The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. JITLLEEN'S CONCERTS. The Last Night but Ono. Jfadlle. Jetty Treffs, Herr Deek (Primo Basso from the Grand Opera at Dresden), Signor Veroni, and M. Edouard Remenyi. The highly Successful INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HAVELOCK'S GRAND TRIUMPHAL MARCH THIS EVENING (FRIDAY, November th Compo e 27th), will be produced the New Grand Descriptive sition, by M. Jullien, entitled THE INDIAN QUADRILLE, and GENERAL HA.VELOCIt'S TRIUMPH.AL the d MARC Hrums, performed by M. Jullien's Orchestra, assisted by awl fifes of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, and the - Scots Fusilier Gua rds ; and a Grand Chorus, " Rule Britannia," and " God Save t he Queens ." U Prices o f Admission—Pro m enade, l ;Upper Eoxes, ls. ; Gallery, ls. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. dd. and upwards. rticulars, may be had at the Box. Prospec t uses , with full pa adze of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. jr MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL BAL MASQUE, MONDAY, Nov. 30. M. JULLIEN has the honour to announce that his GRAND ANNUAL BAL MASQUE will, this year, take place at Her Majesty's Theatre, on MONDAY, Nov. 30. M. Jullien's present Bal Masque will bo given with the same splendour as has been displayed in those magnificent fetes he has presented to the public on previous occasions ; fetes which have unanimously been pronounced as unsur passed in Europe. It will take place at Her Majesty's Veatre—an establishment so famous for the splendid balls which have been given within its walls under the most dis tinguished patronage. M. Jullien is determined' that this, his Nineteenth Bal Masque in England, shall equal, if not excel, any of its predecessors in brilliancy and splendour. The Orchestra will comprise 110 musicians—Conductor, M. fa The newest and most fashionable music will be played, in eluding M, Jullien's " Indian Quadrille," which has achieved such signal success during the present season, and several new Waltzes, Polkas, and Quadrilles, composed expressly by M. Jullien for his Concerts and for this occasion. 1 .;•• The dances will be regulated by 14 Maltres des Ceremonies, whose arrangements will be strictly carried out. No one will be admitted except in evening dress or 'fancy costume. This regulation will be strictly adhered to. The whole theatre wilt be ornamented with garlands and wreaths of flowers, in gold, silver, and colours. For this pur pose Messrs. Chabot and Co. ' who were charged with the decorations for the grand ball at the reception of the Empe ror Napoleon 111., Stuttgart, have been engaged at a great expense, and will arrive in England expressly to arrange, at Her Majesty's Theatre, a display, which will be seen for the first time in this country. Mr. Nathan, of Castle-street, Leicester-square, has been appointed Costumier to the Bal. Tickets for the ball, Ios. 6d. The prices of admission for spectators (for whom the audience portion of the theatre will be set apart) will be, dress circle, ss. • gallery stalls, 2s. 6d. rrivate boxes from 3/. 3s. and upwards. Persons taking private boxes will have the privilege of passing to and from the ball-room without extra charg?. Ticket for the ball, places, and private boxes, may be secured at the box-office of her Majesty's Theatre ; of the principal librarians and music sellers : and at Messrs. Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. The doors will be open at half-past 9, and the dancing com mence at half-past 10. Refreshments will be supplied during the evening by M. Epiteaux, of the Opera Colonnade, and at 1 o'clock the supper will be served. THEA.TRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MiTCH. pal characters by Messrs. Bnckstone, Compton, Chippendale, _ W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White, au Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam After which, a new farce, by. the author of Box and Cox, entitled TAKE CARE OF DOWB, in which Mr. Buckstone will sustain an original character. To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. 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 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. • LAST TWO NIGHTS OF THE TEMPEST. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by a new farce, in one act, entitled A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. rrHEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI, 33 Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE MIDDY ASHORT, Miss Marie Wilton. After which, a new romat.tic drama, called THE LEGEND OF THE HEADLESS MAN, and in which Mr. Benjamin Webster and Madame Celeste win perform. Followed by the original Apropos Sketch, entit!ed THE DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India ? Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss Eary Keeley. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under the joint management of Mies LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON. - THIS EVENING, ►ill be pe formed. BaWe's new opera, TIIE ROSE OF CA STILLE. Characters by Miss Louisa Pine, Miss Susan Pyse, Miss Marian Prescott, Mr. Weiss, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey and Miss Cuthbert. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 Hs. 6d. ; %tails, 6s. ; Dross Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 16.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.i OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. MIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original comedietta, by Sterling Coyne, Esq., called WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT BROMPTON ? Mr. Robson, drc. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert R. Brougb, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, kc. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-put Seven. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE . 'Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd anti Cressriek. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE WIFE'S RE VENGE. After which, INDIA, 1857. Messrs. Shepherd, Cres wick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Belmar°, Tapping ; Miss M. Eburne, Miss Webster, Miss Chalmers, Miss Johnstone. To conclude with UP IN THE WORLD. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of it elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, (Sze., viz. t—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madile. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, Wise Bru nell, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmane, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant. S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St. Albyn; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. CritchUeld, and E. Mack net. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Ma3ter Williams; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans, Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY —Morn. , 48 min. aft. 9 —Even. 19 min aft. 10 To-Moltiow—Morn. 38 min. aft. 10—Even. 18 min. aft. 11 WEATHER —SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 27. TRERMOMETER, IN TR& SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. ' 46—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.05—rising rapidly. WIND, N.E. ; very fresh, with fine dry sunshiny wea ther, and clear blue sky, indicating frost. v). , , ........ 1,1 (e..72;:-." - :. o ::Li,`',,,Li • tili*,, r* - ..p7.y. - :- , :.7-;... , •-t.. - .- J l'' , ( ,--4: -- A' i '` ' 31,11, ,:,'""-..,-77:;•*-,...:.,.....4.1(,` LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1857. The• community at large are at length, although somewhat tardily, becoming alive to the vast importance of the currency question. They have witnessed with dismay the wide-spread rain occa sioned by the Acts of 1819 and 1844, and al though they have hitherto permitted themselves to be bamboozled and mystified by bullionists, they are rapidly discovering the deplorable conse quences of a fettered and restricted circulating medium. • The : principles by which the monetary concerns of the nation are regulated are the same at all thim. A proper measure and representative of °laws is required to facilitate exchange, and to arable the workbag classes to convert their only . 'available capital, "labour," into something by means whereof they can supply the wants of their families. Gold has only been adopted because it a was an article generally acceptable, w hi c h repre sented a ceitain amount of accumulated labour. But there was no reason why we should not improve Thereon,' or why the nation. should be fettered by obsolete rules. LYCIIRGIIS, one of the most 'eminent legislators that ever existed, thought that the money of a State should not Possess intrinsic value ; and he devised means to deprive iron, the bullion of the day, of its mallea bility, so as to prevent its use as a commodity or article worth hoarding. PLATO—the divine kr..azo, as he was styled by his contemporaries — earnestly recommended a double currency—one fur domestic circulation, of no intrinsic value, and another for the purposes of foreign trade. And the justice and propriety of the doctrine will be admitted by every unprejudiced and disinterested person. As the Times long since admitted, there is not the slightest necessity for bullion, so far as the internal commerce of the nation is concerned. A deposit of Government securities, or the fact that the paper issues were receivable in payment of taxation or duties would be all that could be re quired. Either would ensure the purchasing power, although we have always asserted the superiority of the latter principle, inasmuch as it might, under a panic, be impossible to rea• lise the Government Seeurities, and even were it otherwise, great losses would necessarily accrue in the operation. But the visits of the tax-gatherer are, unlike those of angels, neither few nor far between. Although an unwelcome visitor, he must still be received, and anything that will satisfy his claims will be gladly accepted by the people. It is true that we have an extensive foreign trade, and that gold or silver may be required to adjust balances with other nations ; but the pre cious metals can easily be obtained at their mar• ketable value, in accordance with the invariable laws of supply and demand ; and the difficulties arising from a small premium would scarcely be worth mentioning in comparison with an exor. bitant rate of interest, and the difficulty, we might almost say impossibility, of obtaining pecu niary accommodation at any price. In a proper state of affairs, temporary loans or discount should be much cheaper than permanent investments. But at present we find that the interest of the Government funds is but 31. Gs. Sd. per cent., taking consols at 90, while the minimum rate of the Bank of England is 10 per cent., or three times that amount, for first-class paper, and nearly double that for persons of inferior prestige. We have great pleasure in commending to the calm and earnest consideration of our readers two exceedingly interesting and important documents, which will be found in another part of this day s impression. The one is the account of a meeting, at which a truly consistent and honest monetary reformer, the Rev. J. TWELLS, now rector of Gamston, gave expression to his opinions on the subject, and the other from Mr. HAMER STANSFELD, a gentleman of extraordinary ability and sound judgment. It is seven years and a half since Mr. TWELLS delivered the admirable speech, or rather lecture, referred to, but every sentence is applicable to the present state of affairs, and it would be difficult to find an address of equal ability. It clearly and distinctly points out the nature and extent of the evil, and of the suitable remedy. He puts for ward a clear, definite, and understandable object, and it would be well for the nation if it had a Mr. TWELLS in every district, equally capable of im pressing on the people the vital importance of the principles which he advocates, and the effects thereof on the welfare and prosperity of the nation. His indefatigable exertions are the more honourable, inasmuch as they are perfectly disin terested, for he would be amongst those who would be personally benefitted by the stringent ob servance of the OVERSTONE principles ; but as a high-minded and conscientious gentleman, as a Christian Minister, he felt that he owed a duty to those who only required to obtain employment, and that great desideratum to the working man, " a fair day's wages fur a fair day's work." Mr. :STANSFELD'S dialogue is also admirably calculated to promote a knowledge of the subject, and that is all which is required. Had we a dozen such men as Mr. TWBLLS and Mr. STANS- I YEILD in Parliament we feel that the question would be speedily decided, despite the specious fallacies of the Times, or the shrill squeaks of the Penny Whistles. We are very glad to hear from Lord LYONS, at Cagliari, when he has such intelligence to for ward as tiiat we received from him on Wednesday; but we should be much better pleased to hear from him at Naples. Any one could have forwarded us the Indian news. We could receive a sum mary of the contents of Indian journals and letters quite as well without an. Admiral's signa ture. One of our own Reporters, we have not the least doubt, would epitomise the news better. At Naples we want something more than a trust woithy reporter. We want a man to create his own report there, and send it to us. Nobody insults this country, and tortures our citizens at Cagliari. At Naples, two British citizens still lie in irons, untried, and denied the sight and counsel of the British Consul. All honour to the men of Newcastle. One of the prisoners is a Newcastle man, an engineer, and received his training in the factory of one of England's real aristocracy, GEORGE STEPHENSON. The workmen of the town partake of the charac ter of that illustrious man ; they will try what they can do. They are not to be put down easily. They sent just a memorial with 800 signatures of their own to Lord CLARENDON, through their , mem ber, Mr. RIDLEY. They receive a reply, cour teous enough, but cold enough also, and assuredly not such a one as MILTON would have written for CRO3IWELL. They call a public meeting, under the auspices of their Mayor, and a crowded and enthusiastic meeting it was, although held on a wretched night. Newcastle men care little about weather when a fellow-citizen's life and liberty are at the mercy of a Neapolitan tyrant, and when a British Minister seems to be nonplussed by a Royal bully. Mr. STEPHENSON'S men have learned of their master. The readers of his deeply interesting life will remember, that when in charge of the coalpit steam-engine, his manage ment of it was insulted by a boxing bully ; he challenged him at once. Friends tried to per suade him that his antagonist was certain to punish him severely, and begged him to humble himself to the terror of the neighbourhood. GEORGE was far more peaceable in - disposition than half our peace men, but he would not, accept peace at the price of insult and of humbling himself to the insulter ; he knew he had a good cause and a strong arm, and he told his friends to leave him to take care of himself. The bully would not give in—the battle came off—Geonen thrashed his man in a very few rounds,—avenged the in sult, and he and his insulter were good friends ever after. ' Newcastle men think STEPHENSON a model man, and so do we. They think Lord CLARENDON would be more worthy the name of an English man if he showed the same pluck as he did ; we quite agree with them here too. They do not wish to hurt a hair of the head of an innocent Neapolitan ; but they think that Ne tp:)1 tan arsenals' and frigates, if there be any, might be advantageously bombarded if immediate redress be not offered. For ourselves wo should think it no loss to Europe if some of those mercenary or miscreant Swiss who protect the tyrant from his subjects, and but for whom the atrocities now endured by our f ellow-citizens could not be per petrated, were exposed Whatever to a f ew o f our b oua b s h e ll s . the laws of any nation, we affirm that an Administration which refuses to a gen tleman, recognised by a foreign Gove rnmen t as its representative, the n a t ural international right to see one of his fellow-subjects lying under accusation of a crime against the State —that that administration is guilty of the grossest insult to tke foreign Government. By implication, it im putes sinister motives, and denies the respectabi lity of the agent recognised by the foreign Go vernment. Such a request would never be refused in this or any really civilised country, though the guilt of the man accused hardly admitted of doubt; but when the innocence of the accused is well known—when he has been accused ga al most technical grounds—to refuse to an accredited Consul all access to the prisoner, is, we conceive, an insult which no king in Europe but FERDINAND could offer, and which no great power, with a fleet almost alongside the Royal culprit's quays, but England, would tolerate for a moment. Can Lord PALMERSTON meet Parliament with. these men in prison ? Does he forget that he is more responsible for these two men than General HAVELOCK was for Lucknow ? The mutineers were ten times more difficult to deal with than a King of NAPLES, and certainly their temper and their cruelty were not worse than his. These men— these Englishmen—are in irons ; the irons are literally torturing their bodies, and the addi tional torture of their miserable damp dungeons, and deprivation of food, is endangering their lives and their sanity ! The case is not one which ad mits of delay and of diplomatic rules and eti quette. Health and ife will not wait on diplo matic routine. Lord PALMERSTON must act at once, or he may incur the guilt and reproach of diplo matic manslaughter. Surely, in Lord PALMER STON'S eyes, one British subject—one of his, Gives Romani—is of more value than fifty such brutes as FIRDINAND has proved himself to be. We can assure his lordship that the public is getting im patient over this case; They do not deem it a little one ; and we strongly advise him to wipe it off the list of questions which he will have t 3 answer very soon after Parliament meets. Lord LYONS is near at. hand. Lst him require the men to be placed in his custody ; let him answer for it that they shall be forthcoming at any early day named for a trial; let him await the result of the trial with his ships cleared for action (just to liberate the tongues of honest witnesses), and let him inform His MAJESTY that he will not leave the port without compensation for damages to two British prisoners while merely accused without a shadow of a pretext, and quite willing , to stand a fair trial. It is never too late to mend. We hail with satisfaction the adherence, albeit at the eleventh hour, of our contemporary, the Times, to the views which we put forward many a month since on the immeasurable superiority of screw steamers over sailing vessels, in the transmission of troops to India. So far back as July last, when the question of the expeditious conveyance of our armed forces to the East was ventilated in the Rouse of Commons, we drew the attention of our readers to the arguments brought forward by com petent authorities, of far superior weight and experience to that egregious mis-ruler of the waves, Sir Citaams WooD. It was, on that occasion, satisfactorily demonstrated that a vast difference existed between the respeotive advantages of the two modes of carriage : it being shown amongst points of contrast, that the average time taken by 98 sailing vessels was 130 days to India, whilst that of seven auxiliary steamships was but 93 days, making a difference of no less than thirty seven days —a difference of incalculable importance at such an eventful juncture. In despite, how ever, of the obvious necessity and certainty of the employment of the more modern species of navi gation, such claims were, in bis usual vein of official effrontery, ignored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, who endeavoured to support his absurd and untenable position by a monstrous hash of erroneous statistics. At that time the oracle of Printing House Square was mute, but now, not for the first time falling into our wake, it becomes suddenly awakened to a sense of the detriment involved in the negligence of the Government, and descants eloquently upon the im portant advantages that would almost certainly have accrued had our struggling handfuls in Bengal been timely reinforced through the agency of screw-steamers. It is really too bad that the fortunes of a mighty empire, and the lives of its brave defen• ders, should thus be made the sport of incapacity, perversity, and blundering. As to the misma nagement, in which Sir CaABLEs WOOD systema tically revels, we have had such frequent occasions of directing attention to the exercise of his powers of mischief at the expense of the nation, that it were needless to expatiate upon this particular in stance. We fairly confess that we never hope for any measure of public good to come out of his hands. Heaven alone knows what evils might have been averted in India, what successes secured, had the earliest military drafts been despatched by steam transport, when in spite of the incalculable emergency of the occa sion, and in defiance of grave and pressing re monstrances, sailing craft was pronounced more advisable for the purpose, and time, every hour of which was inexpressibly precious, boat to the amount of several weeks. Nor is this all. We earnestly impressed on the Government the crying expediency of •ending troops overland from Malta and the Mediter ranean—which would have saved half the time round the Cape—have averted the massacre of Cawnpore—saved the precious lives of many gal lant men, besides enormous sums of money. But our warning was unheeded until now, when it is just too late. It is now sought to throw the chief burden of blame upon the shoulders of the East India directors. It is said that they have been " the partisans of that method of marine loco motion which best accords with their antique traditions." We do not seek to excuse or extenuate ,their conduct. Far other wise I We are delighted that it has even at the very last hour been duly appreciated, and that there is at length a prospect of getting rid of the anomalous double Government, which, in 1853, we exhibited in its true light. The theory was—lndia for the Civil Service, and the "old ladies" of Leadenhall-street ; and the nation will no longer submit to such "fictions." It was echoed by the 'Times, from ourselves, •" the type of obstruction and circumlocution, has had its day, and must now give way to something better suited to the present time, and to actual wants." It would be impossible for Ministers to continue the obnoxious system without incurring the censure of the entire com munity. But they themselves cannot be consi dered free from blame. They permitted one of the most hopeless imbeciles that ever presided over a public department to act on the red-tapist theory, and to delay the assistance that was so urgently required. He was a worthy co:bdjutor of the East India Company; and, if thy are to he summarily dismissed, it would be well if the Yorkshire Baronet, and Mr. Satin; of Cannon Row, were included in the same categc'ry. Lon I and Lady John Scott have left the Clarendon for islxineham Paddox, Leicestershire. B ACID ED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The Siamese Arohas sad ore w ill be present at the opening consort of the se:!uso n at Exeter Hall this evening. THE SUN;_ LONDON, FRIDAY EVMTIING, NOVEIVIBEIV 27, 1557. LATEST NEWS. ............r.....41111•1•...../§... THE INDIAN MUTINIES. THE BOMBAY MAIL. TRIESTE, Nov. 26. The steamer Bombay arrived here this morn ing at' 6 a.m. from Alexandria, bringing the fol lowing despatch : ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 21. The India and China mails leave this morning, with dates from Calcutta to Oct. 23 ; Bombay, Nov. 3 ; Hong Kong, Oct. 16. The column under Col. Greathed reached Agra on the 10th of Oct., when it was suddenly attacked by a large body of mutineers. The enemy was repulsed with immense slaughter. The column was on iti way to Lucknow, where it was expected to arrive about the 30th Oct. - - - Lucknow was safe. - - The divisions under Outram and Havelock were both in the Residency. Reinforcements of 2,000 men, it was supposed, would reach them from Cawnpore about the 24th. Col. Wilson had attacked and defeated the re bels at Bithoor on the 181 of Oct. Gen. Penny' was in command of the Delhi garrison. Brigadier Showers was settling the neighbour ing districts. Part of the 32d Bengal Infantry had mutinied at Deoghur, and had murdered one of the officers and two civilians. O❑ the 15th of Oct3ber two regiments. of the Kotah Contingent had mutinied and had murdered the' Political Agent. Rajah [ltewah 7] continued faithful. Eighteen men of the Bombay Grenadiers were executed at Ahmedabad on the 26th of Oct. for plotting an insurrection. The Madras Presidency was 'trangnil, A great depot of Europeans was to be formed at Barrackpore. At Calcutta operations in the produce-market were moderate. There was but little improvement in imports. The tightness in the money-market still con tinued. Four per Cent. Loan was at 24 dis. Exchange, 2s. 21d. for documents. At Bombay the import-market was expected to improve. Higher rates of interest were an ticipated. Government securities continued de pressed. Exchange at Hong Kong, ss. ; Shanghai, 7th of Oct., Os. 9d. The Simla arrived at Saez this morning with specie valued at 300,0001. The missing portion of the mails per Emea was picked up by the Madras, from Bombay, at the entrance of the Gulf of Suez. The King of Delhi is to be tried by a military commission. Two more of his sons have been taken and shot. The rebels surrounding Lucknow are said to amount to 50,000 men. Troops are daily arriving, from England, and by the end of November there will be 100,000 British troops in India. Of the Bengal native army only two regiments, the 31st, at Saugor, and the 73d, at Joulpore, have not mutinied. DEPARTURE OF LORD REDOLIFFE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 18. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe has quitted the capital en route for England. Ten battalions have been concentrated on the Danube, in the direction of Widdin. Redschid Pacha has fqwarded to the Repre sentatives of the dffferent Powers a memorandum, in which he claims from foreign chips an addi tional due for the maintenance of lighthouses. Against this demand the Embassies protest. FRANCE. REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF DISCOUNT PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The rates of the -Bank of France, which were 7i per cent. to 8,9, period of maturity, per cent. For the r ha a na i vd s e el / at oop-ned per h yc e e bn l et e. l Eta t h e putc i o n s rd t bi n . a according r kt o o m o tnhe 0 future, therefore, they will be 7 per cent. for bills not having more tha n 30 days to run, 8 per cent. Ever since the advance horn 71 1 p e r cent. the applications, it is understood, have greatly diminis, fboertwtheoense6uon and 60 90 ys and 9 per cent. for those days. and the bullion, which has lately taken a favourable turn, continues to augment. This intelligence has created numerous demands for every sort of security, and at the present moment prices are very firm. Dupin, Imperial P rocureur -General al The Moniteur con tai ns the 'following announce ment :—" M. at the Court of Cassation, has taken, at the Palace of the Tuilerie 3 , the oath prescribed by the Consti tution, in presence of their Excellencies the Minister of State and the Minister of Justice." A note has been addressed by the Porte to the Powers that signed the Treaty of Paris, intimating that, in consequence of the state of the Danubian Principalities, it may become necessary to move a. body of troops to the Danube. The Plenipotentiaries met to-day in conference for the ratification of the treaty on the limitation of the Bessarabian frontier. The ratification, how ever, did not take place. The Conference will meet again for that purpose. A marked coldness exists at this moment between the French Government and the Court of Rome. MM. Goudchaux and Carnet, for Paris, and M. Henon, for Lyons, are about to publish a brief ad dress to the effect that the state of the law on the oaths to he taken by deputies will prevent them from taking their seats in the Legislative Corps, M. Henon also refused to take the oaths in 1852. BOURSE, Nov. 26..—The following were the la,s , quotations Cash. fr. 4i per Ceuta 3 per Cents - 67 40 Bank Shares 2998 75 Credit Foncier 532 50 Credit Mobilier 760 Boman Do. Account. Austrian - Belgian 4i Fiedmontese (5) BB Home Debt End of month. —fr. RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. Ir. e. -- - Orleans 1285 Midi .. . ............... Northern - Western ............... 640 New Ditto — Strasburg ,... 637 LO Lyons and Med B3l 25 Grand Central ...... G 03 — Now Ditto... - -- Geneva 602 50 Austrian Com. 6581 _ .IT c. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 24. The recent concentration of Turkish troops on the right bank of the Danube has given rise to so many reports that it may be well to give the following reliable informat on which has been received on the subject. The Porte, being aware that there is a violent political ferment in all those pro vinces which are inhabited by people of Rournanic and Eclavonic origin, has considered it necessary to place troops en echelon , between Silistria and Widin. The report that the Turkish Govern ment has communicated to the great Powers its resolve to occupy Wallachia and Moldavia if there should be any disturbances in those provinces is incorrect, but it is probable that it has inquired what steps are to be taken if excesses on the yart of the revolutionary faction should ren der intervention necessary. The statement of the Nord, that there is a secret understand ing between the Austrian Government and the Radicals in the Danubian Principalities greatly amuses the Vienna diplomatists, who well know that the Imperial Cabinet has never ceased to reproach the Porte fur having permitted such a host of poli tical i efugees to return to Moldavia and Wallachia. Tire assertion that the Austrian commanders in Tran sylvania and in the Serviau Banat have received orders to cross the frontiers if there should be any disturbances in the Danubian Principalities is also pure invention. This Government, which ardently desires that the conditions of the-Treaty of March 30 should be fulfilled to the letter, is not likely to forget that its 27th Article runs thus "If the in ternal repose of the Principalities should be menaced or compromised, the Sublime Porte will come to an agreement with (s'emterdra a rec)the other contracting Powers respecting the measures to be taken for main taining or re-establishing legal order. An armed intervention cannot take place without a previous agreement between the Powers." Unfortunately, some of the Articles•in the Treaty of Paris are very loosely worded, but it is impossible to mistake the sense of the foregoing. According to private a dvices from Belgrade considerable moral pressure was employed by France and Russia before Prince Alexander of Servia consented to commute the sen tence of death passed upon the conspirators into imprisonment for life. The French and Russian Consuls-General at Belgrade assured their superiors at Coustantinope that the execution of the Sena tors would be a violation of the Constitutio pro claimed at Belgrade on the 24th of February, 1839, and therefore the Porte was worried and teazed until it consented to desire the Hospodar to spare the lives of the men who had plotted against him and his Government. Prince Alexander probably received a hint of what was doing at Constanti nople, for he had commuted the sentence of the conspirators before the instructions of the Porte reached Belgrade. Accounts from St. Petersburg represent that a litrona feeling is springing up among the Russian landholders b against the emancipation of the serfs, and that the Czar, who is understood to be firmly bent on it, will find difficulties he is at present little prepared for. AUSTRALIA. (From the Sydney Empire of Sept. 10.) Our gold-fields are progressing steadily, except in localities where the floods have interfered with the operations of the digger. No new discoveries have been made, but the yield has been main tained. A gentleman from Adelong called upon us yesterday with specimens of the quartz from that plate. Ha describes the quartz reef as being more than two miles long, and richly impregnated with gold throughout. He says that Belman's party had excavated at the time he left upwards of 100 tons of quartz of an average richness with the specimens he pro duced, every piece of which was interfused with the precious metal. The loose washing stuff ob tained alongside of the reef yielded about 16 oz. to the cart-load. The population at our diggings still remains re markably orderly, though a deep conviction is ge nerally felt that the mining interest has been little cared for by the Government. About the middle of July a mob of some 50 or 60 miners, at tho Buckland diggings, within the colony of Victoria, but close to our own border, after meeting to consider the matter, forcibly ex pelledthe Chinese, numbering many hundreds, from the ground: It was estimated that property be longing to the Chinese of the value of 8,000/. to 10,0001. was destroyed. The tents wore all burned, and considerable violence used in the expulsion. Pursuant to a despatch from the Secretary of State, the coinage of the Sydney Miut " was pro claimed by Sir Henry Barkly a legal tender in Vic toria on the 20th July. Public meetings have been held at Bathurst and other towns in the Western interior t 3 petition for a better means of communication across the Blue Mountains. The road has been nearly destroyed by the long-continued heavy rains. AMERICA. SOUTH A.MPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The United States steamer Arago, Capt. Lines, has arrived off Cowes with New York advices to the 14th inst. She brings 91 passengers, 17,000 dole. in specie, 50 tierces rice, and 6,400 bushels of wheat. The Arabia, from Liverpool, arrived out on the 13th. A despatch from Washington of the 13th an nounces that despatches had that day been received by the State Department from Chief Justice Echols, of Utah, dated at " Camp o❑ Sweet Water, 21 miles east of South Pass, Oct. the 13th, 1857." JUdge Echols says— " An express has just arrived from Green River, and reports that on the night of the sth of October a train of 2t wagons was captured by the Mormons 25 miles from the Pacific spring. At the same time two other trains were taken near Green River, in all 78 waggons and loading. The Mormons said they had 700 men there, - and 1,500 wore at Salt Lake City. Colonel Alex ander is encamped at Hams Fort, 30 miles in advance of the front train, which is destroyed. He sent Captain Marcy with 400 men back to Green River, to enable the teamsters to collect their cattle. The Mormons killed no one, for the reason that no resistance was made. Colonel Smith will collect the trains on this side, and escort them forward. One train is now before us and two behind. We are in good spirits, and that is a great help to all. The Mormons will likely attack us in a day or two, and may rue their impudence. We have 47 men in this command, but Colonel Smith is a host within himself. We have determined, if attacked, t, use the rifles in the lines. We shall most likely take the route on Bear River for Salt Lsk• City. The want of forage for our mules is the greatest hind rance, but we will go on if we have to walk and carry our provisions." The above despatch, showing the first overt act of the Mormon treason, was immediately laid be fore the President of the United States, who sum moned the members of the Cabinet for consultation upon its contents. The intelligence was considered in Cabinet meeting in the afternoon, but no defi nite action was determined. The Secretary of War thinks it would be hopeless to send reinforcements or supplies so late in the season as this. Despatches are anxiously looked for from Col. Johnson, who is in command of the army for Utah. The Govern ment officers do not fully credit the report received from Judge Echols. Financial matters at New York still showed symptoms of progressive improvement. The Herald of the 14th, in its review of the pre vious day's money ; market, says : " The arrival of the steamship A.rabia at this port from Liverpool, with seven days' later advices, at an early hour this morning gave quite an impetus to the stock market. The movement was unusually active, and in almost every instances an important improvement was realized. The bulls appear to be in fine feather just now, but we fear they will not realise much of the ad vance in market value. Small holders of stocks outside the streets may take advantage of their inflation and sell their supplies, but the large boldera in the streets cannot do this. They being the regulators of the market must hold on and buy more to sustain prices, and in this -way they are likely to get filled up with stocks at high prices. At present, however, things look bright for the bulls, and they operate with a great deal of spirit. " At the first BJard to-day Missouri Sixes advanced I per cent. ; California Sevens,. 18754 ; Erie Threepenny Mortgage Bonds, 4; Haarlem First Mortgage Bonds, 1; Michigan Southern Sinking Fund, 2 ' • Illinois Central Railroad, 6 ; Dela ware and Hudson, 4 ; CuMberland, 1 ; New York Cen tral Railroad, 2 ; Er i e, ; Reading, 14 ; Michigan Central Railroad, 4 ; Crosse and Mil waukie, 1 ; Michigan Southern, old, 1 ; ditto, Preferred, 1 ; Panama, 2 ; Illinois Central Railroad, 4 ; Galena, and Chicago, 2 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 11 ; Chicago and Rock Island, 1/. Pacific steamship Company de clined 4 per cent. In State stocks, Railroad bonds, Railroad stocks, and Coal stocks there were very heavy transactions, principally for cash. The movement in Cumberland coal continues, but the advance in prices to-day was not fully sustained to the- close. All the Western Railroad stocks were in demand to-day at the improvement in market value, and the aggregate opera tions were equal to almost any day during the prevalence of a speculative excitement in the street. The great difficulty is the absence of outsiders. The bulls' of the Stick Exchange have the entire load to carry, and prices ,have become so inflated that the burden is already op pressive. Notwithstanding the abundance of money, at the second board a further advance was realised, and the market closed firm at our quotations. • Missouri Sixes improved 1 per cent. ; Il inois Central Made, 4 ; Erie Third Mortgage, 1 ; Delaware and Hudsen, 1 ; Penn sylvania Coal, 1 ; Reading, 1 ; New York Central R railroad, 1; Haarlem, 4; Michigan Southern,. Old, ; St. Crosse and Milwaukie, 1 ; Panama, 4 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 11 ; Chicago and. Roek Island, t. There was considerable- activity this afternoon in railroad stocks, and the operations on time comprise but a very few lots. It is a most extraordinary feature of the market that so large a portion of the transactions is for cash, This shows great abundance of money, and it also shows that very few outsiders are among the operators. "The notes of the Manufacturers' Bank at Man chester, Connecticut, were thrown out to-day by the Metropolitan Bask," The working men's demonstrations at New York ware dwindling away to nwhing and the majority of those assembled seemed to attend merely for the purpose of enjoying the fun created by the eccen• tricities of Madame Ranke. Toe Collins steamship Adriatic went to sea on ton 13th on a trial trip. A gentleman who was on board of her 12 hours reports her performance as exceedingly satisfactory. She was positively to le we for Liverpool on the 21st inst. The s'e imer Isabel had arrived at Charleston with advices from Havannah to the 10th, out they contained no news of interest. Etiaphatic just: notions had been sent south from Washington, with a view, if possible, to intercept General Walker and his party. The Navy Depart ment expresses a confidence that the Filibusters will be intercepted. Accounts from Kansas state that Messrs. Moore, Calhoun, and others propose to submit to the peo ple of the territory a sort of double-headed conAi tution, o: -e with and one without slavery.. Other aczounts state that the Pro-Slavery clause, which received only four dissentient votes, would alone be submitted for ratification, so that no chance would be given to reject the constitution. It was expected the Convention would adjourn on the 7th inst. The news received by the Arabia had the effect of checking sales of cotton ; the light stock, how ever, induced holders not to press sales, and is one case for a respectable time a buyer offered to take it at a half cent decline, which was refused ; the moderate receipts and light stock of breadstuffs also tended to prevent a decline to correspond with a depression of prices in Liverpool. Flour, with moderate sales, closed at a decline of about sc. to 10c. per barrel, and common and medium grades of wheat also fell off 2c. to 3c. per bushel, while prime was scarce and sales limited. Corn was easier, with sales of Western mixed at 76c. to 78c. Pork was quiet, with small sales of mess at $l9 75c. Sugars were in fair demand. Coffee was quiet and prizes unchanged; freights were steady, with moderate engagements at full prices. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13. Stocks firm. Pennsylvania State Fives, 81i ; Reading Railroad, 19i ; Morris Canal, 38 ; Long Island Railroad, 9_ . ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 361. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 13. Cotton sales to-day 1,000 bales, mostly in the forenoon. The Arabia's news was worse than ex pected, but factors refused to give way to any ma terial extent. Sales of the week, 40,500 bales ; receipts of the week, 39,500 bales; stock, 318,000 bales. The receipts up to the present time at this port as compared with those of last year fall short 159,500 bales ; ditto at all southern ports, 286,000. Sugar buoyant, at 51c. to 54. Molasses, 22c. Pork dull. Lard, kegs, 13c. MOBILE, Nov. 13. Cotton declined ; sales to-day 300 bales ; receipts, 9,000 bales. CHARLESTON, Nov, 13. Cotton—Prices have declined, jc. to 4 c. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, Nov. 13. Cotton sales to-day 1,000 bales. Late in the day prices declined lc., owing to the receipt of the Arabia's advices. BUFFALO, Nov. 13. Flour unchanged. Sales 800 barrels, at $4 81c. for extra Wisconsin, and $5 to $5 25c. for extra Ohio and Michigan. Wheat lower ' • sales ;' 50,000 bushels at 79c. for Chicago spring, 85c. for Canada club, 97c. for prime red Indiana. Corn firm. Sales, 12,000 at 61c. Oats, sales 7,000 bushels at 35e. Whiskey sales, 100 barrels at 19&c. per gallon, Freights, 16c. for wheat to New York. OSWEGO, Nowt, Nov. 13. -Flour steady ; sales, 1,000 barrels at $54 to $75 for common to. extra. State wheat firm ; sa!es, 25,000 bushels, at 66c. Freights unchanged. Lake imports to-day, 31,000 bushels wheat, 17,000 bushels corn, 3,000 bushels barley, 5,000 bushels oats. Canal exports-6,000 barrels flour, 45,000 bushels wheat, 12,000 bushels corn. CHICAGO, Nov. 13. Flour active ; wheat declined 2c. • corn firm ; oats steady. Shipments to Buffalo 400 brls. flour, 34,000 bushels of wheat. Shipments to Oswego — no flour ; 28,000 bushels of wheat • receipts, 2,600 barrels o flour, 93,000 bushels of wheat, 10,500 bushels of corn. LETTS'S DIARIES FOR 1858. Prompt as ever, Messrs. Letts's are out already with their beautiful and correct diaries for the com ing year, 1858. We are almost bewildered at the boundless variety displayed in every form, with ruled pages to suit all inquirers. Here we have Diaries for ladies, clergymen, physicians, solicitors, the Army, Navy, merchants, tradesmen, me chanics, and, in short, for everybody who wishes to note time as it goes. Messrs. Letts deserve praise and profit too. THE EXPECTED OVERLAND INDIA MAILS. Assuming that the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's fast mail packet Vectis left Malta with the overland mails on Tuesday afternoon, she will reach Marseilles this morning (Friday) in t me for the mails to leave by the ten o'clock train. In that case they will leave Paris by special train at six o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) morning, and by special mail packet from Boulogne to Dover, and special train from Dover to London ; the mails will arrive in time to be distributed iu London by the six p.m. delivery, and the country portions to he dispatched to their destination by the evening mail trains. TRE EMEU'S MAILS. The missing mails of the steamship Emeu, from Australia, have arrived at Suez, and will be brought to Marseilles and Southampton by the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental. Steam Navigation Company. A telegraphic despatch received by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company from the Austrian Lloyd's says :—" The Madras on the 18th init. picked up the Admiralty agent, purser, two passengers; and 110 boxes of mails per Eweu. Mails loave here for Marseilles per, Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats ; 42 first-class passengers, specie 299,380/. Dates, Sydney, Oct. 11. Ex change on England, 1 to 3 per cent. premium." Intelligence has also,been received of the arrival of the Simla at Suez from Sydney, &c., with another Australian mail, which, with those from India and China, will probably reach Loudon on Saturday and be delivered in the afternoon. The Austt alien steamer Emeu struck on a coral rock, projecting 15 miles from the shore, at a place called Dunerda,bb, on the western coast of the Red Sea. The danger of the Emeu was so great that, by the advice o every one on board, Capt. Gough, the Admiralty agent on board, had all the mail boxes containing letters placed in an Arab boat, and took them to Jeddah on the opposite coast. While there he wrote a letter to be given to the c tp tain of any of the Indian mail packets passing down the Red Sea, requesting him to call at Jeddah and take him and the mails to Suez. This letter he sent to the commander of the Emeu. The Emeu, to the surprise of every one on board, was got under weigh, and proceeded on to Suoz. She was overtaken by the India mail steamer Hindostan, and the commanderof the latter received Capt. Gough's let ter. The Hindostan imme diately turned round, and steer d for Jeddah. When she arrived off there it was found that Capt. Gough, tired of waiting for assistance, had started in a native boat for Suez. This was on the Ist instant. The commander of the Hindostan searched for Captain Gough along the Red Sea for upwards of 70 miles, but could not find him. This, however, is easily accounted for. The eastern shore of the Red Sea is liued with coral rock. The native boat with the mails would skirt along the shore inside the reefs, not only because it was safer for a small boat than mid-channel, but because the Arab crows of such boats land every night to sleep ; but the Hindostan was obliged to keep more in mid-chan nel to avoid the coral reefs. Jeddah is between 600 and 700 miles from Suez. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—THIIRSDAT. A very thin attendance, and only the following bets laid:— CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 10 agst St. Giles (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Dulcamara (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Wrestler (taken) 1000 to 10 apt Bashi Bazoak (taken) THE SIAMESE AMBASSADORS.—WINDSOR, Thursday. —The Siamese Ambassadors and suite arrived at Wind sor at 25 minutes past 6 o'clock yesterday evening by the Great Western Railway. Three of the Royal car riages being is waiting, the Royal visitors and attend ants were conveyed to the Round Tower of Windsor Castle, where a suite ot magnificent apartments had been prepared for them. The Ambassadors had the honour of dining with the Queen, and slept in the tower, and this morning, after taking leave of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, left for town by the 11.20 train. Cheriff Achruet, the Envoy from the Sultan of Mocha, who arrived at Southampton on Monday, left that town yesterday by the 11.30 a.m. train for London. He was to be met at the Waterloo-bridge station by a gentleman deputed for that purpose by the Ottoman Ambassador. Among the presents for, her Majesty brought by the Cheriff was a large and beautiful shell surmounted with gold ornaments. He had a number of documents formed of some curious material, which was covered with apparently Arabic writing. The documents were each, about the eiz3 of a man's band. He stopped at the Dock Hotel during his sojourn at Southampton, but be would not touch wines or spirits there. His mode of r s alutation was graceful and pri nce ly, an d in conversa tionm his features were at play with t rue Arab mobility. SOUTHAMPTON, Th u raday. —The Spanish screw ste a m er Barcelona, Captain Argento, sailed to-day for Hamburg, from which place she will return in time to leave this on the 17th proximo for the Spanish ports. She took out about 50 passenger=, among whom are the officers and crew of th e paddlewheel steamer Germania, on their return to Bremen, the vessel having been sold to Mr. Marks, of Greenwich, for 4,5501., for the purpose of being broken up. SUDDEN DEATII IN THE CITY.-0a Wednesday after noon a remarkalve instance of sudden death occurred in the City. Mr. L3ggatt, printeeller, of the firm of Leg gatt, Hayward, and Leggatt, in Cornhill, suddenly dropped down in the street, not far from his own door, from an apoplectic seizure, and almost immediately ex pired. He was carred by the bystanders into the shop of Messrs. M'Cabe, but almost before medical attendance could arrive, life was extinct. The deceased, who resided at Brixt in, and had left home that morning in the best of health, was upwards of 60 years of age, and was well known as one of the most resp ectable tradesmen in the City of London. He has left a large family to lament his loss. MEDICAL INVALID AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Hixteenth annual general meeting of this society was held yesterday, at the offices, 25, Pall-mall. Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. presided. The following report from the directors was unani. mously adopted : "During the year now reported on (being the sixteenth of the society's business) a larger number of proposals has been received than in any previous similar period; 1,517 proposals for assuranceslhave been made for sums amount ing t0'770,272/., of which number 1,207 have been com pleted, and policies issued assuring 570,2831., producing an addition to the annual income by new premiums of not less than 2:3,015/. Os. 2d. "This statement will bear favourable comparison with Ito preceding five years, as will Appear by the following figures Sums assured. Ann. prems. 1853... 922 policies for £402,178, yielding 16,934 7 3 1854...1,119 „ „ 534,188 „ 22,758 0 0 1865...1,129 „ „ 538,084 „ 22,606 9 6 1856...1,137 „ „ 556,70 „ 24,051 19 10 1857...1,207 „ „ 570,282 , 23,015 0 2 "It is proper to state that the chief source of the in crease in new policies has been in the Home District ; the business in India having received a check from the terrible calamities which have visited that country. Had the average amount of Indian Assurances been effected during the two last months of the year, a much larger amount of new business would have been realised than in any previ oni year. _ _ _ "The result of the year's business, as compared with that of previous years, will be seen by the following state ment, viz. : 1855. 1856. 1857. £ £ Sums proposed for Asssnr anco Sums assured by Now Poli- cies __ 538,084 ... 556,709 ... 570,282 Annual Premium on New Policies 22,603 ... 24,051 23,015 No. of Policies in Force 5,355 ... 5,738 6,255 Annual Income from Pre- miums Total Annual Income Claims by Death (less sums cross assured) 39,897 ... 56,380 ... 48,350 Accumulated Funds 159,055 ... 193,429 ... 232,479 "The accumulated capital is carefully invested in Go vernment, real, and other approved securities; the direc• tors having long since discontinued the practice of advancing money on personal securities. " The mortality experienced during the twelvemonth under review has been much less than that which the cal culations had atticipated. When it is borne in mind that this society takes a large number of climate and die• eased risks, it is highly satisfactory to see that the mor• tality is not in excess of the general mortality of England and Wales. "Until the latter months of the past officislyear the increase of the business in India had been uninterrupted ; the horrible catastrophe of the recent mutinies and mur ders there have exposed many valuable lives to danger; and although the society cannot fail to lose many of those who are assured, it is consolatory to learn by most re cent intelligence received in this country, as appears by the report of the Calcutta Ward, dated in September last, that up to that time only eight claims had beenn - wades amounting to 8,9001." Sir T. PHILLIPS said the meeting ought not to, ape rate without returning their thanks to the Board of Directors in India, for the manner in which they had conducted the aff airs of the society there, under very difficult and trying circumstances. They had shown a firmness and discretion in the discharge of their &titles amid the almost paralysing influences that surrounded them, which had contributed greatly to support and strengthen the affairs of the society there, and -whick could not be too highly praised. He accordingly moved i that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Indi' directors. Dr. DUNLAP seconded the motion, which was then put and carried unanimously. _ . It was proposed and carried, without opposition, that George Gun Hay, Riq., and Benjami n Phillips, EP l ri P F.R.S., the retiring directors, and J. S. Taylor, Escl.o and Joseph Whitehouse, Esq., the retiring auditors, be re-elected. Mr. THOS. STEVENSON then moved a vote of thanks to the A uditors, who he said had done their duty properly and fairly to the society, by going so strictly and search• ingly through the accounts as to render it almost impossible that ariy portion of their funds could be improperly dealt with or mismanaged. Lieut.-Colonel TIY. • DOVETON having seconded the motion, it was carried unanimously. Mr. JOHN S. TAYLOR re tuned thanks on behalf of himself and brother auditors, and expressed a hop* that they would continue to merit the approbation of he society by ,the same earnest discharge of their duties. Mr. T. COATEs moved that the thanks of the society be given to the directors for the vigilance with which they had watched over it affairs, and the almost success that had attended th eir efforts. They ha uni d f done orm nothing rashly, bat ha d acted so theasto in r cr en ea d s e t r ogiyp pr r o o : sperity of the socie t y steadil y an d gressive. Mr. J. S. STREETER seconded the motion, and, in so doing, observed that, though both officers and directors had had a most arduous task during the past six month., be was glad to find that-the success of the past year had been so considerable.. The motion having been put and carried, together with a vote of thanks to the chairman, Mr. B. PHILLIPS returned thanks for the directors and himself, and assured the meeting that the Board would always use its utmost exertions to maintain a nd justify the confidence which the society had for so long a period placed in them. Mr. R. C. GRIFFITH proposed, and Mr. THOMAg STEVENSON seconded a vote of thanks to the Secretary, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. SINGER returned thanks. A vote of thanks to the secretary in India concluded the proceedings, and the meeting separated. . . THE WRECK OF' THE SCREW STEAMER DURHAM. --"A further despatch received at Lloyd's mentions that this vessel, already reported as having gone on shore near Audiene, while on her voyage from Africa to London, has entirely broken up ; and that the cargo is scattered about, and very little of it expected to be saved. THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.—A sharp frost set is on Wednesday evening, and costieued up to last night, the ground being covered with hoar frost in the morning* Snow fell for the first time on the Northumberla nd coast on the day previous. Large flocks of wild: gees° have passed over Yorkshire to the south during the last few days. THE VALUE OF AN ENGRAVED PLATlL—Yesterd a yr at a public sale of the productions of the fine arts, by Mr. Lewis, at his auction-rooms, Fleet-street, the steel plate of her Majesty Opening the Great Exhibition, painted by H. C. Setons, engraved by Benn, and the engraving of which cost 2,5001., sold at 511. We (Scotsman) understand that Dr. Robert Lee has received her Majesty's most gracious commands to pub. lish the sermon preached by him before the Court in Crathie Church in October last. The subject of the discourse is, " The Care of the Body a Christian Duty,' and we have no doubt that it will be found amply de- serving of the honour which the royal hearer has mica fit to confer upon it. The Northumberland and Durham Distriet Bank did not make the slightest communication yesterday to their London agents. Up to Wednesday afternoon the dig. honour of their draughts here does not seem to have been generally known at Newcastle, and the offices of the bank are understood to have been. kept open as usual. The idea of any possible restora tion of the concern seems to be considered wholly out of the question, and the prevalent opinion As to the state of affairs that will be disclosed when ever a thorough investigation is made is very diacourar ing. Apparently, however, no doubt need be enter tained as to the ultimate liquidation of all claims, many wealthy persons being included in the proprietary.: .Still, it seems that out of the total number of about 400 no less than 112 are unmarried women and widows. Like the Western of Scotland, the bank had been in difficul ties before, and bad received large aid from the• Bank of England in 1847. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.-- INQuEST.—An inquest was held yesterday at the Wel. lington Arms, near the South - Western Railway Statios on the body of Ann Boscawen, aged 19. The deceased, who was the daughte r of a coachman residing is Chenies-mews, Bedford-square, had been in service as a housemaid at the West-end, but bad left her place on Saturday week without the knowledge of her family. The same evening she took a bedroom at, the house of Mrs. Turner, No. 2, Charlotte-street, Waterlon;!road, and the nest evening went out, saying that she was going to meet her husband. She returned • with a gentleman who stayed the night, and on the following Tuesday came again and took lodgings for himself and the deceased. He left the next morning, an dj,. e the middle of the-day the.deceased complained of htadache . The gentleman slept there three nights, On , SS -13 ",/ gentlemanoshneMondayia iB sheed o became n P medicine pains iwnotrhsee, for h a e na her e ra an fsr d uorm c g h e e oa s n t elw s e ifl arnaiot t :i procured for, when she died in hi s pr e s en ce. The surgeon , id there was nothing in the medicine she had taken which could have caused her death. The incineifi 9155 aturned, in order to learn the result of a post mar' tern examination. Yesterday morning a fire took p l ace il l the Pr!' mises belonging to Mr. G. Gallienne, a cutler, N o ' Goswell-street. It commenced from some slik°,''t; cause in the front shop, and rapidly extende dthe pariourffl, and was working its way up the stairs fore the inmates could be aroused ; how ever, they 00. managed to effect a safe retreat. The stock in trade fit; destroyed, and the building partially consumed. I."‘ loss will fall on the Sun Fire-office, The aciPingit, prerni.es, belonging to Mr. Eastniatres, are also sauc damaged. A fire also took place on the premises-of, Dir, G. Mill, bac .n-dryer, Plough - yard, Seething - la ne, Towel street, City, which nearly burnt the lofts out. IP G RA ND FOOT-BALL MATCH BETWEEN TRIO TT/ S SITIES OF CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD.--TEE PBIN OS Or %VALES PRESENT.--A match was played iei tel-Sl O l (Thursday) at Eton CAlege between the ottLEtosis°ll,ll the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. ' A 1t1P ., ° „73. the weather was most unfavourable, it did not Pr e ' • the match coming off. After a hard fight and 001 0 txcelleot play on both sides, Cambridge won by Or b % rouges to nothing. The Prince of Wales, despit e t o rain, enjoyed the pleasure of witnessing the gam sec )mpanied by General Buckley and Mr. Gibbs. OBTAINING A SITUATION BY A FALSE CsanAcTlit., A young woman nam e d Elizabeth Balls was char y; yesterday, at Bow-street police-office, with using o f f '" tbe character to get an engagement in the service 19_0. Countess of Malinesbury. Mr. Henry to ld the pr isoner she had render e d herself liable to a fin e of three months' imprisonment, but his worship reatana°' her fur further investigation.