The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. One More Night only, at Reduced Prices, on Saturday Evening next, September 26, with Piceolomini, Giughhi, Beneventano, Rossi Vialetti, and Bellett i. In consequence of the great demand, and to accommodate those who have found it impossible to obtain places, one more night will be given On SATURDAY EVENING, w hen will be repeated LA TRAVIATA. After which, THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, by Madlle. Piecolomini To conclude with the Last Scene of LUCIA DI LATER MOOR, by Sig. Giuglini. PRICES Boxes to accommodate four persons, Grand Tier, Pit Tier, and One Pair £ 2 2 0 Two Pair 1 1 0 Th r ee Pair 0 15 0 - Pit Stalls 0 10 6 Tit 0 3 6 Gallery Stalls 0 3 6 G a •llery 11)0YAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Di.llon.—Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for an OPERA SE &SON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol lowing Distiegui:thed Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co relli, Misa Susan Cvne, Miss;Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. Manley, ..I.nd Miss Louisa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Mr. Ferdinamd Glover, Mr.lßernarci, Mr. Kerby, Mr. Wall worth, Mr. G. I Toney, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. AlfrOd Mellon. The Orchestra selected from the Royal Italian (Were, Jullien's Band, and the Orches tral Union. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian Opera. Stago Manager. Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson. THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, Meyrbeer's opera, THE ELUGUENOI.S. To conclude with Buckstone's farce, entitled A ROUGH DIAMOND. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 115. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s, ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Clhatterton, inn. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. rnis EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with Sheridan's comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe; Charles Surface (3d time), Mr. W. Farren ; Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Oliver, Mr. Rogers ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton ; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Cathe rine Sinclair (her 3d appearance in that character in this country); Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Mafia, Miss Emma King ; and Mrs. CAndour, Miss Talbot. After which, A CURE FOR LOVE. 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. 5. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes ....... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 . ........... 2 0 Pit 1 0 ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING. will be performed the new Comic piece, called URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. After which, will be revived the celebrated nautical drama of THE PILOT, a Tale of the Sea. Long Tore Coffin, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Captain Burronghcliffe, Mr. Wright ; The Pilot, Mr. C. Selby ; Kate Plowden, Miss Mary Keeley. Followed by MY PRECIOUS BETSEY. Mr. Wri;ht, P. Bedford, Mary Keeley, &c. TRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING will be performed A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Mr. J. Kinloch and Miss Harriet Gordon. A CHEAP EXCURSION. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TRAVIATA; sr, THE, LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke. Followed by BA":,'HIaLOR'S BUTTONS. Miss M. A. Victor and Mr. Clarke. Commence at Seven. Stalls. as. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; llery 6d. ; Private Boxes, ii. Is. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees. Messrs. 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, and Mr. G. Murray. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert Brongh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swauborongh, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 1) OYAL SURREY THEATRE. 4' Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed BIRD IN THE %ND WORTH TWO IN THE BU 4 11. Messrs. Shepherd, W. 11. Eburne, B. Potter, Widdicomb, Vollaire, W. Smith ; Miss Chalmers, and Miss M. Eburne After which, CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS will appear. Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. To conclude with the Christy Minstrels. CANTIERBIJ RY H ALL, Westminster -road. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow- Inst company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of elftl'ons from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, viz.: Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott, Miss Brnnell, Mrs. Le Jenne, Miss Leslie, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Far rant, S. -Tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An tonio, E. L, Himo, and Hr. St. Albyn ; Master Corri; Messrs 81,11 1. Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghruans, Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sep- Pere, ecc., until twelve o'clock.—Signor PICCO will perform, at had-past Eight and half-past Ton, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TUTS 'DAY—Morn., 59 min. aft. 4—Even., 16 min. aft. 5 To-Moaitow.-3forn., 34 min. aft. s —Even., 52 min. aft. 6 rHE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 6G—highest since noon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and during the night 70 —this day at noon. BAROMXTER, 2 , 192. WIND, S.W. ; light, with heavy clouds. A alight shower in the morning, with indications of more rain. • P I( t). • LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 1857. An outcry has been raised against the Limited Liability Act, because there have already been som e instances of failure. The resolution for the winding-up of the London, Manchester, and Foreign Warehouse Company has been referred to as exhibiting a strong illustration of the dangers to which the public are thereby exposed, in the double capacity of creditors and share ho) ders. It is by no means fair, however, to charge the system with these untoward results ; As well might it be said that joint-stock banking should be abolished because the Directors of the Tipperary Joint-Stock, the Royal British, orthe - eastern Banking Corporation abused the powers confided to their charge. There may be bad management las "well las foul play ; and the triost enthusiastic advocate of freedom of trade, and liberation from partnership liabili ties, never for a moment contended that premperity and efficient control, could be ensured 'by the liberation of Commerce from the trammels by which it had been fettered and restricted, and the opening of new fields of competition. For tune ie. a capricious Deity, and some lose wealth by t ) .ie very means by which others acquire it. panici n the Money Market, an exorbitant rate Of Interest, may paralyse the energies of many eatablishmenta, and produce heavy losses to the parties interested. All commercial men, even those who h ave achieved the highest position, have, particularly i n the commencement of their career, had to encounter periods of pressure and difficulty that have driven them to their wits end, and compelled them to strain every nerve to avoid bankruptcy and social degradation . Li m ited Companies cannot hope to prove exceptions to the general rule, or to be exempted from the common lot. Some will fail, while many succeed, and the great desideratum is to ascertain whi c h Will be most beneficial for all parties concerned, in Ire event of any untoward results. Now, we are prepared to contend that, even under the most adverse circumstances, supposing even a total failure, the present state of affairs is far better than that formerly in operation. Per sor.s will no longer recklessly give credit, particu l'arly when made fully aware of the terms on which they are dealing. There is no longer a vague notion of some CRCESUS behind the scenes, Who may, by some species of legal legerdemain, be rendered responsible to the last shilling and the last acre, for having been induced to accept a share of the profits, in place of an usurious rate of interest for the money he had invested in the concern. Before trans ferring their property they strictly scrutinise the prospects of the concern, and the chances of payment. And, we believe that, in the event of failure, they have a far better chance of a tolera ble dividend, than in that of an ordinary bank ruptcy. They are not tempted into speculative litigation in the vain hope of rendering some per son, as innocent as themselves, liable for the losses they have foolishly sustained, and thus avoid the chances of a lottery, which seldom, indeed, returns a prize to the ticket-holders. When we consider the millions, aye, tens of mil lions, annually lost by creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, and in windings up under inspec tion, we may cordially congratulate the commer cial community on the comparatively trifling amounts forfeited under the recent law of " limited liability." The smash is by no means so com plete as is generally the case, and if it comes sooner it leaves at least something to be dis tributed. The shareholders too, are, far better off. Men look, or ought to look, before them. If not con tented with the low interest and " elegant sim plicity" of the 3 per Cent. Consols, if anxious to put out their available capital on more specula tive, and probably more remunerative, invest ments, they too must look closely to the character of the companies and of its managers. It is not for the encouragement of wild and reckless gam bling that:the new law has been framed. If men want to make 20 or 30 per cent. for their moneys and not only fail in doing so, but lose the original subscription, they have no right to complain. They_ may think themselves truly fortunate in knowing that they cannot be called on for more than they themselves deliberately determined to embark in the speculation. Their persons and the residue of their fortunes are free. How happy would many of the shareholders in the Tipperary or Royal British Bank be, under similar cir cumstances, to know that they could not be made targets for sharp practitioners to quadruple the original loss, and sacrifice the unfortunate victims by unnecessary costs. In every such case there should be a stringent examination into the proceedings of the managers. They should be answerable for their conduct. The recent act will sufficiently punish every instance of malafides or deliberate dishonesty. There may, however, be a degree of carelessness and ineffi ciency, which, while it may not be sufficient to render the parties criminally responsible, should make them pecuniarily so. Men who undertake duties for which they are not duly qualified, or to which they will not devote the time and trouble essential to the inadequate discharge, should be liable for the consequences of their own lathes. Such strictness may render it more dif ficult to obtain a Board of Directors, but it will render a Board far more efficient and more ener getic. We must remember that the principle of partnership en conniandite, or limited liability, is but in its infancy, and not abrogate its manifest advantages because abuses are still possible, and it has not attained perfection at its ♦ery com mencement. " India for the Indians," is a cry which some very wise philanthropists have ventured to sug gest ; half in a whisper it is true, being quite con scious that in their sense of this parody of the Irish folly, it could meet with no response from the majority of their countrymen. In its better sense we cordially accept it. By all means let India be for the Indians• ; —for the Indians generally, not assuredly for such fiends as the mutineers, or for such Arch-fiends as NA NA SAHIB. Let India be governed and administered, not to enrich a com pany, or to funish patronage, oivil and military, for a Board of Directors and a Board of Control ; but to raise the social, commercial, and ultimately the political condition of the natives. The most perverted humanitariaism can hardly pretend that the faithless and cruel wretches who have plunged the country into all the horrors of anarchy, who have plundered natives as well as Europeans, and butchered, and far worse than butchered, the unarmed and the innocent, are the pretorians on whom we ought to devolve the task of electing an Emperor for India, and giving it a code of laws and a civil administration. We by no means approve of appealing to Pro vidence as our guide, and pretending we can interpret its decrees ; but surely, so far as belief in Providence ought to influence our judgment, the most rigid Puritan could see but one inter potation of our duty in the events which Heaven has permitted to take place in India. A Righteous Providence cannot have intended that wretches who have combined to perform atrocities which demand the extermination of the perpe trators, should succeed us as the Governors of India. England can conceive, readily enough, of a patriotic insurrection ; popular sympathies in this country have always been in favour of insur gents who have risen only to assert the rights of oppressed nationality. Had the Sepoys shown anything of this spirit, the Peace Party here would have had a very numerous band of sympa thisers, and might even materially have impeded the energies of the Government. And, had In dians generally but, made peaceful efforts to ac quire a share in the administration of their coun try's affairs, there has been of late a disposition but too prematurely to place natives in office. The army, on the contrary, not the natives generally, has mutinied against its benefactors, has chosen palpably mere pretexts for doing so, has assigned no motive whatever to justify even its rebellion, and certainly not the shadow of a pretext for its murdering officers, civilians, women and children. It was to their interest, if they had any reason able or even any colourable excuse for mutiny, to preserve all these as hostages. NINA. SAHIB with the thousand Europeans, whom he has slaughtered in cold blood, safe in his custody, would have been a far more formidable antagonist than he now is. No, these wretches have done deeds of unreasoning yet malignant madness, which if permitted by PRO Vr- DEN CE for any purpose, were surely per mitted in order to rouse England to their utter annihilation. It has been made our duty to ex terminate these rebels—rebels, not against English dominion merely, but against every holy instinct of our common nature ; these fiends, whoso war is less with us than with innocence, with good ness, with purity, with helplessness, and with all that thmands the respect and protection of man. HEAVEN, at least,• cannot mean India for those, whom, , y by the 'sight of reason and of revelation, equally, we are bound to destroy. If, indeed, there be any rebuke from HEAVEN for En gland in these horrors, we should think it would se em fo over what we be ew for our ex ce ssive tenderness know t 0 be debasing and degrading superstition. /Je re, indeed, we h ave the best 1 authorities for our :nions. The names of I NAPIER, and of JACOB are • Proof enough that we have foolishly and wantonly, i ' because injuriously t o ourselves, patronised the follies of Ma ' hommedanism, Hindooism, and of caste. We have taught the native soldier to think more of his superstitious fooleries than even of military obedience. We have at the same time taught him to regard these things as of equal worth with our Christianity, and to believe that we feared to slight them. The two great Indian authorities we have just mentioned insist that, while not per secuting the superstitions of the Sepoy, we should yet let him see our contempt for them, and our aonsciousness of the superiority of our own faith. We have tried, however, to make native soldiers believe that we respected what we could but in. wardly despise ; and, when our pity might have made them blush, our hypocritical delicacy has rather made them exacting and vain. Neither NAPIER or JACOB would have us perform a single act of religious compulsion, but they believe that the superiority of Christianity destines it to be the supplanter of Idolatry and Mahommedanism ; and they would have nothing to do with men who prefer the honours of their caste and the like, to the honours of good soldiership. We are taught now, by an awfully instructive lesson, what is the real character of the supersti tions we have so nursed and petted. Mahomme danism, Idolatry, and Caste have been the watch words of the insurrection, and granting that theyhave been but pretexts, so far as relates to the exist ence of any reasonable cause of complaint against us, yet their moral effect on their votaries is hor ribly apparent. England will henceforth shudder at the very mention of systems • of religion which made or left the worshippers such incarnate fiends. Hindooism and Mahometa.nism will long recal the atrocities of Cawnpore and of Delhi, and will be dealt with by us now, as answerable for them. We shall hear no more of the slightest regard paid to these impostures, in the selection of such native troops and officials as we need. No more of putting them on a level with our own faith in the homage rendered to them. Persecute we cannot ; but we shall no longer caress and honour what i 8 worthy only of the bottomless pit. The manly and sensible views of the NANERS and JACOBS, not the time-serving notions of East India Direc tors and a Governor in Council, must adjust the future relations of Superstition and Christianity. A dastardly use of the knife appears latterly to have become very prevalent. It is really worth while considering whether some judicious effort might not be made to " pat down" at once and effectually this atrocious and peculiarly un-English crime. It is one in no way indigenous. It is essentially a foreign importation. But so was the Cholera—so in its time was the Plague—so, moreover, at an earlier date, was the Sweating Sickness. The newly imported abomination appears of late in same of our back slums, and occasionally even in some of our garish, gas-lit London thoroughfares, to be frightfully contagious. It has spread from the moustached refugee, with the braided surtout, who falls foul of his Comrade in Adversity over a game of dominoes in the little back room of a seedy coffee•shop near Leicester-square—to hulk ing Bon the coalheaver, who has taken a pot of ale too much down at Whitechapel, and who (so) has whipped his clasp-blade up to the buck-handle haft while tussling with the barman of the beer shop : or, again, it has extended to infuriated PAT, in the lime-splashed corduroys, down at Clerkenwell, who has got into a row with a po liceman somehow in the small hours of the morn ing, and who (so), heated with rage and whisky, has stabbed the poor Peeler as they roll over each other on the pavement. The villainous use of the knife in this manner is really becoming an ordi nary incident in the records of the police-offices. Foreigners still figure at intervals, of course, con spicuously upon the black hat now it is Lb ',ascot., now an Italian, now a Spaniard, and so forth— BUT, of late, with shame we have noted it, Eng lishmen and Irishmen (we don't remember to have remarked anywhere the name of a Scotchmau among the delinquents) have rather frequently appeared among these foreigners. Occasionally the blow administered proves fatal, and then, of course, the miscreant who has drawn the knife against his unarmed antagonist is dragged, not to Bow-street, but to the Old Bailey—the charge against him being, not ono of assault merely, but of Murder or of Manslaughter. The punishment then, of course, is—in the event of the crime being proved simple, rigorous, and decisive. But—supposing the victim on these occasions only to be maimed, and not quite assassinated—would it not be advisable, in every such instance, to have the assault with the knife expiated, not sim ply by imprisonment with hard labour, but by the administration of some additional punishment —some punishment peculiarly degrading and ig nominious? Suppose, in future, in every ease where the knife is used in a quarrel, but not fatally—suppose that the dastard who uses it is henceforth invariably sentenced to ho whipped at the cart's tail THE INDIAN MUTINIES-RELIEF FUND. THE SULTAN'S DONATION. We are happy to be able to announce that the Sultan has instructed the Ambassador of the Sublime Porte in London to forward to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor the sum of 1,0001. as his donation to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the mutinies in India. The importance of this expression of sympathy from the acknowledged head of the Mahomedan religion will be at onoe per ceived. _ _ _ The London committee for taking steps for affording relief to the sufferers in India met yester day, in the Egyptian-hall, Mansion-house. They formed themselves into a relief committee, a finance committee, and a correspondence committee, for carrying out a scheme for the distribution of the fund. The Queen of Spain has conferred on the Prince of Orange the Cross of Charles 111. The Princes of Piedmont left Nice on the 18th for Sospello. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador arrived in town on Tuesday, from St. Leonards-on-Sea. His Ex cellency returns in a few days to jain his family, who have been staying at St. Leonards for some weeks past. His Excellency Count Kielmaneegge has arrived at Hanover, from visiting his estates in Holstein. His Excellency will resume his diplmatic duties next mouth, or early in November. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and Count Brandenburgh came to town yesterday morning from Brighton, and paid a visit to the Comte de Brunsvik, at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. His Excellency the Russian Ambassador at the French Court, Count Kisseleff, accompanied by the Countess Kisseleff, the Count St. Clair, and the Count Herman Potocki, and suite, have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerilyn street, from Paris. The Duke of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton have left Clumber Park, on a visiting tour in Scotland. The noble duke and Lady Susan arrived at Dunrobin Castle, yesterday, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers are expected at The Grove, near Watford, on Tuesday next, from a visiting tour in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough left St. Lao cards-on-Sea, a few days since, for their seat, Ex:on Park, Rutlandshire. Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley have left St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on a visit to Lady Maiian AlforJ, at Ashbridge, near Berkhampstead. The noble and learned lord still remains at St. Leonard's. Lord and Lady Calthorpe will shortly leave Choi mondeley Castle, for Perry Hall, Birmingham. Her ladyship, who has been very much indisposed for some weeks past, is now much better. Lord Arthur Hay has left Chester-square for the Earl Howe's seat, Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire. La , :y Ar thur Hay arrived at Gopsall Hall on Tuesday, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale at Yester House, N.B. Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley leave Broadlinds, where the noble lord and lady are visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, early in the ensuing week, for the Continent, to meet the Earl and Countess of Shaftes bury. Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote have arrived at Far rance's Hotel, Belgravia, from their seat in Lincolnshire. LATEST NEWS VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The Emperors of Austria and of Russia are to meet at Weimar. The Emperor Francis Joseph leaves Vienna on the 29th inst. STUFTGARDT, SEPT. 23. The Czar Alexander is expected here on Thurs day evening ; the Emperor Napoleon on Friday morning. They will give a grand banquet on that day, and an evening party at the Prince Royal's country seat near Cannstadt. On Saturday the august visitors wilt pay a visit to the royal breeding stud at Hohenheim, and will attend an evening party at Wilhelmschloss, the gardens of which regal palace will be illumi nated. The Minister of Foreign Affairs will have an assembly the same evening of all the members of the diplomatic corps. The festivities will terminate on Sunday by s grand banquet at Court, and a gala spectacle at the theatre. The Emperors wilt take their de parture on Monday morning. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Emperor left the Camp of Chalons at two o'clock this afternoon for Luneville, where he will review the Cavalry. He will be at Strasburg to-morrow, and will arrive the day after at Stuttgart. H. It. H. the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Lord Burghersh and Colonels Clifton and Maude, arrived in Paris yesterday from the Camp of Chalons, and alighted at the Hotel Vouille mont. Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived yesterday at Paris from Biarritz, and has since left for the camp of Chalons. Count de Kisseleff, Russian ambassador at the court of the Tuileries, has left Paris for Stuttgard. The quarterly drawing of the bonds of the Credit Foncier took place yesterday at the offices ofthe company : —No. 146,289 gained 100, 000 fr. ; No. 182,774, 50,000 fr. ; No. 1,914, 20,000 fr. The Univers contains th 3 following trashy prognostications :—" England is at this rai ment passing through one of those moments of crisis which decide the fate of nations. In order to reconquer and preserve India, she must employ far more troops and civil officials than hitherto. As her revenue will be diminished, she will be compelled to reduce, to a considerable extent, the salaries paid to Europeans in India, and this will lead to an alteration in the manner of living of many English families. Should the State at the 531310 time seize on a portion of the Church pro perty, the aristocracy, the commercial classes, and the middling class in general will be deprived of the lucrative resources which now permit them to confer advantageous positions on their children. Will not these changes, this con gregation of discontented persons, contribute to lend activity to the revolutionary spirit which has fermented for a long time past in the lower classes of English society, and which extends daily to the middling class, and even to the upper class? In a word, is not England ap proaching that period when, in her turn, she will be victim to the agitations and convulsions so common to the States of Europe since the com mencement of this century ?" BOURSE, Sept. 23.—The following were the last quo ta! ions : Cash. fr. End of Month. ii per Cents 3 per Cents 67 67 25 Bank Shares 2,800 Credit Foucier 550 Credit Mobilier B7O -- Homan Do. Account B7O Austrian Belgian 4A .. Spanish Threes 391 Pied mon tees (5) 9O Home Debt V E c u . D 0 4, -4 r ET S A , E isi IIN P ll E t) PA' IV 24 RAILWA.TS-FOR CASH. tr. c. tr c. Ort.:i...n. 1,360 Western - Northern Lyons and Med t 465 New Ditto New Ditto 845 Grand Central Geneva Ifidi TURKEY. Constantinople journals and letters to the 11th have arrived, via Trieste, but their contents are singularly devoid of interest. The Sultan was to have been present at a grand council the day be fore, but when all the great functionaries were assembled, an officer came to announce that his Majesty was prevented from attending. The cause was said to be the illness of one of the young princes—an illness, however, which was not con sidered dangerous. The Government of Bagdad, vacant for - a short time by the death of Mehemed Rechid Pacha, has been given to Mahmoud some months back Governor of Smyrna, and previously of Damascus. He is an energetic man, well acquainted with the country, and is consi dered an excellent choice. It is thought that with Agdad and hiamili Pacha at Aleppo, thepresenthim a t B disturbed st a t e o f S yr i a may b e remedied. The financial embarrassments of the Porte are described as not likely to cease for some time, as, in the pr esen t s t a t e o f th e money markets in Europe, a loan is becoming more and more difficult. ITALY. The Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin says :—" The judicial inquiry into the affair of the 29th of Juno at Genoa is closed, and its results fill three enor mous volumes. The number of prisoners under trial is 39, of whom about 20 are defaulters. Their case has been considerably aggravated by the discovery of five letters in Mazzini's handwriting, and by his allegations published in his organ, in which he most imprudently jeopardises those who be lieved in him, and who are now in the hands of justice. One of the above letters was found on the person of a workman, who had sewed it under the lining of his coat, and was arrested by the Custom-house offic -rs at Arona at the moment he was about to cross the lake in a boat. The cap ture of this letter led to the arrest of several per sons at Turin and Genoa; and to the banishment of some refugees. Another letter was directed to A. M., a member of the committee of action, and contained orders proving the existence of a secnit government. But Mazzini's article entitled L 9. Situazione' has seriously compromised the prison ers; had it not been for that, there would have been no legal proofs of high treason, and the whole affair might have ended in a few condem nations on the count of being in possession of prohibited azms.' DENMARK. A Copenhagen letter, in the Spectateur, says : " The hostile attitude assumed by the Diets of the two German.Ducbies of Holst , An and Laueu burg towards Denmark has produced a remark able impression on public opinion in this capital. The moment that the public has considered the general organisation of the monarchy to be menaced by Germany, the Danish national spirit has been roused t 3 support the present- ministry, which looked upon as the energetic representative of na tional ideas. Nobody believes here in the possi bility of an amicable arrangement on the Holstein question with the two great German powers. Moro notes may doubtless be written, but the government of Copenhagen is decided, I am as sured, on awaiting with calm the decisions of the Frankfort Diet, before which the question will b.! definitively brought by Prussia and gustria." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived, but do not contain any news of political interest. In expectation of a visit from the Empress of the French, the inhabitants of Arteaga, the place in which her Majesty's chateau is situated, had on the 14th erected a triumphal arch bearing the inscription. " Arteaga to the Empress Eugenic, its protectress," and all the authorities of the neighbouring towns and villages had assembled ; but finding that her Majesty did not arrive, the authorities partook of a splendid banquet at the house of the French Consul of Quernica. A MAILS.' CANADA. letter from Melilla of the 12th says that the Moors of the tribe of Benisidel had after nine months' peace recommenced hostilities against the place, though at the time several of their body were in the town. The Spaniards generously allowed the latter to leave before returning the are. The result is not stated. The chief of the tribe had, however, expressed his regret to the Spanish governor that he was not able to restrain his men. TUNIS. • We have been favoured with the following ex tract from a letter dated Tanis, Sept. 12 : " The Bey, convinced by the earnest representa tions and persuasive arguments of the British and French agents, after numerous consultations with his Ministers, determined to make the improve ments in his system of government which were pro posed to him, and on the mornin; of the 9th Sept., having invited the foreign agents and some of the principal European residents to wait upon him at his Palace of the Bardo, in their presence he gave a constitution to his country, swearing to observe its provisions, and causing his priests, ministers, and people to do the same. " The constitution consists of 11 articles, which would be too long to set out in, extense, and I there fore only give the substance of them, viz. : "1. Security of life and property. " 2. Equal taxation. "3. Equality before the law of all classes and denominations. "4. Religious liberty. "5. Limitation of the period of military service. "6. Admission of non-Mussulman assessors in the criminal tribunals. "7. Establishment of a mixed commercial tri bunal. "8. Abolition of all immunities and privileges now enjoyed by Mussulmaus. "9. Liberty of commerce, abolition of monopo lies, and interdiction to the Government to trade. " 10, Permission to foreigners to exercise all professions, trades, and callings, and to introduce foreign enterprise, arc. " 11. Right for foreigners to purchase and pos sess houses, lauded property, ch. " The . importance of this reform cannot be too highly estfmated." A letter from Stuttgart of the 19th says that foreigners, especially French and Russians, were already flocking into the city in considerable num bers. All the departments iu hotels had been taken in advance, and it was impossible to satisfy anything like the demands made for accommoda tion. The King of Bavaria and the Grand Duke of Hesse were expected. A Vienna letter says that the negotiations be tween France and Austria for a postal treaty have been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, and that M. de Lowenthal, the Austrian negotiator, had returned to that city from Paris. The Deutschland of Vienna says :—" We learn from good authority that the directors of banks in Central Germany will shortly hold a conference in Frankfort,' in order to come to an understanding respecting the reprisals to be adopted against Prussia, for her prohibition of the circulation of their bank-notes within her ter ritory. Up to the present moment these banks have decided that as long as the decree of the Prussian Minister of Commerce is in force, they will not advance any money for transactions in the kingdom of Prussia, and ►ill even close the credits now open." The Emancipation of Brussels denies that there is any truth in a rumour current in that city to the effect that the negotiations between Belgium and Holland for a treaty of commerce have been broken off, and affirms, on the contrary, that they are going on favourably, and are likely to result in arrangements of a very liberal spirit. H.M. steam gun-vessel Vigilant arrived at Malta on the 13th from the fleet under the com mand of Lord Lyons, which she left at Algiers. The fleet was expected off Malta harbour about the 20th, on its way to the lonian Islands. The Vigilant is placed at the disposal of the Rear- Admiral Superintendent for the conveyance of Indian despatches. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 10 A. M. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Colombo, Captain Field, has just arrived, with the ludia, China, and Australian She made the Needles at 10 o'clock last night, but was detained for a pilot, and anchored there all night. The Colombo left Alexandria, Sept. 12th ; Malta, 15th; and Gibraltar, 19th. She has 184 passengers, of whom 56 are children. Among them are Col. Lennox, wife, and daughter. The Colonel belonged to the 22d Regiment at Fyzebad, in Oude ; only a sergeant of Artillery and the Colonel escaped. The passengers include a large number of late residents in India. The Colombo also brings 4,8001. in specie, and cargo of gum,.silks, shawls, arc. Among the passengers is a lady who escaped from Delhi with four children and a dog. The fugitives report being all well treated by the merchants at Calcutta, and supplied with money to send them on immediately on the Colomb;s arrival. Captain Field received a letter from the Relief Fund Com mittee, through the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany, authorising him to render the passengers overt' relief and assistanoe. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The steamship North American, Captain Grange, belonging to the Montreal Ocean Steamship Com pany, arrived in the river this afternoon from Que bec; which port she left on the 12th inst., with the usual mails and 106 passengers. The Chicago Press, speaking of the Hudson's Bay monopoly, says : " Let the Canadian govern ment be extended over its territories, and they will be at once opened to a large immigration, thus fur nishing homes to hundreds of thousands of the peo ple of the United Kingdom who are longing to bet ter their condition, and adding immensely to the prosperity and importance of Canada." A requisition is in course of signature in London, C.W.,-calling a meeting for o the purpose of consi dering the propriety of urgin g the annexation o f the Hudson's Bay territory to Canada, and for the expression of opinion as to the most suitable loca lity for the future seat of government. Complaints of the failure of the potato crop are becoming very general, and there is little prospect of the yield being so good as was anticipated. The Toronto Lender says :—" We believe it is true that the speedy return of Sir Edmund He id to Canada may be looked for. It is probable that Attorney-General Macdonald has already sailed for Canada. The return of the Hon. J. Ross may, we presume, be looked for before the end of this month." It is =aid that the Hon. Mr. Filmore, late Presi dent of the United States, is about to marry a lady of Montreal. The Toronto Co/onist says the investments in un productive real estates in Upper Canada, during the last four years, have absorbed seven millions of pounds. James Stewart, one of the seamen on beard the Eliz tbeth Anne Bright, from Liverpool, died from cruelties received on board the vessel on her outward passage to Quebec. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against Michael Keenan, the boatiwain, and declared " that John Olive, the commander of the Elizabeth Anne Bright, is highly censurable for neglecting to provide the deceased James Stewart with the necessary care during his illness, and in not sending him to hospital imme diately on arriving in the port of Quebec. A return of the number of inimigrants arrived at the port of Quebec to the 11th September, 1856 and 1857, has been published, from which it ap pears that 8,914 more immigrants arrived at Que bec in 1857 than in 1856. COMMERCIAL. QUEBEC, September 12. We have seldom seen a fortnight during which the transactions in our port in the great staple of our trade have been on such a limited scale. In red pine, oak, and elm, we have no change to remark. Standard staves are accumulating, and may be quoted at 521. 10s., while West India are in demand at 161. 103. to 171. Deals are rather declining, floated having been sold in the raft at 121. 10 , . for late, with a proportionate price for 2nds and 3rde. Bright are not much inquired for unless for good specifications in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of the market in England. Freights are duller than they were, and a good many vo , .sels are offering. 28a. for Liverpool, 34g. for London, 30a. for the Clyde, 34e. for Belfast, and 335. for Fleetwood, may be consi dered as the ratee. Sir George and Lady Holistoun-Boawall have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel, from, a tour, R INDI -..41P:.•••--- It is not very unusual, says the Paris correspon dent of the Times (second edition), for persons of a sanguine and imaginative temperament to dwell upon an hypothesis until they fancy it proved, and proceed to reason upon it as ear nestly as if it /ware an established and incontro vertible fact. Au instance of this sort has lately occurred in the case of a -portion of the French press, which, while considering, and per haps exaggerating, the extent of our Indian difficu'. ties, and at the same time underrating our means of surmounting them, has come to the hasty con clusion that, sooner or later, we shall have to seek aid from France, and has even got so far as t' ' speculate on the terms upon which it may be granted. On the part of the Legitimist papers there was nothing astonishing in this unfriendly haste to profit by a neighbour's misfortunes to drive a good bargain, but it may well excite surprise when the friendly Siecle out-Herods our habitual foes in its desire to make of England's difficulty France's opportunity. The most rabid of our opponents, when anticipating, without the slightest grounds, an application from Englaudfor succour, stipulated terms usurious enough, and at one stroke of its catholic quill, swept us out of the Mediterranean ; but at least it gave us something in return for - Malta, Gibraltar, and the rest. A French army was to go and re-establish us in our Oriental possessions. Of course we felt a proper amount of gratitude. We by no means underrate the value of the proffered aid, nor doubt that in Hin dostan, as in the Crimea, and wherever they have fought, the French would prove themselves most gal lant and useful soldiers. But there is such a thing as waiting till you are asked, and of this we may re mind those who appear to forget the history of the present century, and the power and resources dis ployed by Great Britain when opposed to Europe combined against her by one master-mind and seemingly resistless hand. They may be quite sure that the British nation, since, then enormously increased in numbers and wealth, has lost none of its energy or patriotism, and that by the exertion of these it is well able, without seeking foreign assistance, to vanquish even greater difficulties than the. very serious ones that have arisen in the East. THAMES. T Y AND THE POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day. FRENCH PRESS. THE POPLAR BOARD OF WORKS.—In this case the complainants were the Board of Works for poplar, which sought to recover a sum of 421. ls. 6J. from Messrs. Wedrel and Knight, highly respectable licensed victuallers, Millwall, and the proprietors of the Iron• monger's Arms, that which were costs arising ,from works done by the Board, fur repairing and restoring a iea wall, which bad been cut through by the defendants , who were bailding several houses adjoining. The clues' tion resolved itself into one of jurisdiction. Mr. Yardley, who had given a most patient hearing to the case, and which had been several times adjourned; wished the case to be submitted to a superior court. Mr. Morris, clerk to the Board, contended that the magistrate had jurisdiction ; and Mr. Beck, solicitor for the Ironmonger's Company, on whose estate the wall was, asserted that the Metropolitan Commissioner s were the parties who alone bad jurisdiction. After hearing the arguments of the solicitors on both sides, Mr. Yardley took down the main points in the case , for the purpose of submitting them to the Court of Queen's Bench, observing that it was a case of muc h Importance to all hawkers. He would give every facility to the case being decided. Mr. Morris remarked he should have to serve a notice upon him, Mr. Yardley, if he dismissed the summons. Mr. Yardley replied that he should do so, sp, d asked what was the amouot of cost claimed by tvi ° Board. Mr. Morris replied 421. is. GI - Mr. Beck replied that the cost included legal expen" g and counsels fees which he thought the thard ought tic' to claim. The actual cost was 261. 19s. Mr. Yardley said he should only allow that amoun t ' Mr. Beck then asked for costs for the defendant which were allowed. The parties then left the court. BOAT ACCIDENT AT LYTHAM-INQUEST• - It is now quite certain that five persons have l oot their lives by the accident on the Sands Bank, wituate between Lytham and Southport, on Sunday nig ht ; Their names are T. Green, J. Morrow, R. Forshaw, Holden, and A. Whittle. Up to Sunday night only oh e body, that of Holden, had been found ; but yesterd4 Afternoon a jacket worn by Morrow at the time of the casualty was washed ashore on the beach at Lytba h3. The boat has not been raised, but at present remains o h ; bedded in sand. An attempt will be made to get h e r off to-day. On Tuesday night the inquest was held °I l the body of Holden, at the Talbot Inn, Lytham, by h i t &lyres, coroner. Four witnesses were examined. Alice .Holden said the deceased, Joan Holden, 01/e her husband, and left Preston for Blackpool, on Bat h! ' day afternoon, to return the following day. He was weaver, and was twenty-three years of age. Mr. John Pearson, landlord of the Coffee-house I° l3 ' Marton, near Blackpool, said the deceased John 1:101dev) accompanied by three other men, went to his house f a Saturday night, and staid there until sight o'clock following morning, when they left to take the O s " which they said was lying in charge of a comptini eib near the Lytham Lighthou,e. They did not take Of drink with them. Witness had not seen them since' John Bonny, fisherman,.proved finding the boat e?: taining the body of Holden, on a sand-back, about no s ; o'clock on Monday morning. He did nt,t find any et he a body. The boat's mast was broken in the centre, e u consequently she could not have been upset by a st ° ,_ r°3 a t He believed the accident had been caused by the Pe coming in contact with one of the flukes of her anel3ohr, by which means her bottom had been stove in, an d B ",,: , filled and sunk. This was only a supposition, made fr": r the fact of the boat being at 'present lying on "- anchor. Alice Gabutt, the wife of a weaver at Bl a ckburn ,cl t o posed to going down by the boat with the decea se ' Lytham on Saturday, and to there being five rasp - board at the time. 110 This being the whole of the evidence, the inquiq adjourned till Friday, Oct. 2 ; the jury, however, er t be be called together before that time, in case any of oe missing bodies are found. It is believed that theYoo washed out to sea. Green has left a widow w h itt le children ; Morrow a widow and two. children ; a widow and childi; Holden a widow and child; - 'haw was a singleiram LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Daii) LONDON, Sept. 21.--Wind thia day at noon, light airs and fine. r tlir COWES, Sept. 23.—Wind E. by E.—Arrived -- Cl ot. rine, from Pesagna for Hamburg ; Carl Emile, from Croix. ,„„i, ~ SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 23.—Wind N.E.—Saued.--P`"" ton (s), for New York. -cr, S' PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--,r,'4, Emery, from Richebuoto for Hull. Sailed —Lady' t"- for Cape of Good Hope, lilil ltrn CARDIFF, Sept. 23.—Wind E N.E.--Sailed -- for Bahia. , : 1.-' QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 22.—Wind E.S.E. — A rri ve d Westmoreland, from Quebec, j oje, SUNDERLAND, Sept. 23.—Wind S.—Sailed—Agr for Singapore. Ott HULL, Sept. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sea SerP,e,o, from Bird Island ; George, Quebec. Sailed—Dan n for OFF DUI Bombay. V' SOFITC, Sept. 23..--Arrived — Lady Macnaogbte from SW Moulmin. ANSEA, e Sept. 23.—Wind N.—Sailed—Ball - v oile' for Coquimbo. 1 STROMNESS, Sept. 21.—The Brazilian, from Li vo roa to Narva, put in hero, 16th inst., leaky ; has been lal the ground. and will discharge. 0 3 Vino, Sept. 20.—The Eliza (brig), of Sunderlancl,vo; Shields for Lisbon, sunk at sea, Sept. 12, o ff filly" grew saved. vli lb NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The stern of a large vessel, 0 " John Westley" painted on it, came ashore, 23d Jail' Mayagna. er QUEBEC, tn Sept. 11.—The City of Toronto, frora, I -1 0 je / pool for Montreal, is ashore in the Straits of D elo has been condemned ; cargo discharging. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) * SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday, 10.30 A. Wind W. by S. f f o o Arrived— John Wesley, Gulnare, and Martlop w er, Sunder; Courier, steamer, Jersey; Havre , 't !,:filet, Sailed—Charlotte, for Guernbey ; Despatch , stu. Jersey ; Alliance, steamer, Havre, to iSP LrontrooL, Thursday ao Wind S. O . Arrived—Wildfire, and Malakhoff, from Bo l; fucius, London ; Alf inba de9np Alfredo; Bilboe, ; Nathalie, Bor 1. Off—St. Simon Seal, Buenos Ayres ; Union , 0 3 01 '0, WATERFORD: Sept. Wind E.S.E. Arrived —Mine, from Constantinople. Sept 0 DUBLIN, --- Wid S.W. Arrived—Vry Handle, from Taganrog ; Belle rottelt° Barbadoes ; Thomas, Antwerp. BEA 0, Sep t. L:WARM OP Wind, S.E. cam The Pandora, from Liverpool to Carbonear, shore in Red Wharf-bay this morning. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAVO GRIVHSRND, Thursday, 9 . 36 ;;6 , Wind E. by N.; tide first hour's ebb; weather u. Arrived, Sept. 23 Seisermandes, from Havano,.ooe Sailed, Sept. 24—Aleppo, steamer, for Cons tan t Sailed—Emperor, for Sunderland. DELL, Thursday, 9 *fr ot Wind S.W. ; moderate. Passed, Sept. 22 and 23—Kenny, from Ned erei re ' r ° Valentia ; Rosati, for Trinidad ; Maria Jose, for P Hyalmer, for Rio Janeiro—all from London. 00 - 4 , Passed off Dover, Sept. 23— Bologna, from -110-e - 60_ 0 J for Bremen ; Treakermandez, from Hamburg, for 0 v quil ; W. S. Lindsay, from Cronstadt ; Athens, ft° men—both for New York; Ambrosia. n t i ele Passed, Sept. 21—Balder, and Secret, from -v Eagle, from Manilla—all for London. I!,f A P I Report of the ship Eugle, from Manilla :—Sa lle ;* 3; passed Angier, July 3, St. Helena, Aug. k e p t, 11; sion, Aug. 15, Equator, Aug. 19, St. Michael's , sil ig ;(l spoke, in Straits of Sunda, barque Elizabeth, fre ui n beogi a t pore, for London , 15 days out; off St. Helena *°'' b oi, signals with English ship Shooting Star, from 1 3 ° 133 / 4 11u ; Liverpool, 53 days out ; Aug. 23, spoke schoon er days from Lagos, for Loudon, wished to be reY,, 01 6 . Aug. 25, lat. 10.53 N., spoke brig Reward, 3 2 d s l, - d London, wished to ba reported ; Aug. 6, exclioniep_ft.'"/ nals with the ship Joseph Farrant, bound N.B. ; . 16 exchanged signals with ship Beloochie, standing go -11,0 June 4, John Collius, seaman, fell through th e o,olclol in the chain locker into lower hold, and before he wi n ,extricated was dead ; Scilly, Sept. 18 ; easterly the time in the channel. MARKET NEW3.--(This Dal.) CORN EXCHANGE. C O' o GENERAL AVERAGE _PRICES OF BRITISH - 0 . e n t : For the week ended Sept. 24, 1857, made up frora,,,tl'oo' turns of the Inspectors in the different Ci t i es and "x° .4 0 England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. O i tti WHEAT I BARLEY I OATS I RYE BEANS. I 450 56s Dd 423 3d 26s 5d 37s Od 45s 4 d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. r. t 4,44 t WHEAT 1 BARLEY I OATS I RYE I BEANS I 410 I 58s 4d 41s Sd. 27s ld 398 Od 46s 9d • 01 ENGLISH 'GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. 110- Wheat, 135,244; barley, 28,275; oats, 8,257; ry e ' beans 4,680 ; peas, 1,709 quarters. -- 6 0 (1 MEAT MARKETS. ( 18 0 ,?i to, NEWGATIC AND LEADENHALL. — WO bad A fair , 30 r , , - ,3/ for each kind of moat, at full prices :—Beef, frovi„, 40v 4s 6d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d; Veal, 43 Od b" CA' Pork, 4s Od to 5s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. ell A fo r „4 SOUTHALL, Sept. 23.—We had a steady demair 2 ( 1 t' f yr —There kind of stock, at very fill prices:--Beef, from 0 0 °I. P . 4 8 s d io • t ; do lV m i t u or t o4 to Rs n pio: 3 ls s pe ti ep d rt.B tl 2 s B3, 3 . Od to 5s Od per 81bs ; Quarter-old siness doing here to-day : —Beef, from 2s 10d t°,„ ci lh a o Mutton, 43 .4d to 5s 4,1; Veal „4s Od to 5s Od c t i ' to each. rkVethewael, 4s Od to 4e 0 f ~ assotffoornaelly. pia.: 0:::: tli,l , -- , do HAY MARKETS. 01 r 4 4. SMITIIIPIELD.—Meadow hl 21 105 to 4/ %°;,, f 1 0- 4/ 5s to 5i 5 3 ; an d s t raw y ll 58 to 1/ 103 P A fair average supply, and a moderate demana• 010001 CIIMBEBLAND.—Meadow hay, 21 153 to 41 85; r 1°- 41 03 to 51 5s ; and straw, 11 5s to 1/ 103 Pu l Supply tolerably goad, and trade firm. , al WiirrEoHAFEL.—Meadow hay, 21 12s to 4 1 4/ 1 41 41 Os to 51 5s ; and straw, 1/ 5 3 to 11 103 Pu Trade steady. _ 40! • rori'" ply A WHAM{ ASHOBL—The carcase of an e h" , yif;, o o h ied whale, 42 feet long, was towed to Grimsby by the tfr 3 ererday, and is now on shore there, as tonie who go to see it by its vast proportions. DRURY-L ANE THEATRE. Mr. Roberts, the American tragedian, last night es. sayed the arduous character of "King Lear," and more than confirmed the favourable impression he had made in " Sir Giles Overreach." The version played was Nahum Tate's, which we believe is generally used on the American stage—a poor compliment, by the way, to the genius of Shakespeare ! It has, however, the merit, for a star actor, ef throwing almost the whole interest of the play into the character of the old King, whose impetuous and irritable temper was admirably portrayed by Mr. Roberts, who appears not to aim so much at making startling points as to give truth ful and intelligent rendering of his author, lie played last night with greater ease and confidence, and his voice seemed much stronger and more sonorous than on his first appearance. The madness of Lear was, however, too studied to be natural ; it lacked the grandeur of distraught majesty ; and the scene on the heath in the storm fell rather tamely. In the subse qnent scenes, especially that with Edgar—who speaks a portion of the language of the Fool, whom Tate has taken out of the play—Mr. Roberts was eminently suc cessful, his scene over the dead body of Cordelia was as pathetic as anything we have for a long time witnessed on the stage. He was recalled three times during the performance—at the end of the first and second acts, and finally by acclamation on the , fall of the curtain. Mr. Belton, who played Edgar, ren dered the part very creditably, and was deservedly applauded throughout. Mr. Stuart gave a rough and vigorous portraiture of the villain Edmund. Mr. Bar rett played the Duke of Kent with excellent effect ; the ' part had been cast to Mr. A. Younge, but owing to that gentleman's indisposition, the part was taken at a very short notice by Mr. Barrett. The female charac ters are not very prominent, but they wore adequately sustained by Miss Portman, Miss Morrell, and Mrs. Vickery, in the characters of Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan. The entertainments concluded with the farce of Bamboozling. THE IMPERIAL MEETING IT STUTTGARDT. (From the Siecle of yesterday.) "We conceive the anxiety manifested by Austria at the approaching interview of the two sovereigns; she experiences the fate of those who haying attempted to intrigue with everybody are suddenly umasked. trig, after having been ungrateful to Russia and scarcely loyal to France, can inspire no sympathy. When w e observe the petty obstacles raised by her in the Moldo- Wallaohian question, which thanks to the energyy of our Government, has been solved by the inhabitants in a sense favourable to the ideas of good policy, we are no less surprised at the pretensions of Austria than at the forbearance of France. What will be the nature of the satisfaction given to France What will be toe extent of the lesson inflicted on the fallacious policy of Austria ? It would be bold to reply to these questions. If we thought that our voice would be hearkened to, we should gladly express our wows, which coincide with those entertained by all who have patriotism in their heart and a sincere sympathy for op pressed nations. We can appreciate the difficulties that may oppose the firmest will in questions of so delicate a nature ; but France has recovered her influence in the councils of Europe, and the chief of the State is not ignorant of ,the desire of the na tion. We sincerely believe that a better opportunity has never existed for demanding the desired atonement. The young Emperor of Russia must wish to see the destinies of Europe regulated in a lasting manner ; he cannot accomplish his grand and noble mission of civi lising his subjects unless Europe is in peace, unless the conditions of its equilibrium are regulated in an equi• table and exculpatory manner. Timid minds may ac cuse us of seeking to set Europe in flames. We care not for such accusations. We have the most soveteign disdain for an egotistical policy, which lives from hand to month, and can anticipate nothing. We cannot ad mit the existence of people who are not passionate for the grandeur of their country. We avow that no sacri• fices exist Oat we are not prepared to make - in favour of the increased influence of France ; and we shall never oppose an obstacle to any measure calculated to assure her preponderance." The Siecle continues to speak in the highest terms of the English alliance. A VERY HARD CASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. SI11,—" A very hard case." Two of my neighbours, Morley v. Andrews quarrel and proceed to law. lam subpceaaed by the plaintiff, for what reason I do not know. I attend at Guildhall seven or eight days. The matter is referred to arbitration and settled. I rend in my bill to pltintiff's attorney for 10/. ; he tenders me 1/. 19s. I, paying a rental of 2001. a-year, and about 70/. taxes, consider the tender not sufficient for leaving my business for those days, so refuse it ; finding after wards I could get no more, I agree to take it. Plaintiff's solictor then refuse?, and I summon him for the amount, 1/. 19s. Now comes the hardship of the matter. lam charged for entering plaint, ss. 10d. ; hearing, 14s. ; am told by his Honour I have no right to summors him or any one else, and am mulcted in 15s. defendant's ex penses, the first two charges, I am told, being decidedly wrong. So, for a matter I have nothing to do with , I am taken for eight days out of my business, and am 1/. 14s. 103. out of pocket. Surely there is some remedy. Can you inform me how to act? I beg to forward you particulars of the plaint, and am, Sir, yours, &0., J. C. BARRATT. 369, Strand, three doors East of Exeter-hall, Sept. 22, 1857. The Nora British. Mail reports that the annual match of the Glasgow and Mid-Lothian Rifle Clubs was shot on Saturday hat, near Falkirk, by eight members from each of the respective clubs. The number of shots was 20 each, 10 at 100 and 10 at 200 yards, fair off shoulder. Atter a keen contest, in which the chances of success frequently varied, the Glasgoyv Club were ul• timately successful. The strong sunshine that prevailed during the match prevented the shooting being so close as would otherwise have been the case. MDLLB. RaeaßL DllMB.—leldllo. Rachel (says the Pays) has installed herself in the houie which has been prepared for her near Cannes, in which she is to pass the winter. A celebrated physician whom she has oon ■nited at Paris before her departure has prescribed a regimen for her, which he declares will infallibly restore her to health. One of the rules laid down by him is that she is not to speak during the whole time of her treat ment, and the patient is stated to have accepted this condition, writing her questions and answers on a slate. In a letter which Ilene. Rachel has written to one of her friends, she declares her intention of conforming to the prescription, and of not uttering a word until the month of May next.— Galignani. APPLICATION OF CHLOIIOFOIOI TO BEES.—The John O'Groat Journal says :—Last week a successful applica tion of this powerful agency was made by Dr. Sinclair to a hive of bees which were about to swarm at the gar den of B.rrogill Castle. Mey. The process was very simple and effective. It was a complished by merely placing a handkerchief, sprinkled with chloroform, on the hive, when in a short time the whole swarm dropt into the new scapo, leaving behind theca no less than 501 b. of honey. We believe the process is not nevi, as it bad been tried in the southern part of this county befL re, but in that case the dose was too strong, and most of the bees were destroyed. PENINSULAR Mem—Yesterday the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet Euxine, Captain J. Weeks, Admiralty agent, Lieut. Cashman; R.N., arrived at Southampton with the Peninsular mails. Her dates are—Gibraltar, Sept. 16 ; Cadiz, 17 ; Lisbon, 19 Oporto, 20 ; Vigo, 20. She brought• 28 passencers, amongst whom were Judge Haliburton and Mr. W. S . Lindsay, M.P. (out and home) and three distres.-ei British subjects from Cadiz. YellowTfehveerEwuaxsinreephoartdeda to have broken cent a t Lisbon. Supposed to have b een brought from Rio i n a vessel laden with hider. The weatherf health,e:ntin but it wassultry.ueddryandexpected she was the last v cleaness billel that would be so favoured. Great Th and made to-da inter, their Ment Rupp] and I no io It pond at pr :-4 5 7 and seri ball ThE gig bul ing will Inca sen mat Seir clay nese earl ......... Lenl are : dear are gotia cireu thorn islvel Tt to th • Th "All tory ness Sligg( by th both Boni reco aim( oth€ thi NOD 'WI He Ea ro A 21