The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.' LAST FOUR WEEKS OF THE TEMPEST. THIS EVENING, will be performed Skakspere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI, Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama of THE GREEN BUSHES, in which Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Madame Celesto will perform. After which, an original Apropos Sketch, entitled THE DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India I Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M, Wilton and Miss )fary Keeley, , r I:IILATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. rim EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with THE LADY OF LYONS Pauline, Mss Amy Sedgwick. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Howe. After which, A CURE FOR LOVE. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes... 2 0 Pit Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 pper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. ItOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, BelmJre ; Miss Webster, Miss M. Eburoe, Miss ohnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD. To conclude with AVARICE. ROYAL LYCEUM THE A.TRE. —Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—tinier the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol lowing Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caraclori, Miss Co- Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Lon'sa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Dralsam, Mr, St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, Mr.Wallworth, Mr. G. Honey. Mr. Weiss, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's B tnd, and the Orches tral Union. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian Opera, Stage Manager, Mr, E. Skirling. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson. THIS EVENING, will be pe formed (4th time) ILWe'. new opera, THE ROSE OF C STILE. After which, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 Ils. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 28.; Gallery, ls.—The B ox Offi ce is n ow open daily, f rom 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. THIS EVENING, will be performed HEADS OR L'AILS. Messrs. Addisen s G. Vining, H. Wigan; Miss Marston and Mrs. Emden (late Miss Somers). Followed by the new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Cooper ; Mrs. Stirlin•s, Misses Wyndham and Swaaborough. After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and Mr. G. Murray. Commence at half-past Seven. CANTERBURY HALL, WestrninAter-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow. Ilg company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of ,elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, (ice., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, ‘fiss Bru nell, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jouec, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonin, E. L. Himo, and Mr St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. I. Critcheeld, and E. Mack my. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. GREAT EASTERN STEAM-SHIP.—The best view of the LAVNL)II will be from Deptford-green Dockyard, facing the ship. Tickets to be obtained from Messrs. BowEs and BELLINGHAM, Auctioneers, 34, Coleman-street, City and at the Dock Gates as above, price ss. each. By the Greenwich Railway to Deptford is the direct route. EXETER HILL. INDIA. Rev. Mr. BELLEW. This Evening, November 2.—Mr. 311Tel:um. begs to announce that the Rev. J. M. Bzusw (late Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, Calcutta) has consented to DELIVER A LECTURE, at Exeter Hall, THIS EVENING, (November 2), upon INDIA, its Past and Present Condition, and Future Prospects, the proceeds of which will be handed over to the Indian Relief Fund. To commence at Eight o'clock punctually. The arrangements of the Hall will be superintended by Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, where Tickets may be obtained. Reserved and Numbered seats, upon the Platform and Front Rows, Five Shillings ; Reserved Seats (not numbered), Three Shillings ; West Gallery, Two Shillings ; ORCHESTRA AND UNDER THE GALLERY, ONE SHILLING. Tickets may also be obtained at the Office, No. 6, in Exeter Hall • at Wr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Carter's, Ca r lt o n Library, 12, Regent-street; Fentum's Music Ware house, 78, Strand ; and at Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s Music Warehouse, 48, Cheapside. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. JTJLLIEN'S CONCERTS. Third Appearance of 'MLLE. JETTY TREFFZ. PROGRAMME THIS EVENING (MONDAY), Nov. 2. PART I.—Overture, " Semiramide " Rossini. Valses Sentimentales (Ist set), " Constance " (third time of per formance in England)—Si. Jullien. Symphony, Allegretto from the Symphony in F—Beethoven. Aria, " Vedrai Carino " (Don Juan), Mdlle. Jetty Treffs (Violoncello Ob ligato, Mr. G. Collins)--Mozart. Polka, "Mazourka Jullien (for the 3d time in England). Cornet Obligato, Mr. Phillips. Symphony, Allegro and Storm, from the Pastoral Symphony—Beethoven. Solo, Trumpet, " The Soldier Tired," Mr. T. Harper—Dr. Arne. Quadrille, "The British Army" (Jullien), Solos by Mr. Lavigne, Mr. Collinet, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Pratteu, Mr. De Folley, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Phillips, and Herr Kcenig. PAIT IL—Operatic Selection from Verdi's Grand Opera " La Traviata," with Solos by MM. Lavigne, Pratten, Collins, Hardy, Hughes, Phillips, and Kcenig. German Lied, " The Young Recruit," Mdlle. Jetty Treffz Kucken. Valses Fentimentales (2d set), " Les Sonpirs " —Jullien (3d time of performance). Cornet Obligato, Mr. Phillips. Solo, Trombone, " I Capuletti," Mr. Henry Russell (his second appearance in London). Galop, " Pelissier"—D'Albert. r steels of Admission—Promenade, is ; Upper Boxes, Is. ; Gallery, ls. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. and upwards. Prospectuses, with full particulars, may be had at the Box• office of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. The Concert will commence at Eight o'clock. OPERA BI7FFA.—St. JAMES'S THEATRE. (Entirely Re-decorated).—Signor RoNzANI has the honour to announce that the FIRST REPRESEN TATION is unavoidably DEFERRED until TUESDAY, the 10th of November. The Box•office will be open on Thursday next. subscriptions for the season arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 27 min. aft. I—Even., 46 min. aft. 1 TO-MORROW--Morn., 9 min. aft. 2—Even., 30 min aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 1. THERMOMETER, IN TFI 57—highest since aoon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night. 58 this day at noon. BABoxiirsa, 29.95—falling. WIND, Southerly, inclining to East ; with fine weather. NOVEMBER 2. 60—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night, 59—this *lay at noon. BAROMETER, 29.73—5ti1l falling. WIND, S.S.E.. ; light, with mild, muggy, dull weather. Slight rain in the mornia. t r n )t 444 , v • .`.2.,-c; LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 2, 1857. It could scarcely be anticipated that the gene ral—indeed, all but universal—suspension of cash payments in New York could pass over without some attempt being made to take advantage of the opportunity thereby afforded of increasing the confusion, by proceeding against some of the establishments that have adopted this valuable and indispensaEle precaution. It was by many supposed that the mere refusal to liquidate all demands in specie wis an act of insolvency, by which the charter was forfeited, and that a com pulsory winding -up should follow as a matter of eon TSP. The experiment has just been tried against the Bank of New York by a Mr . AA T IVINGSTONE 7 the holder of two " circulation not es " f or 100 dollars each, and the applicati on was re fused by Judge ROOSEVELT of th e S upreme C _mit who, in a well-considered u- d Jc , rnent, pointed out that the question was one for the dis cretion of the Court, and that unequivocal evi dence of insolvency must be supplied before any summary or extraordinary step will be taken to stop the proceetUngi of a bank, that has only' ar . ticipat e d in a general and much required move ment. This is a valuable decision, and one that will give great encouragement to the commercial com munity. It is believed that if the banks had not been frightened by the penalties that might have THE SUN, LON'DONI MONDAY EIVEN,F,N'GI NOVEMBER 2, 1857.1 followed, they would long previously have pur sued a course which would have defended them selves without bringing the mercantile anti trading classes to the verge of ruin, and compelled them, in self-defence, to combine against establishments that manifested so little regard for their interests or sympathy with their sufferings. Speculators first occasioned the panic, in order that they might profit by the confusion and pick up handsome pro fits in the general sacrifice of property that must ensue. In many cases the weapons so artfully aimed at others recoiled deservedly upon them selves. It is at all times easier to create than to allay excitement, to produce evil than to re store tranquillity. Men, however, will nct profit by experience. " The greed of gain," the auri sacra fames, will stimulate them to proceed ings by which they endanger the wealth in their possession, in seeking to increase it by unfair means, until, like the dog in the fable, they forfeit the substance in grasping at the deceitful shadow. Notwithstanding the alleged decision of the banks to give increased facilities to houses of un questionable solvency, there had been, within the week previous to the departure of the Niagara, which left New York on the 21st ult., a diminu tion of loans c.f 3,751,427 dole., of specie 3,590,951 dole., and of deposits of 9,820,817 doll. It is obvious, therefore, that the experi ment of inconvertible paper has not yet re ceived a fair trial, and we are prepared for the latest statement vid Halifax, to the 22d of October, that the New York money market was " very unsettled and decidedly more stringent," and that on the Stock Exchange a considerable decline had taken place in all sorts of securities. There had previously been a very decided improvement on the announcement of the suspension of cash payments, and that would have been maintained, if the Banks had acted with judicious liberality, rendering adequate assistance to those who had legitimate claims to support. It is obvious that the drain of specie across the Atlantic will not cease, and that the increase of the minimum rate of discount by the Bank of England even to 8 per cent. will not suffice to protect the bullion in its vaults. Week after week we see great reductions in the active cir culation and the amount of bullion. The pres sure of the screw is felt throughout the entire country. Solvent houses are brought to the verge of ruin, and only too happy if, by submit ting to the most serious losses, they can avert actual bankruptcy ; and this state of affairs will continue until they take matters into their own hands, and compel relief from those who extract unholy profits from their sufferings. It is the Bank Charter Act, with its ridiculous prohibition of small notes and restrictions on currency, that has occasioned all the mischief. Had we 1/. notes—which saved the nation in 1825, and would save it again in 1857—such an amount of gold would be liberated that we could freely suppiy the wants of all other nations, and that without any departure from the principle of con vertibility. But there should be an unlimited power of expansion according to the discretion of the directors. The exorbitant rate of interest is in itself an evil of no ordinary magnitude. But, bad as it is, the difficulty of procuring money at almost any price is far greater. It paralyses our energies, and prevents us from weathering the storm. Why should not relief be at once afforded by the suspension of the restrictions of the Bank Charter Act, and of the absurd prohibition against small notes The examples of Scotland and Ire land prove beyond the possibility of a doubt that 11. notes are far better calculated for the business 'of every-day life than sovereigns. Mr. JAMES WILSON, by far the best financier in the Ministry, has explained that an issue of 20,000,0001. of such notes would add to our command over every description of commodity, woul I give us additional purchasing powers, as great as if bullion, to an equal amount, had been discovered in the centre of England. But still the Government will do nothing for the indus trious classes. They harden their hearts against the sufferings of the people, and listen only to the suggestions of the moneyocracy. Matters cannot long continue in their 'present state. Parliament should forthwith be convened. The Indian as well as the financial difficulty requires legislative consideration. Lord PALMERSTON may dispose of the one but he cannot cf the other, and, during the three months that must elapse before the meet ing of Parliament mischief may occur which can not be remedied during many years. The display of apathy and indifference at the present crisis may go far to impair the Premier's popularity. is at present slumbering on the brink of a vol cano, and should an eruption take place the results may be more terrible than he as yet has any notion of. Lot him be warned while there is yet time, and not permit himself to be made a tool of by those who have their own selfish objects to promote, and who care nothing for the wants and wishes of the great body of the people. Cotton from India is the great desideratum of the day. Manchester demands it ; the interests of India demand it ; we may add that those of miserable millions of slaves in the Republic where "all men are born free and equal," demand it. But upon whom does this onus lie of moving and acting in this work ? American slaves cannot move, and their masters would prevent all cotton growing in India if they could. The Indian Government has enough on its hands, in all conscience just now, and is likely to have for some time to come, in its more legitimate province. All that G ►- vernment can well do at present, and probably the best thing it could do under any circuta; stances, is to afford every facility for private com mercial enterprise. For this the Indian Govern ment, absolute as it is, has more in its power than the Home Government has in any domestic matter. There are are at present, to be sure, three Governments to be consulted—the Board of Directors, the Board of Control, and the govern ments of the several Indian Presidencies. We believe, however, that in matters of local manage ment the Board of Control never interferes, and that the East India Board with its representatives in any of the Presidencies, do as they please. Practically, it lies then with the East India Company to say whether they will afford such encouragement and aid as a Govern ment can do through its absolute powers, and through its public and efficient sanction to pi ivato enterprise. It is private commercial enterprise on which reliance should be placed to do the work. Manchester—we have often said it, and we repeat it—Manchester itself must put shoulder to the wheel. Now we are gratified to believe, on good grounds, that the board of directors is inclined to In something in earnest for Manchester, if Man chester will but do its own part. Some docu ments are now before us, which go far towards satisfying us, that the East In dia C ompany will furnish the aid of the necessary governmental powers, and we have every reason to think that of a government guarantee also, for an effective sys tea) of irrigation and canal transit in the Madras Presidency. Manchester, as we have undentood, wished the government of this country to do everything through a royal commission with full powers to execute such works as they pleased, the funds to be raised by a Government loan. We must confess our surprise that the great Free• trade City should have thought of such a principle of operation. Certain we are that Parliament would object to it, and that it could never be ac- cepted by a country which has constructed its own canals and railroads. The plan proposed by the "Madras Irrigation and Canal Company" ap pears to us incomparably the best, combining as it does the legitimate aid of Government with the vigour and energy of private enterprise. The Indian Government can save the Company all such heavy costs as railroads here incurred in carrying their bills through Parliament ; for it is literally the lord of the soil. It can do It can give a guarantee of mini mum interest on the capital expended on works sanctioned by their own Engineers, and thus raise the requisite funds without difficulty ; while its past experience shows that the guarantee is merely nominal, and that the Government itself will be a prodigious gainer. The Govern ment being the landlord of the country, it has but to stipulate for a fair proportion of the increased returns from the irrigated districts, and its own revenue will thus be largely increased. The East India Company gives a guarantee and powers to take land ;—the Irrigation Company pays for such aid by sharing fairly with Govern ment the increased profits from the land, and by submitting its choice of districts to be irrigated, and its general plans, to the Indian Government for sanction. The transaction between the Govern ment and the Company is, therefore, analagous to a landlord here granting a loan for draining and improving a farm, and receiving repayment in the shape of a higher rent. Of course the whole scheme must rely on the certainty of profits, and of large profits too. Now, on this point there can be no doubt whatever : Indian irrigation is not an untried experiment. It has been abundantly and successfully tried even by native rulers, and it has been tried by ourselves. In a future article we will enter fully into the splendid and undeniable proofs and illustrations of this fact; for the present we assume that a profit of SEVENTY PER CENT. is proved, by the most unquestionable records, to be the average profit of a large extent of irrigative works already executed. The East India Company itself has furnished the proof of this. It can prove it by receipts in hard cash, and it will own that an amount of capital, equal, perhaps, to that expended on British railways, might be invested on irrigation and canals in India, with every reasonable certainty of similar returns I more. Assuming for the present this fact, we would earnestly press on the vast cotton manufacturing interest in Manchester, that they should make this work their own. If the East India Company gives, as we believe it will do, their efficient sanc tion to the proposed company; if they do it as they will—if they do it all—upon the report of their own most trustworthy representatives in India, we must hold that Manchester should add its open and practical sanction to the scheme also. What would be the object to that great community of merchar.t and manufacturing princes, to subscribe largely to the shares in the proposed company ; which would, we presume, willingly place some foremost Man chester men in the direction. The Electric Tele graph to America, and the Fine Arts' Exhibition, show what Manchester can do if it with ; but here is an object peculiarly their own. Their one want is cheaper raw material ; could they obtain that there really seems no limit to the demand they could create for their manufacture ; we might add, and to the profit they could realise for themselves. We have often thought that the Cotton Manufacturing District has now arrived at that magnitude in population, and that competency to deal with the entire present cotton produce of the world, which shows that some kin,l of cotton manufacturing emigration is wanted. But it would be useless for the rising and increas ing generation of cotton spinnent and weavers to carry their skill in that line to other countries. They could not work more cheaply there than at home, and if they could they would but injure the markets for those they left behind. Na ; what is wanted is, that an emigration for cotton grousing should set forth from Manchester —th a t practical and energetic young men, who now build fresh mills, to squabble with the present ones for the limited supply, and yet farther to enhance its price, —that these young men should go forth to sow and to plant, to clean, prepare, and send home increased supplies of articles which all want. Their energy and capital are the very thing which ludi needs ; the cotton they could grow is the very thing their fathers and brothers need. India is certain to be made, now more invitin gto Europeans. Let Manchester be the first to accept the invitation. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Wednesday next, the 4th inst., at Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir Geo. C.mper, arrived at Clarence-house, St. James's, on Satarday morning. Her Royal Highness returned to Frogmore in the after noon. His Excellency the Netherlands Minister left town on Saturday on a ♦isit to Sir Henry and Lady I§entinck, at their seat in Yorkshire. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and the Ladies Edith and Emily Somerset have arrived at their town residence from visiting the Earl and Countes of Wil ton, at Heaton Hall, Lancashire. The Marquis of Lansdowne remains at Riwood, Wilts, and is not yet recovered from his attack of gout. The Duke of Beaufort and Sir William C. Codringtou, Bart., M.P., pa-sed through town on Satun'ay, from Newmarket to Badminton, the noble duke's seat in Gloucestershire, where his grace will receives succession of friends during the hunting season. The Duke of Portland arrived at Harcourt House, Cavendish-square, last week, from his seat, Welbeck Abbey, Notts. The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining company at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, for a few weeks, before taking up his residence at Bright , ln for the winter. The Marquis and Marr:hioness of Tweeddale have re ceived satisfactory accorints of their two sons, Loris William and Frederick. Hay, who are both in the Civil Service of the Hon. Beet India Company, in the Bengal Presidency. _ _ _ The mortal rernaies of the Hon. Edmund Phipps, brother of the M.arqui 3 of Normanby, were on Saturday interred in the Necropolis at Woking. The funeral was of a strictly private and unostentatious character, and was attended only by the Hon. Colonel Phipps, the Earl of iVialgrave, and od:her members of the M. Guttman, a e ommission agent at Pestb, abseGoded on the 22d, l4aving; behind him debts to the ainoAt of about 10,0001. Tax ON NEWSPAPERS VIENNA, Oct. 31.—The Cfficial Gazette announces the imposition of a tax upon newspapers of one kreutzer (4/s centimes) per sheet. The same impost will apply to foreign journals. THE LATE TI tIAL FOR LIBEL ON THE HON. MR. CADOGAN.-9. public meeting of the friends of Mr. Evans, one of 'Gbe defendants, was held at the LDndou Tavern, to-lay, to receive suggestions and co-operaton towards obtai.taiog a commutation of the sentence of 12 mouths' impi.iiionment, which had been passed upon him. After a short discussion, a memorial to that effect to Sir G. Grey, wet unanimously agreed to. Tug Tic, ea OF LiATOLIFF-HIGHWAY.—This animal, which rece•atly escaped trom the security of Mr. Jam rack, has been purchased by Mr. E imonds, proprietor of Womb ell's Windsor Castle Menagerie. The pr;ce paid was upwards of 4001., and even at that sum the animal is considered each a fine specimen of his kind that he is considered a cheap acquisition. THE GIANT DoG.—A somewhat singular presentation was madfi to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, on Wed nesday la it. Mr. E. Butler, of New York, had the honour cf introducing his remarkably fine American dog " P , :ince" to her Majesty and the court, in the quadranile. This dog was Fora in Pennsylvania, and resetublem in colour somewhat the coach-dog of other days. He is remarkably docile, yet possesses unusual courage vad strength. THE INDIAN MAILS. On the sth inst. the Bombay-awl Calcutta packets will be due at Suez, with news from Calcutta up to the 10th of October, and from Bombay up to the 17th of that month. This news should reach Lon don, via Trieste, on the 12th inst. By the last packets Delhi was 20 days' post from Calcutta, and 14 days' from Bombay, and Cawnpore was six days' post from Calcutta. There was considerable delay in the post reaching Calcutta and Bombay from Delhi for the last packets, on account of the muti nous state of the intervening neighbourhood. If Lucknow was relieved at the time it was ex pected to be, it would probably be about 7 or 8 days from thence to Calcutta. It is possible that the roads between Delhi and Calcutta or Bombay might be clearer of interruptions than by the last accounts' and that it might be only eight or nine days' post between the former and one of the two latter places. Lucknow was expected to be relieved on the 25th of September. It is probable, therfore, that by the next accounts we may have news from Delhi up to a fortnight after it was captured, and from Lucknow up to nearly a fortnight after it was re lieved. This news will undoubtedly be most im portant and interesting, for it will most certainly contain the details of the capture of Delhi and most probably of the relief of Lucknow, and such ac counts of the operations of the mutineers as will enatile us to judge how much longer they will be able to defy the Indian government. It is quite possible that we might have an Indian tele gram via Sardinia in anticipation of the news by way of Trieste, next Monday, that is on the 9Lh. instant. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. —We understand that great savings have been made, and are making, in the working expenses, without affsctin2 the efficiency of the establishment. As many as 600 builders kept on various parts of the line, have, we hear, been discharged. llerapadt. FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN. — O❑ Saturday afternoon Mr. C. F. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an inquest at the Unicorn Tavern, Greenwich, on the body of James Crossley, aged 22. It appsared that the deceased, who was the son of a farmer I residing in the neighbourhood of Manchester, was en gazed driving piles at the works . of Messrs. Scott Rue sell, Millwall, preparatory to the launching of the Great Eastern, when he received such serious ii.juries that he expired soon after being taken on board the Dreak nought hospital ship. The jury returned a verdict of , accidentl death. Fivx DEAD BODIES FOIIND.--Yesterday afters ton in formation was rec-ived at the metropolitan police office that during the day had been found in the river Thames, off Deptford, the body of a man about thirty years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, with dark hair, and dressed in a blue striped over s'airt, a shawl pattron waistcoat, a pair of black trousers, and on his person was found an ancient coin, marked "G. V. B." It was su-petted that he had destroyed himself. A man. whose name is at present unknown, was found in the parish of Dagenham, in Essex, quite dead. He was about forty years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, with dark hair, and dressed in a blue Guernsey shirt, the cloth trousers, flannel drawers, blue worsted stockings, and he had his shoes suspended round his neck. A percussion cap pistol was found at his side, marked "V. R. Tower." Information was also receiv;sd that on Saturday a female, name unknown, about 55 years of age, five fees and a had' igh, &robed down dead in Cleveland-street, Fitzroy 'guard. She is described as being fair, and dressed in a fancy straw bonnet, a red and grey worsted plaid shawl, ' a lilac cotton gown, grey stockings, and leather slippers. She had in her possession a basket containing ss. in silver, a calico bag, and a latch key. Intelligence was ikewise received that on Saturday afternoon a respect ably dressed young female was observed by some boys to pass along the towing path of the Regent's-canal, and precipitate herself into the water. Information of the occurrence was sent to the police-statien, but the body could not be recovered until life was quite extinct. The body of a gentleman was also found in the Regent', canal at Litnehouse. The deceased was aged about 30 years, five feet fou' inches high, had grey hair, and was dressed in a black frock coat, black satin waistcoat, white shirt and stockings (cotton), Wellington boots, a black fa.hionable cap with peak, and a black silk hand k,rchiet. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BLACKLANDS, NEAR PLYMOUTH. —On Saturday James Beghurst and Thomas Brown were again brought up at Rdgway, charged with bruglarmusly entering the house of W. Braddon, of Blandlands-house, and attempting to murder him. The servants of the house were the only witne. ess examined that day. Their evidence proved that Bog burst, when in the service of Mr. Braddon, had o one occasion passed through the bars of the kitcl e window. Those bars are 74 inches wide, the same as those in the window where the eetrat ce was effecte I. The chambermaid stated that when the shot s which were found in the rear of the premises after the burglary, were brought to her she exclaimed they are Ji ID:4 shoes (meaning Boghurst), and at this time she did not know that he was in the country; not having seen or heard of him for two years. Bog horst has a very long foot and a peculiar tread, and it is thought that the evidence which will be brought to hear upon this p int will be very important in the case. The prisoners were remanded to Saturday next, and were banded over to the county authori lee fi r convey. ance to Exeter. Brown fainted during the t astnination. We are also glad to hear that Mr. Braddon is recover. ing, although but slightly, from the s, vette wounds in flicted on him. He has not yet given any account of the affair. Sallied. Leonard Tilley, Esq., has been appoint d Secretary, arid Charles Fisher, Esq., Attorney-General I for the prairies of New Brunswick. Joseph Sherving. ton, Esq., has been appointed Treasurer, and Willi sm Quin, Eeei., Accountant for the Treasury Department, island of Antiena. Jules Colin, Esq., has been appointed a &strict Magistrate for the Island of Mauritius. TIM CONDEMNED CONVICT AT NEWGATI.—The mur derer Davis, woo was sentenced to death on Saturday, by the Lord Chief Baron, is in a pitiable state of mind, and appears to have given himself up to utter despair. During the whole of the trial on Saturday, he trembled vilently ; and during the whole of yesterday, he wept almost without cessation. No hive is held out t) him that there will be any commutation of his sentence, and the chaplain has earnestly entreated him to prepare for the fate which awaits him. The execution will take place on the morning of Monday, the 16. h inst. THE SLAVE TRADO.—About 20,000 imported slaves are expected in Cuba during the next three months from Africa. Stippling for that purpose is fitting out in Ame r cs. Toe high price of sugar has greatly stimulated the value of slave labour in Cuba. SUSPENSION OF ARRANGEMENT FOR AFFORDING ADDITIONAL MAILS TO AND FROM JERSEY AND GUERNSEY.—In coneequence of a reduction in the number of days of sailing, and an altera tion of the hours, of the packets between Weymouth and Jersey and Guernsey, tee arrangements which were made for the conveyance of additional mails to and from Jersey and Guernsey by means of these packets are suspended.—By command of the Poetteaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Becretary.—General Post-office, OA. 31. A. VISIT TO LEIQH HUNT.—Buchanan Read, h has just come hither from Rome to fulfil some paint-r's engaaeinects, took me the other evening to visit Leigh Hunt—the sole surviving star of that constellati( n which dawned upon the literature of England will the present century. The old poet lives in a neat little cottage in Hammersmith, quite alone, since the recent death of his wife. That dainty grace which is the chief charm of his poetry yet lives in his person and manners. He is 73 years old, but the effects of age are only phy sical ; they have not touched that buoyant, joyous nature which survives in spite of sorrow and misfortune. His deepest eyes still beam with a soft, cheerful, earnest light; his voice is gentle and musical ; and hie hair, although almost silver white, falls in soft silky locks on both sides of his fee , . It was grate ful to me to press the same palm which Keatee and Shelley had so often clasped in friendly warmth, and to hear him who knew them so well speak of them as long-lost companions. He has a curious, collection of locks of the hair of poets, from Milton to Browning. That thin tuft of brown silky fibre., could it really have have been shorn from Milton's head, I asked myself " Touch it," said Leigh Hunt, "and then you will have touched Milton's self." "There is a life in hair, though it be dead," sail I, as I did so, repeating a line from Hunt's own sonnet on this lock. Shelley's hair was golden and very soft; Keates's a bright brown, curling in large Bacchic rings ; Dr. Johnson's grey, with a harsh and wiry feel ; Dean Swift's both brown and grey, but finer, denoting a more sensitive organisation ; and Charles Lamb's reddish brown, short, and strong. I was de lighted to hear Hunt speak of poems which he st ll de signed to write, as if the age of verse should never cease with on e i n w h om the faculty is b orn. —B a yard Taylor ' s Letter in the New York Tribune. GOVERNMENT PROTECTION TO EMIGRANTS FOR CANADA AND WE UNITED STATES.—As soon as au emigrant ship reaches the emigrant station in the St. Lawrence, at Grosse I-l e , a few miles below Quebec , she is boarded by the Government Medical Officer. If there are any sick on board they are landed and remain at the hospital, a t th e expense of the Government, until they are cured. Ixtmediately on the ship's arrival at Quebec, Mr. Buchanan, the Government Emigration Agent, goes on board. H e i nquires into all comp l a i n t s , and sees th a t all the con di tions of the: Act of Parliamen t f or protect ing emi grants have been strictly c omplied with. This he is able to do in a most effective manner, as, when ever an emi grant s hi p leaves the Br i t i s h por t f o r Q ue b ec , the Gov ernment Emigration Officer port at th e f orwar d s to him, by mail stea mer, a li s t o f ev ery passenger, with their na mes , ages, sex, trade, &c. This list is always received by Mr. Buchanan a fortnight before the ship's arrival. He thus possesses every particular that may be useful to him in prctecting the e migrants, and direct ing them to where they can at once get suitable e mploy . went. If th ere b e any just cause of complaint against the captain of a ship, justice is afforded by a summary law passed for the purpose, and Mr. Buchanan himself superintend s the prosecution. The Government of Canada has issued a Pamphlet upon the resources of the country and the prospects in store for the industrious of all classes who desire to make it the land of their adoption. This pamphht, as well as full particulars of I the throngh-booking system, by which emigrants are protected from the time of their landing until they reach tbcir destina'ion, together with maps of the Canadian Railways, sbowicg their connection with 1 these of the United States, continue to be issued gratuitously to all who apply ter them. personally or by letter, at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 21, Oid Broad-street, London, 8.0. ATEST NEWS. FRANKFORT, OCT, 31. The Official Gazette announcesthat the question of Holstein has been referred to a Committees of the Diet to report on. Hanover has proposed that, in case of the ob stinacy of Denmark, the dispositions of the Con stitution of Holstein which may be contrary to the federal rights of Germany, shall be declared void. This proposal has aluo been referred to the Committee. BERNE, OOT. 30. All the elections for the Grand Council are now known, except those for the canton of the Grisons. The general result will not change in any respect the federal policy. A small number of nomina tions, which have remained undecided, will neces sitate a fresh election. M. Barna, formerly envoy to France, has been returned in the Valais. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Moititeur says :—" A notification from the Government of her Britannic Majesty makes known that the Commander of the English naval forces in China has declared the port and river of Canton in a state of blockade since the Bth of last August, and that the measures authorised by the law of nations will be enforced ag ainst all who shall attempt to violate such blocide." We also road :—" The obsequies of General Cavaignac were celebrated on Saturday at the Church of St. Louis d'Antin. Detachments from the several corps forming the garrison of Paris rendered military honours to the illustrious de ceased." By an imperial decree, the electors of the second circumscription of the department of the Sarthe are convened for the 22d of November, to elect a Deputy, in the place. of M. Langlais, appointed Councillor of State. The Jour nm des Actionnaires srays " The report of the Minister of Finance indi cates that measures are about to be concerted between the government, the bank, andthe railway companies, relative to the bonds to be issaed by the latter. We are assured that these measures con sist in the bank advancing to the companies sums more or less important on the deposit of their bonds, and that it wiil afterwards issue the bonds at the time and under the conditions which mty appear most opportune. It is said that the Go -vernment will authorise the bank to employ, for the advantage of the companies the sum of 59,000,000 f., which, it is said, are at its disposition under the treaty made with the bank." BOURSE, Oat. 31.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. 16 per Ceuta —_ _ End of Month. —fr. - --% 3 - per Cents 67 23 67 10 Bank Shares 2930 Credit Foncier 515 Credit Mobilier 790 Roman Do. Account 792 50 Austrian - Belgian 43 993— Spanish Threes 4oh fiedmontese (5) 904 Home Debt • THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood.—The story of "Janet's Repentance" concluded in this number. It is told in an in- teresting manner throughout, and the latter part is equal to what has gone before. The wretched husband closes his sad life by an awful death. Another sufferer is also released, the unfortunate Mr. Tryan, whose weary pilgrimage has been gone through iu doubts and difficulties. Happily for him, however, he had a bright evening tai the stormy day of life. The entire renovation of Janet's character was a noble end to a career of spiritual labour. It is truly said that the memorial of Edgar Tryan, which bears the fullest record, is that of the suffer ing sinner " rescued from self-despair ;" and the friends of the departed could wish for no better perpetuation of his efforts, and no more lastinv, tablet for his memory " To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die." " Notes on the Isthmus of Panama" is the title of a paper which gives a brief account of the writer's experiences of Central America. The chief attraction in Blackwood is, of course, met with in the subsequent paper, the sixth instalment of " What will he do with it." In this number the plot thickens, and some fresh figures appear on the scene, forming a dark contrast to those who have already won the heart of the reader. The brilliant, versatile, yet simple-hearted old man and his charming little Sophy, are tracked by an evil minded group— Rugge, the manager, and two new comers' who appear to hold some important clue to the thread of the narrative. Some connection between Darrell and the poor wanderers is again hinted at. While these pursuers are on their track, the fugitives are reposing themselves after their success, recorded in the last number. The good Mayor alarms the affectionate grandfather with hints of the delicacy of his little charge, and inte rests himself in their fortunes with untiring bene volence. "There is, " says a Latin love-poet, "no why or wherefore in iking, ' Hartopp, therefore, had taken, from the first moment, to Waifs— the staid, respectable, thriving man, all muffled up from head to foot in the whitest lawn of reputation—to the wandering, shifty, tricksome scatterling, who had not seemingly secured, through the course of a life bordering upon age, a single certificate for good conduct. On his hearthstone, beside his ledger-book, stood the Mayor, looking with a re spectful admiration that puzzled himself upon the for lorn creature, who could give no reason why he should not be rather in the Gatesboro' Parish Stocks than in its chief magistrate's easy-chair. Yet were the Mayor's sympathetic liking and respectful admiration wholly un accountable? Runs there not between one warm human heart and another the electric chain of a secret under standing ? In that maimed outcast, so stubbornly hard to himself—so tremulously sensitive for his sick child — was there not the majesty to which they who have learned that Nature, has her nobles, reverently bow the head ! A man, true to man's grave religion, can no more despise a life wrecked in all else, while a hallowing affection stands out sublime through the rents and chinks of fortune, than he can profane with rude mockery a temple in ruins—if still left there the altar. The story promises in every way to be a worthy successor to "My Novel." A letter from Tlepole mus to Irenmus, entitled Cambria and Cottono polis, despite its formidable names, will well repay perusal. It opens with some pages ou those terri ble mutinies which are now the grand subject of the day, and the writer, after saying it is hard to believe how bad or how good men maybe, contrasts Nana Sahib, " the accursed through dominions ou which the sun never sets," with the British Joshu as he styles the gallant Havelock, and justly ob serves,—" If this Indian mutiny has unsealed the blackness of a bottomless pit of villany, it has also brought to light a strange diamond-mine of human heroism. Think of the chaplain of the Church of England, at Cawnpora, reading the service for the burial of the dead to his rank-fel lows, in momentary expectation of the vol ley which was to slay them all ! " He asks, who but a nation thinking too lightly of its military duties would have placed such implicit confidence in a mercenary army, and instances the ruin of Carthage from a similar mistake. " What a mercy," exclaims the writer, "that the Russian war and the Persian war were over before the mut:ny broke out, and what a mercy that they were idiots enough to revolt before they had ob tained possession of that tremendous arm, the En field rifle, on a question of the cartridges to be em ployed in its use." India, he happily observes, was won by the sword, but kept together by bands of red tape, which it did not need the strength of a Sampson to burst. The latter part of the letter is employed in discussing the Man chester Exhibition. The two last papers are on somewhat similar topics. The first, " A Few Words from the Khyber," tells us how the residents of Peahawur fared during the late troubles; and the latter, " The Company's Raj," endeavours to exonerate the East India Company from the blame so generally attached to them. The United Service Magazine.—This number has an interesting table of con ents. It opens wii h a " project for raising a special body of tro without interfering with the ordinary recruiting," and suggests that a body of troops should be formed of young men respectably connected and well educated, who are without any &finite occupation, many of whom find an opportunity for employing their energies in colonial life. The writer stipu lates that in these regiments serving as a private soldier should not deteriorate the social position, and that a fair chance of promotion should be Ac corded. " The Indian Mutiny," and "The Indian Army," afford subjects for two papers, and discuss those all-engrossing topics with ability and modera tion. Another paper, "On Military Reform," strongly advocates the abolition of the purchase system, and instances some ridiculous sums which have been given for the command of a regiment, and adds that many regard the giver of 10,0001. for a troop of dragoons as a greater hero than the best soldier that ever drew a sabre. An article "" On Military Quarters A.broad" describes the beautiful island of Ceylon, and "A. Visit to the Tcherna- Morsky Cossacks" transports us to a very different locality. "The Seats of Insurrection" is the tit;3 of a paper containing some useful information. A brief "Memoir of the late General Barnard" renders full justice to his military qualities and achievements. " The Legends of the Black Watch" afford a pleasing variety to the more serious contents. "The Editor's Portfolio'' cen sures with becoming severity the ill-timed inter ference of Lord Canning and his counsellors at Cawnpore. All the intelligence of the month re specting the two services is given at length. Dicblin.—The first article is on " France. The Monarchy—the Republic—and the Empire." It is deserving of attention, being written in a calm, sensible manner, without any extravagant bias towards any side. It criticises a recent work by M. de Cassagnac on the subjects referred to, and justly condemns the exaggerated encomiums he lavishes on the second Napoleon. After dwell:ng on the various points of importance, the writer observes that France has not gained by the fall of the monarchy of July "The empire has given material prosperity to France, and that is all. The free p'ay of the intellect exists no wore in France. The desire of sharing in the government of the state—' the highest earthly desire of the culti vated mind'--can be reasonably ebtertaine I by none but the priest and the para4itti. All the genius of France is in exile or in obscurity. All its political liberty is dead." " M'Correack's Grudge," is continued. The tale promises to be au interesting one, and some of the chief characters are sketched in a bald style. " To Rome—Out," is a paper in which some wanderings to the sunny south are chronicled; but the tra vellers do not seem to have enjoyed their excursion, to judge from the records of it here given. Some objects of interest, and, some forms of beauty rivetted their gaze, and called forth their crio &ums, bet as a general rule the visit was a failure. " Our Foreign Courier" is the title given to a series of articles descriptive of French litra,ture, which are exceedingly well written. The last was novels and works of fiction ; the present one includes works of mark by some of the most eminent members of the French Church, and travels, chronology, history, arc. This resume (1* national literature is a very de sirable thing for those who wish to have a general idea conveyed to them of the progress of letters abroad, without being able to spare the time or the means necessary for a personal' investigation of the subject. "Alexander Smith's City PU611105" are spoken of, and after entering on their merits and demerits, the reviewer takes the opportunity of mentioning the severe censures bestowed upon the poet in some quarters, and especially the writer would defend Mr. Smith from the charge of plagiar ism brought against him. After showing that some of the statements are exaggerated, and others not fully proved, some extracts from Wordsworth are given to exemplify that he too occasionally borrows the thoughts of others, or unintentionally rope its them ; and for the consolation of the votary of the Muses, it is remarked, in env elusion, that "He was a gr eater critic than Mr. Smith's accuser, who was told that he could `no more crush Tee Excursion' than he could crush Skiddaw.' " " The Castle of Dublin" continues it s varied records. "How we talked about the Indian Mutiny" conveys some interesting information ou the all-important question of the day. "Hugh Miller and Geology" is, perhaps, the best subject in this magazine. Its perusal will interest all those who take it up. "When all of genius that can perish dies," it is a welcome task to dwell on what cannot depart with life, but remains to instruct ~ and delight the world. The sad close to his nol life is thus spoken of : "The dew h of such a man under any circumstances would have created deep sensation ; under the peculiar circumstances which attended it, it sent a thrill 'of min gled awe and sorrow through every heart ; but neither amongst friends or strangers, fellow-workers or oppo nents, was there a second opinion as to the lofty princi ple, profound genius, and sincere piety which in such meet proportions formed the characteristics of this won derful man. The veil of reverential charity was hung by unanimous consent over the closing scene, and all men joined in the deep lament that followed a Christian philosopher to an untimely grave. 4 " Oh ! what a noble heart was there undone, When Science' self destroyed her favourite son ! Yes ! she too much indulged thy fond pursuit ; She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low." Fraser's.—The first article in Fraser is entitled " About Edinburgh," and is founded on a recent volume called "Edinburgh Dissected." It attacks the work itself, but gives some pleasant sketches of life iu the Scottish capital. "Lord Macaulay of Rothley" is the title of the following paper, and gives a brief but interesting account of the family of the historian. "A Precursor of The Vestiges" brings to the modern reader the substance of a work published nearly a century ago, and now almost forgotten. It is by Robinet, and was origi nally published in Amsterdam, under the title " De la Nature," and propounds the curious and unten able theory of " L'Echelle des Etres." The scientific reader may feel some interest in perusing these traces of the state of scientific speculation at that period. A paper on "Metropolitan Communica tions" censures the deficiency of our thoroughfares, and discusses several proposed improvements. Among other plans, it approves of the grand junc tion of all the railways at Charing-cross, and treats at length of the scheme for the embankment of the Thames—a scheme which all metropolitan residents must desire to see put into practice, as worthy of the capital of the English nation. Amongst some curious statistics respecting the locomotion of Lon don, we are told that " the 800 omnibuses of the metropolis daily go over a distance far greater than the circumference of the earth." Mr. Pearson has taken the trouble to calculate the number of per sons and vehicles passing in and out of the city daily, and estimates the total number, irrespective of penny boats and foot passengers to the railway, at 572,000, the omnibus travellers numbering 88,000. It is justly remarked that the first 'gm of all street reformers should be to relieve the pressure in the heart of the city. The Poultry and Moor gate-street are especially mentioned. The paper is sensibly written, and evidences a careful considera tion of the subject. "The Interpreter" proceeds with interest. The schemer, Ropsley, being dan gerously wounded, confesses his machinations to Egerton, when it is unfortunately too late for repa ration. Another plot seems to promise misfortune for the young Vicomte de Rohan. The papers on " Natural History" gives us an account of rollers and kingfishers, and tells us the habits and haunts, as well as the mythological origin of those beautiful birds. Mr. St. John's abridgment of the " Me moirs of St. Simon" receives a severe criticism, while t'le original work is spoken of with the admi ration usually accorded to it. The second paper on the " Taste of the Day" censures the dress of the present time with not unmerited severity. Men's dresses are thus spoken of :—" Our men's dresses of the present day are, and for the last sixty years have been, with the exception of some of those of the North American savages, the most absurd, unbecoming, and inconvenient with which we are acquainted." The " Congress at Birmingham" is discussed with ability, and with a thorough appre ciation of the objects it proposes to itself. A "Me moir of the late Daniel° Manin," and a paper on the Indian Mutinies, and the morals to be drawn from them, conclude the number. Bentley's Miscellany. —Mr. Dudley Costello's story of the fortunes of " The Millionaire of Mincing-lane" progresses in its usual manner. It chronicles in this part some events of importance, as may be guessed from the titles of the chapters : —" A Discovery," "A Catastrophe," and "The Scale Trembling." It is called a tale of the times, and is designed to exemplify the dangers attending the course of a fraudulent merchan6 ; but as un happily, there have been of late years many such warnings in real life without much apparent effect, it is scarcely to be hoped that the end proposed will .be attained by this story. "The Day o f Humiliation" forms the topic of the next paper, and the writer takes the opportunity to pass a very severe and well-merited censure on the tardiness and apathy of the Government last session. He recals the answers made to questions asked in the house, and the scorn with which all fears of dan gerous consequences were met, a n d concludes by prophesying a " day of humiliation" for those whose culpable negligence ha s permitted such catas trophes. An amusing paper, calle I 'French, Fashionable Life," is founded on a work by Baron de Mortemart Boisse, and affords an insight into the usages of Parisian court etiquette. " Moat Grange" is the title of a story told with skill, but the subject is painful. It is the first instalment. Monkshood, in his retrospective reviewals, takes for his subject "Horace Walpole's Letters," and gives numerous extracts. The record of "A Fort night's Sport in the Highlands" is concluded, and the " Life of an Architect" continued. The latter gives some mournful glimpses into the interior of a madhouse. Among the remaining papers is one on " Wrench Almanacs for the ensuing year," and another on " The Grand Mosque and Palace of RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. tr. C. tr U. Orleans - Northern - - Strasburg - Lyons and Med B37l'— New Ditto - New Ditt0......... 82 , ) Grand Central - Geneva - Midi - THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter f(oui Jassy, of the 18th says :—" On the day of the opening of the Divan, the 4th, the populace, in presence of the militia and the authori ties, insulted and ill-treated the Jews in the most scandalous manner, and in the evening pillaged se veral of the houses. The town was illuminated, and a number of soldiers were in the streets to preserve order ; but no attempt was made to pre vent the pillage. The day after, the Jews com plained to Stourdza, the chief of the police, but he said, I myself saw the acts you complain of ; but I can only advise you, and all your community, to leave the country immediately, otherwise worse will happen to you in three days.' But the rQpre sentativeA of the great European powers inter vened, and they succeedel in protecting the Jews from further outrage." The following according to a Paris letter in the Nord of Bru4seis, is the substance of the reply which the cabinet of St. Petersburg gave to the uot.3 of the Ottoman government relisive to the principalities, transmitted through M. de Boute nieff :—" The Imperial government has not to give i s opinion either for or against the union. Faith ful to the line of conduct which it has irrevocably 'raced out for itself, and which it has invariably fol lowed, it pursues the strict execution of the treaty of Paris, and will not give is opinion on the form of government to be adopted for the principalities until the wishes of the Divans ad hoc shall have been submitted to it at the conference." SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 27th contains royal decrees which relieves Admiral Armero from the ad interim, administration of the marine department, and M. Bermudez de Castro from the post of civil governor of Madrid. It also announces that the President of the Connell has sent a circular to the governor of provinces directing them to complete the various statistical returns ordered some time ago. The Espana says that Admiral Artnero was very anxious that instead of himself either M. Mon or M. Martinez de la Rosa should be President of the Council, but that the Queen begged him to retain the post. At Leganes twelve persons, im prisoned by the late government for political causes, had been set at liberty. The building of ships for commerce is being carried on somewhat actively m the province of Biscay ; and five large ones are now waiting to be set afloat. A splendid fi igate, built in the same province, was recently launched. The Noh/ announces in its evening edition that a]l the Ministers of the Belgian Cabinet had in the course of the day tendered their resignations t o the King, L.4I7SCH OF THE GREAT EASTERN STE A 211-ER. We have authority from the Board of Directors of the Etait,q . n Steam Navigation Company, t• annou►:ce that the launch of the great leviathan steam ship, the Great Eastern, will take place to-morrow, the 3d inst. This decieion, it appears, was not come to till Saturday morn ing, the preparations for the launch having so far ad vanced as to enable Mr. Brunel, the engineer, who has been assiduously engaged on the spot some days, to de finitely fix upon the time. It is ❑eedless to stafe that every po.sible precaution has been adopted to secure the safe transit of the monster into its future elerneot. The most difficult, and if it may be oalled hazardous part of the work, has been finished some time. The ways along which the vessel will travel have been satis factorily tested, and on Saturday the directors had the long looked-for pleasure of witnessing the ship finally secured in her cradles, and most of the shores and props removed. Her appearance from the river as she now sits without any apparent support, excites almost a feeling of wonderment to the general spectator. The tide to-morrow afternoon will flow until nearly half-past 2 o'clock. This with the following morning tide, 3 o'clock a.m., will be the highest of the spring tides, so that in the event of any check or failure in the arrange ment of lowering the ship to-cuorrow afternoon, which appears by the extraordinary care taken very impro bable, the next tide will be available. The operation of lowering her down the ways will commence at 11 o'clock in the forencoa. Mr. Brunel, the engineer, and Captain Harrison, who is appointed to the command of the Great Eastern, will have the entire direction of the arrangements, and, if it all goes well, this extraordinary and stupendous work of marine ar chitecture wi'l be afloat about two o'clock, but whether the usual customary christenings of the shin take [lace before or art:T, if at all, is yet to be learned. It is de cided that she shall have no flag until she is really and fairly afloat, and tben, we suppose, all the usual honours on such occasious will be observed. It was stated in the course of Saturday that the Prince Consort, with the Prince of %Vales and Prioce Alfred, would attend the floating of the ship in one of the royal steam yachts from Deptford, and the prepara tions for their reception were be gun in the dockyard. The director s h ave i ssue d ti c k e t s to the shareholders of the company, and a large circle of the distinguished an I scientific world, and doubtless the gathering will be one of the largest ever witnessed on the water. The arrange ments on the water, as fir as the public are concerned, are confided to Captain James, the harbour-master, and M. Superintendent Evans, of the Thames Police. The navigation, as far as practicable, will be kept clear and uninterrupted, and it is highly necessary for those who have charge of boats and eteamer3, to act strictly in accordance with the regulations and directions of the harbour-master. It may also be useful to the general public to know that there is very ittle space on the Mill. wall side of the river (except in the yard where the ship stands) to view the ceremony. Oa the opposite side, however, on the Deptford and Greenwich shore, directly facing the yard, an uninterrupted sight of the launch may obtained, and there, doubtless, the largest con course will be assembled. Indeed, the inhabitants have already anticipated the event, and are making suitable arrangemee te. The Great Eastern, when floated, is expected to draw between 16 and 17 feet of water. It arranged that she will be mo ,red below the Government transport buoys off Deptford Dockyard, where she will be fitted out for sea. Her trial trip will take place early in the ensuing year. She has been heady four years in the course of construction. .. ~ ~:~ ss ~,, ._ QUARANTINE AND YELLOW FAYE& The news brought by the La Plata, which has just arrived with th e W es t I n di a m ail is, that cholera was still raging fearfully in Central America, Tut that the West Indies, both ou land and afloat, was free from cholera and yellow fever. The last season in the West Indies has been the sickliest known for twenty years past. It is now five years since the La Plata arrived home on her first voyagla as the first homeward bound West India packet in fe6ted with the dreaded yellow fever. Her comman der aid several others had perished during her voyage. From that time to the present, almost every homeward West India mail steamer has been more or lees infected with the fever. As many as thirty persons have died of it on board one packet during a single voyage. Many times the Royal Mail Company have had the greatest difficulty to get crews for their sbteeawmetrnses;seadndafteasrofuultlhyadmispttrobn.asiphng scenesth the a r rusedival o to f almost every mail packet. It was universally be lieved that the mode and place of coming the mail r packetsatStThomas arrangementscontn h . b a u ve notedtow been themortality. Tire coalingaltered. During a previous voyage of the La Plata, when the yellow fever was rife in the West Indies, Dr. Schuyler, the surgeon of that vessel, administered quinine every morning to each of the crew, and every one escaped disease. During the present voyage of the La Plata the same plan has been adopted, and with the like result. The superior coaling arrangements at St. Thomas, with the un doubted discovery by Dr. Schuyler of an efficient prophylactic for yel!ow fever, will, it is confidently believed, secure the health of the crews of the Royal Mail packets when that epidemic again visits the West India Islands It is a singular fact that when Southampton first became a foreign packet station, and the ovez land mail communication with India commenced. the only mail packets for which quarantine regula tions were made at Southampton were those from Alexandria, and the homeward India mail steamers used to go constantly to the Motherbank, off the Isle of Wight, to be purified. We never now hear of the plague in Alexandria, and the mail steamers from that port come direct up to Southampton without delay. The only mail packets at present subjected to quarantine restrictions at the latter port are those from the West Indies and Brazil. The Portuguese are the most strict in enforcing quarantine laws, and are the m os t un f or tunate ix warding off disease. Their precautions to pre vent disease being brought to them by the South ampton mail patkets a re some ti mes l u di crou s. It is said that they placed a mail packet in qua rantine a short time since at Lisbon, because while the yellow fever raged there the hose pipe of a water tank on shore touched the packet. The Portuguese declare that the yellow fever which now rages so virulently in Lisbon was caused biromaße putridrazilp id a h cke es t, bound for Southampton, landing at the Portuguese capital. The officers of the ship, however, declare that the only thing that was landed was a tiger's skin. There cann o t b e a doubt that the absence of cleanliness in Lisbon is the chief cause of disease. Southey, who resided there, used to say that it had been only twice thoroughly cleansed since the Creation, yiz., once at the time of the Deluge, and again at the period of the Great Earthquake at Lisbon, when the sea washed over the city. Lord Byron, who visited Lisbon since Southey, has recorded his opinion in well-known MICHAELMAS TERM.—To-day being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Lord Chancellor entertained at breakfasVat his residence, Upper Bruton-street, the learned judges and leading members of the bar. Their lordships afterwards proceeded to Westminster Hall in state, and com mence d t h e b us i ness of their respective court. The L or d M ayor e l ect (Ald e rman Sir R Carden, according to anc i en t cus t o m, and was presented to his M.P.), attended the Lord Chancellor's leve e, lordship by the Recorder, when the noble and learned lord signified her Majeaty's concurrence in the choice of the citi4eus. fr , .._