with stealing a pair of goloshes from the shop of Mr. Rogers, boot and shoemaker, Newing,. tonlm.tuseway. Rita in Thomson, shopman to the prosecutor, said that about nine o'clock on Tuesday evening the prisoner er.me into his master's shop, and wished to look at some ►shoes. They were shown to her, and near where she stood were a quantity of various sized goloshes in a box. The prisoner remained some minutes in the shop, and while witness was attending to another customer she hurried out. He immediately suspected that something was wrong, and on looking in the box he missed a pair of goloshes. He then ran into the street and stopped the prisoner as she was about to turn up Devomlice street. When be asked her to return to the shop with him, she exclaimed "What shop ?" Wituess told her " Mr. Rogers's, where she bad just visited and stolen a pair of goloshes." She indignantly replied that she had never been there, and attempted to run away. He, how ever, secured hold of her, when the pair of goloshes fell from under her shawl. A constable fortunately came up at the time, when he gave her into custody. A police-constable of the M division said that he was on duty on Newington-causeway on Tuesday night when lie heard some one call out "Police" in Devonshire street. He immediately proceeded to the spot, and saw the prisoner struggling to get away from the last wit ness, who told him he had stolen a pair of goloshes from his master's shop, and he 'should give her into custody. He then took her to the station-house, when she acknow ledged taking the goloshes. The prisoner denied having said so. As for the go loshes a female gave them to her in the street, and she was going to take them home when the young man called her and gave her into custody. Thomson said that the prisoner came into the shop, and while ho was attending to another customer she must have taken the goloshes from the box. Mr. A'Beckett told her the evidence was rather con clusive against her. Did she prefer pleading before him or going to the session: to be tried ? The prisoner rather reluctantly replied that she did not want to go to the sessions. She would rather be dealt with by his worship. Mr. A'Beckett—Are you guilty or not? The prisoner said she was guilty The maystrate then dealt with her under the new Criminal Justice Act by sentencing her to three months' hard labour in Wandsworth House of Correction. SPORTING NOTES. WAIFS FROM WARWICK. Book-makers were pursued to Warwick by their old luck. The series of reverses which they experienced at Newmarket was continued on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the " good turn" which fortune gave them for the Steeplechase sca , cely counterbalanced their previous heavy los , ses. The fielders, indeed, became dispirited, and conducted their operations with little of their wonted activity. And no wonder, for particular races were re duced to "certainties." Except with reference to the principal events seldom more than one animal was backed, and that one animal was the winner. Owners of horses ought really to patronise Mr, Merry for the desire which be evinces to accommodate them, and if they only bide their time and patiently wait their turn he will mete out even-handed justice to them. Still he should give book-makers a chance, for if many handicaps are framed on the same principle with those at Warwick speculation will be stopped en tirely, and the race of book-makers will be exterminated. " That boy Fordham" was again in luck, and I have no hesitation in stating that he afforded two displays of horsemaLship never surpassed by the oldest and cleverest jockey. He won the Warwick Handicap on Poodle by fairly out-riding the lad on Pole Star, who certainly ought to have pulled through. Indeed Poodle's success was mainly attributable to the inability of Little Sncwden to "set to" on Pole Star, and to the over-4tience of "Job" on Mr. Sykes. Job waited too long ;he did not " call upon" Mr. Sykes until opposite the stand, and although the horse made a determined effort, yet he never quite got up, and was beaten by a short head only. People were surprised that Wells did not have the mount on Mr. Sykes, and the cause of his being taken off is attributable to a very pretty quarrel which has oc curred between him and Mr. J. Dawson. It is said that Wells gave offence by the style in which he won the handicap at Newmarket on Thursday ; now, how ever, the Mr. Sykes party doubtless regret that a si milar cause for offence was not afforded them at 'War wick. Foraam's second admirable bit of riding was yesterday on Sauve-qui-peut f.)r a Handicap Plate. At the distance he seemed quite beaten, and Noisette ap- 18 neared to be winning easily, but by dint of sheer deter- i v ruination and hard riding, Fordham landed Sauve-qui- 20 pent the winner by a head. At this display the ring 20 20 was dumbfounded. 20 The game which was played with Usurer on Tuesday 20 was most discreditable, and Kendall must have a cure 1(k) of not repeating his feats of strengths too frequently before members of the Jockey Club. Poodle " bad enough of it" on Tuesday, for he ran too severe races 10 0 and won both of them. Isaac Day has certainly worked too wonders with Lord Chfilen's horses. - To refer to the " certainties" of the meeting is now ri useless. The Handicap Plate on Tuesday was a good 6 specimen of Mr. Merry's accommodating spirit, Noisette 5 being weighted on such easy t,rnis as to enable her to 20 win with nearly a stone to spare. 4 The steeplechase season was commenced satisfac torily enough; the " grand open" brought out a large field, afforded a " squ ire race," as. I was won by an e uti Cq " outsider." The movements with reference to to the Cambridge- 100 shire have been somewhat significant. Still speculation isg has been very inactive, book-makers evidently letting " I dare not wait upon I would," like the poor cat 20i, th' adage. Flatterer has been brought into prominent notice, and his party seem in earnest. That Flatterer is 20 an animal of superior racing merit is incontestiblo, and Zu surely Flatterer at 7st 41b must have as good a chance as 20 Scberz had last year at 7st 71b. He will, however, have to r o give Crown Pigeon 241b5., a task somewhat difficult to ac- accomplish. Some curiosity exists relative to the intended 11 of Mr Stanley's horses, and despite Veteran's steadiness z° in the market people entertain expectations that Cala- 20 mus will after all be the trusted representative of the 16 stable. Veteran is certainly " turned loose ;" but I 2 zo deem him slow and not very sure. Pole Star is rising, and may shine with some lustre. Her owner has had a 10 long run of ill luck, and fortune may at last reward him 20 40 for his "pluckiness." Vandyke—not the Vandyke that 20 ran at Warwick—pleases the Newmarket touts im- 20 mensely ; but they are disinclined to place confidence in 20 anything . except Crown Pigeon. Flacrow's party are 10 " fond," and have engaged Mundy ; but they have re- 20 fused the offer to send the horse to Hambleton to be 22 tried. I shall take an early opportunity of discussing 4 the comparative chances for the Cambridgeshire. 20 This evening the "Mr. Sykes Dinner" will take place V II at the Victoria Club. It is likely to be very numerously attended by the principal metropolitan and provincial io turfites. 20 I am glad to have it in my power to contradict the absurd report that Harry Bell, the steeplechase jockey, had entered the army as riding-master, and had subse quently committed suicide. I met him in the streets only this day, and he certainly looks too jolly for a "ghost." He assured me he had no intention of either going off the turf or being placed under it. October 18. A FRESH MAN. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—We had a slow sale for each kind of meat, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s Gd; Mutton, 3s 63 to 4 , 61 ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Oct. 17.—We were fairly supplied with each kind of fat stock to-day, and the trade ruled steady, at very full prices. Beef. from 3s 6d to 4s 10d • Mutton, 36 8d to 5s ; Veal, 4s Od to 43 10d ; Perk, 3s 10.1 to 4s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offals. ROMFORD, Oct. 17.—Beasts sold freely, on higher terms. Otherwise, the 'ratio ruled eternity. at extreme rates. Beef, from 3s 6ii to 5s Od ; kutton, 3s 6d to 5s 0i1; Veal, 41 Od to 531, ; Pork, 3s rd to 53 Od per 81bs. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 2.. is to 28s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 30s to 6? 04 cloves ditto, ]ss to 6/ 103; and straw, 8s Od to 11 12s Od per A fair average supply and a sluggish demand. eIIMBERLAND.—Moadow hay, 3/ 12s t,o 6l Gg ; clove! do., ai 15s to 6/ 104 ; and straw, 1; 84 to 1/ 12s per load. Both hay and straw were tolerably firm. WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, ;it 10s to 6' 03 ; clover do., Si 15s to 6/ 108 • a nd straw, 7s to 1/ Us per load. Trade rather dul l, . LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE PETER THOMPSON. This was an adjourned last examination. The bank rupt was described as of Birchin-lane, commission agent. The amended balance-sheet, which commenced Janu ary, 1853, and ended June, 1854, showed debtor to ere ditniA unsecured, 6,6401. 104. 4d. ; ditto secured, 4,0531. 17s. 3d ; profits, 2581. 12s. 2d ; 4,3951. 14s. 4d. Creditor by doubtful debts, 3891. 144. 9d. ; cost of consignments not yet realised, 9311. 19s. 01. ; consignments in hands of creditors cost 3,9521. 13s. 10d. ; amount paid on account of his liabi lity for Arton, 1,8181. 9s. 10d. Charges, 5661. 4s. ld ; liabilities, 4,3951. 14s. 4d ; domestic and personal ex penses, 928/. 144. 6d. ; interest, 2801. 13s. ld. ; law charges, 4861. 16s. ; losses, 8991. 7s. 9d. ; deficiency, 6391. ls. lid. Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, said the examina tion was adjourned on the former occasion from the un satisfactory nature of the accounts. The assignees were not now sat6fied relative to certain consignments to, Australis, and therefore asked for another adjourt. ment sine die, with protection but for 3 months. The bankrupt's solicitor having assented to this course, the examination was adjourned accordingly. IN RE WILLIAM BENNETT. This was a meeting for last examination. The bank rupt was described as of Little Worley, Essex, miller. The balance-sheet commenced March, 1853, and ended 1855, and showed debtors to creditors, unsecured, 1211. Bs. ; ditto, secured, 1601. ; profits, 2141. 118.9 d. ; creditor, by property, 51. 10s. 6d. ; trade expenses, 1841. 3s. ; house and personal ditto, 1751. 3s. ; losses, 301. ; deficiency, 1031. ls. 10d. _ _ _ The assignees, considering the bankrupt had under rated the value of his property, asked for an adjourn ment to allow him to amend his balance-sheet. The examination was accordingly adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.) GUILDHALL. POCKET-PICKING.—George Smith, a notorious charac ter, was charged before Alderman Sir J. Musgrove with pocket-picking. . Bassett, one of the City detectives, stated that he watched the prisoner yesterday morning for two hours, and saw him attempt to pick the pockets of several gen tlemen. He afterwards apprehended him near the Punch. office, in Fleet-street, and on searching him at the po lice station he found on► him two silk pocket•handker chiefs, a pocket-book, containing a diary, and a railway and Crystal Palace season ticket. Mr. Andrew Ruirk, residing at Lewisham, and car rying on business as a merchant, in Fenchurch street, identified the pocket-book and the railway season ticket as his—he believed the Crystal Palace ticket was his, although he had not signed it nor taken its number. H e had the book and tickets in his pocket yesterday, and lost them between one and three o'clock. Springate, the gaoler, said the prisoner had been there three times before on similar charges. On the last occa ion he bad three months, and promised to give up his evil practices. Sir J. Musgrove sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour for the unlawful possession of the property. MAR YLEBONE. ATTEMPT BY A MARRIED WOMAN TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S-CANAL—Rebecca Beckhouse, a mar ried respectable female, dressed in mourning, was brought before Mr. Long, charged with having attempted to throw herself into the Regent's-canal, R :gent's-park . Police-constable Everett, 266 S, said that about two o'clock that morning he was on duty, near the York and Albany, when he saw the defendant running very fast towards the bridge which passes over the Regent's canal. As she seemed to be in a state of great excite ment be followed her. Upon the defendant reaching the bridge she ascended the railings of it. Witness and a civilian rushed towards her, and laid hold of her clothes, which prevented her from effecting her object. When on the pavement, in answer to witness, who asked her why she attempted to drown herself, she re plied that she was unhappy. He told her that she must go with him to the station-house. Mr. Long (to defendant)—What have you to say film yourself Defendant—l will never attempt such a thing again. Mr. Long—l must send you to the House of Deten tion for a week. Two of the defendant's daughters, who were in deep distress of mind, urged that she might be allowed to go with them. They said they would take care of her. Mr. Long—No, I cannot trust her. Defendant was then removed from the court. DZSERTION.—Thomas More, a painter, was brought up on a warrant, charged with deserting his wife and 2 children, leaving them chargeable to the parish of St. Ma-ylebene. Mr. Tubbs, overseer of the parish, at tended on the part of the guardians. The wife stat?d that she had been married about eight vears to the defendant. He had left her with two children, one two and the other five years of age. Yesterday morning she was compelled to apply to the parish for relief, when she was immediately supplied with 41bs of bread and 2113 s of meat. Mr. Long (to defendant) —Why do you not support your wife ? Defendant—l bavo supported her as long as I was able. I sent her some money by my brother. Complainant said that she had not received any money from her husband since he eft her. He went away on Tuesday fortnight, and she had only seen him once since, which was last Saturday evening. Mr. Long—ls he in work ? Complainant—He can have employment if he likes to go to it, sir. Mr. Tubbs said the fact was that the defendant was too fond of spending his time and money at public houses. When he was apprehended it was at a public house. Race, an officer attached to the workhouse, stated that he went to several public•houses in search of the defendant, and at last found him drinking with some of his companions in front of the bar of the Red Lion, Edgware-road, where he took him into custody. He (defendant) said that if he had been aware that his wife would have applied for a warrant, he would have given the parish some trouble to find him. Mr. Tubbs consented to let the warrant stand over for a month, and The defendant promised to support his family. The warrant stood thus adjourned. THAMES. ROBBERY ON TOWEHHILL.—A DESPERATE THIEF. —James Macarthy, a morose-looking man, about 36 years of age, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with a robbery on Tower-bill. _ Thomas Hayton, a City police-constable, stated that he saw the prisoner in the rear of some people crowding around a "menagerie" on Tower-hill, and he observed him try the pockets of several individuals, and at last steal a handkerchief from the pocket of a young gentle- man. He immediately collared the prisoner, and took him a few yards, when the fellow exclaimed, " Who the b—y hell are you I" and struck him with his fist on the neck. Another constable of the metropolitan police force came up, to whom he handed the prisoner, and went back to find the young gentleman from whom the handkerchief was taken, but could not find him. Porter William Dunaway, a detective officer, 129 ll' stated that he saw the prisoner in custody of the City constable, and took charge of him. The prisoner re sisted him, and struck him on the breast, and attempted to bite his hands, making use, at the time, of the most horrid acclamations, and among others said, "You b—, I should like to knave your face off if I could get at you." The prisoner then attempted to make his escape, and made a violent resistance, in the course of which he kicked and plunged most violently. After a long and desperate scuffle he succeeded in dragging the prisoner iu into th e Shipping o ffi ce, at tho corner of the M ,. odes and T ower -hill, an d as k e d for the assistance of poneo -serge ant B ray, the officer on duty there. The prisoner immediately rushed at Bray and kicked him in front of his person. He put the handcuffs on the prisoner and conveyed him to the station-house. On the way there the prisoner kicked a little boy about six years of age, who was running in ad vance of him. The boy was se riously injured, and was carried into the station and hp:a Howrne o n t t s t . o have l could e you remonstratedmat a d u id o l g ike that." Th e pr i soner ex i h o me by his afflicted taken withmap man l y the s e p,t,orDiso—n kicke. rmaaenc;dh claimed, it is a case of life and death with me." Mr. Yardley directed Mr Pyer, the chief clerk, to take the depositions, and committed the prisoner for t r i a l. The prisoner here attempted to speak. Mr. Yardley—You will be heard at the proper time, when the depositions are read over. The prisoner, who conducted himself in a most bum lent manner, said—l believe lam allowed to speak. Mr. Yardley—At the proper time, hir. 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Lieut. Denis B. Pack, to the Penelope. TATTERSALL'S.—(This Evening). CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 10 to 3 agat Crown Pigeon (taken and offered) 6 to 1 agst F►atterer (100 to 15 taken) 100 to', 7 agst Flacrow (taken) 15 to 1 agst Vandyke (taken) 15 to 1 agst Veteran (100 to 6 taken) 15 to 1 agat Calamus (100 to 6 taken to up. wards of £100) 100 to 6 agst Pole Star (20 to 1 taken) 20 to 1 agst Robgill (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Miss Allen. 40 to 1 agst Blooming Heather (taken) 100 to 1 agst Elvaston (taken and offered) 1000 to 25 agst Welbam (taken) 200 to 100 agst Crown Pigeon and Flatterer (taken) DERBY. 35 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Bucolic (taken four times) DESPATCH FROM GEN. SIMPSON. (Prom a supplement to Tuesday's Gazette.) WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT. 18. Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad dressed to his lordship by General Simpson : Sebastopol, Oct. 6. My Lord,—Marshal PeHolier having signified to me his wish that the cavalry force under General d'Allon vulle, at Eupatoria, should be reinforced by some Eng lish cavalry, I at once acceded to his request, and have ordered the brigade of light cavalry, under Brigadier- General Lord George Paget, composed of the Carbi neers, 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, and 12th Lancers, and one troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, under Cap tain Thomas, to be sent for this service. I am in hopes that transport will be found to convey them early next week. I have the honour to transmit to your lordship the copy of a report I have received from Lieut.-Colonel Ready, with the details of an expedition undertaken against a fort and buildings on the island of Taman. The object was entirely carried out, and the troops have been enabled to supply themselves with a large amount of firewood and building materials. Since I 1114 had the honour of addressing you, I have seen Lieut.-General Vivian, and I am happy to inform your lordship that he quite approves of the decision I had formed of uniting the Contingent at Kerteh. Some few thousand men have already arrived there, and every exertion is being made to insure them their sup plies of food and fuel for the winter. The corps of General de Salles have, during the past week, pushed forward their advanced posts to the high ground on the left bank of the Belbek, overlooking Fort Sala Their supports occupy a ridge from this place, stretch ing toward{ the south to Markul. The main position of the army is on high, bold ground, extending from Aitoda to Markul, with the reserves posted between the village of Urkusta and the Bridge of Tnali. The corp; is further to be reinforced with the view next week of making a strong reconnaissance of the ground from Foti Sala towards Wyenbash, on the left bank of the Katcha. I have omitted to rep Da that Lieutenant-General Markham has been compelled, by illness, to return to England for a few months. He sailed on the 29th ult. I beg leave to enclose the lists of casualties. I have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &c. (Enclosure 1.) Yenikale, Sept. 27, 1855. Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the in formation of his Excellency General Simpson, that three companies of the 71st Regiment, under the com mand of Major Hunter, 71st Regiment, embarked at Kertch on Monday last, the 24th inst., on board her Majesty's ship Minna, at an early hour in the morning, and proceeded, in company with her Majesty's gun-boats Lynx, Snake, Arrow, and Harpy, together with about nine (9) French gun-boats, conveying six companies of French infantry, to the opposite coast, and arrived about eleven o'clock a.m. opposite Taman, thelineof gun-boats extending a short distance to the eastward of Phana 'goria. The landing commenced shortly afterwards, to the eastward of Phanagoria, covered by the fire from the gun-boats. There was no resistance offered, and the place had been evidently but lately evacuated. A few mounted Cossacks and infantry were the only people we had seen up to the time of landing, and who were driven from Phanagoria and Taman by the well-directed fire from the gun-boats. When the disembarkation was completed (which was effected without accident) the force moved upon Phana goria, and took quiet possession of the fort and build ings, and established itself there. A few stores were found still in the place, but (with the exception of an hydraulic press and some medicines), of no partfcular value, consisting principally of hospital bedding, and some clothing, and accoutrements. There were, however, upwards of sixty-two pieces of artillery (9 and 12- , pounders apparently) and four mortars, all rendered unserviceable. As the force entered Phanagoria a strong party of Cossacks appeared on the hill-side about 14 or 2 miles from the town, increased from time to time until their force appeased to amount to about 600. The gun-boats Lynx, Arrow, and Snake immediately opened a fire upon them, as did also some of the French boats. The prac tice from these boats was most admirable, and the Cos sacks immediately withdraw beyond the crest of the hills, leaving only a few videttes on the neighbouring Early on the following morning, the men were em ployed in collecting wood for fuel and hutting ; th night having passed quietly, with one exception, the enemy having taken advantage of the darkness to ape proach our lines, and opened fire upon our sentries, our troops were instantly on the alert, and the Cossacks re tired. One man, an English sailor, serving at a field piece in the works, was slightly wounded in the heel. The quantity of wood for fuel, and for hutting, is something considerable, but the exact amount can scarcely be arrived at yet, but I hope to have the whole embarked by Saturday.—l have, &c., (Signed) C. READY, Lieutenant. Colonel Commanding 71st Light Infantry. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Airey, K.C.B , &c., &C., Quartermaster• General. (Enclosure 2.) SUPPLEMENTARY NUMERICAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM 9TH TO 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1855. 46th Foot-3 rank and file wounded by the explosion of a magazine in the town of Sebastopol. lst Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 rank and file killed ; 1 ser jeant, 4 rank and file, wounded, by the explosion of a ma gazine in the town of Sebastopol. Total-1 rank and file killed ; 1 sergeant, 7 rank and file wounded. W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant-General. Enclosure 3. SUPPLEMENTARY NOMINAL RETURN OF A PRIVATE KILLED FROM THE 9TH TO THE 27TH OF SEPT., 1855. KILLED. SEPT. 27. Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade—Private David Mathews, by the explosion of a magazine in the town of Sebastopol. W. L. PAKENHAM, Adjutant• General. Enclosure 4. SUPPLEMENTARY NOMINAL RETURN OF NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FROM 9ra TO 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1855. WOUNDED, By the explosion of a magazine in the town of Sebastopol. 'SEPT. 27. 46th Foot—Privates Thomas Miller and Michael Spring, severely ; John Loughrin, slightly. Ist, Battalion Rifle Brigade Colour-Serjeant John Round, severely; Privates John Hayes, Michael Gleeson, William Cox, and George Best, slightly_ W. L. PAKENHAM, gdjutant• General. The Piedmontese of Turin announces the arrival there of Mr. Brett. He has stated that having found depths of upwards of 1,000 metres, the bad weather and the weight of the cable obliged him to cut the latter, not however without previously at taching buoys to it, in order to be able to . ,continue the operation at a more seasonable period. 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New 50 go Vilip of London to 20 5 20 13 10 20 20 20 40 50 25 20 100 100 1.00 20 20 50 I.on 100 20 91i 85; 3i 190' 19} 100 i 521 I 13i 75i I is 9Q 5 92A 4 i i 11 B#2 221 2 6l i 4 3i 45 / 103 101 571 6 i 31 i 18i 19 '4 , lslnest , dot* this day. 22 10i 11 10k 41 i 231 i 3 x d 71 e i ad 441 66 5 19 8B 314 47f 7 40 69f ,281 9 9 LITERATURE. Speeches of the Bight Flonourable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. Corrected by himself. Longman and Company. It is tolerably well known by this title that the authentic edition of the " Speeches"-ok. Macaulay appears before us in this goodly tome, published by the Longmans, and that the spurious edition had been previously issued from the press, in two volumes, by Vizetelly. The appearance of the latter unauthorised publication, it will be remem bered, elicited the work now before us—a work compiled and printed under the author's own per sonal supervision. To the scarcely justifiable en terprise of Mr. Vizetelly,. therefore, the E ng li s h public are, in a manner, directly indebted for these 538 pages, " corrected" by the hand of the orator himself ; the hand grudgingly so employed by one who is at once the most brilliant and the most fastidious of living rhetoricians. Wherefore, if Macaulay, as the intellectual fabricator of these speeches, can quarrel with the printer and pub lisher of the first, and it seems wholly unauthorised collection of them, we can with difficulty find it in our hearts to cavil at a proceeding which, how ever blameworthy in the abstract, has been to our selves, and the rest of the community, the imme diate source of what we are fain to regard as little else than a literary benefaction. In his caustic and blighting preface—(pp. vii.—xiii.)—Mr. Macaulay has himself acknowledged that, but for the appear ance of the two volumes printed by a " bookseller named Vizetelly," he should " never have done willingly" what he has now in the work under no tice actually accomplished. He would never have been tempted, that is to say, otherwise than " most reluctantly" to suspend a work which he tenderly speaks of as "the business and pleasure" of his life, for the purpose of preparing his collected " Speeches" for publication. Thanks to the some what questionable undertaking of Mr. Vizetelly, we have at length reason to congratulate ourselves on the opportunity thus, as it were by a distressful necessity, afforded us of welcoming from the press of the Messrs. Longman, an accurate version of the speeches of the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay— corrected by himself—and in this tnanner submitted in this perfected form to the judgment of posterity, after having been placed in that same shape within the ken 'of the admiration of the orator's own con temporaries. While Mr. Macaulay may regret the circumstances which have led to this result, we can, in a selfish point of view, regard them for the most part with a sort of morbid satisfaction. For —we repeat it—but for Mr. Vizetelly's unauthor ised proceedings we should in all human probabi lity have remained without any substantial copy whatever, correct or incorrect, of the same re markable "Speeches"—and this be it observed, once more, on Mr. Macaulay's own acknowledg ment. While, however, the printer and pub lisher of the first (notoriously spurious) edi tion of these speeches has thus added a new treasure to the intellectual stores amassed in the library of the lettered Englishman, he has been compelled to pay the penalty of his rashness by bearing the brunt of an onslaught more deadly and withering of its kind than any unfortunate wight has been driven to endure since the days when the same merciless tomahawk fell, crashing, upon the sconce now of Mr. Wilson Croker, and now of Mr. Robert Montgomery, in the blue and yellow bits of the grimly old Edinburgh. It must be con fessed, however, by the admirers of the genius of Mr. Macaulay, whether, as an orator, or as an essayist, as historian or as astatesman, that in the instance before us the fary of the attack is so far disproportioned, both to the object of it and to the occasion in which it originated, that even the blow dealt reveals unmistakeably that the wielder of this pitiless weapon of vituperation had firmly lost his temper before the onslaught can be said scarcely to have commenced. The preface breathes from first to last the language of ttcornful indignation. In it the Great Author condescends in his wrath to personal scurrilities, stigmatising a bookseller, named Vizetelly, as one " who seems to aspire to that sort of distinction which Carell enjoyed a hun dred and twenty years ago." Carell, the scavenger of publishers, who mingled rapacity and mendacity in his character as a sort of literary pick pocket and social chiffoniers were delineated not long since with such incomparable humour by the dramatic pencil of Lytton, to be afterwards im personated with such inimitable skill by the histri onic genius of Dickens. To return to "a book seller name Vizetelly "—he is described by the irate orator, whose " Speeches" he is charged with having thus flagitiously pirated, as a publisher who has been guilty of a "gross fraud," and as an editor who has shown himself " grossly ignorant." He is indirectly spoken of as a person without " the smallest regard for truth," and directly accused as a man altogether " unprincipled." The fact is, unfor tunately, as we have before remarked, Mr. Macau lay lost his temper before his pen was well between his thumb and forefinger—he forgot everything like self-command before the nib of his goosequill was well dipped in the standish. He writes, there fore, as one not merely irritated but infuriated. The fact of his having done so is in every way to be regretted. It is to be especially regretted, in asmuch as it is wholly unworthy of our great Orator-Essayist-Historian-Statesman. It is un worthy of his dignity, and entirely beyond what seems to have been called for by the actual circum stances. Other orators before Mr. Macaulay, we cannot but conjecture, have had their speeches col lected together without their sanction or superintend ence. Ile is by no means the first so treated. He will probably not bo the last. Neither has it remained for him to complain as of an unexampled offence, of having had his spoken words extravagantly mis represented. In an expostulatory letter pretty generally circulated by the object of Mr. Macau lay's ridicule and indignation, it has been denied boldly enough, but at the same time with the pet tiest sneer (considering who is the orator and statesman here under consideration) that Mr. Macaulay has any right to " enjoy an immunity which (observes Mr. Vizetelly, somewhat spite fully) has never yet been claimed for greater orators or more distinguished statesmen." Truth to tell there are excuses and errors on both sides : on the part of Mr. Vizetelly, indeed, worse than mere errors—rather, we should say, very flagrant culpability. It is unquestionable, of course, that other orators before the time of Mr. Macaulay have been subjected by unscrupulous booksellers to the misery of seeing their "speeches" appropriated by a sort of wholesale piracy intangible to the grasp of the law—so that, as we have said, of any such mendacious appropriation Mr. Macaulay can scarcely complain as of some altogether unexam pled injustice. What appears to us to have been peculiarly exceptionable in the instance of the two volumes published by Mr. Vizetelly is the fact of the latter person having announced, if we recollea rightly, both upon title-page and through adver tisements, that his edition was formally given to the world by " special licence"—the work itself, on the contrary, being (as is now notorious) altogether unauthorised. It appeared, on the contrary, as Mr. Macaulay tells us in so many words, without any notice having been given to him, and without, of course, his consent having been asked. Yet its adventurous printer had the hardihood to proclaim it to be issued from the press by "special licence." This is the " head and front" of Mr. Vizetelly's offending. Beyond which we cannot but conceive he renders himself directly answerable for the ad ditional " atrocity" of making his pirated orator talk nonsense—Mr. Vizetely, we say, renders him self, to our thinking, personally responsible for. this supplementary injustice to Mr. Macaulay, by rea son of the very statement since put forth, in the circular letter already mentioned, with a view to his exculpation from the heinous charge of editor ship. "Extravagant blunders are put into my mouth in almost every page," exclaims Mr. Ma caulay, in tones of anguish, adding, in regard to these blunders—" I could fill a volume with in stancesn of the injustice with which I have been treated." In justification of which assertion s, t orator, therefore, instances four monstrous all —" grave faults of substance," he calls . P. e ki n n e i s f ora " lying within the compass of seven or eigh t Pages, flaws introduced in the course of one solitary ora tion I Thereupon the offending . bc! okselle h a s r very Only SUC flip- pantly insinuates that his vi f i c e tw e l 2onths in point ceeded " after an interval of fi v e :ueh a display of in ing out just four errors" g li h cit earnestyof f t in h u e p dignation. DisingeniouScrluiteanlytips errors rto te bs et allowed, after Mr. Macaulay. after he against the magnitude and mu scattered throughout the two volum es—after indignantly (p. xii.) "as to ay hardly one sentence has remarked faults of syntax an te f reuey f i r s o mt hanxious'em But this is not all. in a hunrdrevdizise to repudiate the M " • being editor notion of his of this unauthorised Macaul ' M a . y 8 version of Speeches. He does not a ppear in the transaction arehe protests, as his Pari sian brethHren accustomed to do, upon the title p, g eS. nameis is Visible in the affair, not in any way as editeur or gerant, but simply as printer an d publisher. Yet in proclaiming this in r ebuttal of the high crime and misdemean our of editorship, together with all its con sequent responsibilities, Mr. Vizetelly actu ally blunders out the acknowledgment that " With out professing anything of the kind, I certainty did correct many errors which in my capacity as printer I noticed while reading through the proofs of my own editor for the press : but because I made those corrections Ido not see that I am to be held respon sible for the four other errors which after an inter val_ of four months," &c., &c. Wonderful ! So that Mr. Vizetelly, while speaking of the work a his own edition, and avowing that he certain l y d id illa correct many' error's, during th• inta _ irluca it was preparing for publication, , confesses that he himself read through the proofs, and yet insists that he cannot be held responsible for the errors yet remaining. After this assuredly Mr. Macaulay canny t be regarded as precipitate in charging Mr. Vizetelly (call the latter what you will, editor or printer) with being "grossly ignorant." On the contrary, all the scholarly gibes directed by the injured orator against the devoted head of the of fending bookseller tell so truly and witheringly against the latter that the reader of the " Preface' is fain to dismiss him at its close amidst explosions of derisive laughter. Mr. Vizetelly, and no other than Mr. Vizetelly, has written himself down, in fact, as Dogberry would have had the Sexton en dite : and now upon his own showing Mr. Macaulay is perfectly justified in asserting that:— I. " Mr. Vizetelly makes me say that the principle of our Statutes of Limitation was to be found in the legislation of the Mexicans and Peru vians "I [The orator having said nothing whatever about either Peru or Mexico.] 11. "Mr. Vizetelly next makes me say that the principle of limitation is found amongst the Pan dects of the Benares" [The orator having spoken of the Pundits of Benares.] 111. " Mr. Vizetelly makes me say that Whit. field held and taught that the connection between Church and State was sinful" . . giving the House of Commons some very extraordinary infor mation about both the Calvinistic and Armenian Methodists." !!! [The orator never having uttered anything of the kind.] IV. " Mr. Vizetelly makes me say that the Great Charter recognises the principle of limita tion" !!!! ["a thing which everybody who has read the Great Charter knows not to be true" adds the orator in contemptuous indignation.] Enough. The culpability of Mr. Vizetelly has by this time been tolerably expiated. His palm has tingled under the ferule. None the less smartingly because his formidable castiga tor had himself so far blundered as to lose his temper, condescending to those lowest resources of invective rhetorical personalities and even unnecessary vituperation. Nevertheless— " It's an ill wind"—but the proverb's somewhat musty ! The reading public is the gainer from this unhappy transaction. An authorised edition of " Macaulay's Speeches," issued from the press by the Messrs. Longmans, follows hard upon the heels of the unauthorised edition surreptitiously printed by Mr. Vizetelly—that most learned discoverer of our far-famed Statutes of Limitations, having their prototyye simultaneously in Magna Charta, and in the Mexican and Peruvian Legislature, the eru dite elucidator of a new phase in the genius of George Whitfield, and the profound celebrant of the hitherto-unheard-of Pandects of the until-now invisible and unknown Benares. True that in their new and authentic version these notable Speeches have colapsed from two volumes into one, comprising not fifty-six separate orations, but no more than twenty-nine altogether, delivered in an interval of our national history extending from the 2d of March, 1831, to the Ist of June, 1853. Yet fastidiously reduced to these more moderate dimen sions, the Speeches of Macaulay may now be con sulted for the first time with the luxury of implicit confidence in their general correctness—their noble and impulsive eloquence being preserved to us by a triple guarantee—the memory of the orator, the truthfulness of the annalist, and the conscientious scrupulosity of the statesman. The Martins. No. XI. By Charles Leyer. October finds the " Martins of Cro' Martin" established in Paris. That gay capital is the scene of all the incidents recounted in the four chapters here offered to us as the contents of this month's instalment. Captain Martin, with his selfishness and fashionable vagabondism—Martin of Cro' Martin, with his self-reproaches at having aban doned Molly in " ould Ireland"—Lady Dorothea, with her insolent pride of birth, and her chagrin at finding herself neglected by the beau monde— move before us, singly or together, just as it may chance to happen in the chapter of accidents. And side by side with them, the model heroine, the paragon of perfection, Kate Henderson, glides ever and anon across the field traversed by the phan toms in Mr. Lever's new phantasmagoria. The companions of Captain Martin are the most amusing of the fresh characters introduced in the present number—conspicuous among them that vulgar dog of a Jew gambler, originally one of the hangers-on of a London hell, Mr. Herman Merl. With him the haughty Sir Spencer Cavendish, with his glass in his eye, sporting hacks for thorough breds, and a buggy for a park-phaeton, according to the jeer of Jack Massingbred. And, besides these, Lord Claude Willoughby, that very type of "chic"—chic being the French slang for any ob ject asserting its undoubted superiority over all its counterfeits ; such as a coat from Nugee's, a car riage from Leader's, and a bracelet from Stores, or rather from Hunt and Roskell's. The incidents of the number are—Kate's recognition in Paris by her former friend and pupil, the Duchesse de Mirecourt, together with the consequent re-intro duction of Lady Dorothea to fashionable life by her grace's mother, the Duchesse de Luygnes— beyond which must not be forgotten the arrival of a " Letter from Home ;" a letter written to Mr. Martin, in bitterest anguish and hot haste, by poor olly, telling in a few poignant words a woeful tale of the prospects of the peasantry. In consequence of this letter Captain Martin, in spite of all his selfish indolence, is about to hasten homewards, at the instigation of Kate Henderson. It yet remains to be revealed by the novelist whether or no the paragon, Kate, is a good or an evil genius to the House of Martin. At present, we must confess, that either seems to us somewhat problematical. We guess that the downfall of Mr. Martin is among the great events of the story " looming iu the future," and look for the re appearance of his brother, or at any rate for the establishment of the rights of that brother's daughter—good, charming, unselfish Mary Martin —as for the climax of this strange eventful history of the Martins of Cro' Martin. CUNARD, BRRTT, AND AUSTEIV. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, 150, Lea lenhx.ll-street, London. SlR,—Seeing an article in your paper of last evening (Money Article) which ii likely to wish ad the public, we beg t) eneloze one of our cirsulars referring to the disso lution alluded to, as we feel convinced that you would not knowingly allow your journal to be made use of for such a purpose.—We are. Sir, your obedient servants, CUNARD, BRE UT, AND AUSTEN. Oot. 17. Liverpool, Olt. 11, 1855. Gentlemen,—l beg to acquaint you that the business formerly carried on under the firm of Cunard, Munn, and Co. is dissolved owing to the death of Mr. Kerr, one of my late partners, and I avail myself of the pre sent opportunity of thanking you for the many 1 3 " d favours received, aad solicit on behalf of the new firm. Cunard, Brett, and Austen, a continuance of the same. I am, Gentlemen, yours faith lINA.RDfuIIy, JO. C. York-buildings, Liverpool, and 150, Leaden hall-street, London. Gentlemen, —Referring to the dissolution of partner. ship between Messrs. Cunard, Mann, and Co., of Liver pool, annexed, we beg to inform you that we have amal gamated the two houses, a nd that our senior will con tinue the business at Liverpool as heretofore, under the firm of Cunard, Brett, and Austen, as well as in Lon don.us withobed i ent The union of interest and action we trust will enable us the better to carry out the views of our frie d , r a su n p d po t r h tvir o! euetosnefirvdaenntsce and Soliciting the favour of your commands e e Oct. 12. are, wh Gen tlemen , o fav o u r CUNARD B RETT, & AUSTEN. BILLS or EXCHANGE.—A. change in the law is about - - --77 to ta k e effect whi c h i n i ts bearing on the internal opera tions of English commerce is likely to prove very im portant. From and after this day week (24th Oct.), the Summary Procedure on Bills of Exchange Act is to come into operation. The object of its framers was to remove all means of frivolous or fictitious defences to actions on bills of exchange and promissory notes, and the decisive character of its provisions renders it necessary that every trader in the country should be well apprised of them. A. new form of writ of summons is to be issued, after which the plaintiff may in 12 days, unless leave to de fend th e ac ti on b e meanw hil e obtained, proceed to judg ment and execution. Leave to appear is to be granted only on the defendant paying the amount of the claim into court, or upon satisfactory affidavits disclosing legal or equitable defence, or the necessity for the on h b older to such to prove consideration, or such other facts terms as to security as to the judge may see a T an . fi e t s . _ (1) „_"_ summons may be made to include all the pant,. Wales, and The act applies exclusively to England a e h d at a a e n ce e p x t a a g n g c e es . and not to Ireland or Scotland. e r c g t ting losses sup. reportthe 2 sth August had b een eo ratedilby Messrs. Lubbock and posed to have been sustained Co. through their discounting i It now 3 ) f)r a Mr. Marcellino de AI it ci w rc as u la in t e s e o n d in ti r:e n a f ed p o comparatively . 1 poars that the forgeries, which were o fin small amount, the confidence of Mr. were committed by a person . name of the latter was made use Allo, and that the ce with Messrs. Lubbock during of in the correspond en and • f rom Eng land without any knowledge his absence or privity o n his part. The rea l culprit went to the United State -3 a few clays after the last bill was dis counted. The Post Ampt Gazette contains a letter from Vienna, which saya :—" The visit which the Arch duke Albert is about to make to Italy is by many persons here attributed to a political motive, the Prince intending, it is said, to visit his sister, tho Queen of Naples. It ought, however, to be borne in mind that the excursion of the Prince was ranged many months back, and that his nl i dr advisers h ave b een urg i ng hi m o f l a t e no t to e y it auy longor ', ay to ad ml ieir Sat, nor and esn 'red ures e of Icini anas icy's Sa• uni• W. ; ed— -Pa ork ; Syd hine, t s, for ?Ina, 'orts- ved— amer. ; Ca- land Har• I