The Sun. — London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

A. YOUTH of about 14 years of' age, WANTED as AMANUENSIS and COMPANION to a GENTLEMAN of University standing. He would be received on a familiar footing, and the situation would offer to one quitting school at that age, the opportunity of completing a first-rate education. Terms to be agreed upon. Address (prepaid), to X. Y. Z., Thompson's News Agency-office, Palsgrave-place, Strand, London. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CnattLas KEAN, THIS EVENING, Oar. 22, Will be performed THE RIVALS. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Harley, Meadows, Cathcart, Mellon, and Addison ; Mrs. WinstalleY, Mrs. W. Lacy, Miss Heath, and Miss C. Leclercq. To be followed by MARCO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. W, Lacy, Ryder, and Graham ; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq. _ THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Ocr. 22, Will be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by Leigh Murray, Pail Bedford, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Woolgar. After which, THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook " A Bifiln." To conclude with COMING OF AGE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, OCT. 22, Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ; Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Hortun, Chatterley, E. Turner, and Wyndham. To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. sammrs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Miss HATE COOKE, having met with a most brilliant reception, will appear every evening. FIRST APPEARANCE of Mons. CLEITSH'S ACTING TROUPE of DOGS and MONKEYS. aMare GRAND EQUESTRIAN JUBILEE. The programme of the SCENES of the ARENA will be constantly changed, and novelty after novelty will be brought forward in rapid succession. In addition to the established favourites, several new engagements have been entered into with the most eminent artistes of the day, forming a programme unequalled in Talent, Novelty, and Variety. On MONDAY, OCT. 24 (and during the Week), The Successful Burlesque of JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE FALL OF PBETON; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN. After which, the EQUESTRIAN FETE.—The arena has been entirely re-decorated, in the Parisian style, with crimson velvet and gold. Re-appearance of Miss EMILY COOKE. Astounding Perfor mances of Signor CARGOTTIE and Signor FRANCOIS on LA PERCHE, &c. To be followed by Mons. CLEUSIFS TRAINED DOGS and MONKEYS. To conclude with a new GRAND . GREEK ENTREE, arran ge d by Mr. W. Cooke for Twelve Equestrians on their Fleet Steeds. Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. SATURDAY, OCT. 22, 1853. State of the wind and weather a t eac h o f th e f o ll ow i ng places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. SOUTHAMPTON—S.W., strong breeze—rain. TUNBRIDGE—S., gentle breeze—overcast. GREENWICH—S.W., hard wind—rain. STROOD—S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—S.W., strong breeze—rain. CAMBRIDGE—S., fresh breeze—rain. YARMOUTH—S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Thursday morning at nine o'clock :- LIMERICK—S., calm—foggy.. FARRINGDOR—W.N.W., fair. BIRMINGHAM—N.W., calm—partially cloudy. LANOABTER—N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HOLYHEAD—N.N.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SHAP—N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rnT DAY —Morning 35 min.after 4 I Evening 51 min.aft. 4 ro-Nloß.Row—Morning 8 min.after 5 I Evening 29 min.aft. 5 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICIO, OCT. 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'92. WIND, S.W.—Fine weather. §AI3I, - E -~:~ ~~ n LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1853. It is undoubtedly true that the AUTOCRAT has still to announce his definitive determination. Already he has done so, plainly enough, by his acts—acts of warlike audacity and insolent aggres sion.. But, l s words have yet to be heard—the words of that final resolve which must either give the signal for battle or stabilitate the general tranquillity by a solemn treaty of pacification. We must hearken, therefore, eagerly at this junc ture for the voice which must solve the problem of this momentous alternative—the voice which must in a few hours become audible in the intelli gence received from St. Petersburgh. The situation may in a few sentences be clearly indicated. Turkey has at length broken through the irksome restraints put upon her councils by the timidity or over-caution of her allies, and has assumed an attitude befitting her dignity and her independence. She has proclaimed her inflexible resolution to vindicate by the sword as well as by the pen the insulted honour of her Crown and the violated rights of her nationality. She has as ,- serted. this boldly, and simply, and altogether un answerably in that noble Manifesto by which the turpitude of Russia has been laid bare to the scorn of Christendom. Moreover, the Sublime Porte has proceeded yet a step further —has come at once courageously to the point— has demanded the immediate evacuation of the Danubian Principalities by the Cossack forces under GORTZCHAKOFF—has requested, through the British and French Ambassadors, the passage of the Combined Fleets from Besika Bay to the waters of Constantinople. The withdrawal of the Muscovite troops from Moldo-Wallacbia liar been evaded, if not openly refused by the Russian Commander-in-Chief —while the naval armaments of France and England have at length passed through the Channel of the Dardanelles. Where fore, it is obvious from all this, that Turkey has at last chivalrously brought matters to a climax, by proclaiming that the sword shall be drawn or that the Pruth shall be recrossed by the Russian. That is the situation. Turkey has submitted to the CZAR the choice in the great alternative. England and France have revealed their deter mination to support Turkey in this proceeding by sending their -vessels-of-war to the Bosphorus. Prussia and Austria have already virtually with drawn from the contention. It remains for Russia alone; therefore, to assume her position. It re or the Einperor NICHOLAS to decide in the emergency. And what will be his decision ? It is the question every one asks at this crisis—and for the answer to which every one looks eagerly to the next advices from St. Petersburg. Will the Russian AUTOCRAT withdraw his demands, or will he persist i n their enforcement ? It may be readily conjectured. E ven his silence it may be con jectured from hi s acts. And what are the latest an d most significant of those acts ? The placing of the whole army o f R lan Poland on a war footing—the concentration of more and more troops upon the Danube --the sudden order trans mitted to the Baltic Fleet at Cronstadt to prepare i m mediately for sea, and to proceed fo rthwith to Revel ! These are the latest and most signifi cant indications that Russia also is prepared for th e s truggle, and that, as we have already mai n t a i ned so often, war is indeed at this moment really imminent. Some degree of alarm has been excited by the Bank Return for the week ending the 15th Octo ber, which will be found in another part of this day's impression. The habitual croakers look only to the actual items, without in any degree consi dering the causes that may lead to a temporary depression. Other interested parties, who take advantage of every opportunity to depreciate pub lic credit, and to injure the property of their neighbours, exhibit:extraordinary activity in circu lating and commenting on the various features of the return—of declaiming on the serious falling off, under the several heads, of " Public Depo sits," " Rest," " Other Securities," and 46 NOteSi Unemployed." It is desirable, therefore, that the true state of the case may be fully and clearly understood, so that the apprehensions might be allayed, and fundholders and shareholders pre vented from sacrificing their property at inade quate prices. The dividends on the Government Funds and Bank of England Stock became due on the 10th instant to the amount of between seven and eight millions sterling. The quarter's salaries to the Government employees were payable on the same day, so that the demand on the resources of the Bank amounted to at least eight millions, for which provision was then required. When interest is low, and there is no great demand for money, a large proportion of the dividends frequently remain some weeks without being called for. It is different, however, when there are great temptations either for the temporary use or the investment of capital. Then the payments are actively pressed for, and what usually takes two or three weeks is per formed in little more than as many days. That such has been the case on the present occasion will be manifest from a close inspection of the re turn which has caused so much unnecessary excite ment. We may, therefore, fairly anticipate that we have seen the worst, and that the tide will forthwith turn, and that funds will flow in with more than ordinary rapidity. The items which exhibit diminution are as fol lows : Public deposits £3,156,539 Rest 529,958 Other securities 1,516,460 Notes unemployed 1,349,410 Bullion 477,615 Total £7,029,982 From this may be deducted the increase in other deposits £1,030,539 Government securities 116,078 ,E 1,146,617 £5,883,365 Leaving a balance of To which may be added the increase of notes in circulation, 826,8201., which should be placed to the debit side of the account, and we find a total of 6,710,185/., which has been drawn from the Bank, and which has liquidated the greater portion of the claims usually divided at quarter day. This general view will suffice to show how totally devoid of foundation is the panic which the Bears have attempted to excite, and a closer inspection will confirm the impression thereby created. The reduction in the rest 529,9581., proves that almost the entire of the dividends on Bank Stock had been claimed on or previous to the 15th instant. It was payable on the same day as the Government Stocks, and we may reasonably assume that equal diligence was exhibited by the Public Creditor as by the Bank Proprietor. The full amount withdrawn will thus be fairly accounted for, without ascribing any part of it to a steady drain. Indeed, it is probable that but for the elements above referred to the matter would appear in a very different light. The public deposits, it will be seen, are much lower than they have been for some time. This is the result of Mr. GLADSTONE'S tampering with the public debt, funded and unfunded. That un fortunate and expensive experiment has reduced the national balance to 3,700,8591., an amount lower than it has stood at for many years. The reduction in the other securities is ascribable to the repayment of the loans effected on Stock, while the transfer-books were closed, and which, of course, were withdrawn, when high premiums were paid for the loan of, in place of interest for, advances on stock. The notes unemployed still amount to 5,012,4901., more than a million beyond the sum required by the Bank for carrying on its or dinary business, and the stock of bullion exceeds fifteen millions and a quarter, an amount which would formerly have been considered sufficient to justify the greatest liberality on the part of the Directors, and an ample supply for all possible demands. There is still five millions of specie —more than was available on the 23d October, 1847. There are three millions mote of notes t urenaplord than there was at the same period, and we - now find that there is abundance of cash in Lombard-street, while there it could scarcely be obtained at any price or on any security. Let these points, then, be borne in mind. Let the true state of affairs be known, and there will be no necessity for apprehensions which are as injurious as they are discreditable to the par ties that indulge therein. 1 The season is come, or rapidly coming, when Sabbatarian•ism will be almost compulsory. The great mass of the working classes will have neither means nor inclination to quit the precincts of their habitations, or, at least, of their neighbourhoods. Sunday excursion trains will answer but in very few instances till far on in the spring. The bright frosty days of winter will be too few and too uncertain for pre-arranged open-air pleasure ; and the short days of midwinter, and the fogs of November, and the slop and mire of February will compel most to while away their leisure time as they best may in the scene of their six days' toil. But what, then, will myriads of our fellow-men in large towns and cities be doomed to in the hours of suspended labour ? The cholera alarm answers that question for us. It is needless to copy from the columns of every paper the details of stench, atmospheric stagnation, accumulated filth, indecent and disease-breeding over-crowding, and unventilated, undrained alleys and rows of houses, in which numbers of human beings live, and that, too, almost on the skirts of our squares, certainly within miasma-range of our cleaner washed dwellings. Live, we have said, we should rather say die, of typhus, of diarrhoea, of cholera, Or linger the pallid sickly victims of impure air and noxious exhalations ; and there, alas ! they might die, or linger out existence, did not an inscrutable PROVIDENCE compel us to explore and attack their uncleanliness in sheer self- defence. However, we now know by repeated warnings what are the houses, the homes, and the localities in which the Sundays of thousands must be spent, where the want of means or the season of the year dooms them to leisure hours in town. Now, it certainly is not the province of a newspaper to read homilies to laymen, or to de liver " charges" to the clergy on their spiritual duties ; nor shall we trespass beyond our appro priate domain. It strikes us, however, as incum bent upon us to remind our honest and sincere Sabbatarian, friends, and there are many such, -0 and our meiely bigoted or misled Sabbatarians, and they are too many, of the opportunity which they now have for displaying their utmost zeal, and, we will add, the vast benefits which their zeal might unquestionably confer upon the weather-bound denizens of filth and demorall. sation. Our appeal is to the zealous ad vocates of Sabbath observance of every de nomination, for we are no respecters of sects .at any time, and, least of all, in the present crusade ; and we ask of them to use their opportunity while they may, and while their efforts would be of tem poral service assuredly, whatever their religious SUCCEIC. The tenants of a comfortable pew, with every convenience for following at ease some po pular or favourite preacher, listening, it may be, to ardent declamation on the sacredness of Sunday, and the blessedness of keeping it sacred—these well-dressed and well-accommodated recipients of their weekly spiritual stimulant perhaps never even glance in thought at the circumstances under which their neighbours we have adverted to must pass thei r S a bb aths at th i s season o f t he year. O r if they d o, a contribution to some clerical society, a town m i ss i on, all further thou clear, however, g o h r t p o p. pastoral a m i d a t t s e o r c . i e t y I t , banishes been don e b y that nex t t o A ot hi ng h as y e t existing agency to make the Sunday on use of the smallest religious whatever quite outto theof t he ir u un happy class es in questiOur ordinary churches, chapels, and meeting-houses are line. Neither th e buildingsattendants in them would place th em a t easer the they are unattractive to them. They neverthink of utterly en tering them. All is too form a l, too elevated, for their tastes. The very language of most of our regular sanctuaries is one they can hardly under. stand ; or where A might be intelligible, it is ut- 5 ... ; THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 185 3. terly wanting in that freedom and heartiness which alone could interest them. Here then is the real work for Sabbatarians, if they are honestly concerned for the welfare of those on whom they would lock the gates of the railway station, and who will now be locked out by the season itself. Let them organise a tho rough visitation of all the dirty and demoralised neighbourhoods of our cities and towns. Let them see first to the physical condition, which must be attended to, before the unfortunate deni zens of such habitations can be reasonably ex pected to give a thought to any , intellectual or moral subject. Indeed, it were impossible to attempt religious exertion amongst them without perceiving that physical amelioration is the indis pensable primary step. Hopeless, however, and repulsive, as first appearances may be, it is in evidence that hardly any effort amongst them, conducted in a manly unsectarian and benevolent spirit, has been in vain. If Ministers will lay aside their buckram, or intelligent lay men acquainted with their habits and feelings will visit them—will gather them together in an unpretending and easy way, and will reason with them candidly on social or religious subjects, the men have always been found accessible enough, and grateful enough too to the kindly and unas suming visitor. We will honestly confess that these thoughts occurred to us while asking ourselves how best to improve, in behalf of the classes in question, the cleansing spirit which is in many places at least reforming the physical conditions of our citadels of disease. The first step is now taken, but it will be foolish, indeed, to consider it as the final one. The school, and the place of worship suit able to the people, must immediately follow. Edu cation and some consciousness of religious obliga tions are indispensable to complete and render per manent a work which must begin with such hum ble agents as whitewash, brooms, and nightmen. The moral pollutions of such localities can of course be only cleansed away by the corresponding means ; but the opening for these means is now made, and is it too much to ask those to whom it pertains to see that these openings be promptly filled up. The Ragged School, and the Ragged Church too, are the desiderata. It is folly to be perfecting our education for those who can and will perfect their own, folly to be building everywhere new churches for the middle and upper classes ; and at the same time to leave those without schools who most need them, and those without a room for worship who will never enter the places frequented by their betters. It is becoming, happily, distinctly recognised, that we must aim more at the prevention of crime at its fountain than at vainly endeavouring to dam up its streams. Transportation and crank labour, and every mode of deterring seems doomed to failure. Habits once formed, can hardly be broken by penalties. The grand hope is to compel the industrial and moral education of neg lected children, and to carry suitable instruction to the haunts of filthy vice, which dread of the cholera has compelled us to cleanse. We must make men self-reformers. We: must appeal to them as reasonable beings, as immortal beings. We must go to them in the spirit of brotherhood. We must regard ourselves as, in some sense, their debtors. Qualified heads and hearts for the task are, we believe, not wanting, and the same per sons would be hailed as friendly instructors, who would be hated if they came with prohibitory Acts of Parliament. MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. There was a good demand for cotton at Liver pool yesterday. Sales 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken for export and on speculation. Prices were firmly maintained. Railway Shares were heavy at lower prices. The statement of the Bank of England for the week to the 15th inst., gives the results of the large national disbursements occurring quarterly ; but in connection therewith, some circumstances of more than usual interest are observable. It has been well understood for some time past that the balance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was lower than usual, and that this restricted the means of the Bank at the very time it was more largely called upon to accommodate the public in the way of discounts. A glance at the return will show how these various influences combined. Upon the resumption of transfers, loans obtained upon Stock and Exchequer Bills during the " shutting," had to be repaid, and this strengthened the resources of the Bank in meeting the dividend payments which, in their turn, occasioned an addition to the balances of parties having accounts at the Bank. Still the necessity arose, further to make available the reserve of notes and the specie. A renewed de mand for the latter, with a view to its exportation, had likewise, no doubt, some effect, but future balance sheets will better enable us to judge of this. Compared with the previous return, the changes were as follows Active circulation Increase 826,820 Bullion Decrease 477,615 Rest Decrease 529,958 Public Deposits 3,700,859 Decrease Other Deposits Increase Seven-day and other Bills 1,405,093 Decrease Government Securities 12,455,161 Increase 116,078 Other Securities 17,425,089 Decrease 1,516,460 Notes unemployed 5,012,490 Decrease 1,349,410 Bills were taken yesterday afternoon upon the principal Continental cities at nearly previous rates. When business commenced there was a slight de cline, but afterwards this was recovered. Paris, 90 days, realised 25 271 z to 30 ; Amsterdam, 11 171 to 18; Hamburgh, 13 61 to 6 ; Frankfort, 1191 to 120 ; and Trieste, 11 20 to 22. The amount of silver exported from London during the week to Thursday last was 44,690 oz., and of gold 13,078 oz. and 3001. The whole went to the continent. The English Funds have been heavy to-day, the amount of business having been limited. Consols for money opened at 91k to I, and afterwards re - ceded to 94. They have not since recovered. Bank Stock is at 217. The political news is con sidered alarming. Foreign Securities are all flatter. Spanish De ferred 21 g, and Mexican 23 I. Russian Five per Cents. have still been maintained at 112 k. Railway Shares have been heavy, without many sales. The Shares of the Gold Mines and Miscellaneous Companies' have not varied much. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. ( From the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. . . 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll i a 1 i New 31 per Cent. Annuities 924 a Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO . Bank Stock for Account 216 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 2d. 2500 Small par 4 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. New Brazilian Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent 97i Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 5B Chiliau Bonds, 6 per Cent , lOO4 Mexican 3 per Cent!! 23 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 4l; gritto Ex all over-due Coupons 3Bl Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St ll2 i Ditto 41 per Cent OG 7 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9Ol Spanish Bonds, 3 peeent 44 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 2 14 Dividends on the above payable'in London. Dutch Exchange, 28 per Cent. 12 Guil 62 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols 914 i Ditto October Account 9lB i SPORTING NOTES. CHANCES FOR THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE. The advance of Seahorse, and the retrogression of Orestes, have imparted a little activity to speculation on the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Still the betting is not re markably brisk, and the movements in the turf market possess scarcely sufficient importance to occasion either curiosity or interest. Nabob steadily maintains the po sition of leading favourite, and Haco is supported with much spirit and confidence. The comparative chances of these animals I have already reviewed, and the pro ceedings of the betting fraternity have not been such as to upset the conclusions which I arrived at as to the sound ness of their pretensions. On Friday, Orestes encoun tered determined opposition, but the cause of this hosti lity scarcely admits of satisfactory explanation. Rumour asserts, however, that recently Orestes has taken only walking exercise. I am, however, at present disinclined to allow vague reports to destroy the favourable opinion which I have formed as to Orestes's chance. Should he go to the post in health and condition, and get quietly off, he will be a most for midable competitor. Both he and Cineas are horses of a superior class, and are entitled to conspicuous places in the " dangerous division." Recently, however, few investments have been made on Cineas, whose position in the betting is scarcely commensurate with his supe rior racing merit. Asa " mile horse," he has few, if any, superiors. The Newmarket folk calculate with confi dence on the success of Seahorse, who, on the strength of a favourable trial, has within the last day or two been supported with much spirit. His pretensions are entirely founded on a " continental reputation," and his racing like appearance. He has not yet publicly "performed" in England ; it is, therefore, impossible to obtain any trustworthy information respecting the extent of his ability. Hervine is another " foreigner," who, as an " outsider," is deemed worthy of notice. She has fre quently run in this country, but her racing displays have been somewhat insignificant. Her most meritorious performances was, perhaps, that for the Goodwood Cup this year when she ran second to Jouvence. Of John Day senior's lot., King Pepin has been the only animal on whom the investments have been somewhat heavy. In my opinion he will not be capable of figuring, so respectably in the race for the Cambridgeshire as he did in the encounter for the Cesarewitch. If intended by his party, his stable-companion Rataplan will be en titled to favourable notice. He is a horse of sound racing merit, and will doubtless take a conspicuous place in the race. At the commencement of the year Invasion—then known as the Alkali colt—was in con siderable force for the Metropolitan Stakes, for which event, however, he did not start. We now find him at the end of the year again figuring' prominently in the list of quotations on the last great handicap of the season ! Since his match at Newmarket, in the second October Meeting, his downward tendency in the betting has been perceptible and unmistakeable. Ido not pre tend to a knowledge of his owner's intentions, and as I am unable to account for the adverse movements rela tive to him in the turf market, I shall regard Invasion with doubt and suspicion. Of the other animals likely to compose the field, I have a decided preference for Mistletoe and Bal rownie. The latter, however, has, since his victory at Kelso, unaccountably receded in the betting. The field for the Cambridgeshire is likely to be numerically strong—it will perhaps comprise nearly forty runners. To indicate, therefore, with any degree of certainty, the probable result of the race, one ought indeed to be gifted with the spirit of prophecy. Taking the Cesare witch running as a criterion, I shall anticipate again, seeing Haco and Nabob occupy the foremost places in the encounter. To them I shall add Cineas and Orestes, as animals of equal title to support. Should an out sider be destined to achieve success it will perhaps be either Rataplan or Mistletoe. My passing acquaintance, the " Man in the Street," has an odd fancy for Hervine and the Black Swan ! The Criterion Stakes is the only event of present im portance to be decided on Monday. Of John Scott's lot Moresca is the only horse that has been backed for it. Some investments have also been made on Middle sex and Alembic, who has a 61b. penalty. The winner will, I anticipate, be either Middlesex (with a start) or Andover. I shall be located at head-quarters this evening. On Monday I will publish the most interesting " facts and scraps" I can collect relative to the Cambridgeshire. October 22. A FRESH MAN. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) The Mining Market continues in a depressed state, especially for speculative shares, prices in which ge nerally rule lower, with a preponderance of sellers. Lead is rising in price, and many of the mines are now getting 41. per ton more for their ores than they did a few months since, which will materially add to their profits. Copper and tin are also firm, and we see no reason, taking all things into consideration, for the de pression which exists in shares. In the Bullion Market—Mexican and South American dollars, 4s. 110. per oz. Bar silver containing gold, all gold above 5 grains in the pound to be paid for, ss. 11d. per oz. standard. Bar silver without gold, 55. 11d. per oz. standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard. Spanish doubloons, 78s. 6d. per oz. Fine cake silver, 55 The 6 d dpl Goldt.sales. Under s rehdar have ntuoc endo.attendingdrruled Mining sedelr Teoe deuat S , hred h 3 ateoe a hgswd r eee e efloi r M ci ap, notificationoi trel a ancdr r nueae l dsmrt e sis toc. circumstances, aoal operations snTnh i eosdcandfewte stimulatete he repeatedek leading e a a s d assumed s g s d u ec ml specula tiveoa com panies s, the n yesterdayear lyawl with ha a flp a n d aa advised appearanceias se de scriptionsepas Anglo-Cali fornian Company required new capital, with the fact that in California about 14,0001. has been expended without any definite result, has assisted the prevalent depression. Some descriptions of stock during the early part of the week were in demand ; but after Thursday there was a marked decline, with scarcely any exception. The accounts from Australia are of a more encouraging nature. In the week ending the 4th June, 2,161 ozs, of gold, valued at about 8,0001., reached Sydney from the various New South Wales diggings, which may be enumerated as follows :—Bathurst, Sofa la, Yass, Bingara, Tambaroera, Avisford, Mudgee, Braidwood, Bell's Creek, Major's Creek, Goulburn, Murrurundi, Cameron's Creek, Tamworth, Hanging Rock, Rocky River, and the Ovens, where new and rich placers had been discovered. In the week ending June 10th, the arrivals amounted to 4,325 ozs., valued at 15,0001. ; in the week ending June 18th, 1,446 ozs. of gold came to Sydney, together with 2,864/. in cash. The total of the exports of gold since the first discovery amounted to 1,332,741 ozs., which at 70s. per oz. repre sent a capital of 4,664,5931. It is, of course, impossible to estimate the amounts taken out by passengers, either on their own account or for others. The prices of gold at t S o y d 3l n . ey in 17s. t 6 he d. t p h e i r r do oz. week Considerable June losses, se r s o 31. 2m in some ls. 5 cases amounting to Bs. or 10s. on the ounce, had been sustained by Sydney gold brokers from adulterated gold, sent from Melbourne, and the consequence was that New South Wales gold was much in demand ; while the parcels imported from Victoria were looked upon with a good deal of suspicion. The Sydney Em pire reports rich diggings being found at Burran doing, to which numbers were flocking. "Our dig gings," it adds, "have never yet had a fair trial. Their resources are inexhaustible, and only require being pro fitably developed by the many thousands who will yet visit our auriferous districts." In miscellaneous shares, although business has been limited, prices have shown an improvement on last week's quotations. PRICE OF BREAD.—The prices of wheaten bread ix the metropolis are from lid. to 11id. ; of household ditto, 10d. to lOid. ; some bakers are selling from Bd. to 90. ; and League Bread Company's 9d. per 41b. loaf; weighed on delivery. Hubert de Burgh, Esq., commander of the Uxbridge Yeomanry Cavalry, And nearly allied to the Earl of Cardigan, has been appointed by the Emperor of the French honorary chamberlain to his Majesty.—British, Army Despatch,. TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—This most excellent exhibi tion, which has so justly received for years such ex tended public patronage for the various and highly to be admired combination of national subjects, which has stamped it as one of the first exhibitions in the metro polis. It is rendered famous for the number of distin guished characters it contains, but it is still more ad mired for the relics of the Great Napoleon, which surpass all other departments in the museum. A few of these we will mention, and only a few, the collection being so exceedingly numerous :—The camp-bed used by Napo leon during seven years at St. Helena, with the mat tresses and pillow on which he died, and on which he is represented lying in state in his Chasseur uniform, covered with the idenical cloak he wore at Marengo, which he expressly left by will to his son, the King of the Romans. Near the bed are deposited the robes worn by the Emperor and Josephine at their coronation ; between the robes are placed the cradle of his son, the King of Rome. CASE OF WATCH-STEALING AT MARLBOROUGH-STREET POLICE COURT. —On Tuesday we published the report of a case at this court, in which a young man, named Henry Harris, was committed for stealing a watch from a water-gilder, maned. Crouch, in Old Compton-street, Soho. The defendant was charged on his own confes sion, he having addressed a letter to Mr. Crouch, ad mitting the robbery, and stating that he would be found at No. 8, Bow-street. It now appears that this letter was incorrectly copied—the words " No. 8, Bow-street," being substituted for " Bow-street, 8 o'clock in the evening." We are the more anxious to correct this mistake, as, from the representations made to us, it ap pears that, by a singular coincidence, the son of the occupant of No. 8, Bow-street, bears the name of Henry Harris, though in no way mixed up in the affair. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. The answer given by the French Government to the application on behalf of the Porte for a number of officers to be attached to the staff of the army of the Danube and Asia, it is rumoured. is to the effect that for the present there appeared no sufficient grounds for complying with the demand. It is stated that the English Government has given a similar answer to the same demand. Another Russian manifesto has arrived in Paris, and is now in the hands of the French Government, but the authorities have formally forbidden such of the Paris papers as may receive it from publish ing the document. This fact is considered a suffi cient ground for believing that the manifesto is a warlike one, and extremely hostile to France. It is said that M. de Kisseleff, the Russian Mi nister, has had a long and animated conversa with M. Drouyn de Lhuys on the general state of affairs. M. de Kisseleff positively declared that Russia, Prussia and Austria perfectly understood each other, and were resolved on the course they should take in certain circumstances ; and he added that, in the event of the slightest revolutionary movement in Switzerland, Italy, or Germany, they would unite to put it down, even at the expense of a general war. It is not easy to ascertain the truth as to the number of persons in custody. Some state them at 600 and upwards, others at from 60 to 70 for Paris and about the same number for the departments. Truth may lie between the two statements, though the margin is rather a wide one. It does not ap pear, however, that there are any persons of note included. On one side you are told that the affair is serious, on the other, that it is very vague and futile. So far as can be learned the object appears to have been the blending into one mass of the various sections of the revolutionary party, and to induce the extreme sections of the Democrats to adopt one man of known republican princi ples as their leader, with the view (as is stated) of profiting by the confusion which a general war might give to realise their peculiar system of go vernment. It might, however, have been foreseen that at the first indication of war, the revolutionary party would be up and stirring. There is exag geration in the affair altogether. The Charlemagne has just left Toulon for Algiers with a body of engineers and other men who are to organise the corps d'armee to be sent to Turkey. Marshal Paskiewitsch has gone to Hamel, a pro perty which he has in White Russia, near Mohilow. It appears that at the request of the marshal the Emperor consented not to insist on his accepting the command of the army of occupation in the principalities, in consideration of his age and infir mities. He is 76 years of age. The Impartial de la Meurthe announces that the report of the organisation of a military camp at Melz to be commanded by Prince Napoleon was generally credited in that part of the country. The publication of the Phare de la Loire of Nantes, of which M. Mangin and one of his sons are proprietors, has been suspended. Amongst the domiciliary visits at Nantes was ono to the resi dence of M. Rocher, who was commissary under the Provisional Government for the five depart ments of the west. The indemnity which the city of Paris owes to the bakers for the second fortnight of September amounts to 933,363 f. Nearly the same sum is due for the first fortnight of that month. The differ ence between the real price of bread and the ad ministrative tax amounts to six centimes per kilogramme. The speculators at the Bourse appear to be un willing to engage in any important operation, as long as the present uncertainty exists with respect to the course political events may take. The market was consequently heavy, and the opening prices were not maintained. The Three per Cents. opened at 72f. 50c., and rose to 72f. 55c. They fell subse quently to 72f. 20c., and closed at 72f. 25c. for the end of the month. Orleans Railway Shares, 1,145 f. ; Rouen, 1,002 f. 50c. ; Havre, 477 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 831 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 896 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 887 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 720 f. ; Western of France, 659 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 580 f. ; Great Central, 512 f. 50c.; Lyons and Geneva, 497 f. 50c. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 690 f. MOSS AND MADELEY TESTIMONIAL. Several months past we announced that the liberals of Derby had projected a testimonial to be presented to Mr. Moss, their present Mayor, and to Mr. Madeley, who so ably assisted him in bringing to light the nefari ous practices and plots carried on by the Conservatives of Derby, assisted by their W.B.'s, Frails, Morgans, aid Coxs, to undermine the constitutional liberties of their native land. This has been carried into effect, for on the evening of Tuesday last two valuable and noble groups of plate were presented to the worthy and inde fatigable gentlemen above named (the particulars of which will appear in The Sun of Monday). After the wide continents of the public press upon the conduct of Major Beresford and his coadjutors in their attempt to substitute Mr. Horsfall and bribery for Mr. Heyworth and honesty, little more need be said in re gard to conduct requiring only to be known to be de precated by all truly conservative Englishmen. In commemorating, however, the true and generous spirit of the liberals of Derby, we feel that a few observations may be tolerated ere we dismiss the subject to the re cords of political crime. On Saturday last, at Castle Hedingham, " there was a sound of revelry by night," but he, the former great champion of their Conservative battles was faraway, the freemasonry of corruption had been found out, and deso lation and despair had passed grimly into the halls of the Carlton ; and to this same festive occasion Major Beres ford, their former idol, came not, but a faint, low, wailing missive proceeded from the sombre shades of Hampton Court, complaining of the injustice of those enemies who had brought his guilty deeds to light. So at length has a great luminary departed from the cycle of Tory corrup tion. Let us pity rather than despise the fallen hero, the last great enemy of purity of election, "sic glories mundi transit !" Messrs. Moss and Madeley deserve the thanks of all true men of every shade of opinion, for the skill and in domitable energy they displayed, in bringing this flagrant ease to light, through the publicity of which corruption has received a death blow ; for, from this time is the British public hydra-headed and argus-eyed, nor can secret plots be laid and hatched by any body of dishonest men, even though they be possessed of the gold, influ ence and cunning of even a Carlton-club. We, as Eng lishmen, add our quota of thanks, and we trust they may long live to protect the interests of that borough. which gave them birth, and whose political annals they have adorned. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 21. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes terday. The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage. Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. R. Boyle were in attendance on horseback] The State apartments of Windsor Castle will be closed on and after Monday, the 24th of October, until further orders. Senor Isturiz, the Spanish Minister, transacted business at the Foreign•office yesterday. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yes terday from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, the Mauritius, Malta, and Gibraltar. THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIE OF RUSSFA.—Her `lmperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia eldest daughter of the Emperor, who, with her youthful family, has been passing the summer at Torquay, left that place yesterday en route for Dover, on her return to the Continent. Her Imperial Highness travelled by the up express train, which for her exclusive accommo dation, stopped at Reading. From Reading the Grand Duchess was conveyed in a special train over the South Eastern Railway to Reigate, and thence by Tunbridge and Ashford to Dover, where her Imperial Highness slept last night at Birmingham's Ship Hotel. Her Ma jesty's steam-packet Vivid, Captain Smithett, is under orders to convey her Imperial Highness and family to Ostend ; and if the weather prove at all favourable, it is expected the Grand Duchess will embark in the course of understand p t i h l a o t i m a r y s o . u ji n g . s l t a:l L y , e g a e b rr, w t l eighteen of to-day. ou yea W rs e make her appearance on th e s t age o f one o f the metro ra i a d she charming is remarkable r p k r a a b a l o e o f o f r grace ell lt as is fo s a p u o d lita be n au th ty ea , t a r a es w . exqui site quality. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone have returned to town from visiting Sir Stephen G lynne at Hawarden. The aide-de-camp in chief of the Generalissimo of the Ottoman forces (Scbadrov Bey) is daily expected to arrive in London on a special mission from Omer Pacha to the British Government. LETTERS FOR THE PAPAL STATES.—GENERAL POST OFFICE, Oct. 1853.—1 n consequence of a convention which has been concluded between France and the Papal States, letters from the United Kingdom, ad dressed to the Papal States, or vice versa, may in future be sent either paid or unpaid to their destination, at the option of the sender, whether such letters be forwarded by way of Sardinia, through Switzerland and Lombardy, or by the French Mediterranean packets. The postage upon letters for the Papal States, when transmitted through France, by either of the above routes, will be as follows, viz. :--Weighing under oz. : British sd. ; foreign 11C1. ; total ls. 4d. Weighing oz., and not exceeding oz.: British sd. ; foreign ls. 10d. ; total 2s. 3d. Exceeding oz., and under 4 oz.: British 10d. ; foreign 2s. 9d. ; total 3s. 7d. Weighing 4 oz., and not exceeding 1 oz.: British 10d. ; foreign 3s. Bd. ;_ total 4s. 6d. Exceeding 1 oz. and under 11 oz. ; British A is. Bd, ; foreign O. 7d. ; total 6s. 3cl. ELOPEMENT AND SUICIDE. Yesterday, Mr. Blizard, the proprietor of the Brick layer's Arms, Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, committed suicide, under the following distressing circumstances : —During the last week deceased was deeply grieved by his wife's elopement with a man named Bentley, late in the employ of Mr. Sloman, the sheriff's officer, in whose service, however, he had only been a few months. This person, not content with having seduced another female, whom with her two children he de serted, leaving them paupers quartered on the parish, also seduced the frail wife of deceased. Last Monday week Mrs. Blizard left home under the pretext of business. Her husband begged she would not be long absent, as he was not well. But instead of returning, she sent her husband a note informing him that she would not return home, and that if they met again it would be as strangers. The heart-broken husband instantly went in search of his faithless spouse, whom he traced to a house in Oxford-street, where she met her paramour with her trunks and apparel, which she had been for weeks preparing, and thence they drove off together in a cab with the property which she had so stealthily taken from her home. But whether they fled remains a secret, with the exception of a vague report that they sailed for Australia. Although deceased was very low spirited in consequence of his wife's conduct, yet no idea of his committing suicide was entertained, not withstanding his having exhibited to kis brother one day during the week a rope with which he said he intended destroying himself, but which the brother flung into the fire, still keeping a strict watch on him. Thursday night he appeared in much better spirits, and retired to bed at a late hour, apparently greatly eased in mind. Upon the brother going to call him the following morning, he was horrified at seeing deceased hanging by a new piece of rope from the bed-post, and quite dead. He was instantly cut down and medical aid called in, but as a matter of course unavailingly. A few months ago Mrs. Blizard eloped with the same man, when her husband, finding that the guilty pair resided at Margate, followed them thither and brought her home. Deceased was thirty six, and his wife, who is only twenty-four, possessed, it is said, in her own right, an income of 1101. per annum. Her paramour is described as a tall, well-looking man, about forty years of age. Unfortunately, there is left a hapless orphan to bewail its mother's disgrace, and its father's unfortunate end. A cousin of deceased's hanged himself some years ago. Up to a -late hour last night no clue to the whereabouts of the wretched guilty pair was obtained. THE AMERICAN STEAM-SHIP GOLDEN AGE.—It appears that this steam-ship is intended tc sail for Australia from Liverpool about the 10th of next month. It is contem plated to limit the number of passengers to about 400, and the terms have been fixed at '2O guineas, 40 guineas, and 30 guineas. She is to call al the Cape Verds and Cape of Good Hope for coals. THE JEWS AND AUSTRIAN BANK gOTES.—The Hebrew money-changers of London, Messrs Spielmann and Co. ; Monteaux, Brothers ; Bauer and C). j and Baum, Son, and Co., have agreed, it is said, lot to purchase any Austrian bank notes so long as Jewish disabilities are maintained in Austria. It is hoped that the other firms will join them in their resolution. THE DIVIDENDS.—The features cf the Bank return may be alarming to those who are tot familiar with the working of the Bank, and who mght think that the diminution of the reserve to the extent of 1,349,410/. is but one week's effect of a settled drain. This, how ever, is not the case. On the 10;h of October Bank Stock and Government dividends lecome due amount ing to more than seven millions, and the payment of this total involves an addition to tie circulation, and a corresponding diminution of the Bank reserve, more or less extensive, according to tie value of money and the rapidity of action on the part of the public is drawing out their dividends. Tie payment of the April and October dividends has, in times of pres sure, caused a diminution of nearly three millions in the reserve of the Bank, but with the third week of the month the tide usually tun:La, and the reserve (t wing to the action of the Exchequer in the collection of the revenue) gradually increases up to the c!nse of the year. The probability is, therefore, teat 5,012,490/. is about the lowest amount at which we shall see it. Money, at the existing rates, is in good supply in Lom bard-street, and has been refused on call by some of the large dealers. There have been no salts of gold by the Bank for some time, and, although flat institution is understood to have recently refused loans, this was merely in the case of bills upon which advances had been made during the shutting—the redemption of which was naturally required when due on the 15th--- and it did not even imply that similar advances will not again be made when the usual period arrives. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Dispatches from St. Petersburgh state that the preparations for war are being proceeded with rapidly. The fleet in the harbour of Cronstadt, which had laid. up for the winter, is ordered to prepare for sea with all possible dispatch, and to proceed at once to Revel. - Letters from Constan tinople intimate that a collision between the Turks and Russians in Asia is likely to take place before any engagements on a larger scale in the Danube. The Emperor of Russia arrived at St. Peters burgh on the 13th. A telegraphic dispatch has been received from Berlin, dated Constantinople, October 13. The combined fleets had not at that date entered the Dardanelles, but they were expected to do so at once. The wealthier inhabitants of Constantinople had chartered all sorts of small craft, and gone down to the Straits to see the spectacle of the en trance of the fleets. A telegraphic message from Constantinople, October 10, confirms the intelligence already re ceived, that the Monk Anthinos has been ap pointed to succeed Germanos in the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Three Bishops aspired to the place. One of them, a protege of Russia, offered 600,000 piastres, while the two others offered 500,000 piastres. Armies of observation are to be concentrated on the frontiers of Greece and Persia. The Correspondence of Berlin of the 18th says that the Council of Ministers are to meet to deter mine the expediency of recalling Prussian officers of artillery engaged as instructors in the Turkish service, lest their presence under the Ottoman flag should prove too active a demonstration against Russia. The Council is also to take measures re lative to the free circulation of foreign paper cur rency. The subjoined is extracted from an interesting letter dated Constanti no pl e , Oct. t. 5, and written by a merchant lo ng established ee in Asia Minor : " Political matters are getting on worse and worse. War is henceforward inevitable, and Europe must have greatly changed her opinion respecting Turkey, when she heard that this country, so weak, and to which the best informed seemed to give only a few years' existence, has already improvised an army of 400,000 men, well armed and equipped, can raise 200,000 more if necessary, and has no more need of a loan than I have of a hundred piastres. When the sacrifices of each Turk shall be exhausted, if it even comes to that point, it will suffice for the Sultan and the Cheik-al-islam to give their decision to that effect, and immediately some thousands of millions of silver-plate will issue from the mosques, palaces, and private houses. You will look upon me as a panegyrist of Turkey, but I am not so. I am merely just, and when I see noble things done, I call them by their names. Men of 70, 75, and 80, giving an example to the young, equip themselves and their retinue at their own expense, and, though there is great excite tient, nok, a menace or insult to foreigners can be heard of. The Russians themselves go through the bazaars without hearing a single threat. At the beginning, like many others, I felt apprehen sion, but living in a village . of A sia where the Turks have the reputation of being exceedingly fanatical, I could go* out every evening during the fetes of the Bairam without the slightest insult, and pass through 2,000 or 3,000 Turks without the slightest molestation. Now, I intend passing the winter here, whatever happens, and every day I will without uneasiness leave my family to attend to my affairs at Constantinople." A letter from Berlin, of the 17th, in the Augs burg Gazette, says What I wrote to you ab ou t the attempts that are being made here to establish at London a new mediation in the Eastern question is confirmed. A person, though without havin g an official mission, has left f o r En g land, and Che valier Bunsen will support him officially as much as h e can ; for it is considered certain that Eng land desires that definitive diplomatic negoti a ti on shall be entered into. The Emperor of Russia ' during his stay at Ber lin, from which date the principal efforts of mediation by Prussia, made known that the Ottoman Porte, in case of an ar rangement, would have to pay the cost of the oc cupation of the principalities. This point will pre cisely form one of the principal difficulties of the negotiations, but Russia insists strongly on it."— Th Cologne Gazette has also a letter from Berlin of the 18th, which says It is said h ere th a t new conferences are to be shortly opened at Lon don or at Constantinople, conferences of Vienna, having been de facto dissolved by the non-partici pation of England and France." The National Gazette of Berlin contains a letter from Warsaw, of the 16th, which s ays The Times has announced th a t the Emperor during his stay at Olmutz , had sent to the confer ence of Viennuanfanewnote of mediation. This ounded statement is It is known that the Czar, during hi s stay at Olmutz and here, confined himself to confidential communications with his allies, which circumstance_ might have led Austria and Prussia to hope for a friendly solution. At a later period there arrived at St. Petersburg a pro ject from England and Foam ; containing new propositions of arrangement from the conference of Vienna. It is believed that the recent events at Constantinople have determined the Czar to send a negative reply, and the orders transmitted from this place to the army would not justify m any way the idea that the Emperor was disposed to yield." The Cassel Gazette has the following The Austrian Government has received from Russia the formal assurance that, even in the event of a de claration of war on the part of Turkey, the Czar will not take the initiative in hostilities, that is to say, that the Russian troops will not cross the Da nube, but confine themselves to keeping the Prin cipalities, which Russia considers as the guarantee for her pretensions." The military Governor of Transylvania has for warded the following dispatch to Vienna, under date Hermannstadt, October 10 :—" According to certain information from the neighbouring princi palities (Moldavia and Wallachia), contagious diF.s eases (rinderpest and milzbrand) are making ex tensive progress among the draught oxen employed. in the service of the Imperial Russian army, and. are of a very malignant type. Serious danger. thus threatens Transylvania, and within these last; few days the diseases have made their appearance , amongst the cattle at Botzau, on w hi c h accoun t I . have found it necessary to take special precaution& on the frontier." ITALY. From Turin we learn that on Thursday tranquil lity had not been disturbed anew. The deputies, the national guard, and the municipal council of the capital, have expressed their attachment to the ministry. It is positively stated that the difficulties which had arisen between the Holy See and the Prussian Government relative to the measures recently pre scribed for mixed marriages have been smoothed down, and that the Cabinet of Berlin no longer insists on their withdrawal. The Tuscan consulate at Rome has been sup pressed, and a consular councillorship dependent from the Tuscan legation substituted in its stead. The Giornale di Boma publishes a decree, dated the 12th, of the Minister of Financ e at Rome, announcing, in the name of the Pope, that the col lection of the arrears of the tax previous to 1853 on professions, established by the decrees of October 14 and November 29, 1852, is suspended until the end of 1854. This tax is entirely remitted for the whole current year, and the first nix months of 1854. The Univers, in giving an abstract of its private correspondence from Rome, states as a rumour that M. de Boutenieff, the Russian Minister to the Holy See, has been recalled to St. Petersburg, having incurred his imperial master's displeasure for not having opposed with sufficient energy the beatification of Father Bobola, the Polish Jesuit, which is to take place on the 30th inst. ; and for not having displayed greater activity in exercising espionnage over the Russian and Polish Catholics. residing at Rome, or going there on a pilgrimage. But a version which the Univers thinks more pro bable is, that M. de Boutenieff's disgrace is owing to his not having succeeded in getting the Pope to appoint a certain priest, recommended by the Em peror of Russia, to a bishopric in Poland. Besides the highest recommendations, as stated, the said pretender to the honours of episcopacy had abun dance of money at command, and, as the Univers assures us, a good stock of cunning and intrigue ; not enough, however, it would seem, for the court of Rome. Having lost his labour, he returned to Poland as he came, and laid the fault on M. de Boutenieff, whence the latter's disgrace. The Parlament° of Turin of the 18th inst., states that Mr. Brett had concluded his arrange ments for the establishment of the electric tele graph along the coast of the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. The wire, which is to unite them with Piedmont, is to be ready for the Ist March, 1854. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 16th announce the death of General Alaix from apoplexy. He was one of the most distin g uished officers of the Spanish army. He served in America as well as in Spain. The papers announce also the arrival in Madrid of M. Soule, the United States Minister. The 16th being Sunday, the Stock Exchange was not open. The Duchess of Montpensier has had an attack of the measles. On the occasion of the anniversary of her birth, the Queen had placed at the disposal of the Pro vincial Governor of Madrid a sum of 60,000 reals, to be disiributed among the indigent poor and charitable institutions of that capital. The. Provincial Deputations were to be convoked for the Ist of November. • ( It was reported that the Gazette would shortlA puvq.siff`a decree suppres s i ng p ass p or t s . - The Doke of Castroterreno was dangerously ill. GERMANY. The Customs' conference of the States of Ger many, now assembled at Berlin, decided, on the 12th, that the suspension of the import duties on corn and other articles of food in the States of the Zollverein shall be extended to the Ist of October next year. DENMARK. The Danish police at Schleswick have issued an order to the inhabitants to deliver up, within the space of three days, all the revolutionary emblems and objects of military equipment that still re main in their possession. Persons not complying with this order are to be punished with a fine of from 40 to 50 thalers; AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT. The United States mail steamship Washington, Captain E. M. Fitch, arrived off Cowes this even ing, on her way to Bremen, bringing the usual semi-weekly English and French mails and dates from New York to the Bth inst. Owing to the heavy gale of wind now blowing from the south-west accompanied with a tremen dous sea in Cowes Roads, the communication with the Washington has been effected with great difficulty. _ _ The Washington brings 41 passengers, and on freight specie value $400,000, for England and France. On the 11th inst. the Washington spoke a large steam propeller, and on the 18th signalled the English brig Mariner, bound east. Mobile still continued sickly, and there were nine deaths on the 7th inst. At New Orleans the weather was fine and cold, and the city is now healthy. Absentees were returning in crowds. Business was reviving. The British and North American steamer Arabia, from Liverpool, reached New York on the 6th inst. in 11 days 20 hours. This steamer brings no news of political im-. portance. The Washington, Intelligencer of the 7th inst. announces that the Austrian Government had officially consented to the liberation of Kossta, on condition that he should return directly to the 'United States. In the New York stock market there had been a further decline in prices of railroads, but in State loans and bonds more firmness. Exchange on London firm at 1091 to 110. Bre men 791 to Flour in better request, but rather easier in price. Sales on the 7th, 17,400 barrels. Rye flour, and corn meal inanimate. Wheat in fair demand. The extreme rates for grain caused by the news per Arabia were not maintained to the close, but prices were several cents higher. Cotton markets were dull and declining. Freights firm, but not very active. Flour to Liverpool, 3s. 6d. ; wheat, Is. Id. Flour to London, 4s. 6d. wheat, is. 3d. In provisions, pork quiet ; beef tending upwards. In tobacco, the advices received from the south relative to injury to the growing crops had. strengthened. the market. Metal market firm and active for all descrip tions of iron. In wool no improvement. The New York money-market was lighter. Dis counts 10 to 12 per cent. At New Orleans on the 7th the cotton-market was unsettled by the Arabia's news. Sales on the 6th, 2,000 bales. food middling was quoted 10Ic• Stock on hand 26,000 bales. Superfine flour sold at $6 50c. to 6 62ic. Sales of rice at 5/c. At Buffalo, markets good. Fl our ra th er heav y Corn firm. Wheat dull. At Albany, flour steady, but not active. Wheat fi r m. Corn in good request at better prices. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. By the screw steamship Andes, Moodie Conl mander, we have advices from New York to the Bth instant. The steamer . Arabia arrived at New York from this port on the 6th inst. The Andes has brought $150,000 in specie On freight. Thege is no intelligence from Washington. Up wards of $300,000 Government stocks had been re' deemed by the Treasury. The latest acc oun t s f rom N ew O r l eans s t a t e tha c t the yellow f ever h a d a l most ent i re l y di sapVe Bre from that city. In the interior, however, it WD still raging with grea t v i ru l ence . At Lake Prod" deuce, out of 90 inhabitants 60 had died. DR and that n secure end M ford ; of join touch Baldw and Ai anxiot terwor Went c do w a L 0,5