The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

T H E X F ORD 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-, gramme is varied, and includes Selectirns from "La Tra vlit ~" "Un Ballo in Maschera," ctc., (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryait en tl!e Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, - , cotch Duets by the 3Eises ititart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the hiL':hest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongtmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P. looster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence; s3alcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, Its. td. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morning, sh. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. 56m. To-nowhow.-Morning, 6h. 16m.—Afternoon, 6h. 36m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 27, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE BHADB. 7 0 —highest since noon yesterday. 56 —lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.35. WIND-W.-N.-W.-light, and fine. ''"? rte, 4 1 . i. • _ T E SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1861. The Illoniteur yesterday condescended in the most imperial manner to give the " lie direct" to Mr. ROEBUCK. It said, " Mr. ROEBUCK has recently affirmed that he knew of the existence of a convention, by which the Island of Sardinia would be eventually ceded to Prance And it added thereupon--" We give a formal denial to this assertion. Not only does such a convention not exist, but even the thought of entering into nego .' tiations on this subject with the Cabinet of Turin has never occurred to the EMPEROR'S Government." Now, what—we should very much like to know— does this positive denial by the Moniteur instantly remind one of ?Is it not—of the equally explicit, the equally emphatic, deliberate, and categorical denial of any intention whatever of absorbing the territories of Nice and Savoy into France by the Imperial Government ? Why, the denial in that instance was, if possible, still more positive, and was, if possible, denied to the world still more authoritatively. It was not simply, then, that the imperial journal denied it The understand ing, said to have been come to with Sardinia, to the: end that Savoy and Nice should be ceded as a qu id pro quo by that (save the mark !) disinterested and magnanimous " Liberator of Lombardy." It solemnly declared to be nothing better than an idle rumour—this not once, but again and again—not merely by the official organ of the French Govern ment, but by the EMPEROR himself and by his Minis. te.rs. This was asserted, moreover, by word of mouth in Paris and in London. It was declared in printed documents and in written documents. There could be no Possibility of mistake about it. If credence was to be given to a great reigning Sovereign, if reliance was to be placed upon the assurances volun teered by - I - misters of State and Ambassadors Ex traordinary, the could not be a moment's hesita being ne cessar il y compelled to t i on about our believe that the preservation of Savoy and Nice to VICTOR EMMANUEL wa s f Per ectly well secured. ,nibas„ed theor were Yet we all kno w the result n ow hut t oo we ll . Th e EMPE ROR and the E :JUROR'S Ministers,.. Im perial journal , a nd the Imperial proved after all to have been—how ex press the fact in any aypolitely, or w i t h any possibly can we semblance of courtesy—well, we will say—in error. b e en error. Savoy aa4 They w ere proved to have hough the ?rind Vice were ceded to France _what t of the MAJESTY )1 Vrance. had been pledged against it ! Without any exception, it was the dirtiest trick that a great Prince was ever guilty of. MACAULAY, in the last volume of his "History of England," the fifth volume, pub lished the other day posthumously, has taken oc casion incidentally to speak of the partition of Poland as the greatest crime ever perpetrated in modern Europe. So—we may speak of this cession of Savoy and Nice to France as we have spoken of it—namely, as, without any exception, the dirtiest trick. Particularly after all that had been written and all that been said. Nay, certain are we that by nothing has the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. damaged his reputation more seriously than by this. For it turned out to have been from first to last the merest shuffling, and shuffling too of the most paltry and contemptible kind. After that— who was to believe the most solemn and positive assurance given to the world in the name of the French Government? Yet, here—with the most consummate effron tery the official organ of the French Go vernment comes forth as recently as yester day morning with an assurance just as solemn, just as positive—and in the name of decency in regard to what ? Why, actually in re gard to the very same question as to a further cession of territory to Imperial France ! What an exceeding probability there is upon the very face of it that the majority of dispassionate observers throughout Europe will believe what is said by the Moniteur. Remembering that affair of Savoy and Nice, we have much reason to be credulous ! Yet as we have see n the official journal of France is not simply content with giving out this plain denial (the value of which we have all long since learnt how to estimate !) but it must needs, while doing so, condescend, as we have ex pressed it, to give the "lie direct "—in the politest w ay, of course—but still to give tho " lie direct" to Mr. ROEBUCK. Now, before we have done with this mat ter, it may perhaps be just as well to re ' peat here as nearly as possible the very words uttered by Mr. ROEBUCK upon the occasion referred to. That occasion, it will be remembered, was the banquet given in the Free Library at Sheffield on Wednesday last. When—upon a great variety of subjects—JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK, M.P. for Sheffield, spoke right out. Whether right or wrong, at any rate he spoke right out : particularly in regard to America, in regard to Austria, and in regard to France. As to his remarks upon America, we dare say if the hon. gentleman cared to afford some of the free and enlightened citizens on the other side of the Atlantic an opportunity at any time for so doing, they would have the greatest pleasure in life in providing him (in return for those observa tions of his about themselves) with a complete suit of tar and feathers. In reference to what was said last Wednesday down at Sheffield by Mr. ROE BUCK in regard to the Government of Vienna and the Imperial house of Austria, we observe that one of the Electors of Sheffield ingeniously proposes, through the columns of our contemporary the Daily News, that we should duly celebratet hose remarks by providing Mr. ROEBUCK with some appropriate testimonial. Whereupon he says, " I beg to pro pose that a subscription be at once entered into for the purpose of presenting Mr. ROEBUCK with a handsome suit of Austrian livery." As the'Aue trian uniform is White—and if only Mr. ROEBUCK'S coat be lined, as it ought to be, with that same colour (supposing that white, can strictly speak ing be called a colour)—perhaps the simplest plan would be for Mr. ROEBUCK to be quite honest about it, and just turn his coat inside out ! But now as to the hon.and learned gentleman's remarks at Sheffield on Wednesday last about France ! These remarks in respect to which the Moniteur only yesterday gave so very coolly this plump denial. They are worth giving, as we gave them in our own columns yesterday, as nearly as possible in his own words. They are these : Mr. ROEBUCK said (we doubt not with an air of wonderful gravity) that "he would now make known a secret He , knew there had been a compact entered into with the King of ITALY that the Emperor of the FRENCH should have the Island of Sardinia as soon as he withdrew from Rome. He was stating a fact, not what he thought but what he knew, and he knew also that the people of England would not allow that. There was hanging over us now a cloud threaten ing war, and that man at the head of the Admini stration was ready to battle against such aggran disement on the part of France. What he had said wculd be verified before many months elapsed." Now, notwithstanding the positive denial given to all this yesterday by the Moniteur—we prefer (remembering the affair of Savoy and Nice) to give Mr. ROEBUCK'S assurance that margin of a few odd months. Within which interval, he tells us, his assurance will be verified. "I'll take the Ghost's word for a thousand pounds, HORATIO !" Whether the South will ever be subjugated by the North, and, if it cannot be, how long it will take the Ncrth to find it out, we cannot pretend to conjecture. We may acknowledge, however, that the power of resistance seems greater than had been anticipated, and the power of attacking much less. Nor need we anticipate that the future will much change the relations of things in this respect. If 1114CLELLAN takes time to reorganize and drill, he gives the same time to BEAUREGARD ; and if volunteers enlist to avenge the disgrace of Bull's Run, so they enlist on the other side, to sustain the honours won by the South. But one thing, we think, must strike all who look on the American " difficulty" from this side the iwater —the fitness of the retribution. Be their theology of retribution what it may, let them regard it as the direct infliction of HEAVEN, like the heathen thunderbolts of JOVE, or as the arranged sequence of crime and its punishment, the appro priateness of the punishment to the crime is too striking to escape even cursory observation. Th e great, the crying sin of the Free States has been' their complicity with slavery. Two principal rea sons were at the bottom their unrighteous aversion to their coloured fellow Americans, and their desire to retain the Slave states as a part of their immense Union. The Union was their God ; the negro their offering to it ; their gain a protective tariff in the North, and the security of slavery in the South. Now their God has fallen in his own temple, and broken himself, like the idol of old, before the object of his triumph. The Union is no more ; and exten sion of slavery is the question which split it into two, and even into three fragments. The North abased itself in every way to content the slave holder. It accepted his Presidents and Govern ment, it passed the most humiliating laws to reclaim Fugitive slaves—it humbled itself and bowed down before the Slave Power, and now that very Slave Power rises up to its confusion. The North ven tured on one free act ; and the South instantly turned its heel with contempt on the States which had always succumbed, told them to go and mind their own business and they would take care of theirs. Pennsylvania, by her treacherous vote, reinstated BUCRANAN, She hoped to secure protection for iktusylvtuian Manufaotuns through a pro-Pleery L. S. Commence at 7. ~' CINQUE-PORTS , E. TO WIT.—In o. s. DIEZ Cine'kent-50. N. Sire-arch'y dby p AstrageOgraph pilotage of Dover's RO .•• : : off and on, Diepp's- Rouen to Lizard's o'er Ind. Quadra,—culmination. Gentlemen I A circular—for an illegal fete-meeting on the 28th, August'en A.D. 1861, as eve of "the comber n'heading day of Ihon Bapte'st"—vras issued on the 13th instant, Old Lam mass-day from the " Mandato office of the Grand Master (of Malta' s,":Downing-street, as of the 1802 Amiens Treaty-Nap :), on duplex plea-scholastic. The said illegal circular [as the proverb goes, "like G .G.G.-father COWPER (1712) like G.G.G.+Cilild PAL MERSTON (1861), as H. J. Temple]—cites the surreptitious Charter of Bristol by 9 Annce, 24 Jy. for its " warning to six, five, or four," co mber- (on's of Spanish Cab ota g e ) - curvature a Latrinzty-ns., D'er the Sunk port " Add-por. turn" land-set's s. d. now resumed for " Carthage-mud port-like edict Comih. of Review on Egypt's 1828." The aforesaid being illegal as f o ll ows : -Ist, By Act 1 Edw , VI., cap. 2—re-enacted in 1832, Will. IV., cap. 92, see. 4, as yet pending—entitled, The Submission of the Clergy Apls. as Non-intervention, 25 Hen. 8, cap 19, v i z ,, Whereas divers life-titled noblemen and civil spiritual persons have sent out their summons in their own names, as in the time of the usurped powers of the Bishop of Rome, contrary to the common law , touching writs in lay causes o f correction, de jure patrondtus, and probates of testaments —Be it enacted, that all such citations or other processes by advocates or other officers on behalf of the King's High ness, for validity. sake do bear the State endorsement, as well as the official Common-clerk's name be placed under the citor's name, and after the registered seal, in public T EST of its authority , --." Peveasey" transit :: to wit. Thus "men of Kent," etc., as under Nature's subsyd eral lathe epochs for P. L. audits to town's 510 pow c:) prefix as L'ond'on-wave by firencester seven hundreds (1-4 H. IV), over Wall-in-ford as of Bristol's constabulary of the Sea's fresh and salt water " Admiral's Court." 2dly. Whence, by 1 Fhilip and Mary, cap. 7, as aforesaid, "No man shall exercise the office of Justice Conservator of the Water's Silver-oar or Indian-paddle of the Pilot's E'ven-Lode-ma nagement of Fiscal-Crts., who shall " take en himself " the power "to direct and serve his own precept." Therefore I this negative-letter since by Act 1832 the Church Queen's etc. have ceased to be the head of the monetary (" by civil list"), Realm of England's Lay-presbytera'l estate, and at your peril disobey this law for one and all. Aug. 24, 1861 [unpaid martyr of 19 years], London. PETER BASQUET, England's Antipodal Chief Income-tax freeman of 1842, as the Criminal Law's Buie. Extradition Act, Constable of the Temple. Sea, bearing America's paddle of the Labvuchere. Admiral's Court, late in Canterbury's settlement, for New Zealand's Probate Court, it's Stil'lord Warden—. CtIARLES H. ACKERLEY, * J.P. of America's England, elected 29th August, 1825 (by Ad- j miral G. Hamond, Stuart de Rothsay's Sec- S C rotary; Marcus HiII—SANDYS, _Presbyter, 0 on the Holy Alliance of King's abolition, its Standard meter-bearer 1837—Lt. R.N. pay —supporter of poor Indian PETER 10 yrs. - To all local treasury officers and Mayors, taking prece dence by "Reform Act" at all Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and of all official-ministers. Vide * " Maritime Register, 17th Aug., 1861, p. 1051." T HEA TRE•110 YAL, HAYAIARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. T ITV, EVENING, the Dertormattoes will 00111mm:tee with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy. entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with a Ballet. BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. THE CHRISTENING. MISS Fanny Wright, the Leclereqs, Mr. Webster, ,te. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manwer, Mr. B. Webster. 116th Night of "The Dead Heart." THIS EVENING, the great Adelphi drama, THE DEAD MART. Messrs. B. Web s t er , J. L. T oo l e , Fi s h e r, Billing ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. G. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Ithorne. Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new and suc cessful comedy, WOMAN; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray„ and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with, each evening, a new and original farce entitled THE FETCHES ; or, The Onconvanience of Single Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'Brady, Miss Lydia Thompson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ANI I ERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Two Grand Selections from Operas, including ITN BALLO Ir MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh mns. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor dinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Harvey and French, Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every Evening. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND N--) FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, the Prince of' Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of September. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. ~,. President. She sees protection denied her now in at least a dozen States. New York leaned strongly to the Slave States, on account of its cotton traffic and mortgages in the South. The moneyed men, indeed, were all favourers of the Slave States; they will now have to part with their money faster than they like, to defend themselves against the very States whom they petted and caressed. The whole Noith, in every way, tampered with their knowledge and convictions on the subject of negro rights, and they now find themselves humbled as a nation, till even Spain beards them to the face ; and taxed to an extent which will more than absorb all the profits, or, as we ought to say, will add heavily to the losses caused by their discreditably selfish tariffs. What is to be the end of all this ? We believe repentance alone can save them. England did re pent of her connection with slavery, and abolished it, at what we believe to be a wantonly extra vagant cost. Still we paid the twenty millions rather than bear the disgrace of having slave subjects any longer. We have risen as a nation ever since, and we believe the noble, national spirit which would not tolerate slavery has had much to do with our rise. The North must repent ; its crime was first permitting slavery in connection with its free constitution ; then from unworthy motives giving it the ascendancy in the national councils. It must reverse all this. It must declare the rebellion of the Slave States to be a forfeiture of their claim on the protection of the Union. It must offer fair compensation to the loyal, but confiscation only to the rebel; it must advance South with an army of liberation, or it will probably never get to the South at all. A wicked Federal constitution, or at least the wicked part of it, must be flang to the winds—and then the ECCE SIGNUM must be EMANCIPATION. By that they will conquer ; by that alone they will deserve to conquer. A contemporary traces the terrible disaster on a line hitherto so remarkable for its freedom from accidents, to the too rapid succession of trains. It is certain that the arrangements at the tunnels on the Brighton line seem to be as perfect, and as regardless of expense, compared with security, as the wit of man could devise. A signal-man at each end of the tunnel, with a telegraphic communica tion between them, and unconditional orders that one train must be out before another is suffered to enter, do appear to be all that can be desired. Yet, under this system of apparently absolute security, a mistake occurs, and a terrific accident is the conse quence. Two things went wrong—one the regular signal which would not work, and threw the tun nel-watcher on the ordinary danger-signal, the red flag ; the other, the mind of the man himself, or of one of the two men, so that the passage through of the first Brighton train was mistaken for the passage of the second, and that the third was consequently allowed to proceed till it met and smashed the second backing out of the tunnel. The man was evidently anxious to fulfil his orders to the letter ; but the telegraphic signal not work ing, first, no doubt, somewhat alarmed and con fused his mind, then the mistake with the elec tric telegraph completed the confusion, and the se quel was inevitable. It is, therefore, undeniable that had there been a longer interval between the starting of the trains, the calamity primarily due to the telegraph not working would not have occurred. But who, in this case, are most responsible for the rapid succession of the trains. It cannot be denied that they were all wanted, or they would not have been crowded with passengers. It may be said that the Directors would not have allowed so many, but with a view to their own profit. This is only a part of the truth. The Directors, like other public men, are at the command of public opinion ; no man in this country can be indifferent to it ; and is it not a fact that public opinion is continually pressing on Railway Companies for increased accommodation, and that Companies are commended and popular in proportion as they furnish it? The praises of the Brighton Line have bEen heard in the House of Lords itself for pre cisely this Sunday accommodation for the million. We do not believe it possible for any public board long to resist the demands of the public ; especially when, as in the present case, the demands are reasonable. There is one consideration which must not be overlooked. The Railways themselves have so altered the relations of the country, that they have rendered very cheap intercourse between not very distant places, such as Portsmouth and Brighton, with London, a kind of necessity. Not only do the working classes, and the class which can quite as little afford high fares—those who must keep up appearances on small incomes—need these cheap trains for recreation, but they need them more than ever they did for family and social intercourse. The working classes, and those with small incomes, are far more separated among adjacent towns than they were before the creation of railways. We have no doubt that were the humbler classes of Brighton and Portsmouth canvassed, it would be found that the majority had near relations, friends and acquaintances, in great numbers in London, and that the number had multiplied beyond all calcula tion since the costly coach and slow waggon bad given place to the quick and cheap train. Every body in Brighton now knows, or is related to, some one in London ; hence, we presume, the large num ber of persons coming up to London on the day on which all the shops and places of amusement are closed. If this view be correct, the railways really lie under a kind of moral obligation to meet the most natural and commendable desires of those whom they have separated from each other; and if they can do it, as they certainly can, with advantage to their share holders, the claim on them of the million is alte• gether irresistible. But this leads to another inquiry, who is it that really placed these three trains in such close proxi mity ? Would it have been done, but for the regu lations enforced on the company in regard to Sun day traffic. We strongly suspect that had more time been allowed by law, the company would have taken more time. Under guise of protecting the first day of the week (for the Sabbath of the Deca logue it is not) from desecration, Parliament " in its wisdom" has interfered with the Sun day traffic, and obstructed directors in their management of the line. But Sabbath protection, like all other protection, may do more harm than good. In the present case we strongly suspect that it is the ultimate cause of the sacrifice of twenty-two lives, and the serious injury of a great many p ersons. We should not be respectfully, surprised if some of the I slin g ton cler gy , and some ethiswould o a ld ask calamity as a warn n g into s Brighton unda t y o t o r , a r v e e p i i r e e r s s e ; n w t whether it be not rather a warning to those who force their views of the Sunday into commercial acts of Parliament. We cannot thiuk that railways, as public con veyances, are consistently dealt with. To our certain knowledge clergymen and laymen too, of th© class who would put Sunday restrictions on railways, do not scruple to use omnibusses and cabs to convey them about London to and from their places of worship. The end, suppgae j banotiiien the means. But we must think that the moral obligation of cherishing the family and social affec tions by as frequent intercourse as practicable, is as important, and even as beneficial, as that of worship. We remember a question asked by high authority, " He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love GOD whom he hath not seen 9" And how we ask is family attachment to be sustained, especially amongst the less educated, without opportunities of frequent in tercourse. Towns fifty or sixty miles out of London now, require railway accommodation on all the days on which Highgate, Hampstead, and Notting-hill require omnibus accommodation ; and proportion ately, to the same extent. In all the discussions therefore, arising from this accident, we hope the tendency will rather be to liberate railway managers from restrictions, than to interfere with that unspeakable boon to the many—the excursion train. ARRIVAL OF HER lIIAJESTI AF KILLARNEY. The royal train left Dublin at 12,55 yesterday, and arrived at Killarney at half-past six. At all the stations along the lire great, crowds assembled, whe greeted the royal party with loud cheers as the train passed. - At Portarlington the train stopped for five minutes. A guard of honour of constabu lary was drawn up to receive her Majesty, who was loudly and repeatedly cheered. At Mr. Kemmis's shore lodge a tasteful arch had been erected, covered with evergreens. At Thurles a great demonstra tion took place. The station was crowded to suf focation by the tenantry of the surrounding dis tricts, who welcomed her Majesty with a cheer such as the Tipperary boys only give. The station was most tastefully decorated with evergreens, and each engine in reserve and all the switches were also decorated. At 6.30 p.m. the anxiously-expected train arrived at the Killarney station. The crowds gathered in the vicinity of the railway station to have the earliest opportunity of seeing and hailing, as they were eager to do, their gracious Sovereign. Her Majesty was conducted to the carriage by Lord Castlerosse. A guard of honour of the 18th Royal Irish were drawn up, and 40 of the Ist Royal Dragoons. The Queen seemed greatly impressed and highly pleased with the enthusiasm of the people. The cortege passed the grand entrance of Kil larney House, and went down the picturesque road towards Rosse Island, when they entered Killarney demesne by the keeper's gate, under a triumphal arch. At Presgate Valing, the drive in this beautiful demesne, the Kintore tenantry, with their families, were congregated. The Queen was most friendly in her manner, and also very animated. She stood on the terrace for some minutes looking around on the magnificent scenery before her eyes, and she shook hands warmly with the host and hostess amid great cheering. She entered the mansion leaning on L(.rd Castlerosse's arm, and the Prince Consort fol lowed with Lady Castlerosse. The royal standard was run up the flag-staff on the top of the tower. The town was illuminated at night, and there were general rejoicings at the railway, where a very large company sat down to dinner in the great room. The health of her Majesty was pro posed and enthusiastically received. Lady Willoughby Gordon and Miss Gordon have returned to town from Guy's-cliffe, Warwick. Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbank have been enter taining, at Barningham-park, Yorkshire, the Marquis and Marchioness of Carmarthen and a select family circle. Mrs. Patten-Saunders, the Princess Ova Orloff sky, and Miss Saunders have arrived in Warsaw to join his excellency. Captain W. H. Patten-Saunders is expected to arrive from England. THE FOREIGN-OFFICE.---The business of the Foreign-office will be carried ou at No. 7, Whitehall-gar dens, on and after to-day, the 27th iust. It is stated that the Secretary of State for India has ample funds in hand to meet all possible wants up to the end of the year, even if the railway companies should find it necessary to apply for aid. At the same time an in creasing expectation prevails that these companies will be able to raise enough for their requirements without appeal , ing to the Government. A leading merchant at Calcutta, upholds the favourable view of Indian finance expressed in former com munications. Making full allowance for the revulsion in the opium market, the writer still believes that the accounts for the current year will show a surplus equal to that origi nally anticipated. He disagrees from the conclusion of Mr. Laing that the income-tax is a failure, because the re ceipts from that source have exhibited a monthly augmen tation, but it would be anomalous to suppose that an impost which depends so greatly on the honesty of the population, and which even in England is shown by the nature of the returns to be a cause of extensive demoralisation, can ever be really successful with the Eastern race. The owner of the ticket which has won the prize of 100,000 f., at the Amiens lottery, is a resident at Havre, but though he took the precaution to w r it e d own th e num ber, he has mislaid the ticket, without th e p r od uc ti on o f which, he cannot, of co u rse, receive the prize. M. Edouard de Triqueti, son of the well-known artist of that name, has just died in Paris, after three months' illness, caused by injuries received in the chest from the shaft cf a carriage, when attempting to stop a runaway horse in the Rue St. Lazare. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Yesterday evening a new farce from the indefatigable pen of Mr. Falconer, entitled, "The Fetches; or, the Onconvanience of a Single Life," was represented for the first time. It is a piece of very slight pretensions, manifestly suggested by Mr. Erskine Nicolls' well-known picture bearing the latter title. The design is to illustrate Irish peasant life in its most outrage ously ludicrous aspect, but the farce has little importance beyond what it derives from the humorous acting of Mr. Falconer in the character of Tim "a handy boy with a shillelagh, but a bad fist with a needle," end the lively, agile, and expressive dancing of Miss Lydia Thomp son, who personates a certain Mary Brady, a village belle, and executes an Irish jig to perfection. THE WAR IN AMERICA.---The commercial ad vices from New York strengthen the supposition that the war must be brought to a termination by the difficulty of providing for its enormous cost, The expenses of the Federal Government are daily increasing, and now amount to £250,000 per day. For the moment, however, the Se cretary of the Treasury had obtained enough to meet the demands upon him, the banks of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia having agreel to subscribe for about £8,000,000, entering, it is reparted, at the same time, into some agreement with regard to the furnishing of a further total of £22,000,000 between now and December. This advance is to be on Federal notes bearing interest at the rate of 7 3-10 per cent., having three years to run, with the option to the holder of converting them into United States 7 per cent. bonds for 20 years at par, or 6 per Cents. at 90±. Apparently, however, it is the conviction of the best observers that if the war continues all the banks, not withstanding the magnitude of their present stocks of gold, will have to suspend, and that it cannot be carried on upon a specie basis. The defeat of General Lyon was calculated to create great discouragement, since the recent hopes of the Federalists had in a great degree been founded on the rapid successes of that officer in Missouri. Although at the departure of the present steamer the rate of exchange was slightly less firm, an early improvement was expected from the fact that the orders now arriving from England for breadstuffs were at limits below the New York prices. ALARMING ROCKET EXPLOSION AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL.—Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock an explosion, which was fortunately unattended with loss of life, although two men were seriously injured, took place in one of the sheds attached to the laboratory department of Woolwich Arsenal. Since the last fatal explosion, when several lives were sacrificed, these sheds have been built perfectly de tached, with roofs of corrugated iron, and means of rapid egress provided. It appear; that three men were at work in a shed, one of whom, named William Pickering, had a rocket in process of manufacture is his hand, when by some means the missile exploded with a loud report, shaking the build ing to its foundation, and Dassing completely through the iron roof. Pickering and t man named Charles Munden, being much injured, were instantly conveyed to the in firmary, and attended by Drs. Briscoe, Burton, and Cole• man, when it was found that the left arm of Pickering was so injured as to render amputation necessary, which opera tion was performed. Murden was also much burned, but both sufferers are now doing well. WATER SUPPLY IN PARlS.—According to the report made by the commission of inquiry relative to the w,laateeerssmofostt poorly heDhuis, it app ears th a t Paris is one of the r only 90 litres per hBellaPdPlpic:fr d w a i y th , ‘ w v h a i t i e s r t , t t i h ie e n q o u m an in ti a t l y bein g quan tity is c„nsidered to be 150. Rome is the most highly favoured in this respect, receiving 944 litres per head every day; next conies in succession as regards quantity, New York, 568 litres; Carcascnne, 400 ; Besancon, 246 ; Dijon, 240; Marseilles, 186; Bordeaux, 170; Genoa, 120; Glas gow, 100; London, 95. Deducting from the quantity for Paris of 90 litres, the quantity expended for public foun tains and watering streets, &c., there only remains 35 ii‘rei of water pvr day for each inhabitant, . LATEST NEWS. TURIN, AUG. 27. The Opinione of to-day publishes a despatch from Arezzo announcing that 500 Papal Zouaves had assembled on the frontier, apparently with the intention of penetrating into the Italian ter- ritory. Measures had been taken to drive them back. ROME, AUG. 25. The French troops have arrested 150 reactionists at Pedece, in the Roman States. The brother of the ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany is expected here on Tuesday next, in order to marry the second sister of Franais 11. TURIN, AUG. 26. The Gazettff di Torino of to-day says : "It is rumoured that General Cialdini has de manded fresh troops, in order that he may be enabled to make a simultaneous attack on the in surgents." NAPLES, AUG. 26. Yesterday the reactionary band in the mountain of Somma was dispersed. The brigands at Matese, having been surrounded by 24 battalions, were all killed or taken prisoners ; 400 who endeavoured to cross the frontiers were taken by the French troops. PESTH, AUG. 26. A great popular demonstration took place in the city yesterday. The people shouted " Deak for ever !" " Hun gary for ever !" Order was not, however, disturbed. AUG. 26, Evening. The Assembly of the Comitat of Pesth has de clared its determination to cease to collect the taxes, considering that they are illegally imposed by the Government. The functionaries of the Comitat have consented to a reduction of their salaries. The expenses of the Comitat will be covered by voluntary contributions, and by the issuing of bonds. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 23.—Two o'clock.—The market has been rather more buoyant, and the business, though still limited in amount, has been at an advance on the closing rates of Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 70c. Railway Shares firm, with a slight improvement on some few of the lines. Three o'clock.—The following are the last quo tations :- 4* per per Cents ... 98 Credit Fancier 1242 50 Do end month.... 98 10 Belgian:4l lOl 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 75 Roman Bank Shares 2915 -- Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 745 , Spanish Threes 49 Do. Account 747 50 , Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1417 50 .. 1418 75 Northern New ditto 905 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 50 .. 1025 Geneva 347 50 .. 344 75 Southern 642 50 .. 645 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lorrbard 531 25 .. 532 50 ROME. The Siecle makes the following statement ; it must Le received with caution :—" A secret mani festo has been written by the Pontifical Govern ment which is to be delivered only to the Ministers of Rassia, Prussia, Spain, Belgium, Bavaria, and Austria. In this document, in which as for a last battle all its forces and all its complaints have been collected, the Papal Government clearly ex , plains itself. According to it, France did not enter Rome to protect the throne of Saint Peter, but to deliver it up to its enemies. The exclusive protection of the Emperor of the French is described as having made of the Pope not a protege, but a victim. In consequence, the Pope denounces that protection which ties his hands ; he protests against all that has been done, trusting to Divine protection for restoring to the Church the provinces of which it has been despoiled. Attaching not the slightest importance to the re serves with which France has accompanied the re cognition of the kingdom of Italy, the Pope declares that he regards that fact as the sanction of all the spoliations, of all the unjust aggressions directed both against the inalienable patrimony of Saint Peter as well as against himself personally." SPAIN. The Siecle contains the following mems. of Spanish news :—" The approaching dissolution of the Spanish Cortes is again talked of ; but will O'Donnell, who has already made a revolution in the name of electoral reform, and has reformed nothing at all, dare to present himself before the electors after having deceived them ? That is what we shall soon learn. In the meantime, the Ministry redoubles its rigours, not only against the Spanish, but the foreign press ; the frontier is hermetically closed against any journal which dares to throw doubt on the stability of the present Cabinet—in other words, scarcely a single French journal is to be found at Madrid. For our part, all we read in the Spanish journals are ridiculous or lamentable recitals of executions. The auto da fe of books have reappeared ; the works of a num ber of French writers are burnt by the hand of the executioner at the church doors ; the penalty of death continues to be applied with the same rigour to the prisoners of Andalasia. We have said that they are shot, but they are strangled ; the insur. gents of Vicalvaro find that the vile garotte is good enough for the insurgents of Loja." INT.ERN4I7IONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862. It has been decided that prizes or rewards of merit, in the form of medals, will be given in sections I, 11, 111. These medals will be of one class, for merit, without any distinction of degree. No exhibitor will receive more than one medal in any class or sub-class. An international jury will be formed for each class and sub-class of the Exhibition, by whom the medals will be adjudged. Each foreign commission will be at liberty to nominate one member of the jury for each class and sub-class in which staple industries of their country and its dependen cies aro represented. The names of the foreign jurors must be sent to her Majesty's Commissioners before the 28th of February, 1862. The British jurors will be chosen in the following manner : —Every exhibitor will name three persons to act on the jury for each class or sub-class in which he exhibits, and, from the persons so named, her Majesty's Commissioners will select three members of the jury for each such class or sub-class. Her Majesty's Commissioners reserve to themselves the power of modifying these arrangements in any particular case whero it may appear to them that the strict applica tion of the principles of these decisions would be attended with injustice. The names of the jurors will be published in March, 1862. The juries will be required to submit their awards, with a brief statement of the grounds of each, to her Majesty's Commissioners before the last day of May, 1862. Should the reasons assigned for any award appear in sufficient, or should no reason be given, her Majesty's Commissioners reserve to themselves the right of confirm ing or rejecting it. The awards will be published in the Exhibition Building, at a public ceremony, early in the month of June, 1862. They will inhnediately afterwards lx.) conspicuously attached to the counters of the successful exhibitors, and the grounds of each award will be very briefly stated. If an exhibitor accepts the office of juror, no medal can be awarded in the class or sub-class to which he is appointed either to himself individually or to the firm in which he may be a partner. The medals will be delivered to the exhibitors on the last day of the Lalaibitioni INDIA AND CHINA. .. •,,,, By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we have received our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to the 22d of July, and from Hongkong to the 12th of July. The Calcutta papers bring little news of interest. CHINA. We take the following from the Overland China .2lail of the 12th of July:— " In our last overland summary we reported everything quiet in Japan. It does not appear, however, that either on the native or foreign side exists a determination to keep the peace. To those acquainted with past events in that country, it will not appear a trifling matter that a gentleman living in YokuLama was recently attacked in his office by seven two-sworded officials, accompanied by 150 Coolies. The correspondent who narrates the causes which led to this, says that it arose out of the foreign merchants attempt ing to circumvent a refractory Japanese debtor, by obtain• ing payment in kind through the medium of a third party, who bought silk from the native debtor, referring him for payment to his foreign creditor, into whose godown the silk was conveyed. In a few hours the native's friends and Coolies attacked the foreigner, pinioned him, and took back the silk. Another merchant's godown was entered in open day, and some copper, about which there was a dispute as to price, was forcibly taken away. It is believed that the Govern • ment sanctions these proceedings, as they could not be re peated so openly without something like the connivance of the authorities. It is also reported that the Governor of Kanagawa had informed Mr. Alcock that such was the ill will of the people towards him that he could not give him assurance of being unmolested in his contemplated overland journey from Nagasaki to Jeddo. "From Pekin we hear that San-ko-lin-sin has captured Teng-hsien, and that the Tao-tai of Chi-tung had been degraded for cowardice, having retreated from the rebela without striking a blow. The Chinese correspondent of the North China Herald says:— " There is a report current that 13 successive victories had been achieved by Tseng-kwo-fan over the rebels, great numbers of whom were slain, it is said 20,000, which has caused much rejoicing among the people of Kiangnan.' " From the three no - :thern ports, viz., Newchwang, Tien-tsin and Cheefee (Tangchau), there is little news for the past fortnight. " Hankow and the other ports on the Yang-tze are still viewed with increasing interest by the merchant and the shipowner. Large freights are being brought from Han kow, and fresh vessels are being placed on the river. The siege of Chin-kiang has been raised, and its 18,000 Impe rial troops are free to operate in other directions. The in vestment of Nganking continues. The latest dates from Hankow are up to the 19th ult., they report the rebels as having made a nearer approach to the city. " At Shanghae much trouble had been felt owing to the plunder of valuable silk cargoes by people supposed to be long to the insurgent party. Gunboats had been sent to obtain restitution, and to enforce respect to all merchandise for the future ; they had succeeded in the first after a good deal of trouble, unattended, however, with violence, and good grounds exist for supposing that successowill follow their efforts in seeking to secure safety for the trader in time to come. The evil was beginning to assume an offensive form, and this interference on our part was as timely as, it is to be hoped, it will prove effective. A sad accident happened at Woosang on or about the 29th of last month. Mr. H. J. Allan, of her Majesty's Dockyard, went into the water to bathe ; he was missed soon after, and, although an expert swimmer, there is little doubt that he must have taken cramp and been drowned. The party who were with him used every effort to find his body, but without avail. Chapoo was visited by her Britannic Majesty's Consul on the 7th of last month. He called there with the Encounter, on his way from Shanghae. Reports state that the desola tion and misery of the place defy all description or belief ; the suburbs are a mass of ruins—not a soul to be seen. The city is like a city of the dead, with a few ruffianly scoundrels, calling themselves rebels, prowling about and ruling over the few wretches who were unable to flee at their approach. Altogether, the scene is described as one not easily forgotten when once seen." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Overland China Mail of July 12.) Tea.—Black remained much as at date of our last ad vices. A few parcels of common teas, say about 1,200 chests, had found purchasers at Tls. 18 to 33. Musters of tea shipped at Hankow have been shown, but from the ex travagant prices paid there does not appear much hope of a favourable result on the operation. Greens: There was little worthy of notice, American buyers anticipated the small parcels arriving at Ningpo, and paid extreme rates. Silk.—Considerable supplies had been received from the interior, but the gloomy advices from home had checked the ardour of buyers ; a little business had been done. The total settlements amounted to about 750 bales, of which 150 bales were of the new crop. In addition to this about 750 bales had come down on account of foreigners. The new crop is reported to be of inferior quality and short of yield, as compared with the corresponding one of last year. (From the Calcutta Englishman, July 22.) The Bombay express reached here on Saturday morning, bringing dates to the 18th of June. The mail steamer ar rived on the 19th at Galle, and her news was telegraphed here late at night of the 216 t, the communication being, as usual, defective. Produce Market.--No important alteration is noticeable. Trade is still extremely dull, the firmness of holders in re fusing to make any concess'ons being the principal cause. Import Market —Continued tightness of money in the bazaar, added to anxiety on the part of importers to disi ose of the very large quantity of goods lately to hand, has checked the advancing tendency of prices last noticed, and prices of goods generally are lower than they were a month ago, with a downward tendency, it being impossible to place any quantity without further concession in price. Advices from England up to 18th ultimo, per express just to hand, are not of a nature to cause improvement. Government Securities.—We have no improvement to report in this market. The only dealings are speculative and for local account, and the rates only vary a few annas from day to day, according to the urgency for any particular stock. Anything like demand for investment does not exist. In fact, there is no confidence in these securities generally. Joint-Stock Shares.—The transactions in joint-stock shares have been on a moderate scale, and Agra Bank and Bengal Bank shares have been placed at quotations. Steam tugs are firmer, but India Generals and other Inland Steam Company shares are dull, the impression being that too many are now entering upon this field of enterprise. Bengal Printing Company's scrip has been sold at 50 per cent. premium, the last dividend paid being at thb rate of 20 per cent. per annum. Assam shares are firm, and the prospectus of a new tea company is in circulation, uniting some of the best estates in Assam and Cachar. Dock shares are wanted at 1,120, but no sellers, East India Coal and Auction shares aro neglected. Exchange —The demand for bills on London continues comparatively limited, and rates are about as quoted by the Bombay mail. Bank bills have sold at from 2-01 to 2.4 chiefly at the latter rate ; Credits at from 2-04 to 2-0 i ; and Documentary at from 2-1 to 2-14. CREMORNE GARDENS. The announcement that the Female Blondin would again attempt the perilous task of crossing the Thames, attracted thousands of persons last evening to the scene of the anxiously looked-for exploit. shortly after six o'clock the firing of guns an nounced that the Female Blondin had commenced her perilous ascent ; and anon she was seen moving along the rope, dressed as heretofore in a gay Alba nian suit, and, pole in hand, up to the first sheers, with a steady and graceful step. Having ar rived at the sheers she mounted the little platform, and gracefully waved her hand to the applauding multitude below ; and, after a moment's rest, she passed down the incline, and so on to the other sheers, where again she saluted the public, who shouted their applause. The hand now struck up the " National Anthem," to the tune of which Madame marched forward to the end of the rope with a most martial air, thus terminating her fourth trial over the Thames in a manner that places her high on the list as an intrepid and daring mistress of her art. The various entertainments of the gardens were carried on throughout the evening in a manner that gave entire satisfaction to a crowded and fashion able company, and the fete altogether was a most successful one. It is evident that the line of management which Mr. Smith, the spirited pro prietor of the gardens, has marked out for himself is the one calculated to increase the popularity of this al fresco place of amusement. Mr. Edwin James, who left Europe by the Fulton arrived at New York on the sth. 1 MANSLAUGHTER OF THE WIFE OF CAPTAIN CHRISTY.—On Thursday the Wolverhampton magistrates committed for trial, at the next Staffordshire assizes, a brutal fellow, aged about 35, named Thomas Clark, a pit-sinker, for the manslaughter of Martha Christy, a young woman, aged about 27, the wife of Captain Christy, who was transported at Liverpool, about 18 months ago, for the manslaughter of one or more of his crew. The coroner' s j ur y had retur ned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy," but at the inqu es t evi dence was given of only one occa sion when she was the subject of the prisoner's ruffianism. Before th e mag i strates a series of brutalities on the part of the pri soner to the deceased were established in evidence. During the exami nation it was Ehowa that the ruffian had b een accustomed I maltreatingo bite the deceased duri n g the times ho was maltr ea ti ng her. Mrs. Christy was an American b y b irth, a well educated woman, 0 1 fasc inat ing manners, and genteel appearance. She had unfortunately become addicted to drink, Nut had taken to au abandozati life; . LITERATURE. Alone in the World. A Novel. By Mrs. Gordon Smythies, Author of " Cousin Geoffrey," " Mar ried for Love," &c. Three vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work is by one who has long been known to the public as a writer of striking fictions. These volumes contain much to attract the reader with their constant variety and their eventful incidents. Many of the characters are drawn with considerable skill. The mystery is kept up in a very successful manner till near the close of the narrative, and the peculiar circumstances of the case invest the story with some of the attributes that appertain to the old romances more than to the novels of the pre sent day. The heroine is a very gentle young crea ture, who underwent the most cruel sufferings, and who throughout conducted herself with judgment and foresight worthy of one far advanced in age. The earliest years of her life were passed in the country under the care of some kind friends, who had adopted her. For various reasons she was stolen, and would have undergone a dark destiny had she not escaped and found anew some shelter ing roof. From this again she was taken, but con trived to escape in a surprising manner. She was in an inner room, supposed to be asleep, while she heard the ruffians planning to destroy her as the dead tell no tales. She was gazing at the set of desperadoes, and giving herself up for lost, when a saving impulse seized her, and led her from certain destruction to safety and security : " A Heaven-suggested thought flashed across her mind. She crept to the window. The tide was on the flow, and it bathed the dark, slimy, discoloured walls of the crazy old house. " A boat which was stranded when they arrived there, and which, in spite of her terror and anguish, Our Mary had noticed, as it lay like a prisoner fastened to a stake— (one always does novice the smallest details with the eye, when the mind is engrossed by horror)—on the water, now it was dancing up and down, the rope no longer visible, and itself wafted close under the window of her room. " Gently Our Mary opened the broken window. How she trembled as it creaked and groaned ! but the sound, so distinct to her attentive and anxious ear, was quite lost to the boozers in their noisy revels. Our Mary clomb the window• sill, stretched her hand to one of the rugged wooden props of the old crazy house—reached it I Light and agile,, she turned round her pale face to the room, ven tured one little foot on to the projection in the buttress, drew herself out cautiously, felt for another projection with the other foot, completely cleared the window, and at the next attempt to find a footing, partly slipped, partly fell, down the slippery buttress, and into the very boat which came, as if wafted by some good, guardian angel, to the foot of the buttress at that very moment. " Our Mary was not unused to a boat; she had often been her Daddy Mayflower's companion in his little ex cursions to the island, in the lake•like pond at Woodhurst. " He made her a little oar, with which she delighted to think that she rowed daddy to the island, when the wind wafted him there. He had often tried to teach her to steer, and to help with her little rosy hands to loosen the knot of the rope, or to bale out the water, " And now Our Mary proved that all knowledge is use ful sooner or later ; for she knew how to release the boat, and where to sit, not caring to what spot she was wafted, so that it was far, far away from those terrible ruffians whom she had overheard and seen plotting her murder. " ' Father 1' she said, raising her eyes to Heaven, lam thy child, for thou art the father of the orphan. Oh, when wilt thou take me home ? I am alone in this world ; take me, father.' It was a beautiful sight, that little fair, golden-haired girl, not ten years old, with the bright moon shining full upon her, and she, her large eyes raised to Heaven in silent prayer and thankfulness, drifting up the stream, on which, luckily, owing to the hour (two in the morning), no steamers, no craft, were plying, no wherries or skiffs rowing. " She seemed to have the bright, silvery track all to her self, and to know no fear, but to be strong in a deep and happy conviction that He who was with Daniel in the lion's den, and with Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego in the fiery furnace—He who has promised never to forsake those who believe in him, and who pray to him—Ho who had put into Charles Linden's little heart to take her to Mrs. Toddles', and who had now enabled her to escape what seemed inevitable death—would not let her perish on that shining river, but would command the tide, the winds, and waves to bear her to a harbour of refuge, and the silver lamp of night to light her on her watery way 1" The various plots and counterplots that took place among the conspirators are very aptly described, and those who wish for an exciting story cannot do better than peruse its pages. Mina led a most wretched life, but it was in a great measure her our fault, as she had so early in life began a course of deception. She had far better have left home at once, and openly proclaimed her marriage with Egerton than have made such elaborate plans of deceit that with all their guilt had not even a rea sonable motive to explain what could not be ex cused. This fatal secret hung over her for many long years, and spoiled what should have been her brightest time. She carried about with her the consciousness that she had deceived every one, and thus more might be supposed against her than she had actually committed. It was in consequence of this secret marriage that all the misunderstandings arose which led to her separation from her second husband, the Earl of Beaudesert. Had she at least made up her mind to tell him of her marriage with Egerton and his untimely death in America, whither he had gone soon afterwards, her life would have been very different. The last passages of the tale concerning the trial are most exciting, and the denouement altogether is an in stance of great dexterity on the part of the author. The sudden appearance of the long lost Earl of Beaudesert was in itself an incident of great mo ment. As often occurs, the villains were caught in their own toils, for Gaspar Mountjoy was con victed by the evidence of some of his own gang. There was a touch of nature in Moonlight Meg that went far to redeem her bad qualities. She saw in the persecuted Mary, the orphan wanderer on the cruel highways of life a resemblance to her own child, dead long ago. This fancy made her save the life that had been doomed by the others, and long years afterwards brought her foaward as a witness of great importance when Mary stood at the bar arraigned for a charge of murder. Captain Jink's evidence was very apropos. He did not prove too much. He tried to screen hig quondam friend as well as he could, and therefore what he did disclose was doubly effective. The climax was 'when he averred the trial rested on false grounds, for the murdered child, on whose pretext it was convened, yet lived, and declared that he had hoped to have produced him in court as a most important witness for the defence. The, boy did appear, however, with his father, and thus happily terminated two dilemmas of the narrative. Gaspar destroys himself when his crimes are de tected, and he is then discovered to have been the real murderer of others as well as the intended destroyer of Mary and the boy. For variety in events and vividness in relation this novel need not fear to compete with many of its contempo raries, and the many lovers of the marvellous and admirers of the exciting should possess themselves of this tale, which abounds in all kinds of wonders. There are some secondary individuals met with who are ably delineated—Mrs. Bussel in particular. 'the scene in which she is discovered hiding in a shower-bath is admirably related. In her flurry to get out the foolish woman pulled the wrong string, and instead of untying the curtains she pulled the water down on her, and besides the shock, she annihilated her best dress of pink moire, and to secure the silence of the servants had to offer a douceur of five pounds. She had enough of eaves-dropping to last her for some time. This new work by the author of the well-known " Cousin Geoffrey," bids fair to be as successful as the other novels of its talented author, and many may turn from graver studies to dwell on the sorrows of her who was so early cast on the charity of others, and truly was left " Alone in the World." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN. this railway is expected to be opened for public traffic in the course of next spring. EASTERN UNION. The report to be submitted to a meeting of shareholders, to be held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, on Thursday states that, setting aside the requisite amount for incom tax, there will remain £7,215 Os. 2d. available for dividends, and the directors recommend that upon each £lOO of A stock a dividend be paid at the rate of £1 16s : per cent. pe r annum, and upon each £lOO of B stoc k a dividend at the rate of £1 4s. per cent. per annum. EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE. The report of the director s to the half- yearly genera smtaeteetsintghaot of thethdirectors the com Pan y'tobe held on th e 31 st instant, recommend the payment of a divi dend on the ordinary stock for the half-year, at the rate o one half per cent. per =num, which will amount to £3,135 10s., and leave £2lO 13s. 9d, to be carried forward. DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY. The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of £5 per cent. on the preference shares of the company, class A and B, leaving a balance of £358 ss. sd. to be carried to the next account. LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION. The directors recommend that a dividend be declared at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, carrying over the balance £432, to the reserve fund, which will then amount to £6,674. DUBLIN WICKLOW, AND WEXFORD. The new lice from Wicklow to Rathdrum, 81 miles in Length, was opened for traffic on the 20th inst. A pleasure boat was capsized off Lyme Regis, on Thursday last, when a young man and two girls were drowned. A boat was returning from the Boston regatta on Thursday evening, when it was capsized in the set-way and Mrs. Crooks, the widow of a master mariner, vise drowned, s. • THE SUN,I LONDON, TUESDAY EVENINCi, AUGUST 27, 1861. ~~. N.