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lAURENT'S NEW CASINO, Newman street. —IL HENRI LAURMW has the pleasure to inform his Friends and the Public that a License for St WIC and Dancing having been granted to him, the Rooms will be OPEN EVERY EVEN ING, at half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at Nine. M. Henri Laurent will conduct his celebrated Band of Forty Instru mental.sts. Prin.ipal Cornet-a Piston-3I Duhem. Admission— • One chilling. " THE STATESMAN," No. 1, Price 5d., contains—The State of Parties —The Sepoy Hydra—The Cotton Dearth In Lancashire —The Grand Mogul :Nuisance—The Wore mutiny, &c., &c. Publishing Office, 265, Strand. I)OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. itOY AL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol lowing Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co rein, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Brahnoi, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmund; Mr. Hamilton Brahma, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Weiss, and Mr.W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's Band, and the Orches tral Union. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian Opera. -Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson. — THIS EVENING, will be performed Wallace's opera of MARITANA. To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. Private Bo cos, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 11s. 641. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. • Pit, 25.; Gallery, lo.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direcMon of Mr. Chatterton, inn. T HEATRE 'ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee--Mr. J. B. Buckstone. _MIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with (3d time here these eight years) Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Miss A. Sedgwick. After which (by desire) BOX AND COX. Box, Mr. Buckstone ; Cox, Mr. Compton. To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 o Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it 2 0 Pit 1 0 over Gallery 1 0 Gower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. 11HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the home•mario Eatras•aganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright and Miss Arden. After which, will bo revived the celebrated nautical drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE, Harry Hallyard (his original character), Mr. T. P. Cooke. re conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS." I TRAND THE AT RE. —THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Clarke, Mias Herbert. To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which Miss Craven will sustain four characters, Reginald Rattle• cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham ' entitled LA. TRAVIATA; or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Mis 4 Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke. Commence at Seven. Stalls. 35.; Boxes, 25.; Pit, ls.; Glittery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. ls. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Rob3on and Emden. T ins ETENING will be performed the new drama of THE LIGHTHOUSE. After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE lire. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, sad Mr. G. Murray. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brongh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob- Nen, Cooke, Danvers, drc. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, liaghes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 7) OPAL SURREY THEATRE. L Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crsswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, !Le Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Tollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss X. Eburne ' Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD, Followed by OUR TRAVIATA, The Blighted One, Mr, Widdicomb. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow big company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES . DUETS, dtc., viz.:—Miss Russell, Badzey, Madlle. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Misa F. Scott , Wise Brinell, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. /oaf's, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. !lime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master tms ; Director, Herr F. Joughmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sapper 3, dtc., until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at ha.f-past Eight and half past Ten, every Evening. TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY THE RED-TAPE SERPENT. Sir Colin has landed, his forces are banded, And sworn that no murderous Sepoy shall 'scape, Bat the first of the foes to encounter his blows Is the pestilent serpent that's made of Red Tape. Sleek clerks with white liver " had ventured to differ With Campbell, our Highlander, touching the shape He should give the campaign" that's to give us again The empire they have ruined and lost by Red Tape. A black-hatted fool is presuming to school A soldier whose banners are muffled in crape, Through the folly and crime of " officials" no time Will ever set free from the strings of Red Tape. The idiots stood gazing while cities were blazing, And all they could do was to gibber and gape; Yet now dare to wrangle, and seek to entangle The Avenger's bright sword in their links of Red Tape. Let us hope that Sir C. has resolved to be free, To launch as he pleases his steel and his grape, And en route for the slaughter by Jumna's red water Has mangled the Serpent that's made of Red Tape. The moral is sound. He has a sharp contest to fight before he can come face to face with the re bels. Unless that monster be destroyed or para lysed, he can do comparatively little with the ene my. He will not howeverfail before "the watcher on the threshold." He has the true Highland spirit and hardihood to command success, and we earnestly hope, that strengthened and sustained by the voice of public opinion, he will, ere setting out for tie scene of his more arduous duties, suc ceed in strangling or rendering subservient to his views " The pestilent Serpent that's -nada of red tape." We have but too often to dissent from the politics and ecclesiastics of the Bishop of 01.70 RD and Mr. GLADSTONE, it is, therefore, with the greater plea sure that we notice their efforts in a right direc tion. Both of them are orators of no mean en dowments, but both, unfortunately, are ever too ready to convert ingenuity into sophistry, and to employ a plausible or a fluent eloquence in the worse cause. Hence, and hence alone is it, that the opinion, of both of them is wholly destitute of weight with the country. There are men whose powers of utterance are but limited, who have no resources for garnishing a topic ; for overwhelm ing the auditors with a torrent of words, or for inventing innumerable specious arguments ; their nature is too truthful to see anything but the truth, or their judgments too honest to accept mere plausibilities, even if they occur to them, There is a truly "momentous question " now and to vend them to others as sterling reasonings. pending, to which a prompt and decided answer Such men's opinion passes for something. That must be returned. Is India to be saved by vige- they should think se, is a reason for our studying rous and energetic action, or is it to be sacrificed their thoughts although not borne to us on the at the shrine of routine ? This must be deter- surface of a stream of eloquence. Just the re mined by the Parliament and people of Great verse is it with our two ecclesiastical and lay ora- Britain, not by the Governor-General and Council tors. No one thinks their mere opinion worth a at Calcutta. They have been weighed in the straw. We all know that pure faction, or High balsnce and found wanting—have proved them- Church fancies, are most probably the fathers of selves to be utterly incapable of confronting the half, and more than half their oracles ; and that if existing danger. That is obvious to every disin- we interpret them fairly, they mean that SAMTEL terested and unprejudiced person. The inhabi- of OXPoRD has the power of imparting Divine tants of Calcutta have petitioned for martial law. gifts inherited from the Holy Apostles at Rome, The application has been peremptorily rejected. and that W. E. GLADSTONE, Esq., is the man The respectable old ladies of the Council are of who, if England were in its senses, would be now opinion that they can teach Sir COLIN CAMPBELL Chancellor of the Exchequer, and one day or leis business, and that consequently he shall be other a notch higher than that. Hence we natu prohibited from taking a single step in advance rally run through their speeches as we do those of without their sanction and approval. Ac- advocates on the wrong side, merely wishing to cording to their views, the Commander- ascertain whether they have lighted on any inge in-Chief, whoever he may be, is to bear an " old nuity or plausibility, which it is worth while to man of the mountain" perpetually on his shoul- reduce to a common denominator with men's or ders, empowered to thwart him in every possible dinary thought and language, that its value may way, to neutralise his object 4, and paralyse his thus be easily computed by all. energies. This game was played against Sir But we ought not to write in this strain just PATRICK GRANT, and unfortunately with too much now. Both gentlemen have been speaking on success. As a company's officer, he could not India, and speaking at a Church of England mis resist their authority. He was therefore debarred sionary meeting ; and, considering the topic and from seeking distinction, where it could best have the occasion, have spoken on the whole well. The been obtained, and compelled to remain at head Bishop, as became him, confined himself to our quarters, as a puppet General under the direction religious, or, rather, our irreligious misdemea of the Council. The only Governor-General who nours there. Rightly enough did he denounce resisted the sinister influence was recalled. The the selfish cowardice of the East India Company, only General who insiste.l on independence, was I which, out of no regard to religious liberty, but treated in a similar manner. India for the civil perhaps from regard to rupees, literally humbled service, an fur the civil service only, was the themselves to their own subjects. If Mahomme theory, and every other matter was rendered sub- dans went to one extreme, if they " dared do eervient to that primary consideration, i more than became a man," by forcing their creed It is not, ho w ever, merely the English inhabi- on Ilindoos; we dared do less than became men ; tants, who have remonstrated agaiustthis erroneous for we long excluded the ministers of our and indefensible system. The agents of other relieion from India—long tolerated by law governments have perceived the full extent of the the ° evil, and have reported th e real state of affairs disinheritance of natives who adopted t.) our faith —long broke a native soldier from 0 their employers. The letter of the Paris corres- his rank in the army, if be became a ChriAian— pouilent of our well-informed contemporary the Morning Post, which will be found i n another lone p a id t r ib ute to au id o l- wors hip in which men were, literally, immolated beneath the wheels of part of our impression, correctly indicates the pre- the idol's chariot--and, to the last, by every go valent opinions on the Continent, on this all-im- ' vernmental act, proclaimed th a t a f a ith of follies, I portant topic. " A want of supreme power, and obscenity, an d cruelty, was worthy of official a vigoro us an d determined will to enforce it, are , homage, and of being placed on a level with our the reasons why in time of war we do not accom- own ! ! The E as t I ndia Company —for they are plish so much as the splendid material of our i the men who thus abased the English nation, army and n avy lead the nat i on to expec t . " , flattered and petted w h ere they ought at most t o tary advice is posh-pooped. The high authorities I have tolerated and pitied. The result is now be in India, do not encourage reports, or opinions, fore iv:. We have tried to buy off the opposition from men who point out abuses, so that the few iof an ineffably barbarian faith and priesthood, a s really clear-sighted military mer, who have pro- Rome tried to buy off barbarian swords—and phesied evil have never been popular at head- ; with the same results. We have had indeed all quarters. A General LLOYD, Who will act on the the humiliation for worse than nothing. We laid ourselves in the dust before JIIGGERNAUTH, SIVA, VISHNU, and old MAILOMET too ; and their wor shippers or disciples have tried to put their foot on our necks for it 1 The Bishop and the M.P. did their part on this topic well. We trace, however, the origin of the evil to the Government of India by a batch of little-souled traders. English gen tlemen would not thus have dishonoured their faith and lowered themselves, like Dutch burgo masters, for mere gain. Mr. GLADSTONE, as became him, wielded the po litical lash, and this time applied it to the right delinquent. He denounced in his best style, the secrecy of Indian Ad ministration. It was so conducted that India is to Englishmen a Foreign country, and that no one knows anything of it, unless he has made it a special study. This is perfectly true. All political questions of any importance are more or less understood by the constituencies ; they are discussed in the House of Commons and in the Peers ; they are presented catechetically at the hustings in all important elections ; every man who pays the least attention to public matters has some opinions about them ; but on India it is a thousand to one whether he has any opinion at all. Australia and the Canadas, as soon as they began to be important through their trade and population, began also to attract the attention of the people at home ; but India, whose population is talked of sometimes as 200,000,000, some times as 150,000,000, sometimes as 100,000,000, as if a few score millions were a matter of indiffer ence there, has, till this very outbreak, attracted infinitely less attention than the humblest question of domest;c policy. The country, like the Hud son's Bay territories, has been treated as the property of a trading company. This company and. the Board of Control have quietly parted the patronage between them ; and the latter has received the aristocratic share of the patron age as the price of letting the com pany do what it would with its own ; aud, pretty effectually, has the company barred the door in the face of the general English public. "India for the Civil Service I" has been their motto, when it ought to have been " India for the Indians, through making it attractive to English energy, commerce, and capital 1" The Company's break-down is complete. Not a rag has it left to clothe its nakedness, and glad are we to number Mr. GLADSTONE among its un sparing enemies, for with a good cause what may he not effect ? Leaden Hall has not politically a shilling in the pound, and we hope the coming session will see it pronounced an uncertificated political bankrupt, and forbidden ever to trade in political administration again. Reverting to the Bishop, we were, by the bye, a little amused at his reference to his father's famous :esolution, ultimately expunged by the East India Company from the preamble of the Act of 1783 —" that India must be held by the British nation for the moral and religious good of the nations thereof." Does SAMUEL of Oxford forget that what he calls " religious good " his father would have deemed religious evil, and evil, too, almost as bad as Mahommedanism or Hindooism itself ? If we remember rightly, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE was a leader of " The Clapham Sect," and wrote a once celebrated book on "Practical Piety," which piety was, we believe, of the puritan, stamp, and utterly opposed to Apostolical succession dogmas, baptismal regeneration, and all the second-hand mummeries of Puseyism. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, if we are not mistaken, would almost as soon have sent Mahommedan Mootvies to India, as Anglican priests, who believe in apostolical succession and sacramental efficacy. Those professional ghoul, the Resurrection men, have, it is true, become extinct as a separate class of the community. Their " occupation has gone," like OTHELLO'S. They have pasied away into that old lumber-room of dilapidated curiosi ties in which are stored up the memories of the Rakehells, and the Footpads, and other Minions of the Moon, by whom, in byegone times, this island was so often "frighted from its propriety." Yet—the new Anatomy Act, by the agency of which a final quietus was supposed to have been administered by the Legislature to those very amiable gentry the Body•anatcbers, obviously still requires considerable revision and amendment. For—it is perfectly evident that the " witching hour" still strikes, sometimes, when ~ Churchyards yawn, And graves give up their dead." It is manifest, in spite of all our Parliamentary Precautions, that there still remain to this hour a few supplementary kidnappers of the dead, the burthen of whose song is that of HAMLE•r's quaint friend with the shovel and the waistcoati--. " A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, Azd 0 for a winding-sheet 1" The horrible truth that it is so, has come out very recently, in the midst" of certain revolting reve lations. The disclosures we mean that have unex pectedly been made in various parts of the me• tropolis, in connexion with the investigations set on foot by the police in regard to this hideous tragedy—the last act but one of which took place on Thursday se'ennight, over an abutment of Waterloo-bridge. The last act being yet reserved for performance (let us believe) upon a certain scaffold outside Newgate Gaol, within sound - of the death-bell of St. Sepulchre's. That occasional Resurrection-men are still abroad at intervals has been pretty clearly proved, we take it, by two or three of these same disgust ing revelations—the Anatomy Act to the contrary notwithstanding ! A couple of human heads— one a man's, the other a woman's—are found poked away as negligently as a potsherd or a dead kitten, under the mould and fallen leaves in a corner of Sussex Gardens I A bit of a human foot is roked up from the filth and slush of the Grand Junction Canal ! Horrid little pieces of the human form seem really to be scattered here and there all about London —some of these, we read, bearing evident marks of having been ope• rated upon by the delicate implements of the anatomist. One of the heads pulled out of the earth in Sussex Gardens (the man's head) we are told "is quite hard and withered." Of the other, we learn, yet more horribly, that it " is that of a female, with red hair appended." The frig meut of the human foot hooked out of the C.tnal is described as being " the fore-part of the foot from the anele joint" and no more. An odd skeleton or two about the same time turns up here and there—evidently secreted away under rather suspicious circumstanc r. And not by any mean:, the least loathsome pact of the proceedings conse quent upon the discovery of that sickening carpet bag full of bones at Waterloo Bridge, is the fact that, in the police-yard at 133 w-street, they have been trying to fit one head after another on to the mutilated remains of the poor murdered victim ! All this is surely very terrible and very detestable ! But, f.,r that precise reason, it ought on no account to be smoothed over, or smothered up. We should, at once and earne;tly, look well to this abomination. We should find means without delay, we should adopt measures prompt and well considered, with a view (if pos sible) to the prevention henceforth of the'possibility of our having all the nobler sentiments of hurna- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY Morn. 12 min. aft. 12 -Even. 33 min. aft. 12 To-Ifonsow —Morn. 44 min. aft. 12 —Even. 12 rain aft. 1 IHE WEA.THER —Say OFFICE, OCTOBER 15. TEIBRILWIETIR, IN THE SHA.DZ. 62—highest since noon yesterday. 53--lowest this morning and during the night 57—this day at noon. BAROBIZTEB, 30.12 —falling. WIND, N.N.E. ; light, with dull coldiah weather. F, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 1857. do-nothing principle, and let matters take their course, whether for weal or woe, is far more ac ceptable, than an energetic man who dares to think for himself, and to act in accordance with his well-considered conclusions. I The mysterious silence, to which we yesterday I alluded, respecting Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, is thus explained. He has, we fear, been forced into collision with the civilians, and of course no notice could be taken of the difficulty, by the "Secretary to the Government of India !" It is probably on this account that his name has been so completely ignored—that no. allusion whatsoever is made to his sayings and doings. If disabled by illness it would have been stated, or if he had set out to join the army before Delhi, or to bring with him reinforcements to the gallant HAVELOCK, some notice would surely have been taken of his pro ceedings. It is only to be explained by the exist ence of differences and dissensions, such as have already been rumoured. Sir COLIN is not, however, the man to permit himself to be swathed and fettered in bandages of red-tape. He well knows what is expected at his hands, and ho possesses sufficient energy to assert his own rights and privileges. He is no sluggard, to per mit unauthorised and unjustifiable usurpation, and those who may attempt it will find a very tough customer in the dashing and straightforward Highlander. Our facetious contemporary, Punch, who gene rally contrives to " hit the right nail on the head," and to inculcate precepts of sound wisdom in its own peculiar style, has by cartoon and verse directed attention to this truly deplorable circumstance. The cartoon represents the General, who so pre-eminently possesses the national confidence, as a modern Laocoon assailed by " the serpent that's made of red-tape." The sword which he has so often wielded in his country's service, both in India and the Crimea, is apparently glued to its scab bard. He is complelely paralysed, but we ven ture to predict that the result will be very diffe rent, and that the red-tapists will come off second best from the encounter. As we have already stated, he is supported by the people of the United Kingdom, and they will supply the necessary strength to conquer the common enemy. The verses of our contemporary are so exceed ingly appropriate, that we cannot refrain from repeating them here. They are as follows : ft VEN P 4 .0 OCTOBER 1 - , 1857 LATE k , IT NEWS. LIST OF PASSENGERS PROM INDIA. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The following is a list of the passengers by the Alma, from Calcutta : Mrs. Gould and child. Mrs. Rowles. Mrs. Chapman and child. Mr. and Mrs. Paterson and children. Mrs. Cockburn and three children. Lieutenant and Mrs. Comber and child. Dr. Bo:s, le. Mrs. Templer. Mrs. Lushington and child. Mrs. Astell and child. Mrs. Wynyard and children. The Misses Weaver (two). Miss Ramsey. Miss Sturt. Mass Hutchinson. Mrs. Sneyd. Mrs. Alexander and child. Mn. Lightfoot. Mrs. Vallings and three children. Mr. Farmer. Mr. Carpenter. Mr. James J. Weaver. Mr. Russell. Mr. Boyce. Mr. J. Harris. Mr. Macpherson. Mr. H. Lewis. Mr. Hodson, from Madras. Major Ma cdougal. Dr. Caldwell. Mr. M'Nair. Captain Blanc (White ?) Mr. Smollett, from Galle. Mr. Savage. Mrs. Vallings, from the M?uritius. Mr. Barrow. Sir T. and Lady Higginson, with their daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Le Bard (Le Bas ?) M. Roquet (Rooke !) M., Madame, and Mdlle. Menardiero (query Maynard ?) Mr. and Mrs. Hugo. Mr. Broughton, from Adon. Mr. J. Harrison. Mr. J. Carey. M. Mill. In addition to the above list, the correctness of which, as it has paned through the French tele graph, appears very doubtful, the despatch men tions t he following names, which we are unable to re duce to any familiar English patronymics, and which cannot be found in the catalogues of the Bengal civil or military service :—Mrs. Goute and child, Mr. Tutti, Mrs. Planch and children, Mrs. Mae* % lardy, (M'Clarty ?) and children, Mrs. Gulisg, Rev. and Mrs. Cerd.es (possibly Sur tees) and two chil dren. ARRIVAL OF THE BOMBAY MAIL, AND LIST OF PASSENGERS. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY. The following is a list of the passengers by the French packet from Bombay : Mrs. Erskine and three children. Mrs. Morgan and two children. Mrs. De Vitre and child. Mrs. Warden and child. Mrs. Woolcombe. Mrs. Macgregor and three children. Mrs. Francis Younghusband and four children. Mrs. Barnes. Mrs. Brooks and two children. Mrs. Carnegie and child. Mrs. Graham. Mrs. Stullaford and child (?). The Misses Miller with the two children of Captain Taylor Clarke. Admiral Sir H. Leeke with his lady and Miss Leeke. Lieut. and Mrs. Battye with two children. Mr. and Mrs. Muipratt with a chill. Captain Dyett. Dr. Fairblank. Major Vincent. Lieutenant Grant. Mr. Pestonjee. Mr. Hicks and child. Mr. D. Campbell and three children. Mr. Weston. Mr. J. Doughty. Mr. J. Cabbingtoh (from Aden). Mr. Gillot. Mr. Cohen. • Mrs. Henderson and two children. Miss Harrison. Mrs. Morgan. Captain Price. In addition to which we have the names of Mr. Nibbet and Mr. Droughet, which are probably in correct. MARSEILLES, OcT. 14. The Bombay mail is arrived. The Gwalior Contingent had deposed the Maha rajah Scindia, and placed a prince of the Delhi family on the throne. Lord Canning bad rofmed to comply with the request of tho people of Calcutta, that he would proclaim martial law. Lieutenant Howard Campbell, 78th Highlanders, had died at Cawnpore ; Lieutenant Gowan, 18th Bengal NJ., who had been reported killed, was still alive. The mutineers inside Delhi only numbered 17,000 men, of whom one-fourth were cavalry. In the affair of the sth Lieut. Gabett died of his wounds, and Lieut. Elkington and Dr. Ireland were dangerously wounded. On the 30th of August, before Delhi, some of the enemy's breastworks were taken between the Sammy-house and the town. All in the camp are elated at the prospect cf offeusive operations. HEALTH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 14. The following bulletin was published at Sans Souci last evening : " The King has had no further symptoms of congestion during the day, but on the whole there is no very material change in his Majesty's con dition." Another despatch says : " The hopes entertained of a considerable amend ment in his Majesty's health have suffered no check to-day. " There is nothing, however, to suggest that tho improvement can be more than temporary and partial." The Russian naval division destined for the Chinese waters has quitted Cronstadt. It con sists of threo corvettes and three steam-clippers. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. The following is the copy of a despatch addressed by Aali Pasha, on the 23d of September, 1857, to the Ottoman Legations at the Courts which were parties to the Treaty of Paris :-- "Adjoined I send you a copy of a despatch which we forwarded to the Kaiwakan of Moldavia immediately alter the elections were annulled. The contents of the document will enable you to see in what a loyal spirit the Porte fulfils its engagements : `" The Imperial Government, by the Ministerial de. spatch of Oct. 14th, 1856, and by its subsequent and preceding declarations, has not failed in the same loyal way to make known to the august parties to the Treaty of Paris the views which it takes of the ques tion relative to the Danubian Principalities. We are convinced that the high Powers, who by the solemn act of the Congress of Paris proclaimed to the whole world the great interest they took in the maintenance of the integrity and independence of this empire, will be obliged to the Sublime Porte for endeavouring to point out the side of this question that relates to an interest which has become European. (Cha r./Ler a leur denzontrer le cote de cette question qui touche ce grand intent devenu Europeen.) God forbid that the Government of His Majesty the Sultan should call in question the purity of the intentions of any of the Powers towards him, or that it should believe that in upholding this or tnat opini• they entertain any other wish than to give strengt . 3 to the principle above-mentioned. If we frequently re-' nay thus outraged, and the awful relies of mor tality thus odiously and wantonly desecrated. It will be assuredly advisable to discover, as speedily as practicable, how the interests of the science of Anatomy may be legitimately consulted and openly advanced, without necessitating the repetition of horrors such as those we have but just been enumerating. Arrangements might surely be made, according to law, whereby medical students might readily enough obtain the required "subjects" for dissection, without having to re sort surreptitiously to the lawless aid of the infa mous body-snatcher, finding it afterwards advi sable to conceal the disintegrated morsels of flesh and bone, in no more decent places of sepulture than a ditch or a dusthole. Infinitely preferable to this would it be—so to order matters that henceforth all Students in Surgery might obtain the requisite materials on which to try their 'Prentice hands as Dissectors—not from violated graves, or broken coffins, but from the dead-room of the Prison, and the Hospital, and (if needs must) also of the Workhouse. Providing always, of course, that it should be under carefully regu lated restrictions, and under the immediate guarantee of a properly authenticated certificate. BER MAJESTY'S VISIT TJ THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. ABERDEEN, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The Queen left Balmoral this morning at half past 8 o'clock to visit the Earl of Aberdeen at Haddo-house. Her Majesty travelled by Deeside Ballater, and thence across the country by Tar land and Inverury, arriving at Haddo-house at 20 minutes past 4 o'clock. The Queen on passing through the. Royal Arch at the boundary of the park avenues was received by the Hon. Colonel Alex. Gordon and 500 of the Earl of Aberdeen's tenantry on horseback, and drove up the long avenue amid the cheers of several thousand people who were on the banks. The tenantry presented an address to the Queen. Loid Aberdeen received her Majesty at the landing, which was beautifully decorated, and con ducted her t) the bilcony on the staircase, whence she acknowledged the salutations of the people, while the horsemen defiled before the house. Lord and Lady Haddo, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Hon. Colonel Gordon, and Sir George Grey were present. The weather was very fine. Bonfires were kindled in all parts of the estate. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ABERDEEN, THURSDAY. This morning the Qneen left Haddo-house with the Prince Consort and the two Princesses. All the tenantry escorted her Majesty to the bdundary of the e3tate. The Royal cortege arrived in Aberdeen at one o'clock, and left by the Scottish Nolth-Eastern Railway for Edinburgh at 1.45. Her Majesty is expected to arrive at Edinburgh at 6.45. To-morrow morning her Majesty leaves St. Mar garet's Station at 7.45, arriving at Dunbar at 8.25, and Berwick at 9.15. The Royal train is expected to arrive in London about halt-past six o'clock. AnTErs 41JPHITHEATRE. Mr. James Robinson, from the chief circus in the United States, who is described as the Great star Rider of America, and as the most wonderful eques trian yet seen, is attracting large audiences every evening at this theatre. Strange as the thing it self, the announcement is perfectly correct. Mr. Robinson is a small athletic man), and without saddle or bridle, or anything but the horse's bare back and his own good limbs, be vaults on and off, rides on the neck or the tail, and performs various gymnastic feats in a perfectly novel way ; for in stance, raising himself from the horse so that cer tain scarfs can be passed und , r him ; jumping on one leg backw ar d s or forwards, awl a variety of other gyrations, which it is wonderful to see and impossible to de=cribe. We understand there are novelties in preparation, and that a new grand equestrian spectacle, of an unusually novel and interesting nature, will shortly be produced. SURREY THEATRB. The neTr romantic play of "Ambition, or the Throne and the Tomb," deservedly sustains its attraction and interest at this popular theatre. Tho style in which this effective drama is placed upon the stage reflects high credit on the liberality and taste of the management, and seems duly appreci ated by the auditory. We have not, for many a day, seen a more satisfactory impersonation than that of the hero, Etbelwold, by Mr. Creswick. Power, passion, due emphasis, and an experienced judgment in the business of the scene, combine to render his presentment of the injured husband a study, and an unequivocal success. A new comedietta, entitl e d "U p i n th e W or l d, " affords ample scope and verge for the peculiar comicalities cf Mr. H. Widdicomb. The house is nightly crowded. THE FATE OF TILE AMERICAN STEAMSHIP PACIFIC. (Front yesterday's Moniteur.) The maritime prefect of Brest has transmitted to and the Minister Colonies of St a t e f or t h e N avy an an ery o t t a e written with a pencil in English, and which was encl ose d i n a glass bottle, found on the 14th of Sept em b er, 1857, on the strand of Melon, in the sy n di cate of Porspoder S ecr (department of the Finistere). Great interest is attached to this note, which appears to hare been written by a passenger on board the American steamer Pacific, supposed to be wholly lost, with all hands, in 1856 ; and we think it our duty to publish its contents, ver batim : _ " Steam-ship Pacific, Eldridge, commander. Smith, passenger. Steam-ship Pacific run be tween two icebergs. All hands lost. On the Ist of April, 1856. Just going down, 2 p. m ." i The word April s written over a word effaced, for the author of the note had first commenced with a capital M, as if about to write March. ALY SISTER. Up many flights of crazy stairs, Where oft ono's head knocks un awares ; And W itharickety only a Dwells my sist er . There is no carpet ne stool table, a t b o l e, and with ou t c h airs, kneel to pr a y ers, on the filer, The wind whistles in through the cracks of the door; One might reckon her miseries by the score, But who feels interest in so poor ? Yet she is my sister. She was blooming, and fresh, and young, and fair, With bright blue eyes, and auburn hair ; Bat the rose is eaten with canker care, And her visage is mark'd with a grim despair. Such is my sister ! When at early morning, to rest her head, She throws herself on her weary bed, Longing to sleep the sleep of the dead, Yet fearing, from all she has heard and read ; Pity my sister. But the bright sun shines on her and on me, And on mine an I. hers, and on thins and thee, Whatever our lot in life may be, Whether of high or low degree. Still, she's our sister. Weep for our sister, Pray for our sister, Succour our sister. The chief magistrate of Vienna has just given notice that the genera! census of the population throughout the whole of the empire will commence on the 31st inst. 13 CVs DISCOUNTS.—Th e pressure at the Bank for discounts was again extraordinarily heavy, but the large advances which becatne repayable there yesterday were well met. The t.btal amount of the dividends, the pay ment of which cnntnenced yesterday morning, is about 6,000,000/ , and the proporti ,n usually taken on the first Lily is about 4,000,000/ —Times. THE WESTMINSTER BELLS, We learn that all the We..ttninster quarter belts are now cast. The no`es are B, E (the octave above the great bell), F sharp, and C.} p. The B bell weighs about four tow, and the thr.,e together a lulls more than boar tons, co that the whole peal, including the great bell of nearly 16 tons weigh as nearly as !nate& If the tovvtr and iron beams are ready for them th y ma y be taken up in the course of the next month, and pcssile 24 boar, as originally esti the clock i, re.l,-4 to follow them. DESTRUCTION OF A. FLOUR MILL.—An a'arming fire -make out at the flour mill of Mr. Croysdal-., Whitley bridge, near Pontefract, at about 3 o'clock on Sunday not mug last. Shortly after the discovery of the fire the vhole of the roof fell in with a tremendous erash, and in ,bout three hours the mill was gutted, there being iothiug left standing but the outer walls. About 300 hags of fi ur and a large quantity of corn were consumed, and the whole of the internal machinery with 12 pairs of , zones were destroyed. Tne damage done amounts to tbout 10,0001., only 2,000/, of which is covered by in ,urance. It is thcugbt that the shafts in the top story became heated fur want of oil, and that the fire, baying originated in that part of the mill, gradually descended to the lower rooms, turn to this subject, it is simply because we, being most directly interested in the subject, wish to enlighten oar allies, and not to leave them in ignorance of the deter mination (ropinion, arretee) of the Sublime Porte on a matter which tends to inflict a severe blow upon its legitimate rights—rights which are consecrated by ages and unexceptionable documents—and to endeavour to destroy any unfavourable impression which some hun dreds of publications which have been disseminated by the opposite party may have produced on the minds of the Government or of the nations. " new and frank explanation on the part of the Porte appears to us the more opportune, because, since the elections in Moldavia have been annulled, the quasi revolutionary clubs in Wallachia have produced a very sensible discouragement among those inhabitants of Moldavia and Wallachia who formerly dared to display some little courage in the maintenance of their opinions (qui naguere osaient montrer quelque peu de courage de leur opinion). Assemblies elected under such auspices neither are nor can be of a nature to inspire the Sublime Porte with any great confidence that they will respect its right.. Consequently, at the same time that it keeps within the limits of the Treaty of the 30th March, the Imperial Government considers it a duty to renew the aforesaid declaration of the 14th October, and frankly to declare that whatever may be the wish expressed by the Divans ad hoc relative to the union of the two Principalities, the Sublime Porte, relying on (s'appuyaNt sur) the text of the treaty of Paris—a text, in virtue of which the final settlement of the definitive organisa tion of the Principalities is to depend entirely on an understandin g between the Sublime Porte and the other Powers who wero parties to the treaty—finds itself absolutely necessitated to maintain its resolution in this respect. " We confidently hope that this determination, which is based on reasons that are of vital importance to Turkey, will be appreciated by the Powers, to whom we address ourselves with the greatest confidence. We are convinced that their justica and equity will come to our aesistarce in this important matter. " I hasten to add that, by this our restriction, we do not intend to exclude all idea of the assimilatior of certain administrative laws that may be reconcileable with the rights of our august Master and with the maintenance of the political separation of the two provinces. "'The good understanding which has happily been re-established between all the Powers that were parties to the Treaty of Paris concerning the affairs of the pro vinces in question is for us another guarantee that they will be satisfactorily settled. We, as one of the parties to the treaty, cannot too strongly wish that the good understanding may continue. "'You are authorised to read this despatch to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and to leave a copy of it with him. " Accept, &a.' [Annex.] AALI PASHA TO THE KAIMAKAN OP MOLDAVIA. M. le Prince, —My telegraphic despatch of the 24th instant has made known to yon the resolution tak ea by the Porte, in consequence of an understanding be tween itself and the six other Powers, who were parties to the Treaty of Paris, to annul the Moldavian elections. By your despatch of the 25th we learnt bow promptly you had proceeded to put into execution the order of his Majesty the Sultan. I have nothing to add in respect to the instructions which were given in my above-mentioned message. In regard to the method of their execution, I consider it my duty again to make known to your Excellency the true opinion of the Sublime Porte on the subject. Before all, I have the honour to inform you that the Impeiial Government is as jealous of its inalienable (inprescrip tible) rights and is as determined to maintain them as it is to fuifil the duties arising from its engagements. Thus the Sublime Porte can have no other wish than to i-ee that part of its engagements, the accomplishment of which devolves on authorities of its appointments, fulfill ed with the greatest uprightness and fidelity. We are of opinion that, in or ter to attain this object s your Excellency cannot do better than lit rally to follow the instructions of the firman relating to the elections with the Walla (Allan interpretations, the application cf which under similar circumstances in Moldavia has been agreed on by all the Powers. In this way the responsibility of your Excellency will be sheltered (a couvert), and the Sublime Porte will be extremely pleased that you have fulfilled its intentions. " The Porte, M, le Prince, counts, in this important matter, on your devotion to the interests of the Empire in general, and to those of the Principality in par- titular.—Accept, etc. " Aug. 31, 1857.' " The candidateship of young Prince Murat for the throne of the United Principalities, which repre sents the latest political canard started by the con tinental press, is thus seriously discussed by a Paris correspondent of the Independence of Brussels : "The candidateship of Prince Murat is more talked of every day, though few people believe in it. It is said that at Stulgard the question of the Principalities was alone fully discussed, and that then the name of Prince Murat was pronounced. It is also said that at Osborne, where the queAiou was likewise discussed, the Emperor Napoleon asked if, in case that question should be decided according to the wishes of the Roumains, England would see without displeasure the candidateship of Prince Murat. It is further said that the same question was raised at Berlin and at Turin, where it met with no opposition. As to the Emperor Alexander 11. who thought, it is said, of a candi dateship of Prince de Wickenstein, his aide-de camp, who has gained distinction in combating against Schamyl in the Caucasus, and who recently married Princess Catacuzene, he has definitively abandoned that idea—to which Austria would on no account have consented. 'Thus, though a name was pronounced, no xingdom was founded at Stuttgard ; and as England maintains a severe re serve, nothing has been done calculated to Preju dice the wishes of the Moldo-Wallachian D ivans, and the resolutions of the future congress.? FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Constitutioiatel contradicts, as follows, an improbable report circulated by some German pap:rs— The Presse of Vienna, the Trieste Gazette, and letters from Berlin, announce that on the 2d inst. Lord Stratford de Redeliffe and Baron de Prokesch addressed a protest to the Divan against the elections which have taken place in Moldavia and Wallachia. We believe ourselves justified in asserting that no despatch has been received in Paris from Constantinople confirming this r eport. The fact of the meeting of the Divans, which are deliberating at this moment, sufficiently proves the improbability of the statement." BOURSE, Oct. 14.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. End of Month. _ ___.... 4. per Conts 3 per Cents 66 90 66 70 Bank Shares 2,925 Credit Foncier 550 Credit Mobilier 792 50 Roman - - Do. Account — Austrian - Beleian 4i — --Spanish Threes 4l Eiedmontese (5) 9O 40 Rome Debt - RAILWAYS-FOB CASH. tr. c. fr c. Orleans 1,352 50 Western Northern - Strasburg Lyons and Med B4&&— New Ditto New Ditto... Geneva 617 50 Sardinian . 485 Midi SPAIN. A despatch received in Paris yesterday states the Queen has positively expressed her desire to pre side over her Cabinet, and she has wished to intro duce iuto it the principal statesmen now out of office. M. Armero is detained in the south by the bad state of the roads. If the combination under his auspices should not succeed, the state of affairs will present the greatest difficulties. MONTENEGRO. A letter from Cattaro of the 2d offers the follow ing details of the progress of the Turkish 'expedition against the refractory Albanian tribes : " An English messenger bas arrived this day at Scu tari, and proceeded immediately to Cettigue ; he brings important despatches from Constantinople for the Eng lish consul at Scutari and Prince Danilo. The advanc.d guard of the Turkish force of 3,000 men, under Haim Pacha, governor of Scutari and Albania, has already forced the entrance of the territory of the rebellious A - banian tribes, and has had a•sanguinany elision with the inhabitants of Vasojevie. The Montenegrin tribe having implored the protection of Prince Danilo, he sent his aide-de-camp, Vukovic, who was formerly in the Austrian service, to negotiate a truce with the Pacha ; but his efforts were fruit l e ss. The invaders have accord ingly destroyed the crops and the villages. Ti . Pren,i dent of the Senate, Mir ko, has raised a cor p s of 500 Montenegrins, with the intention of mar c h i n g with them to the frontier of the Principalities. In this state things are at this moment; but it is hoped that the in tervention of the Christian Powers will pnt down tinge sanguinary quarrels CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, We have received files of papers from the Cape to the 17th August. Her Majesty steamer Penelope and troop-ship Belicisle left Simon's Bay for I n d a on Wednesday, the 12th. The Ocean Wave, with a portion of ta 89th, was to leave on the 15th fur India. On the 13th the ship Polonaise arrived, from Dubin June 18, with a detachment of her Majesty's 95t1. R-gi me:it on 1 oard, consisting of 17 officers, an , l 316 r ink and file, under the cominar,d of Major Reim s. The 95th wcs to have relieved the 89th in Cape Town, but, un d er p resen t circumstances, the regi went proceeds to India. We take the following from the Cape Town, Mail of Aug. 15 "The statement of the revenue of the colony for the year ending June 30, 1857, shows a net increase over the revenue for the same period ending the 30th of June, 1856, of 91,319'. Nearly the w ho le of this is due to the customs on which there has bee n an increase of 90 252/. The total receipts for the year endirg the 30th of June, 1857, were 376,9901. The total expendi ture for the same period 320,320/. Leaving a balance in favour of receipts of 56,6701. THE LATE MAJOR BANKS. John Sherbrooke Banks was born in September 1811, and gave early indications of that court g and talent which shone forth so brightly in alter years. He passed through his school career with great credit, and had the character of being a " superior classical scholar." He was appointed to a cadetship in 1828, and in 1829 arrived in India and was posted to the 33d B. N. I. About the year 1833 he was appointed to the interpretership of his regiment, and shortly after was for some time on detached duty for the suppression of Thuggee, in which he was very successful. He was afterwards appointed to a civil magistracy in the Sanger and Nerbuddha, Province, and was stationed at Jubbulpore. While diligent in the duties of his office he undertook the survey of his district for the formation of public roads and bridges, and sought in everyway to develop the resources of the country. It was to this district that Sir C. Napier referred in terms of unsurpassed prais. " There are some glorious magistrates who really do exalt the honour and power of England in the East. I came through a district governed by a Mr. Banks ; I do not know him, I never saw him, but I really felt proud of my countryman. Yet even there I found tyranny by the board' which rules the Punjab ; he cannot, help that ; all he does himself is superb." When he retired from Jubhulpore on the breaking up of th© establishment, ho received a complimentary address from the natives. He was soon appointed as assistant in the Auditor-General's Department at Calcutta, whence he volunteered and served with his regiment in the Affghan campaign of 1842, and was present at Mazeena and the subsequent actions during the advance on Cabul, and received a medal on the return of the army; being on rearguard, a Sepoy of his company was wounded and left behind ; Lieut. Banks returned for him, and brought him in on his back ' • of two men th a t accompanie d him one was killed and the other wounded. Captain Banks was soon after appointed Deputy Assistant-Secretary to the Government of India Military Department; whence he volunteered for active service in the campaign of the Sutlej. He joined his regiment immediately after the battle of Sobraon, and was at once gazetted as Quartermaster to Gen. M'Ca kill's divison, and in the same gazette was appointed Assistant-Secretary to the Government of India Military Department ; in the latter capacity he went through Scindo with the Governor-General, Lord Hardinge. The head of his office being on sick leave, Major B. had the whole arrangements for the army for the Burmese war, and a comnetent au thority stated that "no troops were ever sent out more efficiently prepared for active service." When Lord Dalhousie went to Pegu to arrange for the set tlement and government of the newly -acquired province Major Banks accompanied him as Secre tary for the Government of India. In 1854 he was appointed by he Governor-General as his Pri vate Military Secretary, and accompanied his Lord ship to the Neilgherrie Hills. In July, 1855, Major Banks was despatched from Ootacumund to Luck now on business connected with the annexation, and was appointed one of the Commissioners in Oude. He was in charge at Lucknow, where he resided from the commencement of 1856. On the death of Sir H. Lawrence Major Banks succeeded him as Acting Chief Commissioner in Oude and in the command of the garrison at Lucknow, and has speedily followed his distinguished and gallmit predecessor to a soldier's grave. While actively employed in the duties of his profession he found time for diligent and varied study. "He re ceived degrees of honour in the Persian, Oordoo, and Bengali languages from the college at Fort William." He had also studied Sanscrir, Arabic, Hindostani, and Hindee, and was prepared to go up for degrees in two of those languages had not the duties of his office and consequent want of opportunity prevented him. To the above he added Hebrew and a superior knowledge of French, German, and Italian. One who knew him well, personally and officially, writes—" His loss will be most severely felt by the Government, for they had not a more able, conscientious, and a more efficient officer." This is high praise ; but it is also a noble testimony to the East India Company that talent and character, without private patronage, which Major Banks had not, can win their way to some of the highest offices which the Indian Government has to bestow. Major Banks was killed at Luck now about the end of July or beginning of August, after 28 years of uninterrupted service. THE EPIDEMIC AT LISBON. LISBON, Oct. B.—The fever is unfortunately still devastating the business part of the city, and trade is almost paralysed —so much so that the receipts of the Custom-house, which are usually 2,0001. or more, are now only some 2001. per diem. All Lis bon is flying into the suburbs and into the country; the principal warehouses are closed, and the opera house and the theatres are almost deserted. Many of the English community have fallen victims to the fever, which appears to be of a most virulent kind, and to set all medical skill at defiance. Prayers are publicly said every afternoon in the principal parish churches, but unfortunately the malady does not decline. Many of the cases are attended with black vomit, and the disease is de signated by the faculty as very difficult of treat ment. The sanitary authorities are now directing all their energies to cleaning the sewers and other de posits of the city. The Custom-house is being cleaned out, and all kinds of filth is being brought to the light of day and removed. In the warehouse No. 1, the windows, which by direction of - the Marquis of Pombal were made open to the ground, were blocked up in 1832, and the store has since remained in darkness and abomination. Some old casks of rotten pork and bacon had leaked dur ing the course of gears upon the floor, and buckets had to be put into requisition to cleanse the place. Now, however, whilst Lisbon is in such a fear ful :state, the health authorities still persist in maintaining their quarantine ab , urdities in all their plenitude. As an instance how the sanitary re gulations are conducted at this calamitous time, the English vessel New _Harriet, whose master having died on shore of yellow fever contracted in Lisbon, was actually sent down to the quarantine ground, and having remained there a week, and not being able to obtain pratique, al though the crew were, and had all along been, in perfect health, sailed under quarantine. The moat ridiculous part, however, is; that the work men and the piltot who went on board from the city were ordered to the Lazaretto by the health board, there to be duly purified, and afterwards to return to the city, where the epidemic is now raging. The force of folly can no further go. The King and Court are now at the Palace of Necessidades. THE STRAND THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Permit me to correct an error in the report of the prozedings under Mr. Payne's bankruptcy in your paper of this day, which states that the Strand Theatre lam been for some time carried'on as a "commonwealth," and will probably be managed henceforth by the assignees for the benefit of the estate. This is entirely incorrect. Mr. Payne's lease having become forfeited by the act of bank ruptcy, in accordance with a covenant contained in it to that effect, a new lease has been granted me, and the theatre will be carried on under my manage ment for the future. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, LEICESTER BUCKINGHAM. Oct. 14, 1857. THE JER HOLD TESTIMONIAL. TO THE EDITOR OF TIM SUN. SIR,--As Mr. Blanchard Jerrold has, through your columns, preferred against me the serious charge of a " grass breach of faith in giving Mr. Dickens permission to publish a letter without th e consent of my clients," pray give insertion to my statement that I gave Mr. Dickens permission to use my letter in the way he has used it, not only with the consent, but by the expressed wish of my clients, whose names I inclose, to whom my letter was written, and who are gentlemen who have kindly undertaken the office of trustees to Mrs. Jerrold. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is not my client. His groundless charge against nie I shalt not further netice.—l am, &c., W. U. ASETURST. 6, Old Jewry, London, Oct. 14. --- SIGNS OF WINTER —The Ulverstone Advertiser says : "on Monday morning., Scawfell, Helvellyn, and Bowfell Kure capped with snow. The swallows are off and so are the lake tourists. Northern divers have appeared oa the lakes, and the robins have attached themselves to their favourite cottages." There was an absence of commercial failures of any reat importance. A report was widely circulated yes terday afternoon of a very heavy stoppage at Manches ter, but it wa3 wholly discredited among all the leading firms contented with that place. The house of Affieck and MtlCtrrow, Scotch warehousemen, and also that of Mr.W. B. West, wholesale haberdasher, were stated to have suspended there, but their liabilities are not sup pose" to be very great. In London the failure has been notified of Messrs. Scarratt and Partington, woollen warehousemen. I I