The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

for , r ed ntr the Leal re6s ,et3‘ MONEY MARKET CITY, 'go o'CLocs The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, without any mater ;al change. The sales were estimated at 7, 00 °J bales, 1,000 of which were taken for export a`ad on speculation. The Railway Share Mar/;,et, closed quietly, at a slight &elite in prices. The 3 qarseilles portion of the overland mail has been delivered this morning. Trade at Melbourne is described as being steady, but business with the diggings was checked by the bad state of the roads. The production of gold was satisfactory. The Bank of England Return, for the week end ing the 27th ult., is very unfavourable, and some surprise is expressed at the rate of discount not having been raised last week instead of on Wed nesday. The reserve of notes, and the Stock of bullion have been sensibly reduced, while the other securities show a material addition. The next balance -sheet will, no doubt, be much worse, as large sums have been taken from the Bank for shipment almost daily, while the applications for discounts have, of course, been to an enormous amount. The following exhibits the results of the present statement : Active Circulation Increase Bullion Decrea5e................... ....... £20,224,230 435,035 11,769,372 Increase 363,230 Rest Public Deposit s 10,521 8,409,851 Inctea, s; , Other Dep:mits Decrea se 2,159 Seven -Day and otter Bills 927,399 Increase Go vernment Securiti es No alter a ti on. Other Securities 5,379 1,324,710 ,827 Decrease The offi c i a l return of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last is as follows : Gold Coin IS ~ 10,0001. Boulogne ... 200 Ozs. ~ Bars Silver Coin Belgium ...152,500 Ozs. IP 2, ...... Rotterdam ... 62,000 Ozs. PP 78 „ Bars ......... Rotterdam ...235,000 Ozs. 37 77 „ ... 40,000 Ozs. Mexican Dollars Dunkirk ... 2,500/. The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, amount to 778,763/., of which 3,7131. is gold for Alexandria, Ceylon, Madras, and Singapore ; and 775,0501. silver for Bombay, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, and Shanghai. The Ottoman Bank Directors have made a call of 5/, per share on the capital stock of the under taking. A meeting of those friendly to the establishment of Tribunals of Commerce was held to-day—Mr. Lyne in the chair—when Mr. Hutton read the paper intended to have been read at the Congress for Commercial Reform assembled at Brussels, but referred to a sub-committee on account of the pressure of business before the Congress. The Paper read pointed out the evils attending com merce, and the advantages offered by Tribunals of Commerce as established in France. Arrangements are still in progress for the re sumption of the business, under a new title, of the firm to whose embarrassments we adverted yester day. A good demand for money prevails, owing to the payment of a large quantity of bills due to-day, the fourth of the month. The Funds have been flatter this morning, prin cipally in consequence of the unfavourable Bank Returns, and the rumours still current as to the robable cessation of specie payments by the Bank France. Consols have been 92 for money and the Bth inst., but they are now about 92# 4. The November price is 92A. 93. Exchequer Bills are firm at 7s. to 10s. premium ; the Bonds are 09 to 99i. ; and East India Bonds 10s. premium. The Foreign Stocks are heavy, and the transac tions are limited. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 99i i, and the 4 per Cents. 1001. Mexican Stock is steady at 221 I. Russian 41 per Cents. have been 96i, and Brazilian Small Bonds 100. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71 ; Mexican, 22.} to 221 ; Peruvian, 77 to 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 to 57 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 to 108 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 77 to 79 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 421 42i ; ditto Deferred, 24/ 24k ; ditto Certificates, 5 ; ditto Passive, 6k Railway Shares are all at a slight decline of about ss. to 10s., and business is dull. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings attract little attention, but the French are firmer. The Pernambuco Shares are par to prem. Mines, Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. City Bank Shares have risen 11. to 1/. 10s. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK. ( Front the Official List: rtnslne3 done. 3 per C on t. C onso l e Annuities f 23 India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO lO p Bank Stock for Account 217 Consols (or Account E tchegner Bille, 2,1 d.. £l000 MOO 10 p Ditto Bonds, 1858, per Cent. 994 9 Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCE. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small 100 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account per .... 5 22A .... Russian Bonds, 1622, si ., . Ditto 4i per Cent. ..... Terkirsh Bonds, 6 par cent Ditto Account Ditto Small .................................... • 99i 4 i)itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. .......... Ditto Account .... ... ICO3 Dzvti ends on the above payable in Londob. TWO O'CLOCG. Consols, money 92s Ditto, account (November) on 3 COMMERCIAL INTELLIGEM . j sin.: LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Oct. 4.—Wind this day at noon, W.; strong breeze and cloudy, with rain at times. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 3.—Wi n d S.S. W.—Arrived—Rox burgh Castle, from London, for Melbourne ; Wapenaar, Cardiff, for Manilla. FALMOUTH, Oct. 3 . —Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Rapide and Himalaya, from Rangoon ; Dolphin, Bahia ; Anta gonist, Ibrail, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, &c., cutwater and stem s t ar t ed, having been struck by a heavy sea. VALENTIA, Sept. 30.—The barque British Princess, of and for Bolfast, from lAfiramichi, has been towed in water logged and very much damaged, having boon on a reef of rocks to the N.E. of this placo, and assisted off by 11.M.5. Meander. PILL, Oct. 2.—Wind S., fresh.—• Arrived —Alessandro from Havana. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind S.W. _ A.rrived—Min eu i s , from Shanghai ; Aratome, Calcutta Clara, N ew York; Polly, Prince Edward's Island ; Vesper, , Malag a ?-__ A. Roge rs , Ri o H ac h e ; Caroline Nesmith, New York ; Bonita, Denia. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 2. Wind S.S E. Arrived—Belmont, from Labrador; A.ramanth; Quebec; Celestial Empire, Callao ; Hercules, New York. WATERFORD, Oct. 2. Wind S.W. Arrived—Glide, from Aliratnichi. D, Oct. 3. Arrived— T3ritisb, from Tarkameseb ; Mar UBLIN' Ann, Quebec. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 10.3 a.m. Wind S.W. ; tido nearly low water; fresh, and cloudy. Arrived, Oct. 3—lbona, from Tonning. QArrived, Oct. 4 Esther, from Archangel ; Regent , uebec. S ailed—Memory, for Konigsberg ; Rose of Saron, New Zealand. DEAL, Saturday, 9.47 a•Lo• Wind S.S.W., rain. Pa ssed — Commodore, from Singapore; Maiori, Sli ; Duneden, Singapore; Africanus, brig, Quebec ; 13randon, screw steamer, from westward—all for London ; ®AEarl of Durham, screw steamer, from north, for Havre. n chored—Queen, barque, from Antwerp, for Cardiff. Sailed —J o h n Kit son . Sh e has been supplied with an other anchor and chain from hence, to replace the one lost th lrizig the gale on the 27th ult. ITITIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Paid . l R A rL WAX.. I vltltrig Prices I yesterday. 94' knal..g. Nottng. Bost an 1 East:. Jun)t.,. 411 3nlf-t9t all 3 , trains. I';%olrcrh. L Roar Ya all Birk Laa.'sb, ? (lheehlre Juuct dt Birk., all 00., do. all Blackburn .... , all Myth &Tyne origiva £25 Owl. at £45 100 Bristol and Exotor 100 Caledonian. all Chester 4 Holyhead, j all Cork and Bandon.. all Cork, Black, & Pass 18 Cornwall .............. all Do. A .... ....... . 8 Do. B .............. 15 Dublio&BelfastJune all Dan. P. Aber. Jne, 1.00 East Ang1ian....,.,.,, all , Eastern Counties.... 100 ii?J%st. ?mien, A. St 10 I De., B. Sto c k . 81 Do., Now ..... 15 East K en t 100 lEP .at L•Ancashire 10 0 !'Edinburgh & G lasgo , (Edi nb. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prtb Dunde , all Forth & Clyde Jun. 2 100 , Furness. all Do. Extension all Groat N. of Scotlnd 100 ' Cilteat Northern 100 'Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock .. 1)0 Gt. Bth. &Wcst.(l re ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gun. 6tk all !Irish South-Eastorn all Lancaster & Carlisle 14 Do., Thirds. 12 Do. Now Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh Do., Wet. Riding Un all Do. South; Orb all London & Blackwall 100 1.1.,-nd.Bright&S.Cst. 100 Loud, and N. Westn. 16 Do. Fifths 5i D0.101.5h.,Af&11...0 2i, Do. Eighths 1100, London and S. West:, - all Ludndrry&Colerain• all 6ndmirr.-7.&Enuisl` 100 4auch.Shef.& Line'. Us. Do., Man. &Lin. Ern 1 'letropolitan 5 Do. J L. Ricardo's arrangement 100 , Ilidland 100 )0. Birmng. &Derb all fldld. G. West. (Ire. all )o. Half Shares,,,,, all feweastlo & Carlisl: all gwpt.Aberg. &Hrhi 8i I ewry & Enniskille ail gewry, Warronpoln! and Rostrevor ...... 100 gorfolk ........... 3 `Torthn.Countios . 100 worth British ...... :100 tith. Devon Rail. A Dock 5t0ck.,,,,., 100 Do., A 5t0ck..... . ..100 Do. B Stock ....... .00 N .liaatern—Borwi, k 233 go. do. Extension .. 163 0 0. do. G.N.E. /tired, all 00. Leeds. 100 Jo. Y0rk............ .. ..... 1 00 north London ..... 31 1., 3.&S.l."Vstru.,Ham, stead, and Cit y Jo. 17t North Staffordshire, IF 'forth Western...—. all ' , T. &S. Westrn. June )x., Wore., & WoIN 14 3 , ;r t ern out h ........ • 9 Rhyrnney . 00 ottish Antral.. [0) Soot. N E.Abrdn St LOO Do. Scot. Mid. St .00 igrepshire Union 2 SitingbournokSheer, all bona, Devon ...... 00 South Eastern..... .00 'oath Wales ......... lei 4. Yrksh. IRiv. Du .............. ..... all 3t aines, Wok. &wet al . tookton & Darling. 14 Do., do,, 1854 3 Do., do., 1855 16 itoekten 4 Hartlep raff Vale ...... !00 )o. Pref., No. 1.... 22 Thames Hay. D.& It. all Vale of Neath all Witted& & Kilkonn• all Naterfordertimerloi all West Cornwall,..,, all West End of Londo 41 - 4 8 - 8. 17 - 18 15 - 16 12 - 33 •N 91. Fa 54 - st 15; - 16: ... - .. ... ..... ~,,,, ••• .... 0 .., 9i 14 151 - 16 , - 9 33 - 35 23 - 25 7 - 5 80 - 82 51i - 52 32i 7 33, - 93 8 - 8. 924 - 93 79 - 81 [23 125 .13 115 G4i 65 70 - 74 - 6 4 54 6i 954 . 96 6 1 6i 104 - 105 1011 102 par p par # p I d 1 031 - 104. 32 - ••• 1 , d 76 - 48 - 49 13i 14 . *O. 1. 47 - 49 3i - : 1 4 36 37: V. ... Ni 79 -80 A 54 - 5 17# - 17 55 56 94 - 98 - 51 - 7 - 28 - 107 - 2t: 79 - 48 - 70 - 80 - 1' - 38 and Crystal Palace. all Do. A all Do. B all West London all Do. Fil st Class all Do. Second Class,. all ,Vimbledn&Croyno, all Int r.verp&Rott, reit D 3 10 Ardennes all 3elgian Eastn. June 14 Bezic:re to GrAissess - e 9 Bombay, Barodrt, nr d Con. India, g. 5 p. c all Do. 8 Ruff. & Lk. Hur. Ry ail Carmcaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. I.os. Ceylon A shares 1 I Do. B. do all Demerara 12 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 19 Do. New 2s. Eastern Bengal all East Indian A and B. 5 D o s P.r . Ex. C, gn. 5 p. c I all Do. do. D, gu. sp. c. all D0.41p.c.8nd5.,'57 all De. do. do., 'SR, do 2s. Euphrates Valley 10s. Eur.l2ln.Jn.Tel.llail all Geelong k - Melbourn, guar. 5 per cent. . all Gd. Trunk of Canada all Do. Cert. of Deben. can. into Stk. all Do. Comp. Gp. c., do IS qt. Cm - tral of Franc' all qt. In. Pon. g. sp. c. 2 Do New, gnu.. sp, c 1 5 e4reat Lnxemboturg all qt.Weatorriofeannem 5i Do. Now .01 Do. Bds., payable 's' all Do. do., '76, p. 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N'ationtd Bank all Now Bonth all !Mental 10 Ottoman Bank 25 erovine!!..l or Irola.nd sll Pc. .............. 1 RA TO & =Jo all ioiek of At.:34rAlir, ..... 10 Union cf Luu.lon 50 Western Mc of Loud 21 • 24 62 —64 d, -fir 65 -- 67 ••• 151 -- 16. 19 19 lr -- id 1 - 3p -- ...d ••• "'". • 45 -- 47 38 39 2i 2d 35 - 37 65 - G 7 7i - 84 ••• --- 4 4 ... 6 .... - Business done this day. 41 1 St. St. 26 25 A. 26 tit 50 it. St. 5/ 6* 10 26 THE V N, LO DON, SIATU Ft DAY EV 1 N (4, 0C i °BEA 4 1 sd. THE MAGAZINES. sation of the Queen's Army." To this succeeds an interesting descriptive ac coun t o f " S w i ss Rifles and Rifle Practice," which is followed by a paper on " The Court of Russia and the Corona tion." A second article on " The Suez Canal and the Euphrates Rail way," is deserving of an atten tive consideration, the subject being discussed in its various bearings intelligently and with discrimina tion. "Reminiscences of the War in the East," by a Military Chaplain, are continued, and credit is given to the army for a degree of piety in many of its members, by no means dreamt of prior to the late war. A "Memoir of Field-Marshal Viscount Hardingo" is supplemented by a further respectful notice in the Editor's Portfolio; of course the time has not yet arrived when the merits or demerits of the deceased in his several capacities can, with pro priety, be rigidly scrutinised in these columns. As usual, there is a large amount of information almost exclusively interesting to the professional reader. An article, in which is set forth the defenceless state of Harwich, the only port worthy of the name between the Thames and Hull, may, in conclu sion, be recommended to the reader's special atten tion. Blackwood.—Eloven more chapters of " The Atholiugs " acquaint us intimately enough with the domestic economy of The Willows—Agnes and Marian cultivating their acquaintance with Mrs. Edgerley, in that charming suburban retreat of the London Fine Lady, and finding their fortunes becoming somehow more and more involved with those of the grand and haughty house of the pale, spasmodic visaged Lord Winterbourne. There comes flitting once more across the scene, too, the gay, gaudy splendour of Sir Langhain Portland. The instalment closes with the return homewards of the two charming young heroines of the tale— the Genius and the Beauty—to Islington. A grace ful, gossipping paper of a critical and political cha racter, entitled " Wayside Songs, Original and Translated," follows : a chapter of sweet lyri ca l snatches, borrowed f rom lips as genial, and musical, and amber-dropping, as various and as eloquent as those of Coleridge, and Goethe, and Byron, and Heine, and Spenser, and Lytton, and Shelley, and glorious Will Shakspere singing to us in the melo dious tones of the merry knave Autolychus. Alto gether the article brings to us the freshness and the flavour of May May with its daffo dils and bluebells, 6 ' the sweet o' the year," with its cowslips and its violets —in the very midst of the ripening fruits and yellowing leaves of October 1 " Our Tour in the Interior of the Crimea" is a sort of afterthought, completing, as by a postscript, the annals of the late war, contributed to Maga month after month by Colonel Hamley, the lively author of that plea sant serial story, entitled " Lady Lee's Widow hood." The next article we take to be the article of the month, and commend it—" with a heart and a half "—accordingly. " Mr. Buttle's Review" is the title of it. And a delectable piece of pleasantry it is altogether. So delicious in its quiet humour and its acidulated scarcasm that we are tempted to fix the paternity of it upon a satirist-humorist no less eminent than the t im e s mo c r o t t a t l is ß h on ca G v a a u li l e t r i s e . r , , , otherwise William Aytoun, the Poet of " Both well" and the " Lays of the It is another roasting of the Spasmodics—al most as iclever and flaying as " Firmilian." What can possibly be finer, for example, than the notion in regard to the new generation of Small Young Poets (frogs trying to blow them selves out to the size of oxen)--than that of the waiter at the club who, while pou r i ng ou t th e i r small beer, frothy and thin, sneers at them as the "gents that tried to come it strong, and couldn't." The article is glorious—one of the old aspergings of vitriol vouchsafed every now and then by Maga for the mannikins of literature. " Family His tory" is a comprehensive review having reference to the Lindsays and the Lairds o f C a ld we ll , to gether with those of Jerviswood and the Castle of .Balcarras. Afterwards we have a third chapter of " Sea-Side Studios"—a miniature prose contribu tion beaded "A New Una"—and, lastly, a critical paper on "African Travel," relating to Richard Burton's recent Explorations. Altogether a noble number of Blackwooa. Bentley's Miscellany.—" From Stamboul to Perth" is a descriptive paper, apparently by a mi litary officer, in which, among other things, the reader will gather how the Turkish Contingent has been treated, or, rather, ill treated. " The Joint- Stock Banker, a Tale of the Day," by Dudley Cos tello, is continued, and in the present instalment its title, it must be admitted, is amply verified. The October instalment of " The Spendthrift," a tale of the last century, is hardly so successful in the above particular, the fact, however, arising from no artistic demerit on the part of the distinguit lied writer. " The Oxonian in Norway," and " The American Expedition to Japan," will interest a large class of readers. " The Young Clergyman and his Anti-Macassars" is an amusing caricature of what is said frequently to take place in the early bachelorhood of popular and good-looking clergy men. The satire is carried out to extravagance. " British Army Reform" is treated as a necessity of the day, with what liberality may be gathered from the following :—" We would nut recommend the promotion of non-commissioned officers as a general rule in England ; ' i.e., we suppose we would only now and then have them elected from the ranks. A radical change in our military admi nistration is insisted on. Our army, it is said, is still very weak for any offensive war. We should have 125,000 disposable troops, with 300 guns." " Mingle Mangle," by Monkshood, delectable alli terative—the euphony of which is positively melt ing, though " Mingle Mangle" was used by rough, honest Latimer—heads an entertaining and instruc tive chapter on letter-writing and letter-writers. Fraser.—That remarkable body► of irregular troops—the Bashi-Bazouks—is shown in the open ing paper to be undeserving of that unmixed ridicule attempted to be thrown on it by a contem porary, the merits and demerits of the tribe, after careful scrutiny, being fairly presented. In " The Last House in C--street," we have " a verit able ghost story," with something of tragic inte rest. " Protestantism, from a Roman Catholic Point of View," is a review of the " Catholisimo interim al Protestautesimo ad use del Popoli," by Dr. Perome. The first part of a " Journal of a Tour in the Crimea, 1856," will repay perusal, though the Crimea may be deemed pretty well exhausted by this time. The archaeologist will find a paper to his taste in the first part of an article on "Ancient Gems." Guizot's "History of the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell, and the Dawn of the Reformation," is reviewed. M. Guizot is said to write at once like a Protestant and a Frenchman. The most interesting article in the number, to Englishmen of a literary taste, at least, is the following—" Shakspere and his Native County." While some have plodded among the material records of the sovereign poet's exist ence, and others in contemporary literature, the writer has devoted his powers of research to the discovery of traces of Shakspere's familiar speech, form of expression, &c., in his native county. The result is not merely a readable, but also a useful paper, throwing light on the poet's works. The "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery," by John Holland and James Everett, aro subjected to severe censure, too severe, wo fancy, so far as the latter is concerned, who has written pleasinr , biographies. " The Angel in the House" may Co regarded as a vindication of the sanctity and peace of well-assorted married life— the angel being, of course, the lady. " The Two Tuppers" is a brief sketch or reminiscences of Eton College, in which Dr. Keats figures as a tyrant of the birch, and the innocent Tupper is " consider ably victimised" before the offenling Tupper is detected. The final article of the number is de voted to a consideration of " The Kingdom of Naples ; Its Present State and Future Prospects. The Neapolitans are recommended to have patience ; but the description given of the hereditary Prince and what is known of hint is not of a nature to back the recommendation. Dublin Universiiy.—The story of " The Darragh"' is concluded this month ; it is an interesting one, and towards the end becomes very exciting. The natural manner in which the hero makes th e mo mentous discovery relating to th e f orge d w ill i s ably arranged. It is a satisfaction to the reader when the designing wretch Kildoon is disposed of, although it would have been better h a d h e b een arrested for his crimes, instead of being allowed to escape out of the reach of Justice. Murellos is a crafty and cunning man, who cle ver l y ou t w i tte d Kildoon by preserving the proofs of the forgery , they had concocted between them. The " For tunes of Glencore" do not exhibit any great progress or striking novelty in this portion, the complicated narrative is continued. The scenes are all in Italy, where the hero is becoming c e l e b ra t e d f or his genius in the arts, still watched over by his faith ful friend Billy Traynor, who certainly exhibits more sense and method than any of the mighty personages among whom he moved. " Cyprus " forms an instructive paper on the peculi ar iti es o f the place. A description is given of a hunting party, which, it is said, though exciting at the time, did not bear retrospection, as it was con ducted in a barbarous style. It is remarked further on that it is through his body, not his mind, that the Cyprist must be moved, and that any missionary who desires to exorcise au influence upon him must benefit him physi cally. An article entitled " Poetry, good, bad and indifferent," contains many just remarks ou the present state of things. It is lamented that there are so many compositions published without consideration, as they are created without duo re flection. "We are a verse-writing nation ; the danger is that we shall cease to be a poetic nation." In descanting on the folly committed by those who rush into print, it is said, " We have never learnt the great lesson of life—to wait. It was not till the idea of 'Paradise Lost' had lain germinating for half alife that it sprang into the stately tree. It was not till the calm twilight of existence had fallen round the path of the Great Puritan that the Epic of England was composed." Lamartine's "Somme de Lettres " forms the subject of an interesting study as will be supposed. It is his literary career, not his political life, that is here considered, as is foretold by the name of the article, and therefore the admirers of genius may agree in the praise be stowed, without the drawback of party feeling intervening, or angry discussions arising. in con clusion, the writer observes that the work he is now engaged upon is a characteristic one. " His own spirit converses with the great ones of the past, and the world is invited to their communings." " Notes upon New Books" contains criticisms upon some of the best works of the last year, and " an Autumn Eclogue " is a collection of verses adapted to the season. Tait—Appropriately enough commences an arti cle on "Loudon Joint-Stock Banking," with a quo tation of the eighth commandment, " Thou shalt not steal." A practical consideration of the evils attendant on the present system of joint-stock banking, as exemplified in the history of the Royal British Bank, leads to the recommendation of seve ral principles of a curative tendency. These, it is said, the Premier should embody in a legislative enactment, which might render banking by joint stock companies as safe in England as in Scotland. Among the recommendations is the prohibition of private book-keeping in such establishments—the joining of auditors and directors with the managers in penal liabilities if they return bad debts as good, or as part of their available assets—the restraint of such pa: Dies from speculating on their private account—and, as " imperatively necessary," the repeal of Peel's Banking Bills. " Ras Mala," a chronicle of the Province of Goozerat, by Alex ander Kinloch Forbes, H.E.1.C., is the basis of a readable paper. " The Coast of Norway" is con tinued, and the celebrated "Maelstrom" receives The New Monthly.—This number opens with the first a series of papers by an old contributor, who writes under the name of Sir Nathaniel. It is entitled " Notes on Note-worthies, of divers orders, either sex, and every age," and the first name in this comprehensive list of celebrities is that of Sir Robert Walpole. The writer is evi dently well acquainted with contemporaneous his tory, and gives an interesting selection of the opi nions of modern writers, foremost among them, Mr. Macaulay, and M. °basics. A tale entitled " The Delayed Will " continues the story of Ashley, which has appeared in some recent num bers. A paper on " Austria and Sardinia," gives a list of their respective military forces. The writer upholds the Austrian despotism, though ho can ad• vance no very powerful arguments for so doing. He says, " Were the Austrians masters we should be certain of hearing of no rebellious movement, and the peace of Italy would be insured." He also considers the constitutional government of Pied mont to be highly overrated, and adduces many instances of credulity or crime, but ho does not appear to have better evidence than that of Mr. Bayle St. John, whose opinions and style do not qualify him for an authority on such matters. The writer considers the Italians ought to feel deeply indebted to Austria for having been kind enough to take possession of their territory. " Austria ap pears determined to defend her territory, a Cott fiance, and we really ought not to blame her, after the lives and treasures sh e h as a l ready ex pended in that ungrateful country." How much to blame, then, must those . persons be, who, when iant tsh oioi In: papermo nae ionf mentioni, Fo mr ,ab,cacreodsy t2enai: nwr a oph d wil e . ant leo, thieves break into their houses,. after being put to inconvenience and expense . in effecting an entry, despatch them to prison . instead of offering them a compensation for their tro . trouble I " A Swedish Voyage round the World" . is translated by Mrs. to all interested in historical Bushbey, and the present , instalment of it conducts us to South America.. ' A Paper on Old Trees" will be very interesting to all lovers of arboricul ch has been the sub jecttarboricul- ture, associations. a nd' indeed, n A d m e e o d n 2 g the is sylvan celebrities r r e e c s recorded t e d e most pleasing oievceusrnrysis. They are ntotwtl opposite works and Culouel Chesterton's " Revelations . of Prison Life," and are both interesting . in their different ways. J. E. p w o il e l m a s f f . o r d T entertainment v7o cr iticisms o Carpenter contributes the commencement of a on Victor Hugo's story entitled t , The Talker and the Worker," which promises to be a simple domestic tale. "The History of the Newspaper Press," by Alexander Andrews, brings down the narrative to the first Stamp Act in 1712. its share of notice. "The Supreme Court of Ap peal and Peers for Life" again engage attention ; and "Dred" is reviewed with fairness. Among the lighter contributions are some entertaining " Notes on Spirit-rapping, in which Dr. Achilli figures as a dupe. In the Literary Register will be found a commendatory notice of " Wallace ; a Tragedy." It is described as "clover," and, to judge by an extract, possesses graphic force. The Journal of .dgrieulture.-1 paper on the " Sciences applicable to Agriculture" possesses a good deal of interest for those who take pleasure in the progress of agriculture in this country. " Agricultural Notes in Ohio and Michigan " in troduce the reader to the transatlantic farmer, the capacities, cultivation, and growth of his fields, and reveal a marked and growing prosperity in the Free States, possessingia good outlay for produce, and in Canada. "A Few Notes on Land Drain age : Its Progress and Projects," is, to a consider able extent;,a digest or resume of the important paper recently read by Mr. J. Bailey Denton, be fore the Society of Arts, and which has been the subject of much useful discussion. " The Trade and Commerce in Eggs and Poultry" is a paper of general interest, furnishing at the same time, fur the special consideration of the farmer, a variety of useful statistical details. The writer remarks, " It has been well observed that poultry is a kind of stock which fits in readily with other animals, consumes produce which would otherwise be wasted, requires little space, and yields a return during life, as well as when killed, for the market. The counties of Bucks, Norfolk, Cambridge, Kent, and Surrey derive large profits from their supplies of eggs and poultry to London. From three to four million head of poultry 'are annually sold in the metropolitan markets. Why, however, should we be so dependent on the Peninsula and the Con tinent 4 Why should we receive supplies feom such distant quarters, as Egypt and America, when our domestic produce could be so considerably in creased This is a question we have often hoard asked, and which in general meets with an unsa tisfactory answer from the farmer. During the first six mouths of the present year the number of eggs imported has amounted to 68,062,600. This is in the proportion of double the amount imported annually in the seven years ending with 1847. The value of the poultry imported in the fist six months of the present year was 15,6741. against 18,000/. in the corresponding six months of last year.' The following mode of testing eggs is given : "Take them into a room moderately dark, and hold them between the eye and a candle or lamp ; if the egg by good, that is, if the albumen is still unaffected, the light will shine through with a reddish glare ; while, if affected, it will bo opaque cr dark." A very few trials, it is added, will show any one the case and simplicity of this me thod. Averaging the value of the eggs, poultry, and feathers, & - c., we receive from foreign coun tries—it is equal to nearly 400,0001. per annum, and there is no reason ' adds Mr. Simmonds—the writer— w hy a ll th ese , by proper attention, should not be produced in the kingdom. " The Vine yards of the Rhine," however profitably cultivated, it would appear, by no means present, like the vineyards of aly, a picturesque appearance. " The Farmer's Note-book" offers, as usual, a good deal of serviceable information, including a description of " Guano Frauds, and how to detect dem. Among the remaining contents will be fouud au able essay on "Agricultural Drainage.," byJolui Lockhart Mortou...whiob, obtained for _ Colburn's United Service.—" A Few Remarks on our Military Pol i cy and Instruction" are pre faced by a pretty direct intimation that tho le- sons of the war may be more wisely turned t o accoun t by improving the organisation of our army and the administration of tho departments connected with it, rather than in distracting ourselves about thi maintenance of its numbers. The " Remarks" are well worthy of perusal. The transference of the Coast-guard from the Customs to the Admi ralty, to be governed by the revised Coast-guard instructions, and the securing to the warriors of the Baltic their present privileges and immunities, are recommended to the Admi ra l ty b y a contri• " Sketches of Fburetonrcl Thu second of a series of Admirals" introduce s the Comte de Grasse, appears from a d escr i ption here given to aranryabwic)ithal%lVdaeshniti'eigrpto enterprising indeed commander, contempo• an a ll y i n the War thohCaiviemea'' presented a of Independence. " The Piedm ontese Army i n model in m any particulars which our army might follow with advantage' 4t portare s " coatributea a parer "On Organi. LINES LEASEn AT FIX:11113 ItI;STATA, Paid.! RAILWAYS. 4,1) I Bedford sad Blot Alley 100 Buckghalash :00 Clydesdale all Col. Stour Vy. 100 E. Lin. 7..1 pc all E. Un. H. SI,. 100 Glas. 11:3.rr. Fi Nolls. Direct 100 Do. New all Glstr.ds Da Fr all flrrtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. 4Sham. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Groenw all Do.Preferonce 100 . Lo ,- .Til.,&S. 34 Do. Bark. Sh. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. 100 Do. 6 per ct. all Manch. Batn. and Matlock all Middleebro' Redc.g 6 p.c. Midld.Bractid 54 Newmarket Bury E. o.spc all N.& Est.s p.c. all Do. 6 per ct. all Do. Fixeds p c all Prost. & yre all Do. Qrs. A 100 Roystn.& Hit. 181 Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s P.C. all Shrews. &H er 10i S. Staffordsh. all Wear Valloygr 6 per cent all Do 1 100 I Wil ts & gomrst Le AMR Comp London & N. Ww.t. enlodon... 1:1 &LC OLIN rtl n. E. Count. C41(10111.= n. 94 - 99 100 - 105 12 - 14 139 - 141 4 ... 4i ~N '~ Do Gt. Resin New. Borw. Y. 30124, Do 29 166 = lai Do.. S. Easton Do Poto k Co iDo 23 -24 110 - 115 ,:; 1 p !Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midid. gtekton & Darlingt. Midland.. En. Conn. E. Count. Do Do L. & N. W Do I Ot Northp Lancash & Yorkgh. T. Brassoy N.MCloan Stockt. & Darlingt Do IGtWootn. ^I - 2f 92 - P 4 it -11 P 57 - 59 04.• "."` ... POO .... • •• 135 I: lib 31 - 31i - 2j 90 - 92 Main trues yesterday. PREFERENCE SHARED. 25 all BlythandTyne lOpel a. prof. (iscd. at 501 ... ... 3t. 100 Eris. & Ex. 4p.c. 3t ... ... 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shires ... ... ... St. 100 Caledn. £lO 41 p.c. 94 —, 98 15 all , filles.&Fio. On. 53 p. 16 17 90 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2. ... ••• 2/ all Do. do. Fief. No. 2 ... 91 all Cork Itßandonslp.c 41 5 61 all Dun.Prth oitAber.l 6 61 10 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh ... ... St. 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. t 105 110 St. 1.00 Do. do Cls. C7p. c. 95 100 3i all Eas.Co.F.x,spcNo. 3 4 pm all Do. No. 2 . i 11 p pm 10 all Do. New 6p.a. St 12 121 ?,0 all East tin., G. 6p. c ... ... 5 all Do. 5L 10 per cent ... .. 10 all Do. 161. Debentr.Sh. ... .. St. all Do. do. 4 per cent ... .. St. 100 East Lancash. 6p.ate ... -- ... 5 all E. ?„-zW. York. J. sth, ... .. 10 4 Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh ... ... St. 100 Ed. Prth.&Thm.4p.c 77 79 St. 100 Furness . ••• ••• x d U. 100 Gllas. &5.W.G.5 p.c ... 3t. 100 Great Northn. sp. c 115 117 3t. 100 Do. sp. a. Redeem at 10 p. c. prom. 110 112 11.01 11 It. 106 Do. 43 p. c lO2 104 DO 60 D 0.5 p. c., Red. at 5 p. c. pm... . . ... . . 60 62 60 2 10 all Gt.N. ofScot.let ire 103 101 ;t. 100 Gt. S. &W. (Ireland' ... 10 14 Do. 4por a. Pref. S . . .. 50 6 Gt. W.(B.&ll.Exspe fi 6A It. 100 Do.con. red. 41 p.c. 94 96 94 It. 100 Do. eon. red. 4p. c. 87 —8.) It. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c.. 88 90 4. 100 Do. sp. c. red. prof 100 - 102 8 all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh .. 91 10} 0 all Do.ChesterBp.c.P.S 163 17 0 all Do. do. sp. c. do.. 10 104 it 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk 71 73 all Do. Ches. Gua. 8h 193 20 F.. 1 all Do. do. do 93 101 U a).l Do. do. do l4l 151 (3 6 Lan. &York. F. a2O 3 A b. 100 Do. 6p. a. Stock 138 - 140 t. 100 Loniz - 13. G.spc No.l ... ••• t. 100 Do, T'., spc. UNo.2 .. —..- t 100 Do. New Guar.6 P. e ••• •.• 1. 100 Do. do. sp. c.,N0.4 ... ... 1. 100 Lon.&N. W., Coy. es Nuneaton sp. et... ... ... t 100 L m.& S. W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares ... 157 ..- 159 / i all uondy. & Color. Sh. ... ... 13 all Londy.&Eunis.3Sh ... .., t. 100 54.,5.,& L. 6p. Cont ... . . i 43 Do. do. do. £6 ... 3 3 53 100 Do. do. 31 per cent. 66 70 1 . 1 all garypt .& Carl. 4 p a ... .. ij all Do. 41 per cent •• ..... •• 13 103 Do. do. . 100 Vid.Consol.6 p.c.St ... . 100 Do. Con.Br.Thr. 6pc 136 138 ▪ 100 124. 43 p. c. Pref. s 99 101 ~ 100 Ditto L. &H. Pref. St 83 91 ) an New., ANT., &e., pr. 1 ••• ••• sp. c. red. 5 p. c. pm. 1 4 Do. Perpet. 6 p et. with optn. till '66 3 13, 1 all Norfolk Debenture . ... .. . 100 Do. Pref. sp. a. St-el ... ... . 100 Do. 5 pc. Ext.,1846 ... ... • 100 Do. 51pere.pf ,1817 ... ... . 100 Do•Wy.V.ripc.,lB47 . 100 Northl3ritish lOl —lO3 100 Y. E. re -w, 4 p.a P. 91 1.3 85 Do. do do l4 1... i d 13 Do Leeds 6 p.o ~ NO.l ... —. ... f i 9 Do. do. Qre.,1848... • ••• 10 Do.Yorkll.lt S. Per. 1 3 d all North Staffordshire. —.— 100 Ox, Wo, &W., 6 pc... 102 105 ;100 Do. 6 p.a. Redeem. ... ... lall ,Scot.Cent.,New Prof. . pm 100 Sc.N.E. Aber. g 6 pe 118 . 120 118 all Do. d0.,7 pc. pf. st. 117 119 100 Do. do., 33p.c. pf. st. 70 75 all south Devon l5 16 all Do. fixed,4l per cent ... ... all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 283 241 100 Do. 43 per cent 9B 100 all Do. Fixed 43 pc sh 93 10 100 S. Wales Ona.4 p. o ... ... 100 Do. do. 43 p. c ... ... all 3.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar . . -- all - 3tock,,& Dar., sp. c 2Ol 2 7 ,i. 15 Do. do. do 1: —23 p all Steck. & Hartl. g. 5 p. a. till July 1, '56 ... 1 all Waterfd.& Kilk.6pc 31 33 I . MINES. Lll ,igna Fria all t.ngio Californian 7 knatrallan all Baden (Gd.Dueby of all ißlronar. Iron & Coa 14 British Iron 26i Brazilianlmp.(iesnee at £5 pm.) all Do. Comes & Ouiab 15 Do. St. John Del Re: Clarendon Cone. Min Co. of Jamaica all lCobro Copper i Colonial Gold nH Copper Min. of Face all Do. Prof. 7i p. cent le ICopiapo. all (Fortuna :0 f all (Genc:a' all Gt./Cr.ggetVeinlleg. all Grer t Polgootb . all Gt Wheal Vor Unito all 'Liberty all Unarm! ,Lusitanian all Mariquita. ...... all ,New Granada all Nouveau Monde all Ponte.Sil.& Le. Min. 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rook all ,Rliymney Iron all Do. Now 14i Santiago de Cuba..., 6s. Sort. Cona. Min. Co all ISouth all 1D.% Scrip I A. all IDo. 10 per cent Prot 4i Tam. S. &L. Min. Co, 9 Fin Croft all United Mexican all Waller ) all West Mariposa . 12s Worthing Mining o Australia 1 ••• - ... i - ii G - 7 2a 2i 3 31 18 '2O P 56 53 30 - 35 26 28 16 18 fi $d 14 15 3jd 7 8 id p 23 - 25 6 -- 8 lj - 2 8f - 81 1 - 11 31 - 4i 31 . 4 4 it - i goo "''''' “r. MISCELLANEOUS. 19 Australian Agricult. all Australn. Royal Mail all Berlin Water Works 40 aril. American Land 3 Canada 1 00 0.00.6p.c. Jan&july 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug 100 Do. 6p c. Mar & Sept nil Crystal all Do. Preference a' I Crystal Pal. of Franc Duston Iron Ore 100 Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph all Electric Toleg. of Ir all En. &Aus Cop Sm Co all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 14 Gen. Stearn Navigat. all General Screw Steam all Lond. Gen, Omnibus 10 Magdalena. St. Navin. 2di Mediteran, Elec. Tel. all Mexiean&S.Amerien. 5 Nat. Discount Co. 1 Do. New 5 Netherlands Land. . all Do. Do. 3 Po. pcP iss at I d 80 New li, &N. S. Lon,: N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. D. all N. B. Australasian.., 17,1 Nrth.ofEurepeStear n all - Oriental Ga 5....... 2s. Do. "New Shares" all Peel Rr. Id. & Mina all Peninsular& Oriental 10 Do. Nur 60 Royal Mail Steam ill Scot. Austral. Invest all Ditto New all South al: Eaboaar. Tol.SerlP••• 41, D. 5 rruct4 L.Co.U.Can. 2;cl vaa T3l44..enai YgG.4,6p.o.jaabrJuly 24 - 26 - ai :: - 120 hll - 1.12 li 2 bk 5i 6 6a .1 -- li ••• ••• 12i - 13 3A - 34 - 3i - 4f I 1 - 34 - -4,; 21 - 24 - 2 „ lh P IP 2k 68 70 si p 71 73 ,g 36 14j *os ‘ , nalnen. this day him the premiun, a gold medal, offered by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. Thy Monthly Review. John Mitchell.—Farsues its roends in the fields of lite.:ature, science, and art, and presents the reader with the fruits of its research, on which it discourses generally wisely, if not with superior brilliancy —a characteristic hardly to be expected at the price. A review of Spanger's "Life of Mohammed," and Freeman's " History and Conquests of the Saracens," will re pay perusal. The imposture and the impostor h - ing ably dealt with by one who seems unembar rassed by mock candour, and unprepared to sacri fice truth. Emerson's "English Traits" meets with but little of that reverence the disciples of the American philosopher may be supposed to deside rate. Actually the author is recognised as the great now Gulliver, and his discoveries as contra dictory, and mostly inventions. Ferrier's "Cara van Journeys" furnish materials for an enter taining descriptive paper, which is followed by a discriminating review of "Life's a Dream (from the Spanish of Calderon), with an Essay on his Life and Genius," by Richard Chenevex French. Among the remaining papers may be noticed those respectively, headed " Les Mariages de Paris" and " Washington." Oxford and Cambridge.—The study in Shak spere for the month—we suppose the writer means to go through the principal plays—is " Twelfth Night, or What you Will," supposed to be the thirty-fourth and last w.itten of Shakspere's plays. "The serene yet warm light shed over this drama," it is said, " may be likened to the golden summer afternoon sunshine, whose beams lie wide on the green sward of some far-extending common —slope upward on the branches and foliage of the oaks with which it is here and there bestudded, glance on the tall. feathery terns, glow on the fox gloves and heath, nor forget to penetrate with pure light the transparent cup of the delicate, slightly trembling blue-bell." The writer proceeds " to search out Shakspere's Principles of Love, as shown to us in this his latter, if indeed it be not his last, writing," and displays a good deal of deli cacy and discernment. The Commercial Travellers' Magazine. Kent and Ca.—Another new serial—its promoters rightly judging that this intelligent and enterprising body are untitled to a magazine of their own. While " party politics " are to be avoided, the large class of political subjects of a national or social character are to be treated in an impartial manner, and mat ters of especial interest to commercial travellers are promised due attention. The present number contains a variety of the usual magazine literature, and promises fairly for the future. MISCELLANEOUS. Newton's London Journal and the Mechanics' Magazine are both addressed to those practically engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pur suits. The former chiefly consists of a record of recent patents and inventions applied to scientific purposes; the latter has some articles of a different character, as in the present dumber it has a paper on the recent astronomical dispute about " The Moon's Motion," and another on the principles of Heat and Light.—Charles Knight continues his useful publications. The English Cyclopiedia, of which the Biographical part is now issuing, is one of the most comprehensive and valuable works of its kind which has appeared.—The History of England, though, of course, a work of less preten sions, is likely to be a useful and popular produc tion.—The Assurance Magazine is , as its name indicates, devoted to subjects connected with Life Assurance. The Council of the Institute of Actuaries give publicity, through its pages, to some of the papers presented to the Institute, though they do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions of the writers. To all connected with such institutions it presents some attractive fea tures.—Le Forlet has its usual number of plates, and its usual amount of fashionable information. LORD PANMURE. At a dinner given to the noblo lord by his tenantry, at Castle Edzell, on Thursday last, his lordship spoke as :ollows : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—lt is long since the walls of this ancient castle resounded with such cheers as these, denoting the affection of the tenantry for a landlord who cannot boast that ho has yet done much to acquire these affections. I look upon them yet rather as heredi tary than as actually earned, but I look forward to the time when I may be able sincerely and fairly to ease them. (Cheers.) It is extremely gratifying, my friends, for mo to receive from yon this testimony of your attachment, which is more congenial to my heart —and I say it without hesitation—than any of the public honours which have fallen upon me during a now pretty long life. (Cheers.) Honours fade away, popularity is proverbially evanescent, but the kindly affection of our neighbours lives with us as long as we live, and, I believe, in many instances where it is well merited, long survives us. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) It has not been my good fortune to be thrown among the tenantry of this estate until more than fifty summers and winters had passed over my head. Circum stances to which it is unnecessary to allude have made my life a somewhat eventful one; and that which I deplore perhaps more than any other feature in it is that so much of it had passed away before I was enabled to cultivate the kindness or even to study the interests of those who are now under nay charge as a landlord. (Cheers. Ever since I had the good for Lune to succeed to the vast posses sions of my ancestors, calls of public duty have not per mitted me, I may say, to take up my residence among you. These calls, I trust, are only temporary, and I most cordially join in the wish of your chairman that the time may not be far distant when I shall be enabled to take up my home in the home of my forefathers, and to cultivate the acquaintance of those to whose interests it is my duty to look. After the passing of the Reform Bill, when you wore enfranchised, and when I was eufranchised myself for the first time, circumstances threw me into the melee of politics, and in 1835, under the auspices of a man whom I always look up to with the greatest respect and affection —I mean Lord John Russell—(cheers)--a man who has elevated the liberties of his country to a higher point than any man living —I entered public life first as his Under Secretary of State. Under such a master, gentlemen, it was my good fortune to learn nothing but lessons of constitutional liberty, and to the lessons then learnt, and the friendship thou formed with that noble lord, I trace my subsequent success in political life. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, from one step of politics to another I have gone, filling various offices ; and I thought that upon the retirement of Lord Joho Russell's Ministry my political career was drawn to a close—l mean my public career in politics, because I hold that every man in my position ought never to lose sight of the politics of his country, although ho may not be officially connected with those who administer them. But when my noble friend Lord Pal merston took office I was invited to accept the office of Secretary of State for War. Lord Palmerston stated it to me as his opinion that my experience would be of benefit to Lim in his Government, and under these circumstances I did not hesitate to accept the office tendered to me. Up to the present moment I have enjoyed not only the full confidence of my noble friend at the head of the Govern ment, but such able assistance from him as has enabled me to conduct the affairs of that office with satisfaction to my own conscience. I believe if the Duke of Newcastle had remained in office —if that clamour—for I must call it clamour, which drove him from the reins of the office in which I succeeded him—had not occurred, he would Lave succeeded as well as I have done in bringing the army round from the state into which it. had unfortunately fallen to the state of discipline and of improvement in every way in which it left the shores of the Crimea. (Cheers.) But there were some steps which were taken by me which I think did a great deal, not to bring the army especially from its low estate, but to prevent the consequence of that low estate upon the retry n of the ensuing summer; and I think that no greater benefit has accrued to the army than resulted from the labours of the sanitary commissioners, consisting of Dr. Sutherland and others, who were sent out by me to the shores of the Cri mea, who by their skill and foreknowledge removed all offensive matter from the camp, and prevented that which every ono was prophesying with horror —namely, the rage of contagion and disease when the hot weather sot in. From the exertions of these gentlemen, and from the man ner in which the commanding officers of the army, from the highest to the lowest, seconded their efforts, no con tagion broke out in the ranks of our gallant forces ; and from the time that Mining burst upon that island, nothing but health pervaded the army, and they left the C.inioa and returned to England in a state of health unknown oven at home. (Cheers.) I will not detain you long with re• foronce to myself, or the affairs immediately committed to my charge. I would only say, with regard to the army, Ci itAMPTON.—The elevation of Sir John that it has been my study to improve the condition of the Sin JouN which Y t I t- i h e e t soldier from the fist moment that I had. his interests coin-1 Crete:inn, to di4 ) t ? ine a l Knight Commander of the Bath mitred to my charge. (Cheers,) I have endeavoured to appr i oval e of fe t i l i le lle G d o h ve is rnzi ti nt elevate him from the position in which some 20 or 30 years t l le eepretare way sentetive of ' hei g • e ll l l l ajM a y at Washington. l les ago he was found. He wa s the n t o b e f oun d e ith er in Roy,ti, THAMES YACHT CLUB.—At the last ineetir the parade ground or iu the canteen, with no pursuits to of the above distinguished club, held at the Bede elevate his mind or expand his intellect. I Lave en- l rote], Cavent-gard , n, his Royal Highness Prince Ow endeavoured to raise, him from such a debased situation, I of Sweden having announced his desire to be enrolled and to give him a thirst for knowledge, and an o pportu I a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, was , pity of cultiv a ti ng th ose t a l en t s w hi c h h o h o lds in coin - acclamation. FOR FST OF A MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIAi r iCent men with the rest of the community; )I v * INDLING.—The Mobile Tribune says that ]try and . that these endeavours have not been unblessed, and that the and I thenk God Ai,n army at thin time may present its ranks to the farmer, afnd Ica 7 krs.a:idez de Ayala, i Mi t n h i e ste ß r P m le b n li i ,.. p e o e t; Ze a z r t s r h el a a i y u e i yoy liit d r a tor a., di (, nary the shopkeeper, and the manufacturer, as being a fit pro iNee rol li n as been el arrest ' w'charges of sion for their children, without their leaving that army rai.a, • , as they Maury and Deputy Marshal Scullin 's., . Paris that an the course of a few years debased and degraded, forgery and swindling. would have done in former times. (Cheers.) I look upoo It is rumoured in political circles fr the Emperor the improvements which have taken place iu the cond ui t s, autograph letter ha.; been addressedaer Majesty, i n iu the education, in the moral condition of the soldier to Napoleon to Queen Isabella, advisiMer people collet. have been among the greatest boons that have been eon- i the most friendly wanner, to goverot the terred by ERICCOANiVO GlcYorllD2o ll tfi oX tau* opwatry. 'ache i tutionally, anti to respect the bin,' Now, that is the only contralisation that exists in that act, and I have the satisfaction to tell my friend ➢ir. Baxter that if ho had tho opportunity of voting against that mea- sure as applied to England this year, I suspect most strongly ho will have the opportunity of voting againa is as applied to Scotland next year. As I stated before, I am sorry to have troubled you with this subject here, but I have mado these remarks in no hostile spirit to Mr. William Baxter, but merely to show that a measure of a Government may be traduced upon grounds which really do not exist. Having said this much, I will now again refer to my private connection with you all here present. Whatever I may be, and however I may disappoint is coon eases, this I will say for myself, that you shall never find MO inaccessible to any ono of you, be he the chief tenant of the estate or the poorest and humblest cotter that holds from me. (Cheers.) And tho reception that I have net from you this day convinces me that the more I know you the better I shall like you, and I hope I may add also tho reverse, that the more you know me the better you will like me. (Cheers.) I wish to drink all your good healths, and pray that God may bless you in all your interest, both civil and religious, so long as we aro spal e.l to live together. (Cheers.) THE LATE LORD HARDINGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIP,—In the series of letters you have been good enough to publish for me, an important one is omitted, and as there seems no reason, I ferr that by some over sight it was not sent ; it is my reply to the note from the E iitor of the Times. Peimit me also to remark that the Editor's note to me Was not in answer to my first:note to him, but in answer to my statement about Albnera, which he returned. — I rentain, &c., 11 7. . NAPIER, Lieut.-General. Oct,. 3, 1856. (Copy -No. 4 ) Sir Williain Napier presents his compliments to the EAitor of the Tines, whoever he may be, and begs to inform him that he has mistaken his position. S r William Napier did not ask for the help of the Times to sustain his statement of the part taken by the late Lord llardinge in the battle of Albuera. The Times, in almost direct terms, called for Sir Wm.' Napier's help to sustain its own statement of Lord flarThge's conduct. It was given, and the refusing of it is a matter of indifference to Sir William Napier. The tone of the refusal indicates a very low sense of sel'•re:pcct in the anonymous writer, and whether it shall be aeceptel as a private comwunication will depend upon circumstances. Scinde Hou , e, September 30, 1856. To the Editor of the Timm ABERCROMBIE'S BRIGADE AT ALB UERA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Filt,—At the crit-is whe❑ all looked adverhe at the bat:lo of Albuera, Abercrombie's brigade was ordered from the extreme left of the line to advance in open column and double quick time to the point of struggle. It did so advance for more than a mile, on level ground, under a fir.; of forty pieces of artillery, right well served. It wa•s my lot, as senior lieutenant (Captain Wyatt hay' ing le:en seriously wounded), to command the Grenadiers of tl leading regiment, the gallant 34th. When vv . ' , reached the rise of ground from whence the Spaniards were :lowly retiring in some confusion, and so s oci b n co o__ they passed by our right flank, a column of French when r skirr.4 appeared immediately in our front ; and within about thirty yards of them we delivered ch " charged, well directed volley, gave the well known cheer, when the column instantly went to the righ o t and s hout as t housand fast as they could for about the distance of on A s if noth -3 arde, and then reformed, and looked as fresh behind a onpeyoaerddson; the ing had happened. Eight of their un with cirapa at a distance of about six hundred from onstration to a i , be heavy rain had gunpowder had Mulish Lancers advanced at a small, - tr d ot eni small awed of ground, and made the a t r h g e e i e ; ad. charge us, but thought better of it. The now ceased, and the smoke of of the French, which cleared away ; two other columo te g ti on order across the Al of evergreen oaks, from were advancing cm echellon, halted the vauced column routed. T in t bing enemy now retired in skir►nisbing but ra stream into the lo dawn of morning It was \tine!' they issued before the the brigad e the critical moment by the urgent bout toe that ihey were the general report thruug obedient servant, Lord n uinge. e u i l i l t i r e e r a cil e t s o uf advance tsh : er laytoe a o I a m . , iods . NORTON (late Capt. 34th Regl). ltuLtierville, Oct. 1, 1856. ... 64 1 i p, 20 St. 15 90 2k 1051 5 1011 i 1031 77 61 20 St. St. 4 2i i a H H P 21j 30 4 j 5 20 4 1 22/ 7A 6i 40 51i ••• I 1 1 7i 7 I 1 C 6 7 I 10 31i 5 100 soldiev now feels himself able to tale his . place with those of his rani:, and condition in life, and if you will go into any of our barrack-yards you will find them now with school, of instruction, with reading-rooms for non-com tui,.sioned officers and soldiers, with plat as for recreation an I exorcise, and yon will find them leading a life of Christian usefulness, I am proud to say—for religion has developed itself wonderfully in the ranks of the ,rrey---a life of which we may any of us be proud, and in which we may not be ashamed or afraid to trust our own little ones. But other matters of politics have of course engaged my attention, of various descriptions. Upon these I will not at present touch, but I may remark that I have returned to find this county still, as over, repre sent - A by those whose object it is to advance constitutions liberty and to go on increasing instead of diminishing the political powers which are dissem:nated among the great body of the people. (Cheers.) I hive always been one of those wh o h ave never b een a f ra id of trusting the p eop l e with politic a l p ower . I h ave a lways t; bought the m ore confiden ce you put in a man or in a body o f men the more you will find them responding to that confidence, and using the power with which you entrust them well. I have lived to see changes lake place which I have heard cried down as revolutionary, and which even now the most squeamish Conservative has brought himself to call con stitutional. (Cheers.) I see in this county three gentle. men representing it—my noble friend Lord Duncan, the county member ; my friend Mr. George Duncan, the mem ber for Dundee ; and my friend Mr. George Baxter, the member for the Montrose burghs. The records of the ses sion tell you how those gentlemen have attended to their public duty, and I think we may congratulate ourselves that for talent, for sterling honesty, for high public in tegrity, no county boasts of three better men than does the county of Forfar. (Cheers.) But I confess I have been somewhat surprised —and I take this oppor tunity, not principally of addressing your ears, but of addressing those " chiels" who I see " are takin notes, and faith they'll prent them" — (laughter) —upon a point which my friend Mr. Baxter has alluded to very much in some of his public orations in this county ; and I do it not to quarrel with my excellent friend Mr. Bax ter, but rather to point out, as a member of her Majesty's Government, and somewhat interested in the judgment which is passed upon their measures, how a man may de cry and give a wrong colouring to the acts of the Govern ment, and so bring into discredit a Government which otherwise it is his object to sustain. The point to which I especially allude are the remarks which my friend Mr. Baxter has made upon the English Police Act. The reason why I am tender upon that subject—perhaps Mr. Baxter does not know it—is because that happens to be a child of my own. (Laughter.) If anybody is in fault for having brought that measure forward—a measure full of all the vices of centralisation—l am afraid I must plead guilty to that fact, because in 1839 and 1810, when I was Under- Secretary of State for the Home Department, I passed that measure through the House of Commons. It was then brought forward as a measure optional upon the counties for which it was passed, in order to induce these counties to look to their own interests in the way of the restriction of crime, instead of doing that which was the universal practice of these times to do —making the British army the police of the country, a pur pose for which the British army was never intended. La the year 1839 and 1840 we took the first steps to bettor such a state of things, and that Police Bill enabled every county to institute a police for itself. It was only per missive, but so far from considering it an unconstitutional measure, rather more than one-half of all England and Wales voluntarily adopted that which Mr. Baxter has condemned. And this year, upon the principle that where the half of England had undertaken to destroy all the vicious vermin in the different counties—upon the prin- ciple that these vermin all fled to the place where thezo wore no police set up at all, those parts of England which had adopted the Police Act loudly and very properly de:, manded that the measure should be compulsory over all England instead of being merely voluntary. Nothing could be more reasonable than that ; but in what consists the centralisation—for that is the point upon which my friend Mr. Baxter is so very loud ? He says he voted against it because of its centralising qualities. Now, the only centralisation that exists in that act is this —that if the police in a county is kept up in an efficient state, and reported to be such by Government in spectors, one-fourth of the expenses of that police are to be paid from the Treasury ; and in order to ascertain that the payment of that one-fourth is merited, surely i t is right that the Government, acting for the rate-payers of this country, should be assured in the first instance that they are paying for a good article, and not for a bad one. ro )or [ter the cies 33./ leg' ,rel ght ~h' off' i ~~ eat ~d 0' - it! o' 20 50 100 50 100 100 100 100 100 100 20 20 3si i 74 i 564 35i 6 0)