The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstons, THIS EVENING, MATCH MAKING. After which SECOND LOVE. Followed by THE CAPTIYF• After which A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL. To cowhide with THE SPANI:.II SF.RJEANT. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webst e r. Directress, Madame Celeek. THIS EVENI/fO, PAUL PRT. Followed by OUR GAL. To conclude with BORN TO GOOD LUCK. BOY 4.L PRMICE , ATF, THEATRE, OX FOR D-3T RE ET. Under the Nfanagement tee. CusaLze lEsAtt. For the Benett of 3fiss Carlotta Leclerq. THi ; EvKNIN't MUSIC H I.TH CHARMS. After which, THE WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee ant Manner, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING Tar. GREEN-EYED NIONSTER. After which. M E D E A. To nclude with THE WELSH GIRL, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPEIITHRATRE. Lessee and Maurer, gr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENrs.TG , (First week) Shakespere's Trazedv of KT"TfI WTI ART) TH THIRD ; or, the nettle of Posworti Feld. compressed into 3 acts Mr. W. Cooke's snlendi I stud of horses effectively intro tuned. Grand striking, and indescribable tableau of the Battle of Bosworth Field. A er which, The SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of select entertain. meats. Box-office open tram Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. West. Rquestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke. Inn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRID4 THIS DAT—Morn. 7 min. aft. 4—Evening 22 rain. aft. 5 To-Mounow-3f0rn.38 min. aft. s—Evening 55 min. aft. TFLE WEATHEft—JUN OFFICE, AUGUST 6. THERMOMSTER, IN TRIC SHAD& 77—!iighest singe noon yesterday. 57 —lowest this morning and dnrinQ the night. 71—this day at noon. BA tom rrrn— 30 25. WIND, Easterly.—Light, with fine weather. - §1448 Avy4mr, minish the power of the EMPEROR, and England suffers herself to be hoodwinked and bamboozled by the interested parties. Regarding themselves safe under any circumstances, they are prepared to go to the full extent of their tether, convinced that, in any event or at any moment, a trivial concession, and the temporary abandonment of anticipated booty, will be the utmost they have to dread. Besides, the old Muscovite party is to be conci liated, at any risk, previous to the coronation. That can only be effected by showing that Russia is still bent on aggression, whenever and wherever practicable—that she still clings with reckless pertinacity to her ambitious scheme of universal empire, and to the speedy annexation of Byzan tium, and the wielding of the sceptre of CONSTAN TINE by a Russian Potentate. This was the objectjhat was so long looked forward to by the Muscovite party, and which led to the aggression by the late CZAR, whichterminated so disastrously for himself and his people. The demonstrations at Kars, Ismail, Reni, and the Isle of Serpents, as well as the quibbles raised respecting the adjust ment of the new boundary with Moldavia, are all matters tending to the same point, and which should be carefully looked to by the other parties to "the precious Treaty." The treatment experienced by the poor Wal• pole Islanders at the hands of the " smart' speculator who brought them over for exhibition to this country calls for something more than a general expression of disgust, and the payment of their passage homeward by means of the charity of the benevolent. If by any possibility the offender can be made amenable to justice by outraged humanity he ought to be so for the sake of example. Grievous as his offence is, he is not alone in his misdoing ; and but too many, there is reason to believe, exist fully prepared to tread in his footsteps. The spirit of speculation, perverted from its egitimate aim, is but too rampant among us ; but great as is the cruelty to which it has given rise, other motives, and among a class from which more might have been expected, have led to a similar result. It is but the other day we read )f a lady who brought over from India a woman of the country, in the capacity of an Ayah, and left her without the slightest scruple to make her way as best she could, in a strange land, in utter ignorance of the address of her victimiser. And if the public call to recollection the pro ceedings .. of our police courts, how frequently roust. the plaints of the poor Laecar, set adrift by his `leartless emplOyer, raise the indignant blush to the cheek ? Unfortunately, in none of these instances has the justice of the case been satisfied, and we have but little hope of the victimisation of the miserable Walpole Islanders being avenged by any process of law. This, assuredly, is not as it ought to be. The honour of the country is, in point of fact, deeply concerned that such offences should not be com mitted with impunity. Whatever may have been the condition of these unfortunate beings in their own country, that country was their home, and to tempt them from it, by whatever means, and then, when their services have no real or prospec tive value, to leave them to struggle, homeless, homeless, and foodless, among strangers ignorant ..f their language, and incapable of understanding anything but their mute appeals, is to be guilty of an atrocity as great as that of the trader in human flesh. In one respect even greater, for the slave dealer transfers the captured African to a master, whose interest it is to give him food and shelter, and take such further care of him as is necessary fur the preservation of his life. True in the case i. O which we have referred the charity of the metropolitan public has stept in and delivered the poor creatures from the miseries of their position, but this result cannot be admitted as a plea by way of extenuation of the offence. So far as the intention of these betrayers of their fellow-crea tures is concerned the presumption must he for he worst, or, if a distinction is to be made, it certainly should not be in favour of the heartless betrayer of the helPlesi /Vali. The guilt in volved in her conduct makes one shudder. Such an amendment of the law is wanted as will suffice to protect these poor creatures in the first instance alike from the speculator in exhibitions, the unscrupulous shipowner, and the heartless lady of fashion. The former-L.-say-- should be required to deposit in the hands of some public officer an amount equal to that re quired for the return of his " monsters" to the place of their nativity, before he is permitted to offer them for exhibition. This, if it can be 'lone, while it would insure more discretion in ,he choice of objects on the part of the specula oor, would infallibly put a stop to the evil of which we complain. The shipowner or the cap tain of his vessel should be required to make a similar deposit in India, and if the same measure be inapplicable in the third case—the return of the poor Ayah at the expense or by the instrumen edity of the employer who brought her over should be provided for by the enac .ment of a severe pecuniary penalty, to be exacted in cases of proved neglect, and applied in part to the payment of he required passage. When the victim has been turned adrift without the address of her or his victimiser, imprisonment with hard labour should be added. These suggestions, it is hardly neces sary to say, are thrown out from no desire to be regarded as a reformer of our penal laws, but from an anxiety to have removed a reproach to the entire nation—a system of cruelty which throws us back in appearance at least a couple of centuries. If any better means can be devised the sooner they are lot:the - Oren; the better. Whoever enjoys the country, an Editor must keep at his post. " Too hot to read a nem:- mar," writes a correspondent from Paris ; he will not, however, excuse us from providing him one ; it must never be too hot to write, and, worse than writing, to think —no, not when FAHRENHEIT'S reaches 90 deg. in the shade. Brains, pens, types, steam-presses, and all the flesh-and-blood ministering attendants to the Daily Journal, must stick to it, even when some atmospheric dislocation, or convulsion as geolo gists would sa y, b r i ngs th e t rop i cs t o th e tempe rate zone. country was Some geologists do tell us t h a t our once a Spice Island, and w e ll d o we know that fie have lived in the climate of the Spice Islands this week. A breeze, too, there has been ; and it has blown from almost every quarter, but somehow has brought heat on its wings. It has probably been an Angel of Mercy, to save us from Cholera and Typhu s ; and right g l a d h ave ',ve been to meet it, especially if we could escape the relentless Sun at the same time. But though it gave us chan g e o f air it would not give us change of temperature. .Her MAJESTY and nearly all her servants early took the alarm, and, with her Lo r d s and faithful Commons, have turned their backs on the metropolis, and l e ft u. 3 broiling in rooms little better than huge ovens, or gasping; along between rows of houses, in what may be more fitly called fines than streets. Yet wilatpor a t o# axa Alt 144 " . , ~ l -- .........g o , GRAND MUSIC HALL.-ROYAL SURREY' GARDENS.—JUL LI EN'A CONCERTS. —3ladame Ru dars &off—Change of Programme each Evening Danson's Colossal Flews of Constantinople and the Alps—Phillips's Dioramic Views— Turkish Kiosk and illuminated Terrace —Fairy Caverns n ad Fatima's Horne—Grounds lighted in a perfectly novel manner—Southby's Fireworks and Brilliant Emblematic Tableau. Admittance Is. Con cert at Seven. Fireworks at a Quarter past Te n o'clock. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.—The London General Omnibus Company will run Omnibuses from Kingsland Gate and Highbury Station to the Royal Surrey Gardens at half-past 5 seao'lock. daily, returning from the Gardens as soon as the amusemen re over. Fare to or from the Gardens, 6d. each. HER MAJESTY'S TH EATRE. GRAND FAREWELL NIGHTS. PIC COLOM INI ROSATI —LE CORSAIRE. To-morrow (THURSDAY, Auenst 7), DON PASQUALE. Norina, Mdlle. Piccolontini ; Ernesto, Signor Reichardt ; pottore Malateeta, Signor Belletti ; Don Pasquale, Signor On SATURDAY, August a, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Piocolomini. With the new grand Ballet of LE CORSAIRE. Medora, Madame Rosati. Reduced Prices :—Three Pair, 1/. ls. Two Pair, 1/. lls. rd. Pit and One Pair, 21. 12s 6d. Grand Tier, 3/. 3s. Pit, ss. Gallery Boxcs, 15s. Gallery Stalls, ss. Gallery Side Stalls, 3g. 6d. Gallery, 2s. 6d. The free list suspended, tho public press exceptod. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1856, Russia is already beginning to cast off the dis guise which she was compelled to assume at the commencement of the year. She is already show ing her full appreciation of the policy that pre vented any diminution of her power, and watched more vi flantly ove • her honour than that of either of the Allied:Powers, that submitted to tt e useless sacrifice of so many millions of money and myriads of human beings. She has therefore determined to persevere in the traditional poliey inaugurated by PETER the Great (Sarage), and contieuect by the amiable and virtuous CATHE RINE, the mild and _courteous PAUL, and the truth-7oving and moderate NICHOLAS. She cannot even yet understand that the Wester , _ Powers could have been earnest in their determi nation to prevent its full development when they allowed her to retain the power she had so grossly abused. The leopard cannot be made to chant(: its spots, or the northern bear to abandon the instincts of its ursine nature. Her diplomatist:, were not idle at Paris. They discovered that the NAPOLEON of 1856, the father of an Imperial Prince, the Sovereign whose chief anxiety was to consolidate and strengthen the dynasty which he hoped to establish, was very different indeed from the NAPOLEON of 1854, who gained golden opi nions in England and throughout Europe—that the French Government was contented with the position it had already attained, and bad no desire to insist very strenuously on the ob servance of the articles comprised in the Precious Treaty. It saw that our faithful (!) Ally was the first to inflict a severe blow on the maritime supremacy of England, and that the criminal surrender of our once cherished privilege, would render England far less formidable than i . had previously been. Can we, then, wonder that she has seized on the golden opportunity, and that "her sharp practice" and indifferent faith in carrying out the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris have attracted general observation. She still retains her hold on Kars ; and although the Allied forces have already vacated the Crimea, and restored the towns captured by their valour, she has strengthened her Armenian garrison, and maintained a threatening aspect towards Turkey, while the Western Powers delivered up even the buildings and defences they had them selves erected without • • injury. She has taken measures to destroy the fortifications as well as those of Ismail and Reni, s o th at these important fortresses will be incapacitated from offering any serious resistance, in the event of new complica tions, at least without an outlay, which Turkey is incapable of undertaking in the present ex hausted state of her finances. Nor is this ap.. The forcible seizure of the Isle of Serpents, W hi ch so clearly belonged to the Ottoman Empire, and the control thereby assumed over the navi gation of the Danube, clearly shows that she is letermined to prevent the freedom of that im ortant river—although it was ono of the points most earnestly insisted on as the ground-work of the so-called peace. It ma y appear strange that the CZAR should so speedily fling aside the mask--that he should already risk the permanency, or rather the dura tion, for it possessed no element of permanency— of the peace which lie >was so anxious to obtain. But Russian politicians are as cunning as they are unscrupulo us . Th ey know that one at least of their quondam opponens h a s been made safe ; that Lours NAPO MAX is more mindful of the interests of Im f o. rialism than of the preservation of the balance of power, or the protection of Turkey against her unconscientious assailant. They also see that any offence against international law may be coin _ ratted with impunity, inasmuch as it isupt,..4e. r 7) SigrOi limp) ig CAl:maw to itaiNketo Wigs' 4 1. - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENIXG, AUGUST 6, 1858. week before we were complaining of celd, and grumbling as if November had supplanted July. HEAVEN grant that the fair, clear, sunny, blue sky we have seen for the last week may not be soon hidden from us. And we have seen it, too, for even our " helps" in the kitchen have been but too glad to save us the cost of coals, as soon in the day as they could, and London has for a long time not known leas smoke than for the last seven days. Whenever the merciless factories own •nmplete obedience to Lord PALMERSTON, we may hope for a few quite clear days in hot weather, even in this metropolis of chimneys. But imagination will rest on the country; with a hasty stolen glance at which even we refresh our selves for a few hours now and then. We just keep in memory what hay-fields and corn-fields are, and we now see the latter rapidly changing their hues, the soft waving green giving place to the rich and gladdening brown, and the reapers here and there beginning their. task. Mark-lane— yes—Mark-lane, that dull, dingy, old London market, sympathises deeply with the country, and discusses in a language of its own in which the chief vocables are " shillings per quarter," and " shillings per sack," the hopes and prospects of beautiful fields and fair skies. Mysterious baro meter of nature, that said Mark-lane I scarcely a soul there that knows what it is to admire her. What care the sellers and buyers of samples of nature's products for all that a BEATTIE or Cow- PER could picture of the beauties of the scenes from which they came ; the " shilling per quar ter" is their conception of corn-fields, of green pops, and russet brown harvests, and sunny skies ; were they not all made to be estimated by " shillings per quarter ?" Yet these men of Mark-lane do hold in their hands the measures of much human comfort and misery. We must not contemn their lingo. A few " shillings per quarter" mean a penny or two the quartern loaf ; and a few pence in the quar tern loaf, being interpreted, mean hunger or plenty to tens of thousands, and to all but a very few of our twenty-seven millions'the addition or subtraction of some comfort. "Shillings per quarter 1" no trivial matter that. Our grocer, and tailor, and milliner, and—but we say that confidentially, and in a whisper—our netneendor— in short, all we deal with—know the difference of having to pay "shillings per quarter," more or less ; our very little ones find a toy or two the more iu papa's pocket., on his return home, when the " shillings per quarter" are fewer. How we all" smiled as we told the news at home on Monday—" Mark-lane ten to twelve shillings a quarter lower, but no buyers 1" How many spouses and daughters that evening had fresh visions of new dresses, or of a month by the sea-side, and of all the many pleasant things, but to enjoy all of which we must wait for the days when double Income Tax or schedule D is wrested from Sir G. C. LEwrs, or some other keeper and spender of the nation's treasures. None of us can help after all the cheering effect of sunshine ; the very farmers and their Mark Lane Express have almost ceased to grumble. The agricultural reports from every part of the country, even from the Green Isle itself, share the universal good nature, " the splendid wea ther,' " the crops rapidly changing colour and soon to be fit for the reaper," " harvest a week sooner than expected" is the language of all. Of course hero and there a field laid by a thunder storm is not forgotten, and one finds small yellow insects in some ears, but even he hopes they are of no consequence ; another notices that some ears are only three set, and a few of the sets empty, another fears the high winds when the wheat was in blossom must have done harm, but deposes of none to his knowledge. No—from all all parts of the cJuntry the reports agree—and they are, in a few words, "that never was there agreater breadth of wheat sown, and that it looks like a full average crop at least." We take that to mean something more than one. We do not, however, ourselves doubt that the wheat, which was quite green when this sudden change to intense heat came, will probably be of lighter weight than that which was forwarder. -- , Potatoes, too, are nearly exempt from the mortifying disease, which has so often deprived the farmer of the whole of his crop. From Ire land, and all parts, it is mentioned that " the disease," which should now show its worst, if ex isting at all, is scarcely apparent. The reports of the hay crop, too, what we had not expected, are very pleasant to read. For the more part— "an excellent crop and well got up." Turnips appear, however, to be in jeopardy in some places, here and there even ploughed up ; the well-known " fly" and " black caterpillar" are complained of in parts of Norfolk, but it can hardly be that Norfolk farmers should not sow that valuable crop on the Lothian or Northumberland ridges, and hardly possible if they have, that they should not sow them thick enough to beat " the fly." Mangold Wurtzel, however, which is deservedly becoming so much more general, is looking " gloriously." As to barley, the greater extent of wheat grown has, according to ♦ery general testimony, contracted the breadth of its cultivation. We were told by knowing ones in the spring that the rotation of crops would prevent this. We know that rota• tion is not generally routine, but to some extent we also know that it is, and we accordingly find that even our farmers can beat our Crimean officers ; and that had they to come before Chel sea Commissioners, they could show a case of " competent ingenuity " and "foresight," and " varying conduct according to circumstances," which staff officers would think incredible. Cer tain it is that many:-a• -field .which—should have been barley according to routine or orders, has, in cmsaquence of the price of wheat, been sown with that grain. Lords LUCAN and CARDIGAN may stare, but it is the fact, that even farmers used their own brains and did not believe in being ram machines ; no, sot even landlords' machines. While we write, a somewhat cooler breeze—. rather not so hot a one—is blowing, than that to which we have been accustomed for the last week ; the sky equally clear, however, the sun equally bright, all things equally fair for the crops and the harvest, but not quite so intolerable to the prisoners of the town. And we are d% ening with pleasure on the thoughts. of greater abun dance another year, and all the blessings of plenty, whatever we may think of the blessings of peace. May a gracious HEAVEN grant us a continuance of the weather which now brightens our hopes ! Friday next, the Bth inst., is the day fixed for the election of the new candidate for admission into the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society. It will then be decided whether or not the success ful applicant will be the little child, whose claim upon the votes of the Governors of that Benevolent Institution, we have already advocated in these columns—THOMAS MA.TTEEW born .on the,Ath of August, 184, a boy S)l*l4lWtlyidust,past. the.7,ninth anniversary of birt.ll4::the , orphan son of the learned and iatori?us compiler of the " . Dictionary of Dates," _ , and of " Book of Dignities." The mere men -124 off , Plo - lact : ot to.o4l44.,pacatagoa..WAS4lo- not but regard as very eloquent indeed in the_' championship of his cause as the "off: spring of a distinguished and toil-worn man of letters, a man of letters prema turely deceased by reason of his having so long laboured, not merely in the sweat of his brow, but, as it has been forcefully expressed, in the sweat of his brain—a little child standing upon the threshold of life and pleading in the name of his dead father for the scarcely-estimable boon of Education. JOSEPH HAYDN'S son, we do earnestly hope, nay more, we do confidently an ticipate, will be admitted on Friday next, the day after to-morrow, to the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society. His are no ordinary claims for such admission. Those claims arise not only from his extreme youth and his consequent helplessness, coupling that extreme youth with the narrow cir cumstances of his widowed mother, but in a very peculiar manner, arise out of the in disputable value of his dead father's labours in the systematising and popularising, in the simplifica tion and classification of large masses of useful and important knowledge. We think it might be distinctly, and not un reasonably, laid down as a sort of incontrovertible axiomatic platitude, that among the cultivators of polite learning the compilers of indices, and glossaries, and dictionaries, are about the most practical benefactors to the students of literature. It is for this reason, it is in this way that his colossal and Herculean labour of building up the first great Dictionary of the English Language is univer sally recognised as the most broad and solid basis of Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S immense and splendid reputation. A basis beside which the elegant and didactic " Rasselas," the rhetorical and sen tentious "Rambler," the wise and weighty morali ties expressed by the "Vanity of Human Wishes," the stilted but sonorous versification of " Irene," the mass of astute and authoritative criticism compacted together in the " Lives of the Poets," dwindle into comparative insignificance. It is in a wonderfully lesser degree of course, but still as one coming within the same honourable category . that the late Mr. JOSEPH HAYDN holds his claim upon the grateful remembrance of future students in the belles-lettres, and more widely even than that retains through his authoritative works of reference, a " right" to the thankful recollection of every_ let tered searcher after knowledge. Bearing all this in mind, we do not hesitate to protest our selves very sanguine indeed as to the probable success, on Friday .the BLh. instant, of his orphan child, THOMAS MATTHEW HAYDN, as an as pirant for admission to the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society. And feeling thus sanguine in his behalf, we commend his interests again and again to the favourable consideration of every one of those intelligent philanthropists whose benevo lent forethought may have provided them with the privilege of voting in their capacity as Governors of that most valuable and interesting institution. The report from Holland of Messrs. Rothschild halt -ing made a contract 'far 850,0001. in silver from the Bank of Amsterdam is denied. If any arrangement of ~he kind has be , -n made it has not been by that firm. SINGULAR PHENOMENON IN SKYE.—A correspondent in Skye informs us of a singular phenomenon which tock 'dace on the farm of Monkstadt, in the parish of Kilmuir, Skye, on the night of Wednesday last. No one, so far as we can learn, was a witness of the scene, but in the morning a rent was discovered to have been made in the earth about 400 yards long by about 160 broad. This strange circumstance is attributed to the effects either of an earthquake or of lightning.—lnverness Courier. The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rot terdam produce markets state that, although business was not active, prices on the average continue to be -upported. The purchases of sugar and coffee had slightly increased, and in some cases higher rates were obtained. There had been less activity in rice, and tea exhibited no important alteration. The letters from Rouen mention that the market for manufactures presented a more animated appearance, the attendance of buyers having increased. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF DREAD.—Yesterday most of the bakers in the metripolis made a reduction of a halfpenny in the price of bread, and are looking for ward to making another reduction in a few days. " Seconds" bread is now selling at 8,1. and Sid. the 41b. loaf in the poorer di-tricts, and " best" bread at 9 1. and 9A, The high priced bakers are selling their bread at 10d, and lOd. the 41h. loaf. The cern chandlers are selling flour at from 2s 101. to 39. 4d. the stone of 14 1 bs. A FORTUNATE PLURALIST. --Lord Palmerston bag presented the Rev. Gilbert Prat:Wand Lewis, M.A., a near relative of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the Canonry Residentiary in Worcester Cathedral, rendered vacant by the death of the Hon. and Rev. J. Somers Cocks, M.A. The rev, gentleman who has been fortunate enough to obtain this acce-sion to his ecclesiastical dignities is already a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, a rural dean, rector of Glade try, Radnorshire, and rector of Mornington-on-the-Wye, near Hereford, IMPORTS OF COAL,—We learn from a report prepared by J. R. Scatt, Esq., clerk and registrar of the Coal Market, Coal Exchange, that the total amount of coal imported seaborne during the month of July is 209,620 toes, by 727 ships; the total amount from Jan. 1 to July 31. seine 1, 7*36,574 tons ; the same period last year being 1,674,822 tons ; showing an increase on the present year of 91,752 tons. The. amount during the month of July this year of coals by railways is 89,722 tons; the total amount of same from Jan. 1 to July 31 being 684,588 tons ; corresponding period last year 575,354 tons; showing an increase on the present year of 109,234 tone. ASYLUM FOR FATHERLESS CHILDREN.—The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new Asylum for Fatherless Children at Stamford-hill was performed yes terday by the Lord Mayor, assisted by Mr. Mechi, the L rd Mayor elect, Mr. Sheriff Rose Mr Alderman Wire, the Marquis o f T owns h en d , and a large number of the corporation. The proposed asylum is situate at Stoat's-nest, in the neighbourhood of Croydon, on an estate purchased by the society. It is intended to ac commodate between 200 and 300 children, the present number being 110. The total amount of the subscrip tions announced was 2,5001. THE MEMORIAL OF THE G2EAT EXHIBITION.—The money in the bands of Alderman Challis, amounting to about 5,6001., subscribed for the erection of a memorial of the Great Exhibition, is, we hear, about to be de voted to its original purpose. The committee intend to invite designs, or models, from sculptors, both English and foreign, and meanwhile Dr. Booth, of the Society of Arts, and Mr. George Godwin, have consented to act as honorary secretaries. .Whether the memorial will be allowed by those in authority to stand, as it should, as the spot where the building it will commemorate stood, we are not informed. DEATHS FROM THE - SWINGING OF GATES.—A little boy, two years and three months old, was looking in between the railway gate and the post on which it swung, at Thomas-street, Newport, an evening or two since, to see a railway train pass by. The hate was swinging at the time, and, horrible to relate, the little fellow's head was literally squeezed to pieces between the gate and the post. He was killed on the spot.—Bristol Mercury.— On Thursday evening ten or twelve children were swing ing on the gate of Mr. Brown's timber-yard, Spe.rling street. One of them, John Macintosh, aged three years, got his head crushed between the gate and the poet against which it swung. The poor child was taken in a car to the Southern Hospital, but life was extinct Liverpool Journal. GLAMORGAN COUNTY ELECTION--'The address of Mr. 11. Hussey Vivian, the liberal candidate for the repre sentation of the above county, appears in the local papers. The hon. gentleman appeals to his votes during the past four years as the beet guarantee of his political principles ; declares himself opposed to Churela rates and all legislative distinctions on religious grounds; in favour of free trade, the ballot, and civil administrative reform. Mr. Vivian in conclusion says:—" I shall vote for a thorouih reform of our military system, because I believe that the greater part of the disasters which befei our ea lant army in the late war may be traced to a servile adherence to effete routine, based upon appoint ments originating in interest and nepotism rather than merit." WOMAN KILLED BY A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Satur day a woman about 50 years of age, named Armstrong, who resides at Wombwell, near Barnsley, was killed by a coal train on the South Yorkshire Railway, near the Aid ham Junction. The unfortunate creature was going over a crossing tin the above line, when a coal train which was coming up passed over her, and severed her heart entirely from her body and mutilated her dreadfully, scattering portions of her body in various directions. The engine driver saw her coming through the crossing gate, and sounded his whistle, .but it was of no avail, and he was so close upon her as to be unable to stop the train. Her remains were conveyed to Wombwell, to await the result of the coroner's inquiry. MARIE LOUISE. —" Had much talk with Lady Burg. hersh about Maria Louisa, whom she knows very well, and often paspesd some time with her at her principality. Loved Napoleon at first, but his rebUtant manner to her disgusted her at last. Treated her like a child. Her Regency a mere sham ; did not know what the papers were she had to sign. Never had either message or line from Napoleon after his first abdication, nor until his return from Elba, when he wrote a short note, and without beginning " Madame " or "Chore," or any. thing, he said he expected her and the child at Paris mediateiy. Never hears from him from St. Helena. Keeps his picture secretly, and seems to be proud of the child's likeness to him. She is very romantic."—Me moirs of Thomas Moore. REFRACTORY SRAMEN.—On Monday last, seven sailors from the brig Emma, from Newcastle' to 'Marseilles, were brought before the magistrates, charged with re fusing to do their duty. The sailors alleged that the mate had ill-used and threatened ',-,hem, which induced their refusal, Sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment with hard labour. Another seaman was also charged with the like offence, from the ship Heylyllen, and was dis charged from custody. On the same day 13 other sea men, belonging to another ship bound to Calcutta, were charged with the came offence. The defence set up was the unwholesomeness ,of the provisions, which, on exa mination, were found unfit for consumption, and the sailors were in consequence discharged. The frequent occurrence of cases of this kind operates prejudicially 'to this borough ; ; the cost of punishment being wholly borne by the parish of Deal, amounting in some years to more than one-half of the gaol expenditure.—Canterbury Journal. FATAL FALL rßox A CLIFF NEAR WHITEHAVEN.—A terrible accident took place at Sandwith Quarry, near Whitehaven, occupied by Mr. John Thompson, on Fri• day week. James Thompson, a labourer in the employ of the occupier of the quarry, had descended the cliff. for the put pose of bringing some chickens which had gone too far down, and were unable to reach the top again. To accomplish this it was necessary for hire to make fast round his body a rope, one end of which his master held above. Before descending, however, he tried his weight upon the rope, standing for that pur pose on the brink of a precipice, when the rope tightene gave way, and the unfortunate man was precipitated to the bottom, a fall of nearly 70 feet. His head came in contact with a stone, which laid open the forehead, caus ing inrantanenus death.— Miteltaven Herald FALL FROM A PRECIPICE —A dreadful accident, re sulting in the death of Mr. Price Hunt, a Scripture reader at St. Martin's 'Church, Birmingham, has just, occurred near the Penrhyn State Quarries. The de ceased and a friend were on a brief tour in North Wales, and had ascended Carnedd Dafyd, a high precipitous mountain near the Penrhyn Quarries. When a short distance from the summit in descending, the deceased, who led the way, chose a narrow unfrequented path. His companion, who declined to follow, missed him. A., alarm having been given, Mr. J. Francis, of the Penrhyn Quarry, ordered upwards of 50 qaarrymen to the search. The body of the unfortunate man was then discovered lying at the bottom of a frightful precipice, nearly 90 yards in depth, has cap banging on a projecting ledge. The body, - Which showed a wound at the back of the head, and the ribs of which were bent inward, was ex tricated with much difficulty, and taken to Bethesda, whence it has been conveyed by rail to Birmingham. Deceased has left a wife and child. JOHN FROST, THE CHARTIST.—Mr. John Frost is about to become a political lecturer. This released exile says : —"The plan which I mean to pursue is this—l mean to become a lecturer. I want to talk to my countrymen on matters of great importance. As my private fortune is too small to enable me to travel over England, I shall adopt the plan of Kossuth and other friends of freedom, charge for admittance to my lectures. I shall be better pleased with this mode than any other ; it is that sort of independent life which one can approve of—l have something to sell, I cannot afford to give ; those who like may buy, and those who do net like may keep their money. Besides I think that political lectures may be of great use to our country and our cause. There are plenty of places in our country where the darkness of Egypt prevails as to political affairs. This plan has become very general in America, and the results, in ever point of view, are highly beneficial." VICISSITODES OF A CHARTIST LEADER'S FAMILY.—Dr. P, M. M'Dowell, one of the Chartist leaders, was in 1839 sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in Chester Castle, and while there he fell in love with the gaoler's daughter. On his liberation he and she proceeded to Glasgow, and were married according to the law of Scotland. They then journeyed about from place to place, spending two years in France ; and alter a life of vicissitude in this country he proceeded to Australia in 1854,. where he died shortly after his arrival, leaving a widow and four children in a destitute condition. With the assistance of some charitable persons they returned to England, and; became chargeable to the parish of Everton, Liverpool, by the overseers of which they were removed tnTottenhain, near Bury, on the ground that, through her husband, she had obtained a settle ment upon that parish. Against this removal the over seers of Totaington appealed. , The appoal was a1i 344 . 1140 / 6 1 4 tilovrisial order quaelic4. _ ~-. PUBLIC 'HEALTH! Acr.--It appears from a return issued yesterday that between the 18th of April and the 13th of June the Public Health Act of 1848 was applied to seven towns. The same return also states that dur ing the last three years 180 applications have been made to the General Board of Health for permission to m:)rt gage the rates, and that between the let of January, 1854, and 30th June, 1856, the sum of 1,374,7711. 6s. Bd. was raised on the mortgage of rates fir the purpose of carrying out permanent works. INTENSE HEAT or THE WEATHER AT LIVERPOOL. —St. , John's Market, from eleven to twelve o'ciciftli on Sunday night, became unusually excited from the effect of excessive heat on the marketable commodities exposed for sale. That butchers, poulterers, provision dealers, &c., miebt dispose of their perishable stock, the market authorities ;snowed the gates to remain open until midnight, being one hour later than usual. Meat was selling at any price that purchasers would offer. But was all but in a liquid state ; bacon and ham had the appearance of beinr , half boiled ; and cherries, straw berries, and other ripe fruit, were running to decay. At the north extremity of the market, about the footwalks, fowls were offered three for a ehillina . The confused and questionable perfume, with the doubtful quality of the remaining stock in general, did not induce many purchasers ; consequently great loss will be sustained by vendors. The therniometer, at the Liverpool Ex change., registered 125 deg. in the sun, and 86 deg. in the shade, at ten o'clock on Sunday morning. WELCOME TO THE SOLDIERS FROM THE CRIMEA.—A. meeting called by requisition to the Lord Provost was held on Friday at noon within the C .until Chambers, to consider what steps could be adopted for giving a wel come to the sth Dragoon Guards and the 721 Highland ers, who are to he garrisoned in Edinburgh on their return from the Crimea—the former regiment having, arrived, and the latter being expected in a few days. At the request of the Lord Provost, Mr. Sinclair looked over the city records of 1815-16 to see if any demonstra tion had taken place on the return of the soldiers from the French war, but no entry was found on the subject. Sir W. Johnst in expressed his hope (which seemed to meet the approbation of the meeting) that the reception, whether of the nature of a banquet or other wise, should not be limited• to the officers and win commissioned offi cers, but should include every soldier of them who had been engaged in the war, as, to the private soldier, the country was equally indebted for the devotion of his life to her service as to the officer of highest rank. A large and influential committee were - named, and re quested to report to a future meeting.—Edinburgh Cou• 'rant. ME NEW POSTAL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA.—The new postal service by steam to our Australian colonies commenced in October last, and every arrangement is being made by the directors of the European and Aus tralian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company (who have contracted for the conveyance of the mails) for the due performance of the contract. One of the most es sential requisites for the success of such an undertaking is good and efficient management, and that the company have endeavoured to secure that desirable object, as far as the colonies are concerned, may be gathered from the fact that they have already appointed as their agents at Melbourne Messrs. Mackay, Baines, and Co. The large experience possessed by this firm, and the admirable tact they have always displayed in connexion with the "Black Ball" line of Liverpool and Australian packets, cannot fail to prove of the greatest possible gain, not only to the company, but also to the colonies generally. We feel certain that this appointment (which we may state will be carried out by the Black Ball liner, " Ocean Chief," which sails to-day) will be hailed with satisfac ion by the inhabitants of Australia, as it is by the com mercial public of this country.— Willmer and Smith's European Times. LORD PALMERSTON AT MANCHESTER.—The very ca pacious, substantial, and excellently-adapted new build ing erected, and just completed, for the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, is to be opened on Tuesday, the 9th proximo, with an exhibition, including statuary, pictures, various fine•art manufactures, and a large col lection of machinery in motion. The Manchester Me chanics' Institution was the first to establish exhibitions of industry and art, all of which have been highly suc cessful. It is expected that the eclat of the opening on this occasion will be greatly increased from the fact that Lord Palmerston has promised to attend and deliver the inaugural address. Several other popu lar members of the Legislature and literary men are also expected. It is intended also to hold an even ing meeting in connexion with the inauguration, at which Lord Palmerston has promised to be present. Only season ticket holders are to' be admitted to the inaugural ceremony and to the evening meeting. The exhibition will remain open six months, and the charges for admission will be such as to permit the visits of all classes of the dense industrial population of the district. The exhibition is in aid of the building fund, the new buil iing being certainly the largest of the kind that has yet been erected in the kingdom. During his stay in Manchester Lord Palmerston, who now vi its it for the first time, will be the guest of Sir Benjamin Hey wood, Bart., at Claremont. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL WAY.-The working expenses an other outgoings of this company's railways (exclusive of the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincharn, stated below) have amounted in the fortnight ending July 27, to 8,8331. 14s. 3d.; whilst the corresponding period of 1855 amounted to 9,4441. Ids. 7d. The total amount already stated for the first fortnight of the half-year added, to the amount of 8,8831. 141. 3d. above stated makes a total expanded to July 27 of 17,4741. Bs. 101. as against 18,9271. ss. 6d. for the corresponding two fortnights of the previous year. The proportion of the South Junction, &c., re ceipts accruing to the company for the fortnight ending July 27 amounts to 8761. lls. 2d. as against 8891. 10s. for the same period of 1855. The total amount, ae pre viously stated, for the first fortnight of the half-year added to the amount of 8761. 11d. 2d.. above stated, makes a total to July 27, of 1,685/. 12s. 10d., as against 1,8001. 12s. Bd. for the same period of 1855. The pro portion of the South Junction, &c., working expenses, arid other outgoings, amounted, in the fortnight ending July 27, to 4001. 18e. 5d.; whilst the corresponding period of 1855 amounted to 3901. 9.3. 2d. The total amount already stated for the first fortnight of the half year added to the amount of 4001. 18e. 5d., as above, makes a total expended to July 27 of 7991. 15s. 11d., as against 7401. 3s. id. for the corresponding two fort nights of the previous year. JTRISDICTION OF COUNTY COURTS.—Mr. Seddall, wine and spirit merchant, of Liverpool, brought an ac tion on Tuesday, in the county court, against Mr. Bowdler, publican, of Shrewsbury, for 141., the value of a quarter cask of brandy which he had sold to the de fendant. The brandy was still lying at the Albert Dock Warehouses, and the defendant had refused to pay for it until the dock warrant was handed to him. The plaintiff, on the other hand, refused to give up the dock warrant on the ground that it was his only guarantee for payment. Since the removal of the brandy to the Albert Dock, Mr. Seddall had sent in an invoice, upon which was'a memorandum to the effect that no dock warrant was required, as the goods were in the Albert Dock Warehouses and not in an ordinary dock. It being elicited that the brandy was ordered at the de fendant's house in Shrewsbury, the solicitor for the de fence maintained that the case was beyond the jurisdic tion of the Liverpool court. The plaintiff's clerk said that ureiy the plaintiff should have received notice of this bef,ire. His Honour referred to the papers in the case, and found that the plaintiff had made an affidavit that it was a claim for goods sold and delivered within the jurisdiction of the court. His Honour pointed out that this was entirely a false affidavit, but it was an error to which many suitors were liable. The plaintiff must be nonsnited, and could bring his action either in the Shrewsbury court or in any of the superior courts of Westminster. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE AT BARNSLEY.—A large open air meeting of the colliers of this district and the inhabitants of Barnsley was held on Mayday-green on Monday night, for the purpose of considering the d s puta between the workmen employed in the Oaks Col liery and the proprietors, The meeting was numerously attended. On the motion of Mr. J. Senior, Mr. J. Barlow took the chair. Mr. G. Thompson proposed the first resolution. He contended that but for a providen tial interposition the explosion in the pit on the 2d of July would have penetrated into the old workings and sacric fled the lives cf 300 men, and blamed the G 'veto ment inspector for delaying his visit to the pit until the proprietors had time to put it in a proper state. He on*z.luclpd by moving a resolution to that effect. The motion was then seconded by Mr. Seni ir, and carried. The folio wiog resolution was also agreed to :--That this meeting cannot allow the present opportunity to pass without expressing its strong disapproval of those rules recently issued by the proprietors of the Oaks Colliery which relate to the number of hours the men are required to work in the pit ; that the compelling of the miners to work 12 hours per day in the pit is calculated to deprive them of that relaxa tion so necessary to those whose work is so laborious and exhausting, and the moral disadvantages of which cannot be compensated by any benefit they may receive." DE NTH OF A CRIMEAN SOLDIER . —The Yorkshire papers record the sudden death of Serjeant Wallis, a na ' tive of Barnsley or the neighbourhood, under somewhat painful circumstances. Serpent Wallis, who was in the 2d Battalion of. the Rifle Brigade, was in the whole of the Crimean campaign, and he arrived at Aldershot on Friday week in the enjoyment of good health. On arriving at the camp he took off his knapsack and eoat, and said, " Thank God ! I have arrived safely in Old England again ; I'll now have a good rest." A s soon ItB he had uttered these words he fell down and died instantly upon his knapsack. Ile was born in 1818, and was 20 years of age when he entered the service. On the breaking out of the late war his regiment was early under orders for the Crimea, and there he had many hair breadth escapes. At the battle of the Alma, although in its midst he saw his comrades fall thickly around him, be escaped uninjured. He was hotly en gaged in the battle of Inkerman, which he describes as one of the bloodiest battles on record, and where, after firing away all their ammunition, they had to knock out the brains of the enemy with the butt-end of their rifles and run them through with their bayonets. He per formed trench work for eleven months, during which time he suffered severely, in common with the other troops, from exposure to the atmosphere during cold nights, and from want of food, covering, and other ne cessaries. While on duty one night, a shell from the enemy came over into the trench and fell at his side, ex ploded, and smashed the stock of his rifle and cut the scab bard of his bay one t i n two ; b ut h e m i raculously escape d injury, with the exception of a scratch on the back of his ear. In the assault upon the Redan, along with some others of his regiment, he was in.a very dangerous position, be ing engaged in carrying scaling ladders and wool bags for the asaau,t, during which time ho was exposed to showers of grape and cani§tor a whict I,2,rze tawebera at hio - ocura4up • UMW...JO LATEST .Ll EWTS. VIENNA, Aua. 5. Advices from Constantinople, dated the 2d inst., announce that the Russian Ambassador was expected on the following day. Mehemed Kep risla Pacha is to set off very shortly for St Petersburg and Moscow. The quarantine has been re-established in all the Russian ports. Tha Angla-Polish Legion has been disbanded. The Turkish provinces are tranquil. LORD DRUMLANRIG. We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the reported death of Lord Drumlanrig„ at his house in Wilton•crescent. Ris lordship left by the mail train last night for Glen Stewart, Dumfriesshire, in perfect health. HER MAJESTY'S THANKS TO THE CRIMEAN ARMY. GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, sth August, 1856. The Queen, having completed the review of the regiments which served in the Army in the East, has commanded his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in Chief to welcome their return from that arduous service: Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to ex press her admiration of their good order and disci- cline. Victorious when opposed to the brave and enter prising enemy with whom it had to contend, the army has earned the gratitude of the country. The patient endurance of evils inseparable from war, and an instinctive determination to overcome thon, are characteristic of the British soldier ; and the events of the war have proved that those na tional virtueshave_not. degenerated during a long previous peace. - The Queen deplores the loss of many of her best officers and bravest men ; but history will conse crate the ground before Sebastopol as the grave of heroes. By order of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General. WARKWORTEI DOCK COMPANY.—A petition ha t s been presented to wind up this company. - The harvest, says the Kentish Gazette, has been com menced between this city and Whitstable. The wheat that has been cut promises an abundant yield, and is in excallent condition. IRISH GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY.—This most im portant company has decided upon paying a divide d at the rate of six per cent. pPr annum, less income-tax. The matter was arrangedon Friday. The dollars and bar silver brnught by the last West India steamer have been sold respectively at 61d. and 611. d. per oz. This is an advance of id. on dollars and id. on bar silver compared with the prices obtained for the arrivals of last month. THE MALT TRADE.—We have authority to state that the quantity of malt in the stock 114 the several traders on the sth ult. was—in England, 3,518,664 qrs.; and in Scotland and Ireland 102,000 qrs., on which the duty to be repaid is 836,950/., under the provisions of the act 19th and 20th of Victoria, c. 34. IRISH MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—This company has been in 'he habit of paying' at the rate of five per cent., free of income-tax, It is expected that at least one-half per cent. more will be available for the next dividend, in consequence of the increase in the traffic. D/eATII FROM A SUN STROKE,— On Saturday afternoon a man named Joseph Holland, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Barlow, a farmer at Airwood, Stockport, was killed by a sun stroke while hay making. He was seen to stagger and fall, and be was immediately picked up, but he died a few minutes afterwards- The Portuguese Minister of Finance has notified to Mr. Thornton, the chairman of the Portuguese Bond holders, that the agreement proposed for the arrange ment of the debt-has been approved in both Houses of the C rtes. Mr...Thor:ital . ) , has accordingly put forth recommendation that such holders as have not convert ed their bonds should now do so. EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAY.—Certain shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway are getting up a requi sitiln to Mr. William Haling, the chairman of the Rail. way Referee Association, inviting him toallow. himself to be put in nomination for a seat at the board of direcs time at the half-yearly general meeting, which will take place on the 29:h inst. THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT SHEERNESS.—SHEERNESS, Aug. 4.—To day Mr. Emmanuel Roberts, the father of the deceased Richard T. Roberts, with Mre. Roberts, mother of deceased, arrived here from London and iden tified the clothes; hat, &c., of their unfortunate son. They speak in the highest terms of the sober habits and perfect sanity of their son. Ss SUICIDE AT WALTON-ON - THE - NAM — The inquest on the body of Miss Emma Snell, who lately drowned herself in the sea at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, was held on Thursday evening at the Porto Bello Inn. After a long consultation tha jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and the unfortunate creature was interred accord. ingly before nightfall without funeral rites. Miss Snell is said to have been a governess of considerable talent. REPRESENTAvION OF MALDON. —No fewer than five gentlemen have already announced their intention of contesting this borough at the next general election, namely—Mr. Peacock and Mr. Bromley Moore, the present members (both Conseruatives) ; Mr. Thomas Sutton Western, of Kelvedon ; Mr. J. J. Mecbi, of Tiptree-ball ; awl Mr. IVl'Euteer, the barrister, all Liberals. BOROUGH OF THE TOWER HAMLETS.—Mr. Child, the Returning Officer for this borough, has appointed, as Election Auditor, John George Hammack, Esq., one of the magi-trates of the county. THE LEGION or HoNoun.—ln the list published by the Moniteur of officers of the British army decorated with the Legion of Honour by the Emperor of the French for their gallant services in the Crimea, the fol lowing holding commissions in the Ist and 2d battalions of the Rifle Brigade, wern in error described as belong ing to the 97th Regiment :-Ist Batta!ion, Lieutenant- Colonel Edward Arthur Somerset, Major the Hon. Henry Clifford, Lieutenantjohn Brett, Tergeant Timo thy Murphy, and Frikoeis:Wheatley ; 2d Battalion, Lien tenant-Colonel Alex. Atacsleßali, Major Win. Augustus Fyors, Captaid g4iYard ,WO3. Elackett, Lieut. J o l ii) s. .0.4 1 kg9.4.164.40.4140,P50t ' -. • .• •• SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. contain nothing of interest, all their important contents having been anticipated by the letter of that date which reached us yesterday by express. The journals of the Ist have also reached us by express. Royal decrees, in the Gazette, re move Don Jose Afarchess) from the governorship of Navarre, appoint Don Jose Palavia to the same post, and accept the resignation of the governors of the provinces of Alicante, Almeria, Logrono, and Badajoz. The Gazette announces in these terms the negotiations entered into with the insur gents of Saragossa :—" The rebel Junta of Sara gossa has made propositions of submission, and negotiations were carried on during the whole of the 31st." The Gazette then publiEles a despatch announcing the entrance of General Duke into Saragossa. General Orosco, second commander in Granada, had been robbed and ill-treated by a band of highwaymen on his road to Andalusia ; and the Duke de Villahermosa had also been robbed on the highway on his road to France. The Epoea - says that General Gurrea, after vainly trying to induce the populations of Haro and, Logrono to rise, had gone to Alzola, a watering place. According to the same journal the band of 14 insurgents who fled to the mountains of Biscay had, finding that no one joined them, made their submission, and the band of General Rniz, which had taken to the mountains of Catalonia, had disappeared. The Epoca says : " The food question is one of the gravest of the moment. For some time past the municipality of Mad rid, in order to prevent the rise of half a real in the price of bread, has paid everyday from 20,000 to 30,000 rea!s from the municipal treasury ; but it cannot con tinue this sacrifice muoh longer. In some towns of the province of Madrid, the difficulties are greater than in the capital. At Vilcavaro to-day there was no bread at all, and the Madrid authorities were consequently obliged to send the secretary of the civil governor to the place to make arrangements for procuring a supply." The soldiers who had completed their period of service were about to be definitively discharged. The Queen had approved of the programme of the ceremonial to be observed on the marriage of the Infanta Dona ,A.malia with Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. A letter from Madrid states that Marshal 0' Donnell has sent a circular to the captains-general and military commandants, ordering them to trans mit to him before the 15th inst. a detailed report of the political situation of the provinces under their command. Each report is also to contain propositions in favour of such officers and soldiers as have distinguished themselves in the late out break in defence of order and of the constitutional throne. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Emperor will return to St. Cloud on the 9th. His MaSesty does not intend leaving the capital before the 15th, but there will not be any official reception on that day. His Majesty will visit Luneville before his return to Paris, and is expected there on the Bth. The town and mili tary division are preparing a brilliant reception. There will be grand military manoeuvres, and at night splendid illuminations. The Emperor will visit Epinal, it is said, on the 6th. The trial of the reapin g -machines, seen at the Ag icultural Exhibition o f Paris, came off on Sa turday last, at La Planchette, near Villiers, com mune of Neuilly (Seine), in a field belonging to the Count de Beranger. The machines of Messrs. Bella, Dray, and Laurent were the only ones that per formed their task. The jury unanimously gave the following decision :—No first prize ; two second prizes of 100 f. and a silver medal, one to M. Bella and another to M. Laurent, ee cequo ; third prize, 300 f. and a bronze medal to Mr. Wm. Dray ; no fourth prize. BOURSE, Aug. s.—The following were the latest quotations : Cash. tr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents 94 10 ---f. —e. 3 per Cents 7O 40 70 55 • New Loan 7O 50 _ Bank Shares 4 , 075 Roman Credit Iliobilier 1,600 Austrian Belgian Fives 99l— Spanish Threes.... • . Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt ........„ RAILWAYS-POE CASH. 88i 874 44 39i fr. c. fr. a Orleans 1,402 50 Western ' 962 50 Northern Lyons ... 1,430 New Ditto . 855 Mediterranean...,-. 1,840 Grand Central Lyons Geneva BlO Testa Cott° r., ►_ RUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia has, on the report of the Minister of Finance, expressed his gratitude to the Russo-American Compimy for the excellent mea- Bares adopted by it to insure the provisioning of the Russian colonies during the late war, and to prevent the stagnation of commerce during that trying period. A letter from Stockholm, in the Boersenhalle of Hamburg, says :—" According to letters from Fin land, Russia is adopting different measures, which would seem to imply an intention of forming a large fortified naval establishment in the island of Kasko, the northward of Christiansand and Sunds wall. Tbis island will be a very desirable place for such a purpose, as the water there is very deep, and the navigation of the port is open much longer than the others of the Gulf of Bothnia." A letter from Posen, in the Silesia Gazette, says : —" The fortifications of this place, on which men have been employed since 1829, are now terminated as far as regards the immediate enclosure of the city and the faubourgs. It will require at least 10 years more to complete the works as it is proposed they shall be." A letter from Dantzic of the Ist, in the Inde pendance of Brussels, says :—" The affair of the Companions of Dantzic has just been arranged to general satisfaction. A commission, ap pointed for that purpose, has proposed to re move the management of all the Caisses de Secours from the hands of one employe, which plan was the cause of the dispute, and. to con fide to the different trades the management of their respective funds, on condition that the com munal administration of the city shall not be obliged to render the members any pecuniary as sistance. Guarantees to that efleot will be re quired. This proposition has received the assent of the principal authorities." A letter from Rome, in the Correspondance Italien'ne, of Turin, says that the address of the municipality of Bologna to the Papal Government on tne,subject of the Austrian occupation, is being secretly circulated in Rome, notwithstanding the efforts of the Government to keep it secret. The same letter mentions a duel between two French officers, one of whom was killed, but it gives no particulars. A letter from Scutari of the 20th ult., in the A gram Gazette, says :—" The Kuciens have not been made to submit by the expedition of the Mon tenegrins, but only punished. Their territory was devastated, 300 old men, women, and children massacred, but the virile and armed population bad withdrawn into the mountains. The Monte negrins have withdrawn without leaving any gar risons, or taking real possession of the country. The French consul had done all in his power to deter Prince Dauilo from undertaking this expe dition, and the latter had given counter-orders, which arrived too late." AUSTRIAN NAVY.—The Pays says :—" Aust r i a is at present making very serious efforts to i ncrease her navy. The first line-of-battle ship (90 guns) which she ever thought of possessing was put on the stocks at Pole a few days back, under the name of the E m p eror , an d is to have a screw propeller, with an 800-horse power. Two other ships of the line of the same dimensions are likewise to be immediately commenced, and according to orders sent from Vienna are to be urged on as rapidly as possible. Independently of these first•rate vessels, two screw-frigates, the Adxia and the Danube, are being terminated in the yards of Moggia, as well as a screw corvette at Venice, which has received the name of the Vice-Admiral Dandolo, in honour of the admiral of that name who died lately. At the same time the armament of a screw-despatch boat, the Prince Eugene, of Savoys - is so nearly completed that she will be ready for sea la the beginning of Augubt. To complete these measures Austria is about to found two maritime arsenals, one at Fiume, and the other at Lussin. Since the war in the East all the nations of Europe perceive clearly that. s. naval force is indi s p ensa bl e t o enable t4ow tO prAWI--' thcq re/A.4W LaTine.4l.-tkowerii,_!, ' .4 , } rni, the but clef, ezt