The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

R OY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shaksperes Play of THE 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 an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol. /owing Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co relli, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby, Mr. Wallworth, Mr.G. Honey, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. IV. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. The Orchest ra se l ecte d from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's Band, 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. S m yth son . THIS EVENING, will be performed Wallace's opera of MARITANA. To conclude with A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR. Private Boxes, £2 12s, 6d., £2 25., and, £1 lls. 6d. ; stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 28.; Gallery, ls.—The Bex Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee--Mr. J. B. Buckstone. FEB EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with (6th time here these eight years) Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Miss A. Sedgwick, 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 Upper Boxes 3 0 U pper B oxes 2 0 0 it 2 0 Pit 1 0 over Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the home-made Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wrigitt 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, Miss Arden. To conclude with the new sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, &c. STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE. Mr. Kinloch, 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 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls. 11). OPAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden. VHS EVENING, will be performed. (2d 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. Bre - ugh, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob. son, Cooke, Danvers, (Sze. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, will bo performed AMBITION : or, The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Wobst3r, 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, drc., via.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Ma,netta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott Miss Brunel], Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Joughmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. lime, and Mr. St. Alloyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Widiams ; Director, Herr F. Joughmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &a.. until twelve o'clock. —Signor PICCO will perform, at ha :f-past Eight and half past Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY— Morn. 2 nein. aft. 3—Even. 15 min aft. 3 TO-lloßnow —Morn. 31 mio. aft. 3—Even. 46 min. aft. 3 DIE WEA.THER. —Srmr Orrtcm, OCTOBZP. 19. TIIIMMOILETER, IN THE SILIDE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 54—lowest this morning and during the night 61—this day at noon. BADMIETER, 29.88. ; WIND, Northerly ; light, with fino weather. 414 'rc, ,- 4 1 rariFtgi4' • , - LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 20, 1857. does not consist of gold only. We have at least from seven to eight thousand millions' worth of property in the United Kingdom ; and yet the abstraction of a few millions—analogous to the loss of a five-pound note to a man worth eight or ten thousand pounds occasions the most fearful privations—the most terrible fears. Money or currency is but the mere mea sure of value. It would be considered a great absurdity, if persons wanting food were to remain starving because the provisions could not be weighed or measured at the authorised scales, or that a linendraper or mercer should not dispose of his commodities unless he had golden measures wherewith to mete them forth to his customers ! The bullionists are now following the example of the man who killed the goose that supplied golden eggs, and they may, perhaps, participate in the catastrophe that must occur. They are well off ! But although they may not think so, their interests are indissolubly connected with those of the industrial community. It is the creators and producers of natural wealth that find employ ment for their capital, and they should be satis fied to share in the profits. " The greed of gain" may involve themselves in the destruction which they are preparing for their neighbours. It will be a novel illustration of " the Engineer hoist with his own petard." The nature of the disease is now manifest. The cure is simple and easy. We want a suitable measure and representative of value, that will not be affected by foreign convulsions. People choose to hoard gold, to lock it up in cabinets and closets—to bury it in cellars ! But it no longer fulfils its functions under such circumstances. It might, for all practical purposes, as well be de stroyed as hoarded for the time being. The periodical depressions of the Money Market, not in one locality only, but in every part of the world, are almost inexplicable. Gold might flow from London to Paris or Amsterdam, to Ham burg or New York ; but, still, if wanting in one quarter it ought to be found in another. But it seems to " have vanished from the face of crea tion," as our transatlantic brethren say. It is nowhere ! In every place the same cry is main tained. Money, or rather currency, is just as scarce in one place as another. The bees are still sacrificed to the drones, and the creation of honey is prohibited. It is surely time something should be attempted on behalf of the industrial classes. No deposit of gold is required for dome'stic circulation. Taxation is a sufficient basis for currency, and if placed under legislative authority—if there was some partyt responsible to the nation—there could be no excess. There would be an absorption of some twelve hundred thousand pounds a week foi fiscal purposes, and a proportionate issue would keep everything straight. At present an extended issue of notes is re quired, and those notes should be of small denominations. The credit of the Bank is perfect. The public are just as well satisfied with its notes as with bullion, and " the worthless rags" possess A purchasing power, fully equal to the brightest coin. But still, State paper would be more satisfactory. It would be guaranteed not only by the entire ae• cumulated and realised proparty of the realm, bu by the thews and sinews of every working man. Thera could be no danger of stoppage. If gold was at a premium, it would only arise from the natural law of supply and demand ; and that could not occasion a tenth-part of the dis turbance or annoyance produced by the present fluctuations and perturbations of the money market. There must he some movement, and that speedily, on the part of Government. The Act of 1844 must be suspended, and that suspen sior, while it saves the nation, will unequivocally condemn and annul the Bank Charter Act. I Perhaps there never was a more appropriate or more lamentable illustration of the old proverb "Between two"—(everybody . ,knows the rest) than that recently afforded by the very important ques tion of the Main Drainage of the Metropolis. Between The Board of Works—and the Metropo litan Board of Works—it has entirely " fallen to the ground" hitherto. It has failed so completely in conseqttence of resting upon thew, two rival props—instead of relying upon one alone as a solid and rational foundation—t;lat the evil ( after all this time) has actually Increased instead of being in any way Am(liorated. Throughout the whole of this inLirval, an interval now extending over several years conveatively, during the lapse of which we have been talking of the imperative and immediate necessity of conveying the seiva;ze of the capital as far away from it as pcissible, and of doing this effectually—the public shores all along the Surrey and Middlesex banks of the Tha mes have been emptying their pestilential contents continually in larger and larger quanti ties into the river. There to be washKl backwards and forwards in the broad current of the noblest Amain in England —to and fro accord.ing to the fluctuations of the ebb and flow of tlw tide—b 3 tween the habitations of a vast city den sely popu lated with upwards of two millions of irihabitants ! The controversy between the would -by innovators continuing all the while fiercely and uninter ruptedly ! Epitomising the scattered facts of this c)ntro versy and thereby making a long story short, we may observe at once, that the Metroporjtan Board of Works on one hand, and the Cemnaissioners of Public Works and Public Buildings ma the other, have been pitting one hobby against anotther, mull to their own discredit and greatly to the detri ment of the general community ! B is an old saying " Who shall decide when doctors dis agree ?"—an old saying suggested by a, still elder grievance. And of that old hypothetic.s2 grievance have we not here had a new and very - deplorable realisation ? While our Sanitary Physicians have been squabbling over the superior mer7its of their respective systems of treatment, the mis arable im posthume they were called in to remora has been growing and growing frightfully and p srtentously. Does any one remember that fiznous pic ture by HOGARTII, where the patient is repre sented as expiring in slow agonLes in ilia chimney-corner, while the two bigwigs, who have been summoned to the sick-room, are driving each other perfectly frantic by insistiu; u p on t h e supreme excellence, the one of a certain incom parable draught in a phial, the other o° a certain marvellous bolus in a pill-box ! The table before them is upset, its contents smashed upon the fl oor and scattered, the chair of one practitioner tum-a bles back as he rises in a phrenzy to roar down the arguments of his opponent—the while that same obdurate and incorrigible opponent sits dog gedly unmoved, bottle iu hand, eyebrows raised (and voice raised no less than eyebrows) * enforcing his statements with a rap of his gold-headed cane upon the cork of his magical nostrum. The poor unfortunate in whose behalf they have bee a brought together fainting away in the midst a visible p rofessastiiorne upon the i nsan it y o f th ese b monstrousub of - their hub al co ntentions. A. sa ti re , but not, as such, in any way an exaggeration ! In proof which it is only necessa r y t o gla nce for a moment at this recent and lout;-prot ra cts, I wrang ling between these rival sanitary conamiasi wiers. After perusing the correspondence that' as taken The minimum rate of discount was yesterday raised to 8 per cent. The gloomy intelligence from America was the justification. With ad verse exchanges, the step could scarcely be avoided, so long as the resent monetary code re mains in operation. The Bank must act on the defensive, and sacrifice the commercial community to save itself. Without an extension of its issues, or in other words, a suspension of the Act of 1814, the crisis cannot be successfully encountered. The distrust will still prevail ; persons will adopt every possible means to secure their own position. and by so doing will increase the intensity of the crisis. It is an illustration of the case of " the children," described by Loczn, as pulling at the scanty coverlid, each solicitous only on his own account, and without reference to the general welfare. The present rate of discount in the United States is so enormous that not even ten or fifteen per cent. would save the bank reserve=. What would be perfectly ruinous to the mercantile and manufacturing interests, is of comparatively trivial importance to speculators. If they can obtain thirty or forty per cent. on tolerable security at th© other side of the Atlantic, or if they can even make a profit on the exportation of bullion, they will do so, without caring what may be the con sequences to the people of Great Britain. They profit by the general confusion, and that is all they look to. SYDNEY SMITH said that the railway system would never be improved until a bishop was killed. We fear that monetary matters will never be ameliorated until some great capitalists are caught in the snares they are spreading for their neighbours. Vhen the magnates of Thread• needle-street, Lombard-street, or Lothbury, find themselves in difficulties, they will begin to feel that the joke has been carried too far. The &term was by no means unpleasant, but the hurricane defeated all their calculations. Just at the moment, and at the very time that the B an k was putting a famine price on money, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was starting for his country seat in Radnorshire. Ho assumes the appearance of the penniless traveller, who could carelessly on sin g the unguarded highway. Sir CHARLES WOOD, in like"manner, refused to re cognise the extent of the emergency in 1847 until the ik le of the Government Letter. He could not believe that unexceptionable paper Was rejected in Lombard-street. His salary was punctually paid, and he could not understand any other difficulty. It was not until it was proved beyond the possibility of doubt by a depu tation of Metropolitan bankers, that they could compel the Bank to suspend payment, and that they would do so, if the Government did not interfere, that be could be induced to shake oft the apathy previously exhibited ! He had, how ever, litufßcient cunning to prevent what ought to havt' been the necessary consequence of the virtual suspensio n of the existing laws, and to retain the Act of 1844, that it might occasion still greater evils, and serve to point a moral and adorn a tale." There ought net to be theme panics. Capital THE SUN, LON .ON, TUESDAY EVENIN G, OCTOBER 20 1 8 5'7, _ _ Madame Celeste baying recovered from her severe indisposition will shortly reappear at the Adelphi. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Jullien's concerts corn me ace on the 30th of the present month. Jetty Treffz, . the i t teder Sanguerin par ex ce ll ence, an d w h ose " Trab, Tb MR ALFRED WIGAN.—We learn with muc h pl easure that the health of this talented actor and recen t mana e er secured. raa given her a well- mer i te d popu l ar i ty, has b een of the Olympic Theatre, has much improved since he took up his residence at Scarborough, and sanguine hopes are entertained of his complete recovery from the painful disease with which he has been suffering. Mdlle. Rachel remains alarmingly ill at Canore. She recalled to her medical attendants the other day an in cident of the period of her greatest triumphs. She was playing " Phedre," and the Bey of Tunis critically said of her at the end of the piece, " She has a soul of fire in a body of gauze." It was with a melancholy sigh that she remarkedito her doctor, " Alas ! he was right, and now you see that the fire has destroyed the gauze."— Athencrum. DISTURBANCE IN THE THEATRE ROYAL DUBLIN.— William H. :Hasson Stanford, and Frederick H. Flynn, two resident studesta of Trinity College, were charged on Saturday night at the College-street Station, by Police-constable 169 B, with endangering the peace and the theatre Royal.. From the statement of the con stable it appeared that while on duty in the gallery of the Theatre Royal on Saturday night he heard Mr. Stanford call out repeatedly for a cheer for the Sepoys. These exclamations excited the indignation of all who were near him, and to prevent a breach of the peace, and save :Mr. Stanford from being maltreated, be took him into custody. While taking him off, he alleged that Mr. Flymearushed forward and attempted to rescue him, when both were secured. They were admitted to bail, and will appear this morning before the sitting magis trate at College street Poice-office.—Dublin Freeman. CONSECRATION OF A BURIAL GROUND.—The burial ground for the parish of Wept Ham was consecrated to-day by the Bishop of London. The ground is situ ated in Forest-lane, Stratford, near the Whiteehapel Industrial Schools. • SALE AT TUNBRIDGE CASTLE, BENT.--A private view of the contents of the mansion will take place on Friday next, when the visitors will have an opportunity of inspecting the beautiful giounds and ruins of the ancient castle. The auction commences on Monday next. ETON COLLEGE.—The extensive and important altera tions at Eton College-hallbave just been completed. The interior has been almost rebuilt from the designs of Mr. Woodyear, and was used for the first time under its new aspect feet Sunday. THE CORNISH FlaTEßTES.—Upwards of 400 hogsheads of fine pilchards wet() taken by Messrs. Bolithe and Co., of St. Ives, last week, and nearly 1,000 hogsheads by the Cornwall Comeau. The boats on the drift have been taking from 300 to 1,000 mackerel per day, which have sold at from 12a. to 163. per 100. LIMERICK Lem—The Limeriek Repenter has this piece of gossip :—" An extensive order for supply of Limerick lace, to complete the wedding dress of the Princess Royal, who is to las married to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, has been received at the factory of Messrs. Forrest. LARGE APPLES,—Mr. Atkins, of the Royal Marine Barracks, lately picked from his garden, at the Point, two apples of the following extraordinary dimensions-- one measured 13i inches in circumference, and weighed 13i oz=. ; the other measured 13 inches, and weighed 13 ozs.—Plymouth Journal. FRENCH SILKS,—The last advices from New York announce that French silks were selling in that city at from 25 to 30 per cent. under the manufacturers' prices at Lyons and St. Etienne, consequently the shopkeepers do not intend sending orders to Franco until soma im provement shall take place. THE MORMONS.—A rumour had reached San Francisco front Utah to the effect that Colonel Sumner had arrived at Salt Lake City with a company of dragoons, and had arrested Brigham Young on a charge of high treason, and that he hal already started with hie prisoner for Washington. The news needs confirmation. DISCOVERY OF MINES IN SOUTH ADITRALIA —A letter from Ade:aide says :—" A fine extensive country, well watered, and with three splendid mines, two of them equal to the Burra. Burrs, has been discovered in the north. 50,000/. has been offered for one, and re fused. These seines aro not far fern Port Augula." A misunderstanding has arisen between Turkey and Persia respec:is g certain frontier forte, and the Porte is about to send hp Eavoy Extraordinary to Teheran with powers which will enable him to settle the matter breri menu. The diplomatist in question is to leave Constan tinonle with Oeoar Pasha, who will start for Bagdad in a fortnight. IRISH ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.—The new peti tions in the kecuinbered Estates Court this week are important, and embrace property to the extent of about 11,0001. per mmium, among which are the estates of the Earl of Kennare in Cerlew, Kilkenny, and Queen's County, prodicieg 4,0001. per annum, and encumbered to the extentof 110,0001, THE MURDER NEAR NOTTINGHAM.—The jury ap pointed to investigate the cireumttancss under which the boy recently found murdered in a forest near Notting ham came by his death have returned a verdict of "Wil ful murder against some person or persons unknown.". The police are still prosecuting their researches, and a reward of 1001. has been offered by the Government for the apprTheiision and conviction of the murderer. EUROPEA4S EX.FELLED FROM MADAGASCAR,—It is confirmed from Madagascar that Queen Itabavalo has expelled alt the French and English residents from her dominions. The data of the decree is August 25. The reason assigeed is that the Europeans entertain the pro ject of dethroning the Queen and placing her see, Prince Rakoutou, on :he throne of Madagascar. THE EMBASSY FROM SIAM.—A despatch, dated Mar seilles, 19, says the Embassy from Siam rested some time at Malta, where it was received with great distinction by :he atrhoritien On the 11th the ambas sadors sailed by the Caradoc for Gibraltar and England. The Prince, a relation of the King of Siam, is charged to offer to Queen Victoria several superb presents, and, among oteere, a throne in massive gold, set with jewels. MONUMENT TO MUNGO PARK.—The puhlic will learn with satisfaction that steps are now being taken to erect a monument to Mango Park, the celebrated African traveller. A committe was appointed in 1841 for tee purpose of raising tunscription3 in Selkiekehire, his native county, and in Cm neightmurlmod. Tha com mittee had been in existence up to this moment, and the memb r. 3 of it are only able to announce now that they a pl,lianinneayndwassinaipbluensdtarilettuhrlet.—he.Bso;,:doecrkAEcirxecibitais!;;; h a ve sufficient funds : 9 warran t th em i n pro - see di ng w i th at the com mencement of blitirmis yesterday, and loans on Gc vernment securities ecre otitainabie at 5 per ccent.Ultimately the charge was 5: to 6. At the Bank, in the course of the horning, there was a ve ry ac ti ve many person s an ti c i pat i ng t h at t h e N ew Y or k j e e: , w ;ce would be folloed by a speedy advance of t ipli h rt e ees r isl a ui te. The supply thus obtained seemed to be be yond any ac.ual requirements, and at the end of the day the haleness in the hands of the banks and discount house.; were large. CONVICTION OF A TELEERAPH CLERK FOR Esnecz- ZLEUENT.—At the Newcastle-on-Tyne quarter sessions, on Friday, Thomas Alexander Thompson, late clerk to the British and lriA Magnetic Telegraph Company, was indicted for having embezzled 1/. 13s. 6d., which had been paid to him for a message to St. Petersburg. The jury found the prisoner guilty. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour.—l ortitern Daily Express. MILDItESS OF THE Sneooes.—A correspondent at Competall has sent us, as proof of the present mild wea ther, as experienced in that neighbourhood, a sprig of apple hlossom!from a tree, about one-ei g hth full abloom; also some fine pinks, plucked near the same place ; whilst, in the same garden, ho stated, are a Siberian crab tree, gooseberry and currant bushes, in Hoorn. Sweet Williams and pinks are in full flower at Millbow, Derby - shim—Nand/ester Guardian. RAILWAY PROECT.—A prospectus has been issuer) of a proposed line of railway which will commence at Up ton, near Northampton, and there form it junction with the Northampton and Peterborough Railway, Pas , by ‘Veedon, forming there a junction with the main line of the London and North-Western Rail way, proceed through the towns of Deventry and Southern, and terminate in a junction with the Birmingham and Oxford Railway at the Harbury and Southam.road station.—Aris'a Gazette. We learn from Central America that the cholera raged virulently both at San Salvador and Guatemala. It was feared that in Nicaragua a civil war would again soon break out. Lord Cochrane had been voted an admiral of the Chilian navy, with full pay for his ser vices in the war of liberation. A Chilian war vessel had seized the American chip Sportsman for loading copper generally ore in the territory disputed with Bolivia. In Peru the politics, revolution had not ended. The city of Palm, had been nearly destroyed by an earthquake, and property to the amount of half a million of dollars lost. ExchequerthatMr. legal circles is u - n N de ß r w sto l o n d lS in H i m mediately after the opening of Michaelmas Term, the Chief Baron of the the present COt scat,rta O n f d Attor ney-General for Ireland, will be elevated to that j. i p n .lire,iltazng,derwalidll, resign his judicial Generel,!never having bestowed any attenti on on distinguished post. Mr. Christian, the Solicitor-General, it is believed, will not accept the office of Attorney and not having a seat in Parliament, in which case it will, in all probability, be conferred on Mr.Desey, Q,C,, member for the county of Cork.—Northern Treiy. GENERAL HAVELOCK.—" Old Phloe," says the Alice. nmum of Saturday) is a name which, we are sure, must be now making the hearts of old Carthusiane dance with pride and delight. The Charter-House has boasted of many scholars who have sprung into eminent men ; among others, Crashaw, the poet ; Addison and Steele, the essayists ; John Wesley, the religious reformer ; and Lord Ellenbo rough, the Lord' Chief Justice. To ti - ,e list will surely be added " Old Ph 103," The pet name will be remembered by Carthusians whose memories can go back some 40 years or more. They a ill not have fer gotten the gentle and thoughtful lad who used to stand played, looking on w hil e others and whose general ditativo manner procured for him the name of " Philosce pher " , subsequently diminiehed to " Pities," and occa sionally applied as " Old Phlox." That young and populer philosopher is the soldier at whose name th hearts of Englishmen beat with honest pride. " Old Phlox " of the Charter-House is Havelock, the hero of Cawnpore. PATENT WASHING "MACHINES.—If imitation is a test of excellence, this questionalila testimony is being paid to the Yankee invention known as the Floating Ball Washing Machine. Shops in every part of the metro polio having been opened for the sale of machines for washing purposes, and th e eas t end of Orford-street, from their frequency, if called " Laundry-place," would advantageously relieve • • this leviathan street, by a division of its nomenclature. The Yankee Tvloere, however, appears to hold his own, having harl the start, and upon certainly the best hobby as et —PIY II I O44 1/I°' place between the General Board of Works and the Metropolitan Board of Works it is impossible not to see that their apparently contrasting plans are really after all, as the housemaids say—Much of a Muchness. The ingredients are pretty nearly the same in the bolus and the black-draught. The one is diluted, and the other is condensed. Mr. BAZALGETTE'S scheme, it will be remem bered, was to empty the sewage of the metropolis en masse a little lower down the river (but still, observe, to empty it into the river), and to do this, moreover, at a point sufficiently near to the capital to enable the tide in rising to wash back the pes tilential deposits high up under the bridges— actually, according to this extremely ingenious project, renewing, day after day, the very evil we are all of us wishing to have removed. This— recollect, was the plan suggested by the Engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and subse quently, and summarily, and most reasonably rejected by Sir BENJAMIN HALL and his co-Com missioners. It was then proposed by Messrs. GALTON, SLMNON, and BLAOKWELL—in opposition to Mr. BAZALGETTE—that the obnoxious drainage of the capital should be conveyed further away from London, but conveyed to that greater distance by open sewers. This—recollect, again, was the plan suggested by the engineers of the General Board of Works, and now by the Rival (Local) Board no less summarily, and, in one particular, no lees reasonably rejected as in a great measure preposterous. The fact of the matter being, all the while, that neither are right, that both are wrong, and yet that all of them are at the same time upon the right tack, as shown in turn by the correctness of their relative objections ! It were simply absurd to employ the agency of . the river Thames for the main drainage of the metropolis, as proposed by Mr. RiZALGETTE— that being, in reality, one of the principal objects we have in view—namely, the so contriving matters in future that the river Thames shall be purified, instead of being rendered absolutely pes tilential. It were equally absurd to dream of bisecting two counties with open sewers while conveying the drainage of London towards the sea, as pro ' posed by Messrs. GALTON, SIsoN, and BLACK WELL—that being actually the very species of evil hitherto complained of with such deplorable reason, the old system, or rather want of system, resulting in nothing less than the transformation of the river Thames into an open sewer, and into nothing better than an open sewer reeking with destructive exhalations. Everything considered, therefore, we are clearly as far removed as ever from the remedy so long and anxiously desired. Let us have an end of these little petty jealousies and rivalries be tween contending Engineers and Cmamissioners. And let us have, at any cost,—(instead of these jealousies and rivalries)—the realisation of our Hopes as to the Main Drainage of the Metropolis. How ? By conducting it far away from London and from the Thames—emptying it into the North Sea by other means than gigantic open sewers—effecting all this (again we say it), no matter what the expenditure ! Conspicuous among the ameliorative measures required at the hands of the Legislature, at as early a period as practicable after the re-assem bling of Parliament, will assuredly be one iu re ference to the treatment of the houseless poor when applying for aid, at the last extremity at the door of the hospital or of the workhouse. At present the law in these cases appears really and truly to be altogether inoperative. Particular instances in proof of this were idle—they are unhappily of such very frequent occurrence. It is only very recently, indeed, that sundry lamentable illustra tions of this fact have been brought rather pain fully to the public knowledge. An accident sud denly occurs in the street, and the sufferer is conveyed to one of our hospitals, to be there refused admission (after some delay) and sent off to another hospital in a different part of the metro polis. An unfortunate drayman is jolted off the shaft on which he is sitting, his team being sud denly startled into a trot by the passing by of a runaway horse, and he is borne iu great agony to another London Hospital with seventeen of his ribs broken, and his frame subjected to other in juries, and The is coolly dismissed forthwith from the institution and sent home in a cab, as having nothing particularly the matter with him—there, of course (in his poor home), to exeire is great agonies soon afterwards. As a companion picture, to all which we have repeated roe rds simul taneously in our police reports—relating how ome wretched tramp, who has trudged wearily up to London from a remote corner of the pro vinces --footsore, famished, and drenched with rain during the inclement weather—is bandied about, long after nightfall, from one workhouse t.) another, until—shelter at list- being given (but not food) the poor wretch is carried off in an hour or two after admission by a frightful attack of diferrhon, brought on by the combined effects of cold, fatigue, and inanition. It is not too much to ask and to expect that the law shall so interfere that deaths of this most lamentable kind shall in future be IMPOSSIBLE in this great city, save under the most exceptional combination of circumstances. We do demand that efforts at least in this direction should be made soon after , the beginning of next session, in February—and we demand it most earnestly in the name at once of our common Christianity and of our boasted civilisation. ST. 3f.4 - RTI.N'S HALL. The season at this popular place of entertainment will commence to-morrow evening, when Mende's sohn's oratorio " St. Paul" will be produced under the direction of Mr. fiultuh. The vocalist.; will be Mu,dlle. do Villar, Miss Palmer, Mr. Aldershaw, Mr. Bamby, and Mr. Allan Irving, with the choral and orchestra on their usual scale. All lovers of sacred music should avail themselves of this opportunity of hearing one of the chef d'ceurres of this eminent composer under such satisfactory arrangements. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington returned to town on Saturday, from Manchester. His Grace left town yestz,rdAy morning, for Cromer, on the Norfolk coast. The Duchess remains at Apsley House. The Marquis of Bristol is at Ickworth Park, near Bury St. Ehnuuds, surrounded by a select circle. The Marchioness Dowager of Queensberry bag left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravia, for St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have left town for Brunellands, en a visit to Viscount and Viseountess Palmerston. The noble Earl and her Ladyship go in a few dap to S. Giles's, their own seat in Dorsetshire. The Earl of Eghiuto❑ i© passing the season at Eg,linton Castle, Ayrshire, surrounded by a family circle. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton arrived at her residence in St. James's-square, yesterday, from nagley Park, Worcestershire, Lord S:auly of Alderley has left town for Alderley Park, Cheshire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London yester• day for Harpton Court, Kingto❑, Rldnorshire. The Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison and the Hun. Miss Ellis left Rhidorroch, N. 8., yesterday, for the south. M. De Sempayo has returned to the Brunswick Hotel from a shooting excursion in the north. THE LATE ELECTIONS Ii FRANCE. —The arguments in Count Mignon's ease are at length concluded, and the Court of Colmar will give judgment on Thursday first. Lord Dalhousie arrived at Southampton yesterday, and proceeded to the residence of Captain Ramsay, the Admiralty superintendent of mail packets at that port. His lordship is compelled to walk on crutches. He pro ceeds to Malta to-day in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's India moat steamer LATE T NEWS FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im perial arrived at four o'clock yesterday afternoon at Compiegne, whore their Majesties will remain until the middle of next month. To-day a num ber of guests are expected at the palace, wherethey will remain for a week, and be succeeded by others who have received invitations for the following weeks. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the customs revenue for the month of September and for the first nine months of the present year. For the former period the receipts amounted to 15,967,537 fr., being an increase over the corre sponding month of last year of 738,056 fr., and for the latter period to 143,180,538 fr., or 13,358,532 fr. more than in the corresponding months of 185 G. The items of revenue which have shown the greatest increase during the nine months of the present year are—coffee, 5,528,568 fr. ; potable liquors, 4,108,098 fr. ; mahogany, 60,256 fr. ; linen or hempen thread, 96,572 fr. ; coal, 522,088 fr. ; 72,888 fr. ; hemp, 128,153 fr. ; gold and silver, 63,4691 r. ; nitrates of potash and soda, 72,665 fr. ; foreign sugar, 8,331,692 fr. ; linen and hempen wove goods, 25,618 fr. ; sundries, 3,571,663 fr. Those articles which show the most material falling off are —corn, 849,3391 r.; cochineal, 51, 918 fr. ; raw cot ton, 1,064,596 fr.; oleaginous seeds, 15,839 fr.; tallow, 71,341 fr.; raw wool, 261,942 fr.; rough castings, 714,493 fr. ; bar iron, 2,718,120 fr.: pepper, 111,859 fr. ; and French colonial sugar, 3,051, 888 fr. M. Vallon, Prefect of the Marne et Loire, has, according to the Independance of Brussels, been named Prefect of the Nord in the room of M. Collet-Meygret who has assigned his post, and is to be made a receiver-general. The following are some biographical particulars furnished by the Spectateur, of Admiral Armero, who has been charged by the Queen of Spain with the formation of a cabinet H of which he is to be president. Don Francis° Armero y Peneranda entered the Spanish navy in 1822. He was a midshipman when the civil war between the partisans of Queen Christina and those of Don Carlos broke out, and at the second siege of Bilb oa by th e C ar li s t s h e was raised to the rank of lieutenant, and at the third siege to that of captain ; this last rank was the re ward for the bravery and skill he displayed in going up and down the river of Bilboa with his vessel, under the fire of the enemy, in order to carry reinforcements to the city. Capt. Armero was the first who landed at the hedge of Luchana on the day of the victory which gave the title of Count de Luchana to General Espartero. He after wards obtained further rank, and commanded the naval division of Catalonia. In 1840, when minister of marine, he accompanied the Queen Regent and Queen Isabella to Valentia. After the events of Barcelona, which compelled the Queen Regent to tpiit Spain, he retired from political life, and did not return to it until 1843, when he was made minister of marine in the first cabinet presided over by Marshal Narvaez, and afterward filled the same post in that of which M. IsturiJz was president. In 1848 M. Armero, who was then vice -admiral, was appointed to the command of the Spanish squadron at Cuba. On his return to Spain he was named to the post of minister of marine in Brave-Murillo cabinet, which office he resigned a short time before the dissolution of that ministry. In 1855 M. Armero attained by seniority the rank of captain-general or admiral of the fleet. Admiral Armero has, therefore, owed his advancement solely to his mil:tary and administrative services, and from the frankness and iioderation of his character ho en joys the highest consideration in Spain. He is closely united by conformity of principles and political feelings, as well as by long standing per sena' friendship, to M. ilon, now Spanish am bassador at Rome, and his first act was to sum mon that diplomatist to Madrid, in order to ob tain his assistance in the formation of the new cabinet." The Debats returns to the subject of the Rus sian railroads, and expresses the following views : "We will not speak of the traffic, nor of. the hopes which it legitimately causes to be conceived to the advantage of railways, in a country so rich and so little turned to account, iu which, by frosts in winter and drought in summer, the internal na vigation is suspended during half the year—a country which is divided by nature into distinct region, producing some timber, hemp, and resinous substances, othsrs wheat and grain, some coal and cattle, leather and wool, others iron and salt ; so that each one supplies the others withcertain articles, and is-obliged in its turn to obtain from the others most Of the objects necessary for the existence or employment of its population. The-future alone can tell us the value of a network of railways of all these conditions, which have not been met with together in any other country ; but who can doubt doubt also it is not necessary to discuss the question at present that they will he m o st favourable ? No whether or not the capital necessary for the construe tioa of the Russian railways can be found without too much difficulty-. A hundred or a hundred and twenty millions of francs a-year for ten years is not SO large a sum now-a-days, and Russia, if left to her own resources would certainly be able to supply it. What we now see tak;ng place proves tilts. A financial journal, for example, informs us that on the first two days, the 13th and 14th of thia month, on which the exchange of scrip for definitive shares was proceeded to at St. Petetsburg, oat of 26,922 shares admitted to be exchanged, the ca pital they represent was paid by anticipation on 26,602. In the midst of the embarrassments which weigh on most of the money markets of Eureps, who can explain to us such a mottsment, if it be not that on the one hand the Russian railway shares are being taken by persons of foresight, and on the other that Russia herself is able to purchase the securities which the embrarassrnents or the illiberal and unenlightened hostility of certain European capitalisls have discredited ? Will not the impassioned detractors of an enterf rise formed hostility which e c h e t is i : o attack the policy with such prospects of definiti ve sueeess, arid des tined to cause vast benefit t o a l arge fraction of humankind, The ssomeco ncontinues n d u a e y s r w e e h n l tu off ch g injurious to their own int eres t s, and but little iecle t i generous With regard to their f e ll ow - crea t ures ?" of the B an k o f F rance, and says : "The was not establi s h e d yes t er d ay. It B has passed through many crises, and is more flourishinwe; shall see wh e th er i t was always by means of g h so in at the rateover. o Ban ut discount we t tt read ttt its resisted history the crises. These repeated elevations of discount are in fact of much more recent date, and many merchants remember to have seen the Bank -of France maintain its discount at 4 per cent., when the Bank of England had fixe.l its discount at a much higher rate ; and yet its prosperity was net af f ected. The measure of which commerce now complains is more severe than usual, and it derives from a special circumstance a veritable social gravity. The new law permits the Bank of Franca to raise its rate of discount ; but the new law does not derogate from the principle of other laws as regards the interest on money. The Bank can lend at 6!)- per cent., but bankers aro forbidden to do so. How will the latter contrive to manage in order to make their customers pay legally the in terest demanded by the Bank ? Suppose they find the means of eluding the law, and of violating the enactments relative to the interest on money ; see what a perturbation that would make in social re lations ! Such a man was a u,urer yesterday, and as such worthy of being prosecuted, but at present he is so no longer. Pascal said, in speaking of mountains :--` Whit is truth on ono side is false hood on the other.' But in this case it is not a mountain which separates truth from error, it is a single minute—that which suffices for fixing the rate of discount of the Bank. At such an hour it was so much—it is now 6i, at such an hour a money-lenderwas cruiityof usury, and now he is not so, though Le lends still dearer ! But let us make a very great concession to those who contradict us ;let us admit that theßan k of France, established to sup ply the wants of French commerce and French credit, has no other means of protecting its inte rests in October, 1857, in the midst of peace and commercial prosperity, than that of raising jta dis count to 6i per cent. ; that is to say, demandius from a merchant who borrows 1,500 f., nearly 100 f. a year for the service ; admit this, and what does it prove 1 Evidently that the institution is a had one, and must be reformed. We demanded re forms when the privilege was renewed, and they must be made some day. A bank winch charges such a high interest is not in harmony either with the wants of modern commerce or with those of our social state." The following telegraphic despatches have b3en received has been convoked for the 15th November to deli berate on the question of paper-money. Austria will not be represented. The Danish Cabinet appears disposed to make concessions on the sub ject of the Duchies. HAMBURG, Oct. 17.—The Storthing of Norway has just rejected by a large majority the Royal propositions ten ding to obtain extraordinary credits, and, in case of need, an authorisation for a loan to defray the expense of unforeseen armaments and preparations for war." BOURSE, Oct. 19.--The following were the las quotations : Cub. fr• End of 3ionth. i per Cents - 9O 50 —fr. —a. 3 per Cents 6O 85 66 80 Bank Shares 2,980 Credit Fonder 547 Credit Mobilier 782 50 Roman BB Do. Account 773 75 Austrian Belgian 44 9Bi— Spanish Threes riedmontese (5) 904 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CAUL fr. C. f r C, Orleans 1,3324— Western 673i_ Northern Lyons and Med 8271— Now Ditto New Ditto... .. ..... 810 Grand Central Geneva 645 Sardinian Midi RUSSIA. The Annales du Commerce Exterieur gives the following account of the progress of steam naviga tion on the Volga : "The quantity of merchandise annually carried on the Volga is nearly as considerable as that on the Mississippi, although the number of steamers on the former has been only 60, while on the latter it is perhaps 12 times as many. Latterly, however, steam navigation on the Volga has increased, and several companies have been formed. Some Frivate individuals have also steamers which run on that river. Hitherto the majority of the steamers used have been built abroad, but now many are being constructed in Russia. The number of arrivals at Rybinsk, the principal port on the Volga, from the commencement of the season to 13th August last, was 3,037, and the total number, including those which went farther up the river, to Molaga and Scheksna, 6,836. The value of their cargoes united is estimated at more than 256 millions of francs. Corn, corn-spirits, tallow, salt, copper, and iron, form the p r i nc ip a l ulk of these cargoes." At length we find something in the Russian journals in connexion with the late meeting ofthe Emperor Alexander with the Emperor Napoleon at Stuttgart. The Invalide breaks the silence that the Russian press seemed to have imposed upon itself on this head, and, indirectly referring to that rencontre, it expresses the hope that, although an everlasting peace may rot be expected, it will, nevertheless, be easier for the future than it has been in times past, with the exercise of a little common sense and goodwill, to maintain the European harmony. Before closing the article, however, the Invalide gives Sweden a, little back-handed slap, and points out how that Power of all others, after having on mature re flection entered into an alliance offensive and de fensive with England and France, have felt no little trepidation at that meeting of the two Em perors ; and then consoles its Swedish neighbour with the assurance that a Russian never bears malice. The consolation, though kindly meant per haps, is not very impicitly to be relied on, and it is to be hoped that Sweden finds in her own strength and her alliances something more satisfactory to fall back upon in case of disquieting intelligence reaching her from Russia. The Invalids is also beginning to speak of Indian affairs. That journal says, if India is to be re conquered England will not be able to the task. In that case it is suggested that a combined Euro pean force should be employed, and that British India might be placed under a general European protection. We shall not call upon' our friends to put in practice their benevolent offers. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 16th says :—" The King left his bed to-day. Opinions differ greatly as to his re-establishment ; some are of opinion that he will soon be well enough to occupy himself with governmental affairs ; others that he will not for some time be capable of transacting any business. A circumstance which tends to prove that the lat ter opinion is the more correct one is, that two cele brated physicians, Professor Frerichs of Breslaw, and Dr. DaTneron, director of the Lunatic Asylum of the same town, have been summoned to Berlin. Count Adlerberg and Prince Gagarin have arrived here to express—the former in the nameof the Czar, the second in that of the Empress of Russia—their solicitude in the condition of the King. Baron de Coller, Austrian ambassador, has been charged with a similar mission by his sovereign." A letter in the French Journal de Francfort also says :- 4 4 Whatever may be the state of the King's health, be certain that it is not so far re-established as to give strong hopes of eventual recovery. The pro gress of the malady causes it to be foTeseen that for a long time the King c anno t attend to public af fairs. Nothing, then, is more natural than the idea of a provisional government to be confided to the august brother of the king, the heir presumptive of the throne—an idea which has gained favour not only in governmental regions, but amongst the people, especially as in that way the transition of the succession to the throne would be inaugurated in the king's lifetime, and the eventual combinatimf talked of—the abdication of the Prince of Prussia and the immediate succession of his son —would be avoided, by the accession of a regency which would g i ve the former the reins of government and would o p e n to Prince Frederick William the expectation o f a throne underilhe auspices of his father. There is, however, no one in Prussia who would not prefer the re-establishment of the king's health to such an expedient, for there is hardly another people i n Europe who are so devoted to their sovereign, and so much in favour of legitimist traditions as the Prussians." ITALY. A letter from Milan, of the 12th inst., announces that the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier arrived that morning at the railway station of the Porta Nova, and left immediately for Novara. The Academy of Fine Ar i ls at Milan had offered a premium for the best model presented for a monument to be erected to Leonardo da Accounts from Genoa of the 16th state that the decree for dissolving the Piedmontese Chambers will not be published previous to the 25th inst. The elections are t•o take place on the 15th of November. SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the 15th contain a great deal about the negotiations which -preceded the acceptance by Admiral Armero of the - task of form ing a cabinet, but it is of no interest now that the termination of the ministerial crisis is known. It may be mentioned, however, that the admiral, before undertaking to constitute a cabinet, had a conference with M. Bravo Murillo to see if they could not come to an understanding to enter the same ministry, but they found they could not agree, s Adm;ral Armero being opposed to all idea of reform, and M. Bravo Murillo thinking that re forms ought to be made when circumstances should become favourable. The Queen, it appears, was very desirous of seeing the latter gentleman in the new cabinet, and was much agitated when he de finitively declined to join it. Her Majesty had conferences with General de la Panela, and ho was in favour of her Majesty's project of establish ing a cabinet without a president of the council. It is said that Admiral Arinero means to'maintain the constitution of 1845, but at the'sarne time to jp,w on th e p ress . execute the last new The Prince of, Wales arrived on Saturday at Brussels, and was received at the railway st tion by the Duke de Brabant, with whom ho proceeded to the palace. In passing through Switzerland the attention of his Royal Highness was particularly directed, at Constance, to all that recalled the memory of John Huss, and also to the tomb of Robert Hallum, Arohbiphop of Salisbury, who died at Gottlieban during the council, and .was buried in the cathedral of Con stance. In proceeding from Constance to Schaff" hausen by steamer, the chateau of Arenenberg, be longing to the Emperor Napoleon, excited the inte rest of the prince and his suite. BERLIN, Oct. 18.—The King slept well last night, but, although his appetite has returned, he recovers his strength but very slowly. I The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort contains BERLIN, Oct, 18, --A couference of the Zollvoiein tbte following improbAble atatoment England is in negotiation with the Sardinian, government for the purchae of a portion of territory near, Cag - liari. The southern part of Sardinia is in the way from England to India via Suez. The Sardinian government hesitates, it is said, to cede the territory in question." The Queen of Greece is on her way from Isehl to Trieste and Greece. It is now known that Her Majesty is endeavouring to persuade the Great Powers to transfer the succession to the Throne of Greece from the House of Bavaria to that of Olden burg. A Duke George Louis of Oldenburg - wants a place, and his affotionaterelative is willing to pro vide one for him. A telegraphic despatch has been received from Bucharest, dated Sat arday, from which we learn that M. Nicolas Golesco has been named vice-pre -sident of the Divan ad Iwo of Wallachia ; MM. Constantine Rosetti, Demetrius Bratiano, Constan tine Crezzulesco, and Stephan Golesco, have been appointed secretaries ; MM. Gregory Ghika, Tell, and Marghiloman, have been named questors. Ac cording to the firman of convocation and the ancient usages of the country, the presidency of the divans belongs by right to the Metropolitan. " Prince Kallimaki, the Turkish ambassador at Vienna, has received from his government instruc , tions relative to the conflict of the pacha of Scutari with the Basovic3. After the retreat of the paella), the Montenegrins took possession of the country, and organised it on their own plan. If this district were to recognise the supremacy of Prince Danilo, Bosnia would be cut off from the pachalio of Nowi, bazar, in Turkish Seivia. It is to prevent this eventuality that Prince Kallimaki has received orders to come to an understanding on the subject with the Austrian goiernment."—Accounts from the same capital state that ten firms stopped pay ment on the 15th ; the head of one of them com mitted suicide. This makes the fifth suicide which has taken place from the same cause. THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR ON THE S 1 N. -.- SIR,--As you take a deep interest in the cur rency question, and seem to be thoroughly alive to the absurdity of present regulations, I venture —at the risk of being included by the Time amongst those styled "Incurables"—to ask your opinion •on the following, plan for the future ar rangements of our currency. At present the Bank of England is permitted to issue notes against its Government debt, avowedly without gold to meet the same. Now, why should not the country at large benefit by a similar use of the remainder of the debt, if the holders of the debt are contented to deal with their stock as fol lows : A Board, under Parliamentary authority, to be enabled to grant legal tender notes to parties who transfer to such Board, Government stock, say for every 1051. of 3 per cent. consols, 1001. of legal tender notes be 'issued. Of course the nation will save the interest on the debt all -the. time such notes are held by the public. The Board to re-sell stock at par on receiving such legal tender notes. Although this currency is not based on gold and silver, it is based on the income of the nation ; and if not directly convertible into coin, 'it may at any time be converted into an interest-bearing, self-proms clueing capital by being converted into stock. Should the scheme be agreed to by the nation, but yet remain apparently a dead letter, it would not be without its use, though seemingly dermant. Mere monied capitalists and jobbers would not have the same opportunity of fleecing manufacturers or merchants ; the dread of a sudden abstraction' of the medium of payments (i.e. a reduction of the currency) would not embarrass commerce, and the value of money would be as stationary as possible flying up and down, as at present i worse than any article of produce. If largely acted upon, I need not point out to you the gain to the nation :-52 millions of' capital •f debt cancelled, as well as interest for thetime the notes are out. But I fear lam trying your patience, and con• clude.—Your's very obediently, London, Oct. 19. ANTI-CRISIS. MR. LAYARD GOING TO THE _WT. We have been favoured with the following letter, addressed to Mr. T. M. Mackay. It shows the stuff Mr. Layard is made Of : " 120, Piccadilly, Oct. 17. "My dear Mackay,—l am off for India next week. MI object—to visit the seat of the rebellion, to forni'my own views upon its cause and results. I have been too long idle, and want again work, and try to be useful. I trust that my journey may enable me to do some goody I wish I had acme pleasant, intelligent manlike yourself as a com panion. I hope to be back by the end of May or early is June. Six months' hard work will enable rue to see and do much. If any constituency will do me the honour of returning me during my absence I shall be happy to s erve them. " Tours sincerely, A . W. LAYARD. STATUE OF DR. BARROW.—Mr. Noble, the nculptor; has received a commission from the Marquis of Lanes downe for a statue of the celebrated Dr. Bariow to be placed in the ante-chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, of which that eminent theologian and mathematician was the matter. It will be of Carrara marble, of life size, and will forth a companion statue to the statues of N ewton and Bacon which are in the ante-chapel. The model may be seen at the studio of the artist in Bruton street. The portraiture, which is taken from pictures in Trinity College and in other collections, is.very correct, and the whole treatment is felicitous and artistic. - THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. SULLIVAN, THE BRIMS MINISTER To PERU.—A correspondent, quoted in the New York Herald, writing from Panama on the, 22d September, giving the very latest news from Peru, says : —Private letters received in this city state that the mur derer of Mr. Sullivan had been discovered. He is said to be a Frenchman, of bad character, residing , at Huanclso. A. force was sent to arrest him, but he was not to be found. His wife was arrested and brought to Lima. He is said to be the tool. of some party nue known. It is probable that the large reward offered, $60,000, will induce some one of the six accomplices to inform. A LONG-NAMED INDIAN.—From the sublime to the ridiculous ! In the Madras papers we find a copy of A letter addressed to "His Highness fires Pulreanabha Dausa Vanche Bala Martanda Vurmah Rooms, Shukara 'Keereda Pathee Bazhiodia Ram Rajah Bhador Mun-nel Sultan Malta Rajah Rajah Shumsheer Jong Rajah of T,avancore," and signed "Harris !" His Highness Sree Pulmanabha, &e., of Travancore, has .we are glad to see, subscribed 5,000 rup ees t o t h e relief fund, with big good wishes and fervent prayers for peace and tranquil lity. This contribution is announced in a letter, the signature of which is omitted, probably from want of room, and is acknowledged in that of the aadresell and signature of which we have above recorded.—Bornbay . Courier. TIM MURDER AT LEIGH WOODS.--The NovilLampton Herald states that a shall and carpet-bag, containing hair-brush, pomatum, and other articles, discovered in the room of the prisoner Beale, at Badby House, by Paine, the Daventry policeman, have, through the h.• strusnentality of the. Bristol police, been identified as having been observed in -the possession of Charlotte Pugeley when she was last seen in eompany with the prie soner. In addition to this awkward commentary upon . p th o e rtionof prisoner's the swtairteemfraemnteboef a bonnetßristolforetheand a s coveredblo o ma g istrate s es t ane d a fragment of the f a b r i c w i th which it °w as also been fou n d i n t h e grate of the prisoner's room, and i are in the; possession of Inspector Sansome. It he sts. sorted that these relics also are sufficient for identifies , • tion as having been worn by the murdered woman. TUE LATE STORMS.—A letter from Brest of the 15th mentions several casualties Which have taken place on that coast during the late heavy gales. On the 9th a vessel of 300 tons was lost on the point to to the S.W. of Usbant, and is' supposed to be the Symmetry, as a plank bearing that name and a part of an English fiig were picked up on the coast. Some broken cases, which had contained raisins, a wizen-mast with its rigging, and the body of a man, have also been found. On the shore near Porsmoguer there have been also found 12 bills of lading, three charts, and 18 letters, which belonged to an English vessel, the Adventure, which, it is thought, has been totally lost. It appear.. from the papers that she had been laden with Spanish wine. Several small French vessels have been also wrecked, but, with the exception of that of the Parisienne of Rantes, which lost five of her men, all the crews have been saved. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MAJOR BARFOOT.—An accident of a serious character, which terminated in his death a f e w hours afterwards, occurred at Southampton on Satuiday afternoon to Major Barfoot, of Alldling.house, near Droxford, Hants. The Major was pioceeding is his carriage down the Northam -road, when the horses' took fright and ran away, and the gallant officer jumped out. He unfortunately fell upon the back of his head, e hereby concussion of the brain was produced. He was immediately removed to the Royal Hotel, and medical assistance was called in, but the Major never rallied after his fall, and he expired about 9 o'clock in the evening, after lingering for some hours in a state of insensibility. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Royal Hotel, before the borough coroner, and a verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. Major Barfoot'S only child, a daughter, is married to karl Howth, of Ho w th• castle, Ireland.