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THE COMMISSIONERS of the METROPO LIS TURNPIKE ROADS North of the Thames will hold a SPECIAL. Mr RUNG at their Office, No. 22, Whitehall-Place, in the parish of Stint Mart in-in •the-flelds, in the city of Westminster, on FRIDAY, the 26th day of September next, at the hour of one o'clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of consulting whether all, or any, and which of the f,overal Toll-Gates and Side- Bars now placed on and by the sides of the Ninth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Distr:cts of the said Metrooolis Turnpike Roads north of the Thames, shall be removed and placed e!sewhere, or discontinued, and whether any Toll-Gates and -ide-Bars shall be erected on or by the sides of any of the several Roads in the said Distri 1, or of either of them, and in what si. nations the same shall be placed. fly order of the Commissioners, GEORGE LABALMONDIEItE, Chief Clerk and Secretary. Metropolis Roads' Office, Whitehall-place, Aug. _l, 1856. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under thn Management of Mr. Bnekstons, THIS EVENING. A COMICAL COUNTESS. After which, Ths Spanish Dancers. Followed by GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW. AND BRADSHAW. To comlnde with THE SPANDH SERJEANT. ROYAL TIIEA.TRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and sranager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. "ITI4 IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which THE IRISTI TUTOR. To conclude w!th OUR GAL. ROYAL PRINCES 'S rFIEAT.P.E, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CIIABLES KEAN. TUTS EVENING, 311751 C tTII CHARMS. After which, THE WI NTE R'S TALE. STR IND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. T. Payne. Tlll3 EVENING, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. Followed by ' THAT HOUSE IN 'UGH STREET." Messrs. Stuart, Cooke, Emil Potter, and Moloch; Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Isabel Adams. After which, THE FLOWER GIRL OF GHENT. To conclude with THE STATUE LOITER. Commence at half-past 7. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. After which, MEDEA. To conclude with MOCKING EVENTS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, KING RICHARD THF. THIRD, compressed into 3 acts. EgneS trian affects—Death of White Surrey—" rattle of Bosworth Field"— Introduction of Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained horses —llippodramatiC tableau never yet attempted. After which, The attractive ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA. To conclude with a popular and Risible Farce. - Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. Jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 0 min. aft. 6—Evening 20 min. aft. 6 To-MORROW—Morn.4S min. aft. 6-Evening 10 min. aft. 7 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. —hig►hest since noon yesterday. 60 —lowest this morning and during the night. 63 —this day at noon. BAROI(ETER-29 . 75. WlND.—Variable from N. to N.E., with fine weather in the morning; but rain at noon, with heavy clouds. 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 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that the 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. r(r -4 LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1856. Reformation of young criminals is becoming the practical topic of educationists, and they have a just claim to all the support which the Press, the public, and the Government can afford them. Even the Voluntaries will not, and do not, deny that all the aid Government can render to Refor matory Schools, by giving the requisite legal powers, and by contributing as much as is safe from the National Exchequer, is quite within the province of the State. The account which ap peared in The Sun yesterday, of the Conference of the National Reformatory Union, will, we trust, be read by all intelligent and public-spirited persons. The Chairman's (Lard STANLEY'; , ;) speech will give to those who are yet unfamiliar with the subject a fair idea of its state and pro gress ; and, as it is likely to be a practical one in most localities, and the object will make some pecuniary claims upon the benevolent around, all ought to give it some attention. We feel, indeed, an interest so much the deeper in Reformatory Schools, because the Government at present sees the danger of centralisation, and getting them under its own control. It acknowledges that their success must so entirely depend upon the exclu sion of jobbery, and the eliciting of individual ap titude, both moral and intellectual, in the teachers or managers, that it is fain to throw the support partially, and the management entirely, upon those who originate the schools. So far as they have yet succeeded, to a great extent even in France, and altogether in this country, they are so many attestations of the superiority of individual contrivance and energy to that of the State. For years some philanthropic individuals have been labouring in the cause in this country ; but now the cessation of transportation, and the ne cessity of retaining our criminal population at home, has pressed on us the questions both of a substitute for transportation and the diminution of the number of our criminals. The most obvious course is to turn criminals, if possible, into honest and industrious men , and it is equally obvious that the young are by far the most hopeful sub jects for reformation. Changes of habit after middle life, and even after the period of mature manhood—say from five-and-twenty and upwards —are comparatively rare ; but we all know what a steady man many a wild lad may eventually become. What general observation or theory would lead us to expect, experience, so far as we have records of it, fully corroborates. We were hardly prepared, however, for the fact of the very large proportion of criminals who are or have been juvenile offenders. Out of 98,654 criminals in 1853, not less than eleven and a-half per cent., or 11,453, Were under the ago of seven teen, while the little reformatory effect of convic tion, and imprisonment upon them is evident enough from the fact that of eleven thousand con victed annually four thousand are recommitted. It is a still more startling fact th at the number o not com mitted between the ages f seve nteen less than twenty-one is the larg est of all, being twenty-five per cent., or one-fourth of the total convictions. Now the population between fifteen and twenty-ono years of age being but 1-10th part of thewhole population of the country, the staxtling result follows, that more than one-fourth of the crime of the kingdom is committed by one. tenth of its inhabitants ! Nothing can more conclusively show where our first efforts should be directed. In no department of social ife is the now almost proverbial line of WORDSWORTH'S more fully verified, that— "The child is father to the man." Nothing also is better substantiated than the fact of the inutility of the chief discipline now applied to these juvenile delinquents, namely, short im prisonments. Not less than thirty years ago, the Governor of Glasgow Bridewell made public the following facts :—That of prisoners sentenced for the first time to 14 days' imprisonment, seventy five per cent. returned to gaol for new offences ; of those sentenced to 30 days, sixty per cent. ; to 40 days, fifty per cent. ; to 60 days, forty per cent. ; to 3 mouths, twenty-five per cent. ; to 6 months, ten per cent. ; to 9 months, seven and a-half per cent. ; to 12 months, four per cent.; to 18 months, one per cent. ; to 24 months, none !—yet, during the ten years ever which the calculation extended, the number sentenced to 24 mouths was ninety-three. It is added, that the criminals who came back two or three times, went on returning at intervals for years. Another re markable proof of the uselessness of short impri sonments is, that out of two hundred and nine prisoners recommitted to Reading Gaol in 1852, eighty-nine were under seventeen years of age when first committed, and those 89 had been in prison altogether 403 times, or nearly five times a-piece. These facts, to which others of a similar kind might be largely added, confirm Baron ALDERSON'S inference that short imprisonments are neither humane nor wise. But while the vast proportion of offences com mitted by the youthful part of the population, and the inutility of the ordinary brief imprison ments, is fully established, the efficiency of longer periods of Reformatory discipline is, so far as experiments have been tried, satisfactorily proved also. At Mettray, under the management of the now well-known M. DE METZ, one repre sents that 85, another that 89 per cent. have been reclaimed ; and the Report rests upon the conduct of upwards of 900 youths who had passed through the institution ; and of those men who had relapsed, one-quarter had been again re ' claimed. In the Glasgow House of Refuge, out of 400 lads, 85 per cent. had been reclaimed. At Redhill, of 720 boys discharged, 70 per cent. have been reclaimed, 228 being inmates at the present time. Only contrast this with the recommittal, at Reading, of 89 lads nearly five times each, and the return to Glasgow Gaol of 75 per cent. of those committed for 14 days, and the advantage of longer and early discipline seems irresistibly apparent. It is easy, indeed, for full satisfaction, to wish for answers to some questions, which our criminal statistics do not yet furnish ; but they would probably only corroborate the evi dence we have ; and making every allowance, and giving the largest margin to the well-known illusiveness of statistics, there can be no doubt that to deal effectually with the youthful criminal is the most hopeful method yet proposed, and that the Reformatory School is an admirable in strument for that purpose. Could we seal up the fountain, indeed, that would be the course to be taken, and at once ; but that is hopeless. All accounts go to prove that the greater part of youthful crime is due to the habits of the parents, and it is impossible to reach them ; they are irreclaimable as a class, and if they were not you cannot bring them under compulsory discipline. Mr. ADSWEAD, of Man chester, ascertained that of one hundred criminal children at Manchester sixty were born of dis honest parents, thirty of profligate, though not criminal, parents, and only ten of parents honest and industrious. The experience of Mr. CLAY, the chaplain of Preston gaol, is similar ; he found that in seventy-five per cent. of the cases investi gated by him the fault lay unmistakeably at the door of the parents ; in the case of fifty-seven per cent. there had been habitual drunkenness, often accompanied with brutality, on the part of the father; in the remaining eighteen per cent. habitual neglect. In three cases out of four inves tigated by him the lad had hardly a chance of be coming anything but what he was. It is impos• sible to put the whole case of Reformatory Schools for juvenile delinquents more strongly than in this sentence. Three-fourths of the unfortunate lads, besides the ordinary claims of youth, are objects for pure commiseration ; we ourselves, in their position, must have been what they are. No man can resist this appeal. There is, however, no mode of altering this first education for crime ; at least none has been devised at present. Nothing but the impossible Maine Liquor Law could remove that most fertPe cause of youthful crime, drunken fathers ; anti no plan could deal with neglectful parents. We, unfotunately, cannot begin with the lad till the law can lay hold of him as a violater of it, and we are then warranted in applying any process which shall prove most effectual. The Reforma tory School system also, by the mid of Govern ment, furnishes almost the only means of reach ing the delinquent parent. He can now be compelled to contribute to the support of his child at the school, and is thus fined for years for his own criminal neglect of his offspring. This penalty must be rigidly enforced, less, in deed, for the direct saving to the State, than for the purpose of deterring parents from making thieves of their children. The mortification, and among his own class, the disgrace of having to pay to a Reformatory School, seems to us the most likely means of making a deterring -example of the bad parent. It will come to be understood that it will not do to let children run wild or to train them to crime. Unworthy parents, to save their pockets, will take some thought for their offspring. The favourite beer or gin itself will be in danger when several shillings weekly must go to his child's support. On the whole, nothing better deserves the aid of the community than these efforts ; they must, to be successful, be chiefly voluntary and individual, but they ought to be, and we trust will be, universal. There was perhaps no vexed - question on which so large a majority would, a few years since, have been obtained as that of the necessity of an equitable modification of the Income Tax. Men of all parties had recognised the absurdity of treating all sources cf revenue, whether temporary or permanent, precarious or certain, as of equal value, and subjecting them to an equal charge. It was just as ridiculous to say that one of the long annuities which would expire in some six or seven years was in every respect equal to a per petual charge, as that personal earnings, depend ing on health, fashion, and a variety of circum stances over which the recipient has no control, are equivalent to a similar amount of dividends, which the proprietor is sure of receiving during his life, and of bequeathing to his children and their issue throughout all future generations. The moneyocracy can appreciate the justice of the argument respecting the annuity, although per fectly insensible to the wrongs of the industrious middle classes. They saw that the charge on long annuities was to a great extent a tax on capital, for fi.v+ e-sixths of the amount should be re-invested in or& 3r to prevent ultimate loss, and the balance, after providing for the restoration of the capital ised value, was virtually the only sum fairly liable to th t impost Thus, all parties concurred in the prop r. iety of a revision, with scarcely an exception. Mr. DISRAELI had in his budget proposed a dif ferenai; assessment on different classes. This, althoq igh by no means going sufficiently far, or meetil rg the real justice of the case, was hailed with. .delight by fiscal reformers as being " the admission of the sharp end of the wedge," an offi-ii a 1 recognition of the great distinctions that exist kd in taxable value, which must speedily be productive of important results. The Derbyites were , therefore thus made safe ; while the leaders of b oth Houses—the Earl of ABERDEEN and Lord Jour RUSSELL—had sought opportunities to pub- lish ti left opinions as to the propriety of a change. Burt Mr. GLADSTONE had not been consulted. Single, handed he opposed the leading men on all sides Of the House, and, strange to say, •btained a victory. When the question first came on for discussion, after the ejection of the Derbyite Gov , ernment, the veteran JOSEPH HUME pro poF,ed a renewal for a single year, in order to aroid embarrassing the new Ministry, who had just succeeded to office. This was agreed to, but on the understanding that an equitable adjustment was to be made the next session. It is notorious how this implied pledge was violated. Mr. GLADSTONE declared that a change was impossible, but as he cajoled the House and the country into the belief that the impost might be entirely re moved within seven years, and that a gradual reduction should take place some years previously, his budget was accepted, and loud praises were lavished on the financier who promised a result so auspicious. We pointed out the folly of the anticipation, explaining that no Chancellor of the Exchequer would surrender a source of revenue so profitable, convenient, and easily collected. But the nation was intoxicated at the time. Large profits were to be realised by the conversion of the Three per Cents. There was, in fact, a GLAD STONE mania, and anything which he put for ward, however extravagant, was received with unquestioning credulity. A single year, however, verified our gloomy . vatimmations. In place of realising immense savings there was a loss of some 800,0001. on the GLADSTONE abortion ; and, still worse, the Exchequer was denuded of its balances by the payment of more than eight millions sterling to the dissentients. This compelled the Exchequer to borrow largely from the Bank, and prevented the latter from affording adequate accommodation to its customers. The Money Market was thus deranged, and serious consequences followed. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, was not abashed. After expatiating on the advantages of direct im posts, and the propriety of meeting the whole of the extra expenditure occasioned by the War out of current revenue, he persuaded the House to con sent to double the Income Tax just for a single half-year. The eyes of the deluded representa tives were not, however, yet opened. His propo sitions were again sanctioned, and it is needless to say that the warnings we uttered were again verified, and that the doubled impost was con tinued until the April, twelve months after the ratification of the Treaty of Peace. Fortunately, Mr. GLADSTONE did not meet Par liament with another budget, but his successor in office followed suit by adding 2d. in the £1 ; thus raising the amount from 7d. to 16d., and en hancing the injuotico under which bCP many of the industrious middle classes were labouring. This War-Tax will be continued until April, 1858, if nothing be done in the interval, and it is ridiculous to expect that the Financial Minister of the day will assent to its reduction— to the one-fourth of the amount for that year, a surrender of a revenue of Twelve Millions. That an attempt will be made to continue it when the question can no longer be shelved ' or evaded, is certain. It will, therefore, be just as well to be prepared to submit to inevitable necessity, and to endeavour to improve and render equitable the charge that cannot possibly be got rid of. As we have repeatedly stated, a Property Tax, fairly levied, would be one of the best for tLe community. It is one that would cheerfully be paid, if it did not carry with it a bitter sense of wrong and injustice.' Why, then, should the great point which, but for the un founded promises of Mr. GLADSTONE, would have been achieved three years since, not be carried into practical execution The nation wants its modification, not its r e p ea l ; a fair and equitable adjustment, not its ab o liti on. Lc :t Sir G. C. I,l:lv's act judiciously and promptly in this important matter, and he will receive the blessings of thousands and tens of thousands of those who now utter curses, both loud and deep, at the barefaced robbery to which they are subjected. He will not, however, 110 so unless urged by the pressure from without ; and, therefore, we would once more emphatically impress on fiscal reformers the necessity of not losing a single day in organising a strenuous opposition to the impost in its present obnoxious form. SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, embarked from the docks to-day on board her Majesty's yacht Fairy for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. The King of the Belgians, with the royal family, re turned to Laeken from Antwerp on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Prince Frederick of the Netherlands arrived at Berlin on the 18th, on his way to the fetes of the coronation at Moscow. The King of Prussia granted an audience on the 13th to Count de Launay, the Sardinian Minister, who pre• rented his new credentials raising him to the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The Earl and Countess of Jersey are on a visit at Cadland, the seat of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drum mond. The Marchioness of Bute, the youthful Marquis of Bute, and Lady D'Oyley, have arrived at Mounstuart house, Island of Bute. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady E mma Stanley have left St. Jansea's-square for Knowsley, Lancashire. _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford arrived at Cronstadt early in the month, in his lordship's yacht, and have since repaired to St. Petersburg. Marshal Duke de Saldanha, commander-in-chief of the Portuguese army and ex-president of the council of ministers, has arrived in Paris. He is travelling incoq., under the name. of General Oliviera. The arrivals in the Thames on Wednesday comprised 43 vessels from foreign ports and 26 colliers. The Carlsrulie Gazette denies the truth of a rumour which has been circulated to the effect that a marriage was contemplated between the hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen and the sister of the Prince Regent of Balen. A meeting convened by a number of respectable tradesmen was arranged to be held last evening (says the Kent Herald) for the purpose of adopting measures to secure to Canterbury the advantages of the annual cricket week. A letter of the 15th from Dresden says, " The cele• brated geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, has been staying here for some time, for the purpose of investigating the coal and trap formations in the neighbourhood to which he has already made some scientific excursions." The Cologne Gazette states that Baron William Charles von Rotschild has been appointed honorary Consul- General of Austria at Frankfort-on-the• Maine, in the place of Baron Anselm von Rothschild, who has re moved to Vienna, where he intends residing for the future. PAYMENT OF CHURCH RATES.— According to a pro vision in the new act to amend the Local Management Act of last year the paymenb of Church rates •is declared not to be a necessary qualification to enable a ratepayer to vote at pariah elections. TH174.1 t,.1L351. e rt is 4 EVENING AUGUST 2g, 18Etis THE QUEEN 01 0 0t7DE AND SUITE. SOUTIAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Indus came inb dock this morning at an early hour, and curiosty to see the Royal Orien tals tempted many to )rave the drenching rain. As soon as the vesselcame alongside many of the followers or attendants and several of the native gentlemen came on shore , seemingly pleased to be again on terra firma. Cho attendants ' numbering between 60 and 70, wei a ll d resse d in the gay and picturesque costumes o!their country, composed of every variety of materiil and colour. Their appear ance was not very prepossessing, although many of them were fine handsoue men. The native gentlem(n, however, most of whom belong to families of hgh caste, were dressed in the most splendid costumes. Some of them are very handsome and of a loble bearing. They were extremely polite, and frequently met the curiosity of the spectators by landing for their inspection various articles which attracted attention. One gentleman in particulre, of a commanding presence, gave full liberty in th 3 examination of a splendid sake which he carries in his hand. It was in a gilded sheath, the bottom of which was exquisitely worked in diamonds and precious stones, whilst the hilt of the weapon was entirely covered with emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and other precious stones, of great size and value. The whole party appeared to be much pleased with everything they saw ; but did not express the slightest surprise or vender. There are six euruchs in attendance on the Queen and Princesses. Some of them are tall and of a commanding presence. They each of them carry sticks with carved or elegantly marked handles, and their fingers are glittering with rings. The chief of the eunuch is a fine portly gentleman, and most gorgeously attired. One of the native gentlemen somewhat prides himself on being an artist, and on the voyage home took the likeness of rapt. Brooks, of the Indus, and the chief officers. These portraits were taken in oil colours ; they possess some merit, but are not striking inieuesses. Several of the dresses of the Queen and Prin cesses were found to be slightly injured by the damp, and on being taken from the trunks in which they were deposited they were exposed to the view of a few persons. They are of the most magnificent description, entirely covered with pearls and precious stones. It has been before stated that the Queen of Oude and suite occupied the whole of the fore part of the ship, which was barricaded off from the remainder of the vessel. The Queen and the Princesses were studiously kept from view dur ing the voyage, so that no one has been enabled to catch a glimpse of their forms or features. A somewhat amusing incident oc curred at Alexandria, where the Royal party embarked in the Indus. The weather was rough and the ship rolled slightly as the Princesses went on board, and being encumbered in their movements by the drapery which enveloped their persons, they lost their footing and fell on the deck of the vessel. More than one officer of the ship (of course unacquainted with the rules of etiquette of Oriental society) sprang forward to render assist ance, but they were jealously kept back by the eunuchs, and the ladies were left to scramble up again as they best could. The officers of the Indus were compelled to exer cise an extra amount of vigilance, as, owing pro bably to the change of climate, there were fre quently from 30 to 40 fires burning along the deck. They were all charcoal fires, placed on a metal dish or bowl. At three o'clock this afternoon two close car riages, each drawn by four horses, drove into the dock, and alongside the vessel. The excitement now became excessive, as it was known that the Queen and Princesses, with the young Prince and the brother to the King of Oude, would take their departure in them for the residences which have been provided for their reception. After some delay and a great deal of ceremony in arranging a mass of drapery over the aperture from whence the Royal party would emerge for the first time on to English ground, the eunuchs appeared leading the Princesses. They were closely covered from head to feet, and were quickly hurried into the carriages amidst the somewhat suppressed laughter of the spectators. They are short in stature. A sedan chair was then brought out, closely screened, in which was the Queen of Oude. A mass of drapery was spread over it and the door of the carriage, and the Royal suitor passed from the one to the other unobserved by a single spectator. The blinds were speedily adjusted, and the carriage moved on. The appearance of the heir apparent and General Sicunda Hushinah (the King of Oude's brother) was the signal for a burst of pleasing acclamation. They were both magniscetly attired, their dresses sparkling with diamonds and golds. They are both extremely handsome. The young Prince was much admired, and a cheer saluted him as he entered the carriage, The seats opposite the Prince and general were taken by the mayor and Major Bird, and the carriages drove off to Shirley, where five houses are taken for their reception. The remainder of the party will occupy the Royal York Hotel. Before leaving the ship one of the gentlemen in Attendance on the Queen threw around the neck of Captain Brooks, commander of the Indus, a mag uificent shawl. Another one presented him with an envelope in which were two notes of 250 rupees each, and a third handed over a bag of rupees. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1856. Four prime donne have appeared during the season for the first time, and all with great success—viz., two English ladies, one German, and one Italian. The pretty Marietta Piccolomini, the true artistic Albertini Baucarde, the noble, the graceful, double-voiced Johanna Wagner, and the youthful and talented Jenny But The pretty Piccolomini took the town by storm by her effective acting as Violetta, in Verdi's " La Traviata," which she performed with increased success up to the last night of the season, was applauded to the echo by the habitues of the theatre, and particularly the old gentlemen in the stalls, and was pelted with bouquets that she took away in armfulls each night after the opera. The noble, the handsome Johanna Wagner thought she might have encountered some opposition, but the very instant her stately, graceful figure appeared, and her splendid voice rung through the house, she, by her magic art, effected a triumph ; her opposers became admirers, and like a second Cavar, she might truly say, " Veni, vide, vice." The youthful, the beautiful, the talented Jenny Baur shared the honours of the evening with the great Wagner each time "I Capuletti ed I Montecchi " and " Tancredi " were performed, and, when she acquires a little more ex perience, will be a formidable rival to her celebrated companions. The true, artistic, heart-stirring, tear exciting Albertini Baucarde, nee Augusta Aitcheson, is, in our humble opinion, and in that of several professors, the greatest artiste and the best singer of this interesting quartette ; and many musical amateurs who heard her admirable performance, and that of her talented husband, Baucarde, in Verdi's "Il Trovatore," have been much disappointed in not hearing them in other operas, in which they performed with unbounded applause and triumphant success in Italy, the land of song, where true talent is admired, respected, and appreciated. We (Manchester Examiner) understand that Mdlle. Piccolimini is engard for operatic performances in this city, to be given on the Bth, 10th, and 11th of Septem ber. PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 21. The Nimbo screw steamer has arrived with advice 3 from Lisbon to the 14th inst. Our correspondent states that no further bread riots had taken place after the 11tb, and that the provinces and capital were likely to continue tranquil. KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICIE.—His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has directed that the original ordinance of the Order of St. Patrick, which requires that the robes of the knights be of Irish manufacture, shall hencefor ward be strictly adheres to, and that all knights created from this date shall be robed in Irish poplin. Letters from Holland of the 18th inst. mention that as the openirg of the ensuing session approaches, the ques tion of the capitalisation of the Sound Dues proposed by Denmark is again being discussed in commercial circles. In the consideration of this question the feel ing is much the same as exists in England, and is rather againit Capitalisation, GUN ACCIDENT.—An accident of a very serious nature occurred en Wednesday morning to Mr. Marshall, a farmer, residing at Stretton, Derbyshire. He hai gone that morning into the fields for the purpose of killing rabbits, and was in the act of firing when his gun sud denly burst, and completely shattered the left hand. Mr. Macarsie, surgeon, of Clay Cross, who was imme diately sent for, found the injuries inflicted were such as required immediate amputation. The sufferer assented to the operation, which he bore with the greatest forti tude ; and though he is at the advanced age of seventy three, his symptoms are favourable.—Manchester Gear dian. A CHILD DROWNED IN A WASHING-TUB.—On Tues day a singular occurrence, resulting in the death of a child of fours years, named Elizabeth Ann Kelly, took place at a house on Lancashire-hill, Stockport. The mother of the deceased was washing in a shallow tub wade from a butter firkin, and having occasion to go into the yard she left the decease" alone in the kitchen. On her return, a short time after, she found the deceased tying over the side of the tub with her face in the water, which was not more than four inches deep, and on being removed she was discivered to be dead. It appeared that the child, while playing, must have got to the side of the tub, and, overbalancing herself, fell with her face into the tub, and wail thus drowned.—Mandtester Guar' LATEST NEWS. PRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. Au Imperial decree of the 13th, in the Bulletin des Lois, opens a supplementary credit of 1,358,000 f. to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, of which 125,000 f. are for diplomatic presents, and 1,233,000 f. for missions and extraordinary expenses. Another de cree opens an extraordinary credit of 25,945 f. to the Minister of State for the cost of the funeral of M. Fortoul ; and a third assigns a supplementary cre dit of 213,000 f. to the Minister of the Interior for extra expenses connected with the confinement and removal of prisoners. The commission appointed by decree of the 7th June last, to manage the fund for the sufferers by the inundations, has just addressed a report to the Minister of Agriculture, setting forth the bases on which the amount of the subscriptions should be divided. His Majesty, after having read this docu ment, which will be shortly published, gave orders to the Minister that a first division shall be imme diately made among the persons thrown into dis tress by the catastrophe, and which will amount on an average to 10 per cent. on their losses. A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels says :—" Much surprise has been expressed at the length of time which elapsed between the first an nouncement of the title of Duke having been con ferred on Marshal Pelissier and the designation of that title. The title of Malakhoff had been decided on from the first, as that of Sebastopol might have been alike displeasing to our old companions in arms and to our former adversaries, but it was not wished to ratify the title selected, by its insertion in the Moniteur, without ascertaining that it would not offend the susceptibilities of the Emperor Alexander 11. This is said to have been the sub ject of one of the first conversations between Count 1 1 1 .'"" ami the Emperor of Russia, and no ob jection having been raised ay that telegraph immediately transmitted the reply, and the announcement was made in the official journal." The Univers thus questions the authenticity of a document published by the Cologne Gazette, and reproduced by the Paris and London journals, purporting to be an analysis of the note addressed by the King of Naples to the Western Cabinets " The journals publish an analysis of the note which is:said to have been despatched by the King of Naples to the Western powers. France and England not hav ing addressed to the Neapolitan Government an iden tical note, it is scarcely probable that the reply of the Neapolitan Cabinet would be the same for both Govern ments. Moreover, the analytical form of this document causes us to suspect its correctness ; we will, therefore, wait before we publish it for proofs which may show that the Cologne Gazette merits confidence." BOURSE, Aug. 21.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 44 per Cents 95 —f. —a. 3 per Cents 7O 85 70 85 New Loan 7O 80 Bank Shares 4,150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,625 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 994 Spanish Threes „ Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt ...,..... 39 RAILWAYB-TOR CASH. fr. c. fr. ft . Orleans ......... ...... 1,420 Western... Northern .... ....... .1,067 50 Strasburg Lyons —.. . 1,425 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,825 Grand Central O5 Lyons Geneva BO7 50 Teste Cette BlO Austrian Corn. B9l 25 SPAIN. MADRID, Aug. 20.—The Gazette publishes a royal decree, conferring the Golden Fleece on Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. M. Rances has been named minister to the Brazils. General tranquil lity prevails throughout the country. A letter from Frankfort, of the 16th, says : " The Russian General of Engineers Todtleben, who has rendered himself illustrious by' the de fence of Sebastopol, has lately left Aix-les-Bains, where he stopped a few days, and intends to visit the four fortresses of the Germanic Confederation. He is now at Radstadt, the most minute details of which he is examining, and where he is the object of the most marked attention on the part of the commandant and other officers of the garrison. After having completed his strategical journey in Germany, the Russian general is to proceed to France, for the purpose of examining the system and means of defence of the principal fortresses in that empire." RUSSIA. It was stated a short time since in various jour nals that the Russian Government had given orders to enrol ; workmen in Germany at a thaler (3fr. 75c.) per day, for the rebuilding of Sebastopol. The Bourse Gazette now states that many applica tions for employment have been made to the Rus sian ambassador at Berlin, but that they have all been rejected, the ambassador not having as yet received auy instructions on the subject. A letter from Constantinople, in the Gazette du Midi, says :—" The attempt made at Sebastopol to get up the fragments of the vessels sunk at the mouth of the harbour appears likely to prove suc cessful. Another and better diving apparatus is about to be put in operation." A letter from Alexandria, in the Constitutionnel, says :—" It has been already mentioned that a German merchant had pretended that he had a right to establish a steam-tug on the Nile without the authorisation of the Egyptian Government, but that he had been prevented from continuing his operations. Baron de Prentz, the. Prussian consul-general, has now taken the matter up, and espoused the cause of his countryman. It is ex pected that this curious question will be brought before the Ottoman Government." A letter from Constantinople states that the Turkish Government has decided that the fortifica tions of Silistria, which have at different periois been improved, shall now be completed on a regu lar system. The Augsburg Gazette announces from Belgrade that a sum of five millions of piastres (about 1,250,000 fr.) has just been sent to Constantinople by the Servian Government, being the amount of a loan not bearin g interest which the latter had accorded to the Turkish Government for the pur pose of completing the electric telegraph between Constantinopleand Belgrade by Salonica. THE CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. (From the Correspondent of tAe Daily News.) ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 15. The date at which am at present writing, which is the 3d of August, Russian time, brings the preliminary proceedings of all the special em bassies pretty well to a close, at least in as far as the modern capital of Russia is concerned. Early next week special ambassadors and all other spe cialities connected in any way with the grand affair will take their departure from the city of Peter the Great and locate themselves for a few busy weeks in the more ancient capital in which so much of the early history was enacted. If Rurik, or Ivan the Terrible, or Boris Gudunoff could rise out of their graves, they would probably be some what surprised to see the arrival of the special trains which are to convey the foreign notabilities to the scene of the splendid pageant in which they are to play so conspicuous a part. Those Sclavonic worthies, who looked for no invasions save those of the Tartars whom their successors now hold in such complete subjection, would gaze with no small astonishment at the dragon of steam as it came up puffing, snorting, and roaring to the station, and dragging along in its wake some where about 500 persons of high and low degree, attracted from different quarters of the world to " assist" at the solemn inauguration of the present Emperor in the government of his vast dominions. They will storm the holy city as eagerly as ever didlthe Tartars, but they will be valiantly met by the innkeepers, who, if they cannot eject them summarily, are determined to make them pay dear for their prolonged sojourn. But not in Moscow alone is the working of this fine instinct of nation ality perceptible in the conduct of the Russian Boniface. Petersburg is little bebindhand—a fact of which, if report speak truly, the special ambas sadors have had the most conclusive indications. Already Lord Granville's parliamentary grant shows painful symptoms of attenuation ; but his lordship must take comfort in the conviction that, whenever a Russian special ambassador comes to London, the patriotism of British innkeepers will give him a noble revenge. In short, there is nothing more remarkable in the history of the world than the uniformity of action that marks the conduct of hotel keepers and cabmen on those portions of its surface upon which the progress of civilisation has given them a locus standi. Everywhere they look upon the traveller as an invading enemy, and "charge" him with a vigour that is generally sure to make him beat an early retreat. The Count de Morny has, I believe, saved himself the pangs of petty extortion by buying everything► on a grand scale, even to the steam-boat that takes him up and down the river, and by renting the great Woronzoff Palace, which may be seen every day surrounded by splendid equipageo s and every night blazing with lights; fci the great admiration of the Russian 1 police, who walk dettlittely tip and down the water side of the Neva. His Excellency was early in pre senting his credentials, and Prince Paul Esterhazy, " Diamond" Esterhazy, as he is called, wished to follow closely on his heels, but unfortunately he bad left those important documents behind him at Vienna, and he was inexorably refused a presenta tion until they had arrived. Our own special embassy had its turn yesterday under circumstances calculated to give the British people and their re presentatiVe entire satisfaction. They went down to Peterhoff, in the Princess Alice, and were re ceived at the debarcadere by some of the high officers of the court. Imperial carriages were in attendance to convey them in the first instance to the English palace, where they found an elegant dejeuner pre pared for them, and every convenience for making their court toilettes. They were then conveyed to the Imperial Palace where, in the first instance, Lord Granville was presented to the Emperor at a private audience of some duration, after which his Lordship presented in succession all the members of his embassy. The Emperor was, I understand, all cordiality and condescension, frequently addres sing the persons present in the English and French languages. His Imperial Majesty's deportment is spoken of in terms of high admiration by every one who had the honour of a presentation. Subse quently Lady Granville was presented to the Em press, and in her turn presented the ladies of her suite, the Marchioness of Stafford, Lady Emily Peel, and Lady Margaret Leveson Gower. Char a-bancs were in waiting, into which the whole party got at the termination of the ceremonial, and a drive round the beautiful grounds of Peter hoff filled up the time until dinner, which, like the breakfast, was prepared at the English Palace. At this banquet several of the high officers of the court were present, amongst whom the son of Count Nesselrode was active in discharging the duties of hospitality to the distinguished guests. At 11 o'clock the whole party were safely conveyed to town in the Princess Alice, being the first time that the voyage has been performed at that late hour by a vessel of her tonnage. So ended a very pleasant day for the British Embassy, and at the same time ternainatva LLo £3b. P.t.rqbur g portion of their mission, leaving them nothing to do but settle M. Dimonte's little bill, pack up their port manteaus,and proceed early next week by special train to oscow. To-day (Friday) was a grand field-day with our Gallic allies. Being the fete day of the Emperor Napoleon, a solemn Te Detain was celebrated at the Roman Catholic church of St. Catherine, at which all the French in St. Pe tersburg were invited to attend. The church, which is situated about midway down the Nevskoi Prospekt, was of course crowded, and a great num ber of people formed as contracted a semicircle as the Russian dragoons would permit in the street outside. Count de Moray's carriages, with their fine English horses, made a splendid show, and eli cited frequent ejaculations from the " Mujiks," which I regret to add were not particularly intelli gible to your special correspondent. Lord Granville accompanied his French colleague, but not in state, as all the carriages 'We Parade" have already been sent off to Moscow. The scene was altogether both imposing and brilliant. The French congre gation was unusually sedate and attentive ' • the French uniforms and decorations had all the fresh ness of the empire, and the spot in which the church is situated is the finest in St. Petersburg, being the centre of the finest street in the world. At the conclusion of the service I strolled down the whole length of the "Nevskoi" to the terminus of the Moscow Railway, and was perfectly astounded at its extent, the noble proportions and elaborate decorations of the houses, and the abun dance and richness of the goods displayed in the various magasins. There are fully three miles of palaces and palatial shops, while the flagways and the road present a never-ending variety of busi ness, bustle, and excitement. As you stroll along a pale Circassian of the Caucasus passes you in the peculiar costume of his country. You pause to ad vance, and think of Schamyl and his brave moun taineers, but he takes out a cambric handkerchief to wipe his face, and lights a paper cigar, and the romance is in a moment destroyed. You turn sud denly, and are immediately jostled by two magni ficent Persians in their high conical caps and long robes of some costly Eastern material, and involui,- tardy quote Tennyson—" Oiled and curled like the Assyrian Bull "—as you gaze on their Ninevite physiognomies and imposing beards twisted into innumerable ebony corkscrews. Next comes a group of Russian officers, fine young fellows, nearly all over six feet, with delicate—almost English— features, and wearing their long and somewhat un graceful grey coats a ith commendable resignation. I must say, in passing, that I have frequently had to thank those gentlemen for the ready cour tesy and politeness with which they invariably answered those inquiries which a stranger is obliged to make in getting through a large city for the first time. They all speak French, and many of them English, and are ready to assist you in any little perplexity that may arise in your peregrina tions. The poor Mujiks are, I believe, equally willing to oblige, but to ask them a question only exposes you to a torrent of fervent Sclavonic, ac companied by the wildest gesticulations, and some times an extempore hornpipe, while the result is not of any very considerable assistance to your own organ of locality. I have watched these men with ,much interest and curiosity since my arrival in Rus sia, and have invariably observed them to be tall and strong, in good physical condition, and having honest and open, though not always very intelli gent, countenances. The universal beard gives them a great air of manliness, and the manner in which thy perform their work, which is often severe, indicates the possession of great muscular strength. The " Isboostchiks," the Russian equivalent for cabmen, are the finest charioteers in the world. To see them urging their high- mettled Cossack horses along the Nevskoi, you would fancy the Olinypi• were being enacted over again, so rapid is their pace, so great the dexterity with which they dart in and out and over all obstacles. It is true that sometimes they leave an unaccustomed traveller behind them on the wooden pavement, but they generally tind it out, and come back for him, giv ing him at the same time a caution to hold harder when he rides in a drotschki. There were lots of them strolling in the Nevskoi to-day, and they seemed very jolly and contented. Tli E SELF -S IMMER. IPLITMER. M. Danduran, a French civil engineer, now in London, has invented an ingenious little apparatus under this designation, which he exhibited on the Serpentine on Wednesday, by means of which per sons wholly unable to swim, including even women and children, may be protected from drowning under all ordinary circumstances ; and in the re collection of all the calamitous accidents which have occurred this very summer, and are constantly happening from bathing, we are but performing a service to humanity in bringing an invention under public notice in the least calculated to prevent or lessen such lamentable casualties. It simply con sists of two round instruments, made of tin, zinc, or copper, enclosed at both ends, each about 15 inches in length, of the diameter of an inch and a half at one extremity and four or five inches at the other, and constructed in a crescent shape so as to accommodate themselves to the armpits, where they are intended to be used. They are covered over with any kind of light linen fabric, and fastened together with a few yards of strong riband in such a wanner that a person can put on the apparatus in a moment, as if it were a waistcoat, and with or without his or her ordinary clothing. Its buoyant power is so great, that any one wearing it in water cannot by any possibility sink, though wholly unused to swimming as an art ; and another essential cha racteristic of it is that it invariably, under all cir cumstances, maintains the head and shoulders above water. Even to an expert person it would la 3 of immense advantage in an emergency, in enabling him to rest at pleasure when he had a long distance before him to swim or a tempestuous sea to contend with, and it might be the means of his salvation in case of an attack of cramp; while to one wholly ignorant of the art of swimming it would be of the last importance, for it would keep him above water an indefinite length of time, or until relief came to his aid. Had Mr. Stavert worn it when bathing at Scarborough the other day we should not have heard of the casualty which deprived him of life, nor, with it, would the two sons of Mr. Cunningham, of King's College, or the near relative of Dr. Forbes Winslow have met with so deplorable an end. If all persons, indeed, made it a point never to bathe without the use of M. Danduran's apparatus, the, public mind would cease every now and then to be wounded by such sad accidents as these, and friends would be spared the grief which prostrates them in such cases. The instrument is also invaluable as an aid in learning to swim, enabling, as it does, the novice to lay himself at once along the water without the slight est danger of sinking, which is the first requisite to the acquisition of the art. M. Dandurau will exhibit his apparatus on the Serpentine about 3 o'clock every afternoon on which the weather will permit for a few days. A board of Engineer officers concluded an inquiry yesterday afternoon at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, into the circumstances connected with the accident which t >ok place on Chatham Lines on Tuesday during the siege operations. The accident is now understood to have arisen in consequence of the wires of the voltaic battery, used in firing the gunpowder, having acciden tally come in contact before the men had left the lodg meat. The proceedings of the board will be forwarded to the Duke of Cambridge. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH-EASTERN. The directors of this company have resolved to recom mend the proprietors, at the ensuing half•yesrly meeting, to order payment of 9s. 6d, on each 301. stock, which, with the dividend of 13s. 31. paid last half-year, is at the rate of 31.155. 10d. per cent. per annum. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE. The directors have decided to recommend a dividend for the last half•year at the rate of 71 per cent. per a nouns. MIDLAND. The half yearly meeting of this company was held at the station, Derby, on Wednesday ; Mr. J. Ellis presided. The report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent, per atnum, as recommendod in the report, was directed to bo paid on the Ist of September. EASTERN COUNTIES. The following is the report of the directors of this company, to be submitted to the half•yearly meeting of the shareholders on Friday next :7- -.. . . . Your directors, in submitting their half-yearly state ment of accounts, have to report that the total receipts of the company are 628,939/. 91. 4d., and the expenses, in cluding interest upon mortgage debt, &c., 463,416/. 193. ; for the corresponding half-year the receipts were 596,609/. 2s. Gd., and the expenses 422,5411. 9s. ld. After deducting payments to the Norfolk, Eastern Union, Easit Great Northern, and Blackwall Railway Companies, inte rest on the Newmarket and Bury capital, the Newmarket Line purchase, Harwich lease, and new works under agree ment, &c., there remains a balance of 32,631/. 9s. 9d., ac divisible amongst the ordinary shareholders of the com pany. This sum will enable the proprietors to recommend a dividend of 2s. per share, carrying forward 3,4661. Bs. 2d., which, if so decided, will be declared by the board, who have considered it desirable not to declare any divi dend except authorised by the proprietors, as upon the two former half-yearly meetings the shareholders decided upon taking the dividend declared by the directors whilst declining to pass the accounts. The balance of 5,868/. 12s. 4d. remaining after the payment of the dividend for the half-year ending 31st December, 1855, has not been added to the surplus balance at the suggestion of the auditors, who considered it desirable that this sum should be re tained to meet any claims arising out of that half-year's ' account. The augmented charge for interest of 3,161/. Os. 10d. is much larger than it would otherwise have been, owing, in part, to the difficulties in which the company was placed by the then agitation, and adverse reports, which, affect ing their credit, necessitated the company paying high rates of interest for temporary loans. The borrowing powers of the company having now been dearly defined by Parliament, and the security of the company being ample, this item of charge will in future be reduced'. The increase in the working expenses of the company our directors deeply regret; this results almost entirely from the state of your permanent way and works, for not only are the charges under this head in excess of the corresponding half-year by 18,4511. 9s. 9d., or about 60 per cent., but the expenditure for extra guards, pointsmen, and police, in consequence of the extensive reparation to the road, has added largely to the general expenses in working the line. As the repairs, however, upon the main line are now rapidly approaching completion, this extra expenditure is in course of reduction. It will be observed from the accounts that there has been an expenditure in renovation and improvements of the permanent way during the half-year of 79,999/. 9s. sd. The report of your engineer, Mr. Bruit, briefly sets forth the main features of these improvements.. Your directors regret that they are not able to give a more detailed state ment of this expenditure, in consequence of the dangerous illness of their chief engineer, but consider ing that so large an expenditure has taken place this half- year under the head of maintenance of permanent way, your directors have placed the whole of this amount for the present to the Depreciation Fund, purposing to credit that account with 15,0001. in the current half-year's accounts. It will be in the recollection of the proprietors that the sum of 15,0004. per annum was the amount originally stated as an annual payment out of revenue to meet Mr. Bruff's esti mate of the requirements to place the permanent way in an efficient state. Up to the close of this half-year 151,0271. 4s. 3d. has been expended to secure this desirable result, which is evidence that these reparations at id improvements have been proceeded in with great vigour. . _ The locomotive expenditure, after deducting the amount charged to the lessees of the Tilbury line, c0.,1 is less by 7421. 13s. 2d. than the corresponding half-year. The train mileage being also reduced 35,700 miles, decreasing The ex• penditure under this head from 11 . 1533 d. to 11'0713d., whilst the earnings per train mile have incre aced from 60 . 50 to 64.75. Vv The expenditure upon capital account for new works, new lines, additional stock, kc., as shown in puma 14 and 15, amounts to 91,7301. ns. 7d. The additional locomotive plant under construction, and ordered, but not delivered, will require a farther outlay of 10,7001. The directors, in consequence of the illness of their , 'en gineer, as previously noticed, are unable to state the amount that will be required to complete the works ordere under the authority of the joint committee of the three companies. Doubts having been expressed as to the borrowing powers of the company, your directors considered it of paramount importance that the actual extent of these powers should be accurately defined, as in consequence of the complicated dealings with the different stocks of the company under its variois acts of Parliament;it was impossible to state satis factorily under what act of Parliament the company were exercising borrowing powers. Your directors have the pleasure to report that all doubts as to the constitution of the different stocks which form the capital of the company are now set at rest, and the borrowing powers have been definitively fixed during the last session of Parliament at the sum of 3,195,2701. The powers already exercised amount to the sum of 2,723,953/. 165., which includes the liabilities of the New market Railway of 116,6661. under the agreement with that company, as well as the temporary advance to the Eastern Union Company of 200,0001. The bill in question was the only one promoted by this company, and contains powers for converting the mortgage debt into a debenture stock, bearing interest not exceeding 4 per cent. per annum, and your directors conceive that it may be of advantage to the company that these powers should be exercised, but before doing so it will be neces sary to convene a special meeting of the proprietors for that purpose. Your directors were called upon to oppose the two bills brought into Parliament under the auspices of the East Suffolk Company for a line from Beccles to Lowestoft, and for another lino from Haddiscoe to Yarmouth ; they regret to state that their opposition was unavailing, and those two lines have in consequence received the sanction of the Legislature. A bill was also introduced into Parliament for making a line from Tottenham to Hornsey, where it was to join the Great Northern. As its junciion with your line was most objectionable, your directors opposed this bill, which was rejected by the committee of the House of Commons. The line branching from near the Stratford station to Loughton has been examined by 'ithe Government Inspec tor, and will be opened for traffic on the 22d inst. It is intended to work the trains in connection with this branch mainly to and from the Fenchurch-street station. By the London, Tilbury, and Southend Acts the East ern Counties Company, and the London and Blackwell Railway Company are each to appoint an auditor to audit the accounts of that undertaking, and it is necessary that, in accordance with the above provision, the proprietors should appoint an auditor on the part of this company. The reports of the engineer of permanent way, the loco motive superintendent, and storekeeper are appended, and also the report of Mr. Berkley, C.E., upon the state of the rolling stock. Since the last half-yearly meeting, Mr. Robertson, late manager of the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway, has been appointed superintendent of the line in conse quence of the resignation of Messrs. Capper and Church, and Mr. Sinclair the manager and locomotive superintend• ent of the Caledonian Railway has been appointed your locomotive manager in place of Mr. Gooch, whose term of office has expired. Since the last meeting of the proprietors, T. J. Mar grave, Esq., one of your directors, has resigned his seat at the board, and the following gentlemen have intimated thoir intention of offering themselves to fill the vacant seat: The Hon. Frederick Byron, Longford Grove, Maldon, Essex ; William Harris, Esq., 20, Bloomsbury-square, London ; Joseph Robert Morrison, Esq., Theobalds, Herts ; Ralph Walters, Esq., 3, Sussex-gardens, Hyde. park ; William Malins, Esq., 60, Montague-square. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAL—Traffio return for the week ending Aug. 10, 1856 £23,891 3 10 Corresponding week last year 22,789 16 6 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Aug. 17, 1856 £25,87' 11 8 Corresponding week last year 23,076 18 8 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 17, 1856 £6,913 2 3 Corresponding week last year 6,512 16 10 Increase in 1556..... • ••• £4OO 5 5 SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY. — Traffic return for the wlek ending Aug. 17, 1856 £7,260 5 10 Correspondinv week last year • 6,869 9 2 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week enc;ing Aug. 16, 1856 Corresponding week last year 215 3 8 LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic re turns for the week ending Aug. 16, 1856 £10,703 12 8 MADAMS TIISSAIJD'S EXHIBITION,—A portrait model of General Williams, the hero of Kars, has just been completed and placed in the bust room of this establish ment. This gallant officer is represented in a similar uniform to that worn during the attack and defeat of the Russians at Kars. This figure, no doubt, will be a source of gratification to the visitors of this well-known place of resort.