The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-09 00:00:00

LAST NIGHT, BUT THREE OP A LFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Miss Julia Woolf 's Benefit This Evening. Beethoven's Battle Piece, and the Comic Orchestral Fantasia " Three Blind Mice," every Evening." Thr Proatamme this evening will be Miscellaneous, and include Beethoven's Pianforte Concerto in E flat and Schu ttra• Fantasia on Bohemian Airs, performed by Miss Julia I .°°i•'—Grand Selection from II Trovatore—Grand Duet for tanororte and Violin, Miss Julia Woolf and Mr. Viotti ; Collins —gongs by Mdlle. Parepa, Mme. Laura Baxter, and . o ntanier.—Solos—O v e r t ur e, Ruy Blas—Dance Music, er.o. Commence at 8. Promenade, is. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. TO-MORROW (Thursday), Roe 4ini's STABAT MATER. Fri day, a MONSTER CONCERT, commencing at 7, and On Saturday (the last night of the Concerts) for the Bene fit of Mr. Alfred Mellon. Imo' 0 YAL F7N 0 7 ----- ---- ISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Undor the management of IttiliB Louisa pyre and Mr. Wm. Harrison. wii I OPEN for the Sixth Operatic Season on MONDAY when will be presented (firstimite)jyanDette.l; October 21st, new Opera, by Howard Glover, to be entitled Full particulars in future advertisements. britEAT -ItU Y AL, HAy:-_prir, Lesqee. Mr. J. B. Backston, T • 'NI IS EVENING, the nerformance. will commence with principal Am fi ver- A NIIV7 WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Gilell - --- revh, Mr. Edwin Booth (from the theatres); supported by the company. e can After which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Wilkins. To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Commence a 7. oy A L ess P G ee and a..EerSm.Sr'SA. Harris. THEATRE,--. 'PHIS EVENING, .TEANE UTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. 17arria and Mr. H. Virlddicomb. Alter whirl,: a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIR E ; characters by Mr. John Brougham (his 10th appearance)r. Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (of the principal theft tr€ f 4 of the United States, his 10th appearance in Eng land), :Kiss C. Lelciercq, and Mrs. Weston. With. THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS. IC►YAL LYCEUM THEATRE• Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. Tin 3 EVENING, A MIDSUMMER'S EVE. Alter : which, at - Eight o'clock, the new and sucCess tut con tedv of WOMAN; or, Love against the World. tal ' arac i X ribyoßlessrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin. a. Robi as, Mrs. Charles Young , Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Bib ts L Ydia Thomson. / which c unclun e with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in ° II I 'ill " Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer Quick k ttell, LONDON, !WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 1861. Vanity of vanity—even Royal pleasures are vanity—come to-day and gone to-morrow. Not for forty-eight hours could the visited and visitors at CompQgne enjoy each other's society. From Sun day evening to Tuesday noon must suffice to shake hands, to banquet together, to chat over all the affairs of Europe, the pamphlet on the Vistula and the Rhine included, and to shake hands again, and —farewell. A nice pleasant little trip for his Majesty of PRUSSIA-a pretty little reciprocation of the Imperial visit to the German KING ; and that is all say some. The Germans have a proverb— "Es flog ein Ginzehen fiber den Rhein, Und kam ein Giinzehen wieder helm," Which, as nearly as we can give it at the moment, may be rendered 6, A little goose flew over the river, And came back as much of a goose as ever I" ____ Whether the loyal Prussians will find the Royal flight to Paris, and back, an occasion for humming over their proverb, we cannot tell. We have little doubt, however, that the King of PRUSSIA has returned about as wise as he was before, so far as regards the real purposes of his host. Indeed, if we may believe Count CATOIIR, and no man could measure the EMPEROR better, it is by no means certain that he knows his own mind long together, He only knows he will do what he can for his dynasty, but what that may be he cannot tell. He will wait on events, and whithersoever Glory to France, and, therefore, Glory and Stability to the Dynasty lead, thither he will go—be it to Poland, to Hungary, to Turkey, to Montenegro, to Cochin China, to Mexico,—or---just a little nearer home— say to Landau, or Sarrolouis, ono of " which we fortified, and the other of which we built," on the left bank of the Rhine. All we can say is that we wish Lotis NAPO LEON joy of his new ally, and King WILLIAM of his. Why should they not be as good friends as they can be ? They are near neighbours, and they ought to have a good many business transactions with each other. One has great power to annoy the other; and the other, though its straggling dominions might tempt a glory hunter to break off as it were a claw from the lobster, would yet give the meddler a terrible gripe for making the attempt. Prussia and France ought to keep the peace with each other ; and if they could but have an understand ing in which both could confide, they might cer tainly save themselves each at least the cost of 100,000 soldiers. Possibly, however, they do not wish to do that. A large army is large patronage everywhere. And Russia and Austria, helpless as they are except against the disarmed, would be pre text enough for both monarchs to retain their pre sent means of gratifying their ambition of military greatness. England can have no kind of interest in seeing Prussia and France mutually suspicious. They can never well be allied against us, and if they were the German Kingdom's hostility would be net of the slightest consequence to us. The German fleet is not built yet, and when that great curiosity does come into existence, any more pleasant fun for our tars could hardly bo imagined, than a game at balls on the high seas with the land-lubbers who should man the ships of a commerce-less country. No—it is of no more consequence to us that France should form even an offensive alliance with Prussia, tha❑ her forming one with the new King of MADAGASCAR. We are not quite sure whether it is even of so much importance, for we believe one of our neighbourißg colonies still eats a great deal of Madagascar beef. With our views, therefore, of the importance of Prussia to us, we cordially wish the King of PRUSSIA a happy homeward crossing of the Rhine ; and if he has not a treaty in his pocket, a very safe and good understanding—with France, we mean— in his head. We have to rely upon the Romans for the early history of our country, but without going beyond authentic authority, London is, with the exception of Bristol, the oldest city in this country. It is not to be expected that when the old city was bounded by stone walls, and Charing and Westminster were remote hamlets, that its founders had any thought about drainage, or that the river which supplied them with water and carried off their sewage would eventually become the source of disease and death. Thanks to a few hot seasons, public opinion has been roused, and money has been provided by local boards, which in other countries would have necessi. ' tated a foreign loan ; and within a few years the Thames will resume its prestine brightness above London-bridge, and the Cockney may visit Cremorne or Greenwich without fear of a headache or low fever. The Board of Works may be remiss some times, and before now we remarked upon the sub ject ; but as regards the intercepting sewerage, thanks to the energy of the chairman (Mr. THWAITES), the general engineers who have designed the works, and the ability and resources of the contractors, the public can find little fault with them now. We yesterday, in company of the Board, inspected the works completed and in pro gress on both banks of the river. Much difficulty has been experienced in croEsing the marshes, but steam power and determination have carried the day; and although much remains to be done, we may look upon the healthy drainage of Lon don as vn fait aecompli, The magnitude of these works (which we have noticed in another column) can he best comprehended if the reader will fancy a railway tunnel 50 miles in length, with branches for a few hundred miles as connections, resting in many places on 20 feet of concrete, and at others on brick ashes. The engine power required to lift daily some two million cubio feet of sewerage to the low levels will Bb immense, those at Deptford Creek are to be of iiithds of six hundred horsepower, and yet this e first step in the right direction. Bark- ouligllk is too near London to be a permanent let for our sewerage, the population is increasing the metropolis extending. We shall never be setriire until the German Ocean receive our sewerage six fathoms below its surface. Although we wish to see the work carried out on a complete scale, nevertheless we cannot pay the just tribute to the members of the Board of Works their engineers and contractors, and as a proof that first-rate material has been insisted upon, the price of bricks of first quality has risen five and twenty per cent. since the commencement of the works. It would be invidious to call attention to any particular contract, all being executed in a sub stantial form, and when we mention that the names of Messrs. BRASSEY and BAZALGETTE are amongst the number, it is a guarantee of ability. Mr. DawAius in placing the keystone in the arch of the south outlet, although taken by surprise, de livered a short speech expressing the satisfaction of the Board with the general conduct of the works. In conclusion we feel great pleasure in acknowledg ing the attention paid to us, and the information furnished by Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engineer of the works, who is evidently heart and soul in the business. "Europe will be either Cossack or Republican." Who does not remember the famous prediction ? Not ono emanating from the oracular pen of ZAD KIEL, nor yet from the Delphic mouth of Dr. CUM MING ! But the utterance, after a life's experience —and such a life's experience !—of the Prisoner of St. Helena. It has recurred to the recollection of the states men of Western Europe repeatedly since the time when NAPOLEON first uttered it. The prophecy has often since then sounded ominously to those who think and watch. Occasionally it has almost seemed upon the eve of its realisation. Things ap peared to verge towards its fulfilment, for example, only seven years ago—when an alliance between France and England alone hurled back the auda cious hordes of the Muscovites within the limits of their own frontiers. Looking back to that epoch of the commencement of the Crimean War—it almost seems a hundred years off instead of but little more than a single lustre. And yet at the same moment one cannot but recollect vividly enough, too, how very threatening was the aspect of affairs at the abrupt outbreak of that formidable conflict between the colossal power of the Russian Autocrat on the one hand, and, upon the other, the combined armaments of the two most ener getic and civilised races upon the face of the globe. There were two memorable predictions then, that appeared in awful combination to warn Europe that the hour for its being finally over whelmed by the advancing forces of Russia had i already struck. There was the St. Helena prophecy—" In Fifty Years, Europe will be either Cossack or Republi can." The Republican enthusiasm of 1848 had by that time exhausted itself in Christendom. There had long since sprung a very powerful reaction. In the rolling on of the Wheel of Fortune for Europe, its bias, consequently, appeared to lead it towards the Autocratic rather than towards the Democratic branch of the alternative. And then—in addition to this—there wag that ancient prediction familiar to the Turks during Four Centuries ! The prediction that when the power of the Osmanli race should have lasted in Europe for precisely that period of time, namely, for exactly 400 years—that then the period would arrive when the Turk must recross the Bosphorus into Asia. The daring advance of the Cossacks across the Pruth, the insolent mission of Prince NIENSCIIIKOFF to Constantinople, the diabolical outrage perpe trated by the Russian Navy in the Black Sea at Sinope—all seemed together to announce in a voice of thunder, and in characters of blood and flame► that the hour had indeed arrived for the fulfilment of the one or the other of those two renowned and formidable predictions—it might even be, of both ! The Turk, who is essentially a Fatalist, prepared for the new Hegira. He seemed to behold the index-finger of Destiny pointing his way back inexorably across the boundary-line of the Bos phorus. There was a curious coincidence of time, moreover, that startled him into a momentary be lief that the period had in truth been reached when he must per force quit the scene of his four hundred years domination upon the very borders of Christendom. The mysterious epoch of four centuries had in effect just then ex pired, or rather was just then expiring, when the Czar NICHOLAS, in 1854, gave that sudden indica tion to the world of his fixed determination at length to advance in the direction of Constantinople. The Turk remembered the one prediction, Western Europe remembered the other—that is, the St. Helena prophecy, that before another half oentury should have elapsed Europe herself would be either Cossack or Republican. A very considerable por tion of that half century had already glided by, and here the threatened peril appeared to impend imminently over Europe. As we have said—it was only under Heaven, by means of the sudden alliance, offensive and defen sive, of the two most powerful and civilised nations of Western Europe, nay, for that matter, of the whole earth—it was only by this unexpected combi nation on the part of France and England that the Danger was Repelled. Russia, at the close of the war which then took place, was not only prevented from advancing—she was, happily, as the event proved, compelled even to recede a little, to contract the boundary line of her European dominion, that line which but a brief interval before then had threatened to expand so very alarmingly. How, however, since those events, which appear somehow to have happened so very long ago, and which, nevertheless, in reality occurred so very re cently—Row, since then, has Russia endeavoured to console herself ? Nay, wo will not simply say How has she "endeavoured" to console herself— How has she consoled herself ? The question is as easily answered as it is asked. Russia has consoled herself during those last few years very effectually indeed—THUS ! By adding to her already stupen dop empire a new territory, as vast in its dimen sions as all Italy and France put together ! That —since the close of the Crimean war—is Russia's consolation and compensation. Well, in truth, did M. DE LAMARTINE, years and years ago, write in regard to Russia, that her slope is towards the East ! For—baffied in her daring designs upo n Turkey, and through Turkey upon W es t ern Europe —Russia has con trived (in the manner we have indicated) to gravi- ' ~, - . , " , t., ,, .. , *.f.• ~ ,t, , 1 • a '',‘ • „ s. , ' , ,1%. ~ . A 4 • .‘tti''';', ~.(,-,;N:.)::: ). ;.1.. C 31 ' ... •• " (- A, ),„g" _..14 SO- '• \4t ' ----. ...._. 4 7 .... _ 4., ~ 717 ,i ~ '' .34 . , i .' ' 1 , • ' i'l kI , 44, 4. ; •-:;,. - - -.., THE SUN. e. c, %' 4 / rw _j e t_ s a.*.' Lagan rota' ovr-Plot-s a.n0.• 4 " N. "WalLtsraurtim-24 D./arch-ft -29 Sept. Brrant'm) gorallays. TES ASTRAL PZIUGIIIB'AN PHILOSOPHY. CINQUE-PORTAL, Wit-in-G" moot-court.—ln n. c. Diez-Cinq'kent--5 0 . N. *Pilot-soar arc-en-coeli by s.stru-geOgraph fisc ,••: : to (Dover's 4 , Arrow ' off and-ore niepp's-nouen --- to Lizard-Pt. o'er Ind. Quadra—' culmination Tropic-wend Viord minorca's Langue @'ock 400 N. Its state-rope Anchor flag-tow'd, pros-by Tyre 'round the fact earth, as of Titus Vespasian's meter, yr 79 on 1821-35 Act for Bucca-Concha'd, leet-Crts. The Bowloigno 'd illegal mixt-Com/fa-Regatta fete of 27-Bth, August'en A.D. 1861—as Eve sham'd-on " the after math-E'hcad'ng night of Ihen flaptelt"—issued the 13th, Old Lammaas-day from the " Jag'Asscy's office (of Grand master of Malta's College, St. James's-st. ', on U. S. c. 33, N. 7, 1800-2-as of Amiens treaty-Nap), in dupelex, welkin _Paul the capson-scholastic,' by Goal-LEwEs' in Ship way seal' ofi-Paris 'o'n a kirk ' Earth-moving' error. So to--• " Command old words, that long have slept—to wake, Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake. This Lang awe Bam_fin, Outlet f lit_,exchange as Corn hill-st. ma-chaTd4. " Like OGG-father-131 Cow-1'2E11,712, 11 like wm. ,- child sprig PALMERSTON 1801 -as of H ple —cites the charter of Bristol L. P. 9 Anne, 24 July, for its backwarn'ng to six, five, or four," combaFt-I's Yer the s in Lath'm Span'sh Cabotage) curvature a Latrin.:iy sunk port, .G Q. inn Jetira land wad-see sp or to Pope tax 1291-97-Dego 91.'s 9th, at Shore-HAM, partition ! Bright-helm-stone meridian of London Lid, now resumed for" Carthage-mud port-Corlaon, Edict Comin, of Review in Egypt's 1828," by. 9-10 W. 3d, a. 15, for undersigned's sole Etruscan " Arbitrat"ns t-e Pontifi:cum—o Msra. tor" as G' log 68'3 'twixt urkish ALI, and Codrington, who in Claudian's '0 'way letter-a, dt— " Scorn arbitration as a stain 9th] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. So 4 ' no 1581's Es.rthrolling-bulls," with a l'ixt earth 7, 9 f g -" 770 0 , 0 i Ca* o'er Jet'famen'ye astral.-Ist, See I Ed w . iiC.. 2, re. onacted in 1832, by 2-3 Will. IV., cap, 92, 800. 4,_ -entitled, The Submission of the Clergy 4 , Restraint o f Appeals—as yet pending to Pombal's Brazil 9, in ash ita intervention, 25 Henry 8, cap. 19, viz., Whereas divers life-titled noblemen and spiritual persons have sent out civil-summons, in their omit names, as in the ti m e of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome, con t ra ry to the common law, touching writs in lay causes of correction, de jure patronatus, and probates of testaments —Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes by advocates or other will -court officers, of the King's Highness, do bear the Echo Knight rider's ilscustom'ary cn4orsement, as well as the Common-clerk's name placed under citor's name, and after registered seal, in " Die Baaren Jet; M" TEST to wit. m Rochester's : : Peveasey is Rota. transit masa in Antosc right o'er N. Z. Waitangi's "brother and sister's" treaty. -(-0. 5.20v8. Azores, Ist. pond-Phiiimore'd as the old longitudinal bridge-kirk. Thus—Lvganum-motalorum's of Kent, under subsyderal lathe dposhs for P. £' audits to Bow towns prefix 51f oN., 20 L'ond'on-wave over m Wall-in-ford bye •-•fcirencester Seven hundreds' in 34-HEN. Ist.—mile'r Alnothus, to 1.4 Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Jus-" .Ex-change-A 1." as of Bristol'sb leva longue,' in alt°mare Conic-meet, of Fresh and salt water Admiral's Court, not of a ' Co-mercer'sfi. fa. ?'Brewing-sup,' as on Jesuit's ward books ca. sa.'d. " Think deep.—or touch not the Pyr4an spring," Idly. Whence, by 1 Philip & Mary, c. 7, " No man shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiff's Silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81—now Utiecht's Indian-paddle Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isled Bohun inspector of all g fiscal- f meter-Crts.), who like WOLSEY'S Templer shall take on himself to direct and serve his own precept.' Wherefore this Negative • since (by Russn-Dutch loan on America's double-hdd-eagle-x.opEcx.!, in Mingan trust-acts of 1832), p ension'd Church-Queen's" ce —of a, by civil list, —tho' in iteer"left facor—have ceased to be the head of Malcolm nt.'s G.G.G-6011 monetary Trust in presbytera'l kindred ++, and at your peril disobey this law —for ' one and all as breast-high' d' on Agricola's jot and ' lot hand-up ceremonial,'—typic on Caesar's silver coinage for electing yearly the Ex'change phat's on 29th Sept., or Simi-call-lsoze—*magistrates, on union echo-wall with the 24th March one—in " murri nomine"l—. 27, Aug. 31, 1861 [unpaid : jan,tor martyr 19 yrs], London, PZTIIR BASQUET, fl The flag union J 8.12, Ist Fruit d.m M p.m. igacca-corn hill' c/- tribune as Income-tax- IQ freeman, Antipod'ta Crown colont chief Bute. tea- of 1842, The criminal law's Extradi '74 Temple. tion act, Coastable of the Sea-shores, Labouchere. bearing //America's paddle of Admiral's C 4 [2 March, '4l) court, over Canterbury's 04-Guizots H. M. Perley. settlement for New Zealand's probate 3 Sept, '4l. Crt., its @ial rc•m'poy Stil'lordWarden 'pel-v-vis'r tho' cruelly set up a medal' d necca machina, in " Paccarke gentis imagines." .* N. ' ACK.IiRLEY, J.P. of Carib-allyd f England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : : miral (I. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown retary; Marcus HiII—SANDYS, Lay presb_yter's 45944, on The holy alliance abolition, of King clubs), its Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. R.N. * pay'd double-oathii'd victim—supporter Si of poor indian PETER 10 yrs, by Indian female Peu Qu' sponsorship 1820—thro' Quebec's Hamilton-' Ries Dalhousie, in Elder's duty for His and own's S.P.Q.R. instant State-birth provision, as the Mon tague Subsidy first-fruit loan 1814'20's, major Trevaor- Cartwright's saccessorial Ombra-lj'homd, to trove. 1322'99's red-turban'd By, Quadra Manfre- dum'y de /3ecearia,' on 11. s's colona'd martin A 6, 11. V. to GONSAILVI 1816 regolamente-159, by Pius 7th on Ch. Justice ITihan Bth's cape- •••••• city oath of 1749 Act-Ackooate STUART ` de cewcomin's 'en Gonfaloniere' 1825 passed to C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, icy. 54, as Luther- calvin pop'd in ancient demesne. To all metre-roded ' Councils General' in nature's Year-law, under 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local supremacy (against New" Comffn Grippe-Jesus' Christian Clubs, 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at Dover and Burgh-Ports 1772's on the resignation aver-I:air srun of Clement 14's Jesuit priest Abolition, for Earth Lay resumption for all life-set allotments of land), over the yearly Poor-law Guardians—(as are for the time being)—on 1603's church Canon in vestry'red lettered functional succession —an afterthought of Q. Rlizabeth's I P. C. Z' nu aLnv-men, for oaths in retro' O'way-sense, for sound office. " 'Tis thus that Heaven its empire cloth maintain ; It may afflict—but MAN, must not complain." 4. Papal-tribunes of purse minor E x -change ba pointers' , o.s. Fiat-earth's Pi4ra'an philosophy to 1582, on COWPER'S 1071's Huitson " Chiliarchte'r" of St. Michael's PENN for Vox humane organ 'run' of Hidelburgh, in Heligoland 3ty., Jan. 14, May-Copenhagen'd by C g A. of Daphne, 1814. Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051. Survey Arbitrations.—By 9 10 W. Hi, c. 15, it is enacted, " That merchants, sole-traders—(and all Antipode'ans as those under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Padi; kw Jan' Baffled jtreaty,' 1841)—desiring to end all controversies by arbitration, may agree that their submission of their suit to an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on' Thony Monthermer' ACICIRLEY, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),—0f any person, should be made " on Captain Cook's mane rule in tribal Admiralty red-flag MAoai 4 -plea 2 " of his Majesty's courts of Record ; and in case of disobedience to such award or Umpirage, the parties neglecting or refusing (IF. Q. Review, Nov. 1829),—t0 perform the same, shall be subject to the penalties of Contemning a Rule of Court, "as Co'mis sion'd on the gl o- S axon Mexi-Spanish trust, tho' Cuba- Philipin'd to 17763-4-state s Grants, as reset 31 Jan. 1842-3, on the Carib-Micmac's minor L' Boar' s head, Inn-fan- Geo and Out-fan-G.-sustentation, without " Locatelli" death's. "Neath polar Astra's wehr-ring wolf to yawn, And view with trembling, whom they view'd with scorn.' 16 GUILTY on "NOT GUILTY" FICTION REALITY.— " The writ original—now police-sheet' root As master-key—spring, of every civil suit." The "not guilty" when GUILTY is the free and accepted for county rate expenses, in all the courts—but, the guilty on written evidence to Female complainant, &c., before hear ing—is certainly saved (50, E. 3) from a committal under the twofold spiritual and corporeal capacity of the casting voice in Judge, as council for the prisoner. '1 . 12e case in ques tion being a complicity 'twixt Mistake -plaintiff, and Defen dant, pre-tacited—in order to obtain " a Court-christian naillie-day's criminal committal,"—as the October Laird o'Cockpen's first fruit, of the French treaty jurisprudence— in the Marylebone Pollee-court on Wed., Oct. 2, " Bellow v. Baillie" committed for three calender months to the cells with loss of hair—omitting the real Rug'd-pursuer's name in law, in this case of table-turning, .The mut e - s i s t er p r i soner , o n the faith of pre-arbitration with plaintiff in rug-laundress, for not having council—as witness to some facts, not truly forthcoming—therefore, on 'suggestion,' Mr. Tyrwhitt may instantly—' on defunct justice,' saving being outwitted—rectify this Cassandra ' washing-rug' case between mistress and servant—in order for instant Henry 6th release, under Chief Justice Bruce fie/16m-Fortescue's " Kt.-Stapleton Statute" of 1442—t0 Coldt, , ath Vestal-women-jail-keeper's o'er the 600, in Tothill nun' ery-like prison. La voila— " Provided always,—Aye I that if o'er Quack or Lady Quack's—should interfere, Or take upon them—'as, a scholar'— ' Prohibitory' writ, should follow." NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, M 3. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, MUSIC MATH CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. After which (246th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boneicault, D. Fisher , Bi llin g ton, S. Eme ry, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boneicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Hmery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. lANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. r. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter G Eleven. • Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE, TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, &c., By Miss Russell, Mho; Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus, The Comic department comprises Messrs. Harvey and French. " The Nerves "—Mr. Marshall—Mr. Wood and his talented Son —and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. TH E OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from Auber's New Combo Opera, LA CIRCAS SIENNE by Madame Enderssohn, Mr. Greene, Mr. H. Herbert. and the Company. Also from Verdi's new Grand opera, "Simon Boccancgra," by Miss Russell, Messrs. Mor ley, Greene, C. Greville, and the Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Marshall, and Mr.W. Randall. Hail, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, sh. Om—Afternoon, sh. 30m, To-monnow.-11forning, sh. 52m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 9, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER -29.97 ; rising. WIND—S.-Westerly —rather fresh; with dull weather, and some slight rain. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINCir, OCTOBER 9. 1861, tate thus much further to the East, adding to her already alarming dominions this enormous extent of new territory. Recollect, then—that this increase to the domi nions of the Russian Autocrat amounts, as we have indicated, to an accession of territory equal to the areas of France and Italy combined. Where ? In the country of the Amoor. North of Chinese Tar tary—south of the Yablonoi Mountains. Extending to the borders of Mantchouria—bounded on the east by the waters of the Japanese Sea, and on the west by the chain of the Kin-gan Mountains. This newly-acquired country has by this time been thoroughly incorporated with the vast empire owning allegiance to the Russian Autocrat—and it has been so incorporated under the title of the maritime province of _Eastern Siberia. The ad vantages which it secures to Russia, moreover, are so various and so remarkable, that they are, in point of fact, not very easily to be enumerated. Enough if we here mention but a very few of them. To begin with—Eastern Siberia, as the new pro vince is henceforth to be called, secures to Russia an immense extension of her sea-board in the North Pacific. It brings the Muscovite frontier to within a distance of six hundred miles only from the capital of China—and this at a time when the Chinese Empire has just been shaken by its dis comfiture at the hands of the Europeans, while it is yet convulsed by the Taeping rebellion. The newly-acquired dominion of Russia, moreover, it should be added, gives to Russia herself the ex traordinary advantage of ready access henceforth from the North Pacific to the very centre of her colossal empire, along the channel of one of the grandest rivers in Asia, the great river of the Amoor ! How all this has been accomplished we cannot at this moment or in this place pause to indicate. It is a matter for scrutiny worthy of consideration entirely by itself. The simple fact that it is so—that Russia has thus wondrously con soled herself for her baulked ambition in the in stance of the siege of Sebastopol by the Anglo- French allies—that simple but suggestive fact is all we would here insist upon. It is a theme worthy in every respect of the study of the diplo matists of Western Eurcpe. For is it not a signal evidence of the persistence of the Russian Govern ment in acting upon the old, wily principle, reculer pour nzieux satzter We venture again, with all due deference, to im pugn the wisdom of the Great Unpaid—to impugn it so far as to suggest t) the Home Secretary that he should practically reverse their decision, and order repayment of the fine which they have in flicted. There is a place called Beedon, near Newbury, which, probably, most Englishmen know as much about as we do, and that is what the Gazetteer tells us, plus the facts which we have now briefly to mention. There lived in Beedon lately a hard working couple, named WINKWORTH. The mother died and was buried ; the father was obliged by want to go with his family into the workhouse, and soon the father died and was buried also, and the children were left with no home but the poorhouse, and no parents but the parish. CHARLES with whom we are now concerned found himself in this position at eight years of age. At fifteen he left the Newbury Workhouse, and was placed with a farmer of the name of KING. He would seem to have worked for him about four years, with no charge, so far as we can learn, of insub ordination or neglect of duty. A few months ago, however, he was guilty of going to the Primitive Methodist Chapel, where according to his own account he "got converted,"and after he came into trouble about it, his reason was, " that he did not wish to disoblige his master, but he got more good to his soul at chapel, and therefore thought it his duty to go." No contemptible reason, certainly in the mouth of any man; and it is at least highly pro bable that the ranting preacher, and his earnest ness together, were more likely to tell on the ploughboy's mind than the faultless discourse read with becoming dignity from the desk of the parish church. Unfortunately for CHARLES, a carter's son in the harvest field got into a passion with him, assaulted him and knocked him down with a " prong," and then beat him fearfully, in spite of his cries, till his back and arms were covered with large wheals, and looked, as he expressed it, " like a hog pud ding." The other labourers urged him to sum mon his assailant, and subscribed the money for him to do so. The result was that the carter's son was fined, costs included, 17s. Now, it appears that KING patronised the carter's son, and had a spite against the lad for preferring chapel to church. His MAJESTY of Beedon, therefore, paid the assailant's fine, and took out another summons against the lad for misconduct in service. It appears that nothing could be said against the lad as a servant, but the charge was—" He is a ran t er ; h e re f uses to go to church, but attends the ranters' meet ings." "As ho had a perfect right to do !" our readers will doubtless exclaim, and whatever their opinion of Ranters, all the English man will be roused in them, at the thought of its being a crime, that a ploughboy should " get him self converted," if it so pleased him, and should join the Ranters. And even, as HALEY says in " Uncle Tom's Cabin," if he " got th e ra l e thi ng, " i t m i g h t add many dollars to his worth as a servant. Quite different, however, were the thoughts of the New bury Magistrates and their King. The poor fellow who has 4s. a week to live on, was fined 9s, for this heinous offence. We confess we were for some time incredulous. We could hardly believe in the administration of justice in this style in England. The facts are, however, now beyond doubt. The neighbours, in dignant, as might be expected, collected 17s. for him, and, after paying the fine, bought him a Bible and a hymnbook with the balance. He now goes once on the Sunday to Church to please his master and the :magistrates, for he seems to be a modest, quiet lad, reserving the other part of the day to go where, as he thinks, he shall please his Maker better; where at least he thinks he "gets more good to his soul." But we are strongly inclined to think that the magistrates are as wrong in law as in Christian morality. There was an Act passed in 1846 which expressly repeals, so far as affects Dissenters, the clause of EDWARD Vl's Act which inflicts both Church censures and a penalty for non-attend ance at Church. Churchmen are left liable to Church censures ; but even they aro exempted from the pecuniary penalties. It can hardly be doubted, therefore, that the magistrates have in flicted a fine unauthorised by law. From none of the statements which we have seen does it appear that his master had previously ordered him to go to church; but even if he had, we should not have supposed that any one now would have the hardi hood to contend that magistrates were warranted in inflicting a fine for disobedience to such a com mand. We have seen not a word of explanation yet from the magistrates, but unless some can be given the public will certainly think it a case demanding the immediate attention of the Home Secretary. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has left to' ,fin on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chester field, : at Bretby Park, near Burton-on-Trent, Tr ie Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess Russ ell and family, has arrived at Minto House, N. 8., from Abergeldie Castle. The noble earl leaves the above nam ed seat on Saturday, for Newcastle, and will be in Lon don early in the ensuing week. We learn that the Earl of Yarborough has had another attack of paralysis, and for 24 bouts was in a very critical state. Tho latost medical reports are more favour able. The funeral of the late Earl of Eglinton and Winton will take place in the family vault at Kilwinning Church, Ayrshire, on Friday next. The Earl of Norbury has left Farrance's Hotel for Valence, near Westerham, in Kent. Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere and Vis countess Combermere and the Hon. Mrs. Hunter have ar rived at Leamington, from Combermere Abbey, whither they will return, after a short sejour at Spa, to receive a succession of visitors during the autumn. Baron A. Desmanet do Bentonville and Baron do Bogaerdo have arrived at the Clarendon, from Paris. Col. and Lady Katherine Evans Frelle left town yesterday for Beachwood House, Devon, the residence of Lord Seaton. Sir Norton and Lady Knatchbull have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Mersham le Hatch, Kent. His Excellency Senor M. Murillo, Minister of the New Grenadian Confederation, has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. DEATH OF LORD PONSONBY.—lntelligence has reached England of the death of Lord Ponsonby, which took place on the second inst., in Bavaria. The deceased nobleman was a posthumous son of the late Major-General the Hon. Sir William Pcnsonby, K.C.8,, by the sixth daughter of the first Lord Southampton. He was born at Hampstead on the 6th of February, 1816, and succeeded as third baron on the death of his uncle, in 1855. Tho second baron, a distinguished diplomatist, was her Msjesty's Ambassador at Constantinople from 1832 to 1837, and at Vienna from 1846 to 1851. Ho obtained a viscountry, which became extinct at his death, while the barony re verted to the deceased peer. His uncle, the Hon. George Ponsonby, succeeds him. DEATH OF THE HON. EDWARD GARDNER.—We have to record the death of the Hon. Edward Gardner, fifth son of Alan, first Lord Gardner. The hon. gentleman died at his apartments in King-street, St. James's, on Saturday last, aged 77, having been born in March, 1784. Tho de ceased gentleman had been for many years in the service of the Hon. East India Company, and was for' a lengthened time resident at the Court of Nepaul. He was unmarried. FIRE AT HOLLOWAY.—Yesterday morning a fire, attended with a destruction of property, in value £2OO, happened in the premises belonging to Mr. T. Wilson, a carpenter, George's-place, Holloway-road. The flames commenced in the workshop. Several engines quickly at tended, and plenty of water being at hand the fire was confined to the workshops, and slight damage to some tim ber sheds, and the stock of timber in the open yard. The origin of the fire is unknown, and the loss will fall upon the Royal Exchange Fire Office. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.--LOSS OF SIX LIVES. —Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, Mr. Tate, a city coal-meter, and 11 men, coal-whippers, while proceeding down the river in a boat, there being a very thick fog, came in collision with two barges, lying at their anchors off Pilson's dock, Rotherhitho. The boat was immediately capsized, and the whole of the party immersed in the stream. The masters and crews of the barges rendered every possible assistance, and saved Mr. Tato, and five of the coal. whippers, and they were convoyed to the Horns public-house, Cuckold's Point, on the Surrey shore. Some of the poor fellows were in an insensible condition, but with the aid of stimulants were resuscitated and sent home. We regret to add that six of the coal-whippers perished Tho body of ono, named William Ryan, of Crown -court. Upper East Smithfield, was found a few hours afterwards, and taken to the dead-house in Shadwell Church-yard, Another body was recovered yesterday evening. THE POLICE OF NEW YORK.—Efforts are in progress to convert the police of New York into a military force, the Commissioners having made a requisition for 2,000 muskets and the accompanying military equipments. To this significant measure the .Vew York Commercial Ad vertiser urges the following among other objections:— " We object to the change for this, above all other reasons, that it is a grave and dangerous encroachment upon the genius of our institutions—a large stride toward that cen tralisation of power and that combination of the military with the police which distinguishes every despotic country. The police authorities have power enough already, and certainly cannot complain that they are held to too strict a responsibility. Convert their 2,200 able. bodied mon into a military force, armed with all the implements of war, with perhaps, as NVO have intimated, artillery and cavalry to boot, and they may become an institution very dangerous to the liberties of the people. The proposed plan is, in fact, anti republican, essentially and dangerously so, and we trust that there will be promptly an expression of popular opinion that will prevent its ever being carried out." NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BLAKE, M.P., FROM DROWNING.—One of the hon. members for the city of Waterford has had a very narrow escape from drowning in Tramoro. Mr. Blake went to bathe at a time when the tide was full out, and at low water spring tidos the water recedes so far as to bring some dangerous holes within roach. These holes are formed by the violent action of the waves during storms, and are not always in the same spot. Mr. Blake was in company with Master Gallwey, son of Henry Gall wey, Esq., who remained on shore in charge of Mr. Blake's dog, and while doing so perceived Mr. Blake struggling in the water, and gave the alarm to a bathing man, named Kelly, who immediately got the life buoy, which has boon the means of saving many lives. Some little delay occurred in consequence of the fouling of the line, but Kelly threw off his boots and rushed with the life buoy into the water, and threw it to Mr. Blake, who had sunk twice and rose to the surface just in time to seize the buoy, and he was drawn from the deep water by the line attached to it. On reaching Kelly ho was so faint as to be unable to stand, and that man and his son carried him ashore,where he was rubbed, s wathed in flannel, and took some brandy, which revived him. Had it not been for prompt assistance the result must have been fatal.— Waterford Mail. BRAIDWOOD TESTIMONIAL FUND.—A meeting of the committee appointed to superintend the subscription sot on foot as a testimonial of the late superintendent of the London Fire Brigade has been held at the Mansion-house within the last few days for the purpose of winding up the business and to dispose of the money in accordance with the wishes of the donors, in the spirit at least, if not in their letter. Mr. Baddeley, the secretary, reported to the meeting that the net available balance of the subscriptions amounted to £526 lls. 6d. The moment it was publicly announced that the fire offices would make provision for the widow of Mr. Braidwood the committee felt that there was little or no need for the testimonial fund, which had been originated in ignorance of the intention of the directors of the fire com panies, and in that sentiment the public feeling coincided, as the paucity of the subscriptions indicated. They accord ingly lost no time in endeavouring to stop the subscription, and at their closing meeting, a day or two ago, they unani mously resolved that, considering the limited amount of the fund, and the liberal provision which had been made for the widow and children of the deceased, it appeared to them that the sum of £526 odd would be best applied towards the maintenance of his two aged sisters, who by his death had been deprived of their sole means of support. It is understood that, in conformity with this resolution, the sum will be sunk for the purchase of annuities for those ladies, and so the matter ends. LORD PALMERSTON AND THE POWDER MAGAZINE. —We read in a local newspaper :—" Some two or three years since an order emanated from the War Department directing that all forts and castles on the coast between Poittaouth and the mouth of the Thames (many of which had been dismantled) should be placed in a state of defence, and, in accordance with these instructions, batteries were repaired, cannon mounted, and magazines filled with am munition throughout the district. At Walmer Castle the half dozen field-pieces which had been placed upon the ram parts during the early part of the wardenship of the Duke of Wellington had never been dismounted, and some five tons of gunpowder wore stored for the defence of the fortress. Of this circumstance the present inmates of the castle were totally ignorant until a few mornings since, when a working party of soldiers from the neighbouring bar. racks were seen approaching, and shortly afterwards to cross the drawbridge and form in the courtyard of the castle. This unusual circumstance of course created some surprise, which was further increased when, upon inquiry being made of the officer in command as to the cause of this unexpected invasion, ho replied that he had come for the purpose of turtling the barrels of powder in the magazine.' This intelligence was promptly reported to Lord Palmerston, who requested the officer to point out to him the where abouts of the magazine, and inform him of the quantity of powder deposited there. The officer replied that as near as he could judge the position of the magazine was immediately beneath the place on which his Lordship was then stand ing, and that the quantity deposited in the magazine was 100 barrels. The officer added that at regular intervals the Castle was visited by a party such as were now formed beneath the windows, who moved the whole of the gun powder and reversed the position of the casks. His Lord ship said that under no circumstances would he continue to sleep immediately over a powder-magazine, and instructed the officer to take steps without any delay for the immediate removal of its contents." COLLIERIES.—The total number of collieries in Great Britain at present is estimated at 2,654 ; of these 1,913 arc in England, 235 in Wales, 405 in Scotland, and 71 in Ireland. In 1857 the coal produce of the United Kingdom exceeded 65,000,000 tons. The value at the pit's mouth of the quantity annually raised is estimated at £16,700,000, and its mean annual value when consumed, at about £20,000,000. Besides this sum, it is estimated that the iron extractedyearly from the coals raised is worth, at the mouth of the furnace, 141 millions sterling. The total capital invested in the trade is supposed to exceed 18 millions sterling. In 1851 the number of persons employed in our coal mines was 219,000 ; at present there are at least a quarter of a million--ideatanics' Nagaine, LATEST' NEWS. PESTI', OCT. 8. The dissolution of the Assembly of the Comitat of Gran has been decreed. A royal commissioner has already been a pointed. The Assembly of the Comitat of Zalo has re solved to ignore any illegal ordinance of the Go vernment. It also protests against the nomination of a commissioner and the Proposed new organisa tion of the Comitats, and declares that it will only yimld to force. PESTH, OCT 9, The Assemblies and Municipal Councils of the Comitats of Arad and Bacs have been dissolved by the Government for having passed resolutions con curring in the protest of the Comitat of Pesth against the dissolution of the Hungarian Diet. LEMBERG, OCT. 8 The editor of the Gros, having been found guilty of high treason, and inciting the people to sedition, has been sentenced to five years' hard labour, loss of nobility, forfeiture of half his caution•moncy, and deprivation of the faculty of exercising the editorial profession. RAGUSA, OCT. 8 Six battalions of Turkish regular troops, while on their return march from Nicksich, were attacked by the insurgents and Montenegrins. After a fight, which lasted four hours, the Turks were compelled to take to flight, with the loss of 80 killed and 20 wounded. TURIN, OCT. 8. Signor Ratazzi will very likely enter the Ministry. Letters from Genoa affirm that Garibaldi has quitted Caprera. His destination is unknown. The Society of Workmen at Turin has deter mined upon convening another congress of all the workmen societies, at Asti, in November next, in order to declare the resolutions of the congress lately held at Florence to be illegal. THE HOMEWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 9. The Vectis and Indus, with the above mails, were to leave Alexandria on the 7th inst. for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The Simla arrived at Suez on the sth. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Ellora, from Southampton 27th September, arrived at Malta at 4 p.m. 7th ; left at midnight. The Valetta, from Marseilles sth, reached Malta at 10 p.m. 7th; would leave next morning. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 8, BOURSE, Oct. B.—There has been but a very limited amount of business, with only slight fluc tuations in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 15c. Railways heavy, and quotations of some lines rather lower. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 95 75 Credit Foncier llB5 Do, end month.... 95 85 Belgian 4A looa 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 20 Roman Bank Shares 2915 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 708 75 Spanish Threes 451 Do. Account 7lO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 902 50 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 1022 50 Geneva 3lO -- • - Southern Western .. 522 50 .. 526 25 Eastern .. '' Sardinian Austrian Lombard 527 50 .. 530 RUSSIA. Among the names of Russian officers of high rank, published in the Invalide Busse as having just received new marks of the Emperor's favour, is that of Lieut.-General Todtleben, Director of the Department of Engineers in the Ministry of War. He has been presented with the Grand Cross of the Second Class of the Order of ' St. Vladimir. An official telegraphic despatch from the camp at Abadzek, near fort Khametz, gives an itinerary of the tour of the Emperor in Southern Russia, since his departure from Kertch. His Majesty com menced his excursion into the province of the Kouban on the 11th ult., arriving on the 12th at Catherinodar. On the 13th he inspected the forts Dmitrievskoo and Grigorievskoe ; he passed the night of the 13th at Fort West-Labinskoe, and on the 14th arrived at Fort Maikop. On the 15th the Emperor, with an escort, rode to a point beyond the river Belaia, arriving that evening at Abadzek, where he remained for a day. On the 17th, after hearing mass, his Majesty continued his route along the line of the Laba. A controversy is being carried on between two of the scientific periodicals of St. Petersburg, the Journal des Mines and the Gazette de l' Academie, as to the manner in which the mines of Russia are worked. The Gazette strongly condemns the system by which the Government takes the direction of most of the mining works in the country; it con tends that the official system only ensures a loss, and insists on the necessity of transferring this branch of industry to private enterprise, or to the management of joint-stock companies. The Russian corvette, Norik, carrying the flag of Admiral Popoff, and commanded by Captain Skrypleff, has sailed from Cronstadt for the explor ing voyage on the eastern coasts of Siberia. POLAND. At the opening of the Council of State at War saw on the Ist inst. Count Lambert, tho Governor, made the following speech : " Gentlemen,—l feel myself happy at being en abled to open the first sitting of the Council of State on the day consecrated to this important act of the new order of things in the kingdom. The short space of time since the organisation of the Council of State, the changes in the chief adminis tration, especially the interference of the Govern ment at each moment for the restoration of peace, required by the condition of the country, has de layed the execution of the projected laws, as well as their extension to the divisions of the Royal Coun cil of State. However, the reports of the chiefs of the different branches of the administration of the year 1860 as well as the budget for 1862, and many bills already prepared by the Government Commis sion are awaiting your deliberations. Gentlemen, I particularly direct your attention to the very im portant project respecting the tributes by the peasants, which has such an important influence on permanence of the peace and the happiness of the country. I conclude, gentlemen, with the expres sion of the hope that our best exertions will be unani mously devoted to learning the real wants of the country, in order that I may be able to lay them at the foot of tho throne as the true expressions of our maturely considered wishes." The members of the council then took the pre scribed oath at the hands of the Sandomir Bishop. Since yesterday it has been made known in the journals that the intended meeting on the 10th, at Horodla, has been forbidden by the Government as unjustified, and as threatening the public peace. The Government have accordingly taken means to prevent the assemblage. MEXICO. A private correspondence of the Paine gives some details of the organisation of the French naval force to be despatched to the coast of Mexico. The Alps of war ordered for this expedition are the ate= frigates Guorriere (fitting at Brest) -•- I'Astree (from Lorient), and l'Ardente (from 13rest); a steam corvette (from Rochefort), and the cutter Marceaux (from Cherbourg). Admiral Jurien de Lagraviere, who Hill command the squadron, will hoist his flag on hoard the Guerriere, which is being prepared for sea as quickly as possible. MADAGASCAR. Despatches have been received in Paris, from Reunion, to the 7th of September, bringing later intelligence from Madagascar. Since the death of the Queen, and the short struggle in which her nephew was killed, the utmost tranquillity has pre vailed in the island: The foreigners established in the country intend to wear mourning for a month, mid the ships in the harbour of Tamative hoisted their flags at half mast for three days. The body of the late Queen was embalmed, and the King, her son, remained by it in prayer for six days, according to custom. The King, since he began to attend to public business, has received numerous deputations of Europeans, whom ho addressed in the most liberal and reassuring manner. Since the death of the Queen the intercourse between Reunion and Madagascar had revived, and at the date of the despatches was very active. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The Montreal Ocean mail steam ship Anglo- Saxon, Captain Graham, which left Quebec on the 28th ult., arrived here at two o'clock this afternon. By this arrival we receive New York papers ono day later than those per Africa, but the usual late dispatch via Father Point has failed to come to hand, the telegraphic communication between that point and Quebec being interrupted. The New York Times of the 26th gives the fol lowing particulars of the latest events :-- " Another important reconnaissance took place yesterday across the Potomac. In the morning at eight o'clock 5,000 infantry, three companies of cavalry, and three batteries left Chain Bridge, under the command of General Smith, for the neighbourhood of Lewinsville. About two o'clock in the afternoon, while our troops were at Lewins ville, a large party of rebels, consisting of about five regiments of infantry, a regiment of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery, approached from the direction of Falls Church. They opened on our men with their battery, and their fire war immedi ately reponded to. Thirty shots, both shell and solid, were fired from our batteries, wbich silenced the rebel cannon, and the enemy immediately re tired to Falls Church. It is not known what damage was sustained on their side. One man of ours was slightly wounded by the explosion of a shell. The object of the expedition having been accomplished our troops fell back to their original position at the Chain Bridge, bearing with them a man representing himself as an aide-de-camp to Colonel Stewart, of the Virginia rebel cavalry. " We have both good and bad news from Mis souri this morning. The good news is that General Siegel, with a large force, and also Generals Lane and Hunter, have arrived at Lexington, and although to late to save Colonel Mulligan and his brave little army, were still in time to prevent the escape of Price with the booty he had captured, and are now besieging him in the same position lately occupied by the national troops. The bad. news is that Ben M'Culloch is marching rapidly to form a junction with Price, at the head of a large, well-armed, and well-disciplined army, and with a good supply of artillery. This intelligence comes from Jefferson City, and the despatch states that he is now very near Lexington. It is evident that a battle of considerable magnitude must take place in that vicinity soon. " We have a speck of good news from Western Virginia. A successful advance of the national troops has been made on Romney, and the place is now in our possession. 500 of the 4th Ohio Regi ment, with one piece of artillery ; 400 of the Bth Ohio, and the Ringgold Cavalry, numbering 76, advanced from New Creek on Monday. They suc ceeded in driving the rebels, 700 strong, out of Mechanicsville Gap, on Monday, and pushing for ward to Romney, stormed the town Ni ith such good effect that the enemy, reported to number 1,400 infantry and cavalry, were forced to retreat to the mountains, with a loss of about 35 killed and a large number wounded. The national loss amounted to only 3 killed and 10 wounded. " A despatch from Point of Rocks makes brief mention of a skirmish which took place on the 24th September between a portion of Colonel Geary's regiment and a party of about 200 rebels who had established themselves on a high point on the Ca toctin Mountain and in houses at its base. The battery attached to Colonel Geary's command, to gether with the riflemen, soon made the location too warm for them, and they left for a safer posi tion, with the loss of several men killed and wounded. "An arrival from Hatteras Inlet at Fortress Monroe reports everything quiet there. There seems to be no probability that the rebels will make an effort to retake the position. An expedition was expected to leave the inlet soon for Roanoke Island to dislodge the rebels known to be there. Roanoke Island commands the entrance into Albe marle Sound, and its position is essential to the success of contemplated movements against the rebels in that direction." The Quebec journals contain New York tele grams of the 27th, as follows : " The sudden arrest of ex-Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, and his removal so far from home, excites a good deal of attention. " The national fast yesterday was observed in this city with due solemnity, business being unani mously suspended, snd all the churches thronged. " A deserter from the rebel army states that they have 10,000 men at Freestone Point, 30,000 between there and Manassas, and a large force along the river to Mathias. " The force on the Potomac is said to be about 180,000, and the plan of the rebel generals is to cross above and below Washington, simultaneously attacking in front and rear. " On the 21st inst. Gen. Lane's forces surprised a large party of rebels at Papinsville, Missouri, and after a severe fight the latter were routed. Lane's loss was 17 killed and a number wounded; that of the rebels 40 killed and 100 captured. All the enemy's tents, waggons, and supplies were taken. " General Ben M'Culloch, with 15,000 men, was within 15 miles of Fort Scott on the 21st. " The report that Col. Siegel had attacked Gen. Price at Lexington is now denied. " According to some reports received, the loss at Lexington only amounted to 130 on Col. Mulligan's rebels Clay, to 300.y,50n , D o Henry Clay, wasside, a and rnrelsvt o ee n dd thatwesid Wednesday, B ofe h.Cs me n while on his way to join Zollicoffer in Kentucky. J. C. Brekinridgo was with the party, but succeeded in effecting his escape. " A despatch to the New York World says---r A flag of truce crossed the Potomac at Edward's Ferry on some trivial subject, but the sentinels dis covered that one man in the boat was taking sound ings of the river. The Confederates were placed under arrest." A Washington telegram of the 26th says-- " The steamer Delaware arrived at the Navy Yard this morning. The captain reports that the battery at Freestone Point was unmasked when he passed this morning, the woods having been cleared away, and that they opened on him, firing seven shots, none of which took effect. " From disclosures of a Confederate officer it is ascertained that the battery at Freestone Point is coin - manded by J.lT.Hartstein , formerly commander in the United States Navy, and that there are batteries on the Virginia side of the Potomac, every two and a half miles from Occocoquion to Mathias Point. The river is now considered by naval officers to be effectually closed. Our Potomac flotilla is insuffi cient to clear it of the numerous batteries upon its banks. A land force is indispensably necessary, and it is believed that within a few days, perhaps a few hours, the Confederates will attempt to cross the Lower Potomac into Maryland." A lieutenant had deserted from one of the Federal regiments on the Upper Potomac, and went over to