The Sun. — London, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

MPEIUAL PAELIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on tho wool sack at five o'clock. _ THEW READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESDALI3 the . following bills were severally read a third time and passed : Bristol and Irish Grand Junction Railway, New Bruns wick and Canada Railway and Land Company, Sitting bourne and Sheerness Railway, Tweed Fisheries, Herne Bay and Faversham Railway, and Finsbury Pailt (No. 2.) Earl FORTESCUE pfesented a petition from the ratepayers and guardians of Newton Abbott, Devon- shire, praying that delegates of the ratepayers might be associated with magistrates in deciding all matters rela tive to the l.)vying of county rates. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. This bill, as amended, was read a third time and passed. NORFOLK ESTUARY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. Tilis bill was also read a third time and passed. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS BILL. On the motion of the Earl of HARROWBY, the re port on this hill was brought up and agreed to. INDUSTRIAL SCEIOOLS BILL. On the motion of Lori REDESDALE, the report on this bill was brought up and agreed to., BANKING BILL. On the motion of Lord STANLEY, this bill, as amended, was read a third time and passed. CROWN SUITS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Oa the motion of the LORI) CHAIsiCELLOR, this bill wos read a third time and passed. CALEDONIAN AND CRINAN CANAL BILL. This bill, on the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, was read a third time and passed. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill wag read a third time and passed. GLEBE LAND (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time awl passed. LAND AND ASSESSED TAXES (SCOTLAND) BILL. The bill was read a third time and paned. CHRIST'S CHURCH (WEST HARTLEPOOL) BILL. This bill cuss also read a third time and passed. LAND TAX COMMISSIONERS NAMES BILL On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY this bill passed through committee, and was reported without amendments. • CANADA AND NEW BRUNSWICK BOUN DARIES BILL. On the motion of Earl GBANVILLZ this bill was read a second time. EDUCATION. Lord BROUGHAM presented three petitions on the subject of education—one from the pariah of St. George's, Hanover•square ; one from St. James's, Westminster ; an 4 another from Chatham. They stated that all parties wishing to enter the legal medical profession required to pass an examination while those who wished to be come schoolmasters were subject to no such ordeal, and they prayed that this dtfect might be remedied by compelling parties seeking to fill that responsible office, to undergo an examination, in order to test their fitness for the duties. Formerly his opi nion was against such examination, but he now entirely concurred with the prayer of the petition. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. Lord BROUGHAM also moved for certain returns, with a view of showing the operation of the existing law with respect to the costs attending judgments on bills of exchange. . The returns were ordered. SUPERANNUATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a first time. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH CONTINU ANCE BILL. This bill was read a first time. BURIAL GROUNDS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a first time. Their lordships then atjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords amendments to the London and South- Western Railway Acts Amendments Biel were con sidered and agreed to. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Col. TAYLOR a new writ was ordered for Beverley, in the room of Mr. E. A. Glover, whose election has been declared void. PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA TION BILL. Mr. M. T. BAINES, in the absence of the Attorney- General, moved the re-committal of this bill, in reference to the nye clauses agreed to last night (Monday). Mr. HADFIELD expressed a hope that the Govern merit would reconsider the formation of districts under the boil. - Mr. HENLEY expressed his regret that the house should be called on to give an opinion on the new clan-es on so short a notice. He had had no time to eacarnine them, and therefore be was not in a position to offer an opinion on them one way or the other. In ad dition to the new clauses, there was a page and a half of other amendments on the paper. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the recom mitment of the bill had been put on the order of the day in accordance with the decision of the house last night ( Jlonday). The bill was to be recommitted with the amendments, and any objections to them considered on the bringing up of the report. The hon. and learned gentleman then entered into the provisions of the clauses, and defended the course Go7ernment had taken in referenda to the proposed changes in the law, which was merely a repetition of his statements made last night to the house in committee on the bill. He con sidered there was no grounds fer complaints urged by the two hon. genllernen who had addressed the house seainst its going into committee. Viscount GOD ERICH thanked the hon, and learned Attereey-General fer the candid manner in which be had carried out the wishes of the houses expressed in the debate of last night. - fter some discussion, Mr. M. T. BAINEi said it would be better for the Rouse to cornmit the bill pro forma, and discuss Vue principles of the amendments on Thursday nsxt. Mr. SPOONER. said that Mr. Matins, who originated the amendments, considered no discussion was to take place on tlaetai*till Thursday, and therefore he was absent from the house that day. The house then went into committee. The amendments referred to were agreed to pro forma, and the hon - e resumed. BURIAL ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. This b'll, as amended, was considered. Several amendments were agreed to without oppoei sition. Mr. MASSEY m , wed the insertion of a olaurie to the elf , et " thlt the 52 Gs f% 3, cap. 146 sec. 4, teeited eractlient, net to appy the but ials in grounds provided under tile ActA."—Agreed to. Mr. CIIEETIIIII moved a new elluso relative to the bariAlot pAtiprrs, widoh was agreel to. Mr. COX moved the following new clauses :-1. That it shall and may he la a ral for the vestry of any parish FREIGHT - OF SPECIE. Sir G. B. PECIIELL obtained an order for a return in detail of the manner in which the several sums were expended under the vote of last session, in Civil Service estimate for 12,634/., to defray the charge for freight of specie to the various Commissariat stations abroad, for which service the sum of 10,000/. is proposed for the years 1857-8. • HYDE PARK. Mr. LAURIE asked the First Commissioner of Works whether it was intended to erect any edifice in Hyde park in commemoration of the Great Exhibition ; and, if no site had yet been adopted for Richard Ccenr de Lion, whether there was any objection to allow it to surmount the Marble Arch Sir B. HALL said that no edifice in commemoration of the Great Exhibition would be erected at the public expense, but a subscription for that purpose had been set on foot by Alderman Challis. He was not aware of any objection to placing the statue of Richard Cceur de Lion on the Marble Arch. HAMPTON COURT. Colonel NORTH asked the First Commissioner of Works whether any payments ; annual or otherwiss, were required from those occupying apartments at Hampton court Palace, and if so, what was the amount of such payments I Sir B. HALL said that occupants of the palace paid the rates cf the parish, amounting to about 500/ , and also gave something to the chaplain and houskeeper. Mr. LAURIE asked the Secretary to the Treasury if the Government could be induced to adopt the Bay at Barnstaple as a harbour of refuge, so necessary for the west coast, there being no harbour less distant than 140 miles from the Bristol Channel ; and whether he would permit evidence to be given before the committee now sitting on harbours of refuge, of which he was chairman Mr. WILSON said that there would be no objection to the taking a evidence. The committee would report in a few days. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS COMMITTEE. Oa the motion of L.)rd J. RUSSELL, The house then proceeded to the nomination of the members of this committee. The list proposed by Lor3 J. RUSSELL was as. seated to, the names of Sir F. Thesiger and Sir F. Kelly being omitted at their own desire. Power was given to the committee to send for persons, papers, and recirds ; nine to be a quorum. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. WILSON gave notice that the civil service esti mates would be taken to-morrow (this day). DIVORCE BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. S. WARREN moved an amendment, that the house go into committee on the bill that day three months, He complained of the breatkless haste with which this bill, involving a principle so momentous, was urged through that home at a late period of the session, when the energies t,f its members were exhausted. He remarked that the Commissioners, upon whose report the bill proceeded, were not unanimous, and that that report contradicted the s•aternont of the Attorney- General, that the bill male no material alteratio❑ in our marriage law, which he maintained, relying upon various authorities, regarded_ the marriage tie as indissoluble. Ile traced the origin of the " barbarous usage " of legis lative divorces—which sinned, he said, against the spirit of our jurisprudence and proved the rule of the common law—t 9 reasons of priva`e convenience. The more the people scrutinised the measure and read the debates con nected with it, the more they were alarmed, and he was informed that 16,000 women had petitioned the Queen diree: against the provisions of the bill. If e . in which any buri.;l ground closed by order in council the bill should pass late law, it would be necessary may be situate, and wt:ich does not belong to such to alter the marriage ceremony, for it would be im. parish, by res ilution of the ve=try at a meeting ca:10 , 1 for possible that that ceremony which had the bloom of that purpose, t) purchase such burial ground, and from ee:gina.l Eden on it could be retained in connection the time of such purchase. 'eueli burial ground shall be- with the dissolubility of marriage (hear, hear), from its long to such parish, aed he subject to all the conditiees henceforth assuming a totally different character affecting the burial grounds of the parish in which the (Hear, hear). He called upon the noble 1 ,rd not to same is situate. 2. That all the clauses and provisions force on this measure, which would have tie effect, as contained in the " Lands Clauses C msolidation Act," it were, of brirging bigmay home to every door, and for the purchasing and taking of leads; and also ail the adultery being made easy. (Hear, Lea-.) previsions of the Burial Acts, for the borrowing of money, Mr. BAINES said the principle of the bill had been shall respectively he deemed and taken to be incorper. affirmed more than once on this very bill by a majority aced in this Act with respioct to such burial grounds. of more than two to one, .and yet the hon. and learned Agreed to. gentleman who had just sat down had raised a third Mr. MASSEY, in the absence of Mr. Puller, moved discussion on tee prirc ple of the bill. Why should they the insertion of the following clause which ho thougat enter into a third discussion ? The subject had been was a moderate form of getting rid of the differences that exhausted, and he (Mr. Baines) trusted there would be at present existed in this respect :—" It shall not be re- no further delay interposed to their going into corn cessary to erect or maintain any sort , f wall or fence mitlee cn the bill. Ho could not help thinking that between the consecrated and the unconsecrated portions I there was an intention on the part of some honourable of any burial ground provided under the hereinbefore gentlemen to defeat this bill by delay. The Govern recited acts and this act, or any of them : Provided al- inent, however, would firmly resist any such attempt, ways, that in the case of any burial ground where there and would consider it their duty to do all they could to shall be no such wall or fence, it shall be the duty of the obtain the passing of this bill, and to make it as perfect Burial Board having the care of such burial ground to a bill for the purpose as possible. The honourable and place, and from time to time to repair and renew, such learned gentleman had addressed himself to what he con boundary marks of stone or iron as may be sufficient to sidered tho fact, that marriage was indissoluble according show the boundaries of such consecrated and unconse- to the l aw . Th a t was not a f act, and Lord Campbell crated portions respectively." bad in the House of Lords declared that for the last Mr. GLADSTONE, in the absence of Sir W. Heath. 200 years marriage had been dissoluble by law, and this cote, moved a clause to the effect that, in the event of a bill was simply to make that law general which was at bishop refusing to consecrate a burial ground for the in- present only partial. terment of members of the Church of England, it should Mr. STEUART seconded and supported Mr. War be lawful for the burial board to appeal from such refusal ren's amendment. He urged the serious consequences to the archbishop of the province, who should decide the of forcing the consciences of the clergy in this matter, matter in dispute. On the bishop not consecrating the warning the house of the example furnished by the ground within one month after receiving an order from Scotch clergy in a question of conscience. t h i e archbishop t o d o so , it s h ou ld b e l aw ful f o r th e arc h- M r . GILPIN co ns id ere d th e quest i on as to the din. wi t ) to lice nce th e b ur i a l groun d f or i n t ermen t, so l u bili ty o f marriage to be settled. H e supported the " s hould make the use of the burial ground Bill, but was not anxious with reference to re as lawful as right hon. i•f it had been consecrated. Th e m arr i age , a nd should vote again s t th e prov i s i on that gentleman r e f erre d t o w h a t h e h a d sa id wou ld compe l c l ergymen aga i ns t th e i r conscience to on a form er Bishop of st :Z v ulivo relative to the conduct of the solem n i z e a marriage between divorced p ar ti es. 6in reference to the consecration of Mr. HOPE strongly opposed the Bill, which, in his he Swansea Burial- Hims Fred, remarking that the Bishop opi n i on , wo uld shake the foundatio ns o f pu bi c more s r'no right to se telf above the law, . Mr. MASSEY re what h ferred tolity, e stated on a Mr. WINGFIELD said, he had been told that th ere former occasion relative to thin dispute, which arose in had been no decision upon the question whethe r c l ergy . consequence of the Burial refusing to p rov id e men cou l I b e compe ll e d t o marry divorced and prties. conve yance of the incumbent to fro m th e b ur i a l. The marriage service authorized the clergyman to a exer ground. He regretted to say that up penitenc..The cleared conveyatic e r of to the present cise a discretion. This doubt, he thought, should be i time the Bishop had shown no signs of clause in the act r'ferring to the the Mr. COLLINS uP. opposed the Bill, as a measure re- I clergy was entirely permissive. He . agreed to the the pugnant to the general feeling of the country. To the posed clause, as bring likely to katisfactotily settle the opinion of Lord Campbell, that marriage by the law of question. England was dissoluble, he opposed that of Lord We_naleydale, in its very ' teeth. Mr. DILLWYN defended himself from the remarks of St. David's in a letter I Committee. made against him by the Bishop Mr. BUTT observed that many of the objections urged against the Bill would be better reserved for the published in the Times in ansaior to statements . in refer. obliged ence to the consecration of t'ais burial-ground he made . Italy, He, however joined in discussing the principle of the Bill, which he supported. Upon the in the house on a former occasion. He was .to yinzes having question be invited a comparison between adopt that course in consequence of the / of morality, ' refused to insert his reply to the bishop's letter.. He the morality of the and thatof where marriage was indissoluble, still contended tnat the bishop was not justified in Scotland, where divorce was allowed. course he had a d o pt e d. E said, he considered the decision Mr. B. HOPE considered the law strong enough to of the house one which, however he lamented it, he compel a bishop to do his duty. He deprecated dis- was bound to lrespect ; he therefore confined himself paraging remarks being made in that house relative to , to certain exp anations, personal, and in ref-rence to a prelate who wag so universally respected. ; historical facts in question between the Attorne Mr. HADFIELD h oped the c!ause would pass, be- , General and himself. y canoe it would put an end to the unseemly disputes that ' The amendment was negatived, and the house went had taken place relative to the consecration of burial into committee on theßill. grounds. it was high time that the clergy should be I The name of the court was altered from "the Court reminded that they could not receive the pay of the of Marriage and Divorce" to "the Court of Divorce state without they did the bidding of the state. If they sad Matrimonial Causes ;" and the proviso in the six% FE L SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1857 wanted freedom of conscience let them come amongst Dissenters where they would be able to luxuriate on it to their hearts' desire. (Laughter.) Mr. RIDLEY supported the clause. Lord EBRINGTON- said that there had been several of these disputes in the dioceses over which it; was -the misfortuse of the Bishop of Exeter to preside, and cv bat was remarkable in connection with them, that Tories of the old school had been as indignant as dissenters against the bishops' conduct. He thought it was time to show the bishops that if they lorded it over the clergy, they must not over the people, and that they were noi: superior to the law. Mr. NE%VDEGATE considered the Legislature had the effect of de,troying discipline in the Church. Par liament ought to have sufficient courage to compel the bishops to do their duty under the present law. , Mr. SALISBURY supported the clause. The clause was then agreed to. Mr. KNIGHT moved the addition of a clause to the bill, the effect of which would be to give burial boards the power of making their own bye-laws, and thus get rid of the present controul over them of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mr. MASSEY on the part of the government objected to the clause. A discussion ensued after which the clause was negatived without a division. The remaining amendments were then agreed to, and the bill ordered t , ) be read a third time to-morrow. SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL. The committee on this bill was resumed and the clauses were agreed to. METROPOLITAN POLICE STATIONS &c. BILL. This bill passed through committee. BOUNDARIES OF BURGHS EXTENSION (SCOTLAND) BILL. Oa the motion for the house going int) committee on this bill, Lozd MELGUND protested against the bill being proceeded with, with so thin an attendance of Scotch members. He had variousoLjections to the bill. He consi dered it ought not to be carried on, and he suggested that the bill should be postponed till next session. After some remarks from Colonel SYKES, The house went into committee, and the clauses were agreed to. DUNBAR HARBOUR (CONSOLIDATED FUND.) The report was brought up and agreed to, and a bill ordered to be founded thereon. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (STAMPS.) The report was broli;?„ht tin and agreed to. ILLICIT DISTILLATION (IRELAND) BILL. The amendments t , ,, this bill were considered and agreed to and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. WILLS, &a., OF BRITISH SUBJECTS ABROAD BILL. The amendments to this bill were also considered and agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. ELECTION PETITIONS BILL, The committee on this bill was resumed, and the re maining clauses were agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time tomorrow. BURIAL GROUND (SCOTLAND) ACT (1855) AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The sitting was then suspended till 6 o'clock, when the house resumed. STATE OF THE THAMES. Mr. ESTCOURT obtained an order for returns of copies of correspondence between the First Commissioner of Works and Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney and the Com missioners of Sewers and the Board of Works, on the state of the river Thames and the pollution of the atmos phere on the banks of the Tnacues and the Houses of Parliament. clime, that no suit for jactitation of marriage shall be entertained, WAS expunged. The debate upon the 6th Mamie, which occupied much time, brought into view the effects of the Bill in relation to marriages and divorces in parts of the empire other than Eng►and, to which the bill is limited. Upon reaching the Bth clause the Chairman was or dered to report progress. The Insurance Companies Bill was committed pro forma. The Clerks of Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill was withdrawn. The Representative Peers (Ireland) bill passed through committee. Mr. WHITESIDE, in moving the second reading of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amend ment bill, dwelt upon the injustice wh:ch he said had been done to Sir T. M. Wilson with reference to Ramp steal-heath, and which this bill was intended to remedy. The motion was seconded by Mr. MALIN& Mr. COX moved the adjournment of the debate, and after some discussion this motion was agreed to. PERSIA AND HERAT. Mr. WARREN asked whether the Government bad received any intelligence of the refusal of the _Persians to evacuate Herat I Lord PALMERSTON.—I do not believe that any intelligence had been received as yet with regard to the evacuation of Herat. I do net think there has been time for a communication to be made after the arrival of the Commissioner at Teheran. The honse then aAjourned at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock. RUSSIA 111 7 INDIA. (From the Morning Post.) Everybody who has lived in an Eastern country is aware of the rapidity with which intelligence passes from hand to hand. Eyed before printing became general up the Mofussil, reports were cir culated in India almost with the quickness of the electric telegraph. A rumour—a watchword_a common cry—an event—was passed from mouth to mouth and from station to station, the or:ginel propagator running like the Swedish Vorespann, and delivering his message, whatever it might be, to a friend, who ran likewise his assigned distance, committing the message to a third party. In this way immense spaces were traversed in a single day, and intelligence was communicated by some fifty or sixty runners to thousands of people, influencing them either for good or evil. Something of the same system appears to have been adopted by the native Press and newswriters in India. Whenever the conductors of this infamous press perpetrated a peculiarly malignant or incendiary article against English rule, care was taken to spread it far and wide by trustworthy runners and messengers—by what, for want of a better word, we will call the Indian Vorespann. In this way it was that litho graphed lies were spread through whole presiden cies without stint or measure, and that the only news circulated was poisonous news. That the noxious venom produced its effect on the native mind there can be no doubt ; but whether the wri ters in this native Press were instruments and tools in the hands of some foreign power, or mere gratui tous incendiaries, remains yet to be proved. The native editors, writers, and contributors to the In dian Press are all a bad and disreputable set of men who have learned little of European civilisation but its corruptions and its vices. Desperate in fortune and ruined in character, they may have aced solely from the desire to create mischief and confusion and to profit in the scramble, but we think it muc h more likely that they are the ready tools and paid instruments of a foreign Power, and that Russian gold has been profusely distributed among them. Our French contemporary, Le Pays, announces in a letter from Calcutta, that a certain Russian, whose name we need not print, had been very busy for some time in British India, and that, a short while before the mutiny he had set out for Delhi. Now, this looks more than suspiciou s, and, coupling it with the previous intrigues of Russia in Persia, Affghanistan, and. British India, and the subse quent events, it is more than suspicious —it is damnatory. With a few thousand pounds in hands, supplied by Armenian or Greek ban'eers, er money-lenders at any of the Presidencies, a Russian agent might find half-a-d ozen native editors pre pared to do his work, and ready to send these nouvelles a la main, these incendiary flying sheets, through not merely Bengal, Behar, and Benares, but through the country of the Nizans, Oude, and the Guicowar. In the days of Louis XV. the Lieutenant of Police, notwithstanding all his vigi lance, could not prevent the circulation, through out French society and the provinces, of satiri-al articles directed against the French King and his mistresses, and these nouvelles a la main were for the most not printed, but written in thousands and tens of thousands of copies, for more easy circula tion. in India, where there are myrials of crannies, or writing-clerks, who could easily tran scribe a page within th , i dimensions of an ordinary visiting card, it is not difficult to suppose that written sedition or treason may have been propa gated far 'and wide. Under these circumstances it was a measure of wisdom and precau tion to place the native press under stringent restrictions. As to the Indian Press published in the English languege, its conductors are now under a grave responsibility, and we trust they will feel its weight. They must be well aware that now our real strength in India consists of the European e'ement ; and to that element th-y should give a generous support. We can now, and for some time to come, only retain our domi nion in Bengal by the power of the sword and by a large military establishment; but notwith standing this hard necessity imposed on us by mutiny, the' country will be as well and es justly governed as at any antecedent period. That the country has been Justly, governed appears from this, that the people have been quiescent and pas sive, while it is the soldier only who has muti nied. The men whom we h ave p a id f or our defence have proved faithless, and the people whom we have taxed, according to some Indian reformers, not wisely but too well, have been true to us to a man. Recent Governments, whether Protectionist, o r m i xe d an d Coalitionist, appear to have attempted to &lenge toe much in India for the sake of change. All cl ange is not reform or inapr ivement, an l there are not wanting many able men, who know India well, who consider that we have attempted too much rather than too little in Hindostan. There is a noisy, besy, restless, fussy friction •in India, as well as here, where it calls itself the People and Parka mur 4 , and former CaLine's have too often yielded to the pressing clamour of these cliques. Nothing has more tended to exasperate the Brahimnical caste against British sway in India than this anxiety to alter, if not to amen d—t o change, if not to ameliorate —to reform, if not to eleva'e, the native. No doubt it is our duty to rescue the Indian people, if we can, from the de spotic dominion of the native priesthood ; but this must be done, if at all, gently and slowly, and not rashly and precipitately. As the Brahmins consider the tendency of all education, amelioration, and improvement, pretty much in the light in which the Pop'sh priesthoJd regard the reading of the Bible—namely, as op posed to their undue dominion and power—it is quite cert tin they have worked on the prejudices of the sepoy against our sway, partly from per sonal motives connected with their priestly func tions, partly because they are, like the newswi;ters, the paid instrument s o f a foreign Power. But, notwithstanding the knavish tricks and treasonable practices of newswriter3 and Brahmins, aided by foreign gold, we shall continue to hold our Eastern Empire—first, by the exhibition of an over whelming furce ; but, within twelve months, by our moral influence, by the opinion entertained of our wisdom, our justice, and of our equitable government. The permanent causes of our suc cess and power in India lie in the discipline of our European troops, in the general zeal and union of the civil servants and the military for the public service, and in the commanding influence of that national repute which has never been sullied by tyranny, or tarnished by injustice. UNION OF TBE P.RINCIPALrTrEs. (From the Daily News.) The crisis in Turkish and Danubian polities, which we have long foreseen and for etol 1, has oc curred. We have repeatedly said that the obstinacy of the British Ambassador in himself supporting, and making Reschid Pacha support, those func tionaries who were deternmed to put down the cause of the Union in the Principalities, not by fair means, but by the most gross violence and tyranny, would lead to the nullification of the 'Treaty of Pari., by giving France cause for backing out of it. Had the Union been fairly and honestly opposed, France could have recurred to no such extreme measure. It is the continual boast of the antago nists of the Union, that the Moldavians are averse to it. Why not, then, have left to the Moldavians the free expression of thsir opinions ? Instead of this, Prince Vogorides was male ruler of the coun try, for the sake of using every violence and trick in order to carry the anti-unionist vote. The proofs of his having done so are too patent to be denied. By supporting Vogorides in these practices, Lord Redclift'e has put it in the power of the French am bassador to charge the Ports with a breach of the conditions of the Treaty of Paris. And the French ambassador is unfortunately right. M. Thouvenel accordingly threatens to withdraw from Constanti nople, which means neither more nor le s than a threat to withdraw altogether from the Treaty of Paris. The Sultan could not of course abide by such an alternative, which would deprive him for the pre sent and the future of the support of that army which so mainly contributed to the capture of Sebastopol, and to the destruction of Russian power in the Black Sea. Lord Redcliffe has been for the last month pushing the Porte to this extremity. He bas been combating the Union of the Principa lities per fas et nefas ; and he has been doing this under the plea that he wanted to strengthen the Porte. We long ago pointed out that no strength which Turkey could derive from preventing the Union of the Principalities—supposing that pos sible—was at all comparable to the danger of alienating France from the Sultan. This lat ter result has, hawever, been recklessly braved and provoked by Lord Redcliffe and Reschid Pacha, until at the ultimate threat of France to withdraw, the ground fails beneath both, the Sultan perceives his danger, and the Grand Vizier, who has been acting under English advice, is overthrown, and is compelled to leave the place to his rival. The whole of this business is as disgraceful as it is untoward to the British Government. Our Mi nisters, in their support of Vogorides were illiberal, impolitic, and insincere. It is all very well to twit the Emperor of the French with being such a stick ler for fteedom of election in Moldavia, and with setting the letter of it at nought at home. —But surely England ought not to screen its own dupli city under that of a despotic power, compelled by the false course upon which it has entered to dire and extreme expedients. The words of Lord Cla rendon, and the promises of the Treaty, were that the Principalities should be fairly consulted. If it was imprudent to consult them, the promise should not have been made ; but if made, it ought to have been honestly kept, especially by such a country as England. Here in the West, we may understand and perhaps excuse the falsification of elections, but people in the East are simple. And when they see England promising a boon one day, and then striving to cheat the Danubians out of it the next, they cannot but settle down into the be lief that England is that base and Machiavelic country which continentals have so long taken the pains to depict us. We do all this wrong, we commit all this illibe rality, we break with all that is patriotic and Christian and enlightened in the Levant—for what purpose ? To strengthen the hands of the Porte, and to wield influence through the Turkish Divan. And what is the very first result of our efforts, but to overthrow our own friends, destroy our own in fluence in the Divan, and hand over all influence and authority in Turkey to our inveterate enemies. Policy so shortsighted is scarcely to be conceived. The dominant idea with Lord Redcliffe and Lord Palmerston has been not really to strengthen the Turkish empire, but to concentrate all power at Constantinople —as if that were strength. The true strength of the empire would be to a'tach the ow lying provinces to the Government—not sacrifice them thereto, and thereby render them disaffected and weak. Gratify the fair demands of thePrinci pa and they will be bulwarks for the defence of Turkey. Disappoint, trick, despoil, and discontent them, and you have provinces which, like Lom bardy in Austrian possession, require an army to keep them. And for what purpose do we labour to concen trwe all power at Constantinople ? On what does power there depend ? Ou a corrupt Minister, or a capricious concubine. If England lords it one day in the Bosphorus, France is sure to do so the next, and. Russia, we may be sure, will haveits turn. No one can be sure for twenty-four hours of the colour or policy of a Turkish Government. It was most important at the present moment, in the face of an Indian mutiny, and with the probable resuscita tion of the Persian war, to keep a Turkish Minister in power whO was the riend of England. Instead of keeping this in view, we stir heaven and earth against the Union of Moldavia and Wallachia—as if that were a question of either vital or secondary importance. Yet to it have been sacrificed the vizierate of Reschid and the influence of our Am bassador. Never, surely, was there so complete an exemplification of the sacrifice of the grande poli tique to the petite. THE DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. (From the Times.) At this season of the year perishable articles, if kept rather too long, are apt to become not only stale, but actually offensive. Sue% is the present phase of the exceedingly epheint,ral, captious, and factious opposition to the Divorce and Matrimo nial Causes Bill. Mr. Warren took it up last night, and we give Mr. Glild4one and his friends joy of the treatment their cause received at the hands of the ingenious novelist. This gentleman, like Mr. Malins, starts with demanding a whole Session and the restoration of his youthful powers for the proper examination of thi s bill . Ho has, nevertheless, had time and st rengt h enot i gh to arrive at some co;iclu-ions. Marriage, he says, is indissoluble. This, he says, is the law of Eng land. Our hundreds of Divorce Aqs have been " a barbarous usage," imported into this count: y, I we presume, wi-h that other barbarous system, Constitutional Government. Notwithstanding 1 the " usage," which Mr. Warren admits, these Divorce Acts have been national sins, and a base betrayal of truth and religion to the convenience of a comparatively few ri c h p ers Ins. Mr. Warren takes his stand on the New T es t ament. To a corrupted age, six generati ons d eep i n f ou l national sins, be proclaims th a t W e i s a consistent Christian, and that he recognises no mora l prin ciple which is not founded on th e G ospel. Mr. Warren declares himself not only a moralist and a Christian, but a divine and a scholar. As he will do nothing that he does not find in the New Tes tament, he very properly devotes himself to the study and understanding of that volume. The re sult of bis piety and single-mindedness, his harning and diligence, is that marriage is indissoluble ; that laws professing to absolve it are inoperative and sacrilegious ; that Queen Victoria, the Lords, and the Commons, about half-a-dozen times a year perform a blasphemous and sacrilegious farce, pre tending to disunite those who must ever be one, contrary to the law at England, in the face of the Bible, in contempt of the Almighty, and in dis regard of Mr. Samuel Warren. _ _ We would not, however, do an injustice even to Mr. Samuel Warren. He does not place such ab solute confidence in his own knowledge of the law, his own scholarship, his own moral sense and theo logical acumen, but that he is ready to appeal to " the Teachers of our Church." The learned and subtle Doctors of the Anglican Communion to whom this title is given are the nine thousand clergy who, by means of railways and the penny post, by circulars and central agitations, by much use of horseflesh and shoeleather, and no doubt at a great cost of other animal substances in this very hot weather, have been induced to sign a Declara tion composed by some • ingenious politician for the express purpose of mystifying and committing them out of their depth. Mr. Warren quotes the document in extenso to prove tint these nine thousand Teachers of the Church all hold marriage to be indissoluble, and appeals to us whether it is possible to fight against such a cloud of authorities. It so happens, however, that the reverend Secretary of the Declaration, the man employed by its framers to push it about, receive signatures, explain it, and mediate between the higher and lower intelligences employed upon it, has written to us most indignantly repudiating the very construction put upon it by Mr. Warren, the very doctrine far which he cites the nine thousand. This gentleman says that the " Declaration " does not declare marriage to be indissoluble. He and Mr. Warren mast settle that matter between them, for " Who sh a ll set decide when doctors disagree ?" We confess ourselves unable to fathom the roguery of a document which we believe to be simply a poli tical demonstration, and very much of a piece with the opinion whi c h Mr. Warren ascribes to Dr. Phil litnore--viz., that " he thought it ought to be the principle of the law that marriage was indissoluble.i' If this means anything at all, it means that for our worldly convenience we ought to (*lase that to be an obligation which is not an obligation—the very practice most emphatically and terribly denounced throu2,hout the New Testament—the very burden so to speak, of the Evangelic and Apostolic dis courscs. For our own part, we coo not pretend to improve much on the morality of the New Testa ment'. We leave that to Dr. Phillimore, Mr. S. Warren, and the nine thousand teachers of the Church. We need scarcely say we have no great respect for the intelligence, scholarship, or even the can dour of these nine thousand, in any high sense of that word. But we will say why. What they de precate is the creation of " facilities" for divorce, " unauthorised by Holy Scripture and by the law and ritual of the Church." Now, the only " facilities " threatened are the substitution of ju dicial for Parliamentary procedure ; th a is, ofj udges sitting in a room on the West side of Wcs'minster- Hall for the very same men, probably, sitting in a room on the East side of the same Hall, in both cases proceeding on the very same principles, maxims, and precedents. These are the " facili ties," very awful, no doubt, but not of a nature to be found particularly described either in Holy Scrip ture or in the law and ritual of the United Church. In fact, it is as unreasonable to require that the meisure under discussion should be found in the Bible or Prayer-book as that the Victoria Tower, or Big Ben, or the office of the Sergeant -at-Arms, or the standing orders upon railway bills should be found in those documents. So much for the sense displayed in this declaration. Next for its scholar ship. The second clause begins :—" Remembering., also, that it is declared in the Word of God that marriage with a divorced woman is adulterous." We beg to assure the nine thougand clergymen that what they are pleased to remember so positively and distinctly is a downright untruth. It is nowhere declared in the Word of God that marriage with a divorced woman is adulterous. What is declared is simple enough, and appeals, like all the morality . in Scripture, to ordinary good sense and good feel ing. It is, that whoever married the woman who had been put away wantonly and causelessly, with a bit of paper in her hand, containing a form of words and a text or two declaring that she was at liberty, did virtually commit adultery. All the passages refer to one particular practice, to one par ticular form, expressly describel and indicated by the words " put away"—as much a particular form as that by which the Jews were in the habit of avoiding their filial obligations on a pretended de votion of their wealth to the Temple. The term which these gentlemen have translated "a divorced woman," as if it meant any woman divorced under any circumstances, does not mean that, and it is a gross misrepresentation to say that it does. It means a woman put away in one particular form and manner, then much in vogue, and resting on one of the traditions or abusive interpretations of the law. If the Bill did really affect the clergy—if it really altered their position with regard to the marriage of divorced persons, it would be time to consider their claim to relief. But the fact is that every year several couples of divorced persons are launched on society to be re-married by somebody or other. They might fall to the lot of any clergy man, yet it so happens we never heard of any objection to perform the service, nor do we believe such an objection h as y e t been shown. The clergy are only too desirous to marry as many as they can, without any i nqu i ry a t a ll , an d ta ki ng t h e word of the people themselves that there is no obstacle to their union. There are numerous Acts cf Parliament securing to particular churches the marriages of large districts, like the old monopolies compelling people to take their corn to one particular mill, and the result is that in the metropolis, and in many large towns, scores of couples are married at once, all equally and utterly unknown to the officiating minister. The grievance, then, as far as we see, is not at all likely to be felt, even if each clergyman's chance of having such a marriage as that under question should be somewhat in creased. Were the grievance real, and were the clergy now called on to do what they might not have been called on to do before, there might be a clause for the benefit of those who have taken orders on a different understanding. Of course, all who may henceforth become candidates for ordi nation will do so with their eyes open, and be prepared to obey the law. The existing clergy, on the proof of a real grievance, might be permitted to make a formal protest before the first day of the opera ion of the new Act, and be allowed the benefit of that protest till, on further considera tion, they saw reason to withdraw it. There are things to be said for and against such a provision, but it would give no inconvenience, for there will always be clergymen ready to perform the ceremony, and it might deprive some wrongheads, or blunderheads, of a very foolish oppo r tu n ity o f making a disturbance. METROPOLITAY BOARD OF WORKS. A special meeting of - the Board was held yester day in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, to receive and consider the report of Capt .in D. Galton, R E. _ Mr. James Simpson, C.E., and Mr. T. E.. Black well, C.E., on the plan of main drainage submitted to Sir Benjamin Hall by the Board on the 22d of December last. Mr. Thwaitea was in the chair. The rep - rt which consists of 45 folio pages of printed matter, was read in extenso by Mr. Wo rych, a-sstecl by Mr. Bazdgette, and it occupied these gentlemen nearly three hours in reading it. Mr. CARPMAEL wished to propose a motion on the subject of the report. The case stood thus : The Metrepolitan Board had submitted a plan to Sir B. Hall as First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works,. The Board therefore could not take up any new scheme until their own plan had been de cided upon by the Government. • It wasimportant to bear in mind that the report which had been read did not purport to contain any plan which had received the approval of Sir Benjamin Hall. It was merely toe suggestion of the three referees, and, for aught he kne Sir Benjamin Hall might ignore their plan in the same manner as he had ignored the plan of that Board. It had taken a long time to read the report, but practically the changes proposed might be expressed in a few minutes. It was not proposed by the referees to interfere with the plan adopted by the Board in're gard to the - upper level sewer on the north, nor with regard to the low level sewer on the south side of the Thames. The first alteration suggested was an extension of the plan proposed by the Board. It was said that the Board did not make a sufficient provision for rain -fall, or give a suffi cient supply of water to the inhabitants to enable the extra quantity of sewage to be carried away. They also said that that the engineer of the Board did net make provision for so large an area as might be provided for simply by gravitation. But by the plan of Mr. Bazalgette it appeared that he had arrived at what he believed b be the maximum area that could be dealt with by gravitation only. The referees disagreed front the propriety of having an outfall at B* ; and proposed iu - place of that to carry off the sewage by two open reservoirs or canals, which together were to be 76 feet in width and about 37 miles in length. These canals were to be uncovered, except when they came to any town or bridge. They also proposed to dilute the sewage by pumping water out of the Thames into these open xeservoirs from Plumpstead on the one side, and Barking on the other, and thus cause it to flow on in a centinued stream to Sea Reach and the Creak, whence it would be poured into the river, and there be mixed with such a quantity of water as to render it inoffensive to any one. The country at large, and the metropolis in particular, ought to kuow that while the one great purpose in all the works of the Board war to cover up the whole sewage drain, the plem sug gested by the gentlemen to whom the question had been referred by the First Commissioner was that the sewage should be carried nearly 20 miles on each side of the river in open concentrated streams. The hon. member then moved the fol lowing resolution : " That, id acknowledging the receipt of Sir Benjamin Hall's communication of the 31st of July, he be requested to furnish this Board with such plans and sections as may have been prepa el by Captain Gaiton and Messrs. Simp son and Blackwell, to explain the recommendations, and that ho be informed that this Board, having on the 22d of December last submitted to him plans for the intercep tion of the metropolitan sewage through covered sewers at an estimated cost of 2,836,6001, regard with great appre hension any proposition to exceed the sum of 5,437,2351., of which it appears a sum of 3,141,3001. is proposed to be expended in the formation of two open sewage canals and works connected therewith, amounting together to 76 feet in width and about 37 miles in length, it being the duty of this Board to cover all existing open sewers, and not to create farther nuisances." The motion having been seconded, Mr. TURNER m wed as an anaendmen " That the receipt of the report be acknowledged, and that it be requested that the plans and sections therein referred to be forwarded to the Board." Mr. DENNIS was sorry that Mr. Carpmael should have so prematurely pronounced an opinion on the report of the three eminent men to wham the plan of the board had been referred by the First Com missioner. He hoped the board would wait, and have the whole details before them previous to their pronouncing au opinion on a subject of such magnitude. Mr. Deputy HARRISON disapproved both the original motion-and the amendment. Sir B. Hall had sent them a report, and had stated that cer tain plans wore being prepared, and would be ready in a few days. Surely it was not necessary for the board to pass a resolution calling upon Sir Benjamin Hall to send those plans. He would, no doubt, afford the board every information that was furnished to him by the Engineers to whom he had referred the plan submitted to him by the board. Mr BIDGOOD observed that, for aught they knew, plan 13* might yet come back from Sir B. Hall ap proved ; the board ought therefore to take care net to put themselves in a false position by asking Sir B. Hall fir additional plans. At all events ho hoped the Board would not do anything to lead the public to think that there existed any hostility between, the board and the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works. The object of all was a thorough drainage of London. Plan B* was at present before Sir B. Hall, and until the boar I had received an answer from km—yes or no—to that plan the board ought not to take any other B . ep. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR sail that, notwithstanding the great respect he entertained for his friend Mr. Carpmael, he thought that on this occasion he had been some adiat premature. If h's friend had had listened to him this discussion would have been avoided. His friend possessed the advantage of having seen the report, but it was hardly fair to the other members of tee b. ,ard who had only just heard it read to bring forward a proposition binding them to the expression of an opinion in regard to a docu ment which they had had no opportunity to con sider. He did not wish to prejudge the report, though he had no doubt it could be well pulled to pieces. It was his firm belief that Sir B. Hall had, iu the course he had pursued, exceeded his duty. He ought and must deal with the plan B. He had no right to hang up that plan and let loose on the world a plan of his own to see how the Times took it up. He had no right to do that. Sir B. Hall was a public' servant, receiving public money, and had a public duty to perform, and he had to discharge himself from plan- B* before . en tering upon any other plan. (Hear, hear.) He would give the right hon. baronet time enough ; they had no right to pu,-11 him into a corner ; but, though suspending all judgment on plan .13 5 , the moment his own engineers presented their report he hastened to gat it into the Observer, his own paper, and thereby furnished food for the Times, and thus a condensation of .the report got before the world. He did not wish, however, to be im portunate with the right hon. baronet. Let him have time to send to that board all he considered necessary to illustrate the important subject on which they had 4to decide. Unanimity on this subject was most desirable ; he therefore hoped that his friend Mr. Carpmael and also Mr. Turner would withdraw both the original motion and the amendment, in order that they might adopt a pro. position for promoting and circulating the report, to be taken into consideration on a future day. Mr. DOULTON saw no difficulty in adopting the resolution of Mr. Carpmael. The proposed plan was, in effect, to have an open ditch on each side of the river Thames for 20 miles • and no discus sion of details could elucidale the plan more clearly than that simple statement. It was a plan con trary not only to the spirit but to the very letter of the Act of Parliament, which said that all sewers with which the board had to deal should be covered over. Having that act befoie them, they ought at once to express a decided opinion against any plan which proposed the construction of open sewers. Every day, however, convinced him of the neces sity of something being done, but it must not be that which was embodied is this plan, for, how ever excellent the men might be who proposed it, it was a plan which, if adopted, would perpetuate an intolerable nuisance. Mr. OFFOR was of opinion that the Board ought not to come to any decision until they had the whole of the maps and sections before them. Mr. Bows condemned the adoption of open sewers, and hoped the Board. would unanimously oppose the proposition. Mr. NICHOLAY thought nothing would be gained by hurrying on the question, and that they should wait until the whole plans were before them. Mr. DIFFANGER opposed both the motion and the amendment. He regarded the report as the answer of Sir B. Hall to plan B*. (" No ! no !") There appeared to him to be two objections to the plan of the referees—first, that Of having open sewers ; and, secondly, that of dealing with areas beyond the jurisdiction of the Board. It was pro posed to them to sanction the expenditure of six millions of money, which, of course, meant ten millions before the thing was done. Now, he would assume that proposition to ba Sir B. Hall's answer to the plan they had proposed, and he would sug gest that they should reply to Sir B. Hall, and say to him,—" If we agree with this report, are you prepared to bring in a bill to give us power to , deal with an area beyond our jurisdiction, and to expend a sum of money to an amount 1111 . ,h we I feel we ought not to expend." (Hear, hear.) Mr. CARPMAEL, in reply, said that he was anxious to relieve the Board from the imputaVon of delay, which had been unjustly cast upon them by Sir B. Hall. At the same time he was not de sirous to preis his proposition unreasonably, and he would thorefore leave it with the 131 - ).ard to dis pose of hi 3 m tion as they pleased. The to Ot . 0 ► was finally vdthdrawn. Mr. Doputy HARRlsoN.thon moved - • " That the receipt of the report of the eogineers, Capt. D. Gal tor, and Messrs. Sirupscn and Bt.:Awed be ac knowledged, and on the maps and upon lices mentioned in that report being completed, the whole be printed, an I copies thereof be sent to ea::11 member of the Boar", and that the chairman be requested thereurrm to call a meet ing of the members of the Board to consider the plan, and report on a day not earlier than seven days after the dis tribution of such copies." Aftr souse dism , sion the motion was adopted, and the Board adjourned. THE INDIA MAILS via MARSBILLES. The Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles has ad dressed the following, It ter to Mr. Grepon, Presi dent of the Etst India Association : " Sir, -L-The Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles was naturally much annoyed at the complaints in the Eng. lish newspapers of the alleged delay in the transmission of the India mail via Marseilles. If we are to believe an article in the Times, when the mail reaches our port, instead of being immediately forwarded, it is kept until the next usual mail train starts, which causes a loss of nearly a day. " Director of the Post-2ffice whom we questioned respecting this complaint, gave us the following explana tion, which we lose no time in forwarding, and which we hope will be satisfactory. " The director has thought it necessary to give, first, a table of the ordinary mail trains (express.) " Thu's, two trains leave Marseilles daily for Paris in connection with the Northern Railway, which takes the mails to England. Their hours are as follows : "Aarseilles Departure... 10 0 a.m. ... 10 30 p.m. " Paris j Arrival 6 0 a.m. ... 6 0 p.m. Doparture 8 0 a.m. 730 p.m. " Calais j Arrival 330 p.m. 3 0 a.m. 1 Departure according to date. "D0ver.......... Arrival " London Arrival LE 0 p.m. 9 0 a.m. " Of these two mails, the first is delivered in London at 6 a.m. A difference of 12 hours is the country (dans les provinces) means from the date of arrival a difference of four hours in the delivery. " The same may be said for those localities which re ceive two mails daily. It even happens—and it has con tinually happened at Marseilles—that two mails arriving at an interval of 10 hours have been delivered together. " The hour of departure of the regular mail trains be ing well known, organised beforehand with a view to speed and prompt delivery, it is clear that whenever the India mail • arrives in time to catch the ordinary mad express it is the quickest conveyance. When the steamer arrives at an hour when the mails cannot take advantage of the ma 1 train, steps are taken to accelerate their transmission, whenever it can be so managed as to pro cure an earlier deltvcry. " The morning mail reaches London in 37 hours, and arrives there at night.. If the steamer reaches Marseilles after 10 a.m., and before the departure of the ordinary train which leaves at 12 40, a special train is sent to catch the mail train. This has always been done. But if the steamer arrives at 2 p.m., the mail is kept till 10 p.m. for the 10 30 train. In fact, it woul.l be impossible for a special train leaving four or five hours after the ordinary express to catch it in good time, and the mails would have to wait at Ca'ais just as long as they would remain at Marseilles, as the beat would have left, Supposing the mails were conveyed by special train to Calais, by special steamer from Calais to Dover, by special train from Dover to London, they would not reach their de stination —premising that the telegraph had ordered all the line to be kept clear—before 4.30 or 5 a.m. It is true it would be in time for the - first London delivery. For the short space of two hours, and ly extraordinary tnean , , the mail delayel four hours at its departure from Marseilles might be procured the benefit of a three hours' earlier delivery in Landon. But should the result be six hours at Marseilles, no advantage whatever would be acquired by employing special trains and special steamers. The mails would only roach London one hour before the ordinary evening ma. "Tee organisation of special trains is, moreover, so difficult, owing to the complicated traffic upon the three Huts f railwey upon which the mails have to be cone veyed, that unforeseen delays which may be experienced by a special train must be taken into account. " By sending a special train in time to catch, if possi• ble, the ordinary morning express, the French Poet-office does all that can he reasonably expected of it, and when it allows the mails which come by the steamers after noon to remain at Marseilles till 10 p.m, it only (flakes a difference of three hours in the time of arrival at their destination ; and, if it does so, it is because the time of the day at which that delay takes place may be consi dered as unimportant. But it even strives to obviate this delay as we have shown for it awl iys special traing whenever there is a chance of success. "If this explanation is exact as regards the morning mail, might not the same measures be taken for the mails by the steamers thatarrive after 10 p m, I "To this question the director of the Post-office re plies that within the limit of from three to four hours, with special trains and special steamers, an attempt might be made to catch or follow close the ordinary train;wail but be adds, that the opportunity has not once presented ittelf in the five years that an English steamer has arrived between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m. The usual entrance takes place at daybreak. Where, moreover, would be the advantage of a special train ? There are more difficulties attached to sending special trains by night than in the day time ; it is more oifficult to keep the line clear ; clatys are more inevit able. " Such are the involuntary causes which prevent a more speedy transmission of the ladian " We have made you acquainted with the observa tions of the director of the Poet-office, with complete frankness ; we need not add that we are quite willing to hear yours, and that we will at once adopt any mea sures you may think advisable to accelerate the, trans mission of the mails. It is our sincere wish to give you every assistance in our power, so that the transmission of the India mails through France - may leave nothing to be desired. "In this communication behold only a proof of the desire we entertain to assure relations which must tend to the mutual advantage of our respective countries. " We are, &c., "S. GERFAN, "The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. " Marseillee, June 27." THE SERPENTINE. What Sir Benjamin Ed! has done with the ornamen tal water in St. James's-park be now proposes to do with that diluted sewer, the Serpentine. By its margin —on the exercising ground so appropriately named Ret ten-row, considering the stench which emanates from th e water—fashionable London takes its daily airings ; and sniffs the delicate aroma ari-ing from the admixture of Bayswater sewage with the drainings of Kensall-green cemetery ; for " your water is a sad decayer of your whoreson dead body." In water thus polluted 200,000 persons annually bathe ; y: - .4 at its deepest part (for it varies in depth from one to forty feet), Sir John Ronnie found, in 1849, from ten to fifteen feet of inky, putrid mud, which be described as a " laboratory of epidemic miasma." Dr. Hasealt also analysed iti water, and found it to contain " much organic matter—vegetable and animal—dead, living, and in solution." The job will be an expensive one, but the advantage gained will more than compensate for the outlay. We trust that the suggestion first proposed in our columns—to fill the basin of the lake with water conveyed from the sea — will receive consideration. If the First Commissioner of Works succeed in carrying out his project, be will leave behind him a far more worthy memorial of his good works than any caricature in bronze would afford to posterity. If a monument were insisted on it might be appropriately inscribed with two lines from Shakspeare: "Men's evil manners live in brass : their virtues We write in water." ---Ths Lancet. RUSSIAN INTRIGUES WITH CHINA. We read the following paragraph in the Pekin Gazette of the 10th April, 1857 : " The Chinese Foreign-office have addressed his Imperial Majesty to the effect that officers specially appointed by them have carefully conducted certain Russians back to their own country." In a private letter, received on th 9 21st instant, from the North of China, it is mentioned casually that a Russian Imperial Commissioner had lately been at Pekin ; that he and his suite had a short time b2fore gone home ; but that he would return to Peking in a few months. About 15 months back it was rumoured amongst the Chinese that the Russian Government had lately concluded a treaty with the Emperor of China, by which the Russian merchants were per mitted to carry on trade at other mar's on the fronfers besides Kialak4, namely, the cities of Bar koul, Trliasutae, Holin, and Kurun ; also, th a t th e Emperor of China had granted Russian merchants perra'ssion to trade at the Five Ports ; and, later, it was rumoured that agents for Russian merchants had purcha - ed land, on which to build warehouses and offices, at Chilean and Shanghae.—North China Herald, May 30. THE GREAT EASTERN.—On Thursday next Mr. H. Hop., chairman of the Great Eastern Steam Navigation Company, accompanied by Mr. R. J. R. Campbell, M.P., Mr. E. Betts, and Mr. P. W. Miles, directors; Mr. Yates, secretary ; and Captain Harrison, will visit Liverpool, and proceed thence to Holyhead, for the pur pose of making arrangemants for the first voyag,e of the monster steamship to Port lan d.—Liverpool Albion. SUPPLEMENT TO THE DISPATCH ,AND CHART OF CANTON RIVER GRATIS.—The DISPATCH of Sunday next, August 9, will, in cons (pence of the mass of information arriving from India and China, be w:compauied by a Supplement, Gratis, devoted to the events of the Mutiny in Bengal and to the gallant en counters in the Canton River. In order that these latter exploits may be fully understood a Chart of the Canton River will also be presented Gratis with each copy of the paper. On Sunday, the 231 of August, should the next India mail have arrived by that timo, a coloured Map, 17 inches by 12, will he published, likewise Gra is, of India, part of the forthcom ing Atlas advertis d for regular commencement on October the 4th, and which Map will serve as a more thorough ave rage specimen of the work. It is hoped that this forestalling of intentions will prove a welcome to friends and subscribers, now so deeply interested in the momentous events taking place in the East. Orders received by every news agent in the kingdom. Office, 139, Fleet-street. The Dispatch, with Supplement and Chart, will be sent as directed fur six stamps. GRATIS, THE BEST ATLAS EVER PUBLISHED. —On and after Sunday, Out. 4, the Proprietors of the Dispatch will present every week gratis a Map a Chart, or the Plan of aPr ncipal Town ,so as to iurn ish to *acts subscriber the most comprehensive complete and generally useful Coloured Atlas hitherto pub lished. Size of the engravings, 17 inches by 12, and 17 by 25. In the course of no unreasonable time the pzssessor of the Despatch Atlas will be enabled to refer to more names and positions of places than any other publication contains. Many thousands of pounds have been devote .1 to the cost of the Engravings, which will be taken from Original Drawings expressly prepared for the Series. The Dispatch Atlas will be received with the number of the paper without further charge than the former sd. per copy, or 6d. stamped. —Dispatch-office, 139, Fleet-street. j A DVE aissmarr.i— SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES POWERFUL TEEESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES.—S. and B. Solomon, opticians, 39, Albernarle• street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for va'uable and ex traordina7 improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; w ith t h e same t e l escope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly, The Royal Exhibition, 1851. —A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses, Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They aro invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-c curse Glasses, with wonderful powers.—lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with those lenses of a much less magnifying power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of furtber powerful assistance. Persons can be stated at the MOO remote part of the world by send ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eye they can read email print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, surpassieg anything of the kind that has been, or probably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hoar distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could bo desired.-39, Alto marle-street-Picceillly.—Op oeite the Yorktiotel, W. Country IYlarkets. LIVERPOOL—AUG. 4. The few millers an] dealeri at our Corn Exchange this morning were doing only a mcderate retail busness, and prices wore not actually lower than on Tuesday last. White Indian coin, from scarcity, sold at 45s 6d to 46s per 48011a3, which is is to is 6d per quarter improvement ; mixed and yellow corn sold at 384 9d to 39s per 4801bs. HULL— AUG. 4. We bad a fair show of farmers' wheat to-day, not much business done, and the market must be quoted is to 2s de cline. Foreign neglected. There have been larger arrivals of barley durin g the week, and we quo t e a d ec li ne o f i s t o 2s per qr., a t which good grinding qualities meet fair de mand. Fine malting sorts meet fair sale, but none offer ing. Oats, bean s , an d peas unaltered. Linseed: little pas sing and without change. Cakes quiet ; few of the mills aro working; transactions limited, and wo do not reduce last quotations more than 2s 6d per ton. Wheat, English red, 60s to 62s ;.white 63s to 655; oats, 28s to 303; barley, 40s to 46s ; Indian corn, 40s ; linseed cakes, Hull, 10/ 12s 6d to 101 15s ; ditto, foreign, 8/ to 9/ 15s ; rape cakes, 6155. to 61 7s Od ; guano, el. to 131. 103 bones, 147 s 6d.; flour, 30s to 325; tares, 30s to 40s. LEEDS—AuG. 4. We are fairly supplied with wheat to-day, which sells slowly at a decline of is per qr. from last Friday's rates. A few samples of new, to b 3 delivered during the week, sell from 61s to 70s. Other articles nominal. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 61s 6 d ; bailey, 38s Gd ; oats, 31s —d ; beans, 4Gs bbd ; peas, 41a Od ; rye, —B. Od. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. -YESTERDAY. 11 17 (Gibraltar .• •• •• •• •• Ditto, three months .. 11 19 (Leghorn .. ••••.• • • .• 29 85 Rotterdam •• .• •• •• •... 1 1 194 Genoa .......... •• .•-• 25 80 Antwerp .•.• •• •• •• •• •• 25 37% Milan •• •• •• •• •• - Brussels •• •••••••• • • • • 2 5 342 Venice .• •• ••• • •• ••• • .•• lialribUrgh •• •• •• •• •• ••13 8% (Maples •• ••• 42% Altona •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Palermo .• •• •• 128 , ........ 25 25 Messina Ditto,thrte months 25 62% Lisbon .. Marsomes ••• •• .• •• •• 25 65 Oporto •... .• •••• •• 52% Bourdeaux •• •• •• •• •• Rio Janeiro ..... •• • ...!• •• ankfort-on- sine •• .. 119% Buenos Ayres .. •• • • Berlin •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• • • New York ,60 days' sight Vienna • • 10 32 Philadelphia trie5te.......... •• .. 10 32 - PRICES OP BULLION, PER oz: Petersburg •• •.••.• •• •• 36% Foreign Gold in Bars.X 00 0 Madrid 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Cadiz ••.•••• •• • • •• ..• • 49% 'Mexican Dollars •. 0 Barcelona ............ .. New Dollars 0 0 Seville.• •••••• • 3!lver iu bare 0 5 ITi B I.R Ty S. OF A 80N. ._.. a On the 2d inst., at 29, Nottingham-place, the wife of H. Mortimer Rowdon, Esq.—twins. On the 30th July, at Woolwich, the wife of Colonel Francklyn, C.B. OF A DAUGHTER I 3 On the 4th inst., at, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor square, the wife of Charles Penraddocko, Esq., of Comp ton-park, Wilts. On the 3d inst., at 13, Hinde-streot, Manchester-square, the wife of William Chubb, Esq., of Gray's-inn. MARRIED, On the 4th inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly, Henry Lee Steere, Esq. second son of Lee St eere , E sq., of Jayes, Surrey, to Elizabeth Mary, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy. On the 4th inst., at Ovingdean, near Brighton, Diehard B. Postans, solicitor, of G ra y' s -i nn , an d Sufolk Villa, Maiden-lane, Highgate, to Jane Kearaley, only child of George K. Davison, Esci.. DIED. On the 3d inst., Thomas Edward Savage, Esq., Evesham Lower Norwood, Surrey. On the 3d inst., James Shoemack, Esq., of Teddington, aged 69. On tne 3d inst., Mary, the wife of Horatio Dain ' Esq., of Parliam en t- s t rea t,W es t m i ns t er , an d C rouc h-hill. Horn- Se 7. On the 3d inst., Henry Karslake, Dig., of 4, t ßegent street, aged 72. On the 2d inst., Evan Hamilton , Baillie, Esq., o f 80 Glocester-place, Portman-square, aged 67. On the 6th May, at New-town, near Sydney, N.S.Vi r - Abrm. 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