The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-01 00:00:00

BRITISH CANDLE COMPANY (Limited). B XERS —The City Bank. BROISSILS—Me , srs. Ca-den and Whitehe , d. MANUFACTURING MANAGER—Mr. F. L. Bauwens. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That as Applications for Shares continue to be received, it has been determined to keep the list open until further notice HORATIO N. GOULTY, Secretary. Offices, 75, Old Broad-street. ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-A. MEETING of the DEPOSITORS and SHAREHOLDER , ' will be held TO-MORROW (Tuesday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock precisely, at the F EE MASONS' TAVERN, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-fun-fields, for the purpose of taking into consideration the course pursued by the Official Manager In appealing against the decision of the Vice Chancellor, and thereby delaying the declaration of a dividend. Shareholders and Depositors are particularly requested to attend, as their interests are identical. UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS. — Wanted for a Lady and her Servant, a SITTING-ROOM, Three BED ROOMS, and separate KIT CHENT, where there are no other lodger, near a chief thoroughfare ; between Charing-cross and Hyde-park-corner preferred. Any party unused to letting would find the advertiser a desirable occupant. References exchanged. Address, with full particulars, T, 104, Strand. ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — M. JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. Last Week but One—The New Grand. French Quadrille. —Miss Juliana May.—Madame Elisa Poma (prima donna from the principal theatres in Italy), will shortly have the honour of making her first appearance in England.—Third appear ance this season of the celebrated Pianist, Miss Arabella Goddard. Programme for TITS' EVENING (Monday, Pee. 11! Part I. Overture, Der Freisebntz t*.- season) Weber ; ..I..,en's opera Pietro it Grande .iymplumy, Vivace non troppo, from the Scotch Symphony —Mendelssohn ; Grand Aria, Ernaui t involami (Ernasi), Miss Juliana May—Verdi ; Polka, My Mary Ann (19th time)—Jullien ; Fantasia, Pianoforte, " Recollections of Ireland" (Moschelles) Miss Arabella Goddard ; the Varso vienne, the Warsaw (seventh time)—Jullien ; Grand French Quadrille (the 20th time) with variations for flute, flageolet, oboe, clarinet, ophicleide, and cornet, performed by MM. De Folley, De Yong, Collinet, Lavigne, Sonnenberg, Hughes, and Kceuig ; Finale ; Partaut pour la Syrie, Vive I'Empereur- 7 . Jullien. Part 2. Opera, Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's opera of " Il Trovatore," with solos by Herr Koenig,. La v i ve, and Mr. Hughes ; Fantasia , Pianoforte, Les Patineurs (Le Prophete), Liszt, Miss Arabella Goddard ; Polka, Flirta tion, by desire—Jullien ; Cavatina, Regnava nel silenzi (Lu cia di Lammermoor) Miss Juliana May—Donizetti ; Valse G eorg ette—D'Albert ; P o lk a , Chatterbox—Koenig ; G a l op , Etna—D'Albert. Conductor—M. Jullien. To commence at 8 o'clock. Prices of admission :—Promenade, ls. ; Dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d., Lt 1s , and upwards. Private boxes to be secured of Mr. Nugent, at the box-office of the theatre P • at all the principal libraries and mnsicsellers'; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRIMI LANE.— Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Mmager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Roxby Scenic Artist, Mr. 'CV:Beverley. ITALIAN OPERAS, COMEDY, and BALLET, every Evening during the Week, at Old Play-house Prices. Last Six Nights of the Italian Opera Company. Upper Gallery, Ig. ; Gallery, ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; First Circle, ss. ; Dress Circle, 7s, ; Stalls, 10s. Bd. ; Private Boxes, one, two, three, and four guineas. In consequence of the extr►ordinar,y and unprecedented success that has attended the introduction of ITALIAN OPERAS at Drury-lane, the Lessee begs to announce that he has re-entered into arrangements with Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., who have suecc.eded in prevailing upon the eminent Italian Artistes to forego their Continental engage ments, in order to appear for a Few Nights Longer in the most celebrated operas of the great composers :--Madame Grisi, Madame Rudersdorff, Madame Amadei, Madame Sea. lank, and Madame Gassier ; Herr Reichardt, Signor Volpini, Mons. Gassier, Signor Lorini, Signor Albicini, Signor Revere, Mr. Tennant, and Herr Formes. Powerful band.and corn. plete chorus, under the direction of Signor Li Calzi. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform (positively the last time) IL DON GIGVANNI, with its powerful east : MaclAme Grisi, Madame Rudersdorff, and Madame Gassier ; Herr Formes, Signori Lorini, Rovere, Gre gorio, and Mons. Gassier. After which, TRYING IT ON. Characters by Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. A. Younge, Mr. Templeton, Mrs. Selby, Miss E. Wad.bant, and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with a Ballet, in which Mille& Osmont will appear. Boxes, stalls, and places can be secured of Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., Regent-street, and at the box-office of. the theatre, from 10 till To prevent 'lieappointment an early application is solicited. The Free List will be entirely suspended. Doors open at 1111 E-past 7, commence at 8. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY - I'vIA.RKET. THIS EVENING, and during the week, in consequence of its great success, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, in which Mr. Murdoch will appear as Charles Surface ; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers; Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Farrell ; Lady Tea.zie, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ; La , ly Sueerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria Miss E. Sabine. After which, the succc,i3sAil new farce, A FAMILY FAILING, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Chippendale. and Miss Blanche Fane will appear. With (for positively the last six nights), the ballet pantomime of THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA, by Perea Nona and her unrivalled Company of Spanish Dancers. To conclude with THE DUMB BELLE. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Real Success. Great Adelphi Hit ! THE ELVES, a Grand New Fairy Ballet Extravaganza, in which Madame Celeste will appear as the Statue Bride every evening.—Revival of the Mysterious Stranger, in which Mr. Wright and Madame Celeste will sustain their original elm racters.—THlS EVENING will be performed the celebrated (llama of THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Parselle, Garden; Mesdames Celeste, Wyndham, Keeley, Arden. After wl,ich, with new scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, a new Errand fairy ballet extravaganza, oalleri THE ELVES, or the Statue Bride, founded on the grand ballet spectacle, now perform ing with unexampled success at the Theatri Irnperiale de l'Opera at Paris, under the title of Les Elfes. Principal cha racters by Madame Celeste. Misses Wyndham, Mary Keeley, Mate Kelly Chatterly, Arden, Messrs. Wij4rlit, Paul Bedford, C. Selby, Le Barr, eic. Concluding with BETTY MARTIN. Miss M. Keeley. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillnn. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. C. DILLON. THIS EVEN NG (Monday), the tragedy of OTHELLO Othello (the first time in London), Mr. C. Dillon ; lago, Mr Stuart ; Desdemin. Mrs. C. Dillon ; Emilia. Mrs. Weston. After which, Mrs. Howard Paul has kindly consented to sing the Scotch ballad, " Bonnie Dundee." Folnwed by GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. Toole, Barrett. &e. Concluding with a Ballet, by Miss Rosina Wright and the Coryplms. The extraordinary troupe of Bedouin Arabs will make their fourth appearance to-morrow (Tuesday). Miss Woolgar, OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING awl dinint . .r, the week will 14.1 nresonted Shakspear,fi play of A MIDSII.7MNIER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which (first time this season) THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Fabien and Louis dci Franehi, Mr. C. Kean. Venclels4ohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream will commence at 5 minutes before 7. TRAND T 1-IEA.TRE.--M.Anner, Mr. T. v 7") PAvry , .—THIS EVENING will he performed BELPITMOR (Travestie) Messrs. Howard, G. Lee, dze. THE CAPT SIN'S NOT A MISS. First time, a new farce, * - t OVER THE WAY. And THE QUEEN'S MUSKETEERS. 4. Mesdames Cuthbert, Fitzinman, &e. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, Cd. OYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lec44er.. Af?isrs. Silepherri and Creswick. THIS EVENING, BIRDS' OF PREY. Charles Renne pont, Mr. Creswiek. After which, A BLOW IN THE DARK. Viarm, Mr. Shepherd (his orig,inal part). To conclude with DRED. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Leaßoe and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (First Week), MACBETH, with Eques trian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's Horses, trained by him. Macbeth, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE ; Miss Kate Cooke in her elegant act of manlge, To conclude with OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS. Doors open ab half -vast six ; commence at seven o'clock. r..ox.oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage, Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. N .W i e s .st G ra . i_ns T te;r f o o a l d k . ); CANTERBURY OPEN EVERY ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the pe ormance of Selections from all the popular Operas 'Madrigals, Choruses Glees, Duets, cizc., viz. : —Miss E. Pearce, Mr s . J. Caulfield' Miss Brunell, and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Raino. T. Farrant, S. Jo nes J . Barker, w. M e lli ng , and P. Cowie •; Masters Austin, Ben nett, and Corri ; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mack ' Ben_ Piano forte, J. Harroway, R.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre esely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH MINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven • and sing some of their favourite selec o'clock Every Evem no, Clow. - RIGEL WATTS R AT 7 . 11\7,)9N T4Ta t ailn. aft. 3 —Evening 9 min. aft . 4 ~-Atoanow-Morn. 28 min. aft. 4—Evening 50 min. aft . 4 THE WEATHER—Str:kr °Frier, NOVEMBER 30. THRBMOMETBB, I,T VTR SRAM. 39 —highest Muse noon yesterday. 29—lowest this morning and during the night. 36 —this day at noon. DAROMETBR, 20'84. WIND, N. to N.W.—Eather fresh, with very fine, cold, frosty weather and sunshine. DECEMBER 1. 37—highest since noon yesterday. 30 °met, this morning and during the night. 3 7—thie day at noon. 8A811 , 4 , 7,Tr5, 29.93—rising. WIND, N.W. to W. - Light, with dull, hazy weather a ad glimpses of sunshine. ' 40 , 6 ' ? 4131 - - L ) N ll ° l -') MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 13 LO. The Bank Returns for the week ending the 21st instant, so far as th e corporation itself is concerned, are of a peculiarly favourable charac of notes and theter. The reserve e amount of bullion stored in the vaults at Threadneedle-street have been considerably increased, while the active circulation has been again largely diminished. The change, too, has been going on steadily, and there is therefore every reason to suppose that the tide has at length turned, and that the drain of bullion from our shores has been arrested. For these assertions we have indisputable "facts and figures." Within three weeks the notes unemployed, or, in other words, the sum available for the private business of the banking department, have received an addition of more than one million and a quarter, or 43 per cent., on the amount in hand at the beginning of last month. The augmentation of the reserve of notes during the week ending the 7th ultimo was 206,0001. ; on the 14th there was a further in crease of 456,3801. ; while en the 21st there was the enormous amount of 611,2401. added to the previous increase, or nearly 1,275,000/. within that brief period. On the 14th ultimo the stock of bn!lion W a 154,0151. Itigl:er tLau tine preceding week, and the improvement up to the 21st was 213,4691., or 367,484/. within a fortnight. Within three weeks, also, the active circulation or notes in the hands of the public have been reduced by nearly one million sterling in round numbers—the de crease on the 7th being 297,0001., on the 14th 309,9501., and on the 21st 386,4501. There is even reason to suppose that the account to the 28th will show decided progress in the same di rection, inasmuch as it was within that period that the Bank was enabled to rescue a portion of the gold that arrived by the Australian ships from the grasp of the Continental cormorants. But for all this there has been no relaxation in the rate of interest ; 7 per cent. is still the mini mum rate of discount by the Leviathan—a charge that implies from 8 to 12 per cent. to the mer chants and manufacturers who have not discount a:counts with the Leviathan, and who must pro cure money to meet their liabilities and pay wages at any cost, unless prepared to submit to absolute ruin. What does such a rate of interest lead to ? Bankers and brokers will rejoice at a state of affairs that enhances their profits, always high, to extravagant amounts. They will utter joyous rceans at the plethoric appearance of their purses The ancient cry, " Great is Diana of the Ephe sinus," will be re-echoed through Lombard-street and its vicinity. But what is fun to them is death to the indus trial classes, from the hint hest to the lowest. The commercial and productive classes look to such rates with the most serious apprehensions, as in volving considerable losses, if not absolute ruin. If there were no reasonable hope of speedy im provement they would abandon business, which they carry on without profit. . Their anxieties and labours are all for the benefit of others. The moneyocracy appropriate the legitimate fruits of their exertions. " vos non vobis, fertis cratra boves." They bear the yoke, but enjoy not the returns. They are indeed worse off than the oxen, who are lodged and fed at the expense of their taskmasters, while they must live from their own resources, no matter bow they can be obtained. Under such circumstances can we feel surprised at the commercial frauds which have recently excited the surprise and indignation of the community ? The victims are first plundered in due form of law, and then they endeavour by craft and fraud to spoil the Egyptians, and to win back by any means the money they have lost. We do not, of course, intend to apologise for the delinquents. Nothing can justify or even extenuate such conduct ; but there can be no better mode of insuring commercial rectitude than by allowing mercantile enterprise and activity to reap its legitimate rewards. It would scarcely be advisable for the moueyocracy to destroy the goose which has been producing golden eggs on very slender encouragement. The usurer, who ventures little and produces nothing; should be contented to see the creators of the national wealth retain for their own use a portion of the profits realised by their indefatigable exertions. The foundation of all this enormous grievance, the teterrima causa mali, is obvious to all who take the trouble of looking beyond the surface. A brief investigation into the different values of temporary and permanent investments will satisfy any person of ordinary comprehension that it is not capital, but currency, that is required. On Saturday last Consuls for the 4th December closed with firmness at 94l to while for the New Ac count, on the Bth January, sales were effected at 95 to I. Deducting the dividend payable on that day, 1/. 10s., this will leave the rate of interest which the public are contented to receive, at something less than 3/. 45., or 3 1-sth per cent. At the same time, the Bank MiIbiTIVIGM, on unex ceptionable securities, having short periods to run before arriving at maturity (they will touch or even look at no others), is 7 per cent. ! The Times, the recognised organ of the bullionists, tells us that we are the wealthiest naticn in the world—that there is no lack of capital for any legitimate purpose ! It graphically depicts the frightful inconvenience of a high rate of interest for money, which it truly declares to be " a great national disaster," and yet it advocates the law that produces that untoward state of affairs ! There is, iu fact, a superabundance of wealth ; all that is required is that Chore should be an adequate measure and re presentative---or that a due proportion thereof should be converted into the convenient and ne cessary form of a circulating medium sufficient for the national exigences, and thus supplying the very life-blood to industry. It is the rumours and minecessary contraction of that circulating me dium that occasions all the evils which the Times so feelingly deplores! Why then should we starve in the midst of plenty, and endure cold and hun ger, because the cloth merchant cannot measure his wares with a golden yard —or the corn-dealer supply weights of the precious metals. Other less costly substitutes are provided, and notes, gua ranteed by the nation, and receivable in payment of taxation, would be better for all domestic pur poses than gold. They should, however, I , e really national nof -, s r f auti convenient de la)minatiuns, issued by a department responsible to Parliament for the discreet discharge of the important trust confided to its hands. As our esteemed correspondent, C. W. S. (to whose ad mirable letter, in this day's impression, we ear nestly invite a tt en ti on ) says, "Th e sooner t h e Bank of England ceases to be a Corporation, car ried on for the profit or loss of private persons, and becomes a Government institution, with notes issued on Government securities, the better !" His convivial Majesty rKing eLQ in his Speech from th e Throne onSiactuur°d Saturday, of— " my Principality of talked, Neuchat e l !" H i s Imperial Majesty the EMPEROR OF ALL TIIE RUSSIA S might just precisely as well talk of—his Princi palities of Moldo-Wallachia ! Yet the man who speaks thus of what is notoriously to an the rest of the world one of the Cantons of S w i tzerland —babbles, almost in th® same b reath, about his solicitude to preserve, in unisoa with the rest of the great powers of Europe, the maintenance of the present zuLlier ja:;iJkA , ,I , •iiquillity ! ii is Majesty, while thus flagrantly and insolently arrogating to himself a " right" to an extension of his sovereignty over Neuchatel—talking of Neuchatel simply and definitively (as we have seen) as his Principality, speaking of his right to its allegiance as "incontestable," and " unques tionable," and so forth, and referring to his policy hitherto, in regard to the whole question, as having been distinguished by a " moderation" universally recognised throughout Christendom— pertly adds, " In any case I will not consent that my forbearance should become an arm against my own rights." Meaning literally, of course, that whatever may be the view taken of this matter by the rest of Europe, by the aggregate of the Great Powers, by Neuchatel itself, by the deliberative councils of the entire Swiss Confedeiation —he (CLICQUOT) is pot-valiantly resolved single-handed, and aided solely by the sacred prestige of what he calls his rights, to fling the gage of battle in the teeth of Christen dom. Tiiere is a rather amusing similarity discernible, by the way, just now, between the attitude assumed simultaneously by King CLICQUOT of Prussia— and King BOMBA of the Two Sicilies. The latter defensively. The farmer aggressively. His Majesty of NAPLES, not so very long ago—Don't we all of us remember it vividly enough ? just, for all the world, as we might remember by a stitch in the side caught from laughing at either over much, a better joke than usual in Punch, or some excruciating hit from the jestful pen or pencil of the Charivari—his Majesty King Bonzes, not so very long ago, tickled the risibility of Europe by a precisely similar fanfaronade. Talked of calling out his army. Spoke of drawing the sword. Hinted at flinging away the scabbard. The dread retaliation being held out in terrorem over France and England, and for that matter over the whole of the rest of the Great Powers of the European Continent—the dread and awful retaliation of a War declared against "a world iu arms" by that most puissant potentate the King of the Two SICILIES. No wonder that after that—but very little more has been heard of an Anglo-French interference with the conduct of the Neapolitan Government. The consequences of such a rup ture as the one alluded to by King BOMBA as not by any means improbable, being altogether too appalling to be seriously entertained for another five minutes. And now a congenial "Coz " of King BOMBA—King CLICQUOT to wit—What saith he to the affrighted ears of Europe ? Why this—" As my people may be convinced that I cling to the recognition of my duties, and to the reconciliation of my relations with Europe as the rule of my future actions, so am I perfectly con vinced, if circumstances exacted it—[O dire fore boding of disasters in posse !;—that the Prussian people would prove their fidelity and devotedness to the honour of my Crown with an energy that will bravo all risks." Assuredly if King BOMBA'S attitude bore a certain similarity, the other day, to the little mannikin Xi; sparring, with a squeak of defiance, at the hugeous forms of Goa and - MAGOG—the attitude just assumed by King CacQuor is hardly, in many respects, one jot less ridiculous. The reality of the matter in regard to this Swiss affair about Neuchatel being simply this—that the band of i asurgents, now about to be placed upon their trial for high treason during the course of this present month of December, will, beyond all doubt and as a thing of course, be found guilty and formally condemned for leze majestd against the Federal Government ; and being so found guilty and con demned, will doubtless, equally as a matter of course, be thereupon contemptuously set free-- the sentence pronounced upon them having duly -satisfied and vindic .ted the outraged rights, the "incontrovertible" and " unquestionable" Sove reign Rights of the Helvetic Confederation ! That, we take it, is pretty much about what his MAJESTY of Prussia will get by his motion. That, as the cant phrase runs, is pretty nearly "about the size of it !" And much good may it do him —this grandiose result of this portentous rhoelo moutade. Talk of Prussia's Rights of Sovereignty over Neuchatel ! Rather perilous babbling this on the part of King FREDERICK WILLIAM IV., suggestive as these insolent preten sions are of the emptiness of certain other and rather larger territorial claims of sovereignty on the part of the Prussian Crown ! Recalling to mind, in fact, the unnatural relation in which IFrance and Prussia have been standing in refer ence to each other ever since the bungling botch work made of the map of Europe in 1815—when the Rhenish provinces, were by a monstrous act of folly and injustice, awarded to the Royal House of BRANDENBURGII, in defiance of that obvious geo graphical necessity which constitutes the Rhine in one direction the natural boundary of France. Let King CLICQUOT forcibly drag before the world the great and complicated question as to what are really and truly the ter ritorial rights of sovereignty belonging to the Prussian Crown and as certainly as a detected thief is liable when hauled into a court of justice to have his plunder torn out of his clutches—at one single stroke of a pen, at one single flash of a sword those beautiful Rhenish Provinces, from Treves to Cleves, will be reft for ever from the grasp of Prussian domination, and restored to France as part and parcel of the Imperial dominions of the third NAPOLEON. So that by reason of the fool hardy pretensions of King CLIcuoT, not only will Neuchatel be retained as an integral portion of Switzerland, but, sooner than might otherwise have been practicable, France may be enabled to reassert her sovereign rights over Cologne and Aix-la- Chapelle. We read of Austrian and Neapolitan trials by interested judges, of convictions of innocent men, and of barbarous sentences relentlessly carried out, as a matter of course ; and we hold up our hands with great self-complacency, as if England were altogether exempt from the abominations of Naples. If we mistake not, however, there is one section o' enr laws, an-I ono department of their adminis tration, which for their iniquity and the atrocities of their administration can hardly be surpassed in Naples or Milan. The game is not so high, and the punishments necessarily not so protracted, but the animus of laws and judges in both cases is equally vindictive and relentless ; we may add that the results in the manufacture of criminals, ultimately of ticket-of-leave men, and then of victims for the gallows, can be surpassed in no country in Europe. Our readers may have guessed that we refer to the game laws and the country magistrates. In no other part of our code, and in no other class of judges is there now left the same malignant effort to victimise an offender. In no other department of justice are judges tainted with suspicion tolerated ; indeed no judge allows himself to ineur suspicion by trying a case in which ho has a presumable and obvious bias. To the game laws is left the infamy of being in direct opposition to the convictions of all but game preservers, and of the game preservers mak ing themselves both judge and jury, in trying, convicting, and fixing the penalty of every offenae A little while back we had a case to report of a respectable young farmer sent-to gaol for "poaching on his father's land." That seemed bad enough ; but on Saturday we gave a case from the Norfolk News, with all particulars, of two labouring men, JOHN LOADS and WILLIAM HAGON, being sen tenced by some Norfolk Magistrates to one month's imprisonment "for trespassing on their own land ! !" Let the magistrates' names be well remembered—:one was a Lord—Lord HAST INGS ; one a clergyman—the Rev. J. H. SPARSE ; the two others were Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. COZENS-HARDY, but the latter gentleman, much to his credit in such company, refused to concur in the conviction. A lord, a clergyman, and we suppose a decent country squire, concur to send two honest persons to prison, and it appears, by the logic of agricultural wages, their wives to the workhouse, for trespassing on Common Rights undeniably belonging to the tenements in which they dwelt. Unmoved, supposing them to be legally right, by the obviously natural grounds for the offence, unmoved by The poverty of their victims, unmoved by public opinion around thcm ; unmoved by the sufferings entailed through the temporary widowhood and orphanhood of the families, these English, not Neapolitan, judges had not a drachm of asercy for the consolation of the immediate and the indirect sufferers. The tine and the expenses, the whole of them, or a month's imprisonment, was the alternative ! Too poor to pay, the victims of a lord, a parson, and a squire, are' dragged off to a month's imprison ment, with hard labour ; and all for trespassing on their own land ! Game was the inspiring spirit of this outrageous injustice. The land, about one hundred and twenty acres, belonged as a common right to th© cottages and to some others of the reputed tres passers. They went to it to catch rabbits—not very noble game we used to think in our sporting experience ; but the right of shooting over the common had been let by the trustees, with what right does not appear, to a gentleman, we suppose we are to call him, of the name of BARKER. Mr. HARDY thought the trustees had no power to let the sporting over the common ; but even if they had, seeing that the men had undoubted right to cut furze or turf on it, might they not be forgiven for seeking such a poor man's game as rabbits also, on their own territory ? How were they to comprehend that any gentle man could object to their getting for once a Sun day meat pia off their own common ? and how could three mortal gentlemen be found to send four poor men to prison for such a shadow of an offence ? Fur ourselves we cannot deny a rather special fondness for rural sports, but we cannot blind our selves to the disgrace entailed on field sports by such barbarous austerities as these. A London Stipendiary Magistrate, had he thought the law against the men, would have told them so, have warned them, and have taken any course rather than send them to the treadmill in such fla4rant violation of common sense and justice ; but those country Justices of the Pekoe seem not ooly to think they have the law in their own hands, but to twist it to the most disgraceful cruelties wher ever game is concerned. It is questionable whe ther they would punish much more serious offences with half the severity. We do not suppose that these gentlemen were worse than their class, but their whole class are utterly unfit to try game-law cases. Their rancour against any poor fellow who has ever touched a hare, partridg 1, pheasant, or even a rabbit or a snipe, is so intense, that pre judice insures conviction, and spite a sentence which the Central Criminal Court would blush at. The game laws and their administration must be altered. They are the curse of the rural dis tricts. They tempt to an artificial crime, for no man thinks killing a wild animal a crime, hosv ever unlucky the results may be. They then train to crime by sending the victim to an appren ticeship in the gaol, or by torturing him with a flue, which perhaps starves him into poaching again, or at least arouses him to get vengeance in some way for the felt injustice. The families of the men are then demoralised by the workhouse, and even the magistrates do not escape ; they, too, are do moralised by their own gross injustice on the judg ment seat. It is characteristic of the temper of such judges that, according to the Norfolk News, the "Lord" of the company has threatened the Editor of that journal with the horsewhip if he comments on his verdict ! A compliment which the Editor appreciates too highly not to be in spired by it to a full exposure of the case. We are happy to observe that a subscription is on foot amongst the men, and most properly. Also that the other cottagers refuse to give up taking the rabbits, and dare the Honourable Bench, and gentleman to whom the trustees have let the poor man's property, to do their worst. Jeer, jibe at, deprecate, or regret it who may, the lion-hearted patriot of Scotland--" the WAL LACE wight"—is to have a monument. There is no mistake about it—the meeting at Elinburgb on Friday last settled the matter. The Abbey Craig, Stirling, is predestined to honour. What ever consecration it may have received it must now be regarded as the site of a temple, we trust a worthy one, of national gratitude for patriotic prowess, successful in its aim, if cut short by the axe of the executioner. The projectors of the testimonial have gone too far to recede with credit; and if they could the Scottish people ought not to let them. It is too late for that, and the me mory it. yofth e man deserves all the honour they can It is all very well to say—Scotland itself is WALLACE'S best monument. Doubtless it is, if the Scottish people are grateful, for it is part and parcel of a patriot's aims to have the liberty and prosperity of the country he strives for illuminated and guarded by every generous sentiment that ennobles humanity. Scotland is now fairly chal lenged to show she still appreciates and is grateful for the labour and the sufferings of the hero who spent his life's blood to rescue her from thraldom, and there can be but one answer. Scotland, it is granted, is free and prosperous. Not a breeze that stirs the lazy mist of her mountains, or ripples the surface of her beautiful lakes, bears on it the wail o f th e oppressed. Industry plies its busy h an d in sure and certain hope of remunera tion, and the voice of conscience suggests no tes timony to be sealed with blood. Holyrood, it is true, is no longer the seat of Royal authority, and a Scot tish Parliament is a thing of the past. But where WALLACE fought, and Knox fulminated, is every where to be witnessed the guerdon which nerved either to the struggle in which it is glorious orren to be overcome, and fail of the great reward. The stranger, notwithstanding. will look in vain throughout broad Scotland for • a monument to her great patriot deliverer, and the Roble pea sants, who under his leadership set an example, which all freemen must admire, and not a few have imitated. Are freedom and prosperity only to be had a t th e cos t o f ingratitude ? This is a question ho is di s posed to ask, and the question which now nee d s t o b e s atisfactorily responded to. WALLACE may need no monnment, his name is ! Like blignt ili t in Scottish has but to be known to cause him, to be honoured I everywhere by all peoples. But the country he fought for, the country whose freedom he perished in achieving needs a vindication that none can confute, and he that runs may read. This will be afforded by the WALLACE Monument, and in this point of view, the projectors have our cordial approval. ,It is too late ; at all events it would be unwise to stir up the question of nationality in a manner calculated to be offensive to Englishmen. It was for liberty, and not slaughter, WALLACE fought, and they would dishonour instead of consecrating his memory, who associated with a testimonial anything to which Englishmen of the present day could reasonably object. He is no Englishman who does not admire and honour WALLACE, he is true Scotchman who would not carry with the mc nument of the Scottish patriot to Abbey Cfaig the hearty respect of a nation whose own liberties have been won fr.An potentates like EDWARD, who was his foe. We do not say this because we be lieve absorption to be necessary to the union of the two countries. Far from it. But simply to guard againf,t a danger which it were well to have averted. Let Scotland l,c always Scotland, glory ing in her traditions, and proud, as Elie has a ' right to be, of her position ; but may the day never dawn when England and Scotland cannot reciprocate admiration of each other's worthies— men whose deeds, truly rendered, were not for one people or one generation merely, but for all people and for all time. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. Sit,—The Times, in allusion to the letter of Mr. Muntz, says that it will not discuss the propriety of a temporary extension of an inconvertible paper currency until some ono has produced a Bank note expressed in other terms than "I promise to pay on demand the sum of five pounds," which will be acceptable to the people. The Times asserts, in fact, that a Bank of England note will only pass current as long as it is believed that it will be converted into gold on demand. That this assertion is false is, happily, not merely a matter of opinion : experience has made it a certainty. In one of those extremely clever and unanswerahle articles which have appeared in your paper on this sub ject, articles which entitle you to the thanks of the mer chants and manufscturers of England, indeed of the trading commulity generally, you state that, in 1825, when there were only a few hundred thousand pounds of bullion in the coffers of the Bank of England, and when there were 19,748,000 notes (of course inconvertible) passing current, Lord Ashhu, ton, a financier of no mean repute, and one whose experience, I imagine, was quite equal to that of the writer for the Times, recommended a further issue of inconvertible notes to the extent of 4,731,000, what was the result ? It must have been ge ne-ally known that these 24,479,000 could not be converted into bole. by the B ink of England on demand, and yetAcontrary to the assertion of the Times, they were willingly accepted by the people, the crisis was tided over, trade resumed its regular course, and gold in abundance soon filled the coffers of the Rank of Eng land. Since the establishment of free trade the commerce not only of Great Britain, but of the world, has taken gigantic proportions. With the increase of commerce there should, of course, be an increase of the circulating medium by the aid of which that commerce is carried on. It is obvious that if 50,000,000 of circulating me dium are required for 20,000,000 of people trading to the extent of 200,000,000, that, the 50,000,000 are not enough for 30.000,000 of people trading to the extent of 300,000,000. Either the circulating mediu'n was too abundant in the former case, or it is too contracted in the latter—l need not say. that it will not do to de• pend upon an event so fortuitous and uncertain as the discovery of gold in Australia and California. These discoveries were certainly most a propos. Without those discoveries in the midst of p'enty, we should, with the exception of a few holders of bullion, be all starving in the streets—but as it cannot be expected that the dis covery of gold should keop pace with the increase of the trade of the vorid, the tone has arrived for the Govern ment of this country to consider it part of its duty to Be-; that there is al waysa circulating medium in the country of some sort or another to aarry on the operations of trade. Whiist the balance of trade in favour of England is something like 40,000,000, if there is a scarcity of gold in England, it must be that we have something more valuable to us in its place ; the scarcity of gold can only be temporary, and a temporary remedy should be im mediately supplied. Let the foreigner buy every wive , r-ign we have as long al it is profitable for us to sell, but there is no reason why the circulating medium of the country should be so much less. A temporary sup ply of bank notes should be issued for domestic purposes, which would enable the merchants and manufacturers to get their perfectly good bills disc 'noted, and obtain a circulating medium to answer every purpose, without paying from 7 to 121 per cent, for it. The Times persist. , in valuing the circulating medium paper only according to the quantity of ciro,ula ing medium gold ; but I do not see why the value of the former should depend so much upon the quantity of the latter. I consider a metallic circulating medium as a very clumsy contrivance. It was necessary, in former periods of the world, when printing was not invented, and not one person in a million could read or write, and a bank note or a bill would have been a perfectly in comprehensible document, and consequently useless. Then the circulating medium roust have been something that the ignoramus could see and weigh ; but in a coun try like England, where everybody, even the most illiterate, is acquainted with the nature of a bank note or bill, in a country like England where all nations by glancing at the trade returns can see the state of weal h and prosperity where the Queen is loved, and a successor to the throne is secured—where the institutions of the country are cherished from the highest to the lowest, and a general feeling of security prevails, a paper circulating medium is much more convenient for domestic purposes, and quite as highly valued as bullion ; and if the Times, after being reminded ot what took place in 1825, still asserts that the Bank of England cannot circulate its notes ex cept on the understanding that they are convertible into gold on demand, then, I say, the sooner the Bank of England ceases to be a corporation carried on for the profit or loss of private persons, and becomes a Govern ment institution, with notes issued on Government secu• rity, the better. I maintain, sir, that the establishment of free trade increases trade and population on the con tinent as well as in England to such an extent that causes like the present must be of constant recurrence. A disposition on the part of continental countries to realise—that is to say, to convert their property, what ever it may be, whether Government securities, or wines or silks, raw and manufactured, into gold at any sacri fice, which disposition to realise is bro u g ht about b y some want of security in their Governments, causes a drain of gold profitable to this country , but extremely inconvenient and ruinous to merchants and manufac turers, who require a proper supply of circulating medium to meet their bits and pay their operatives. As the trade and population of the continent in creases the power of absorbing the bullion of the wo r ld a l so increases, so th at a dread of revolu tion some d i ay will leave us without a sovereign in the country. Increasing the Bank rate of discount will not it keep the gold in the country; will only enable us to make a better people on the continent dread revolu tion andbargain. If loss of property; if they cannot realise at one price they will at another. In 1848, raw silk, which is as convertible as gold, fell 50 per cant., because the French people were afraid to keep it in the country. These remarks, I think, will bear out your opinion, that it become the duty of the Government to keep an eye upon the circulating medium of the country ; and if the gold is abstracted below a certain point, to supply its place with a substitute without delay.—Yours o: w." s. MI?. MORRIS 1/WORE'S ARREST AT BERLIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sin,—Last night I received a !otter from Mr. Morris Moore, dated Berlin, Noy. 26, containing further parti culars connected with his arrest, and important; as point ing directly to the secret agent by whom the intended blow was struck. Mr. Moore says I heard last night on good authority that the order' (for his arrest) emanated from the `Cabinet du Roi, and that I was to be seized Conte qui coute.' " Everybody says that there must be some extraordi- La: -- ; , flor-oce in the background. At ten o'clock on on Saturday was at the British Em bassy. Lord Blomfield F olu!:f-rpel to him the nrtne of Waagen, as the mover, and remarked that he wai sur prised that Waagen should h ave recourse to such trr.- pons.' said nothi ng to suggest this, car je n aurois pas os6 profe'xrer de tels soupcons, quoque je lee avoi4 : —` for I should not have dared to utter such sus picions, though I already had them.' " Mr. Morris Moore's reason for suppressing the name of his informant is obvious, in Berlin, where a secret tribunal wields an irresponsible power, and where for wrong done there is no remedy. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Keptown, Nov. 29. WM. CONINUHAM. roe Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are enter taking a sel , 2,ct circle at Hatfield House, Herts. The Earl and Ciarriteas of Mulgrave have arrived at Newton House, Yorkshire. The Right Hon. Liird Cranstoun is sojourning at his seat at Bagnor, near Aulrhartor. Burlington House is to be pulled down and a new National Gallery erected upon its site. About 35,000/. is understood to have been taken from the Bank on Saturday in bar gold for transmission the Continent On account of the silver lately purchased for India and China, the amount of which to be de- spatched by the next mail is estimated at about 800,0001. A Paris let er of Nov. 26, in the C , logne Gazette. says that 1 7- ed it day at Font .ioeblearr. "'lii is • 7 P- 4,1 "r "Y a* kept trii.t the newspapers • inviteu' to say nothing about it The Moniteur also will be silent.", LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, Nov. 28. Prussia is about to invite the great Powers to fix on the measures to be adopted to re-establish her sovereignty over Neuchatel, reserving to her self ulterior proceedings. She wishes for a con gress. The Austrian garrison at Galatz has been reinforced. NAPLES, Nov. 29. The King has returned here, and presided at a Council of Ministers, relative to administrative and financial projects. The Eco publishes the statistics of the Industrial and Agricultural Bank. Its capital is 2,000,000 ducats, in 20,000 shares. It is especially to be de voted to the promotion of agriculture. It is rumoured in Paris that the friends of M. Thiers intend putting him forward as a candidate at the next election for the Seine Inferieure ; M.M. Duchatel (brother of the Minister of Louis Philippe and Dufaure (Minister of the Interior under the Republic) are spoken of for the Cha rente Inferieure ; and, by an alleged combination of a section of the Red and Legitimist parties, M. Olivier (Red Republica) and M. Berryer for the Bouches-du-Rhone. OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. (From the Second Edition of the Times.) BERLIN, SATURDAY. This morning, at a quarter to 12 o'clock, the King opened the session of the two Houses of the Prussian Diet by a speech from the Throne in the White Saloon of the Palace. This ceremony, which took place in the usual manner, and which I have on various occasions already described, was prc ceded by Divine service, celebrated at the Cathedral for the attendance of the members of the Evangelical or Protestant Church, and at the Hedwigskirche for those attached to the Romish Church. All the Mi nisters, without any exception, belong to the Pro testant confession. The various members of the two Houses had already assembled in considerable numbers when the Ministers appeared in full official costume, and took up their places to the left of the throne. After the lapse of some time, and the period fixed for the opening speech having passed fully a quarter of an hour, the King appeared from the side of the Picture Gallery, preceded by the various officers of the Court, and followed by all the Princes of the Royal family now in Berlin. He was received with one of those sounds that occupy the same place in public business as cheering in England, and consists of " Es lebe der Konig," ut terred in a hurried indistinct piping tone, which becomes shrill with the concluding word hoch, and while he took his place on the throne the Royal Princes ranged themselves at his right hand in order of precedence. The King then seated him self, and having received the speech from the Minister President read as follows : " Illustrious, Noble, and dear Sirs of both Houses of the Diet,— " It is matter of great gratification to me to be able at this re-assembling of the two Houses of the Diet to pronounce the state of the country to be highly satisfactory. By the bounty of Divine Pro vidence all the provinces of the Monarchy have been blessed with an ample harvest, and an allevi ation of the privations that have been caused by continued scarcity for several years past may be hoped and looked forward to with confidence. "In every branch of productive industry, in agriculture, in mining, in manufactures, and in commerce rapid progress makes itself clearly visible. The spirit of enterprise with us has not, it is true, entirely avoided these extravagances which, as the experience of other countries shows, always and of necessity lead to deplorable reaction. In spite of this, however, the present state of indus trial activity with us must be looked on as the result of wholesome development. The attention and endeavours of my Government have been directed to assist and strengthen this most gratifying pro sperity by the further development of the public means of communication and traffic. In the last few months very important lines of railroad, both in the east and west of the kingdom, have been opened for traffic, and the network of railways spread over the country has thus obtained a most desirable extension. My Government has con cluded several treaties with foreign States, which will contribute to the promotion of mutual trade and commerce. " The various authorities throughout the country have had their attention specially engrossed by the carrying out of the laws Ilaatenldy r s t a ir n a c l tio ee n na ed for the government of the civic . munes in Westphalia and the Rhenish for the constitution of the rural communes Provinces, and th e ood grounds for looking there are g kingdom, and local governments in the eastern provinces of my An active goodwill is a satisfactory development of cow m fo u rr n v a a i rd lif t e o on • itself to improve or to found useful manifestingthese bases. institutions in the communes, and this tendency is meeting with ample support in the constantly extending efficiency of the Estates of Circles. The Provincial and Communal Diets that have sat during the last few months have likewise promoted the interests they advocate in most gratifying har mony with the Estates. In the province of juris prudence there will be certain drafts of bills sub mitted to you for the determination of various provincial laws ; and further, in conformity with the former promise of my Government, a bill also for the amendment, which has been recognised as so urgently necessary, of the law affecting divorce, as at present contained in the General Code (Allgenteines Landrecht). " The budget for the next year will produce in you the conviction that the productiveness of the resources of the country is on the increase. At the same time there are various important and urgent claims on them that have hitherto been put off and cannot any longer be left unattended to. An increase in the public income of the country is therefore indispensable. I commend to your careful examination the financial bills which my Govern ment will bring before you to this end. A state ment will be submitted to you by my Government with reference to the manner in which the mili tary authorities have availed themselves of the extraordinary credit voted them, together with a proposal for the application of the balance still re maining of the loan of 30,000,000 thalers. A portion of it is destined to cover the excess of expenditure over the estimates, which has been caused by the return to the triennial period of military her v ice , as required by the law of Sept. 3, 1814, and which iras been called for by urgent considerations. tc Gentlemen,—At the close of your last session the restoration of peace to Europe gave m o gratitule to the Almighty. occasion to invoke y eur I hope and trust that the ble,:sings of peace will still continue to be preserved to our quarter of the globe, and specially to our country. As a party to the European treaties, I shall hold fast by the fulfilment on all sides of the obligations so lemnly entered into therein. " I have been most painfully affected by the re cent events in my Principality of Neuchatel, where the antagonism that has existed over since 1848 between my undoubted right and the actual move ment of public affairs, has brought loyal men into the power of their adversaries. The moderation with which, in the interest of the general peace, I have treated the existing state of things in this Principality for years past, has been duly appreciated and re cognised by the Powers of Europe. It is my wish even after this last deplorable conflict, and now that my indisputable right has been recently corroborated by the unanimous resdlution of the German VQ4leral Diet, to bring a set tlement in harmony with the dignity of Dv Crown by means of negotiations with the European Powers; at the same time I must not and will net allow my long-enduring patience to be turned into a weapon against my rights. My people may rest convinced that I shall naake the serious and thorough consideration of my own duties and of the state of things in Europe the guide and crite rion of my further steps in this matter, and I too entertain the confident trust that, whenever cir cumstances may call for it, my people will step for ward to vindicate the honour of my crown with the game energy, loyalty, and devotion they have ever shown; " Gentlemen,—l hope and trust that your labours will conduce to the welfare of the country, and I herewith bid you welco•rne to their com mencement." FRANCE.. PARIS, SUNDAY.tIa The Moraleur of to-day announces that the Emperor and Empress, with the Imperial Prince, left St. Cloud yesterday, .and arrived at the Tuileries at 5 in the afternoon. The Moniteur contains a long list of persons who are authorised by decree to wear different foreign orders. Am •ng the names are those of Count Walewski, Minister of Foreiln Affairs, as Gran; Cross of the Austrian Order of St. Stephen ; Gran" Cross of the Belgian Order of Leopold ; Ist Class Roman Order of Pius ; Grand Cross of Portuguese Order of Our Lady of the Conception of Villa Vicaze; Knight of the Prussian Order of the Black Eagl . e Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of St. Mauric e and St. Lazarus ; Knight of th e Swedish Order of he SA-apliim ; and Ist Class T urki=h of the Me d ' lie ; Marsha Vaillant, Minis . ter of War, 'Cross of Sardinian Order cif Savoy ; Baron , cle Talleyrand Perlord as Grand (Dross of the Bade n of the Lion of Zei:lLLcn n. The list eles ee with the names of 60 officers of ciff:rzar, t ranks to the French army for 2d, 3d, 4th, and sLii co-1 orders of the Medjidie. tea Mr. Disraeli has arrived in Paris, and is epee to have au interview with Vie Emperor. .. n " l i arrival, coupled with Count de Persigny's recen visit to Lord Derby, must; be considered as of gr eat importance. as Grand . It is reported that M. Mire's mission to Se l l ; has succeeded, and that in conjunction with Esgile awl other capitalists ho has contracted for a lose , which will be forthwith converted into Three p er Cents. ki t ed The persons employed by ; government to see , e d many people enter the Bourse in a day COI 10,270 yesterday. Yesterday the Bank discounted bills to the larg e amount of 25 millions. RUSSIA, A letter from St. Petersbur l says T b i e n w t .i c i e r Y department is busily occupied 'in replacing storehouses and arsenals the military stores , w b , r 1 13 6 , were mach diminished during the late war' a manufactories of Tula and Set:xi:wink have r ec—ve of large orders forthis purpose. The attribati ops lly the Gov,rnor of the Caucasus have been ela teria of increased. There has been added to the duties of that officer the superior direction of all the affa ir° 9 e the the navy on the eastern coast of the Black S ea, t m of the row-boat flotilla of the Sea of Azeff, tin cruisers of tho Cauca,iian coast, and of the flee the Caspian Sea. For this purpose the ao'ver ta ,ff of the Caucasus will have under his orders sot of naval officers composed of a rear-admiral ofe others of inferior grades. These measur9s A g in, that Russia has not renounced her proj e cts ha s in and will seek to recover on th at side what sile .• lost in the Black Sea." cc In Another letter from St. Petersburg saYg the government of Smolensk() all the s u ::, - f te tbe civil functionaries have received, on accou nt rd of dearness of provisions, a sum equal to the 0 ,4 their salaries. It %las been decidedto aicro.. assistance of a similar amount to ecclesiasticaL ployes, but only in case of absolute neeess it Y;' d 10 in places where articles of food have doub'e t of price. In the neighbourhood of Mosees c 111 , °8 ,rt$ the streams are so hardly frozen. that loaded— are able to cross them." THE OVERLAND MAIL• We have received ,tll4rDdelsAp;:tclres from in di3 m 3ll h d e having suffered delay China by the overland mail via - Marseilles. The trail was considerably overdue, the steam PGA' dras, Oct. 29 ; The advices by this arr i va l are to the follovilro dates ; Bombay Nov. 3 ; Calcutta, Oct. 22 ; I \°: in the Me'd_iterranean. .__,, 13 ; Shanghai, Oct. 8. e i# • AID erprise, in ong the Indian intelligenc(l/ the first place _ again due to the Persian expedition,full particulate hong Kong, Oct. 15 ; Canton, OeD, of which will be found below. Apart from this not concerned as a principsl, there is tranquilll7, which the Indian g , c) ver n melt t is 11.c,' throughout the land, and peace cm every froutied The cold season has set in early. Food an& erriP l fi; meat are plentiful, while if p ublic itnproventena proceeding 8 10 , ,v1y, en terprise is not al to ge ther nor stand still. The General Governo- and Go he of Bombay are at the seats of administration. To i Governor of M a dras is on h is wa y b y Hurrybur lr " the Malabar Co ast, proposing to meet Col. Cottoilt i f l in tio E n n a g s a England, port. at s n eda sli eg hu r , now under come THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION. arrangements in force wil e l j t te ll : com oosi. According to the mail left India, the fonts s hould by e h• rime slated of twenty-six e s h a a i v n e ng ar t r Bombay Times Company's steam _ report s t ogre gate of 24,000 tons of three of the P. atl e - and siogapore,„oo, Pottinger ; besides transports, or a n a:: bay Steam Navigationthree lesser vessels of the % t o Company, of an agg r h e „''tge burden in all of 0 30, 00 tons, at a not e'r n - iae of above 100 , 01. a-day. ay. The men of war Were nine first-class steamers—the Vero , Aidaha S - Puejaub Assaye, 9 emirarnis Victoria,anti .11 ti.ii 11 d $ 3l ! H u g 11 . r G Java ' the steam the sloops Elphiustono . and Clive, a,nd the br i b - o tol nhrttes ' a fleet and Tigris—or 12 vessels in all, rest tuaa amounting to 40 sail. A portion o f these;j a . beenl . est sent to Vingorla to take on board h er B e l. J Y's 64th and 20th Native InfrintrY f0r,131,,,a1r1 gaum ; to Porebtoder, to receive - the 3d "i no ch from Rajkote, and to Kurrachee to ship the 13el t - or y, ships theheralhtvu''tsdhat'e.ifflletl3xhP:lessdhiitrie::::: _battalion, the 2d Euro neans, and :Brett's )3atboat The fighting men in all would , aruount to y , fol.. 6,000, with about double a:is number of 0131 r der' lowers. Admiral Sir Henry Leelee, coranOtlisea author is of the Indian navy, had he" The Bombay Times sharpl to take the command. era fro v ", its policy down to ins a ' y cri ' ' f th° opolutmertts. our Indian contemporary, " nine -tenths 00_0 at thinking men in India deem this otrdition, ;t o e the most insane ever undertaken ; a nd half °. 1 13 t be composing it regard it as piratical. al t i o 'et it 4 gallant admiral who is to coanna"d the fle e " now in his seventieth year, hos i i r •er 1 ter 6s eastern wa , ...,. 6 sailed, save as a passenger, iu the anti peculiari3:_o' and of the climate, hydroeraphY, • .11°i'‘455Atliceco Jing to ork e b is . of the Persian Gulf he must b needs be as le he is of the native character and tongu e ' ~ o f the . however, "no , only far from unpopular out ailed, service, but is generally esteemed as a kind-hend tbe amiable, and thoroughly inoffensive roan; a . o r, disapprobation almost universal on the P'„ i ge . occasion, is due to the uuwisdom of the ar t r ilo af ,, ruen:, not to the unpopularity of the ind i Ljorl' Rangoon, where the indiscretion of the ooLL I " - ,„, -- oe'l, brought on the Burmese war, might have sears' us of the inexpediency of sending an old,ani)ai., on a demonstration, the only use of vgicu, e ' a oft' , appear to him to be a little glory and figh t°l ',:oed' Nohe extension by a year of his present coteo one, the admiral perhaps excep;ed, an, t l e 4 ,100! _ the slightest resistance, and if we fire at all, " oi anY b_ on a defenceless and uuoffending peoPle,, e sle d them our subjects or friends, the only ieJuritaye inflict ß being on our own commerce. We rasl Gu lf ushire or any other pert in the P e rsian fie without firing a shot, and retain them fillet/1,00 desire it. In doing so we neither injur e of tile nor benefit ourselves, so l on g as, by reasooji:aater difficulty of the country and ri g our of the ferei cif , we are unable to move into the interior. ladle' is not worth conquering ; the re venues no -hil e would not maintain it were it ours . `pit h c on y we can scarcely expect Russia to look on `1,1," in the posit! , While we operate against her old ail' Gulf." , 1130 HERAT. • e . c oal' . The Indian papers, notwithstanding th' - ','„` , p eal‘• parative proximity to the scene, are tellable wotirco confidently and with detail respecting th e P r of the siege of Herat. belief tl3° The Delhi Gazette professes its firm Herat has not fallen. belief in time The Lahore Ghrolticle declar es its truth of the report of the fall of the place. ............... SIAM. the P We road in the Madras 4.titenceunt _<< The 131.10°' cipal King of Siam has reached us by vial ° ia that an attempt has been made to destroy. cal. folio: 0 4 c u t a i r tt r a ;tiv T e hfeorfawcatisawe(iillfbreomlearrn,V:orooTtt(les c .;,, a rite a, -. ,c Q*, m wat4 4-` „ue contemporary :--` Tho -b- l 'g " '-'ll. at DY ''''6°llt LMrti ZOildt6 ago, to an entertaitima vie a le. of his richest subjects, on a very grand go r "~ ' ~. DAY E