The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-15 00:00:00

THE EUROPEAN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM' NAVIGATION COMPANY. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY NIGHT. With a view of celebrating the commencement of the newly arranged mail service between Great Britain and our important colonies in the South Pacific, which is to be carried out in virtue of the postal contract, conceded not long since by the Lords of the Treasury to the Euro pean and Australian Steam Navigation Company, the directors of that association have this afternoon given a sort of impromptu entertainment on board their magni ficent and noble steam-ship Oneida, now fitting out in the Southampton Docks for her first voyage to Mel bourne and Sydney, for which ports she is to sail on Sunday next with the regular mails and a large number of passengers, among whom are Sir Henry Barkly and suite. It was at first intended that the Oneida should this morning have proceeded on a trial trip, with a view of officially testing her speed in the usual form at Stokes Bay. This, however, was found impossible, ow- i ing to the coaling of the vessel not having been com pleted. In truth, a trial of this sort would be a mere form, as the qualities of the ship have been quite suffi ciently exhibited during the late ran from Glasgow to Southampton. The Oneida will be the pioneer of the company's operations in Australia, and, after her arrival at Melbourne, will be employed between that port and Suez, running in correspondence with other steam-ships on this side of the isthmus, between Alexandria and Southampton. The Oneida is to be followed, on the 12th of Nov., by the Simla, which vessel is one of the finest in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and has just been chartered for a term of two years by the European and Australian Com pany. The European and the Columbian, two other ships belonging to this company, are now fitting out in the Clyde, and will take respectively the mails of the 12th of December and 12th of January. Besides these fine ships the company are no w building at Glasgow the Australasian of 2,800 tons, 700 horsepower, the Tasmanian and Asian, of 2,300 tons and 500 horse power, and the African, of 1,000 tons and 330 horse power ; but these vessels it is not expected can be got ready for their stations before August or September next year. The regular mail ser vice to and from England and Australia, via Suez, will not commence till February next, when the first home ward mail may be expected at Southampton. The com pany, as i s well known, are bound by enormous penalties for the due and proper fulfilment of their contract with the Government, and great interest naturally attaches to the progress of their operations, the establishment of a rapid and efficient postal communication with Australia being one of the most important social and commercial n ecessities of the day. The company, since its success in obtaining tie Government subsidy, has shown the most commendable vigour and energy in preparing and equipping these ships, and it is to be hoped, not alone in the interest of the public, and of the enormous mercan tile considerations connected with the question, that success will follow their efforts. Although the Peninsular and Oriental Company were the uasuccessful competitors for this contract, we have great satisfaction in noticing that, on being applied to, the managers at mica placed at the disposition of their more fortunate rivals me of their most celebrated ships—namely, the Simla—which vessel is to succeed the Oneida. We understand further that the European and Australian Company will be much indebted to the Peninsular and Oriental Company for facilities which will be afforded to them at their several coaling stations in Australia and in the Red Sea,—all these arrangements having been made and perfected long sinco by the older company, which formerly had steamers on the station, and which kept up establishments at those places in anticipation of being entrusted by the Government with the new contract. Thus it will be seen that the European and Australian Canspany enters upon its career with every promise of WICC.SS, to be derived not exc'usively from its own efforts, but generously aided by the experience and resources of the largest and most successful steamship undertaking in the world. No jea lousy ought to interpose to disturb the good feeling which seems to exist between these two power ful associations, and the public interest, as well as the prosperity of both, would seem to be advanced by the most cordial co-operation. About 3 o'clock a party of gentlemen, numbering nearly 100, consisting. of the directors and managers of the company, many gentlemen connected with steam navigation, and the principal offi , ials of the port of Southampton, eat down to a dejeuner of a most re cherche description, which was prepared in the main saloon of the Oneida. Among the company present were Mr. J. Orr ENing, Chairman, and Mr. J. Galbraith, Manager of the Company, Mr. R. Aedrews, Meyer of Southampton, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M P., Mr. Mackay, of the firm of J. Baines ;.;and Co., ct Liverpool, Mr. B. • Major Campbell, Capt. M'llouoal, RN., Admi ralty Superintendents of Packets, C:pt. Eogledue, Su perintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, Capt. Stewart, Superintendent of the Australian Mail Company, &e. After the dejeuner the CHAIRMAN proposed the usual loyal toasts, which were followed by " the health of his Imperial Majesty the Pasha of Egypt," in introducing. which the Cnairaial stated that the Pasha's great exer- • tions in favour of, and the interest he takes per sonally in, the progres4 of steam navigation and improv ing the transit of the isthmus were the reason for men tioning his name in connexion with the Australian en t Tprise. Tide toast was responded to by Mr. Galloway, entel neer to his Highness. "Toe army and navy" next followed, Major Camp bell's name being c.,uple,l with it. " Her gat esty'e tete eerement," con pled with the neer e of Mr R. Hill, was the next 'mast proposed hy toe CHAT:DIAN, ce:apiiinented Me. P. Hid upon ehe great ad vaetagee which the commercial and social worid had received by hie develepelete; of the penny postage system. Mr. 1 - Z3VIL.IND MIL spike to the tract, and stated that the Govererneet, in entering into this contract for the conveyance of melte to Australia, desired to consult only the best interests of the peop:e of this ceunfrer and the colonies. Their only wish was to obtain the speediest and most regular transmission of the mails between the two countries. Soinethine had been lately said to him about the establishment of the ocean penny peetage, the idea of which emanated from a friend of his, Elihu fur ritt ; and some remarks had been made on the fact that an ocean penny postage bad been already established between the United States and Australia. But the fact was teat, although only a penny was paid for the trate, mission of a letter by sea, it was still suljset to an in 7 and rate of lii. in the United Stetes and another of 41. in the colonies, making bid. for the entire transmission ; whereas by the mail now about to Le established from this country the whole charge would he only 63. per letter, so that we in this country had in reality approaehed nearer to an ocean penny postage than the United States. "The Mayor and Coreoratmn of Southampton," re plied to by Mr. ANDREWS, and some other toasts having been honoured, the toast of the day, "Success to the European and Australian Stearn Navigation Company," next followed, and was responded to by Mr. J. PeemEe, of Manchester, one of the directors of the company, who brelle deelate:d that vas the de termination of the company not only to merit the confi dence of their friends on both 811101 of the globe by dE votine all their euergies to the prompt and effectual carrying nut of the meheme in ifs entirety, but so to blend the interests of the colonists trite those of the mother country in the tlctails and werking of the aft hire of the company as to afford perfect satisfaeeiou to both in respect to the gieantie mercantile, financial, and ex change transactions which now pass between England and be southern dependencies. Mr. ROWLtND thet, gave, " Success to the Australian Celoniee," saying that to him the best test of the pros perity of a colony was the numher of letters which it produced, and ire that respect Victeria, which o n ly 20 years ago was visited f or t h e f i rst time by a European settler, stood praminent among the colonies ! The Australian colonies did not want assistance from the Government of this country; but no better mode of unit ing the sympathies of the colonies and the mother coun try could be devised than the speedy conveyance of let ters between then, and that was preposal to be done b the Government in the present contract. He could also Sir say that, having from fitted for for th e bpos oy, wh wa he knew t b d hat a d forwhich eba been selected than b e was. Thist toaet s acknow :edged by Mr. Youl, of Tasmania, the secretary to the General Pastel Association of the Australian Colonies, who expressed his gratification at what had been done by the Government for the con veyance of the mails to the colonies ; the route chorea, h e believed, was the right one, being ten days shorter ' than any other. As a proof of the necessity of a rapid interchange of letters between this country and Anstra tia, be stated that there were between 1,500 and 2,090 Australian children in Europe for the purpose of educe lion, and how important it was that the re s h ould be an easy intercommunication between those children and calculated tea facilities of con e . • their parente, and h ew. ' +ion between the two countries were to venerate raunlea.. f e n tre and habits which would din those childrenf ee lings Independently, therefore, ra of w hem closer to England. frequent and speedy postal corn. its eeminerelal benefit, thusproductive of social and political rannication was results which every colonist and every Englishman must desi re to promote. Mr. YULE returned thanks, and concluded by g i v i ng the h ea l t h o f " Mr. Ewing, the chairman of the new company," and advocated the merits of the route to Aus tralia by way of Southampton, Alexandria, , b er and Suez, ten Suez, Which, he conten d e d, was practically quicker days than t h kt by way o f Panama or by the Cape of Good Hop e , A var iety of other toasts were then given, among which was that of "the "Peninsular and Oriental Com pany," ackno wledged by Captain Engleduet and the pro ceedings of the afternoon were breueht to a close. The directors of the Australian Company are to be entertained y dinner on Fri b da the y evg -Meninayor of Southampton at a public . next. RECEIVING A. CRIMEAN' • REDA L IN PLEDGE —T. Devi', a jobbing jeweller, residi chapel, was charged at !fie Thames nackeiwrch•lane, White mThames Police-court with advancing ss. on a Crime ; I n in the Grenadier Guards, natre.ecalal belonging to a private the man merely left it for repa;r Ili sYlias. and be lent hire 53. at Davis sad the time. The magistrate told Davie determined to put a ti;,) t ,, the . 1 0, 5 the authorities bad pa vu brokers advanc:n7., 0 toney on CrimeanY3tem of unlicensed on ol_ t c ,r .id. penalty in every case tha ; might occur after medals. The ; woul, I be strictly enf a fine of 201 )the present MASKED AND ARMED - BURGLARS.— list the house of Mr. Earr ison, a magistrate o l f da s r night shire, was entered by mass ; ed and armed hurvi a -taff " rd- Harrison vrEs frozn home at the time, but i' he r ! Mr. were tied to t h3ir b1,.(1.4 le the hou , e was robbednlmTates only succeeded in carrying off about 18/. A reward 'hey , 100&, has been offered for , the capture of the thieves. "1 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING THE ADVENTURER. Followed by Burlesque of PIZARRO. To conch:do with A BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. B')YAL FEINCESS'S THEATRE. Udder the Brannen Milt of Mr. CHARIzs KiAN THIS EVENING. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. To conclude with PIZARRO. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET., Under the Management of Mr. Buckstons. THIS EVENING, THE INCONSTANT. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, PRESENTED AT COURT. To conzlude with THE GALICIAN FETE. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Charles Dillon. THIS EVENING, Twenty-seventh Time, BELPHEGOB. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. After which, 27th time, the new Burlesque of the "Winter's Tale," supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolgar), Miss H. Gordon, Mrs. B. White, Miss If. Wilton, Miss Rosins Wright, Messrs. Toole, Calhaem, Barrett, and Brough. Stalls. ss. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery. '.s. Commence at 7. Half•price to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from I I till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To conclude with LUCIFER MATCHES ; OR, THE YANKEE --- STR BIND Tr[EATRE. Manager, Mr. T. Payne. Tars EVENING, THE MILLER OF DERWENT WATER. After which, A Ballet Divertissement. Followed by an original Burlesque, entitled BELPHEGOR. Mesdames Thirlwall, Wooßidge, and Cuthbert; Messrs. 11. J. Turner, HerSert, Clarke, &c. To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR. Commence at 7. StalD, 3s.—Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, Gd ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRM. Lame and Manazer, sir. Alfred Wigan. Tlll3 EVENING, STILL WATEILS RUN DEEP. To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and l'fanaer, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Tills; EVENING, 63,1 Night !) Shalz9vre'3 Tranedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Richard, Mr. J. Holloway. Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations. A success unprecedented. After which, The attractive SCENES in the CIRCLE, combining, skill, daring and elegance. To conclude with a Melange of Amusements. Commence at Seven. Box-oales open fr3ro F.:evcri till Four. Stage lianaqe - r, mss, . w,at. Equestrian Director, 31r. of. Cooke, jun. 71IGL-1 WATFAI AT LONIJON BRIDGE. TH/3 MAY—Morn. 1) rein. aft. 2 —Evening 39 min. aft. 2 Tn-Woßnow—Morn. 1 min. aft. 3—Evening 23 max. aft. 3 THE WEATITIM—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 15. THER2,IOIIETER, IN THE SHADE. 60 —highest sines noon yesterday. 54 —lowest this morning and during the night. 58 —this day at noon. - PAROittmln3, 29 45—a fall of nearly three-quarters of an inch sines yesterd:ty morning. .'IND.), S. to S.S.E.—Fresh, with stormy weather and r: ,ICI. r3TAMPED EDITION OF "THE SUN." The Late: Edition of The Sui, Stamped, in time for PJ3t, may alway 4 be had from half- past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Sablerilr.3ra in the Ceuntry will please to ofriorve that tho hovliag " THIRD EDITION" i 3 always to be seeu on the Rtper3 containing the latest IL:W.4. IF any difficulty be exporien.::ad n obtaining tbat Elition, a cemmunication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sum Office, 112, Strand. ,14 . • re-- - 43 (~ %ONDON, WEDNES'DAY, OCTOBER 15, 1856. The arrival of NIEV.AEZ at Madrid was the signal for the downfall of O'D ONNELL . H e f oun d that, according to American parlance, he was fairly " cornered," and that he might . as well surrender at once without even attempting to defend the position for the attainment whereof he had made so many and such serious sacrifices. During his three months of office he succeeded in alienating every former friend, without gaining a single new one, in Spain. He recklessly yielded ito temptation, although the slightest considera tion might have convinced him that treachery similar to that which he displayed towards ESPARTERO would, oa the first convenient oppor tunity, be exhibited towards himself. He is now in the position of a traitor deprived of his antici pated reward—a signal instance of retributive justice. Fe was necessary to the carrying out of queen ISABELLI'S project against the Constitution which she had sworn, to observe. Unless a traitor could be discovered in the Cabinet it would have been impossible to got rid of ESPARTERO, whose acceptance of office had within a few years pre served the Crown of ISABELLA IL An Absolutist Ministry could not at once be proclaimed without exciting a revolution, of which it was impossible to predict the results. Extraordinary preparations should be made, an overwhelming military fore. concentrated on the capital, and O'DONNELL was enabled; by virtue of his office, to make the arrangements, without which the Bourbon Dy nasty might have ceased to reign in Spain. O'DONNELL at once fell into the trap so artfully laid for his reception. Cunning as he was, he had one still more cunning to deal with— one profuse in promise, but stingy in performance. lie could not appear to doubt the pledges of his SOVEREIGN, and, in an evil hour, yielded to the tem ptations so lavishly di s pl a y e d b e f ore hi m . It was, however, obvious from the very commence ment, that O'DONNELL was but a mere " warm ing -pan," t o h old the situation until a greater favourite at Court— neanmd to oreready to carry out Absolutist d octr i nes, obedience to every whim of theyiSelod implicit could be procured. Every possible blandish ment was exercised the most unbounded favour was displayed towards th 3 instrument, the soothing system was cmatinued till the very last ; and when every one else knew that the ground was giving way beneath him he fancied himself more secure than ever. He should have profited better from his former experience of the charac teristics of the Bourbon race. The only advantage which he received during his brief tenure of office was the adhesion of the Emperor NAPOLEON, who unclisguisedly mounted his colours. It is, however, difficult to say how the farther change will be received at the Tuileries. As a further moveme n t in the absolutist came it could scarcely be dis pleasing to the Emperor, who, it is said, regards Constitutional Government with no very favour able eye. He may, however, see that ISABELLA, as . a true niece of BOHBA, is going a little too far —that she is determined to do as she likes with what she considers her own, even if she sacrifices her throne in the attempt. We shall witness the playing out of the game with comparative indifference. It is scarcely pro bable that NARTAEZ will long retain his position. Re may continue to render himself more ob noxious than he has hitherto been, to identify his name with the most unpopular measures, the restoration of the plunder accumulated by the QUEEN MOTHER, and the extension of her power and influence—a large infusion of the sacerdotal element into the Government, and an unresisting submission to every caprice of the SOTEREIGN, however unreasonable. But even he must stop somewhere, and a more unscrupulous agent will yet be discovered, to whom NAR7AEZ must yield his position. Then, indeed, " will be the tug of war." The question will no longer be of a change of Ministry—but of a Dynasty. The Spanish as well as the Neapolitan BOURBONS seem to have nearly accomplished their destinies. They have hardened their hearts against the signs of the times. They have destroyed the Constitutions which were the firmest foundations of their re spective thrones, and treated with gross ingrati tude the nation to whose disinterested efforts they owed the power of displaying the attributes of their race. Well, the day and hour of retributive justice is rapidly approaching. Whatever may be the errors of Spaniards or Neapolitans, they will not perpetually submit to the despotic domi ' nations of ISABELLA or of BODTBA ; although they may not have merited a direct interference in their favour, they may still be assured that any energetic efforts to obtain freedom will receive the sympathy of every true-hearted Englishman, and that if not with them we shall certainly not be against them, nor shall we suffer any undue interference by other nations. All they require is a clear stage and no favour, and that they shall receive ! For all beyond they must look to their own right arms. The " hereditary bondsmen" must themselves strike the blow that will break down the barriers of oppression, and open the way to liberty and Constitutional Government. Another of those miserable shams and mockeries of Justice, called Courts of Inquiry, has just been appropriately consummated. An investigation growing out of an unfortunate fracas which took place on the 11th ultimo, at the Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth, between Dr. BuDD, one of the most eminent physicians of South Devonshire, and Captain NIAs, the local Superin tendent—has resulted in an official judgment, which for its perverse fatuity has seldom if ever been surpassed. The circumstances of the wretched little contretemps from which the Board of Inquiry may be said to have emanated we care not here in any way minutely to recapitulate. The whole affair simply being nothing more nor less, as it appears to us, than one of those melan choly exhibitions of irrascibility consequent upon the sudden collision of two men of the most incon gruous temperaments—ene of them morbidly sen sitive of anything at all bearing the faintest con struction of a personal slight or indignity, the other no less morbidly puffed up with an extrava gant sense of the most egregious self-importance. The abrupt clashing of which same glaringly an tagonistic temperaments produces—hardly less inevitably than the bringing together of fire and gunpowder—an instantaneous explosion ! It is perfectly comprehensible, therefore (re membering the frailty of human natures•), that when an amiable gentleman like Dr. BU DD, 01 Plymouth, an eminent member of an eminent pro fession, approaches an impulsive gentleman (to say the least of him) like Captain Nras, the Superintendent of the Victualling-yard ahead, mentioned—lt is perfectly comprehensible, we say, that when an unoffending Physician (hat iu hand) approaches a petulant Superintendent (cap on head) only to find his courteous advances waived, of with an irritated and irritating movement of the hand, and an order to the bowing Doctor to follow his High Mightiness into some adjacent office—lt is perfectly comprehensible, we say, that all this should somehow - , on the instant, and without the smallest opportunity for premeditation, be resented. Particularly if the incident happens to transpire, as it actually did transpire, on the 11th ultimo, in the presence of a group of ladies, the friends of this same courtly but repulsed physi cian ! The sequel is soon told—almost as rapid and inevitable a sequel as that resulting from the application of the lighted match to the train oi gunpowder. "Wincing under such unexpectedly cavalier treatment Dr. BUDD declines to have anything to do, either with the office or the Cap tain-Superintendent. The latter, thereupon, " incontinently" orders a policeman who is stand ing hard by and gazing with astonishment at the two wonderfully choleric interlocutors, to tura Dr. BUDD out of the yard ! Without any more rea son for so d3ing than we have here mentioned— without any more ado—in the presence of Dr. Bureg friends, the ladies who are looking on from a little distance at this most extraordinary treat ment of their coarpanion. Naturally, very natu rally, the worthy doctor hears the order for his being thus summarily ejected from the yard by a po li ceman w ith absolute amazement. He pauses. The " Peeler" takes him by the arm in order to carry into execution the command of his superior officer, the Captain-Superintendent. Thereupon, goaded by these indignities, quoth Dr. BUDD turning upon Captain NIAS—" You are the greatest brute I ever saw " Having relieved himself of which pithy expreoion of dis gust, the doctor (who had come with au Admi ralty letter, authorising him to conduct a party of French gentlewomen, lion-hunting, over the dockyard) is walked through the gate, in preeeace of his companions, and under the eyes of the policeman. SucTa, briefly, was the lamentable little fracas between Dr. JOHN BUDD, M.D., of Plymouth, and Captain JOSEPH Nias, C. 8., Su perintendent of the Royal William Victualling Yard—the fracas upon which an Admiralty Board of Inquiry has just been sitting, and upon which that same board has but very recently pro nounced its judgment, after all due delay and deliberation. A judgment, we are bold to say, at once the most perverse and the most prepos terous. Let it be remembered that, according to the declaration of Captain NIAS, it was after Dr. BUDD had called him a brute, that he ordered the doctor to be turned out of the yard by a police man ! Whereas, according to the statement of Dr. BUDD (a statement, it must bo added, sup ported upon oath by all the evidence brought to bear upon the matter before the official Court of Inquiry), it was in, consequence of his being or dered to be ejected from the yard, as already related, that the doctor, in a sudden outburst of excitement, indulged himself by blurting out thug significantly his disgust at the extraordinary course pursued by the Captain Superintendent. "It is clear, then," as our very plain-spoken physici an wro t e , i n a l e tt er a dd resse d b y him on the 18th u l t. to M r. P IIINN) o f t h e Admiralty, "It is clear, then, that either Captain NIAS or I myself must be beifore their Lordships a con- TrIE SUN, LONDON, WED IVOSD I A. Yr` E'VENFN - G OiCITOBER 15; 1856. victed liar." Hence—rather than upon account of the fracas itself—the remarkable Court of Inquiry, the proceedings of which have but just now terminated. It was sworn to upon oath be fore that Court of Inquiry, that Dr. BUDD'S state ment of the transaction was correct, and that, consequently, Captain NIAS'S was-e , -how shall we express it ?—incorrect ! Yet—remembering the alternative boldly thrust before their Lordships of the Admiralty, in the letter already mentioned, the letter addressed by Dr. BUDD on the 18th ult. to their Lordships' Secretary —lo ! and behold ! the judgment pronounced by the Members of the Board of Inquiry (to wit, Admiral Sir W. PARKER, Bart., and Rear-Admiral MARTIN, and Rear-Admiral Sir H. CuADs), at the close of the whole of these elaborate proceedings. It is con veyed to the one unfortunate and unoffending victim of the entire transaction, through the medium of the following most remarkable com munication : "Air. Plainn to Dr. Budd. "Admiralty, 6th Oct., 1856. _ . _ "Sir,—My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having caused inquiry to be made into the subject matter of your complaint against the Captain-Superintendent of her Majesty's Victualling Yard at Plymouth, desire me to express their regret at the occurrence of which you complain. "My Lords are, however, convinced that Capt. Nias intended to offer no discourtesy to you, and you must feel that you permitted yourself to use expressions which ought not t• have been addressed to any gentleman in the position of the Captain - Superintendent. "I am , sir, your most obedient servant, "THOMAS PHINN. "J. W. Budd, Esq., M.D., Plymouth." So !—their Lordships, conveying their decision in two sentences, take occasion in the first sen tence to express their regret at the occurrence of which Dr. BUDD complained, viz., the uncalled for insolence towards him of the Captain Super intendent—yet in the second sentence they flatly contradict themselves °by adding that they are convinced the said Captain NIAS "intended no discourtesy !" Was there ever a greater absurdity than this in the way of a formal official decision ? It is the old story all over again. The evil was done—but Nobody did it ! That is (as the saying goes) the English of all these pompous official judgments. That is the upshot. That is the length and breadth of it. In great things as in small—everywhere it is the same in our complex and bungling system of administration. Whether the subject for investigation by the Courts of Inquiry—here at Chelsea or there at Plymouth— have reference to the sacrifice of the feelings of an honourable gentleman or to the frightful melt ing away of a gallant army of 30,000 men before Sebastopol. The sale of diseased meat in the metropolis continues apparently unabated. Notwithstanding the exposures with which the public were recently ippalled, and the denunciations and warnings which these exposures evoked, individuals are found daring and reprobate enough to pursue the unholy traffic. The parish of S. Marylebone, according to the most recent infer nation, appears to be ono of the principal can trea of their operations. There the poisonous carrion is deposited in sickening abun,lance, to be sold to the petty dealers, whose avocation it is to foist it on the poor. To expose it in the light of day would be impolitic. Accordingly we find the period selected for its exposure and sale is at night, or the first thing in the morning. The too curious eye, that might detect some latent I,nd indisputable token of disease by daylight, may safely be permitted to indulge its prying by the yellow and flickering llama of broad streams of half consumed gas, while the unsavoury odours collected between sunrise and sunset, in a low locality, interpose a formidable obstacle to nas it liserimination. Thus the poor are deceived, plundered, and poisoned. The traffic, too, is sys teroatiea;ly carried on—in the full meaning of he word. A regular claque, we are told, is con cerned in one slaughter-house, and the man who keeps it gets so much a-head for dressing the pes tilent carrion for the market. We have this on the authority of the Medical Officer of Health, who, in his monthly report to the Sanitary Com mittee, furnishes us with this and other informs tion of the like startling description. " I have great reason, with regret to state," says the worthy official, " that a lar g e amount of diseased meat is sold to the poor in the course of the Inonth." How large may partly be inferred from his recommendation that no fewer than twenty three unwholesome slaughter-houses should be suppressed under the new act, which comes into operation on the Ist of November next. The particulars of a seizure in a favourite slaughter house among these infamous dealers—that to which we have already referred, situate in Mid diesex-rnews—fornish us with a faithful descrip tion of the sort of meat sold. The seizure em braced the greater portion of two cows, the carcass of one of which, by the way, was traced from a cowkeeper's near Mensal-green. The animal, we are told, was affected with disease of the lungs, and, when on the point of death, was sent in the middle of the night to the slaughter-house in question. The flesh was in a most flabby state, characteristic of the animal being in the last stage of pleuro-pneumonia ; while the fat, which was deficient in quantity, presented a watery aspect, and feculent matter was detected in considerable quantity in more than one portion of the carcass. The dresser at two shillings per head would seem not to have finished his task, or found it too arduous for his villanous, deceptive skill. Fancy such a mass of abomination distributed among the c i n o i d n u s l t r o h u e s promoting their bodily turned into an i ns t r ument of spoliation and a v i e r o y o r m a e t a n t h s efo cost of their hard-earned messenger of disea se and vigour and recruiting their exhausted frames death ! The rascally and inhuma n se ll ers o f suc h unwholesome meat require a more s t r i ngen t enac tment than that in force or that about to be so. They ought to be put on their trial for a misdemeanour, and made to undergo the punishment of felons. Many a wretch, is sentenced a to transportation without half their d esert. DEL AT OP MAILS TO AUSTRALIA. —A telegraphic messag e from our Southampton correspondent informs us tha t the Government have detained the Australian mail st earner, Oneida, until Sunday morning next, in order tli at she may take out all letters posted in London for Ausl ralia up to Saturday night. His E royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will hold a militai •y levee at the Horse Guards tomorrow at one o'clock. A Pal is letter in the Nord states that Lords Lynd hurst ar d Brougham Lava just been received by the Emperx r at St. Cloud. -- - CRYST AL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING DAY. —Tuesday, October 14.—Admissions on payment, 2,631 ; ditto by se-:son ti :diets, 352 ; total visitors, 2,983. AFFRA .Y WITH POACHURS.—On Saturday last George Gilt and Jonathan Rudd were charged at Cheshire with tcesoas4 ag on the preserves of Mr. Greenall, M.P., in purscit c f game. There was a derperate encounter be tween tl se men and the keepers before they were clf tuned. ' They were both committed for trial. Tuz . 1 RUSSIAN CORONATION FETES. —A. letter dated Mcsoc w, Sept. 30, says the fetes to celebrate the I ,rona tion o the Czar closed with a display of fireworks which cost ? 1,000/. The cost of the fetes given during the coron: ',lion will exceed 1,000,0001. TH E ESTATE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.--Yes terda y afr.ernoon the interest of the bankrupts in the Mos' yn Collieries, Flintshire, was offered for sale by aucti / on at Liverpool. I n cons equence of unsatisfactory answ re rs being returned t o questions put to the auctioneer ; the • pr operty was not sold. LATEST NEWS, The Sardinian frigates Carlo Alberto, 60, Eu ridice, 40, and Governolo, 16, have received orders to leave Genoa in the course of this week. It is believed they are to proceed to Ajaccio. MADRID, OCT. 14. The following additions hava been made to the new Ministry : S. Movano, Public Works, and Civil Governor of Madrid. S. Zaragoza, Colonies. The Paris correspondent of the Times, in his letter, dated yesterday, thus alluding to the late change of Ministry in Spain, says : "We know as yet few of the particulars re specting the " Decline and Fall" of the O'Donnell Government. It is certain that no one could be more amiable in manner, kinder, or apparently more determined to keep on her Ministers, than the Queen up to the last moment. At the levee on the 10th, her Majesty's birthday, she was particularly gracious. General O'Don nell requested her to give the Grand Cross of Isabella Cattolica to the outgoing Mini ster Cantero ; she replied that she should do so with the greatest pleasuro, and not only to him, but to the whole of the Ministers, and she was pleased to add that she never had Ministers with whom she was more satisfied, In short, she was all grace and condescension. In two days after they were all turned out. It is the history of Ferdinand VII., and his practice.of making some present indicative of his special favour to the un fortunate man whose ruin he had previously re solved on. This was so well known that his Ministers or courtiers trembled when the King was more than usually kind or familiar with them. The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second edition), in his letter of yesterday, says : The note, or ultimatum, despatched to Naples on Saturday last, is described as very moderate, in form at least. With respect to the French squadron I understand the orders are that it shall cruise off Naples, but at adistaace, iu order not to afford any temptation to the disaffected to revolt, and not to produce excitement among the population. The fleets will no doubt arrive soon after the ulti matum. There is no doubt of the Ambassadors being recalled in the too probable event of the King still refusing to act on the demands of the Allies. Up to the latest date his Majesty persisted in his refusal. He appears perfectly confident that his people will remain passive, even though they know the fleets are off the coast. Indeed his Majesty is so sure of matters going on well, that he can afford to be facetious at the demonstrations of England and France. When he went to Gaeta the other day, he said to his guards, " Adieu, Messieurs, to our next meeting. If you happen to hear anything about the French and English fleets pray be so good as to come and tell me." It is believed by some people here that even a very small concession would satisfy us, and that it has been so intimated to the King. It was not thought in the beginning of this unpleasant affair that we should declare, like mendicants, that " the smallest contribution would be grate fully accepted." We extract the following remarks from the letter of the Paris correspondent of the Mornivg Post (second edition) : " I am now able to assure you that the Em peror's return to Paris has been attended with good results, both as regards domestic as well as foreign interests. His Majesty has resisted the advice of those who sought to bring discredit on French finance by proposing paper payments at the Bilk. His Majesty will not hear of any thing of the sort. No encouragement will be given to Russian railways by the Govern ment of Napoleon 111., and every effort will be made to check the exaggerated speculative mania of the day. Government has in contemplation the removal of certain restrictions which considerably augment the price of food in Paris, and, I believe, no more houses will be pulled down without aug• mented acrtommodation being provided for the poor and middle classes of society. "As regards foreign affairs, the Emperor has ex -311 g s s u e a d ge i n s e d l f veryt written c i c d o e m d l m y uangiaciantsi on n t h d o s i s e p w l a h y o e s d e Russian tendencies, to the forgetfulness of the honour of France and the people vhho have many sacrifices i n th e l ate war. Ilis made will not allow private commercial interests to take precedence of those of the State. The diplomacy, therefore, of England and France is again con firmed as regards the necessity of supporting the treaty of Paris ; and if the Emperor does not make another long runaway visit to some place far distant from Paris, we shall have no difficulty about the Serpents' Island ques tion, or indeed any other. His Majesty's presence is as necessary for foreign as home interests, indeed much more so. You may ex pect to hear that the Governments of England and France have broken off diplomatic relations with Naples. The Cabinets of Paris and London are quite agreed as to the mode in which King Ferdinand ought to be treated for the insults he has offered to France and England in his late conduct, as well as in the language of his diplo macy. Each Government has sufficient material in hand for bringing the King on his knees, and I really believe now they are on the point of em ploying it." A. private letter from Naples, dated the 7th, gives the following facts : "In political circles it is thought that the Wes tern Powers are too far advanced to retreat, and that they are bound to make a demonstration of some kind or other, were it only confined to recalling the Representatives of England and FranCc, and to taking on board ship such of their countrymen as desire to quit the coun try ; but it is not believed that matters w ill b e carried any farther, and this conclu s i on i s come to on the supposition that the Emperor Napo leon is opposed to anything in the shape of a revolutionary movement ; and again on the certainty of the presence of the Austrian flag side by side with that of the Western Powers in case of the appearance of the squadrons before Naples. Austria has throughout the affair pl a y e d suc h a part as forbids us to attribute anything like a me nacing character to a demonstration in w hich she would take a share. In thi s state thin gs are at present. In the mean time the p reparations for defence are actively going on. The police redouble their efforts, and adopt the most enertretic mea sures to oppose any demonstration, whether hostile or favourable, on th e appearance 4 ofthe fleets. The a coast is watched as carefully possible to prevent the landing of Italian refugsees, who might b e tempted from M a lt a or the main land." The Tines' correspondent at Vienna thus m icas the subj-et Up to yesterday afternoon (Oct. 11) no de , r•patch had been received from General von Mar tini, and his prolonged silence is considered a bad I , ign, as be would certainly have written without delay had the King of Naples displayed any incli nation to follow the counsel given by Austria. The King has no w acquired the certain knowledge that Russia, Austria, and Prussia are opposed to any extreme measures on the part of the Western Powers, and it may, therefore, reasonably be supposed that he will not be more inclined to make concessions now than he was a month ago." The Ost Deutsche Post of yesterday states posi tively that the Ambassadors of the Western Powers have been recalled from Naples, but that the fl-ets will stay provisionally at Toulon and Malta. A letter from Vienna in the Post 4rnpt Gazette says :—" It is affirmed, on good authority, that in the negotiations which took place relative to the affairs of Naples, a secret was agreed to between the Western Powers, having for object to guarantee to the reigning dynasty the throne of the Two Sicilies. In that document a formal declaration, it is said, was made that the efforts of any other party, whatever name it might bear, should not find any countenance from the powers in question." A letter from Vienna of the 9th, in the Bourse Gazette, of Berlin, says " General Martini, at a long audience which he has had with the King of Naples, presented to his Majesty an autograph letter written by the Emperor of Austria. It is said that that missive produced a great impression on the King. General Martini hopes therefore that his ulterior representation s will be favourably received. This is the real state of the case." A letter from Brunswick, in the Past Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, says It appears that France will consider it necessary to establish for tified works between Strasburg and Kehl, in order to counterbalance the importance of the fortified bridge which it is intended to con struct on the Rhine at Cologne. This view has been conveyed by the French Government to the various Courts of Germany, and that Government has requested the latter to present in reply their opinions with respect to the project. Some of these Courts have already replied that the two fortified works cannot be placed on the same line of comparison, because at Cologne both banks of the liter belong to the same power, whilst at Kehl one bank of the Rhine belongs to France, and the other to the Grand Duchy of Baden, which can never menace the French empire. So the matter remains at present." MARSEILLES, Ocr. 14. Intelligence has been received here from Con stantinople to the 6th inst. The Porto has invited the Ambassadors to a meeting, preparatory to the Convocation of the Divans which are to express their wishes on the subject of the reorganisation of the Principalities. In Kurdistan the insurgents are in part dis persed. Several districts of Albania are in a state of agitation, but troops are on their march thither. The army of Abdi Pacha will winter at Mostar. The Porte is to guarantee six per cent. interest on the railway of the Euphrates. A portion of the shares is reserved for the India Company and for Turkey. The Railway Company will be in vested with exclusive privilege s ; it will receive gratuitous grants of land, and of the mines bor dering on the works. It is to establish a line of telegraph and of packet bo a t s , to connect India with England. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. It has been announced that to-morrow tho Aioniteur will publish an " energetic" note about the affairs of Naples. _ _ " The Emperor and the Empress," says the Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels, " will proceed to Compiegne on the 19th, where their Majesties will remain for three weeks. All the invitations issued are for one week, so that there will be three series of visitors. The Duke de Bassano, whose sojourn in Belgium was to have been prolonged, has been summoned back to Paris to resume his duties." The Paris journals reproduce the intelligence of the formation of the Narvaez Cabinet, without comment. No intelligence whatever has reached Paris to day from. Spain, so that there is little to add to the news of yesterday, excepting the extracts from the journals printed before the change of Ministry. According to despatches from Athens of the 7th Admiral Lyons was still expected there. The Persian Ambassador, on his road to France, has reached Trebizonde. This day the Emperor Napoleon held a grand review at Saint Maur. BOURSE, Oct. 14.—The following were the last quotations : End of /ate. —f. —e. 66 60 Cash. tr. S. 4t: per Cents 9O 3 pox. Cents 66 10 New Loan 66 25 Bank Shares 3,911 Roman Crklit Mobilier 1,455 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes 404 Piefimontese (5) . . .... b 9 tionao Debt RAILWAY OR CA a EI. f r . o. fr. c. Oslent .... 1,245 Western B7O Northern o 935 Stra sb urg F.ayons aioditerranean 1,670 Grand Central ...... 602 to I.3rons Genova 720 Testo ......... .. ....... Cette 630 Austrian Cem. . ..... 775 SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 10th contains an offi cial account of the reception of Count de °ri ve Di , the; new Austrian Minister, by the Queen, which ha 3 already been mentioned by telegraph. li e a d_ dmssed a brief complimentary speech to her Ma jesty, and the Queen replied to it in suitable terms. Th e Gazette also contains the following u` The The Journal des Debats,in a paragraph which various journals of this capital have reproduced and commented upon, amongst other incorrect intelligence, affirms that theßritish charg4 d'affaires in Madrid asked explanations from tee Minister for Foreign Affairs with respect to the cessation of the sequestration of the property of H.M. the Queen Mother, and was replied to with considerable vlirs.efty by Senor Pastor Diaz. We are completely au tharised to assert that the fact related by the Debats has not the (slightest foundation, and that between Mr. Otway and Senor Pastor Diaz not a singl e syllable was ever interchanged upon this matter, and that the report in question, like so many others, is an invention which has not even the meritt, of being probable." A letter has the following strange story • "A serious incident, in whice Marshal Narvaez figures, is a good deal talked of here. It is said that he 'went yesterday to pay a visit to Gen. Alesan, the new Captain-General of the Phillipine isles, but not finding Um at home went; to the drawing -room to wait for hi re. There he found, in addition to Madame Alesau, M. JoseGuel y R ente and his wife, who had also called to pay a visit. (The latter is an Infanta of Spain, beiz.g sister to the Ring and cousin to the Queen.) The of conversation was very animated between the k d at the the house and M. Guel y Rente, and in the coursee lady of it Mar shal Narvaez, on several occasions, h loo gentleman, latte rin a peculiar manner. At length t G e uel y Rente 1 ' annoyed at being so regarded, cried, ged, and the Marshal ex. On this some sharp observations were ' e l x a c t m h h a e n lady of the house having intervened, but taking pros sed regret that he had given way to.anger;d tel after sent his hat he left the house, and immediately I t% fight y him. A a frier d to challenge M. Y th ß e e fact having become consequence of meecting was fixed on ,Guaen a i d d e to effect an arrangement, known, attempts were m Guel y Rente refusin g for his but without success, M. this; the to province fight, In canse ravine(' has caused that In u position a t e h r i s s tanding o f t the i affair tis n r e e i th •-•- - , of ' • . d what wol be it is not yet g G iv o e v a er P n r o ° r m o i ma) rts, an tlei orm to be arrested. lzno%;71). For the pr p• f se th n e ot lain that some time before the (I(>rture ees..l.ry to explain , from Spain, M. Guel y Ran ' Narvaez of ikiarshal Nary . e, in - f e Cortet , , attacked him in very severe a sitting o he had concluded, the Marshal, rushing terms ; and when 1 con, his sea`, placed his cane on the other's breast, t and threatened him.' Letters from It ome of th e 9th announce the commencement of the works on the railway to Civita Vecchia. A despatch from Co nstantinople, of the Bth, states that a firman has been published relative to the national represe n t ation cf th e Principalities. There is no question in the finnan o f th e the two provin ces . union of The Diet of th e eft... , Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg has been convoked for the 18th November. THE TOTAL LOSS OP TFIE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER TAY. By the arrival of the Asia mail steamer, from New York, at i Liverpool, confirmatory intelligence has been received of the total loss of the Royal Mail Company's steam ship Tay, off Lobos Island, in the Gulf of Mexico. The details of the catas trophe will be best gathered from the subjoined letter of Captain William Strutt, commander of the Tay, to the Directors of the Company, r e ' ceived yesterday at the offices, Moorgate-street " TAMPICO, Sept. 5, 1856. " Sir,—lt is my melancholy duty to report the total loss of the Royal Mail steamer Tay, lately under mY command. The following are briefly the particulars :--- The Tay left Vera Cruz at noon, on Friday, the : 20 t h of August. The wind w as very light from the N. and N.E., and calm. After having steered three rnilea and by E., shaped the course N. and by W. the en' gines being in the sixth grade of expansion, making 16 . 2 to 16.4 revolutions per minute, giving the speed of over 11 knots, running in this course, by calculation, ,about 125 miles. I altered the c ourse , a t m id n i g ht, to N.W. by W., supposing that it would take me twelve miles to the eastward of Lobos. I woes en deck at 2 a.m., and remained there up to the nrament that the ship struck. I was on the forecastle, lookiq out with the chief officer, and suddenly observed, on the port bow, what appeared to be a squall of wind owning over the water. I drew the attention of the chief officer to it, who thought the same. I immediately went aft, in order to get my night-glass, but before I could get its, the chief officer cried out, "Hard a-port : hard a-port which was immediately done, and the engines stopped; but the ship struck with much force, and after striking heavily, her head came round to the north. Seeing the perilous position of the ship, I immediately ordered all the boats to be cleared away, and lowered down, whic h were carried out without confusion. I then got the mails from below, and placed them in the starboard life boat, which soon after left the ship in charge of th e Admiralty agent and second officer, with the intention of proceeding to Tampico. All efforts were then made to get the ship off. I got a 10-cwt. kedge anchor out on the starboard bow, with an 8 inch hawser fast to it: hove well taut, and steamed on a h ea d, eng i nes g oing a" full speed. During this time, the rollers were breaking heavily over the afterpart of the ship, and sea increasing momentarily, the hawser broke by the great strain, anl the ship surged much furth er u p on th e beach. Sterilleu the engines and eased down the steam, for fear of an ac' cident in the engine -room. I then got a second 10-cwt' kedge, with a 9-inch hawser out. I hove these taut, but by this time the stern had been carried further up o n the beach. The stern-post and rudder were gone, and the cabin was full of water—in fact, the sea was making 91 breach right over her ; and finding it impossible to do anything more, resolved to abandon her to her fate, in order to save life. I regret much to state that in this, the gig, af ter being lowered, was swamped, and two men, Jchn Jeffs as ordinary seaman, and Alfred Mills, pantryman, were inasc . diately drowned. Another man, named Louis Ble w ' chenay, scullion, wh o was w ith them, and thrown into the water, succeeded i n reac hi ng the shore, and I hav e reason to believe he i s s till a l ive , as we saw hi m Del" , day on the beach. I shipped off the men by the life boat a few at a time,, with such provisions as could be saved. They were th en t rans f erred to the other ho3°s which had previously been anchoredoutside of the roller!. By 11.30 a.m., all hands had left the ship. The boats were then steered for the island of Lobos, about 8 miles distant, and were all safely landed there at 2.40 P- . lll ' Search was then made for fresh water, our store having been exhausted, and, fortunately, the men were not nir successful in finding a supply. Whilst writing, 14° u° L'lanclienay has arrived from the coast; therefore the two casualties I previously named were the only 00 that happened. I visited the ship on Sunday, but was unable to app proach nearer than a mile, on account of the very heavy rollers. She had settled down o n th e s t ar b oar d broad' side, and had parted abaft the engine-room, and her stern and quarter-deck were under water. On Mendel the weather was the same, preventing all access to the wreck, the sea making a clear breach over her. Pr be next day, however, it moderated, and I succeeded ' ll aps.ting, on board, thus enabling us to save some pro visions At noon the Mexican steamer Iturbide, which hal been despatched to our as s i s t ance b y th e G overn or 0 Tampico, arrived off the island. We were all taken o 0 board and landed at Tampico on Wednesday nigh t ' where we were afterwards joined by those of the road . boat. The stores saved have been handed over t° Messrs. Jolly and Co., who will dispose of them to the best advantage and benefit of the com p any . I f orw arded to the office a notice of the loss of her Majesty's ebiP Aenphion, bound to Vera Cruz, in which I should hay ° been more explicit, but Captain Chads would not wa it :, " I am unable to accou n t f or t h e sa d accident i n any other way than that we must have had an extraordina r y carrent setting to the southward, for which I had not made sufficient allowance. "I am happy to be able to speak of the cordial sup' port I received from the officers, engineers, and warran t officers, during the whole period. "As there is no means of conveyance from this plac e ' I am apprehensive I shall have to wait the arrival of the Company's next ship. "I have the honour, &c., " WILLIAM STRUTT, "Late Commander of the Tay." " To Reep, Esq., Secretary, "Royal Mail Steam Packet Company." On referring to the Admiralty Chart we found that there is from 15 to 50 fathoms of water i❑ the vicinity of Lobos Island. The directors in the course of the dal forwarded Captain Strutt's letter to Captain Halstead, the secretary of Lloyd's, for the information of the un' derwriters ; and it was remarked in the room that Cap' tail) Strutt had made no allusion in his communication to using the lead. The Tay was not insured, the c ony pany being their own insurers. Tire Tay, which was 1,856 tons register, was built La 1841, and has since undergone great alteration, being lengthened and other improvements done to her. Alto gether, including the original amount of constructioet she has cost the company upwards of 100,0001. THE SOUND DUES. A letter from Hamburg of the 11th inst. says: - : " As you have a l rea d y learnt by telegraph, a despatch from Copenhagen announced to us that yesterday morn' ing a final ag=reement was come to between Mr. Buchanan' the English Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen, and the Danish Government, on the amount to be paid by Ea' land to Denmark as a capitalised indemnity for the r°' deinption of the dues levied on trading vessels and pi er ' chandise passing the Sound. This convention, it is true' will have to be submitted to the approval of the Britiall Parliament ; but that approval cannot be doubted aft er the concluding report of the Parliamentary committee appoint e d l ast session to examine into the question 01', the origin and legality of th e d ues l ev i e d since t ime immemori a l at th passage of the Sound. "It appears that hitherto Prussia, one of the maritime Powers the most interested in the question of the free navigation of the Baltic, has not yet finally pronGunaea herself on the pecuniary indemnity she v, ill have to pal to Denmark when the dues cease ; it has not yet been able to fix the amount in the negotiations which have taken place on the subject between Count Oriola„ the Prussian Envoy Extraordinary at Copenhagen, and Al' Bluhme, specially intrusted by the Danish Government, as President of the Conferences, with the management of this great international affair. "It is also announced that Denmark, with a v iew to respond to the incessant claims of the Hanse Towns Of Lubeck and Hamburg, has Come to the resolution to re duce considerably the transit dues which it levies on merchandise passing from Lubeck to Hamburg, and vice versa by the Duchy of Lauenburg. France, which is also much interested in the suppression or reduction of these transit dues levied on the passage of fabricated goods on this little corner of the Danish territory, joined since the end of last year her complaints to those o f the two free ports. It seems even that the French Govern ment was resolved only to give its consent to the pro posed capitalisation of the Sound Dues for the benefit of Denmark on the condition of the modification of those transit dues." MISS MARdHALL. On Monday evening Miss Polly Marshall, just arrived from England, and a London actress of standing and reputation, made her debut as Catherine Kloper, in the little comedy of "Wanted a G overnor, or a Countess for an Hour." This piece is fou n d e d on a suppose d episode in the Bavarian career of Lola Mentes, and is e mere vehicle for the comic displays of an enterprising clear-starcher and her lover, a court barber. We remem ber to have seen Miss Marshall in London in 1851, and her great prototype, Mrs. Keeley, on whom she has founded her style of acting, and of whom she gives en exceedingly perfect imitation. Those who have never seen Mrs. Keeley will admire the fair Polly's originality; those who have will recognise an old friend, and say, with truth, that no better model could have been selected. Miss Marshall is a smart, intelligent, and lively ac tress, thoroughly acquainted with her prof ess i on, an d completely at h ome on th e stage, whilst she has the tact to make herself completely so immediately with the audience. Her reception by a crowded house was most cheering. She elicited great applause, and was urani mously recalled on the fall of the curtain, as was Mr. Burto n , who was inimitably funny a s th e Court Barber. Miss Marshall afterwards appeared as "The Object of if s y s_ e_ u if m.a irsthlartsh, srotyulgehistehsesemnteidailulymreodf Interest "—a cockney servant girl, w h o i s dying to be come ee,l,ecboreaktaeid.gn even t o h er i ntonation ; and in so ir:oonultiberoeefrtteepsorot; this description she will prove an imnaer.ss acqui,ition to manager Burton, who will find her a capital exponent of the f ema l e character in those Lon don farces n which be d e li g h ts. She dances well, which is not surprising, as she was a danseuse long be fore she became an a ctress.—Porter' 3 New York Spirit, of the Times. OBTAINING A SITUATION WITH A FALSE CHARACTER.— A young man, named Wh, :e l or , was remanded yesterday from the W estminßter Police-court, ore a charge of hav ing obtained a situation by means of a false character. EMBEZZLEIIENT.—Joseph Smith was finally examined at Worshio-stre o t on a charge of having embezzled 3341. which he bad received in his capacity of rate-collector for the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch. The magis trate sentenced him to three months' imprisonment. Another charge of having also embezzled the sum o 1501. was reserved until after the expiration of the sentence.