The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-26 00:00:00

. ' B OYAL PRINC EBB'S THEATRE. This Theatre will Open for the S e ason on Monday next, September 1 the let, when will be presented (first time under the present manage ment) Sheridan's tragic play of PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. After which will be produced a new petite comedy, in two acts, entitled, OUR WIFE. Books of Sheridan's play of Pizarro, as arranged for representation the Royal Princess's Theatre by Charles Kean, with Historical Rotes, are now ready, and may be had at the stage door of tho theatre In Oxford-street. Price Is. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. under the Management of Mr. Bnckstotte. THIS EVENING, SECOND LOVE. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. To conzinde with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. TTIIS EVENING, RELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which THE IRISH TUTOR. To conclude with OUR GAL. STR %ND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. T. Payne. THIS EVENING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. Followed by THAT HOUSE IN 111041 STREET." Wars. Stuart, Cooke, Basil Potter, and Rinloch; Mrs. Woollldge, and Miss Isabel Adams. After which, THE FLOWER GIRL OF GHENT. To conclude with THE STATUE LOVER. Commence at half-past 7. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. After which, MEDE A. To conclud( Ew.ooE•fr•J .E _ , ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Shakspeare's Richard the Third illustrated. THIS EVENING, The highly successful prodaction, Shakspeare's RICITARD TIIE THIRD, with equestrian effects unprecedented, imposing tableau of the" Reath of White Surrey," Rattle of Bosworth Field, &c. After which, The ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP In the CIRCLE. To concluee with a round. of varied entertainments. Box.oßice open tram Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. inn. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 23 min. aft. 10—Evening 15 min. aft. 11 Tn.Mosaov —Morn. 0 min. aft. 0 —Evening 56 min. aft.ll T3E WEATHER—SUN OFFICII, AUGUST 26. TIMIMOXIITER, IN TEE SHADE. 67 —highest sinae noon yesterday. 53 —lowest this morning and during the night. 66 —this day at noon. BA aowirraii, 30'01. Wm, N.W.--Fresh, with fine cloudy weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Elition of The San, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half- past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers iu the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latost news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to Th 4 Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. TT% t ti 6 '4l LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1856. It is more than hinted that the Anglo French occupation of Greece will shortly cease, and that Athens and the surrounding districts will speedily be once more subjected to the tender mercies of Queen AMELIA. Oriso may be omitted from the account, as he has been for a considerable time little better than a puppet, the wires whereof were pulled by his more energetic partner. It is un questionably well in every instance to permit the internal Government of a country to be managed by its own inhabitants, and to eschew foreign in tervention under any pretext . , however specious ; but if ever there was a complete justification for such interference, it is in the case of Greece. There was no ancient dynasty with long-established rights to be regarded, no Sovereign chosen by the free and independent voice of public opinion. Its rulers were the mere creatures of the Great Powers, selected partly for their convenience, and to prevent a possible ground of dissension amongst themselves ; and partly to promote the welfare and prosperity of a people whose time-honoured associations excited general sympathy and good feeling. For these purposes they submitted to incur a considerable outlay, becoming joint secu rities for a loan which they have been compelled to liquidate from their own resources, the Athenian Government having made no effort, however trivial, to meet its just responsibilities. Every just expectation has, however, been dis appointed.. In place of observing the strict neutra lity which,. under the peculiar circumstance of his case, became an imperative duty, the KING, under the mischievous inspiration of Queen AMELIA, displayed the utmost prejudice in favour of Russia, and an impotent hostility against the Western Powers. His Court became a hotbed of Muscovite intrigue. Every thing was done to promote the sinister views of the Autocrat, and to defeat the object for which France and Eng land were lavishing the blood of thousands, and tens of thousands of their gallant soldiers, and tens of millions of pounds sterling. Revolts were stimulated in the Ottoman Empire, by per sons in immediate communication with the Otto man Cabinet, and it would not have been very difficult to have established the direct complicity of its chief members with the untoward transac tions then taking place. The internal administration was as lax and im potent as the foreign policy was injudicious and indefensible. Brigandage and piracy were rife throughout the length and breadth of the land that " Was Greece, but living Greece no more," and there was security neither for life nor pro perty, even in the most frequented highways. The Greeks themselves were naturally indignant at the manner in which everything native was treated. The spirit of Germanism was rampant throughout the land. They were treated as a conquered race. No one cculd hope for Court favour unless through German influence. Queen AMELIA surrounded herself with her countrymen, and the HELLENES were treated with as much con tumely as our Saxon ancestors after the Norman invasion. The mere suspicion of a tendency to Nationality or C onstitutionalism was sufficient to insure the peisecution of those .% ho had the temerity to entertain opinions so uncongenial to the Court atmosphere. It was, under such circumstances, very different indeed from ordinary occupation, that the Western Powers were compelled to interfere. They did so to protect an ally from the grave consequences of Muscovite intrigues, and a glaring brga c h of neutrality by the mushroom Court. They did so to restore security for life and property, to pare the patriots from the misconduct of those ' thici owed their throne to their efforts, to protect tile people against the Court, not the Court against the just indignation of the people. This is indeed - very different from the state of affairs in Italy. There BOMBA, who has treated the demands of France and England with such gross contumely, relies un Austrian bayonets for support, and rails at those who have exhibited such extraordinary for bearance towards him with the tongue of a THIIRSITES. All that is required in his case is to leave them to the tender mercies of his subjects, to allow a clear stage and no favoar, and in a week he will have ceased to reign, and the free dom of Italy will be restored not only in the Two Sicilies, but in various other States, where the existing system is only sustained by foreign bayonets. All these evils may be traced to Germanism. Queen AMELIA. is tolerated because she is its strongest representative. The French and Eng lish troops are to be withdrawn, and unhappy Athens rendered the focus of Muscovite and German intrigues, to the serious detriment and peril of the Ottoman Empire. But such is the will of Germanism, and the Peoples of France and England must bow down before the mysteri ous, but too potent, oracle. But distracted and divided Italy, possessing all the elements of strength and vitality, must still be paralysed by the Austrian incubus, that prostrates its energies, and perpetuates the misgovernment and oppres sion against which so many well-grounded com plaints have been put forward. England and France are made to play very secondary parts in the political drama, which is by no means con duoive either to their honour or interests. While the Guards were on their way yesterday to be feted for their gallantry in the Crimea an investigation was being made in another part of the metropolis into certain charges against three workhouse officials, by no means reflecting honour on the national character. In other words, while 2,000 of the brave men of the Guards were about to enjoy the triumph they had fairly won by meeting and beating back, despite all odds, the best men of the Russian army, three workhouse officials were on their trial, before a Poor-law Board Inspector, for flogging as many women. The contrast is sufficiently startling ! Both parties are known as Englishmen ; yet, what a difference in the respective deeds which called for public notice ! Which represented most truly the national cha racter ? The Guards were 2,000 odd in number—the women flogger; 3. Englishmen are not Austrians. Throughout the kingdom, we boldly assert, thousands upon thousands of as brave men as the Guards are to be readily found ; but, sift the entire nation, and we doubt if 2,000 women floggers will be found among the chaff ! The greater reason why such cowardly rascals should be hunted out and handed over to punish ment ! Owing largely to the impossibility of poor men and women obtaining a divorce, and the ignorance of the rural population, the spec tacle has occasionally, in times past, been wit nessed in the agricultural districts of a wife being led in a halter to market to be disposed of to the best bidder. The spectacle, we all know, was a rare one, and always excited indignant comments from the mare intelligent portion of the popula tion. The press condemned the practice in un measured terms, and no man was to be found bold enough to pronounce that condemnation unjust or uncalled for. Yet, see the result. To this hour it is a settled belief on the minds of probably the majority of our mercurial neighbours, the French, that selling our wives HU brutes in the open market is a prevalent custom among us ! sane- tioned both by men of high and low degree. What is likely to be the result if workhouse or other officials are suffered to escape the severest punishment on conviction of woman-flogging ? Why, that the six months' imprisonment awarded to wife beaters is but a sham, and that, despite the bravery of the British soldier in the field, we approve, like Austrians, in our secret hearts of the dastardly and inhuman subjugation of feminine -ipirit by brute force ! It is a question of national honour. It is not enough that C.zasAß's wife should be innocent, She must be free from suspicion —and we trust that a sufficient sum would speedily be raised, ani under the happy hallucination that care would be taken that a banquet should be supplied in the true old English character, that should give satisfaction to all, and particularly to the recipients. That the former was fully realised we have only to refer to the subscription list ; how the latter, to the events of yesterday. After the great outcry against routine and its destructive influence upon the " Old Guards," we little expected to see it carried out, by way of a climax to the events of the war, and exemplified in the proceedings of yesterday, in regard to the catering. We have every feeling of respect for our allies—the French—in whatever station of life they maybe, or to what profession they may belong, and bear our testimony to their superiority in matters of cuisne when the palate is to be tickled and the eye pleased, but they do not appear to under- stand the notions and requirements of an English man's dinner, and the signal failure of Messrs. Photo]. and Shabot, the contractors on this occa. sion, is a practical illustration. And this brings us back to the starting point of routine, and leads us to believe that the committee was led away by it, and because the proprietors of the gardens liberally granted the use of the grounds they must patronise the purveyors of the establishment, instead of inviting contracts from those who understand the requirements of an Eng lishman better than any foreigners possibly can dc. Well, let us see the result. We understand the sum of 53. per head was paid by the committee for the supply of what was necessary except the cham pagne, a sum sufficiently large when it is considered upwards of 2,000 men were to attend, to have ad mitted of an ample supply and of a superior character. The tables looked very prettily laid out to the casual observer, but when you scruti nised their contents and looked narrowly at the affair, you found it was, as the gallant chair man naively remarked in his speech, " a din ner such as the memory of man never knew the equal !" The tables were plentifully gar nished with flowers and shrubs with which to feast the eyes, but as for the "belly tim ber" it was rather a scanty supply. After great diligence of search, and wandering in a laby rinth of porter-bottles, glasses, plates, and plants, your eye suddenly alighted on a piece of roast-beef of considerably less dimensions than that put upon the table of our industrious artisan for the Sunday dinner of himself, wife, and two children, and the piece of beef in question had to do duty for six sturdy Guardsmen ; whilst near it was placed, by way of allurement, a piece of cheese of about four ounces, garnished in an artistic manner to excite their fancy, but disappoint their expectations, and near it the dessert, consisting of four small apples, placed pyramidally, and the dish very prettily decorated with leaves ; then came a plate of toss le ttuse—one the inquiry still going on will be brought to an equitable conclusion, so that justice may be done to all—to the individuals directly concerned and to the ratepayers—to the Poor-Law Board and the country at large. Three individuals, work house officials to wit, RYAN, the master, and BROWN and GREEN, the two porters of the Miry lebone Workhouse, are charged—the first with ordering and overlooking the brutal seizure and punishment by flogging with canes of three young women, severally, and on distinct occasions—the second with being his willing instruments in the infliotion of such punishment. RYAN plays the tyrant. The women murmur. The dignity .f their taskmaster is offended. Whip in hand the amiable gentleman whistles. Incontinently one or other, or both of his bulldogs —curs rather— bound into his presence. The luckless off3nder is violently seized and hurried to an adjacent dark corner, and GREEN and BROWN, or BROWN or GREEN, shower down a storm of blows with a cane on her devoted head and shoulders. The temptation is too great to be always resisted ; so on one occa sion RYAN administers a few dexterous cuts on her face and elsewhere with his ready whip, and BROWN, sundry kicks, both, doubtless, to their entire satisfaction. Off at last the girl starts, and BROWN and GREEN, or GREEN or Baowar, cane in hand, after her, until she contrives to steal into bed. Such is the substance, or very near it, of what each of the victims has to allege against the " illustrious" trio. Is the allegation supported by facts or by reliable testimony ? Such brutal treatment must leave marks behind. The gift's speak to blood being drawn, and to " wales," " thick bruises," &c. A female searcher at the Police-court testifies to finding such marks, " very blue, indeed," on the persons of all three ; and with respect to SULLIVAN, who was shaken, caned, kicked, and whipped by BROWN, GREEN, and RYAN, despite her womanly cries for mercy, that she was more cut than the rest about the loins. The public have but to read the report to form a satisfactory judgment on the case -- a xeport, by the way, unpolluted by the beastly obscenities uttered by the two curs by way of question and self-justification. One of them, it is said, has got an appointment at Stepney Workhouse. Do not all of them merit the treadmill ? If they escape—shame on the glishme n ! Guardians, and sh ame on En cut in four—and then a plate of "plum duff." The beef occasionally gave place to hams, joints of mutton of similar dimensions, &c., alternately on the tables, and there was interspersed infinitesimal pats of butter, and tarts in proportion, whilst on each plate was placed one penny loaf, which cer tainly was the acme of perfection as regards production, but considerably loss than was necessary for the enjoyment of lunch by the most pampered son of the Church of State, leaving an alder man out of the question. Whether the men had had any misgivings as to the result, and had con sulted a " cunning man," we know not, but some of them must have been blessed with an intuitive knowledge of what was to happen, for on ques tioning many of them after the repast how they had fared, they informed us " very well—they had had dinner before they left the barracks," accompany r ing the remark with a laugh of great significance We think we have said enough to show the cha racter of the supply. Let us now refer to how the meat was put upon the table. Its appearance was not the most inviting, for it bore evident traces of early and hasty cooking ; the buns especially, which appeared to have undergone a shaving pro cess, the fat having been cut off to give them " the bloom of youth," whilst the beet reminded some of the " Old Guardsmen" of the " raw beef of the Alma." Why were the3e noble fellows, whose bravery on the field of battle was unparalleled, and before whose " thin red lino" the legions of a great nation melted like tho snow on the steppes of the Crimea bebro the sun, treated in this manner ? It was not the wish of the subscriberA, it could not be with the consent of the committee, that such a dinner was served, and b 3 the responsible man who he may, he may rest assured that he will be remembered by the men, to the day of their death, and the reminiscences of their " Surrey friend" afferd thorn ample source of amusement for years to come. Happily the men were in the right vein ; they knew the sympathies of the people were with them, and they felt gratified at that circumstance more than the enj vment of the dinner. The fact that their sufferings on the field of battle had reached the public ear, ha 1 found sympathy in their hearts, and had roused such a spirit of indignation against the system that had caused them, that when they found themselves surrounded by so many thousands eager to testify their appro bation of their passive endurance, and their gratitude to men ready to sacrifice their lives' in defence of the sacred hearths of Old England their hearts thrilled with delight—they felt confident they might depend on the nation's care, and they fully felt what their noble chairman expressed, " that suoh a reception as that by their fellow-countrymen was sufficient to make him and them jump on one leg through another such cam - paign as that just finished." TAYLOR'S FAMILY CRESCENT HOTEL. NEW FILET, YORKSHIRE, COMAIANDING AN EXTENSIVE VIEW OF THE SEA. The following visitors have recently patronised Tay lor's Family Crescent Hotel :—J. W. Thompson, Esq High-park, London ; Mrs. and Miss Thompson, Lon don ; Alexander, El., and Mrs. Alexander, London; Rev. I. H. Hubbard, London ; the Lady Wenlock, Escruk Park, York ; Hon. Miss Lawley. York ; Hon. Caroline Lawley, York ; Hon. Bielby Lawley, York ; Captain Doncaster, .London ; J. W. Ames, Esq., and Mrs. Ames, Cote-house, Bristol ; Miss Walker, Masbro house, Rotherham ; Rev. C. I. Parker, Skirwith Abbey, Penrith ; Mrs. Parker and family, Penrith ; W. C. Alston, Esq., Eltham hall, near Birmingham ; Mrs. and Miss Alston, ditto ; Henry Jephson, Esq , M.D. ; Mrs. and Miss Jephson ; J. Pomeroy, Esq., Lon don ; Mrs. Potneroy, London ; Miss Pomeroy, Lon don ; J. W. Marsden, Esq., Walton-house, Wakefieli ; John Wakefield, Esq., London ; the Rev. J. Rudston, Oxford ; L.dy Buckton, Cannon-hall, Barnsley; Hon. Miss Buckton, C Barnsley ; C. H. Cham bers, Esq., and Mrs. Chambers ; W. C. Willock, Esq., and Mrs. Willock, Manchester ; the Rev. 0. Brown, London ; Boyce, Esq., London ; J. W. Sutton, E!q. ; the Rev. J. and Mrs. Hildyard and family, In goldsby Rectory, Grantham ; Mr. J. Wilson, North Dalton ; Mr. Libtrott, London ; A. Wood, Esq., Wood, Esq., and Mrs. Wood, Blackheath, London ; Mrs. Admiral Falcon, Eaton-place, London ; Whire, Esq., and Mrs. Whire ; J. Marsden, Esq., Walton'. house, Wakefield ; J. Brown, Esq., Barnsley ; Rev. T. and Mrs, Morgan ; Miss Secveton ; W. S. Woodhouse, Esq, and Mrs. S. Woodhouse, The Willows; Rev. Dr. English, Warley-house, Brentwood ; Hon. S, Lushington and family, and Lushington, Esq., Lon don ; Maples, Esq., and family, Spalding. The banquet to the Guards, which took place yesterday at the Royal Surrey Gard ens , was an event so novel and extraordinary in its character, that we are induced to refer to it and to notice many incidents connected with it which we were yesterday prevented from doing, owing to want of time. The thought of testifying the admiration of the people of London for the heroic conduct and bravery of these men, by inviting them to a ban quet, was a characteristic and noble one, and de serving of all praise ; and when we saw the names of th e gentlemen who interested themselves in its furtherance, we laboured =ler the impression His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, accompanied by Lieutenant Cowell, embarked from the Southampton Docks yesterday on board her Majesty's yacht Fairy, Master Comanander D. W. Welch, en route for Osborne. lEtl ' Royal Highness proceeded to Osborne, for the pur pose of accompanying her Majesty to Balmoral on Thurs day. Captain Crespin was in attendance on his Royal Highness, THE SUN LON DON; TUESDAY EVENING AUGUST 26, 185(3 LATEST NEWS. Advices from Constantinople, of the 15tb. inst., state that an answer has been received from Rus sia respecting the dispute about the town of Bol grad, which gives reasons to expect that the Russians will give way in the matter, and cede Bolgrad. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. In the absence of the Emperor, the Council of Ministers is presided over by M. Abbatucci, Minister of Justice. He, in consequence, will not be able to attend the Council-General of the department of the Loiret, of which he was lately nominated Pre sident, and General Count de Salles, Senator, Vice President, replaces him. The following private telegraphic despatches have been received : " MARSEILLES, AUG. 24. The Jourdain brings intelligence from Constantinople to the 14th. "The Journal de Constantinople declares that the union of the Danubian Principalities is illegal. "The Presse d'Orient announces a petition from the Bulgarians in opposition to the Greek schools and clergy, who are accused of endeavouring to supplant the native clergy and the language. "The Ottoman Cossacks watch the Grecian frontier. "The Russian reply, it is thought at Constantinople, leaves some hope of a cession of Bolgrad. "Of the 500,000,000 piastres required for the Bank of C instantinople, 300,000,000 were subscribed in one day." " MARSEILLES, AUG. 24, EVENING. " Our harbour is dreadfully encumbered, and coin plaints are made of the insufficiency of railroads. The arrivals continue, and the Courrier de Marseille estimates at 900,000 Lesto!itres the quantity of wheat come to hand since the let inst. ; notwithstanding, the prices continue firm. Tie Moniteur Alge'rein, just received, gives an account of the distribution of prizes to exhibitors, which took place on the 15th. The natives had made considerable progress in the formation of plantations." BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The following were the last quotations : Brigida in the street of Toledo, returning from the church, two of the horses slipped and fell; the police and the soldiers were engaged in getting them" up, when, taking advantage of this interruption, a lame man, leaning upon a staff and respectably dressed, approached the carriage, handed a written petition to the King, and began to speak to his Majesty in a low tone of voice. An officer of the guard saw this, ran with drawn sword against the unfortunate petitioner, and inflicted a wound upon him ; other officers followed the example, and the cripple tried in vain to ward off their blows. When he was about to sink beneath their assault, be cried out to the King, " Ferdinand ! they are assassinat ing me before your eyes! Remember this !" The King was terrified by this appeal, and called out to the officers, " Let him have his life." Imme diately afterwards, the horses baying been raised, the carriage went on at full gallop. The same shocking scene is described in another letter from Naples, written on the 7th to the Corriere di Malta, which adds that the poor man was mortally wounded. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. ti per Cents 94 80 —f. —O. 3 per Cents 7i) 50 70 40 New Loan 7O 55 Bank Shares 4,100 Boman Credit Mobilier 1,610 Austrian Belgian Fives .... .... 991 Spanish Threes. Piedmontese (5). 9l tO Home Debt .......,„ RAILWAYS-YOB CASH, fr. fr. c Orleans 1,395 C. Western 957 50 Northern Lyons .... ...... 1,397 50 Now Ditto Hediterranean 1,797 5J Grand Central ...... 685 Lyons Geneva Cette 777 50 Austrian Com. ...... 875 AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, dated the 21st inst., says " As regards the Neapolitan question, the rnerntnt appears not far distant for matters coming to a crisis between the Austrian and Neapolitan Governments. The last news from Naples is serious, and does not ad mit of the slightest doubt that King Ferdinand declines paying any attention to the remonstrances of the three great Powers. It is not improbable that some energetic demonstration will be made, and that he will be ulti mately compelled to acquiesce in the just demands of the other Powers." The Kreuz Zeitweg says, that in the early part of last week Lord Palmerston was in the receipt of a note from the Russian Cabinet, in which " The complaints of the Euglish Government as to the manner in which Russia has carried out the stipula tions of the treaty of peace, meet with a complete answer. The note is de'cribed as taking one by one each fact of which the English Government makes a reproach, and in each case depriving it of all ground for complaint equally firmly and happily. The note tken expresses itself in general terms with reference to the mistrust shown by the English Government. It is said in it, Russia concluded peace in the full hope and expecta tion that confidence would fully and completely return ; this expectation, however, could not be others; ise than completely disappointed by the distrustful policy that England had assumed. One passage is more particu larly worth notice in the Russian note. The English Government ha I, it appears, on some ocea , ion declared that if it could have known beforehand how Russia would have put the terms of peace into execution it would have kept its troops six months langer in the Crimea. To this the Russian Cabinet answers, that would of itself have put an end to the peace." RUSSIA. The following letter in the Hamburger Doreen Halle, from a correspondent in St. Petersburg, dated 18th inst., is well worth notice. "It is affirmed that this Cabinet has laid down for itself as the rule of its policy a wise moderation and reserve wills reference to the internal politics of the States of Europe. The recent events in Spain, their results more puticularly, have excited its attention to a very high pitch, and meet with univer sal approbation at Court. A sitni'ar acknowledgment has also not been withheld from the attitude and b!aring of the Neapolitan G tvernrnew and of the internal policy of Denmark. It is, ho - vever, incorrect to suppeee that this Cabinet has in any way communicated to the respective courts its approbation, dliapprobation, or ad vice. Tide resolution of the government, which meets also with the ,sympa'.hy of th e majority, is evidenced in the en d avours it is making to maintain a good understanding with France, and to consult the commercial interests of England by moderating the tariff. France's motives for not prosecuting the war further men here kno w how to ap preciate, and M. de Monty, L.)rd Granville, and Count E ;tort" lay will have opportunities of remarking it. It has produced great satisfaction here to find that France has not made the tardy surrender of Kars a 3.1 the lighting up afresh of the light-house on the Isle of Serpents ground for a vote of want of confidence in this cabi net. All the attemots are in vain to justify the want of delicacy that E tgland has shown in reminding Russia, at the very moment when an Ambassador from her to the coronation was about to show himself here, that Russian newspapers committed a mistake in IEZS when they affirmed that the Black Sea was a Russian Sea. D'ailleurs, the events in the East will in no way deteriorate our relations with F:•anee, and the present Government will avoid, as mach as that of Alexander I. did, exciting the illwill of Eagland by any measures adverse to the cora• mercial interests of Great Britain. Measures have been alreidy taken which evidence the serious intention of the G v3rtiment to remove all unnecessary obstacles from .31n-nerce as far as it is possible for it to go. In this respect I need only point to the reduction of the duties on sugar, which lately alarmed our manufacturers of beet-root sugar so excessively that the press received in s•ructions to put a stop to all its discussions about pro hibitive and pratective systems." The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 17th has the following under the head of Court News : On Tuesday the 14th inst. his Excellency Lord Granville, Ambassador Extraordinary of her Bri tannic Majesty, had the honour to be received in audience by his Majesty the Emperor, on which occasion his Excellency handed in his credentials, Immediately afterwards there were presented to his Majesty Sir R. Peel, Secretary to the Embassy, and Lord Seymour, the Earl of Dalkeith, the Eat of Lincoln, L )rd Ashley, Lord 'Ward, the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Cavendish, the Hon. G. Pon sonby, the Hon. L. Gower, Colonel Hardinge, Colonel Maude, Sir J. D. Acton, Mr. V. Lister, and Dr. Sandwith, attaches. At the termination of the audience Lord Gran ville and the above-named members of his suite had the honour of being presented to her Majesty the Empress. On the same day his Highness Prince Esterhazy, Ambassador Extraordinary of his Imperial and Apostolical Majesty, had the honour of being re ceived in audience by his Majesty the Emperor, and delivered his credentials. Immediately afterwards their Highnesses Cap• tain Prince Esterhazy, Captain Prince Schwarzen berg, and Lieutenant Prince of Tour-and-Taxis, with the Chamberlains Count Gallenberg, Count Apponyi, and Count Chotck, attaches of the Em bassy, were presented to his Imperial Majesty, and subsequently to her Majesty the Empress. On the same day Lady Granville, the Mar chioness of Stafford, Lady Peel, and Lady Leveson Gower, had the honour of being presented to her Majesty the Empress. After these presentations, Colonel Count Petitti, the Chevalier Major Cugia, and the Marquis of Spinola, attaches of the Sardinian Legation ; Mr. 0. Adams, attache of the British Legation ; Colo nel Colt and Mr. Jarvis, attaches of the United States' Legation ; Professor Morse, citizen of the United States, Count Parravacini, and the Mar quis Visconti Aymi, foreigners of distinction, had the honour of being presented to his Majesty the Emperor, and subsequently to her Majesty the Empress. The Countess Parravacini, Mrs. Colt, and Mrs. Jarvis, also had the honour of being presented on the same day to her Majesty the Empress. NAPLES. The news that 13;ron de Hubner was charged with a special mission from the Austrian Govern ment to the King of Naples, which has been very much questioned, is now confirmed. A despatch from Naples of August 17 announces that Baron Hubner arrived there the evening before, and had left for Gaeta to see the King. A letter of the 11th inst. from Naples, in the Correspondance, Italienne, says that on the 7th of Aug., the anniversary of St. Gaetano, while the King's carriage, escorted by his body guards and hussars, WAS pwing the orLer Q the Yid, swat SPAIN. Private letters from Madrid state as a positive fact, that after the degree of the dissolution of the militia, tho Government intended to publish two more-Ist, Dissolving the Constituent Cortes ; 2d, Establishing the Conservative Constitution of 1845. But their courage failed them before these decrees were promulgated. The Debuts of yesterday contains a letter of con siderable length from Madrid, in which we road : " It has been decided to return to the constitu tion of 1845, modified in some respects, and com pleted by an additional act intended to fortify the authority of the throne, and to guarantee to the Spanish people the possession and enjoyment of their rights. It is probable that a new Cortes will bo shortly convoked in order solely to deliberate upon a project of this kind presented in the name of the Queen. It is said that the Cortes will be composed of a single assembly ; that the members of this assembly will be elected by colleges framed according to a combination of the regulations adopted in 1837, 1845 and 1856 ; that the elec tions will be by district and not by pro vince, and that each college will elect its deputy." The correspondent goes on to state that this scheme is due more especially to M. Rios Roses, but that the rest of the ministers agreed to it with out difficulty. The same writer asserts that the indignation of M. Rosas has been excited by the efforts which are being made by persons in the confidence of the Queen to induce her to break altogether with the constitutional regime. The elections in Sweden have returned to the Diet a Liberal majority. The session ensuing will be much occupied with railway projects. The government proposes a complete system of railways connecting the North Sea with th© Baltic and the towns of Christiania, Gottonburg, and Upsal, with the capital, at a cost of 128,000,000 fr. THE BISHOPRIC OF LONDON. The public will learn with regret and alarm that powerful efforts are now making to prevailon Lord Palmerston to nominate Dr. Waddington, the Dean of Durham, as succe ssor t o D r . Blomfield, in the diocese of London. We adjure Lord Palmerston, both for the sake of vital religion, and for his own sake, not to listen to the solicitations with which he has for some time past been so earnestly and incessantly plied to- induce him to make such an appointment. It would cause the deepest pain and grief in the minds of all those who rejoiced so greatly in the Noble Lord's recent appointments to the bishoprics of Carlisle - and Bristol, and would de prive him of all the prestige which these two ap pointments have given him. His Lordship, we happen to know, bad fully made up his mind, five or six weeks ago, to bestow the vacant diocese of London on another and very different person. The appointment of the latter would have been popular with all parties, both in the Church and out of it ; for the clergyman to whom we refer not only is, of necessity, from his position and locale, intimately acquainted with the ecclesiastical necessities of the metropolitan diocese, but there is not within the pale of the Church of England a single minister of that Church more devotedly attached to her doc trines and ritual, nor one who surpasses him in his zeal, or unremitting efforts, to promote what he regards as her best interests. We repeat that Lord Palmerston had quite decided, but a few brief weeks ago, to make this exempl ar y c l ergyman the successor of the present Bishop of London ; and we do again express our earnest hope that he will not only disregard the improper influences which have been brought to bear upon him, in fa vour of the most disastrous appointment which he could make, but that he will carry out his original intention. —Morning Advertiser. The Queen and Prince take great interest in the grounds at Osborne, a-4.1 the progress of the plantations. A considerable portion is the fruit of their own handi work, and the Prince himself wields the gardeners' irre• p'ements with no little skill, showing himself as much at home in this matter as in scientific and other intellectual employments, or the state ceremonies of the Court. In the lighter operations of the garden Mince Albert is ge nerally accompanied by the Queen, who will also often give assistance, and it is this personal identification and interest in the growth and progress of Osborne which generated the idea of the annual rural fete that has just b'en celebrated in honour of the Prince's birthday.— Court Cite/day. • Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duks of Cam bridge honoured Mr. Mayan's photographic establish ment with a visit. After going through the gallery of portraits of eminent men, the gallant duke gave a sitti ng , and the artist succ ee d e d in obtaining a singularly suc cessful likeness. His Royal Highness wore the undress uniform of General-in-Chief. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh and family have arrived at Fleury Castle from Byreoluch. The Marquis of Normanby arrived at Parma on the 17th from Piacenza, where he had lia-1 an audience of the Duchess Regent, and continued his journey on the same day for Florence. General Changarnier has arrived at Ostend, and is expected to make a stay there of several weeks. M. Niebuhr, the Prussian General of State, has just recovered from an ophthalmic attack, and has mitered upon his official duties. The Viceroy of Poland, Prince Gortschakoff, left on the 19th for Moscow in orier to be present at the coro nation. We read in the Gazette des Pastes of Frankfort, " The Spanish Infant Dan Juan, who, it has been said. was at Bordeaux, is staying with his motherdn•law, the Princess Beira, at Baden, near Vienna." THE FORTHCOMING REGISTRA-TIONS. —The revi,ing barristers are appointing the days for the revision of the lists of voters. The revision must take place between the 15th September and the 31st October. Mr. Mac• queen has fixed the registration for the borough of Fins. bury, at the Lord Justices' Court, Lincoln's-inn, for Wednesday, the Bth October. A letterirom Vicar za, in the Opinione of Turin, says, " The hatred of Austrian rule is displayed here whenever al opportunity occurs,. Llet week, General Schneider, being at the baths of Recoaro, wanted to give a ball, and sent invitations accordingly to all the ladies that were there for the benefit of their health. None of them accepted." FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE MEDWAY.—On Friday after noon a boat belonging to H.M.S. Trafalgar, left the Sheerness pier with seven persons in it, three men, three women, and a boy, who were going on board the Trafal gar. The wind a: the time was blowing almost a hu.ri cane, and on approaching that vessel they missed the gangway ladder', and the boat drifted astern. The sea at that moment caught the boat under the ship's quarter, and capsized her, the whole of tic persons in the boat being thrown into the water. The boatswain of H.M.S. Devonshire immediately put off in a boat, and succeeded in rescuing five of the persons. A man named Griffiths was floating on the surface of the water with his face downwards, and appeared to be dead. He was imme diately taken on board the Formidable, where the usual remedies were resorted to to restore suspended anima tion, but without effect. The body of a woman named Maycock was not recovered. MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.—One of those dreadful tra gedies, arising met of a vicious course of life, occurred between twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning, in Bond-street, Liverpool. A man, named William Ray, formerly one of the police-officers of the town, has, for some time past, been lodging at a house in Bond-street, Vauxhall-road, with an abandoned woman, Emily Mason by name, both of them living upon the fruits of her disgraceful traffic. Ott Saturday night they quarrelled ; but towards midnight a reconciliation was effected, and a jug of ale was fetched in by the woman. They again quarrelled over the liquor, and Ray struck her. His pen-knife, with which he had been cutting cavendish tobacco, lay open upon the table, and she threatened that if he struck her again she would "stick" him. He dealt her another blow, when she immediately snatched up the knife, and plunged the blade in his breast, pro ducing a wound about two inches deep under the left nipple, in the region of the heart. He rose from the table and went into an upper room, occupied by the master of the house, a man named Duffy. " Duffy," ho said, " I'm done." " What's the matter ?" said Duffy. "Oe, it's my toe," replied Ray. Duffy went to him, and perceiving blood trickling from under his trou sera, he examined him, and found the wound in the breast. This was all the work of a few moments. The woman came in at this juncture, and Ray shook her by the hand, and said, " I forgive you." He then fell back and expired. Subsequently the woman gave herself up to police-officer 112 (kl'Donald), to whom she gave the knife with which she had stabbed deceased. When re moved to the Main Bridewell, she made a full confes sion, we believe, to Scott, the book-clerk, the particu lars of which will transpire at the police-court to day. Some time after this dreadful occurrence, Catherine Burns, aged forty-one, a poor woman, living in Eldon street, was walking along Bond-street, when a man named Dedd, or Hobbs, charged her with being the woman who had committed the murder, and knocked her down, causing her a severe scalp wound. She was removed to the Northern Hospital, and he wag taken into auet9dy,—Liverpool AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal mail steam-ship Arabia, Stone, com mander, belonging to the Cunard Company, arrived in the Mersey this afternoon from Boston and Halifax. She has 78 passengers and $503,333 in specie. The Arabia sailed from Boston at 1,25 p.m. on the 13th. The Arabia's passage has been delayed by fogs and easterly winds. The political news by this arrival is far from being important, and the general news of but little interest. The papers all contain Mr. Secretary Marcy's despatch on the privateering question. The elections have commenced, but have not pro gressed sufficiently to indicate what the character of the forthcoming Senate or house will be. Iu the Senate of the oth a substitute for the bill regulating the pay of members of Congress was re ported ; it proposes giving them $2,500 a year, instead of $3,000, with a proviso that If books be presented to members, the price of the same shall be deducted from their annual pay. In the Senate, on the 11th, Mr. Douglas, of the committee on territories, reported back to the house the bill to re-organise the territory of Kansas, with a report declaring the Senate bill now before the house the best plan for the pacification of Kan sas that the Senate can devise. Mr. Collamer, of Vermont, made a minority report in favour of the enactment of the house bill, which was tabled by a vote of 35 to 12. A debate took place on the re solution introduced on Saturday, calling for infor mation relative to Col. Fremont's accounts, in the course of which Mr. Trumbull, of Ohio, offered au amendment calling on the Pre s id en t for similar information in regard to Mr. Buchanan, particu larly showing how much money had been paid him-since he entered public life, his correspondence relating to the Ostend conference, and the reasons of his removal from his position as Minister to Great Britain. The amendment was rejected, and the resolution adopted. Th© Executive, Le gislative, and Judicial Appropriation Bill was then taken up, and the item appropriating $183,000 for books for members of the house struck out. In the House of Representatives the committee on ways and means introduced a bill reducing the duties on imports, the consideration of which was postponed until e third Monday in December. The President returned to the house the bill for improving the pes Moines Rapids, with his objec tions ; and the house repassed the bill, notwith standing the President's veto, by a vote of 130 to St. The Army Bill, returned to the Senate with the Sherman proviso struck out, was taken up. Mr. Pennington, of New Jersey, offered an amend ment for the Sherman proviso, which was adopted, and the bill so amended returned to the Senate. The Lighthouse and Post Office Appropriation Bills were passed. The new Tariff Bill, introduced into the house by Mr. Camploell, increases the list of articles duty free which enter into American manufacture, and ara not produced in this country. It is estimated the bill will, if passed, reduce the annual revenue about $6,000,000. Judge M'Lane has not issued a writ of habeas corpus in the case of the persons charged with treas son in Kansas. Application has been made to him to issue a writ, but refused. It was reported that the President had removed the two Kansas judges, and that the treason indictments would be quashed. The treasurer of the committee to raise funds for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in France, acknowledges subscriptions to the amount of $9,649. The boiler attached to a patent iron safe manu factory at Brooklyn exploded on the 9th, demo lishing about one-half of the building, and killing three persons and wounding some 15 others. The noise of the explosion was heard at a great distance. A meeting of European refugees in New York was held ou Sunday, the 10th, in order to perfect measures to enable the revolutionists in that coun try to depart for Europe on the first siQns of a re volution. About 300 persons, mostly Frenchmen, were in attendance. After considerable discussion, a resolution was adopted to invite the citizens of the different nations residing in the city to elect three delegates each, to attend a convention to be held at the same place, to unite in a general com mittee, and adopt such measures as they may think necessary to further the objects in view. Much damage was occasioned at the Eastward by a storm on Friday night, the Bth. In Boston it is spoken of as the most severe experienced for many years. The Merrimac River rose 11 feet,and much damage is said to have been done in Hamp shire. The damage in Wentworth is estimated at $15,090 or $20,000. The lighthouse on Plum Island, near Newburyport, was struck by lightning, set on fire, and totally destroyed. Railroad travel is reprted to be mach impeded. A Vera Cruz ci . rrespondent, writing on July 23, states that the Spanish claims settlement conven tion sittini , in that city was progressing towards an honest settlement of the just debts under the coun sels of President Comma - orb and Senor Alvarez. Seventeen priests had been exiled to Havannah for their agitation against the Church Property Bill at Puebla. Two millions of silver dollars were en route to England. Cotnonfort was highly popular. The yellow fever was very prevalent in Mexico city. We have interesting news from Northern Mexico. General Vidaurri, who assumes the character of an ultra States-rights champion, as far as he under stands it, is out against President Comonfort, who is charged with a variety cf political offences, the chief of which apppears to be that he continues popular, and is opposed to Vidaurri. The order to deliver up the government of the northern depart ment to Senor Rodriguez is point blank disre garded, and it is expected that a collision between the federal forces and Vidaurri's partisans may be the consequence. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORE:, AUGUST 11, P.M. Foreign Exchanges for to•morrow's mail are very dull, and with an increased supply in the market, the sales up to this evening have been extremely limited. Bankers reluctantly yield to lower rates, but the tenden3y em tictes downwards. We quote bankers' signatures 60 days' sight on London, 1094 ; Paris, sf. 16i c. ; Antwerp, sf. 17;c. ; Amsterdam, 41/ ; Hamburgh, 361 ; Bremen, 79 ; Frankfort, 41g ; Berlin, Leipsic, and Cologne, 721. COTTON.—The sales footed up about 1,000 bales, the market closing somewhat irregular ; that is, to have effected free sales some concession would ave to be made, and to purchase considerable lots buyers would hive been compelled to have paid very full prices. BREADSTUFFS.—The foreign advices had a bad effect upon the flour market; Southern kinds felt off 20c. per brl., and other descriptions 10e. to 16c ; common to goad brands of State flour sold at $7 75 to $5 90 ; extra ditto, $6 to $6 25 ; Genesee, $3 50 to $9 50 ; common to good Baltimore, &c., $7 50 to $7 75 ; extra ditto, $7 80 to $8 75 ; Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, lowa, &c., $6 20 to $7 50 for common to choice extra, and $5 80 to $6 10 for common. Canada flour was rather dull at $6 to $7 60. PROVISIONS.—Pork rather dull. Sales of mess mode rate at $l9 811 to $l9 873,, and prime at $l7 87A to $lB. Beef is inactive and prices barely sustained—Re packed Chicago sold at $ll to $l2 50. NAVAL STORES —Sales of spirits of turpentine were made at 44c. Common rosin is held at $1 623 to $1 63. Rough turpentine is scarce, and not offered. Lots to arrive would bring $3 50. Tar, from the yard, can be be bought at $2 50. FREIGHTS.—DuII: We quote—To Liverpool—Cotton, square bales, per lb, d ; flour, per brl, is 3d to i s 6d ; Rosin, per brl, is 9 d to 23; heavy good., cheese, Ste., per ton, 15s to 203; grain, per bushel, 53d to bid. To London—Cheese, per ton, 303; flour, per brl, 2s 7ii . to 2s 91; rosin and turpentine, per 2801 b, 2s 73d to 23 9d ; furs and skins, &c., per ton, 303; heavy goods, oil, &c., 25s to 30s ; beef, trcs, 63; oil cake, per ton, 253; grain, 8d to 9J. To Havre—Cutton, square bales, per lb, 3c ; whalebone, &c., per lb, is ; ashes, per ton, $8 ; rice, 49. (LATEST BY THE TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, EVENING, 14TH. The steamer Kangaroo arrived at Philadelphia on the 13th. The New York money market to-day is active.. Cotton is lower ;'New Orleans middling quoted 11i, and middling uplands 14. Flour is dearer, excepting western. Southern wheat unchanged. Exchange on London, 1091. NEW ORLEANS, EVENING, 11Th. Sales of cotton for the week, 2,000 bales ; mid dling quoted 10ic. Freight declined to 9-32(1. Exchange on London, 1091. NEW YORK (SECOND DESPATCH), P.M., 14T11. Since Tuesday we have received 1,500,000 dols. in gold from California. The English steamer Panama has been lost near Cape Tamori ; crew saved, but ship a total loss. NEW YORK, EVENING, 15TH. The money market today was active. Sterling exchange flat, and an eighth lower. Cotton quiet. Breadstuffs active, and tendency upwards. NEW YORK, P.M., 15TH. A formidable revolution has broken out in St. Domingo. HALIFAX, 14TH. Change in Ministry to-day : Mr. Wilkins appointed Judge, vice Judge Mali burton (Sam Slick) resigned. Henry, Provincial Secretary. Archibald, Solicitor-General. Time for elections unknown. Mr. Howe will come out for the townebip cf Windsor. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN. The report of the directors of this company states that the small expenditure since the last report may be re garded as balanced by the interest which has accrued due on the funds of the company in the hands of the Ac countant-General. In the last session the Great Northern Railway Company assented to the insertion of powers to enable them to subscribe 175,000/. in the capital of this company, and to enter into traffic arrangements. Negotiations thereupon ensued between the two compa nies, which are still in progress. The arrangement which has been publicly announced between certain of the shareholders and Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P., has insured the distribu'ion of a large number of shares held by those gentlemen during the late monetary crisis, which tended so much to weaken the position of the company. The di rectors have elected that gentleman chairman of their board, but they regret that a severe attack of illness has hitherto prevented him taking upon himself the active duties of that office. The directors have entered into a contract to complete the works for a fixed sum, which will include all contingencies connected with roads, sewers, water and gas pipes, and other similar items. The shareholders have now the assurance that a double line of inked gauge from Paddington to the Post-office can be completed within the company's available capital. The directors have secured the right of purchasing a large area of the vacant land abutting on the new street leading from Farringden•street. Regard being had to the position of the land, its shape and extent, the cost at which it has been obtained, and its importance to the larger railway companies with which it is intended to connect the Metropolitan, this acquisition must be deemed of great value. The capital account shows that 123,3001. h received, and 80,173/. expended, leaving a b as been 71,2501. in the hands of the Accountant-GenalaDoe of 12,7251. at the bankers'. eral, and OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAIIIP• TON. The capital account of this company shows that 3,959,4991. had been received to the 30th of June, and 3,747,9721. expended, leaving a balance of 211,5251. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June shows that 89,2831. had been received, and 60,8691. expended, leaving a balance of 28,4131. To *is rum is added 5841. from the preceding account, and 1,7381. from the Stourbridge Extension Canal, making 30,7371. From this is deducted 25,000/. for a half year's interest on debentures, 1,2681. half-year's rent of Stratford and Moreton Railway, 8001. loss on Stratford Canal, 400/. interest on deferred dividend warracts, and 465/. to the Chipping Norton Company for pro portion of traffic, making together 27,934/., and leaving 9,803/. CARLISLE AND SILLOTEf. It is intended to open this line for public traffic on Thursday next. The event is to be celebrated by a pub lic dinner at Silloth. . NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE. The directors of this company have announced their intention to pay, on the sth of September, an interme diate dividend of 21. 10s. per cent., less income tax, for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, on the ordi nary shares of the company, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Lichfield yesterday. Mr. R. Chawner presided. The report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. on 9/. 10s. for the half-year, and on 1/. ss. from the Ist of May to the 31st ult,, hav ing been declared, the meeting separated. NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION. The half•yearly meeting of this company was appoint ed to be held yesterday at the London Tavern, but in consequence of the non-attendance of a sufficient num ber of shareholders the meeting was adjourned sine die. WHITEHAVEN, CLEA.TOR, AND EGREMONT. The accounts of this company to the 30th of June last show that the total amount of capital authorised by act of Parliament to be raised is 66,6001.-50,000/. in shares, and 16,6001. by loans. The total receipts on revenue account amount to 3,510/. 2 and the expendit ure to 1,7381., leaving a b a l ance o f 1,7721. The directors pur pose recommending a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per auntie]. BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN. The half-yearly report of this company states that the revenue for Vie six months ended 31st July amounts to 7,0361., being an increase over the corresponding half yt.ar of 2331. The working expenses amounted to 2,705/. The balance-sheet showed a profit of 4,0631., and the directors recommend that a dividend of 14s. per share 1,0 declared, and a sum of 6701. be carried to the reserve fund. TILE QUEEN OF WIDE AND SUITE. SOUTHAMPTON, Aua. 25. Arrangements are about to be made for the speedy departure of the royal family of Oude from Southamp ton for London, where magnificent apartments will be fitted up fur them. The Queen Mother of Oude has told Mrs. Brandon, her interprelrees that the visit of the ladies of Southampton on Saturday gave her much pleasure. The two Piincee went out for a drive this afternoon for the first time since lauding. They rode out in a four horse barouche, driven by postilions. A number of eunuchs and naive gentlemen followed in flys. A large crowd assembled to witness them leave the hotel. The whole number of servants of all grades attending on the royal family and suits are 71, viz , 51 male and 21 female servants, 3 of the females devote thernselves entirely to the cooking for the Queen and princes. No Brahmin has come over with the Royal family. A 111001- wee, or priest of an inferior order, is, however, in their suite. His Sabbath is our Friday. Amongst the gentle men also in their suite is a Parsee, or fire-worshipper. The Hants Independent gives the following as the'ad dress made by Major Bird to the crowd who assembled in front of the hotel at Southampton on the occasion of the arrival of the Queen of Oude. With the King's bro ther on bis right hand, and the heir apparent on his left, the Mayor of Southampton and several of the officials of the Royal suite standing around, Major Bird stood for ward and addressed the public in the following terms : "I am deputed by her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Oude, by his Royal Highness the King of Oude's bro ther, and by his R oya l Hi g h ness the heir apparent, son of the King of Oude, to tender you their heartfelt thanks for the kind and warm manner in which you have welcomed them on their arrival in Great Britain— for your cheers, for your smiling faces. But, you will naturally ask, what is the cause of the advent of these reyal personages ? --why have they left their country and kingdom to visit Great Britain ? And the inquiry is, under the circumstances, one the reply to which is likely to enlist your sympathies. You will pardon me while I picture to ycu an aged Queen (nearly 60 years old), breuent up in all the pomp and luxury of the East, the soles of whose feet were scarcely allowed to tread the ground, laying aside the prejudices of travel, and undertaking a journey of some 10,000 miles, with the King's brother in one hand, and her grandson (the heir to the throne of Oude) in the other, and coming to the people of great Britain a suppliant for justice. Yes, fellow -countrymen, the royal family of Oude has come to appeal against that act of the East India Company which has deprived them of their throne and country. They have left the country of their birth, to beg at the hands of the people of Great Britain a full and impar tial inquiry into the causes which have led to the an nexation of the kingdom of Oude by the East India Government—an act which, lam sorry to say, appears to have been partially adopted by the British Govetn ment. It is not intended to conceal from you the diffi culties incidental on a retrograde step. There is no at tempt proposed to conceal anything, or to shrink from saying where wrong has existed ; but I claim from you a free, full inquiry, and justice, based on the conduct of Oude through a series of years towards that very Go vernment who have now taken the kingdom of Oude fri a that royal race whom the Marquis of Dalhousie, in his proclamation, acknowledges to have been ever faithful and true to their friendship with the English nation. What was the conduct of Oude during the Cabul dis aster, where thousands of our fellow-countrymen pe rished ? What was her conduct during the war with the estate of Gwaliur ? What position did she main tain during the wars with the Purjaub—that critical pe riod when victory was doubtful—when the Government securities fell to the lowest rate ever known— when in ducements to turn against the East Indian Govern ment were not wanting in the whispered propo sals rife throughout India. At that very time the King of Oude denuded his cavalry of horses, and spared men from his own regiments, to fill up the ranks of the Beet India Company's army ; and not only so, after every great milit ar y un d er t a ki ng t h e government of Oude have contributed largely towards the expenses of the wars carried on by their ally, the East India Govern ment. These contributions were not by hundreds, nor by thousands, but by millions of pounds sterling. At this very time the East India Government are indebted to the amount of two and a half millions sterling, for the loans made by the Kings of Oude at various times ; and this is the return—to deprive that royal faithful ally of his throne and kingdom. But, you will say, what is the plea ? The excuse put forward for this act is the deliverance of the people of Oude from the oppression and misrule under which they had suffered. Fellow countrymen, let us suppose that the Emperor cf the French, or some potentate more powerful than Great Britain, were to break existing treaties and deprive our most gracious Majesty of her throne, to save you from what that power considered misrule—methinks I hear you say "we would rather right ourselves." But, again, suppose your home and hearths should be inter fered with—suppose a more powerful neighbour was to deprive any of you of your homes and firesides, because you mismanaged your house—would you allow this ? (Cries of " No.") Will you, whose fathers and brothers have shed their blood to save Turkey from the aggression of Russia--will you, who have poured forth the magni ficent resources of this country to repel Russia from the annexation of two small provinces, will you permit the East India Government to take from this royal family a kingdom as large as Belgium, over which the uncle of our most gracious Queen presides ? Will you not grant a free inquiry into this act ? It is through the people of Great Britain alone, borne on their shoulders, that the cry for justice will be adulated. To you this royal family appeal for sympathy and support ; and, if you are will ing to give it, show your willingness by joining me in Three cheers fur the Royal Family of Oude.' Tae Major's address was warmly applauded through out, and, at its close, in response to the appeal made to them by the gallant gentleman, three hearty rounds of claveriug were giyen.