The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

PER,A. BUFFA.—St. J AMES'S THEATRE. (Entirely Re-decorated).—Signor RoNzANI has the honour to announce that the Season will commence on TUESDAY, the 3d of November next, 1857. Full particulars will be duly announced. Prospectuses may be had, and Subscriptions arranged at Mr. Mit c hell's Royal Library, 33, Old Boid street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Sbakspere's Play of TIIE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. ROYAL 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. relli, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, M. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. A.. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, Mr. Wallworth, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Weiss and Ifr.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, Anber's opera of THE CROWN DIAMONDS. To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 118. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 16.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. MIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with (2d time here these eight years) Sheridan KnowlP:s' comedy of TfIE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Miss A. PLedgwi c k. After which (by desire) BOX AND CO - .'C. Box Mr. Buckstone ; Cox, Mr. Compton. , To conclude with THE SWISS CO'IrrAGE. Orchestra Stalls (which may by 'retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. ( N - o` charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes Upper Boxes ... . 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it .... ... 2 0 Pit 1 0 ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the home-male Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright and Miss Arden. After which, will be revived the celebrated nautical drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyaxd (his original character), Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS." STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Mr. Kiuloch, Mr. Clarks, Miss 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; Cr, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 25.; Pit, ls.; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, It. Is. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Rob3on. and Emden. T 4RS EVENI NG, will be performed the new drama of THE LIGHTHOUSE. After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and Mr. G. Murray. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, duo. ; Misses Swanborongh, Tbirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Com.raence at half-past Seven. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crsswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Balmer.; Miss Webster, Miss M. Elmrne, Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, ITP IN THE WORLD. Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. The Blighted One, Mr. Widdicemb. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN E V ERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dm., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Bedzey, Madlle. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott, Miss Brunell, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. lime, and Sir. St. Albyu ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Matter Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, ee., until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at haif-past Eight and half_ past Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY— Morn., 46 min. aft. 11—Even., 0 Fan. aft. 0 TO-MORROW—Morn. 12 min. aft. 12 —Evan. 33 min. aft. 12 ME WEA.THER-Snr OFFICE, OCTOBER 14. THIRICOAETER, IN THE SHADE. GS—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and daring the night Gl—this day at noon. BABOXICTIS, 30.19. WEND. South-easterly; light, with fine weather. Fog in the morning. TA, :111 4,4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14, 1857. Great excitement prevails in the Money Market. This is but natural, considering the sudden rise of no less than in the minimum rate of dis count, and the unequivocal proof thereby afforded of the sense entertained by the Directors of the Bank of England respecting the magnitude of the emergency. We are told by the bullionist organ that " the fluctuations in the funds have again been most rapid and extensive." There appears to be a general impression that further restrictive measures must be adopted, and that it will soon be exceedingly difficult, if not impos sible, to convert even first-class securities into bank-notes. Every person is there fore endeavouring to make timely provision for his own exigencies, and the demand thereby occasioned is alone sufficient t 3 produce the dreaded result. It was so in October, ,1847, and it will be so before the close of the present month unless the Government--as in the former in stance, authorise the suspension of the enactments, which, if they have not produced, have at all events, materially aggravated the panic, and the consequent danger. That sooner or later, there must be relaxation is tertain. But when is this relaxation to take Place? and what should be its nature and extent ? These are interesting and impor tant queations, on which the welfare and hap piness of the industrial community greatly de paud. They should consequently receive the prompt and attentive consideration to which they are ao pre-eminently entitled. Not a day should be lost by the Government in convening Parliament, in order that a constitutional and adequate remedy should be supplied, and that the nation should be saved from the serious loss and i nconvenience that must otherwise be sustained. Erni that will scarcely be sufficient at the present There is a deplorable want of currency— of a circulating medium in which the people can repose implicit confidence, and which will readily pass from hand to hand in all the dontest trans actions of every day life. An order in Council, or a Ministerial letter, is urgently required, which would ab once relieve the existing apprehensions, and liberate the large amount of notes and specie now hoarded for future use. L'rd OVERSTONE, in his evidence before the Lords' Committee in 1848, expressed an opinion "that relaxation ought only to take place in, the lust extremity, and when the inconvenience arising feori the pressure had produced all its legitimate efrecte in rectifying the exchanges, and the danger vi general., confusion, had become imminent." This i 8 a' 'coded and heartless doctrine. The 84 ,0 clause is only intended for the benefit of gle Bank and of the great capitalists. Crush without hesitation all struggling parties—those wli, might by reasonable assistanee be enabled to maintain their position and to pay every legitimate demand. They are however to be crushed for the benefit of the moneyo cracy. But the moment I that the peril extends to Millionaires, when the danger of general confusion becomes imminent, then, but not sooner, is there to be Government interference. It is a presumptuous notion, that those who have excited the storm can arrest it at the exact moment they think desirable, even say to the advancing torrent, " thus far shalt thou go and no further !" They may however reckon without their host, and provoke a terrible retribu tion. We therefore call for immediate action, otherwise the Tritons may be involved in one com mon destruction with the minnows, the Levia thans swept away in the same flood with the small fry, that they were destroying. Mr. HA.MER STANSFELD, the consistent, ener getic, and indefatigable monetary reformer, to whose admirable views we have so frequently directed public attention, has for warded a communication, which will be found in another part of our impression, and to which we earnestly direct public attention. If there is to be any interference—and we do not see how it can be avoided—it would bo well, to make it effectual, to adopt a plan that might be regarded as a permanent adjustment of the cur rency, so as to avoid at - all times and under all circumstances the evils of continuous and exhausting drains of gold. We should obtain temporary relief from an additional issue of notes according to the present system ; but to render it permanent and immediate these notes should be of the smaller denominations, which would liberate an equal amount of sove reigns, and render them available for the general benefit, not merely of England, but of other na tions. It is the plan suggested ten years since by Mr. JAMES WILSON, and against which no reason able argument can be urged. It would give in • stant relief to the country. The following draft of a petition has been prepared by Mr. ST,LNSFELD, and it is well worthy of being adopted by every currency reformer, who should adopt measures to have it extensively signed in his immediate neigh bourhood. It is as follows Bundlecund chiefs also continue to behave well ; likewise the NIZAM'S Government and the Raj pootam native chiefs. 1 4i On the whole the tidings, although chiefly a repetition of what we had already heard,'are very gratifying ; and but for the mysterious silence respecting Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL, the entire docu ment would be exceedingly satisfactory. A short time must, however, dispel our doubts under that head, and enable us to judge more fully as to the real state of affairs at head-quarters between Lord CANNING, who has not, and the Gallant General who so entirely possesses, the confidence of the English people. Let Lord CANNING be recalled at once. A popular interlude has recently received a frightful pendant in this horrible tragedy of The Woman with the Carpet Bag. The mysterious obscurity still enveloping the whole of this appalling transaction is suggestive, we conceive, upon the instant, of one or two very serious reflections. It is suggestive in the first place, of the immediate necessity of offering with out further delay a reward of One or Two Hun dred Guineas to any one who will throw light upon the atrocity. It is suggestive, in the next place, of the various courses obviously open al ready to the agents of the Police with a view to the prosecution of a searching and systematic in vestigation. Acting in obedience to the dictates of mere com mon-sense, we presume that the Authorities have long since adventured upon the majority of these courses without waiting to have them pointed out by the sagacity of observers purely and avowedly unprofessional. The Detectives, we may rest satisfied, seldom, if ever, require extrapeous promptings. Their cunning is a sort of instinct—and that instinct of theirs is uncon sciously but unerringly regulated by experience. Nevertheless—recognizing all this, conscious of all this, we cannot but think that advantage may (just by the faintest possibility) be derived from an enumeration of the plans Common Sense pre sumes to have been already adopted with a view to the rapid carrying out of this appalling investigation. As to the Identification of the Victim—lt is manifest at once that a very large "circle" might be rapidly contracted to a mere " point," by taking, for instance, a file of the Times for the last three or four months, and instituting, upon a systema tic plan, a regular series of inquiries in regard to certain addresses given in the second column of the first page of advertisements upon the broad sheet of our contemporary. Advertisers for the missing person should be communicated with di rectly and personally, and whenever the missing individual proved to be a male adult, a minute description ought to be obtained of his age, character, and appearance. Whenever these chanced to tally with the presumed victim, it being then clearly underst )od, when the person was last seen, where, by whom, and under what circumstances. Numerous other sources of information of a like kind, open to view of course elsewhere : but this one—as a source patent to the whole world—might be specified as affording the most vivid and instantaneous illus tration. The temptation of " Rewards," again, applied comprehensively, as already suggested •to the whole crime, might, in regard to some of its details, be not injudiciously divided and sub divided. For example : A Hundred Guineas or so being held out as a bribe to any inform ant giving a clue to the detection of the murderers—s few pounds might be proferred to whomsover might throw light upon the purchase of that loathsome carpet-bag. The cabman, again, might surely be discovered through the medium of the same golden agency wisely employed by the wizards of Scotland-yard. The cabman or matt who conveyed that hideous freight to the neighbourhood 'of Waterloo Bridge, under the charge of that dreadful elderly woman—short and stout —with the grey hair, and the gruff voice, who did the toll-taker out of a halfpenny when taking those awful mutilated remains in a carpet-bag, at midnight, to lower them over the parapet into the river, then run• ning down swiftly with a strong ebb-tide for the sea, under the starlight ! Darkness then en veloped the crime—darkness still envelopes it ; but that darkness we do believe may yet be dis sipated. We cannot believe that the unknown miscreants can escape detection, as was the case most miserably some years ago with the destroyers of Eliza - Grimwood. With all these clues lying about, we cannot believe it, —clues waiting only to be followed up with sagacity—the cab ; the carpet-bag ; the female ruffian in the black silk mantle and the drab satin bonnet ; her burly male companion ; the brown paper parcel yet undiscovered—supposed to have contained the missing head, hands, and feet of the Victim, though it may yet possibly have contained nothing more than additional clothes, together with the implements of destruc tion. Beyond all this—as from the very outset it has been perfectly obvious that the crime was iu all probability perpetrated in one of those foul dens known as houses of ill-fame—we presume that the police have all this while (ever since the first discovery of the carpet-bag) had their eyes fixed upon those villainous haunts with unwink ing vigilance. Every den of this description in the metropolis is known to the police notoriously. Why not take means, under the terrible circum stances of this case, for not merely witching them, but for subjecting each in turn to the most minute and searching examination ? The cha racter of this nameless grey-headed woman is sufficiently obvious : it is that manifestly of the Mother Mandrake of Farquhar. Since the above was in type a reward has bean offered—two hundred plunds for the apprehen kiwi of the murderer, and one hundred pounds for the supposed woman with the carpet-bag. rnE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY Vr N ENG., OCTOBER 14, 5" BOW TO MITIGATE THE ACTION OF THE INDIAN MUTINY AND Tqß AMERICAN FINANCIAL PANIC ON OUR MONEY MARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, Sm,—Allow me to call your attention to a remedy for the many evils arising from drair. of gold, suggested in the inclosed form of a petition, and to appeal to you to exert your powerful influence at this critical period to obtain by an Order in Council such an amelioration of our restrictive Monetary System as will avert some of the baneful effects of the Act of 1844. The principles of that Act are now under Parliamentary consideration, and the evidence already published is overwhelmingly condemnatory of its restrictions. Still, as the late Bank Committee reported the evidence to be incomplete and recommended the reappointment of a Committee next session, it is obvious that no Legislative action can take place upon their report until the year 1859. In the mean time the interest of all other classes will continue to be sacrificed under the operation of the Act of 1844 to the money class—for as Mr. Chapman (of the firm of Overend, Gurney, and Co.), stated in his evidence before the committee, capitalists do avail themselves at these arises of the power their command of notes gives them to reduce the Bank Re. serve of gold, to make enormous profits out of the rain of the people who fall victims to them. This plan is suggested not for a mere temporary relief, but with a view of establishing permanently a mode of ajusting our currency so as to avoid at all tones the evils of drains of gold. By adopting it, the few mations of gold abstracted for India and America may be replaced without any disturbance of our money market, and the reflux which in the course of time must take place, as gold like water finds its level, will cause the sovereigns to find their way again into the service of the retail trade, as it would no longer suit the Bank to pay 4 per cent. for the use of the notes when its rate of discount had fallen below 5 per cant, from the influx of gold.—l am, sir, your obedt. servant, HAMEII, STANSFELD. The Grange, Barley, Otley, Oct, 12, 1857. "TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " We, the undersigned bankers, merchants, and other liege subjects of the realm, considering that the present foreign drain of gold most seriously deranges the domestic currency, thereby paralysing trade, throwing the indus trious classes out of employment, depreciating property, and increasing unnecessarily the burdens of the war, most humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased, with a view to counteract these evils, by Order in Council, to empower the Bank of England, until the sense of Par liament can be taken, to issue one pound notes to serve as substitutes for sovereigns whenever the Bank rate of dis count shall exceed five per cent., on depositing Govern ment Stocks for two-thirds and gold for the remaining one third of the amount of such issues as a guarantee for the convertibility of the notes, and on paying interest at the rate of four per cent, to the Exchequer for the benefit of the State, on the two-thirds of which they would have the beneficial use, or on such other terms as to your Majesty shall seem fit. —And your petitioners will ever pray, &e." After Parliament has assembled it might be provided that the Exchequer bills, authorised for the public service, should be issued in small deno minations of 11., 21., or 31., and that they should, as was formerly the case, be receivable in pay ment of duties and taxes, and every public liabi lity. Thus would a circulating medium be ob tained, " inconvertible," but perfectly unobjection able. We need only say in addition,' "If 'twere done well, 'twere well it were done quickly." In our impression of yesterday we published the telegram which had just been received at the East India House from Mr. G. F. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to the Government of India. It is in many respects a clear and satisfactory document, contrasting strongly with the Government tele grams. There is, however, an extraordinary and what we cannot help regarding as a significant reticence. Sir Coin CAMPBELL, the now Commander-in-Chief, is not once mentioned. The slightest allusion is not made to his plans or intentions—to the orders he may have given, or what he means to do ? whether he is about to join the troops before Delhi or elsewhere in the field, or to issue his orders from head-quarters at a safe distance from the scene of action—a course that would not be very agreeable to the gallant Highlander. This seems to confirm, to a certain extent, the rumours respecting differences between the Commander-in- Chief and the Governor-General and his Council. Had it been otherwise the name of Sir CoLiN CA]crnELL would not have been passed over sub silentio. There was intelligence from the Garrison at Lucknow to the 2d September. The men were at that time in good spirits, and sufficiently pro vided with food. They had previously repulsed a determined assault, and disabled the only heavy guns belonging to the assailants. They had been told to hold out to the last extremity, and it was confidently anticipated that they would be re leased about the middle of September. This is indeed glad tidings, which will give ease to many afflicted hearts, of those who had friends or rela tives amongst the defenders of the position, or the fugitives who sought refuge ar.d protection at their hands. As we have already explained, it was famine only that was to be apprehended. With sufficient food and ammunition they could hold their own against any force which the rebels could bring against them. The gallant 111vELocK was still recruiting the exhausted energies of his troops, at Cawnpore, exhausted from a succession of vic tories over tenfold their numbers. The 90th Regiment, and about half the Fusiliers, and' a 9-pounder battery, in all 1,270 men, were at Allahabad on the 3d or 4th. Six hundred in fantry, with the battery, were at once pushed on, and HAVKLOCIE would be prepared for immediate action when the remainder arrived under Sir JAMES Om:um, which was expected to be on the 11th or 12th September, so that we may hope t 3 hear by the next mail that Lucknow has been preserved. It was calculated that by the middle of the month 15,000 would be before Delhi, with a new siege train from Ferozepore. The complete vic tory by General NicsoLsox, already mentioned, in which he took twelve guns with all the am- munition, equipage, and baggage of the enemy, The D aka of Newcastle ewwacyasttolecalunmd Clamber r adi ar S k rousfanm a vit. Pelham on the 25th of August, was confirmed. It was i C u l g i are Sor% the ir way A distinguished circle of visit is further stated that the troops were in good health will shortly assemble at Clu o m f ber and spirits, the wounded doing well, and supplies H amilton . arrived a', loci. uare, a few days since, from abundant. mansion The D D uchess P s so rDowagertPortman-square, anj Easton Park, Suffolk. The accounts from Agra are also satisfacto r y. The Duke of _ an. W e llington t left town yesterday for The Duchess remains at Apsley All were still in the Fort, and the general HSteuse eid " e . 6 'fi health good. The defeat of the insurgents I:_r e _ h Benjaminrch ion Hall has left London for Edinburgh, owager oberry has by an expedition from the Fort was at Farran M cee Hotel, Belgravia, f Q from ueens Kinmount, arrived Dum referred to, but the party was not sufficient!y fri T es lo s e hi. Marquis aryl Marchioness of Clanricarde leave The Goorkas, who strong to occupy Allyghur. town today for Porten:am Castle, county Galway. marched from Goruckpore with the civil officers r t an j r p Countess s lV ra a w ld b e e g i r r a y e and Mr. G. V. Har court, H ill, Twickenham , sur f the native States, had occupied Azimghur and , rounded b3 . ra select circle of fri e nds. Y Jounpore. It was said that the mutineers ' day Th r e o Earl aedCo c ti a n s t t e l s e s of Durham come to town to of the G wa li or Contingent, with thirty guns, were , L from and Co pe land ldy Barghersh joined the family circle at kheisptfidinelcithy to eck the b t y Serrtish cause.nia,who may thus prove ' Apthorpe, a few days since, from a tour of visits. The , noble lord and her ladyship are expe - ..ted in town to- Mori 0 W. The Punjaub and Cis Sutlej States wore per- The Prince de Joinville left Cinstantinople on the 30th featly tranquil. Large levies had been sent to the Z ult., on his way to the Crimea, via Odessa. A telegraphic despatch from Mika announces that camp before Delhi, other levies were being raised the Milan and Venice Railway was inaugurated on the I to supply their place. Th e 26th. Native Infantry, '• will who had murdered their comman di ng officers on the 12th. L or d Rokeby left Montague House y e st er day for i 30th July and broke away f rom th e cantonment, days. Brighton. His lordship return to tows in a few had been actively pursued, and either destroyed or ?. According to the account given by personages a rrived from Stuttgardt, Paris is likely to be visited. ne xt spring captured and executed. Scarcely a ma n escaped. by the Emperor and Empress of Russia. The successor of GIIOLAB SINGH is a staunch and The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Princess Clementine, his wife, with their children, have arrived faithful adherent of the British cause. The at Brussels from Englaud. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The revival of the " Love Chase" last night afforded Miss Amy Sedgwick an opportunity of presenting her self to the London public in a new character totally differmit from that in which she first courted metropoli tan applause. As Neighbour Constance she more than fulfilled the promise implied by her performance of Pauline, gaily flinging oft those fetters that seemed to check her in her more serious impersonation, and allowing full scope to a fund of native spirit and vivacity the existence of which was rather to be guessed than demonstrated before the exhibition of last night. If the laugh with which she entered upon the stage bad not the musical ring of Mrs. Niebett, it was hearty, free and uncontrolled, and w as , moreover, an earnest of the vigour with which she delineated throughout the most vigorous of stage beauties. Through the whole zapre sentation there was nothing done by halves. She was thoroughly jocund, thoroughly vexed as occasion served, laughed with all her might and cried with all her might ; in short, was just the person to terrify a father into getting rid of her, and frightening a lover into making her his partner ior life. That Miss Sedgwick was a completely discliplined artist was shown by her Pauline. Tae question whether there was genuine spirit and feel ing at the foundation of the training is now answered in the affirmative. Although Miss Sedgwick was the moat interesting object of the evening, the revival must not be classel with those huddled-up exhibitions that frequently take place for the sake of a single "star," the general oast showing a determination to produce as efficient a repre sentation of the lively comedy as the state of histrionic art will allow. Mrs. Marston, an excellent actress, little known at the West -end, had apparently been engaged for the Express purpose of playing the Widow Green, and depicted that buxom dame with a degree of unction and evergreen luxuriousness that has not been seen since the days of the late inimitable Mrs. Glover, and she had a suitable loner in the hearty, self-satisfied Sir William Fondlove, personated by Mr. Chippendale. The responsibilities of Wildrake were well met by Mr. Howe, who with a greatdeal of humour rendered espe cially prominent the sulky surprise consequent on the , abortive attempts of the vould-be town gallant to dazile the vivacious and clear-sighted Constance. The stout young squire felt that he had done his best to be agree able, and that it was all )f no avail ; so he hal a perfect. right to be as Sulky amd stupid as he pleased. The serious interest, which is the weakest in the piece, was sustained by Mr. W. Farren and Miss Caroline White, who did their beat with the unthankful characters of Master Waller and Lydia. The audience, which was very numerous, evinced the highest satisfaction at the comedy, which, performe4 as it was, came out with exceeding freshness. A call for ' everybody concerned, and a special bouquet for Miss Sedgwielc, were the final algae of approval. TILE' MAYORS OYSTERYEAST AT COLCIIESTER. - -Th e annual Corporation banquet, at which real " natives ' form the staple article of consumption, is likely to be on an even more hospitable seale than has celebrated the c:ose of the former tnayora ties of Henry Wolton, Esq., as his worship intends sending out between 300 and 400 invitations to the corporation and his friends, t.) attend his feast at the Town•hail on the 20th instant.— Essex herald. Snow made its first appearance last week on the mountains near Geneva, the crest of the Jura almost as high as the Col de la Faum •being covered with a slight coating of white, wlich, however, again disap peared before night. The mountains of Fziburg are at present covered with snow. NEW AND TERRIBLE WAR ENGINE. —We are in pos session of information that a more destructive shell than any ever before known, has been invented by Mr. Martin, of West Ham, in Essex. It has had four Government trials at Woolwbb, and each was fearful y satisfactory. Nothing can survive the fire it kindles, and no amount of water, it vas proved, can put them out. Delhi could not stand a day against it, neither could Sebastopol. It was known then, but nevertheless not adopted. There were routine, red tape, and circum locution offices in its way. Our brave countrymen may perish by thousands, and their wives and children like wiso, rather than any change, without patronage, shall take place. Martin is only a man of genius, and men of genius are seldom men of influence. The cry still is —"Tako care of Dowb."—Curdif Times. The fox-hunting world has lost one of its principal masters in Earl Fitzwilliam, whose stud and kennel have hal no superior for many years past. The former was fall of the blood of Amadie, Don Quixote, and Cervantes ' • and for a mare by the l as t- name d h orse hi s lor.lship refused 1,000 guineae in the hunting-field. The earl latterly went very seldom into his kennel, and, in fact, during his twenty - four seasons as mas t er , h e h as left everything to his celebrated h un t sman , T o m Sebright, who is just ente ring into at Milton, and isGeorgethirty-sixth season whipped Carter, and a grandson of Dick Ch r i s ti an . It is on his y rumoured that Milton and the Northamptonshire pro perty are left to the Hon. George Fitzwilliam, who i wit`, no doubt, in that case become the master of the hounds. THE EAST INDIA ROUSE.—A statement just circu lated that the India-house are in want of more money, and that the Bank have notified to the Government their inability to furnish it, is wholly erroneous. The India Company at this moment would be willing to lend money, the greater part of the recent credit opened at the Bank being unemployed. Fur future wants they still hold a large reserve of st - ick and Exchequer-bills, and there is no reason to doubt tbat the expectation held out of their financial position being such as to enable them to provide for all wants until tke meeting of Parliament will be fully realized. Of course, if the 1 cal Government were to announce the necessity of,a large cum of specie beingsent to Calcutta, an emergency would then be presented which would call for special action; but it is believed 'that no such intimation baa yet been received, and that in the absence of exceptional circumstances of this kind there wiil be nothing to disturb the calculations originally ma de.--Tirnes. COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR BLACSBURN.—COMMIT TAL or THE UNDERLOOKER.—An inquest was held on Monday at Oawaldtwistle, near Blackburn, on the bodies of two boys who were killed by an explosion of fire damp, which took place on Thursday in a pit of one of Messrs. Simpson and Young's Collieries, Duckworth hall. The pit had been worked for about three years, and the men had been in the habit of using naked candles. Up to last week there had bei=n no sign of fire-damp. A. day or tNo before the accident a seam in the roof was pointed out to the underlooker, whose duty it was to report this to the manager. This was not done. The jury were o f opinion that the underlooker, William Holden, had been gu lty of neglect, and returned a verdict of manslaughter against him. PRICE OF GOLD. —The quotation of gold at Paris is about 5 per male premium, and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per 1/ sterling. On comparing tiles - ) rates with the Engli s h Mi nt pr i ce o f 3/. 17s. 101 d. p er ounce for standard ge l d it appears that gn u 1 i s nearly 2-10ths per cent. d earer in Paris than i n L on d on. B y advicas from Hamb urg the price o f gold is 4246 per % mark, and the sh or t exchange on Loudon is 13 . per 1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore about 5 10the per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. Tae e:mrse of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1061 per cent.,which, wh en compared with the Mi nt par b etween thewo countries, shows that the exchange is against Eogland, and would admit of gold being sent from Eng land without IOR'. • VALUABLE LIVINGS IN TUE CHURCH VACANT.— The demise a few days since, in the 79th year of hie age, of the Rev. Matthew Irving, 1).1),, one of the chaplains in ordinary to the Queen, vacates the vicarage of Stur minster. Marshall, near Witnborne, in the county of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, with the cbapelries of Lytchett Minster, Corfe Mullen, and Hainworthy an nexed, to which he was instituted in 1822. The living is worth about 1 ,0001. par annum, and is in the patroc ago of the Provost aud Fellow& of Eton College, Wind sor. The rev. gentleman has been a canon residentiarj of Rochester Cathedral since.lB24, and has also held the perpetual criracy of Chatham, Kent (of the annual value of nearly GOOl, and in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of it.icheuter Cathedral) for a period of 29 years. LATEyr NEWS, THE INDIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Valetta has come in with the Calcutta mails. The French steamer with Bombay Atli! is ex pected momentarily. There is no China mail. No news beyond that already known. There was no improvement in the markets up to the 26th of August. The stock of indigo was cleared out. Of silk there was an increasing stock of piece goods, but nothing doing. The same may be said of cotton. The prices of saltpetre and rum had risen. Exchange, The Bengal Bank has refused to discount Com pany's 5 per cent. paper at 12 per cent., and the 4 per cent. at 24 per cont., owing to want of specie and confidence. The general tone of the mass of news is more satisfactory. HEALTH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, TUESDAY. The reports of the health of the King received from Potsdam continue favourable. The Kreuz Zeitung says that since yesterday the physicians entertain hopes of a re-establishment of the royal health, though the danger is not yet entirely passed. The latest intelligence of the health of the King of Prussia, received by telegraph, is as fol lows "BERLIN, OCT. 13. " The King had sleep at intervals during the day ; the sleep was short, but tranquil. The attacks of congestion of the brain have not re occurred this morning." Th© subjoined is from Le Nerd of yesterday:— COLOGNE, MONDAY, 2 p.m. A slight amelioration took place yesterday in the King's state, but it is not of a nature to en courage hopes of his recovery. According to the opinion of his physicians, his Majesty may linger for some time, but the fatal issue of the attack does not, unhappily, appear to them doubtful. Another despatch says : The received opinion among our medical men is that his Majesty is suffering under incipient softening of the brain, and that the fatal issue of the attack is certain, though it is difficulk to tall how long the physicians may support life. It is reported that the Council of Ministers, foreseeing this, have already been discussing mat ters that will be contingent on a regency. A letter from Berlin, of the 9th, in the Patric, gives some account of the origin of the present illness of the King : His Majesty, wno was to have accompanied the Em peror of Russia in his journey to Stuttgart, left Pots dam with him, accompanied by several princes of the royal family. During the journey from Potsdam to Berlin the mperor and two of the princes, in order to pass the time, smoked, according to Russian custom, some very strong toba cco , th e narco ti c qua liti es o f which appear to have produced a very great effect on the King. His Majesty fell asleep, and to the great astonishment of his travelling companions did not awake when the train stopped at the station at Berlin. M. SoLcenlein, the first physician to the king was immediately sent for, and he declared that his Majesty could not continue his journey. On being conveyed back to Potsdam the King remained for 24 hours in a heavy lethargic sleep. Bleeding was resorted to, but it produced but little effect. Without aban doning the hope that his Majesty's life may be saved, the public, and particularly the persons who are more directly interes ted, occupy themselves beforehand with the eventuality of a change in. the occupant of the throne. AR the King has no children, his brother, ac• cording to the constitution, is the heir presumptive to the throne. The Prince of Prussia is the same who went to compliment the Emperor Napoleon during his passage lately through the Prussian territory. The Prince of Prussia, who married the Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, is sixty years of age. He has two chil dren, the elder of whom, Prince Frederick William, has just been affianced to the Princess Victoria of England, and the other, the Princess Louisa, was last year mar ried to the Grand Duke of Baden. The following letter from Berlin, in the Ether feld Gazette, distinctly contradicts the reported visit of the Emperor Napoleon 111. to that capital : —" According to the most authentic information, we can state positively that the Court of Berlin has not received any intimation of the visit of the Emperor Napoleon, nor was any mention of such an event made either in the conversation between the Emperor and the Prince of Prussia, or in the autograph letter brought from the Emperor to the King by Prince Murat." A letter from Vienna, in the Bourse G aze tt e of Berlin, says :—" The conference which h as l a t e l y taken place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be tween the Baron de Bourqueney and Count Werner had for object the Sardinian question, and we learn that the resumption of diplomatic rela tions between the courts of Turin and Vienna may be shortly expected." The following very singular statement appears in a letter from Constantinople of the 3d, ad dressed to the Trieste Gazette :—" The English and Austrian ambassadors have thought proper to demand from the Turkish Government the annulment of the second elections in the Prin cipalities, in the same manner that the forcer ones had been annulled. This proceeding has produced a considerable sensation, although it has not yet been oflb.lially made known." FRANCE. • PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Emperor yesterday received the letter by which the Emperor of Austria announced to his Ma jesty the marriage of the Archduke Ferdinand, his brother, to the Princl tus Charlotte of Belgium ; also the letter which - -acCrediteT the Duke de Rivas as ambassador extraordinary and ple nipotentiary of they Duchess Regent of Parma ; the reply of the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the lettur4 of recall of the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne,. wno lately filled the post of French Minister at Flo pence, and the reply of the Elector of He se to the. letters of recall of M. de Montherot, lately envQoir extraordinary at Cassel. All the French diplomatic agents who are at present on leave of absc ince have been ordered to return to their posts liy the end of the present month. The council-general of the Bank of France, at its sitting of yesterday, ciccided that from to-day (Tuesday) the ree of discount on commercial bills, and the interest o❑ adv.%) ices on public securities, shall be raised to 64 per *cent. BOURSE, Oct. 13.—T . t) e following were the last quotations Cash. fr. End of month. 4i per Cents 8 per Cents 66 70 1 66 70 Bank Shares 2,855 Credit Fonder — Credit Mobilier 750 -- Homan - Do. Account 752 SC, Austrian Behtian 4i — --- Spanish Throes — riedmontese (5) 9 O l, - Homo Debt :.. • 37 RAILWA r 3-FO.ll CASH. tr. C. t- C. Orleans 1,32 ; '-- Western Northern - Strasburg, - Lyons and Med B:7 4- New Ditto New Ditto... ....... 815 Grand Central Geneva 630 Sardinian .. 485 Midi - THE FRONT LER COMMISSION. We have already s nrlounced the termination of the labours of the international commissions 'charged with the regtilation of the Turco-Russian frontiers in Asia, anti i the return of some of its members to Constant iuoplo. The following is a brief account of the lal our of that commission : " The members as ambled on the 14th June at Gumri (Alexandropol ), and, after an exchange of mutual civilities, el ec:ted M. Pelissier, the senior member, president. On the 19th the commission, whieb, with an escor i; of Cossacks and attendants, amounted to 500 persons, proceeded on the 19th to Bayandir, on the southern frontier. On the 26th it reached Anni, where there are some remarkable ruins of early Christianity. On the 30th it ar rived at Hadjabayrarn, at the junction of the Arpa chay and Araxes, and had to remain there four days to settle a disputed point. On the 10th July the commission reached Imam-Aziz-Sinei. On the 11th it went to the Lake of Balouk Gueul, which it ordered to be ceded entirely to Turkey though part of it was claimed by Russia. Following the rivers which take their soutca in this lake, the commission descended towards the valley of Baya zid, and reached Mousson, where it visited the en virons to examine the military road which is crossed by the frontier. On this road it ordered a column to be erected to indicate the frontier. At Koudjak Guetchit, where the commission next ar rived, the remains of a magnificent canal, cut, by the old Kings of Armenia, were found. At Arsab, which it reached on the 21st, it found some abandoned huts—the Kurdes to whom they belonged having, as usual in the summer, gone to the mountains with their flocks ; these people are called Yezidi, and adore the Genius of Fvil. Passing by the foot of Mount Ararat and the Lake of Tchenguel, the commission reached Tchenguel, where a battle was, in the war of 1828, fought between the Turks and Russians, and where the bones of the slain are still lying ; it caused a column to be erected there. On the 23d it reached Amarat, on the Araxes, and on the 29th went to Etchmiaziu. On the 30th it reached Erivan, and on the 3d August Tiflis. At the latter place, Prince Bariatinski, governor-general of Georgia, entertained the commission. On the 9th the commission left Tiflis, and on the 11th reached Gutnari. Thence it proceeded to follow the northern frontier by Alkalkalaki Havet, Akiska, Bastoma, Bagdad (in Imeritia), Kangisghaae, Kourilah, Ver sik, and it then reached Usurguete, in the Gouriel. In this latter town the commission spent some day.; in comparing maps, and it decided that the river Tcholok should be the limit between the two States. On the 17th the Russian members of the commis sion left for Kutais. The English, French, and Ottoman members proceeded by Chekvetil (Saint Nicholas) to Tchwrukson, where, on the 21st and 93d, they embarked for Constantinople. The re ' sult of the labours of the commission will be sub mitted' to the Congress of Paris. The greatest cordiality prevailed between the members of the commission from the beginning to the end of their operations." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived. The ministerial crisis continued. The Iberia, the Clamor Publico, and some other papers say that it was believed that M. Bravo Murillo had declined to undertake the formation of such a Ministry as the Queen wished—that is, in which members of different political parties should enter ; be, they say, represented to her Ma jesty that a cabinet could not hope to carry out useful measures, and to follow a definitive line of policy, unless it were under the complete direction:. of one chief. In consequence of M. Bravo Murillo's resolution, the formation of a cabinet by Admiral Amero was spoken of ; but some reports were cur rent that the crisis would after all end by the re constitution of a cabinet under General Narvaez, whilst others represented that the Marquis de Pezuela was likely to be entrusted with the task of forming an administration. Meetings of deputies had begun to be held to deli berate on the crisis. It is again positively stated that M. Bravo Murillo was not summoned from Paris by the Queen ; he, nevertheless, it appears, travelled with such rapidity that he per formed the journey between the two capitals in seventy hours. At Cenia de Rosell, in the Maes trazgo, a number of workmen, some of them armed with guns, had paraded the streets uttering cries against the liberals ; the alcalde, accompanied by a number of the respectable inhabitants carrying muskets, turned out to disperse them. After an exchange of shots the mob fled. One of the rioters was wounded and five were arrested. The cause of the movement is not stated. A school for the staff of the navy had been established. A new lighthouse had been constructed at Cape Pala fruguoll, in the province of Girona. ' 6 A foreign journal," says the Pays, " states that the Serdar Murad-Mirza endeavoured, after the evacuation of Herat, to excite the Persian army to revolt, in order to raise himself to power. Information, which we have received from an authentic source, enables us to affirm that this ac count is entirely unfounded., The Serdar Murad- Mirza arrived at Teheran on the 11th August and was received in the kindest manner by the Slish, and nothing has taken place which could cause his fidelity to be suspected." A letter from Sulina of the 26th ult. states that the movement of navigation has not been very con siderable this year in the Danube. This is attri buted to the abundance of the crops in Western Europe. Up to this time not more than a thou sand vessels have entered the river. Among tirm have only been 14 French, of from 200 to 300 tons each. They have come from Marseilles, Agde, and Narbonne, and loaded with wool and colzas for France, or„•with corn for England. The Etoile dm Danube says :—" According to a telegraphic despatch from Bucharest, tho deputies to the Divan ad hoc of Wallachia may be classified as follows for their political opinions, their adhe sion, however, to the wish for the union being general :—liberal /progressists, 58 ; conservatives, 25 ; partisans of the ex-hospodars, 18 ; total, 101. Another classification is as follows :—National party, properly so called, 54 ; patriots of 1848, 19 ; partisans of the Prince Caimacan, 11 ; deputies of the peasants, not classified, 17 ; total, 101. As the number of deputies is only 102, no very mate rial change from the above can take place." According to a letter from Stockholm, the King was about to leave the palace of Tullgaru, and to take up his residence at the royal palace of Stock holm. It was even rumoured. that his Majolty was about to take a foreign journey, his physicians having recommended him a milder climate than that of Sweden. The same letter states that the Storthing of Norway had, as was expected, voted the Prince Regent an income of 40,000 species to s upport his new dignity. This grant was the more gratifying to the Prince, from the fact that ho had caused a notification to be made to the Storthing that he did not wish for an increase. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE RED JACKET. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. The White Star clipper ship Red Jacket, Capt. M. H. O'Halloran, arrived in the Mersey this foie noon, from Melbourne, after a passage of 85 days. Her news is, however, anticipated. The Red Jacket left Melbourne on the 19th of July—had very fine weather to the south point of Van Dieman's Land—time occupied, seven days. She subsequently experienced very heavy weather for a week, compelline , her to stand far to the north ; half the passage from Van Diemen's Land to Cape Horn as much as eight days ; but light and variable winds afterward retarded her progress. She was 37 days from Melbourne before rounding the Cape —a distance she has before performed iu 22 days. She WAS 20 days from the Horn to the Line, and to that point from Melbourne 57 days from the Line to Liverpool 28 days ; had no N.E. trades to the parallel of 15 N. experienced very light variable airs from all points ; from Cape de Verd to Holy head her time was 15 days. Since she experienced the hurricane in the South Pacific, the ship has never had her main-royals stowed, save for one hour only. Her cargo consisted 70,000 ounces of gold, besides a large quantity in the hands of pas sengers—of whom she has 126-500 bales of woo], a quantity of of tallow, colonial wines, hides, &c. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very moderate supply of fresh English wheat was on sale here to-day, but we had several of Monda y' s uns old samples on offer. All kinds met a very dull inquiry, at barely Monday's reduction in value. Nearly 13,040 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand, and the show of samples was rather extensive. Scarcely any business was transacted, and to effect sales lower rates must have been submitted to. Fine malting barley sold at full prices, but grinding a n d distilling sorts were rather cheaper. Malt moved off slowly, but we have no change to notice in its value. The show of oats was good, and most kinds were in fair request at previous rates. Beans, peas, and flour moved off slowly, on former terms. ARRIVALS TINS WEER. Wheat. Barley. I Malt. 1 Oats. English 1 2,150 I '540 Irish Flour 720 3 760 b's! 7,5" I '--- sel.s. Foreign..... 112,830 1 2,890 BOROUGH HOP. New hops are in good supply and fair rcquo3t, at full prices; all other kinds are very dull. WHI'IrECHAPEL. Beef, from 33 2d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 43 ICd lamb, Oa Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; pen k, 33 8d to 5s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. A fair demat d. Ab3ut 80,000/. Russian gold coin was received yes• terday from St. Pet€rsburgh, of which 00,0004 or 70,000/, has been taken for the Continent. TILE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE GREAT NORTIIERN TUNNEL. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakloy, the coroner, held a somewhat lengthened inquiry at the Railway Tavern, Potter's Bar, respecting the deaths of George Howe, aged 38, George Balaton, alias Simmons, abed 40, and Wm. Hubbard, aged 24, three plate-layers, who were killed in the Potter's Bar Tunnel of the Great Northern Railway on last Sunday morning. Mr. T. Williams, the inspector of the line, was in attendance, to give any information to the jury on the part of the railway company. A number of witnesses were examined, from whom the following statement of the melancholy accident was gleaned _ One of the deceased men, Balston, was a ganger, and occasionally undertook piece-work from one of the contractors, named Norton. For two Sundays previous to the occurrence in question he had been engaged with eight other men in raising the rails in the tunnel, preparatory to turning them, as such work could only be executed on a Sunday on ac count of the frequency of the daily trains. He was bound down to complete his work on two Sundays which be did, but contrary to the intentions of the contractor, he proceeded to lay the rails last Sun day. All went on well enough until a few minutes past nine o'clock in the morning, when an empty returning coal train and a passenger train entered the tunnel at opposite ends. The whole of the men at work, numbering 9, got out of the way of the empty train, but forgot the up-passenger train, the tunnel being nearly filled with steam, until it was close upon them, and the result was that three of them were caught by the engine and literally smashed to pieces, their remains being picked up in various parts of the tunnel after wards. The driver and guard of the engine were not aware of what had taken place until they arrived at the Holloway station, when they saw the blood of the killed men upon the engine wheels. It was stated to the jury that when men are working in a tunnel, a green flag is always placed some six hundred or seven hundred yards from each extremity, and in the charge of a man or boy, as a caution to drivers to proceed slowly.. Balaton and his men were all unknown to the contractor and the absence of Balstou's boy from the green flag impressed the engine -driver with the belief that the work was ended. A great deal of evidence was gone into, and the room was cleared for deliberation. In about 20 minutes the jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure, accompanied by an addendum, to the effect that they considered the present signal arrangements in such cases very defective ; and that a man, and not a boy, should be placed, on all occasions when men are working in tunnels, at some distance from each extremity, with appro priate flags to warn engine-drivers. - One of the men, Barston, has left a family of a wife and six children, the youngest an infant in arms. The men and officers of the G Company of Middlesex Rifles have raised a small subscription for the families. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SURGEON AT MANCBESTE.R. At the sitting of the Manchester Court of Record yesterday, before John Monk, Esq., Recorder, there was tried a case, "Dale v. Wainwright," in which the plaintiff, a dressmaker, sought damages for an assault committed on the 15th January. The defendant, John Wells Wainwright, is a phy sician, practising as a surgeon, and residing in Bur lington-street, Oxford-street, Manchester. The defendant pleaded that he had not com mitted the assault ; and that the plaintiff being un lawfully in his house, Jec., he gently laid his hand upon her for the purpose of ejecting her. Both plaintiff and defendant were examined. After coun sel had been heard on each side, The Deputy-Recorder, in summing up, remarked that this was almost as painful a case as had ever been seen in a court of justice. On the one hand there was a young woman who publicly avowed that she had fallen from the paths of virtue, and a k n e d u lived for years in sin ; and on the other hand a defendant, who did not deny that he had advantage of the opportunities afforded him by bis being the medical attendant in a respectable family, to become acquainted with the plaintiff, and to seduce her ; that he continued to seek her society so long as the small legacy, to which she became entitled on her mother's death, enabled her to main tain herself ; and that when she had nothing to live upon he abandoned and left her without the smallest means of obtaining the very necessaries of life. When two persons were found coming to a court of justice, each confessing an equality of sin, the one manifesting some shame and confusion of face at the confession, and the other bearing a bold —he had almost said an audacious—front uuder the accusation, it was for the jury to say which of them came with the most credit, and which of them they thought best deserved their sympathies. In this case, he (the Deputy-Recorder) saw no way whatever of liberating the jury from the conclusion that one party or the other had intended to deceive them, and by their verdict they must say which of the two was so deceiving them. The learned judge then read through the whole of the evidence, making occasional comments upon it. He said he concurred in the observations of the learned counsel who had just addressed them with so much eloquence and power, as to the heartless manner in which the defendant spoke of burning the poor girl's letters. It was as heartless a thing as he had ever heard a man confess. For a man who had recently lost his wife, to whom one would suppose he had at one time been tenderly attached, who had seduced a young girl, and who knew her misery, destitution, and wretchedness, to burn her letters without even seeing what her 'statement was, seemed to him (the judge) a very cold, hard, callous action. Almost the last observation of the learned counsel for the defendant was, " You have seen the way in which the plaintiff gave her evidence," im puting that it was , discreditable to her ; but it seemed to him (the judge) that she was to some ex tent overpowered with a sense of the degradation and disgrace that she had brought upon herself, and her general demeanour appeared to be in her fa vour. The jury would Lave to say, in the first place, whether there was any assault committed. If they believed her, in estimating th e amoun t o f damages they would give, they had no right to con sider the seduction, nor think of punishing the de fendant because he had behaved heartlessly towards the unfortunate victim of his lust ; but they had a right to compensate her for her bodily suffering, and such mental suffering as she had en d ure d through being struck by th man to whom she had given 'ter affections. If they gave damages at all, he would advise that they should be reasonable and moderate, and not what were called vindictive damages. _ _ The jury consulted for a few minutes, when the foreman ingnired what amount of damages could be given in that Court ? The Deputy-Recorder said he thought he ought not to tell ►hem ; but upon Mr. Wheeler remarking that the amount at which the damages were laid was stated in the record, and he had forgot to men tion it, the learned judge said the jury must only give what they believed to be reasonable damages. The extreme amount laid in the declaration wassol. After ten minutes' consultation, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 401. PUBLIC! AMUSEMENTS IN Amiutioa.—The tightness in the money market does not affect the spirits of oar people so far as to keep them away from places of amuse ment. Perhaps they may feel the need, all the more, of something to keep their spirits up after the anxieties and tribulations of the day. All our theatres seem to be in full blast, and the Opera singers discount notes to crowds of eager customers. The amount of money expended nightly upon amusements in this city is much greater than is generally imagined. Take the following slate• meat as a rough, and certainly not an exaggerated esti mate of the amounts received upon any on 6 night at the various theatres, &c. :—Academy of Music, 2,000 dole., Niblo's Garden, 1,000 dollars ; Laura Keene's Theatre, 300 dollars ; Broadway Theatre, 1,300 dollars ; Wel.' lack's Theatre, 800 dollars ; Burton'e Theatre, 900 dole, ; Bowery Theatre, 500 dollars ; National Theatre, 400 dollars; Barnum's Museum, 500 dollars; Bryant's Vliustrela, 250 dollars ; Franklin Museum, 400 dols.; Olympic Theatre, tOO dollars ; Christy's Minstrels, GOO r 10,000 dollars expend e d every lollars ; Dusseldorf Ga ni lle a r k y i , ng l a oO te d ta o l ll n a f rs lo ; ,o A s n o a d to e m lia ic r a c l Museum, aere isa t l. o o t O al d ° e l f ' a r e s y e ; ni g ht in this city alone , merel y for a musements, And yet it may t n h o r t ou b g e h wthaested wear. anda i m s mti tear ry o e s d s fe i b b l i e un thats city should go I andafter r e w l aexeaon of some so r t. It i s , week, afteri without y o r n ea e cnr o de f aw t t h ieo e enk ilret necessaries of life to the thousands and tens of thousands of our working men. Those who work with the brain feel it most, but those who labour with the hands need it also, and ought to have the means and opportunities for it much more abundantly than they have at present. It is for the lack of it that so many day-labourers resort to the rum shop, to' find in the lights and hilarity, as well as in the drink of the place, some stimulus to the exhausted body and flagging spirit. The cause of morality would be greatly hentfited by any one who would devise a system of cheap, popular, attractive, and innocent amusements for the poor. But probably two thirds of the money paid for amusements in the city comes from strangers. It is curious to stand at the entrance of any of our theatres or concert saloons, and observe how few among the faces of those entering can b recognised as belonging to the city. There are always at least twenty or thirty thousand strangers in the city, and the great mass of them pay at !Last one visit to these places of entertainment during their stay.—New IQ)* Times.