The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-08 00:00:00

THE NAVY• Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam yacht Osborne, Master Commander Bower, was yesterday ordered to hold herself in readiness far the conveyance of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia to embark from Greenhithe for the Continent. Sir R. - M. Bromley, K.C.8., Accountant-General of the Navy, yesterday transacted business in Woolwich Dockyard, and inspected the Audit offices recently organised under the new regulations issued by the Admiralty, as a check on the general expenditure of the yard. The principal clerks ap pointed to the office are Mr. Walker and Mr. Fit tock, from the Accountant's Department. The following vessels have been chartered for the War Department, to ship stores from Woolwich Arsenal—namely, the Arabella for Corfu, Herring ton for Algoa Bay, Silistria for Cape Town, Kin naird for Auckland, Syria for Port Natal, Strath more for Freemantle, Venetia for Adelaide, Agrip pina for Malta, Epsom for Simon's Town, England's Rose for St. Lucia, Stephen and Sarah for Baha mas, Ruckers for Trinidad, Eclipse for Mauritius, Catharine Pemberton for Bermuda, Clifton for Brisbane (Australia), Severn for Colombo, Constance for Barbadoes, Sinope for East London, and Coral Queen for Bermuda. Orders have been reeeived at Portsmouth from the Admiralty for the immediate removal of the naval ca d e t training-ship Britannia, Capt. Robe r t H arr i s , from that port to Portland. The Master-Attendant's department at Portsmouth Dockyard are ordered to lay down permanent moorings for the Britannia at Portland, so that as soon as they are ready for use the ship may be towed down to her new station. The order for the Britannia's removal was not totally unexpected at Portsmouth, owing to several circumstances which have recently taken place, but it will of necessity inflict a serious loss upon the trade of Portsmouth, the extent of which may be surmised when we state that the Britannia is esti mated to cause, directly or indirectly, £30,000 per annum to be spent in the town and its neighbour hood. The Britannia is moored in the most un healthy part of Portsmouth harbour, and has been kept there in spite of some isolated cases of fever which have occurred, and which at the time raised a great outcry from the friends of the youths on board. This obstinacy of officials in keeping the ship moored in a position that was, to say the least, of doubtful salubrity, has been probably justified by the fact of the average sickness on board the Bri tannia having been less than in most of the public or large private schools. As might have been fore seen, this perverseness is at length forced to give way, and the ship, instead of being moved to a more healthy position in the port, is now to be removed from the port altogether. Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.8., Chief Commissioner of Police, yesterday visited the police educational classroom in Portsmouth dockyard. The Chanticleer, 17, screw, in the reserve at Ports mouth, tested her machinery yesterday outside the harbour with satisfactory results. The Shannon, 51, screw, in the first-class reserve at Portsmouth, rigged, stored and armed, is ordered to be held ready for immediate commission. The War Department transport Bomarsund was yesterday taken under the steam crane at the Ord. nance wharf, Chatham, and landed a number of the 8 inch and 32 pounder cast-iron guns from the screw line-of-battle steamer Orion, Capt. Frere, which is being dismantled at the Nore previously to being put out of commission. The Marlborough, War Department transport, also landed at the Ord nance wharf some of the heavier description of ord nance from the Orion, consisting of 10 inch and 68 pounders, the whole of which will be forwarded to Woolwich to have their vents repaired before they are again issued. The powder and shell taken out of the Orion have been deposited in the powder magazines at Upnor Castle. The screw steam frigate Leander, 51, 400 horse power, was unable to complete her trial trip on Wednesday for the purpose of testing her engines and machinery, and was compelled to return to Sheerness harbour, in consequence of a very unto ward accident which occurred on board. The Leander had just reached the measured mile at Maplin Sands, when Mr. G. Bethwick, who was superintending the trial on the part of the manu facturers of the engines, in descending into the engine room was precipitated among the machinery in motion, receiving very severe injuries to his right hand. Unfortunately, there was no medical man on board, and the frigate was accordingly put about, and reached Sheerness harbour in the after noon. Mr. Bethwiek was immediately conveyed on board the Cumberland, 70, flagship of Captain Schoenberg, commanding the steam reserve, where a portion of the right hand was at once amputated. The sufferer is now doing well. There is little doubt the Leander will prove an exceedingly fast frigate, the average rate of speed on Wednesday being 101 knots, the screw making 51 revolutions per minute. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry D. Hinckley, to the Gladiator ; Lieut. John Gilby, to the Gladiator ; J. H. Orlebar and R. Leith, naval cadets, to the Gladiator ; C. C. Wood, F. Papillon, and J. E. Symons, naval cadets, to the Orpheus; J. W. Steil, acting chief engineer, transferred from the Fisgard to the Indus, as supernumerary ; and J. Stacey, acting second master additional, to the Im pregnable, for service in the Pike. THE AR3113 By direction of the authorities at the Horse Guards, a further discharge of 172 invalids and men whose period of service has expired has taken place from St. Mary's invalid establishment, Chatham. Nothwithstanding the large numbers who have been discharged weekly for some time past there are still several hundred non-commis sioned officers and men at the Chatham invalid depot awaiting the orders for their discharge from the Horse Guards. Yesterday Lieut -Col. S. N. Lowder, second in command of the battalions of Royal Marines Light Infantry about to be despatched to Mexico, toge ther with Capt. S. Huskisson, Capt. F. H. Nott, Lieut. M. H. Price, Lieut. I. M. Hamilton, and Lieut. W. Menzies, left head-quarters, Chatham, for Plymouth, where they embark on board the screw steamer Himalaya with the expeditionary force for Mexico. The 34th company of Royal Engineers, which has been some time under orders to embark for Bermuda, to relieve the 26th company, underwent a final inspection at Brompton-barracks, Chatham, yeste r d ay, by Lieut.-Col. J. 14 ' . M. Browne, C. 8., second in command at the Royal Engineer este blishnagper. The company, which has been completed to its men, vii t l th of 100 non-commissioned offi cers and anawileiabve Chatham, for Portsmouth, on Tuesday, Royal Engineers proceeding by the detach ment of Roy sproceeding to Nova Scotia, to augment the 7th company.with ordera In accordance Engineerreceived at the head quarters of the Royal Chatham, from the office of the e establishment, General, a number of the most. intellige n t Adjutant educated non-commissioned officers and d ent and best men of the corps have been selected from the companies at Brompton Barracks, to go through a complete Course of instruction in the theory and practice of survey ing, levelling, and triangulation, in order that a body of men who are thoroughly conversant with those duties shall be attached to every company in the corps of Royal Engineers. The following troops are ordered to embark in the Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. J. Seccombe , under orders for the wrest Indies, and expected to sail about the 12th inst : — For Halifax. —Royal ' • Engineers, 22 men, 1 woman, and 1 child , 62d Foot-1 field officer and 2 subalterns ; 63d Foot -3 subalterns, 1 staff surgeon, wife, and 2 childten ; pensioners and their families-2 men, 3 women, and 13 children. For Bermuda :—Roval Engineers -2 subalterns, 86 men, 7 women, and 14 children; 2 staff surgeons and 1 clerk sergeant ; and 2 children s A. f t et ßrearet-Major Collingwood, with their nurse. eenstown the Himalaya will embark for the "' Til e atst" • illation 4 captains , 10 subalterns, 2 sur geons, 5•70 men, 3 female servants, officers' wives, 3 children, and 4 from.a min , with 25 soldiers' wives and 36 chil dren, regkeken !§. 011 Monday last, Thomast Blizard, a discharged MIIIIOIIIO soldier, now a labourer in the barrack department at Aldershot ; George Morrison, a sergeant in the Army Hospital Corps ; Richard Castle, a sergeant, 3d battalion Military Train ; and Arthur Allure, a general dealer, Bagshot, Surrey, concerned in a wholesale robbery of Government ktores, were examined before Mr. F. R. Thresher, sitting in petty sessions at Aldershot. During the last month it was discovered that some shirts and other articles were missing from the canteen stores, and by order of the principal purveyor a general stock -taking took place on the 19th and 20th. It was then found ,that numerous articles were missing, such as 150 pairs of ankle boots, 21 tablecloths, 97 dinner knives, &c. The prisoners were committed to Winchester for trial, the whole of them reserving their defence. It is expected that several more persons supposed to be concerned in camp robberies will be apprehended before the next court day. Capt. Pritchard, Woolwich division Royal Marine Light Infantry, yesterday received orders to hold himself in readiness for Mexico to join the expedi tionary battalion about to sail from Plymouth. The Royal Marine clothing establishment at Woolwich is engaged in making 700 blue tunics, which are ordered to be got ready with the utmost despatch for the expedition. Quartermaster-Sergeant Blastock yesterday re ceived his discharge from the Royal Marine force at Woolwich, on a retiring pension of 2s 6d per day, being 3d per day in excess of the established order, as an additional reward for his good conduct, as registered over a period of 33 years. The orders for the despatch of the 12-pounder battery of Armstrong guns, &c.,'prepired for trans mission to Quebec, from Woolwich Arsenal, have been countermanded, in consequence of the advanced state of the winter season. Three million rounds of rifle ball cartridges are ordered to be got ready for transport by the mail packets for Canada. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT IES2ITUTIOIV. A meeting of this institution was held yesterday, at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Captain Sir Edward Perrot, Bart,, vice-president, in the chair. There were also present Admiral Gordon, Captain Washington, R.N., biographer of the Admiralty ; James Peake, Esq., master shipwright of her Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport ; Admiral Bullock, Colonel Palmer, and Captain De St. Croix. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, The gentlemen present expressed :much commis aeration for the families of the two poor men who lost their lives by the wrecking, or breaking up of the Scarborough lifeboat against the sea-wall. The institution made a liberal gratuity to their fami lies, and also a reward to the lifeboat crew. The benevolent donor of the wracked boat has also given a very liberal contribution to the two poor men's families. The meeting expressed deep sympathy for the relatives of Lord C. Beauclerk, and W. Tindall, Esq., who so nobly perished while at tempting to save the lives of their fellow-creatures on the occasion. We have previously given the particulars of this sad disaster, and will now only repeat one sentence from a communication just re ceived from James Woodall, Esq., of Scarborough, stating " that it was not possible for anything to be more triumphant than the result of the fearful ordeal on Saturday last. The coxswain and crew cannot find words to express their satisfaction and confidence in the great qualities of the lifeboat. She did not upset, and the crew believe she cannot be upset (except by mechanical power). She emptied herself after every sea, and in all other respects she exceeded the most sanguine hopes." Such a cir cumstance as a lifeboat being thus wrecked is, we believe, without a parallel in the history of lifeboats, and it is much feared that lamentable want of skill was exhibited on the occasion in her ma nagement. The institution decided on presenting a memorial silver medal to the families of the late Lord Charles Beauclerk, and Mr. Tindall, as a permanent mark of its sympathy for them. Considering that the National Institution has now about 120 lifeboats uuder its charge, disasters will occasionally happen under the best management in such a fleet. The society has accordingly two or three lifeboats always ready to neet any emergency, and it was reported yesterday that it had already replaced the wrecked Scar borough boat by a powerful one. Mrs. Cockroft, of Scarborough, had generously promised to pay the cost of the new boat. The silver medal of the insti tution was also ordered to be presented to Mr. Sarony and Mr. Rutter, who so noby exerted themselves in endeavouring to save the lives of Lord C. Beauclerk, Mr, Tindall, and others, on the lamentable occasion. A reward of £6 10s. was voted to the crew of the Seaton Carew lifeboat, which belongs to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, for rescuing five of the crew of the barque Robert Watson, of Sunder land, which was stranded about three-quarters of a mile to the southward of Seaton, during a heavy gale of wind on the 2d inst. This valuable lifeboat, which was the gift of William M'Kerrell, Esq., to the society, has already saved 28 persons from dif ferent wrecks. A reward of £l2 was also granted to the crew of the Yarmouth surf lifeboat, belonging to the insti tution, for putting off and rescuing ton persons from the smack Adventure, of Harwich, which, during a terrific gale of wind, had been wrecked on the 3d ult. Her perilous position having been observed, the lifeboat immediately proceeded to her rescue, and amidst the greatest danger succeeded in snatch ing ten poor fellows from an inevitable death. It was stated that this was one of the most gallant services ever performed by this lifeboat. Inspecting commander Warren, R.N., and Mr. Pitts, chief officer of the coast guard, went off in the lifeboat on the occasion. A reward of £6 10s. was likewise voted to the crew of the institution's lifeboat, stationed at Bac ton, Norfold, for putting off to the assistance of the schooner Skylark, of Folkestone, which was seen on the 28th ult. during stormy weather and a heavy swell in Banton offing, with her foremast gone, and in a disabled state. The coxswain of the lifeboat, who had been on the look-out, immediately mus tered his crew. The boat was quickly launched and was steadily rowed through the surf to the vessel, which she soon reached, and found rapidly drift ing on a lee shore. Fortunately the assistance of a steam tug was also made available on the occasion, and the tug, in conjunction with the lifeboat, was the means of ultimately bringing in safety the schooner and her crew to Yarmouth. The men had during the night fully intended to abandon their vessel, but the sea was too heavy to permit them to take to their boat. The Lowestoft lifeboat, which is also in con- I nexion with the society, was instrumental on the 2d instant, during a heavy gale of wind, in bring ing into harbour the disabled schooner Fly, of Whitby, and her crew of four hands. About tea o'clock the vessel's signals of distress were seen in the direction of East Point, when the lifeboat, manned by Captain Joachim, R.N., and her gallant crew, was immediately got out and launched through a tremendous surf. Standing to the north ward, they discovered the vessel by her repeating her signals of distress, and having hailed her found that the crew were not able to keep her afloat. They then closed with her, and threw nine or ten h ca a b nldesao n n a board, which enabled them to slip her run for the harbour. Captain Joachim, R. N., had received theats Li ieifseobisnosilveraw the Lifeboat nlis medal fteibtonat it 0. A reward of £6 vand fo s r e c h o i n s d p s r e o r .. vious gallant ser vice cla sp o f the also voted to th e crew of the lifeboat o f the society, stationed the cre w tionefl at Bridling ton, for putting off and res cuin g y of four un g ri men of the schooner Frie n d s , of Lynon,whi ch during a terrific gale of wind was strand e d off Bridling ton on Saturday last. This valuable lifeboat has been the means of rescuing a large number of ship. wrecked persons from a watery grave. A reward of £4 was likewise given to the crew 1 of the institution's lifeboat stationed at Banff, for putting off and rescuing the crew of six men from the schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth, which Was observed to become unmanageable during a violent gale of wind on the Ist inst. The schooner soon afterwards became a total wreck, and without the lifeboat's assistance her crew must have perished. This valuable lifeboat was the gift to the National Lifeboat Institution of Messrs. Macfie and Sons, of Liverpool, and verily their munificence has already had its reward. A reward of £6 lOs was likewise voted to the crew of the Cahore lifeboat of the society, for rescu ing a poor man who had been cast adrift in a boat from the ship A.Z., of New York, which had stranded on the Blackwater Bank on the 25th ult. The lifeboat was proceeding towards the disabled ship, when the crew fortunately observed something like a boat a great distance off on the ocean. They immediately bore down towards it, and fortunately rescued the poor fellow just previous to his craft entering the broken water, where he must inevitably have been swamped. The gratitude of the poor man for his providential rescue nearly overwhelmed him; and the joy of the lifeboat's gallant crew was indeed great that they had been, under God, the means of saving him from the fearful doom that was threaten ing to engulph him. The lifeboats of the institution have providen tially been the means of rescuing 236 shipwrecked persons during the present year alone. Several other rewards were voted to the crews of the Porth cawl, Brighton, Fleetwood, and Arklow lifeboats of the institution, for going off with the view of saving life, and also to shore boats, for their laud able exertions in rescuing life from different wrecks. It was stated that Miss Burdett Coutts had again munificently promised to pay the cost of the lifeboat which the National Institution is about sending to Plymouth. The institution decided on placing a new lifeboat and transporting carriage at Blakeney, on the Norfolk coast. Lifeboats on the plan of those of the society had been sent, during the past month, to the order of the respective Govern ments of the Cape of Good Hope, Spain, and Jersey. It was reported that the tow n of Ipswich was about setting a noble example to other towns on behalf of the lifeboat cause. Next Sunday a collection on its behalf is to be made in all the churches and chapels in Ipswich. On the following day a public meeting, to be attended by the Mayor and some of the nobility of the county, is to be held in the Town-hall, when it is expected the cost of at least one lifeboat will be announced as the result. Some interesting reports were read from Captain Washington, RN., on the means for saving life em ployed at Havre, on the French coast, and also on the lifeboat at Boulmer and Alnmouth, and the barometers and barometer indications at those sta tions, and at Amble, on the Northumberland coast, Capt. Washington having recently visited Havre and those places. Payments amounting to £350 having been made on various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings terminated. MR. ALDERMAN SALOMONS AND 1115 CON6'2ITUENTS. Last evening Mr. Alderman Salomons met the Deptford portion of the electors of the borough of Greenwich, at the Lecture-hall, and addressed them 1 upon the position of politics and parties. Mr. DUVAL presided, and having briefly stated the objects of the meeting, introduced Mr. Alderman SALOMONS, who expressed his gratification at meeting his Deptford constituents at what he might call their annual political stock taking. There was, he thought, an obvious con venience in members of Parliament meeting periodically those whom they represented to render an account of their conduct, and to meet any objec tions that might be advanced, and afford such ex planations as might be required from them. The last session of Parliament, though barren in some respects, was a very hardworking and useful ses sion, which had produced many good and valuable measures. He might instance, as one affecting the interests of the working classes, the bill which pre vented the removal of poor persons after three years' residence in any union. The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Amendment Bill was also a bene ficial measure, especially in so far as it put an end to the fanciful distinctions between bankruptcy , and insolveney, and placed traders and non-traders upon the same footing, making the propel ty of the debtor available for the payment of bis debts, whether he remained in England or not. The laws for improving the government of India, though they did not make much show i❑ the newspapers, were of great importance nevertheless both to the interests of this country and the inhabitants of British India. The removal of many of the burdens imposed upon vessels engaged in the coasting trade was a measure which could not bat benefit the shipping interest. The abolition of the paper duty was another measure which marked favourably the labours of Parliament during the last session, as not only aiding the dissemination of knowledge amongst the people, but also as relieving an important branch of industry from the absurd excise regulations by which it had been so long fettered and its progress impeded. Upon the subject of reform in Parliament, which was not included in the Ministerial pro gramme of last session, he offered no apology on the part of ministers for omitting it, but added that the reason a reform bill had not been brought forward was that the Government were of opinion that the people were apathetic on the question, and he had no doubt that, when the opinion of the country was decidedly expressed, such a measure would be again brought forward, and notwithstanding the opposi tion it might receive, would assuredly be carried. Besides, the time lost in the discussion of the reform bill in the session of 1860 might well be received as an excuse for their not reintroducing the bill again in 1861, As to finance, no doubt the expenditure was excessive, amounting to just upon £70,000,000 a year; but while such enormous armaments were kept up by neighbouring nations, it would be most unwise to leave our own coasts without the de fence of a powerful naval force, and an army suf ficient to form at least the nucleus of an army strong enough to meet any emergency. He was glad to hear that the Emperor of the French was contem plating a considerable reduction in his army, espe cially in the artillery; and if that were done, we might then economise in our own military expen diture, and hope for some slight relief from the pre sent heavy weight of taxation. We must not, how ever, expect to return to the expenditure of the halcyon days of 1835, because the difference in the cost of maintaining a steam as compared with a sailing navy, adding, as it did, eight or ten times to the cost of ships, rendered that impossible. Look ing, however, at the state of affairs abroad, particu larly in America, the failure in last year's harvest, the effects of which would be for some time yet felt, and other disturbing elements, he thought if the revenue of the present year equalled the expendi ture we might think ourselves fortunate. The disruption of the American Union could not but have a most prejudicial effect upon British trade, having regard to the stoppage of the cotton supply and the almost total cessation, at least while the civil war continued, of our own imports from and exports to America, the former of which last year amounted to £44,000,000 and the latter •to £23,000,000. The .state of feeling growing up in America towards this country was as regrettable as it was unreasonable, our only offence being that we would not interfere in their quarrel. We had no part in the difference, and could not support the South and slavery, nor could we join the North against their Southern brethren. The whole difficulty had arisen from America having endeavoured for so many years to make slavery and freedom sit side by side. One would have thought that the true policy of the North which professed antagonism to slavery, was to let the slave states go, and form themselves into a union of free states. This was the only matter of external policy which really affected England ; all others were matters of sentiment. We wished well to the Italians, to the Hungarians, and to Poland ; and were anxious that all of them should work out their own freedom, and become as free as ourselves, We were the shop keepers of the world, and our interest was that all nations should be free, happy, and contented, and then th an they thay Iv we a r l e b an ee d o perity of the British nation, greater interest in efforts of their representatives add to better customers to us peace than the :e e hwaeda:tahnadnda.llprtohse .ou to that end. The hon. member : h o t t p e e people e t h 1 t h e a e d t e a d concluded by pro mising that all his efforts in parliament should be • - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, 1 OVB MBER 8, 1861. directed to the improvement of the laws and to the promotion of the national prosperity. Mr. WILSON complained that the alderman had voted against the proposal for giving one of the seats apportioned by the bill of last session to Chel sea and Kensington. He demanded representatives for the at present non-electors, who, he said, were, as a body, more enlightened and more fit to be en trusted with the franchise than the majority of those who were electors under the present law. Mr. Alderman SALOMONS defended the vote in question, on the ground that it would have been unfair to the country at large to give either of the four forfeited seats to the metropolitan boroughs, but he would have preferred that one of them had been given to the London University. Scme questions of local interest were asked and satisfactorily answered, and a vote of confidence in the hon. member, and the usual compliment to the chairman of the night, concluded the business. MADAGASCAR. (From the Fatriot.) At length we are in possession of the truth as regards Madagascar. The letters and papers now received from the Mauritius completely dispose of the stories told by the French at Reunion of the conversion of the new King to Catholicism, and his desire to make his country an appanage of the French empire. His acts have been entirely con sistent with his former professions of Christianity, with the liberal and benevolent ideas which have been attributed to him, and with his attachment to the English. Prince Rambosalam, his rival, has not been killed, but simply banished from the capi tal, and the accession of Radama 11. to the throne has been signalised only by acts of wisdom and promise. One of his first was to write letters to the Protestant missionaries at the Mauritius and the Cape, informing them that the land was once more open to the preachers of the Gospel. He has distinctly repeated his own adherence to Protestant Christianity. The Rev. Mr. Le Brun, the aged pastor of the missionary cause at Port Louis, has received letters both from the King and from Ra Haniraka, his chief secretary, who is a personal friend of Mr. Le Brun's, and once spent some time in England. Both letters are in English, which the King writes tolerably, expressing himself grammatically. No copy of these letters has yet been received in this country, but we know that they contain, amongst other things, a statement that he is resolved upon im mediately instituting schools upon a larger scale for the instruction of his subjects of all ages. Im mediately upon their receipt, the Rev. J. J. Le Brun, jun., took ship, with two Malagassy attend ants, for Madagascar, where it is believed he arrived about the end of September. He would at once proceed to Antanarive, and there await the coming of Mr. Ellis. The King has also formally announced his acces sion to the Governor of the Mauritius, and expressed his desire that a more intimate intercourse with that colony may be established. The result of this letter was the appointment of a mission to the King, bearing the congratulations of his Excellency, and thanking him for his promise to extend facilities to trade and commerce. The Legislative Council voted £2,000 for presents in the shape of horses, furniture, a crystal service, &c., which the mission took with them. The Mauritius Society of Arts and Sciences, and the Port Louis Chamber of Com merce also ferwarded addresses, in which they press the King to send specimens of the valuable and multifarious products of his country to the Great International Exhibition of 1862. England will, therefore, be well represented at his court, and there is very little reason to fear any predominance of French influence. If any apprehension could arise on this score, it would be from the fact that the King retains his old friendship for M, Lambert, who is net an Englishman, as the writer of the City article in the Ti,i,es supposes, but a Frenchman, and it is to be feared a very unprincipled intriguant. He and a M. Laborde being in favour with the late Queen, were suffered to reside there when all other Euro peans had been banished, and Lambert retained two Jesuit priests in disguise in his house. While making large presents to the Queen, and profess ing great respect for her, he diligently cultivated the acquaintance of the Prince, and in the year 1837 induced him to sign a secret treaty, offering the Protectorate of the island to France if the Em peror would assist him to dethrone his mother. There is every reason to believe that, as the Prince was quite unacquainted with the French language, he did not at all understand what he had been signing. Lambert came with this document to Europe; but the French Government at once com municated its contents to Lord Clarendon, and re fused to take any steps in the matter without the consent of England. Lambert and Laborde after wards unsuccessfully attempted a coup d'etat, and the Prince thought himself especially bound to them for the dangers they had run on his behalf. The King has now entrusted M. Lambert with a mission to the courts of France and England, to obtain his recognition as King of the Hovas ; but he emphati cally declares that he does not desire the protection of any power. He rightly believes that indepen dence will most conduce to the prosperity of his subjects. It is said that the King has intimated his intention of making Lambert his prime minister, and that he has already made him a concession of land containing rich mines which are to be worked by an Anglo-French company. M. Laborde, we perceive, has made all haste to return to the island, taking with him a couple of Jesuit priests ; but whatever intrigues these people may set on foot, we are now quite sure that Mada gascar will be open for the unm o l es t e d l a b ours o f our Protestant missionaries, and after so long a sea son of trial and persecution, in which the power of faith in the former converts has been so signally illustrated, we have every reason to hope that the land will be reclaimed from heathenism, and the teachings of a pure Christianity joyfully embraced by the people. The Rev. William Ellis will sail for the Mauri tius on the 24th inst., but, as the rainy season, dur ing which the unhealthy state of the Madagascar coasts forbids intercourse with Europeans, will have set in before his arrival, he will not be able to pro ceed to the island till next spring. A SERGEANT-MAJOR SHOT AT ALDBRSHOT. Late on Wednesday night Leslie Kennedy, a sergeant-major of the 3d battalion Military Train, was shot by a private of the same corps, named John Nicholas. On the same evening an amateur performance of "Whitebait at Greenwich,"in which the performers were non-commissioned officers and privates, took place at the camp theatre. Sergeant ' Major Kennedy was acting stage manager; Nicho las was to appear as an actor in the character of Benjamin Buzzard. His name had appeared in the handbills; subsequently to their publication, how ever, it was discovered that another person was better able to take the part. He was accordingly superseded by a committee of management, of whom Kennedy was one. The performance commenced at half-past 8. Nicholas was at the theatre as one of the audience. During the performance he attempted to pick a quarrel with a corporal named Donnev. Sergeant-Major Kennedy was a witness of the affair, and ordered him to be removed from the theatre. On being turned out, it is supposed he returned to his quarters. Kennedy re-went to his hut at about 12.30 a.m., in company with Ser geants Ward and Salter, and Corporal Pierce. He lighted a candle, sat down, and began talking with his comrades about the evening's performance, when suddenly the door was opened, and Nicholas, ad vancing two steps into the hut, said to Kennedy, " What have you to say against me ?" and imme diately raised his carbine and shot him. The bullet went into the unfortunate man's right breast and passed' out of his back. It glanced on the table, making a deep indention of at least two inches in length, and cut a copy of the "Musketry Instruc tions" all to pieces. The poor fellow threw out his arms and knocked the candle out, He called out, " I am shot," and ran the whole length of the hut to a comrade named Sergeant Fraser, who was in bed. Fraser at once jumped up, but not in time to catch him before ho fell to the ground. A medical man was sent for, and Dr. Reynolds, of the bat• talion, was in immediate attendance. Under his charge he was removed to the military hospital, where he now lies without the faintest hope of recovery: Nicholas had no sooner discharged his carbine than he was secured, and marched off under, a strong escort to the station-house. He has only been in the battalion 12 months, and was in one of the regiments in ladia disbanded at the time of the Indian mutiny. STORM SIGNALS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Two letters in the Times of this morning induce me to offer a few lines as an explanation, if not a reply, to your correspondents. Evidently the writer from near Hull had not taken notice enough of your daily Weather Table, by which it is shown that Scarborough and Yarmouth (each side of Hull) report daily, and that there is not a suffi cient difference between them to make an inter mediate station necessary for reporting to this office. Hull has barometers and signals, is regu larly warned from London, and transmits caution ary notices to the Spurn Light and other neigh bouring places. To your Portsmouth correspondent I would submit the consideration that the experiment of warning by special and peculiarly shaped signals has scarcely been tried long enough to justify its adoption by her Majesty's Government definitely. At present its effects are being tested by the un failing method of experience. The Admiralty has aided the Board of Trade, which has allowed and supplied means for this trial; bat the Government does not incur any responsibility. Were such a cautionary signal hoisted on board one of her Ma jesty's ships, under existing circumstances, it could not be divested of an authoritative appearance. Arrangements for an efficient co-operation are in progress by the Coastguard, depending, of course, on the results of a few months' trials. The system is by no means dependent on one person. There are rules and directions easy to un derstand, and now used by my assistants. On Friday last, at two o'clock, we knew in Lon don that a northerly gale was impending on the northern and eastern coasts of Great Britain. Having on a previous occasion given warning at the earliest moment, but unavailing to those who would not wait even for one day, or more probably could not then stop (unhappily many of them were lost on the shores of Durham), and having then been thought too early, we did not send out the telegrams until after reading the three o'clock re ports from ten salient stations, which arrived at four, or soon after, from Ireland as well as Scotland. Getting dark now in the north at five, it would have been useless to hoist a signal that evening, so the telegram was to 34 stations on the coasts (in cluding those reported daily in your columns) : "At daylight to morrow hoist drum, and keep it up all day." A drum (showing as a black square of three feet) means that dangerous winds are probable from dif ferent directions successively. On Saturday and Sunday a northerly gale blew; on Monday and Tuesday a southerly gale was blow ing. The instructions accompanying our cautionary signals say that they apply to any time from first hoisting to two or three days afterwards. I do not hesitate to say, and it is more than 40 years since I bought Daniell's first work on meteor ology, that the peculiarities of our winds and cli mate are now sufficiently known to make it practi cable to foresee every extensive storm ; and when no such change is impending to give the negative information, often valuable, that no tempest need be feared. The storm of last Saturday was remarkably local and circumscribed, but, as usual, violent proportion. ally to its smaller extent between two strong con trary currents. While blowing hard from the north with a low thermometer (30 to 40 deg.) across Scot land, England, and the western side of the North Sea, there was a southerly gale over Holland, and at Paris the thermometer showed 60 deg., while across France there was only wind from south-east to south-west. The weather reports of last Friday morning showed notable differences of pressure and tempera ture—startling when compared with the general uniformity or gradual changes so prevalent (except in two weeks) during the last seven months. Places usually corresponding closely in barometer and tem perature numbers differed nearly half an inch and nearly 20 degrees. (See Nairn, Yarmouth, Dover, Aberdeen, and Valentia, in The Sun " Weather Report" of Nov. 1.) The sure indications of a northerly gale, in addi tion to these warning signs, were a low thermo meter and a highly electrical state of atmosphere, with a low barometer, which had been falling for some days, but fell rapidly on Friday. At Lynn it was below 29 inches ; at Yarmouth and at Scarborough scarcely above that point, which before a northerly wind is equivalent, as a warning, to 281 inches before a southerly gale. The storm of Saturday was circuitous or cyclonic; its centrical area was in the North Sea, off York shire, round which along the coast it blew hardest from Northumberland to Norfolk. OffFlamborough Head it was sudden and most severe. There was no wind to speak of in the west of Ireland. On the north-east coast and in the Irish Sea there was a short gale. This cyclone was local, and did not travel far. Faithfally yours, ROBERT FITZROY. Meteorological Department, 2, Parliament- street, S.W., Nov. 7. THE NEW CUNA RD STEAMSHIP SCOTIA. The Scotia, the latest and most magnificent of the line of Cunard Royal Mail steamers, is approaching completion on the Clyde. The general dimensions of the ship are as follow : Length of keel and forerake, 360 feet ; length over all, 400 feet ; breadth of mould, 47 feet ; and depth, 32 feet. In the construction of the hull the most modern improve ments have been introduced towards enabling her to afford as great resisting power as possible to the combined influ ences of storms and winds. The keel is composed of several bars of iron, each 35 feet in length, firmly joined together by long scarves, the whole being 14 inches in depth, and 4 inches thick. The framework is of the strongest description. Amidships it consists of plates of four-angle iron, running up to the gunwale and towards the stem and stern, while the other portions of the hull are constructed in the usual way. Owing to this arrangement of the plates, the frame work is very heavy, but the amount of strength secured will be increasedly great. The frame of the bow is built diagonally, so that in the case of a collision, or contact with a rock or iceberg, the strain would fall upon the very strongest material of which the ship is composed. The Scotia would thus have a doubly good chance of safety, and of a successful resistance to accident, while other vessels would be in peril. In addition also to the kelsons and girders of a usual frame, others of a novel character have been introduced in order to give a superior resisting power. The Scotia is not clinker built, but the plates are laid on alternately, and in such a manner as to impart wonderful compactness and solidity to the hull. The plates at the keel are 1 1..16th of an inch in thickness ; at the bottom of the ship they are 15-16ths of an inch, from the load water mark they are 7-Bths, and above that they are 1 inch in thickness. The hull consists of seven water tight compartments. The cargo of the vessel is to be stowed in two of these divisions, 75 feet each in length, 20 in breadth, awl 20 in height. These tanks are built in the centre line of the ship, and are capable of receiving 500 tons measurement of cargo. They are completely water tight, and in the event of an accident to the hull would of themselves be sufficient to keep the ship afloat. The vessel, in fact, has a double bottom under the tanks for the stowage of the goods, so that if the outer shell were beaten in or strained, the inner would preserve the cargo intact. The coal bunkers aro placed on each outer side of these tanks, and are made to contain 1,800 tons of coals. Her engines, which are of 883 horse-power, are on the side-lever principle, with two cylinders of 100 inches diameter each and 12 feet stroke of piston. The ap paratus for starting the engines is also constructed so that the operation will be comparatively easy. The paddles measure 40ft. Bin. in diameter over the rings. The accom modation for passengers is in harmony with the splendid general capacity of the ship. She has 157 cabins, affording sleeping accommodation to 300 passengers. Those cabins are each 9 feet in height, which, with the excellent system of ventilation introduced, will render them airy and healthy. Surmounting the main deck there is a deck house, the roof of which forms a promenade from stem to stern. The saloons will afford dining accommodation for above 300 persons. When the Scotia was launched her weight was about 2,600 tons, but now that the heavy weight of her machinery is on board she is about 4,000 tons, and draws 20 feet of water.—Liverpool Journal of Commerce. [ADvEunsEmENT.]—Holloway's Pills.—Regulators and Restoratives.—As the year declines the public is constantly shocked by the increased number of sudden deaths. These catastrophes originate from some irregularity of c irculati, which generate head or heart symptoms , Holloway's Pills on are widely used and everywhere esteemed for pu rif y in g the mass, and regulating the flow of the blood. They prevent palpitation, oppression at the chest, a nd determinat i o n o f blood to the head ; and they effectually remove congestion of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and brain by propor a tionally distributing the blood to each organ. Hollowy Pills should be taken without delay w hen feelings of faintness, giddiness, drowsiness, or annoying eructations warn us of some disturbance of the digesttoP ) CirClilati9A) Cr ropc* 'tion, each is a vital essence. 1 MEMORIAL CHURCH 70 THE LAM .DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, An interesting ceremony took place on Monday at St. George's, Shropshire, namely, the laying of the foundation stone of a new church to be erected to the memory of the late Duke of Sutherland. The announcement that the Right Hon. the Earl Gran ville, K.G., Lord President of the Privy Council would perform the ceremony, and that the Lord Bishop of Lichfield would preach the sermon, at tracted a large number of persons. At half-past two a procession of the clergy and committee entered the church. The service was read in an impressive and pleasing manner by the incutnbent, the Rev. William Allen ; the Te Deum and Jubilate being very re spectably chanted. The Bishop preached an excellent and appropriate sermon, after which, during the reading of the offertory sentences, a collection was made, the money to be appropriated to the building fund. The service being concluded a procession was again formed, which proceeded to the spot where the stone was to be laid. Here a beautiful silver trowel was presented to Lord Granville, having the following inscription :—" Presented, 4th November, 1861, to Earl Granville, K.G., on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the church of St. George, in the parish of St. George's, Shropshire, to be erected in memory of George Granville, second Duke of Sutherland, K.G." His lordship then spread the mortar, and having inserted a bottle containing a parchment and some of the newest coins into a cavity made for the purpose, the stone was lowered into its place and adjusted. The inscrip tion on the parchment was—" The first stone of this church, dedicated to the glory of Almighty God, in honour of St. George and in memory of George Granville, second Duke of Sutherland, K.G., to replace the old church of St. George, adjoining the present site, was laid by Earl Granville,`K.G., Lord President of her Majesty's Privy Council, on the 4th day of November, A.D. 1861." The stone having been properly fixed, Lord Granville stepped upon a small platform erected for the purpose, and addressed to the people a short but feeling and elo quent speech. A hymn was then sung by the choir ; the bishop pronounced the benediction, and the people retired. The church is to be rectangular, with a chancel 40 feet by 20; the nave, with side aisles and clerestory, 90 feet by 60. At present a tower, about 40 feet high, will be erected at one end ; but, if funds can be obtained, it is intended to raise upon it a spire, 150 feet high. The style of the building will be early English. The cost, with out the spire, will be £4,000, but with that addi tion, about £5,000. On the south of the church the tablet, to record the memory of the late duke, is to be placed. GOOD ADVICE TO MB WORKING CLASSES. His Worship the Mayor of Liverpool presided over the Saturday evening concert last week, and, in doing so, took the opportunity of making a few remarks, in the course of which he said—lt was now some 12 months since he last stood on that platform; he recollected, for the want of something better to say, he addressed them, he was sure not for the first time, on the advantages of music. He had sine that had 12 months' experience ; he had come in contact with the darker side of life in this great town ; he had been in contact with suffering humanity in one shape or other; and he could not resist taking advantage of that opportunity of ad dressing not only to those within the hall, but to those outside, a few warning words, the last which he would be able to offer to them in the capacity in which he then addressed them. Winter at all times brought severe trials, but in addition to the ordinary and natural laws there were unmistakable indications—not looming in the distance, but close at hand—that the coming winter would be one of unparalleled severity. He did not speak of severity in reference to climate, but he spoke of severity as regarded the interruption of employment. It was impossible that that great branch of trade, the cotton trade, which gave employment to so many, and which was the mainspring of our prosperity, could be interrupted without thousands in this town feeling the results. In driving down to the hall it occurred to him to make some calculation of the probable money loss that the working men would sustain. It was universally admitted that there would be a deficiency of a million bales of cotton in the imports between now and next June, and considering that five bales of cotton were equal to the daily employment of one man in discharging from the ship, on the quays in ware housing, or delivering, in round numbers there would be a positive deficiency of £30,000, which those men who lived by the cotton trade in Liver pool would have to suffer within the next eight months. He was in the hope that by putting this matter before the town the people, while it was yet time, might begin to practise and exercise frugality; that they might) begin in their families to insist upon economy, and might themselves, out of their daily and weekly wages, bring home every farthing which they could possibly scrape together. If that was acted upon, then he hoped, with God's blessing, they would be able to tide over the severe winter which he saw before them. It would not only be requisite to exercise this frugality and temperance, but it would be equally necessary to exercise kindly qualities towards one another, for, after all, the spirit of sympathy materially mitigated suffering. Those who had means must exercise forbearance and sym pathy towards those w,ho had not ; those who had to suffer would, he hoped, suffer submissively. And in point of fact, there would be a determination to labour when they could get it, and to wait when they could not get it; and that they would all fol low the beautiful words of Longfellow 6 , Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait." (Loud applause.)—Liverpool Albion. MORE ALARMING FIRES: Yesterday afternoon considerable alarm was caused in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, by a fire, accompanied by an explosion, taking place in the premises belonging to Mr. H. J. Simniol, fusee manufacturer, carrying on business in Baker's Arms-gardens. The disaster took place in the dry ing house on the ground floor, where a quantity of fusees had been placed. Suddenly a loud fizzing was heard, and some of the inmates went to ascer tain the cause. They became enveloped in dense clouds of smoke, which had a suffocating smell of sulphur and gunpowder. An attempt was instantly made by some of the inmates and the neighbours to extinguish the fire. One man named C. Wright made a desperate effort, and in the attempt he was severely injured. He was removed to the hospital, where he at present remains in a state of great suf fering. Fortunately the building received no very serious amount of damage, but a great quantity of the stock in trade was destroyed. The owner of the property was uninsured. Another fire also hap pened on the premises of Mr. B. Hart, of the St. James's Tavern, No. 33, Duke-street, Aldgate, at half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, which caused considerable alarm. Workmen were engaged in fitting up gas-burners, and by some means a bed and bedding became ignited. The engines of the London Brigade and , parish were soon in attend ance, and the flames were confined to that part of the premises in which they originated. A fire broke out in the same house last evening from the same cause, which was not extinguished until consider , able damage was done. The sufferer, it is under stood, was not insured. Yesterday morning, be tween the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock. an ex t ens i ve fi re was discovered in the premises belonging to Mr. H. Rydon, brickmaker, situate at Stoke Newing ton. The flames were first seen proceeding from a couple of hackstacks, each containing about 80 wag gonloads. Information of the fire having been sent to the parish engine keeper, and also to the Brigade authorities in London, several engines attended, under the direction of Mr. Bridges, the foreman of the A district. It was not until an advanced hour in the morning that the fire could be extinguished, and not before 160 waggonloads had been consumed. As to the cause of the fire, little if any doubt re mains that it was the work of incendiaries, as two men were seen to leave hurriedly just before the flames appeared. They are described as dressed as labourers, and the police are doing all they can to trace them. The property destroyed was not in sured. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE AND THE VESTRY OF Sr. J AM ES, WEST3flNSTEß.—Yesterday, at a special meet lug of the Vestry of l St. James : Westm ins t er, held in Sack ' e - s t r eet, Piccadilly, Mr. Chur c h war d en Box in the chair, Mr. Buzzard, the vestry clerk, stated that in conse quence of Mr. Tritton, the collector, being unable to obtain the arrears of poor, sewers, and general rates, due at Mid summer last on her Majesty's Theatre, amounting to £3OO, from Mr. Smith, who was the lessee of the theatre, an execution had been put into the theatre. Since the man had been in possession, he (the vestry clerk) had received a letter from Mr. Lee, the agent to Earl Dudley, which stated that the property in the theatre did not belong to Mr. Smitb, but to Earl Dudley, and was only let to Mr. Smith. After some discussion, the case was left in the hancis of the vestry clerk to take the usual course to sell the property. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS..—" Perfection of mechanism "_Morning Post. Gold watches, sto ICO guineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch best adapted to their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of a remittance. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-till, 46 and 47 ) CQrnbAlli togiclon, 11,Q. BotalliOncl 1748. • BIRTHS. CIIADIVICK. — On the 29th ult , at Dundalk, the wife of Captain Chadwick, 14th Hussars, of a daughter. DAY. — On the 6th inst., at 9, Vicarage-gardens, Kensing ton, the wife of John C. S. F. Day, Esq., barrister•at law, of a daughter. PRAED.—On the 7th inst., the wife of Bulkley J. Mack . worth Praed, Esq,, of a son. YOUNG.—On the 6th inst., at 35, Oxford-terrace, Hyde ; park, th e w if e of Capta i n H. B . Y oung, R oya l Navy, a son. MARRIAGES. MAYO—SYmorms.—On the 6th inst., at All Saints', Knightsbridge, Thomas Mayo, M.D., President of the Royal College of Physicians, to Susan Mary, widow of Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds. PRESCOTT—WESTBY.—On the 6th inst., the Rev. G. E' Prescott, rector of Digswell, Herts, to Caroline Marl Westby, seeond daughter of the late N. Westby, Esq, and of the Hon. Mrs. Westby, of 9, York-gate, Regen t ' s park. DEATHS. ANNABLE.—On the 7th inst., at Milk-street, city, Arr. John Amiable, aged 53. BROADWOOD.—On the 6th inst., at Holmbush, Sussex, Thomas Broadwood, Esq., aged'7s. BALDOCK.—On the sth inst., Robert Baldock, of 85 , High Holborn, bookseller, aged 72. BunDEN. 7 On the 6th inst., Mr. W. Buaden, 17, Crescent, Kensington, aged 77. , DOCKRAY.—On the 4th inst., su dd en ly, at his residence, Dalton 'square, Lancaster, 13enjamin Dockray, Esq., aged 75. RICHARDSON.—On the 6th inst., at 26, Dorset. place, Dor set-square, William Steven s Richardson, Esq., youngest TINDALL.—On the 2 d i nst., at Scarborou g h, while endea vouring to rescue th e crew of the lifeb oat , William, s on set' 01 the late Sir Joh n Richardson, Kt., a g ed 47, of the late John Tindall, Esq., banker, of that place, aged 24. —.. LONDON, Printed and Published by 3IURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE SUN Othee, No. 112,Stran d, in the Precinct of the Savoy, hi the County ‘f mtddicEex) rrtday, Novemal?er 8; 1861. THE BISHOP OF NISMES AND COUN7* DE PERSIGNY. Several of the Parish journals again publish articles on the Dappes affair, but in presence of the note published on the subject in the Illoniteur, they have lost much of their interest. Some of those journals remark in severe terms on a publication of the Bishop of Nismes against the circular of Count de Persigny on charitable associations. The Con stitutionnel expresses itself in these terms : " There was a report some days ago that several bishops intended to make an appeal to the Minister of Public Wor. ship against the measures adopted with regard to charit able associations, and we have now before us a long letter on that subject from the Bishop of Nismes to the Minister. What appears to have most shocked the right rev. prelate is that the Minister of the Interior, in his memorable cir cular, placed the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on the same footing with Freemasonry. The Bishop of Nismes is no partisan of equality, and has a most decided aversion for what modern France calls common law, equal for all. Was it not this very prelate who, last January, protested so strenuously against the application of the stamp-law and the obligation to deposit episcopal writings for the very singular reason that such formalities were humiliating and degrading to the bishops, whose pastoral letters would thereby be confounded pell-mell in the pre fectoral archives with contemptible pamphlets and other ignoble publications ? Now, as then, equality in the eye of the law is the point in question; the law makes no distinc tion between associations, and legal authorisation is neces sary for all without exception. The Bishop of Nismes thinks the law ought to have spoken out sooner I He thus re proaches the Government with a toleration which it has been compelled to withdraw, and for which those who enjoyed it never showed the least gratitude. It is evident, however, that the Bishop is wrong in exclaiming against the common law, for, detest it as he may, he does not hesitate to take advantage of it. It can hardly be in his capacity of bishop that the venerable prelate criticises the decisions of the Go vernment on matters which do not fall directly under epis copal cognisance. It is simply from his quality of citizen thathe derives the right to publish his opinions, concur rently with 'miserable pamphleteers,' who have never had 'a sense of shame,' and who carry their ribaldry to the ex tent of placing Jesus on a level with Barrabas,' and of even speaking, in the same article, of Freemasonry and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul." The Siecle also remarks on the Bishop's letter in the following manner : " If there were any need of proofs to establish that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, as it was constituted before the issue of the circular of the 16th Oct., had a political object, wo have only to cast a glance in the vestries of churches and in episcopal palaces. Several prelates, it is said, are preparing refutations, protests, and remonstrances. The Bishop of Nismes has already made public a letter ad dressed by him to the Minister of Public Worship. In this epistle the prelate labours less to glorify the asasciation of St. Vincent de Paul than to attack Freemasonry. From its very commencement, this Order, if we can believe him, was actuated by a bitter hatred for all noble and holy things and it now hates the Gospel, hates and curses the Church, hates even its own members : ' 6 It hates it own members,' says the bishop. ' Every one knows to what frightful irritations they are subjected, the monstrous oaths imposed on them, the barbarous ven geance with which are menaced those who may venture to betray the promises, or make known the secrets of this hideous family. Accordinglyßome, knowing all these abominations, has several times thundered against this sect, hostile to God and man, to Church and State, to the sacerdall order, and to Kings. Clement XII., Benoit XIV., Pius VII., Leon XII., have issued formidable anathemas against it, and Pius IX. himself, summing up the condemnations of his proces sors, denounced it in his turn in the first year of his glori ous Pontificate. What charity ! what amenity ! The Bishops of Nismes adds : " More than one revelation obliges us to believe that this Order has not degenerated, and that the lodges of the Grand Orient have not ceased to be a cavern in which in fernal tempests aro prepared against social order and the Church.' Never before, with so much audacity, were hatred and contempt excited against an entire class of citi zens; never was the arm of calumny employed with greater fury !" COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM—Nov. 7. At to-day's market there was a short supply of English wheat from the farmers, which found buyers at a slight advance on this day week. Foreign descriptions were at late prices. New oats rather cheaper. Beans, barley, and peas a slow sale. MANCHESTER—Nov. 7. English 'wheat and flour in dull demand, at about former rates; but holders generally wanted higher prices. Oats were ld per 451 b cheaper, and oatmeal unaltered in value. Indian corn and beans at a decline on late prices. NEWARK—Nov. 6. At to-day's corn market the quantity of wheat exhibited was moderafe, and a fair amount of business was done at rather more money. There was a tolerable supply of barley and prices slightly lower. Other grain sold as before. White wheat, new, 60s to 63s I Red do. 47s to 60s Old white sos to 60s I Red do. 46s to 56s j Barley, malting 35s to 42s Peas,.... 1 Barley, grinding 29s to 319 Oats, old, .. oos to 35; New do 23s to 270 Beans.. 45s to 47a Beans, new 44s to —s 37s to 40s. CORK—Nov. 6. The following were the quotations this morning :—Bcd wheat, 18s Od to 29s Od ; white, 23s Od to 30s Od; barley 9s. Od to lOs Od ; oats, 6s Od to 14s Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Nov. 6. Wheat on the top 24s Od up .. average 2s 6d down. Barley on the top 9d down..., average Os 9d down. Oats on the top Os 6d up average Os 4d down. Beans on the top 3s 3d down average is 2d down. Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat . £3 0 5 6-12ths New wheat ... . -12ths Barley 1 14 4 7-12ths Oats 1 8 0 9-12ths Beans .. 2 8 5 1-12ths Total Supply and Sales. Wheat —1226 qrs Sold 948 qrs 8ar1ey........3603 qrs Sold 1835 qrs Oats 1751 qrs Sold 1290 ors Beans ll2 qrs Sold 42 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD—Nov. 5. A moderate supply of fat beasts to-day ; the demand was good, and the best things were readily disposed of. Sheep in average supply, and better sold. Pigs were in good show. The supply of calves was scarce. Beet 6d to 61d Veal 7ldtoBl Mutton ... 7d to 84 Pork Lamb 7id to 8d Rough fat, 4s 8d per stone. Hides, 3d to 41d ; calf skins, 5d to 6d, FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Nov. W. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampt on N o v. 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .... Nov. 10. India (Calcutta), and 'Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Nov. 10. via Marseilles Nov. 20. Lisbon Nov 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov. 10. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Newfoundland ..Nov. 13. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Nov. 13: by - U.S. packet by Canadian packet. Nov. 6. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Nov. 10. Bahamas, via New York Nov. 21. Mexico All e ai p parts n o i f a , l a V n e d s t British Indies, Columbia..includ including Chi 1 i , Peru, i Nov. 13.