The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-15 00:00:00

THE HISTORY OF VICTORIA. Of all British colonies the history of Victoria Las been the most marvellous. It has, indeed, been more marvellous than the history of any co lony on record. Melbourne, the capital of the province, was founded only 20 years ago, and it is only some half-a-dozen years since it was a wretched outpost at which a few stray ships touched. Yet new the population is more than 59,000, and the trade is something fabulous. There is no region in the world that can give a better account of the period that has intervened between its rise and the present date. The trade of Victoria was iu 1854 not less than 100 times greater than it was only 15 years before ; the popul a ti on h a d mu lti p li e d it se lf more than irty times in, the same period. The truth is, that these marvels of progress apply more or less to the whole of our Australian settlements, but Melbourne is the centre of the movement. Last year it exported gold to the value of nearly 12,000,0001., and from our Australian correspond ence it appears that the exports during the present year are at a still increasing rate, and this gold it is that has created the colony and sustains its pro sperity. Compared with itself, however, the ad vances of the Australian region cannot be fully appreciated ; it is when we bring it into compari son with wealthy and long-established colonies, such as those of British North America, that we begin fully to comprehend the difference. We then find that the infant colony is an infant Her cules—that Victoria alone consumes of our exports more than all our colonies in North America. And it is not merely the necessaries of life which it thus absorbs ; all the Australian settlements are good customers—indeed, our best customers—in all that relates to the luxuries and the refinements of social existence. The whole of our exports of printed books, for example, in the year 1854 amounted to the value of 445,0001. ; of this Australia took more than a third, the United States took less than a third, and the remainder was divided in driblets among a multitude of countries. That Melbourne took a large share of the exports to Australia may be concluded from the one fact that two booksellers in that city subscribed alone for 300 copies of Mr. Macaulay's last publication. And this may be regarded as an indication of the cha racter of the works which find favour in these golden regions. Three-volume novels are very pleasant on velvet sofas in gilded drawing-rooms at home, and seated in the sunshine on the beach at Ramsgate, or in the large airy windows that look out upon the sea at Brighton, it is scarcely possible to screw up the intellect to anything more severe than a placid contemplation of the sorrows of Augustus and the coquetries of Laura, to whom in the third volume he is happily united. Amid the toil and turmoil of daily existence in a now world very different mental food is necessary, and we are not surprised to learn that works of a useful and solid nature find favour in the eyes of the colo nist. These facts are among the most gratifying characteristics of the colony, and show more clearly than anything else that can be mentioned the standing of the emigrants as a class. It contains a greater number than is usual of welt-educated men, who in leaving their country have not left its literature behind them. Melbourne has, in fact, its daily paper, its illustrated paper, its comic paper ; and, though it is vastly more distant than the Transatlantic continent, its relations with the mother country are not less intimate. How has all this been accomplished in a few short years ? As it is gold that created the Wes tern world, it is gold that now creates another empire in the antipodes—that substance which has of all others been the most cherished and the most execrated, which the miser has practically treated as of no use even while he hoarded it religiously, which the prodigal has prized above all things even while he wasted it, which poets have magnified, which philosophers have despised, which moralists from the beginning of the world have railed against, and which for the first time in our days political economists have been found seriously to dispara g e as an ingredient o f wea l t h . T hese last has pointed to Spain, and compared her history with that of England. All its wealth of gold and silver mines has not averted the decadence of that empire, at one time the most magnificent on the earth, while England, with only its coal mines, its iron ore, and its industry, is now the richest country in the world. That is indeed a comparison gratifying to our national pride ; but some of the economists are tempted to dwell on it too curiously, and to sug gest that the very possession of gold has been the ruin of Spain by the lassitude which it engendered, and that it is the absence of gold which has wrought such marvels in England through that necessity which is the mother of invention. Iron, after all, they say, is the true wealth, and, quoting the words of Locke, they maintain that " lie who first made use of that one contemptible mineral may be truly styled the father of arts and the author of plenty." We certainly shall not bo found among those who speak of iron as a contemptible mineral, but neither shall we be found among those who depreciate gold, and who attribute the decay of Spain to the superabundance of the precious metals. It is, indeed, possible that even to a civilised na tion the abundance of bullion may be of no more avail than the heaps of nuggets in Bendigo to the savage tribes whose wealth is in their spears and in the sharks' teeth which they twist in their hair ; but all nations were not alike, and what sane man can doubt that, rightly used, gold is a blessing, not a curse? The history of the Australian colo nies and of England for the last five years is of it self convincing. To that history also we appeal as an illustra tion of the moral, not less than the economical in fluence of the treasure which has been discovered. There are two sides to every dogma, and, if it be true that the love of money is the root of all evil, it is not to be denied that it is also the source of much good, and that the wheels on which the world moves forward are ever golden. In a sense far more material than that in which the ancient poets interpreted their fiction of a Saturnian reign, the paradise of the world is a "golden age," and in the progress of the present time our own poets may find facts more marvellous and more pleasing than the dreams of those Utopias in which mankind are represented as happy in their idleness and wealthy in their nothingness. The history of Melbourne, is, indeed, a marvellous one, and those who think of the alchemists and their theories of transmuta tion may here fill their imaginations with some thing still more wonderful—a reality, not a dream, for, as an evidence of its power, it has almost en tirely displaced the silver coinage of France ; it has displaced it, according to some calculations, to the extent of at least 40,000,0001. The general condition of the country, too, is as pleasing as its fortunes have been splendid, and in this respect it is an exception to the history of most colonies that have rapidly achieved greatness and renown. With all the glory that attaches to the history of the South American El Dorado, it is a glory as of the angel with the flaming sword—that is, rather a terror than an example. In California, too, al though we have reason to hope that one day the elements of disorder will be subdued, yet, along with that hope, 'which the Vigilance Committee is fitted to inspire as the embodied expression of the popular craving for peace and security, the very necessity of that committee is a proof of the back wardness of the State, and the American journals abound with incidents of lawless violence and tales of savage customs with which the condition of the Australian colonies favourably contrasts. In Mel bourne we find a large average attendance of read ers in the public library, a mechanics' institution, and a university, with a staff of well-paid teachers • but we do not know that any stronger proof could be given of the sound advancement of the people than the fact of the existence of large aecend-hand. book-shops. In Hobart Town there is one of these shops the stock iu trade of which consists of 14,000 volumes. It is a fact that speaks volumes in more senses than ono. And, as these colonists have un mistakeably proved their wealth to the world, we have in such indications a promise that in good time they will preserve and increase, as they now inherit, what is, after all, the greatest and most enduring of our treasures—the English language and literature.—Times. [Anvaartsamsxr.]—The great injury inflicted on many in valids by drugs increases the interest the public take in Du Barry's Revalenta Ambles Food, which cures without medicine indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility. We quote a few out of many thousand cases of cures by this delicious food :-,--From the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart. CureZif,6l2. Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ire land, December 9, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castle stuart feels induced, in the interest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food has cured her, after'all Medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, greatri food nest deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be eartidceres __ d' t•e'al blesslng. In qu i r i es w ill b e c h eer f u lly Irrom 'the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross. No. —Thre years' excessive nervousness, withpains in my neck and left arm .b, , tt au b d ee g n e r n w eral debility, which rendered my life very miserable AtEx. sv;Aß ically moved by Du Barry's health- • restoringfood.— T, Archdeacon of Ross Sk ibere e it. Supported by testimonials fromptihe celebrated Ross, of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure ; Gattiker ; I. Sh w orland ; Dr. Harvey ; Dr. Campbell ; Dr. urzer ; Dr. Ingram; Lord Stuart do Decies; th K e in D g, o a w n . age n r ia Count ess of Castle stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas other t respectable for. after all other persons, whose health has been restoredl!! climates, means of cure had failed. Suitably p ac k e y d i with full instructions. In canisters, slbs., lis. ;121ba 228 • :4 super-refined, llb., 6s. ; 2 lbs., 11 s. ; 51bs., 22,.. 1011 The 101bs. and 121 bs. carriag e free, o n receipt of pos . tle' Cc' order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, Londo n • Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, pica. dilly; also at 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330 and 451, S , rand; 4 Cheapside; 68, Cornhill ; 49 , Bishopsgate - street; 55 Char. lag-cross; 54, ,llppar Baker-street; 6 1 , and 157,! dxfcr4l 4 street. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. THE HARVEST. A week of most favourable weather has gone far towards completing harvest operations throughout the southern counties, with some exceptions in boggy and mountain lands. Even these latter, however, are in general at least a month earlier than in ordinary years. The Cork Examiner of yesterday reports as follows : "In the mountain districts of this county and of Kerry there are few, if any, fields standing, whereas having the corn crops gathered in by the firot or second week of October would in ordinary years be considered fair. Another peculiar feature of the present harvest was that, notwithstanding the high prices paid for labour, the crops in general have been gathered in at less than the usual exoeuse. This was owing to the favourab'e nature of the weather, which permitted, or rathcr almost compelled, the work to be carried on without interruption. The potato crop may be considered, despite the numerous evidences c.f blight, a magnificent one, and one that, while it will prove remunerative to Vie farmer, will secure abundance to the homes of the poor. The disease which is k❑own to exist in a portion of it is admitted to have been confined to the species called ' pink eyes,' and its existence good judges agree in attributing to the fact of that kind being old and effete, We are happy, also, to be able to give a very favourable account of the turnip crop, which a month or two ago was regarded with con siderable apprehension. In most localities it will be likely to prove a fair yield, while in the west of this county the crops are absolutely luxuriant." With respect to the potato there is sufficient in formation to warrant the belief that the failure will be by no means as extensive as was anticipated at the early re-appearance of the mysterious blight. Since then, in districts where it was supposed the clop was irretrievably tainted, it has been found that the injury never went below the stalk, and that the root itself remained perfectly sound. That there will be a partial loss no one doubts, but the defi ciency will not probably exceed that of last year, which, after all, was but little, if at all, felt even by the largest consumers. In contrast with almost every other article of produce remains moderate, and the supplies are enormous. But if the national esculent be cheap and abundant the farmer is more than recompensed by the current rates for all other kinds of provinces. In fact, there is no visible de cline in the war standard of prices which has pre vailed since the spring of 1854, and, as usual, while the agricultural interest is in the enjoyment of prosperity, the trading community is suffering from the joint effects of high prices for every article of consumption, and a season of unusual dullness in all branches of general trade and commerce. FINCTUATIONS IN THR IRISH FUNDS. The downward movements in the rates of Go vernment securities, at a time of the year when dullness usually prevails, has, of course, been felt no less on the Dublin than on the London Stock Exchange. A reint.rkable evidence of the effect of the present unsteady state of the money market is thus noticed in the commercial article of the Dublin Evening Post : " Both in London and'Dublin falling prices had inti midated the weaker speculators, who sold at a heavy loss ; others, possessing resources and credit, carried over' to the next account, paying high rates for the ac commodation ; but in many cases the bankers refused to advance, and the speculative holders of stock were com pelled to sell on the best terms they could obtain. At our own Stock-Exchange on Thursday, in consequence of the rush of sellers under these adverse circumstances, there was the almost unprecedented number of eight quotations for Consols for cash, the sales commencing at 03i—a fall of 7s. 6d. from the price of Wednesday, and there was then a progressive decline to 93, subse quently a further fall to 92i, and before the close of the market there were sales at 921. So pressing were the necessities of the unfortunate speculators that sales were forced after 'Change at 902 ; but we understand there was some tendency towards recovery afterwards. In Consols for account comparatively little was done, the only quotations being 92i /—a difference of 1/. 2s. 6d. on the closing prices between cash and account. In New Three per Cents. a favourite stock for invest ment here, but not Fo much dealt in for speculation as Console, the price for cash ranged from 931 to 92i ; but there were no sales for the next account. The gene ral share list of Thursday was almost a blank, there being only three quotations altogether 1" There was a further decline to-day in the Govern ment funds, the share-market generally showing a corresponding weakness. Although there is no symptom of panic, the pressure is sensibly felt, even in sound commercial circles. TIIE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND. AYRSlllRE.—lteaping has now been generally com • menced in this country, but it is not carried on with ra pidity. The harvest is likely to be one of the most tedi ous that has been experienced for a number of years. Under the low temperature crops of all kinds are ripening very slowly. Instead of the usual competition for work ers in the second week of harvest, the farmer finds that it is only too easy to cut down the crops as soon as they are ready for the sickle. The weather last week was not what might have been desired for maturing the later portion of the crops : but it did much good in checking any tendency of sprouting amongst early grain in shel tered situations. The searching breezes of Thursday and Friday made the grain perfectly dry. This week the weather has been sultry and changeable. Very heavy rains fell on Sunday at Cumnock and across the high country towards Muirkirk. Monday was alternately smiling and gloomy. The forenoon of Tuesday was close, damp, and warm about Ayr, and in the afternoon there was a violent thunderstorm and a heavy fall of rain. This storm was succeeded yesterday by a good, clear har vest day, with occasional blinks of warm sunshine. The weather has still an unsettled appearance. The glows of sultry heat are probably indicative of heavy showers, but there is no apparent tendency to continuous rains. The ripening of the crops is very unequal. Some farmers, even in high situations, will finish reaping this week, while others have little done, or are not com menced. Altogether a very large proportion of the crops is far from having acquired the hue of harvest. Much of the wheat has a dull blueish colour, and some of the let r fie'ds have scarcely lost the deep green tint of the season of growth. In such cases ripening, we are afraid, is out of the question. As the wheat crop ripens, more nume rous complaints of disease are heard. But from all that we see and hear we are satisfied that the cereal crops in Ayrshire are bulky, and likely to give an extra yield, if the weather be favourable for maturing and harvesting them. The oat crops look well in stock, and the grain has a plump appearance, but a higher temperature would have been requisite fur giving fineness of quality. New Findlay cats brought to Perclewan-mill weigh from 351 b to 3641 b per bushel, and the yield of meal is satisfactory for the weight and condition of the grain. In the uplands of Kyle there is a good breadth of April wheat ready for cut ting. Except in cases where it is very much beat down its colour is surprisingly good, when the character of the weather is taken into account. In the somewhat late country between Ochilcree and Cumnock, it seems to have almost entirely taken the place of oats after green crops. On Monday last it had the appearance of being generally ripe about the beginning of next week. Mr. J. Allan, who has the merit of introducing it into that district, has fine crops of it on some of the distant Corn. nock hills, which a few years ago grew rushes and scanty pasture. In addition to his green crop break, Mr. Allan has this season tried it upon lea, and, notwithstanding previous scepticism on our part, we must admit that his experiment has proved completely successful. The lea crop was within a week of being rips when we inspected it on Monday. The ears were lengthy and well filled, and the colour was not appreciably inferior to the other adjoining fields of wheat, which were taken after po tatoes and turnips. Mr. Allan top-dressed the lea with two cwt. of guano per Scotch acre, and sowed the wheat about the 20th March.—A yr Advertiser. PERTHSHIRE.—VariabIe weather has prevailed during the past week, and some heavy showers have fallen and retarded the prosecution of harvest operations. Saturday and Sabbath were very wet days ; Monday was fair, but dull and heavy; Tuesday was clearer and more genial, but the afternoon was cloudy, and about G o'clock some dis tant peals of thunder were heard. The thunder-clouds rapidly approached. with the wind from tLe south east, and a storm took place for perhaps half an hour. There were POMO very vivid sheets of lightning, and the rain poured dawn heavily. Later in the evening, after the sky had cleared, there were frequent flashes of silent light ning in the northern horizon. On Wednesday it was fair but somewhat cloudy. The harvest is now going forward in the district ; and the crops appear to promise az average yield. —Peet/rehire Courier. ABERDEENSHIRE. The weather during the past week has been only partially favourable for harvesting the crops in good condition. Thursday and Friday were fine days here ; on Saturday afternoon it rained, and Sunday was very wet throuehout, which must have done considerable damage to the stailing and cut y greatly wanted. and ther e h as b een no sunshine since, which is wanted. There is, no doubt, a plentiful crop on the ground, but the present is a time of peculiar anxiety regarding it. From a careful estimate of the probable produce of the harvest in this county, derived from reports from various districts, we gather that wheat will be an average crop ; barley also about an average ; oats, about a full crop ; potatoes, a lair ave rage ; and turnips, rather deficient. Much, however, will depend on the weather for the next three weeks, for we are yet but at the commencement of harvest labours.—A bcrdeca Journal. CLOTHWORKERS' HALL. —This hall, in Mincing-lane, is next week to be pulled down and rebuilt. It belongs to nue of the wealthiest of the livery companies, p ro f use ' in their charities; and ht spitality. The late Mr. Thwaites left them 30,000/., half 1 2 4,r charity and half for feasting. The Ciotb workers' Company are forth() present going to use Barbers' Ball.—Building News. GERMAN BANKS.—A letter from Berlin, of the 10th, in the Constitutioancl, says :—" The Darmstadt bank, which has taken the initiative of a general congress of the German banking establishments, has just addressed an invitation to its colleagues to send delegates to it. The object of this congress is to come to an understanding on the general principles of circulation, as to form of drafts, the conditions of the reciprocal acceptance of bank re ceipts, a common monetary unity, &c. This idea has been very favourably received, and will probably he realised in a short time." THE SUN, LO ON, MONDAY EVE ;:anal and Military Intelligence. .• Her Majesty's slip Powerful, Captain T. L. Massie, arrived at Spithcad on Saturday morning from the North American and `Vest Indian station, and Failed yesterday morning. for the eastward to be paid off. The Cressy, 81, Captain R. L. Warren, left Spithead on Friday afternoon for the Mediterranean. The Dido, 18, Captain Morshead, C. 8., arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from Valparaiso (112 days), St. Helena, Ascension, and Flores '(Western Islands). She brings 60 invalids, &c., from the sta tions. The Dido spoke the following vessels :—July 30, in lat. 1 12 N., long. 24 29 W., the Marchioness of Londonderry ; Aug. 2, in lat. 70 30 N., long 26 30 W., the Lady Hodgkinson ; Aug. 8, 100 miles of Scilly, the Kate, of London, and the Swedish ship See Vlume. Ths Dido sailed yesterday morning for the eastward, to be paid off. Iler Majesty's sloop Linnet, 8, Com. Need, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the west coast of Africa. She kit yesterday for D4vonport to be paid off. Her Majesty's ship Dauntless, 24, Capt. Ryder, got up steam at Portsmouth on Saturday to try her engines after repair. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Triton, Lieut. A. D. W. Fletcher, in command, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and reports hav ing spoken on the Bth last. the Enolieh brie. Industry and the English barque Napoleon 111., the latter hound for Sunderland, in lat. 40 35 N., long. 9 42. On the 9th inst. spoke a screw steamer, showing second distinguish. ing pendant 246. On the 11th spoke an English schooner showing second distinguishing pendant 7,643. The Tri ton was stopped off Brest by a French schooner in dis tress for want of provisions, which Com, Fletcher sup plied her with, and proceeded. Having been four years in commission, and done good service, she will now be paid off at Woolwich. The Pemberton hired freightship, Capt. Belyea, from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibraltar, arrived at Spit head on Saturday with a heavy cargo of Commissariat stores and the following passengers :—Dr. Cullen, Capt. Miller, and Ensign Robinson, 79th Highlanders ; Capt. Clutterbuck, 56th Regiment ; Ensign Cealey, 42d High landers ; Ensign Ker, 3d Buffs ; Ensign Thompson, first battalion, let Royals ; Messrs. Bulwer, Ouge, Barton, Beale, and Lee, Purveyor's staff ; Mr. Foster, Deputy- Assistant Commissariat-General ; two sergeant-majors of the Land Transport Corps, &c. She left yesterday for the eastward to be paid off. The Crest of the Wave, transport, No. 37, Capt. Steel, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, from Constantinople and Gibraltar, with 39 men, invalids from various regi ment-, 19 women, 34 children, 91 men of the Land. Transport Corps, Lieutenant Nevill, ditto ; Cornet Bowe, ditto ; Assistant-Surgeon Healey ; Mr. Wright, Clerk of Works ; I tiepeneers Tupper, Collin, and Andrews ; Mr. Blake, Chief-Clerk of the Works ; Messrs. Nesbitt, Webb, Brindsell, and Knapp, Transport Corps Clerks ; Captain Erazetty, Italian Legion, lady, five children, and ser vant, &o. The Algiers, 91, Capt. Codrington, C. 8., was paid off at Portsmouth on Saturday. The Eurotas, 12, steam mortar-ship, Capt. Mooreom, C. 8,, left Portsmouth yesterday for the eastward, to be paid off. The Alma freight-ship embarked on Saturday evening at Portsmouth about 380 of the British German Legion, and left yesterday for Canada. The Fancy freight ship arrived at Spithead on Satux day night, from the Crimea, with stores. The Leonard Tobin, transport No. 160, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Crimea, with Commissariat stores and ammunition. The following items of naval and military intelligence have been received from Gibraltar by the Peninsular Mail steamer Aden, which arrived at Southampton on Satur day :-- The Turkish line-of-battle ship Paigizafer, Capt. Smile Bey, anchored in the Bay from Constantinople during the night of the 30th ult. At 7 o'clock on the following morning she hoisted the British ensign at her masthead, and saluted the garrison with 21 guns, which compliment was immediately returned by the saluting battery. The ship sailed for Devonport, where she will be converted into a screw steamer, on the Ist inst. The sailing trans port Riverdale left for Portsmouth, laden witb shot and shell, on the same day. The screw steam-ship Britannia arrived at Gibraltar from London on the 6th inst. The Royal Yacht Squadron schooner Claymore sailed for the East on the sth inst. The British steamer Tiber, seven days from L varpool, arrived on the 3d. The steam ship Karnak, seven days from Liverpool, reached Gibraltar on the 30th ult. A naval court-martial is ordered to be assembled on board the Waterloo, 120, flagship at Sheerness, Captain Lord F. Kerr, to try Mr. John Perry, Acting 3d Class Assistant-Engineer of the Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steam. frigate. Master-Commander John F. Rees is to be the prosecutor. The charges are repeated drunkenness, in capability of doing his duty, and insubordinate and mu tinous conduct. The Vulcan, 6, screw steam troopship, Commander James H. Furneaux, is ordered to be taken into No. 8, dry dock-at Sheerness to-morrow, to refit. The Devastation, 6, paddlewheel steam-sloop Com mander Edward Marshall, was taken into No. 1 dry dock at Sheerness on Saturday to be surveyed, and have damage to her hull repaired. The Nimrod, 0, new screw steam gunboat, of 350 horse-power, has been taken into No. 8 dry dock at Sheerness, to be completed in her hull and machinery with all possible :le.-patch. Messrs. K'rk and Parry have received an Admiralty order to build the new military hospital within the fortifi cations at Sheerness. Preparations are being made for the immediate progress thereof under their contract, ac cepted by the Admiralty. The screw steam-transport Mauritius, No. 16, Capt. Pinder, for Spithead, put into Plymouth on Saturday. She is from Corfu, Santa Maura, Zephalonia, Zante, Malta, Gibraltar, and Vigo, and la•ings home the Wilt shire and Staffordshire Militia, consisting of 32 officers, 5 officers' wives, 14 children, 855 rank and file, 60 wo men, and 52 children, all well. She towed the sailing ship Tudor from Gibraltar, August 30, but was compelled to cast her of on the 9th inst., having encountered strong north-east gales and a head sea, which damaged her machinery, and the Mauritius was then taken in tow by the steam-ship Starling, which brought her into the Sound. Off Cape de Gatt, August 28, the Mauritius spoke her Majesty's ship Calliope, 26, from Scutari for Portsmouth. The Tudor, Captain Anderson, arrived in Plymouth in the afternoon. The steam-ship Braganza, from Liverpool for Lisbon, put into Plymouth on Saturday with machinery da• waged. The screw steam-sloop Wasp, 13, from Portsmouth, arrived on Friday at Plymouth, where she is appointed to embark supernumeraries for South America. The paddle Wheel steam-yacht Black Eagle, John E. Petley, master, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, ,and went into Hamoaze to coal. The Aboukir, 90, has been taken from her moorings in Hatuoaze to the dockyard, Devonport, to be docked and fitted with a screw. The crew of the screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. A. C. Key, got up lower yards and topmasts at Devon port on Monday, bent sails on Saturday, and went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound. The brig Express, 0, Commander U. Boys, from Ports mouth, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday, went into Ha tnoaze on Friday, with topgallantmasts down and sails unbent, and was warped alongside the jetty ; her crew were appointed to be paid off on Saturday. The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Inflexible, 6, had her boilers fitted at Keyham, Plymouth, on Thursday ; she is to be got ready with all despatch. The screw steam-frigate Liffey, 51, having been dis mantled, is laid up in ordinary at Devonport. The crow of the screw steam-ship Exmouth, DO, Capt. Henry Eyres, were paid wages at Devonport on Satur day. The screw steam-ship Lady Seale, Capt. Robert Arm strong, from Constantinople, Aug. 5, with returned stores, for the Thames, put into Plymouth yesterday, short of fuel. She touched at Malta, Aug. 13, and at Gibraltar, Sept. 3, and on the 12th inst. passed two steam ships-of-war and two gun-boats, under canvas only, supposed to be the Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Caldwell • the Conqueror, 101, Command er Fellowes • the Wanderer, 4, Commander John P. Luce ; and the Osprey, 4, Commander Henry J. Blom field, which left Plymuuth on Tuesday. At Gibraltar the paddle-wheel steam sloop Yesuv:u , , 6, Commander Edward G. 'lore, and the screw steam-tank vessel Wye, Master P. C. D. Bean. A Turkish two-decker left, Gibralter Sept. 2 for England, to receive machinery preparatory to her being converted into a screw steam ship. Tne fAlowing officers have joined the depots of their respective regiment- at the Provisional Battalior, Chat. ham :—Ensign Moorhead, Bth Re f it. ; Ensign Johnson, 24th Regt ; Ensign Back, 29th Regt. ; Eusigh Brown, 35th Regt. ; Ensign 133znell, 53d Regt. ; and Ensign Devereux, 87th Royal Irish Fusileers. An order has been forwarded to Major S. G. Bun bury, commanding the Medical Staff Corps at Chatham, direc'ing that 67 orderlies are to be discharged as soon ar they have been supplied with a record of their set-• vices, to be furnished to the War-office by a board of officers at Chatham appointed for that purpose. The following appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty : E. M. Vincent, master, to the Flying Fish ;H. Gold smith, master, to the Fury ; H. A. Martin, master, ad ditional to the Blenheim, for service in the Siomotn ; E. J. Church, naval cadet, to the Shannon ; D. C. Atchison, assistant-surgeon, to the Indefatigable; Robert F. E. Munson,i paymaster, to the Vulcan ; Charles D. Lind• say, assistant-paymaster, to the Royal William ; S. S. L. Needham, assistant-clerk, to the Medusa. TOBA.CCO.—TIIS consumption of tobacco in France has inertased to inch an extent that the old manufacto ries, notwithst an di n g the immense additions they have received withi n th e last few years, are insufficient to provide for the demand. A second entrepot, and a more )xten.ive one than that of the Qtiai d'Or.4ay, will be constructed at Bercy. A cigar manufactory will also he established at Chateauroux, in the Icdre, where 800 women will receive employment. [4; DVFMTlSEMENT.l—liolloway's Ointment and Pills neits , faling remedies for Bad 1.4-gs.—Extract of a let ter from Mr. William Mabson. druggist, Of Great Yar mouth :—" To Professor Holloway. Sir, —Samuel Wells, mariner, had a very had leg for nearly three years ; he obtained tie advice of several medic a men, and tried various remedies, but instead of deriving bene fit therefrom his lea continued to get worse, which pre vented him from felio.ving his employment; he was then induced to try Holloway's ointment and pills. which have been the means cf effecting a perfect cure."—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople; A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta. THE GRAND TRUNK RAIL WAY COMPANY OF CANADA. Subjoined is the statement of the London directors to be submitted to the meeting of the sharehotlers of the company, which is to be held at the London Tavern on Wednesday next : "The London board of directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company avails itself of the presence in this country of the lion. John Ross, president, the Hen. Sir Allan Ill`Nab, Bars., and Mr. Holmes, vice-president, for the purpose of laying before the proprietors a report upon the present state of the company's affa..rs, and its future prospects. Since the date of the last report the whole of the capital represented by the ' A Shares' and bonds of the company has been called up. Its total amount at the present date is 3,582,4001. Of this sum 3,488,6001. have been received. The directors are de sirous of acknowledging the promptitude with which the calls have been met, and consider the amount of arrears comparatively small, especially when the pressure which has existed on this description of property is taken into account. Instructions have been sent to Canada to forfeit the 2,322 shares upon which the third call re mains unpaid ; and the necessary resolution for this purpose will he submitted to the meeting of the share holders to be held in Canada in November next. The certificates in favour of the English and Canadian contractors for railway works amount to 5,283,1731., and for the Victoria-bridge to 354,5301. The sec tion of the railway from Quebec to St. Thomas-40 miles—was opened on the 3d December last, and that from Montreal to Brockville (125 miles) was completed on the 19th November. The directors are informed that the communication between Brockville and Toronto —a distance of 210 miles—will be ready for opening at the beginning of next month, which is a much earlier period than originally fixed, thereby more than carrying out the pledgee given on this head to the people of Canada, and reflecting great credit on the energy of the English con tractors under very untoward circumstances. The length from Toronto west to Guelph, 63 miles, was opened on the let of July last, and the receipts have, within six weeks of the commencement of traffic operations, given a return of 201. per mile per week, in local business only, and a period of the year when agricultural operations limit the traffic of the country. The completion of the length from Guelph to Stratford, 29 miles, will take place at the same time as the opening between Brockville and Toronto. The total length of Grand Trunk Railway that will then be in operation will be 853 miles. Any further lines to fulfil the views of the Legislature of Canada, and to develope the traffic of the country, remain for future consideration, but in the event of any being determined upon the directors think the contract for such works should, when practicable, be submitted to open competi tion. The only work under the existing contracts then unfinished will be the Victoria-bridge. Upon this sub ject the directors take the present opportunity of stating that since the last meeting of the shareholders they have cawed in Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. Brunel, Mr. E. Clarke, and Mr A Moss ,‘c, report to them as to the possi bility of effecting a saving in the cost of constructing this great work, and especially in reference to certain suggestions and remarks made by Mr. Liddell, C.E., contained in a letter to Mr. M`Calmont, who, the direc tors regret, has resigned his seat at the board. Thesrf reports have satisfied the directors that, haring due re gard to the solidity and permanence of this structure no material reduction in the outlay can be effected. At the sametime certain modifications have been recommended, by which some saving may be obtained in the masonry and the approaches. At the present time the condition of the works is such that the two abutments, and nine piers out of the total number of 24, will be finished to tube level by the close of the summer.. "It will no doubt be recollected that in the early part of the present year a meeting of the shareholders of the company took place, which was presided over by Mr. T. M. Weguelin. The committee that was appointed on that occasion thought it advisable to send the Hon. Win. Napier to Canada as their representative, with the view of obtainicg assistance and relief from the Canadian Go vernment. The provincial legislature passed an act, of which a copy is annexed, and the committee has fa voured the board with several suggestions, which are also subjoined. The directors concur with the committee that the act of the provincial parliament affords a prospect of rAief to the company, not only by postponing the first charge of the Government, but also as giving to it a di rect interest in the prosperity of an undertaking which it originated. Although the act may not offer all the benefits desired, yet the directors must accept it as strong evidence of the wishes of the Government and Legisla ture of Canada to promote the interests of the railway ; and recommended its adoption by the shareholders, leav ing the directors to urge such modifications upon the Government as may facilitate ahem in carrying out its provisions, and which circumstances, and measures ne cessary for the development of the traffic, may requite. The act has rendered necessary some modifications in the contract for the construction of the Victoria-bridge. These have been embodied in a supplemental agreement with the English contractors, the terms of which have been settled between the company and the contractors by Mr. Weguelin ; the outlines of this agreem e nt will be found at Apendix C, and is submitted to the share holders for approval. By this arrangement, which the directors, submit with confidence to the shareholders, as a fair and equitable compromise between the contractors and the company, the money liability for the bridge is at once reduced to the extent of a quarter of a million, and remains subject to still further reduction in the event of any further modification of design. The forcing on the market of B shares, and the consequent depression of the stock, are prevented ; and the active prosecution and early completion of the bridge, by which alone, as the di rectors believe, the through traffic from the far west to the seaboard can be obtained, is effectually promoted and secured. The directors also think it right to state that , Messrs. Pete, Brassey, Bette, and Jackson have declared their willingness—let, Either to give up the contract to any other parties willing to undertake it, upon receiving reasonable compensation ; 2d, to go on with it, subject to a reduction of 250,0001. in its amount, in considera• tion of the change in the mode of payment, which will follow the adoption of the act of the Canadian Legisla ture of the last session ; and to submit to such reduc tion of the amount of the contract by alterations in the construction of the bridge as may be determined by refer ence provided under the contract. The second alterna tive is the one which, in the opinion of the directors, is most conducive to the interests of the shareholders, and has been adopted in the supplemental agreement already . referred to. " The revenue accounts for the year ending the 30th June last, which are appended to this report, do not present satisfactory results, but they .are of the same character with those which have at terded the partial opening of undertakings, even the most successful, when completed. Under these circumstances, the cost of working has been very large, and has caused much disquietude to the directors. Two propositions have been submitted to them connected with the future working and management ; the first, for a quasi leasing of the undertaking upon conditions which are not deemed desirable ; the second is a cit.n. tract tendered by responsible parties for the working of the main line upon conditions which insure the econo mical management under active local persons, and by a fixed divi-ion of the receipts, securing the interest to the bondholders, and the future position of the share holders. It would ho premature to enter further into the conditions of this proposal, but the directors hope to be empowered, for the interest of all, to enter ain it, subject to the approval •of a general meeting of the shareholders. The whole of the A capital has been ex pended, as well as most of the other available means of the company, and a considerable portion of these funds having been diverted to the necessary, but unexpected repairs of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, the directors find themselves under liabilities for the contracts now on the point of completion, for rolling stock and other contingencies. These circumstances compel thorn to recommend the shareholders to sanction an increase of the capital of the company by a sum • not exceeding 510,0001. This amount they suggest should be raised by the crea'ion of debentures bearing interest at thereto of id per cent. per annum. This sum the directors be lieve will he amply sufficient to open the railway in a very efficient state for carrying on a large amount of traffic, and to provide for the c nnpany's liabilities, together with the payment of the interest on the shares and company's debentures due in January next. The additional outlay on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Rail way has involved an increased rental of 13,0001. per an num, for which the sanction of the shareholderA is re• quested. The directors are happy to state that the same friendly relations which existed between this company and the Great Western Railway of Canada at the publication of the last report, still continue, and it will be the anxious effort and desire of the board to promote, at all times, a cordial understanding between the two companies. "The serious attention of the London beard has been drawn to the exiting constitution_ of the direction, di• vided as it now is into two sections, sitting in Canada and in London. The functions of the latter body are very limited, and while they appear to impose responsi bility, do not aff,rd any power of effectual control. It may be absol u t e l y n e cessary that the English share holders should b e more e ff ec t ua lly r epresented at the Canada Bard, and that the representative should be in• vested with power to act for their interests there. Th 6 airectore are informed that it is the intention of the Canadian Government to propose to Parliament an alteration iu the constitution of the board by withdraw ing their directors and substituting a commissioner un• connected with the executive government. With refer ence to the 7th paragraph of the suggestions of the share holders' cenitnittee, the directors recommend that the expenses of the non. Wm. Napier, in his mission to Canada, b e 1, 000/. paid, and that he receive a remuneration of "In conclusion, the directors, while they regret the disappointment which must have been caused to the shareholders by the result of the traffic up to the present time, feel OA this has been mainly occasioned by the sectional openings to which they have already adverted ; but when the w h o l e b oo s h a ll h ave been compl e ted, aff,rding an unb ro k en commun i ca ti o n from the west to the Atlantic, they see no reason to doubt that its future development, fostered by the growing prosperity of Canada, and the continued support of its Government and legiela ure, will be such as to give a remunerating income to the shareholders. Tho enormous traffic which has been proved to exist on the Western lines in Canada, and the very sati=factory receipts which t: e Toronto and Guelph section, only just opened, are giving to the company, may be considered to justify the opinions above expressed. The whole district between Montreal and Toronto, owing to the character and extent of its population, and the branch lines extending to the interior, acting as feeders to the Grand Trunk Railway, places this portion of the line in as f.,• vourable a position as that of any other railway in Ca. nada. The directors, should they continue to receive tbe confidence and su p port o f t h es h are h o ld ers , w ill no t re lax j in their endeavours to insure the satisfactory results.to which they have alluded by devoting their best attention t , ) the various questions which may arise out of the pro posed negotiations with the Government of Canada, the propwitions for working or leasing the line, and the practical improvement= which may be suggested for its coo:loin:cal and profii;: b management " TIIE CEYLON IiAILWAY. (From the Colombo Observer of August 7.) Copy of Resolutions passed at a Spe3ial Genera Meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce lo:h1 on Saturday, 2d August, 1856, to consider the Railway Question. 1. Tbat the Chamber of Commerce is of the came opinion on the subject generally as expressed in their letter of the 10th of August, 1855. . _ 2. That with reference to the same resolutions—to the letter addressed to the chamber by his Excellency the Governor under date the 14th of July, and to the pro visional agreement with the proposed Ceylon Railway Company now before the council—it desires to reiterate its opinion that the establishment of a line of rail by means of a government loan and c'entractors is prefer able to the adoption of the terms offered by the company. 3. The Chamber of Commerce is of opinion that the line suitable for the railway to the interior should he surveyed at the expense of Government, and the con struction of the line by contract be advertised fur in the English and Indian papers. 4. That the Government be requested to take such measures as may be necessary for the immediate sur •eying and tracing of the most desirable line for the pro posed railway. 6. That with reference to the previous resolutions, and to the papers now before it in connection with Mr. Jack son's offer, the Chamber is of opinion that such pro posals, if supported by proper securities and framed into an agreement subject to conditions, would meet the re quirements of the island in every respect. 6. That copies of the resolutions passed at this meeting be furnished to the Planters' Association and to the local papers for publication. 7. That the chamber cannot separate without express. ing its gratitude to his Excellency the Governor, for the great interest and trouble he has taken in respect to the railway, and it begs to express its confidence that his exertions to obtain one for the island will not be relaxed. Having given above the resolutions adopted unani mously by the. Chamber of Commerce, we add the reso lutions passed with equal unanimity by the public meet ing this day —a meeting which fairly represented the wealth and intelligence of the metropolis. The speakers, besides the chairman, were Messrs. Shand, Armitage, and Alwie. Not a word was said or a band raised against the resolutions, although Mr. John Selby was present. A proposition is now favourably entertained for a first-class railway to the foot of the hills, with cattle tramways branching off, one towards Kornegalle, Matella, &c., the other towards Gampola, &c., so as to embrace within their range the larger proportion of the coffee estates. It is calculated that the cost would be far below that requisite for a first-class railway connect ing Colombo and Kandy. Moved by W. 11171 HAM, Esq., seconded by C. SHAND, E-1., and carried unanimously—" That the various classes most deeply interested in the prosperity of the island having repeatedly and almost unanimously on pre vious occasions expressed their opinions that no party should be entrusted with the construction of a railway be tween Colombo and Kandy but at a limi t of cost, this meet ing now records its respectful and solemn protest against the draft ordinance published in the Government Gazette of Saturday, 2d August, which is intended to confirm the provisional agreement made with the Ceylon Railway Company, many of the terms of the said agreement being such as will, if accepted, entail the most ruinous consequences on the colony." Moved by B. ARMITAGE, Esq., seconded by J. ALwis, Esq., and carried unanimously—" That the chairman be instructed to forward the above resolutions to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary for the Governor's information, together with an earnest entreaty that his Excellency may be pleased not to sanction the passing of the said ordinance through the Legislative Council." THE OUDE HOAX AT BIRMINGHAM. There is a mystery about tkis affair which has yet to be explained ; as matters now stand it seems that Wynd ham was endeavouring to make it appear that the au thorities at Birmingham gave an invitation to her Oudean Majesty to visit the town. On the 7th inst. he addressed the following letter to the Mayor : "Clarendon Hotel, 'Sept. 7, 1856. "Dear Mr. Mayor,—l am commanded by Captain Brandon, as the representative of the Queen Dowager and the Princes of Oude to express to you their grateful thanks for your kind offer to postpone your departure for France on their account, and I am desired to add that this being the solemn festival of the Mohurran, which will not terminate until the 17th inst., the illus trious party will not arrive in Birmingham until a few days later, .or possibly the following Monday. Such being the case I can but express my regret at the ne cessity which calls you away on an occasion so interest ing ; but as the visit will be of as private a character as possible, I have consolation to feel assured that nothing will occur to disturb the peace of your highly interesting town. " I have the honour to be, dear Mr. Mayor. "Your obliged and faithful servant, "R. WYNDIL&M." The Mayor all day entertained suspicions about Wyndham, so did Mr. Harrison, of the Clarendon Ho tel, who complains, and with some reason, that the an thoriti,4 at the police office (lid not take proper means to ascertain who Mr. Wyndham really was. Since the latter quitted the town he has written to Mr. Harrison from "London," intimating that he shall lay a com plaint before the authorities touching the aspersions cast upon his character, but he has omitted to remit the 151. owing to Mr. Harrison. The following letter was received by Mr. G. R. Collis on Thursday evening. "Harley-house, New-road, September 10, 1856. "Sir,—There must be some mistake about the visit of the royal family of Oade to Birmingham, as they have no intention of doing so at present. Alio, Wyndham wrote to me on this matter, and I wrote to him telling him the same. Although he gave me to understand the authorities of Birmingham invited them down, the letter sent by you to Alli Ackbar has been handed to ny., and thus I reply with many thanks for this intimation, as I now clearly see how the matter stands. I shall be glad to hear from you on any future occasion, if anything of this kind occurs.—Yours, faithfully, "R. BRANDON, Captain H.M.O. Service. " Mr. Wyndham is in no way employed by the royal family of Oude." On Saturday murning the Mayor received the follow ing from Captain Brandon : "Harley-house, Sept. 12, 1866. "Sir,—Mr. Wyndham called on me last night, and I find he is not the person who previously called, repre senting himself as from the authorities at Birmingham ; such being the case some error seems to have been made; at the same time, I must inform you that I gave them both to understand that no one had any authority from the Royal Family of Oude to get up any demonstration or public meetings, and I wrote Mr. Wyndham at Bir mingham a note thanking him for the polite invite of the authorities of your town,considering from the tenour of his letters such invite emanated from you and with your knowledge (your name being used, instead of from himself.—Yours faithfully, " J. R. BRANDON, Captain H.M.O. Service." Thus the affair stands at present ; Wyndham's address is not known, neither has any warrant against him been issued. A POLICE OFFICEh'S MISTAKE. The Buckingham magistrates meeting at Windsor, on Tuesday, investigated a complaint made against C. Dick man, one of the county police, who was charged with having assaulted Mrs. Ann Sayers, the wife of a respect able draper at Windsor. It appeared that on the Wed nesday before, about a quarter before 7 in the evening, Mrs. Sayers, with four female friends, was walking from Datchet to Windsor, when Dickman, who wore plain clothes', and was on horseback, came galloping after the party, got off his horse, and placing his hand on the shoulder of Mrs. Sayers, exclaimed abruptly, "You are the person I want," and ordered her, with two of the friends who accompanied her, Mrs. and Miss Lawson, to go to the toll-house, cicso at hand. Mrs. Sayers was so frightened that she fell into hysterics, and fainted ; but one of the younger ladies laughed. The ladies asked him who he was, and what he did this for, but he only told them he would explain it to them presently, until one of them mentioned the name of Mr. Brightwell, and then he stepped into the toll-house, and asked Green, the turnpikt-gate keeper, whether he knew Mr. Bright• well ; and when Green replied, " Yes, he is a ♦ery re spectable man,' the police officer came to them and said, " L Ales, I am mistaken, and I am very sorry that I stopped you. lam in pursuit of three females charged with uttering counterfeit coin." This was indeed the fact ; and it did so happen that five other persons were ultimately taken up on suspicion of being concerned in uttering the base coin, of whom three were middle aged and tNo young females, and who were "dressed in silkS and satins, and would be taken by any one for ladies," as the serjeant of police deposed. Before stopping Mrs, Sayers and her companions, the defendant asked the toll•ke•per whether he knew the ladies who had just passed, and was answered in the negative. He was rather in an excited state from the chase. Mr. D. B. Smith, of Slough, as attorney for the complainant, and Mr. Voulee, of Windsor, as attorney for the defendant, having called witnesses and commented on the case, the magistrates deliberated, and Major Bent, the chairman, said they regretted that such a case should have been brought before them. It was their opinion that Dick man was perfectly justified in every step he bad taken, and that if he had not so acted be would have grossly neglected his duty. The case was therefore dismissed. SUICIDE OF A DRUGGIST AT LIVERPOOL —On Thurs. day evenim ! , Mr. bienry Short, who kept a druggist's shop known as tie Medical Hall, in Dale street, Live!- pool, put an end to his existence by swalling prussic aei , '. The deceased, who was unmarried, and ab )ut 25 years of age, cattle to Liverpool from the south of England about eight months ago, when he commenced business au all) e. He was at alt times in a very nervous state ; and, owing to mental aberration, was not long sin , e paced in an asylum, whenco he had only returned to his business a few days ago, and a sister came at the same time to live with him. On Thursday evening he appeared to be in very depressed spirits, and, as be passed from the shop to go up stairs, he bade his sister " Good bye." Having certain misgivings, she followed soon afterwards, and found him in his bed-roam lying on the floor struggling with death, a small bottle lying be side him. Her screams brought assistance, medical aid was immediately obtained, but without avail. The hot tle was found to contain prussic acid—a very larg6 dose of which must have been taken by the deceased. FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION. (Ri wiz the New York herald ) Oar ad vices from England enabie us to announce the definite solution of the " Central American Question," at least so far as concerns the only vital part of the con troversy—viz., the " Colony of the Bay Islands." The remaining issues in the controversy aro also adjusted, as far as circumstances will admit ; and we may now re gard the whole question, to all intents and purposes, as settle]. The principles of the adjustment aro precisely those set forth in the Herald in April last, in an article en titled " The Common Sense Solution of the Central American Question." This article, at the time of its appearance,, was copied in the London Times, and has evidently been followed by the British Government and the various negotiators in their arrangement of the ques tion. Up to the appearance of that article the Govern ments of Great Britain and the United States had treated the question of Central America as ono affecting themselves alone, forgetting in their controversies, as they had previously forgotten in their treaties, that the States of Central America—the parties most deeply in terested—were entitled to be heard as principals in the pending negotiations. The diplomatists of both coon• tries exhausted themselves in the discussion of con structions of treaties affecting Central America, wholly ignoring the rights of that country, and seemingly blind to the fact that no arrangement from which those States were excluded could have any binding force, or constitute a good and permanent settlement of the questions at issue. The longer the discussions continued, therefore, the further both parties receded from a settlement. Proceeding upon a vicious prin ciple, and however conforming to diplomatic ethics, certainly disregarding common sense, Mr. Buchanan and Lord Clarendon carried on their dreary correspon dence, until finally they arrived at what is called a "dead lock"—one affirming a position which the other diametrically denied. This state of things was an nounced by the President to Congress in a despairing message, and it seemed as if the field of negotiation was finally closed, and no solution open except through the ultimos ratio of arms. A result like this, which placed the two great mari time nations of the world in an attitude of direct hos tility towards each other, could not fail to create dissa tisfaction and alarm. This alarm was not diminished when both Governments hastened to augment their squadrons in the Central American waters, and the public saw with astonishment the peace of the world risked in the discretion of a score or two of rival com manders, acting under instructions necessarily of con siderable latitude. Every man of reflection, both in England and America, felt that in a moment of excite ment or jealousy an unlucky gun might be fired, en one side or the other, which would at once bring on a bloody and disastrous war. The affair of the burning of the San Juan de Nicaragua, by Captain Hollins, had taught them that the discretion of naval commanders was not always in the proportion of their responsibilities, and they saw that with every day the question of Central America was left open the danger of collision and con sequent hostilities would increase. To such a pass had diplomacy brought the relations between the United States and great Britain—the two nations of the world most interested in the preservation of peace. Such was the result of five years spent in treaty-making, proto soling, corresponding, and speechifying—such the sum total of the labours of the Claytons and Bulwers, the Pal merstons, Websters, Everetts, Marcys, Buchanans, and Clarendons—such the latest triumph of that monstrous remnant of mediaeval charlatanry dignified under the name of diplomacy. It was then, as we took occasion to intimate in the article already referred to, "that influences, not origi nating with either the Government of the United States or with that of Great Britain," were set to work, under the inspirations of common sense, and in a spirit frank and loyal, to adjust a question to which diplomacy had confessed itself incompetent. It was then that intelli gent citizens of the United States and Great Britain, unconnected with Governments and legations, having no objects to subeerve but the common interests of both countries, united in reviewing the whole controversy, with a view to its speedy and honourable adjustment. They prevailed upon the Government of Honduras to name especial Minister to England, not to enter into a long and wearisome discussion, but to bring about a so lution of the questions affecting that State, which were understood to be the most important in the Central American complication. They urged that he should be instructed to represent to the British Government that the great issue was primarily and legitimately between England and Honduras, and that no settlement, by arbi tration or otherwise, of constructions of treaties, as be tween the United States and Great Britain, could affect the question of right, or dispose of the real issue in the case. Also, that he should represent that, while appeal. ing to the British Government for justice, if such appeals were unheeded, Honduras would reserve to her self the right, at any time, and under such circum stances as she should deem favourable, to enter into any alliance or other relationship for regaining possession of the territories of which she had been illegally deprived. And furthermore, as an evidence of her lib era lity an d goo d f a i t h , and with an ap preciation of the duties as well as the advantages of her geographical position on the highway of nathits between the t,vo seas, to offer to Great Britain and the whole commercial world perfect freedom of transit through her territories, over any route that might be constructed, and through ports which she was ready to make free ports in case of a compliance with her just and reasonable demands. The Government of Honduras wisely followed those judicious counsels. Her Minister in Paris was empower ed to open the desired negotiations. He received his powers near the close of June, immediately proceeded to London, and entered upon his duties, which, we see, were brought to a happy conclusion before the middle of August. It is but just to say that, so far as our infor mation goes, he was received by the British Governrnedt in the same spirit in which be was sent. Lord Claren don, no doubt, saw in the opportunity thus ()fared an easy escape from a diffic u lty, if no t a d angerous d i lemma ' and, like a true statesman, availed himself of it. We may even presume that he saw clearly that the unwar rantable position which Great Britain had taken in re spect to the Bay Islands, however pertinaciously she might adhere to it, could never bear the world's scrutiny, and would always be regarded as a bold act of piracy. It is possible, also, that he felt that any further insist ence on pretensions which clearly violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, must sooner or later lead to the abrogation of that treaty— in which case he could not fail to see, in the success of the gallant Walker, the rapid and permanent predominance of the United States in Central Ame rica the Bay Islands and Mosquito protectorates, and whatever other pretensions and fictions to the contrary. In event of such abrogation, no practical results favourable to British predominance could follow from insisting upon these pretensions, unless carried to the extremity of war—an extremity in which no Governmentwould be sustained in England. He thought, no doubt, that the broadest concession to the principle of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, followed by a stringent demand for its observance, would be the best way of postponing, if not defeating, the settled purpose, which is a chronic madness in England to believe exists in the United States, of annexing all Central America. But, as we. have said, whatever concealed motives Great Britain, or, rather, its Government, may have entertained, its conduct, judged by all outward expo inents, has been disiuterested and honourable to the highest degree. It has restored the Bay Islands to Honduras, with only such restrictions as are in the in terest of civilization and proper to the age, however novel they may be to the half civilised inhabitants of Central Atneriea. It has relieved the route of the pro posed great inter-oceanic highway from the denomina tion which the possession of these islands by any great maritime nation could not fail to impose. It has se cured for the trade and travel of the world perfect free dom of transit between the seas, through ports which are also to be free. It has concluded the ridiculous farce of a "Mosquito kingdom," in regard to an outraged national sentiment, providing, only in obedience to the ordinary dictates of humanity, for the miserable savages who have been so long the stalkinghorse of its designs. And it has finally, practically, and in most marked mariner conceded the justice of the allegation that its ptetensione in Central America we r e never founded i n right but dictated by a narrow, selfish, and unscru pulous policy. Fer the first time in the history of the world Las the paw of the British lion been lifted, except by force, from a single foot of territory on which, lawfully or en lawfully, it has been planted. In this view it may be regarded as a great concession to the public opiiii • which exists, or should exist, among nations as , m among individuals. So far as it may be due to a desire to act justly, or in deference to a sense of right, we app!a,ud arid honour the deed. So far as it has been brought about by the judicious and disinterested efforts of individuals—and such efforts as we have intimated have not been few or feeble—to them are due the thanks of two great nations, who, in consequence, are happily this day at peace, with the last the most diffi. cult, and the most aggravated of the differeeces b e . tween them finally disposed of. That no others Inv arise to disturb their amiable relations must be the earnest aspiration of every friend of humanity, especially at this time, when reaction and despotism seem to have consolidated their energies, and freedom of thought, expression, and action, banished f rom the rest of the world, seeks asylum and only finds sup• pert in the British islands and in the United States of America. God knows there is little liberty of any kind outside of their territories ; and to their dissen sions despotism all over the world can alone look for reprieve from that extinction to which, it there be justice i n h ea ven or virtue among men, it is sooner or later doomed. A GOOD WIFE AND A GOOD HUSBAND. —A good wife consin andeth her husband i n any equal matter by cons t a ntly obeying him. It was a l ways observed that what the English gained of th e F renc h i n b att l e b y va lour, the French gained of the Engli-h by cunning in treatiesi if the h us b and should chance by his power i passion to pre ju di ce his wife ' s right, she wisely i( lAi4 wel ; '0 t ) h a , by compounding an d comp l y i ng, to recover and rectify it again. A husband's love to his wife weakeneth not his ruling her ; and his ruling lesseneth not his loving her. Wherefore ho avoideth all fondness (a sick love, to be praised in none, and pardoned only in the newly-married !) whereby more have wilfully be trayed their command than ever lost it by their wives' rebellion. And what wonder is it if women take the rule to themselves 'which their uxorious husbands first surrendered to them.—l' Country Ifiaxtea HA_DDINGTON CORN Ig.ARKET—SEAT. 12. wnaA.T. I RARLRY I OATS. 1 si;o , ~ First 84% Od 528 Od 39.4 3,1 ; 538 61 Second 76s 3d 1 45s 2d / 36.4 3d I ses 10.1 Third 6 s Od 130 s 6d 132 s 6d 150 s Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 154 qr 3., 143 sold barley ~ 167 ~ 167 gold oats ,; 62 qrs., 44 oii II p I beans PP 29 qrs., 18 sold AVERAGES PER IMPIRTA.L QUARTER. Wheat, 31. 16 3 11-12ths I Barley, ...27. 5 2 1042 tbs Oats, ... 17. 16 3 342ths I Beans, .....27. 10 10 B•l2tba 71 IP DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—SEPT. 11. Qrs. Best. Current. Wain , ' 82 Wheat 82s O 1 64 Oats 378 81 368 8d 154 Barley 49s 61 4 48 10i d 5 Peas & beans 53s 01 -s 0,1 .... ..... —ii VI ABERDEEN-Szn. 12, Potato oats Common oats 3 3 0 1 : 6 0 ,11 t t o o 3 3 1 2 5 s VI 1 401bs per htlfaul Bore 114 01 to 42s 01 } r Barley 41s Od to 42s 01 •)3lbs Wheat, red (spring)sBs Od to 1 03 01 1 white 6ss 01 to 70s Od ozibs , Oatmeal 22s 6d to 23s 61 per boll. Flour sss 01 to 56s 01 per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d t o 91 I Butter, p lb. Os 111 to 11 01 , Mutton, per lb. 6d to 81 Eggs, p doz. Os 9d to Os 10 1 Lamb, do., Os 61 to Os 7 , i Hens, p pair 3s Od to 3 4 Veal, per lb ... 6d t o Os 7d Chi c k ous ,d o. 2 s 01 t o 26 1% r 3 Pork, per 5t...4 s 9d to 5s 01 D uc k s , do., 2s 01 to 2 , ", Salmon, per lb Os to O s D uc kli ngs , o 2s 01 to 2.• 61 Grouse, per brace Os to Os Turkeys, each 4s Od to 54 °4 Tallow, p stone, 4601 to 4s 31 P o t a t oes , pr peck, —5 l t°" Rabbits, each 01 to 4d. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. 00a0d to 96 : Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. Flour,l4lb 0s Od to 3g Od Barley flour,l4lb.Og to 2s 43 Oatmeal Os Od to 2s 4d „ dust, Os to lg ?el, Beremeal —.Os Od to 23 2d „ per lb 2d to 21c 1 Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 8d Sidg, 4-lb. 10af...8d. 12-lb. 10af...4d. Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4a 6d. DUBLIN, SR r. 10. There was only a small supply of new grain at market to-day. The better qualities of wheat were about 6d, ana inferior cheaper than on Tuesday. Oats 3d to 6d dearer, and barley, here, and rapeseed moved off at about forme currencies. Nothing doing in Indian corn. White wheat, 34s Oa to 35s ; red ditto, 32s Od to 33s Od; ditto new, 369 ; barley, now, 209 Od to 238 Od ; oats, old, 15e to 17s ; ditto, new, 148 01 to 15s Od ; bare, new, 170 6d to 199 ; rapese, d, 30s Od to 329 Od per brl ; oatmeal, 140 01 to 168 01; bak 9' flour, 22s 6d to 279 Od per owt; Indisa corn, 399 01 to Ha Od per 480 lbt. CORE—SErT. 12. Owing to tho fineness of the weather the tendency ill prices of all kinds of dative produce is downwards. Galati! Indian corn sold for 71. 15s. to 71. 17s 6d ; Odessa, 7 1 . 1014 and all other sorts in proportion. Indian meal, Si. to 81 ' 10s. LOCAL SHARE MAREBTS. LIVERPOOL, SIIPT. 13. --- STOOK EXCHANGE.—The transactions in every descrir tion of stool= were dull and quiet today, and prices 0 1 a shade Ake, at the close. North B r itish, 9 . 1° —Lancashii. and Yorkshire, 96i I 96—Grand Trunk o f Canada, 13+ 1 —Eastern Counties, Bi—Midlands, 71i Dutch Rhenish, I.lB.9.—Blackburn, 74. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 13. STOCK EXCIHANGE.—This market was doing a Pr att: . fair business to-d a y, as regar d s ra il way s h ares, an d Pr A l ,, ce are still yielding. L on d on an d North-Westerns, lu" Ditto, Eighths, die.—Leeds, 064—Great Western, ° Canada, new, 2 p rem .—Midl an d s, 77 - SheOleld, 32, Blackburn, 74. LEEDS, SEPT. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day wa s ineetr North Western., 6 11.16—N or th Eastern, Leeds, 171 Dovers, 214 cum div.—Sheftlelds, 32 5.16. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was doing veil l itti ; business, but prices were lower. South Stafford!, 2i to . 3 —Manchester and Sheffield, 33k—Great Western 1311. mingham Guaranteed Stock, 74. SAIBORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the malls aro soot from the General Post•OlC 4 by the night—and IL by the morning —despatch.) Day when Mule uPI From whit 2ri l OOUNTRIE9. in General Poet- 1 Port de l a,taf/l• v Office, London.*: Diepatehe .• •• ••••0 ••••••••••• ...1.1.•••MM1NP....... ..,. A.merica(byltrit.pack)N Every Friday Liverpool ... WookII: America (by United tits. /•. - 4 Every Tuesday Southampton Weekly packet) •• •••• • • • • America (by U. States packet) ..........N ••••• • •• Liverpool ." atuatralia (via Liver pool) ith and 19th Liverpool .. Twice me I Ditto (via Marseilles) N Dover ...... Ditto (via Cape of Good 110po) ............N 1 ••• Utioartall • Africa ( West Coast)..l% 43 , 1 of the month Plymouth .. 6th of mu, texandria _ _ N 10th 51; 25th of n o Dover ...... id t 19 th Alexandria...... _ „milt - 4 est :nth tnon Southampt o. ,4 & 214/10 Bahainas ...........5111711 of the mouth South imptortlGth Belgium ......... ..N ll hdly Dover ...... Ja..y Brazil ............ —ll 9th of tho mouth Southamptoi. it tit. l3aupeneosofAGyrooesa H .. Hoye .....li i ! 9E h•,4' , 11 ~ month Sonthatnp.tou 16th C Various ports (Incarl. lll Uncertain Cape of Good Hope N Case de Verde ......1.1 0+ h n' Ih . n•inntli Southampton lath lic Ceylon (see Dina) 10th and 26th la to 1901 Ceylon ..............1 4th and 20th c h a l ma! Isles.. „„ .. ~,, N 40..., t'll Oki., IGP r i, Southamptet ru.Ttl.s o 4 2 t 4 11 4' a i n 7 d th lf)t r h rn . n . t 11and 29 Chi1i................. hi China .... .. lllouthampto !and 16 • 4 d ill Constantinoplo ......N 10th and 26th i Dover ...... 2 and _ Constantinople ........ 41.11 St dOth of ni o n looithampto 7 and 2_•_ .• Cont. of Europe hi( & N rwlce daily •••••• Dover ...... Mica 467 Egypt (see India) _._, . Aj oi Franco ........ M & N twice daily.-- Dover ...... T w ',. c ., — , 26 Gibraltar ..........ki 1,7,17,20,27 of m, Southampton 6. 1. • , Greece (ace India) Greytkiwn .......... M ,2nd SG 17th of mon. Sombampto 1 ..a 10 , • --- Hamhurgh ..........N!Daliv .... London ...... Oa f , 17 ..ia a w svannah .......... hi hid of th e moot!. Southamps let "` ---, Holland .. " ........ MlDally .... , • •• • • D over ••.• • • • Dail,' Honduras ..........hl'l7t,i of the month. Southampton 16th is India (viaSonthatupt.)3l 4th .i. 20th of mo n . Ply mou th .. 4 and 21 0 India (via Marsoilles)sl 10tit& 26th of mothiDover ...... 15 4 29 lonian Istes (see India)].... •• • • .. 'Dover.... .. Inland •• ere •• ••M & NI ]*vice daily,..., . , ilolyhesd ... • ' . L1ab0n..............3,L2d or" 0.. ....... '8 mithampt ot a, Madeira .... •.....b1 9th of cnonti,.... Southampton 6 5214 16 Madeira .............N 234 oi month .... i Liverpool .... Malta (see India) I 4 _ 1 II 1 Malta •••••• •.........N 4, 10, 20, and 25.. 'Dow •• •- •i.•• -6 ' 1 Mauritius (see India) a f i Mauritius ...........N 20. n of th e month 4th aX - Iterioo M In,l or the month.. Elo a th ampt ,,,ist Naples N D a 11 y............ ;Dover .... '1 Now Granada NI 24 & :7 th of mouthiSouthampton 40 ant ifirevr Zealand" ..........T % Lie a mouth !Various port. Papal Stator N Daily .....• • • •••. Dover Southa ...... / weekly Peninsula hl • raptor Peru ..•• SI 1,1 & 27th of mon. , southa m pt oi , lot IL 16111 Port Natal N fly private ship...', Various port, 3 icilY " N i Every Saturday.. , Dover ....... Wee kil y Tuscan . ......• •• •• ••14 Dsily• •..„ „. .• • • D over .... Venezuela .... hi 1d& 17th oftnontt• . th .. 40 u ampton 1 i l 6+ " Van Diernen'a L ...n 0 (soc ' - • Australia) .......„ , tth of mon. .. ..! 'imc,n•.l4 l / • West Indies •• .. • • —1 4us, 17th v. ;minim Smith Krim..., II and 16 tth of rnor.. 4a.x.i7th v. uluzstil • 11 and 16 Southampton When any or these dates fall on a Sunday, the malls will be di' spatched on tho following day. with tho excoptlon of the Indul t ' la •'.outhatnpton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched preceding day. How TO POT THE QUESTION.-" Gracious I" 10 % "It's now time to look arter Nance." Next day, dot! 111 I went. Nance was a l one, and I axed her if the sclu.l%. was in. She said he wasn't. " Cause," said I, makl°,o b'lieve that I wan t e d h i m, " our colt has sprained 13!0 foot, and I come to see if the squire won't lend WO w , hl l mare to go to t own. " Sh e said she guessed he would. i better sit down and wait till the squire came in. Dow n I sot. She looked sorter strange, and my heart felt quad?: around the edge. "Areyou going down to Bessy Martin 1 after a while sez she. Sez I, "Reckon I wou ld." s e z shirr " Suppose you'll take Patience Dodge I" SeZ mou ght and then I moughtn't." Sez she, "I heard you wail going to get married." Sez I, "I wouldn't wonder II bit." I looked at her and saw the tears comin'. Ses I, " May be she'll ax you to be briiesmaid." She riz up, she did—her face was as red as a boiled beet. "Seth Stokes!" and she couldn't say any more, she was so full. " Won't you be Lridesinaid, Nance 1" sea I. "No," sez she ; anti she burst right out. " Well, then," sez I, "If you won't be the bridesmaid, will you be the bride !" She looked at me. I never saw anything so awful pooty. I took right hold of her hand. "Yes or no," in z right off !" " YeQ," sez she. " That's the sort," sai l I.- -.American paper' BIRTHS. OF A BON. On the 13th inst., at 1, Carlton Villas, Maids-vale, the wife of Thomas Stephens, Esq. Ou the 13th inst., at Lewisham, Mrs. Webber. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 13th inst., at Huntingdon-street, Barnsburi" park, tho wife of James Parsons, Esq. On the 12th inst., at 12, Houghton place, Harrington square, the wife of Samuel Heuth, jun., Esq. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at St. James's, Paddington, Charles Astley Servantes, Esq., 65th Regiment, to Anne, the 011 1 .1 daughter of the late John Slogg, Esq. On the 13th inst., at St. George's Cathedral, Lambeth, George M. Glass, Esq., of Brandon House, Walworth, t' ° Adelaide, youngest d a u g ht er o f th e late Wm, Franklin, Esq. DI ED. On the 12th inst., at Southsea, Harriet, eldest daughter of Captain Edward Herrick, R.N. On the 12th inst., Thomas Milner Wadel, Esq., surgeon' Basioghall-streot, aged 76. On the Bth inst., at Draycot House, the Hon. R. Duuds! Murray, youngest son of the seventh Lord Elibank, s►ged 39. On the 12th inst., at Cuthain-road, Bristol, Mrs. Jane Wright, aged 82. On the 12th inst., at Greonhithe, William, only s on of Thos. Colyer, Esq., aged 35. On the 12th inst., at Blackheath, Mary, the wife of gr. Thomas Feldwick, aged rB. On the 11th inst., Dover, the infant daughter of the Rev. John 'Wick& On the 11th inst., Charles Nicholls, Esq., Old "Rath Lodge, Shrewsbury, aged 73. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office. N.. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the eottnbY of Middlesex, Monday, September 15, 1656. A • f a sued A Doom Laar( 110.11( f shit rec e ,, Sion C Only) and p Nag} 2 , an highly by Dr R Eerie, The In cor the ni form a G' & -- ol holde r rate-st Brecise M[ street, Tln ~lenry :13 33 per s o oll( tO R. Ilecordi Th;: are lour Ore Ail alditlq l 'rerniL Polk s ogi 'ontior G' doh , Bir • Sir Tht Joh Jab Gec Joh Job trirt - arnent the Prol W ithout h ‘ rev , .we fm .1:111E "14 of p 'lll3es to (RS E I %tic e kte rn , FIR E ration h i lt th e .he f k at ),_s_ A ge ,Ivh en 'B3llre totiii th os , The t This 41 c1t( l'ltt en rra e g brim 144 k.!op a I VA i case ; , etat fo r a. I ‘ l 4rl bolt 1 400 k qigi