The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-09 00:00:00

s. FINN-Jet-s Lagan rota' otrr-Flot-s a.rn.7 N. Wall,,Lanurem-24 March -ff-29 Sept. Erranem) gond/lays. THE AstE.A.L PERIGEE' AN PHILOSOPHY. C INQ UE-PORTAL, Wit-in-G" moot-court.-In B. c. Diez-Cinq'kent- -50 . N. *Pilot-soar arc-en-each ' by astrv-geOgraph fast: :to @over's a Arrow off- nfast . ' • d-on' Diepp's-nouen ,•-• to Lizard-Pt. o'er Ind. Quadra,-- aculmiultion. Tropic-wend tQ 'lord minorca's Langue G'ock 409 N. Its state-rope Anchor flag-tow'J, pres-by Tyre 'round the fiat earth, as of Titus Vespasian's meter, yr 79 on 1824-35 Act for Bucca-Concha'd, leet-Crts. The Bowloigne 'd illegal mist-Coingn-Regatta fete of 27-Bth, August'en A.D. 1861-as Eve sham's -on " the after math-B'head'ng night of Ihon papte'ft"-issued the 13th, Dld Lammass-clay from the " Jag'Assey's office (of Grand master of Malta's College, St. James's-at.", on U. S. c. 33, s. 7, 1800-2-as of Amiens treaty-Nap), in dupelex, ' welkin Paul the caisson-scholastic,' by Goal-LBwEs in Ship way seal' of iparis 'o'n a kirk' Earth-moving' error. So to " Command old words, that long have slept-to wak?; Words that wise Bacon, and brave Raleigh spake. as This lang awl Bamfin out Plot m,excb.ango En-1712, Corn hill-st. ma-chaT4 "Like Goa-father-13 1 like Goo. , child sprig PALMERSTON 24 July, for its .Temple -cites the charter of Bristol L.P. 9 1 A 86 nn l' es al : C°f , 11. . j . , backwarn'no• to six, five, or four," t Yer the comba.r-(on s m Span'sh Cabotage) curvature a Ear Y m to , ope Nic.'s sunk -port, Q. inn Jet,' m land wad-st3 ho s r lao A r pavilion, tax 1291-97-Doge 9th, t_ Bright-helm-stone meridian of a Loudon Lad, now resumed for " Carthage-mud port-Cot' hon, Edict Comffn., of Review 15, for in Egypt's 1828," by 9-10 W. 3d, c.undersigned' s irate 'm Pontifi:cum-o mgra. sole Etruscan " Arbitrat'm tor" as G' log es' m 'twixt Turkish AEI and Codrington, -who in Claudian's * 0 'way letter-d, didni 5, 6 , Scorn a rbitration as a stain 9th] To ninth and tenth of William's reign." [nO 10th. 1581's EarthrolLing - bulls," with a 'Fist ea r th Lao,S "no . o' er jetyamen'ys astral.-lst, S ee I Ed w . Vl aeo c. 2, reenacted in 1832, by 2-3 Will. IV., cap , 92 , sec. 4 , -entitled, -entitled, The Subsnisszon of the Clergy 4. Restraint vt Appeals-as yet pending to Pombal's Brazil-9, in ach ita intervention, 25 Henry 8, cap. 19, viz., Whereas divers life-titled noblemen and spiritual persons have sent out civil-summons, in their own names, as in the time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome, contrary to the common law, touching writs in lay causes of correction, de jure patronatui, and probates of testaments -Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes by advocates or other will -court officers, of the King's Highness, do bear the Echo _Knight rider's fiscustom'ary endorsement, as well as the Common-clerk's name placed under citor's name, and after registered seal, in " Die Baaren Jet; a[" TEST to wit. m Rochester's : Peveasey ts sofa. transit mane i n A ntcec r i g h t o ' er N . Z . W a it ang i' s " brother and sister's" treaty. -(-0. 5.209 E. Azores, Ist. ponti - Phi/imore'd as the old longitudinal bridge-kirk. Thus - Lvganuna-notalorum's of Kent, under snbsyd eral lathe epochs for P. L' audits to Bow towns aprefix 511eN., its L'ond'on-wave over m Wall-in-ford bye ----fcirencester Seven hundreds' in 34-HEN. Ist.-mile'r Alnothus, to 1-4 Hen. 4's hogshead of wine Jus-" Ex-change-A 1." as of leva langu6' in alt 9 mare Conic-meet, of Fresh and salt water Admiral's Court, not of a ' Co-mercer'sfi. fa. Z'Brewing-sup,' as on Jesuit's ward books ca. sa.' d. " Think deep.-or touch not the Pyrean spring." 2dly. Whence, by 1 Fhilip & Mary, c. 7, "No man shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator (to Water bailiffs Silver-oar, of July, 1521, 81-now Utiecht's Indian-paddle Treaty of 1713-63, as of Mexico's Philipine isled Bohun inspector of all fiscal-f meter-Crts.), who like WOLSEY' s Templer shall take en himself 'to direct and serve his own pricept.' Wherefore this Negative ; since (by Russn-Dutch loan on America's double-hdd-eagle-xorEcNg, in Mingan trust-acts of 1832), pension'd Church-Queen's " in cs-of a, by civil list, -tho' in 6' er"Left faces"-have ceased to be the head of Malcolm in.'s G.G.G.SOn monetary Trust in presbytera'/kindred T., and at your peril disobey this law -for ' one and all as breast-high'd' on Agricola's E;cot and lot hand-up oeremonial,'-typic on Caesar's silver coinage for electing yearly the Ex'change /3hat's on 29th Sept., or Simi-call-meze-*magistrates, on union echo-wall with the 24th March one-in murri nomine"/-. 27, Aug. 31, 1861 [unpaid : jan . ter martyr 19 yrs], London, PETER BASQUET,n The flag-unien Jag, Ist Fruit a.m M pacca-corn hill'd-tribune as Income-tax- TAT freeman, Antipod'n Crown colonSt chief 74 Buie. Or of 1842, - The criminal law's Extradi o Temple. tion act, Constable of the Sea-shores, Labouchere. bearing iilmerica's paddle of Admiral's l 2 March, '4l] court, over Canterbury's (0-Guizote H. M. Perley. settlement for New Zealand's Probate 3 Sept, '4l. Crt., its Qial pl•repoy Stil'lordWarden tho' cruelly set up a medal' d Becca• maehina, in " Baccarias gentis imagines." .* N, CHARLES' ' ACRERLEY, J.P.of Carib-allyd f England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- .•• : : miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- Crown retary ; Marcus Hill-SANDYS, Lay presbyter's 6gu, The holy alliance abolition,' of King clubs), its Standard meter-bearer 1837-Lt. R.N. pay'd double- oathii'd victim-supporter Si of poor indian PETER 10 yrs, by Indian female Peu Qu' sponsorship 1820-thro' Quebec's Hamilton-' Rien Dalhousie, in Elder's duty for HIS and own's S.P.Q.R. instant State-birth provision, as the Mon tague Subsidy first-fruit loan 1814'20's, major Trevsor- Cartwright's saccessorial ombra-U'homd, to trove. 1322'99's red-turban'd HY. Quadra Manfre dum'y de fiecearia,' on H. s's colona'd martin a 5, ,11, v. to GONSALVI 1816 regolamente-159, I by Pius 7th on Ch. Justice Urban Bth's capa city oath of 1749 Act-Advocate STUART de Newcomin's 'en Gonfaloniere' 1825 passed to C. A.'s naming Act 1-2 W. 4, Na. 54, as Luther- calvin pop'd in ancient demesne. To all metre-roded Councils General' in nature's Year-law, under 1835's Municipal and Reform Acts to Mayor's local supremacy (against New" Comfin. Grippe-Jesus' Christian Clubs, 11 Geo. 111, c. 55, male or female," as at Dover and Burgh-Ports 1772's on the resignation aver-bulPsrun of Clement 14's Jesuit priest Abolition, for Earth Lay resumption for all life-set allotments of land), over the yearly Poor-law Guardians-(as are for the time being)-on 1603's church Canon in vestry'red lettered functional succession -an afterthought of Q. Elizabeth's : P. C. rßunLEy-men, for oaths in retro' O'way-sense, for sound office. " 'Tis thus that Heaven its empire doth maintain ; It may affiict-but MAN, must not complain." 4. Papal-tribunes of gursv minor E r -chan g e bA pointers* o.s. Fiat-earth's Piero'an philosophy to 1582, on COWPER'S 1671's Huitson " Chiliarchas'r" of St. Michael's PENN for Vox humane organ 'run' of Hidelburgh, in Heligoland 3ty., Jan. 14, May-Copenhagen'd by C A. of Daphne, 1814. :t„ Foreign Quarterly Review, Nov., 1829, p. 303 ; and Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051. Survey Arbitrations.-By 910 W. fir, c. 15, it is enacted, " That merchants, sole-traders-(and all Antipode'ans as thoso under the 'Turkish, 1809-Dardanell'd Padi,'lno Jan' Bailed 11 ,treaty,' 1841)-desiring to end all controversies by arbitration, may agree that their sulnnission of their suit to an Award or umpirage (as of Africa's 1828 trust on Thony Monthermer' ACKERLEY, Flag-Lt. of Ocean 74),-of any person, should be made "on Captain Cook's mane rule in tribal Admiralty red-flag Maoux,-plea," of his Majesty's courts of Record ; and incase of disobedience to such award or Umpirage, the parties neglecting or refusing (IT.F. Q. Review, Nov. 1829),-to perform the same, shall be subject to the penalties of Contemning a Rule of Court, "as Co'mis • sion'd on the Anglo-Saxon Mexi-Spanish trust, the' Cuba- Philipin'd to 1763-4-state * Grants, as reset 31 Jan. 1842-3, on the Carib-Micmac's minor L'Boar's head, I nn -f an - Gee and Out-fan-G.-sustentation, without " Locatelli" death's. "Neath polar Astra's wehr-ring wolf to yawn, And view with trembling, whom they view'd with scorn. 1L GUILTY OR "NOT GUILTY" FICTION REALITY.— " The writ original—now police-sheet' root As master-key—spring, of every civil suit." The "not guilty" when GUILTY is the free and accepted for county rate expenses, in all the courts—but, the guilty on written evidence to Female complainant, Ice., before hear ing—is certainly saved (50, E. 3) from a committal under the twofold spiritual and corporeal capacity of the casting voice in Judge, as council for the prisoner. The case in ques tion being a complicity 'twixt Mistake-plaintiff, and Defen dant, pre-tacited—in order to obtain " a Court-christian saillie-day's criminal committal,"—as the October Laird o'Cockpen's first fruit, of the French treaty jurisprudence— in the Marylebone Police-court on Wed., Oct. 2, " Bellew v. Bernie" committed for three calender months to the cells with loss of hair—omitting the real Rug'd-pursuer's name in law, in this case of table-turning, The mute-sister prisoner, on the faith of pre-arbitration with plaintiff in rug-laundress, for not having council—as witness to some facts, not truly forthcoming—therefore, on ' suggestion,' Mr. Tyrwhitt may instantly—'on defunct justice,' saving being outwitted—rectify this Cassandra ' washing-rug' case between mistress and servant—in order for instant Henry 6th release, under Chief Justice Bruce- Bellew-Fortescue's " Kt.-Stapleton Statute" of 1442—te Cold bath Vestal-women-jail -keeper's o'er the 600 in Tothill nun'ery-like prison. La voila— , " Provided always,—Aye I that if e'er Quack or Lady Quack's—should interfere, Or take upon them—' as, a scholae— Prohibitory' writ, should follow." LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF ALFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. TITEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Miss Julia Woolf 's Benefit This Evening. Beethoven's Battle Piece, and the Comic Orchestral Fantasia " Three Blind Mice," every Evening." The Programme this evening will be Miscellaneous, and incluse Beethoven's Pianforte Concerto in E fiat and Schu -I°fr's Vantasia on Bohemian Airs, performed by Miss Sulfa I: i i r °?lf—Grand Selection fromll Trovatore—Grand D ue t f or Co r, ol orte and Violi n , Mi ss J u li a W oo lf and Mr. Viotti hiV o B nt :ongB by Mdlle. Parepa, Mme. Laura Baxter, and &c., &c. Hier.— Solos—Overture, Ruy Bias—Dance Music, C ommence at 8. Promenade, le. Con,tuotor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. TO-MORROW (Thursday), RO9 STABAT MATER. On SatuFriday, a MOST ER CONCE RT , commenc i ng at 7, and Saturday (t N he fit of Mr. Alfred Mellon. last night of the Concerts) for the Bene- - 14 0 1L YAL E---------------NGLISTI OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Lcuisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison. will OPEN for the Sixth Operatic Season on MONDAY be Octor 21st, when will be presented (fi rst time )) an entirel y new Opera, by Howard Glover , to be entitl e d RUY BLAS. Full particulars in future advertisements. .7 ti , -I p; ' , l 1 . 1-t -, •Att/ Y AL, HAY MARKET. - i,,,,Rsee, 51r. J. B. Buckstei,,. ARKET. _., THI S Fi7b:NING, the ewer-game. will commence w A NEW WAY TO PA Y O LD DEBTS. Sir Giles vtb 11 reanh, Mr. Edwina ooth (from the principal Arnericaerr; theatres); support the company. After which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Wilkins. To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER Commence a 7. 1 •) y A J.. Pi E S S'S TM BATUR. -- ill, Lass,* and Manager. !Wr. A. Tiarrl4. 'l' IS EVENT/cc% JEANE rE's WEDDING. Miss M. Harris and Mr. H. Widdicomb. A l!er which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten b,'John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; chnr , iefers by Mr..Tohn Brougham (his lilth appearance), Mr. Ryder, Mr. 11. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (of the pr inci p al the tres of the United States, his tOth appearance in Eng lan I), Miss C. Lelc;ereci, and Mrs. Weston. With THE GARIBALDI EXCUR,TONISTS. I{O YAL LYCEUM TH.EATB E. Manager--Mr. Ed mun d Falconer. I - lIS EVENING, A MIDSUMMER'S EVE. „i4tter which, at Eight o'clock, the ne w an d success "ul',.:e'rnetiv ot WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. I:2y Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, 3 vs. Charles Young, Mrs. Westin, Miss Murray, and Misa Lydta Thomson. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in whinh Miss Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer Quick Step. Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE, TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, eze, By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus. T HE OX F O R D 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. Om.—Afternoon, sh. 30m, To-monnow.-Morning, sh. 52m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 9, 186 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE, 70—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. .4101 L t, , rip r , ' THE SUN. LONDON, 't WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 186 Vanity of vanity—even Royal pleasures are vanity—come to-day and gone to-morrow. Not for forty-eight hours could the visited and visitors at CompiAgne enjoy each other's society. From Sun day evening to Tuesday noon must suffice to shake hands, to banquet together, to chat over all the affairs of Europe, the pamphlet on the Vistula and the Rhine included, and to shake hands again, and —farewell. A nice pleasant little trip for his Majesty of PRUSSIA-a pretty little reciprocation of the Imperial visit to the German KING ; and that is all say some. The Germans have a proverb— "Es flog ein Ganzehen iiber den Rhein, Und kam ein Ganzehen wieder heim," Which, as nearly as we can give it at the moment, may be rendered— " A little goose flew over the river, And came back am much of a goose as ever 1" ____ _ Whether the loyal Prussians will find the Royal eight to Paris, and back, an occasion for humming over their proverb, we cannot tell. We have little doubt, however, that the King of PRUSSIA has returned about as wise as he was before, so far as regards the real purposes of his host. Indeed, if we may believe Count CAVOUR, and no man could measure the EMPEROR better, it is by no means certain that he knows his own mind long together. He only knows he will do what he can for his dynasty, but what that may be he cannot tell. He will wait on events, and whithersoever Glory to France, and, therefore, Glory and Stability to the Dynasty lead, thither he will go—be it to Poland, to Hungary, to Turkey, to Montenegro, to Cochin China, to Mexico,—or—just a little nearer home— say to Landau, or Sarrelonis, one of " which we fortified, and the other of which we built," on the left bank of the Rhine. (All we can say is that we wish Louis NAPO LEON joy of his new ally, and King WILLIAM of his. Why should they not be as good friends as they can be ? They are near neighbours, and they ought to have a good many business transactions with each other. One has great power to annoy the other; and the other, though its straggling dominions might tempt a glory hunter to break off as it were a claw from the lobster, would yet give the meddler a terrible gripe for making the attempt. Prussia and France ought to keep the peace with each other ; and if they could but have an understand ing in which both could confide, they might cer tainly save themselves each at least the cost of 100,000 soldiers. Possibly, however, they do not wish to do that. A large army is large patronage everywhere. And Russia and Austria, helpless as they are except against the disarmed, would be pre text enough for both monarchs to retain their pre sent means of gratifying their ambition of military greatness. England can have no kind of interest in seeing Prussia and France mutually suspicious. They can never well be allied against us, and if they were the German Kingdom's hostility would be net of the slightest consequence to us. The German fleet is not built yet, and when that great curiosity does come into existence, any more pleasant fun for our tars could hardly be imagined, than a game at balls on the high seas with the land-lnbbers who should man the ships of a commerce-less country. No—it is of no more consequence to us that France should form even an offensive alliance with Prussia, than her forming one with the new King of MADAGASCAR. We are not quite sure whether it is even of so much importance, for we believe one of our neighbouring colonies still eats a great deal of Madagascar beef. With our views, therefore, of the importance of Prussia to us, we cordially wish the King of PRUSSIA a happy homeward crossing of the Rhine ; and if ho has not a treaty in his pocket, a very safe and good understanding—with France, we mean— in his head. We have to rely upon the Romans for the early history of our country, but without going beyond authentic authority, London is, with the exception of Bristol, the oldest city in this country. It is not to be expected that when the old city was bounded by stone walls, and Charing and Westminster were remote hamlets, that its founders had any thought about drainage, or that the river which supplied them with water and carried off their sewage would eventually become the source of disease and death. Thanks to a few hot seasons, public opinion has been roused, and money has been provided by local boards, which in other countries would have necessi tated a foreign loan ; and within a few years the Thames will resume its prestine brightness above London-bridge, and the Cockney may visit Cremorne or Greenwich without fear of a headache or low fever. The Board of Works may be remiss some times, and before now we remarked upon the sub ject; but as regards the intercepting sewerage, thanks to the energy of the chairman (Mr. THWAITES), the general engineers who have designed the works, and the ability and resources of the contractors, the public can find little fault with them now. We yesterday, in company of the Board, inspected the works completed and in pro gress on both banks of the river. Much di ffi culty has been experienced in croesing the marshes, but steam power and determination have carried the day; and although much remains to be done, w e may look upon the healthy drainage of Lon- NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, 34TTSIC HA.TH CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses R. Kelly and Laidlaw. After which (246th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. tioueleault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boueicattlt, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. ( iiNTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, ; AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. isi r. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter to Eleven. The Comic department comprises Messrs. Harvey and French, " The Nerves "—Mr. Marshall—Mr. Wood and his talented Son—and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, &L; Stalls and Balcony, is. Selections from Auber'e New Comic Opera, LA CIRCAS SIENNE by Madame Enderssohn, Mr. Greene, Mr. H. Herbert. and the Company. Also from Verdi's new Grand opera, "Simon Boocanegra," by Miss Russell, Messrs. Mor ley, Greene, C. Greville, and the Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Marshall, and Mr.W. Randall. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. BAROMETER-29.97 ; rising. Wmn—S.-Westerly—rather fresh; with dull weather, and some slight rain. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA E VENIN6r, 41 OTOB It 9, 1861. It has recurred to the recollection of the states men of Western Europe repeatedly since the time when NAPOLEON first uttered it. The prophecy has often since then sounded ominously to those who think and watch. Occasionally it has almost seemed upon the eve of its realisation. Things ap peared to verge towards its fulfilment, for example, only seven years ago—when an alliance between France and England alone hurled back the auda cious hordes of the Muscovites within the limits of .0411 i their own fro tiers. Lookin g b ac k t o th at epoch of the cement of the Crimean War—it almost diems a hundred years off instead of but little more than a single lustre. And yet at the same moment one cannot but recollect vividly enough, too, how very threatening was the aspect of affairs at the abrupt outbreak of that formidable conflict between the colossal power of the Russian Autocrat on the one hand, and, upon the other, the combined armaments of the two most ener getic and civilised races upon the face of th e globe. There were two memorable predictions then, that appeared in awful combination to warn Europe that the hour for its being finally over whelmed by the advancing forces of Russia had already struck. There was the St. Helena prophecy—" In Fifty Years, Europe will be either Cossack or Republi can." The Republican enthusiasm of 1848 had by that time exhausted itself in Christendom. There had long since sprung a very powerful reaction. In the rolling on of the Wheel of Fortune for Europe, its bias, consequently, appeared to lead it towards the Autocratic rather than towards the Democratic branch of the alternative. And then—in addition to this—there was that ancient prediction familiar to the Turks during Four Centuries ! The prediction that when the power of the Osmanli race should have lasted in Europe for precisely that period of time, namely, for exactly 400 years—that then the period would arrive when the Turk must recross the Bcsphorus into Asia. The daring advance of the Cossacks across the Pruth, the insolent mission of Prince MENSCHIKOFF to Constantinople, the diabolical outrage perpe trated by the Russian Navy in the Black Sea at Sinope—all seemed together to announce in a voice of thunder, and in characters of blood and flame) that the hour had indeed arrived for the fulfilment of the one or the other of those two renowned and formidable predictions—it might even be, of both ! The Turk, who is essentially a Fatalist, prepared for the new Hegira. He seemed to behold the index-finger of Destiny pointing his way back inexorably across the boundary-line of the Bos phorus. There was a curious coincidence of time, moreover, that startled him into a momentary be lief that the period had in truth been reached when he must perforce quit the scene of his four hundred years domination upon the very borders of Christendom. The mysterious epoch of four centuries had in effect just then ex pired, or rather was just then expiring, when the Czar NICHOLAS, in 1854, gave that sudden indica tion to the world of his fixed determination at length to advance in the direction of Constantinople. The Turk remembered the one prediction, Western Europe remembered the other—that is, the St. Helena prophecy, that before another half century should have elapsed Europe herself would be either Cossack or Republican. A very considerable por tion of that half century had already glided by, and here the threatened peril appeared to impend imminently over Europe. As we have said—it was only under Heaven, by means of the sudden alliance, offensive and defen sive, of the two most powerful and civilised nations of Western Europe, nay, for that matter, of the whole earth—it was only by this unexpected combi nation on the part of Franc© and England that the Danger was Repelled. Russia, at the close of the war which then took place, was not only prevented from advancing—she was, happily, as the event proved, compelled even to recede a little, to contract the boundary line of her European dominion, that line which but a brief interval before then had threateaed to expand so very alarmingly. How, however, since those events, which appear somehow to have happened so very long ago, and which, nevertheless, in reality occurred so very re- cently—Bow, since then, has Russia endeavoured to console herself ? Nay, we will not simply say How has she "endeavoured" to console herself— How has she consoled herself ? The question is as easily answered as it is asked. Russia has consoled terself during those last few years very effectually ndeed—TIIIIS By adding to her already stupen- dons empire a new territory, as vast in its dimen sions as all Italy and France put together ! That —since the close of the Crimean war—is Russia's consolation and compensation. Well, in truth, did M. DE LAINIARTINE, years and years ago, write in regard to Russia, th a t h er s l o p e is towards the East! For—baffied in her daring designs upon Turkey, and through Turkey upon Western E urope —Russia has con trived (in the manner we have indicated) to gravi- 1 don as un fait accompli. The magnitude of these works (which I we have noticed in another column) can be best comprehended if the reader will fancy a railway tunnel 50 miles in length, with branches for a few hundred miles as connections, resting in many places on 20 feet of concrete, and at others on brick ashes. The engine power required to lift daily some two I million cubic feet of sewerage to the low levels will be immense, those at Deptford Creek are to be of upwards of six hundred horsepower, and yet this is only the first step in the right direction. Bark ing Creek is too near London to be a permanent outlet for our sewerage, the population is increasing and the metropolis extending. We shall never be secure until the German Ocean receive our sewerage six fathoms below its surface. Although we wish to see the work carried out on a complete scale, nevertheless we cannot pay the just tribute to the members of the Board of Works their engineers and contractors, and as a proof that first-rate material has been insisted upon, the price of bricks of first quality has risen five and twenty per cent. since the commencement of the works. It would be invidious to call attention to any particular contract, all being executed in a sub stantial form, and when we mention that the names of Messrs. BRASSEY and BAZALGETTE are amongst the number, it is a guarantee of ability. Mr. THWAITES in placing the keystone in the arch of the south outlet, although taken by surprise, de livered a short speech expressing the satisfaction of the Board with the general conduct of the works. In conclusion we feel great pleasure in acknowledg ing the attention paid to us, and the information furnished by Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engineer of the works, who is evidently heart and soul in the business. "Europe will be either Cossack or Republican." Who does not remember the famous prediction ? Not one emanating from the oracular pen of ZAD KIEL, nor yet from the Delphic mouth of Dr. Cum- MING ! But the utterance, after a life's experience —and such a life's experience !—of the Prisoner of St. Helena. tate thus much further to the East, adding to her already alarming dominions this enormous extent of new territory. Recollect, then—that this increase to the domi nions of the Russian Autocrat amounts, as we have indicated, to an accession of territory equal to the areas of France and Italy combined. Where ? In the country of the Amoor. North of Chinese Tar tary—south of the Yablonoi Mountains. Extending to the borders of M antchouria—bounded on the east by the waters of the Japanese Sea, and on the west by the chain of the Kin- gen M oun t a i ns . This newly-acquired °P ;entry has by this time been thoroughly incorporated with the vast empire owning allegiance to the Russian Autocrat--and it has been s o incorporated under the title of the maritime province of Eastern Siberia. The ad vantages which it secures to Russia, moreover, are SO various and so remarkable, that they are, in point of fact, not very easily to be enumerated. Enough if we here mention but a very few of them. To begin with—Eastern Siberia, as the new pro vince is henceforth to be called, secures to Russia an immense extension of her sea-board in the North Pacific. It brings the Muscovite frontier to within a distance of six hundred miles only from the capital of China—and this at a time when the Chinese Empire has just been shaken by its dis. comfiture at the hands of the Europeans, while it is yet convulsed by the Taeping rebellion. The newly-acquired dominion of Russia, moreover, it should be added, gives to Russia herself the ex traordinary advantage of ready access henceforth from the North Pacific to the very centre of her colossal empire, along the channel of one of the grandest rivers in Asia, the great river of the Amoor ! How all this has been accomplished we cannot at this moment or in this place pause to indicate. It is a matter for scrutiny worthy of consideration entirely by itself. The simple fact that it is so—that Russia has thus wondrously con soled herself for her baulked ambition in the in stance of the siege of Sebastopol by the Anglo- French allies—that simple but suggestive fact is all we would here insist upon. It is a theme worthy in every respect of the study of the diplo matists of Western Europe. For is it not a. signal evidence of the persistence of the Russian Govern ment in acting upon the old, wily principle, reculer pour mieux muter ? We venture again, with all due deference, to im pugn the wisdom of the Great Unpaid —to impugn it so far as to suggest to the Home Secretary that he should practically reverse their decision, and order repayment of the fine which they have in flicted. There is a place called Beedon, near Newbury, which, probably, most Englishmen know as much about as we do, and that is what the Gazetteer tells us, plus the facts which we have now briefly to mention. There lived in Beedon lately a hard working couple, named WINKIVORTH. The mother died and was buried ; the father was obliged by want to go with his family into the workhouse, and soon the father died and was buried also, and the children were left with no home but the poorhouse, and no parents but the parish. CHARLES with whom we are now concerned found himself in this position at eight years of age. At fifteen he left the Newbury Workhouse, and was placed with a farmer of the name of KING. He would seem to have worked for him about four years, with no charge, so far as we can learn, of insub ordination or neglect of duty. A few months ago, however, he was guilty of going to the Primitive Methodist Chapel, where according to his own account he "got converted," and after he came into trouble about it, his reason was, " that he did not wish to disoblige his master, but he got more good to his soul at chapel, and therefore thought it his duty to go." No contemptible reason, certainly in the mouth of any man; and it is at least highly pro bable that the ranting preacher, and his earnest ness together, were more likely to tell on the ploughboy's mind than the faultless discourse read with becoming dignity from the desk of the parish church. Unfortunately for CHARLES, a carter's son in the harvest field got into a passion with him, assaulted him and knocked him down with a "prong," and then beat him fearfully, in spite of his cries, till his back and arms were covered with large wheals, and looked, as he expressed it, " like a hog pud ding." The other laboufers urged him to sum mon his assailant, and subscribed the money for him to do so. The result was that the carter's son was fined, costs included, 17s. Now, it appears that KING patronised the carter's son, and had a spite against the lad for preferring chapel to church. His MAJESTY of Beedon, therefore, paid the assailant's fine, and took out another summons against the lad for misconduct in service. It appears that nothing could be said against the lad as a servant, but the charge was—" He is a ranter ; he refuses to go to church, but attends the ranters' meet ings." "As he had a perfect right to do !" our readers will doubtless exclaim, and whatever their opinion of Ranters, all the English man will be roused in them, at the thought of its being a crime, that a ploughboy should " get him self converted," if it so pleased him, and should join the n Ranters. c t a e b r t s. ," . f And h o even, " go t as HALEY says in " Uncle the rale thing," it mi g ht ron j add many dollars to his worth as a servant. Quite different, however, were the thoughts of the New- I bury Magistrates and th e i r Ki ng. The poor i fellow who has 4s. a week to lire on, was fined 9s for this heinous offence. We confess we were for some time incredulous. We could hardly believe in the administration of justice in, this style in England. The facts are, however, now beyond doubt. The neighbours, in dignant, as might be expected, collected 17s. for the fine, bought him a Bibl e him, and, after payin g and a hymnbook with the balance. He now goes once on the Sunday to Church to please his master and the ,magistrates, for he seems to be a modest, quiet lad, reserving the other part of the day to go where, as he thinks, he shall please his Maker better ; where at least he thinks he " gets more good to his soul." But we are strongly inclined to think that the magistrates are as wrong in law as in Christian morality. There was an Act passed in 1846 which expressly repeals, so far as affects Dissenters, the clause of EDWARD Vl's Act which inflicts both Church censures and a penalty for non-attend ance at Church. Churchmen are left liable to Church censures ; but even they are exempted from the pecuniary penalties. It can hardly, be doubted, therefore, that the magistrates have in flicted a fine unauthorised by law. From none of the statements which we have seen does it appear that him master had previously ordered him to go to church; but even if he had, we should not have supposed that any one now would have the hardi hood to contend that magistrates were warranted in inflicting a fine for disobedience to such a com- mand. We have seen not a word of explanation yet from the magistrates, but unless some can be given the public will certainly think it a case demanding the immediate attention of the Home Secretary. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chester field, at Bretby Park, near Burton-on-Trent. The Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess Russell and family, has arrived at Minto House, N. 8., from Abergeldie Castle. The noble earl leaves the above named seat on Saturday, for Newcastle, and will be in Lon don early in the ensuing week. • We learn that the Earl of Yarborough has had another attack of paralysis, and for 24 hours was in a very critical state. The latest medical reports are more favour able. The funeral of th& late Earl of Eglinton. and Winton will take place in the family vault at Kilwinning Church, Ayrshire, on Friday next. The Earl of Norbury has left Farrance's Hotel for Valence, near Westerham, in Kent. Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere and Vis countess Combermere and the Hon. Mrs. Hunter have ar rived at Leamington, from Combermere Abbey, whither they will return, after a short sejour at Spa, to receive a succession of visitors during the autumn. Baron A. Desmanet de Boutonville and Baron de Bogaerde have arrived at the Clarendon, from Paris. Col. and Lady Katherine Evans Freke left town yesterday for Beechwood House, Devon, the residence of Lord Seaton. Sir Norton and Lady Knatchbull have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Mersham le Hatch, Kent. His Excellency Senor M. Murillo, Minister of the New Grenadian Confederation, has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. DEATH OF LORD PONSONBY.—lntelligenee has reached England of the death of Lord Ponsonby, which took place on the second inst., in Bavaria. The deceased nobleman was a posthumous son of the late Major-General the Hon. Sir William Ponsonby, by the sixth daughter of the first Lord Southampton. He was born at Hampstead on the 6th of February, 1816, and succeeded as third baron on the death of his uncle, in 1855. The second baron, a distinguished diplomatist, was her Msjesty's Ambassador at Constantinople from 1832 to 1837, and at Vienna from 1846 to 1851. He obtained a viscountry, which became extinct at his death, while the barony re verted to the deceased peer. His uncle, the Hon. George Ponsonby, succeeds him. DEATH OF THE HON. EDWARD GARDNER.—We have to record the death of the Hon. Edward Gardner, fifth son of Alan, first Lord Gardner. The hon. gentleman died at his apartments in King-street, St. James's, on Saturday last, aged 77, having been born in March, 1784. The de ceased gentleman had been for many years in the service of the lion. East India Company, and was for a lengthened time resident at the Court of Nepaul. Ho was unmarried. FIRE AT HOLLOWAY.—Yesterday morning a fire, attended with a destruction of property, in value £2OO, hatapened in the premises belonging to Mr. T. Wilson, a carpenter, George's -place, Holloway-road. The flames commenced in the workshop. Several engines quickly at tended, and plenty of water being at hand the fire was confined to the workshops, and slight damage to some tim ber sheds, and the stock of timber in the open yard. The origin of the fire is unknown, and the loss will fall upon the Royal Exchange Fire Office. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.--Loss OF SIX LIVES. —Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, Mr. Tate, a city coal-meter, and 11 men, coal-whippers, while proceeding down the river in a boat, there being a very thick fog, came in collision with two barges, lying at their anchors off Pilson's dock, Rotherhithe. The boat was immediately capsized, and the whole of the party immersed in the stream. The masters and crews of the barges rendered every possible assistance, and saved Mr. Tate, and five of the coal. whippers, and they were conveyed to the Horns public-house, Cuckold's Point, on the Surrey shore. Some of the poor fellows were in an insensible condition, but with the aid of stimulants were resuscitated and sent home. We regret to add that six of the coal-whippers perishe d The body of one, named William Ryan, of Crown -court. Upper East Smithfield, was found a few hours afterwards, and taken to the dead-house in Shadwell Church-yard. Another body was recovered yesterday evening. THE POLICE OF NEW YORK.—Efforts are in progress to convert the police of New York into a military force, the Commissioners having made a requisition for 2,000 muskets and the accompanying military equipments. To this significant measure the New York Commercial Ad vertiser urges the following among other objections : " We object to the change for this, above all other reasons, that it is a grave and dangerous encroachment upon the genius of our institutions—a large stride toward that cen tralisation of power and that combination of the military with the police which distinguishes every despotic country. The police authorities have power enough already, and certainly cannot complain that they are held to too strict a responsibility. Convert their 2,200 able. bodied men into a military force, armed with all the implements of war, with perhaps, as we have intimated, artillery and cavalry to boot, and they may become an institution very dangerous to the liberties of the people. The proposed plan is, in fact, anti republican, essentially and dangerously so, and we trust that there will be promptly an expression of popular opinion that will prevent its ever being carried out," NARROW ESCAPE OF AIR. BLAKE, M.P., FROM DROWNING.—Ono of the hon. members for the city of Waterford has had a very narrow escape from drowning in Tramore. Mr. Blake went to bathe at a time when the tide was full out, and at low water spring tidos the water recedes so far as to bring some dangerous holes within reach. These holes are formed by the violent action of the waves during storms, and are not always in the same spot. Mr. Blake was in company with Master Gallwey, son of Henry Gall wey, Esq., who remained on shore in charge of Mr. Blake's dog, and while doing so perceived Mr. Blake struggling in the water, and gave the alarm to a bathing man, named Kelly, who immediately got the life buoy, which has been the means of saving many lives. Some little delay occurred in consequence of the fouling of the line, but Kelly threw off his boots and rushed with the life buoy into the water, and threw it to Mr. Blake, who had sunk twice and rose to the surface just in time to seize the buoy, and he was drawn from the deep water by the line attached to it. On reaching Kelly he was so faint as to be unable to stand, and that man and his son carried him ashore, where he was rubbed, s wathed in flannel, and took some brandy, which revived him. Had it not been for prompt assistance the result must have been fatal.— Waterford Mail. BRAIDWOOD TESTIMONIAL FUND.—A meeting of the committee appointed to superintend the subscription set on foot as a testimonial of the late superintendent of the London Fire Brigade has been held at the Mansion -house within the last few days for the purpose of winding up the business and to dispose of the money in accordance with the wishes of the donors, in the spirit at least, if not in their letter. Mr. Baddeley, the secretary, reported to the meeting that the net available balance of the subscriptions amounted to £526 Ils. 6d. The moment it was publicly announced that the fire offices would make provision for the widow of Mr. Braidwood the committee felt that there was little or no need for the testimonial fund, which had been originated in ignorance of the intention of the directors of the fire com panies, and in that sentiment the public feeling coincided, as the paucity of the subscriptions indicated. They accord ingly lost no time in endeavouring to stop the subscription, and at their closing meeting, a day or two ago, they unani mously resolved that, considering the limited amount of the fund, and the liberal provision which had been made for the widow and children of the deceased, it appeared to them that the sum of £526 odd would be best applied towards the maintenance of his two aged sisters, who by his death had been deprived of their sole means of support. It is understood that, in conformity with this resolution, the sum will be sunk for the purchase of annuities for those ladies, and so the matter ends. LORD PALMERSTON AND THE POWDER MAGAZINE. —We read in a local newspaper :—" Some two or three years since an order emanated from the War Department directing that all forts and castles on the coast between Portsmouth and the mouth of the Thames (many of which had been dismantled) should be placed in a state of defence, and, in accordance with these instructions, batteries were repaired, cannon mounted, and magazines filled with am munition throughout the district. At Widmer Castle the half dozen field-pieces which had been placed upon the ram parts during the early part of the wardenship of the Duke of Wellington had never been dismounted, and some five tons of gunpowder were stored for the defence of the fortress. Of this circumstance the present inmates of the castle were totally ignorant until a few mornings since, when a working party of soldiers from the neighbouring bare racks were seen approaching, and shortly aft erwards to cross the drawbridge and form in the courtyard of the castle. This unusual circumstance of course created some surprise, which was further increased when, upon inquiry being made of the officer in command as to the cause of this unexpected invasion, he replied that he had come for the purpose of ' turning the barrels of powder in the magazine.' This intelligence was promptly reported to Lord Palmerston, who requested the officer to point out to him the where abouts of the magazine, and inform him of the quantity of powder deposited there. The officer replied that as near as he could judge the position of the magazine was immediately beneath the place on which his Lordship was then stand ing, and that the quantity deposited in the magazine was 100 barrels. The officer added that at regular intervals the Castle was visited by a party such as were now formed beneath the windows, who moved the whole of the gun powder and reversed the position of the casks. His Lord ship said that under no circumstances would he continue to sleep immediately over a powder-magazine, and instructed the officer to take steps without any delay for the immediate removal of its contents." COLLIERIES.—The total number of collieries in Great Britain at present is estimated at 2,654 ; of these 1,943 ar e i n E ngland, 235 in Wales, 405 in Scotland, and 71 in Ireland. In 1857 the coal produce of the United Kingdom exceeded 65,000,000 tons. The value at the pit's mouth of the quantity annually raised is estimated at £ 1 6,700,000, and its mean annual value when consumed, at about £20,000,000. Besides this sum, it is estimated that the iron extractedyearly from the coals raised is worth, at the mouth of the furnace, 141 millions sterling. The total capital invested in the trade is supposed to exceed 181 millions sterling. In 1851 the number of persons employed in our coal mines was 219,000 ; at present there are at least a quarter of a raillion,—Mechanics' Magazine. L A E ),*-1 'T % V PESTIT, OCT. 8. The dissolution of the Assembly of the Cohlitat o Gran has been decreed. A royal commissioner has already been pointed. The Assembly of the Comitat of Zalo has re solved to ignore any illegal ordinance of the Go• vernment. It also protests against the nomination of a commissioner and the proposed new organisa tion of Vne Comitats, and declares that it will only yield to force. PESTH, OCT 9 The Assemblies and Municipal Councils of the Comitats of Arad and Bacs have been dissolved by the Government for having passed resolutions con curring in the protest of the Comitat of Pesth against the dissolution of the Hungarian Diet. LEMBERG, OCT. 8 The editor of the Gros, having been found guilty of high treason, and inciting the people to sedition, has been sentenced to five years' hard labour, loss of nobility, forfeiture of half his caution-money, and. deprivation of the faculty of exercising the editoril3.l profession. RAGUSA, OCT. 8. Six battalions of Turkish regular troops, while on their return march from Nicksich, were attacked by the insurgents and Montenegrins. After a fight, which lasted four hours, the Turks were compelled to take 'to flight, with the loss of 80 killed and 20 wound() d. TURIN, OCT. 8. Signor Ratazzi will very likely enter the Ministry. Letters from Genoa affirm that Garibaldi has quitted Caprera. His destination is unknown. The Society of Workmen at Turin has deter mined upon convening another congress of all the workmen societies, at Asti, in November next, in order to declare the resolutions of the congress lately held at Florence to be illegal. THY. HOMEWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram:— WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 9. The Vectis and Indus, with the above mails, were to lerrve Alexandria on the 7th inst. for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The Simla arrived at Suez on the sth. THE OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Ellora, from Southampton 27th September, arrived at Malta at 4 p.m. 7th; left at midnight. The Valetta, from Marseilles sth, reached Malta at 10 p 7th; would leave next morning. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 8 BorrasE, Oct. B.—There hes been but a very limite , el amount of business, with only slight fluc tuatio ins in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now a 68f. 15c. Railways heavy, and quotations of son ie lines rather lower. The. following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 95 75' Credit Fonder llB5 Do. en d. month.... 95 85 Belgian 4f lOOl 3 per ("eats Do. en it month 6B 20 Doman Bank Shares 2915 Austrian Credit Illobilier.... 708 75 Spanish Threes 451 Do. A °count 7lO Home Debt .. 47 25 RAILWAYS. Orleans exthern 1\ I raw ditto I ,yons and Mediterranean Geneva southern ' Western ilastern Sardinian Au strian 1.0. r bard Cash. Account. 1335 .. 1337 50 978 75 .. 980 -- 902 50 .. 1020 .. 1022 - 50 340 .. —t 642 .50 .. 645 522 50 .. 526 25 596 25 .. 600 355 .. 505 - .. 506 25 527 60 .. 530 -• RUSSIA. Among the names of Russian officers of high rank, published in the Invalids Russe as having just received new marks of the Emperor's favour, is that; of Lieut.-General Todtleben, Director of the Department of Engineers in the Ministry of War. He ho.s been presented with the Grand Cross of the Secon d Class of the Order of St. Vladimir. An official telegraphic despatch from the camp at cek, near fort Khametz, gives an itinerary of the is ur of the Emperor in Southern Russia, since his departure from Kertch. His Majesty com menced his excursion into the province of the Koub an on the 11th ult., arriving on the 12th at Catheri nodar. On the 13th he inspected the forts Dmitrievskoe and Grigorievskoe ; he passed the night r)f the 13th at Fort West-Labinskoe, and on the 14:th arrived at Fort Maikop. On the 15th the Emperor, with an escort, rode to a point bey on d the river Belaia, arriving that evening at Abagek, where he remained for a day - . On the 17th, after hearing mass, his Majesty continued his route along the line of the Laba. A controversy is being carried on between two of the scientific periodicals of St. Petersburg, the Journal des Mines and the Gazette de l' Academie, as to the manner in which the mines of Russia are worked. The Gazette strongly condemns the system by which the Government takes the direction of most of the mining works in the country; it con tends that the official system only ensures a loss, and insists on the necessity of transfbrring this branch .of industry to private enterpris o ' , or to the management of joint-stock companies. - The Russian corvette, Novii, carrying the flag of Admiral Popoff, and commanded by Captain Skrypleff, has sailed from Cronstadt for the explor ing voyage on the eastern coasts of Siberia. POLAND. At the opening of the Council of State at War saw on the Ist inst. Count Lambert, the Governor, made the following speech : " Gentlemen,—l feel myself happy at being en abled to open the first sitting of the 'Council of State on the day consecrated to this important act of the new order of things in the kingdom. The short space of time since the organisation of the Council of State, the changes in the chief adminis tration, especially the interference of the Govern ment at each moment for the restoration of peace, required by the condition of the country, has de layed the execution of the projected laws„ as well as their extension to the divisions of the Royal Coun cil of State. However, the reports of the chiefs of the different branches of the administration of the year 1860 as well as the budget for 1862, and many bills already prepared by the Government Commis sion sire awaiting your deliberations. Gentlemen, I particularly direct your attention to the very im portant project respecting the tributes by the peasants, which has such an important influence on permanence of the peace and the happiness of the country. I conclude, gentlemen, with the expres sion of the hope that our best exertions will be unani mously devoted to learning the real wants of the country, in order that I may be able to lay them at the foot of the throne as the true expresskins of our maturely considered wishes." The members of the council then took: the pre scribed oath at the hands of the Sandomix Bishop. Since yesterday it has been made known in the journals that the intended meeting on the 10th, at Horodl a, has been forbidden by the Goveanment as unjustified, and as threatening the public peace. The Government have accordingly takon means to preveat the assemblage. MEXICO. A private correspondence of the Patric gives sortie details of the organisation of the French naval force to be despatched to the coast of Mexico• The ships of war ordered for this expedit ion are the etes on frigates Guerriere (fitting at Breit) l'Astree (from Lorient), and I'Ardente (from Brest); a steam corvette (from Rochefort), and the cutter Marceaux (from Cherbourg). Admiral Jurien de Lagraviere, who NNill command the squadron, will hoist his flag on board the Guerriere, which is being prepared for sea as quickly as possible. MADAGASCAR. Despatches have been received in Paris, from Reunion, to the 7th of September, bringing later intelligence from Madagascar. Since the death of the Queen, and the short struggle in which her nephew was killed, the utmost tranquillity has pre vailed in the island: The foreigners established in the country intend to wear mourning for a month, and the ships in the harbour of Tamative hoisted thell , flags at half-mast for three days. The body of the late Queen was embalmed, and the King, her son, remained by it in prayer for six days, according to custom. The King, since he began to attend to public business, has received numerous deputations of Europeans, whom he addressed in the most liberal and reassuring manner. Since the death of the Queen the intercourse between Reunion and Madagascar had revived, and at the date of the despatches was very active. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The Montreal Ocean mail steam ship Anglo- Saxon, Captain Graham, which left Quebec on the 28th ult., arrived here at two o'clock this afternon. By this arrival we receive New York papers one day later than those per Africa, but the usual late dispatch via Father Point has failed to come to hand, the telegraphic communication between that point and Quebec being interrupted. The New I ork, Times of the 26th gives the fol lowing particulars of the latest events : " Another important reconnaissance took place yesterday across the Potomac. In the morning at eight o'clock 5,000 infantry, three companies of cavalry, and three batteries left Chain Bridge, under the command of General Smith, for the neighbourhood of Lewinsville. About two o'clock in the afternoon, while our troops were at Lewins ville, a large party of rebels, consisting of about five regiments of infantry, a regiment of cavalry, and six pieces of artillery, approached from the direction of Falls Church. They opened on our men with their battery, and their fire war immedi ately reponded to. Thirty shots, both shell and solid, were fired from our batteries, wbich silenced the rebel cannon, and the enemy immediately re tired to Falls Church. It is not known what damage was sustained on their side. One man of ours was slightly wounded by the explosion of a shell. The object of the expedition having been accomplished our troops fell back to their original position at the Chain Bridge, bearing with them a man representing himself as an aide-de-camp to Colonel Stewart, of the Virginia rebel cavalry. " We have both good and bad news from Mis soari this morning. The good news is that General Siegel, with a large force, and also Generals Lane and Hunter, have arrived at Lexington, and although to late to save Colonel Mulligan and his brave little army, were still in time to prevent the escape of Price with the booty he had captured, and are now besieging him in the same position lately occupied by the national troops. The bad news is that Ben M'Culloch is marching rapidly to form a junction with Price, at the head of a large, well-armed, and well-disciplined army, and with a good supply of artillery. This intelligence comes from Jefferson City, and the despatch states that he is now very near Lexington. It is evident that a battle of considerable magnitude must take place in that vicinity soon. " We have a speck of good news from Western Virginia. A successful advance of the national troops has been made on Romney, and the place is ; now in our possession. 500 of the 4th Ohio Regi ment, with one piece of artillery ; 400 of the Bth Ohio, and the Ringgold Cavalry, numbering 7 6 , advanced from New Creek on Monday. They suc ceeded in driving the rebels, 700 strong, out of Mechanicsville Gap, on Monday, and pushing for ward to Romney, stormed the town R ith such good effect that the enemy, reported to number 1,400 infantry and cavalry, were forced to retreat to the mountains, with a loss of about 35 killed and a large number wounded. The national loss amounted to only 3 killed and 10 wounded. " A despatch from Point of Rocks makes brief mention of a skirmish which took place on the 24th September between a portion of Colonel Geary's regiment and a party of about 200 rebels who had established themselves on a high point on the Ca toctin Mountain and in houses at its base. The battery attached to Colonel Geary's command, to gether with the riflemen, soon made the location too warm for them, and they left for a safer posi tion, with the loss of several men killed and wounded. "An arrival from Hatteras Inlet at Fortress Monroe reports everything quiet there. There seems to be no probability that the rebels will make an effort to retake the position. An expedition was expected to leave the inlet soon for Roanoke Island to dislodge the rebels known to be there. Roanoke Island commands the .entrance into Albe marle Sound, and its position is essential to the success of contemplated movements against the rebels in that direction." The Quebec journals contain New York tele grams of the 27th, as follows : The sudden arrest of ex-Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, and his removal so far from home, excites a good deal of attention. " The national fast yesterday was observed in this city with due solemnity, business being unani mously suspended, snd all the churches thronged. " A deserter from the rebel army states that they have 10,000 men at Freestone Point, 30,000 between there and Manassas, and a large force along the river to Mathias. " The force on the Potomac is said to be about 180,000, and the plan of the rebel generals is to cross above and below Washington, simultaneously attacking in front and rear. " On the 21st inst. Gen. Lane's forces surprised a large party of rebels at Papinsville, Missouri, and after a severe fight the latter were routed. Lane's loss was 17 killed and a number wounded; that of the rebels 40 killed and 100 captured. All the enemy's tents, waggons, and supplies were taken. " General Ben M'Culloch, with 15,000 men, was within 15 miles of Fort Scott on the 21st. " The report that Col. Siegel had attacked Gen. Price at Lexington is now denied. , g According to some reports received, the loss at Lexington only amounted to 130 on Col. Mulligan's side, and on that of the rebels to 300. O n Wednesday, J. B. Clay, son of Henry Clay, was arrested, with 16 of his men, while on his way to join Zollicoffer in Kentucky. J. C. Brekinridge was with the party, but succeeded in effecting his escape. " A despatch to the New York World says—' A flag of truce crossed the Potomac at Edward's Ferry on some trivial subject, but the sentinels dis covered that one man in the boat was taking sound ings of the river. The Confederates were placed under arrest." A Washington telegram of the 26th says " The steamer Delaware arrived at the Navy Yard this morning. The captain reports that the battery at Freestone Point was unmasked when he passed this morning, the woods having been cleared away, and that they opened on him, firing seven shots, none of which took effect. " From disclosures of a Confederate officer it is ascertained that the battery at Freestone Point is com manded byJ. EMI tstein , form er l y commander in the United States Navy, and that there are batteries on the side of the P o t omac, every two an d a ha from Occocequio n t o M at hi as P o i nt. The lf Virginiamiles river is now considered by naval officers to be effectually closed. Our Potomac flotilla is insuffi cient to clear it of the numerous batteries upon its banks. A land force is indispensably necessary, and it is believed that within a few days, perhaps a few hours, the Confederates will attempt to cross the Lower Potomac into Maryland." A lieutenant had deserted from one of the Federal regiments on the Upper Potomac, and went over to