The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-19 00:00:00

OPERA BUFFA.—St. JAMES'S THEATRE. (Entirely Re-decorated).---Signor RoNZANI has tho honour to announce that the Season will commence on TUESDAY, the 3d of November next, 1857. Full particulars will be duly announced. Prospectuses may be had, and I Sub3criptions arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEITRE, Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of TIIE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon.—Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for a n OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol lowing Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co rolli, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Krs, H. Manley, and Miss Lou:sa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Brabarn, Mr. Ferdinand Glover Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, 3 , 1 r. Wallworth, Mr. G. Honey, Mr:Weiss, and Mr.W. Harrison. Conductor, Kr. Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's BAJA., and. the Orches tral Union. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian Opera. Stage Manager. Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Srnythson, THIS EVENING, Auber's opera of THE CROWN DIAMONDS. • To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 11s. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circe, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls.—The Bex Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mi. J. B. Buckstone. I'HIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with (4th time here these eight years) Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Mi , .s A. Sedgcvick. Followed by a new farce, MY SON, DIANA! To conclude with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. 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 it ewer Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, ADEL PHI. Le g P. e,—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the home-ma-le Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, Mr. Wrig'4 and Miss Arden. After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Blue Peter. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Wright ; Black-eyed Susan, Nliss Arden. To conclude with the new sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, etc. STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Mr. Kiuloch, Mr. Clarke, Miss Herbert. To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which Miss Craven will sustain four characters, Reginald Rattle • cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA. TRAVIATA; or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J. Clarke. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; Gallery 6 , 1. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls. OPAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. 1:4) Lessees, Messrs. Rolmon and Emden. THIS EVENING, will be performed (first time) a new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Cooper; Mrs. Stirling, Misses Wyndham and Swanborough. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brongh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 2OYAL SURREY THEATRE. l_) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmoro ; Miss Webster, Miss M. Eburne, Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD. To conclude with TRICKS AND TRIALS. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road,— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dzc., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs, Badzey, Madlle. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott, Miss Brunell, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Far,-ant, S. !toner, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Eime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack ney. eianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jenghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, ac.. until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at ha.f-past Eight and. half past Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY -- Morn. 31 min. aft. 2 -Even. 46 rain. aft. 3 To-Mmtßow—Morn. 2 rain. aft. 3—Even. 15 rain aft. 3 SHE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 18. THERMOMETER, IN THR &UDE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this morning and daring the night 60 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.67—falling rapidly. WIND, E.S.E. ; rather fresh, with dull weather. Rain in the night. OCTOBER 19. 61—highest since noon yesterday. sa—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAROMETER, down to 29.52 now up to 29.67. IV:m! , E. S.E.. ; light, with dull weather, but improving. More heavy rain in the night and this morning. \ ts. --I* j 4 `-- '-fP"-- • / LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 19, 1357. The Bank returns are again unfavourable. There has been a decrease of bullion of 552,7491., of notes unemployed of 581,6401., and an in crease of " other securities" of 563,0341. This is of course very agreeable to the Batik, although the community at large may think very differently on the sulject. The Directors know that under any circumstances they will be saved, and conse quently regard the emergency with comparative indifference. Government interposition will pre vent any act of bankruptcy on their part. A letter similar to that of the 25th October, 1847, will prove effectual at any moment. The knowledge that the Ba.ak has power to advance any amount of notes without limit will produce the effect with ! out the possibility of doubt or aiffizulty. The American intelligence is of a very gloomy charact3r. Tice Eschange is greatly against Eng land, and there is no prospect of any decided im provement for a considerable time. The Banks of Philadelphia and Baltimore have with one con sent suspended cash payments,. and the people are acting as currency reformers on their own account) and by their general agreement to accept the notes, although temporarily inconvertible, as cash, they will get through the crisis, which might otherwise be very formidable. There must, however, be considerable exports of bullion for some time to come, and as we have already explained, there is no way by which the formidable consequences of• such an opera tion can be averted. It is true that the scarcity of money is merely artificial, pro duced "by the mischievous 'and whimsical Provisions of the Bank Charter Act of 1844." But still it will very prejudicially affect the indus trious classes, and occasion great privation and suffering. Seven p ea - cent, is bad enough but it is still worse riot to be enabled to obtain the ne cessary monetary facilities at any cost. The know ledge that an unlimited supply of Bank -notes could be obtained at even a higher rate, ou unobjection able security, would produce the offt:ct 30 urgently required. To effect the desired object, the people must set their own shoulders to the wheel. The press can do much, but there must be a founda tion to work on. There must be "the pres sure from without," and that of a steady and resolute character. It is well worth the trouble ; and a tenth part of the energy and de termination exhibited is reference to the bread tax will enable the nation to purchase bread, and that of the best description. The use of gold should be economised. There is from fifty to Sixt— y millions of sovereigns in general use, which could be replaced by I'. notes. In Scotland and Ireland these notesi are used in the transactions of everyday life. Gold coin is very unpopular, and when received from some wandering tourist, it is ex changed for notes on the first favourable opportu nity. The small notes would be willingly accepted. They saved the nation in 1825, and would do so again in 1857 if resorted to. An Order in Coun cil, or even a Ministerial Letter, would be all that could be required. If the Act is to be suspended, it may as well be to the full extent required. A step involving such extraordinary responsibility, and so undisguised a departure from the law, can only be justified on the ground of absolute necessity, and when adopted should be fully adequate to the emergency. There is no law that fixes the extent and denomination of the Exchequer-bills issued for the public ser vice. They may be delivered for 11. as well as for 1,0001. It was only the laziness of a former Camptroller of the Exchequer that led to the issue of the larger denominations of bills. Now the small bills would test the efficacy of the system that we advocate. Being receivable in payment of taxation, and duties of every de scription, they would be readily accepted for any payment that could be required. The agricul turist, the manufacturer, the butcher, or baker, would rejoice at receiving what possessed a purchasing power, and could readily be disposed of in satisfaction of any liabil:ty. They might not be hoarded, but that would be a great ad vantage. Hoarding is one of the inevitable re sultsthe b Ilionist system. Mr. JAMBES WU,- u sox, the best financier connected with the Govern ! ment, has proved that the issue of twenty millions lof one pound notes would be equivalent to the digging up of an equal amount of gold in the Icentre of England. We know the excitement that would be produced by such a discovery. Why may we not produce a similar result by different and far easier means ? Almost simultaneously, Lord CANNING and Lord ELLENBOROUGII appear in the papers to gether ; they both appear also by written docu ments, and we have not therefore to judge their acts by the statement of others. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH has, we acknowledge, one advantage, he writes entirely uncontrolled by any advisers what ever; poor Lord CANNING writes as the ama• nuensis of a Council who would dictate to him wrong, if his unacclimated Eaglish sense would otherwise have dictated to him aright. It is a great mercy not to be pestered with a self-sufficient Supreme Council, still, as Lord CANNING has the right to toss to the winds the advice of those whom he is bound to hear, he must be held responsible for accepting the bills on his credulity or weakness, drawn by them in favour of the " covenanted " Civil Ser vice. We rather fancy that Lord ELLENBOROUGLI, Or Sir CRARLES NAPIER, if living, or Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL, or any of the really great men who have held for us the North-west Provinces, would, in the post of Governor-General, have listened to the incompetents, and, having made them a polite bow, would have retired to his closet and have dictated his own despatch with hardly a thought of what he had heard, unless, indeed, what had fallen from old General Low, the mili tary member of the Council. All the pert and conceited flippancies of GRANT, the legal quibbles of PEACOCK, and the complacent follies of the effete Mr. DORIN, would by such men have been barely endured. The despatch which was to go would indeed have often been ready cut and dried for the messenger, before they had ever listened as in duty bound to the clishmaciaver of the Fours,. However, here the two documents lie before us. Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S we adverted to in part on Saturday. Unable to attend the meeting of the Winchcomb Agricultural Associa tion, he writes to it his views of the character of the mutiny and the mutineers, and of the mode by which the sons of the soil may best discharge their duty of providing the requisite force to re tain, as well as to reconquer India. Ou the latter point we gave our opinion on Saturday. Let our readers, however, compare the tone of Lord ELLENBonouces remarks on the deserts of the mutineers, with those of Lord CANNING in his circular to the Indian authorities. Lord ELLEN- BOROUGH, at least, writes in the spirit of his countrymen ; appealing to them to aid in raising a competent militia, he says— " Gentlemen, you may not have looked into all the details of what has taken place in India, but you must know this—that we have there a great war forced upon us by rebels who would de prive all our countrymen of their Eves, and Ens land of an empire—that where we placed our con fidence, we have been met with treachery— where we acted with kindness, we have encoun tered murder—murder, not directed only against man by whom resistance might be made, and from whom wrong; miglit have been feared, but extend in- - , equally b unoifending, helpless women—to to children at their knees, and to the infants at their breasts—sparing none, and cften ieflicting dfeath with torture upon the body where it bad alrea , :iy, more cruelly tortured the mind. " We have seen there, in almost every instance of mutiny, oneaeneral leliberate design, not oni:ry to deprive 11.3 of ' the dominion we have so long held with Amtour, but to place us, as a people, uncle , : circumstances of outrage and of indignity, which, if we submit to them, must render us, in the eyes of all living men and of all future generations, a de spised and degraded race. will you submit to this? You will say you never will—you will have redress, and vengeance. We will say nothing about ven geance—that belongs only to a Higher Power ; but to punish crime so signally as to deter ali hereafter from its commission, and to vindicateour sovereign authority, this is no doubt our right, and it is our duty." Again, urging the value of their example, if a patriotic one, he exclaims— "lt is impossible to over-estimate its importance. There is nothing man holds dear for which we have not now to fight. If we should not bear ourselves manfully in the contest thus forced upon us, if we should not succeed in it, we must be content not only to lose the noblest empire in the world, but to make the name of Englishman a byeword of shame amongst nations. _ _ _ "The wives and daughters of our countrymen have been publicly violated, their children have been put to death with circumstances of cruelty surpassing all we read of in history as the punish ments inflicted by God upon the offending Jews. It has not bean deemed sufficient to destroy tr. We were first to be dishonoured, and this in a country through which we have proudly—perhaps too proudly—stalked as conquerors f or a h un d r ,d years. ' These are unquestionably the sentiments which stir the bosom of every Englishman at home, the sentiments which arouse farmers and farmers' men to do what in them lies to wipe out the foulest blot ever inflicted on the fame of England. Bat we turn to the document issuing from the Governor and his Council, all of them persons al most on the spot—issuing from this ma T) , and theso men, if, indeed, several of thew deserve the name ; for to us, in one's native clime, it seems as if a tropical climate had reduced them to the condition of those unfortunate porsomi who guard the Earems of Rajahs, Nabobs, Peish t was, and E lstern Emperors, and who cannot be stung pp e es rsible i n di gna ti on with indigni ties ung to o either sx._we turn to this document, and what is its object ? To proclaim martial law wherever mutineers ar e in foreo ? To en - c .urage firmness and decision when everything Aepenols upon it? To refer the civil authr.:- ' rities to the military commanders, as the best judges of what course the former should take in each district ? Nothing, indeed, of this kind from Mr. Home Secretary BEADOIV—no ; tut Trir, SETN. LONDON just a clause of condonation for what they might have done in the way of severity in their respec tive districts on the ground of necessity—and then a whole string of wet-blanket paragraphs " lest measures of extreme severity should be too hastily resorted to, or carried too far." Some of the in structions seem to be almost surplusage, as when the A.BDIELS of a mutinous regiment are pointed out as fit subjects for a " free pardon ;" which, to any man in his senses, reads very much like the QUEEN'S granting a free pardon hare to a con victed man when proved afterwards to be inno cent. Then that mere deserters should be handed over, when possible, to the military authorities— of course, only we are sorry the Indian Civil Service needs instruction on such points. But then fol lows a list of minute instructions for Civil officers of the company placing them, as much as may he in the condition of children, and designed to cheek independent and vigorous action. " Above all things be not too severe," is the pith and meaning of some dozen long para graphs. Now all this may sound very kind and very good. It would be a shocking thing when half the &Toys have outdone the worst atrocities of a JEFFRIES, that any of them should fall into the hands of a Civil Service JEFFRIES. A shocking thing, we freely own, if any Sepoy who had saved an officer, or had vainly tried to dissuade from mutiny, should suffer with the fiends who have murdered their officers, and worse than murdered women and children, and men, too—but of this last we believe no soldier, not to say civil judge, could be guilty in cold blood. We own, however, we do not think it a very shocking thing if some scores or hundreds of mutineers who all, by a most righteous law, deserve death, should 'meet with their full deserts instead of transpor tation or slavery. We have not, nor has any Englishman, the slightest wish for one stroke of needless severity ; but, while Delhi was yet un taken, while Lucknow was threatened with the fate of Cawnpore, while NANA SAHIB yet com manded his thousands, and while Oude swarmed with rebels, we think a cramping wet blanket cir cular of this kind about the worst thing which could possibly have been issued ; natives may hear of it, and, at least, able civil servants will be fettered by it. If a circular needed to be sent, surely it should have been one authorising the local authorities to subordinate themselves in all things to the military authorities. Holding them responsible, not for overstepping the restraint of leniency, but for allowing an offender to escape on whom they could lay their hands. We think we see the drift of the whole. It is to uphold as much as possible in the face of such a large influx of English troops, Mr. Secretary BEADON'S pet civil service ; to repre sent them as the supreme authority everywhere, and to give a tacit warning to the CAMPBELLS, the HA.VELOCKS, the NEILLS, and all the military men, that they, even when the country is full of mutinous soldiers, are to play second fiddle to the gentlemen of the Honourable East India Com pany's Civil Service. It seems also to be another instance on the part of Lord CA7gNING of the same vacillation which sent back, and then recalled, the Nepaulese Contingent ; which refused, and then accepted, the Calcutta Volunteers ; which tole rated the sale of thousands of arms, and at last forbade it ; which, according to this last mail, has kept back OUTRAM and the reinforcements for HAVELOCK at least ten days, although the fate of Lucknow hung on a horse-hair 1 and which kept the Commander-in-Chief -out of a seat in the Council, when he ought rather to have united in his single person the offices of the Governor, and the Council too, with that of Commander-in- Chief. India now needs a competent Dictator. There really appears to bo a contagion in crime as in disease. Ever since the Sepoy atrocities came to the knowledge of this country, we have had the public journals filled with the record of evil deeds the most brutal and the most sangui nary. Scarcely a week passes without horrifying us with the narrative of two or three detestable murders and attempts at assassination. It is scarcely a month since we took occasion in these columns to comment upon the frequency of late of a crime we then designated (in spite of so many examples calculated to produce a very different impression) as one particularly and essentially un- English in its character. The dastardly use of the knife —with a view to the possible prevention of the frequent recurrence of which infamy we urgently suggested the application to the perpe trators of it of some very ignominious species of punishment. Since then, in corroboration, or rather in direct enforcement, of our argument, how many horrors of this kind have we not had cause to enumerate ! Besides the murdered body of the wretched woman whose remains were discovered in Leigh Weeds, with a bullet-hole in the skull and the throat cut —there is the horrid double murder down at Warleigh House, where the two poor victims (hus band and wife) were stabbed to death, actually while paying a visit of good-fellowship. There is the unfortunate man DRURY, who was destroyed by wounds inflicted by some sharp instrument down at Liverpool. And another yet more fright ful event of the same kind in the same place—the fratricide of the butcher struck down with a blow from a table-knife by his own brother, while the family were seated at supper, quarrelling. There is the last horrible wife -murder in London, whore the murderous instrument was a rawi. There is the mangled body of the man found in the Re gent's Canal, with two cuts in the throat, proving death t) have resulted in the same way from the same foul treatment. Finally —to make an end of this frightful catalogue of horrors —there is the hideous discovery of those fright fully mutilated fragments of a human form found upon the abutment of Waterloo-bri3ge—in regard to which it appears absilutely preposterous to suppose, for an instant, that it is nothing worse than the brutal hoax of some crack-brained Medi cal Students. And we may state at once that we feel constrained to regard any such supposition as preposterous (among other reasons) for the few very simple and obvious reasons here following —Firstly, because it is wholly incredible that any one, however crack-brained, could run the fearful risk of being discovered with such a very suspici ous carpet-bag full of goods in their possession. Secondly, because it is yet more incredible (if pos sible) that anyone, however fool-hardy, would voluntarily run the still more frightful risk of be ing caught depositing such a load, in such a situ ation, under such a combination of circumstances. Thirdly, that, allowing it, for the sake of argu ment, to be a hoax of this description, it is incon ceivable that, in spite of the darkness of night, that shelving abutment should just exactly have been hit upon, with a dangling rope, when even in the bright daylight that same abutment is in visible from the overhanging parapet. Besides, the -deliberate opinivn anivol at by the prof-'s ional wirm4sses aaments diitinetly to this—that -.be kind of nvltilltion. is such a; no anatomist could, by possibility, have accomplifled in the process of dissection. Moreover, the notion of such a hoax as the one hinted at, is altogether in compatible with the discovery of those long fair silky hairs (from a woman's head) twisted among the raw bones and blood stained apparel—a discovery not made, observe obviously or inevitably, but by the aid of the mi croscope ! Wherefore, everything considered— even tha very contorted position of some of the limbs prior to their mutilation, as shown by the knee-joint and the elbow-joint, and as sworn to on oath before thoCoroner'slnquest by Mr. PAINTER —everything considered, we say, these miserable remains "speak with most miraculous tongue" of Murder, and of Murder the most. Foul and Exe crable ! Nay, in conclusive testimony of this, was it not, again and again, solemnly declared upon oath by that same most competent and credible witness, the divisional surgeon of Bow-street, that the deadly wounds visible even upon those muti lated remains, must have been inflicted during life—beea ttsc a great deal of blood had extravasated into the tissues, having infiltrated in some cases round the puncture or in c i s i on t o th e ex t en t o f two or three inches ? Clearly and undeniably therefore this last mentioned horror is another case in point—another evidence of the atrocious fre quency of the dastardly use of the knife, either or With fiendish deliberation a w l malice savag e passion,aforethought. Consequently there have, of late, been multi plying fast around us terrible reasons for a speedy and earnest interposition on the part of the Legis lature, as soon as may be in any - way practicable after the commencement of the next session of Parliament. Au interposition, namely, with a view to the deterring, if possible, from this par ticular crime by the appliOation to its perpetrators of some appropriately terrible and ignominious punishment. His Highness the Prince Ra lziwill has taken his de parture from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Park • riis Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Cour,toss Bernstorff have left town on a visit to Frances Countess Wallegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham. Lord and Lady Templemore arrived in town a few days since from Folkestone. Lady Alice Peol and the Misses Peel have left Marble Hall, Twickenham, for Brighton. The Right Hoc Sir Charles Wood left his official residence at the admiralty on Saturday, to join Lady M ar y a nd family ht Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. Mr. John Pritch ar d, M.P., and Mrs. Pritchard have left Farrauce's Hotel, Belgravia, fur their seat, Broseley Hall, Shropshire. The Earl and Countess of Wemyss are at Gasford Houle, East Lothian, surrounded by a family circle. Lord and Lady Elcho aro expected in town shortly. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Saturday for Brotdlands. The Duke of Beaufort crmo to fown on Saturday morning from Newmarket, and has since gone to join the duchess and family, at Balinington, Gloucestershire. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have arrived at the Clarendon from Broxmouth Park, Dunbar, N.B. The Earl of Lansdale, who came to town early in the past week friar Lowther Castle, has taken his departure for Paris, to make a brief visit to that capital. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough arrived at their residence in A.rington-streot a few days since, from Manby Hall, Lincolnshire. Viscount Palmerston left town on Saturday for Broad lands. The Princes of Siam, on a mission to this court, are expected to arriv e in England this week. The state apartments at Claridge's Hotel are prepared for their re ception. The Duke of Wellington tzar again granted to the public access to the art-treasures in Apsley House. Under admirabl e arrangements, a limited issue of tickets, and attending favourable circumstances, an hour of rare interest itiay be spent among the pictures and statuary of this noble mansion. Sir Edmund Head will, it is expected, leave London this day (Niondty) on his return to Canada. Major-Genertl Havelock is to take his present rank from the Ist instead of the 30th of July. THE QUEEN OF OUDX.— We are informed that this august lady is at present dangerously ill at a temporary residence occulied by her Majesty at Richmond. The Avon aul the Heatherbell sailed from Melbourne on the 10th of August for Engllnd ; the former with 51,000 of gold, and the latter with 20,0000 z. They are now 68 days out. THE Aaleas AN MAILS.—The British and North American 110 31.1 Mail Steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, left the Mersey on Saturday morning with the usual mails for the American continent, a full cargo and 212 passengers. THE OUTWARD WEST INDIA AND PRNINSULAR MAILS. --The Royal Mail Company's steamship Orinoco, Capt. Boynton, l•: ft S)utllauiptun on Saturday with the usual West India ant Pacific mail., 179 passengers, specie of the value of 20,11061., jewellery 3 ; 0001., and a full carg Among the passengers ate Major Ord and suite, Captain Palmer, Colonel Whitfield, &c. On the same day tics Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamship Tagus, Captain Christ.an, left Southamptcn with the usual Peninsular mail, 41 first-class and 15 second-class passengers, specie for Gibraltar, Lisbon, and Cadiz, of the value of 47,21, and a full cargo. THE AUSTRALIAN MAlLS.—Great complaints come in to us from all qukrters with respect to the negligeecs which prevails at lath the Melbourne and Sydney Pest offices in not forwatding letters and papers which are paid sr o f Oprietoabomstltetntteva Marseilles. One would thi n k th a t o a espeoially al all p a p ers an d l e tt ers are prepaid, and hr e rate of postage is officially declared to be the proof of tht route by which they are to be sent could be easily arraillea.—Austr llian an l New Zealand Gazette. _ THE OVERLAND t ~.lISTRALIAN MAlL—Many of our to anticipate the early receipt of an luatralia ; in fact, that the Au g ust forward in due course. This is a mcmisconception: me fromo s e f e te the arrangements determined upon in the colonies. The next intelligence, vie Alexandria and Marseilles, will not arrive until Nov. 2, as it was resolved that no stainer should be despatched to Su, a during August, but that the September mail would, be Bydney on the 11th and from Mel , and thenceforth, it was ex pe c t e d, there would be no fu r th er i n t errupt i on to t h e regu l ar mo n thly service. Ta o arr i va l o f t h e R oya l Charter is equivalent to an August mail, as s h e l e ft th e mi ddl e o f d b u fm ly ra t e or o w n forwarded ed l f s ro th ia that month, and has raade the voyage in the rapid space of 63 lays.—Mining Journal, Oct. 17. RESIGNATION OF V ICE -A DMIRAL SIR MAURICE BER KELEY.—Toe death of E ar l Fi tz h ar di noe, the elder brother of V ce-Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley, 1C.C.8., and S:slor Naval Lerd of the Admiralty, having devolved nee; duti?is upon the admiral, arid placed him in a different position, the gallant officer has sent in his resignation as a Lord of the Admiralty. The arrange ments consequent upon this event, which has long been contemplated, have not yet transpired ; but we under stand that no officer senior to Sir Richard Dundee will be appointed.--Nited Service Gazette. SUDDEN DEATH OF LTEUTENANT-COLONEL MINTO, H.E.I.C.S.—On Friday night a painful sensation was created among theattendants of the Shades dining saloon, Leicester-square, by the sudden death of Lieut.-Colonel Minto, who bed been a f requen t er o f the sa l o o n . H o was sixty years of age, and on Monday he went. with a medical friend (Mr. J. Hope, of 142, Cambridge-street, Pimlico) to Newmarket &seise, and returned on Friday evening. He then west to the saloon and partook of fish and soup, and when the joint was placed before him, of which he did not partake, he suddenly fell from his chair. Long, the head waiter, ran to his assistance, and, on feeling his pulse, pronounced him dead. Dc. James, of Pall-mall, and other medical gentlemen, speedily attended, and pronounced lire to be extinct. A message was immediately despatched to Mrs. Minto, who came to the Shades, and caused Mr. J. Hope to be sett for. Mr. Hope then found that death was caused by ossification of the heart, under which disease the deceased had laboured for years. a:ceased was then conveyed in a cab to Cambridge-street. THIC POTATO BLIGHT. —The Banner of Ulster has the following statement with respect to the potato crop in the north of Ireland. From other palters of the king dom the account% are by no means se unpromising, but it would be idle to deny that the old fatal blight has made greater ravages even in the south and west than most people were prepared to admit before the crop had reached to full maturity :—" We regret to find that, as the real quality of the keeping' crop of this year comes to prcof on digging out, in this district, the proportion of unsound tubers is even larger than had been feared; and what is still more disheartening, that the ratio is further increased on storing, especially in pits, the most common practice. Prices, therefore, of potatoes fit for table use may be expected to go upwards as the season advances, not only from this cause, but on account of the large ex port certain to be required to make up the deficiency in Scotland, in the east of which country—the most fertile hineatdh,e livtiaacoerebTtl: and best cultivated portion—the diseaso has destroyed, in an incredibly short time, the bulk of the crop in some places."—Keatisk Observer. PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO THE RAMS oTntS d a s a t y e r last. at g C a O t iC e - GATE STATION MASTER.—tin interesting event took place silica the opening of the South Eastern line, now 12 years ago, was, in consideration of the careful and effi cient%nv 1 1 . 1 1 ' 1 : 1 i s station -master Wanner in which he. had performed the important duties devolving upon him, presented with a very hand some and elaborately chased silver t tnkard and a purse containing 70 sovereigns. We must record our indi vidual genie of the exemp'ary manner in whiCh Mr C, x lead has ever performed the ' most arduous and trying duties b e orgiug to his post. flaying constantly bad ?Ce3+,loU tri t rave l on that port i on ef the Seath Bestern ls • lee whie • directly under his care, we have frequewly wit "''' e d big vigilant watchfulness fe. the safe trandf of th a heavily lade?, trains, and his never-failing ur banity of manner to even the most exacting passengers. It is possible to find station masters the reverse of all this, and we quite agree with Mr. Coxhead's friends in their opinion that such good qualities deserve a substantial mark of approbation on the part of those who may have benefltted by them. MON DAY F,V EN E rav f., OCTOBER 19_ 1857 LATEsT NEWS, BERLIN, OCT. 16. The health of his Mjcsty yesterday gave signs of a progressive improvement. During the night his Majesty enjoyed a tranquil and fortifying sleep. BERLIN, OCT. 16, EVENING. According to the New Prussian Gazette it is impos;,ible that the King can for the moment re• sumo the reins of Government. An Austrian note declares that results favourable to the union of the Danubian Principalities, that is to say, the elections of the Divans, cannot modify the opinions of the Cabinet of Vienna on the question. The opening of the Germanic diet is fixed for the 22d inst. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. Their Majesties came to Paris yesterday after noon, and after stopping for a short time at the Tuileries went to pay a visit to the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, in the Place Vendome. A telegraphic despatch received by the French Government through Germany that the Prince de Joinville arrived on the Bth of October at Sebas- M. Christopoulos, the Minister of Public Instruc tion at Athens, has addressed an interesting com munication to the Paris Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres on some curious antiquities which have lately been discovered in Greece. "I am able to inform you," writes a Paris corres pondent of the Nord of Brussels, " that there is not a word of truth in the romance about Prince Murat published by the Independance. The Em peror Napoleon has nowhere made the proposition or insinuation about which that journal has thought to speck to its readers. His Majesty never spoke of the candidateship, and did not oven pronounce the name of the young Prince Murat either at Os borne on Stuttgart, and I believe that it would be very difficult to name a single serious poli tical circle in which there has been a question of it." We read in another column of the said journal :—" The rumour of the candidateship of Prince Murat as prince of the Roumains is not spread in official circles either at Paris or anywhere else. Probably the statement that is current in di plomatic circles is only an attempt to cause it to be credited." A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels says :—" There was something true in the rumour of a protest of the English and Austrian ambassa dors at Constantinople against the last Moldavian elections. What has occurred appears to be this : —M. de Prokesch having opened an investigation, pretended that he had discovered abuses of influence and illegalities as flagrant as those which signalised the first elections, and he intends, it is said, to sub mit them to the conference of Paris. This is what has given rise to the rumour in question." BOURSE, Oct. 17.—The following ware the last quotations : Can. fr. End of Month. 4i per- Con ts 3 per Coats 67 5 67 20 Bank Shares 2,975 Credit Fonciar 550 Credit Mobilier BOO Roman - Do. Account 797 50 Austrian - Belgian Fiedmoutese(s) 9ok— Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOB CASH. tr. c. fr c. Orleans 1,340 Western Northern - Strasburg Lyons and Med 835 New Ditto New Ditto... ....... 820 Grand Central 1 — Geneva — Sardinian Midi - RUSSIA. The Emperor and Empress of Russia have left Warsaw for St. Petersburg. A letter from St Petersburg of the 10th says : "The Grand Duchess Mary has returned to St. Petersburg ; her children preceded her by some days. Prince Gortschakoff, who is not to accom pany the Emperor to Kiew, is to be here on the 14th. The small squadron destined for tho posts of Eastern Siberia left the roadstead of Cronstadt on the Ist ; it consists of three corvettes and throe screw clippers. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Constantine were present at the depar ture of the flotilla. As each vessel passed before the prince and princess, the sailors cheered. The corvettes Olivuzza and Dvina have returned to Cronstadt after an absence of more than four years. The Academy of Sciences held on Wed , neqlay an extraordinary sitting to distribute the prizes left by Ceunt Alexis Ouvarof for the beet his -brical works and the beet dramas. For the former, the great prizes of 6,000 f. were not granted, none of the works sent in being of sufficient merit, buy a second prize of 2,0001 wag given to M. Rovinski for a History of Sacred Painting' in Russia. The prizes for plays were not given." ITALY. A letter from Rome of the 12th inst. announces that Cardinal Francisco do Medici was struck with apoplexy the preceding evening while paying a visit to Monsignor Guiseppe Stella, private camerist of his Holiness. Notwithstanding medical aid was speedily afforded bim, ho died at eight in the even ing, hrving previously received the last sacraments. The Cardinal was born at Naples the 28th Novem ber' 1808, and received the purple tho 16th Juue, 1856. Accounts from Genoa of the 15th inst. inform us that the Sardinian Minister of the Interior has re ♦oked the order of banishment issued against the refugees, Dr. Sacchi, Professor Calvin°, and the Advocate Cabussi. TURIN, Oct. 13.—8 y a notification, signed by Cavallo- e do Winderkh ere , Commandant of the Modenese Dragoons, and dated Carrara, Oct. 6, 1857, Martial law hai been once more proclaimed in the city and cominnne of Carrara, of the cause of which the M essaggiere di Modena of the 9th instant gives fife following'account. According to that journal, the Duke of Modena had raised the state of siege in the Carrara district last December because be thought that the punish ment inflicted on not a few disturbers of public order had been sufficient to repress the wide city of those wicked people who infest the city and commune of Carrara, but the con fidence, cherished by this most cl em e n t Prince had been far from realised, for after a few months assaultA, wounds, and murders were not only recom menced, but had been so frequently perpetrated as to give good cause for alarm to the peaceable inha bitants and to induce the Government, however unwillingly, to provide anew, by exceptional mea sures, against this rising evil. Things had arrived at this state on the occasion of the departure of a great part of the garrison of Carrara for the autumnal manoeuvres at Reggio, when some evil-disposed persons summonedeourage enough to insult some soldiers in the theatre on the evening of the 27th of the last month, and at the same time to express their contempt for the whole honourable class of which they formed a part. These provocations excited a confusion, in which a soldier and several civilians were slightly w )unded, but the fact was not devoid of an appearance of pre meditation, since ono of those arrested throw away a dagger with which he WAS armed when taken prisoner bythepolice. The moderation of the troops in this instance was probably mistaken for weakness, for in the afternoon of the next thy (the 28th) a fresh dead of extraordinary atrocity was committed. Three individuals belonging to the reserve of the army, that is to say—Serjeant Ribolini and privates Zeni and Rocchi—were on the high road of Greg nem, near Carrara, and not far from their own houses, quiet and unarmed, when they were sud denly attacked with stones and daggers by seven young men known to belong to the city or neigh bourhood. The two first named were killed out right, but Roechi survived two days, and identi fled one of the assassins, who had been arrested by the police. Five others of the gang have since been captured by the Sardinian police, and their extradition demanded by the Modonese Govern ment, in virtue of existing conventions, and the seventh, although well known, is still at large. " It is asserted," says the Ind,ependance, " that several of the petty German States, though au thorising their subjects to demand the medal of St. Helena, make objections to its being worn. Tho German Frankfort Journal states from Berlin (14th) that the Russian circular relating to the interviews of Stuttgard and Weimar is the sane in spirit as that of Count Walewski, and that the interviews have had no other signification than that of guarantees for the maintenance of peace. The Madrid journals of the 13ih have reached us. Admiral Armero had arrived, and was to be re ceived by the Queen, on her return f rom the theatre, at one -o'clock at night. General Ro e d e (Nano, M. Bermudez de - Castro, General de la Concha, and General Serrano were spoken of as likely t- be his colleagues ill the forniation of a ministry. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. —We bear that two meet ings have been held by the directors of this company with those of the East Kent for the purpose of bringing about some sort of amalgamation,—Herapath. AUSTRALIA. The Liverpool and Australian Navigation Com pany's steam clipper Royal Charter, Taylor, com mander, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday morning, from Melbourne, after a rapid passage, with dates to the 14th of August, 118 passengers, and 84,000 ounces of gold and 24,000 sovereigns in specie on freight. She had also an extensive and valuable cargo, consisting of 279 bales of wool, 1,352 skins, 64 hhds, of hides, 137 packages of tallow, 2 hales of horsehair, 93 packages of British goods, 1 package of woodwork, anti 13,625 bass of copper ore. At Sydney the floods were subsiding. The amount of gold coin issued by the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint during the week previous to the Bth of Augusl , , had been 5,0001. in half-sovereigns ; the quantity of gold received for mintgage 8,456 ounces, of which 7,000 ounces were for Melbourne account. The escort from the Sydney goldfields had taken down a total of 3,438 ounces. Fiour firm without alteration in price. Liquids a little easier, but holders not disposed to sell in any quantity except at full rates. Boor in bulk and bottled ale and . porter commanded quotations. A parcel of Eagle and Lion negrohoad tobacco from the United States had been nearly all disposed of at advanced prices. Speculative buyers were in the market, but the trade and dealers required all that was likely to arrive of marketable brands. Sugars, with small stocks and anticipated short supply in Manilla, were expected to advance considerably for both raw and refined. In groceries little doing, buyers withholding purchases until the weather was sufficiently settled to admit of a better supply of carriage to the interior. The quantity of wool sold for the week, 93 bales, was larger than that offered during the few previous weeks, and some of the lots excited much competition, prices being decidedly firmer. Eighteen bales of superior scoured lamb had realised 2s. 6d. per lb ; fleece, ls. 10d. to 2s. ; handwashed, 21d. to 22111 Few sales of sheep skins, but prices well maintained. 1,794 sold at from B.ld. to 101 per lb. Tallow in small supply ; station realised 495. to 5Cs. 61 ; beef, 475. to 48s. Hides steady, and prices ranging from 15s. to 28s. We have Adelaide journals to the Bth inst. The Register thus represents the present position of the government : " It iS now perfectly clear that tie government can by no possibility carry the pro gramme with which they came before the country at the opening of the present session of parliament. Their most important measures aro either nega ivecl or kept back, and the policy of the opposition is triumphant in the house." Commercial readers will be interested to know that the gold coin of Sydney was to be proclaimed a legal tender in South Australia as soon as notifi cation arrived of a siaii!ar step having been taken in Victoria. The only other topic worth speJial notice is the departure of a party under Captain Freeling to make further explorations into the now Lake Torrens Paradise discovered by Mr. Goyder. We take the following from the Melbourne Herald of the 12th of August : " Our last summary of local events was prepared for, desuatch by the Columbian, which left with the colonial mails on the 23d ult. The uncertainty under which we labour as to the departure of the next regular mail in duces us to avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the sailing of the Royal Charter to publish a brief resume of the events which have occurred during the interval:-- " GOLD. "The gold escort returns for the last three weeks show an increase upon the quantities brought down during the corresponding peeiod of last year amounting to 40,087 ounces, the quantities being respectively -1856. Ozs. Dwts. Week ending July 26 Aug .2 71 Aug. 9 124,233 0 1857. °ZS, Dwtg. Week ending July 25 PP Aug. 1 ~ Aug. 8 58,124 0 164,320 0 "The quantity shipped since our last summary bas been— Ounces. Week ending July 25 79,393 PP Aug. 1 8,637 PP Aug. 8 70,181 Total ounces shipped 158,211 "Mount Ararat has, up to the present time, exceeded the expectations which were entertained of its proving an extensive and rich gold field. The population is variously stated at between 50,000 and 60,000, and, as the reports of its richness continue to be most favour . - able, there is no immediate likelihood of any material decrease in the number. The auriferous deposits ars said to extend over a very large area of country, aul the mining is not difficult. At present we are in no plaition to give an estimate of the weekly yield of the Ararat diggings, as the quantities of gold thence are included in the escort returns of Ballarat and others of the older mining localities. "The winter hay been unusually dry, and the minors have accordingly laboured under great disadvantages in consequence of an insufficient quantity of water. Ac counts frjm the various mining districts are, on tho whole, favourable. "AGRICULTURAL. "In our last summaries we gave an abstract of the agricultural returns of 15 of the 21 districts into which the colony is divided. Since then two more counties have been finished, and the remaining four are so n ar completion that their contents may be given approxi mately. "In Moynington there were 156 cultivators, 3,433 acres, 2,057 sown with wheat, 827 with oats, and 420 with potatoes. Yield-39,98S bushels of wheat, 19,616 of oats, and 1,181 tons of potatoes. " In Dalhousie-583 cultivators, 12,590 acres, 4,276 of wheat, 2,303 of oats, 1,975 of potatoes, and 3,540 of bay. Yield-82,494 bushels of wheat, 72,510 oats, 3,525 tons of potatoes, and 4,678 of hay. " In Hampden the returns are in, but there were about 25,000 bushels of wheat. "In Pol.varth it is estimated that there are 60 culti vators, and that the produce is 30,000 bushels of wheat, and 20,000 of oats. In Grant it is computed that there were i,200 cultiva tors, who had 40,000 acres under crop, of which 22,000 were sown with wheat, 6,500 with oats, and 7,660 f ,, r hay ; the yield being 490,000 bushels of wheat, 172,780 busheli of oats, and 10,800 tons of hay. "Iu Burke the following figures are, as nearly as possible, correct :-1,800 cultivators 55,000 acres, 20,000 acres of wheat, 6,000 ditto of oats, 20,000 ditto of hay ; yield 400,000 bushel; of wheat, 120,000 ditto of oats, and 20,000 tons of hay. "The grand total of the whole of the colony is therefore in round numbers, as follows :-6,258 cultiva tors, farming 163,000 acres of land, of which 76,700 wt :e sown with wheat, 21,000 with oats, and 45,750, with oats for hay, the remainder of the ground being occuplut. with potatoes, barley, male!, gardens, vines, and tobacco; the yield was 1,700,000 bushels of wheat, or 22 bushels to the acre ; 530,000 bushels of oats,. or 25 to the 'acre ; ;Ind 58,000 tons of hay, or about a tun and a quarter to the acre. • "Thos result is most gratifying ; in 1855.6 there were only 1,151,000 acres in cultivation, and in the previous year only 54,715. In South Australia last year there were 203,423 acres under crop, so that we nearly equal our great agricultural neighbours, and next year we shall have passed them, as from the vigour with which farm ing operations are now being pursued, we may safely calculate that there will be 220,000 acres under crop next year. " Land still maintains a very high price. ,At a Go- vernment sale rece❑tly held at Crowiclr, near Ballarat, fair agricultural land, rather badly situated as regards a market, sold at from 31. to 41. per acre. Crown land eight miles from Melbourne, of very inferior quality, sold two days ago at an average of 301. per acre. TRADM AND COMMERCE. "The unsatisfactory character of the latest commer cial advicos from England has had an extremely preju dicial effect on the operations of trade - since the arrivat of the mail steamer, inasmuch as renewed indications presented themselves that borne shippers, uninfluenced by former experience and deaf to the remonstrances of colonial correspondents, were preparing to send forward excessive supplies of those descriptions of merchandise with which the market in this direction is already over stocked. As a natural consequenco of this threatened glut of consignments capitalists are wholly disinclined to enter upon large transactions in imports, and prefer to, invest their money in the various joint-stock, undertak ings, which offer more tangible inducements than are to tie found in the speculative bi?siness of buying, to bold for a rise. It would be impossible to lay too much stress on the vital importance of impressing the necessity upon merchants in the mother country of withholding further outward ship me nts to this colony until larg e por . tions of the stocks now on hand are absorbed. Th e business of regulating suplies by a reference to our re quirements is unquestionably a task of considerable difficulty, and can only, be effected hy•house acquaintance with , the fluctuating conditions whose govern the Australian trade is at least sufficient to pro tect them against the grave errors .committed by ' out foreltlhe mercantile interest of side' shippers. Fortunately e yielded e s i o f time , to o a class o permitf proceedingsthtreairders Victoria this latter race is nigh extinct, and bai principles of caution , and their will doubtless, in pro sionally arrested bywho ve ventures t t u o re b s e governed t o be oe occa sionally such a desirable neces sarily the dictates of prudence. Pending consummation, however, there is an absence of that confidence which obtains in other and wore settled markets. "Tee irregularity which unfortunately marked tL • initiation of the po s t a l en t er p r ise undertalten by the B and A. C ompany has aided in increasing the - prevaili n g &hums. "la presence of the opposing influences to which w, have referred, business in the import market is limited to purchases f it immediate consumption ; and, althougi. the demand for the interior is steadily improving the anintatmu caused by if does not extend beyond seowid hands. Thera is a slight tendency towards advancing Bates in the market for. bottled ales and beer, but tb; pries I of bulk goods still ruie.s low. -The rates obtained for prime samples of butter have again receded, and sales at 121-d. and 131. are reported. Same speculative dealing in Belmont sperm candles has been going forward ; an impression having gained currency to the effect that the present value of thu ' article (about 14) will range higher subsequent to the arrival of the June mail. In the flour and grain market the prevailing inactivity has made itselt telt, and quota. tions have accordingly been w avering. Fine Adelaide flour may be bought at from 241. to 251. 10s. Scotch oats are selling at 9s. 9J. to 10'. per bushel ; colonial, at 11'. 91. to 12s. ; Irish, 10 , . 6d. to 103. 9d. Maiae is held for 10s. ; and wheat realities from 9s. 3d. to 9s. 9d. Notwithstanding the firmness in the price of Eastern produce, transactions in sugats and tea are not heavy, Tilde Patras rice issupplied at 191. to 191. 10s. For wines (port and sherries) the inquiry has not been so well sustained as was anticipated at the date of our last •ummary, and quotations therefore remain unchanged. The movement in first-class brandies has likewise been temporarily checked, and sellers have submitted to a :nodification of the demand, Martell's being - in the maniet at 19s. 61. Geneva (JDKS brand) may be placed at 235,, and W.I. rum, 20 to 30 0.p., commands sale at from 6'. 63. to Os. 9i. " The money and share market presents an aspect of annness. Colonial Bank shares have risen in the esti mation of inveBtment seekers, and have changed hands at 25 per cent, premium. Bank of Victoria are worth 51/. ; Mel'aourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company's shares are coming forward at 801. to 821. ; and Geelong and Melbourne Railway stand at 201., and interest. Victorian Government debentures have recently been much inquired after, and have boon done at 1021. 10s. (due 1859.) Melbourne is now lightel by gas. We take the following from the Aryus of the 11th of August . " The streets of this city were lighted with gas for the first time last night, and the event was convivially celebrated by the Mayor of Melbourne and his friends at the Criterion. 0 wing to the extreme width of the streets and the great interval which separates the stan• dards from each other, the general effect was not so brilliant as had been generally anticipated ; at the same time the light given is immeasurably superior to that of the oil lamps which have been superseded by this mode of illumination. The event, however, constitutes an epoch in our civic history. "GOLD SHIPS. " The following vessels have sailed with gold fraighte since the departure of the Columbian, July 22 : Oz. dwt. July 22—The Columbian, for Suez July 23—The .1 . ,,50n ' for Calcutta 2,307 16 July 2i—The King Philip, for London 30,83 t 17 July 30—The Scotia, for Calcutta Aug. 6—The Avon, for London Aug. B—The Ocean Chief, for Calcutta 4,088 0 Aug. B— TheDauielltoss, fur Hongkong 10,472 0 Aug. 10—The Heather Bell, for London 19,617 15 Total Amount shipped from Ist Jan. to 16th July, 1857 1,262,604 9 Total amount ... 1,429,316 17 " Woor, SHIPS. " The following vessels have sailed with wool freights since the departure of the Columbian, July 22:-- Bales. July 26—Th e Ki ng Phili p, for London... 332 Aug. 6—The Avon, for London 872 Aug. 10—The Heather Bell, for London 5O Total. Number of bales shipped from Oot. 15, 1856, to July 19, 1l 57 43,630 Total bales ~ 44,834 FUNERAL OE EARL FITZLIA.RDINGE. BERKELEY, OCt. 17. The remains of this lamented nobleman were this day interred in the family vault in Berkeley church, and although it is market-day the occasion has been observed with great solemnity, the houses and places of business throughout the town being almost universally closed. The coffin was made of British oak grown on the estate, covered with rich Genoa crimson velvet. On the breast plate WO engraved the coronet and armorial bearings and the following inscription :—" William Fitzhardinge Earl Fitzhardinge, of Berkeley Castle, i n the county of Gloucester, claiming as of right to be Earl of Berkeley by descent, and Baron de Berkeley by tenure, born December, 1786 ; died October 10, 1857." The coffin was borne from Berkeley Castle to 0 0 church without pall or covering upon a funeral' car drawn by his lordship's favourite four greys' The car was driven by the earl's favourite coach man, the horses being led by the chief huntsman' the stud groom, and two of the hunt whips, The cor te , ge was attended by upwards of a h un d re d of the tenantry, by the Rev. Dr. Morton Brown, of Cheltenham, by his lordships medical attendant B, ,. his three stewards, and domestic s . Th e coron et was horse by the chiefsteward, EL M. Boodle, EA? on a cushion of black velvet. The mourners were Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Maurice F. F. Berko' ley, K.C. 8., the Hon. Augustus Berkeley, flo• F. H. Berkeley, M.P., the Hon. M ore t on B er keley' Captain F. W. F. Berkeley, M.P., Ch ar l es Page , ' Berkeley, Esq., James Max se , E sq. , Major caPe', and Colonel ingseote. - The absence of the Son' Grantley Berk e l ey f rom the procession forme d , subject of gen era l o b servation. The hon. gentle,: man was known t o h ave come to the castle e'" ,„ Friday with the ex p resse d i ntention of followin g his deceased brother's remains to their final resti o .! place, and his name and place were d u l y printed t.',3 the undertaker's programm e . Thi s morn i n g ", breakfastedwith the mourners , b u t a b ou t a qua,rte... of an hour before the p rocess i on l e f t t h e castle Oil Grantley Berkeley suddenly quitted it. The mournful cortege moved from the castlesoe: after 11 o'clock, and proceeded through the to% to the church, at the entrance to whi c h it wa s 0 e , d by the Vicar, the Rev. S e t o n C a r r , by w h o m funeral service was mo s t i m p ress i ve ly rea d. 2: t the poplar point th e bAy was removed toti,l 4 fain ly v au lt an d d eposited with those of the °I; Earls and Bar ons o f B erkeley. The streets were densely thronged, b u t t h e presence of a strong body of police preserved a passage tor the funeral P° .. ssio a. CLOSE OF THE ART TREASURES . EXHIBITION. .. _,.' The Exhibition of Art Treasures at Mancheote was finally closed to the public on Saturday., 0 was not, as had be e n or i g i na ll y intended, mac'e reserved day for season-ticket holders, nor was 0 , marked by any ceremony wort h y o f t h e ° coole d The state of the exchequer, it may b e protium: j rendered it desirable that as much money ell,e be taken as possible, whilst all intention of a gr' t . ceremonial was abando ne d so soon as i t was 38° .t e or tained that her Maj es ty was i n di spose d to gra ce . 0 proceedings with he r p resence. T he adiniolelf, were fewer than might h ave b een expec t e d, he r . ever, under the circumstances. About 8,60 0 P e o f sons had entered at four o'clock, on payment dd half a-crown each, and nearly as many more ente r ~.a with season tickets, making a total of betvn, 16,000 and 17,000 persons. "There were f e wers ) , missions on the closing day, ther e f ore, by 10,uv-,a, than on each of the two first d ays i n the week. to trophy of flags had been erec t e d i n front - , organ, and the orchestra had been strengthelle4,o the bands of the 4th Dragoon Guards and of 34th Infantry having been engaged for the e e io , stun. The music included selections from 10 , 8 %4 Verdi, Venzona, Meyerbeer, Mercadante, De m 7..jai t Gang'', Weber, Lindpainter, Beethoven, SP ° _, ll- 304 Auber, Spohr, and Wagner. When the no bands struck up "God save the Queen," to finale, there was an attempt among the audieneu ar get up a voice accomp a n i ment, b ut i t wa s only P oo , tial, and consequently failed in effect. At the. i o e cluaion the executi ve committee.took up dpes l ' in the transept, and Mr. -.Ladies an T. Fa c r g e e a n r t n l N em , chairman, spoke Diy spok d e u as ty fo ri ll o *: k pronounce the last few words of farewell, and to t s o 0 term you that when you have left this building Exhibition of Art-Treasures is closed. I hope t t , ( l you will never forget the liberality which has enaw.ai that Exhibition to be formed, and that hereafter; a you will be enabled to reali se , i n reflecting 111) this building and its cont en t s 4.1 a% , the truth of - port' s line— " of be au t y i s a j o y for ever." „40-4 slin , e Loud cheers f o ll owe d th i s addiess, and the !it'd ceediugs closed. O ne lit t l e incident only oce, ll ` t hi4 to mar the har mony an d appropriateness jar closing scene, and it was caused by some ntediately after the cheering had subsided, d le is spirit o f v i n di ct i ve feel i ng towards a few w aiter,P r b• the refreshm e nt-r oo m s who had created a diot"f o r Slice on tht Thursday, proposing three groan s that establishment, and in an instant all thoug o _a art treasures and their elevating tendencies seen" to have vanished, and that gay and fashionabl e 0 . sorublago seemed for the in.onieut.tJ have been te a " formed into a Chartist meeting. g et Great numbers of people co n ti nue d to l ip •fie about the building after the bell had sounded n ot usual warning to depart, and t h e b u ildi ng was entirely cleared until a later hour than usual. hob' The admissions since th e open i ng in May D' been as follows (as ne ar ly as th e returns can v ° ° tabled) By season tickets ..... . 254,119 At a payment of is 865,811 At 2s. 6d. per head At 6d. ea t% Total 1,302584 , 03 (3 The financial result will not be know n for ° . te tittle to com e . There we people who auticiP s iot (Illicit of 1 0,0001., but the more sanguine tbiuk ; .t0 should the build in g f e t c h a goo d pr i ce th e I' oo 'so from all sou rces w i l l near ly, if no t qu i te , c over entire outlay. Ser During the proceedings of th e d a y, gr•cl' &flour, ou behalf of the orchestra, presented a ,so some silver cup and an address to Mr. Chaq• th ou the conductor, as a token of their high ippro lt ` of his services and, conduct. s