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

,------------...—.1/4.,---.-----.._ ARCHERY MATCH.—SPECIA.L NOTICE. —lt having been 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 next, it would be more agreeable to archers generally that "the highest • score," rather than " the bast gold," should win the prize, it has bees decided that this-point shall be settled by the m ajbrity of the competitors on the ground. It is also tound to be necessary to keep the sub criation list open till 11 o'clock on Saturday. Should any 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 LLLWALL, Honorary Secretary. Offices, 35, Ludgate-1141, ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING THE LADY OF LYONS. Followed by TWICE KILLED. Tn conclude with A BALLET DIVERTIMEMENT. ROYAL PRINCEEWS THEATRE. coder the Nlvistgement of QQr. Cn aLES RzAs. Tat i F,VFINTCcq. MUSIC Fl kTH CHARMS. After whim, PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Fivira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To concluda with A PRINCE FO% AN TIOLR THF.ATRM ROYAL, HAYMARICY.T. Under qtl Management of Mr. Buckstona, Tll'N FWENT.NG, AS YOU LIKE IT. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. To conclude with THE SPANISH SZEJEANT. ROYAL LYCEUM TrIBATICE. Under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, BELTIIEGOR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Madeline, airs. Chas. Dillon. To be followed by W. Brough's new Burlesque, PERDITA, THE ROYAL MILKMAID ; or, a Winter's Tale, Florizel, Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolzar) ; Autolycus, Mr. J. L. Toole; Hermione, Mrs. Buckingham White; Leontes, Mr. S. Calhaem ; Poll/rine/4 King of Bithvnia, Mr. Wm. Broual (his first appearance on any stage) ; Fast Time, Miss Harriet Gordon ; Per tits., Miss Marie Wilton ; Antigonus, Mr. Barrett. Miss Rosina Wright, and a grand Corps de Ballet. - ss. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. ls. Commence at 7. Hali price to all parts at 9. Box Office open daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIg EVEIs'ING, IRELAND AS IT 13. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which THE IRISH TUTOR. To conclude with OUR GAL. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Seventh Week ! Shakspere's RICTIIRD THE THIRD, with the introductioh of horses. The equestrian iliuqtrations imagined by Mr. W. Cooke. Death of White Surrey. (Vide lillustrated News," of Saturday, ith ) 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. ST. Cooke, jun. N.B. Yale "Illustrated News of Sept. 6th for the Death of White Surrey. HIGH. WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ting DAY—MOTII. 9 min. aft. 4—Evening 28 min. aft. 4 Ta-MORROW—Morn. 47 min. aft. 4—Evening 9 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER—Strx OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 18. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM 67 —highest since noon yesterday. 5 t —lowest this morning and during the night. 62 —this day at noon. BAnomirm, 29.87. Wiwn. W.S.W.—Light, with unsettled weather. Heavy rain the morning. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition of The Sun, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to obgArun that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun Office, 112, Strand. r-e C~ lfl ~~ LO.)IDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1856. 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 18 VT, 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 Deus ex, machincl, no recognised authority, ready and willing to avert the fearful consequences that may arise by the sacrifice of some hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling. The Bank of. England cannot, in jus tice to its shareholders, adopt what the 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 %mall proportion, one-sixth, of the entire specie stored in the cellars at Threadneedle-street, an d 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 classei 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 7,0001., 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 havebeen little more than 4,100,0001• our outgoings have amounted to 7,165,693/., —and that merely shows the defi ciency so far as India and China are concerned, w ith o ut any reference to the heavy Continental 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 gc i n the 12 months from July, 1856, to July, 1857, a total of 8,000,000/. will have to be paid to India mpulse ; it is the crime of a person in the full possession of his senses, and after twenty, gene rally not a first offence. The man who has proved himself unfitted to be at large among other per sons' goods, may, it would seem, reasonably be placf.4 where he cannot touch them. With much hesitation we might admit, in some cases, say, if the first offence were committed in adult years, liberation on responsible bail. If experience proves, as it has done, that the adult thief is a perpetual tax on society, society must have the right to get rid of the burden. We have leaped from hanging for a few pence to brief im prisonments ; may it not be better to adopt a medium course, and to inflict what cannot be 9.11e,d a savage or vengeful punishment, while it would be an effectual prevention. Then as to the expense. It would, of course, be great, but we must bear in mind the great expense to the community of every thief at large. He proba 4 bly costs the community much more than his prison support would do. Besides, it is not 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 ones 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. China in excess of that which was paid in the preceding 12 months." If this estimate be at all verified we shall have no less than 18,000,0001. to provide for in actual specie—an amount that will bring the circulating medium of the country to the lowest ebb. , Are we to wait patiently until the panic has arrived, or should we adopt immediate measures to mitigate the evil, so as to be let down as easily as possible ? There can be but little doubt as to the answer that should be returned to this im portant interrogatory. Any man of ordinary in telligence would desire to avert the mischief while there is yet time to do so. Unfortunately, how ever, the currency quacks have sufficient influ ence to retard, if not altogether to prevent, the remedial steps indispensable. They talk a vast deal of balderdash, sufficient to puzzle persons who have not taken the trouble to investigate the subject in all its varied details. 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 families is hurrying on the nation to the brink of 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, : 11., 21., 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 30,000,000 1 . 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. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS IN BRIGHTON. -~- k Prom the Brighton Gazette.) The Ulm of visitors to Brighton during the last seven or eight days has been greater than we ever re member in so short a period of time, and we Cat carry our recollection back 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 acme of aristocratic patronage for Brighton, the number yf visitors was not one tenth part so great as we are .n 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 ht 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, extending 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 get 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, must 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. It has, been resolved to establish a corn market at Do wn`..iam, Norfolk, on Fridays, the first market to be held, on the 26th inst. The Prince de joinville is now on a tour through the Lake district. • • 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 Panmnre 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 Marquis 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 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. The Rev. Dr. Livingston, the celebrated African tra- 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 yeller, has arrived tz deat the Mauritius. Thls gentle. man has completed in his last tour a journey through southern tropical Africa from Loando to Quillemain In the east. Celestine 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. THIA CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT.—Among the a;,•ts of the late session was one to continue the °or- ;o propose. Politics are pretty well banished 'mai the discussion of the subject—the statesmen and philanthropists of all parties, indeed we might say of all countries, being willing to communicate rtr d t Practices Prevention Act of 18M to the 10th Aug, liext year, and thenceforth to the end of the then nexi session of Parliament. 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- 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 Leave system, but are deafened with the complaints ___ ;raffia. 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 delivering an address after the ceremony. Harrowgate, weunderstand, 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. It is stated that the suspicions referred to yesterday as having 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 meating.—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 HOLISM—The leasehold model lodging houses of the society for improving the condi- Ilion 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 Espana says that the Government has refused passports to Marshal Narvaez, "so ' long as internal affairs yet pending remain undecided." The offer of a diplomatio 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 bard ; and, supported as he is by the French Emperor, hA may give Queen TkahiallA mow, *roublo than sla imagines. 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 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. ®Madame Grisi and Signor Mario, who had been stay ing at the Reiyal 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 23d 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 Gazette, 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 noconfirmation 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 nf oln,nnni 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 excitement of late, has been summarily 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 following intimation was given from 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. 'l7.—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 niifteight. 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, 17,0351. in specie for Cadiz. and a full carzo; Atnang the passengers are- the Hon. Col. Colborne, De puty Quartermaster General, and Caelain Roxby. The Pera, Captain Soy, with the next homeward India and Mediterranean mails, is expected to-morrow. The Co lombo, 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 malts between Calcutta and Suez, Bombay and Suez, and Singapore and Labuan. The Royal Mail steamer Thames, Captain Woolward, sails on the 22d in , t. for the West Indies, to assist in the intercolonial mail ser• vice. The United States' mail steamship Hernaann, 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 Or NEVf 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 immed i a te purposes of re ief. The am oun t invested at the date of last audit with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt amounted to 21,6101. 14s. 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 6,000/. amongst 84 members and 20 widows o f me mbers. CANALS IN INDIA.—The canal from Roorkee is now open, and it is impossible to describe the astonishment of the natives of Cawnpore, when on Thursday last they 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 toss p er 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 employment from all the grain grinders in Cawnpore.—Cawnpore 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. Bet, 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 ?-04tteeltead Ob server. 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. 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 twe- 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 nature of boys, is a tempter and trainer of another to thieving. If the magistrates will also be more strict in enforcing on parents the payment of a 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 ie 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 are 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 susper.t, we watch, and we exercise, as we think, in this but c)mmon 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 to) frecpently dis missed. Only the other day a young man was, with difficulty, prevented from committing suicide, because every effort to obtain employment 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. A MISSING CLERGYMAN.—On Sunday morning, H wh arri en a t g h t e o z a n t gr t e h g e a u t congregat ion l a s h s o e u m r, b l t e h d e r in e was th e nparishn i c s h t e u r r c t h o ,. conduct the service, and, after waiting some time, the people had to return home, wondering what had be come of the resident 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.—Cumierland Pacquet. WHERE JOIN SADLEIR WAS FOUND.—On visiting Ismpstead Heath this week a correspondent informs us tie 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 COALBROOKDALE.—At the second meeting of the committee organised for the pur f nee 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 iu 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, Broseley, 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 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 TRAM' OF LIVERPOOL.—LIVERPOOL, Manday.— 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 tone, against 107 ships and 54,856 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 3,026, with a tonnage of 1,731,378 tons, against 3,015, and 1,491,592 tons in the year 1855, showing an increase of 11 ships and 239,786 tons. BANAGHER GREAT ANNUAL FAIR. BANAGHER, 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 ll f short t o o o n f fi t c h e e d i r t r o e q purchasers s . w h T o was appropriated to the sale of horses, which or many years has not been equalled. Supply day large and esf a superior description. It is gratifying to record the great improvement the country generally is undergoing, rand 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 which pri ces were g iven from 301. to 451. unters were in great request, and sold from 601. to 1201. Mr. Clarke, of Portumna, sold one et 1101., and another at 651. Mr. Sherlock got 70 guineas for a four-year-old Freney. Rei. Mr. Egan got 60 guineas for a horse that was offered to be sold last wee ka s t o s l. ol fo . r a M th r. re ll e y y r- o Kenney, l d colt. c o t r , e such Castle, a g ob tainedoodfair has not been in Banagher fo r y ears, and all unble mished horses had several bidders. The business of -enera 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 181., being fully 31. a-head more than the same class brought last year. We are not aware that we have seen quite an other course suggested for thediminutionof 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 ? Thieves would think twice ere 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 even contemplated; perpetual deprivation of li b3rty for a small theft, it may be, it seems too barbarous to be thought of. But a different course is proposed for the youthful criminal. Ic is the thief for whom, as a class, no fair excu se can be offered that we would confine. N o one is compelled by want to steal in England—we have poor laws and pay poor rates, and the man old enough to understand this has no excuse for hi s villany. Theft is not like any of the crimes com i mitted under the impulse of ungovernable natural THE SUN, LOINDON, I TIVURSriA.Y SEPrEivinElt iB, 1856 JOIN'-,STOCK BANKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIIT.N. SlR,—The public attention being now thoroughly roused to look into the validity of joint-stock banks, the few observations I hate to itittlie may now find a little more nttention 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 hals.hee arid 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-stook 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 concluded 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 I—" 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 bad 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. Those banks who have branches, and especially pro vincial byanches, 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 th• 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 round 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 sedulouslyhush 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. amnesties. SIGH' PRICE OP BREAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR SlB,—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 a harvest. 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, hardly done by bakers follow in the wake. Why, sir, I am paying at this time 9 d. per quartern loaf, and f 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. LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 17. The Meandre hag . arrived with accounts from Constantinople to the Bth The squadron of Admiral Lyons is to proceed from Smyrna to Athens, and then to Malta. Khalil Pacha has been named resident Minister at Athens. The works for the settlement of the frontier•of Persia will not commence this year, in consequenfle of the approach of winter. Thousands of person 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 she Tyrol with the director of the Lombardy railways. It is in contemplation to unite the Italian to the German lines. The works on the Liao from Toulon to this city are going on with great activity. MADRID, SEPT. 16. The Gazette publishes a Royal decree which re establishes the Constitution of 1845. An additional article explains what offences of 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 of the Council of State is ratified, and the authorin -1 tiou 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 general P.....•••• ...0 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 Ihimself, and even when that is not the case, at the last moment it is rare that all the conspira ors 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, WEDNIISDA.T 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 : " At the ball given on Friday 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 tarlatannc, 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 Target, Marshal and Mine. Serrano, M. de Menique (the Prefect of the Gironde) and Mme. 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 ing 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 bad 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 othe'r 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 last quotations : Cash. fr. a. End of Month, 4i per Cents (xd) 92 75 —f. —O. 3 per. Cents 7O 50 70 75 New Loan 7O 50 Bank Shares 4,125 Roman .. . ........ Credit Mobilier 1,725 Aust rian Bolgian Fives Piedinontese (5) fot :l Debt Thre . e .L... RenwAys—ros CAM. f r. fr. 0- Orleatui ...•...« 1,360 Western 943 75 Northern Lyons 995 Strasburg —,... 1,345 New Ditto Mediterranean 1,7 95 Grand Central Teste Austrian Corn 875 .^— f 6 = Geneva . The m o „i teur o f 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 rower nised the right of the Imperial Prince to enjoy tlie 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 the pro vince for the Empress and her son ; that such de monstrations could not but strengthen the ties which already united the two nations ; and that he was happy to think that the Imperial Prince had 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 Consti tutionnel, says :—" The statement made by several 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- TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. --- SIR,—How can the poor man beat the rogues in grain, and bring the loaf to a fair price ? 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 gold 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 f tir price. I think 6d. 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. T, 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 curried out throughout the nation, for a few week., the loaf w:I1 noon 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 humble •servant, N. J. JOHNSON, Head waiter at the Little Star. JEALOUSY. —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 for another girl, whom she saw with him on Sunday evening last, ealking 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 cession, 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 Hes will answer its purpose remains to be seen ; but there is now no legal obstacle to the experiment, and worts may be bre wed and spirits distilled from rice, either alone, or in mixture with any of the other articles hitherto in use. FETE AT ASTON HALL, NEAR BIRMINGHAM.—A. second fete champetre 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 occurred 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 10th 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. Picco, 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 pounds will be realised for the charity. The fete a few weeks since produced 1,750/. for the Queen's Hospital, tion and fitting out of three .large Yes& of war A letter from St. Petersburg states tha t the Em press Dowager of Russia will start for It aly about the end of the present month. She 'will pass through BL'rlin in the beginning of Oct. Plans are now un3er 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 increase of the [inhabi tants, but the presen t fortifications prevent any new houses from being built." Another letter from Berlin of the same date says :—" We understand that a note has been ad dressed to the foreign powers relative to the affair of Neufchatel. The object Gf it is not merely is reserve the rights of Prussia, but it is said that tke Prussian government considers the definitive set tlement of the que stion according to , treaties as in dispensable in the interest of the peaue of Europe." ITALY. TURIN, Sept. 12.—The following are the words of the decree by which the Duchess Regent of Parma, orders the railing of the state of siege in her capital : de• "Art. 1. The state of siege , ordered by Sovereign tree of the 17th of March, 18,56, No. 121, in the com mune of Parma, and in all the rural communes adjoining the same shall cease on the 10th of tL e present month. " Art. 2. On the day following, a:I tbose dispositions of the Sovereign decree of the 10th of jone, 1856, No. 226, which in consequence of the proclamation of the state of the siege had remained in abeyance, Shall return in vigour for the said communes. " Art. 3. The affairs relative to the state of sic ge, which on the said 10th of September shall not yet din e b een irrevocably decided, and which may be peng before the military authorities, shall be referred to th mixed commission or to the ordinary tribunals, accord- • ing to Art. 5 of the decree of the 10th of June, 1855, above quoted. " Art. 4. The Minister of Grace and Justice, and our Private Cabinet Secretary, Minister of State, President of the Military Department, are charged with the execu tion of the present decree. LOUISA. " Given at Piacenza , Sep t. 7, 1856." to the mis - The Monitors Toseano, in; alluding Parma, sion of the Russia n General Stackelberg to confirms the rumour that the late measures adopted by the Duchess Were mainly - recommended by him. The following is the substance of the words attri buted to him :—" The Czar has felt the deepest sym p a thy for the Duchess on the occasion of the trials to which she h as been exposed. he takes the gre atest interest in her prosperity ; he advises h.st to persevere in her wise and mild intentions ;rt and', should she meet with obs tacles, the Cou its in or Russia is determined to suppo rt her with all . fluence." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 13 th have arrif e ed. A council of ministers had been held under to presidency of the Queen, and in it, it was said, the draft of the proposed new constitution had been read to her Majesty. The Bisho p of Urge', irr exile at the Balearic islands,h a d received pertnio' sion to return to Spain. M. Costina and M . I t°di c t had returned to Madrid. Marshal NarVao4 ha caused action to be brought against the Naciatt for publishing a letter from Loja which he consider; himself libelled. A band of eight or ten men 119 ' appeared in the province of Burgos, but the 0 , 0 ; tarn-general had published a bando declaring tued such of them as might be taken should be shot, an d' I says one of the papers, they " are sure to "; exterminated." At the great fair in Biscay, til r e was a large supply of wheat, and prices fall. "-'l 3 . vintage on the whole, in all the kingdom, is rer muted to be favourable. The w orks of the railwe.' b e tween Barcelona and Martorell w ere nearly Ow eluded. The King of Sardinia has appointed Lieutenst General Durando, late minist er of war, to the Pu,, of envoy extraordinary and minister plenpe°'. tiary at Constantinople. THE INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAT, MlDSlarrr. By the Peninsular and Orient al CoiraPan'is 3 d f . a screw-steamer Pera, Captain Soy, with the In and Mediterranean mails, we have dates fro' Alexandria, Sept. 5, Malta 9, and Gibraltar 13.ar The Pera brings 63 passenge rs, 36 of w horn l first-class, and a cargo consisting rinciP silk, raisins, Arc., in all 4,379 packages. Au the the voyage this packet spoke, on the 9th lost., the bark Cecilia, steering east - on the 11th pas3el scre w steamer Grecian, in' lat. 35 30 north, long' 4 30 east, steering wes t, 14 south-east ; off ,CIIPG St. Vincent passed a large s teamer towing anotilert a pparently with loss of funnel, stand in g south-ear it d a also exchanged signals with the Peninsular al ti Oriental Company's screw - steam er Alhambra, '3° minutes N. of Cape St. Vincent, and when abrea et of Lisbon observed a large paddlewheel steameT coming out of the Tagus, supposed to be the Avonri with the outward Brazilian mails. On the 15th, 35 minutes south-east of Cape Finisterre, she passed a large screw-steamer with red funnel, O dite r posed to be one of the L iver p ool and M of r anean steam-ships ;on the 17 th , in the chops the Channel, saw a British line -of battle 014 s t eer ing north-west. hae ve The passengers from Calcutta by the Para arrived in England in less time than ever Yk4, s complished, the average speed for the entirel' twee being 10i knots per hour. Th e Nubia COw veyed them on the other side the Isthmus. t, e r; Intelligence from Gibraltar is to th e 13th ips o Her Majesty's steam-sloop Centaur , s ix days fr°o Plymouth, had arrived ; also the British transPe,,,,, ship Rhea ; the Sylvia, with stores f or Gibratl'l— and Spithead, from Constantinople. The et eau c r transport Prince Arthur, with troops fo r Spitheab arrived from Malta and Cephalonia, o n the 13,.tter the British steamer Frankfort, six an d a-q 11th, days from Liverpool, reached Gibraltar on the the Indus, with the outward India and Chine °tier left Gibraltar on the 10th • the British stea-9,t Dom Affonso, eight days fr ' Glasgoivf Gibraltar on the 9th. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES COMMISSION. livef CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. s.—Sir Henry /01 arrived here the day he was expected,nsßitleron Tuesday last. A few days before Ilina lioller, the Austrian Commissioner, a rrive ima m . e i a m wise, so that now only the Russian a nd Sard.l sier, Commissioners are wanting to make the complete, for the regulation of the Principalities cersE ou ld It is, however, not to be expected that it S u eve • begin its work immediately, as there are still 0 ral points to be settled before this can be d on ore ore The nearer the time for this approaches th: n oit it becomes apparent that the question is 1111— of with many difficulties, which the Conferen,..to Paris when it decided on sending this coresol'etig never seemed to have considered. The first 3 ; 133 , the difficulties in the way of the commissio n '''' the complete evacuation of the Principaiitieo by 00 Austrian troops. Although the treaty is silo: d is, this point, yet the general opinion e xpress ir it that it would be not only acting against the ° l i fer of the treaty, but against common sense, s'' of Ashestio a free and unfettered bxpression of the ! the Danubian Principalities while the y are AO. under the pressure of a foreign occupation. t he cording to the convention conc luded between „v Western Powers and Turkey , th is latter soiol'o,"0 must be evacuated in six months after the ex.cllo,lo of the ratifications of the treaty, which w oulu about the end of October. France and Engl a 'b e t with all their large armies, siege trains, and ta me materiel, took scarcely more than half the allowed to them by this convention, and even 88 sia has quitted the Turkish te • intory. The Austrl— ;van 87 i troops in the Principalities alone have as Yet gble 43 no signs of any intention to quit their comforts et 39& quarters. There were, indeed, promises 110,1 d out that the evacuation would be completed 071000 month of September, but hitherto nothing b. 145,„ be done which would prove that this promise is realised. NEW AUSTRIAN PORT IN THE ADRIATLO.'"' -- ":1 of rt o Pola is about to be raised to the rank of a na vy 'l ° o 6 f the first order, and the Austrian Governoreet.rej chargedthere.: an American engineer with the works reqlllooo florins He is to receive an annual salary 0f,, 9 : are to be and at the termination of the works, vi ol 00 0 completed in three years, a further sum of 0 ",,,,, t d florins. The Archduke Maximilian, who is at the ' - ito of the Imperial navy, uses every' effort to me finis • strength, and put it on a par with that of Sardisilb'oet naval school is to be established at Fiume,, t b h e l a st stone Au of the building having been laid in M al l Wet Austria is endeavouring to become the first nave l P 9 of Italy. ar, FATAL ACCIDENT.—OVERTURNING OF A fr og s 4 , 0 CART IN THE LEA RIVER.—An accident took Pt-ortbt Friday near Old Ford, Bow, by which Mr. Ariti'L'osep sen., proprietor of the Fox and Hounds pub li ,, — n - per Bow-bridge, lost his life. Mr. Armsworth bad ta"- e t - 06 esa session of several plots of ground in theMarshee be ' lace the Temple Mills and Bow. He had visited the P accompanied by his son and one or two of his /lea people, and was returning in a light ch aise cart 910030 the banks of the Lea, near King's look, when, 13 Y, t he a ccident, the vehicle and horse were capsized ii3"%geti wa t er , immersing the whole of the party. All tato or to get out in safety except Mr. Armswort b, wh° 1113 tiev pily had been thrown underneath a raft of floa t i i f f f Ao ber, and he was not got out for some time ; tia then gone. Mr. Armsworth was 60 years c ' f age ' ib b il his ri melancholy fate has caused much regret ame l)(4 of f ,, ends. An inquest has been held, and a verdict Accidental death " returned. for, t gnarl Even Chan have -to di, thi hum that whic Witb is ei coin BUCC Prel of al tide Choi NSc Gi . B 1 St TI quie The Whic latio 60. to E "Wee Mil Ma ha` Ex Bo]