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

Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Times.) Another wrinkle on the face of old Europe. After mutations and combinations as many as in a kaleidoscope, Spain has taken one more step to pure absolutism. She has gone ba'ek with a re bound, and in a day finds herseri little else than the inheritance of Isabella wad the dowry of Chris tina.e. The junction of the. two Queens was omi nous, and O'Donnell must have felt the reins day by day slipping from hi.s hands. As it was easy to see, he was only a pro visional arrangeme n t, a posi tion tolerable to those, whose aims are neither dis tant nor high, and who are content with one har vest if they are not allowed two. Narvaez has now stepped into the place prepared for him. Spain has returned to him again and again, one cannot say how often without being sensible of lost time in coming round and round t o th e same man a t l ast. To say that he is precisely the man for Spain would be -too much praise, not only to him, but to Spain herself; for it would argue some unity and con sistency in that country. But, no doubt, he is the man for the present mood and the existing situa tion ; and pet:haps nobody else would represent Spain nearly e 0 long and so fully. Taught by ex perience, We are happily not engaged for or against any Minister that may happen to carry the day at Madrid. If the Spanish are satisfied, so are we. We fear it is not quite so with our Imperial neigh bour. He has invested his affections—some say even more—id O'Donnell, and the investment is a failure. The British public is altogether blunted and reckless about Spain. Owing to soma unfortu nate incidents in our history, we had not much affection for the people till about 50 years ago, though we admired their pride and overrated their power. They now scarcely occupy any me asurable space in our minds. We know something of the Spain of 400 years ago, but nothing of Spain present ; we read stories of the Cid ; we model the Moorish palaces ; we amuse ourselves with "Don Quixote ;" thanks to Mr. Ford, we have now taken up the Gipsies of Spain, and we read with just pride the exploits of our armies in that peninsula ; but the people them selves have worn out our interest. There is so great an interval of character between them and us that sympathy only exerts itself to be baffled in the end. It may be said of them, as of many indivi duals, that they seem born to excite hope and then to disappoint it • but even this must now be said in the past tense, for we can hope no more of The " antecedents" of the new Ministry con trast oddly with those of a British Cabinet. The difference may not be wholly and absolutely in our favour—indeed, it certainly is not—but there is on the Spanish side an utter want of some elements that we here deem essential to stability. A British Cabinet must contain men known as the authors of -useful and successful laws ; th o we ll tr i e d chiefs of party, or holders of a definite policy ; men of terri torial consequence, the heads of great and still powerful families. In order to be strong it must be made of strong materials ; and the strength must be something more than that of personal character, or ability, or eloquence. Of the Duke of Valencia's eight colleagues four are lawyers and four soldiers, the former being men who have really made their fortunes at the bar, and the latter in the civil wars of their own country. In our pre sent Cabinet there is one soldier who has never seen a gun fired, except at a review, and who early gave up his profession for civilians work ; a law yer who, after a most unpolitical and unobtrusive career, is now at the head of his profession ; and one more lawyer, also remarkable for avoiding politics when he, can. All the rest are simply noble men and gentlemen of fortune. Of the legal moiety of the Spaniskcabinet one is described as an ardent partisan of .1144.,Claristina and an avowed hater of Lord Palmerston,,,-.He was Made a Marquis, we are told, for his support to the " Spanish mar riages." Of the four soldiers, the first. was once a general officer in the Carlist army, and deserted; he was implicated in the O'Donnell plot in 1841, mad shortly afterwards was more successfully en gaged in getting up the insurrection that over threw Espartero. The second is to be a- gallant soldier, and nothing more ; but, among other in cidents, he assisted in preparing a coup d'etat, and was implicated in an insurrection, the object of which was to carry off the Queen to France or the Basque provinces. In this country nine such men would hardly carry the day at a meeting of county magistrates, or in the vestry of a metropolitan parish. In Parliament they might just gain the ear of the house for any measure on which they might choose to concentrate their strength, but they would scarcely venture on a divisions It must be said, however, that even in Spain these men are not snpposed to make a strong Cabinet. They are to serve their purpose, and at the proper mo ment Narvaez is to make way for a still purer Ab solutist. As for O'Donnell, it is suggested that be may have foreseen his fate and made terms. For the quiet surrender of a Government once the proudest in Europe he may possibly find some com pensation in the mysterious riches of Cuba. We have compared the new Cabinet with our own, or any that would be possible in this coun try. But there is probably not one country in Europe where such a Cabinet would stand for a day.' There is not one where the Sovereign is so absolute, and at the same time so wanton in his - absohatism, as to govern by means of men with so 'alighta stake and standing. For aught we know these nine men may be personally as powerful as any other nine in Spain ; but it must only be in the same sense that the individuals composing the Cabinet of the United States might be powerful— viz., for their - reputation and talents as success ' ful soldiers or lawyers, or simply as the repre sentatives of certain strong opinions. So far a Spanish Cabinet might find a parallel in an American. How such a thing is possible:in Spain is an interesting problem not very difficult of Solution. With a diffused, poverty-struck, and degenerate aristocracy, with an impoverished clergy, with little trade, with a backward agriculture, and all its natural resources more or less neglected, Spain has no powerful class, no basis for the public institutions, no natural stay against the violence of factions, the tyranny of the Crown, or the ascen dancy of, anybody who may usurp the helm of affairs. In this country the men to govern us must command the respect of numerous classes of noblemen, country gentlemen, and wealthy mer chants, as well as soldiers and la syers, who are the mere hands and tongues of society. The Mini ster here represents not only an opinion or a party ; he-directly represents a vast solid embodi mont of men, traditions; property, and power, be sides the acquiescence and respect of the reit, Who may not agree with him, hut accept him in the spirit of generosity and fair play. But the most powerful statesman that ever governed this coun try never omitted to associate with himself the strongest men that agreement or toleration placed at his disposal. Whatever the natural genius of a politician or the merits of his cause, even if he have the talent of the house on his side, still he must also have colleagues that represent the great inte rests of the country, otherwise he must take his place in the common rank of senators. Whether this is right, and whether we are likely to improve very rapidly when the very motive power of the State machine is so heavily encumbered, is another question. The fact is as we describe. It is evi dently otherwise in Spain. There it is sufficient, at least for the turn, that the Minister should be • a bold, skilful, and unscrupelous soldier, a man for a coup d'etat, an insurrection, a Royal abduction, or some such achievement, and that his colleagues should be either of the same sort or popular law yers equally ready for a bold game. That may the present purpose, but it affords no secu rity, either in Spain or anywhere else, against insurgents or conspirators, or any of the enemies that a weak Government is sure to provoke. (From the darning Advertiser.) In what we yesterday said respecting th e con •'.templated alliance between this country and Aus tria more was meant than met the eye. We.didnot say all we knew, nor will we now, because, though we speak advise dl y when we sa y that the, idea has been entertained in quarters in which we lhould have supposed it w ould have been scouted t nune—we cannot, and will not, believe that Lord . .Palmerston could bring himse l f to listen seriousl y to' any such proposition. Diplomatic ingenuity could not hit upon an idea more calculated to stir the sou l s of Englishmen to their lowest depths. If it were believed that an alliance between this country and the H f ouse of Hapsburg were aprobable contingency, a evoked in die eeling of indignation would be away, as chaff national bosom, which would sweep that could be a consenting before the wind, any Government Much as the No is g party to such a scheme. their hatred of people of England hate Russia, prebend Russia. greater still. We com prehend herself is hardly at one mistakes her character. a bold, authcions, haughty to conceal it. She is altyorPt3wer' versal 'dominion, and aiming at trill she gether unscrupulous as to , the " : reeans by which she can achieve out her views, perfidious provided only ell , But Austria is a despicable, hollow an _ Power, with the impress of cunning, selfishness a a rwh biy iwpressed on her visage. selfishness, and treachery I e i 4 c i l; what we . she bears is traditional. It h as since the days of our have described it ,J649ablio? ga d 0 r ei t r l i i s o y l; d ! h w a k h s e p n e r il e e h amaire r fsQr 7 ib u ly K a i n n t g l makes one of his rii.E Stll-4 LO interlocutors in the play in question thus speak of the Austria of the period referred to : " 0 Austria! Thou dost shame That bloodyspoil: Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward, Thou tittle valiant, great in villany ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou fortune's champion, that does never fight But when her humourous ladyship is by To teach thee safety ! Thou are perjured, too, And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool thou art— A ramping fool; to brag, and stamp, and swear, Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave, Haat thou not spoke like thunder on my side ? Been sworn my soldier? Bidding me depend Upon the stars, thy fortune, and thy strength ? And dost thou now fall over to my foes ? Thou wear a lion's hide ! Doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs." Any man describing the Austria of 1856 could not do it more truthfully than it was done more than two centuries ago, by the greatest of earthly poets, when he thus held up to the scorn and in dignation of the world the Austria of the four teenth century. And yet it has been—we say again, we speak advisedly,---seriously proposed that a " close alli ance" should be formed between that country and ours. The Governments of the two countries might possibly have some sort of alliance together for a brief period, but the nations never. Austrian and English principles are at irreconcileablo vari ance. They are as opposed as light is to darkness. There never can be any concord between them. It were well that this fact should be dinned into Ger man ears about our own Court, as well as at the Court of Vienna. We need not say that the unna tural notion is of German, not of English, origin. The great danger to be apprehended is, lest Lord Palmerston should, in any measure, yield to the Coburg pressure to which, in this case, as in so many others, he is subjected. And yet we can hardly think he will. Burnt children, we are told, dread the fire. Lord Palmerston, of all men in the world, ought to be on his guard against the wiles and perfidies of Austria, on the principle that— "He best can paint them who has felt them most." The Noble Lord's experience of Austria ought not to be lost upon him. He knows that for years, when in the Foreign Office, he was regarded with an implacable hatred by the Court of Vienna, and that all the schemes which Austrianingenuity could suggest were resorted to, with the view of eject ing him from office, and destroying him for ever as a publio man. He knows, moreover—and the world also knows—that, aided and abetted by Ger manism at the Court of St. James, he eventually became the victim of Austrian intrigues. Nor can the Noble Lord be ignorant of the fact that what ' he is now, ho is in virtue of the power of public opinion—of that popularity which he has with the people—in defiance equally of Hapsburg and Co burg hostility. The very idea, therefore, of an Austrian alliance under the auspices of Lord Pal merston seems so utter an impossibility, even in idea, that did not our information come to us from source) which leave no doubt whatever as to the fact of the notion being entertained we could not for a moment give the slightest credence to it. It is not in England alone that the idea of an alliance between this country and Austria would evoke emotions of the most intense concern. It would inspire alarm and indignation throughout the whole of the Continent. It would be regarded as sounding, at least for a season, the death-knell of hope in the bosoms of oppressed nationalities. It would be treason on the part of this country to Sardinia. It would be to the sovereign and people of Piedmont an act of treachery of the grossest kind,—one to which there would be few parallels in tho page of history. With the sacrifice of Sar dinia to the " perjured House of Hapsburg " there would be the consigning over to the tender mercies of Francis Joseph, Ferdinand of Naples, and the Pontifical tyrant at Rome, all the patriots of Italy, and with them the Italian cause, so dear to the heart of every friend of freedom throughout the world. But we repeat, the thing cannot be. No matter what Governments may do, or mean to do,—their will is not law. There is a power immeasurably above them. There is the power of the people. The latter power is omnipotent. The King of Sardinia and his subjects may rely with confidence on the people of Eugland. They will not desert the cause of Piedmont and of Italy. They will be true to their implied, if not expressed, engagements to Victor Emmanuel and his Government. And any Minister, be he who he may, wbo will lend himself to any scheme whose tendency is to betray the cause of Sardinia,—which is synonymous with the cause of Italy,—will be unceremoniously hurled from his high eminence by the breath of public indignation. HILUTIE 01? LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Front the Report of the Registrar• General.) The return for the week that ended on Saturday exhi bits a low rate of mortality. The deaths, which in the previous six weeks have been on an average 1085, de clined last week to 939. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1846 55 the average number was 1103, and if this is raised by a tenth part for increase populatirn it becomes 1203, compared with which the present return shows a reduction cf 164. Ot the total number 484 were deaths of males, 455 those of females. Deaths from the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases, which in the previous week were 256, were last week only 234. Of these 14 wore from small pox, 25 from measles, 28 from hooping-cough, 42 from typhus, 46 from scarlatina., The deaths from diarrhoea have now fallen to 46. No fatal case of cholera is re corded. There were 11 of erysipelas, 4of syphilis, and 2of purpura. Seven of the deaths from typhus occurred in Pancras ; 5 in Shoreditch. The medical at tendant of a woman who died at 63, Drummond-street, Somers -town, of malignant typhip, reports certain nuisances in the rear of the house, and states that the whole of this neighbourhood is more or less affected with low fever ; the drainage (he adde) is everywhere de fective. A girl died of tetanus apparently idiopathic ; and a child of erysipelas and abscesses consequent (it is said) on purulent infection of the blood after vaccination. Two persons died of carbuncle. Four persons died at the age of 90 years or upwards ; two women who were 90 years old, a Greenwich pen sioner who was 91 ; and a gardener's labourer who died in the Wyndham-road, Camberwell, at the age of 94 years. - Last week the births of 782 boys and 757 girls, in all 1,539 children, were registered in Lond.m. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the average number was 1,361. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean heig.it of the barometer in the week was 29.885 in. On Thursday and Friday the mean daily reading was above 30 in., acd on the latter day the highest reading in the week occurred, which was 30.12 in. The mean tempera ture was 51.3 (1.-g., which is 2.5 deg. above the average of the same we in 33 years as determined by Mr. Glai sher. The mean temperature was above the average ore every day. The highest temperature occurred on Fri day, and was 61.8 deg. ; the lowest 43, en Saturday. The mean dew-point temperature was 52.4 deg. ; and the difference between this and the mean air temperature was 1.9 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 56.8 deg. The wind, which was in the south-west and east in the beginning of the week, was in the north-east towards the end. Rain fell to the amount of 0.80 in., the greater part of which fell on Wednesday and Saturday. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTEBEL IN THE WEEK ENDING SATLEDAY, OCT. 11 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the 'Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration.. ..... l5l Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. .. 3 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations 3 Premature Birth and Debility 2B Atrophy Old Age udden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 26 Causes not s p ec ifi e d r---- DEATHS 7113031 ALL CAUSES 939 1 Population Deaths in corre- Dear l' s Enumerated. aponding week iii - iiie . Itisl. 185 Weel, . West Distri c t s ...... 376 0f ,427 North Districts,,,,.. 490,396 Central Districts;, 393,256 East Districts .. ... .... 485,522 South Districts ..... 616,635 Totals Ma1e5................... •• 484 484 F:ma,les .................................... 455 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Ma1e5................................ ...... 782 Fema1e5................................... 757 Total -. ........:....1,539 An edition of the DispatcJt will hencef or lh be pli iished every Friday, containing particulars of importan' : ev ents, and price of the markets, fund s , &c.; tip to th e )meet of going to press, and may be received at the mo , t distant parts of Scotland and Ireland 4315 the Satur thy. The pages of the Dispatch will be so extended as to allow the introduction of nearly six additional columns is quantity, and the principal articles wil4 b e se t i n a D ew clear type that will net fatigue the eyesight. 4d vertisers, to insure the insertion of. their advprtisemente in each of the four editions, should forward them on Thursday, or at latest before 10 o'clock on Friday mom. - Office, 139, FleekOree;. ~ DON, WED NESE). A *ie E VEN IN 0, OC OBER 15,. Naval and IVillicar y intelligence. A letter from Bombay, Se pt, 12, to a Portsmouth correspondent, gives the follow ring details of the prepara tions making by Rear-Admv .nl Sir Henry Leeke (Com mander-in-Chief) to , supply the naval con tegent of the expedition to Persia :- " With this you will re ceive the acc,ount of the exre dition now getting really for the Per Riau Gulf :-5,050 men, besides seamen and marines, v rho will amount to 1,000 more; 14 steamers, six of the' al carrying from ten to four 68-pounders ; 10 . hi ei.vtly-',Armed gu n b oa t, f our schooners, and other craft f ).r. lan Aing troops ; about 20 or 24 transports ; it will be very complete ; the Island of Karrack will be taken fir st, for the purpose of getting water, but we think of tali] ng both together. We trust that Sir Henry Leeke will command the fleet in person, and take the places with the seamen. If he does he will hoist his flag or peed ant. on the Assaye or Punjab, heavy steam frigates ksts ;,er ships), carrying each ten 68-pounders and 240 men. , All are hard at work getting the expedition ready. Letters from the Royal Albert, bearing the flag of Admiral Lord Lyons, to as late a date as the 2d of October, announce Ulf at she was making preparations to winter above the Sc uth-bridge within the Golden Horn, and that, is consectbence of the non-execution of the treaty of Paris by Russia, her Majesty's steam frigate Magicienne, the steam corvette, and the Weser, steam gunboat`, bad, re-entered the Black Sea, to be fob loo'ed forthwitl: by the Vulture steam frigate. The following cii-t !ular letter was yesterday a idressed to the commanding •Ecers of the 4th aid sth Dragoon Guards; 1-t and 2(1 Dragoons ; 4 h and 6th Light Dra goons ; Bth, 10th, and 11th Hussars ; 12th Lancers, 13th Light Dragnet !e, 17th Lai,cers, Grenadier Guards, t..ic do Fusilier GA tar ds ; Ist Foot, let and 2d Battalions ; 3d, 4th, 7th, 9th, 14th, 17th, 18'h, 19th, 20th, 21st, 23d, 28th, 30th, 33d, 34th,. 38th, 39th, 41st, 42d, 44th, 45th, 47th, 48th, 49113 , 50th, 55th, 57th, 62d, 63d, 68th, 72d, 77th, 79th, 88tb , 89,h, 90th, 93d, 95th, and 97th ; Rifle Brigade, let an , 1 2d Battalions. " Horse Guards, Oct. 4. " Sir,—His Majesty the King of Sardinia having been graciously pleased to confer a proportion of the silver medals destined for distribution among the Sar dinian troops lately returned from the Crimea upon such officers and soldiers of the British army ar distinguished taemsehres by ;personal acts of valour in the late war, I have the honour, by desire of his Royal Highness th e General Commanding-in-Chief, to request sou will with out delay trailsmit a nominal return of officers and non commissioned -officers and privates of the regiment under year comman , i whom you may conceive worthy of the decoration in question. "The office :;-s are to be selected from among those whose rank to the 9th of September, 1355, was not higher than brevet-major. " Yon will be careful to recommend no individual except for distinguished services against the enemy under fire, and the special services on which the recom mendation is founded are to be fully detailed. "If there ar e any whose claims of distinction are equal to those sg ho have already received the French Legion of Honu ur, the French military war medal, or the English med al for distinguished conduct in the field, but whom it hi is been hitherto impossible to reward, you will give thi ,m the preference in this instance, ex plaining at the s ame time your reasons for doing so. "The claims of officers of higher rank than those pointed out in the preceding will be shortly taken into consideration. "I have, &c., " .A. WETHEBALL, Adjutant-General." Major-Genera I the Earl of Cardigan, Inspecting- General of Cava lry, arrived at Newbridge on Thursday last, and on this following day made a very minute in peed ,n of the Ist Royal Dragoons and the 2d North British Dragon ); as (Scots Greys), and expressed himself highly pleased a t the fine appearance and discipline of these gallant Crimean heroes, who so bravely distin guished'thems,sl.ves throughout the campaign. A great number of the :invalids and unfit were selected for dis charge. On Monday both corps, together with a troop of the Royal Ho rse Artillery, were reviewed on the Cur ragb, and went through a variety of manoeuvres, which were admirably performed. Hia lordship and staff occupy quarters at the camp with Lieutenant-General Sir R. England. Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell,' G.C.8., Inspector General of Infantry, accompanied by Major- General Sir G. A. Wetherall, K.C.8., K. 11., Adjutant- General to the Forces, paid an unexpected official visit to Chatham garrison yesterday for the purpose of making an inspection of the Provisional Battalion. On their arrival at the Provisional Battalion Sir Colin Campbell and the Adjutant-General were received by Colonel W. H. Eden, in c4)mmand of the garrison ; Colonel H. Jervis, commanding the Provisional Battalion; and Brigade-Major C. S. S. E. Gordon. After witnessing the troops paracle, the visitors proceeded to the offices of the Provisional Battalion for the purpose of making an inspection of Hie battalion books and accounts; in which they were engag ed several hours. It was expected that an inspection of the troops would have been rAde in the afternoon, but, owing to the length of time occupied in the examination of the books, this did not take pl ace , and it is expected that the inspection will be made this day. The non-comm issioned officers and men bel4nging to the several depots at the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, are making consis lerable progress in their instruction in the use of the En field rifle, under captain W.lNott and Lieut. A. M'Leod. Firing parties are marched down from the barracks every morning to the marsheis near St. Mary's creek, where they are practised in firing at the iron targets, at dii dances ranging from 300 to 800 yards. The troops belon4;ing to the Royal Sappers and Miners, and those of the ;oyal Marine Light Infantry, at Quit ham, are also unth rgoing a course of rifle instruction. Tile Marines belonging to her Majesty's ship Power ful, 84, were paid off at Chatham yesterday by Captain G. Hookey, paymaster to the Chatham division. After being paid, each wan was granted leave of absence for periods varying from one month to six weeks., Her Majesty's ship Melampus, 42, Captain Borlase, arrived at Spithead on Monday night from the Crimea. T 12,3 following vessels were spoken with on her voyage between the 25± of August and October :—August 25, 3 p.m., the English vessel Nelsons ; September 9, Eng lish barque, name unknown ; September 13, the brig Bristol ; September 21, the English barque Cairo ; Oct. 8, a barque, supposed to be English, waterlogged and abandoned. She was found in charge of a Prussian barque. Left Constantinople August 21 ; Malta, Sep tember 5 ; Gibraltar, Sept. 22. Messrs. Wigram's ship Sussex, from London for Mel bourne, put into St. Helen's Roads yesterday ,morning, and, after communicating with the shore, proceeded on her voyage with a fine favourable breeze. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Lambert, sailed yes terday morning from Portsmouth to Sheerness to be paid off. The Colossus, 84, Captain Thompson, was inspected yesterday by Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour. The Cm,ar, 2, gunboat, Lieutenant Villiers, sailed from Spitnead on Monday evening for Plymouth and the East Indies. Tiae Cmiar, 91, Captain Robb, was paid wages yester day. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—T. W. Simeon, mate, to the Surprise ; IL H. Taotopson, mate, to the Cormorant ; Mr. A. S. Hare, mate, to the James Watt ; IL J. CAringtoo, midshipman, to the Sparrowhawk ; G. T. Medd, mid• Shipman, to the Driver ; L. M. Millett, midshipman, to the Dragon ; W. H. Purvey, master's assistant, to the Ca'cutta ; James 11 , )bertson, master's assistant, to the • E. Westaway, to the Calcutta ; H. Knight, eltuk, to the Satellite. FRIVITPUL DEATH - BY A LION. ( Front a Cape of Good hope Paper.) On Friday morning, the 13th of June, several wag gons, forming part of the second division of the corn mend°, left Mom River Dorp for the lager at Mariko. They rode the first evening as far as Riet Spruit, a noted pace for lions. Mr. Philip van Coller and his brother wishing to proceed, inspanned their waggons about midnight, although they were strongly advised by their companions not to ride before morning. Tney had scarcely ridden an hour when the oxen were suddenly frightened. Philip van Coller jumped off his viaggoo and endeavoured to turn them, but not succeeding in doing so, sprang upon the waggon trap, from which he rriu,t have 'been immediately dragged by a large lion with such force as to break one of the trap-rieins. He was heard to cry out twice for help, but in the confusion of the moment was not missed, his brother Adolphe being busy at the time on horseback, endeavouring to atop the oxen, which were going at a fearful rate through tte veld. With much difficulty he succeeded in doing so, and then returned to look for his missing Lrother, whose body he found about daybreak, and the lion couching about 12 yards from it. With a feeling of desperation he levelled his gun and fired at the animal. The aim was good, and as the ball pared right through its head, it fell down on the spot. On ciming nearer to his bro ther's body the poor man was sadly shocked at its muti- lated condition, the lion having carried it a long distance, and thendevoured the greater portion. The remains were hastily conveyed to town, and upwards of 80 perone attended the funeral. Poor Philip van Coller leaves a widow and several children to deplore their loss, and his 'melancholy end, We have since learnt that previous to the oxen becom ing frightened, the lion first attacked, without any pro socation, Adolphe van Coller, and three other men, who Were riding on horseback some distance in front of the waggon. Having no guns with them, they jumped on their horses, mad stood between them and•the lion. The lion, however, appeared to be more anxious to at tack them than their horsey, on which they shouted, and threw their bats at him, and afterwards fired the grass, when he left them and went to the waggon. The surrounding country being all occupied, the lions ap pear to have concentrated themselves at this spot, where they are extremely bold. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 6 per mine premium, and the short exchange on London 19 25 . 224 per 1/, sterling. On cornpring these rates with the English :Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per oun3a for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 4 I,oths per cent. dearer hi Paris than in Lon con. By advicas from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 p.-r mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.21 per 1/. sterling. Standard gold, at the English Mint price, is therefore about 9-10ths per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in Loudon. The course of exchange at New York on London lo: bills at 60 days' sight is 1091 per cent., wllich, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is slightly, in favour of England ; and, after making allowance fer charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre sent rate leaves a . small profit on the importation of gold from the United Estates. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. A general meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. R. Gill in the chair. Mr. BAKER, the secretary, read the minutes of the last two meetings, which were confirmed. The report of the Canadian directors, an abstract of which has appeared in The San, was taken as read. The capital account showed that 4,775,922/. currency had been received, and 4,682,1101 expended, leaving a balance of 93,812/. currency. The revenue account for the half year ending the 31st of July last showed that 355,7511. had been received, and 209,7451. expended, including 6,504/Jost on steamboats, and 5,625/. rent of suspension bridge, leaving a balance of 146,0061. To this sum was added 366/. from preceding half year, 35,065/. received for premiums on shares, making together 181,4371. From this was deducted 50,0147. interest on loans, and 14,0521. for sinking fund, to provide for the liquidation of the Government loan at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, leaving 117,3401. net for general dividend. The proposed dividend at 3 per cent. per annum would ab sorb 109,284 1 ., and leave 8,055/. for the next account. The CHAIRMAN said he felt some little difficulty in ad dressing them on that occasion, and would rather they should consider them (the board) as shareholders than direc tors. The Canadian board had stated that they (the English board) were merely the London agency. He was exceedingly dissatisfied with the report, statement of accounts, and other matters ;but at the same ti me h e th oug ht it b e tt or no t t o go into any details respecting personal matters. It appeared to him that, with so great an increase in their traffic as 100,000/., they ought to have had a much better dividend. The expenses had been very heavy. The shareholders had suffered a second loss of 20,000 t. in respect of the steamboats notwithstanding what had been expi•essed on that subject at the former meeting to discontinue them. They had been re quested by the CAndian board to allow the boats to run for one month, but the one month was extended to more than two months, and the result had been as be had stated —a loss of 20,000 1 . They were determined that those expe riments should not be repeated, and orders had been given to sell the boats. With regard to the cost of maintenance of way the charges were excessive, and the revenue was made to bear expenses under that head which clearly be longed to capital. The fact was, the permanent way was not finished when they commenced to run upon it; the rails were laid on the bare sleepers, and the ballasting was not half completed. This Was afterwards completed at the ex• pense of revenue, instead of being charged to capital. One of the arrangements that had been recently entered into would be advantageous to them ; it related to the eaten- sion of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway, with the con struction of which the Great Western of Canada had no thing to do but to receive the traffic. His friend Mr. Beat tie and himself had put themselves in the position of trus tees to take all the receipts from the Detroit and Milwau kee traffic, and hold them to meet the interest on the bonds which wore given. He would not trust himself to state what the amount of traffic would be from that source, but he believed it would be very remunerative. They had made friendly arrangements with other companies for an interchange of traffic, and also with the Buffalo and Huron. Arrangements were under consideration in respect to an interchange of traffic with the Grand Trunk Railway Com pany. It was hoped that a considerable traffic would pass to and fro over their line at Toronto to the Grand Trunk Railway on to Montreal, andthence to Portland. It was probable that by the establishment of friendly arrange ments for the interchange of traffic much benefit would be conferred on both companies. He might state that the measure of the traffic on their line would depend entirely on their ability to carry it. They had . sent out a locomotive superintendent from Manchester, and also a number of engines from that place and Bristol, by which they ex pected to effect large savings in that department. With regard to their position in Canada he thought they should be considered as first-class colonists —they had sent out their money to make railways, and he thought their locomotives were the most effective emigrants they could send. The Canadian Government had lent them 700,000/., bat they had charged them the usurious interest of 9 per gent. for it. They paid 6 per cent. interest and 3 per cent. for the sinking fund, bat it was so arranged that when they paid off 500,0001. of the money they would still have to pay 6 per cent. interest on the whole amount of 700,000/. during 20 years, being equivalent to 9 per cent. per Annum, which were certainly not favourable terms. They had had a visit from four gentlemen from Canada, who had presented them with a project for a southern line to compete for the traffic of the Great Western, but he was convinced that unless the English people gave them the .noney they could not make it, as the Canadians could em ploy their money much more profitably than in making railways. Of coarse he (the chairman) and his colleague, Mr. Beattie, told the gentlemen from Canada that they would have nothing to do with the competing scheme, for they knew perfectly well it could not be carried out unless the money was obtained in England. He thought it right to call the attention of the meeting to the fact that 11,578,000/. of English capital had already been expended on the Grand Trunk, the Great Western, the Ontario, Simcoe, and Lake Huron, and two other railways in Canada. Out of those aye railways the only one paying a dividend was the Great Western of Canada. These were facts, and he would leave them to do as they liked with respect to other schemes. He did not think the Canadian interest was with them ; they only looked to the increased value of their land at the cost of others. The Canadians could not afford to make railways with their own money, as they could do mach better with it. He thought, therefore, they should allow those who found the money to have the management of their property in Canada. He, for one, would not be responsible for the management of their property sinless the head direction were established in England. It was very unpleasant for him to allude to an endeavour of the Canadian Board to commit the company to an expenditure of 50,0004. in the shape of bills for a com peting line. They had opposed the wishes of the English shareholders, and they had disregarded the proxies sent them for that purpose. He would be happy to answer any questions, and concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the report be received, that the accounts be prepared in future according to a specified form, and that the dividend be paid on the 21st, inst. Mr. A. BEATTIE, a director, seconded the resolution. He said they could not adopt the report, as there were some very unsatisfactory items in it. The London board had en. deavoured to obtain explanations from Canada, but the time had not been sufficient to admit of a reply. He thought, if the executive in Canada had been at peace among themselves and devoted their attention to the deve lopment of the traffic and reduction of working expenses, the company would now be in a very different position. Steps would immediately be taken to prevent such proceed ings in future. The ruling power should be in England. The gentlemen in Canada wore fully aware of the resolu tion of the shareholders not to expend any more money on extensions; they had disregarded that expression of opinion sod brought for ward the southern competing scheme, which they endeavoured to fix upon the company. They had kept up a constant rivalry, which had proved so destructive to railway property in England, although it had been proved over and over again that satisfactory arrangements between railway companies were better for all parties than riv4liy of any kind. An arrangement with the Grand Turk Coin ploy was under consideration, and when it was matured the matter would be submitted to the shareholders for their sanction at a meeting specially convened for the purpose. He then adverted to a letter written by Mr. Bridges, their managing director, who had ridden over the greater part of the proposed southern line, and given it as his opinion that the traffic would not do much more than pay working expenses, the receipts being estimated at 10/. per mile per week, and that it was not advisable to entertain the scheme, as the principal places wero already served by the existing line. Part of the route, for a distance of 18 miles, consisted of a marsh, from which nothing in the shape of traffic could be expected. Some of the principal promoters were landowner/4 and were, of course, noxious to have railway communication to their estates at the company's expense. The Hon. Mr. CAMERON, a member of the Canadian Legislature, said they had not sent out their money to Canada with a view to help the Canadians, but to get a remunerative dividend. It was true, the Canadians were poor, but they lead no reason to be ashamed of their p, T o h v e e t e y g i b s l e a c t a u u r s e e h t a h d e yw givenoul d thege t company as so o i mpah yp o a n as we they u romcaohal manage their property by means of proxies, but it, appeared to him that the difficulty in managing their affairs had arisen from disputes between Mr. Radcliff and Mr. Bridges, the English directors at the Canadian board, and not from the Cana dian directors. With regard to the terms of the Govern ment loan the company had gladly accepted them, and had realised a profit from the transaction. The groat ovil was that Mr. Radcliff, the vice-president, was pulling one way and Mr. Bridges the other. The reason the boats had not paid was that they were not allowed to touch at Tor onto. The best thing they could do with the Sarnia branch would be to hand it over to the Grand Trunk Com pany,felly toomr a c k o e us t t w ru o ct lin i e t s on to joint acc a o a u t n h t e . tlrtaffiwaouoldh thatbea branch would b e a b o ut 13/. per mile per week , or the same as on the Galt b ran ch. They had a magnificent p ro p ert y , Sarnia, but in order to preserve it they should avoid making branch lines. _ _ Mr. BEATTIE explained that the difficulties at the board in Canada had arisen from gentlemen connected with Hamilton, the Mayor of Hamilton, and the Warden of Middlesex. He believed their charter did not give them power to manage the affairs of the company in England. The Rev. A. CREEK thought the meeting should endea vour to represent to the Legislature of Canada the evils of competition, with a view to induce them to adopt some uniform system, so as to avoid sanctioning competing schemes. Mr. S. HEREPATH stated that a private meeting of influ ential shareholders was hold the day before, and they had adopted certain resolutions which he would submit. He then read the resoluticns, which were to the effect that, as Mr. Radcliff, the vice-?resident of the Canadian board, had endeavoured to comm.t the company to making a line of railway between Amherstburgh and St. Thomas before sub mitting the matter to he shareholders, the meetiug had no confidence in him,. and they requested him to tees hie duties and salary. The other resolutions were to the effect that, as 39-40ths of the shares were held in England the management should be exercised by the board in Lon don; requesting the adverse members of the Canadian board to resign. He also intended to propose that no por tion of the 444,000/. estimated to complete the undertaking should be expended in i;anada without the assent of the London board, and that proxies be obtained and a special meeting be held in Canada to carry out those resolutions. The half yearly meeting in London, to be held prior to those in Canada, so that the resolutions might be carried there in accordance with the wishes of the majority of the shareholders. Mr. HOYES had prepared a resolution which he would submit. The only power given them to manage their affairs in Canada was by proxy. He thought they were greatly indebted to Mr. Bridges for the course he had adopted at the Canadian board. He was sorry that Mr. Smith, their late chairman, should have resigned on the question of the southern line. The resolution proposed by the chairman was then car ried unanimously. The Secretary read minutes of the proceedings of the board in Canada and of the board in London, showing that those of the former were totally opposed to those of the latter, and that Mr. Bridges, at the Canadian board, was in a minority in his endeavours to carry out the reso lutions of the London board, the majority voting against him. The Canadian board went so far to declare the re solutions of the London board null and void, after they had failed in an effort to obtain the acceptance by the Lon don board of three bills of 20,0001. each for the alleged purchase of the southern scheme. Mr. S. HEREPATH thought they should express their want of confidence in the whole of the Canadian directors. The CHAIRMAN said, with regard to the observations of Mr. Creek, as to getting some pledge from the Government not to sanction competing schemes, he (the chairman) had no faith iu Governments. In cases where 33 per cent. was taken off charges on railways to meet the views of Go vernment corupoting lines were granted in the following THE CITY GAS WORKS. Yesterday, after the ordinary business of the City Commission of Sewers had been disposed of a committee of the whole court met for the purpose of bearing addi- tional evidence respecting the alleged nuisance arising from the City Gas Works. At the last meeting of the committee the witnesses on this head were policemen who had been in the habit of patrolling tho immediate neighbourhood of the works. The evidence brought for ward yesterday was given by residents in the locality. Among those examined were Mr. S4ward, of Bridge street ; •Mr. Holtb, Chatham-place • Mr. Bryant, Paper buildings, Temple ; Mr. Clark, dhatharn-place; Mrs. Wells, Mr. Priestly, Tudor-street ; Mr. Poynter, Bride well Hospital ; Mr. Berthall, &c. The smell from the gas works was described by all the witnesses as being very bad and offensive, particularly at night, and pro ductive of headache, depression of spirits, nausea, and in some cases actual vomiting. Some of the witnesses bad had to send their families out of town, on account of the injury to their health. One of the witnesses being asked by Mr. Deputy Lott whether he could distinguish be tween the smell of the gas works and that of the Fleet Ditch, said that he could, and that he preferred the latter. (Laughter.) Mr. Hardy, surgeon, of Earl-street said that, personally, he had suffered very great incon venience, but his wife and children had suffered more, The effluvium produced a sense of suffocation and head ache, and persons were continually making complaints to him of the smell arising from the works. Mr. Saward said that, about a year ago, a formidable explosion took place at the works through the bursting of a pipr, 15 inches in diameter, and a piece of pipe about 4 inches long, 3 wide, and a an inch thick, was blown over the tops of the houses into Chatham-place. This concluded the evidence against the company, who will be heard in reply on Friday next. From the London Gazette of Last Night ADMIRALTY, OCT. 14. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have re ceived a communication from the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, concerning a despatch addressed to his Lordship by the Comte de Persigny, Ambassador at this Court from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, to the effect that a certain number of floats, bearing inscriptions to denote the place of their immersion, were thrown overboard during the recent expedition of his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon to the North Sea, in the French frigate La Reine Hortense, with a view to ascertain the direction of the currents in the sea. His Excellency desires that, in the event of any of these floats being cast upon the shores of Great Britain' the same may be transmitted to him, without loss of time, at the French Emb ass y i n L on d on . The Lords of the Admiralty, in making known the con tents of this despatch, request all persons finding any of the floats referred to, to forward them with a statement of the time and place of their discovery to his Excellency the Comte de Persigny, Albert-gate-house, London. session. Mr. BEATTIE said he had received a letter from Canada, stating that Mr. Radcliff had resigned, but it was not an official communication. On the motion of Mr. S. HERAPATH, seconded by Mr. HOYES, a resolution was unanimously passed to the effect that the conduct of the vice-president, Mr. Radcliff, as disclosed in the proceedings of that day, in attempting to commit the company to the construction of a line of rail way between Amherstburgh and St. Thomas, before sub mitting so important a step to the consideration of the shareholders, deprived the meeting of all confidence in his fidelity to fulfil pledges given by the English board at general meetings of the company held in England on the 2d of November and the 9th of April last; and that the continuance in office of Mr. W. Harris, president, and of Mr. J. S. Radcliff, vice-president of the Canadian board of the Great Western Railway of Canada, was incompatible with the interests of the company, and that they be re quested forthwith to resign their seats in the direction. On the motion of Mr. HOYES, seconded by Mr. CAR PENTER, the best thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Bridges, the managing director in Canada, for the zeal, integrity, and judgment which he had uniformly displayed in conducting the business of the company. On the motion of Mr. S. HEREPATII, seconded by Mr. BENNETT, it was resolved that no part of the 414,0001. mentioned in the report should be expended without the necessity for so doing being demonstrated to the satisfac tion of the - London board. Mr. GOVAN, a director, at the request of Mr. S. HERA PATH, stated his opinion of the undertaking. He repre. sented the Glasgow shareholders, and had studied the con cern in every way; the increase of traffic on the line was very satisfactory, 17,000 head of cattle were conveyed during the half-year ending Jan. 31, 1855, and for the half-year ending Jan. 31, 1856, the number conveyed was 178,000. With regard to the traffic for the current half year ending the 31st of January next, he was of opinion that it would amount to 409,000/. He estimated the working expenses at 50 per cent., or 205,0001., the interest charges at 50,0001., and the sinking fund at 14,0001., to gether 269,0001., which would leave 148,0001. for dividend on a capital of 2,766,0001., which surplus would admit of a dividend at tie rate of 10 par cent. par annum, and leave 10,0001.; but, as about 5,0001. would be required to be a dividend at the same rate on the money to be called and paid on the new shares, a surplus of 5,0001. would remain over to the next account. The working expenses were too high, and he believed they could be reduced to 45 per cont. of the receipts. (Hear.) A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. PERNAMBUCO. In reference to the account of the proceedings at the meet ing of this company, Mr. E. de Mornay states that the sum agreed to be paid to his brother and himself as concessionaires of the line to cover expenses incurred in obtaining in 1852, the Imperial• decrees Nos. 670 and 1,030; in 1853 the Im perial decrees Nos. 725, 1,215, and 1,246 ; in 1855 the Im perial decree No. 1,629, and the two provincial concessions, and for exploring and making it plan of the country through which the line would pass, showing all the plantations, and for the payment of the staff employed in the prelimi nary surveys, the law and Parliamentary expenses, &c., was 16,000/., and not 27,000/. He was prepared to give every information regarding the whole amount that had been paid to tho concessionaires. The amount they had re ceived was quite inadequate to cover the exposes and liabilities incurred during five years of unremitting exer tion in making the plans and obtaining concessions. Reck oning the time occupied by thou in the enterprise at the rate paid to a surveyor sent out from England it would amount to a larger suns than they had received, and this left entirely unprovided for all the Parliamentary, law, and. printing expenses, and the staff and labour employed on the surveys. EAST KENT. The committee of the directors of the East Kent Rail way, who last week inspected the works between Strood and Sittingbourne, have concluded their inspection by visiting the works between Sittingbourne and Canterbury. They first visited the great cutting near Rhode Farm, at Ensden, in the parish of Selling. This spot is on that part of the main line leading from Faversham to Canterbury, about five miles from the former. The immediate object of the present works, generally, ,is to complete the railway frpm Strood, through Sittingbourne, to Faversham, in order that it may be open for traffic in September next. But as the Ensden cutting and tunnel are the heaviest portions of the work between Faversham and Canterbury, it has been thought desirable to begin them at once, in order that there tray bo as little delay as possible in the opening through to Canterbury. The work is making rapid progress, and &ready shows the effect of so many men ahl horses en gaged upon it. After leaving Ensden the committee viewed the Ospringe embankment and Syndal cutting and embankment, and thence proceeded along the line to Burrow-green ill to t. h e heavycm b an k cuttingm o n a t n a d n e d m c b u a t_ n t in km g , e andn tnearer n e st by si tt Tong The commtttee, we understand, were much gratified with the progress in general. We learn that Mr. Cubitt is engaged at Dover superin tending tho commencement of the works at that place. The shaft in the cliff, on Friday last, was upwards of GO feet deep. It is intended forthwith to make the tunnel at Shepberdswell, carrying out the principle adopted else where along the line—of commencing first at those parts where the greatest time will be consumed in the operations. BOYDELL'S ENDLESS RAILWAY ENGINE. A trial of Mr. Boydell's patent endless railway traction engine was made yesterday in Woolwich marshes in the presence of a number of gentlemen. Messrs. J. and G. Booker, bankers of Liverpool, Mr. P. N. Bernard, Mr. Piccioni, Mr. Blasini, Mr. Totentes, cotton planters in Porto Rico and Trinidad, and Mr. Mechi, were present. Colonel Tullocb, Royal Artillery, directed the experiments on behalf of Government. One of the heaviest guns, a 88- pounder, weighing 113 cwt. 141 b., having been mounted on a waggon to which were attached 18 artillery horses, was con veyed to the Plumstead-marshes. The traction engine having picked up a gun of equal calibre, which, together with the engine and carriages, weighed 20 tons 5 cwt., fol lowed and proceeded steadily for some distance, when from the soft state of the roads, and the small power of the engine, b e ing only of 8-horse po wer, the experi ment could not be completed. It was, however, con sidered that the object of the experiment had been sufficiently realised. The difficulty had been con siderably increased by the passage of the preceding wag gon, drawn by 18, and occasidnally 21 horses. This was accompanied by a number of labourers carrying handspikes with which they assisted in lifting the wheels. It was stated that the Russian Government wore prepared to enter into a contract with the patentee to supply them with a large number of those engines. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTER,/ RAILWAY.--Traffic le turn for the week ending Oct. 11, 1856 , £23,606 2 2 Corresponding week last year 24,557 18 11 Decrease in 1856 £9sl 16 9 LONDON, BRIGHTON, An SORTIE COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for. the week ending Oct. 11, 1856.., .... ............ .£16,R3 11 9 year Corresponding weak l as t Total of th e half - year to this date, 1856 280,738 15 0 Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 266,218 16 2 GLASGOW AND SORTHMTESTERN RAILWAY.--Traifio re tail for the week ending Oct. 11, 1856 £7,495 6 2 Jorresponding week last year 6,059 19 8 Increase in 1856 £1,435 6 6 ,GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAILWAY. — Traflac return for the vieek ending. Oct. 12, 1856 £B2B 5 0 LIVERPOOL, Oct. 14.—During the quarter ended the 30th of September, 1856, 707 British Ships, with cargoes valued at 9,961,1801., cleared outwards from the port of Liverpool. During the same time 540 foreign vessels Cleared, with cargoes worth 4 ,863,149/. Total, 1,247 " 144 ; value of cargoes, 142824M91. , 3 WHITEHALL, OCT. 11. The Queen has been pleased to order a Congo d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chap ter of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor Charles James Blomfield, late Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Very Reverend Archibald Cainpbell Tait, D.C.L., now Dean of Carlisle, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of London. WHITEHALL, OCT. 13. The Queen has been pleased to order a coage d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Durham to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor Edward Maltby, late Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and ' Chapter the Right Reverend Father in God Doctor Charles Thomas Longley, now Bishop of Ripon, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Durham. WHITEHALL, 00T. 14. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Rev. Richard Chevenix Trench, 8.D., to be Dean of the collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster, void by the death of Dr. William Buckland, late Dean thereof. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Om 10. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr, John Samuel as Consul-General in England for the Republic of Guatemala. WAR-DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, OcT. 14. 45th Regiment of Foot--General Thomas Brabazon Aylmer to be Colonel, vice General Sir Colin Halkett, G.C.8., deceased. 57th Regiment of Foot—Major -General Sir Jas. Fred. Love, K.C.8., to,be. Colonel, ViCQ Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge, G.C.B, deceased. , WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, OCT. 18. 2d Regiment of Life Guards--Alex. Charles Hector Stewart, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Lord Ernest 31`D. Vane Tempest, appointed to the 4th Light Dragoons. sth Dragoon Guards—Cornet Frederick Drummond Hibbert has been permitted to resign his commission. 12th Light Dragoons—Brevet-Colonel Frederick Charles Griffiths, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant- Colonel. 2d Foot—Captain William Campbell. from the 71st Foot, to be Captain, vice Rooke, who exchanns. 35th Foot—Captain Robert Crosse Stewart, from half pay of the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain, vice 0; N. Chat terton, who exchanges. 40th Foot—Lieut. William Gibson, from the 48th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Osborne, who exchanges. 48th Foot—Limit. Francis W. Osborne, from the 40th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gibson, who exchanges. 49th Foot—Lieut. William Benjamin Croft Goodison, from the_Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Lieutenant, vice Grossman, who exchanges. 71st Foot—Captain James Harwood Rooke, from the 2d Foot, to be Captain, vice William Campbell, who ex changes. 76th Foot—Lieutenant James Henry Linton, from the 82d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice 0 Malley, who exchanges. 82d Foot—Lieutenant William Boyd O'Malley, from the 76th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Linton, who exchanges. 2d West India Regiment—Thomas Bolton Ogden, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pugh, promoted. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieutenant Edmund Douglas Grossman, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Goodison, who exchanges. St. Helena Regiment—Lieutenant Edmund Charles Barnes to be Adjutant, vice Cowell, who resigns the Ad jutancy only. - _ LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. Quartermaster George Blake has been superseded for being absent without leave. BRITISH ITALIAN LEGION. Ist Regiment—Dr. Francesco Depraz to be Surgeon. . DEPOT BATTALIONS. Lieut.-Colonol Richard T. Farren, C. 8., from the 47th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel ; Major John Lawrie, - from half-pay, unattached, to be Major; C a ptain Henry Jamps Buchanan, from the 47th Foot, to be Adjutant. For Quartermaster John Thomp3on, from the Cavalry Depot, to be Quartermaster, &c., which appeared in the Gazette of the 3d inst., read, Quartermaster • John Thomp son, from half-pay of the Consolidated Cavalry Depot, to be Quartermaster, &c. HOSPITAL STAFF. The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their services : John Shoolbraid, Archibald Hamilton Hilson, and Geo. Edward Whitton. BREVET. Quartermaster Daniel Doherty, retired upon half-pay of a Depot Battalion, to have the honorary ran k of Cap tain, under the Royal Warrant of Dec. 17, 1855. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. County of Middlesex—To be Deputy Lieutenants —Abel Bayley, Esq., Henry Richard Cox, Esq., John Ebenezer Davis, Esq., Augustin Robinson, Esq., Lieut.-Col. John Scriven, Denzil Ibbetson Thomson, Esq., Matthew Uzielli, Esq., and George Fleming Franco, Esq. North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry—Robert Hoskin resigned. Boodle, Gent., to be Assist.-Surg eon , v i eo Brace, • BANKRUPTS. John Oct. tailor, Wormwood-street, City, tu t ul lender, Oct. 23 and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Cour of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, at Richardson and Sadler, Old Jewry-chambers. John Long, boarding-house keeper, Betlford•street, Bed ford-square,-Oct. 23 and Nov. 27, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Houghton and Jameson, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn. Henry Keyte, silk manufacturer, Church -court, Old Jewry, Oct. 28, at twelve, and Dec. 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guild hall-chambers; .Hodgkinson and Freud, Tower -street, City. Henry Gander, licensed victualler, High-street, Bo rough, Oct. 22, at half.past one, and Dec. I, ,at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street •; Seale, Jun. Trafalg ar - square . • Thomas R awson, tailor, Halifax, Oct. 28 and Nov. 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as signee; Leeds ; B ars t ow and Son, Halifax ; Bond and Bar wick, ' Leeds. Archibald Hurst, manure manufacturer, Rotherhithe, Oct. 27, at one, and Dec. 1, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, chambers ; Cox and Sons, Size -lane. Richard Duncan,.wine merchant,Oct.22 Lime-street, Oc t , at two, and Dec. 2, - at one, at the Court of Bank a r i uT a z Nicholson, official assignee, Ba,singhall-street ; W Basinghal:-street. Guildh 1 Henry J osep h Smith, coal master and manufacturer of Nov. 22, at ten, drain pip es and chimney pots Oct. 25, and ii Co t the L ee d s District urt'. BreWin, officil assignee, Sheffield; Ryells, Sheffield. ShHenry How b mate and George Howg effield, Oct. 25 and Nov. 22, at ten trict C ourt. Brewin, ate' Sheffield .; steel converters, Smith, Sheffield. • • Henry H or l ey , h orse d ea l er , Leamington Prior s , W ar- official assignee, ' at the Leeds Di e wick, O c t . 29 and Nov. 19, t half past ten, at the Bir auristio, official assignee, Bir mingham Di s t r i c t C our t. C . Bir mingham • No wsam and Mows , Warwick ; Motterani Weybridge, Oct. 28, at one Samuel Woods, builder,. 'and Knight , Biriningha Fenchnlch-street. - sti a t n eri c ei l e. , t Dee ;,: f BF, 2ci official layl a e t r n e as l n e s ivirne,een ironmonger,wt iG t e h ku : il,lh Court a I i.e ofha Birmingham, m ßa b n er k 80 p Be t ta c . y 8 i . 21: 1 3 1: : li n d : : William Gilroy, Nov. 15, at half-past m el e e i v a e l esna,ait the Birmingham District gn , Birmingham; Smith, Court. Bttleston, 0 Birmingham i . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION S. r s g i n o t w e r . s , 0 I asgow. h n a d n c t, o G ., l r a P jo e h te u r D Za d c ti li g e i n in zi e e rc a T . E . . R . D . . A . T . . • _ EX I I '°61114 Afibt'alEta.r-Yl7 itto three months .. 11 19 Leghorn .. ..... .. -••29 62 AtisterdCfml3l:..s,ll. .. 7 . 31 ' D • Rotterdain ............ 11 19 , Genoa . . ........ •••••• 2 ' 5 85 Antwerp .... ~, . •••• •• 25 45 ' Milan .. .. •• •• •• •" •• " - nßrussels ..,••• • ••..•.. 25 45 Venice.. •• •• •••• •• "" " 4314 omburgh •••••••• • • • • 13 8% braple„l . • ...... •••• • • • • , I:31 1 ,1 Altona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• - Palermo .........• •• •• 1302 Paris. ..• ..•••• •• .... 25 32% Messina • „.. . . •• .... 52% Ditto, three months .. 25 82% Lisbon .• Marseilles ... - .• ...... 25 .82% Oporto .• •• •• •• ' • ••• • •• 52% Bourdeaux ...• .• .... - Rio Janeiro - 13Frankfort -on-Maine .... 1.191( I Buenos A.yreo.• •• ••••• • -- Vierlin •• • •• •• •• ••• • e . ...., I scow y e . ; „ k,6o d a ys , sight , onna„, •• ••• •• •••• •• .. 10 48 Philadelphia PIM oz. Trieste•• •• •••.'•• •• •••• 10 50 paccas OF BULLION, _0 0 POtOrabllrg •• .• •• •• •• .. 37% Foreign Go ld in Bars .ig 0 , Madrid ............... 49% Portugal Gold coin •• _ 0 Cadiz ••••• •• ••,• 1.0 01,06 6O Mexican Dollars .. • • ? 0 0 • 0 BarCelOria .. •• ••I •• •• Ille New Dollar s **". •0 0 0 BUver in , bargi Feints - - ___ 0 3UlilTlibtbk. Amorica(byßrit.pack) America (by United 81s. packet) .. A.T.erica (by U. Stitt* packet) .A.ustralia (via Liver pool) ... Ditto (via Marseilles) Ditto (via Cape of Gooc Hope) .... •e ».•N Africa (West Coast) ..1V Alexandria Bahamas Belgium 3ra:i1.....•.•......M Buenas Ayres ~..M Cape of:Good Hope Cape or Good Hope. Case de Voids Cey ton (see India) _ • Ceylon Channel Isles China . Constantinople Constantinople ........ Cont. of Europe M & N Kgypt (gee India) France N aibraltat Greece (nee India) Groytown Ilatnburgli •• •• •• ••• ••14 Hav)innaii Rolland .. liOndurZs India (VaSonthampt.)Bi India (via garsoilles)lk lonian Isles (coo India) Ireland ?•facipira tiradeira ........,...N Matta (see India) Malta Mauritius (see lndia) ganritius ........ , 4lexico riaplas .• ...... N. New Granada .• .• •• 10 New Zealand.... •• .• .• Papal States Peninsula •se• •. ..N Porn ••• .1,2•• •• •• •• b" . PeTt Natal .• •• •• •• •.1%7 Sicily 70 0 , 1 00 00 00 •• •• N Tuscany lienozuels •• •• •• .• ••ki Van Diem en's rAn d (see Australia) West Indies .... - ds scotched on the f o ll ow i ng day Whenany of• these dates fall on a S an d ay, the malls ODI s , di tDa o,outhanipt on ) , and the Malta :both of which will bo deSpetOw preceding day. with the exception of the /0...4 - 01 I VI 0 [AnvEarsHmßrird—The following are some out 0., bid ti thousand extraordinary cures without medicine effec, b ,. e Du Barry's delicious Health-Restoring Revalenta 2 n„joe , Food of Indigestion (Dyspepsia). Flatulency, Constil:7 l3 o, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver complaints, Cough, A r e ste l :„' Consumption, and Debility :—Cure No. 41,617. —W r i nc 7 - for'; Dec. 3, 184 7.—Gentlemen,—I am happy to be able to ' ll e you that the person fdr whom your Revalenta was pr () %ipif has derived very great benefit from its use.; distrlog symptoms of dropsy, dyspepsia, and constipation 0f „Oil standing have been removed, and a feeling of restored l of e• induced. Having witnessed th e beneficial effects in the 3 ' A va mentioned case, I can with confid ence recommend i'',rte' shall have much pleasure in doing so w h enever an 00" 6th nity offers, &c., &c. —James Shorland, late Surgeon , t oil Regiment. Cure No. 52,422.—Bridgehouse, Frimley,,tod , 3, 18 0. — Thirty - three years dise ase d l ungs, spitting of vticell liver derangement, deafness, singing in the ears, constil 33 of ee, debility, shortness of b rea th and cough, have been reillioe by your Revalenta A ra bi ca. My lungs, liver, stomach, he 3 051" ears are all right, my h ear i ng perfect, and my recovery' lf3`l,,toi; vel to all myacquaintances.—James Rob e rts, woo d mere', 0 1 Supported by testimonials from the celebrat e d Profeee°,'), I Chemistry Dr. And rew U re ; D r. Sh orland ; Dr. Haliv, Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wilmer; Dr. brae' Lord Stuart d e D ce i es; th e Dowager Countess of 1010 stuart ; Major-G en . Th omas Ki ng , an d many other resPoc toes'persons, whose health has been restored by it, a ft er all °OO, means of cure had failed. Suitably p ac k e d for all clin 0 0; with full instructions. In canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., Oils.; 51bs., lls. ; 121b5., 225. ; sup er - re fi ne d , Ilb. 6s. ; 21b0., "met Sibs., 225. ; 101bs. 33.3. The 101bs, and 121135. carriage ""iii 'on receipt of post:-ofilce order. Barry du Barry and Coo i ao Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Ma son, an d Co., Purfe.'„,t; to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; also a t 69, Gra,cechurch.str.jo. 331 and 451, Strand; 4, Chcapsid e ; 6° , C ornhill ; 49, 13i011 63 gate-street; 55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper Baker-street' and 150, Oxford-street. DIRT II S. 0 A SON., On the 13th inst., at l? Brighton, tho Marchioness of Abercorn. On the 13th i nst., at 35. Chepstow-place, Kensinoatoll' the wife of George Barton Kent, Esq. OP A DAUGHTER. On the 13th inst. at 13, Taviton-street, Gordon-sclut'rei the wif e et George inst., jun., Esq. ' On the 12th inst., 'at the Manor House, Little Slielford the wif e o f the Rev. J. E. Law. VIARRIED.I On the 14th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Eaton-WI: the Rev. Walter Sneyd, second son of the late W. Slifti, h e Esq., o f g ee / e , Staffordshire, to H enr i etta Elizabeth, ''' eldest daughter of Richard Malone Sneyd, Esq. On the 7th inst., at the Cathedral Church of St. rob to Mary Cordolia, eldest daughte r of Rear-A.dmiral th e Hon. C.B. Ro3ral Artilied; Malta, Lieut.-Col. John M. Ad Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford, Ic.B. DIED. Tao , On the 13th insf., at Grove-lane, Camberwell, Mr. .- Iranhouse, formerly of Mincing-lane, aged 89. ' On the 13th inst., at P ec kh am, Thomas 13. Moss, lat e o f Little Tower-street, aged 27. 06 the 13th inst., a t Duke-street, Manchester-eV°e , 3tr. Farrington Beachitn, aged 26. On the 12th inst , at Weymouth, Dorsetsbire, Penelor e ' wife of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Vandeleur On the 12th inst., at Kentish-town, Miss Miller, late °C Caton, near Lancaster. ham On the 12th inst., ' Mr. Joseph Wenman, late of CIO vu the 10th inst., at Alvescot, Oxfordshire, the .Ro ci Thomas Neate, aged 81. On the 10th iust., at Eastway House, liorwenstov ( ' Cornwall, the Rev. Ezekiel A. Rouse, aged 48. On the Path inst., at Oaklands, Yardley, near Binning' ham, Charles Brewin, aged 63. LONDON : Printed and Published by 11/ITRDO YOUSG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, .I;°' 112 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 000 of Middle's; Wedisecloy, Ocitiobe;ij,lsoi. Country Marke...,;:. LIVERPOOL—Ocr. 14. There was a fair attendance of the trade today, but 95 there was little prime wheat offering and such was held for extreme prices, only a small business resulted, buyers pre ferring t o wa it f o r supplies. Flour con ti nues very scr ev e ! and really prime brings long prices, -whilst inferior are no dearer. Oats being in small supply were held for I d per 451 b advance, which checked sales. Oatmeal, however' was more plentiful, and obtainable a t is per load mor e money. Barley, beans, and peas in moderate requ est, Dna 21 per i'Olb an d i s p er qr . d earer . The re was little Indian corn offering, and as the demand was m ore active, all„ ad ,„; vance of fully is p er qr . was es t a bli s h ed, prime yom" bringing 34s to 34s 6d, mixed 33s 6d to ~345, and white 3 45 to 35s 6d per qr. HULL—OCT. 14. We had to-day a small show of new wheat, almost aver , ' sample in wretched condition, and only saleable at l ow prices. A good sale for old foreign, every local miller re quiring some, and a Scotch demand' has also set in. B ar° ley Is dearer, and in general request. Old oats Beare r : l and much inquired for. Beans is to 2s dearer. in di :i o corn is dearer. Linseed firm. A steady consumptiv e s for cakes, both linseed and rape. 0 8 I Wheat, English, red 63 to 76' Ditto white 7O to 78 Dantzic and Konigs berg Pomeranian and Ham - !Peas, grey and black -- to Linseed, Black Sea... 58 to 61" Ditto Potersburgh ... 50 to 56 Ditto Rigaand Arch- 4 1 to 50 ange1.............. Ditto Konigsberg and 44 to Memel ............... Par Too. Lins.e., --/ Os to 10 ' 5. 0,11 Ditto fine for. 8i 5s 9 ' 151 °"' Ditto iuf . for. 0/ Os Od to 0101 Rapeseed ',... 00/ Os is 001 0 0 Rape cakes —s Odto 1350 Oa t Tares, English,..... 151 ot, to Witt° foreign .. 009 to 00 Guano ooi ... 8/ to l'2l 3 Bones Flour, per ...... 355. 381 burgh Danish, Holstein, and Friesland 6O to 65 Russian and Odessa 58 to 65 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian 2'J to 31 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 36 to 40 1 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 4O to 42 LEEDS—Ocr. 14. We The weather has been fine for the last few clar• be i n g are fairly supplied with wheat, the best dry sa pplee , riot held at last week's rates, but trade inactive—all io.L 3 l e y sorts a slow sale, and rather gave way in price• , P;sa fully as dear. Beans and oats do not vary in va lue' other articles as before. Average price of grain —Wheat, 67s 3d ; barlell n a, ; oats, 30. s 14 ; beans, 48s 2d ; peas, 448. rye, —s. Od. LOCAL SHARE LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14. auje l TOOM EXO4ANGE. -In the market there vas ,-, iing• business to-day, and prices were steady. The £ o l iir gb• are the transactions :—Caledonian, 261 x a.--Edin . gad Peith, and Dundee, 7i—Midlands, 754 4—London South Westerns, 1021 4--Lancashire and Yorlibb.,., ire n ' c loN —Manchester, Sh e ffi e lds, and Lincoln, 314 Brighton, and South Coast, 1044—Eastern Counti es a .--- —South Eastern, 20., 14 — Dutch Rhenish, Cash , Great Western of Canada, new, 1 pm.—North Bter 9—London and North Western, 1004—East Lati c '' 19k—Great Western, 64. MANCIII7STER, OCT. 14. STOOK EXCHANGE.—Tho market opened dull 01, and prices were easier at the. close. Leeds, 75i—Manchester, Sheffield, a.nd Lincolnshire 341 61. pref., 6 p.—Ditto, 101. pzef., 12—South Lincolnshire; 19/ Dovers, 204—Great Western, 644—East Laposobire' —District Bank, 10? prem. 1 BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 14. 3 a ‘ ; STOOK EXC H ANGE.—The market was fiat to -1 Ea s tern prices were a shade lower. Midlands, 75i 76 -- I,ol' Counties, 9—London and North Westerns, 100 i London and South Westerns, 103 • BBABORNB MAIL& (If signifies that the mails aro sent from the Gener al ET the night—and M by the morning--ftospatch.) Day when madeupl in General ,Poat- Mee, London.* From wito t Port Dispatcheo• Liverpool !very Friday Every Tuesday .. iSontluunPi 0 g r.tierpoot 14th and lgth 'Liverpool 'Dover... •• ... . ••••i 1.34 of the 10th & 26th of n 0.1 tin & 20th of inOrt. 17th of the .month .. 9th of the month 9th of tho tnonth sth of the month Uncertain ot 4.n • •,,,sl,l , 10th and 26th '4th and 20th td 17th of month 4th and 10th 10th and 26th ith & 90th of rwic.a daily Plymouth, •• Dover •• •• •• Southampio , SoUthampton, Dover •• ,Sollthamptol , Southampton various Part.' ,loutxuanptov SOutl: =ikon Aoutilampt on Dovot Sotttha mpton Dover ;... rwicc (lolly . 1,7, 17, 20, 27 efm Dover .. Southanit, ton 2nd gzl7th of mon Daily 2nd of the month i7tn of the month. 4th 3r. 20th of mon. lOthlt26th of moth Saathamptt. o Loadon Soatharnpt.lu Dover gloathataptov Dover ...... D0ver...... Holyhc t(1 !Southampton litonthampton' Liverpool ...I Twice daily ...... 2d or TO . 9th of month..... 28a of month .... 14, 10, 20, and 26.. :Dover 20th of tae month Ind of the month Da11y.......... 2d& llth of month, 4th and 19th math! Daily.. .18outhamptt n Dover .....- , 18outhamptot , L; Various ports I D6ver ISouthampton' (Various IVarious port , 'Dover !Dover Bouthamp!on 7(1 71. 17th of mon I sth of month ...:I Every Saturday.. Dai1y.......... • • 2d & 17th ofmonth, 4th and lath of raJ tn. • • xiun cn,southamDtan - iv `ti ben g di, a d. Vieel6c 1 Dino roe Al coal rt 5 1 ,1 stu°' 9 o .2d 6° 4s; ooi 1 16° 9 1 ictD• i6tti trOa ri 0 ° 16th 15 3 ; k 1 '110 4th"" i and 4 and ; 2 an" 14 7 all' d o Dwice cr! Tv4 0 :, 0 ,P 6,7 , d 1 6 vt • 611,4 jot of •-• • 160 ji 4 0 1 2 9 0 I.lb 16 And ii I 0 140 1 $ll4 I t lot 4 114 16 4 %l et % 104 I S 16' vreela to' 00 :1 1 lin i 111`_.;./ pos t-(