The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will bo performed Shakspere's Play of THE 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 au OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol. lowing Distinguished Artistes :7Madame Caradmi Cuthbert, Co. relli Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Mls. ' H. Manley, and Miss Lou , sa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton 23r sham, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, r .Wallworth, M r . G. Honey... Mr. Weiss, and Mr.W. Harrison. C o nductor, 14 ta -. Alf Opera, Mellon. The Orchestra selected groin th e Royal Italian Jullien's Bind, and the Orches tral rnion. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian k_llhsra• Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant feting Man a g e T , Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. r , rampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson. THIS ETE:NING, Anber's opera of THE CROWN DIAMONDS. To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 lls. 6d. ; Malls, 6e.; Dress Circle ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4 s. ; Pit , 2 5.; Gallery, ls.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. L7hatterton, jun. lIIISEATRE ROYAL, LTAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. fHIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with (7th time here these eight years) Sheridan Knowles comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Mit - s A. Sedgwick. After which (by desire) BOX AND COX. Box, Mr. Buckstone ; Cox, Mr. Compton. Followed by MAKE YOUR WILLS. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it 2 0 Pit 1 0 ewer Gallen , 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the home-mado Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wriglat and Niss Arden. After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLA.CIC-EYED FUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Blue Peter. Mr. Paul 33edford ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Wright ; Black-eyed Susan, Nriss .Arden. To conclude with the new sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRA_NGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, ac. STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING, will be performed Is HE JEALOUS ? Mr. Shore, Miss G.,wer, Miss Herbert, and Miss M. A. Victor. Followed by JOHN OF PARIS. Mr. Kinlech, Mr. Oliver Summers, Miss Harriet Gordon. To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which Miss Craver/ will sustain four characters. Reginald Rattle cap, Mr. Leic,sster Buckingham. After which, highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TR.AVIATA; -,r, THE LADY CA:IIEI4EON. Miss Craven, Misi Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke. Comment® at Seven. Stalls. 3s. ; Boni, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; Gallery 61. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. THIS EVENING, will be performed (3d time) a new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Cooper ; Mrs. Stirlin_z, Misses Wyndham and Swanborongh. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by R)bert B. Brongh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob eon, Cooke, Danvers, dm. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 140YA.L SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, °The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss Eburne, Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD. To conclude with TRICKS AND TRIALS. ANTERBI7R Y HALL, Westminster-road. — VI OPEN EVERY E VENING. —The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of , zeleetions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Manotta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott 3fiss Brunell, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Fareant, S. :ones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. 3fack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Widiams ; Director, Herr F. JoughmAns, Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sippers, &c.. until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at ha,f-past Eight and half past Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY - Morn. 2 min. aft. 4 —Even. 16 min aft. 4 To-MORROW —Morn. 33 min. aft. 4--Even. 49 min. aft. 4 rEIE WEA.TETER,-Sux OP1?I013, OCTOBER 22. TEIMBHOMETEM, Iv TEIS SridDZ. 59 -highest since noon yesterday. 45—lowest this morning and daring the night 47 —this day at noon. BAIkOMETZR. 29.69. WIND, North-Westerly; rather fresh, with a miserably cold rainy day. Heavy rain in the night, and still con tinues. T. I t -,F; ... • ttil P ,, ,, •I' '4,.. ) ' ‘ r... , — sloe, 44 • - 1 , ... , ~.,, AT / , ~ ..{......,„, . LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1857. The East India Company yesterday advanced the price of their bills on India by one penny the rupee, or about 4 per cent. The effect of this movement will be to check the purchase of such bills, and tend to a a greatly increased exportation of bullion. The poverty of the Indian Treasury is thus clearly ex hibited. The directors know that the whole of their resources will be required in India, and that they must provide in England' for the dividends and pensions payable in this country. They have already borrowed a million sterling from the Bank of England, and have so far interfered with the funds which ought to be applied for the benefit of the commercial interests. That million has pro bably added one per cent. to the minimum rate of discount ; and should farther pecuniary accom modation be required, as the step of yesterday seems tc indicate, there will be still further charges, until trade is completely paralysed, and manufacture totally suspended. The bullionist organs are assuring the nation that trade was never in a sounder condition. We do not hear the disgusting cant of over-trading or over-production, as if there could be over-produc tion while our fellow-creatures, men of our own blood, speaking the smile language, and worship ping the same Deity, were hungry and half naked, unable to obtain a sufficiency of wholesome food or comfortable clothing. None of these specious pretexts are now set up. It must then be the monetary enactments that have produced the mis chief ; and, as in October, 1847, there can be no relief until they have been repealed or sus pended. This should be the work of Parliament. Nothing but imperative necessity could justify a Ministerial interference, and when a step involv ing such extraordinary responsibility, and so un• disguised a departure from the law, became essen tiz.l, as we believe it wi l be before many days have elapsed, not an hour should be lost in con vening the Legislature, that its sanction may be obtained to the transaction. It is quite impossible that the trade and manufactures of the country can flourish, With interest at eight per cent. in Thread needle-street, and frilly double it all through the country. Some course must be adopted to alleviate the panic, and restore the credit and confidPnco which were the chief sources of Ecola.nd's commer cial and manufacturing supremacy. It is not by closing works and factories, stopping 1oow•, and turning those able and willing to work out of employment that we can continue to pay our way. It is not by rendering the creators and producers. of national wealth, unprofitable consumeni, that we can extricate ourselves from the Indian d.ifficulf, .re-establish our rule in Central and North-• Western India, or teach Mr. aimmissioner YER the necez- BUY of faithfully observing treaties. The late Lord ASHBURTON no mean authority on mope tlry sub jects—declared that but for the Bank Restriction Act, and the issue of paper money (inconvertible, be it remembered), tho French war—the most formidable struggle in which Great Britain was ever engaged—could not have lAEA i carried on upon the same scale, or anything like the same scale, of expenditure or exertion. We suppose, however, that MERCATOR and his dis ciples would rather sacrifice India than in any degree impair what they are pleased to term " the integrity of the standard," or permit the issue of a single note upon securities beyond the amount so arbitrarily fixed. No valid reason has ever been assigned against 1/. notes. They saved the Bank in 1825, and prevented a general stoppage. But in place of extending their use in consequence, they were soon after prohibited in England, although largely in use in Scotland and Ireland, where gold coin is seldom if ever seen, save in the hands of a stranger. It is said that they may be used for political purposes, but it must be borne in mind that nothing of the kind occurred in the sister country during the Young Ireland agitation, and if a political run for gold was to take place, the large notes would prove more formidable instru ments to those who were bound to convert them into sovereigns. What is now required is an extension of issues, and the adoption of the smaller denominations of notes, similar to those in use in Ireland and Scotland. If based on proper security, or receivable in payment of taxes, there could be no danger ! Not an ounce of gold would I l require to be deposited. It should then resume its proper functions as an article of commerce, highly valuable for adjusting the exchanges be tween different nations, but a small premium would check its exportation much more effectually than an increase in the rate of interest, which in jures innocent traders, who are not in any degree responsible for the evils that have arisen. It is surely time that some energetic measures should be adopted to render the Anglo-Indian Government more efficient, and better qualified to meet the crisis. It is quite obvious that Lord CANNING is not " the right man in the right place." He has not the energy or ability to con trol the Council—is in fact a mere puppet in their hands, only useful to snub and disgust military men, whose opinions • on military matters arc, unhesitatingly overruled by black-coated civilians —whose leading principle is, and has been "India for the Civil Service." It is perfectly notorious that Sir PATRICK GRANT, an admirable officer, who, if left to himself, would have rendered valuable service, was thwarted in every point— his advice disregarded, and his sound views set at nought. The same game was attempted to be played against Sir COLIN CamrsELL, but fortu nately, not being a Company's officer, he could adopt an independent course, and sever the red tape trammels in which they tried to enthral him. But although Sir COLIN will be true to himself and to his country, enormous mischief is effected by these incapables. The proclamation of martial law was rejected, although petitioned for by almost every Englishman not holding office. Natives are placed in judicial situations, giving them un controlled power over the lives and properties of Europeans —powers which, if we are to believe the statements made by a correspondent of the Daily News, have been most grossly and atroci ously abused. It declares that " sundry of the natives who had been appointed to judicial offices in those parts of India which are now in a state of insurrection, have been exercising their functions by hanging their official superiors, and other Englishmen who have been so unfortunate as to fall into their mer ciless hands." And yet, with a degree of fatuity almost inconceivable, Mahomedans are daily nomi nated to high situations. The writer, who mani festly understands his subject, says :—" Some of these appointments are perfectly absurd. It is hardly credible, yet it is the fact, that the Calc.mtta Gazette of July 15 announces appointments of five Mahomedans to the office of principal sudder ameers of Cawnpore, Moradabad, Farr ack abed, and Bareilly, the whole of these places and the surrounding country being then in the power of the insurgents. But those who have the influence to direct the Govern ment would rather do anything than acknowledge the error they have committed in the employment of natives in preference to Englishmen out of the exclusive covenanted service of the East India Com pany. This country, instead of being regarded as the conquered dominion of England, has been rued as if it was a petty borough for the exercise of the East India Company's patronage. The servants of that Company, in their selfish feeling, have taught the natives to despise us, and the natives have learned their lesson well. We trust, how ever, that the East India's Company's rule is coming to an end—that the people of England, aroused by the murder of their countrymen, the gross insulting barbarity practised against English women, and the fiendish torture of children in their parents' sight, will at last insist upon the inquiry which independent Englishmen in this country have so often asked for in vain." That inquiry should be at once instituted, and it should be of a very stringent and searching character. Why should not India be placed un der the direct rule of Queen VICTORIA, with a responsible Government of men duly qualified for the position Why should not trained and educated lawyers be sent out to preside at the different courts throughout the country, in place of men ignorant of the first principles of jurisprudence or of treacherous and corrupt natives. The due ad ministration of justice is indispensable. Without it no people can be happy, contented, or pros perous. But there is no Royal road to legal lore, no short cut to information. Men, or rather boys, have been sent out in the vain hope that they will turn out experienced jurists. They are paid extravagant salaries, double the amount necessary to obtain the services of competent men, trained at Westminster, the Four Courts, or the Court of Session at Edinburgh, and able t) discharge the duty with credit to them selves and advantage to the country. We urged these matters in 1853, but the interests of the Civil Service prevailed, and every other considJra firm was sacrificed. Can we wonder, then, that one of the chief demands of the non-officials in India should be for Qaeen's Courts presided over by trained lawyers, and English the Court lang• uage. The first thing should be the recall of Lord CANNING. The Directors exercised the privilege in the case of L )rd ELLENBOROUGII, one of the best and most efficient Governors since the days of CUTE and ILksTINGs ; let them do so now to the most inefficient, or they will be responsible for all the mistaken he may commit during his tenure of office. H. Excellency the Austrian Minister and the GAT: tess d'Ap ony i are expected to arrive at the res id ence the Austrian Legation to-day, from the Continent. The Duchess Dowager of Argyll has arrived at Brighton. Tne Earl of Clarendon will leave town to-day on a visit to her Majesty at Wuadsor Castle. Sir Arznine John Morris has arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from his seat Sketty Park, Glarnorganshire. FAILURE.—Tho suspension has been announced of Mums. Auld and Buchannan, of Glasgow, merchants and shippers. Their liabilities, which are estimated at 100,0001, and believed to be chiefly local. THE SUN, MUSIC. ST. MARTIN'S-HALL. Last evening Mr. Hullah commenced his annual series of sacred concerts with Mendelssohn's St. Paul, which was performed in a manner which we have seldom, and in some respects never heard excelled. Mr. Hullab's orehestra is better this season than it has ever been, both in power and quality. The numbers of the orches tra and chorus were so well balanced, and the instru mental effects were so subdued and delicate, without being enfeebled, that Mendelssohn's sublime choral har monies were strengthened and embellished without being, as is too often the case, overwhelmed by a mass of loud instrumental sound. The solo parts, too, were excellently sustained. Mlle. de Villa, has a soprano voice of the finest quality, sings exquisitely in tune, has a pure and finished style, and in all she does shows taste, intelligence, and feeling. Miss Palmer, the contralto, is well known at Mr. Hullah's concerts, and a deserved favourite with his audience. Mr. Allan Irving, who sustained the bass part, is a singer of great merit. The whole performance was received by a large audience with expressions of the warmest approbation. LONDON, THURSDAY TVFNINGI- OCTOBER 22, 1857. THE SPANISH CRISIS. A private letter from Madrid, lof the 16th, re marks as follows on the Ministerial crisis, which does not seem to have as yet attained its definitive solution : "The telegraph will have long since informed you of th e partial3olution of our ministerial crisis—a crisis which has been long and painful. A very animated discussion took place at the Palace, in presence of the Queen, betweee Bravo Murillo and Armero, who proposed each a differ- 1 eot system. These systems differed, it is true, but only le form, for, in reality, the party to which both be long has ever governed arbitrarily. The other persons who were present took a share in the controversy, and. sided - with the one or the other according to their respec tive views. After hearing all that was said pro and con.. the Qaeen took some time to consider, and, as you are already aware, Armero came off with flying colours. Her Majesty, however, with the spirit pf conciliation which characterises her, summoned to her presence one of the vanquished combatants, a friend of Bravo Murillo, and a man of the highest honour, and declared to him that she greatly appreciated his loyalty, his disin terestedness, and h.s patriotism. Her Majesty thus keeps Armero, and at the same time pays flatter ing compliments to the ahem We are now waiting to learn the names of tie colleagues of Armero and Mon— for the latter is the alter ego of the former. You will have perceived that ;he Polacos have nothing whatever to do in this arrangement ; and that the Reformists of Bravo Murillo as well as the Absolutists are ex cluded ; and if the Ticalvarists (the O'Donnell section) be also set aside, I do not see how the new Minis try can get on. The Moderados were never more broken up into factions than now, and it would seem that her Ma ; esty, in wishing to reconcile the dissentient parties, meant to expose to the public the disunion which emets in the whole party. Ad.) to these discordant elements General Narvaez, who is furious at the overthrow of his Ministry, and who would stop at n)thing if his force, his influeece ( ehich, by the way, is null), and his courage were on a par with his anger and hie hatred against certain powerful persons both in the• Palace and out of it. Such is the picture presented by the Moderado party at the close d the year which has elapsed since tbey up s-t, by meats of a coup d'etat, a Government which they and others were wont to call 'anarchical.' Yet teat anarchical Government found in the Treasury, on its accessirn to power, just 3,000 f., and it left 1,000,000,0)0, while the Narvaez Ministry leaves 400,000,00( of reels fl , ating debt, the State coffers empty, the year's budget spent, not to speak of 300,000,001 reels of the Mires loan also exhansted. What a difference between the men of anarchy, and the so called men of order ! It is probable that Narvez will re turn to its retreat in the provinces, or wing his flight to Preece, where he will, a 3 ti , mal, present himself as a victim. Yet in this he is sincere ; Narvcz ' is a victim whenever he quits power ; and during the period of his exclusion from it, be grows into an ultra- Islberal. 7ou must then count in him a revolutiodst tl e more, andnot one among the least ardent of the band. It is, however, fortunate for public tranquillity and for the Throne ;hat be is only a revolutionist in intention (you knew what materials our .national proverb at tributes .0 the pavement of a place that shall be nameless, in thought, and in theory. O'Donnell told him SO is his face in full senate. Apropos to the re volution of 1854. Then, also, Narvaez promised `to come wish wanted,'--but he never came; he was ill. Other Generals presented themselves in the field, and had net,like Narvaez, the misfortune to fall ill so inop portunels. There are many like him who promise 'to come,' hit do not keep their word. This, however, is ancient history, and there is no use in reverting *o it. Who the colleagues of Armero will be no one can at, this moment say to a certainty. THE ?RINCE or WALES.—The Prince of Wales paid the Priobess of Prussia a visit at Coblentz on the 16:lo inst., tliPe on his way homewards down the Reiine. Tne Prnee had intended to arrive at that town the day before, but a thick fog, that covered the Rhine and its banks, compelled the steamer to anchor off Bingen, whereeis Royal Highness passed the night. On arriving at Cotentz one of the Princess's Chamberlains was in waiting to receive the Prince at the landing-place, and contheted him and his suite to the Palace ; thence, after a stayof about an hour and a half, the Prince of Wales ' was conducted by the-Princess of Prussia herself to the banksof the river, where he re-embarked. As Gener a l Todtlaben is just now staying at Coblentz, and is a fre quent visitor at the Palace, it is more than probable • bat General Codrington, who was in the Prince's suite, had an opportunity of renewing his former Crimean acquain taucs on more pleasing ground and on a more pleasant footitig. Married, yesterday, at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Warwick,treet, and afterwards at St. George's Church, lianover-square, by the Rev. Evan Nepean, Captain Edmond de Feyl, of tlAs Austrian service, to Au4u,ta Clementine Graham, nati„Jiter of Sr Bellingham Gra ben, Bart., of Noiton Conyers, Yorkshire. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P. for the city of Oxford, has left England for Parie irons weetce he will ' proceed to Italy for a short period. The right hon. gen tleman paid a visit to his constituents previous to his departure, and was presect on the occasion of the open ing of the new chapel at Balliol C allege on Thursday last, We understand that the Rev. David Laing, the vicar of Trinity, Haveistock-hill, has- teen appointed by the Bishop of Londoa to the vacant benefice of St. Olave, Hart-street, City, under the followi ng arrangement : That he shall receive 1,0001. per annum of the annual Ekinder be applied t o th e augmentat i on o v f a t o u , 2, rta a i n n d the re e riiinge. THE SILK TRADL—A letter from Zurich states that houses engaged p r i nc ip a ll y i n the silk a th n i d rt r y ib c b o o nn al ambusiness have failed there. thein al ix ve i :a 1 d a ßelgian eiierals o j t o , u l r B n3l i s , thhaast received GeneraG enera L l permission one l i s s s s io ta n toe t f o d rette n te France. CONFERENCE O 1 THE BANKRUPTCY Laws,—Toe Birmingham Charm er of Commerce, following out the suggePtien of Lore John Russell, intend inviting &le gates from the varous chambers of commerce to a con ferencethoiBveimp. ortant subject in B irm i ng h am , on o7c's4:liolNfai N teb er AC C/DENT.—Yestbrday morni n g , M rs . HtheSn 17th Ri,beck, aged 38, of Princes-street, White hin Fishmonge r -all e y, Fee h autos to t shop akeapurchase, wher e a t ra p-door was uapr ceeh);-t s t vent open,t, t hrough which she fell, f rac t ur i n g her thighs in a enact Ngialul manlier. She was conveyed r'Ca Rospital. oL eicie.—Spollen, who was acquitted of c c l r ee t t h o e TSßtl murder 'A TL bO°lna' S of Mr. Little at the Broadetone Railway Terminus, is again to be tried, on a charge of robbing the office of he ca , liier of the Midland Company, at the commission which commences in this city on Men day next, the 26th in,t. Toe Lerd Chief Baron and Mr. Baron Richards will be the presiding joileeg- A letter frau Naple s o f t h e 3rd, in the G aze tt e de France, says :—"Tne continued eruption of Mount Vesuvius has t;rotteht a numberof foreigners to this city to view the magnificent ~c ene. Among the personages who have lately ascended the mountain, in order to view the eruption as closely as possitle, are the Conde do Montem lin aed hie brother, Dan Fernando, and the Prince of Orange. '_ A Russian naval division, which is intended to rein force the Ru-aian equairon in the Chinese Seas, is shortly expected at Cnerbourg. This division, com manded by CAptain liouzletzA; is composed of three steam corvettes and throe steam c!ipper , , carrying 48 guns and 800 seaman. It is to ba speedily followe,l by the steam-frigate Asalde, of 16 guns and 360 horm power, with 400 seamen. Tare REV, MR CAIRD,-0,1 Sunday, in terms of th 1 arrangt sae,its of he presbytery, Vie Rev. Mr. Caird, of Errol, preached trial sermon,, foren wn and afternoon, in the Barony Parish Church, Glasgow, as presentee to the splendid cburch.nos verging- towards.; completio n in the West-end-park. At each diet the church was filled to overflowing, and Imodreds went away, unable to ob tain admission. —ldiaturgh. Courant. MR. HORSatAN AND TEti CrIURCEI—Mr. Horsrhan, who is now tree from the trammels of office, is spending some of his leisure time in ingwriog into those abu es iu connee ion with the Church of England, which, p r i or to his acceptance of the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland, b e was in the habit year by year of succe-sfully expo,ipg in the House of Cumulous. The right hon. gentleman, it is said, will give notice, as soon as Parliament meets, of his inteotion to bring Vat, s ubj7ct before the house at the earliest p , esiLlo opportunity, and will found a motlon urn the facts he will then adduc:!. FATAL RESULT OF A PRACTICAL JOKE.--A sad eir. cumstance ;narked the passage of a detachment of the 32.1 regiment of the line through Flames (Marne), en their way from the garrison of S iissons to that of Teals. bourg (Meurthe). A eapeur and three bandsmen qiared the some room, and the latter, out of a foolish love tor practical j )Ices, c ut off the bushy beard of their com panion %hilt, he was asleep. In the morning the sapeur discovered the disappearance of hie beard, and was render e d f ran ti c w i th rage . Ho at once chadenged th e three bandsme n , kill , d the first two, and s evere l y wounded th e thi r d . —G ct liy n ani. ROBBERY.-_A haudsoite young,' woman, who c a ll e d herself M e d ea, and who li ves i n th e ne i g hb ourhood of the floe de Bressla broaght the following charge before the Trib una l of d orre ctional Police against a M. Arie n. As: tide. Sh e :a id that at t h e l at t er ar id o f l ast month a theyknew were him shout not, she t o m d e hi friend o f here, Cut do downNu' w to e d c --, sent he r a present of game fr om B urgundy, and that s h e invited tutee d ee geli ,. men to p ar t a k e of it with her. O ne o f t h ese, a certain Oscar, fo r w h om she had a spec i a l regar d , b rought sans ceehnonie a f r i en d of h i s, M . Aristide, and th oug h the went away 6 0 pret . xt of go i ng t o a ra il way office to receive a sum of mo ne y, and t i ber surprise :h e f ound sitacome, r, i\ B i t justti Aristide that he bad carried off with him a gold wa.ch orna relented with briiliaPts, worth about 800!r. She subae queutly learned that be bad sold toe watch, and h,,, I spew part of the proceeds in giving a magnificent supp er to a Mlle. Clara, also of the Quartier Breda, to w: o t. she had a special antipathy. Aristide was asked what be had to say in answer to the complaint, hut he hun t down his head and was silent. The tribunal sentences him to a year's imprisonment. r NEWS., THE IN:IA MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The steamer Ripon, with the mails and pas sengers from India, was telegraphed off Hurst at 9.25 a.m. PORTUGAL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The Cintra steamer has arrived, with Lisbon dates of the 15th inst. The Bahiana, steam transport ship, with troops for India, left the Tagus, with new lifeboats and all essential repairs, on the 12th, in the evening, having been detained only 36 hours to refit. She is reported to have proved a first-rate sea-boat in the heavy gales of the 7th, Bth, and 9th inst , when she lost her three lifeboats, deck-house, &c. The troops on board left Lisbon in good health, and did not communicate with the shore. The Ruyal mail packet Tyne, with the out ward mails, left Lisbon for Brazil on the 14th, at 3 p.m. The last fever bulletin at Lisbon reports 236 cases, and 76 deaths during 24 hours, up to the 13th at 10 p.m. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Univers is the only Paris jeurnal containing a political article ; it devotes its attention to the principalities question, which it treats in the fol lowing manner : " The Moldo-Wallachiar appear to imagine that they may do just what they like. Turkey enter tains a very different opinion, and if Austria and Eugland,think as she does, France and Russia, as a set-off, authorises, to a certain extent, the preten sions and the hopes of the Moldo-Wallachians. These views, although so different and so opposed to each other, have also for bawl, according to their authors, the decisions of the . congress of Paris. Both sides invoke the same article of the treaty, and maintain that its wording is very clear. If the Porte accepts the views of the unionists, or submits to them, Moldavia and Wallachia will no longer form part of the Ottoman empire. What in fact under such conditions would be the value of a formula which preserved to the Sultan the title of Suzerain ? The Journal des Debuts thinks is strange that the Porte should protest, but that is the least it could do. Can the support which four of the powers represented at the congress of Paris have hitherto given to the unionists lead to the belief that the pretensions of that party will be ad mitted ? The public is rather disposed to solve the question in the affirmative. Hence the rumours spread with regard of the prince who is to be called on to govern constitutionally the Moldo-Walla chians. Prince Murat, and even the Prince de Leuchtenberg, although be belongs to the imperial family of Russia, were spoken of ; six months ago a Belvieu prince was mentioned, as likewise a prince of Nassau. But these rumours are mere speculation, and it would he wrong to at, ach any hut ortance to them. The journals speak on spe culation in stating that the sovereigns have come to an understaUding on any particular name. But if the Moldo-Wallachian deputies are agreed on the question of the union, and if they demand, accord ing to their proeramerie, a foreign prince as an hereditatiy sovereign, it is probable that they will desienate the prince most worihy in their eyes of reigning over Roumania. It may be taken for cer tain that their choice will not fall on either a Rus sian or an Austrian, and they will also set aside any prince who, fr ern his ori g in, is subject to the influence of one of the grea t States bordering on the Danube. In the meantime Austria seeks to prove that the last elections have not been free ; and if she accepts them, it is because she considers the matter as indifferent with respect to the defini tive organisation of the principalities. It may be seen by this simplestateineut of facts that the ques tion of the Danubian principalities does not yet ap proach a solution." The following private telegraphic despatches have been received hero : (VIENNA, OCT. 20. The Ryan of Moldavia voted almost unanimou , ly, while recognising the right; of the Porte amsecrated by treaties, the union of the Principalities under a foreign prince of a Western dynasty, a representative govern ment, and the neutrality of the State MADRID, OCT. 21. The C irtes of the kingdom, convoked for the 30th inst., will iao: lusemble till the 30th of December. THE HAGUE, OCT. 21. The Budget is at present under consideration by the States-Genend. It exhibits a most pr.wperons financial condition, a new excess of receipts that will allow of a further portion of the public debt being cancelled. A dotation for the Prince of Orange is considered as settled. ua rg dnt hal j us t pu b- BERLIN, OCT. 20. of yeste r d ay , b y telegraph, The King was ra ther better yesterday, and wa s up f or one hour. Ills Majtsty bad eight hours' qui e t a l e©p in the night. In lished an official declaration statng Vim only Anapa, Sukurn-Kal4h, Redo . dt-Kal( 11, on th e Asiatic coast rtealplibtenc elates f s rot t n ha S t t t . he Pe g t , e )v rs e b rn u of the Black Sea, will be open to foreign vessels. A Russian vi , a will be necessary. BOURSE, Oct. 21.—The following were the last quotations : _ Cash. fr. End of Month. ii per Cents 3 per Cents 66 65 66 70 Bank Shares Credit Foucier — Credit Mobilier ...... 763 Roman Do. Acc0unt.......... 762 50 Austrian Belgian 4 1 ......... —9 9 i— Spani s h Th rees Fiedmontese(s) ...... 90 Homo Debt RAILWAYS—FOII CASII, fr C. Orleans .............. tr. c. 1320 W es t ern Northern ............ 875 - - Strasburg Lyons and Med ...... 823 - `New Ditto ...... New Ditto... .. ..... 812:i— Grand Central Geneva ............... 635 Sardinian Midi .................. £6 9 : 1 2 . kustrian Com. ... -- 67 0 REE. The questi on of th G e success CE ion to the throne of Greece appears, from the following letter addressed from St. Petersburg to the Constitutionner, to have been brought under the notice of the Emperor of Russia at Stuttgard by the Queen of Greece : " It is known that Queen Amelia of Greece ar rived at Stuttgart during the meeting of the Em perors of the French and of Russia, and we learn fron t a good source that her Majesty took advantage of the occasion to speak with the Czar Alexander' on the affair of the succession to the Greek throne. King Otho having no hope of having children, the succession goes to his brothers ; but they refuse to submit to the emdition laid down in the Greek constitution, and in the protocol of London, signed by the protecting powers and by Bavaria, th a t th e King o f G reece shell be of the orthodox Greek re ligion. Queen Amelia accordingly proposed that Ler youngest brother, Elimar of Oldenburg, who is 13 years of age, should be accepted in their place. Her Majesty's proposition, which was con fidentially made, gave rise to no special conference between the Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of the French, as the matter will not demand the intervention of the protecting powers for some time to come." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, OCT. 19. In the evening of Saturday the principal credi tors of Boscovitz and Co. had a second meeting with the represent dives of the Credit Bank, and after a short discussion the following arrangement was made :-1. The Credit Bank engages to Vance from 30 to 50 per cent. on all bills bearing the signature of Boscovitz and Co. ; that i., one third or one-half of the amount of the bill will be advanced to the creditors on his consenting to leave it as security in the hands of the Credit Bank. 2. Each creditor gives a written pro mise to the Ciddit Bauk that, if the affairs of the bankrupts are not wound up within °ix months, or if the proceeds of their estate are not equal to their debts, he will pay to the Bank that part of the amount of the bill for which it has no security. 3. The Credit Bank advances money to the amount of ) / 000,0001, and, besides, undertakes to mediate between the bankrupts and th-ir creditors. 4.. As the public papers strongly objected to the original proposition of the Credit Bank, that its claims on the estate of the bank rupts should. have right of precedure and be discharged in full, that institution expressed its willingness to take its dance with the other creditors if they consented to pay 2 per cent. for s the money advanced. This last proposition I was LYCEUM-ENGLISH OPERA. An English version of the " Trovatore" was produced last night to a crowded house, and with great success. On the present occasion, though the performers wera not the stars of the Italian stage, yet they acquitted them selves well; and produced an effective ensemble. Mr. Augustus Braham surpassed himself in the character of Manrico : we never saw and heard him to so much ad vantage. He sang, indeed, with remarkable sweetness, and some of his principal efforts were most warmly re ceived. Madame Caradori'e Leonora was a musician like performance, and Miss Susan Pyne's Acuenza showed considerable dramatic power. Mr. Ferdinand Glover, as the Count de Luna, showed himself a mere novice as an actor. But he is a singer of rare merit. The opera is admirably put upon the stage ; the cos tumes, scenery, and decorations being rich and beautiful. LYCEUM THEATIIE.—Mr. Balfe's new opera, founded, we hear, on "The Muleteers of Toledo," a piece pro• duced some time ago at the Princess's, is in active rehearsal, and will be ready for production, it is sup posed, at the end of next week. HERRING TRADE.—WICK, Oct. 15.—N0 sales of her rings have taken place, so far as we can learn, since t'e date of oar last, at which time prices ruled at 36e. 9d. for full crown brands, and 325. for spente. Of the latter the stock is sold out, and now that continental prices are rather on the decline, it is fortunate that the quan tity of the former is also small. Price of red herrings at Wick, 40s. per harrel.—Jolen o'Groat Journal. A SECOND SILK CROP.—A singular experiment, which may lead to valuable results, has just been made at Toulouse. A lady, the wife of a captain quarterenaeiter, put an ounce of silkworms' eggs to hatch in September last, and fed the young worms with the leaves of the mulberry tree as usual. The worms have thriven bet' er than in May last ; none of them have died, and they are now spinning their cocoons. This success is, per• haps, in a great measure attributable to the mild wealli;:r, for which this autumn has been so remarkable ; at any rate, the above fact shows that the secondcropofmulh,cry leaves is quite as good food for the sil kworm as the first, c ontrary to the opinion of the majority of ail growers. —Gallynani. THE NICK OF TIME.—,As the late Earl Fitzhardinge's rent-roll is supposed to have been about 40,0001. a-par, a nice point, it is remarked, may arise on the question of the precise hour of his death, which is aenounced as having taken place " about midnight'' between the 10 •h and 11th inst. His rents were payable at " old time , ," that is, Old Lady-day and Old Michaelmas-day. Old Michaelmas-day fell this year on Sunday, the 11th in •t., and the day begins at midnight. New the rent is due upon the first moment of the day it bec.)mes due, so that at one second beyond 12 o'clock of the 10th inst., rent payable at Old Michaelmas Day is in law due. If the earl died before 12 the rents belong to the parties takirre the estate, but if after 12, then they belong to, and form part of, his personal estate ; so that the difference of one minute might involve a question as to the title of about 20.0001. ; a nice question for lawyers.—Guardian. CARLISLE AND HAWICK.—It is now certain that there will he a struggle between the Caledonian and North British Companies for this line. The former company will be supported by the Duke of Bucclauch, who stre nuously supports the Langholm route, and by the people of that town; while tba Liddesdale line will receive the support of Sir James Graham and Sir William Eiliott, also extensive landowners, throngh whose estates it will run, and by the town councils of Ha wick, Galashiels, and Selkirk. Which of these parties is most likely to be successful it would at present be unsafe to predict . It appears that the expenses of the recent contest amount to 10,000/. ; but the North British Company eoga 4 e io defray the whole cost of the agproaching struggle themselves.—Glasgow Daily Mail. WAGES IN CANADA.—Bricklayers, 7a to 8s 641 ; masons, Os to 7s ; stone-cutters, Sc to 7s ;• joiners, 54 to 7s ; carpenters, 6s 3d to 7s 6d ; tinsmiths, 5. t , -4 5.s 6d ; p pa ri i n n t t e e r r s s, (c s o e m to po 6 s s it ; or ga : i n 6 e . r t e .) , 6 7 : t ; o d i t s t ;; ) ( h p a o t . te e r hatters, es mr 6 e s :l t . n) . 7 e ;1 1 i . 6s to 6s 843 ; tailors {mete), 4s to 5s ; ditto t o ' 2. - s uoomskors, 4 4 to 54 ; upholsterers, 5s to 6s; coopers, 3s to 4s ; farm labourers (with board), 2: to 3e ; day labourers, 2s 3d to 3s Od ; boys and 12 to 13 (with board), 91 to is 34 ; rail vay labourers, 4s to 5q ; needlewornen (with board), is to 2e ; dressmakers (with board), is 3d to 21; servant flak's (I , er montb), 12, 2d to 24s 4i ; serraLt boys, 12c 6.1 to 253; servant men, 30a t, 50s. Toe addition of one-fourth to sterling money brings it as nearly as possib'e into Hal fax cur rency—the standard by which all mercantile and mone tary affairs are settled here. MUNIFICENT LEGACIES TO THE LIVERPOOL CHARITIES —Mr. Thomas Watkinson, of Liverpool, who died on the 14th inst., at his residence, Kensington, near Viet town, and who lived and died a bachelor, has left about 60,0001. amongst his distant relatives and friends, The father of Mr. Watkinson was a retired Liverpool trades man, and the son has not forgotten the charities of his native town, having instructed his executors to distri bute 4,700/. amongst them as follows :—The Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, 5001. ; the North aspen-ary, 5001. ; the South Dispensary, 5001. ; the Northern Hospital, 500/. ; the Southern Hospital, 5001 ; the Blue Coat Hospital, 5001. ; the School fir the Indigent Blind, 5001.; the Deaf and Dumb Institution, 1001 ; the Ladies' Charity, 2501. ; the District Provident So ciety, 1001. ; the Female Orphan Asylum, 250/ ; the Boys' Orphan Asylum, 250/. ; the Strangers' Friend Society, 2501. Mr. Watkinson has appointed a doctor, a lawyer, and a divine as his executors, viz., Dr. O'Don nell, Mr. Stone, and the Rev. T. Gardner, of Sta.ley, to each of whom he has bequeathed a legacy of 1,0001., as a testimony of his personal regard, and for the trouble they may have in winding up his estate. SALE OF CHURCH PREFERMENT.—Yesterday, at Gar raway's Sale-room, Change-alley, Cornhill, Mr. Clark, of the firm of Messrs. Farebrother, Ciark, and Lye, offered to public auction the next presentation to the valuable rectory of Woodham Walter, near Maldon, Essex. The annual income of the living is derived from the tithe-commuted rent charge, awarded at 560/., 45 acres of glebe land, residence, and fees, amounting to 6481. The value, according to the Clergy List, is 4371.; the value in the "King's Book," 121. 13i. 16d. The incumbent bas held thelving for nearly 40 years, and is now in his 76th year, and, therefore, according to the tables, it was stated by the auctioneer, hie life may be expected to be only four or five years longer. The popu latien of the parish is 540, and the neighbourhood de scribed as being very select. It was stated that the advowson of the living could be purchased, as it was held by a relative of the vendor of the next presentation. Previous to putting up the property, the auctioneer remarked that the Press frequently censured the sale of the cure of souls, but that was not a matter for his con sideration, f r as long as it was legal to do so, he weld continue to sell church livings as well as any other pro perty pat inter his hands—knocked down at 4,900/. "TELEGRAM."—There has been a good deal of di— cussion in the newspapers about this woad, and its elide-) to be accepted as legitimately derived from the two Greek words out of which the word " telegraph" has been formed. In the course of that discussion it has been several times stated, in letters to the 7 ieses, that the word "telegram" originatel in the columns of that journal ; and the Times was evidently as well disposed to "own the soft impeachment" as Mrs-. Malaprop c mad possibly be. The statement, however, is altogether erroneous. So far as we know, the word first appeared in the Times, when giving the first despatch from Ceg liari, about two months a t ; and then it was communi cated from the Foreign-office, not only to the Times, but to the other London papers. So far as we can discover, the word was first used in India, and appears frequently in the papers relative to the mutinies in the East bodice, laid before Parliament during the present session. The earliest instance of its use that we have been able to find is contained in a letter from Maj Birch, secretary to the Governor-General, to Major-General Heersey, dated Calcutta, April 21, 1857, which says :—" A tele gram to the following effect has this day been trans mitted to you." Subsequently to that date the word appears frequently in the pa Dem—Mane/tester Guardiqn INVENTION FOR SUBMERGING SUBMARINE CABLES.— A rather numerous meeting of engineers was held at the Town-hall, Manchester, yesterday morning, to re ceive from Mr. John Da la Hays ( one of the firm of De la Haye and Bloem) an explanation of a new invention for which he has taken out a patent for submerging huh merino electric cables. Mr. Richard Reber ts presided, and Mr. De la Haye said his attention had been drawn to the subject by the failures in laying the Mediter ranean and Atlantic telegraph cables. The pia, he would adopt would be to encase a cable, prepared ike that for the Atlantic Ocean, iu a soluble c enpound (the composition of which he would not now mentian), capable of fl iatirg it for a time on the surface of the water. The coating he propcsed to use for this purpose he supposed would hold it on the surface of the waves, whilst about five miles of cable were pail out from the vessel before it began to dissolve, and as it wouid die solve gradually, so the cable would sink gradually to 1 the bed of the ocean. By this means he calculated I that there a onl I al.vays be about five miles of calls ' l i ng on the euiface of the eater in the wake of the vessel, and tke remainder would describe an outline to within one or two hundred feet of the bed of the ocean, so that there would be comparatively little strain, and consequently less liability of breakage. The cable would descend into the ocean horizontally, instead of nearly perpendicularly, Some questions were put to Mr, pe under stoodHaye,from but his above opre abort opoel in outline will o he f t et c p i e l rialltl!y eagerly accepted, but still the mAter cannot be considered definitively settled, as many of the cre ditors of Boscovitz and Co. were not present at the assembly. The liabilities of Messrs. Boscovitz are 1.8000)00fl. in bills and 278,000f1. in book-debts. During the last two or three days there has been lull, but it is pribable that the crisis is very far from being at an end. Information was given thil morning that one or two manufacturing firms had suspended their payments, but no names can be mentioned until the report has received complete confirmation. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived. The Epoea says that M. Martinez de la Rosa, in an interview with the Queen, had laboured to con vince her Majesty that her dynasty and literal in stitutions are inseparable ; and that Admiral Armero, who was present, said the same thing. The same journal says that the first act of Queen Isabella, after receiving the oaths of Admiral Amero as President of the Council, was to direct that a criminal condemned to death at Valencia should have his sentence commuted. Three jour nalists, MM. Ulloa, Asquerino, and Asencio, had waited on M. Bermudez de Castro ; the new Civil Governor of Madrid, and had represented to him that several hundred citizens were detained in prison without knowing why, and that it was just that they should be either brought to trial or libe rated. The Civil Governor, who received them with great urbanity, said that he would without delay examine into the affair, and would render justice. It was reported that the Duke de Valen cia (Narvaez) intended to take up his residence at Loja. or Bayonne ; other accounts say, however, that he meant to go abroad. The Gazette an nounces that the Queen has entered the ninth month of her pregnancy. Intelligence from Cettinge of the 9th states that the tribe of Wasojew has consented to pay tribute to Turkey and to continue to do so in future. A sum of 3,000 piastres, the first sum due, is to be remitted to the Pacha of Scutari by the consul of France. The Pacha on his part has consented not .to send Turkish authorities to reside amongst the tribe. The dissension between the tribe and Turkey has consequently been arranged without the shedding of blood, which was at one time feared. A letter from Vienna in the French Journal of Frankfort says :—•` The circular despatch addressed by the Porte to its diplomatic agents has drawn forth a reply from our cabinet to the Porte, which has been communicated to the powers which signed the treaty of Paris. In this document Austria maintains her policy, which is already known." A letter from Cattaro of the 7th says :—" Prince Danilo has, in virtue of a resolution of the Senate, confiscated all the property of the convents, and decided that the clergy shall be paid from the public treasury. The Archimandrite of Cettinge, who is a member of the Senate, persecutes the clergy with such rigour that the Archimandrite of Ostrog has fled from the country, and taken up his residence in Russia." A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 30th ult., says :—" For some time past the great question of the day, that of the emancipation of the serfs, has been slumbering. What has alrea iy been done in the matter is this :—" A superior committee, consisting of members of the Council of the Empire, was formed to examine the question ; but it sepa rated without deciding anything. By order of the Emperor it assembled anew in the month of July last, and this time it appears its lab ,urs had a result ; at all events, a ukase on the subject is expected on the return of the Emperor." The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna says :—" Great astonishment has been expressed at seeing a Russian war steamer, the Ordinares, proceed up bhe Danube as far as Giurgevo, and a French one as far as Tonrnou. It appears that France and Russia wish to extend the freedom of navigation of the Danube to vessels of war, but it is impossible to conceive by what right vessels of the kind should do so. The upper part of all river.; is naturally neutral; it belongs to the States along whose banks it runs, and no foreign vessel of war has a right to enter unless invited to do so by the express will of the sovereign or suzerain." It is stated in a Vienna letter, addressed to the Correspondent of Nuremberg, that Prince Richard de Metteruich, who is at present Austrian Minis ter at Dresden, is to be nominated to the embassy at St. Petersburg. TIIE CHRISTIANS AND- THE MCE -21 IMANS. The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following very exaggerated account of the sentiments enter tained.by the Mussulmans of Asia Minor and Egypt towards the Christian inhabitants of those ciun tries "It is not only in India that the Mahometans are arming themselves, for the armourers in all th e c iti es an d towns of Asia Miner, Syria, and Egypt were never car rying on such an txtensive trade as they are at present. All that is taking place at Calcutta under the eyes of the Governor-General of India, the European consuls see re peated at Smyrna, at Acre, at Alexandria, and else where. The most pacific Orientals, those even who are not accustomed to handle arms, are purchasing revol vers, and the Turk, the Syrian, and the Egypt tian make no secret of the motive which leads them to purchase these weapons. One of our friends who is on the spot states that something is in agitation among the Mussulman population —something which very closely resembles the rising of the Muesalmans in India. Europe deceives itself in imagining that any gratitude is b It because the Western Powers supported the crescent against the Greek cross. It is quite the contrary. The hatred felt throughout the East against Christians is tin bounded. It is in the strongest terms of indignation that the events at Constantinople are talked of, and the tanzirnat is a subject of derision. Never has a Christain obtained less justice or been more detested than since the Christian States have declared themselves the protectors of the Mussulman." EXPLOSION.—L.rvEnrooL, Wednesday.—Last evening at half-past, six o'clock, one of the boilers in connection with the Regent Steam Corn Mill, corner of Regent• street, Great Howard-street, burst with a fearful explo sion, scattering the brick work,and materials with which it was surrounded, and killinklbe engineer, Jamea Dow ling, a single young man, and badly scalding Ti omas Garney. Three per-ons passing at the time were knocked down by the shock, but sustained no serious injury, N o cause has been a-eertained as to the accident. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 21.—The steam-sbip City of Balni. more, belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia Ste on-ship Company, sailed hence this afternoon for Ne w York, having on -board 520 os.sengets, of whom 119 occupied cabin berths, and 8,2191. in specie on freight. She had only 90 tons of cargo, the present panic in Am, - rice having put en effectual stop at present to the shii - went of fine reannfacturee from this kingdom. Ti e Montreal Ocean Steanc-,hip Comp,ny's screw steam. r Indian Lair) sailed to-day for Quebec and Montreal, having on board 250 paseeng(rs (130 chief cabin), the Canadian mails, and a lull cargo. Among the cabin passengers are Sir Edmund Head, Governor-General Of Canada, Lady Head, and suite. The Indian, bad no specie on freight, but it is believed that some of the pas eengeri had a considerable quantity. During the winter months the steamers of this line will run to Portland, United States, the navigation of the St. Lawrence h,ing closed. The Cunard steam -ship Canada sails hence for Halifax and Boston on Saturday, the Post-office here closing at 10 a.m., with late fee at 11 a.m., and on the landing-stage at 12 noon. The clipper ship Chancellor, belonging to the White Star line of packets, s 11 8 to day for Melbourne with 330 passengers, end on Friday next the Government ship Irene sails for Moreton illy with 350 emigrants. THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY COLLISION.—The fol lo wing is the verdict which the jury, after a consul tation of more than an hour, returned on Tuesday, and the substance of which appeared in our o lumns yes terday :—" We find that Sarah Ann Harmer came to her death in consequence of a collision on the South Wales Railway, caused by the carelessness of Cueelee White, the station-ma<ter at Stormy, in despatching, contrary to his printed instructions, the down-passanher train on the up-line without waiting for an answer to his telegraphic message, and in direct opposition t) positive orders received from Port Talbot. We there fore find the said Charles White guilty of manslaughter, and that his statement that he received a subsequent order to send the down-train on the up-line, is contrary to evidence.. We exonerate Henry Turner from blame, but it would have been more desirable if be bad gone to inquire for an answer before be started the up-train. We think there is evidence of carelessness and incompr tency in the telegraphio arrangements both at Port DO NA and Stormy, and that there is blame to be attached to the company for not employing more efficient ser vants at such important stations, especially Stormy, and also for not taking care that they are properly instructed in the working of the telegraph on both instruments. also think if there had been means o f tele glrhaeptirY c communication at Pyle this lamentable colli sion might have been prevented." Tli TYNA Mr. Headlam, M. Ridley., M.P., Mr. George Hudson, M.P., and other influential gentlemen interest-d in the trade of the north-east port , , accompanied the River Tyne Improvement Commissioners on Tuesday upon au inspection of the extensive pier works in progress at the mouth of the Tyne. The piers will be carried ii,to a depth of 15 feet, and about 1,000 feet beyond Spar-Hank, the seaward limit of the jurisdiction of the commis sioners. The funds for the execution of the work are raised by a tonnage rate on shipping-Id. per ton upon coasting vessels, and 2d. per ton - upon foreign, up to a certain point. The commissioners have also Parliamentary powers to borrow 200,0001. upon the security of the rates, powers that they lave not yet exercised. The south pier will be 4,200 feet long, and the width between the two piers will be 1,100 feet. The River Commissioners are just completing one extensive dock in the harbour, and have procured Parliamentary powers to build an other. The North-Eastern Railway Company are building a large dock on the Tyne ; those when completed will relieve the harbour of vessels taking in cargoes. The enormous trade of the port is shown by the fact that last year 27,294 vessels, with cargoes amounting to 3,940,033 tons, were cleared inward and outward from the Tyne, and the more especial object of the inspection of Tuesday was to point out, to the tonal members the advantages that would accrue to the trade of the district if the Govern ment were assisting the commissioners to carry the piers into 25 or 30 feet water, and thus make the Tyne a harbour of refuge. Down to the present time, though the Tyne, Tees, and Wear have 100,000 vessels entering them annually —one-sixth of the trade and tonnage of the whole kingdom-- no great national work has been undertaken be tween Flamborongh Head and the Frith of Forth for a harb tar of refuge for shipping in a gale of wind. Captain Washington, R.N., Captain Vietch, R.N., Lieutenant Calver, RN., and other Ad miralty authorities, are in favour of H ar tl e p oo l as the best site for such a work ; but the River Tyne Commissioners argue that their river is the best And easiest of access of any bar Barbour in the kingdom ; that in a gale of wind masters of vessels will make every effort to get to the port they are bound for, or whence they have sailed ; and that it would be better to improve the existing harbours than make new ones, and in doing so to commence with the last first. On a former occasion the:liver Tyne Commissioners offered to lay down a pound for every pound that might be advanced by the Government, and they seem determined that next session of Parliament they will have their case fairly brought before the country. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. We reproduce the following circular despatch addressed by the Prussian Foreign-office to its diplomatic agents abroad. This document, in spite of its remote date, is of political value, since it is the first official expression that has transpired of the views entertained by the Prussian Govern ment : Monsieur,—By my despatch of the 30th January, as well as by the explanatory document annexed to it, I made known to you the decisions which had been come to at Constantinople between the Ottoma n Porte and the other powers who signed the treaty of Paris, relative to the convocation of the Divans ad hoc , w hich, according to Art. 24 o f th e sa id treaty, were to be called on to express the wishes of the people o n the sue jest of the Organisation of the Danubian principab t;es. The &man, the tenor of which I have conk munieated to you, hag been since published by the go v,rn merit of the Sultan ; and the members of the special a , remission, formed in virtue of Art. 23 have proceeded i t the spot, in order to watch over th e execution of t, and ultimately to put themselves in relation with the Divans. The people of Wallachia and Moldavia, t° whom the European power s , i n accor d w i th the Porte , had secured the right of co-operating, by the expression of their wishes, in the revision of their ancient privilege! and immunities, could not f a il t o b e d eep l y inspresse° with the great importance of th e m i ss i on w i t h w hich their deputies were ab , ut to be chanted. The eleetion c f sr the Divans were therefore naturally expected to 00 ' cuisy the attention of the public, and the electors, in pre' paring to exercise their rights, could not fail to discus! , atrioug themselves the great questions on which their representatives would have to pronounce themselves 0 the name of the country. Eat such a solemn moment ,he hope of a more favourable future may have been entertained, and an ardent patriotism have manifested itself with a certain degree of vivacity, we must adroit that up to the present time the Mold,:-Wallachiao have scrupul iusly respected the autbority of the laws. Nowhere has p u bli c tranquillity been disturbed, ne: towhere have any scenes occurred of a nature to mak e Europe regret the c.mfidence which it had placed 0 , 1 , the good feeling of the p eo pl e . O ne o f th e most i mpor tao'' questions on which the Divans will have to pronounc e _ an opinion is that of the politi ca l un i on o f th e tyry principalities under one solidly c 3ns tit u t e d governm ent' This question is not a new one ; it has long been tb: subject of attention on the part o f thi n ki ng men ; was submitted in 1355 to the conference of Vienna, al at the congress of Paris, th e represen t at i ves o f sev ere great powers declared themselves in its favour. 001 it 'is true, were opposed to it, an d th e reason wby est definitive understanding was come to at Paris cre s . desire of consulting the wi s he s o f th e peop l e. Th e s pee' 4 ". commission was appointed in ord er t o i nqu i re i n to t":: actual state of the principalities, an d t o co ll ec t the !if_ meats necessary for a mature and c l ose examination ipt the question of the union. The wishes of the Divans / 4 form one of those elements, but it w ill no t be the c i ?i!, one. The rights of the suzera i n p ower, t h e grea t Pitt o, ciple of the integrity o f th e 0 toman emir® the tenance of order, w ith ou t w hi c h t h e rights and libe rti°ll of the people would be illusory, are other etemee' s which will exercise their weight in the deliberatl. of the future Europ ean congress which will reels,. the definitive organisation o f th e P r i nc i pa li t i es. We have always reserved our vote as f ar as regards the for the moment when the special commission eu' o have transmitted the resu lt o f i ts la b ours. Never the representative of the King at Constantin ol l; or the commissio n e r a t B uc h arest, assumed an a ttitn°,, or used a languag e w hi c h was not strictly in conforth!,; l , with this reserve. I d we ll on thi s f ac t , b ecause evil of a posed minds have endeavoured t o cas t susp i c i o n on intentions of the King, and on the conduct of its rcpt, sentatives. Our commissioner has recommende d to every one calmness, respect for the laws, and fidelity 1. the euzerain power. He has in the same m anner o ways endeavoured to influence th e l oca l administrateos both at Bucharest and at Jassy. This conduct is '1,6 only is conformity with the spirit of th e t rea ty of Fl'the but it is also of a nature to remove the danger o f ! • 0 too great political agitation w hi c h m i g ht res ult fi' m a violent and ' arbitrary action on the part of ors caimakans. We hope th a t a ll th e commisel ( L de a be inspired with the same principles of .lea lily 02 lity and conciliation, in ord e r th a t th e co ,ol6 Aso without descending into the party questions, but 00, without -acrificing its dignity by a false indiffdre'its may be equal to the arduous task confided to it by 2evective governments. I shall not fail to make Y ee acquainted with the ultimate development of any cl?, 10 . tiona connected with the situati on o f t h e Danubian Poi cipalities. The present communication is only intelLo for your personal infor ma ti on, i n order that you of regulate your langsage in conformity with the vie ws to the cabinet of th e Ki ng, b ut I leave it to your ta c f t bio mak- what confid ent i a l use you may t hi n k prope r o despatch.—Accept, &e., MANTEIO III4 " Berlin, May 28, 1857." . , lONIAN ISLANDS. CORFU, Oct. 10.--Three line-of-battle ships ate rived iu this roadstead Ok the 29th ult.—the El i a Albert, Centurion, and the Princ e ss Royal-'—‘ lll ,, bo the comenand of Admiral Lord Lyons, and on 'l O4 day after the lonian Government steamer, I° l ,d retur4, d from her rip to the other islands with P - Excellency Sir J. Young, K.C.IVLG. Lord Lyons, on landing at the St. Nicolo us,, t h was received by a guard of honour of the 4 u l g Regiment, and a salute was fired from the citilL' i t battery. On the' 3d inst. Sir J. Young paid a t'. to the admiral on board the flag-ship, ing, the royal yards were planned and a salute gr ia , On the same evening Sir J. Yo ung , Si r G . Bnie K.C.8., general i n command of the troopsf_iidi President of the S ena t e, and the senators, at their ' his ux tter c, halves, On the inst. -Roney gave a ball at the palace. may also menti on t h at L ord Lyons has paid 048 4. visits to his old friend the Hellenic consa l, ,• l3 l. Cavalier Vit a li s , an d a l so too k d e j euner w ith Pi ro - M. Vitalis hopes to obtain leave from his G° le la id ment to extend the telegraphic cab!e, when 00 , down from Malta to Corfu, to some p ar t of are „, " On the 6th inst. Major-General Sir G. Buller q b e his official visit to Lord Lyons, and on l e aving oc . Royal Albert saluted. The general afterwardr ;o oo companied Lord Lyons to inspect the fortifies" o u of Vido. The subsequent day ab 11 was give ll „ i t r board the Royal Albert, the elite of C o rfu being vited. 4g* A number of the ships' crew landed vr" — ir. hours' leave, and kept the place in a great L e lt Many are the anecdotes afloat a b ou t h on est I', its tar. Three sailors died on b oar d s i nce ha the 4th inst. H.M.S . A r id arr i ve d o rb d our. Malta, to relieve the Swallow. - , for The fleet is expected t) sail this morniea Zante, Cephalonia, and Candia. Mr. D. Ado!phue Lange, the representative u ed country of the I s th mus o f S uez C ana l, h as j us t retu A • JO to Lond on , a f ter stay i ng a week w i th M. Fer di v an- „ at Le pseps, Minister Plenipotentiary, at his chat°, l ; e s• ludre. Th e p ar ty a t th e c h a t eau b ro k e up on W e : o - eft day last, and returned to Paris to ass i s t at a conie r ;der consisting of the engineers and promoters of the be taking, who had assembled from several countries %bpi present at this interesting reunion. We understan d l4 b olt very important measures have been l ec id e d oet fOt will necessitate M. Ferdinand de Lesseps' depart gt " Constantinople.