The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-18 00:00:00

ARCHERY MATCH.-SPECIAL NOTICE. —lt having bean intimated that, in the case of the ARCHERY MATCH for a SILVER CUP (value 12 Guineas), to take place at the CRYSTAL PALACE, on SATURDAY nest, it would be more agreeable to archers generally that " the highest score," rather than " the bast gold," s hou!d win the prize, it the has been decided that this point shall b e settled by the majority of competitors on the ground. It is also round to be necessary to kee p the sub crintion list open till llo'clock on Satur da y . an of those who are already enrolled object to these changes, they may have their respective entrance fees returned. All ccmmunications for farther particulars to be made direct. as below. JOHN LILWALL, Honorary Secretary. Offices, 35, Lnd3ate-hll. ROYA.L, DRURY-LANE, Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING THE LADY OF LYONS. Followed by TWICE KILLED. To conclude with A BILLET DIVERTISiEMENT. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Qnder the Nenvoinent of '4r. CHARLES SzAs. TrHA EvgNIN . G. MUSIC H 1 / 4 .TH CHARMS. After which. PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; lwira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRIN'E FOR AN HOUR. THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. Under Ise Management of Mr. Buckstont, THIS EVENING, AS YOU LIKE IT. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. To conzlude with THE SPANISH SERJEANT. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, BELPHEGOR. Beiphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. To be followed by W. Brough's new Burlesque, PERDITA, TUE ROYAL MILKMAID ; or, a Winter's Tale. Florizel, Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Wool tar) ; Autolycns, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Hermione, Mrs. Buckingham White ; Leontes, Mr. S. Calhaern ; Pollxines, King of Bithynla, Mr. Wm. Bvtigh (his first appearance on any stage) ; Fast Time, Miss Harriet Gordon ; Per- Cita. Miss Marie Wilton; Antigonus, Mr. Barrett. Miss Rosina Wright, and a grand Corps de Ballet. stalls. ss. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. Is. Commence at 7. lialf•prie3 to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Ce:este. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which THE IRISH TUTOR. To conclude with OUE GAL. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Seventh Week! Shakspere's RICH MID THE THIRD, with the introductloh of horses. The equestrian illustrations imagined by Mr. W. Cooke. Death of White Surrey. (Vide " lilltiatrated News," of Saturday, eth.) Battle of Bosworth Field, &c. After which, The EQUESTRIAN GEMS in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a number of other Entertainments. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke. inn. N.B. Tide " Illustrated News of Sept. 6th for the Death of White fitirrey. HIGH. W.A.TER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY—Morn. 9 rain. aft. 4—Evening 28 min. aft. 4 TI-Mowtow—Morn.47 min. aft. 4—Evening 9 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER—Strx OFYIOE, SrIPTEMBER 18. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. R'—highest sinus noon yesterday. Si —lowest this morning and during the night. 62 —this day att noon. BAROMETER, 19 87. WIND, W.S.W.-Light, with unsettled weather. ileavy rain in the morning. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN. The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from ha' past 5 till 1 '; 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 Elition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Oifiutl, IL I", Strand. 44,tty Avy4,..v.! [l. LONDON, THIMSDAY, SEPTENIBER 18, 1858, The Bank Charter Act is doing its work ; and, unless some energetic measures be speedily adopted to check its operation, we shall ere long witness a monetary panic, the effects whereof may be far more serious even than that of 1847, which ware only averted by its temporary suspension in the October of that year. The exportation of the precious metals has at length excited serious alarm in the money market. Bullion to an immense amount has been imported ; but it has merely passed through the country. It suits the purpose of Continental speculators to pay a larger price than can be given in this country under existing regulations ; and there is no Dens ex nrachin4, no recognised authority, ready and willing to avert the fearful e nasequences that may arise by the sacrifice of some hundreds of thousands of p3unds sterling. The Bank of England cannot, in jos tice to its shareholders, adopt what th 9 bullionist organ terms " the important contrivance of buy ing gold at a premium on one hand, which the Bank is immediately obliged to part with at its natural value on the other, to check the grow ing inconvenience." The 'absorption of specie still continues, and, in consequence of our unfor tunate, and, we may add, iniquitous code, Great Britain is rendered the milch cow to supply all the rest of the world, although iu so doing we are parting with the very life-blood of indus try, and reducing the working classes to a state of distress and difficulty. As we have stated, the importation of gold during the past year has, thanks to the Austra lian discoveries, been enormous. We have also received large quantities of silver from Mexico and other parts of South America. ' But the stereotyped addition to the announcement is, that the entire amount has been purchased for exportation. Under the present law there is no inducement to the Bank to purchase silver. Notes cannot be issued against silver beyond a 4 mall proportion, one-sixth, of the entire specie ttored in the cellars at Threadneedle-street, and yet silver is materially rising in value in every part of the world ; and if matters continue in their present state (and there is no reason to ex pect any important alteration) the trading classes must be subjected to the most serious pressure and inconvenience, which might be avoided by timely attention to the all-important subject. When the exports materially exceed the im ports of any commodity not a natural production of the nation there must be an eventual smash. If any private individual with an income of 4,0001. per annum chooses to spend 7,000/., he must ultimately become insolvent. Now, it ap pears from the carefully-compiled statistics pub lished in the Liverpool Albion, that while our incom ings in the shape of silver have been little more than 4,100,0001. our outgoings have amounted to ~0 165 893/.,—and that mer e ly s h ows th e defi ciency so far as India .and. China are concerned, without a ny reference to the heavy Conti nen t a l drain. Nay, more ; it does not even show the full extent of the evil for which we have to pro vide. Even the Times itself calculates that "i n the 12 months from July, 1856, to July, 1857, a total of 81000,0004 will Lave to be paid to India THE SUN, LO.LtDON, TWURSOAY EVENING, SP_N I PrEMBER IA 1856: and China in excess of that which was paid in the inpulse ; it is the crime of a person in the full preceding 12 months." If this estimate be at all possession of his senses, and after twenty, gene verified we shall have no less than 18,000,0001. rally not a first offence. The man who has proved to provide for in actual specie—an amount that himself unfitted to be at large among other per will bring the circulating medium of the country I sons' goods, may, it would seem, reasonably be to the lowest ebb. placed where he cannot touch them. With much Are we to wait patiently until the panic has hesitation we might admit, in some cases, say, if trrived, or should we adopt immediate measures the first offence were committed in adult years, to mitigate the evil, so as to be let down as easily liberation on responsible bail. If experience as possible ? There can be but little doubt as to proves, as it has done, that the adult thief the answer that should be returned to this im- is a perpetual tax on society, society must have portant interrogatory. Any man of ordinary in- the light to get rid of the burden. We have telligence would desire to avert the mischief while leaped from hanging for a few pence to brief im there is yet time to do so. Unfortunately, how- prisonments ; may it not be better to adopt a ever, the currency quacks have sufficient influ- medium course, and to inflict what cannot be ence to retard, if not altogether to prevent, the called a savage or vengeful punishment, while it remedial steps indispensable. They talk a vast would be an effectual prevention. dell of balderdash, sufficient to puzzle persons Then as to the expense. It would, of course, who have not taken the trouble to investigate the be great, but we must bear in mind the great subject in all its varied details. expense to the community of every thief at large. The great body of the people have not taken pains sufficient to understand the question really at issue, and permit themselves to be dictated to by interested parties. They, therefore, remain apathetic, while a subject involving the future welfare and happiness of themselves and their He probably costs the community much more than his prison support would do. Besides, it is 14ot proposed that he should spend his time in idleness. The numbers being considerable, it would be easy for each to be employed on the trade or occupation he already knows, or to learn some trade ; nor would it be necessary that the produce of his labour should interfere with that of free labour ; the army, and perhaps other Government establishments, and union work houses, could use all that could be manufactured by prisoners. Next, it is to be remembered that the hope is that the number of prisoners, after a few years, would greatly diminish. If reforming our juvenile thieves and shutting up our adult •nes did not wonderfully diminish the future crop, it would be strange indeed. We leave the speculation for our reformers to smile at, con demn, or approve according to their fancy. families is hurrying on the nation to the brink of II ruin. It is not by waiting until continental' nations have consented to debase their standards; that the emergency can be successfully encoun tered. We must economise our own use of the precious metals, and by the judicious issue of really national notes of small denominations, 1/ .5 2/ .) and 31., provide for the internal cur rency of the country. This would at once arrest the evil. We would then find bullion an exceedingly useful servant, although it is now a very tyrannical master. By this step, which sooner or later must be adopted, from 30,000,0001. to 40,000,0001. of bullion would be liberated, the foreign markets would be glutted, and the precious metals would return to our coffers, with out causing any misery or privation to the general community by their temporary absence. It has been resolved to establish a oorn market at Downham, Norfolk, on Fridays, the first market to be held on the 26th inst. . - We regret exceedingly to state that Mr. Clarkson, the eminent barrister, is lying very dangerously ill at his Brighton residence, on the King's-road, and that but faint Hopes are entertained of his recovery. T)10 Rev. Dr. Livingston, the celebrated African tra veller, has arrived safe at the Mauritius. Thls gentle nian has completed in his last tour a journey th.rough southern tropical Africa from Loando to Quillemain in the east. What to do with our rogues has become the grand question of the recess. Parliamentary blue books and Reformatory Union papers and speeches have suggested details enough to us, but anything like a complete system no one has yet ventured to propose. Politics are pretty well banished from the discussion of the subject—the statesmen and philanthropists of all parties, indeed we might say of all countries, being willing to communicate and to receive information. At present we are in a transition, and unsatisfactory state. We have abolished transportation, and are vacillating as to a substitute for it. We are trying the ticket-of leave system, but are deafened with the complaints of judges and policemen as to its working. We are continuing our ordinary course of a few months or years' imprisonment, while we have not the shadow of a doubt that half or two-thirds of those thus sent to gaol will be sent again and again till transportation for life or the gallows will be the end of many of them. The only real advance yet made is a general conviction that the Reformatory School is the proper prison for lads, and the partial carrying out of the system accord ing to the liberality or capacity of individuals in different counties. Celestina Somner, the young woman convicted at the April sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the murder of her child at Islington, has been removed from Newgate to the Millbank Prison ; preparatory to under. going her sentence of penal servitude for life. .1 CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT.—A.mo s ng the acts of the late session was one to continue the Cor rupt Practices Prevention Act of 1854 to the 10th Aug. next year, and thenceforth to the end of the then next session of Parliament. The Haymarket is undergoing a thorough repair, but it is not intended that the thoroughfare shall be stopped. Portions of the road will be taken at various times, so that there will not be any material interference with the *raffia. It is stated that the suspicions referred to yesterday as haying been expressed by a correspondent regarding the course pursued by the Royal British Bank in con nection with their Welsh iron and coal works are with out foundation. A full explanation will doubtless be elicited at the approaching meeting.—Times. The directors of the London and Paris Bank have agreed to recommend to the shareholders, at the meeting to be held on the 19th instant, the dissolution of the company, and the immediate return of the subscribed capital, less 3/. per share retained until the exact amount of the expenses be known. _ MODEL LODGING TIMM—The leasehold model lodging houses of the society for improving the condi 113n of the labouring classes have been put up for sale. They are situate in the Bagnigge Wells-road. It is much to be regretted that some plan cannot be devised to enable the tenants of the building to become their own landlords.—Building News. The Espano says that the Government has refused passports to Marshal Narvaez, "so long as internal affairs yet pending remain undecided." The offer of a diplomatic post abroad has been politely declined by the Marshal. The enmity between the court and O'Donnell is undisguised, but he intends to hold his own or die hard ; and, supported as he is by the French Emperor, he may give Queen Isabella more trouble than she imagines. _. The grand object, however, is to stop the grow th of crime. So far as reformatory schools are suc cessful, they achieve this ; they send out two thirds of their charge really steady fellows, able and willing to earn their living ; what is more, they diminish by that two-thirds the sources of temptation to others. It may be fairly assumed that almost every juvenile thief, through the facile A MISSING CLERGYMAN.-111 Sunday morning, when the congregation assembl e d in the parish church, Harrington, at the usual hour, there was no minister to conduct the service, and, after waiting some time, the people had to return home, wondeet.s 'mum uaa Lv vvttcv of the rogidant clergyman, the Rev. John Price, late a Fellow of the New College, Oxford. It afterwards transpired that the reverend gentleman had left the dis trict. The parish is now left without an officiating clergyman, the rector being non-resident.—Cumberland Pacquet. WHERE JOHN SADLEIR WAS FOUND.—+On visiting Ampetead Heath this week a correspondent informs us he found that the two fir trees which overshadowed the little eminence where the supposed dead body of John Sadleir was discovered, have been completely cut away to the roots by visitors anxious to secure some relic of the tragedy. The name " Sadleir" is cut out on the grass in large letters, and the places where the razor and silver mug were found are marked for the observation of the curious. The broad dyke which surrounds the hillock has been bridged over with stones, which, not withstanding the dryness of the present weather, are rapidly sinking from the moist nature of the ground.— Clonmel Chronicle. SCHOOL OF DESIGN FOR COALBROOYDALE.—At the second meeting of the committee organised for the pur tile cf establishing drawing schools in connection with the department of science and art, held on Monday at Coalbrookdale, resolutions were passed authorising the secretary, Mr. G. Norris, to make the necessary appli cation to the department for securing the immediate ap pointment of a competent master, Considering the artistic skill required in the neighbourhood, both in the 'manufacture of iron and china, this institution cannot fail to be highly useful, and will no doubt be made ex tensively available by artisans and others. Madeley, Bruseley, Wenlock, and Coalbrookdale are associated, the committee of management consisting of three from each place. DISCOVERY OF AN OLD ROMAN SHAFT.—In the month of May last an old Roman shaft having been discovered a short distance from Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, north Wales, it was determined by Mr. Weston and some other residents to drive a level into this old shaft, in order to unwater it and ascertain what were the nature of boys, is a tempter and trainer of another to thieving. If the magistrates will also be more striot in onforaing nn r .ran 1 flin ray tymn large part of the expense of their children at the schools they will do much towards diminishing youthful crime—parents of bad habits will then be much more careful of contaminating their children. Nothing will weigh more with that class than having to pay in hard cash, and weekly, for their criminal neglect, or something worse, of their own children. If, therefore, the reformatory system be worked as it might be, and we hope ere long will be, a vast amount of nascent crime will be strangled, and a good beginning made with the juvenile part of society. It is, however, fearful to think of what is to be done with the large number of thieves of all classes committed after twenty years of age. Let them return to society how they may, with tickets of leave or after a full imprisonment, they find the utmost difficulty in again obtaining employ ment. It is hard upon them, but while other servants aro to be had, who of us likes to employ a person in our family, shop, or ware house, once convicted of crime ? We are slow to believe his real penitence and reformation. If we should employ such a person, we suspect, we watch, and we exercise, as we think, in this but c rnmon prudence, but how painful the position to the watched person. By most, however, " gaol-birds " are rejected, and even when they have obtained employment, on the hints of the police, they are but but too frequently dis missed. Only the other day a young man was, with difficulty, prevented from committing suicide, because every effort to obtain emyloyment had been thwarted by the police. Of course all these hopeless adult criminals, combined with the far greater number of incurables of the same age, form a standing training school, unluckily of the highest qualifications, as well as a standing army of thieves. hidden riches that induced this great work. The level was driven through early this month, and the removal of the mud and rubbish commenced. A small Roman pick and a salmon spear have been already found. Whether the spear, which is similar to those used in the present day, is of the same antiquity as the pick, is a matter of conjecture, but its condition favours that assumption. The pick is nine inches from point to point, in form like the common pick-axe, and is in the posses. sion of Mr. Weston in the above town. A fine lode of copper was discovered in driving the level, and two strong lodes in the shaft. Most of the successful mines in this country have been worked by Romans. The shaft is fifty feet deep, driven through the solid rock. THE TRADE OF LIVERPOOL—LIVERPOOL, Monday.— The " Customs Bill of Entry," published this morning, gives a return of the number and tonnage of the ships that have entered inwards from and cleared outwards for foreign ports in the week ending September 13, 1856, as well as the corresponding week of 1855. It appears that during the last week 55 ships of an aggregate tonnage of 27,368 tons entered inwards, against 76 ships, 40,026 tons in 1855, being a decrease of 21 in the num ber of ships, and a decrease of 12,668 tons in the tonnage ; the number of clearances outwards during the week, 93 ships, of a tonnage of 51,574 tons, against 107 ships and 54,356 tons in 1855, being a decrease of 14 ships and 2,782 tons. The total number of of ships reported inwards from foreign ports during the present year up to the 13th September was 3 6 026, with a tonnage of 1,731,378 tons, against 3,015, and 1,451,592 tons in the year 1855, showing an increase cf 11 ships and 239,786 tons. BANAGHER GREAT ANNUAL FAIR. BANAGHER, We are not aware that we have seen quite an other course suggested for thediminution of crime ; one which, though costly and apparently severe at first, might not be so in the long run. Sup posing that for youth the Reformatories be con sidered sufficient, beyond that period perpetual detention., or some equivalent, may be the best plan for a later age. •We will notice presently the leading objections, but the effect is obvious enough. Its action would be double, first deter ring most effectually from crime ; next, with drawing the great teachers and promoters of it from society. If the majority of thieves knew that conviction, after attaining years of discretion, was certain to be followed by detention and labour for the more part compulsory, and for life, would not the number of thefts diminish rapidly I Thieves would think twice era they hazarded per petual seclusion from the world. Celibacy, exclu sion from stimulants, and low amusements, with regular labour, would be a terrific idea to the animal, lazy, or excitable natures who constitute the majority of our adult thieves. What with this and the diminution of tempters, one would think this class of crime would rapidly decrease. It may strike some as too severe a course to be oven contemplated; perpetual deprivation of H- I b3rty for a small theft, it may be, it seems too barbarous to be thought of. But a differeut course is proposed for the youthful criminal. It is the thief for whom, as a class, no fair excuse can be offered that we would confine. No one is compelled by want to steal in England —we have poor l aws an d pay poor rates, and the man old enough to understand this has no excuse for his villany. Theft is not like any of the crimes com mitted under the impulse of ungovernable natural Tuesday Evening.—lt appears upon making up the re- turns of yesterday's sale of sheep, that the number sold amount nearly to 9,000, being in excess of last year's sales of about 3,000. Unsold under 1,500 against 4,900 of September fair, 1855. The fifteen hundred remaining unsold consisted of several small lots of poor, unsaleable sheep, in fact not fit for any grazier or breeder desirous of holding even middling flocks. All sellers of sheep were highly pleased, and the only disappointment felt was confined to purchasers who found the supply to fall short of their requirements. The business of ,this day was appropriated to the sale of horses, which for many years has not been equalled. Supply large and of a superior description. It is gratifying to record the great improvement the country generally is undergoing, ;and no clearer proof can exist of that improvement than to see the anxious inquiries after this noble and useful class of animals amongst country , gentlemen and farmers, the one supplying himself with a luxury, and the other for his agricultural purposes. Several buyers for the army picked up large lots of young horses, and for whicli prices were given from 301. to 451. Hunters were in great request, and sold from 601. to 1201. Mr. Clarke, of Portumna, sold one at 1101., and another at 651. Mr. Sherlock got 70 guineas for a four-year-old Freney. Rev. Mr. Egan got 60 guineas for a horse that was offered to be sold last week at 501. Mr. Henry Kenney, Lismore Castle, ob tained 501. for a three-year-old colt. In fact, such a good fair has not been in Banagher for years, and all unble mished horses had several bidders. The business of to morrow is to be confined to the sale of horned cattle, and already purchasers are on the look-out. Mr. John Fallen, of Banagher, has just sold his stack of three year-old heifers at 18/., being fully 3/. a-head more than the same class brought last year. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTSL BRIGHTON. (Prom the Brighton Gazette.) The influx of visitors to Brighton during the last seven or eight days has been greeter than we ever re member in so short a period of time, and we can carry our recollection boa for many years, even to the time when Brighton was basking in the sunshine of Royalty, under George the Fourth; but in those days, which were considered the very Wine of aristocratic patronage for Brighton, the number of visitors was not one tenth part so great as we are in the habit . of receiving now, and, for the best of all possible reasons, the means of transit were not so convenient, and, judging distance by time, London was at the former period eight hours from Brighton, whilst now it is scarcely an hour, and to be able to reach the sea-side in the short space of an hour, or an hour and a quarter, is a deside ratum with those who are in a position to enjoy the health-giving air of a sea-side residence, not to be disre garded. Hence the vast numbers that flock weekly to our shores. The railway company continue to offer every facility to those of moderate means to visit Brighton, and their excursion trains of Saturday night, extendir , over to Monday evening, bring an immense number of passengers. But the class of visitors who chiefly favour us with their presence is not of a common character, as will be seen by a perusal of our fashionable columns, and, although it may be imagined by the tone we adopt that Brighton is literally overflowing with visitors, it is not so ; but we have ample accommodation for many more, owing to the rapid growth of the town; and, although the hotels have been doing immense busi ness, our population is of that fluctuating character that there is always room enough and to spare, and those who are desirous of visiting Brighton should not be pre vented from doing so under the impression that they can not got accommodation. Many are, no doubt, so deterred by those who seek to turn the tide of fashion into an other channel, and also by reports that may reach their ears that it is a dreadfully dear place. The town has stood the test of years, and all that we can say is, in that respect, let them inquire the character from those who have visited Brighton, before they give heed to loose and unfounded statements. We have stated that the hotels have been doing a good business, and we may add, more than a good business, for it is a fact, which perhaps will scarcely be credited, that some of our hotels during the last three or four weeks, have been receiving, upon an average, 300 visitors a week. We were satisfied that Brighton, which felt the effect of the war, mast rally, and be greater than ever in a fashionable point of view, and the immense quantity of fashionable information which crowds our columns weekly is a convincing and substantial proof of the fact. The Prince de Joinville is now on a tour through the Lake district. JOINT- TOCk BANKS. The Marquis of Westminster is at present on a visit to his son-in-law, Lord Muncaster, of Muncaster Castle. We (Bury Post) regret to hear that Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who is on a visit to Lord Brougham, in Westmoreland, is confined to his room by indisposition. Lord Panmure has arrived at Invermark Lodge, his seat in Scotland, and his lordship's tenantry and feuers are about to entertain him at a public dinner. The Marquis of Exeter, the Marqu's and Marchioness Townshend, the Marchioness of Donegal, the Countess of Lucan, Lady Ernest Bruce, the Countess of Belmore and Lady Harriet Corry, Lady Alice Peel and Miss Peel, the Countess of Morley, Lord and Lady Truro, and Mr. and Lady Jane Repton, are among the members of the English aristocracy at present sojourning in Paris. It is reported that the Dean of Carlisle will be the new Bishop of London. The Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. 0. J. Vignoles, 8.A., to the curacy of Percy Chapel. The Lord Chancellor's rectory of Mainstone, in the diocese of Hereford, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. John Rogers, M.A. It is worth about 4001. a year. At the forthcoming confirmations for the district the Lord Bishop of Carlisle has announced his intention of delivering an address after the ceremony. Harrowgate, we understand, is at the present time un usually full of visitors, there being not less, it is calcu lated, than 4,000 strangers at this favourite resort of the valetudinarian. On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, from the Olympic Theatre, London, made their first appearance at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and were welcomed by a numerous audience. 31Madame Grisi and Signor Mario, who had been stay ing at the Royal Albion Hotel with their family during ,the past week, left on Sunday, for Dublin, to fulfil an operatic engagement. They remain in Dublin a fort night, and then proceed to Liverpool and other places, returning to Brighton about the 28d of October to sing at a concert here. Their almost infant family remain in Brighton during their absence. They have four beauti ful children, all females, the eldest only about eight years of age. The Trieste (kettle, in a letter from Athens, states that the English troops have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark for the Cape of Good Hope.—We find no confirmation of this intelligence in any other quarter. Yesterday, Daniel Forrester, the Mansion-house offi cer, succeeded in arresting one of the persons implicated in the robbery of 270,0001. worth of shares belonging to the directors of the Northern Railway of France, and proceeded with him direct to Paris, UNITY GENERAL ASSURANCE COMPANY. —We learn that Mr. J. F. Wieland, the Glasgow agent of the "Unity," who brought about the recent compromise for 7501. of an indisputable policy for 2,0001., which has caused so much czoit....t of late, ham been buunnarily dismissed by the directors. A highly-interesting portrait-model has just been placed in the royal group at Madame Tussaud's exhibi tion. It represents the King of Sardinia. His Majesty is dressed in a green uniform, decorated with several military orders. The figure is admirably constructed, and reflects great credit on the artists employed in its construction. The folio wing intimation was given fro the pulpit of the Roman Catholic Chapel, Spanish-place, on Sunday evening, immediately after the sermon :—" The prayers of the confraternity are requested for a clergyman of the Irvingite community, who is about to join the Catholic Church—particularly for ten clergymen of the Protestant Church, who are about to renounce their errors, and join the Catholic Church." THE MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Sept. 17.—The United States mail steamship Baltic, Comstock commander, sailed hence to-day for New York, with a large cargo and 127 passengers. The Africa takes her departure for New York on Saturday. The Royal Mail ship Tip tree, Capt. E. Periel, of the White Star line of Austra lian packets, sails on Sunday morning with the English mails for the Australian colonies, about 300 adult pas sengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on freight. THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 17.—The Royal Mail steamship Parana, Captain Bayntun, sailed this afternoon with the West India and Pacific mails, 79 pas sengers, 5001. in specie, 4,1001. value in jewellery, and a full general cargo. The Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer Madrid, Captain Bradshaw, also lett to day with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, 22 first-class, 10 second-class, and 5 deck pas sengers, 17,685/. in specie for Cadiz, and a full cargo. Arn , ,ng the passengers are the Hon. Col. Colborne, De puty Quartermaster General, and Captain Roxby. The Pera, Captain Soy, with the next homeward India and Mediterranean mails, is expected to-morrow. The Co limbo, Captain Cooper, will convey the outward India mails on the 29th inst. The Ava, Aden, and Rajah will leave on the 30th inst. for India and China via the Cape, to take up their respective stations in the conveyance of the mails between Calcutta and Suez, Bombay and Suez, and Singapore and Labuan. The Royal Mail steamer Thames, Captain Woolward, sails on the 22d inst. for the West Indies, to assist in the intercolonial mail ser vice. The United States' mail steamship Hermann, Captain Higgins, with the German, French, and - English mails from New York, is expected to arrive off Cowes, en route to Bremen, on Friday next. PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION 011 NEW DOCKS IN THE TYNE.—At a meeting lately held at Newcastle the River Tyne Commission determined to take active mea sures for the construction of the deep River Docks, which the amount of shipping in the Tyne and the in crease in the tonnage of ships trading with the port seem to demand. Whether the contemplated docks be at Coble Deane or Hayhole may no doubt be a matter of some local interest, but that such docks should be con structed as soon as possible is a question which affects the general prosperity and navigation of the Tyne, and one which no local interests ought to be permitted to delay. BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the board of directors of the above institution was held in the committee rooms, Paternoster-row, for general business. The annual re port congratulated the members and friends on the posi tion of the institution, the directors having been able to invest a sum not required for the immediate purposes of re'ief. The amount invested at the date of last audit with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt amounted to 21,610 t. 14e. 9d. The relief administered during the past year was 3911. 10s. in per manent assistance or annuities, and 3931. Bs. in tempo ary assistance, making a total disbursement since the commencement of nearly 6,0001. amongst 84 members and 20 widow s o f mem b er s. CANALS IN INDIA.—The canal from Roorkee is now open, and it of the nativ es o f C awnpore , when on Thursday last they is impossible to describe the astonishment saw seventeen iron boats come to anchor close to the Dak Bungalow. From inquiry we find they have per formed the distance in 17 days, making an average of 40 "" per day, and have brought down from Roorkee machinery for a water mill, which is to be erected at Cawnpore. The boats are about 20 feet long and 8 feet broad, built of sheet iron, and square at both ends like a punt. The natives will now learn the use of a canal, and at the same time some hundreds of old women will learn to their cost what a water mill is, as it will be the means of taking away e mployroent from all the grain grinders in Cawnpore.—Caumpore Paper. CARRYING COKE TO NEWCASTLE !—The wonder of one generation is the every day experience of another. To " carry coals to Newcastle," was a proverb derisiv of the folly of sending commodities whither they were not wanted ; just as in ancient times "Owls to Athens," and "Enchantments to Egypt" were common sayings. Bat, in the present week, chancing to look into the Elewick foundry (Mr. Clark's), we saw a pile of coke from the Auckland coal-field, one of the first fruits of the construction of the Auckland Branch Railway. The Auckland coalowners are bent upon sending their coal, in the shape of coke, even into the Newcastle market and as it is of excellent quality, it is probable that, i they can sell it at the Tyneside price, they will succeed in their enterprise. Yet who ever expected, at one time of day, that Auckland coal would be a saleable commodity in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ?—Gateshead 06. server. LATEST 1d EWS. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 17. The Meandre has arrived with accounts from Constantinople t 9 the Bth. The squadron of Admiral Lyons is to proceed from Smyrna to Athens, and then to Malta. Khalil Paella has been named resident Minister at Athens. The works for the settlement of the frontier of Persia will not commence this year, in consequence of the approach of winter. Thousands of persons have been deprived of shelter by the fire of Ghimlek. Large quantities of silk goods and other merchandise have been destroyed. M. Paulin Talabot has arrived at Verona from the Tyrol with the director of the Lombardy railways. It is in contemplation to unite the Italian to the German lines. The works on the line from Toulon to this city are going on with TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The public attention being now thoroughly roused to look into the validity of joint-stock banks, the few observations I have to make may now find a little more attention than at any period for the last 20 years. I had 30 years' active employment in a private bank ; for very many years I made up the daily balance ; and every year the annual balance and statement. That I did so honestly, and retired with credit and honour to poverty, is a fact as well known as it is rarely practised. That some few of the present joint-stock banks are in a , sound condition I am most willing to concede, though I can, of my own knowledge, state that one of the most eminent was once wont to put forth direct falsehoods to puff their growing child. That many are not in that sound state which their directors congratulate their proprietors with I am also fully satisfied. I am not to be gulled by statements that accountants have been called in and investigations cJncluded to the satisfaction of all parties. Facts will steal out, and when these facts disclose falsehoods, what are we to think of the rest ! What are we to think of the statement lately made with respect to a late great delinquent !—" That the advances made by the Bank with which he was con nected were comparatively small and amply covered," when it came out afterwards that securities to the value of between one and two hundred thousand pounds had been obtained with the money of another victimised establishment, and handed over to this one, 'who states it to be a comparative small advance to one person. If they have many of these small advances, their shares ought to be at nil. Tho4e banks who have branches, and especially pro vincial branches, may be sound; but that is and must be a mere speculation, with such a system of inspection as is deemed sufficient by persons who only wish to believe in their prosperity till they are crushed. lam (I flatter myself perhaps) no mean authority in banking practical details.; there is no part of it with which I have not been practically conversant. I have had to con tend with the tricks of clerks, and devise means to detect and prevent. I have had to do the same with customers bringing to me forged bills for the year together, and I well know, and to my cost, what may be done to deceive the most practised in bank ing, and I unhesitatingly state that no inspection of a branch which does not embrace such a period as to allow of the realisation of every asset, whether drafts or bills, with a close attention to the mode and means by which they are realised, whether by bona fide cash payments, or by substitution of other docu ments or renewals, and also a competent examination and valuation of collateral securities is of any service or use, but is an absolute farce. Some person fully competent in every department of the bank should be sent to the branches from the parent establishment, during which time the manager should be found other occupation, and this person should remain till every asset had been realised. If this course were taken, I fear very few would be found in that position which under the present system they are pro nounced to be. I think some six or seven Joint• Stock Banks have failed within the year, generally under circumstances very discreditable, and, if properly investigated, criminal —but so anxious are people to make the best of a bad job that they sedulously hush every whisper about legal proceedings, and thus compound felony by wholesale. I have known something about the Royal British from its outset. I know that the first deposit of 10,0001. neces sary to go before the Board of Trade for their charter was lent ; if not all, the greater part of it by a large Joint-Stock Bank, the condition being that a certain person should not be in their employ (had that person been in their employ the British Bank would not have fallen). .Beginning with a lie they have gone on with a swindle—and such I ever have proclaimed, and such I ever will. It well behoves the public to look a little closer to the moral character, tried honesty; and habits of the men to whom they entrust such enormous powers ; and I maintain that they have not done so. For many years one of the leading banks had not a man of even common competency in their direction (I will not impugn their honesty), and the same thing might be said of the greater part of those who thus plunged into the management of a class of business in which it requires a life of assiduity to obtain a real practical knowledge of. A RETIRED BANKER. HIGH PRICE OP B.RIIAII. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. DEAR SlR,—Permit me to thank you most heartily for your able and well-timed article upon a dear loaf, while the Creator of all good has vouchsafed to us so bountiful _ . . I have noticed that a slight shower has been sufficient for the vampires of Mark-lane notoriety to hang for a higher price in cereals, even if it be by their eyelids, and, as a matter of course, the troop of innocent, hcsrdly done by bakers follow in the wake. Why, sir, I am paying at this time 9d. per quartern loaf, and of very questionable quality ; and certainly my loaves look as if made during a frost, they are so terribly nipped in, and I think of setting up scales and weights for the future, not being aware that bakers are any more honest than their neighbours. A new dodge has also obtained among some of our West-end bakers. It's a fact a halfpenny per loaf is now charged for bringing the bread round ; I have paid it, but my servant now fetches it. I hope and trust you will not cease to thunder away at the gates of monopoly until these bloodsuckers let go their hold, so that the poor of the land may obtain what a benevolent Creator intended, "a cheap loaf," so that there may be no complaining heard in our streets. R. L. 27, Manchester-street. TO THE EDITOR OE THE SUN. Sza,—How can the poor man beat the rogues in grain, and bring the loaf to a fair price t Fellow-men, rich men, live and let live, and do not half starve the poor. Fellow-working men there is a way to conquer those who keep up the high price of corn. I, sir, will endeavour to explain. The good harvest it has pleased God to send this year bread ought to be cheap. Fellow men, endeavour to consume the smallest quantity you can, that will cause a slackness in the market. Do that till it comes to a fair price. I think 6cl. is a fair price, and I think, within myself, if that plan is adopted the staff of life will soon be cheaper than it is now. I, my self, will try, and I hope all England will do the same. Can you not partly'live on rice, beans, fish, potatoes, or any other food that is cheap, until the price of bread comes down. We will say, for instance, a man with a large family, as I have, consuming 13 or 14 loaves a-week, make one-half the quantity do. If this plan is carried out throughout the nation, for a few weeks, the loaf will soon be at a fair price. May those who endea vour to do good be crowned with success. If you can spare room in your valuable journal, you will much oblige your bumble servant, N. J. JOHNSON, Head waiter at the Little Star. JEALoust —Yesterday morning a fine young woman, named Georgina Tomlin, aged 22 years, committed suicide by precipitating herself from the towing•path of the Regent's Canal, Cambridge-heath. She was an arti ficial flower maker, and worked for a firm in Gresham street, City. She had been keeping company with a young man, a commercial clerk, who had promised her marriage, but latterly he had forsaken her fur another girl, whom she saw with him on Sunday evening last, walking in the enclosure of Victoria Park. The cir. cumstance so preyed on her mind that she left her home in a state of great mental anguish, and in a moment of desperation she committed suicide. _ NEW DISTILLERY REGULATION.—A. short act, passed during the last session, extends a licence to distillers which has some interest to the public. Rice is now for the first time included among the several articles from which spirits may be distilled. The high price of barley for some years has set brewers and distillers in search of every substitute by which their manufacture may be economised. Potatoes, mangold wurtzel, and sugar and molasses, are all available for distillation ; but it appears to have occurred to distillers that, by mixing rice with some of these articles, a superior result might be procured, and an effectual step taken towards the more economic consumption of barley. How far the idea will answer its purpose remains to be seen ; but there is now no legal obstacle to the experiment, and worts may be brewed and spirits distilled from rice, either alone, or in mixture with any of the other articles hitherto in use. FETE AT ASTON HALL, NEAR BISMINGHAM.—A second fete chanipetre took place in the park and at Aston Hall, near Birmingham, on Monday evening. The proceeds on this occasion were appropriated for the benefit of the General Hospital, the expenditure on account of the institution having considerably exceeded its• receipts for some time past. It is impossible to ascertain the exact number assembled on the occasion, but at least 80,000 persons were assembled. An un fortunate contretemps recurred in the afternoon. The pressure at the entrance was so great that the barriers were forced, and the officials whose duty it was to collect the tickets were carried into the grounds by the persons pressing for admission, and some time elapsed ere they were able tto regain their position. In the interval some thousands of persons had entered the grounds without delivering up their tickets. The amusements consisted of dancing, for which five or six bands were provided, in addition to the bands of the Royal Artil lery and the lath Hussars, whose performances appeared to give great satisfaction. The London Orchestral Union, under the conductorship of Mr. Alfred Mellon, gave two concerts, morning and evening. In the latter a portion of the , Birmingham Choral Society took part. `Piece, the blind Sardinian, also added to the amuse ments by his performances. The entertainments con cluded by a display of fireworks from the Royal Arsenal, WoOlWich. It is expected the sum of two thousand poudds will be realised for the charity. The fete a few weeks since produced 1 ; 750/. for the Queen's Hospital. great activity. MADRID, SEPT. 16. The Gazette publishes a Royal decree which re establishes the Constitution of 1845. An additional article explains what offences o. the press are to be brought before the jury. The minimum of the duration of the session of the Cortes will be four months ; the existence o the Council of State is ratified, and the authorise. tion of the Cortes will be required for the mar riage of the sovereign or the heirs, of the crown for the sale of Royal patrimony, and for genera amnesties. The Times' Paris correspondent (Second Edi tion) says : " There was an unusual stir last night at the Prefecture of Police and at the prison of Mazas, owing to the arrest of about 30 persons belonging to a secret society. This society, composed of revolutionists of the most violent and dangerous kind, held a meeting yesterday, at which it is said that it was decided to assassinate the Empe: ror on his return from Biarritz. I understand that the police know all the members of this society, most of whom are old members of the Marianne, inhabiting the 6th, 7th, and Bth arrondissements of Paris. The majority of them are artisans. Seve ral of those arrested are very young, and appear intelligent and not uneducated. They have been placed in solitary confinement at Mazas, and are allowed to communicate with no one. The search made at their residences has brought to light nothing that compromises them, but the police are prepared to prove the existence of the society, and to bring forward witnesses of its frequent meetings. " This confirms the evidence, already pretty positive, contained in the details I sent you con cerning the Marianne, as to the existence of a secret society, whose members are sworn to at tempt the life of the Emperor. Fortunately the police are vigilant and sharp-sighted, and history is there to show us how rarely such attempts succeed. It is doubtless very difficult to form a society of this kind, into which some agent of the authorities does not find means to insinuate himself, and even when that is not the case, at the last moment it is rare that all the conspira tors preserve their firmness of purpose and of nerve. " I am assured that the French Government has given an order, dating from the Ist instant, prohibiting any further transportations to Ca yenne." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNASDA.r EVENING. The Messager de Bayonne gives the following account of the proceedings at the Villa Eugenie on the latter days of the past week and the commence ment of the present one A.. 6 en on Pridfty night in honour of Prince Adalbert and his young bride the invitations were more numerous than usual, and dancing was kept up with great spirit until one o'clock in the morning. The Empress wore a dress of plain white gae/atanne, excessively fine, having for ornament only a bouquet of bluets and diamonds placed in the centre of the corsage. Her Majesty's head-dress was a garland of the same flower intermixed with diamonds. The toilette of the Infanta consisted of a dress of white muslin, with deep flounces of black lace with rose coloured ribbon, and she was profusely decorated with diamonds. Among the guests were the Marquis and Marquise de Turgot, Marshal and Mine. Serrano, M. de Menique (the Prefect of the Gironde) and Mine. de Menique, &c. On Saturday MM. Joseph Salvador de Lequerica and Antoine Lopez de Calle, deputed by the province of Biscay to offer to the Prince Imperial the title of Biscayan, were received by the Emperor, being presented by Marshal Serrano. His Majesty re ceived them with the greatest courtesy and conducted them to the Empress, who thanked them for the flatter• hag compliment offered to the prince her son. The de putation, after an appropriate address, handed the offi cial document to the Emperor. His Majesty replied that he was very grateful to the Queen for allowing the deputation to be presented to him ; that he deeply felt this mark of sympathy for the Empress ; that such de monstrations could not fail to strengthen the bands which unite the two countries ; and that he was happy to think that the Prince Imperial had also Spanish blood in his veins, for he (his Majesty) had always en tertained for that chivalrous people as much affection as esteem. The two gentlemen afterwards had the honour of dining with their Majesties, from whom while at table they were the object of the most flattering attentions. After dinner, they had the honour of being taken into a private salon by their Majesties, where they conversed together for more than an hour. The Emperor with the warmest interest inquired into the state of the crops, the position of the working classes, and the resources and wants of the country. At the conclusion of the confer ence the Emperor presented to each of the gentle men the cross of the Legion of Honour, and told them at the same time that he had given orders for three vases to be manufactured at Sevres., orna mented with portraits of the Emperor, the Em press, and the Prince Imperial, which were to be offered to the general deputation of Biscay, as a mark of the gratitude of their Majesties for the souvenir given to their son by the representatives of that noble province. On Sunday, after hearing mass at the church of Biarritz, their Majesties went to the bull fight. The Emperor and Empress were in an open carriage and four, without escort. Two other carriages and four followed with their suite. The Emperor and Empress stopped until the con clusion of the scene. On Monday their Majesties passed through Bayonne on their way to Bidache to visit the ruins of the chateau of the Dukes de Grammont." _ _ BOURSE, Sept. 17.—The following were the lasi quotations Cash. ft., e. End of Month. 4i per Cents (id) 92 75 —f. —a 3 per Cents 7O 50 70 75 New Loan 7O 50 42Q Bank Shares 4,125 Roman Credit M0bi1ier......1,725 Austrian « Belgian Fives Spanish Threes , .... , Fiedmontese(s) . 9l Home Debt ........ RAILWAYS-708 CASH. ft . 0 fr. C. Orleans ......... ...... 1,360 Western... 943 75 Northern Lyons -....1,345 New Ditto Mediterranean 1795 Grand Central Lyons Geneva ?'sate Cetto Austrian Com.. ..... 875 The Moniteur of yesterday announces that Mar shal Serrano had presented to the Emperor and Empress at Biarritz the deputation charged with the official act by which the Junta of Biscay recog nised the right of the Imperial Prince to enjoy the prerogatives and privileges attached to the citizen ship of the province. The Emperor, who received the deputation very graciously, replied that he was very grateful to the Queen of Spain for allowing the deputation to be presented to him ; that he was extremely touched by this proof of sympathy on the part of th e pro vinee for the E m p res s and her son ; that such de monstrations could not but s t rengt h en the ties which two nations Prince ;and thathad he s wwahsichhaapl;yeactloy u th n i i n te k d the that he Imperial Spanish blood in his veins, for he had ever felt as much affection as esteem for that warlike and chi valrous people. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 14th, in the Condi tutionnel, says :—" The stat e m en t ma d e by severa l journals that the residue of the loan of 30 millions of thalers, amounting to 8,700,000 thalers, is to be employed in increasing. the Prussian army is com pletely unfounded. A bill will be submitted to the chambers to devote this sum to the construe tion and fitting out of three large iressells of war A. letter from St. Petersburg states that the Em press Dowager of Russia will start for Italy about the end of the present month. She will pass through Berlin in the beginning of Oct. Plans are now under consideration at the Ministry of War for the complete reconstruction of the fortifi cations of Magdeburg. That place requires exten sion in consequence of the increas e of the tinhabi tants, but the present fortifications prevent any new houses from being built." Another letter from. Berlin of the same date says :—" We understand that a note Igo been ad dressed to the foreign powers relative to the affair of Neufchatel. The object of it is not merely to reserve the rights of Prussia, but it is said that the Prussian government con3iders the definitive sat tlement of the question according to treaties as in:, dispensable in the interest of the peace of Europe. ITALY. TURIN, Sept. 12.—The following are the words of the decree by which the Duchess Regent Of Parma orders the raising of the state asie g e in her capital f— " Art. 1. The state of siege ordered by So vereigii de• cree of the 17th of March, 1856, No. 121, in the coi n ' mune of Parma, and in all the rural communes adjoini4 the same shall cease on the 10th of the present month. " Art. 2. On the day following, all those dispositions of the Sovereign decree of the 10th of June, 1856, No. 226, which in consequence of the proclamation of th e state of the siege bad remained in abeyance, sha ll return in vigour for the said communes. " Art. 3. The affairs relative to the state of sie g e, which on the said 10th of September shall not ye t have been irrevocably decided, and which may be pending before the military authoriOes, shall be referred to the mixed commission or to the ordinary tribunals, accord ing to Art. 5 of the decree of the 10 th of Jun e, 18551 above quoted. " Art. 4. The Minister of Grace and Justic e, and oar Private Cabinet Secretary, Minister of State , Presided'. of the Military Department, are charge d with the execu-' tion of the present decree. " LOUISA. " Given at Piacenza, Sept. 7, 1856." The Monitore Toscano, in alluding to the mis sion of the Russian General Stackelberg to Parma, confirms the rumour that the late measures adopted by the Duchess were mainly recommended by hinn. The following is the substance of the words attri• buted to him :—" The Czar has felt the deepest sympathy for the Duchess on the occasion of the trials to which she has been exposed ; he takes the greatest interest in her prosperity ; he advises her . to persevere in her wise and mild intentions ; and, should she meet with obstacles, the Court of Russia is determined to support her with all its in• fluence." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 13th have arrixed. A council of ministers had been held under the presidency of the Queen, and in it, it was said, the draft of the proposed new constitution had been read to her Majesty. The Bishop of Urgel) ;ig. n. exile at the Balearic islands, bad received p ert ' ' ' sion to return to Spain. M. Costina and M. B°(13 had returned to Madrid. Marshal Narvae2 bad caused action to be brought against the Nacion for publishing a letter from Loja in which h e consider himself libelled. A band of eight or ten men 114 appeared in the province of Burgos, b ut the caP; tain-general had published a bando declaring and, such of them as might be taken should b e shot, alTe says one of the papers, they " are sure t° be exterminated." At the great fair in B isca y , th ;c , was a large supply of wheat, and prices fell. e , vintage on the whole, in all the kingdom, is rePr Y rented to be favourable. The works of the railwa between Barcelona and Martorell were nearly O a ' eluded. The King of Sardinia has aointed Lieu tenalu i General Durando, late ministe pp r of war, to the P°_,' of envoy extraordinary and minister p lenipotow tiary at Constantinople. THE INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDA.Y, , By the Peninsular and Oriental C om Pa i l .: screw-steamer Pera, Captain Soy, with the 1131'1 and Mediterranean mails, we have dates froin Alexandria, Sept. 5, Malta 9, and Gibraltar 13. The Pera brings 63 passengers, 36 of whom a r s first-class, and a cargo consisting principally. . °- silk, raisins, &c., in all 4,37 9 packages. D urin the voyage this packet spoke, on the 9 th in st., the bark Cecilia, steering east ; on the 11 th passe the screw steamer Grecian, in lat. 35 30 north, g* 430 east, steering west, 14 south-east ; off Cal° St. Vincent passed a large steamer towing another, apparently with loss of funnel, standing south-east ; also exchanged signals with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw-steamer Alhambra, 2 0 minutes N. of Cape St. Vincent, and when abreast of Lisbon observed a large paddlewheel steamer coming out of the Tagus, supposed to be the As a, with the outward Brazilian mails. On the 15th, 35 minutes south-east of Cape Finisterre, sh e passed a large screw-steamer with red funnel, Sur posed to be one of the Liverpool and Mediter; ranean steam-ships ;on the 17th, in the chops °. l the Channel, saw a British line - of battle sill? steering north-west. The passengers from Calcutta by the Pera ha ve arrived in England in less time than ever yet ,ac complished, the average speed for the entire di°. taboo being 104 knots per hour. The Nubia COu veyed them on the other side the Isthmus. , t Intelligence from Gibraltar is to the 1301111% Her Majesty's steam-sloop Centaur, six days from Plymouth, had arrived ; also the ritish trallaP ° ` r ship Rhea ; the Sylvia, with stores for Gibralta, and Spithead, from Constantinople. The st e3 / transport Prince Arthur, with troops for Spithead; arrived from _Malta and Cephalonia, on the 13th ; the British steamer Frankfort, six , and a-citlaf,yeb' days from Liverpool, reached Gibraltar on t he N ils, the Indus, with the outward India and Chin nl3 left Gibraltar on the 10th ; the British steam s ; Dom Affonso, eight days from Glasg,ow, wa ti s Gibraltar on the 9th. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES COMMISSION. Balvrer CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 5. —Sir Henry if. arrived here the day he was expected, user,',ll Tuesday last. A few days before him P;110, Koller, the Austrian Commissioner, a rrived L ao wise, so that now only the Russian an d Sardin i o Commissioners are wanting to make the comratto, for the regulation of the Principalities cot°,P„ u ld It is, however, not to be expected that it 0 "" begin its work immediately, as there are st ill seve. ral points to be settled before this can be d° l3e. o re The nearer the time for this aroac h es the In litf it becomes app the that the question is frilligo with many difficulties, which the Conferene,%s Paris when it decided on sending this ccmmi s ' on g never seemed to have considered. The first sr° the the difficulties in the way of the commissi on is the complete evacuation of the Principalities hi t 00 Austrian troops. Although the treaty is S ilerl d this point, yet the general opinion expres s ° • r it that it would be not only acting against the sew of the treaty, but against common sense, to &B. o f a free and unfettered expression of the Wis h t ill the Danubian Principalities while they are v• under the pressure of a foreign occupation. 00 cording to the convention concluded between t or Western Powers and Turkey, this latter pu n 0 must be evacuated in six months after the excha n g e of the ratifications of the treaty, which would about the end of October. France and Engls° with all their large armies, siege trains, and o th9 materiel, took scarcely more than half the tif i t e allowed to them by this convention, and - even ft, tl :,; sia has quitted the Turkish territory. The Austr'" a " troops in the Principalities alone have as yet gil t % ) no signs of any intention to quit their comfortah't quarters. There were, indeed, promises held ° ,1 3 11 0 that the evacuation would be completed by . 0 month of September, bat hitherto nothing liar babe done which would prove that this promise is " c) realised. NEW AUSTRIAN Pon IN THE ADRIAML--The b eg of Pola is about to be raised to the rank of a navel ,li sb s of the first order, and the Austrian Governme°•.-0,1 charged an American engineer with the works re c l i ai n r oo there. He is to receive an annual salary of 2 ,' at e florins, and at the termination of the works, of 000 to be completed in three years, a further sum bui. e florins. The Archduke Maximilian, who is at th e u ite of the Imperial navy, uses every effort to increase A, strength, and put it on a par with that of Sardiniehost naval school is to be established at Fiume, the t • stone of the building having been laid in Ma re ' — 1,. 3 4 Austria is endeavouring to become the first naval P O7- of Italy. s FATAL ACCIDENT.—OVERTURNING Or A tiv , ''"" 0 0 CART IN THE LEA RIVER.—An accident took P la— or tbr Friday near Old Ford, Bow, by which Mr. Arms/I'n se t sen., proprietor of the Fox and Hounds public-bo Pos. Bow-bridge, lost his life. Mr. Armsworth bad take° o 0 session of several plots of ground in the Marshes beto,e eoo the Temple Mills and Bow. He had visited the P i rx „ accompanied by his son and one or two of 11° 1 0 og people, and was returning in a light chaise cart along the banks of the Lea, near King's lock, when, c o me accident, the vehicle and horse were capsized i n to ed water, immersing the whole of the party. A ll vier tp• in, to get out in safety except Mr. Armswortb, who Il e t i n y pily had been thrown underneath a raft of floatoo h e r, and he was not got out for some time ; ,0 ;, t 1 then gone. Mr. Arinsworth was 60 years of ager;his his melancholy fate has caused much regret wi11 .4 friends. An inquest has been held, and a T er " -- g , Accidental death returned. 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