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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING' OCTOBER 22, 1857. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEXTRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspero's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. carried on upon the same scale, or anything like the same scale, of expenditure or exertion. We suppose, however, that MERCATOR, and his dis ciples would rather sacrifice India than in any degree impair what they are pleased to term "the integrity of the standard," or permit the issue of a single note upon securities beyond the amount so arbitrarily fixed. No valid reason has ever been assigned against 1/. notes. They saved the Bank in 1825, and prevented a general stoppage. Bat in place of extending their use in consequence, they were soon after prohibited in England, although largely ir, use in Scotland and Ireland, where gold coin is seldom if ever seen, save in the hands of a stranger. It is said that they may be used for political purposes, but it must be borne in mind that nothing of the kind occurred in the sister country during the Young Ireland agitation, and if a political run for gold was to take place, the large notes would prove more formidable instru ments to those who were bound to convert them into sovereigns. What is now required is an extension of issues, and the adoption of the smaller denominations of notes, similar to those in use in Ireland and Scotland. If based on proper security, or receivable in payment of taxes, there could be no danger 1 . Not an ounce of gold would require to be deposited. It should then resume its proper functions as an article of comm erce , highly valuable for adjusting the exchanges be tween different nations, but a small, premium would check its exportation much more effectually than an increase in the rate of interest, which in jures innocent traders, who are not in any degree responsible for the evils that have arisen. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under 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 Caradori, Miss Co rani, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne; Mr. Augustus Brabam, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braharn, 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 Bond, and the Orches tral Union The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian Opera. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. Frampton. Clams Master, Mr. G. Smythson. THIS EVENING, Auber's opera of THE CROWN DIAMONDS. To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 I.ls. 6d. ; Stalls, 64 ; Dress Ciro's, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The .139% Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direcliou of Mr. Chatterton, jun. THEATF.I.E ROYAL, ELAYMA.RKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. But-listone. 111 IS E'sTENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with (7th time here these eight years) Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Mi sA. Sedgwick. Af',..er which (by desire) BOX AND COX. Box, Mr. Xr.ckstone ; Cox, Mr. Compton. Followed by MAKE YOUR WILLS. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. 0. cheska Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes . 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 eNo half-price to Uppor Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS 'EVENING, will be performed the homemade Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright and Miss Arden. After which, Douglas Jerroid's drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr, T. P. Cooke ; Blue Peter. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Wright ; Black-eyed Susan, bliss Arden. To conclude with the new sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. It is surely time that some energetic measures should be adopted to render the Angle-Indian Government more efficient, and better qualified to meet the crisis. It is quite obvious that Lord CANNING is not " the right man in the right place." He has not the energy or ability to con trol the Council—is in fact a mere puppet in their hands, only useful to snub and disgust military men, whose opinions on military matters are unhesitatingly overruled by black-coated civilians —whose leading principle is, and has been " India for the Civil Service." It is perfectly notorious that Sir PA.TRICIE GRANT, an admirable officer, who, if left to himself, would have rendered valuable service, was thwarted in every point— his advice disregarded, and his sound views set at nought.. The same game was attempted to be played against Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, but fortu nately, not being a Company's officer, he could adopt an independent course, and sever the red tape trammels in which they tried to enthral him. STRAND THE A.T RE. —T HIS EVENING, will be performed IS HE JEALOUS? Mr. Shore, Miss Gower, Miss Herbert, and Miss M. A. Victor. Followed by JOHN OF PARIS. Mr. Kiulsch, Mr. Oliver Summers, Miss Harriet Gordon. To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which Miss Craven will sustain four characters. Reginald Rattle cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA. TRAVIATA; or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke. Comments at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, ls.; Gallery 61. ; Private Boxes, 17, is. ItOYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Rob3on. and Emden. TrIIS ETENING, will be performed (3d time) a new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, IL Cooper ; Mrs. Stirling, Misses Wyndham and Swanborough. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, dtc. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. AL EATRE. °Y Lessees, Messrs. tß Shepherd ant tl THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss M. Etcrne, Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD. 10 conclude with TIAC/K5 AND TRIALS. But although Sir CoLIN will be true to himself and to his country, enormous mischief is effected by these incapables. The proclamation of martial law was rejected, although petitioned for by almost every Englishman not holding office. Natives are placed in judicial situations, giving them un controlled power over the lives and properties of Europeans—powers which, if we are to believe the statements made by a correspondent of the Daly New, have been most grossly and atroci ously abused. It declares that " sundry of the natives whe had been appointed to judicial offices in those parts of India which are now in a state of insurrection, have been ezercasing their functions by hanging their official superiors, and other Englishmen who have been so unfortunate as to fall into their mer ciless hands." And yet, with a degree of fatuity almost inconceivable, Mahomedans are daily nomi nated to high situations. The writer, who mani festly understands his subject, says :—" Some of these appointments are perfectly absurd. It is hardly credible, yet it is the fact, that the Calcutta gamete of July 15 announces appointments of five Mahomedans to the office of principal sadder ameers of Cawnpore, Moradabad, Farr ack abed, and Bareilly, the whole of these places and the surrounding country being then in the power of the insurgent'. But those who have the influence to direct the Govern ment leould rather do anything than acknowledge the error they have committed in the employment of natives in preference to Englishmen out of the exolusivecovenanted service of the East India Com pany. This country, instead of being regarded as the conquered dominion of England, has been rued as if it was a petty borough for the exercise of the East India Company's patronage. The servants of that Company, in their selfish feeling, have taught the natives to despise us, and the natives have learned their lesson well. We trust, how ever, that the East India's Company's rule is coming to an end—that the people of England, aroused by the murder of their countrymen, the gross insulting barbarity practised against English women, and the fiendish torture of children in their parents' sight, wi'l at last insist upon the inquiry which independent Englishmen in this country have so often asked for in vain." That inquiry should be at once instituted, and it should be of a very stringent and searching character. Why should not India be placed un der the direct rule of Qacen VICTORIA, with a responsible Government of men duly qualifie I for the posiqon ? Why should not trained and educated lawyers be sent out to preside at the different courts throughout the country, in place of men ignorant of the first principles of jurisprudence or of treacherous and corrupt natives. The due ad ministration of justice is indispensable. Without it no people can be happy, contented, or pros perous. But there is no Royal road to legal lore, no short cut to information. Men, or rather lboys, have been sent out in the vain hope that they will turn out experienced jurists. They are paid extravagant salaries, double the amount necessary to obtain the services of competent men, trained at Westminster, the Four Courts, or the Court of Session at Edinburgh, and able to discharge the duty with credit to them selves and advantage to the country. We urged these matters in 1853, but the interests of the Civil Service prevailed, and every other considera tion was sacrificed. Can we wonder, then, that one of the chief demands of the non-officials in India should be for Queen's Courts presided over by trained lawyers, and English the Court lang. uage. The first thing should be the recall of Lord CANNING. The Directors exercised the privilege in the case of Lord ELLENBOROUGII, one of the best and most efficient Governors since the days of CLIVE and HASTINGS ; let them do so now to the most inefficient, or they will be responsible I t o e r n tenure e the of mistakes he may commit during his office. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES DUETS, dzc., viz. Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle, Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott Miss Brunell, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Part-ant, S. loner., J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, and Sir. St. Albyn ; Messrs. 3. Collins and E. Mack ney. eianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely, Suppers, Ise., until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at had-past Eight and half past Ten, every Evening. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 22, 1857. The East India Company yesterday advanced the price of their bills on India by one penny the rupee, or about 4 per cent. The effect of this movement will be to check the purchase of such bills, and tend to a a greatly increased exportation of bullion. The poverty of the Indian Treasury is thus clearly ex hibited. The directors know that the whole of their resources will be required in India, and that they must provide in England for the dividends and pensions payable in this country. They have clready borrowed a million sterling from the Bank of England, ankhave so far interfered with the funds which ought to be applied for the benefit of the commercial interests. That million has pro bably added one per cent. to the minimum rate of discount ; and should farther pecuniary accom modation be required, as the step of yesterday seems t 3 indicate, there will be still further charges, until ,trade is completely paralysed, and manufacture totally suspended. The bullionist organs are assuring the nation that trade was never in a sounder condition. We do not hear the disgusting cant of over-trading or over production, as if there could be over-produc tion while our fellow-creatures, men of our own blood, speaking the same language, and worship ping the same Deity, were hungry and half naked, unable to obtain a sufficiency of wholesome food or comfortable clothing. None of these specious pretexts are now set up. It must then be the monetary enactments that have produced the mis chief ; and, as in October, 184', there can be no relief until they have been repealed or sus pended. This should be the work of Parliament. Nothing but imperative necessity could justify a Ministerial interference, and when a step involv ing such extraordinary responsibility, and so uu disguised a departure from the law, became essen tial, as we believe it will be before many days have elapsed, not an hour should be lost in con- Telling the Legislatnie, that its sanction may be obtained to the transaction. It is quite impossible that the trade and manufactures of the country can flourish, with interest at ei g ht per cent. in Thread needle-street, and fully double it all through the country. Some course must be adopted to alleviate the panic, and restore the credit and confidence which were the chief sources of England's commer cial and manufacturing supremacy. It is not by closing works and factories, stopping looms, and turning those able and willing to work out of employment that we can continu e to pay our way. It is not by rendering the creators and producers of national wealth, unprofitable consumers, that we can extricate ourselves from the Indian difficu'ty, re-establish our rule in Central and North-Western India, or teach Mr. Commissioner YEll the necef.,- sity of faithfully observing treaties. The Me Lord Asnßuivrow—no mean arthority on more tary subjects—declared that but for the Bank MinisteretlZecAtencltaanrri i d s ,A E p ir o c t e l l y l i en ar c e y arrive a t th and n residence u , n f the Austrian Legatien to - day , h ., the Coun tess , m Continent. The Duchess D.,wagtr of Argyll has arrived at Brighton. The Earl of Clarendon will leave town to-day -" on a I , vitt to her Mrjesty at Windsor Cantle. Sir Aniline John Morris hat arrived at the Bruns- Restriction Act, and the iss ue o f , wick Hotel, Jerrnyn-s'reet, from his seat taketty Park, paper 11 '"eY j G:arnorganshire. bremem - (inconvertible, be it ite.ed), the French i I FAILIIRE —Ti.. suspension has been announc e d c t war—the most formidable struggle in which Great ' ' Messrs. Auld and Buchannan, of Glasgow, Etterchant n awl shippers. Their liabilities, which are estimated at Britain was ever engaged —could not have bets 100,0001, and believed to be chiefly local. i MUSIC. ST. MARTIN'S-HALL. Last evening Mr. Hullah commenced his annual series of sacred concerts with Mendelssobn's St. Paul, which was performed in a manner which we have seldom, and in some respects never heard excelled. Mr. Hullah's orchestra is better this season than it has ever been, both in power and quality. The numbers of the orches tra and chorus were so well balanced, and the instru mental effJcts wolf so subdued and delicate, without lainit enfeebled, that Mendelssohn's sublime choral har monies were strengthened and embellished without being, as is too often the case, overwhelmed by a mass of loud instrumental sound. The solo parts, too, were ex.:zellectly sustained. Mlle. de Villa, has a soprano voice of the finest quality, sings exquisitely in tune, has a pure and finished style, and in all she does shows taste, intelligence, and feeling. Miss Palmer, the contralto, is well known at Mr. Hullah's concerts, and a deserved favourite with his audience. Mr. Allan Irving, who sustained the bass part, is a singer of great merit. The whole performance was received by a large audience with expressions of the warmest approbation. THE SPAIvISII CRISIS. A private letter from Madrid, of the 16th, re marks as follows on the Ministerial crisis, which does not seem to have as yet attained its definitive solution : "The telegraph will have long since informed you of the partial solution of our ministerial crisis—a crisis which has been long and painful. A very animated discussion took place at the Palace, in presence of the Queev, betwee: Bravo Murillo and Armero, who proposed each a differ. sot system. These systems differed, it is true, but only in form, for, in reality, the party to which both be long has ever governed arbitrarily. The other persons who were present took a share in the controversy, and sided with the one or the other according to their respec tive views. After hearing all that was said pro and con.. the Queen took some time to consider, and, as you are already aware, Armero cape off with flying colours. Her Majesty, characterises m ho combatant, her,w o ev e b however, m with ritt, toe spirit of conciliation which oted to her presence one of the vanquished a friend of Bravo Murillo, and a man of the highest honour, and declared to him that she greatly appreciated his loyalty, his disin terestedness, and his patriotism, Her Majesty thus keeps Armero, and at the same time pays fleeter iag compliments to the others. We are now waiting to learn the names of the co:leagues of Armero and Mon— for the latter is the ate? ego of the former. You will have perceived that the Eilacos have nothing whatever to do iu this arrangement; and that the Reformists of Bravo Murillo as wsll as the Absolutists are ex cluded ; and if the Vicalearists (the O'Donnell section) be also set aside, I do not see how the new Minis try can get on. The Moderados were never more broken up into fractions than now, and it would seem that her Majesty, in wishing to reconcile the dissentient parties, meant to expose to the public the disunion which exists in the whole party. Add to these discordant eleneents General Narvaez, who is furious at the overthrow of his Ministry, and who would stop at nothing if his force, his influe-ce (which, by the way, is null), and his courage were on a par with his anger and his hatred against certain powerful persons both in the Palace and out of it. Such is the picture presented by the Moderado parry at the close of the year which has elapsed since they up n4, by means of a coup d'etat, a Government which tbey and others were wont to call anarchical.' Yet teat anarchical Government found in the Treasury, on its accession to power, just 3,0001., and it left 1,000,000,000, while the Narvaez Ministry leaves 400,000,000 of reels fl .ating debt, the State coffers empty, the year's budget spent, not to speak of 300,000,000 rears of the Mires loan also exhansted. What a difference between the n.en of anarchy, and the so called men of ceder ! It is probable that Narvez will re turn to his retreat in the provinces, or wing his flight to France, where he will, as usual, present himself as a vetine. Yet in this he is sincere ; Narvez L a victim whenever he quits power ; and during the period of his txclu•ion from it, he grows into an ultra- Liberal. You meat then count in him a revolutionist tl e more, and not sne among the least ardent of the band. It is, however, fortunate for public tranquillity and for the Throne that be is only a revelutienist in intention (you know vhat materials our national proverb at tributes to tae pavement of a place ti at shall be nameless), in thought, and in theory. O'Donnell told him so to his face in full senate. Apropos to the re volution of 1154. Then, also, Narvaez promised to come when canted,'--but he never came; he was ill. Other Genera l presented themselves in the field, and had not, like Narvaez, the misfortune to fall ill so inop portunely. 'There are many like him who promise come,' but dc not keep their word. This, however, is ancient histcry, and there is no use in reverting to it. thisWh m ot o h m e coleagues of Armero will be no one can at entsay to a certainty. TMa PENIC 01? WALES.—The Prince of Wales paid the Prinbev of Prussia a visit at Coblentz on the 16th inst., while on his way homewards down the R-ine. Die Prince 'lad intended to arrive at that town the day before, but . thick fog, that covered the Rhine and its banks, compelled the steamer to anchor off Bingen, where his Royal Highness passed the night. On arriving at Coblentz one of the Princess's Chamberlains was in waiting to receive the Prince at the landing-place, and conducted lirn and his suite to the Palace ; thence, after, a stay of stout an hour and a half, the "'rine , " of Waits was conducted by the Princess of Prussia herself to the banks of tie river, where he re-embarked. As General Todtleben is just now staying at Coblentz, and is a ire tient visitor at the Palace, it is wore than probable hat General Cbdrington, who was in the Prince's suite, had an opportinity of renewing his former Crimean acquain• tance on tiore pleasing ground and on a more pleasant footing. Marriel, yesterday, at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Warwick.Areet, and afterwards at St. George's Church, Hanoversquare, by the Reif. Evan Nepaan, Captain Edinondde Fey!, of the Austrian service, to Auguiita Clenitentiaa Graham, dauJ3ter of Sir Bellinghatu Gra ham, Bart., of Norton Conyers, Yorkshire. . _ The Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P. for the city of Oxford, has left England for Paris, from whence he will proceed'to Italy for %short period. The right hon. gen tleman paid a visit to his constituents previous to his departure, and was present on the occasion of the open ing of the now chapel at Balliol C .liege on Thursday last. We understand that the Rev. David Laing, the vicar of Trinity, Haverstoci-bill, has teen appointed by the Bishop of London to the vacant benefice of St. Olave, Hart-street, City, under the following arrangement : That he shall receive 1,0001. pi-r annum of the annual value, and the remainder be applied to the augmentaticn of certain other livings, 'Dig SILK TRADE.— 1 letter from Zurich states tint thirty commercial homes engaged principally in the eila and ribbon business base fa lid there. It is stated in several Belgian journals that General LetiO on permission to retur n t o F rance. CNTR E N rsa BANKRUPTCY LAWS.—T, e Birmingham Chamber of Co m merce, followi n g out the suggestion of Lord -clan Russell, intend inviting dela- K e E c i: C t he Ot x . '" generals of 1851, has received chambers of commerce to a cJii ov , por;ant subject in Birmingham, on the 17th of Nembe r , f g e a r t e e n s e from orn on the thi B variousim SHOCKING AOOlDENT.—Yesterday morning Mrs. c H h a a n p n e a l, t' v.Re'bn)tecini‘t'o aged asho3pB, of in F Princes-street, ie y, W E It t e e ; purchase, where a trap-door was left open, through which she fell, fracturing leer Fee church-street, to make a thighs in a e uos.t friglrful rnanuer. She was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. TRIAL 01 SPOLLis.N.—Spollen, who was acquitted of the murder of Mr. Little at the Broadstone Railway Terminus, is again to be tried, on a charge of rubbing the office of the cashier of the Midland Company, at the commission which commences in this city on Men day next, the 26th inst. The L ,rd Chief Baron ane Mr. Baron Richards will be the presiding jildeese A letter from Naples of the 3rd, in the gazette de Fiance, says : —"Tne conti nue d eru ption of Mount Vesuvius has brought a number of foreigners to this city to view the magnificent scene. Among the t: , ..rsonagae who have lately ascended the mountain, in order to view the eruption as closely as possible, are the Conde d Montem lin and his brother, Don Fernando, and the Prince of Orange.'' . A Russian naval division, which is intended to rein force the Rti,isian squadron in the Chinese See., 1 g shortly expected at thierhourg. This divi-lon, c,ma mended by Captain Keuzeetzoff, is composed of those steam corvettes and three steam capper', c trrying 43 guns and 800 seaman. It is to be speedily followed by the steam-frigate Aseelde, of 1G guns and 360-horse power, with 400 eeatnen. THE REV. MR CAIRD.—On Sunday, in terms of th s arrangemeote of he presbytery, tee Rev. Mr. Ceird, ef Errol, preached trial sermons, forenoon and afternoon, in the Barony Parish Church, Glasgow, as presentee to the splendid church now verging toward.; complseeoe i f , the West-end-park. At each diet the church was filled to overflowing, and hundreds went away, unable to ob tain admission—Edietburgle Courant. MR. 11 011811 IAN AND THE CHURCH. — Mr. Horsman, who is now f ree f rom t h e tramarees Of office , is spending some of his leisure time in inquiring into those abu-es in connection with the Church of England, which, prior to his acceptance of the Chief Secreteryeleip of Ireland, be was in the habit year by year of succe-sfully expo-ieg in the House of Commons. The right hon. gentleman, it is said, will give notice, as eoon as Parliament meets, of his intention to bring the subject before the hones at the earliest p asible opportunity, and will found a motion upon the facts he will then adduce. F a s tTriani,ceß marked EetinT eit.Fhe passage of a detachment of theA P R ACTICAL JOICR.—A sad ci r rn 32d regiment of the line tbrouth . Fismes (Marn e ), ell their way from the garrieen of S nesons to that of Tnal,.. bourg (Meurthe). A eapeur and three bandsmen ehared the same room, and the latter, ont of a foolish love for practical jokes, cat off the bueey beard of their com panion while he was a-leeo. In the morning the sapeur discovered the diseepearance of his beard, and was rendered frantic with rage. He at once challenged the three bandsmen, kill .d the first two, and severely wounded the third.—Ga/ignani. ROBBERY. —A ba,ndso.i.e young woman, who called herself Mede-a, an d w h o lives in the ne , ghbourhttel of the Rue de B r ed a , brought the followi n g charge before the Tribu na l o f d orrec t ion al Police against a M. Arise tide. She sa id t h at at t h e latter end of last month a friend of h ere , C ount d e N sent her a pree eu t o f game from Burgundy, and that she invited some gentle men to partake of it with her. One of these, a certaln Oscar, for whom she had a special regard, brought sans aremonie a friend of his, M. Aristide, and though she knew him not, she made him welcome. But just as they were about to sit down to dinner, M. Aristie. went away on pree-xt of going to a railway office to receive a sum of money, and te her surprise Are that he had carried off with hen a gold wa en orne tnented with brilliaets, worth about 80 elr. She sue.. queutly ' tented tlett h spent part of the proceeds in giving e Led eold the watch, and he to a Mile . Cia,a, p also of the Quartier Breda, to we o a maguificeht !:et she had a s p ec i a l ant i pat h y. A r i s tide was asked wile. he had to say in answer to the complaint, hut he hunk. , down his head and was silent. The tribunal see tenced him to a year's imprisonment. LATE .sT NEWS, THE INDIA MAIL. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The steamer Ripon, with the mails and pas sengers from India, was telegraphed off Hurst at 9.25 a.m. PORTUGAL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. The antra steamer has arrived, with Lisbon dates of the 15th inst. The Bahiana, steam transport ship, with troops for India, left the Tagus, with new lifeboats and all essential repairs, on the 12th, in the evening, having been detained only 36 hours to refit. She is reported to have proved a first-rate sea-boat in the heavy gales of the 7th, Bth, and 9th inst., when she lost her three lifeboats, deck-house, &e. The troops on board left Lisbon in good health, and did not communicate with the shore. The Royal mail packet Tyne, with the out ward mails, left Lisbon for Brazil on the 14th, at 3 p.m. The last fever bulletin at Lisbon reports 236 cases, and 76 deaths during 24 hours, up to the 13th at 10 p.m. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDA Y. The Univers is the only Paris journal containing a political article ; it devotes, its attention to the principalities question, which it treats in the fol lowing manner : " The Moldo-Wallachises appear to imagine that they may do just what they like. Turkey enter tains a very different opinion, and if Austria and England think as she does, France an 3 Russia, as a set-off, authorises, to a certain extent, the preten sions and the hopes of the Moldo-Wallachians. These views, although so different and so opposed to each other, have also for bases, according to their authors, the decisions of the congress of Paris. Both sides invoke the same article of the treaty, and maintain that its wording is very clear. If the Porte accepts the views of the unionists, or submits to them, Moldavia and Wallachia will no longer form part of the Ottoman empire. What in fact under such conditions would he the value of a formula which preserved to the Staten the title of Suzerain ? The Journal des Debats thinks is strange that the Porte should protest, but that is the least it could do. Can the support which four of the powers represented at the congress of Paris have hitherto given to the unionists lead to the belief that the pretensions of tha - party will be ad mitted ? The puelic is rather d sposed to solve the question in the affirmative. Hence the rumours spread with regard of the prince who is to be called on to govern constitutionally the Moldo-Walla chians. Prince Murat, and even the Prince de Leuchtenberg, although be belongs to the imperial family of Russia, were spoken of; six mouths ago a Belgian prince was mentioned, as likewise a prince of Nassau. But these rumours are mere speculation, and it would be wrong to at ach any importance to them. The journals speak on spe culation in stating that the sovereigns have come to an understanding on any p articular name. But if the Moldo-Wallachian deputies are agreed on the question of the union, and if they demand, accord ing to their programme, a foreign prince as an hereditary sovereign, it is probable that they will desLnate the prince most worrhy in their eyes of reigning over Roumania. It may be taken for cer tain that their choice will not fall on either a Rus sian or an Austrian, and they will also set aside any prince who, ft {Dm his origin, is subject to the fl inuence of one of the great States bordering on the Danube. In the meantime Austria seeks to prove that the last elections have not been free ; and if she accepts them, it is because she considers th , ) matter as indifferent with respect to the defini tive organisation of the principalities. It may be seen by this simple statemeut of facts that the ques tien of the Dann hian principalities does not yet ap proach a solution." Th• following private telegraphic despatches have been received here : VIENNA, Oar. 20. eagerly accepted, but still the matter cannot be considered definitively settled, as many of the cre ditors of Boscovitz and Co. were not present at the assembly. The liabilities of Messrs. Boscovitz al e 1,800,0001 in bills and 278,0001 in book-deb's During the last two or three days there has been lull, but it is probable that the crisis is very far from being at an end. Information was given this morning that one or two manufacturing firms had suspended their payments, but no names can be mentioned until the report has received complete confirmation. The Divan of Moldavia voted almost unanimously, while recognising the rights of the Porte consecrated by trea•ies, the union of the Principalities under a foreign prince of a Western dynasty, a representative govern ment, and the neutrality of the State. MADRID, OCT. 21. The Gates of the kingdom, convoked for the 30th inst., will ant assemble till the 30th of December. THE HAGUE, OCT. 21. The Bu )get is at present tinder consideration by the States-Gener6l. It exhibits a most prorperous.financial condition, a new excess of receipts th a t w ill a l low of a further portion of the public debt being cancelled. A dotation for the Prince of Orange is considered as settled. BERLIN, OCT' 20. The King was rather better yesterday, and was up for one hour. His Majesty had eight hours' quiet sleep in the night. Intelligence from St. Petersburg of yesterday, by telegra:,h, states that the government had just pub lished an official declaration stating that only Anapa, Sakum-Kaleh, and Redout-lialeh, on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea, will be open to foreign vessels. A Russian vi-a will be necessary. BOURSE, Oct. 21.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. End otlronth. 41 per Cents ......... 90 50 3 per Conti 66 65 60 70 Bank Shares ...... ... Credit Foncier — Credit Mobilier 763 Roman - Do. Account 762 50 Awi.riem Belgian 41 99i— Spanish Threes - - - Pied In on tese (5) 9O Home Deist RAILWAYS-FOR CASH, tr. C. f^ C. Orleans Northern - - Strasburg - Lyons anti Mod 525 New Ditto New Ditto... ....... 8124 Grand C en t ra l Geneva 635 Sardinian .. 475 idi 562 i Austrian Ctza. ... i7O - - GREECE. The question of the succession to the throne of Greece appears, from the following letter addressed from St. Petersburg to the Constitutionnel, to have been brought under the notice of the Emperor of Russia at Stuttgard by the Queen of Greece : " It i 3 known that Queen Amelia of Greece :ix , rived at Stuttgart slating the meeting of the Eat perors of the French and of Russia, and we learn front a good source that her Majesty took advantage of the oc:.iasioo to sheik with the Czar Alexander on the affair of the succession to the Greek throne. King Otho having no hope of having children, the succession goes to his brothers ; but they refuse to submit to the condition laid down in the Greek constitution, and in the protocol of London, signed by the protecting powers and by Bavai is, that the King of Greece shall be of the orthodox Greek re ligion. Queen Amelia accordingly proposed that her youngest brother, Eliwar of Oldenburg, who is 13 years of age, should be accepted in their place. Her Majesty's proposition, which was con fidentially mad', gave rise to no special conference between the Empe.or of Russia and the Emperor of the French, as the matter will not demand the intervention of the protecting powers for some time to Come." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, OCT. 19. In the evening of Saturday the principal credi• tors of Boscovitz and Co. had a second meeting with the representatives of the Credit Bank, and after a short discussion the following arrangement was made :-1. The Credit Bank engages to al vanCe from 30 to 50 per cent. on all bills bearing the signature of Boscovitz and Co. ; that is, one third or one-half of the amount of the bill will be advanced to the creditors on his cementing to leave it as security in the hands of the Cree:t Bank. 2. Each creditor gives a written pro mise to the Credit Bank that, if the affairs of the bankrupts are not wound up within six months, or if the proceeds of their estate are not. equal to their debts, he will pay to the Bank that part of the amount of the bill for which it has no security. 3. The Credit Bank advances money to the amount of 1,000,000 d., and, besides, undertakes to mediate betwePti the bitrikrupts and th •ir creditors. 4. As the papers strorgh oijected to the original preposition of the Credii Batik, that its claims on the estate of the bAili rupts should have right of precoduro and be discharged in fall, that institution expressed its willingness to take its chance with the other creditors rf they consented to pay 2 per cent. for the money advanced, This last proposition was SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived. The Epoca says that M. Martinez de la Rosa, in an interview with the Queen, had laboured to con vince her Majesty that her dynasty and literal in stitutions are inseparable ; and that Admiral Armero, who was present, said the same thing. The same journal says that the first act of Queen Isabella, after receiving the oaths of Admiral Amero President of the Council, was to direct that a criminal condemned to death at Vali-ncia should have his sentence commuted. Three jour nalists, MM. Ulloa, Asquerino, and AsenciO, hail waited on M. Bermudez de Castro, the new Civil Governor of Madrid, and had represented to him that several hundred citizens were detained in prison without knowing why, and that it wai just that they should be either brought to trial or libe rated. The Civil Governor, who received 'horn with great urbanity, said that he would without delay examine into the affair, and would render justice. It was reported that the Duke de Valen cia (Narvaez) intended to take up his residence at Loja or Bayonne ; other accounts say, however, that he meant to go abroad. The Gazette an nounces that the Queen has entered the ninth month of her pregnancy. Intelligence from Cettinge of the 9th states that the tribe of Wasojew has consented to pay tribute to Turkey and to continue to do so in future. A sum of 3,000 piastres, the first sum due, is to be remitted to the Pacha of Scutari by the consul of France. The Pacha on his part has consented not to send Turkish authorities to reside amongst the tribe. The dissension between the tribe and Turkey has consequently been arranged without the shedding of blood, which was at one time feared. A letter from Vienna in the French Journal of Frankfort says :—.‘ The circular despatch addre:s -d by the Porte to its diplomatic agents has drawn forth a reply from our cabinet to the Porte, which has been communicated to thh powers which signed the treaty of Parts. In this document Austria maintains her policy, which is already known." A letter from Cattaro of the 7th says :—" Prince Danilo has, in virtue of a resolution of the Senate, confiscated all the property of the convents, and decided that the clergy shall be paid from the public treasury. The Archimandrite of Cettinge, who is a member of the Senate, persecutes the clergy with such rigour that the Archimandrite of Ostrog has fled from the country, and taken up his residence in Russia." A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 30th ult., says :—" For some time past the great question of the day, that of the emancipation of the serfs, has been slumbering. What has alrea iy been done in the matter is this :—" A superior committee, consisting of members of the Councilof the Empire, was formed to examine the question ; but it sepa rated without deciding anything. By order of the Emperor it assembled anew in the mouth of July last, and this time it appears its lab ,urs had a result ; at all events, a ukase on the subject is expected on the return of the Emperor." The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna says :—" Great astonishment has been expressed at seeing a Russian war steamer, the Ordinares, proceed up Le Danube as far as Giurgevo, and a French one as far as Tournou. It appears that France and Russia wish to extend the freedom of navigation of the Danube to vessels of war, but it is impossible to COriceiva by what right vessels of the kind should do so. The upper part of all rivers is naturally neutral; it belongs to the States along whosa banks it runs, and no foreign vessel of war has a right to enter unless invited to do so by the express will of the sovereign or suzerain." It is stated in a Vienna letter, addresAed to tho Correspondent of Nuremberg, that Prince Richard de Metteruich, who is at present Austrian Minis ter at Dresden, is to be nominated to the embassy at St. Petersburg. THE CHRISTIANS AND THE NIUE- S LMANS. The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following very exaggerated account of the sentiments en-er tabled by the Mussulmans of Asia Minor and Egypt towards the Christian inhabitants of those c,un tries : "It is not only in India that the Mabornetans are a rming themselves, for the armourers in all the cities and towns of Asia Mini , r, Syria, and Egypt were never car rving on such an ,xi;ensive trade as they are at preset t. All that is taking place at Calcutta under the eyes of the G.,vernor-General of India, the European consuls see re. peated at Smyrna, at Acre, at Al exan d r i a, and else where. The most pacific Oriental-i, those even who are not accustomed to handle arm:, are purchasing n-vol vers, and the Turk, the Syrian, and the Egypt tian make no secret of the motive which leads them lo purchase the-,e weapons. One of our friends who is on the spot states that something is in agitation among the Mussulma.o population —something v. hich very closely resembies the rising of the Mu'ealmans in India. Europe deceives it-elf in imagining that any grattude is f , It because the Western Pawers supported tho crescent against the Greek en,. It is quite the contrary. The hatred felt throughout th- East against Christians is un bounded. It is in the strong,il terms of inclignati that the events at Consiantinople are tall:ed of, and the tauzimat is a subject of derision. Never has a Christain obtained less justice or been more detested than since the Christian states have declared theinsel yes the protectors of the Mussulman." EXPLOSION.—LivERPooL, Wednesday.—Last evening at halt-paq six o'clock, one of the boilers in connection with the Regent Steam Corn Mdl, corner of Regent street, Great Howard-Areet, bust with a fearful explo sim, scattering the brickwork and materials with which it was surrounded, and killing the engineer, James D ling, a single young man, and badly scalding Tr omas Gamey. Thrje per,ons passing a , the thie were knocked down by the shock, but sustained no serious injury. No Call , e has been a , eertained as to the accid,nt. LIVERPOOL, Oct 21.—The steam-2hip City of B more, belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia Ste ion-whip Company, sailed hence this afternoon for Ne York, having on board 520 passengers, of whom 119 occupit d cabin berths, and 8,2191. in specie on freight. She had only 90 tons of cargo, the present panic in Amt - riaa hav'mg put an eff,ctual stop at present to the 0.4 . went of flue ntlnufactu res f rom thi s ki n gdom. Tee Montreal Ocean Steam-ihip Company's screw steam. r Indian also sailed to-day for Quebec and Montreal, having on board 250 passengers (130 chief cabin), the Canadian mails, and a full cargo. Among the cabin passengers are Sir Edmund Head, Governor-General of Canada, Lady Head, and suite. The Indian had no specie on freight, but it is believed that some of the . pas. sengeri bad a considerable quantity. During the winter the steamers of th is line will run to Portland, United States, th e na vigation of the St. Lawrence being, closed. The C u nard steam-ship Canada sails hence fur Halifax and Boston on Saturday, the Post -office hire closing at 10 a.m., with late fee at 11 a.m., and on the Chancellor, at 12 n oon. The clipper ship c belonging. to the White Star line of packets,. sPils to rmdo on Moreton Friday next B to day for Melbourne with 330 sailspassengers,fo an ne xt the Government ship Irene with 350 emigrants. THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY C fol lowing is the verdict whichCOLLISION.—The the jury, after a con,ul - of more than an hour, returnedon Tuesday, and the substance of whith appeared in our ,lurns3•es terday We find that Sarah Ann Harmer came to her death in consequence of a collision on the South Wales Railway, caused by the carelessness of Charles White, the station-ma , ter at Stormy, in despatching. contrary to his printed instructions, the down-passeriker train on the up-line without waiting for an answer to his telegraphic message, and in direct opposDion positive orders received from Port Talbot. We there fore find the said Charles White guilty of manslaughter, and that his statement that he received a subsequent order to send the down-train on the up-line, is contrary to evidence. We exonerate Henry Turner from blame, but it would have been more de,irable if he had gone to inquire for un before he started the up•trarl We think there is evidence of can , ier , sne-s arid tency in the telegraphic arrangements both at Port Ca'. 'rot and Stormy, and that there hiarne to he attacio.k. to t he company for nut erripLying more eiiicknt ser rants at such important vations, CCp cidiy Sorely, trii6 also for not taking care that they are properly instructor; in the working of the telegraph on both instrurnet ts, I'he j ur y also think if there had been means of t e l e . grapbic communication at Pyle this lamentable n, , JL- Bina might hove been prevented." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT— Morn. 2 min. aft. 4 —Even. 16 raft' aft. 4 To-lionnow —Morn. 33 min. aft. 4--Even. 49 min. aft. 4 rHE WEA.THER —SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SnADIZ. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 46—lowest this morning and daring the night 47 —this day at noon. BABOMICTER, 29.69. WIND, North-Westerly ; rather fresh, with a miserably cold rainy day. Heavy rain in .the night, and still con tinues. • - tn) 4,140- LYCEIINI-ENGLISH OPERA. An English version of the " Trovatore" was produced last night to a crowded house, and with great success. On the present occasion, though the performers were not the stars of the Italian stage, yet they acquitted them selves well, and produced an effective ensemble. Mr. Augustus Braham surpassed himself in the character of Manrico : we never saw and hoard him to so much ad vantage. He sang, indeed, with remarkable sweetness, and some of his principal efforts were most warmly re ceived. Madame Caradori's Leonora was a musician like performance, and Miss Susan Pyne's Acuenza showed con:,iderable dramatic power. Mr. Ferdinand Glover, as the Count de Luna, showed himself a mare novice as an actor. But he is a singer of rare merit. The opera is admirably put upon the stage ; the cos tumes, scenery, and decorations being rich and beautiful. LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mr. BaNe's new opera, founded, we hear, on "The Muleteers of Toledo," a piece pro duced some time ag) at the Princess's, is in active rehearsal, and will be ready for production, it is sup posed, at the end of next week. HERRING TRADE.—WICK, Oct. 15.—N0 sales of her riegs have taken place, so far as wo can learn, since V.e ewe of our last, at which time prices ruled at 365. 9d. for full crown brands, and 325. for epents. Of the latter the stock is sold out, and now that continental prices are rather on the decline, it is fortunate that the quan tity of the former is also small. Price of red herrings at Wick, 40e. per barrel.—John o'Groat Journal. A SECOND SILK CROP.—A singular experiment, which may lead to valuable results, has just been made at Toulouse. A lady, the wife of a captain quartermaster, put an ounce of silkworms' eggs to hatch in September last, and fed the young worms with the leaves of the mulberry tree as usual. The worms have thriven better than in May last ; none of them have died, and they are now spinning their cocoons. This success is, per haps, in a great measure attributable to the mild weather, for which this autumn has been so remarkable ; at any rate, the above fact shows that the second crop of mulberry leaves is quite as good food for the silkworm as the first, contrary to the opinion of the majority of silk growers. —Galignani, Tao NICK or Timo.—As the late Earl Fitzhardinge's rent-roll is supposed to have been about 40,000/. a-y, ar, a nice point, it is remarked, may arise on the question cf the precise hour of his death, which is announced as having taken place " about midnight" between the 10',h and 11th inst. His rents were payable a t " old time," that is, Old Lady-day and Old Michaelmas-day. Old Michaelmas-day fell this year on Sunday, the 11th inst., and the day begin. at midnight. New the rent is due upon the first moment of the day it becomes due, so that at one second beyond 12 o'clock of the 10th inst., rent payable at Old Michaelmas Day is in law due. If the earl died before 12 the rents belong to the parties taking the estate, but if after 12, then they belong to, and form port of, his personal estate ; so that the difference of one minute might involve a question as to the title of about 20,0001. ; a nice question for lawyer-N.—Guardian. CARLISLE AND HAWN/X.—lt is now certain that there will he a struggle between the Caledonian and North British Companies for this line. The former company will be supported by the Duke of Buccleuch, who etre nuously supports the Langholm route, and by the people of that town; while the Liddesdale line will receive the support of Sir James Graham and Sir William Elliott, also extensive landowners, through whose estates it will run, and by the town councils of Hawick, Galashiels, and Selkirk. Which of these parties is most likely to be successful it would at present be unsafe to predict. It appears that the expenses of the recent contest amount to 10,0001. ; but the North British Company engage io defray the whole cost of the approaching struggle themselves.---Glatgow Daily Mail. WAGES IN CANADA.—Bricklayers, 7s to 8s fid ; masons, 6s to 7s ; stone-cutters, 5s to 7s ; joiners, 53 to 73; carpenters, 6s 3d to 7s 6d ; tinsmiths, 53 to 5s 6d ; painters, 5s to 6s ; grainers, 6. to 7s ; hatters, 6s to 7e ; printers (compositors), 6s to 73; ditto (power pressmen), 64 to Gs 8d; tailors (male), Is to ss; ditto (femalt), Is to 23; shoemakers, 43 to 5s ; upholsterers, 5s to Os ; coopers, 3s to 4s; farm labourers (with board), 2s to 3s; day labourers, 2s 3d to 33 9d • boys and girls, 12 to 18 (with board), 9d to is 3d ; ra ilway labourers, 4s to 53 ; needlewomen (with board), is to 2s ; dressmakers (with board), is 3d to 21; servant u aids (per month), 12. 2d to 243 4d ; servant boys, 12s 6d to 25s ; servant men, SOs to 50s. The addition of one-fourth to sterling money brings it as nearly as possible into Halifax cur rency— the standard by which all mercantile and mone tary affairs are settled here. MUNIFICENT LEGACIES TO THE LIVERPOOL CHARITIES. —Mr. Thomas Watkinson, of Liverpool, who died on the 14th inst., at his residence, Kensington, near that town, and who lived and died a bachelor, has left about 60,0001. amongst his distant relatives and friends, The father of Mr. Watkineon was a retired Liverpool trades man, and the son has not forgotten the charities of his native town, having instructed his executors to distri bute 4,700/. amongst them as follows :—Toe Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, 500/. ; the North Dispensary, 0001. ; the South Dispensary, 5001. ; the Northern Hospital, 500/. ; the Southern Hospital, 5001. ; the Blue Coat Hospital, 5001. ; the School fir the Indigent Bend, 5001.; the Deaf and Dumb Institution, 1001. ; the Ladies' Cearity, 2501. ; the District Provident So ciety, 100/. ; the Female Orphan Asylum, 2501 ; the Boys' Orphan Asylum, 2501.; the Strangers' Friend Society, 250/. Mr. Watkinsun has appointed a doctor, a lawyer, and a divine as his executors, viz., Dr. O'Don nell, Mr Stone, and the Rev. T. Gardner, of Stanley, to each of whom he has bequeathed a legacy of 1,0001., as a testimony of his personal regard, and for the trouble they may have in winding up his estate. SALE OF CHURCH PREFERMENT.— Yesterday, at Gar raway's Sale-room, Change.alley, Cornhill, Mr. Clark, of the firm of Messrs. Farebrother, Clark, and Lye, offered to pubic auction the next presentation to the valuable rectory of Woodhana Walter, near Maldon, Essex, The annual income of the living' is derived from the tithe-cerninuted rent. charge, awarded at 5601., 45 acres of glebe lend, residence, and fees, amounting to 648/. The value, according to the Clergy List, is 437/. ; tae value in the "King's Book," 121. 13i. 10. The incumbent has held the livin g for nearly 40 years, and i s now in his 76th year, and, therefore, according to the tables, it was stated by the auctioneer, his life may be expected to be only four or five years longer. The popu lation of the parish is 540, and the neighbourhood de scribed as being very select. It was st ded that the advowson of the living could be purchased, as it was held by a relative of the vendor of the next presentation. Previous to putting up the property, the auctioneer remarked that the Press frequently ceu-ured the sale of the cure of souls, but that was not a matter for his con sideration, f r as long as it was legal to do so, he woul continue to cell church livings as well as any other pro perty pat into his hands—knocked down at 4,9001. "TEnnottaX."—There has been a good deal of di custioa in the newspapers about this word, and its claim to be accepted as legitimately derived from the two Greek words out of which the word "telegraph" has been formed. In the course of that discussion it has been several times stated, in letters to the 7imes, that the word "telegram" originated in the columns of that journal ; and the Tines was evidently as well disposed to " own the soft impeachment" as Mrs. Malaprop could possibly be. The statement, however, is altogether erroneous. So far as we know, the word first appeared in the Times, when giving the first despatch from Cag liari, about two months ago ; and then it was communi cated from the Foreign-office, not only to the Times, but to the other London papers. So far as we can discover, the word was first used in India, and appears frequently in the papers relative to the mutinies in the East Indies, laid before Parliament during the present session. The earliest instance of its use that we have been able to find is contained in a letter from Major Birch, secretary to the Governor• General, to Major-General Hearsey, dated Calcutta, April 21, 1857, which says :—" A tele gram to the following effect has this day been trans mitted to you." Subsequently to that date the word appears frequently in the papers.—Manchester Guardian. INVENTION FOR SUBMERGING SUBMARINE CABLES.— A. rather numerous meeting of engineers was held at the Town-hall, Manchester, yesterday morning, to re ceive from Mr. J o h n D e l a Haye ( me of the firm of Da la Haye and Bloom) an explanation of a new invention for which he has taken out a patent for submerging sub marine electric cables. Mr. Richard Roberts presided, and Mr. De la Haye said his attention had been drawn to the subject by the failures in laying the Mediter ranean and Atlantic telegraph cables. The plan be would adopt would be to encase a cable, prepared like that for the Atlantic Ocean, in a soluble compound (the composition of which he would not now mention), capable of floating it for a time on the surface of the water. The coating he proposed to use for this purpose be supposed would hold it on the surface of the waves, whilst about five miles of cable were paid out from the vessel before it began to dissolve, and as it wouid die. solve gradually, so the cable would sink gradually to the bed of the ocean. By this means he calculated that there would always be about five miles of cable Icing on the surface of the water its the wake of the ,epsel, and the remainder would de,cribe an outline to within one or two bundre.l feet of the ue t of ths ocean, so that there would be comparatively little strain, and consequently less liability of breakage. The cable would descend into the ocean horizontally, instead of nearly perpendicularly. Some questions were put to Mr. De In Haye, but his proposition will be sufficiently under stood from the above short outline of the plan, THE TYNE PLEBS. Mr. Headlam, M. P, Mr. Ridley, M.P., Mr. George Hudson, M.P., and other influential gentlemen interested in the trade of the north-east ports, accompanied the River Tyne Improvement Commissioners on Tuesday upon an inspection of the extensive pier works in progress at the mouth of Vie Tyne. The piers will be carried into a depth of 15 feet, and about 1,000 feet beyond Spar-Hank, the seaward limit of the jurisdiction of the commis sioners. The funds for the execution of the work are raised by a tonnage rate on shipping-Id. per ton upon coasting vessels, and 2d. per ton upon foreign, up to a certain point. The commissioners have also Parliamentary powers to b. , rrow 200,0001. upon the security of the rites, powers that they Dave not yet exercised. The silt h pier will be 4,200 feet 1 ng, and the width between the two piers will be 1,100 feet. The River Commissioners are just compl , ting one extensive dock in the harbour, and bave procured Parliamentary pow ers tobuild an other. The North-Eastetn Railway Company are building a large dock on the Tyne ; those when completed will relieve the harbour of vessels taking in cargoes. The enormous trade of the port is shown by the fact that last year 27,294 vessels, with cargoes amounting to 3,940,033 tons, were cleared inward and outward from the Tyne, and the more especial object of the inspection of Tuesday was to point out to tb e local members the advantages that would accrue to the trade of the district if the Govern inent were assisting the commissioners to carry the piers into 25 or 30 feet water, and thus make the Tyne a harbour of refuge. Down to the present time, though the Tyne, Tees, and Wear have 100,000 vessels entering them annually—one-sixth of the trade and tonnage of the whole kingdom-- no great national work has been undertaken be tween Flamborongh Head and the Frith of Forth for a harb iur of refuge for shipping in a gale of wind, Captain Washington, R.N., Captain Vietch, R.N., Lieutenant Calver, R.N., and other Ad miralty authorities, are in favour of Hartl e pool as the best site for suchl a work ; but the River Tyne Commissioners argue that their river is the best and t:f nen/4g% of any bar harbour in the kingdom ; that in a gale of wind masters of vessels will make every eff .rt to get to the port they are bound for, or whence they have sailed ; and thnt it would be better to improve the existing harbours than make new ones, and in doing so to commence with the list first. On a former occasion the River Tyne Commissioners offered to lay down a pound for every pound that might be advanced by the Government, and they seem determined that next session of Parliament they will have their case fairly brought before the county. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. We reproduce the following circular despatch addressed by the Prussian Foreign-office to its diplomatic agents abroad. This document, in spite of: its remote date, is of political value, since it is the first official expression that has transpired of the views entertained by the Prussian Govern ment : " Monsieur,—By my despatch of the 30th January, as well as by the explanatory document annexed to it, I made known to you the decisions which had been come to at Constantinople between the Ottoman Porte nod the other powers who signed the treaty of Paris, relative to the convocation of the Divans ad hoc, which, according to Art. 24 of the said treaty, were to be celiac' on to express the wishes of the people on the sulject of the organisation of the Danubian principalis ties. The firosan, the tenor of which I have com• municated to you, has been since published by the go. v rnment of the Sultan ; and the members of the special • remission, formed in virtue of Art. 23 have proceeded e the spot, in order to watch over the execution of it, and ultimately to put themselves in relation with the Divans. The people of Wallachia and Moldavia, to whom the European powers, in accord with the Porte, had secured the right of co-operating, by the expression of their wishes, in the revision of their ancient privileges and immunities, could not fail to be deeply impressed with the great importance of the mission with which their deputies were about to be charged. The elections ter the Divans were therefore naturally expected to oos cupy the attention of the public, and the electors, in pres paring to exercise their rights, could not fail to discuss ansoag themselves the great 'questions on which their representatives would have to pronounce themselves in the name of the country. If at such a solemn moment the hope of a more f avoura bl e f uture may have been entertained, and an ardent patriotism have manifested itself with a certain degree of vivacity, we must admit that up to the present time the Mold -WallachianS have scrupul )usly respected the authority of the laws. Nowhere has public tranquillity been disturbed, and nowhere have any scenes occurred of a nature to make Europe regret the confidence which it had placed 10 the good feeling of the people. One of the most important questions on which the Divans will have to pronounce an opinion is that of the political union of the two principalities under one solidly constituted government. This question is not a new one ; it has long been the subject of attention en the part of thinking men ; it was submitted in 1855 to the conference of Vienna, and, at the congress of Paris, the representatives of several great powers declared themselves in its favour. Others , it is true, were opposed to it, and the reason why no definitive understanding was come to at Paris was I desire of consulting the wishes of the people. The s pecie! commission was appointed in order to inquire into the actual state of the principalities, and to collect the els' ments necessary for a mature and close examination int l o the question of the u n io n . Th e w i s h es o f th e Di van s will form one of those elements, but it will not be the oe!if one. The rights of the suzerain power, the great pr! od ciple of the integrity of the 0 Oman empire, the mate' tenence of order, without which the rights and libertie s of the people would be illusory, are other element . which will exercise their weight in the deliberation' f the future European c ingress which will regulate the definitive organisation of the Principalities. We have always reserved our vote as far as regards the union for the moment when the special commission shal l have transmitted the result of its labours. Never Ilse the representative of the King at ConstantinePla or the commissioner at Bucha res t, assume d an attitud e or used a language which was n ot s t r i c tly i n con forraitf with thi s r e serve. I dw e ll on thi s f ac t, b ecause e vil (he . nosed minds have endeavoured to cast suspicion on the intentions sf the King, and on the co n d uc t o f it s repre , opeatives. Our commissioner has recommended t ° every one calmness, respect for the laws, and fidelity L ° the ,uzeiain power. Be has in the sa me manner i • ways endeavoured to influence the local adminietrat io l both at Bucharest and at Jassy. This conduct is 13° ., only in conformity with the spirit of the treaty of Psrl e l but it i- also of a nature to remove the danger of the too great political agitation which might result from a violent and arbitrary action on the part of t ° , caimakaas. We hope that all the commissione r : toil be inspired with the same principles of Ile_ lit) , and conciliation, in order that the commissie without descending into the party, questions, but als o webeut acrificing its dignity by a false indifferenC e t o ms y be equal to the arduous ta-k c on fid e d t o it by s re-pective goverianeuts. I shall not fail to make 9 ° acquainted with the ultimate development of any ttli l % ll ,, tions connected with the situati on o f t h e D anu bian P rl- d . cipalities. The present communication is only intens e for your personal information, in order that you t o % regulate your language in conformity with the views the cabinet of the Ki ng , b u t I l eave it t o your tact to, mak- what confid ent i a l use you may thi n k prope r of tn ,s despatch.--Acc e pt, &c., Mareret7l llo. " Berlin s M a y 28; 1857." lONIAN ISLANDS. CORFU, Oct 10.—Three line-of-battle ships ftr;. rived in this roadstead Ok the 29th ult.—the rtofa_' Albert, Centurion, and the Prinoess Royal—und a _ the command of Admiral Lord Lyons, and on the day after the lonian Government steamer, J o ni" return( d from her trip to the other islands with Excellency Sir J. Young, S.C.M.G. Lord Lyons, on landing at the St. Nicolo Gates ,° was received by a guard of honour o f th e 46 Regiment, and a salute was fired from the cital battery. On the 3d inst. Sir J. Young paid a ' 451 to the admiral on board th e fl ag -ship, and on le ts On the same even i ng Si r J. Young, Sir G. ing, the royal yard s were manned find a salute fir'" Bullets K. C. B.; general in command of the troops,. t . h t l i President of the Senate, and the senators, nth their bette r h a l ves, di ne d on b oar d . O n the u inst. his Excellency gave a ball at the palace. sj may also mention that Lord Lyons has paid sei el i . a . visits to his friend the Hellenic consul, .7„, Cavalier Vitalis, and also took dejeuner with 1 11 .":, M. Vitalis hopes to obtain leave from his Goverr d merit to extend the telegraphic cable, when 131 down from Malta to Corfu, to some part o f Gael On the 6th inst. Major-General Sir G. Buller F Ol O his cfficial visit to Lord Lyons, and o n l ea ving t",., Royal Albert saluted. The general afterwards ilw„ ieLyons to insp ec t th e f or tificatiot; c o o f m v p id a o nd .T t e r s d übsevent day n ball was given board the Royal Albert, the elite of Corfu being vited. dg A number of the ships' crew l an d e d w ith -, hours' leave, and kept th e p l ace i n a grea t stl Many are the anecdotes afloat about honest Sic tar. Three sailors di e d on b oar d s i nce being l harbour. On the 4th in s t. H . M . S . A r i e l arrived Cl°l Malta, to relieve the Swallow. The fleet is expected to sail this morning for Zante, Cephalonia, and Candia. ti g Mr, D. Acin!phus Lange the represen t a ti v e in e a coui•try of th e I st h mus of 'h Suez Catial, has just ret l ll ae London, attars'ayirg a week with M. Ferdinee ot bi-,top,, Minister PlenipotentiAry, at his chatee:eo, Endre. The party at the chateau brok- up on `fed o cep day last, an d roturne d to Paris 0 amid at, a confer e d o• e , neistiog 01 the engineers and promoters of the t'''' to be taking, who 1.1,d assembled from several co untries, tha t present at this interesting reunion . We understan d b ich very important measures have been decided net 7, 3 for will necessitate M. Ferdinand de Lesseps' depart gl Constantinople.