The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

H 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoceanegra," by the entire Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame EAlerssohn (composed expressly for them). Mr. Levy's Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6cl. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. MAP of LONDON GRATTS.—On SUNDAY NEST, Nov. 10, will be , presented gratis wth the DISPATCH, the SEVENTH (South-Eastern) Division of Nine Double Sheets, to form, when complete, the most per fect and useful Map of London ever published, to contain 27 square feet, upon a scale of nearly 10 inches to the mile. The price of the " Dispatch," with any division, is, unstamped, sd. ;stamped, to go free by post, 6d. Order of any news agent in the kingdom,. or from the Office, 139, Fleet-street, London.—Send 4s. 6d. in stamps for Nine Papers and perfect Map of London.--An invaluable Six-sheet Map of the United States of America, with Six papers of any past or future dates. Price 2s. 6d., by post 3s. Maps sent en roller, 2d. extra. () YAL ENGLISH OPERA, 1.. t) COVENT GARDEN. tinder the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. - THIS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE. Miss Thirlwall and Mr. A. Cord. After which, at Eight o'clock, RI:1Y BLAS. Miss Louisa Pyne, Mesdames Susan Pyne, Thiriwall, Jessie M‘Lean ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Patey, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or fees to Box-keepers. Stave -Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success ful comedy of WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. I,ll4racters by Messrs. Walter Lacy. Addison, Herman Veen, Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Ml R 4 M. Marton, I.n Miss Kate Saxon. Ater which, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chitterton. ri EA Tit I:S. it YA L, HAYMARKET, L e mec, Mr. J. B. Buchtone. TTITS FinOTING. the performances will commence with RIC lIELIEIJ. Richelieu, Mr. Edwin Booth ; Julie, Mrs. Charles Young. Followed by LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. And THE TUBBIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Commence at 7. 11 0 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. II IS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Maria and Mr. IL Widdicomb. After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTTIPILLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Othello, Mr, Fechter EW THPATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- - 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Last Three Nigh , a of "Tho Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. After which (270th time), T FIE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. U.:3oucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson, C. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss W. ,olgar, Mrs. Billington. and Mrs. H. Lewis. 'For:onclucle with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, h: eery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. On Saturday, Nov. 9, an entirely new and original Drama, in 5 acts (played in three acts), entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA; written by the author of "The Colleen Bawn," and in which Mr. and Yrs. D. Boucicault will appear. New scenery, new dresses, &o. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5, No charge for booking. C kNTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Great suceess of r. SAM COWELL'S New Song, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," which will be repeated every evening, Grand Selections from STRADELLA, LA TRAVIATA, and DINORAH By Miss Russell, Miss . Ernst, Mr : Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a poWerful Chorai, Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer Mr. LEVY. The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr. Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves), and Miss Harriet Coveney . Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trig DAY.—Morning, 4h. sm. —Afternoon, 4h. 25m. To-moitßow.-Morning, 4h. 48m.—Afternoon, sh. 18m. ITHE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 6, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.54. WlND—South - Westerly; fresh, with heavy rain at times. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVP.ININbi, NOVEMBER 6, 1861. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 1861. Austria has thrown off the mask, Mr. ROEBUCK must pay another vi-it to Vienna, and see her as she is. Better, perhaps, if he extended his trip to Pesth, or to the City of the venerable Cardinal Primate, Gran, and then he would see the handi work of his blessed constitution maker. And what would that work be ? Military rule, occupation of the country, unmitigated and unqualified. And why ? Have there been riots ? Has there been bloodshed ? Does violence appear in any shape ? Nothing whatever of the kind, except as practised by the EMPEROR and his military agents. No; this is the punishment, not of disobedience to law, but of adherence to it ; not of turbulence, but of peace and quiet. A monarch quarters an army on Otis people, because they will not depart from strict legality. He garrisons his kingdom, not against 211 enemy, but against itself. A military Governor is appointed instead of the Monarch submitting to a lawful coronation and taking the oaths, without which he cannot be law ful KING. Military men are put in the place of tihe legal Lords-Lieutenants of the counties, and the County Municipalities, the Comitats, are dis solved ; their assemblies are forbidden, and military tribunals established throughout the country ! A kingdom of 15,000,000 of people are to be governed by Austrian courts-martial or some thing very similar to it. And this is the best resource of the Austrian statesmen, of whom we „are frequently told that they are such able men. Able they are at flattering and cajoling English statesmen and English senators—but with what contempt would a genuine statesman like CAVOUR have regarded such mechanical, brute force politicians as these. " Martial law," he would exclaim, "No, any fool can govern in that way." Austria is beggared evidently in all respects. Her military genius is the genius for being always beaten, even by Hungarians armed with scythes, unless Russians came to her -heirs Her financial genius is bankruptcy, till she van get a loan by force only. Her political genius is" the genius of the stick and the bayonet. And this i s t h e country which a Radi cal member of our Parliament praises for a Con Btitntion more liberal than our own, and old Whig statesmen pet and pat on the back as the strength of Southern and Eastern Europe ! We do hope our Ministers and Austria-loving . me mbers of Parliament will now awaken from their dreams. It is time for th em to recognise :that bad faith , illegality, and despotic re volutions and crimes are weaknesses; ; and that rational, unanimous, love of an old and free consti tution, with national love of law and order, i s strenath. Hungary is strong morally. Once let :her get her confessed rights, and she will bestrong :physically—but strong Austria can never be, for free HUT gary she can never be just and true. sought to be the end and aim of BAritish statesman -ship. Hungary strong, Italy strong, and Poland regaining her own, is, despite all the finessee of diplomatists, the only basis of a quiet Europe — the only security against Czars and Cossacks. Lot the nations have their independence and Aiberties worth fighting for, and Czars, both Eastern and Western, will think it best to let Ahem alone. -rE ulco's misfortune is England's opportunity. . 41:1— tice ver sa . T HAT use d to , b e regar d e d, solutelY, as one of the wiliest axioms of political phi 1 ?" 13113c have happily long rid ourselTeop however, of any and of every delusion of the kind. Free Trade has taught us better. We have learnt a profounder wisdom than that from the beneficent principles advanced step by step in the onward march of civilisation, under the influence of Mas ters in the science of Political Economy no less distinguished in their way than ADAM SMITH and WILLIAM HUSKISSON. How effectually the annual 1 motions submitted to the House of Commons by CHARLES VILLIERS led to the development of the great policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL for the subversion of the Protective system of the monopolists, history has already related. It is an old story, even by this time : and yet it is one—who shall deny it ? that is ever both profoundly interesting and wondrously instructive to revert to. Perhaps there is no pleasanter reading anywhere to be found than that delightful blending of wit and logic sparkling luminously over every page of General THOMPSON'S famous Corn Law Cate chisms. There are certainly not discoverable, either in BURNS or in BERANGER, any more spirit-stirring appeals to the hopes and aspi• rations of a great people than can be in stanced by selections from the ditties chaunted by that modern Tyrtceus of the Farm and the Workshop, EBENEZER ELLIOTT, the Corn Law Rhymer. For the accumulation of abundant speci mens of every kind of rhetorical artifice—for the collection of the very happiest examples of oratori cal genius, whether pathetic, persuasive, or impas sioned, we could go nowhere more securely than to those pages upon which have been recorded the speeches delivered both within and without the walls of Parliament by the leading members of the ever-memorable Anti-Corn Law League ! Particu larly will this be borne in mind, in connection with the still vivid remembrance of the florid elocution of JOHNSON FOX, of the resplendent rhetoric of JOHN BRIGHT, and of those all but perfect master pieces of manly eloquence in whose utterance we seemed almost to be listening to the Genius of Com mon Sense embodied in the person of RICHARD COBDEN. Although the three distinguished men last men tioned are still happily in their prime, have still, let us hope, many years before them in which to evidence anew their rare capacities and aptitude as champions of the popular cause, and promoters of the national interests—the enterprise with which above all other enterprises their names have long since come to be so very intimately associated is as much a thing of the past as though it had occurred in some long-vanished generation. Yet is it, as we have said, no less interesting than instruc tive to revert to it upon occasion. Familiar though that story is of the final and glorious triumph of the great Free Trade Principles, occasions certainly do arise at intervals, when it becomes in a manner imperative to recall the reality of that triumph to the recollection of the multitude at large. And this, if for no other reason, in obedience to the simple dictates of gratitude. Besides—there are moments when it is wise above all things to in dulge for a while in these passing retrospections. However often they may have been taken, it some times comes to pass that it is about the most judicious course to take these same backward glances yet once more. And the present juncture is precisely one of these same standing-points. It is from the 'vantage-ground of our Free Trade policy—thanks to the labours:of SMITH, Hu siei ssoN, Fox, BRIGHT,THOMPSON, VILLIERS, COBDEN, and PEEL—that we can recognize the FOLLY and the INFAMY of that detestable axiom with which we set out, an axiom not so very long since actually believed in upon both sides of the English Channel, to wit, that the misfortunes of one country are the opportunity of another ! France is understood, at this particular epoch in her wonderfully chequered history, to be threatened with a very perilous crisis of a financial character. Her destinies are again said to be trembling in the balance. The calamity of an insufficient harvest has but just now come to fill up the measure of her embarrassments—embarrassments already formidable enough in themselves by reason of—how many sources of a deficiency ! By reason of her extravagant armaments, both by sea and by land, during a period of profound peace! By reason of her prodigal, almost, one might call it, profligate-expenditure upon public works, par ticularly in the reconstruction of what was already the most splendid capital of Europe, its Palladian reconstruction, in many parts, upon a scale of hitherto unparalleled magnificence! Because of these and other kindred reasons the financial cup of embarrassment held to the lips of France—a chalice of misfortune long since filled up to the brim, and, though honeyed upon its edge like the cup of TASSO, containing (like that famous similitude) many most bitter dregs within it—this financial cup of embarrassment, we say, already brimmed up by the reckless policy of the Lower Empire, ap pears to threaten now a disastrous overflow by the perilous casualty of an inadequate harvest. NAPOLEON will, in all human probability, recog nize now in this crisis in the history of his govern ment, supposing, that is to say, that he has not already come to recognise it in veritable earnest, that the only security, both political and financial, is to be found in those great Free Trade principles towards which he has recently been tending under the guidance of Mr. COBDEN, along the bye path of reciprocity. Whatever may be in store for our Imperial ally in his now darkening future, France will not fail (weTmay rest perfectly well assured of this) to derive a salutary lesson from the bearing of England towards her in the midst of her political anxieties and financial embarrassments. She cannot, by any accident whatever, " come what may," she cannot, we main tain, but recognise that it is the grand and benefi cent and Christian policy of Free Trade that has scattered to the winds and scouted as only worthy of detestation that most infamous doctrine which proclaimed that the opportunity of England was to be found in the misfortunes of any neighbouring race. O'CONNELL applied the execrable dogma to Ireland. We all remember that. But it was in an hour of demagogic hallucination. That odious belief was more widely acted upon and more flagrantly proclaimed farther back in our own his tory and in the history, generally speaking, of Christendom. Free Trade Principles have—on this side of the Channel at least—succeeded in dissipat ing it. It will be well for France, even at the risk of her passing through another financial crisis, it will be well indeed for France if she too learn the same salutary lesson. A reciprocity treaty may then ripen into a Free Trade Policy—the accept , ance of which frankly and in earnest by France would tend more certainly and securely than any thing else to ensure the Dermanen t 0 Y thy houfmtahne two great arbit ers o f the destinies race—Fran..93 and England. Never again, then, could any Tribune of the People dare to 'assert, as a great Poet did not shrink from asserting, in 1848, from the tribune of the National Assembly —it was M. VICTOR HUGO who said it, that frightful un truth, Paris is in agonies Lond on rejoic es ejoic tl,, es The present ministry ask the support of the country, if we may judge by the spee ches of their friends, much more on the merits of their foreign than of their domestic policy. At home, indeed, the two great Autocrat ig parties differ little in the measures they willingly support. The majority of the Whigs are no more partial to Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial measures, or to the Wednesday bills which they vote for only with a view to the hustings, than the Tories themselves. Abroad, we are told, all is different. What would have become of English moral support for Italy had Lord MALMESBURY been the amanuensis of the Foreign Office for Lord DERBY? Indeed, even in regard to Foreign policy, the Tories loudly proclaim that there is no diffe rence—both parties agree that it must be a policy of non-intervention. The Liberals reply, true— but non-intervention itself may be worked in two ways—in the interest of despots, or in the interest of peoples. In the present continental struggles it makes all the difference, whether the non-inter vening bystanders hail the successes of patriots, or those of their oppressors ; and, it is alleged, Tories in office would smile on the monarchs, Whigs on the nations. All we have to say is, if it be so, let us see it. We did see it, in the case of Italy. It was felt in Italy to its great advantage, and it was acknow leged at home, that with the exception of an aristo cratic trip or two Earl RUSSELL did support the cause which was dear to the people of England. But there is much more yet to do in this direction. Rome and Venetia are still withheld from Italy, the former by a selfish and dictatorial friend, the latter by an avowed foe. Hungary, whose cause is vir tually bound up with that of Italy, is now proving what a disarmed nation, inspired by English love of freedom, and deprived by revolutionary despotism of any vestige of its constitution, can do, by appeal ing to right against violence. And lastly, there is Poland, the long and patient sufferer under the atrocious crimes of Prussia, Austria, and Russia, showing itself more than ever a nation, and sus taining a living martyrdom on behalf of its national rights. In this state of things, one likely to last yet a long while, England certainly expects her Liberal ministers to do their duty, She expects them to exhibit, practically, the liberal animus with which they adopt non-intervention as their own policy, and demand the same of others. When we have representatives at all the despotic courts, which are oppressing Italy, Hungary, and Poland, it must be easy for our ministers to make known to foreign ministers the sentiments of the English nation. We quite well know that there are unoffi cial, as well as official conversations between our am bassadors and even monarchs abroad. One between an English Ambassador and a Czar, respectivg a sick man, will not soon be forgotten. Foreign ambassadors also have free as well as formal inter course with our Governors here; and between the two, pretty strong representations might reach the crowned heads abroad if English Ministers do but feel with the people. Our public speaking and our press, no doubt, tell for much, but if despots find that English Ministers and English Ambassadors lean rather to them than to their own people, and to the victims of foreign oppression, they will snap their fingers at all our public meet ings and newspapers, and go on with their cruel work without fear. We have a right to ask of our Liberal ministers, then, that they should avail themselves of all the less formal means, to discourage French and Austrian despotism in Italy ; Austrian despotism in Hungary; and Prussian Austrian and Russian despotism in Poland. The last is now becoming the scene of a; struggle second to that going on in Hungary in one point only, the character and antiquity of its constitution. For the rest, the rights of the Poles to nationality are clear; and their treaty rights which date from 1815, are not only clear, but it is binding in honour on the States of Europe to maintain them. A much reduced kingdom of Poland was then handed over to the CZAR on definite conditions, all of which have been successively violated, to the extent of endeavouring to amalgamate civilised Poland with semi-barbarous Russia. What that most selfish and relentless of despots, NICHOLAS, did in Poland, England looking on, and Prussia, of course, helping him, need not be recounted. No Asiatic ever surpassed him in gloomy ferocity, and hellish vengeance. The nobler, the more refined, the more tender his vic tims, the more he strove to glut himself • with degradations, tortures, and heartbreaking humilia tions. We mention it only to point out what the Poles have to look from his son. That son, re puted not to inherit all his father's cruelty was welcomed by the Poles so heartily, that he could but thank them for the cheers their hopes had called forth. They were soon undeceived. Europe , as well as Poland, however, remembers the cruel words which followed—" No dreams, however, gentlemen, no drsanzs—all - my father did was well done !" It was the death knell of Poland's hope in another CZAR. And yet Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in a speech full of generosity towards Poland, delivered in the House of Lords in July last, seems to calculate on generous advances towards Poland on the part of Russia, and exhorts the Poles frankly to receive them. The noble statesman seems unable to com prehend how Russia could overlook the vast advan tage she might derive from a well-governed and well-affected Poland, and the paralysis she suffers from its present disaffection. His lordship for warded a copy of his speech to the Polish patriot, General Count ZAMOYSKI, and has thus drawn from the Count a reply in a pamphlet (published by RIDGWAY), in which the Count shows at length that the Poles had never failed, on their part, to receive every advance with frankness, but that since the Treaty of Vienna, they had received from Russia nothing but the contrary. Attack after attack on their national rights and liberties, tho last effort being to crush out their nationality itself, is the history of Poland for the last forty-six years. But the Count shows also that Lord ELLEN BOROUGH is mistaken in supposing that Poland can willingly become the " vanguard of barbarism" —the supporter of Russia in attempts to gain in fluence over Western Europe. He maintains that Polish freedom and independence are the interest of Germany especially, and of Europe too. Ho main tains also, that Russia as a nation, though not her Government according to its present notions, would be a gainer, when despotic rule in Poland was no longer an excuse for a Government of universal repression at home. The Count does not ask much of England. The French people are, he observes, from tradition and sentiment, disposed to a man to do justice to Poland. England's aid alone is needed, and that in a very easy way :—" Let Great Britain, on her part, give proof that she now fully comprehends -Ist, that the suppression of Poland is not, as was thought by her Statesmen in the last century, ' an object of little interest to the commerce of England;' 2d, that the safety of Europe does not make it is t: l t l Poland object o should o paramount d desirabl e th at R uss i a s h ou ld b e a bl e a t any ti me t o atdhvatan.ce beyond th e Vi s t u l a , b u t, on the contrary, again be importancem made, de, Europe what during many centuries shevras, the barrier against any invasi on f rom the East into the heart of Europe." Again :—" Let the present attitude and conduct of the Polish peopl e serve i ndication of an of the manner in which their cause may be best pro moted :—Moral force, the pressure of public opinion as represented by sovereigns and people, by governments, national assemblies, meetings, and the press; the uncompromising condemnation of the infringer of public law, and of every wrong doer ; the no less positive acknowledgment of the right and the wronged, and the cheering encourage ment to the latter to persevere in their passive re sistance and faith in the ultimate triumph of jus tice. Such, to the best of my judgment, are the means by which Poland may and must, under GOD, and in His own good time, retrieve her national existence." AMERICA. NEW YORK, OCT. 25, (Per North American, via Londonderry.) At the battle which was fought near Leesburg, on the 21st instant, between the advance column of the Federal troops under General Stone and a body of Confederates under General Evans, the former were eventually compelled to abandon the field and fall back across the Potomac, with the loss of 600 men, including General Baker, killed. The Confederate loss was unknown. The Federal troops were subsequently reinforced, and marched upon Leesburg, but on the approach of two strong columns of Confederates again retreated into Mary land. Some alarm is felt at Washington with regard to the supplies of forage, &c., which were formerly brought up the Potomac. The Pacific telegraph line to San Francisco was completed on the 25th inst. The City of Washington passed Cape Race on the evening of the 25th inst. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. NEW YORK, OCT. 26 (Evening). A naval expedition composed of 80 vessels, carry ing 500 guns and between 30,000 and 40,000 men, will sail from Hampton to-morrow. It is reported that Messrs. Mason and Sliddell, the Confederate Commissioners to England and France, have arrived at Cardenas. The Confederate account of the engagement at New Orleans was exaggerated. The Confederates retreated to Santa Rosa after having suffered heavy loss. General Price is reported to be still retreating. CANADA. QUEBEC, OCT. 26. Lord Monek was sworn in here yesterday as Administrator of Canada, his full powers not having arrived. Sir E. Head and family will leave for England by next Wednesday's steamer. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 26 (Evening). Exchange—Bankers' bills, 1071. Stocks steady. New York Central, 77 1 . Illinois, 651. Erie, 311. Cotton firm. Breadstuffs firm, and in good de mand. Provisions quiet. • iPRINCE ALFRED.—It may be remembered that his Royal Highness Prince Alfred went out as one of the passengers on board the British and North American Royal Mail steamship Niagara. On arriving at Halifax the Prince expressed the high satisfaction he felt at the accommoda tion, and also the courteous attention he had met with on the voyage; and, in token of the appreciation in which he held them, he presented Captain Moodie, commander cf the Niagara, with a valuable diamond ring and his portrait, i together with his autograph. GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—GREAT YAR MOUTH, Tuesdriy.—During a terrific gale of wind yester day, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, with ten hands on board, parted her cable, and came on the North Sand. Her perilous position having been observed, the Yarmouth life boat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, imme diately proceeded to her resue, and, amidst the greatest danger, succeeded in snatching the ten poor fellows from an inevitable death. It is stated by the officer of Coast guard and others, that this was one of the most gallant services ever performed by this lifeloat, which has, ere now, been instrumental in rescuing scores of shipwrecked persons. A GAMEKEEPER SHOT BY A POACHER, NEAR BRADFORD.—About seven o'clock yesterday morning Wm. Smith, alias Davies, a gamekeeper in the service of Timothy Horsfall, of Hawksworth, was shot by a poacher named James Waller, in Hawksworth Springwood, between Brad ford and 0 du. Davies encountered Waller in the wood ; Waller ran and Davies followed him towards his own house, and when he had reached about 100 yards of it, Waller turned round and discharged the contents of a double-bar relled gun into the chest and abdomen of Davies, who lived till about half-past eleven and then expired. As soon as he had shot the man Waller ran to his own house, deposited his gun there, and then returned to where he had left Davies. Several persons had got up to him. Waller went up and said, " Who had done it ?" Davies said, "It is thee, Jem." Waller then ran off, and has not been seen since. The police are in pursuit of him. The dying man made a statement to Mr. Horsfall, the magistrate, substan tially like the above. LANDSLIP ON A RAILWAY CUTTlNG.—Yesterday Mr. Sergeant Payne, the coroner, held an inquest in the Board-room of St. Thomas's Hospital respecting the death of John Smith, aged 27, a railway labourer. It appeared that the deceased and several other labourers were at work on the branch line of railway in course of construction be tween Streatham and Croydon. About half-past 3 o'clock on Monday week they were engaged in a cutting the banks of which had been incautiously undermined, With out the slightest warning, however, an immense body of earth suddenly detached itself and rolled down the bank. The other men managed to escape, but before the deceased could got out of the way he was buried under more than five tons of earth. With the utmost difficulty the poor fellow was extricated and conveyed to the hospital, where he expired on Friday last from the frightful injuries he had received. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. DEATHS ON RAILWAYS.—A very painful feeling has been caused in commercial circles in Newcastle and this town to-day by a melancholy and fatal accident which occurred to Mr. John Arundale, cashier to Messrs. Lamb ton and Co.'s Bank, last night. Mr. Arundale, whose wife was staying at Tynemouth, in precarious health, was wait ing at the Manors station, Newcastle, last evening, for the six :o'clock train down to that place. As the train ap proached the station and was about to come to a stand the unfortunate gentleman was observed to raise his hands above his body, as if seized with a fit. Almost immediately afterwards he staggered forward, and fell from the plat form between two carriages. The result was that the head of the poor gentleman was all but severed from his body, and in this condition he was removed to the goods station, life being extinct. The deceased gentleman was only 33 years of age. On Saturday evening a man named Henry Wild, belonging to Sunderland, was picked up on the North-Eastern Railway, at the Gateshead Fall Station, having staggered on the line while drunk.. He had been ran over by a train, and was dreadfully mutilated. He died yesterday morning. THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 4.--The outward Mediterranean, East India, and China mails were despatched hence to-day by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Indus, Capt. J. Weeks, which takes out 79 first and 45 second-class passengers, a full cargo, and 112 boxes of specie, jewelry, &c., value £31,664 14s.—viz. : —For Alexandria—sovereigns, £lOO. For Madras—gold coin, £628 ; gold thread, watches, &c., £2,382 10s. For Calcutta—bar silver, £2,040 ; watches, medals, and jewelry, £6,664 4s. For Singapore—gold thread and jewelry, £3lO. For Hongkong—bar silver and dollars, £5,106; watches, £219. For Foochowfoo— dollars, £1,300. For Shanghai dollars, £12,915. Among the passengers are the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, two children, and five servants, for Malta ; Rev. R. Elmhirst, for Alexandria ; Rev. W. Row lands, for Ceylon ; Rev. T. Foulkes, for Madras ; Capt. and Mrs. Nicolla, Lieut. C. G. and Mrs. Rowcroft, Lieut. E. Sadler, Dr. White, and Lieut. Owen, for Calcutta; Capt. ' A. F. M'Nair and Dr. Treacher, for Singapore ; Capt. Brine and Lieut. Maud, for Hongkong. The corresponding Marseilles steamer has 75 passengers, among whom are the Hon. E. and Mrs. Drummond and daughter, Lady Mont gomery and child, Captain J. Crofton, Captain W. N. Lees, ' Dr. and Mrs. Macrae, Captain F. Bishop, and Colonel de Sausmarez, for Calcutta. The Union Company's new screw steamer Briton, Captain Clark, also sailed this afternoon for Ascension, St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope, taking a full general cargo, jewelry value £2,000, and 68 passengers, among whom are Captain Corrie, R.N., Assis tant-Surgeon Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. Ebden, EnsignsHand ley and Tow nsend. She w:11 embark the mails at Plymouth. The screw steamer Jenny Jones, Captain David Howe, ar rived here this morning from St. Brieux, with a cargo of cattle, pigs, poultry, end eggs, being the pioneer of a new trading connection about to be opened up between this port and St. Biieux. THE DUBLIN HEROINE .-11 Lucretia had been an able-bodied hish lady Tarquin would not have had his vil lanous name in history. Miss Jolly does not in the least resemble the heroines of whom we read in romances. When she found herself out of her way in a strange and lonesome road she was not alarmed, not overwhelmed with vague ap prehensions of impending danger. When dragged out of the cab by the hair of her head she did not spend her breath in screams nor lose her courage, and when thrown on her back by her ruffianly assailant she turned her very position to the advantage of giving him a vigorous kick, which repulsed the miscreant, and enabled her to make her first escape. Her next step was of strategic science. Being the weaker belligerent in the open field she availed herself of earthworks for her defence, and forthwith en trenched herself, taking up her position in a ditch up to her waist in water. No heroine of romance would have done this for any consideration in the world ; she would rather have rent the air with her cries and appeals to Heaven. But Miss Jolly took to water as naturally as a duck, or a deer at bay. She was thus mistress of the situation, unpleasant as that situation in the ditch unquestionably was. The miscreant Curran had decided objections to the ditch, and commenced a treacherous parley, offering a safe-conduct if the lady would leave her place in the ditch and return to the cab; she temporised, and while the issue was in doubt the cab horse happily moved, and the scoundrel left his in tended prey to secure the animal. And here we have to observe a fortunate and saving instinct of horse preserva tion. The time when the sons of Erin loved honour and virtue more than woman and gold is gono, but to make up for that, the very worst of Erin's sons values his horse more than any other possession. The miscreant Curran had his choice of the lady in the ditch or his cab horse on the road. Each was for an escape. If he stuck to the lady the horse would bolt. If he secured the horse the lady would escape from him. In this dilemma the man did not hesitate an instant. " The world well lost, or all for woman 1" might be the sentiment of an Antony, but in modem days what would be a Cleopatra without her barge, in a wet ditch, compared with a cab and horse ? The choice was made at once, the cab not lost, and Miss Jolly saved. Curran's horse was a friend to Nirtue, and had by a single motion made up for the deficiencies of Erin's degenerate sons. What the maiden smile of Moore's lady did for her in safely lighting her through the green isle, the cab horse did • for Miss Jolly in carrying her safely through the Bloody-fields. The cab horse was the saving machine of the epic, clignies vindice nodus.—Examiner. WIIALES IN CAPTIVITY.—I have received a copy of the .Arational Intel11:mon Washington, Sept. 26, in which is an account of the Boston Zoological Gardens. It appears from the following that our American brother naturalists have a tame whale and a pet dolphin; for we read :—" In the same tank with the white whale are two sturgeons, seven fee tin length; likewise a fine specimen of a shark. There aro also 50 other tanks, filled with fresh and salt water fish of the choicest specimens. Six hundred gallons of pure sea water pass through the entire building every minute. The pipes for conveying the water are laid down through the streets of the city the same as ordinary water pipes. Eight hundred and sixty-four thousand gal lons of this water passes through the central tank (which has a circumference of 79 feet) a day." Subjoined to this is a letter from Professor Agassia, which determines the species of the dolphin. This is, I believe, the first instance of any of the whale tribe living in captivity.—..E. T. .Buck land in Field. MR, RAREY.—Mr. Rarey has taken the head prize with Cruiser at the only fair at which ho has been shown, and forty to fifty foals by him are expected next season. Thet's, the mare which he purchased at Rawcliffe, won three first prizes at th' Ohio States fair, and two other more strictly local ones; but, unfortunately, her colt foal by Newminster died at the end of forty-eight hours. The numberless visitors who went to see Cruiser at Grove Port, end offered him every encouragement to get into "a Carnation rage," spread such reports of his fighting powers, that people were all of a shake when Mr. Rarey announced an exhibition at the Madison township fair; but the two just tumbled over each other, and played, as usual, to the great surprise• of the cargoes of the waggons and buggies. Mr. Rarey, who intends to bo over again at our World's Fair, has been having "a very quiet happy time of it" this summer at Grove Port, and has purchased the old family mansion and lands. He hopes to make it, both in point of stock and agriculture, the model farm of Ohio, Which in the eyes of many, quite the heart and garden Of the 6tiste,e,—.ll4fseratcqhcenfOn • r I T v., 7 k- 7 • I „. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. PARIS, Nov. 6. The Monitcur, in its bulletin of to-day, says : " The foreign press having made numerous com ments on the subject of the appearance of a few French gendarmes and soldiers in the village of Cressonnieres, belonging to the Valley of Dappes, it is of importance to reduce the facts to their real value. "We have as yet no exact information with re gard to the incident, but we aro able to affirm that the Government of the Emperor has never had the idea of determining, by force, by means of a military occupation, the territorial question pending between France and Switzerland. " Since 1815 there has existed a kind of neu tralization of the contested territory, against which the Canton of Vaud recently made an attempt, by proceeding to arrest some persons. " The Government of the Emperor protested against this alteration of the status quo, intimating that if the gendarmes of Vaud recommenced such proceedings it should be compelled to oppose them. The tribunal of Nyon having pronounced sentence against a Frenchman residing in that territory, the Government of the Emperor simply wished to pre vent his arrest. " The affair, therefore, has not the importance that some would attribute to it. " We do not doubt that frank explanations with the Federal Council will reduce the affair to its real proportions, and, perhaps, lead to the conclusion of an arrangement destined to put an end to the conflicts which could not fail to arise from an ill defined state of things." BERLIN, Nov. 6. The National Zoltan, of to-day says : " We learn that the prospects of a favourable conclusion of a treaty of commerce between France and Prussia have diminished to such an extent that the French Commissioner will return to Paris in the course of this week. " It is said, France does not appear inclined to agree to the new programme submitted by Prussia.' THE MEXICAN QUESTION. La Patrie publishes the following as the chief dispositions of the Convention relative to the affairs of Mexico : " Me three Powers have the right to send the same naval strength. " The importance of the troops that are to be landed is to be in proportion to the number of sub jects which each of the Powers owns in Mexico, and in this respect Spain claims precedeice. " The troops will occupy Vera Cruz and the other cities on the coast where custom-houses are esta blished. If, after a given delay, the Government of General Juarez has not paid up the money it owes, an advance will be made on the capital, and, should such a step lead to complications or unforeseen events, an agreement will be come to in common on the line of conduct to be followed in presence of those eventualities. " The Convention will be notified to the Cabinet at Washington, which will be invited to join the intervening Powers. " It will be left optional to the Government of President Lincoln to send such number of ships and troops as he may deem advisable under the circumstances." , ".'..:.* ~ fi f• ... . ', :4 , .1 ~,, c• _ 1...“ . '' 44F - 't 4 4 , -.7, - • .. „ 7 ' • . 44 o' ' - 0 " ' 1- i f :ii 4 ' f -F. - I)4l' f 6. -1, . ~--s, 'Aili ~ •t . • .... , : , .. 44 ~.-,...„... THE SUN. TEE WARRIOR. QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY. The Warrior and Revenge have arrived, and anchored in the man-of-war roadstead. DRURT-LANE THEATRE. Last night Miss Avonia Jones, from Australia, made her first appearance on the London stage, and met with a success that gives brilliant promise for the future. The part selected was that of Medea, and from her first appear ance to the termination of the tragedy she fairly rivetted the attention of the audience by the great talents she dis played. Nature has endowed Miss Jones most bountifully with personal attractions. Her voice is of deep and touch ing sweetness, and her action is chaste and classical. Frcm first to last the applause was of the most genuine descrip tion, and at the fall of the curtain there appeared to be a general congratulation on the success attained by the new actress. She was led forward by Mr. Smith at the conclusion of the tragedy, and received quite an ovation. A more promising debut has not taken place for years. LYCEUM THEATRE. To-morrow (Thursday) evening 3lr. Falconer, the lessee, takes his benefit, on which occasion his new and highly successful comedy, " Woman," will be repeated for the sixty-seventh time. In addition to the usual entertain ments that have for months been attracting crowded and fashionable audiences, Mr. Falconer will recite " a new and original ballad poem, suggested by a visit to Stratford.. upon-Avon, and all about Anne Hathaway." The play going public will, we feel certain, only be too anxious to show to Mr. Falconer how highly they appreciate his talent as manager, author, and actor, by attending his benefit, and thereby give him substantial proof that he has not laboured for their amusement unnoticed or unregarded. A more spirited and enterprising man has not had the Lyceum under his management for years, and we cordially wish him continued success. TILE ROYAL _HUMANE SOCIETY. The bathing season in Hyde Park has now ter minated. It appears, from the returns at the Re ceiving -house, that the number of bathers in the Serpentine from the commencement of the year to the 3d instant, was 71,366 in the mornings and 296,943 in the evenings. Of this number 41 were in danger of losing their lives, but were rescued by the vigilance of the officers of the Royal . Humane Society. The number of attempted suicides was eight, of whom five were rescued, and the remainder were not discovered in time to be saved. The fol lowing is a list of the persons recovered by the dif ferent boatmen of the society, who are in con s t an t attendance in case their services should be required: —By John Green, on the 21st of May, Charles Huntingford ; 4,ri the 22d, George Brown ; on the 25th, Michael Grady ; on the 31st, James Flood ; on the sth of June, H. Harciinge ; on the 20th, A. Brown ; on the 2d of July, Thomas Waller; on the 20th, Mr. Cock ; on the 30th, George Spicey, who sank while bathing in a state of intoxication ; and on the 15th of August, Henry Emfer. By John Parsons, on the 23d of May, John Thompson ; on the 30th, Mr. G. Stanton; on the 15th of June, Edward Love ; on the ISth, Joseph Cassingrove ; on the 23d, George Maunten ; on the same day, Michael Cassidy; on the 28th, Charles Lakeman and another bather who attempted to save him ; on the 30th, George Siinkiss ; on the same day, Thomas Welford ; on July 3d, Thomas Harvey; on the 6th, Michael Regan ; on the 7th, George Knightley ; on the 30th, Alfred Wilson; on the same day, George Appleby, who jumped into the water to the rescue of his brother, and, having his clothes on, sank to the bottom ; on the 16th of August, John Moon ; on the 17th, Mr. Frede rick William Turner and another who attempted to rescue him ; and on the 16th of September John Saltmarsh. By George Wakefield, on the 26th of May, Frederick Chappel ; on the 2d of June C. Mul lins ; ofi the 13th James Bushnell ; an the 20th Wil liam Stevens ; on the 21st John Carey ; on the 25th Michael Welsh ; on the 26th Thomas Howland ; oa the 29th Mr. George Cooper, after sinking a second time ; on the 2d of July William Jacobs, who while swimming across the Serpntine, was seized by a large bull-terrier by the ear and pulled under the water, the dog biting the ear off; on the sth Wil liam Ims ; on the 29th William Simpson ; on the 31st Joseph Shepherd; on the 3d of August Thos. Warren ; and on the 14th Henry Bridge. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon returned to their mansion, Castle Highclere, near Newbury, a few days since, from their wedding tour on the Continent. The Hon. Sydney and Mrs. Pierrepont have left Claridge's Hotel, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea. " It is at Brussels," says the Moniteur " that tho greatest quantity of beer is consumed ; at Stock holm the mcst brandy ; at Madrid the most chocolate ; at Paris the most absinthe; at Constantinople tho most coffee ; and at London the greatest quantity of strong wines." The sum of £lO9 (says the Edinburgh Courant) has been paid over to the funds of the Royal Infirmary, being the proceeds (deducting expenses) of the lecture de livered in the Assembly-rooms there by the distinguished traveller, M. Du Chaillu. Active operations, we (Bombay Times, Oct. 12) understand, will soon commence on the Euphrates Valley Telegraph. Mr. Walton has arrived from Calcutta to superintend the line, under Sir W. O'Shaughnessy. Stores and material and a staff of practical men are already en route from England. Sir W. O'Shaughnessy is expected by the overland route some time next month. Father Passaglil is staying at Turin with the Marquis Gustave do Cavour, eldest brother of the famous Minister. A letter from that city says that on his present ing himself at the church of Notre Damo aux Anges the other day, to his great astonishment. a decree of interdic tion was placed in his hands. " This," says the corres pondent, "is a petty act of spite on the part of the Arch bishop of Turin, who, from his retreat at Lyons, takes care 6 to show himself from time to time more ultramontan.e than tb.ey are at .t:tonw," AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, dated the tat inst., says : " The towers (martello) erected by order of the Archduke William having resisted the experimen tal cannonade tried against them last week, 92 of them have been ordered to be erected round Vienna, in a vast perimeter, to defend the capital against the attack of an enemy cutside. One of these towers will be erected on the Kahlenberg and another on the Leopoldsberg. The cost of each tower will be about £6,000 sterling. The new fortifications of Vienna will thus cost circa £500,000 sterling." SWITZERLAND. The following is the text of the circular addressed by the Swiss Federal Government to the Govern ments of the individual cantons respecting the occupation of the Valley des Dappes by the French : "We received yesterday from the Council of State of the Canton de Vaud the notification that a:strong detachment of French gendarmerie, as well as a detachment of soldiers from Fort les Rouses, had entered the Swiss village of Cressonnieres, be longing to the Canton de Vaud, " This very surprising violation of territory seems to have been caused by the belief entertained by the French gendarmerie that the police of the Canton de Vaud had the intentionof making arrests in the Valley des Dappes, which the French authorities did not think they could allow. Imme diately on the receipt of this report we sent two Federal Commissaries to the spot—namely, M. Migy, President of the Government at Berne, and M. Veillon, Vice-President of the Council of State at Vaud, that they might investigate the matter. " Finally, we have instructed the Swiss Legation at Paris to insist with the Imperial Minister upon the immediate withdrawal beyond the frontier (should that not have already been done) of the troops that have entered the Valley of the Dappes, that a suitable satisfaction shall be given for the occurrence, and that necessary measures shall be taken to prevent in future the recurrence of such violations of territory." FRANCE. The Moniteur has the following :—Tho conven tion by which France, England, and Spain engage to unite their forces, with a view to a common action in order to obtain from Mexico the satisfac tion due to their respective complaints, was signed in London on the 31st ult. BOURSE, Nov. s.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and the business done, though still limited in amount, has been transacted at a slight improvement on the closing rates. of yesterday. Threes, for the account, are now at 68f 30c. Rail ways firm. The following were the 4t per per Cents 95 50 Do, end month 95 551 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 32i Bank Shares 2910 Credit Mobilier 7lO Do. Account 712 60 ; RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1322 60 .. 1323 76 Northern 977 50 .. 980 New ditto 902 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1027 50 .. 1028 75 last quotations : Credit Foncier 1165 -- Belgian 4k.. 99 Piedmontese Fives 6B 65 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 47 25 home Debt • • • Geneva.. 632 50 .. 633 75 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard i ......... 0 528 75 .. 530 __ The London, Malta and Alexandria Telegraph (via Tripoli and Bengazi) being now in successful opera tion, tho rates at which messages are to be transmitted have been published. For a message of 20 words from London to Alexandria the charge will be £2 6s. 9d. The communication between Malta and Alexandria does not occupy more than five minutes. Should the English clerks who are being placed at the principal Italian telegraph offices, under a convention signed by the Italian Govern ment, experience no impediment in the prosecution of their labours, it is believed that the period required for sending a despatch through from London to Alexandria will not exceed five or six hours. A PUBLIC PLAYGROUND FOR KIRKDALE.—The Earl of Derby has most generously granted the loan of a spacious piece of land in the central part of the township for the term of. five years for the above-named object, and Mr. C. P. Melly, with his usual liberality and patriotism, has undertaken to fit it up at his solo expense as a public gnallitgUral—Liverpool Mercury. THE LA7E GALE.-LOSS OF TWENTY MORE LIVES. During the latter part of the past week the wea ther has been very stormy at Great Yarmouth (writes a correspondent), with heavy rains. On Saturday it came on to blow with great violence from the W.N.W., and at noon it increased to a perfect hurricane, such as has not been equalled on this coast since the disastrous gale of May 28, 1860, when nine vessels went down in sight of land, and fourteen fishing luggers, with all hands, were lost outside. Great apprehensions were entertained for the boats now at sea, a large fleet of which were prosecuting the herring voyage, and some of thoso which came in on Sunday gave sad confirmation to forebodings on the beach by reporting the loss of two ]uggers and their crews. One boat reports that on Saturday afternoon, while scudding before the gale, about forty miles outside, she saw within a quarter of a mile ahead of her a lugger marked " Y.H." (Yarmouth) go down with all hands, and on passing over the spot one of the crew of the un fortunate vessel was seen clinging to the wreck, but owing to the tremendous sea running, which was expected momentarily to overwhelm the lugger, no assistance could be rendered to the poor fellow. Another boat reports the loss of a Sherringham lug ger, which was seen to disappear with all hands in a terrific sea. As these vessels are manned by nine men and a boy, twenty souls must have perished. The storm raged on Sunday, but with partially abated violence, and the wind having shifted to the north, a large fleet of vessels were driven back into these roads for shelter ; on Sunday night there must have been some thousands, extending from Caistor to Lowes toft, a distance of 13 miles. Many have been obliged to put into harbour with masts gone, sails split, rigging carried away, or damage of some sort. During the night the smack Adventurer, of Har wich, parted her anchors, and was carried on to the North Sand, where they were rescued by the lifeboat from a position of the utmost peril, and were taken to the Sailors' Home. It is feared that the shipping reports on this coast will contain a long list of casualties. THE RECENT GALE AT LIVERPOOL.—One of the incidents of the recent gale has brought to light considerable gallantry on the part of four boatmen, who, at the imminent risk of their lives, took a small gig to the rescue of the crew of a schooner which had sunk near to the entrance of the Queen's Channel, at the mouth of the Mersey. The schooner was the Widnes, of Ulverstone, from BarroW, bound to Liverpool with a cargo of iron ore. In connec tion with this subject it may also be of interest to notice that a numerous and influential meeting was held at New Brighton, near Liverpool, on Monday evening, in order to take steps for the establishment of a lifeboat at that place. During the meeting the services rendered on a recent occasion by Mr. Henry Norton, of Liverpool, in rescuing a number of excursionists who had been stranded not far from Hoylake, were pro minently alluded to, and it was proposed that the New Brighton lifeboat should be named the Henry Norton. It was also proposed that a communica tion shmild be made to the Mersey Dock Board, with a view to see if they would support the life boat establishment, and if they were unwilling to do so, that the residents should maintain it them selves. WRECK OF A SCHOONER AND SUPPOSED Loss OF ALL ON BOARD.—lntelligence has been received at Liverpool to the effect that early yesterday morning a schooner went down when off Taylor's Bank, at the entrance to the Mersey. During the day a seaman's chest was washed ashore at Water loo. On opening it, in addition to clothes and other articles, was found a Manx almanac, in which was written, " John Gibson, Saltney ; John Davies, Greenfield, Holywell." No tidings have yet been. heard of the crew of the wrecked schooner, and the general opinion is that they have all perished. The chest washed on shore at Waterloo is supposed to have belonged to some one on board the ill-fated schooner. HEALTH OF LONDON _DUI?INO THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,078 ; the last three returns have shown very slight fluctuation, The deaths returned for last week were less by more than a hundred than they would have been if the average rate of mortality in the same week of ten previous years had prevailed. The mortality from scarlatina continues high. The number of fatal cases of this complaint was 94, and of diphtheria 18 ; while the corrected average in corresponding weeks of the two diseases com bined is 83. There were 4 deaths from scarlatina in the north-west sub-district of Chelsea, 4 in May fair, 7 in Somers-town and Camden-town, 8 in Islington, and 7 in the Waterloo-road sub-districts of Lambeth. Mr. Mears, registrar of the first Waterloo-road sub district, who recorded five deaths from this disease, mentions a house (70,King-street) in which it prevails, and where each room contains a family, and the kitchen holds eight persons who " live and sleep" in it. The mortality by smallpox and measles is low, 3 deaths having been registered from the former, and 7 from the latter. There were 16 from croup, 35 from whooping- cough, 47 from typhus. Six in fants died from syphilitic disease. There were five deaths by murder or manslaughter, three of which occurred to infants. Last week the births of 947 boys and 889 girls, in all 1,836 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-60 the average number was 1,652. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.644 inches. On Sunday the barometer was 29.99 inches ; it fell to 29.12 inches on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week 'was 45 5 deg., which is 1.2 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was 5 deg. and 8 deg. below the averages on Friday and Saturday. The highest day temperature was ob tained on Sunday, and was 58 . 6 deg. ; the lowest night temperature was 32.4 deg. on Saturday. The range of tempsrature was 26.2 degreew. . The mean daily range was 13.9 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 81, complete saturation being represented by 100. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 54 deg. The wind blew on the first four days from the north-east ; it was afterwards in the south-west and north west. Rain fell to the amount of 0 . 36 inch on Friday and Saturday ; the amount on the latter day, consisting partly of melted snow, was o'2l inch. Lightning was very frequent in the evening of Friday, mostly in the east and south-east. Snow fell thickly, and with very large flakes, from 7 a.m. till 9.30 a.m,on Saturday. METROPOLITAN WATERS IN OCTOBER, 1861. The water supplied to London in the past month, acc,ording to the analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thomson, F.R.S., ex hibits a tendency to an increase in its amount of impurity as the season advances. The smallest amount of organic im purity is found in the Grand Junction, East London, and West Middlesex ; the maximum of organic impurity existing in the Lambeth, Kent, and Chelsea. For the sake of com parison, the composition of the water of the Broad-street pump in St. James's, so notorious for its propagation of cholera in 1854, is added. It was proved to contain much sewage in an oxidised form, and therefore to be in free com munication with such sources of impurity. Total impurity Organic im per gallon. purity. , gni. or deg. gra. or dew Distilled Water Loch Katrine water, new supply 605 to Glasgow (March). 2-31 80 6 Manchester Water Supply (March) 3 . 33 - 6 - 08 Broad-street Pump 89.72 THAMES COMPANIES. West Middlesex 16.96 016 17-2 o 1•12 Southwark Grand Junction 17'72 0/2 17 . 7 2 12 i Chelsea Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES. Kent ............................ 3'04 grains are of veg,etable or animal 0'92 New w st R L i o v n e d r t;! ......................................... it7:(0)55 The table is read thus--. Loch Katr . ine Water contains in the gallon 2.3 , degrees or grain of foreign matter in solution, of , ;l i i. g ie i l l t -605 degrees or One of the finest pearls in the world has recently boon found in the Bay of Panama. It is of a perfect pear shape, and of the finest water.