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

MONEY 'MARKET AND COMIVIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, and prices of all descriptions were without change. The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales, 500 for export, and 2,000 on speculation, compris ing 200 Bahia 6 d. ; 400 Egyptian, 61d. to 81d. ; and 1,500 Surat, 4.? 5 d. to sfd. per lb. The Rail way Share Market exhibited a dull aspect, with little change in prices. Commercial advices from Antwerp contain the trade report of last week, which exhibits no trans actions of importance, but the tendency of prices in articles of consumption, after some fluctuation, is of an upward character. In coffee the sales of the Dutch Commercial Society at Amsterdam bad given firmness to the market. The sugar market continued quiet, with no great amount of business doing, and the stocks in the entrepot of refined sugar were increasing. In wool there was an active business doing, and prices were well maintained, chiefly in Buenos Ayres and English wools. Accounts from Constantinople, by way of Mar seilles, of the Bth inst., mention that the concession of the proposed line of railway from Smyrna to Aiddin has been granted to Mr. Wilkin, the repre sentative of an English Company. The particulars of the concession are stated to be very favourable, giving full power to the Company to open certain coal mines in the vicinity of the line, and to hold good for fifty years. Mr. Wilkin has also solicited the concession of constructing a line from Andrino ple, but the result has not transpired. The formation of a National Bank in Turkey continues to engage the attention of the Ottoman Government, and also of the local capitalists. A financial association is reported to be in course of construction, to obtain, if possible, the privilege of establishing the required institution, for which pur pose 229,000,000 piastres have been collected. To this sum is added 40,000,000 piastres subscribed by a party of Armenian merchants. On the 26th ult. the principal shareholders met to name a commis sion of twelve for negotiating with the Government, and among the number were M.M. Baltazzi, J. Alleon, and Black. This combination if successful will, it is expected, soon be able to improve the finances of the country, and extricate them from their present embarrassed situation. The active demand for silver has caused a fur ther advance of id. por oz. in the price of the article, the dollars brought by the recent West Indian steamer having been sold at 61id. per oz. No abatement bas yet taken place in the demand for discounts in Lombard-street and at the na tional establishment, and fears are expressed of its probable continuance, as on the 18th of this month the final instalment of 20 per cent., or 1,000,0001., Will have to be provided on the last loan of 5,000,0001. negotiated in May. This day a meeting of shareholders in the London and Paris Bank took place at the London Tavern, the object of which was to pass a resolu tion in opposition to the further continuance of the company, in consequence of the prospectus, as was alleged, not having been carried out, and the re tirement of several of the directors. Mr. Hart ridge called the meeting, and advised the shareholders to combine to get the return of their deposits, and the winding-up of the company. He was followed by Mr. Gunton, Mr. Padavacini, and others, and a committee was nominated to confer with the directors on the sub ject. The shareholders wishing to enter had to Sign a requisition against the last call made by the directors, so that, in a certain degree, the meeting was of a partial character, and the resolutions were all passed unanimously. At the commencement of business this morning at the Stock Exchange the tendency of prices in th e English Market was rather in the direction of 'an improvement, but there has since been less firm ness, and the Funds are now at about the quota tions current yesterday afternoon. The market la under the influence of the settlement—to-mor to w being account day—and the dealings entered Into are generally connected therewith. Consols are 941 for money and the 10th inst., although for the latter they were at one time nearly 94k, buyers. For October the quotation is 95i to 95.1. Exchequer Bills have risen Is., viz., to 14s. and 17 8 , prem., and the Bonds are 10CA- 2. East India Bonds have been 18s. prem. The New Threes are 95 1, and the New 24 1 per Cents. 79. ery few transactions are officially recorded in the Foreign Market. Turkish 6 per Cents. are nominal, but the 4 per Cents. are marked 1031, be ing steady. Spanish New Deferred are 25 to 25k. Russian 41 per Cents. 981. Mexican 22. i, and Grenada Deferred 7i. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 981. Buenos Ayres bonds have declined about 10 per cent. owing to a communication received frotn the Republic, to th e effect that since the bondholders have refused to accept the terms proposed for a settlement of the debt, the question of an arrangement reverts to its former position. This intelligence, unaccompanied by any fresh proposals, is by no means palatable to holders, and hence the fall adverted to. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 20i to 211 ; Mexican, 22k to 221 ; Peruvian, 80 to 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 58 to 59 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45i to 464 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 108 to 110 ; ditto 41 ' per Cents., 98 to 100 ; Spanish .3 per Cents., 44/ to 45t ; ditto New Deferred, 24/ 25 ; ditto Passive, 6i to 7. Although no material alteration in the Railway Market, prices, with a few exceptions, continue heavy. The Norfolk, North British, North- Western, and Great Western are all firm, at pre vious rates. Northern of France have risen ss. Rigas are 11 4 1 , and the Scinde 7i. The Colonial lines generally are very inactive. The business done in Mines and Miscellaneous Shares calls for no special remark, prices being generally the same as before. London and County Bank Shares are heavy at 3 0i 31, but the Unity have risen to 42. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From the Official List: Rosiness done. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 41 i i New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 24 per Cent. Annuities 79 India cionds. £1 01'9 Ditto, under £lOOO lB p Consols /or Account Ecshoquer Bills, 20. £IOOO ?mall Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent. loos i Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. ci.uador New Consolidated l5 tirenada New Active, 2i per Cent. Ditto Deferred 7a kexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account .. Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 4i per Cent. .. ii‘rdinian Bonds, 5 per Cont. II ),niFl3 Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. _ Ditto Account R Anish Committee Cert, of Coup. not fur N It , rkith Bonds, 6 per cent.., — Ditto Account T)itto Guaranteed, 4 per Coat. Ditto Account .. lO3l DielCends on the above payable in London. batch Ercnange, '2 per Cent., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates THREE O'CLOCK. Console, money 9ls i Ditto for Account,' Sept. 10 94i i The gold from New York yesterday is 127,0001., and a considerable portion is on French account, but the entire amount will be fait away. The advices on this occasion mention an increase of confidence in the money Market, consequent upon the last weekly bank state loent being favourable, but there was an absence of spe culation, and securities of all kinds remained without Change. Erie was quoted 60 ; Reading, 86 to 4 2 ; Panama, 94 ; and Illinois Central, 1091. The rate of discount Was still 8 to 9 per cent, for the best paper. HARVEST IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—The Ear 'vest has commenced in the north of Scotland, and many fields have already fallen under the sickle. The crops of , w ,heat, oats, and barley are all far above the average of T ae last few years. Potatoes ar e an a bundant crip. i",ke disease has been checked by the fine dry weather of 418 month, and is not likely to appear again. Turnips a l'e in excellent condition, and the aftermath of the bay 440 I) hi most luxuriant, oninion re con• ice into up his tter for ains to Aboard, b a ❑ for on such 8011 1 ! 3 worst ure of a►e nevi e been forded 20 per rs and 'efnea" )rnrael' rnercial he foil)? .re is a is dap.' that ie ar that of the an and '- • s hare . 3 s har n c"' I. The escape , iany t) ttanve o varnivg e bandy prate' ever 50 excite' ; m ade riding ,s from Lt were mining of the result', ye in value as but muted ad in' Te not ie cot !rich r castle vie Deco -44; bncel ; arch be en - THE SUN, LON DON, ruEsDA.:I ,Palci Les/11R.: Company, Cln.itn. •rice, yoterd q. 'ii London tt N. West. L.&N.W. Caledon E. Un. & E. C Business done this day I Glt.Nrton. E. Count. iCaldontxn.l Gt. Wenn Yk. Now. Berw. Y. liNitc Do Do 50 25 12 12i 20 Eastert Do Peto lz Co Norfolk Do L.&N.W & Midid Stckton & Darlingt. Kidland En. Conn. E. Count. D 0......... Do.. L.acN.W Do Gt North n Lancash & Yorksh. T. Brassey Bli.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do lOtWeetn. 97 - 100 100 - 105 12 - 14 139 - 141 4 ... 4i .. - .. ii - 29 !106 - 107 12/ - 13/ 23. - 243 112 - 115 2i -2/ i : ii I - 4P 57 - 19 Bs = iii s 8i i - il3i 91 - 93 PREFERENCE SHARES. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Bnalams this day . 106 f iU2 j 93 li 1 PM Pm 'a 107 z d 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day . SOUTHWARK. ATTEMPT TO PICK POCKETS AT TUE SURREY THEITRE.—WiIIiam bee, a well•dressed young fellow, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with attempting to pick the pocket of Sarah Brown, at the pit of the Surrey Theatre. The prosecutor, the wife of a tradesmen, residing at 14, Francis-street, Waterloo-road, stated that about half-past six o'clock on the previous evening she was at the pit-office of the Surrey Theatre, and just as she had paid her entrance money she felt some one at her dress pocket, and, on looking down, she saw his hands inside. She immediately called out, " You ♦agabond, I have caught you this time ; you have got nothing for your trouble." He then forced himself away from her, but a constable came up and took him into custody. For tunately, she had nothing in her pocket but her hand kerchief, as she bad not returned her purse to her pocket, consequently the prisoner would have been much dis appointed. 'ha prisoner here said that he was a respectable man, and would not be guilty of such a❑ act. rise lady must be mistaken as to his identity. Mrs. Brown positively swore to his being the man, as she actually caught hold of his hand while it was in her pocket. Henry Peckhpm, the constable of the Surrey Theatre, said he was on duty near the entrance of the pit, shortly after six o'olock, when he heard the last witness call out "Police." He proceeded to the pit office and took the prisoner into custody as he was attempting to get away. He searched him, and he had nothing upon him but a pawnbroker's duplicate and an old handkerchief. He knew the prisoner well as a com panion of notorious thieves, and how he evaded his observation by getting inside the doors he could not tell, as he always kept a sharp look out for such fellows. Mr. Combe asked the prisoner after that • evidence would he go for trial or be tried by him I He replied that he would be tried by his worship, and he must plead guilty. Mr. Combe sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour under the New Criminal Justice Act. TSB SELF-REGISTERING 21IEROVRIAL TLIERMO Air ETER. The following description of the self-registering mercu rial minimum thermometer, invented by Messrs. Negretti and Zambra, of Hatton-garden, was read by Mr. Lee at the recent meeting of the British Association at Chelten ham :—"The importance of a celf-registering mercurial thermometer will be duly appreciated by any one interest ed in meteorological pursuits, when it is remembered that all thermometers hitherto constructed for minimum pur• poses have alcohol for the thermometrical fluid, on the plan of Dr. Rutherford's thermometer. The unequal expansion of alcohol at different degrees of heat has long caused a self registering mercurial minimum thermometer to be come a desideratum ; for, if attained, then all thermometers in a meteorological observatory would be constructed, with one fluid, and that fluid the recognised standard of heat. Impressed with the importance of this subject, the inventors, so far back as 1851, shortly after the in troduction of their patent self-registering maximum ther mometer, applied themselves to the task of discovering how a minimum thermometer could be made to answer the requirements of those who desired accurate self-regis tering instruments. Thermometers of all shapes and make were attempted by them, and when about to abandon the idea, after experiments of four years' continuance, the happy thought struck them that that which, in the old Rutherford maximum was a defect, should now with a little modification become the new patent minify:Mtn thermo meter. The task of keeping the steel index from plung ing into the mercury of a Rutherford maximum was the great difficulty which parties using it had to contend with ; for, when the index once entered the mercury, it could not without great difficulty again be extracted. In the thermometer now before us the end eavour i,, not to prevent the index from entering the mercury, but to add it in doing so as much as poss ible ; or, ra th er , t o ass i s t the mercury to pass it, which is the same thing. The fol lowing is an endeavour to explain the construction of this new instrument, and i then it will b e b e tt er under stood upon what princip l e i t s constructed. The thermo meter, as shown by the diagram before us, has a bulb of rather large size, consequently it allows of a tube corre sponding being large in the bore for that part forming the scale. On the surface of the mercury enclosed in the tube is placed a small steel needle, pointed at both ends, which forms the index ; and it may be here remarked that it is preferable to read the temperature from the upper end of this steel needle enclosed in the tube, and not from the mercury itself. This conical needle will be capable of moving freely in the bore of the tube, and, as the mercury descends therein, will of course fall with it, but when the mercury ascends in the tube the mer cury will pass the lower pointed end of the needle, and rise above the same without raising or moving the needle. This latter will therefore remain stationary, and, con sequently, its upper point will indicate the lowest temperature to which it has descended during the 12 or 24 hours, and will not be affected by any subse quent rise in the temperature. To reset the thermome ter for any future observations, it is necessary simply to turn it in such a position that the mercury and needle in the tube will flow into the reservoir at top. This it will readily do, as there is no air above the mercury. Should the needle not freely flow with the mercury into the re servoir, it may be assisted with a magnet, which may be held there until, by returning the thermometer to the upright position, the mercury flows back again into the tube ; and then with the magnet the index may be re turned to the surface of the mercury ready for future observations. One of the thermometers is now before you, and can be examined by any one who feels inte rested in its success. In reply to any question that may arise as to the probability of this thermometer answering the purposes for which it was intended, it may be remarked that, since November last, one has been in the hands of the secretary of the British Meteo rological Society, and another at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, both of which have acted most accurately, and in two instances have corrected errors in the alco hol minimums, which, but for it, would have passed unnoticed. A few others have also been in use by gen tlemen who are well calculated to judge of their merits. Among them we will mention Mr. E. J. Lowe, of Beeston Observatory, near Nottingham ; also Mr. Drew, and two or three members of the British Meteorological Society. The inventors are fully aware that it is subject, like all new instruments, to criticism ; but, he it perfect or im perfect, they present it before you as the first mercurial self-registering . minimum thermometer that has ever been invented. Should it, holtvever, meet with rely half the success that their patent maximum thermometer has done, they will be highly repaid for their exertions, as upwards of 1,400 maximum thermometers are now in the hands of the most scientific men of this country, and not in one instance have they signally failed." SHARE VIARKETEL "HIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. AAILWAVS. A.e....erduen Nottng. Bost and Kaatn. Jue.3t,„. T33lrast Bailymom, Birraing. Wel orb Ptanr Cailey Birkeand. Lancet '_ Cheshire Junet.„... Do. °hash. & Birk. iDo., d 0.. .. &Tynt origirta £25 (isad. at £4E Bristol and Esete;... Ca1ed0nian........... 'Chester 4 Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Past Cornwall Do. A Do. B Dublin4Belfastjunc Dnn. P. Aber. Jnc East Anglian Eastern Counties.. Fast. Union. A Be., B. Stook, Do., New East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgo' Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prtt &Dun de Forth & Clydo Raiz Furness. Do. Extension.. Glasgow& S. West , , Great N. of Scotlnd Great Northern._ Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre. Great Western Do. Stour Val. BAC Gna. Stk Irish So nth-Eas ter: Lancaster & CarHsi. Do., Third 5........ , Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksi Do., Wst. Riding Ur Do. Southi orb London & Blackw Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. West: Do. Fifths D 0.101. Sh.,lif &8... ( Do. Eighths,. London and S. W A pty, Lon. Tilby. & South, Barking Sh.. Lndndrry&Colerain , Lmindrry. & Ennisk Illanch.Shef.& Linch Do., Man. & Lin. Un Metropolitan i Midland Do. Birmng. &Derb3 Aidld. G. West. (Irs,) "Do. Half Shares . Newcastle & Carlisle . Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskille. Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. Norfolk Northn.Connties Un North British Nth. Devon Rail & Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock . N.Eastern—Berwic Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. :Pura Do. Leeds Do. York North London N.&S.Wstrn.,Flainl • stead, and City Jn,. North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Ox., Wore., & Wolv. , Portsmouth Scottish Central, ScottishMidlancl •hropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales . S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dm Do tit mines, Wok. &Wok Stockton Sr Darling. Do., do., 1854 D 0.,. do., 1855 Stockton dt Hartlep ran' Vale .. . Do. Prof., No. 1.... Thames Hay. D.& IL Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkentt: Waterford&Limeric West Cornwall West End of Londoi. and Crystal Palace Do. A , ........ Do. B ..... West L0nd0n...., Wimbledn & Croydou I FOR: Antworpentott,rdnir Ardennes Atlan.& St.Lw. leasodi at 6 p. c. by Gd.Tnk. of Canada I.7.;asitn. Jun( lioziers to Graiseessa Bombay, Tiaroda, an 00D.India, g. 5 p. e Do. - - Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry. Carmeaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry Demerara ►etch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New 'East Indian, g. sp. . Do A and B, do Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c IDo. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.4 Do. do. do., '5`,4, do. Gee'ong k Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Od. Tk of CanadaAiH Do. Cert. of Dollen, con. into Stk. MT' Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. `lt, Central of Fran, It. In. Pen. g. sp. c. Do New, guar. 5 p. c. Great Luxembour: Constituted Share C4t. Western of Cane t Shares Do. New Do. lids., payable 's' Do. do., '76, p.'6o 'Jo. do., '73 do. do., '73, withon' option Lake Const. & Bash Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca & Pist. sp. c.p LyonL and Genova Lyons Zs Mediterrai Aadras , guar. 4 i p.c Do. Now do., 5 p. c Do. 4/ p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c \aria Auteuil' Do. do. New amur 41 Liege ( wit Interest) qo. (ex interest)._ Do. do , C p. c. Pref Northern of France. orwegianTrunkPre Fhris end Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran, (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. Riga & Dunaburg is. at 801. per share... Pomo and Frascati.. ';oyal Danish ..... RoyalSwodiah iarabre and Meuse.. )o. 5i p. cent. Prof. iciode, guar. 5 p. c Do ionthern of France 3t. Andrew's an, Quebec (A) 'Vest Flanders Do 5 per c. Pref , W. &N. W. of Franc , West. of Switzerlaw Wiesbaden JOINT-91 Austral ts . . Bank of Egypt Bank of London 4ri„ Col. Bk.&Ln. C 3ritish N. Americsr r:hartd. Bank of Asir ,rlhrtd. Bnk. of India, Andraiia, & Chin? City Colonial Commercial of Lord Eng.Scot.kAus.Cht. Loud. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia Ditto New re....‘ don and County: Lnd . &E. Bnk g. Cori, London Joint Stock. London and Paris bond. & Westminstel gational Pro.ef Eng Do. l'inv gational of Bank new South Wa Oriental Bank )f Corporation Ottoman Bank ercvincial of Ireland Do. Now R Aus B rzOo Im et Royal British icnth Amu:ola ljni‘u of Australia De. Now Union of London Westeriz Bk of Loud Closing Price, this day. 41- 93 - 81 9 19 - 20 15i - 17. 13 - 14 93 - 95 52 - 52 16i - 17! ~ '... ... • . 'N. 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BANKS. 104 -105 j - par 67 69 - 71. 73 ---- 171 21 - 2l i - lip ... - ... 1 - 3p -- ...d ••• ""*" •. •.° ".". . • 47 - 49 39 - 40 1 1 -- ' • Ii• ...... ... •••• 36--ss 68 - 70 8i 4n 2 d LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, Sept. 9.—Wind this day at noon, S.F. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 8.---Wind W.S.W.—Arrived— H.M.S. Express, from Rio Janeiro. PLTMOUTH, Sept. B.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, from Portsmouth. SHIELDS, Sept. B.—Wind W.—Sailed—Balkan, for Ceylon. MILFORD, Sept. B.—Wind W.—Arrived—Cascade, from Newport, for St. Thomas, leaky. CRONSTADT, Sept. I.—The Isabelh, from Newcastle, ar rived here on the 30th Aug. with loss of bowsprit, &c., from contact, on the 27th ult, off Hogland, with a steamer, name unknown ; the latter lost main and wizen masts and funnel. (PER ELECT= TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday 'Morning. Arrived—Spanish steamer Barcelona, from Barcelona, Valencia, Carthagona, Alicante, Malaga, Cadiz, Corunna, and Santander, with about 3,00 packages of dried fruit for Southampton, a large cargo for Hamburg, and a few passengers ; Nord, steamer, from Havro ; Cicely, Sun derland. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. _ _ Wind S.S.E. . Sailed—Highland Brigade, for Richibuctoo ; Australia, for New York ; Equator, for St. John's, N.B. ; Lucy and Harriet, for New Orleans ; Shamrock, steamer, for Havre. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 31 Os s 51 103; clover 41 lOs to 6/ lOs ; and straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 bs to 51 12s; clover, 410 s to 61 10s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 11 14s per load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at late rates. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 31 3s to 51 lOs; clover, 410 s to 61 10s; and straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load. Trade dull. COLONIAL. TEA..—Very little business has been done in this article, large sales being advertised for to-morrow (Wednesday), a great portion of which is Assam, and pu rc h asers are wait ing the result. SUGAR. —The demand for colonial and foreign has been very limited, and only a few small sales by private con tract have been effected at about previous rates. There are large public sales advertised during the week. In the refined market great caution has been exercised by buyers, and previous rates were barely sustained. COFFEE.—The supply of all descriptions of coffee has been very limited, and good medium qualities have been in demand. Both Native and Plantation Ceylon realised fully former rates. RICE —The market has been very quiet, although for the low qualities some inquiry took place, but other sorts barely maintained former prices. MM.—There has been a moderate inquiry ; very little business, however, has been done, at about former rates. TALLOW.—The market has been quiet, the demand hav ing subsided, and prioes may be quoted somewhat lower. P.Y.C., spot, 51s 6d to 525; last three months, 49s 6d per cwt. The marriage of John Bowes, Esq., of Streatlam Castle, Durham, with Mdlle. de Lorne, of the Tneatre des Varietes, in Paris, a few days ago, caused no little sensation in the theatrical circles of that city. The cashier and sub•cashier of the Northern of France Railway are said to have disappeared with more than 40,0001. It is supposed the sum was obtained by the age of shares deposited with them. lir 11_, SURREY THEATRE. Messrs. Creswick and Sheppard commenced their winter season last night, with a new melo-drama of in tense interest, called the "Half Caste." The piece consists of four acts, and the plot is as follows :—A cer tain rich planter, M. de Courville, one day in showing some visitors round his plantation, insults the wife of one of his slaves—Maximus Moroi, and then on the husband resenting the insult, he is instantly branded, his wife is ordered to be flogged, ::nd his mother and brother to be sold. The wife of Maximus dies three days after the infliction, and the half caste determines to devote his life to obtain revenge. Time wears on, and M. de Courville thinking Maximus has forgotten his wrongs, educates him, and makes him his overseer, The planter is called away from his estates, and imme-, diately after his departure Maximus turns all the pro perty into cash, and decamps. The consequence is, the planter is ruined, and Maximus becomes a rich man. The half caste, as he is journeying toParis, meets an English nobleman, and, to gratify a whim, they exchange names, and Maximus departs for Paris as Lord Trafford, after Ise has contrived, as he supposed, the death of the owner of the title. Arrived in Paris, he falls in love with a certain Lady Angeline, but his suit is rejected in favour of another. He intreats Angeline to reconsider her determination, and at this moment the ruined planter enters, and recognises the supposed lord as hie overseer. Angeline turns out to be a lost daughter of M. de Cour ville, and she determines to revenge her father's wrongs. She allows Maximus to believe she loves him, and her lover Eugene enters into the plot. Finally, the mask is thrown off, the real Lord Trafford arrives, and in Eugene Maximus discovers his lost brother. As he cannot live to see Angeline married to another, he dies by poison. The part of Maximus was sustained by Mr. Creswick with great, ability, and the Angeline of Miss Marriott a very beautiful performance. At the termi nation of the drama Mr. Creswick and Miss Marriott were called for, and on their appearance were greeted with loud applause. The present season at this favourite place of amusement promises to be both an attractive and profitable one. The house was crowded to excess. 4 SEPTEMBER 9, 13 5(. IRELAND. DUBLIN, nMOND&Y ATOLNI.NG. SADLEIRIS! I. The Carlow Sentinel state:; that the directors of the Bank of Ireland have to ken legal proceedings against several persons in that town whose bills ' were given as security by tl le Tipperary Bank for advances to that unfortunat; 3 concern by the Bank of Irelat:d, and, by way of the beginning of the end, it is added that the effects of au extensive farmer residing near Ballyelien were seized under execution for 7001. due to tL;e bank. It appears that the farLwr was security for a trader iu the town, and of ',course is held responsible for the amount. The .Carlow paper thus moralises upon the effects of bz eking upon a political system, carried on for so many years by Sadleir and his confederates in fraud "The Sadleirs aia , ed at ascendancy. They risked all to gain it and a pa sition suddenly from humble life. They bribed and labo ured with indefatigable industry to attain the object of their ambition, and we do regret to find so many victims of their vulgar ambition. They found Carlow, crrnparat ively speaking, prosperous in the department of shopkeeping, and after an unexampled career of strife to secure their political power, we leave it to the fancy of our readers to depict the state in which they left their friends, after the exercise of the greatest kindness and leniency towards them both by the Bank of Ireland and the official manager of the Tipperary Bank." With respect to the whereabouts of James Sad leir, the Carlow paper says that the police are on the wrong scent, and that there is every reason to believe that the fugitive is now far ou his way to South America, " where there appears to be little doubt that he will be afforded the opportunity of embracing his brother John." With regard to this latter prospect, it may be mentioned, as an instance of that second-sight said to be the peculiar property of our northern fellow-subjects, that a respectable professional man, recently returned to Dublin from New Orleans, is ready to aver on oath, if called upon, that during his residence at the latter place he had seen John Sadleir bodily striding through the streets of New Orleans. There could be, he insists, no mistake, as he had been for many years familiar with the marked features of that never-to be-forgotten countenance. CORONATIOIf OF TSB EMPEROR ALEXAN DER. (From the Times.) In Western Europe pageantry may be said to be pas sing out of date, for neither is it felt nor is it required. We have to travel two thousand miles towards the rising sun, to penetrate frontiers almost sealed to the traveller, to plunge into barbarous tribes, and find ourselves in the heart of an ancient serfdom, in order to see in full force the old language of human magnificence. The cavalcade which ten days ago conducted the Emperor of All the Russias into his ancient palaoe is a fit successor of the old Roman triumph. In this country none ever saw its like ; none ever will ; and were the States of old Esrope to become even greater and wealthier they would neither have the materials nor the sentiment for such a display. No doubt they who gazed on that rushing stream of silver and gold and jewels, of the finest horses and men, the most singular races, and the quaintest costumes in the world, extending five miles in length, and who also knew that in all that multitude of observed and observers there was probably not one who was not ready to die for his youthful Em peror could hardly but feel him to be the greatest Sovereign in the world. We shall not question it. For such titles there is no contention in these days. The subjects of Queen - Victoria count three to one for those of the Ow ; their wealth, their freedom, their arts, the grandeur of their traditions, their historical antiquity, are even greater in the scale of comparison. Neverthe• less we need not dispute that there is no such potentate, SO autocratic, so exalted, so magnificent, as Alexander Wicolaievitch ; and that he is the only one of the sons of men whose position entitles him to such a procession as that described in our columns this day. No one but he combines with Asiatic magnificence European policy, organisation,and wealth. No one but he holds the greater part of two continents, and occupies the shores of two oceans, and two great inland seas. No one but he is absolute lord of sixty millions of men, still retaining the hardihood and prowess of ancient barbarism. Nations are fused into the ranks of his army, and history may explore the roll of his procession. When he enters the famous Kremlin, it is a portion of the human race that conducts him ; and the roll of names reminds one of those which heralded the earliest conquerors of mankind. Yet the slightest reflection is enough to remind us that, whatever the meaning and virtue of this pompous cavalcade, it denotes not unbounded power, paramount testimony, immutable institutions, or anything beyond the common lot of humanity. Let marshals, and cham berlains, and masters of ceremonies do as they will, they cannot fix for ever the type of human events, even those of the most arbitrary and artificial cbaraeter. In all its circumstances, even those which contribute to its gran deur, the coronation of Alexander 11. is a very different thing from that even of his father thirty years ago. In that difference we read the law of progress, to which even Imperial institutions must bow. But what are these circumstanses which forced themselves on the notice, even amid th• roar of artillery, the clash of bells, the braying of trumpets', and the shouts of awe-struck multitudes i What are the events even more striking than the wild costume and caparisons of Calmucks, and Mingrelians, and Circassians, and Imeritians—more impressive than the now familiar names of Russia's powerful yet devoted aristocracy i In the unparalleled magnificence of the present ceremonial, in its enormous cost (computed at a million sterling), we see the growth of that wealth which has laws of its own, and which changes institutions even while adorning them. If this occasion is grander than the last, then it is so far another thing than the last, and who shall tell what the next change shall be 1 Sixteen hours brought Alexander with perfect safety and comfort from the shores of the Neva to the walls of Moscow. Who could have dreamt of that in the year 1826 1 Yet the railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow is only the first link in a fretwork which is to cover the whole empire. By the electric wire some par ticulars of the actual coronation reached this city yester day, and might have come in less than a minute. In the representatives of the British press, and the numerous other strangers at Moscow, we see the forerunners of a vast influx, which cannot but be beneficial to Russis, and to the general interests of the world. All this por• tends change, for improvement is change, though seldom without some sort of sacrifice. But who could forget, even while gazing on that spectacle of glory and might, that but one year before Russia had been compelled to abandon the vast port and arsenal she had prepared for the extension of her empire further into the heart of three continents ! This mighty pomp, so full of traditions of the past, and bursting upon us like the very climax of Imperial splendour, comes indeed at the mo ment when Providence has pronounced the doom "Thus far, and n• further." Henceforth all these nations and tribes will have other employment than to augment their muster-roll. The list is complete. The work of con quest is done. In that vast human column we read the working of a great policy, but we read it to the end. Such is the true reading of that gorgeous living inscrip tion. What shall we read when next the roll is opened ! But these are not the thoughts of an envious rival. It is Russia's best interest to give up a dream which, at the best, is one of misery, bloodshed, and injustice, and to escape the inevitable retribution that hunts down the conqueror. Russia's own statesmen knew this, and they are preparing to divert and concentrate a'l those mighty energies and all those fresh impulses to the internal and social improvement of those sixty millions. Unassailable within her own frontier, secure of the implicit obedience of her people, Russia would be without excuse were she still to convert the strength of all that people and all that soil into the means of destruction. The war itself has happily brought to light the want of internal commu nications, and the disadvantage any State so condi tioned must lie under in comparison with its wiser and more fortunate neighbours. The few miles of rail way we have laid on Russian eoil are a hint which she will improve a thousandfold. So all those numerous tribes that figure in Alexander's long triumphal escort, though 30 years ago they might be a warlike demonstra tion, to-day only celebrate the triumphs of peace, and st , le for the universal extension of its benefits. They represent how much is to be done, and what duties de volve on the man who claims the lordship of so vast a territory, and the obedience of so many races and tongues. The Government that can muster all these men, to march in one column to one solemn measure, can do more. It can give them all leisure, opportunity, and encourage ment for those works of peace which even savages and soldiers love better than war, when the choice is offered them. SALE OT TILE " AGE" NEWSPAPER AT MELBOURNE. —The goodwill and plant of the Age newspaper, the Melbourne Leader, the Weekly Age, and the Ilift job bing office, were sold by Mr. M'Combe, Collins-street. The property comprised the whole of the type—about 8,5001b5. ; th• printing machines, steam•engines, &c., used in getting out the paper. The terms were cash. The biddings were by NO/. at a time. The first offer made was 7001., the next 9001., then 1,5001., to 1,6001., up tl 1,9001., when there was a pause of some slight duration, enlivened by the pseudo witticisms of those who frequent auction rooms as speculators. 2,0001. were then bid by Mr. E. Syme, and the property was knocked down to him for that amount. The whole proceedings did not occupy more than ten minutes. The auction-room was densely crowded. IMPORTANT TO SHIP CAPTAINS—LIVERPOOL, Monday. —A decisioa of great importance to the shipping interest was given in the Police-court to-day. It will be remera• bored that in July last the New York packet ship Isaac Web'', from this port to New York, with emigrants, was driven ashore in a gale of wind at Amlwch, on the Welch coast, two days after leaving Liverpool. After being ashore for a considerable period, she was floated off, and brought back to Liverpool. Upon her arrival here, it was discovered that after she had passed the in spection of the Government officers at this port. when she had a full crew shipped, she landed some of them, and put to sea short-banded. The men were hired for the purpose of passing the vessel through the Govern ment office. A prosecution was at once instituted by the Board of Trade, and the case heard before Mr. Mansfield and Captain Schomberg, who announced to-day their intention of inflicting a fine of 250/. ur4sa the captain (Bryer). The fine would have been much more severe but for its being the first case in which the law has been enforced, and the captain admitting Ma liability. THE IRISH CORN TRADE. The imports into Dublin of wheat and flour from Great Britain during the past month have been much heavier than at the same period of last year —4,586 quarters of wheat and 8,582 cwt. of flour having arrived in August, 1856, against 242 qrs. of wheat and 593 cwt. of flour in August, 1855. Of Indian corn, on the contrary, there were last year 3,142 qrs. imported, while this year none has been received. Of malt 3,520 qrs. were imported and 799 qrs. exported last month, against an ex port of 428 qrs., and no import, in August, 1855. The arrivals from foreign ports of grain vessels during this week comprise one from Ancona with a cargo of wheat, and ono from Saxkiobing with a cargo of barley. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. On Friday night Mr. Lewis Morgan, a gentleman of property in the neighbourhood of Merthyr Tydvil, was killed by a train passing over him while endeavouring to cross the Taff Vale Railway on horseback - . It appears that the deceased gentleman had been in Merthyr on business, and meeting with several of his friends, had drunk too much liquor before he left. About half-a-mile below the Taff Vale station, at a place called Brandy bridge, is an old parish road crossing the railway much used, but there are no gates on either side to prevent the public crossing at all seasons. This road is about half-a mile nearer to the Graig, where the deceased resided, than the usual road by Plymouth. The night was ex ceedingly dark, and the animal the deceased rode was a very restive colt, which he had purchased about three weeks before. A young lad who was standing close by the spot when the accident occurred states that a few minutes before S o'clock, just as the up train from Cardiff came along, the deceased struck his horse and endeavoured to cross the railway in front of the engine, bit it seems that neither the engineer nor stoker saw anything till after the animal had been struck, nor even then could they tell what had happened. The engine was, however, immediately re versed and brought to a standstill, alter proceeding about 150 yards further, when a horrifying spectacle presented itself. All along the line and among the wheels were fragments of the body of the deceased—a leg was in one place, an arm in another, a hand in another, the head and part of the trunk in another, and the heart in another, while bits of flesh and bones were scattered about in all directions, and some thrown a considerable distance. The horse was also dreadfully mutilated, and Mr. James, surgeon, was several times appealed to decide what portion of the fragments gathered up belonged to the horse, and what were parts of the human body. In a pocketbook found in one of the pockets were notes amounting to 2701., which the deceased bad that day received at Brecon Old Bank, and on the following morning Superintendent Wren found attached to one of the wheels of the tender, a pocket, torn from the trousers of the deceased, contain ing lls. 6d. in silver. From marks of the horse's hoofs in the road, it would appear that the animal was struck by the buffer about the middle, just as it was er.ssing the outer rail, and carried a considerable distance before it or its rider fell under the wheels. A jury was summoned on Satur lay evening by Mr. J. Morgan, deputy-coroner, to view the body, after which the in quiry was adjourned till ThurQday, the 25th inst. FOREIGNERS IN CHINA. Many are the eloquent invectives which are penned against the Chinese for their alleged hatred and con tempt of foreigners. We think our readers, after they have perused the following extract from the Shanghai correspondence of the China Mail, of the 10th of July, will agree with us that the inactivity of the Chinese to foreigners may not be always unreasonable : A short time ago (at Shanghai) a Singapore-born Chinese who had purchased a carriage, was driving on the racecourse with his wife and children—his wife being also a British subject, and speaking the English language—when he was accosted in a rude and threat ening manner by a clerk in an English mercantile house, aid ordered off the course under risk of having his head broken. He preferred the former alternative, and left the course, but appealed to the secretary or the race committee, complaining of the uncivil treatment he had received, and claiming the privilege of other British subjects, of admission to the course upon payment of the usual subscription. The reply, worded in the most courteous language, contained a refusal on the part of the committee, on theground that though they had no objec• Lion to the applicant personally, still he was "a Chinese in all respects but that of birth," and that could only be known to acquaintances ; they were therefore, though sorry he should be disappointed, " obliged to include him in this particular among the inhabitants of the place, to whom accession to the course is de• nied." How long is such intolerance to last ? A. valued friend, whose long residence in China, and opportunities of observing all classes of men there, entitle his opinion to deference, writes : "I know the Chinese couple referred to, and consider them, jointly and severally, irrespective of their birth, to be in their walk and conversation, and eke intelligence, on a par at least with the generality of clerks in mercan tile houses ;' and less likely to taint tha❑ to be tainted by the frequenters of the racecourse at Shanghai." Seriously, this exclusion of a respectable married couple from a place of recreation for the community residing within what is called the " foreign settlement" in Shanghai, is a piece of wanton impertinence that may be productive of the worst consequences in our relations with the natives. It indicates a silly over bearing deportment on the part of the foreign resi dents that no people can tolerate without meriting further insults. - - - - GLOUCESTER MUSICAL PESTITAL. GLOUCESTER, Monday.—The 123 d festival of the Three Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester has opened here today under the most favourable au spines. The weather is magnificent, and the town is filling rapidly. The principal vocalists are Madame Clara Novello, Mrs. Clara Hepworth, Madame Viardot Garcia' Madame Alboni, Mrs. Temple, Mr. and Mrs. Lockey, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Gassier, Mr. Amott, organist of Gloucester cathedral, is con ductor, Mr. G. Townsend Smith (Hereford) takes the organ, and Mr. Done (Worcester) the pianoforte. The orchestra numbers altogether 300 performers. The programme of the week may be briefly summed up. To-morrow there will be full cathedral service, with a sermon by the new Bishop of the Diocese, Handel's "Dettingen Te Deum," and "Coronation Anthetn,"and Mendelssohn's " Hear my Prayer.' On Wednesday will be given the " Elijah" of Mendelssohn ' • on Thursday, the first part of Haydn's "Creation," Mozart's "Re. quiem," selections from Mendelssohn's "St. Paul," and Eli," with other sacred pieces; and on Friday "The Messiah." This last is always a most attractive morning. Everybody goes to listen to the glorious masterpiece of Handel, and it is a fact that nearly every ticket for the secured seats on Friday morning has already been taken. The evening concerts came off at the Shirehall, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The scheme for these is made up almost entirely of selections from old standard operas. The first part of Tuesday's concert,is the best selection of the series, being made up from the works of Mozart (end especially from his opera of " Fig aro") and of the " Lorely" fragment (Mendelssobn), which was given at the last Gloucester meeting. All the chief principals sing at these concerts. Alboni does not appear at all in the morning schemes, and the selec tions include some of the moat favourite and well-used pieces from the works of Rossini, Weber, Beethoven, ' Haydn Donizetti, and Bellini. A madrigal is set down in each night's scheme. A ball is announced to follow the concert on Tuesday evening, and a full-dress ball on Friday evening. The rehearsal at the Cathedral this morning went off admirably. The Lord Mayor yesterday remitted a further sum of 65,000 f. to Paris for the sufferers by the inundations, thus raising the total amount to 830,000 f., or 33,000/. 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These arrangements cause much c 'clay i n th e delivery of London letters, on account of the double sorting, and of the journeying of the postme a fr om the General Post office to distant walks. These - ' ,arrange merits cause additional delay also by meld; ig litters travel over much unnecessary ground. Thu s a letter posted at Kingsland.road for Stamford-hill has 'to travel to the General Post-office, and then back agai s over the same ground, before it gets to its destin , ;ion ; and letters for the London district posted in the provinces often pass by the suburb dr street to which t' / l ey are ad dressed on their way to the General Post-off a.e, and then return again by the same route to be delivered. It bad long been seen that if letters con Id be sorted, into London districts according to their adds asses before they left the provinces, or the particular part s in London near which. they were posted, and if they ss ere taken direct to the centre of those districts, where. a staff of letter-carriers could be stationed, such letters 'would merely have to be separated into postmen's walks, and they could be deli. vered after their arrival or p. sling in London in one half of the time at present occur sied. According to the new arrang:ements, London will be divided into ten postal districts —viz., east central, west central, northern, north easter 3, north western, eastern, western, southern, south eas tern, and south western. The seven former of these districts will be situated chiefly on the north and the three latter on the south side of the Thames. The east central and west central districts will comprehend the chief business portions of the City. The other eight districts will branch off from them in a some what triangular shape. The following streets, squares, villages, stc., will indicate the boundaries of the various districts :—The east central district will be bounded by Bishopsgate-street, City-road, Amwell-street, and the Thames ; the west central district by Gray's-inn-lane, Kdoes-cross,Burton-crescent, Bedford-square, Trafalgar. square, and the Thames ; the Westerrs district by Tot tenham-court-road, Devonshire-street, 11laida hill, Ken sall-green, Brent river, Southall, Is] eworth, Chiswick, Kensington, and Piccadilly ' • the eastern district by th e Minories, Whitechapel-road, Mils-end, Old Ford, Aldersbrook, Barkingside, Collier's-row, Romford, Raia• ham, and the Thames; the southern 'by Blackfriars.road Newington, Norwood, Addington, Cheamly Malden Upper Tooting, Clapham, and Lan sbeth ; the northern, by Pentonville, Finchley, Rowley-green, Potter's-bar, Waltham-cross, Tottenham, and :Stoke Newington ; the south western, by Charing-cross, Brorepten. Richmond park, Sunbury, Hampton, Wimbledon, Wandsworth, Battersea, and the Thames ; the north-western, by the New-road, Somers-town, Kentish -town, Kendall-ball, Harrow Station, Perivale, Kilburn, and Portland-town; the north-eastern, by Shoreditch, Kingsland-road, Shacklewell, Beech-hill, Hainhault, Epping, and Vic toria-park; the south-eastern, by New Kent-road, Peckham, Penge, Keston, Bexley, Erith, and the Thames. In each district there will be a chief sorting office, having its own staff of sorters and letter-carriers, and having a direct postal communication with the chief office of every other district, and with every post town in the kingdom. Letters arriving at these chief offices will only have to be separated into letter carriers' walks, when they will be immediately distributed. In many of these walks there will be hourly deliveries of letters, ten times daily ; into which deliveries the letters which are now continually flowing into the metropolis from provincial towns and from foreign mails landed at the outports throughout the day will fall. The facilities which the new arrangements will afford the inhabitants of London for communicat ing with each other will be very great. At present some considerable time elapses before a letter can be delivered, even in the same street in which it is posted, but by the new arrangements this inconvenience will no longer be felt ; and prompt business or social appoint ments may then be arranged at a short notice through the post. The districts are marked out on maps of Lon don and its suburbs, and lists have been printed in which the postal district of every street, square, court, alley, banking house, newspaper office, public establishment, village, and hamlet in London and its neighbourhood is stated. Clerks from the General Post-office are now travelling over the country, instructing country post. masters and their clerks how to sort the vast number of letters for London into districts. Some idea of the labour of the memory which this mode of letter-sorting requires may be imagined from the rapidity with which letter-sorting is accomplished in post-offices, and from the fact that in the ten districts there are upwards of 6,000 localities. The Post-office department will be greatly assisted, and the convenience of the public secured, if persons address. ing letters for London and its neighbourhood add to the direction the initials of the postal district in which their correspondents reside, and this will no doubt be gene rally attended to if the inhabitants of London add those initials to their bill heads, advertisements in the London newspapers, and to the headings of their private letters. Thus a letter for St. Paul's-churchyard should have Z. C. added to the address, and placed separately below it, which would signify East Central. W. C. should be added to the word Strand, which would signify West Central. W. to Portman-square, to signify West. N. W. to St. John's-wood, Regent's-park, to signify North West ; S. to Lambeth, Southwark ; S. E. to High-street,' Borough ; E. to Rumford ; N. to Totten ham ; N. E. to Bethnal-green-road ; S. W. to Brampton, &c. When the new scheme of the London district post shall be in full operation the metropolis of Bnglsnd will have postal accommodation superior to any city of the world. Naval and Military Intelligehce. His Prussian Majesty's corvette Amazone, Captain Kuhn, arrived at Spithead, last from the Azores, yes terday morning. She is bound to Dantzic. She has a number of cadets on board, whom the Consul (L. A. Vandenbergh) introduced to the authorities, and for whom he obtained permission to view the dosk yard, dm. She saluted the national flag and the Port Admiral, which compliments were duly acknowledged by her Majesty's ship Victory and the garrison bat. tory. Her Majesty's ship Leander, 50, Captain Rioe, is ordered from Portsmouth to the eastward to be paid of. Her Majesty's ship Express, 6, Commander Boys, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the south-east coast of America station. The screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Henry Caldwell, arrived at Plymouth oa Sun- day. The following troops, from the provisional battalion, Chatham, will embark at Gravesend to-morrow on board the Agincourt, for the purpose of joining the head crafters of their regiments stationed in India, viz, 431 Regiment, Captain W. Milnes, Ensign W Live say, and Ensign H. 0. Bateman, with 3 sergeants, 2 corporals, 4 drummers, and 25 rank and file, the whole of whom will proceed to Madras ; 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment, Lieutenant F. J. G. Saunders, Lieutenant R. Maybury, Ensign H. T. W. 0. Kenny, Ensign R. F. Humphrey, Ensign H. Pearson, Ensign Ely, and 60 non-commissioned officers and men of that corps, who will proceed to join the service companies of their regiment stationed at Rargoon. The depot of the 79th Regiment, now at Aberdeen, has been ordered to Furt George. The Highland Bri gado are to be concentrated in that Fort, it being the intention of the War-office to withdraw the troops front most of the barracks in Scotland, and have them placed in forts. The steam-transport Jackal', last from Portsmouth, has arrived at Woolwich with a cargo of powder and returned provisions from the East. After discharging her powder she will proceed to Deptford to land victual. ling stores. The William sailing-transport has likewise arrived, and has proceeded to Deptford to clear out. Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Resistance, Maste; Com. mender John Huntley, has arrived at Woolwich with 100 tons of shot and a quantity of naval stores from Sebastopol. Taking advantage of the favourable state of the weather, the whole of the batteries and heavy guns were yesterday morning brought out in review order on Woolwich-com mon, under the command of Colonel Anderson. After going through a variety of field movements, and firing 10 rounds of artillery, they marched past, were minutely inspected, and permitted to return to quarters. Major- General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, acted as field officer at guard mounting, and after.vards inspected the recruits and the spare men off duty, who were drawn up in battalicns on the parade ground fronting the barracks, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Burrows, Major Boothby, and Cap tain and Adjutant Close. The men were put through ra series of drill practice for the instruction of a ntmber of the cadets and junior officers who were ordered to be prasent. The steam-ship Pacific, Nc. 8, Captain W. C. Thomp son, arrived at Kingstown on Sunday evening, at 4 o'cicck, from Pembroke, which place she left at 8 o'clock the same day. The Pacific brought nine officers. 318 men, 34 women, and 30 children of the depot of the 95th Regiment; and seven officers, 327 men, 50 women, and 58 children of the depot of the 48th Regiment. The troops disembarked next morning. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty T- - - Lieutenant C. C. Robinson, to the Fury ; d. w . G. Dawson Darner, mate to the Jackal ; J. L. Hcpe, mid. Shipman to the Indefatigable ; L. C. Keppel, midship man to the Wasp ; A. Jephson, naval cadet to tL• Caesar; the Rev. W. Whitmarsb, chaplain to the Im pregnable; W. H. Williams, master to the Raleigh ; J. Pettey, paymaster to the Hermes ; W. T. D' ixson, assistant•paymaster to the Cressy. GOLD IN WESTERN AIISTRALIA.—At present we have no confirmation of the reported discovery of gold in this colony, and indeed no intelligence in this respect of a later date than that which we have already published, as received through the other colonies, with the excep tion of the following, which appears in the Perth In quirer, only a week after the first commencement of the discovery :--" News has been received from Kojenup to the effect that no more specimens of gold have been dis covered in the neighbourhood. With reference to the gold repot ted to exist between Cardup and the Canning Hr. Davis declines stating the exact spot until after the Sowing season, but we presume there would be no dim. culty in discovering the precise locality if gold in quan tity is really procurable."—Australian anclNew Zealand Gazette. 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