The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THE ATRE. This Theatre will Open for the Season on Monday nett, Septer„ber the let, when will be presented (first time under the present ms e . mut) Sheridan's tragic Flay of PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. After Wltich will be produced a new petite comedy, in two !lets, entitled, OTIR WIFE. Boob; of Sheridan's play of Pizarro, as arranged for representation the Royal Princess's Theatre, b y Charles Kean, with Historical Notes, are now ready, and may be had at the stage door of the thejatre in Oxford -street. Price Is. TR-EATER ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstont. THIS EVENING, SECOND LOVE. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, MT WIFE'S DAUGHTER. To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. RELAND AS IT 13. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To conclude with IRISH ASSURANCE AND YANKEE MODESTY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. After which, MEDEA. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ASTLEY'S 'ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Skakspeare's Richard the Third illustrated. THIS EVENING, The highly successful production, Slaakspeare's IrCFARP,. THE THIRD, with equestrian effects unprecedented, impotitig tableau cu. the " Death of White Surrey," Rattle of Bosworth Field, &c. After which, The ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP in the CIRCLE. To conclueLs with a round of varied entertainments. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. HIGFI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT—Morn. 0 min. aft. o—Evening 56 min. aft. 11 To-Mosnow—Morn.26 min. aft.l2 —Evening 54 min. aft.l2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 27. THER3fO3fETZB, IN THZ SHADS. 69 —highest since noon yesterday. 62 —lowest this morning and during the sight. 73 —this day at noon. BA aowrrzß, 29.88. Wrtn—Variable from S.W. to W.N.W. ; rather fresh, with fine sunshiny and cloudy weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to obser►e that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. .y , 0,i_w_, ,, ,,, 4 ._ --,.,. . „ .4 , ,-i.-,--,,, I T ., , ___,,,:,,_,„....., (~.. , , c, ,7%177 ~..,= 3113T0 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1856. If asked to name the distinguishing quality of the genuine despot, we should say it was malig nant brutality. Not the brutality of the drunken husband or the rude savage, but the brutality of a mind which relishes the torture and degrada tion it inflicts. There have been men who were despots by accident, like a NEnvA or a TRAJAN ; but they could have been happy enough with 1 halted power, and could rather have submitted to lose somewhat of it than to revel in the tor tures of their fellow-creatures. There have been others like - CROMWELL, who, though merciful at heart, could make all yield to their energetic wills, from an enlightened consciousness that they were serving the commonwealth in a na tional crisis, but who would rather have cut off their own right hand than sign the order to tor ture another. Severely just they could be 2ruel they could not be. But the true despot is consciously a guilty being ; he is a political Satan ; his very nature is enmity to political good —he can but hate civil and religious liberty, while he can neither blind his eyes to the excel lence of what he hates, and the nobleness of its advocates, nor to the selfish baseness of his own despotic nature. He therefore hates patriots as ABEL hate 1 CAIN ; he malignantly envies the approbation they enjoy, because it not only thwarts, if possible, his tyranny, but mirrors to himself as well as to the world the odiousness of his own disposition. Hence, from the times of the tyrants immortalised by Greek history, or even by the Sacred records, to this hour, these curses of humanity have been distinguished, at some period of their lives, by the malignant propensity to torture or degrade, or both, the noble patriots who could not forget their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. Our readers will excuse us if a glance at the world just now has betrayed us into a kind of philosophising strain. The illustrations of our remarks from things as they are are so glaring that any one may be pardoned for letting them fall. Two European Rulers, in particular, are now thrust upon our attention by their resist ance to the counsels of England especially, as un disguised tyrants, and the insane cruelty of their conduct is raising a universal groan of dis gust with them, and sympathy with their victims. Naples keeping Austria in countenance, and Austria repaying by uph&ding the southern Mo narch against his subjects. It must be confessed that the dark inspirations of Jesuitism have long co-operated with the hereditary cruelty of the Bourbon and Hapsburg races. S u p ers titi on and bigotry, its offspring, have always delighted in torturing those whose superior light they could not extinguish, or whom they could not compel to hypocrisy ; and when the cruelty of religions fanaticism and that of enraged tyranny combine, of course they convert the human being almost into a fiend. It is also a deplorable ag. gravation of the evil that the despot, as the enemy of the human race, is essentially suspiciou -, , that he cannot imagine himself safe without a host of spies and informers, and a bribed military guard, and that hence thousands, innocent of any thing but the common hatred of oppression, are denounced and tortured as actual conspirators. But the other day we had to record an atrocity —the savage murder of CICERUACCIIIO and his sons and companions—which broke down even the stilted moderation of the Times itself, and brought forth a peal of stately thunder. What but a ran corous pleasure in cruelty could have induced a Prince of the Imperial family to shoot men driven ashore by stress of weather, men owing no alle giance to Austria, and who had violated no law ; voluntary exiles merely from-. Rome when the President of the French Republic strangled the liberties of the Roman Republic ; their leader a man of distinguished probity, endeared to all classes of Roman citizens, his two sons, one but nineteen, th© other but thirteen years of agol what, we repeat, must have been the malignity and the cruelty which could butcher such an inof fensive band with every circumstance of atrocity, 'Peeling thekiu of the head and fingers of THE SUN% LONDON; WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1856, UGo Bassi, the priest, and knocking and kicking to death two boys whom their bullets had left , struggling for life ! The genius of a SnAKsrERE or a DANTE could hardly invent execrations be fitting this deed of a Hapsburg. Take another. They arrest FELICE ORSINI at Heirmanstadt travelling under a feigned name, arrest him on suspicion merely ; they know of no charge against him, though they subsequently did. Now, allowing despots to punish convicted political offenders, what are we to think of subjecting them, prior to conviction, nay even prior to examina tion, to the most revolting cruelties ? ORSINI was at once thrown into a damp dungeon, allowed only a straw mattress and two blankets, and denied books to read, and even a change of linen. Attacked, in consequence, with agonising spasms for forty-eight hours, he was for days refused a medical man, and when he began to recover his health and appetite, he was not only not permitted to purchase needful food, but allowed so little bread that he was almost deliri ous, and in danger of dying from hunger. All this time he was not allowed sheets or towels, or even a basin to wash in One is at a loss to conceive the fiendish malignity which could treat thus a gentleman, and man of education, as yet merely suspected. With like brutality he was conveyed on some straw in an open waggon, during a bitter frost, and loaded with irons, to Vienna. Of course, the .head-quarters of Hapsburg bru talities must more than outvie provincial savagery ; he was thrown into one dungeon after another. iresifully ill, ironed. the • stench and • vermin so intolerable, that he nauseated the wretched food provided him ; even the water was too filthy to be drunk, and frequently swarmed with worms. His companions were five thieves of the lowest description. Nothing in all the maltreatment of this high-minded Italian struck us so much as the wanton suffering inflicted on a gentleman, and inflicted before trial. And all the treatment of political prisoners, their heavy chains, their damp dungeons, their revolting food, are all as minutely regulated from Vienna, as they were in the days of SILNIO PELLICO. Young FRANCIS JOSEPH, to please whom we sacri ficed such thousands of our brave soldiers, must bear the odium to all ages of these loathsome and gratuitous cruelties. His conduct is worthy of the repulsive features which we have seen in a bust, opposite Ito that of the noble bust of Kos- STITH. The brutality of the SOVEREIGN pervades all the Austrian soldiers and officers. There is not among civilised troops probably such a set of un chivalrous cowards as Austrians and their com manders. Their delight is to cut and ,hack unarmed civilians, they dread to meet an armed foe, Russian, Hungarian, or Turk. Anything more infamously cruel than their system of espionage was hardly ever invented ; whoever does not inform the police of any signs of disaffec tion he has witnessed, be it in his friend or rela tive, is liable to five years of the carcere duro. The code defines this punishment thus—" The condemned shall be confined in a dungeon, se cluded from all communication, with only as much light and space as is necessary to sustain life ; he shall be constantly loaded with heavy fetters on the hands . and feet ; he shall never, except during the hours of labour, be without a chain attached to a circle of iron round his body ; his diet shall be bread and water ; a hot ration (consisting of slices of bread steeped in hot water and flavoured with tallow) every second day, but never any animal food ; his bed to be composed of naked planks, and he shall be for bidden to see any one without exception." We can but ask is the brute who can retain and en force a punishment like this for what is no crime at all, or even for heinous crimes, is such a brute fit to have an English Ambassador at his Court, to be dealt with as a gentleman and a ma❑ of honour ; and, Ciedite posteri, to be employed as a silver-tongued NESTOR to soften the heart of the obdurate' savage who deals out to POERIO and his companions Austrian penalties ? We need not describe again the infamous Ins tinado on the cavalletto, nor illustrate further what tyrants can do in the case of FRANCIS JOSEPH'S counterpart BOMBA—brutality, wanton, cruel brutality is the modern tyrant's stigma, the markset on these CAINS. Would that they tlo were wanderers and vagabonds on the face of the earth—or, off its face. To blame assassina tion and insurrection under such laws and gover nors is literally childish. Men must be maddened to almost anything. They cease to be account able to the ordinary r ales of prudence when plagued from day to day, and from night to night, with such devilry under the name of Government. But what shall we say to Cayenne ? What, of gentlemen accustomed to the best society, and poorer, yet worthy men, all guilty only of opposition to the subversion of law, the destruc tion of the constitution, and the inauguration of an irresponsible empire, by a President who had sworn to maintain what he overthrew,—and yet —sentenced for this crime only to the toil of galley slaves, to the "Isle of Despair"—and to working in a chain fastened to a cannon shot. Can Louis NAPOLEON—our ally—cherish the rancour of a Hapsburg or a Bourbon ? Can he willingly bear the tyrant's stigma malignant brutality ? Will he venture, now that all Europe knows it, to retain unconvicted prisoners in disgraceful bondage (most disgraceful, however, to him), mainly because they did not believe in the Divine Right of the coup cret3t of 1851 ? " FREMONT stock" is still rising rapidly in the Transatlantic market, and there is reason to lac- Hove that the Gallant Colonel may yet succeed in obtaining the absolute majority at the first elution, which will disappoint the hopes of BITCHANAN, FILLIMORE, BRECKENRIDGE, and their respective adherents. The best possible proof has been afforded of this auspicious result. The value of real estate at Washington, and, by a necessary consequence, in the Southern estates, has been msiderably affected. Quotations have fallen, and a capitalist desirous of making investments in sable stock may now do so on very advantage ous terms. And yet Colonel FREMONT is not a thorough going Abolitionist. He by no means pledges himself to the overthrow of the " domestic in stitution," or insists on an immediate enfranchise ment of the coloured population. " The head and front of his offending" is, simply, that he re fwes his assent to any further extension of the Slave system, or the admission of new Slave States into the Union. He will not "go the whole hog" with the Southern States, and is therefore regarded as an enemy. The very moderation of his views enhances the danger, inasmuch as he is thereby rendered more capable of sapping the foundations, and leading to the ultimate extinction of the iniquitous practice. The Southern Yankees are well aware that a state of chronic excitement is indispensable to the con tinuance of the system. The moment "terrorism" is abandoned it must necessarily fall to the ground, and whenever it has not all the energies of the Government for the time being enlisted in its favou r it must gradually sink in the social scale. The Transatlantic " protectionists" are even more zealous in their vocation, and more gloomy in their vaticinations, than their English brethren were some ten years since. Slavery is to them what the Corn Laws were supposed to be to the English agriculturist the very " Palladium" whereon their security depended. Could they be induced to reason calmly, and to take a dispas sionate view of the subject, they would soon per ceive that free labour could be procured as cheaply, and would be fully as efficacious as that which they are now straining every nerve to maintain in all its fearful atrocity. The cow-hide, powerful as it may be deemed, is by no means so efficient an instrument as the desire of obtaining " a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," and enjoying the moderate comforts that under the new regime will be placed withia the reach of every well-disposed labourer. At present all things are viewed through a distorted medium. Slaveowners altogether ignore the notion of going OR without compulsory labour. They think that the change would be perfect ruin, and thus attacked on the tenderest point they are ready to proclaim war to the knife on behalf of that which gives them, as they believe, the " means whereby they live." Hence have they thrown themselves heart and soul into the con - test. Hence have they supported Lynch law in their own districts—the forcible invasion of Kan sas, and the ruffianly assault on Mr. SUMNER in the Senate. They are, in fact, in an abnormal state, feeling that their future condition entirely depends on feverish and almost convulsive efforts during the present contest. The question is, indeed, one of vast importance, on the solution whereof depends the welfare and prosperity—nay, more, the future respectability— of the United States' Government. If the gigantic natural resources of the magnificent territory be duly and properly developed, the "statesmen" may become the greatest benefactors of their species. The domestic institution is the curse which hang 3 over them, and which brings an avenging NEMESIS into the field. The rejec- tion of Colonel FItEMONT would be the signal flr their speedy ruin—for the commencement of a contest which would be far more injurious than any as yet anticipated. There would be a speedy solution of the interesting problem, with nothing to break their fall. Should it be other wise they will have ample time to set their houses in order, and to get out of the difficulty without loss, if they decide on a speedy retreat ; or, should they have the moral courage to meet the new state of affairs, to find that their position has been really materially im• proved. The Southerns will really be the parties to reap the greatest benefits from Colonel FREMONT'S election; but, in the meantime, every philanthropist, every one desiring the happiness of his fellow-beings—the peace and tranquillity of the world—must feel deeply interested in a ques tion by which these matters will be so greatly affected. The population of London, and more particu larly the poorer portion, are not a little indebted to the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health, for the able and practical Report of the Committee appointed by the latter to inquire into the Alleged Sale of Unwholesome Meat in the Metropolis. To be assured of the existence of danger may or may not be deemed a boon, just as provision can or cannot be made against it— but when the warning is accompanied by the sug gestion of adequate means of prevention there can be no doubt of a real and important service having been rendered. The Report in question, a copy of which will be found in another page of our present impres sion, establishes the fact of unsound meat being extensively, and in large quantities, offered for sale is the metropolis—points out the appearances pre sented by the various kinds of diseased meat, reveals the pernicious results of eating such meat, arid, finally, gives the public assurance that the Legis lature has already provided adequate means for putting a stop in the long run to the sale of it. Such meat, we are informed, has been found ex posed pretty generally for sale in Southwark, Bermondsey, the Holborn districts, and in. large quantities in Newgate market. In the latter place, thanks to the City Inspector, it is promptly seized when offered, but at the expense, we are afraid, of the outskirts of the metropolis, to which, there is too much reason to believe, un sound meat from the country is secretly and sys tematically conveyed. The appearances presented by such meat are principally the following, which ought to be known as such by the public. In the first place, the colour is either dingy or too bright. Secondly, the smell is peculiarly sour and sickening, even when it is fresh. Thirdly, besides such meat being soft, flabby, and not set, there is a peculiar and de cided wetness about it. In addition to these appearances, there are marks indicative of special diseases, and of the animal having been killed when out of condition. For these the reader must consult the report. Among the con sequences of eating such meat is, in the opinion of the committee, the occasioning of tapeworm and other hydatids, of debility, poverty of blood, and many of the intractable maladies by which the poor are afflicted. The preventive measures are indictable at common law and a number of special enactments, including the Nuisance Removal Act, as well as others of a local nature —the primary steps to be taken by the existing inspectors of nui sances, who should be authorised to act as sanitary inspectors. The great amount of poverty in the metropolis, the high price of meat, and the neces sity of the labouring poor having this description of food, together with the immense sale of sausages, into which all filthy and unwholesome meat regu larly finds its way and is engulphed beyond the possibility of detection by the public, attach more than ordinary importance to this subject, which for the present we must leave the metropolitan reader to ponder over, assuring him that, directly or indirectly, he is personally interested in it. COLONEL COLT'S RECEPTION AT ST. PETERSBURG. The Journal of ,bt. Petersburg of the 17th inst., after giving an account of the reception of the various ambassadors and persons of distinction at the Imperial Court on the 23, states that " Col. Colt and his brother-in-law, Mr. Jarvis, attached to the Legation of the United States of America ; Professor Morse, citizen of the United States ; the Count Paravicini, and the Marquis Visconti Aymi, foreigners of distinction, had the honour to be presented, first, to his Ma jesty the Emperor, and afterwards to her Majesty the Empress. "The Countess of Paravicini, Mrs. Colt, and Miss Jarvis had also the honour to bo presented the same day to the Empress." G;lieral Sir Richard England, G.C.8., LU., Lady England, and suite, are staying at Morrisson's House, Dublin. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry F. Ponsonby, 24 Grena dier Guards, late Private Secretary to and A.D.C. on the S'Aff of his Excellency the Lord• Lieutenant, has arrived in Dublin, on his return from service in the Crimea. . COL. LAKE, C. 8., OF BARS.--We are sure that the majority of our readers will be glad to hear that the Company, thinking that the occaiion is one to justify a departure from established precedent, propose to attach to C)1. Lake's retiring pension a personal allowance of 1001. per annum, on account of his distinguished ser vicee.—S4itit, Elder, and Cc's Ovolfina alai(. DEATH OF STAUDIGL.—A letter from Vienna, in tho Augsburg Gazelle, announces the death of Staudigl the singer. He died in a madhouse. Mr. Andrew, the chairman of the Euphrates Valley Railway and European and Indian Junction Telegraph Companies, transacted business yesterday with Lord Clarendon, at the Foreign office. The Pope has just appointed the following council• lora of State for the finance—Prince Orsini, for Rome and its province ; Count Roncbi, for Ferrara ; Count Beni, for Urbino and Pessro ; and Dr. Joseph Nebbia, for Ascoli. INLAND BOOK POST.—On the let of September next, and thenceforth, the privileges of Inland Book Pest will be extended so as to include printed letters like other printed matter.—ROWLAND HILL, Sec. THE RUSSIAN CORN TRADE.—We have just received information (says the Lubeck Gazette) that the Russian Government has prohibited the exportation of corn from Bjornebog, and it is expected that the prohibition will be extended to the whole of Finland. The Lubeck, Gazette says :—" We have just received the information that the Russian Government has pro hibited the exportation of corn from Bjornebag, and the expectation is that this interdiction will be extended to the whole of Finland." A. letter from Turin, of the 22d inst., says :—" Pied mont is arming and making warlike preparations, as if she were on the eve of a new collision. The fortifica tions of Alessar dria and Casale are rapidly advancing. The troops are employed in constructing the works." CAPE OF Goon HOPE.—Cape papers of one day's later date, viz, of the 31st May, have reached us. The only news they contain is the arrival out of the intelligence of the cessation of the war, the official annoucc3ment of peace, and the order of the colonial gove• nor fcr a general illumination in celebration of the event. THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—The United States' Norew-steamer Arctic arrived at Queenstown on Satur day, after having been 23 days out, from St. John's, Newfoundland. The Arctic has been engaged in taking deep sea soundings for the contemplated line of telegraph between Ireland and America. The Dresden Journal says :—" The great subject of conversation in the military circles of Berlin is a new kind of small field piece, capable of carrying correctly 1,000 yards and which is mounted on wheels, and so light that it can be drawn and manoeuvred by a single man." MONEY.- •geney is in good supply in the Stock-Ex change at 42 per cent., and in the discount market the demand is only moderate. An instalment of 500,0001. on the last loan falls due to-morrow. A payment of 1,000,0001. on the 18th of September is all that will then remain to be paid. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL COMPANY.—The directors of the Australian Mail Company have visited Southampton, and highly approve of the a,3commodation which the docks there will afford them. Their first mail-packet, the Oneide, will 'reach Southampton the first week in October, and will start for Australia on the 18th of that month with the first mail. The whole fleet of French transatlantic steamers are about to be sent to South- ampton to be docked. Mess NIGHTINGALE.—On Monday afternoon and evening two meetings were held in Birmingham—the one of the clergy, merchants, and traders of the town, at the Town-hall, and the other, of the working classes, at the Public Office—to promote a subscription in aid of the Metropolitan Nightingale Fund. Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, of Atherstone Hall, presided on both occa sions. The following resolution was unanimously adcpted :—"That this meeting, being desirous of ex pressing its sense of the noble exertions of Miss Night ingale and her associates in the hospitals of the East, resolves that a subscription be forthwith opened in this town, in aid of the Nightingale Fund—the amount of each subscription not to exceed a guinea." Committees were appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting. the Bulletin Scientifique, edited by M. Babinet, of the institute, contains the following curious informa tion :—"On the 23d of August, 9 minutes after the hour of midnight, the first satellite of Jupiter was eclipsed. The same phenomenon will again occur on the 31st at 3 minutes after 2 o'clock a.m., and on the lit of Septem ber at 32 minutes after 8 o'clock a.m. the eclipse of the first satellite of Jupiter may be observed. The second satellite of this planet will be eclipsed on the 29th of August at 46 minutes after 9 o'clock p m. ; the third satellite was eclipsed on the 22d at 4 min. after 3 a m., Paris time." The same journal says :—" We have a more exact map of the moon than we have of the earth, witness the lake, 300 leagues in length, in the centre of Africa, which had hitherto escaped the investigation of travellers ; while the uncertainty of the position of cer tain points in the moon is limited to an error of two or three leagues at moat." THE REPRESENTATION OF YARMOUTH.—The ter Guardian of yesterday says :—lt is now. we believe, pretty certain that our townsman, Edward W. Watkin, E-q., will at the next election become a candidate fur the representation of Yarmouth ; his colleague, in con testing the Liberal interest, being, in all probability, Wm. Torrens M'Cullagh, Esq., late M.P. for Dundalk, who, in connection with Sir C. Napier, contested the borough at the last election. Mr. Watkin's services in time gone by to his native city, combined with his de servedly high character amongst his fellow-citizens, will induce them to look with interest at the result of a con tees, through which his talents may be as usefully em ployed for the benefit of his country in Parliament as they have been out of it, in connection with our great industrial undertakings, and with the social and political improvement of the people. THE ENORMOUS STORES OF GUNS AT SEBASTOPOL—I was incited by curiosity to ascertain the cause of the enormous stores of guns at Sebastopol, and learnt that Sebastopol was the storehouse for the Crimea and the forts of the eastern c)ast of the Black Sea, and conse quently all the old gang from the Caucasus were sei t to Sebastopol, as well as those from the different places in the Crimea. The guns that could be repaired were re turned to the foi is to which they belonged after the ne cessary reparation, while those which were worn out were put into store. Another reason for the number of guns in this town was, that the ships of the Black Sea fleet were built and armed at Nicolaieff, whence they wa-s brought to Sebastopol ; and when they were broken up in the latter place their guns were placed in store. The consequence is, that during a period of 70 years the number of guns has increased to something enormous. The number of conv;cts confined in the town amounted to about 7,000 men, whom Menschikoff em ployed upon the fortifications of the harbour. THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—The harvest can scarcely yet be reported to have commenced in Scotland. The cutting of wheat will not be general in the Lothians, even under pretty favourable weather, till the beginning of September. Scarcely a stook is yet seen in the neigh bourhood of this city or in Ayrshire. The present week, however, has greatly promoted ripening, and from this time forth the sickle will be pretty active in all the lead ing districts. Some fine fields of wheat will be ready to cut down in a day or two on the farms of Myremill and Lyonston, near Maybole. At the Isle of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire, reaping commenced about ten days ago. At Baldour, East'and West, in the same county, a con siderable quantity of wheat has been cut since Monday, and in all the arable parts of Galloway stooks are begin ning to appear. In the districts, however, where the core crops are farthest advanced, the potato blight has set in, and the progress of that mysterious distemper is to be feared. Everywhere nearly the sane report is given of the general condition of the crops, They are some what late, but heavy, and more than promise, notwith standing all the disadvantages of the season, an abun dant return. Both wheat and oats are alike good, the former probably having the superiority. Such weather as we have had this week, cold but dry and sunny, is primely suited to the filling and maturing of the grain crops in their condition after the superabundant rains.— North British. Mail. DISASTER AT SEA.—We have received an interesting account of an eventful occurrence at sea from Mr. C. W. Adams, a pa3aenger on board the Pacific steam-ship San tiago, Commander W. R. Bartlett, from Valparaiso, dated Callao, July 4. He states that the Santiago, 1,500 tons, with 150 persons on board, and carrying a valuable cargo, and specie to the amount of $200,000, two days after leaving Valparaiso, on June 28, struck upon a reef of rocks, known as the "Infernal Rocks," during a dark and hazy night. The ship was immediately stopped and backed off the rocks ; but the water hav ing gained upon her forward, it was anticipated every instant that she would go down. The caolness, energy, and judgment of the captain, however, ap pair to have saved the ship ; and, after almost incre dible exertions, shared in by all on board, for two days aid nights, she arrived in s a fety at Callao. During this fearful period the anxiety of all on board may be imagined—the water gaining on them in spite of the uttn)st exertions at the p um ps. The water-tight compartments alone saved them from destruction ; for had the bulkhead forward given way the fires would have been extinguished and the engine at)? vamps stopped, and the vessel must have sank in ha. a an-hour. Throughout the whole of this trying scene the captain never quitted the deck, and the officers and crew, to a man, are stated to have behaved with the most ex emplary fortitude and untiring zeal. Owing to those exertions, in circumstances of such distressing difficulty, no life was sacrificed, and the valuable cargo was pre sei Ned. ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY. —An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of this company took place on Saturday, at their offices, 28, Rue de Miromenil; M. Lillo, one of th e mem b ers of the committee of surveil lance, in the chair. The meeting have been declared duly constituted, M. de Grimaldi, the gerant, read a report, setting forth the reasons which necessitated a considerable increase in the capital of tho company, with a view to enlarging the works at Micros, so as to insure the production of a far greater quantity of iron than was fabricated there at present. To that end he should propose that a liquidation of the present company should be proceeded to with all conve nient expedition, and a new company formed on more extensive bases. In order to arrive at that result, he should further propose that the property of the present company be sold at Paris by public auction to the high est bidder, he pledging himself to procure a minimum offer for the works of 2,125,000 f. (85,6000, and that afterwards a new company be formed with that sum as a starting point. A desultory conversation ensued, in the course of which it appeared that the non-privileged shares would be entitled to 100 f. each, in case the hold ers should not wish to join the new company • that the sale of the prope r ty s h ou ld t a k e place on the Ist Octo ber ; and that the whole of the proceedings of the liqui dation were to be terminated by the 1-t of March next. The proposition of the Orant for the liquidation of the company was then voted unanimously, and M. de Gri maldi, M. Lillo, and Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, of Lon don, also a member of the committee of surveillance, were appointed liquidators, the first in bis quality of gerant, and the other two as representing respectively the French and English shareholders. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tuesday, Aug. 26 :—Admissions on payment, 29,646 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,10 ; total vie/tors, 30,754. SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY. (This Day.) The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street—Mr. Chaplin, M.P., in the chair. The SECRETARY read the following report : " The directors beg to call the attention of the proprie tors to the very satisfactory increase of the revenue over that of the corresponding six months in 1855. It must be remembered that the receipts of the half-year ending on the 30th June are always less in proportion than those of the half-year ending on the 31st December. It is there fore very gratifying to perceive that the traffic of the last six months has exceeded by a small amount that of the former half-year by 1731. 10s.. 5d., while the in crease over the corresponding period of 1855 amounts to 1,7911. 18s. 10d. The number of messages transmitted between the Ist January to the 30th June last amounts to 30,811, and the cash receipts would have been proportionately large, but owing to the active competition of telegraphic business on the Conti nent, the directors have been obliged to expend a consider able amount in the shape of commission, and for establish ing agencies at the principal continental towns, so as to secure their traffic for the lines of this company. Already considerable benefit has been derived from these agencies, and it is anticipated that by the close of the present year, the business of the company will have greatly increased, especially as most favourable arrangements have been entered into with several Governments for the more direct and cheaper transmission of despatches be tween Great Britain and all parts of the Continent. After deducting the working expenses, and placing 10 per cent, of the net profits to the reserved fund, theta will re main a balance of 3,0461. 16s. 6d., out of which the direc tors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, which will leave 3341. 6s. 6d. to be carried over to the credit of the current half-year. The directors are happy to state that the increase in the num ber of messages since the 30th June last, warrant the an ticipation of an increase of dividend at the expiration of the next six months." The CHAIRMAN, after apologising for the absence of the Chairman of the Board, congratulated the share holders on the satisfactory state of the company, and assured the shareholders there was every reason to be lieve the same prosperity would attend them in future as had for the past, and he was happy to be enable to to inform them on the authority of the Engineer that their line between Dover and Calais was as good now as when laid down. He moved the reception and adop tion of the report. Mr. JOHNSON seconded the motion, which was agreed to unanimously. A'resolution, confirming the amount of dividend men tioned in the report, was agreed to. Mr. F. Edwards and Lord De Mauley were re-elected directors. The other business having been disposed of, the meet ing separated, a vote of thanks having first been unani mously accorded to the chairman. NORTH DEVON RAILWAY. (This Day.) The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this railway was held this afternoon, at the offices of the Company, Gresham-street—Mr. Tite, M.P., in the chair. The report was agreed to, after a short discussion, and a dividend at the rate of 11 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock, and of 2 per cent. on the B Stock, was declared. The meeting then separated. THAMES HAVEN DOCK COMPANY. (This Day.) The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the above com pany was held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, when a report was submitted and agreed to authorising the company to proceed at once with the works authorised by the act. A plan was proposed showing the extent of dock accommodation. A resolution was agreed to authorising the construc tion of the docks. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro ceedings. THE CAMP AT COLCHESTER. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge reviewed the regiments of the British German Legion now encamped at Colchester, numbering in the aggregate about 5,200 men, divided into six regiments of infantry, under the command of Major• General Baron Stutterheim. The Commander-in-Chief proceeded by the expr, ss train which leaves the Shoreditch terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway at 9 o'clock in the morning, attended by Major Clifton, aide de camp to his Royal Highness ; Colonel Gordon, Deputy Quartermas ter-General ; and Colonel Kinlocb, Ir.spector-General of the British Foreign Legion. On arriving at tl e station at Colchester he was received by Maj - )r-Gen ral Gas coigne, in command of the camp, and Major-General Stutterheim, with the officers of their respective staffs, and escr rted to Wyvenhoe park, the residence of Mr. Gurdon Rebow, a distance of between two and three miles, where the troops were to be inspected. The whole of the troops left the camp at half-past 9 in heavy marching order, and proceeded to a large open field in the immediate vicinity of Wyvenhoe-park, BE. signed for the review, having a wood on one side and skirted with trees on the three others. They consisted of the Ist and 2d Rifle Regiments (Jagers) under the respective commands of Colonel Schroer and Major Von Vess, and the 2J, 4th, sb, and 6th Regiments of Light Infantry, commanded respectively by Major Adams, Col. Humfray, Col. Bathurst, and Col. Kent Murray. Arriving on the ground they were drawn up in three lines, each line two deep, the Jagers being in front, forming one line, and the four infantry regiments be hind. When the troops had marched past a sham fight en sued, which was maintained with great spirit for nearly an hour. A regdar series of evolutions of this kind was performed, the general effect of which was ex tremely animated, particularly the rapid formation to wards the end of the fight, of the greater part of the troops into hollow squares to receive a cava'ry charge. Nor was the scene wanting in one at least of the inci d3uts of a real onset, for a poor fellow belonging to a rifle regiment was carried to the rear with his hands dreadfully lacerated by the accidental explosion of his musket whiie he was in the act of reloading it. Finally, the whole 5,000 men on the ground formed into a large open square, facing inwards, with the Commander-in- Chief and the staff officers, surrounding him in the centre ; the six regimental bands, now consolidated into one, played the national anthem, and his Royal Highness took his departure amid the enthusias. is cheers of the troops. The Commander in-Chief, on leaving the field, proceeded to the house of Mr. Rebow, at Wyvenhoe park, where he partook of lunch in the company of the officers who had formed his escort. He then returned to the station at Colchester, attended as before, and left by the 4 o'clock train for London. LATEST INE MARSEILLES, AUG. 26. The packet from Constantinople has arrived, with letters to the 20th inst. M. de Boutanieff, the Russian Ambassador, ar rived at Constantinople on the 19th. He landed at Bouyouk Dere. Mohammed Kepresli Paella was to leave on the 21st for Mocow. The Russians have not yet evacuated Boucora, Bayazid, and the environs of that town. The Russians completely evacuated Kars on the 4th of August. The fortifications of that place have been left intact, except two forts which have been destroyed. The Russians have blown up Toultcha, on the Danube. The captain of the English ship Medina, coming from the Danube, speaks of a rumour that -the town of Toultcha had shared the fate of the fortress. France has given 120,0001. towards the restora tion of the Russian :Embassy at Constantinople, which the French used as an hospital duxing the war. BERLIN, Aua. 25. Recent intelligence from St. Petersburg denies the truth of the project attributed to the Russian government of establishing a third military port for its fleets in the Baltic at Halbinsel Kaska, in the gu]f of Finland, not far from the coast of Sweden. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. A decree in the Moniteur makes four promo tions to the rank of officer and 13 nominations as knights in the Legion of Honour among the engineers of the Ponts-et-Chausees for proofs of devotedness during the late inundations. Another decree makes one promotion to the rank of officer and eight nominations to that of knight among persons connected with the late Agricultural Ex hibition, and a third nominates two of the engin eers on the Strasburg railway as knights in the order. The Malta Times of the 19th contains the fol lowing :—" The City of London steamer which arrived here on the 14th from Genoa returned on the following day with. 450 soldiers of the Italian legion. The rest are under orders for England with the exception of about four hundred who will shortly be despatched to Venice." The Messager of Bayonne says :—" The Emperor and the Empress walked arm in arm for an hour on Thursday on the beach, and his Majesty, noticing that some bathing machines had been destroyed by a strong tide on the previous day, ordered a sum of money sufficient to replace them be given to the owners. On Friday afternoon, after a shower of rain which refreshed the atmosphere, the Emperor and Empress left the chateau on foot without any at tendants, and walked to the extremity of the beach, amidst a crowd of visitors, who fell hack to allow them to pass. Their Majesties then ascended by a narrow path to the cliffs, and arrived at the Atalaye, where they seated themselves to enjoy the splendid view of the sea and of the coast of Spain. Their Majesties then returned to the town, and visited the new church, after which they walked back to the chateau. On arriving there tL air Ma jesties found that the Marquis de Turgot, Ambas sador of France at Madrid, had arrived, and lie had the honour of being invited to dinner." BOURSE, Aug. 25.—The following were the last quotations : Cub. ft. a. End of Montb. 4 per Cents 94 35 —f. —a. 3 per Cents 7O 40 70 45 New Loan 7O 50 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,595 Austrian Belgian Fives .. Spanish Throes Piethnontese (5) . 9l E 0 Homo Debt 39 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Aug. 27.—Wind this day at noon, W. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—New Pelton!(s. tpt.), from Constantinople, and left for Wool wich. Sailed—H.M.S. Cyclops, for Woolwich ; H.M.S. Centaur, westward. Off tho port—Mooltan, from Syd ney, N.S.W. PLYMOUTH, Aug. 26.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—H.M.S. Camilla, for the East Indies. COWES, Aug. 26.—Arrived—Stamboul No. 1, from Ak yab ; Jenny Pitt; Callao. FLEETWOOD, Aug. 26.—Wind W.—Arrived—Camilla, from Dalhousie, for Ulvorstone. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived.—Arbutus, and Thomas Powell, steamer, for Cardiff. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Simoom, from Calcutta, Champion, from Co risco ; Malakhoff, from Quebec; Perseverance, from Val psraiso ; Braganza, screw steamer, from Oporto ; Alida, 4 -- - m Trieste Commerce, from Cronstadt ; Fortuna, from QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 25. Arrived—Jaspar, from Callao. WATERFORD, Aug. 25. Wind N. Arrived—Zeutonia, from Ibraila ; Albion, Jacobs, Mar garetha, and Deborah, from Galatz. DUBLIN, Aug. 26. Wind N.W. .. Arrived—Gem, from Christiania; Panama, from Afemel (BY BIIBMABINN AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.4 a.m. _ Wind W., tide four hours' flood ' • weather fine. Arrived, 26th—Grace Darling, from Manila; North Cape, Dram ; Barfield Brothers and Lord Strangford, Guernsey; Richard Cobden, Bombay ; Matanzas, Algoa Bay ; Norden, Pugwash ; Margaret, Gergente ; Hull, (Mega. Sailed—Coleroon, for Sydney. DEAL, Wednesday. Wind W. ; moderate. Passed—Admiral Collingwood, from Mauritius, for Lon don; Spitfire, barque, from westward, for London ; Moul tan, from Sydney, for London ; Rifleman, barque, from the South Seas, for London. Sailed—Caroline. A small schooner was observed on shore at daylight this morning, on the north part of the Goodwin ; she was as sisted off at the flood, and proceeded to Ramsgate in tow.® DEATH OF Mn, BAIIMANN.—We regret to anncunce the death, on the 20th inst., of this remarkable musical genius. Mr. Baumann, after an arduous season at the Royal Italian Opera, had gone for rest and relaxation to the Isle of Wight, where he was attacked by the complaint which has terminated so fatally. Mr. Bau mann was an accomplished musician, and his death will leave a place in the orchestra which it will be difficult to supply. He was a member of the Ancient Concerts, the Philharmonic Concert, and her Majesty's Theatre for nearly twenty years. He was highly tsteemed by Mr. Costa, who pronounced him not only an unequalled performer on his special instrument the hautboy, but a!so a fine Entuicia,u, p3s3sied of _equal judgment and good taste. RAILWA7O-7011 CLUE. fr. c. fr. o. Or/eans Northern .1,042 50 Strasburg Lyons Siediterranean 1,790 Grand Central Lyons Geneva SO2 50 Testo Cette BRADFORD TRIENNIAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL. FIRST DAY. The great musical carnival in this town, to which so many have looked forward with interest, if not excitement, commenced yesterday morning. Had any person, ignorant of the event, entered the town on Monday or yesterday, they could not but have observed many signs of something unusual. In the neighbourhood of St. George's Hall long wooden railings dividing the streets longitudinally into compartments for foot passengers, cabs, and carriages, so as to prevent obstructions, collisions, and accidents, were erected, and the lines of route to be taken at the commencement and close of each performance were publicly announced. For some weeks past Mr. Jackson, the chorus master, had been exercising his troupe, and on Friday last M. Costa arrived, and drilled them efficiently in his own " Eli." In the course of Monday the whole of the principals arrived, except) Piccolomini, who does not appear until Thursday evening, and in the course of two long rehearsals the singers went triumphantly through the whole or most of their allotted parts. Shortlyafter half-past ten yesterday morning the lines of route became thronged with cabs, carriages, and foot passengers, and the spacious hall began to fill, and at the hour announced for the commence ment of the festival a vast and brilliant assembly crowded it in every part, including the Earl and Countess of Harewood and party, the Lord Bishop of Ripon and lady, Lord and Lady Hawke and party, and a long list of distinguished persons front a distance ; and among them and in the side stalls we observed the most distinguished citizens of Bradford and the principal towns in the district. At half-past 11 the band and chorus, numbering 350, were in their places, and were soon followed by the principals in the oratorio—Mesdames No velle, Weiss, Garcia, Sherrington, Huddart, and Crosland ; Messrs. Reeves, Weiss, Smith, and Brad ley, and all were received with thunders of applause. The proceedings commenced with the National An them, the solo part by Clara Novelle, who appa rently did her utmost to please, and was eminently successful, her clear and full-toned commanding voice ringing through the vast hall like the intona tions of a bell. Mr. Weiss, who is admitted to be the best interpreter of the character and music of the " Prophet" in the kingdom, sustained his high character from the beginning to the close. Hence the great burden of the labour lay principally upon his shoulders ; his rich, full-toned, and swelling voice was in excellent order, and his commanding execution was universally admired. Mr. Sims Reeves also, as Obadiah, performed his parts with his usual ability, but as these were few, and pos sessed few commanding points, less scope was dis played for criticism. The recitative and air, beginning " What have I to do with thee, 0 man of God !" were given by Mr. Weiss and Miss Sherrington in a high state of beauty and excellence, and the recitative beginning "As God the Lord," in a manner equally splen did. These were perhaps the portions of the whole composition which moot electrified the audience, and most displayed the unity and precision, and hence the excellent training of the band and chorus. No less ad mirable than the principals was the chorus in "Baal, we cry to thee," and the recitative beginning "0 man of God." In this part of the:composition most energy was required, and it was put magnificently forth. In the second part Clara Novello gave a beautiful rendering of the air, " Hear, 0 Israel ;" and Madame Viardot Garci ti shone to advantage, as the Queen, in the recitative be ginning " The Lord bath exalted." But in point of execution nothing was, or could be, more beautiful than the rendering by Mesdames Novelle, Garcia, and Weiss of the trio of angels, "Lift thine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh help;" and in this they were encored—a practice in an oratorio much to be condemned, as it seems a breaking asunder of the links which bind it in one, and gives it altogether too much of a theatrical air. It would be extremely difficult indeed to choose out of a composition of such length all the parts best sung, or any 'which could he pronounced asabsolutely indifferent. All cannot possibly be first-rate, or the rules of compa rison would be ended ; but in the performances under consideration all seemed to exert themselves to gratify and pleat , e. Miss Fanny Iluddart possesses a contralto voice of moderate quality. Miss Sherrington rises on her soprano voice with a bolder sweep, and will attain higher excellence, and if she cannot rival Sunderland or Novello, she will yet occupy no mean position. The Yorkshire chorus sustained the reputation they have so sedulously toiled for and earned. TURKEY. We have received the Constantinople journals and letters to the 15th, brought by the Jourdain. The question of the Principalities was becoming more and more complicated. The Ottoman minis try have held several serious deliberations on the subject, and it has been decided by order of the Sultan that the Minister of Foreign Affairs shall send a circular to all the subjects of the Porte abroad, stating that the Imperial government cannot and will not, ever consent to the union of Moldavia and Wallachia ; and the said representatives have been charged to make known that determination to the governments to which they are accredited. Find Pacha, the minister of foreign affairs, is more strongly opposed to this union than even his colleagues, and it is he who has mor e es p ec i a lly to combat the influence of M. Thouvenel, who is said to support the question of the union. There is also another cause of contention between the Turk ish minister of foreign affairs and the French minister. The concession made by Prince Gregory Ghyka to Captain Magnan to establish a steam navigation on the Sereth and the Pruth has been protested against by Austria, as contrary to exist ing treaties ; and the Turkish government, taking a similar view of the matter, declares that the said concession must be considered as null and void. Lord Stratford de Redeliffe has given, it is asserted, a similar opinion. M. Thouvenel, however, in defence of the rights of the French Steam Company, maintains that the question is not so clear as is represented, and puts a very different interpretation on the documents brought forward by Austria. Fuad Pacha and all the Ottoman ministry, are opposed on this matter to the views of the French minister. CANADA. ARRIVAL OF THE INDIAN. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. This morning the Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company's steam-ship Indian, Capt. Jones, arrived in the Mersey with the mails from Quebec and Montreal. She left Quebec on the 16th instant, and Ima brought 146 passengers. Tne steamer Charter arrived at Quebec 'on the 15th from London. No important news. We have dates from New York to the 15th, two days later than the Arabia. Money was easy at 6 per cent. Stocks steady. Exchange on London, 1091 to a. The cotton market was firm. The breadstuff market reported steady. Provisions unaltered. Freights without change. COLONEL TUBE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—Having been, in violation of international law and military honour,* arrested by Austria on Wallachian territory, while on duty there in English service, I owe life and liberty to the power ful interposition of the English Government. It is now the first time since my liberation that I revisit England, the first time that I have the privilege of learning the general interest and sym_ pathy of the British public in my behalf, the timely manifestation of which efficiently strengthened the interposition of the Government. Penetrated by a lively sense of obligation for the benefit thus received under the most trying cir cumstances, 1 beg that you will allow me to fulfil a public duty, by permitting me to pay, through your columns, my humble ho mage of gratitude for the public protection and private sympathy I have been honoured with.—l am, ar, o . COLONEL H. TURR. 16, Leicester -place, Leicester-square, Aug. 25. * I was assured by the Austrian Major Schveiger, at Giurgovo (he knowing that I was condemned to death) that I could, without danger, go into Wallachia, as it was neutral territory. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The sixty third half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this com pany was held yesterday at their offices, 71, Lombard street ; John Wilkin, Esq., in the chair. The report of the directors and a statement of the accounts for the half-year ending June 30 last were read to the meeting, and gave great satisfaction to the proprietors, who unanimously adopted the same. The usual dividend, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, was declared, and the cordial thanks of the proprietors voted to the chair man and directors for their continued .nalous services in the management of the company's affairs, after winch the :meting separAted. 2 E QUBEA'S VISIT TO BALMORAL. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the royal family and suite, proceed to Balmoral to-morrow morning, via the Great Northern Railway. The royal train is appointed to leave King's-cross station at 8 a.m., passing Holloway at 8.4, Hornsey 8.9, Colney-hatch 8.12, Barnet 8.16, Putter's-bar 8.21, Hatfield 8.27, hvyn 8.32, Stevenage 8.39, and arriving at Hitchin at 3.42, where it will stay two minutes. The next stop page will be at Huntingdon, the train being appointed to arrive there at 9.16, and to remain till 9.20. At Peter borough a stay of 3 minutes will also take place, the train arriving at 9.44 and leasing at 9.47. Grantham will be reached by 10.30, and the train will stay there three minutes. At Newark the train will not stop, but will pass the station at 10.54, Carlton at 11.2, and Tux ford at 11.10, arriving at Retford at 11.20, where ano ther stay of two minutes will take place. Bawtry will be passed at 11.36, Rossington at 11.41., reaching Don caster at 11.48. Here the train will be run on the middle line of rails, but the inhabitants will again have the opportunity of testifying their loyalty to their Sove reign, as the train will make a stay of two minutes, leav in!, Doncaster at 11.50, Arksey will be passed at 11.54, AslPrn 12.0, Norton 12.3, Womersley 12.6. Knotting ley Junction 12.21, Burten Salmon 12.18, Milford Junction 12.21, Church Fenton Junction 12.27. Her Majesty will arrive at York at 12.43, and will there par take of luncheon at the Royal Station Hotel. The royal train will then proceed by the York and Newcastle line to Berwick, passing along the Kel,o branch up the valley of the Tweed, and thence by the Hawick branch to Edin burgh. The royal party will remain all night at the pa lace of Holyrooa, leaving on Sat ur d a y morn i ng f or Bal moral, where the preparations for the arrival of her Majesty are in a very forward state. The new castle at Balmoral is nearly finished, and presents a very pictu resque appearance. The grounds above the castle are finely laid out, and the gardens are as far advanced as could be expected in a place when the sun is not seen for four months in the year, where he never rises above the altitude of Locbnagar. The Earl of Clarendon will be the Secretary of State in attendance upon the Queen at Balmoral. The route from Edinburgh to Banchory will be changed on this occasion, the course of the Royal train which will leave Edinburgh at 9 a.m. on Friday, being es follows :—Waveriey-bridge station will be passed at 9.2, Corstorphine at 9 15, Gogar at 9.18, Ratho Junc tion at 9.22, Winchburgh at 9.27, Linlithgow at 9.35, Polmont .Tunction at 9.41, Grahamstown at 9.47, Larbet t Junction (Scottish Central Railway) at 9.52, ll.nnockburn at 10.3, and Stirling will be reached at 10.7. Here there will be a delay of five minutes. Bridge of Allan will be passed at 10.16, Dunblane at 10.19, Kinbuck at 10.24, Greenloaming at 10.29, Blackferd at 10.36, Aucbterarder at 10.43, Dunning at 10.51, Forteviot at 10.57, Forgandenny at 11.2, and Perth attained at 11.10. Another delay of five minutes here. Proceeding now on the Scottish North -I'aster❑ line, the Royai travellers will pass Luncarthy at 11.27, Dunkeld-road at 11.29, Stanley at 11.31, Cargill at 11.38, Woodside at 11.43, Ceapar-Angus at 11,47, Ardler at 11.51, Meigle Junction at 11.56, Eassie at 12.3, Glammis at 12.7, reaching Forfar at 12.17. Another delay of five minutes here. Clock brigfes will be passed at 12 27, Aldhateroad at 12.31, Guthrie Junction at 12.36, Farnell-road at 12.45, Bridge of Dun at ]2.51, Dalton Junction at 12.55, Craigo at 1 o'clock. Marykiik at 1.4, Laurencekirk at 1.10. A delay of five minutes here. Fuurdnn will be passed at 1.20, Drumlithie at 1.27, Stonehavfn at 1.30, Muchalls at 1.47, Newtonhill at 1.49, Portlethen at 1.53, Ccve at 1.59, Aberdeen being reached at 2.9. A delay of three minutes here. Taking now the Deeside Railway, the Royal train will pass Cults at 2.20, Murtlo at 2 22, Midtimber at 2.24, Culter at 2.26, Drum at 2.31, Park at 2.34 ; Mills of Drum at 2.38, and arrive at Banchory at 2.46. The Great Northern Company's carriages will run through the journey from London to Banchory ; but the chairman, Mr. Denison, and cirectors, together with the Great Northern Company's guards, will accompany tI e train as far as York only. Mr. Seymour Clarke, the general manager of the Great Northern ; Mr. Sturrock, head of the locomotive department; Mr. Coffin, head of the carriage department ; and a staff of fitters, lamp men, and greasers, provided with the grease and oil to be used in the lamps and boxes, will accompany the train throughout the journey. Relays of engines, drivers, guards, &c., will be provided by the managers of the several companies through whose lines the Royal party will travel. Some delay and inconvenience having been experi enced on the last occasion of toe Queen's journey to the north, in consequence of the overheating of the axes of several of the carriages of the train, the officials of the Great Northern Company have during the last month cr two been making several experimental trips with the vehicles of which the Royal train will be composed to morrow. The Queen's saloon has been provided with new axles, as, notwithstanding every precaution, the former ones continued to overheat. It is hoped, there fore, that no delay will occur from the above cause dur ing the approaching journey. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 7 per smile premium, and the short exchange op London is 25.271 per 11. sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By adviees from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.34 per 11. sterling. Standard gold, at the English Mint price, is therefore about 6-10ths per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in Lon do❑. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 100 i per cent., which, as com pared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is slightly in favour of Eng land; and, after making allowance for charges of trans port and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold from the United &Gates, in a th e qua an( pal no / oil! ve: p 1( 15 Nv ( Tt