The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-01 00:00:00

BRITISH CANDLE COMPANY (Limited). BArisEss—The City Bank. Bioxsas Sie,srs. Ca den and Whitehe d. MANVFACTIIIING MANAGES — Mr. F. L. 132.11Wer111. NOTICE IS lIEREBY GIVEN, That as Applications for Mares continue to be received, it has been determined to keep the list open until further notice. HORATIO S. GOULTY, Secretary. Offices, 75, Old Broad-street. ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-1 MEETIN G of the DEPoSIT I RS ant sIIARESOLDER will be he'the TO -MORROW (Tuesday) EVENING, at 7 o'cloc k precisely, at d FREEMASONS' TAVERN', Great Queen -street, Lincoln's-inn -fields, for the purpose of taking into consideration the course pursued Vice by the (Metal Manager in appealing against the decision of the Chancellor, and thereby delaying the declaratio n of a dividend. Shareholders and Depositors are particularly requested to attend, as their interests are identical. UNFITRNISHED APARTMENTS.— Wanted for a Lady and her Sayan+, a SITTING-ROOM, Three BED ROOMS, and separate KIT CHEN, where there are no other lodger, near a chief thoroughfare ; between Charing-cross and Hyde-park-corner preferred. Any party unused to letting would find the advertiser a desirable occupant. References exchanged. Address, with full particulars, T, 104, Strand. ERII MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — M. JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. Last Week but One—The New Grand French Quadrille. —Miss Juliana May me Elisa Poma (prima donna from the principal theatres in Italy), will shortly have the honour of making her first appearance in England.—Third appear ance this season of the celebrated Pianist, Miss Arabella Goddard. Programme for TillS EVENING (Monday, Dec. 1) : Part I. Overture, Der Freischutz (first time this season) — Weber; Quadrille, from M. Jullien's opera Pietro it Grande —Jullien ; Symphony, Vivace non troppo, from the Scotch SymplionY —Mendelssohn ; Grand Aria, Ernani I involami (Ernaai), Miss Juliana May—Verdi ; Polka, My Mary Ann (19th time)—Jullien ; Fantasia, Pianoforte, " Recollections ' of Ireland" (Moschelles) Miss Arabella Goddard ; the Varso vienne, the Warsaw ( sev enth time)—Jullien ; G rand French Quadrille (the 20th time) with variations for flute, flageolet, oboe, clarinet, ophicleiJe, and cornet, performed by MM. De Polley, De Yong, Collinet, Lavigne, Sonne nber g , Hughes, and Koenig; Finale ; Partant pour la Syrie, Vice rEmpereur-- Jullien. Part 2.- Opera, Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's opera of "II Trovatore," with solos by Herr Koenig. M. Lavigne, and Mr. Hughes ; Fantasia, Pianoforte, Les Patineurs (Le Prophete), Liszt, Miss Arabella. Goddard ; Polka, Flirta tion; by desire--J u llien ; Cavatina, Regnava nel silenzi (Lu cia di Lammermoor) Miss Juliana May—Donizetti ; Valse, Georgette—D'Albert ; Polka, Chatterbox —Koenig; Galop, Etna—D'Albert. Conductor —M. Jullien. To commence at 8 o'clock. Prices of admission :—Promenade, ls. ; Dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d., £lls., and upwards. Private boxes to be secured of Mr. Nugent, at the box-office of the theatre ; at all the principal libraries and masicsellers'; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. — Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. ITALIAN OPERAS, COMEDY, and BALLET, every Evening during the Week, at Old Play-house Prices. Last Six Nights of the Italian Op3ra Company. Upper Gallery, ls. ; Gallery, ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; First Circle, ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s. ; Stalls, 10s. ed. ; Private Boxes, one, two, three, and four guineas. In consequence of the extraordinary ~and unprecedented success that has attended the introduction of ITALIAN OPERAS at Drury-lane, the Lessee begs to announce that he has re-entered into arrangements with Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., who have succeeded in prevailing upon the eminent Italian Artistes to forego their Continental engage ments, in order to appear for a Few Nights Longer in the most celebrated operas of the great composers :—Madame Grisi, Madame Rudersdorff, Madame Amadei, Madame Sed lazek, and Madame Gassier ; Herr Reichardt, Signor Volpini, Mons. Gassier, Signor Lorini, Signor Albicini, Signor Rovere, Mr. Teniant, and Herr Formes. Powerful band and com plete chorus, under the direction of Signor Li Calzi. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform (positively the last time) IL DON GIOVANNI, with its powerful east : Madame Grisi, Madame Rudersdorff, and Madame Gassier ; Herr Formes, Signori Lorini, Revere, Gre gorio, and Mons. Gassier. After which, TRYING IT ON. Characters by Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. A. Younge, Mr. Templeton, Mrs. Selby, Miss E. Wadham, and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with a Ballet, in which Mdlles. Osmont will appear. Boxes, stalls, and places can be secured of Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., Regent-street, and at the box-office e the theatre, here 10 till 6. To prevent disappointment an early application 4s solicited. The Free List will be entirely suspended. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, and during the week, in consequence of its great success, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, in which Mr. Murdoch will appear as Charles Surface ; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Backstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers; Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Farren ; Lady Teazle, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria, Miss E. Sabine. After which, the successful new farce, A FAMILY FAILING, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale, and Miss Blanche Fane will appear. With (for positively the last six nights), the ballet pantomime of THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA, by Perea Nena and her unrivalled Company of Spanish Dancers. To conclude with THE DUMB BELLE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Real Success. Great A.delplai Hit ! THE ELVES, a Grand New Fairy Ballet Extravaganza, in which Madame Celeste will appear as the Statue Bride every evening.—Revival of the Mysterious Stranger, in which Mr. Wright and Madame Celeste will sustain their original cha racters.—THlS EVENING will be performed the celebrated dtama, of THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Garden; Mesdames Celeste, Wyndham, Keeley, Arden. After which, with new scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, a new grand fairy ballet extravaganza, (waled THE ELVES, or the Statue Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform. ing with unexampled success at the Theatre Imperials de l'Opera at Paris, under the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha racters by Madame Celeste, Misses Wyndham, Mary Keeley, Kate Kelly, Chatterly, Arden, Messrs. Wraght, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Le Barr, &c. Concluding with BETTY MARTIN. Miss M. Keeley. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. C. DILLON. THIS EVENING (Monday), the tragedy of OTHELLO Othello (the first time in London), Mr. C. Dillon ; lago, Mr Stuart ; Desdemon Mrs. C. Dillon ; Emilia, Mrs. Weston. After which, Mrs. Howard Paul has kindly consented to sing the Scotch ballad, " Bonnie Dundee." Followed by GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. Toole, Barrett, &c. Concluding with a Ballet, by Miss Rosina Wright and the Coryphces. The extraordinary troupe of Bedouin Arabs will make their fourth appearance to-morrow (Tuesday). Miss Woolgar, -ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING and during the week wt'l ho presented Shakspcare's play of A. MIDSUIDIER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which (first time this season) THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis dei Franchi, Mr. C. Kean. Mendelssohn's celebrated overture to A Midsum:ner Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7. TRA.ND TREATRE.--11.anager, Mr. T. V , J PAvne.—THIS EVENING will be performed BELPHEGOR (Travestie). Messrs. Howard, G. Lee, &C. THE CAPTAIN'S NO A MISS. First time, a new farce, OVER THE WAY. And THE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS. Mesdames Cuthbert, Fitzinman, Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. OYAL SURREY THEATRE. 111 (4 " eea. Megars, Shepherd and Creswi(!k. THIS EVENING, BIRDS OF PREY. Charles Renne pont, Mr. Creswick. After which, A BLOW IN THE DARK. Viltrac, Mr. Shepherd (his original part). To conclude with DRED. AsTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (First Week), MACBETH, with Eques trian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's Horses, trained by him. Macbeth, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE; Miss Kate Cooke in her elegant act of man4ge, d gc. To conclude with OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS. Doors open at half-oast six ; commence at seven o'clock. Fos-)Rice open front Eleven till Four, Stage Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke,jun. vg r eg ett t 4 - 4 7 , * , 7 •• " 4 4 J.ji LK, _ _.-------- A.NTERRURY HALL, C Westminster -road.— e O PEN EVERY EVENING.--Tfo follow ingance of company of Vo calists are engaged for the per Herr li p S e le c tions from all th e p o p ular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, it c. , viz.: —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], and Miss Summers ; Mr, J. Caulfield, Jonghmans, R. G r over, T. Raino , T. Fa rran t , S. Jones, F. Barker, W. Melling, and P. Cowie ; Masters Austin, R e , nett, and Corri ; Mr. S am Cowell and E. Mackney. piano forte, J. Harroway, H.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. - director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely, Suppers, bc., until twelve o'clock. In addition to the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine an uri d te Eselec leven o'clock Every Evening, and sing their favo tions. ------ .!............ RIGS. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tais DAY—Morn. 50 min. aft. 3 —gvening 9 mi. aft. 4 Ta-Nnannw—Morn. 28 min. aft. 4—Erening 50 min. aft. 4 NovEmßElt 30. TfiE WEATHER—SUNOrner , THSRMONITER, IN Till SFIADE. 39 —highest singe noon yesterday. 29 lowest this morning and during the night" 36 —this day at noon. WINDROMETER, 29'34. .N. N.W.—Rather fresh, with very frosty weather an d suns hi ne . fine, cold, to N DEcEsIBER 1. 37 highest eines noon yketerday. " —.1311.4 this morning and during the night. 37—this day at noo n . - B4Rom trim 29.95—rising. WIND N.W. to w Light, with dull, hazy weather ml glimpses of sunshine. Lopolsi p MONDAY, DECEMBER 1p 1856. bullion stored in the vaults at Threadneedle -street have been considerably increased, while the active circulation has been again largely diminished. ; Neuchatel sin Ally ar Ld definitively (as we have The change, too, has been going on steadily, and seen) as his Pr inci " pa lity, speaking of his right to • there is therefore every r eason to su p pose that the ' its allegiance as incontestable," and " unques tide has at length turned, and that the drain of I tionable," and so - forth, and referring to his policy bullion from our shores has been arrested. hitherto, in re. teard to the whole question, For these assertions we have indisputable as having been d listingeished by a " moderation" "facts and figures." Within three weeks the universally recog eised throughout Christendom— notes unemployed, or, in oth er words, the sum pertly adds, " any case I will not consent that available for the private bu siness of the banking my forbearance sh ould become an arm a g ainst m y department, have received an addition of more °WYI rights." Keening literally, of course, that than one million and a qu arter, or 43 p er cent., whatever may be the view taken of this matter by the rest of Europe, by the aggregate of on the amount in hand at the beginning of last the Great Po - viers, by Neuchatel itself, by month. The augmentation of the reserve of notes d ur ing the week ending the 7th ultimo was the deliberativecouncils of the entire Swiss Confederation —— he (Ceeeenoe) is pot - valiantly 206,000/. ; on the 14th there was a further in resolved single-handed, and aided solely by the crease of 456,380/. ; while en the 21st there was th e enormous amount of 611,2401 . added to the sacred prestige of what he calls his rights, to fling the gage of battle in the teeth of Christen previous increase, or nearly 1,275,000/. within that brief period. dom. On the 14th ultimo the stock of bullion was There is a rather amusing similarity discernible, 154,0151. higher than the preceding week, and by the way, just now, between the attitude assumed the improvement up to the 21st was 213,4691., timultaneously by King CLICQUOT of Prussia— or 367,4841. within a f or t n i g ht. Within three and King 80312 A of the Two Sicilies. The latter weeks, also, the active c i rc ulation or notes in the defensively. The former aggressively. His hands of the public have been reduced by nearly Majesty of NAPLES, not so very long ago—Don't one million sterling in round numbers—the d e - we all of us remember it vividly enough ? just, crease on the 7th being 297,0001., on the 14th for all the world, as we might remember by a stitch 309,9501., and on the 21st 386,4501. There is in the side caught from laughing at either over even reason to suppose that the account to the muca, a better joke than usual in Punch, or some 28th will show decided progress in the same di- excruciating hit from the jestful pen or pencil of rection, inasmuch as it was within that period the Ctarivari—his Majesty King BOMBA, not so that the Bank was enabled to rescue a portion of very long ago, tickled the risibility of Europe by the gold that arrived by the Australian ships a precisely similar fanfaronade. Talked of calling L from the grasp of the Continental cormorants. out his armL e Spoke of drawing the sword. But for all this there has been no relaxation in Hinted at f/iihe ter away the scabbard. The dread the rate of interest ; 7 per cen t . is still the mini- retaliation et rubel out in cei,e,era over Frauuo and England, and for that matter over the whole mu m rate of discount by the Leviathan — a charge th a t implies from Bto 12 per cent. - to the mer- of the rest of the Great Powers of the European C c h a nts and manufacturers who have not discount Continent—the dread and awful retaliation of a accounts with the Leviathan, and who must pro- War declared against "a world in arms" by that cure money to meet their liabilities and pay wages most puissant potentate the King of the Two at any cost, unless prepared to submit to absolute SICILIES. No wonder that after that—but very ruin. What does such a rate of interest lead to ? little more has been heard of an Anglo-French interference with the conduct of the Neapolitan Bankers and brokers will rejoice at a state of affairs that enhances their profi ts, alwa y s hi g h, to Government. The consequences of such a rup extravagant amounts. They will utter joyous ture as the one alluded to by King Boan3A as not pecans at the plethoric appearance of their purses by any means improbable, being altogether too alling to be seriously entertained for another The ancient cry, " Great is Diana of the Ephe- 21313 sians," will be re-echoed through Lombard-street five minutes. And now a congenial " Coz " and its vicinity. of King BOXEA—King CLICQUOT to wit—What But what is fun to them is death to the indus- saith he to the affrighted ears of Earope ? Why trial classes, .from the highest to the lowest. The this—" As my people may be convinced that I co mmercial and productive classes look to such cling to the recognition of my duties, and to the r rates with the most serious apprehensions, as in- recon ciliation of my relations with Europe as the volving considerable losses, if not absolute ruin, rule of my future actions, so am I perfectly con- If there were no reasonable hope of speedy vinced, if circumstances exacted it—{o dire fore provement they would abandon business, which boding of disasters in posse !]—that the Prussian they carry on without profit. Their anxieties and people would prove their fidelity and devotedness t labours are all for the benefit of others. Theo the honour of my Crown with an energy that moneyocracy appropriate the legitimate fruits of will brave all risks." Assuredly if King BOKBA'S their exertions. " vos non vobis, fortis cratra a ttitude bore a certain similarity, the other day, to boves." They bear the yoke, but enjoy not the the little mannikin XIT, sparring, with a squeak returns. They are indeed worse off than the of defiance, at the hugeous forms of GOG and oxen, who are lodged and fed at the expense of MAGOG —the attitude just assum e d b y K i ng their taskmasters, while they must live from their CLICQUOT is hardly, in many respects, one, jot less own resources, no matter how they can be obtained. ridiculous. The reality of the matter in regard Under such circumstances can we feel surprised at to this Swiss affair about Neuchatel being simply the commercial frauds which have recently excited this—that the band of insurgents, now the surprise and indignation of the community ? about to be placed upon their trial for The victims are first plundered in due form of high treason during the course of this present law, and then they endeavour by craft and fraud month of December, will, beyond all doubt and to spoil the Egyptians, and to win back by any as a thing of course, be found guilty and formally means the money they have lost. We do not, of condemned for lize majesty against the Federal course, intend to apologise for the delinquents. Government ; and being so found guilty and con- Nothing can justify or even extenuate such demned, will doubtless, equally as a matter of conduct ; but there can be no better mode course, be thereupon contemptuously set free— of insuring commercial rectitude than by the sentence pronounced upon them having duly allowing mercantile enterprise and activity satisfied and vindicated the outraged rights, the to reap its legitimate rewards. It would scarcely "incontrovertible" and "unquestionable" bove be advisable for the moneyocracy to destroy the reign Rights of the Helvetic Confederation ! That, we take it, is pretty much about what his goose which has been producing golden eggs on MAJESTY of Prussia will get by his motion. That, very slender encouragement. The usurer, who ventures little and produces nothing, should be as the cant phrase runs, is pretty nearly "about contented to see the creators of the national the size of it !" And much good may it do him wealth retain for their own use a portion of the —this grandiose result of this portentous rhoelce profits realised by their indefatigable exertions. montade. The foundation of all this enormous grievance ) the teterrima causa mali, is obvious to all who take the trouble of looking beyond the surface. A brief investigation into the different values of temporary and permanent investments will satisfy any person of ordinary comprehension that it is not capital, but currency, that is required. On Saturday last Consols for the 4th December closed with firmness at 941 to while for the New Ac count, on the Bth January, sales were effected at 95 to Deducting the dividend payable on that day, 11. 10s., this will leave the rate of interest which the public are contented to receive, at something less than 31. 45., or 3 1-sth per cent. At the same time, the Bank minimum, on unex ceptionable securities, having short periods to run before arriving at maturity (they will touch or oven look at no others), is 7 per cent. ! The Times, the recognised organ of the bullionists, tells us that we are the wealthiest nation in the world—that there is no lack of capital for any legitimate purpose ! It graphically depicts the frightful inconvenience of a high rate of interest for money, which it truly declares to be " a great national disaster," and yet it advocates the law that produces that untoward state of affairs ! There is, iu fact, a superabundance of wealth ; all that is required is that there should be an adequate measure and re presentative—or that a due proportion thereof should bo converted into the convenient and ne cessary form of a circulating medium sufficient for the national exigences, and thus supplying the very life-blood to industry. It is the rumours and unnecessary contraction of that circulating me dium that occasions all the evils which the Times so feelingly deplores! Why then should we starve in the midst of plenty, and endure cold and hun ger, because the cloth merchant cannot measure his wares with a golden yard—or the corn-dealer supply weights of the precious metals. Other less costly substitutes are provided, and notes, gua ranteed by the nation, and receivable in payment of taxation, would be better for all domestic pur poses than gold. They should, however, be really national notes of small and convenient de nominations, issued by a department responsible to Parliament for the discreet discharge of the important trust confided to its hands. As our esteemed correspondent, C. W. S. (to whose ad mirable letter, in this day's impression, we ear nestly invite attention) says, "The sooner the Bank of England ceases to be a C or p ora ti on , car ried on for the profit or loss of private persons, and becomes a Government institution, with notes issued on Government securities, the better !" arrogating to him self a "right" to an extension of his sover eigutr over Neuchatel—talking of His convivial Majesty Ring e zc t :r r o d i ay ta , tallied, in his Speech fr om the Throne on on of— "nay Principality of Neuchatel !" His Imperial Majesty the Escrsnon OF ALL THE RIISSIAS might just precisely as well talk of—his Princi palities of Moldo-Wallachia ! Yet the man who speaks thus of what is notoriously to all the rest of the world one of the Cantons of Switzerland _babbles, almost in the same breath, about his solicitude to preserve, in unison with the rest of the great powers of Europe, the maintenance of the present rather dubious tranquillity Hi d Majesty, while thus flagrantly and insolently Talk of Prussia's Rights of Sovereignty over Neuchatel ! Rather perilous babbling this on the part of King FREDERICK WILLIAM • IV., - suggestive as these insolent preten sions are of the emptiness of certain other and rather larger territorial claims of sovereignty on the part of the Prussian Crown ! Recalling to mind, in fact, the unnatural relation in which France and Prussia have been standing in refer ence to each other ever since the bungling botch work made of the map of Europe in 1815—when the Rhenish provinces, were by a monstrous act of folly and injustice, awarded to the Royal House of BRANDENEURGH, in defiance of that obvious geo graphical necessity which constitutes the Rhine in one direction the natural boundary of France. Let King CLICQUOT forcibly drag before the world the great and complicated question as to what are really and truly the ter ritorial rights of sovereignty belonging to the Prussian Crown and as certainly as a detected thief is liable when hauled into a court of justice to have his plunder torn out of his clutches—at one single stroke of a pen, at one single flash of a sword those beautiful Rhenish Provinces, from Tre ves to Cleves, will be raft for over from the grasp of Prussian domination, and restored to France as part and parcel of tho Imperial dominions of the third NAPOLEON. So that by reason of the fool hardy pretensions of King CLICQUOT, not only will Neuchatel be retained as an integral portion of Switzerland, but, sooner than might otherwise have been practicable, France may be enabled to reassert her sovereign rights over Cologne and Aix-la Chapelle. We read of Austrian and Neapolitan trials by interested judges, of convictions of innocent men, and of barbarous sentences relentlessly carried out, as a matter of course ; and we hold up our hands with great self-complacency, as if England were al together exempt from the abominations of Naples. If we mistake not, however, there is one section of our laws, and one department of their adminis tration, which for their iniquity and the atrocities of their administration can hardly be surpassed in Naples or Milan. The game is not so high, and the punishments necessarily not so protracted, but the animus of laws and judges in both cases is equally vindictive and relentless ; we may add that the results in the manufacture of criminals, ultimately of ticket-of-leave men, and then of victims for the gallows, can be surpassed in no country in Europe. Our readers may have guessed that we refer to the game laws and the country magistrates. In no other part of our code, and in no other class of judges is there now left the same malignant effort to victimise an offender. In no other department of justice are judges tainted with suspicion tolerated ; indeed no judge allows himself to incur suspicion by trying a case in which he has a presumable and obvious bias. To the gime laws is left the infamy of being in direct opposition to the convictions of all but game preservers, and of the game preservers mak ing themselves both judge and jury, in trying, convicting, and fixing the penalty of every offender brought before them. The Bank Returns for the week ending the 21st instant, so far as the corporation itself i 3 concerned, are of a peculiarly favourable charac ter. The reserve of notes and _the am oun t of A little while back we had a cue to report of a THE SUN, LONIYON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1856 respectable young farmer'sent to gaol for "poaching on his father's land." That seemed bad enough ; but on Saturday we gave a case from the Norfolk News, with all particulars, of two :labouring men, JOHN LOADS and WILLIAM HAGION, being sen- ,enced by some Norfolk Magistrates to one month's imprisonment "for trespassing on their own land !! !" Let the magistrates' names be well remembered—one was; a Lord—Lord .HAST- INGS j one a clergyman—the Rev. J.. IL &AMU ; she two others were Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. COZENS-HARDY, but the latter gentleman, much to his credit in such company, refused to concur in the conviction. A lord, a clergyman, and we suppose a decent country squire, concur to send two honest persons to prison, and it appears, by the logic of agricultural wages, their wives to everywhere by all peoples. But the country he fought for, the country whose freedom he perished in achieving needs a vindication that none can confute, and he that runs may read. This will be afforded by the WALL ACE Monument, and in this point of view, the projectors have our cordial approval. It is too late ; at all events it would be unwise to stir up the question of nationality in a manner calculated to be offensive to Englishmen. It was for liberty, and not slaughter, WALLACE fought, and they would dishonour instead of consecra,,,i ng his memory, who associated with a test,', nion i a i anything to which Englishmen of the r; reson t d ay could reasonably object. He is D'.J Englishman who does not admire and honwn WALLACE, he is true S o t o c thef Aot carry with the mo nument p r a zriot to Abbey C i ai g the c n o hearty respect of a na; ra a Scottish w h would cion whose own liberties have been won from potentates like EDWARD, who was his foe. We do not say this because we be lieve absorption to be necessary to the union of the two countries. Far from it. But simply to guard against a danger which it were well to have averted. Let Scotland be alwP,,ys Scotland, glory ing in her traditions, and proud, as she has a right to be, of her posi . ',i on - ; but may the day never dawn when England and Scotland cannot reciprocate admirat'hon of each other's worthies— men whose deed,,, truly rendered, were not for one people cr. one generation merely, but for all People auf.a for all time. the workhouse, for trespassing on Common Rights undeniably belonging to the tenements in which they dwelt. Unmoved, supposing them to be legally right, by the obviously natural grounds for the offence, unmoved by zhe poverty of their victims, unmoved by public opinion around them ; unmoved by the sufferings entailed through the temporary widowhood and orphanhood of the families, these English, not Neapolitan, judges had not a drachm of mercy for the consolation of the immediate and the indirect sufferers. The line and the expenses, the whole of them, or a month's imprisonment, was the alternative ! Too poor to pay, the victims of a lord, a parson, and a squire, are dragged off to a mouth's imprison mint, with hard labour ; and all for trespassing on their own land ! Game was the inspiring spirit of this outrageous injustice. The land, about one hundred and twenty acres, belonged as a common right to the ootta l va% and to some others of the 4puted tres- i passers. They went to it to catch rabbits—not very noble game we used to think in our sporting experience ; but the right of shooting over the common had been let by the trustees, with what right does not appear, to a gentleman, we suppose we are to call him, of the name of BARKER. Mr. HARDY thought the trustees had no power to let the sporting over the common ; but even if they had, seeing that the men had undoubted right to cut furze or turf on it, might they not be forgiven for seeking such a poor man's game as rabbits also, on their own. territory ? How were they to comprehend that any gentle man could object to their getting for once a Sun day meat pie off their own common ? and how could three mortal gentlemen be found to send four poor men to prison for such a shadow of an offence ! THE CURRENCY QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BIM For ourselves we cannot deny a rather special fondness for rural sports, but we cannot blind our selves to the disgrace entailed on field sports by such barbarous austerities as these. A London Stipendiary Magistrate, had he thought the law against the men, would have told them so, have warned them, and have taken any course rather than send them to the treadmill in such flagrant violation of common sense and justice ; but these country Justices of the Peace seem not only to think they have the law in their own hands, but to twist it to the most disgraceful cruelties wher ever game is concerned. It is questionable whe ther they would punish much more serious offences with half the severity. We do not suppose that these gentlemen were worse than their class, but their whole class are utterly unfit to try gave-law cases. Their rancour against any poor fellow who has ever touched a hare, partridge, pheasant, or even a rabbit or a snipe, is so intense, that pre judice insures conviction, and spite a sentence which tite Central Criminal Court would blush at. ' The game laws and their administration must be altered. They are the curse of the rural dis tricts. They tempt to an artilmal crime, for no man thinks killing a wild animal a crime, how ever unlucky the results may be. They then train to crime by sending the victim to an appren ticeship in the gaol, or by torturing him with a fine, which perhaps starves him into poaching again, or at least arouses him to get vengeance iu some way for the felt injustice. The families of the men are then demoralised by the workhouse, and even the magistrates do not escape ; they, too, are de moralised by their own gross injustice on the judg ment seat. It is characteristic of the temper of such judges that, according to the Norfolk News, the " Lord" of the company has threatened the Editor of that journal with the horsewhip if he comments on his verdict 1 A compliment which the Editor appreciates too highly not to be in spired by it to a full exposure of the case. We are happy to observe that a subscription is on foot amongst the men, and most properly. Also that the other cottagers refuse to give up taking the rabbits, and dare the Honourable Bench, and gentleman to whom the trustees have let the poor man's property, to do their worst. Sin,—The Times, in allusion to the letter of Mr. Muntz, says that it will not discuss the propriety of a temporary extension of an inconvertible paper currency until some one has produced a Bank note expressed in otner terms Irian promise to pay on ouniaiin aLo sum of five pounds," which will be acceptable to the people. The Times asserts, in fact, that a Bank of England note will only pass current as long as it is believed that it will be converted into gold on demand. That this assertion is false is, happily, not merely a matter of opinion : experience has made it a certainty. In one of those extremely clever and unanswerable articles which have appeared in your paper on this sub ject, articles which entitle you to the thanks of the mer chants and manufscturers of England, indeed of the trading community generally, you state that, in 1825, when there were only a few hundred thousand pounds of bullion in the coffers of the Bank of England, and when there were 19,748,000 notes (of course inconvertible) passing current, Lord .A,,hiJu, ton, a financier of no mean repute, and one whose experience, I imagine, was quite equal to that of the writer for the Times, recommended a further issue of inconvertible notes to the extent of 4,731,000, what was the result ? It must have been ge nerally known that these 24,479,000 could not be converted into gold by the Bank. of England on demand, and yet,lcontrary to the assertion of the Times, they were willingly accepted by the people, the crisis was tided over, trade resumed its regular course, and gold in abundance soon filled the coffers of the Bank of Eng ( land. Since the establishment of free trade the commerce not only of Great Britain, but of the world, has taken gigantic proportions. With the increase of commerce there should, of course, be an increase of the circulating medium by the aid of which that commerce is carried on. It is obvious that if 50,000,000 of circulating me dium are required for 20,000,000 of people trading to the extent of 200,000,000, that the 50,000,000 are not enough for 30,000,000 of people trading to the extent of 300,000,000. Either the circulating medium was too abundant in the former case, or it is too contracted in the latter—l need not say that it will not do to de pend upon an event so fortuitous and uncertain as the discovery of gold in Australia and California. These discoveries were certainly most a propos. Without those discoveries in the midst of plenty, we should, with the exception of a few holders of bullion, be all starving in the streets—but as it cannot be expected that the dis covery of gold should keep pace with the increase of the trade of the world, the time has arrived for the Govern ment of this country to consider it part of its duty to see that there is alway3a circulating medium in the country of some sort or another to tarry on the operations of trade. Whilst the balance of trade in favour of England is something like 40,000,000, if there is a scarcity of gold in England, it must be that we have something more valuable to us in its place ; the scarcity of gold can only be temporary, and a temporary remedy should be im mediately supplied. Let the foreigner buy every cove r -ign we have as long as it is profitable for us to sell, but there is no reason why the circulating medium of the country should be so much less. A. temporary sup ply of bank notes should be issued for domestic purposes, which would enable the merchants and manufacturers to get their perfectly good bills disc muted, and obtain a •ircnlating medium to answer every purpose, without paying from 7 to 121 per cent. for it. The Times persists in valuing the circulating medium paper only according to the quantity of circulaing Jeer, jibe at, deprecate, or regret it who may, the lion-hearted patriot of Scotland --- " the WAL LACE wight"—is to have a monument. There is no mistake about it—the meeting at E linburgh on Friday last settled the matter. The Abbey Craig, Stirling, is predestined to honour. What ever consecration it may have received it must now bo regarded as the site of a temple, we trust a worthy one, of national gratitude for patriotic prowess, successful in its aim, if cut short by the axe of the executioner. The projectors of • the testimonial have gone too far to recede with credit; and if they could the Scottish people ought not to let them. It is too late for that, and the me mory of the man deserves all the honour they can render it. Medium gold ; but I do not see why the value of the former should depend so much upon the quantity of the latter. I consider a metallic circulating medium as a very clumsy contrivance. It was necessary, in former periods of the world, when printing was not invented, and not one person in a million could read or write, and a bank note or a bill would have been a perfectly in- comprehensible document, and consequently useless. Then the circulating medium must have been something that the ignoramus could see and weigh ; but in a coun try like England, where everybody, even the most illiterate, is acquainted with the nature of a bank note or bill, in a country like England where -all nations by glancing at the trade returns can see the state of weal 'h and prosperity where the Queen is loved, and a successor to the throne is secured—where the institutions of the country are cherished from the highest to the lowest, and a general feeling of security prevails, a paper circulating medium is much more convenient for domestic purposes, and quite as highly valued as bullion ; and if the Times, after being reminded ut what to,k place in 1825, still asserts that the Bank of England cannot circulate its notes ex cept on the understanding that they are convertible into gold on demand, then, I say, the sooner the Bank of England ceases to be a corporation carried on for the profit or loss of private persons, and becomes a Govern ment institution, with notes issued on Government secu• rity, the better. I maintain, sir, that the establishment of tree trade increases tra to an d p o p u l a ti on on th e con tinent as well as in England to such an extent that causes like the present must be of constant recurrence. A disposition ou the part of continental countries to realise—that is to say, to convert their property, what ever it may be, whether Government securities, or wines or silks, raw and manufactured, into gold at any sacri fice, which disposition to realise is brought about by some want of security in their Governments, causes a y who require a proper supply of circulating i d n r c a , i ) v o e f n gold t a p n r o d fi t r a e b i l n e e t u o s t t h e i s merchantseountry, b a u n t d e i xtremel manufac turers, medium to meet their bills and pay their operatives. As A.s the trade and population of the continent creases the power of a bsorbing d tion some day will leave us without a_ discount soveri,„ will not country. Increasing the Bank . ratef n o l enable us to make keep the gold in the country; it will h only nent dread revolu a oetter bargain. If people t e con of the world also increases, so . that a re t ad e e . o y f a rieunvOtlhue tion and loss of property; if they cannot realise . at . one . thfeelrl. 50 o n p l e B r 4B .e , e ;a t. w , s h il e k e , a w u h se ich th i e s French people were afraid to keep it in the country. These remarks, I think, will bear out your opinion, that it becomes the duty of the Government to keep an as price c convertible a t v h e e r eye upon the circulating medium of the country ; and it y tib w le ill a a s t go a l n d o , the gold is abstracted below a certain point, to supply its place with a substitute without delay.—Yours, &c., C. W. S. It is all very Well to say—Scotland itself is WALLACE'S best monument. Doubtless it is, if the Scottish people are grateful, for it is part and parcel of a patriot's aims to have the liberty and prosperity of the country he strives for illuminated and guarded by every generous sentiment that ennobles humanity. Scotland is now fairly chal lenged to show she still appreciates and is grateful for the labour and the sufferings of the hero who spent his life's blood to rescue her from thraldom, and there can be but one answer. Scotland, it is granted, is free and prosperous. Not a breeze that stirs the lazy mist of her mountains, or ripples the surface of her beautiful lakes, bears on it the wail of the oppressed. Industry plies its busy hand in sure and certain hope of remunera tion, and the voice of conscience suggests no tes timony to be sealed with blood. Holyrood, it is true, is no longer the seat of Royal authority, and a Scot tish Parliament is a thing of the past. But where WALLACZ fought, and KNox fulminated, is every where to be witnessed the guerdon which nerved either to the struggle iu which it is glorious even to be overcome, and fail of the great reward. The stranger, notwithstanding. will look in vain throughout. broad Scotland for a monument to her great patriot deliverer, and the noble pea sants, who under his leadership set an example, which all freemen must admire, and not a few have imitated. Are freedom and prosperity only to be had at the cost of ingratitude ? This is a question he is disposed to ask, and the question which now needs to be satisfactorily responded to. WALLACZ may need no monument, his name is the brightest in Scottish history, and his story has but to be known to cause him to be honoured MR. MORRIS ANORE'S ARREST AT BERLIN. - 40, TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. Six, —Last night I received a tetter from Mr. M orr i s Moore, dated Ber:in, Nov. 26, containing further parti culars connected with his arrest, and important, as point ing directly to the secret a7,ent by whom the intended blow was struck. Mr. Moore says :—" I heard last night on good authority that the order' (for his arrest) emanated from the Cabinet du Roi, and that I was to be seized Coute qui coute. " Everybody says that there must be some extraordi naryl- ki—UeriCo fl in the background. At ten o ' c l ock on on Saturday morning was at the Briti s h Em. bassy. Lord Blomfield volunteered to him the nrwe of Waagen, as the mover, and remarked that.he was sur prised that Waage& should . have recourse to such wea pons.' I should not have dared to utter such sus. proferrer de tels soupcons, ?ore's reason for suppressing the name pons.' said nothing to suggest this, car je quoque je les I already had them.' " of aPo vi rn : si: informant :M—th:arosru :s sh is obvious, in Berli n , w h ere a secret tr ib u nal wields an irresponsible power, an d where for wrong done there is no remedy. I am, Sir, yours, &c. Keptown, Nov. 29. WM. CONINGHAM. The Marquis and Marchi.iness of Salisbury are enter taining a select circle at Hatfield House, Herts. The Elrl and Countess of Mu!grave 'lave arrived at Newton House Yorkshi re . The Right don. Lord Cranstoun is sojourning at his seat at Bagnor, near Ashlyartor. Burlington House is to be pulled down and a new National Gallery erected upon its site. About 35,000/. is understood to have been taken from the Bank on Saturday in bar gold for transmission t the Continent on account of the silver lately purchased for India and China, the amount of which to be de spatched by the next mail is estimated at about 800,000/. A Paris letter of Nov. 26, in the Cologne Gazette, says that the Emueror had passed a day at Fontainebleau. " This hunting party (the latter says) was kept a secret, and the newspapers ' invited' to say nothing about it Moniteur also will be silent.", NE WS. BERLIN, Nov. 28. Prussia is about to invite the treat Powers to fix on the measures to he adopted to re-establish her sovereignty over Neuchatel, reserving to her self ulterior proceedings. She wishes for a con gress. The Austrian garrison at Galatz has been reinforced. The King has returned here, and presided at a Council of Ministers, relative to administrative and financial projects. The Eco publishes the statistics of the Industrial and Agricultural Bank. Its capital is 2,000,000 ducats, in 20,00 Q shares. It is especially to be de voted to the promotion of agriculture. It is rumoured in Paris that the friends of M. Thiers intend putting him forward as a candidate at the next election for the Seine Inferieure ; M.M. Duchatel (brother of the Minister of Louis Philippe and Dufaure (Minister of the Interior under the Republic) are spoken of for the Cha rente Inferieure ; and, by an alleged combination of a section of the Red and Legitimist parties, M. Olivier (Red Republican) and M. Berryer for the Bouches-du-Rhone. OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. (From the Second Edition of th,e Times.) BERLIN, SATURDAY. This morning, at a quarter to 12 o'clock, the King opened the session of the two Houses of the Prussian Diet by a speech from the Throne in the Tirlai‘ulaCkci thcl Waco Thiq rArAmony, which took place in the usual manner, and which 1 La.o on various occasions already described, was prr ceded by Divine service, celebrated at the Cathedral for the attendance of the members of the Evangelical or Protestant Church, and at the Hedwigskirche for those attached to the Romish Church. All the Mi nisters, without any exception, belong to the Pro testant confession. The various members of the two Houses had already assembled in considerable numbers when the Ministers appeared in full official costume, and took up their places to the left of the throne. After the lapse of some time, and the period fixed for the opening speech having passed fully a quarter of an hour, the King appeared from the side of the Picture Gallery, preceded by the various officers of the Court, and followed by all the Princes of the Royal family now in Berlin. He was received with one of those sounds that occupy the same place in public business as cheering in England, and consists of "Es lebe der Konig," ut terred in a hurried indistinct piping tone, which becomes shrill with the concluding word Koch, and while he took his place on the throne the Royal Princes ranged themselves at his right hand in order of precedence. The King then seated him self, and having received the speech from the Minister President read as follows : " Illustrious, Noble, and dear Sirs of both Houses of the Diet,— " It is matter of great gratification to me to be able at this re-assembling of the two Houses of the Diet to pronounce the state of the country to be highly satisfactory. By the bounty of Divine Pro vidence all the provinces of the Monarchy have been blessed with an ample harvest, and an allevi ation of the privations that have been caused by continued scarcity for several years past may be hoped and looked forward to with confidence. "In every branch of productive industry, in agriculture, in mining, in manufactures, and iu commerce rapid progress makes itself clearly visible. The spirit of enterprise with us has not, it is true, entirely avoided these extravagances which, as the experience of other countries shows, always and of necessity lead to deplorable reaction. In spite of this, however, the present state of indus trial activity with us must be looked on as the result of wholesome development. The attention and endeavours of my Government have been directed to assist and strengthen this most gratifying pro sperity by the further development of the public means of communication and traffic. In the last few months very important lines of railroad, both in the east and west of the kingdom, have been opened for traffic, and the network of railways spread over the country has thus obtained a most desirable extension. My Government has con cluded several treaties with foreign States, which will contribute to the promotion of mutual trade and commerce. " The various authorities throughout the country have had their attention specially engrossed by the carrying out of the laws I lately sanctioned for the government of the civic and rural com munes in Westphalia and the Rhenish Provinces, for the constitution of the rural communes and the local governments in the eastern prao:rifuoereslooofkminyg kingdom, and there are g ood g rouu forward to a satisfactory development of com munal life on these bases. An active goodwill is manifesting itself to improve or to found useful institutions in the communes, and this tendency is meeting with ample support in the constantly extending efficiency of the Estates of Circles. Th e Provincial and Communal Diets that have sat during the last few months have likewise promoted the interests they advocate in most gratifying har mony with the Estates. In the pro v i nce of juris prudence there will be certain drafts of bills sub mitted to you for the determination of various provincial laws ; and further, in conformity with the former promise of my Government, a bill also for the amendment, which has been recognised as so urgently necessary, of the law affecting divorce, as at present contained in the General Code (Allgemeines Landrecht). " The budget for the next year will produce in you the conviction that the productiveness of the resources of the country is on the increase. At the same time there are various important and urgent claims on them that have hitherto been put off and cannot any longer be left unattended to. An increase in the public income of the country is therefore indispensable. I commend to your careful examination the financial bills which my Govern ment will bring before you to this end. A state ment will be submitted to you by my Government with reference to the manner in which the mili tary authorities have availed themselves of the extraordinary credit voted them, together with a proposal for the application of the balance still re maining of the loan of 30,000,000 thalers. A portion of it is destined to Cover the excess of expenditure over the estimates, which has been caused by the return to the triennial period of military service, as required by the law of Sept. 3, 1814, and which has been called for by urgent considerations. "Gentlemen,—At the close of your last session the restoration of peace to Europe gave me occasion to invoke your gratitude to the Almighty. I hope and trust that the blessings of peace will still . continue to be preserved to our quarter of the globe, and specially to our country. As a party to the European treaties, I shall hold fast by the fulfilment on all sides of the obligations so lemnly entered into therein. " I have been most painfully affected by the re cent events in my Principality of Neuchatel, wh ere the antagonism that has existed over since 1848 between my undoubted right and the actual move ment.of public affairs, has brought loyal men into the power of their adversaries. The moderation with which, in the interest of the general pea ce , I h ave treated the existing etate of things in this Principality for years past, has been duly appreciated and re cognised by the Powers of Europe. It is my wish even after this last deplorable conflict, and now that my indisputable right has been recently corroborated by the unanimous resolution of the Gorman. Federal Diet, to bring about a set tlement in harmony with the dignity of my grown by means of negotiations with the Europe Powers; at the same time I must not and will not allow my long-enduring patience to be turned into a weapon against my rights. My people may rest convinced that I shall make the serious and thorough consideration of my own duties and of the state of things in Europe the guide and crite rion of my further steps in this matter, and I too entertain the confident trust that, whenever cir cumstances may call for it, my people will step for ward to vindicate the honour of my crown with the same energy, loyalty, and devotion they have over NAPLES, Nov. 29. I shown. " Gentlemen,—l hope and trust that your labours will conduce to the welfare of the country, and I herewith bid you welcome to their com mencement." FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. Tho Moniteur of to-day announces that the Emperor and Empress, with the Imperial Prince, left St. Cloud yesterday, and arrived at the Tuileries at 5 in the afternoon. The Moniteur contains a long list of persons who are authorised by decree to wear different foreign orders. Am-ng the names are those of Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Grand Cross of the Austrian Order of St. Stephen ; Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of Leopold ; Ist Class Roman Order of Pius ; Grand Cross of Portuguese Order of Our Lady of the Conception of VillaVicoza; Knight of the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle ; Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus ; Knight of the Swedish Order of the Saraphim ; and Ist Class Turkish of the Med jidie ; Marsha Vaillant, Minister of War, as Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of Savoy ; Baron de Talleyrand Perigord as Grand Cross of the Baden Order of the Lion of Zebringen. The list closes with the names of 60 officers of different ranks in the French army for 2d, 3d, 4th, and sth clash orders of the Medjidie. Mr. Disraeli has arrived in Paris, and is expected to have an interview with the Emperor. This arrival, coupled with Count de Persigny's recent visit to Lord Derby, must be considered as of great importance. It is reported that M. Mire's mission to Spain has succeeded, and that in conjunction with English and other capitalists he has contracted for a loan, which will be forthwith converted into Three per Cents. The persons employed by government to see how many people enter the Bourse in a day counted 10,270 yesterday. Yesterday the Bank discounted bills to the large amount of 25 millions. LATEST RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg says :—" The war department is busily occupied in replacing in the storehouses and arsenals the military stores, which were much diminished during the late war. The manufactories of Tula and Scossensk have received large orders for this purpose. The attributions of the Governor of the Caucasus have been materially increased. There has been added to the duties of that officer the superior direction of all the affairs of the navy onthe eastern coast of the Black Sea, those of the row-boat flotilla of the Sea of Azoff, of the cruisers of the Caucasian coast, and of the fleet 10 the Caspian Sea. For this purpose the Governor of the Caucasus will have under his orders a staff of naval officers composed of a rear-admiral and others of inferior grades. These measures prove that Russia has not renounced her projects in Asia, and will seek to recover on that side what she has lost in the Black Sea." Another letter from St. Petersburg says :—" the government of Smolensko all the subaltern civil functionaries have received, on account of the dearness of provisions, a sum equal to the third of their salaries. It has been decided also to award assistance of a similar amount to ecclesiastical em ployes, but only in case of absolute necessity, and in places where articles of food have doubled in price. In the neighbourhood of Moscow most of the streams are so hardly frozen that loaded carts are able to cross them." THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. We have received our despatches from India an China by the overland mail via Marseilles. The mail was considerably overdue, the steam packet having suffered delay in the Mediterranean. The advices by this arrival are to the following dates ; Bombay, Nov. 3 ; Calcutta, Oct. 22 ; Ma' dras, Oct. 29 ; Hong Kong, Oct. 15 ; Canton, Oct. 13 ; Shanghai, Oct. 8. Among the Indian intelligence, the first place is again due to the Persian expedition, full particulars of which will be found below. Apart from this en terprise, in which the Indian government is not concerned as a principal, there is tranquillity throughout the land, and peace on every „frontier. The cold season has set in e arly. Food ana employ ment are lentiful, while if public im p rovement is proceeding slowly, enterprise is not altogether at a stand still. The Governor-General and Governor of Bombay are at the seats of admist_ratio n. Governor of Madras is on his way by Hurryhur to the Malabar Coast, proposing,- to meet in Col. Co tton, from England, at Sedashighur, now under contem plation as a shipping port. THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION. According to the arrangements in force when the off m n t g h tßel or expeditionrhe. i x ar p an en e . a d dg i eTg t o i orh o ne . n e: Bombayashould e f b t y I ru thisi d m i ae, time Times the reportsf o r haveces c t ho arrivedamtpotshi sisted of twenty-six sailing transports, gate of 24,000 tons • of three of the three lesse u r s v a P C ob fa O ya m t t bs i p o n t a ve g n ea e y m r l 7 burden in all of 30,000 tons, vessels eSingapore,ls of te and Company, of an aggregate at a freightage charge • The men of war were nine first-class steamers—the Ajdaha, Punjaub, Assaye, Feroze• Semiramis, Victoria, and Hugh Lindsay ; the steam tenders N • apier and steam yacht Goolanar; the sloops El • p iinstone and Clive, and the brigs Etl phrates and Tigris —or he total 12 vessels in all, t , flee amounting to 40 sail. A t' portion of these 130. been sent to Vingorla to take on board her Ma i j e sty s 64th and 20th Native Infantry from Bel' gaups ; to,Porebunder to receive the 3d Cavalry from Rajkote, s :oN e o t ba e oev a ls. na iides and to iurraciaee to ship the Belooch battalion the 2d Europeans, and Brett's Battery. The fighting men in all would amount to about 6,000, with about double this number of camp fe l " lowers. Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, commander in-chief of the Indian navy, had been authorised to take the command. The Bombay Times sharply criticises the war from its policy down to i'zs appointments. According to our Indian contemporary, " nine-tenths of the thinking men in India deem this expedition one el the most insane ever undertaken ; and half of those composing it regard it as iratical." Again, th° gallant admiral who is to p command the fleet is now in his seventieth year, has never hitherto sailed, save as a passenger, in the eastern waters; and of the climate, hydrography, and peculiarities -ships gation of the Persian Gulf he must needs be as ignorant aa the o h he is of the native character and tongue. He is, however, " nor, only far from unpopular out of the service, but is generally esteemed as a kind-hearted, amiable, and thoroughly inoffensive man; and the disapprobation almost universal on the present occasion, is due to the unwisdom of the arrange ment, not to the unpopularity of the individual. Rangoon, where the indiscretion of the commodore brought on the Burmese war, might have warned us of the inexpediency of sending an old admiral on a demonstration, the only use of which mai, appear to him to be a little g lor y and fighting, an;-` the extension by a year of his present cow man No one, the admiral perhaps excepted, anticipates the slightest resistance, and if we fire at all, it must be on a defenceless and unoffending people, maul of them our subjects or friends, the only injury inflict being on our own commerce. W e may tavikee Bushire, or any other port in the Persian Gull, without firing a shot,„ and retain them should we desire it. In doing so we neither inj ure Persia nor benefit ourselves, so long as, by reason of the difficulty of the country and rigour of the elimste, ia we are unable to move into the interior. Pers is not worth conquering ; the revenues o f Ind? would not maintain it were it ours. Meanwh ile we can scarcely expect Russia to look on with col?' posure while wo operate against her old ally in the Gulf." HERAT. The Indian papers , notwithstanding their corai..." parat i ve proximity to the scene, are unable to spes s con fid ent ly and with detail respecting the progress of the siege of Herat. The Delhi Gazette professes its firm belief th at Herat has not fallen. The Lahore Chroitide declares its belief in th e t r uth of the report of the fall of the place. SIAM. We read in the Madras Athenceton, :---c 4 The new s that an attempt has been made to destroy the PM: cipal King of Siam has reached us by way of ‘ja contemporary cutta. The facts will be learned from the following narrative forwarded from Ra,ngoon to a Calcutt_a about two months ago, to an entertainment by The of his richest subjects, on a very and scale. :--` The King of Siam was invited; ti,