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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Rate of Exchange at which they 'sill receive Cash for Bills on Bengal and Madras will, from the present date, and until further notice, he 2s. 2d. the Company's Rupee, and for Bills on Bombay 2s, 20. the Com pany's Rupee. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._ CHANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey, Via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling passengers to break the journey at Chippenham, Dorchester, or Weymouth. , 7.) Further Fares, -tail and Boat : -31 s. and 21s. particulars can be obtained on application at the Corn. tam's Offices. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._ Excursion at low fares to 0,0 , rd, Birmingham, Wolverhamp ton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Birkenhead, and Liverpool. On Monday, November 2d, a train will leave Paddington at 7.10 a.m , returning en Friday, Nov. 6th, from Liverpool at 7.31 a.m., and intermediate Stations as per handbills. Fares there and back :—Oxford, 6s. 6d. and 45.; Banbury, Bs. and ss. • Leamington and Warwick, 10s. 6d. and Gs ; Birmingham, 12s. and 7s. ; West Bromwich, Wednes bury, and Bilston, 12s. 6d. aid 7s. 6d.; Wolverhampton, 13s. and es.; Wellington and Shrewsbury, 17s. and 10s. • Llangollen Road and Chester, 18s. 6d. and Its. ; Birkenhead and ;iverpool, 21s. and 12s. 6d. Further particulars on application at the Company's etßces. IrONDON and NORTH-WESTERN JILJ RAIL W A Y.—CONTRACT for SLEEPERS.—The Directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company are prepared to receive Tenders for the supply of 15,000 SLEEPERS. _ _ Specifications, with particulars, may be obtained on application to Mr. Woodkouse, at the Permanent Way Office, Railway Station, Stafford. Tenders addressed to the Secretary, at this Office, to be sent in on or before Wednesday, 11th November. By order, CHAS. F Secretary's Office, Euston Station, R, October 22, 1857. Secretary. OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, HOREEFEIRT-ROAD, WESTMINSTEE, 24th Oct., 1857. IDO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That pur await to the Bth Bye-law of this Company, FRANCIS WITHAM, Esq. ALEX. LEARD WOLLASTIN, The present Auditors, and JOHN WILLIAM SLOPEIL, Esq. Have severally given me notice in writing of their intention to stand for the office of Auditor, at the Election, which will take pl.ce at the Company's Gas Works, Horseferry-read, Westminster, on FRIDAY, the 6th day of November he:tautly order, C. BURLS, Secretary. GRESHAM ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Head Office, 37, Old Jewry, London, E.C. TRUSTEES. Matthew Marshall, Esq. I Stephen Olding, Esq. William Smee, Esq. CHAIRMAN—Wink= 1 abor, Esq., Policies may be effected without loss of time, formalities being curled through at the office every day, from 10 to 4 ; Saturdays, 10 to 2; medical officer daily at 11. The Board assembles on Thursdays at half-past 12. _ Loan; may be obtained in connection with Policies effected with the Company. The Directors have advanced, in this respect, up wards of 200,000/. to the members since July, 1848. Annual It , pens, ProTectases, and other forms, on application. Active and influential persons will be appointed as agents on liberal terms, in districts where the Society is not already suffi ciently represented. EDWIN JAMES FARREN, ♦ctuary and Secretary. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with thp COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on the rsuAL TERMS, the Directors having RESOLYND NOT TO INCREASi THEIR lATEB at this time. Premiums can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma dras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The Directors also advance Loans on good security for temporary periods. The Colonial have Agencies in every British Colony.illtere Pre miums are received, and claims settled. WILL. THO. THO SON, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERGUSSON, Resideit Secretary in London. 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The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on receipt of Post °files Order. 'IIOIROSPECTI7S of the n ex t EXAM INATION a_ for ADMISSION to the ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY at WOOLWICH. The Examination for the Admission of Cadets to the Royal Mili tary Academy at Woolwich, will be held in London, in the month of January, 1858. Provided a sufficient number of the Candidates are found compe tent, thirty admissions will be made to that Institution. Candidates Mutat between the ages of seventeen and twenty years. The suc cessful candidates will remain under instruction at the Academy for about two years, or until they are sufficiently advanced in scien tilLc knowledge satisfactorily to pass a final examination, and they will then receive Commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal En gineers. Payment at the rate of 1251. per annum will be required dazing this period of gentlemen not being sons of officers of the Army or Navy, and for sons of officers, upon a scale according to rank. A deposit of 221. lOs will be required of the whole. The subjects of examination will be as follows: Marks. 1. Mathematics liare 2 ' °°° 3,500 Mixed 1,500 2. English .. . • • .. .. 1,250 3. m usks Latin 1,0001 •• .. Greek 750 1,750 4. French .. • • .. .. 1,000 5. German .. • . ' 750 6. Experi men t a l S c i ences • • • • .. 1,000 7. Natural Sciences 750 8. Drawing, Geometrical,and Lan iscape 1,000 No Candidate, who does not obtaln at least I,ol'o marks in Mathe matics, 700 of which must be in Pure Mathematics will be eligible for an appointment, and any Candidate who shall not select French and Drawing amongst the subjects of examination will be required to pass a qualifying examination in those subjects. Further information may be obtained on reference to the War Office, Pall-Mall, S.W. Gentlemen de , irous of becoming candidates should send in their names to the War Office on or before Ist January, accompanied 1. By a Certificate of Rapt sm. 2. By a Certificate of Moral Character. 3. By a statement of the subjects in which they desire to be exa mined. EL R. DREW RY. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY Just published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise kJ on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System. and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar !lege in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added temarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by uri naryexam'nation, the cause and effect of every variety of these aomplaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point nut the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any ether class of clis, ase known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is Particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It Is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are i rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated with (ut incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc ceed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of ph., steal infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester-square; Gordon, 14d, Leadenhall street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 11118, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in I n di a , o f M r. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; ealcutta—Messra. C. and J. 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NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION OF CONNOLLY'S HISTORY OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. Just published, in two vols. Bvo, with 17 coloured Plates, price 305., HISTORY of the ROYAL SAP PERS and MINERS from the Formation of the Corps in 1772 to the date when its designation WaN changed in Oct , 1856 ; and including the Services of the Corps in the Crimea and at the Siege of •ebas topol. By T. W. J. CUNNOLLT, Quartermaster of the Royal Engi neers. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. " The History of the Royal Sap- " Writing from an impartial pars and Miners is one of the best point of view, Mr. Connolly com military accounts of a particular rnemorates the services of officers arm or regiment we have met and privates in an equally ample utith."—Spectator. style —never digressing to flatter " Yr. Connelly presents the or to disparage. His book there public with a regular history of fore fulfils its object; it Is a faith this corps, written in a style that ful, instructive, and entertaining will pass the ordeal of a corps of record."—Atheneum. critics.”—Chambers' Journal. London : Longman, Brown I, and Co., Paternoster-row. This day is published, T HORNDALE ; or the Conflict of Opinions. B WILLIAM , Es, Author of " Athelwoi y d : a Drama ;" SMITH " A Disco q. urse on Ethics," &c. " Sleeps the future, like a snake enrolled, Coil Within toll."—Woanswoarit. In crown Syo, price 10s. 6d. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. THE GREAT GERMAN NOVEL.—COPYRIGHT EDITION. Now ready, in illu , trated wrapper, 25., or in cloth, 3s. SPECULATION ; or Debtor and Creditor. A Romance, from the German, From the unprecedented sale which this work has had in Germany, and ether parts of the Continent, it may be termed the " Uncle Tom's Cabin" of Continental Europe. A large edition is now ready for the English public. In ordering, quote the price. London : James Blackwood, Paternoster-row ; and all Booksellers- GENERAL TUCKER'S INDIAN REVOLT. This day, Is., or post free for 13 postage stamps, AGLANCE at the PAST and the FUTURE In connection with the INDIAN REVOLT. By Major-General H. T. TUCKER i C. 13., Late Adjutant-General of the Army n Bengal. London : Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. Fourth Edition. Price One Shilling. PERMATORRHCEA, a Disease of the Bl oo d, C 7 being a New View of the Nature of this Malady.—" We con skier the theory fully made out, and look upon the essay as throwing a new light on this neglected disease.'?—Medical Times, Oct. 3, 1857. I. Gilbert, 49, Paternoster-row, London. 'row ready, price One Shilling and Sixpence, FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALBERT FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. The Monthly parts may be obtained separately, price two-pence each. The next part will be published on the Ist of November. Ad vertisements cannot be received later than the 24th of October. "The Racing Record" contains a complete Calendar of sport in England. Ireland,. and Scotland (fully indexed), from the Ist of January up to the time of publication. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, Hol born. London. A New Edition, the Fourth.—Just Published, price Ss., by post FALSE Ss . 4 f - I N TRUE dr FALSE SPERMATORREICEA, X..., with a View t> the Correction of wide-spread Errors in re ation to its Nature, Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICEFORD. To which is added, AN ESSAY ON SEXUAL DEBILITIES. By the E ditor. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practf. cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall 3 etect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect.”—London Medical Gazette. "The tribe of' ' Quiet Sympathisers, and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book •lould find its way into the hands of those who serer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— • much money...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the Hmpirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: 11. Ranier°, 219, Regent-street. F OR GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs to call the attention ef the public to his NEW STOCK in AUTUMNAL GOODS , consisting of West of England Beaver and Venetian Cloth. 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D e bili ty, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or a t sea), Si n ki ng Fits, Cough, A';thma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints are effected by I) II BARRY'S d e li c i ous REVALENTA ALARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, Inconvenience, or ekpense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. it is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few oat of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids:—Cure N 0.71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Da Barry) , Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. 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THE FATAL SOtITHNV -- ------""'""""5 ALE zr on Thurs day , Mr. White , the, station-rn RAILWAY -- COLITISION.L aster, at Stormy, inquest 011 returned a verdict o w f ho . m , m t a b s e s N isu ea g t h h te j* r u , 7, on the . into custody en and ebresetnood en that butas he Sarah a g a A i n n s n t cannot be s li s a t r u m r d a a n y , . ha l d ti s n ot admitted to bail by the coroner, application to a judge of the supe;ior must make an he only keeps out of the way until bail ?nurt, in London, accepted. h as be 311 formally ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT NORTHERN TitßwT,,, serious accident occurred on Saturday rao ,„l -138 . — A King's-cross terminus. One of the company'nBesatotktehe r s was engaged in feeding the cylinders with oil, hi s f oot ',lipped, and be fell under the engine, which just at the moment began to move. The wheel passed over his right forearm, completely crushing the hand and wrist. The left thigh at the same time received a severe comminuted fracture. He was brought into the Great Northern Hospital, where Mr. Belcher, the house surgeon, was promp.ly in attendance. Mr. Gray and Mr. Price were immediately sent fir. Amputation in the forearm was kund necessary, and Mr. Gray at once proceeded to operate. An attempt has been made to sate the poor fellow's thigh. He has received a considerable shock, but he is at present doing well, and hopes are entertained of $ satisfactory recovdry. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. C OU R T SECR E T S. By Mrs. THOMSON. " This fascinating story is founded on one of those historical mys teries which can never cease to excite our interest and curiosity. It is a tale which, we will venture to say, none of our readers will be willing to put down unflnished."—John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. AMERICA LIVERPOOL, OCT. 25. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia has arrived with advices from New York to the 14th inst., and 1,400 dols. On the 15th she passed a vessel supposed to be the Vanderbilt. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 4th re port that the Mexican Congress had held a preli minary meeting, and chosen Emanuel Ruiz Presi dent. The insurgents of the South continued to hold out against the-Government forces, and it was re ported that Alvarez had been Assassinated. The news by this arrival is of great importance to the commercial community, it being reported that the ship has brought an enormous quantity of returned dry goods. The money panic had come to a crisis. Never did Wall-street present such a scene as on the 13th, the day before the sailing of the Arabia. From time to time the announcement of City Bank suspensions was made, until the total failures numbered 18. No failures of importance of commercial houses. On the 12th a run commenced on several of the New York banks, the result of which is given as follows by the New York Courier and Enquire,. of the 14th : " The banks of the city of New York, by their officers assembled at the Clearing-house last night, resolved ta suspend specie payments this rciorniq, and appointed a committee to proceed to Albany, and request the Governor to convene the Legisla ture to consider the necessity of enacting some law to give relief to the present financial emergency. They also resolved to make the most energetic ex ertions for the resumption of specie payments at an early day, and recommended that no divi dend be made to stockholders until such resump tion. The cause of this action on the part of the banks was a severe run upon them, which commenced yesterday morning and continued throughout the day, compelling during its progress many of their number to succumb to its pressure, and placing before the remainder the certainty of the same fate in th e renewa l of a run still more severe to-day in case they opened their doors to admit it ; never, indeed, in the financial history of New York was there a more trying and exciting time than yesterday. For weeks the merchants of New York has fallen in numbers, like so many sacrifices, on the threshold of the banks, beyond whose iron doors came no response to their appeals. Yesterday a multitude, like a destroying arniy, came down on the banks th emse l ves, and sacrificed them in turn within the doors which they had endeavoured to bar so strongly. We need dot describe this run in its outward features ; each one sees the picture, though he may not have been in Wall-street or in the neighbourhood of the up-town banks,--a street crowded with two distinct classes, the one thirsting for gold crowding in hundreds the doors of the banks, and forming long lines up the steps and through the halls, with anxious faces and hands nervoutily clutched over their checks and draughts, crowding and jostling ; and the other the lookers-on, crowd ing the side-walks, joking and wondering how long the banks would stand the run. Such was the picture. Between the distresses of the merchants, who have been called upon to pay when they had nothing to pay with, and the almost total destruc tion of confidence among the poorer classes of the people, there were chaos and confusion throughout the city. Tha Bank of New York, the oldest in New York, one always liberal to its customers, and especially so during the late contraction, paid out its specie manfully until about 1 o'clock, when it paid nothing but banknotes and certified checks for the rest of the day. The Leather Manufacturers' Bank paid out also until about noon, when it also stopped, although 90,000 dots. in specie were due on its exchange account in the Clearing-house but which could not be obtained, and so the run pro gressed. Many of the banks that maintain themselves kept open their doors until late in the afternoon so as to give all a chance to get their specie. Among these were the Bank of America, the Bank of Commerce, and the Bank of the Commonwealth. The Bank of America paid out $150,000 in specie, the Bank of America $85,000, the Bank of the Common wealth $90,000. The insolvency of the Marine Bank, we are informed, was averted by a coup de main of their friends, some of whom obtained a writ of injunction upon their proceedings. The prevalent opinion yesterday was that a few of the old strong banks combined together to force the majority into liquidation, and thus confine the business to a limited number. In doing this the smaller banks were compelled to curtail their ope rations, and in the general restriction many of our most wealthy, honourable, and useful firms have been notified. We speak within bounds when we say that this cause has driven 50,000 men and women out of our workshops into idleness and poverty. The banks which were suspended were as follows :—Merchants' Exchange, Ocean, North River, Irving, St. NioholaQ, Citizens', Market, Ma rine, the Tradesmen's Bank, the Butchers and Drovers' Bank, the Leather Manufacturers' Bank, the Bank of New York, the Chatham Bank, the New York Exchange Bank, Bull's Head Bank, Bank of the State of New York, Broadway Bank, Arti sans' Bank, and People's Bank." The New York *Shipping List says of the Bank statement for the week ending the 10th :—" It is much more favourable than generally expected. Allowing for the absence of the returns of two sus pended banks, the dec rease i n the discounts is about 4,000,000 dols., so that the banks since their informal agreement to expand their lines 3 per cent., entered into a fortnight ago, so far from granting the increased accommodation of 3,000,000 dols., which would have req.dted from that mea sure coming into efft of in good faith, have actually made afurther contraction of about 5,000,000 dole. The decrease in the uedrawn deposits it will be seen, after allowing for those in the two Fuspended banks, is a trifle over 3,000,000 dols., while there is au increase in the specie reserve of about 75,000 dollars." The same paper says :—" It is impossible to negotiate mercantile paper during the present panic, and money quotations would therefore be no guide. Stocks generally rose on the banks' sus• pensions. Little has been done, on account of the unsettled state of . the money-market, and our quo tations ar " e nominal. W e quo t e ster li ng 98 t o 102 per cent. The New York Courier and Enquirer says : "The confusion in the Street to-day has been so great that business has been in a large measure neg lected. No quotations of foreign or domestic ex changes can be given. The market values of pro perty, of stocks, ofproduce, &e., are allnominal. The banks of the city, having as much as they can do to take care of their own payments, are forced to refuse the notes o f t h e country banks of New England and New York ; the brokers also refused to buy them, and this adds to the confusion before prevailing. We have no further advices as to suspensions in the South. At Charleston the Bank of South Carolina has closed its doors, also the South-W es t ern Rail road Bank. At New Orleans and St. Louis the banks are stronger than in any other parts of the country, and will, we think, continue specie pay ments ; but in other portions of the Union—Vir ginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, &c.— the banks cannot in justice to themselves maintain specie payments while so many others are under suspension. The Stock Board to-day seem com paratively independent of financial revulsion, and the quotations show an advance in some few stocks, though they are the single exception in the whole range of the securities and merchandise now for sale." The latest quotations we re —N ew York State Sixes, 90 ; Virginia Sixes, 67 ; Missouri Sixes, 60i ; New York Central, 541 ; New York and Erie, 8 ; Reading, 29 ; Michigan Central, 35 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 21 ; Panama, 65 ; Illinois, 51 ; Chicago and Rhode Island, 58 ; Galena and Chicago, 53 ; La Crosse, sg. The Pennsylvinian Legislature had passed a bill fixing the second Monday in April next as the day for the resumption of specie payment by the Banks. The .New York Express states that at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th there were collected about 50,000 persons. The New York Journal of Commerce quotes ex change at 90 to 1.00, with a good supply of se cond classs at 90 to 95. Among the principal failures were the following firms :—At New York—Harper Brothers, Wood and Grant, Hoppock and Greenwood, Connelly and Adams, G. S, Hilman Buckley and M oore , Baptist' and White, Brummell ' and Roysters, Dykers and Alstyne, Hall, Dana, and Co., Lud -1 Cah am, Leggett, an d C o., L. C. irilson' and C o ., art, Bacon, and Co., Kit c h am , Montrose, and notes h The s protested New York and Erie Railrao d Company's Co e . The Michi gan C entral Railroad Company suspended payment on its floating debt J. A. Genie, H. A.Coit, Semo ur and Co., lies and and C o .. C orning and Co y ., in consequence of inability to sell exchange on London ; Fenton Lee, and Co., Will etts and Co., George T. and W. Flyman and Co., Fale, Nash, French, and Co. 3 at New Orleans, Oakley and Hawkins ; at Balti more, the Albion Cotton Manufacturing Company; St. Louis, Dean, King, and Co., A. J. Maccrary, and Co., Collins, Kit by, and Co. ; at Alexandria, Fowle, Snowden, "and Co. ; at Toronto, E. F. Whittemore and Co. ; in South Carolina, the Bank of South .Carolina, a State institution ; at Chicago, Wadsworth and Co. ; at Cleveland, the Cayu , , , a Steam Furnace Company ; at Providence, Hark ness and Stead. Several banks in various parts of the States had also-suspended. The Atlantic would sail for Liverpool on the 24th. The returns from Georgia indicate the success of the Democrats over the Americans. The Pennsylvania State election resulted, as in dicated by the r e t urns, i n t h e, success o f the De mocratic party. The Republican party have car ried the elections in Kansas. Ashes were dull at $6 25c. to $6 50c. for pot, and $5 75c. for pearl. In the absence of sales of any magnitude prices of cotton were nominal. The re ceipts at the Southern shipping ports were rapidly increasing, aud, under the influence of the money pressure, prices were receding, the latest quotations indicating a decline of fully 3c. from the highest figure of the season. We omit quotations, which would only mislead. The demand for State and Western• flour has been confined mainly to the most pressing wants of the local and Eastern trade, ship pers being debarred from entering the market by the money pressure. States' common brands, 4 dole. 40c. to 4 dole. 45c. ; Michigan fancy, 4 dole. 45c. to 4 dole. 55c. ; Ohio good and choice, 5 dols. 40c. to 6 dols. 50c. ; Tennessee fancy, 4 dole. 85c. to 5 dole. ; Missouri, 5 dols. 30c. to 8 dols. ; Canada, 4 dole. 50c. to 6 dols. 25c. Southern flour shared the depression with State and Western. Cornmeal dull and lower. Wheat was very irregu lar and prices lower. White Southern, 1 dol. 250. to 1 dol. 39c. ; Western mixed corn, 64c, to 66c. ; whett, 75c. to 88c. Prices of Iron, molasses, naval stores, provisions, sugar, and tobacco nominal, and next to no business doing. Freights without change At New Orleans on the 12th there was a decline o Ic. in cotton ; midding was quoted at 10c. At Savannah on the 4th inst. sugars bad de. clined. Joseph E. Brown had been elected Governor o: Georgia. The supplies of grain from the lakes were abun dant. There was 199 lives lost in the Central American. The steamer Empire State sunk on her voyage to Boston, but no lives lost. _ The Case of Mrs. Cunningham came on on the 13th, but she had fled. The Custom-house at Richmond had been bur glarioudy entered on the 13th, and 155,700 dollars stolen. Walker' s arm y was being recruited with grew vigour, and hundreds of volunteers had joined. LATEST INTELLIGENCE BY THE ARABIA. (BY TELEGRAPH). BOSTON, Ocr. 14. At a meeting of the Boston Bank Presidents to day a general suspension of specie payments was agreed upon. NEW YORK, OCT. 14. On our Stock-Exchange this morning a better .one prevailed. ". State securities are steady, while fancyand railroad stocks were all better. Eries sold at 91; United States Sixes of '62 at 90k. N o sa l e , of Illinois or Michigan Central. On the Corn Ex change flour advanced se. to 10c., and wheat 10. to 3c. Corn buoyant ; provisions nominal. NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 13. Cotton still favours the buyers. Middling 91c. to 100. Stock at this port, 109,000 bales. Freights to Liverpool, id. Exchange flat. Only one failure to day, a grocer's firm. From Havannah we learn that the Californian mail steamer Northern Light, with St. Francisco dates to Sept. 20 and 1,250,000 dols., arrived there on the 10th. Californian markets dull ; mining accounts Favourable. The English and French fleets had left the Cnincha Islands to the mercy of Vivanco. The murderers of the British Minister in Peru, Mr. Sullivan had been disciavered, but not arrested. They were hired bravoes, but their employers were unknown. SHIPPING AZRIveLs. —At New York—Theg-oithumber laud, from London—the Constitution and Ocean Express, from Liverpool—the Alma, from Cardiff —the F. Pondletoti, from Newcastle. At Baltimore —Th e Matacouga, from Liverpool. At City Peint, Virginia—The Alamode, from Liverpool. At Wil mington—The Eventide, from Liverpool. At New Orleans—The Perthshire, the I. P. Whitney, and the American Union, all from Liverpool. At Bos ton—the William F. Storey, from Liverpool, At Bucksport—The Island City and Colomo, both from Liverpool. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Granada, Capt. Tregear, Arrived at South amptont-Win, R.N., yesterd a y a t 4 p.m , with the Peninsular mails, in c h arge o f Lieut. I Cadiz at 11 a.m. on the 17th, Lisbon on the 19th, an d V igo at 3.30 p.m- at i 0.30 Admiralty a.m. agent. Sh e l e ft G ibraltar on the 16th, at 6.20 p.m., . experienced a h eavy gale from the W.S. • S. W•P Outwards, ou leavi ng S outhampton , the Granada on the 21st. with squally and rai ny weather • crossing the bay, more , moderate; from C ape Finisterre down the coasts mo dente and fin e ; easterly homeward wind in the Straits of Gibraltar. O n the voyage she had mode rate and fine w ea th er to Cape St. Vincent's ; strong northerly wi n d s from the Cape to Lisbon ; very strong northerly winds and squally weather from Lisbon, with a westerly swell. No commun i cat i on with Oporto. F rom Vigo fresh norther l y an d north easterly wind s an d heavy squ alls, with very heavy long northerly an d north-we s terly swell. In the Channel, strong E. s. E. winds, and squally. The Granadapa sse d the com pa ny ' s s team er T agus going out of Vig o Bay on the 21st at 9 a.m., and exchanged colou rs w i th the Indus a t 3 p. re . on t h e 22d, in lat. 44.40 N., l ong. 8.16 W . , un d er a ll sa il . This steamer brings 16 first-class passengers, among whom are Lt. Hunter, of the 92 d Regt ; 20 second-class, includi ng 13 non - com missi one d offi cers of the Royal Artill ery ; an d 6 deck passen gers. On freight she ha s th ree pa kages of specie, value 1,2951. sterling, and one package value 3,000,000 rat s; andacargoeonsisling of 60 half-chests ° currants, 2 bask e t s of melons, 3 6 boxes dried plums, 15 half-boxes o f pomegranates, 7 baskets of chesnuts, 232 boxes o f almonds, 1 40 b axes of eggs, and 17 packages of oranges, oxe boxes o 2 f 9 figs, boxes general merchandise. Private letters received at Gibraltar, dated from on board the Peniusular and Oriental Company's steamship Madras, near the Mauritius, the 9th of Sept., shate that she was on her way to Calcutta, with the head-quarters of her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, commanded by Col. Lord.M. Kerr. They had only two days notice to quit the Cape for India. Tue second division of this gallant corps, under the command of Major J. W. Cox, was likewise on its way to the same destination to assist in quelling the mutinies. The arrival at Gibralter of the Rhone steamer, and her collision with a French barque , were re ported by the Ripon steamer (see The Sun of Fri day). The Gibralter Chronicle of the 16th publishes the following additional particulars :-- " The vessel reported to have been in collision with the steamer Rhone is the barque Adolphe et Laure, Captain Razouls, from Marsei lles , with a ge nera l cargo for Buenos Ayres. The Orient steamtug with some of the crew started last night, and the Govern ment steamtug Redpole. with Captain Razouls, this morning, in quest of the barque, which was lost sight of after the collision. The followi ng is the report of the captain of the Rhone :--` At 9.30 p.m., Oct. 14, a sail was reported on port bow; our helm to make all sure, was ported, when we found, on the ship approaching, she had her helm to starboard. Wo directly stoppe d the engines and reversed full speed. In five minutes we ca me in collision very softly. We still kept the engines going astern, when the ship came before the windand she cleared us. On examining our own ship I found the bull perfect, our only loss being a jibboem and that we ing two had 19 people on board from the strange ship, leav d." The Granada left Lisbon on the 19th inst., when ' the reports respecting the fever v ar i ed little from those last received. Many persona of had been i mportance been carried off, including three generals—Casal, Francos, and Rezende ; but the cases were princi pally confined to the lower Parts of the town and the banks of the river, the hills bei ng , comparatively free. The Lisbon exchanges by this packet are quoted for three months at 541 on L ondon, with little doing and a scarcity of takers, the fever panic, hav ing rendered collections 'from the shopkeepers diffi cult ; Paris, 527 to 528 ; Hamburg, 48f ; Amster dam, 42i ; and Genoa, 526, In the stocks , also,• business was suspended, the quotations being for Three per Cents., registered, 47 to 47i ; Coupons, 46& to 47 ; and Deferred, 28 to 28i ; Bank of Por tugal shares, 10i to 11 per cent. pm.; snd Bank of Oporto shares, 21 to 22 per sent. pm. Our correspondent at Oporto writes as follows on the 18th : " The exchange for this packet was done at 541 to for good local bills on London at 90 days' date. A good deal of Brazil paper was offering. Money was very scarce, and a quantity of bills remained over, some holders of which could have negotiated them a week back with greater facility and at a better rate of exchange. The money market is in a manner partially deranged, owing to many houses in the capital being closed in consequence of the fever, and which has tended in a great measure to cause suspension of money transactions between the two places. "Business in general very slack, and is wine shipments hardly the usual routine is going on. There is some stir in orange shipments, which are very dear, owing to many speculators more than usual being in the market ; but there appears to be a want of shipping suitable for fruit. "Nothing further offering. BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER, PLYMOUTH; SATURDAY. This town and neighbourhood has been thrown into a state of great excitement and alarm by the perpetration, in the middle of the night, of a cruel attempt to murder Mr. Braddon, a magistrate at Cornwall, in his bedroom at his country seat at Blackland. This morning about two o'clock the servants were aroused by the ringing of their master's bell, and, the cook having alarmed the butler, he found Mr. Braddon lying with his face covered with blood. His son was then called, and the family for some time considered that an artery had burst. Shortly after, however, the pantry window was discovered to have been forced, the drawing-room poker in a bent condition was found lying inside the front door, and the door unlocked. These evidences of the intrusion of burglars were unfortunately confirmed on a surgical examination of the condition of their victim. One of Mr. Braddon's eyes protruded from the socket, and his temples exhibited two blows, laying open the skull bone, which was fractured, the wounds and the shock had thrown him into a state of insensibility, from which he recovered to ring his bell. We regret to state that there is very little prospect of his sur viving. It is evident that at least one of the bur glars knew well the interior of the premises and the habits of the inmates, and that after passing through the pantry and spending some time below he armed himself with the poker and went up stairs to the bedroom, where, probably, in consequence of Mr. Braddon's being aroused, the injuries were inflicted. At this moment it is supposed that some imaginary alarm induced the robbers to make a precipitate re treat through the front porch. Mr. Braddon's watch was under his pillow and 14 or 15 sovereigns were on his dressing•table loosely covered with a hand kerchief. The plate-room door was locked ; the burglars did not attempt to force it for fear of dis turbing the inmates, and they failed to open the lock with the keys of two other rooms, which they carried off. These, and an Oxford grey greatcoat, belonging to Mr. Braddon, jun., are the only arti- 1 cles missing. Outside were found a pair of men's shoes, and, wrapped in a handkerchief, a Bible and Prayer-book, like those given to convicts on their departure from the Dartmoor prisons, which are not far off. Mr. H. Troll., who resides at Gada moor, having been speedilycalled, waited the arrival of Mr. Pods, surgeon, from Plympton, and then proceeded to the Cornwood Station of the South Devon Railway, about a mile south, to watch the departing passengers ; and infor mation having been forwarded to Plymouth, In spector Thomas, of the detective force, went to Blackland, and was followed by Dr. Yonge and Mr. Square, surgeons. Mr. Braddon, who is a widower, nearly 70 years of age, was formerly judge of the C dcutta Sadder Dewanoy, the highest of the Company's courts in Bengal ; his residence is in the parish of Plympton St. Mary, eight miles from Plymouth on the west, and five from Ivybridge on , east. Strong suspicion rests on a man of Swiss extrao ion, called James Baudiste, who, about two or ,bree years since, was taken into the service of Mr. Braddon. He was dismissed for improper con duct towards one of the servant women. This man went to the house of Captain Hewlett, RN., a relative of Mr. Braddon, at Portsmouth, an d robbed his servant of 5?. eis supposed about the same time to have broken open his landlady's desk and taken therefrom several sovereigns. A coachman at one of the Plymouth hotels was also plundered. His last known theft was that of a gun, for which he was imprisoned six months in Winchester gaol. The abstraction of the greatcoat increases the suspicion , as the clothes o f M r . Brad don jun., are known tO ' fit Baudiste, a n d th ere are indications that the conflict in the bedroom was caused as much by a spirit of resentment and re venge as by a desire for gain. An empty bottle and the footmarks of two persons were found under a window in a secluded part of the premises, and near it, on an artificial bed of shrubs, were marks made apparently by two men reclining. Here, concealed by the foliage, the robbers are supposed to have watched the gradual extinction of the household lights and the approach of the hour best suited for the execution of their villanous designs. PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY EVENING. The ex-butler Baudiste, who is supposel to have made the murderous attack on Mr. Brad don at Blacklands yesterday morning, was cap tured hero by the police in the stree's this morn ing. He had on a grey greatcoat, contain ing a pair of gentleman's kid gloves and two strange keys. His companion, Thomas Brown, 19, dressed like a sailor, acknowledged, after considerable pre varication, that they arrived here by steamer from Portsmouth on Friday. After examination before the Plymouth bench to-morrow the prisoners will he transferral to the magistrates of Plympton St. Mary. _ACCIDENT TO " BIG BEN." Our readers will hear with regret that an accident has occurred to " Big Ben" which has deprived him of that voice and tone to which they had already become familiar, and which it was hoped would be heard for many years from the lofty clock tower of the new Palace at Westminster. For some time past it has been the custom to toll the bell a short time at 1 o'clock on Saturdays. On Saturday the proceedings were commenced as usual, and after the hammer struck the third time it was found that the sound was not the old familiar E natural, but a cracked and uncertain sound. The superintendent of the works immediately gave orders for the suspen sion of the performance, and a close examination of the bell took place. No place could, however, be discovered in the first instance. The search was renewed, and a lighted candle was taken inside the bell, and while being moved slowly round the out side was carefully watched; at. length, to the dis may of all the persons present, light shone through the thick metal, and there was no further room for doubt that the bell was cracked. The " crack" in the bell rises perpendicularly from the rim, or lower lip to about half way up the side, and it is directly opposite to the spot on which the bell was struck by the large hammer. For some time past grave doubts have • been expressed as to the pro priety of continuing the Saturday performances on the bell in the position in which it was hung. Situated at the foot of the clock tower, and sur rounded by a close hoarding, the friends of " Big Ben" complained strongly of the unfair treatment to which he was subjected by being struck in a po sition-where he had no room to develope his power, and not a few have considered that he was not struck fairly by the blows of the huge square and clumsy hammer which fell upon his metal side. Whether it be true or not that "Big Ben" was hung unfairly, or struck unfairly, the fact unfortu nately is that his ♦oice is for ever silenced, and not until he has been broken up, aga'n melted and cast, nay we expect to hear " his once familiar voice." The accident occurring at the present mo ment is the more to be regretted inasmuch as it was expected that a short time only would elapse before he would be placed in the belfry for which he was destined. Every thing had been prepared for his reception in the lofty eminence of the "Clock Tower," the " cradle" for carrying him up and the chains for hanging him were all ready, and Sir C. Barry waited only the arrival of the four small bells for striking the quarter hours, when the clock, which in the factory of Mr. Dent has for months past been keeping the most exact time, would be put in its place, and " Big Ben " would be elevated to these regions where the boom of his mighty voice could be heard over the whole metropolis to proper ad vantage. The quarter bells are cast, and it was expected that by the meeting of Parliament the w hole arrangements would have been completed. Several months must now elapse before the bell can be recast and placed in its position, ROYAL BRITISH BANK. The following address has been circulated by the assignees amongst the shareholders of the Royal' British Bank : " The undersigned assignees having been constituted by the recent act of Parliament, the representatives of the creditors for the purposes of that act feel it their duty to address the shareholders upon the subject of the pro. posed general compromise. The assignees much regret that all their efforts have been hitherto unsuccess ful in persuading the shareholders to subscribe the amount necessary for completing the compro mise suggested by themselves and by their authorised agents, and that they have not appreciated the exertions of the assignees, nor met them in the liberal spirit which the sacrifice of their time entitled the assignees to claim at the bands of the shareholders. Many of the share. holders have taken every advantage both of time and of legal delay to interpose obstacles to the completion and carryicg out of the proposition which emanated from the committee appointed by themselves. *The proposal to pay to all the creditors a composi tion of 6+. 6d. in the pound, in addition to the dividend to be realised from the estate, was deemed by the assig nees and the committee of shareholders a fair and reason able proposition. The assignees, as members of the committee of depositors, relied upon the good faith of the shareholders, and the pledge given by their commit tee,and it was upon that assurance that thearrangement would be completed, and that the 12,0001. deposited towards the agreed guarantee of 20,1,00./., would, within a reasonable period, be increased by the contributions of the shareholders to the sum required for the completion of the arrangement, that the assignees need shtheir in- Hoene, to stop and avert costly and ruinous litigation, which must have terminated in the utter run of every shareholder in the bank, "Many months have, however, elapsed, and no addi tion has been made to the fund, nor has any movement been made by the shareholders either to discharge the debts of the bank or to complete the compromise. The assignees indeed know that acting upon an unfair and dishonourable policy several of the shareholders have applied their funds, which should in justice have been appropriated to their promised arrangement in the pur chase of the debts of the bank, and that unfair attempts have been made to induce the creditors to sell their debts at a low price. It may be said that as the law formerly stood the shareholders had no guarantee that their con tributions would free 'them from further liabilities, but the Act of Parliament obtained during the last session empowers the representatives of the creditors to give discharges from all further liability to creditors. Want of protection to the shareholders no longer exists, and they have, therefore, no excuse for not coming forward an I uniting in this common object, in which it is due not only to the creditors but to their fellow shareholders, and, indeed, to themselves, that they should all earnestly assist. The only hope the share• holders can have of averting their common ruin is by the subscription of such an amount as will satisfy the claims of the creditors, and thus prevent the otherwise inevitable necessity of putting in force an organised scheme, by which the creditors will be able to compel payment of their debts in full, and invalidate those dis positions of property which have been made in the hope of placing it beyond their reach. The shareholders in dividually must feel the force of this appeal. If properly responded to, the desired object may be attained ; but if each shareholder should still withhold his contribution from the apprehension that it will weigh little in the scale, it is manifest that the compromise cannot be effected. It is because shareholders have hitherto hesi tated to come forward according to their means that so much misery has been caused. Each shareholder should feel that by now advancing more than he would be re quired to pay if all the shareholders were able to con tribute according to the number of their shares, he is in fact saving the remainder of his property, which other wise must be wrested from him. It is therefore merely a question how much less than his entire means each shareholderewill offer, to avert certain and immediate ruin. Shareholders should not delude themselves by the vain hope that residence abroad will enable „them to escape the reach of creditors, or:that their property will not be ultimately made available for payment of the debts. The previous offers of contribution were insuffi cient to effect the object, and the offers of many were far below their well-known available means. The past shareholders are now more immediately interested in aiding the general compromise, because the recent law, amongst other advantages in favour of the creditors, enables the assignees to make such arrangements with the present shareholders as will entitle creditors to proceed against former members. It is admitted by the shareholders that the temporary protection given to them by the recent act would not have been obtained but for the exertions of the assignees and the committee of depositors. " It is for the shareholders to acknowledge those exer • tions by taking advantage of the protection afforded them, and giving, while that protection continues, their active and energetic assistance in carrying out the com promise. If the shareholders continue passive that compromise must fail, their temporary protection will be withheld, and a well-organised and vigorous p lan will be resorted to for the purpose of enforoing payment of the debts in full. The unsuccessful attempts hitherto made to bring about the compromise induce the assig nees to believe that the only mode likely to lead to a successful result is to hold a meeting of all the share holders past and present, and this letter will therefore be accompanied by an official circular convening a meet ing at which all are earnestly invited to atteed, at which the assignees will be present. (Signed) " JAMES WILD, JNO. MAXWELL, H. J. MITCHELL, ROBERT TAILOR, P. T. BURKE." Accompanying this address is the following circular : " London, Oct. 21. " Re the Royal British Bank. " Sir,--We are requested to forward the enclosed circular expressing the views of the assignees of this estate upon the subject of the proposed general compro- Rise. By the recent act of Parliament temporary pro tection had been given to the shareholders against pro ceedings of creditors. The opportunity is, therefore, now afforded to the shareholders of assisting without molestation in such arrangements as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the compromise. It roust be evident that if the shareholders do not avail them• selves of this opportunity for the purpose, it will be im possible to prevent the consequences which must inevit ably follow. We have, therefore, earnestly to invite 3 our attendance at a general meeting of the shareholders to be held at the Guildhall Coffee House, King-street, Cheap. side, on Wednesday, the 11th day of November nest, at halt-pact six o'clock in the evening precisely. " It is desirable that you should fill up and return the enclosed form as early as possible, and that if you can not be present at the meeting you should depute some person to attend for you, with authority to act as may be necessary. We feel convinced that compromise can be effected if the shareholders will unite together for that purpose. The assignees on behalf of the creditors will lend all the assistance in their power to carry out the compromise, and no exertion shall be wanting on our part to ensure its success.—We remain, sir, your obe dient servants, (Signed) " I. and I. 11. LINKLATER and HAOLWOOD, Solicitors for the Ass'gnees, No. 17, Sise-lane. "R. P. HARDINO, Official Manager, No. 4, Luthbury." Annexed is the form referred to— " R. P. Harding, Esq. " In re Royal British Bank. " Sir,—l am willing to contribute the sum of towards the fund required to effect a compromise with the creditors of the Royal British Bank in addition to the following amounts, for which I claim to have credit in account : £ s. d. "Amount of my (deposit or current) ac count with the bank ~ ~ ~ "Amount paid by me t o in di v id ua l creditors ~ ~ ~" Amount paid t o th e official manager "Amount paid to the official assignee "Amount paid towards the depositfund „ " Amount offered as abovo l9 /9 If Total " I am, &o." JAMES SPOLLiNT-I-It is not supposed by the Crown lawyers that they will be able to get a verdict against this notorious character, whose trial comes on before Baron Richards next week at the Dublin Commission. There has been no new evidence obtained ; and it is not believed that a strong case can be constructed on the old testimony. However, should Spolien escape from the clutches of his gaolers once more, the executive will be able to say that it has done its duty to the utmost in his case. His health is hardly so good as when he trod the stage of Fishamble.street, but he is not di , pirited, and states that his acquittal is certain. FLOODS IN ESSNX AND Loss OF LIFB.—On Thursday night a great part of Essex was visited by a fearful storm, or rather a succession of storms, of thunder and lightning, and as the rain had fallen heavily through. out the whole of the day the rivers were soon swelled to torrents, which committed terrible devastation in their course. Large tracts of land were speedily flooded, and in the direction towards Maldon and Crouch whole flocks of sheep were drowned in the field& Mr. Kemp, an extensive farmer in that dis trict, lost 50 shelip besides some cattle ; and on the farm of Mr. Hart, a neighbouring gentleman, whole fields may be said to have been carried away, as the cultivated soil over many acres has been swep t off by the n s f r were ce fo i f n u t hue dated waters to the; depth h e o f f a r s lu e v ebuildi ngsseveral fret. d ll the farms and villages in a direction, towards the coast for miles bear traces of the ha voc committed many houses having been inundated and much property injured. At Burnham a sad catastrophe occurred. A. wedding in the town that day h a d b een attended by a party of young farmers from the neighbouring district, and two of them were on their way home at night in a horse and gig when they wt ra met by the flood and of one them, Mr. J. Rha • In s jumping out to secure the horse, was swept away by the torrent and drowned. His body was found next day some distance from the spot. At Colchester Camp the storm was severely felt, and a high wall next the military road was carried down by the' wind and 4he flood. • 6 e e British publi c, i f would for any thi ng One rather unique forei gn contribution, and a pleasant one too, to our stock o f knowledge, or at they least l ai o : e f t Ii t iva i ec s de f a t c ih t n i e o i l t i rh , ein s concern ing twrourcltdo rtsh India comes from , of the sort. Bomba, whom we so lately threatened to bombard, has permitted an active canvass in his dominions for subscriptions for British subjects in India suffering from excesses such as he and his subjects have been menaced with any time these dozen years if the behests, not even of native, but of alien Sepoys were not acted upon. It appears, from the published lists, that both in Sicily and /f apl es collections has been made, not only among British subjects, of whom large numbers reside there in peace and ease, notwithstanding our with drawal of all diplomatic representatives, b among the natives; and we read of Il Duct and Duchessa, di Santo Appino, 11 Marcheso Biquano, Mine. Maritlli D'Ascoll, the Princess of Monthvago, &c., handing in their ducats, as though the calamity had resulted from an eruption .zEtna or Vesuvius, at their own doors. What is probably more re markable still, considering the surious bigotry at tributed to the King, we read of handsome subscrip tions collected at the " Protestant Church in Paler mo," in which locality, according to current report here, if a gentleman believing in the 39 Articles were caught he would be elfopped into maccaroni. Add to this, that all the British journals abuqine. his Majesty, and a few British journals do any thing else, are permitted to be openly "sold to whom soever pleases to buy, and the correspondents who furnish the material are allowed to pursue their avocations with what satisfaction to themseles they can command, and it must be admitted that Beel zebub Bourbon isn't altogether so nigeriferously black as he is painted. Besides, his Majesty has given another sample of magnanimity which some of his crowned satirists would do well to imitate. Although the Emperor of the French, in common , withour own executive, - "has treated him with every I possible indignity, that has not prevented him permitting such of his subjects as are eligible from receiving the new-fangled order of St. Helena— perhaps by way of a joke at the Muratist itiase.rie wherewith the deadly-lively gentlemen of the Paris press try to frighten him. Bomba, with all his solemnity, is said to be a wag ; and there is no reason why he shouldn't have a laugh in his royal sleeve, at the way mankind are hoodwinked with their eyes open, as well as the n o bl e emp l oyer o f the Chevalier Vikoff, paid 5001. a year by the British Treasury for keeping the peace of Europe through the medium of Philadelphia newspapers ! Well for Gilbert A'Beckett he's dead. The real Comic History is the grave history enacted by the Comic OH Gentleman all over the globe—a his tory whereat one hardly knows whether to grin or groan, and perhaps it doesn't much matter which : —at least it won't 100 years hence, and that is all the same as regards the British lion.—Liverpool Albion. THE INDIAN MUTINY BELIEF FrND. The Lord Mayor has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Morning Post : Sir,—The very judicious and thoughtful obser vations which you gave to the public in your lead ing article of to-day with reference to this subject appear to me to require and to deserve a prompt explanatory reply. Such a reply naturally divides itself into two parts—first, a delineation of the scheme and principles on which it is intended to administer this fund ; and next, a statement, if pos sible, of the nature and extent of the distress which will require relief, and the probable amount which will be necessary for the purpose. The first of these topics I enter upon with the more willingness, because the committee are speci ally desirous that the strongest light of publicity should be thrown on every part of their proceed ings. With relation to the general principles by which they have resolved to be guided in the dis tribution of relief, I may be p?rmitted to present a series of resolutions which has already been adver tised in your columns The object of this committee is to relieve, as far as may be practicable and necessary, the distress caused by the mutinies in India. " 2. In doing so, care should be tak en no t t o superseda the assistance w hi c h ought to be given by the Govern ment, by the established Widows' and Orphans' Funds, or by the relations of the sufferers ; but to supplement it to the extent to which it falls short of a just measure of relief. " 3. Compensation for losses, as such, will in no case be given. "- 4. Subject to the preceding conditions, efforts of the committee will be specially directed— " First. To enable the sufferers to live with frugality in their respective states of life until other mans of sub sistence are available. " Second. To provide for the maintenance and educa tion of children in oases in which it has been interrupted or prevented by casualties arising out of the mutiny, and in which it canno t b e prov i ded for from other sources. "Third. T o ass i s t t h e su ff erers to came to this coun try or to go t o I n di a, when the circumstances render it proper that they sh ou ld d o so, and the means of paying for thei r p assage cannot be obtained from any source. other " Fourth. To afford reasonable aid, by loan or other wise, to officers and others who have lost their equip raenti, furniture, or other property, by the necessity of sudden flight from their at aloes or the destruction of their dwellings, when, without such aid, they would be involved in pecuniary embarrassments. "5. That relief according to these principles be given, without distinction of religion or nationality, to every person of whatever rank who has a just claim upon the sympathy and assistance of the British people." These resolutions have been transmitted to the Relief Committee at Calcutta, and although the Cen tral Committee have not yet received a reply to their communication ; still, from documents in their possession, they have reason to believe that the principles on which they have agreed for their own regulation will substantially form the basis of the administration of the fund in India. With respect to the more detailed arrangements of the committee Sin the administration of relief, the information which they desire to afford to the public should be distributed under two heads—that which refers to the sufferers in India, and that which has respect tothose at home, and under their own eyes, who have been reduced to distress by the suspension of remittances and other disastrous con sequences of the mutinies. As to the first the committee have already con signed to the case of the Governor-General at Cal cutta the sum of 40,0001., remitted in company's bills and specie, to be placed at the disposal of the relief committee there. They have further con signed to Lord Elphinstone 3,0001. for the tem porary relief of sufferers in his presidency, and have sent 6,0001. to Sir John Lawrence, the Chief Com missioner at Lahore,. for similar application in that district, and have entrusted to him 1,0001. in aid of the funds of the Lawrence Asylum. The applications for relief which have been made to the committee durinc , the brief period of its existence have necessarily been few in number, and confined to cases of distress in our own country. The bulk of the funds already expended by the committee leave been applied to the relief of sufferers in the East. But, in dletioipation of the influx of cases which must necessarily be expected on the arrival in England of persons reduced to destitution abroad, the committee have requested the transmission to them, by every mail, of the most precise information from, their co -operators in Calcutta embracing a com rehensive record of their proceedings —an account of their receipts and expenditure, and a minute detail of all the par ticulars of cases to which they have supplied relief, including the name and condition in life of the applicant, the nature and extent of his loss or dis tress, and the mode and degree to which that distress has been relieved. Prior to. any grant to cases, whether domestic or foreign, the most rigid investigation is prosecuted by a system of interrogatory forms addressed to the applicant, and embracing every material circum stance that the case can iuvolve, and by a similar system of inquiry addressed to referees, and bearing not only ou the particular nature and ext en t of the applicant's necessities, but also u p on th e condition of his relatives and connection s , and upon everythi ng which can throw light on hi s future prospects of independence the ndenceseocfond topic fortun©. mooted in your article of to-day no su c h prec i se and detailed information can be afforded to the public. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed since cala mitous events in Indiathteo o a u ll t o b w re o ak f t o h f e o th om ee m e citttleae having acquired the data for any calculation, how ever vague, as to the extent which these disasters may reach, or of the loss of life and property which they may entail. Probably at th.s moment the Governor in Council and the Relief Committee at Calcutta would profess no more ab.lity tott. faorrnelliaalblyle thing which would deserve the name of may rest ' estimate. Of thi-i, however, the publi c _ w hich the com. assured, that all the inform a proceedingst e lie oleirt f el which they take upon s ld uc as rnittee receives from fridi to themselves, and that fully known to the . world shall, wi.... the British public a Tarter of this globe .+ll l a 2 t o di r b o m ln e l a l n t io D , shall be as 11 cation of this fund, be supplied respect to the a-0 workers in with information as ample as the beneficence that raised it. The committee are most deeply sensible of the magnitude of that responsibility which has been every q devolved upon them, and their chief resource under that pressure is that entire publicity which shall at once constitute the guarantee of their own integrity and the solicitation of the suggestions of public opiuion. 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