The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY-POORLY PAID. (Front die Times.) Now it is decided that England shall have an army equal in discipline, if not in numbers, to the hosts of the continent, it is as well at once to in quire into our military position and prospects, lest w hen the time for a ction comes we be a g ain told by the authorities of the day that all has hitherto been on a false basis, and that the British army is from its nature incapable of entering into a cam paign. As it seems left to civilians to point out defects even in the minutest detail, there can be no assumption in calling attention to a most im portant fact of the late war. A return has been made showing the number of non-commissioned officers and men borne on the strength of the army from the fat of June, 1854,:t0 the Ist of April, 1856, and how far the number so borne fell short of or exceeded the authorised establishment of the army. The progressive deficiency of the actual as compared with the authorised strength is the fact in question. It appears that on the Ist of June, 1854, the establishment voted by Parliament, and nominally existing, consisted of 8,721 non-commis sioned officers and 153,308 men, while the effec tives were only 7,610 officers and 126,089 men. At the outset of the war, then, before a shot was fired, and when our army was supposed, as far as men went, to be in its most palmy state, more than a sixth part of the numbers voted was deficient. But the evil made rapid progress. On the Ist of January, 1855, after the first disasters of the Crimea, the effective strength fell short of the es tablishment by 1,964 non-commissioned officers and 46,618 men ; thus more than one-fourth of the authors id army was deficient. The deficiency increases to 49,247 men on the Ist of July, 1855, and 53,738 on the I st o f April last, the deficiency was 1,320 non.-commissioned officers and 42,270 men. These figures require little to convey to men's finds the sense of their importance. The fact that a year since much more than a fourth of our sup posed establishment had no existence is sufficient to show that humiliation and danger may result from other causes than the mere unskilfulness of military chiefs. After all men are the substance of an army —numbers the only basis of a system of defence. There is a limit which the most gifted General can not pass, and without an adequate strength in his divisions and brigades he will have to woo victory in vain. Although, therefore, no immediate danger presses,. we ought to look for the means of insuring a constant supply of men. Of the conscription in any form it is, of course, useless to speak ; not even for the defence of the country are we able practically ,to force service on men against their will ; much more, then, must India or the colonies be supplied with troops by voluntary enlistment. How, then, are we to make such enlistment plenti ful and regular ? We commenced the campaign of Sebastopol without a reserve, our only army wasin the field, and when destruction threatened it, people thought that British military power must be at an end for a time. Happily the great exertions of the country, a favourable spring in the Crimea, and a long cessation of actual fighting enabled the Go vernment to raise the army on service to fair di mensions. But, with the difficulty of recruiting, what would have been our condition if the season of disease had been prolonged or the struggle be fore Sebastopol had been more bloody ? It is plain that we cannot trust entirely to voluntary recruit ing, unless the attractions of the service be in creased. Ia this rich and busy country human la bour is every day becoming of higher value. Population is increasing much more slowly than commerce and manufactures. Emigration still draws away thousands yearly, and we may expect that with increased facilities of transit the drain will continue for an indefinite num ber of years. A rise of wages is gradually taking place all over the kingdom. Education in spires yearly a larger mass with the desire of rising in the world. In these circumstances it must be expected that the attractions of a soldier's life will be yearly weaker. Even the peasants of Con naught have now learnt that they can earn their dollar a-day in America, and are less confiding in the eloquence of the recruiting sergeant. In fact, men will not give up their liberty and go round the world, wherever they are bid, for a shilling a-day, when they can earn twice or three times as much as free men at home. It is useless therefore to vote a large establishment unless some means be found of inducing men to enlist. As long as peace lasts, and men live the natural term of life, the defect is not so much perceived ; the army approxi mates to its authorised numbers by the recruiting of several years, and the men, once enlisted, remain iu the service. That it is widely different when any great increase is required, or when the chasms c reated by was ago ttl Lie bud...lox/1y filloA alp_ It i s then proved that the demand does not meet with a corresponding supply. The price which Govern ment will pay for men does not come up to the market price, and is therefore not accepted. The love of excitement and adventure no doubt has its effect, but it is useless to count on such a feeling as a trustworthy basis of military recruitment. It may also be mentioned as a mistake of the late war that the men enlisted for several semi-civilian corps received higher pay than the actual fighting soldiers. The Land Transport and the Army Works Corps were in this respect direct rivals to the regu lar service. Men who had to work and watch in the trenches, to be out in all weathers by day and night, to face the shell and bullets of the enemy, received much less than their comrades who had come out under the auspices of some civilian, to do comraeatively light work and to incur no dan ger. Such things are not easily forgotten by the soldier, and, if we wish to insure a due supply of volunteers on a great occasion, similar inequalities must be carefully avoided. We have now time to inaugurate a new system, and, if late experience has not enlightened the authorities, then its use in the affairs of the world must be pronounced but small. Whether the pay of the private soldier should be increased, or the bounty be higher, whether the term of enlistment should be shorter, or the attractions of a larger pension be added, it is plain that something should be done to make tl4 army much more popular with the labouring man. He has little knowledge, no ambition, and much respect for the classes above him. These qualities are likely to make him a willing soldier when once enlisted ; but he has, on the other hand, a spirit of independence which makes him unwil ling to give up his hitherto free life for the restraint of a barrack. Either pay, or the prospect of pro motion, or some hitherto undeveloped advantage in the soldier's lot, must be made the means of at tracting him ; and when we have got men we must be more careful of th em , an d no t use them except for the legitimate purposes of national or iinperial defence. By these means a smaller force will be made to suffice as an effective preparation for war, and the troops, kept together in something like an army, will learn a spirit which may hereafter spread through our labouring class, and make them more ready to embrace a military career. TEE 'SATANIC DRAMA. (From the Times . ) " Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws," is an old enoug h _ saying, and ono correct enough in principle, for it - is better to take possession of the minds of the millions than of the few. If this be true of mere ballads, of the compositions which excite but a passing emotion in the mind, what shall we say to the results produced by dramatic literature ? The agency is a fearful one, when there exist men of sufficient genius t o d irect it for evil or for good. What Artistopha r Le t s t effected at Athens in the old Socratic days is mat t er of history. The dramatist fairly beat the as opher out of the field, and out of life—drove him,say, to his hemlock by way of loving cup. Time was when Beaumar chais e ff ected in im e P a ulo-pos t-revolutionary e France something more than the seh n i c i ir e clopeedists, for all their ponderous tomes. r drove the youth vof their of Germany to the forests anli ca ges father land, in person or idea, so itron sugges tions of his "Robbers." We e str op, ; fear r er m e the Y st w ght , who stage, M r, garrison Ai ns worth, or the servile pl a adapted " Jack Sheppard " to the quite free from participation in various burglaries i snot and minor felonies. Nor, to come nearer to the point upon which we propose to touch, is the modern school of Satanic writers in Paris guiltless of the immorality which unfrequently prevails in that city. Wo entreat of our excellent friends and allies not to think of us as hypocrites and impos tors because we advert to such a subject. London has its hideous vice as well as Paris. It is unfor tunately hut necessary to walk our streets at night in order to see what must g ive abundant subject for thought and regret t. the spectator. We ac knowledge all this, simply desire that bad may not be made worse by the addition of Parisian stimu • lai lts to .Lo nd on abominations. Our English dramatists 'to enormous extent, and our English writers an h in a far ess degree, have been offor s ome years past far too much in the habitof o , or the worst portion of the brilliant literature agains n t eifebours. Our object is but to 'protest or ie th introduction into , this country at second-hand tI unqualified original state must have received t he i n its condemnation of every right -minded Frenchman. • Is there noth in g in human lif e but harlotry an d worthy incest, adultery and s edu c t ion , whi ch h of the alembic of the ima g inatio n? Sur e ly, this beautiful world, with its starry canopy and it s glorious sun—with its rich carpet of vegetati on clipped by the great unres tin g sea, is not one vast ° brothel ! Surely so many millions of human beings as exist at any given moment on its surface, with THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN IN G, AUGUST 9, tBsr. and Yedo, and the coasting trade which has been carried on for so long a period between the konriles (fishermen) of Asiatic Russia and the kouriles of the Japanese coast, analogy of national character, manners, and constitution, render political associa tion between Russia and Japan alike natural and probable. The last Russian embassy to Yedo (1853) has announced that its reception was distinguished and friendly, to an extent surpassing all previous interview's. The Ambassador, Rosanoff, was ad mitted to the table of the young Emperor, treated as a personal friend by the Japanese Monarch, and on taking leave M. do Rosanoff was loaded with rare and costly presents in honour of the Czar. This information. leads us to the conclusion that a marriage—political, social, and commercial — between Japan and Russia is not an unlikely event to come to pass. An entente cordiale with the United States, we have seen, is not likely to be effected, and England is little better off in her re lations with Japan. There are three parties to the question of interference with Japan—Russia, Eng land, and America ; a fourth party would be, per haps, France ; but we think the first to practi cally participate in the great advantages of a corn• mercial treaty with Japan would be the Czar of Russia. From the Lond, Lon Gazette ADMIRALTY, AUG. 8. Notice is hereby given, that the officers and men of the Royal Navy and Marines named in the supplement to the London Gazette of Friday the Ist inst., as having received her Majesty's permission to accept and wear the insigniaof the several classes of the Legion of Honour conferred upon them by his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and who have not already received such insignia, are requested to apply for the same to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, between the hours of 12 and 4 o'clock daily, commencing on Monday next, the 11th inst. Warrant officers, petty officers, and seamen who have been nominated to the Order, must, on applying for the insignia, produce their certificate of service, and should they be now serving, a written application, duly authen ticated by their present commanding officer, will be re ceived in lieu of a personal application. The Commandant of each division of Royal Marines may depute an officer to receive the insignia for the non-cora -1 missioned officers and men of their respective divisions. WAR DEPARTMENT, WHITEHALL-GARDENS, AUG. 8. Notice is hereby given, that the officers and men in her Majesty's Army, named in the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday the Ist inst., as having received her Majesty's permission to accept and wear the insignia of the several classes of the Legion of Honour, conferred upon them by his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and who have not already received such insignia, are requested to apply for the same to Henry Elliot Eagle, War De partment, Pall-Mall, between the hours of 12 and 4 o'clock daily, commencing on Monday next, the 11th inst. The insignia for such non-commissioned officers and men as have been nominated to the sth Class of the Order, and who are now serving with their respective corps, will be delivered to the officers commanding those corps, or to such officers as they may depute to receive them, with a view to their distribution. WHITEHALL, AUG. G. The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Geo. Millett Davis, of the borough of Liverpool, Gentleman, eldest son and heir of John Davis, of Liverpool afore said, by Ann his wife, daughter of William Millett, of the island of Saint Mary, in the Scilly Islands, and sister of William Millett, of Phillack, sometime of Marazion, both in the county of Cornwall, all deceased, her royal licence and authority that he and his issue may hereafter take and use the surname of Millett, in addition to and before that of Davis. And also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be recorded in her Majesty's College of Arms. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, AUG. 8. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—Guir,DroRD, AUGUST 7. SALTER V. THE ATHENJET.Thf INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. This was an action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful dismissal of the plaintiff from the office of manager of the defendants' association, and also for a considerable sum of money which he was entitled to as commission under an agreement entered into between the parties. The defendants put several pleas upon the record, but the material one was that which alleged that the plaintiff had misc3nducted himself with reference to the books of the company, and also with regard to certain cheques, and that they were therefore justified in dismissing him. The case, which occupied the Court nearly two days, terminated with a verdict for the defendants. Ist Regiment of Life Guards.—The second Christian name of Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Duncombe is Wilmer, and not William, as stated in the Gazette of 22d July, 1656. 11th Light Dragoons—Lieut. George Ashby Maddock to be Captain, by purchase, vice Inglis, who retires. Coldstream Guards—Lieut . and Captain the Hon. Richard Monck to be Adjutant, vice Brevet-Major George Lord Bingham, who resigns the Adjutanoy only. 9th Foot—Lieut. Thomas Renant has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. 19th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Mitford to be Captain, without purchase, vice Major G. W. H. Massey, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1856. 28th Foot—Ensign Frederick Rance. from the 14th Foot, to be Ensign and Adjutant, vice Worthington, pro moted. 36th Foot—Ensign Augustus Henry Hartford to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Scarlett, deceased. 55th Foot—Lieutenant W. A. D. Pitt, from the 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Uniacke, who exchanges. 60th Foot—Lieutenant N. F. Uniacke, from the 55th Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice Pitt, who exchanges. 67th Foot—William Digby Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Welland promoted. 72 , 1 Foot—Dispenser of Medicines Tames Robert McTark has been permitted to resign his commission. 77th Foot—Lient. John F. B. P. Dodd has been per mitted to resign his Commission. 84th Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Hugh Pearson is Pearce. 90th Foot—Lieut. James Barr has been permitted to re tire from the Service by the sale of his Commission. 92d Foot—Ensign Roderick M`Donald Campbell has been permitted to resign his Commission. 91th Foot—Lieut. M. L. V. Reynolds has been permit ted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commis sion. 3d West India Regiment—Robert Eckford, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Page promoted. Land Transport Corps—Captain David S. Ogilvy has been permitted to resign his Commission. BREVET. The following Colonels to have the temporary rank of Major-General while in commnaand of brigades : Colonel Wm. Freke Williams, Unattached. Colonel Robt. Garrett, 40th Foot. Colonel Chas. Warren, C. 8.. 55th Foot. Colonel Lord Wm. Panlet, C. 8., Unattached. Colonel Duncan Alex. Cameron, C. 8., 42.1 Foot. Colonel Chas. Thos. Van Straubenzee, 3d Foot. Colonel Hon. Augustus Almoric Spencer, C. 8., 41th root. Colonel John Lawrenson, 17th Light Dragoons. Colonel William Pariby, 10th Light Dragoons. Colonel Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame, C. 8., half-pay 51st Foot. Colonel Charles Trollope, C. 8., 62d Foot. Colonel Arthur Johnstone Lawrence, C. 8.. Rifle Brigade. Colonel Horatio Shirley, C. 8., half-pay, 88th Foot. Colonel Randal Rumley, Unattached. Colonel Charles It. Sackville, Lord West, C. 8., Provi sional Depot Battalion. Errata in the Gazette of the Ist August, 1856. For Colonel John Mitchel to have the local rank of Major-General at the Cape of Good Hope—read, Colonel John Michel, C. 8., &c. For Assistant-Surgeon John Vernon Shodclall, M.D., Supernumerary in the 33d Foot—read, Assistant Sur geon John Vernon Seddall, M.D., &c., &c. For Assistant-Surgeon James Petril Street, M.D., Su pernumerary in the 39th Foot—read Assistant-Surgeon James Petrie, M.D., &c. ADMIRALTY, AUG. 5. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Edward Willis to be First Lieutenant, vice Johns, deceased. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. [This article is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the sth inst.] Tower Hamlets—Harrington Tuke, Esq., M.D., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Rowland Edward Walter Perry Standish, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Cumberland. Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—James Hodgson Compigne, Gent., to be Lieu tenant, vice Fowler, appointed to the 86th Foot. 2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia.—Charles Howard Chaplin, Esq., late Captain in the Turkish Con tingent, to be Lieutenant. Warwickshire Militia, 2d Regiment—Lieut. John Digby Wingfield to be Captain, vice Captain J. It. G. Pattison, deceased. 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia— George Francis Cooper, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hale, promoted. of Last Night ' Btu n or ir any in T gh h a urs . day after Oct. 4 , at the office of Mr. Christie, W. N. Monies, Liverpool, spirit and wine merchant-- second div. of G 1. in the pound, Thursday, Oct. 9, or any subsequent Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenovo, Liver- pool. W. Sothern, Liverpool, glass dealer—first div. of 3s. in the pound, Thursday, Oct. 9, or any subsequent Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. It. D. Reeves and R. H. Dawson, Liverpool, wine and spirit merchants—third div. of 7s. 6d. in the pound, Thurs day, Oct. 9, or any subsequent Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. R. H. Dawson, Oxton, Cheshire, wine and spirit dealer —div. of 20s. in the pound, Thursday, Oct. 9, or any subse quent Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. C. S. Harris, Liverpool, pawnbroker—second div. of sid. in the pound, Thursday, Oct. 9, or any subsequent Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. 0. Veale, A s hwater, Devonshire, miller a nd farmer— first div. of 7s. 10d. in the pound, any Tuesday or Friday, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. R. Gribble, Pilton, Devonshire, carpenter and builder — first div. of 6s. intoa, the pound, any Tuesday or Friday, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. R. Potter, Exeter, ship builder —first div. of 3s. in the pound, any Tuesday or Friday, at the office of Mr. Hirt zel, Exeter. DIVIDENDS. Aug. 29. E. Fisher, Middlesex-Place, Hackney-road, oil and colonrman—Ang. 30. C. Cannon, Love-lane, East cheap, meat, fruit, and fish salesman —Aug. 29. H. Sa gar, Manchester, innkeeper—Oct. 6. C. Gumby, Leeds, cabinet maker and furniture broker. CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED. Aug. 30. J. Rumens, Lower Clapton, carpenter, builder, and undertaker—Sept. 4. J. Edwardes, Wolverhampton, wine merchant. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. Ang. 1. E. Morgan. Hastings, provision merchant (se cond class) —Aug. 5. J. Gibbard, Cardiff, victualler (thir4 class) —July 2F. H. M. Jones, Liverpool.r.merchanf, out• fitter, and dealer in tents (second class) —July 25. J. Ro berts, Holyhea INSOLVENTshib uilder (DIVIDEND. S. F. Squire---div. of 3s. 11d. in the pound, any day after August 6, at the County Court Office, Newport. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John Kelso Hunter, jun., boot and shoe maker, Glasgow. BANK OF I An Account pursuant to the Act 1 the Week ending on Saturda: ISSUE DIP. Notes issued • • ...• 26,271,C9 NGL AND. fth and Bth Victoria, cap, az for the 2d day of August, 1856. ►BTMENT. X 26,271,035 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,756,095 Silver bu11i0n........ - Datod the 7th day of August, I BANKING DC ' Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest .......... 3,364,781 Public deposit s (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 3,617,416 ether deposits ...... 10,581,413 Scven Day and other Bills ...... .. 923,865 I £26,271,C95 r. R. ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. 456. ;VAZTDIENT. Government securities (includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .......... 12,483,045 Other securities ... ... 14,186,000 Notes .......... 5,794,655 Gold and silver coin .. 636,775 X 83,100,475 ) £33,100,475 J. It. ELSEY, Deputy ()ashler. Dated the 7th day of August, 1856. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Aug. 5, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Groat Britain. From the British Possessions in America 32s. 2d. Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies Average of the three foregoing descriptions 32s. lid. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. 1856. all their heavenward aspirations—with all their deep domestic affections—with their unselfish hopes and apprehensions of the future, are not ever con jugating the verb "to seduce" in one or other of its moods. Love is not always lust ; nor do man and woman always unite their fates together with an eye to adultery and assassination. Every hus band is not always standing behind a curtain to catch his wife in the fact ; uor is every wife ready to sacrifice her duty and her self-respect at the shrine of the first pale-faced fiddler rank with tobacco reek who would lead her astray. Life in England, at least, is not ever an affair of intrigue, jealousy, adultery, and duels. The Satanic drama of Paris no more conveys an idea of English life in 1856 than it does of life in Peru whenManco Capac was a little boy. Now, the fact is that English dramatists of the present day—we except the farce-writers, who are rich and racy of the soil and ply their craft in an unexceptionable manner—are nothing better than sycophantic copyists of French filth. The other day we had occasion to remark upon the abominable opera which has been represented throughout the season which ends to-day at her Majesty's Theatre. We would now give a turn to the managers of theatres in which regular dra matic representations are presented, to the authors whom they employ, and to the audience who are not ashamed to afford their patronage to such exhibi tions. We select this time rather than an earlier period for such a purpose partly because the pre sent lull in public business permits us to turn for a moment to such subjects, partly because the pieces have had their filthy run, and we cannot now interfere with the profits of managers and actors. It is far indeed from our wish to use the power of this journal to the injury of any private enterprise, but henceforward, and after fair warning, we shall be less chary than we have hitherto been in denouncing these unseemly exhi bitions to the indignation of the public. A weekly contemporary, the Spectator, recently united in one well-deserved censure the opera of " La Tra viata," and a drama which not long since was pro duced at the Olympic under the name of " Retri bution." The plot in a few words is this :—A had seduced B's wife, who dies ; B makes up his mind to seduce A's wife in return. B tells A's wife, in order to carry out his little plot, that A has seduced and is seducing C's wife, which is, in point of fact, the case. Now B has a younger brother, whom, in mathematical form, we shall style B—, who is quite a boy. But B—desires to seduce A's wife on his own account, which com plicates the problem. There occurs a boudoir scene. A's wife being minded to avenge herself on A, who, as it will be remembered, had seduced C's wife, is waiting for B with that intent. Ais neatly concealed. In place of B there enters B—, who warns Mrs. A that B's sole idea in the intrigue is vengeance against her husband, not love for her self. In the midst of his expansions A enters fiercely and challenges B—. A and B—then de part, leaving Mrs. A. to her reflections. This is the time for B, who comes in by the window, and who might do anything he pleased with Mrs. A, so terror-stricken is she, but, like a noble crea ture as he is, he jumps out of the window again, leaving the lady to ring for her maid. In the fourth and final act we are transported to B's apartment. Mrs A, regardless of her little diffi culties of the preceding evening, comes to see B at his lodgings ; but, hearing the voice of A out side, she conceals her in a closet. The object of I A's visit is to ask hospitality for B—, whom he has wounded in a duel. Of course, it comes to light that the two B's are brothers. It suddenly flashes on A that, if this be so, Mrs. B, whom he had originally seduced, was the wife of the gentleman before him. A and B fight in the room. A falls, run through the body--:Mrs. A comes out of the closet and throws herself on the corpse. Bis quite happy that he has at length obtained Retribution, but his joy is slightly checked by the intelligence that poor little B— is just dead in his dressing-room. We ask pardon of our readers for laying such abominable trash as this before them, but the fact is that the above is a very fair average specimen of a French drama, founded upon a French novel. Our paltry hod-carriers in the drama business have not even the merit of originality, .but are content to take this filth at second hand. Surely something better than this might be accomplished, on the sup position that men of ordinary ability would turn their attention to this subject, as they might to the making . of shoes. Sir Edward Lytton and Mr. Sheridan Knowles, in our own day, have contrived to obtain a reasonable amount of success without converting themselves into nightmen for the Pa risian cesspools. One has heard at an earlier period of such plays as " She Stoops to Conquer," the " Rivals." the " School for Scandal," and a few others which were not wituout, cub:A...it., i. ust:ii. time. Ate our English dramatic writers so en tirely destitute of invention that they cannot con coct a plot and imagine a series of characters with out plagiarism of the most contemptible kind ? We trust that English audiences will for the future set their faces against those contemptible and filthy exhibitions. They are a disgrace to our country and our time. " All the world's a stage," is the old hackneyed quotation ; we cannot in the case of our theatres reverse the saying and add, " Toe stage is all the world ;" let us not, at any rate, make it the world's filthiest part. THE VIEWS OF RUSSIA ON JAPAN'. (Prom a Correspondent of the Morning Advert'ser.) The safeguard of British possessions on the coast of China must compel the Government ultimately to take notice of the continual presence of Russian ships of war at the Japanese port of Nagasaki. Peace ought not to make this country lukewarm to Russia's aggrandising policy on her Asiatic side. Japan has been to the eyes of the Russian Emperors for many years an El Dorado they have longed to reap ad van cages from, if not by conquest, at all events by commercial treaty. The Dutch alone have hitherto been permitted to trade with Japan directly ; they have a factory at Nagasaki ; and it is the only European innovation that has been permitted by the Japanese, who are as jealous, suspicious, and reticent, as a nation, as the Chinese. The Dutch government sends an embassy usually to Yedo, the capital of Japan, and the seat of government. This Dutch system of embassago to Yedo Russia has repeatedly, during the last half century, sought to interfere with or rival; and the Rus sian embassy have met with receptions, accord ing to their own account, of the most encouraginr , kind. While Russian ships cf war anchor in the harbour of Nagasaki, the embassies received at Yedo pretend that the ships are sent to protect the Japanese coast from foreign intrusion ? It should be recollected that besides Dutch mari time commerce with Japan, there is only that of China, which sends about seventy junks annually from the ports of Amoy, Niugpo, and Shanghai, to Nagasaki. 'Now, should Russia arbitrarily in terfere with Holland, or oven China, in the lat ter's pursuit of commerce with Japan, such inter ference would be likely to assume to the Western powers the form of a casus belli. But the Russian policy is peculiar ; and we think, therefore, that sumo account of the relations subsisting between the Court of St. Petersburg and that of Yedo' will be interesting. Asiatic Russia and Japan may be said to meet face to face in a political sense. They approach in their unity of origin as nations, their respective importance, their community of character, their agricultural pursuits, and the conquests effected by both empires ; still more, they are associated to one another by their geographical vicinity ; the extreme frontiers of Asiatic Russia and those of Japan approaching. Japan, with its immense riches, its hoarded treasures, and soil abundantly seamed with gold and silver, has ever been an attractive object to Western monarchs. The Japanese empire (whose power consists much more in its honest civilisa tion, moral energy, and enormous teeming popu lation than even in its extent of territory) could, we think, have no enemy more troublesome, or ally more precious than ,that power whose possessions are still more considerable in Asia than in Europe. Russia, we know, meditates long its conquests, silently prepares its attacks, and takes care to sound the country effectually against which it seeks to wage war or impose conditions. Its views upon the Japanese empire date from the reign of Catherine, since when the interest it has shown in Japan has been extraordinary. Russia is at this moment energetically forcing her protection, as she calls it, upon the Emperor of Japan. A Rus• sian flotilla was last year received with welcome at . Nagasaki by the Jap a n ese a uthorities. This good mrlerstanding w a to the court at YeclOprepared h w by o h p a rr e i b o e u f s o r embassies . Russian men-of-w ar are welcomed at Japanese ports, when thoee o f E 1 I ng anc. and America arelooked upon with marked suspicion. There is a reason for this. The Emperor of Japan has been greatly irri tated by warlike demonstrations made on the coast of Japan by English and American fleets. Tho Em peror, aware that ho cannot command a navy of his own, listens the more readily to the ambassadors of the Czar, who visit his Court with offers of pro tection. Should the Japanese Government choose to admit the necessity for a political point d'appuj for the empire, no country would give less umbrage by forcing her aid on Japan than Russia, who i s ge (, grapl ideally her neighbour. Commerce between the two { empires could be carried on with great mutual advantages, for Russia can always exchange for the merchandise of Japan precisely the merchandise reqie;red by the Japanese. The short distance whila separates Oehotsle and Sitka from Nageeaki MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The Assistant-Judge has, with the approbation of Se cretary Sir G. Grey, appointed Mr. Bliss, Q C., to pre side in his place until the latter part of September. The grand jury have found a true bill against Emma Calley, 14 ; Jane Jones, 14 ; Ann Sullivan, 14 ; and Elizabeth Hill, 16, for unlawfully and indecently' expos ing themselves in Regent's-park ; and against Thomas George Gosling for inciting them to the commission of that offence. There are three counts in the indictment. A certiorari for the removal of the proceedings to the Central Criminal Court has been lodged in the clerk of the peace's office. Jolot Green, 20, barman, was indicted for stealing one shilling, the money of Michael Walker, his master. Mr. Ribton prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalf appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutor was the landlord of the Corner Pin public-house in New-street,. St. Martin's-lane, and sus pecting the honesty of the prisoner, who had been in his service but a short time, he marked some money— part of which was afterwards found in the prisoner's pos session. Mr. Metcalfe made an earnest appeal to the jury for the acquittal of his client, who he said was a young man of good character, just entering upon manhood, and who would be ruined for ever by a conviction. The juryf ound the prisoner Guilty,-but strongly re commended him to mercy. Mr. Bliss said he felt great pleasure in giving full effect to the recommendation, and sentenced the pri- Boner to one month's hard labour. ' The prosecutor said the prisoner had robbed him of at least 301. altogether, and applied that 71. 104. found in his box might be given up to him (prosecutor). Mr. Bliss said he could not order it to be given to him, but he might apply to the Sheriff, who would deal with the matter as he thought right. (Before Mr. Creasy.) Ellen Rygon, 21, was found guilty of robbing children of their clothes in Victoria-park. She had been previ ously convicted of an offence of the same description, and there were now five cases against her. Mr. Creasy sentenced her to four years' penal servi tude. Charles Ballard, 16, was indicted for stealing five sovereigns and a half sovereign, the moneys of George Jackson, in his dwelling•house. Mr. Laurence was for the prosecution, Mr. Sleigh for the prisoner. The prosecutor was a baker, and be and the prisoner occupied the same room: The charge was that the pri soner took money out of prosecutor's box, but there was doubt in the matter, and the jury acquitted him. Elizabeth 11411, 20, was indicted for stealing a watch from the person of Robert Spencer. The prosecutor, a cabman, had been drinking in the company of the prisoner and another woman, when he lost his watch, and he charged them with stealing it. The other woman was discharged at the police court. The jury acquitted the prisoner. Mr. Logie prosecuted ; Mr. Gent was for the defence. Ann Eaton, 40, and Elizabeth Smith, 43, were indicted for fraud. Mr. Logie prosecuted. It appeared that the prisoners were systematic swind lers. They took lodgings, and upon some pretence or other induced tradesmen to send them goods, and then decamped. There were three charges of this description against them. The jury found them guilty, and Mr. Creasy sentenced them each to five months' haid abour. RECOVERY OF TREASURE FROM THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER PACHA. " Our readers will remember that at midnight of the 21st July, 1851, the steamer Erin ran into thesteamer Pacha off Mount Formosa, in the Straits of Malacca, the col- lision being attended with frightful loss of life. The Pacha sailed from Hong. Kong and Singapore for Penang and Calcutta with a full and valuable cargo, amongst which was a large amount of treasure. The precise spo t where the calamitous collision took place was not known, and would in all probability have remained so but for an enterprising engineer, Mr. Levi, who arrived by the overland mail in 1853, and after making inquiries here and at Malacca returned to Europa to perfect his plans for raising the large amount of treasure on board the Pacha at the time of the accident. Mr. Lovi and his coad jutor, Mr. Marshall, for several years past have been engaged in removing sunken vessels obstructing the navi gation of harbours in Europe, Navarino, Sumo, Constanti nople, and elsewhere, and, notwithstanding the great depth of water the Pacha sank in, as also the strong and varying currants which prevailed, Mr. Lovi felt sanguine ef success, his opinions being strengthened by the eminent engineering and scientific talents which he commanded. Atter much time lost in treating with the various insur ance offices in which the treasure had been insured, as to the share which the skilful undertakers would receive in the event of success, Mr. Lovi entered upon the arduous task. He equipped and despatched from Malta his schooner the Wizard, which vessel is fitted up with every kind of apparatus and all appliances for submarine explorations, and on the 14th June, 1854, the Wizard ar rived at Singapore. On the 25th of the same month the Wizard proceeded to the Straits of Malacca, anchored off Mount Formosa on the 29th, and commenced a vigorous search for the wreck. The search was continued until the 23d of July, nearly one month, without success, and as the south-west monsoon had then set in, all further at tempts to discover the wrecked steamer were abandoned, and the Wizard returned to Singapore. Nothing daunted by the fruitless labour of a previous careful search, the exploration was renewed on the 2d Nov., and continued without interruption until the 3d of May, 1855, when their efforts were crowned with success. The wreck was found several miles distant from the spot eenerally as signed as the scene of the collision. After fixing buoys t mark the locality, the Wizard returned to Singapore on the 7th of July to refit and await the advent of favour able weather for carrying on operations. Oa the 11th Jan., 1856, the Wizard again sailed for Mount Formosa, and found the buoys gone. The search for the wreck was renewed, and on the 20th they were successful. Between the last mentioned date and the latter end of March the divers went down frequently, but owing to the muddy state of the water all attempts to examine the condition of the wreck were in vain, until March 27th, when they succeeded in finding the treasure room. Operations were pushed forward, but the progress was necessarily slow, the time during which the divers could descend to carry on their explorations being very limited. The chief director of the work, Mr. Lovi, proceeded to Singapore in April, and on his return to the schooner, in an open boat, he was attacked by coup de soleil. Mr. Lovi quitted the schooner for medical aid at Singapore, where he expired a few days after his arrival. The operations were continued under the directions of Mr. Marshall ; much treasure was secured, but the weather becoming unsettled, on the 26th of May they were obliged to desist from all further attempts to obtain more, having already brought up about four-fifths of the entire quan tity on board at the time of the collision. Many of the treasure boxes were destroyed by marine animals, and their contents were scattered about the treasure-room. On the 29th May the Wizard anchored at New Har bour, and on the next day the following were landed, conveyed to town under an escort of the 38th Madras Native Infantry, and lodged in the Oriental Bank, viz. : —37 boxes of gold (bar, leaf, and dust), 26 ditto of silver (sycee), 17 bags of silver (sycee), 2 ditto of dollars. According to the Paella's manifest the following tree eine was on board when she sailed from this port : From Singapore for Penang, 1 box dollars, and 1 box treasure. From Singapore to Calcutta, 9 boxes gold dust. From China to Calcutta, 42 boxes (bars and leaf), 6 boxes sycee, 1 case diamond rings, and 1 case silver ware. We have been somewhat minute in detailing particu- lays' of the Wizard's operations, because we conceive that the present affords an instance of the triumph of science and patient zealous application. between 60,0001. to 65,0001. of treasures, which, in all proba bility, would have remained at the bottom of the sea but for the scientific talents and persevering exertions of Messrs. Lovi and Marshall, extending over a period of two years in the face of difficulties of such magnitude, that had not success crowned the effort, the world at large would have said—as most folk expressed them selves at the time—none but insane men would conceive the idea or attempt the task. We believe the whole of the treasure will be sent to Calcutta in the state in which it was recovered from the wreck, at a depth of one hun dred and seventy-four feet below the water ! Whether the Wizard will return to the scene of the wreck, and the operations be extended, will, we hear, depend on the amount still under the water being sufficient to jus tify the Wizard's waiting until next season. The exact value of the recovered treasury is not known—the boxes being sealed ; bat, as stated above, it is estimated at four-fifths the total amount on board at the time of the catastrophe.—Straits Times. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—The possibility of abandoning medicine altogether is shown by the numerous extraordinary cures, without medicine, of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, con stipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility, effected by Du Barry's delicious Health - restoring Revalenta Arabica Food. The following are not the least rem ark * able :—Cure No. 47,i21. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham-cross, Herts ; a cure of extreme ner cons ness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. 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The commission was opened yesterday before Mr. Baron Martin, who arrived in the city at about three o'clock, and was escorted with the usual formalities to the Guildhall. The trials commenced this morning at 10 o'clock. The cause list is the lightest within the memory of "the oldest lawyer." It comprises only 5 common jury and 1 special jury cause ; indeed the busi ness of the entire Western Circuit has been, as the fol lowing figures will show, unprecedentedly low. The number of cases entered have been 44. Of these 6 were undefended and 4 withdrawn, leaving only 34 defended suits. NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.-LANCASTER, AUG. 8, The commission for holding the assizes at Lancaster was opened on Wednesday last by Mr. Justice Willes, who had arrived from Carlisle at an early hour that morning. The High Sheriff, R. Needham Phillips, Esq., of Manchester, accompanied by his chaplain, the Rev. Thomas Corser, rector of Stand. in the parish of Prest wich, arrived about two o'clock in the afternoon, and was met at the Castle station by his retinue, who came by the morning train. At four o'clock his lordship attended Divine service at the parish church, when prayers were read by the Rev. C. Pedder, one of the curates, and a sermon was preached by the sheriff's chap lain. Two Roman Catholicclergyruen were present. Baron Bramwell arrived in the course of the evening, when the mayor and corporation attended to pay their respects to their lordships. The calendar was uncommonly light, there being only eight prisoners for trial, 'iz., two rape, two manslaughter, two larceny, one forgery, and one felony. THURSDAY. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Willes.) His lordship took his seat upon the bench at eleven o'clock, when the usual preliminaries having been gone through, the grand jury was sworn. His lordship having delivered his charge, the grand jury stir e, and in a short time returned a bill into court. James Cook, 31, and Robert Towler, 25, pleaded guilty to an iedictinent charging them with stealing at Lan. csuit r, 100Ibs. of lead, the property of Thomas Croft Nelson, and another. Mr. Monk held the brief for the prosecution. Sentence, Cook, 6 months, Towler, 5 months' in the House of Correction. FORGERY. James Jackson, 54, was indicted for forging on the 25th June, 1855, the indorsement of a bill of exchange with intent to defraud Jas. Rawlinson, and also with uttering. Mr. Joseph Kay prosecuted, and the prisoner was de fended by Mr. Whigham. The prisoner, who was a shoemaker in Burnley, owed in the early part of last year the sum of 131. 18s., for which he gave an acceptance, which he did not provide for when at maturity, and when Rawlinson applied to him for the money he proposed to give him another bill. Rawlinson reiusect to take it unless there was another endorser, and the prisoner gave the name of Wm. Chad. wick, farmer of Crow•close, in Devizes as his security. A bill fur 201. was drawn, which was 2s. in excess of the amount due, and was endorsed by the prisoner, who could only just write his name. Prisoner took the bill away with him, and the following day took it back with the endorsement of William Chadwick upoa it. The bill was also returned, and the prisoner being unable to pay the amount, Chadwick was applied to, when it trans pired, and was in fact admitted by the prisoner, in the presence of Chadwick at Rawlinson'a, that he bad never signed the bill, and never had signed one in his life. The learned judge, in summing up, said the putting the name of another person upon a bill, although he in tended to take it up whe❑ due, was a forgery, and would, a few years adn, have paid the penalty with his life. Se❑tence 12 months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. MAN SL AU G HTER. John Moore, 33, was indicted for killing and slaying Geo. Beckworth, at Lower Hulker. Mr. Aston prosecuted ; and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Monk. The evidence was to the effect that, on the 30th June, at Thomas Halls, Flookburgla, some men had been drink ing, and a fight took place between a brother of the pri• soner and a person. named Stephenson. An attempt was made to part them by the deceased, but during the con tinuance of the scuffle the prisoner went up, and struck the deceased behind the ear with a strickle. He was taken borne about 6 o'clock, and died at 3 the following morn ing. A post mortem examination was afterwards made by Mr. Fisher, surgeon, of C4rtnael, who said his death was c2-used by c nnpression of the brain, by the effasmn of an artery, caused by a fracture of the skull. It was stated by one of the witnesses, that just preyious to the unfortunate blow the prisoner was seen on the ground with his nose bleeding. Mr. Monk called witnesses, who gave the prisoner a most excellent character. Hip Lordship summed up very carefully, and the jury, after some consideration, found him guilty, but with a strong recommendation to mercy. His Lordship sentenced him to three months' impri sonment. FELONY. TV:lliatrt Ildme, 39, was indicted for feloniously plac• ing stones on the Preston and Longridge Railway, with intent, &r., on the 16th April, 1856. Mr. A. Cross prosecuted ; and the prisoner was de fended by Mr. Monk. The prisoner was employed as watchman at a reser voir of the Preston Water Works, constructed near the Grimsargh station of the Preston and Longridge Rail way. On the 16th Apttil the prisoner was met on a line of rail way by a plate layer named William Moat, who ordered him off, and, after some opposition, he went away, say ing it would be more out of the company's road. TINA same night a train which was returning from Langridge at about 11 o'c:ock at night, when near the Grimsargh station, was thrown off the line by some ntone3 which had been placed on the metals, causing the breaking of the axle of the tender. A person who was on the ten der at the time swore that he saw the prisoner at a gate near the place where the stoppage took place, and as the night was moonlight, but overcast, he could swear to him most positively. Some stones were produce] which had been taken off the metals and shown to resemble some which were found near the prisoner's box. His Lordship was not satisfied with the evidence, and stopped the case as Mr. Moak was about to address the jury, and directed an acquittal of the prisoner. MANSLAUGHTER AT PRESTON. Richard Dugdale, an old man 65 years of age, was charged with the manslaughter of his wife, Mary Dug dale, at Preston. Mr. A. Cross prosecuted, and the prisoner was de fended by Mr. John Cross. The evidence showed that prisoner and his wife, up to the time in question, had lived upon the most amicable and peaceable terms, and there appeared to be no failing, •,ccept that when one got something to drink the other must drink too. On the 22d May they had been off drink ing together, and had been at home for some time, when, about half-past six o'clock, a lad named R. Burscon, hearing quarrelling, went to the window of the prisoner's house, and saw him take up a pair of tongs by the mouth end and hit 'di wife on her head with the knob. She fell to the floor immediately on being struck. The boy who nitnessed it wont home and told his grandmother, and shortly afterwards some neighbours came in, lifted her up, and carried her to bed ; but she never spoke, and died the folloiving, morning. Mr. Bernard Halden,,surgeen, as sisted by Mr. John Rigby, afterwards made a post mortem examination, and the app9rances then found were such as would be likely to be made with a blow with tongs, there being a livid ring, with the centre untouched. The appearances could not have been produced by a fall down stairs, as the fail must have been directly perpen. dicolar to cause them, they being eactly on the crown of the head. Tin: judge summed up in the most careful and impar• tial manner, and the jury, after a careful consideration, returned a verdict of guilty. His Lordship, in passing sentence, said be bad been oonvicted of the manslaughter of his wife by striking her on the head with a pair of tongs. When he looked at the depositions it appeared to amount to murder. He had consulted his brother judge as to whether he could save him from the extreme punishment for manslaughter, but found it was impossible to do so, for he hail struck a woman with an almost deadly weapon, and the sentence was that he be transported for the term of his natural life. Tice court Rajourne at half-Fait Aix o'clock. BRITISH. 115 37X 204 117 191 , A 91 1 4 _6,4 Aberdeen •• .• .• •... •• •• •• •• •• • •• •• Belfist and Ballymena •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Belfast and County Down— • ..• .• .• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, laCtiburn, and West York .. Bristol and Exeter •• .... • • ••• • • • • • •• Caledonian ......... ............ 183%, 283 203 K 365 25 1 A 90 86 Chester and Holyhead • • • • • • • • • • Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •••• •• Cork and Bandon .. • • • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and 13 ell ast unction .... Dublin and Drogheda.....• ••••• • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Dundee anel Arbroath • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk an Enniskillen •• .. •••• • • • • East Angdan. .. . .... • ... ••• • • • East Lancashire • . •.•••..• • • • • • • • Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .. Eastern Union .. .. • • • • .. • • • • • • 3 Edlfiburch and Gla.s•mw. •• •• •• •• •• • • Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • ....• Exeter and Credit0n.........• Furness Railway 16} 637 5 14 183% 267 173 X 9X, 28 4,814 126 52 781,4 149 233 Glasgow, and South-Western.. Great Northern.•...• Great Southern and Western (Ireland', Great Western •• •• •• •• ••, •• • • 32 29% Irish South Eastern •• •• •• •• •• • South Devan . •.................... South Eastern • • • South Wales ........ ...... . South York., Doncaster, and Goole • 1G Ulster. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Lancaster and Carlisle.. •........... Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • •• •• • • Leeds Northern .. • • ..•••• • • • • • • •• •• Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • • • • London and North Western ..• • • • • .. London and Blackv all . • . • • • • • • • • • • . London, Brighton ; and South Coast.. London and South Western..•...... Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheflield,and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction...... Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • Midland •••••- • • • • .. Midland Great Western (Irish) ..... Monklands • .._•_ 7 • • • • • • - • • •• • • • Newcastle and Carlisle.. North British • • .. •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • North Staffordshire .• • • . North-Western •• .• •• ••••• • • • Scottish Central • • • • • • • • •• •• Scottish Midland :• • • ••• . Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. • Shrewsbury and Chester • • ........ . Shropshire Union .. •.• •• • • ...... , 57N 289 171% 1,247 2,942 7,590 6,522 `h67 1,163 1,784 1,948 701 1,183 992 6,855 25,252 6,180 7,3.5 7,332 22,733 7,322 3!,,57 251 7,105 25,906 70,893 1,892 20,208 20,944 792 1,018 Waterford and Limerick • • ......... West Cornwall ...... Whitehaven Junction ......... • ....• York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. 2,647 6,909 5,971 324 9,75 G 721 1,042 3J,607 3,492 1,030 1,b48 1,422 649 1,006 388 909 6,195 24,575 5,974 5,417 1,148 5,208 6,760 6,527 21,611 7,849 29,686 300 8,659 22,597 1,917 3,367 66,577 1,778 22,191 18,089 675 8,478 823 1,812 28,876 3,067 I , OILEIG N. Dutch Rhenish • • ••• • .... • . •• • • •• • Lyons and Mediterranean .....• • Monter= and Iroyos ....... •. •• • Namur and Liege .. •• • • • • • Northern of France • • •• • • •• • • •• •• • Orleans and Central ..... •• • • • Paris and Lyons •• •• .. •• • • . • • Paris and Rouen. .• •• • • • • •• • • • Paris and Strastairgh ••.. • • .. . 1-te,wn sa fiwre •• .• •• ••••• • .• • • Western of France ...... ••• • . -• • . a 806 6,376 1,089 1,587 2,831 814 3,183 25,871 6,963 2;491 4,181 1,514 1,337 622 922 2,661 24,766 6,455 1,753 3,854 1,366 1,160 549 37,190 39,951 TDB ROYAL FA l lILTL Y OF OUDE. The Queen Dowager of Oude is 45 years of age. Her son, the dethroned king, is aged about 28 years, and her granndson, who is with her, and who is heir apparent, is about 16 years old, This youth is married, and has one child. The brother of the dethroned king, who is also with the Queen Mother, is a g en e ral i n the native Oade army, and he, it appears, claims the throne in opposition to the heir apparent, so the.: not only is the Oude family coming to England to dispute with the East India Corn parry for the possession of the throne of which the ex king has been deprived, but also to settle a dispute amengst themselves as to who is the rightful heir. The Queen Mother, with her family and suite, paid nearly 8,0001. to the Penins ular and Oriental Company for their passage from India to England. They occu pied the whole of the fore part of the mail steamer that conveyed them to Suez. They had a cooking galley fitted up • for their accommodation, and they lived' chiefly upon rice, kids, and goats, which they Provided themselves, so that they have been at small expense to the company. The Queen Dowager secluded herself on board, and no one scarcely besides her own followers saw her face. On arriving at Cairo she was indisposed from the fatigue of travelling over the De sert, and she was carried perfectly concealed from the gaze of any one to her hotel. The Pacha of Egypt via; about to proceed from Alexandria to Cairo by special train, to offer her civilities, and to place one of his pa laces at her Highness's service. The necklace, valued at 10,0001., which was lost in the Red Sea, was intended for a present to Queen Victoria. Neither the Queen :Dowager nor any of her suite had seen a ship or sea be 'fore they left their country, and she at least must be a woman of some spirit and determination to undertake what she has done. [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGUT AND HEARING —SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RUN, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES.—Messrs. S. and B. Solemons, opticians, 39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel. 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They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the' most minute men pation— can see with these lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world, by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can read small newspaper print with it; and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age.—Deaf flees. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an ex traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented. instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, t o surpass any thing of the kind that has been ;or probably ever eau be, produced.' Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per ceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at.publie assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, aria. Dtreut, 1190414, opiol--Qppoipo the YFk BANKRUPTS William Rose, ship smith, late of High-street, Wap ping, bat now of Sydonham, Kent, to surrender, Aug. 22, at twelve, and Sept. 19, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. C ,nnan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Norton, Son, and Elam, New-street, Bishopsg tte. Joseph Walter Day Lockwood, stockbroker and dealer in shares, 3, Crown-court, Threadneedle-Ltreet, Aug. 18, at half-past eleven, and Sept. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; McDuff, Castle-street, Holborn. David Thomas, grocer, Plymouth, Ang. 18, and Sept. 29, at one, at the Exeter Court of Bankruptcy. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Edmonds and Sons, Plymouth ; Stogdon, Exeter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. J. and H. Spred, Liverpool, pawnbrokers—J. Mur ray and C. P. Froom, Whit.hall-place, solicitors—E. Caer dalejnn., and J. Spencer, Elton, Lancashire, rag and waste dealers—S. Bland and J. Salt, Carlton, Yorkshire, rope and twine manufacturers—H. R. and J. Renaud, Conduit street and George-street, Hanover-square, hotel keepers— J. and G. Rougier, York, comb manufacturers —J.Walker and J .Parkinson, White Lee, Yorkshire, rag dealers—C. J. Baker and J. J. Rippon, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, auctioneers—J. W. H. Shaw and W. Shaw, jun., Rash cliffe, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturers; as far as regards W. Shaw, sen.—F. Hunt and E. Hollins, Bir mingham, seal stone engravers—J. Blundell and S. Shar man, Liverpool, solicitors—G. Chapman and J. Brindley, Birmingham, linendrapers—W. H. Ryland and H. S. An drews, Birmingham, jewellers and gold platers— W. P. Brigstooke and H. Evans, Wednesbury, grocers—C. Clark, W. M. Chatterton, and E. Clark, Great Tower-street, City, wholesale tea dealers—W. Barry and F. Draper, Great Titchfield-street, carvers, gilders, and picture frame maim facturers—J. Anderson and H. Jackson, Wear Valley Junction Saw Mills, timber merchants—F. Olding and W. G. Still, Moorgate-street, auctioneers—J. and W. Roper, Lancaster, tobacco manufacturers, and wine, spirit, ale, and. porter merchants—J. and D. Apperly, Dudbridge Mills, near Stroud, cloth manufacturers—R. Yates and R. Corkling, Manchester, commission agents—G. Yates and H. Wilkes, Birmingham, manufacturing jewellers—J. Auld and H. Wood, Hart-street, Mark-lane, provision merchants and commission agents—C. E. and F. Jefferies, Kidderminster and Stourbridge, millers, farmers, grocers, and provision dealers—W., P., J. T., and G. Chance, Bir mingham, merchants. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. J. Thompson, Manchester, cement and gunpowder dealer, second div. of Ad. in the pound, Tuesday, Oct. 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. T. and W. Finchett, Chorltoit-upon-Medlock, brewers— first div. of 4/d. in the pound, Tuesday, act. 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man chester. W. E. and D. Cooper, Manchester and Mottram, tallow chandlers—first div. of ls. 4d. in the pound, Tuesday, Oct. 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. T. Kitts, Bolton, cotton spinner—final div. of 7s. Id. in the pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. S. Lloyd, Manchester, calico printer—final div. of 4d. in the pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hornatran, Manchester. J. Wright, jun., Stockport, currier—final div. of 3s. 10d. in the pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. J. Higham, Koaraley, victualler—second div. of is. 1/d. in the .pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. J. Moon, Manchester, cotton merchant, second div. of 3-10 d. in the pound, Tuesday. August 5, and any Tuesday, after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. W. Edmond, Liverpool, merchant—third diy. of 9e. 7 41-64 d. in the pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tues day after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernarnan, Manchester. F. Jaques. Droylsden, silk dyer—first div. of 3s. 71d. in the pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. J. Steele, Manchester, manufacturer—first div. of 2s. Old. in the pound, Tuesday, August 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. i ernama n, Manchester. H. and W. Coop, West Houghton , silk manufacturers first div. of ls. Bd. in the pound. Tue sda y , Aug. 5, and any Tuesday after Oct. 4 , at the office o f Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. J. B. Carr, Bardsloy, near Ashton-under-Lyne, brewer —first div. of ss. fid. in the pound, Tuesday, Aug. 5, and 'any Tuesday after . Oct. 4, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Manchester. G. Clayton and G. Crookes, Sheffield, grocers—first div. of 4s. iii the pound, Wednesday, Aug. 6, or any day on or after Oct. 7, at the office of Mr. Brew in g Sheffield. G. T. Bates, West Bromwich, grocer and provision mer chant-4rat div, of 2e. is the pound; s: l Avidtqa Am. 71 Miles 1856. ---v 1,11 Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—AUGUST 8. We have only limited quantities of grain, &c., to "hand the last three days, the exports at samo time nearly equal ing them • but we have to report the first arrive 1, per steamer, of the American new crop of w heat, whit has bean sold—white, at 103 6d, and red, at 10s 3d per 70111. The trade has been without change since last market day, except a stronger demand for Indian corn. The de, :line at our Tuesday's market has attracted several millers actd dealers this way seeking bargains, and where holders wo , u 1 d submit to that day's prices a lair business was practical ale • Tn some instances, however, reactiva of 2d to 3d prx bushel on wheat was obtained. Indian corn in good de - mend for milling and feeding purposes, and prices a trifle better. All other articles moderately dealt in at the low:. figures of last market day. WAKEFIELD—Auctu ST 8. A change of weather has produced more firmness in the trade, and Tuesday's prices are exceeded. We quote the rates of wheat 4s below last week, and little of fine qua lity offering, but only a limited demand. Barley much wanted, and would bring high prices. Oats, shelling, and other articles much as of late. EXETER—AU GUST 8. CORN. In our market wheat may be quoted from 8s Od to Ss 6d. Malting barley, Os Od to Os Od ; grinding do., Os Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 61 to 3s 9d. Beans, Os Od . fo Od. Peas, OOs Oct to OOs Od. FLOUR.—Fine, —s Od to 50s Od; seconds, —s Od to 485 Od per sack. CATTLR.—Fat beef was sold at from 9s Gd to 10s 611 per score ; fat calves, Oct to 5,1 d per lb ; barrennera, Os Oct to Os Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 17E. ; butchers' calves, Gd to —d per lb., rearing calves —x to a each. Sheep, ewes and lambs, 1/. 14s to 2/. 5s per couple; ewes. 6d to —d; wethers, 64d to 6id ; lambs, OE Os each. Pigs, large size, 45s to 55s ; second size, 24s to 30a ; slips, 205 to 30s ; suckers, 103 to 14s. Rough fat, 41c1 per lb. Pork carcases from lOs 6(1 to lls 6(1 per score. BRISTOL SUGAR—AUGUST S. Our market ,h s been quiet, and both manufacturers and grocers show an indisposition to operate, unless at reduced values. Prices are not quotably . lower, but at the same time they are not so strong. Refined goods are in mode rate demand, at about late rates. There is a steady, but not a large, demand for rums, at fair prices. COAL MARKE Prices of Coal per ton at T.—A:II4I7ST 8. the Mo m of the market. a. d.l Tanfiold Moor Butes 14 6 17 6 &o. 1. ti. Framweti . gate lB 0 Haswell • 19 0 South Hetx . on 18 9 Hetton Lyons Main l7 ~9 Eletton l9 u„ South Hartlepool 17 IF Caradoc lB 0 7 I Sold Wallsend, &e. Whitworth - 16 6 Riddell l6 6 Lambtou 18 6 South Dtulam ....17 9 Cassop 18 0 Ships at market... 1: COURSE OF EXCITA;NGF.,.—YEsTEI I DAIN Amsterdam 11 i 7 , GLbraltar . • ••• •• • • Ditto, three months .. 11 19 1 4 Loahorn ..••••. 3O Rotterdam 11 IPA Gonoa ... 25 7 5 Antwerp .............. 25 55 'Milan •• Brussels .•••••• • • • • • • • 25 55 I Von ice ••••••• • •• •• ••• ilarnbUigh ............ 13 7% Na . ? . es •••• • • •• •• 44 132% AltOrta, •••••• •• e• •• •• Pal el..= •• •• ...... 133 Faris •••• • • • • ........25 30 /11mena •• • •.. Ditto, three months .. 25 62% Lisboa' • • Marseilles 25 65 Oporto' .• •• ••.•••• • • • •• 53 Bourdeaux .. • • .... Rio Ja. ..... • •• • • • • F r ankfort-on- \I sine • 120 Buenos. kyres.. • . Berlin •• •• •te •••• • • •• New Yot k,60 days' sight •-•• Vienna..., ~ .• •• 10 22 Philadelp. hia •• •• 10 23 PRICEd OF BULLION, PER 01. Petersburg 37 Foreign GA, 1 d in Bars £3 17 Madrid ....• 49 3 4 Portugal GA Ad Coin .. .0 0 1 : Cadiz ~. 50 Mexican Do l iars •• 0 5 ' Barcelona New Dolla rs o i •• 0 i l l Silver in bars 0 ,• SEABORNE MAILS. (ff oigniffes that the mails are 3ent from the Ga ieral POllt- 00 y the night—and M by the morning--despatch.) --.../ From Nv/y it VilAll Port due 1 , , Dispatched • Ensio 4 4 —.......--- ----... Liverpool... Vreeldi Oay when made upl in General Post- Me, London.* WeeklY (Southampton 'Liverpool ... !Te 105 zji° ILiverpool • • DO= se . • • Una& e. 6th of 9 0, id t 1 41c9 1 16th Plymouth DOM ...... Southamp 0 S7uthamptcul Dover ...... Southampton nethp Various ports, 16th „ Uncertw Southampton 16th a e 16 O w ist 4th to I '' ru.Tn 1 and 10 and S 2 and " and $ 4 14 / twice d South amp oo iouthamp • or Dov3r ...... 3olithAmptoi Dover ».... Dover •• • • • . ioutlampior •I'vrlcad o6l g, 7, : 10" I and 16 ,lat 2 Ist nt DaIlY fiauth^nipt• London SolltrIa:111:rt .11 Dover ....... Southampton Plymouth .• .Dover •• es ore Lover.. .• EL‘lyhead Southiunptor. Sotn.hamptoz Livetpool 16th d and 2 1 0 158099 16 and 16 14: 11, 21 ' 9 . !Dover 4th and It tst •It3outhanipt . n' . Dover ...... i;Scuthamptor Various ports • Dover •• •• •• Southampton . Southampton Various ports Dover Dover doutharoptonl 11st and 16 14 Wei lst t /6til I weett/ 1 m 16110°° tbll ilinnn 6 l And 1 igoutharnpten 1855. C101:111TRIZg. imerica(byririt.pack)/ .. A.moricr. (by Unitod Sic packet) .. • • America (by U. Statif packet) • • tastralia (via Liver pool) .•• • • .•• •Al Mars Ditto (via eilles) 1 Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) •• .• • • •• •• ••14 Africa (West Coast) Alexandria N Ilahamas Belgium •• •• .• •• •.1 . 3 .• —l4 OuenosAyres M Cape of Good Hope Cape of GoOd Hope lace de Vera .• Ceylon (ace India) Ceylon Channel Chili .... China . Constantinople Ceastantinoplo Cont. of Europe M pc N Egypt (see India) France ........ bf > N Gibraltar Greece (see India) Ireytown flamburgh I Gavannah del-land ttondtiras RS India (vls.Southamrt )N India (via Marseilles)lll lonian Wes (see India) Ireland is: Lisbon Madeira hi Madeira • •• Malta (see India) Malta . •• Mauritius (see India) Mauritius .• . N Mexico ••31 Naples •• •• e. ••• •• •• •• New Granada 50W Papal States Peninsula Peru 1. •• 3 .43 •• • •• • M Pert Natal Sicily :••• •• •• Ire •• •.N Tuscany •.• c•.• • • •• •• Venezuela Van Diem en's Ls.ud (tec Australia) I West Indic , . ,„ . 1.'41 Ivory Friday .. Every Tuesday ith and 19th .... 41 , 1 of th . . , month 10th t 26th of u o tin 8c 20th of mo, 17th of. tbo month Dall 7 9th of the month 901 nf tho month Uncer Lain Ath of mont) 10th and 26th.... 4th and 20th .... ;•,),•:.,Weu.,Cot , E.:l7th of month 4th and 10th .... 10th and 26th.... ith &'lotO. of cnt n. rwio daily ...... nvlel daily...—. 4,7,17,20,27 dm !Vita 17th of /Lai. 'Dail ... • .... • • 2nti of the month Daily ... . • ..... 17th of the month,' lth 20th of mon. 10:h3e26th of moth' t'sv:v.; daily 2d of 0.. 9th of ;now 231 of month 11, 10, 20, and 26.. 20% of the month' 2nd of the month.; Daily 12d tic ;7thof month i Twi.le a month .. ..3cl gc 27th of mon.l v private 0h1p... Every Saturday.. Daily.. • • 2d a 17t13 ofmontb tth of mort. zci ,Trtt k.,1110/,Y. DAI.9 , ibth. Whenany of those dates fall on a Snnt - lay, the mails will v.' E l/ spatched on the following day, with the eaceptien of the Inhif!foo :lonthampton), and the Malta, both of whllla will be dospatob'''' preceding day. --- CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY, Frial Aug. B.—Admissions on payment, 3,721 ; ditto by son tickets, 507 ; total visitors, 4,235. Fi g SINGULAR DEATH.—On Monday a telegraphic sage was received in Barnsley, to the effect that In Henry Cordeaux, a young man of great promise, tiger 23 years, son of Mr. John,Cordeaux, line manufactu re d' Barnsley, who was cut on his journey at Biddesf g ; Devonshire, and kft his inn on Sunday morning O r o walk oo the sands, and that one of his boots had Vie found embedded in the sand, but his person could nut found ; there was no doubt that he had been fast in ,9, sand when the tide came in and swept him ivto the Mr. Calvert, clerk to Mr. Cordeaux, was ar once Fir spatched to the place. On Tuesday morning anti! telegraphic message was received, stating his body no been washed on shore and recovered. Deceased vob B ; e . young man universally respected and esteemed w h , e , ever he went. His loss is much lamented in BarneLe'' —Manchester Examiner. [ADVERTISEHENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills an um r a i cure for Dropsy.—This truly distressing complain t of sufficiently prevalent amongst individuals, es pecio ji females after attaining a certain period of life. ljesigh,tde and painful swellings of the extremities in the first p l y , announce and subsequently confirm the advent and P ' f; gress of the malady. There are hundreds of Finger% from dropsy, however, who, when their disease ece ii has attained a formidable height, have been conuPle t ,,,, e 'J cured by taking Holloway's Pills, a medicine pronoullio by millions as the most successful ever introduced t° , t be world.—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout world, at Professor Holloway's Establishments , 9 1# Strand, London, and 80, Maiden.lane, New York; " A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Guidici Smyrna ; g e E. Muir, Malta BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 7th inst., at Rye-hill, Peckham, the wife of Josiah Temple, of Guildhall. mot On the Bth inst., at St. George's-terrace, KensivF- Mrs. Thomas Anstey Guthrie. OF A DAUGHTER. . Afai°' On the 7th inst., at Hythe, Kent, the wife of Crespigny. rilOn the 7th inst., at 94, Ebury-street, Mrs. Georg e Stacpoole. MARRIED. On tho 7th inst., at St. John's Church, Croydon, _to James Sherriff, Esq., of Spring-gardens, Charing-err:Moo Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Turner, Esq., the al t Thornton-heath, Croydon. On the 6th inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, Mr. .1-..„01 Glad well, of Gracochurch - street , city, to Susanna, selore• daughter of the late. Mr. George Warnes, of Edgo road, Paddington. DIED. se * On the sth inst., at her residence, in Clarence-terl ted trii *• • the Right Hon. Lady Ravensworth, after a pr o illness, which was borne with great fortitude and reid.r.ov% rcl, tion. Her ladyship was the eldest daughter of '.'; of George Seymour, youngest son of the first Mare g,, Hertford, and sister to Sir Hamilton Seymour, G.'' and the Countess of Shannon. .„. 1 e y, On the 7th inst., at 42, Finsbury-circus, Richd. / 8 -ei ti Big., aged 66. g et , On the 6th inst., Mr. Benjamin Hall, of Down-str- Piccadilly. ...„, i iiiei At Proviilence Cottage, Hackney, the Rev. Iv,' . !:o' Elisha Law Faulkner, incumbent of St. James's, Ci a. '" e well, aged 67. al es On the sth inst., at Caterham Rectory, the Rev - - i ' Legrow aged 87. r ar , On t h e 4th inst.,at Locking, the Rev. Alfred fistr'° vicar of Locking, aged t 11 '' On the Ist inst., on board H.M.S. Queen, Lient entin Johns, R.M., aged 9 5. ~,i ;0 0 ' On the 30th ult., George Murray, and on the ~,,'„, - Henry Herbert, the sons of H. P. 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