The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Two Extra Performances only, at Reduced. Prices, on Friday, September IS, and Saturday, September 19. with piceolomini, Spezia, Ortolani, Giuglini, V iolet t i, Boesi, Beneventano, and Belletti, when will be presented LA TRAVIATA and IL DON GIOVANNI. PRICES : Boxes to accommodate four persons, Grand Tier, Pit Tier, and One Pair £ 2 2 0 Two Pair 1 1 0 0 15 0 Three Pair Pit sails 0 10 6 Pit ... . 0 3 - 6 Gallery Stalls 0 3 6 Gallery THEATP,E ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. MIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with the new and greatly success:nl original Comedy, entitled VICTIMS in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William . Farren, Miss Reynolds, Miss Emma King, &e., will appear. After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke. 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 2 0 Pit 1 0 Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. --. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— ITALIAN OPERAS, at the usual PRINCESS THEATRE PRICES, THREE NIGHTS ONLY. _ THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, last night but one of IL TROVATJRE, Grisi, Alboni, Mario, Dragon° ; Friday, positively the last appearance of Madame Gassier, in LA SONNAMBULA. ; and Saturday, positively the last night of Grisi, Alboni, Mario, Dragon, and all the eminent artistes, In IL TROVATORE. _ _ _ Prices :-Is., 25., 45., ss. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Madame Grisi ; Azucena, Madame Alboni ; Inez, bldlle. Baillon • II Conte di Luna, Sig. Dragone ; Fernando, Sig. Kinni ; Sig. Balm' ; Zingare, Sig. Pierini ; Messo, Sig. Annoni; and Manrico, Sig. Mario. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREEN BUSHES. Mr. B. Webster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Madame Celeste. Followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSEY. Mr. Wright, P. Bedford, Mary Keeley, &e. To coaclude with SLASHER AND CRASHER. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. F. Robson and Emden. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of THE LIGHTHOUSE. After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, sad Mr. G. Murray. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob. son, Colke, Danvers, dm ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, CIIRISTY'S MINSTRELS will appear. After which, will be performed THE SURPRISE, in which Messrs. W. Smith, T. Robertson, Butler, and Miss E. Webster, will appear. With other attractive novelties. A E,TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage oilier Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Complete and unexampled Success of the Grand Oriental Spectacle of EL HYDER, Mr, Wm. Cooke announces with great satisfaction another Triumph. The intensely interest ing an 1 thrilling Equestrian and Dramatic situations with which this splendid Hippodrama abounds have been nightly received with increased delight and enthusiasm. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the entertainments will commence with the Grand Equestrian and Oriental Spec tacle, in 2 Acts, entitled EL HYDER; or, THE CHIEF OF THE GHAUT MOUNTAINS. El Hyder, Mr, James Hol loway, Introducing Mr. W. Cooke's magnificently Trained Horses. After which an unapproachably brilliant series of Mr, Cooke's inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA, sup. ported by the popular and talented Artistes of the establish , meut, including Madlle„ Milllos, To' conclude with Sliakspe ar's kATHARINE AND PETR JCHIO, with Equestrian Illustrations. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking; Pit, 21. ; Gallery, l.s. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Half-price at half-past Eight. Bo.: office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing co.apany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance el Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glee 4, Duets, &c., : Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. Falmyre, Miss E. Scott, bliss Brunell, Mrs. Le Jenne, Miss Leslie, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Far rant, S. low', J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An. tonio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St. Allayn ; Master Corri ; Messrs Sam. Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock preAsely. Sap. perm, until twelve o'clock a HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ins DAY—Morn., 15 min. aft. I—Even., 36 min. aft. 1 To-MORROW---Morn., 57 min. aft. I—Even., 14 min aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 6:1--highest since noon yesterday. s':—lowest this morning and during the night lowest for a long time. 63 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.60. WTND, S.W. ; fresh, with dull, rainy weather. It rained all night, and there was a hail shower yesterday afternoon. 1.11 , Al;11 LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1857. Parliament has been prorogued, and the mem bers of both houses are already dispersed far and wide in pursuit of health or amusement, " by mountain, lake, or sea." This is as it should be. Thou who have faithfully discharged the arduous and important duties confided to their hands are well entitled to the full enjoyment of the cus tomary holiday. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and our legislative Jacks form no exception to the general rule. They must recruit their exhausted energies, that they may be fully prepared tc enter on the next campaign with renovated strength and vigour. Many of their number have, however, with praiseworthy for bearance, remained ready to respond to the first summons, and to resume their labours whenever the exigencies of the public service may demand the exertion. It is only when Parliament is sit ting that they can be really useful, and so long as they can be called together at a brief notice, they have done all that can reasonably be expected at their hands. But something more may justly be required from members of the Government. These -are perilous times, and they should be ready at any moment to deliberate on the intelligence received, and to advise on the proceedings that should be taken without unnecessary delay. We find, how ever, that at the Cabinet Council, on Monday, b_nt seven o u t o f th e fift een mem bers of the - 3 a•hihet were in attendance, viz.:—Lord PAL 34Elt""s Earl GRANVILLE, Sir GEORGE GREY, Lord p "mraz, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Itight HOTI. R. VERNON SMITH, and the Right Hon. AL T. Bl iNts. Of that number four im mediately afterwards left town, so that at present there are but three Cabinet Ministers at their posts, and that durin g a crisi s of almost unpa rallelod interest, whEn the fate of our ludiar. Empire remains in suspense, and when we are shothed by the melancholy accounts of the murders, with every possible aggravation, o f o m bretE reu and sisters at the seat of the war. It is but justice to Lord PALMERSTON to say ' that he remains close at hand. He has only gon e to the family seat in Hertfordshire, whence he may return to town within a few hours. He, at least, will not postpone the calls of duty to plea- Sure. Whenever the honour or the interests of the nation require it, he will be at his'post. He well knarf a that the public look to him, rather than tr., Mr. VERNON SMITE, for prompt decision and energetic action. He is naturally the head of every department, and that of India is at pre sent incomparably the , most important. It is that conviction that has carried him, notwith standing heavy drawbacks, so triumphantly s u N, 0 D 0 TIIURSDAY VE N Yrkl . Titl , f*T‘l ir — pi c't c; ve.3 ' I I • through the Session, that gave him such a de cided and unequivocal majority on the recent ap peal to the country. We look to him stilt, not merely to control and direct his colleagues, but to act in any and every department where his services may be required. His presence gives confidence to the nation, which would be sorely tried if he were to withdraw to any considerable distance from bhe metropolis. That he is not insensible to the magnitude of the emergency will be discovered not only from the large reinforce ments already despatched to the scene of action, but from the fact announced in the military intel- ligence communicated in another column, that eleven more regiments—four cavalry and seven infantry—have received orders for India, and may be expected shortly to embark. It is to be regretted that the Court is so far from the metropolis. GOD forbid that our Most Gracious SOVEREIGN' should be debarred from any relaxation that may conduce to her enjoyment or advantage. But it is not on her account solely that the journey to Bal moral is undertaken, and that one of ,the principal Secretaries of State is obliged to attend in a re mote part of Scotland. It is that the PRINCE CONSORT may indulge in deer stalking and grouse shooting, on which he was so intent that a single day would not be spared in order that the British SavEumuNmight pay the usual compliment to the co-ordinate branches of the Legislature of pro roguing Parliament, and delivering the validictory address in person. It was only on the morning of Friday that the Royal party departed from London, and six hours later the Royal Speech was read by the Commissioners I We should readily spare Prince ALBERT. We should willingly relieve him from all the political duties in which he engages, but it is too bad that, under the present peculiar cir cumstances of the case, great, and, very possibly, untoward delays, may be oc casioned by the absence of the Court from the vicinity of the metropolis. We have already had enough of COBURG interference during the late Russian war, not merely of the Panrcz CONSORT himself, .but of " Uncle LEOPOLD," and the Germanic element. It would be well if Indian aflairs were exempted from these sinister influences. We recently alluded to the remarks made at a memorable Trinity House banquet, that " the British Constitution was on its trial." It is so at the present moment ; but it is not the Parliamentary element that is now involved. Parliament has done everything that. could be an ticipated. It has armed Ministers with all the power and authority that were demanded. And, if these powers were net sufficiently ample, they have only themselves to blame for the omission. The nation expects that every person will do his or her duty, and if there be any shortcoming, strict accounts must be rendered of the causes thereof. At all events, the members of the Cabinet must be ready, at any and every moment, for the performance of their important functions, rn which the welfare and happiness of 150,000,000 of her MAJESTY'S subjects so greatly depend ! It would appear thSt though slowly, yet surely, the ministers of justice are surrounding the never to be forgiven miscreants at Delhi. Towards the North and North West they have no chance. The vigorous administrator Sir JOIIN LAWRENCE, a man only second, if second to his lamented brother at Lucknow, keeps the Punjaub well in hand ; even the Sealcote mutineers were promptly met and routed, and VAN CORTLANDT leaves the rebels little apace or rest on that side of Delhi. Lord EL2HINSTONE also informs us that Sir JOLIN LAWRENCE is rapidly organizing levies to the amount of 35,000 men from the Sikhs and Pun jaub tribes who have no other care for the high caste Sepoys than to attack them as soon as they can, and extract the pilfered gold mohurs from their pockets. Thus, with the considerable num ber of British soldiers already in the North-West, and with the new levies of the right stamp, Delhi will soon be hard pressed on that side. On the North there is at present but our small besieging army, which, small as it is in compari son with the army within the walls of the town, yet firmly holds its ground, will not be outflanked by the vastly more numerous enemy, but quickly repulses all attacks with great slaughter of the assailants. This small force, keeping guard, as it were, over the monster, now waits patiently the descent of reinforcements from the Punjaub on one side, and the advance of General HAVELOCK, and the gradual arrival of the reinforcements from China and England on the other—the south-east side. We trust that HAVELOCK was enabled both to relieve Lucknow, and turning back again to march to the relief of Agra, whose garrison and numerous Earopeans, now shut up in the fort, reported, it is true, to be sufficiently spacious and well provisioned, may yet soon begin to see their supplies failing them. We trust, indeed, this will not be the case. The anxiety to meet the enemy at some dis tance from the fort probably arose from the wish not merely to save, if possible, the cantonment, but to avert an attack on the fort itself, after so many women and civilians had sought shelter within it. It would appear that the necessity for retreat and apparent defeat was entirely due to the loss of their ammunition by the blowing up of the tumbrils ; it became evident, however, imme diately after with whom the real:victory lay, since the enemy did not venture near the fort, but though they had marched out of the direct road from Neemuch and Nusseerabad to come to Agra at all, they turned aside and marched for the grand centre of the conspiracy, Delhi. For some distance South of Delhi ttle country seems to be pretty freely traversed by the mutineers, but Indore and the adjacent stations, and all the Deccan south of the Nerbudda appears ,to be se curely occupied and hell by us ; the risings hav ing been everywhere suppressed and the rebels driven out. Of course every part of the country occupied by the late Bengal Army will be liable for a time to be infested by predatory and savage bauditA, composed of the scattered sepoys, but they do not appear likely to make head against any number of our troops, except in the district a little east and south of Dellal. To this district, therefore, the efforts of all appear to be converging, and though we must probably wait some months yet before either Sir JOHN L4WI;ENCE'S levies in tho Punjaub, or the reinforcements now arriving at Calcutta, and at Kurrachee t)o, will be able to' act with effect, yet that time must come, and then the doom of the Mahommedan Sodom and Go morrah is sealed. Delhi will soon then be uncu red With the cities whose sites are but curiosities for th e trust, Wilantiquary, and its very stones, we l be carried far down the stream, to found another c it y , to be known by to h.. another nam e , or o e r x t extend future ernporium of thew ci Ara estflu a ialt s ffie ra the . It seems beyond doubt now that the infernal atrocities practised on our women especially were not mere cruelty, but cruelty and defiance of Europeans combined. These wretches intended, by their unheard of villanies towards our females ; to cast away their scabbard and proclaim ureter:. cileable war between the Mussulman and the Englishman, between the Sepoy and his late master. Nothing do Asiatics guard Er jealously as the honour of their own women, no insult can they offer to each other or to us equal to that of degrading the f&imale sex. They cannot plead ignorance here. They do not wish to plead it. Their fiendlike boast is, that come what my, they have dishonoured at Delhi the beautiful girls of England. But lives there an Englishman who will not spend his last sovereign, were it necessary, to wipe out in the blood of these wretches, and the utter destruction of the city the stain on our national honour ! A satisfaction must be taken, the memory of which shall outlive the memory of the insult and the crime, or at least be for ever told of with it as the terrific atonement. The name of Delhi that once was, must, for all future ages, be the epithet for un heard of atrocities avenged by unheard of severity of justice. Delhi retribution must mean a retri bution at which the ears of Oriental shall tingle for all time to come. This is the first great act our troops have to perform. We loath the mawkish cant which can whine about mercy for the dishonours, the maimers, and the murderers of our women, and the torturers of innocent children. We hold such language t) be unworthy of men. Bankside can give such effeminate creatures a lesson. We be lieve that GOD and man alike demand that such heathenism and Mahommedanism, such licentious and wanton savagery, should be extirpated from the face of the earth. If these are the lustful and bloody orgies appropriated to the defence of Ma; hommedanism, the sooner we relegate its disciples to their own paradise of black-eyed Houris, the better. Bad as earth may be, it is too good for them. The fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian mutiny is progressing, and we hope and believe that it will prove alike worthy of the British nation and the cause for which it is re quired. Fearful, indeed, have been the miseries endured and the losses sustained by those sufferers. Many parents and providers have been cut off in the pride of health and strength, leaving widows and orphans in a state of comparative destitution. Many helpless children have lost both parents under the most deplorable and heartrending cir cumstances. Many of the survivors have been deprived of all their resources, and left almost naked and penniless, too happy that their lives and honours were preserved. If ever there was a cause that appealed irresistibly to British sympathy and British liberality, it is the one advocated at the Maniion-house meeting, and the demand will be promptly and. fully re sponded to. - The good work goes bravely on. A high minded lady has headed the list with the splendid donation of 1,0001. May she long enjoy the am ple means which she applies to such noble pur poses. Others too, have aided in proportion to their resources. Even " the widow's mite " has not been withheld. Count PERSIGNY has exhi bited his kindly feeling, by the handsome gift of 1004 ; and sundry other subscriptions to a similar amount have been recorded. To those who have not yet had the opportunity of rendering assistance, we emphatically say " go ye, and do likewise." Do honour to yourselyes by proving that you know the proper use of the abundant means with which you are endowed. It is not, however, merely the wealthy that should assist. The shillings of the millions are more productive than the pounds of the upper ten thousand. There are few indeed who cannot spare something for such a cause. The cutting off some luxury or even comfort, the sustaining some petty privation will enable them to contri- I bute, and the more urgent their own calls, the more acceptable will be the gift. It is a national question that should be answered by the community without exception. The old proverb " bis dat cjui cito dat " should bo strongly borne in mind. Every man should give not only liberally, but promptly. The exigencies of the sufferers demand immediate aid, and what comes slowly will be of compara tively trivial benefit. At present the affair is but in its first stage ; but surely the bril liant example sot by Lady FORBES, MISS ASIIBUENEIL, and their coadjutors, will not be lost on those who have the power and op portunity of acting in a similar manner. We earnestly commend "the case to the general con sideration to which it is so pre-eminently entitled. Something may, of course, be expected from Par liament but that must be long deferred, and the necessities of the case are already peculiarly urgent. Let the nation now do its duty, and Parliament and the East India Company will not be wanting when the proper time has arrived. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR AND BREAK WATER. HOLYHEAD, SEPT. 2. A grand operation took place to-day at noon in presence of the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty and Mr. Hawkshaw, the Admiralty Engineer. Height of quarry face, 172 feet ; length of ditto, 150 feet ; grip, 60 feet ; charge of powder, 11,000 lbs. ; power of galvanic battery, 40 cells ; result of operation, 70,000 tons of the hardest quartz rock. Engineering operations conducted by Mr. Charles Rigby in person, assisted by Mr. Reitheimer, the resident engineer of the contractors. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Prin cess Royal and the youthful members of the Royal Family, are expected to honour the Highland Gathering at Braemar to-day by their presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and suite have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland has arrived at Downham, Suffolk, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wm. Po wlett. The Earl and Connteis De La Warr, and Lady Ara bella Saokville West have left Backhurst Park, Sussex, for Ingeetre Hall, Staffordshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Talbot. t The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers have arrived at Drummond Castle, Perthshire, on a visit to Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, from Mr. Baillie Cochrane's seat in Lanarkshire. Lord and Lady Foley leave town to-Jay for Worksop Manor, Notts ' for the autumn. Lord and Lady John Russell and the Misses Russell are still staying with the Earl of Minto, at Minto House, Hawick, N. 8., where a large family circle have assembled. Lady Georgiana Ramilly and family have arrived at Eudeleigh Cottage, the Duke of Bedford's romantic seat near Tavistock. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have arrived at Spa. The Earl and Countess of Malinesbury are staying at his lordship's shooting-box at Achnacarry, in the High lands. The nebie earl and countess have been enter taining a select circle. His Excellency Ciunt Crepto. wich has been among the guests. The Earl of ‘Vestmorland returned to town last week from Cowes, Isle of Wight. The countess and Lady Rosa Fane returned a few days since from a tour in Swi:z3rland. The noble earl and countess have glne to Apthnrpe hlull, Northamptonshire, for the autumn. The Countess Cowper and family have arrived at Pan shanger, Herts, from Roseneath, Argyleshire, the Duke of Argyil's seat, which the countess has been occupying for a short time. Lady Charles Somerset as returned to town from Windsor. Sir Joseph and Lady Charlotte Copley have just re turned to their seat iu Yorkshire from a tour in the United States. S:r Charles and Lady Cecilia Des Vseex will.leave town this week for Leamington Spa, where Sir Charles Las purchased a mansion. LORD HARRY VANE AND THE PEERAGE.—The Gates head Observer gives a curious reason fur Lord Harry Vane declining a peerage, that his lordship was unwil ling to plunge his constituents into the turmoil of au election. THE DOKE OF WELLINGTON'S SAECOPIIAGUS.—The Duke of Wellington's sarcophagus, which has been in hand upwards of two y(ars, in Luxulyan, is now nearly finished. MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—(This Day.) The election for the county of Middlesex, rendered necessary in consequence of the elevation of Lord Robert Grosvenor to the House of Peers under the title of Lord Ebury, took place this morning at Brentford. The proceedings were of the dullest description, which was to be attributed partly to there being no contest, and partly to the inauspicious state of the weather. Mr. Sheriff Mechi and Mr. Sheriff Keates, accom panied by the Under -Sheriffs, Messrs. Crotley and Anderton, were punctual in their attendance, and when the proceedings commenced at ten o'clock there were not a dczen persons on the hustings, which were erected in the Market-square, including the officials. The great body of the free and independent electors were repre sented by a about 50 navigators and labourers, who were obliged to take refuge from the ra;n that descended in torrents, under the door-ways and projecting windows of the antiquated houses in the neighbourhood. Mr. Under-Sheriff CuosLsY opened the business with the usual proclamation of Oh, yes !" desiring all per sons int=rested in the proceedings " to draw near and give their attendance," which was responded to by a couple of urchins, who braved the pitiless storm, and advanced to the barriers erected to keep off "the pres sure from without ;" but, on a mysterious signal given by one of the policemen In attendance, they beat a sud den retreat, and the open space in front of the hustings I was left in quiet possession of the force. A long pause ensued after the formal opening of the business, anl the arrivals were few and far between. At 20 minutes past 10 o'clock an open carriage drawn by four greys with outriders, drove up in front of the hustings, when the hon. Mr. Byng, the candidate, ac companied by several of his younger members of the family, and Sir W. Stirling, alighted and took up a po sition assigned them on the buitings. The cheerless state of the weather had so damped the ardour of the assembled few that they were only able to welcome the hon. gentleman with a faint cheer. Mr. HANBURY, the other member for the county, was present. LATEST NE IV S; AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELE )RAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, TIIIIRSDAY MORNING. The United States mail steamer Fulton has just arrived off Cowes, with advices from New York to the 22d ult. (being two days later), and $lOO,OOO ill specie. The Jason, screw steamer, from Southampton; arrived at Now York on the 21st. The New York money market was active, but prices for railroads stocks were still downward. The market for cotton closed firm and at full prices. Flour was dull and irregular, some de scriptions closing at a further decline of about 56e. per barrel. Wheat heavy, for common and ordinary ; while prime was unchanged. Corn was in good request. Sugars without change of prices. Sales of coffee embraced 900 bags of Rio at 11ic. Rather more doing in freights, espe cially to Liverpool and London. lence to change his detiaation, •which was Tunis, and proceed to Ponza and Sapri ; and that, conse quently, it was not surprising that the Sardinian police should have been deceived. As a proof of its good faith, the Cabinet of Turin assures the Neapo litan Government that for the future a more rigid surveillance shall be exerciFed, and promises to give the Government of Naples information of any facts which may come out during the political trials now going on at Genoa, which may in any way in terest the secu►iry of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and requests that the Neapolitan Go vernment will make a similar c)mmunication should anything transpire during the trial before the Court of Salerno calculated to throw light on the events which have lately taken place in Pied mont. No trace of any bitterness of expression is to be found in any of the notes exchanged. As far as regards England, no note whatever has been sent. The consul at Naples has confined himself to recommending his countrymen who were on board the Cagliari to the attention of the Neapoli tan Government, without in any way wishing to impede the free course of justice and throw any difficulties in the way of the investigations which may lead to the discovery of the hand which directed the criminal enterprise of Sapri.'' The usual ceremonies having been gone through, Mr. Sheriff MEont then came forward and asked the elect)rs to propose a gentleman -to represent them- in Parliament. , . Mr. MONTGOMERY, after referring 'to the last election whiCh took place a few months sines, said he had then the honour ofproposing to them Lord B. Grosvenor as their representative. Stipp then that gentleman had been , elevated to the peerage, and he looked upon it as a matter of great satisfaction, because it showed, to a certain extent her Majesty approved of their choice. A. more honest and consciencious member than Lori Ebury never represented the county, and he hoped he waull make such conduct as apparent iu the House of Lords as he had in the House of Com - - mons. At the last election they selected a gentleman as Lord Ebury's colleague who was considered competent to represent the great commercial community of the county, and when this vacancy arose it was thought by those who took an active part in public matters connected with the county, that they should seek a gentleman to supply it who was connected with the county by property, family, l and station, and of liberal politico, and from the comparatively few of such there were in the county, they had no difficulty in fixing upon the Hon. George Byng, of Wrotham Park. (Cheers.) He was a gentleman who had bad some experience in Par liament, and was conversant with most of the topics of , the present day. Although he was a young man, his efforts in the House of Commons had been very success ful, and he was spoken of by every one as a man of rising talent and of independence of character that en titled him to the consideration of the electors of Middle sex. (Hear, hear.) The z honourable gentleman' then stated that Mr. ,tyng was prepared to support Parliamentary reform, 'vote by ballot, Church reform, Army, and a reform in the Civil Service department.' (Hear, bear.) He (Mr. Montgomery) was for severing the Church from.the State entirely—(hear, hear)--and for the equalising tb.e payment of the ministers of the Church Establishment;so as to raise the incomes of those who now ,worked hard and were ill paid, by bringing down the revenues of the pluralists and those who enjoyed large patronage. (Hear, hear.) The ; only objection he had heard to Mr: Byng was that sated by a morning newspaper, that by, electing him they would then have, with their other member, two bop to represent them. Their present representative_ was a man 35 years of age, with a wife and family—(laughter) —and if he was not old enough for amember,of,Parlia ment he did not know who was. Mr. Byng was 28 years of age. Ho was a gentleman who. had taken high honours at College, and had successfolly represented a small constituency for five years, which he (Hr. Mont gomery) considered a sufficient guarantee of his capa bility, to satisfactorily represent the county of Middlepex (Heat, ) d ear.) lie concluded by moving the election of the Hon. G. Byeg. (Cheers.) Mr. R. MILLS seconded the nomination of Mr. Byng. Ho was a gentleman who brought with him an honour able name, andafragrance that was justly esteemed by the electorzt of Middlesex, and he felt certain that if they elected that gentleman their representative that he would transmit that name with equal honours to succeeding generations. (Hear, hear.) They were not called on to take'an untried gentleman. Mr. Byng had represented Tavistock for five years, and during that time he had recorded his vote in favour of the abolition of of church-rates, vote by ballot, the abolition of Jewish disabilities, and an extension of the suffrage, which showed his attachment to the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and on those grounds he cordially recommended bin; to the support of the electors. (Hear.) A. reform of the House of Commons was rendered necessary, and if they sent Mr. Byng to Parliament -as their representative, they would send a gentleman there who was i n dependent in station and mind, and who, instead of taking his cue from the Minister of the day would tell him what were the wants and expectations of the people of Middlesex, and maintain their interests in the House of Commons ? (Hear, hear,) What was wanted in a reform of ParliaMent was the extinction of nomination boroughs and a large extension of the suffrage, both of which Mr. Byng was ready to Support. (Hear, hear.) Adverting to the unfortuate affairs in India the honourable gentleman said, that undoubtedly a great change must take place in the administration of the Government of India which must devolve on the Home Government, but care must be taken that the great patronage it would give a Government should not be need Eis a means of corrupting both Houses of Parliament, disastrous to the liberties of the peop'e. (Elear, hear.) The only way to prevent it was by in creasing the franchise by the admission of men of intel:i gence to its participation. (Hear, hear.) No other candidate being proposed, Mr. Sheriff MEM declared the Hon. G. Byng duly eleoted a knight of the shire to represent the County •f Middlesex in the present Parliament. The Hon. G. BYNG then came forward and addressed the people at some length on the important and interest ing topics of the day. He commenced by stating that he appeared before them to a-k their support with mingled feelings of heartfelt pride, and, he trusted, also with a not -unbecoming humility—with heartfelt pride, because be felt glad that the same name and the same lib ral principles were as acceptable to the electors of Middlesex in 1857 as they were upwards of a nentury ago, when his great grand rather first stood for-thecaunly- ; and be appeared Were theib with feelings- of humility because he felt that the varied interests of a groat county like Middlesex demanded, in its representative, talents far higher and superior to any he could venture to boast for himself. At 'the same time, having been elected their member, he begged to assure them that be was not ignorant of what duties he was thereby called on to perform, and he assured them that, .so far as his health and strength would permit, he freely dedicated his time and such talents and abilicies. as he possessed to the full and conscientious; discharge of those duties. (Cheers.) These were no' .days of hOliday legislation, for there would be subject to be discus s ed in the next session of Parliament of vital ' interest both at home and abroad. The hon. member then adverted to the events in India, to our foreign P iliey, to Parliamentary. reform, as well as vote by ballot, the removal of the Jewish disabilities, re lief from church-rates, and one or two other subjects of interest, in terms similar to those expressed by him at the various meetings he addresed in the county prior to the day of election, and which ao net now re quire repetition. He said that during the five years he had been in Parliament he bad voted for the ballot, and for the admission of Jews into Parliament, and he should continue to do so, and so long as he had a seat in Par • iia:nent he should give his support to all measures of a liberal character. On the motion of lir. Hanbury, M.P., seconded by i Mr. Byng, M.P., a vote of thanks was given to the she riff, which Mr. Sheriff Meciai briefly acknowledged, and the proceedings terminated. According to a Parliamentary paper published yester day the totals of gold shipped from Australia during the ear 1856 were 138,007/. from New 'S ,uth Walee, and 12,015,2241. from Victoria. Ot the latter 10,809,6521. was sent to England, 774,4961.' to India and China, 429,716/. to Sydney, Adelaide, and Tasmania, and 1,3001. to America. The largest shipment . ; were made ip January, March, April, August, and , December ; and the smallest in July and November. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Debats again recurs to the violent spirit manifested by some of the London papers relative to Delhi, and once more expresses the opinion that the anxiety expressed for the utter destruction of that extensive city will (lie away, acc r ling as the insurrection approaches its termination. At the sane time, the Debats ex presses its utter detestation of the acts which have thrown so terrible a shade on the character of the natives of India, and declares that motives of hu manity alone induce it to raise its voice against the extrdme course recommended by the London papers refereed to : "As to us," says our contemporary, " in face of the spectacle presented in India, unexampled as it is for cruelty on the dne side, and for energy and peraeverance on the other, our sentiments can not be for a moment doubtful. Even were Eng land not our ally—even should we gain something by her misfortunes, we could not behold without tic nor and without pity a civilised nation enveloped in a .barbarous war, exposed to such disasters as were, no doubt, familia r t o an ti qu ity an d t o th e middle ages, but of which humanity seemed t I have lost the remembrance. What, then, must be our feelings, if we are convinced—as assuredly we are to the utmo,t extent—that these evils cannot lead to any good, either for our own country or for the rest of the world, and that the interest of civilisa tion commands us to desire their cessation I" The Gazette de France also expresses itself in energe'ic language sgainst the terrible chastisement which has been proposed for Delhi, and points to the fact that all the continental journals of high standing have prottsted against the cry of ven geance which has been raised. BOURSE, Sept. 2.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. 0. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 66 85 67 Bank Shares 2,775 Credit Fonder -- Credit Mobilier 920 Roman 1 — Do. Account 920 Austrian - Belgian 4i } — Spanish Threes - Piedmontese (5) B9 75 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. tr. c. tr' c. Orleans 1,440 Western Northern Lyons and Med 835 New Ditto 7 — New Ditto 875 Grand Central - Geneva - Midi THE CAMP AT CHALONS. A correspondent of the Independance of Brussels gives the following details of the camp at Chalons : " The inhabitants of the country flock to this spot to admire the wonderful metamorphosis which has been effected here. Dry and barren plains which before were the image of desolation are now all life and animation. In a few. days whole villages have been constructed. Huts in planks for kitcheni, for officers' mess-rooms, for canteens, stables, &c., extended from the Petit Mourmelon towards the Grand ' St. Hilaire. It is towards Rheims that the most curious park of the camp is placed. The railway station is situated in that quar ter. Piles for a bridge across the Grand Mourmelon have already been driven. On leaving the station; and in advancing into the camp, a large slaughter house is seen, where from 25 to 30-oxen are killed every day, and the cmsunaption will soon mate rially increase, A number of live animals, suffi cient for five-or six -days, are always kept in re serve. The skins of the slaughtered animals are sold in Paris, and the fat is sent to Strasbourg. The part of the establishment which will be visited with great interest by tourists is the bakehouse, where a great number of field ovens may be seen in operation. They are formed by exctvations made in the ground, lined with plates of cast iron, covered at the top with sheet iron, and over that with sand. In the front is a square hole, formed of brickwork, through which the l , )aves are introduced. The bread baited in this way is ex cellent. Next come the storehouses for cononial produce, for forage, for different kinds of camp equipage, and other articles, and at the end of the whole is the park of artillery. Near this spot, and just across the rivulet of the Mourmelon, are stationed three brigades of cavalry, and in the rear of them the infantry, whole quarters extend in the direction of the village of the Grand St. Hi laire. Opposite, in the interior of the camp and across the Roman road, are placed the staff and the Imperial headquarters, with the pavilion of the Emperor. On either side of the pavilion, whic't is painted blue and white, in imitation of striped cloth, are two- pretty chalets, and in the rear a small clump of fir trees. The Imperial pavilion cainmands a view of the whole camp and neigh bourhood Restaurants, cafes, and shops of all kinds have already been established on the slopes between Livry and Sonain, running in fact along the whole length of the camp. The Grand Mour melon is full of dealers, who offer for sale bed-=, tables, kitchen utensils, and books, among which the works of Paul de Kock and PigaultLebrun predominate. Magnificent frte3 are talked of dur ing the sojourn of the Emperor. His ntjesty has invited Marshals Pelissier, Canrobert, Bosquet, and Baraguay d'llilliers to come and pass some days at the camp. Mgr. Morlot, Archb.shop of Paris, who is to perform a solemn mass at the camp on Sunday, will reside at Rheims." HUNGARY. The portion of Hungary which the Emperor of Austria is now visiting is mostly inhabited by people of the Sclavonic origin, and professing the Protestant religion. It was expected that these people, who it was erroneously supposed were wounded in their national feelings, and in their religious faitb, would give the sovereign a less cordial reception than he had met with -from the Magyars. Such, however, has not proved the Case, for the ovations which the Emperor receives at the foot of the Carpathians are not less enthusi astic than those which hailed him on the banks of the Danube and of the Theiss. Private letters state that at reutscliau, Mikolez, and Kaschau, where the Emperor is expected in a day or two, the preparations made for his reception are most mag= nificent. At Kaschau ' iu particular, the influx of strangers is so great that the town is uncomfortably crowded. _ _ The Emperor of Austria, who left. Presburg on the 27th ult. by railway to continue his journey iri Hungary, bad a narrow escape, at Hobulkut, the locomotive ran off the rails with such violence that one of the wheels broke and the whole train was ',dragged off the rails and stuck fast in the ground. After some delay his Majesty resumed his journey, and in the evening reached Bolasso-Gyarmath. ITALY. - A letter from Naples, in the Gazette de Lyon gives some particulars of the termination of the differences between Piedmont and the Two S'cilies on the subject of the capture of the Cagliari steamer :—" It has betn stated that notes had been addressed to the Neapolitan Government by the Cabinets of London and Turin, protesting against the detention and trial of British and Sa di nian subjects who were onboard the, Cagliari, either as passengers or as composing her crew, and that a rupture had taken place between the Cabinets o Turin and' Naples. All this is incorrect. The truth is, that the Court 'of Nap'ma assumed the in itiative by addressing - a note to the Piedmaitese Government, complaining that an expedition against the safety of the kingdom of the Two should Nave been organised without the knowledge of the police, or, what would ba still worse, with the connivance of the Government. This note was written in .a very dignified and firm style. The Cabinet •of Turin, in its reply, did not assume the attitude of arrogance which has been attri buted to it by certain journals ; its note, on the Contrary, was written in a tone of great mode ration and in a spirit of conciliation. The Sardi nian minister endeavours to justify his government from the charge of connivance. He stated that the captain'of the Cagliari was the victim of an infa mous scheme, and that he was compelled by vio- NICARAGUA. The following is a translation of an address issued by Don Patricio Rivas to his countrymen on the occasion of his retiring from the Presidentship of the Republic of Nicaragua, and printed by order of that government : _ _ Leon, Juue 24 , 1857 Nicaraguans, —I this day withdraw from the Presi dentship of the Republic, which will be vested in Generals Senor Jerez and Senor Martinez. They are resolved, in the t xerci: , e of the supreme power, to conciliate parties, to maintain the dignity of the nation, and to cause the political and civil guarantees of the people of Nicaragua to be re.pected. Let all unite in good faith, rally round the new governors, and lend them that co-operation and assistance which each may be able to afford. titi In the abdication of my office was proposed to me, I resigned without a moment's hesitation. "If civi' war continues," I said to myself, "it will bring deaola tion upon one of the finest States of Central America. This consideration appals me. I perceive how much better it will be if I cease to command than insist on the fulfilment of the convention of the 12th Sept., 1856. To be the cause of a renewed conflict I dread more than death. Impartial history will determine whether the acts of my Government had other objects in view tbar, the welfare of Nicaragua. With tranquility I await this judgment of my conduct." Fellow-citizens,--You have witnessed the days of bit terness I experienced during my administration. I have shrunk from no sacrifice to save the independence of the country, and to rescue it from the stormy sea of anarchy. To the many citizens who have with me participated in these sacrifices I offer my most heartfelt thanks. Fellow-countrymen,—More than two-thirds of my life have passed, and to the end of the few days that yet re main to me the privacy of domestic life is my only aspi ration. M. heart, however, will always be with Nica ragua, and with my last breath I will pray to hr a ven for her happiness. PATRICIO RIVAS, TUB RED SEA TELEGRAPH.. Mr. John Marahman, Chairman of the Red Sea Telegraph Company, writes the Editor of the Times as follows : Sir,—ln reference to your City Article in the issue of yesterday, on the subject of the Red Sea Telegraph, I beg to submit to you the following brief obseryatione• There is no time for rivalry. Circumstances are too serious for such trifling. Though the scheme of the Red Sea Telegraph was submitted to the pu bli c more than a twelvemonth b e f ore th e E up h rates V a lley line, which has received th e p a t ronage o f t h e T ree ury, yet when the intelligence from India became morejapPilil l4 by each succeeding mail, and th e cr i s i s more imam nent, we proposed for the consideration of the 00 ' vernment the construction of an alternate line' In our late letter to the Chairman of the East India Company we said :—" Without reference to any w ring s ; n en's which have been already made on the subject of telegraphic communication with India by her MajeetY s Government and the Hon. the Court of Directors, and repudiating any intention of interfering with them, or d diverting its support from the scheme to which it has been granted, we feel confident that the present (mew gency justifies us in asking the Hon. Court to consider the propriety of encouraging an alternate line, which is capable of being immediately carried out." W e have thus anticipated th e very j u di c i ous remar k s wide' e you have made this day :—" A better course to meet the difficulty seems, however, to present itself. If both lines are practicable both should be completed, and eac h should be encouraged to compete with the other to see how soon the first link can be realized." The two lines are, therefore, not antagonistic, but subsidiary to the all-important object of establishing telegraphic O M ; munication with I n di a a t th e ear li est practicable logic"' For our own part, we have done all in our power to obviate the dange r t o w hi c h you a ll u d e when you ear " Between conflicting schemes there seems a pro babiliti that the Indian t e l egra ph w hi c h oug h t to b e com pleted in six months, will e ith er f a il a l toget h er or b e d e layed until the greatest need for it is passed." The salient point on which the objection to the Be a Sea line has been based is the existence of coral reefs' Sir F. Beaufort, late bydrographer to the Admiralty', and Mr. Bright, the engineer of the Atlantic Tele' graph, have effectually disposed of that objection. Th e coral reefs, moreover, have been surveyed, and their position ascertained and most accurately laid down I ? v y. the late . Capt Mor es by i n hi s a d m i re b c h ar t of ti 4 Red Sea, and it is intended that our submarine cabl e shall be placed beyond the reefs. As to Mr. Andrews' remark about " the exceetli° s irregularity of the b o tt om, i n consequence o f which tue line would in ma n y pl aces b e unavo id a bl y suspe nded across submarine chasms and on sharp rocky edger F i rl s which it would speedily chafe through bythe force of id own weight," the s t a t emen t res t s on no exper i enc e a° , no survey, and is therefore as gratuitous as Mr. Andrew' s other assertion, that Pharoah's chariot wheels were made of gold. I will not intrude further on your patience than t e o state that the only object of the Red Sea Telegrall Company is to a ss i s t i n supp l y i ng t h e great w ant c t the day—communication with India at the pros* awful emergency a t th e ear li est pract i ca bl e per i o d. ` to should rejoice to fi n d th a t a vigorous effort was ma de lay down both line s concurrent)y. The national . terests would, we think, justify the encouragement °oto double line. As to th e suppor t we may ex p e ct fr Government, there ca n b e no d ou bt th a t it w ill be gil d not as a concession to i m p or t una t e su it ors , b u t in " rt , *spirit of a just app rec i a ti on o f t h e paramoun t itoF i c to ance of this undert a ki ng a t th e presen t t i me , and he such an extent a n d on suc h t erms as s h a ll sec ure y confidence of the public. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 20th ult. publishes a telegraphic despatch from the embassador at Rome, announcing that on the Bth Sept. the Holy Father will do the embassy the signal honour of consecra ting the monument erected in its palace to com memorate the proclamation of the mystery of the Immaculate Conception as a dogma of the Roman Catholic church. The Espana, a semi official authority, po,itively denies, "on informa tion obtained from the best sources," that any secret treaty exists between the United States and Mexico. Whit has given rise to the rumour f the existence of one is, it says, that an understand ing exists between some American and Cuban filibusters ; but it declares that the projects of those parties " may be regarded with contempt." The new scheme of public instruction had been definitively drawn up, and was about to be sub mitted to the Queen. The recent census shows the population of Spain to amount to 16,340,500 souls. According to a letter from Berlin of the 30th ult., the arrangements for the great military movements which are about to take place will have to be modified, owing to ophthalmic com plaints having broken out in the garrisons of Berlin and Potsdam, and appearing on the increase. Prince Frederic Willian of Prussia, according to a letter from Berlin, after his marriage with the Princess Royal of England will reside during the summer at Breslau, and will have in the provinces of Silesia and Prussia 'the same position as the Prince of Prussia in the provinces of the Rhine and of Westphalia, where he is Military Governor. The Queen of Bavaria and the two younger princes her sons, who are stopping in the moun mins of th 3 south of Bavaria, made a few days ai,o the asc-nsion of the Seilic., which is upwards of 6,000 feet high. The Archishop of Friburg, Mgr. de Vicari, though 85 years of age, is making a pedestrian excursion in the Same mountains. " It is positively stated," says a Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels, " that the Duke de Oramnaout will not arrive in France before the 25th September, and that he is now occupied at Turin in arranging the long standing differences between the Holy See and the King of Sardinia. It is added that be does not despair about bringing about a reconciliation between the two govern ments." A letter from Warsaw says :--C The Prince Lieutenant-General has been officially informed from St. Petersburg that the Emperor Alexander will arrive in this city on the 6th Sept., and will remain here until the 12th, when his Majesty will leave for Berlin, arriving there on the 14th." THE DUTY ON SUGAR. An arrangement with reference to the assessment of duty on sugar has recently been made by the Commissioners of Customs, which is likely to prove advantageous. The duty on sugar varies in amount according to quality; and to guide the officers in the settlement of quality certain standard samples are approved by the Treasury. As, however, the cha racteristics by which quality must be decided vary not only in the sugars produced in each country but also in those of different estates, and even of different crops and boilings of the same estate, it requires a practical eye to determine the question. The appearance of any particular sugar is also much affected by the light in which it is seen—sunshine or reflected light giving a false tinge or colour—an important matter when everything depends upon the slightest shade. Under such circumstances it was not surprising that sugars should be differently as sesse.l by different men in different localities. Such differences, however, gave rise to numerous remon strances, and a remedy lately suggested imme diately met with the concurrence and urgent recommendation of many of the leading houses in the trade. Thiswas simply that all sugars imported into London should be assessed at one place, and by one set of officers, who, by the constant practice and experience so acquired, and by kePping samples of all disputed qualities for future reference, would soon fall into a uniform system. Accordingly, two rooms in the Custom-house, Thames-street, with good light and northern aspect, properly fitted up and so painted as to prevent as far as possible any reflection of light from-the walla, have been for some weeks past appropriated to the purpose. The benefits likely to accrue from the perfect unit or anity_ of assessment, as well as the convenience and. ' , saving of time from the proximity' of the Custom ' house to Mincing-lane, have been appreciated by the various dock companies and wharfiugeis, all of whom have afforded every assistance, with the exception of the London Dock authorities, who declined unless specially authorised by each indi vidual merchant using their dock ; and the plan appears to have entirely succeeded, judging from the paucity of appeals, which were formerly mime rows. It is therefore desirable that the dealers in general should endeavour to aid the Revenue authorities in this attempt to remove fiscal difficul ties, and to act equitab'y towards all engaged in a most important branch of the commerce of the country. THE CHAPLAINCY OF THE HOUSE OF COMIONEL—Th 0 Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., prebendary of Salisbury, and vicar of Bremhill, near Chippenbam, will be the new chaplain to the House of Commons, in the room of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, B C.L., rector of Trinity Church, Marylebone, who has held the appointment nine years. Au announcement which has appeared in some of the papedi that Mr. Gamier had resigned is not strictly cor rect, the fact being that the Speaker intends exercising the privilege which has been enjoyed by his predecessors on their elevation to the chair—that of personally ap pointing the chaplain to the house prior to the com mencement of the next session of Parliament. Mr. Drury was appointed to his prebendal stall and to the vicarage of Bremhill by the late Bishop of Salisbury, the Speaker's brother. STEAM-SHIPFING.—The reduced number of steam-ships for sale sufficiently indicates the continuance of improvm d demand for this description of property ; more particu lady as ri g4eds screw steamers of the largest class. East Indian affairs have induced the company to engage all the suitable large screw steamers offered for the convey ande of troops to India during the last month ; son e steams ships not yet in port have also been conditionally accepted for this purpose. Several of the leading builders have made important contracts for new ships, and we experience a fair demand for moderate-sized screw ves sels for purchase as well as charter. •Paddlewheel stea►nera, other than tugs, now on the market being not of a class suitable to existing inquiries, will account for the number of these we show for sale.—(Circular of Messrs. Alfred Brett and Co.) TILE ISLAND OF PERM "Wanderer" writes to a contemporary as lows :—ln the Independence Beige of the 28th it' a report is mentioned to the effect that M. F rcr kesch, the Austrian In ternuncio at Constautinopiet; had proposed to the Powers to send to the Engl is f Government a collective note on its occupation et the Island of Perim. The Ottoman P o rte has ready made its protest, which has been disregard ed !, as it deserved. Parliament having cea sed its 0 "; tings, it is right that the press should sharpen ths, surveillance over our diploma c y w hi c h eve n dari t .T its session Parliament seem s t o h ave res i gn ed tol d Should the report mentioned above be true,---1 0 it is far from improbable—it will furnish a valu n '„f commentary on the wisdom of the late TreatYj Paris, which not only admitted th e P o rte into the brotherhood of Christian nations, but also guarsnci teed the integrity of its dominions. I have n d been able to larn that the guarantee was attac he to any authenticated map of the dominions thus secured, but unless it were so, our diplomat ist . 0 would seem to have been even more than usually lo the dark when they signed the treaty. ° li d thing is clear—that if the Turks are to be 0,11000 to invoke this guarantee not only in def er' of all they occupied at the time of its sig ol4 ; tune, but also for all the lands which they 1 1111 ' abandoned or lost, and of course still lay claim t ° ' the " Eastern difficulty," far from being terfa i ' nated, is only just beginning. The Porte claim : the whole of Abyssinia and Yemen, and I am n e w sure that it has ever formally renounced SieberibeV gen, auy more than Algiers. The same right whie ll it has to Perim is equally valid against England in Aden—more so, indeed, for Aden once had e Turkish garrison, while in the memory of histori Perim seems never to have been held by one. a Montesquieu truly wrote that " of all peop le th Turks are the most proper to possess a great Or, pire without utility to themselves or to othem, f The Treaty of Paris has in no degree altered th ' s , capacity in this respect. The Turks are in Pe see o f sion of Messawah, a small island on the coast Abyssinia. It has long served them, and still sera to only as the entrepot whence they import slaves intii`a the Hedjaz. Messawah lies at the mercy of o i l Abyssinian ruler, who has abolished slavery in „ 0 , dominions, and he has long threatened to take Pi o session of it. Should he do so, are we pledged restore it to the Turks ? tU e " The best answer to the protest, should 1 , 30 . made, would be the immediate seizure of Ji till Valid reasons, not pretexts, are at hand to jue: i l y this step, in the unsatisfied claims of British S ' jects on the Government of that province. " We have seen, both in the English and ii press, an inclination to ascribe the present ino —i r e in India to Russian intrigues. It is much raw o , probably due to Turkish lies working upon Ma ll i °, 9 o medan fanaticism. The only place where In Mahommedans see Europeans in contact to Turks is in Jidda, and there the po-ition of the "';,. Christian Consuls is so unworthy of the great el 0 tries they represent that we cannot be surpri se a. the vauntings so loudly indulged in, of the s 'of jection of all Christian Princes to the Sultan, a t Constantinople, seem credible. It is probable . 0 9 the Indian Mahommedans looked to the victorle.s, Sultan of the Turks for assistance against their .41 fidel masters, rather than to the Czar of Muse n ' A l The Turks have gained in the far east almos t 0 much prestige by the last war as they have les t o o the estimation of all the Europeans who have C ° in contact with them. " Let us hope that Perim. will neither be n - 0 14 cloned nor paid for to the Turks. When we t () a f it it did not belong to them. In our hands it mess become a station of the greatest importance ; " to them, it will continue a barren and uninhahP o r rock. We must, however, give M. Prokesch dit, suppPsing the report to be well founded, ' O , / showing Et:gland so plainly the gratitude s he in it expect from Austria for fighting her battle—l a is her battle—in the Principalities. O l t TREATY WITH HONDURAS.—A treaty of trade navigation between Her Majesty and the Itepubl i % o t Honduras, signed on the 27th of August, 1856, has J o ts been printed. It is to endue seveu years from the b e of the ratification. The,,most important article i O , lO . additional one relative The right tit* way by the in` h d oceanic route, the Honduras Government agreeing fr o , the right of way over any such route, from sea to e ot , shall be at all times open and free to the Governtnea and subjects of Great Britain `• for all lawful purPe e 'i:it and that no tolls or dues shall be imposed on the tran.„ of property or on the public mails of Great Bri t t he The Republic also engages to establish free ports a' fa extremities of the contemplated road. In r eturn d these concessions England recognises the righ te t ee sovereignty and property of Honduras in and over ii y line of the said road, and guarantees the entire neatr e o el of the same, with the proviso that her guarantee og protection may be withdrawn if the committee man e And the road adopt regulations contrary to the spiri t intention of this article of the treaty. b. THE IRON AND COAL TRADES.—The condition p f d • iron trade of this district still continues good, °i n • steady business is being done. The prices, excep t few instances, are fully maintained, and altb ee Tlle ' through the heat of the weather, the forges and %ph are not actively employed, in consequence of %I/ j ot the stocks of pig iron are increasing, yet the price 'OO not give way to any extent, the present quotation Obeli 41. 2s. 6d., which is somewhat under the mark W ie tf compared with the price of bars, and having inL 0 the high price of labour and materiale. The P r f - t eft Scotch pig iron continues sufficiently high to Pr ‘ ; 01 0 any.hing like competition with Sta ff ordshire, and - ",,get to coti fi rm the idea pretty generally entertained 0 03°- the , the trade that lig masters may be enabled during le so counn of the year to command an advance, °she some unforeseen circumstances occur to chen i toro buoyancy which at present exists. The chain .o 7 o o, at Cradiey, near Dudley, have, up to the present ; had very great diffi cu lty i n sending o ff their g ° Out as Lord Ward has a branch railroad from ° la dle% ford, Worcester, and Wolverharnpten line, conv e y , eig in the y e e ia itself with the Round Oak teation, and txtending ;igb' lordship's collieries at the " Salt \Veils," bourhood of Cradley, some arrangement is abou t t t of made v.hich will very much facilitate the tra e ;ebn goods from the district above refer red to en d fto o Oxford, Wnrcester, and Wolverhampton line, an tie d ode thehce to all parts of the kingdom. The one' o tiee_ exhibits signs of improvement, on account of P io te, being desirous of getting in the autumn etiPP ;t ia d W e ' the district, fi rmly maintains its price, an , carry them through the winter. Stone, the 9' 0 9 quoted at 18e. per toil.-IVolverltcoapton ChrottiCfc he ces th e a bout karh, bo nd ladi a Po ] trans, any wh by Par Eon Ov e are verj th e 1 ket fc are m ead begin th e tr a re a 1 Der C ar e 4( Ectua, 22. Pe At tio„u J c 1 4 0 n, 44.1 Qi n , Ere c N ktne ,„„ bi Pitt