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VIZATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. R. T. Smith. THIS EVENING LONDON ASSURANCE. Followed by Burlesque of PIZIRRO. To conclude with A BALLET DIVERTISiEMENT. ROYAL PRISCEFS'S TELEATRE. Cada the Managoment of Mr. CHARLES Sziat TrIN EvENING, MUSIC II iTEI CHALIMS. After whim. PIZARRO. Rolla. by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. finder the Management of Mr. Bnekatone. THIS EVENING, THE INCONSTANT. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, PRESENTED AT COURT. To conclude with THE GALICLLN FETE. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, BELPHEGOR, Belphogor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; !Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. After which, the New Buriesiae, founded on the Winter's Tale, supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Wookar), Miss H. Gordon, Mrs. B. White, Miss W. Wilton, Km Rosina Wright, Messrs. Toole, Calhaem, Barrett, and Brough. stalls. ss. ; Dress Circle. 45. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. Is. Commence at 7. wily from 11 tin 4. price to all parts at 9 . Box Office open ROYAL TELE ATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To conclude with LUCIFER MATCHES ; OR, THE YANKEE ! STR %ND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. T. Payne. TIPS EVENING, THE OLD CO3IMODORF. Mewl, J. Neville, Herbert, Clarke ; Mrs woollldge, and Miss I. Adams. After which, OF AGE TO-MORROW. By Messrs. Nevfle, Rinloch, Herbert ; Mrs. Woolidge, Miss Gran- tham, and Miss Cuthbeit. Followed by, first time, aneriginal Burlesque, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled BELPfIEGOR. Beiphegor, Miss Cuthbert ; lk ey, Mr. Clarke ; O'Magavray, Mr. Herbert; Tommy, Master W. Edouin; Madeline, Mr. H. J. Turner; Marietta, 31153 Thirlwall; Araminta, Mrs. Wooilldge. Ballet, by Mdle. Mar's Charles and full Corps. To conclude with INS AND OUTS, Its Which Mr. Morris will make his first aimearance here ; Messrs. J. Howard, Herbert, and Miss Adams, &c. Commence at 7. Stalls, 3s.—Boxes, U.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke. THIS EVENING, (Ninth Week !) Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD, With Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations. Death of White Surrey, Battle of Bosworth Field, &c. Splendid Tableau of the mor tal mallet. After which, The AMUSEMENT 3 in the ARENA. To conclude with a variety of Entertainments. Commence at Seven. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke. inn. HIGH. WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT—Morn. 58 min. aft. 3—Evening 11 min. aft. 4 To-hfositow—Morn. 25 min. aft. 4—Evening 41 min. aft. 4 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OITOBER 3. THERNOWETER, IN TIM SHADE. 65 —highest sines noon yesterday. 55 —lowest this morning and during the night. 66 —this day at noon. BAnovrrzu, 29 96—now `29 . Bs—falling. WIND, S.S.W.—Light, with occasional slight rain, dull weather, and glimpses of sunshine. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till o'clock every evening. S übscribers in the Country will please to ohs( 'rye that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is zlways to be seen on the papers containing he latest news. If any difficulty be experienced n obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. Y l / 4 .4', •Oit." , ) • 0,>,; , - ,4 7)5 - 0 -- .< ‘n • ' --- LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1356. The forthcoming Presidential election continues to attract the attention of all parties in the United States, and deservedly so. We cannot conceive a more important question than that now at issue between North and South. It is one on which not only the stability of the Federal 'Union, but the welfare, happiness, and respecta bility of the entire population, and the position which they shall henceforward occupy in the opinion of the rest of the world, completely de pends. No compromise is now practicable. The planters have, by their own conduct, rendered a crisis inevitable. They have set their fortunes upon a cast, and must stand the hazard of the die. The Free-seilers have hitherto displayed remarkable forbearance. They have virtually connived at an abominable system, which in their souls and consciences they abhor. red t This was for the sake of " expediency," a matter to be respected when no vital principle is at stake, but which seldom accomplishes the object aimed at. In such matters injudicious concessions only provoke fresh aggressions. A stand must 1,0 taken somewhere, and it is better to do so in the first instance than to wait until the opposing party have gained strength and con fidence from previous success. The Free-soilers now completely realise this great fact, and per ceive that the contest has been rendered far more arduous in consequence of the efforts made to avert it. It is well that their eyes are at length fully opened—that they have become, even at the eleventh hour, cognisant of the real nature and m agnitude of the question. We cannot for a moment conceive that 25,000,000 of freemen, active, energetic, and determined, will suffer themselves to be dictated to by 300,000 slave holders, encumbered with ten times their number of the coloured population held in compulsory bondage. Should they do so they will be un worthy of their Saxon origin, and but little better than the actual slaveowners. They will practi cally be regarded as aiders and abettors in the atrocious syst em, for the " domestic institut ion " could not l ast a single month without their sanction. Should FREMON T b e elected all will be well. They will gain a peaceful triumph, w hich will insure all th a t th ey could des i re. But if BUCHANAN be chosen, tben indeed will be the tug of war. It may, and probably will, be neces sary to cut the painte r , and sever the connection with those who are determined to maintain an unwarrantable ascendancy per fas a l it nefas. Such a step must necessarily b e attended with serious difficulties and great temp orary inconve nience. But the planter:i will be the only suf ferers. The North will eventually profit by the ChaD ge, and the very inti ma ti on th at i t may take will be sufficient to b r i ng th e would-be place oligarchs to a true sense of their rea l pos i t i on. But at present, as we have stated, there i s no possl •bility of any compromise. The con t ests rests b e tween FitEMONi and BUCHANAN, and it is a mockery and delusion to suppose that there is the slightest chance either for FILL. MORE or any other party. His supporters are trying the old Whig game of coming b tween parties, and governing by obtaining a 1-istance fr.om either side, according to the nature of the question under discussion. But tha dodge is now exploded. The juste milidtt has lost its power. The Free-soilers may regard every man who is not with them as against them. Far better that the Whigs should openly array themselves under the black banner of slavery, and vote directly for BUCHANAN and the extension of "the domestic institution," than that they should strive to divide and weaken the Northern strength by drawing off the lukewarm and the time-serving. The Southerns tolerate no such divisions. They insist on unconditional support, and bring their mild " persuasives," in the shape of " tar and feathers," cow-hiding, or, in important cases, the gallows or the stake, into operation. Theiis is indeed a tyrant majority, that makes no allow ance for conflicting opinions. It is not sufficient to offer no active opposition, or to keep quiet. Every man who does not go the whole hog is subjected to an inquisitorial and searching examination, and if his views do not prove satisfactory he may think himself fortu nate if only sentenced by the self-constituted judges to perpetual exile. There has been are cent instance, in which the absence from a meet ing to reward Mr. BROOKS, for his ruffianly and cowardly assault on the venerable Mr. SUMNER, was considered sufficient to justify a peremptory order for the banishment of the absentee. The Southerns have shown their unflinch ing resolution to act on geographical distinc tions. And if the Northerns wish to meet them on equal ground, they must show them selves equally determined. There can be no halting between two opinions —no striving to show fair faces to parties so diametrically op posed. The old fable details the contempt ex cited both in birds and quadrupeds by the attempt of the " bat " to take advantage of his doubt ful conformation, and to array himself on the stronger side. The transatlantic Free-soilers should profit by the salutary lesson, and decide on a bold and manly course one way or the other. They saw the odium incurred by CLICQUOT in consequence of his despicable and pretended neutrality, and they may be certain that their own position will not be a whit better--(it could not well be worse) —should they succeed in dividing the Northern strength, and thereby giving the victory to BUCHANAN. Peace has brought, in its wake, to Europe A sanguinary coup d'e tat in Spain. A Marianne conspiracy in France. A grand defensive armament in Sweden. A Neuchatel rising in Switzerland. A Pro-Muscovite rebellion in Montenegro. A yet darker display of cruelty in Naples. A Ministerial crisis in Denmark. A Russian aggression in the Isle of Serpents. And, together with all these beatific conse quences of the ever-infamous and despicable Pa risian Compromise with the Autocrat—a pompous display of subservieney to the CZAR on the part of the Anglo-French Allies, the like of which the world has seldom witnessed since the fabled days when the tributary kings, clad in ermine and purple, and crowned with golden crowns, were harnessed to the imperial car of SESOSTRIS. It is a fitting sequel, all this, to the late preci pitate evacuation of the Crimea by the United forces of England, France, Turkey, and Sar dinia. A simultaneous retreat from before the even then unconquered northern forts of Sebasto pol, effected by these four most formidable Allies, at the very time when Kars was held by the Russian troops under MOURAVIEFF, while Aus trian mercenaries still kept in undisputed posses sion the coveted prize of the whole contest (the territorial HELEN of the modern siege of Troy), the twin Danubian Principalities ! No marvel, after this most " lame and impotent conclusion" to tie War, that results like those above enu merated should so soon signalise the charazter of the mean diplomatic hocus-pocus of the Paris Plenipotentiaries. No wonder that more recently there should come evidences of scorn towards Great Britain in particular, as painfully glaring and notorious as those manifested—on the' one hand by a royal pigmy like the King of NAPLES, and on the other by a giant offspring of her own (flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone), the United States of North America. Here BOMBa returns an insolent refusal to her ultimatum— BOMBA to whom Punch gave the derisive advice at the outbreak of the late War, that, in regard to the attitude he (BoainA) should assume in the midst of the European contest, ho had better by all means get under the bed, but that at any rate he had better get out of the way ! Here, in a totally opposite direction, her MAJESTY'S Ea voy is c)elly compelled by the "powers that be," at Washington—(i n Yankee phraseology)—to absqua tulate ! Mr. CRAMPTON sent to the right-about by the American Government ! Lord CLAREN DON'S arguments pertly pooh-poohed by the Nea politan ! Such being the magnificent sequel of the war against Russia by the united legions of Eng land, and France, and Turkey, and Sardinia ! A war " drifted into" by a craven and bunglinc , diplomacy—a war impotently commenced, im potently carried oat, and impotently concluded. As O'CONNELL used often to exclaim--Thank you for Nothing! says the Gallipot. S.), surely, may all of us, Gallo-Anglic, or Anglo-Gallic Monoma niacs—we who have been "dreaming, doting" over the fanciful belief that England and France, once united, might dictate terms to the whole—ex claim, as the poor Liberator used to exclaim so often—Thank you for Nothing! Never was there such a bubble as this credulity of the political omnipotence of France and England when united. Not, it is true, but what we still believe in that great damaged day-dream ! Not but what we still believe in it, that is to say, with France and England acting together in real earnest ! Which they have not been doing at all—positively and absolutely have not been doing at all, from the first moment to the last moment of the grand sham-battle with the armies of the Russian Autocrat. Did not Lord RAGLAN declare most distinctly to very credible witnesses—before setting out for the seat of war—that not a shot would be tired in anger ? Was not that the intention of the British Go verumeat when they sent their military and maritime armaments into the Black Sea—as they afterwards sent their grand unparalleled fleet into the Baltic under the command, not of a DRAKE, hut of a Goose ? Was not every detail in regard to our warlike arrangements botched from begin- Ning to end ?—infantry and cavalry—the medical department and the commissariat ! Was not Balaklava a blunder—and Inkermau a surprise— and the Redan a defeat ? Was not Kars wilfully allowed to be starved into submission as affording a loop-hole of escape to the so-called dignity of Russia ? Has the cowardly attack upon the sehiepr wbereenckaevdencrgeed ? wof the " Tiger," off Odessa, ever Has the infamous Massacre of A Sinope 7 Has the cold- blooded assassination at Hango-Udd 7 Has Turkey ever been allowed from first to list the luxury of any one just reprisal 7 Have the Allies (who were dragged into the War by the wanton aggressions of the late CZAR) secured to themselves for all their terrible expendi ture of blood and gold even the shadow of the shade of an indemnity? Behold, then, the fruits (ashes to the very core) of this disgrace ful Peace, of this most discreditable and despicable Compromise And, beholding them—fling your caps in the air, 0 men of England (ever toiling and over-taxed) to the popular cries of the Day—" Huzza to his Royal Highness 1" " Viva l'Empereur des Francais!' "Hail " to the newly-crowned " Anointed of the Lonp," the young Czar ALEX ANDER The United Kingdom Alliance will not fail for want of publicity. They first succeeded in gaining from the Edinburgh Review an article, all whose arguments are entirely in favour of their theory, though finished off with some becoming apprehen sions for the Budget. Next they got the ear of the Times, which took much the same course, saying everything for the object of the Alliance, and only providing the usual loophole for escape ; the need of escape soon came, for the Beer Act had to be repealed or altered, and, that being the popular wish, of course our contemporary would not dishonour its name ; so the Alliance was for gotten, or ignored, as we suppose we are now to say. The last appearance of this Society was but the other day—the Society being appellant, and Lord STANLEY respondent. The Society applied to his Lordship to honour them with his presence at their usual meeting, which is to be held at Manchester on the 22d, and his Lordship replied with eight reasons for declining to do so. The letter of his Lordship rather invited a reply to his reasons, and, of course, the Secretary, Mr. P OPE, having such an invitation from a Lord, gladly joined issue, and the eight reasons were met by eight answers. Lord STANLEY rejoined under eight heads again, and Mr. POPE, of course, could not be so wanting in respect to the heir of DERBy as not to reply again under the same number of divisions. Our readers will not, we suppose, wish us to present them with several long columns of small print, but they may not dislike a brief notice of this friendly, and, we must acknowledge, well-conducted conflict. Lord STANLEY draws a strong line of distinc t ion between the Temperance Societies, which rely on moral suasion only, and the Alliance which aims by legislation to put down the sale of intoxi cating drinks. The former he cordially supports. To the latter he has his eight objections. The object of the Alliance we take to be the prohibi tion, by act of Pailiament, of the retail sale of intoxicating drinks. Lord STANLEY objects to wealthy law-makers legislating respecting the en joyments of the poorer classes ; he thinks that a desire so strong as to expend nearly '7O, 000, 0001. annually in its gratification would lead to the evasion of any law, with all the demoralising con sequences of evasion ; that, as things are, it would be unjust to close the rural public-houses espe cially, the recreation, however indefensible, being the only one the labourer has ; that the revenue could not afford to lose some 20,000,0001., nor oould it replace the loss by direct tax ation ; that self-control is what should really be encouraged, but that prohibition rather incites to resistance than otherwise ; that it would be impossible to define intoxicating substances—would tobacco and opium, dm, be included ? that the suppression of the traffic, without prohibiting possession also, would not be sufficient, and the latter would be impossible without unbearable intrusion on domes tic privacy ; that every attempt at coercion dis credits the exertions of those who aim at the same end by moral means. Mr. POPE, in reply, states that it is wished to obtain such an overwhelming pressure of public opinion in favour of suppression as shall render it the act of the many, and not that of wealthy legislators only ; that the desire for strong drink is unique, and that the trade in it does not re spond to the ordinary laws of political economy ; that because the rural population have few amuse ments, it does not follow that what they have should be poisoned by strong drink ; that the revenue question might be left to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and that during the tem perance movement in Ireland under Father MATHEW the revenue gained more by 90,000/. on other articles than it lost on spirits ; that laws against gambling, stealing, &c., do not in crease the desire to do the forbidden things ; that the case of tobacco, opium, and other stimulants could be dealt with if necessary ; that though the law in America may be partially evaded, yet crime has diminished 75 per cent. where it is in operation ; and that moral force is not enough for the world as it is. These, iu brief, are the original pleas and coun ter-pleas on the issue of suppressing all traffic in intoxicating drinks. The further debate on them is little more than reinforcement of the original ideas. To look at the controversy as a whole, the strength of Lord STA NLEY lies in the unfitness of legislating on what may be a great moral and social evil, but is not properly an injustice to another. The strength of the Society's Secretary in proving, as well as he can, that selling intoxi cating drinks is an injury to a man's neighbour. Indeed on this the whole controversy appears to us to hinge. If selling spirits be really similar to other nuisances prohibited by law, it would be the business of the Legislature to devise a law which should be effectual—at least as much so as laws are generally. The laws against theft, as we too well know, fall very far short of attaining their object ; yet no one thinks of dispensing with them because he must lose his pocket-handkerohief if he walk pretty leisurely, looking at the shipping, perhaps, over London-bridge. The question, therefore, is—Can the gin-shop-keeper and the spirit merchant be classed with those who violate their neighbours' rights ? It would be impossible, we think, to answer this question in the affirma tive. It cannot be pretended that the seller violates the purchaser's rights. He sells him an article capable, like innumerable other articles, of a wrong or a right use. Vast numbers, it is true, will use it improperly, and the seller who should seduce another to do so, might be amenable to law, indeed is so now ; for he would not long retain his licence. But volenti non fit injures, is a maxim fundamental in law, where the party is of age to know all consequences ; and, as Lord STANLEY observes, to depart from it would open the widest field to civil and religious persecution. It would authorise us to interfere by force of law, if a man, in our opinion, injured others by in ducing him to believe a wrong creed, or to in a hurtful pleasure. But does the seller violate the rights of the purchaser's neighbours ? Surely it is not the seller, but the purchaser, who does that. The seller does not wish to make the buyer drunk, boisterous, violent, and a street nuisance. It is not, in the actual state of society, an advantage to him to do so. If the buyer abuse in this way his right of purchase, and if the nuisance become intolerable, the law protects us against the Brun, THE SUN, LON DON, FRIDAY ETEr4 I Net ; 0 CTOBERv 3, 1856 kard. We do not mean that the very sight of a drunken man is not itself a nuisance, but can be be called a nuisance in an essentially different sense to a fop, or a coquette, or even to a man who will annoy you with low, loose, or vulgar talk in a public conveyance. Our sentiment's of morality or propriety cannot be made the fouct dation of coercive or penal laws. They must rest on the basis of tangible or unequivocal injury to person or property. The error of the Alliance appears to us to be, impatience of moral means. They would force men to abstain from moral evil. They see, not more strongly than all of us, the tremendous mischief, the curse, the wretchedness, the loss of character, of property, of everything due to habits of intoxication, and they would take the royal road to prevention. We own the frequent temporary advantage of despotism, but for all that, it is the curse and bane of our race. THE ISLE OF SERPENTS. The Berlin correspondent of a Frankfort journal states that a second note has been addressed to Russia on the subject of the Isle of Serpents by Great Britain, and that its tone is more peremptory than that of the former note ; in consequence of which the irritation which was felt by each party has been much augmented. THE FRENCH FLEET. " The Mediterranean squadron, under the command of Admiral Trehouart," says the Toulonnais of the Ist, "is still in our roadstead. The crews had been forbidden for some days to leave their vessels, which circumstance gave birth to the rumour that they only waited a tele graphic notice to sail for Naples. That interdiction has now been taken off, and nothing leads to the supposition that any speedy departure is in contemplation." Her Majesty was to have Opened the new' bridge at' the Linn of Dee on Tuesday last, but the unfavourable weather caused a postponement of the ceremony. The Prince of Wales is travelling incog. with his tutor and servant in the south-western counties. On Wednesday week his royal highness was at Wimbourn, in Dorsetshire, and visited the famous remains of a Roman encampment there. On Saturday and Sunday the Prince was at Weymouth. The inhabitants of Wimbourn and Weymouth were not aware of the rank of their visitor until after his royal highness had left their respective towns. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent leaves Abergeldie Castle on the Bth October, via Ballater Aboyne, and Banchory Railway. M. de Kisselef is expected soon in Paris with a letter from the Czar to the Emperor. TEWKESBURY.-111r. Cox, who contested this borough at the last election, has announced his intention to offer himself again whenever an election shall take place. The preparations making at Milan for the reception cf the Emperor of Austria continue with activity. His Majesty is expected to arrive there towards the middle of November. A letter from Munich says that the King and Queen of Prussia are to arrive in that capital on the 7th, and remain to the 9th. The Prince of Orange has rejoined his mother, the Queen of the Netherlands, at the court of Wurtem berg, where the Duke Bernard of Saxe.Weimar is also at present on a visit. The Rev. William Henry Milman, M.A., student o Christ Church, Oxford, and son of the Dean of St. Paul's, has just been elected librarian of Sion Col- lege, London. The conference at Vienna, convened to prepare the bases of a new monetary system for the whole of Ger many, has concluded its labours, and the results have been transmitted to the various governments represented. On the 31st of August the Russians at Sebastopol ce lebrated with much pomp the inauguration of a monu ment erected upon the tomb of Nakhimoff, Korailoff, and Istomine. Admiral Trshouart, the commander of the Mediter ranean fleet, has been called up to Paris, no doubt to meet the Emperor before any decisive step is taken on the Neapolitan question. At the fete with which the University at Moscow ce lebrated the coronation, a great number of essays and poems in the Russian, Greek, and Latin languages were read. An annular eclipse of the sun took place on Monday, but was visible only in. the north of Asia and America. On the 231 inst. there will be a partial eclipse of ,the moon, commencing at half-past 9 at night. A curious phenomenon has recently been observed in Greece. The Lake of Copais has completely dried up. An immense tract of fertile land is thus rendered avail able for the purposes of agriculture. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The operations of this society will be resumed for the season by the recom mencement of the rehearsals in the large ball, Exeter hall, this evening (Friday), at 8 o'clock. A portrait model has just been executed and placed in the room appropriated f,r criminals at Madame Tassaud's exhibition. It represents Dove, lately exe cuted for the murder of his wife. This figure is placed by the side of William Palmer, to whom he was an imi tator in the use of deadly drugs. The portrait is a faithful likene , s, and will, no doubt, be viewed with curiosity by many of the visitors. Out of 38 candidates for the office of chief constable of the Dorset county police, a committee of magistrates have selected the following six gentlemen, from which the appointment will be made at the ensuing quarter sessions :—Captain Carden, late 60th Rifles ; Colonel Cox, late 56th Regiment ; Mr. Inspector Grant, of the metropolitan police ; Captain Harston, late commander of Coast Guard ; Captain Ord, late Turkish Contingent ; Major Verner, of the Antrim Rifles. Of the 38 candi dates who applied, no less than 23 bad been officers of the army or navy. A NOBLE ENGINE-DRIVER.—The other day Lord Wil loughby d'Eresby performed his first journey upon the Crieff Junction Railway. His lorcHaip did not travel in the saloon carriage of the company, but upon the engine, which he himself drove, having learned this accomplish- ment upo❑ the railway which, as a liberal and intelligent landlord, ha has made at his own cost, for the use of one of his English estates. Like a steady engine-driver, the " Hereditary Great Chamberlain of England" performed the down and up journey within the appointed time ; and, like a noble engine•driver, sent the su:n of 3/. to be divided among the enginemen and porters of the company, in remembrance of his first appearance among them in this new character. MORE POISONINGS BY MISTAKE. —An inquest was n by am Mr. ed P \ a V sble Ayl, a held at Walworth, near Do ncas t er , on T ues d ay a f ternoon rwrahtot,hacaordoineedr,onontittehe Friday bod previously y ofachild from an overdose of laudanum. It appeared that the mother of the boy went to a small shop in the village, kept by a person named Gregory, and inquired for a pennyworth of paregoric, instead of which she was sup plied with laudanum, and this being administered to the child caused its death. A verdict in accordance with these facts was returned, the jury at the same time ex pressing their dissatisfaction at the loose and incautious manner in which the laudanum was dispensed. How TO HAMPER A BEQUEST.—Dr. Tread well's legacy to Harvard College ( 1 ,200,000) is encumbered with con ditions which render its acceptance by the Colleg , ) doubt ful. The person who shall hold the Professorship is to be compelled to deliver 60 lectures a.year, half an hour in length, without notes, and to pursue no other occu pation. He is not to lecture at the Lowell Institute, and if ha attends the lectures there must never take his seat upon the platform, but always among the audience. At his examination everybody, wise and ig norant alike, is permitted to attend and put questions. If the conditions are not complied with the bequest goes to the Massachusetts General Hospital, without con ditions. ROTAL BRITISH BANS. -On Wednesday night a meeting of the representative committee of depositors of the Royal British Bank took place in the Board-room of the Trade Protection Society, 13, Old Bond-etreet, for the purpose of considering the peculiar position in which the depositors stood, owing to the recent proceedings in Chancery, and to adopt such measures as might be deemed most advisable. Mr. Wyld having taken the chair, a very lengthened discussion then ensued between the members of the committee as to the course that it would be most advisable to pursue. Ultimately it was agreed, on the motion of Dr. Wakley, seconded by Mr. R. Taylor, that an aggregate meeting of the depositors should be convened for Monday evening next, at seven o'clock, at St. Martin's-hall. The committee then pro ceeded to consider a series of important resolutions tend ing to protect and secure the interests of the depositors in the forthcoming struggle with the directors and share holders, which they proposed to submit to the meeting on Monday, and which with various corrections were agreed to. - THE LATE MR. T. H. HALL.—We regret to announce the death of Thomas Henry Hall, Esq., late chairman of the City of London Improvement Committee. This respected and useful member of the corporation of the City of London, and of the Metropolitan Boatel of Works, expired yesterday morning at his residence in Finsbury-square, after a short but severe illness. He was in the 65th year of his ago. He entered the cor poration in 1529, for the ward of Coleman-street, which he repre , ented for 27 years. He became chairman of several of the committees of the corporation, and upon each occasion he received the thanks of his fellow-citizens, as well as some substantial marks of their favour. On the 27th January, 1848, he was elected by the Common Council the chairman of the Improvement Committee, one of the most important of all the corporation commit tees, and during his time some most important works have taken place, such as the formation of Cannon-street West, and the extension of the New Farringdon-street to C}erkenwell. On the 12th December last, Mr. Hall was chosen a representative of the City at the Board of Works, with D e p u ty H arr i son a nd Mr. H. L. Taylor. 1 LA' rEsT tvEws. 0.................. INDIAY CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. DE LIESTE, WEDNESDAY, The steamer Bombay arrived here this day at p.m., having made the passage in 135 hours front Alexandria, which port she left on the 25th of September. The Indian mail was t o leave Alexandria on the same day with intelliget we from Calcutta to the 22d of August, from Bombay to the 29th of August, and. from Hong Kong to the 9th of August, from Shanghai to the Ist of August. Preparations are being made at Bombay for a military demonstration in the Persian Gulf. Cholera prevails in the Punjaub. At Bombay the import business is quiet, the produce market is stea ily, and the money market is easy ; freights haves advanced. Exchange is at 2s. lid. Several parts of Chbaa are in a very distracted state. Great losses both of property and life have been caused at Canton 1)y floods. Exchange at Canton is at 4s. nid. ; a Shanghai,. 7s. 3d. The Persia had arrii red at Ceylon with advices from Sydney to the Bth of July, and from Mel bourne to the 30th of June. The m9.rketß are quiet, but the progress of the Australian colonies continues steady. At Melbourne the price of gold is 3L 16s. per The exports of gold for six months in 1856 amounted to 66 tons. Gold explorations are b® ing actively pursued in Tasmania. At Moreton Bay the Phoebe Pimbar had gone on shore. PARIS, FRIDAY, Om 3, 8 A.M. The Emperor and Empress arrived at Paris at eight o'clock last night, and immediately left for St. Cloud. BERLIN, SErr. 29. An official account has just been received that Russia consents to the cession of Bolgrad. It was in consequence of the mission of Baron de Bulow at Vienna and at Berlin having failed that the Danish Ministers resigned. The King having summoned M. de Manteuffel to join him at Carlsruhe he has set off for that place this evening. His Majesty is to proceed from Carlsruhe to the Principalities of Hohen tiollern. Political motives are attributed to this journey of the President of the Council. The commission on the navigation of the Danube will hold its sittings during the winter. VIENNA, SEPT. 2. The Austrian Gazette contains a rumour which had been current, that the Marquis Petrulla, the Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Austria, has again tendered his resignation. Baron de Hubner arrived yesterday at Trieste, and will very shortly arrive here. The Fremdenblatt states that the King oPNaples has caused all his most valuable property to be removed to Gaeta, and that the population of the capital are in a very excited state. The result of the mission confided to General Martini, the Austrian Ambassador at Naples, is considered as very doubtful. NAPLES, SEPT. 29. The arrival of the Allied squadrons is expected daily. The English fleet has arrived at Ajaccio, the appointed rendezvous. The Russian circular is generally known here. It is reported here that Prussia approves of its sentiments. This declaration, however, has pro duced rather a moral than a material agitation. The preparation of the batteries and defences goes on ; the King, at Gaeta, busying himself in superintending the armament of the works. The Minister has offered a pardon to Poerio and Settembrini, if they will solicit it at his hands. They have refused to do so. King Ferdinand has proposed a Customs - Union. with Austria, but difficulties as to the superin- tendenee have stopped the project. HAMBURG, OCT. 1. Baron Dierckinck Hohnfeld, Danish Minister here, has been named Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, in the room of Count Moltke. The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) says : "In my letter of yesterday I stated that it was on Monday Baron de Brunow read the circular despatch of Prince Gortschakoff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is an error ; I am now informed that the communication was made ten days ago. The paper, we are told, has acquired its chief, if not its only, importance from the fact of its publication, which it appears was owing to indiscretion on the part of somebody. Such indiscretions,' however, are not un familiar to the Russian Governments, and rather please it than otherwise. But it was not through the circular-despatch that the Rus sian Government first expressed its feelings on the questions of which it treats. It is rumoured that a letter from the Czar himself, now some weeks ago, entered fully into the same subject. The private communication was, perhaps, couched in more modified terms, was more friendly in form, and in all probability more flattering. The writer is said to have dwelt on the diffi culties which lay in the•way of peace, the great efforts made to obtain it, the confident hopes to which it gave rise of the duration of the tran quillity, and prosperity, and intermeddling with the internal affairs of independent Govern ments, and the difficulty of maintaining pub' lic tranquillity, if such a system were followed. The letter is said to terminate with assurances of the greatest confidence in the prudence and mode ration of the Emperor of the French. "Is is still believed in some quarters that the King of Naples will, when matters come to a point, consent to make, if not all, at least some of, the concessions demanded of him. The King well knows the unwillingness of the Earperor of the French to tak e an y step that would lead to a revolutionary outbreak. Once the storm raised, who shall say what direction it may take, and what destruction it may scat ter ? That a movement beginning in the south of Italy would soon run through the Italian peninsula is almost certain, and, safe as France I may be, such a convulsion would hardly pass without her feeling the effects more or less sen sibly. Who dreamed that the Reform banquets of February were to lead to the establishment of an Empire with a Bonaparte at its head ? And who can say what a revolution begun in Calabria may not lead to ? Be this as it may, it is certain that the courier who was to take his last instruc tions to the French Minister at Naples has not yet set out from Paris, and the repeated messages from the Foreign-office to Biarritz have remained without a reply." The Paris correspondent of the Morning Fos, (2d edition) says : " Six p.m.—A variety of gossip concerning the affairs of Naples has reached Paris to-day in the German journals. But most of the statements are incorrect and not worth repeating. There is nothing new to report, nor will there be until the Emperor, whose return is to take place this even ing, has communicated his final orders. Some French, journals declare to-day that a change has taken place in the views of the Governments of England and France on the Neapolitan question. I do not believe there is any foundation in this report." FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial, left Bordeaux this morning at nine o'clock, and will arrive in Paris at 7.50 this evening. To morrow their will be a Cabinet Council of all the Ministers. The entry of the Emperor and the Empress into Bordeaux on Tuesday took place in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators and with the advan tage of beautiful weather. The morning had been tlireatening, but as the day wore on the clouds gradually disappeared, leaving a most splendid afternoon. The preparations for the reception of their Majesties were on the grandest scale. For several hours before that appointed for the arrival, the streets were thronged with country people who bad flocked in from the neighbouring communes. Every vessel in the port was dressed out in flags, and every house was ornamented with hangings, garlands, and evergreens. The Mayor of Bordeaux, in anticipation of the Imperial visit, had issued the following address : " Inhabitants of Bordeaux I—The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial will enter our city at o'clock this evening, to remain in it until Thursday next, It is the founder of the new empire who comes to revisit the city which was the starting point of his great work. Your sympathetic acclamations will prove to the Imperial family that you still retain all your sen timents of gratitude and of devotedness." The troops of the garrison, which had been in creased by detachments of the grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, the Cent Gardes, and the Guides, which had come expressly from Paris, were drawn up on either side the streets leading from the rail way station to the Hotel de Ville, and a guard of honour of the 3d Hussars were on duty at the ter ' minus. At about half-past four. the approach of the Imperial train was signalled, and a battery of artillery stationed near the bridge fired a salute of 101 guns. Their Majesties on alighting were re ceived by all the civil and military authorities of the city, and immediately entered a court carriage (sent down expressly from Paris for the occasion), and the cortege started for the Hotel de Vile. At night the whole of the city was splendidly illumi nated. On Wednesday morning, the Emperor and the Empress were present at a grand mass. The Cardinal-Archbishop received their Majesties at the cathedral under a canopy. The authorities and the constituted bodies were afterwards receiv ed by the Emperor at the Hotel de Ville. A grand review afterwards took place, and presented a very imposing 'spectacle, at which the cries of Vive l'Empereur I live l'lmperatrice 1' were most en thusiastic. Her Majesty was present in an open carriage. The weather was most propitious. No thing could exceed the enthusiasm evinced by the population and the troops. Marshal Serrano, the ex-lover of Queen Isabella, and now her representative in Paris, called upon Queen Christina 'this afternoon, and conveyed to her the gratifying information that the sequestra tion on her property had been taken off, and that all her plunder would be restored to her. Considerable rivalry exists between the principal ports of France to obtain the Transatlantic packet station. The Emperor has expressed his desire that no military commands shall be given to the old Gene ral officers in the Senate, and that young officers shall in future b e selected for active service. BOURSE, Oct. 2. An extraordinary change took place towards the close of the market, as it was reported that the payment of the last instalments of the last loan were adjourned to the month of January, and the Moniteur would announce that no new loan would be necessary during the next year, and prices left off as follows : Cash. fr. d. 4i per Cents 9O 40 3 per Cents 6B New Loan 6B Bank Shares 4,000 Roman Credit Mobilier ...... 1,550 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. Spanish Threes eiechnontese (5)...... SO Home Debt End °Month. —f. —C. 6G 50 RAILWAYS—YOB Cesn. Orleans ...... fr. C. fr. e 1,280 Western 905 - Northern. ........... 935 • - Strasburg - Lyons ........... Now Ditto - Uediterran ean ...... Grand Central 6lO - Lyons Genova ...... 730 Toste - 805 - C ette 695 Austrian Cam. NAPLES• The French journals continue to speak of the Neapolitan expedition as a project suspended in order tc give time for a final effort to be made at Naples by Lieutenant Field Marshal Martini, on the part of Austria. The partisans of the King of Naples boast of the immense " moral support," which his Majesty cannot fail to find in the circular of Prince Gort schakoff. The Nord of Brussels calls attention to the fol lowing letter, dated Vienna, Sept. 26 : The sensation which I mentioned in my yesterday's letter as having been caused by the news of the proxi mate appearance of an allied squadron in the Bay of Naples has somewhat subsided to-day, from the convic tion entertained in Government circles that, if such a demonstration is intended, at all events it will not take place just now. I think I may assure you that our dip- lomatic agents at London and at Paris received a few days since urgent instructions from Count Buol to induce the Western Governments to adjourn the execution of their maritime demonstration against King Ferdinand. There is every reason to believe that the two great Allied Powers will show sufficient consideration for Aug trig, who is more or leas engaged in this deplorable con flict, to await the result which our envoy to Naples, General Martini, may succeed in obtaining from the King of Naples. According to a report which has been current here for some days, the number of our troops in the Roman Le gations is to be considerably increased, with as little de lay as possible. It is even said that two additional regi- ments of infantry, and one of cavalry, have already entered the Legations. The ground for this is, that France having resolved to send reinforcements to her troops at Rome, our safety and political interests render it necessary for us to strengthen ourselves in the Legations. As regards another piece of news, no less serious, which is circulated at Vienna, I cannot speak positively. It is said the Piedmontese Government has notified to Paris and London its intention of joining a squadron to that of the two treat maritime Powers in the Bay of Naples. I need scarcely tell you with what feelings this news was received by our Government and by the public ; it is to be hoped for the peace of Italy that the active in terference of diplomacy will prevent the realisation of a project which would singularly complicate a state of affairs already so much endangered in the Italian penin sula. Recruiting for the army of the King of Naples, according to the Augsburg Gazette, is going on with great activity in Switzerland, and every week are to be seen fresh detachments of Swiss soldiery, who have been enlisted in that service, marching through Bormio, with cries of " Vive le Roi Fer dinand !" DISCOVERY OF A NEW _ISLAND. BOSTON, SEPT. 18. Captain Dunn, of the barpue Dragon, at Salem, from Padang, repor t s that 611 the passage fro m the Nee Island s t o Sh ang hae, soytember 12, 1355, h e saw an island not laid down in his chart, to the northward, dis tant fiv e m il e s. Got a good obr , ervation, and ma d e i ts positi tdi i n l a t. 8 20, b""g. 1 . 61 46 E., by the rono- cl , u motor. It is a small sand !eland with low bushes, s'a miles in circumferen ce. It is i n h a bi te d , and surrounded by a coral reel; a mile from the shore, and can 1)5 s , eii 15 miles from the inasth* ad. The same afternoon saw the Alichalelf Group to the northward as laid down en the chart. As a lady was passing yesterday in front of a to bacco•shop in the Rue St. Ifonor6, a piece of lighted paper, which bad been th oughtlessly thrown on the pavement aver lighting a cigar, set fire to her dress. Th e flames wore spreading very rapidly round her, w hen a razor-grinder r an towards her, and wrapping her round in his leather apro n succee d e d in extinguish ing them. The lady escaped with only a few slight burns, but the man was rather severely injured inihis hands. AMERICA ARRIVAL OF THE FULTON. SOI7THAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The United States mail steam ship Fulton, Cap tain Wotton, has arrived, with dates from New York to the 20th ult., 71 passengers, and $485,000 in specie on freight. The Asia arrived out on the 18th ult. There is no political news by this arrival, either in reference to the affairs in Kansas or the Presi dential election. The Asia's news had caused the New York cotton market to assume increased buoyancy, but had a depressing effect on bread stuffs. Private advices from Mexico, via Havannah and Philadelphia, mentioned reports of a serious diffi culty between the Mexican Government and the British Minister, and the latter had demanded his passports. Orders, it was said, had been transmitted to Havannahfor the British squadron there to proceed to Vera Cruz, to enforce the demands of England. The Commander of the British steamer, Tartar, at Havannah, was collecting a naval force, and would sail immediately. The New York money market was easy. The demand for foreign exchange was active ; London was quoted 1091 to 1091. Speculation in railway shares very brisk, with large transactions. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. By the arrival of the steamship Cambria, Capt. Moodie, we have advices from New York to the 19th ult., and Boston to the 20th. She has brought $151,218 specie on freight. The Royal mail steamship Asia, hence, arrived at New York on the 18th ult. The Whig National Convention, assembled at Baltimore, had adopted the following resolutions : " That the Whigs of the United States are assembled here by reverence for the constitution and unalterable attachment to the National Union, and a fixed determi• nation to do all in their power to preserve it for them• selves and posterity. They have no new principles to announce--no new platform to establish ; but are con tent broadly to rest where their forefathers have rested upon—the constitution of the United States—wishing no safer guide, no higher law. " That we regard with the deepest anxiety the pre• sant disordered condition of our national affairs, a por tion of the country being ravaged by civil war, and hire sections of our population embittered by mutual recri• minations, and we distinctly trace these calamities to the culpable neglect of duty by the present national Administration. " That the Government of these United States wait formed by the conjunction or political unity of wide spread geographical sections, materially differing not only in climate and products, but in their social domestic institutions; and that any cause which shall permanently array these sections in political hostilities and organised parties, founded only on geographical distinctions, must inevitably prove fatal to the continuance of the National Union. " That the Whigs of the United States have declared, as the fundamental article of their political faith, the ab• solute necessity of avoiding geographical parties ; that the danger so clearly discerned by the ' Father of hid Country,' founded on ' geographical distinction,' has now' become fearfully apparent in the agitation convulsing the . nation, which must be arrested at once if we would pre• serve our constitutional Union from dismemberment, and the name of America from being blotted from the family of civiliced nations. " That all who revere the Constitution and the 'Union must look with alarm at the parties in the field at the present Presidential canvass (one claims only to repro' sent 16 Northern States, and the other appealing to the passions and prejudices of the Southern States) ; that the success of either of the factions must add fuel to the flame which now threatens to wrap our dearest interest into one common ruin. " That the only remedy for an evil so appalling, is to support the candidate pledged to neither geographical sections, now arranged in political antagonism, but holding both in just and equal regard ; that we congra tulate the friends of the Union that such a candidate mists in Millard Fillmore. " That without adopting or referring to the peculiar adaptations of the party which have already selected Millard Fillmore as their candidate, we look to him a a well-tried and faithful friend of the Constitution and the Union, eminent alike for his wisdom and firmness , ' for his justice and moderation in foreign relations, for hie calm and pacific temperament, well becoming a great and enlightened government, for his devotion to the Constitution in its true spirit, and his inflexibility I°, executing the laws, but, bey on d a ll th ose a tt r ib u t es , being the representative of neither of the two sectional parties now struggling for political supremacy. "That in the present exigency of political affairs 11 are not called upon to discuss subordinate queAtions or administration in exercising the constitutional power° of Government. It is enough to know that civil via is raging and the Union in peril, and proclaim the con viction that a restoration of the Fillmore Presidency will furnish the best if not the only means of restoring xnat we cordially approve of the nomination , Andrew J. Donelson for the Vice-Presidency, regar d' ing him as a national Conservative patriot faithful!, devoted to the Constitution and the Union. "That the spontaneous rising of the Whigs through: out the country, their prompt rally to the support of the highest national interests, and the spirit here ( 11 °' played, sufficiently attest the importance of preserving and reinvigorating their party organisation ; that a lir tional Whig Committee, one from each of the States, b ° appointed by the President, with authority to call a O l further convention, and generally promote an e ff ectly ° organisation of the party throughout the States. " That these resolutions be published, and respectifeli submitted by this Convention as an address to the people of the United States." peace. "That of A despatch from Kansas, via St. Louis, state ° that Governor Geary's inaugural address at Lie' compton was brief and pointed. He deprecated continuance of the strife and disorder in the teal' tory, caused by the illegal and unjustifiable inter ference of other States ; promised to do justice all without party considerations, and expected obedience to the laws of the territorial Legislatur e until they are repealed. A proclamation was issue': on the same day, ordering that the voluntel militia be dis c h arge d, and commanding th a t r e armed bodies of men disband or quit at ouc h 1') territory. Attorney-General Cushing had decided that foreign Consuls cannot intervene in the settlenieL of the estates of their Countrymen dyi n g in tu" United States, except in the way of surveillance 4 : 1 ` .. advice ; they cannot exercise jurisdiction. Several deaths from yellow fever had occurred at Brooklyn and its neighbourhood. The Kansas election was to come off on the 1 4 of October, when a new Territorial Legislature would be chosen. Letters from Mexico via Savannah oontain rumour of differences between that country and Great Britain. The British Minister is stated to have demanded his passports and transmitted' orders for a British squadron to proceed to Vera Cruz. Her Majesty's steamer T a rtar was engaged collecting a squadron. Our - commercial ad - vices - state that money ive, firm and active ; sterling exch ange fi rm at 1 09 P stocks dull and heavy. Cotton lc. firmer. Flout firm at the close. Wheat a shade lower on mediuo kinds. Pork-market better ; beef steady. Oils 1 0 better demand. Spirits of turpentine steady. Freights to Liverpool firm. Cotton, ; floury 2s. ; grain, Sid. to 9d. NEW ORLEANS, SEP T . 19. Cotton u nc h ange d . _ Sales for the week, 15,50 0 bales. Lard, 14c, ; other articles unchanged. THE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN AND PACIFIC MAILS. - SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, 11 A.M. The Royal mail steamer Magdal ena , Captai n Ab b ott has arrived, with the mails from the West Indies, Mexico, and the Pacific. Her dates are Jamaica, Sept. 10th ; Trinidad, Bth; Barbadoes, 11th; Demerara, 9th ; St. Thomas, 18th. The Magdalena brings 9G passengers, and op freight about $700,000 in specie and the usual cargo. The Tay, from the Gulf of Mexico, had n ot arrived when the Magdalena left. The sickness in the West Indies had nearly dis' appeared. A revolution had broken out in Peru, but was speedily suppressed. WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—The mencemeat of the works on this line is to be made is the course of the present month, and the "first sod,' will be cut near Worcester. INVERNESS AND THIN RAILWAY.--A project for con structing a railway from Inverness to Tain has been taken up by the landed proprietors of the district, and is likely to be successful. CHELTENITADI AND STOW•ON-THE-WOLD RAILWAY. --A line of railway is projected between these two places, giving accommodation to the Cotswold agricultural dis trict intervening, and shortening the route from London to Cheltenham by about 20 miles. THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE DUNKIRK COLLIERY. We mentioned a few days ago that a shocking accident ha , ' occurred at a colliery near Gwide Bridge, Ashton under-Lyric, through the falling in of a portion of the roof of the mine in which colliers were at work. It ap pears the accident took place about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, notwithstanding every care by the workmen in propping the roof. Six men were buriid under the falling mass, which was in some places nine feet thick. By three o'clock in the afternoon the whole of the six men had bean dug out, and one of them bad fortunately escaped injury. Another man, J os h u a Buraby, escaped with a fracture of one leg and a dislo cation of one hip ; but the other four were dead. The'r names are George Hadfield, aged 21 ; Robert Clough 30 ; James Collier, 22 ; and Joseph Williamson, 25. An inquest on the four deceased will be held on Friday.