The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-31 00:00:00

THEATRE , ROYAL, DRURY LANE. — Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.—Mr. E. T. Smith has the gratification of announcing that he has succeeded in making arrangements with Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., of Regent-street, for the appearance of those eminent artistes, Signor Mario, Signor Lorini, Signor Rovere, Signor Albicini, Mons. Gassier, Herr Formes, Madame Grisi, Madam e Ama dei, and Madame Gassier, who will perform in a series of Italian operas at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, This Even ing and during the week, being their last appearances previous to their departure for the Continent —THIS EVENING, will be performed the First Act of NORMA. Norma, Mdm. Grisi ; Adelgisa, Madame Sedlatzek ; Pollio, Signor Lorini ; and Oroveso, Herr Formes. After which, Rossini's opera comique, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Supported by Madame Gassier, Signori Lorini, Rovere, Maltoni, Herr Formes, and M. Gassier. The music of the operas will be aided by a full Band and Chores (selected from the Corps of the two Italian Operas and the leading musical societies of the metropolis), under the direction of Signor Li-Calzi. Chorus—Soprani—Mes dames Chierichi, Byers, Sharp, and Cook ; Contralti, Gold smith, Weller, and Jackson ; Tenori—Signori Gabussi, Chic richi, Sharp, and Grice ; Bassi —Mattoni, Talamo, Stuart, and Fabretti, assisted by others of the Royal Italian Opera. Band—Chef d'Attaque, Zerbini (the Royal Italian Opera), Simmonds (the Royal Italian Opera), Kelly (the Royal Italian Opera), Bort (the Royal Italian Opera), Torneur (the Royal Italian Opera). Viola—Alsept (the Royal Italian Opera) ; Violoncello— Vieuxtemps (the Philharmonic andJullicn's Con certs); Contra-basso—Kliegl (the Philharmonic and Jullien's Concerts); Flute—Remusat (the Philharmonic and Jullien's Concerts) ; Oboe—Lavigne !her Majesty's Theatre) ; Clarionet -Sonnenberg (her Majesty's Theatre) ; Bassoon —Hardy (her Majesty's Theatre) ; Trumpet —LelouP (the Phil harmonic and Jullien's Concerts) ; Horns - Stockel (the Philharmonic and Jullien's Concerts), Griebeu (the Philhar monic and Jullien's Concerts) ; Trombone --Donizetti (the Philharmonic and Jullien's Concerts) ; Tympani—Jefferson (the Royal Princess's Theatre). Prompter—Sig. Galli. In order that these fi r st-class musical entertaiments may be placed within the reach of the public generally,n the charges f o r ad mission will be reduced from the tariff of the Italian Opera prices to the old playhouse prices of Drury-lane Theatre. The music may be obtained and places booked at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, Regent-street ; and at the box-office of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. The Free List will be entirely suspended. Doors open at half-past 7. Commenee at 8. REA TRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. TTHIS EVENING and To•morrogr, O'Keefe's revived comedy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr. Murdoch, who is nightly received with enthusias ; Thunder, Mr. Chip pendale ; Ilarry Thunder, Mr. E Villiers; John Dory, Mr. R oge rs ; Ephraim Smooth, Mr. Compton ; Sim, Mr. Back stone ; Lady Amaranth, Miss Talbot ; Jane, Miss Bella Cope land. After which, the renowned Spanish Dancers, Perea Nena and her Company, in EL GAMBUSINO. To be followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE, being the last two nights it can be performed for a long period, and in which Miss Blanche Fane and Mr. Backstone will sustain their original characters. Concluding with the GALLICIAN FETE. On Moiday THE DRAMATIST (Vapid, Mr. Murdoch) ; the Spanish Dancers; and the new comedy of SECOND LOVE, in which Miss Reynolds will re-appear. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Positively the Last Week of those popular favourites, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, the original Irish ! Boy and Yankee Gal, previous to their departure to the pro vinces.-11th and Last Week of Ireland As It Is.—Last Nights of Lucifer Matches, or The Yankee -- !—The Irish Tutor ; and Our Gal.—Mr. Wrightevery night in the screaming Adelphi Farce of Domestic Economy.—THlS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS ; or, The Middleman. Ragged Pat, Mr. Barney Williams (who will sing " Billy O'Rourke," and dance with Mrs. Barney Williams their cele brated Irish jig); Judy O'Trot, Mrs. Barney Williams (their original characters, and. performed by them 763 nights in America). With DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Grumly, Mr Wright; Mrs. Grumly, Miss Wyndham. And LUCIFER MATCHES. Phelim O'Bogherty, Mr. Barney Williams ; Comfort Cruller (afterwards Mephistopheles), Mrs. Barney Williams, with the song of " Woman's Convention," a new version of " Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel." To morrow a variety of popular Performances, for the Farewell Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, previous to their departure for the provinces. Madame Celeste will make her first appearance this season on Monday next, Nov. 3, in a popular Drama. Mr. Leigh Murray will appear (for the first time here these 12 months) on Monday next in a new comic drama, called A Border Marriage, in which Mr. Wright and Miss Wyndham will also perform. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING and during the week will he presented Shakspea.re's play of A MIDSUMMER NIGNT'S DREAM. To conclude with Sheridan's tragic play of PIZARRO (compressed into three act=). Mendels sohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7. L YCEUM THEATRE ROYAL. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. Seventh and last week of Belphegor, which, notwithstand ing the nightly crowded state of the theatre, must be with drawn for the production of promised novelties.—The King's Musketeers every evening. THIS EVENING, BELPHEGOR. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dillon. THE KING'S- SEITSKETEERS. D'Ar• tagnan, Mr. C. Dillon ; Constaner.:Miss Woolgar. To con chide with the Ballet from The Winter's Tale burlesque. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under the Management of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr. H. Maston ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. F. Robinson ; Mo 41ns, Mr. Belford ; Fathom, Mr. L. Ball ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. W. H. Eburne ; Wilford, Mr. T. C. Harris ; Julia Miss M. Eburne ; Helen, Miss E. Travers. To conclude with I'LL WRITE TO " THE TIMES." ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, DRED. Tom Gordon, Mr. Shep herd ; Bred, Mr. Creswick ; Harry, Mr. Potter ; Uncle Tiff, Mr. Widdicomb ; Clayton, Mr. F. Charles ; Nina Gor don, Miss A. Biddies ; Cora Gordon, Miss Jackson. Mons. Fillis and Family. After which, A QUIET FAMILY. To conclude with THE FOSTER SISTERS. TRAND THEATRE. —Manager, Mr. T. Payne.—THlS EVENING will be performed BASNABY BUDGE. After which, BELPIrEGOR (Travestie). Mesdames Cuth bert, Woolledge, E. Jacobs, &c. ; Messrs. H. J. Turner, Clarke, Herbert, &c. ; Master Edoniu. To conclude with OTT ON THE LOOSE. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is, ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, TIT FOR T.T. Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Robson. - A MODEL 01 4- A WIFE. Bonnefoi, Mr. A. Wizan. HEDEA. Creon, Mr. Addison ; Jason, Miss Thirlwall ; Orpheus, Miss Maskell ; Crensa, Miss M. Stanley ; Medea, Mr, F. Robson. Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYA.L AMPRITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (Thirteenth Week), embellished by Equestrian Illusirations by Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained Horses, Sbakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Richard, Mr. James Holloway. Novel and electric effects! After which, the unique SCENES in the CIRCLE, GYM NASTIC WONDERS, &c., &c. To conclude with a number of attractive and pleasing Amusements. Commence at Seven. Box-ofice open from Eleven till Four Stage Manager, Mr. NV , West, Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, inn. it[ 0,11. WA.TER, AT LONDON intiDGE. Tam DAT—Morn. 1 min. aft. 3 —Evening 15 min. aft. 3 To-NI ORBOW—Morn. 31 min. aft 3—Evening 43 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE. OCTOBER 31. TEIZRMOMETEB, IN Tlll4 SHADS. 57 —highest singe noon yesterday. 52 —lowest this morning and during the night.. 58 -this day at noon. Battowrrits, down to 30'13—now up to 30 . 10. WIND, S.S.W.--Light, with dull, rainy weather. There was some rain in the night, which continued this morning. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sim, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 3 till 7 o'clock every evening. LINPON, FRIDAY; OCTOBER 31, 1856. r. hieribers in the Country will please to abler re that the heading, " TUIRD EDITION" N always to be seen on the papers con t a i n i ng the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun. Office will remedy it. s un office, 112, Strand. 15 t - 7 A( AA A4V.4- " We only regret the moderation which led us to conclude the struggle as soon as we had gained the exact amount of advantage necessary for our object, instead of protracting it until our superio rity Iv" not only obtained, but so notorious as to be incapable of misrepresentation !" Such are ,tow the views of the Times in reference to the " Precious Peace," and we gladly hail so powerful a coadjutor. These were not the opinion:, enter tained when we were reproved for placing our columns in mourning, and of all our London daily contemporaries the good and faithful Morning Ad r . r rtiv.r alone advocated the principles we had fearlessly put forward through good rep)rt and evil report. Neither the Advertiser nor The Sun bad been infected by Germanism. We felt the enormous sacrifices that had been so cheerfully submitted to by the people, and we grieved that thrcugh any truckling or toadyism those sacrifices should be rendered fruitless. We pointed out that it was at best but a hollow truce, that would only be maintained so long as it was convenient t o do $O, and until kuaeia could again throw THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1856. a way the scabbard, after having re cruited her losses at the expense of her T iondara adversaries, and contrived, by her insi di Ills conduct, to occasion lukewarmness, if not division, between her leading opponents. Feeling this, we were by no means mealy mouthed in giving expression to our thoughts, and speaking as became an English journal devoted to the honour and interests of Great Britain ; and it is but an act of simple justice to say that the Morning Advertiser pursued a steady and straightforward course in the same direction. We have seen to cause for tergiversation ; and we truly rejoice at finding so powerful a coadjutor as the Tinle4 at length awakened to Muscovite perfidy, and resolved to nail the English standard to the mast—to be neither bullied nor cajoled into play that 40/, of the Yorkahireman's gold had vanished, and vanished where he dreamed of nothing but merriment and good-will—and he " c,oo'd not ha' belev'd it." ing the Russian game. As we long since stated, Russia never for a moment abandoned the traditional policy, inaugu rated by the first PETER. At the moment of signing the Treaty she was as fully determined on Cossackising Europe as at any period during her turbulent career. Whether the object was to be ,btained by fraud or force was a matter of pro found indifference—save that success by the compound of dissimulation aad insincerity, which she is pleased to dignify with the name of "Diplomacy," would, of the two, be the more agreeable, and would also probably cost the less. As to the lives of the miserable serfs, who, by a fearful system of military political arithmetic, are used as counters in the tremendous game, they would be thought nothing of but for the pecu niary value assigned to each. A Russian soldier costs money as well as, although less in propor tion than, a French or English one—but no super fluous elements connected with humanity will be permitted to encumber the calculations. We have, from time to time, pointed out the palpable bad faith of Russia—so far as the per formance of the undertakings for which she had pledged herself were concerned. We know that from the natural exhaustion that had necessarily followed her energetic attempts to carry on the war she had so wantonly provoked, she was com pelled to close with any terms that were offered. Unfortunately the Allied Powers acted on the principle of " saving the honour of Russia" rather than of obtaining efficient and satisfactory gua -antees for the peace and tranquillity of Europe. They released her on her own recognisances trusting that she would have profited by the painful but salutary lesson. The Russian Plenipotentiaries were, however, wise in their generation. They saw that " the heart" of one of the Allies was by no means in the War, and they fondly hoped that in pur uance of the suggestions of PETER, in his so-called will, they could weaken some of the links in the chain by which the alliance was cemented. Time only can tell whether they were deceived in that calculation. We regret to say that we do not feel justified in speaking very confidently on the subject I It is scarcely possible to suppose that if equal cordiality existed that was believed during the earlier stages of the War, the defences of Kars would have been impaired, and those of Kilia-Ismail and Reni demolished, that the Isle of Serpent would hare been seized on, or the despicable quibble respectng Bolgrad put forward. Indeed it is now more than hinted, and with much appearance of truth, -hat many of these steps are not altogether ascribable to Muscovite inspiration, and that some parties holding official rank in France cannot be !xonerated from every imputation in reference thereto. The onslaught on the English Press so wantonly adventured on by the Moniteur nay be regarded as one of the preliminary symp - mom of an intention to raise an argument. The ifoniteur must know as well as its master that the English Ministry is utterly powerless on such a point ; and that the freedom of the Press or the rights of hospitality will never be surrendered by Great Britain. No matter what may be the cost ,hey will be defended to the last man and the last shilling, and woe to those who enter on the reckless attempt to subvert either of these highly cherished institutions. Russia is now talking of sending ships of war through the Bosphorus to the Euxine, and giving her Baltic fleet an airing. Specious pretexts will easily be discovered for either course, and it is by no means impossible that a squa dron, which at ono time manifested no desire to stir from beneath the shelter of the batteries of Cronstadt, may now be de tached professedly for the purpose of escorting the EXPRESS, and that they may find refuge in a French port, there to await the rapidly-approach ing crisis. It is said that we are fraternising with Austria—that a perfect understanding exists between the Cabinets of London and Vienna. This is the unkindest cut of all. We fear the friendship of Austria far more than the enmity of Russia or the lukewarmness of France. Save us from our so-called friends ! We can defend ourselves against every open opponent. The present state of affairs is of a peculiarly ominous character. There is a dark cloud lowering on the political horizon that may, ere long, involve Europe in a sanguinary war, where neutrality will be impossible. We must prepare ourselves for that alternative, and tho extent of that prepa ration will be the best, in fact the only efficient, preventive. The first step will be to check the continued drain of bullion, and sake care that neither France, Russia, nor Austria shall feather their nests at our expense, and avail themselves of our unwise and iniquitous monetary code, to plunder us of the sinews of war, by means whereof we can only maintain our former prestige in th e hour of trial. " I coom fra' Yorkshire, I coo'd not ha' be ley'd it," said the Yorkshire captain the other day to Mr. SELF& ; and, indeed, Mr. SELFE himself said, " It was strange, but true, that the captains and mates of ships plundered by loose women were generally Scotchmen or Yorkshiremen, or from Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;" and well might the ma gistrate say so, for hardly had the Yorkshireman done his tale, when a Newcastle man told another pretty much like it. He had been kindly relieved, a t Poplar, of twenty-eight sovereigns, by a young lakly of nineteen, by whom he was adroitly inveigled into a dark corner, and who, of course, handed the treasure to another lady, and could tell the magistrate with truth that she had got none of the money ; while he had no alternative but to discharge her, and let her go to where she might find it. The poor fellow who had " coom Ira' Yorkshire " was not a whit more fortunate ; thirty sovereigns and twenty half-sovereigns, 401. of good hard-earned gold, had vanishe i at the Kettle and Drum, in Ratcliffe-highway, while he wa s "larking, with several women there, and, when hemissed it, all the women had disappeared:' most unaccountably the gold and the fair houris had disappeared, it seems, together. One of the larking damsels was brought up, but it seemed as impossible to identify the lady as to of the sovereign s she had taker , i T d h e : r t e ify nyshaewas, and some others of the same Eeluctive class were also somewhere, looking, doubtless, very assured, perhaps protesting ho nesty ; only one thins, noweyer, was certain Well, while captains are captains, such surprises we fear are likely to happen on the banks of the Thames, at the East End of our huge metropolis— and even to captains who " coom fra' Yorkshire." Long heads have enjoyed no exemption since the days of SOLOMON from the power of temptation if they do not keep out of it. JOSEPH'S plan is the only one, and even he paid a heavy penalty for virtue. We must set it down, therefore, for certain, that long heads will be beaten by seduc- tive faces at the East End if they venture among I them. We wish, however, it were at the East End only. There are certain gentlemen who " coom fra' Tiverton," and the House of Lords, and a few other places, and who locate them selves in a well-known public office on the banks of Father Thames, at the West End, who seem to be quite as strangely at the mercy of known tempters in their line. A wary old Captain in Ministerial service, who has served with crews innumerable, and been Secretary at War or Fo reign Secretary some five-and-thirty years, who knows right well the object of the coaxing ones, who has shown his temper at their misbe haviour so often, at least, that people began to think he would not be duped by them, and yet— we " doo'd not ha' belev'd it"—he, too, comes before us bewailing, like others, that he's done out of his gold, or rather out of •ur gold. When we so luckily cut loose from Hanover we all hoped that Germany would plague us no more. We had had enough, and more than enough, of the Electorate ; and often did we heartily wish that the Elbe had carried it out to sea, and sub merged it for four-and-twenty hours. PROVIDENCE gave us a better release. But, alas ! we were in for it elsewhere. Kings must have Queens, and Queens must have, if not Kings, fathers of Kings, tnd no one at home being of blood divine enough for that honour we must be married to some foreigner ; and if to a foreigner, where could ono be found Royal and Protestant, too, but in Ger many ? The result is that all the influences of kindred bearing on the Court are German influ ences--German uncles and aunts, cousins, male and female, and all the host of affines, as well as consanguiAei, till Austria, and we know not how many of the little Powers, and Prussia in the patio post, have fairly got hold of our Court; and whoever is offended, every connection of the little German Dukedom must be kept in good temper. But would not the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton be proof against all this ? He had shown some little respect to KOSSUTH, and had dared to think, after his long practice, he could write a foreign despatch without Lord JOHN RussELL's and the Coburgs' censorship ; he had been duly lectured for such impertinence, and even .ent about his business. He had, more over, taken no steps to punish the Banksiders, and poured no oil and wine into the cartwhip wounds of the woman-logger ; he rather wickedly stood by and laughed at the wry faces of the Coburgs and the Hapsburgs. Surely he, of all Cabinet Captains, would not get into dark corners, on a German Drum and Kettle, and lose all the repu tation he had acquired ! Alas ! the well-known deceptiveness of political hopes ; the War Minis ter surrenders at last all the way through to Austria. She was allowed to sketch the plan of a peace when the war would have reached Poland, and shaken Hungary and Italy ; was allowed to aid her votes to those, already numerous enough, of the despots at Paris ; was allowed to escape all the cost of the war ; to feed her troops, the expense of the Principalities ; to break every promise ; to liberate Russian troops to attack our army ; to enact the coward, the bully, and the villain at once ; and then to swagger or smile as she pleased at the Peace Conference, as one of the greatest of the great. Surely if Lord PAL MERSTON had not been cajoled by Austrian Syrens nearer at hand he would have kicked such a political prostitute out of the Council Chamber. He would never have allowed his pocket to be picked of the honourable policy open to him and to his country. We will freely own that Austria was very dee p with him, and with some one else too. She had cut Louis I\TArerzoN out of a wife, yet she got him over to her view, and he knew Lord PAL MERSTON'S weak side. Like other seducers, Austria did not set about her victim alone. The parvenu Despot, she well knew, needed the aid of an old Despot. She had also plenty of argu ments to show that despots must now hang to gether. Free and Constitutional England was not a convenient associate for subjugated France, and Sardinia too was not a pleasant looking-glass for neighbour tyrants. So the HAPSBURG and the NAPOLEON, and the COBURGS (via the Duke of BRABANT) all combine to do the Herr Voa Palmerston. And just now how completely is he at the mercy of Austria and of Louis NAPO LEON. He would have liked, no doubt, left to himself, to have at least left a trace of the PAL MEP.sTON administration in the condition of Italy. But no, Austria and the elected Emperor forbid. A little show of vigour would upset the BOURBONS in Italy for ever, but republics or constitutions would follow. For dear Austria's sake that must not be. Italy must be in fetters, and England and PALMERSTON lose their reputation and influ ence with all Europe, because PALMERSTON is cajoled by the COBURGS, Austria, and Louis NAPOLEON ! We " coo'd not ha' belev'd it." LATEST NEWS. CALAIS, THURSDAY NIGHT. Four steamers of the Russian fleet have been signalled. They will be in harbour to-morrow morning. The official order has arrived by tele graph to have a supply of coal ready for them. These steamers are a portion of the Russian squadron, so long talked of. TELIERA.N, OCT. 6. The English expedition to the Persian Gulf has paused great alarm here. The Persian troops of the army of Affghanistan have been sent to occupy the country around Herat. NAPLES, OUT. 29. The Ambassadors were ready to depart on the 28th. M. Breuier has, it is said, consented to delay, upon concessions proposed. Another telegraph says they are expected at Marseilles on the Ist. General Lanza replaces General Gaeta as go vernor of Naples. Considerable military precau tions continue to be adopted. The city was tramquil, but trade dull. The Gazette th Midi has received by the last packet from Naples the following intelligence, the exactitude of which it guarantees : " The English and French Legations, on re ceiving orders to act definitively, applied to M. de Caraffa to fix a day on which they might communicate to him the tenour of their despatches. The Honourable Minister appointed the 21st for the purpose, in order to give himself time to confer with the King. On that day Baron Brouier and Mr. Petre proceeded to the Minister's hotel, and the English diplomatist read a note couched in violent terms; Baron Bre nier read another to the same purpose, but in more courteous language. M. de Caraffa replied that he should have wished to receive the visit of these gentlemen for a more agreeable purpose, and that he regretted not to have any answer to give them. Baron Brenier then said that on the S3.turday (25th), he would have recourse to his (the Minister's) kindness for his passports. The other declared that he was quite at his service. The two Ministers then took their leave." A letter from Montenegro of the 18th, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says :—" Prince Danilo has received from the Russian consul the assurance that Russia and France have taken Mon tenegro under their protection." The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second Edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says : " I hear from authentic sources that an unusual amount of Russian influence, or intrigue, is being used at Constantinople in order to induce the Porte to demand the retirement of the English vessels in the Black Sea, and the evacuation of the Austrian forces now in the Danubian Princi- palities. According to late despatches, it was very doubtful if those who oppose English policy n the East world not succeed. The changed lan• guage of some persons about the Sultan had given rise to suspicions which are not foreign to the traditional corruption of Turkish officials. " It was not at Naples, but at Civita Tecchia, that Baron Brenier embarked, according to a telegraphic despatch from Marseilles. He left Naples for Rome, and from Rome went to Civita Vecchia, Where a French ship waited to take him to Marseilles. A private reason may be given for this ; but it is really to prevent a French vessel of war appearing in the Neapolitan waters. There is no desire here to alarm the King, or to occa- sion excitement among the people, which the pre- sence of the French or English flag in the Bay might do. " Something is said of the probability of an ar rangement by the King making concessions after the departure of the Ambassadors, but I cannot say that it rests on any good foundation. " The Monitov has thought proper to give a lesson on good manners to the English press; and, doubtless by way of showing how favourably the lecture has been received, and with what ready acquiescence it will be acted upon, the official Chesterfield this day displays in its most promi nent page, and in its largest and boldest type, three long articles from the Morning Post, the Standard, and the Morning Chronicle. These articles, which bear pretty much the same rela tion to the note of the Moniteur that the orations of the mover and seconder of the ad dress do to the Speech from the Throne, that is, the echo or the paraphrase, it seems to consider as representing the sentiments or opinions of the whole English people, for it quotes no other public organ. The other Paris journals were, it is true, permitted to give an extract from the Times on the same subject, but tho extract was merely the paragraph which contained a just eulo gium on the conduct of the Emperor Napoleon in the Russian war, but they went no further. " When a stranger takes upon himself to re monstrate with us on the morality of our life, to control our domestic concerns, to examine into the manner in which we conduct our households, &c., if we did not inform him that such unasked for intermeddling was impertinent, we would at all events be justified in requiring that before he as sumed the office of a monitor he should himself be free from all reproach on that head. When the in spirers of the Moniteur feel so sensitive about im pairing the entente between the two nations, they should look first at home. They have supreme control over the press of their own country, and whether it be Ministerial or otherwise, they have the power to suspend or silence for ever any journal in the French Empire. Hardly a num ber of the Assemblee Nationale, the Univers, or the Union appears in which the institutions, the foreign and domestic policy, and the re. igious creed of the great majority of Englishmen are not denounced, and in which sometimes the basest motives are not attributed to the acts of our public men, and generally to the whole nation. Yet we do not call upon the French authorities to exercise their arbitrary power and silence our censors ; we occasionally answer them and defend ourselves as best we can, and we have no official organ at our command to menace them with a rupture of the friendly un derstanding between their Governments if they do not cease reviling. " The journals just mentioned are not the only ones in which those amenities appear. There is a paper published at Strasburg called the Abacien. It ha; as its frontispiece an Imperial eagle, surmounted with a crown, forke d lightning shoots out horizontally from his talons, he 6raspa the thunder, and is encircled with what is intended as a halo of glory. There are other indications, too, which show its political colour ; and a notice i e n pe i c t i s a l f y r o a n p t p ' P o i a n g t il e d tinformso7 üblitslhie tiFements of the arrondissem ent. We therefore t p h u e hl o ic ffic t i h al at ad it ver is_ infer that it is more or less the organ of the local authorities ; that, in fact, it is the journal of the Prefectuxe, and consequently under official patronage and control. The dlisacien, moreover, is printed half in German and half in French, so that its lucubration& are made familiar to the German as well as the French population of the Rhine. The Alsacien, has for. some time past been publishing a series of articles on what it calls " Les Gros Peches Politiques do l'Angleterre," and in which it reveals, for the edification of the double nationality of its readers, the enormities of British statesmen and of the British people. In its number of the 2G th of September last I find, among others, the follow ing passages : " Let it, then, be well understood, and the English journals cannot complain of this explanation, that their humourist escapades are merely the result of at mospheric variations. It may be established as a principle that in certain respects their aggressive po lemics are but a question of the barometer ; their mani festations descend the scale of good manners to the forgetfulness of all conventional rulei., and even down to brutality," &c. "We do not mean to say that side by side with these excesses, which in our eyes are insig nificent peccadilloes, we have not to reproach England in general, as well as its statesmen and its press in par ticular, with other grievances still more serious, founded on their selfish and aggressive policy. We find in them certain penchants which have become chronic, and which, inspired by the spirit of mercantilism and domination, are manifested by acts in which deceit and violence are too often employed instead of frankness:and generosity." Again, on the 12th of the present month, th• Alsacien says : The descendants of the proud and rude preux who shared in the labours of William (the Conqueror) and his successors have remained the aristocratic portion of English society, and they continue to possess the soil conquered by their ancestors. They would think it a disgrace to apply to manufacturing industry, or to traffic. pro- ?roperly so called. But they have become, apparently without degradation, agriculturists, breeders of cattle, and coal merchants. After such a social transformation it would be vain to expect from them disinterestedness or magnanimity in their political acts, or in their inter national relations. Every thing is based on calculation ; and selfishness and thirst of gain universally prevails. In the history of England there is not a single war re corded which was not undertaken with a view, more or less patent, to commercial interests. Not a single durable ;peace has been made by them without the arriby pewee of resuming hostilities as soon as possible if their mercantile speculations were not amply satisfied. " Let us now see how England applies these disposi tions in her international relations. We only find con tradictions, bad dealing, and insolent pretensions. In her foreign relations England has declared herself alter nately, and sometimes at the same moment, according to place and circumstances, the champion of pure mon archy or of absolutism. Since 1815 the wind keeps pretty constant in the Liberal quarter. Let us not be deceived, however ; these ideas she only professes for nations independent of her domination. For those that are under her yoke there is another regime, and the flagrant contradictions between her external acts and her pretensions give her no anxiety whatever." "To illustrate this passage Ireland is brought forward. Speaking of India the Alsacien says : The populations are oppressed in the most revolting manner, and recent disclosures show how liberal England obtains the payments of her imposts. The stick and the torture are the means of persuasion used towards the re fractory taxpayers. Portugal has become the tributary and satellite of England since the Treaty of Methuen. From that period English manufactories supplied the wants of the Portuguese, and the English merchants have almost exclusively to their profit all the principal branches of commerce. Portugal is in the eyes of England the model country ; and the fate of Portugal is that which she reserves for all other States if she could realise her cupidity. Naturally, such conduct is not of a nature to invite confidence on the part of other nations. It is with the utmost reserve and with the greatest precau tions that the Sovereigns of weak States accept the alli ance3of England. Such mistrust is not to the advan tage of England, and she seeks a remedy for it by put ting herself forth as the champion of libera lism.' "Again, on the 19th of the present month, it describes you thus : Everything is calculation in England. The English nation is merely an agglomeration of traders and specu lators. The habits of the counting-house have for ages invaded the regioas of Government. Statesmen are forced to regulate their policy according to the interests of com merce. All their relations with foreign nations are made subordinate to the balanee of profit and loss. Lift up the veil of 'disinterestedness and magnanimity with which her diplomatists cover her most memorable acts, and you shall find nothing but speculation inspired by mercantilism. Scrape a Chatham, and you will find a commercial agent. Everything in England is made subordinate to commercial and trading prosperity ; for in her social organisation that prosperity is the only true basis of her power and grandeur. Since 1815 there has not been a single revolutionary movement which did not find more or leas sympathy in England, when it had not been provoked by her, and everywhere she places alt the obstacles in her power to the re-establishment of order France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, &c., have had to undergo successively that sinister in fluence. That very policy is still nothing but calcula tion. We have seen how she treats the nations that are subjected to her domination. She cares very little about liberal principles. English liberalism abroad is merely a speculation, a means of securing markets for her trade and her manufactured products. ' When, at a later period, England declined associating herself with the Holy Alliance, her doing su must not be attributed to any sincere regard for liberty. A period of calm was to follow the long wars which had ex hausted Europe. The Holy Alliance was intended by its promoters as an additional guarantee for the Treaties of the Congress of Vienna. It was, therefore, contrary to the speculation of English vies-cant lisra, which fore saw the approach of continental industry, and the suc cessive creation of Cu-toms' leagues. It was a merely personal interest whichiprevented her from joining the Holy Alliance. She preferred being isolated, because that position gave her greater liberty of aotion to carry on her policy according to the wants and exigencies of her traffic. But in spite of the skill she displayed in her foreign relations, the whole of the great continental States have very little taste for the new English system of free trade,and have closed their ports to her products. It was for this that she called to her aid the panacea of the principles of liberalism.' " The character given of us by the semi-official Alsacien is not, as you see, very flattering. We are treated by it as unprincipled politicians, ruth less tyrants, spoilers, hypocrites, and false to all obligations ; and even the very few fair qualities we may exhibit are assumed merely to cover the baseness of our real character, and to dupe, cheat, oppress, and plunder friends and foes alike. " Now the Alsacien has a perfect right to judge us as it pleases, and that judgment will not provoke the English Government to retaliate in the London Gazette, if the Gazette be not a myth. Yet if the inspirers of the Moniteur are so sensitive as to apprebpd that the Anglo- French alliance may be imperilled by the language of a part of the English press, they surely ought to begin by reprimanding one of their own proteges for the character it gives of us to the French and German people, particularly when that paper depends for its prosperity, and perhaps its exist ence, on the will of the Prefect, and when the Prefect in turn depends on the Government. At all events, they should look at home before giving lessons on truth and -politeness to other people." FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY The steam corvette Du Chayla left Toulon on the 23th on a special mission. It is probable that her destination is Civita Vecchia, to convey Baron Brenier to France. BOURSE, Oct. 30.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 66 55 66 45 .......... 66 25 NOW Loan .. Bank Shares 3,875 Boman Credit Mobilier ...... 1,360 Austrian Belgian Fives .. 99i— Spanish Threes...... Piedmontese (5) ...... 89 Home Debt ......... 38 RAILWAYS —FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c Orleans ...............1,245 Western Northern ............... 941 25 Strasburg Lyons ..................1,262 50 Now Ditto Mediterranean 1,650 Grand Central 602 50 Ly o ns Geneva 702 50 Tests Cette .................. 680 Austrian Com. .. • . RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 21st says : "During his stay at Moscow, the envoy of the Sultan, on being asked as to whether the pro longed occupation by the Austrian troops of the Principalities was contrary to the views and wishes of the Turkish Government, is said to have replied that, as far as he had been in formed, his government expected that the evacua tion would take place as soon as the affairs of -Mol davia and Wallachia should be settled. Russia, in consequence of this information, did not think it necessary to demand through France that Austria should evacuate the Principalities. All the Aus trian journals evidently endeavour to excite mis understanding between France and Russia, and it is high time that M. de Kisseleff should explain himself frankly at Paris in order to prevent the in trigues which are set to work to arrive at that result." SWITZERLAND. The Build of Berne says :—" The valley of La, near Avers, in the Grisous, not far from the fro*. tier of •Valtelino, which is in dispute between Austria and Switzerland, has become the scene of fresh difficulties created by Austria, who has carried away a quantity of wood cut on that territory. The authorities of the canton of Grisons have despatched a commissioner to the spot in order to inquire into the circumstances." A correspondent from Neuchatel writes to say that the intelligence given in the telegraphic des patch from Berne of the 22d, stating that the Federal Government had released the political prisoners at that place is greatly exaggerated. The letter adds : " A few persons, slightly compromised, have been re leased on bail, but 18 or 20 are still in close confinement, and aithough treated with humanity are subject to prison discipline and fare. The interrogations having been ended, and no ne w measures taken to terminate the affair, the country is in a painful state of suspense, iv creased by some really unworthy allusions in the local papers to what occurred in the first revolution in France, in case the King of Prussia enforces his claims. The Federal occupation still continues, and is made to bear heavily on the Royalist party, two of them having had 10 soldiers quartered upon them for seven weeks. If this continues, some may be half-ruined before trial." PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL, FItIDAY MORNING. The Cintra steamer has brought Lisbon dates of the 25th of October, and intelligence that the Tip tree, with the mails from this port to Melbourne, which had put into the Tagus, left for her destina tion, after completing her repairs. The French war steamer Sesotris had put in for coals ou the 23d, and left for Senegal the 25th. Bier Majesty's screw ships Sanspareil and Cen turion were at anchor in the Tagus, as also the French screw ship Prince Jerome and steamer Phoenix. _ _ A programme has been published in the Diario do Govern() for the opening of the section of the Santarem Rail way between Lisbon and Carregado on the 28th, when the King and Court were to be present, and the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon was to bless this first essay in railway construction in Portugal, which has been constructed to promote further progress in such works in the country. LIFE ASSURANCE AND LAND,-SYSTEHATIC COLONISATION. TO TIIE EDITOR, OF THE SIIN. Slit,—Some months since my attention was called to a series of " able articles" on Life Assurance, published weekly in a paper called the Joint Rock Companies Journal. On examining them I thought I recognised the features of an old friend, and perceived indeed that the said original essays were literal reprints of papers which I originally contributed to an Edinburgh maga zine, and afterwards republished through the medium of Messrs. Bailliere, of Regent-street and New York, under the title of " The Prudent Man ; or, How to acquire Land and bequeath Money by means of Co-operation." I have in vain pointed out to the editor that such bare faced robbery of ideas is "most intolerable and not to be endured." The last week's impression repeats and con tinues the offence, by publishing as its own my chapter on Life Assurance, as it affects the interests of wives ana daughters—Life Assurance and the Ladies. However, I shall feel much obliged if you will, on this denial of justice, enable the general public to understand the main gist and object of the little work which has been thus pirated ; that will be some compensation for the injustice done me. At the present moment life assurance hardly extends beyond securing an average accumulation of savings on the death of the assured. lam desirous of having the principle extended to securing an immediate as well as reversionary benefit, How is this to be accomplished Simply by assigning at once to the assured the amount of his policy (subject to his paying interest a. well as , premium), in such a shape that he cannot run through it or run away with it till the consideration has been paid ,for the same. This is to be effected by allowing him the usufruct of land during a term of years, and the possession thereof at the end of the period, in consideration of perio dical instalments of the price. A hundred pounds' worth of colonial land might thus be assigned to him on mortgage in consideration of his paying Si. 14s. per annum for 20 years, which would replace the 1001. with 6 per cent. in terest, leaving it open to him to assure the value by a tern premium, which at the younger ages would be an inconsiderable additional burden, while the effect of it would be to secure absolute freehold to his family in the event of his decease within the 20 years. Now for the practical application of this principle to systematic colonisation. No one better than yourself is acquainted with the great merit and the great defect of the Wakefield system. The merit, that of requiring a sufficient price for land to make the land available for social and reproductive purposes. The obvious defect in practice has been that the sufficient price has been charged at the outset, while the social adaptation pro• liaised has not been made pari in passu, and sometimes not all ; it bein g a peculiar quality of human nature — at least of joint stock human nature—to spend other people's money lavishly, and for other than the legiti mate objects for which it is subscribed. To prevent this I would have the subscriptions made gradually by the customers—the settlers to be beneficed—and the expen diture in improvements made at an early stage by the colonising body out of its own funds. The colonist would thus be pretty sure to get what he pays for, and the company would be fairly entitled to an ample profit en their organised expenditure. In a word, the purchase money of the land, with its improvements and endowments, agricultural, educational, and social, being spread over a period of years, the payments would re present not merely prospective, but actually realised benefits. The Wakefield system would accordingly have to be modified ; for example, on the basis to be now indi cated :—I shall suppose a block of land to be secured of, say 100 square miles, or 64,000 acres. Let this be di vided, as in the New Zealand settlements, into town, suburban, and country sections, the price to include the value of the lands, with improvements made or provided for as below by the colonising body, whose outlay is to be gradually replaced with interest by the instalment payment of tee settlers, in addition to the legitimate bonuses to accrue from such portion of Mae laud as the company may agree with the public to reserve for their own profit. Let us assume each country section to be 44 acres, each suburban section nine acres, and__ each town section one acre. There would then be 1,280 sections of each kind ; 1,280 of country land at 21. an 4 a l n acre, or 801. a section ;1,280 1,280 of suburban land land at an acre, or 361. a section ; and 1,280 of town two square miles, inc 101. an acre or section. em bracs.Thientsci7ennfworuesldervtheserfeafrorpeublic, churches, schools, objects, such as streets, and cemeteries ; and the total markets, public parks, to f so in L terest) £ ‘ l v o o 2 u , l 4 d o b o ?.- 0 0 purchase ,280 m countryoney 1,280 town sections at 101. 1,280 tyaburbaa. sections at 361. sections(exclusive a an £161,250 0 0 In consideration of this purchase money the company would require t ) make some such outlay and disposition as the following : Price of the land, say L50,000 Preliminary expenses, surveys, &c lO,OOO Agricultural adaptation Educational and religious endowments (to be proportioned to voluntary subscrip- tions) Public parks, gardens, &c. Emigration Lands reserved by the company for their spElicil 01 VIE KING OF SWEDEN. The following is the text of the speech of the King of Sweden on opening the Diet, which we have briefly mentioned by telegraph : " Gentlemen,—lt is with real satisfaction that I see myself surrounled by the representatives of the nation, certain of finding in their noble sentiments and in their enlightened deliberations a powerful co-operation to secure the glory and prosperity of our country. " I offer you, gentlemen, my sincere thanks for the congratulations which you addressed to me on the occasion of the betrothal of my well-beloved son the Duke of Osiragotbia with a princess of the illustrious ducal house of Nassau. The part which you take in my paternal joy renders it still more dear to my heart. " You wiil, gentlemen, find the kingdom held in general consideration and in a state of prosperity, which every good citizen must admit with deep gratitude to Divine Providence. lam on friendly relations with all the foreign pit wers. On the 21st November last I con cluded with England and France treaties which give fresh force to old and glorious alliances, and which tend to tighten still more closely the bonds of amity and confi dence which unite me to the Queen of Great Britain and to the Emperor of the French. " Our manufactures are flourishing ; our commerce has attained an extent hitherto unknown to lie ; our agriculture has made great progress, and, by a better employment of its productions, it may export a consi derable quantity of corn. A praiseworthy activity, so' conded by fortunate circumstances, has contributed to the general prosperity. It belongs to us, gentlemen, t-° preserve to the noble Swedish nation the place which its glorious souvenirs and its love of country have as signed to it in the pages of history. We shall, I hope, succeed in this by a constant care of the interests of the state, and by the concord of our decisions. " The happy union founded by my illustrious father every day takes deeper roots in the hearts of the people, who are now brothers, animated with deep respect for reciprocal rights, and for the maintenance of a common existence. The identity of origin and historical souve nirs which exist between the Scandinavian nations gives fresh strength to this union. Faithful to my duties as sovereign of the united kingdoms, penetrated with the idea which forms the basis of their fraternal compact, endeavour to complete the parts of this.great edifice of which circumstances have hitherto prevented the termi nation, and to thus consolidate its duration. "Two commissions, composed of an equal number of Swedish and Norwegian members, have just concluded the drawing out of bills tending to regulate the commerce and navigation between Sweden and Norway, as well as the mode of rendering executory in one kingdom the sentences passed by the tribunals of the other. A mixed committee, under the presidentship of the Prince Royal, has been occupied in fixing the contingents which each country is to furnish for the defence of their common in dependence and glory. The perfect unanimity which has presided over their deliberations is satisfactory to every triend of the country. These important works will be communicated to you during the course of this session. "In proportion as the production of a country in creases the necessity of perfecting the means of commu nication becomes more and snore sensibly felt. The con siderable works which have been already accomplished have produced beneficial results, and I rely on your co operation for the accomplishment of the vast enterprises • which I shall propose to you in order to establish a Bys tern of railways, which will powerfully contribute to the prosperity of the country. It will be necessary to form a new department for public works in order to give more activity and concentration to this important part of the administration„ which every year acquires increased development. I will make known to you the changes in the constitution which will be necessary for this purpose. The different measures adopted since the last Diet in order to check the abuses introduced in the manu facture and sale of spirituous liquors have produced satisfactory results, and I am pleased to see that public opinion declares itself strongly in favour of them. The detailed report which will be presented to you will show the necessity of making some changes in existing taxes in order to arrive more surely at the desired object. " I have introduced into our customs legislation the ameliorations adopted at the last diet, by which com merce and navigation have obtained essential encourage' meats and facilities. I have now the intention of laying before you a bill more in conformity with the principles of free commerce. "A new ordinance concerning public instruction has just been promulgated, based on ideas which bad been communicated to you, and which you had adopted. I expect from it results of a most satisfactory description for future generations. "An enlightened toleration for the religious belief of others, based on love of one's neighbour, and inspired by an unalterable conviction, forms the essence of the dog mas of the Protestant Church. It is worthy of a people for whom the great King Gustavus Adolphus fought, ia order to secure liberty of thought and conscience, and which cause be sealed with his blood, to follow his ex ample and walk in his footsteps. The old laws which still shackle liberty of worship ought consequently to disappear, in order that the common law be placed in Larmony with paragraph 16 of the Constitution. Bills tending to abolish the penalty of banishment, and to ameliorate different parts of the Criminal Code, shall be communicated to you. " just appreciation of the rights of woma n being a sure guarantee of fidelity in fulfilling her duties and mission in the family circle, I intend proposing to yon that any unmarried woman who reaches 25 shall be declared of age, as is enacted already in nearly all the States of Europe. "The draft of a forest code, drawn up by a committee specially nominated ad hoc, shall be submitted to you. this question is of the highest importance for the pre servation of our forests, the prudent working of vih r i ch can alone secure to our commerce the continuation °,,'01, lucrative trade, and provi le for one of the most e sse°' wants of the inhabitants of our northern regions. " A perfect knowledge of our internal situation being the first condition of the uninterrupted increase of its, material welfare, the creation o f a central statistical office has become necessary for works e specially con nected with it. A proposition to this effect will be pre sented to you. "The increase in the price of provisions requires an amelioration in the situation of the persons employed in A proposition based on equity, and the state service. iu conformity with the real interests of the state, vvi" be presented to you on the subject. lam sure you will give it the serious attention which it merits. Tmishnpohig i tp : tkiee l r floesdro o nout i i i forhofi te w : hyhiweoli exigenciesnl ui tg s het e sroheisuat persons a y isntd cii the ooffrnnefe at rtohseh d fienen o otg c sub u eruttr m aadfivxxg e ni documents which will be su b " ; ea s e:: acmwne of s a dht y ai hcml which e wee swtt s ieaounrtupgeerp already p r hil e rrre s oee ; j e t ;i t “Havingconsiderably diminished by tile last diet. rat, I implorneotwhe opened supportth e of session th e of Mostth enStatesGene. nO3ll-1. laborers, and I reit era t e, gent l emen, th e assuran ce or best wishes." 111 CEARLES NAPIER AND SIR 800 PEEL, BART. • Sir Charl es N ap i er presents his cnnt liments tot r i Editor of Th e S un, and requests he will oe good W u ') to to , ;ive ins ertion t o th e enc l ose d letter. Murchwtoun, Oct. 29. " TO SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART. " Murchistoun, Oct. 29, 1 856. Sir,—ln your after-dinner speech at Stafford, t: other day, you returned thanks for the health of her at Majesty's Ministers, in doing which you stat ed tba o you had visited the fortress of Cronstadt, and al r was but one opinion, from the Grand Duke Co nstants t o down to the youngest middy on board the Arladitturi that had the energy of the commander equalled e til pluck of the British navy, that fortress at the present time would have been crumbled i t he dust. Sir Charles Napier had been through a , • whole of the fleet and fortress, and he gave it his opinion that it was impossible to destroy t O , fortress. It was certainly very clear at this °!,b went that it was impossible to attack Cronstadt 01,6 success now, but when the war commenced the case fa g very different, and if the man who commanded the fil e at Copenhagen had commanded the Baltic fleet , or 1 man possessed of the spirit and capacity of a Nelson badbt commanded that fleet, he had not the slighte st d 0 pfd that, as the fortress of Copenhagen yielded , so vi°" Cronstadt have fallen." You appear, sir not to know that there were two C° 153,:i menders in the Baltic fleet, viz., myself and my resp ect `a colleague, Admiral Parseval—a man whose courage a l e t judgment will bear criticism even from you. But that pass. lam quite willing to take hie respone tbili % on my shoulders, as we agreed in everything av rePr , Cronstadt. Like myself, Admiral Parseval may, in your estil33,:e tion, have been wanting in energy and spirit ; b ut both can afford to bear the imputation from you. ,• 0 0 As regards my se lf, if the Grand Duke Const ao ' i t told you what y ou s t a t e , he told me a very dif fer story, , of His Imperial Highness went over with me the Pl 3 - th e the south of C rons t a dt, and he himself showed ru e , "by , total impossibility of succeeding against Cronstadt ships. it If you formed your judgment from what you 05"; pt shows your ignorance of naval matters, and your ' iv y , - bo • of generosity in attacking the character of a Ins° • has faithfully served his county for so many years. 00, If the Grand Duke told you that the north of stadt might have been attacked, this was quite t r kb ",t But whose fault was it that it was not attacked, hut,: t he of the Board of Admiralty , which did not f urnieL ; 119 means by which alone it could have been succes 6 !, ll of attacked—viz , , gun and mortar boats and rocke •t"0,1 which the allied fleets were altogether destitute ,Lwii• sufficient means, moreover, were not supplied to IP` id po ral Dundas in the following year, so that he uu°' id mor e attack it than Admiral Parseval and myself c° - to if you have been put forward by the Adreiralt ou i insult me you have acted an unworthy part, and j u t Le' have put yourself forward you have acted a foolish pt You say if Lord Nelson, who commanded the Pei the Copenhagen, or ary man of Epirit had comma nde n fleet at Cronstadt, it would have fallen as Copenh a ro - e be; Now, Sir, I tell you that there was uo compa r ' s- s i or° tweet' Copenhagen and Cronstadt, and neither io es Nelson nor any other admiral of ancient or modern "cora. would have touched it with the force I had at WY wand.—l remain, your obedient servant, 10* CHARLES NA -1 -3-- Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Cra ait E The Eraperor of the French has prohioited the h oe Mobilier from embarking in the Russian railway or pal ticipating therein. 1 03 The United States ticrew steam-frigate Mer rirao- Southampton yesterday for Brest, own profit and source of ........ .. .. : 20,000 £160,000 The purchase money being spread over a period of years (I have assumed 20 for the sake of illustration) would require to bear interest, say six per cent., to cover expenses of management ; and the equivalent in stalments therefore would be, for each of the twenty yeas, about 71. for each iio/. section, 31. for each 361. section, and 17s. 6d. for each 101. section, These pay ments would replace the company's outlay with interest, in additicn to the houses above provided ror, from the enhanced value of the land. This enhancement of value would accrue from the very influx of population alone, leaving no practical doubt as to the security as well as national and social benefit of the operation. The equity of this mode of colonisation I need not dwell upon, nor en the yast field it would develope, and the stimulus it would afford to Life Assurance, as it in obvious that every insurable settler would be encouraged to insure his life in the value of the land he would thus hold on mortgage, that in the event of his premature de cease he might be enabled to leave to his children an un encumbered patrimonial inheritance.--I am, &C., 23, Pall Mall, Oct. 25. W; BRIDGES. The commercial accounts by the Overland Mail yester day from Calcutta and Bombay, was considered in the City to be satisfactory. A cabman was yesterday fined 20s. by Mr. Long, [for driving his vehicle while in a state of intoxieation during the late fog. Sweden possesses ten railways open to the public, and five others in course of construction. The marriage of Sir C. Piggott with Miss Mary Waugh, was solemnised yesterday at St. George's Hano ver-square. James Cobb, a private in the 93d Highlanders, has received a present from the Queen. It consists of a silk handkerchief, and a letter accompanying the gift stated that it was hemmed by the Princess Royal. CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST CAPTAIN PLATT.— BRIGHTON, Thursday.—At the borough .sessions held to-day, Captain Platt, a nephew of Baron Platt, was charged with assaulting Mr. John Lawrence, a surgeon residing in this town. The facts of the case are, that on the 31st of July last, the defendant came down to Brighton, a nd cal!ed on Mr. Lawrence, and requested so me exolanation and satisfaction, in reference to some thing which he alleged the latter had circulated, affect ing the character of his wife (a lady, formerly of some note as an actress—Miss Louisa Howard). In the course of a warm altercation, Mr. Lawrence stated that he believed the lady in question was not the most im maculate person in the world ; and as he (Mr. Lawrence) who had gone out of his house, followed by defendant, was in the act of getting into his carriage, the defendant struck him very violently with a whip across the shoul ders and hand. An arrangement was entered into between the parties. Captain Platt gave a written apology to Mr. Lawrence, and also the cum of 1001. to I the Sussex County Hospital. THE DENISON CONTROVERSY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. SIB,--As in The Sun, (Oct. 27), in reference to Arch deacon Denison, you say " He has been admitted into our churches on the honourable understanding that he would not attempt to evade the articles or to eiplain them away, but that he would teach and preach in the spirit of them," anew me to add that every beneficed clergyman in this land holds his position also upon the honourable understanding that he gives his" unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book intiteled the " Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments," &c. There is therefore a direct violation of induction requirements in forbidding an appeal to the Catechism acd Services of the Church, as well as to the Homilies. I have read several leaders on this controversy, and its r,sult, and have been struck with the uniform omission of all mention of this prescribed declaration of " as sent and consent" to the Prayer Book. Is it because it would disclose what really is the fact, that the doc trines of the Church of England are to be sought in the Formularies as well As in the Articles ? What would the Evangelicals have said if they had been told, before Ditcher v. Denison was heard of that they might not appeal to the Bible in support of their views of what may be named in the Articles ? Where now is the " open Bible" so much spoken of ? How would the Low Church party agree amongst them selves if tried in re Predestination and Article 17 ? I do not tLink this principle of Articles and nothing but the Articles will wrrk well.—Your obedient servant, AUDI ALTERA.M PARTEM. Oct. 29. LORD PALMERSTON'S VISIT TO MANCHESTER.—It is the intention of the Manchester Corporation and of the Chamber of Commerce to give Lord Palmerston a reoep tion at the Town Hall during his coming visit, and to present addresoes to the noble lord. Her Majesty's Government have presented a gold chi olometer to Captain Champion, of the United States packet•ship Victoria, as a token of their high sense of Lis meritorious conduct towards the crew of the Britisb barque Rose.