The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. One More Night only, at Reduced Prices, on Saturday Evening next, September 26, with Piccolomini, Glnglini, Beneventano, Rossi, Vialetti, and Belletti. In conseqnence -of the great demand, and to accommodate those who have found it impossible to obtain places, one more night will be given TO-MORROW EVENING, when will be repeated LA TRAVIATA. After which, THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, by Madill% Plocolemini To conclude with the Last Scene of LUCIA DI LAMMER MOOR, by Sig. Ginglini. PRICES : Boxes to accommodate four persons, Grand Tier, Pit Tier, and One Pair £2 2 0 Two Pair 1 1 0 Three Pair 0 15 0 Pit Stalls OlO 6 Pit 0 3 6 Gallery Stalls 0 3 6 Gallery R°FAL 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, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr.!A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Brabam, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr.• Bernard, Mr. Kerby, Mr. Wallwor th , 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, FRIDAY, Amber's opera, THE CROWN DIAMONDS. To conclude with Bnckstone's farce, entitled. A ROUGH DIAMOND. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 ns. 6d. ; Stalls, es. Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 6, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. j. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. ruts EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with Sheridan's comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe; Charles Surface (3d time). Mr. W. Farren ; Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Oliver, Mr. Rogers; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Cathe rine Sinclair (her sth appearance in that character in this einuitry) ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maiia, Miss Emma Ring ; and Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot. Aft*, which, A CURE FOR LOVE. To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Orehestra 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 0 Upper 80xe5..,......,.,... 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 new Comic piece, called URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. After which, will be revived the celebrated nautical drama of THE PILOT, a Tale of the Sea. Long Tom Coffin, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Captain Burroughcliffe, Mr. Wright ; The Pilot, Mr. C. Selby ; Kate Plowden, Miss Mary Keeley. Followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSEY. Mr. Wright, P. Bedford, Mary Keeley, &c. STRAND THE ATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING will be performed A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Mr. J. Kinloch and Miss Harriet Gordon. A CHEAP EXCURSION. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA. TRAVIATA; or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke, Followed by BACHELOR'S BUTTONS. Miss M. A. Victor and Mr. Clarke. Commence at Seven. Stalls. 2s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. ls. OVAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of THE LIGHTHOUSE. After which, the comedfetta, 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, ; Misses Swauborough, Thirlwall, Hughes. Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. I) OYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed BIRD IN TIIE H }NI) WORTH TWO IN THE BU -H. Messrs. Shepherd, W. It Ebnrrie, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Vollaire, W. Smith ; Miss Chalmers, and Miss M. Eburne Alter which, CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS will appear. Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. To conclude with the Christy Minstrels. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road,— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—Tho follow ingcompany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES DUETS, (ire., viz.: M - rs.Palmyre, Miss E. Scott, Vim Brunel], Mrs. Le Jenne, Miss Leslie, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Far rant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An. tonic), E. L. Hime, and Kr. St. Allyn ; Master Corri ; Messrs Sam. Collins, and E. Maekney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil Hicks;. harmonium, Master Williams; Director, Herr F. Jenghmares Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sap pers, be.. until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at ha f-past Eight and half-past Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TlllO DAY —Morn. , 34 min. aft. s —Even., 52 min. aft. 5 To-MORROW—Morn., 13 min. aft. 6 —Even., 37 min aft. 6 THE WEATHER -Sum OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 25. • THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 61--lowest this morning and daring the night 68 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 2 1 .83. .Wnir, S.W. to W. ; light and variable, with dull, warm, rainy weather. It rained yesterday afternoon slightly, And heavily this forenoon. Two O'CLOCK.- Fine weather, but unsettled. Til - LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1857. • Every ono has heard of what have been em phatically and justly termed " the sinews of war." As a respected contemporary some time since de clared, peace or war was decided not by generals and potentates, but by some half-dozen elderly gentlemen with spectacles on nose, and account books in hand, who decide amongst themselves on the reception that a new loan would be likely to re ceive on the bourses of Europe, and encourage or suppress, according to the result, the ardent spirit, in the would be belligerents. At first but little is thought on this all important question. Auto crats and despots plunge into hostilities, with as little forethought as sentimental young ladies into matrimony. The former have just as vague notions respecting making " war pay its own ex penses" as the latter have of " love in a cottage," and of the objects of their tender affection being "willing to accept Government situations" when thefew pounds available have been squandered on the ‘!ixildkig excursion. A stern law, however, speedily dispels the pleasing illusions of Princes and _of love-sick demoiselles. The former find that "enth us i asm " will not fill a military chest, or provide p a y - an rations and means of subsistence for their soldiers, about the same time, that the latter discover that " love" will not liquidate the butchers' and baker , : bills; and th a t a lth oug h th e cottage mot h may be very elega n t f ora small juvenile res ponsibilities, th e family free fro m stern demands of landlord anti tax-eolleetor must be met with something more substantial than either tears or kisses. So it will be with the Indian mutineers. They have thought * of nothing as y et but the destrue. tion, under the most horrible circ ums tances, of the "Fer;nghees." It was Fufficient that they could slaughter officers, whose chief, if not their only fault, was that they had Exhibited extraordi nary kindness towards their assailants, and deg rade and dishonour English women. Pampered and petted as they were, with all their ridiculous scruples recognised and respected, with ample means that rendered them objects of envy to the surrounding population, they turned against their benefactors—ready to " rend the hands that gave them food." But they had not calculated on their available resources. The mock King of Damn might promise double pay and double allowances to every deserter ; but whence would it proceed Y Where would be the " gold mohurs" and shining "rupees" with which these ob ligations are to be liquidated The senile candidate for the "Musnud " might pass a few lakhs, or possibly even a." crore" of rupees accumulated. But how long would the largest conceivable amount supply the demands, and exigencies, of these discontented spirits? Plunder might for a time act as a useful auxiliary, but what would the wealthy bankers, jewellers, and shopkeepers of Delhi and the other disturbed dis tricts, think of such a course, which, however pleasing to the military, would be by no means agreeable to the civilian portion of the popula tion. Systematic robbery would speedily ex haust the fountains of wealth, and it is obvious that, with an army encamped before Delhi, ordi nary fiscal resources could not be made available without our organisation. We find it a hard task to wring the authorised contributions from the hard hands of the contributors, and for years to come the mutineers could not obtain from similar sources the means of support. Large sums have unquestionably been taken from the public treasuries. Many of the rebels have secured considerable "swag," but it has been what is termed, on their own " private hook." They have not even sympathised with the " com panions of Jehu," who only robbed "for the good of the cause." The rebel sepoys put the plunder in their own pockets, and held it for their own use. The miscreants who were killed, had gene rally large sums in specie on their persons, trans ferable by what is termed " the rule of thumb," but that does not fill the treasury or make up the means for paying soldiers. " JOH.N COMPANY" has Great Britain at its back. Our guarantee will still be available. But the octogenarian quasi MOGUL has nothing to look to. A rumour was circulated that be had been hanged, not as he ought to be, by a British executioner, but by the mutineers. Such an event is by no means improbable at any time, and each day must increase the danger of the would-be King of INDIA. The resources cannot be maintained, and Xs. d., or perhaps we 'should say rupees and annas, may prove no less formidable to the Ma homedan Pretender than the muskets and bayo nets of the avenging army, determined that the slaughter of their countrymen and the degradation of their countrywomen shall be fully and com pletely expiated. Amidst all the horrors of revolt in India, and all the dearth of legislative reforms at home—with darkening prospects before us of the continuance of a war income-tax, and of the probable delay yet longer of the promised improvement of the parliamentary system—we have at any rate the immediate and substantial consolations derivable from a magnificent harvest, and from crops (gene• rally) of unusual abundance. It is a circumstance at all times of importance, but at periods like these (periods otherwise disastrous) it is, we may truly say of the very last importance. A harvest like the present comes to us in mitigation, most opportunely. It yields the Nation at once solace and encouragement. It inspirits us to bat tle manfully with the evils we are called upon to o3ntend against simultaneously with the good thus directly enjoyed from the bounty of Heaven. And the magnitude of this good may be at once more fully appreciated if it be only considered for a moment how deplorably our present anxieties would have been multiplied, if to the horrors of war abroad, in India, in China, and until very recently in Persia also, there had been added the miseries of a deficient harvest—all this coming moreover upon the very morrow of the close of the Crimean conflict—a struggle as ruinously expen sive as it was, alas, fruitlessly sanguinary. Everything considered it becomes, indeed, mat ter for earnest gratulation amongst ourselves that —with no Reforms and plenty of Bloodshed—the harvest generally all over the land is repaying our husbandmen a hundredfold. From all quarters the intelligence received in this way is a great deal more than simply satisfactory. It is of a kind to inspire us with gratitude and exultation. It is much more than an average crop ; it is a crop in many directions unusually plentiful. Sometimes the improvement observable issimply one of quac tity—sometimes one of quality—sometimes (and this frequently) of both together. It is the same thing pretty well with the wheat crops, and the oat crops, with the crops of rye and barley, with the whole variety of cereal products collectively. And as with the grain, SD, for the most part is it with the fruit generally. Particularly in the apple-growing counties—Devonshire for instae cc —where the cider pressers give promise of affi cent overflowings. Meanwhile our English vineyards, such for Example as the beautiful hop gardens of Kent, present a contrast more than ordinarily re markable to the great continental vineyards, where the grape disease has still revealed a very deplor able prevalence. The yield of hops, generally speaking, throughout the hop-growing districts, being here of peculiar excellence, there of an abundance quite extraordinary. Simultaneously with these good tidings, there has come to us from Ireland the happy intelligence of the almost uni versal disappearance of that destructive blight among the potatoes, which, for some years past, had really seemed to threaten the exterminati m of that important vegetable. It yields one the hope that that other serious scourge of vegetation, already referred to, may prove, after all, one of merely temporary duration—that disease of the grape vine which has hitherto been so far spread, and so virulent as to threaten the wine-countries in the south of France, in Germany, and in the Iberian peninsula, with universal desolation. Consoled by a harvest so opportunely abundant, England will now, we may rest . assured, with double energy and renewed determination, continue resolutely to encounter and to conquer all her op posing difficulties. Drained though she has been of 100,000,0001. by the late deplorable, because utterly futile and bootless, war with Russia, she will yet begrudge no additional war-expenditure, however considerable, if by means of these new disbursements through the Horse Guards, and the Admiralty, and the Ordnance, and the Commis sariat, and the other War Departments, she may only witness the evidences of vigour, promptitude, and unflinching determination on the part of the Imperial Government. Whatever recruits, what over money that Government may demand, they will have at once yielded to them, without demur by the country, and yielded cheerfully, if, in return for this confidence iu their rulers, the people only behold a resolute repression of the Indian mutiny and a strong though t trdy rejoin der to Chinese f.insolence. Nothing more than accomplishment; of time ar e d o e h l ieve is these greatwan wanted for tale enterprises. And a very briefybo believe is wanted for the accoinpitebment of bot interval, please GOD, will be amply sufficient to falsify utterly and egregiously the drivelling mock-pr o ph ec i es of the Univers new spaper. It is not reserved yet for Mr. J. MITCHELL, or any other of the ruffianly I r i s h Sepoys to exult over the discomfiture of what th e Hero of the Pike once foamed at (with m ore o f alliteration than of eloq uence) as "the bl oo d y old British Empire." The Norfolk Parsons and Squires appear to have taken rabbits under their special care. Not very long ago we had Lord HASTINGS committing labourers to prison for stealing rabbits from their T FEE spy N, °WON, FIR IDA own editor w wmhnloosnasw, a fi n t d t all o pu b b u li t s fi h g h h t i i s n g o p a d n i n o e n l w o f i t suchhtll Justice's justice. Indeed, his Lordship's violence went so far that an indictment was actually pre ferred against him at the Norwich Assizes, and would have been tried in Court but for a timely apology from the rabbit-preserving peer. We commented on the case at the time. It was one of great hardship to the morally innocent labourers, and in our judgment, as in that of the Editor of the Norfolk News, the men were legally innocent also, and were denied justice simply because their means did not admit of an appeal being made to a superior Court. In the local journal just referred to, we notice another rabbit case, and one in which we think the men were treated very harshly, there being some good ground to doubt, in this case also, whether the law was not strained against them. The special hardship of the case lay in the cir- . cumstances under which the rabbits were killed, even if the act were, by a rigid construction of the statute, illegal. All England over there are certain perquisites falling to the lot of labourers in every department. Those who labour or lounge in many a Government office pick up some, but none are luckier in that line than ecclesias tics. From the Bishop, and his numerous appointees, registrars, chancellors, surrogates, and we know not what, to the rectors and vicars, perhaps in some case to the very curates, for whose spiritual-mindedness, as well as for that of bishops, we pray de voutly every Sunday—to all of these goodly perquisites are ever and anon falling; renewals of leases and fines in the case of the Conferrers of spiritual gifts, and what we call fees in the case of the receivers of such gifts. And these perqui sites to the spiritually gifted are, as we know by the Burial-ground struggles, clung to with an ex traordinarily tenacious grasp la five-pound note also or a five shillings for a marriage, seems to be duly appreciated ; and very grave does the man in holy orders look if a well-to-do bridegroom does not cross his palm with something for luck beyond what he can legally claim. Something over, to the tier of the knot, is expected for good fellowship's sake, and on such a festive occasion. We doubt not the Rev. T. J. BLOFIELD has often thought with pleasure of some present for his wife or daughters, if he have any, to be purchased with the proceeds of a wedding windfall. Now, the Rev. T. J. BLOFIELD is the owner of some land at Floveton, St. John, which land he lets to a Mr. JOHN BOURNE. On this land two young men, JOHN SMITH and SAMUEL IVES, were engaged in the hard but cheerful labour of har vest. They were mowing some oats. Now, from time immemorial, if labourers would but mow round a nest of winged game in summer, they always expected to be indulged a little in re. gard to the game that could run. They would not perhaps chase a hare in the presence of the squire or the gamekeeper if they knew it ; but if the scythe disabled one, and " the poor thing was put out of its misery," and lay under a labourer's jacket till night, and was put into the pot for his supper the next night, no rea sonable squire or farmer knew it, not even if he had seen it. It was a harvest windfall ; "a bit of luck for the poor fellow, who had not meat too often," and so forth. But if a rabsit came in the way, that was an acknowledged per quisite. A labourer would hardly think of an apology for killing a rabbit in the barley he was Mowing ; that was an acknowledged perquisite of harvest ; perhaps he could not legally claim it, but like the Rev. J. F. BLOFIFLD, by the extra I marriage fee, he thought it m ould make a pleasant treat for his wife and family, and custom gave it him in the merry time of harvest. But the Rev. J. F. BLOFIELD, however much he may approve of wedding joys overflowing in sovereigns for the priest, and silk and crinoline for the females of his family, does not approve of the toilsome but merry days of harvest providing a chance hot meat supper for a labourer's family. The smiling faces of little JOHN and SALLY count ing on a limb of rabbit next day—the pleasure of " my missus" preparing the comfortable mess for "my master" on his return from his next day's tail ; and the comfortable anticipations of the senior JOHN himself on his walk home, have no charm for the man of wedding fees I Rabbits, yes, even rabbits—the poor man's game by cus tom as old as the custom of bouncing wedding fees —must no longer be even a harvest perquisite! Labourers are first denied the right of killing them on their own common allotment ; and then refused the privilege of bagging one which the luck of harvest, andof custom immemorial has given them. Now, we submit that this is hard. The clerical rabbit-owner does not wish to be dealt with ac cording to strict law himself when custom suits him better than law ; ought he then to tie down the poor labourer to the most rigid construction cf the most execrable laws, still retained from feudal barbarism in our present code ? Of the I rev. gentleman referred to we know noth i ng. We never heard his name before ; but we submit to him that such rigidity in a clergyman is not the way to win the hearts of his flock. The case itself is soon told. Mr. BLOFIELD set a man to watch the labourers (whom he had told generally not to kill the rabbits) ; the man saw two killed by the mowers. One it was shown was wounded fatally, and accidentally, by the scythe first ; the other was chased a little way. But the men were not proved to have known of the prohibition, which was of recent date ; and, whether they knew or not, they were but follow ing the custom of harvest. They were not tres passing, but pursuing their lawful calling, aid it was not shown in Court that they were men of poaching habits. The 30th clause of the Act 1 and 2 Wm. IV., c. 32, under which they were prosecuted, expressly mentions trespassing in pur suit of game ; but the Magistrates—game pre servers themselves, no doubt—decided, that though not trespassing by being on the lands, they became trespassers by going after rabbits ! A nice point, indeed, of law—one of which the poor men should certainly have had the benefit, as they could not try it by appeal. Under these circumstances the Magistrates fined the poor men sixpence each, which with the costs made the total penalty EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS each. Of course no Norfolk farm labourer could pay such a sum at once ; one week only is allowed them ; when, if they cannot pay 6d. each for their guilt, and 17s. 6d. for the benefit of the Magistrates' Clerk and other officers of justice to prison they must go! THE GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER SQUARE. DIORAMA. OF DELHI. In addition to the attractions offered to the public by Mr. Wyld, the spirited proprietor of this favourite and instinctive exhibition, he has now added a splendid dio rama of the City of Delhi, a private view of which we were favoured with this afternoon. It is impossible to speak too highly of the beauty and accuracy of the painticg—every spot rendered so painfully interesting to the public being very vividly pourtrayed. The lateness of the hour compels us to postpone until to morrow a detailed description of Mr. Wyld's latest production, which will attract thousands upon thou sands -to the Great Globe • in Leicester-square. The exhibition will be thrown open to. the public to-morrow (Saturday.) .E_VENING SIEP7„iENFBER 25, 1857 LATEST NEWS MARSEILLES, SEPT. 24. Under date of Constantinople the 16th, we learn that Omer Pacha is nominated Governor- General of Bagdad, a very lucrative post, the revenues of which amount to 500,000 francs. He is charged with the duty of establishing a line of steamers upon the Tigris and upon the lower Euphrates, and with the protection of commerce against the Arabs. The English have transported to the Euphrates the necessary material for completing the line of telegraph. The journal La Presse says that the Arabs have ,ried to destroy the posts of the telegraph in order ,o show their sympathy with the Indian mutineers. TJp to the 10th of August the Persian Govern ment had not, as represented, recalled the garri son from Herat. Mr. Murray had addressed re monstrances to the Government on the subject. There is a a financial crisis at Constantinople, and the rate of exchange has advanced consi derably. The army of Asia is about 20 months in arrear of pay. DRESDEN, SEPT. 24. It is announced from an authentic source that the Emperor of Austria is expected at Dresden on the 29th or 30th of September; and that he was about to meet the Emperor of Russia on the Ist of October, at Weimar. BERLIN, SEPT. 23. It is stated that the rumour in circulation re lative to the French note in favour of Denmark is without any foundation whatever. Prussia and Austria have determined, for the present, not to carry the affair of the Duchies before the Diet. These two Powers have agreed to await the representations of Holstein. Separate negotiations with Denmark have been broken off. The Temps of this day announces that the Prince of Prussia has received the order of the King to go at once to Stuttgardt from Carlsrube, in order to do honour to the Emperor Napoleon. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur has a letter from the Camp of the 23d, stating that the Imperial Guard bivouacked on Monday at la Suippe, in splendid weather, and returned the following day, at noon, to camp. The Emperor saw the Duke of Cambridge to the rail way station at Mourmelon, and then set out for Luneville ; from which place another despatch ap pears, stating the rejocings there in honour of the Emperor. Prince Jerome Napoleon, says the Moniteur , will preside at the Council of Ministers during the Emperor's absence. The Univers contains the following : _ "The Con,stitutionnel is wrong in calling India an English colony. The English are only encamped in India, and are not established there. They have inter dicted the colonisation of India in order to prevent the recurrence of the spectacle given by the United State;, in order to escape from the necessity of abandoning a colony which has attained too great a power to re main united to the mother country. They have suc ceeded, but the danger has arisen from another side, and it is the vanquished race that has shaken off the yoke. The English have taken no root in India. They are there for commer.iial motives, and they oppress the natives in the name of the least generous and least ex cusable sentiments of human nature. Europe does not sympathise with England in this struggle ; it is neither in the honour nor interest of Europe to prefer the domi nation of England in India to the affranchisement of the natives." The Spectateur expresses some surprise at the articles published by the Patrie on the isolation of Austria, and bears witness to the national feeling created in Germany by the approaching interview of two foreign sovereigns ou German soil. It says;— "For the last few days the Patrie has published articles on the isolation of Austria, which have attracted much attention in Germany. We will not discuss the bearing of these articles, but we may inquire if it is by mere chance or by intention that they appear, between the visit at Osborne and the interview at Stuttgard, in ajournal which, from its position in the press , is inspired with much reserve ? Toe French Jourad of Prank Prt, under the head of The Stuttgard Interview,' ad mits that the said meeting has excited mistrust in Ger many ; it says—' This interview of two foreign sore reigns on German so il, o n the territory of a state which belonged theerly to the Co n f e d era ti on o f th e Rhine, absence of the sovere i gns of Austria coupledwfiotrhm and Prussia, has inspired a mistrust which is scarcely disguised. In Germany, the press views in this meet ing a first step towards an attempt on the unity of the federal relationa. If the Patrie counts in its editorial ranks writers who are well able to judge of what is pass ing in government circles in Paris, the Frankfort Jour nal enjoys the reputation of being very exactly informed of the tone of opinion in Vienna. We may add, on the authority of private intelligence which has rarely misled us, that it is not only in Austria that at le'ist a portion of the population views with a certain 'mistrust' the in terview at Stuttgard. This sentiment exists in Beilin as well as in Vienna. The King of Prussia, woo wa invited to Stuttgard to meet the two Emperors, exca.ed himself on the plea of age and ill health. Tnat was doubt less the real reason which led him to prefer excursiuu in the forests and preserves of Silesia to three t r four days' fetes at Stwsgard. Nevert' eless, many persons persist in attributing his refusal to politicat motive:, gad they do not blame him. It is moreover to be observed that tire journals of Berlin, Kceaigeberg, and other Prussian towns, openly declare that it is requisite to draw closer to Austria, and we are as sured that England is actively engaged in eucou raging this intimacy of the two courts. We draw no conclusion from these facts and rumours ; we confine ourselvee to the role of spectator and of echo." BoulitsE, Sept. 24.—The following were the last quotations : fr . Cash. End of bronth. 3 1per Cants —fr. per •••• o 67 35 4 Cents 91 ‘, 3 QA S Sharescßraendleitmob...... _2, 800 Credit Foncier 550 832 50 Rom a n Do. Acc0unt.......... 882 50 Austrian - - Belgian Pied montese (5) ...... 90 Home Debt ..... 38 -- AILWAYS-FOR CABS. fr. c. fr c. Orleans 1,3361— Western Northern - Lyons and Med ...... 870 Now Ditto New Ditto 855 Grand Central Geneva 1 — Midi Count de Trapani, brother of the King of Naples, and the princess, his wife, nee Arch duchess of Tuscany, arrived at Vienna on the 20th. A Vienna correspondent of the Cologne Gazette states that the presence of the count in the Aus trian capital is attributed to a projected marriage between the Prince Royal of Naples and a sis ter of the Empress of Austria. A St. Petersburg letter says :—" The re duction to a peace footing of the three divi sions of cavalry of the Imperial Guard is ac complished ; they now form only two divisions, one of heavy and ono of light civalry, and will be stationed in the capital at Karskoje and at Peterhof. The generals and a certain number of officers have been kept on the active service list, but they will exorcise no command unless called upon to join some distant expedition." A royal decree, in the Madrid Gazette of the 20th convokes the Cones for the 30th Oct. The French ambassador had given a grand dinner and ball in honour of the Prince of Orange. It was believed that the g overnment intended to reduce the number of provinces, the recent census having shown the population in several of them to be very small. A telegraphic Tine has been opened between Valencia and Castello.'" de la Flana. GUERNSEY.—An apricot tree belonging tb Mrs. Allez of liauteville, has for many years past g iven a produce which would be incredible if the fact was not notoriotv. In the year 185 this tree yielded no less than 16,000 apricots, and this year the produce has been at least 10,000 full-sized and perfectly-ripened apricots. The tree, which ip, we believe, upwards of 40 years old, measures 20 feet in height, aud has a span of GO feet, thus covering a surface of 1,200 feet. —Guernsey &Ler. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT A FIREWORK MAKER'S.— 'Yesterday morning a frightful accident occurred at Mr. Davis's, firework maker, No. 3, Garden-place, Reget,i street, Lambeth. P. appears Charles Davis, aged six rears, and William Davis, aged four years, with some of tier children, procured about a quarter of a pound of inp.)wder, which theyps took into tha garden for the Irpose of waking " fizgigs," when a spark from a In cifer dropped on it, and a frightful explosion took place, as arty killing the two brothers. They wore conveyed to St . Thomas's Hospital, where Mr. Williams,-house sur ge, promptly attended. But faint hopes are enter taL of their recovery. ARRIVAL OF PASSENGERS FROM INDIA. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Colombo, Captain Field, Admiralty agent, Lieut. lcarbright, R.N., arrived here to-day with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Au s t ra li an mails. Her dates were—Alexandria, Sept. 12th ; Malta, 15th ; Gibraltar, 19th. Sbe brought 184 passengers, viz., Capt. Frazer, Dr. Giles, Capt. Hazlewood, Mr. St. Leger, Mr. D. Campbell, Mrs, White, infant, and son, Mrs. Tylter and four chil dren, lajor and Mrs. Price, Mrs. Speard, Mrs. Impey, Miss Douglas, Mrs. Mayne, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Stillman and three children, Capt. and Mrs. Elliott and child, Hon. Capt. Forrester, Mr. and Mrs. Lovegrove, R. Kyles, and W. Brenton, from Bombay ; Mrs. Stewart and three children, Mrs. Gill and infant, Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Rawlings, Lieut. Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Perakote, infant, and servant, and Mr. Shearb, from Madras • Mrs. Lay, Mrs. Swinhoe, Mr. Raikes and son, Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Lennox, Mr. John Howard, Mrs. Jen kins and two children, Mrs. Tucker and infant, two Misses Wilkins, rs. Stokes, Mrs. Chivers, Mrs. and Miss Victor and two children, Mrs. Dow lans and child, Mrs. Watkins and two children, Mr. Vellenos Mrs. Corbyn and infant, Mrs. Steel and infant, Mrs. Meade, child, and son, Mrs. Bar row and two children, Mrs. Arnesbury and infant, Mr. and Mrs. Berry, Mrs. Grant, child, and son, Mrs. Ingram, infant, and son, Mrs. Goldney and three children, Mrs. G. Edmonstone, R. Turner, and Mrs. Ottley, from Calcutta ; Captain Read, from Singapore • Mr. Blanchard, Captain Pews dale, Mr. Woodhead, and Mr. Savage, from Point de Galle ; and Mrs. Brown, infant, and son, Mr. and Mrs. Fasson, Mr. A. Bruce, Mr. Arnold, Mr. Lipman, Mr. Mina, Capt. Newlands, Capt. Chap man, Mr. J. Ross, Dr. Burke, Capt. Reed, Mr. Cautley, Mr. E. Christian, Mr. Lambert, G. Donaldson, and Mr. J. Perry, from Alexandria. Amongst the cargo of the Colombo were 1,285 bales of silk, with large quantities of gum, wool, elephants teeth, opium, mother-of-pearl and shawls, together with specie to the value of 4,8001. Her Majesty's ship Desperate and Caradoc were at Alexandria. The Tartarus was surveying in Aboukir Bay, the Hibernia and Boxer were at Malta, the Vigilant was en route to Cagliari, the Vulture and Curlew were at Gibraltar, Admiral Lord Lyons' squadron was at Algiers when last heard of. The Egyptian government had purchased the steamer Persia, formerly in the Australian Com pany's service. The Colombo arrived off the Needles last night, but for want of a pilot did not enter the Solent. She passed Hurst Castle at half-past six this morn ing, and came up Southampton Water, and was fastened on the West India buoy, off Netley Abbey, until the tide rose-and enabled her to go into the docks, which she entered at one o'clock this after noon. Numerous steamers and boats went off to her for her mails and passengers. The India mail was landed first and despatched, and then the Aus tralian mail was landed and despatched to the General Post-office. The whole of the mail brought by the Colombo consisted of about 320 boxes and bags of letters and newspapers. The Lady Mayoress arrived at Radley's Hotel, in this town, from London, yesterday, to await the arrival of the Colombo, iu order to render any as sistance to the fugitives from India that they might require. Intelligence of the approach of the Co lombo off the Needles was communicated to her ladyship, and she remained up all night in conse quence. Early this morning the Lady Mayoress, accompanied by Mr. Under-Sheriff Andetton, of London, proceeded clown Southampton Water the Colombo in a small steamer that had brought the Indian mail ashore. Her ladyship was dressed in deep mourning, for the loss of her brother, Col. Finnis, who was bided by the mutinous sepoys at Meerut. Dr. Symes, a resident of Southampton, who has fitted up apartments in his house for any of the destitute Indicts refugees, was also early on board the Indian mail packet. The Mayor of South ampton proceeded to the Colombo in another small steamer, accompanied by Captain Engledue, the superintendent of the Peninsularand Oriental Com pany, and other gentlemen. The Lady Mayoress, as soon as she was on board the Colombo, was conducted to Captain Field's cabin, and her objec iu visiting the ship • was communicated with the utmost delica6y to the passengers. Numerous rely tives and friends of the passengers also went on board, and their meeting with their friends from India was an affecting sight. They embraced each other in seeming unconsciousness of the presence of strangers, and paced the deck with their arms en circling each other's waists. A great number of the passengers went ashore in one of the small steamers. A crowd. of persons was in the dock, and here also affectionate greetings took place be • tween long absent friends and relatives, which drew tears from many a bystander. There were aboui sixty children on board the Indian mail packet, a large portion of whom were infants in arms, all of them hurried out of India on account of the fearful atrocities committed there. The scene on board the Colombo was very different from that which usually takes place on board homeward India packets. The 'usual female passengers on board these ships are ladies in the gayest spirits and dressed in the gor geous silks and shawls of the East ; but many of the lady passengers of the Colombo bore marks of great sufferings and anxieties, and their dresses betokened their losses, and the rapidity of their flight from the mutinous districts. Many of these passengers escaped from Delhi, Luckne,w ' and other parts of Oude. Fortunately they started from those places at the commencement of the mutinies. The language of their husbands was, " Get out of the country with the children as soon as you can, and never mind us." Many of them have never heard any thing of their husband since. Some of the ladies escaped nearly naked, lived in the jungle for days with their infant children, starving, and rarely abl e to get a handful of rice to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Few villagers were willing to assist them, and many of those who were willing were afraid te do so. Not the least intere.oing refugee on board the Colombo was a little dog. It had escaped from Delhi by faithfully following its mistress and her children. It had nearly psi I a heavy penalty for its fidelity. Its back had been literally buret by th., sun, and is not healed yet. Some of the passenger s give a frightful picture of the state of Calcutta and the interior provinces of India. Many a time all the persons in the employ of the Feninselar and Oriental Company sought shelter on board the company's steamers, the gulls of which were shotted, and on board which armed watches were kept night and day. The news of the mutinies at M eerut and Delhi came upon the inhabitants of Ca l cutta like a thunder clap. At Ceylon all the Europ e an troops had left for the Bengal Presidency, and none but Sepoy and Malay soldiers are left at Point de Galle and Colombo. The Malay saldiers are eager to fight the Sepoy mutineers, whom they cordially hate. The Australian mail steamer was at Aden when the Bentinck was at that port. The Australian passengers brought to Suez by the Colombian landed here to-day from the Colombo. The Tamar, therefore, which took out the last overland mail, will only bring home the specie and cargo of the Colombian. . About 1,0001. islikely to he raised in Southampt )11 for the Indian sufferers. A letter has been received here from the East India Company stating that no official list of the persons massacred in Cawnpore has been received in England. Mr. Delafosse and Mr. Bruce, who escaped from Cawnpore, are coo nested with Southampton. • GENERAL HAVELOCK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, —I have waited vainly for some days in the hope that I should see some distinguished mark of royal favour bestowed upon that great man on whose proceedings the eyes of the country are anxiously fixed as the one hope of Englandin General Havelock ; and all that has yet been done to reward his glorious career is a pension of 1001, a-year, which he shares, I suppose, m common with fifty or a hundred ordinary men ! Is it possible, sir, that any cold etiquette can be allowed to stand in the way of the expression of that intense gratitude which I venture to say the nation feels for those brave and glorious deeds ? Who knows how soon a life of such toil and such peril may be cut short? Let it not be said ilia' a ny time was lost in rewarding it while it lasted. Let the very next mail carry to General Havelock the news that his servic€ s are appreciated in Eng land, and that no honour is grudged to the man who with a handful of brave soldiers has encoun tered over and over again incalculable odds and in every conflict has come off victorious. Little do our rulers appear to be aware of all that they lose by failing to reward, or by reward ing too late, the services ef such a man as Have lock. Do they imagine that France would have left such an officer for one week ungraced by every title of honour and every form of reward which sol diers value or a grateful country can bestow ?—I am, sir, your obedient servant, • PIIILAGATIIOS. [Our correspondent should make all .wane© for the fact that there is scarcely a Minister in London, that Lord Panmure is more intent on the destruc tion of grouse than of mutineers, and that "the fount•aiu of Honour" itself is far away in the High lands out of raach even of telegraph.-EDITOR Or. THE TIMES.] Two private letters from Calcutta, dated the Bth of August, state that 500 French troops had arrived in the Emilie at the same time as the Shannon. We presume these French truops have come froui China to defend French inttrests at Chandernagore. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. We extract the following from a letter dated New York, Sept. 12 : . The long-pending negotiations between New Grenada and the United States have ended—the mountain has brought forth a mouse of an indem nity. treaty. The people murdered in the Isthmus riots are to be paid for, those wounded are to be indemnified, and a commission is to sit to deter mine who were killed and who were wounded, and how much ought to be paid in each case. The great political questions of difference are left as before—or rather worse than before—for discussion having been broached, and the parties having failed to agree, each party will have the pleasure of ad hering all the more firmly to its own views. The State of !Panama laid, and still lay claim to levy a capitation-tag on passengers from the Eastern United States to the Western passing through its territory ; a severe tonnage-tax upon the shipping of the United States coming to the transit ports ; a heavy impost upon the goods passing in transit ; and onerous postal charges upon the mailsfrom New York to California. The right to levy these rates, which have been resisted by the United States, is left unsettled. This Government will not submit to them. It avows that it considers all these ques tions settled by existing treaties, and if the New Grenada authorities are so unwise as to provoke the question there will be every disposition to en force the American construction. They say that before American capital flowed through the Isth mus to the shores of the Pacific the track now tra velled by the locomotive was a wilderness, the site of Aspinwall a deadly swamp, and the streets of Panama overgrown with grass. The life and the wealth which it now possesses are the offspring of American enterprise. It is not right that after hav ing done so much for the country capital and enter prise should be further taxed for the support of a set of lazy fellows who have not energy enough to take care of theinselvv. But they say further, we are not obliged to f4ll back on the natural rights which the comity of nations gives io every Power. These questions have already been determined be tween the two countries by existing treaties, which the United States will enforce. New Granada, on the other hand, plays lamb to the American wolf, with this trifling exception, that it stands above the wolf in the stream. The "hard times" still continue. Each day some new failures are announced. It would be worse than useless to burden your columns with the un known names. The banks have been for a few days back discounting more freely, but money is still in so great demand that holders of Excellent investments are obliged to throw them on the market, and sacrifice them at present 'prices. The Bank Stocks are now feeling the effect of the pressure in this way. Bank of Commerce shares, for instance, which commanded 108 not long ago, now sell at 95, and other banks in pro portion. In fact, everything is locked up. Since Michigan Southern and Ohio Life and two great borrowers are out of the way the market ought to be easier, but the effect of their stopping has been to create such a want of confidence that business is carried on with difficulty. The dry goods people are the first to feel the pressure. I think I have several times pointed out to you that they would probably have trouble this autumn—though in saying this 1 certainly have no wish to claim to be a Cassandra, or to have foreseen the present state of things. Considering it as I do entirely unreasonable, with out a sufficient cause for its intensity, I have no wish to claim the demerit of having been its pro phet. To go back to the dry goods dealers, they are at present the heaviest sufferers, and in the worst repute. The produce dealers stand next. Flour must fall. They may try to keep it up by combina tion, but with a great crop in Europe and a great crop in the West combinations will be useless. At present the home clop is stationary, both because nobody has money enough to move it, and because all interested in it are disposed to hold on for higher prices. But that state of things cannot last The wheat must collie to marfier, the rail ways must have the transportation, the farmers must have money to pay their grocers' bills and for their wives' dresses—the first end of the hou,e that Jack built. And when the crop gets out bread will be cheap—the first and surest sign of returning prosperity. On the whole I think things look better than when I last wrote; and could one foreree the course of Indian contest and the effect of the New York cramp upon extended Western credit, we might be disposed to think it sunshiny. The Banks are discounting more freely, andtheir specie reserve has increased nearly $3,000.000, and will show on Monday between $12,060,000 and $13,000,000. Specie keeps flowing in here from the country. So far as the moneyed institutions are concerned they feel decidedly better than a week ago. The two things I have alluded to above give the principal reason for fear in the future. New York is not so very expanded for the amount of its capital, nor is its real estate swelled to fabulous prices. But there are little towns in the West where every man considers himself worth half-a-million (in building _lots), and gives his obligations accordingly. A tumbledown there may react injuriously upon New York ; but in no respect as it did 20 years ago. This country is nowsolidly prosperous ; and though, as in all times of prosperity, there will be over trading, over-speculating, over-gambling, and fol lowing checks, revulsions, and failures, and though even some solid fortunes may tumble with the gorge ous palaces and cloud-capped visions of the gam bltrs, the great agricultural districts are far richer than ever before, the commercial towns have much more accumulated capital than in any former crisis, the manufacturers are rich, and the accumulating capital of a single year can wipe out all the indebted. ness that presses heavily —can, that, is if people, instead of foolishly falling helpless in fright, will put on a gentle but steady curb, and check instead of stop. As to the other cause, the Indian troubles, they are regarded herewith an interest second only to that which they excite in London. We have no sons fighting, no daughters being massacred, but the intercourse between the two countries has been so intim ete that there are few American gentlemen have not more or less acquaintances in the British army. And, even without the excrement of per sonal interest, no human being can read without emotion the stories of the savage atrocities perpe trated in India. The commercial effect, too, of the revolt is felt here almost as soonas in London. Leng ago the electric wire of mutual interest was laid be tween two great monetary centres. THE SULTAYS CONTRIBUTION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS IN INDIA. The following is a copy of the correspondence which has taken place between the Turkish am bassador and the Lord Mayor, with reference to the relief of those who are suffering in India : Bryanston-square, Sept. 23, 1857. "My Lird Mayor,--I have the honour to inform you that his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, my august Sovereign, has been pleased to order the sum of 1,0001. to be sent to me for transmission to you as his subscrip tion to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian mutiny. " Inclosing herewith accordingly a cheque for Ile above amount, I have the honour to be, my Lard Mayor, your very obedient servant, " C. MIISIIBUS. "The Right Hon. the Lard Mayor, &c. &o." " Sir,—l have have had the honour to receive and lay before the committee your Excellency's letter, dated 231 September, stating that his Imperial Majesty the Sultan has been pleased to order the sum of 1,0001. to be paid to me, as his subscription to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the mutiny of India. "The committee have received with great satisfaction the proof which this munificent donation affords of the sympathy of the Sultan. Persons of every rel gion in India are left to worship God acc o rd i ng to their own persuasion, without any interference ; and the govern ment is considered as a trust from Almighty God, a ith a view to the benefit of the people. These fundamental maxims will never be departed from, and,. with God's blessing upon them, India will attain to a degree of prosperity wnich she has never yet enjoyed. "Tbe committee request that your Excellency will convey to the Sultan their respectful and grateful ac. knowtedgments for his contribution, and that you will inform his Imperial Majesty how highly it has been appreciated. " I have the honour to be, sir, s our Excellency's most obedient humble servant, "THOMAS Q. FINNIS, Mayor." His Excellency the Netherlands Minister is staying at the Lews, Ross-shire, on a visit to Sir James and Lady Matheson. The Marquis Conyngbam and Lady Cecilia Conyng barn have arrived at the St. George's not. 1. The Earl and Countess of Dunraven and family left Farranc.:.'s Hotel, Belgravia, on Thursday, for the tinent. The Earl of Burlington will shortly leave Volker on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Viscountess Maynard, who has been very much in. disposed since her arrival in town, is somewhat better. Lord and Lady' Rodney have a rrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jerinyn-street. The Count and Countess Jean Barikoffheanvteerlteafitntiehge Brunswick Hotel, for Paris , en route for St. Ptter sbnrg . Sir Robert Peel, my., and Lady Emily Peel hav e returned to Drayton Ma nor, where they are a numerous circle of fr iends. The Right H o n. Sydney and Mrs. Herbert arrived i n town t sda y a seat,since, from Ireland, a n d l e f t on Wed- Wilton House, Salisbur— nforfew their days A letter from the Black Sea announces tbat the Russians have completed the fortifications of Yeui kale. G.E.LVERAL POST-OFFICE NOTICES. MONEY ORDER OFFICES. On the let of October the following alterations WU be made, viz. : ENGLAND. 1. Money Order Offices will be opened iu London and ;s suburbs, at Postal District. Canning Town (Strat ford) E. Hanwell Loughton Conduit-street (Pad dington) Streatham Sunbury S.Vr• Teddington 8. „11 ' • Postal District Barnebury (naming ford-road) Clapham-road Fleet-street (101) E.C. Greek-street (Soho) King-street (Covent garden) W.C. New Kent-road S.E. Pancras-road N.W. Hampton Court S.W. 2. Money Order Offices will be opened at— County. Head Office. Abbey Holme Castle Eden Station Durham Desborough Eckington Lower Heyford Oxford Menai Bridge Anglesey Spenny Moor Durham Ferryhill Staithes Trimdon Grange ... Durham Ferryhill 3. The Sherburne-lane (London) Money Order Officer hitherto an office for issuing money orders only, will coal' =once paying orders also. SCOTLAND. 4. A Money Order Office will be opened at County. Head Office. Kil winning Ayr • lrvine 5. The South Portland-street (Glasgow) Money Order Office has been abolished. IRELAND. 6. A Money Order Office will be opened at County. Head Office. Bundoran Donegal By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. General Post-office, Sept. 22, 1857. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON LETTERS &Ai FOR BELGIUM. A new postal convention having been made with Bel' gium, which will come into operation on the let October next, the following alteration in the rates of postage wi ll take place on and from that date : Letters—When prepaid, letters will be chargeable ne, o follows :—Not exceeding A oz , 4d. ; above A oz. and n exceeding 1 oz., Bd. ; above 1 oz. and not exceeding 2 " 4 is. 4d. ; above 2 oz. and not exceeding 3 oz., 25., ands° on, according to the scale for charging inland lettere. When posted unpaid, letters will be chargeable, on deli' very, with double the above rates. The foregoing rate comprise both the British and Belgian charges, and Wll be applicable to letters for Belgium, whether &r a lve; direct by packet or by private ship. Letters for Be,'" cium intended to be forwarded in the closed mail, 1 "; France, must be specially addressed " via France," ea ,e s e a Cabbie" and they will be chargeable with the above rates, in addition to a French transit rate of 2 1' per half ounce. In the case of registered letters, t h e postage must in all cases be paid in advance, and, in 16 1 dition, there must be paid the usual registration fee ue ° 6d. The British postage en letters for the Grand Dl of Luxemburg, when specially addressed to be forwar d s via Belgium, will be reduced to 6d. the half ounce • l g e above half an ounce and not exceeding 1 ounce, a n d on ; but this r ete must be paid in advance, or the letters cannot be forwarded. Letters frOm the United ICi p gii dom for any British colony, or foreign country her% sea addressed via Belgium, will be liable to a British at Belgian rate combined of 7d. per half ounce, which r ale must be paid in advance. lst Newspapers and other Printed Papers.—On the - a October and thenceforth the entire postage, British 911,2 Belgian, chargeable upon newsapers and other printer, papers posted in the United Kingdom addressed to B' t gium, must be paid in advance ; but no further charg e any kind will be levied as heretofore upon their deliver,' The following will be the rates of postage : ed For a packet of British newspapers, ' d u ly registe r t at the General Post-office for transmission abroad , 0° exceeding 4 oz., id. ; above 4 cz, and not exceeding ! lb., 2d. ; above lb. and not exceeding 1 lb., 4d. ; ar r e t 1 lb. and not exceeding lA lb., sd. ; above l/ - lb. and 0 exceeding 2 lbs., 81." Fur a packet of printed other th e , such newspapers—not exceeding 4 oz., 3d. ; above 4 °l' and not exceeding i lb., 6d. ; above lb. and not e t ! . ceeding 1 lb., is. ; above 1 lb. and not exceeding VII ls. 6d. ; above lb. and not exceeding 2 lbs., 2s. ; a e b so on, adding 2d. or 6d., as the case may be, for else additional half pound. pe r ' Under the term " Printed Papers" are included p odical works, other than registered newspapers, stitcher or bound books, pamphlets, sheets of music, eatalognes' prospectuses, announcements, and notices of every kin °, printed, engraved, or lithographed. Most u_ these have not hitherto been transmissible, except i t the the letter rate of postage. The following regulations must be strictly observed ... " 1. Every packet must be sent without a cover, or in e cover open at the ends or sides. 2. There must be 0° enclosure, except newspapers or other printed papers' 3. There must led no other writing or marks than the nanl e and address of the person to whom the papers are genre noreinything upon the cover but such name and address,' the printed title of the papers, and the printed name a s address of the publisher or vendor who sends them. „ If any the above regulations be disregarded, eith er the packets will bedetained, or will be lorwardedoha r g' e as unpaid letters. Newspapers for Belgium addressed to be forwardecle via France, will be liable to the same postage as th° 6 forwarded direct. Upon newspapers addressed to the Grand Danill Luxembureb, and specially directed to be sent via o r' gium, the British postage, at the rate of id. for 4 o unce must be paid in advance. e gel, By command of the Postmaster-General, Beam — HILL, Secretary. General Post-office, Sept. 23. MARKET RE S.---.(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. erg , A full average supply of English wheat, 4,030 cl 3°. ; t vl lls has come to hand this week coastwise; but the itrr' n . js fresh up to-day, by land carriage, were limited. All ~ met a dull inquiry at Monday's decline in the quota tl° The fresh imports of foreign wheat are 8,100 qu a h a ve Even the finest samples met a dull enquiry, and to' have forced sales lower rates must have been submit' e `l o p We have no change to notice in the value a b.° - though enquiry for which was by no means active. Ai tie3 Fine malt supported former terms. Inferior qu ruled heavy. We were well supplied with foreign oats, yet the ° A6 trade was steady at full prices. Beans, peas, and flour ruled at Monday's currenat ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. 4,030 I 2,120 3,180 Oats. a • n og _.690 -P, 1,800 32,860 1 90 br English Irish Foreign 8,100 j 1,770 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. th. 1 3 '1 We had a fair show of beasts in to-day's market, , - 80 0 general quality of the supply was inferior. Most bre e ds s e re steadily at Monday's improvement in value. Sheep es, in moderate supply and good request at very full Pr l o je t o ts' ruled was a scanty show of calves, and the veal : i ota' ruled active at a further slight improvement in the e l n. o tions. Pigs sold readily at extreme rates. Mach °- were tolerably firm. Per Sibs to sink the dials. d 6 a. d. a. d.l 5. d• 6 Interior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 PrimeSouthdown 5 2 4 4 Second quality.... 3 8 3 10;Large crse. calves 3 8 6 0 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 41Prime small do 4 6 4 6 Prime Scots, do. 4 6 4 10;Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 B'Small porkers Second quality ...3 10 4 2 Suckling calves 28 0 32 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 5 0 Quarter old pigs 28 FO.REIGN SUPPLY• 120 Beasts .................... SO Sheep and lambs . ..... TOTAL SUPPLY: Beasts . Sheep and lambs Calves , 250 Pigs - 300 Calves ..... . ............... Pigs .....................••• LEADENUALL. steady, at very fall prices the carcase. NEWOATE AND The trade generally ruled s Per 81bs by s. d. s. d. Reef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do. prime large 3 10 4 2 Do., do. small 4 4 4 6 i Pork, larger 3 8 4 4 e. d. 4 Mntton, inferior 3 2 A ° Do., middling ..... 3 6 7 10 Do., prime .•.4 l l, 6 V ea l 3 6 Pork, email ........ 4 6 BOROUGH HOP. Our market is very extensivelYtupplied with new b°„s; which move off slowly as follows —Mid Kent pocket, %, to 115 s; Weald of Kent, 65s to 84s; Sussex , 65s to °,4 per owt. The duty is called 215,000/. to 220,0001 . In °' and yearling hops nothing is doing. iosnvgtec'ruoyndon, for the COLONIAL. but prices are well el: realises cluiet 140 to 14 d. Per 1 ,.. week ending fr" 17th September, amounted to 67,868 lbs. The exports — Th The f m t a e r a k f e r t eo in tter —There was a steady enquiry for the be poT.srtEueAad.A. Common descriptions of grocery - qualities. Other sorts were l i a , active and previous rates were in all instances fully 10 ' 0 „ lo t u a ff i ra l e a rp e tamed. is.. r theevaellrinsye 6llimited at e ne fi dd n e fia d nne M a t j a pt r tr k ii e e c r t e 88 the 6r6us quantityrule e6d fipremr o wo fairft . goods of , 0 0 0 ne t" .;:. COFFEE.--There was rather less enquiries for x ' 3--- h tio tion Ceyldn, and prices were a shade lower. At the Pl - re a sale, yesterday, the greater part of the quantity om" was sold at about previous values. : lo ve RICE.—The mark e t con ti nues d u ll , an d prices slightly receded. . re ir RUM.—There is very little busi ne ss d o ing, Ando° e' tion can be noticed in prices. fit SALTPETRE.—The demand is very a ctive, and'a Toe advance of a b ou t l s . p er cw t. h as taken place on qualitios., British refined now realise 63s per cwt. 0 fiv er COCHINEAL.—There is an increased inquiry for th or lb• qualities of Hond uras , an d an a d va nce of 2d to 44 ,1?,, 0 a re may be quoted on those descriptions ; other qullti° steady, at fully former quotations. 00 0 hp. IGO.—The market is very firm, with very f B f i g , 6d, in the market. On Bengal Kurpah an advance 01 „ and on Madras 10d per ln. has taken place. ~. n t he ed. TALLOW.—The market is quiet. P.Y. , -, o- ras to v is quoted 595, and last three months delivery 0 ' 3d per cwt. s ligbi GREEN FRUlT.—Market dull for all kind s. " 4. 00 1 a b it improvement in lemons. A parcel of NaP leg ro yerv ezi o Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, w nt at an iceP „,,i, , to, in price. Oporto onions are difficult of sale, 6 i b o u lis o no large for so early a period of the season. 1 3e new Para nutsifirm. VO The I quietly, teration. 1,000 of The Rail appewaik of all the Althou quiet, the articles o remai❑ fit posed of, for expo] quotation held in B ket3 of J low the r tion brinl here. Cc is not the indigo is We all' banking garrison able firm have beer the Hull process of of 337,501 Lure anC 360,000/. was whol cent. hay, dreading be glad t( their liabi the assetE Watson. The dh have ann bonus, be ending tt A. furd 13011ne y( at 67.30 i month. to 15f. Russian I 800 franc At the long and resolution the forme turnable The M( the demaa accounno doubt soo the 4th of India and There i With the in a moss Plete sta Overland quotation jutelligen the spec' though di ter have 1 India Bo! count ; Count. 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