The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING NOV h 14, 180 0. LATEST MARSEILLES, FRIDAY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7. Redschid. Pacha has already presided as Vizier at a State Council. Mehemet Pacha will retain his post of Minister of Marine in the new Ministry. Fuad Paella remains Minister of the Interior. The Persians, who had taken Herat, have been expelled by an Affghan army. us MARSEILLES, THURSD A Y. We have news from Bombay, by the Vectis, to the I;th Oct.. The Delhi Gazate, of the 13th, confirms the fall of Herat by famine. The Governor and his family have been put to death. The Persian army has been reinforced to the number of 100,000 men. Dost Mahomined is without supplies. His troops in Kandahar are in a state of mutiny. The East India Company will send him funds. The Calcutta journals criticise freely the pro jected Euphrates Railway. They maintain that its rates of transport will be too high. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 13. The King of Denmark is sufferiegfrom a serere attack of erysipelas in The head. He lies at the Chateau of Fredericksburg. The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition), in his letter dated yesterday, says : " it is rumoured that the French GoVernme.nt is in complete accord with England relative to the Neapolitan question ; and is prepared, if neces sary, to assume a more energetic attitude. The Marquis Antonini, Xing Ferdinand's representa tive here, was yesterday informed.,hy th 9 Ministei of Foreign Affairs that there was no chance of his staying in Paris, and that he and the whole of the Legation will have to retire. 110 expects to leave to-morrow or the day after for Brunel., though I believe his passports have not yet been delivered to him." A telegraphic despatch frolp Cherbourg an nounces that the Russian squadron, which had been expected in that port, arrived there on Tues day evening. It was believed it would remain at Cherbourg afortnight or three week,.. FRANCE. PARIS, TIitTR3DA.Y. The Emperor yesterday received at the Palace of the Tuileries, in solemn audience, Cou nt de Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador, who had to present to his Majesty his- credentials as represen tative of Russia at the Court of France. His MI, jesty arrived at the palace at one o'clock, and shortly after five state carriages proceeded to the hotel of the Russian embassy, in the rue du Fau bourg St. Honore, and conveyed thence to the Tuileries the ambassador -and_the various persons of his staff. The Count entered the, court of the Tuileries to the sound of - military music, and the troops rendered him the usual honours. The re ception took place with great, splendour, in pre sence of the Ministers and chief officers of the Im perial household, when the ambassador in •presen t ing his letters of credence addressed the Emperor as follows : "Sire, , -The Emperor, my august master, in appointing me his ambassador to your Imperial Majesty, charged me to devote all my care to cultivate the relations of friend ship which unite the two empires. I shall consider myself happy if, at the end of my career, I have contributed to cament between France and Para ,, ia that, union which secures to the general peace one of its most durable guaran tees. In the name of my august sovereign, I have the honour of presenting to your Imperial Majesty the cre dentials with which I Am furnished ; and I venture to hope that you will receive with kindness the homage of my profound respect." The Emperor replied in these terms : "Monsieur le Comte—From the moment that the treaty of peace was signed, my constant pre-occupation has been, without weakening my ancient alliances, to alleviate by friendly measures everything that might be rigorous in the strict execution of certain conditions. I have learnt with pleasure that my ambassador at §t. Petersburg, animated with these sentiments, hai known how to acquire the kindness of the Emperor Alexander. The same wel come you may be assured awaits you here, since, indepen dently of your personal merits, you represent a ;sovereign who so nobly knows how to subdue the sad remieisceaens which are too often left by war, in order to think only of the advantages of a peace cemented by relations of fi iend ship." As soon as the reception h ad concluded, the am bassador was conveyed back to his hotel with the same ceremonial that had marked his coining. The Queen of England having expressed the in tention of presenting a commemorative medal to the French troops who formed part of the expedi tionary corps in the Baltic, the Minister of War has published a notice calling on all those who took part in that expedition to send in before the 30th inst. their . claims, supported by proper certificates, to the.general commanding the division. Marshal Pelissiur appears to be running a round of fetes in Normandy. The one that perhaps affurdea him the most pleasure was the banquet to. which he was invited at Maromme, where he was born the 18th Brumaire, year of the Republican era. The Archbishop of Rouen, the President of the Court and the Procnreur, Admiral Cecille, the P' General commanding the division, and others were present. The Marshal expressed himself as fol lows when his health was proposed : " Gentlemen, —I have had the satisfaction this morn ing of informing you bow happy I felt at findin g myself among yeu—among my real fellow-citizens. 1 thank you in the name of the army for your words of kindnes , , for the success of the army is the palladium of true libtrty and social order. For my own part I shall always remember your cordial reception, and it is with profound emotion that in this poor chapel, where I received the waters of baptism, I have this morning been enabled with you all to invoke the benediction of the Most High on our Sovereign, on him who has saved and protected France. Vtre l'Empereur 1" BoußsE, Nuv..l3.—A. telegraphic despatch, an nouncing that the Bank of England had raised its rate of discount from 6 per cent. to 7 per cent., has produced a sudden fall, and prices closed as follows : Cash. fr. c End of Month. 4. per Cents 3 per Cents . 66 40 65 53 New Loan Rank Shares 3,850 Roman Credit, Mobilier 1,255 Austrian - Belgian Fives ...... .. 97 Sp,•nieh Threes Piedmontese (5) B9 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. _____ ____ ____ ___ fr. c. fr. c Orleang 1,2)0 Western Northern B -.17 50 Strasburg et d) 7'35 Lyons , 1,230 New Ditto (x d) -72 > Mediterranean 1,575 -- Grand Central ...... 551 Lyons Genova Cette ' • 662 50 Austrian Com. BELGIUM. The usual grand dinner given by the King of the Belgians on the occasion of the opening of the Chambers has been postponed, in consequences of the Duke de Brabant being much fatigued by his journey from England. The steamer only arrived in the middle of the night at Ostend, and the train which conveyed his Royal Highness to BrUssels did not get in until six in the morning of Tuesday, the day of the royal sitting. The Belgian Senate met after the royal sitting, and again elected the Prince de L' g ue their presi dent. The Marquis de Lodes proposed that a message should bo transmitted to the prince with as little delay as possible, to inform him of his re . election, and to express the wishes of the 111 otnbo rs for his speedy recovery. This proposition was re ceivedwith loud applause and adopted unanimously. M. d'Omalius-dlia.lloy was then named first vice president, and M. de Renesie second ; and after the usual measures adopted at the commencement of a session the proceedings terminated. The Chamber of Representatives also held a sitting, and, after the usual nomnation of the bureaux, sever al electoral proceed i ngs were verified and some of the new members admitted. The next day another short sitting was held, and the rerna;n ing members took the oaths and their seats. The other proceedings merely consisted of the nomina tion of questors and other matters of routine. SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the 9th have reached tl3. The Gazette contains a circular from the Minister of the interior to the governors of provinces, Fat ting forth the manner in which the decrees of 1845 relative to the press, which havebeen re-established, ar e to be carried out. A mongs t other thing, te governors are directed to prohibit the publication of controversies on religious subjects, except with per mission of the bishops ; and ofanything " inconsist eat with religious respect for the sacred person of the monarch or the throne ;" or attacking th e ri g ht of property, or a n y o th er of the bases of society ; or, lastly, reflecting offensively on foreign sovereign. A. royal decree in the Gazette annuls certain enact S. uteri is in a circular of the 3d September, 1854, sus' • pending nomii a ions to vacant cures and depriving bishops of som:-.) of their patronage. A second de o el nominates General Co toner Captain-General: of Porto Rico ; and a thitd appoints General Las sala to the Military Governorship of Cadiz. The Gazette also contains royel decrees which sup• press the Council of Admiralty and re-estab lish it in another form, under the name of " direction of the navy," and which make the long expected nominations of the new Royal Council•of State, M. Martinez de la Rosa being appointed Vice-Pret.iclent of it. The Espana says th:,t , the Queen, as a mark of special esteem, had presented the Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) with the finest horse in her stables, and had at the same time written him a flattering autograph letter. • The Queen ordered the equerry charged to present the horse to tell tho duke that it lie did not like the animal, he might exchange it for any other she possessed. The lioja Autografa says that the Civil Governor of Madrid has forbidden the dis cussion of politics in coffee-houses and other piacos of public resort, and has made the owners of such establishments responsible for the execution of his orders. A slight decline in the price of wheat and other grain had taken place in the market of Madrid. A. letter from Helsingfors, in the _Austrian Ga v.:He, says :—" The activity displayed in the itn rovernent of our, navy continues in spite of the advanced season. It is natural that Sweden should be alarmed by these measures, and the Govern ment of that country has determined not only on carrying out a series of fortifications in the interior, which will form a system of central defence, but will likewise reinforce the €.xisting forte. The firearms of the army will likewise, be changed ; and, in a few year s, " the whole of the Swedis army will be armed with rifles. An-order for 5,000 rifles for conical:balls has already been given in Belgium. The stall officers of the Swedish army are at present occu pied in- drawing up a tninnte map of Sweden." • The Nord, says :—" According to accounts which we receive from Trieste, King Otho arrived there on the Bth, and immediately embarked on board the Austrian war steamer Prince Eugene. In the • suite of his Majesty was NI. Notaras, the marshal of his Court ; Col. Botzaris, his aide-de-camp ; and Prince Mourousi, his orderly officer. On his arri val the King was received at the gdvernment by Baron de Mertens, the civil and military gover nor ; Rear-Admiral Baron de Bujacovitch, and all the military and naval officers then at Trieste. Chevalier de Giachenesi, the Greek consul,: was also present to pay his respects to his MajestY.. Followed by this brilliant cortege, King Otbo pro' ceeded on board the steamer, which left tbe per, under saint es from the forts and the vessels'of war. • TITTRSITANT to an Order of the High Court cf , will .-. -' it qn.edily be increased l" These gloomy I L - cha-,c,-,,, nyteein P. came wiere!n!Tlio3.llenr. Stran,ways ' predictions have already been fully and completely is plainiff, and ille)alit tlaker Leslie derei,a,mt, all persnos ejair•Alng is ne. Credit.rs • f WI 1.17:T.Er., Lite of Mirk.arn'pin.,,,. vt ,rified. The Back Directors yesterday resolved rhelAen. It the enttnty Of lti.l:llrges, ~.fetttlntott, the inte,tatc, i•I the i rr., T oth, Ts muted. who ilie.l in or nhoot the month of Angnit, IV' 3, i ou an ftivance to an uniform rate of interest of be Vieir seloilor., on ar Ir:fee the 901 , lAr of I) cell-1w... l:' , 1. i . -.-<, 0,„,. n ,,, , • cell- Vice-Olnu- 7 per cent., thus -abolishing the distinction that , ;to .e.boading. i.irwc , in• , - Til he perettiptorlls.• et- previously existed between bil ls comin g to math ' rity at more or less than sixty days. Nor is this all. It was alto decided that bills haVing leers than 30 days to run will not be re.; discounted for the brokers; so that virtually credit annot now he obtained for more than a single month, and that at the ruinous charge of 7 per cent . ,l)37 the Leviathan, which implieS a cost of .r.,...-; at least, 8 or 9 per cent. to trading and manufac mring firms. - The discount houses, following the old lady's lead, have advanced their rate for money held on call to (1 per cent., • and. - a similar allowance ig made on depv,its by the joint-sto-ck to come in and prove 111 ,-, r aebt4 It , eeror Sir Tliehint T inn; ~r in drfinit &ivied from the IsP7lP9t Of ;he said con'er. Tnes.l3y, tlim I rob dlv ;Vet o'cleet. in the ternoon. at the alid ChamberA, la ap:-..0int,1 tor !xn: - In';', nnot ao.judi- Sttine 000 n thee:3l4i. Dated this stII ;lay of iCavT•rat - . o r. MT A 1tt.1 , 3 C'h'ef • I. % latE itT, Will raorty, thd HAMPTON', 7. dolin-trc,t, P.Nlforl•nr,v. l'lrOntira Solieitots. . _ ur ER Al A.T EST-TS THEATRE.— fk M. Jr7l-.141-P,N's CONIER.T.,4.—LAST .k?Pf. II V . ;01:1 ONT-7, of C:117ar , 111:11 7 : Jamill's —Prorar t•-•4 TIVEN [NG - Nov. li? ti .;Pt - afivnf"?' t ama for I'll tt~ tiMP - • t'ao F4,-Inulinny, (:r.i~xl al) ori nis or activity which so untoward a state of afleirs 1 THE POLYTECHNIC,' INSTITUTION. urgently demands: . i ei r .. • SOLE LESSEE—J. 11. PEPPER., _Mg. •••••••••••••11...........•••• . I It is somewhat remarleeble that, while the me -1 • - . ----ele---. . tro - politan population have been patien t ly waiting The enterprise of Mr. Pepper, as the Sole 1 Lessee and Menager of --the Regal Polytechnic tobo rid of the sewage, the retention of which ; Institution, really appears to be inexhaustibl©. has been found so prejudicial to longevity, the I His Programme, 'just now, or Syllabus, or what metropolis has been flooded with the moral drain- I i ever else we may please to call it, is marked by an age of the Continent, German and Italian- rascals entire series of Novelties, or, as our allies across and cut-throats to wit, " the offscouring •of all the chennel have taught us to say, by a succession things," whose prolonged retention is fraught of new and interesting "Specialities." No Wonder, with more immediate danger to life than the other, therefore, that out of anenterprise like this, coin we bined with a remarkable Sagacity of selection, and though much more easily to be got rid of. an indomitable energy, aedan unflagging perseve content ourselves with calling attention to th e ranee- T eo wondee e. we e eey, that out of an union coincidence, without pointing the moral to be • • - - • of al, these laudable qualities combined, Mr. derived from it. Pepper should have contrived to draw forth As our readers are aware the es eilteuent of the portions .. of . success in 'alcioet every one foreign mercenaries, in the Bri'!ish service met of ' the' carious and contrasting motions of his large and motley establishment. Insomuch so tha t, from the first .with our most marked disapproval. now in 1856, nearly 2) years from the date.of its Sulsequent events have . proved to demon stration original establishment, we still find .the Royal the correctness of the view taken by The Smn of Polytechnic Institution flourishing among the the . Mattee.' Abroad' the various - foreign .leeions wreck efm . nch younger and more shoWily preterie thus enrolled have not been of the sli g htest service liens undertakiegs of, a scientific character. The to us, but, on the. contrary, their enlistment has dot/ism/on , in more senses than one a masa of involved 'us in the gravest difficulties with neutral "artificial ruins "—the Adelaide Gallery.the mere Powers, actually all but occasioning war between vulgarshow-reomalternatelyof mammotletrees and ieon a gaudy us and the - United States. 'At home they have Preposterous marionettes — the Pan opt neither benefited us by their example as soldiers pile of gilt gingerbread, abandoned to dust and cob webs, its -.fountain dry, its organ silent, its doors -nor as citizens ; have -utterly failed to secure the :double locked by the iron force of bankruptcy—the confidence of the population, and at their very one only success among these scientific - caterers to `the public amMement andthe popular instruction beSt done no more than draw their pay and ja bber during . drill. Their virtues being of this negative ' being the "old original'' structure et 309, Regent character, what have been their vices ?- i 'Week street, inCorporated by Royal Charters in 1838 and by week, forfore long before their breaking .nn, in 1852, the illustrious Patron of - which is H.R.H. the public ear has been shocked. by narra• the' Prince Consort, the' SelelLessee of which is ' --- Mr. J. H. Pepper, Manager and LeetUrer; the tives of outrages on their part as - wanton as industrious and indefatigable ! they were cowardly, and alaiost invariably elle- . Simultaneous - with the crowning triumphs of the racterised by a murderous intent. Now it WAS Polytechnic Institution in this year of grace 1 85 6 . an -unoffending civilian beaten or stabbed, now a —and, doubtless; having a great -deel to do with few British soldiers having to defend their lives those same successes—there is.especially noticeable against oVerpoWering numbets, and now -some the important event, in the history of the Institu tion, of the Unidn recently effected between the swindling transaction as heartless as impudent, • - - „ Society of Arts" and the " Royal Polytechnic." i followed by some atrocious murder, as if to set • . • - Au union so eminently successful, that already we forth the capacity for evil of this dire importation believe in this First Term, 1855,- the number of pupils enrolled has reached an aggregate of no less in the boldest relief. Such - was the conduct of than 390 altogether ! As indicative of the charac thethese foreign mercenaries during t h e war--e.such use of these auxiliaries for whom nothing was ter of the result it may be here briefly notified that deemed' too much, and whose treatment up to the current time-table of classes for this winter ses their discharge has been of a na ture admirabl y sion- marks a diversity of subjects for each succes sive- week -as remarkable as the following :--For calculated to excite feelings of discon t e nt in the' Monday, Arithmetic, Algebra, and Chemistry; for mind of the far less favoured British soldier. • Tuesday, Geometry, Mensuration, and Geography; And now when the public ought to have been, for Wednesday, HiStory, Literature, and the ridden of them—abundant time having elapsed for French Language i for Thursday, Mechanics, the that desirable consummation—they are still Elements of Mechanism, and the German Lan among us, not a whit improVed, but more guage; and for kriday, Book-keeping. D. White dangerous to the public peace than ever. Instead being the arithmetician and algebraist ; Mr. Pepper and Mr. Buckmaster the chemists ; Mr . . Tear the of - contemplating occasional forays in the g • eometrician ; Mr. Chapman the geographer ; the camp, they' are scattered abroad throughout the * Rev. C. Boutell the exponent of the belles lettres ; metropolis, to be met with everywhere and on all Mr. Bridge the mechanician ;Mr. Macpherson the occasions, affording proof of the wisdom of their accountant; and Messrs. Roublot and Heidenheim being shunned. No woman's delicacy can be said the linguists. It is observable, however, altogether to be safe from the pollution of their touch—no apart from the union of the Society of Arts and the manly protecting breast from the sharpne ss o f Royal Polytechnic, that the popular scientific Insti tution r of London displays a really remarkable their steel. Inflamed with beer , pu r c hased b y variety of attractions upon the long catalogue of money ohtained at no cost, but that of the tax- - - • its stereotyped advertisernent. For example, be payer, the rascally hand obeys the impulse of the ginning on the 3d of this present month of Novem licentious eye, and the rebuke of offended woman- ber, at eight o'clock in the evenin g ,e there are the hood, no less than the interference -of .the indig- Musical LecturesbyG.,A. Cooper, assisted by seve nant spectator, is ' , met by a thrust: :with the ral able artistes, and by a choral aid of no less than Rapper himself in • . co wardly knife. 'Thepolice meet with no better 100 voices. Again, Mr ,in addition te' his :attractive Lecture (with fate, their short staves availing little in astruggle Experiments ' arid Dissolvin g Diagrams) upon with the murderous blade. In one day , and that - ' • , Bessemer's new and marvellous process of manufac - day yesterday, 'the' Guildhall, Worship-street, and t • • urine. iron and steel —recently delivered two lee- Thames Police-courts were simultaneously en- turesnpon the ".Chemistry of Fireworks"--a theme gaged in the iniestigation of outrages such as we a ppr o priately selected for Wednesday, the sth of `have described, and c )mmitted by discharged- 'November, 'and brilliantly illustrated for the mos.- \ members of one or other of these mercenary sion by a variety of miniature fireworks, con legions., 'No one's life is safe With them. At the latter . police-court the astounding . - intelligence structed 'by 'the skilled hand of Mr. Darby, the • eminent Vauxhall Pyrotechnist. Besides these allurements on the Programme of the Polytechnic, was eliminated during _the. proceedings, that - - - . 0 therehave been—there ' are still t) be—divers re " there are about fifty men • belonging :to markable - literary attractions.: There " have been," then British Italian Legion pronging about for example, Mr. \Vatter. ROwton's Inctures on Stepney and Whitechapsl; and they are' the Writings- of the . most popular Author of the all armed with bowie knives and stilettos." - Those Age, our glorious and in many respects incomper who entertain . the desire that their days may be able Box ! And . with these appreciative protec tions upon the Weeks-of Charles Dibleens—D rama • long in the land will be disposed to postpone their tie Reading; of ". Uncle -, ,r, v .i r tctbin" by ' Miss visit's to this locality. As for the women they Mary E Webb, the, coloured netive of Philadelphia, must put a Bridle en their tongues, endbe exceed 15S•, who first read the masterly fiction of Harriet iingly gentle in their repulses if they- would escape. B. ktewe in London, at Stafford House, before the at once violation and murder. assembled guests of her Grace the Duchess of How long is this sort of thing to continue 1 -Siitherland. There are "to bee' critical and pee- How long are peaceable British citizens to find tical lectures by Mr. Tell Tophain, on the 17th instant upon Levi Byron, and on the 14 th in sta n t their native meridian darken ed b y ex p osure to. . atrocities that would hardly be tolerated under an ups' ThoiaftS.Meore. Again, amen the coini ng wonders of the Polytechuice the public have Italian sky t Were these mercenaries refuge es prornuie held on. to them of enjoying, on the - from foreign tyranny, with no other fault than an inveterate love of liberty, and two or three Geology and Physical Constitution of the Moon— black sheep among them broke the peace :same an w i t h a Fiss i l e: glance, let us hops, by the lecturer, offensive fashion, they would be promPtlY.enotteh upon the vexed question about the relation of our dealt with by the Home-office• The act which -lovely satellite up en its a.xii ! And another allur ing Lecture, On ' the 15th proximo, by Mr. Reim arms the Home Secretary with e xce p tionable S . upon t h e ti Beauties of Creation," with powers ought surely, if in force at-all, to be turned te especial regerd to .the means whereby man to some good account. ' Why are not these b ecomes acquainted with them this partici"- _ cowardly rut brought at once under its op t s - lac lecture u pon the Beauties of Nature being. ffi ration ? Why are they not one and all driven out in point of feet, the first of a series of lectures of the metropolis and transported to the lands which 'on the exquiSite theme of the "Five Senses." gave them birth, and are doubtless glad .at the There are, besidei all this, several minor attractions col thought of having got rid of them ? Favour in a. very noticeable jest now among the marvels thee at the Royal Polytechnic Institu high quarter may do much, but it cannot he per lected toge then. Noticeable ev en amon g the whirling wheels mitred to throw its shield over drunken. reprobates •e• - - and pinions, and steal straps of and assassins like theee. If _Sir G. GREY would themoving mee eorreachitterye - - - among such familiar not have the odium of these transactions_ cast on wonders (wonders etill though so long familiar) as the himself and the • Government of which - he is a diving b e ll, a nd the electric machine, and the steam member —if he has any fellow feeling with hi s gun an d the like scientific miracles !, One eing outraged and endangered countrymen and wenn- G. Harvey exquisite Dissolving Views -of `b Life . the - West"--erevealing the growth from - the rude try women, and is. shocked , a s the y are, at- being in - Le Hut to the magnifice nt City, among-the Fields subjected or exposed to such ruffianism, he will g • - -and Forests and Prairies of the Theited Staler — order an immediate por..e hunt, which shall not Dissolving Views accompanied by an Illustrative cease until every member of these legions thrceigb- Lecture by Mr. Leicester .Buekinglaam.• Another out the country 'is beaten' up and placed wider of these noticeable recent additions to the Poly surveillance; preliminary to the speediest possible te c hnic being /.e.peteoe Montanate's inge nious Col delineative of thedifferent oh arac deportation. .Ne have, surely, native villains in lectionof Figures e . , •• • • Savageand Civilised, tors of "Mexican Life" --Life, e . . abundance to guard ourMlVeti against, without with all its varied . costumes and attributes. A. having the schist' of continental rascaldom in ad- - - : -fe toallthia—can there Shilling being the admission e dition—the wielder of the knife and the stiletto, beanyliarvele then, that . that old and favourite as well as the :wielder of the life-preserver , and haunt of sight-seers continues still night after night, the garotte. noon after noon, and morn in g after.morning, to be I crowded, that success still follows like its shadow I. upon. the enterprise displayed by Mr. J. H. Pepper SNOW.—Tha bills in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire, were covered with snow on Monday night ikst. NEWPORT MONNIOUTHSHIRE).—CharIes Lytle, Esq., R.N., was elected Mayor on Monday last. Sir A. Cockburn, the Attorney-General, has succeeded to the ChiefJusticeship of the Common Pleas, is a great grandson (says the Balk Chron;e l e) of Dr. Ayscongb, a former Dean of Bristol. He is heir presumptive to the baronetcy at present held by his uncle, the Dean of Yolk, and lately hell by another uncle, the late distin guished Admiral Sir George Cockburn. . DEATH OE LORD FCARSDAT,E.—We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon. Nathaniel Curzon, Brron Scarsdale,. which took place at Farnah-hall, near Derby, on Wednesday last. The late Lord Scarsdale was born on the of January. 1781, and was consequently in his 76th year. The heir presumptive is the Rev. Alfred Curzon, of Kedleston, second son of the late Hon. and Rev. Alfred Curzon, who was born in 1801, and who married: in 1825, Sophia, daughter 'of R. Holden, Ea q. Mr. W. P. Andrew (chairman Of the Schiele and-Eu phrates Valley Railway Company), Captain Cole,. Mr. J. Entwistle, Mr. G. K. Fairliohne, Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, C.B , Mr. Arthur Hudson (Superintendent of the Australian Agricultural Company), Mr. J. B. Heath, F.R.S. (Consul for Sardinia), Mr. W. H. Hovel, of J. us t ratio), Sir Charles Nicholson (Chancellor of the UniVer aity of Sydney) , Commander Montagu O'Reilly, and Mr. Wm. Stamland, Civil Engineer ' have been elected Fello ws of the Royal GeograPhieal Society. - THE W ES TICINSTERIIMPROVEMENTIBONDHOLD ERS.-A. meeting of these bondholders took p lace yesterday, Mr. Ogle in the chair, when two plans were submitted to induce them to adopt the Westminster Land Act ob tained last session, and to subscribe additional money, with the view of resuscitating the property. A strong feeling was manifested against any such proceeding, and it was contended that a full investigation of the acitninis tration of the Westminster Commission is essential for the i n t e rests of the bondholders and the public... The suit in Chancery already instituted will, it is asserted* diaellse the disreputable circumstances connected with the operations of that body, and be attended with bentki Eclat results to the creditors. in his management of tae Royal Polytechnic Insti tution ? Mr. Maitland, secretary, to the Civil Service Commis sion, 'will also act as secretary to the Civil Service Su perannuation Commissioners. THE PARLIAMENT S'isREET ASSASSIN, MARLET.—For prudential reasons, the fatal termination of the assault on the unfortunate man Cope was concealed from the assassin, Marley, in the House of Detention, until Wed nesday evening, when he was visited by the Rev. Mr. Jephson, the chaplain of the prison. When, in the course of his interview, the reverend gentleman informed Mari ley of. the death of the ill-fated Cope, he never expressed the slightest contrition for his end, and in his demeanour was callous and hardened in the extreme. In answer to some observations, he replied that be had faced death too many times to fear it now. In a subsequent part of the yes terday, evening, being spoken to by a warder, he said that be was not afraid of death, and would "go to the gallows Imilesaslir.i_cleAffotelirohwiisnegomroittal from Bow-street, yes- Genend Nonate, hae:eexhealragitne exclaimed t w o il t f h u e l omffin:rxdresr,, hheisheavrerilahlavaet come to stop with you for some time." He was speedily consigned , to his cell, which he will occopy until his trial. GENERAL CIIANGARNIER AND THE MARQUIS OF NOR ‘e t e e n ,. c add'_ ;Saline b, Cbaogarnier to th l e et ß te r i ns li s a el Nov. lo , 1856.—Mr. Edito r, —There has been pointed out to me in one of the letters dated.from Paris, inserted In yogi. journal of the 9th Nov., the following sentence A great deal was said at a certain period of th h e confi- and dential conv ersa ti on s between the Emperor Nicolas Sir Hamilton Seymour on the su b j ect of Turkey. Rus sia would in h er turn hold a fine baud if she possessed certain letters addressed by Lnrd Normanby to General Changapier—letters which it has not been thought, apropos to publish, but which ar e not destroyed.' I have never rec e ived a single letter from Lord Normanby relative to the fdreign policy of England. Receive, sir, etc , " CHANGABNIEIt." Lag even:ng a romantic play entitled " Fabian, or la Wiesalliance," was produced at this theatre for the first, time, and mot with the most decided succas. The play is a new adaptation of The B:a;:k Doctor," and there fore to recount the tale through all its cimplerities 01 LYO. T be needless. The leading incident of the version pm duced last evening will be understood by the following brief description. The " mesallianne," from which the play takes it; nave, consists in a marr:age with a cer tail] Pauline de la Raynario, the daughter of the Mar quii de Is Raynarie, asd Fabian, a mu!atto, who its& been a slave to the marquis, but bas recovered his fret• dom for having save;l the life of his master. Be studies medic'ne, and eventually becomes celebrated for certain cures he has performed. His fame spreads in all directions, and a fever of a dreadful character vi siting the isle of Bourbon, the scene in which earlier portions of the play is laid, his aid is eagerly sought by the white folks, who before had only endured his pre• sence. The Marchioness de la Raynarie and her daughter Pauline are seizzd with the fever, and the mother, who is saved through the skill of Fabian, quits tle island to return to France before her daughter has suftloiently recovered to proceed with her. News arrives of the death of the marchioness, and marriage takes place be tween Fabian and Pauline, who believe; herself to be an orphan. The mother has, however, escaped death, and she summons her daughter to France. Upon Fabian's arrival • the marriage is discovered, and •be is thrown into the bastile. The capture of the fortress by the, people releases him, but his incur ceration has bereft him ef reason. A friend finds out by whose orders he was immured, and Pauline is de. nounoed to the Convention as an aristocrat. Her hiding-place is, however, discovered, and Fabian, while endeavouring to convince the mob that the lady is his wife, is struck dead by 'a bullet aimed at Pauline. The part of Fabian was sustained - by Mr. C. Dillon with great ability. In the scene in which he is taunted • r his negro birth his acting was that of a con summate artiste, and elicited unbounded applau , e• Indeed the whole performance was distinguished by an avoidance of point-making, and without once overstepping the modesty of nature he held the feelings of his audience entirely at his Com mand. Mrs. Dillon's Patiline was a chaste and delicate performance, and in certain parts of the play she exhi bited great power . and pathos. The other charaeters were very efficiently sustained. The play bas been put upon the stage in a very striking manner ; and some of the effects, for instance the rising of the waters in the muia'to's cave, and the storming of the baskile, are ex traordinary. At the termination of each act of the drama Mr. and Mrs. Dillon had to appear before the curtain, n obedience to the call of a delighted audience. MISS P. LORTON'S ILLUSTRATIONS, Mrs. German Reed last evsning resumed her bighls attractive entertainment at the Gallery of Illustration, Regent-street. The audience was exceediney nurnereu4, an& if the first night of a season can be taken as a cri terion, a season of unexampled success is certain. The chief features of the performance did not rest upon any novelty, and it is not necessary on this occasion to say more than that Mrs. Reed's powers were as cunTicuous As ever, and that she really merited all the applause she received. PArt, I; Ov",rtili•. -. \ •11 • tili. 4c5:191 ,- ~...,:.,• 1,.•,. - ;. ,„•.0.:0).-.:: bat o li o ; F,,,i, w,,,,, F,:m , , ,, 00• t un.n . ks : we are told that the announcement of ,; ,- La.vi:ele ; wl.:0 "My -.4: t ry ~. •,'. ; ;. ' ... " - .I.lllirm (.I:3leatea 1.) Mr. Itarney .!1--: tiir: advance caused "considerable surprise.". We ' • ~,.:, .-,y, 1 1,- Anitinte,• from Spolir'.`4s,m-pheay tae t i. _ , did say „ba. we r, not by any means share '• .-,!,.i..l ,,, riptive of the f'reation of Tdusio.---1-1,,e,1,r ; inns, owe 0 .1111 " ) ' in the feeling. . We RAW the .in ',lli?, an French olie, .......:,., ,••• , _ Introdm•tion : yiecesity of the Bird.: adopting., stringent not 11.1, PA 1'1',.., 011 1.1.11 , ..44 - !7_ r. , :(11 l oony; r," pPrrorrne.ti ••- z , ~. . • • . . -... 1 _ p i,i(,„ 1 , 7 1 T,.., K,-,-,1,,. N',,, 1. .. 1,, l'etit 1 inea..nies for its own security if the unwise illl. No. 2 ". La v.;" 13 ' ' and impolitic provi.iions of the Bank . Char ' .inn, with yaria.tic. ,- ,". come, ter Act of m f 1844 are still to be aintaine ) 44d e11 ',,, 5 . 5 ., Cp .. linet. .. intact. Every continental natio n was coolly 1',,,5.5.,' vt,a1,41,4 , ri..,.. . t. foe:. a :,i v glint, (I tioo, pp: opttleir. ,, — providing for its own wants at our ex a-rooloo,- :io at French tnne, fast , rt.-mile.' g Piler,lly ...it 16.4 appe-trauee l i ly ..... France is outbidding us in our own mar (;=' of flit' ,'LI ni" . o l ' .-- Fin't l ' 1 P ' 11 :: kets, aod purchasing the bullion - forwarded to our ~ vire 1. Enlinnwr." An interval of :, ..-,,,. P.t.rt 2. Oper:i., Grand niter tic shores, at higher prices than the Bank . of England - , ra, it TrevAtore, ,wir.h .solos fo r . . . , ... by ITerr Koenig, M. li-trigne, is allowed to offer. Austria• has, since the begin• ~-, " ab, non ginnge," Ta niog of the y.e.ir; increased its stock of bullion by ''crane ITayes—V:dse, li, - t '-o•neto Obligate., Iferr some three millions and a piarter, or about 60 F.:tnotnek, .inn. per cent. - addition .• to what, lit -previously - 'vybpitny in F___ licsier—n'al- held. . Thissia is Making convulsive efforts co . rt el il . :: I to insure the payment of no • less than op - Vne , FORTY THREE- MILLIONS OF POUNDS_ sterling in `specie, for the alleged purpose of constructing a line of military railways, which can never by_ any possibility pay as commercial speculationi. There was a steady and continuous drain of bullion from oar shores, which there was no possible chance of arresting, and the Directors were therefore compelled to resort. to the only means in their power, however inadequate, of checking the out flow of the precious metals. But although the attempt occasions the most, injurious consequences to domestic industry, it has but little effect in arresting the evil. As the Times declared last montb, at the time of the last turn of the Bulk screw, " if the Bank of France" (and, we may add, of Vienna or St. Petersburg) "are determined to buy gold at any sacrifice, no addition , of one or, two per cent. per annum. will be regarded. The only limit to' such an operation must be found in the exhaustion of their power to buy up bills on this country, or to obtain credit here." This is unquestionably true. The remedy is Utterly inadequate to the disease t It may cause wide spread ruin and distress amongst the work ing population, bring many houses of unquestion able solvency to the verge of ruin, if not to actual bankruptcy, and occasioning a serious reduction in value of .111 classes of securities, public and private, and bitter privations to th© working classes. Surely it is time that some real attempt should be made to arrest - the monster grievance ere the golden opportunity has passed away, to provide,an adequate remedy before the patient is in a moribund condition. As we have repeatedly explained, the only . siiitable mode is to provide a domestic currency that will not be available either 'for exportation or hoarding—a currency which, ,",being required solely for internal commerce, no neco.ssi,ty. could exist for gold being held against any portion of ', it." Even the Times itself long since admitted 1 • ' the efficiency of such a circulating medium, de clacing that " a deposit of Government Stoe":,, or the fuel of its heir; receivable , for , duties, woull at rill times I,•eep it ' front fluctuation:4n value'! " Wit. ~~ 1 7 ! iifz (\Vol;or). !;:flri~l ixtit tint' of p;yrl'oriaa • goadrill , nnos •! 1 , .•, , tipAii'oll 1.11; , 1 7 .:01 , ;.:. o.la .t '.l ~ -~ • , r national • for flute clarinet, anti porhtritted Ly '3IM Pe 'Ally, 1 - wing, Lavlote, Slumenbencr, autl " an glint Etnpire." No. 4. "Le Pitit o wi th four variations for ophieleide by I.lr. llnglies, Monaeo,— ohl French tune, favorite of Na -. •,,nT., and, p-rformeil ;_rener,lly xt his appearanee by the ;i ,awls alid flt, or ow. old rin:Oct , : (1 t , ve,*pour " 'Vice l'Etatterenr." An interval of 2:i rijautes the parts. Part 2. Opera, Grand Operatie 431cetion from \''ertll'A opera, 11 Trovatore, .with .solos for etirnet..oh,e, onhieleide, ITerr Koenig, M. Lavigne, atul Mr. Tine:lest 'Ronde Filtalc," Ab, non ginuge," La Sfninambnlq. (Bellitta), Mi=44 Callterlne Hayes—Valse, La Printn. Donna - (by ; Clraeto Obligati, Herr Revahr, Solo, YioloneellO (Servtis) F-entnnek, ; irroubouy, All e gretto in B flat, from the Syfilphony in F— ll- ;Beethoven ; Iralse,Zerlina--Ntoni7 : G3lop, Pehissier -Itert. Is rehearsal, and shortly will be, performed (fer the - flr4t tirne4 a Grand Selection front Verdi'4 celebrated opera 'of " ha.. Tr.ivi•ita," with solos by - Messrs. Le Hon ; Lavicne, Pe . Fogey; Sonnenberg, Drthern, Tlnglies, and 'Koenig. C Con uctor--M. PrOT)leflßde, ls.; dress circle, 9a. sl. : tl •privAte boxes, fTI., , and upwards. Private boxes to he securer! of Mr. Nngent, at the box-office of the theatre ; at till the prineinll librari es and masiesellers; and _at Jullien Oad 214, Regent-street ":illf rieTISP. HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY , LANE.— TA-scee. Mr. E. T. Smith. • • A.q.im; if .iiavr, Mr. O. Mathews Stage Manager, Mr. R. Roxiiv. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. LT A LI AN OPERAS, COVED V, and BALLET:every Evening dung the Week , at Old P la y honse -Prices. Upper Gallery, Is. ; Gallery, ls. ; .Pit, ; Upper P,oses, : First Circle. Pie. ; Dress Circle, 'Ts.; Stalls, 10::. ed. ; Private Boxes, one, two, three, and four gnine is. consequence of the extraordinary an 1 unprecedented success that has attended the introductien of ITALIAN OPERAS at Drury-lane, the L•s‘ee begs to .announce that be has re-entered into arram;:ements .with Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., who have snecc , eded in prevailing upon the eminent Italian Artistes, to foreg , i , their Continental engage ntents, in order to appear for a Few Nights Longer in the most celebrated operas of the great composers: -Madame (Iris', Madame Rudersdorfr, Madame A,3natlei, Madame Sed lazek, and Madame Gassier ; ITowr Reichardt, Signor Valpini, Mons. Gassier, Signor Lorini, Signor Albieini, Signor Ttovere, Mr. Tennant, and TTerr Formes. Powerful band and corn. pletechorns. under the direction of Signoe...Li Calzi. • TITS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform the comedy of TUE BUSYBODY.. Characters Mr. Charles „Mathews, R. Rosily, A_ Vonnge, V,incent; Miss M. Oliver, Miss AV,ullmm. Miss Palmer, - After which, the Last Sane of LA S4oNNAMBITLA, Amina, 'Madame Gassier. To be followed by , he Second Act of Dr.R . ,FREISCITITTZ. SuPPorted by Madame Rnderstlarff, Mall e SAlatzek, Signor .A.lbieini. and Herr Formes. Terminating witkthe celebrate , .Incantation Scene. To co :elude with a Ballot. Di cortA , Emilie. and .Teeny (lament will appear. BOXCM. stalls, and places can he sernre.e of Messrs. Cramer. Beale, and Co., Begent-street, and at the hoe-office the. theatre, from 10 till G. Ti provqnt tli.ippointinent an early application is s• - illeitel. The Prot? List will be entirely snsperoled, Doors own at 11111-pant 7, eliAmiliiet, Anment, ir. wltl i :Nl,llleA rpHEATR,M ROYAL, if AYMNRKET. . THIS EVENING (Feilav). Td.,morrow (Saturday), awl ever. - evening g ( SCITOOf; FOTZ • SOAN r,, Mr At nrdnA will appear as Charles Surf:ire Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chipper tale; Sir Benjamin P.:lel:Jae, Mr.. Bnct..4.one ; abtree, Mr. Compton; Joseph Surfiee, r. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, air. ROgerS Moses Mr. (hark ; Sir. Harry (w th -ink;), Mr. W.'Farren ; Lady 'T eaz le. Miss P^vnolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ; Lady Sneerwoll, Mrs. Poyliter : Maria MiFss E. Sabine. After which the Spanish Pallet, of THE STAR OP ANDALTTST A., in which Peyea Nem) and her nnrivalleit CorananY, who, cuanstement ahaftt terminatinsc a pp?,r. be-followeti lyr. Mr. llnco,;4tonc,.(To•niglit. Ilan-I -marrow only) in LEND Mr. FIVE !our;TANG; Tit.F It OYA L, ADEL PH I. • Pottirn of Madame Oeleste.—Positivelv the. Igs,!-. wick for a long . period of the_ Pe:WI - rated 41ranirc of Green 'Bashes. "'(;rent streeesg of the new comic drama, - called A Thr. ,ier Marriage, in which Mr. lir,igli-Marray will appear.—Mr. - Wright new character, :).1141 cst gnd . .mr Cr;nni.hre, in The Oreen Rushes.—THlS EVENINO, ITTE GREEN' P,ITSHES. or A linnireit Years azo, in whieli Madame Celeste will appo! , ' in,ber ,9elehrateit clmrnAter of Miami. Minter Crinniibze, Mr. Wr'zht, and Jack (hang., Mr. P. - Redford (their . oricainal clue. raeters): • With a A. BORDER MARI:JAC:F.. Sir Walter, I:44,Thnrn, Leizh Murray : Dandle, 'sir Wr4;lli,; Mistress Willoothby, Miss Wvtolham Monday next, Nov. 17, positively will be prodneed a ivw fairy billA extravaganza, called the Elves, or the Statue Rii•le, in which Madame Celeste will sustain the grin ipaPcararqer. A BOW drama, in which Mr. Ben. Webster will perform, is alsi in rehearsal here, then, is the just s)lution of the 'important and interesting problem. We can only prevent that disastrous fluctuation, which Mr. COBDEN de- Oared to :have. occasioned greater mischief than the failure of all the banks that ever stopped pay ment, by the creation of a really National Bank, issuing really National Notes of small and con venient denominations, which would answer every domestic exigency and render gold, what it ought to be, a commodity, in which we could compete with other nations when they strove to I carry it off at-,inadequate prices from before-our 11T—ICECTAI THEATRE ROYAL. TaqgqoP, Mr. C. THIS EVENINct (Friday, Nov. 14), a Romantic Play, in fonr FARIAN, " T.a M,sall , ancc," with new scenic anal mechanical ofrects, ~ : e. Fabian, Mr. Chas. ; Panline. Mrs. C. TIillon.• ( - ',onclud.hrt with the Ror:esnne of TILE WINTEIL'i TALE. Miss Woolgae, Miss Wilta . l; Mr.- J. L. Toole, &c DOYA.T. P - 11. TN C.l filgS'S .T HE A. T RE. THTS [LTG Itnit lllrinvf tiv, week w ill 1 41 ply of A. MITATTNDIFIR 1" DRE.IA.• To em,,lcule tral;t: pl P I'4 Z,r) int. , ). mcn4,l4, sAn's i!els;hrAte,l ovel•tur. , to Alr ,1341.11-31 r NieTht's Dream Till 0011'110.r1,2 at minute 3 1,oFor,:! 7. JOYAL SURR NY THEATRE. 11144H...14, 8;toplion.1 an 1 Ocogwick. TREA EVENTINVI-, DR.ED. Tom S'jlep her Dr' t. If t rry, It: Potter; T ; Gor- MIA:3 A. Billle3; flont Gor4lon, Miss .Ta:4:3(m; Lisette, ,r To Ellis. e nelu,le with TaC OTTIT A.IT MOTS{ nr,,. ROYAL OTY - yr r c 1. 1 El El A. T 11. .. • TA 4 qO("), Mr. AlfrPtl Wigan. THIS_EVENING, STN' AT I'loll2. Mr. Nil J l s.on, Ntii; Thirl wall ; °rDl " us • Ms 4 I ra - ' l Zell Cee , l4:l, Mica 11. Stanley ; Medoa, 31i. F. Robsqn. A CONJUiI.IT, LESSON. Lnll.lby, Mr. F Robs )n ; Mrs. Lullaby, Mrs. Stirling. Commence 'at ba:f-pas% STLEY'S ROYAL ANTPITITIEFATRE. Lessee in,l Mlii-trepr , Mr. W. flooke• That Nights of Richard tine Third. THISEVENINg (Flft.enth Werll; !—a, fact unparalleled). Thakspere'sTra;mlyof ItIeITXRI)/TIIETTIRD, with Electric Equestrian effeels by :Mr. \Y 111 e'A noble palfreys. Richard, Mr...Tarneq After, which, the . inimitable SC'ENTES in'the CIRCLE. by fti.Fit,rate eeinstrians: Miss Ra'e 11,,0ke, la Perle 416 l'art)ne. To conclu‘le tvitll a spleet PIWIR PIN,kLE. D o ors open lt ha" f- ,, aqt, .Ric ealitriewt,t at raven o'clock. Pox-ofliec open from Erevan till Vour Stage Manager, Mr. West. F.ll4nAstriao Mr. W. jun. In preparation, a :11%1 l 7,wstrian Spectacle called DTI.P.D. 111G1 1. 1 Cr.ITP!!! LONiilll , l iw to .T 414 ni,y--icrei - t. ~,,,...„ 4 :ssizaw .--liorn 24 min. aft . 3 -Kuehl. 47 mlu. .41. 3 Pffp, 'TEA --Sint °PPM P, Ncrj,,.c.mr, 14. TI:TitlfOlfETPll, T Tim F.:ft ins. —.it.041. since noon Vaal eid.v. 41 -lowetat this marling infi during tit, night. -t.1119 day at noon. $A urr. - P, 29 . 92. W IN n, 1.-31oderato, with bitter, cold, sunshiny weather, PARLIAIVIENTARY NOTICES. parliamentary Agents, Solicitors, and others, having Notices, and who may be too late for the usual time of publi cation, are respedfullY informed that their Notices will be inserted in " THE SUN " - 1 P to Twelve o'clock To-morro-w (Saturday) Evening, and thereby save the next Session of Parliament. SUN OFFICE, 14th Nov., 1856. 4 - 11 „ N el. , \,'.: '' i c ' ' l t; * .i..' c ;•:' ' ''' '' ' ):'-' l % ( - 7 , -, 1 , - } qw , • ....._,e • • - . ,•_-.--.• ..: .:4- - ..,._.,,,, ,•-..;•_ .-,7,..',...:.:-.-..,:,,,.......r-,,....,..4, very faces. The . Times tells us that " the present advanne czbould be viewed without the slightest ceinmer cial apprehension !" What-7 per cent. for money, and an inadequate supply even at that exorbitant rate, not to occssion any uneasiness amongst those whose business requires great faci lities for obtaining the pecuniary accommodation absolutely indispensable ! It says that " What is going on is merely a scramble on the part of other c)untries for our money, and as, to avoid a final crash in their speculations, they are ready to offer anything, they will of course succeed, unless we take care to keep up to the full range of their biddings r This is truly a pleasing prospect for indusirial interests. They must coolly behold other cenntries scrambling for English money, and be prepared to outbid them, not because there is any want of capital, but merely of its measure and representative., Although our resources are almost inexhaustible, there is a "fomine" of cur rency that produces the most serious mischief. And.this:will only be added to the longer we ab stain from looking steadily at our position in a true point of view, and immediately adopting the remedial measures which the magnitude of the emergency and the vast interests at stake impera tively require. i The use of national one pound notes to the extent of twenty millions sterling would econo mise the Precious metals, and render gold, now uselessly circulating from hand to hand in the transaclions of every-day life, available_ for our - fe,rAgn trade. , It would, as Mr. JAMES WILSON long since declared, be to all intents and pur- pones as beneficial to the national prosperity as if a mine of g old of equal value had be en disco vered in the heart of England 1.. Why, then, is the step delayed ? Why do we suffer our bullion to be exported without adopting ene r g etic means to arrest the continuous ebb ? Simply becau se , We allow th e . perverse raoneyocracy to wallow in wealth at the expense of t h e man y, and, by a adherence to rules, the impo lic y whereof ha s b een lore since clearly established, sacrifice the welfare and happiness of the commu nity. The cri s i s w il l this time pro b a bl y le a d toa remedy. Nine years since the moment the difficulties were overcome by the suspension of the Act the excitement passed away, and it the n a ti ona l en thusiasm v a s impossible to keepup people were tielr'lehbaavmeboozled by a f ic titious produced monetary to the reform. The i t ) l e i o a p t inves ti ga tion that was.never intend e d to pro d uce any . results, bu t was merel y to tide over the difficulty until the question could be quietly shelved. IVe are now suffering for our folly, and it will be our ow , faults if we can again be deceived. .We shall only have Ourselves to blame for any privations we may be c ompelled to undergo. The Bank Charter Act has virtually expired, and we are still ondUring severe sufferings from its baleful operation. W e see the evil, but we have not exhibited the energy irON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1866. On Wednesday, in speaking of the monetary Position of the country and the exorbitant rate of discount charged by the quasi National Bank ing establishment, we stated th at t h ere wer e "significant symptoms of other restrictions being • s peedily added, or , in. Threwlneedle-st ree t p a r lance, a farther tur n of the monetary screw being applied in the Bank parlour." A few Ti mm previ ously we announced that " although the rate o f interest is enormous, it is more than hinted, that STEAMSHIP ONEIDA. The following letter bai been addressed to the editor of the Times :-- Sir,—As the great and uniform friend of progress, and as having exerted so much influence in the formation of this line of steam communication to Australia, it will not be uninteresting to you to hear of her whereabouts, and a few of the must prominent facts of this rather eventful voyage. We left the Solent, as you are aware, midday the 19th inst., and have bad the most beautiful weather ever since, but mainly light and unfavourable winds, which, though insufficient to retard our course, furnish. fresh proofs of the indisp:oesable neceseity.of steam, auxiliary or entire, to render a quick paasage c.;rtain. A sailing ship of the finest qualities would have done but little in comparison. We have male, as our position will show, a steady 270 Ar 280 miles per 'day; coneurnieg from 50 to 70 tons of coal in the 24 hours, and entered this splendid harbour last night to replenish our fuel. • It is greatly to be "regretted' that we shall lose from three to five days in that operation, the coal being brought frdm the shore to the ship in lighters, and we he half a mile out. , Toe vessel, a comfortable seaboat, and admirably ventilated, is commanded and ollicered by intelligent and energetic men ; the provisions varied and abundant, and the cuisine and attendance sup'-rinr to anything I have seen in so long a' voyage, and I have made the rassa,ge live times in first-class ships. We have 50 passengers, about equally divided in num• bers between noviciate adventurers and old colonists re turning—persons of intelligence and education, wbo spend their time agreeably in conver/ation and reading. Th, principal group is, of course, Sir Henry Earkly, the new Governor of Victoria, his wife, child, and ai.l.de camp, whose dignified and courteous manners impart a tone do our circle. His Excellency occasionally con verses with men of intelligence around him, and especi ally if they.have resided long in the colonies, and are interested in their progress and institutions.. He reads diligently and takes plenty of exorcise, and seems alto githtr a man of very active habits. It is impossible not to believe that, adthd t / his valuable experience in the West Indie7, his vigorous and well disciplined mini, his conciliating and affable manners, will render him truly acceptable, and even popular, in the colony which he is about to govern. He has indeed great advantages over his immediate predecessor=, in that the colony is fast settling into order and prosperity, almost every irritating topic is re moved between the colonies and the Crown (and the squatting question the only, one between the colonists themselves), while his burden in other respects will be greatly lightened by administering a " responsible go vernment." His errors, too, should he make any, will he visited with less criticarseverity than those of Sir C. ll , ,tha , r, whose death was accelerated at least by some who were ignorant apparently that criticism and courtesy might be combined, and who are now showing signs of compunction. Besides, he will go with the re putation of an accomplished civilian, and not that of a martinet, or fresh from the quarter-deck. Nous verrona. It is doubted whether we shall call at the Ctpe, but as 20 days might be required to reach its neighbourhood, and that will involve the consumption of 1,000 tons of coal, it appears to me absolutely certain, and especially as the company are bound by specific, contract to steam the entire distance. If this little narrative is deemed eligible for your columns it may afford information to and gratify others, as well as, your obedient servant, . A PASSENGER. St. Vincent, Cape Verd Islands, Oct. 29. Count Fersigny has not yet had an interview with Lord Clarendon since his return. The Count, however, expresses himself confidently that the instructions which be has brought over ace of a nature t) restore the accord of the two Cabinets. The precise nature of those in• etructions we have not been able to learn, but we are in-lined to believe that France offers to support the Eng lish view of the Bolgrad question, provided Enea,nd will acquiesce in the proposed union of the Principalities. It is to be hoped Lord Palmerston and hie Cabinet will agree to no such conditions, whatever may be the lean., ing of Lord Carendeu ; for the union of the Principali ties will be the first step to a declaration of their inde pendence, and a declaration of their independence the assured precursor of their annexation to Ressia.— M °mini./ Paper. SALE OF THE SURREY AND SUSSEX TOLLR.—Yesterday a general meeting of the trustees of the above roads was held at the Sessions-house, Newington, Mr. Johnston in the chair, for the purpose of letting the tolls on levee for the term of one year—cmnencieg on the 31st of Dec. next ---to the best bidder. The tolls realised last year the blllll of 20,0201. over and above the expense of col lecting the same. The gates and bars at which the tolls were collected extended from Camberwell-gate, in Sur rey, to East Grinstead, gate, in the county of Su-sex, and included Kennington-common gate, Peckham gate, Kingston gate, Albany-road bar, Aldington-square bar, Southampton-street bar, Red-cap bar, with numerous other bars. 'Lim was a crowded attendance of lessees, but there being no offer the auction was declared at La end. Subsequently a tender from Messrs. Levy and C.L, for 24,5601., was accepted. On the previous day a meet ing of the trustees of the North Kent division was held at the Green Man, Blackheath, when the tolls in this division were put up to auction. The sum asked for I was 11,7101., but there was no offer. WESTERN GAS LIGHT COMPANY.—The annual meeting of the proprietors in the above company washeld yesterday the offices, Argyll-street, Regent•street ; Mr. Francis Wm. Russell, M.P., in the chair. The secretary, Mr. S. Barber, read the report from the directors, which stated their regret that owing to the accident which cc cnrred in June, 1855, to the large gasholder, erected by the company's former engineer, they were unable to de clare any dividend upon the working of the concern for the 12 months just past. The consequences of that acci dent were far.more serious than was at first anticipated, nor was it until the 27th Dec. last that the gasholder was available for regular service. 17p to that period, there• fore, the company had to meet a constantly-increasing demand for gas with only one-third of the gasholder room that previor ly existed. The supply of the district with gas was, under the circumstances, only accomplished at a very heavy cost to the company, and accounted for the small balance of profit remaining. The gas rental of the last year exceeded that of the preceding year by 2 ,8291., but the i ncreas e o f manufacturing items had bleu in the aggregate upwards of 8,000/., an amount which would have been sufficient to pay a dividend of 4. 1 .1 per cent. The report added that the works had been cons!• derably enlarged and improved, and the company's engi neer had expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the new gasholder. The present storeage room was adequate to the supply o f o ne million cubic feet per diem. During the curr en t h a lf-year the working had been more profit able th an a t an y previous period. The report ygo.' I adopted, an d the retiring auditors re-elected. The services of the directors were acknowledged by a vote of thanks. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is the monthly debtor and creditor acco unt of the Bank of France, made up to day (Thursday) : y ester- \ 0 ..,•• Fr. e. Cash and ingots Cash at the branch banks Bills due yesterday to be paid to -da y 772,049 7-4 1 5 Bills becoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks - • Advances on coin and ingots .. 2,004,300 --- Do. in the branch banks - Do. on public securities of France 36,723,936 1 0 ---. , Do. in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 26,026,500 ---- Do. in the branch banks ' 12,073, 600 --- Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, 1848 Advances on Treasury bills R en tes of the reserve fund 52,19(5,045 P, Rentes of disposable funds 12,960,750 1' Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 ---- Real property of branch banks.... 5,371 ,723 :j Expenses of administration 1,536,62 v- Premiums on the purchase of mat ieres 2,764,097 87 ~ Sundr.es -------..1 950,150,905 • DR. Capital Itt serve fund 12,980,750 i- Reserve immobiliere Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks Do. to order (Post bills) Bills payable at sight . • ' • 177. a Account-current of Treasury Creditor 539432140::8,05904.81:115766345;!:::j 102,152,00* 'Various accounts-current. • 2 6 ,142, 950 —:.. ' Do, branch banks 678 ,355 "° Dividends to be paid a y/ 455 29 Discount, interest, and expenses .... 14,w 'l .- -...-- Charge for safe keeping of securities::: .....---, RQ-discounts of the last half year Overdue bills o «D - • 6 729 66 - - • Sundries 4,893, 570 58 950,150;906 PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN . ' c. • CR. f'r. aio Cash and ingots 89,401,03 ~ Cash at the branch banks Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day Kr 4 26 3- 2 71,90 u, -... Bills bdoming due in Paris Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. 'in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 7‘' ,--. '950 Do, in the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of 3181:°261°1 ! : June 30, 1848 40,09,°°,g 9s Advances-on Treasury bills ' Rentes of the reserve fund 9 980 7 5 ,, ~., Rentes of disposable funds - ,, ' o ou Hotel and furniture of the Bank _ Real property of branch banks Expenses of administration 8 E 0,4 8 3 , , 3 6 , e 5 Premiums on the purchase of inatibrea 2, 1 : 4 ''l " 84, 5° Sundries ..._.---- --- " . 4 0 ;4 1,002,1 i' o , 6 .., . Capital Reserve fund v .980, 000 " Reserve immobiliere .0 °641 ° 100 / Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 60, 12 °''14 4° ... . . „ 2,.. , Do. to order (Post bills) 5217',f 5 5 Bills payable at sight Account-current of Treasury Creditor 101, 4- .-016 .„, Various accounts-current 23 5 79 '01 't Do. branch banks ; ‘,. ,6, ~ 4, Dividends to be paid 11 27. 1 A Discount, interest, and expenses ....... -- - 5 Charge for safe keeping of securities y 6 0 99 99 ,11 : 34 Re-discounts of the last half-year 9 63 Overdue bills -0 53, 7 Sundries ~........„..- i i -------- A 6 . 0 1,0°%17Vi Da. • • i t sitleo l , o It appears the India mail, telegraphed 5'7 -.0 0 0 1 having arrived at Marseilles. has brought later igth from China, //a Bombay. The dates, are ta tbe t j - es frep September from Shanghai, and the 29th SePt„, er° ,,, I' o ,o Hongkong, being about a fortnight later. rodr_tio exchange at Shanghai had experienced a fertf e bsil of 2d., the quotation being 7 s. Bd., a nd Fi ,01 ) ! .. riien. At Hongkong the exchange, whili. • 0 00 ously 4s. 101 d., now stood at 4e. 10d. 0 ,00 Toe absence of intelliger.ce respecting Babies has caused the premium of insurance4s,l by that vessel to advance from its previoneir;,,blle guineas to eight guineas per cent., a consiu e t i t iO 0 01 6 having been done at Lloyd's at the latter priche,oo - The original terms for specie bYi t "' .- 0 0P vary from 355. to 40s. per cent. 14 .1 4 / t The contest regarding the situation 0. ready collected from the assets of the R 0 9 31 ';',-iPt.i°,44 still continues. It appears that about 10u,y - obt- io is now in the hands of the official manage r i k e e ti oB ,ol (l ! not producing any interest, while the lee r- t e 10 6- r tiP per cent., and that his proposition to distribeoe over in consequence of the opposition ~.r e f ofto o ;iti l moving in the Ilankruptcy Court. Tbe v iee- r odt has suggesLed that the distribution should be bp ‘ ia out prejudice to the rights of either Cour! , ig ite e 0 1 ' resisted by the representative of the offic i L t* be e : bankruptcy. It is stated that a petition ofi7colo *meted to the Court of Bankruptcy on he“3.clidei tribntory and creditor, praying that the 7 „„0 9 1 4 . to way be annulled. m g6 o .o ° THE BeIDGE CATASTitOPIIE NEAR DAT' t hee - o se: Wednesday the inquiry was resumed befef% theote w but was again adjourned at eight o'clock sto ing for the attendance of Mr. llowison,,t".l tbe is gr . Mr. Marshall, who attended for• (1°‘1:1‘ for tractor for the budge, said it was neceslast How icon to he examined, in order that be '3l.Zotie,i's,ibie: how it was that certain springing-stones , e 9 ,0 e 0 ,0 0 , the specification and (or:Med from the briu,g t ,' the o scii several witnesses considered to be esseutie,ii sfso 00 1 % of the bridge, hart been omitted. Mr. 1 -"` e sti o a to prove that he took those stones out 0 cttg e s cite S' Mr. Howison'a suggestion, and that tige r t....-116 tender to the extent of 201. on that aceo u n . AO ° c e 4 tcr Guardian. kind refl.-00°13dd FREEDOM OF THE PRESS,—By the -- ce in- Louis Napoleon, the pub:icaticn of Pu'r'ild tooe'; on Monday morning last, at 6 asoll abo.over°,9•:l uwithoutanylate inhtoeurrruopntioTnuferfdmay the f e l' ee „ c n til tbe r eo 9il lf " ioc 0 i c millions of copies necessary to satiate he Etre° voracity ef the Univerial Public were t : soo t Vice le Moniteur !—Punch.. 013-_,401(10001Y TELE ROYAL BANK OF IRELAND. , , e A t i te. n eer g sola c iasu f yet_ t i ; h e upei proprietors o f the Royal BO" A fser T oe e i P ti , lion of the directors' report,Esq Dinit•llVeablailerr.pra:°l:eitateo.;lo Ot°°ll.ll Thatou amount ethdeuercttsoarrave twfutu.oci_.to4l Mr. G. L. Taylor seconded the resole , 0 4 16 going it ivas,ctr an as to the reso!ution had b• • sufficient.t the thought resolution, T t ee which c b o i k r vin3 b aa a snd 71,0001. tie r _% r s - adr paztidsedothuenradotgc:ool,