The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-29 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.- Positively the Last Night but One.—M. JIILLIEN'S BE NEFIT.—THIS EVENING (MONDAY), Sept. 29, Grand Resume of all the most popular pieces of the season. Principal singers— Miss Poole, Miss Stabbach, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Mr. Perren, Mr—Leßier and Mr. Millard. Principal instrumentalists—Messrs. Lavigne, Hughes, Sonnenburg, Sheurs, Duhem and Herr Koenig. Chorus, consisting of nearly 400 voices, conducted by Mr. Land. Conductor, Mons. Jullien. Admission, is. Concert at 7. TolMorrow (Tuesday), Sept. 35, the Last Night of the Season, an entire change of programme, performed by all the eminent artistes !in ent;oned above.—Admission is. GRAND BAL MASQUE at the CASINO DE VENISE, High Holborn, on THURSDAY, October 2, on which occasion a beautiful floral decoration will be introduced, and every effort made to please the distinguished and numerous visitors who have hitherto honoured by their presence the superb carnivals given in the above magnificent suite of rooms. The programme contains a choice and novel selection of dance music, to be performed by the celebrated band, directed by Mr.W. M. Packer. The supper will comprise all the delicacies of the season, Slid be served at one o'clock. Doors open at half-past nine o'clock. Admission, gentle men 55., ladies 2s. each; supper tickets 38. 6d. each.—N.B. Costu mier, Mr. Nathan, Castle-street, Leicester-square. - THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. CCL_~•. OCTOBER, 1856, price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. The Fortunes of Glencore, Chaps. XXXf., XXXII., %XXIII., and XXXIV. Bacon. _ _ Lamartine, Homme de Lettres." The Darragh, Chaps. XI. and Xll.—(Conclusion.) France before the Revolution of 1789. A King's Tour. Poetry, Good, Bad, and Indifferent. Cyprus, Chaps. VII. and VIII. An Anthrax Eclogue, by Anthony Poplar.? Notes upon New Books. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., 104, Grafton-street; Hurst and Blackett, London ; Menzies, Edinburgu ; and sold by all booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Nil'. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING LONDON ASSURANCE. Followed by Burlesque of PIZIRII.O. To conclude with A BALLET DIVERTISIEMENT. POYAL PRINCESS'S TFIFIATRE. tinder the Sfantwernent of Kr. CHABLES KEIN THIS. EVENING, MUSIC WITH CHARMS. After whin, PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Itean; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN LIOUE• THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. 1 3uckstone. THIS EVENING, THE INCONSTANT. Followed by Toe Spanish Dancers. After wh!ch, PRESENTED AT COURT. To conalule with TEE GIALTMAN FETE. LYCEUM TrIE_A.TRTI ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Charles 1)11!0h, Tlll3 EVENI BELPHEC4OR. IFlolphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. After which, the New Burlesque, founded on the Winter's Tale, supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolzar), Miss 11. Gordon, M rs. B. White, Miss W. Wilton, Ntiss ROSlila Wright, Messrs. Toole, Calhaem, Barrett, and nnuzh. Malls, ss. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper :loxes, 3g. ; Pit 25.; Gallery. Is. Commence at 7. Half pric3 to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL TIIEITRE, Propr';etor and Marager, Mr. B. v,.'ebster. DirectreE., mama Ce'nee. THIS EV-r7NI77P. InEr!NI) AS IT I. rlilowed by DOMP:grIC ECONTONTY. Towith LUCIFER MATCHES ; OR, THE YANKEE - ! STR '.ND TIITATRZ. Man w,er, INfr. T. Payne. TIII9 EVENING, THE OLD COMMODIE,, By Messrs. J. Neville, Herbert, Clarke ; 3lrs Woollidge, and Miss I. Adams. After which, OF A GF, 10-11TOMIONV. By Ma3srs. Nevi le, -- 711;. - I - Voolhige, Miss Gran- tham, and Miss Cuthbert Followed by, first time, an original rl esue ,by L. Buckingham entitled BE Belphegor, Mi , s Cuthbert ; They, Mr. Clarke; O'Mu;away, Mr. Iler , ert.; Tommy, Malter W. Edolin; Madeline, Mr. 11. J. Turner; Marietta, Miss Thirlwall ; Araminti, Mr 3. Woollidge. Ballet, by Sidle. near e Chu. lei and full Corps. To cone.'u•le with INS AND 01.7 Ti;, • In which Mr. Morris will make his first ap iearanca here ; Messrs J. Howard, Herbert, aril 3.1103 Adams, 7Cominence at 7. Ftall9, 33.—Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, Gd. ASTLEY'3 noy AT. A. NI PII IT :IE XT RE. Lessee and Me.na:, , ,er. Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVEN/Y(3, (Ninth Week!) Shakspere's Trage ly of If IC iTAIM TIII TITTRD. with Mr. W. Cooke's Evestrian Bu , trat!ops. //lath of Whit( Surrey, Battle of Bosworth Field, &c. Splendid Tableau of the mor tal conflict. After which, The AMUSEMENTS in the ARENA. To concluee. with a vari:ty of Entertainments. Commence at Seven. 11,,, , it1e0 open fr-ol E'eve n tin Four. Stag( *manager, Mr. Iv. wt-t. Equestriaa Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. TiGR WA.TEF kT L`)!) - or Burryl.g. Toa DA'—Morn. 6 min. aft. 2 —Evcning 22 min. aft. 2 T -Aft)aßtjW—Morn. 33 min. aft. 2 —};voting 43 min. aft. 2 WEATHEP.—EIuN 07FroF,, SEPTEMBER 29. TFIFIRSIOR7TFM. IN VIE 58 —highost simile noon yesterlay. 55 —lowest this morning and Burin t 7 the night. 62 —this day at noon.. BAROMZTE7,t, 2 21—falling. WIND. S.W.—Fresh, with dull, cloudy weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stampe.l, in time for Post, may always ho haft from half- past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening-. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy .it. te. Sun, Office, 112, Strand.l ' lir- 4-' )'7 , - 1 .) , `, v,:,.;... ~.i! k lh g 1 ' ( Ce — ,/ , ''':" - - 77 i. , . 4, , f-,4,1 Z " lit . ty dr!):44\,...,, ''' 441111 LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1856. The programme of the New Coburg, or German, colony at the Cape of Good Hope has just been issued from the War Department, and will be found in another part of this day's impression. It speaks for itself, and we need hardly say with what intense gratitude similar advantages to those' awarded to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of the British German Legion would be accepted by any of the English, Scotch, or Irish officers and soldiers, who have already been, or will shortly be, turned adrift on the " wide, wide world," without knowing where to look for the means of support for themselves, their wives, and children. They would, indeed, have been regarded as splendid rewards from a liberal and grateful -country for the services which they had rendered in the national cause. But, unfor tunately, they were mere English, and had no influential friend at Court to solicit such favours. They had not Teutonic blood, which could alone render them eligible as "Prince's pets." It is scarcely necessary to say that among the party there will be no necessity for "pressed men." All who have the power will eagerly volunteer for uoh easy and well-requited service. The duties are by no means onerous, and these will be exceedingly well requited. They are to serve as military settlers for seven years from the date of location, in which capacity they are to resist the attacks of an enemy (which, of course, they will be ready to do in self-defence), or to aid the civil power, and to attend such days for exer cise as the Governor shall appoint during the first three years (not exceeding 30 - days in any one year), and to muster every Sunday for church parade. During the last four years they have only twelve days' exercise in each year, and the usual Sunday parade. These are the duties ; and in return they obtain, not only a free.paesage I , for themselves, wives, and children—the officers being furnished with a mess, and the soldiers with full provisions —but will also receive a good outfit in the shape of arms, accoutrements, uniforms, and camp equipage. A canvass frock and trousers will also be provided for each man during the voyage. The poor Tipperary boys, who were stripped even of their clothing and sent to find employment in a state of semi-nudity, were not quite so well treated. They are also to receive free rations for a year after their location ; pay up to the day of embarkation ; pay at about half the usual rate for three years ; and when called out for service, the ordinary pay of QUEEN'S troops ; if wounded or disabled in defence of the colony, they will be granted the allowance for wounds received in action. Each man will also receive an advance of 5/. to provide himself with cooking utensils and tools (this, however, to be repaid during the second and third years of service). He is also to receive a building lot, and if placed in a village or new settlement, an acre of garden ground, in addition to a building lot, with privileges of de pasturing cattle, &c., and the details of the loca tion to be carried out by their own officers ; and a liberal allowance for building a cottage, which is to be held rent free during the seven years, and to become their absolute property at the end of their service, or of their wives and children should they die in the interim. Their wives and children, or unmarried females engaged to marry any military settler will also receive free passages, and provisions, and rations for one year. The officers, who are to be formed into a local magistracy, will receive building and garden lots, with handsome sums for houses, and allowances in the purchase of lands. Wives and families to be taken free of expense, with free passage for one unmarried female servant for each family. From the above it will be seen how very dear the Germans will be to the British nation. A simple-minded person might have thought that those who never shed any blood in anger, save that of British subjects, might have been well con tented with receiving the full extent of their con tract, and that these ample rewards should have been reserved for the veterans of the Crimea, who had borne the brunt and hardships of the war. These men would maintain British sympathies, , nd feel a loyal devotion to the SOVEREIGN of the United Kingdom. They would indeed have well re paid byan unqualified allegiance, the boon bestowed on them. But the Germans will have no such feel ings. They may, indeed, drink the PRINCE'S iealth, but will not, necessarily associate it with that of the SOVEREIGN ; and we cannot wonder if, ;vith such elements, a Declaration of Indepen hence may at any time be published. Well, we .ilust grin and bear it, and only venture to hop© ,hat, when all the "poor relations" of the House of Cosunxt are comfortably provided for, there may be something left for the citizens of the United Kingdom. Scarcely have the self-congratulations of our Fplomatists in regard to the Ponca of Paris been uttered, when, Jo ! and behold ! Europe is again seething under the influence of neff turmoils. A.ny_ieties are again becoming rife as to the pos sibility of fresh disturbances among the nations of the Continent. The "Almighty Silence," a!ludei to the other day at SllCffi3ld, by Mr. ROEBUCK, is Already beginning to be broken by those terrible premonitory sounds which are the sure fere l»dings of War and Revolution. Preliminary thunders—muttering in all quarters of the poli -ical atmosphere ! Hardly a nation is thorn but gives some evidence, more or less distinct, of the formidable heave of this great and terrible under-current. Ex.a.mino tito actual condition of each country in turn, and see if it be not so. Mark the Signs of the Times zsuccessiveiy in regard to each of the independent states of the Con tinent, and then note if there be not visible and audible indications on all hands of the certain approach of another of those grand and universal movements which Sir ARCIII )ALD ALISON has finely called the mino.qu'ikes of our generation. As to RUssia—the lawless originator of the late conflict—her persistence in an aggressive policy has been significantly evidenced of late by the affair of Serpents' Island. As to Austria—the double•headed Eagle of Ilapsburg has still, conveniently enough, an eye fur each of the four points of the compass sitnul taneouslywhile its ravening talons are more Irmly than ever fastened, here upon the " rent plains" of L mnbaxdy, there upon the ravaged tracks of the disputed Danubian Principalities. As to Prussia—a new and unexpected bone of contention has been suddenly discovered by King 011114PCJOT (with his crown ail awry, and his sceptre topsy-turvy, and his throne hind-side foremost) in that absurd emeute, the Royalist Rebellion in Neufchatel. In outbreak which has abruptly put an end, for the time being, at least, to that prolonged tranquillity which has been vouchsafed to &slit mer/and ever since the close of the civil war of tha Sonderbund. Then, again, as to France—is there not prey ing at her very vitals the desperate democratic conspiracy of the Marianne? As to Spain—is there not the certainty, sooner or later, of a most sanguinary rising far and wide, north and south, east and west, all over the peninsula, in the very fact of the revival of the fonstitution of 1845 by the bloody and infa mous coup d'etat of O'DoNNELL ? As to Italy, moreover--are there not incontro vertible assurances of a great change " coming," either to-day or to-morrow, this year or next, assurances observable alike at both extremities of that classic land—yonder in the retrogression of Naples, yonder in the advance of Sardinia? As to Turkey—at once the Victim and the Champion of the last great international struggle —are there not seeds for her of fresh anxiety already sprouting into rapid growth in Monte negro ! Everywhere, throughout the whole of the vast European continent, may be discerned from the watch-towers of England, the kindling of new flames among the ashes of the recent conflict— ashes only smouldering at the best—ashes never, even for a single instant, extinguished since the conflagration was first ignited by the late CZAR, when he hurled the brand of war at the Sublime Porte by means of the daring and insolent hand o f Prince IVIENscHIKoFF. And while the heat increases, and the fire spreads, and everything in turn gives token, more and more plainly, of some grand impend ing catastrophe--we are to content ourselves with reading about the splendid trumpery of the Russian Coronation. Our legislators mean while being idly scattered over the country popping at partridges, banging at pheasants, troll ing for trout, stalking after deer, and occasionally interrupting their holiday amusements by spin ning, over wine and walnuts, those after-dinner platitudes by which constituents of all colours and e!asses have ever loved to be bamboozled. Our Prir ae Minister at the same time meditating no doubt in the midst of the dolce far niente of September at Broad lands or St. Leonard's, an entirely new set of Yely staid old jokoa to be cracked AR OA 'blight of. Parliament when the next Legislative session shall have fairly begun in Westminster. And so the world wags—and so we have new illustrations again and again of that old miserable metaphor about people dancing, and feasting, and fooling, and laughing, over the thinly-crusted crater of the Volcano—in the brief intervals between the irruptions—while the very ground is hot and the very air sulphurous. The fate of imposition, like that of tyranny, is usually this—Success for a time, ending in an explosion. The preyers on the good nature or credulity of the population, hugging themselves on their disreputable ingenuity, grow intoxicated with success, and, throwing aside all decency, appear as they are, and are treated accordingly. From sundry manifestations, both in London and the provinces, it would appear the tribe of bakers and millers, at least such portion of it as come under the above category, have carried their extortionate practices too far. Thanks to the Press, the eyes of the people are beginning to be opened to the unfair profit which has been de rived from their scanty and hard-earned re sources by the sellers of bread. Hitherto, owing to their ignorance of the quotations of the corn market and the mysteries of baking, nothing was easier than to mystify them as to the causes of the rapid rise and exceedingly slow fall of the price of the household loaf. The War, anything would do—but, best of all, the weather. The most inveterate grumbler, when told the rise of which he complained was occasioned by " the wet," felt unable, in the face of a drig- Wing or down-pouring rain, successfully to with hold the postulate which must bring about his defeat, while, if the weather became dry and continued so for days, he was just as easily put off with a more flimsy excuse. The bakers and millers had it all their own way, and just did as they liked. Nov most happily their career of imposition is being threatened with an effectual stop. Their pretences are in course of exposure, and shortly, it is to be hoped, will be so exploded as to cease to be available. The market quota tions are beginning to be watched by business like correspondents, and the mysteries of baking laid bare so as to enable these inquirers to ascer tain what the profits made by the bakers who use none but genuine material really are, and, approximately, those by the bakers who do not— a class, by the way, considerably in the majority. The result has been already indicated. The profits of the bakers are found to be grossly un reasonable, and, as the immediate result of the indignation awakened by the discovery, research is being made for means to render the public, as far as possible, independent of its victimisers. The suggestion thrown out in these columns, to wit—that companies should be formed under the Limited Liability Act for the purchase of wheat .or flour and the manufacture of wholesome bread, to be retailed at a reasonable profit, has, we learn, met with favour, and prospectuses for the formation of such companies have been and are about to be issued in various parts of the king dom. It is to be hoped the movement will not fall through for lack of resolution, or of the requisite funds. All are interested in having cheap and wholesome bread—the rich as well as the poor To the latter the rise of bread, though it involve but a penny on the quartern loaf, is a serious con sideration. One concomitant of small means is prolificness, and it is seen the poor have large families and consequently many mouths to feed, which entails the multiplication of the penny to a serious extent. In the case of the substantial householder the nu 11.1 . 601 C Or e xtra pence he, has to ) pay constitutes at the utmost but a fraction of his income ; in that of the poor it is felt as a pressing integer. That the rich are, nevertheless, interested in the fall of prices is apparent from the fact that no part of the body politic can suffer without danger to the rest. This truth indeed is so generally admitted that it is needless to insist on ib. Charity, or love, for your neighbour ought also to have some weight ; and surely it would be dif cult to discover a better mode for its manifesta tion than in promoting a movement having for its aim the cheapening of that which is to the poor emphatically the staff of life. Flesh-meat is so dear as to be beyond their reach in any reasonable quantity : for charity's sake let them be aided in their 'attempts to get bread sufficient for their wants, without depriving themselves of less press• ing necessaries ! In any case it is in the power of many to make their own bread, and, if need be, bake it also. The art of bread-baking is far from a difficult one and may be readily learnt ; and, in the absence of the usual ovens, bread may be equally well baked, by means of a cheap modern invention, before an ordinary fire. The flour-dealers and millers would, however, remain to be guarded against ; but those who can buy a few bushels of wheat would not long have to wait for grinders if the millers proved untrustworthy. Mechanical science is bringing hand mills capable of grinding wheat as it should be within the reach of individuals of limited means, provided a few will club together with that object. All that will then be wanted is labour, and that is not difficult to be had at a reasonable rate. Calculations now lying before us show a sufficient motive for making bread at home, and also grinding the wheat to make it with, in a considerably lessened cost of produc tion, as well as in insuring a wholesome article, which seven-tenths of the bread sold in the metropolis cannot with truth be said to be. Potatoes and arum may or may not be objection able additions to flour, and we have a strong opinion alum especially is very much so, but surely the public should have their own wishes respected in the matter. If they desire this, it rests, as we have shown, with themselves to insure it. The more independent they make themselves of bakers and millers, the better bread, whether they manu facture or buy it, will be at their command. THE REVENUE.—The quarterly revenue returns for the financial quarter ending on the 30th instant will be made up on Tuesday afternoon at the Treasury, and published, for the information of the public, on the sue eeeding day. The national balance-sheet for the quarter will afford to all interested in our commercial and na tional prosperity great gratification, the figures, except in two or three particulars, presenting a favourable com parison with those of the corresponding quarter last year, and giving in the gross a surplus balance on that of the year. LEDBURY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—LEDBURY, Sept. 26.—The annual meeting of the Ledbury Agricultural Society has been held here, and was unusually success ful. The show of stock, and especially of Hereford cattle, was acknowledged to be superior to anything before seen at Ledbury, and the attendance of farmers and landlords at the dinner was so largo that no room could be found capacious enough to hold them. The Rev. J. Hopton presided, and two of the three county members, Mr. King IVng and Mr. Booker-Blackmore were among the guests. THE ALBUERA CONTROVERSY.—Sir J. S. Lillie, in a letter to the Times, gives as his authority for the state ment—that the manoeuvre which turned the fortune of the day was executed by Sir L. Cole, and not "young Hardinge," a letter of Colonel Wade, one of S:r L. Cole's aides-de-camp, who was present at all that tran spired on that occasion between Sir Lowry Cole and Colonel Hardinge, and who addressed, a letter on the 13th June, 1840, to the editor of the United Service Journal with reference to the credit thus claimed, in which he stated:—" That during the whole of that event ful day Sir Lowry Cole received no order whatever either from Sir Henry Hardinge or from any other officer. That the whole of the merit and responsibility of the advance of the 4th Division belonged exclusively to Sir Lowry PQle." MINISTERIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS' The Earl of Clarendon, accompanied by the Countess, is on his way south, from attendance on the Qneen at Balmoral, and a visit to the Marquis and Mar chioness of Breadalbane, at Taymouth Castle, Perth shire. The noble earl is expected to resume his duties at the Foreign-office towards the close of the week. Viscount Palmerston is, with Lady Palmerston, re siding in retirement at Broadlands, near Romsey. The noble Premier will come to town in the course of the week for a day or two, in order to attend to public business. Lord Panmure has been staying at his shooting box, at Invermack, since he left Brechin Castle on Monday, surrounded by a few intimate friends. • The Marquis of Lansdowne and the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere remain in Scotland, but will re turn south the week after next. The Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., has re turned south from Scotland. Lord Stanley (of Alderley) is still making a series of visits in the north. His lordship is expected in town on the 14th prox. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey will remain in attendance on the Queen until the Court removes from Balmoral for Buckingham Palace. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chan cellor, and the Earl of Harrowby remain at their re spective seats. The Duke of Argyle, with the DuoheEs and family, is at Inverary Castle, Argyleshire. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, after leaving Balmoral, proceeded to Corriemulzie Cot tage, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Agnes Duff, and has since rejoined the family circle assembled at Gordon •astle, N.B. • The Earl and Countess Delawarr are entertaining a select circle of friends at Buckhurst Park, Sussex. Lady Harriet Bentinck has arrived at Claridge's Hotel. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli are passing the autumn at Torquay. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY.—This com pany have announced that their line will be open to Keith on the Ist of October. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meet ing of this company was held at Perth on Friday ; the Hon. J. C. Dundas in the chair. A dividend on the con solidated stock of the company, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, was declared. The Agricultsral acetic says a machine for digging potatoes has been lately in successful operation in seve ral parts of Scotland and Ireland. Pauperism has decreased so much in the Carlow union that the surplus of funds now in the bank enables the the guarding to dispense with a poor rate for the pre sent year. The Scotch papers say that Dr. Tait, the new Bishop of London, is the first Scotchman who has reached the episcopal bench since the death of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, in 1715. The Swiss National Council, in its sitting of the 22d, solved the question of the juridical position of the Jews in their favour. Henceforward they will enjoy the same rights as Swiss subjects of a Christian creed. We find it stated by some of our contemporaries that Mr. John Forster, late editor of the Esaminer, and Mrs. Colburn, widow of the late eminent publisher, were mar ried on Thursday last, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Whitwell Elwyn, editor of the Quarterly Re view. The Nation states that Mr. Micha;el Joseph Barry, late editor of the Cork Reporte 4 , and the author of some beautiful poetic effusions on the late war, has received the appointment of secretary to the Commissioners of Lunatic Asylums, of which Sir Thomas }tedington is the chairman. APPLIOATIONS OF THE NEW METAL.—The new metal, aluminium has already become cheaper than silver, and is sold in Paris for 300 francs the kilogramme ; but being very light, it will reach five or six times the extent of silver. Tea and coffee-pots, spoons, &c., are now exhibited in the shops of Paris. A letter from Naples, in the Presse, states that King Ferdinand, having received very important de spatches from France, was preparing to leave Gaeta and return to his capital, where General de Martini was expected with an autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria. THE REPRESENTATION OP GLASGOW,—We under stand that a preliminary meeting of electors will be held in a few days, with the view of calling a public meeting to require Mr. John M‘Gregor to resign his seat for the representation of Glasgow in the House of Commons. — Glasgow ()wirier. SWIMMINL—Grand swimming races will take place at the Lambeth Baths, Westminster.road, on Wednesday, October 1, for the benefit of Mr. Beckwith, swimmi❑g master of these baths, and winner of the champion gold medal, and many other prizes. The first swimmers in England are expected to contest the prizes, amongst them Messrs. Woodbridge (the one-legged floater), Smith, Ruffles, Lowe, Levrell, and others. THE CORONATION AT Moscow.—According to the Invalide Russe there were at Moscow, on the occasion of the coronation, six Ambassadors Extraordinary, 12 Mi nisters Plenipotentiary, four Envoys Extraordinary, and three Cher i * d'Affaires. With the Attachoi the diplo matic body amounted to 106 persons. The Pope's envoy did not arrive in time for the ceremony of the coronation. There were also present at the ceremony eight arch bishops or bishops, two confessors of the Court, 48 mem bers of the Council of the Empire, three Secretaries of State, 62 adjutant-generals, 20 generals of the suit; and 39 aides-de-camp. The troops encamped near the town consisted of 75i battalions of infantry, 34i squadrons of cavalry, and 136 pieces of artillery. THE CRYSTAL PALAOE.—There was on Saturday another display of the great fountains and the entire system of waterworks at the Crystal Palace, and the last during the present season. Had the weather been pro pitious some 15,000 or 20,000 people would doubtless have been present at the spectacle. As it was, only 2,187 were in attendance. Fortunately, just before five o'clock, the hour fixed for the display of the fountains, the weather underwent an improvement. There was an almost entire calm, accompanied by a glimpse of sun shine. The great fountains shot straight into the air to their full altitude, while the cascades, the circular foun tain, and all the subsidiary ones on the various terraces, played simultaneously in all their marvellous beauty. The beauty of the scene was heightened for a few mi nutes towards its close by a rainbow of unusual bril liancy, and the only thing to be regretted was that so small a number of spectators were present to witness it. THE MAILs.—LIVERPOOL, Sept. 27.—The Royal mail steamship Niagara sailed hence for Boston to-day with 150 passengers. The steamer on Wednesday will be the Ericsson, for New York ; and on Saturday the Persia, for the same destination. TIE WEST INDIEs.—SOUTIIAUPTON, Sept. 28.—The Royal Mail Company's steamer Teviot, Captain Moir, arrived this morning from St. Thomas's, having left on the 16th inst. The Magdalena, with the West India and Pacific mails of the 17th ult. from Southampton, ar rived out on the second in,t. The Teviot has been engaged in the intercolonial mail duties in the West Indies for about three years, and has been sent to England to undergo a thorough repair. She brings three packages of specie, value 6611., and a small mail from Nassau. The health of the Island of St. Thomas was improving, but cholera and fever still existed there. THE MAIL.—SOUTHAIMON, Sept. 27.—The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steamship Euxine, Capt. Weeks, sailed this afternoon with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, 211 first and 11 second class passengers, among whom are Major Atcher ley, Captain Snow, and Lieutenant Moorhead, and on freight 211,5501. in specie for Cadiz, and a full cargo, among which is a large quantity of rice. The Madrid, Captain Bradshaw, with the next homeward portion of the Peninsular mails, and the Indus, Captain Brooks, with the mails from India, China, and the Mediterranean, is expected about the 4th proximo. The Pera, Captain Soy, is preparing to convey to Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, the mails for the Mediterranean, India, and China, on Saturday next. The Aden will sail for Born bay, and the Ava for Calcutta, vita the Cape on the 30th instant. Mr. Bernard, late hief officer of the screw steamer Simla, has been appointed to the command of the former, and Mr. Steinson, late superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company at Aden, to the latter vessel. The Royal mail steamship Magdalena, Captain Abbott, with the homeward portion of the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, is expected on the Ist proximo. The Plata, Captain Weller, is preparing to convey the next mails to the West Indies, Mexico, and the Pacific on Thursday next. The Prince, Captain Hammack, leaves this port on Monday for the mail station between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, to relieve the Camilla, which vessel is ordered home for repairs. The Prince during her stay at Southampton has been thoroughly overhauled and put into a perfectly efficient condition. The screw steam-ship Barcelona, Captain Carafi, which arrived at this port from Hamburg on Thursday last, sailed to-day for the Spanish ports with about 350 tons of cargo and 15 passengers. The Hamburg, Captain Sagier, another ship, connected with this line, is expected at this port on Wednesday or Thursday next, from Barcelona, Valencia, Carthagena, Alicante, Malaga, Cadiz, Corunna, and Santander, to discharge eargo, after which she will pro ceed to Hamburg. The United States' mail steamer Fulton, Captain Wotton, from New York en route to Havre, with the French and English mails, is expected off Cowes about Thursday next. THE NEW AUSTRALIAN LINE.—SOUTHAMPTON, §ept. 27.—The Oneida, the first ship belonging to this new line from England to Australia, will leave this port for Melbourne and Sydney on the 18th of October, Captain Hyde, late of the General Screw Company, being ap pointed to the command. The Mayor of Southampton, Mr. E. Andrews, in keeping with a previous custom, invited the members of the Town-council by circular to meet him at the Audit-house on Thursday, to con sider the propriety of paying to the directors of this new company a like compliment to that which on previous occasions has been offered to the directors of other great steam companies connected with the port, by entertaining them at a public banquet to inangurate the commencement of the enterprise. There were, however, only seven out of the entire body present, which not being sufficient to represent the whole, the Mayor, after a short conversation i ex pressed his determination personally to bestow the com pliment, adding to the invitation-list some of the leading official, connected with the town, the expenses of which Fie wrruld himself defray. It therefore, probably that a suitable banquet will be prepared by his worship on tke 17th proximo, the day previous to the departure of the first vessel, which will be attended by the directors and other gentlemen connected with the European and Australian Company, and by many official and profes sional persons interested in the progress of steam navi gation. ELECTION OF - LORD MAYOR. (This Day.) This morning at 11 o'clock the Aldermen of the City of London assembled at the Mansion-house, and after wards accompanied this Lord Mayor in state according to usual custom to the Church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, where divine service was performed and an excellent sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Mortimer, chaplain to the Lord Mayor, from the 294 verse of the xxii. chap. of Proverbs—" Seest thou a man delight in business, he shall stand before kings." At the conclusion of divine service, a Common Hall was held in the Guildhall for the election of a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. The attendance of liverymen was very numerous, in consequence of the feeling. existing amongst the licensed victuallers against Sir W. Carden, whose name stands second on the list of aldermen, for the continual attacks he makes when on the 13,3 rich against that body, and all those who partake of intoxicating drinks. Numerous placards had been posted about the city condemnatory of his conduct, and exhi'biting the feeling of that nume rous and highly respectable body of tradesmen against his sweeping strictures ; and in the hall the following placard was freely circulated : " Citiaens of Loudon ! Why support Alderman Carden for Lord Mayor, who stated, before a Committee of the House of Commons, that none but prostitutes and thieves went into a tavern after ten o'clock at night l" The Lord Mayor, aldermen, recorder, town clerk, and other civic functionaries entered the hall shortly after 1 o'clock, and took their places on the platform in silence. Alderman Carden was not present. The Common Hall haring been opened in the usual manner, The RECORDER addressed the livery on the important duty they had to perform, in electing a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing, according to annual custom. The following names of the aldermen who have not passed the chair were then called over :—Alderman Finnis, of Tower ward ; Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, Knt., of Dowgate ward ; Alderman D. W. Wire, of Walbrook ward ; Alderman J. Carter, of Cornhill ward; Alderman W. Cubitt, M.P., of Langbourn ward ; Sir H. Muggeridge, of Castle Baynard ward ; Alderman R. H. Kennedy, of Cheap ward ; Alderman W. A. Rose, of Queenhithe ward ; and Alderman Lawrence, of Bread-street ward. The name of Sir W. Carden was received with a vol ley of hisses, the others with cheers, and cries of " in their turn." A show of hands was called for in favour of Alderman Finnis, which was received with renewed cheering and cries of "Ali, all." On Sir W. Garden's name being again put to the Livery it was met with renewed hisses, one hand only being held up in his favour. The list was gone through, when the name of Mr. Alderman Wire was received with mingled hisses and cheers. The Sheriff then announced to the livery that the election had fallen on Mr. Alderman Finnis and Sir W. Cubitt. The Aldermen then retired to the Court of Alder men, and, on their return, the Recorder informed the livery that the Aldermen had selected Mr. Alderman Finnis for Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. An an nouncement that was received with loud cheers. The LOUD MAYOR elect, in returning thanks for the high honour to which he had been elected, tendered them his best thanks for having placed him in the highest position he could be placed in that city. He re spected the institutions of this country, considering they were the bulwarks of freedom. Forty-two years ago, when he came to this city, and was bound an apprentice in the very premises he now occupied, his respected father told that, by being honest and faithful to his em ployers, and by obedience to his superiors, he might, hereafter, arrive to the highest civic honours, and which by their votes they had that day realised. After adverting to the offices he had held in the City Corporation, and the man• ner in which he should attend to the duties of his office, he eulogised the conduct of the present Lord Mayor, and in retiring thanked them for the honour they had conferred on him. (Cheers.) Mr. DILLON proposed a vote of thanks to the present Lord Mayor—(cheers)—whose conduct during his year of office bad been exemplary, and who had dispensed hospitality—not the least recommendation in a Lord Mayor of London (cheers) with a liberal hand. (Laughter.) The present Lord Mayor was the represen tative of liberty an I toleration, and the manner in which he had discharged the duties of his office must, or ought to show, to the people of England that they did wrong in excluding men from public offices on account of their religious opinions, and he hoped that shortly the lords and ladies of the House of Lords—(laughter)—would soon see eauao to alter their opinion. (Freftr, hamrl Mr. Deputy LOTT seconded the motion, and, in doing so, said he had hoped her Majesty (considering the eventful year that had just passed) would have conferred some honourable mark of distinction on the right hoc. D. Salomon, the Lord Mayor. (Cheers.) The motion was carried by acclamation. The LORD MAYOR, on coming forward to return thanks, was enthusiastically received. He said he ap peared before them on that occasion with different feel ings to what he did that day twelve months, and the vote of thanks they had passed assured him that he had discharged the duties i❑ reality so satisfactorily as be bad hoped to do when ho was elected to the office. (Cheers.) Ile thought he had done something for Nonconformists generally, and he had endeavoured to show that a man may be a Nonconformist and occupy high offices without showing the least slight to the established religion of the country. (Cheers.) He had respected that religion, and the teachers of religion had respected him, believing that he had acted on principle. (Cheers.) After some further remarks the Lord Mayor retired amidst enthu siastic cheering. The proceedings shortly after terminated, a vote of thanks leaving been passed to the retiring sheriffs. THE ROTAL BRITISH BANK. APPOINTMENT OF AN INTERIM MANAGER. The following appeared in our last edition of Satur. day : On Saturday, at the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, Mr. R. P. Harding (of the firm of Harding and Pullein, Lothbury), was appointed the interim manager, upon the application of Messrs. Amory, Tra vers, and Smith, and Messrs. Chilton and Burton, who appeared for a very large body of shareholders. The other gentlemen proposed were Mr. Coleman, Mr. Turquand, and Mr. Wryghte. At a meeting of the committee of depositors, held on Thursday evening, at Mr. B. Foster's, St. John's-gate, J. Wyld, Esq., in the chair, the following resolution was passed unanimously :—" Resolved—That it is desirable this committee use its utmost endeavours, on all occa sions, to be admitted before the Chief Clerk cf the Vice- Chancellor to represent the interests of the depositors." The u ndermentioned gentlemen form the committee to represent the depositors :—Robert Taylor, 13, Old Bond-street ; James Wyld, Great Globe ; John Sheri dan, Chatham-place ; M. Mitchell, 5, Great Prescott street ; W. Richardson, Union-court, Old Broad-street • Wm. Clothier, Borough-road (pawnbroker) ;B. Foster, St. John's-gate ; li. S. Gilling, Goswell-road. FIRE IT CRIPPLEGATE.—On Saturday night, about eight o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. fliers, clothier and outfitter, No, 18, Fore-street, Crip plegate. The engines of the London Brigade and West of England attended, but the fire was not extinguished until considerable damage was done. THE LATE ADCJIDENT AT OLDBURY STATION.—The writer of a letter signed " Locomotive," which appears in to-day's Times, after referring to the suggestions of " A Railway Director" as to the means by which calami ties ought to be prevented for the future, says the, panacea recommended by the " Director" is in itself worse than the evils of which he complains. To exhibit a danger signal when the line is "clear" would be simply the annihilation of the only security in which the value of signals consists, as the representation of the true con ditions in which the coming train is advancing. LIABILITY 01' SHAREHOLDERS.—The chief difficulty of winding up is not in realising the assets, although this requires great care and judgment, but in deciding who are the parties to pay up the deficiency, or " settling the list of contributors." The Late Times says—" Every contributor may contest his liability through three courts, and ultimately into the House of Lords--then calls must be made, awl ample time allowed for their payment — then those that are unpaid must be enforced. This is a work of many weeks and even months. Three years is the very shortest period within which the winding up of such a concern as the Royal British Bank will be prac ticable." THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT.—A meeting of the ratepayers of Cheltenham was held on Wednesday, con vened by the high bailiff on a requisition signed by about thirty gentlemen, to consider the propriety of adopting the Public Libraries Act in that borough. A resolution in the negative sense was, however, carried by a large majority. THE YARMOUTH HERRING FISHERY.—Tho herring fishery at Great Yarmouth has been exceedingly slit cessful this year. The boats have arrived very heavily laden, and the daily average catch has amounted to 100 lasts, or 1,320,000 fish. One boat alone brought on one occasion the enormous quantity of 12 lasts. The price has ruled wt from 121. to 141. per last. SUNDAY ron THE FARM LIBOURERS.—A meeting' of the landed gentry, clergy, and farmers of East Kent was held at Canterbury a few days ago, fir. Deedes, M.P. in the chair, to recommend the general adoption by far mers Of such regulations for the care of their horses and cattle un Sundays, as may allow all the farm servants to attend divine worship. Resolutions to this effect were agreed_to, and signer by iN landownero and farmers. I LATEST N EWS, The Nord publishes a circular, addressed by Prince Gortschakoff to the diplomatic agents of Russia at foreign Courts, in which he lays down the principles of the Government of St. Peters burg with reference to the occupation of the Greek territory and to any interference at Naples. The Prince protests against both, frzjm a sense of re spect for the rights and independence of Govern ments. The following is the despatch " The treaty signed at Paris on the 30th March, in putting an end to a struggle the proportions of which threatened to extend still further, and the final issue of which was beyond human calculations, has re-established international relations in Europe. The Powers who had coalesced against us had taken as their motto, respect for the right and indepen dence of governments. We do not pretend to enter into an historical examination of this ques tion, nor is it our intention to raise a sterile dis cussion, but merely to arrive at the practical ap plication of the same principles which the great Powers of Europe themselves proclaimed. " We do not do any of those Powers the injus tice to suppose, now that the struggle is over, that each. one considers itself authorised to follow a line of conduct suited to its own particular interests. On - the contrary, we feel convinced that all the Powers have the sincere intentions to act accord ing to the principles they at first professed. Tak in this for granted, we must suppose that it is the intention of all the Powers, who took part in the late war, as it is that of the Emperor our auguist master, to make the general peace the start ing point for the re-establishment of relations based on a respect for the right and independence of go vernments. Has this hope been realised ? Are the international relations re-established ? " Without entering into a detail of some se con( Lary questions, we are compelled to state, with regr et, that there are two countries forming part of the European family where in one a regular sto.t a of things does not yet xist, and in th e o th er l it is -threatened to be compromised. We allude to Greece and to the kingdom of Naples. The occupa tion of the Hellenic territory by a foreign force, again .st the will of the Sovereign and the feel ings of the nation, is now without any just reaso n. Political motives might, to a certain point , explain the violence done to the Sove reign of the country, and necessities of war migh t be alleged as a reason for such a court e ; but now, when neither of these causes any longer exist, it appears to us impossible to justify at the tribunal of equity the continued preso nce of a foreign force ou the soil of Greece. Thiui , the first words pronounced by our august mast , or when the re-establishment of peace had en abled . the Emperor to raise his voice were clear and preci se. We have never dissembled our opinion in th e councils of the Cabinets, and we shall con tinue • that course. " We consider it our duty, however, to add that, litho ugh the results have not fully answered our ex pecta ,tions, we retain a hope that we shall not re main isolated on a ground where right and justice are evidently in favour of the cause which we supp ort. to the kingdom of Naples, if the question'is not to find a remedy, it appears to us that it is tim( )to seek a means of prevention. The Xing of Naples is the object of a pressure, not because his Maj esty may have transgressed any one of the en gage., ments imposed on him by treaties with foreign Com ts, but because, in the exercise of his incen testil )1e rights of sovereignty, he governs his sub jects as he thinks proper. " We can understand that, in consequence of a friendly predisposition, one govern ment might offer to another advice inspired by h ind interest, and that this advice might even assume the character of exhortation, but 1 ye think that that is the extreme limit at whie: li it ought to stop. Less than ever is it now perm itted in Europe to forget that sovereigns are equa. Is among themselves ; and that it is not extent of territory, but the sanctity of the rights of each, whic dst regulates the relations which exist between then a. To wish to obtain from the King of Naples cone essions as to the internal regime of his States, by t' b reatening demonstrations is to wish to govern in hi, s place, and to proclaim the right of the strong over the weak. " :(t is needless for us to point out to you the opini on expressed by our august master on such pret(3 nsions. His Majesty entertains a hope that they will not be put in practice ; and he is the more strongly imbued with this hope, as it is also the d octrine which the States, where the principles of pi litical liberty are the mere fully developed, have, always advanced. It is, in fact, their profes sion of faith. " You will be careful, whenever the two ques tion 5 above alluded to are started at the place of your. residence, to allow of no doubt being enter tain,3 d as to the opinion of our august master on the ;subject. This frankness naturally proceeds from. the system which the Emperor has adopted from the moment he ascended the throne, and this system is not unknown to you. "'I le Emperor wishes to live in good harmony with all Governments, and his Majesty thinks that the best means of attaining that object is not to co.nceal his ideas on any questions connected with public European right. The faisdean of those who, for long years, have supported with us the principles to which Europe owes more than a qu‘rter of a century of peace no longer exists in its ancient integrity. The will of muru august mas ter is foreign to this result. Circumstances have restored to us our full liberty of action. The Em peror has decided to devote by preference all his solicitude to the welfare of his subjects, and to concentrate on the development of the internal resources of the country an activity which will not be diverted by things abroad, unless when the positive interests of Russia shall absolutely de mand it. " Russia is reproached with isolating herself, and keeping silent in the presence of facts which do not accord with either law or equity, and it is said that Russia sulks. Russia does not sulk—she meditates. As to the silence of which we are ac cused, we may call to mind that a short time ago an artificial agitation was organised against us, be cause our voice was heard whenever 'r re thought it necessary to support right. This action, tutelary for many governments, and from whit 3h Russia her self derives no benefit, has been laid hold of to ac cuse us of tending, to I know not what, universal domination. We can shelter our silence under the impression of this souvenir. We clo not think that such is the attitude which belongs to a power to which Providence has assigned the position which Russia occupies in Europe. " This despatch proves to you that our august master does not confine himself to this character when he thinks it his duty to make known his opinion. It will be the same whenever the voice of Russia may be useful to the cause of right, or when it will not be for the dignity of the Emperor to let the world remain in ignorance of his views and opinions. As to the employment of our mate rial forces the Emperor reserves to himself his free judgment. " The policy of our august master is a national ono ; it is not egotistical ; and if his Majesty makes the interest of his people paramount, he does not admit that the advancement of those in terests can excuse the violation of the rights of others.—You are authoriseu, " GORMHAROJIT." The Paris correspondent of the Virus (second edition) says ; " It is not unworthy of remark, that almost concurrently with the publication of the above circular comes the intelligence that the first divi sion of the Russian squadron of evolutions, under Vice-Admiral Schantz, had received orders to be ready for sea; and that it was said at Cron stadt that it would winter at Naples. Of the re ceipt in official quarters of this news, I am told, there is no doubt. The presence of a Russian squadron in the Bay of Naples is of course meant as a demonstration in favour of the Ki ng in the e vent of an Anglo-French force appear ing there. Should the presence of the fleet be followed by a popular rising, which is not imp os . Bible, what, we may ask, wo uld be the attit ude of the Russians ? On the oth er hand, intelligen ce h as been received that the Elizabetha, commander Baron de Bourgoignon, has been dei;ached from the Austrian squadron, and proceeds t 3 Naples, to be stationed there permanently. The French vessels intended for the Bay of Naples are now waiting orders at r.iroulon. A s(piadron o f eight Austrian ships-a-war have reac h e d Malta. The news is confirmed . that Piedmont will also send a naval force to the Gulf of Naples. The four Powers who figured at the . Paris Congress and who are roust interested in the a ffairs of Italy will thus appear together before, Naples. It is to be presumed, says the Dcbats that under these circumstances they will contiiue to act together with the same harmony as at the Congress. The importance and imminence of these facts are of a nature to expedite the meeting of the Paris Conference, and perhaps it will assemble sooner than was expected. "BERLIN, SEPT. 27.—The Prussian Correspon dence announces, on the faith of a letter from Jassy, that the difficulties which had arisen in making out the new frontier with regard to Bolgrad have been removed by Russia having consented to cede that place to Moldavia." The Paris correspondent of the Nord writes that the question of Bolgrad occasions frequent inter views between Baron Brunow and Count Wa lewski. France, Prussia, and Sardinia, he avers, aro inclined to support the refusal of Russia to yield that town. MONTENEGRO. The following is the text of the note which the Prince of Montenegro has recently addressed to the European Powers : In the midst of critical circumstances and in pre sence of the projects and deliberations emanating from the foreign powers, the Montenegrins people have maintained their calm attitude without wearying the Courts of Europe with a description of the painful situation in which they have been placed for ages. For 466 years the Montenegrine people have re fused to submit to any power or to recognise the suzerainty of any lord ; on the contrary, they have contended with arms in their hand for independence, and have joyfully shed their blood upon the altar of liberty. For four centuries and a half the Montene grine people have sustained an incessant struggle with the Turkish empire, once the most powerful in Eu rope, and before which all the States of Europe trembled. The blood of her heroes has bedewed every rock of hes lofty mountains, and Montenegro has preserved to this day her cherished freedom. The policy of the great powers would be gravely in fault if they failed to take into account the sacrifices which her people have made in behalf of Christianity the people who, amid the Servian kingdom, the Byzantine empire, the kingdoms of Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Epirus, all of which succumbed beneath the attacks of the Turks, defended themselves proudly among their arid mountains, and who knew how to preserve, despite their poverty and privations, the most sacred possession that a nation can possess—its independence. The European Powers know but imperfectly, or hardly at all, this people of the mountains. Kings have not concerned themselves about causing the independence of this nation to be recognised and to enter into the great family of the European states. One of the causes of this indifference—that which was inherent in the hierarchic organisation of the government—was lately removed by the restoration of the old system. Receiving neither ptotectien nor support from the Christian powers, who ought to have ameliorated their position in gratitude for the services they have rendered to Christendom, the Montenegrine people have seen themselves confined to a narrow space and compelled to combat for the re-acquisi tion of their ancient limits. _ So long as Montenegro shall remain enclosed within her present frontiers, her destiny will be the same as that she has undergone for five centuries—that is to say, a constant and sanguinary struggle in order to regain her former posessions. Montenegro does not give up the territories she pos. sessed at a period already too remote, but demands back the soil for which she fought in the most critical times, with the same ardour that she did for her independence. As for their independence, the Montenegrine people do not think it can be called in question ; at all times they have had the right to make war or peace with Tur key, and they have frequently made use of this right. At the time of the wars waged by the Christian na tions against Islamism, the European governments de manded the assistance of the Montenegrins, and these always hastened to respond to the appeal, as the history of Austria and the ancient republic of Venice records. The French and the English only learned to know in part the Montenegrins in the years 1806 14, when, led astray by foreign instigations, these last found them selves placed between two fires. At that period th• Montenegrins still possessed Grahovo, Zchupa, Banjani, Piva, Drobnjak, Kroushevitza, Zoubczi, Wassovitshi, as far as the rivers of Torn and Lima, and it is those very territories which are at this day the object of all their contests with the Turks. It was at the price of their blood that the Montene• grins conquered the entire coast of Catarre, which they possessed till 1814, until the day when the Emperor Alexander I. invited the metropolitan and the Monte negrine people to cede the coast of Cattaro to A ustria, to whom the Congress of Vienna had just adjudged it. The Montenegrins submitted to the decision of the European Powers, withdrew to their mountains, and abandoned. the coast to Austria. It was gross injustice this re pelting us entirely from the sea and leaving us not one port. Without freedom of commerce there is for the land and the people of Montenegro neither progress nor in ternal development, nor any basis fit for the establish ment of a regular political -organisation, and suitable relations with neighbouring peoples. The necessity of possessing a free port has long been perceived by the Montenegrins. At the commencement of the eighteenth century, the Viadika Danilo endeavoured to restore to the Montenegrine territory the district of Antivari ; an attempt that cost torrents of blood. Relying on the motives I have just explained, I am persuaded that the great powers of Europe will be de sirous of protecting the weak against the strong, of guaranteeing to the Montenegrines the integrity of their territory, and grant to them what can preserve their nationality and keep inviolate their right. The European powers have established that Russia should cede to the Turks the fifth part of Bessarabia, which she conquered eighty years ego at the price of her blood. A fortiori, the powers will be able to require that a certain part of the Ottoman territory be annexed to Montenegro, because the latter country is exposed on the part of Turkey to far more serious dangers than Turkey was on the part of Russia. The claims of Montenegro are confined to the follow ing points :- 1. Diplomatic recognition of her independence.l 2. Extension of her frontiers towards the Herzegovina , and Albania. 3. Definitive settlement of the boundary line towards Turkey, such as it exists for the Austrian frontier. . 4. Annexation of the port of An.tivari to the Princi• panty. Your Excellency will convince yourself by this state ment of the situation and affairs of this nation, and I doubt not your Excellency will take it into consideration and will recommend it to the attention of his Majesty, whose Christian charity and spirit of justice give us the hope of not having made in vain this appeal to his gra cious benevolence.—Accept, &c., DANILO P. NJEKOSH, Prince of Montenegro and of Borda. Cettigne, May, 1856. St. Thomas's church, at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, which has been rebuilt at an expense of 11,0001., will be opened in the latter end of November next. The monument by Marochetti, to the daughter of Charles 1., which is to be placed in the church by command of the Queen, is nearly finished. THE HARVEST IN THE NORTH OF SOOTLAND.—A week of very bad weather has seriously interrupted harvest operations in the north of Scotland. Heavy rains have fallen, and a good deal of the heavy uncut corn has been hopelessly laid, but as a change for the better had taken place in the weather it was expected that this week most of the grain would be secured. ALDERSHOT CAMP.—It appears from a return lately issued that the total quantity of land purchased for the camp at Aldershot is 7,062 a. 3r. 35p., at a cost of 131,4451. is. 4d. In 1854-5, 48,039/. 6s. 4d. was ex pended in huts and nen barracks ; in 1855.6, 331,947/. 35. 9d. ; and between the let of April and the 31st of July, 1856, 106,5161. 2s. sd. Another large nugget of gold has been found in Wick low by the same parties who were fortunate enough to make a similar discovery a few weeks since. The present one is said to weigh 21b. "of pure clean gold," and was found in the clay-elate rock. The names of the lucky finders, according to a letter in the Freeman's Journal, are John Regan, Garrat Kelly, and Michael Byrne. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.-0a Satu r d a y a ft ernoon , a poor labouring man, named Charles Harmsworth, was employed, with others, repairing the roof of 5, Tilney street, Park-lane, an d w hil e i n th e ac t o f carry i ng a pailful of water along the parapet he was either seized with a sudden giddiness, or overbalanced himself, falling on the spikes of some iron railings, between 60 and 70 feet below, on which he was impaled. He was removed to St. George's Hospital, but expired in a few minutes. BURGLARY BY GERMAN SOLDIERS.—On Wednesday three privates of the British German Legion, named Wilhelm Hoffman, Gustav Barthman, and Adolph Krumbholz, were taken before Mr. S. G. Cooke, at the county magistrates' office, charged with burglariously entering and robbing the dwelling house of Frederick Wymark, under gardener to Mr. J. Gordon-Rebaw, at Wyvenhoe, on Tuesday night. Prisoners were remand ed for examination at the Castle. A letter from the Hague of the 23d says :—" The Minister of Finance yesterday presented to the Second Chamber the budget for 1857. The expenses amount to 72,746,458 florins (about 2f. 15c. each), and the receipts to 72,784,4216., making a presumable increase of 37,9821 It is stated in the expesCr of the financial state of the country that the current year is not so favourable as the one preceding, but that there is no deficit to be feared. The principal point worthy of remark is that, since 1850, 561 millions of the public debt has been re deemed, making a reduction in the rente of 2,290,0901" ALTERATIONS AT THE GUILDHALL.—The improvements and alterations at the Guildhall are rapidly progressing, and principally comprehend two new law courts, with their necessary appendages, and the appropriation of a Pertion of the ancient crypt of the building for the pur poses of a kitchen. The court-house at the south end is intended as a supplementary court, and is being con structed in the area which was originally occupied as the Bridge•holtr,o Comptroller's offices. That at the north end is to be somewhat larger, and is situated on the site of the old kitchen, M At little the the from state on th that 1 mere per still pth( bees long Eas Col bei 1 BR: 8p Ind Coin Chi] vi thi a 1 •e