The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. JTILLEEN'S CONCERTS. MDLLE. JETTY TREFFZ. The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH The Last Night but Nine. THIS EVENING (Wednesday, Nov. 18), will be pro duced (for the Bth time) the New Grand Descriptive Composi tion, by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL H A.V E LOCK'S TRIUMPHAL MARCH, performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by the drums and fifes of the Grenadier Guarde Coldstream Guards, and the Scots Fusilier Guar ds ; and s, a th Grand Chorus, " Rule Britannia," and " God Save the Queen." Prices of Admission — Pro menade, is ; Upper Roxes, Is. ; ls. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. ed. and upwards. , Prospectases, with full particulars, may be had at the Box *Slice of the Theatre; of all the principal libraries; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. HE MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The GRAND BA.L MASQUE, which will close M. Jullien's Nineteenth Season of Concerts (1857), will take place on MONDAY, Nov. 30. Applications to bo made at the Box-office of tho Theatre. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. I'HIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White, as Mrs. B. Fitzwilliam. After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. To be followed by THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA. 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 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6Ne half-price to Upper Gallery. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. LAST WEEK BUT TWO OF THE TEMPEST. THIS UTIINING, will be performed Siakspere's Play of TILE TEMPEST. Preceded by (3d time), a new farce, in one aet, entitled A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed BETTY MARTIX. Alter which, a new romantic drama, called THE LEGEND OF THE HEADLESS MAN, and in which Mr. Benjamin Webster and Madame Celeste will perform. Pollowed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit:ed THE DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's fir India I Messrs, Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss Mary Keeley. ROYAL LYCEUM THE ATRE. —Lessee, Mr. Dillon. —Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA PINE and Mr. W. HARRISON, — THIS EVENING, will be performed (for the last time; IL TROVATORE. 1.1.• 1 1.••., • conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey ant Miss Cuthbert. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 lls. 6d. ; stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circ'e, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The Bea Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. ROY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lm94ees, Mlssrs. Robson and Emden. TITIS EVENING, will be performed A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Followed by the new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Wigan ; Miss Marston and Mrs. Emden (late .Ifiss Somers) To conclude with A CONJUGAL LESSON. Commence at half-past Seven. BTRAND THEATRE. —THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. After which, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. John Peerybingle, Mr. Emery; Dot, Miss M. A. Victor; Bertha, Miss Herbert. To conclude with TAKE THAT GIRL AWAY. Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Leicester Buckingham, and Miss Herb2rt Commence at Seven. Stalls. 3s. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, is.; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. ls. ].IIIIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. re) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and powerful drama, entitle' INDIA IN 1557. Messrs. Shepherd, Cres wick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Belmore, Tapping ; Miss M. Eburne, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers, Miss Johnstone. After which, THE BARRISTER. Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. The Bli;hted One, Mr. Widdicomb. CA.NTER 813 Y HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o , gelections from all the popnlar OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, of ass Bru ne% and Madame Marietta; Herr Ui. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, and Mr. St. Albya; Messrs. S. Collins, W. Critchtield, and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil liiitks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmazs. Comraeucs at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. net a single man in the United Kingdom more strenuously opposed to everything approximating to real reform than he is. And that he will, should a favourable opportunity arise, strain every nerve to reject or postpone, ad Grcecas Kalendas, any large and comprehensive measure. But in this instance, he may find that he is reckoning without his host, and that his organ is altDgether mistaken in supposing that " the public in Eng- land care little or nothing about the extension or equalisation of the frandhise." The most cunning schemers frequently outwit themselves in endea vouring to take in their dupes, and Lord PAL MERSTON may possibly find to his cost that such is the case in the present instance. We may venture to remind our contemporary that the introduction of an adequate measure of reform would not act as a protection or amnesty to the miscreant NANA. SAHIB, and that his cap- ture, and execution by the hands of the common hangman, will follow as a matter of course, albeit the franchise be extended, and its due exercise ensured by the ballot, and freedom of choice conferred on the enlarged constituencies by the abolition of the property qualification. The fatal rope will not do its work less efficiently be cause the English people are henceforward to be fairly represented in the House of Commons. Indeed, the certainty of such a course might pre vent Lord CANNING, or his umbra, Mr. J. P. GRANT, from any further manifestations of ili timed clemency. We may then insist on reform without checking the operations for the suppres sion of the rebellion, or the condign punishment of the sanguinary miscreants who have so rashly engaged therein. The views of the Morniny _Post receive very significant corroboration from another quarter. TEETS DAY—Morn., 38 min. aft. 2—Evan., 53 min. aft. 2 TO..ffoßsow—Morn., 8 min. aft. 3—Evan., 25 mM aft. 3 THE WEATHER-Sum OFFICE, NOTEAIBEE 13. TEERIIOIIETER, IY Taa SLUM!. 52—hi g hest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 53 —this day at noon. ing, abominable "slip of the pen" between the wily Viennese and the purblind and scatter- brained British Government. Wherefore, it is, we repeat, that the memorable words used by Mr. PITT, ill 1783, may now in 1857 be placed not inaptly in the mouth of every right-minded Englishman. "And if this inags- picious union be not already consummated, in the name of my country [he might even say, in the name of Europe, of the World, of the whole Human Race] I forbid the banns 1" For, after all it is positively, we are bold to assert, one of the most egregious errors that the dullest Administra- BAROMETER, 30.23. S.S.E.; light, with fine sunshiny weather. ,or perhaps ever yet committed ! What, let us ask, now in explicit and distinct illustration of this, What (as our Gallic friends have it) is at this moment the precise bearing and The Times follows suit, or rather leads from its own hand simultaneously. The Jupiter tonans of Printing House Square is also favourable to pro crastination, or rather a postponement sins die. character of—' ." the situation ?" It is simply this: —A Telegraphic communication must ai speedily as possible be secured in one way or another between England and her Eastern possessions. That Necessity we have long recognised. It is a Necessity which the late bloody revolt in India has but very recently enforced—rather, should it be said, very emphatically and conclusively de monstrated. All this, of course, Granted. But —next, How may it be best accomplished, by what means, in what direction ? It is a problem, the solution of which has long resolved itself into an alternative. Either—the Red Sea route, or the Euphrates Valley route ! Either—the shortest way, following the course taken by the Euphrates through the soil of Asia Minor south wards to its entrance into the Persian Gulf, or the longest way (one barred, however, only by natural impediments) trailing the submarine wire along the bed of the Red Sea, skirting the extended coast line of Arabia, even round by the acute angle formed by that coast-line at the Straits of Babel Mandeb. To that alternative the difficulty has been long reduced, and this notoriously. Finally, between the branches of that same inevit able alternative, the British Government has at length made its deliberate selection. It has decided at last in favour of the Red Sea project, and its preliminary labours for the carrying out of that project are now, we believe, in course of active preparation. This Red Sea route being preferred apparently, notwithstanding its greater length, be cause of its being at any rate secure from interruption by everything save accidents by nature, Government fearing, it would seem, the . meddling fingers of the lawless tribes of Kurds and Arabs scattered along the banks of the Euphrates, and doubting whether those meddling fingers could even be securely kept from tampering with the precious "fibre" of the Telegraph by " blackmail," however regularly paid and abundantly squandered. Nevertheless, whatever the reasons for the selection of the Red Sea routs, that route has ats last been preferred to the Euphrates Valley routs by the slowly daiibe rative judgment of the British Government. For ourselves, we are so heartily rejoiced at any deci sion of any kind being at length positively resolved upon—in spite of all the tangling coils of red tape and the complicated labyrinth of circumlo cution that we are not unwilling, "at a pinch," to waive our own preference for the more direct, and, consequently, much shorter, and obviously far less expensive route, along the Euphrates Valley. This, we repeat, simply from our exultation at some positive deci sion of some kind being ultimately arrived at by our hesitating and procrastinating Government. Bat, lo ! no sooner have we made our minds up to something like a magnanimous concession, when forth creeps this ridicules mus of a conditional agreement with Austria! The nature of the agreement we have explained. Its miserable con sequences need no explanation. They are, un• happily, only too apparent. They reduce the whole scheme of the Electric Telegraph between England and Hindostan, between London and Cal cutta, to something like a nullity. They place the entire project permanently within the grasp of the Austrian Government. That is to say, if this preposterous compact be really persisted in ! A supposition we are loath to enter tain for a single instant. The notion is a lto g eth er too ludicrous and inconceivable. Than this, surely " The for ce of folly could no further go !" The blunder stum bled into by the Treasury in this matter, is al together of itself so glaringly conspicuous, that it has undoubtedly only to be pointe 1 out to be at once and instantaneously recognised. What ever the pledge given upon this subject to the Cabinet et Vienna by those incomparable wiseacres, our Ministerial authorities at the Treasury, the blot must be blotted out, the error must be erased for England will never consent (because of one absurd mistake on the part of her rulers) to render nugatory henceforth, in regard to her oriental dominions, the whole glorious advantages otherwise readily derivable from the Electric Telegraph. . 6 F. 4 , . - - - AL - LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1857. Parliament is to assemble for the dispatch of business on the 3d December. This judicious proceeding was shirked by the Government t) the last possible moment, until the ignominious failure of the Bank Charter Act, and the violation of the existing law of the land, rendered the step indispensable. The session wiil therefore prac tically commence within little more than a fort night ; and although the business before Christ mas may be exclusively devoted to monetary and Indian questions, yet the Royal Speech must be delivered, shadowing forth the Ministerial inten tions for the entire session of 1858, as well as for the short preliminary one of 1857. it is, therefore, incumbent on every person interested in the welfare and prosperity of the country to keep the Government up to its work, and to pre vent, by every possible means, the evasion of positive promises, to the intense disappointment of the great body of the people. Already feelers have been thrown out, in order to ascertain the state of the public mind, and tl discover whether the bold experimsat of with holding the anticipated Reform Bill may be safely attempted. The Morning Post, iu a semi-official article, declares that it does " not expect to hear anything about a Reform Bill—first, because such a calamity as that which has occurred in India, no more than the late Russian war, presents a fa vourable opportunity for the calm discu'4sion of a question which lies at the very root of our politi cal system ; and, secondly, because the public in England care very little, or nothing, about the ex tension or equalisation of the franchise!" Adding, "They would sooner hear of the capture and execu tion of that execrable miscreant NANA. SAHIB than of the enactment of the most sweeping measure of Reform, proceeding even from the Paterfamilias of Whig-Liberalism, Llrd. JouN RUSSELL, whose familiar spirit, or political Mrs. HARRIS, is an ever-threatened Reform Bin." A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the efficia residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmer ton, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmurv, the Chaccellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, tho Duke of Argyll, and the Right lion. M. T. Baines. Tne Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyeees, and the Earl of Sefton, have returned to Cruxteth, near Liverpool, where they intend shortly to receive company. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and !Princess do Joinville returned yestrday to Claremont, from their recent tour in Turkey and the Crimea. Their Royal Highnesses are observing the strictest privacy, consequent on the distressing family bereavement they have lately sabred. Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, accompanied by the viscnuutess, has returned to Combermere Abbey, from Leamington. The noble viscount has entirely recovered from bi 3 recent attack of influenza. Viscountess Jocelyn and her youthful family have arrived at Cambridge House, from Windmor. Lady Milford has left town on a visit to her father, the Earl of Wicklow, at Si'wood House, Brighton. A passenger by the Emeu steamer, from Melbourne for London, via Marseilles, states that not only the Marseilles portion of the rnail was taken by tho Ad miralty agent in the boat, when the Emsu got en shore, but also those marked Southampton. This refers onl7 to the letters ; the newspapers were kept on board the Emeu. . . The Australasian, with the passengers, gold, and newspapers, may be expected at Southampton on the 20th, and probably the missing lettors will arrive by the next Indian nail, clue about the 30th instant, and which will be telegraphed perhaps on the 27th. The WoiverhainP6n and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, which closed its doors yesterday, was a bank of issue, with an authorised circulation of 35,3781., and its general liabilities are supposed to range between 400,000/. and 500,00 f/. It had a nominal capital of 500,0001., of which 100,0001. is paid up, and accordirg to its last return 7,0001. had been appropriated to a reserve fund. The number of shareholders is about 200, and the principal losses will fall, it is presumed, on persons connected with the iron trade. COEPOP.ATION BILL.—We can state, on the best authority, that Government have resolved on rein troducing the Corporation Reform Bill, in the short session which is to commence in December, in order to ensure its passing into a law before the close of the session of 1858. The bill will be substantially the same as that of last se , sion. The City is to be divided into 16 wards, giving six members to each ward ; but we have reason to believe that Sir George Grey, it presser, will so far yield to the wishes of the Corporation as te allow seven members to each ward, making 112 Cem mon Councilmen and 16 Aldermen. PItICE OF GOLD —The quotation of gold at Paris is about 9 per mill() premium, and the short exchange on London is 25.35 per 11 steiling. On comparing tilt se rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. It3qd.pe t ounce for standard gold it appears that g old is abou 2-10Als per cent. dearer in Paris than in Lo i n s don_- By advices from Hamburg the price of gold • _ _ 4 . 2 _ 4 . p P e _ rnerl, and the short exchange on Londonl:s_ i 3 nt D.' r price 1!. sterling. Standard gold at the Englis M . n ieusly quoted y on London for bills at 60 days' eight is var i t a b.:lin therefore am n b e u a r r g i The s-l° ts course per of c exchangeent at from par up to I at pre tirst-clase paper only. There consequen h .. Y' country owLoyndo(lkn sent no advantage ae compared with drawing bills from America. linoBsepnedrinc:ngt.o,idthireomlatttef:sbeii,g for, The Mornin s i u s - ch supposed to d g P on ost erive its inspirations subjects directly from head-quarters. We may, therefore, fairly conjecture that the above are Lord PALMERSTON himself, a n d th e at he of at be has at last made up his mind to cast • aside the ill- i t fitting mantle of prete n ded reform, and to appea r , 1 without further disguise or concealment, in the more congenial colours of rank Toryism. It must, therefore, be evident that he never intended to bring in a Reform Bill—that the specious pledges which he put forward on the eve of the " Appeal to the Country " were but so many tubs flung to the electoral whalers. An attempt, in fact, to take the wind out of Lord Joint RUSSELL'S sails, and to secure for himself the support that might otherwise have been given to his political rival. Indeed, the Premier is an experienced adept in this sort of manoeuvring. It is, unfortunately, but too notorious that there is ST. T T.RE. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EV ENING, NOVEM)3ER IS, 185:7 Last evening an opera buffa (quite new, we believe, to this country) entitled " Crispino e la Comare," was pro duced at the above theatre with complete success. Crispino, the cobler (Signor Carrione), and his spirited little wife, Annetta (Signora Fumagalli), a struggling Venetian couple, are on the paint of committing suicide through stress of rent, and perhaps other quarterly diffi culties. But their last passionate prayers for money are attended with mere than the average success. A fairy, La Comare (Signora Beilosio), who has an ancient grudge to feed against the medical profession, selects our cobbler as her engine, sets him up as a successful quack, works miraculous cures for him, fills his money-bags and pro cures him, strangest of all, the public gratitude. But there is another side to the picture, and the stilted cobbler must be taught the good old lesson of " the beggar on horseback." In his hour of pride he forgets his benefactress, like many another hero of a fairy tale, and is snatched in a moment from his high estate to what the libretto politely designates a subterranean abode. There, having been sufficiently tortured by the revelations of a magic mirror, he is restored, on giving security for future good behaviour, to his better half, his children, and his wealth. The new tenor, Signor Giorgetti, pleased us very much. This young gentleman possesses a pure and beautiful voice, which he uses already with such taste and skill as to induce us to augur for him a brilliant future. He bad little to do on this occasion, but the impression he made was so favourable that the manage ment will doubtless soon bring him forward in some more important part. The opera was received throughout with great ap• plause. Three pieces were enthusiastically re-demande d, and the principal performers called for at the terming' tion of each act. insignificant localities, without commerce, or where the navigation is dangerous, or where the persons frequent ing them might be subjected to attacks from the neigh bouring mountaineers, The Russian Government, in opening the three ports on the eastern coast which are the best situated, has bad only in view the interests of commercial men. Besides, it must be taken into con , -ideration that the coast of Abasia forms the edging, as it were, of a country in open revolt against its sovereign. Certain foreign vessels, if not subjected to surveillance, would find it more profitable to carry on a contraband of war than a honest commerce. The affair of the Vixen, which made so much noise about 20 yeaas ago, .and which was about to cause such grave complications, has not been forgotten. It cannot be disputed that, fir its own security, the Russian Government cannot tolerate transactions for supplying ammunition and arms to the insurgents. Another consideration, perhaps the most imperative of those which have influenced the determination of the Imperial Government, justifies the measure which a Vienna journal blames with so little reason ; we refer to sanitary precautions. The popula r tions of the East are constantly menaced with the inva sion of the plague, because they are in contact with Mussulman races, which, as much from natural apathy as religious prejudice, take no precautions against that visitation. In those countries the sanitary regulations dictated by prudence must be rigorously observed ; the quarantine establishments are a benefit for Europe, which is thus preserved from the epidemics which almost always infest the East. Far, then, from being encroached on, Art. 12 of the treaty of Paris is, by the application of regulations relating to police and sanitary matters, fully completed." The last mail from India has brought accounts from Pondicherry to the 9th ult., Fhich confirm the intelligence brought of the perfect tranquillity of the country. The Moniteur Officiel of the colony says :—`• The drought which has prevailed for the last nine months has at length ceased. On Sept. 20 the sky became clouded, but it was not until the 27th that the rain commenced, when it came down heavily—an event most important both for the health of the inhabitants and for the crops. At MontrOpaleom, some little hail fell, but it was lof very short duration, and soon ch-mged to rain." The Univers says :—" The German Journal of I Frankfort appears to have really believed the news that the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem had been deposed by the Greeks ;it announces that the Austrian clergy, armed with the Concordat to extend its influence to the East, is very desirous that a member of its own body should be the new bishop of Jerusalem, and that its choice has fallen upon Mgr. Mislin, who is now in Paris about the business, the nomination to this bishopric belong ing to France.' There is no truth whatever in these allegations of the Frankfort Journal: the patriarchal seat at Jerusalem is not vacant, the right of presentation or nomination belongs to the Holy See alone, and Mgr. Mislin's only motive for coming to Paris is to publish a new edition of his work on Palestine." It seems to think that the two great questions. the Indian mutiny and the infringement o the Bank Charter Act could not be carried on pari passu with the unequivocally promised Reform Bill. We cordially concur in the opinion that neither of these great questions can be postponed to another Parliament. Nor is there the slightest necessity for such a course. The Bank Charter Act has been so clearly con demned by its second suspensices, that it can never again be imposed on the nation. The Govern ment has ample materials for legislation. It cannot again be permitted to resort to the stale dodge of shelving the impor tant subject, until - the public mind has become weary and indifferent. We trust that every monetary reformer, every Englishman who has the interests of the commercial and menu - face turing, population—indeed, of the entire indus trial community—at heart, will refuse to pass any act of indemnity for the violation of the monetary enactments of 1844, until the incubus has been removed, and a circulating medium adequate to the wants and exigencies of the country has been established. There is nothing to prevent such a measure from becoming the law of the land, even before Christmas. The Bank has violated its Charter, and it has no longer a claim for con sideration. In 1847 this was not the case. Although promised a bill of indemnity by the Government, the necessity did not arise for bring ing forward the proposition, and it had a further tenure of seven years, which has since expired. The nation must not relinquish its vantage ground, and, indeed, under any circumstances, a year's notice is all that could be required to ter minate the injudicious and iniquitous contract— a contract alike opposed to public policy, and to the inalienable rights and privileges of the great body of the people ! In like manner the Indian 'Mutiny may be fully discussed, and if the double Government requires the assistance of the people of England— thus failing in the consileration, given for their renewed tenure of office—a now and more efficient administrative system may be organised, without reference to the protracted term granted in 1853. An Address to the Peoile of England has been issued by several consistent and well-known re formers, which will be found in another part of this day's impression. The principles there pro mulgated will be gladly accepted by the community at large. . Of course, the dc tails must be arranged, but they have long bean ready. It will be dwell for Lord PALMERSTON, if he anticipates the movement. But should he not do se, he may rest assured that an independent measure will be introduced, and if any confidence can be reposed in the faith of public men, will be carried. He must recollect that a large majority of the popular representa tives are solemnly pledged to their respective constituencies on the subject. The matter was only evaded last session on the deliberate understanding that it was to be brouglat forward in that which is now rapidly approaching. The breach of promise will, if attempted, be severely punished. "The Paterfamilias of Whig libe ralism," as ho is contemptuously designated by the Post, will not he slow to avail himself of the golden opportunity, and to play out a return innings with the Noble Lord, who in 1852 over threw his Government, and deprived him of his position as Prime Minister of the " United Kingdom." Mr. PITT concluded one of the moat memorable speeches he ever delivered in the House of Com mons—his speech in 1;83, upon the then Coalition —with that terse and felicitous close to a superb peroration, " And if this inauspicious union be not already consummated, in the name of nay country I forbid the banns I" It would not be in the smallest degree extrava gant to put those very words at the present mo ment in the mouth of any true-hearted and right minded Englishman. Applying them to the new and odious compact entered into between the British and Austrian Governments, in reference to the project of a continuous telegraphic com munication with the Asiatic Continent, more par ticularly between ourselves and our Oriental pos sessions in Etindostan. According to this absurd arrangement we are pledged to the Government of Vienna to use no other than Austrian wires between Ragusa and Alexandria. It is the last great blunder of our most sapient authorities at the Treasury. "If," say they to Austria, " you (Austria) will but lay down a submarine wire from Ragusa to Alexan dria, we (the British Government) will use no other line but that ; we will transmit our tele grams by no other route than that, running from [ Ragusa to Alexandria ; and in connection with that route, we undertake to complete at our 1 earliest convenience the metallic fibre of the rach deliberately I nbiontah ourselvese r w ords, Electric Telegraph from Suez to Bombay or Kur- ' cord of communication o ' v ' e W r teo voluntarily y ma a g n i d e from London to Calcutta, from this time forth and for ever, in etecula Kean ' j lorum, entirely at the disposal, at the whim and mercy, of the Austrian Government." That is literally, really and truly, about the English of it, or rather, perhaps we should say, about the 1 German-English of it—of this bungling, tilaandel- SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 12th have reached us. It is stated that there is no truth in another report that the Government intended to suspend the calling out of 30,000 men of the provincial militia. The disquietude which exists at Barce lona is stated to have been occasioned by the dis covery of a Caro-republican plot. The Government, however, had full confidence in the fidelity of the garrison, and wal determined to put down with energy any attempt at disturbance. The Espana attacks with great vehemence the law on the sale of national and - ecclesiastical property, and de dares it is a socialist measure ; but moss of the ' other journals defend it. •Accounts had been re ceived from all parts of the country that within the preceding few days there had been tremendous hurricanes and torrents of rain, and that great damage had baen done. A letter says that General de la Concha, captain-general of Cuba, had written to the Government to say that in the event of a rupture with Mexico he could place 58,000,000 reals from the colonial treasury at its disposal. He added that next year, after paying all the expenses of the colony, it will be able to remit 150,000,000 reals. The Nuremberg Correspondent states, from Munich, that Count Ludolph, the Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires to the Court of Bavaria, has re turned there as ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. It is believed that he will be accredited to Berlin in the same capacity, but that he will reside at Munich, the projected marriage of the Prince Royal of Naples requiring a fixed diplomatic agent in the capital of Bavaria. It is not the Ist January next, but the 14 Jan uary, 1862, that the now law on liberty of manu factures and commerce, passed by the Danish chambers, is to come into operation. The opposi tion wanted to postpone the execution of it to a still later date. The Swiss Federal Council contradicts, in a cir cular, the statement that England would enlist men in the Cantons'. TEE MONETARY CRISIS. WOLVERHAMPTON, Nov. 17. Great consternation was occasioned here this morning by the closing of the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Bank —an establishment which has long held a leading position in connection with the iron and manufacturing trades of this town and almost the whole of .South Staffordshire. Instead of opening its doors at the customary hour of busi ness, the tollovring notice was posted : "The directors of the Wolverhampton and Stafford shire Banking Company deeply regret to infor the public that they are under the necessity of closing for the pre sent the business of the bank. It would greatly add to the pain which the directors feel in taking this step if there did not exist the most absolute erfety as to the liquidation of every claim :against the bank ; and the directors will forthwith take the most prompt means to satisfy every account and relieve any inconvenience that may arise from this unavoidable occurrence if the cir• cumstances should not justify a continuance of the bank. The directors trust by Monday next they shall be able to state the definite course that can be taken. " By order of the Board, "JOSEPH WILEY, Mana g er. The proprietary are so wealthy that depositors will not be the losers. The mayor has issued the following notices : The mayor of Wolverhampton begs to inform the holders of notes of the Wolverhampton and Staffm4- shire Banking Company that all notes will be paid in full. Arrangements are being made to continue the circulation of such notes as usual. "Holders are cautioned not to dispose of their notes at less than their full value. "M. IRONMONGER, Mayor." Five irontuaking firms have already issued circulars calling their creditors. They are F. C. Perry, W. Riley and Sons, the Wolverhampton Iron Company, golly Brothers, and Rose, Higgins, and Rose. BIRMINGHAM, No—. 17. The commercial panic has at length affeAed South Staffordshire. Up to yesterday credit was, as far as outward appearances went, maintained ; but this morning the doors of the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Banking Company were closed, and the suspension of Messrs. Riley and Son, in the iron trade, announced. The latter firm attribute their failure to want of " the usual ac commodatioa" and the suspension of several firms indebtA to them. Their liabilities are estimated at 40,0001. or 50,0001. This is strictly corrobora tive of the fact we stated last Monday. Four months' bills are becoming due and cannot be met. The proprietary of the Wolverhampton and Staf fordshire Banking Company is the wealthiest com pany in the nvighbourhood. The misfortune of the district is that the circumstances of the present crisis have induced suspicions against many other houses which are not at present justified. MARKET NEWS.—(rhis Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. Very little English wheat was received fresh up to-day, but there were several of Monday's unsold samples on offer. Very few millers were in attendance, and the trade ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in the quotations. The imports of foreign wheat are 7,330 qrs. Even the finest qualities were neglected, and prices ruled almost nominal. Floating cargoes of grain were offering on lower terms. Barloy and malt moved off heavily, at about Monday's currency. There was a large quantity of oats on sale, and the de mand for them was heavy, at previous ratas. Beaus and peas were almost nominal. The flour trade was heavy, and the top price of town made qualities was 47s per 280 lbs. ARRIVALS TINS WEEK Wheat. Barley. Malt. 1,380 1470 1,120 Oats. English., Irish Flour. 11,20 Foreign.....( 7,330 1 2,940 400 sets. 13,3001)18. 15 350 BOROUGH HOP. We have a fair demand for find now hops, at full prices. In other kinds very little is doing. WHITECEIAPEL. The trade generally ruled steady, at full prices: —Beef, from 3s Od to 4s (id ; mutton, 3s 2.1 to 4s ; veal, 3s I,d to 4s 8d; pork, 33 6d to 53 4d per Sibs by the carcase. DEATH OF MR. A. STAFFORD, M,P.—DIJBLIN, TueF day.—Tbis afternoon Mr. Augustus Stafford O'Brien Stafford, M.P. for North Northamptonshire, died sud denly at Morrison 's Hotel, Dublin. He bad been in delicate health , but his decease was not expected. Ths hon. gentleman had just returned from Cratloe Woods, county of Clare. An inquest will be held to-morrow. LYCEUM THEATRE. The utmost success has, up to the present period, attended the efforts of Miss Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, to revive, at this theatre, the taste for English opera. From the commencement of the campaign the house has been nightly crowded by most brilliant audiences; and the increasing success of Balfe's new opera " The Rose of Castille," will, unquestionably, enable the talented management to bring their laleours to a successful and prosperous termination. It has been said that the powers of Miss Pyne as a vocalist would prove in- sufficient to withstand the great exertion of nightly singing the very difficult music allotted to the heroine, but on the occasion of our second visit, last evening, although we listened most attentively, not the slightest difference was to be discovered in her voice, and instead of diminished strength we noticed a decided improvement, in fact, the difficulties were met and mastered with the skill of a most accomplished mueician. The part of Manuel, the muleteer, is exactly suited to Mr. Harrison's voice, and although we regret he has not one of those delicious ballads allotted to him for which he is so celebrated, his muleteer's song will be come an especial favourite with the musical public. It would be an injustice to close this brief notice without awarding, our rueed of praise to Mr. Mellon, for the per fecion to which he has brought his band and chorus. THE GAS MONOPOLY. TO VIE EDITOR OF THE SUN, SlR,—There can be no more crying evil than the en In bination of a corporate body for the purposes of mono poly, to the unjust aggrandisement of its own pecuniary interests, at the expense of the convenience and the pockets of the public. We are at present threatened with serious detriment throughout the metropolis from a coalition of the ges companies, who seem determined to pull together for the pur pose of victimising the gas consumers. Tnis impending evil has evoked the strenuous opposition of the ratepayers of Marylebone, whose spirited proceed• jogs in reference to this grinding monopoly were reported in The Sun of yesterday. I can adduce a striking proof of the endeavour on the part of our illuminators, to feed themselves fat at the expense of us householders. A certain company has, within the last fortnight, been pleased to impose a new tax of one pound on each house as a charge for laying on the connecting gaspipe ; in other wordy, making consumers pay for opening the streets and laying down the pipe which, after all, is the property of the company and not of the consumer. Surely, when we are thus shamelessly shorn, it is high time that a genera! and decisive movement should be made to free ourselves from these rocial tyrant ,, , and I trust that The Sun, a n d the other journals which befriend popular rights, will reprobate such extortionate imposts as are now fastened on us by the leagued despotism of the gas- companies.—liM, Sir, your obedient servant, 7, Chenies-place, Bedford New-to en. A. L, Th lk e l t i l D a n d L er E m l e l E n s t f i r o tE e , d N, gentlemen e l m 7 e .--- n have i3il a t I h S i T s E d ß e S y . A . h T e - e L r W called to the degree of the outer bar, and :_ w s ere ß p e u th b e ll i s i hed sin theof University College, weLlico',EN:(Bl-iNN' , Middle Temple-hall this evening Oxford, B A., second son %)f Si l l . :1 1 . Bethel', her Majesty's Attorney-General, and one o f the Masters of the Bench of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple ; S. G. Payne, E.q., of Brasenose College, Ox ford, 8.A., the only son of Sir C. G. Payne, of the of the University of London, the fourth eon of Christo pher Gallvvey, of Killarney, in the county of Kerry, Esq. B tM I iI . So cie ty [ A l i 'd . eNln y s ; ' Al r , wo o\ .ef.::tE:AhaPloluteisernbr : i Tune rr E rN Ei day o q te q . , r. Temple,. calledß , la ß . : A l —,. ( v . T i ti i 'h3 o . al: the ni. undermentioned e t ' F: H t Wrril il e e Pe. : :: : : .( t t: lt h eG d hLr . e ee: E n dlElli t w : ( lll ::l . ll : Y . P . ; :' Sharp, Esq. .E ; -q it .., r t i: ) : (11 ! , 9 13E. A l: ci e . :::: ou !. AL B . s . .1: . ) :. ; N. N,. W. W. G B tl a r r n k e e y r , , Ti E .:, , s 9 1 . ~ B S. B°43.lAb N s: : ; v E . a' l ncid ;-- A % l.j h A. e .li u ;u n jn d .t e S' r ei nn Em ;n g tioned gen- BLLAB:hosanquet, M.A., Oxford ; R. Potter, a m w . a A rd . e ; d i ln B Ater E Cambridge (holder of a studentship' London (certificate of I first ); 8.A., Oxford ; E. S. Roche, ' Esc! : tlernen were this day called to the degree of Barrister at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn, viz :—S. acesour, oSia.doCn. ; A. Ruiwey, 8.A., Oxford ; E G. .A I s , - J ic,4l . a. 8 11 ‘sv) u a; n u ti . r h. , ,wilson, SIT. H. Nelson Roste, Esq. ; J. Hornby, B.A. , Ca'r..n: 8.A., Oxford ; and W. flo!• 8.A., g. B'eL..A., Cambridge ; F. J. S. Edgcornbe, ferd ; E. L. Ames, M.A., Cambridgeehire ; M. A., Ox- H. T. S. Dicey, B. Cambridge ;D. S. Meadows, 8.A., Ox fgoardt4 M.A., Cambridge. T Phillip, POLISH INIEETING.—ERRATUM.—In the speech of Major Saulczeweki, at the Peiialt Meeting, yesterday, instead of "but supposing even that this was not a national movement in India," it should be "but sup peeing even that this was a national movement." THE OVERLAND MAIL.—It appears that the time occu pied ie. the iran-mission of the Calcutta mail from Paris to London on Saturday last was less than stated yester ge one capital to clay. The train left Paris at 5.50 a.m., and arrived in trjhoendoothneartl2la.svGic P g . n be ' e t n ile pe p r a for ssa med from in nine hours six minutes. On. the 28th ult., the time occupied in con• veying the Bombay mail from Paris to London was 8 hours 54 m inutes ; but on that occasion the French railway train ran to B o ulogne ( 169 miles) in 10 minutes less time, and the South-Eastern Railway t rai n ran up to London (88 mules) in 17 initi ates less packet was longer on the p assage ‘ 3O statnte mile s ) o n the 28 th ult. than on Saturday time ; but the steam- last. Had the railways, therefore, ru n at the La me speed on Saturday as on the 28th f October, the time occupied in performing the jeurney between Paris and London would have been 8 hours 39 minutes, which, as stated yesterday, would have been the quickest time in which the passage has ever been made. SUDDEN DEATH 07 A CLERGYIIAN AT New/ COLLEG E, Oirouo..—An inquisition was fester d a y University (Tuesday) after coroner, and a jury o f matriculate d p ersone, to inquire into the sudden death of th e Rev. Charles Aleock, noon taken bef ore V a l en tine Cox , E°ll , M.A., formerly Fellow of New College, vicar of Adder bury with Barford, St. John's C urac y , and Milton Ham let, but who has for Wale time past been residing at Midhurat, Sussex, who was discovered ins water clo-et in the college. The deceased wa' on a short visit to New College, and h ad attended the " Gaudy as on Thursday last. On - Friday morning he appeared . as well as usual. He had told his servant he should leave Oxford by the 10.30 train, and return to New that the door of one o f him- It was noticed since teen of the water-closets in the c ollege had remained fastened, College on Tuesday. Notb i n g inorewas seen or heard but, as title had oceurred before, it was not opened till yesterday morning, when the body of Mr. Alcock was found inside. The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased died suddenly, and from natural causes." BER MAJESTY'S BUCKHOUNDS DEATH OF MR. DAVIS'S FAVOURITE HUNTEII.—Tne turn- Jut on Tuesday (yesterday) was at Maidenhead Thicket, and the day being beautifully fine there was an unusually large field, including many s p ortsmen from London. 'Miss Gilbert was also there, and rode remarkably well. Meat of the officers of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) and Scots Fusilier Guards were also present. Toe deer, on being uucarted, made awayin the direction of White Waltham. Soon afterwards the celebrated mare ridden by Mr. Davis, the royal huntsman, fell with him, and the vete ran huntsman was stunned by the fall ; fortunately a medical gentleman was present, who rendered him every assistance, and after a little delay Mr. Davis " shook hi s f ee thev," re-mounted, and went away as if nothing ' had happened. The deer afterwards ran a ring, which occupied nearly an Hour at almost racing speed, and then went away in the direction of Henley. On arriving at Hurley B Atom, a vicious brute, ridden by some stranger, kicked out as he was passing close to the royal huntsman, its legs going under Mr. Davis's toot, and kicking the off bind leg of his mare, which it M broke, and she was obliged to be killed on the spot . r. Bryant, of Cumberland Lodge, grave up his hunter to Mr. Davis, an hered hethefollowe deer the hounds as far as Meden harn Abbey, deed crossed the Thames, and Mr. Davis, acting on the advice of his friends, left the three field. This was ars. the fi The rst fall Mr. Davis has had for the last ye unfortunate mare had never before made a mistake, and it was afterwards remarked by Harry King, the "whip," that she was the beat mare iu the Royal stableg. LATEST NEWS. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The United States mail steamship Baltic has arrived from New York, with advices to the 7th inst., and 47,000 dols. in specie on freight. The aspect of monetary affairs was thought to be improving, although there was no essential re lief, nor had the bank acted upon any general plan, which compelled merchants having heavy payments to make to resort to the brokers. The advance in the rate of Exchange was considered as the best indication of the improvement, and bankers' bills on London, at 60 days' sight, were quoted at 108 to 109, and in some instances 1091 was demanded. Tho Nets York Courier and En quirer says the chief difficulty in re-establishing business and the currency upon a reliable basis is the deranged state of the domestic exchanges. The operations of the Stock Board were upon a larger scale, with considerable buoyancy among buyers and sellers. Reading Railroad shares advancing, and nearly all stock on the list showing better prices. The following were the closing rates for leading railroad shares :—New York Central Railroad, 71f ; New York and Erie Railroad, 14 ; Haarlem Railroad, 6± ; Reading Railroad, 344-, ; Hudson River Railroad, 15i ; Michigan Cent. R., 50 ; do. Southern Railroad, 12± ; Panama R., 78 ; Baltimore and Ohio R., 421. ; Illinois Central R., 85 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 33f ; Chicago and R. June. 71 ; Mil waukie and Mississippi, 2± ; Galena and Chicago, 69±. The New York, Courier and Inquirer quotes a exchange on London 60 days' sight, from 108 to 1081. There was, it says, no essential relief in the money market. The Shipping and Commercial List says : Money is, perhaps, the shadow of a shade easier. The most that can be said is, that unexceptionable names go at 1 to 2 per cent. per month, while the majority of live notes run from 24 to 36 per cent." The business in cotton continues light, at nominal prices. Flour was rather duller ; the common grades of wheat had declined ; better kinds firm. Iron at a standstill. Sugar depressed. Tobacco dull. Rather more activity in freights. At Havannab, on the 30th, exchange was arbitrary, according to quality and necessity. The quotation on London was 9 per cent. prem. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING, An Imperial decree nominates M. de Royer, Procureur-General at the Court of Cassation, to the post of Minister of Justice. It is said in semi-official quarters that the pros pect.of an understanding on the unpleasant ques tion of th e P r i nc ip a liti es is all but certain, and that the compromise which has more than once been alluded to is likely to be accepted by all the Powers, including Turkey. It is affirmed that Redschid Pacha will offer no opposition to the plan of administrative union. The fact of the minis terial journals having been recommended to use conciliatory ratter than irritating I,languao.e when speaking of the Grand Vizier shows that there is some foundation for the statement. Despatches have been received from the Admiral commandin t g he French fleet on the South Ameri can station . annou ncing that th e state of the Dominican 'Republic was such that the Admiral found it necessary to interfere for the protection of the French residents. The following caution to emigrants proceeding to St. Domingo appears in the Moniteur : "A certain number of emigrants lately left France for St. Domingo, and another departure has been announced. The accounts received as to the position of the first emigrants not being favourable, French colonists will act wisely in ad journing their intenticn of establishing themselves in the Republic of St. Domingo." A telegraphic despatch received at the Mediter ranean TelegraphCo inpauy's office to-day announces that a telegraphic message sent by the Elba to Cag liari yesterday (16th inst.), gives the good news of the wires having arrived at middle passage, and adds, " all going very well, cable settling down easily. Wind N.W. Fair weather." The Moniteur publishes the official customs re turns for the month of October : "The receipts amounted to 14,402,8941, being a daste.' crease of 2,121,691 f, on the corresponding month of l year. Tice produce of the first ten months of the present year, as compared with the corresponding per he iod of 1856, shows au improve ment of 9,280,469 r., t toial 583,432 1 . and receipts being respe ctivel y 157, 148,302,963 f. The items of revenue which show the grsatest increase during 1857 are foreign colonial sugar, 9,317,0801. ; coffee, 4,858,299 f. ; potable liquors, 4,069,417 f. ; coa l, 556,6181. ; linen thread, 99,2321. ; nitrates of potash and soda, 63,635 f. ; mahogany, 4441. ; gold and 62,991 f. ; indig o, 56,354 f. ; flax, 45, franca; tallow, silver, 43, 495 fra nca ; copper, 32,657 29,518 f. ; cattle, 12,679 f. ; and sundries, 2o Those articles which show the greatest falling off are :-- French =Finial sugar, 4,071,2321. ; bar iron, 2,652,332 f. ; raw cotton, 1,4 , 99,0 , 55 f. ; corn, 1,062,8541. ; rough iron castings, 8J5,013 1 . ; cocoa,ooa 359,261.1. ; raw wool, 312,7461. ; ginous seeds, 106,218 f. ; ccochinea. d ; pepper, 49,227 1 . ; 15,8221. • raw and pig , lead, 42,836.. ; salt,, n spun silk, 13,777 f. ; fresh and salted meat, 10,812 f. The Spectate has received a " warning" for the feuilteton by M. A. Achard published in the num ber of yesterday. The departure of the 30,000 soldiers of the class of 1854 who by order of the Emperor have obtained furloughs is actively taking place. The furloughs on the expiration of the six months may be renewed. 13ouasE, Nov. 17.—The following were the last quotations Cash. ft. End of litonth. 4i per Cents - 3 per Cents 66 65 63 50 Bank Shares 2900 Credit Foncier 5OO A ,V ortitlit litobilier 735 Roman Do. Account 732 50 Austrian Belgian 4. (v 1)...... 951 Spanish Threes — riedmentese (5) — Home Debt RAILWAYS—FOB CABS• tr. C. it C. Orleans' 1245 Midi Northern , — New Ditto Lyons and Med 797i— Graud Central ...... 595 New Ditto... Geneva TURKEY. We have received Constantinople journals and letters to the 6th via Trieste. After the religious ceremony of the previous day, of which we have already given an account, had terminated, the ministers assembled in council at the residence of Mehemet Ali Pacha, Minister of Marine, and re mained sitting for a long time. It was generally supposed that the principal object of discussion was the question of the principalities, and the choice of the Ottoman statesman to whom should be con• fided the difficult mission of pleading the cause of Turkey at the futtre conferences. It was not thought probable at Constantinople that Mehemet Djemil Bey, ambassador at Paris, would remain charged with teat mission, although the powers are to be on this occasion represented only by their second plenipotentiaries, and Fuad Paella was spoken of as likely to be appointed. Nothing de finitive, however, has been decided on, and all re mained matter of conjecture. RUSSIA. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg having lately given notice that only the three ports of Auapa, Souk houm Kale, and Redout Kali!, on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, would be open to foreign vessels .r tho present,. and au Austrian journ a l h av i ng objected that this regulation is an infraction of Art. 12 of the treaty of Paris, the Nord proceeds to argue in the following terms on the late regulation and its bearing on the article : " How is the measure complained of contrary to the principle of freedom of trade established by the treaty of Paris ? The three ports just opened to foreign flags are the only ones which are favourable to commerce. The other points on the eastern coast do not offer ether a sure refuge or sufficient resources or security. It is evident that consulships cannot be established in TBE Since the first failure vague rumours have al ways been flying about that this maritime town ship was to be launched in a private and off-hand manner.. Within the last few days these reports have assumed such a circumstantial consistency, and named not only the day but even the hour at which the operation was to be commenced, that the suspicions of the most incredulous were gradually overcome. Yesterday was the day thus arbitrarily fixed, and yesterday accordingly witnessed the die tppointment of many hundreds and even thousands of the would-be sightseers. From a very early hour in the morning (many hours earlier, indeed, than it was possible to have launched any vessel at all) the visitors began to arrive at the yard from all - quarters. The horrid ditchy tracts round Poplar and Limehouse seemed animated, and even the 1 818 of Dogs wore a cheerful aspect under the unusual - influx of vehicles and pedestrians. The lively and intelligent natives of the districts we have men tioned, however, seemed by no means to have fallen victims to the general hoax, and were as a matter of course, in a proper frame of mind to enjoy the disappointment of those who had. Each fresh om nibus and cab load of eager spectators e therfore was hailed with derisive cheers, and cries of then The Leve Athon ain't a-going," which, though rather obscurely expressed, none were at a loss to under stand meant that there was to be no launch that day • and such they found was literally th e fac t; The ' doors of the yard were kept rigidly close d, an°, as admittance was refused to all and the men hat ! mest positive orders not to take in cards, the get rusk of visitors was effectually excluded. Th ere after vain efforts to oppose the Cerberus at the g ate, betook themselves to neighbouring points of gels; Lion which commanded a view of the yard, and there remained with a patience worthy of a better cause. The river steamboats, of course, were laden to the water's edge with reckless cockneys (f or steamboat companies had actually advertised thei launch as positively fixed for yesterday), and el along the Deptford shore was crowded with a con' course of fog and mud-enduring spectators. Now, it is not in our power to inform our readera when the launch, or the next attempt at it, wi ll really take place, but we can ateleast tell what per haps may save the public such a fruitless journey to Millwall as that of yesterday. Our readers, them i may implicitly depend upon it that the time fil e ' for the launch will be kept a strict and most Pro found secret—that no persons, no matter 117 " . their influence or even connection with the CO" el pany may be, will be admitted to the yard on that occasion, and that the first which the ge neral Pub lic is likely to hear of it at all is that the vessel 1 9 at last afloat, or that another attempt has been made to move her without success. It is no 8%1; aeration to say that every possible isrecautinn being taken to keep' the time which will be aP c i ointed for this next attempt a real secre t, ali t even the workmen employed in the yard will no er know when it is to take place till they actually b e gin to push the gigantic vessel down the " war' A Any of our readers who were present at the gr __ attempt on the 2d of this month will see the 1011 , rative necessity for this sect esy being observe ; On that occasion the yard was thronged with ViSi tors, who were constantly getting into danger env always getting into the way. It was then asee o tamed, when too late, that beyond a doubt a gr a ns error had been committed in admitting any P er t e h at all, while, in consequence of the publicity ivuia t!te event had obtained, the river was so thr ong " with steamers crowded down to the water's 4d g e ; and halting right in the track which the vessel stal!, have taken had she slipped off the ways, that 1. would have been nothing short of downright 133111 0 ,, slaughter to launch her under such circums tance r To get rid of all these difficulties, and most et e cially the last named, it has been decided, aq e have said, to keep the whole matter secret in 1 ' strictest sense of the term. Let our readerAtfo therefore, be on their guard, and turn a deaf ear t . an nouncements or rumours of the launch, noerataho ter from what quarter they may come. et-'1 preparations making for the next attempt are real,_ and the matter now rests with Mr. Brunel. real rectly he perceives that the time and tide hav e come, the effort to move the ship will be made al single hour's notice. We may mention, however,_6 that it will not be long delayed, for it cannot 13, yield still more under the tremendous weight yielded, and that every week she which bears upon them, and c m o a n y cealed that the launching ways have i t:,e difficulty of moving her at a l l. remains in her p resent position greatly ncrea se During the whole of yesterday the workmen were employed in getting the cables and tackle which i 0 to haul her down towards the river in working order, so as to have everything ready at a moment ° notice. Beyond these movements, and that 011 artists from the firm of Cundall, Howlett, an Downes, of Bond-street, were employed in coreP le " ing the beautiful series of photographic and stay ,„ : scopic views of the hull and interiors of the engi n :; roams, nothing was doing or done to recomP ell t o the curiosity of the hundreds who stood gazing ill the yard all day. TIIS INDIAN TELEGRAPH COMPAN We have received the following correspondence relative to the European and Indian Junction Tele graph Company "TO THE EDITOR Of THE SUN. "Gresham house, Old Broad-street, London, Nov. 17. " SlR,—The Times having decline d to insert the accompanying the e l t 4 t t e h r n w s t i enclosure,lsha shall feel much addressedobghe by your giving it a place. in your journal.-4 anio sir, your obedient servant, " W. P. ANDREW." "TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. "Sir,—With reference to your leading article to-day on the.sultject of telegraphic communicat ion, with India, in which you state that her Mais st) ::: Government has adopted the Red Sea route, 1 113 '1 to request that, in justice to this company, y ou //I d he good enough to insert the accompanying co PY,, - a letter addressed to me as chairman of th e COPI pany, on the 11th instant, to Lord Shelb urne.-"' am, sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) "W. P. ANDREW, CliclirDaall„ : ".Gresham House, Old Broad-street, Nev. 1 4 "Gresham House, Old Bread-Street' London, Nov. 11. "My Lord,—l have the hono ur to acknoWleil,gc the receipt of your lordship's letter of the 4th inell to the effect that while her ' Ma j esty's Governmenv regretted the decision at which the Turkish Govern, went had arrived regarding the application which this company had made for a concession for a line of telegraph from Seleucia to the Persian Gulf, ha Majesty's G ov ernment could not hold themsolve e , responsible for the expenses t h at ha d been in curreci, by t h e company, as her Majesty's Government 110 given no assurance that the company's appli caticil to the Porte would be successful. "2. I have to state, for the information of the Earl of Clarendon, that the directors did not c° o ; sider that her Majesty's Government were in l ' l/ ,,' way responsible for the expenses incurred by thera ' i " - cation with India, and no such demand their endeavours to establish telegraphic " Intaull d to be made in my letter of the 14th October. risell4, board merely expressed their rearet and Barpnot Mr. Under-Secretary Hammon6d.'s letter of 21st September stating ' that her Majesty's Goveri? iiiung had reconsidered the whole question of eslabl'isto telegraphic communication with India' ' % it y'o W intenpo were justified in taking, which the directors did not think that her 01A .i de riog Government CO w ith the arrangements that bad been entere d l u o t° lo anf 9 the Austrian Government and with tni s 4° ,41 t : ° ., and a proceeding so little in accordance a to till' countenance and support hitherto extends company by her Majesty' s G o vernmen t. bat thin "3. As the board, however, c annot ir" emit that i/ Mr. Hammond's l e tt er was wr itten la de d to, f orgetfulness of the arrangement above all tl a le tter the directors address e d, on the 16th ju st ' o f vibi eb to the Secretary to th e Treasury, a , coPY 1. , 00 , iir is annexed, for Lord Clarendon 6 tO t-, e timating their willingness t• pply upon ce rto inforMai: h Turkish Government fora concession 11P conditions specified therein. 'inn that el. b e "4. In conclusion, I would Well" , u; aff telegrOi,he total estimated expense of establie'T.,,,i, a nd .-- a communicator' with India, via Sele:, -- t - ri quil e Persian Gulf, is little more than haleduase, vela fpr the same object by way of the it, I f! iv 01 3 ,0 the route via St leueia and the Persian "%fitio.e c- , withdraw the line from the political I , s o f tb i t which might prove adverse to the in tereein,b S'll l country, were the line carried either threubbe, ttgies/ or Constantinople.—l have the honour to, to o. (Signed) "W. P. ANDREW, l r "The Earl of Shelburne, &c." --t AL --__--- „ 103 01' The Tower Hamlets Militia left Londc ) " ' , day morning ea route for Newry. T T, / On THE LORD RECTORSHIP uP GLASGOW .- , - 11. OP ° the 61e , c h pl°' Lord Rector of our University, at 10 o 'clock ' -ti bal• —ll "daY being the day appointed for fessois end students assembled' in the cOo,lll°°„idect• Professor William Thomson, t Pr e ; ere nct After an impressive prayer in Latin by the Ue „ e re Professor Hill, the laws r e lative to such occasionts.. lea read, and thereafter the several nations were dis v i o n t u ing , in the various class rooms for the purpose of . „ s o After a short absence the general r esult was madnti;.''' to by Mr. J. G. Fraser, 8.A., the oldest studs .InTio natio Loudoniana, favourable to Sir E. B. L y tton unanimous voice of the alumn the Caxtons to the office to which he was last 3'' appointed. i re-elected the autho_riotrf 'ERN. •