The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

THE NEW NOVEL, OUT ON THE WORLD, By HENRY OWGAN, Will be ready on Thursday, Sept. 25, at all the libraries, in 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbtun, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING THE 7..SDY OF LYONS. Followed by TWICE KILLED. To conclude with A BILLET DIVERTISSEMENT. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of qr. CHARLES KEAx. TFII 4 EvENINTO, MUSIC H ITH CHARMS. After which, PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Flvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. THEATRE ROYAL, FIAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Enekatona. THIS EVENING, TaE BEAUX' STRATAGEM. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, CHARLES THE SECOND. To conzande with THE SPANISH SERJEANT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, BELPIIEGOR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Mon. To be followed by W. Brough's new Burlesque, PERDITA, THE ROYAL MILKMAID ; or, a Winter's Tale. Florizel, Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolear) ; Antolycus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Hermione, Mrs. Buckingham White ; Leontes, Mr. S. Calhaem ; Pollxines, King of Bithynia, Mr. Wm. Brou7h (his Itrst appearance on any stage) ; Fast Time, Miss Harriet Gordon ; Per mu;.. Mist Marie Wilton; Antigonus, Mr. Barrett. Miss Rosins Wright, and a grand Corps do Ballet. stalls, 58. ; Dress Circle, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. Is. Commence at 7. Half price to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celesta. EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which THE HUM TUTOR. To conclude N 5 ith OUR GA. L. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENENTG, Seventh Week ! Shakspere's RICHARD THH THIRD, with the introductioh of horses. The equestrian illustrations imsginel by Mr. W.,Cooke. Death of White Surrey. (Vide "Illustrated News," of Saturday, 6th.) Rattle of Bosworth Field, Sec. After which, The EQUESTRIAN GEMS in tha CIRCLE. To coneluOe with a number of other Entertainments. Itox-office open from F. , ev,,n till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. 07. Cooke, jun. N.B. V.de "Illustrated News of Sept. Gth for the Death of White Surrey. iIGR WATER. AT LONDON BREDG , .?.. This DAY—Morn. 32 rain. aft. 5 —Evening 52 min. aft. 5 Si-l'AOERl377—Morn. 15 min. aft. 6—Evening 43 Lain. aft. 6 THE WENT - HER—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 20. TRLIRMOI , VITER, TUE SILIDE. 53 —highest since noon yesterday. 49 -lowest thi3 morning and during the night. 57 —this day at noon. RAUOT‘MTE, 30 s—rising. WIND, N.Ttir.Fresh, with cloudy weather. Slight shower in tho forenoon. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Late3t Elition of The Sun, Stampo , l, in time for Post, may always be had from half- past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to obserVe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. _ If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Eiition, a communication to The Sun OMc3 will remedy it. Sun, Office, 112, Strand. IC ? /-`Y efr - 4, • LONDON, SATUR.DAY, SEPTENIBER 20, 1856 There is a rod in pickle for the magnanimous DO MBA ! The forbearance of the Western Powers is at length exhausted, and, as " the beginning of the end," there will be an immediate cessation of diplOmatic intercourse. France and England will henceforward have line-of-battle ships and frigates as their representatives, whose bristling cannon will contain arguments that cannot be despised or answered with contumely and insolence—nay, will speak trumpet-tongued when the time for action has arrived—and their formidable booming will appeal to the only feeling of which the be nignant FERD/NAND is capable. This is a tangible and decided course incoming the Western Powers. It has not bean adopted until the eleventh hour—until every possible in ducement had been afforded to the Monarch to adopt a more humane as well as a more judicious policy. But in vain. He was incapable of un derstanding or appreciating minor persuasion=, and must, therefore, bo allowed to " dree his weird." All that he requires is the requisite quantity of rope, and he will not fail to apply it to the best purpose for the welfare and happiness of the suffering inhabitants of the Two Sicilies. After all, it will not require any energetic measure on the part of the Maritime Powers to bring the ainiabte FERDINAND to his senses. Deprived of the moral protection of France and England--left in the hands of his own subjects, he will speedily learn the real diffi culties of his position. From his wanton cruelty and recklessness of disposition he has alienated those who could alone have saved him from tilt consequences of past errors. In trusting to Austria he will find to his cost that he has long been leaning on a broken reed. Such has been his wilfulness that he has not even striven to conciliate, or paid proper respect to the admonitions of his last auxi liary. The to quoque . argument which, with complete ignorance of the existing state of affairs in India and in Ireland, he thought proper to • address to the English Cabinet, sealed his fate. He has only himself to blame for the punishment that must inevitably follow. What, then, will be the result of these im portant movements. England and France are more than justified in withdrawing from all inter course with So wrong-headed a potentate. They would, indeed, be fully warranted in adopting a still more decisive course respecting a matter wherein the peace of Europe is . so greatly com promised. But it is, perhaps, better that they should act rigidly on the principle of non, intervention, neither i n terfering themselves nor permitting others to do so. Let the Neapoli tan Despot and his long-suffering and greatly oppressed people settle their own affairs. All we have to do is to take care that there shall he " a clear stage and no favour," and that the cause of truth and justice shall have every fair play. How long BOMBA can maintain his position under these circumstances is his own concern. We shall regard the event with comparative indifference, feelinr , assured that if the people are worthy of freedom they have the opportunity of attaining it. Our ships of war will afford ample protection for all English and French subjects who may chance t) be involved in the rapidly-approaching conflict. Such as it is, the matter is one of vital conse quence to the cause of Liberty. The interference THE SUN, LO N DON, SATURDAY EVENI 340, SEPTEMBER 2O, 1856, has invariably been in the cause of heartless ' Despots ! It has seldom, if ever, been made on behalf of oppressed and suffering Nationalities. When a Monarch shocks every feeling o: huma nity, he is simply left to his fate ; lut if he offers the most trivial and merely colourable con cessions, he is still sustained and supported. The measure now taken should have long since been adopted ; but it was not until the whole body of Sovereigns were compelled to pro nounce the conduct of their brother Mo narch too bad that he was at length abandoned to his fate. If, however, there be a general rule against only meddling with mis government, however palpable, the principle should be extended so as to provide against any armed assistance to a Sovereign against whom his subjects have felt it necessary to rise. We announced in our impression of yesterday that there was no longer any hope of an amicable arrangement of the Neapolitan difficulty. Fur ther advices confirm the accuracy of the intelli gence, and show the full extent of the difficulty in which the incarnation of the Bourbon spirit is now placed. We can easily anticipate that there will be whining remonstrances and servile apolo gies offered now that it is seen that the foundations of the throne have been shaken, and that the very sceptre itself is falling from his relaxed and paralysed grasp. But the last chance of redemption has passed from his imbecile hands. It is now too late for leniency. We must be merciful to the people, or at least permit them to work out their own safety. Every thing practicable has already been tried, but in vain. He would not allow us to save him, and having withdrawn in disgust from the fruitless effort, we cannot again hold the ugis of protection be tween him and his indignant subjects. It cannot be said that this decided step has been taken without ample warning. He will now only have himself to blame for the results whatever they may be. We shall await the next accounts with some anxiety, although we cannot entertain any serious doubts as to the result, which must even tuate in the triumph of the popular side. American Slavery has long been the great scan dal of civil and religious freedom. All the des• pots and autocrats of Europe point across the Atlantic, and defame Liberty through the deeds of its unworthy children. But is the disgrace precisely what has been represented Y All the States are guilty of having admitted, contrary to the intention of the founder of the Republic, ad ditional Slave States into the Union ; all are guilty of the Missouri compromise ; all guilty of its re peal after slaveholders had gained all they wanted from it ; and when its repeal opened Kansas and Nebraska to slavery ; and all are guilty of the atrocious Fugitive Slave Law ; but the depth of the disgrace is the conversion of the Republic into en oligarchy of tyrants. America has been a Re public in little more than name. Venice was so termed under its lordly oligarchy, and so may the States be—but the fact is, that three hundred and City thousand slaveholders are an absolute oligar chy, both in the North and South, to the extent of their wishes; over twenty-seven millions of ' people ! In their own States the slaves, and, we may add, the non-slaveholders, are wholly in their power, with the latter they can do every thing but flog them ; and in the North, where they do not reside, and where they desire nothing more, they are as absolute, politically, as Austria in her subject provinces. The burning dis grace of the North is, that it is the Lom bardy to the South. New York, Pennsyl vania, Massachusetts, and all the free and populous States of the North, have been hitherto but the subject provinces of the three hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders. Some twenty millions of freemen bear the yoke of some five or six millions of whites and slaves together. The ignominy is the greater because they could eman cipate themselves at once. At the next election For Congress they could do it; and at the impend ing presidential election they could make a great step towards it. With an anti-slavery President, and a large majority in the Rouse, it would be ' practicable to bring the Senate to obedience be fore the slaveholding, senators could be exchanged for men who refused to hold property in human beings. We repeat, then, that America is by its own disgraceful cowardice, not a republic, but an oligarchy. And what an oligarchy—not of descent ; of title, of education, not even of purse, but of negro slaves ! Possession of negro slaves, in America, raises men to the dignity of Lords of the land. To lack slaves is to be at the mercy, politically, of those who have them. Nobility is conferred at the patent office of the slave pen or the slave auction, and the TILLEY'S are the Kings -at-Arms. It has long bean the wonder as well as the grief of England to witness year after year the growing humiliations put upon the American Lombardy. To the European one, the presence of bayonets by the hundred thousand, removes the disgrace of submission ; but iu America there has been nothing but servility. In England, with universal suffrage, and members apportioned to population, we should like to see the oligarchy which 'could nake our Parliament pass laws at its bidding. We hope, however, the tido is turned. We re cognise the magnitude of the defeat in the late surrender of the restriction imposed by the Lower Souse on a treacherous President. It was an ignominious surrender on the part of those who were able last spring to return their Speaker, and who had before them all the villanies perpetrated and perpetrating by the President and the border ruffians in Kansas. Still we hope it is but the larger wave in a falling tide, and that it will reach thus far no more. It ought not to discourage Freesoilers, but to arouse and pro voke them to yet greater efforts ; and we may hope that it will. If so, BUCHANAN and human slavery will meet their deserts in—the political bottomless pit. The gain would be great, in the present state of things, to add one more to the four non•slaveholding Presidents, and to prevent the addition of one more to the thirteen slave holders who have filled the office. Moreover, the changes made, down to the lowest officer, when a new party accedes to office, makes the administration of the American Executive a very powerful political engine. Now every office is filled by pro-slavery men. We have also great hope that Kansas will yet be refused admission as a Free State. PIERCE will, of course, more or less openly aid the border ruffians, and enable them in November to return another Legislature by means of the atrocious laws enacted by the present fictitious one. But two things may yet vanquish him : one, the Northern men, short as the time is, sending the 3,000 armed and provisioned men, demanded by the late Governor FEEDER, to fight out with the slavery marauders the rights of the genuine residents. The other, that should fraud and violence triumph technically in Kansas, Congress can still refuse the application of a Legislature, constituted by such frauds, for ad mission as a Slave State. The North must see that to prevent the consummation of this atro cious job demands all their energies and firmness. The South has now Ural the North to resist its lasting ascendancy—surely the North will not decline file battle. The territory on which the teeming population of the Free States would na turally pour itself forth, which is theirs by posi tion, by the shamefully abrogated Missouri com promise, and by political necessity, is now sought to be wrested from them by the most barefaced perfidy 'and outrage. If the Free States will sub mit to this they will submit to anything. We will hardly suppose that they would not rather renounce the Union, and bid the slaveholders settle it with their slaves as they best could. The issue would not long be doubtful. The truth is, the South dare not quit the North. The threat of dissolving the connection would bring them to their knees. But in this great affair literature, and the lite rature of fiction too, has done and will do its part. "Uncle Tom" and "Dred" have opened the eyes of millions to,see what they never saw before. Genius has indelibly fixed in the minds of all freemen the inevitable wickedness, cruelty, oppression, degra dation of whites as well as blacks, and corruption of Christianity itself, inherent in, or attendant on, American slavery. Politicians may wish to ignore the power of a woman, but the power of genius and truth combined, whether put forth by man or woman, transcends that of the calcu lating politician. It can sap his intrenohments and baffle his calculations ; and, little as FRANKLIN PIERCE may like to acknowledge it, he may greatly thank the thrilling pages of HARRIET BEECHER STOWE for consigning his mediocrity to ignominious oblivion. His own misdeeds have compelled him to flight, but a woman has struck the fatal blow. At the very worst, should Kan sas fall for the present, should BUCHANAN and slavery triumph, we should yet believe, till we saw to the contrary, that in four years more the North would be victors. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Sept. 19. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived — Sept. 12. Gloriana, schooner, 134 tons, Joseph Gee, Esq., from Dartmouth ; Ginevra, schooner, 142 tons, Sir E. Colebrook, Bart., from Greenock ; Gipsy Queen, schooner, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart., from Dover. 13. Capricorn, schooner, 344 tons, C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., from Southampton ; Columbine, schooner, 72 tons, Captain R. H. Smith Barry, from Yarmouth ; Sultana, yawl, 130 tons, Lord Colville, from Guernsey ; Zoe, schooner, 161 tons, the Earl of Yarborough, from Guernsey. 16. Hussar, brig, 120 tons, Lieut.-Col. T. Pier Williams, M.P., Ryde. Sailed—Sept. 16. Gipsy Queen and Zoe, for the westward. Yachts at and about the station- -Capricorn, Gloriana, Sultana, Hussar, Columbine, and Aurora. The Earl of Yarborough finds his health so much irn proved since he has taken to yachting that he intends keeping afloat as long as the fine weather lasts. Lieut.-Col. T. Pier Williams has taken one of the large houses on the Parade at West Cowes. The Vice-Commodore (C. R. M. Talbot, Esq.) has given directions to the Messrs. White to convert his yacht into a screw steamer this winter. She is to be ready for sea by April next. The new Club House is being proceeded with with every possible despatch. As many men are employed on it as c.in find room to work. THE POTATO DISEASE.—More than half the crop in this neighbourhood has been destroyed by the disease. It is very similar in its effects to the year 1852 ; but there was such quantities planted that the price is not likely to range high. Turnips are a very bad crop ; corn and hay very excellent ones. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 13. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, attended by Col. de Casembroot, left Balmoral yesterday morning. The Earl of Clarendon likewisq , took his departure for Taymouth Castle. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort walked out yesterday. His S,rene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar enjoyed the sport of deer stalking. His Royal Highrkegs the Duke of Cambridge leaves town early in the ensuing week to honour Sir George ‘Veinbwell with a visit at hip seat in Yorkshire. The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining a succession of viAitoni at Li.anore Castles, the noble Duke's :-.eat rn Ireland. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, from Carton, County Kildare, the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Li , inore, and Miss Brown, Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Geo. and Mrs. O'Callaghan, Mr. and MN. William Cavendish, &c., have arrived on a visit, to . his grace. The Duke of Roxhurglie has left the Clarendon for Floors Cale, Kelso, N.B. The Duchess of Wellington is at Yester House, Had. dingtonsbire, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness ofirweeddale, who are entertaining a select circle there. The Duchess subsequently goes in waiting on the Queen at 13almorat. The Duchess of Beaufort has returned to Gopsall Had, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Howe., who are suirounded by a family circ:e. Tho Duke, during the week, has been staying at Doncaster for the races. Miss NIGHTINGALE AT BALHOEAL.—Miss Night ingale arrived at Balm Oral on Thursday, on a visit to the Queen, by special invitation. It is expected that she will remain a week or two in the Highlands, to rest re her shattered health. _ _ a.• • The Cheltenham Examiner says, the Bishop of Glou cester and Bristol has determined to be enthroned by proxy, but it is not yet known on what day. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—The Plymouth papers an nounce the somewhat serious illness of the Bishop of Exeter. His lordship is 79 years of age. THE NEW IRISH PEER.—The Dublin Gazette of Tues day contains the announcement of Mr. Burke Roche's elevation, to the peerage, with the title of Baron Fermoy. The Glasgow Herald announces the death of its "ami able nod accomplished editor, Mr. George Outran, advocate." The Town Council of Edinburgh have elected Mr. Donaldson to fill the post of Master of the High School, eacated by the death of Dr. Boyd. PRICE OF GOLD IN BELGIUM.—The national bank of Belgium has notified that it will take gold pieces of 20f. only at the value of 19f. 80c. Mr. W. M. Pleniston's services have been secured by the niroctors of the Pernambuco Railway as engineer ie chief, and he sails from Southampton, with his staff of assistants, on the 9th October. MAIL FOR JAMAICA..—A mail will be made up at the Liverpool post•office on Monday, the 22d inst., for Kingston, Jamaica, which will be carried out by the new scree( steamer Saladin. Letters require to be posted in Liverpool before 2 p.m. on the 22d inst., or with late fees until 2 30 p.m., each letter or newspaper to be marked " per Saladin." RETIREMENT Or MR. NOBLE OF THE CUSTOMS.—This gentleman, who lately held the situation of first clerk in the Receiver General's Office, has retired from active service, and now waits the decision of the Treasury as to the amount of retiring pension, which we hope will be the full amount to which he is entitled after 48 years' honourable and faithful service.—Civil Service Gazette. DREADFUL FIRE AT PORTsmOUTH —PoRTsEA, Thurs day Morning.—Last night an alarming fire occurred in Queen-street, Portsea, which has entirely consumed this premises occupied by Mr. Buckle, draper, Portsea, and very much injured by water the premises of Mr. Sruithere, watchmaker and jeweller, and the house of Mr. Attwood, grocer ; consequently all the above are compelled to suspend businees for some short time. LOCAL CHARGES ON SHIPPING. —Yesterday morning the report of the select committee on this subject was issued. It is a very bulky affair, extending to 703 folio pages, and is, besides, embellished with maps and draw ings. The conmittee simply report that they have con sidered some of the matters to them referred, and have taken evidence thereupon, which they have agreed to report to the house without any expression of opinion. The price of the report is marked Bs. FARNHAM,--110P PICKING AND OPEN-AIR PREACH ING.—The Rev. J. S. Uttertan, vicar, addressed a large congregation last Sunday in the open air. There was a motley group of persons of all classes, with a large pro portion of hop-pickers of the poorest order and roughest exterior. The text was taken from Revelations, and the sermon was listened to with profound attention and evident emotion on the part of many. A considerable number joined in singing a hymn, during which, and while the vicar was praying, almost every head was un covered. The whole service was most solemn ; not a sound was uttered to interrupt it. A large number 'if " Wayside Tracts" were distributed among the strangers, who received them with the greatest avidity. Notice was given of another service of the same kind next Sunday ; but the hop-pickers are already beginning to disperse to their several homes. SAILING MATCH BETWEEN THE EUGENIE AND WATER KELPIE.—It will be remenibeeed that in the London Model Yacht Club Race on the 9;1 inst., the Water Kelpie, which, however, had been passed by the Eu genie, mistook the distance buoy, and consequently did not round, the Eugenie winning. Mr. J. Hare, the owner of the Water Kelpie, not feeling satisfied with his defeat, challenged the Eugenie 's owner, Mr. F. Sweeting, and accordingly another snatch was made between them, Mr. Sweating staking 121. to Mr. Hare's 10/. The match will take place on Tuesday next at 10 o'clock, the distance to be sailed being Irons a flag moored off the Sea Witch, East Greenwich, to another flag-beat off the "Royal" Graves end, and back to Greenwich. The match is to be sailed under the London Model Yacht Club rules, with four men in each boat, and Mr. T. H. Williams, vice-commo - dore, has kindly consented to act as umpire and stake holder. The Eugenie will have the No. 1 station on the Isouth shore, and should the weather p r o ve favourable, a capital match is anticipated. • MINING (Front the Mining Journal of this day.) Mining business continues in a very active state, and the increase of share transactions is daily perceptible. There have been within the last week or two some very important improvements and discoveries in a few pro gressive mines, which have caused a great influx of buyers in the market, as well as a rise in value i❑ many stacks equal to 100 and 200 per cent. Added to this, the satisfactory state of the metal trade, to which we alluded last week, has given greater confidence in mines in general. We confidently look forward, therefore, to even a far greater increase in mining trans actions, and are of opinion that before long other mines we might mention may cause as much excitement in the market as Great Alfred has done : shares in this mine rose as high as 16, and then became flatter, not from any fall ing off in the mine, for it continues to improve, but from the price inducing many parties who purchased before the rise to realise their gains, which in some cases have been very considerable ; the shares left off at 14 to 141. United Mine shares have been enquired after at 140 to 150, and an improvement may be looked for in the mine. Porkellis, as a tin mine, is holding out great prospects, and at the present price, 11/. per share, are considered cheap. At East Trefusis, there is a very fine gossan lode, and shares in request at 21 to 3. At Grambler and St. Aubyn, the lode in the 24 east has improved to 201. per fm. South Frances, 360 to 365 ; Basset, 285 to 290 ; Great Devon, 400, ex div. of 101. per share de clared on Wednesday ; after paying this dividend, about 5,0001. are added to the balance in hand, and the divi dend at the next bi-monthly meeting is expected to be 121. per share. Alfred Consols have been sought after, and have risen to 151, 16 ; Grenvilles have advanced, ' with a good demand, from 1B to 2f, 21 ; the lode in Newton shaft is daily improving, and should a course of ore come in shares will go to a high price ; altogether, 24,0001. have been expended on the mine, and from its immediately adjoining South Frances, and on the run of the Basset lodes, the progress of it is watched with great interest. Any discovery in Grenville would also cause a demand for West Grenville and South Condurrow, shares in both of which are now at mere nominal prices. East Pool have been enquired for at 275, but there are few sellers. Great South Tolgus, another good progressive mine, likely soon to pay dividends, has been enquired for, at 10 to 101 i Holmbush, 2t021 ; Tamar Consols, to 11 ; South Tamar, 1 ; West Basset, 30 to 31 ; North Basset, 38 ; Uny, 4f to 41; Mary Ann, 38 ; Hender, 41 to 4.1 ; Sortridge Consols, 21 to 21 ; Gonamena, 27. Wheal Buller, owing to a reported improvement in the eastern levels, rese from 295 to 350, but left off at 330, sellers ; the next dividend, it is reported, will not be more than 51. per share. North Frances, 10 to 10; ; Treleigh (old scrip), 4 to a ; North Downs, 2i to 23 ; South Tolgus, 150. The precise amount of the specie shipments by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Colombo is 435,035/., of which 8,5001. is gold for Alexandria and Madras, and 426,535/. silver for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The bar silver brought by the last West India steamer has been sold at 62, 3 / 4 d. per ounce, being an advance of id. on the price realised for that by the preceding packet. In some instances a slightly higher rate was paid in the early part of the week. Yesterday was issued the report from the select C3lll. mittee on contracts for public departmentp. The com mittee having entered upon the inquiry late in the ses sion, have confined themselves to simply reporting the evidence, and recommending the re-appointment of the committee next session. Late yesterday afternoon it was rumoured that some irregularities, involving a considerable sure, have been discovered in the transfer of a certain ❑umber of Crystal Palace shares. The shares, which left off on Thursday at 2 to 21, were quoted yesterday 11 to 2, and closed with great heaviness. CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINEESHIPS, INLAND REVENUE. —The following gentlemen successfully p:issed their examination at Somerset-house on Wednesday, the 10th instant, for promotion to the rank of Examiner :—Mr. Edward S. White, of Dewsbury ; Mr. Philip T. Evane, of Pimlico ; Mr. Edward T. Crabb, of Bromley ; Mr. Thomas Peacock, of Sunbury ; Mr. John Mullany, of Lday ; Mr. William Young, of Retford.—Civil Service Gazette. A. company called the Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Company has been formed, with a capital of 250,0001., in 251. shares, to establish a direct commuld cation with Melbourne. They have already purchased three vessels,—one of 1,470 tons and 100 horse power ; one of 1,170 tons, 80-horse power ; and one of 1,400 tons, 60-horse power. The first will leave London on the 10th of November, touching at Plymouth for pas sengers. The directors assert that, although their vessel, will cost only half the amount of those lately employed on the route, and will consume only a ninth part of the fuel, they will.carry thrice as much cargo and make the passage in the same, if not in less, time. (- THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA This day (Saturday) being the anniversary of the glo rious victory at Alma, will be especially celebrated at the camp at Aldershot. Among the various preparations have bee❑ the erection of a large marquee by Benjamin algingtoo, of Duke-street, Tooley-street, in which' a splendid banquet will be given by the officers of the 7th Fusiliers to those of the 231 Welsh Fusiliers and the 21 battalion of the Rifle Brigade. The foregoing troops, it may be remembered, in conjunction with the 331 Foot, at present in Ireland, formed a portion of the Light division, and came under the command of General Sir W. Codriugton, at that great triumph, the battle of the Alma. ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—The announcement that a sum of 200,0001. will be required to make up the defici ency in the assets of the Royal British Bank was re ceived yesterday without much surprise. This will in volve calls amounting - to 661. 13s. 41. upon each share, even assuming , that the whole of the proprietary respond; but there can be no doubt that a large number will be found wholly unable to pay anything. The loss to be sustained by those who have property that can be at tached will therefore be proportionately increased. In addition they must also prepare to meet the flagrant expense which invariably attends a winding-up in the Court of Chancery, and which in this instance is likely to come up to any one of the worst examplel. THE EAST INDIA CIVIL SERVICE.—The Governor. General has come to a decision regarding the transfer of the Punjaub offices of audit and accounts from Agra. They are to be made over to the Chief Commissioner of Lahore, from the Ist of May, 1857. An uncovenanted auditor and accountant are to be appointed, each upon a salary of 700 rupees a month. It is stated that the Indian Government has found it necessary to withhold from several civil servants permission to proceed to Europe on special leave or on furlough, in consequence of the number absent making it difficult to fill up va cant offices. It has even been suggested not to allow any extension of leave except on medical certificate. LOSSES OF A RUSSIAN VESSEL AND SEVEN LIVES.-- LIVERPOOL, Friday.—lntelligenca was received here this afternoon of the total wreck of the Rwsian barque Alta, of Wasa (Finland), which left this port on the 9th inst. for Wasa with a cargo consisting of salt, anchors, chains, molasses, cotton, rain, and gin. The calamity occurred at a place called Hain, about five miles east of Thurso, in the Pentland Frith, on the 16th inst. She was com manded by Capt. Jarvelin, a Russian, who, with his wife and five of his crew, meta watery grave, amongst whom was an Englishman, said to have been shipped at this port. Two of the crew were saved, one of whom, named John Lundstrain, can speak very good English, and a Russian called Brockman, who speaks no English. THE WAY TO RUSSlA.—Preface.—About a fort❑ight ago Brown met Jones at his own door in Tyburnia. Jones had his hands full of stone jars and tin cases. They have not met since they had the following conver sation :—Brown : I3allo, Jones, whatever are you going to do with that tremendous bundle of potted meats anti preserves?—Jones.: Why, you see me on the point of starting for Russia. I haven't a minute to spare. I leaVe you to send away the servants—lock up the house— close the shutters—shut myself up in a back bed-room —light the camphine—and leave word with the char woman to tell all visitors for the next month—" If you please, Sir, master's gone to Moskey, to see the Hem peror crowned." These little things are the provisions to last me on the journey. Goodbye, my boy ; I'm off.— Punch. THE EFFECT OF LITERARY GARBAGE.-At the Shef field Police-court on Thursday a fork-grinder, named W. M`Dermott, aged 17 years, was charged on remand from the previous Tuesday, with attempting to shoot and rob Mr. B. Moxon, a cutler, reEident at the village of Crookes, near Sheffield. Mr. Moxon was going home with his wife about half-past 11 o'clock on Saturday night, and when passing along a newly formed road leading into Leavy-greave, a suburb, was 'met by the prisoner, who presented a pistol a t hi s h e ad, demanding "Your money or your life—l'm hard up." Mrs. Moxon, in great trepidation, implored her husband to give up his money, but the latter suddenly struck the fellow's hand with his walkingstick. The pistol went oft with out doing any harm, and the prisoner immediately ran away, pursued by Mr. Moxon, who caught him on the Glossop-road and soundly belaboured him with the walking-stick. Prisoner escaped, but was almost imme diately recaptured and given in charge to a policeman. When asked his trade prisoner replied " What I've been doing to-night -" and on being requested to give up his "tools" produced from his trousers-pocket a pistol, saying, "This is the little boy that has done the job." He afterwards said he had committed the offence "for a living," and because 116 bad " nothing to take to." The latter statement was subsequently found to be untrue!(the prisoner having during the evening given his mother, with whom be resides, 9s. as his earnings, and paid 2s. GI. for the pistol, besides 3d. for powder and shot), and a very different cause for the daring act was assigned. From a statement made by his brother it appeared that the_ prisoner has recently been reading -,oaie literary garbage obtained at a circulating library, purporting to narrate the adventures of " Claude Du Val, or the Dashing Highwayman," and has been o,re.,tly excited by the "brilliant exploits" of the redoubt able Claude. The story so wrought upon his youthful imagination as to lead him to purchase powder, shGt, and pistol, and attempt to become a humble imitator of the fabulous highwayman. The prisoner had previously said he was sorry fur the offence, but smiled when his brother revealed the secret of his strange conduct, and appeared rather to pride himself on what he had done. Ho was committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes at York. LATEST NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 12. The Naib Chief of the Ciinassians, sent by Sefer Pacha, has arrived here. Sefer Pacha, who is at the head of 30,000 men, has issued a proclamation, calling on all the Circassians to fight the Russians with energy. The Emperor of Russia las granted charters to three steam-navigation companies. One in the Black Sea will ply between all the important ports of the Black, Mediterranean, and Adriatic Seas. The inhabitants of Leghorn have sent 1,509 francs, the result of small contributions, to the royal treasury of Turin, as their subscription to the 100 guns of Alessandria. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY ETIMING. A decree in the Moniteur puts an end to the ad interim administration of the Ministry of State by M. Abbatucci, M. Foula having resumed his func- - tions. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the customs revenue for the month of August, which amounted to 14,070,134 fr., being a decrease of 3,972,696 fr. as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The receipts of the first eight months of the present year amounted to 114,592,525 francs, being 24,671,685 fr. less than in the cor responding period of 1855. Among the articles which during the eight months have shown the principal falling off are coffee, 6,004,674 fr. ; raw wool, 4,516,662 fr. ; foreign colonial sugar, 15,848,617 fr. ; potable liquors, 1,145,416 fr. ; olive oil, 400,352 f. Those articles which have given the most improved receipts are corn, 1,293,137 f. ; French colonial sugar, 1,129,448 f. ; raw cotton, 889,089 f. ; coal, 503,441 f. ; bar iron, 457,884 f. ; sesame seed, 190,356 f. The Marquis de Turgot, French ambassador at Madrid, has arrived in Paris from Bayonne. Count de Rayneval, French ambassador at Rome, and who on account of the state of his health had been forced to temporarily quit his post, left Paris yesterday to resume his functions. . _ .. BOURSE, Sept. 19.—The following were the_last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents (x/i) 9O 59 —f. --o. 3 per Cents 7O 45 70 60 Yew Y Loan 7O 50 Bank Shares 4,125 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,710 Austrian 3elgian Fives — Spanish Threes 43 ?iedmontese(s) 9l Home Debt 393 `RUSSIAN CORONATION FETES. Moscow, Sept. 11.—The sight presented at the theatre this evening was, perhaps, the finest as a spectacle of the many which the Coronation has yet offered to us. It had nothing of the stiffness of a procession or that ultra-artificial look of which such formal proceedings cannot be divested, and which is indeed their very essence ; but it was, at the same time, a great State ceremony, and there was quite enough of gold and glitter to satisfy the eye, and of form and dignity to convey to the mind an impression of solemnity. The Emperor went in state to the Opera, and all the foreign Ambas sadors Extraordinary, the Ministers and strangers of distinction, the officers of the empire, the mem bers of the Court, the Generals and Admirals, were invited to attend on the occasion. It was called the " Spectacle Gala." No theatre in the world could have afforded such a coup d'ceil, for, although it is not so deep as the Scala, the Moscow salle is broader across, and is said to be more spa cious ; it displays to perfection all the toilet and uniforms of the audience, and there is uo doubt but that it would have ;been difficult to equal in variety, richness, and magnificence the very distinguished and brilliant crowd who attended this evening by order of the gala. The house (which is decorated in the richest manner in white and gold) contains six rows of boxes, or, more properly speaking, their are six tiers of gal leries, open at the front, and without any bar riers to the line of seats, but at the back of each gallery there is an inner row of boxes, into which the occupants of the seats in front can retire if they wish. These boxes are draped with red or crimson hangings, and the seats and cushions of the house are of the same colour. There are no pil lars, columns, or caryatides to support the boxes, and thus all the audience sit out, as it were, on open benches, and can see and be seen all around, except when they wish to retire into the inner circle of covered boxes. It began to rain in the afternoon, but the only effect that had was to make the lamps used in illuminating the outside of the theatre and the large square in which it is placed pale their fires and cause great anxiety to their attendants. At 7 o'clock the whole of this square was filled with car riages, which the Cossa c k s an d G en d armer i e h a d difficulty in reducing into order. The lights of the illumination flashed through the drizzle on a sea of tossing plumes, feathers, and waving - crests, through which the "eternal Cossack," just as much at home here as on his old look-out from Canrobert's hill, rode like a dolphin. The pillars and the facade of the house were covered with the ciphers and honours of the Czar traced in characters of fire. But it was, for the sternest disregarder of these things, almost impossible not to give way to a thrill of admiration and surprise on entering the body of the house and taking the first look from the pit. A Roman amphitheatre warprobably a grander, but it could not have been a more brilliant sight. A gorge ous and magnificent crowd filled the theatre, but the arrangements were so good that there was neither hustling, confusion, nor noise. There were no ladies in the pit, so that the effect of the many splendid uniforms was homogeneous, but the front rows of the first tier of boxes were occupied by the mistresses of creation in full dress—such diamonds, in coronets, circlets, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, brooches—in all the forms that millinery and jewel lery could combine those precious stones they were present—looking their best, and filling the house with an atmosphere of flashes and sparks in the rays of the waxlights. The grand ladies of the Russian Court—the haughty old haute noblesse—were there, rich with the treasures won, in ages past, by their hard pated ancestors from Tartar, Turk, or Geor gian. Some of these ladies are very beautiful, but if there could be any portion of womankind which, as a rule, could be said not to be exquisite and of resplendent charms, it might be safely affirmed that they lived in Russia. The exceptions to such a remark are very conspicuous. There is one little head which always attracts any eyes that may be near it—a baby mignon face, with the most peachlike colour, enveloped in a wild riotous set ting of flaxen hair, which bursts from all control of band or circlet, and rushes in a flood over the shoulders. it is such a face as inspired the artists who operated on old Dresden china, and it belongs to a young 'Russian Princess, who has just burst upon the Moscow world. Another lady near her is Juno herself—a statelier and more perfect beauty could not be seen. A little further on there is a lovely young Moldave, married to a Russian Prince, who has just been sent off to the Caucasus —three months after the wedding. There are also —. But the catalogue—not raisonne, I fear— must cease here for the present, for the crowd in the pit increases, and the Emperor may be expected every moment. In the front rows of the pit are placed the Generals and Admirals, Privy Council lors, Officers of State, Chamberlains, and person ages of the Court. Behind these are similar offi cers, mingled together with members of the foreign missions, and the strangers who were invited to be present. There were not half-a-dozen black coats in this assemblage of distinguished people ; all the rest were in full uniform. Lord Granville was already in his box in the grand row on the left hand side of the Emperor's state box. M. de Morny and the French Embassy were placed in the box on the right of the Czar's. The other Minis ters and Ambassadors were provided with places in the same row, and the attaches who had no room above were accommodated with seats in the pit. It was past 8 o'clock when the Emperor appeared, and the instant he was seen the whole of the house rose as if thrilled by an electric flash, and cheered most vehemently again and again. The Czar and Czarina bowed, and every salutation was the signal for a repetition of the enthusiastic uproar, through which at last the strains of " God preserve the Czar" forced their way, and the audience resumed their places. On the left of the Czar was the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar ; on the right the Empress, and next to her the Grand Duchess Constantine and Princess of Leuchtenberg. Tho Grand Duke Constantine sat in a demi-box on the left of the Emperor. As soon as the greeting and the National Anthem ceased, the orchestra commenced the over ture to " l'Elisir d'Amore," and the opera, which was admirably sung by Bosio, Lablache, and Cal zo]ari, was performed amid a dead silence. It was followed by " La Vivandiere," in which Elrito made her appearance. The other day we went to visit the arsenal in the Kremlin. It was a fete-day, and every public office was closed ; but on the Commandant being told that an English Major-General was with the party, he at once came out and accompanied us over the place. Before the war this arsenal contained 400,000 stand of arms ; it now has only 150,000, of which nearly 100,000 are sabres and long swords. There are many differentkinds of firearms here, but the most remarkable thing is the change which this war has introduced into the Russian ideas of effi ciency and manufacture. I recollect we were asto nished to find that many of the troops at the Alma were armed with old flint firelocks altered for per cussion caps, and that the stocks were of the old an tiquated form, very small and narrow at the butt, which is still preserved in the East. All these arms to-day were full in the butt and stock and provided with excellent percussion locks. About 10,000 stand were fitted with an improved sight near the breech, and were adjusted to fire with precision up to 600 metres a large conical ball with a hollow base. About 20,000 stand, perhaps, were rages, and had a turn and a half of rifle twist in the barrel and a Liege sight. Most of these weapons are made at a town in Siberia, where they find the iron is better than that at Tula. The rifled arms, how , ever, had originally been muskets, and the barrel did not look thick enough to bear the rifling. Many firelocks of this kind were used at Sebastopol towards the end of the siege. A few thousand stand of arms were of the old style—flint locks and small stocks—others were horsemen's carbines, some sets of which were long, heavy, and cumbersome. The new musket weighs 14 livres, with bayonetat- i at tached; but we saw a new pattern Liege rifle which will weigh only 125 livres (40 Russian livres being equal to 361 b. avoirdupois). There raareoalstsoof sabres here b them r es here for nearly 100;000 cavalry, and are superior to the weapons we found in the Crimea. The swords for the Dragoons and heavy cavalry, which are exceedingly long, seemed very good in deed, and had more spring and were better ba lanced than is usually the case with Russian arms. The artillery swords and those of the_ Cossack s are in leather or wooden shea ths, and are somewhat curved and sharp—those of the heavy cavalry a re in steel scabbards, and a re straight with sharp points. The former have n o g uar d to the hilt, and there has been recently introduced th e pract i ce of wearing them, as we would consid er i t, " b ack foremost—that is, w ith the convex s id e of the [sheath upwards, he bhcklos being a tt ac h ed to it, so that the concave side of the curve is towards the ground. They also showed us rather a cum brous affair—a swordfor the D ragoons, some regi ments of which are in verity still only Grenadiers a-cheval. Attached to the sheath of the sword is the bayonet, to be used in case the Dragoon dis• mounts and uses his carbine as an infantry soldier. There is a considerable collection of cuirasses for cavalry also. Those of the Guard are of brass well padded, and weigh 24 livres ; those of the Cuiras siers are of steel, and weigh e.bout 16 li vres . Th e standards of disbanded regiments are carefully kept well as th e e as drums. The care taken of all the arms is most creditable. Every blade, every lock, is highly polished. The interior of the bar rels is clean, and without a partiele of rust. The Commandant said that every piece was cleaned thoroughly and greased three times a year. av ing walked through long halls and galleries filled with muskets , sabres, and, cuirmses 3 we were glad to descend to the ground floor, where the artille carriages, caissons, and harness for field guns are kept. Of these there is a very small display at Moscow ; but all the carriages bore the date of 1856, and were models of strength and lightness as well as of workmanship. The mode of elevating and depressing the gun seems more simple than our own—it is by means of a triangle of wood placed vertically on the carriage below the gun, with the apex of the triangle towards the muzzle, and the base towards the trail ; this triangle is worked forwards or backwards by means of a simple cog wheel and handle, and as it moves forward the breech, which rests on the upper leg of the triangle, is of course elevated, and when it recedes the breech is lowered. The most noteworthy thing, however, about the carriages was, that the body on which the gun rests consists of plates of sheet iron, which form a hollow and light but very strong support—whether they are good for service is another thing. The Rus sians seem to have a predilection for iron carriages for field and position guns, and the examples We saw at Yenikale and Kinbourn did not certainly justify it as regards the latter. The harness is ad mirably light and strong, and is beautifully kept ; the traces for the leading horses are merely of lope well oiled and painted. Here again we heard that the " licorne" will be used henceforth in all _Rus sian batteries, but the officer was very anxious to prevent the credit of the introduction of the gun being given to the Emperor Napoleon, and insisted that it owes its origin to the great Frederick of Prussia. The carriages we saw were, however, for 8 or 91b. guns. All these carria ges are kept merely' varnished, so that one can examine the fibre and condition of the wood till they are required for service when they are painted th e usua l p et :green, eo familiar to us. The open artillery carts, some of which we saw at Mackenzie, are no longer used, as the war proved they were worthless, com paratively. FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE COUNTRY. (From the Times' City Article.) The opinion entertained regarding the favour able charrter of the financial position of the coun try at the present moment appears to require only one additional fact for its confirmation. The great activity of our export trade, the moderate and legitimate nature of our expenditure, and, for the moment, the comparatively prudent limi tation of our foreign investments having all been demonstrated, the sole point on which a doubt might yet be suggested as to the pro bable course of our future pecuniary relations must consist in the question whether our exist ing stock of goods on hand stands at a fair amount, or whether we have yet to incur heavy payments to bring it up t o w h a t m i g ht b e d eeme d a d equ ate. On this subject it i s i mposs ibl e to arr i ve a t an ything more than a general i n f erence , b ecause th e great mass of merchant a bl e p roper t y i n th e coun t ry i s com posed of items t oo mu ltit u di nous an d too w idely distributed to admit of any statistical information , while at the same time the complication is indefi nitely increased by such fluctuations in prices so may have occurred between any periods that might be selected for comparison. Judging from the re markable confidence which has been observable dur ing the past eight or nine months in every depart ment of our national industry, and, on the other hand, taking into account that the average rate of discount, while it has not been so heavy a s to dis courage the manufacturer from holding a fair re serve of raw material, has yet been high enough to deter him from venturing upon any speculative accumulations, it would seem reasonable to assume,: ‘,. that our operatio ns , on th e w h o l e, h ave b ee n so!: as not merely to maintain us in a position as good: as that which we occupied a year ago, but to hate caused us to recover a fair proportion of the diral nution naturally sustained during the worst prep . sure of the war. Taking as a test thirteen of the; principal articles of commerce, this expectation). would seem to be corroborated. Subjoined is 91 L'' statement of stocks held on the Ist of the presen c t• month, as compared with th e corres p on di n g perio , of 1855 and 1854 : ; STOCKS. Articles. Sept. 1, 1856. Sept. 1, 1855. Sept. 1, 1854 ' Cotton, in U.K., bales 799,000 637,700 988,55 0 Sugar, tons • • ..... ...... • 107 , 000 87,000 1 59,000 Tea, 1b5............ • • 82,118,000 72,402 00 68, Indigo, in London, chests .• 25,637 19,434 27,7 59 i ice, tons 45,920 11,399 19,93 8 • Silk, bales ••• altpetre, tons ..... . • • . • • • 6,337 7,700 8,951 , • Hides, No. • • 92,100 90,000 15 , ,009 . Tallow, casks .... • • .... •• 8,450 35,568 373,000 31,903 Cocoanut Oil, tons ...... • • 4,021 5,640 3,731 Rum, puncheons .......... 26,795 24,649 16,631 Pepper, black, tons ...... 1,919 1,335 1.398 ". 988,55 0 159,000 68,373,000 27,7 59 19,93 8 • 35,215 •, 11,45 6 • 8,95 1, • 15' , ,000 31,903 3,731 16,631 1,398 ". A considerable increase is here presented in many important articles over September, 1855, while as contrasted with 1854 there is still a large deficiency; In money value, at present prices, the amount not held of the above articles would perhaps show an excess of about 1,000,000/. over what was held last year, while it would fall short of 1854 by nearly 5,000,0001., but this calculation would be much less favourable than that we are entitled to make, since the great deficiency is in silk, and the worth of the stocks of that article held in 1854 and 1 855 must not be reckoned from present quotations. Taking this and some other analogous features into account, it would probably be more correct to re gard the increase upon last year as nearly 2,000,0001., and the diminution from 1844 as be tween 3,000,0001. and 4,000,0001. All these must be regarded, however, as little better than conjee" tural figures. Even in the above list the majority of the totals comprise merely the stocks held in. London, and not in the United Kingdom. Th e utmost that can be said is that so far as they g° they support the deductions which a general retro spect of the business of the country and the c ourse of the discount-market would appear to warrant on the subject, and that these deductions are o° l2 , as fully to sustain th e re li ance on our comme rcial and monetary prospects which every other conside ration has already tended to inspire. MR. AND MRS. SIMS REEVES AT TH STANDARD THEATRE, SHOREDITC.Lr. Those who have not visited this Bplendid theatre will be agreeably sur p r i se d t o fi n d a beautifully-clecorate house, well lighted and ventil7..ted, and comfortable p ry : vate boxes, which some of. the theatres at the West-end cannot boast of. Last ni g ht we made a pilgrimage to the E•ast to hear our favourite tenor, and well were we repaid, for we never heard him in better voice, nor ever saw him act with greater spirit. Sims Reeves certainly f is a great a r ti s t e . H e k nows well the best means c) pleasing the au di ence h e i s performing to. This wi', manifest in hi s a d m i ra bl e s i ng i ng, acting, danc i n g, 3°et quaint humour, when he gave the popular song , ," Auld Lang Syne," which was listened to with breath' less attention by a h ouse crow d e d to the ce ili n g, th e delight of the audience to a man (the ladies, of course, were in extacies) was so great that Mr. Sims Reeve s repeated it—and, i possible, with increased effect. Mr s ' Sims Reeves was, as she always is, the pink of fashiniti and perfe c t t o a n i cety. Her charming s i ng i n g ° " Within a Mile of Edinboro' Town" will long be re' membered by her eastern admirers, who applauded he r to the echo ; and the truly artistic manner in which she seconded her talented b e tt er -h a lf, i n the duets, " Th °' you leave me now i n sorrow ," an d " Forlorn and broken" delighted their enraptured audience to the greatest extent But what shall we say of the gem of the evening, " Good bye, sweetheart, good bye I" We can say but one word (as sung by the prince of tenors, Sims Reeves), and tbat word is perfection. To hear this sweet ballad, as we beard it sung last night, is alone worth a visit to Mr. Douglas's theatre ; and we congratulate the spirited lessee on the success that, has attended his theatrical career, but more particularly on the present occasion. In rendering homage to our favourite vocalists we must not forget to mention the excellent acting of Miss Ade laide Cooke as Helen Macgregor, of Mr. James John stone as Rob Roy, of Mr. C. W. Bernard as Major Galbraith, of Mr. John Mordaunt as the Douual creh ture, and the very humorous and quaint performance of Mr. J. Gates as Bailie Nicol Jarvie, which afforded considerable amusement, not only to the audience, but to his companions on the stage. The evening's entertain ment concluded with "The Mysterious Lady," in which two establi s h e d f avour i tes at this theatre, Mrs. R. Homer and Miss Eliza Terry performed the principal parts with their accustomed success. Various attrac tions are in preparation for the ensuing week, which we are sure will afford the highest gratification to our eastern friends. THE GOLDEN -SQUARE DISTRICT, LONDON.—WiII Yo n allow me, through the medium of the Builder, to call the attention of the vestry to the " pest-house" in Mgr: shall.street, t the resent time, as I her application IS made for a licence p to carry on the business I One blood' hole, two bullock -pounds, one dung-hole, three slaughter' houses, two cow-houses, one grain-hole, several stableet a tripe-boiling establishment, with large coppers, & c :' from one huge " factory" to emit nauseous smells, poz sonous vapour s , an d f ou l a i r to the inhabitants al. closely-packed and as closely confined neighbourboe u Notwithstandi ng th e vigilance that has been taken by t he sanitary officers, under Dr. Lancaster, these smells, still continue. D ur i ng th e h ot weather the door of the tripe-house is left open, to let out the effluvia, whi c t j ,, ined with wh a t p rocee d s f rom the grain-ho l e , on slaughter-houses, &0., make a delightful relish for the neighbours when they open the windows in the early morning. So co n fi ne d i s t hi s "h o t-h o d of malaria, " that some beasts w ere thi s summer i n a state of putreiac* tion before the flesh could get cold, which I 23133 told on authority I can believe s would not have been the ca'e Lad a proper amount of air, unpolluted, surroundedthem. All that is asked of the vestry is, to do justice to the poor who surround' this "precious place" by re i fusing hell lioenee, and rootiuz out the main-spring ° J . dismtkion that is so loudly proclaimed by 3 har working and justly compl a i n i ng people. I had forgo tten to state two new gullies were made just above the outlet of the draiu in Marshall -street, some 12 months since, to cleanse the main sewer perfectly.--The Builder. RAILWAYS-PCB CASE. fr. c. fr. e Orleans 1,352 50 Western - 940 i Nvorthern Gyons ...... 1,335 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,802 50 Grand Central Lyons Geneva 785 Teste Cette 730 Austrian Com. 867 50 AUSTRIA. Accounts from Vienna say :—" It cannot be denied that the episcopal conferences which have taken place during the last three months in our capital have rather disquieted than calmed the in telligent part of the nation. It is believed that several important articles of the new Concordat which require interpretation could not be settled before the closing of the conferences, and that con sequently a second meeting of high ecclesiastical dignitaries must take place in January and Feb. next. It appears that decidedly there does not exist complete accord between the Austrian bishops of our German possessions and those of Lom bardy as to the manner of carrying into effect several organic articles of the Concordat, and amongst them the censorship to be exercised on books arid publications. For certain categories of books and printed papers the Concordat ascribes the full power of censorship to the ecclesiastical authorities, so that they are not obliged to consult civil functionaries on the subject, the initiative of the latter being confined to political writings. However, some Italian bishops desire to extend the sovereign right of censorship and that of visa to all printed books which may appear iu their diocese, whether scientific, economic, technical, or anything else. The German and Hungarian bishops, on their part, appear disposed thus far to confine their power to religious works. It is be lieved, however, that the latter prelates, from the desire to extend the power of the church, will in the end adopt the opinion of their Italian brethren." SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 18.—The Gazette publishes a decree naming the resident Minister of the Two Sicilies at Madrid Grand Cross of the Order• of Charles 111. The Madrid journal of the 15th contain no poli tical news. The Epoca says that, notwithstanding what has bean said about the refusal to allow the Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) to return to Spain, it has reason to believe " after the promulgation of the constitution there will be no objection to the return." The same journal declares that the rumours that had been curren &that a large mili tary foic9 was about to be sent to Africa to chas tise the pirates of the Riff, were unfounded, or at least premature. All foreigners residing at Huesca and in the province without passports had been ordered, says the Rpoca, into the interior. The Berlin journals publish the programme of the fetes which will take place on the occasion of the marriage of the Grand Duke of Baden with the Princess Louisa of Prussia. These fetes will com mence on the 20th, the day fixed for the marriage, and will last for three days. A letter from Philippolis, in Roumelia, of the 4th, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" A superior officer of the Turkish staff is now engaged in mak ing a tour through all the towns of Bulgaria, in order to interdict the right of carrying arms, as that right leads to many sanguinary quarrels. The Turks warmly oppose this interdiction, and on more than one occasion it has been found necessary to inflict from 150 to 200 blows on the soles of the feet of refractory Mussulmans." A letter from Naples states that the reception of Baron de Hubner by King Ferdinand was merely a matter of form, and that no political mat ters were discussed. The baron afterwards had the honour of being presented to the Queen and other members of the royal family. The Austrian Gazette of Vienna of the 15th has the following :—" Ciceruacchio is not dead ; he is at Constantinople, and is in a very brilliant situa tion. Some of his countrymen and one of his domestics have brought this news to Toulon. Dur ing the war in the Crimea ho was engaged in the wine trade at Balaklava and _afterwards at Sebas topol, and he gained a great deal of money. His wife resides at Rome, and hopes soon to see him." A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 11th, in the Constitutionnel, says :—The Emperor has not re turned here for his fete, and is not now expected until the end of the month. According to an approximate calculation, the medal which the Em peror has ordered to be coined in remembrance of the campaign of the Crimea will be distributed to more than 1,500,000 persons. THE EMPEROR Op AUSr.RIA'S EXCURSION. A letter from Vienna, in the Moniteur, gives a consecutive account of the late excursion of the Emperor and Empress of Austria, of which we have already given some detached accounts : "The Emperor immediately after his return from Gran, where he was received in the most enthusiastic man ner by the Hungarian population, again set out in com pany with the Empress for Carinthia. Their Majesties arrived at Klagenfurtli on the 3d amidst the loudest acclamations, and after visiting all the civil and mili tary establishments and the hospitals, were present in the evening at a grand ball given in honour of their visit. After remaining in the town the following day, the Emperor and Empress left on the sth, and continued their journey to Upper C ar i n thi a , pa ss i ng Vill ac h, Spittal, and ohervehuch to H,iligenhruth. On the 7th , at the early hour of four in the morning, their Majes ties attended Divine service, and soon after the Em peror on foot, and the Empress part of the way on horseback and part in a sedan chair, ascended a high mountain, from the top of which a magnificent view of the surrounding country could be obtained Their Ma jesties returned to Klagenfurth on the evening of the 9th and on the following day set out for Styria passing through Lower Carinthia. On taking leave of the civil, mili tary, and ecclesiastical authorities, the Emperor ex pressed his warm gratification at the reception which had everywhere awaited his approach, and said that his sojourn in Carinthia would be one of his most agreeable reminiscences. In the afternoon of the 11th, the Emperor and Empress arrived at Gratz. Triumphal arches and decorations of every kind had been erected, and at night general illuminations and the cheers of the crowd expressed the delight felt by the people at the presence of their sovereign. Their Majesties are ex- I pected in the Austrian capital on the 15th." MON COMI The Live quietly, but lales were e %ales of the Labia, 260 Were taken Raceios, 50 Surat for e 3 were 6,198 . quotations 1 and lid. Or] tot so buoys The in telli York repor been withou martial affai being in In speculative not withstam remained st( Advices f inst., state t bad opened a great demi le were he not inclined to 107 f. per lons 108 f. &runless by of the mani silks from Ii at 4,000 to ranged from Letters fri that the sena bad assemble s ubject laid two new Bal money like many. This refused. 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