The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCP CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, but prices were firm. The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, of which about 500 were on specu lation. The Railway Share Market closed steadily, with little variation. Accounts from the French grain markets report firmness in the prices of wheat, and an improve ment in the amount of business transacted. In rye, however, there has been a sudden suspension of sales, in consequence of a rumour being circu lated that the authorities were projecting a mea sure prohibiting the sale of rye which exhibited the appearance of the ergot disease, as it was known to be commo amongst the crops this year. Accounts from Marseilles announce continued arrivals of grain at that port. The quantity imported during Sep tember was 1,000,000 hectolitres, and 3,200,000 do. during the quarter. The market, up to the Ist inst., continued quiet ; aid although the arrivals were important, still very little of the grain was bought for the interior. The purchases for Lyons were for the time diminishing when the wheats of Dauphiny were in demand. Spain, which has sent largely to the Marseilles market for a long time past, has recently been very limited in her supplies, and accounts from that country state that there is a good market at home this season for all the produce. The imports from Taganrog, Ber diansk, and Marianopol are not so extensive as they were, and it is reported that the supplies at these shipping ports are not arriving so abundantly from the interior. In the Colonial Produce Markets this week a moderate business has been transacted at firm prices, but there has been an absence of activity. For sugar a good demand has existed, but pur chases have been checked by the high prices de manded. Some descriptions of Bengal have been old at a slight advance. Coffee was rather cheaper early in the week, but it has since realised full rates. Tea has ruled dull, and cocoa is 2s. to 3s. per cwt. dearer. Rice has been held firmly, and a steady inquiry has prevailed. Saltpetre has been in brisk demand at full rates to Gd. per cwt. ad vance. Indigo rose 3d. to Gd. per lb. yesterday afternoon, owing to the advices from India that the crop was not expected to exceed 100,000 maunds. Spices have been quiet, but nutmegs have been at a slight enhancement. Tallow has been dull. There is now an easier feeling in the Money Market, although a good demand still exists for money, owing to the large amount of commercial bills falling due to-morrow, the 4th of the month. Money in Lombard -street is now obtainable at a trifle below the quotation of the Bank, so that the applications for discounts at that establish ment are consequently limited. The Pera, which leaves Southampton to-morrow for the East Indies and China, has about 778,700/. in specie on board. A firm engaged in the rice trade has failed this morning. The liabilities are supposed to be very heavy. The improvement of 11 per cent. on the Paris Bourse yesterday, and the prospects of a diminution n the demand for silver, have operated favourably on the market for Public Securities, and a large business has been done, at enhaxced rates. Consols opened at 93 to 93f for money and the Bth inst., then touched 93i and are now about 93 to 931. For the November account the quotation is 931- Ex chequer Bills are 7s. to lls. premium ; and the Bonds are 99 to 99g. East India Bonds have been 90 to 99i. The Foreign Market is exceedingly dull, but most of the securities dealt in are at enhanced rates. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 100 to 1001, and the 4 per Cents. 101. French 3 per Cents, are 2 prem., and Dutch 24 per Cents. 641. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market for American Securities during the past week as dull. Transactions in State Bonds have been few ; and the chief business in railway bonds and shares has been in those of the Illinois Central. The fol lowing are tko quotations : Redeemable. Per Cent. United States 6 per Cants. 1867-1868...104a 105 a United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1861...104 105 i STITH SECURITIES. Alabam a 5 p er C en t Bl 83 Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 186 S-1872 .:: Maryland 5 p er C en t. (St er li ng B on d s )... 92 93 M assachusetts 5 per Cent. (Ste r l. Bonds). ...100 101 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk. Bond s 1841_480.." 15 40 42 Missi ss i ppi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds 74 76 P ennsylvania 5 p er C en t. St oo k P ennsylvania 5 p er C en t. B onds 1877..• 80 Tennesse 6 per C ent. Bonds. 84 86 Virginia 6 per C ent. Bonds 1886... 82 84 LOANS . Montreal 6 per C ent. Bonds OF CITIES 1856-1865... 83 85 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. let Mortgage, 1875". 80i 81i not vertile Illinoi C s C on entral b 6 per Cent 1875... 78 80 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. F ree l an d Bond s N 93 Illinois Central (Sh ares ), $2 5 paid 1860... 10 12 p Mic hgan Central Bp. C en t . , Convert 1860... 90 91 Do do. do. N ew York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 92 93 N ero York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertibl e 1883... 80 82 N ew York and Erie 7 per Cent. let Mort gag© 1867... 98 100 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage ~ 1883.- 85 87 York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 82 84 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund Panam a 7 per Cent., let Mortgage (Ster -1875... 82 84 ling Bonds), not convertible ............ Panam a 7 per Cent., let Mort g age 1859._ 91 1864... 92 94 The i 93i Pennsyl van i a Central 6 p. Cent., Ist M or t.lBBo .. • 8 8i 89 i Euphrates Valley Railway Company have received intelligence from Constantinople that it is expected the Sublime Porte will guarantee 6 per cent. on the capital of 8,000,000/, for the construc tion of the line from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. Railway shares all considerably advanced in the early part of the day, but they are now rather flatter ; they are still, however, on the average, 103. to 11. better. Great Northern A. stock has risen 1/. to 21., and the Foreign and Colonial mar ket continues dull. The shares of the Ceylon Com pany have improved to 14 premium, orrln g to the terms proposed for the construction of the line hav ing passed the Legislative Council. Foreign and Colonial Mining Shares are inactive, and prices are nominal. Joint Stock Bank Shares are neglected. B an k of Lond on a d vanced to 624 London wer e quoted 26. , 63, and U n i on o f In Miscellaneous Shares the principal feature h as been a rise of 10 per cent. in Canada Land Shares, which are now quoted 116 to 117. The Canada Government 6 per Cents. are 112, General Screw Steam 12k, and Loudon Omnibus Com pany 3i. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. ( From the Official Lid; Itt 'inn. . erne. 3 per C on t . C onso l s A nnu iti eg (13i 3 } 24 3 India Bonds, £lOOO .........- '''''''''''' 1 .... 1 3 Ditto, under £lOOO R ank Stock f or A ccount 219 934 i 3 2 Consois (or Account Es .hequer Bills, 20. ' 7 11 p £lOOO ............ ...... E5OO ......................................... 13 s p limall ........... Ditto Bonds, 1 858, 34 per Cent. 99 1 Ditto, 1859 .................. .. HIS PAY. PRICES OF • FOREIGN FUNDS T ' 101 100 ?., Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent kexicau 3 per Cent .......... titan Account .. .......... Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cont.., — Dittoitto 4i per Cent. ..... . S PanisD Small t Bonds, 3 per Cent ... I)itto Account Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Passive 64 Wurkieh Bonds, 6 ... Cir...c.Ont. ; on Ditto A.ceouut P . .• • .. 1001 100 ~ I)itto Guaranteed ~..P;rCont. bilk) Account ....... 1 , Divloendi. on t he a b ove payab!e in London 101. keneti R entes, 44 p er Copt. .......... Dit Di tto 3 pe r C ent ........ to Scrip, 2d Loan of 1855 .......... 2 p aintell Exchange, 2L per Cen.;., 12 Guilders 611 C culsols, THREE O'CLOCK. money 92 Di tto, account, October 8 ft- e sterday i nformation was transmitted to the coroner's tr e th i c e e4 of the di , covery of the lif e l ess b o d y of a child, ti was found buried in a d us t h eap , at 4, Stanley ...Nue:4°o4:lBoa ; having, as it is conjectured, been brutally SIR C. NAPIEI AND THE TIMES." TA THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Mr. Editor,—l send you the eopy of a letter I have addressed to the Editor of the 'Times; you will oblige me by inserting it in your valuably, journal.—l remain, your obedient servant, Murchistown, Oct. 1, 1856. CHAs. NAPIER. TO THIS EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Mr. Editor,--If your Special Correspondent had taken the trouble to examine the chart of Cronstadt, which a sensible and honest man ought to have done before he attacked me, he would have seen that the north of Cron stadt could only be approached by gun and mortar boats with a light draught of water, not one of which I had. He would also have seen that the passage to the north (which was never navigable for large ships) was protect ed by a barrier, supported by 8 or 10 block ships, up wards of 100 gun-boats, several stearnerP, and the boats of 20 rail of the line. Your Special Correspondent says—" The Russians were perfectly aware that the northern side could be forced, and that it was quite possible for a determined enemy to run past the forts, most of which were con structed in arcs of spheres, having their maximum amount of guns available for an enemy passing their right flank." Now, Mr. Editor, the Russians knew perfectly well that the passage to the north was not practicable for large ships, and there were no batteries constructed in arcs of spheres. To the north it was barred, as I have already described, and only could have been attacked by gun and mortar boats of light draught of water ; and this I stated to the Admiralty in 1854, and was compli• mented on what they were pleased to term my very able report. In 1855, when Admiral Dundas appeared off, they had in the winter of 1854-5 constructed another barrier outside of the shoal water, to further protect the north ; and though he found a passage through the piles in his gig, he did not venture to attack the north of Cronstadt with the gun-boats he had at his disposal. Why he was not furnished with more, the Admiralty can best answer ; they had a year for consideration. In 1856, when I wasat Cronstadt, they had constructed a third barrier right across, protected by five batteries, which rendered all attack o❑ the north impossible. Had the Admiralty, in the autumn of 1853, well ex amined the north of Cronstadt, they would have known that gun and mortar boats were the only means of attacking it with success ; and if I could make such a report from a reconnaissance from the sea in 1854, a much better one might have been made from the north wall in 1853. You have done everything in your power, Mr. Editor, since the 4th of October, 1854 (the day on which the hoax of Sebastopol arrived in England), to ruin my re putation ; but I think you have failed, and your Special Correspondent has put you deeper in the mire. I remain, your obedient servant, Merchistown, Oct. 1, 1856. CHA3. NAPIER. THE GERMAN LEGION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--I read with much pleasure your admirable article in last evening's paper on " Military Colonisa tion," and quite concur in your views " that the offer ought first to have been made to Englishmen," for even had they declined it the Government could then have had recourse to the Foreign Legions ; but from my ex perience I am certain there would have been no difficulty in obtaining plenty of men equally " trained to arms" as the German oprps, who would have been glad to have embraced the opportunity. I refer to the regiments of disembodied militia, for on the arrival of the order for disembodiment of the regiment I served in I inquired of a number of men how they liked the prospect of being again thrown on their own resources, but the majority replied that "now they had once adopted a military life they would rather continue it even though it were on foreign service." most Apo obe log dientisingly, for troubli ng you —I remain, sir, yours A MILITIA OFFICER, London, 3d October, 1856. WALTER SAVAGE LAND OR ON TYRANNICIDE, TO J. I!ERITON WHITE. At the present time I have only 1001. of ready money at my disposal, and am never likely to have so much in future. Of this I transmit to you five, towards " the acquisition of 10,000 muskets to be given to the first Italian province which shall rise." The remaining 95/. I reserve for the family of the first patriot who asserts the dignity and performs the duty of tyrannicide. Abject men have cried out against me for my commendation of this virtue, the highest of which a man is capable, and now the most imperative. Is it not an absurdity to re mind us that usurpers will rise up afresh Do not all transgressors And must we therefore lay aside the terrors of chastisement, or give a ticket of leave to the most atrocious criminal Shall one enslave millions ? Shall the laws be subverted, and we be told that we act against them or without their sanction when none are left us, and when, guided by eternal justice, we smite down the subvertor ? Three or four blows, instantane ous and simultaneous, may save tire world many years of war and degradation. If it is unsafe to rob a citizen, shall it be safe to rob a people In what country is not every schoolboy taught, even by the priests who are ordinarily his instructors—here impelled unconsciously by a hand invisible—to applaud the self-devoted vindi cator The ferule strikes the desk, and the boy rises at once into the man. WALTXR SAVAGE LANDOR. ART GOSSIP. MONUMENT TO THE BRIGADE OF GUARDS.—The officers of the brigade of Guards ,propose to raise a monument to the officers and men of the brigade who have fallen in the late struggle. According to the terms of the meeting at which the project was discussed, the monument is likely to be on a grand scale. The officers have already appointed a committee to see it carried out, with Sir Alexander Woodford at its head. Mr. HOLTORD'S HOUSE in Park lane is completed exteriorly. Its palatial grandeur and perfect harmony of parts reflect great credit to its owner and to its archi tect, Mr. Vulliamy, while it worthily adorns the site it occupies. Its interior decorations are, we are happy to hear, to be entrusted to an Englishman—tha talented Mr. Stevens "of Kensington." MONUMENT TO SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The Mayor and Corporation of Lincoln are taking measures to erect a monument to Sir John Franklin, the hero and chief victim in the dreary Arctic episode of our day. MONUMENT TO LORD ORMONDE.—Mr. Richardson has just completed an elaborate and beautiful tomb and recumbent statue to be erected to the memory of the late Lord Ornionde. It will be placed in the family vault in the Cathedral Church, Kilkenny. A STATUE OF LAGRANGE, the celebrated mathemati cian, is about to be erected at Turin, where he was born in 176 G. Lord Ellesmere has recently placed a slab of marble inlaid with brass to mark the spot in the north aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel where Addison has been sleeping for a hundred years. STRAND THEATRE. The announcement of a new burlesque at this theatre ever secures a full attendance of the admirers of that class of dramatic literature. The success of Mr. Dillon in "Belphegor,"at the Lyceum, has induced the manage ment of the Strand to seize on the subject for their last novelty. To say that " Belphegor" proved as success. ful as any of its predecessors hardly conveys an idea of the shouts of laughter and applause that are elicited by the many quip s an d cranks, puns and personalities with which it abounds. Mr. Leicester Buckingham, who now appears for the first time as a burlesque writer, has succeeded to a d m i ration, and the unequivocal success of this his first effort will doubtless encourage him to fol low up " Balpbegor" with many others. The plot of "Belphegor"is necessarily deviated from to some extent, but the main features are preserved. Miss Cuthber', who represents the Mountebank, gives a somewhat pathetic p our t raya l of the trials and sufferings of Pail lasse, following the example set by Robson, of rendering the tfagic phases of the character conspicuous. Mr. H. J. Turner, as Madeline ; Mr. Clarke, the vil lain of the piece ; Miss Thirlwall, as an opera singer ; and Mrs. Woollidge, as an ex-prima -donna, secured an entire success, which was greatly enhanced by the music by Mr. Chambers, and some capital scenery by Mr. Herbert. " Belphegor" bids fair to run to Christmas. WEST HARTLEPOOL, Sept. 30.----The American-built clipp er . s hi p Ki ng Phili p has j ust arrivwd at this port for the purpose of being docked and fitted with the auxiliary screw. The King Philip, together with the Stamboul auxiliary screw, 1,400 tons, which is at pre sent also in dock at West Hartlepool, have been pur chased by the newly formed Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Company, and are intended to run on a new line between London and Australia. Both these vessels are reported to be remarkably fast sailers, and both are Very fine specimens of naval architecture. The Roy a l Belgian mail steam-ship Constitution, the arrival of which was noticed in The Sun some weeks ago, is still here. She has been thoroughly overhauled and sur veyrseed, an d is expected to leave for Antwerp in the cou of a few days Prior to her departure for New York she will take 1,000 tons of coals on board at this L an as occ as ion may require, by porteo. old The C onst i tution will shortly ho followed by the p, the whole o f d ultimatel y, the ships and important PREDIC TED PALL OF formingline. this new biography of a Wesleyan minister, just issued in Ca nada, we noti ©the following calculation, which is very NAPOLEON lII—In the auto curious. It was communicated by a Frenchman to an English friend. Fall of Robespierre c in the year 1794. have the fall of Napoleon Repeat 1794 in s i n _ le ai figures, and add the whole, and you 1., 1815. Repeat fore, and you have the fall of Charles X. 1830. Repeat and you. have the fall of the Duke of Orleans, 1842. Repeat, and you have in this year, Louis Napoleon will fall, 1857. Thus: as be -1794 1815 1 1830 1 1342 _-- --__ - 815 1330 1842 1357 mix SUN, LONDON, FRIDA Y ITTENING OCTOBER 3; 1A156. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(Z"his Day.) known and expert thief, infesting the metropolitan rail way stations, was brought before Mr. Combs, charged with stealing a valuable watch and chain from the per son of Luke Woodward, at the Croydon Railway Ter i minus, London-bridge. The prosecutor, a powerful-looking gentleman, stated that on Thursday afternoon, about three o'clock, he was in the booking-office of the Croydon Railway Station, waiting for his ticket to proceed to Croydon fair. There were several hundred persons there at the time, and while he was stooping over to the booking clerk the prisoner pushed against him very roughly, and snatched his watch from his waistcoat pocket, breaking the chain. Witness immediately caught hold of him, and struck him on the head, completely stunning him, so that he was easily captured and handed over to the custody of the police. BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE FIELD. This bankrupt was described as of Prince's-street, Storey's -gate, printer, and to-day came up to pass his last examination, on accounts prepared by Mr. May nard, Bread-street. The balance-sheet, commencing Dec., 1854, and ending Aug., 1856, shows :—Debtor to creditors, 1,2161. 15s. ; liabilities, 1421. ; creditors, secured, 1201. ; Mutual Loan Association, 1551. (secured by policy and bill of sale) ; profits, 5721. ; surplus, Dec., 1854, 375/. ; do. holding security, 1201. Creditor by good debts, 1081. 4s. 10d. ; property given up, 276/. ; furniture sold under bill o sale ) 3641. ; property in the hands of creditors, 1351. trade expenses, 3161, ; house do., 8671. ; losses, 7551, lls. Under the head of the latter is the following : On the 23d of February, 1855, bankrupt borrowed of the Mutual Loan Association 2501. on my protnis gory note, to be paid by monthly instalments of 121. 18a. 4d., and further secured by a bill of sale on my household furniture, plate, linen, &c., then at Dor set-terrace, Clapham, but now of Prince's-street, West minster, of which there is an inventory. The instal ments were paid up to, and including that due on the 21st July, 1856, on the days they became due, amount. ing to 1551. The bill of sale was never on the premises until the 20th of August, 1856 ; and o❑ the 22d of August they took possession of the whole of the furni ture, which was sold by auction, and realised 3641. The association also held a policy of assurance on the life of the bankrupt, effected in 1842 or 1843, for 1,0001., and on which the premium has been paid up to July, 1857. There were no bad debts, and the doubtful debts were only 241. The whole of the losses, therefore, arose on the realisation of the stock and under the bill of sale. Mr. Reed appeared for the assignees, and the bank. rupt passed without opposition. The prisoner, who exhibited a bruise near the right eye, here said that be thought the gentleman had suffi ciently punished him. He hoped his worship would take that into consideration in awarding him his imprison ment. Mr. °Abe asked what was know❑ of him Thomas Richards, a detective constable in the employ of the Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, said he knew the prisoner to be a reputed thief, and that ho belonged to a desperate gang infesting the rail way station. Ou Thursday afternoon witness was on duty about the terminus, and just before the Croydon train started he saw the prisoner pushing among the crowd. At the same time a Brighton train was about to start, so that nearly 300 persons were collected together. Witness saw the prisoner snatch the gen tleman's watch, but before he could make his way to the spot the prosecutor knocked him down, and while the prisoner was scrambling up with the watch and chain in his hand he took him into custody. Mr. Combo asked whether he had seen him at the railway terminus before Witness replied that he had, and warned him away. Several robberies were committed at the station, and it was a difficult job to keep the thieves away. The prisoner said he did not want any more jaw about the affair. He did snatch the gentleman's watch , and his intention was to prig it. Mr. Combe—Then you plead guilty ? Prisoner—Yes, sir; I am guilty. Mr. Combe—This is a very impudent robbery, and I shall commit you to the House of Correction for six months. POLICE INIT.T.T.TGENCE.— (This Day. MANSION-HOUSE. Prisoner—Well, that's a clincher. (Laughter.) MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. There has been only a moderate arrival of English wheat up to our market this week, coastwise and by land car • riage. To-day the show of samples was small. Selected qualities changed hands steadily, at very full prices, and the value of other kinds was well supported. Nearly 18,009 quarters of foreign wheat have come fresh to hand. The demand for that grain was by no means active, yet the quotations were well maintained. Both barley and malt were in good request, at very fall prices. We were scantily supplied with oats, for which the de mand ruled steady, and good sound corn was rather dearer. Brans, peas, and four were firm, at very full prices. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. 310 I Malt. I °its. I Four. 1,530 330 f 140 I 630 1 / 3,740 i — 350 --- 1 6,780 brls. English .. Irish .... Foreign 1 I 17,760 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Nearly the whole of the supply of beasts in to•day's market were the refuse of Monday, and in ►ery middling condition. The beef trade ruled heavy, and prices were barely supported. We were but scantily supplied with sheep; nevertheless, all breeds moved off slowly, at Mon- day's currency. There was a fair number of calves in the market, and the ►eal trade was depressed, at a farther decline in ►alue of 2d per 8 lbs. Pigs moved off steadily, at full prices. Milch cow■ were dull, at from 14/ to 19/ each, including their small calf. Per albs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.' Interior Beasts.... 2 Bto 3 0 Second quality 3 2 3 6 Prime largo oxen 3 8 4 4i Prime Scots, dic. 4 6 4 8 i Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 Second quality ...3 8 4 0, Prime erse.-wlled.4 2 4 4, TOTAL SUPPLY. s. d. meSonthdown 4 8 5 L Pri go crse. calves 3 4 810 Prime small do_ 4 0 4 6 Largo hogs 13 mal1 porkers 4 6 5 0 ,Suckling ca1v05..23 0 29 Quarter old pigs.2l 0 28 0 Beasts .................. 1014 Sheep 3 04 Calves .................. 3114 Pigs ..”....•••••••••••• 810 POILEIGN SUPPLY. Beasts... .......... . 112 Sheep .. .. Calves... •• •••••••••• •• •• 213 Pigs.... ...... .... .. •• .. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The trade generally ruled heavy, and prices wore barely supported. I - - Per 81be by the carcase. Q d. e. d. e. d. e. d Beat, interior 2 ii 210 Mutton, Inforior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 4 0 Do. prime large.. 3 6 3 8 I Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Do., do. ema11....3 10 4 4 I Veal 3 2 4 2 Pork, large 3 8 4 4 I Pork, small 4 3 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. There is :a 'fair demand for nearly all new hops, and prices rule steady. The supply offering is large, and the duty is called 250,000/. Mid and East Kent pockets, 32 10s to 5/ 5s per cwt.; Weald of Kent, 36 5s to 46 4s ; Sussex, 313 s to 41 Os. should like to refer to him. Would ha oblige them, one at a time, with an interview for a few hours I or would he allow them just to state their views ton paper, and then be so good as to write down his objections, if any, to their very valuable schemes ? One of them, a double-class man from Oxford, who cannot speak any tongue but his own, and can scarcely be said to speak that, has a pro ject for a universal language, which the E ng li s h have only to agr e e upon and hey must force it on the rest of the world. Another has a plan for per petual motion ; the power is to be always working and never exhausting itself, and the more you work it the more work there is still in it. He has also a bank on the same principle, that you may draw U pon for e ver w i t h out any danger o f stoppage, and 0 capital all the time. This gentleman is a Scotchinan. An Irish friend entertains a sober conviction that England owes somewhere about five hundred millions to Ireland ; he can give the exact figures. Another has devoted all his life to discover the author of Junius, and has discovered beyond a doubt that,—we forget j us t now w hi c h o f them, is the man. Then there is our very excel lent friend who's so strong on the curren c y the other who's so much to say about the National Debt. When could Lord Stanley give them a hearing ? They are all of them very clever, very good tempered, and will bear almost anything being said to them or about them. It is just pos sible—we will not say more —that Lord Stanley might disabuse some of these gentlemen of their opinions, in which case he would confer a great benefit on society. At all events, this appears to be the sort of game that he lik es, and we should have no objection to lend him a sho o ti ng. The gentleman who has already fou n b d i n Lord Stanley so patient a reader and so obliging a COT. respondent is Mr. Samuel Pope, Honorary Secre tary of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Sup. pression of the Liquor Traffic. For our part, w e believe the Maine Liquor Law, as it is called, to be as purely American and as impossible to b e transplanted to this soil as slavery, or tar-and feathering, or the general use of cowhides, bowie knives, and revolvers. It simply won't do here. As it is an utter impossibility there is no use wasting words upon it. In the discussion of im possibilities there cannot be fair play between a man of common sense and a man destitute of it, for when a thing's clean impossible it may be defended for ever, there being only one answer—viz., that it is impossible. So Lord Stanley's first step was a false one for, believing the M a i ne Li quor Law to be impossible in this country, he began to argue against it on the supposition of its being not only possible, but actually adopted. The Greek proverb asked, " What if the sky should fall ?" and an swered, "We should catch plenty of larks." What kind of bird or beast we should catch if Parliament ever passed a law forbidding the sale of beer, spirits, wine, and every form of intoxicating drink, we do not know ; nor is there any occasion to go even so far as the Greek proverb does in our speculation on the subject. We all of us drink—those, at least, who can —something or other, either fermented liquor, or tea and coffee, which are as bad, if not worse. The drinkers, especially the drinkers of strong drinks, will always so outnumber, and outwit, and outface, and outdo those who do not drink, and the beer-drinkers will always so dominate over the tea drinkers that such a law will never pass. That is a fact anterior to all argument. The other day Mr. Berkeley received from his constituents at Bristol a box of church oak, set with brilliants and worth a thousand guineas, for the zeal and ability he had displayed against a bill for the further clos ing of public-houses on Sunday. That's a fair specimen of a British constituency. Drinking lies at the basis of the British constitution, which, like some of our cathedrals and several capital cities of Europe, may be said to float. The elector drinks at the expense of the candidate, and the recruit at her Majesty's expense, as the preliminary of the solemn engagement that follows. It's the common talk of Teetotallers that we make every occasion of life a pretence for drinking. Lord Stanley says that we spend from fifty to seventy millions a-year in strong drink. With these unbounded means, this uncontrollable appetite, and this immense capacity, we shall continue to drink, and no measure to pre vent us will ever get further than the very thres hold of the Legislature. No doubt, many of us drink too much, and still more of us, who can afford it, eat too much, though Mr. Pope says nothing about it. The doctors say that more constitutions are injured by much eating than . by much drinking, and we believe it. Tea and coffee, too, play their part, though a very insidious one, in undermining constitutions. These . are questions of more or less, and everybody must settle them for himself. But at our present rate of progress, of deteriora tion, it will be at l eas t t en thousand years before we are ripe for a compulsory enactment on the sub ject. We must first have been voluntary Teeto tallers for as many ages as have intervened since we painted our skins and drank the blood of our enemies. Lord Stanley goes into the question with all the simplicity of a dupe on the Ist April. He con siders, successively, the prudence of the proposed measure, its look to the country at large, the open. ing it would give to smuggling, the dearth of amusement it would create, its effect on the re venue, its interference with a habit of self-com mand, the difficulty of drawing up the interpreta tion clause so as to include all intoxicating sub stances and those only, the evasions that would follow, and, meanwhile, the odium brought on societies for voluntary temperance. On all these points Mr. Pope is delighted to join issue, and we are bound to say that, though his argu. ments occasionally remind one of the third cup of tea, he has, in one or two instances, the best of the noble Lord. The noble Lord, however, ret urns to t h e charge, and Mr. Pope replies ; and the re i s no reason why they should not go on till they have got to the bottom of the teacaddy. Indeed there is a maudlin tone about Mr. Pope's concluding remarks which seems to show that he, at least, had exhausted his stimulant. But only think of a correspondence extending to four of our columns between a nobleman and a gentleman gravely discussing the pros and cons of a measure rendering it criminal to sell a glass of ale 1 Supposing that either of the correspondents really has his wits about him, and has also his heart in the question, there is an obvious way of dealing with it. We suggest it with the utmost diffidence, because it is practicable, and we know how disgusting such suggestions always are. When our neighbour in the country invites us to join him in indicting half the roads in the county, we ask him why he allows ruts axle-deep in the road before his own lodge gates. The temperance people are quite welcome to drink as little as they please them selves, and as unintoxicating; but they e,aa only convert the world and convince Parliaments by the force of example. When they can exhibit a large COM. munity in health and strength of body and mind, "wealthy, witty, and wise," they will be sure to have admirers and followers. This is but a dreary world, and the greater part of mankind are still in quest of better cheer than it has yet afforded them. They look about in vain for warm hearts, strong hands, kind looks, sympathy, sincerity, and all that constitutes friendship. Anybody can under stand how it was that the first Christians found such favour with that blighted, desolate, heathen world, when people could say, "How these Chris. tians love one another 1" The temperance people have only to set an example of the virtues which they say are the result of their principle, and they will gain ground every day. To be candid with them, we don't think they over will get even a moiety of the population on their side. In great towns, at least, fighting for our lives against bad air, and noise, and worries of all sorts ; compelled to work at unreasonable hours, enjoying but in different sleep, and having to get up our spit'; for great occasion s , we d ou b t i f any b u t 1 . strongest constitutions can g o th roug h it all 71 that fresh out the use of stimulants; and very sure are y'f . some autilLes strong tea and coffee, though they m co a re y so people, are not the most harmless of them. But, aet besides example, let the temperan ce their wits to work and employ th e i r resou rces of provide means of recreation, oppo for in air, regular and frequent occasi ons ct our 66 eventl ially to gathering, and all that they (NEP an d e supply the place of the gin palace • • a jovial, customs." It won't do to come . ... ; "'„,w_re drinking community like •9 0 1 1 .r17" a new cora. n otaet understood mandment, " Thou shalt . Lux Wine;' This man better. He was a He is no age for teetotaller, but his was no 'no. provided plenty of mere negative doctr ine. tione denial. s prohibitions compensation for theauson, h a _wise, ambition, a their gratifications. even r eason, attractions of the temperance fancy, and They have yet to be shown. What are'the positive cause ? ---Yesterdaybills were issued in offering a reward for the apprehension of so‘wler, who had absconded, having defrauded an @dd Fellows' lodge of between 6001. and : it , n e . u I D , 7001. He had been secretary for five years, and, besides embezzling nearly 2 001, of the money paid by members, in3ill3.3 E na y nn E ga N bin s a ri' me ; h e had defrauded the lodge of COO/. in a rather ingenious wanner. The lodge having some money to invest, he pro posed that they bhould lend him 500/. on the mortgage r 7 houses he possessed; and, having shown the truste and their surveyor the property, the mortgage was 4 cuted and the money handed over. Upon his abscort , the trustees proceeded to take possession under thetas gage deed. They found, however, that the propeyated, already in the possession of a person who had if deed a mortgage prior to theirs; and on reference to 'rented, they discovered that their mortgage had beer by their not in respect to the houses pointed out to Odle o secretary, secretary, but of a piece of leasehold land d brick had site side of the street, on which not a gi 7 a meut iia the 1 ManrhAsttnr Unity. been laid. The affair has caused Much e7l 7PALITIES. JASSY, SEPT. 21. Our time-honoured treaties, Use treaty of Paris, the solemn promises of the Western Powers, and the procla mations issued by the Turkish Commissioner, Dervish Pacha, at the outset of the last war, are at this moment a dead letter. Our hopes of improvement are vanishing by the hour. The rights of self-government, so long en joyed by the Moldo-Wallachians, are violated by the un heard-of proceedings of the Porte. Under the rule of the Phanariote Princes, when the Ministers of the Sultan most interfered in the government of the Principalities, the wishes of the Suzerain were made known by firmans. This form is now dispensed with, and ministerial de spatches take their place. Not content with giving power to the Austro-Russian party, the Porte has deter- Weed to supersede our old self-governing institutions. The Caimacan has just been authorised by a letter from the Grand Vizier to receive the customary annual grant of 600,000 f. to the Prince. At this very time the reve nue of Moldavia is not equal to 4 millions of francs. A ministerial despatch has been considered a sufficient order to close the Bank of Moldavia, and abolish the liberty of the Press. These encroachments on our pri viieges and rights are made at a time when our country is supposed to be consulted on its desires arid its wants. We are gagged when we ought to speak. Better, a thousand times, to be a Russian province than a Turkish Pashalic. Yet this is what the Treaty of Paris has brought us to. As for Austria, she evidently has the noblest part in this drama. England and France have lost torrents of their best blood that Austria may reap the fruits of their victory. The Cabinet of Vienna has just sent her orders to the army of occupation to take up winter quarters in the Principalities. They are overjoyed at this, but little know that they are serving the Russsians better than themselves. Patriotism, in the meanwhile, becomes a bye-word, and we are called ironi cally les Occidentaux (partisans of the West). " Your Napoleons and Palmerstons are noble friends, are they not ? See what they are doing for you! France and England are holding the noose for you ! " Such is the style in which we are daily railed at by the partisans of despotism. Unfortunately for us, circumstances bear out the truth of these sarcasms. The Star of the Danube and the Zimiro, the only inde pendent and liberal journals in the Principalities, have been suppressed, and a dead silence and stupor prevail. The Constantinople Journal can now assert without fear of contradiction that the Russians reject the idea of an union. We can only trust in future to the efforts of the independent press of the West to remind the world of the rights which we are losing. We have now no rallying point here, and indignation is now uppermost in every heart. Read the following Turkish despatch. It is the last we have received, and a specimen of what may ye► PLAYING ON THE BANJO.—Charles Hutchins and Henry Page, two servants, were charged before the Lord Mayor with robbing Mary Robinson, a servant girl. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix that she had a holiday the previous day, and went out to enjoy herself. She and a friend repaired to the Bri tannia, but on arriving there they were unable to gain admittance, aid they went to a public-house opposite, where they saw the two prisoners playing on the banjo. They were much delighted at the music, and after stay ing there some time they rose to depart, when the two prisoners offered to accompany them home, which was accepted. On their way home they called at a public. house and had some porter, which prosecutrix paid for because the men had no money. They afterwards went to a coffee shop and had some refreshment, where they re mained until 1 o'clock, when they were turned out. As they were going down Aldgate she felt Page's hand at her pocket and she missed her purse. She charged him with robbing her, but he denied it, and his friend offered her two sovereigns not to say anything about it. A police• man coming up at the time, she gave the prisoner into custody. The purse, which contained 3/. I 8 s., had not been found, but a foreign coin that was in it was found upon one of the prisoners. Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—l suppose yon were out for an evening's spree Witness (smiling)—Yes, sir. The prisoner denied taking the purse, and said that the girls picked them up and stuck to them, and that they were unable to get rid of them. The girls indignantly denied the assertion. The Lord Mayor sent them to prison for two months. BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A. WIFIL—John Morga n , a ma n employed in looking after offices at 44, Mark.lane, was charged with a brutal assault yesterday on his wife. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner is a dissolute man, and yesterday, after being out the whole of the previous night, he returned to his home abut the middle of the day, and in consequence of his wee having no dinner ready for him, he strack her and kicked her in a most brutal manner. The poor woman's face presented an awful spectacle from his ill-usage, and when persons came to her assistance they found a large pool of blood on the floor. The poor woman said she had been married to the prisoner about five years, and that he had frequently ill-used her, but she had been restrained from feelings of affection towards him from proceeding against him. The prisoner, in aaevver to the charge, attempted to vindicate his conduct, and said he wished to be sepa rated from her. A gentleman in court said it had been discovered that the prisoner had a second wife living. The Lord Mayor said the prisoner should be separated from his wife for a short time, and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, and after that to be further imprisoned till he found sureties to keep the peace towards his wife for six months longer. GUILDHALL. Tikomas Stevens, porter, of No. 1, Northport-street, Horton, and Wm. Robin4on, alias I. Kirk, of No. 44, Hart-street, Covent Garden, were placed at the bar before Sir Peter Laurie on remand, the former charged with stealing various articles the property of his em ployers, Messrs. Borras and Co., warehousemen, Alder 'Danbury, and the latter with receiving the goods, know ing them to have been stolen. Mr. Buchanan defended Stevens. After hearing some further evidence implicating the prisoners in the robbery they were committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. DARING GAROTTE RODDERY.—Edward William, a tall, stout young fellow, was brought before Mr. Bing. ham, charged with the following daring garotte robbery Thomas Sparkes, a seaman residing at No. 5, Tyler's court, Regent-street, stated that last night he met with the prisoner and two other men in a public-house near Leicester-square, where he treated them with something to drink. Witness was rather fresh at the time, but knew what he was about. After remaining in the public house for some time, they adjourned to a coffee-house in Castle -street and partook of some coffee. They then left the house, and directly he got outside he felt quite drunk and stupid, as if he had been drugged. The prisoner and the two other men supported bins, and after proceeding a short distance down the street they pushed him into a court, and the prisoner seized him by the throat and threw him down, while the other two men rifled his pockets, taking from them a purse containing V. 10s., and a silver watch worth 4/. The prisoner was committed for trial. ....• ............, THAMES. CONVICTION OF A DANomsous Win. Oabotan, aged 18, described as having no trade and no home, was brought up on remand, before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a large quantity of carpenters' tools. It appeared that on the night ofTO.hBursulot ayw,iththae large2sth inst., about half-past 10 o'clock, the prisoner was mot by basketp olice-sergeante f t eelson hie John e hd e Cleary, eler N e and on b e i ng stopped and asked where he obtained them, he said that he had just come up from Newcastle-on-Tyne in the Scotch steamboat, that the tools were giv en t o him by his this story, and t oo k t h e father, who died in that town a month b e f ore, and that, being in want of money, ho intend e d t o sell the tools. prisoner e a e r e y e r w t a e s tnhoet station -house, tsatisfiedaton-h o withu , where he repeated his statement, said he courted investigatio n , and told such a plausible story to the inspector th a t h e was about to be liberated, wh en Cl e ary begged th a t h e might be de tained until he made inquiry at th e w h arves. This se proposition was acceded to, and Cleary soon ascertained that no steamboat hadarrived that afternoon from New castle, and this information decided the inspector in detaining the prisoner. This morning four carpenters attended to identify the tools in the basket, an d one of them, Thomas Sparkes, selected 20 different tools from the basket, and said they were his property, an d he had been put to great inconvenience by the loss of them. Jas. Sparkes identified one tool, and two carpenters recog nised other tools. Cleary said the basket of tools was stolen from a shed in a carpenter's yard, in the Horaferry Branch-road, Ratcliff, on the night he Stepped the pri soner. The shed had been repeatedly broken open and tools and other property stolen. The proprietor of the *led believed the prisoner was connected with a gang of thieves who were continually plundering carpenters' workshops. The prisoner said he would plead guilty to the charge; and on being asked if he had anything to s ay of hi m . self, he said he had been a traveller all over England, Ireland, and Scotland; that his father died at Newcastle, where he was born, a fortnight ago, and that he came up to London in search of work. Mr. Yardley was afraid the prisoner was telling lies, and he had no doubt he belonged to that dangerous class of thieves who were continually stealing work men's tools and breaking into c arpenters' w or k shops. He sentenc e d th e pr i soner t o b e imprisoned for 6 months in the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour. SOUTHWARK. DARING WATCH ROBBERY AT THE BRIGHTON AND CROYDON RAILWAY ZEIMINIIO.—John Williams, a well- COLONIAL. - - --- THA.—Business in this article has been very inactive. Both buyers and sellers are waiting the delivery of the letters by the overland mail before commencing operations. The letters are expected to be delivered to-day. SUGAR.—Tho market has been very firm at fully previous prices, and the transactions by private contract have been numerous. All descriptions of West India were in good demand, and Mauritius was dealt in to some extent, both for home use and for exportation. At the public sale to morrow prices aro expected to rule very firm. The Re fined Market has been steady, and some large parcels have changed hands for exportation. COFFEH.—There has been an increased demand for both Native and Plantation Ceylon, and, although there is a large supply, former prices have been fully supported. Plantation Ceylon mid to good, 65s to 678 ; other qualities, 61s to 645. Jamaica, good, 73s ; other sorts, Ols ; and triage, 48s to 55s per cwt. BIOE.—Tho market has been steady, and no material alteration in prices can be quoted. Good Ballain realised 108 per cwt. BUY.—There is no alteration to notice in this article, prices being steady. S PICES. —There has been a dull inquiry for most descrip tions of spices, and previous rates were barely maintained. S ALPETRE.—There has been no public sale, but by pri vate contract a good business has been transacted at im• proved prices. TALLOW.—The market is fiat. P.T.C. on the spot 51s, and last three months 49s 6d per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. --(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 3.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.E.; strong breeze and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Al fred, from London, for Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—Abby Blancha r d, for Ne w O r l eans. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 2.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—La Plata (s.), for St. Thomas. COWES, Oct. 2.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Charlotte A. Stainter, from Callao. PENZANCE, Oct. 2.—Wind S.W. — Arrived—Miltiad es, from Akyab, for Falmouth. BELFAST, 00t. I . — Sailed—Dromahaer, for St. John's, N.B. LONDONDERRY, OCt. 1. --Sailed—Mary Ann, for St. John's, N.B. SWANSEA, Oct. 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Shuttle, Wil liam Marsland, and United, for Coquimbo. (PER ELECITRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—E xpress, f rom Jersey ; Mary Macklin, Ports mouth ; Hope, Eleanor and Jane, Excel, and Mary, from Cardiff. Sailed—Thomas Powell (s.), for Cardiff. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—Prince s of Wales and Lochiel from Quebec ; Enterprise (.),Constantinople ; Alida, St. , John's, N. 8.; Saxon, Shediac ; Plicenix, Algiers ; Recovery, Gergenti ; Cambria, Moulmein ; Minstrel, Demerara ; Ophar, Iqui que ; Empress, Alexandria. Sailed --East Indian and Turon, for Calcutta ; Auburn, Philadelphia. QUHENSTOWN, Oot. 1. Wind S.S.W. Arrived—Terrance, from Ibraila. DuBLIN, Oct. 2. Wind S.S.W. Arrived —Mark Hall, from Constantinople. KINGSTOWN, OCt. 2; Wfnd S.S.W. Arrivocl—Tasmania, from St. John's, N.B. (Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) Wind S.W. ; GRAVESEND, Friday, 10 a.m. e near l water - cluy. Arrived, Oct. tid 2—Vangua ly rd, ow from Stettin; Iris, Guern sey ; Spring Rice, Rotterdam. Arrived, Oct. 3—Melona, from Guernsey; Talisman, Boulogne ; Lady Abidore Cronstadt ; J o h n Bull (3), Hamburg; Albion (s), Boulogne.' Sailed—Monarchy, for Port Phillip ; Pasha, Oporto ; City of London (s), Dunkirk ; Kossuth, Port Phillip ; Beduins, Naples. DEAL, Friday, 9.41 2,.m. Wind S.S.W., fresh. Passed—Spartan, from Jamaica, for London ; Irene, 139 transport, and Foster, 179 transport, 3,967, first pen dant, Crimea, Deptford. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Octavia, from the Mauritius for Falmouth, Sept. 10, in lat 26 N, long 36 W. The ship Australia, from London, standing N.W., Aug. 33, in lat 3 N, long 23 W. The Eliza, from London for Bombay, Aug. 25, in lat 9 N, long 16 W. The Duke, from Liverpool for Calcutta, Aug. 30, in lat 14 N, long 27 W. The Ocean Queen, of Bristol, fron Car yliff for Quebec, Sept. 9, in lit 15 N, long AS W. VIE DA NV. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) follow : "Excellency,—You will be good enough to suspend the measure passed by the ex-Prince Ghika, and re establish the law upon the press and the censorship in their old form.—(Signed)—FuAn." THE CENTRAL AMERICAN. QUESTION. The following account of a separate article in the treaty recently concluded between Great Bri• tain and Honduras is extracted from a recent number of the Journal of the Society of Arts : "In addition to this Treaty of Friendship, Com merce, and Navigation,' there is a separate article in re ference to the inter-oceanic railway through the State of Honduras, projected by Mr. Squier, late Charg6 d'Affaires of the United States to the Republics of Central America, which article is to have the same force and ♦alidity as if it were inserted word for word in the same treaty. This article is one of, very great importance to the commercial world, should Mr. Squier's undertaking be conducted to a successful issue. A similar article, it is said, will be concluded between theßepublic of Honda; ras and America, and also between that State and France. By that article the Government of Honduras agrees that the right of way over such road (the inter-oceanic railway), or any, other which may be constructed through its territories, from sea to sea, shall be at all times open and free to the Government and subjects of Great Britain, for all lawful purposes whatever. It also agrees that it will not impose any tolls, duties, or charges of any kind on the transit of property belonging to the Government of Great Britain, or on the public mails sent under the authority of the same, nor on the subjects of the British Crown, and also that all lawful produce, manufactures, merchandise, or other properly belonging to the subjects of Great Britain, passing from one ocea❑ to the other in either direction, shall be subject to no import or export duties whatever, or to any diseriluinat• ing tolls or charges for conveyance on any such road, and shall be secure and protected from all interruption and detention on the part of the said state. It agrees farther that any other privilege and advantage, com mercial or other, which is or may be granted to the subjects or citizens of any other country, in regard to any such road, shall be also extended to British subjects; and she likewise engages to establish the ports at the ex tremities of the contemplated road as free ports, fer all the purposes of commerce. In consideration of these concessions, in order to secure the construction and per• maneuce of the contemplated road, and to secure for the benefit of mankind the uninterrupted advantages of such a communication from sea to sea, Great Britain recog nises the rights of sovereignty aad property over the line of the said road, and guarantees positively and effi caciously the entire neutrality of the same so long as she shall enjoy the privileges conceded to her. And when the proposed road shall have been completed Great Britain equally engages, in conjunction with Honduras, to protect the same from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, from whatever quarter the attempts may proceed. Nevertheless, Great Britain, in according her protection to the said road, and guaranteeing its neutrality and security when completed, understands that this protection and guarantee are granted conditionally, and may be withdraw❑ by her, if she should deem that the persons or company undertak ing or managing the same adopt or establish such regu lations concerning the traffic thereupon as are contrary to the spirit and intent of this article, either by making unfair discriminations in favour of the commerce of any nation or nations, or by imposing excessive exactions, or unreasonable tolls upon passengers, vessels, goods, wares, merchandise, or other articles. The aforesaid protec tion, however, is not to be withdrawn without first giv ing six months' notice to the Republic of Honduras." THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Royal Mail ship Donald M'Kay, Captain Henry Warner, belonging to the Black Ball line of Austra lian packets, will sail at noon en the sth instant for Melbourne, with the usual bi-monthly mails for the Australian colonies. She is quite full of passengers and cargo. The Donald M'Kay has already made a very successful voyage to and from Melbourne, land. ing her Majesty's mails both in Melbourne and Liver pool in capital time. Her commander has had large experience in the Australian trade, and as his ship is in capital sailing trim there is little doubt he will make a rapid voyage. The Donald M'Kay is the last ship taking her de parture from the Mersey with the Australian mails, the European and Australian Steam Navigation Company, who have obtained the contract, being obliged by the Board of Trade to start their vessels from Southamp ton, although that company represented that Liver pool possessed greater facilities for the despatch of such vessels as the trade required. But this port being at present out of favour with the Board of Trade Southampton has been selected. The new screw steamer Oneida, Captain Hyde—the pioneer of the new line—will, accordingly, start from Southampton on the 18th instant, for Melbourne and Sydney, with mails, passengers, and light cargo.— Tfillmer and Smith's European, Times. The New Australian Mail Company have chartered the Simla, one of the fastest steamers belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company. THE LIVERPOOL AND AUSTRALIAN SCREW STEAM SHIP ROYAL CHARTER.—LIVERPOOL, October 2.—This beautiful ship sailed from the Mersey to-day at two o'clock on her second voyage hence to Melbourne. She takes out 462 passengers, of whom 53 are saloon, the remainder being second and third class passengers. She is also full of cargo, and is said to have refused upwards of 100 passengers from want of room. Since her return from her former voyage her spirited owners have had her overhauled, with a view to increase, if possible, her effi ciency, great as that bad previously been proved to be. Two courses of stringers, each 240 feet lo ng , have b een placed in th e vessel, and the bow compartments have been filled with strongly riveted breastplates. By this process of tension she is rendered nearly twice as strong as she was before it. The screw has also been more adapted to the ship's use, and it now lifts completely out of the water. A very unfortunate accident took place last night on board this noble vessel. It appears that the crew, some of th e r i ggers, were engaged in raising w, ass anchor.isted by Fro m some cause or other the check t s h i e sted had been taken out of the ratch of the patent capstau,and the weight of the anchor being suddenly brought into action, caused such a recoil as to throw the capstan bars about in a terrific manner. Four men were struck over board, two of whom were soon picked up. Six others were very severely injured, one it is feared fatally. The sufferers were brought ashore as quickly as possible, and at once conveyed to the hospital. One, a labourer, bad his jaw broken, and received a compound fracture of the skull. Ite is not expected to survive. A seaman had his nasal bones broken, and also received a very severe con tusion of the leg. Another seaman received severe contu sions of the back and shoulder. The other three, who were labourers, were very seriously injured —one having his arm broken. At a meeting of the Hungarian Land Company, held to-day, the statement of the committee, which included an epitome of the report of Mr. Caird on the purchase of the Gross-Wardein estato, in Eastern Hungary, win received and ordered to be entered on the minutes. A. lengthened discussion took place with regard to the pro priety of carrying ont the undertaking, and a motion for its dissolution was negatived by a majority of 190, the respective number of votes being 1,370 and 1,560. Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Daily Ne2aB of this day.) Every week now unfolds new aspects of the Presidential Election—the most important Presi dential election for half a century. All the illus trative incidents are fresh, and some of them are very strange. The most important move perhaps is the revival of the Bull of Gregory XVI. against negro slavery, which we publish textually in another part of our columns. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Stowe's brother, edits the most flourishing religious newspaper in the United States—the New York Independent. In a number of that paper, of 28th August, the editor relates an anecdote of a wealthy citizen finding to his surprise that his Irish coach man, a Catholic, wai not going to vote on the De mocratic aide on the present occasion. It bas been so completely a matter of course for the Catholics to vote on the " Democratic " side, and it usually takes so long t o conv i nce a body, like that of the European immigrants, that a change of principles is covered by the old term, that all the world con cluded that th e entire Romanism of the Union would go for Buchanan. The citizen inquired his coachman's reasons for intending to vote for Fre mont. The man replied that it was contrary to his religion to vote on the pro-slavery side. The Catho lics who did so, he declared, were ignorant of the Pope's Bull ; as they well might be in America, since the Bull is omitted from the Prayer-books of America' Catholics. He brought his Irish Prayer book to his employer,who handed it to Mr. Beecher, for the publication of the Bull. It appeared in the Independent of August 28, headed by a woodcut representing the Pope blessing a kneeling negro. Of course, the Bull was known to American Catho lics when first issued ; but Bishop England, of Charleston, took upon himself to decide that the slavery denounced was that of Mohammedan coun tries, and the trade of the African coast, and the Bull was suppressed in religious books, and allowed to drop out of sight and out of mind. Its applica tion to American slavery is so clear that it required the audacity of a political priest to ignore it. Its publication in the Independent produced so strong and so immediate a sensation that an edition, in pamphlet form, of 40,000 copies was issued as soon as it could be got ready. Of course, the Indepen dent is reviled in the religious world of the South as having become a political newspaper • but there is no excluding a Papal Bull f rom the range of ecclesiastical topics, whatever may be its p o liti ca l effect. The Catholics have in this case learned something new within the pale of their own church ; and the immediate effect is carrying over the Catholic body in the United States to the side of Fremont. The last American census gives the number of Catholic churches as 1,112, and the accommodation in them as for 620,950 ; explaining that this return gives no idea of the real numbers, as worship is held in school-rooms, private houses, and public halls, where churches do not yet exist. At the lowest computation, the accession of the bulk of the Catholic body may probably suffice to r turn the scale in Fremont's favour. Another indication is the vehemence excited in both parties by the result of the Main elections. An official dependent of the President's had con fidently betted on a majority of 6,000 against the Republicans. The first move, under the impulse of disappointment, is to organise means for disallow ing the elections, if Fremont should be the success fal candidate. Absurd and incredible as such a proposal appears, it is certainly entertained at Washington. Some of the Southern leaders say openly that " Fremont will not be allowed to take his seat." We shall see presently how his exclusion will probably be attempted. His friends, mean time, are regretting the exultation with which the Maine elections have been received. It is true, they say, that no single symptom c ou ld b e so favourable as this demonstration of the sound re publicanism of the State which opens the electoral movement in New England : but it is too soon for confidence. Failure in Maine would have caused despondency ; and success must not induce se3u rity. The Maine elections were the topic of the day when the last mails were made up. Another fresh and timely disclosure is that Fre mont was offered and refused, at this time last year, an authorised and deliberate offer from the Demo cratic party of nomination for the Presidentship. Governor Floyd, of Virginia, was deputed by the leading men of the party, North and South, to offer their services to Col. Fremont, and two inter views took place at New York, in September, 1855, which resulted in Fremont's replying that, regard ing the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as he did—as an infamous breach of pledged faith—he could not accept nomination by the voices of its suppartoro. The foot io now alioited by circum stances from a friend and fellow-traveller (at that time) of Fremont's—the Hon. George Bates, who made his statement at a public meeting. The de light of the one party and the fury of the other at this disclosure may be imagined. Another incident is the wide circulation of a chronological record of Mr. Buchanan's votes, put forth by the Richmond Enquirer, under the head ing, " A Record without a blemish." It is a sign of the blindness and imprudence of Southern poli ticians that such a panegyrist should not see that his record must injure his candidate more in the North than it could benefit him in the South. The dates given are twelve : In 1826 Mr. Buchanan supported the Gag Bill—(the act which prohibited the transmission of anti-slavery documents through the Post•office). In 1836 he voted for the admission of Arkansas as a slave state. In 1836.7 he voted to reject petitions for the abolition of slavery in the district of C o l um bi a . ... _ ...... In 1837, he voted for Mr. Calhoun's construction of state slavery, by which the South engrossed federal *thority. In 1838, 1839, and 1840, he voted with Southern members for the suppression of anti-slavery petitions. In 1844-5 he voted for the annexation of Texas. In 1847 he sustained the Clayton compromise. In 1850 he proposed and urged the extension of the Missouri compromise to the Pacific Ocean, for the en largement of slave territory. In 1850 he voted for the repeal of the compromise ; also for the enlargement of slave territory ; and urged strict enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. In 1854 he opposed the action of the Pennsylvania Legislature for contravening the Fugitive Slave Law. In 1854 he negotiated for the acquisition of Cuba. In 1856 he supports the principle of the Kansas. Nebraska Act—that is, the extension of slavery over free soil. To sum up, " he never gave a vote against the into• rests of slavery, and never uttered a word which could pain the most sensitive Southern heart." Such is Mr. Buchanan, by the testimony of his supporters—the same men who would, at this time last year, have been glad of the Southern-born Fremont for their candidate. What do they pro pose in case of the success of the one or the other? Such proposals as the following are strong signs of the time. If Mr. Buchanan succeeds he is pledged to the carrying out of the Cincinnati programme—that is, " ascendancy in the Gulf of Mexico," the annexa tion of Cuba, and the " settlement of the slavery question" by swamping the free States—a thing more easily proposed than achieved. If, on the other hand, Fremont succeeds, he is to be excluded from the chair by its powers being all withdrawn before he can grasp them. In the words of Buch anan's supporters, " it is arranged to call the legis latures of Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia to concert measures to withdraw from the Union before Prem ont can get possession of the army and navy and the prse-strings of Government. Gover nor Wise is actively at work already in the matter. The South can rolv on the President in the emer gency contemplated. The question now is, who ther the people of the South will sustain their leaders." This is Washington news sent to New Orleans. It is of itself enough to dispose of the assertions made, through the Times, by Americans in England, that disunion is merely the threat of a few fanatics. But the Virginia organs of the Buchanan party exp Ass " their hope that the pious South, with its law-and-order-loving plan ters, will, through Mr. Buchanan, mak e suc h an impression on the middle States as to induce them to join for the exclusion of the North from the Union. An extension of the slave holding territory to the neighbourhood of tho great lakes, so as to include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, an alliance with Russia and Brazil, and the possession of Cuba, will, it is supposed, serve the purpose of stemming and turning back the torrent of infidelity, materialism, sensuality, agrarianism and anarchy that threatens to over whelm us from the prolific hive of northern Europe." On this Virginian manifesto in favour of disunion follows ono from South Carolina, no less emphatic. The Charleston Mercury says : " There is not a single public man iu the limits of our State, not one of her present representatives or senators in Congress, who is not pledged to the lips in favour of disunion. We have had enough of the ' glorious union.' . . . A thoroughly organised disunion party is the desideratum, and until such be formed at the South, all time devoted to poli tical discussion will be time wasted." Such is the constitutionalism, the political mo rality of the Slave Power. If it can obtain its own candidate it will enforce its sectional policy on the free North by the help of the Czar, and a buccaneer ing foreign policy. If it loses its candidate it will commit treason ; and it is now preparing to do so. (Front the Tinier.) What a man of leisure Lord Stanley must be, — in September at any rate I And what a fund of patience he must possess Where does ho spend his vacation / We have several aciaaultauces w© "7 Ml.l