The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kern. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Yieeeded by LIVING TOO FAST. R OYAL LYCEUM THE XTRE. —Lessee, Mr. the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for an OPERA SEASON of THREE M MONCaTHS, ra with the Co. Distinguished Artistes : —adame dmi, Miss relli, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Braliam, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braliarn, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, Mr.Wallworth, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected fres, 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. Fram p t on . Chorus • Master, Mr. G. Smytheon. THIS EVENING, will be performed Wallace's opera of MA RITANA. To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. - Prriate Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 lls. 6d. ; stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circ:c, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. • Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The Bras Office is now open daily, from 11 to 6, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. T WA Tlt E ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with (ith time .`sere these eight years) Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Miss A. Scdgwick. Followed I_ , T a new farce, MY SON, DI kNA! To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Orchestra Stalls' (which may be retained the whole of the evening), ex. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price.' s. d. Second price. s. d /tress Boxes ..:.... 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes . 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it 1 0 Lower Gallo] over Gallery , - iry Upper Gallery f) 6INo half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will bet performed the home•ma4o Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECiONOMY. Mr. Wright and Mies Arden. _ . After which, Douglas Jerrold's; drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Blue Poter. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Wright ; Black-eyed Susan, Miss Arden. To conclude with the new sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, Ste. STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING, will be performed TEE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Clarke, ss Herbert. To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which Miss Craven will sustain four characters. Reginald Rattle • cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, wr tten 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. ,loinmenee at Seven. Stalls. 35.; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is.; Gatiery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls. OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Itob4on and Emden. Ting EVENING, will be performed (2d time) a new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Cooper; Mrs. Stirling, Misses Wyndham and Swanborough. 'Po conclude with the oi iginal Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brough, Esq., called YIASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwa,ll, tLighes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 1;i OYAL SURREY THEATRE. nil) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, to Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, V dlaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss Ehurne, Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD. To conclude with TRICKS AND TRIALS. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow. in 7 company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, drc., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madile. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott Miss Brunch, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta; Harr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Fareant, S. loner, J. Barker, W. Melling., Senor An'onio, E. L. Rime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack wy. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans Commence at &yen o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at ha:f-past Eight and half. p:st Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taus DAY- Morn. 2 min. aft. 3—Even. 15 min aft. 3 TO-MORROW —Morn. 31. min. aft. 3—Even. 46 min. aft. 3 lEEE WEATHER—Bus Ovrtoz, Oaraßzitl9. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAME. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night 61 —this day at noon. BABOMZTER, 29.88. 1 WIND, Northerly; light, with fine weather. At'ar 4 PW,* • LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 20, 1857. The minimum rate of discount was yesterday iaised to 8 per cent. The gloomy intelligence from America was the justification. With ad verse exchanges, the step could scarcely be avoided, so long as the present monetary code re mains in operation. The Bank must act on the defensive, and sacrifice the commercial community to save itself. Without an extension of its issues, or in other words, a suspension of the Act of 1844, the crisis cannot be successfully encountered. The distrust will still prevail ; persons will adopt t very possible means to secure their own position. and by so doing will increase the intensity of the crisis. It is an illustration of the case of " the children," described by LOCKE, as pulling at the scanty coverlid, each solicitous only on his own ae,count, and without reference to the general welfare. The present rate of discount in the United States is so enormous that not even ten or fifteen per cent, would save the bank reserves. What would be perfectly ruinous' to the mercantile and manufacturing interestF, is of comparatively trivial importance to speculators. If they can obtain thirty or forty per cent. on tolerable security at the other side of the Atlantic, or if they can even make a profit on the exportation of bullion, they will do so, without caring what may be the con sequences to the people of Great Britain. They profit by the general confusion, and that is all they look to. SYDNEY SMITH said that the railway system would never be improved until a bishop was killed. We fear that monetary matters will bevel be ameliorated until some great capitalists are caught in the snares they are spreading for their neighbours. When the magnates of Thread• needle-street, Lombard-street, or Lothbury, find themselves in difficulties, they will begin to feel that the joke has been carried 'too far. The storm was by no means unpleasant, but the hurricane defeated all their calculations. Just at the moment, and at the very time that the Bank was putting a famine price on money, tue Chancellor of the ExAcquer was starting for his country scat in Radnorshire. He assumes the uPPearance of the pennilcEs traveller, who cold' c.Arelesaly sing on the unguarded highway. Sir CHARLF.3"WOOD, in like manner, refused to r-- cognise the extent of the 3 naelency in 1847 until the issie of the Government Letter. He could not believe that unexi:eptionable piper was rejected iu L)mbard-street. Ilis salary was Punctually paid, and he could net understand al' V other difficulty. It was not until it was proved beyond the possibility of doubt by a depu tation. of Metropolitan bankers, that they could compel the Bank to suspend payment, and that they would do so, if the Government did not interfere, that be could be induced to shake oil the apathy previously exhibited ! He had, how ever, sufficient cunning to prevent what ought to hav e been the necessary consequence of the virtual "'Tension of the existing laws, and to retain the Act of 1 844, that it might occasion still greater evils, and serve. " to point a moral and adorn a tale." There ought net to be these panics. Capital does not consist of gold only. We have at, least from seven to eight thousand millions' vorth of property in the United Kingdom ; and yet the abstraction of a few millions—analogow3 to the loss of a five-pound note to a man worth eight or ten thousand pounds occasions the most fearful privations—the most terrible fears. Money or currency is but the mere mea sure of value. It would be considered a great absurdity, if persons wanting food were to remain starving because the provisions could not be weighed or measured at the authorised scales, or that a linendraper or mercer should not dispose of his commodities unless he had golden measures wherewith to mete them forth to his customers ! The bullionists are now following the example of the man who killed the goose that supplied golden eggs, and they may, perhaps, participate in the catastrophe that must occur. They are well off ! But although they may not think so, their interests are indissolubly connected with those of the industrial community. It is the creators and producers of natural wealth that find employ ment for their capital, and they should be satis fied to share in the profits. "The greed of gain" may involve themselves in the destruction which they are preparing for their neighbours. It will be a novel illustration of " the Engineer hoist with his own petard." The nature of the disease is now manifest. The cure is simple and easy. We want a suitable measure and representative of value, that will not be affected by foreign. convulsions. People choose to hoard gold, to lock it up in cabinets and closets—to bury it in cellars ! But it no longer fulfils its functions under such circumstances. It might, for all practical purposes, as well be de troyed as hoarded for the time being. The periodical depressions of the Money Market, not , in one locality only, but in every part of the world, are almost inexplicable. Gold might flow from London to Paris or Amsterdam, to Ham burg or New York ; but, still, if wanting in one quarter it ought to be found in another. But it seems to " have vanished from the face of crea tion," as our transatlantic brethren say. It is nowhere ! In every place the same cry is main tained. Money, or rather currency, is just as scarce in one place as another. The bees are still sacrificed to the drones, and the creation of honey is prohibited. It is surely time something should be attempted , on behalf of the industrial classes. No deposit of gold is required for domestic circulation. Taxation is a sufficient basis for currency, and if placed under legislative authority—if there was some party responsible to the nation—there could be no excess. There would be an absorption of some twelve hundred thousand pounds a week fox fiscal purposes, and a proportionate issue would keep everything straight. At present an extended issue of notes is re quired, and those notes should be of small denominations. The credit of the Bank is perfect. The public are just as well satisfied with its notes as with bullion, and " the worthless rags" possess a purchasing power, fully equal to the brightest coin. But still, State paper would be more satisfactory. Ir would be guaranteed not only by the entire ac• cumulated and realised property of the realm, bu. by the thews and sinews of every working man. There could be no daiager of stoppage. If gol 1 was at a premium, it would only arise from the natural law of supply and demand ; and that could not occasion a tenth-part of the dis turbance er annoyance produced by the present fluctuations and perturbations of the money market. There must be some movement., and that speedily, on the part of Government. The Act of 1844 must be suspended, and that suspen sion, while it saves the nation, will unequivocally condemn and annul the Bank Charter Act. Perhaps there never was a more appropriata or more lamentable illustration of the old proverb "Between t wo"--(everyboly`.knows the rest) than that recently afforded by the very important ques tion of the Main Drainage of the Metropolis. Between The Board of Works—and the Metropo litan Board of Works—it has entirely " fallen to the ground" hitherto. It has failed so completely in consequence of resting upon these two rival props—instead of relying upon one alone as a solid and rational foundation—that the evil (:after all this time) has actually Increased instead of being in any way Ameliorated. Throughout the whole of this interval, an interval now extending over several years consecutively, during the lapse of which we have been talking of the imperative and immediate necessity of conveying the sewage of the capital as far away from it as possible, and of doing this effectually—the public shores all along the Surrey and Middlesex banks of the Thames have been emptying their pestilential contents continually in larger and larger quanti ties into the river. There to be washed backwards and forwards in the broad current of the noblest stream in England—to and fro according to tho fluctuations of the ebb and flow of the tide—be tween the habitations of a vast city densely popu lated with upwards of two millionsof inhabit ants ! The controversy between the would-ba Innovators continuing all the while fiercely and uninttr ruptedly ! Epitomising the scattered facts of this contro versy- and thereby making a long story short, we may observe at once, that the Metropolitan Board of Works on one hand, and the Commissioners of Public Works and Public Buildings on the other, have been pitting one hobby against another, much to their own discredit and greatly to the detri ment of the general community ! It is an old saying " Who shall decide when doctors dis agree ?"—an old saying suggested by a still older grievance.- And of that old hypothetical grievance have we not here had a new and very deplorable realisation ? While our Sanitary Physicians have been squabbling over the superior merits of their respective systems of treatment, the miserable im posthume they were called in to remove has been growing and growing frightfully and portentously. Dues any one remember that famous pic ture by IIoGARTu, where the patient is repre 6ented as expiring in slew agonies in the chimney-corner, while the two bigwigs, who have been summoned to the sick-room, are driving each other perfectly frantic by insisting upon the supreme excellence, the one of a certain incom parable draught in a phial, the other of a certain marvellous bolus in a pile-box ! The table before them is upset, its contents smashed upon the floor and scattered, the chair of one practitioner tum bles back as he rises in a phrerzy to roar down the arguments of his opponent—the while that same obdurate and incorrigible opponent sits deg gedly unmoved, bottle iu hand, eyebrows raised (and voice raised no less than eyebrows), enforcing his statements with a rap of his gold-headed cane upon the cork of his magical nostrum. Tile pour unfortunate in whose behalf they have been broil g together fainting away in the midst of their hill - bub—a visible satire upon the insanity of thee monstrous professional contentions. A satire, but not, as such, in any way an exaggeration ! In proof which it is only necessary to : d nc w e r f a o n r , a . moment at this 'recent and lon g -protracted ling between these rival sanitary commissioner?. After perusing the correspondence that has taken place between the f :Teneral Board of Works and the Metropolitan, Board of Works it is impossible not to se'o that their apparently contrasting plans are rr,ally after all, as the housemaids say—Much of a Muchness. The ingredients are pretty nearly ti - ,e same in the bolus and the black-draught. 'The one is diluted, and the other is condensed. Mr. BAZALGETTE's scheme, it will be remem bered, was to empty the sewage of the metropolis masse a little lower down the river (but still, observe, to empty it into the river), and to do this, moreover, at a point sufficiently near to the capital t o enable the tide in rising to wash back the pes tilential deposits high up under the bridges— actually, according to this extremely ingenious project, renewing, day after day, the very evil we are all of us wishing to have removed. This recollect, was the plan suggested by the Engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and subse quently, and sum mar ily, an d mos t reasona bl y I rejected by Sir BENJAMIN HALL and his co-Com , missioners. It was then propDsed by Mes3rs. GALTON, SimPsoN, and BLACKWELL—in opposition to Mr. BAZALGETTE—that the obnoxious drainage of the capital should b 3 conveyed further away from London, but conveyed to that greater distance by open sewers. This—recollect, again, was +he plan suggested by the engineers of the General !Lard of Works, and now by the Rival (Local) Board no less summarily, and, in one particular, ❑o less reasonably rejected as in a great measure preposterous. Th 6 fact of the matter being, all the while, that neither are right, that both are wrong, and yet that all of them are at the same time upon the right tack, as shown in turn by the correctness of their relative objections I It were simply absurd to employ the agency of the river Thames for the main drainage of the metropolis, as proposed by Mr. BAZALGETT2— that being, in reality, one of the principal objects we have in view—namely, the so contriving matters in future that the river Thames shall be purified, instead of being rendered absolutely poi tilential. It were equally absurd to dream of bisecting two counties with ':open sewers while crnveying the drainage of London towards the sea, as pro posed by Messrs. GALTON, SnEesoN, and BLACK WELL-that being actually the very species of evil hitherto complained of with such deploralil3 reason, the old system, or rather want of system, resulting in nothing less than the transformation of the river Thames into an open sewer, and into nothing better than an open sewer reeking with destructive exhalations. Everything considered, therefore, we are clearly as far removed as ever from the remedy so long dnd anxiously desired. Let us have an end of these little petty jealousies and rivalries be tween contending Engineers and Commissioners. Ind let us have, at any cost—(instead of these jealousies and rivalries)—the realisation of our Hopes as to the Main Drainage of the Metropolis. How ? By conducting it far away from Loudon and from the Thames—emptying it into the North Sea by other means than gigantic open sewers—effecting all this (again we say it), no matter what the expenditure ! Conspicuous among the ameliorative measures required at the hands of the Legislature, at as early a period as practicable after the re-assem bling of Parliament, will assuredly be one in re ference to the treatment of the houseless poor when applying for aid at the last extremity at the door of the hospital or of the workhouse. At present the law in these cases appears really and truly to be altogether inoperative. Particular instances in proof of this were idle—they are unhappily of such very frequent occurrence. It is only very recently, indeed, that sundry lamentable illustra tions of this fact have been brought rather pain fully to the public knowledge. An accident sud denly occurs in the street:, and the sufferer is conveyed to one of our hospitals, to be there refused admission (after some delay) and sent off to another hospital in a diffirent part of the metro polis. An unfortunate drayman is jolted off the shaft on which he is sitting, his team being sud denly startled into a trot by the passing by of a runaway horse, and he is borne in great agony to another London Hospital with seventeen of his ribs broken, and his frame subjected t) other in juries, and he is coolly dismissed forthwith from the institution and sent home in a cab, a 3 having nothing particularly the matter with him—there, of course (in his poor home), to expire in great agonies soon afterwards. As a companion picture, to all which we have repeated rec)rds simul taneously in our police reports—relating ho w . ome wretched tramp, who has trudged wearily up to London from a remote corner of the pro vinces —footsore, famished, and drenched with rain during the inclement weather—is bandied about, long after nightfall, from one workhouse t another, until—shelter at last being given (but not food) the poor wretch is carried off in an hour or two after admission by a frightful attack of dicerrlacea, brought on by the combined effect.; of cold, fatigue, and inanition. It is not too much to ask and to expect that the law shall so interfere that deaths of this most lamentable kind shall in future be IMPOSSIBLE in this great city, save under the most exceptional combination of circumstances. We do demand that efforts at least in this direction should be made soon after the beginning of next session, in February—and we demand it most earnestly in the name at once of our common Christianity and of our boa3tel civilisation. SP. 3LIRTIN'S HALL. The season at this poplar plate of entertainment will commence to-morrow evening, when M.endils sohn's oratorio " St. Paul" will be praduced under direction of Mr. Hullah. The vocalists will be Madlle. do Villar, Mies Palmer, Mr. Aldershaw, Mr. Bamhy, and Mr. Allan Irving, with the chorus and orchestra o❑ their usual scale. All lovers of sacred music should avail themselves of this opportunity of bearing one of the citef d'teuvas of this eminent composer under sucli satisfactory arrangements. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington returned to town on Saturday, from Mauches'.er. His Graca left town yesterday tuorniLg, for Cromer, on the Norfolk coast. The Duchess remains at Apiley House. The Marquis of Bristol is at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Eitnuuds, surrounded by a Felect The Marchioness Dowager of Qtecnsberry has left Farrance'e Hotel, Bzlgravia, for St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury havo left town for Broadlauds, r,n a visit to Viscount and Viseountess i Pal,nerston. The noble Earl and her Ladyship to n a few day , to S. Giles'e, their own seat in D )rietshire. The Earl of .ii:glinton is passing the season at Egilato,, C tetlf, Ayrshirc, surrounded by a family circle. The. Dowager Lady LyttAton arrived at nee reAdenee in S. James's-square, yesterday, from Hagley Park, Worcestershire. Lurd S anlPy of Alderley has 141., to:va for Alderley Park, Cheshire. The Chancell.l. of the Exchequer loft London yoster day for Harpton Court, Kington, The Speaker and Lady Coartotto U::nia•ru and the Hon. Miss Ells left Rhidorroch, N. 13., yesterday, fur the south. . M. Du Sornpayo.has returned t, the Brunswick Hotel from a sho )tinz excuraion in the north. THE LATE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.—The argurnenti it Count Migeon's ease are at leng.h cancluied, and thi Court of Colmar will give judgment on Tnur.day first. Lard D.l.lhousie arrived at Suuthanapton yesterday. and proceeded to the reuidence of Captain Ramsay., th• A‘dusiralty 6uperintentlent of mail packets at that port. Hia lordship is couapelled to walk on crutches. He pr,- ceeds to Malta to.tlay in the Peninsular and • Orienta Company's India mail steamer THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 18.57, Madame Celeste having recovered from her severe indisposition will shortly reappear at the Adelphi. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Jullien's conceits com mence oa the 30th of the present month. Jetty Treffz, the Lieder Sa,oguerin par excellence, and whoie " Trab, Trab" has given her a well-merited popularity, has been secured. MR ALFRED WIGAN.—We learn with much pleasure that the health of this talented actor and recent manager of the Olympic Theatre, has much improrod since he took up his residence at Scarborough, and sanguine hopes are entertained of his complete recovery from the painful disease with which he has been suffering. Mdl'e. Rachel remains alarmingly ill at Canore. She recalled to her medical attendants the other day an in cident of the period of her greatest triumphs. She was playing " Pio‘Are," and the 8.337 of Tunis critically said of her at the end of the piece, " She has a soul of fire in a body of gauze." It was with a melancholy sigh that s le remarked,to her doctor, " Alas! he was right, and now you see that the fire has destroyed the gauze." A thenceunt. DISTURBANCE IN THE THEATRE ROYAL DUBLIN.— William H. Hasson Stanford, and Frederick H. Flynn, two resident studeats of Trinity College, were charged on Saturday night at the Collage -street Station, by Police-constable 169 B, with endangering the peace and the theatre R From the statement of the con stable it appeared that while on duty in the gallery of the Theatre Royal on Saturday night he heard Mr, Stanford call out repeatedly for a cheer for the Sepoys. These exclamations excited the indignation of all who were near him, and to prevent a breach of the peace, and save Mr. Stanford from being maltreated, he took him into custody. While taking him off, he alleged that Mr. Flynn rushed forward and attempted to rescue him, when both were secured. They were admitted to bail, and will appear this morning before the sittings magis trate at College street Police-office.— Dublin Freeman. CONSECRATION OF A BURIAL GROUND —The burial ground for the parish of Wet Hain was c msecrated to-day by the Bishop of London. The ground is situ atld in Forest-lane, Stratford, near the Whitechapel Industrial Schools. SALE AT TUNBRIDGE CASTLE, ICENT.-A private view of the contents of the mansion w 11 take place on Friday next, when the visitors will have an opportunity of inspecting the beautiful grounds and ruins of the ancient castle. The auction comtnences on Monday neat. ETON COLLEGE.—The ex`ensive and important altera tions at Eton College-hall have just been completed. The interior has been almost rebuilt from the designs of Mr. Woodyear, and was used for the first time under its new aTct last Sunday. THE Coamea FISHERIES.—Upwards of 400 hogsheads of fine pilchards were taken by Messrs. Bolithe and Co., of St. Ives, last week, and nearly 1,000 hogsheads by the Cornwell Company. The boats on the drift have been taking from 300 to 1,000 mackerel per day, which have sold at from 12s. to 16.3. per 100. LIMERICK LARE,—The Limerick Reporter has thi3 piece go•:eip :—" An extensive order for supply of Limerick lac', to cAnplete the wedding dress of the Princess ltoval, who is to be married to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, has been received at the factory of Messrs. Forrest. LARGE APPLES —Mr. Atkins, of the Royal Marine Barrack, lately picked from his garden, at the Point, t NO appes of the fallowing extraordinary dimensions-- one measured 13i inches in circumference, and weighed 13 oz 't ; the °tato- rneaiured 13 inches, and weighed 13 oz..— Plymouth Journal. FRENCH SILK 3 —The last advices from New York annoutie,, that Fiench Bilks were selling in that city at r.orn. 25 to 30 per cent. under the manufacturers' prices at Lyons and St, Etienne, cvnittquently the shopkeepers do not intend sendinv orders to France until some ina proveiment shall take place. THE MORIIONs.—A rumour had reached San Francisco from Utah to the effect that Colonel Sumner bail arrived. at Salt Lake City with a company of dragoons, and had armsted Brigham Young on a charge of high treason, and that he Lal already started with his prisoner for Waela'ngton. The news needs confirmation. DISCOVERY o' MINES IN SOUTH AU,TRALI A . —A letter from Ad e l a i de says :—" A fi ns extensive country, well catered, and with three splendid mines, two of them equal to tie Burra Burrs, has been discovered in the north. 5 0,000/. has been offered for one, and re fused. These mines are not far frrm Port Augusta." A. iniaUuderetlnding has arisen between Turkey and Persia respec:iug certain frontier forts, and the Porte is about to send as Elvoy Extraordinary to Teheran with powers which will enable him to settle the matter brevi manu. The diplomatist in q iestion is to leave Constan tinople with Onar Pasha, who will start for Bagdad in a fortnight. IRISH ENCITIBERED ESTATES COURT. —The new peti tions in the E.:cumbered Estates Court this week are important, amt embrace property to the extent of about 11,0001. per arnutn, among which are the estates of the Earl of lieu Lure in Cstrlow, Kilkenny, and Queen's County, Producing 4,000/. per annum, an I encumbered to the extent 41 110,0001. THE muErErt NEAR NOTTINGHAM.—The jury ap pointed to invstigate the circurattances under which the boy recently build murdered in a forest near Notting. haul came by his death have returned a verdict of "Wit ful.naurder against some person or persons unknown.. The police ate sill prosecuting their researches, and a reward of 100/. has been offered by the Government for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer. EUBDP A.E$ EXPELLED FROM M ADAGASC A.R.—lt IS confirmed tram Madagascar that Queen Ranavalo has expelled all the French and English resident s f rom h er dominions. The date of th e decree is August 25. The reason assigned is that the Europeans entertain the pro ject of dethroning the Queen and placing her son, Prince Rakoutou, on the thrme of Madagascar. THE EMBASSY FROM SIAM —A despatch, dated Mar. seines, O.:tuber 19, says the Embassy from Siam rested some time at Malta, where it was received with great distinction by the authorities. Opt the 11th tho arnbas sadors sailed by the Caradoc f r Gibraltar and England. Tire Prince, a relation of the King of Siam, is charged to offer to Queen Victoria several superb presents, and, among otler.4, a throne in massive gold, set with jewels. MONUMENT TO tAENGO PARK.—The public will learn with satisfaction that steps are now being taken to erect a monument to kungo Park, the celebrated African c ommittee was appointed i n 1841 f or th e purpose A L-o,lre raieing subscriptions in Selki r k s hi ra , hi s n ti a a t a r 'e v lele of c r o . urity, ant in tie neighbourhood. Tile corn mittee had b?en in existence up to this moment, and the waevi plain u r affi3ncd i f e s i t at p rable to announce now th a t t h ey h funds lYi tl warrant them in pro needing with a tructure.—Border Adverti s e r . s o l e e e r,l Morey was abundant in the Stock Escha , ge at the yesterday, and loans o n Go er commencementomentsecurities u l t f i e halm m were obtainable at 5 per c an t. IJltimatay the cha rte was 51 to 6. At the Bank, in veeu morning, there was a v er y ac ti ve perso ns anticipating that th e N ew Y or k intelligence cu e a l s ii: re e u nr many o c 6 e 'nyfthe would be followed by a speedy advance of the ondra n e y . ac The s ual rply thus obtained seemed to be be uiretnents, and at the end the day the balances in tee h an d s o f t h e b anks and d i scount h .used were large. A TELEGRAPH C ON VICTION OP be yond uepq— CLERK FOR EMBRZ ZLEMENT —At the Newcastle-on-Tyne quarter sessions, Alexinder Thompson, late clerk to Magnetic Telegraph Company, was been paid to him for i ra. l i g ssh embezzled 11. 134. 61, which had ed a message to St. Petersburg. The j i't) ,: bnd r e y :B' foundrtfsyoh, r Tatnihi:ed;vTprisoner guilty. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour.—Aerthern, Daily Express. MILDNESS OF TIIE SEASON*. —A correspondent at Con - petall has sent us, as proof of the present mild wea ther, as experienced in that neighbourhood, a sprig of apple blossorn!from a tree, about one-eighth full ofbloom; also some fin! , Pinks, plucked near the same place ; whilst, in the 'Barna garden, he states, are a Siberian crab tree, gooseberry and currant bushes, in bloom. Sweet Williams and pinks are in full flower at kfillbow, Derbys h ire.—Manchester Guardian. RAILWAY PEOJECT.—A. prospectus has been issued cf a proposed line of railway which will comraenne at Up ton, near Northampton, an d t h ere f orm a j unc tion with the Northampton and Pet er b oroug h R i i! wa y, p ass b y Weedon, forming there a junction with the main line of the London and North- Western Railway, proceed through the towns of Daventry and Southam, and terminate in a junction with the Birmingham and Oxford Railway at the Harbury and Southam-road station.—.Aris's Gazette. We learn from Central America that the cholera raged virulently both at San Salvador and Guatemala. It was feared that in Nicaragua a civil war would again . soon break out. Lord Cochrane had been voted an admiral of the Chilian navy, will full pay for his ser vices in the war of liberation. A Chilian war vess.el had seized the American ship Sportsman for loading copp ore in the territory disputed with Bolivia. Iu Peru the revolution bad not ended. The city of Puira had been nearly ch stroyed by an earthquake, and property to the amount of half a million of dollars lost. NEW IRISH LAW APPOINTgENTS. — It is generally onderetood in legal circles that, ilimediately after the opening of Michaelmas Term, the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland will resign his judicial seat, and that Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, the present Attor ney-General for Ireland, will be elevated to that di tingui s h e d post. Mr. Chr i st i an, t h e S olicitor-General, it is beli eved, sill not accept the office of Att orney - General,'n ever h aving bestowe d any attention on p , and not having a s,.at in Parliament, in which case it will, in all probability, ho conferred en Mr. Dea y, tZ C , enetnhr for the county of Cerk.—Northern Tray' (4Rn:sat HAVELOCK.--" Old Phlos," says the Athe rueurn of Saturday) is a name which, we are sure, must he now making the hears of old Carthusian: dance with pride and delight. The Charter-House has boasted of many scholars who have eprung into eminerr, men ; amongewhers, Crashaw, the poet ; Addison an I Steele, the esayists ; John We dey, the religious reformer ; and Lord Ellesborough, the Lind Chief Justice. To tee l!st elll su re l y b e added " Old Phlos, " The pet name evil.w be rememb ere d by Carthusians whose memories 0:w gc back som e 40 year or more. They ill not h ave f gotten Vie gentle and thoughtful led who used to stand looking on while others played, and whose general n e ditative manner procured fur him the name of " Puilos o Pher," subs equently dim i n i she d to " Phios, " and occ aionally applied as '•011 Phlox." That y oung and popular Philleoph er i s the soldier at whoee one th hearts of E re4 l i , h , nen beat with honest pride. "0 r Phlox of oi the Charf;:r-House is Havelock, the hero 0 , Cawn pore. PATENT WASHING MACHINES.—If imitation is a te,t of excelleece, this queetioaable te.,timony is being pae o the Yankee invention known as the Floatieg Bel Wasl,ing Machine. Shops in eecry part of the metro polis having been opened for the eale of ine.chines cashing purposes, and the east end of Oxford -street, from their frequency, if called " Laundry -place," er,;ul advantageously relieve this leviathan street, by a divisioe its nomenclature. The Yankee More, however, appears to hold his own, having had the start, and upon certainly the best hobby as yet.—Plumoutle Mail. u" ATE ,, NE Ws. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im perial arrived at four o'clock yesterday afternoon at Compiegne, where their Majesties will remain until the middle of next mouth. To-day a num ber of guests are expected at the p3lace, wherethey w:11 remain for a week, and be succeeded by others who have received invitations for the following weeks. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the customs revenue for the month of September and for the first nine months of the present year. For the former period the receipts amounted to 15,9G7,537fr., being au increase over the corre sponding month of last year of 738,056rr., and for the latter period to 143,180, 538 fr. , or 13,358,532 fr. more thin in the corresponding months of 185 G. The items of revenue which have shown the greatest increase during the nine months of the present year are—coffee, 5,528,5681 r. ; potable liquors, 4,108,098 fr. ; mahogany, 60,256 fr. ; linen or hempen thread, 96,572 fr. ; ccal, 522,088 fr. ; in d'go, 72,885 fr. ; hemp, 128,153 fr. ; gold and silver, 63,4691 r. ; nitrates of potash and• soda, 72, 665 fr. ; foreign sugar, 8, 331, 692 fr. ; linen and hempen wove goods, 25,618 fr. ; sundries, 3,571,663 fr. Those articles which show the most material falling off are—corn, 849,339 fr. ; cochineal, 51, 918 fr. ; raw cotton, 064,596 fr. ; oleaginous seeds, 15,839 fr.; tallow, 71,341 fr.; raw wool, 261,912 fr.; rough castings, 714,493 fr. ; bar iron, 2,718,120 fr.: pepper, 111,859 fr. ; and French colonial sugar, 3,051,888 fr. M. Valley, Prefect of the Marne et Loire, has, according to the Independance of Brussels, been named Prefect of the Nord in the room of M. Collet-Meygret who has assigned his post, and is to be made a receiver-general. The following are seme biographical particulars furnished by the Spectateur, of Admiral Armero, who has been charged by the Queen of Spain with the formation of a cabinet of which he is to be president. Don Francis° Armero y Peneranda entered the Spanish navy in 1822. He was a midshipman when the civil war between the partisana of Queen Christina and those of Don Carlos broke out, and at the second siege of Bi'boa by the Cellists he was raised to the rank of lieutenant, and at the third siege to that of captain ; this last rank was the re ward for the bravery and skill he displayed in going up and down the river of Bilboa with his vessel, under the fire of the enemy, in order to carry re:nforcerneuts to the city. Capt. Armero was the first wk.) I aided at the br dge of Luchana on the day of the vicory which gave the title of Count de Luchana to General Espartero. He after wards obtained further rank, and commanded the naval division of Catalouia. In 1840, when minister of marinp, he accompanied the Queen Regent and Queen Isabella to Valentia. After the events of Barcelona, which compelled the Queen Regent to quit Spain, he retired from I,olitical life, and did not return to it until 1843, when he Was made minister of marine in the first cabinet presided over by Marshal Narvaez, and afterward filled the same post in that of which M. Isturitz was president. In 1848 M. Armero, who was then vice -admiral, was appointed to the command of the Spanish squadron at Cuba. On his return to Spain he was named to the post of minister of marine in Brave-Mnrilio cabinet, which office he resigned a short time before the die,olution of that ministry. In 1855 M. Armero attained by seniority the rank of captain-general or admiral of the fleet.. Admiral Armero hag, therefore, owed his advancement - solely to his :nil.tary and administrative services, and from the frankness and naederation of his character he en joys the highest consideration in Spain. He is closely united by conformity of principles and political feelings, as well as by long standing per sonal friendship, to M. Mon, now Spanish am bassador at Rome, and his first act was to sum mon that diplomatist to Madrid, in order .to ob tain his assistance in the formation of the new cabinet." The Debats returns to the subject of the Rus sian railroads, and expresses the following views : "We will not speak of the traffic, nor of the hopes which it leeitireattdy causes to be conce i ve d to the advantage legitimately railways, in a country so rich and se little turned to account, in which, by frosts in winter aad drought in summer, the internal na vigation is suipended during half the year—a country which is divided by nature into distinct region-) producing some timber, hemp, and resinous subs ances, oth rs wheat and grain, some coal and cattle, leather and wool, others iron and salt ; s, that each one supplies the others withcertain articles, and is + , bliged in its turn to obtain from the others most of the objects neosssary for the existence or employment of its population. Tue future alone can tell us the value of a network of railways of all these conditions, which have not been met with together in any other country ; but who can doubt at present that they will be must favourable ? No doubt also it is not nece,sary to discuss the question whether ornot the capital necessary for the construc tion of the Russian railways can be found without too much difficulty. A hundred or a hundred and twenty millions of francs a-year for ten years is not so large a sum now-a-days, and Russia, if left to her own resources would certainly be 'able to supply it. What we now see taking place proves this. A financial journal, for example, informs us that on the first two days, the 13th and 14th of this month, on which the exchange of scrip for definitive shares was proceeded to at St. Petersburg, oat of 26,922 shares admitted to be exchanged, the et pital they represent was paid by anticipation on 26,602. In the midst of the embarrassments which weigh on most. of the money markets of Europe, who can exp'ain to us such a movEment, if it be not that on the one hand the Russian railway shares are being taken by persons of foresight, and on the other that Russia herself is able to put chase the securities which the embrarasstuents or the illiberal and unenlightened hostility of ce rt a in European capitalists have discredited ? Will not the impassioned detractors of an enterprise formed with such prospects of definitive success, and doe tined to cause vast benefit to a large fraction of humankind, some day repent of hostility which is injurious to their own interests, and but little generous with regard to their fellow-creatures ?" The Siecle continues with much extravagance to attack the policy of the Bank of France, and says : " The Bank was not established yesterday. It has passed through many crises, ancf is more flourishing than ever. But if we read its history we shall see whether it was always by means 0 an increase in the rate of discount that it resisted the crises. These repeated eleva'ions of discc'uut are in fact of much more recent date, and many merchants remember to have seen the Bank of France maintain its discount at 4 per cent., when the Bank of England had fixed its discount at a much higher rate ; and yet its prosperity was not wetted. The measure of which commerce now complains is more severe than usual, and it derives from. a special circumstance a veritable social gravity. The new law permits the Bank of Fiance to raise its rate of discount ; but the new law does not derogate from the principle of other laws a:; regards the interest on m)ney. The Bank can lend at 6 per cent., tut bankers are forbidden to do so. How will the latter contrive to manage in order to make the;r customers pay legally the in terest demanded by the Bank? Suppose they find the means of eluding the law, and of violating the enactments relative to the interest 'on money ; see what a perturbation that would make in social re lations ! Such a man was a usurer yesterday, and ac such worthy of being prosecuted, but at pre: eat he is so no longer. Pa :cal slid, in speaking of mountains What is truth on one side is false hood on the other.' But in this c ase it is not; a mountain which separates truth from error, it is a single minute—that which suffices for fixeig the rat,- of discount of the Bank. At such an hour it was so much—it is now 6i, at such an hour a money-lender was giti'tyof nen y, and now he is riot se, though he lends still dearer ! But let us make a very great concession to those wit) contradict US; let us admit that theß France, established to sup plyirerce a n d F rench the w tuts of Freneh coin credit, has no other means of protecting its inte rests i i Otob_!r, 1837, in the midst of peace and tommercial prosperity, than that of raisieg its die ion.t to 6} lax cent. ; that is to sag', dimandiug from a merchant who borrows 1,500 t., nearly luof. a year for the service ; admit th's, and what does it prove ? Evidendy that the institution is a Fad one, and muss reformed. We detnand4l ie imma when the privilege was ienewed, and they meat be made s .me day. A b ink which chaeges such a high interest is not in harmony either with he wan's of modern - commerce or with those el our social state." • The following telegraphic despateho3 have b3c n received : BunLIN, Oct. 18.—The Ring slept well last nig: t, but, although his appetite has returned, ho recovers his strength but very slowly. BERLIN, Oct, 18.—A conference of the Zollvezehi has been convoked for the 15th November to deli berate on the question of paper-money. Austria will not be represented. The Danish Cabinet appears disposed to make concessions on the sub ject of the Duchies. HAMBURG, Oct. 17.—The Storthing of Norway has just rejected by a large majority the Royal propositions tending to obtain extraordinary credits, and, in case of need, an authorisation for a loan to defray the expense of unforeseen armaments and preparations for war." BOURSE, Oct. 19.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. End of month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 66 85 66 80 Bank Shares 2,980 Credit Fonder 547 2-- Credit Mobilier 782 50 Roman - Do. Account 773 75 Austrian telgian 4j ... 98i— Spanish Threes - Pied mon tese (5) 9Ol Home Dobt - RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. tr. c. tr Orieans 1,332.; ---Western Northern - - Strasburg - Lyons and bled 8274— New Ditto New Ditto... leneva ilidi RUSSIA. The Annales du Commerce Exterieur gives the following account of the progress of steam naviga tion on the Volga : "The quantity of merchandise annually carried on the Volga is nearly as considerable as that on the Mississippi, although the number of steamers on the former has been only 60, while on the latter it is perhaps 12 times as many. Latterly, however, steam navigation on the Volga has increased, and several companies have been formed. Some private individuals have also steamers which run on that river. Hitherto the majority of the steamers used have been built abroad, but now many are being constructed in Russia. The number of arrivals at Rybinsk, the principal port on the Volga, from the commencement of the season to 13th August last, was 3,037, and the total number, including these which went farther up the river, to Molaga and Scheksna, 6,836. The value of their cargoes united is estimated at more than 256 millions of francs. Corn, corn-spirits, tallow, salt, copper, and iron, form the principal bulk of these cargoes." At length we find something in the Russian journals in connexion with the late meeting of the Emperor Alexander with the Emperor Napoleon at Stuttgart. The Invalide breaks the silence that the Russian press seemed to have imposed upon itself on this head, and, indirectly referring to that rencontre, it expresses the hope that, although an everlasting peace may rot be expected, it will, nevertheless, be easier for the future than it has been in times past, with the exercise of a little common sense and goodwill, to maintain the European harmony. Before closing the article, however, the Invalide gives Sweden a little back-handed slap, and points out how that Power of all others, after having on mature re flection entered into an alliance offensive and de fensive with England and France, have felt no little trepidation at that meeting of the two Em perors ; and then consoles its Swedish neighbour with the assurance that a Russian never bears malice. The consolation, though kindly meant per sps, is not very impicitly to be relied on, and it is to be hoped that Sweden finds in her own strength and her alliances something more satisfactory to fall back upon in case of disquieting intelligence reaching her from Russia. The Invalide is also beginning to speak of Indian affairs. That journal says, if India is to be re conquered England will not be able to the task. In that case it is sugge3ted that a combined Euro pean forca should be employed, and that British India might be placed under a general European protection. We shall not call upon our friends to put in practice their benevolent offers. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 16th says :—" The King left his bed to-day. Opinions differ greatly as to his re-establishment ; some are of opinion tha t he will soon be well enough to occupy himself with governmental affairs ; others that he will not for some time be capable of transacting any business. A circumstance which tends to prove that the lat • ter opinion is the more correct one is, that two cele brated physicians, Professor Frerichs of Breslaw, and Dr. Dameron, director of the Lunatic Asylum of the same town, have been summoned to Berlin. Count Adlerberg and Prince Gagarin have arrived here to express—the former in the naweof the Czar, the second in that of the Empress of Russia—their solicitude in the condition of the King. Baron de Coller, Austrian ambassador, has been charged with a similar mission by his sovereign." A letter la the French Journal de Fra'nefort also says : " Whatever may be the state of the King's health, be certain that it is not so far re-established as to give strong hopes of eventual recovery. The pro gress of the malady causes it to be foreseen that for a long time the King cannot attend to public af fairs. Nothing, then, is more natural than the idea of a provisional government to be confided to the august brother of the king, the heir presumptive of the throne—an idea which has gained favour not only in governmental regions, but amongst the people, especially as in that way the transition of the succession to the throne would be inaugurated is the king's lifetime, and the eventual combination talked of—the abdication of the Prince - of Prussia and the immediate succession of his son—would b e avoided, by the accession of a regency which would give the former the reins of government and would open to Prince Frederick William the expectation of a throne under the auspices of his father. There is, however, no one in Prussia who would not prefer the re-establishment of the king's health te such an expedient, for there is hardly another people in Europe who are so devoted to their sovereign, and so much in favour of legitimist traditions as the Prussians." ITALY. A letter from Milan, of the 12th inst., announces that the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier arrived that morning at the railway station of the Porta Nova, and left immediately for Novara. The Academy of Fine Arts at Milan had offered a premium for the best model presented for a monument to be erected to Leonardo da Vinci. Accounts from Genoa of the 16th state that the decree for dissolving the Piedmontese Chambers will not ba published previous to the 25th inst. The elections are to take place on the 15th of November. SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the 15th contain a great deal about the negotiations which preceded the acceptance by Admiral Armero of the task of form ing a cabinet, but it is of no interest now that the termination of the ministerial crisis is known. It may bo mentioned, however, that the admiral, More undertaking to constitute a cabinet, had a conference with M. Bravo Murillo to see if they could not come to an understanding to enter the same ministry, but they foUnd they could not agree, Admiral Arniero being opposed to all idea of reform, and M. Bravo Murillo thinking that e forms ought to be made when circumstances should become favourable. The Queen, it appears, was very desirous of seeing the latter gentleman in the new cabinet, and was much agitated when he de finitively declined to join it. Her Majesty had conferences with General de la Pczwla, and lie was in favour of her Majesty's project of establi=h ing a cabinet without a president of the council. It is said that Admiral Arrnero means to maintain the constitution of 1845, but at the same lime to execute the last new law on the press. The Prince of Wales arrived on Saturday at Brussels, and was received at the ialway st L tion by the Duke de Brabant, with whom he proceeded t) the palace. In pawing through Switzerland the attention of his Royal Highness was particularly directPd, at C ms'ance, to all that recalled the memory of John Huss, and also to the tomb of Rohort Hallum, Archbishop of Salisbury, who died at Gottlieben during the council, and was buried in the cmhedral of Con stance. In proceeding from Constance to Schaff hausen by steamer, the chateau of Arenenberg, be longing to the Empercir Napoleon, _excited the inte rest of the prince and his suite. The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort contains the following improbable statement :—" England is in negotiation with the Sardinian government for the purchase of a portion of territory near Cag liari. The southern part of Sardinia is in the way from England to India via Suez. The Sardinian government hesitates, it is said, to cede the territory in question." The Queen of Greece is on her way from Ischl to Trieste and Greece. It is now known that Her Majesty is enleavouring to persuade the Great Powers to transfer the succession to the Throne of Greece from the House of Bavaria to that of Olden burg. A Duke George Louis of Oldenburg wants a place, and his affetionaterelative is willing to pro vide one for him. A telegraphic despatch has been received from Bucharest, dated Saturday, from which we learn that M. Nicolas Golesco has been named vice-pre sident of the Divan ad hoc of Wallachia ; MM. Co . ►stantine Rosotti, Demetrius Bratiano, Constan tine Crezzulesco, and Stephan Gulesco, have been appointed secretaries ; MM. Gregory Ghika, Toll, and Marg,hiloman, have been named questors. Ac cording to the firman of convocation and the ancient usages of the country, the presidency of the divans belongs by right to the Metropolitan. " Prince Kallimaki, the Turkish ambassador at Vienna, has received from his government instruc tions relative to the conflict of the pacha, of Scutari with the Basovic4. After the retreat of the pacha, the Montenegrins to.)k possession of the country, and organied it on their own plan. If this district were to recognise the supremacy of Prince Danilo, Bosnia would b 3 cut off from the pachalic of Nowi baz:tr, in Turkish Salvia. It is to. prevent this eventuality that Prince Kallimaki has received orders to come to an understanding on the subject with the Austrian government."—Accounts from the same capital state that ten firms stopped pay ment on the 15th ; the head of one of them com mitted, suicide. This makes the fifth suicide which has taken place from the same cause. TUB CURI,ENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR.,—As you take a deep interest in the cur rency question, and seem to be thoroughly alive to the absurdity of present regulations, I venture —at the risk of being included by the Times amongst those styled "Incurables"—to ask your opinion on the following plan for the future ar rangements of our currency. At present the Bank of England is permitted to issue notes against its Government debt, avowedly without gold to meet the same. Now, why should not the country at large benefit by a similar use of the remainder of the debt, if the holders of the debt are contented to deal with their stock as fol lows : A Board, under Parliamentary authority, to be enabled to grant legal tender notes to parties who transfer to each Board, Government stock, say for every 1051. of 3 per cent. consols, 1001. of legal tender notes be issued. Of course the nation will save the interest on the debt all tie time such notes are held by the public. The Board to re-sell stock at par on receiving such legal tender notes. Although this currency is not based on gold and silver, it is based on the income of the nation ; and if not directly convertible into coin, it may at any time be converted into an interest-bearing, self-pre• clueing capital by being converted into stock. Should the scheme be agreed to by the nation , but yet remain apparently a dead letter, it would not be without its use, though seemingly dormant. Mere monied capitalists and jobbers would not have the same opportunity of fleecing manufactureni or merchants ; the dread of a sudden abstraction of the medium of payments (i.e. a reduction o f the currency) would not embarrass commerce, and tb° value of money would be as stationary as p o ssible —not flying up and down, as at present-, wors° than any article of produce. If largely acted upon, I need not point out t° you the gain to the nation :.-52 millions of capita l of debt cancelled, as well as interest for thetnne the notes are out. But I fear I am trying your patience, and colr clude.—Your's very obediently, London, Oct. 19. ANTI-CRISIS. MR. L. 4 YARD GOING TO THE &AST. We have been favoured with the following letter, addressed to Mr. T. M. Mackay. It shows the stuff Mr. Layard is made of : " 120, Piccadilly, Oct. 11 , d • "My clear Mackay,—l am off for I n di a next week. olf, object—to visit th e sea t c f th e re b e lli on , t o f orm my °- views upon its cause and results. I have been too lo n g idle, and want aga i n wor k , an d t ry to b e useful. trl i that my journey may ena bl e me to d o some good. I vill„ I had some pleasant, intelligent manlike yourself as a COI panion. I hope to be back by the end of May or early ra June. Six months' hard work will enable me to see And do much. If any c ons tit uency will do me the honour „ returning me during my ab sence I s h a ll b e happy to ser them. " Yours sincerely, A. W. LAYARD• STATUE OF DR. BARROW.-Mr. Noble, the sculptor' has rec e i ve d a comm i ssion from the Marquis of Dave downe for a statue of the celebrated Dr. Barrow to be placed in the ante-chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, of which that eminent theologian and mathematicier was the mater. It will be of Carrara marble, of life <iize, and will form a companion statue to the statues ti e wton and Bacon which are in the ante-chapel. l l ' e model may he seen at the studio of the artist in Bruton' street, The portraiture, which is taken from pictures Ia Trinity College and in other collectio n s, i s very correct' and the whole treatment is felicitous and artistic. THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. SULLIVAN, THE BRlTrg it - MINISTER TO PERU.—A correspondent, quoted in t , i l New York Herald. writi ng f rom P anama on t h e 2b September, giving the very latest news from Peru, says r , —Private letters received in this city state that the le s .j derer of Mr. Sullivan had been dis covere d. H e is esl to be a Frenchman, of bad character, residing A C Huancho. A force was sent to arrest him, but he el not to be found. His wife was arrested and broue to Lima. He is said to be the tool of some party IT known. It is probable that th e l arge re w ar d o ffers' $60,000, will induce some one of the six accomplices t° inform. - - „ A LONG-NAMED INDIAN.—From the sublime to tb ridiculous ! In the Madras paper s w e fi n d a co py °, l „ -- letter addressed to "Hie Highness Bre e Puloaanau% Dausa Vanche Bala Martanda Vurmah Roola Keereda Patbee Bnzbiodia Ram Rajah Bhadorgan -121 ;.,1 Sultan Maha Rajah Rajah Sh ume h eer J ung Rajah ; T,avancore ' g ” and signed " H arr i s !" Hi s Hi hness Sr t e ; Pulmanabha, Sze,, of Travan core , L a 4 we are glad ,l; see, subscribed 5,000 rup ees t o th e relief fund, with 0 ,'," good wish e s an d l ervent prayers for peace and tranclui° I , ty. This contribution is announced in a letter, that si piatuie of which is omitted, probably from wan t j room, and is acknowledged in that of the adareagig ll3 ..it!,natuie of which we have above recorded.—Bent b Y. Courier. • THE MURDER AT LEIGH vr 0011s.—TheNorthamP O Herald states that aEi bawl and carpet-bag, oontaloirA ll hair-brush, pomatum, and other articles, discovered Is the room of the prisoner Beale, at Badby House, by policeman,police,have, through the la been id en tifi e d sl : s P t a r i i n z , ei t i b ta e lit Dav yo e f nty the r Bristol having been observed in the possession - of Charlote! Pugsley when s he was last seen in co m p any w ith t h e Pr!: s o n er. In addition to this awkw ar d commentary le the prisoner's statement before the Bristol magistrate s :I portion of the wire frame of a bonnet and a blood.itsio • fragment of the fabric w i t h w hi ch it was covere d by also bean found in the irate of the prisoner's room, 11 . n are in the p ossess i on of Inspector Sansome. i f a a .g . — serted that th ese rel i cs also are su ffi cient for identol ,,* tion as Laving been worn by the murdered woman- , ga l THE LATE STORMS.—A letter from Brest of the Aw mentions several casualties which have taken place, o , that coast during the l a se heavy g a l e s. O n the vessel of 300• tone was lost on the point to to the S. v" Usbant, and is supposed to be the Symmetry, J e plank bearing that name and a part of an English r 3 were picked up on the coast. Some broken e ases, vib ic e had contained raisins, a wizen-mast with its rigging. 613 , the body of a man, have also been found. On the eb° l ' Lear Poremoguer there have been also found , l2 bills s at a lading, three charts, and 18 letters, Which b e l o nged an English vessel, the Adventure, which, it is thoug u lhas been totally lost. It appears from th e papers til she hid been laden with Spanish win e , S evera l . snl 3l French vessels have barn also wrecked, but, with t a t xon-piion of that of the Parisienne of Bantus, w hich 101 five of litr men, a 1 the crews have been saved. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MAJOR BARFOOT.—An scold eut of a serious character, which terminated in his deat h sew hours aftetwatds, occurred at Southampton g ; Saturday aft, tueon to Maj or B ar f oot, o f Mldlieg-Wil; veer Druxiord, Hants. The Msj tr was . proceeding his carriage down the Northatti•rJad, when the anus ok fright and ran away, an d the gallant officer juicP ea out. Ile unforttnately fell upon the back of his be ad ; whereby concussion o f th e b ra i n was p ro d uce d. Ile W- 1 na ttuediately remove d to th e R oya l Hotel, and medic a assistance was called iu, but the Major never rallied A ftel. his fall, and he expired about 9 o'c;oolt in the eveni c ' after lie geritig for some hours in a state of insensibilitytii An inqueet was held yesterday afternoon, at the 10 3 ' f Hotel, before the borough coroner, and a verdic t , A "Accidental Death" was returned, Major Barloc' b o f only child, a daughter, is married to Earl Howl! ) , Ilowth castle, Ireland. „01,,