The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

ND• TRNE' LATEST FOREIGN NEWS FRANCE. t lhe EnVeror and E mpress are expec t e d t o re . 1201. from. Dieppe on Saturday next. at -hie thousand five' hundred individuals of bad rye, had been arrested in Paris within a short r i ti e ' through the vigilance of the police autho re es ? of e vF x h p o e m ned 27 have been imprisoned and the Mauler letter from Belle-Ile, of the 28th ult. states that 2 political convicts had arrived there on the ceding d tea Y from Quibero n , of whom 11 are sen ,, o tr ansportation, amongst them a serjeant Priso ners 13 th regim en t o f the line. Eleven political Pri_s o ners had b een pardoned. Saturday v er y littl e b us i ness was t ransac t e d "le Halle of Paris. There were no arrivals. The r tn t a u r the k i ets of the su b ur b s generally were but indiffe- Y P e r cto sulitrpplied and the prices fell from 3f. to 4f. pro p news which has reac h e d th e ca pit a l from the il nces is s a ti s f actory. There have been large If t va le of English and American breadstuffs at 2f. ° re, and prices have consequently declined by der cask, had lAt Marseilles, where the prices of one down in consequence of the in- Thecresed 811 1 3 1 31 Y, quotations are again looking up. theßordeaux markets are quiet, and at Nantes t o u r , e has been a decline of from 50c. to lf. per hec .re• The news from Strasburg is that the mar .lB tranquil. The • 1 - i t ie re Journals mention the death of M. de Bus pa2, Member of the Council General of his de vi...ent, and Mayor of Soissons. M. de Bussieres re d i '' a Member of the Chamber of Deputies in the th 5 ,11 of Louis Philippe, and afterwards member of unN:ational Assembly. P ar; e Manufacturers and export merchants in k ee C°ll tinUe to do good business, but the shop vit.Pers are nearly idle. The high price of pro roalir still prevents the middle classes from sabi:g any Purchases but such as are indispen n nitt ed the and the more opulent have long since town for the country, the retail are have fallen into their dead season, and the occup i e d i n t a ki ng s t oc k. The rise the " Price o f raw s i lk has b een severe ly f e lt by mannfacturer,3 at Lyons, Nimes, and St. Eti toth• l le r ,, but fortunately the large orders received from e united States enable them to give employment ha s ' th eir operatives. The manufacture of velvet t o assured this year a greater proportion in those r te , 48 . Wines have again risen at Bercy. The supply is bej Confined to th e railways, the carriage by canal tb — g abandoned. L e tters from Nantes state that t e W eather is no t ca l cu l a t e d t o dispel the fears re r.,ting the vi n t age . L e tt ers from the south are Wcie.o w ith lamentations at the progress of the 11-; wu m• The disease is extending rapidly in the I, r; Yards, and the proprietors are becoming more 4 — o ge . _nt in their terms for the sale of wines remain te,', their cellars. Speculators are availing ati, e- 2" er ves of the demand, and brandies have d:4-11ed the price of 158 f. the Hectolitre at Bor ;Ix) bein g an increase of Bf. within eight days. • e Price of wheat and flour has more than 0rdi e70,77 occupied public attention during the last days. A considerable speculation has been th • eu on in flour, which has more tended to raise if P, lr ice than th e f ac t o f a s h or t w heat crop, which alleged artifi c i a l means h a d not been used to r i.„-- " e a panic, would have been provided for by far commercial operations. The measure ° P t ed by the Government to prevent a further tis • , : , 11 1 the price o f h i ea d in Paris has defeated for alvresent the manoauvres of the famine-mon gers, a stop h as b een pu t t o a further rise in the price of flour. T heret_ was ve r y little movement at the Bourse and a total absence of at 79f. 25c., and political reports. 7 F...-Uhree per Cents. opened "(1. at 79L 10c. for the end of the month ; the Oj i r - and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 104 f. 80c. ; Ir-cans Railway Shares, 1,270 f. ; Rouen, 1,120 f.. ; ate e, 527 f. 70c. ; Great . Northern, 895 f. ; Paris (t. Strasbur 960 f. ; Paris and_ll . o . ns, 061 f. 25c. ; F to the ' Mediterranean, 81 e a ' n ee 762 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and be W tte est 6 e 3 r s n f. of ; Teat ' Central, 551 f. 95c. • tfl94. Lyons and G' en . ev . a, 50c. , Shares of the Bank nk of Credit Mobilier, 862 f. 50c. • ;Ind red ~.._ . . ~ ra osittw Lore than performer p hy ! icl .acteristaic on. gig le run l°ur • returned iessed his vourahle he log er Id coarse night oong the Lp per h i s re. rt of the o f for long s two, an e po r a nd sr nular ccess wa s 1 red Cr itics deligh t. ded, 3na ieks, is that We las. se of the ' a do ; sn„, a OW Ivo' ECM' ,i„ of hi s atre with has been st 11219 t IleaS . b e eanc l. ie t r opob s End D One " ximuents, rk ou the moeption• een ° fell out beid )reg e nial irk I° ct, instril su ffer' the and in one sti Pl ed occo nted, only D st Po the the v a er are B ertai ll• ~ig i n t ters; f its Pe , urPr'' large te it reesilsit to v-e RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Vienna has the following from Ivalatez of tegescidavia and of 25th ult. :—" The two hospodars of Wallachia have, it is said, made a t reaty, which they promise each other mutual tticiin case , by after the present crisis, the Sultan souldcall them to account for their conduct. should this news prove true, diplomatic arrange 14ents would without doubt take the matter into eo 4sideration in the settlement of the Eastern question. The quantity of wheat which has not 7eu able to pass into the Black Sea, in conse- Illence of the bad state of the Sulma passage, is so Peat that 1,000 vessels would not suffice to carry all away." i A. letter from St. Petersburgh of the 27th ult., -tit he Bamburgh, News , says :—" The manceuvres t f the corps of grenadiers of the . guard have just een terminated by a grand review in presence of taperor and of all the court. The next day off troOps took repose, and then were marched oepto thei r w i n t er quar t er s. The Emperor is 1 :Lly to set ou t f or Warsaw, and may perhaps ee. 11 visit Austria."—Another letter from St. ete , u llrgh of the same date, says :—" thevieue nas been received here from Teheran, that proceedings of the sect of the Babis, who some eZago attempted to assassinate the Shah, s till 1 1 1 .1:111 e. They lately spread a report that the gro a l ; was dead, and the rumour gained such k ak - e llci that his Majesty thought it advisable to a public promenade, accompanied by his thrn's'ere and the principal officers of the court, S e p u gh the bazaars and the principal streets. cr l i er al Babis were arres t e d an d tortured in a most Manne r in presence of the people." illt e , e nevi's of the 19th from Varna is of unusual 4AG e N t * The ruinous fortifications have, to the 4e (Ls ument of all, been completely restored. Six Ileew tr enches hav e b een dug at Varna, and 57 con- N i t el e ntrenched works in the neighbourhood of bul 1 Between the Balkan and Tultcha 10 Th,,,:arke of va r i ous ki n d s have been constructed. 4 14 ; :hol e T urkish army under Omer P as h a ' s co 4re7 a mounts to 84,000 men, of whom 3 7, 000 /3 1),, °4 the Danube. The English Genera . Var t -li a ll ell) after hEyin assed two days in °fac e ' returned to Shunila . Many foreign 11 3 r ts i are in Ome r P as ha's camp as lookers-on. fresh l e tter of th e 25th f rom G a l a t z we le'trn that just b4laterials for the construction of bridges have sillmieu received by the Russians. The rations i keici: e a by the inhabitants of Moldavia and Wa 4 clu e - , ar e Paid for in assignats, to be redeemed at The fare time by the provincial governments. the i at a„,oUnt of these bonds will be deducted from tiltla,,,77Quificatio n which Russia claims for her "eliall du ring the last occupation. We hear from 'zar c h i ; that fresh Russian troops continue to Hair s ~,t° the Principaliiuiev. At Belgrade the re fsre 'he fortress are vigorously carried on, and twine marled that a great number of guns are the Td i_tc y vards the city. The reply of Russia to th e G t l r 'd. B ll proposals of the 19th is expected on tr eat 4 ) but Will probably arrive much later. The dill bPublic still believes that the Russian answer voll rable, but the diplomatic world is less of tli e ,7Lng to th e C ons t a ntinople correspondent 'llrl6, w anderer, it is hardly expected in the dill ,8 ca pital that the modifications proposed 4,4, 1 t with th e vie „ approval of the St. Petersburg rula,uourts. A let k eth ter AUSTRIA. ,Im gays :—‘ the Saltzburg of from Munich, Ist inst., atelY after the arrival at -'lsero tiveg~ his intended r i d tel at • 1 of Austria, were surprised by ry es, the illustrious travellers i ~orae from teea visit from. Xingbride and her Louis, who had •'/..-. rm . The tr,,,Nidskron. dressed in an um' --..tiero pla eo. r afterwards returned his visit at . s illuminated au,' , 111. the evening the town wa the Kapazme- Lr '4„l.ge bonfires were lighted on the latter a " , . Lne Gaisberg and the Untersberg. The Du ke . Mu n ich lbatiMilian and his family will not arrive at will leav ottraorrow. The Emperor of Austria ,0 Qattzburg to-morrow." I :h e . 0 to the E mperor of Austria has addressed . the m ost general staff of the army recommending a letter Ina.v."l"igid economy in order that the Government ..tate the' ue able to reduce its expenditure and facilitate Th ec l ui , li brinnt of the receipts and expenses. . the -,,, uouna/ de Francfort corrects the error in s A 4-Pllollllcernent of the death of the Princes Am eli a at Vienna, and states that the deceased tv e .,eas was born on the 22d February, 1805, and (.1.- (laughter of -114tavus W Gustavus Grand Duchess Sophia IV., and sister of Prince of Anus gaga and of the d e ~iaen, Rer name was Maria-Charlotte-Amelia -,..,, as a • AY r 0,,, ~... kat " 4 V lenna, vee nativ es Sept. 1, we learn that a great of the Tyrol, who have become con t.*: top rotestantistn abroad, have, on their re- Xnd i t° their own country, petitioned for the Detittn4l. The local authorities forwarded the Li 11-8 to the G overnment, which rejected them. bri entenant Schwartz, the Commander of the Q,23sßaro, -who has become notorious by the % - ta ''a in a : ffa ' i r, has been promoted to the rank of Ti le . 1) q IVI °BtcPnPt Gazette of Frankfort, date under 4. , ; t o .111na lat inst. says :—" There is now no doubt h 4 ) the rationinte of the Government to contract eoZ.before heend of the year. M. Brentano, eill ° l ' of Finances, i s n ow in England on this affair, and the late reductions effected, particularly i in tin., army, will facilitate the conclusion of the projected loan." 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The official journal of Turin promulgates the law by which the King's Government is authorised to carry into execution the convention between the Minister of Finance and the Transatlantic Company at Genoa, for establishing a regular line of steam communication between Genoa and North and South America. A letter from Naples of the 24th ult., announces that the Chevalier Kakoschkine had had an audi ence of the King of Naples, to present his Majesty the letters which accredited him as Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Em peror of Russia at the Neapolitan court. It is said that the King of Naples has decided on forming a camp of manoeuvres, to continue during 15 days, beginning from the 20th inst. SPAIN. The ileraldo, of the 31st ult., announces that an address of M. Olozaga to the electors of Benabarre had been seized. A royal decree was shortly ex pected, ordering the execution of sanitary resolu tion in accordance with those agreed to in the re cent congress at Paris. The Three per Cents. were done at 44i- ' • the New Three per Cents. , a t 23 i ; the Debt of the First Class, at 101 ; and that of the Second, at 5 3-16. GREECE. ATHENS, AUG. 26.—The city of Thebes has been almost wholly destroyed by an earthquake. HOLLAND. The First Chamber of the States-General termi nated the examination, in sections, of the bill on religious liberty on the 31st ult. MM. Eysinga, Lolsy, Martens, Van Sevenhoven, and Van Ryche versel have been named reporters. The Catholic party is still as active as ever. Their exertions appear to increase as the proba bility of the obnoxious Bill passing into a law be comes more certain. Petitions against the law continue to be sent in in considerable numbers ; nearly 100 have been re ceived. THE LAWSON OBSERVATORY. The Midland Observatory Committee ; we are glad to state, were again at their post on Tuesday evening— Mr. Alderman Birkin in the chair—to renew the effort to complete the subscription required for securing to Nottingham the splendid gift of Mr. Lawson, of Bath, (10,000/. in value), and to complete it within the time now limited by Mr. Dawson for this purpose, before the Ist of October. Within a mon th the inhabitants of Nottingham and the Midland Counties are required to supplement the funds already promised to the Observa tory Committee, to the extent of five thousand pounds ; otherwise this opportunity of securing for this ad mirable site an efficient Observatory. which will be public and not private property, ava- - able for public use, and not dependent o n the ca p rice or inclination of any private individual, will be utterly lost. By the institution of such an establishment a great blank would be filled up in British science. We believe we are right in stating that no hiatus is, at this mo ment, more severely felt by those engaged in scientific observation than the want of an observatory upon a large scale, calculated to facilitate the advancement of science and discovery in a degree to which private en terprise and scientific devotion, however ardent, cannot aspire unaided. So deeply are we convinced of this, that could any effectual method of laying the cla;ms of this locality to be provided with an observatory, and the rare opportunity placed within its grasp, before the British Association now about to assemble on the 7th inst., at Hull, we firmly believe that the general convic tion of the importance of such an object would induce the friends and lovers of science at large to contribute handsomely to promote it. We do not expect that the British Association, as a body, would do this ; nor do we think it desirable that any extraneous in influenee should be brought to bear upon the observa tory, by giving a right of interference to any popular body apart from that under whose immediate charge the institution may be placed. But the individual support of those interested in science should, we think, be courted for a purpose so thoroughly identified with its promo tion—and at a moment, too, when recent planetary and stellar discoveries, and the appearance of illustrious strangers in the still of comets in our heavens, appear to point to even more astounding discoveries in creation than even the few last years of Lord Rosse's telescope and the prophetic calculations of Adams and Le Verrier have made us familiar with. Meanwhile, the town of Nottingham has been divided anew into two districts, and some zealous members of committee have under taken to repeat and extend the canvass for subscriptions formerly set agoing.—Nottingham Guardian. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Sept. 3, 1853 £21,137 17 5 Corresponding week last year 20,315 11 11 Increase in 1853 £B22 5 6 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending Sept. 3, 1853 215,258 13 11 Corresponding week last year 14,046 17 9 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 157,390 13 1 Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 140,598 19 9 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re ..urn for the week ending Seat. 3, 1853 £5,116 16 8 Corresponding week last year 4,269 19 9 Increase in 1853 2846 16 11 SCARCITY OF SEAMEN.—The Newcastle Guardian says, such is the demand for seamen in the Tyne, that crews are obtaining from 41. to 41. ss. per month, for voyages to the Baltic. BRADFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The festive excite ments of Bradford are over. The expenses of the 6 concerts amounted to 4,0001., the receipts to between 6,0001. and 7,0001., so that the committee are considerable gainers. THAMES HAVEN RAILWAY.—It is understood that the agreement for selling this railway for 49,5001. 6 per cent. in the Tilbury and Southend Railway, is completed. PERILOUS ESCAPE.—On Monday night, two privates of the 48th Foot, quartered in Carlisle castle, madetheir escape and deserted. They were in what is called the Inner Castle. From this they let themselves down by a rope to the outer yard, passing the sentinel, and the rope by which they did it seems to have broken in the operation, for they left it behind. They then appear to have proceeded to the opposite side, and obtained a lad der ; this they placed behind the embrasure on the wes tern side, fastened a rope to the latter, and descended to the Castle-bank, about 60 or 70 yards from the work house, a height of some 30 or 40 feet, and got clear off, leaving rope and ladder as proofs of their daring. STATUE OF "AUSTRALIA" AT SYDENHAM.—The statue of " Australia ' " by Mr. Bell, now placed in the g a r dens of the Crystal Palace, is of terra-cotta. The firing occu pied three weeks, and the heat attained was that at which glass will melt. The contraction in firing was three-quarters of an inch to a foot. The statue, after burning, weighed about 25 cwt., and is, including its plinth, about 8 feet 6 inches high. It is probably the largest piece of pottery ever fired in an entire piece. Mr. Bell had the commission for the design and model, and Mr. Blashfield for the moulding, pres sing, and firing. THE WEATHER IN IRELAND.-- The weather has again become fine. Saturday and Sunday were midsummer days, and Monday promised to be equally favourable. The heavy rains of last week do not appear to have done any considerable mischief. Harvest operations are pro ceedin,, rapidly in all parts of the country. THE * BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH GAOL INQUIRY.—With respect to the general discipline pursued at the gaol, the inquiry, so far as it has proceeded, shows that the provisions of the act of Parliament for the regulation of prisons have been frequently evaded. In the case of the surgeon, it is shown that he had not made the required periodical inspection of the prisoners ; that he had not made an examination of the prisoners so as as to judge of their ability to perform labour ; that he had not complied with the requirements of the act of parliament with reference to the entry of medi cines administered and treatment adopted ; and that his inspection was hurried and superficial. With re ference to the gaol discipline, for which the gover nor is responsible, it appe rs that the system of crank labour was originally an exceptional punishment ; that at Mr. Austin's suggestion the cranks were increased from two to 16, and subsequently to 22 ; that the act of Parliament which provides that no prisoner shall be kept at hard for more than 10 hours a day, has been disregarded; that cases have occurred where prisoners have been kept in the crank labour cell from half-past 6in the morning till 11 at at night a period of sixteen and a half hours ; that it was usual to keep prisoners who refused, or could not perform this work, without food for a whole day, a pound of bread being given them at night ; that this treatment has been re peated for three days, and after an interval of a day re pea, ed again ; that it was customary to keep prisoners, even boys, at the crank labour in the dark, to count the revolutions as they best could ; that, in oppo sition to the rules, prisoners before trial were punished for speaking to each other; that the power of increasing or decreasing the severity of the crank labour was exer cised by Freer, without the special sanction of the gover nor in every case; that the records of the punishments, attempts at suicide, and so on, wer e imperfectly kept , the record of the suicides especially being made up "from memory ;" that the warders were in the habit of going into the cells of the prisoners whenever they pleased; and generally that the officers were in a state of scarcely disguised insubordination. The inquiry is still proceed ing, and as the commissioners have determined to make a thorough investigation of the system of discipline without reference to special charges, it will evidently occupy a considerable length of time. NOVEL MODE OF RAISING THE WlND.—Numerous boys are constantly engaged in picking up the immense quantities of copper caps on Chubham-common, which have been used by the brave regiments recently en camped there. The boys sell them to the ironmongers for old copper, and realise 2s. or 2s. 6d. a-day by their , industry. LITERATURE. Bradshaw's Guide to Belgium and the Rhine. With Maps and Illustrations. Bradshaw and Blacklock. A delightful companion for the tourist, either on the steam-boat or in the railway carriage—a com panion always agreeable, instructive, full of plea sant anecdote and other innocent sources of amuse ment. It is great praise we allow, but praise to which the little volume before us is eminently en titled. " Bradshaw's Guide" will henceforth com mand (and deservedly) the same regard in fie estimation of those who care for economy—which has long been extended to " Murray's Hand-book" by such as are indifferent to all but the aggregate of their expenditure. " Murray" will still occu - ay a position of und•sputed pre-eminence with. t wealthy and the well-to-do among travellers ; but " Bradshaw " will no less certainly secure the a your of all those tourists (and " their name is legion ") who are really anxious to make the most of their money during the pleasures of an autumnal excursions on the Continent. As the title-page of the portable volume here presented to the public intimates, this g aide or hand-book is intended for all travellers in Belgium or the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia. It combines brevity of style with abundant variety of information—and from first to last, moreover, the information is worth having too, being really practical and serviceable information. At the outset you have all that you want to listen to about diligences, about barriers, about roads, about hotels, and money, and pass ports, and posting, and railroads, and have, be sides all this, a bill of fare, telling you the exact prices charged at the different railway stations for refreshments. Then, supposing you are going along the customary route through Belgium, you are conducted by the compiler of the guide-book successively through Brussels, and Antwerp, and Bruges, and Ypres, and Mons, and Quievrain, and Charleroi, and so on through Cologne and Ghent, and divers other localities scarcely less picturesque. Supposing, on the other hand, you purpose travelling up the Rhine, you are presented with capital descriptions of Rotterdam, Arnheim, Coblentz, Mayence, Frankfort, Stras burg, Basle, Carlsruhe, Baden, Offenburg, Con stance, Freiburg, and Scharimusen. And in no place does the book weary with a dull record of uninteresting intelligence. It never bores you with what you don't care two straws for—the "tale told by rote," in the instance of every hack neyed cicerone. Instead of that, directly you reach any remarkable town, you are informed suc cinctly which are the best hotels, from the most reasonable in their charges to the most extrava gant, their own names, the names of their land lords, and the precise spot in which they are situ ated. An accurate map of the city is then spread before you, with all the streets and suburbs clearly defined, as well as all the churches and other public buildings of im portance. You are thereupon informed, . among other things, of the exact geographical position of the place, of the number of its inhabitants, and of whatever may be most interesting in its history or in that of its population. You are instructed as to the name of the principal shipbroker. The post office is pointed out, and you are even directed to the stands of cabs, fiacres, or vigilantes. Scattered through the volume are a profusion of miniature woodcuts—no very brilliant works of art, it is true, hut answering all the purposes for which they are intended. In these little engravings are portrayed, one by one, the interior of a church, or the exterior of it, or a town-hall, or a theatre, or a bridge, or even a pulpit, or some structure, large or small as the case may be, desel ig of particular examination. Minute though the pictures are and roughly though f may be executed, they give one a sufficiently Irf.T notion of the object to be examined, so that it may at once be recognised. Aided by such a guide as this you can scarcely by any chance miss seeing whatever is at all worthy of inspection. Nothing can well be overlooked or forgotten, even in the profusion of celebrated scenes to be visited. An other feature in the present work demands, we cannot but think, some commendatory reference. It may be perceived on the instant by turning, for example, to the pages dedicated to the subject of Brussels—in which pages will be found compressed together a mass of singularly useful information. Under the heading of " English Directory" will be found a list of professional gentlemen and trades men whom the editors of the said book deem worthy of their strongest recommendation—phy sician, dentist, chemist, solicitor, and shoemaker, as well as establishments in which may be procured lace, gloves, tailoring, millinery, books, and news papers. Directly you come to the Rhine you have a panoramic view of the river stretched out before you, along which you may trace with the utmost facility the course of your se veral movements. Throughout all this, the writers contrive to interspers in their narra tive historical allusions, biographical references, anecdotes, and poetical quotations, apposite to the occasion, and thus throwing over the whole sketch a charm delightfully gossipping and conversational. Sometimes the information given appears to us, we will allow, rather too meagre to be quite satisfac tory. While in other instances (though these, like the former, are rare), the account seems unneces sarily elaborated. But we remember that in a compilation of this comprehensive character con siderable allowances are absolutely requisite ; and we are sufficiently conscious withal, that less de mands of this kind are made upon our forbearance by the book under consideration, than perhaps by another work of a similar kind which at the pre sent moment we can call to our recollection. It is a production we feel satisfied which cannot possi bly fail to enhance, and that rather largely, the indefatigable " Bradshaw's" already world-wide reputation. THE NORTHUMBERLAND HERRING FISHERY. —Th e herring fishery along the coast, more especially since our last, has been remarkably successful. A great number of boats are engaged in the employment, and there would be a glut of herrings in the local markets were it not for the railways, which convey immense quantities into the interior. Prices have ranged within the past eight days from 10s. to 20s. per thousand. Our fishermen, however, suffer considerable obstruction from the French luggers, nearly a couple of hundreds of which are engaged in fishing on the Northumberland coast. With the exception of the Yorkshire boats, our men generally employ small ca - oles in the fishing, whilst the French luggers have crews of 15 hands each on board ; and notwithstanding the fishery laws prescribe that they shall not cast their nets within three leagues of the nearest promontory, they come, so close as a mile and a mile and a half from the beach, and a great amount of unpleasantness has arisen, and serious injury has been done to the nets and gearing of our men. The Frenchmen's gear is much heavier than those used by the fishermen on our coast, and they have also a strong warp, and innumerable tubs attached to their nets. The men also on board their luggers being in the proportion of three to one to the men in our boats, they shoot their nets over those of the Eng lish fishermen, and do them considerable injury. Several English boats' companies have suffered considerablyinthis way. The English fishermen accuse the Frenchmen of cutting their nets and stealing their fish, and altogether, for want of the fishing regulations being enforced, a most unhappy feeling has sprung up between the fisher men of the two nations. There is, indeed, one sloop of war, the Archer, on the coast, but she is insuffi c'ent to protect the entire fishery. The French also have a sloop of war cruising off the coast, employed to see thz.t the fishermen of that country are really engaged in the fishing, as the Government give a bounty to their fishermen upon the quantity of fish they catch ; and in former years they have found that their men, instead of heaving their nets and filling their vessels with the produce of their own industry, purchased their cargoes of the English fishermen, and on arriving in port claimed the bounty. It is highly desirable that, as in North America, where the same regulations prevail, and the fisheries, thanks to Lord Malmesbury, are now properly protected, the Admiralty should send down some additional force to protect our fishermen and com pel the French to observe the boundary line. At Berwick, last week, three French fishermen were brought before the mayor and John Pratt, Esq., by the commander of H.M.S. Archer, charged with fishing within the pre scribed limits. They all pleaded guilty, and two of them were fined 6/. each, and the third 6/. and U. addi tional for damage done to a net belonging to one of the English fishing-boats. The mayor stated that the next time any of them were brought forward he would in flict the full penalty of' 10/. in each case.—Newcastle Journal. _ HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IN LEEDS. —This a d n i s d t n d g u u r i i s n l d h a e u r th s t o a r y e s s has has j b u e s e t n b e t r e o g n u a e s v t . v i sit t o E L d w e e a d r s d , Baines, Esq., of Headingley Lodge. During her so journ she was p resen t e d w ith an address from the Anti- Slavery Society of Leeds, a silver fruit basket by the Indies of Leeds, and 100 sovereigns from readers of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." The presentations took place at Headingley Lodge, in the presence of a numerous party of ladies and gentlemen invited to be present, and for whom an elegant collation was provided. The Mayor of Leeds (John Hope Shaw, Esq.) presided on the interesting occasion. The address of the Anti- Slavery Society was presented by Mr. Wilson Armisted, and the basket and sovereigns by Sir George Goodman, Knt., M.P. Each of these gentlemen dwelt in terms of high eulogy upon the character and labours of Mrs. Stowe in the cause of the slave. The brother of Mrs. Stowe, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, read a written reply ac knowledging the compliment paid her by the presenta tions, referring at some length upon the state of slavery in the United States, and expressing a confident hope that that greatest curse of her native country would eventually be abolished. Mrs. Stowe will take her de parture for New York in the Arctic, which sails from Liverpool on Wednesday. She leaves England with more haste than intended, in consequence of the illness of a daughter. 50 20 50 25 St. 10 St. St. 50 161 St. 194 _ . St. St. St. St. 26i 13i 20 20 SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) BRITIB ki RAIL WAYS. Shr. I Paid I RAILWAYS. 100 86 100 all al 1 111 100 100 all 3: 2 100 100 100 100 100 Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Juno Birmng, Wolve r hl Stour Valley.,, ,,,,,, Birkenhd. Lancs . (St Cheshire Junct Do. 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Bk. of Asia. g - # 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lond — 20 10 English Scottish and Austral'an C d -20 15 London Lin Bnk of Australia - - 24 p • 50 20 London an , / County ... 50 10 London Joint Stock — 100 20 Lond.andWestminst — 100 35 Na:,ional Provincial or England 20 10 Do. New •• 50 22 I ;oral of Ireland — 25 all Oriental Bank Cor. poration 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australn.33kg and Gold Imp. Co d— par 25 25 South Australia 4O 42 25 all Union of Australia_ 65 67 64 2i Do. New 7 8 50 10 Union of London .,,, 40 all Union of Madrid ._ MISCELLANEOUS. 5 5 Aubin Coal and Iron 100 35 Australian Agricult. 33 35 34 20 8 Australsn.Pcific.Mai 10 6 Australn. Royal Mail 50 38* Brit. American Land 66 68 5 1 Brit. & COID . Smeltg. and Reduc 'on Co ... 100 32i Canals Co - npany . 5 5 Crystal 1 - 4. lace 1 2p 64 4 2 C:ystal Pal, of France 1 p 20 1 Eastern Steam .. 1 1 Electric Tel. of Irel 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 20 14 General Screw Steam 20 5 1.1 4 5 h Beetroot Sugar 20 4 Magdalena St. Navig. 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Pura! 10 3 Netherlands Lard —l dxin xin 1 all N. B. id p 1 20 7* Nrtli.ofluro . ?eSteam 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. dz Minrl. psi 50 all Peninsular d; Oriental 50 25 Do. 2 all Po eland Iron Co 100 60 Royal Mail Steam — I all Scot. Austral. Inves t, 1* lip 1 * Do. New Scrip — 25 25 South Austral. Lam 35 37 1 all Submarine Telegraph ... . 100 28t Van Diemen's Land 1 . 6 17 16i LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Sept. 6.—Wind this day at Noon, N.E., light pleasant breeze, and fine weather. DEAL, Sept. 6 (9 a.m.)—Wind, N.E. by E., strong, and clear. Passed—Pacific, from London, to Havre Eleven, from London, to Odessa ; Tarnio Third, from Bahia, to London, at 1 p.m. yesterday. Sailed—The Lord Petre, for the Mauritius. Remain—hilly and Rachel, for Ma deira. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. s. —Wind, N.E. Arrived—Tronba dour, from Shields, for Barcelona, leaky, in tow of a steamer, for Southampton. Sailed—Prince of Wales, Calcutta ; Blenheim, do. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 5.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—America, Melbourne. SCARBOROUGH, Sept. 4.—The Joseph, of Antwerp, ap parently abandoned, came on shore yesterday during a N.B. gale, and has gone to pieces. DOVER, Sept. s.—The crew of the Joseph, of and from Antwerp, have been landed here. YARMOUTH, Sept. s. —The E. A. Cochrane (American barque), Trinidad do Cuba to Cowes, is on shore, but ex pected off. - WHITSTABLE, Sept. s.—The Juniata, Shields to Boston, struk on tho Long Sand on the 3d inst., filled, was aban doned, and crew landed here. GLOUCESTER, Sept. s .—Sailed—Bacchus, Quebec. MILFORD, Sept. s. —Wind, N.B. Arrived—Renovation, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 6 (10.30 a.m.)—Wind, S.S.E., mode rate and cloady. Arrived—Teneriffe (a), from the Lev ant (lallillo, Odes sa ; M ar i a von Commenger, Archangel. Off Port—Star of the West, from New York. FLEETWOOD, Sept. 5. -Sailed—Grenville Bay, Dal housie ; Maranham, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, Sept. s. —Wind, E.N.E. Arrived— Magna Charts, Quebec. HULL, Sept. s. —Wind, N.E. Arrived—Ocean% St. John's, N.B. ; Kepler, do. ; Carl, Richlbucto ; Elise, do. ; Familiar, Miramichi. JERSEY, Sept. 4.—Wind, N.E. Sandwich Islands. Sailed—Empress, NEW YORK, Aug. 24. —The Camillus, New York to London, was towed back to the S.W. Pass on the 13th of August, after being at sea three weeks, with loss of the master and six of the crew.—The Sir John Falstaff, Vera Cruz to London, with loss of master, two mates, and six of crew, by sickness, was spoken on the 6th of Augumt, in lat. 24 N., .long. 81 W. NEW - I ORK MOJEY MARKET.—The account; this week describe a steady continuance of the improve ment in the money market, which, it was forte:seen, would take place as soon as the first operation of the new banking law could be got over. Stocks of all de scriptions were firm, and the speculative kinds had ex perienced a further average advance of 2 or 3 per cent. At the same time the rate of exchange was again becom ing more favourable for this country, and, althoulzh the present packet has brought no specie, there wild be a prospect of remittances being forthwith resumed, unless the late accounts from the London corn-market tshould lead to a great increase in the shipments of grain to England. With regard to the accumulation of bullion in the Sub-treasury, a deputation from New York had applied to the Secretary of the Treasury at Wash ington to suggest that means should be taken for its disburse ment, so as to accelerate the removal of the existing pressure, but the answer was that no other steps could be taken than those already adopted. Since the publi cation of the offer to purchase 1,000,0001. of lanited States SixeS of 1868 at 121, and which had been thus far met only by the tender of 125,0001., the Secretary had given notice that he would be willing to take 400,0001. of the Sixes of 1856 and 1862 at the respective prices of 1084 and 116. The receipt of later and satisfactory advices from Ca liforni a was calculated to strengthen the return of confidence. Upon the present occasion the voyage from San Francisco to New - York had been performed, via Nicaragua, in the unprecedented space of 22 days and three hours, the transit from the Pacific to the Atlant'c, across the lake and down the river San Juan, although the number of passengeirs was 520, having occupied only 48 hours. A great in)prove ment in the management of the route had takers place, and large sums of gold were consequently begin; ling to be transmitted by it, the amount in this instance having been 225,0001., exclusive of the quantity carried by passengers. THE EASTERN QUESTION. (Front the Times.) It is perfectly true that since the Turkish Govern ment has made its acceptance of the Note proposed by the Conference at Vienna to depend on the adoption of certain changes in the text of that document, the ques tion which has kept Europe in suspense for so many months, and which appeared to be approaching a termi nation, is still a matter of serious doubt and unabated apprehension. But is not true that the subject is at this time enveloped in great mystery and reserve, for, on the contrary, the game is being played, as the French say, cartes sur table. The Note of the Conference, and the alterations required by the Divan, are before the world, and have been variously discussed by the organs of public opinion, as well as by statesmen and cabinets, in every part of Europe. Everybody knows what those terms are which have been transmitted to St. Peters burg, and that the Four Courts have strongly urged the Emperor Nicholas to finish this tedious and dangerous negotiation by accepting them. Whether he will accept them or not is entirely a matter of opinion, and the reasons on both sides are so nearly balanced that we do not suppose any politician, be he Minister or journalist, would undertake to express a confident expectation on the one side or on the other. But on that decision, whatever it be, rests the whole question, the fate of Turkey, and possibly the peace of Europe. Although, therefore, we are now in possession of the materials for this discussion, we must be content to wait for the positive result ; and in the meantime the question con tinues to excite as much anxiety and uncertainty as it has ever done since the month of April. Under these circumstances the leading members of the Cabinet who are concerned in the direction of our foreign relations have not left town for a single day, and there cannot be a stronger proof of the entire unanimity prevailing in the Ministry on these questions than the fact, that at this important conjuncture Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston have returned to London to hold closer com munication with Lord Clarendon and Lord Aberdeen. Attempts to sow division in the Ministry and to shake the confidence of the country were never, in fact, more entirely out of pl ace . From the moment that the alterations and additional conditions required by the Turkish Government became known, we deplored the delay and the danger which those changes were likely to occasion. For, even if it were demonstrated that the alterations are unobjection able, and even desirable in themselves, we should hold that the value of these modified expressions is incom parably below that of a prompt settlement of the dis pute. It is notorious that these changes were put for ward by a party in the Divan who are not favourable to any diplomatic settlement, but are still eager for an ap peal to arms ; and, if th e o pp os iti on they have offered to the terms of agreement should lead to its rejection by the other side, the violent facti on a t th e P orte w i ll pre vail over the more prudent and judicious advisers of the Sultan. The Porte itself, which began by throwing its cause into the hands of its allies, when it had taken the firm resolution to reject Prince Menschikoff's demands, and which obtained for several months the united sup port of Europe on these conditions, will have destroyed the union of its own policy with that of the mediating 1 powers ; and we have reason to believe that the French Cabinet has already signified to the Sultan that the ulte terior steps he may adopt contrary to the advice of his allies must be taken at his own peril. Upon the immediate subject of the greatest interest at the present moment—the acceptance or rejection of the alterations by the Emperor of Russia—we are reduced to mere conjecture, and each of our readers will form his own judgment whether, under all the cir cumstances of the case, the Emperor will be mos',, actuated on this oceasien by motives of ambition and passion, or by the rules of policy and the desire of peace. We cannot conceal from ourselves that the policy which has been rashly pursued at Constantinople has a tendency to lead to fresh and very serious dan gers. The note adopted by the Conference was intended to meet, as far as possible, the double difficulties of the present situation of affairs. It was not more than Turkey could honourably concede—it was not less than Russia could fairly accept ; though, if any one will take the trouble of comparing it with Prince Menschi koff's demands, it will be seen that all the most objec tionable expressions and articles of the Russian Note have been carefully r - . eluded. Such as it is this draught was not willingly accepted by the Emperor Nicholas, though he submitted to it out of deference to the opi nion of the allies, and from an apparent desire to escape from the embam rassments of his isolated and ag gressive position. It will be remembered that the in telligence that the Note had been accepted at St. Pe tersburg vas received throughout Europe with univer sal satisfaction, as a thing more to be desired than ex pected. After all this, which cei tainly amounted to an abatement if not a surrender of the Russian pretensions, the Note is sent back with further alterations ; and with alterations not originating with the Conference at Vi enna, but with the Turkish Government. To yield a second time to this sort of appeal, especially after the inflated and menacing language the Emperor had as sumed a few weeks before, is a defeat amounting to a humiliation ; and although the Russian Government has brought these evils upon itself, it is by no means clear that a sovereign in the position of the Emperor Nicholas is prepared to endure such a result. Grave doubts may therefore be entertained as to the accep tance of these terms at St. Petersburgh in their altered form ; though we trust that a more mature considera tion of the whole quesLion has, ere this, brought the Emperor of Russia to a just sense of what is due, if not to Turkey, to the general interests of Europe. On the other hand, there are some strong practical arguments in favour of the acceptance of the terms and the restoration of peace. The season is already too far advanced for the Russian army to undertake any opera tions beyond the Danube with the least prospect of de cisive success ; and the position of the Turkish forces, under Omar Pasha, is such as to render any advance whatever an undertaking of great risk and danger. But the prospect of a prolonged Russian occupation of the Principalities, even if Europe could submit to it, is not much less unfavourable. The troops have already suffered to a prodigious extent from the cli mate. The price of provisions in Bucharest has quintupled, and the military hospitals are encumbered with the sick. In a few weeks the rains will have con verted the country for the most part into a pathless swamp, and it will become equally difficult to withdraw the army and to keep up the necessary supplies, for the stores of the country are already exhausted. At this time of year, and with the Danube between the two camps, neither the Russian nor the Turkish army could attack its antagonist with effect. It may be doubted whether there is any military advantage in the occupa tion of such a position, and the Russian Generals are said to have given evident indications of a desire to with draw from their miserable cantonments. The occupa tion of the Principalities has failed to subdue the resist ance of Turkey ; it has, on the contrary, roused her to more energetic efforts. It has irritated Europe, by a breach of treaty, and it has placed Russia in a position which she cannot hold without immense sacrifices of every kind. The acceptance of the note is the only way by which the Emperor Nicholas can extricate himself from this position, for the events of the last three months have given him no additional claim to dictate conditions beyond his frontier. The evacuation of the Principalities ought to be the first step in the arrange ment, and that alone can relieve the combined fleets from the necessity of passing the winter near the scene of these occurrences. The rejection of the terms and the refusal to evacuate would, on the contrary, probably be followed by a declaration of war or some violent ebul lition at Constantinople ; and, as the war party in the Divan would then gain the upper hand, having already frustrated the conditions of peace tendered to the Sultan by Europe, they must be prepared to abide by the con sequences of their violence, while the Governments which have hitherto -,upported them would be entirely at liberty to deal as they might think fit with this altered state of affairs. ( Front the Morning Herald.) It is no longer attempted to conceal the fact to which yesterday we directed public attention. On Thursday last a special message was sent to Scotland to summon Lord John Russell to town. He instantly obeyed that summons, travelling all day on Friday, and reaching London late that night. Saturday was occupied in a protracted consultation with the Premier and two other members of the Cabinet, and yesterday morning, we are told, the noble lord returned to his retirement in the north. The summons was, beyond all question, sent to the noble lord after long and frequent interviews between Lord Palmerston, the Premier, and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and no other member of the Cabinet was present either at the deliberations which caused the summons, or at those which followed the arrival of the noble lord. Here, then, we have, in the first place, protracted and, we may presume, earnest deliberations, in which three members of the Cabinet meet apart from their col leagues ; and we have, next, another member of the Cabinet summoned from a distance to take part in a renewed consultation, from which every other member of the Cabinet is still excluded. That these deliberations had reference to the Turkish question no one doubts ; that their necessity was pro duced by the refusal of the Sultan to sign the Vienna note without alteration is, we apprehend, equally plain ; and possibly it is not too much to infer that the question to be decided was the part to be taken by England on the subject. Baron Brunow is, before this, in possession of the re sults of that conference. We hope that the Russian ambassador now understands that it will not be safe to calculate on the consent of the English Cabinet in sup porting the Emperor of Russia in a refusal to accept the altered note. It is not, however, the less incumbent on us to call the most serious attention of all the friends of constitutional government to this last and most daring outrage upon its principles. Our language, we will satisfy every Englishman, is not too strong. The facts justify it, and the occasion demands it. If this great nation calmly submits to the treatment we have received on this Eastern question the sooner we discard the hypocrisy of public spirit and the practice of representative government the better. We say that the conduct of Lord Aberdeen, in selecting two members of the Cabinet to join in deliberation with himself and the Foreign Secretary, amounts practically to a subversion of our system of Parliamentary and Ministerial government. It is, in effect, the arbitrary exclusion of the Queen's Cabinet from their constitutional office of advising the Queen. It is the degradation of the place of a Cabinet Minister— it is the conversion of our Ministerial Government into that by " mayor s of the palace," under the disguise of premiers. It is of pressing moment to the true liberties of Eng land that this should be practically felt and undertoods Let us first call attention to this, that since the intelli gence has reached us of the suggestion of alterations in the Vienna note no Cabinet Council has been held. It is impossible to over-rate the importance or the signi cance of this, It cannot be said that this intelligence was not of gravity or importance. It is enough to say that it demanded a decision as to the course that Eng land should take. By whom has that decision been made ? Our constitutional practice since the revolution pointed out one, and only one, course. It should be made by the Sovereign, upon the advice of that select committee of her Privy Council called the Cabinet, to which the duty of advising the Sovereign upon matters ' of state policy as they arise is assigned. No man who has read the history of England can be ignorant that in government by a cabinet lies, in fact, the essence of our constitutional system. Government by departments is and must be despotism with all its evils, and without the advantages of either its unity or its strength. The practical working of our monarchy since the revolution has been this, that upon all great questions of policy, foreign or domestic, the Sovereign should be advised by a council of men holding different of the great offices of state—sometimes including men, as is now the case with Lord John Russell, holding none—and that these men should offer their collective advice to the Sovereign upon all subjects affecting the well-being of her realm, no matter in what department of its administration those questions might immediately arise. We are almost ashamed to repeat maxims that are the very elements of our political system, but they have been discarded. News is brought to our Foreign Office that the Sultan demands modifications in the note suggested by the conference at Vienna. It becomes necessary for the Queen's Ministers to consult—but instead of the summoning of a Cabinet Council the Premier is called in by the Foreign Secretary to settle the matter. The Premier thinks it prudent to associate with them the Home Secretary. The result is that they send for Lord John Russell to the most distant extremity of the island. The noble lord runs up as fast as express engines can whirl him to town, he meets the three already admitted to the divan—he spends a whole day with them in deli beration, and he then starts off again—it never having been so much as thought of that it would be decent to recognise the existence of such a body as the Cabinet. Neither can it be said that the exigency was such that there was not time to convene the members of the Ca binet. The intelligence had reached the Foreign-office days before Lord John Russell was sent for—and then the member of the Cabinet was summoned who was at about the greatest distance. Some members of the Ca binet were in town, others within an easy distance, who were not invited when Lord John Russell was brought from Roseneath. It is perfectly plain that the meeting was intentionally a selected one—equally plain that it was convened for the practical determination of the question whatever it was that arose. This is manifest upon the face of the transaction itself. An old gentle man beyond 60is not to be dragged up even in a rail way-carriage from the city of Edinburgh to London for one day, unless that day is to have some practical effect. Next we have the dispatch of a messenger to the Queen as soon as the conference is over. In the circumstances themselves we have further this plain and palpable proof. The matter was one that required a decision, and no Cabinet Council to decide on it has been held, We will not be guilty of the hypocrisy of affecting not to understand the real object of summoning both Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell to this secret conclave. They were invited, not for the purpose of taking their advice, but of ascertaining whether it were a possible th t t o cajole 0 0 l e f E th r e i t m i s h o v i e n r t e t r o e s t t h s a , t w b h e i t o r h ay w al e o f d Turkish, oobt n ot tl'aessecontemplated w b o yL d o h r a d v A e Aberdeen oneerenliThe t adhesionseeio o o of f the Cabinet—upon the rest the Premier might safely reckon as his accomplices or his tools. This suggestion brings into stronger light the evil and danger of the proceeding we denounce—it cannot alter or affect the constitutional principle we maintain. Yes terday we demonstrated the importance and materiality of the changes in the note suggested by the Porte. Those alerations raised, in fact, the question whether Russia had a right to a protectorate over the Greek Church in the dominions of a Mussulman Sovereign. We can conceive no question involving considerations of more interest or more moment. We cannot now dwell upon the topics which invest it with so momen tous and difficult an importance. But surely this was a question upon which the Queen of England had a right to the advice of her whole Cabinet ; it was due to Christendom ; it was due to the liberties of Europe ; it was due to the pa r ti es p r i nc i pa ll y i nvo l ve d , that our de cision should be one attended by every constitutional deliberation. It was above all due to the people of England that it should be decided according to the con stitution. As for the excluded members of the Cabinet, we do not presume to defend their honour. We will not adopt the rather coarse illustration of a morning jour nal ; but after all they best know themselves whether they are fit to perform the menial office in carrying for a bear, which Lord Aberdeen plainly wishes to monopo lise. They must judge for themselves whether they are fit to continue Ministers in a Cabinet in which they are not permitted to intermeddle with the matters that most vitally affect the honour and the welfare of Eng land and Europe. This is not for us to decide. It is for us to point out the degradation of their position, if not of themselves. It is emphatically for us to point'out that there is a deep laid conspiracy at work to withdraw our foreign politica from the sphere and influence of constitutional go vernment. The whole Turkish question has been managed in a secret Divan. The opinion of the British Parliament has not influenced a single protocol or been thought of in a negotiation. The people of England know nothing of the steps that have been adopted by any party except what they hear from the communications from the Go- (vernmeni of France. The proceedings of Saturday are an attempt to cashier cabinets as well as parliament, and to establish the demesne of foreign politics as th• exclu sive possession of the "mayors of the palace." Dead as they imagine the spirit of England to be, we warn Lord Aberdeen and his accomplices that this will not be tolerated. Upon all that concerns the foreign as well as the domestic politics of England, the advisers of our Sovereign must be those whom the constitution points out. The noble earl has very frequently thought proper to assume an insolence of demeanour which perhaps most emphatically denotes the servility of the tenure by which he holds his place. Even that insolence, perhaps, will not make him insensible to the warning which tells him that the people of England will have constitu tional and responsible government at any price—and, perhaps, he may deign to listen to the counsel which hints to him, that when he next wishes to convey to her Majesty the advice of her Ministers common prudence may suggest that the advice should be the result of th• deliberations of the whole Cabinet regularly convened. Meantime let Englishmen ponder upon this. A deci sion has been come to upon a question that vitally affects us and our children. We boast of living under consti tutional and responsible government—but no one can tell us either what is that decision, nor yet by whom it has been made. COMMUNICATION WITHf BOMBAY. The following declaration of mercantile firms of Lon don, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow, connected with Bombay, has been transmitted to the President of the Board of Control by Mr. Gregson, M.P., chairman of the London, East India, and China Association : We, the undersigned, connected with Bombay, and deeply interested in the security and punctuality of the correspondence with that presidency, do hereby express our earnest desire to see the mail service between Suez and Bombay thrown open to public tender and contract, as recommended by the report of the special committee presided over by her Majesty's Postmaster-General (Bth ult.) to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury : Gregson and Co. Matheson and Co. John Entstisle. LONDON. Crawford, Colvin, and Co. Finlay, Hodgson, and Co. Frith, Sands, and Co. Dallas and Coles. Scott, Bell, and Co. Grey and Coles. Gledstanes and Co. LIVERPOOL. Arbuthnot, Ewart, and Co. Ogilvy, Gillanders, and Co. Nicol, Duckworth, and CO. Thompson, Anderson, and Co. Thomson, Finlay, and Co. Gladstone and Co. Finlay, Campbell, and Co. Dirom, Davidsons, and Co. Rennie, Clowes, and Co. Browne' Hunter, and Co. Jamieson, Brs., and Co. Charles Turner, Chairman of Edward Lawrence and Co. East India Association. MANCHESTER. John Peel and Co. Robert Smith and Co. John Pender and Co. John Carlisle, jun. D. Scott, Richmond, and Co. Potter, Veltmann, and Co. John Leech. Thomas Ashton and Son. George Fraser, Son, and Co. Richard Rostron. Edward Lyon and Co. Henry Heycock. Francis Martin. Robert Barbour and Brothers. Robert Gardner. Henry B. Jackson. Heugh, Balfour, and Co. E. Ralli. J. and J. Bell. John Slagg and Co. S. Mendez. 1 GLASGOW. My ~ Henry Watson and Co. W. Ewing and Co. Buchanan, Hamilton, & Co. W. Stirling and Son. Hamiltone and Co. J. and A. Dennistonn. W. Graham and Co. John Bartholomew and Co. H. Monteith and Co. Campbell, Cockburn, and Co. R. Dalglish, Falconer, & Co. August 31. The report above referred to (Papers, No. 195, Seas. 1853, Contract Packet) says : According to a statement received along with the copy of the present memorial, the net charge of the postal communication between Bombay and Suez and Bombay and Aden, which it was thus considered by Lord Canning's committee could be defrayed for 40,0001., appears for the year 1848-9 (the latest period to which the accounts from Bombay had been received), notwith- standing the unsatisfactory performance of the service, to have been 171,013 1 ., exclusive of 17,7701., the year's incidental expenses in Egypt and at Malta, towards which charge Parliament contributes 50,0001. per annum. We have no doubt that, if the service were executed by contract, greater speed and punctuality than have hitherto existed, and increased convenience to passengers and f o r the carriage of merchandise, might be secured. And further : As to the cost, we have reason to think that 40,000/. p er n um would defray t ; and if the East India Co m p an y are willing i willing to bear a share of the .expensedeaseupproottothrth the other proportionate to to that which the t y he ha ll y n e e a e c a c s e t p o te f d su in ez t , h a e n other portions of . . terms, we are of opinion that the change of system would be advantageous to her Majesty'F! Government and to the public, both in this country and in India. SALE OF THE ESTATE OF ISLAY.—This large ma valuable estate was, on Wednesday, exposed in Messrs. Cay and Black's rooms, Edinburgh, at the upset' plicet of 440,0001., and, after competition between Mr. Morri son, of the great firm of Morrison, Dillon, & Cc, Lon don, and Mr. James Baird of Gartsherrie, M.P. for the Falkirk b urg h s , was k noc k e d d own t o the former at 451,0001. The estate has been in the market fOr up wards of five years. ~~ ;f _~ St. 20 St. 15 12 14 25 LO 67i 8 2 56 all all all all all 100