The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

~---' -- ---. VV./a-RE ROT) Lessee, Y TRY TIP .L, DRVILY-LANE. .r. E. T. Smith• .3 EVENING HUNCHBACK. Followed by £WICE KILLED. To conclude with LLET DIVERTIS iEMENT. A BA go - Under t 7 lAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE . .e Management of Mr. CixAltus KERN. THIS EVENING, MUSIC FI tTII CHARMS. After whicr, PIZARRO. 41a, by Mr. C. Kean ; Flvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Mana;ement of Mr. Bnelugoni. THil EVENING, THE' BEAUX' STRATAGEIf. Followei hr EL GAMBUSINO. After which, CHARLES THE SECOND. To conzlade IN ith THE SPANISH SERJEANT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, 'Under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, BE LPHEGOR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. To be followed by W. Brough's new Burlesque, PERDITA, THE ROYAL MILKMAID; or, a Winter's Tale. Flortiel, Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woo Liar) ; Autolyeus , Mr. J. Toole ; Herrnione, Mrs. Buckingham White ; Leontes, Mr. S. ca,'haem ; Polbtines, King of Bithynia, Mr. Wm. Brough (his first aPcoarance on any stage) ; Fast Time, Miss Harriet Gordon ; Per luta. Miss Marie Wilton; Antigonus, Mr. Barrett. Miss Retina Wright, and a grand Corps de Ballet. - To conclude with THE WEDDING DAY. Lady Contest, Miss Fitzpatrick. Stalls. s. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Bo xes, 3s- Pit. 25.; Gallery. Is. Commence at 7. Half- price to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL THEA.TEE ADELPIII. Fropristor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which THE IRISH TUTOR. To conclude with OUR GAL. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Seventh Week ! Shakspere's RICHARD THE THIRD, w ith the introductioh of horses. The equestrian illustrations imaginel by Mr. W. Cooke. Death of White Surrey. (Vide " lillustrated News," of Saturday, 6th.) Rattle of Bosworth Field, &c. After which, The EQUESTRIAN GEMS in the CIRCLE. To concluc+9 with a number of other Entertainments. Boa-office open fr3m Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun. N.B. Vide " Illustrated News of Sept. 6th for the Death of White Surrey. }UGH. WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 48 min. aft. 2—Evening 9 min. aft. 3 T.l-31 omtow—Morn. 28 min. aft. 3—Evening 49 min. aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 16. THERMOMETER, IN T HI( SHAD& 67—highest singe noon yesterday. bl —lowest this morning and during the night. 65 —this day at noon. BAROMIMB, 30.21. WIND, N.N.W.—Light, with fine weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half- past 5 till o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sim Office, 112, Strand. A- 9 C C, Ill) ( rri,e -t LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEIIBER 16, 1856, know their own strength. Their ()yes have been already opened by the admirable brochure of the veteran " QuiNcir," who has so clearly and distinctly pointed out the ca uses by which " a miserable minofity" has kith erto been enabled to defeat those who hold the trump cards and have the game in their own hands, if they only play it boldly and independently. They can only lose by allowing their insidious opponents to sow dissensions upon min or points. Now that the House of Representp►tivos has yielded on the rider to the appropriation, that it has abandoned the position which it so nobly assumed and manfully sustained for a time, the battle of the constitution must be fought on the Presidential Election. As we have long since ex plained the real contest lies between :FREMONT and BUCHANAN. FILLMORE is only put forward as a mere stalking-horse to divide the votes of the Free-soilers. Every vote given to him is praoti cally the same as ono bestowed on BUCHANAN. His personal influence may also be used to pre vent Congress from agreeing, so that the prize may remain for BRECKENRIDGE, which would be but a faint improvement on BUCHANAN. Should that gentleman be pitchforked into power, the same policy that has characterised the PIERCE Presidency will be maintained. The hopes of the Federal Republic, and of all the well-wishers cf freedom throughout the world, rest on FREMONT. A few months must reveal he issue whereon the happiness of the human :amily so greatly depends. It is impossible to estimate too highly the vas. importance of the existing trans-Atlantic diffi culty. It is not merely the fate of the model Republic, or the interests of twenty-five million of men, the large majority of whom are of flit Anglo-Saxon race, speaking the same language and professing the same religion as ourselves, but the peace and tranquility of the world, thai are involved in the result. The future welfare and happiness of the human race greatly depend on the issue of the Presidential election. TIN parties immediately concerned are fully aware of the magnitude of the stake for which they are contending. Should BIICIIA.NAN unfortunately succeed, filibustering quotations will rise mate. rially in the market. A course of piratical aggression will be entered on that must lead to a sanguinary and ruinously expensive war. Cuba will be the first object aimed at, inasmuch as it: acquisition would at once lead to the addition o 1 a New Slave State to the Union—an additional stripe to the Yankee banner. The example of General WALKER will be generally followed by the pro-slavery men, and visions of new acquisi tions will be inclulg^d in throughout the whole of the Southern States. There is, in fact, no possibility of the slave owners resting on their oars. They must progress or fall from the position they have a=sumed. The proceedings in Kansas— the fierce invasion of one of the States of the Union. and the civil war now raging therein, proves the utter recklessness of the Missourians and their coadjutors. They have set their lives upon the cast, and will stand the hazard of the die. Should they obtain a renewed tenure of power for four additional years matters will be brought to such a pass that a general war between the Old and the New World will become inevitable, and in that war England must take a leading part, not only for the sake of her North American and West India colonies, but for the maintenance of that prestige which she has hitherto enjoyed, and the sacred cause of truth and justice, the abandonment whereof would be the signal for her speedy downfall. The success of Colonel FREMONT, on the other hand, would immediately allay the well-founded apprehensions that have been entertained. It would at once be seen that there was but little danger to be anticipated from a firm and well organised Government, which had the vast majo rity of the free population on its side, and which 1 set out with an earnest and unflinching determi nation to suppress all these buccaneering expedi tions so greatly to be deprecated. The further extension of " the domestic institution"—that atrocious system that so contemptuously disregards all natural ties, paternal and marital—will rigidly be prohibited. It is, perhaps, impossible to an ticipate the immediate enfranchisement of all the unfortunate victims of man's cupidity and lust of power ; but the good seed would be sown and en abled to take permanent root during the FREMONT Administration. Even men past the middle age might reasonably hope to see the day when the crying abomination would be numbered with the past, and the sanguinary sta'n for ever eradicated from the banners of all civilised na tions. prophetic inspiration, for certainly the marked disregard shown to the. advice given in the follow- ing lines " And luts'm away, my hearties, To welcome this day with loud huzza Old brave John Frost, the Chartist," betokened a 'want of sympathy with " brave (?) old JOHN," AS the subsequent proceedings did a good deal l iof indifference about the Charter. That Chartism is at present, as it has long been, a lifeless ism will hardly admit of doubt, and many will be of opinion that an ovation to a hero like the hero of yesterday is not the likeliest way to revivify it. It is natural enough in the leaders, or would-be leaders, of a popular movement to avail themselves of every eligible opportunity to extend their influence and promote the spread of the political doctrines to which they are pledged. But, at the same time, their followers have a right to look for some degree of judgment in the selec tion of such opportunities. How far the Oiler tists, as a body, are satisfied with the selection of FROST as a Chartist hero we cannot undertake to sa.y, but we unhesitatingly affirm it was a great, a grievous mistake, and the apathy shown in the •gathering of the procession goes far to show the working classes so regarded it. The Charter is not one of those things which are so unmitigatedly bad that nothing short of unmixed reprobation can be applied to them by the honest admirer of the Constitution. Some of the points are good, and possibly in course of time the greater portion may be adopted. Per haps the worst of the Charter is—,the Chartists. So far their leaders have contrived to offer the greatest possible obstacles to the adoption of any of the reforms they profess to seek. By the wild extravagance of their harangues and the mina ciousness of their attitude they have frightened the timid Reformer ; and by their questionable dealings and impracticable policy have offended and alienated the bold. Indeed so strangely have they acted in times past that the good faith of the majority, excluding such men asERNEsT JONES, has been more than questioned. If the party, small as it is, be now sincere, it could hardly be good policy to attempt an ovation to an individual lately punished for a crime, the temptation to which is so generally associated with the maintenance of the Chartist cause. The selection of such a hero was, we repeat, a mistake—a blunder—unless it be regarded as indicative of something worse. It associated by the newest ties ideas of violence in connection with the Charter which, it was to be hoped, would never be so associated again. The inference is that, like the Bouueorts, the Chartist leaders have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing, during the long abeyance of their power. What claim had JOHN FROST on the respect or gratitude of any honest Englishman ? The Mayor of New port—he was a rebel to his SOVEREIGN, and per jured alike to her and his fellow-townsmen. As • magistrate and an educated man he abused his privileges, to the mortal injury of the weak ; while, as a Chartist leader, he displayed such wis dom and foresight as may consist with the array of a few desperate men against the power of the British CROWN. Some twenty individuals fell, riddled with shot, from a conflict which he pro voked and contrived to leave unhurt. Many were imprisoned, and some transported, himself among them beside. And now, with her MA JESTT'S gracious pardon hardly crumpled in his pocket, and indebted to the Cilowx for an escape from the gallows, this man, of all men, must be selected as a Chartist martyr, and must flout the public oy© with hia prolence, and turn to ridicule the commiseration which led to his recall from banishment. This madman and ingrate, to call him nothing worse, is, forsooth, deemed worthy, on account of his misdeeds, of all the honour Chartists could show a deserving Democrat ! There can hardly be two opinions among moderate men as to the truth of our previous assertion that the Chartists are, the worst of the Charter! We had hoped that, taught by experience to avoid past errors, and not without honest, if misguided, men among them, they would have endeavoured to redeem those errors by a junction, however temporary, of their efforts with those of reformers of all grades to obtain some points on which there is a common agreement ; but we must confess to having experienced considerable disappointment, which nevertheless would have been greater had the character of the vast majority of the assem bly on Primrose-hill been other than our re porter describes. Such a collection of roughs must ever, save in extreme cases, be politically r awerless, and prove obstructive to whatever cause they disgrace or honour by their aid. The only vital power of Chartism resided in the laborious and intelligent working classes, and it is not to these the roughs of the metropolis can fairly be said to belong, much less to represent. As the Chartist movement is now directed, we cannot regard with regret the substitution of the one class for the other, because the results will in fallibly be less prejudicial to the cause of reform. One thing we are fairly entitled to notice in con nection with the meeting. In what other coun try would the like be tolerated In France, Austria, the Sicilies ? No I It is in that Eng land the tyrants of the two latter countries de light to vilify that public opinion can control the enthusiastic, and hold the rascally politician in check without aid from the bayonet and sabre, and the loudest vaunter of the success of secret combination can be challenged to the outrance, to the prostration of his power and his signal dis comfiture. It is only in England that the honest and practical reformer can draw new spirit from such manifestations, and be led to the discharge of a duty he owes by the failure or rampancy of a movement of which he disapproves. May such result follow in the wake of yesterday's demon stration. At this moment we have, in the diplomatic vacancy at Naples, a rare and glorious opportu nity. Au opportunity for turning over a new leaf in the manner of the general distribution of our first-class appointments ! It behoves every Administrative Reformer to be on the alert. It behoves us all to mark what follows—to note what manner of man it is we ought in reason and iy right to see inducted into this luxurious but responsible office of Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of the Twa Sicilies. Shall it be another ' WILLIAM BARNACLE " precipitated" into this as already into so many other snug places according to Precedent ? Shall it be another Lord DECIMUS TITE BARNACLR soaring to this as already he has risen to so many of the official, heights upon the wings of one indignant idea? Shall it be anothor TUDOR STILT SULKING, " despatch-boxing the compass" all over the European Continent, wafted to this as already to so many other pleasant capitals upon winds blowing nobody any good save a BARNACLE or a STILTSTA.LKING, mellifluous zephyrs, fragrant and aromatic with " the odour of circumlocu tion ?" A new Ambassador will have to be nominated. as soon as possible to the post vasated very re cently by the death of the Hon. Sir WILLIAa TEMPLE—own brother of the now Prime Minister of England, the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. Is it to be the old, old story all over again—the story we are all so heartily sick of ? A BARNACLE replaced by a STILTSTALKING, a STILTSTALKING by a 1 BARNACLE—" not a square yard of ground in Bri tish occupation, under sun or moon, with a post upon it, but sticking to that post a BARNACLE, " or stalking grandly towards it across landd, and sea upon certain hollow and stilted pretensions a STILTSTALKING ! Are we to go on thus, and thus, and thus down to the very end of the chapter ? Or is there at last the glimmering of a hope anywhere for Merit—for Merit pPr go , ATPrit viewed alto ether apart from Family? In Heaven's name let us now trust and believe so—now that we have had tho cuckoo cry about "The Right Man in the Right Place," dinned into our ears so often of late, now that we have heard so much about the intentions and aspirations of the Administrative Reform Associa tion, now above all that we possess in this diplo matic Neapolitan vacancy a priceless and really golden opportunity ! We are unfortunately compelled to imagine that there really are just a few more perhaps than some half-a-dozen credulous individuals in this country who are disposed to believe with Lady BARBA'S& SINCLAIR, in Mr. CHARLES READE'S sparkling little novel of " Christie Johnstone," -,-." that in England, Government is administered not by a set of men whose salaries average from eighty to five hundred pounds a-year, and whose names are never heard but by the First Lord of the Treasury, and other great men." Credulous people these are, who conceive of course, and quite as a matter of course, that diplomatists like the late Hon. Sir BARNACLE STILTSTALKING, Brother of the Premier, and Minister Plenipoten tiary at the Court of Naples, actually did " some thing" or other that (let us say) " earned the salt" of his splendid embassy ! The con lition to which our influence at that ill-favoured Gina had dwindled down at the period of Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE'S death "proves"---positively--to the lontrary ! It "proves," moreover, that nowa days, more than ever, it has become imperatively requisite to get the diplomatic wheel of fortune out ,f the old deep-worn rut of feudal, that is to say, family or hereditary, appointment ! Now—if ever ! At Naples—if no where else ! The evils we have to ward against there are imminent. There, at the Court of Bonsa, let the labour of diplomatic reform begin in real earnest. It is more than merely desirable that it should be so ; it is essentially and imperatively requisite. Di plomatists are, of course, not made in a day. They, more than any men perhaps, need a regular and systematic education. It becomes necessary, therefore, that we should select judiciously from among the best of the materials already within reach of our selection. Not from among men who, as diplomatists, are notoriously valueless— but from among those who actually do possess a real and appreciable reputation. Leaving far t while contemptuously overlooked at their seve ral posts—Lord HowDEN at Madrid, Lord WODS HOUSE at St. Petersburg, Lord STECITFOR.D DB REDCLIFFE (under a taboo) at Constantinople ! And turning to such men of mark, and mind, and merit as Sir HENRY BULWER, and Mr. THOMAS WYSE, and Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR. The last mentioned can scarcely be spared, it is true, from his German post of responsibility. The first men tioned has just taken in hand the solution of the , great European problem affecting the future go vernment of the Siamese Danubian Principalities. The distinguished Ambassador intermediately par ticularised might, we cannot but conceive, be transferred very judiciously from his irksome posi tion at Athens to this vacant post at Naples with (or we are much mistaken) infinite satisfaction to himself and immediate advantage to the national interests he has so long and ably represented. "A change," a thorough and radical change, we believe, must, sooner or later (pray HEAVEN sooner rather than later) "come o'er the spirit of our dream" at the Court of OTLIO and at the Court of BOMBA ! Now is our opportunity f or its inauguration. ACCIDENT TO THE WESTMINSTER CLOCK BELL.— WEST HARTLEPOOL, Sept. 13.—An accident, fortunately unattended with fatal consequences, occurred here this afternoon to the great bell recently cast at Norton for the new clock tower at Westminster. It was originally intended to ship the bell by means of a pair of shears erected for the occasion in the West Dock, none of the cranes being sufficiently powerful to lift- the enormous weight ; but the shears set up were found to be too small, and a larger pair was erected in the Swainson Dock, and this afternoon was appointed for shipping the bell on board the billyboy schooner Wave, Moncrief, Master, of Wisbeach. Every precaution that was deemed requisite was taken in order to secure its safe shipment. About one o'clock it wri lifted from the:carriage on which it was deposited and safely swung over the hold of the vessel ready for being lowered. While in this position it was discovered that the aperture to the hold was not sufficiently broad for its reception, and another deck plank was cut out in order to admit it. When all was in readiness for lowering, one of the chains was found to have slipped on one side of the sheave, and the block refused to work. A delay of an hour occurred be fore this could be remedied, and when all was once more M readiness the accident we have to report took place. A few minutes previous to the readjustment of the chain a slight crack was heard 40 proceed from the woodwork, but of this no notice was taken, as it was not deemed of any consequence. As soon as a strain was again put upon the tackling the shears immediately swerved a lit cle to one side, and in an instant the ponderous ma chinery came to the ground, cracking and smashing like firewood, and in its course bringing down the foremast of the vessel and breaking it into splinters, besides doing other serious damage to the hull. The bell descended with a fearful crash to the bottom of the vessel, fortunately, it was believed at the time this report was despatched, without injury. The large crowd of people who were standing.near had a narrow escape from the falling mast and timbers. The captain of the vessel was in the hold at the time, but fortunately escaped without injury. The vessel immediately began to make a great deal of water, and in order to prevent her sinking in the dock a couple of steamboats took her in tow and removed her out of the dock into the inner basin, where she was run on the ground. It is then, indeed, a question of vast import. Never, perhaps, has one of equal magnitude de pended on a popular election. Every vote given for BUCHANAN tends to rivet the chains on the coloured population. Every one for .e REMONT to relieve the weary and oppressed, and to hasten the time when there shall be peace and good-will amongst men. That the glorious cause W ill eventually triumph it is impossible to doubt ! But there must be serious misery and suffering should the contest be protracted. The Northerns The free and easy exhortation of the Chartist minstrel to the class expected to participate in yesterday's demonstration— " Cheer up, cheer up, my gallant lads," appears to have been penned in a moment of rHE SUN, _LON DON, TUESDAY EVE ;' SEPTEMB E R l6 THE THEATRES. DRITRY"-LANE. The winter season at this theatre commenced last evening with 1% company of more than usual excellence — the list of the company containing the names of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. B. Sullivan, Mrs. F. Mathews, awl Mrs. Emma Waller. The last men tioned lady comes to Us after having achieved great sue cess in Australia. The opening play was Bulwer's " Lady of Lyons," and the great event of the evening was the appearance of Mrs. Waller in the character of Pauline. From the manner in which the appearance of this lady has been announced to the metropolis for the last two or three months public curiosity was greatly excited, and we confess we had our doubts as to the advisability of raising such great expectations. We were prepared for a per formance in which great physical power would form the principal characteristic, but wo were disappointed in our calculations, and instead of which Mrs. Waller mani fested great intellectual ability, and a pathos undderio rated by the artifices of exaggeration. It gives us great pleasure, therefore, to announce that the date of Mrs. Waller was decidedly successful. Her delineation of the character of Pauline, the petted beauty of Lyons, was beautifully true to nature, and the impression she created last evening gives promise of a most brilliant career in London. In the earlier portions of the play her manner and appearance was lady-like and gentle, and as the piece progressed the emotions of the heart were exquisitely delineated. Nothing could exceed the beauty of Mrs. Waller's acting in the scene where Claude relates the fraud that has been practised on the unsuspecting loving woman. It was a perfect triumph of art, and it elicited a hurricane of applause. Mr. B. Sullivan's Claude Melnotte was a painstaking and careful performance. Mr. Yonge, as Col. Dames, was excellent. At the termination of the play, as at the end of the third and fourth acts, there were loud calls for Mrs. Waller, and on her appearance, led by Mr. Sullivan, she was enthusiastically received. Oxenford's farce of " Twice Killed," in which the Keeleys sustained their original charcters, concluded the evening's enter tainments. The house was crowded almost to suffo , cation. LATEST NEWS. NAPLES. With respect to the Neapolitan difficulty, says the llmes (second edition) Paris correspondent, hopes are entertained here that it will be settled by negotiation through the ordinary channels, and it is even thought probable that it will not be deemed necessary to' send — an answer to the Notes of the King. This may appear rather a sanguine view of the matter ; but I understand that things are at the' present mo ment in such a state that it is held desirable to await in silence the probabilities of an amicable adjustment. I give you this as the French view of the matter. Baron Hubner has really arrived at Naples, but here it is maintained that he has merely gone 'to see Vesuvius, and that he has no political mission whatever. This may be so, but, according to information from Vienna, which I transmitted to you some weeks ago, and a great part of which has since been proved correct he certainly had orders to make representations to the King of Naples, although not in an official manner. On the other hand, it' is possible that those instructions have been revoked, and this is indeed positively stated by some of the German papers. • CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. (Prom the 'Second Edition of the Times.) • MOSCOW, MONDAY MORNING, SFPT. 8. The Czar is now the Lord's anointed. The great ceremony which has consecrated his power in the eyes of so many millions of his subjects has been: performed with rare precision and success, and with a magnificence to which no historical pageant known to me can claim superiority. The day—how much of our grandest efforts depend on that which we can not control—was beautiful. At sunrise all Moscow was up and stirring, and ore it was day the hum of voices and the tramp'of feet rose from the streets. At 6 o'clock the Kremlin was assaulted by a sea of human beings, who lashed themselves angrily against the gates, and surged in like waves through the portals. This is to, the Russians what the Tower, St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, the catho• drals, and the universities, all in one, would be to an Englishman :—" It is the heart and the soul of Moscow, as Moscow is the heart and the soul of Russia." It is her historical monument and the temple of her faith. • The most important and solemn part of the ceremony has now to be performed, and there is a general stillness in the church, as the Emperor de scends from his throne and proceeds to the entrance of the chancel. He is met there by the Archbishop of Moscow, who holds in his hands the sacred vessel which contains the holy oil. Stretching forth his right hand, the venerable father takes a golden branch, with which, having dipped it in the consecrated oil, he!anoints the forehead, eyelids, nostrils, ears, hands, and breast of the Emperor, pronouncing the solemn words—" Intpressio doni Spiritus Sancti." The act is done, and Russian eyes look with awe upon the Anointed of God, the Delegate of His power, the High Priest of His Church, at once Emperor and Patriarch, conse crated and installed in his high temporal and spiri tual office. A salvo of cannons, the bray of trum pets, the roll of drums, announce the completion of the sacred act to the ears of those who are without the church and cannot witness it. Meanwhile the Empress comes forward, and is in like manner anointed by the Archbishop, but on the forehead only. Then the Emperor and Empress, the one on the right, the other on the left, of the pre siding Archbishops of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novgorod, receive the holy sacrament ; to the Emperor, as the chosen servant privileged by Reaven, it is administered into the two kinds ; the Empress receiving only the sacramental bread which is partaken of by all the members of the Russian Church. Once more the choir burst out in full jubi lant chorus, and,their Majesties once more mount the platform of the throne, and stand erect while the mass is intoned by the priests, and the re sponses are chanted by the choir. The holy service being concluded, the Emperor steps from the throne, bows right and left to the great digni taries of the State, to the prelates, to the represen tatives of the foreign Powers, and then leaves the church by the northern gate, accompanied by his splendid retinue, and followed at a short distance by the Empress. At the moment that the Emperor took back the sceptre and the globe, the priest proclaimed the Im perial title, and then chauntetl Domine, salvum fac Imperatorem, et Domine, salmn, fac Imperatricem, to which the choristers added ad multos annos, and 'at the same instant the bells which had been silent burst forth once more with tremendous •lamour, and the guns of the batteries fired 101 rounds. The smoke rolled over the walls and floated like a fine veil over the flashing arms of the soldiers and over the crowd inside. It was at 10.30 that the mouth of the cannon inaugurated the prayers which his Majesty, kneel ing, addressed before all his people to the King of Kings to sanctify his reign. All this tumult sud denly ceased. There was a murmur of voices for moment in the Court, which was hushed at once as a bell tinkled once or twice from the Cathedral, and there was a profound silence, while Empress, Metropolitan, and people inside all knelt down and addressed their prayers to Heaven for the Emperor. He alone stood upright as they prayed. At 10.45 the bells broke out again, and the Te Deurn which heralded the High Mass was chanted. The Imperial banquet concluded the ceremonies of the Coronation-day, and judging by the worn and exhausted looks of their Imperial Majesties, human nature could scarcely bear the fatigue of their prolongation. At the first toast, to the Health of the Emperor, Ow artillery fire 61 guns ; to the Empresses, each 51 guns ; to the Imperial house, 31 guns ; to the clergy and all faithful subjects, only 21 guns. It was nearly 4 o'clock before the banquet was over, and their Majesties retired to take some repose. In the evening all Moscow was illuminated, but if the patience of your readers is exhausted, and as all illuminations are pretty much alike, I must defer iwhat I have to say about them till next post. It is sufficient to say that the city was a maze of light, that the streets were thronged to suffocation, that carriages could not pass through the thoroughfares, that the heat, dust, and smoke were intolerable, and that the English embassy was very finely illuminated. The Czar has signalised the day of his coronation by publishing a most important ukase, which contains an amnesty and lays the foundation for great reforms. The fol owing points are contained in it :—A civic and military medal for all who took part, directly or directly, in the war. Freedom from military ser vice for four years throughout the Empire. A most' equitable assessment of the poll-tax. The Emperor accords an amnesty to the political offenders of 1826 and 1831. All the Jews of the Empire are freed from the special burdens of the recruitment that still oppressed them. The children of soldiers that were brought up by the State, and as such formed part hitherto of the army, in which they were bound to serve as sol diers, are now restored to their relations. TUESDAY MORNING, 8 A.M. Yesterday there was a parade of the Guard at 10 o'clock in the Kremlin, and a levee and presenta tion at mid-day. There was also a State ball on a very grand scale at the Palace. The Emperor re ceived the Ambassadors and Ministers at his levee, and spoke to each for some time, and the Turkish Minister presented his credentials. The illumina tions were repeated last evening, but a gentle breeze which sprung up after sunset blew most of the lamps out. FRANCE. • PARIS, MONDAY EVENINq. The total of subscriptions for the victims of the inundations is now 10,462,557 f. 34c. There have bean dreadful fires at Saint Pol, near Arras, and at Pau, the first to the extent ordamage of 40,000 f., the second 15,000 f. An Imperial decree inserted in the Bulletin des Lois extends to the colonies of Martinique, Ganda - loupe, and La Reunion (Bourbon) the law of the 27th November, 1840, relative to coalitions of workmen. . • _ . The Prefect of the Seine has proposed to the, municipal council, in order to make up part of the deficit in the budget of the city of Paris for 1857, to establish a tax on all sorts of vehicles, and to make persons pay for admission to the Bourse. The Senate, it may be remembered, rejected in its last session a bill for imposing a tax on private car riages, but the Government has promised to cause a bill to be brought before the Legislative Body and the Senate before the end of Juno next, for taxing not only private carriages, but all vehicles employed in the conveyance of persons or ma terials. The revenue from tkis tax is calculated at 1 , 2 00,000 fr., and the collection of it, should the bill pass, is to be commenced in July next. With regard to the charge for admission to the Bourse, the prefect calculates that it will produce about HAYMARKET. Mr. Buckstone seems determined to take the town by storm, by means of an army of ladies. He has had for some time some of the most attractive of our female ac tresses, in addition to the Spanish dancers. A few days back we attended at the very promising debut of Miss Bootb, in the character of Rosalind. Last night a Madame Julie Leonti appeared for the first time in the character of Mary Copp, in "Charles the Second." The part does not offer to an actress any great facilities of producing startling effects, but the cleverness of the situations, and the quantity of work thrown upon the shoulders of the performer, make the part telling. Madame Leonti has several of the necessary qualifications for success in her profession. She has a charming voice, and took her share in the duet " As it fell upon a day" with marked efface. The duet was unanimously encored. Her face is good and her figure graceful. She has evidently been well taught, and her byeplay is very careful. A slight want of power, arising very probably front nervousness, was evident, but this fault will doubtless be corrected in proportion as she gains confidence. Altogether her in terpretation of the part was distinguished for earnest. ness and expression. An universal call at the fall of the curtain indicated the satisfaction of the audience. Mr. Howe's Charles was the best that we have witnessed for a long time ; Mr. Chippendale's Captain Copp was also a successful performance. In the previous part of the evening the "Beaux' Stratagem" was represented. We take the opportunity of earnestly advising all lovers of theatricals to witness the representation of this play at the Haymarket. Mr. Buckstone's Scrub, and Miss Reynolds' Mrs. Sul len, are completely perfect. Mr. Chippendale's Sullen, and Mr. Howe's Archer, are also careful and well studied. LYCEUM. This theatre opened last evening for the winter season under the direction of Mr. Charles Dillon. The list of the company comprises a number of the London fa vourites, and also the names of several ladies and gen men new to London. The piece selected for the opening night was " Belphegor the Mountebank," in which Mr. and Mrs. Dillon sustain the principal parts. We have already spoken in eulogistic terms of Mr. Dillon's repre sentation of Belphegor, suthee it therefore to say that last evening he exhibited the same pathos which marked his first performance of the character in London some short time ago. At the termination of the melodrama Mr. and Mrs. Dillon received the honour of a " call." The novelty of the evening was a burlesque from the pen of Mr. Brough, entitled " Perdita ; or, the Royal Milk. maid." It is a travesty of the " Winter's Tale "as miss en scene at the Princess's, in which Mr. Calhaem, hs Leontes, gives a striking imitation of the Leontes of the Oxford-street boards. Mr. Brough, the author, re presents Polixenes ; Miss Harriet Gordon, as Time, introduces the piece in a song to the air of the " Rat catcher's Daughter," the refrain in the present instance being the " Poor old dramatist's slaughter." The out line of the piece is the same as Shakspere's. Perdita, the lost daughter of the King, is represented by Miss Wilton ; and Prince Florixel, the son of Polixenes, by Mrs. A. Mellon (L\tiss Woolgar). The entry of the latter lady in her lively hunting dress— the very Diana of the stage—was the signal of cordial and rapturous applause from all parts of the house, which was re peated again and again. Mrs. Buckingham White made a noble Queen, and Mr. Toole as Autolycus was amusing as usual. The success of the burlesque was decided. It has been placed on the stage in the most gorgeous manner ; and Mr. Dillon seems determined to uphold the reputation of the Lyceum for the pro. duction of splendid burlesques. The house was quite full, and he has our best wishes for Ms success. ENTERTAINMENT TO THE HIGHLAND BRIG AIDS AND THE OTHER CORPS A? DOVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In common with many of my countrymen in the metropolis, it afforded me much pleasure to observe from your impression of yesterday, evening that it was the in• tention of the Highland Society to entertain at dinner, in the Royal Surrey Gardens, the Crimean medal men of the Highland Brigade, at present stationed near Dover ; and as much regret thatthe Commander-in-Chief ref used to allow the troops to be removed for such a purpose to such a distance from their quarters. Without at all wishing to detract from the Highland Society the credit which this patriotic act would have awarded them, I beg at the same time to observe that to a letter signed "A Scotch man," in your paper of 14th August last, belongs the merit of first drawing attention to the propriety of insti tuting some demonstration to mark the sense of their countrymen in London of the chivalrous bearing of the Highlanders throughout the campaigns of the East ; and further, that out of that suggestion has emanated the meeting of a few gentlemen with that view, at which the question whether it would be more practicable to dine or to give them a ball on New Year's Eve, in the neigh bourhood of their own camp, rather than dragging them to London, was discussed, but to which an ultimate deoision had not been given, although the ball had most approval. The reasons for deferring the compliment to so late a period as the 31st December were, it being ascertained that nearly a hundred men of all ranks were at present absent from their respective corps on six weeks' furlough ; also, that New Year's Eve has at all times, been an evening of festivity in Scotland ; adding to these the fact that at a ball their wives could also join them. As the division to which they belong contains the 41st (Welsh) and 44th (East Norfolk), it was intended to invite them also. It is a generally received fact that highlanders in their social habits will always give a pre fereucie to the "dance" rather than to a "dinner." The strength of the five regiments would be about four thousand, for whose accommodation Mr. Edgtngton, of Southwark, offers to provide marquees at very reasonable cost ; therefore, an entertainment Gf the latter description would not require a larger sum than a dinner, at the same time having so many advantages in its favour. As the Highland Society is an organised and a popular body, if they would take the same view of the subject as here submitted, and convene a meeting, admitting others as n ell as their own members to it, I have no doubt that a successful and creditable demonstration would be secured. To remove any question that might arise as to the carry ing out of its details, it may be well to observe that they might be safely entrusted to the colonels commanding, the adjutants, and to the non-commissioned officers. I hope that true-hearted Highlander, Sir Charles Forbes, will move in this matter, which bas for its object the appreciation of his beloved countrymen's gallant services An insertion of this letter in your excellent paper wi very much oblige your obedient servant, 14, Upper Islington-terrace, Sept. 13th. J. C. MT. SOMETHING. CURIOUG.—An American paper gives a curious incide n t o f a late t h un d er s t orm : —A little girl was standing at a window before which was a young maple tree. After a brilliant flash a complete image of the tree was found imprinted on h r body. This is not the first instance of the kind, but it is a singular pheno• menon, 858 alear i and that it will besides have tfiEr advantage of preVenting the inconvenience caused by crowds flocking there on certain occasions of excitement, and of reducing the number of small capitalists and workmen who speculate. A letter from Galatz of the 3d says :—" The French steam gun-boat the Alcrte arrived here this morning ; she is the first French war vessel that has entered the Danube." 80 - Ernst, Sept. 15.—The following were the last quotations : _ Cash. fr. B. End of Month. 4} per Cents (xd) ... 02 —f. •—a. 3 per Cents 7O 50 70 75 Now Loan 7O 70 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,681 25 A.ustrian Belgian Fives 99.}}— Spanish Threes Piedmontese (5) 9l 50 Home Debt ......,.. RAILWAYS-700 CASE. fr. c. Cr. c. Orleans ........ 1,362 50 Western 940 Northern .1,005 -- Strasburg Lyons ~..1,348 75 New Ditto lioditerrauean ...... 1,800 -- Grand. Central Lyons Geneva 785 --- Testa ......... ...... 680 Cette RUSSIA. A letter from odessa of the 2cl, in the Aus triam Gazette, says :---" Workmen continue to be actively engaged in endeavouring to raise the vessels sunk in the harbour of Sebastopol. It appears that the fine steam-frigate Vladimir is completely lost. According to a census lately taken, the population of the south side of Sebas topol amounts to 1,500 souls, exclusive of about 3,000 sailors. The Russian officers now here gave a grand banquet last week to General Buchmaier, of the Engineers, who constructed the bridge of boats across the harbour of Sebas topol, an operation which was thought to be impossible under the fire of the enemy, and the success of which saved the garrison of Se bastopol. A discovery has just been made in the village of Alexandropol, in the government of Ecatherinslow, which has caused an immense sensation among our archeologists. M. Luzancho, thei director of the.museum of Kertch, has found in a small mound the catacombs of the Scythian Kings. Numerous articles in gold, silver, bronze, iron, earthenware, &c., have been discovered there. The existence of the Gherros, or. Necro polis of the Scythian monarchs, spoken of by He rodotus, is thus proved." THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Jassy, in the Wanderer of Vienna, says :—" We are assured that the French consul has received from his government orders to make severe representations to the Moldavian govern ment on some of its recent proceedings, and espe cially for having attempted to prevent the exercise of the privilege of the navigation of the Pruth and Sereth accorded to Captain Magnan, and for its conduct in the affair of the Moldavian Bank. M. Place, the French consul, has, in consequence, had with the Caimacan an interview, in which bespoke very energetically on these two subjects." AUSTRIA. The Augsburg Gazette says : —" A telegraphic despatch announces that the Emper of Russia has conferred on Prince Paul Esterhazy, who repre sented Austria in the coronation, the Order of Saint Andrew in diamonds, which is the highest distinction that can be obtained in Russia." A letter from Vienna of the 11th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" It is positively stated that the Servian government has taken steps to support its demand for an increase of its military forces. It hi drawn up it memorial on the subject in which it points out that such an augmentation would be not only for the interest of the principality, but also for that of the Porte, whose frontiers would be thus better protected from a sudden irruption." HANOVER. The following decree, just published in the Hanover Gazette, announces the resolution of the King to dispose of the public revenues, and aug ment his own civil list, in a manner which the Second Chamber—prorogued on the 4th inst.— has recently refused to sanction : We, George V.,&c. When, by the 4th article of our edict on the Ist of August last year, and proceeding on the federal resolu tion of April 19, 1855, we reserved to ourselves the right of giving fresh validity to the 6th chapter of the constitution of August 6, 1840, in its totality, and when nevertheless we confined ourselves provisionally to re establish only the 154th, 155th, and 156th articles of that law, we indulged the hope ofseeing established between us and the general assembly of tale States, an understanding respecting the new financial measures which it was proposed to bass on the principle of cen tralising the public receiving offices. In this expectation we caused to be submitted, for the deliberation and constitutional consent of the States, on the 11th of April last, the prDject of a finance bill, which would avoid the incompatibility between that of 1343 and the laws of the Confederation. But our wishes have not been accomplished. Whilst the first chamber of the General Diet has shown itself ready to come to an agreement, the majority of the second chamber has adhered in the essential questions to the principles of 1848. This attitude has rendered all arrangement impossible. Being neither able nor willing to put off any longer the execution of the federal resolution of Aprillo, 1555, concerning the finances, which requires that the consti tution should be brought without delay into harmony with the fundamental laws of the confederation, we have by our edict of this day annulled the chapter in the con stitution relative to the finances, and have restored the one contained in the constitution •f 1840. Nevertheless, in the absence of an equable distribu tion of the expenses between the royal treasury and the treasury of the state, which exist separately, we have ordained merely the partial execution of the chapter of finances, and have organised a provisional form of regu lations. In virtue of the constitution of 1840, we return as lord paramount into the enjoyment of the feudal revenues designated in the 86th article of the constitution of 1848, which said revenues form no part of either the royal or the state treasury. Nevertheless, not wishing to change the budget fixed for the current fiscal period, we have renounced the revenues of the fiefs in' favour of the general treasury until the Ist of July, 1858. We have maintained, by the sth Article of this decree, the principle in accordance with which the members of the Court of Accounts, recently nominated by the States, will have to be confirmed by us in their functions. The regulation laid down in the constitution of 1848, by virtue of which the councillors of this court, delegated by the States could enter into the administration with a delibe rative voice, is too far opposed to the monarchic prin ciple and to the essence of the executive power of the Crown for us to be able to tolerate its existence any longer. In consequence of the suppression of the 81st Article in the Constitution of 1848, we have from this time for wards made fresh arrangements respecting the civil list. The civil list, as fixed by our late father, the King Ernest Augustus, is no longer in harmony with-actual. - actual circumstances that imperiously require its augmentation, and as the Diet itself recognised in its last session. Animated by our duty as a member of the confedera tion and by our royal prerogative, we shall shortly carry into effect the separation of the treasures, and shall submit to the chambers as soon as possible a project for dividing the expenses among the different receiving offices. Should the chambers, contrary to our expectation, refuse all arrangement upon the basis proposed, we shall reserve to ourselves the right of taking such steps as shall be requisite for the - complete execution of the federal resolution passed on the 19th of April, 1855. We declare, however, that we are still ready to enter tain any desire expressed by the Diet for the reunion of the treasuries, could we but believe that our propositions would be better appreciated by it than was the case last se:sioa ; and we give by this declaration to our faithful subjects the proof of our sincere desire to regulate by some arrangement the question of.the finances in a man ner conformable with the interests of the crown and those of the country. The decree enacts that the civil list shall be endowed with a revenue of 600,000 dols. derived from,the produce of the domains, and also with the interest derived from a capital of 600,0001. sterling invested in the English funds. SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 14. The Gazette publishes a royal decree appointing General Urbistenda to be Captain-General of Andalusia ; General Leimerick will remain at Puerto Rico. The most perfect accord exists between the members of the Govern ment on the subject of the constitutional question. The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains a circular from the Minister of War to the captains - general of provinces, announcing that , in consequence of the re-establishment, o f tranquillity, the Govern meat desires that the s tate of siege in w hi c h all Spain has been placed shall, without being done away with all at once, be so modified "as to permit all the branches of the administration of the State to re-enter gradually in their normal conditions." The Gazette publishes a le tter from the Minister of Finance to the president of th e j unta on the public debt, s tating that the Queen h as gran t e d to the Duke de Berwick and Alba, in compliance with his demand, on account of the recent di:. turbed state of the country, a longer period than that fixed by the royal decree of the 10th December last for producing proofs of the sums due to him for supplies made to the French troops by his family during the War of lade pendenbe- A commission had ,been nruna e ' •t d for regulating the,postal , communications be tween pain and her West • India colonies. The departures from the port of London for the Aus tralian colonies during the past week have comprised e ight vessels—three to Port Phillip, one to Sydney, one to New Zealand, one to Portland Bay, one to Launces: ton, and one to Moreton Bay, with an aggregate capa• city of 5,591 tons. The rates of freight continue to ex hibit heavinesk,. 011 AR: ;s MACKAY. 1 --- " , ular reprints of the day there is not one, Among the cli:ePdPouvl:t aily believe, calculated to be more widely or mole leartily welcomed by the masses than this cheap po lular reprint of Charles i. Mackay's charming and ii. , spititing• Ly ics. musical publisher of great ei. , terprisc. has already placed within reach of the corn. munity " One Hun dred Songs, by Henry Russell"- -IV i l ‘ai° and Words —for One Shilling ! Nay—coups ed with this be nefaction in the shape of an aggreg...te many masterpieces by a distinguishedreissue of so '.ving favou rite—has republished, upon a similar scale, the chefs d'muvres of the most national and classic of our great national and classic ballad• •mongers —" One Hundred Songs, by Charles Di, 'din Music and Words—for One Shilling ! Mr. Rout ledge has taken a leaf out of . the bo ok of Mr. Davidson. Here, coming from the press lin an elegant form, volume by volume, each vc luau ) " one shilling," are the poems, sonv, bal. Ms, lyrics of Charles Mackay ! Productions, ab nos every one, stamped long ago with the autlloi ita tive and enduring timbre of popularity. F irst and foremost—" Songs for Music" (84 of the ul in pp. 116), gracefully inscribed " To Sir Erl ward L. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P., with every sera timent of personal esteem and literary actmira - • tion." Secondly, " The Salamandrine, or Love and Immortality" (3d edition), the dainties t cele bration of elf-land since Pope's memorable Raps of the Lock—not forgetting, when we so of it, the faery idyl of Hood, or the glorifi , of the pixies by Coleridge ! Thirdly—" Ba llads and Lyrical Pieces" (2d edition), 37 distinct pro ductions in pp. 118—some of these same bay llad' and lyrics already (while their author is evens novt but in the flower of his manhood) world-fame uls 1 Yes, that large phrase has about it no exaggers, tion whatever, when urged in regard to some of the many popular songs of Mackay—songs familiar not only to us stay-at-homes, but equally to the It. raa rican backwoodsman aid to the Australian !; digger ! " Tubal Cain"—do we not all ] g.IIOV I its lusty and sonorous accents, accents t nraet as the treble of a flageolet, and thrillin g as the diapason of an organ ? " The Good nue Coming"—is it not carolled as often as the ho)inie liest " refrain" of all—about not going hom6 till morning Y"A Plain Man's Philosophy"—ha sit not (that simple heart-born ditty) something far more bewitching about it than all the love-sick 1 4 .al lads ever warbled about Chloe and Strephon ? I've a guinea I can spend I've a wifo, and I've a friend, And a troop of little children at my knee, John Brown., I've a cottage of my own With the ivy over grown, And a garden with a view of the sea, John Brown ; I can sit at my door By my shady sycamore, Large of heart, though of very small estate, John Bros So come and drain a glass In my arbour as you pass, And I'll tell you what I love and what I hate, el . ( Ala Brown." Another volume, uniform with those already p ticularised, is announced (as even now in the prosEi) by the publishers—a volume intended to comprise " The Leger ds of the Isles." And with these fault* shilling volumes must be enumerated three otherst —in every way companion publications, A Shil-' ling Reprint of " Town Lyrics "—a shir reprint of " Voices from the Crowd"—and a shilling 1-- print of " Voices from the Mountain." Poetic; largess scattered with a lavish hand to the mut' titude ! THE COURT AT BIARRITZ. BAYONNE, SEPT. 11 , Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, and his young wife , the Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of Den Francisco de Paula, and sister to the King Consort, arrived here to-day, at half-past 12 o'clock, from Madrid. Their Royal Highnesses were met et some distance outside the town by an escort of cavalry A tent was erected a few hundred yards from thePorta d'Espagne, from which floated the flags of France!. Spain, and Bavaria, and where they were receiv ed by the authorities, namely, dm general command ing the district, the mayor and deputy mayor, the prefect of the Basses Pyrenees, and the sub-prefect. Their approach was announced by a royal salute fired from the citadel. The streets leading from the Porte d'Espagne, the entrance to Bayonne , 11 .. the road to Spain, to the Hotel de Commerce in the Rue du Government, were lined with troops, WOG rendered to the Princes the salute corresponding to their rank. The residences of the Consuls were all decorated with the flags of their respective nations. Ono of the Emperor's aides-de-camp received them as they entered the town. A Court carriage, with outriders and other attendants, was sent at 3 o'clock from Biarritz to convey them to the Palace, or, as it is now called, the Villa Eugenia ; and at 4 o'clock the Princes left to pay a visit to the Emperor and Empress. Crowds of people were assembled in the principal streets and on the Place d'Armes to see them pass, and though no acclamations were heard they were received with much respect by the people. They drove to Biarritz by the Allees Marines, and) at the Prince's request, were unaccompanied by any escort. Prince Adalbert has quite the German, type—fair complexion, rather large features, with light moustache and beard. The Princess, wh° when a young girl was remarkably thin, has grown very stout. Her resemblance to her cousin Queen Isabella is striking. She is also of fair complexion, and, though perhaps deficient in distinction, her features are marked by a kind and gentle exprea sion, which is not without its attraction. The Prince and Princess returned at half- past 6 o'clock to Bayonne. The authorities of the place, as well as the Spanish and Bavarian Consuls, dined with them at the Hotel de Commerce. Their R 0 9 5! Highnesses dine with the Emperor to-morrow 111 ' Biarritz, and a ball will be given in the evening' Prince Adalbert will hold a l evee t o - m orrow, 311 which the authorities and the officers of the garri son of Bayonne will be received. THE; DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. We still hear of interments in positions th e y should not be permitted, and find indiv• luals even now obstinately denyin g th e ev il of pill ig up d i es bodies in the mid s t o f the li v i ng . M an y Londe grave-yards have been closed, a nd the rest moat follow ; it will nev e r do t o con ti nue b u rying bodies on a single Sunday in one grave-yard , as we are told is the case at present in Bethnal-gre en ' Instead of the thickly packed metropolitan grounds , burying-places have been p rov id e d i n va rious Par' s of the suburbs. This has led to considerab le changes in the cost and man n er o f f uner als, which press rather h ar dly on t h e poor , par ti cu l ar ly wh. e old fashioned plans are persisted in. When an l e , dividual iu th e m id s t o f t wo or th ree millions people dies, the body ought to be removed with out loss of time ; but then, survivors say, how can we part so suddenly w ith w h a t rema i ns of thes e we have so much l ove d? Th e par i s h es , i n sevelam• instances, have provided places for the reception of bodies until the friends of the deceased can ar range for the funeral. The value of this accent' modation is very gr ea t, p ar ti cu l ar l y w hen t h d e receiving houses for the d e ad are we ll p l ac ed, an t . yet it is not much used by th e grea t num bers° the London poor who so much require it. An some instances, too, the London undertakers have made provision on their own premises for the re ception of the dead until the time fixed for the p funeral. This is not always good, for many 01 these places are in close neighbourhoods, where numbers of persons are living around--indeed, i indeed, n some cases, in the same house. Prejudices have to be overcome, and all may aid in doing this. There are often difficulties in the way of early burial, and in such cases the body should be removed to a proper reception-house, where it could remain WI. the arrangements were complete.—The Bui4der• [&DVERTISEMENT.J # To the Editor of the Sun. SlR,—There is no real cause for the present depressicli of Consols, and there must be a great reaction in a fell days, for the following reasons :- Ist. The last million of the last loan will have been paid on Thursday, which will cause an increase of one million of notes in reserve at the Bank. 2d. There are no foreign loans in the market. 3d. The American Question has been amicably settled, and we are at peace with all the world. 4th. The corn crop is larger than any ever grown `before. sth. Gold keeps continually pouring in in large quo' tities from America, from the East Indies, and from Australia. 6th.—Money in discount transactions is decidea l l easier, and dividends to the amount of five will come in f or r e i nves t men t a ft er th e 10th o f October. Consols were 96 in July, just after the dividend b sd been paid. They are now run down to 93k, a Oa r : ter's dividend being due on them, which in reality wak e ' the present price unde r 92i, w hilst Exchequer Bills Ar e at a high premium, This must have been the res ult 5 ' mere speculative sales.—l am, sir, your obedient se t ' Sant, A. C. Morley's Hotel, Sept. 16, 1856. millioue The King of the Belgians, the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, and the Princess Charlotte visited on Saturds9 the Economic Exhibition in the Jardin Botanique Brussels, and spent some time in examining it. In the general business of the port of London during the past week there has been little change. The no w ' bar of ships reported inward was 164, being 24 less than in the previous week. Thirty-seven cargoes of corn and flour have been reported, nearly all, from Russia. The number of ves;ield cleared outward was 151, including 17 in ballast, showing an increase of seven. V we] and Wet iB, Will Poll gen( AZ • A