The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-07 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — M, JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. —Miss CATHERINE HAYES.—PROGRAMME THIS EVENING (to commence at 8 o'clock) :—Part. 1. Overture " Zampa" —Harold. Quadrille —" The Promenade" —Engelke (ar ranged from Mons. Jullien's early work, 1830-31, by his Li brarian). Symphony—Allegretto from the " Symphony in A"—Beethoven. Aria—" Come per me" (La Sonnambula) Bellini. Miss CATHERINE HAYES. Concerto (No. 6) Violin—De &riot—Mons. Le Hon. Polka--" The Flirta tion Polka" —Jullien. Symphony—Andantino from the Ita lian Smphony, " Pilgrim's March"—Mendelssobn. Quadrille "The English"—Jullien. No. I—Convivial. No. 2.—Gothique. NO. 3. —Burlesque. No. 4.—Sentimental. No. 5. —Naval and Military. Solos by Mr. Collinet, Mr. Lazarus, Mr. Pratten, Mr. De Folly, and Herr Kienig. National Anthem—" God save the Queen," by the full Orchestra and Chorus. Au interval of twenty minutes between the parts. Part 2. Opera, Grand Operatic SeleCtion front Verdi's 3pera, 11 Trovatore, with solos for cornet, oboe, and ophieleide, by Herr Koenig, M. ,Lavigne, and Mr. Hughes ; Irish Melody, "The harp that on&," Miss Catherine Hayes—Moore ; Solo, Trumpet, M. Duhem—Duhens A_ Bee Presto Scherzando, from the Symphony in A—Beethoven ; Valse, from Donizettits opera Lnerezia Borgia—Jullien ; Solo, Violoncello, M. Demunek— Servais ; Galop, Pelissier—D'Albert. C.ndnetor—M. Jullien. Saturday, Nov. 8, will be performed (for the first time) the French Quadrille, composed by M. Jullien expressly for this Concert, and as a companion to the English Quadrille, with recitatives, solos, and variations for flutes, flageolet, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, ophicleide, and cornet, by Messrs. Pratten, Collinet, De Folley, Lavigne, Lazarus, Duhem, Hughes, and Koenig. On Monday, Nov. 10, will be performed (for the first time) a Grand Selection from Verdi's opera La Traviata. P ro menade, public boxes, and gallery, ls. ; private boxes, a guinea, and upwards. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. — Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Reduced Prices as usual :—Gallery, 6d. ' • Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit , 2 s. ; First Circle Boxes; 2s. 6d. ; Dress Circle, 3s. ; Stalls, ss. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d., 1/. ls., 1/. lls. 6d., and 2/. 2s. Fifth night this season of Mr. Charles Mathews, who will perform in the Comedy of The Busybody, and Cool as a Cucumber. —Mr. and Mrs Keeley in their original characters in Twice Killed.—A New Di ver tissement arranged by Mons. Petit, supported by Mdlles. Osntont, Therese, and Signor Veroni. —THIS EVEN ING (Friday), the Comedy of THE BUSYBODY. Cha. racters by Messrs. Charles Mathews, R. Roxby, A. Younge, Vincent, Tilbury, Templeton ; Miss M. Oliver, Miss Bulmer, Mica Wadhara, Miss Barnes, &c. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER, in which Mr. Charles Mathews will perform. To be followed by TWICE KILLED, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley in their original characters. To conclude with a Ballet Diver tissement. Doors open at half-past 6. Commence at 7. In consequence of the extraordinary and unprecedented success that has attended the introduction of Italian Operas, the Lessee begs to announce that he has entered into arrange ments with Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., of Regent-street, who have succeeded in prevailing upon Mme. Grisi, Mme. Gassier, and the other eminent artistes to forego their conti nental engagements in order to appear for a few nights longer in the most celebrated operas of the great composers. Ma dame Grisi will perform on Monday, Nov. 10, in Bellini's opera of Norma, supported by Madame Sedlatzek, Signori Lorini, Gabussi, and Herr Formes, at the old play-house prices. Boxes, stalls, and places can te secured of Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., Regent-street, and at the box-office of the theatre, from 10 till 6. To prevent disappointment an early application for seats is solicited. The Free List will be entirely suspended. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING and To-morrow (Satur day), by desire, the comedy of THE INCONTSANT, in which Mr. Murdoch, who has been so greatly success ful in his representation of the character of Young Mirabel, will repeat that performance for two nights ; Old 3firabel, Mr. Chippendale ; Duretete, Mr. W. Farren ; Oriana, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam ; Bizarre, Miss Talbot. After which, the renowned Spanish Dancer, Perea Sena, and her unrivalled Company. To be followed by the farce of GRIM SHAW, BAGSHAW, and BRADSHAW, in which Mr. Buck stone will sustain h;s original character of GRIMSHAW. Concluding. with MY LITTLE ADOPTED. On Monday, Nov, 10, The School for Scandal. Commence nightly at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, A DEL P EII. Return of Madame Celeste, who will ap pear in the successfully revived drama of Green Bushes. Great success of the new comic drama, called A Border Marriage, in which Mr. Leigh Murray will appear.—Mr. Wright in a new character, and as Muster Grinnidge, in The Green Bushes.— THIS EVENING, the renowned drama of THE GREEN BUSHES, or A Hundred Years ago,in which Madame Celeste will appear in the character of Miami. Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright, and Jack Gong, Mr. P. Bedford (their ori ginal characters). With a new comic drama. called A BORDER MARRIAGE, by Mr. Leigh Murray, Mr. Wright, Miss Wyndham, Stc. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING and during the week will !4.3 presented Shakspeare'i play of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. To conclude with Sheridan's tragic play of PIZARRO (compressc,l into three act 4). Mendels sohn's celebrated overture to A Midsummer Night's Dr eam will commence at 5 minutes before 7. E4 YCEUM THEATRE ROYAL. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING, THE CAVALIER. Captain Har grave, Mr. C. Dillon ; Mrs. Hargrave, Mrs. C. Dillon. Fol lowed by THE KING'S MUSKETEERS. D'ArtAt;nan, Mr. C. Dillon ; Constance, Miss Woolgar. After which, a new farce, called DOING THE HANSOM : Mr. J. L. Toole. Concluding with the Ballet from Winter's Tale. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Tinder the Mao-gement of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, RICHELIEU. Richelieu, Mr. Phelps; Barnaclas; Mr. H. Marston ; De Mauprat, Mr. F. Robinson ; Louis, Mr. A. Rayner ; Joseph, Mr. J. IV. Ray ; De Bering hen, Mr. Belford; Huguet, Mr. T. C. Harris; Julie, Miss M. El:Rime. To conclude with I'LL WRITE TO " THE TIAIEz.;'." OYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, DRED. Tom Gordon, Mr. Shep herd ; Dred, Mr. Creswick ; Harry, Mr. Potter ; Uncle Tiff, Mr. Widdicomb ; Chyton, Mr. F. Charles ; Nina Gor don, Miss A. Biddies ; Cori, Gordon, Miss Jackson. Mons. -Fillis and Family. After which. THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A QUIET FAMILY. To conclude with THE SPANISH REBEL. T RAND TREAT 2E.—Manager, Mr. T. PavriP.—THlS EVENING will be performed THE YOUNG HUSSAR ; CUPID THE CONQUEROR; and BELPHEGOR (Travestie). Mesdames Cuthbert, Wool ledge, E. Jacobs, &c. ; Messrs. H. J. Turner, Clarke, Her bert, ; Master Eclsuin. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, TIT FOR TAT. Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Robson. A MODEL OF A WIFE. Bonnefoi, Mr. A. Wigan. MEDEA. Creon, Mr. Addison ; Jason, Miss Thirlwall ; Orpheus, Miss Maskell ; Creusa, Miss M. Stanley ; Medea, Mr. F. Robson. _ . Commence at half-past Seven. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (Fourteenth Week), embellished by questrian effects by Mr. W. Cooke's highly-trained horses, the Tragedy of RICHARD THE TETIRD. Richard, Mr. Janes Holloway. After which, the renßwned EXERCISES in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a routine of varied and select Amuse ments. Commeuee at Seven. Box-conce open from Eleven till Four. 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Z--,.,::4,,;i•.;72- :4; k=-'4:_.-,-:::',xtD,-_5,1 i 'Lt 7,-----,;--,44.,.....:_-_,=,/ $,,,LN,. LONDON, FRIDAY, N;OVENIBER,7, 1856 Lord PALMERSTON has truly declared that " the leisure of a Minister of the Crown, d ur ing the recess, is not altogeth er such a period of tran quillity and repose aa. many may suppose it to be." Experto e rec l e ! The Noble Lprd can certainly speak feelingly on, the subject. At Manchester yesterday he undwetrent labours more severe than he would have to %iidergo during the most onerous period of the Ri.e.iamentary campaign. , He de livered no less than three orationson different matters, each ?and every one of which was distin peculiar • t ac t and felicity of ex guished by that , pression for 'which he is so justly celebrated. He wide field on whi c h to enter, and had necesse,rily a it is but si , tuple justice to say that, while he touched on and adorned so many varied suljects, h e spoke boldly, manfully, and in a manner bLfi'..ting the Prime Minister of England on each and all —on the; conduct of the War and the terms on which Peace was concluded, and on which alone it can be maintained—the domestic principles of govern ment on which his Administration is founded ; and, finally, the advantages of a noble institution fur promoting the social elevation of its members, and qualifying them to become better citizens, while promoting their own happiness by devoting the so-called " hours of idleness" to their intel lectual and moral advancement. Within the space necessarily devoted to an article in a public journal, it is impossible to attempt to give anything approaching to an out line of the Premier's views on these varied topics, or to comment thereon fairly and impartially. We can only glance at the most important of all, that on which the public attention is rivetted for the time being—viz., the foreign policy, past, pre sent, and future of the PALMERSTON Adminis- tration. On that all-important subject be has spoken like the Lord PALMERSTON of former days, the truly English Minister, untainted by Germanism, and determined to maintain the honour and dig nity of Great Britain intact through every diffi culty. He has boldly declared, even while expressing a fervent hope that the Peace might be lasting, that " its duration must depend upon the honour and fidelity with which its conditions are fulfilled ;" emphatically adding—" I trust that that Power which brought upon itself the hostility, either active or moral, of all Europe, by a forgetfulness of international rights and duties—l trust that that Power having con cluded a Treaty, will observe that Treaty, and fulfil it with faithfulness, and then, no doubt, peace will be of long duration." This is a significant and well-timed hint that, under his administration, England will not suffer hirself to be either bullied or cajoled; and that the AUTOCRAT, if he wishes to avoid another war, must carefully eschew the flimsy and pettifogging pr texts by which his Ministers endeavour to evade the performance of obligations solemnly and deliberately contracted ; that the spirit of the Tteaty, as well as the mere letter, must be strictly and honourably observed ! If the policy of his Government be strictly in accordance with the opinions thus nobly enunciated, Lord PAL MERSTON will merit and obtain the confidence of the nation, and the people will earnestly desire for him a long continuance in place and power. He rendered ample justice to the enthusiasm of the entire community with respect to the just and necessary war into which we were forced, and to the well-tried bravery of our gallant seamen and soldiers, when he explained how greatly they alle viated the "apparent " difficulties of the task on which he entered. He well knew that no impedi ments would keep back, no dangers intimidate, th( Ise who had firmly resolved to defend the cause of truth and justice, even to the last man and the last shilling ; that every reasonable application would be cheerfully responded to—all that was required being to satisfy the people that their sacrifices should not be made in vain, but that ample securities should be obtained from the un conscientious aggressor against any continuance in the reckless course to which he had been prompted by overweening ambition and insatiable cupidity. With such unflinching resolution on the part of the nation he might well feel sanguine that every difficulty would eventually be satisfactorily sur mounted. Lord PALMERSTON fully vindicated himself from the accusations that had on previous occasions been so unsparingly hurled against him as being " the firebrand of Europe," ready to engage his country in hostilities on the slightest provocation, or at least to proceed to the verge of war on in suficient grounds. He truly explained that "a country like this, with great interests at stake, and a great reputation to maintain, with our fellow-subjects scattered over the whole face of the globe, with our property floating upon every ocean, with commercial transactions extending to the remotest corners of the earth, acted wisely to guard against the approach of insult and the very appearance of wrong, and that it is easier to stop the beginning of such affairs than to find a re medy when the evil has risen to a great magnitude, and when great e f forts may be required to check it 1" This is, indeed, the great corollary to the whole some maxim—si vis pacem para bellum—you pre serve peace by being at all times prepared war—you prevent wrong or insult by exhib: At i in at all times an unbending resolution to repel it, and to obtain ample redress for any tF, a t may be inflicted. We heartily cong rat u l a t e Lord PIL3IERSTON and the people on the sound ap.a far-seeing policy thus boldly enunciated ! Let Lim carry out these views, and he will obtaill the respect of his S•VEREIGN, the gratitudqva his fellow-citizens, and the unalloyed apprdoation of his own conscience for the faithful. discharge of the arduous duties confided to his charge, not less by the favour of the QuEEN than the good-will of the People. "Oh that mine enemy would write a book !" It would have been well for Lieut.-Col. SimmoNs, and the reputation of the General which be so hastily and recklessly rushed forward to support, if he had abstained from attacking, on slender grounds, the Hero of Kars, and compelling him to vindicatr.: the accuracy of his assertions. The statement put forward in the letter given to the world wai merely hypothetical. General WIL LIAMS, while smarting under the unmerited neglect —or something worse—with which lie was treated, expressed a hope that the Turkish General " would act like a brave and resolute man ;" adding, "if be tam not, I will mark him with my ink, in spite of his great reputation.' Lieut.-Colonel SIMMONS has called on General WILLIAMS to redeem the pledge, and he has done so with a vengeance, and in a manner that will render the task of justifying the leader who, with such materials at his disposal, permitted Kars to fall without any energetic or determined effort for its protection, one of no ordinary difficulty. There are few who are not aware of the gallant —we might almost say desperate—defence offered by the English Commissioner, and which, had he been at all supported, would have averted one of the darkest blots respecting the conduct of the war frcui the character of the Allies. Tt was, however, believed in many quarters that the evil. was occa sioned by the extraordinary apathy and indifference manifested in the earlier part of the si itnmer, and that the mischief was inevitable at tl le time that OIIER l'Acna. had brought his troops to Batouni, within four days' journey of Kars, and but six for the march of troops. Generea W ILLIA - Ars shows that he does not participate in this opinion., and that he considers OMER PACHA to be at least et G r eil t e than as deep in the mire as any of the parUes implicated —that he was but little, if anything,ah an better SELIM PACHA himself. The g tells a plain unvarnished tale in support. of this impression, and one that will require a clear and distinct answer from Liellt.-Colonel SIMMONS, should he still persist in his .elf-imposed task. Indeed he has now to defend not only OMER PACHA, but also himself, ffora a grave p at , tis;ipal.ion in the general apathy as ico the fate of IVILLIALis and the brave men ha ea nobly ful- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1356. filled his instructions. The Lieut.-Colonel was, it appears, in an official capacity at the camp of OMER PACHA. at the very moment when the latter wrote, saying that if the garrison stood firm only twenty days he would relieve them ; but not a single word of encouragement or advice was for warded from the Lieut.-Colonel of Engineers to his brother Commissioner. Notwithstanding the promise of OMER PACHA, nothing was done to redeem his voluntary pledge. The faithful and devoted band stood out to tho last, until exhausted by fatigue and reduced by famine they were rendered in capable of effecting their escape. And for this betrayal of his trust, General WILLIAMS declares, that "as long as a soldier of that garrison sur vives, the names of those two men (OMER PACHA and &LIM PACHA) will be execrated." This is certainly lifting the gage flung down by Lieut.-Colonel SLamoNs. The matter cannot ter minate where it is, and in the controversy that ensues the public may hope to gain some new light as to the causes that led to that deplorable calamity which Russia affected to regard as an adequate set-off against the fall of Sebastopol and the other reverses sustained by her armies during the pro gress of the war. If Lieutenant-Colonel SIMMONS persevere, we are convinced that General WIL LIAMS will be ready and willing to answer him, when and so often as occasion may require. purities discharged into the Thames. All they have been enabled to gather on this head tends to show it is immense. It is riot merely the quan tity from the metropolis, but from the crowded populations scattered from the river's source downward. To a removal of this evil, and also to the necessity for ,4 constant supply of water to hoitseholders, in order to prevent contamination of the water, attention is, very properly directed. fa the latter case the contamination of the water, by remaining in leaden cisterns, is certainly ob vious to the senses, for those who know the taste of pure water will readily detect it. These, un fortunately, however, are but few in number—we mean in London. The utility of a constant supply of water to provide against fires will at once be admitted. In brief,' the results arrived at by the authors of the second report are—satisfaction with what has been done by the companies in compli ance with the Act, and a recognition of the in creasing pollution of the Thames, accompanied by a recommendation that early attention be directed to the towns draining into the Thames and its tributaries, and into the Lea and Ravensbourne, above the present source of supply, so that mea sures may be adopted with regard to the drp,' inage of these places, which will permanently I,reserve the supply of water to the metror:-,,ji s i n its utmost practicable state of purity. We leave off with a profounder sense than dye r of the incumbent duty of putting our sanitary knowledge to better account than has hitherto been done. Between the fate of TANTALUS and that of the householder, shut out from access to a supply of good water, the disparity may seem considerable. It is not so great, however, in reality, as to ren der comparison idle, or to divest the question of what sort of water we are supplied with of vital importance. In point of fact, the quality of the water we drink is deserving of about equal consi deration with the quality of the food we eat, and the air we inhale. Unfortunately, this proposi tion is not so generally admitted as it ought to bs) ; nevertheless, it meets with sufficient accept ance to render a cursory notice of the Blue Book lying before us likely to be at once interesting and useful. The work to which we refer embraces two re- 1 ports to the General Board of Health. The first relates to the chemical quality of the supply of water to the metropolis, and is the production of A. W. HOFFMAN, F.R.S., (isc., and LINDSEY BLYTH, Esq. The second relates to the works of the Metropolitan Water Companies, and is the production of the superintending inspectors of the Board. The metropolitan reader will be aware obedience to certain requirements was made im perative on the various water companies by the Mb tropolis Water Act of 1852, and at the outset it is satisfactory to find a laudable promptitude has been shown by the respective companies to fulfil them, the proof of which is they have not waited for the expiration of the period allowed by the Act for the various improvements, but have anticipated it. The chemical analyses have been confined to the determination of the hardness of the waters before and after boiling, and the amount of solid and of organic matter contained in them. To say the result is satisfactory would be incor rect ; there is, however, real cause for congratu lation. On the whole we find an improvement on the result of the analysis made in 1851. The hardness of the waters in 1856, for instance, is, with one exception, somewhat less than in 1851, though not much, save in the case of two or three companies—to wit the Kent, East London, and Hampstead. A very considerable diminution, however, is observed in the amount of organic mat tar. This is more especially the case with 4- .'ne waters of the Great Junction, the West Mid: t h ee; the New River, and the East London r dompanies ev.ousi (the diminution in th e l a tt er pr ; 1y most charged with organi c ma tt er b e ; Ag of about three fourths). This is certainly agreeable informa tion, the salubrity of water depending, it is believed, more on the absence of organic matter than on any other condition, and the more agreeable 'oecause the result is shown not to be accident a l, but to be traced to special causes, and raainly to the improvement which has taken plant in the collection (including change of localitv;), filtration, and general management of the surply of water to the metropolis. The improve- Ment may therefore be regarded as of a permanent nature, and is calculated to inspire us with the belief that further purification may reasonably ,be looked for. In connection with this subject we have I some curious information, calculated to cl ou d any vivid expectation, and which ' Leads us again to express regret that of the t en ex i st i ng water companies, five, to wit, the Chelsea, the Grand Junction, the Scnithwark and Vauxhall, the Lambeth and ' the West Middlesex, derive their supply of water, from the Thames. From a table pres':;nted in the second report, as extracted from t:ne Report of the Committee for Scientific Liquiries, in relation to the Cholera Epidemic of 1854, it is shown that while the organic matter in both the Chelsea and Battersea water is, as might be expected, considerably in excess of the Lambeth Company's supply, from Thames Ditto; the Battersea water ha s it not so much in excess •of the Thames Ditton supply as the Chelsea has it in excess of the Battersea—while the water from Kew (the Grand Junction) within the tidal influence, and receiving t he drainage of a very large population from immediately above, approaches much more nearly to the quality of the Thames Ditton supply. Add to this the facts that the South w-ark and Vauxhall water, which was csondenanel as the worst supply, and the Thames Ditton water, the new source of supply, at that time certainly the best, were the only two waters then furnished to the metropolis in which any trace of ammonia was found ; and the inference, it is justly remarked, will naturally be drawn that chemical analysis does not At present convey ' an exact understanding of the danger to health which a particular water may occasion. " In deed," it is added, "we understand it to be an admitted fact that it is a most difficult thing to discover by any chemical process hitherto adopted the precise amount of the poisonous ingredients which may produce such injury to the system, while on the other hand it is impossible to say how small a quantity of such matter might not, under certain circumstances, be injurious. Neither can such ingredients be usually detected by the senses. It is true we found the filtered waters of the Companies in every case bright to the eye and pleasant to the taste, but neither eye nor palate will discover even a dangerous amount of impurity in a water when that water is in a fresh and cool state." We call the attention of Londoners to what follows. " The waters from the shallow wells of London, perfectly bright as they are, frequently present, under exa minaiion, evidence of impurities derived front the innumerable cesspools and sewers with whit) the metropolis is riddled and traversed, but then e impurities may not be detected by th e sense 3. The water always comes cold and sparkling fr m the Pump, and, in ignorance of such danger cis impregnations, it has been almost universally ;re analyses an d th e ev id ence of the senses. Serred for drinking." S o muc h, or rather so li tee? for The MUSIC. inquiry of the authors of the second report has, of course, extended to the, extent of the im- 1 Fair Annie. Ballad. Written by Henry P. Novra. Composed by Frank B. Tussaud. F. Moutrie. Another song from the same hand to which we were indebted only the other day for the charming ballad of " The Little Gipsy Girl "—a ballad re cently and, let us add, favourably noticed by our• selves. " Fair Annie " we confidently commend as an advance upon its predecessor—both in regard to its sweat and tender melody, and in reference to its eminently graceful accompaniment. There is one thing, however, in the song before us, it is absolutely impossible not to wish better—we mean the " words"—" poetry " it would be simply ridi culous to call Mr. Novra's ballad. As to the ori ginality of the thing—don't we very well remem ber poor Haynes Bayly's once popular ditty, " She wore a Wreath of Roses," one verse of which runs thus— " Her footsteps had the lightness, Her voice the joyous tone— The tokens of a youthful heart, Where sorrow is unknown." Repeated here—with such a rhyme ! " Her footstep has the lightness Of the young and graceful fawn, And though of lowly station, She a palace would—ado.m!" A cockney twang impossible not to wince under ! Apart from which, however, apart from the words by Mr. Novra—" Fair Annie" possesses, as a simple ballad, a charm few will fail to recognise. A charm creditable to the ear, taste, and fancy of the youth ful composer, Mr. Frank Tussand—the grandson, it appears, not the son, of the late Madame Tus saud, of the Wax-work Walhalla celebrity ! VISIT OP LORD PALMERSTON TO LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL, Nov. 6. In answer to a letter from the Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. J. Stewart) expressing a wish that Lord Palmerston, before 1,0,,i” c this district would pay a visit to this town and port, Sir Thomas Birch has replied that his lordship will be in Liverpool by half-past 12 o'clock to•morrow (Friday). The Premier will be met at the railway station by the Mayor and some of the prominent members of the corporation. After being introduced on 'Change he will be taken to the Town hall, where lie will probably receive a deputation from some of the principal associations, which met to-day at the Cham ber of Commerce and agreed to a resolution, to the effect that they should congratulate his lordship on his first visit to this great seaport, at the same time regretting that his brief stay and the short notice they had received of his visit had pre cluded them from offering a more formal congratulation. The noble lord will then, it in believed, after lunching at the Town-ball, ride through some of the principal thoroughfares, inspect St. George's-hall and other places of interest, and perhaps take a sail on the river, returning in the afternoon to the residence of Sir Benjamin Heywood, at Mauhester. FATAL EFFECTS OF TESTING STRENGTII.—On Satur day a fatal occurrence took place in Liverpool, at the Liine-street station of the London and North-Western Railway Company. It appears that several of the por ters were amusing themselves with teats of strength, in lifting bundles of steel bars, when one of them, name• James Butler, while in the act of rising, with one of th bundles on his sh ulder, which he had stem ed t , dipped his foot and fell. The bundle of steel liar; struck on the neck, close to the base of the skull. crushing him so severely as to cause a great flow of blo iron, his month and nose, and from both his ears. He died in less than twenty minutes from the time of r, caiving the injury. The decessed, who was about fusty years of age, was married, anct had one child. THE LAND FOR THE•LADIES.—In the King of Swe den's speech on the recent opening of the Swedish Diet, the following remarkable passage occurs :—" A just ap preciatiou of the rights of woman being a sure guaran tee of her fidelity in the fulfilment of her duties and ot her mission in the family, it is my intention to propose to you that unmarried women shall be considered of age at 25, which is recognised in nearly all the States of Europe." Sweden is clearly the land for the ladies. There, it appears, that up to what is here considered the tolerably ripe age of 25, a girl is supposed to be in het minority, ca nonage ; in short, as we say, of no age a: all. At 30, we apprehend, she is still looked upon as quite " a young thing;" and, at about 50, as being "i' the prime of life." " Fat, fair, and sixty," is probably the formula which, in Sweden, is expressive of fensal , maturity ; at 70 a damsel begins to be a little passee, and at 80 is c xnsiderei to have attained to " a certain age."—Punch. THE VINTAGE IN THE VENETIAN KINGDO3L—TiIe Courrier Franco Italica says :—" The vintage in the Lombardo Venetian kingdom, as well as throughout the whole of Northern Italy, has begun this year to com pensate the vine growers for the losses which they had suffered from 1852 to 1855. The grapes are this year abundant, their state of maturity perfect, and the fruit heavier than usual. The agricultural superficies of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom is 3,967,376 hectares. In Lombardy or c-third, and in Venetia one-half is covered with vineyards. The average production of each year previously to 1852, when the eidium first made its ap pearance, was in the Lombardo Venetian kingdom 4,000,000 hectolitres, representing a value of 100 millions of francs. Venetia every year exported 200,000 hecto litres into Lombardy ; and after consuming a great quantity, also exported a considerable amount to foreign countries. In Venetia wine constitutes one-third of the agricultural production of the country. Verona, Padua, Vicenza, and Udina produced 1,800,000 hectolitres of wine. In 1847 the vineyards of Venetia produce() 2,413,500 hectolitres, but in 1854 only 342,500. The produce of 1856, if high prices continue, will therefore make up for some part of the losses of the proprietors, and two other good years will entirely remunerate them." ROBBERY BY A BANDITTI.—The Presse d'Orient of Constantinople gives an account of a horrible crime, similar to those of the chauffeurs which caused such ter ror in France in 1793 :—" Four bandits wearing masks entered on the 17th ult. the home of M. Nonna, of the village of St. George's, near Sulina, and seizing his wife, who was alone in the house at the time, summoned her to say where her husband, who was supposed to be rich, kept his money concealed. The poor woman solemnly declared that he had no money secreted, but they, not believing her, bound her hand and foot, and committed great atrocities on her, amongst othings cutting and hacking her back and tho fleshy parts of her person, and applying a lighted candle to her bosom. Whilst they were thus treating the woman, M. Norma came in, and he was served in the same atrocious manner. At length, finding that their victims could not reveal the existence of any treasure, the fact being that they were by no means so wea thy as had been imagined, the ban dits went away, taking a small sum of money which happened to be lying in a drawer. The neighbours hav ing come in found the man and his wife in a deplorable plight, hut medical as-istance having been promptly pro cured it was hoped they would recover. Two mon sus pected of having formed part of the band were subs— quently arrested ; one of them is a man of some property in the neighbourhood of Sulina." MURDER IN FRANCE.—A young workman, living on with his Boulevard do la Butte Chaumon t, in a q uarrel his father two days back, stabbe d him with , a knife, afterwar,ls gave himself into custody. The wounded man, named Maillard, was convey ed to the hospital,n but the knife, it appeared, had t ouched a vital part, and he , died very shortly after his a rrival. The deceased was a maker of list slippers, and for some tim e conducted him self so badly as to occasion violent quarrels between is family and himself. On t he da y in q uestion he, without any sufficient reason, beat his younger son, a boy of 14, with great violence ; the elder son, a young man of 19, toele hfs brother's part, and this so exasperated the father that he turned him (the elder) out of doors, at the :Arne time forbidding him ever to return. After wandering about the streets for some hours, the young man, thinking that his father would have become calm, returned home, but the man on seeing him peremptorily ordered him to leave the house, and as he did not obey, .seized him by the shoulders to push him out. This led to the conflict in which the fatal stab was given. The young man, who manifests the most profound sorrow at what has hap pened, has been sent to the Prefecture to await his trial. THE DOUBLE MURDER AT ALDEBNEY.—The Guernsey Star contains the following additional particulars of this barbarous tragedy :—"At a late hour on the night of Saturday last two Frenchmen, named Jean Langlois, a publican, 60, and Louis Thiesse, a labourer, ware bar barously murJered by two Irish workmen, named Timo thy K e lly an ,:. Nugent Loughran, aged respectively 17 and 21. Acce_ding to the accounts which have reached us, Langlois, who resided at New To wn Brays, was in his house at about 11 .'clock, and ttat Thiesse and Esk other Frenchman were with him, together with his family. The two Irishmen, on arriving, knocked at the door and demanded admittance, for the purpose of obtaining drink, but there being a sick child iu the house tho in mates were unwilling to let them in at that ;ate hour, and Langlois and Thiesse went out to speak to them, and persuade them to go away, but the two Frenchmen had no sooner issued from the door than they were at tacked by the Irishmen, one of them stabbed Thiesse in the heart, causing immediate death, and then stabbed Langlois; in the groin or lower part of the abdomen, and i n a few minutes he was a corpse from the effect of hanorrhage. A third man, who was a witness of this midden and fatal attack, and ran off to obtain medical assistance, was pursued by the murderers, knife in hand, but he fortunately effected his escape and gave informa tion of what had happened, the Irishmen in the mean time quietly returning to their lodgings and going to bed, where they were apprehended at four o'clock on Sunday morning, and from whence they were taken to prison. At a rubeequent lour of the same day the Court went to the spot where the murder was committed to collect evidence, and when this has been completed the prisoners will b e b rought to Gueresey for trial. It is stated that previous to the tragic ceents above nar rated there had been some bas feeling between the Irish men and Langlois, but not of a nature to cause any apprehension of serious results." ARISTOCRATIC FEELING IN ENGLAND.—SO exaggerated , is the influence of the aristocracy in England, or rather so se: vile is the spirit of the middle classes, that a noble man in the vicinity of his country seat, as compared with the same in his London club, is as the magnified flea in the plates of a treatise upon entomology compared with ;the same insect in its natural condition. The "Lord Anything " of an obscure country neighbourhood is talked of by all its squires as if there were something ' specific in the very hoofs of his coach horses.. To them be is te regal persona;e. They know the names and number of his servanti—the arrangements of his household. On all occasions they quote his sayings ; and when he says nothing, they wonder what he thinks, till reasonable be ings visiting in the neighbourhood become sick of his very name.—The Reffecto. LATEST NEWS. CONDEMNATION OF THE " CONSTI TUTIONNEL" BY THE " MONITEUR." PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of this morning contains the following highly important article : "The Constitutionnel of the sth inst. contains, m a disputed point of foreign affairs, an article vhich we should be very sorry to allow to be thought to emanate from the Government. To ‘nvenom a discussion is not the means to bring tbout a solution. " England and France, who made the war and ,he peace together, and who aro agreed on all he great questions of the day in Europe, find hemsQlves divided on one of a somewhat small lassez faible) interest. " Will the difference be settled by a previous understanding, or by the Conference? That is he only thing to ho decided. But in any case we have the firm conviction that the difficulty will soon be dissipated without falling into the double error of weakening the English alliance, And of failing to fulfil contracted engagements." MARSEILLES, Nov. 5. Accounts have been received by sea from Naples to the 3d. The King came to the capital on the 30Lh ult., and held a Council of Ministers. An envoy had left for Rome, charged with a mission. He was expected to return to Gaeta on the Bth. The French steam frigate Duchayla and an English steamer were cruising off Naples, and had exchanged salutes with the forts. Some of the officers landed and walked about the city. It is said that those vessels are to re main in observation, and are to be successively relieved by others. There was a report of the intended publication of different decrees relative to administrative mat ers and to public works. A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Presse of Brussels, says :—" The question of the settlement of the frontiers of Bessarabia is not considered here as of a nature to give rise to serious misun derstandings. The question of ceding or of hold ing Bolgrad is really not important enough to give rise to the breaking up of alliances ; it is, however, a favourable opportunity for exciting a schism between France and England. Our Govern ment, I repeat, is decided on executing the con ditions imposed by the treaty of Paris, which are, in fact, neither onerous nor humiliating ; only, in the accomplishment of its duty, it displays the slowness which has become pro verbial." A letter from Vienna, in the New Wurtzburg Gazette, says :—" It is not believed here that the Congress of Paris will meet on the 15th November, as was stated some time back. It is certain that neither Austria, England, nor the Porte considers the actual moment as opportune. It is assured that the understanding of France and Russia on certain points of the question of the Principalities, such as their future organisa tion, the settlement of their frontier, and the Austrian occupation, was come to some weeks ago ; and it is added that these States agree per fectly on various other political questions." the politicAl atmosphere. The visitors at Corn peigno who are now enjoying the Imperial hospi tality will disperse on the Bth, and the Court will reach Paris on the evening of the 9th ; meanwhile the affairs of State aro carried on pre cisely as if the Emperor were at the Tuileries ; Lord CJwley and M. Brunow being at the palace of Compiegne, each, no doubt, thoroughly aware of the intentions of their respective Govern ments." The Augsburg Gazette has the following from Cracow of the 2d :—" The prolongation of the occupation of the Danubian Principalities and of the Black Sea by the English has the conse quence of causing numerous corps of Russian troops to stay in Southern Russia, in Podolia, and Volhynia. Up to the present time not one of the corps which left the Crimea has appeared in the interior of Russia or in Poland. The two divisions of Grenadiers which left the Crimea in the spring, and which were to have gone to M osco w for the Coronation, did not arrive there, but have remained in the south. Political reasons can alone explain the retention of these large bodies of troops in the southern provinces." The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition), in a letter dated yesterday, says : " For some days past rumours wore current of an approaching modification Of the French Cabi net ; and the return of M. Billault to Paris was said to be awaited for that purpose. The discontent existing in the faubourgs, the destitution among the working classes—not so much from want of employment as from the high price of all the ne cessaries of life—the dissatisfaction among the manufacturing people, the financial or monetary crisis, the frequent discovery of seditious placards, and the aspect of affairs generally at home and abroad, were all sufficiently legitimate motives of alarm. The reports of the Prefect of Police, con fidentially and directly addressed to the Emperor, showed that the condition of the people was any thing but satisfactory, and that their murmurs were not unfounded. M. Billault returned to Paris on Monday evening, and immediately resumed his functions. A Cabinet Council met yesterday at Compiegne, and then various questions wore brought before it in the presence of the Emperor, and fully discussed. One member of the Council spoke at con • siderable length, and ho proved that the sufferings, and consequent discontent of the Parisian popu lation, were to a great extent owing to the finan cial measures of the Government ; and that the discontent of the manufacturers was attributable to their fear of radical changes in the tariff. The Council sat for some time, and questions of foreign interest were also discussed ; but whether any or what solution of the present difficulty was to come to I do not know, bat the rumours of partial changes in the Ministry continue to circulate." The Path correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says : "If the language of the French Ministerial press were to be taken as the view of the E nt _ peror, and the majority of his Cabinet, we should come to the conclusion that the treaty of .Paris is not worth more than waste paper. No doubt all this will have an injurious influence on the decisions of Russia, as regards the execution of certain arti cles of the peace contracts which that Power en tered into. I still believe, however, that the Parisian Ministerial press does not convey the f ere i qn policy of the Broperor at this critical rno „lent. I have observed cn various Cd37Sic.MS that until Itrperial displeasure 121:z; been exprescl r a ise views , on more than one sn'ejeet have been pub lished in language which did not in any way prove t h e policy the French Government intended to adopt. This was the case as regarded the affairs of Italy and Greece ; and I believe the tone of certain French newspapers on the disputed articles of the peace treaty is equally opposed to the views of the Emperor. At all events his Majesty, I presume, must have learned the exact views of the British Cabinet from the Ambassador at tho Court of St. James', who is still at Corn peigue. I have little doubt events will occur which will disperse the clouds now hovering in THE AFRICAN MAIL. PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY. The Ni g er arrived here this morning with Afri can mails, 18 passengers, 2,000 ounces of gold, and a full cargo. She left Fernando Po ou October 2d ; Lagos, 7th ; Accra, 9th ; Cape Coast, 11th ; Mon rovia, 14th ; Sierra Leone, 21st ; Gambia, 24th ; Goree, 25 ch ; Teneriffe, 29th ; and Madeira, 31st. The coast generally was healthy. Affairs were quiet ; trade was dull. Teneriffe and Madeira were free from cholera. The scourge, Prometheus, and Minx were at Lagos. Th e lecla, Myrmidon, and Bloodhound were at Sierra Leone. The Candace mail packet and the Haspar were at Madeira. A. serious collision occurred at Bonny on the 21st of September among the natives, many of whom on both sides were killed and wounded. The affray was terminated by the interposition of the traders. Since the removal of King Peppel the chiefs have had frequent disputes, which are likely to continue unless the King is restored. The traders fired on the town of Cameroons on the 25th of September, in order to frighten the natives, who refused to pay their debts. No damage was done. The inhabitants of Lagos are fearful of an attack from King Rosoko, who claims some slaTes there. Y'sterday a scaffolding was erected in the vestibule of the General Post-office, for the purpose of removing the present roof. It is to be replaced by one of glass. The Nuremberg Correspon - lent has a letter from Swit zerland, which says that enrolments for Naples on a large scale are being carried on very actively in that country, a high bounty and good pay being offered to recruits. DISCOVERY OP ANRER.-1 letter from Konigsberg states in the province of Pru-sia, not far from the coasts of the Baltic, a large layer of yellow amber has been discovered. It is in Prussian Lithuania, near the vil lage of Proekuls. A telegraphic despatch from Frankfort states that the Committee of the Diet, composed of the representatives of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony, Baden, and Hesse Darmstadt, has declared in favour of Prussia as regards the affair of Neuchatel. Prussia is, according to the Jou; i ial des D e bats, likely to join the Russo-French al l :lance, which the organ of the Orleanists is anxious 4 4,0 see established, in the interest of course of the l'Aapoleon dynasty. A journal of Nior . ; (Deux-Sevres) says that for some ' days past flights birds have been seen in the neigh• b,urhood p9O :in g; fr om th e north to the south. This is coneideree. an indication of an early and severe winter. g Towx, Sept. 19.—The 80th Regiment arri7fed here this morning, after a toilsome march from the Bay. The band of the 6th marched out to welcome them, and headed the column of about 300 strong in their entry to the city. DEATH OF LORD MIDDLETON, CAPTAIN R.N.—We regret to announce the death of Captain the Right Hon, Dighy Lord Middleton, which mournful event took place on Wednesday, at Wollaton, Notts. Ha entered the navy May 20, 1782, and obtained his first commis sion Jan. 10, 1794. DEATH OF CAPTAIN DANlELL.—Retired Captain G. Daniell died on the 2d inst., at his residence, Mount Dillon, Dublin. R e en t ere d th e navy June 24,1810. DEATH OF COMMANDER GLANVILL.—Retired Com mander G. Glanvill (order in council, 1816) died at Southdown, Millbrook, recently, at the advanced age of 86. He entered the navy June 3, 1790. DEATH OF PAUL DELAROCHE.—The French papers announce the death of the celebrated Paul Delaroche. He was only 59 years of age. He had the satisfacti en before his death to see restored his great work, the finest mural painting in France, which was feared to have been irreparably damaged by the fire at the Ecole des Beaux Arta about two years ago. In the course of the morning of Tuesday last he was engaged in conversation with M. Horace _Vernet, his father-in-l a w, with M. Goupil, and with bile of his medical attendants. Death was out CA hie thoughts ; and it is even men tioned that he sent a message to a tailor respecting the shape of a new Coat. Shortly afterwards, wh ile 'sitting in an arm chair—without betraying P. any agitation a groan—hi s When m b.eavdernfeeltl on his and his friends reached his side he was a cor ps e . Th e b reaaonrd uttering e w as dead. cause was disease of the heart. DEATH OF MR. A. BRETTLE . .—A few days since an I ordinary announcement in the advertising columns of Cfalignani's Messenger stated that Mr. Alfred Brettlo h a d di e d o f epilepsy at his residence, 91, Champs El sees. It has been since stated in some Lo n d on journal that the deceased gentleman, being at the Chantilly races, gave up his seat inside his carriage to a f r i en d, and getting upon the top seat he fell off (having drunk too much champagne), and died of the injuries received. FREN Some of Mr. Brettle's friends, not bei ng sa ti s fi e d as to the cause of his death, have applied to the Procur eur - Imperial to postpone the funeral, and order a po s t modem examination, which is expected to take pl ace to-day.CH COINAGE.—By a ministerial decision, for every million of francs struck off in five franc pieces there are 50,000 f. produced in smaller coins —viz., 10,0001. in 2f., 25,000 f. in lf., 12,500 f. in 50c., and 2,5001. in 20c. The million of gold is divided as follows :-850,000f. in 20f., 100,000 f. in 10 f., and 50,000 f. in sf. pieces. Letters from St. Petersburg state that Prince Gort schakoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has had a long conferedce with Baron de Werther, the Prus sian ambassador, on the subject of Neuchatel, and that the Cour s of Prussia and Russia are in accord as to the st2ps to be taken in this affair. The journals of Vienna, on their side, state that Austria also shares the views of Prussia on the subject. ANOTHER DEATH IFROaI INJURIES RECEIVED AT THE SURREY GARDENS.—Lait evening Mr. W. Carter, coro• ner for East Surrey, held an inquest at Stamford Rooms, Stsmford•stre e t, Blackfriars-road, relative to the death of Mr. Jam es Cl are , who was one of the parties injured at the Surr e y G ar d aa s, on Sunday, the 1 9 th ult. The Coroner inti mate d t h a t after the recent lengthened in quiry he did not coneider it nece ssar y to p ut the coun try be th e e x pense o f exa mining the numerous witnesses. Toe jury a ccor di ng l y re turned au open verdict. IMPORTANT To SHIPOWNERS AND UNDERWRITERS.— LIVERPOOL, Thur s d a y.--The committee of the !Aiverpool Underwrit ers ' A ssoc i a ti on have received a communica don from N ew Y or k, a nnouncing that the insurance offices in th a t c it y h ave a g reed to limit the loading of American built ships engaged in the carriage of grain to three•fourths of their registered tonnage. MADAME Tues Ann's FAUIDITION.—SeveraI additions have lately been made in the orchestra by a clever adap• Wien of drums, cymbals, bells, &c. ; they are chiefly at tached to other instruments, and thereby greatly in crease the power and effect of the musical department, which is one of the charms and graces of attraction to this popular establishment. Many novelties are, we un derstand, in progress to amuse and instruct the visitors dui ing the time of the Cattle Sho e in Baker -.g reet. The Toronto Colonist says :—" We undc sand that tha Government have just completed a survey and plans to build tw o f ort ifi c ations and two towers at St. Lain bert, South Montreal. Ono of the fortifications we un derstand, and one of the towers, is to be erected above the Victoria-bridge ; the others just below the works of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway Company." A. letter from Lille says Nothing is talked of here but nn affair which, if carried out, will completely change the face of the town. It is in contemplation to demolish thee ramparts and fortifications, and carry the line of de ff mce beyond th e a dj o i n i n g commune of Wazerrunee nod 'oven E quer mes . Lill e , sedlich has now n popul ation of from 75,000 to 80,000 souls, heaped as it were one on another in c our t s an d garre ts, will then be able to bre athe freely, and h ave p l en t y o f a ccommodation." THE LATE ATTEMPTED Ass ASSINATION IN SPITAL FIUDS.—YostonIay morning the police-constable War ner, 53 ft, and the oun man Moore, who were stabbed g by the G erman en S un d a y m orning last in Spi t a lfields, were rep or t e d b y t h e h ouse surgeon of the London Hos y pital to be in a very dangerous position. The condition of Moore has not improved since Tuesday , and of the twee he app ears to b e i n the more critical state. A letter front Berlin, of the 3d, says :—" The Russian Aide-de-camp Ald.ebinski, who arrived here last week f rom S t . P e tenburg, has left for Paris. His journey is connected. with the more intimate relations now t a ki : 70p utsi pJa. plAce between France a nd HERAT. The following extract is taken from a letter which appears in the AI oniteur de l' Armee of the sth, written, it is stated, by an European officer, serving in the Persian army before Herat "The Persian army consists of 2.5,000 infantry, of a body of cavalry which occupies the whole- of the sur rounding country, and of a regular siege train, the whole under the command of a General-in-Chief named Tziz-Khan. The siege works are directed by a French officer of great merit,, formerly a student at the Poly technic School. The batteries are commanded by Cap tain Kirziz, a Persian officer of considerable talent. The cavalry is under the command of an Austrian officer. The principal engineerir g operations are being directed against Fort Nuucbky, which i 3 the key of all the external works. By the latest accounts, dated the 2a of September, the breaching batteries had opened against the soe.thern face of this work, and if it were taken, which appeared probable, the fall of Herat would be certain. There would then be nothing to oppose to the besieging army but an old bastioned wall, built in 1838, which could not resist a regular attack properly led. An English officer, late of the Company's service, directs the engineering operations within the town, but Isa Khan's army is in a complete s ate of demoralisa tion, and every day numerous desertions go to swell the .Persian ranks. ITALY. The following letter has been addressed by M Mania to the Unione of Turin : " Fame, Nov. 4, " Sir,—Your Parisian correspondent has included me among the parti , ans of Prince Murat. That statement IS incorrect, and I hope you will permit roe to rectify it. I rally to the flag of the national party, whote wish is the independence and unification of Italy. I may accept an advance, though slow, in the way which leads to a final object, until an opportunity be presented of attain• ing it completely ; but, in any case, I disapprove a nd re jec•:, every r:trogracle or divergent step, and I therefore reject and disapprove the Muratist solution as anti national. The Muratist solution would not be progress, but retrogre•sion. I, for our misfortune, it succeeded, i t would consolidate the Austrian domination in Northern Italy; it would introduce in N a ples a n i n di rec t f o rei g n dependence ; it would probably disme m b er Si c ily, aa d , abandon it to another for e i gn i n fl uence , an d it w ould create a most serious obstacle to future unification. Murat on the throne of Naples could not, even if he wished, establish a national policy, nor a libaral policy. Murat on the throne of Naples would be fatally, and by the inevitable force of circumstances, the rival and the antagonist of the House of Savoy, and necessarily the friend and the ally, secret or avowed, of Austria, the natural enemy of that house. . " He who affirms that Murat, when King of Naples► would give a liberal Constitution, form an alliance with Piedmont, and furnish a contingent of troops for the war against Austria, is either a dupe or a deceiver. Suc h things Murat while a Pretender may promise, but that promise Murat when King would not and could no fulfil. "Far from me any intention of personal offence. speak not of the man, whom Ido not know. I speak of the situation and its inevitable conditions. I sum uP my intimate convictions in these words —he who is ge partisan of Murat is a traitor to Italy. Accept, &c ;: " MAN IN. PRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday morning at half-past nine at the Palace of Compiegne. By an Imperial decree the ad interim, managS meat of the Department of th e I n terior by Ai- Abbatucci ceased yesterday, and M. Billault r °- sumed his functions. We read in the Constitutionnel :•-•‘‘ Two Loed i f il t ward the the Observer and th e Times, announce tu 2 a the Emperor Alexander 11., in order to re ar Count Walewski, French Minister of Foreign.. Affairs, for the services which he rendered t° sia during the war has restored to him the Il es which belonged to his family. M. Walevisk' not possess any property in Poland, and the Iv us sian Government has never confiscated any belonging to his family. Th e s t a t emen t mad e b y the English journals is th ere f ore com pl e tely gn i : founded. It is to be regrett e d th a t j ourna l s whicu, ' respect themselves should aid i n th e c i rcu l a ti o n 01 such calumnies. estates The Debats, with the mljority of the Paris preset approves of the article published on Wednesday by the Constitutionnel, and contains the following ob servations : " Will fresh conferences be opened in rari Three weeks ago the question did not exist, for the new conferences were spoken of as a project that had been agreed to unanimously by the Powers re presented in the first congress of Paris. If we are to believe rumours that have obtained a certain consistency to-day this project is doubtful, and en counters the opposition of two of the powers which had in the first instance approved of the measure. These two powers, it is scarcely necessary to add , are England and Austria. It is refused in London and Vienna, so it is said, to take part in the nev i congress, or a consent to participate in it will be given only on the condition that Russia shall be excluded ! This new conflict, of which we have been aware for the last few days is alluded to this morning by a journal w hi c h has probably deriv e ', its information from a goo d source. Thi s co nduel . of England and o f A us t r i a i s eas i ly expla i ne d bl the differences of op i n i on w hi c h h ave ar i se n bf: tween those powe rs an d F rance re l at i ve to 4 occupation of th e P r i nc i pa liti es an d o f th e Black Sea. It is ev id en tl y f eare d t h at the majority' ( 1 0 f the congress of Paris would not be favourabll3% the pret e n s i ons o f A ustr i a an d o f E ng l an d. IL et journal of whi c h we spea k o ff ers on this eubje o certain observatio n s, th e t ru th an d o pportunor o f of which ar e o f a na t ure t o mee t th e a pprovai ot all. We cannot understand, for our part, ' 7 plausible motive can be advanced in order to e jo elude Russia from the new conferences. Ruset s . interested in several questions which are to be 30 cussed in the new conferences. By what right ° he these questions be discussed and decided on in t' t ,' t absence of that power ? We therefore believe th o , Austria and England will not persist in the 0 1 3 . 1) 0 sition which is attributed to them. We beh e 0 , that the new congress will meet because it is ne ce l y sary, and it is necessary because it is the 0 , 13 0 means of settling the secondary difficulties ,tii es have arisen in the execution of some of the avt' c of the treaty of Paris. It has been agreed UP. de that the congress should meet in order to d a p, on all these reserved questions. Surprise 1 °:o therefore, be expressed that two of the pe w if which signed the treaty of Paris should wthdr. A oh themselves from the application of principles Wh i rs , they proclaimed in common with the other p?v re ill We are confident that England and Austria " b , submit themselves to the rule which was es° lished by themselves. BOSRSE, Nov. 6.—The following were the 133 quotations : _ Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 66 50 66 65 New Loan Bank Shares 3,875 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,360 Austrian Belgian Fives 974— Spanish Threes...... 33; Piedmentese (5) B9 Home Debt ......... RAILWAYS—FOR CASK. C. fr. c. 80 fr ' - , DO Orleans 1,230 Western Sl O Northern 930 St ras b urg .. .......... _,,, i ,/ , Lyons 1,25 5 6:35 -- N Gr e a w nd p e it e t n o t ....... .............. ........ ?9. `" Mediterr anean 1 ii () Lyons Gene va Cette SPAIN. ,Tbe The Madrid Gazette, of the 2d, says the governmest having received some numbers of tea Paris journal, the FreGA, in which are inse r ,„ s . articles signed by Patricio do la. &costal,' ;0 minister of the Crown, and loaded with fa v e ., ° l o , and decorations by her Majesty—articles cone' ing grave offences against the Queen, o ur S a ps' reign, reign, and against the King, has resolved to WO mit these numbers to the tribunals, iu order tor, a prosecution may be instituted against the su tb s ay For that purpose the necessary orders have a l ff t iog been given, the act being, according to the e ve laws, subject to the Spanish tribunals. can doubt that the tribunal which is to t r -r tir hI case, 3calons, like all Spaniards, of the hor ri ir ea its t-;)vereign, will e xerc i se th e a ctivity re c i tl e . nt s by so grave an affitir, which offends the scn,_ tirr i v ore of all honourable men of the country o'n% read these discreditable writings." The 1- o , c , v -l e rio Progressist journal, has ceased to appear. ' - ', l - 0 11, ha persons, Dave, in v co ir lu tt p u r ) o o n t i . ised in the insurrection 0 1 a to the recent amnesty, retarilc,eaeo), their homes. The Duke de Valencia (14-a'r— who had been indisposed, is better. cl t b° Tide Prussi a n government has just publisbe be new customs tariff of the ZoliTerein, which r, carried into execution on the Ist J a nuary, -1- ' 1- k so .° - The editors of the provincial j ourn als in — u o t ta Lave received verbal notice that they ar e r t - Dee° discuss the merits of measures which have ri"" spoken of in the official journal.