The Sun. — London, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

WALLER GOLD MINING COMPANY.- Incorporated by Charter from the State of Virginia, U.S., with liability limited to the paid-up capital. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to SCRIP HOLDERS, That the SHARE CERTIFICATES of it. each, Pally paid up, signed and sealed in terms of the Charter, may asd are required to be exchanged, at the offices of the Company, here, for the Scrip, on and after the .26th November inst.—the same being transferable to bearer without .executing any deed. W. GOWRIRG, Sec. N.B.—The Report of Mr. Gregg, the resident engineer, as to the condition of the mines and works in progress, may be had on appli cation. .Allhallow's Chambers, Lombard-street, London, Nov. 21, 1853. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVEIING, Nov. 22, The GREAT AMERICAN EQUESTRIANS will exhibit their astonishing Feats, unmatched in the history of such Performances, assisted by the moat renowned Gymnastic Artistes, 0. Dale and Barnes, the European and American champions. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.REET. Under the management of Mr. Bnekatone. THIS EVENING, Nov. 22, Will be performed A CURE FOR LOVE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Villiers, and Bnckstone ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, &c. After which, LOVE'S ALARMS. Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Corri, and Compton ; Miss Emily Ormonde, Miss E. Romer, and Miss Featherstone. To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. Cha racters by Messrs. Howe and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. ritzwilltam. To conclude with POPPING THE QUESTION. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Unger the Management of Mr. CnAatas KEAN. THIS EVENING, Nov. 22, Will be performed THE LANCERS; or, The'Gentleman's Son. Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Ryder, Everett, IL Mel'on, and D. Fisher; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, Mrs. Daly, and Miss C. Leclercq. To be followed by MARCO SPADA. Supported by Messrs. W . Lacy, J. Chester, Ryder, Graham, and Everett; Miss Heath and Miss C. Leclercq. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Yestria. THIS ETENLNG, Nor. 22, Will be performed A NICE FIRM. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE COMMENCEMENT OF A BAD FARCE which, however (it is hoped), will. in the end, show lIOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY. Principal character by Mr. Wright. To be followed PATTER v. CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with 'WRIGHT AT LAST. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dlreatreas. Madame Celeste. THIS ETENIN6, Nov. 22, Will be perforraed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Woolgar, &c. To be followed by WHITE EAIT AT GREEN TICII. After which, THE CAMP AT CI:10E11AM. To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook " A Min." ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Nov. 22, Will be performed PLOT AND PASSION'. Principal characters by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by 'Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Ronson, Cooper, and Galli ; Mesdames Wyndhar.n A. Wigan, Stirling, P. H orton, Chatterley, E. Turner, and To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Great and Glorious Success of THE INVASION OF RUSSIA. The Review and Advance of the French Troops —The Conflagra tion of Moscow —The Snow Storm, and Retreat of the French army, have been nightly received with unbounded approbation. SECOND WEEK of the Re-appearance of Mr. ALFRED COOKE, indisputably the Premier Horseman of the Day, whose Matchless and Daring Act on Four Horses is the perfection of equestrian art. Miss EMILY COOKE, the Wonder of the We ld, will repeat her astounding FLIGHT through SIXTEEN BALLOONS. First Appearance of the Equestrian Clown, Mr. G. ADAMS, the Grimaldi of the day. The Finished and Talented Eqestrienne, Mane. MASATT I , will appear during the week. The Scenes of the Arena, introducing for the Second Time (on one evening) the SIX Unrivalled CLOWNS of this Establishment. THIS EVENING, Nov. 22, (And during the week), NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF RUSSIA ; Or, The Bursting of Moscow. Followed by Feats of Equestrianism in the ARENA, unrivalled In Europe. Concluding with the First Act of JUPITER'S DECREE; Or, The Fall of Plimton. Box-oftice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TUESDAY, Nov. 22, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations Are arranged in order of latitude. FOLKESTONE —N., gentle breeze—partially c l ou d y . TUNBRIDGE—S.W., calm—cloudless. GREENWICII—N., gentle breeze—cloudless. STROOD—N.W_., gentle breeze—cloudl ess . SWINDON—N. W., light breeze—foggy. YAIIMOUTR—N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state at the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock t LIMICRICK—N.„ calm—partially cloudy—frost. MULLINGAR—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. TIINBRIDGE—S.E., calm—partially cloudy. HIGICWATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY —Morning 28 min.after 5 I Evening 49 min.aft. 5 To - Momow—Morning 13 min. after 6 Evening 39 min.aft. 6 THE WEATHER.—Scnir OFFICE, Nov. 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 36--lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER, up to 3019, now 30 . 32. WIND, N.E.—Light breeze, with dull, foggy weather. ghg cri„tie",► >04411, , LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1853. A warlike struggle having actually commenced between the forces of the SULTAN and those of the AUTOCRAT--the anxiety must naturally enough now be as to whether the circle of hostilities will spread wider and wider until it embraces first one and then another of the powerful and energetic races of Christendom. It cannot but be reason ably anticipated that, like the expanding ring i formed by the dropping of a stone in water, the struggle which has at length startled Europe from its " propriety" will extend gradually, perhaps rapidly, to the north, and to the south, and t o the east, and to the west, until it involves th e whole of the surrounding countries in the blaz e o f the long-since ignited and now quickly-spreading conflagration. It cannot but be expected that the Sabbat Dance of War—the true Dance o f Death—will display now as of old its irresistibly contagious influence, stinging even the most sluggish and phlegmatic of the Powers into activity, as with the poison of a political taran tula. The example set by Russia and Turkey must necessarily be emulated by the surrounding communities of the various principalities de pendent, more or less, upon one or other of the belligerent Governments. As to the ultimate in volvement of France and England in the conten tion, that appears to be ultimately inevitable, now that the combined fleets have passed the Bos phorus as well as the Dardanelles. What we are alluding to, therefore, in the foregoing observation, is not so much the prospect of the more consider able Powers of the Eastern hemisphere being drawn one by one into the quarrel now being settled by force of arms, as to the probability, or rather the absolute and already manifest c e r tainty, of the lesser States immediately conti guous to the scene of warfare being dragged into the contention. Several have even now adven tured upon a Participation with the Turks in the perils and glories of the campaign. The Egyptians have furnished their contingent to their liege ;Suzerain. The Druses h ave promised to send 2,000 men from the Lebanon. A similar rein forcement has been assured to the SULTAN'S army by the Maronites. The • ger vlans appear, it is true, to hesitate as to the Course to b e pursued by them under existing circumstances, precisely as the Montenegrins seem to await from Vienna th e signal of the direction of their policy in regard to their old antagonists, the Mussulmen. Meanwhile, bloodshed has stained the soil of Wallachia at Oltenitza ; and, supposing au equal success follow the arms of the SULTAN at Braila and Kalafat, it may not he long before the war shall have been driven home to the Moldavians. This, in spite • -1. TEE S of the concentration of the forces of GOETZ. I CHAKOFF, and in defiance of the advancing reinforcements of OSTEN-SACHEN. Under any circumstance, the fear of the excitement must spread not only northward from Roumelia, to 13ulgaria, and thence to Wallachia and onXll‘. davia, as before intimated, and as alreaM . ap parent, but westwards (supposing even it passes by the Servians, Montenegrins, and Albanians,) to Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina. Beyond the Austrian frontiers, moreover, how ripe for a gigantic outbreak are the patriotic bands in the fastnesses of Banat, Sclavonia, and Tran sylvania! Still further, stretching onwards to the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, are there not all the combustible material for insurrection stored up by the hearths and in the hearts of the Hungarians ? Again, across the Russian boundaries, may we not readily detect upon the instant the prolific germs of a wide-spread revolution ? All along the Caucasus, for example, and among the hills and valleys of Circassia ! Nay, for the most part throughout the numerous provinces annexed from time to time by a series of daring robberies to the enor mous dominions of the Russian AUTOCRAT ! Let it not be forgotten how recent are those lawless annexations of territory to Russia—by which the empire of PETER the GREAT has been extended gradually round one half of the Black Sea, until it has become little else than a, Russian lake, just as France once dreamt of making a French lake out of the Mediterranean. It was only in 1783 that Russia seized upon the Crimea, in 1812 Bessarabia, in 1802 Mingrelia, in 1814 Georgia, in 1803 Ganja, in 1805 Kara bagh, in 1806 Shirvan, and so on from spot to spot by a series of monstrous spoliations. Suffi cient time has not elapsed to allow these different and fragmentary conquests to become firmly com pacted together. Wherefore, the countries bor dering on the Black Sea and nominally the pos sessions of the AUTOCRAT are ready to hurl away the yoke under which they have latterly groaned at the first available opportunity. They are eager for the signal for revolt ; and that signal— is it not already audible ? Will not recruits arrive among the forces of the SULTAN from other quarters than from Trebizond. and Anatoli ? Nothing further, indeed, is re quired to effect the extraordinary changes here hinted at, but the energetic assistance of the Porte by its two great Western allies —an assistance that France is eager to grant, but f:om the glory of yielding which assistance England has hitherto been debarred by the evil influence of a timorous and vacillating Adminis tration. We recently stated that if the question at issue between the masters and the operatives in the manufacturing districts were merely one of wages, the parties might be suffered "to fight it out among themselves." We should have added a proviso —that the increase of wages did not lead to a diminution of production in an inverse ratio, and that the enhanced earnings were judiciously applied in advancing the comforts of families rather than in promoting drunkenness and profli gacy. If the parties were freed from the demoral ising influences of the agitators—if they could not be seduced into public-houses or beer-shops to listen to inflammatory harangues—if they were inspired with the conviction that they were imperatively bound to strain every nerve, to make use of the most energetic exertions to enable their committee men and delegates " to rule the destinies of trade," the present demands might possibly be submitted to. The additional cost of production would un questionably cause the great body of manufac turers to enter on the " free and unrestricted competition" to which they are subjected under great disadvantages. Like the additional weight imposed on the swift and lasting race horse, it would neutralise the superiority which had been severely tested on many former occasions, and transfer the prizes to others of inferior pretensions. There might, however, be some chance of still retaining a por tion of our foreign trade. The energy, the skill, but above all, the additional monetary power or ca pital of British manufacturers might enable them at least to maintain a forward position in the im portant and interesting contest. But the other matters would completely paralyse their efforts. Experience teaches us that additional wages to the working classes are in too many instances synony mous with additional idleness and additional drun kenness to the bread winners, and diminished comforts to their families. We have seen the re sult of the temporary victory achieved by the col liers, when they compelled the mine-owners to pay the same wages for four hours' work that had previously been given for eight hours, when, prac tically, the value of that species of labour was doubled in the coal-producing districts, the families of the colliers did not reap any practical benefit from the change. Larger sums were not drawn from the proprietors. No, the change to them was only discernible in the diminished produce of their mines—in the smaller quantity to meet the general demand. The men who had previously worked eight hours in the day—no very severe strain upon their muscular power—afterwards worked only four hours, while their families were not even as well off as they had previously been, for, although equal amounts were drawn from the pay clerks, the bill for liquor was greatly increased, and constituted additional demands on the earnings. The four hours of additional leisure were not harmlessly or inexpensively passed. The public-house, or the skittle-ground, absorbed a considerable portion of the extra time, while the demand for excise able liquids was materially increased. The thirsty revellers did not listen to the exhortations of tee totallers, or baulk their inclinations for a " few extra glasses." They did not practise conviviality " sitting round a pump." That was certainly not h e ta p" from whence their inspirati on was dr t awn, or which produced the pugnacity the that led Poch,' cartoon in Has contemporary p our facetious It is almost unnecessary tto say e that gh t t h e e n y B w i l e l r . ' e ' not moderate in their potations, but drank deeply of the " Pierian spring", honoured by their patron age, and that, as a natural co o n f se la q b u o e u n r c in e, g they society, i n among w ere not unfrequently incapable effi ciently during the brief p er i ods set aside for that purpose. Every housekeeper glanci ng a t th e coa l mer chants' bills, and at the scantily-supplied grate, can testify as to the resu i lt o s ve t ome general, of the successful the " black diamonds." Coals, however, can not be altogether done without, nor. can the supply be drawn from other nations, Not so, however, with manufactured goods, more especially calicoes, the staple product m ions y o ry of the " Duchy of Lancaster." are an There already following closely in " our wake," to hom a trifling change would transfer the palm vic tory. The high price of provisions at the present moment might induce the operatives towork full time (if mills were kept open), but when the re duction, which we hope will not long be delayed, comes, a Saint Tuesday would speedily be added to the " Saint Monday," and " demi - Saint Saturday," and the addition of ten per cent. to wages might, and probably would, lead to 20 per cent, diminution in production, and an actual falling off of more than ten per cent. in the earnings. We learn, too, on the best authority, how the leisure time would be spent. Mr. GEORGE COWELL, the acknowledged leader of the malcon tents who, with an affectation of modesty, a clap trap intended to catch the plaudits of the gaping audience, and to let them see what a very fine fellow he thought himself, " wondered what such a poor awkw ar d fellow was to do before a London audience !" tells us, w ith ou t di sgu i se or conceal ment, that " British artisans will sing in public houses and Jon-shops that Britons never shall be L slaves !" Now, this may be a very pleasing oc cupation to the melodists, but we venture to doubt if it will be a very profitable one to their families, or if the practical refutation of the senti ment, by their being the unreasoning and obe dient serfs of the COWELLS, and SWINGLEHURSTS, and Hums and MAUDSLAYS, et hoc genus, will not deprive British manufacturers of the only remaining advantage they possess, the facility for obtaining monetary accommodation, and the cheap use of capital. When these are gone, farewell to the manufacturing supremacy of England—farewell to the temporary prosperity that has induced the hands to turn out for more than they ever had before. Their passions are now engaged. Let them, however, examine the question calmly, and they will speedily per ceive that a partial success would be followed by permanent ruin, and that their worst enemies are those who have induced them to plunge into the internecine contest in which they are engaged. Our Tory contemporaries are endeavouring to turn the tables on the Liberal party. The strength of the latter ever since England began to recover the liberties it lost at the Norman Conquest has always been in the towns, and very conspicuously so since the Reform Act of 1832. Very soon after the passing of that Act it was loudly affirmed that, what with the division of counties, and the tenant-at-will voters, the country party had, after all, got the better in the scramble ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with characteristic coolness, coupled with his celebrated finality dogma, the avowal that he intended in his Bill to give the corn-field the predominance over the coal-field. He thought it right and statesman-like to interest the power of votes to the counties, to neutralise, as he con ceived, the activity and intelligence which nature and habit had conferred on the towns. We have little doubt that his Lordship's real opinion was, perhaps is, that town members should be a kind of political barristers, pleading their cause before the landed aristocracy of the kingdom. As he told Mr. Brum"; he is always very happy to hear the very valuable opinions of such representatives as the Hon. Member for Manchester on subjects of commerce ; but when they venture on imperial questions, why, that is the province of landlord statesmen ; merchants and manufacturers should keep to their counting-houses and their mills. It has just, however, been discovered that Lord JOHN was quite mistaken ; he has overdone the towns with members and defrauded the country ! It is shown that electors are fewer in proportion to the population, and members fewer in propor tion to electors, in the country than in the towns. The process of calculation is very easy. The number of inhabitants in the represented towns and cities is . deducted from the total population, and a]l the rest set down as belonging to the country in distinction from the towns. The ab surdity of the calculation is apparent as soon as we open a census list. Our readers can turn to page 47 in Mr. EDWARD CHESHIRE'S convenient shilling pamphlet on the census, and ho sees at once among the B's, Birkenhead 24,285, and Burnley 20,828 inhabitants, both unrepresented ; and, glancing over the whole, he finds a host of unrepresented towns from the size of Arundel upwards to that of Staley Bridge. If he will undertake the task of computing the population of all these, he will find that they aro not far short of a million, and must contain, at a mode rate computation, more than fifty thousand voters. These subtracted from the county electors and added to the town electors, would make the present number of town and county electors pretty nearly equal. But there are other things to be taken into account. The CHANDOS clause voters in 1843 amounted to nearly 110,000 ; these ought to be all deducted also. They are in no sense inde pendent electors. They do not represent their own opinions. As Mr. BERKELEY said of them, in his place in the House of Commons, they are mere " Buck rabbits," passively transferred from candidate to candidate at the will of their land lords, and as tame as the long-eared gentry under the process. They are landlords' counters, not voters, and the number of their landlords is the true number of the voters. Making this deduction also, the Borough electors would outnumber those of the country by about a hundred thousand. Then, again, the sixty-seven boroughs which Lord JoUN tried in 1852 to save by making little counties of them, these are, in fact, nearly all of them landlord boroughs ; they were preserved as instruments in the hands of some great neigh bouring proprietor; because the authors of the Reform Bill either would not overlook a Whig supporter, or had to conciliate some formidable Tory opponent. It is a favourable sign of the times that even the great ABERDEEN Journal acknowledges, we will do it the justice to say urges, that these boroughs ought to be dealt with without respect of party, and on some clear and rigidly applied principle. Surely, moreover, our Conservative friends do not forget that we have a House of Lords. A house of landlords and aristocracy combined. The country party in reality engrosses the whole of one branch of the Legislature, and at present is in a majority of everything but knowledge and intelligence in another. We suppose the property qualification is to be given up, and do not, there fore, include that in the country party's gain ; but with the House of Lords as it is, it would surely be the excess of unfairness to demand that the number of members returned by towns should be reduced, or to refuse to make those who are now but nominally borough members really so. For ourselves, however, we object to all the tinkering by which some who call themselves statesmen, and the majority of party men, en deavour to secure a representation of classes, as they term it—of their party they should say. If the majority of the people be Tories, why let us have Tories in office, and let the same rule decide for a Whig or a Radical Govern ment if needs be. Let us take the nation as it is, and not seek to shape it into a RUSSELL, a DERBY, or a JOSEPH HUME mould. Make the representation impartial, and free discus sion will do all the rest. The dissatisfaction, ever liable to arise with the former, is due to the artificial attempts of Reformers to secure that electoral numbers shall be on the side of their favourite maxims of Government. It is a folly only different in degree from the continental failures of constitutions made for the people, in stead of constitutions which took the people as they found them. Now, what do the people really desire ? They wish, first of all, to be gene rally represented. They do not like, at least six sevenths of them do not, to be wholly passed over at every election. They wish next to give their vote without fear or favour ; to vote indepen dently of another's frown or smile. These are the two substantial wants of the country. The right to vote, and an independent vote. Grant these (and the last is first in importance), and we care nothing about the division into town and country. The political distinction between the people of the towns and the country was buried in the grave of Protection. What has either class now to ask of the other ? What has either to fight about in Parliament ? Taxa tion is fast approaching to equality, at least to with their estates into a tt the e hanldasttoerf can th wish e it. Mercan tile Classes, as te r:di Nothing can save the relics of Feudalism from gradual absorption by the wealth of the indus trious classes, and coming generations less, see the landed and commercial aristocracies of the country separated by nothing but their diverse pursuits and habits. The farm and the estate are rapidly becoming manufactories, and the manufactories are swelling to princely mag nitude, style, and importance. In our view, then, an equal and common suf frage, and one widely extended too, affords the most reasonable prospects for perpetuity. Large constituencies and the ballot--the only plausible antidote to corruption, and, above all, to intimi dation. Grant us these, and divide the new con stituencies with any approach to fairness, and we care but little whether counties or towns get a few members more or less in the Reform Bill of 1854. THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR• Our readers are, no doubt, aware that Count Walewski, the French Ambassador, left London on Friday for Paris, and so sudden was his depar ture, that he was actually obliged to put off a dinner-party intended to be given by his Excel lency on that day. . _ This matter has occasioned a good deal of con versation, and is thus explained in diplomatic circles. The Emperor Napoleon has informed the British Government that it is his intention to send a military force to Constantinople to aid the Turks, and has made a proposition to the British Govern ment, that England should also send some troops for the same purpose. This proposition has given great alarm to Lord Aberdeen. The British Cabinet have not the slightest intention of taking such a step, and yet they cannot permit the French to send a military force without England doing the same, and they are, therefore, trying to induce the Emperor to change his plans. This has created a difficulty between the two Governments, and hence Count Walewski's sudden departure for Paris. Such is the report current amongst those likely to be well-informed. We give it as it has reached us, without vouching for its accuracy—upon which the public must form their own conclusions.— Morning Herald. THE HOUSE OF BOURBON. VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING.--At three in the afternoon of the 17th, the Duke of Nemours arrived on a visit to Frohsdorf, when the reconciliation between the head of the House of Bourbon and the sons of the late Louis Philippe was completed. The Duke of Bordeaux has since returned the visit of his Royal relative. CITY OF LONDON COALEVISSION. (THIS DAY.) The Commissioners resumed their inquiry this morn ing in the Chamber of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Mayor of Yarmouth came before the commission to point out the injurious effects which the porterage, meterage, and Lord Mayor's dues had upon the coasting trade. His Worship informed the commission, that owing to the existence of those imposts, the grain and malt exported from Yarmouth was carried by land in stead of by water, the land carriage being entirely exempt from these objectionable charges. The shipping interest, therefore, hoped the commissioners would recommend that they should be put upon an equal footing with the railway - s, and then, perhaps, some of the traffic which had been diverted in the manner he had stated would return to its original route. Mr. Belton, one of the Marylebone vestry, and a de putation from a public meeting of the rate payers of Marylebone, attended to represent to the commission the objections which the parish entertain to the coal and cartage dues of the City. In the parish of Marylebone alone the former realised no less a sum than 22,0001. a year, of which 5,0001. was contributed by 4,000 public lights of the parish. This sum was equal to a rate of 2s. 6d. in the pound on the poor-law valuation of the parish, which included 17,000 houses and a rental of 350,0001. a year. Now what the parish complained of was, that they should be subject to such an enormous imposition as this without deriving any benefit whatever from its expenditure. The coal duties were originally created for the purpose of defraying the expenses of London Bridge and its approaches, but that debt had long since been paid off; and now the fund was applied to improving the streets of the City. Mr. C. Lewis—But was not the improvements in New Oxford-street defrayed out of the coal dues ? Mr. Belton said there was a grant made out of the dues for the purpose, but the improved ground rents he contended were quite sufficient to meet all the expense. But the improvements in New Ox ford-street did not benefit Marylebone so much as St. Pancras, inasmuch as they had the effect of destroying the " Rookery" and a large cluster of low buildings in the latter parish, and distributing the poor inhabitants thereof over Marylebone. Mr. Labouchere—Don't you think it would be an improvement in the existing system if all the parishes of the metropolis were united for the purpose of carry ing out the public works of the metropolis through the instrumentality of one common rate ? Mr. Belton said such a system might benefit the other parishes, but be thought the parishioners of Marylebone did not wish to see the vestry abolished. Mr. C. Lewis—Then you would object to the incor poration of the Metropolitan Boroughs under the Muni cipal Corporation Act ? Mr. Belton was certainly inclined to d• so, as the present system in Marylebone gave the female as well as the male ratepayer a voice in the management of the parish affairs. Each parish, he thought, ought to be left to carry out its own improvements, and then the ratepayers would be satisfied. The cart tax imposed by the City was .equally as objectionable as the coal dues ; both interfered with trade, and ought to be abolished without delay. The Commissioners then proceeded with the evidence of Mr. Benno* taking it up at the point where it was left last week. LA W INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in Error before the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, Barons Parke Alderson, Platt, and Martin, and Justices Williams and Talfourd.) THE CROWN V. THE ARCHIPELAGO COMPANY. This case arose iu a mire fades obtained by the Crown for the purpose of setting aside a Royal charter granted to the company, on the ground that certain of the conditions it contained had not been complied with. The charter required that one-half of the capital of the company should be subscribed for, that a sum amounting to 50,0001. should be paid up within twelve months, and that a certificate to this effect, signed by three of the directors, should be laid before the Board of Trade. It appeared that such a certificate was presented, although the sum in question had not, in reality, been paid up, and the consequence was that, after hearing arguments at con siderable length, the Court of Queen's Bench decided that the charter was forfeited by reason of this false representation. An appeal against the judgment of the Queen's Bench was then made to the Court of Error, and the case was again elaborately argued. This morning the case stood for judgment, and there being a difference of opinion among the learned Judges, their lordships read their written judgments seriatim. The whole, with the exception of Mr. Baron Parke agreed with the judges of the Queen's Bench, and were in favour of the judgment of that court being affirmed. Mr. Baron Parke thought the company was entitled to their judgment, founding his view of the case chiefly on a proviso in the charter, in which the Crown reserved to itself the right of revoking the charter either entirely or conditionally. He considered that before it could be made null and void by a proceeding on a scire faci as, it ought to be shown that the Crown had exercised this right, L otherwise the court would be taking a course which would interfere with that which was solely within the prerogatives of the Crown. There being only one Judge for the !company, the judgment of the Queen's Bench was accordingly con firmed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. IN RE MORTON. This bankrupt was described of Belgrave-road, bill discounter. The case was fully heard on Saturday, and reported in The Sun. A question was raised as to the jurisdiction of the court to cause a prisoner on a criminal charge to be brought up. A diversity of opinion existed, and ulti mately it was adjourned till this day, when it was deter mined that if the warrant of the Commissioner was not sufficient, that the Secretary of State should be applied to, as although the bankrupt was in confinement for a criminal offence, it was one which involved the interest of the creditors, and the bankrupt was bound to answer and disclose the whole state of his affairs, or subject himself to the pains and penalties of perjury. The prisoner was not brought up, but it is expected that the warrant will be granted for Friday next. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. - (THIS DAY.) STEALING A WATCH.—James Watson, a lad 15 years of age, was placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a silver watch and chain, value 51., the property of a person named Martin, in the employ of Messrs. Swan and Edgar, silk mercers, &c., Regent-street. Sergeant Godfrey, an active officer of the C division, stated that on the 9th instant, in consequence of infor mation he received, that a silver watch and chain had been stolen from Messrs. Swan and Edgar's, in whose employ the prisoner was at that time, he went this morning to his lodgings, 10, James-street, Lisson-grove, where he saw him, and told him that he (the prisoner) was charged with a robbery at Swan and Edgar's. The prisoner directly said, "If you won't hurt me, I'll tell you what I've done with it." The prisoner then said he had sold the watch to a man, and that he had pledged the chain. Witness then took him to the station. God frey added that he was not prepared with further evi dence at present, and begged to have him remanded for a day or so. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was remanded till Wednesday. SUDDEN DEATH OF A FOREIGN GENTLEMAN IN AN OMNIBUS.—This morning information was received by Mr. Payne, the coroner for the City, of the death of a foreign gentleman, which took place in an omnibus in the City. It appears that the deceased got into an omnibus, from Paddington to the Bank, and shortly afterwards was observed to fall back on his seat appa rently insensible. He was immediately conveyed in a cab to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, when it was found that life was extinct. A card was found on the person of the deceased, bearing the inscription, " M. Chauvete, 14, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square." Information was given to the relatives, and an inquest will probably be held to-morrow morning. ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that the market for manufactures was heavy, the attendance of buyers having been limited, LATEST FOREIG_N NEWS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. ANOTHER DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS. The Morning Post publishes in a third edition to-day the follo wing important telegraphic despatch, dated " VIENNA, TUESDAY (THIS DAY). "A despatch, published in the Austrian Corres pondence, announces that General Bariatinsky has been defeated, and driven back by the Turks, in Georgia, between Gemni and Altazich." By telegraph despatch we have advices from the Bosnian frontier of the sthinst., which state that the contingent of that province, a corps of about 12,000 men, was preparing to join the Turkish army. The Prince of Servia had been asked to allow the corps to march through the Servian ter ritories, the shortest route to the position assigned to the Bosnians in the Turkish lines on the Danube. As no answer had been given to this demand, the commander of the Bosnian contingent was pre paring to cross the Servian territory without leave. Letters from the Danubian Principalities state that an ukase had been published granting permis sion to the port of Odessa to continue its commerce with vessels sailing under neutral flags. The consuls and agents of Austria and Prussia in Moldavia have been ordered by their Govern ments to remain at their posts. From Constantinople, Nov. 7th, we learn that Generals Sadullah Pasha and Sirri Pasha have been appointed to the army of Asia. They are to serve under the acting commanders, and to take their places in case of need. The Russians are fortifying Odessa on the land side. It is said that the combined fleets of Great Britain and France have been ordered to come to Constantinople. The naval officers of Turkey and France have met to consult and ascertain whether or not the Black Sea is navigable in winter. They have come to the conclusion that the navigation, though diffi cult, was not impossible. A citizen of Aleppo has offered to equip and pay a corps of 5,000 men. 10,000 muskets are expected from EBypt. From Vienna we learn that, according to an official Russian report, the Turks attacked Fort Gumri, between Tiflis and Kars, on the 29th and 30th of October, but were repulsed by General Prince Bariatynski, with a loss of one thousand killed and wounded, and several hundred pri soners. The Russians were marching from Krajowa on Kalafat, where the Turks are being strongly rein forced from Widdin. Rumours innumerable fill the city of Vienna, but of credible news we have literally none. " The truth of the report of Bucharest being in flames in several places," says the Presse, " is still insisted on, and mention is even made of a terrible battle in the streets, but when all the circumstances are taken into consideration we cannot but come to the conclusion that the advantages gained by the Turks are neither so very great nor the losses of the Russians so serious as is generally believed." The Lloyds of Vienna, of the 18th, says :—" The Turks are strongly entrenched at Kalafat. The Russian head-quarters are near Budeschti, and they receive every day rations for 40,000 men. A letter from Belgrade states that the reigning prince of Servia, after having received a despatch from Omer Paella, soliciting permission for the Turkish troops to pass through his territory, sent a courier to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, and Vienna. It adds that Servian troops were being marched to the frontier. According to a medical report from Bucharest, there are ten thousand Russians in the hospitals of Moldavia and Wallachia. It is certain that there are 2,000 at Bucharest." A letter from Bucharest states that the Russian troops were proceeding towards Little Wallachia. The Voss Gazette of Berlin quotes a letter from Vienna of the 16th, stating that, according to the last despatches received at the British Embassy, the Turks have advanced from Kalafat to Czorojul, and menaced Krajova, which had been occupied by Russians, reinforced by the corps of General Fisch bach, whom General Daunenberg had sent there in great haste. General Dannenberg's head-quar ters are at Slatina. It is asserted that the Turkish troops have advanced, and that General Fischbach has received orders to quit Krajova and to retire upon Slatina to join General Dannenberg, whose corps now amounts to 18,000 men. It is further rumoured that the Turks have occupied Krajova without firing a shot. The retreat of the Russians is explained by the circumstance that the Turks are said to have crossed the Danube near Nicopolis, about half-way between Kalafat and Oltenitza, and to have marched in the direction of Slatina, in order to get the Russians between two fires. The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna the 17th : "An official despatch from Bucharest of the 13th says In consequence of the strategic operations of Prince Gortschakoff, the Turks, after having, without accepting a battle, destroyed their entrench ments near Oltenitza, burned the bridge, and en tirely evacuated the left bank of the Danube. The Russians have defeated an attempt of the Turks to cross the Danube, near Kalarasch, and to occupy the island near Giurgevo.' " We do not understand what is meant by an " official. despatch." From what quarter does it come ? The account that it gives is directly at variance with the really official despatch published in the Paris Moniteur, under a Vienna date, two days later than the Vienna des patch of the Cologne Gazette, and it is also incon sistent with various statements in other German journals. The Cologne Gazette says it is difficult for us to account for General de Dannenberg having retired. The motive which induced Omer Pacha to with draw from Oltenitza was, it is said, that he had only 25,000 men to oppose 35,000 Russians, and on the other hand the waters of the Danube, which had considerably falle n , had su dd en ly attained a great height. The Turks having had time to set fire to their entrenchments before retiring clearly shows that they were not closely pressed by the enemy. " The Consul of France at Jassy has," says a Berlin letter, "received orders from his Govern ment to leave Moldavia, without however going too far. It is said that he will go to Lemberg, and will only leave at Jassy a Chancellor without any official character. French subjects have been placed under the protection of the Prussian Con sul. A Russian functionary was expected to arrive to take the Presidency of the Council of Adminis tration of the Province, and a palace was being prepared for his reception." The Servian journal, Serbi Dnemi, says : " Derwisch Pacha has marched towards Grahowo with 5,000 men and a strong force of artillery, in order to establish batteries where necessary. Imme diately from 2,000 to 3,000 Montenegrins left for Grahowo and began fortifying the town. It is be ferred that Derwisch Pacha and his army will be received with hostilities from the Montenegrins." The following is the Russian bulletin of the battle of Oltenitza. It was published at Bucharest by Prince Gortschakoff as an order of the day on the 6th inst. : " On the Ist inst. the Turkish troops in considerable numbers left the camp of Turtukai, and occupied an island at the mouth of the river Argis. On the following day they passed over to the left bank of the river, and oc cupied the stone building of the quarantine establishment. On the report made by our advanced posts of Cossacks, I ordered General Dannenberg to take up a position near the village of Nutreui Fundoui, and to attack the enemy from that point. In the afternoon of the 4th he marched against the enemy, who had had time to entrench them selves. The quarantine building, armed with six pieces of cannon, formed the centre of their position, which was supported on the left by the river Argis, and their right on the Danube. The Turks were, besides, pro tected by works and palisades. The right flank of the enemy was also defended by three batteries estab lished on the right bank of the Danube, which at this place is only 212 toises in width. The left flank was Protected by batteries erected on the island of the Danube. On our troops reaching within the dis tance of cannon-shot, the enemy opened a fire from all his guns, and even from some mortars on the right bank. Two of our batteries advanced to within a distance of 450 toises from the Turkish entrenchments, and returned their fire with great energy. After an hour's well supported firing, they were able to approach within the range of grape. The infantry, protected by the artillery, advanced rapidly towards the enemy's entrench ments, and, in spite of a destructive fire, penetrated even into the ditches. This bold and sudden attack threw the enemy's ranks into disorder ; the cavalry took to flight, and precipitated themselves into the Danube. As our shells had caused two explosions in the quarantine building, the Turks hastily withdrew their artillery, and retired in disorder towards the steep banks of the river. The troops also retired from their entrench ments, and a part of them gained their boats. General Dannenberg having attained the object he had in view of preventing the Turks from taking up an advanta geous position on the left bank of the Danube, thought it prudent not to follow up his advantages, fearing that the losses which would be occasioned by the fire from 40 pieces of cannon posted up on the right bank of the Danube would not be conipensated for any advan tage he might gain. He consequently decided on re turning to his former position. The Turks did not at• tempt to disturb his movements. The alarm which had I been inspired in the minds of the Turks by the bold conduct of our troops was so great, that we were able to erect a temporary hospital for the wounded, close to the quarantine building protected by merely a picquet of cavalry, for the Turks did nut attempt to disturb them." From Constantinople we learn that the celebrated Fouad Effendi, of Mentschikoff notoriety, has just come into office again. He has been named " Director of the Chancery of Political kfairs of the Army of Rumelia." Fouaci. Effendi / ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, is a distinguished individual, high in the esteem and confidence of the people f but, unfortunately, at variance with most of the leading members of the Ministry. Next to the Seraskier, he is one of the most prominent parti sans of war, and as long as he is with Omer Pacha, hard blows will be exchanged with Russia. The instructions given to Fouad Effendi are to draw up a new constitution for the Principalities, and re lease the divans of the Princes from the thraldom of Moscovite influence. New election s are t o t a k e place, and liberal institutions will be granted to Wallachia and Moldavia. By these meams it is anticipated that the inhabitants of the Principali ties will be induced to join the Turks, and take up arms against Russia. Fouad Effendi will have under his orders a numerous personnel of scribes. The English and French commanders of the di visions were invited on the sth to a council on board of the admiral's ship Mahmoudie, for the purpose of taking into consideration the practica bility of a naval demonstration in the Black Sea. It is generally supposed it was decided that for six weeks at least the navigation would not be attended with danger, if good and trusty pilots were engaged. A report to this effect was presented to the Sultan and waits his iracle. Despatches from the Commander-in-Chief bear the date of the 27th ult. The Turkish troops had crossed the Georgian frontier, and had marched to besiege the strong hold of Ahiska, occupied by 12,000 Russians. Ten thousand Egyptian troops were expected to arrive from Alexandria in the course of the month. The courier system had been newly organised, so that, to date from the 9th inst., despatches from both armies will arrive daily in Constantinople. Russian merchants had been called to the port captain's office, and officially informed that vessels under the Russian flag would be permitted to enter the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles up to the 20th November ; beyond that period they would be de tained as prizes. Tho 1,200 muskets taken from the Russians at Shewkehl have been sent to Shumla. They are quite new, and of Liege manufacture. A Berlin letter of the 18th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" A St. Petersburg letter states that the Czar is suffering from illness. M. de Mensdorff, the Austrian ambassador at St. Peters burg, has, it is said, given in his resignation, be cause he is far from approving of the policy of the Emperor Nicholas. We aro assured also that the intimate ally spoken of by the Russian manifesto is far from congratulating himself on the friendly sentiments exchanged at Olmutz and Warsaw." A letter from Constantinople, of the 7th, states that the nomination of Fouad Effendi as Imperial Commissioner to the army of the Danube had pro duced a strong, but not an unpleasant, impression. This may be referred to two causes principally : first, Fouad Effendi was the Minister of Foreign Affairs whose dismissal Prince Menschikoff on his first visit to Constantinople insisted upon with such brutal arrogance ; and his being now charged with the important duty of maintaining the connection between the operations of the army and the policy of the Porte, proved that the Sultan was determined not to abandon the line of policy lie has adopted • and secondly, Fouad Effendi being the old and intimate friend of Omer Pasha, it was not considered as probable that any misunderstanding would arise between them. The appointment of General Baraguay d'Hilliers as the successor of M. de la Cour was not known at Con stantinople at the date of the letter. The rumour very generally prevailed of a new project for the settlement of the quarrel with Russia. The Aus trian Ambassador had received on the morning of the 7th despatches by an extraordinary courier, which were believed to be of considerable import ance. Immediately after M. de Bruck sent his first dragoman to Redschid Pasha, with whom he was to have a conference in the course of the day. No military operation of any importance had taken place in Asia since the affair of Shefkatil. It was merely known as a fact that the troops who had passed the frontier maintained their position. Two new general officers have been attached to the Generals-in-Chief of the armies of Asia, to take their place in case of necessity • they are Sadallah Pasha and Sirri Pasha, both IVluchirs, or Major- Generals. A steamer from Trebizond on the 6th brought three pieces of cannon and 80 or 90 pri soners captured at the affair of the fort of Shefkatil, St. Nicholas. A service of extraordinary couriers had been organised by order of the Government, in order to secure a daily departure and arrival between Constantinople and the armies of the Danube and Asia. The operations of the latter army were pushed on with great activity. The Turkish Government had sent to the Black Sea a naval divi sion, consisting of two frigates, two corvettes, and a brig, in order to protect the coast against a coup de main on the part of the Russians. The combined fleets, the writer adds,have decidedly received orders to ad vance to Constantinople and join the two divisions at anchor there for some days. The announcement in the semi-official journal of the adjudication for the supplies of the French fleet, which states that the contractor had engaged from the sea of Marmora to Odessa, produced considerable sensation at Constan tinople ; and it was considered as, in some sort, a contradiction to the assurance that the fleets would not enter the Black Sea. In virtue of orders ema nating from the Turkish Government, the authori ties of the provinces were to cease all relations with the Consuls and Vice-Consuls accredited to the place where the former reside ; and the navigation was to be interdicted to Russian mercantile ships at the end of 15 days from the sth inst. On the other hand, Omer Pasha has cut off all communica tion on that part of the Danube occupied by his army, and no vessel can pass without his permission. A letter of the same date appears very pacific in its tone. It states that there still exists among political persons a very confident hope that affairs will be arranged without recourse being had to further hostilities. The writer adds, that the Am bassadors declined to accede to the request of the Porte to send the fleets to the Black Sea, and not only that, but they counselled the Divan against sending the Turkish fleet, and moreover that the real secret of Fouad Effendi's mission was for the purpose of restraining the military ardour of Omer Pasha. It is stated that the Russian Consul-General at Alexandria has received orders to quit the country. Hitherto the Russian agents in Egypt have re mained at their posts, but the energetic manner in which Abbas Pasha has taken part with the Sultan has been regarded by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg as a complete rupture. A gentleman, who has just returned to Paris from the Danubian provinces, speaks of the Russian army of occupation by no means flatteringly. If the entire army be like what he has seen he thinks there is not the slightest reason for alarm at the numerous hordes the Czar is said to have under arms. The regiments he saw were, with one ex ception (he had not seen the Guards), of the most wretched kind—most of them young lads, sickly looking, haggard, feeble, badly clad, and badly fed. " They may stand to be killed," he says„ " but it is astonishing to me how they can kill any one." The numbers the Emperor of Russia can draw upon are to be sure, almost unlimited, and in a service where neither the comfort of the men is cared for nor the slightest value set on their lives, there are always thousands upon thousands dragged to supply the places of those who perish by the neglect of their officers and the rapacity of their commis sariat, who have more regard for brute beasts that for human beings. The corps of Cossacks, aro according to the same authority, principally com posed of young men about 16 or 17, whom the hope of plunder animates. Otherwise the soldiers rob in all directions ; and the gentleman I refer to states an instance of a sergeant-major who was flogged by order of his commanding officer, not precisely because he robbed, but be cause he robbed beyond what was permitted to his rank in the army. The condition of the Wallachian peasant he describes as most deplorable, plundered as they are by Boyards as well as Russians. A party of three or four Frenchmen happened, a short time ago, to make an ex curs i on f or the purpose of examining timber for the Government. As they approached a village they were surprised to find nearly the whole of the inhabitants running off as fast as they could to the woods, and apparently in the greatest terror. One of the visitors galloped after them, and holding up a purse full of money in his hand cried out that he was to pay for any thing he wanted. After some parleying they con sented to return and supply the travellers with re freshment, and were amazed when they received payment. In a word, the condition of the unfortu nate inhabitants of the Principalities, exposed as they are to the tender mercies of a soldiery and do mestic oppression, is melancholy beyond descrip tion. At Vienna the following is the latest news from the seat of war :—The Turks still occupy the island opposite Oltenitza, and are fully prepared with their 40 heavy guns to receive the Russians should they attempt to cross the river as they seem inclined to ilo. Tt the same case at Giurgevo. However, if the river continues to rise, the Turks will bo forced to retire to the right bank. General Fishback is certainly at Krajova ; General Werbenburg com mands at Slatina. The Turks are not more than. 10 English miles to the north of Kalafat, where the Polish language is much employed by the officers. The Turks pay for everything at Kalafat, but some little mistakes as to the mcum and tuurn are undo in the neighbourhood. Between the 9th and 14th there was no battle of consequence along the whole line. The foregoing news deserves all confidence. FRANCE. • In Paris it is considered certain that for some monthe to come there will be a truce, de facto between Russia and Turkey. The season is far advanced, the weather has broken up, and as not only the Danube, but the impassable marshes which bound that stream on both banks, and especially on the Wallachian side, separate the belligerent forces, it is not likely that either of them will ven ture to face such difficulties in order to reach their adversaries. But, besides the weather and the na ture of the country, there are °the). - reasons.which lead to the suppose ion that there wile be a de facto suspension of hostilities until the spring. It is welt known that Russia is quite satisfied with the result of her campaign ; by it she has obtained possession of two of the finest provinces in Europe ; and all she wants for the present is to be allowed to con solidate herself in possessions which she hopes will be hers iu permanence. She will therefore certa.inlf not attempt to cross the Danube for the present. Then, as regards the Turks, it is,iknown that the intention of Omer Pacha is not to attempt any fur ther offensive measures for the present. There is a possibility of an attack by the Russians upon Kalafat, which is on the left bank of the Danube ; but as that place is within range of the guns of the fortress of Widdin, it is not possible that Gene ral Dannenberg win venture to attack a place which could only be taken after a regular siege. In the meantime the Turkish Government has given orders that Kalafat and the tee -du-pont shall be fortified as completely as possible. In diplomatic circles the ,state of affairs is consi dered by no means promisilng. Among those whose opinions on such a subject t are worth having, a war, in which England and Ounce will take a prominent and active part, is cok•sidered as next to inevitable. The only chance than seems left for an arrangement is by means of a c, onference, in which not only the four Powers, but _Russia and , Turkey also, will take a part. There is still a re mote hope that by means of this conference of the six nations the dreadful alternative of a Eu.ropean war may be avoided ; but the hope that anv such proceeding will ever be agreed to is a very icceble one, for in the disposition shown by Russia ever since the commencement of the affair, and by Turkey since the actual commencement of host ili ties, it is not probable that any terms can be pr 0- pounded which will be acceptable to both parties. It is said that the object of Count de Walewski'g visit to the Emperor had reference to the Eastern question, and that since he has been at Fontaine bleaue he has received a communication of the plans proposed by the French Government—plans which have for their object the vigorous and joint action of the two fleets in the Black Sea. It is not im probable that the first operations of the two fleets will be, not with a view to co-operating with Omer Pacha to drive the Russians out of the Danubian Principalities, but on the Asiatic coast, where Rus sia is much more vulnerable, and where the Otto man Government has determined to make a vigo rous effort. It is believed that the Count de Walewski will leave Fontainebleau for Englaud in a few days, prepared to state the views of the French Government, and to settle with the English Government how they are to be carried out. On Sunday afternoon the Emperor and Empross honoured with their presence a carousel given by the 6th Regiment of Hussars in the grand avenue , of the park of Fontainebleau. Among the persons who occupied reserved places near their Majesties were Prince Napoleon, the Princess Mathilde, the Dowager Grand Duchess of .Baden, the Prince and Princess Murat, the Prince and Princess de Chi may, the Count of Loa wenhielm, Minister of Swe den ; M. de Kisseleff, Minister of Russia ; the Ministers of Brazil, Bolivia, and Chili ,• Count Walewski, the French Ambassador to the Court of Loudon, and the Countess Walewski • the Count and Countess Clary, Count Frederick de Lagrange, the Marquis de la Roche-Lambert, M. Horace Vernet, M. Gudin, and the Duke de Lesparre. The Emperor has given 15,000 fr. to the mayor of Fontainebleau, to aid the municipality of that town in reducing the price of bread in favour of the necessitous casses. Some journals of the departments state that the , Emperor has taken upon himself the entire cost of monument to be erected at Fontainebleau in honour of Napoleon 1., and has desired that the sums subscribed in the departments towards the monument shall be returned as soon as possible tO the subscribers. His Imperial Highness Prince Jerome has pur chased a piece of ground on the site called Le Perrey, at Havre, for the purpose of erecting a residence on it, his intention being to visit Havre every year. It was reported in P ar i s on M.onday that the Chateau of Frohsdorff, the residence Of the Comte de Chambord, near Vienna, has been do: troyed by fire. The ex-Royal Family of France, it .is said, have escaped unhurt. The Government has now under considerati on (says the Siècle) the draft of a decree for organikling a bank in French Guyana. It is also preparing a decree for authorising the department of the Vienne to contract a loan of 778,000 fr., reimbursable in 20 years and by annuities of 57,245 fr. 24c., including interest and the sinking fund of the capital. The same journal states that it is in contemplation to apply the law of January 22, 1851, on judicial as sistance to the colonies of Martinique, Guadaloupep and La Reunion. According to the terms of this project, the admission of judicial assistance before the different courts will be pronounced by a bureau composed of five members ap pointed by the Director of the interior and the Procureur-General. A certificate of not being able to carry on judicial proceedings in consequence of indigence must accompany any application for judicial assistance. M. Rocher, one of the persons recently arrested at Nantes, and subsequently brought in custody to Paris, has been set at liberty. A despatch from General de Mac-Mahon to the Governor-General of Algeria, dated Milah the 11th, states that the procedings against the Beni-Iders had been completely successful, and he had leftthe whole of the population in that part of Algeria in the most perfect state of submission. Yesterday the Cour de Cassation met in full session, and gave judgment in the proces of the " correspondence." It has affirmed the right of the police to open letters at the post-office. As this is the judgment of the united court, there is no further appeal. A transatlantic service of steam packets is about to commence between Marseilles and the Brazilt The screw-steamer Avenir, of 1,000 tons, will. commence running between Marseilles and Rio Janeiro on the 25th inst., touching at Barcelona , Malaga, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Pernambuco, and Bahia. The six prisoners who were acquitted, in the plot against the Emperor's life at the Opera' Comique, have not been set at liberty. They are now to be brought before the Correctional Police on a charge of being connected with secret so cieties. On Saturday seditious placards were discovered, posted up on the quays and in different parts Orleans, addressed to the citizens, workmen, an socialists of that place. They were couched in veil declamatory language, and made an appeal t i o arms and insurrection, on the plea of want of wor k and the dearness of bread. A man named Morin was arrested as the author, and on his examinatieLl he declared that the surveillance of the police to which he was subjected was so intolerable that be wished to be transported to Cayenne. A man .rho opposed the placards being torn down was also a r. rested and sent to prison. • The speculators arrived at the Bourse to-day wi t the conviction that the campaign between the Rue" sians and Turks is concluded for the winter. Under this impression they commenced their opera; tions, and the Three per Cents., which opened, 73f. 80c., rose to 74f. 15c. ; they closed at 74 1 r ". n er for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Sa il r„ 0 Cents. closed at 99f. 70c.; Orleans Railway 5h,.." 1 1 . 1 1,162 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,040 f. • Havre, 4901. 2 ' ur. Northern, 860 f. ; Paris and ' Strasburg, 8 1 7 1 ..., 6vc aif Paris and Lyons, 9051. ; Lyons to the otg or , terranean, 735 f. ; estern of France, 695 - ; deaux and Cette, 587 f. 50c. ; Great Central, 75c. ; Lyons to Geneva, 5001. ; Shares of the j"'" of Credit of Mobilier, 698 f. 75c. ITALY. of The following were the votes on the occasion _ the election of the President of the Piedl3lollteSe Chamber of Deputies in the sitting of the 16th :; Number of voters, 104 , absolute mai'Dr it YL Tl di- . Chevalier Boncompagni, • the Government ca 0 date, and late Minister of Justice, 56 • 31. Sin e n ': 16 ; Galvagno, 10 ;De Foresta, ri elli°' ec 0 ; 7 ; Brofferio (the chief of the Radical Par t Y ). ' ai Mameli, 2 ; Cadorna, 2 ; Benso, 1 • B ens° ter Cavour, 1 ; de Pretis, 1 ; Lanza, 1. T' he latter was subsequently elected Vice-Presiden t. misheo The Piedino n t ese G aze tt e of the 19th, pu--, t he a long series of regul a ti o ns for the execution ot on , new financial law of Piedmont. The taxes 111 toned are ;—the land-tax, the penonal 4„. o r or— --*"" ~,~ a] fri dc hE an t Ma it' j of t tial Tici Te g nattin RYtia