The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

taimmams.- _ 4 , ..› GRAND MUSIC HALL.—ROYAL SURREY' GARDENS.—JUL LIEN'S CONCERTS. Madame IV dloarssal d o rff —Change of Programme each Evening — T ur kish Damson's Co iews of Constantinole and the Al's Dioramic Views — Kiosk and Illuminated Terrapce—Fas—PhilliPsiry Caverns and FatiMS'S Home—Grounds lighted in a perfectly novel A dmittance Is. thby Con s Fi re works and Brilliant Emblematic Tableau o'clock. cert at Seven. Fireworks at a Quarter past Ten ____---------- ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. --The London Genoral Omnibus Company will run Omnibuses from Kingsland Gate and Rtghbury Station to the Roy Gardensal Surrey a s s Gardeoon n as s at half-pant 5 o'clock dai l y , returning from the the amtmemen a are over. Fare to or from the Gardens, 6d. each. H ER MAJESTY'S TA EATRE. GRAND FAREWELL NIGHTS. PICCOLOMINI— ROSATI—LE CORSAIRE. To - morr ow (THURSDAY, August 7), DON PASQUALE. Norina, Mdlle. Piccolomini ; Ernesto, Signor Reichardt ; Dottore blalatesta, Signor Belletti ; Don Pasquale, Signor flossi. On SATURDAY, August 9, LA TRAVIATA. Violetta, Mdlle. Pic,colomini. With the new grand Ballet of LE CORSAIRE. Medora, Madame Rosati. Reduced Prices :—Three Pair, 1/. ls. Two Pair, 11.11 s. e.d. Pit and One Pair, 21. 12s 6d. Grand Tier, Gallery Boxes, 15s. Gallery Stalls, 58. Gallery Side Stalls, 3s. 6d. Gallery, 2s. 6d. The free list suspended, the public press excepted. THEATRE ROYAL, FIATAAREEET. Under the Management of Mr. Buc.ketone. TRI9 EVENING, 14IATCII MAKING. After which SECOND L NE. Followed by THE C A'ter which A FASCINATING INDIVIDUAL• To con3lude with VIE SPAM S,',RJEANT. ROYAL TIM vrgr, AD LP 111. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madauae Celeste. THIS VIVENING, r AUL PRY. Followed by 011 it OA L. To conclude with BORN TO GOOD Lt K. 11,0YA.t. .lYnrry: ;'v efit , ;A:ritN, OXFORD-TECF,EIT. Unlar the If tnitctern,it ni cu A aLt‘ Tor the Benefit of Misi Carlotta Leclerq. TuN Evlr.S"[Nci, MICT3C, 11 ITII Cli UtAS. After whi en, T IE CVITTErt'i TALE. OL,YN[PIC THE iTIOI. Uwe anl NtAna;or. Alfret T'c:i E \' ESl~ti T.IE MONSTER. Ai";er which, 11 D E A. To with TIIE WELSII ASTLInY'S ROY t 1 AItPHITIIKNTRE. Lessee ,vll Afr. Wm. Cooke. THU. EVENINiI, (first week) Shilte:t,erel; Tra-te(ly of KING RICTIARD TIT THEM) ; or, the ' , tattle of Pc-oroq I Feld. Compressed into 3 act; Dir. W. Cooke:: sp'end , 3 stud of hor.es effectively introduced. Gr.nd striking, and in leserib tilde tah!ext of the Battle of Bosworth Field. A er which, The SCENES in the CMCLE, and a variety of select entertain. ments. Rot-office open fr )m F,'even till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. Equestrian Director, air. W. Cooke. Jun. "ORE WEIS , ..raE OFFTCE, AUGUST 6 THmiNfonwriiit, IN 'NI El SFLADE. 77 —hlzLost tio , r; rigterday. 57 —lowest this mnrning 3i i divine the tqiht 71 —th!s day at nool.. RA Actzrrir , :— 31 25. WIND, Easterly.—Light, with fine weather. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6,135 e HIGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 7 min. a'r. 4—Evening 22 min. aft. 5 To-MORBOW—Morn.33 min. aft. s—Evening 55 min. aft. 5 t &AL- , 4 Russia is already beginning to cast off the diA guise which she was compelled to assume at the 1 commencement of the year. She is already show ing her full appreciation of the policy that pre vented any diminution of her power, and watehed more vi 4 lantly °ye? her honour than that of either of the AllieC:Powers, that sulmitted to tl e useless sacrifice of so many millions of money and myriads of human beings. She has therefore determined to per severe in the traditional policy inaugurated by PETER. the Great (Savage), and continued by the ara'abie and virtuous CATHE RINE, the mild and courteous PAUL, and the truth-loving and mo 'crate NICHOLAS. She cannot even yet understand that the Western Powers could have been earnest in their determi nation to prevent its full development when they allowed her to retain the power she had so grossly abused. The leopard cannot be made to change its spots, or the northern bear to abandon the instincts of its ursine nature. Her diplomatists were not idle at Paris. They discovered that the NAPOLEON of 1856, the father of an Imperial Prince, the Sovereign whose chief anxiety was to consolidate and strengthen the dynasty which lie hoped to establish, was very different indeed from the NAPOLEON of 1854, who gained golden opi nions in England and throughout Europe—that the French Government was contented with the position it had already attained, and had no desire to insist very strenuously on the ob servance of the articles comprised in the Precious Treaty. It saw that our faithful (!) Ally was the first to inflict a severe blow on the maritime supremacy of England, and that the criminal surrender of our once cherished privileges would render England far less formidable than it had previously been. Can we, then, wonder that she has seized on the golden opportunity, and that "her sharp pra.:tice" and indifferent faith in carrying out the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris have attracted general observation. She still retains her hold on Kars ; and although the Allied forces have already vacated the Crimea, and restored the towns captured by their valour, she has strengthened her Armenian garrison, and maintained a threatening aspect towards Turkey, while the Western Powers delivered up even the buildings and defences they had them- selves erected witho ut • • injury. measures to destroy the fortifications, as well as those of Ismail and Reni, so that these important fortresses will be incapacitated from offering any serious resistance, in the event of new complica tions,outlay, at least without an which Turkey is incapable of undertaking in the present ex hausted state of ber finances. Nor is this all. The forcible seiz ure of the Isle of Ser p e nts, which so clearly belonged to the Ottoman Empire, and the control thereby assumed over the navi. gation of the Danube, clearly shows that she is 3etermined to prevon'-, the freedom of that li n _ ortant river—although it was one of the points 'cost earnestly insisted on as the ground-work of the so-called peace. It may appear strange that the CZAR should so speedily fling aside the mask—that he should already risk the permanency, or rath-_lr the dura tion, for it possessed no element of permanency — of the peace whicli he was so anxious to obtain. But Russian politicians , are as cunning a, they are unscrupuloa-. They know that one at least of their quondam, opponent~ has been made safe; that Louis NA VO LEON is more mindful of the interests of Imy e rialism than of the preservation of the balance of p ow er, or the protection of Turkey a g ai ns t h er unconscientious assailan`. They also see that any cffence against international law may be com a itted with impunity, inasmuch aa it is not the policy Qf Friuge or Germany to humiliate or di- She has taken THE SUN, LON D►ON, WEDNESRAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1856 minish the power of the EMPEROR, and England suffers herself to be hoodwinked and bamboozled by the interested parties. R e garding themselves safe under any circumstances,, they are prepared to go to the full extent of the'.ir tether, convinced that, in any event or at any • moment, a trivial concession, and the tempora.ry abandonment of anticipated booty, will be the utmost they have to dread. Besides, the old Muscovite party is to be conci liated, at any risk, pleviou43; to the coronation. That can only be effected by zhowing that Russia is still bent on aggression, whenever and wherever practicable—that she still clings with reckless pertinacity to her ambitious scheme of universal empire, and to the speedy annexation of Byzan tium, and the wielding of the , sceptre of CONSTAN TINE by a Russian Potentate. This was the object that was so long looked forward to by the Muscovite party, and which led to the aggression by the late CZAR, which terminated so disastrously for himself and his people. The demonstrations at Kars, Ismail, Reni, and the Isle of Serpents, as well as the quibbles raised respecting the adjust ment of the new boundary with Moldavia, are all matters tending to the same point, and which should be carefully looked to by the other parties to " the precious Treaty." The treatment experienced by the poor Wal• pole Islanders at the hands of the " smart' speculator who brought them over for exhibition ,o this country calls for something more than a general expression of disgust, and the payment of their passage homeward by means of the charity of the benevolent. If by any possibility the offender can be made amenable to justice by outraged humanity he ought to be so for the sake of example. Grievous as his offence is, he is not alone in his misdoing ; and but too many, there is reason to believe s exist fully prepared to tread in his footsteps. The spirit of speculation, perverted from its legitimate aim, is but too rampant among us ; but great as is the cruelty to which it has given rise, other motive; and among a class from which more might have been expected, have led to a similar result. It is but the other day we read of a lady who brought over from India a woman of the country, in the capacity of an Ayah, and left her without the slightest scruple to make her way as best she could, in a strange land, in utter ignorance of the address of her victimiser. And if the public call to recollection the pro ceedings of our police courts, how frequently must the plaints cf the poor Lascar, set adrift by his heartless employer, raise the indignant blush to the •heek ? Unfortunately, in none of these instances has the justice of the case been satisfied, and we have but lit.tle hope of the victimisation of the miserable Walpole Islanders being avenged by any process of law. This, assuredly, is not as it ought to be. TiR honour of the country is, in po:nt of fact, deeply concerned that such offences should not be com mitted with impunity. Whatever may have been the condition of these unfortunate beings in their own country, that country was their home, and to tempt them from it, by whatever means, and then, when their services have no real or prospec tive value, to leave them to struggle, houseless, homeless, and foodless, among strangers ignorant of their language, and incapable of understanding anything but their mute appeals, is to be guilty of an atrocity as great as that of the trader in human flesh. In one respect even greater, for the slave dealer transfers the captured African to a master, whose interest it is to give him food and shelter, and take such further care of him as is necessary for the preservation of his life. True in the case to which we have referred the charity of the metropolitan public has stept in and delivered the per creatures from the miseries of their position, but this result cannot be admitted as a plea by way of extenuation of the offence. So far as the intention of these betrayers of their fellow-crea tures is concerned the presumption must he for the worst, or, if a distinction is to be made, it certainly should not be in favour of the heartless betrayer of the helple3s Ayah. The guilt in ♦olved in her conduct makes one shudder. Such an amendment of the law is wanted as will suffice to protect these poor creatures in the first instance alike from the speculator in exhibitions, the unscrupulous shipowner, and the heartless lady of fashion. The former—say— should be required to deposit in the hands of some public officer an amount equal to that re quired for the return of his " monsters" to the place of their nativity, before he is permitted to offer them for exhibition. This, if it can be done, while it would insure more discretion in the choice of objects on the part of the specula tor, would infallibly put a stop to the evil of which we complain. The shipowner or the cap tain of his vessel should be required to make a similar deposit in India, and if the same measure be inapplicable in the third case—the return of the poor Ayah at the expense or by the instrumen - tality of the employer who brought her over should be provided for by the enactment of a severe pecuniary penalty, to be exacted in cases of proved neglect, and applied in part to the payment of the required passage. When the victim has been turned adrift without the address of her or hl3 victimiser, imprisonment with hard labour should be added. These suggestions, it is hardly neces sary to say, are thrown out from no desire to be regarded as a reformer of our penal laws, but from an anxiety to have removed a reproach to the entire nation—a system of cruelty which throws us back in appearance at least a couple of centuries. If any better means can be devised the sooner they are forthcoming the better. Whoever enjoys the country, an Editor must keep at his post. " Too hot to read a newt paper," writes a correspondent from Paris ; he will not, however, excuse us from providing him one ; it must never be too hot to write, and, worse than writing, to think —no, not when FAHRMYHEI.T'S reaches 90 deg. in the shade. Brains, pens, types, steam-presses, and all the flesh-and-blood ministering attendants to the Daily Journal, must stick to it, even when some atmospheric dislocation, or convulsion as geolo gists would say, brings the tropics to the tempe rate zone. Some geologists do tell us that our country was once a Spice Island, and well do we know that Re have lived in the climate of the Spice Islands this week. A breeze, too, there has been ; and it has blown from almost every quarter, but somehow has brought heat on its wings. It has probably been an Angel of Mercy, to save us from Cholera and Typhus ; and right glad have e been to meet it, especially if we could escape idle relentless Sun at the same time. But though it gave us chan ge of air it would not give us change of temperature. Her MAJESTY and nearly all her servants early took the alarm, and, with her Lords and faithful Commons, have turned their backs on the metropolis, and left us bro ilin g in rooms little better than huge ovens, or gasp i ng along between rows of houses, in what may be imore fitly called flues than streets. Yet what ingrates we English are : But the week before we were complaining of cold, and grumbling as if November had supplanted July. HEAVEN grant that the fair, clear, sunny, blue sky we have seen for the last week may not be soon hidden from us. And we have seen it, too, for even our "helps" in the kitchen have been but too glad to save us the cost of coals, as soon in the day as they could, and London has for a long time hot known less smoke than for the last seven days. Whenever the merciless factories own • mplete obedience to Lard PALMERSTON, we may hope for a few quite clear days in hot weather, even in this metropolis of chimneys. But imagination will rest on the country; with a hasty stolen glance at which even we refresh our- selves for a few hours now and then. We jast keep n memory what hay-fields and corn-fields are, and we now see the latter rapidly changing their hues, the soft waving green giving place to the rich and gladdening brown, and the reapers here and there beginning their task. Mark-lane— yes—Mark-lane, that dull, dingy, old London market, sympathises deeply with the country, and discusses in a language of its own in which the chief vocables are " shillings per quarter," and "shillings per sack," the hopes and prospects of beautiful fields and fair skies. Mysterious baro meter of nature, that said Mark-lane ! scarcely a soul there that knows what it is to admire her. What care the sellers and buyers of samples of nature's products for all that a BEATTIE or Cow- PER could picture of the beauties of the scenes from which they came ; the "shilling per quar ter" is their conception of corn-fields, of green grops, and russet brown harvests, and sunny skies ; were they not all made to be estimated by "shillings per quarter ?" Yet these men of Mark-lane do hold in their hands the measures of much human comfort and misery. We must not contemn their lingo. A few " shillings per quarter" mean a penny or two the quartern loaf ; and a few pence iu the quar tern loaf, being interpreted, mean hunger or plenty to tens of thousands, and to all bu's a very few of our twenty-seven millions the addition or subtraction of some comfort. "Shillings per quarter !" no trivial matter that. Our grocer, and tailor, and milliner, and—but we say that confidentially, and in a whisper—our newsvendor— in short, all we deal with--know the difference of having to pay "shillings per quarter," more or less ; our very little ones find a toy or two the more in papa's pocket, on his return Home, when the " shillings per quarter" are fewer. How we all smiled as we told the news at home on Monday—" Max k-lane ten to twelve shillings a quarter lower, but no buyers !" How many spouses and daughters that evening had fresh visions of new dresses, or of a mouth by the ssa-site, and of ail the many pleasant things, but to enjoy all of which we must wait for the days when double Income Tax or schedule D is wrested from Sir G. C. LEWIS, or some other Ikeeper and spender of the nation's treasures. None of us can help after all the cheering effect of sunshine ; the very farmers and their Mark Lane Express have almost ceased to grumble. The agrichltural reports from every part of the country, even from the Green Isle itself, share the universal good nature, " the splendid wea ther,' " the crops rapidly changing colour and soon to be fit for the reaper," " harvest a week sooner than expected" is the language of all. Of course here and there a field laid by a thunder storm is not forgotten, and one finds small yellow insects in some ears, but even he hopes they are of no consequence ; another notices that some ears are only three set, and a few of the sets empty, another fears the high ,winds when the wheat was in blossom must have done harm, but deposes of none to his knowledge. No—from all all parts of the country the reports agree—and they are, in a few words, "that never was there agreater breadth of wheat sown, and that it looks like a full average crop at least." We take that to mean something more than one. We do not, however, ourselves doubt that the wheat, which was quite green when this sudden change to intense heat came, will probably be of lighter weight than that which was forwarder. Potatoes, too, are nearly exempt from the mortifying disease, which has so often deprived the farmer of the whole of his crop. From Ire land, and all parts, it is mentioned that " the disease," which should now show its worst, if ex isting at all, is scarcely apparent. The reports of the hay crop, too, what we had not expected, are very pleasant to read. For the more part— "an excellent crop and well got up." Turnips appear, however, to be in jeopardy in some places, here and there even ploughed up ; the well-known " fly" and " black caterpillar" are complained of in parts of Norfolk, but it can hardly be that Norfolk farmers should not sow that valuable crop on the L3thian or Northumberland ridges, and hardly possible if they have, that they should not sow them thick enough to beat "the fly." Mangold Wurtzel, however, which is deservedly becoming so much more general, is looking " gloriously." As to barley, the greater extent of wheat grown has, according to very general testimony, contracted the breadth of its cultivation. We were told by knowing ones in the spring that the rotation of crops would prevent this. We know that rota tion is not generally routine, but to some extent we also know that it is, and we accordingly find that even our farmers can beat our Crimean officers ; and that had they to come before Chel sea Commissioners, they could show a case of "competent ingenuity " and "foresight," and " varying conduct according to circumstances," which staff officers weuicl think incredible. Cer tain it is that many a field which should have been barley according to routine or orders, has, in consequence of the price of wheat, been sown with that grain. Lords LUCAN and CARDIGAN may stare, but it is the fact, that even farmers used their own brains and did not believe in being mere machines ; no, not even landlords' machines. While we write, a somewhat cooler breeze— rather not so hot a one—is blowing, than that to which we have been accustomed for the last week ; the sky equally clear, however, the sun equally bright, all things equally fair for the crops and the harvest, but not quite so intolerable to the prisoners of the town. And we are dwelling with pleasure on the thoughts of greater abun dance another year, and all the blessings of plenty, whatever we may think of the blessings of peace. May a gracious HEAVEN grant us a continuance of the weather which now brightens our hopes ! Friday next, the Bth inst., is the day fixed for the election of the new candidate for admission into the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society. It will then be decided whether or not the success ful applicant will be the little child, whose claim upon the votes of the Governors of that Benevolent Institution, we have already advocated in these columns—THomes MATTHEW HAYDN, born on the 4th of August, 1847, a boy consequently just past the ninth anniversary of his birth—the orphan son of the learned and laborious compiler of the " Dictionary of Dates," and of the " Book of Dignities." The mere men tic% of the fact - of the child's parentage, we 0442- not but regard as very eloquent indeed in the championship of his cause as the off spring of a distinguished and toil-worn man of letters, a man of letters prema tutely deceased by reasaa of his having so long laboured, not merely in the sweat of his brow, but, as it has been forcefully expressed, in the sweat of his brain—a little child standing upon the threshold of life and pleading in the name of his dead father for the scarcely-estimable boon of Education. Jos EPS HAYDN'S son, we do earnestly hope, nay more, we do confidently an ticipate, will be admitted on Friday► next, the day after to-morrow, to the Royal Asylum cf St. Ann's Society. His are no ordinary claims for such admission. Those claims arise not only from his extreme youth and his consequent helplessness, coupling that extreme youth with the narrow cir cumstances of his widowed mother, but in a very peculiar manner arise out of the in disputable value of his dead father's labours in the systematising and popularising, in the simplifica tion and classification of large masses of useful and important knowledge. We think it might be distinctly, and not un reasonably, laid down as a sort of incontrovertible axiomatic platitude, that among the cultivators of polite learning the compilers of indices, and glossaries, and dictionaries, are about the most practical benefactors to the students of literature. It is for this reason, it is in this way that his colossal and Herculean labour of building up the first great Dictionary of the English Language is univer sally recognised as the most broad and solid basis of Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S immense and splendid reputation. A basis beside which the elegant and didactic " Rasselas," the rhetorical and sen tentious " Rambler," the wise and weighty morali ties expressed by the "Vanity of Human Wishes," the stilted but sonorous versification of " Irene," the mass of astute and authoritative criticism compacted together in the " Lives of the Poets," dwindle into comparative insignificance. It is in a wonderfully lesser degree of course, but still as one coming within the same hononrablo category that the late Mr. JOSEPH HAYDN holds his claim upon the grateful remembrance of future students in the belles-lettres, and more widely even than that retains through his authoritative woiks of reference, a " right" to the thankful recollection of every let tered searcher after knowledge. Bearing all this iu mind, we do not hesitate to protest our selves very sanguine indeed as to the probable success, on Friday the 81,h instant, of his orphan child, THOMAS MATTHEW HAYDN, as an as pirant `.or admission to the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's Society. And feeling thus sanguine in his behalf, we commend his interests again and again to the favourable consideration of every one of those intelligent philanthropists whose benevo lent forethought may have provided them with the privilege of voting in their capacity as Governors of that most valuable and interesting institution. The report from Holland of Messrs. Rothecllild hav ing made a contract for 850,010/. in silver from the Bank of Amsterdam is denied. If any arrangement of the kind has been made it has not been by that firm. SINGULAR PHENOMENON IN SKYE.—A correspondent in Skye informs us of a singular phenomenon which to , k place on the farm of Monkstadt, i❑ the parish of Kilmuir, Skye, on the night of Wednesday last. No one, so far as we can learn, was a witness of the scene, but in the morning a rent was discovered to have been made in the earth about 400 yards long by about 160 broad. This strange circumstance is attributed to the effects either of au earthquake or of lightning.—lnverness Courier. The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rot terdam produce markets state that, although business was not active, prices on the average continue to be supported. The purchases of sugar and coffee bad slightly increased, and in some cases higher rates were obtained. There had been less activity in rice, and tea exhibited no important alteration. The letters from Rouen mention that the market for manufactures presented a more animated appearance, the attendance of buyers having increased. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday most of the bakers in the metropolis made a reduction of a halfpenny in the price of bread, and are looking for ward to making another reduction in a few days " Seconds" bread is now selling at 8 , 1. and Bd. the 41b loaf in the ponrer districts, and best" breadat 91. and 9d. The high priced bakers are selling their bread at 10d. and 10Ad. the 41b. loaf. The corn chandlers we selling fl.)ur at from 2s. 101. to 3s. 41. the stone of 141bs. A FORTUNATE PLURALIST. - -Lord Palmerston has presented the Rev. Gdhert Franklani Lewis, M.A., a near relative of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the Canonry Residentiary in Worcester Cathedra!, rendered vacant by the death of the Hon. and Rev. J. Somers Cocks, M.A. The rev, gentleman who has been fortunate enough to obtain this acce , sion to his ecclesiastical dignities is already a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, a rural dean, rector of Glade , try, Radnorshire, and rector of Mornington•on-the•Wye, near Hereford. IMPORTS OF COAL.—We learn from a report prepared by J. R. Sc,ttt, Esq., clerk and registrar of the Coal Market, Coal Exchange, that the total amount of coal imported seaborne during the month of July is 209,620 tons, by 727 ships; the total amount from Jan. 1 to July 31 heitie. 1,766,574 tons ; the same period last year being 1,674,822 tons ; showing an increase on the present year of 91,752 tons. The amount during the month of July this year of coals by railways is 89,722 tons ; the total amount of same from Jan. 1 to July 31 being 684,588 tons ; corresponding period last year 575,354 tens ; showing an increase on the present year of 109,234 tong. ASYLUM FOR FATHERLESS CHILDREN.—The cerena ny of laying the foundation—tone of a new Aey him for Fatherless Children at Stamferl-hill was performed yes terlay by the Lord Mayor, assisted by Mr. Mechi, the L r 1 Mayor elect, Mr. Sheriff Rose, Mr Alderman Wire, the Marquis of Townshend, and a large number of the corperatien. The proposed is situate at Stoat's-nest, in the neighbourhood of Croydon, on an estate purchased by the society. It is intended to ac eornmedete between 200 and 300 children, the present umber being LO. The total amount of the subscrip tions announced was 2,5001. THE MEMORIAL OF THE GItEAT EXHIBITION.—The money in the bands of Alderman Cnallis, amounting to about 5,6001., subscribed for the erection of a memorial of the Great Exhibition, is, we hear, about to be de voted to its original purpose. The committee intend to invite designs, or models, from sculptors, both English and foreign, and meanwhile Dr. Bm,th, of the Society of Arts, and Mr. George Godwin, have consented to ace. as honorary secretaries. Whether the memorial will be allowed by those in authority to stand, as it should, 03 the spot where the building it will commemorate stood, we are not inferrned. DEATHS FROM THE SWINGING OF GATES.—A little boy, two years and three months old, was looking in between the railway gete and the post on which it swung, at Thomas-street, Newport, an evening or two since, to see a railway train p,ss by. The gate was ewineing at the time, and, le - irrible to relate, the little fellow's head was lit - \II - id t 7 bet a- - the gate and the eterally squeeze. ,a pieces een gate, pest. He was killed on the spot.—Bristol Mercury. On Thursday evening ten "cr twelve children were swing. ing on the gate of Mr. Brown's timber-yard, Sperling. street. One of them, John Macintosh, aged three years, got his head crushed between the gate and the post against which it swung. Tee poor child was taken iii a car to the Sow hero Hospital, but life was extinct Liverpool Journal. GLAMORGAN COUNTY ELECTION--The address of Mr. H. Hussey Vivian, the liberal can , lidate fur the repre sentation of the above county, appears in the local papers. The hon. gentleman appeals to his votes during -the past four years as the best guarantee of kis political principles ; declares himself opposed to Church rates and all legislative distinctions on religious grounds; in favour of free trade, the ballot, and civil administrative reform. Mr. Vivian in conclusion says:—" I shall vote for a thoroneh reform of our military system, because I believe that the greater part of the disasters which befel our gaelant army in the late war may be traced to a servile adherence to effete routine, based upon appoint ' ments originating in interest and nepotism rather than merit." WOMAN KILLED BY A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Satur day a woman about 50 years of age, named Armstrong, who resides at Wombwell, near Barnsley, was killed by a coal train on the South Yorkshire Railway, near the Ald• ham Junction. The unfortunate creature was going over a crossing on the above line, when a coal train which was coming up passed over her, and severed her head entirely from her body and mutilated her dreadfully, scattering portions of her body in various directions. The engine driver saw her coming through the crossing gate, and sounded bis whistle, but it was of no avail, and he was so close upon her as to be unable to stop the train. Her remains were conveyed to Wombwell, to await the result of the coroner's inquiry. MARIE Lorrisu.—" Had much talk with Lady Burg hersh about Maria Louisa, whom she knows very well, and often passesd some time with her at her principality. Loved Napoleon at first, but his rebutant manner to her disgusted her at last. Treated her like a child. Her Regency a mere sham ; did not know what the papers were she had to sign. Never had either message or line from Napoleon after his first abdication, nor until hie return from Elba, when he wrote a short note, and without beginning " Madame " or "Chere," or any thing, he said he expected her and the child at Paris im mediately. Never bears from him from St. Helena. Keeps his picture secretly, and seems to be proud of the child's likeness to him. She is very romantic."—Me moire of Thomas Moore. REFRACTORY SBAMEL+I.—On Monday last, seven sailors from the brig Emma, from Newcastle to Marseilles, were brought before the magistrates, charged with re fusing to do their duty. The sailors alleged that the mate had ill-used and threatened them, which induced their refusal. Sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment with hard labour. Another seaman was also charged with the like offence, from the ship Heylylien, and was dis charged from custody. On the same day 13 other sea rnee, belonging to another ship bound to Calcutta, were charged with the same offence. The defence set up was the unwholesomeness of the provisions, which, on exa mination, were found unfit for consumption, and the sailors were in consequence discharged. The frequent occurrence of eases of this kind operates prejudicially to this borough ; . the cost of punishment being wholly borne by the parish of Deal, amounting in some years to more than one-half of the gaol expenditure.—Canterbury Journal. FATAL FALL FROM A CLIFF NEAR WHITEHAVEN.—A terrible accident took place at Sand with Quarry, near Whitehaven, occupied by Mr. John Thompson, on Fri day week. James Thompson, a labourer in the employ of the occupier of the ciaarry, had descended the cliff. for the purpose of bringing some chickens which had gone too far down, and were unable to reach the top again. To accomplish this it was necessary for him to make fast round his body a rope, one end of which his master held above. Before descending, however, he tried his weight upon the rope, standing for that pur pose on the brink of a precipice, when the rope tighteneo, gave way, and the unfortunate man was precipitated to the bottom, a fall of nearly 70 feet. His head came in contact with a stone, which laid open the forehead, caus ing ins.antaneous death.— Whiteh,aven Herald FALL FROM A PRECIPICE —A dreadful accident, re sulting in the death of Mr. Price Hunt, a Scripture reader at St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, has just occurred near the Penrhyn Sate Quarries. The de ceased and a friend were on a brief tour ‘n North Wales, and had ascended Carnedd Dafyd, a high precipitous ( mountain near the Pesirhyn Quarries. When a short distance from the summit in descending, the deceased, who led the way, chose a narrow unfrequented path. His companion, who declined to follow, missed him. An alarm having been given, Mr. J. Francis, of the Penrhyn Qiarry, ordered upwards of 50 quarrymen to the search. The body of the unfortunate man was then discovered lying at the bottom of a frightful precipice, nearly 90 yards in depth, his cap hanging on a projecting ledge. The body, which showed a wound at the back of the head, and the ribs of which were bent inward, was ex tricated with much difficulty, and taken to Bethesda, whence it has been conveyed by rail to Birmingham. Deceased has left a wife and child. JOHN FROST, THE CHARTIST.—Mr. John Frost is about to become a political lecturer. This released exile says : "Tne plan which I mean to pursue is this—l mean to become a lecturer. I want to talk to my countrymen on matters of great importance. As my private fortune is too small to enable me to travel over England, I shall adopt the plan of Koesuth and other friends of freedom, charge for admittance to my lectures. I shall be better pleased with this mode than any other ; it is that sort of independent life which one can approve of—l have something to sell, I cannot afford to give ; those who like may buy, and those who do net like may keep their money. Besides I think that political lectures may be of great use to our country and our cause. There are plenty of places in our country where the darkness of - Egypt prevails as to political affairs. This plan has become very general in America, and the results, in ever point of view, are highly beneficial." VICISSITUDES OF A CHARTIST LEADER'S FAMILY.—Dr. P. M. M'Dowell, one of the Cta7tist leaders, was in 1839 sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in Chester' Castle, and while there he fell in love with the gaoler's (laughter. On his liberation he and sbe proceeded to Glasgow, and were married according .o the law of Scotland. They then journeyed about from place to place, spending two years in France ; and after a life of vicissitude in this country he proceeded to Australia in 1854, where he died shortly after his arrival, leayitl a widow and four children in a destitute condition. With the assistance of some charitable persons they returned to England, and became chargeable to the parish of Everton, Liverpool, by the overseers of which they were removed to Tottenham, near Bury, on the ground that, through her husband, she had obtained a settle ment upon that parish. Against this removal the ?vel• seers of Tottington appealed. The appeal was sustained, and the orighael order quashed. PUBLIC HEALTH, ACT.- -It appears frog). a return I issued yesterday th-it between the 18th of April and the 13th of June the Public Health Act of 1848 was applied to seven towns. The same return also states that dur ing the last three years 180 applications have been made to the General Board of Health for permission to mort gage the rates, and that between the lst, of January, 1854, and 30th June, 1856, the sum of 1,374,771 1 . 6s. Bd. was raised on the mortgage of rates fit the purpose of carrying out permanenl . Corks. INTENSE HEAT OF THE WEATHER, AT LIVERPOOL. —St. John's Nta,ket, from eleven to twelve o'clock on Sunday night, became unusually excited frum the effect of excessive heat on the n•arketable commodities exposed for sale. That butchers, poulterers, pr )vision dealers, &c.. might dispose of their perishable stock, the market authorities Allowed the gates to remain open until midnight, being one hour later than usual. Meat wa, selling at any price that purchasers would offer. But was all but in a liquid state ; bacon and ham had the appearance of being half boiled ; and cherries, straw berri,s, and other ripe fruit, were runnirg to decay. At the north extremity of the market, about the footwalks, fowls were offered three for a shilli The confused and questionable perfume, with the doub'ful quality of the remaining stock in general, did not induce many purchasers ; consequsntly great loss will he sustained by vendors. The thermometer, at the Liverpool Ex chang", registered 125 deg. in the sun, and 86 deg. in the shade, at ten o'clock on Sunday morning. WELCOME TO THE SOLDIERS FROM THE CRIMEA.—A meeting called by requisition to the Lord Provost was held on Friday at noon within the C until Chambers, to consider what steps could be adopted for giving a wel come to the sth Dragoon Guards and the 721 Highland ers, who are to he garrisoned in Edinburgh on their return from the Crimea—the former regiment having arrived, and the latter being expected in a few days. At the request of the Lord Provost, Mr. Sinclair looked over the city records of 1815.16 to see if any demonstra tion had taken place on the return of the soldiers from the French war, but no entry was found on the subject. Sir W. John-t , n expressed his hope (which seemed to meet the approbation of the meeting) that the reclotion, whether of the nature of a banquet or other vise, should not be limited to the officers and non commissioned offi cers, but should include every soldier of them who had been engaged in the war, as to the private soldier, the country was equally indebted for the devotion of his life to her service as to the officer of highest rank. A large and influential committee were named, and re quested to report to a future meeting.—Edinburgh. Cow rant. THE NEW POSTAL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA.—The new postal service lsy steern to our Australian colonies commenced in October last, and every arrangement is being ma.de hy mi.-, eitectors of the European and Aus tralian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company (who have contracted for the conveyance of the mails) for the due performance of the contract. One of the most es sential requisites for the success of such an undertaking is good and efficient management, and that the company have endeavoured to secure that desirable object, as far as the colonie ,, are concerned, may be gathered from the fact that they have a'ready appointed as their agents at Melbourne Messrs. Mackay, Baines, and Co. The large experience possessed by this firm, and the admirable tact they have always displayed in connexion with the "Black Ball" line of Liverpool and Australian packets., cannot tail to prove of the greatest possible gain, not only t o the company, but also to the colonies generally. We feel certain that this aepeintment (which we may state will be carried out by the Black Ball liner, "Ocean Chief," which sails to-day) will be hailed with satisfac ba by the inhabitants of Australia. as it is by the corn- Imercial public of this country.— Willmer and Smith's European, Times. LORD PALMERSTON AT MANCHESTER.—The very ca pacious, substantial, and excellently-adapted new build ing erected, and just completed, for the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, is to be opened on Tuesday, the 9th proximo, with an exhibition, including statuary, pictures, various fine.art manufactures, and a large col lection of machinery in motion. The Manchester Me chanics' Institution was the first to establish exhibitions of industry and art, all of which have been highly sue cessful. It is expected that the eclat of the opening on this occasion will be greatly increased from the fact that Lord Palmerston bas promised to attend and deliver the inaugural address. Several other popu lar members of the Legis!a,ture and literary men are al4o expected. It is intended also to hold an even ing meeting in connexion with the inauguration, at which Lard Palmerston has promised to he present. Only season ticket holders are to be admitted to the inaugural ceremony and to the evening meeting. The exhibition will remain open six months, and the charges for admission will be such as to permit the visits of all classes of the dense industrial population of the district. The exhibition is in aid of the building fund, the new buil ling baing certainly the largest of the kind that has yet been erected in the kingdom. During his stay in Ma t chester Lord Palmerston, who now vi its it for the firs, time, will be the guest of Sir Benjamin .11,ey wood, Bart., at Claremont. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL• WAY.—The working expenses awl other outgoings of this company's rail ways (exclu , ive of the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrinchatn, stated below) have amounted in the fortnight ending July 27, to 8,8831. 14s. 3d.; whilst the corresponding period of 1855 amounted to 9,4441. 16s. 7d. The total amount already stated for the first fortnight of the-half-year added to the amount of 8,883/. 14s. 3d. above stated makes a total expanded to July 27 of 17,4741. Bs. 10. i. as against 18,9271. 53. 63. for the corresponding two fortnights of the previous year. The proportion of the South Junction, &c., re ceipts accruing to the company for the fortnight ending July 27 amounts to 876/. lls. 2d. as against 8891. 10. for the same period of 1855. The total amount, as pre viously stated, for the first fortnight of the half-year added to the amount of 8761. 11d. 2d., above stated, makes a total to July 27, of 1,6851. 12s. 103., as against 1,8001.125. 83. for the same period of 1855. The pro portion of the South Junction, &c , working expenses, and other outgoings, amounted, in th- fortnight endit g July 27, to 4001. 184. 5d.; whilst the corresponding period of 1855 amounted to 3901 9s. 2d. The total amount already stated for the first fortnight of the halt year added to the amount of 4001. 18.. 5d., as above, makes a total expended to July 27 of 7991 15s. 11d., as against 7401. 3s. id. for the corresponding two fort nights of the previous year. JURISDICTION OF COUNTY COURTS.—Mr. Seddall, wine and spirit mercha-t, of Liverpool, brought an ac tion on Tuesday, in the county court, against Nir Bowdler, publican, of Shrewsbury, for 141., the value of a quarter cask of brandy which he had sold to the de fendant. The brandy was still lying at the Albert Dock Warehouses, and the defendant had refused to pay for it until the dock warrant was handed to him. The plaintiff, on the other hand, refused to give up the dock warrant on the ground that it was his only guarantee for payment. Since the removal of the brandy to the Albert Dock, Mr. Seddall had sent in an invoice, upon which was a memorandum to the effect that no dock warrant was required, as the goods were in the Albert Dock Warehouses and not in an ordinary dock. It being elicited that the brandy was ordered at the de fendant's house in Shrew,-bury, the solicitor for the de• fence maintained that the case was beyond the jurisdic tion of the Liverpool court. The plaintiffs clerk said hat surely the plaintiff should have received notice of this bef .re. His Honour referred to the papers in the case, and found that the plaintiff had made an affidavit that it was a claim for goods scld and delivered within the jurisdiction of the court. His Honour pointed out that this was entirely a false affidavit, but it was an error to which many suitors were liable. The plaintiff must be nonsuited, and could bring his action either in the Shrewsbury court or in any of the superior courts of Westminster. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE AT BARNSLEY.—A large open air meeting of the colliers of this district and the inhabitants of Barnsley was held on Mayday-green on Monday night, for the purpose of considering the d s puta between the workmen employed in the Oaks Col liery and the proprietors, The meeting was numerously attended. On the motion of Mr. J. Senior, Mr. J. Barlow took the chair. Mr. G. Thompson proposed the first resolution. He contended that but for a providen tial interposition the explosion in the pit on the 2d of July would have penetra'ed into the old workings and sacric fled the lives ( f 300 men, and blames the ,vern ment inspector for delaying his visit to the pit until the prop tetors had time to put it in a pruper state. He comet ided by moving a resolution to that effect. The mod° ► was then seconded by Mr. Senior, and carried. The f Mowing resolution was also agreed to :--That this meeting cannot allow the present opportunity to p ,ss without expressing its strong disapproval of ho3e rules recently issued by the proprietors of the Oaks Colliery which relate to the number of hours the men are required to work in the pit ; that the compelling of the miners to work 12 hours per day in the pit is calculated to deprive them of that relaxa tion so necessary to those whose work is so laborious and exhausting, and the moral disadvantages of which cannot be c ma pensa,ted by any benefit they may receive.' DEATH OF A CRIMEAN SOLDIER .—The Yorkshire papers record the sudden death of Serjeant Wallis, a na tive of Barnsley or the neighbourhood, under somewhat painful circumstances. Serieant Wallis, who was in the `2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, was in the whole of the. Crimean campaign, and he arrived at Aldershot on Friday week in the enjoyment of good health. On arriving at the camp he leek off his knapsack and coat, and said, "Thank God ! I have arrived safely in Old England again ; I'll now have a good rest." As soon as he had tittered these words he fell down and died instantly upon his knapsack. He was born in 1818, and was 20 years of age when he entered the service. On the breaking out of the late war his regiment was early under orders for the Crimea, and there be had many hair breadth escapes. At the battle of the Alma, although in its midst he saw his comrades fall thickly around him, he escaped uninjured. He was hotly en gaged in the battle of Inkerman, which he describes as one of tho b'nediest battles on record, and where, after fi r i n g away all their ammunition, they had to knock out the brains of the enemy with the butt-end of the 'r rifles and run them through with their bayonets. He per formed trench work for eleven months, during which time be suffered severely, in common with the other troops, from exposure, to the atmosphere during cold nighte, and from want of food, covering, and other ne cessaries. While on duty one night, a shell from the enemy came over into the trench and fell at his side, ex ploded, and smashed the stock of his rifle and cut he scab bard of his bayonet in two • but he miraculously escaped injury, with the exception of a scratch on the back of his ear. In the assault upon the Redau, along with some others of his regiment, he was in a very dangerous position, be ing engaged in carrying scaling ladders and wool bags for the assault, during which time he was exposed to showers of grape and qanister, of his comrades, - , sowed down large numbers LORD DRUMLANRIG. We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the reported death of Lord Drumlanrig, at his house in Wilton-crescent. His lordship left by the mail train last night for Glen Stewart, Dumfriesshire, iu perfect health. HER MAJESTY'S THANKS TO THE CRIMEAN ARMY. GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, sth August, 1856. The Queen, having completed the review of the regiments which served in the Army in the East, has commanded his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief to welcome their return from that arduous service. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to ex press her admiration of their good order and disci- pline. Victorious when opposed to the brave and enter prising enemy with whom it had to contend, the army has earned the gratitude of the country. The patient endurance of evils inseparable from war, and an instinctive determination to overcome thbm, are characteristic of the British soldier ; and the events of the war have proved that those na tional virtues have not degenerated during a long previous peace. Lie Queen deplores the loss of many of her best officers and bravest men ; but history will conse crate the ground before Sebastopol as the grave of heroes. By order of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHERAIL, Adjutant-General. WARKWORTH DOCK COMPANY.—A petition has been presented to wind up this comtnnv. The harvest, says the Kentish Gacdte, has been com menced between this city and Whitstable. The wheat that has been cut promises an abundant yield, and is in exc3llerit condition. IRISH GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY.—This most im portant company has decided upon paying a divide d at the rate of six per cent. por annum, less income-tax. The matter was arrangedon Friday. The dollars and bar silver brought by the last West India steamer have been sold respectively at 61d. and 610. per nz This is an advance of 21. on dollars and id. on bar silver compared with the prices obtained for the a-rivals of last month. THE MALT TRADE.—We have authority to state that the quantity of malt in the stock [of the several traders on the sth ult. was—in England, 1,518,664 qrs.; and in Scotland and Ireland 102,000 qrs., on which the duty to be repaid is 836 9501., under the provisions of the act 19th and 20th of Victoria, c. 34. Tuisiii MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—This company has been in the habit of paying at the rate of five per cent., free of income-tax. It is expected that at least one-holf per cent, more will be available for the next dividend, in consequence of the increase in the traffic. DMATH FROM A SUN STROKE - On Saturday afternoon a man named Joseph Holland, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Barlow, a timer at ALlewood, Stockport, was killed by a sun stroke while bay making. He was seen to stagger and fall, and be was immediately picked up, but he died a few minutes afterwards. The Portuguese Minister of Finances has notified to Mr. Thornton, the chairman of the Portuguese Bond holders, that the agreement proposed for the arrange ment of the debt has been approved in both Houses of the C rtes. Mr. Thornton has accordingly put forth a recommendation that such holders as have not convert ed their bonds should now do so. EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAY.—Certain shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway are getting up a requi• sition to Mr. William Malins, the chairman of the Rail. way Reform Association, inviting him to allow himself to be put in nomination for a seat at the board of direc tion, at the half-yearly general meeting, which will take place on tbo 29th inst. THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT SHEERNESS.—SHEERNESS, Aug. 4.—To day Mr. Emmanuel Roberts, the father of the deceased Richard T. Roberts, with Mrs. Roberts, mother of deceased, arrived bere from London and iden tified the clothes, hat, &c., of their unfortunate son. They speak in the highest terms of the sober habits and perfect sanity of their son. SUICILE AT WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—The inquest on the body of Miss Emma Snell, who lately drowned herself in the sea at W a lton•on-the•Naze, E s s ex , was held on Thursday evening at the Porto Bello Inn. Alter a long consultation the jury returned a verdict of felo de se, and the unfortunate creature was interred accord ingly before nightfall without funeral rites. Miss Sneil is raid to have been a governess of considerable talent. REPRESENTAVION OF MALDON. —No fewer than five gentlemen have already announced their intention of conteAing this borough at the next general election, namely—Mr. Peacock and Mr. Bromley Moore, the present members (both Conservatives) ; Mr.. Thomas Sutton Western, of Kelvedou ; Mr. J. J. Mechi, of Tiptree-ball ; avd Mr. M'Enteer, the barrister, all Liberals. _ BOROUGH OF THH TOWER 11131 LETS.—Mr. Child, the Returning Officer for this borough, has appointed, as Electio❑ Auditor, John George Hammack, Rig , one of the magistrates of the county. THE LEGION OF HONOUR.—In the list published by the Moniteur of officers of the British army decorated with the Legion cf Honour by the Emperor of the French for their gallant services in the Crimea, the fol lowing holding commissions in the Ist and 2d battalions of the Rifle Brigade, were in error described as belong ing to the 97th Regiment :-Ist Battalion, Lieutenant- Colonel Edward Arthur Soinersvt, Major the Hon. Henry Clifford, Lieutenant John Brett, Tergeat.t T►mo thy Murphy, and Francis Wheatley ; 2d Battalion, Lieu tenant-Colonel Alex. Macdonell, Major Wm. Augustus Myers, Captain Edward Wm. Blackett, Lieut. John Simpson lino; and Sergeant Johu Amixaws. LATEST' NE WS. VIENNA, Auct. 5. Advices from Constantinople, dated the 3d inst., announce that the Russian Ambassador was expected on the following day. Mehemed Kep risla Pacha is to set off very shortly for St Petersburg and Moscow. The quarantine has been re-established in all the Russian ports. Tha Anglo-Polish Legion has been disbanded. The Turkish provinces are tranquil. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. contain nothing of interest, all their important contents havin g been anticipated by the letter of that date which reached us yesterday by express. The journals of the Ist have also reached us by express. Royal decrees, in the Gazette, re move Don Jose MArchessi from the governorship of Navarre, appoint Don Jose Palavia to the same post, and accept the resignation of the governors of the provinces of Alicante, Almeria, Logrono, and Badajoz. The Gazette announces in these terms the negotiations entered into with the insur gents of Saragossa :—" The rebel Junta of Sara gossa has made propositions of submission, and negotiations were carried on during the whole of the 31st." The Gazette then publishes a despatch announcing the entrance of General Dulce into Saragossa. General Orosco, second commander iu Granada, had been robbed and ill-treated by a band of highwaymen on his road to Andalusia ; and the Duke de Villahermosa had also been robbed on the highway on his road to France. The Epoca says that General Gurrea, after vainly trying to induce the populations of Haro and L9grono to rise, had gone to Alzola, a watering place. According to the same journal the band of 14 insurgents who fled to the mountains of Biscay had, finding that no one joined them, made their submission, and the band of General Raiz, which had taken to the mountains of Catalonia, had disappeared. The Epoca says : " Toe f..md question is one of the gravest of the morneot. For some time pci,it the municipality of Mad rid, in order t , ,) prevent the rise of half a real in the price of brew], has paid every day from 20,000 to 30,000 reels from the municipal treasury ; but it cannot con tinue this i-acriace muoh longer. Tn some towns of the. province of Madrid, the difficulties are greater than in the capital. At Vilcavaro to-day there was no bread at all, and the Madrid authorities were consequently obliged to rend t4e secretary of the civil governor to the to make arrangements for procuring a supply." The soldiers who had completed their period of service were about to be definitively discharged. The Queen had approved of the programme of the ceremonial to be observed on the marriage of the Infanta Dona Awalia with Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. A letter from Madrid states that Marshal 0' Donnell has sent a circular to the captains-general and military commandants, ordering them to trans mit to him before the 15th inst. a detailed report of the political situation of the provinces under their command. Each report is also to contain propositions in favour of such officers and solaiers as have distinguished themselves in the late out break in defence of order and of the constitutional throne. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The Emperor will return to St. Cloud on the 9th. His Majesty does not intend leaving the capital before the 15th, but there will not be any official reception on that day. His Majesty wilt visit Luneville before his return to Paris, and is. expected there on the Bth. The town and mili tary division are preparing a brilliant reception.. There will be grand military manceuvres, and at night splendid illuminations. The Emperor will visit Epinal, it is said, on the 6th. The trial of the reaping -machines, seen at the Ag icultural Exhibition o Paris, came off on Sa turday last, at La Planchette, near Villiers, com mune of Neuilly (Seine), in a field belonging to the Count de Beranger. The machines of Messrs. Bella, Dray, and Laurent were the only ones that per formed their task. The jury unanimously gave the following decision :—No first prize ; two second prizes of 100 f. and a silver medal, one to M. Bella and another to M. Laurent, ex cequo ; third prize, 300 f. and a bronze medal to Mr. Wm. Dray ; ne fourth prize. BOURSE, Aug. s.—The following were the latest. quotations : _ Cash. fr. a. End of Month. 4i per Cents 94 10 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 7O 40 70 55 New Loan 7O 50 Bank Shares 4,075 BAUM/ Cr6dit Mobilier 1,600 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. 99f Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) . 9l Home Debt RAILWAYS—YOB CASH. Orleans 1,402 50 Western fr. a 962 50 Northern Lyons... .......... . ... 1,430 New Ditto Mediterranean. ..... 1,840 Grand Central Lyons Genova BlO Testa uette BO5 Austrian Com. ...... 871. 25 —,, ~..... RUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia has, on the report of the. Minister of Finance, expressed his gratitude to the• Russo-American Company for the excellent mea rues adopted by it to insure the provisioning o the Russian colonies during the late war, and to - prevent the stagnation of commerce during that; trying period. A letter from Stockholm, in the Boersenhalle. of Hamburg, says :—" According to letters from Fin land, Russia is adopting different measures, which would seem to imply an intention of forming a , large fortified naval establishment in the island of Kasko, the northward of Christiansand and Sunds wall. This island will be a very desirable place for such a purpose, as the water there is very deep, and the navigation of the port is open much longer than the others of the Gulf of Bothnia." A letter from Posen, in the Silesia Gazette , says —" The fortifications of this place, on which men have been employed since 1829, are now terminated as far as regards the immediate enclosure of the city and the faubourgs. It wll require at least 10 years more to ccmplete the works as it is proposed they shall be." A letter from Dantzic of the Ist, in the Inde pendence of Brussels, says :—" The affair of the Companions of Dantzie has just been arranged. to general satisfaction. A commission, ap pointed for that purpose, has proposed to re move the management of all the Caisses de Secours from the hands of one employe, which plan was the cause of the dispute, and to con fide to the different trades the management of their respective funds, on condition that the com munal administration of the city shall not be obliged to render the members any pecuniary as sistance. Guarantees to that effect will be re quired. This proposition has received the assent of the principal authorities." A letter from Rome, in the Correspondance , Italienne, of Turin, says that the address of the municipality of Bologna to the Papal Government on the subject of the Austrian occupation, is being secretly circulated in Rome, notwithstanding the efforts of the Government to keep it secret. The same letter mentions a duel between two French officers, one of whom was killed, but it gives no particulars. A letter from Scutari of the 20th ulte, in the A gram Gazette, says :—" The Kuciens have not been made to submit by the expedition of the Mon tenegrins, but only punished. Their territory was devastated, 300 old men, women, and children massacred, but the virile and armed population had withdrawn into the mountains. The Monte negrins have withdrawn without leaving.any gar risons, or taking real possession of the country. The French consul had done all in his power. to. deter Prince Danilo from undertaking this expe dition, and the latter had given counter-orders, which arrived too late." AUSTRIAN NAVY.—The Pays says :—" Austria is at present making very serious efforts to increase her navy* The first line-of-battle ship (90 guns) which she ever thought of possessing was put on the stocks at Pola a few days back, under the name of the Emperor, and H to have a screw propeller, with an 800. horse power. Two other ships of the line of the same dimensions are likewise to be immediately commenced, and according to orders sent from Vienna are to be urged on as rapid l 9 as possible. Independently of these first rate vessels, two screw-frigates, the Adria and the Danube, are being terminated in the yards of Moggia, as well as a screw' corvette at Venice, which has received the name of the Vice-Admiral Dandolo, in honour of the admiral of dot name who died lately. At the same time the armament of a screw-despatch boat, the Prince Eugene, of Savoy, is so nearly completed that she will be ready for sea iu the beginning of August. To complete these measure! Austria is shout to found two maritime arsenals, one at Fiume, and the other at Lussin. Since the war in the East all the nations of Europe perceive clearly that a naval force is indispensable to-enable them to POW" their rack and power in the world," 88i 87 # 44 39A