The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

NAPLES AND THE WESTERN POTVSES• The following is a full translation of the article in the Moniteur, of which a summazy appeared ip our impression of yesterday : " As soon as peace was concluded the first care of the Paris Congress was to insure its duration. With that object in view the Plenipotentiaries examined into the elements of discord which still existed in Europe, and especially turned their attention to the condition of Italy, of Greece, and of Belgium. The observations exchanged on that occasion were everywhere received with a spirit of cordial understanding, because they were inspired by a sincere solicitude for the quiet of Europe, and at the same time evinced the respect which was due to the independence of all sovereign States. " Thus, in Belgium the Government, agreeing with the opinion upon the excesses of certain or gans of the press, showed itself disposed to put a stop to them by every means in its power. " In Greece the financial plan of organisation submitted to the appreciation of the protecting Courts proves the readiness of the Greek Govern ment to hearken to the counsels of the Congress. "In Italy the Holy See and the other States admit the expediency of clemency and internal re foi m "The Court of Naples alone haughtily rejected the counsels of France and of England, although given under the most amicable form. "The rigorous and compressive measures which for a long time have been turned into means of administration by. the Government of the Two Sicilies keep Italy in a state of agitation, and compromise the peace of Europe. Convinced of the dangers arising from such a state of things, France and England bad hoped to avert them by wise counsels given at an opportune moment ; those counsels have been disregarded ; the Go vernment of the Two Sicilies, closing its eyes to evidence, has thought fit to persevere in a fatal course. " The ungracious reception given to legitimate observations, an unjust suspicion cast upon the purity of intentions, an insulting language in reply to wholesome advice, and finally an obsti nate refusal, no longer permitted the continua tion of friendly relations. "Complying witn the suggestions of a great Power, the Cabinet of Naples endeavoured to ex tenuate the effect produced by its first reply ; but this semblance of condescension was only an addi tional proof of its resolution to take no heed of the solicitude of France and England for the general interests of France and Europe. Hesitation was no longer warranted ; it became necessary to break off diplomatic intercourse with a Court which had itself so deeply altered the character of that intercourse. "This suspension of official relations by no means constitutes an intervention in the internal affairs of Naples, still less an act of hostility. :4 As, however, the safety of the subjects of the two . Governments might be endangered, to provide for such a contingency, they have assembled a combined squadron ; but they have refrained from sending their ships to the waters of Naples, to avoid giving rise to erroneous inter pretations. This simple measure of eventual protection, which in no manner partakes of a menace, cannot either be considered as a support or encouragement offered to those who endeavour to upset the throne of the King of the Two Sicilies. " If, moreover, the Neapolitan Government, returning to a just appreciation of the sentiments which actuates the Governments of France and of England, should finally understand its real in terests, the two Powers would hasten to renew with it the relations which previously existed, and will be happy by this reconciliation to give a new guarantee for the peace of Europe." Despatches from the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were received yesterday at the Colonial office. LORD PALMERSTON AND P ARLILMSNTAUT REFORM. —lt is believed in the best-informed circles that Vis count Palmerston is availing himself of the leisure afforded by the recess to mature and perfect a scheme of representative reform.— M anchester guardian. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar are expected kt town, in a few days, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Gordon Castle, Fochabers, N.B. The Duke of Manchester, after visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, and the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Gordon Castle, Fochabers, left there last week to pay a series of visits southwards. The Earl of Cardigan, after completing his tour of in spection, as Inspector-General of Cavalry, goes to Dean Park, Northamptonshire, to receive a succession of dis tinguished guests. The Neapolitan journals chronicle the debut of a► young Irish artist, Ferdinand Glover, of Dublin, at the Teatro Nuovo. He is spoken of in the most eulogistic terms by the principal organs of opinion on musical subjects. The Omnibus states that he is engaged as principal baritone at the Teatro Nuovo until the carnival of 1857. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Al. hambra arrived yesterday at Southampton, from Alex- andria. THE BURNING OF THE NIAGARA STEASIIIZIF.—It 18 now ascertained beyond reasonable doubt that the burn ing of the Niagara on Lake Michigan, by which some 75 human beings' lives were lost, was the work of an incendiary.—Nein York Tribune. THE LATE MR. G. A. A TECKETT.—The gentlemen who had been ~ 2 o long associated with Mr. A'Beckett, in c - mnection wit 7 i PctAch., have caused the remains o f the lamented magistrate to b) removed Iron the B ?n• logne ~ ;erwitery t that at Highgate, (.vlitre they were de posited on Thursday la.t. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Mairty's C irnmie aioAera of Emigration have announced that they will despatch ships t Sydney, Adelaide, and 111....d'Jourue between th,t Ist and Bth December next. Charles Eivvarl Phillpotts, son of the right rev. and muchrevected diocesan (the Bishop of E:eter), isr candidate for the office of chief constable for the county of Cornwall. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY IN SOMERSET SIIIRE.---The executive committee of the Conservative Land Society have just concluded their twenty-seventh purchase of land, by the acquisition of a very valuable property in Silver-str ee t, T aun t on . It is locally ksown as Drake's estate, and from its position close to the town and nat ura l f eatures, i s a d m i ra bl y a d apte d f or building purposes. Mr. C. Wentworth has submitted to the Government plans for a locomotive battery for coast defence. Bread is being sold at Oxford at did. the Alb. loaf. At the approaching Lord Mayor's show, Mr. Mechi intends to exhibit Boydell's steam.engine drawing the reaping and threshing machines used at Tiptree farm. Mr. John Whittaker, who was brutally assaulted and robbed on the high road between Rotherham and Thry berg, on Thursday last, expired on Saturday evening. A correspondent of the Times suggests that on each s id e o f Blackfriars-road trees should be planted, to try whether they will not grow as well in London as they do in Paris. Charles Ashton, formerly a clerk in the Company of Copper Miners in England, was yesterday fully com mitted for trial bv the Lord Mayor for embezzlement S was fined five pounds esterda • atby Mr. Elliott, q Lambeth police-court, for Y keeping Westmoreland-row, Walworth, for boiling -- premises in bones. W a `pith sincere sorrow we n noun ce the Perpetration of a horrible murder in this- I M URD ER DT JERSEY .— island. On Tu esda y night, the 14th inst., between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, Mr. Ilacquoil, Centenier of St. Ouen, lodged at the station-house one of the inhabi tants of ;that parish named Josue Le Gresley, son of Peter, from Vinchelez, whom he had arrested on the ch arge of moldering his wife Hem-lett° Le Feuvre dit Fiellastr,e. From informa tion obtained from Mr. I'm - il we learn that Le Gresley was seen in the morning digging Potatoes ; :aid hi s unfortunate wife was observed abouttise mi n ute past 10 o'clock w ith a digging; fork in he hand, proceeding in the directi on of where her hus band w ~ a 3 employed afterwards he wa s seen tendin g his pigs, and " t " performing other work, but the poor woman 'w as seen no more afire. A t 12 o'clock the childrenreturned from school, and, not finding their mother at home, ful to relate; the went in search of her, when, fright dead in a field. liiioor creatures found their parent ascertained that thenhavin been obtained, it was with the fork, one of th woman had been killed driven into the back of tte prongs of which having been mant have caused instaii , skull, hn.l eitteriw.; the brain, death. buy was cold and rigid. When pcke.l up the Tho pris .ner wag found in a state of seeming imliffere nee arrest until this moroinr, h.,' s a " from the time of his maintained a gloomy si• f en ce. There can be little if any doubt that the man is in We a state of apat hetic insanit y . hear that some years ago he ha d been addicted to excessive drinking, and 18 mon ths past was kep t co nfined to has stained kitchen. Most_ likely the fata l deed by which stained his hands children with blood and de p rived his of their mother burst was the consequ ence of some sudden of insane passion. The inquest is the being held at moment of our going to press —Jersey .Independent. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. NI. T. Smith. THIS EVENING LONDIN 4SSUR.-NCE• Followed by Burlesque of PIZA.IMO. To conclude with BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. ROYAL PRINCEM'S THEATRE. Ceder the Management of Mr. CnaaLzs KEAN TIII4 EVENING, A MI DSU3I 3IER NIG lIT'S DICE AM. To conclude with PIZARRO. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENING, WILD OA.T3. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which. THE LITTLE TREASURE. To conalude with THE GALICIAN FETE. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Charles Dillon. THIS EVENING, BELPHEGOR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. Followed by (for the flfth time) THE KING'S MUSKETEERS, D'Artagnon, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Const once, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with The B ALLET from the Burlesque of the " Winter's Tale." Stalls. ss. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. s. Commence at 7. Half price to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Wet ster. Directress, Madame Celest. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After whin, THE IRISH TUTOR. To conclude with OUR GAL. STR AND TIIEATRE. Mana:er, Mr. T. Payne. THIS EVENING, THE OLD COMMODORE. After which. OUT ON THE LOOSE. Followed by an original Burlesque, entitled BELPHEGOR. Mesdames Cuthbert, Wooßidge, and E. Jacobs; Messrs. 11. J. Turner, Herbert, Clarke, &c. To conclude with The Ballet of POLICHIOELLE. • Messrs. W. A. Barnes and Mithenson. Commence at 7. Stalls, 3s.—Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan. 11113 EVENING. RETRIBUTION. To conclade with THE FIRST NIGHT. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, 168th Night!) Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD, with Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained horses. Richard, Mr. James Holloway. After which, The SCENES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a Pot Peurri of Amusing Entertainments. Commence at Seven. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr -W . West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam Dla—Morn. 58 min. aft. 6 —Evening 36 rain. sft. 7 T.-Monnow—Morn. a min. aft. B—Evening 12 min. aft. 9 THE WEATHER—SUN Omor, OCTOBER 21. THER3fO3LETER, IN THE SHADE. $9 —highest sinee noon yesterday. A—lowest this morning and during the night. 62 —this day at noon. BAROMITZB, 30.31. WIND, W.S.W.—Light, with fine weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that tho heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. fr.., 4 _-o frb f • '1,;" • 17:7772.-7,:-.V • L)NDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1856, -- e --- - Diplomatic relations between the Western Powers and Naples will forthwith be suspended. The reckless conduct of BOMBA. has left no alter native, and having hesitated and diplomatised until the act was divested of the greater portion of its vigour and utility, France and England have at length partially adopted the course indi cated some six weeks since, and which, when once alluded to, should not have been postponed for a single hour. We say "partially," because, in consequence of not sending their fleets into the Bay of Naples, they have yielded to the brow beating of Russia, and only carried a compara tively trivial portion of their threats into execu tion. Now, this is all not ouly very humiliating, but very injudicious and impolitic. A great nation should never make its bark worse than its bite—should never utter a threat which it was not firmly resolved to carry out to the fullest extent, unless its demands were complied with. More especially, it should not exhibit the slightest symptom of poltroonery, nor yield to the ominous hints of a more powerful an tagonist what it refused to justice and equity. It should put forward no requisition which it was not firmly determined to enforce, not only against the party originally complained of, but also against all his aiders and abettors, who ever they might be. Nothing should be lightly or recklessly required, but still less should there be any abandonment of a well-founded claim. The mere notion that such an abandonment is possible may, by inducing resistance, occasion great mia• chief. It is like the futile demonstration of firing over the head of an infuriated mob, which only increases their anger and stimulates their audacity, occasioning tenfold the bloodshed that would have followedpatnieee had there been a greater amount of displayed, or that the fusillade, when once ordered, had proved effective in the first instance. In our impression of yesterday we inserted the substance of the important article in the Moniteur, which explained the policy of France, with which that of England is completely identified. That it completely justified the cessation of amicable rela tions is indisputable. But it did more ! It fully warranted an imperative demand for immediate redress— an inflexible determination that the peace ' of Europe sho u ld not b e endan and tranquillity v,ered by the perverse and contumacious refusal of the Lilliputian D3spot, to attend to the disinte rested and wholesome advice tendered. France and England have either gone too far or not far enough. On the " ill reception of their legitimate observations," " the insulting doubts cast on the purity of their intentions," and, above all, " the offensive language opposed to salutary counsels," and the " obstinate refusal " to listen to their salutai'y advice, there should have been an immediate 3 withdrawal of the Am bassalors, and the adopt ion of the measures indis pensable for the security of the subjects of France and England who migh t unfortunately be placed within the power of BOIABA and his chosen body guard, the Neapolitan lazzaroni. This step, when once even hinted at, should have been instantly taken. A squadron merely cruising in the direction of the Bay of Naples, but refraining from entering its waters, could have afforded no real protection. The anticipated danger might occur before notice could be given to the officers of the fleet, and the assailants would only be stimulated to greater outrages at the notion that France and England dared not disturb the sanctity of the Neapolitan waters. The chief object of the document ap pears to be to deprecate the anger of Russia— to prove to that Power that "the suspension of diplomatic intercourse in sense constitutes any intervention in internal rdfairs, and still less any act of hostility." Our transatlantic cousins would not be quite so mealy-mouthed. They would act decisively in any exigency, and conse quently would escape the disgraceful shirking and quibbling usually resorted to. Had England and France, without waiting for Austria, declared that the passage of the Pr uth would be regarded as a castes belli, the Easte m difficulty, and with it the sacrifice of 50,00 C► British subjects, and 100,000,0001. of English. money would have been averted. But red-tapisixt forbade the wholesome demonstration. We should move by inches—and thus a sanguinary and expensive war was forced upon us. We earnestly- hope that in the present instance a similar course may not be followed by similar results—that we , may not again be drift ing into war through the want of firmness and determination on the part of the Allied Govern ments. Why should they be s.o solicitous to show that the course pursued cannot be considered as " a support or encouragement to those who endeavour to upset the throne of the Xing of the Two Sicilies ?" Why should they care as to the con sequences that may mime ? That they are more than warranted in breaking off diplomatic intercourse is admitted, and it is Bomse that must look to the consequences if those of his sub jects who have but too much reason to become malcontents should endeavour to avail themselves of the opportunity---he has only himself to thank for the untoward results. Never was there a more fitting occasion for intervention, and, if necessary, occupation of the Neapolitan territory. But according to the despotic theory it is only tyrants that can be protected against their indig nant subjects. Austrian or Russian troops are always available for such purposes. But when the people, goaded by oppression to the verge of madness, require assistance, then, forsooth, it is an undue interference with sovereign rights, and Russia and Austria are ready to rush into the arena as champions for the injured tyrant, who is not permitted to do as he likes with his own, and to rivet the chains on millions of sufferers. We cannot congratulate the French and Eng lish Governments on the course they have taken, which shows an amount of inde cision and irresolution on the part of two of the great Powers of Europe by no means dignified or becoming the position they aspire to fill. The course of Russia is unques tionably more consistent with her antecedents than that of the Western Powers; and, were we to judge from that alone, we might suppose that they had been worsted in the late war, and had been compelled to become humble suppliants for peace at any price or on any conditions. A question of some interest to the ratepayers outside the City boundaries was yesterday mooted at a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Already the working of the Board has occasioned some amount of expenditure; and with the drain age and other works of an expensive description " looming in the distance," it becomes a matter of importance that an equitable assessment of the several districts should be made. By the act of Parliament, the assessable value of property to be taxed for the purposes of the Board of Works is to be estimated according to the estimate or basis on which the county rate is assessed. Now, were this basis to be met with in each and all of the districts represented at the Board, consider able difficulty would still be experienced in duly apportioning the burden of local taxation. It so happens, however, that the City of London is not assessed for a county rate, and the assessment in operation is, or was, consequently based on the sewers rate of the City. The amount of the assessment, on whatever basis, suggests doubts in the minds of some of the members as to its equit ableness, and we must say these doubts appear to be by no means unwarranted. Knowing, as our readers do, the immense sums demanded for the smallest conceivable site in the City, they will be somewhat surprised to learn that the City assessment of rateable property amounts only to 1,153,0691. This certainly would seem out of keeping with the sale of sites at 67,0001. an acre, and would alone warrant a suspicion that the City authorities have dealt leniently with themselves and fellow-citizens. Under such circumstances it could excite no wonder if a demand were made by the represen tatives of other districts for information as to the actual basis of assessment in the City. One fact, however—we take it as we find it—removes the matter,. to our thinking, from the region of doubt to that of certainty, and invests the demand with the authority of justice. Not only, according to one of the speakers, is the sewers rate assessment less than the county rate, but the assessment of the City is below that at which the Property Tax Commissioners had assessed it. Civic history, we imagine, will serve the City authorities but little in the matter. Past good character may be allowed some weight against an unfavourable presumption, but here we have something more than a presumption. and some thing considerably short of a good character. The case is glaring. Our friends in the City have been taking care of number one at the expense of the rest of the metropolis. To what extent we know not. One member of the Board says the assessment is 400,0001. less than it should be. For our part we incline to think lie is within the mark. Supposing the statements on which our remarks are based prove incorrect, which is not very likely, the Borough of Marylebone will still have a right to complain that, with its assess ment at 999,3721., it should only return two Members, while the City, with its 1,153,069/., returns three. It is not, however, in order to a more equal apportionment of representation we draw attention to this disparity—it is because we se-3 in the figures strong ground for believing the City is really assessed much below the value of its rateable property. There are individuals who will believe anything, however self-contradictory and ab surd ; but short of these, we are unable to conceive how, if Marylebone be fairly assessed, the City can be deemed so. Look at the figures : Maryle bone, 999,3721.; the City, 1,153,069/. ! He must be a bold man who will assert or persist in asserting rilE SUN, LON DON, TUESDA EirFiSiNG O:CrOWEIR 21, 185, that the difference in the rateable value of the property in the two districts amounts to no more than 153,697/. The matter must be thoroughly investigated, and if the allegations made ar© at all substantiated, the City must be fairly 'assessed. The doctrine with respect to "bearing one and other's burdens" involves reciprocity of relief, and let the City purists say what they may, by no means countenances the throwing of City burdens on the shoulders of the ratepayers of other districts. The principle involved is susceptible, we .are inclined to think, of much more general application, and when the drainage rate is in force, if not before, we anticipate an equalisation of assessment, at which some may grumble, but at which all good citizen: will rejoice. LATEST NEWS. MADRID, OCT. 20. The Gazette publishes a Royal decree, granting an extended amnesty for all condemnations in curred in consequence of the events of July last. By two other decrees, also inserted in the official journal, the measures taken for the seques tration of the property of the Queen-Mother are annulled, and all appointments and promotions granted in June and July, 1854, are ratified. MARSEILLES, OCT. 20, Accounts from Constantinople of the 13th, brought by the Sinai, state that the difficulties relative to the town of Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents have become more aggravated. The defence of the City of London Gas Com pany is now before the public. If it is not satis factory it is certainly not for want of variety and boldness—we had almost said audacity—of asser tion. The witnesses were numerous, and their testimony may be said to have ranged from zero to blood heat. Fortunately it is not what men say or would have inferred the public in such matters are unhesitatingly disposed to accept. The case is one in which their own judgment can be turned to account, and they must be expected to come to that conclusion only which common sense is likely to approve. We by no means would have it inferred the witnesses testified to what they knew to be false. Interest (and the company have influence) will go a long way towards the formation of an opinion, and custom, ignorance, and perversity have in this instance had their full weight. It is one of the evils of an unhealthy locality that the offensive and pernicious odours which load its atmosphere cease in course of time to be offensive to the more robust organisations exposed to them, without losing their injuriousness ; though there are instances where the subject becomes as it were acclimatised, and ceases to be perceptibly affected by them in any way whatever. The test of noxiousness is not to be found in these. If you would know whether the atmosphere of any given locality is detrimental to health, the surest and most delicate way of testing the matter is to ascertain what effect it has on strangers. If these be bad on individuals of delicate organisation, the case is proved ; if robust men are stricken down, it is impossible for demonstration to be more complete. These things being considered, we attach but little weight to the testimony adduced on behalf of the Company. The broad, glaring, indisputable facts remain unimpeached. The police on the beat feel an offensive smell ; nausea and sickness, fol lowed by prostration of energy, are produced by it, and some of them have to be removed elsewhere. This smell, they assert, comes from the gas works ; they have traced it there, and, in confirmation of their assertion, it is not denied a smell like that they describe is to be met with in the works, which, if inhaled, would be productive of such results. The only impeachment of the damning testimony of the police is the assertion that the offensive odour proceeds from the Fleet Ditch. Why, if true, was there not incontestible evi dence of its truth forthcoming ? Nothing could have been easier than to have adduced it, if it were advisable. The public must be excused if they believe it was not. Admiral Lyons sent the Gladiator to Malta to demand fresh vessels. The Majestic had arrived, and other vessels were expected. It is said that the English are supplying the Circassians with arms. The Porte intends to disarm the Albanians. The' expedition against Montenegro is abandoned. The Porte has conferred several decorations on persons connected with the French Messageries. M. Behic, one of the directors, has received the order of the Medjidie. Accounts from Athens of the 15th state that everything was tranquil. The circular of Prince Gortschakoff had produced no impression. The Government was using every endeavour to put down brigandage. The export of corn has been prohibited in consequence of the .high price of provisions. The Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post (Second Edition) says The appearance in the Moniteur of the ex pected note on Neapolitan affairs has produced a most favourable impression. Those who were jealous for the honour of France are satisfied at seeing the policy promulgated at the Paris Con ferences carried into effect ; and those few whose political opinions are opposed to the Empire, be cause it is the Empire, find so much moderation and dignity in the language of the Government that they have little to say. The publication of this note is regarded as important to Europe generally, because it illustrates the determination of England and France not to countenance such Governments as that of the Two Sicilies. What ever may be the immediate results of the with drawal of the English and French Embassies, the future results cannot be doubted. It will show such rulers as Ferdinand of Naples that there i s a limit to their cruelty and misrule, which the great Powers will not fail to observe. The pub lication of the note confirms the information I have given you—viz., that the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries are united in their foreign policy as regards Italy ; and that the re turn of the Emperor to Paris has given a decision to their policy. As regards the effect of this note on the money market, I may observe that at the Passage de l'Opera it was received with great pleasure by the better part of speculators, having been hourly expected. Its contents—so pacific, but at the same time so explicit—caused a gene ral satisfaction. What adds to the weakness of the defence is its absurd and contradictory nature. One class of testimony disposes of the affair in the most summary manner, kicks the police clean out of Court. It is not a question with those witnesses of is it good, or is it bad ? or—which is which ? It is a ques tion as to a primary fact—are there, or are there s not, smells in the Whitefriars dis trict? and, "no such thing—there are none," is, in effect, their reply. If these people are right the police must be March mad, or worse—they who support their testimony pitiable victims of hallucination and t4e court of inquiry, imbecile. TheFleetDitch people, or people who, not having the fear of the Fleet before their eyes, endeavour to exculpate the gas works at its expense simply illustrate how needless a nose is to give positive evidence on smells. The least irrational of all are those who admit the smells and deny the noxiousness or unpleasantness of them. The last point is a mat ter of taste—the former of science and fact ; and when an individual is found with a taste so de praved—as the great majority believe —as to like the smells, they must be pardoned the presump tion that his judgment is not to be counted on as to their quality. A fourth class remains—this consists of those who, with a sublime audacity, admit the smells—express no doubt as to their origin, and leave the question of taste out of con sideration, but authoritatively pronounce them wholesome—absolute preventives of cholera ! It would argue an insane belief in limcelpathy, in deed, to give credit to these people. Most of us, one way or other, unfortunately know what cholera and it really is too much to be told that a violent and depressing evacuant can either be wholesome or good for a disease heralded by a depression of vital energy, and terminated by utter prostration. We make the Company a present of Mr. CHILDS, who appears to be too amiable to disagree wholly with either party. At all events, the Company are welcome to his testimony so far as the public are concerned, who only seek after the truth, and don't admire being mystified by witless contradictions, or rather sta tistics, on which the compiler admits he cannot depend. The Company would have been better off with fewer and more reliable witnesses. They have fallen into the error ®f getting up too strong a case, and the result is it has no coherence, and can command no belief. It may be individuals have Hired long at gasworks—men have lived long under the most unfavourable circumstances, and where there is a free current of air in an open space gasworks may not be very injurious ; but cannot—we in a confin e d ar ea, overhung by a h umid atmo ng—fail to be prejudicial sphere, b rea th e d by thousands, the s mells of gas works an u h All the denial in the world w ill not overturn an easil y ascertain able fact. to the e public 'persistheianl t sa.Yi " The small faction which, for nearly two months, have been playing for the fall and conse quent depression of public funds by using all sorts of tricks and rumours, had caused the rant© to be quoted early in the morning at the lowest prices they could venture upon. But the inter ' pretation given to the Government's intentions soon checked this movement." The Park correspondent of the Times' (second edition) says : " The Government has at last spoken out on the Neapolitan question. A note appears in the Moniteur of today, and it corroborates pretty nearly all I have stated on the subject for the last week or fortnight. Opinion is, as usual, divided on the note itself ; some call it dignified and energetic, others the contrary, and some again decide that it is just what was expected, but just what suits the exigency of the case. When the Ministers have left Naples the King will probably make a few concessions, proprio mote as it were, and take his own time for reform ; and then we shall be good friends once more. There is no use in wasting time in conjectures as to what will occur at Naples or in Sicily as soon as the withdrawal of the Ambassadors is known, but an insurrectionary movement would wonderfully com plicate matters. When Baron Brenier leaves, the French Consul, M. Soulange-Bodin, will take charge of the archives, and continue to transact merely notarial business, and I suppose his Eng -11,31i confrere will remain for the same purpose. The Bavarian Minister will take charge of the interests of such French or British subjects as still abide in the Neapolitan territory. As soon as Baron Brenier leaves, M. Antonini, the Neapo lirtaunasers.,in,ister at this Court , will p roceed to B The Vienna correspondent of the Times (secoLd edition), dated Oct. 17, says : " Until this morning there was a strong im pression on my mind that Austria feigned to distrust France in order to excite the suspicions of England, and if possible to bring about a cool ness between the Western Powers ; but positive information has now been acquired that this Government is greatly annoyed at the conduct of the French Cabinet in more than one matter of importance. Complaints are made that Count Walewski does not display sufficient firmness towards Russia, and it is whispered that he and M. de Morny are on such excellent terms with the St. Petersburg Cabinet that it will be able to manage matters pretty much as it pleases when the Paris Conferences are resumed. It is morally certain that Ismail would not have been destroyed if Count Walewski had spoken more positively on the subject when it was brought forward by Count (now Prince) Orloff, at Paris, and the question of the Isle of Serpents would not now be pending if the ships of France had returned with those of England to the Black Sea. In m y letter of yesterd ay a doubt was ex pressed of the correctness of the assertion that the British Cabinet did not object to the prolon gation of the occupation of the Danubian Princi palities by Austria, but it appears that her Ma jesty's Government has recently come to the con clusion that the presence of the Austrian troops in Moldavia and Wallachia will facilitate rather than impede the satisfactory settlement of the Bessarabian frontier question." • COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 20. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Alberti accompanied by his Imperial Highness the Hereditary Prince of Tuscany arid four elder members of tho Royal family, walked on the East Terrace yesterday afternoon, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Here ditary Prince of Tuscany, went out shooting this morn hg. The Princess Alice rode on horseback. Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a carriage drive. M. Pacheco had his first audience of the Queen this day, and delivered his credentials tts Minister from her C4l,tholic Majority the Queen of Spain. Ifis Excellency was introduced .liy the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the (I,leen's Principal Secretary of State for Forcif, , ,n Affairs. Lord Dufferin and Lieutenant-General Sir F. Stovin were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Tie Spanish Minister remains on a visit to the Queen. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have been in- vited, and are expected this afternoon. NAPLES. • The English squadron had not been met with since its departure from Ajaccio. There was nothing new as to the French squadr( a at Toulon, but it was all ready. A letter, dated Naples, Oct. 16, says :—" A Council of State was held at Gaeta last Monday ; but I am informed that, as usual, no business of any importance was transacted, and that the Here ditary Prince presided. I must not omit, however, to state that some assert that a change of Ministers and a comprehensive amnesty were discussed. There can be no doubt that such measures have for Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived in Lon• don yesterday morning from Broadlands, Hants, and left town in the afternoon for Windsor Castle. some time been reported as probable among the Royalists ; but should they ever he carried into effect, and as final measures, I should regard them as fatal toNeapolitan progressaud liberty. The fault is not with the Ministers, who, when strong-minded, well-intentioned men, have been cashiered in an ignominious manner, or, when they have been pliable men of yesterday, have been the slaves of the Royal caprice, registrars of the Royal will. The evil lies in the existence of an absolute power which practically denies the right of independent thought in will or action to its subjects. With such a power uncontrolled by the common obligations of morality, inasmuch as it takes and breaks oaths in a breath, there can be no confidence in peace or progress. I can conceive that the Royalists would be well con tented with such a solution of the difficulty—but such a solution would be false, inefficient, fatal. The funds rose to losa, and most assert that it was because Baron Brenier took a box at San Carlo for the 9uecu's gala last night. I cannot help ob serving a feverish distrustfulness and anxiety among the Liberal party about the sentiments and movements of France and her Ministers. For several years there have been circulating re ports regarding Count Walewski, to which of course I cannot give credence, b u t w hich still mark rho univeysalimpression that, in some way or other, he is bound to support the interests of Fer dinand 11. Of course these reports have been more rife since certain agents have visited Paris within the last few months. O ne f act i s pretty clear, that the foreign policy of France has been more dis posed to support the assumption of the King than the demands of the people of Naples. "His Majesty still maintains his confidence and his pleasantry in speaking of the Allies, and on a recent occasion is said to have presented the Here ditary Prince as King of the Two Sicilies, by the grace of England and of France.' " Among other valuable articles taken off to Gaeta are said to be papers of importance. "His Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse has been visiting his Majesty, a fact which was much commented on as marking some approximation be tween the views of the Royal brothers. Among other significant incidents, too, it was observed that on Sunday night the Royal box at San Carlo was well filled with the members of the Royal family, and that the next box was occupied by Princes Satriano (Filangieri) and Ischitella, as also by General Nunciante, the right-hand man of the King. The inference was, that there was a reconciliation between Satriano and the Court, and that he will be called to help them out of their difficulties. " The political prisoners lately set at liberty have been restricted to a residence in their province. An toinetta Pace was not liberated at the same time, perhaps for want of sureties. Avitabile has permission to remain in Naples. An action was opened last Monday by the Procureur-General against the two individuals arrested for having expressed their approbation of the decision of the judges in the late political cause ; but the judges, on retiring to consider wheth er th ere was su ffi c i en t groun d for a prosecution, decided in the negative, they were therefore liberated after ten days' confinement. In referring to the absurd false statements of a portion of the French press that there were not more perhaps than 100 political prisoners now re maining, I might have given tke following evi dence of Captain Acuti on the recent trial. When he was the commander of the Bagni of Procida there were 1,450 prisoners, of whom 600 were poli tical. Captain Acuti was commander of the Bagni about a year ago—and supposing one-half have since been liberated, which certainly is not the case, we have yet 300 for one prison only still remaining, to take no account of those who iu the provinces are daily arrested for reasons and under circumstances that would appear incredible out of this country. That some have been released cannot be denied, but the majority were such as had been arbitrarily ar rested by a simple orderof police, and confined with out trial or sentence. Poor Amodio too, on ce, I think, deputy for Potenza, has been liberated ; he had be come mad in prison ! Death also has reduced the numbers, as in the case of the consumptive patient Zeuli, confined in chains in the damp prisons of Montesarchio. Lanza and Mambrini have been permitted to return on conditions extorted from them, which must for ever awaken the regret of their friends. I cannot proceed to individualise all who have returned to enjoy a doubtful liberty under the surveillance of the police, and within the grasp of a power which may at any time consign them again to a prison. An amnesty, indeed ! It is a mockery of concession. I cannot but observe on the gradual and detailed manner in which the few who have been liberated have been amnestied. No one knows better than the King the danger of such a measure, and therefore it is that a general am nesty cannot and will not be granted unless there be a return to a state of legality. An amnesty is incompatible with things as they are—its only effect will be to restore thousands who`are smarting from injustice and boiling with wrath and indignation to form so many nuclei of discontent and revolution. We have arrived at this point then that compassion isnot safe without justice and legality. sc Tho A_flooriostn sloop of War, the Constitution, came in on Monday from Spezzia, and she will pro bably remain some time to watch events." A letter from Naples of the 13th, in the Gazette die .3lidi, says :—" The King is still at Gaeta, superintending the work of the fortifications. He will return here in a day or two, and will after wards proceed to the Palace of Caserta, the Nea politan Versailles, and will remain there for some time with the Queen, who is very near her con finement. Everything here is perfectly calm ; no agitation is visible, at least on the surface, and the public funds do not appear to be acted on by the diplomatic crisis. They are still at 107. The Government considers itself equal to anything that may take place. The King declares that he will not yield to any pressure, and that he will continue to do what he thinks proper. It is said that in talking to a foreign ambassador he used this expression, When I shall declare an am nesty I do not chose that it shall be for the benefit and honour of foreigners, but for the safety of my crown.' As to the eventual abdication which has been talked of the statement is declared to be with out the slightest foundation. Ferdinand 11. would consider it as an unpardonable weakness. He thinks it his duty to r e main at his post, and flat ters himself that he will obtain by his persistence even an honourable solution. The Austrian am bassador has only yet seen the King once ; he preserves the natural attitude of a diplomatist who has simply come to resume his functions after a leave of absence. Austria has 80 great an interest in the tranquillity that she should be thought less indifferent than any other in what is going on. As to Russia and Prussia, the attitude of their ambassadors is very , decided. The plenipotentiary of the former of those powers sees all the higher ranks of society flock to his soirees with an eagerness in which cu riosity perhaps has a great shar e . I t was at one those soirees that he read the famous Gortschakoff circular before it' was published by the Cologne gazette." The Verona Gazette contains the following : " The city of Naples is very defective in a military point of view, and may at any time be menaced without danger of much resist any time able to d es t roy Na anee. A fleet i s at Naples or to oblige the I Government to come t o terms. u 1815, Joachim Murat kept the A us t r i ans in check on the land side, but when C ommo d ore Campbell appeared before Naples, the fleet was obliged to be given up. Since then, indeed, the Neapolitan fleet has been considerably increased , but the port, being too small, can offer b little resistance, and. all the maritime arsenals at Naples and Castolla maro are expos e d t o the fire ofthe enemy. The accumulation of military and naval stores at Naples, and i n t h e neighbourhood is very detri mental to the defence of the kingdom, because the fall of that city renders all resistance in other quar ters impossible. The islands opposite the gulf are more favourable for the purpose of attack than de fence. Th e fortifications of Cap ti, Ischia, and quite Procida a re insufficient to prevent the nen trance of a fleet into the port. On the land side the capital may be defended, if it is not threatened by sea. Th e f ort ifi cations of the rest of the king dom are important, but arc not connected so as to form a regular strategical system." AUSTRIA. The Austrian Gazette of Vienna, of the 16th says :---" Some journals assert that Austria has concluded with the Porte a secret treaty relative to the prolongation of the occupation of the Prin cipalities. Such a treaty is in no respect necessary as the existing one clearly declares that the evacu ation of these Principalities depends solely on the arrangements to be entered into between the Porte that foreign and Austria. Even admitting that the enactments ytt i te t i ) et n of the treaty of Paris, which says troops must evacuate the country within six b as ed on a. separate treaty, we may remind months, wore applicable to the Austrian occupa journals that the treaty in question con tainsmber of other provisions 1 1 11 , r , 1 i l i 'ul executed. According to it, which have not the commission on the Principalities- long since assembled at Buchest,Toidughhatvteo bavcom menced its labours, but it has not done so. We do not believe that we are in error in stating that, as soon as a decision shall be come to with regard to the Principalities, and new institutions shall be established in those provinces, Austria will not delay in puttin g which has cost a n d s T til o l - an end to an occupation costs her a good deal , The Ost Deut sc h e of money, and whi c h i s not fur her interest alone.' loot, of Vienna, also contains an article destined to justify the occupation of the Danubian Principalities by Austria. It °pros this occupation to that of Greece by the .Lilies, and asserts that the former is justified by right, whilst the presence of the Western Powers in Greece can receive no justification whatever. It assert 3 that the non-settlement of the Bessarabian frontier de mands the presence of the Austrian army in the provinces, as it has given rise to the re-appearanc e of the English squadron in the Black Sea. It es! not suffice, it says, for the treaty to be signed ; it must, likewise, be carded into execution. "Aus tria," says the article in conclusion, " has the same duty . to perform i n wa t c hi n g over the execution of &as treaty as the other contracting powers; and the presence of the Austrian force, justified more over by treaty, is calculated to accelerate the sabot fac'ory execution of the measure provided by the peace of Paris." RUSSIA. eror A St. Petersburg letter states that the Emp of Russia has granted the order of the White Eag le to Ismail Pacha, commander of the Turkish a rm Y at Anatolia. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the Bth, 03' 8 , 1 —" The establishment of the company for naV i g a r ing the Black Sea has been already mentioned. To-day the following Imperial ukase relative to the extraction of coal in the country of the Don has appeared The maintaining in the Black Sea , vessels of war impelled solely by steam, which we shall have to keep u as a protection in conform ity with the treaty of Pars; the anticpated construction of railways in the south of the Empire, the founda" tion of the Russian Society of Navigation in the Sea of Azoff, the Black Sea, and the Mediterrane an ' as also on the rivers Boug, Dnieper, and the Don' the development of steam navigation on the Yelg a i 1) and lastly, the large increase in the price of vic°' in the south of Russia—all these 'causes 611 necessarily calculated to augment the scarcity °I fuel, and we being desirous to prevent the extrae; tion of coal from becoming a monopolY, ha es decided that all companies presenting themseiv-t for that purpose shall be authorised to ex tra n c f coal, provided they be composed of Cossack,s:e the Don.' Some German journals have spread L' f report that recent nominations for the navY, l ° 6 , the Black Sea prove that Russia contemplates re-establishment of her naval forces in that at This report is without foundation, as is' proved i'J f the fact that Admiral de Metlin, commander 0 1 the naval forces at Nicolaieff, one of the prinoiP s officers of that fleet, has been brought to St. Pet e ' burg as councillor of the Admiralty, and tkat miral Pamphiloff, who commanded a division ofill'c; has been nominated governor of Sweaborg ; 515 0 by the fact that the crews of that fleet have he° sent to Archangel and Cronstadt." A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th say s " The Emperor, who returned a few days back will re o the palace of Czarskoe Zelo, near this city, eh main there three days longer, partly to despa' business and partly to enjoy a little repose." FRANCE. PARIS, M ONDAY EVENIN 6 * BOURSE, Oct. 20.—The following were th e 135 t quotations : Cash. fr. e. End Of MOnth• 44 per Cents 9l —f. —cs. 3 per Cents 66 90 67 New Loan 66 80 87 Bank Shares 3,930 Roman .. 81 Credit Mobilier 1,475 Austrian , ........... --- Belgian Fives 99l— Spanish Tbrees ..... • 88} Piadmontese(s) B9 Home Debt ......••• RAILWAYS—SOB CASE. ft' fr. c. 88 1 * 5 0 Orleans gorthern - Lyons ....1,27750 New Ditto ......... - , 1 4 2 50 Itediterranean ...... 1,690 Grand Central ...... 1) .... - "__ Lyons Geneva 722 50 Teste Cette 703 Austrian Cern. ...... THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE., ; , e 3 By the Yankee Ranger we have received au/ from Cape Town to August 23. f tes The Graham's Town, Journal of August 6 e-Aa.ato that, the intelligence from the frontier to tha t """t was of a satisfactory character. A corresponde..; writing from Queen's Town on the 13th, says ' " Things are not so bad here as they are reP ree ? o, d ted. We are not excited, neither are we throvnaa up entrenchments as has been said : on the ol; trary, we feel quite competent to hold our peai ti qa even though the whole force of Kaffirland sh° ll o ., be brought against us." In like manner a corf, spondent writes from Alice on the 14th of Aug. '.. 0 The excitement occasioned by the recent rume n of war is going off. Letters from Fort Beauf, ) , a ' t are of similar tendency, and state that in the ` - ',l , River settlement the best spirit is maintaineu., A witch doctor has perverted the minds o f inaaJ natives by a prophecy that very shortly two sung will appear, that a desperate collision will 01 0 pl a ce between them, after which a period of pro found darkness will easue. All people, white Of blaok, who wear trousers will then be swept off the face of the land by a whirlwind, leaving the happy sansculottes undisputed masters of the w hole country. The T'Slambies and Galekas are the tribes grin' cipally wrought on by these predictions, and t he, ' members are repairing to King William's TOO with hides, returning with axes , knives and n thef, arms of their mode of warfare. Macomo has vi siteu King William's Town, an d declares that t ta ti Gaikas are sick of Umlanj eni, a nd are not likely &" be soon again led astray. Bishop Gray left Graham's Town on the . .. r .lfi til of August with Mrs. Gray for the Kraals of 01:tY hala and Sandilli. Advices from Natal to August 1 state that S ir Scott, the e th Grey e w i s l e i e x u p t e e c n t a e expected lieutenant -governor, that col o ny overor a the w'thrgrij rill' v T id hree bags of 3 .` r. of the latter at the C a p 'on -Nrata' coffee, the first that has - e. Natal Bank has appeareddeclaredadi • were sold by auction in the present last week of July. ' t , The steamer Empress Eugenie for the first half of the London, put into Table ye:nafdrro. i ora n f t sm h sp n aec iar ca : Ic o.i e b : for refreshments. The barque ßay s Pt Algoa at Bay Pauline left l from Algoa Bay, I, P V O s n k t im he m 2 e O r t o h f o t f h . r s g e a s , and 7_, put into Simon's Bay on the of August,the same day for Loudon. 1.13 0 e f for London on the 15th August. HAYMARKET THEATRE. of "here w as a rev i val last night at this t h e a 4,. O'Keefe's comedy of Wild Oats, Mr. Murdock aPPC °. , I t y for th e fi rst t i me in this country as Rover, a part °l ts - s t way suited to his powers, and performed by hi° of night with great spirit and success. In a certain JO' lc , characters he seems the destined suc cessor o f Wall` le of and, if so, will supply a want on the stage long felt' j, the comedy itself it would be superfluous to say a 11- et Though of a bygone school, it still a tt rac t s . The e- • last night was a strong one, and th e app l ause was cone`, derable. In fact, nothing could be better than r C.iempton's Ephraim Smooth, Mr. Buckstone's even in its humble walk, Mr. Clark's Lamp. r. Chippendale was an excellent Sir George Thunder.. In Rogers was hearty, bluff, and not over vigorous as 1/13 0 Dory, and the L a dy A maran th o f Mi ss T a lbot 11- faultless. The house was very well filled. SURREY ThEATRE. A new drama, entitled "D re d," an d f oun ded ur noP e a Mr.:. Stowe's work of that name, was last night produ c lo at this theatre with decided success. Th e s tory t o book is one of a very peculiar character, and present ° small difficulties to the adapter for the stage. th The character of Dred has nothing in common Wl the dull docile slave. It is a manly conception, and la the hands of Mr. C r e sw i c k it came nearer to the n()",1-t Moor Othello th an t o th e c l ass we hear so much ab°--tt as being slaves. H e d rops all the African stage 1361; liarities, and m a k es i t a complete oharac . er in it°e e Uncle Tiff is the representative of Uncle Torn in tb present production, and the part was well filled by Widdicomb. We have not space to say much about t ' ° details further than that the incidents were well select% closely and carefully played, and highly applauded. 'f a word, the whole is a good and faithful reproduction ° the book story. The character of Nina was played I : 1 0 Miss Biddies, from America, who, we suppose, calve near to the ideal creation of the authoress as live heala tiaturo can approach. The Tom Gordon of Mr. Sh el) herd and H a rry of Mr. Potter were fin e ly d one , an d the remaining characters by the comp any were excellent'Jf supplied, by no means forgetting tho capital Tomtit ° Mr. Tapping. tr ot The principal actors were called f or a t th e c l o se, the piece is announced for repetition every night. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley are engaged to make an e xce F,ion to the cast ; their desti na ti on b e i ng th e N a tiovis l Standard Theatre, whore they will appear during the tiighte the Italian Opera Cutup:ley will be performi n g at Drury-lane, ADELPIII.—The unprecedented success of Mr. g la Mrs. Barney Williams at this favourite theatre has fil l° it to overflowips every night. What can the manag e ' went desire mo re ! W e perce i ve that no alteration be made in the entertainments this week, the piece being "Ireland as it Is," the burlesque of "Luelf er i Matches," with Air_ Wright in his popular f a rce ° "Domestic Economy." o „f The Portsmouth testimonial has be en presented t Vice-Admi ra l Si r C . N ap i er ; i t cons i sted of a piece " plate valued at 50/.