The Sun. — London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Bnokstone. THIS EVENING, SECOND LOVE. After which, The Spanish Dancers. Followed by THE EVIL GENIUS. To conzlode with THE DOCTOR IN LOVE. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followe.l by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To conclude with IRISH ASSURANCE AND YANKEE. MODESTY. 710YAL PRUCESS'S T FIE ATAE. OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CniELEs BEAN. THIS EVENING. MUSIC II :TIT CHARMS. After whion. TEES WINTER'S TALE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. After which. MEDEA. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. \sTLErs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. 3 :NW and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING ICING =RA RD THE THIRD, compressed into 3 acts. Eques than s ffeets—Dee th of White Surrey—" Rattle of Bosworth Field"— Introduction of Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained horses —Hippodramatic tableau never yet attempted. After which, I The attractive ACTS . of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA. To conclude with a popular and Risible Farce. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Directo►'. Mr. W. Cooke, jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAv—Morn.3s min. aft. 4—Evening 56 min. aft. 4 TO4fORROW—Morn.I7 min. aft. s—Evening 39 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER—Stm Omar, AUGUST 20. THTBNO3fETI9I, IN THIC SHAD& 64 highest sines noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the sight. 65—this day at noon. BASOMIETICE— 29 62. WIND, Sontherly.—Moderate, with dull rainy weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. .4. e , c . 1,1,11„ ' LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1856. BOMBA is himself again. He emphatically cautions France and England to mind their own business, and to abstain from intermeddling in his affairs. Nay, more, he threatens them with the consequences of his high displeasure, declar ing that, if an attempt be made to go further, he will " appeal to the patriotism of his people, and, trusting to his brave and faithful army, repel force by force I" Let England stand aghast ; let France, the minor offender, tender speedy and ample amends, or dread the consequences. BOMBA Will "repel force by force," and annihilate the fleets and armies who may dare to approach his dominions in an unfriendly spirit. The leading argument of the document is the complete repudiation of foreign interference. He will do as he likes with his own, and give no thanks to any one. The principle, however, comes rather strangely from one who has been placed, and is maintained, in his position solely by the aid of foreign bayonets, or the dread of foreign intervention. It is but too notorious that if the Neapolitans were allowed to settle the matters themselves, and to have a clear stage and no favour, BoMBA would cease to reign within a single week. He looks for defence to the very principle which ho so earnestly deprecates when it runs counter to his own prejudices. He is peculiarly sarcastic against Great Britain. What could Lord PALMERSTON say if he, the illustrious and mighty BOMBA, "should think fik to cast India or Ireland in his teeth ? Was to pro pose to the English Government a modification in its internal policy, or the adoption of more liberal views towards Ireland, or to recommend more humane donduct towards its Indian subjects ?" This is manifestly a crushing argument in the opinion of BOMBA, and at once disposes, with proper spirit, of the insolent attempt at inter• ference. Franen is reprehended in a more lenient tone. He manifestly recognises a congenial spirit, and speaks more in sorrow than in anger—mourning over the desertion of a shining light in the galaxy of despotism. There is ata pope tone in his remonstrances. "Is it you, my brother, who complain of broken promises and violated faith ? Is it you who can object to 'a wise and clever policy,' similar to that by which you so triumph antly silenced the voice of public opinion, and an nihilated every vestige of the Constitution in your Empire? Surely you cannot be in earnest, and are merely hoodwinking the stupid islanders by in ducing them to suppose that you would desire any modification or change in a Government in every respect so analogou%,to your own." Well, we shall receive our scolding with great equanimity. The Royal Billingsgate does not in the slightest degree disturb our serenity. He is bent on ruin. Like the Hibernian sufferer, he will be destroyed, and nobody shall save him. Lt.t him then " dree his wierd." He is what our Scottish brethren term " fey," and must meet his fate. He has even scoffed at Austria, and seems prepared to meet the world in arms if they d are to recommend a wiser policy than he thinks fit to adopt. Be it so. We have no great love for any o f the BOURBON dynasty, and if he wishes to " point a moral and adorn a tale" for the benefit of future generations, he may do so without occasioning the slightest annoyance to France or England. The interference of which he so loudly complains was for his own benefit. A cure will be effected without any further action on our parts. But there would be ample justification therefor, inasmuch as any sane man would be justified in arresting a dangerous lunatic armed with deadly weapons. The fate of BOMBA. would be a matter of the most perfect indifference; but we must not risk the peace and tranquillity of Europe by sanctioning a continu ance of the insane pranks of which he has been guilty. "Much labour and little fruit." Whether the first part of the apophthegm holds good in relation to the proceedings of the " Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Adulkeration of Food,' we will not undertake to 137 1 01 the THE SUN: applicability of the second, unfortunately, there I can be no doubt. For all useful purposes, so far as we can see, the Committee might quite as well have spared themselves their deliberations, and contented themselves with the presentation of the evidence taken before them. ?Vith regard to adulterations of a cheapening and innocuous nature, by which the public suffer neither i❑ purse nor Health, "it would be difficult, if not unwise," PM are told, " for the Legislature to interfere, unless it could do so by requiring that every such article be sold as a mixture, as distin guished from an article in its pure state." Se far as other adulterations are concerned—those, to wit, in which " pecuniary fraud or injury to health" are involved—" it appears to your Com mittee," says the Report, "to be the duty of the Legislature to provide some efficient remedy." This is certainly a beggarly result, if it is not something worse. Every intelligent and unbiassed individual who has respect for the public morals must, one would have thought, by this time have arrived at the conclusion that the practice of adul teration of any sort cannot but have a pernicious tendency, and lead to the confusion of right and wrong. Fadlis descensus averni comes at once to the recollection, and it ought not to be matter o surprise if the dealer who begins with cheap and innocuous adulteration has his moral sense before long so obfuscated as to see no harm in car rying the practice further in matters of trade, and extending the application of the principle involved to other transactions of life. The transition, no doubt, will be a matter of time, and there are individuals of such sturdy honesty as to resist the temptation offered with more or less success ; but what shall be said of the youthful apprentice, whose previous training has led him to look on even the appearance of fraud with disgust, when he is called upon to participate in the act of adulteration, and has his scruples quieted by the assurance that what he conceives to be wrong is, in point of fact, right ? Why, that his convictions as to what is right and wrong will infallibly receive a shock from which it will be well if he recover with any guiding principle of rectitude in the conduct of business at all. The apprentices of one generation are the masters of the next, and to nothing but external in fluences have we to look for a remedy. It may be good political economy—which we more than doubt—but the approval, it is nothing better, by the Committee of the practice of adulteration, even with the above proviso, seems to us fraught with evils innumerable and of a most serious nature. The opinion expressed by the Commit:- tee, it is not a recommendation, with reference to fraudulent or noxious adulteration, simply amounts to this—the Legislature, we believe, ought to provide some efficient remedy against cheating and murder in trade. So far as the public are directly concerned, the practice of adulteration in its least offensive phase is highly objectionable, and may in some cases be attended with the worst results. The profession of a chemist is the business of a life, and to be armed against adulteration is to be possessed of a good I deal of the knowledge, to say nothing of the expen sive apparatus and numerous tests, of the chemist. The public are delivered over, in a great measure, to the dealer, for beyond his real or supposed in tegrity there is little else on which they can rely. I When a buyer asks for one thing, the presump tion is he wants that thing, and not a mixture of that thing with others. Say that he is aware the practice of adulteration pretty generally obtains, I how seldom does his knowledge enable him to discriminate between the pure and the adul terated t And, supposing him in possession of the required knowledge, it will be far from easy for him always to get the article he wants ; for it is notcrious that, as the practice of adulteration has come more and more into vogue, the presentation of genuine articles has decreased in proportion. Besides, what may be harmless in its effect on one man's constitution may be injurious to that of another. To what complications is not this fac' likely to lead ? One species of adulteration, which may be classed under the first head, the Committee appear to have entirely overlooked. We mean the adulteration of drugs. The proper dose of a genuine drug has c3rtain effects the adulterated article is unable to produce. Say that in the first instance the adulterated article is given and fails in its effects—the fault is not at tributed to the right quarter, and a second and stronger dose, obtained at another shop where the drug is to be had genuine, is administered. The patient dies—though the foreign ingredient in the adulterated article were ever so harmless. Legis lation to be efficient should be extended to tht. putting down of the practice of adulteration in any shape. _ The death of Lord Shrewsbury makes the Earl of Derby the premier Earl of England, and the Earl of Uork the premier Earl of Ireland. The Earl of Malmesbury kit Heron Court, near Christchurch, last week, to visit the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle, Cumber'anii. The Hor. and Rev. E. D. Thigh, 8.A., has been pre sented to the rectory of Rotherfield, near Tunbridge Wells, a benefice worth nearly 2.0001. a year. Patron, the Right Hon. Rev. Earl of Abergavenny. A line of steamers is about to be established between Hamburg and the Brazil, calling at Southampton. The steamers employed will be British-built ones. Hamburg is the European market for Brazilian coffee, The exact amon,,t of specie shipped by the Pera is 516,5801., of which 499,0601. is silver for Aden, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, and 17,5201. gold for Alexandria, Ceylon, and Madras. Miss Buller, of Downes, whose father, as chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, was at the Exeter station on Friday last, to be in attendance on her Majesty, bad the honour of presenting the Queen with a choice bouquet. Lord Lyttelton laid the foundation stone of a new Mechanics' Literary Institute, at Stourbridge, on Mon day. His lordship was assisted in the ceremony (which was of v. very interesting character) by Lord Ward, Mr. J. H. Foley, M.P., and other gentlemen resident in the county. The institution is to be erected by private sub- seri ption. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER, Tues. day.—With somewhat less settled prospects of harvest weather, the yarn market shows a less sanguine aspect to-day than during the past fortnight, yet the engage ments of manufacturers are sufficiently large, in conse quence of the extensive business of the last few weeks, to prevent the slightest feeling of depression, and the market remains firm at previous advanced quotations. At a meeting of the Clarendon (Jamaica) Mining Company, held yesterday, Mr. Cater presiding, the re port was unanimously adopted. The management, which is conducted with economy, appears to afford satisfac tion, and the latest advices from the property indicate a steady improvement. Including a cash balance of 10,8531., the assets available are upwards of 11,0001. Arrangements will be made for bringing the company under the provisions of limited liability. THE LATE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.—The existence of the cholera in an alarming form at Lisboa renders it extremely doubtful whether the body of the Earl of Shrewsbury will be brought back to England at present. However this may be arranged by his lordship's execu tire, Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, Q C., and Mr. J. R. Hope- Scott, Q.C., we believe there is no doubt that it will he ultimately deposited in the chapel at Alton, in which the remain, of the late earl and countess are deposited. About 30 miles of the railroad between Lisbon and Badajoz, on the frontiers of Spain, will be open next month. The whole line will be about 150 miles in length. Four steam-packet lines are about to be imme diately established, or improved, from Lisbon to the West Coast of Africa to the Azores, Brazil, and England. These lines have unusual privileges from the Portuguese Government, and English talent and capital will be partially employed on them. The terminus of the English packet lane in this country will be Milford Haven. LORD PALMERSTON AND THE CHUROH.—The First Minister of the Crown has at present in his gift unbe stowed ecclesiastical patronage to the extent of upwards of 30,0001. a-year. The bishopric of London, w hi c h he has at his disposal, is worth, under the new arrangement, 10,0001. a-year ; and the bishopric of Durham, 8,0001. Two bishops of smaller sees will doubtless be translated to these, which will give an increased patronage of 10,000/. a-year. Then the noble lord has vacant the deanery of Westminster,:worth 2,000/, a-year ; and there is the bishopric of Graham's Town, over which he will have some control, worth 8001. a•year. So large an amount of church patronage has not fallen at one time tci the gift of the Prime Minister for many years. LioN'uoN, WEDNES P, VEN IN G A UTIF UST 20, i-66. LATEST _NEWS. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Moniteur announces that the French Go vern anent have received a telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, dated the 18th, informing them of the departure, ou that day, of the last French troops from Constantinople. General Pariset himself, their commander, with his staff, had embarked on the 18th. The evacuation of Turkey is thus completed. MARSEILLES, AUG. 19. The Indus has arrived with accounts from Con stantinople to the 11th. The Ottoman Ministry is said to hare been seriously divided on the sub ject of the reorganisation of the principalities. Some sensation has been caused at the Porte in consequence of Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, having communicated the approaching arrival of M. de Boutenieff to the Grand Vizir, instead of, as is customary, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Russians claim 400,000 f. from France, for damage done to the residence of the Embassy during its absence from Constantinople. It was said that Admiral Stewart was to return to Constantinople, but that the English fleet will cruise in the Black Sea until the end of September, when it will proceed to Malta. The Lyonnais steamer, Captain Magnan, be longing to a French company which has obtained permission to navigate the Danube between the Pruth and Ser3th, has been lost in one of the rapids of that river after she had passed in safety through the pass called Iron Gates. All on board were saved. The last accounts which had been received from Persia did not give a very favourable sketch of the situation of the country. The crop of grapes had suffered severely, and a violent disease was raging among the cattle. Engineers had been sent to Khiva in order to put it into a proper state of defence, as it was thought that Russia was turning a very longing eye to that quarter. MADRID, AUGUST 18. The Marquis de Turgot is to return to Madrid in one month. A letter from Naples, of the 9th, asserts that France and England have addressed an ultima tum to the Government of the Two Sicilies, and that in the event of a refusal to comply with their demands their representatives are stated to com- prise a general amnesty and administrative and judicial reform. The same letter adds that the King has consented to some concessions, but they have not appeared sufficient to the representa tives of France and England, who have neverthe less referred the matter to their Courts. more. These are striking and extraordinary innova• tions in Eastern habits." RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th, in the Debats, says :—" Count de Morny is every where the object of the most flattering attention. On the day before yesterday he was present at all the fetes given in honour of the birthday of the Empress, and was treated everywhere with the greatest distinction. The telegraph from Moscow will report every quarter of an hour the progress of the ceremony of the coronation, and religious ceremonies analogous to those performed at Moscow wiil take place here at the same time. Several civil and military employes, including General Benkendorff, have gone on a tour to the Crimea to visit the late scene of operations. Colonel Bar tholomei, attached to General Mouravieff's staff, has left in all haste for the Caucasus, where the temporary command will probably be entrusted to General Bebutoff " A letter from Warsaw, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" It appears that a considerable number of exiles have applied to profit by the late amnesty, but no reply has as yet been made to their appli cation." FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY. The En? peror left St. Cloud this afternoon, at five o'clock, for the terminus of the Orleans Rail r e v. The steam-frigates Impetueuse, 800-horse power, and Imperatrice Eugenie, 900, were launched on the 15th inst.—the first at Cherbourg, the second at Toulon. BOURSE, Aug. D.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. ft. a. End of Months ii per Cents 95 —f. —O. 3 per Cents 7O 80 71 New Loan 7l Bank Shares 4,150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,627 50 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes — Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt ......... 39i RAILWAYS-108 bABIL fi. c. fr. 0 Orleans ..."... ...... 1,4'20 Western 972 50 Northern 1,070 Strasburg Lyons ... • 1,427 50 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,840 Grand Central -47 50 Lyons Geneva Bl5 Taste Cette , 812 50 Austrian Com. B9O CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. (From the Special Correspondent of the MorWng Post.) ST. PETERSBURG, Ara. 13. There can scarcely now be any more adjourn ments, as it was expected there would still be, of the coronation-day. The 26th of August (old style 7th of September) is formally adhered to in this morn ing's Vedontoste. Already Earl Granville's extreme accessibility; and the charm inherent in frank and simple man ners, have secured him those golden opinions which the truly golden preparations that heralded his arrival had predisposed the Russians to enter tain. The Rotel Demouth, where he is sojourning for the short time before the corps diplomatique set out to Moscow, is situated on the first canal that crosses the Nevsky Prospect, and crowds of Isvostchiks, and other Russian idlers of the lower class, succeeded each other all day long, Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, on both sides of the canal, and upon the police-bridge, or Politziiskoo Most, to gaze at such of the new inmates as occa sionally appeared upon the massive balcony. One, an English naval officer, attracted the greatest attention, thanks to his thoroughly professional look, and to the uniform which set it off. The Isvostchiks were never tired pointing to him, and then to their own shoulders, to indicate the gleam of his ponderous bullion epaulettes, exclaiming, "Ah ! dobrah eta Ah I carasho !" " ! how fine he is ! how splendid !" Bat the St. Jean d'Acre at Cronstadt is the grand centre of attraction ; and every day the Vesta (or, as she is labelled in the Russ characters, the Bec Ma), with other steamers to Cronstadt, is packed as closely as the standing room on its decks allows of with curious excur sionists, repairing to feast their eyes upon that beautiful and terrible steam liner. In the whole Russian navy there never was her match ; never, probably, any two vessels together, of which, in a good open sea, she would not have managed to give a conclusive account. Most of the Russian sight seers I have mentioned are wonderfully innocent about the application of the most recent naval im provements. What particularly struck them was the manner in which the mighty ship, when lying at her moorings, is wont, as they express it, to dis guise her steam power. Many would not believe till after a very close inspection that she was a steamer at all. Being a screw-propelled vessel, she of course has no paddles ; but where are her chim neys—where are the funnels ? The St. Jean d'Acre, as your readers know, can at pleasure winch down her funnels, like opera-glasses, to within a foot of her deck, and wind up her screw clean out of water. She appeared to the Russians in her beauty and strength, when all this was understood, a true war sorceress. What lends peculiar splendour to Earl Granville's Embassy is the number of distinguished persons who accompany it, the arrival of any one of whom at St. Petersburg, even unofficially, would have made at all times a considerable sensation. Sir Robert and Lady Peel are much commented upon, on account of the late Sir Robert's fame, tariff, political expe riments,land personal fate. For some three weeks before I came up through the Gulf of Finland that sea had swarmed, I am told, with Russian vessels of war and transports conveying the troops—por tions of the great army of Finland, from Wyborg, Sweaborg, Abo, Nystadt, and even further round the northing of the Gulf of Bothnia, from Nasa, Gamla, Karlaby, Uleborg, and Tornea. These troops, with other detachments coming overland from Archangel, and in the opposite direction— brought by vessels from Riga, Pernau, Revel, and other parts of Courland and Livonia, and march ing from the fort of Narva, overlooking the field where Charles XII., 150 years ago, with 8,000 Swedes, defeated 80,000 Russians ; and from the great summer camp of Krasno-Selo, still nearer to St. Petersburg (Narva is only 70 miles away)— were converged upon this place, and then de spatched as fast as they arrived to Moscow, there to be ready to add to the imposing pageantry of the forthcoming festival. At the same time, from Bes sarabia, Katerinaslav, Kiev, Volhynia, the Ukraine, and other regions in the south and west, with de tachments from the army of Poland, troops have been continually directed towards Moscow for the last two months. lam assured that there will not be less than 350,000 in Moscow during the cere mony to swell the pomp of their young Monarch's coronation. Of the various forces of Russia those of the Finland army and of the St. Petersburg and neighbouring Governmentshave probably furnished the largest contingents for this combined centripetal movement. The. programme in the Vedomoste regards St. Petersburg only, and directs that on the evening of the 6th Sept. a solemn service be performed in the Kazan Church, on the Nevsky, to beg the blessing of Heaven on the reign which next morn ing is to be religiously inaugurated at Moscow, in the presence of Russia, and of the whole civilised world assisting there, in the persons of the various Ambassadors and Envoys. Next morning the clergy of St. Petersburg are to assemble in readi ness at the Kazan for the telegraphic message which will announce the exact moment when the proces sion shall have begun to move from the Petroffsky Palace, outside the ancient walls of Moscow. At that instant three guns will be fired ; and from all the watch-towers of St. Petersburg (fire -alarm towers) white flags (biaalie flagee) are to be dis played for the space of ten minutes, while the as sembled clergy intone in the Kazan hymns of sup plication and propitiation. Another pause of expec tancy and silence then ensues, to await the electric message which will mark the moment of Alexander IL's arrival in the Kremlin, which moment will again be announced to St. Petersburg by a salute of three guns. Upon this the white flags on the watch towers will vanish, and be replaced by red, and the clergy and people in the Kazan Sodor (cathedral) will join, 500 miles away, in the same prayers, ac cording to the Greek liturgy, which will be offered in the Kremlin Church, at Moscow. This will be at half-past 11 a.m. ; and when the crown is placed on the young Emperor's brow, a third message will flash along the telegraph, and 101 guns will pro claim to the northern capital that the absolute Sovereign of 70 millions of human beings has re ceived the solemn emblem of his high authority. There is then to be sung in the Kazan the Te Deuin, which at the same moment will be chantei in the older and more august metropolis. That evening there is to be a festival with singing, music, and fireworks in the summer garden, and in the Champs de Mars behind it, where booths are per mitted to be pitched for the sale of refreshments. This is for the masses. For the better classes there is to be a ball in the great theatre (bolshaea teatra), and a dinner in the Hall of the Nobles. To the people the Alexander and Michael theatres and the circus are to be thrown open for gratuitous perfor mances. St. Petersburg is to be illuminated, and the three days— the seventh, the eighth (despite anniver sary thoughts), and the eleventh of September, are to he kept as holidays, not in the religious, but the sportive sense. Why the 9th is pretermitted I know not, but the 10th (which is in Russia the 29th of August) happens to be their festival of Alexander Nevsky, whom they honour as a saint and as one of the chief patrons of Russia. The scaffoldings for the illuminations aro to be kept up till the re turn of their Majesties from Moscow. Such is the programme for Stßetersburg, which capital is now every day literally emptying itself upon the Great Southern line. It is arranged that the Court shall preserve its present quietude and retirement at Peterhoff till its departure. As to soc:ety, with the exception of the Foreign Ambas sadors, who ara almost on the wing, there is hardly any left. In short, there will be nothing more in the nature of incident to chonicle here except those incessant arrivals which alone prevent St. Peters burg from looking at this moment a dese:ted and forsaken city. Only an hour since the Steam boat, for example, arrived deep in the water with her human freight. A pound sterling more than the fare was demanded on board for something to lie upon, besides the floors of the cabins and the planks of the deck. Amidst this crowd, exactly eighty of whom (and not eighty poor persons, but gentlemen travelling for their pleasure, for whoever can afford an excursion from the west of Europe for the pur pose of seeing the great coronation at Moscow must have independent means)slept onithe deck. Amids , ; this great crowd, I say, were tliree French generals coming, like three-fourths of the rest, to see the coronation. They are all three Crimean generals —Lebceuf, of the Line ; Dupont, of the Engineers ; and Froissart, of the Artillery. There were lots of Russian princes on their return, and one, whose name ends in " off," with a most beautiful wife, a Greek, who, while hardy-looking men were still a little sick from the roughness of the two last days of the four which they had occupied in steaming from Stettin, had no sooner got out of the larger into the smaller boat at Croustadt than she de scended into the cabin and attacked a beefsteak with evident relish. Of what that beautiful person is capable may be judged. General Mouravieff was on board, and could not accomplish the feat in question. The portraits of Mouravieff which I have seen in England do him ()Toss injustice. There was ono I especially remember, representing him as a portly, heavy-faced, stupid-looking man of 60. He appears about 48-is small, active, sprightly, with such a good-natured and good-humoured ex pression of countenance as to prevent your remark ing at a first glance its unquestionable keenness and intelligence. Some of the princes and heroes who came with him were in uniform, and covered with orders. He wore plain clothes, not even a ribbon, and, instead of a military hat, a little black cap—looking altogether like a sensible traveller used to the sea, It is not a fine thing to Bee i 1 DUD, who glitters with stars, crogs l . And badges, sea- giich ale aid Miseellaneous arrivals every day our worthy countrymen flgt4ring largely in each new crowd that is cast upon thego granite quays. Most of them are pleasure-seekers. Among those who come bent dti business, the two most numerous classes are the importers of wine (who reap an im mense harvest at the present moment), and those heirs of the future in Russia, as they deein them selves, the civil engineers. Meanwhile, there are swarms of agents from the great capitalists of Lon don, of Paris, and of the various chief towns of Germany, who are making interest here against each other to obtain concessions of the many new lines of railway which are in contemplation. That from Warsaw to Moscow is begun, but awaits capital to be continued. That from Moscow to Odessa, or to Itherson, awaits capital to be begun. A whole network of embryo railways in the north are waiting for capital to hatch them into good dividends. There are altogether 4,000 versts of line clearly shown, and maturely admitted, to be needed in this country, which hold out really good promise of more or less ample remuneration when accomplished. They are all waiting for capital ; and capital, at the same time, is not only waiting for leave to undertake these gigantic works, but vehemently suing for it, or at least for permission to commence part of them. They wish the coro nation all over. And well they may ; for till then no other business will meet with any very close attention from Alexander the Second. He is ab sorbed—heart, mind, and soul—in the preparations. St. Petersburg has been recently very much amused and puzzled by the sudden visit of Sir Charles Napier, and his equally sudden departure. The gallant admiral was treated with much condescen sion by the Grand Duke Constantine, and was, I believe, invited to a naval review, but he departed suddenly on the receipt of letters from England. Many characteristic anecdotes are told of him, especially as to the way in which he parried some good-humoured taints _respecting his celebrated boast about tha capture of Cronstadt—a boast which, by the way, he never made. it is said that when an illustrious personage asked him " Why he didn't come in to Cronstadt ?" the retort cour teous of the old " Salt" was, " Why didn't you come out c!'' On another day he visited a Greek convent, where he was introduced as " Mr. Napier." One of the young lady pupils hearing the name, timidly inquired whether he was any relative of the terrible admiral who was to have taken Cronstadt; and his answer was, "No relation at all, miss, lam the man himself." I select these two out of about a dozen that are flying about re specting the veteran of Acre, without vouching for their accuracy, but at the same time being strongly impressed with their vraiseinblance. The official journal as yet contains no positive news about the coronation, but I believe the dates will be—Depar ture from St. Petersburg, Aug. 26 ; public entry, 29th ; coronation, Sept. 7. It is remarkable that even the official programme contains nothing about the day. THE FATE OF OWERIJACCHIO. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Vienna Gazette says :—" M. Niederhafheim, Director of the Bank of Jassy, published on the 4th inst. a notice that the Bank was about to com mence its operations immediately, and that the offices were provisionally established at the house of the Prussian Consulate. A letter from Jassy now states that this notice was published without the consent of the Moldavian Government, and it was thought that it was done in order to oppose a fait accompli to any resolution which the Porte might come to with regard to banking establish ments. Explanations have taken place on the sub ject between the Prussian consul and the Molda vian Government ; the latter declaring that it would not allow the bank to commence operations until the decision of the Porte is known." CIRCASSIA. A private letter from Bucharest, of the 10th, says " You recollect that in 1855, in obedience to orders received from St. Petersburg, all the forts along the Circassian coast were destroyed by the Russians, including Anapa. Since then, a Russian corps, detached from the army of Asia, has reoccu pied all the points thus abandoned ; the latter fort, with its beautiful haven, alone remained ; nor was it easy to take it by land, as Sefer Pacha occupied the country with 18,000 horse, most of them well armed and mounted. The taking of this fort has now been accomplished by the aid of the Russian fleet. The flotillas of gun-boats, some of them propelled by steam, having left Nicolaieff, Reni, Ibrail, penetrated a few days ago into the Straits of Yenikale and Kertch, while some land forces skirted the coast in the direction of the fort in question. Sefer Paella's cavalry, unable to oper ate in that wooded and mountainous district, wc..s forced to retire. The place, the fortifications of which ha,4 been destroyed, could not resist an at tack by sea and land, and opened its gates to the Russians. The Circassians who occupied the town withdrew into the mountains, taking fifteen pieces of cannon with them, besides all the cattle a n d provisions. It is believed that the Russians will rest satisfied with the occupation of Anapa for this season, and leave all further operations against the Circassians for the next year's campaign." A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, of the 18th, confirms the substance of the above, and adds that the Russians have also taken possession of Novo sorsiesk on the Galenschik. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 9.—Said Pasha, the Viceroy, has just resolved upon running steamers, carrying the Egyptian flag, all round the Red Sea, from Suez to Cosseir, lassawah, Aden, Mocha, Jedda, Yambo, and to extend occasionally to Bussorah and Bagdad. The Pasha has requested a number of Euro peans to act as directors of the steamers, for this scheme purports to be a company formed by the Pasha, with a capital of 600,0001., of which his Highness is to subscribe one half at once. The Pasha has promised to have docks made at Suez, which, if carried out, will prove of great use to our communication with India. Said Pasha is to proceed to Cairo to spend the festivities of the Courban Bairam, and to assist at the opening of the canal which conveys water into the town, the Nile having risen sufficiently for all purposes of irrigation. His Highness has recently established a Drome dary Corps, of about 800 men, on 400 dromedaries, of which he is much enamoured, and takes them about with him wherever he goes. Last week, having honoured a French merchant of this place by accepting his invitation to dine with him in a country•house on the canal, his Highness took with him his whole Dromedary Corps, who made no small havoc in the Frenchman's grounds in en deavouring to appease their appetites. A private letter of the 9th inst., from Alexan dria, contains the following interesting informa tion : " The Viceroy is about to create under his patronage, a company of steam navigation along the shores of the Red Sea (coasting trade). The company is to be called the Medjidie, in honour of the Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid. The President of the Council of Administration will be his highness's nephew, Mustapha Bey, and the Council will be composed one-half of Egyptians and the other of Europeans. Among its members are already named S. Thurnburn (English), Jules Pastr6 (French), 1.617 i (Austrian) Ruyssenaers (Dutch), Dumereicher (Danish) , and Zacceli (a Greek). Tha-e gentlemen were sum moned this morning to the Pialace of Gabarri, whtrs the Viceroy long conferred with them on the bases of the 'new enterprise. The Company's steamers are auxiliary screw, and they will trade to all the ports of the Red Sea. The traffic of these countries will quickly change its aspect when intelligent men are charged with it. The vessels will sail under Egyptian colours. The company starts with a capital of 2,000,000 talar:s, or 400,000/. sterling ; the Viceroy per sonally is largely interested in it, and there is not an important person in the country who has not funds embarked in it. The first subscription for the Isthmus of Suez reckoned a certain number of Mug- Gamma. This nomad subscription will IWO many SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 15th inst. On that day a Royal train left by the Mediter ranean Railway for Albacete, to receive Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, who was expected that even ing at Valencia. The train consisted of a Royal waggon, decorated with the flags of Bavaria and Spain, and two o th er carr i ages . M essrs . D an i e l Weisweiler and Salamanca, directors of the line, accompanied the train to Albacete. The Epectz announces that the permanent depu tation of the Spanish grandessa, being anxious to allay the sufferings of the people, had addressed an invitation to all the grandees of Spain, and to per sons belonging to the higher classes of society, to dispose of their depots of wheat on all the markets of the Peninsula. The Gazette publishes a circular of the Minister of Finance, including Indian corn among the grain of which the Royal decree of the 11th ult. autho rises the importation into Spain. The Espana announces that the Carlist Cabecilla Villalain has been killed by an officer of the Ca valry Regiment of the King, in a recontre with his band. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 15th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The recall of all the men on fur lough has been ordered, but for the present it is only the army of Italy that is to be provisionally placed on a war footing. The regiments in Gallicia will, howeyer, be made up to their full complement." —Another letter, in the Boersenhalle, says :—"The Austrian cabinet has confirmed the mission en trusted to Baron de Hubner to the court of Naples, and it is said that fresh instructions have been sent him, which will enable that diplomatist to act with energy. The word ' energy' must not, however, give rise to an, misunderstanding. It simply signifies that the baron is instructed to address himself to the King in person. The Vienna Ca binet anticipates good results from this personal interview, as it is hoped that the Austrian diplo matist will exercise considerable influence over the mind of the monarch." PRUSSIA.. BERLIN, AUG. 18. The news of the skirmish that the Prussian cor vate Danzig has had with the Riff pirates, as con tamed in your naval and military intelligence last Saturday, is exciting deep emotion here. So heavy a loss (20 men wounded and eight killed out of a landing party of 75), Prince Adalbert wounded in the thigh, and his adjutant mortally wounded at his side, and all this happening on the very same spot where three years before a Prussian vessel was plundered by the same pirates I Tie spot where this most unexpected and impromptu affair came off is described as a few miles to the east of the town of Melilla, in the direction of the frontier of Algiers, where the beach is rocky and steep, and the country very hilly. From what I can learn of the affair at present, there had been no attempt made to land by the boats of the Danzig, when they were fired upon by the Riffs. They had put off from the ship for the purpose of viewing the spot already so ominous to the Prussian naval force. On meeting with this reception, they were ordered back to the ship, under cover of her guns, and all the boats manned and armed for the purpose of resenting this insult. The whole crew of the Danzig consists of 80 marines, about 40 seamen, and from 20 to 30 boys. Of this force 75 put off, and succeeded in effect ing a landing in the face of several hundred Riffs. They drove the enemy, who were advantageously posted on a declivity, up and over the hill, only to find themselves surrounded by an overpowering multitude, so that there was nothing left them but to retreat to their boats, which they succeeded in reaching, but with the excessive loss mentioned above. The Prince is wounded in the fleshy part of the thigh, about six inches above the knee, but it is expected that in a few weeks he will be able to travel. His Adjutant, Nieseman, who subsequently died on board from the wound he received on the occasion, is extremely regretted by all who knew him for his many attractive and endearing qualities, and he had engaged himself to be married only a few days before he received orders to join the Danzig for her distant duty. She is a steam corvette of 12 guns, built at Dantsic, and was destined af' er landing Prince Adalbert at Constantinople, to take up her station with other vessels of the great Powers off the mouth of the Sulina. Prince Adal bert is a brother of the Prince Waldemar, of whom it will be recollected in England that he visited our camp while travelling in the East Indies during the campaign against the Sikhs, and that it was at one of the battles there, under Lord Hardinge, that the Prince's physician was killed at his side ; our Government has subsequently presented two beautiful field pieces that were taken in that battle to the King, in token of his cousin having been present at it. They are now in the Zeug-taus or arsenal in Berlin. After this repetition of a pirati cal outrage on a Prussian vessel, it seems more than probable that the expedition against these lawless subjects of the Emperor of Morocco, which was postponed two years ago on account of the Oriental conflict, will be fitted out afresh with increased vigour. The extent to which usurious transactions have of late been carried on here, between spendthrift nobles and hardfisted money-lenders since the repeal of the usury laws, has induced the police 'at last to try their hands at the cure of an evil that the civil law leaves untouched. The recent flight of various officers of the Guard, the dismissal of Prince William of Mecklenburg from the army and his detention in the fortress at Konigsberg, had already sufficiently aroused the indignation of all classes against spendthrifts. Now, however, a recent instance of one of these money harpies giving only 1,200 thalers for a good bill that was brought him for 2,500 thalers, and refusing to part with it again at any moderate advance, has brought mat ters to a crisis as between them and the Exe cutive. The case became the harder for the proprietors of the bill from the circumstance that the go-between who negotiated the sale, on finding the 1,200 thalers rejected by them as altogether below its value, and at the same time not being able to prevail on the purchaser of the bill to return it in consideration of a douceur, applied the money to his own purposes. The police have now placed a constable at the door of the usurer's house, who inquires of every visitor his name and the nature of his business with the offending party, all which are duly noted down ; the messenger of the said indivi dual is also constantly accompanied on his errands by a constable, for the purpose of detecting all the various dirty transactions ho may have on hand. Although in England any such interference of police agents with private business (not being of a criminal nature) would lead only to some hearty invectives and injunctions to mind their own busi ness, it will probably be effectual here, seeing that it is a misdemeanour of itself not to answer a police man respectfully to all his inquiries, while the pro cess itself will remind the reader of the old-fashioned way with us of cautioning the public with " beware of bad houses.'' TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIN. SIR, —I forward you the enclosed, and trust that you will insert it speedily in the columns of your paper.—l am, &c., J. MERITON WHITE. 28, Ashley-place, Victoria-street, Westminster, Tuesday, 6 p.m. My dear Friend,--I have just learned from Colonel Sache (one of the sixty-three patriots who sailed with me from Monte Video to Italy in 1848) the sad fate of Ciceruacchio and his two sons. They followed me in my retreat from Rome in 1849, and on the 3d of August embarked at Cesenatico with my wife and Ugo Bassi, in one of the thirteen fish ing boats, in which it was our intention to land at Venice. But when I reached Ravenna with my dying wife, I insisted on all my followers dispers ing, the Austrians have issued a proclamation that whoever should guide or give us fire, food, or shelter should be put to death. Of the fate of many of those brave ones I am still in ignorance. Ugo Bassi, after haying had the skin stripped from his fingers and the crown of his head, was shot at Bologna. I flattereyself that Ciceruacchio and his children, had gaine d m d the Appenines, and had been sheltered by the moun taineers. But Sacchi tells me that while com manding a steamer on the river Po, he landed at one of the towns on the banks of this river, and that there the peasants gave him the names of seven individuals shot - at Contarina by the Aus trians, under the orders of an officer belonging to the Imperial family. Among them was a Roman, Angelo Brunetti (" Ciceruacchio" was the name given to him by the Romans), his two sons, one aged 19, the other 13, a youth named Stefano Ra morino, Lorenzo Parodi, captain of the Italian Le. 0-ion in Monte Video, and two others, whose names Ido not know. After the first volley was dis charged, Ciceruacchio's youngest son, and the boy Ramorino struggled so long that their murderers had great difficulty to despatch them with kicks, and with the butt-end of their guns. Hence the peasants of the district venerate their memories as saints. Colonel Sacchi has made every effort to establish, beyond a doubt, these facts, which Austria and the priests have been at so much pains to conceal. Obierve also that Ciceruacchio, his young son, and Ramorino, although they accompanied me in the retreat, never c irried arms. Entreat the English press, my dear friend, from me, to use their influence in bringing Austria and the priests to account for these atrocities. I have written myself to the leading Italian papers, and also to the United States. GITISEPPI GARIBALDI. Italy, Aug. 15, 1856. THE GERMAN LEGION. Last week orders were issued to the command in.. officer of the Royal Engineers, f or the surve y of t hergholt-heath, for the encampment of two regi ments of the German Legion, and the survey was made accordingly. We now understand that the mi!itary authorities have abandoned Bergh°lt heath and have been in treaty for die hire of th e Freehold Land Society's ground, near the railway station, for the encampment of the lot and 3d Light Infantry Regiments expected to arrive at Colchester to-day (Tuesday), from 13rowndown, near Portsmouth. Nothing, we hear, has been de finitely fixed respecting the arrival of the Ist and 2d cavalry regiments at Aldershot. Orders have been given for the discharge of the invalids and men of the various regiments unfit for service, which, in the opinion of some competent to judge, does not look like disbandment at present. Indeed, they assert that this event will probably be deferred t known. for several months, but of this nothing, is The soldiers have bee n supplied with new clothing, and looked exceedingly smart on Sunday. The playing of the regimental bands in the barrack square on Sunday a fternoons has been resumed by order of General Baron Von Stutterheim. The bands of these regiments play, as is the custom in continental services, in their barracks on Sunday afternoon, and with no desire to desecrate the Sab bath. Civilians, who are excluded from the bar racks on the week , days, except when furnished with a tc pa ss, ' are now admitted between the hours of four and six o'clock on Sunday afternoon to hear the bands, and on Sunday a large number of respectable inhabitants were present. The visit of the Duke of Cambridge is still a matter of in teresting anticipation to the townsfolk. The pre vise day on which his Royal Highness will arrive is not definitely known. It is fully expected to take place this week. It is, however, stated that ho will not review the legion till the whole of the 9,500 men are concentrated here, and the two in fantry and two cavalry regiments are yet to arrive. We understand that Baron Von Stutterheim, com mander of the legion, left Colchester yesterday (Monday) for London, probably to make arrange ments for the reception of his Royal Highness.— Essex Herald. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCEIA.NGE. Scarcely any - English wheat was on sale in to-day's market. There was a fair inquiry for all kinds, and, owing to the changeable state of the weather, holders generally refused to sell except on rather higher terms. The imports of foreign wheat this week are 7,610 quar ters. That article was in moderate request at full priceq. The barley trade was very firm, at extreme quotations. In malt only a limited business was transacted, at late rates. . • - We were fairly supplied with oats,' yet the demand was steady. In prices no change took place. Beans, peas, and flour were quite as dear as on Monday. ARRIVALS THIS VMS. 1 Wheat. 1 Barley. I Malt. Oats. I Flour. &Leigh .. 2SO ( 20 3,12 J— I Irish .... --, 80 970 — Foreign 1 , 7,610 r 4,190 ( 19,370 ,I2° 1 brls. BOROIJGH HOP. Very favourable accounts continue to arrive from the plantations, and the duty is called 280,0)01. A new packet has been sold at 7/. per cwt. WkLiTECHAPEL. • • ------ --- The trade was tolerably firm, as follows :—Beef from 31 11 to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to is 8d ; lamb,4s 4d to 53 6d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; pork, 35 6 to 4s 8d per Sibs., by the carcase. THE FINE DISEASE. The following communication relates to the pro gress of the vine disease in Portugal, and announces that the Alto-Douro district, which in 1848 pro duced 111,000 pipes of wine, will not this year produce 4,000. The distress of the population from this came, together with an unfavourable harvest, is understood to be excessive _ Oporto, Aug. 9. "Sir,—The vine malady, which under such various phaVs has for some years past caused so much destruc tion in the vineyards of Europe, having again appeared in Portugal, the subject cannot fail to be interesting to the readers of the Times, and therefore I do not hesitate to submit to you a few practical observations of my own, made during my tour last month in the portwine districts and the Spanish frontier. "1. The oidium appeared this year in the Alto-Douro about the end of May, or early in June, and blighted the budding fruit. "2. In the beginning of July the disease increased in intensity ; the very limited quantity of fruit (formed and grown to the size of small shot) was suddenly covered with the fungus, and one-half of the grapes- were con verted, as it were, into stones, while the other isalf burst. " 3. For about four days the vines were paralysed. The branches drooped, and fears were entertaine. l for the future fate of the parent steno, when suddenly vebse tation recommenced with fresh vigour ; the branches• increased in size and strength, and the leaves were more verdant than ever, the plant throwing out new and healthy roots, and being apparently unaffected by the parasitic destruction of its fruit. " 4. By the end of July another visible change took place in the vines of the Alto-Douro ; the few grapes which had escaped, but which had become quite hard, bees.° to increase in size, and to be less affected by the oidium, when a severe thunderstorm swept away at least two-thirds of the remaining fruit, and the ligneous part of the branches, and even the tendrils, became stained with a variety of leopard-like spots of various' hue , , while the healthy colour of the leaves remained unchanged. "5. Many proprietors of vineyards, finding that their crops of grapes are already destroyed, have determined no longer to cultivate their estates. "6. If the cultivation of a vineyard in Portugal be neglected for three successive years the vines will cease to produce, and a new plantation, or grafting of vines, be rendered absolutely necessary. "7. The restrictions in the wine districts of the Alto- Douro still cause the most prejudicial effects on ,the agri cultural and commercial interests of Portugal, as those restrictions indirectly prohibit every improvement not only in the cultivation of the vine, but likewise in the system of making the wines intended for exportation. "8. The existing stocks at Oporto of port wine really adapted for exportation from that port do not amount to one-fourth of the average annual production of wine in the Alto-Douro during the course of the last half century, although, numerically, the deposits are stated to be four times that quantity. "9. The wines used for ordinary purposes in Portugal are of the most wretched description ; and in spite of the Government restrictions contracts have been made with the vine growers of remote districts to supply some of the vine growers of the northern provinces with wine for their daily use. "10. This year I graftel on Portuguese trines (the fruit of which had been destroyed for two successive years by the oidium) about a hundred cuttings from the most beautiful and healthy vines in English hothouses. Nine out of 10 of these grafts struck and gave indica tions of fruit, a circumstance very unusual during the first year in the vineyards of Portugal, where no artificial means are resorted to in the cultivation of the vine. On the first of this month (August) the oidium had destroyed all the young fruit ou these grafts, while the verdure and vigour of the branches are daily increasing. ' "Three years ago I submitted to Professor Lindley several vines from the Alto-Douro, which, when rooted up, bore as many as three bunches of grapes on each br Ancb, but all of them covered with the oidium. "12. Several of these vines are now in the Horticul tural Gardens, and, under the professor's care, have been restored to perfect health ; and one vine in particular, the 'Souza° ' (which it will be recollected produces the very worst of grapes, and which is merely cultivated for its colouring qualities), is, at the present moment, laden with fruit in the gardens at Chiswick ; this fruit being absolutely finer both in form and flavour than any of the same quality of grape that I have ever seen grow ing in the Alto-Douro. "13. In the year 1848 the port wine districts of the Alto-Douro produced 111,000 pipes of wine ; and this year, according to a most careful calculation, those dis tricts will not produce 4,000 pipes; although I am fully prepared for the publication of statistical registrations of the production of at least ten times that number of pipes. " 14. Among the grapes which have most suffered from the oidium in the Alto-Douro is the Mourisco, from which the old-fashioned port used to be made. "15. In conclusion, having stated the above facts as a practical vine-grower, I leave it to scientific men to decide whether the grape malady is (as has occurred with the potato) wearing itself out.—Your obedient servant, " JOSEPH JAMES FORRESTER." FORGETFULNESS.—On Friday a lady went into a bath ing machine at Herne Bay, and on her departure left behind a gold watch worth 251., and a massive gold chain, neithsr of which has since been recovered:— Kentish, Gazette. TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—Among the arrivals (says the Sasse - c, Advertiser) are t'le Countess Bentinck, the Bishop of Peterborough, General and Mrs. Sale, Dowager Lady Nelson, Sir C. M. Clarke, Bart., Lady Longford, Hon. Mrs. King, &c. MARGATE.—The arrivals by boats on the Saturday are very numerous. From five to sir thousand and upwards come down in a day, through the cheap fares ; while the number by rail is al , o considerable. —Kenttsh, Gazette. On Tuursday, Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., in compliance wi.h a numerously signed requisition, delivered an ad dress in the Town•hall, Rye, " On the influence of Chrie r.ianity over the moral and social condition of mankind." The attendance was large, and the most marked attention was exhibited on the part of all during the lecture. Sussex Advertiser, ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 11.—In the late Emperor's t me smoking in the streets was strictly prohibited, but shortly after the accession of the present his Imperial Majesty was himself seen smoking along the quays--a quiet hint that the "counterblast" had been allowed to die out of itself. THE NEXT LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.—There will be an election for a Lord Mayor of London Monday., Sept. 29, in succession to the Right Hon. David Salomona, who will go out of office on the 9th of November. The '•r Unary, but by no means the invariable practice, is for the livery, in common hall assembled, to return to the C iurt of Aldermen the names of the two senior aldermt x. b I w the chair, who will be in the present case Mr. Ald-rrnan Finnis and Al erman Sir Robert Walter C ►rden. Upon receiving two names from the livery, the elderrnen retire and select one for the office of Lord Mayor, the one chosen being generally the senior. If there is no departure from the practice on the 29th of rept mser, Alderman Finnis will be the next Lord May ,e of London; and, under or, i iary circems'are e the following gentlemen will succeed in the order in which their names are placA-1857-58, Sir R. W. C trchn ; 1858 59, Alderman Wire ; 1859-60, Alderman C trter ; 1860-61, Alderman Cubitt, M.P. ; 1861-62, Al Lerman Sir Henry Muggeridge ; 1862-63. Alderman edy; 1863.64, Alderman Rose; 1814.65, Al erman Eagleton ; 1865 66, Alderman Lawrence. BREAD RIOTS IN PORTUGAL.—A letter from Lisbon of the 11th, in the Moniteur, states that an attempt at disturbance had taken place in that city in consequence of the dearness of provisions. A considerable body of the working classes assembled on the evening of the Bth in one of the squares, and, being excited by some addresses from ill-disposed persons, were about to break into the bakers' shops, when General Count de Frances commander of the municipal guard, dissuaded them from their design. They, however, proceeded, with cries of " Long live Don Pedro - V.!" " Down with the corn speculators I" to the residence of M. Eugenio d'Almerida, one of the contractors for the tobacco monopoly, and owner of several mills, and broke all his windows. Some similar excesses took place in other parts of the city, but after midnight the rioters retired. The next evening groups were again formed, and several baking establishments broken into and rifled. They also again attacked M. d'Almerida's house with crowbars and pickaxes, and carried off what they could lay their hands on. They then set fire to the house, but a detachment of lancers succeeded in extinguishing the flames, and dispersed the c .owd, making some arrests. On another point a clerk at a provision-shop, seeing himself attacked by several men, drew out a pistol in his own defence, but was im mediately torn to pieces by the crowd. The agitation continued the next day, and on the 11th the King re turned from Cintra. His first step was to dismiss the commander of the municipal guard for his want of re solution and energy. Crowds of rioters were all day going through the streets forcing the bakers to sell their, bread at half price, but in the evening, the military having occupied the principal points of the capital, the crowd became alarmed and retired in every direction. CREDITON.— Creedy Park, the seat of Sir Henry F. Davie, Bart., M P., has been the scene of extraordinary 'Teeing and festivity, in order to commemorate the safe return from the. Crimea of Captain Davie, of the Ist Battalion of Grenadier Guards, the heir to this ext•3sive Property, who was met on Saturday last, between the Park and the Crediton Railway Station, by a large con course of the tradesmen and others of Crediton and Sandford, and escorted to his father's fine old English mansion, situated in the centre of a noble park. On Monday evening, after a large number of the poor of both parishes bad het n r Taled with a sumptuous dinner the large dining hall was thrown open to the votaries o Tern=lchore, hundreds of whom had been invited, an for whom a good quadrille band was engaged, whi creature comforts of the most substantial and of th choicest kind were provided in profusion. Indeed, may be said that Sir Henry and Lady Davis spate neither expense nor personal exertion to promote l happiness of their guests. Their unassumed heartines and urbanity of manner from the first assured all a a their presenco in the dance would impose no restraint on any one, but, on the contrary, contribute to the general enjoyment. Nor were Miss Davie and the junior mem bers of the family, with several fair visitors, behind ha n d in their efforts to please and be pleased, for they, as w ell as the happy host and hostess, commingled with t h general crowd, and remained enjoying the pleasures o the dance until a late hour. In the course of the eve ing the health of the gallant Captain (who trips the maz waltz and polka with the air of a true British officer) was feelingly proposed by Mr. Ayres, and cordially se sponded to. Sir Henry Davie also took occasion t address the general auditory, in very felicitous languag on the great compliment which they had paid hie son.