The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

THEATRE 'LOYAL DittlßY-L&NE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Ocrosas 19. Will be performed MACBETH . Supported by blessrs. Cl. V. Brooke, J. Johnston, T. Lyon, A. Youage, I!organ, and Henri Dray ton ; Mesdames Vickery, Anderton, Featherstone, and ted E. Ormond. To be followed by VERY SUSPICIOUS. Suppor by Mr. G. Wild and Miss F. Williams. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CnAuss KLAN THIS EVENING, ocr. 19, Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, Lord B y ron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALIJA, con siderably abridged for stage representation. Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. T o conclude with A RAND FOR AN OLIVER. Supported by Mr. W. Lacy and Miss C. OL Leelercq. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, 3ladsune Celeste. THIS EVENING. Ocr. 19, Will be performed THE DISCARD ED SON. Ch a racters by Keeley and bliss Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Seeley; Mrs. Woolgar. After which, THE CAMP AT CFIOBFIAM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook •`A Biffin." To conclude with COMING OF AGE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Ocr. 19, Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wiqan,. Pry,Eme P. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ; Mesdames A. Wigan, W S i n, oron, Chatterley, E. Turner, and Wyndham. To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. .et.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIRD APPEARANCE of Miss KATE COOKE on her milk-white Charger, Snowdrop, expressly trained for her by Mr. W. Cooke. Last Three Nights of the Battle of Waterloo. Mr. W. Cooke, ever anxious to present the Patrons of this popular Theatre with every possible Novelty the Continent affords, has, at an enormous ex pense, entered into an Engagement with Mons. CLEUSH and his Extraordinary ACTING TROUPE of DOGS and MONKEYS, whose wondrous performances abroad have been the theme of universal astonishment and admiration. They will appear for the First Time on SAT URDAY, s October 23. THIS EVENING, OcT. 19, And during the week, will be presented (the 32d time) the New Classical Burlesque, entitled JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE PALL OF PHiETON; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN —supported by the entire strength of the Company. To be followed by Mr. W. Cooke's matchless Scenes in the Circle, Introducing, for the Third Time, Miss KATE COOKE, and those asto nishing Artistes, Signor CARLOTTIE and Signor FRANCOIS on LA. PERCHE. Concluding with (108th time) THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Vv est .DAILY WEATHER TABLE. WEDNESDAY, 00T. 19, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following rlaces at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON-- N.W., strong breeze—cloudless. FOLKESTONE —N., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE--N., gentle breeze—cloudless. STROOD—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SWINDON--S.W., light airs—cloudless. CAMBRIDGE—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. BIRMINGHAM—N.W., calm—foggy. FARRINGDON—W., gentle breeze—fair. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : SOUTHAMPTON—S., strong breeze—heavy rain. BIRMINGHAM—S.W., calm—rain. LANOASTER—N.W., calm—cloudless. HOLYHEAD—E. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—W.N.W., gentle breeze cloudless frost. SHAT—S.E., calm—partially cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAT —Morning 6 min.after 3 Evening 19 min.aft. 3 rOZIORROS , —Morning 35 min.after 3 I Evening 49 min.aft. 3 TBE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, OCT. 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55 —highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'05—a sudden fall of nearly half an inch since yesterday. WIND, E.S.E. to S.E.—Squally and foul weather, with continuous rain. c a~ ru t . ~~~e .`~' ghg LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1853. Everything now tends to confirm the accuracy of our judgment (from the outset) in regard to the Fasttern Question—events proving more clearly from day to day that war has become ine vitable, and that its outbreak is, indeed, imminent. The last shadowy hope of concessions being volun- teered at the eleventh hour by the AUTOCRAT are at length dissipated. The rumoured advances towards an amicable settlement at Olmiitz are at last shown by facts to have been altogether ima- ginary. Instead of yielding, the CZAR has only evinced a disposition to be more obdurate in his demands, to be more haughty in his bearing, and to be more lawless in his encroach- raents. Throughout in reality, the Emperor NICHOLAS is discovered by England to have acted with the most heinous duplicity towards the Western Governments. While talking about an arrangement in reference to the guardianship of the Holy Places in Palestine, he was secretly pre paring the mission of Prince MENSCHIKOFF, and getting his troops in readiness to enable Prince GORTZCHAKOFF to cross the Pruth and take formal possession of the Danubian Principa- lities. When he affected merely to be argu ing about the arrangement of certain eccle siastical formularies, he was multiplying his warlike resources at Odessa, and enhancing his vast maritime preparations at Sebastopol. Pre cisely in the same way has the AUTOCRAT con- ducted his policy in regard to the Cabinets of France and England at the close of this agitated correspondence, no less monstrously than at its commencement. Everywhere, indeed, he has betrayed hypocrisy towards the councils of Queen VICTORIA and the Emperor NAPOLEON, from first to last of these extended and elaborated, but utterly abortive and ineffectual nego tiations. He has repeated at Olmiitz the treacherous policy adventured upon at Con stantinople. Assuming a magnanimous pre ference for a pacification, he has endeavoured to foment under the mask of that pretended par tiality a discord among the chief Powers of Europe, such as, if ultimately brought about, must devastate with a conflict perhaps never sur passed for ferocity the various races of the Euro pean Continent. In order to accomplish this sinister and dastardly design, the Russian AUTOCRAT recently held out at Olmiitz to Austria, and afterwards at Warsaw to Prussia, a series of magnificent and scarcely re sistible temptations. From the outset we in sisted that such must inevitably prove the upshot of tlaat It in acknowledged, Suspicious meeting of the three Sovereigns. at last, even by one of the zee° guised. Organs of the ABERDEEN Government. It is mad_sssiaidnevitebis.subject, at length, of a Ministerial country, that the Councils of Berlin tampered with by those have been thus shamelessly the organs of St. Petersburg. Never thelessof the Coalition continue as yet to maintai n th a t the bribes held out by the CZAR successively to Paikl `lois JOSEPH and to FREDERICK WILLIAM have, as yet, failed to win over entirely those two Monarchs from their ques tionable positions as member s o f the Conference, and nominal allies of the Sultan ABD-UL-11 ruin This confidence of the Aberdeenist s in the . j u t e _ grity of Austria and Prussia we believe to be as entirely mistaken, and calculated, if acted upon, to prove almost as lamentably disastrous as that which has been hitherto expressed by them in the good faith of the Rus sian AUTOCRAT. S2eaking more plainly and explicitly, we would reueat here what we have before now insisted upon—namely, that in the end it will be found that the lures offered to the Austrian and the Prussian Sovereigns have not proved so absolutely unsuccessful as would be maintained by the champions of the existing .A.d Ministration. Occurrences, we rest assured, 'rill reveal that the CzAR has so far triumphed o ver the scruples of the Prussian King and the Austrian Emperor, that he has bound them over to a, n eu- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1853. trality in the event of war eminently advantageous to his designs upon Constantinople. A little while longer, and the world will be able to appreciate more confidently the relative merits and demerits of these conflicting Governments. A little while longer, and impartial spectators will recognise the arrogance of Russia more clearly I than through the insolent bearing of MENS CIIIXOFF - her contempt for trea ties more clearly than through her occupation of Moldo- Wallachia her insincerity towards France and England more clearly than through her recent efforts at Olmfitz to secure the formal with drawal of Prussia and Austria from the Viennese Conference. Exactly in the same way, as we be lieve, that a little while longer will qualify the public at large to understand, what we regret to think is only conjectured as yet by the generality —the formidable strength and magnanimous for bearance of the Mahometan Government at Con countrymen, and induce them to submit their claims to arbitration. We fear that a leglislative remedy will be required for the domestic evil, while in our foreign relations we must still rely on the old-fashioned operations effected by cold steel and dry gunpowder—by stately ships and well-disciplined troops. DRURY LANE THEATRE. MR. E. T. SMITH'S BENEFIT. There are few who will not readily acknowledge that Mr. E. T. Smith is entitled to the highest praise for planting once more the legitimate drama on the boards of Old Drury. The experiment was a hazardous one, after the repeated failures of other managers, but, thanks to Mr. Smith, he foresaw that if talent of a high order could be obtained, the public would not fail to bestow their patronage upon him, and this has really been the cue ; for though Mr. Brooke's engagement has been short, Drury-lane has not seen a more brilliant season for many a year than the pre sent. All honour then is due to Mr. Smith, and although we have no doubt that his expectations have been amply met, we confidently trust that to-night, which lie has fixed for his benefit, and when Mr. Brooke, as we have already announced, appears for the first and last time in Macbeth, will present as crowded and well paying a house as any during the palmiest days of the theatre. Such a mark of approbation on the part of the public would encourage him to renewed exertions when the departure of Mr. Brooke for America will compel him to look around for other attractions. stantinople. At this critical juncture two facts at least are altogether indisputable—that war is unavoidable, and that there is an end, at any rate for the time being, of these preposterous negotiations. It is difficult to say whether the nation has suffered the more serious injury from the unpro voked and wanton aggression of the Great North- ern despot on his inoffensive neighbour, or from the disturbed and excited state of the labour market. Our foreign trade has been deeply in- ured by the one. Our domestic peace has been greatly endangered by the other. If the CzA. R has occasioned a material falling off in the de mand for our various manufactures, the equally unjustifiable proceedings of the operatives have diminished production in a still larger propor tion. The occupation of the Danubian Princi palities has contributed in no ordinary degree to enhancing the rate of interest and the diminution of the circulating medium, the very life-blood of industry, the clamour for increased wages, and the numerous strikes that have occurred throughout the entire country have led to a general cessation of employment, and threaten a deplorable reduc tion in the Excise returns, which indicate the con- dition of the labouring population, and the amount of comforts enjoyed by those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. The employer, as we have long since stated, is placed between two fires. On the one side he finds a monetary screw applied, which restricts the pecu niary accommodation essential to the success of his operations. Should he be even so fortunate as to obtain an adequate supply, he has to submit to an enormous increase in the rate of discount, and may be well contented if he gets what he requires at double or even three times the amount paid last year for similar advances. It is unnecessary to show how this formidable addition to his expenditure increases his risk and cuts down the margin of profit. Its effects must be obvious to any person having the slightest acquaintance with business, or experience of the many difficul ties that obstruct the path of the master manufac turer. He might, however, contrive to struggle on if supported by his men. But, unfortunately, those who should sustain and support him in the arduous struggle, have, with strange and unac countable indiscretion, become his most formid able assailants. It is almost needless to say, then, that he must succumb when simultaneously miler- ing under so many injurious influences, that he must relinquish the attempt to provide remunera tive occupation for those who are so totally oblivi ous of their own interests. He may save some remnant of his capital from the storm ; but what will become of those who have driven him from his position by their unjustifiable demands ? They will have ample cause to deplore their short-sighted infatuation—their unreasoning as well as un grateful folly—betokening a similar infirmity of head and heart, a deficiency of intellect, and of kindliness of feeling. It ought to be obvious to those parties that the prime cost of the article is made up of the several items of raw material, interest of money, and workmen's wages ; and if the two former elements in the calculation are materially increased, the latter must be, if practicable, reduced in a cor responding ratio, to admit of the supply being continued at such prices as to lead to a continued demand. Experience teaches that the demand is in an inverse ratio to the price—that as the latter increases the former declines, till there is slack ness, then paralysis of trade, and ultimately a commercial crisis—from which the labouring po pulation are, as in every disturbaance, the chief sufferers. We do not believe that a strike for wages could be beneficial to those for whose alleged benefit it is made. Under any circumstances, and we believe that a successful strike is even more injurious to the operatives than an unsuccessful one ; but those who fancy otherwise, if possessed of the smallest portion of common sense, should surely select a time when money was cheap and trade active for such attempts, in place of a period the most in auspicious that could be chosen, and which could not have been more unfavourable if determined by a committee of masters. Meanwhile the contest proceeds with increased virulence on either side. The employers are animated by a strong sense of the impropriety and unfairness of the movement, while the work men are displaying a degree of arrogance and insolence proportioned to the badness of their cause. They will not listen to reason, because conscious that their cause cannot bear in vestigation. Like NICHOLAS, they rely on their supposed strength, and stand on their " dignity,"—their dignity forsooth ! as prevent ing them from coming to any reasonable adjust ment. And their madness is kept up by a set of miscreants, who reap unhallowed profits from the miseries of their unfortunate dupes—a set of vampires that prey upon the happiness of their victims—who live only in an atmosphere of strife and insubordination. If working men were awakened to their true interests they would shun the entire body of committee-men, delegates, and the entire genus of pot-house legislators as their worst enemies ; rendering them discontented with their positions, and inducing them--to use el us w e itl a i vulgar, but expressive phrase — " to quarrel their bread and butter." The contest which commenced at Preston is rapidly spreading to the surrounding localities. The mills at Burnley are, we believe, already closed—and those at Bacup, Accrington, Coln; and the surrounding vicinities are stated to be under notice. The masters are no fools. They will not suffer themselves to be beaten in detail, or to keep one body of malcon tents in occupation to support others in idleness. They may be well assured that a partial victory would be followed lip, and that they themselves would be victimised in turn—all that the greatest favourite could hope would be to obtain the boon granted by the Cyclop to ouric, and to be the last devoured. They now, however, see the magni tude of the emergency, and therefore will act in concert, for surelytheymay the Work which b thousands,een thet o cre andr s and tens producers of t aisl via m b . The result will be a general sus pension, by haveen of national wealth will become unprofitable c i () t- Ii .. sumers. It is a war in -011 t fact that, has been coin a menced—a w ar of labour against capital—a war t far more injurious we n a ti ona l p ro sperity than any in which with other states, op opportunity for testin g the' efficacy is an y of the lu c could be involved Here, doc trines of the Peace Society, for ascertaininghow far Mr. COBDEN may be trusted. trust our lives and properties to the33pefroorteeti weo n n of the broad-brimmed and drab -coated arbitrators, let us see how they can restore to peace their own LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.; jority of whom are invested with command, that the Austrian internuncio has thought proper to remind the Ottoman Porte of its engagements on FRANCE. 1 that subject. Reschid Pacha has promised that 1 orders should be immediately sent to the camp at The Minister of War having been informed that Schumla relative to such refugees as might be Aus a number of German families have recently gone trian subjects. into Algeria, without having the pecuniary re- The Press of Vienna has the following from Con sources required to obtain a concession of land, has stantinople :—" Since the Sultan has sanctioned ordered that henceforth emigrants applying for a the late resolutions of the Divan, he passes the day gratuitous passage to the colony shall be obliged in religious duties. The Sheikul Islam visits his to prove that they actually possess 2,000 fr. if they Majesty every day, and gives him interpretations of want to obtain a concession of land, 400 fr. if they verses of the Koran relative to war. It is positively be workmen with families, and 100 fr. if unmarried stated that Abd-el-Kader has been asked whether, workmen. -f war, he would accept a command, NF We mentioned yesterday the arrest and discharge of M. Goudchaux. The particulars connected with the affair are given by th 9 Sieele. It appears that a domiciliary visit was made to him by the police at a quarter-past four in the morning. The war rant accused him of detention of warlike arms, and. of affiliation to secret societies. The much lasted until eight o'clock. No arms nor any indication of belonging to secret societies were found. The com missary of police, however, thought it his duty to seize about 140 documents, all or nearly all receipts for sums of money paid by M. Goudchaux to exiles or to their families. For nearly twenty months M. Goudchaux, with a devotedness for which he cannot be too highly praised, has occupied himself in collecting assistance for such necessitous families as have suffered from late political events. After this long search M. Goudchaux was taken to the prefecture of police, where he remained in custody until ten o'clock. The commissary of police who had arrested him then came and informed him that he was at liberty, but that the Prefeet of Police would retain the papers seized. A domiciliary visit has been paid, it is also said, to the house of M. Bastide, Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Republic. Copies of a pamphlet of Ledru Rollin, for which the present state of poli tical affairs was no doubt considered a favourable occasion, are said to have been introduced into Paris and distributed ; and this in all probability gave rise to the domiciliary visits. It is described as making an appeal to the Republican party to unite, and the title of the work is, it appears, "Union contre le Tyran." The Emperor and the large party congregated at Compiegne continue to enjoy the sports of the field, notwithstanding the unfavourable weather. The Bourse, which opened heavily yesterday, im proved before the conclusion of business, and pub lie securities in general recovered from the depres sion of the morning. The tone of the manifesto presented by the Porte on the 4th instant to the Ambassadors was regarded by the speculators as moderate, and calculated to lead to an arrange ment. The Three per Cents. opened at 72f. 40c., and fell to 72f. 20c. They rose subsequently to 72f. 65e., and closed at 72f. 60c. for the end of the month The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 30c. ; Orleans Railway shares, 1,155 f. ; Rouen, 1,012 f. 50c. ; Havre, 480 f. ; Great Northern, 837 f. 50c. ; Paris and. Strasburg, 907 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 892 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 727 f. 50c. • Western of France, 692 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 55f. • Lyons and Geneva, 500 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 700 f. in case ok gotiations have taken place through the media tion of the Sheik-ul-Islam, and the Turks posi tively say that the Emir is disposed to accede to the desire of the Ottoman Porte, but he wishes in the first place to apply for the consent of the French Government. He will have a command in Asia should matters be brought to an under standing. Notwithstanding the warlike aspect of things, it is still thought that a pacific solution will be come to. Great reliance is placed. on the sentiments of the Emperor Nicholas. It is certain. that M. Argyropoulo, agent of Russia, had an in terview with Reschid Pacha before his departure. It is concluded from this that Russia does not desire war." MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,500 American were taken for export and on speculation. The market closed firmly, and, compared with Friday's rates, prices of American at 51d. to 6kd. were *d per lb. higher, Brazil and Egyptian id. lower, and Surat without alteration. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 20 Pernam and Maranham at 6d., 40 Bahia at 6id., 20 Egyptian at Bd., and 700 Surat at 3d. to 41d. per lb. Railways were firm. At the Indigo sale yesterday the remainder of B catalogue passed, which went off exceedingly flat. A catalogue was then resumed, but went off with out animation, and prices were again rather in favour of buyers ; 2,199 chests passed, of which 1,067 were withdrawn, 714 bought in, leaving 418 sold. Total passed, 14,520. The sale is expected to finish this afternoon. There are no arrivals to-day, and the absence of the correspondence which should at least a fort night since have reached the merchants from Australia causes a lull in business which is not due so much to the money market as to the want of in formation. It cannot be denied, however, that there is a desire in most circles to contract engage ments as much as possible. In some observations upon the state of the corn market by Messrs. Sturge and Co., the fact is very properly noted, that there is no probability of short supplies, considering the numerous countries which have a superabundance, and only wait the means of transport. What with the high prices that exist, and the impediments that have been thrown in the way of other busi ness, the growers of corn, a s we ll as th e merc h an t s , will be glad to push forward any quantity they can obtain. Under these circumstances speculators should be cautious how they act. If it be admitted that the wheat crop is more deficient than in any year since 1816, it is also true that the quantity of other grain is a_ full average, and it must be taken into account that the lateness of the harvest brings us one month nearer at least to the next crop ; so that we have to look to a provision for 11 rather than for 12 months, supposing 1854 gives us an earlier harvest than we have had this year. The very wet and unpropitious weather we are now experiencing is against the putting in of seed, and contrasts unfavourably with the beautiful weather that prevails in France. Ships being released from the Australian and other overdone trades, will be come available for the carrying of grain, and this is matter for congratulation, since the scarcity of vessels has been a great hindrance to the trade. There was a slight decline again yesterday after noon in the rates at which bills of exchange upon the principal Continental cities were negotiated here. Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25 274 to 324; Amsterdam, 11 18 to 181: Hamburgh, 13 6 to 64; and Trieste, 11 18 to 22. There are indications of an increased demand for gold, and shipments of silver to India will con tinue. By the Orinoco, 61,0001. has to-day been sent to Peru. At Paris gold is dearer than here, and money is in demand at Hamburgh. The annual statistics compiled from official re turns by Mr. Mihill Slaughter, the secretary of the railways department of the Stock Exchange, and forming No. 7 of " Railway Intelligence, " are fuller even than those previously given. Look ing at the dividends upon the various classes of shares since the year 1838, there are some very cu rious changes. In the year 1841 the Birmingham and Gloucester line paid at the rate of only 14 per cent. per annum, and in the following year not more than 14, whereas in 1846 it had merged into the Midland upon the excellent terms of 6 per cent. The Bristol and Exeter since 1842 has fluctuated from about 34 to 44 per cent. per annum. The Eastern Counties during the second half of 1850, and the first half of 1851 paid no dividend, al though in 1846 it afforded 64 per cent. Its last return was at the rate of about 24 per cent., leav ing still much room for development or recovery. The Lancashire and Yorkshire, in 1847, paid 7 per cent., and now does not yield half that amount. The London and Birmingham was as high as 111-10 per cent., and since it has become the North- Western A has been down to 5 per cent ; the South- Wes;;arn has varied between 1839 and 1853 from 3 to 8 per cent. per annum ; the Midland from 7 to about 2 per cent ; and the South-Eastern from 6-three-tenths to about 3 per cent. It would be difficult to trace out the particular causes of these great changes, but the general influence of competition, amalgamation, and excessive expen diture, together with precipitate guarantees, is everywhere palpable. In the English Stock Market there has been a much duller tone than of late, and although a few money purchases for investment have been made, the supply of Consols seems to have increased, and the full employment obtained for money is proba bly leadin g to a few sales by the bankers. Consols have been 91$ and i for transfer, and 911 and g for account. Tlie speculative business is very circum scribed, and the market evidently is not now de pending upon politics so much as upon money. The New 3f per Cents. have been 92g to 1, and the 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, 94 to 94. Bank Stock is steady at 217. Exchequer Bills are 4s. to Bs. premium. Foreign Securities are but little dealt in. Spanish Deferred Bonds have been at 211, and the Certifi cates at 51. Mexican Stock is not higher than 23/ 5. Sardinian Bonds have been 90&. Dutch, 2i per Cents. have been quiet at 62/. There have been no transactions in Russian. The Railway Share Market is even tamer than the funds, and prices rule slightly in favour of buyers. French shares keep steady, but with very little doing. It is stated that the brokers at Paris exerc ise the greatest caution in conducting specu lative operations for their clients, and that in many cases there is a refusal to do business even for par ties of known means, unless a large deposit is given to cover any possible loss. In fact, the wish seems to be to avoid business. Under these circumstances the quotations given from day to day in the Paris Cours Authentique are principally nominal. In the foreign and colonial mining markets there have been a few bargains at about the previous rates, but the Nouveau Monde are l ower . The shares of the Australian Banks are firmer. Peel River Land Shares are about the same. London Dock Stock has been done 30s. lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Ofwial List.) Business done. ~ 217 Bank Stock ........ ......... 3 per Cent. Reduced Am.lies 9 oi 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9li New 3 1 per Cent. Annuities 923 a Lo'ig A n nuites, Expha sth Jan., 1860 -16 3-16 rmsols for Account Exchequer Bills, 2d. £lOOO £5OO 7 4 8 p Small 7 4 8 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Equador Bonds Mexican 3 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 904 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2ll Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5/ p c Dividends on the above payable in London. utch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil HALF-PAST TWO. Consols 9ls Ditto October Account 9la t% MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat was on offer in to-day's market. Owing to the brisk advices from Liver pool, the demand ruled very firm, and, in some instances, rather more money was obtained for fine samples. There was more doing in foreign wheat, the show of which was far from extensive, at the extreme rates of Monday. Floating cargoes were firm. Barley and malt moved off steadily, but we have no change to notice in their value. Oats were in good request, and the turn higher. Beans, peas, and flour sold on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. I Malt. 680 J 1,030 400 15,130 6,170 Wheat. 570 English .. Irish .... Foreign .. Oats. Flour. 39 1,120 5,! 6 ) 4,520 1,8401,r1 WHITECHAPEL. The general domain], ruled heavy, at drooping prices. Beef from 2s 6d. to 3s 8s ; mutton, 33 4cl to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 6d to 5s Od per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. The demand is active, and fine new East Kent pockets have sold as high as 181. 18s. per cwt. Duty, 135,0001, to 140,0001. JUDGES' CLERKS.—lnstead of fees, the judges clerks are now, paid by salaries. The three associates to the chief judges have each 1,0001. a-year ; the three senior clerks to the associates each 1501. ; the three junior clerks to the associates each 1001. ; the principal clerks to three chief judges each 7001. a-year ; the principal clerks of the other twelve judges each 6001. ; and the other clerks of the chief and puisne judges, eighteen in number, 400. a-year each. ILLEGALITY OP OMNIBUS ADVERTISING. — In addition to the informations that have hitherto been laid against omnibus proprietors for evading the directions of the new act of Parliament in regard to lighting a lamp in the interior of the vehicle at night time, more informa tions have yet to be heard by the magistrates on account of the same parties persisting in exhibiting placards or advertisements upon the panels of their vehicles, and also in the interior of the same, such a practice being prohibited by the new law now in operation. AUSTRIA. " According to as exact a calculation as can be made, the reduction in the Austrian army will," says the Lloyd of Vienna, " amount to 100,000 men. This measure will procure to the Treasury a saving of 25 millions of florins a year, without calculating the saving which will arise from the diminution of the number of horses." The Trieste . Gazette states that the recent decree of the Emperor of Austria depriving the Jews of the right to purchase landed property does not apply to Trieste and its territory or to Istria, and the greater part of the circle of Gorz, as the privileges possessed by the Jews, as regards those districts, date previously to 1848. _ _ _ A few . days ago we - stated on the authority of some foreign journals that M. Kossta., the Hun garian, had embarked in an American vessel for the United States. The following letter from Smyrna, dated the sth, in the German Journal of Frankfort, shows that this statement was un founded : " Kossta is still in the French hospital, and his affair has assumed a new appearance. The Consul of the United States has declared to the Consulate-General of Austria that Kossta was either Austrian or American ; that, if an Austrian, he ought to be given up to Elustria, but, if an American, he could, as a free man, go or stay when he pleased. The Consul added that he had no orders to receive from the American Embassy at Con stantinople, but solely from his Government. In conse quence he refused to receive and send off M. Kossta. Mr. Brown, Secretary of the American Legation at Constantinople, then demanded from M. Pichon, Consul of France, that Kossta should be given up ; but M. Pichon refused, saying, that he only undertook to give up Kossta to one of the parties, with the consent of the consuls of Austria and the United States. Mr. Brown thereupon obtained from the Ambassador at Constanti nople an order addressed to M. Pichon to give up M. Kossta, even without the consent of the Consul of the United States. But M. Pichon would not execute the order, saying, that he was under an engagement to the consuls of Austria and the United States. Kossta, on his side declared, that, under the circumstances, he would not quit his prison. Mr. Brown accordingly returned to Constantinople without having obtained anything, and the affair, far from being arranged, tends to become more complicated." ITALY. The Parlament° of Turin announces that sixteen refugees arrived at Nice on the 1 9th, under arrest, from Genoa, and were afterwards sent to the fort of Villafranca. They are all men of the lower class, such as joiners and day-labourers. A letter from Florence of the 12th, in the Par lament° of Turin, states that Miss Cunninghame had to be forced out of prison, morally at least, if not literally, since she would not accept of her liberty as a favour, but as a right. The official who communicated to her the order for her libera tion was obliged to inform her that he had full power to make her leave her prison, whereupon she demanded a certificate in due form, stating that she had been forcibly ejected. From Rome we learn that old plans for the building of dwellings for the working classes have been taken up again by the Papal Government, in order to meet the extraordinary increase of popu lation with a suitable increase in habitations. SPAIN. The interment of the remains of the Marq-uis do Valdegamas and the poet Moratin, which recently arrived in Madrid from Paris, took place on the 12th with a good deal of pomp in the cemetery of the Church of San Isidro. M. Bellestros, Minister of King Ferdinand VII., died on the 13th. It is said that the Government is about to pro ceed to a new adjudication of the Northern Rail way. The operation this time is to be effected by shares. The director of telegraphs is expected from France, where he has been to purchase the materiel for the electric telegraph from Irun to Madrid ; and it is hoped that in a short time our electric communications will be established. M. Luis Lopez Ballesteros, former Minister of Finance under Ferdinand VII., died at Madrid on the 12th. It 'was reported that the concession of the Northern Railway would shortly be put up to public auction. The Three per Cents. were done at 41i ; the New Three per Cents., at 22i ; the Debt of the First Class, at 9i ; and that of the second, at 5 1-16. BELGIUM. The customs' officers at Ostend, on Friday night and Saturday, prevented, in virtue of a royal decree, the exportation of a quantity of potatoes and pulse in England. M. Adolphe Barrot had an audience of the King of the Belgians on Sunday, to present his letters of credence as French minister at the court of Brussels. PRUSSIA. - -- - The New Prussian Gazette states that imme diately after the recess the Germanic Diet will discuss a bill against the abuses of the public press. MALTA. - ------- The following is from Malta, dated Oct. 12 : The Earl of Carlisle arrived here on board the Firebrand. To-morrow the Caradoc leaves for Besika Bay. The Ardent, with the Trident in tow, the latter being damaged, has come in from Constantinople. CONTINENTAL MERCANTILE ACCOUNTS.—The mercan tile accounts from the continent are of a mixed character. At Paris the rate of exchange has descended to a point that will attract fresh remittances of gold from this country. The Hamburgh advices mention that a con siderable pressure for money still exists, the rate of dis count being 5 per cent, for three months' bills, and 51 to 6 for shorter dates. At Amsterdam the market re mains free from agitation, the rate being as low as 2 per cent., without any immediate symptoms of any intention on the part of the Bank to decide upon an advance. From St. Petersburgh the dates are to the 11th inst., when the rate of exchange was rather less unfavourable for this country, the quotation being 38id. to 39d. The demand for shipping was unabated, and freights were again higher than ever. At Odessa, on the 7th inst., the news of the Turkish declaration of war had been received, and had created considerable excitement. The Greek houses were fully convinced that hostilities would ensue, but among others there was a strong belief that the advanced state of the season will prevent all active operations until the spring, and that meanwhile a diplomatic adjustment may be brought about. RAVAGES OF BEARS IN SPAIN.—The sportsmen 0 Luchon having received information that several bears had made their appearance in the neighbourhood of the Spanish frontier, where they had destroyed several cows, lately formed themselves in two bands, one to act in Aragon, and the other in Catalonia. In two days it was announced that the one in Aragon had killed one bear and wounded another, but that unfortunately one of the party had been seriously wounded in an encounter with one of them, and was obliged to be left at a house to receive medical assistance. The party who went into Catalonia also killed one bear and two cubs. A MAN WITH TWENTY WIVES.— A man calling him self Dr. William Hunter, but whose real name is said to be Nathaniel J. Bird, is in gaol at Camden, New Jersey, on a charge of bigamy, and various other charges. On Sunday, Elizabeth Harrington, a lady of Philadelphia, visited him in prison, and ascertained that he was the man to whom she was married on the 9th of July last. On the same day he was visited by another lady from Kensington, named Mary Thomas, to whom he was married in May last. It is also stated that he has a wife in Reading, another in Wilmington, Delaware, and another yet in Philadelphia. The prisoner is only about 23 years of age, and, it is stated, declares that he has 20 wives—a statement Which may be true, as more than one-fourth of that number have been found within a few days. It is alleged that he abandoned each wife soon after marriage, and that they never heard of him after until his recent arrest. The affair creates the greatest excitement in Camden.—American Paper. LUCK IN AUSTRALIA.—A Chelmsford man, who left this country to tempt fortune in Australia, in a letter dated Geelong, May 31, 1853, says :—"The diggings go on well, and last week five young men, who had been digging for 20 months, although they never fell on any large quantity, were on the whole so successful as to bring down gold to the value of 20,0001." He adds— "they are now about to return home, and will bring it with them to sell." RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The following is a translation of the letter from Omer Pacha to Prince GortschakoT:— " Monsieur le General,—lt is by the order of my Government that I have the honour to address this letter to your Excellency. _ _ _ " Whilst the Sublime Porte has exhausted all means of conciliation to maintain at once peace and its own independence, the Court of Russia has not ceased to raise difficulties in the way of any such settlement, and has ended with the violation of treaties—invading the two Principalities of Molda via and Wallachia, integral parts of the Ottoman Empire. " True to its pacific system,. the Porte, instead of exercising its right to make reprisals, confined itself even then to protesting, and did not deviate from the way that might lead to an arrangement. "Russia, on the contrary, far from evincing cor responding sentiments, has ended by rejecting the proposals recommended by the august mediating Courts—proposals which were alike necessary tt the honour and to the , security of the Porte. " There only remains for the latter the indis pensable necessity of war. But as the invasion of the Principalities and the violation of treaties which have attended it, are the veritable causes of war the Sublime Porte, as a last expression of its pacific sentiments, proposes to your Excellency, by my intervention, the evacuation of the two pro vinces, and grants for your decision a term of fif teen days, to date from the receipt of this letter. If within this interval a negative answer shall reach me from your Excellency, the commence ment of hostilities will be the natural consequence. " While I have the honour to make this intima tion to your Excellency, I embrace the opportunity to offer the assurances of my high esteem." To this note, the Russian General Gortschakoff has intimated that he " has no orders to commence hostilities, nor to conclude peace, nor to evacuate the Principalities." A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th, an nounces that the Emperor Nicholas had adopted warlike measures of the highest importance. The Russian army is formed into two divisions. The first army is intended for great operations in Eu rope ; the second is reserved for local service. It is said that the " army of Europe," which is at present stationed in the west of Europe—of which the principal corps occupy Russian Poland, and the other corps, stationed in the rear, form the reserve —is called to active service. A letter from Warsaw, of the 9th inst., states that the corps, under the command of General Panjutin, stationed near that city, has received orders to proceed to the Pruth. Accounts from Constantinople of Oct. 6, state that the manifesto, which has been looked for for some days past, came out on the sth, the first day of the Mouharem, the new year of the Mussul mans. Copies were handed over to two Chamber lains of the Imperial Palace, one of whom, Ahmed Bey, is the son of Redschid Pasha, and these func tionaries departed immediately for the camp of Omar Pasha, where they will read the document to the troops assembled. On the sth inst. the mani festo was communicated to the different foreign legations, and next day about 25,000 copies in va rious languages will be widely distributed. It is understood that M. Argyropoulo, M. Pisani, and all other employes of the Russian com mercial ch,ancellerie, will receive their passports, with a notice to leave the empire immediately. Be sides these official people, several Greeks, notorious for their efforts in Russian propagandism, will re ceive a similar order. A young Polish Jew, named Wolowski, has been arrested near Shumla. An important correspon dence with Russian officers was found on his per son, with detailed notes concerning the Ottoman army. It appears he was also in correspondence with several persons of the democratic party in Poland. He was taken before Omer Pasha, who, it is said, was about to hang him forthwith. The warlike activity of the Turks seems to have reached its acme. During the last month they have cast 100 cannon of various calibre, and the day before yesterday these cannon, with all their accoutrements complete, and the horses to drag them, were sent to Adrianople, where an army of reserve is being formed of 80,000 men. All the horses necessary were furnished by the Pashas of Constantinople. This army of reserve will be composed of 25,000 Redifs, who are now in Con stantinople, chiefly small tradesmen ; of 6,000 vo lunteers, who have inscribed their names at the Seraskeral within the last eight days; and of 25,000 Kurdish horsemen, all mounted and equipped at the expense of the Beys of Kurdistan. These lat ter, of course, are irregular horsemen. There are now under arms about 300,000 Mus sulmans, viz., 120,000 between the Danube and the Balkan, 15,000 in Bosnia, 6,000 men near Pristina, on the Servian frontier ; 50,000 men, who will be mustered within 20 days at Adrianople ; and from 80,000 to 100,000 men on the frontier of Asia. Immense barracks are being constructed on the banks of the Danube, where the Russians intend to pass the winter. General Gortschakoff has de manded of the Prince a heavy sum of money for the construction of these barracks, which has been paid. This expense will be included in the debt imposed on the country for the occupation of 1848 to 1851. The Wallachian Government is obliged to contract a debt of six millions of piastres (about 60,0001.) to meet the demands of General Gortschakoff. suffTehremreuhchasfrboemend y n s o e n w t e e r l l y. . authenticated R case u s s a o n f cholera in the Russi an arm y, b u t th e y are sa id t o troops are in the Wallachian hospitals. The Wanderer has advices of the 6th from Odes sa that the corps of General Luders was to receive marching orders on the following day. On the Ist the sth Cavalry division, under General Panjutin, and the 2d under General Stael received orders to advance to the Pruth. The Turks have formed a third line of defence from the little river Kameick, across the Balkan to Sophia. No credit whatever is given to the Braila news of Omer Pasha being recalled. The cause assigned for his being in disgrace is his excessive partiality for the revolutionary party. A Sardinian officer in the camp at Shumla writes that the army under Omer Pasha consists of 100,000 foot, 10 regiments of cavalry, and 250 guns. This force is divided into brigades of between 8,000 men and 10,000 men. The Lloyds of Vienna says there is in the army of Omer Pasha such a number of refugees, the ma-, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 18. The following had the honour of dining' with her Ma jesty yesterday :—Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, and Mr. Gibbs. The Queen's private band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner, and played the following pieces : Overture, " Si j'etais Roi" Adam. Polonaise and Chorus, " Faust" Spohr. Finale, " Le Pre aux Clercs" Herold. Overture, " Marco Spada" Auber, March, "Prometheus" Beethoven. The Queen and the Prince walked in the Home•park this morning. The royal children took their accustomed exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back this afternoon, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel F. Seymour. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert drove out in an open carriage this afternoon. Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieut.-Colonel F. Seymour were in attendance on horseback. The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday evening :or Windsor Castle. ROYAL DONATION.—Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to express her approbation of the object and views of the " Scotish Ladies' Association for Promoting Female Industrial Education in Scotland, especially in the Highlands and Islands ; and has accompanied the letter by a donation of 501. The object of this associa tion is to add other branches of industry besides needle work to schools for females in the labouring, manufac turing, and mining districts. The association intend to open their first schools in Criefl and in Rothesay next month. THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIE OF RIISSIA.—Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia came to town from Torquay last week, accompanied by two of her children, the Prince Eugene and the Princess Eugenie, for the purpose of visiting the various national establishments and objects of interest now open for in spection in the metropolis. The Grand Duchess and the Prince and Princesses, by whom her Imperial Highness was accompanied, appear to have derived much benefit from their residence at Torquay, to which place they re turned on Friday last, to join the other Princes and Princess of the Imperial family. The season for sea bathing having now closed, her Imperial Highness in tends to leave Torquay on the 21st inst. for Dover, where her Majesty's steam-packet Vivid, Capt. Smithett, has been ordered to be in readiness on the following day, to convey the Imperial party to Ostend, en route for St. Petersburgh. Her Imperial Highness is stated to have expended nearly 4,0001. in purchases among the trades men of Torquay alone. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and the Princess Mary, and attended by Baron Knesebeck, Baron Rauck, &c., honoured (on Monday) with a visit the Diorama of the Ocean Mail, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street. POSTAGE STAMPS.—It appears that in the year ended the sth of January last the poundage on the sale of postage stamps amounted to 18,1421., and in the pre. ceding year to 14,8961. By the New Stamp Act the Postmaster-General can authorise the employes to sell postage stamps without a license. THE POOR LAWS.—Last year the expense of the establishment for the administration of the Poor Laws amounted to 203,2611. STATIONERY FOR PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—In the year ended the sth of January, the expense of providing stationery for the public departments was 258,4101., against 166,916/. in the previous year. THE OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The extraordinary success of the performances here on Monday, brought another large audience last night, and it was equally as loud and enthusiastic in its praise, both of the extra vaganza and the drama of Plot and Passion, the latter, in which Mr. Wigan, Mrs. Stirling, and Mr. Emery display their characteristics in a manner so striking and so effective as to astonish even those who have frequently seen their performances. That Mr. Robson, who has the only other principal part, should enact, to the life, a base, cunning, obsequious villian, may appear somewhat strange, when he has just acquired a high reputation as an actor of burlesque, but it is no less strange than true, for a finer representative of such a character we would not -wish to witness. THE NEW VICTORIA AND ALBERT.—We understand that the drawings of the new yacht for the Queen were submitted to her Majesty at Windsor yesterday. It must be gratifying to the Sovereign to find that even against the Royal desire to incur expense in the con struction of a new yacht, her loyal and devoted sub jects are so unanimous in their determination to pro vide the Queen with a suitable floating palace. The greatest interest is still felt as to the material of which the yacht is to be constructed. As a matter of econo my, it is not questioned that iron is the cheapest. Ex prience has proved this with regard to the Fairy, screw tender, which little vessel has weathered some rough gales, and is as tight and clean as a bottle. Iron is also unquestionably the most durable ; but, as we have before stated, the greatest and most important advan tages consist in its immunity from the deadly fevers which hang about wooden steamers, and its less liabi lity to take fire.—Morning Herald. THE COMMAND OF THE ROYAL YACHT.—We under stand that Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., will not command the Royal yacht as a rear admiral. He will strike his flag, and a captain, senior to Captain Crispin, will be appointed We must confess we regret the separation of Lord Adolphus from the command of her Majesty's little Royal squadron. A stranger can not be so agreeable to the service as those who have been accustomed to the Royal yacht manned. Several names have been started for the first captaincy ; and among others, Captain Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, of the St. Jean d'Acre, and Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, of the Agamemnon. —lbid. h FstLoioasnizred Neither E loe n n: T ly . BELLOT.—The ha correspondent of a contemporary suggests that instead of a niche in St. Paul's or West minster Abbey to commemorate the heroic Frenc hm a n Bellot, it would be a more grace ful com p liment, and one that would be deeply appreciated by his countr y men, to raise a subscription for the pu r p ose of erectin g some slight tablet to his memory in his native town. As a tribute to French heroism from the p eo p le of En g land, he adds, this would be esteemed as a flatterin g compli ment by the whole nation. CAPTAIN M'CLIIRE.—The followi n g letter has be e n addressed to the Newry Tel b y Mr. E. P. Mor p h y , of Ballylech-house, Monag han, brother of Ca p tain M'Clure :—" In an article publis hed in y our p a p er of the 13th inst., headed `Discove r y of the North-West Passage,' I observe the following obse rvation with refer ence to Captain M'Clure, viz. :—' He is a native of Ul ster, the brother of a medical gentleman who not lon g since was resident in Belfast.' This statemen t, I be g to say, is not correct. Captain M'Clure was born in the county of Wexford. He has only been in Ulster twice in his life, th e fi r st ti me i n 1837, when the Terror, on bo ard which i hn i e c h h se erhceo ndreturn was t i lieutenant,inf from om h e the ecame ne North hn a drive nPole,visit i nt i n oa t mod disabled ahb ou elree gh d. d brother, he e a ny my m brotheroth mother having resident in first i ßelfast. ar rie I d : hisan father, Captain IVl'Clure ' formerly of the 89th R eg i men t. This is my brother's third expedition to the North Pole, where he has spent seven years of his life. He always stated Sir John Franklin would not be discovered, his conviction being his ships were crushed in the ice." GENERAL SIR. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, BART. , G.C.H. — This veteran officer, who die d on the 1 7th of October, at his residence, Bath, in the 83d year of his age, was the senior General in her Majesty's service. Inheriting the estates of Fairbairn, Stratheonnau, and Monar, which were granted to his ancestor by James IV. of Scotland, he received the first rudiments of his education at Edinburgh as an associate of Walter S co tt, andhis early milit ar y instruction with the Duke of Wel lington, at the Academy of Angers, in France. Serving as a subaltern in the Ist Royals, and as a captain in the 42d Highlanders, he obtained at an early age the lieu twe h n i a e n h t -col regimentoneleyhoef comm m 7B a t n h d H e d i g a l i t l t a h n e d fi e r r s s - t -- c a a p b t a u t r t e a l o i o f n th o e f of q C u a e p n e tlyse Goodrvd as a g e Hope,enuenrdaelroffiScirerAalturd Minorca and nd S i u n h t s h e e - Mediterranean, and, after the rupture of the peace of Amiens, 'ic w as continually emp lo y ed to the close of .the war. He received the Grand Cross of th e Order of St.ili Januarius from the King o f the Two es, and the Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order from George IV., by whom, and by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, 1 he was much esteemed. WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPn.) SCURRY HANDICAP. Little Davie REDUCTION OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. The same day's news has brought us two very startling announcements. The Austrian army is about to be reduced, the Spanish navy is about to be augmented. What the Peace Conference lose on one side they gain on the other; in point of fact, if the intended operations are carried out, the gain will far overbalance the loss. We wish we could place implicit credence in the first of these rumours —the second one is of a character merely ludi crous. The announcement of a reduction in the Austrian army is, indeed, made with every circum stance of addition which should entitle it to weight. If we hesitate in the presence of such authority, it is because confidence lifts been too often deceived on the same subject. The intelligence amounts to this, that 49 men out of each company of 100 are to be relieved from military service. It is not, of course, to be supposed that therefore the effective strength of the army is to be reduced by 2.5 th; as if the retiring soldiers were entirely libe rated from the military obligation, or that the Trea sury would be proportionably relieved. As far as we understand the matter as yet, there is to be a furlough upon an enormous scale, com bined with facilities to worn-out veterans to retire altogether from active service. How far this furlough will amount to an effective reduction remains to be seen, and we shall certainly suspend our judgment upon it until we have had an oppor tunity of examining the details of the plot. We have so often heard of these contemplated reductions in the continental armies, and hitherto they have so invariably ended in mere formal change, that we had rather lay ourselves open to a charge of scepticism than to one of cre dulity. It is not unlikely that this announce ment is a mere bait to the unwary, as a fresh loan to ease the Austrian Exchequer is in contemplation. Nothing would be so likely to conciliate the good will of capitalists to such a project as the prospect of diminished expenditure on the part of the Aus trian Government. Every year since 1848 there has been an enormous deficit in the balance-sheet of the Finance Minister at Vienna, and the reason of this is no secret. The young Emperor has been living too fast. He has been spending more money than his income warranted upon cannons, bombs, Dragoons, Lancers, pontoon bridges, and so forth. It is therefore obvious enough that, if it will but cut down its expenditure under these heads . to the point which the necessiti es o f it s posi tion absolutely require, the old firm of Haps' burgh and Co. may yet show a clean balance-sheet, pay all creditors 20s. in the pound, and continue to carry on business as heretofore. But this mob of armed idlers won't do. The scheme of governing the scattered provinces of the Austrian empire by sheer brute force has already been proved to be a mistake. It will no longer answer to send an armed Lombard to Hungary, and an armed Hair garian to Lombardy, an armed Moravian into Styria, and an armed Styrian into Moravia, with the most perfect confidence that each province, will keep the oth er d own, h owever disaffected all may be to the central Government. The most daring Minister of any Continental Sovereign—and more especially of the young Emperor of Austria- - ; would now-a-days rather trust for the security 01 his master's throne, and for the aggrandizement of his nation, to the system of peaceful development than to the calamitous certainties of war. War has no longer any favourable chances for kings ! Times. THE NEW RECEIPT STAMP. The editor of the Shopkeepers' Guide, in consequenc e of considerable doubt prevailing in the city upon th e proper interpretation of the new law of receipt stainfo , wrote to the Chancellor of th e E xc h equer upon the Oh' ject, and made the following inquiries : . _ ec 1. Does the purchase of goods for money over t he counter of a shop, or elsewhere, where no bill is desired or given, require a stamped receipt, should the purchas e exceed V. ? "2. Does a stamp attached to the back of a comn 3 l banker's check, and written over with the name of t o party receiving the money, fulfil the r equi remen t s of new act as to the use of the stamp ? "I have today settled two accounts ; one persou re / 0 quired the st am p t o b e attac h e d to the b ack of a bank er 0 check, draw n i n th e usua l form, and my name Witete over it ; the other required the stamp to be affiv 3 " the bottom of th e account, aid writte n over i n the 5a,„-)3 way." To these he received the subjoined r.pii - a"'"IIL Wilbraham, Esq., d a t e d Downing-street, Oct. 17 The Chancellor of the Exchequer desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th inst., and to acquaint you with reference thereto, "1. That whatever pecuniary transactions have hitherto required a receipt-stamp when amounting t ° 51. will now require the penny receipt-stamp 'wilee¢ amounting to 40s. and upwards, the alteration made by the recent act of Parliam en t cons i s ti ng i n fi x i n g tb f price of the stamp at ld., and altering the amount the transaction requiring a stamp from Si. to 40s. " 2. That he apprehends that either a check or 10 4 piece of paper with a rece ipt- s t amp a tt ac h e d su ffi ce s fo r a valid receipt." THE PRODUCE OF COCIIIN. The following memorial has been addressed to the Treasury, in consequence of a regulation, by which th e produce of Cochin wa s a d m itt e d as B r i t i s h , h av i ng been suddenly rescinded. Changes of this kind must alwaY l3 be hurtful to commerce, but more especially so wile ° they are enforced, as in the present case, without d ll° notice : "TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS °I HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. "May it please your Lordships,— "We have been for some years large importers If produce from Cochin, on the Malabar coast, and whi c l produce has always been admitted as British-grown, a. n ,. which was more fully confi rme d by y our l or d s hi ps ' °N e i of the 12th of April last, expressly di rec ti ng that 1 should be so considered, a copy o f w hi c h or d er we hol" . the honour to annex. " Upon the faith of the above, we and our coal, pondents have shipped lar ge ly o f g i nger an d other p,r, duce, and we now find that, a ft er pay i ng d uty o f per cwt. on 7 cases of ginger, ex Royal Charlie, fro!! Cochin, a further foreign duty of 55., or 10s, per cwt. 1P all, is demanded. "We submit to your lordships the great jujus°, done to us by this proceedi ng , an d submit that, bef A; any such alteration take effect, ample time should b a given to communicate with shippers from Cochin, 1113 _, 1 that all shipments her o an d on the way should be ads mated at the lower d u t y, and which we trust yo lordships will be pleased to order.—We have the honour to be your lordships', &c., "D. DUNBAR AND SONS. " Limehouse, Oct. 13." At the half-yearly meeting of the North-Weste: Bank of India, held a t C alcutta on the 2d of Augu` the profits for the s i x months were stated to have b e en 8,975/. A di v id en d was declared at the rate of 8 I?eas,. cent. on the capital of 220,560/., and 1531. was car ° to profit and loss. REMOVAL OP TEMPLE BAR.—A correspondent to a CI; temporary suggest s the removal of Temple Bar to tu, New Smithfield-market, where he says it might fool; handsome entrance to the market, and, being still 1 0 ° 0 ciated with the c it y, would afford the corporation s o opportunity of payi ng a graceful and appropriate tri bute to the spirit of i m p rovement which at the present till' in its onward pr ogress, i s steadilyremoving all those of nuisances which f or a very lengthened period have graced our great metropolis. THE GREAT D UBLIN E XHIBITION.—A fresh' ll° tic° m t has been issued, s t at i ng that the Exhibition will positively close on the 31st of the present month. bably it is froth this cause that the attendance has cc tl i o siderably increased for the last two or three days, number of visitors yesterday amounting to 12,214. re . Mits. H. BE ECHER STOWE. —A letter has been te d, ceived in Le e d s f rom this distinguished lady, daw ber "My Cabin, Andover, Sept. 20," communicating t° „,e1 friends her e th e agreeable tidings that she has res, her own hom e i n safety, after a very stormy past and has found all " comparatively well.' 10 daughter's health is "much improved, though therso still so mu c h nee d of a mother ' s watch and care,tb ' she is sati s fi e d s h e took the best course in returnll3d,4 Mrs. Stowe says—" While all is warm, and bland , t ot kind in th e c i rc l e of my friends, I cannot but feel jot I have returned to the atmosphere of conflict. t fre one opinion, however, has been expressed to me by friends of the cause, and that is, that the recent % e re , ments in England have been a decided help to US . 0 To be sure, ' the heathen rage, and the people i t oag4 great many vain things ;' but yet on this subject P rig land's testimony has been given in so clear and stl t ia' tone that it cannot help being felt, and will be f el t elf creasingly." Mrs. Stowe expresses warm and gratitude to "the friends who so loaded her with glv ness" in England.—Leeds Mercury. SHERIDAN KNOWLES IN THE P ULPI T.- 2'llB bu-gh Witness of Saturday last contained an ann°, t he ment that this celebrated dramatist would occupy pulpit of the Tabernacle, Greenside-place, ou th e .„o4 row. The Witness expresses the conviction " tha t ; p o' will be present to listen to the pious and eloquent toe/ sition of God's word by one of the most interesting of ouriage." , O r ' A NARROW E SCAPE.—On W e d nes d ay last, o as 0.1 Peter Backw e ll, accompanied by Mr. Triggs, 5' 739 0 bak e some distance outside the Mew Stone, they we t. r v.' by a schooner, requesting to be informed vi,_l e e 411 Yealm lay, In heaving to, to get a reply to the tion, the vessel ran foul of the boat, which ihin,7 lo lclf e sunk. The parties in the boat fortunately Cl . .. ire' th e the bobstay, and were thus saved. Having el two unfortunate fishermen on board, the yea s • ley ceeded to the Yealm. Mr. Backwell estiraisto 3 at 40L—PlymoutI4 Mail.